BOOK TEN-2:  The Louisiana Acadian "Begats" - continued

The Foundational Acadian Families of South Louisiana - continued

Chiasson

Guyon, or Dion or Denis dit LaVallée, son of Pierre Chiasson or Giasson, a farmer, and Marie Péroché, was born at La Rochelle, France, in c1638.  Guyon came to English-occupied Acadia and settled at Port-Royal by c1666, when he married Jeanne, daughter of ____ Bernard and Andrée Guyon.  They had eight children, including four sons and three daughters.  Their daughters married into the Morin, Poirier dit de France, and Breau families.  Guyon and his family were not listed in the first Acadian census of 1671 because they had moved to Mouchecoudabouët, now Musquodoboit Harbor, near present-day Halifax, by June 1668, and they were still there in October 1674.  They moved on to the recently-founded settlement of Chignecto, where wife Jeanne died during the early 1680s.  Guyon remarried to Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Canadians Pierre Martin and Joachine Lafleur of Sillery, at Québec in October 1683.  They settled at Chignecto.  Marie-Madeleine gave Guyon no more sons but four more daughters, all born at Chignecto, three of whom married into the Carret, Pothier, De La Forestrie, and Pineau families--a dozen children, at least four sons and seven daughters, by two wives, between 1667 and 1693.  Guyon died probably in his mid-50s at Chignecto by c1693, when his wife remarried there.  One of his daughters by his second wife, Marie-Madeleine, wife of Jean Pothier and then Joseph De La Forestrie, moved to French-controlled Île St.-Jean by the 1720s and was among the earliest European settlers on the island.  Another daughter by his second wife, Anne, married a Canadian and settled at Rimouski on the lower St. Lawrence.  Guyon's four sons, by his first wife, also created their own families, the older ones in Acadia, the younger ones in Canada, by marrying into the Savoie, Blou, LeMoyne, and Mourier families.  By 1755, Guyon Chiasson dit LaVallée's descendants could be found in the St. Lawrence valley, where they had gone as early as the late 1690s; at Chigneto; and in several communities on Île St.-Jean.  Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this large family even farther. 

The Acadians at Chignecto were the first to endure a disruption of their lives.  During the spring and summer of 1750, in response to the British building a fort at Beaubassin village, Canadian militia, assisted by Abbé Le Loutre and his Mi'kmaq warriors, burned Acadian homesteads in the British-controlled area east of Rivière Missaguash, forcing the habitants there to move to the French-controlled area west of the river.  Chiassons probably were among the refugees.  After yet another war erupted between Britain and France in 1754, Chignecto Acadians were caught in the middle of it.  When British and New-English forces attacked Fort Beauséjour in June 1755, local Acadians, pressured by the French, served in the fort as militia.  They, too, along with the French troupes de la marine, became prisoners of war when the fort surrendered on June 16.  Lieutenant-Governor Charles Lawrence was so incensed to find so-called French Neutrals fighting with French regulars at Beauséjour he ordered his officers to deport the Chignecto Acadians to the southernmost seaboard colonies.  That fall, the British transported a large Chiasson family and a Chiasson bachelor to South Carolina aboard the British transports Cornwallis and Endeavor.  The experience took its toll on the family.  Meanwhile, Acadians who had escaped the roundup at Chignecto fled to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, where they took refuge at Shediac and Miramichi.  By 1760, some had moved up to the French stronghold at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  Chiassons were among these escapees. 

When the British rounded up their cousins at Chignecto, the many Chiassons on Île St.-Jean, living in territory controlled by France, remained unmolested.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived, however.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats rounded up most of the habitants on the island and deported them to France.  Some, perhaps most, of the island Chiassons, escaped the redcoats and sought refuge on the mainland, but many members of the family were rounded up and shunted aboard hired British transports.  Entire Chiasson families were lost in the crossing to St.-Malo.  Two Chiasson wives, along with their families, died at sea when their transport, the Violet, sank in a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England.  Most of the island Chiassons crossed to St.-Malo on one or more of the five transports which, like the Violet, left Chédabouctou Bay in late November in a 12-ship convoy, but, despite the storm, reached the Breton port together in late January 1759.  Most of them did not survive the crossing or its rigors.  An island Chiasson whose wife and children died on the crossing created a new family in the St.-Malo area.  He, in fact, remarried twice in nearby suburbs, including St.-Servan-sur-Mer, the second time to a local woman.  His youngest brother, age 12 when he survived the crossing to St.-Malo, joined his brother after the death of their father, who had succumbed to the rigors of the crossing.  Island Chiassons landed at other French ports, including Cherbourg and Rochefort.  A young Chiasson who landed at Cherbourg in Normandy married a fellow Acadian there and created a family of his own.  In the early 1770s, he and a cousin at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, and perhaps the cousin's younger brother, agreed to take part in a major settlement venture in the interior of Poitou.  The wife of the Chiasson from Cherbourg gave him two daughters in Poitou.  The Chiasson cousin's third wife gave him another daughter there.  In November and December 1775, after two years of effort, the Chiasson cousins retreated with hundreds of other Poitou Acadians to the lower Loire port of Nantes.  By then, one of the Chiasson cousins, who worked as a carpenter at Nantes, had only three children left of the seven he had fathered--two sons and a daughter by two of his wives.  He and his third wife evidently had no more children at Nantes, but they lost their youngest daughter, still a child, in St.-Jacques Parish there before 1785.  His cousin from Cherbourg worked as a sailor and a cooper at Nantes, where his wife gave him at least three sons in Ste.-Croix Parish, only one of whom survived infancy.  In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  Two of the Chiasson cousins, Jean and Basile, still at Nantes, agreed to take it.  Both families originally booked passage on L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, and Jean, his wife, and two of their sons crossed to New Orleans on that vessel.  But Basile's infant son was too ill to travel when L'Amitié left Paimboeuf, the lower port Nantes, in late August 1785.  The child died the following month at Chantenay near Nantes, and Basile, wife Monique, and their daughter and son sailed on La Caroline, the last of  the Seven Ships, which left Nantes in late October.  Jean's brother Chrysostôme, who would have been in his mid-30s at  the time, did not go with them.  One wonders if he had died by then or if he had created a family of his own and chose to remain in France. 

A Chiasson family came to France by a different route but likely did not remain.  Joseph Chiasson had been born probably at Tracadie on Île St.-Jean a few years before the island's dérangement.  His family were among the islanders who escaped the roundup there in late 1758 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  By the early 1760s, they had either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area, who held them in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  In August 1763, British officials counted Joseph and his family at Fort Cumberland, formerly French Fort Beauséjour, near the family's old home at Chignecto, where his father died in 1764.  Soon after his father's death, Joseph followed his widowed mother to Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  Also there were his paternal grandfather and some of his aunts and uncles who the British had held in the old fishing center at Chédabouctou on the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia during the war.  In 1767, French officials, obeying a royal decree to reduce overcrowding in the northern fishery, deported the fisher/habitants on the Newfoundland islands to France.  Joseph and his family likely were among them.  With royal permission, most of the islanders returned to Miquelon the following year.  In late 1778, soon after the French became allies of the Americans in their fight against the British, the Royal Navy captured Miquelon and nearby Île St.-Pierre and deported the fisher/habitants to La Rochelle, France.  Joseph, now age 24, married a Vigneau soon after he reached the French port.  Two of their sons were born there in February 1781 and April 1783.  Joseph and his family evidently returned to Miquelon in 1784 after the British returned the islands to France.  One thing is certain--he did not follow his Chiasson cousins Jean and Basile to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

In North America, other island Chiassons who had escaped the British in late 1758 suffered the same fate as young Joseph Chiasson and his family.  Another Joseph Chiasson fled from Île St.-Jean with his family to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore and made their way up to the French stronghold at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, now a major Acadian refuge.  In late June 1760, a British naval force from Louisbourg attacked Restigouche, destroyed the remnants of a French fleet there, but failed to capture the post itself.  The French and Acadians at Restigouche were nevertheless cut off from the rest of New France.  In October, another British naval force, this one from Québec, appeared at Restigouche to accept the post's surrender.  On 24 October 1860, on the eve of formal surrender, French officers compiled a list of 1,003 Acadian exiles who had surrendered with the garrison.  Joseph à François Chiasson and his family of four were on the list.  A son was baptized at Restigouche in February 1761, so the British held them at Restigouche before sending them on to Nova Scotia, or the British may have been held them at Restigouche for the rest of the war.  Other Chiassons from Chignecto and Île St.-Jean who either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the region were held in prison compounds in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  In August 1763, British officials at Fort Cumberland, formerly French Fort Beauséjour, Chignecto, counted two Chiasson families in the prison compound there.  One of the family heads died at Fort Cumberland in 1764, in his late 30s.  Meanwhile, in 1760, British officials counted Chiassons from Tracadie at the fishing center of Chédabouctou on the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia, where dozens of exiles also were held before moving on to Île Miquelon. 

Joseph à François Chiasson and his family at Restigouche also chose to remain in greater Acadia, but they selected a different fishery.  Sometime in the 1760s, they settled on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore at Nipisiguit, now Bathurst, where the British counted them in 1772.  Later in the decade, they moved on to Miscou, an island on the southern end of the Baie des Chaleurs, but they did not remain there either.  Their sons settled at Carleton and Paspébiac in Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs, and at Caraquet on the Gulf shore west of Miscou, where they likely worked in British-controlled fisheries.  After the war, other members of the family settled at Rustico and Tignish on the north shore of St. John Island, formerly Île St.-Jean, renamed Prince Edward Island in 1798; at Chéticamp, Grand-Étang, and Margaree on the northwest coast of Cape Breton Island, formerly Île Royale; and on the îles-de-la-Madeleine in the Gulf of St. Lawrence--all British fisheries.  Typical of most, if not all, Acadian families, these Acadiennes of Canada lost touch with their Cadien cousins hundreds of miles away, and until the Acadian reunions of the twentieth century, may even have forgotten the others existed.  Perhaps not surprisingly, considering how long they had been separated, none of the Chiassons who settled in the fisheries of greater Acadia chose to join their many Giasson cousins in the St. Lawrence valley.  

 Chiassons being held at Fort Cumberland, Nova Scotia, at war's end faced a hard dilemma.  The Treaty of Paris of February 1763 stipulated in its Article IV that persons dispersed by the war had 18 months to return to their respective territories.  However, British authorities refused to allow any of the Acadian prisoners in the region to return to their former lands as proprietors.  If Acadians chose to remain in Nova Scotia, they could live only in the interior of the peninsula in small family groups and work for low wages on former Acadian lands now owned by New-English "planters."  If they stayed, they must also take the hated oath of allegiance to the new British king, George III, without reservation.  They would also have to take the hated oath if they joined their cousins in the St. Lawrence valley.  After all that they had suffered on the question of the oath, no self-respecting Acadian would consent to take it if it could be avoided.   Some Nova Scotia exiles, including a family of Chiassons, chose to relocate to Île Miquelon.  Others considered going to French St.-Domingue, where Acadian exiles in the British colonies, including at least one Chiasson, were going; or to the Illinois country, the west bank of which still belonged to France; or to French Louisiana, which was the only route possible to the Illinois country for Acadian exiles.  Whatever their choice, many refused to remain under British rule.  So they gathered up their money and their few possessions and prepared to leave their homeland.  Of the 600 exiles who left Halifax in late 1764 and early 1765 bound for Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, five were Chiassons.

At war's end, Acadians being held in the seaboard colonies, theoretically, were free to go, but not until the British discerned their intentions.  Even then, colonial officials discouraged repatriation.  In August 1763, Chignecto Chiassons still in South Carolina appeared on a French repatriation list circulating in the colony.  A Chignecto Chiasson, while at Fort Cumerberland, may have heard through the Acadian grapevine that his parents, who had been deported from Chignecto to South Carolina in 1755, had died in that British colony but that his youngest brother, now in his teens, had survived the ordeal.  The older brother also may have learned that in 1763 or 1764 his younger brother had emigrated from South Carolina to French St.-Domingue with hundreds of other exiles to work on a new French naval base on the northwest coast of the island.  If he was aware that his brother was still in the sugar colony, he likely resolved to search for him as soon as he and his fellow exiles in Nova Scotia reached Cap-Français.  As it turned out, he did try to find his younger brother there, and the search was a fruitful one.  The brother, now age 19, accompanied his older brother and his family to the Mississippi valley. 

Chiassons settled early in Acadia and were among the earliest Acadians to find refuge in Louisiana.  The first to reach the colony was a family from Halifax via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, who reached New Orleans in the summer of 1765.  Brothers Pierre and Paul Chiasson settled in the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans, where Pierre and his wife had more children, and where Paul created a family of his own.  Also with Pierre and Paul was nephew Jean-Baptiste Chiasson, who grew up on the river.  However, after Jean-Baptiste came of age in the late 1780s, he moved to the Opelousas District, where, with a cousin recently arrived from France, he helped create a western center of Chiasson-family settlement that eventually stretched all the way to southeastern Texas.  Meanwhile, a second wave of  Chiassons appeared in late 1785 on two of the Seven Ships from France.  Jean Chiasson came with his third wife, a Frenchwoman, and two of his sons.  They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche, where they and their descendants created another center of Chiasson family settlement.  Basile Chiasson came to Louisiana from France in 1785 on the last of the Seven Ships, but he and his family did not follow his cousin to the upper Lafourche.  They went, instead, to the Opelousas District, among the first of the family to settle west of the Atchafalaya Basin.  By the late antebellum period, only a single Chiasson family remained on the river, in Ascension Parish.  The others lived on the western prairies or in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley.  Although they were all related, there seems to have been little interaction between the two branches of the family, such was the barrier imposed by the Atchafalaya Basin even during the steamboat era.  

Church records reveal no non-Acadian Chiassons in Louisiana during the colonial period.  Nor do New Orleans port records show any Foreign-French Chiassons coming to the Bayou State during the antebellum period.  All of the Chiassons of South Louisiana, then, at least before the War of 1861-65, are descendants of Guyon dit Vallée of La Rochelle and Acadia. 

A few Chiassons owned slaves during the late antebellum period.  The largest slaveholder in the family, Adrien Chiasson of Ascension Parish, held eight slaves in 1860.  Two of his cousins in Lafayette Parish and a cousin in Lafourche Parish also held a hand full of slaves each, but, like Adrien, none of them owned enough bondsmen to be considered part of the planter class.  The great majority of Chiassons owned no slaves at all, at least none who appeared on the federal slave schedules of 1850 and 1860.  

Over a dozen Chiassons served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65.  Several of them were captured and held by the Federals, one of them at Camp Morton, Indiana, outside of Indianapolis, but all the Chiasson prisoners of war returned to their families.  Not so lucky was Adrien Charles Chiasson, who served in Company K of 8th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Ascension Parish, which fought under General R. E. Lee in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania.  According to his Confederate service record, Adrien Charles died in a general hospital at Culpeper Courthouse, Virginia, in May 1862, a few weeks before General Lee became commander of the Army of Northern Virginia.  Since Adrien Charles lies buried in Oakwood Cemetery on the eastern outskirts of Richmond, Virginia, one wonders if he was transferred to Chimborazo hospital on the east side of the capital city and died there instead of in Culpeper that spring. 

The war took its toll on Chiasson family fortunes back home.  Even before Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation went into effect in January 1863, Federal commands controlling the lower Mississippi freed the slaves on every farm and plantation their forces could reach.  Meanwhile, Union navy gunboats shelled and burned dozens of houses along the river.  Successive Federal incursions devastated the Bayou Lafourche valley early in the war, and the valley was occupied by the Federals for most of the conflict.  Between 1862 and 1864, Federal armies marched three times through the Teche and upper Vermilion valleys, including the Grand Coteau area, and burned and pillaged many farms, some of them perhaps owned by Chiassons.  Thanks to these Federal offenses, emancipation came early to the area, with its resulting economic and social turmoil.  Confederate foraging parties and cutthroat Jayhawkers also plagued the areas where Chiassons lived, adding to the family's misery. ...

Today, members of the family on both sides of the Atchafalaya Basin use the spelling Chaisson almost as often as they do the older spelling, Chiasson.  In Louisiana, the family's name also is spelled Chaison, Chaseant, Cheasson, Chiassond, Chianson, Chiasmon, Chiason, Chieason, Chieçon, Chiesson, Giason, Giasson, Schiasson, Sciasson, Siachon, Siasson, Seisson, Siesson.01

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Five Chiassons, including two brothers and a nephew, came to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français, French St.-Dominigue in 1765.  They settled on what became known as the Acadian Coast, but the nephew did not remain there.  He crossed the Atchafalaya Basin in the 1780s and helped create a western branch of the family.  Meanwhile, only the older brother's line of the family endured in what became the Bayou State: 

  Pierre (c1729-?) à Gabriel dit Pierre à Guyon dit LaVallée Chiasson

Pierre, oldest son of Abraham Chiasson and Marie Poirier, born probably at Chignecto in c1729, married Osite, daughter of Paul Landry and Marie Hébert, probably at Chignecto in c1755.  They escaped the British roundup there later that year and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  By the early 1760s, they had either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area, who held them in prison compounds in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Osite gave Pierre two sons during exile:  Michel born in c1759; and Joseph, date unrecorded.  In August 1763, Pierre, Osite, and their sons appeared on a French repatriation list at Fort Cumberland, formerly French Beauséjour, near the family's former home at Chignecto.  Son Joseph evidently died soon after the listing.  With son Michel and a young nephew in tow, Pierre and Osite emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français in 1764-65.  Pierre evidently retrieved his younger brother Paul at Cap-Français on the way around to New Orleans.  Osite was pregnant when they left Nova Scotia and gave birth to daughter Marie either on the voyage to Louisiana or at New Orleans in October 1765.  After baptizing the baby in the city in early December, the family settled with other Halifax exiles at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans, where Osite gave Pierre two more sons:  Jean, also called Jean-Baptiste and Baptiste, baptized, age unrecorded, in March 1771; and Simon-Pierre baptized, age unrecorded, in May 1773--five children, four sons and a daughter, between 1759 and 1773, in greater Acadia and Louisiana.  Pierre died by November 1794, probably in his 60s, when his wife remarried to an Hébert widower at Cabahannocer.  Daughter Marie evidently died young.  Only one of Pierre's sons married and settled in what became St. James Parish.

Oldest son Michel followed his parents into imprisonment in Nova Scotia, to New Orleans, and to Cabahannocer, where died  in September 1777, age 18.  He did not marry.  

Pierre's third son Jean, called Jean-Baptiste by the recording priest, married Angélique, also called Leonie Anne and Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Marcel LeBlanc and Marie Breaux, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in April 1792.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer/St. James, included Jean-Baptiste, fils in April 1795; Michel le jeune, perhaps also called Paul, in June 1797 but died near Convent, St. James Parish, age 17, in September 1814; Éloise born in April 1800; Coralie or Caroline, also called Petronille, in December 1801; Marie Mélite, called Mélite and also Amélie, in March 1804; Anne in January 1806; Zénon near Convent in June 1809 but died there, age 17, in February 1827; and Louis Charles born in c1814 and baptized at the Convent churh, age 6, in July 1820 but died at age 27 in April 1840--eight children, four sons and four daughters, between 1795 and 1814.  Jean Baptiste, père died near Convent in March 1832, in his early 60s (the recording priest said 63).  Daughters Caroline and Mélite married into the Poirier and Lacoste families.  Only one of Jean Baptiste's sons married, but the line was robust.  One of Jean Baptiste's grandsons died in Confederate service. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, fils married Francoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Athanase Dugas and Françoise Broussard of Ascension Parish, at the Convent church in January 1817.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Jean Adrien, called Adrien, in March 1824; and Adrien Charles in c1834.  Jean Baptiste, fils died in Ascension Parish in October 1861, age 66 (the recording priest said 67).  One of his sons married, and the other one died in Virginia in Confederate service before he could create a family of his own. 

Older son Jean Adrien, called Adrien, married Marie Anaïse, daughter of Dominique Drivon and Anna Duval, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in July 1849.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Marie Anna in July 1850 but died at age 2 in June 1852; Jean Ernest born in April 1852 but died the following June; Louis Joseph Fermant born in June 1853 but, called Fernand, died at age 10 in June 1863; Paul John Henry born in July 1856; Charles Maurice in July 1857; Robert in March 1860 but died at age 7 1/2 in August 1867; René Adrien born in November 1862 but, called Victorin, died at age 5 months (the recording priest said 6 months) the following April; ...  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Ascension Parish counted eight slaves--five males and three females, all black, ranging in age from 52 years to 3 months, living in two houses--on Adrien Chiasson's farm between James Hewitt's plantation, which held 176 slaves, and J. François, a "Negro," who owned five slaves, in the parish's Third Ward.  None of Jean Adrien's remaining children married by 1870. 

During the War of 1861-65, Jean Baptiste, fils's younger son Adrien Charles served in Company K of the 8th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Ascension Parish, which fought in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania--one of General R. E. Lee's Louisiana Tigers.  According to his service record, Adrien Charles died in a Confederate hospital at Culpeper, Virginia, in May 1862.  However, he lies buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Richmond, which may mean that he died in a hospital in the Confederate capital, not in Culpeper.  He did not marry. 

Paul (c1746-1820) à Gabriel dit Pierre à Guyon dit LaVallée Chiasson

Paul, third and youngest son of Abraham Chiasson and Marie Poirier, born probably at Chignecto in c1746, followed his parents and some of his siblings to South Carolina in 1755.  In August 1763, according to a French repatriation list, Paul was an 18-year-old orphan still living in the colony.  His parents probably had died by then.  Later that year or in 1764, he followed other Acadian exiles from the seaboard colonies to French St.-Domingue to work on a new French naval base at Môle St.-Nicolas on the northwest tip of the big island.  He did not remain.  His older brother Pierre evidently retrieved him at Cap-Français on the voyage down from Halifax, making Paul one of the relatively few Acadians who emigrated to Louisiana directly from the French Antilles.  Paul accompanied his brother and sister-in-law to New Orleans and settled with them at Cabahannocer, where he appeared in a Spanish census in April 1766 on the east bank of the river.  The Spanish counted him still at Cabahannocer in September 1769, still a bachelor, this time living on the west bank.  He married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, 21-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians René Blanchard and Marguerite Thériot of Grand-Pré, probably at Cabahannocer in c1770.  Madeleine had come to the colony from Maryland in 1767.  The couple settled upriver at San Gabriel in what became Iberville Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, in December 1773; Paul, fils baptized, age unrecorded, in October 1776 but died in his early teens in December 1790; Marguerite born in October 1777; Anne-Marie in July 1779; Marie-Françoise-Martine in August 1781 but died at age 15 1/2 in January 1797; Étienne born in c1784; Victorin or Victor in March 1786; Marine in March 1788; Marie-Victoire, called Victoire, in February 1790; and Félicien died, age unrecorded, in November 1791--10 children, six daughters and four sons, between 1773 and 1791.  Paul died in Iberville Parish in March 1820, age 74.  Daughters Madeleine, Marguerite, Françoise, Marine, and Marie Victoire married into the Jaeleus, Charpentier, Hébert, Hernandez, Babin, and LeBlanc families.  Evidently third daughter Anne-Marie did not marry.  Two of Paul's sons also married and settled in Iberville Parish, but, except for the blood, neither of their lines endured. 

Second son Étienne married Marie Julie, called Julie, daughter of Joseph Sharp and Marie Anne Choquette of Baton Rouge, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in August 1809.  Their children, born at St. Gabriel, included Lucien in December 1810; Joséphine Henriette in January 1813; Marie Élisabeth in July 1815; Julie in July 1817; and Apolline in August 1819--five children, a son and four daughters, between 1810 and 1819.  Étienne died near St. Gabriel in March 1821, age 27.  Daughter Joséphine married into the Cobb family.  Étienne's only son probably did not marry, so, except for its blood, this line of the family did not endure in the Bayou State. 

Paul, père's third son Victorin or Victor married Henriette, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Joseph Dupuis and Ludivine Landry, at the St. Gabriel church in May 1809.  Their children, born at St. Gabriel, included Henriette Drosille or Dorsille, called Dorsille, in February 1810; Virginie in August 1812 but died at age 12 days in September; and Victor, fils born in c1815 but died at age 14 in January 1829.  Victorin remarried to Marie Marguerite, called Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Isaac LeBlanc and Félicité Melançon, at the St. Gabriel church in June 1820.  Their children, born at St. Gabriel, included Marguerite in November 1821 but died at age 16 in October 1837; and Marie Irma, called Irma, born in October 1823--five children, four daughters and a son, by two wives, between 1810 and 1823.  Victorin died near St. Gabriel in April 1824.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Victorin was age 30 when he died.  He was 38.  Daughters Dorsille and Marie Irma, by both wives, married into the Labauve and Boote families.  Since Victor's only son died young, except for its blood, this family line also did not endure in the Bayou State. 

Jean-Baptiste (c1762-1854) à Abraham à Gabriel dit Pierre à Guyon dit LaVallée Chiasson

Jean-Baptiste, only son of Joseph Chiasson and Annette Sonnier and nephew of Pierre and Paul, born probably in a prison compound in Nova Scotia in c1762, lost his parents soon after his birth.  His paternal uncle Pierre raised him.  In 1764-65, when he was still very young, Jean-Baptiste accompanied his uncle's family to Louisiana via Cap-Français and followed them to Cabahannocer on the river, but he did not remain.  After he came of age in the 1780s, he crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to the Opelousas District, where he married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean LeBlanc and his Anglo wife Marie Hayes, in c1786.  They settled on Prairie Bellevue east of present-day Opelousas and then moved farther out on the prairies to upper Bayou Plaquemine Brulé near present-day Church Point.  Their children, born on the Opelousas prairies, included Juliènne dite Julie, in April 1788 but died [probably meant baptized] at age 2 1/2 months in June; Jean-Baptiste, fils, called Baptiste, born in April 1792; Joseph in April 1796; Emon or Edmond in November 1798 but died at the home of Louis Lavigne at Prairie du Large, St. Landry Parish, age 21, in February 1819; Aimée born in March 1801; Gérard Christopher born in c1805 and baptized at age 2 in July 1807; Magloire, also called McGuire and Guire, born in March 1807; and Adèle in August 1809--eight children, three daughters and five sons, between 1788 and 1809.  Jean-Baptiste, père moved to Jefferson County, Texas, by 1850, when he was counted in a federal census there with a wife and five children; the census taker insisted he was age 102.  He died at the home of his youngest son Magloire at Beaumont, Jefferson County, in July 1854.  His family insisted that Jean-Baptiste died at age 109, but he was closer to 92--one of the last of the Acadian immigrants in Louisiana to join his ancestors.  Daughter Juliènne dite Julie married into the Cart and Dugas families.  Four of Jean Baptiste sons also married and settled on the prairies and bayous of southwest Louisiana and southeast Texas.  Along with the Héberts, historian Carl A. Brasseaux reports, "the Chiassons rapidly rose to prominence" on the Texas bayous, "and one member of the group held a judgeship by the end of the ninteenth century."  According to family legend, as related in the Franklin, Louisiana, Planters' Banner of 26 January 1870 and cited by Brasseaux, one Joseph dit Joannes was "the patriarch of the Chaisson clan" who "reportedly left his native St. Landry Parish for Texas at the age of 115.  'After several years,'" Brasseaux continues, "he subsequently returned to St. Landry Parish, where he died at the age of 130."  One suspects the mythological Joseph dit Joannes was Jean-Baptiste, a native of Nova Scotia, not of St. Landry. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, fils, called Jean and Baptiste, married Julie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Olivier dit Pierrot Dugas and Sophie Gautreaux of Prairie Sorel, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in May 1820.  They settled in what became Lafayette Parish.  Their children, born there, included Gédéon in October 1821 but, called Zédé, died at age 8 in September 1829; Marie Azélie born in April 1823; Jean Baptiste III, called fils, in October 1824; Carmélite baptized at the Vermilionville church at age 2 months in October 1826 but died at age 34 (the recording priest said 30) in June 1861; Paul or Hippolyte Aussar or Oscar baptized at age 9 days in February 1828; Euphémie Caroline born in c1829 and baptized at age 1 in August 1830; Pierre baptized at age 5 months in November 1831; Narcisse born in 1833 and baptized at age 4 months in January 1834; Émilia baptized at age 3 months in July 1835; Edmond le jeune baptized at age 4 months in May 1837; Joseph le jeune baptized at age 3 months in May 1839; Ignace born in December 1840 but died at age 2 1/2 (the recording priest said 4) in August 1843; and Marie Amelia or Émelise born in March 1847--13 children, eight sons and five daughters, between 1821 and 1847.  In September 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted four slaves--one male and three females, all black, ranging in age from 50 to 1--on Jean Bte. Chiaisson's farm in the parish's western district.  Jean Baptiste, fils, called Baptiste, died in Lafayette Parish in April 1852, age 60 (the recording priest said 59).  His succession, calling him Jean and naming his wife, was not filed at the Vermilionville courthouse until November 1855.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted six slaves--one male and five females, all black, ages 58 to 6--on Mrs. John Bt. Chiason's farm next to Louis Chiason; this was Jean Baptiste, fils's widow, Julie Dugas.  Daughters Euphémie Caroline, Émilie, and Marie Émelise married into the Michel, Nezat, and Sonnier families.  Six of Baptiste's sons also married and settled on the prairies.

Second son Jean Baptiste III, called fils, married Amélie or Émelie, daughter of Narcisse Begnaud and Frances Guilbert, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in April 1845.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Marie Amélie in November 1847; Alexandre in late 1849 or early 1850 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 15 months, in March 1851; Paul Ambroise born in April 1853; Marie Emérite in September 1854; Jean Baptiste IV in February 1857; and Mathilde baptized at age 4 months in November 1859--six children, three daughters and three sons, between 1847 and 1859.  Jean Baptiste III died in Lafayette Parish in November 1868.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Jean Baptiste died "at age 50 yrs."  He was 44.  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in December.  None of Jean Baptiste III's daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did. 

Oldest son Alexandre married Eveline, daughter of fellow Acadians Sosthène, also called Lasty, Vincent and Oliva Benoit, at the Vermilionville church in August 1868. ...

Baptiste's third son Paul or Hippolyte Oscar married Divine, daughter of Adolphe Nezat and Virginia Patin, at the Breaux Bridge church, St. Martin Parish, in May 1848.  Their son Pierre Aniset was born in Lafayette Parish in February 1849.  Divine died two weeks later, probably from the rigors of childbirth.  Hippolyte remarried to Sidalise Morvant, place unrecorded, probably in the 1850s.  She evidently gave him no more children.  He remarried again--his third marriage--to Élisabeth, daughter of John Caruthers and his Acadian wife Adélaïde Hébert, at the Vermilionville church in June 1859.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Marie Emérite in May 1860; and Julie Corinne in June 1861.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted a single slave--a 65-year-old black male--on Hypolite Chiuson's farm.  Hippolyte's succession, naming his third wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in March 1863.  He would have been age 35 that year.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Baptiste's fourth son Pierre married Fanelie, daughter of Francois Guilbert and Émelie Begnaud, at the Vermilionville church in September 1852.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included François in October 1853 but died at age 3 (the recording priest said 4) in October 1856; Marie Idea born in October 1855; Pierre Numa in September 1857; Jacques in December 1859; Pierre, fils in March 1862 but died at age 5 (the recording priest said age 3) in July 1867; ...  None of Pierre's children married by 1870. 

Baptiste's fifth son Narcisse married Julie, daughter of French Canadians Cyprien Roy and Célina Roy, at the Breaux Bridge church in March 1859.  Their children, born on the upper Teche and the western prairies, included Joseph Marius near Breaux Bridge in November 1861; Jean Baptiste Genesis in Lafayette Parish in February 1869; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Narcisse, like his younger brother Joseph le jeune, was a conscript from St. Martin Parish, but Confederate records do not reveal if he served in an organized unit.  He and his family were living near Arnaudville soon after the war. 

Baptiste's sixth son Edmond le jeune married Helena or Hélène, daughter of William Beard and his Acadian wife Julie Trahan, at the Vermilionville church in February 1860.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Marie Helena in Lafayette Parish in October 1861; Edmonia near Church Point, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in January 1863; Joseph Théophile in Lafayette Parish in September 1869; ... 

Baptiste's seventh son Joseph le jeune married Adriske or Advise, daughter of fellow Acadians Symphorien Prejean and Eugénie Breaux, at the Vermilionville church in September 1861.  During the war, Joseph, like his older brother Narcisse, was a conscript from St. Martin Parish, but Confederate records do not reveal if he served in an organized unit.  Joseph le jeune's succession may have been filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in February 1866.  He would have been age 27 that year.  If this was a post-mortem succession, one wonders if his death was war-related and if he fathered any children. 

Jean-Baptiste, père's second son Joseph married Marie Tarsile, daughter of fellow Acadians Augustin Dugas and Marie Rose Duhon of La Butte and widow of Alexandre Leger, at the St. Martinville church in February 1818.  They settled near Grand Coteau in St. Landry Parish.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Froizin or Drosin, called Drosin, in July 1819; Edmond le jeune in c1821 and baptized at Grand Coteau, age 14 months, in May 1822; and Marie born in October 1823.  A succession, not post-mortem, was filed in Joseph's name at the Opelousas courthouse in November 1827.  Meanwhile, he remarried to Rosalie Vizina in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in February 1826.  They settled near Grand Coteau.  Their children, born there, included Valmon or Valmont in January 1829; Valcour in March 1832; Drosin in August 1837; Marie Lesivette in August 1841; and Joseph Azolin in March 1846--eight children, six sons and two daughters, by two wives, between 1819 and 1846.  Daughter Marie, by his first wife, married into the Doucet family by 1870.  Three of Joseph's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Joseph Drosin, called Drosin, from first wife Marie Tarsile Dugas, married Madeleine Gatt in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in January 1840.  She evidently gave him no children.  Drosin remarried to Marie Myrza or Mirza, called Mirza, daughter, perhaps, of fellow Acadians Michel Lejeune and Éloise Doucet, in the 1850s.  They settled near Grand Coteau.  Their children, born there, included Alexis in November 1857; and Marie Serasine in August 1861.  Drosin's succession, calling his second wife Mirza Lejeune, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in December 1865.  He would have been age 46 that year.  If this was a post-mortem succession, one wonders if his death was war-related.  Neither of his children married by 1870. 

Joseph's second son Edmond le jeune, by first wife Marie Tarsile Dugas, married Phelonise, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Boutin and his Creole wife Uranie Miller, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in December 1845.  They settled probably near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Marie in October 1847; and Théodore in November 1849.  Neither of Edmond's children married by 1870. 

Joseph's third son Valmont, by second wife Rosalie Vizina, married Pauline, daughter of fellow Acadians Antoine Hébert and Célestine Trahan, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in January 1850, and sanctified the marriage at the Grand Coteau church in June 1851.  Their son Valmont, fils was born near Grand Coteau in November 1850.  Valmont remarried to Célestine David, also called Bienville, perhaps a fellow Acadian.  Their children, born on the Opelousas prairies, included Napoléon near Grand Coteau in October 1861; Joseph Adam near Church Point, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in December 1863; Froisin at Coulee Triffe, today's Esterwood, Acadia Parish, in July 1867; Paul in January 1870; ...  During the war, Valmont enlisted in Company K of the 10th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Landry Parish, which fought in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania--one of General R. E. Lee's Louisiana Tigers.  Valmont's Confederate service was short, however.  Two days after he enlisted at Camp Moore, Louisiana, in July 1861, he was discharged "on account of physical disability," so he did not leave the Bayou State.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Jean-Baptiste, père's fourth son Gérard Christopher married Aspasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Guidry and Adélaïde Duhon, at the Vermilionville church in May 1826.  They evidently were married earlier, perhaps civilly.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Edmond le jeune born in c1825 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 16 months, in May 1826; Elmire baptized at age 5 months, 8 days in September 1827; Adélaïde born in March 1829; Onésime in c1831 and baptized at age 2 in March 1833; Agerin baptized at age 6 months in September 1834; and Gérard, fils born in September 1848.  Gérard, père, at age 63, may have remarried to French Canadian Susanne, called Suzette, Istre, widow of Édouard Cortine or Courtine, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in June 1868, but they had married, perhaps civilly, years earlier.  Their daughter Aspasie was born near Grand Coteau in March 1857--seven children, four sons and three daughters, by two wives, between 1825 and 1857.  Daughters ..., by his first wife, married into the Gatt family by 1870.  None of Gérard's sons married by then, at least not in South Louisiana. 

Jean-Baptiste, père's fifth and youngest son Magloire, also called McGuire and Guire, at age 28, married Elizabeth, called Éliza, McFadden "of Texas" in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in June 1835.  They followed his father to southeast Texas later in the decade and settled at Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas, by 1840.  Magloire and Eliza's children, born probably in Jefferson County, included Jefferson in c1839; Sarah in c1841; James in c1844; Caroline in c1846; John in c1849; ...   Magloire, called McGuire, appears with his father in the Jefferson County federal census of 1850 with a wife and five children.  It was at McGuire's home in Beaumont where his father died in July 1854, in his early 90s.  McGuire died by 1860, in his late 40s or early 50s, when wife Éliza was counted in the 1860 federal census for Jefferson County with seven children and no husband. 

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Six more Chiassons in two families led by cousins came to Louisiana aboard two of the Seven Ships from France.  The first of them--a father and two sons--crossed on L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in early November 1785.  They followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche and created a large center of family settlement there:

Jean-Baptiste (c1728-?) à Gabriel dit Pierre à Guyon dit LaVallée Chiasson

Jean-Baptiste le jeune, called Jean, oldest son of François Chiasson and Anne Doucet, born probably at Chignecto in c1729, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, where he married Louise, daughter of Joseph Precieux and Anne Haché, probably at St.-Pierre-du-Nord, the church for Havre-St.-Pierre and Havre-aux-Sauvages on the north end of the island, in c1752.  Louise gave Jean-Baptiste three children on the island:  Jean, fils born in c1753; Anne in c1755; and Louise in March 1757.  Their younger daughter evidently died in infancy.  The British deported Jean, Louise, and their remaining children to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  The two children--Jean, fils and Anne, ages 5 and 3--died at sea.  Wife Louise died in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer soon after they reached the Breton port.  Jean lived with his father and a younger brother at Paramé northeast of St.-Malo from 1759 to 1763.  He remarried to Marguerite-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Dugas and Marguerite Benoit, at St.-Méloir-des-Ondes in the countryside southeast of Paramé in June 1761.  She gave him two more sons in the area:  Jean-Baptiste, fils born at La Blanche in January 1763; and Joseph-François at St.-Servan in November 1765.  Marguerite-Josèphe died at St.-Servan in June 1766, and Jean remarried again--his third marriage--to Anne-Perrine, daughter of locals Jacques Joanne and Perrine Charpentier, at St.-Servan in January 1769.  She gave Jean another son there, Pierre-Louis, born in October 1769.  In 1773, they followed other exiles in the port cities to the interior of Poitou, where Anne-Perrine gave Jean-Baptiste le jeune another daughter, Anne-Rosalie, born in St.-Jacques Parish, Châtellerault, in May 1775--seven children, four sons and three daughters, by three wives, between 1753 and 1775, in greater Acadia and France.  That December, Jean, Anne-Perrine, and their four remaining children, three sons and a daughter, retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes, where their youngest daughter Anne-Rosalie died by 1785.  That year, Jean, Anne-Perrine, and two of their sons emigrated to Spanish Louisiana.  Son Jean-Baptiste, fils, by second wife Marguerite-Josèphe Dugas, if he was still living, would have been age 22 when his father, stepmother, and two younger brothers left for the Spanish colony.  He did not follow them there.  From New Orleans, Jean and his family followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where the two sons created vigorous lines in a new center of Chiasson family settlement. 

Third son Joseph-François, by second wife Marguerite-Josèphe Dugas, followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marie, 18-year-old daughter of François Simoneaux of Lorraine, France, and his Acadian wife Marie-Osite-Anne Corporon, in July 1789.  Marie's family had come to Louisiana from Maryland in 1766, and she was born at Ascension on the river five years later.  Spanish officials counted the couple on the left, or east, bank of the river at Ascension near the mouth of the Lafourche in 1791.  Four years later, they had settled on the upper bayou.  Their children, born on the river and the upper Lafourche, included François-Victor at Ascension in July 1790; Pierre-Alexandre at Assumption on the upper Lafourche in August 1793; and twins Isabelle and Joseph-Marcellin in December 1795.  At age 31, Joseph-François remarried to Marie-Marguerite, called Marguerite, 28-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Amand Lejeune and Anastasie Levron, at Assumption in January 1797.  Marguerite, a native of Morlaix, France, also had crossed to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary of what became Assumption and Ascension parishes.  Their children, born on the upper bayou, included Lucie-Carmélite in July 1798; Jean-Baptiste-Prudent in June 1800; Joseph Florentin Bernard in August 1804; and Paul François Romain in January 1808--eight children, six sons and two daughters, by two wives, between 1790 and 1808.  Daughters Isabelle and Lucie, by both wives, married into the Culère or Tulère and Guidry families.  Four of Joseph François's sons also married and settled down bayou in Lafourche Interior and Terrebonne parishes.  His second son's line was especially robust.  The son's descendants settled in the Chackbay area of Lafourche Parish north of present-day Thibodaux. 

Oldest son François Victor, by first wife Marie Simoneaux, married Claire Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Benoît Comeaux and Anne Blanchard, probably in Lafourche Interior Parish in the 1810s.  Claire had been born aboard L'Amitié on the crossing from France to Louisiana in 1785, so she was nearly five years older than François.  Their chldren, born on the Lafourche, included Pierre Eugène in c1815; Célesite or Célesie in February 1817; Marie Euphrosine in March 1819 but, called Marie, died at age 27 in April 1846; Marguerite born in July 1821; Pauline Asèlie in December 1823; and Jean Faustin, called Faustin, in March 1826--six children, two sons and four daughters, between 1815 and 1826.  Daughters Marguerite, Pauline, and Célesie married into the Aupied, Aisenne, and Boudreaux families, Célesie, the oldest daughter, at age 52, her first marriage.  François Victor's sons also married and settled on the Lafourche. 

Older son Pierre Eugène married Françoise Hortense or Hortense Françoise, daughter of Jean Lagarde and his Acadian wife Françoise Adélaïde Templet, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in August 1837.  Their children, born on the bayou, included Marie Audalie in November 1838; Joseph Justineau in December 1840; Adélaïde Rebecca, called Rebecca, in December 1842; Philomène in February 1846; Euphrosine in the 1840s; and Émée, also called Eugénie, in November 1851.  Pierre Eugène remarried to Felonise, daughter of fellow Acadians Benjamin Landry and Delphine Breaux and widow of Valéry Boutary, at the Thibodeux church in October 1860.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joseph Fernand, called Fernand, in December 1863; and François Augustin in April 1866--eight children, five daughters and three sons, by two wives, between 1838 and 1866.  Pierre Eugène died in Lafourche Parish in October or November 1867, age 42.  A petition for his succession inventory, naming his two wives, his second wife's first husband, and listing Pierre Eugène's children--Ordalie, Euphroisine and her husband, Rebecca and her husband, and Eugénie from his first wife; Léontine, Fernand, and François from his second wife; and stepdaughter Émelie Boutary from his first marriage--was filed at the Thibodeaux courthouse in December 1867.  Daughters Rebecca and Euphrosine and Rebecca, by his first wife, married into the Aucoin and Thibodeaux families by 1870.  None of Pierre Eugène's sons married by then. 

François Victor's younger son Faustin married Eulalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Valéry Bourgeois and Rosalie Richard, at the Thibodaux church in May 1851.  Their children, born in Lafourche Parish, included Marie Alida in January 1865 but, called Alida, died at age 2 1/2 (the recording priest said 3) in October 1867; Marie Eulalie born in December 1867; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Faustin served in the Lafourche Parish Regiment of Militia, which fought at the Battle of Labadieville, Assumption Parish, in October 1862.  He was captured with most of his regiment there and paroled at Thibodaux a few weeks later.  One wonders why the couple waited so long to have children. 

Joseph François's second son Pierre Alexandre, by first wife Marie Simoneaux, married, at age 21, Marcelline or Marcellite, teenage daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Thibodeaux and Rose D'Amours, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in July 1815.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Eugénie in January 1816; Pierre Eugène, called Eugène, in November 1818; Marie Mélanie in February 1821; Evariste Alexis in February 1824; Silvain or Sylvain Théodule in May 1826; Paul Adrien, called Adrien, in February 1829; Jean Léon in October 1831 but, called Léon, died at age 22 (the recording priest said 26) in Ascension Parish in October 1853; Pierre Aurelien Georges Bedford, called George, born in June 1834; Henry Octave, called Octave, in July 1837; Joseph Aurelien died 32 hours after his birth in April 1840; and Mélanie born in Lafourche Parish in August 1857 when her mother would have been in her late 50s or early 60s! (so the date of the girl's birth/baptism must have been wrong)--11 children, three daughters and eight sons, between 1816 and perhaps 1857.  Pierre Alexandre, called simply Pierre by the recording priest, died near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in July 1865, age 71 (the priest said 73).  Daughter Eugénie married into the Martin family.  Six of Pierre Alexandre's remaining sons also married and settled in Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes. 

Oldest son Pierre Eugène, called Eugène, married Sophie, also called Jolivette and Solidele, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Usé and Marie Quimine, at the Thibodauxville church in May 1835.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Pierre Edmond, called Edmond, in February 1836; Marie Joséphine in November 1837 but died at age 11 months in October 1838; Théodore born in July 1840; Joseph Ulisse or Ulysse, called Ulysse, in April 1842; Eugène Ernest in February 1844 but, called Ernest, died at age 18 months in October 1845; and Evariste Adam was born in October 1847--six children, five sons and a daughter, between 1836 and 1847.  In August 1860, the federal census taker in Lafourche Parish counted five slaves--two males and three females, two blacks and three mulattoes, ranging in age from 28 to 1--on P. Eugène Chiasson's farm in the parish's First Ward.  Eugène's daughter did not survive childhood, but four of his sons did and married on the Lafourche. 

Oldest son Edmond married Louisa, daughter of Jacques Duet or Dué and his Acadian wife Adèle Molaison, at the Thibodaux church in April 1858.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Henriette Ordasie in April 1859 but, called Henriette, died the following August; Marie Estelina born in September 1860; Marie Rebecca in May 1862; Adèla in March 1865; Pierre in October 1866; Marie Gorgina, probably Georgina, in February 1870; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Edmond served in the Lafourche Parish Regiment of Militia, which fought at the Battle of Labadieville, Assumption Parish, in October 1862.  He was captured there with most of his regiment, paroled at Thibodeaux a few weeks later, and returned to his family.  

During the war, Eugène's second son Théodore served in Company E of the 4th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafourche Parish, which fought in Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, and Alabama.  One source says he died in July 1863, but he was actually captured near Jackson, Mississippi, forwarded to Snyder's Bluff, Mississippi, and then sent to Camp Morton, Indiana, a prisoner-of-war compound near Indianapolis.  Meanwhile, his unit roster listed him as a deserter.  Théodore survived his ordeal at Camp Morton, returned home, and married Séverine, daughter of  Jacques Adam and Julie Navarre, at the Vacherie church, St. James Parish, in May 1866; the marriage also was recorded in Lafourche Parish the same month.  Their son Eugène le jeune was born in Lafourche Parish in April 1869; ...  

During the war, Eugène's third son Joseph Ulysse, called Ulysse, served in Company I of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafourche Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  Ulysse survived the war and married Julie, daughter of Célestin Guyot, perhaps a Foreign Frenchman, and his Anglo wife Marie Elizabeth Ferguson, at the Thibodaux church in September 1865.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joseph Ulysse, fils in September 1865; a child, name unrecorded, died at age 5 months in July 1868; Joacin, probably Joachim, Célestin born in January 1870; ...

Eugène's fifth son Evariste Adam married Pauline, daughter of fellow Acadians Hippolyte Hébert and Victoire Boudreaux, at the Thibodaux church in May 1867.  Daughter Marie Joséphine was born in Lafourche Parish in February 1869; ...

Pierre Alexandre's second son Evariste Alexis married Marie Adèle, called Adèle, daughter of Alexis Hymel or Himel and Marcelline Badeaux, at the Thibodaux church in January 1843.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Pierre Numa, called Numa or Luma, in May 1845; Zulma Marceline in February 1847; Onésime Augustin in November 1848; Louise[sic, perhaps Louis] Paul in October 1850; Marie Ophelia, called Ophelia, in June 1852; Marie Octavie in October 1854; Marie Adélaïde in September 1856; Joséphine in March 1860; Justilia in March 1863; Julien Anathole in November 1864; Marie Ernestine in December 1867; ...  Daughter Ophelia married into the Rodrique family by 1870.  Two of Evariste Alexis's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Numa, called Luma by the recording priest, married Célestine, daughter of Michel Montz and Marie Portier, at the Thibodaux church in January 1864. ...  

Evariste Alexis's second son Onésime Augustin, called Holézipe by the parish clerk and Holésippe by the recording priest, married Céleste, daughter of Jacques Adam and Julie Navarre, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in January 1869, and sanctified the marriage at the Vacherie church, St. James Parish, in February.  Their son Camille was born in Lafourche Parish in November 1870; ...

Pierre Alexandre's third son Sylvain Théodule married Marie Eugénie, called Eugénie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph LeBlanc and Célanie Breaux, at the Thibodaux church in June 1847.  Their children, born on the lower Lafourche, included Pierre Octave, called Octave le jeune, in September 1848; Léo Oscar near Lockport in September 1853; Henry Isaac in March 1856; Marie Georgina baptized at the Lockport church, age unrecorded, in June 1858; Elver Joséphine born in August 1860; Sylvain Osémé near Raceland in July 1862; Joseph near Lockport in February 1865; Jean William in June 1867; Joseph Félix in August 1869; ...  One of Sylvain's sons married by 1870. 

Oldest son Octave le jeune married Laiza, daughter of fellow Acadian Urbain Aucoin and his Creole wife Céleste Adam, at the Lockport church, Lafourche Parish, in February 1869.  Their son Joseph le jeune was born near Lockport in November 1869; ...  

Pierre Alexandre's fourth son Paul Adrien, called Adrien, married Marie, also called Clelie, daughter of Jacques Pontiff and Eméranthe Hymel, at the Thibodaux church in February 1850.  Their son Ernest died in Lafourche Interior Parish at age 2 months in January 1851.  Adrien remarried to Hypoline or Pauline, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Charles Richard and Scholastique Bourgeois, at the Thibodeaux church in April 1853.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Émelia in February 1854 but, called Émelia, died at age 1 in February 1855; Adam Augustin, also called Joseph Augustin, born in December 1855; and Joseph Alcide, called Alcide, in August 1857.  Adrien remarried again--his third marriage--to Estelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Edmond Thibodeaux and Élisabeth Robichaux and widow of T. Richard, at the Thibodaux church in March 1860.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Louisiane in December 1860; Marie Letitia in February 1862; Cécile in April 1864; Albert in February 1866; Marie in November 1867; Marguerite in September 1869; ...  None of Adrien's children married by 1870. 

Pierre Alexandre's sixth son George married Doralise, another daughter of Alexis Hymel and Marcelline Badeaux, at the Thibodaux church in July 1854.  Their children, born on the Lafourche and the river, included Oleus in Lafourche Parish in late 1855 but died at age 2 1/2 (the recording priest said 2) in January 1858; Eulalie born in February 1857; Wilfrid Édouard in April 1861; Marceline Anglina in Lafourche Parish in November 1864; Augustin Clervil near Vacherie, St. James Parish, in October 1867; Joseph Lovinci near Labadieville, Assumption Parish, in March 1870; ...  None of George's children married by 1870. 

Pierre Alexandre's seventh son Octave married Marie Estelle, called Estelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Molaison and Marie Louise Hébert, at the Thibodaux church in February 1858.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Émelia in October 1858; Pierre Édouard in November 1860; Marie Émée in May 1864[sic]; Joseph Ernest in October 1864[sic]; Joseph Arthur in December 1866; Marie Joséphine in March 1869; ...

Joseph François's fifth son Joseph Florentin Bernard, by second wife Marguerite Lejeune, married Marie Pauline, called Pauline, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Guidry and Marguerite Bergeron, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in October 1826.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Jean Pierre, called Pierre, in March 1829; Marguerite Civilia or Surilia in August 1830; Rose Joséphine in December 1831; Marcellin in May 1834; Bernard in September 1836; Pauline Roselia or Rosalie, called Rosalie, in September 1838; Joseph Justinien, called Justinien, in October 1840; and Pauline Joséphine Eve baptized at age 4 1/2 months in December 1844--eight children, four sons and four daughters, between 1829 and 1844.  Joseph died in Terrebonne Parish in May 1854.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph was age 45 when he died.  He was 49.  Daughters Marguerite Surilia, Pauline, and Rosalie married into the Marcel, Clément, Watkins, and Boucher families by 1870.  Two of Joseph's sons also married by then, and at least two of his sons served Louisiana in uniform.

Oldest son Jean Pierre married Célina, daughter of fellow Acadians Nicolas Léandre Crochet and Madeleine Bergeron, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in April 1856.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Adam baptized at the Houma church, age unrecorded, in July 1854; Léandre Richard born in April 1856; Marguerite Joséphine in January 1858; Jean Pierre, fils in April 1859; Marie Louise in May 1861; Joseph Lovenci in February 1867; Eve Nathalie in March 1869; ...  None of Jean Pierre's children married by 1870. 

During the War of 1861-65, Joseph Florentin Bernard's second son Bernard served in Company H of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Terrebonne Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  He married Éliza, daughter of fellow Acadians Evariste Aucoin and Émilie Boudreaux, at the Houma church in March 1864 while he was home waiting to be exchanged with his unit, which had been captured at Vicksburg the previous July.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Élie Joseph in January 1865; Helesse Paulin in December 1866; Evariste Audressi in October 1869; ...   As the birth dates of his children reveal, he survived the war and returned to his family. 

During the war, Joseph Florentin Bernard's third and youngest son Justinien, called Justitien in Confederate records and also Justinian, served in Company E of the 4th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafourche Parish, which fought in Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, and Alabama.  He enlisted in the company in Tangipahoa Parish, probably Camp Moore, age 20, in May 1861.  His Confederate service record then falls silence, but a unit record notes that he was present for duty with the company in November 1861, when it would have been stationed near Brashear City and Franklin in St. Mary Parish, on the lower Atchafalaya and Bayou Teche.  If he survived the war and returned to his family, he did not marry by 1870. 

Joseph François's sixth and youngest son Paul François Romain, also called Hippolyte, from second wife Marguerite Lejeune, married Marie Bathilde, called Bathilde and Mathilde and perhaps also Rosale Mathilde, daughter perhaps of fellow Acadian Jean Bapiste Bergeron and his Creole wife Rosalie Lancon of Ascension Parish, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in May 1830, and sanctified the marriage at the Houma church in July 1855.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Rosalie Mathilde in April 1831; Marguerite Silvanise or Silvanie, called Silvanie, in May 1839; Hortense Alexina in January 1842; Mélanie Odilia, called Odilia, in December 1844; Corine or Corrine in the 1840s; Joseph Votcius in March 1850; twins Jean Baptiste Jumeau and Théodule Léopold in February 1853; Édouard Henry in July 1854; and Henriette Phrenele in September 1857--10 children, six daughters and four sons, including a set of twins, between 1831 and 1857.  Daughters Rosalie, Hortense, Silvanie, Odilia, and Corine/Corinne married into the Henry, Escassus, Roos, Lacarr, Whitney, Klinke, and Malbrough families, two of them, Silvanie and Corine, twice, by 1870.  None of Paul dit Hippolyte's sons married by then. 

Jean's fourth and youngest son Pierre-Louis, by third wife Anne Perrine Joanne, followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marguerite, also called Marie, daughter of Jean LeBoeuf and Renée Matherne of St.-Jean-Baptiste on the upper German Coast, in July 1805.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Émilie, called Émilie, in September 1806; Joseph André, called André, in December 1813; Marie Marcelle dite Marcelite in April 1815; Angèle Théotiste or Théotiste Angèle in August 1817; Jean Pierre Gabriel, called Gabriel and Briel, in August 1819; François Henry or Henry François in December 1821; and Marguerite, also called Emérante or Mérante Marguerite, in November 1826--seven children, four daughters and three sons, between 1806 and 1826.  They resettled in what became Terrebonne Parish by the 1830s.  Pierre's succession inventory, listing his wife and some of his children--Théotiste Angel, Jean Gabriel, Henry François, Mérente Marguerite, and André--was filed at the Houma courthouse in July 1833.  Pierre Louis would have been age 64 that year.  Daughters Émilie, Marcelite, Angèle Théotiste, and Emérente married into the Naquin, Dugas, and Cunningham families, including two Dugas brothers.  Pierre Louis's sons also married and remained in Terrebonne Parish, settling near Montegut at the edge of the coastal marshes.  

Oldest son Joseph André, called André, married Félicité Cilda, Ernildor, or Esilda Billiot or Billot probably in Terrebonne Parish in the late 1840s or early 1850s.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Marguerite in June 1853; Andrécis in October 1855; Roseline Honorine in October 1856; Marcel Florentin in June 1859; Marie Aureline in September 1861; Faustin Paul in January 1865; Arthur Adam near Montegut in January 1868; Joseph Alfred in June 1870. ...  None of André's children married by 1870. 

Pierre Louis's second son Jean Pierre Gabriel, called Gabriel and Briel, married Henriette Scholastique, also called Louise, daughter of Jean Dupré, fils and Eléonore LeBoeuf, at the Thibodaux church in September 1840.  They settled in Terrebonne Parish.  Their children, born there, included Louise or Louisa Duphémie in May 1845; Jean Pierre, called Pierre, in July 1849; Ferdinand Léon in July 1851; Hermogène Maximin in August 1853; and Jean Placide in October 1855.  Gabriel remarried to Élise dite Eliska, daughter of Jean Pierre Ledet and his Acadian wife Marie Josèphe Roger and widow of W. Bélanger, at the Montegut church, Terrebonne Parish, in August 1869.  Daughter Eve Françoise was born near Montegut in June 1870; ...  Daughter Louisa, by his first wife, married into the Guidry family by 1870.  One of Gabriel's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Pierre, by first wife Henriette Scholastique Dupré, married Marie, daughter of Marcellin Béllanger and Élize Ledet, at the Montegut church in February 1870. ...

Pierre Louis's third and youngest son François Henry married Marie Geneviève, also called Élisabeth, daughter of French Creole François André Dubois and Geneviève Durocher of Terrebonne Parish, at the Thibodaux church in May 1844.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included François Martial, called Martial, in May 1845; Pauline in the 1840s; Apolinaire or Apollinaire Marcel in November 1848; and Édouard in October 1850--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1845 and 1850.  Daughter Pauline married into the Bourg and Malbrough families by 1870.  One of François Henry's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Martial married Basilise Elmire, daughter of Jean Charles Dupré and his Acadian wife Marie Céleste Naquin, at the Montegut church in June 1870. ...

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The second family of Chiassons, which included a father, a daughter, and a son, who came to Spanish Louisiana, crossed on La Caroline, the last of the Seven Ships, which left Nantes during the third week of October and reached New Orleans in mid-December 1785.  They settled on the western prairies, where they helped create another new center of Chiasson family settlement: 

Basile (c1749-?) à Jean-Baptiste à Gabriel dit Pierre à Guyon dit LaVallée Chiasson

Basile, only son of Pierre Chiasson and Catherine Bourgeois, born at Pointe-à-Beauséjour, Chignecto, in c1749, followed his parents to Île St.-Jean after 1752 and to Cherbourg, Normandy, France, in late 1758.  He married fellow Acadian Monique Comeau probably at Cherbourg in c1772.  Their child, name, gender, and age unrecorded, died at Cherbourg in April 1773.  Later that year, they followed other exiles in the port cities to the interior of Poitou, where Monique gave Basile two daughters in St.-Jean l'Evangeliste Parish, Châtellerault:  Anne-Adélaïde, called Adélaïde, born in April 1774; and Anne-Marie-Marthe in October 1775.  The following month, after two years of effort, Basile and his family retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the lower Loire port of Nantes, where he worked as a sailor and a cooper.  Monique gave Basile at least three sons in Ste.-Croix Parish there:  Louis-Basile born in December 1780 but died at age 21 months in August 1782; Charles-Albert born in c1782; and Louis-Joseph in September 1784 but died at nearby Chantenay in September 1785 on the eve of the family's departure for Louisiana.  Their second daughter Anne-Marie-Marthe, born in Poitou, had gone with the family to Nantes, but she likely died in Ste.-Croix Parish before September 1784, when Basile and Monique, along with hundreds of other exiles in France, chose to go to Spanish Louisiana.  In 1785, they signed up to cross aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, but the illness of their youngest son Louis-Joseph delayed their crossing.  After the boy died at Chantenay, the family, which included only daughter Anne-Adélaïde and son Charles-Albert now, booked passage aboard La Caroline, the last of the Seven Ships, which left Nantes during the third week of October and reached New Orleans in mid-December 1785.  They chose to settle on the Opelousas prairies, perhaps near her Comeau kin.  Monique died there by July 1789, when Basile, age 39, remarried to Anne-Marie, called Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Thibodeaux and Françoise Sonnier, widow of L'ange Bourg and sister of one of Basile's daughter Anne-Adélaïde's husband, at Opelousas.  Marie gave Basile more children there, including Marie-Eugénie, called Eugénie, born in June 1789 (a month before her parents' marriage); Pierre in September 1792; Julie, also called Susanne, in September 1793; Louis baptized, age unrecorded, in October 1796; Céleste born in c1799 and baptized at age 5 in October 1804; and Basile, fils born in c1800 and baptized at age 4 in October 1804--a dozen children, at least five daughters and six sons, by two wives, between the early 1770s and 1800, in France and Louisiana.  Daughters Anne-Adélaïde, Julie/Susanne, Marie Eugénie, and Céleste, by both wives, married into the Thibodeaux, Doucet, Dugas, Richard, Cormier, and Petit dit Parrain families on the prairies.  Three of Basile's sons also married there, but only one of the lines endured, in Lafayette Parish.

Second son Charles-Albert, by first wife Monique Comeau, followed his family to New Orleans and Opelousas, where he married Madeleine, daughter of French Canadian Charles Bourassa and his Acadian wife Madeleine Lalande, in September 1802.  Their children, born on the Opelousas prairies, included Caroline in c1803 and baptized, age 18 months, in October 1804; a child, name, age, and gender unrecorded, died "du mal de machoire (from a hurt jaw; perhaps lockjaw)" in December 1804; and Céleste baptized at age 3 weeks in April 1806--three children, perhaps all of them daughters, between 1803 and 1806.  Charles's succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in November 1848.  He would have been age 66 that year.  Daughters Caroline and Céleste married Matte brothers.  Charles and his wife had no sons, at least none who survived childhood, so this line of the family, except for its blood, died with him.  

Basile's fourth son Pierre, by second wife Anne Marie Thibodeaux, married, at age 27, Ludivine or Severine, daughter of Eustache Moreau and Dorothée Roy, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in September 1819.  They either married civilly years before their church wedding, or Pierre fathered a "natural" child, name and age unrecorded, who died in St. Landry Parish in May 1813 nine days after its birth.  Their daughter Eugénie was born probably in St. Landry Parish in c1819 and married into the Lanclos family.  Did Pierre father any sons who survived childhood?

Basile's fifth son Louis, by second wife Anne Marie Thibodeaux, married Marie dite Doralise, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Sonnier and Marie Thibodeaux of La Butte, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in November 1817.  Their children, born in St. Martin and Lafayette parishes, included Louis, also called Louis Dupré, Dupré, and Dupréville, in St. Martin Parish in November 1818; Joseph in October 1819; Marie Oliva in February 1821; Pierre, also called Clerville, in Lafayette Parish in July 1823 but died at age 3 in August 1826; Élisa born in December 1824; and Louisa baptized at age 4 months in June 1826.  A succession, probably post-mortem, for wife Marie Sonnier was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in October 1828.  Louis remarried to Susanne, daughter of fellow Acadians Augustin Dugas and Marie Duhon, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in November 1828.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Marie Odalie in August 1829; a child, name unrecorded, died at age 3 months in March 1831[sic, perhaps 1830]; Théogène baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 4 months, in April 1831; Théodule born in June 1832; Julia Armosa in October 1833 but died at age 1 in November 1834; a child, name unrecorded, died at age 3 days in November 1835; Anaïse baptized at age 4 months in December 1837; and Aurelien, also called Chretien, baptized at age 12 days in November 1839--14 children, at least six sons and six daughters, by two wives, between 1818 and 1839.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted five slaves--four males and one female, all black, ranging in age from 35 years to 3 months--on Louis Chiaisson's farm in the parish's western district.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted six slaves--five males and one female, all mulatto except for one black, ages 50 to 6--on Louis Chiason's farm next to Mrs. John Bt. Chiason.  Louis may have remarried again--it would have been his third marriage--to Marie Carmélite Sidalise, daughter of fellow Acadians Leufroi Sonnier and Carmélite Comeaux and widow of Pierre Anaclet Richard, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in February 1869.  If so, Louis would have been in his early to mid-70s at the time of the wedding!  Daughters ..., by his first and second wives, married into the Begnaud, Bertrand, Melançon, Albarado, and Richard families.  Five of Louis's sons also married and settled on the prairies, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Louis Dupré, called Dupré and Dupréville, from first wife Doralise Sonner, married Marie Joséphine, called Joséphine, daughter of Simon Durio and his Acadian wife Marie Madeleine Landry of Grand Coteau, at the Vermilionville church in February 1840.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Louis Dupré, fils in December 1840; Oliva in c1845 but died at age 2 in May 1847; and twins Simon Homere, called Homere, and Simonet Emard or Aymar, called Aymar, born in August 1848--four children, three sons and a daughter, including a set of twins, between 1840 and 1848.  Louis Dupré, père, called Dupre-Ville by the recording priest at Opelousas, died in Lafayette Parish (the recording priest said "at Fayette parish") in November 1859, age 41 (the recording priest said 42).  His three sons married on the prairies, but not all of the lines endured.

Oldest son Louis Dupré, fils married Marie Émelie, called Émelie, daughter of Antoine Clavel and his Acadian wife Léontine Hébert, at the Vermilionville church in April 1860.  Their son Adam Ebrard was born in Lafayette Parish in November 1868; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Louis Dupré, fils served with his uncle Théogène in Company E of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafayette Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  As the birth of his son reveals, he survived the war and returned to this family. 

Dupré's second son Homère married cousin Adoiska, daughter of fellow Acadians Théodule Melançon and Elisa Chiasson, at the Breaux Bridge church, St. Martin Parish, in July 1866. ...

Dupré's third son Aymar married Augustine, another daughter of Antoine Clavel and Léontine Hébert, at the Vermilionville church in May 1870.  Aymar died in Lafayette Parish in November 1870.  Did he father any children? ...

Louis's second son Joseph, by first wife Doralise Sonnier, married Marie Odile, called Odile, daughter of François Begnaud and his Acadian wife Mélanie Robichaux, at the Vermilionville church in December 1840.  Daughter Marie Deuralise was born in Lafayette Parish in October 1842.  Joseph died in Lafayette Parish in May 1842, age 22 (the recording priest said 23).  His daughter did not marry by 1870. 

Louis's fourth son Théogène, by second wife Susanne Dugas, married Azéma or Azémie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Trahan and his Creole wife Claire Dubois, at the Vermilionville church in November 1854.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Cléopha in August 1855; Jean Louis in August 1856; a child, name and age unrecorded, died in December 1859; Clarisse in July 1861; Joseph Selma born in May 1864; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Théogène served with his nephew Louis Dupré, fils in Company E of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafayette Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  Théogène's son Joseph was born a month after he returned to his unit following its exchange.  Théogène evidently survived the war and returned to his family.  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in February 1867.  He would have been age 36 that year.  None of his children married by 1870. 

 Louis's fifth son Théodule, by second wife Susanne Dugas, married Adonatille or Donatille, daughter of fellow Acadian Olivier Guidry, fils and his Creole wife Marie Meaux, at the Vermilionville church in December 1858.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Louisianaise in September 1859; Edgar in January 1862; Louis Olivier in February 1864; Hebrard in May 1866 but died the following September; Adam born in September 1868; ...  

Louis's sixth and youngest son Aurelien, also called Chretien, from second wife Susanne Dugas, married fellow Acadian Marie Aphanelie, called Fanelly, Dugas in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in April 1860.  Daughter Marie was born in Lafayette Parish in February 1861; ... Aurelien's succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in September 1864.  He would have been age 25 that year.  His line of the family, except perhaps for its blood, may have died with him. 

Basile's sixth and youngest son Basile, fils, by second wife Anne Marie Thibodeaux, died in Lafayette Parish in October 1862, age 62.  He evidently did not marry.  

Clément

Jean Clément, born at Jeffrets, bishopric of Coutances, Normandy, France, in c1707, was not kin to the Vincent dit Cléments of British Nova Scotia and Île St.-Jean.  Jean came to Île Royale, today's Cape Breton Island, by c1722 probably as a young fisherman.  He married Marie-Josèphe Druce of Minas at Port-Toulouse on the island in c1726.  Marie-Josèphe's roots were in British Nova Scotia.  Her father Benjamin was an Englishman, son of John Druce and Anne Turner of Benson, Oxfordshire.  Benjamin had been baptized an Anglican there on 25 January 1685.  He came to Acadia by 1710, probably as a British soldier.  He had to convert to Catholicism to marry Madeleine, daughter of Acadians Robert Henry and Marie-Madeleine Godin of Minas.  Witnesses to his profession of faith, recorded on 6 December 1710, were Pierre Melanson and Pierre Thériot of Minas.  Benjamin died at Minas in March 1714, age 29, in the final months of Queen Anne's War.  One wonders if his death was war-related.  Daughter Marie-Josèphe, born at Minas in late January 1712, was his only child.  Benjamin's widow Madeleine remarried to Jean-Baptiste Radoux in c1715, and he likely took Marie-Josèphe to Île Royale.  Between 1732 and 1754, Marie-Josèphe Druce gave Jean Clément at least 10 childern, eight sons and two daughters, on the island.  Jean's daughters married into the Lirard and LeHardy or Hardy families from France.  The extended family settled at St.-Esprit on the Atlantic side of the island, where a French official counted Jean, Marie-Josèphe, and six of their children, five sons and a daughter, all "natives of St.-Esprit," in February 1752.  Jean was still working as a fisherman at the time.  Son Hilaire was born probably at St.-Esprit in c1753.  ~

When the British rounded up the Acadians in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755, the Cléments on Île Royale, living in territory controlled by France, remained unmolested.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the British rounded up most of the island habitants and deported them to France.  Hilaire, son of Jean Clément and Marie-Josèphe Druce, was only age 5 when the British deported the islanders.  Hilaire, his older sister Marguerite, her husband François Hardy of St.-Mandé, France, who was a fisherman, and their 6-year-old son Hilaire le jeune made the crossing aboard the transport Queen of Spain, which left Île Royale in late summer 1758 and reached St.-Malo in mid-November.  Marguerite died at sea, but husband François, son Hilaire, and younger brother Hilaire did survive the crossing.02 

Hilaire (c1753-late 1780s) Clément

Hilaire, seventh son of Jean Clément and Marie-Josèphe Druce of Île Royale, born at St.-Esprit on the Atlantic coast of the big island in c1753, was deported to France in 1758 and lived at St.-Malo probably with relatives from 1759 to 1761.  In 1761, when he was age 8, he moved to Trigavou on the west side of Rivière Rance south of the Breton port and was still there in 1772, working as a domestic servant.  The following year, at age 20, he followed hundreds of other exiles in the port cities to the interior of Poitou, where he found a wife.  While living at Monthoiron southeast of Châtellerault, he married Tarsile, 28-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians François Naquin and Angélique Blanchard, at nearby Leigné-les-Bois in October 1774.  Daughter Marie was born at Bonneuil-Matours south of Châtellerault in July 1775.  In March 1776, Hilaire, Trasile, and their daughter, with other Poitou Acadians, retreated down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes, where Hilaire resumed worked as a domestic servant and also worked as a carpenter.  Tarsille gave him three more children at Nantes:  Jean-Hilaire born at nearby Chantenay in November 1776; Madeleine in February 1779 but died in St.-Nicolas Parish, Nantes, the following August; and François born at Chantenay in October 1780--four children, two daughters and two sons, between 1775 and 1780.  Wife Tarsile died in St.-Nicolas Parish in April 1784, age 38.  Younger son François died by September 1784, when Spanish officials counted the family at Nantes and noted that Hilaire had only two children left in his household.  About the time of Tarsile's death, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France a chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  Hilaire, a widower with two young children, agreed to take it.  He and his children, Marie and Jean-Hilaire, crossed on Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, which left St.-Malo in late June, picked up passengers, including the Cléments, at Paimboeuf, the lower port of Nantes, and reached New Orleans during the second week of September 1785.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Hilaire did not remarry in the Spanish colony.  He died there in the late 1780s, in his mid-30s, not long after the family's arrival.  His children, still young, were raised by relatives.  Daughter Marie married into the Dugas family on the upper Lafourche.  Hilaire's son also married and created a robust family line there.  In Louisiana, the family's name also is spelled Clemant, Clemente, Climent.

Older son Jean-Hilaire followed his widowed father and his older sister to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche.  After his father died, he lived with his sister and relatives on the upper bayou, where, at age 24, he married Geneviève-Sophie, called Sophie, daughter of fellow Acadians Victor Boudreaux and his second wife Geneviève Richard, in September 1801.  Sophie, a native of St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo, had come to Louisiana in 1785 aboard a later vessel.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Jean-Hilaire, fils, called Hilaire, in April 1803; Rosalie Marie or Marie Rosalie in May 1804; Marie Adélaïde in August 1806; Geneviève Tarsile, called Tarsile, in April 1808; Clémence in February 1810; Paul Valéry, called Valéry, in March 1811; François Ursin, called Ursin, in December 1812; Delphine Reine or Reine Delphine in September 1817; and Charles Joseph or Joseph Charles, called Charles, in the late 1810s--nine children, four sons and five daughters, between 1803 and the late 1810s.  Jean Hilaire died in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1844.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial said that Jean Hilaire died "at age 69 yrs."  He was 67.  Daughters Marie Rosalie, Marie Adélaïde, Tarsile, and Reine Delphine married into the Levron, Benoit, Hébert, and Morvant families.  All of Jean-Hilaire's sons married and settled on the middle Lafourche around present-day Thibodaux.  Two of Jean Hilaire's grandsons married first cousins.  Some of his descendants moved on to the Bayou Teche valley after the War of 1861-65, but most of them remained on Bayou Lafourche. 

Oldest son Jean Hilaire, fils, called Hilaire, married, at age 23, Marie Florine, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Archange Bernard and Justine Arceneaux, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in September 1826.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Jean Hilaire III, also called Hilaire, fils, in October 1827; Georges Edmondville in April 1829; Marie in February 1831; Mathilde in May 1833; Marie Clara in December 1837 but, called Clara, died at age 17 1/2 in September 1855; Tresimond or Trasimond Dumini in August 1839; and Marie Dometille or Dometilde, called Dometilde, in September 1842--seven children, three sons and four daughters, between 1827 and 1842.  Daughters Mathilde and Dometilde married into the Guillot family by 1870.  Jean Hilaire, fils's three sons also married by then and settled on Bayou Lafourche. 

Oldest son Jean Hilaire III married Marie Aglaé, called Aglaé, daughter of fellow Acadians Marcellin Breaux and Azélie Dugas, at the Thibodaux church in June 1850.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Cordeluis Hilaire in November 1856; Marie Cordilia in September 1858; Jean Beauregard in July 1861; Marie Graziala in April 1864; Simplice Césaire Camille in March 1866 but, called Émile, died the following May; Émile Julien born in May 1867; ...  

Hilaire's second son Georges Edmonville married Marie Roseline, daughter of fellow Acadian Olivier Guillot and his Creole wife Anne Marguerite Oncale, at the Thibodaux church in June 1849.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joseph Glalsey in May 1850; Maurice Théophile in September 1852; Marie Lidia in October 1854; Marie Zilia in April 1857; Georges Dosilien in July 1859; Jean Trasimond in January 1862; Marie Odilia in August 1864 but, called Odilia, died at age 19 months in March 1866; Liber Cléodomi born in March 1867; Joseph Alphonse in February 1870; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Georges Edmondville served as a lieutenant in the Lafourche Parish Regiment of Militia.  He likely fought with his regiment in the Battle of Labadieville in nearby Assumption Parish, in October 1862, was captured with most of them, paroled at Thibodaux a few weeks later, and went home.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Hilaire's third and youngest son Trasimond Dumini married Odile, another daughter of Marcellin Breaux and Azélie Dugas, at the Thibodaux church in April 1864.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Grégoire Alcés in September 1866; Joseph Alfred in June 1868; Alphonse in October 1870; ...

Jean Hilaire, père's second son Paul Valéry, called Valéry, married Delphine, another daughter of Michel Archange Bernard and Justine Arceneaux, at the Thibodauxville church in February 1835.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Justine Zélee in November 1835; Marie Élodie in August 1837 but, called Élodie, died at age 2 1/2 (the recording priest said 3) in May 1840; Joseph Paul born in January 1839; Joseph Michel in August 1840 but, called Joseph, died at age 12 in July 1852; Onésiphore Ulisse or Ulysse born in September 1842; Philomène Adolphine in February 1844; Odesoe in April 1846, perhaps a daughter; Michel Oleus or Élisée, called Élisée, in December 1848; Marie Mélina in June 1851; Louis Joseph in September 1853; and Euzelia Geneviève in March 1856--11 children, six daughters and five sons, between 1835 and 1856.  Daughter ... married into the Tauzin family on upper Bayou Teche by 1870.  One of Valéry's sons also married by then and, like his sister, moved to the upper Teche after the War of 1861-65. 

Fifth son Élisée married first cousin Eliska, daughter of Eugène Morvant and his Acadian wife Reine Delphine Clément, his uncle and aunt, at the Thibodaux church in April 1867.  Soon after their marriage, they moved to upper Bayou Teche.  Their son Edgard was born near Breaux Bridge, St. Martin Parish, in April 1868; ... 

Jean-Hilaire, père's third son François Ursin, called Ursin, married Adeline Séverine, called Séverine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Marie Benoit and Marie Élisabeth Darois, at the Thibodauxville church in January 1836.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Alezime in October 1836; Jean Arsène, called Arsène, in February 1839; Urcin or Ursin Ulysse in November 1839; Joseph Marcellin in September 1841 but, called Marcellin, died at age 11 months in August 1842; Auguste died at age 6 months in December 1843; and Marie Séverine Émelia or Mélina, called Mélina, in February 1845.  Ursin remarried to Azéma, daughter of Michel Sevin and his Acadian wife Théotiste Hébert, at the Thibodaux church in July 1853.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Émile in c1854 but, called Émil, died at age 4 in November 1858; Joseph Paul born in October 1854; Jean Baptiste in September 1856; Marie Hélène in August 1858 but, called Marie, died in October; Joseph Treville Clémile born in November 1859; Joseph in January 1862; Marie Noida in December 1863; Marie in July 1866; Arthur Ulisse in October 1868; ...  Daughter Mélina, by his first wife, married a Clément first cousin by 1870.  One of Ursin's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Arsène, by first wife Adeline Séverine Benoit, married Adèle, daughter of Noël Navarre and his Acadian wife Doralise Naquin, at the Thibodaux church in January 1864.  Their children, born in Lafourche Parish, included Séverine Adelina in November 1866; Anatolle Olézime in February 1869; ...   

Jean-Hilaire, père's fourth and youngest son Charles Joseph or Joseph Charles, called Charles, married, at age 19, Marie Arthémise, called Arthémise, daughter of Nicolas Sevin and his Acadian wife Marie Hébert, at the Thibodauxville church in July 1836.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Charles Joseph Adam, called Joseph, in January 1838; Auguste Ovile in October 1839; Marguerite Aglaée, called Aglaé, in October 1841; Théophile in August 1843; Marie Pauline in October 1845 but, called Pauline, died at age 13 1/2 in January 1859; Alexis or Félix born in the late 1840s or early 1850s; Andrée, perhaps a daughter, in February 1849; Emmelina probably in the early 1850s; Paulin in February 1853; Joseph Paul in October 1854; Joacin or Joachim Émile in February 1855 but, called Joacim, died at age 3 1/2  in October 1858; Bernard Clesia born in August 1857; and Joseph Treville Clémile in November 1859--13 children, nine sons and four daughters, between 1838 and 1859.   Daughters Aglaé and Emmelina married into the Sevin and Morvant families by 1870.  Four of Charles's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Joseph married Marie Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Boudreaux and Marie Rosalie Hébert, at the Thibodaux church in January 1862.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joseph Deve in October 1862; Angélique in December 1864; Davis Anatole in February 1868; Isidore Cyprien in April 1870; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Joseph served in the Lafourche Parish Regiment of Militia.  He may have fought with his regiment in the Battle of Labadieville in nearby Assumption Parish, in October 1862, was captured with most of them, paroled at Thibodaux a few weeks later, and went home.

Charles's second son Auguste married Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Guillaume Boudreaux and Françoise Gautreaux, at the Thibodaux church in May 1861.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Oleus Joseph near Labadieville, Assumption Parish, in March 1864; Octave Émile in Lafourche Parish in January 1866; Marie Julia in November1867 but, called Justilien, died at age 15 months in March 1869; Camille Klebert born in July 1870; ...

Charles's third son Théophile married first cousin Mélina, daughter of fellow Acadians Ursin Clément and Severine Benoit, his uncle and aunt, at the Thibodaux church in January 1864.  Their children, born in Lafourche Parish, included Marie Evelina Eliska in January 1867; and Émile Ulysse in September 1868.  Théophile remarried to Victorine, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Hébert and Tersile Boudreaux and widow of Pierre Rabbas or Robbas, at the Thibodaux church in February 1870. ... 

Charles's fourth Alexis, also called Félix, married Victorine, daughter of Polinaire Durocher and Mathilde Jolibois, at the Thibodaux church in March 1869.  Their son Marcel Félicien was born in Lafourche Parish in January 1870; ...

Clouâtre

Pierre Cloistre dit Clouâtre, a French gunsmith, reached British Nova Scotia by 1722, the year he married Marguerite, daughter of André LeBlanc and Marie-Jeanne Dugas of Minas.  They settled at Grand-Pré.  Between 1723 and 1750, Marguerite gave the gunsmith at least eight children, three daughters and five sons.  A daughter's marriage record calls her a native of "St. Jean, Acadia," so Pierre dit Clouâtre and his family may have lived on French-controlled Île St.-Jean during the 1740s.  Only one of Pierre's sons seems to have married before deportation:  Third son Dominique married Françoise, daughter of Claude Boudrot, fils and Catherine Hébert, probably at Minas in c1750.  Oldest daughter Marie-Josèphe married into the Hébert family at Grand-Pré in October 1747.  Second daughter Anne married into the Capdeville family in Spanish Louisiana.  In 1755, the gunsmith and his family could still be found at Minas.  Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered the family to the winds. 

In the fall of 1755, the British deported son Dominique and his wife Françoise Boudrot, as well as Pierre and Marguerite's daughter Marie-Josèphe and her husband Pierre Hébert, to Massachusetts.  Colonial officials counted Marie-Josèphe and her family at Newton in 1761.  After the war, Dominique and Françoise followed hundreds of other exiles from Massachusetts to Canada.  Though now also a British possession, the far-northern province was populated largely by fellow French Catholics, many of them Acadian exiles.  So, in a colony nearly as old as Acadia, the siblings and their families began the slow, inexorable process of becoming Canadiennes.  They settled at Trois-Rivières before moving upriver to St.-Philippe-de-Laprairie across from Montréal.  Typical of most, if not all, Acadian families, these Acadiennes of Canada lost touch with their Cadien cousins hundreds of miles away, and, until the Acadian reunions of the twentieth century, may even have forgotten the others existed. 

In 1755, the British deported the old gunsmith, his wife Marguerite LeBlanc, and the rest of his family to Maryland.  For over a dozen years, they endured life among Englishmen who, despite their province's Catholic roots, did not care much for the French "papists" thrust upon them.  In July 1763, Marguerite LeBlanc, now a widow, was living at Port Tobacco on the lower Potomac.  With her were sons Louis, Pierre-Sylvain, and Joseph, and daughters Anne and Marthe-Marie.  Son Georges, who had married fellow Acadian Cécile Breau in Maryland, their children Joseph le jeune and Madeleine, and orphan Joseph Breau, also were living at Port Tobacco that month, when they, along with his widowed mother and siblings, appeared on a French repatriation list.  Georges died probably at Port Tobacco sometime between July 1763 and December 1767.  Older brother Louis married fellow Acadian Marguerite Landry in Maryland after July 1763. When word reached the Acadians in Maryland that the Spanish would welcome them to Louisiana, where many of their fellow exiles had gone, they pooled their meager resources to charter ships that would take them to New Orleans.  The Clouâtres had no close kin in Louisiana, but that was of little consequence.  Certainly life had to be better there than in a British colony where they were treated like pariahs.  The first contingent of Acadians left Baltimore in late June 1766 and the second in April 1767, but the Clouâtres were not on either of those expeditions.  They departed with their widowed mother in the third expedition of exiles from the Chesapeake colony, which left Port Tobacco for New Orleans in December 1767.

The Maryland Clouâtres reached New Orleans in February 1768 with the large party from Port Tobacco led by brothers Alexis and Honoré Breau of Pigiguit.  (One of the older Clouâtre sons had married a Breau in Maryland, so they would have been considered part of the extended family.)  Despite the exiles' protests, Spanish governor Antonio de Ulloa forced the party to settle at remote Fort San Luìs de Natchez across the river from present-day Natchez, Mississippi, far above Baton Rouge, where a British garrison was stationed.  In 1769, after Ulloa's ouster, his successor, Governor-General Alejandro O'Reilly, allowed the Fort San Luìs Acadians to settle where they wanted.  The Clouâtres moved downriver to San Gabriel and Cabahannocer, where other exiles from Maryland, including LeBlancs and Breaus, had settled in 1766 and 1767.  A number of Clouâtre lines were started in those settlements, but only two of them endured.  One of the Cabahanocer/St. James Parish lines, that of Joseph le jeune, was especially robust.  During the early antebellum period, two of Joseph le jeune's cousins moved from Iberville Parish on the river to the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley, where they established a second center of family settlement.  No Clouâtre family put down roots on the western prairies before the War of 1861-65, though at least two Clouâtre wives may have lived there during the late colonial and early antebellum periods. 

Judging by the number of slaves they held during the late antebellum period, the Clouâtres of St. James and Terrebonne parishes participated only peripherally in the South's plantation-based economy.  According to the federal slave schedules of the late antebellum period, one of the Clouâtres in St. James Parish held five slaves at one time, and his cousins in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley held none, at least none who appeared on the federal slave counts of 1850 and 1860. 

According to state and Confederate service records, only two Clouâtres served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65.  Judging by their dates of enlistment, they probably were conscripts.  Both survived the war, which was not kind to their home parishes.  Even before Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation went into effect in January 1863, Federal commands controlling the lower Mississippi freed the slaves on every farm and plantation their forces could reach.  Meanwhile, Union gunboats shelled and burned dozens of towns, farms, and plantations along the river.  Successive Federal incursions devastated the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley, and Confederate foragers also plagued the area when the Federals were not around.  ...

In Louisiana, the family's name also is spelled Chiadtre, Cloac, Cloat, Cloate, Cloatre, Cloeta, Cloistre, Clouac, Clouain, Clouard, Clouatte, Clouet, Colaitre, Collaitre, Colloite, Collouer, Collouet, Collouette, Colluete, Coloitre, Colonot, Colouet, Colwat, Couatre, Coulaitre, and is pronounced CLUE-ott.03

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With perhaps one exception, the Clouâtres of Minas--seven of them--came to Louisiana from Maryland in 1768.  With them came Marguerite LeBlanc, their widowed mother and grandmother, who was age 62 when she reached the colony.  She never remarried.  She died at San Gabriel on the river in April 1782, in his late 70s.  Three of her Clouâtre sons and two of her grandsons created their own families on the Acadian Coast, but not all of the lines endured.  During the early antebellum period, two of Marguerite's grandsons established a second center of Clouâtre family settlement in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley: 

Louis (1724-?) Clouâtre

Louis, eldest son of Pierre Cloitre dit Clouâtre and Marguerite LeBlanc, born at Grand-Pré in August 1724, was deported to Maryland with his parents and siblings in the fall of 1755 and was living with his widowed mother at Port Tobacco in July 1763, when he would have been in his late 30s.  The repatriation list on which they appeared mentioned no wife, so he must have married later.  He may have come to Louisiana with the Breau party from Port Tobacco in 1768 (his widowed mother and four of his siblings were in that party). If so, he followed them to Fort San Luìs de Natchez that spring and then downriver to San Gabriel in 1769.  In his late 40s or early 50s, he married fellow Acadian Marguerite Landry, daughter perhaps of Jean-Baptiste Landry and Anne Babin of Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, probably at San Gabriel in the early 1770s.  If this was Louis's wife's parents, she had come to Louisiana from Maryland in 1767, age 30, with her widowed father and siblings.  Like Louis, this was her first marriage.  Her and Louis's children, born at San Gabriel, included daughters Marie-Anne and Marguerite, birth dates unrecorded, who married into the Morales, Flore, Prosper, Schlatre, and Suire families, so the blood of this line of the family endured.  After her remarriage at San Gabriel in May 1802, Louis's daughter Marguerite followed her new husband, François Suire, to the Opelousas District, where she died in April 1803, perhaps from complications of childbirth.  Louis's older daughter Marie-Anne married three times and remained on the river. 

Pierre-Sylvain (1740-1798) Clouâtre

Pierre-Sylvain, fourth son of Pierre Cloitre dit Clouâtre and Marguerite LeBlanc, born at Grand-Pré in March 1740, was deported to Maryland with his parents and siblings in the fall of 1755 and was living with his widowed mother at Port Tobacco in July 1763.  With her and his siblings, he came to Louisiana with the Breau party from Port Tobacco in 1768 and followed them to Fort San Luìs de Natchez that spring.  In 1769, he followed them downriver to San Gabriel, where, in his early 30s, he married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Boudrot and Madeleine Hébert and widow of Joseph Landry, in c1770.  Madeleine also had come to Louisiana from Maryland in 1768, with her first husband and three of their children.  She and Pierre-Sylvain were counted on the "left bank ascending," or west bank, of the river at San Gabriel in March 1777.  Oddly, the Spanish official who counted them there listed no children in their household despite their having a daughter, Marine, born at San Gabriel in October 1772 soon after their marriage--evidently their only child.  Pierre-Sylvain died at San Gabriel in May 1798.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Pierre was age 60 when he died.  He was 58.  Daughter Marine married into the Blanchard and Dupuis families, so the blood of this family line endured.  

Joseph (c1750-?) Clouâtre

Joseph, fifth and youngest son of Pierre Cloitre dit Clouâtre and Marguerite LeBlanc, born at Grand-Pré in c1750, followed his family to Maryland in the fall of 1755 and was living with his widowed mother at Port Tobacco in July 1763.  He followed her and his siblings to New Orleans, Fort San Luìs de Natchez, and San Gabriel, where, at age 30, he married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Dominique Babin and Marguerite Boudreaux, in June 1780.  She evidently gave him no children.  Joseph, at age 37, remarried to Élisabeth-Marie or Marie-Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Thibodeaux and his second wife Élisabeth Boudreaux, at San Gabriel in February 1787.  Their children, born at San Gabriel, included Marguerite-Marcelline in April 1788; Joseph, fils in December 1789; twins Anne-Madeleine and Marie-Clothilde in January 1792; Louis le jeune in January 1798; Marie-Marcellite in April 1798[sic, probably 1799]; Marie-Josèphe in February 1800; Marie-Virginie in June 1802; Pierre Treville in October 1804; Marie Apollonie or Pollone in c1805; and Marguerite Henriette, called Henriette, in November 1806 but died at age 8 1/2 in September 1815--11 children, eight daughters and three sons, including a set of twins, between 1788 and 1806.  Joseph died by May 1830, when a "procuration" filed at the Terrebonne Parish courthouse called his second wife Élisabeth a widow.  Daughters Marie Marcellite, Marie Clothilde, and Marie Pollone, by his second wife, married into the Babin, Pitre, and Bergeron families.  Two of Joseph's sons also married.  In the late 1810s, his oldest son established a new center of family settlement on Bayou Lafourche.  Joseph's other married son and his daughters followed, some of them settling down the valley on upper Bayou Terrebonne.  

Oldest son Joseph, fils, by second wife Élisabeth Marie Thibodeaux, married Marie Henriette, called Henriette, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Molaison and Marie Gautreaux of Lafourche, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in October 1818.  They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Marie Caroline in December 1820; Thérèse Sadille Adèlle, also called Marie Solidele, in March 1823; Marie Henriette in June 1825 but died at age 4 1/2 in November 1829; Marie Séraphine died at age 8 days in January 1828; twins Joseph III and Marguerite born in March 1832; Joseph Viléon in October 1834; Joseph Claireborne in August 1836 but, called Joseph Claiborne, died at age 15 1/2 in December 1851; Pierre born in the late 1830s; Marie Victoirio in October 1840; Marie Philomène in October 1843; and Élodie probably in the 1840--a dozen children, eight daughters and four sons, between 1820 and the 1840s.  Daughters Marie Caroline, Marie Solidele, Marie Philomène, and Élodie married into the Gaspard, Dantin, Laperouse, and Gautreaux families by 1870.  Two of Joseph, fils's sons also married by then and settled in Terrebonne Parish. 

Oldest son Joseph III married, at age 33, Philomène, daughter of Zedéon Calahan and his Acadian wife Cléonice Boudreaux, at the Chacahoula church, Terrebonne Parish, in July 1865.  Their son Ferdinand Joseph was born near Chacahoula in February 1869; ... 

Joseph, fils's fourth and youngest son Pierre married Tarsile, daughter of fellow Acadians Hippolyte Pitre and Rosalie Naquin, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in December 1858.  Did they have any children? 

Joseph, père's second son Louis le jeune, by second wife Élisabeth Marie Thibodeaux, was living in Terrebonne Parish when he married Marguerite Elmire, daughter of Pierre Victor Chatagnier and his Acadian wife Marie Modeste Hamon of Terrebonne Parish, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in April 1837.  They settled in Terrebonne Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie Émelia or Amelia Clautine, called Amelia, in April 1838; Louis Amédée in January 1840; Émile Marcel in June 1841; Marcellin Jackson in August 1844; Marie Rosalie baptized at age 6 months in December 1849; and Marguerite Élodie in September 1851--six children, three daughters and three sons, between 1838 and 1851.  Daughter Amelia married into the Echete family by 1870.  None of Louis's sons married by then.

Joseph le jeune (c1760-1841) à Pierre Cloitre dit Clouâtre

Joseph le jeune, older son of Georges Clouâtre and Cécile Breau and nephew of Louis, Pierre-Sylvain, and Joseph, was born in Maryland in c1760.  According to a French repatriation list, he was living with his parents at Port Tobacco in July 1763.  He followed his widowed mother, two siblings, and other Clouâtre kin to New Orleans and Fort San Luìs de Natchez in 1767-68.  On the trip up to Natchez, his mother remarried to fellow Acadian Charles Gaudet at Cabahannocer on the river in May 1768.  In 1769, Joseph followed his stepfather and his mother back downriver to Cabahannocer, where, at age 25, he married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Poirier and Marie-Madeleine Richard, in c1785.  Marie's parents were among the first Acadian exiles who had come to Louisiana, in 1764.  Her and Joseph le jeune's children, born at Cabahannocer, included Joseph, fils in October 1786; Olidon in May 1789; Michel in August 1791; Anne-Carmélite dite Mélite, also called Émilie, in August 1793; Marie-Rose or -Rosalie in November 1795; an unnamed daughter died, age unrecorded, in March 1798; and Georges-Jérôme, called Jérôme, born in November 1799.  Joseph remarried to Félicité, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Louvière and Isabelle Melançon, at Cabahannocer in February 1801.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer/St. James, included a son, name unrecorded, died soon after his birth in February 1806; Joseph Marcellin, called Marcellin, born in September 1808; Marie Flouille in July 1810; Joseph Drosin in January 1812; and Marie Clémence, called Clémence, in May 1813 but died at age 2 in July 1815--a dozen children, seven sons and five daughters, by two wives, between 1786 and 1813.  Joseph died in St. James Parish in February 1841.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph was age 87 when he died.  He probably was in his early 80s.  Daughters Mélite and Rosalie, by his first wife, married into the Melançon and Breaux families.  Three of Joseph le jeune's sons also married.  Like their father, they remained in St. James Parish.  One grandson moved upriver to Pointe Coupee Parish, where few Acadians settled, but the others remained in St. James.  

Third son Michel, by first wife Marie Poirier, married Marcellite, also called Manette, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand Bourgeois and Scholastique Arceneaux, at the St. James church, St. James Parish, in May 1815.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included a son, name unrecorded, died at birth in February 1816; Michel, fils born in February 1817; an unnamed daughter in 1820 but died at age 5 months in January 1821; Félix born in September 1821 but died near Convent, age 27 (the recording priest said 25 or 26), in May 1849; Edward born in April 1824; Drosin Clément, called Clément, in April 1826; Marie Elmire, called Elmire, in June 1828; Carmélite in October 1830 but died at age 3 (the recording priest said 4) in October 1833; Aglaé Augustine dite Justine born in January 1832; and Clairville posthumously in August 1834 but died at age 5 in October 1839--10 children, six sons and four daughters, between 1816 and 1834.  Michel died near Convent, St. James Parish, in August 1834.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Michel was age 45 when he died.  He was 43.  In September 1850, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted five slaves--three males and two females, all black, ranging in age from 28 to 2--on Wdw Mel Cloitre's farm in the parish's eastern district; this was Michel's widow Marcellite Bourgeois.  Daughters Elmire and Aglaé Augustine dite Justine married into the Dugas and Rome families.  Only one of Michel's sons married.  He settled in St. James Parish.

In July 1850, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted a single slave--a 9-year-old mulatto male--on Drauzin Cloitre's farm in the parish's eastern district.  This was Michel, père's fifth son Drosin Clément, called Clément, then age 24, who married Céline Odile, daughter of Foreign Frenchman Pierre Désiré Letulle and his Acadian wife Amelie Boudreaux, at the Convent church in November 1851.  Their children, born near Convent, included Joseph Eugène in July 1853; Marie in February 1854; Félix le jeune in March 1855; Marie Clémentine in March 1857; Marie Éliza in December 1860; Marie Lolitia in April 1863; Marie Regina in January 1866; and Marie Alida in June 1868, four months before her father died--eight children, two sons and six daughters, between 1853 and 1868.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in St. James Parish again counted a single slave--this time a 13-year-old black female--on Clément Clouatre's farm in the parish's Fourth District on the river's Left Bank.  Clément died near Convent in October 1868.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Clément died at "age ca. 35 years."  He was 42.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Joseph le jeune's fourth son Georges Jérôme, called Jérôme, from first wife Marie Poirier, married Émelite, called Mélite, another daughter of Amand Bourgeois and Scholastique Arceneaux, at the St. James church in January 1818.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included Jérôme, fils in October 1818; Joseph le jeune in November 1819; Sylvain, called Sylvanie, in January 1822; Marie Scholastique in February 1824 but died at age 25 (the recording priest said 28) in April 1849; Marie Élisée born in March 1826; Émilie or Amélie in March 1828; George Livingston in 1830; Amand Théogène, called Théogène, in 1834 and baptized at the Convent church, age 10 months, 25 days, in June 1835; and Rosalie Myrza born in October 1838--nine children, five sons and four daughters, between 1818 and 1838.  Jérôme died near Convent in November 1847.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Jérôme was age 50 when he died.  He was 48.  In June 1850, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted two slaves--a 27-year-old black female and a year-old mulatto female--on Widlow Jérôme Clouatre's farm in the parish's Fourth District on the river's Left Bank; these probably were Jérôme's widow, Émelite Bourgeois's, slaves.  Her and Jérôme's daughters Amélie and Rosalie Myrza married into the Berthelot and Bourgeois families.  Four of Jérôme's sons also married and settled in St. James, Ascension, and Pointe Coupee parishes. 

Oldest son Jérôme, fils, called Evariste by the recording priest, may have been the one who married Clara Marguerite or Marguerite Clara Chutz probably in Pointe Coupee Parish in the late 1840s or early 1850s.  Their children, born in Pointe Coupee Parish, included Jérôme III in February 1855; Lesida in February 1859; and Jean Uranus in January 1862--three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1855 and 1862.  During the War of 1861-65, Evariste may have served in Company F of the 4th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in West Baton Rouge Parish, which fought in Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee.  Did he survive the war?  None of his children married by 1870. 

Jérôme, père's second son Joseph le jeune married Marie Ezilda, called Ezilda, daughter of Nicolas Rome and Eurasie Webre, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in January 1849.  Their children, born near Convent, included Léon Joseph in July 1851; and Marie Calue Ezilda in October 1853 but, called Marie Isilda, died at age 9 in September 1862.   Joseph le jeune remarried to Virginie Berthelot, widow of Émile Favrange, at the Convent church in February 1860.  Daughter Marie, by his first wife, married into the Duhon family by 1870.  His son did not marry by then. 

Jérôme, père's third son Sylvain, also called Sylvanie, married cousin Marie Scholastique dite Colastie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Estival Bourgeois and his Creole wife Véronique Keller, at the Convent church in January 1849, the day after his older brother Joseph le jeune married in the same church; Sylvain and his wife had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born near Convent, included Joseph Silver or Sylvain in December 1849; Marie Anastasia in February 1850; Florian in September 1851 but died at age 20 months in June 1853; Joseph le jeune born in February 185[4] but died at age 6 months the following August; Corine born in September 1856; Lutetia in March 1857; Adèle in September 1859; Adam Fulgence in September 1863; ...  In June 1860, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted two slaves--a 40-year-old black female and a 14-year-old black female--on Sylvanie Clouâtre's farm in the parish's Fourth District on the river's Left Bank.  None of Sylvain's children married by 1870. 

Jérôme, père's fifth and youngest son Amand Théogène, called Théogène, married Marie Anne Victorine, called Victorine, daughter of Louis Isidore or Isidore Victor Letulle and Berthilde Legendre, at the Convent church in January 1857.  Their children, born near Convent, included Louis Jérôme in March 1858; Arthur Stanislas in March 1866; and Marie Philomène in September 1868 but, called an unnamed child, died "a few days old."  Wife Victorine, called "Mrs. Théogène Clouatre by the recording priest," died in November 1868, age 30, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth.  Théogène remarried to Eugénie Lucenty at the Donalsonville church, Ascension Parish, in January 1870; ... During the war, Amand Théogène served in the 5th Battery Louisiana Artillery, also called the Pelican Artillery, raised in St. James Parish, which fought in Louisiana.  As the birth of his younger children reveal, he survived the war and returned to his family.

Joseph le jeune's fifth son Joseph Marcellin, called Marcellin, from second wife Félicité Louvière, married Philomène Gilchrist, sometimes Gilbert, a native of Alabama, in either Alabama or St. James Parish in the late 1830s or early 1840s.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included Pierre Adam in January 1844 but, called Adam, died there the following May; and Joseph Elphége, called Elphége, born in September 1846.  One of Marcellin's sons married by 1870 and settled on the upper German Coast. 

Younger son Joseph Elphége, called Elphége, married Ernestine Fourroux in St. John the Baptist Parish, date unrecorded, and settled at Lucy and Edgard in that parish. 

Charles (c1765-1802) à Pierre Cloitre dit Clouâtre

Charles, younger son of Georges Clouâtre and Cécile Breau, born in Maryland in c1765, followed his widowed mother, two siblings, and other Clouâtre kin to New Orleans and Fort San Luìs de Natchez in 1767-68.  In 1769, Charles followed his stepfather Charles Gaudet and his mother back dowriver to Cabahannocer, where, at age 21, he married Marianne or Anne dite Manon, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Arceneaux and Judith Bergeron, in January 1786.  Anne was a native of Louisiana whose parents had come to the colony from Halifax with the Broussards in February 1765.  Her and Charles's children, born at Cabahannocer, included Marie-Marine in December 1787; Constance in September 1791; Marie-Euphrosine in January 1795 but died at age 15 (the recording priest said 15 months) near Convent, St. James Parish, in August 1811; an unnamed daughter died seven days after her birth in January 1797; Marie-Anne-Belisaria born in July 1799; Marie-Françoise dite Fanny in September 1800; and Bélisaire in c1801 but died at age 30 in August 1831--seven children, six daughters and a son, between 1787 and 1801.  Charles died at Cabahannocer in January 1802.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Charles was age 45 when he died.  He was closer to 37.  Daughters Marie Marine, Constance, and Fanny married into the Frederick, Selvis, and Hakle families.  Charles's only son did not marry, so this line of the family, except for its blood, died with him.  Daughter Marie-Marine, wife of Charles Frederick of Sweden, followed her husband to the western prairies in the early 1800s. 

Comeaux

Pierre Comeau, a cooper, born in France in c1598, came to Acadia with Isaac Razilly and the sieur d'Aulnay in 1632, four years before the first French families came to the colony.  Pierre Comeau worked his trade at the Atlantic-side port of La Hève, Razilly's headquarters, before moving to Port-Royal, where, at age 51, he married 18-year-old Rose Bayon in c1649.  Rose may have come to Acadia with her father in 1636 aboard the St.-Jehan, the ship that brought the first French families to the colony.  Between 1652 and 1665, at Port-Royal, Rose gave Pierre nine children, six sons and three daughters.  Their daughters married into the Gaudet, Hébert, and Rivet families.  Five of Pierre's sons married into the Lefebvre, Landry, Bourg, Hébert, Joseph dit Lejeune, Bourgeois, and Babin families.  Pierre was counted at Port-Royal in 1686, age 88.  The date of his death has been lost to history.  By 1755, his descendants could be found at Grand-Pré, Rivière-aux-Canards, and Pigiguit in the Minas Basin; at Chepoudy and Petitcoudiac in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto; at Malpéque on the northwestern coast of Île St.-Jean; on Île Madame off the southern coast of Île Royale; at Annapolis Royal, where they were especially numerous; and in Canada.  Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this large family even farther. 

The Acadians at Chignecto were the first to endure a disruption of their lives.  During the spring and summer of 1750, in response to the British building a fort at Beaubassin village, Canadian militia, assisted by Mi'kmaq warriors led by Abbé Jean-Louis Le Loutre, burned Acadian homesteads in the British-controlled area east of Rivière Missaguash, forcing the habitants there to move to the French-controlled area west of the river.  After yet another war erupted between Britain and France in 1754, Chignecto-area Acadians were caught in the middle of it.  When British and New-New English forces attacked Fort Beauséjour in June 1755, local Acadians, perhaps including Comeaus from the trois-rivières, served in the fort as militia.  They, too, along with the French troupes de la marine, became prisoners of war when the fort surrendered on June 16.  Lieutenant-Governor Charles Lawrence was so incensed to find so-called French Neutrals fighting with French regulars at Beauséjour he ordered his officers to deport the local Acadians to the southernmost seaboard colonies.  Comeaus were deported to South Carolina.  Other Comeaus at Chepoudy escaped the British roundup and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore or moved on to Canada via the Rivière St.-Jean portage. 

Later that fall, the British shipped the Acadians in the Minas Basin to Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Massachusetts, and Connecticut.  One Comeau family from Pigiguit was deported to Massachusetts, others to Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Maryland.  Comeaus deported to Virginia endured a fate worse than most of the other exiles rounded up at Minas.  In mid-November 1755, when five transports appeared unexpectedly at Hampton Roads, Virginia's governor Robert Dinwiddie protested the deportation of so many "Neutral French" to his colony without his consent.  Exiles died on the filthy, crowded ships anchored in Hampton Roads while the Virginia authorities pondered their fate.  As winter approached, the governor ordered Acadians from one vessel moved up to Richmond, two of the vessels were unloaded at Hampton, and two more at Norfolk.  Finally, in the spring of 1756, the governor, his council, and the colony's Burgesses made its decision ... the "papists" must go!  In May, the first shipment of Acadians in hired vessels left for England, and in two weeks all of them had gone--299 to Bristol, 250 to Falmouth, 340 to Southampton, and 336 to Liverpool--1,225 exiles in all by one count.  Their ordeal only worsened in the English ports, where they were held in warehouses and where many died of smallpox.  By the end of the war in 1763, more than half of the exiles sent to England were dead. 

In late autumn of 1755, the British deported Acadians in the Annapolis Basin to Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, and North Carolina, many Comeaus among them.  However, the ship heading to North Carolina never got there.  Soon after the Pembroke embarked from Goat Island in the lower basin and entered the Bay of Funday with 232 exiles aboard, a storm separated it from the other transports, the Acadians seized the vessel, sailed it to Baie Ste.-Marie on the western coast of Nova Scotia and then crossed the Bay of Fundy to lower Rivière St.-Jean, where they abandoned the ship and escaped into the wilds of present-day New Brunswick.  The rest of their Annapolis valley brethren were not so lucky.  After their ships had reached their destinations, the Acadians who ended up in New England and New York eventually were allowed to come ashore and endure the disdain of the English colonists.  Meanwhile, the Comeaus who escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal endured a hard winter on the Fundy shore, crossed the bay to Chepoudy the following spring, and found refuge on the upper Petitcoudiac, lower Rivière St.-Jean, or the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Others moved on to Canada, where their fellow Frenchmen treated them with disdain.  Church records show that Comeaus from Annapolis Royal and Chepoudy were buried at Québec in the late 1750s, some of them victims of a smallpox epidemic that killed hundreds of exiles in the Québec area from the summer of 1757 to the spring of 1758. 

Living in territory controlled by France, Comeaus in the French Maritimes escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived, however.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats swooped down on the rest of Île Royale and on nearby Île St.-Jean and deported most of the habitants there to France.  Comeaus at Malpèque on the northwest shore of Île St.-Jean escaped the redcoats, crossed Mer Rouge, and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Other members of the family were not so lucky.  A Comeau wife made the crossing aboard the deportation transport Duc Guillaume with her husband and two brothers.  They survived the mid-ocean mishap that killed many aboard the vessel, but she died in a hospital at St.-Malo soon after the ship limped into the Breton port the first of November.  One of her brothers lived at St.-Malo from 1758 to 1761, and then at nearby Plouër-sur-Rance from 1761 to 1764.  In April 1764, he left France aboard Le Fort for a new French colony in Guiane on the northeastern coast of South America.  He does not appear in the census of inhabitants at Sinnamary in the Cayenne district there, taken on 1 March 1765, so he may have returned to France by then.  He married a much older fellow Acadian after he returned from the tropical colony and worked as a carpenter in the mother country.  His wife also had gone to Guiane, where she likely lost her family.  The other brother lived at St.-Malo probably with his brother from 1758 to 1760.  In March 1760, he was at Lorient in southern Brittany, where he embarked on the corsair Travignon, which the Royal Navy soon captured.  He languished in an English prison until the end of the war, returned to St.-Malo in 1763, and was still living there when his older brother shipped out to Guiane.  In May 1763, after prolonged negotiations between the French and British governments, the exiles in England, including Comeaus, were repatriated to France.  Most landed at St.-Malo aboard the transport Dorothée and lived in the suburbs and villages of the St.-Malo area, including St.-Servan-sur-Mer, Plouër-sur-Rance, and St.-Suliac.  Remarkably, no Comeau family from England joined other exiles on Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany, where many of the exiles from England went in November 1765.  One of the Comeaus from England became a sailor.  In 1770, he embarked on the ship Americain but deserted his vessel at a port in French St.-Domingue, where he evidently remained.  Comeaus deported from the Maritimes or repatriated to France ended up in ports other than St.-Malo, including Cherbourg in Normandy and Rochefort and Bordeaux on the Bay of Biscay. 

Comeau cousins from Pigiguit and Chepoudy ended up in France by a different route.  After escaping the British roundup on Île St.-Jean in late 1758, they may have waited out the war somewhere in the Maritimes.  More likely, they followed other escapees to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, fell into British hands in the late 1750s or early 1760s, were held in prison compounds in Nova Scotia, and, after the war, followed other Acadians to Île Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  Soon Miquelon and nearby Île St.-Pierre became overcrowded, so, in 1767, French officials, obeying a royal decree, shipped the fisher/habitants to France.  Comeaus from Île Miquelon ended up at Cherbourg, from whence some of them returned to the fishery island the following year.  In 1778, during the American Revolution, the British captured the Newfoundland islands and deported the Acadians there, including Comeaus, to La Rochelle, France.  One member of the family returned to the island in 1784, but others remained in the mother country. 

In 1773, Comeaus from Île Miquelon, with hundreds of other Acadians, went to the interior of Poitou as part of a major settlement venture that lured hundreds of exiles languishing in the port cities to marginal land owned by an influential nobleman near the city of Châtellerault.  In 1775, after two years of effort, most of the Poitou Acadians, including the Comeaus, retreated down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes, where they survived on government handouts and what work they could find.  In the early 1780s, when the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, the Comeaus at Nantes and St.-Servan-sur-Mer agreed to take it.  However, the Comeaus at Bordeaux, along with other members of the family, chose to remain in the mother country. 

In North America, conditions only got worse for the Acadians who had escaped the British in the late 1750s and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  After the fall of Québec in September 1759, the British prepared to attack the remaining French strongholds in New France, one of which was Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, now a major Acadian refuge.  In late June 1760, a British naval force from Louisbourg attacked Restigouche.  After a spirited fight in which Acadian militia and Mi'kmaq warriors played an important role, the French commander blew up his larger vessels and retreated up Rivière Restigouche, leaving the militia and the Indians to prevent a British landing.  Unable to capture the garrison or lay waste to the area, the British commander ordered his ships to return to their base at Louisbourg.  The following October, after the fall of Montréal, another British naval force, this one from Québec, returned to Restigouche to accept the garrison's, and the Acadians', surrender.  On 24 October 1760, on the eve of formal surrender, French officers counted the 1,003 Acadians still at Restigouche, several Comeau families among them.  During the following months, most of these Acadians, along with others who had escaped capture at Restigouche, either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the region, and sent to prison compounds in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  In 1761-62, British officials counted members of the family at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, near the old Comeau homesteads there.  In August 1763, Comeaus appeared on a French repatriation list circulated in the prison compound at Halifax.  Comeaus also were held at Chédaboutou up the Atlantic shore. 

At war's end, Acadians being held in the seaboard colonies, theoretically, were free to go, but not until the British discerned their intentions.  Even then, colonial officials discouraged repatriaton.  In the summer of 1763, Comeaus still could be found in Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and especially South Carolina, their names appearing on French repatriation lists circulating in those colonies.  Oddly, in August 1763, when repatriation lists were compiled in Massachusetts, no Comeaus appeared on any of them.  Three years later, in June 1766, Massachusetts officials compiled a list entitled "Names of the French Who Wish to Go to Canada."  No Comeau appeared in that counting either.  One wonders if the Comeaus the British had sent to the Bay colony in 1755 and who colonial officials had counted there in the late 1750s had either died or gone to Canada or to some other place before or soon after the war had ended. 

Most of the Comeaus who had endured exile in New England, New York, and Pennsylvania chose to resettle in Canada, where some of their kinsmen had gone as early as 1756.  Though now also a British possession, the far-northern province was populated largely by fellow French Catholics, many of them Acadian exiles.  So, in a colony nearly as old as Acadia, descendants of Pierre Comeau the cooper began the slow, inexorable process of becoming Canadiennes.  Especially after 1766, Comeaus could be found on the upper St. Lawrence at Bécancour, Nicolet, St.-Grégoire, L'Acadie, Trois-Rivières, Gentilly, La Prairie, St.-Jacques de l'Achigan, St.-Pierre-de-la-Becquets, Pointe-du-Lac, and Yamachiche; at St.-Denis, St.-Ours, and Chambly on the lower Richelieu; and on the lower St. Lawrence at Berthier, St.-Charles de Bellechasse, St.-Roch-des-Aulnaies, and Montmagny.  Many Comeaus were determined to live as closely as they could to their old homes in greater Acadia.  They settled at Carleton in the British-controlled fishery at Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs; at Pointe-de-l'Est on the remote îles-de-la-Madeleine in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; on the St. John River in western New Brunswick; at Caraquet, Nipisiguit, now Bathurst, and Petit-Rocher on the Gulf shore of eastern New Brunswick; and at Memramcook in the trois-rivières west of Chignecto, near their former haunts at Chepoudy and Petitcoudiac.  Comeaus also returned to, or remained in, Nova Scotia, where they settled at Yarmouth and Chédabouctou, now Guysborough, on the Atlantic shore; and at Windsor, formerly Pigiguit, on the Fundy side of the peninsula before moving on to Baie Ste.-Marie, today's St. Mary Bay, on the west coast of the peninsula, a few dozen miles southwest of their old homes in the Annapolis Basin.  One of the towns on the mainland shore of St. Mary Bay was founded by Jean-Baptiste Comeau of Chepoudy and is still called Comeauville.  Typical of most, if not all, Acadian families, these Acadiennes of Canada lost touch with their Cadien cousins hundreds of miles away, and, until the Acadian reunions of the twentieth century, may even have forgotten the others existed. 

Comeaus who had been exiled in the seaboard colonies chose to go to the French Antilles to escape British rule and live among fellow Catholics.  While the end-of-war treaty was being negotiated, French officials did their best to lure these exiles to St.-Dominique, which the British had not taken.  Although driven from North America by the Seven Years' War, the French were determined to hang on to what was left of their shrinking empire.  A new naval base at Môle St.-Nicolas on the northwest end of the big island would protect the approaches to their remaining possessions in the Caribbean Basin and assist in the "war of vengeance" to come.  The exiles could provide a ready source of cheap labor not only for the naval contractors, but also for the island's major planters, who hoped to supplement the labor of their slaves.  To sweeten the deal, the French promised the Acadians land of their own if they came to the sugar colony.  Comeaus were among the takers.  In September 1764, the marriage of a couple recently arrived from Connecticut was blessed at Mirebalais, an interior community of indigo and coffee plantations near Port-au-Prince, so Comeaus went there as well.  Later in the decade and perhaps in the early 1770s, two Comeau families who had gone to St.-Domingue followed their cousins from Halifax and Maryland to Louisiana.  Comeaus also ended up on other islands in the French Antilles, including Martinique and Guadaloupe.  A Comeau on Martinique also joined her kinsmen in Spanish Louisiana. 

Comeaus being held in Nova Scotia at war's end faced a hard dilemma.  The Treaty of Paris of February 1763 stipulated in its Article IV that persons dispersed by the war had 18 months to return to their respective territories.  However, British authorities refused to allow any of the Acadian prisoners in the region to return to their former lands as proprietors.  If Acadians chose to remain in, or return to, Nova Scotia, they could live only in small family groups in previously unsettled areas or work for low wages on former Acadian lands now owned by New-English "planters."  If they stayed, they must also take the hated oath of allegiance to the new British king, George III, without reservation.  They would also have to take the oath if they joined their cousins in Canada.  After all they had suffered on the question of the oath, few self-respecting Acadians would consent to take it if it could be avoided.  Some Nova Scotia exiles, including Comeaus, chose to relocate to Île Miquelon.  Others considered going to French St.-Domingue, where Acadian exiles in the British colonies, including Comeaus, had gone, or to the Illinois country, the west bank of which still belonged to France, or to French Louisiana, which, thanks to British control of Canada, was the only route possible to the Illinois country for Acadian exiles.  Whatever their choice, many refused to remain under British rule.  So they gathered up their money and their few possessions and prepared to leave their homeland.  Of the 600 exiles who left Halifax in late 1764 and early 1765 bound for Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, at least nine were Comeaus. 

Meanwhile, Comeaus in Maryland endured life among Englishmen who, despite their colony's Catholic roots, did not care much for the French "papists" thrust upon them.  When word reached the Acadians in Maryland that the Spanish would welcome them in Louisiana, where many of their relatives had gone, they pooled their meager resources to charter ships that would take them to New Orleans.  No Comeaus were part of the first contingent of exiles that left Baltimore in late June 1766, but they were part of the second and third contingents that departed Baltimore and Port Tobacco in April and December 1767.

Comeaus were among the first families of Acadia and among the earliest Acadians to find refuge in Louisiana.  Arriving in the colony in ripples and waves over a 20-year period, they came from Halifax in 1765, Maryland in 1767 and 1768, St.-Domingue and Martinique in the late 1760s, and from France in 1785--54 of them in all.  The first of them, a family of four from Chepoudy, came to the colony from Halifax via Cap-Français with the Broussards in February 1765.  That spring, they followed the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche and survived an epidemic that killed dozens of their fellow Teche valley Acadians that summer and fall.  A year or so later, they settled at Carencro at the northern edge of the Attakapas District.  Also coming to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765, two more Comeau families headed by cousins settled near present-day Opelousas.  They, too, remained on the western prairies, where their family lines thrived.  By the early antebellum period, most of the Opelousas Comeauxs had moved south to Attakapas, settling at Côte Gelée near present-day Youngsville, near Abbeville on the lower Vermilion, and near their cousins at Carencro.  The few Comeauxs who remained in the Opelousas country settled near Grand Coteau north of Carencro, at Church Point on upper Bayou Plaquemine Brûlé in present-day Acadia Parish, and out on the prairies near Ville Platte in present-day Evangeline Parish.  Comeauxs also settled on upper Bayou Teche near Breaux Bridge, near New Iberia farther down the Teche, and far down the bayou in St. Mary Parish.

Meanwhile, Comeaus from Halifax, Maryland, France, and the Caribbean Basin established lines along the river above New Orleans on what became known as the Acadian Coast.  in 1765, two Comeau wives arrived with their families from Halifax via Cap-Français and settled at Cabahannocer, present-day St. James Parish.  A few years later, in 1767 and 1768, two Comeau families, one led by a widower, the other by a widow, came to Louisiana from Maryland and went to San Gabriel d'Iberville and Fort San Luìs de Natchez on the river above Cabahannocer.  In 1769, the Fort San Luìs family moved to San Gabriel to join their cousins there.  One of the San Gabriel settlers had 11 sons, 10 by his second wife, adding substantially to the number of Comeaus on the river.  Sometime in the late 1760s, a Comeau family reached the colony directly from French St.-Domingue and settled at Cabahannocer.  Two more Comeau males, a widower and his son, came to the colony in the late 1760s, married, and settled at Cabahannocer, but from whence they came is anyone's guess.  It most likely was St.-Domingue. 

The largest contingent of Comeaus to reach Louisiana--30 individuals in half a dozen families--came from France on six of the Seven Ships of 1785.  One Comeau wife went to the Attakapas District and another to Opelousas, but most of the 1785 arrivals settled on the river near Baton Rouge and along Bayou des Écores in the New Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge.  Surprisingly, this influx of new families added only marginally to the number of Comeauxs on the river.  During the antebellum period, Comeauxs were living at Baton Rouge, across the river in West Baton Rouge Parish, on both sides of the river in Iberville Parish, and farther downriver in Ascension and St. James parishes on the upper and lower Acadian Coasts.  They were especially numerous around St. Gabriel on the east bank of the river in Iberville Parish. 

Many of the Comeaus from France chose to go to upper Bayou Lafourche, where a cousin from the river would join them in the late 1780s.  After the Acadians abandoned the New Feliciana settlement in the late 1780s and early 1790s, most of them, including Comeauxs, relocated to upper Bayou Lafourche, adding substantially to this third center of family settlement that eventually stretched all the way down into the Terrebonne country.  Relatively few Comeauxs, however, lived in what became Lafourche Parish, at least before the War of 1861-65.  During the late antebellum period, one family from the upper bayou settled near Pierre Part on the north shore of Lake Verret. 

Beginning in the late 1820s, four Comeaux brothers from Assumption Parish on the upper Lafourche moved to lower Bayou Teche, where one of them became a major sugar planter in St. Mary Parish.  Two of the brothers and a nephew returned to Assumption Parish during the late antebellum period, but the others remained on the lower Teche.  By the end of the antebellum period, there were as many Comeauxs on the western prairies and on Bayou Teche as along the river, with the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley cousins adding substantially to the eastern branch of the family.  The western Comeauxs had come from Chepoudy, the eastern Comeauxs from Minas and Annapolis Royal.  Although they all were descendants of the same Acadian progenitor, other than along the lower Teche there seems to have been little interaction between the two branches of the family in South Louisiana.

Judging by the number of slaves they held during the late antebellum period, some Comeauxs lived comfortably on their vacharies, farms, and plantations across South Louisiana.  By far the largest slave holder in the family was sugar planter Antoine Comeaux of the western district of St. Mary Parish, who held 34 slaves in 1850, and who more than doubled that number, to 77, by the summer of 1860.  In 1850, a Comeaux cousin in Assumption Parish owned 17 slaves; a decade later, he held 43 slaves on his plantation along upper Bayou Lafourche.  His older brother held 13 slaves on his farm in Assumption Parish in 1850; a decade later, the brother's widow still owned 14 slaves.  Along the river, a Comeaux's widow held 10 slaves on her farm in Iberville Parish in 1860.  In nearby East Baton Rouge Parish, another Comeaux owned eight slaves that year.  Family slave holdings on the southwestern prairies tended to be smaller.  A Comeaux in Lafayette Parish owned six slaves in 1850 and nine a decade later.  Another Comeaux of the same parish owned seven slaves in 1860.  Up in St. Landry Parish, a Comeaux cousin held half a dozen slaves in 1850 and the same number in 1860.  The great majority of their kinsmen, however, on the river, along the Lafourche, and out on the prairies, owned only a few slaves or no slaves at all, at least none who appeared on the federal slave schedules of 1850 and 1860. 

As befitting the size of the family, dozens of Comeauxs served Louisiana and the Southern Confederacy in uniform during the War of 1861-65, at least one at the cost of his life.  ...

In Louisiana, the family's name, typically, picked up an "x" and became Comeaux, pronounced with the emphasis on the first syllable--KOH-mo.  Up in Canada, however, it is still spelled Comeau and pronounced with the emphasis on the second syllable--kuh-MOH.  In Louisiana, the family's name also is spelled Caumau, Caumaux, Caumeau, Caumeaux, Caumo, Caumon, Caumot, Comand, Comau, Comaud, Comaut, Comaux, Commau, Commaud, Commault, Commaux, Commeau, Commeaux, Commo, Commot, Como, Comon, Comont, Comot, Comu, Coumeau, Coummeau.04

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Three Comeaus--a father and two sons--came to Louisiana with the Broussards from Halifax via Cap-Français in February 1765.  They followed the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche and remained on the western prairies:

Victor (c1740-1760s) à Abraham à Pierre l'aîné dit L'Esturgeon à Pierre Comeaux

Victor, second son of Jean Comeau le jeune and Brigitte Savoie, born probably at Chepoudy in c1740, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in c1755 and to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore in late 1758, but he did not follow his mother and stepfather when they moved on to Canada.  Soon after his escape from the island, perhaps in the early 1760s, he and a younger brother either were captured by, or surrendered to, British forces in the Gulf region and were held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Victor married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Michel and Jeanne Breau and widow of Michel Brun, probably in one of the prison compounds in the early 1760s.  Anne gave Victor a son, Thomas, born in c1763.  Late the following year, they followed the Broussards from Halifax to Louisiana via Cap-Français.  Son Jean was born at Cap-Français on the voyage down to New Orleans probably in January 1765.  They reached New Orleans with the Broussards in February.  Victor was one of the Acadians in the party who attempted to exchange Canadian card money for Louisiana currency at New Orleans in late April.  Soon after, he and his family followed the Broussards to Bayou Teche.  They had no more children in Louisiana.  Victor died at Attakapas in the late 1760s, in his late 20s.  In April 1771, soon after his death, Anne remarried again--her third marriage--to widower Joseph Cormier of Chignecto and Prairie Bellevue in the Opelousas District.  Her older son Thomas Comeau was counted with her and his stepfather at Opelousas in May 1777, when he was age 14, but then Thomas disappears from the historical record.  Anne and Victor's younger son, however, married and settled at Carencro on the northern edge of the Attakapas District.  Though the younger son had only one son of his own, he created a vigorous line at Carencro. 

Younger son Jean followed his parents to New Orleans and Bayou Teche and his widowed mother and stepfather to Prairie Belleveu south of present-day Opelousas, where, at age 12, he was counted with them in May 1777.  Jean did not remain at Opelousas.  He married Esther, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon LeBlanc and his second wife Marguerite Guilbeau, at Attakapas in January 1786.  They settled at Carencro near the boundary between the Opelousas and Attakapas districts, just south of where Jean had been raised on Prairie Bellevue.  Their children, born there, included Marie in November 1786; Marguerite in October 1790 but died at age 13 1/2 in January 1804; Julien born in August 1793; and Céleste baptized at Opelousas, age unrecorded, in June 1794--four children, three daughters and a son, between 1786 and 1794.  Jean died probably at Carencro, a widower, in February 1828.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said that Jean was age 68 when he died.  He was closer to 63.  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in March.  In his succession, his heirs petitioned the court to emancipate "a faithful slave, Jacques."  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted two slaves--a 46-year-old black female, and a 19-year-old black male--on Mrs. John Comaux's farm between Marie Coralie Comaux and "Mrs." Julien Comaux.  These may have been Esther LeBlanc's slaves.  Daughters Marie and Céleste married into the Savoie and Babineaux families.  Jean's son also married and created a vigorous line in Lafayette Parish. 

Only son Julien married Marie Céleste or Célestine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Athanase Breaux and Marie Catherine Arceneaux, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in June 1817.  They settled at Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Josèphe dite Josette Esther in September 1818 but died at age 13 (the recording priest said 12) in November 1831; Marie Estelle born in August 1820; François Hippolyte, called Hippolyte, Polyte, and also Jean Hippolyte, baptized at the Vermilionville church, age unrecorded, in February 1823; Rosalie Asélie born in November 1824; Jean Homère or Omer, called Omer, baptized at age 3 months in April 1827 but died at age 8 in August 1835; Joseph Osémé, called Osémé, born in January 1829; Céleste Anatalie, called Anathalie, in April 1831; Athanase in May 1833; Pierre Edvin, Edwin, or Televin baptized at age 6 months in November 1835; Alexis Hippolyte baptized at age 2 months in October 1837; and Eusèbe born in c1839.  Julien remarried to Arthémise Caruthers, also Credeur, probably at Carencro in the late 1840s.  Daughter Marie was born in November 1848--a dozen children, five daughters and seven sons, by two wives, between 1818 and 1848.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted seven slaves--three males and four females, all black, ranging in age from 16 years to 10 months--on "Mrs." Julien Comaux's farm next to Mrs. John Comaux.  The census taker likely meant to write "Mr." Julien, who died probably at Carencro in July 1864, a month shy of age 71.  Second wife Arthémise Caruthers, called "Mrs. Julien Comeaux" by the recording priest at Grand Coteau, had died probably at Carencro in January 1861, age 61.  Daughters Anathalie, ..., by both wives, married into the Sonnier, Mouton, and Hébert families by 1870.  Julien's five remaining sons also married by then, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Hippolyte dit Polyte, by first wife Marie Célestine Breaux, married Assèlle, Essèlle, or Estelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Augustin Benoit and Anastasie Babineaux, at the Vermilionville church in July 1841.  They settled probably near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Anastasie in February 1843; Marie Céleste in November 1844; Hippolyte, fils in August 1846; Rosémont or Rosémond in August 1848; Julien le jeune in February 1850; Mary Evélina in December 1851; Élodie in October 1853; Estene in November 1855; Marie Azéma in January 1858; Marie Emethilde in January 1860; Jean in June 1862 but died at age 3 1/2 in March 1866; Marie Doralis born in September 1864; ...  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted three slaves--a 23-year-old black female, a 3-year-old black male, and a 1-year-old mulatto male, living in a single house--on Hypolite Comaux's farm next to P. Edvin Comaux.  None Hippolyte's daughters married by 1870, but two of his sons did.

Oldest son Hippolyte, fils married Onésima, daughter of fellow Acadian Onésime Richard and his Anglo Creole wife Marguerite Arthémise Credeur, at the Vermilionville church in January 1867.  Hippolyte, fils's remarried to Eveline, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexis Blanchard and Marguerite Trahan, at the Vermilionville church in July 1869.

Hippolyte, père's second son Rosémond married Céleste Adolice, Adolie, or Adalie, daughter of French Canadian Louis Roger le jeune and his Acadian wife Marie Azélima Prejean, at the Vermilionville church in January 1870.  Their son Louis Steve had been born in Lafayette Parish in October 1869; ... 

Julien's third son Joseph Osémé, called Osémé, from first wife Marie Célestine Breaux, married cousin Marie Odoisea, Adoiska, Adoliska, Ladaiska, Lodaiska, or Lodovisca, daughter of fellow Acadians Symphorien Prejean and Eugénie Breaux, at the Vermilionville church in April 1849.  They settled probably at Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Marie Victoire or Victoria, called Victoria, in March 1850; Omer in January 1852; Marie Odelie or Odèïde, called Odèïde, in May 1854; Jean Alphée in June 1856 but, called Alphée, died at age 2 1/2 in February 1859; Dominique G. born in August 1858; Symphorien in January 1861 but died at age 9 1/2 in August 1870; Marie Estelle born in October 1863; and Zemea posthumoulsy in January 1866, a month after her father's death--...  Osémé died probably at Carencro in December 1865, age 36.  One wonders if his death was war-related.  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in July 1866.  Daughters Victoria and Odèïde married into the Hernandez and Breaux families by 1870.  None of Osémé's sons married by then. 

Julien's fourth son Athanase, by first wife Marie Célestine Breaux, married Louisa or Louise, daughter of fellow Acadians Caliste LeBlanc and Marguerite Eurasie Bernard, at the Vermilionville church in January 1854.  They settled probably at Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Jean Athanase in November 1854 but died at age 10 months in October 1855; Joseph Bernard born in August 1856 but died at age 3 1/2 (the recording priest said 4) in May 1860; Marguerite Usea born in August 1858; Mathilde in December 1860; Aurelien in February 1863; Anathalie in October 1865; Caliste Ozémé in January 1868; ...  None of Athanase's children married by 1870. 

Julien's fifth son Pierre Edwin, by first wife Marie Célestine Breaux, married Anatalie or Nathalie, adaughter of Onésime Richard and his Anglo-Creole wife Marguerite Arthémise Credeur, at the Vermilionville church in May 1858.  The settled probably at Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Joseph in March 1861; Azéma in December 1865; ...  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted a single slave--a 6-year-old mulatto female--on P. Edvin Comaux's farm next to Hypolite Comaux

Julien's seventh and youngest son Eusèbe, by first wife Marie Célestine Breaux, married Evélina, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Lessaint Prejean and Juliènne Richard, at the Vermilionville church in January 1860.  Their daughter Juliènne was born in October 1861 but died at age 2 in November 1863.  Eusèbe died in Lafayette Parish in June 1863, age 24.  Was his death war-related?  His succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse later in the month.  He and his wife had no sons, and his only daughter died young, so this line of the family did not endure.

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Four more Comeaus--Victor's older cousin and his family, and Victor's younger brother and his wife--also came to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français in 1765, perhaps in a later party.  If they followed the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche, they did not remain there.  They settled, or re-settled, in the Opelousas District farther up the Teche.  Victor's brother's line was especially vigorous: 

Michel (c1734-1804) à Pierre l'aîné dit L'Esturgeon à Pierre Comeaux

Michel, second son of Jean Comeau and Madeleine Amireau, born probably at Chepoudy in c1734, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Michel Girouard and Marie Thibodeau, at Chepoudy in March 1756 while in exile.  As their marriage date attests, the young couple escaped the British roundup in the trois-rivières area in the fall of 1755 but did not go far.  Soon after their marriage, they moved on to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore with other Acadian refugees.  Marie-Madeleine gave Michel a son, Jean, born in c1760.  In the late 1750s or early 1760s, they either were captured by, or surrendered to, British forces in the area and held in the prison compound at Halifax for the rest of the war.  Michel, Marie-Madeleine, and three children appeared on a French repatriation list compiled at Halifax in August 1763.  One wonders who the two other children might have been:  son Jean and two siblings, or son Jean and two orphans?  Late the following year, Michel and his family emigrated to Louisiana via Cap-Français and reached New Orleans in the spring of 1765.  They brought only a single child with them, son Jean.  However, Marie-Madeleine was pregnant on the voyage, and another son, Louis, was born in late April 1765 either aboard ship, at La Balize, or in New Orleans.  After baptizing their newborn son in the New Orleans church on May 16, they followed the Broussard party to lower Bayou Teche but did not remain there.  Perhaps to escape an epidemic on the lower Teche they settled, instead, on the upper Teche in the Opelousas District, where Marie-Madeleine gave Michel more children, including Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, born in c1767; Marie-Louise, called Louise, in c1769; and Michel, fils in November 1772--at least five children, three sons and two daughters, between 1760 and 1772, in greater Acadia and Louisiana.  Michel, père became a prosperous cattleman in the Opelousas District.  He held only four head of cattle in 1771, but by 1788, on the prairie along upper Bayou Plaquemine Brûlé near present-day Church Point, his herd had grown to 500 head!  In May 1796, he held a dozen slaves on his vacherie.  Michel died probably in the Plaquemine sub-district between the middle of March and the end of May 1804.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who was absent in New Orleans at the time of Michel's death, said that Michel was age 80 when he died.  He was closer to 70.  His succession was filed at what became the St. Landry Parish courthouse in September 1804.  Daughters Madeleine and Louise married into the Doucet and Bellard families.  Older sons Jean and Louis were counted with the family at Opelousas in May 1777, ages 17 and 12.  They then disappear from the historical record.  Only Michel's youngest son seems to have married, at Opelousas, but he "returned" to lower Bayou Teche.

Third and youngest son Michel, fils married Marie-Louise, called Louise and Éloise, daughter of Joseph Latiolais and Julienne Barre of Coquelin, at Opelousas in December 1800.  A few years after their marriage, they moved to Fausse Pointe on lower Bayou Teche near present-day New Iberia.  Their children, born at Opelousas and Fausse Pointe, included Onésime baptized at Opelousas, age unrecorded, in November 1800; a daughter, name and age unrecorded, died in February 1801; a son, name unrecorded, died six days after his birth in July 1802; Marie-Louise baptized at Opelousas, age 6 months, in December 1803; Michel III born at Fausse Pointe in August 1805; and Madeleine in February 1808--six children, three sons and three daughters, between 1800 and 1808.  Michel, fils, called Michel "of Côte Pte. Creole, of Opelousas," died at the home of Joseph Guilbeau at Fausse Pointe in May 1808, age 36.  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse the following January.  His widow Marie-Louise moved up the Teche to Grande Pointe, where she bore a "natural son," name unrecorded, who died at birth in November 1816.  Her and Michel, fils's daughter Madeleine married into the Fontenot family.  Their older remaining daughter, Marie Louise, like her mother, also bore "natural" children, including a daughter, Marie, in June 1821.  Michel, fils's two remaining sons returned to St. Landry Parish, married, and settled near Grand Coteau and Church Point.  His "natural" grandson also settled in St. Landry Parish. 

Oldest son Onésime married Éloise, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Doucet and his Creole wife Céleste Bellard, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in August 1823.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Madeleine in April 1825; Onésime, fils in March 1827; Céleste in March 1828; Joseph in May 1830 but died at age 1 in July 1831; and Marie born in April 1832.  A succession for Onésime, not post-mortem and containing "only a short inventory," was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in January 1838, probably on the eve of his remarriage to Marie Eléonore or Léonore, also called Modeste, daughter of Antoine Labbé and his Acadian wife Modeste Hébert, at the Opelousas church in January 1838.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Antoine in March 1839 but died the following July; Elisa born in December 1839[sic]; Théodule in April 1842; a second Antoine near Church Point, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in April 1844; Marie Félicia in May 1845; Jules in February 1848; Louise in February 1850 but died near Church Point at age 13 1/2 (the recording priest said 14) in November 1863; Marie Estelle born in May 1852; Jean Demosthène in January 1854; Estelle Ephelina baptized at the Church Point church, age unrecorded, in November 1855; Homer born in June 1857; Joseph le jeune in September 1861, when his father was in his early 60s; ...  Daughters ..., by both wives, married into the Labbé and Ramoin families by 1870.  Two of Onésime's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Onésime, fils, by first wife Éloise Doucet, married Julie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Doucet III and Marie Carmélite Richard, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in September 1849.  Their children, born near Church Point, included Joseph in May 1851; Onésime III in March 1853; Julien in March 1858; Pierre Faustin in February 1860; Marie Eugénie in April 1862; ...  Onésime, fils's succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in January 1866.  He would have been age 39 that year.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Onésime, père's fifth son Jules, by second wife Marie Eléonore Labbé, married Marie Doralise, daughter of André Veroni and Élisa Carrière, at the Church Point church in August 1867.  Their children, born near Church Point, included Joseph Nesat in September 1867; Élisée in July 1870; ...  Was he the Jules Comeaux whose succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse, St. Martin Parish, in December 1870?  If so, he would have been age 22 that year.  And if so, one wonders why his succession would have been filed there and not in St. Landry Parish. 

Michel, fils's third and youngest son Michel III married Madeleine Lacombe in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in August 1834.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Marie Julie in October 1834; Michel IV, also called Michel F., in March 1836; Marie Madeleine, called Madeleine, in January 1838; Marie Louise, called Louise, in April 1839; Edmond in December 1842; Marie Modeste, called Modeste, in November 1844; Onézime or Onésime le jeune near Grand Coteau in October 1846; Joseph in August 1848; Marie Azéma near Church Point in September 1850; François in February 1853; and Jean Martial in February 1858.  Michel III may have remarried to Clara Dacieux or Dussieux in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in February 1862, and sanctified the marriage at the Church Point church the following October. ...  None of Michel III's daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did and settled in what became Acadia Parish. 

Second son Edmond, by first wife Madeleine Lacombe, married Virginie, daughter of French Canadian Noël Roy III and his Creole wife Eugénie Menard, at the Church Point church in April 1866.  They evidently had married civilly a few years earlier and settled at Coulée Trief, today's Estherwood, on Bayou Plaquemine Brûlé below Church Point.  Daughter Marie Eugénie was born there in August 1864; ...

Michel, fils's second daughter Marie Louise, at age 20, gave birth to a "natural son," Edmond, in St. Martin Parish in December 1823.  The priest who recorded the boy's baptism called him a Comeaux but did not give the father's name.  Marie Louise may have had a "natural daughter" named Marie in June 1821.   

Michel, fils's grandson Edmond, who called himself a Comeaux, married Marie Tarsile, called Tarsile, daughter of fellow Acadians Achille Savoy and Marie Elisa Prejean, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in October 1854, and sanctified the marriage at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in November.  Their children, born on the St. Landry prairies, included Jean near Grand Coteau in December 1855; Eve Élisa in July 1857; Aymar in September 1859 but, called Numa, died the following January; Joseph born near Church Point in March 1861; Marie Edmonia in February 1864; Joseph Numa near Grand Coteau in August 1866; ...  None of Edmond's children married by 1870. 

Charles (c1742-1805) à Abraham à Pierre l'aîné dit L'Esturgeon à Pierre Comeaux

Charles, third and youngest son of Jean Comeau le jeune and Brigitte Savoie and Victor's brother, born probably at Chepoudy in c1742, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in c1755 and to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore in late 1758.  Soon after his escape from the island, perhaps in the early 1760s, he and older brother Victor either were captured by, or surrendered to, British forces in the Gulf region and were held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Charles married cousin Anastasie, daughter fellow Acadians Paul Savoie and Judith Michel of Annapolis Royal and Chignecto, probably at Halifax in c1763 or 1764.  They, too, emigrated to Louisiana via Cap-Français in 1764-65.  If Charles and Anastasie followed his brother Victor to lower Bayou Teche, they did not remain.  By the spring of 1766, they were living in the Opelousas District.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1765 and 1781, Anastasie gave Charles eight children, but Louisiana records give them seven children during that time.  Born on the Opelousas prairies, they included Antoine-Charles or Charles Antoine, called Charles, fils, in c1765 or 1766; Émilie or Humile dite Mélite in c1767; Pierre in c1768; Susanne-Josette, called Josette, in c1770; Marie-Dorothée, called Dorothée, in March 1771; Auguste or Augustin baptized, age unrecorded, in June 1779; and Jean-Baptiste, called Baptiste, baptized, age 6 weeks, in October 1781--four sons and three daughters, between 1765 and 1781.  Charles, like his cousin Michel, became a prosperous cattleman in the Opelousas District.  He held 19 head of cattle in 1771.  By 1788, his herd had increased to 643 head!  That year, he also owned six slaves and 15 horses on his 50-arpent vacharie on Prairie Bellevue south of the present city.  By May 1796, he held 10 slaves there, five males and five females.  Charles died probably on Prairie Bellevue in August 1805, "age about 60 yrs.," the recording priest noted, but he likely was a few years older.  His succession had been filed at the Opelousas courthouse the previous March.  Daughters Dorothée, Humile, and Josette married into the Boudreaux, Langlinais, Sonnier, and Mouton families.  All four of Charles's sons married and created vigorous lines on the prairies. 

Oldest son Antoine-Charles or Charles-Antoine, called Charles, fils and Charles dit Pilet, married Perpétué, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Broussard and his first wife Anne Brun, at Attakapas in January 1786.  They settled at Côte Gelée on the prairie between the Teche and the lower Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included Anastasie in September 1787; Carmélite in the early 1790s; Camille in August 1792; Céleste in the 1790s; Éloi baptized, age 3 months, in June 1795; Édouard, perhaps also called Cadet, born in February 1798; and Charles-Valière, also called Charles, fils (actually Charles III) and Valière dit Pillet, in November 1800--seven children, three daughters and four sons, between 1787 and 1800.  Charles, fils died in Lafayette Parish in July 1830.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Charles was age 66 when he died.  He probably was in his early 60s.  His successions were filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in January 1849 and September 1850, years after his death.  Daughters Anastasie, Carmélite, and Céleste married into the Mouton, Sonnier, Broussard, and Baudoin families.  Three of Charles, fils's sons also married and settled on the prairies and on Bayou Teche. 

Second son Éloi married Marie Cléonise, also called Phelonise, daughter of fellow Acadians François Louvière and Marie Louise Thibodeaux of Fausse Pointe, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in August 1813.  They settled on the lower Vermilion near Côte Gelée.  Their children, born there, included Marie Carmélite in September 1814; Éloi, fils in April 1816; Euphémie in January 1818; Anastasie in November 1819; Perpétué Azélie in September 1821; Joseph in January 1824 but died at age 5 in November 1829; Marie Orelia baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in April 1826; Charles Émile, called Émile, born in June 1828; François baptized at age 7 months in October 1830; and Louis, also called Louis Valéry and Valéry, born in c1833 and baptized at age 1 in July 1834--10 children, five daughters and five sons, between 1814 and 1833.  Éloi, père died in Lafayette Parish in September 1847, probably a widower.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said that Éloi died "at age 48 yrs."  He was 52.  His succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in February 1848.  Daughters Euphémie, Marie Carmélite, Anastasie, and Perpétué Azélie married into the Broussard and Bourg families, including two Broussard brothers, by 1870.  Éloi's remaining sons also married by then and settled on the prairies.

Oldest son Éloi, fils married Marguerite Méline, Amelina, Mélina, or Mélanie, daughter of Moïse Bonin and his Acadian wife Marie Denis Breaux, at the St. Martinville church in September 1836; they may have married civilly a year or so earlier.  They settled at Fausse Pointe on the lower Teche near New Iberia.  Their children, born there, included Marie Louise in c1834 but died at age 3 in December 1837; Amelia, perhaps also called Marie Émilie and Émilie, born in January 1839; Elmasie perhaps in the early 1840s; Suzanne in January 1843; and Anne Élodie perhaps in the early or mid-1840s.  In October 1850, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted two slaves--a 12-year-old black female and an 8-year-old black female--on Eloy Comeau's farm at Fausse Pointe.  This may have been Éloi, fils.  According to the federal census of St. Martin Parish in October 1850, Éloi, fils, evidently a widower, and his 11-year-old daughter Amelia were living in the household of planter Henry Ransonet and his family; Éloi, fils was working as a carpenter (one wonders why 7-year-old daughter Suzanne and daughters Elmasie and Anne Élodie also were not counted with Éloi, fils and Amelia); Henry Ransonet's next door neighbor in October 1850 was Éloi, fils's former father-in-law, Moïse Bonin, who also was a widower at the time.  Éloi, fils remarried to Marie Zéolide, called Zéolide, daughter of fellow Acadians Gilbert Hébert and Céleste Labauve, at the St. Martinville church in February 1851; Gilbert Hébert and his family, including 22-year-old daughter Zéolide, lived next door to Moïse Bonin and his family in October 1850.  Éloi, fils and Zéolide settled at Fausse Pointe.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Luke in May 1852; Marie Louisa in October 1854; Céleste in October 1855; and another Joseph in December 1857.  Éloi, fils may have remarried again--it would have been his third marriage--to cousin Azélie Comeaux in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in February 1864.  Their son Julien was born in Lafayette Parish in February 1867; ...  Daughters Émilie, Elmasie, and Anne Élodie, by Éloi, fils's first wife, married into the Landry, Broussard, and Oubre families by 1870.  None of his sons married by then. 

Éloi, père's third son Charles Émile, called Émile, married Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Granger and Susanne dit Suzette Granger, at the Vermilionville church in November 1845.  Daughter Marie Cléonise was born in Lafayette Parish in October 1846.  Charles Émile, called Émile by the recording priest, who did not give any parents' names, mention a wife, or record his age, may have died in Lafayette Parish in October 1856.  If so, he would have been age 28 when he died.  Daughter Marie Cléonise married into the Missonnier family.  Did Charles Émile father any sons?

Éloi, père's fourth son François married Marie Clara, called Clara, daughter of fellow Acadians Leufroi Sonnier and Françoise Aureline Landry, at the Vermilionville church in March 1852.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Éloi le jeune in January 1853; Emma in January 1855; Esperat in October 1858; Françoise near Youngsville, south of Vermilionville, in October 1860; Aurore in October 1862; Anna in November 1864; ...  None of François's children married by 1870. 

Éloi, père's fifth and youngest son Louis Valéry married Célanie or Célamine, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Richard and Adélaïde Babineaux, at the Vermilionville church in January 1856.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Gustave in Lafayette Parish in November 1856; Octave in November 1858; Éloi le jeune near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in February 1861; Émile in April 1863; O'Neil in April 1866; Dupré near Ville Platte, then in St. Landry but now in Evangeline Parish, in August 1868; Joseph Sévigné near Church Point, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in August 1870; ...

Charles, fils's third son Édouard, perhaps also called Cadet, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Granger and Françoise Landry of Côte Gelée, at the St. Martinville church in February 1817.  They settled on the lower Vermilion near Côte Gelée.  Their children, born there, included Édouard, fils in November 1817; Marie Azélie, called Azélie, in the late 1810s or early 1820s; Marguerite in April 1820; a daughter, name unrecorded, died at birth in August 1822; Marie baptized at the Vermilionville church, age unrecorded, in February 1823; Baptiste Axaris born in late 1825 and baptized at age 7 1/2 months in April 1826 but died at age 6 1/2 in August 1832; Valéry born in October 1827; Julie in June 1830; Eugénie in November 1832 but died the following January; Fusien or Lucien born in December 1833; Edita in c1835 but, called Edita ""of Cote Gelee," died at age 6 (perhaps 7) in September 1842; Clarice or Clarisse, baptized at age 2 months in November 1836; a child, name unrecorded, born in c1838, died at age 4 in September 1842, two days after her older sister Edita died; Marcelite born in February 1839; and Hortense in August 1841.  A succession for wife Marguerite, naming her husband, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in June 1842.  Édouard, père, at age 48, remarried to Marie Carmélite, called Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Landry and Françoise Landry and widow of Charles Granger, fils, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in April 1846; Carmélite's younger brother Pierre, fils had married Édouard, père's daughter Marie Azélie five years earlier.  Édouard and Carmélite's daughter Anasthasie was born in Lafayette Parish in May 1850--16 children, at least four sons and 11 daughters, by two wives, between 1817 and 1850.  Édouard, père died in Lafayette Parish in August 1850.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Édouard died "at age 60 years."  He was 52.  His succession, calling him Édouard, père and listing his wives, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in September 1850.  Daughters Marie Azélie, Julie, Clarisse, ..., by both wives, married into the Landry, Melançon, Bell, Dubois, Bernard, and Broussard families, and perhaps into the Nunez family as well, by 1870, one of them, Julie, three times.  Three of Édouard's sons also married by then and settled on the prairies and the lower Teche.

Oldest son Édouard, fils, by first wife Marguerite Granger, married Marguerite Célanie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Melançon and Susanne Landry, at the Vermilionville church in April 1836.  They settled at Côte Gelée.  Their children, born there, included Edita baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 1 1/2 months, in July 1837; Alfin or Valsin born  in February 1839 but, called "child," died in Lafayette Parish at age 3 1/2 (the recording priest said 4) in September 1842; Aladin born in February 1841; Ursain or Ursin in March 1843; Théoville, also called Théonide, in the mid- or late 1840s; Adelise in February 1848; Edmond in July 1850; Élisabeth in November 1852; Édouard III or Edward in November 1855; and Léontine near Youngsville, Lafayette Parish, in February 1860--10 children, four daughters and six sons, between 1837 and 1860.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted a single slave--an 18-year-old black female--on Édouard Comeau's farm in the parish's western district, three farms up from Désiré Comeau.  Was this Édouard, fils?  Édouard, fils died probably at Côte Gelée in June 1860, only four months after the birth of his last child.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Édouard died "at age 45 yrs."  He was 42.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted a single slave--a 16-year-old black female--on Edward Comeaux's farm next to Napoléon Melançon and several farms up from Mrs. Désiré Comeaux.  If this was Édouard, fils, he died a few weeks before his slave was counted.  Neither of his daughters married by 1870, but four of his sons did.

Second son Aladin married fellow Acadian Marie Célima, called Célima, Broussard at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in July 1865.  Their son Ernest was born near Abbeville in October 1869; ... 

Édouard, fils's third son Ursin married Marie Irma, called Irma, daughter of fellow Acadians Arvillien Broussard and Marie Boudreaux, at the Youngsville church, Lafayette Parish, in September 1865. ...

Édouard, fils's fourth son Théoville married Aurore, daughter of Joseph Viator and Clémentine Viator, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in January 1866.  Their son Joseph was born near New Iberia in November 1866; ...  They were living near Youngsville a few years later. 

Édouard, fils's fifth son Edmond married Élodie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Osémé Boudreaux and Céleste Melina Cormier, at the Youngsville church in April 1870. ...

Édouard, père's third son Valéry, by first wife Marguerite Granger, married Aspasie or Anastasie Leleu at the New Iberia church in April 1848.  Their children, born near New Iberia, included Alcide in October 1848; and Aristide in September 1851.  Valéry died near New Iberia in February 1852.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Valéry died "at age 26 yrs."  He was 24.  His succession, calling his wife Anastasie, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in April 1853.  His two sons married by 1870.

Older son Alcide married Telvina, daughter of fellow Acadian Simon Valière Robichaux and his Creole wife Doralie Bodin, at the New Iberia church in December 1868.  Their son Adolphe was born near New Iberia in April 1870; ...

Valéry's younger son Aristide married Delphine, another daughter of Simon Valière Robichaux and Doralie Bodin, at the New Iberia church in April 1870. ...

Édouard, père's fourth son Fusien, by first wife Marguerite Granger, married Spanish Creole Coralie Viator at the New Iberia church in May 1854.  Their children, born near New Iberia, included Marie Palmire in October 1855; Éuduard in April 1858; Alcide in October 1859; Homère in March 1861; Joseph in November 1862; Jean Octave in September 1864; Gustave in June 1866; Pierre Eustache in March 1870; ...  None of Fusien's children married by 1870. 

Charles, fils's fourth and youngest son Charles Valière, also called Valière dit Pillet, married Gertrude, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Broussard and Gertrude Thibodeaux of Vermilion, at the St. Martinville church in May 1820.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Jean in the 1820s; Marie Arsènne, also called Marie Estelle, in April 1822 but died "in a drowning accident at age 8 years" in July 1830; a child, name unrecorded, died at birth in December 1822; Arcènne or Arsène, a daughter, born in December 1824; Charles, also called Charles Valière, fils, in late 1826 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 4 months, in March 1827; Carmélite born in March 1831; Valéry le jeune in September 1832; Adolphe baptized at age 3 1/2 months in August 1834; Losain or Lauzin baptized at age 45 days in April 1837; François baptized at age 2 months in February 1839; a daughter, name unrecorded, born in c1840, died at age 3 in November 1843; and Anastasie born in January 1842--a dozen children, six sons and six daughters, between the early 1820s and 1842.  Charles Valière, père may have died in Lafayette Parish in November 1849.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial of Charles Comeaux, husband of ____ Broussard, said that Charles died "at age 40 yrs."  This Charles would have been 49.  Daughters Arsène and Carmélite married into the Broussard and Langlinais families by 1870.  Five of Charles Valière's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Jean married cousin Euphémie, daughter of Pierre Meaux and his Acadian wife Céleste Broussard, at the Vermilionville church in December 1850.  They were living near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, a few years after their marriage.  Their children, born there, included Marie Evelina in October 1851; and Euphémie in December 1852.  Jean remarried to cousin Azélima, Azélina, or Mélanie, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Lessin Guidry and Carmélite Broussard, at the Vermilionville church in December 1855.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Marie Zélia in December 1856; Rémy in December 1858; Eve in November 1862; ...  They were living near Abbeville a decade later.  Daughter ..., by his first wife, married a Broussard cousin by 1870.  None of Jean's sons married by then. 

Charles Valière's second son Charles Valière, fils married, at age 34, Azéma, daughter of fellow Acadian François Benoit and his Creole wife Cléonise Montet, at the Vermilionville church in April 1861.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Eustache in January 1862; Onésiphor in May 1863; Alcée near Youngsville in June 1866; Albert in January 1868; Duha in April 1870; ...

Charles Valière, père's fourth son Adolphe married cousin Eugénie, another daughter Pierre Meaux and Céleste Broussard, at the Abbeville church in April 1855.  Their daughter Amélie was born near Abbeville in March 1856.  Adolphe remarried to double cousin Marie Eugénie, 22-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Ursin Jean Olidon Broussard and Marie Eurasie Broussard, at the Vermilionville church in January 1858.  Their son Aymar was born in Lafayette Parish in November 1858.  Wife Eugénie, called Mrs. Adolphe Comeaux by the recording priest, died in Lafayette Parish, age 26, in November 1862.  Adolphe remarried again--his third marriage--to Marie Gadrate or Godrate, daughter of fellow Acadians Désiré Benoit and Celima Thibodeaux, at the Vermilionville church September 1865. ...

Charles Valière, père's fifth son Lauzin married double cousin Asima or Azéma, daughter of fellow Acadians Ursin Isidore Broussard and Célanie Comeaux, at the Vermilionville church in February 1860.  They settled near Youngsville.  Their children, born there, included Emma in January 1861; Ophelia in March 1862; Rose in August 1864; Ernest in December 1866; Omer in April 1868; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Lauzin, called Lozin in Confederate records, served in Company E of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafayette Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  He enlisted in the company only a few weeks after his second daughter Ophelia was born, and he fathered another daughter, Rose, during the war while he was waiting to be exchanged.  After his unit surrendered in northwestern Louisiana in May 1865, Lauzin, as the birth of his sons reveal, returned home to his family. 

Charles Valière, père's sixth and youngest son François married double cousin Marie Sylvanie, called Sylvanie, daughter of fellow Acadians Ursin Jean Olidon Broussard and Marie Eurasie Broussard, at the Vermilionville church in January 1867.  Their children, born near Youngsville, included Luc in December 1867; Jean Horace in November 1869; ... 

Charles, père's second son Pierre married Cécile, daughter of Philippe Langlois and his Acadian wife Marie-Jeanne Sonnier, at Opelousas in October 1791.  They may have lived at Côte Gelée in the old Attakapas District in the early 1800s.  Their children, born at Opelousas, included Scholastique in November 1792; Marie-Felonise in February 1793 but died, age unrecorded, in September 1795; Irène born in November 1797 but died there "as a child" in November 1799; and Pierre, fils baptized at Opelousas, age unrecorded, in September 1799--four children, three daughters and a son, between 1792 and 1799.  Pierre died at brother Charles, fils's home at Côte Gelée in February 1810, "at age 40 yrs."  He may have been a couple of years older.  Daughter Scholastique married into the Gaspard family.  Pierre's son returned to St. Landry Parish.  One of his grandsons settled near Breaux Bridge on upper Bayou Teche.

Only son Pierre, fils married Louise, Lisa, Lise, or Élise, daughter of Simonet Durio and his Acadian wife Madeleine Landry, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in February 1826, and sanctified the marriage at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in July 1830.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Sélima in March 1826; Asélie in April 1828; Louise in June 1830; Jean Baptiste in May 1834; Cléophen or Cléopha in December 1836; Cora in February 1839; Corelie in May 1840; and Célimène baptized at age 3 months in May 1843--eight children, six daughters and two sons, between 1826 and 1843.  In November 1850, the federal census taker in St. Landry Parish counted six slaves--three males and three females, all black except for one mulatto, ranging in age from 40 to 1--on Pierre Comeau's farm.  In 1860, the federal census taker in St. Landry Parish counted six slaves again--two males and four females, all black except for one mulatto, ages 58 to 9--on Pierre Comeau's farm.  Daughters ... married into the Anselm, David, Guilbeau, Raulin, and St. Blancat families, and perhaps into the Richard family as well, by 1870.  Pierre, fils's sons also married by then and settled on the Teche and out on the prairies.

Older son Jean Baptiste married Cephalide, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Dupuis and his Creole wife Célestine Patin, at the Breaux Bridge church, St. Martin Parish, in March 1858. ...

Pierre, fils's younger son Cléopha married Estelle, daughter of French Canadian Jean Baptiste Roy, fils and his Acadian wife Lise Pitre, at the Opelousas church in May 1860.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Cléopha Henry in February 1861; Marie Ophelia in April 1862; Pierre Hebard in July 1866; ... 

Charles, père's third son Auguste or Augustin married Céleste or Célestine, daughter of fellow Acadians Sylvain Sonnier and Madeleine Bourque and widow of Élisée Missonier, at Opelousas in February 1797.  In the early 1800s, they moved down to the old Attakapas District and settled on the Vermilion River south of present-day Lafayette.  Their children, born at Opelousas and on the lower Vermilion, included Hippolyte in c1797 and baptized at Opelousas, age 4, in August 1801; Marie, also called Marie Azélie, Marzélie, and Zélie, born in c1799 and baptized, age 2, in August 1801; Pierre Valmont, called Valmont and also André, baptized at age 6 months in November 1802; Norbert born in c1805 and baptized at age 3 in February 1808; twins Drosin and Symphorien, baptized at age 2 months in February 1808, but Drosin died in St. Martin Parish, age 1 1/2, in October 1809; and twins Charles le jeune and Martin baptized at the St. Martinville church, age 4 months, in October 1811--eight children, seven sons and a daughter, including two sets of twins, between 1797 and 1811.  Augustin died a widower "at the home of Jean Baptiste Comeau, his [younger] brother," in Lafayette Parish in September 1829, age 50.  Daughter Marie Azélie married into the Guidry and Bernard families.  Six of Augustin's sons also married and settled along the Teche and out on the prairies, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Hippolyte married Marie Eugénie, called Eugénie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre LeBlanc and Hortense Broussard of Vermilion, at the St. Martinville church in May 1820.  They settled on the Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included Marie Azélie in January 1821; Hippolyte, fils in April 1823 but died the following January; Marie Lorissa born in 1825 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 4 months, in January 1826; Charles le jeune born in September 1827; Augustin le jeune born in c1829 or 1830 and baptized at age 17 months,in October 1831; Emertilia born in February 1833; Pierre or René Edgard or Edgar, called Edgar, in c1835 and baptized at age 2 1/2 in July 1837; and Hortense born in December 1839--eight children, four daughters and four sons, between 1821 and 1839.  Hippolyte, père died near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in June 1867.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Hippolyte died "at age 68 yrs."  He may have been a year or two older.  Daughters ... married into the Belaire, Guidry, and Landry families.  Three of Hippolyte's sons also married and settled in Lafayette Parish.

Second son Charles le jeune married Adveline, Adeline, or Eveline, daughter of fellow Acadian Gédéon Landry and his Creole wife Anne Josèphe Lormand, at the Vermilionville church in February 1850.  Their children, born on the prairies and the lower Teche, included Anne Eugénie in Lafayette Parish in November 1850; Suzanna Idea in July 1852; Marie Alida in August 1854; Charles Augustin in April 1857; Marie Emérida near New Iberia in July 1859; Nicolas D. near Abbeville in June 1862 but, called Nicolas Desmartinière, died the following November; Pierre Odelon born near New Iberia in November 1863; ...  They were living near Abbeville again by the mid-1860s.  Daughter ... married into the Harrington family by 1870.  None of Charles le jeune's sons married by then. 

Hipployte's third son Augustin le jeune married double cousin Marie Euranie, called Euranie, daughter of fellow Acadians Ursin Jean Olidon Broussard and Marie Eurasie Broussard, at the Vermilionville church in February 1854.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included a son, name unrecorded, died age 7 days in October 1857; and Marie Cléoma born in January 1859 but, called Cléoma, died at age 2 1/2 in June 1861.  Augustin le jeune "of Vermillion" remarried to double cousin Lydia, daughter of fellow Acadians Lezin LeBlanc and Alzere Broussard, at the St. Martinville church in August 1865.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Désiré baptized at the Abbeville church, age 10 months, in November 1866; Hippolyte le jeune born in March 1868; Lezin Henri near New Iberia in August 1869; ... 

Hippolyte's fourth and youngest son Pierre Edgar, called Edgar, married Eusèïde, daughter of Nicolas Walleau, Valleau, or Vallot and Marguerite Domingues and widow of Dominique Girouard, at the Vermilionville church in June 1856.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Odilia in April 1857; Louise Esmeraldo near Youngsville in April 1859; Honorine in October 1861; Pierre Nicolas near Abbeville in February 1863; Edgar, fils in March 1870; ...  In 1860, the federal census taker in Vermilion Parish counted two slaves--a 21-year-old black female, and a 5-year-old black male, living in 1 house--on Edgar Como's farm in the parish's western district. 

Auguste's second son Pierre Valmont, called Valmont and also André, married fellow Acadian Eugénie Landry in Lafayette Parish in the early 1820s.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Marie Uliva or Oliva, called Oliva, in October 1824; Pierre, fils, also called Déopalière, baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 3 days, in June 1827; Ezilda, also called Élisa, born in September 1831; Clara or Clarice in December 1834 but died the following April; Augustin le jeune baptized at age 3 months in October 1837; and Alexandre born in July 1844--six children, three daughters and three sons, between 1824 and 1844.  A succession for wife Eugénie, probably post-mortem, calling her husband Valmont, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in October 1847.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted two slaves--a 44-year-old black female, and a 44-year-old black male, living in one house--on Valmond Comeaux's farm near Lefroy Comeaux.  Valmont died in Lafayette Parish in March 1863, probably still a widower.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said that Valmont died "at age 48 yrs."  He was 61.  One wonders if his death was war-related.  Daughters Oliva and Élisa married Landry brothers who also were their cousins by 1870.  Two of Pierre Valmont's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Pierre, fils married Marcellite, daughter of fellow Acadians Onésime Melançon and Mélanie Prejean, at the Youngsville church, Lafayette Parish, in April 1868.  Their son Zacharie was born near Youngsville in January 1869; ... 

Valmont's third and youngest son Alexandre married Aurelia, daughter of fellow Acadians Octave Granger and Marcelliènne Trahan, at the Vermilionville church in June 1868.  Their son Pierre Galbert was born in Lafayette Parish in January 1870; ...

Auguste's third son Norbert married first cousin Clarisse, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Comeaux and Rosalie Prejean, his uncle and aunt, at the Vermilionville church in November 1826.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Marie baptized at the Vermilion church at age 20 days in September 1827; Céleste born in 1828, baptized at age 2 months in January 1829, but died at age 1 1/2 in January 1830; Clara born in April 1830 but died at age 1 1/2 in October 1831; Norbert, fils born in c1832 but died at age 20 in December 1852; Émile baptized at age 2 months, in May 1833; Dorcili born in late 1834 and baptized at age 2 months in January 1835; twins Charles Sévegney or Sévigné and Madeleine born in November 1836; Seville baptized at age 8 months in December 1839 but died in January; Charles Ovide born in March 1840; twins Adélaïde and Philomène in October 1843; Eulalie in March 1847 but may have been the daughter, name unrecorded, who died at age 6 in October 1852; a child, name unrecorded, born in c1848 but died at age 5 in August 1853; and a second Norbert, fils born in September 1852, three months before the death of his older brother with the same name--15 children, at least seven daughters and seven sons, including two sets of twins, between 1827 and 1852.  In October 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted two slaves--a 25-year-old black female, and a 17-year-old black male--on Norbert Comeau's farm in the parish's western district.  Wife Clarisse died in Lafayette Parish in January 1853, age 40.  Her succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in March 1856.  Norbert, père died in Lafayette Parish in November 1858.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said that Norbert died "at age 50 yrs."  He was 53.  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in January 1859.  None of his daughters married by 1870, but two of his sons did.

During the War of 1861-65, Norbert, père's third son Dorcili served in Company F of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafayette Parish, which fought in Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana; and in Company I of the Consolidated 18th Regiment and Yellow Jackets Battalion Infantry, which fought in Louisiana.  After surviving the Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee, in April 1862, Dorcili was "sent to interior" on sick leave.  He returned to his unit in southern Alabama by July and followed it to South Louisiana that autumn.  He was absent sick again, this time at New Iberia, not far from home, in the early summer of 1863.  He may have fought with his new regiment, the Consolidated 18th Louisiana Infantry, at Mansfield, Louisiana, in April 1864.  Like younger brother Charles Ovide, Dorcili survived the war and returned to his family.  He married Edita, daughter of fellow Acadian Napoléon R. Lalande and his Creole wife Suzanne Fabre and widow of Leufroi Richard, at the Youngsville church in November 1865.  Dorcili's succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in November 1869.  He would have been age 35 that year.  One wonders if his succession was post-mortem, and, if so, was his death war-related. 

Norbert, père's sixth son Charles Ovide married cousin Hebertville, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Landry and Azélie Comeaux, at the Vermilionville church in February 1862.  During the war, Charles Ovide served in Company A of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafayette Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  He enlisted in the company in March 1862, only a month after his wedding.  He was wounded at Vicksburg on 24 Jun 1863 but survived the war and returned to his family. 

Auguste's fifth son Symphorien, a twin, married Euphémie, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Landry and Juliènne Breaux, at the Vermilionville church in August 1831.  Did they have any children?

Auguste's sixth son Charles le jeune, a twin, married Marie Élise, Élisa, Eleine, Élina, Helina, or Hélène, daughter of Hippolyte Bonin and his Acadian wife Marie Doiron, at the St. Martinville church in April 1834.  Their children, born on the Teche and on the prairies, included Marie Mirsa or Mirza in February 1835 but died near St. Martinville the following September; Hippolyte baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in December 1836 but died in Lafayette Parish at age 1 in September 1837; Élisabeth Clara, called Clara, born in St. Martin Parish in April 1838; Louis in September 1841; Henri Hertelle in December 1843; Valérien in November 1845; Marie Felonise in March 1847 but, called Felonise, died near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, at age 6 1/2 (the recording priest said 7) in October 1853; and Cyprien born near Breaux Bridge in January 1849--eight children, three daughters and five sons, between 1835 and 1849.  Charles le jeune may have died near Breaux Bridge in March 1867.  The priest who recorded the burial did not give Charles's parents' names or mention a wife, but he did say that Charles died "at age 50 yrs."  This Charles would have been age 56.  Daughter Clara married into the Thibodeaux family by 1870.  One of Charles le jeune's sons also married by then.

Third son Henri married Élodie, daughter of Sellerive Domengeaux and Idalie Cailler, at the Breaux Bridge church in January 1865.  Their children, born near Breaux Bridge, included Marie Laure in November 1865; Jean in March 1867; ... 

Auguste's seventh son Martin, Charles le jeune's twin, married Eméranthe, Erémise, or Erémise Eméranthe, also called Éloise, daughter of perhaps fellow Acadians François Arceneaux and Marie Mouton, at the Vermilionville church in July 1833; oddly, the marriage was recorded at the Vermilionville courthouse not until May 1844.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Martin Télésphore, called Télésphore, in July 1834; François Thelesmar in March 1837; Pierre Théole in August 1845; and a child, name and age unrecorded, died in May 1847--four children, at least three sons, between 1834 and 1847.  Martin died in Lafayette Parish in April 1850, age 38.  Two of his sons married by 1870.

Oldest son Télésphore married Aurore, daughter of Louis Dautreuil and Eméranthe Leleu and widow of Charles Bertrand, at the St. Martinville church in January 1858.  Their son Martin Elzean was born in St. Martin Parish in September 1858 but, called Azarius, died in Lafayette Parish, age 11 months, in August 1859.  During the war, Télésphore served in Company F of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafayette Parish, which fought in Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana.  He survived the war and returned to his family, but he did not last much longer.  Télésphore died in St. Martin Parish in June 1866.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Telesphore died "at age 38 yrs."  He was 32.  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse later in June.  One wonders if his death was war-related.  His line of the family may have died with him. 

Martin's second son François Thelesmar married fellow Acadian Elzina Thibodeaux, widow of Stanislas Garrigues, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in February 1868. ...

Charles, père's fourth and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, called Baptiste, married Rosalie, 22-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Prejean and Marguerite Richard, at Attakapas in October 1802.  They settled at Côte Gelée.  Their children, born there, included Céleste in July 1803; Carmélite in September 1804; Claire dite Clarice in May 1806; Rosalie in December 1808; Marie Joséphine in December 1810; Marguerite Silvanie or Sylvanie in September 1812; Jean Baptiste Désiré in July 1814; and Charles Duclise, Euclis, or Euclide, in November 1818--eight children, six daughters and two sons, between 1803 and 1818.  Wife Rosalie's succession, naming her husband, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in August 1844.  Baptiste remarried to fellow Acadian Marguerite Adélaïde Mouton, widow of Cyprien Arceneaux, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in June 1845.  She gave him no more children.  Baptiste died in Lafayette Parish in June 1847.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said that Jean Baptiste died "at age 56 yrs."  He was 66.  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following August.  In November 1850, the federal census taker in St. Landry Parish counted six slaves--four males and two females, all black, ranging in age from 60 to 6--on Ww. Bte Comeau's farm; these probably were the slaves of Baptiste's widow, Marguerite Adélaïde Mouton.  Daughters Carmélite, Céleste, Clarice, Marguerite Sylvainie, Rosalie, and Marie Joséphine, all by his first wife, married into the Landry, Broussard, Comeaux, Bernard, and Breaux families, two of them to Bernard brothers.  Baptiste's sons also married, but not all of the lines endured. 

Older son Jean Baptiste Désiré, by first wife Rosalie Prejean, married Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadians Edmond Landry and Anastasie Giroir, at the Vermilionville church in November 1836.  Daughter Adélaïde Louise was born in Lafayette Parish in December 1837.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted six slaves--two males and four females, all black, ranging in age from 29 to 2--on Désiré Comeau's farm in the parish's western district next to François Landry and three farms down from Édouard Comeau.  Was this Jean Baptiste Désiré?  He evidently died in the 1850s.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted nine slaves--three males and six females, five blacks and four mulattoes, ages 42 years to 4 months, living in one house--on Mrs. Désiré Comeaux's farm several farms down from Edward Comeaux; these may have been the slaves of Jean Baptiste Désiré's widow, Céleste Landry.  Daughter Adélaïde Louise married a Landry cousin.  Did Jean Baptiste Désiré father any sons?

Baptiste's younger son Charles Duclise, Euclis, or Euclide, also called Émile, from first wife Rosalie Prejean, married fellow Acadian Marie Élodie Landry probably in Lafayette Parish by the late 1840s.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Marie in October 1847; Louisa in January 1849; Alphonce or Alphonse in January 1851; twins Ema and Jean in August 1852; and Eugénie in October 1854--six children, four daughters and two sons, including a set of twins, between 1847 and 1854.  The federal census taker in Lafayette Parish in September 1850 counted five slaves--one male and four females, all black, ranging in age from 30 to 3--on C. D. Comeau's farm next to Émilien Landry in the parish's western district; this probably was Charles Duclise.  He may have died near Breaux Bridge, St. Martin Parish, in March 1867.  The priest who recorded the burial did not give Charles's parents' names or mention a wife, but he did say that Charles died "at age 50 yrs.".  This Charles would have been 48.  Daughters ... married into the Landry and Larriviere families by 1870.  Neither of Charles Duclise's sons married by then. 

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Two more Comeaus--a widow and a wife--came to Louisiana in 1765 from Halifax via Cap-Français, but they did not follow their cousins to the western prairies.  They settled, instead, in the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  The area soon became known as the Acadian Coast.

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Five more Comeaus--a widower, his three children, and a Comeau orphan--came to Louisiana from Maryland in 1767.  At the insistence of Spanish authorities, they settled in the new Acadian community of San Gabriel south of Bayou Manchac and upriver from Cabahannocer.  The widower's older son created a vigorous family line on the upper Acadian Coast: 

Charles (c1709-?) à Jean l'aîné à Pierre Comeaux

Charles, second son of Étienne Comeau and his first wife Marguerite Forest, born probably at Port-Royal in c1709, married, at age 35, Madeleine, daughter of Germain Landry and Marie Melanson, in c1744 and settled at Pigiguit.  Madeleine gave Charles at least three children there:  Marianne born in c1745; Jean-Charles in c1749; and Firmin in c1753.  The British deported them to Maryland in 1755.  Charles, now a widower, and his three children were, according to a French repatriation list circulating in the colony, living at Port Tobacco on the lower Potomac in July 1763.  They, along with a Comeau orphan, emigrated to Louisiana from Baltimore in 1767.  Charles did not remarry.  In March 1777, Spanish officials counted them still at San Gabriel, on the "right bank ascending," or east bank, of the river, where they had settled a decade earlier.  Charles was living with his older son at the time.  Daughter Marianne married into the Doucet family.  One of his sons married and created a vigorous family line on the upper Acadian Coast.

Older son Jean-Charles, also called Charles, fils, followed his family to Maryland and his widowered father and his sister to New Orleans and San Gabriel.  He married Cécile, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Dugas and Cécile Bergeron, at Cabahannocer downriver from San Gabriel in September 1776.  They returned to San Gabriel a few years later.  Their children, born on the river, included Rosalie baptized at Cabahannocer, age unrecorded, in February 1778; Cécile baptized, age unrecorded, in February 1780; and Firmin le jeune buried at San Gabriel, age unrecorded, in March 1781.  Firmin's birth may have shortened the life of his mother.  Jean-Charles remarried to Anne-Catherine, called Catherine, daughter of Daniel Boush or Bush and Dina Louis of Virginia, at San Gabriel in July 1781.  Their children, born there, included Marie-Émilie, called Émilie, in August 1782; Jean-Louis-Laurent, called Jean-Louis and Louis, in January 1784; Bernard-Guillaume in January 1786; Charles-Daniel, called Charles D., in September 1787; Gilbert in c1788; Henri-Firmin in September 1789; twins Étienne and Pierre-Amand in December 1791; Marie-Clémence, called Clémence, in the early 1790s; Joseph-Julien, called Julien, in January 1794; Anne in May 1795; Marion in August 1796; Philippe in May 1800; and Anne-, also called Marie-, Delphine in June 1802--17 children, six daughters and 11 sons, by two wives, including a set of twins, between 1778 and 1802.  Catherine died at St. Gabriel in June 1807, age 48.  Jean Charles did not remarry again.  He died in Iberville Parish in July 1823.  The St. Gabriel priest who recorded the burial said that Jean Charles was age 79 when he died.  He was closer to 74.  Daughters Rosalie, Émilie, Clémence, and Marie Delphine, by both wives, married into the Henry, Cointment, Dehon, LeBlanc, and Hébert families, one of them, oldest daughter Rosalie, three times.  Nine of Jean Charles's sons also married.  They settled in Iberville, East and West Baton Rouge, and Ascension parishes, adding substantially to the number of Comeauxs living on the Acadian Coast.  Most of the river Comeauxs, in fact, are descendants of Jean-Charles of Pigiguit.

Second son Jean Louis Laurent, called Jean Louis and Louis, by second wife Catherine Boush, married Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Hébert and Marie Itna Landry, at the St. Gabriel church in February 1808.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Louis Joachim Laurent or Laurent Joachim, called Joachim, in December 1809; Victorin in September 1811 but died at age 26 in August 1838; Louis Balzain or Valsin, called Valsin, born in May 1813; Louis Eugène, also called Jean Louis, fils, in January 1815 but died at age 2 in January 1817; Rosalie baptized, age unrecorded, in April 1820; and Arthémise born in August 1823--six children, four sons and two daughters, between 1809 and 1823.  Jean Louis died near St. Gabriel in May 1825.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Jean Louis was age 35 when he died.  He was 41.  Daughter Arthémise married into the Dehon and Aillet families.  Two of Jean Louis Laurent's sons also married and settled on the river, but not all of the lines endured.

Oldest son Joachim married Carmélite, daughter of Louis Julien Aillet and his Acadian wife Marie Victoire Lejeune, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in February 1832.  Their children, born on the river, included Geneviève Augustine near St. Gabriel in November 1833; Marie Ernestine in May 1834; Marie Célestine in June 1836; Augustin in December 1837 but died at age 2 1/2 in July 1840; Laurent born in July 1840 but died at age 11 1/2 in January 1852; Marie Armantine born in May 1842; Marcellite Louise in January 1844; Annita in July 1845; Cyprien Lucas in September 1847; and Anastasia Noémie near Brusly, West Baton Rouge Parish, in February 1850--10 children, seven daughters and three sons, between 1833 and 1850.  Daughters ... married into the Covington and Parks families, and perhaps into the Landry family as well, by 1870.  Joachim's remaining son did not marry by then. 

Jean Louis Laurent's third son Valsin married Zerbine, daughter of fellow Acadian Magloire Dupuy and his Creole wife Henreitte Serret and widow of Onésime Landry, at the St. Gabriel church in July 1838.  They may have been that rare Cajun couple who had no children.  The federal census taker in West Baton Rouge Parish in August 1850 counted seven slaves--four males and three males, all black, ranging in age from 50 to 1--on V. Comeaux's farm; this may have been Valsin.  Valsin died near Brusly, West Baton Rouge Parish, in June 1854.  The priest who recorded the burial, and did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Valsin died at "age 44 yrs."  He was 41.  His line of the family died with him.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in West Baton Rouge Parish counted two slaves--both females, both black, ages 72 and 16--on Widow Val. Comeaux's farm near Adolphe Dupuy; these likely were the slaves of Valsin's widow, Zerbine Dupuy

Jean Charles's third son Bernard Guillaume, by second wife Catherine Boush, married Marie Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Richard and Cécile Dupuis, at the St. Gabriel church in April 1809.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Bernard Lésime or Onésime, called Onésime, in January 1810; Treville in May 1811; Marcellite or Marcelline in April 1813 but died at age 2 in August 1815; and Apollonie born in March 1815--four children, two sons and two daughters, between 1810 and 1815.  Bernard died near St. Gabriel in August 1816, age 30.  Daughter Apollonie married into the Gomez family.  One of Bernard's sons also married and settled on the river. 

Older son Onésime married Ann Bordon, Borgon, or Bogan at the Baton Rouge church in June 1840.  Their children, born in nearby Iberville Parish, included James in August 1841; and Georgina in February 1844.  Neither of their children married by 1870. 

Jean Charles's fourth son Charles Daniel, called Charles D., from second wife Catherine Boush, married Marie Carmélite, called Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Bénoni Hébert and Marie Madeleine Allain, at the Baton Rouge church in February 1813.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included a son, name unrecorded, in October 1813 but died the following December; Jean Ternault, Dameau, Darneau, d'Arnaux, Darno, Dermon, Dernon, or Valence born in April 1815; Charles Daniel, fils in February 1817; Lucillio Laurent in November 1818; Françoise Augustine in August 1823; Catherine Forestine in December 1825; Eugénia Avelina in August 1827; Marie Delphine, called Delphine, in March 1829; and Pierre Fulsi in January 1834--nine children, five sons and four daughters, between 1813 and 1834.  Charles D., père died probably in West Baton Rouge Parish in December 1850.  The Baton Rouge priest who recorded the burial said that Charles died at "age 60 years."  He was 63.  He was buried "in Highland Cemetary."  Daughters Catherine Forestine, Eugénia Avelina, and Marie Delphine married into the Stumpley, Legendre, and Doiron families.  Two of Charles D.'s sons also married and settled on the river. 

Second son Jean d'Arnaux married Félonise, also called Marie Philomène, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Theriot and Céleste Breaux of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the Baton Rouge church in March 1836.  Like their parents, they settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Jean Eugène in December 1836; Marie C. in September 1839; Pierre Paul in June 1845; and Marguerite Ophelia in November 1847.  Jean d'Arnaux, called John Darno by the recording priest, remarried to Juliènne Célina or Célima, daughter of fellow Acadians John Henry and Hermegilde Gaudin, at the Baton Rouge church in November 1851.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included Marie Élizabeth in October 1852; Jean d'Arnaux, fils in May 1855; and James Daniel in December 1858--seven children, four sons and three daughters, by two wives, between 1836 and 1858.  None of Jean d'Arnaux's children married by 1870. 

Charles D.'s third son Charles Daniel, fils married Forestine or Florestine Sylvanie Tullier probably in East Baton Rouge Parish in the late 1830s or early 1840s.  Their children, born in the Baton Rouge area, included Élisabeth Élinor in November 1842; Paterne Ermina in April 1845; Pierre Victorin near Brusly, West Baton Rouge Parish, in August 1848; Flora Victoria, called Victoria, near Baton Rouge in November 1857; Marie Honorine near Brusly in September 1860; and Charles Daniel III near Baton Rouge in February 1862;.  In August 1860, the federal census taker in East Baton Rouge Parish counted two slaves--a 44-year-old black female, and a 7-year-old black female, living in one house--on Chas. D. Comeaux's farm.  One wonders when he moved to that parish.  Charles Daniel, fils remarried to cousin Désirée, daughter of fellow Acadian Florestin Aucoin and his Creole wife Élisabeth Verdou, at the Baton Rouge church in September 1867; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of affinity in order to marry. ...  None of Charles D.'s children seems to have married by 1870. 

Jean Charles's fifth son Gilbert, by second wife Catherine Boush, married Marie Mélisaire, daughter of fellow Acadians Arsène Breaux and Marie Geneviève Daigre, at the St. Gabriel church in May 1818.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Étienne Hermogène, called Hermogène, in March 1819; and Gilbert, fils posthumously in April 1820.  Gilbert, père died near St. Gabriel in November 1819, five months before his younger son was born.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Gilbert was age 30 when he died.  His two sons married and settled on the river, but not all of the lines endured.

Older son Hermogène married cousin Élisa or Éliza, daughter of fellow Acadian Janvier Allain and his Creole wife Élise Boush, at the St. Gabriel church in January 1848.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Joseph Edgard in December 1848 but died at age 5 months in May 1849; Gilbert Rodolph born in March 1850; Marie Florence in October 1851; Hermogène Edwin in January 1854; Egbert Amédé in December 1856; Marie Edite in March 1861; Marie Lilia in February 1867; ...  None of Hermogène's children married by 1870. 

Gilbert's younger son Gilbert, fils married Mary Adeline, called Adeline, daughter of Francis Gallaugher and his Acadian wife Marguerite Landry, at the St. Gabriel church in February 1843.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Olivia in February 1843; and Ernestine in September 1845.  Gilbert, fils died near St. Gabriel in December 1845, age 25, and was buried "in St. Raphaël's cemetary" on the west bank of the river.  Daughters Ernestine and Olivia married into the Allain and Arbour families.  Gilbert, fils fathered no sons, so his line of the family, except for its blood, died with him. 

Jean Charles's sixth son Henri Firmin, by second wife Catherine Boush, married Marie Marguerite, called Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Hébert and Anne Marie Dupuy, at the St. Gabriel church in April 1811.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Henri, fils in January 1813 but died at age 1 1/2 in August 1814; a son, name unrecorded, died at age 1 month in December 1814; Firmin Gerville born in January 1816; twins Jean Surville, called Surville, and Margerutie Hermelide or Armeline in May 1818, but Surville died at age 9 in February 1827; another Firmin born in November 1820; and an infant, name unrecorded, born posthumously in December 1823 but died at age 7 months in June 1824--seven children, at least five sons and a daughter, including a set of twins, between 1813 and 1823.  Henri died near St. Gabriel in September 1823, age 34.  Daughter Armeline married an Hébert cousin.  One of Henri's sons also married and settled on the river.

Third son Firmin Gerville or fifth son Firmin married Marie Emma, Aimée, or Irma, daughter of J. B. Friou and Marcelline Prosper of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the Baton Rouge church in December 1838.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie Irma in March 1840; Joseph Saturnin, called Saturnin, in November 1842; Marie Eufroisine or Euphrosine near Brusly in August 1846; and Alfred in January 1849--four children, two daughters and two sons, between 1840 and 1849.  Daughters Marie Euphrosine, ... married into the Broussard and Bourgogne families by 1870.  One of Firmin's sons also married by then. 

Older son Saturnin married Marie Victoire, daughter of Fortune Gonet or Gonnet and his Acadian wife Marie Breaux, at the Brusly church in October 1869. ...

Jean Charles's seventh son Étienne, a twin, by second wife Catherine Boush, married Marie Céleste or Célestine, another daughter of Arsène Breaux and Marie Geneviève Daigre, at the St. Gabriel church in February 1820.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Marie Doralise in November 1820; Marie Estelle in September 1824; Sosthène Breau in March 1826; Marie Lydorie in February 1827; Marie Céleste in June 1831 but died at age 3 1/2 in January 1835; Étienne Fergus or Jasque born in June 1833 but died the following September; and Marie Odilia born in February 1835--seven children, five daughters and two sons, between 1820 and 1833.  Daughters ... married into the Breaux, Hébert, Rils, and Rivet families.  Étienne's remaining son also married and settled on the river.

Older son Sosthène married Elvenia, Elvania, Elvira, or Helvenia, daughter of Joseph Barthélémy Ramouin and his Acadian wife Émilie Hébert, at the St. Gabriel church in December 1851.  They settled across the river near Plaquemine.  Their children, born there, included Walton Emerson in October 1852; Livinia in September 1855 but, called Lavinia, died at age 1 in September 1856; Marie Eve born in July 1859; Ursule Émilie in March 1861; Joseph O. in July 1863; a son, name and age unrecorded, died in February 1866; twins Maria Dilia and Maria Dina born in July 1867; ...  None of Sosthène's children married by 1870. 

Jean Charles's eighth son Pierre Amand, Étienne's twin, by second wife Catherine Boush, married Marie Hortense, called Hortense, daughter of fellow Acadians Grégoire LeBlanc and Marie Barbe Babin, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in October 1820.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Marie Désirée in October 1823; and Pierre, fils in December 1826.  Pierre Aman died in Ascension Parish in January 1828, age 36.  Daughter Marie Désirée married into the Melançon family.  Pierre Amand's son also married and settled on the river.

Only son Pierre, fils married Virginie, daughter of Achille Altazin and Sarah Krage, at the Baton Rouge church in April 1858.  Their children, born on the lower Acadian Coast, included Jean Achille near Convent, St. James Parish, in August 1863 but, called Achille, died in Ascension Parish, age 10 months, 9 days, in July 1864; Louis Adam born near Convent in November 1864; ...  Pierre, fils died in Ascension Parish in June 1865, age 38.  One wonders if his death was war-related. 

Jean Charles's ninth son Joseph Julien, called Julien, by second wife Catherine Boush, married Anne Delphine, called Delphine, daughter of Jean Lambremont and Marguerite Hamiliton, at the St. Gabriel church in January 1819.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Anne Euphémie in March 1819; Joseph Joachim in October 1820; Joseph Firmin in May 1822 but died at age 1 1/2 in September 1823; Joseph Trasimond, called Trasimond, born in October 1824; Marguerite Pamela or Pamelia in November 1826; Marie Lodoiska or Eloiska in July 1829; Jean Baptiste Ernest, called Ernest, in January 1831; and Joseph Émile in September 1844 but died at age 9 months the following July--eight children, three daughters and five sons, between 1819 and 1844.  Joseph Julien died near St. Gabriel in May 1849, age 55.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Iberville Parish counted 10 slaves--four males and six females, all black, ranging in age from 35 to 1, living in two houses--on Widow Julien Comeaux's farm next to Widow T. Comeaux, her daughter-in-law; these were the slaves of Julien's widow, Anne Delphine Lambremont.  Daughters Anne Euphémie, Marguerite Pamelia, and Eloiska married into the Breaux, Mears, and Verret families.  Julien's three remaining sons also married and settled on the river.

Oldest son Joseph Joachim married Mathilde or Mathilda, daughter of Pierre Treville Marrionneaux and Lydia Billings, at the St. Gabriel church in October 1848.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Julien Edward in August 1849; and Joseph Walter in August 1850.  Neither of Joseph Joachim's sons married by 1870. 

Julien's third son Trasimond married Marie Domitille, called Domitille, daughter of fellow Acadians Firmin Davat Landry and Mellisère Breaux, at the St. Gabriel church in January 1847.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Julien Gaspard in March 1852; Marie Émilie in September 1853; and Joseph Trasimond, fils in September 1855--three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1852 and 1855.  Trasimond, père died near St. Gabriel in April 1856, age 31.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Iberville Parish counted a single slave--a 55-year-old black female--on Widow T. Comeaux's farm next to Widow Julien Comeaux, her mother-in-law; this probably was the slave of Trasimond's widow, Domitille Landry.  None of Trasimond's children married by 1870. 

Julien's fourth son Ernest married Lavinia, Livinia, or Luricia, another daughter of Pierre Treville Marrionneaux and Lydia Billings and widow of Ulgère Baugnon, at the St. Gabriel church in December 1852.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Anne Delphine in January 1853 but died the following September; Lavinia Abella born in August 1855; Duncan Duillius in December 1857; Marie Lidia in May 1860; Marie Caroline in September 1862; ...  None of Ernest's children married by 1870. 

Jean Charles's eleventh and youngest son Philippe, by second wife Catherine Boush, married Eugénie, 19-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Honoré Daigle and Adélaïde Hébert, at the St. Gabriel church in January 1822.  Their daughter Eugénie was born near St. Gabriel in January 1823.  Her mother died the following day, age 20, evidently from the rigors of childbirth.  Philippe remarried to Victorine Arianne or Uranie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Joseph Landry and his first wife Scholastique Breaux, at the St. Gabriel church in February 1825.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Pierre Joachim in December 1825 but died at age 10 months in November 1826; Philogène born in December 1828; Jean Lavinski or Lovinski, called Lovinski, in November 1830; and Victoire Lezida in September 1838--five children, two daughters and three sons, by two wives, between 1823 and 1838.  Philippe died near St. Gabriel in March 1855.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Philippe died at "age 56 years."  He was 54.  Daughters Eugénie and Victoire Lezida, by both wives, married into the Danos, Lacave, and Capdevielle families, one of them, Eugénie, twice.  Philippe's remaining sons also married and settled on the river.

Second son Philogène, by second wife Victorine Landry, married, at age 29, cousin Éliza, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Arvillien Rivet and Roseline Landry, at the St. Gabriel church in October 1858.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Philippe André near St. Gabriel in July 1859; Philogène, fils near Plaquemine on the west side of the river in October 1866; ... 

Philippe's third and youngest son Jean Lovinski, called Lovinski, from second wife Victorine Landry, married, at age 22, Joséphine, daughter of Louis Édouard Guitteau and Joséphine Pignoux, at the St. Gabriel church in January 1853.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Hermina in September 1853; Coecilia in March 1855; Isabella in June 1856; Marie Malvina in October 1857; and Joseph Lovenski in August 1859--five children, four daughters and a son, between 1853 and 1859.  None of Lovinski's children married by 1870. 

Charles, père's younger son Firmin followed his family to Maryland and his widowered father and siblings to New Orleans and San Gabriel.  In March 1777, in his early 20s, he was still a bachelor and living with his father and older brother at San Gabriel.  He died at San Gabriel in March 1781, age 28.  He did not marry. 

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In 1768, a widow--Marguerite Babin, wife of Alexis, youngest brother of Charles Comeau of San Gabriel--brought her Comeau children--three sons, including a set of twins, and a daughter--to New Orleans from Maryland with the party of refugees from Port Tobacco led by the Breau brothers of Pigiguit.  Spanish Governor Ulloa forced them to settle at Fort San Luìs de Natchez far upriver from their kinsmen at Cabahannocer and San Gabriel.  They did not remain there long.  Following the overthrow of Ulloa by a French-Creole-led revolt and the restoration of Spanish control in the colony, Ulloa's successor, Governor-General Alejandro O'Reilly, allowed the Fort San Luìs Acadians to settle where they wanted.  The widow took her children to San Gabriel, where they created families of their own.  The daughter, Marguerite, married into the LeBlanc family.  One of the younger son's lines did not endure.  In the late 1780s, the widow's oldest son followed his in-laws to upper Bayou Lafourche, where he helped create a new center of Comeaux family settlement: 

Joseph (c1751-1817) à Étienne à Jean l'aîné à Pierre Comeaux

Joseph, oldest son of Alexis Comeau and Marguerite Babin, born probably at Minas in c1751, followed his family to Maryland in 1755 and his widowed mother and siblings to New Orleans, Fort San Luìs de Natchez, and San Gabriel.  He married Anne-Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre dit La Vielliarde Landry and his first wife Anne-Élisabeth Dupuis, at Cabahannocer downriver from San Gabriel in June 1778.  Anne-Isabelle, a native of Maryland, had come to Louisiana in 1766.  They settled upriver at Ascension before they followed her father to upper Bayou Lafourche in the late 1780s.  Their children, born on the river and the upper bayou, included Pierre-Vital, called Vital, in April 1779; Rosalie in January 1781; Joseph in c1783; Marie in April 1786; Constance baptized at Ascension, age unrecorded, in June 1788; Anne-Juliènne, perhaps also called Anne-Julie and Julie, born in February 1790 but died, perhaps, at age 1 1/2 in September 1791; Pierre-Alexis born in April 1792 but died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, age 31 (the recording priest said 34), in February 1824; Jean-Louis-Laurent born in May 1794 but died at age 5 in July 1799; and Augustin baptized, age unrecorded, in October 1797 but died at age 20 in February 1817.  Like his father-in-law, Joseph became relatively prosperous for an Acadian immigrant.  In January 1788, he and Anne-Isabelle owned two slaves on their six-arpent frontage on the upper Lafourche; in January 1791 they held three slaves; and in April 1797, five slaves.  Anne-Isabelle died on the upper Lafourche that October, age 38.  In January 1798, only months after her death, Joseph, still living on the upper bayou with many mouths to feed, held only four arpents frontage and reported owning no slaves.  He was living next to daughter Rosalie and her husband Jean Malbrough, who she had married in August 1796, so this may explain the reduction in Joseph's frontage (the young couple had two arpents frontage in January 1798, which they likely had received from Joseph), but what can explain the sudden disappearance of Joseph's five slaves?  At age 47, Joseph remarried to Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Blanchard and Anne-Symphore Hébert and widow of Mathurin Trahan, at Assumption in November 1798.  Marie-Madeleine, a native of St.-Suliac near St.-Malo, had come to Louisiana from France with her widowed mother aboard one of the Seven Ships in 1785.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Élias- or Élie-Joseph, in September 1799; Eugène-Florentin in October 1801; Euphémie Rosalie in March 1804; and Doralise in September 1808--13 children, seven sons and six daughters, by two wives, between 1779 and 1808.  Joseph died in Assumption Parish in February 1817, age 65.  Daughters Rosalie, Marie, Doralise, and Euphémie, by both wives, married into the Malbrough, Hébert, Giroir, and Viola families, the oldest one, Rosalie, twice.  Three of Joseph's sons also married.  His oldest son married on the river and settled near Baton Rouge before returning to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Joseph's younger sons remained on the upper Lafourche.  His youngest son became a planter in Assumption Parish.

Oldest son Pierre Vital, called Vital, from first wife Anne Isabelle Landry, married Céleste, daughter of Jean Prosper, also called Gascogne, and his Acadian wife Marie Madeleine Lavergne, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in June 1818.  They lived at Baton Rouge before moving to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included Jean Baptiste in June 1819; Marie Virginie, called Virginie, in March 1821; Joseph, also called Joseph Télésphore and Télésphore, in March 1823; and Joseph Manuel in c1828 and baptized at the Baton Rouge church, age 2, in April 1830--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1819 and 1828.  Vital died in Assumption Parish in June 1833.  The Plattenville priest who recorded the burial said that Vital was age 52 when he died.  He was 54.  Daughter Virginie married into the Hébert family in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Only one of Vital's remaining sons married.  He settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.

Second son Joseph Télésphore followed his family to upper Bayou Lafourche and married Octavie, daughter of fellow Acadians Édouard Hébert and Eléonore Girouard, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in December 1845.  Their children, born near Paincourtville, included Joseph Aristide in May 1847; and Jules Hernest, perhaps Ernest, in February 1851.  Joseph Télésphore died near Paincourtville in October 1851, age 28.  Neither of his sons married by 1870. 

Joseph's sixth son Élias or Élie Joseph, by second wife Marie Madeleine Blanchard, married Constance, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Landry and Marguerite Landry, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, October 1820.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included a son, named unrecorded, died a day after his birth in January 1822; Eugène, also called Eugène E., born in August 1824; Paul Caiphas, also called Paul Cléopha and Cléopha, in September 1826; Marie Uranie in July 1829; Joseph Télésphore, called Télésphore, in August 1831 but died at age 6 in January 1838; Marguerite Élisabeth, called Élisabeth, born in March 1835; and Oreline in the late 1840s but, called Marie Alida, died at age 3 or 4 (the recording priest said 2 1/2) in October 1853--seven children, four sons and three daughters, between 1822 and the late 1840s.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted 13 slaves--nine males and four females, all black except for one mulatto, ranging in age from 46 to 6--on Élie Comeau's farm in the parish's Second Congressional District.  Élie died near Plattenville in October 1853, age 54.  In August 1860, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted 14 slaves--12 males and two females, all black, ages 65 to 17--on Widow Élie Comeaux's farm in the parish's Tenth Ward between Eugène E. Comeaux and Maxille LeBlanc; these were the slaves of Élie's widow, Constance Landry.  Daughter Élisabeth married into the LeBlanc and Aubry families.  Two of Élie's sons also married and settled on the upper Lafourche, but one of the lines, except perhaps for its blood, did not endure. 

Second son Eugène married cousin Aureline, daughter of fellow Acadians Maxille LeBlanc and Marie Landry, at the Paincourtville church in January 1848; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included twins Marie Elmyre or Elmire, called Elmire, and Marie Palmire near Paincourtville in August 1848 but, called Palmire, Marie Palmire died at age 3 1/2 in October 1851; Élisabeth Amanda, called Amanda, born in September 1850; Marie Virginie in June 1852; Marie Auralie in April 1854; Pauline Agathe in June 1856; Marguerite Ema in July 1858; Marie Camila in February 1860; Marie Alise in March 1862; Cécile Léontine in January 1865; Marguerite Odilia in September 1869; ...  In August 1860, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted three slaves--a 28-year-old black female, and 2 black males, ages 6 and 4--on Eugène E. Comeaux's farm in the parish's Tenth Ward next to Widow Élie Comeaux, his mother, and near Maxille LeBlanc, his father-in-law.  Daughters Elmire and Amanda married into the Hébert and Landry families by 1870.  Did Eugène father any sons? 

Élie Joseph's third son Paul Caiphas or Cléophas, called Cléophas, married Léonelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon LeBlanc and Basille Babin, at the Paincourtville church in June 1849.  Their children, born near Paincourtville, included Célestin Vileor in April 1850; Marie Élida in February 1851; Adrien Elevoide in May 1851[sic, probably 1852]; Marguerite in April 1853; Marie Bathilda in August 1854; Joseph Simon in January 1856; Adam Éli in March 1857 but died the following May; Édouard Lucien born in March 1858; Cléophas Prosper in December 1859 but, unnamed, died the following April; Anastasie Constance born in September 1861 but died at age 7 months in April 1862; Louise Léontine born in February 1863; Cordilia Amélie in October 1865; Clémence Cécilia in February 1868; ...  In August 1860, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted four slaves--three males and one female, all blacks, ranging in age from 34 to 16, living in one house--on Cléophas Comeaux's farm next to Widow Simon LeBlanc, his mother-in-law, in the parish's Tenth Ward.  None of Cléopha's daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did.

Oldest son Célestin Vileor married first cousin Marie Alice, daughter of fellow Acadian Terence LeBlanc and his Creole wife Élina Simoneaux, his uncle and aunt, at the Paincourtville church in January 1869; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry. ...

Joseph's seventh and youngest son Eugène Florentin, by second wife Marie Madeleine Blanchard, married Henriette, also called Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Hébert and Marie Marguerite Adélaïde Landry of Ascension Parish, at the Plattenville church in January 1820.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Azelme or Azélie in May 1821; Jule or Jules in January 1823; Marie Antoinette in March 1825; Gracieuse in November 1827; Angèle Egladine in January 1830; Octave, also called Louis Octave, in February 1832; and Angelina in April 1835--seven children, five daughters and two sons, between 1821 and 1835.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted 17 slaves--nine males and eight females, all black, ranging in age from 55 years to 6 months--on Eugène Comeau's farm in the parish's Second Congressional District; this probably was Eugène Florentin.  In August 1860, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted 43 slaves on Eugène Comeaux's plantation in the parish's Ninth Ward on Bayou Lafourche next to L. O. Comeaux.  Eugène died near Plattenville in October 1864.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Eugène died at "age 60 years."  He was 63.  Daughter Marie Azélie married into the Noveret family by 1870.  Eugène's two sons also married by then and settled on the upper Lafourche, but not all of the lines endured. 

Older son Jules married Victorine, daughter of Louis Darbois or Verbois and his Acadian wife Marie Carmélite Bourgeois, at the Plattenville church in January 1843.  They evidently lived briefly on the river in the mid-1850s but returned to the upper Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Marie, also called Amanda or Almanda L., in Assumption Parish in June 1846; François Richard, called Richard, in January 1849; Hippolyte in July 1850 but, called Galbert, died in Assumption Parish the following December; Eve Élodie, called Élodie, born in June 1852; Mary Adeline, called Adeline, near Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, in January 1855; and Jules Omer, called Omer, in Assumption Parish in September 1857--six children, three daughters and three sons, between 1846 and 1857.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted two slaves--both black females, ages 45 and 15--on Jules Comeaux's farm in the parish's Second Congressional District.  Daughter Amanda L. married into the Blanchard family by 1870 in St. James Parish.  Neither of Jules's remaining sons married by then. 

Eugène's younger son Louis Octave, called Octave, married Louise Marie, daughter of William A. Sims and Éloise Marie Sims, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1856; the marriage also was recorded at the Plattenville church.  Their infant, name and age unrecorded, died in Assumption Parish in July 1856.  In August 1860, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted a single slave--a 26-year-old black female--on L. O. Comeaux's farm in the parish's Ninth Ward on Bayou Lafourche next to Eugène Comeaux's plantation.  Octave's wife Louise, called "Mrs. Octave Comeau, born Louise Leems," by the Plattenville priest who recorded her burial, died at age 28 in Assumption Parish in June 1866. 

Étienne (c1760-1819) à Étienne à Jean l'aîné à Pierre Comeaux

Étienne, also called Charles, second son of Alexis Comeau and Marguerite Babin of Minas and twin brother of Pierre, born probably in Maryland in c1760, followed his widowed mother and siblings to New Orleans, Fort San Luìs de Natchez, and San Gabriel, where he married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Blanchard and Marie-Jeanne Landry, in May 1792.  Their children, born at San Gabriel, included Joseph-Valéry, called Valéry, in August 1793; Marie-Clémence, called Clémence, baptized, age unrecorded, in November 1794; Marie-Constance, called Constance, born in January 1797; Gilbert in October 1798; and Marie-Carmelite, called Carmelite, in July 1801--five children, two sons and three daughters, between 1793 and 1801.  Étienne died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in December 1819.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Étienne was age 65 when he died.  He was closer to 60.  Daughters Clémence, Constance, and Carmélite married into the Landry, Gil, and Templet families.  Étienne's two sons also married, settled at St. Gabriel, and died young, but not before they married and had sons of their own.  Étienne's grandsons settled at Baton Rouge. 

Older son Joseph Valéry, called Valéry, married cousin Marcelline, daughter of fellow Acadians Grégoire Babin and Marine LeBlanc, at the St. Gabriel church in June 1819; they had to secure a dispensation for consanguinity and relationship in order to marry.  Their son Jean Luerecie or John Dugregey, called Dugregey and John D., was born near St. Gabriel in April 1820.  Valéry died near St. Gabriel in November 1822, age 29.  His son married and settled on the river. 

Only son Jean or John Dugregey, called Dugregey and John D., married Doralise Virginie, daughter of fellow Acadians Rémi Doiron and Julie Richard, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in February 1845.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included Alexine Eudora in November 1845; Armina and Élisabeth, perhaps theirs, perhaps twins, died, age unrecorded, on the same night in early November 1847; Alfred Valéry born in December 1847; and Théodore Victor in March 1850--four children, two daughters and two sons, between 1845 and 1850.  None of Jean/John's children married by 1870. 

Étienne's younger son Gilbert married Constance, daughter of George Kleinpeter and Margarita Judith Rither, at the Baton Rouge church in April 1820.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Marie Marguerite in January 1821; Étienne le jeune in August 1822; Gertrude in September 1824; Virginie in July 1826; Marie Solidaire in August 1828; and Gilbert, fils in December 1830--six children, four daughters and two sons, between 1821 and 1830.  Gilbert, père died near St. Gabriel in January 1832, age 33.  None of his daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did and settled at Baton Rouge.  He, too, died young. 

Second son Gilbert, fils married Mary Anne, also called Susan, daughter of James West and Nancy Hawes, at the Baton Rouge church in January 1852.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included Mary Julia in January 1853; Mary Gertrude in February 1857; Joséphine in February 1859; Mary Cornelia in December 1860; Robert in October 1862; ...  In June 1860, the federal census taker in East Baton Rouge Parish counted eight slaves--four males and four females, all black, ranging in age from 70 to 3, living in two houses--on Gilbert Comeaux's farm.  Gilbert, fils died near Baton Rouge in May 1865, age 34 (the recording priest said "age ca. 35 years").  He was buried "in the Kleinpeter cemetery."  Was his death war-related?  None of his children married by 1870. 

Pierre (c1760-?) à Étienne à Jean l'aîné à Pierre Comeaux

Pierre, third son of Alexis Comeau and Marguerite Babin of Minas and twin brother of Étienne, born probably in Maryland in c1760, followed his widowed mother and siblings to New Orleans, Fort San Luìs de Natchez, and San Gabriel, where he married Claire, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Charles Breau and Marie-Josèphe Landry, in January 1785.  Their daughter Marie-Constance, called Constance, was born at San Gabriel in October 1785 and married into the Domingue family.  Pierre and Claire may have had no sons or at least none who survived childhood, so this line of the family, except for its blood, did not endure in the Bayou State. 

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A small family of two Comeaus emigrated to Louisiana directly from French St.-Domingue in the late 1760s and created another family line on the lower Acadian Coast:   

Charles (c1725-?) à Étienne à Pierre Comeaux

Charles, third and youngest son of Alexandre Comeau and Marguerite Doucet, born posthumously at Annapolis Royal in October 1725, was still a bachelor when the British deported him to Connecticut in the fall of 1755.  In his early 30s, he married Marie-Marguerite, called Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Babineau dit Deslauriers and Marguerite Dugas, probably in Connecticut in c1758.  Marguerite used the surname Deslauriers, not Babineau.  She gave Charles twin sons, Joseph and Pierre, born in c1759.  The couple, with two unnamed children, were still in the colony in 1763, their names appearing on a French repatriation list.  Their daughter Anne was born that year, probably after the list was compiled.  In 1764, they followed other exiles from New England to French St.-Domingue.  Their marriage was blessed at Mirebalais near Port-au-Prince in September 1764.  (Colonial authorites had sent them to the interior community to work on indigo and coffee plantations.)  Their children were baptized there in September.  Two weeks earlier, son Joseph had died at Mirebalais, age 5, on the day he was baptized.  Son Pierre died there, age 5, in October.  Marguerite gave Charles another son, also named Joseph, born at Mirebalais in November 1766.  The boy probably died soon after his birth.  The loss of their sons may have motivated Charles and Marguerite to emigrate to Spanish Louisiana in the late 1760s, perhaps with one of the Acadian parties from Maryland that transshipped at Cap-Français on their way to New Orleans in 1767 or 1768.  With them was daughter Anne.  They settled at Cabahannocer on the lower Acadian Coast and had another son there, François, born in c1768--five children, four sons and a daughter, between 1759 and 1768, in Connecticut, French St.-Domingue, and Lousiana.  Spanish officials counted Charles, Marguerite, and their remaining children, Anne and François, on the left, or east, bank of the river at Cabahannocer in January 1777.  Daughter Anne married into the Bernard, Gaudet, and Levert families.  Charles's youngest son also married and settled in what became St. James Parish, one of the few Comeauxs to remain there.  Charles's grandsons and great-grandsons settled near Convent on the east side of the river. 

Fourth and youngest son François married Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Charpentier and Jeanne Moutard of New Orleans, at Cabahannocer in February 1790.  Later in the decade they lived for a time at St.-Jean-Baptiste des Allemands on the upper German Coast below Cabahannocer.  Their children, born on the river, included Marguerite at Cabahannocer in January 1791; Charles le jeune in July 1793; François-Célestin, called Célestin, in November 1795; and Hélène-Adèle at St.-Jean-Baptiste in February 1798 but baptized in the New Orleans church in August--four children, two daughters and two sons, between 1791 and 1798.  In August 1798, at the baptism of his youngest daughter in the city, a New Orleans priest called François a "creole."  His wife was a Creole, but he was thoroughly Acadian.  François died at Cabahannocer in August 1799.  The priest who recorded the burial said François died at age 33.  He probably was 31.  Daughter Marguerite married into the Guidry family.  Both of François's sons also married, but only one of them had sons of his own.  The son and his descendants remained in St. James Parish.  

Older son Charles le jeune married Marie Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Marie Bourgeois dit Cabot and Hélène LeBlanc, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in April 1817.  Their daughter Marie Clairosine, called Clairosine, was born near Convent in March 1818.  Charles le jeune died near Convent in October 1819.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Charles was age 28 when he died.  He was 26.  Daughter Clairosine married into the Mire family.  Charles le jeune and his wife probably had no sons, so this line of the family, except perhaps for its blood, may have died with him.  

François's younger son François Célestin, called Célestin, married Scholastique, daughter of Jacques Caillouet and his Acadian wife Scholastique Theriot, at the St. James church, St. James Parish, in September 1822.  Their children, born near Convent across the river, included Célestin Numa in September 1823 but, called Numa, died near Convent, age 32, in October 1855; Marie Scholastique born in December 1825 but died at age 2 1/2 in May 1828; Thomas H. born in August 1828 but, called Thomas, died at age 15 in November 1843; Jacques or James Casimire born in March 1829[sic]; and an infant son, named and age unrecorded, died in July 1832--five children, four sons and a daughter, between 1823 and 1832.  Célestin died near Convent in December 1848.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Célestin died at "age 50 yrs."  He was 53.  In September 1850, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted four slaves--two males and two females, all black, ranging in age from 15 to 9--on Ww. Cn. Comeau's farm in the parish's eastern district; these probably were the slaves of Célestin's widow, Scholastique Caillouet.  Her and Numa's daughter did not survive childhood, but one of their sons did, married, and settled near Convent before moving to Bayou Lafourche after the War of 1861-65. 

Third son Jacques Casimir, called James Como by the recording priest, married Azélia, daughter of fellow Acadian Olivier Thibodeaux and his Creole wife Azélie Hymel, at the Convent church in November 1857.  Did Jacques "anglicize" his name, or was this simply what the Convent priest recorded?  They moved on to Bayou Lafourche after the War of 1861-65.  Their children, born near Convent and on the Lafourche, included Marie in July 1858; Numa Félicien in June 1861; Joseph Djim, probably Jacques, in November 1863; Elizabeth Thérèse in September 1865; Louis Noe Vincent in August 1867; Thomas Félix near Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, in September 1870; ...

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The arrival date of four more Comeaus who settled on the Acadian Coast--two wives and a widower and his son--is anyone's guess, but they likely reached the colony in the late 1760s.  One of the wives came from the French island of Martinique with her Mouton husband.  The others may have come from Halifax, Maryland, or, more likely, directly from St.-Domingue.  The widower and his son established another small family line on the lower Acadian Coast: 

Joseph (?-?) à ? à Pierre Comeaux

Joseph Comeau was a widower when he came to Louisiana in the late 1760s, his wife Anne Bourgeois having died during exile.  With him was son Charles, born in British Nova Scotia in c1749, who had followed his parents into exile.  Joseph remarried to Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Babineau dit Deslauriers and Marguerite Dugas, at Cabahannocer in January 1768; this made him a brother-in-law of the Charles Comeau who had come to the colony directly from French St.-Domingue about the same time.  Madeleine, a native of Annapolis Royal, had been exiled with her family to Connecticut in 1755, followed them to St.-Domingue in 1763 or 1764, and came to Louisiana from the sugar colony with her sister and brother-in-law in the late 1760s.  Like her sister, Madeleine used the surname Deslauriers, not Babineaux.  She and Joseph settled at Cabahannocer, where she gave him at least two more children:  Marie-Madeleine born in c1769; and Louis died, age unrecorded, in February 1773--at least three children, two sons and a daughter, by two wives, between 1749 and the early 1770s, in greater Acadia and Louisiana.  Joseph does not appear in either the January 1777 or March 1779 censuses at Cabahannocer, so he probably had died by then.  Daughter Marie-Madeleine married into the St. Pierre family and died soon after her marriage.  Joseph's son by his second wife did not survive childhood, but his older son, by his first wife, did.  Though, like his younger half-sister, he died in his 20s, he nevertheless managed to father a son of his own, but the line may not have endured beyond the third generation. 

Older son Charles, by first wife Anne Bourgeois, followed his family into exile, to French St.-Domingue, New Orleans, and Cabahannocer, where he married cousin Marie, daughter of Jean Marquis and his Acadian wife Marie Comeau, in January 1773.  Their son François was baptized at Cabahannocer, age unrecorded, in September 1774.  Charles died at Cabahannocer in February 1775, age 26.  His son married, but his line of the family may not have endured. 

Only son François married Euphrosine, daughter of François Croiset or Croizet and Jeanne Carrière, "an Indian," at Cabahannocer in January 1800.  Their children, born there, included Godefroi in November 1800 but died nine days after his birth; an unnamed daughter died in March 1802, age unrecorded; Laurent born in August 1803; Nanette in March 1806; Geneviève in November 1808; and Jean François posthumously in June 1814--six children, three sons and three daughters, between 1800 and 1814.  François died in St. James Parish in January 1814.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Francois died at "age about 37 yrs."  He was closer to 40.  Did either of his two younger sons or his daughters marry? 

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The largest contingent of Comeaus to go to Louisiana did not arrive until two decades after the first of their kinsmen reached the colony.  Half a dozen Comeau families, 30 individuals in all, crossed on six of the Seven Ships from France in 1785.  Most of them chose to settle in river communities, though only one of their family lines endured there.  Others helped create a new center of family settlement on upper Bayou Lafourche. 

The first of them--a wife and her 2-year-old Comeau son--crossed on La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in mid-August 1785.  They followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  No new family line came of it:

Jean-Baptiste, fils (1783-?) à Alexis à Claude à Jean le jeune dit Jean-Augustin à Pierre Comeaux

Jean-Baptiste, fils, son of Jean-Baptiste Comeau, a sailor, and Marie-Madeleine-Adélaïde Landry, was born in St.-Similien Parish, Nantes, France, in December 1783.  His father remained in France, but his mother took him to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he may have died young, taking his line of the family with him.  

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Three more Comeaus--a husband and his wife, and two wives and their families--crossed on Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in late August 1785.  They chose to settle on the river and on the upper Lafourche.  No new family lines came of it:

Charles (c1747-?) à Étienne à Jean l'aîné à Pierre Comeaux

Charles, third and youngest son of Jean Comeau and his first wife Marguerite Turpin, born at Annapolis Royal or on Île Royale in c1747, was counted with his widowered father and four siblings on the north shore of Île Madame off the southern coast of Île Royale in February 1752.  The French official who counted the family noted that Charles was age 4.  In late 1758, the British deported Charles to France with his sister Marguerite, her husband Jean Dupont of Louisbourg, and his older brother David aboard the transport Duc Guillaume, which left Louisbourg in late summer and, after a mishap at sea, limped into St.-Malo harbor the first of November.  Sister Marguerite died from the rigors of the crossing, but Charles and brother David survived.  Charles resided at St.-Malo from 1758 to 1761 before moving to Plouër-sur-Rance on the west side of the river south of the Breton port.  In April 1764, still in his teens, he followed other exiles in France aboard Le Fort to the new French colony of Guiane on the northern coast of South America.  He did not remain.  He married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Clossinet dit Moulin and Marguerite Longuépée and widow of Pierre-Mathurin Girard dit Dumoulin of St.-Coulombin Parish, Nantes, place and date unrecorded, after they returned from the South American colony.  Marie was 20 years older than Charles!  She had married her first husband on Île St.-Jean in September 1751, when Charles would have been age 4, gave her first husband two sons on the island, followed him to St.-Malo in late 1758, and lived with him at nearby Châteauneuf and St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where she gave him two more children, both daughters, before they headed to Guiane aboard Le Fort.  When she returned to France after March 1765, she likely was a childless widow, her children having died at Sinnamary of "fievre.'"  She and Charles likely had known one another in the tropical colony and may have returned to France together.  She gave him no children.  He worked as a carpenter in the mother country, probably back at St.-Malo.  The rather odd couple made their way to Paimboeuf, the lower port of Nantes, from where they emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in June 1785.  From New Orleans, they probably followed their fellow passengers to Baton Rouge.  They then disappear from the historical record.  Charles's line of the family likely died with him. 

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Two more Comeaus--a 71-year-old with his second wife, and a much younger bachelor cousin--crossed on Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in early September 1785.  They followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where the younger Comeau, recently married, helped create a third center of family settlement:

Honoré (c1714-1780s) à Jean l'aîné à Pierre Comeaux

Honoré, oldest son of Jean-Baptiste Comeau and Anne-Marie Thibodeau of Minas, born at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in c1714, married Marguerite, daughter of Michel Poirier and Marie Chiasson of Chignecto, at Beaubassin in January 1735 and settled there or at Pigiguit before moving on to Île St.-Jean in c1741.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1737 and 1751, Marguerite gave Honoré seven children, five daughters and two sons, at Pigiguit and on Île St.-Jean:  Marie born in c1737; Rose in c1739; Anne in c1741; Pierre in c1744; Monique in c1746; Joseph in c1749; and Marguerite in c1751.  In August 1752, a French official counted Honoré, his wife, and six children, five daughters and a son, at Malpèque on the north shore of Île St.-Jean.  Older son Pierre, who would have been age 8, was not in the counting, so he likely had died by then.  The family escaped the British roundup on the island in late 1758 and likely crossed Mer Rouge to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Soon after they got there, in the late 1750s or early 1760s, they either were captured by, or surrendered to, British forces in the area and were held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  After the war, they followed other exiles from the prison compounds to Île Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland where they could resume their lives as fisher/habitants.  French officials counted Honoré, Marguerite, and four of their children--Anne, Monique, Marguerite, and Joseph--on Miquelon in 1767.  One wonders what happened to daughters Marie and Rose, who would have been ages 30 and 28 that year.  To relieve overcrowding on Miquelon and nearby Île St.-Pierre, French officials, obeying a royal decree, sent most of the fisher/habitants on the Newfoundland islands to France.  Many of them returned to the islands the following year, but Honoré and members of his family remained in the mother country.  Daughter Anne, widow of Grégoire Morin, remarried into the Le Clerc family of St.-Malo on Île Miquelon in October 1774, so some of Honoré's family evidently had returned to the island after the French "deportation" of 1767.  By 1772, Honoré, now a widower, was living at Cherbourg in Normandy with members of his family.  Daughter Marguerite married into the Broussard family there in July 1773.  That year, Honoré and his younger son Joseph, now married to Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians François Doucet and Marie Carret, and father of a son, Jean, participated in the major settlement venture in the interior of Poitou.  Marguerite and her husband may have followed them there.  In December 1775, after two years of effort, Honoré and Joseph, and perhaps Marguerite and her husband, retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes.  Honoré, at age 70, remarried to Anastasie, 45-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Célestin dit Bellemère and Marie Landry and widow of Jean-Baptiste Boudrot, at St.-Martin de Chantenay near Nantes in August 1784.  The following year, he, his wife, and two Boudrot stepsons emigrated to Spanish Louisiana and followed their fellow passengers from New Orleans to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Honoré, in fact, was one of the oldest Acadian exiles to go to the Spanish colony.  He died there by January 1788, in his early 70s, when his wife was called a widow in a Bayou Lafourche census.  Honoré's daughter Marguerite and her Broussard husband had followed him to Louisiana in 1785 but had joined his Broussard kinsmen on the western prairies.  Son Joseph, however, had not followed his father and sister to the Spanish colony.  Joseph died in St.-Nicolas Parish, La Rochelle, France, in September 1782, age 33, so he had not remained at Nantes.  He may have taken his family back to Île Miquelon before 1778, when the British captured the Newfoundland islands during the American Revolution and deported the fisher/habitants there to La Rochelle and other French ports.  One thing is certain:  Joseph's son Jean, who would have been age 16 in 1785, if he was still living, did not follow his paternal grandfather to Spanish Louisiana, so Honoré's line of the family did not endure in the Bayou State. 

Mathurin (c1760-1805) à Claude à Jean le jeune dit Jean-Augustin à Pierre Comeaux

Mathurin, oldest son of Simon Comeau and Marie-Madeleine Thériot of Minas, born at Bristol, England, in August 1760, lost his father there soon after his birth.  In May 1763, Mathurin followed his widowed mother to St.-Malo, France, aboard La Dorothée.  In 1764 and 1765, he lived with her at Plouër-sur-Rance on the west side of the river south of the Breton port and in the St.-Malo suburb St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  His mother remarried to a widowered Thériot cousin in July 1766, but she died in May of the following year, age 28.  Mathurin was raised probably by relatives and became a sailor in France.  Still a bachelor, he followed other exiles to Spanish Louisiana.  Soon after his arrival, he married fellow passenger Sophie-Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Hébert and his second wife Marie Benoit, at New Orleans in October 1785.  They followed her family to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Their children, born on the upper bayou, included Sophie-Marie in March 1788; Jean-Charles in December 1790; Marie-Isabelle in February 1792; Éloise- Héloise- or Louise-Marie, called Louise, in February 1794; Françoise-Marie in May 1795; Jean-Pierre, called Jean, in July 1799; Charles-Raymond in August 1801; and Jean-Baptiste-Zéphirin in April 1803--eight children, four daughters and four sons, between 1788 and 1803.  Mathurin died by May 1805, when his wife remarried at Assumption on the upper Lafourche.  Her and Mathurin's daughters Sophie and Louise married Bélanger brothers from Baton Rouge on the upper bayou.  Only one of Mathurin's sons married.  He settled in Terrebonne Parish, probably the first of the Comeauxs to go there. 

Second son Jean Pierre, called Jean, at age 22, married Marie Marguerite, called Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Julien Crochet and his Creole wife Marguerite Bélanger, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in January 1823.  Their children, born probably near the boundary between Terrebonne and Lafourche Interior Parish, included Marguerite Émelie, called Émilie, in July 1825; Adèle in January 1827; Odalise Geneviève, called Geneviève, in December 1828; Henry Julien in March 1831; Jean Baptiste in February 1833; Jean Élie, called Élie, in April 1835; and Eve Émelina, also called Evélina and Nerina in March 1840--seven children, four daughters and three sons, between 1825 and 1840.  Jean died in Terrebonne Parish in November 1848.  The Houma priest who recorded the burial said that Jean died "at age 51 yrs."  He was 49.  A petition for succession inventory in his name, calling his wife Mad. Marguerite and listing his children and some of their spouses--Émilie and her husband, Geneviève and her husband, Adèle and her husband, Henri, Nerina (Evélina), and Élie--was filed at the Houma courthouse in May 1855.  Daughters Émilie, Adèle, Geneviève, and Evelina married into the Bergeron, Bélanger, and Marcel families, two of them to Bergeron brothers, by 1870.  One of Jean's sons also married by then and remained in Terrebonne Parish. 

Third and youngest son Jean Élie, called Élie, married Marie Lutetia, called Lutetia, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Bergeron and Joséphine Pitre, at the Houma church in October 1855.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Désiré Lucian in July 1857; Henri Alfred in December 1858; Léontine Octavie in June 1864; Ernest Albert near Montegut in August 1869; ... 

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Eight more Comeaus--a family of seven, and a Comeau wife--crossed on L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in early November 1785.  The wife and her husband elected to go to Attakapas, but the large family followed most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Despite the size of the family, no new Comeau family line resulted.

Benoît (c1737-?) à Pierre l'aîné dit L'Esturgeon à Pierre Comeaux

Benoît, only son of Maurice Comeau and Marguerite Thibodeau, born at Chepoudy in c1737, followed his parents into exile on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore in 1755 and into imprisonment in Nova Scotia later in the decade or in the early 1760s.  Benoît married Anne, daughter of Toussaint Blanchard and Angélique Bertrand of Petitcoudiac, in c1762 perhaps in the prison compound at Chédabouctou on the Atlantic shore of Nova Scotia.  They followed their families to Île Miquelon in 1764.  According to Bona Arsenault, Anne gave Benoît two sons soon after their marriage:  Pierre born in c1764; and Jean in c1765.  In 1767, Benoît and his family, along with other fisher/habitants on Miquelon, were "deported" by French officials to France.  Most of the islanders returned to Miquelon in 1768, but Benoît and his family remained in France.  French officials counted them at St.-Pol-de-Léon near Morlaix in northwest Brittany in 1768, after which they crossed the channel to Cherbourg in Normandy.  From 1769 to 1773, Anne gave Benoît three daughters there:  Marie-Anne-Victoire born in c1769; Anne-Eléonore in February 1771; and Marguerite-Anastasie in May 1773.  Benoît worked as a carpenter in Cherbourg.  In 1773 or 1774, Benoît and his family may have been part of the settlement venture in Poitou and, after two years of effort, retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the lower Loire port of Nantes.  Anne gave Benoît another daughter, Rose-Julie, born at Chantenay near Nantes in September 1779.  Benoît, Anne, five of their children, a son and four daughters, along with Anne's younger sister Madeleine, emigrated to Louisiana in 1785.  Their older son Pierre, who, if he was still living, would have been age 21 in 1785, did not accompany them to the Spanish colony.  Anne was pregnant on the voyage and give birth to another daughter, Claire-Adélaïde, at sea--seven children, two sons and five daughters, between 1764 and 1785, in greater Acadia, France, and aboard a ship on its way to Louisiana.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Daughters Marie-Anne-Victoire, Anne-Eléonore, Marguerite-Anastasie, Rose-Julie, and Claire-Adélaïde married into the Richard, Hébert, LeBlanc, Guillot, and Chiasson families on the upper Lafourche.  Daughter Anne-Eléonore followed her Hébert husband to the Opelousas prairies.  Youngest daughter Claire died in Lafourche Parish in July 1867, age 81--one of the last Acadian immigrants in Louisiana to join her ancestors.  Benoît's remainiing son Jean, who was age 19 when he reached the colony, evidently did not create a family of his own there, so this family line, except for its blood, did not endure in the Bayou State.  

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Fourteen more Comeaus--nine in one family, five in another led by a widow, and a wife and her family, the largest single group of Comeaus to come to Louisiana--crossed on La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans from St.-Malo in early December 1785.  The Comeaus followed their fellow passengers to the new Acadian community of Bayou des Écores in the New Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge, but none of them remained.  One of the large family's sons resettled at Baton Rouge, while his brothers joined their cousins on upper Bayou Lafourche and created three more lines there.  Only one of the widow's three sons married, at Baton Rouge, but his family line did not endure: 

Simon (c1760-1805) à Jean le jeune dit Jean-Augustin à Pierre Comeaux

Simon, oldest son of Jean-Baptiste Comeau and Marie Aucoin, born probably at Rivière-aux-Canards, Minas, in c1741, followed his family to Virginia in 1755 and to England in 1756.  He married cousin Marguerite-Geneviève Aucoin in England in c1763 on the eve of their repatriation to France.  In May 1763, Simon, his bride, and his two younger brothers sailed aboard La Dorothée to St.-Malo with dozens of other Acadian refugees from England.  Simon and his family lived at Plouër-sur-Rance, on the west side of the river south of the Breton port, before moving to the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where Simon may have worked in the maritime trade.  Marguerite gave Simon 11 children at Plouër and St.-Servan:  Marie-Luce born at Plouër in January 1764; Élisabeth-Madeleine in November 1765; Marie-Madeleine at St.-Servan in March 1767; Félicité-Augustine in May 1769; Jean-Baptiste in May 1771; Claire-Sophie in May 1773; Alexandre-Simon in March 1775; Pierre-Paul in August 1776; Marguerite-Françoise in April 1778; Charles-Simon in January 1781 but died at age 2 in January 1783; and Joseph-Marie born in March 1785--six daughters and five sons, between 1764 and 1785, most of whom survived childhood.  As the birth of their children attest, Simon and Marguerite did not follow their fellow exiles from England to Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany in November 1765, nor did they participate in the even larger settlement scheme in the interior of Poitou in the early 1770s or join their fellow Acadians at Nantes.  Instead, they remained at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, perhaps because of Simon's work.  Simon, Marguerite, and eight of their children, four sons and four daughters, ages 21 to infant, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Their fifth and sixth daughters Claire and Marguerite-Françoise, who would have been ages 12 and 7 in 1785, did not accompany their family to Louisiana, so they probably had died before the family's crossing.  Wife Marguerite either did not survive the voyage to Louisiana or her time at Bayou des Écores.  Simon, a young son, three older sons, and three daughters, but no wife, were counted at Bayou des Écores in 1793, among the few Acadians still there.  After a series of hurricanes decimated the community soon afterwards, Simon took most of his family to upper Bayou Lafourche, where they were counted in 1795.  He did not remarry.  He died in Assumption Parish on the upper Lafourche in June 1818, age 77.  At Bayou des Écores and on the upper Lafourche, daughters Élisabeth-Madeleine, Marie-Madeleine, and Félicité-Augustine married into the Marion, Renaud, Bourg, Aucoin, and Poulosky or Pulasky families.  Oldest daughter Marie-Luce did not marry.  All four of Simon's remaining sons married and settled at Baton Rouge or on the upper Lafourche. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste followed his family to New Orleans and Bayou des Écores, where, at age 20, he married Marie-Josèphe, 24-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Bourg and his first wife Anne-Josèphe Daigre, in February 1792.  Marie-Josèphe, a native of Pleudihen-sur-Rance across the river from Plouër-sur-Rance, also had come to Louisiana aboard La Ville d'Archangel.  When Jean-Baptiste's family moved on to the upper Lafourche, he and Marie-Josèphe went, instead, to Baton Rouge.  Their daughter Judith likely was born there in the early 1790s, and the complications of her birth may have killed her mother.  Jean Baptiste, still in his 20s, remarried to Julie-Thérèse or Thérèse-Julie, also called Juliènne, daughter of fellow Acadians Ambroise Bourg and Marie-Modeste Molaison, probably at Baton Rouge in the mid- or late 1790s.  Julie, a native of Cherbourg, also had come to Louisiana from France aboard La Ville d'Archangel.  Their children, born at Baton Rouge, included Julie-Eléonore in January 1796; Simon-Pierre in December 1797; Jean, fils baptized, age 1, in August 1801; Marie-Clémence born in December 1802; Alexis in c1804 but died near Baton Rouge, age 40, in November 1844; another Julie born in May 1805; Thomas in 1808; Constance Caroline in September 1811; and Sophie in August 1814--10 children, six daughters and four sons, by two wives, between the early 1790s and 1814.  Daughters Judith, Julie, and Constance Caroline, by both wives, married into the Hommie and Longuépée families, two of them to Longuépée brothers.  Only one of Jean Baptiste's sons married.  He remained on the river. 

Oldest son Simon-Pierre, by second wife Julie Bourg, married Marie Rose, daughter of François Seguin and Pélagie ____, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in January 1824.  They settled across the river in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Simon Jean Baptiste in October 1824; Auguste or Augustin in September 1826 but died at age 2 in September 1828; Zéolide Arthémise born in October 1828 but died at age 2 1/2 in April 1831; Azélie Alzire born in September 1831; Marie Éloise in January 1834; Rosalie in November 1837; and Gilbert in March 1840--seven children, three sons and four daughters, between 1824 and 1840.  None of Simon Pierre's remaining daughters married by 1870, if they married at all, but one of his sons did.

Oldest son Simon Jean Baptiste "of West Baton Rouge Parish" married Irma, daughter of André Lemoine and Brigitte Paillot of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the Baton Rouge church in July 1846.  They settled near Brusly, West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Émilio in March 1848; Amédée in December 1851; Zéolide Adonia in September 1853; and Marie Amélie or Amelia, called Amelia, in December 1855.  Simon Jean Baptiste remarried to first cousin Julie Ludivine, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Longuépée and Sophie Comeaux, his uncle and aunt, at the Brusly church in May 1859; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their son Joseph Aristide was born near Brusly in March 1860--five children, three sons and two daughters, by two wives, between 1848 and 1860.  Daughter Amelia, by his first wife, married into the Legendre family by 1870.  None of Simon Jean Baptiste's sons married by then. 

Simon's second son Alexandre-Simon, also called Alexis, followed his family to New Orleans, Bayou des Écores, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marguerite-Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians François Blanchard and Hélène Giroir, in February 1799.  Marguerite-Anne, a native of Nantes, had come to Louisiana from France aboard an earlier ship in 1785.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Simon-Joseph, called Simonet and Simonin, in November 1799; Apollinaire in February 1801 but died at age 18 in June 1819; François baptized, age unrecorded, in March 1803; Antoine Eusèbe born in December 1804; Jean Baptiste le jeune in November 1807; Alexandre Simon, fils in July 1809; Adèle Marguerite, perhaps also called Margaret, in April 1812; Zélie, probably Azélie, in May 1814; Louis François in November 1815; Clémentine in November 1817; Élisa in November 1820; and a daughter, name unrecorded, died eight days after her birth in September 1821--a dozen children, seven sons and five daughters, between 1799 and 1821.  Alexandre Simon, père died in Assumption Parish in July 1837, age 62.  Daughters Azélie, Margaret, and Clémentine married into the Bertrand, Vining, and Hayes families, two of them on lower Bayou Teche.  Six of Alexandre Simon's sons also married.  The two older ones remained on Bayou Lafourche.  The four younger ones moved to lower Bayou Teche during the antebellum period, but two of them returned to Assumption Parish in the 1850s. 

Oldest son Simon-Joseph, called Simonet and Simonin, married Eulalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Gaudet and his second wife Eulalie Guédry, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in April 1825.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Scholastique Adelina in July 1826 but, called Adelina, died at age 6 1/2 in November 1832; Simonet Jean Baptiste, called Jean Baptiste, born in September 1827; Eulalie in May 1829; Marguerite in December 1830; Antoine Désiré in May 1832 but, called Antoine, died at age 22 in March 1855; Marie born in September 1834; Joséphine in September 1837; Édouard Désiré in January 1839; and Eulalie Léonide Ernestine, called Léonide, in April 1842--nine children, six daughters and three sons, between 1826 and 1842.  Simonet died near Plattenville in October 1854, a month shy of age 55.  Daughters Marguerite, Marie, Léonide, Eulalie, Joséphine, ... married into the Friou, Hébert, Foret, David, Bertrand, and Aucoin families by 1870.  One of Simonet's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Jean Baptiste, at age 38, married Evéline, daughter of fellow Acadians André Boudreaux and Pauline Foret and widow of François Gaspard, at the Plattenville church in April 1865; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of affinity in order to marry.  Their children, born near Plattenville, included Paul Homer in January 1866; Alcide in May 1868; ... 

Alexandre-Simon's third son François married Rose Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians François Georges Bourg and Adélaïde Bertrand, at the Plattenville church in February 1825.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Adrien François in August 1828; and Marcellin posthumously in July 1830.  François died in Assumption Parish in December 1829.  The priest who recorded the burial said that François was age 28 when he died.  He probably was closer to 25.  One of his sons married and followed his uncles to St. Mary Parish, but the line may not have endured. 

Younger son Marcellin "of St. Mary Parish" married Lucie or Lucille, daughter of fellow Acadians Apollinaire Girouard and Marie Théotiste Aucoin, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Parish, in September 1857.  Marcellin rejoined his uncles in St. Mary Parish in the early 1860s but returned to upper Bayou Lafourche later in the decade.  Marcellin and Lucille's children, born there, included Emma Maria near Pattersonville in St. Mary Parish in August 1859; Marie Eve in Lafourche Parish in April 1866; and Marie Lumina in November 1867--three children, all daughters, between 1859 and 1867.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted two slaves--a 21-year-old black female, and an 8-month-old black male, living in their own house--on Marcelin Comeaux's farm in the parish's Fourteenth Ward along Bayou L'Ours.  Marcellin died near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in December 1868.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Marcelin died at "age ca. 37 years."  He was 38.  He was one of the few Comeauxs who lived in Lafourche Parish.  Except perhaps for its blood, his family line evidently did not endure. 

Alexandre Simon's fourth son Antoine Eusèbe married fellow Acadian Élisa LeBlanc in a civil ceremony in St. Mary Parish in October 1829.  They lived in Assumption Parish before returning to the lower Teche, where Antoine became a major planter in St. Mary Parish.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche and the lower Teche, included Clémentine in Assumption Parish in July 1830; Zénoïde Antoinette in April 1832; Désiré in June 1834; Hélaine in April 1837; Alexandre Aristide near New Iberia, St. Martin Parish, in June 1846; Joseph Ernest near Pattersonville, St. Mary Parish, in August 1849; Scholastique Evela in September 1850; and Louisa near Charenton in June 1853 but died in St. Martin Parish at age 10 1/2 in September 1864.  A succession for wife Élisa, calling her Élize and naming her husband, was filed at the Franklin courthouse in December 1857.  In December 1850, the federal census taker in St. Mary Parish counted 34 slaves--23 males and 11 females, all black, ranging in age from 80 to 1--on Antoine Comeaux's plantation.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in St. Mary Parish counted 77 slaves on Antoine Comeau's plantation in the parish's western district--enough to make him one of the state's major planters.  In the June 1860 federal census for St. Mary Parish, Antoine Comau, described as age 50 (he was actually age 55) who had real estate valued at $75,000 and a personal estate of $80,000, was listed only with youngest daughter Louisa, age 6.  One wonders where were the rest of his many children.  Antoine, at age 60, remarried to Anne or Anna Raymond, daughter of Bertrand Audibert and Marie Bertrande Mistrot, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in March 1864.  They remained on the lower Teche.  Their daughter Marie Zelmire was born near New Iberia in December 1864; ...  Antoine's daughter Clémentine, by his first wife, married into the Charpantier family in St. Mary Parish by 1870.  One of Antoine's sons also married by then and returned to the upper Lafourche. 

Oldest son Désiré, by first wife Élisa LeBlanc, married Clara Bertrand probably in St. Mary Parish in the late 1850s or early 1860s.  They returned to upper Bayou Lafourche during the 1860s, perhaps soon after the War of 1861-65.  Their children, born on the lower Teche and the upper Lafourche, included Emma Ernestine near Charenton, St. Mary Parish, in December 1862; Félix near Plattenville, Assumption Parish, in May 1866; Palmire Victoria; Jean Edgard in March 1870; ...

Alexandre Simon's fifth son Jean Baptiste le jeune married Marie Adèle, daughter of fellow Acadians Auguste Doiron and Anne Daigle, in a civil ceremony in St. Mary Parish in January 1836, and sanctified the marriage at the Plattenville church the following month.  Evidently they lived in Assumption Parish before joining his brothers on lower Bayou Teche, but they seem to have returned to upper Bayou Lafourche by the early 1850s.  Their children, born on the lower Teche and the upper Lafourche, included Octavie Adélie near Plattenville in December 1836; Armand near New Iberia in May 1842; Marie Civilia near Plattenville in June 1847; Jean Baptiste Arestile or Orestile near Pattersonville, St. Mary Parish, in February 1849; Auguste Aurelien near Plattenville in July 1854; ...  None of Jean Baptiste le jeune's children married by 1870. 

Alexandre Simon's sixth son Alexandre Simon, fils married Augustine, also called Azéma, daughter of Adélard Verret and Augustine Gation, in a civil ceremony in St. Mary Parish in July 1832, and sanctified the marriage at the Plattenville church in April 1833.  Evidently they, too, lived in Assumption Parish before joining his brothers on lower Bayou Teche.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche and the lower Teche, included Joseph Sérpahin in Assumption Parish in December 1834; Louis Télésphore in September 1836; and Édouard in either Assumption or St. Mary Parish in the late 1830s or early 1840s--three children, all sons, between 1834 and the late 1830s or early 1840s.  Alexandre, fils's succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Franklin courthouse, St. Mary Parish, in January 1852.  He would have been age 43 that year.  One of his sons married by 1870.

Youngest son Édouard married Teresa, daughter of Auguste Trastour and ____ Barrabino, at the Charenton church, St. Mary Parish, in July 1864.  They settled near Franklin. ...

Alexandre Simon, père's seventh and youngest son Louis François married Nancy, daughter of Conrad Hartman, in a civil ceremony in St. Mary Parish in February 1843, but they returned to the upper Lafourche perhaps during the war. Their children, born on the lower Teche and the upper Lafourche, included Marie Evélina in early 1846 and baptized, age 10 1/2 months, at the Charenton church, St. Mary Parish, in May 1847; Antoine Ferdinand born near Pattersonville, St. Mary Parish, in November 1849; François Louis in September 1853; Conrad Adolphe, called Adolphe, in March 1855; Marie Corine near Brashear, now Morgan, City, St. Mary Parish, in September 1861; Alcide Didière probably near Plattenville, Assumption Parish, in February 1864 but died there at age 2 in June 1866; David born near Plattenville in February 1866; Joseph Alexandre in January 1870; ...  In December 1850, the federal census taker in St. Mary Parish counted two slaves--both males, both black, both age 40--on Louis Comeaux's farm.  He and his family were living near Brashear, now Morgan, City, on the lower Atchafalaya at the southern end of St. Mary Parish, in 1861, but the baptismal records of their children show that they returned to upper Bayou Lafourche later in the decade.  None of Louis François's children married by 1870. 

Simon's third son Pierre-Paul followed his family to New Orleans, Bayou des Écores, and upper Bayou Lafourche.  Spanish officials were still counting him there with his father in the late 1780s and early 1790s.  Pierre Paul married Marie-Clémence, called Clémence, daughter of René dit Simon Simoneaux and his first wife Isabelle Luce Daigle, an Acadian, at Assumption in the early 1800s.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Eustache in January 1808; Rosalie Féline in September 1809; Simon Rosémond in September 1811; Alexandre Hyacinthe in September 1813 but died at age 2 in August 1815; Marie Eurasie born in August 1815; and Louis Ulysse in March 1818--six children, four sons and two daughters, between 1808 and 1818.  Pierre Paul died by March 1821, when he was listed as deceased in his youngest son's baptismal record.  Daughters ... married into the Giroir and Moïse families.  Pierre Paul's remaining sons also married, and one of them settled in Terrebonne Parish.  The others remained in Assumption Parish. 

Oldest son Eustache, in his early 40s, married Rose Adélaïde, called Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Nicolas Thibodeaux and Mélanie Basilise Lejeune, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in September 1850.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Eustache Zémi or Ozémé, called Ozémé, at Bayou Black in August 1851; Joseph in September 1853; Gustine Aimée or Émée, called Émée, in September 1855; Alexis Octave in September 1857; Émile Adam, called Adam, in February 1860; Augustin Ernest in December 1861 but evidently died at age 1 in December 1862; Trasimond, also called Justin Trasimond, born in April 1864; and Eve probably in the 1860s--eight children, six sons and two daughters, between 1851 and the 1860s.  Eustache died in Terrebonne Parish in June 1866, age 58.  A "Petition for inventory & tutor," naming his wife and listing his children--Ozémé, Émée, Alexis, Adam, Justin Trasimond, and Eve--was filed at the Houma courthouse in December 1866.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Pierre Paul's second son Simon Rosémond married Azélie, also called Rosalie, Adèlie, and Arelite, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Hébert and Élisabeth Mazerolle, at the Plattenville church in December 1833.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Ursin in c1835; Marie Asélie, called Asélie and Amasélie, in August 1836; twins Marie Alexandrine and Marie Augustine, called Augustine dite Justine, in March 1838; Victorine Alphonsine, called Alphonsine, in April 1841; Adelina or Adeline n May 1843; Marie Léonine, called Léonine, in November 1846; Adolphe in January 1850; and Joseph Ulisse in July 1853--nine children, six daughters and three sons, including a set of twins, between 1836 and 1853.  Simon died near Plattenville in January 1866, age 54 (the recording priest, who gave no paernts' names or mentioned a wife, said 58).  Daughters Amasélie, Augustine, and Léonine married into the Crochet, Landry, and Campeau families by 1870.  Only one of Simon Rosémond's sons married by then and settled near Pierre Part on the north shore of Lake Verret. 

Oldest son Ursin married cousin Sidalise, daughter of Marcellin Simoneaux and his Acadian wife Mélanie Landry, at the Plattenville church in September 1855.  Their children, born in Assumption Parish, included Joseph Osémé near Paincourtville in October 1856; Élizabeth Émée in September 1858 but, called Émé, died at age 6 months (the recording priest said "3-4 months") in March 1859; Marie Odele born near Pierre Part in February 1860; Sylvestre Anatole Léonore in December 1861; Jean Baptiste Sostène in April 1864; Louise Élodie in January 1866; Marie Albertine in April 1868; Émile Albert in July 1870; ...

Pierre Paul's fourth and youngest son Louis Ulysse married Augustine dite Justine, daughter of Augustin Campos and his Acadian wife Émelie Hébert, at the Plattenville church in February 1839.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Clémentine Augustine in November 1839; Louisa Émelie in February 1843; Alexandre Merville in December 1844 but, called Meuville, died at age 23 in December 1867; Augustin Pierre born in February 1847; Honoré in December 1848; Joseph Dosilia in February 1851; and Étienne Désiré in December 1853--seven children, two daughters and five sons, between 1839 and 1853.  Louis died near Plattenville in November 1854, age 36 (the recording priest said 37).  Daughter Clémentine married a Simoneaux cousin by 1870.  None of Louis's sons married by then. 

Simon's fifth and youngest son Joseph-Marie followed his family to New Orleans, Bayou des Écores, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where, being the youngest child in his family, he probably delayed creating a family of his own to care for his aging father.  At age 37, Joseph Marie married Marie Célesie, called Célesie or Céleste, another daughter of Pierre Hébert and  Élisabeth Mazerolle, at the Plattenville church in January 1822, four years after his father died.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Alexandrine in December 1822; Joseph Léon, called Léon, in January 1826 but, called Léon, died near Plattenville, age 44 (the recording priest gave no age at the time of his death), in July 1870; Alexi Gédéon born in August 1828; Marie Adélaïde in April 1832 but, called Adèlle, died at age 1 1/2 in October 1833; Jean Baptiste Duval, called Duval, born in February 1835; Élisabeth Élesie in December 1837; Marguerite Léontine in July 1841; and Alexandre Simon le jeune in May 1846, when his father was in his early 60s--eight children, four daughters and four sons, between 1822 and 1846.  Joseph Marie, called Joseph by the recording priest, died in Assumption Parish in June 1850, age 65 (the recording priest said 66).  His remaining daughters did not marry by 1870, but one of his sons did.

Third son Jean Baptiste Duval, called Duval, married Amélie, daughter of fellow Acadians Hippolyte Breaux and Hélène Duhon, at the Plattenville church in February 1859.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Ugénie Miriènne in January 1860; Célina Albertine in April 1863; Joseph Albert Ernest in September 1866; ... 

Élie-Marie (1765-1815) à Jean-Baptiste à Jean le jeune dit Jean-Augustin à Pierre Comeaux

Élie-Marie, also called Charles and Louis, oldest son of Joseph Comeau and Marie Thériot, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo, France, in November 1765, followed his widowed mother and siblings to New Orleans and Bayou des Écores.  He did not remain there.  Perhaps after his mother and younger brothers died, he moved downriver to Baton Rouge, where he married Marie-Renée, also called Irène, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon-Pierre Trahan and Marie-Josèphe Granger, in April 1795.  Marie-Renée, a native of Belle-Île-en-Mer, had come to Louisiana from France in 1785 aboard an earlier vessel.  Their children, born at Baton Rouge, included Joseph-Célestin baptized at Pointe Coupée, age 11 months, in May 1801; Marie-Éloise of -Élise born in July 1802; Marie Adélaïde in February 1808; and Reine Bellonie or Mélanie, called Mélanie, in September 1811--four children, a son and two daughters, between 1801 and 1811.  Élie died probably at Baton Rouge by November 1815, when his wife remarried there.  Daughters Marie Élise and Mélanie married into the Lopez and Martinez families.  Élie's only son evidently died young, so only the blood of this family line endured. 

Joseph-Mathurin (1767-?) à Jean-Baptiste à Jean le jeune dit Jean-Augustin à Pierre Comeaux

Joseph-Mathurin, second son of Joseph Comeau and Marie Thériot, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, France, in September 1767, followed his widowed mother and siblings to New Orleans and Bayou des Écores, where he may have died young.  

Simon-Pierre (1769-?) à Jean-Baptiste à Jean le jeune dit Jean-Augustin à Pierre Comeaux

Simon-Pierre, third and youngest son of Joseph Comeau and Marie Thériot, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, France, in October 1769, followed his widowed mother and siblings to New Orleans and Bayou des Écores, where he also may have died young. 

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A Comeau wife arrived with her husband and children aboard La Caroline, the last of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in late December 1785.  They were among the few Acadian immigrants from France who chose to settle in the Opelousas District, where many of the wife's cousins had settled.

Cormier

Robert Cormierborn in c1610, son perhaps of Abraham Cormier and Catherine Le Mayne of Dieppe, France, became a master ship's carpenter in his native city of La Rochelle.  In January 1644, while living in that port city, Robert signed an indenture calling for three years service at 120 livres per annum with Louis Tuffet, commander of Fort St.-Pierre, a post maintained by Cardinal Richelieu's Company on Cape Breton IslandAccompanied by wife Marie Péraud and two young sons, Thomas and Jean, Robert sailed from La Rochelle aboard Le Petit St.-Pierre and reached Fort St.-Pierre in late spring of 1644.  According to Bona Arsenault, after he fulfulled his indenture, Robert stayed on at Fort St.-Pierre, now St. Peter's, Nova Scotia, until 1650, when he took his family to Port-Royal and lived a long life there.  Family genealogist Michael Melanson speculates, however, probably more accurately, that Robert and his family, including older son Thomas, then only age 9, returned to La Rochelle with the other workers hired by Tuffet when the Fort St.-Pierre concession ended in May 1645.  They would have returned to La Rochelle aboard the 50-ton supply ship L'Étoille, which had reached Cape Breton in December of 1645 to take the engagés back home.  Arsenault, however, would have us believe that Robert remained at Port-Royal after he left Fort St.-Pierre and died there in February 1712, age 101!  It is more likely that Robert, Marie, and younger son Jean never returned to New France.  Not so older son Thomas.  He took up the trade of his father probably at La Rochelle.  Melanson speculates that Thomas would have been unable to return to the colony when he came of age because the English had seized Port-Royal in 1654, the year Thomas turned 18, effectively ending immigration from France.  What is certain is that a carpenter named Thomas Cormier, son of Robert of La Rochelle, was working at his trade at Port-Royal, and likely farming there as well, soon after the English returned Acadia to France in 1667.  In 1668, at age 32, Thomas Cormier finally started a family of his own when he married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, 14-year-old daughter of François Girouard and Jean Aucoin of Port-Royal.  Between 1670 and 1688, Madeleine gave Thomas 10 children, six daughters and four sons, first at Port-Royal and then at Chignecto, which Thomas helped to pioneer in the late 1670s.  Five of their daughters married into the Boudrot, Haché dit Gallant, Cyr, and Poirier families.  All four of Thomas's sons married LeBlancs--three sisters and a first cousin--from Grand-Pré.  The sons remained at Chignecto, specifically at Ouescoque on lower Rivière La Planche, as did their sons.  The Cormiers, in fact, were among the few early Acadian families that did not branch out to other Fundy settlements.  Most, if not all, of them settled at Ouescoque, today's Amherst Point, Nova Scotia, on the east side of a bend of the Cumberland Basin southeast of the village of Beaubassin.  Not until the petit dérangement of the early 1750s did members of the family leave Chignecto to escape the chaos in the region, and even then only a few of them bothered.  Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this large but compact family to the winds. 

The Acadians at Chignecto were the first to endure a disruption of their lives.  During the spring and summer of 1750, in response to the British building a fort at Beaubassin village, Canadian militia, assisted by Abbé Le Loutre and his Mi'kmaq warriors, burned Acadian homesteads east of Rivière Missaguash, forcing the habitants there to move to the French-controlled area west of the river.  The Cormiers at Ouescoque were among the refugees affected by this petit dérangement.  After yet another war erupted between Britain and France in 1754, Chignecto Acadians were caught in the middle of it.  When British and New England forces attacked Fort Beauséjour in June 1755, Cormiers were among the area Acadians who were serving in the fort as militia.  They, too, along with the French troupes de la marine, became prisoners of war when the fort surrendered on June 16.   Lieutenant-Governor Charles Lawrence was so incensed to find so-called French Neutrals fighting with French regulars at Beauséjour he ordered his officers to deport the Chignecto-area Acadians to the southernmost seaboard colonies. 

One of the Acadian fighters captured at Beauséjour, Pierre dit Pierrot, son of Pierre dit Palette and Cécile Thibodeau and grandson of Thomas's son Pierre, escaped from a British transport headed for South Carolina and rejoined his family at Petitcoudiac in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto.  Pierrot led them to Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas on lower Rivière St.-Jean, where they lingered.  In late 1758, after the fall of the French fortress of Louisbourg on Île Royale, British raiding parties attacked the Acadian settlements on the lower St.-Jean and drove the Cormiers and other refugees up the St.-Jean portage to Kamouraska on the lower St. Lawrence.  Pierrot and other exiles fought alongside the French and Canadians at Québec in 1759 and managed to escape capture.  By the early 1760s, Pierrot and his family had moved up the St. Lawrence to L'Islet, closer to Québec City, but they did not remain.  At war's end, Pierrot and some of his brothers moved back down the St.-Jean to Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas.  They likely would have stayed there if British authorities had granted them title to their land.  After the British lost their fight against the Americans and the French in the early 1780s, American Loyalists came to the Ste.-Anne area and demanded title to the land on which the Acadians had lived for two decades.  Exiled again, Pierrot and his family, with dozens of other Acadians, returned to the trois-rivières area and settled along the lower Memramcook, not far from their old homesteads at Chignecto.  Pierrot's mother Cécile Thibodeau, in her mid- or late 70s, died "on the path between" Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas and Memramcook, where descendants of Pierrot Cormier live to this day. 

While Pierrot and his family dodged British forces in the St.-Jean valley, two of his younger brothers--Joseph, age 15 in 1755; and Michel, age 14--along with an older first cousin, Jean-Baptiste, fils, age 21, became separated from the rest of the family in the chaos of displacement.  The brothers may have fallen into British hands during their immediate family's wanderings from greater Acadia to Canada and back, or, more likely, became separated early in the family's movements and joined fellow refugees in the trois-rivières area led by Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil and his older brother Alexandre of Petitcoudiac.  The Cormier boys' relationship to the Broussards was not a tenuous one.  Joseph and Michel's mother was a Thibodeau, the family into which the Beausoleil Broussard brothers had married.  Cousin Jean-Baptiste, fils's mother was a Richard.  The Beausoleil brothers' mother also was a Richard.  So the Cormier boys may have become part of the Broussards' extended family and may even have participated with their kinsmen in the Acadian resistance in that part of greater Acadia.  In the late 1750s or early 1760s, the Cormier boys either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and, like the Broussards and hundreds of other exiles in the region, spent the rest of the war in a prison compound in Nova Scotia.  Some of their Cormier cousins, meanwhile, like brother Pierrot, also had escaped the British at Chignecto and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore or moved on to Canada. 

Not all of the Cormiers escaped the British at Chignecto or slipped quietly off a British transport.  In the fall of 1755, following Lawrence's orders, British commanders deported several Cormier families to South Carolina.  At least one family, that of Jean-Baptiste Cormier, père, brother of Pierre dit Palette and father of Jean-Baptiste, fils, ended up in Georgia with his wife and daughters and his wife's Richard kin.  In the spring of 1756, Jean-Baptiste Cormier, père and his Richard kin may have been among the exiles in the southern colonies who, with permission from the colonial governors, left Georgia and South Carolina in open boats to return to their homes in greater Acadia.  If so, Jean-Baptiste and his famliy got no farther than Long Island, New York, where, on the insistence of Charles Lawrence, the British held them for the rest of the war.  Kinsman François à Germain Cormier died in New York in January 1760.  After the war, his widow Madeleine Doucet and their children chose to resettle in Canada at L'Assomption near Montréal.  Jean-Baptiste, père and his family, along with the Richards and two other related families, left New York in 1763 and headed back south. 

According to Bona Arsenault, Anne Cyr, widow of François Cormier, now remarried, and some of her younger Cormier children, were deported to England in 1755.  Actually, most, if not all, of the Acadian exiles who ended up in England were deported from Minas, not Chignecto, and to Virginia in the fall of 1755, not to England.  Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  Arsenault's narrative is especially suspect when one considers that the widow's second husband, François Arseneau dit Brélé, died at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs in greater Acadia in November 1759, when she was supposed to have been in England.  In May of 1763, after prolonged negotiations between the French and British governments, the Acadians in England, including Anne Cyr and her Cormier children, if we follow Arsenault's narrative, were repatriated to France, but Anne and her children refused to remain there.  In 1764, Arsenault insists, they returned to North America and settled on the French-controlled fishery island of Miquelon off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  But there is a more likely route taken by Anne Cyr and her Cormier children to Île Miquelon:  they escaped from Chignecto in 1755; sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, moved up to Restigouche, where her second husband died; were capture by, or surrendered to, British forces in the area in the early 1760s; imprisoned in Nova Scotia until war's end; and chose to resettle on Île Miquelon.  Although Le Grand Dérangement ended for most Acadians in North America by the late 1760s, this was not the case for the Acadians who chose to resettle on the Newfoundland islands.  They included not only Anne Cyr and her Cormier children, but other Cormiers who had been held in Nova Scotia prisons and chose to resettle in the French-controlled fishery.  Their troubles there began in 1767 when French officials, obeying a royal decree to relieve overcrowding on Miquelon and nearby Île St.-Pierre, sent the fisher/habitants to France.  They were allowed to return in 1768, Cormiers likely among them.  In 1778, France joined the Anglo-American struggle against their old red-coated enemy, who controlled every part of the Maritimes region except for the two French fishing islands.  The British wasted no time seizing the islands and deporting the fisher/habitants back to France.  Cormiers were among the unfortunates who endured yet another Atlantic crossing on hired British transports.  Ironically, the Cormiers deported from Miquelon landed at La Rochelle, the port from which their ancestor Robert had sailed to French Acadia 134 years earlier.  The 1778 crossing was a terrible one, as was the family's stay in the Atlantic port.  Members of the family, both young and old, died there between 1779 and 1781.  But more children were born to them during these same years, and new families were created.  After the war ended badly for the British in 1783, the island Acadians still in France were allowed to return to the North Atlantic fishery.  One wonders if any the Cormiers at La Rochelle returned to their island homes in 1784.

Two, maybe three, Cormiers ended up in France by another, earlier route.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats rounded up most of the habitants on the Maritime islands and transported them to France.  Two Cormier siblings made the crossing aboard the deporation transport Duc Guillaume, which left Louisbourg in late summer and, after a mid-ocean mishap, limped into St.-Malo harbor on the first of November.  Teenaged Jacques Cormier and his older sister Marie survived the crossing despite the high death toll aboard the vessel, but Marie died in a hospital at St.-Malo a week after the ship reached port.  At the end of February 1760, Jacques embarked on the ship Prince Édouard, probably a corsair.  He was back at St.-Malo in June 1762, when he stood as godfather to a Doucet daughter at St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, across the harbor from St.-Malo.  He then disappears from the historical record.  Another Marie, this one daughter of chirurgien major Jacques Cormier, died at La Rochelle in September 1777, age 49.  One wonders when, and from where, she had come to France, or if she had been born there. 

When in the early 1780s the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, the majority of the Acadians still in the mother country agreed to take it.  No Cormiers were among them.  Jean Cormier, native of Île Miquelon and husband of Anne Briand, died at La Rochelle on 23 Messidor, year 10 of the Revolution (12 July 1802), age 42.  His daughter Marie was born posthumously at North Bordeaux on 14 Fructidor year 10 (1 September 1802) and was baptized the same day.  Her uncle François Cormier, perhaps François, fils, stood as her godfather.  Marie died at Bordeaux five and a half years later, in May 1808.  

In North America, Acadians still in the seaboard colonies at war's end were encouraged by French officials to go to St.-Dominique.  There, like their cousins on Île Miquelon, they could live not only among fellow Roman Catholics, but also in territory controlled by France.  Although the Seven Years' War had driven them from North America, the French were determined to hang on to what was left of their shrinking empire.  A new naval base at Môle St.-Nicolas on the northwest end of the big island would protect the approaches to what was left of their possessions in the Caribbean Basin and assist in the "war of vengeance" to come.  French officials saw the exiles as a ready source of cheap labor not only for the naval contractors, but also for the colony's major planters, who hoped to supplement the work of their slaves.  To sweeten the deal, the French promised the Acadians land of their own in the sugar colony.  In the summer of 1763, most of the Cormiers in the seaboard colonies could still be found in South Carolina.  Many of them moved on to St.-Domingue to labor on the new naval base.  Those who survived the ordeal chose to remain.  When fellow exiles from Halifax and Maryland, including Cormiers, transhipped at Cap-Français in the mid- and late 1760s on their way to New Orleans, none of the Cormiers still in St.-Domingue agreed to join them.  However, judging by the number of children they lost, the price for remaining was a high one.  Beginning in the summer of 1765, after several years of what they saw as fruitless effort, Acadians sought permission to leave Môle, but French officials refused to let them go.  Some Acadians, including Cormiers, left the project anyway and settled at nearby Jean-Rabel.  Jean, son of Alexis Cormier and Madeleine de Liglen of Pointe-de-Beauséjour, Chignecto, who had come to the colony from South Carolina, married Élisabeth, daughter of Louis Morel and Agnès Danigrand of nearby Pointe-de-Paix, at Jean-Rabel in February 1783.  Their son Jean-Baptiste was born at Jean-Rabel in March 1784.  Jean and Élisabeth's daughter Marie-Renée was born at Môle St.-Nicolas, and Marie-Victoire at Jean-Rabel, in the early 1780s.  Jean, called by the priest a native of Acadia and "widower of an Acadienne," died at his father's home at Caracol in April 1785, age 30.  His and Élisabeth's daughter Rose-Marguerite or -Élisabeth, was born posthumously at Jean-Rabel in September 1785.  

After the war, most of the Cormiers who had escaped the British in 1755, and a few still languishing in the seaboard colonies, chose to resettle not in St.-Domingue but in Canada, where some of their relatives had gone as early as 1756.  Though now also a British possession, the far-northern province was populated largely by fellow French Catholics, many of them Acadian exiles.  So, in a colony nearly as old as Acadia, the majority of the family's survivors began the slow, inexorable process of becoming Canadiennes.  From the late 1760s, Cormiers could be found in the upper St. Lawrence valley at St.-Ours and St.-Antoine-de-Chambly on the lower Richelieu; and at St.-Grégoire-de-Nicolet and Bécancour on the St. Lawrence across from Trois-Rivières.  None seem to have remained on the lower St. Lawrence, but they could be found at Cascapédia, now New Richmond, and Bonaventure, British-controlled fisheries in Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs.  They also settled on the îles-de-la-Madeleine in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.  In Nova Scotia, Cormiers could be found at Chédabouctou, now Guysborough; and at Chéticamp, Grand-Étang, and Margaree on the northwest coast of Cape Breton Island, formerly Île Royale.  Some of the Cape Breton Cormiers moved north to Newfoundland, where they settled on Baie St.-George.  In present-day New Brunswick, they settled at St.-Basile and Madawaska on the upper St. John River on the boundary between New Brunswick and Maine; at Caraquet on the south shore of the Baie des Chaleurs; at Barachois, Bouctouche, and St.-Antoine down the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore; at Cormierville overlooking Mer Rouge, now Northumberland Strait; and at Memramcook, not far from Chignecto, where members of the family had begun their odyssey in the fall of 1755.  Typical of most, if not all, Acadian families, these Acadiennes of Canada lost touch with their Cadien cousins hundreds of miles away, and until the Acadian reunions of the twentieth century, may even have forgotten the others existed.  

In Nova Scotia at war's end, Jean-Baptiste, fils and his cousins Joseph and Michel Cormier, now in their early 20s, lingered in the prison compound on Georges Island in Halifax harbor, no doubt wondering what had happened to the rest of their family.  Joseph, the oldest of the cousins, had married Marguerite, daughter of Jacques Saulnier and Anne Hébert of Petitcoudiac, in c1759 during exile.  Brother Michel and first cousin Jean-Baptiste, fils were still bachelors.  With the war over, the young Cormiers in Nova Scotia, along with hundreds of fellow refugees, faced a hard dilemma.  The Treaty of Paris of February 1763 stipulated in its Article IV that persons dispersed by the war had 18 months to return to their respective territories.  However, British authorities refused to allow any of the Acadians still in the region to return to their former lands as proprietors.  If Acadians chose to remain in, or return to, Nova Scotia, they could live only in small family groups in previously unsettled areas or work for low wages on former Acadian lands now owned by New-English "planters."  If they stayed, they must also take the hated oath of allegiance to the new British king, George III, without reservation.  They would also have to take the oath if they joined their cousins in Canada and in other parts of greater Acadia.  After all they had suffered on the question of the oath, few self-respecting Acadians would consent to take it if it could be avoided.  Some Nova Scotia exiles, including Cormiers, chose to relocate to Île Miquelon.  Others considered going to French St.-Domingue, where Acadian exiles in the British colonies, including Cormiers, were going, or to the Illinois country, the west bank of which still belonged to France, or to French Louisiana, which, thanks to British control of Canada, was the only route possible to the Illinois country for Acadian exiles.  Whatever their choice, many refused to remain under British rule.  So they gathered up their money and their few possessions and prepared to leave their homeland. 

One suspects that Jean-Baptiste Cormier, fils, through the Acadian grapevine, managed to communicate with his wayward parents, who he had not seen in nearly a decade.  In his final days at Halifax, Jean-Baptiste, fils likely knew that his parents and sisters, who had been deported to Georgia in the fall of 1755, had ended up in New York the following summer.  He may have learned that his family had left that colony at war's end and made their way down to Charles Town, South Carolina, by August 1763, that they returned to Georgia later that year, and, along with 14 other kinsmen, had left Savannah in late December for Mobile, which was thought to be a part of French Louisiana.  Jean-Baptiste, fils may even have learned that, after revalidating a marriage at Mobile, his family and their kinsmen had moved on to New Orleans, which they reached in February 1764.  His father may have told him that the caretaker government in Louisiana had treated them well and would welcome other Acadians to the colony.  This may have motivated the Broussards and their related families to lease a transport at Halifax in late 1764 and head south to Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, the gateway to French Louisiana.  Of the 600 exiles who left Halifax for Cap-Français in late 1764 and early 1765, six of them, including the three cousins, were Cormiers. 

Cormiers also were among the last Acadians to emigrate to Louisiana.  Jean Baptiste, son of Jean Cormier and Élisabeth Morel of Jean-Rabel, evidently was among the St.-Domingue French who fled to Cuba during the Haitian rebellion in late 1803; he would have been age 19 that year.  As a bachelor or a newlywed, he most likely came to New Orleans with the flood of refugees from Cuba a few years later.  Oddly, some Louisiana records call him Eugène-Baptiste.  His three sisters--Marie-Renée; Marie-Victoire, called Éloise; and Rose-Élisabeth, all of whom married at New Orleans and remained there--probably came with him from Cuba.  Jean-Baptiste did not remain in the city but settled near his Cormier cousins on the Opelousas prairies.  Nicolas, son of Amand Cormier and Anastasie LeBlanc of Môle St.-Nicolas, also joined his cousins at New Orleans in the early 1800s.  He married Marie Soltero perhaps in Cuba, or he may have married her at New Orleans soon after his arrival.  Nicolas's older brother Barthélemy, born at Môle St.-Nicolas, may have accompanied him to Louisiana

Cormiers were among the earliest settlers in French Acadia and among the first Acadians to settle in Louisiana.  Jean-Baptiste Cormier of Chignecto, wife Madeleine Richard, and their five daughters, arrived at New Orleans in February 1764 from Mobile with three other families from Chignecto.  The French caretaker government sent the early arrivals to Cabahannocer on the Mississippi, above the German Coast.  During the late winter and spring of 1765, Jean-Baptiste's son Jean-Baptiste, fils and two of père's nephews, Joseph and Michel, sons of older brother Pierre dit Palette of Chignecto, reached New Orleans from Halifax via Cap-Français with, or just after, the Broussards.  Jean-Baptiste, fils, the oldest of the three cousins, remained on the river with his parents, at least for a while.  He married at Cabahannocer, on what was being called the Acadian Coast, in c1768 and then joined his cousins on the western prairies, where he remarried.  Meanwhile, Joseph and Michel settled in the Opelousas District. 

All three cousins created family lines on the southwestern prairies.  Cormier settlement patterns in Louisiana soon mirrored that of their Acadian ancestors before Le Grand Dérangement.  After Jean-Baptiste, père died at Cabahannocer in the late 1770s, no Acadian Cormier male remained on the Acadian Coast.  Even a relative of the Cormier cousins, who came to Louisiana from Haiti via Cuba in the early 1800s, moved to the Opelousas prairies, not to a settlement closer to New Orleans.  So the Cormiers concentrated in the prairie districts west of the Atchafalaya Basin much as they had done at Chignecto in old Acadia.  By the early 1800s, most of them (the majority descendants of Michel) could be found in a wide arc touching on three civil parishes in over a half dozen prairie communities--at Carencro on the northern edge of the old Attakapas District; Grand Prairie, today's downtown Lafayette, south of Carencro; Anse La Butte on the upper Vermilion, east of Grand Prairie; Beaubassin on the upper Vermilion, east of Carencro; Grand Coteau, Prairie des Femmes, Prairie Bellevue, and Opelousas, north and east of Carencro; and Grande Pointe on upper Bayou Teche, east of Carencro.  Emulating their fellow Acadians, during the antebellum period, Cormiers moved westward and southward, deeper into the prairies and coastal marshes of South Louisiana. 

Judging by the number of slaves they held during the late antebellum period, some members of the family lived comfortably on their farms, vacheries, and plantations on the western prairies.  A Cormier owned 56 slaves on his St. Martin Parish plantation in 1850.  That same year, another Cormier's widow held 24 slaves in St. Martin Parish.  A decade later, a third Cormier owned 28 slaves in St. Martin Parish, while a distant Cormier cousin held 30 slaves on his plantation near Carencro in Lafayette Parish.  The great majority of the Cormiers who owned slaves, however, owned fewer than the 20 needed to "qualify" as planters, and most members of the family held no slaves at all, at least none who appear on the federal slave schedules of 1850 and 1860. 

During the War of 1861-65, Federal armies marched three times through the Teche and upper Vermilion valleys, including the Bayou Carencro area, and burned and pillaged many farms and plantations, some of them likely owned by Cormiers.  Thanks to these Federal incursions, emancipation came early to the area, with its resulting economic and social turmoil.  Confederate foraging parties and cutthroat Jayhawkers also plagued the area where Cormiers lived, adding to the family's misery.  Dozens of Cormiers served Louisiana in uniform during the war.  Most of them served honorably and returned to their loved ones after the fall of the Southern Confederacy, but not all of them returned.  The war took the lives of at least three Acadian Cormiers, at Vicksburg, Gettysburg, and along the Teche. ...

After the war, seeking new opportunities in a free-labor Southern economy, especially as part of the burgeoning Louisiana rice industry, Cormiers moved west from their traditional enclaves into the civil prairies of Evangeline, Acadia, Jefferson Davis, and Calcasieu, especially in and around the communities of Church Point, Rayne, Lyons Point, Mermentau, Lake Arthur, and Jennings.  Some moved south into Iberia, Vermilion, and Cameron parishes, especially around Abbeville, Maurice, Kaplan, and Creole.  The oil and natural gas industry that sprang up in the region during the early twentieth century lured more Cormiers deeper into the western prairies and across the Sabine into East Texas.  A few moved to the urban centers of Baton Rouge and New Orleans.  Later in the twentieth century, as a result of military service and job opportunities in a material economy that Cajuns inevitably embraced, Cormiers became part of a new Acadian diaspora and moved to every corner of the United States.  However, according to a recent study of Louisiana families with French and Spanish surnames, most Cormiers have remained where their immigrant ancestors settled, in St. Landry, St. Martin, and especially Lafayette Parish, the heart of Acadiana.

In Louisiana, the family's name also is spelled Colmier, Comier, Cormaie, Cormié, Cornié, Cornier.09  

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Cormiers reached New Orleans as early as February 1764.  They were, in fact, among the first documented Acadian exiles--21 in all, five of them Cormiers--to settle in Louisiana: 

Jean-Baptiste, père (1709-?) à Thomas à Robert Cormier

Jean-Baptiste, second son of Pierre dit Palette Cormier and Catherine LeBlanc, born at Chignecto in c1709, married Madeleine, daughter of Martin Richard and Marguerite Bourg, at Beaubassin in August 1733.  According to Bona Arsenault, Madeleine gave Jean-Baptiste a large family at Chignecto:  Jean-Baptiste, fils born in September 1734; an unnamed infant in September 1741; Madeleine probably in the early 1740s; Anne in November 1746; Marie probably in the late 1740s; Marguerite in c1749; and Anastasie in c1753--six children, five daughters and a son, between 1734 and 1753.  Jean-Baptiste and his family endured the petit dérangement at Chignecto in 1750.  In the fall of 1755, the British deported Jean-Baptiste, Madeleine, and their daughters, along with other Chignecto-area Acadians, to Georgia.  Somehow their only son, who would have been age 21, became separated from the rest of the family and made his way into exile in today's southeastern New Brunswick, where he likely lived with relatives.  The following spring, with permission from the Georgia and South Carolina governors, Jean-Baptiste, père, Madeleine, and their daughters evidently were among the exiles in the southern colonies who attempted to return to greater Acadia by open boat but got no farther than Long Island, New York, where, on the insistence of Nova Scotia's governor, Charles Lawrence, the New Yorkers held them for the rest of war.  At war's end, perhaps with related families from Chignecto and with their five daughters in tow, Jean-Baptiste, père and Madeleine headed back south, perhaps on their way to French St.-Domingue, the destination of hundreds of exiles in the seaboard colonies, including New York and South Carolina, lured there by the French.  Jean-Baptiste, père and his family appeared on a repatriation list at Charles Town, South Carolina, in August 1763, but they did not remain.  They returned to Georgia soon after the listing.  In December 1763, with three other related Chignecto families--Landrys, Poiriers, and Richards, 21 of them in all--they left Savannah not for St.-Domingue but for eastern Louisiana aboard the Savannah Packet.  They arrived at Mobile in January 1764.  Here they learned that the eastern part of Louisiana had been ceded to the British.  After blessing the marriage of one of the couples at the Mobile church, they moved on to New Orleans, still held by the French, which they reached in February.  The French caretaker government sent them to Côte de Cabahannocer on the river above the German Coast--among the first Acadian exiles to settle in the Mississippi valley colony.  Jean-Baptiste, père and Madeleine remained on the river, where they reunited with their son a year after their arrival.  Daughters Madeleine, Marie, Marie-Anne, Marguerite, and Anastasie married into the Lemire dit Mire, Poirier, Landry, Girouard, and Bourg families at Cabahannocer.  Two of them, Madeleine and Marguerite, followed their husbands to the western prairies and settled near their brother, who had married at Cabahannocer, but the other three daughters remained on the river. 

Only son Jean-Baptiste, fils, still unmarried at age 21, became separated from his family when the British deported them to Georgia in the fall of 1755.  He likely lived with relatives during exile on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore and in a prison compound in Nova Scotia during the early 1760s while, perhaps unknown to him, his parents and sisters lived in Georgia and New York.  He may have communicated with his family at war's end and learned that they had gone south to Louisiana.  In his early 30s, still unmarried, he reached New Orleans with the Broussards in February 1765 and either followed them to lower Bayou Teche that spring and then returned to the river to be with his family, or, more likely, he remained with his parents and sisters at Cabahannocer during the Broussard party's journey to Bayou Teche.  He was counted in Verret's Company of the Cabahannocer militia in April 1766.  Still in his early 30s, he married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Bourg and Marie Landry, probably at Cabahannocer in c1768; Marguerite was a sister of Jean-Baptiste, fils's sister Anastasie's husband.  Jean-Baptiste, fils and Marguerite's children, born at Cabahannocer, included Anastasie in c1768; Élisabeth or Isabelle, baptized, age unrecorded, in February 1772; Marie dite Manon baptized, age unrecorded, in September1773; and Jean-Baptiste III, called Mano and Baptiste, baptized, age unrecorded, in November 1775--four children, three daughters and a son, between 1769 and 1775.  In the late 1770s, perhaps after his wife died, Jean-Baptiste, fils crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to the Attakapas District, where, at age 45, he remarried to Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Antoine Blanchard and Élisabeth Thériot of Annapolis Royal and widow of Joseph dit Vieux Richard, in January 1779; the marriage was recorded by a priest from nearby Opelousas.  They settled on the upper Vermilion at Grand Prairie, near today's downtown Lafayette.  Anne evidently gave Jean-Baptiste, fils no more children.  As was his duty, he served in the Attakapas militia.  In 1779, in his mid-40s, he may have participated with his company in Spanish Governor Galvèz's attack against the British at Manchac and Baton Rouge.  Meanwhile, he did well at Attakapas.  In April 1781, he owned 56 animals on his four-arpent farm at Grand Prairie.  In April 1785, he owned a single slave.  By the 1790s, he had accumulated a sizable holding of 350 acres at Grand Prairie as well as 560 acres on the prairie west of Bayou Nezpique in a thinly-settled quarter of the Opelousas District.  The church records of South Louisiana do not contain a burial record for Jean-Baptiste, fils, but he was recorded as deceased in the marriage record of son Jean-Baptiste III in May 1796.  He would have been age 62 that year.  Daughters Anastasie, Isabelle, and Manon, by his first wife, married into the Mouton, Richard, and Savoie families on the prairies.  Jean-Baptiste, fils's son also married there. 

Only son Jean-Baptiste III, also called Jean-Baptiste dit Mano and Baptiste, from first wife Marguerite Bourg, followed his widowered father and sisters to Attakapas, where he married Marie-Apolline, called Apolline, Polone, or Pauline, daughter of fellow Acadians Claude Martin and Marie Babin of La Pointe on the middle Teche, in May 1796.  Mano's father-in-law Claude was a trustee of the Attakapas church, now St. Martin of Tours in St. Martinville.  Mano and Pauline settled at Anse La Butte on the upper Vermilion and at Grand Prairie.  Their children, born there, included Jean-Narcisse, called Narcisse and Narcisse dit Mano, in February 1797; Jean-Baptiste-Luc in August 1798 but died at age 6 in August 1804; Valéry or Valière born in August 1800; Marie in October 1802; twins Célestin and Célestine or Céleste in February 1805; and Adélaïde in February 1807--seven children, four sons and three daughters, including a set of twins, between 1797 and 1807.  Mano, "of this parish, native of Cabanosse on the River," died "at his home at La grand prairie" in July 1808.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial said that Jean Baptiste dit Mano was age 30 when he died.  He was closer to 33.  Daughters Marie and Céleste married into the Mouton, Breaux, and Dugas families.  Two of Mano's sons also married, but only one of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Jean Narcisse, called Narcisse and Narcisse dit Mano, married Céleste or Célestine, daughter of fellow Acadians Basile Chiasson and Marie Thibodeaux, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in April 1818.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Célestine Laure in May 1819; and Virginie posthumously in March 1821 but died at age 1 1/2 in September 1822.  Narcisse died at his home on Grand Prairie in February 1821, age 24, and was buried in the cemetery of the new church there, L'Église St.-Jean du Vermilion, now the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist in Lafayette.  His was one of the first interments there.  His succession was filed at Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in May 1825.  Remaining daughter Célestine Laure married into the Richard family.  Narcisse fathered no sons, so his line of the family, except for its blood, died with him. 

Jean Baptiste III's third son Valéry or Valière married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Hébert and Élisabeth Duhon, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in November 1825.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Valéry, fils baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 1 1/2 months, in October 1826; Belzire born in 1828 and baptized, age 5 1/2 months, in January 1829; Elvire born in November 1829; Jean Baptiste le jeune baptized at age 21 days in August 1831 but died at age 4 (the recording priest said 6) in August 1835; Élodie born in January 1833; Joseph Alexandre, called Alexandre, in December 1835 but died at age 7 1/2 in September 1843; Marie Valléry or Valie baptized at age 6 months in October 1834; Odèïde baptized at age 2 months in June 1837; Émile, also called Émile Thelesmar, born in September 1839; Louis Adolphe, called Adolphe, in May 1841; Marie Coralie in January 1843; Philippe, also called  Philippe Theseus, in December 1847; Henry Arctave in August 1850; and Marie Nezida May 1854--14 children, seven sons and seven daughters, between 1826 and 1854.  Daughters Marie Valie, ... married into the Bouchez, Janet, and Monnier families by 1870.  Two of Valéry's sons slso married by then and settled in Lafayette and St. Landry parishes.  Two of his other sons served as officers in the Virginia theatre of operations during the War of 1861-65, and one of them died in Confederate service before he could marry. 

Oldest son Valéry, fils married Martha Louisa or Louise, daughter of John and Elizabeth Montgomery, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in November 1860.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Marthe Lilia in St. Landry Parish in August 1861; Joseph Ernest in February 1863; Louis Adolphe le jeune, named after his war-hero uncle, in Lafayette Parish in November 1864 but, called Adolphe, died at age 1 in November 1865; ...  During the war, Valéry, fils served in two units--Company D of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Mary Parish, in which he probably was a conscript; and Company K of the 2nd Regiment Louisiana Reserve Corps, raised in Lafayette Parish, which fought against area Jayhawkers.  He survived the war and returned to his family. 

During the war, Valéry, père's fourth son Émile Thelesmar served as a lieutenant in Company C of the 6th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Landry Parish, which fought in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania--one of General R. E. Lee's Louisiana Tigers.  Émile Thelesmar survived the war and returned to his family, but he did not marry.  

Valéry, père's fifth son Louis Adolphe also served as an officer in Company C of the 6th Louisiana Infantry.  From first sergeant of his company, he rose in rank to captain and company commander.  Unlike his older brothers, however, Louis Adolphe did not survive the war.  Mortally wounded in action at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on 2 July 1863, he died the following day surrounded by his comrades and some local ladies, and was buried on the Widow Wibles's farm north of Gettysburg, near the "back of the barn" in which he died, age 22.  In 1872, his remains were retrieved along with those of hundreds of other Confederate dead in the Gettysburg area and re-interred at Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia, where collateral descendants have erected a UCV stone in his honor.

Valéry, père's seventh and youngest son Henry Arctave was too young to serve in the war.  He married Mary Fanny Monnier in June 1870, probably in St. Landry Parish. ...

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Two Cormier brothers came to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français in the spring of 1765 and, perhaps after following the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche, settled up bayou in the Opelousas District.  Two robust family lines came of it.  The younger brother's line was especially prolific.  The great majority of the Cormiers of South Louisiana, in fact, descend from that brother and his five sons:

Joseph (c1740-1795) à Pierre à Thomas à Robert Cormier

Joseph, fifth son of Pierre à Palette Cormier and Cécile Thibodeau of Chignecto, born probably at Ouescoque, Chignecto, in c1740, endured the petit dérangement at Chignecto in 1750, escaped the British roundup in the Chignecto area in the fall of 1755 but, with younger brother Michel, became separated from his widowed mother and other siblings in the chaos of dispersal.  Joseph and his brother may have attached themselves to the Beausoleil Broussards' extended family; they were kin to the Broussards through their Thibodeau mother.  Moreover, still in their teens, the boys may have participated with the Broussards in the Acadian resistance in greater Acadia.  During exile, perhaps in c1759, Joseph married Marguerite, daughter of Jacques Saulnier and Anne Hébert of Petitcoudiac.  Soon after their marriage, perhaps with the Broussards, they either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the Gulf of St. Lawrence region and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Marguerite gave Joseph a daughter, Susanne, born in c1762.  They may have had another child, born before August 1763, when Joseph, his wife, and three "children," one of them likely his 22-year-old brother Michel, appeared on a French repatriation list at Halifax.  In late 1764, Joseph, Marguerite, their daughter Susanne, and younger brother Michel followed the Broussards to Louisiana via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, and reached New Orleans by the spring of 1765.  Marguerite was pregnant on the voyage and gave birth to twin daughters Félicité and Marie-Louise soon after their arrival.  If Joseph and his family followed the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche in the spring of 1765, they did not remain.  By the spring of 1766, Joseph and Marguerite had moved up bayou to Bellevue Prairie at the southeastern edge of the Opelousas District, where they remained.  Marguerite gave him no more children there.  Joseph remarried to Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Michel and Jeanne Breau and widow of Michel Brun and Victor Comeau, at Attakapas in April 1771 but remained at Prairie Bellevue.  Their children, born there, included Anaclet in March 1772; Clémence in c1773; and Joseph, fils in c1776--at least six children, four daughters and two sons, by two wives, including a set of twins, from the early 1760s to 1776, in greater Acadia and Louisiana.  In March 1768, Joseph, along with brother Michel, was among the 11 signers of a petition addressed to Spanish Governor Ulloa requesting assistance in the form of oxen and plows to help them grow wheat in the Opelousas District.  In April, the volatile governor, now angry with all Acadians in the colony, rejected the petition.  Joseph became a cattleman instead.  In 1771, the year of his second marriage, he owned 15 head of cattle at Bellevue.  Three years later, in October 1774, he owned 78 head of cattle, 15 horses and mules, and 15 pigs.  By May 1777, he owned 150 head of cattle, 15 horses, and 20 pigs.  His fortunes increased dramatically in the 1780s.  In 1788, on his 30-arpent vacherie on Bellevue Prairie and on land he owned along Bayou Plaquemine Brûlé near present-day Church Point, Joseph ran 697 head of cattle and owned 60 horses, one of the largest herds in the district.  He also held four slaves.  The year before, he was among the prominent cattle ranchers of the Opelousas District who "renewed demands that stray cattle 'in the woods and prairies of Plaquemines Brulées' be destroyed by firearms, because a few cattle from their own pens tended to join the strays during each winter pasturage."  Meanwhile, in January 1774, Joseph was one of seven residents who urged Opelousas District commandant Gabriel Fuselier de la Claire to construct a church for the district, which was done in 1776.  As was his duty, Joseph served in the Opelousas company of militia.  In 1776, he was a fusileer, described on the militia roll as five feet, three inches tall, an inch shorter than brother Michel.  Three years later, in their late 30s, Joseph and Michel may have participated with their company in Spanish Governor Gálvez's attack against the British at Manchac and Baton Rouge.  Joseph died at Opelousas in August 1795, age 55.  Daughters Susanne, Félicité, Marie-Louise, and Clémence, by both wives, married into the Granger, Thibodeaux, Babineaux, and Arceneaux families.  Joseph's sons also married.  One of their lines died out early, and that of the other son also came close to dying out.  As a result, few Cormiers in South Louisiana descend from Joseph and his second wife Anne Michel, who died probably near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in June 1818, age 85, and outlived both of her Cormier sons.  Joseph's descendants remained at the southeastern edge of the old Opelousas District, around Grand Coteau and Arnaudville in St. Landry Parish, and at Carencro in Lafayette Parish. 

Older son Anaclet, by second wife Anne Michel, married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Victor Richard and Marie Brasseur, at Opelousas in July 1793.  They settled in the southeastern section of what became St. Landry Parish, near Grand Coteau.  Their children, born there, included Élise in August 1794 but died "as a child" in February 1799; Céleste or Célestine born in December 1796; Paul, also called Hippolyte, baptized, age unrecorded, in November 1800; Julie born in the early 1800s; Élisée, a son, baptized at age 8 months in November 1804; a daughter, name unrecorded, died 4 days after her birth in late January 1806; Philadelphe born in October 1807; and Cidalise born in October 1810--eight children, six daughters and two sons, between 1794 and 1810.  Anaclet died in St. Landry Parish in c1810, age 38.  His succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in January 1811 and his estate record filed there the following August.  Judging by the number of times he appeared in church records as a witness to a marriage or as godfather to a neighbor's child, Anaclet must have been a respected member of his community.  Daughters Célestine, Julie, and Cidalise married into the Patin, Guilbeau, and Melançon families, one of them, Cidalise, twice, and two of them, Célestine and Cidalise, to Patins.  Anaclet's sons also married, but not all of the lines endured. 

Older son Paul dit Hippolyte married, at age 20, cousin Adélaïde Mathurin, 17-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Richard and Isabelle Cormier, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in January 1820; Adélaïde's mother was a daughter of grandfather Joseph's first cousin, Jean Baptiste Cormier, fils.  Hippolyte and Adélaïde's children, born near Grand Coteau, included Hippolyte, fils, also called Hippolyte Valsin and Valsin Hippolyte, in c1822 and baptized at the Grand Coteau church, age 1, in April 1823; Adélaïde Irma born in December 1823; Célenie or Célanie in October 1825; and Hypolina posthumously in March 1828 but died at age 4 1/2 in August 1832--four children, a son and three daughters, between 1822 and 1828.  Hippolyte died near Grand Coteau in November 1827, age 27 (the recording priest said "age about 28").  His succession, calling him Hypolite and naming his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in October 1829, so he must have owned property in Lafayette Parish.  Daughters Adélaïde and Célanie married into the Guidry and Broussard families.  Hippolyte's son also married. 

Only son Hippolyte, fils, also called Hippolyte Valsin and Valsin Hippolyte, married Marcellite, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Guidry and Marie Bernard, at the Grand Coteau church in November 1846; the Grand Coteau priest and the St. Landry Parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Marie Élodie, called Élodie, in January 1848; Marie Estelle in January 1850 but, called Estelle, died at age 14 1/2 in September 1864; and Hippolyte III born in April 1852--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1848 and 1852.  In November 1850, the federal census taker in St. Landry Parish counted five slaves--three males and two females, all black, ranging in age from 35 to 2--on Hippolyte Cormier's farm.  Hippolyte, fils, called Valsin Hypolite by the recording priest, died near Grand Coteau in September 1851, age 30.  His succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in January 1855.  Daughter Élodie married into the Bergeron family by 1870.  Hippolyte, fils's son did not marry by then. 

Anaclet's younger son Élisée, at age 18, married Marie Christine or Célestine, called Christine, daughter of William Johnson of Copenhagen, Denmark, and Thérèse Ritter, at the Grand Coteau church  in January 1822.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Marie Célestine, called Célestine, in November 1822; Zéphirin in February 1825; Émilia in May 1827; Élisée, fils in January 1829 but died at age 2 1/2 in September 1831; Aurelia born in February 1831; Marie Anaïse, called Anaïse, in February 1833; Olive or Oliva in March 1835; Ladoiska in September 1838; Mary Magdalen in August 1840; and Joseph Numa in February 1843--10 children, six daughters and four sons, between 1822 and 1843.  Élisée, at age 46, remarried to Marguerite Hedwige, 50-year-old daughter of French Creoles Pierre Bergeron and Eulalie Saizan and widow of André J. Chautin, at the Grand Coteau church in August 1850.  She gave him no more children.  In November 1850, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted five slaves--three males and two females, all black, ranging in age from 45 to 18--on Élisée Cormier's farm.  Élisée died near Grand Coteau in January 1879, age 75.  Evidently his marriage to non-Acadians began a marked trend towards exogamy in this family line:  Daughters Célestine, Émilia, Anaïse, Aurelia, Oliva, and Ladoiska, by his first wife, married into the Lanclos, Lalonde, Rivet, Badeaux, Burleigh, and Patin families by 1870, one of them, Célestine, twice, and two of them, Célestine and Ladoiska, to Lancloss.  One of Élisée's sons also married by then and continued the family's propensity to marry non-Acadians.  However, despite three marriages, the line, except for its blood, did not endure. 

Oldest son Zéphirin, by first wife Christine Johnson, married, at age 23, Marie Azéline, called Azéline, daughter of French Creoles Alexandre Lanclos and Azéline Bergeron, at the Opelousas church in October 1848.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Marie Celimène, called Celimène, in July 1849 but, called Selimen, died at age 4 in September 1853; Anaclet le jeune born in November 1850 but died at age 10 1/2 (the recording priest said 11) in September 1861; and Marie Sélima born in November 1853 but died before September 1860, when she was not counted with her parents and brother in the federal census for St. Landry Parish--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1849 and 1853.  Zéphirin remarried to Marguerite, also called Marie Edvine or Edvise, Chautin, widow of Placide Marks, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in October 1855.  She evidently gave him no more children.  Zéphirin, at age 34, remarried again--his third marriage--to 15-year-old Marie Sidonise, called Sidonise, Bergeron, a French Creole like his first wife's mother, not a fellow Acadian, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in August 1859; they sanctified the marriage at the Arnaudville church, St. Landry Parish, in March 1888.  Daughter Marie Émelie or Émelise, called Émelise, was born near Arnaudville in November 1860--four children, three daughters and a son, by two of his three wives, between 1849 and 1860.  Despite his age--he was 36 when war broke out--Zéphirin served briefly in the Grivot Rangers Company Louisiana Partisan Cavalry, raised in St. Landry Parish, which fought in southeastern Louisiana.  Youngest daughter Émelise, by his third wife, married into the Dupuis family after 1870.  Zéphirin's son, along with his two daughters by his first wife, did not survive childhood, so only the blood of this family line may have endured. 

Joseph's younger son Joseph, fils, by second wife Anne Michel, married fellow Acadian Marie Thibodeaux probably at Attakapas in the late 1780s or early 1790s.  Their son Placide was born there in April 1792.  Joseph, fils remarried to Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Guilbeau and his second wife Marguerite Bourg, at Attakapas in October 1794.  They settled near Carencro.  Their daughter Marguerite Carmesile was born posthumously in October 1811.  Joseph, fils died probably at his home near Carencro in August 1811, age 34.  His successions were filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in November 1813 and at the Opelousas courthouse in February 1824, so he evidently owned property in both parishes.  Daughter Marguerite Carmesile, by his second wife, married into the Robichaux family.  Joseph, fils's only son Placide, if he survived childhood, did not marry, so this line of the family, except for its blood, did not endure in the Bayou State. 

Michel (1741-1790) à Pierre à Thomas à Robert Cormier

Michel, sixth son of Pierre à Palette Cormier and Cécile Thibodeau of Chignecto, born probably at Ouescoque, Chignecto, in January 1741, endured the petit dérangement at Chignecto in 1750, escaped the British roundup in the fall of 1755 but, with older brother Joseph, became separated from his widowed mother and other siblings in the chaos of dispersal.  Michel and his brother may have become part of the Beausoleil Broussards' extended family and may even have participated with them in the Acadian resistance in greater Acadia.  In the late 1750s or early 1760s, perhaps with the Broussards, Michel and his brother either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the Gulf of St. Lawrence area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  In August 1763, Joseph, his wife, and three "children" appeared on a French repatriation list at Halifax.  One suspects that one of Joseph's "children" was his bachelor brother Michel, now age 22.  In late 1764, Michel followed his brother, his sister-in-law, their daughter, and the Broussards to Louisiana via Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, and reached New Orleans by the spring of 1765.  If he and his brother followed the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche that spring, they did not remain.  By the spring of 1766, the brothers had moved up bayou to Bellevue Prairie at the southeastern edge of the Opelousas District.  Michel, in his late 20s, married Anne dite Nanette, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Saulnier and Anne Hébert of Petitcoudiac and widow of Basil Babin, at Opelousas in c1769; Nanette was Michel's sister-in-law Marguerite's sister.  Michel and Nanette settled at Prairie des Femmes south of the Opelousas post, not far from brother Joseph and sister Marguerite at Bellevue.  Michel and Nanette's children, born at Prairie des Femmes, included Amand in October 1770; and Michel, fils, called Pierre-Michel, in September 1772.  Anne dite Nanette died by January 1773, when her succession, naming her current husband and listing two of her four children by both of her husbands, was filed at Opelousas Post.  Michel remarried to Catherine, daughter of retired Swiss/German mercenary Johann George Stahlin, later Stelly, of Albershausen, Württemberg, southern Germany, and his German-Creole wife Christine Edelmayer of St.-Charles des Allemands on the lower German Coast, at Opelousas in c1774.  Michel and Catherine's children, born at Prairie des Femmes, included Pierre in September 1776; Louis baptized, age unrecorded, in June 1779; Marie-Victoire, called Victoire, baptized, age 6 weeks, in September 1780; and François baptized, age 8 1/2 months, in August 1783--six children, five sons and a daughter, by two wives, between 1770 and 1783.  Michel remarried again--his third marriage--to Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Breau and Claire Trahan and widow of Étienne Benoit, at Attakapas in February 1789.  She gave him no more children.  Like brother Joseph and their Acadian ancestors, Michel did not move from his original homestead in the Opelousas District.  In March 1768, he and brother Joseph were among the 11 signers of a petition addressed to Spanish Governor Ulloa requesting assistance in the form of oxen and plows to help them grow wheat in the district.  The governor rejected the petition.  After the revolt against Ulloa in the fall of 1768, in which Michel and his Opelousas comrades probably did not participate, he signed with his mark an unconditional oath of allegiance to Spain in December 1769.  In the years that followed, Michel, like his brother, became a cattleman, not a wheat farmer.  In August 1771, Spanish Governor Unzaga granted Michel 253.04 arpents of land, to be occupied and cultivated, on Bayou Bourbeaux between present-day Leonville and Arnaudville in southeastern St. Landry Parish.  Michel's house at Prairie des Femmes on Bayou Bourbeau, "built prior to 1773 ... on ground level with 'poteaux-en-terre, ... had bousillage walls, and a dirt floor, and a gallery or porch surrounding the house."  In 1771, the year he received his land grant, Michel owned 28 head of cattle at Prairie des Femmes.  Three years later, he owned 20 head of cattle, six horses and mules, and 16 pigs.  In May 1777, he owned 50 head of cattle, 16 horses, and 16 pigs.  Like his brother, his fortunes increased dramatically in the 1780s.  In 1788, on his vacherie at Prairie des Femmes, Michel owned a herd of 130 cattle and 15 horses.  He also owned seven slaves.  Meanwhile, as was his duty, he served in the Opelousas company of militia.  He was a fusileer in 1776, described on the militia roll as five feet, four inches tall, an inch taller than his brother Joseph.  In the summer of 1779, he and brother Joseph may have participated with their company in Spanish Governor Gálvez's attack against the British at Manchac and Baton Rouge.  Michel died at his home at Prairie des Femmes in December 1790, age 49, without benefit of sacraments.  According to family tradition, he was buried in what became the old yellow fever cemetery at present-day Washington on Bayou Courtableau in northeastern St. Landry Parish.  His successions were filed at Opelousas in July 1791 and June 1799.  Daughter Victoire, by his second wife, married into the Royer and Sutter families.  Michel's five sons also married and created vigorous lines on the southwest prairies.  Michel's descendants drifted south into what became Lafayette Parish, clustering around Carencro and Côte Gelée.  After the War of 1861-65, some of them moved even farther south, into Iberia, Vermilion, and Cameron parishes, or westward to the prairies of Acadia Parish.  An eastern contingent of Michel's descendants settled on upper Bayou Teche in St. Martin Parish.  After the war, like their Lafayette cousins, some of them moved westward, to the Vermilion and Calcasieu prairies, far from their Bayou Teche birthplaces.  The great majority of the Cormiers of South Louisiana are descended from Michel of Prairie des Femmes, his sons, and grandsons. 

Oldest son Amand, by first wife Nanette Sonnier, married Marie-Angèlle, called Angèlle, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Benoit and Madeleine Breaux of Carencro, at Opelousas in October 1790.  Angèlle's mother was Amand's father's third wife, so Amand married his stepsister.  They settled at Grande Pointe on upper Bayou Teche before moving west to Carencro.  Angèlle gave Amand a son, Raphaël, born on Bayou Teche in December 1792.  Amand died probably at Carencro in c1795, age 25.  His son was tutored by Amand's brother Michel, fils of Grande Pointe until the boy came of age. 

Only son Raphaël married Marie Carmélite, called Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Melançon and Rose Doiron, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in June 1811.  The settled at Grande Pointe on the upper Teche.  Their children, born there, included Amand Colin or Colin Amand in May 1812; Paulin in February 1814 but died at age 3 months the following May; Jean, also called Jean Valmont and Valmont, born in May 1815 but died at age 5 in October 1820; Pierre Philogène born in February 1818 but died at age 14 in September 1832; Joseph Théogène born in March 1820 but died at age 4 in November 1824; Marie Uranie born in March 1824; Siméon Valsin, also called Pierre Valsin, died at age 6 months in July 1828; Alphred or Alfred born in November 1832; and Eve Émelie or Amélie, called Amélie, in November 1837--nine children, seven sons and two daughters, between 1812 and 1837.  Raphaël's succession, naming his wife, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in January 1844.  He would have been age 51 that year.  In November 1850, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted five slaves--two males and three females, all black, ranging in age from 50 to 3--on the Widow Raphaël Cormier's farm; these were Carmélite Melançon's slaves.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted eight slaves--two males and six females, seven blacks and one mulatto, ages 60 to 1--on the Widow Raphaël Cormier's farm.  Daughters Marie Uranie and Eve Amélie married into the Melançon and Castille families.  Raphaël's surviving sons also married. 

Oldest son Amand Colin or Colin Amand married Euphémie, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Guilbeau and Céleste Poirier, at the St. Martinville church in August 1833.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Joseph Philogène in February 1835; Alexandre in May 1837; Paulin in April 1839; Aristide in September 1841; Philomène in December 1843; and Raphaël le jeune in August 1846--six children, five sons and a daughter, between 1835 and 1846.  In November 1850, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted 56 slaves--30 males and 26 females, all black except for three mulattoes, ranging in age from 75 to 1--on Colin Amand Cormier's plantation.  In the same year, the federal census taker in Calcasieu Parish counted two more slaves--both black and both female, ages 40 and 18--on Colin Cormier's farm, so he must have owned land in that parish, too.  Colin Amand died in St. Martin Parish in September 1855, age 43.  One wonders what happened to his many slaves after his death.  (One also wonders who was the Colin Cormier who died "in Park," today's The Parks, near Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, in March 1861, age 60.  The Plaquemine priest who recorded the burial did not give any parents' names or mention a wife.)  Daughter Philomène married into the Huval family by 1870.  Three of Colin Amand's sons also married by then, and two of them settled on the Calcasieu prairies. 

During the War of 1861-65, third son Paulin served in Company D of the Orleans Guard Battalion Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Martin Parish, which fought at Shiloh, Tennessee, in April 1862.  He survived the war and returned to his family.  Paulin married Marie Eusèïde or Zoïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Auguste Benoit and his second wife Marie Eusèïde Guidry, at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in August 1865.  They settled near Lake Arthur, once called Little Lake, in Calcasieu Parish.  Their children, born there, included Alexandre in April 1866; Léonie in January 1873; Paul Adonis, called Adonis, in January 1875; Joseph Artellus in April 1881; Joseph Philoges in May 1885.  Paulin's daughter married into the Gary family.  

Colin Amand's fourth son Aristide married Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Marin Blanchard and Annette Broussard, at the Breaux Bridge church, St. Landry Parish, in December 1863.  Their children, born near Breaux Bridge, included Ursule in October 1864; Adalisca, also called Adonea, in c1866; Agarma or Aduiska in c1868; Eve in c1870; Olive in c1872; Cléonise in c1876; Léonin in January 1877; René in c1879.  Aristide remarried to fellow Acadian Julie Broussard in a civil ceremony in Vermilion Parish in November 1889.  They also settled in the northwest corner of Vermilion Parish near Lake Arthur.  Aristide's succession was filed at the Abbeville courthouse in October 1893.  He would have been age 52 that year.  Daughters ..., by his first wife, married into the Babineaux, Benoit, Dufton, and Huval families. 

Colin Amand's fifth and youngest son Raphaël le jeune may have married Thersile Benoit, probably a fellow Acadian, and settled near Abbeville by the late 1860s. ...

Raphaël's seventh and youngest son Alfred married Florentine or Laurentine, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Babineaux and Céleste Richard, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish in April 1853.  They settled near Breaux Bridge.  Their children, born there, included Alfred Jean in c1858 but died at age 2  in August 1860; Marie Alice born in March 1860; Robert in November 1861; Marie in July 1865; Joseph Ducoudret in February 1867; Alfred, fils or Albert in April 1874; Clebert in February 1876; Engelbert or Angelbert in c1877.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted a single slave--an 18-year-old black male--on Alfred Cormier's farm.  During the war, Alfred was conscripted into Confederate service from St. Martin Parish but may not have served in an organized unit.  Long after the war, at age 57, he remarried to fellow Acadian Cydalise Benoit at the Carencro church in November 1889.  He died near Carencro in April 1896.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Alfred was age 66 when he died.  He was 63.  Daughters ... married into the Comeaux, Guilbeau, and Guidry families.  None of Alfred's sons married by 1870. 

Michel's second son Michel, fils, called Pierre-Michel, from first wife Nanette Sonnier, appeared on the list of the Opelousas Company of Militia as a fusileer in July 1789, age 16 1/2, unless this was his father, who would have been age 48, a bit long in the tooth even for the Louisiana militia (Michel, père, in fact, died a year and a half after the militia tally).  At age 20, Michel, fils married Ludivine dite Divine, 23-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Guilbeau and his first wife Anne Trahan, at Attakapas in January 1793.  Like older brother Amand, Michel, fils settled at Grande Pointe on the upper Teche.  Unlike his older brother Amand, Michel, fils remained there.  His and Ludivine's children, born at Grande Pointe, included Marie-Victoire in the early 1790s; Susanne in August 1795; Marguerite-Dionise or -Denise in September 1796; Michel-Onésime, also called Michel III, in March 1799; Louis le jeune in October 1800 but died the following February; twins Hervillien-Amand, also called Amand le jeune, and Joseph-Deterville born in December 1801; Nicolas in September 1804; Ludivine in December 1806; Marcellite in May 1808; Éloi in September 1810; and a daughter, name unrecorded, died at birth in November 1814.  Wife Ludivine died at Grande Pointe in January 1815, age 45, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth.  At age 43, Michel, fils remarried to Agnès, 32-year-old daughter of Canadian Jean-Baptiste Rodrigues and his Creole wife Marie Josèphe Baudoin and widow of Adam Webre of St. John the Baptist Parish on the upper German Coast, in St. John the Baptist Parish in June 1816.  Their children, born at Grande Pointe, included Claire in September 1818 but died at age 1 in August 1819; and Adélaide born in September 1820--14 children, eight daughters and six sons, by two wives, between 1795 and 1820.  Michel, fils was affluent enough to hire a live-in tutor for his children and his nieces and nephew.  The tutor, Charles de Dernay Plassard of Brest, France, died at Michel, fils's home at Grande Pointe in March 1817.  Michel, fils died probably at his home on Bayou Teche in August 1833.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial called him Michel of Opelousas and said he was age 65 when he died.  He was a month shy of 61.  His succession, naming his wives and children--Michel, Aman, Nicholas, Eloy, Victoire and her husband, Denyse and her husband, Divine and her husband, Marcelite and her husband, Susanne and her husband, and Joseph (deceased) by his first wife, and Adélaïde by his second wife--was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse a few days after his death, so he must have owned property in Lafayette Parish as well as St. Martin.  In November 1850, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted 24 slaves--11 males and 13 females, all black, ranging in age from 85 to infancy--on Widow Michel Cormier's plantation; this was Michel, fils's second wife, Agnès Rodrigues's, slaves.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted 20 slaves--six males and 14 females, all black, ages 78 to 2, living in six houses--on Widow M. Cormier's plantation.  Agnès died in St. Martin Parish in November 1871, age 94.  Daughters Marie Victoire, Susanne, Marguerite Denise, Ludivine, Marcellite, and Adélaïde, by both wives, married into the Bertrand, Ledoux, Allegre, and Gauthier families, and perhaps into the Guidry family as well, two of them to Ledoux brothers from the river.  Four of Michel, fils's sons also married. 

Oldest son Michel Onésime, also called Michel III, from first wife Ludivine Guilbeau, married Céleste or Silesie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Dupuis and Rosalie Monique Thériot of St. James Parish but residents of Grande Pointe, at the St. Martinville church in July 1816.  They settled at La Pointe on the upper Teche.  Their children, born there, included a daughter, age unrecorded, died in December 1817; Michel Treville, called Treville, born in November 1818; Céleste Émelina or Amelina in May 1820; Élisa in March 1822; Marie Azélie in August 1824; Marie Uranie, called Uranie, in May 1826; Madeleine Ordalie in November 1827; Sosthènes or Sosthène in October 1829 but died at age 5 (the recording priest said 6 years and 3 months) in December 1834; Marie Elmire, called Elmire, born in April 1831 but died at age 5 1/2 in September 1836; Amélie born in November 1833 but, called Émilie, may have died in St. Martin Parish, age 19, in October 1853; Marie Aminthe born in January 1838 but, called Marie Amante, died at age 5 1/2 in November 1843; Sylvain born in the 1830s but died in December 1855, age unrecorded (his succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse the following February); Euzèïde born in the late 1830s or 1840s; Cesar or Césaire in August 1840; and Corine near Breaux Bridge in January 1848--15 children, 11 daughters and four sons, between 1817 and 1848.  Michel Onésime, called Michel, died at his home on upper Bayou Teche in November 1853.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Michel, fils, as he called him, died "at age 60 yrs."  He was 54.  His succession, naming his wife, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in December 1854.  Daughters Céleste Amelina, Élisa, Madeleine Ordalie, Marie Azélie, Uranie, Amélie, and Euzèïde married into the Boudreaux, Barras, Thibodeaux, Thériot, Babineaux, Melançon, Préjean, and Wiltz families.  Michel Onésime's remaining sons also married. 

Oldest son Michel Treville, called Treville, married Marie Azéma or Azéna, also called Zéna, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Melançon and Marie Savoie, at the St. Martinville church in November 1838.  Their children, born on the prairies and the upper Teche, included Ernest, also called Michel Ernest, in late 1839 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 7 months, in April 1840; Céleste born in August 1841; Marie in August 1843; Marie Léonie in September 1845; Emma, also called Aima, baptized at the Breaux Bridge church, age 2 months [perhaps years], in April 1848; Joséphine Adolphine born in March 1850[sic, perhaps 1849]; and Camille Omer, called Omer and Homère, in the summer of 1850--seven children, two sons and five daughters, between 1839 and 1850.  Michel Treville died in St. Martin Parish in December 1850, "at age 31 or 33 yrs." (he was 32), a month after he was counted in the 1850 federal census as a 31-year-old laborer with wife Marie, age 27, four Cormier children, two sons and two daughters--Erneste, age 10; Céleste, age 8; Aima, age 4; and Homère, age 4 months--and four other dependents--two Melançons, Marie's younger brothers Dolzé, age 22; and Alfred, age 15--and two immigrants from France, A. Delisis, age 65; and Louis Delisis, age 16.  Treville's succession, calling his wife Zéna, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in January 1851.  Daughters Céleste and Emma married into the Periou and Barras families by 1870.  One of Treville's sons also married by then. 

Older son Ernest married Marguerite Alzima or Alzina, daughter of Clairville Lasseigne and Joséphine Allegre, at the St. Martinville church in June 1859.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Gabriel in November 1860 but may have died near Breaux Bridge at age 19 in October 1879; and Joseph Ernest, called Ernest, born in February 1863.  Ernest, père's succession, calling him Michel, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in March 1864.  He would have been age 24 that year.  If his succession was post-mortem, one wonders if his death was war-related.

Michel Onésime's fourth and youngest son Césaire married Séverine, daughter of Émile Castille and his Acadian wife Marie Adélaïde Thibodeaux, at the Breaux Bridge church in January 1861.  Their children, born near Breaux Bridge, included Adélaïde in October 1861; Simon, also called Sylvain Simon, in October 1862; Joseph Adela or Adélard, called Adélard and Joseph D., in April 1866; Crejin or Crepin baptized, age unrecorded, in December 1869; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Césaire served in Company A of the Yellow Jackets Battalion Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Martin Parish, which fought in Louisiana.  As the births of his younger children attest, he survived the war and returned to this family. 

Michel, fils's third son Joseph Deterville, a twin, by first wife Ludivine Guilbeau, married Aimée Scholastique, called Scholastique, daughter of Adam Webre and Agnès Rodrigues of St. John the Baptist Parish, at the St. Martinville church in December 1822; Aimée was Joseph Deterville's stepsister.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Joseph Émile, called Émile, in January 1824; and Marie Elmire, called Elmire, in June 1826.  Joseph Deterville died at Grande Pointe in August 1827, age 26.  His succession, naming his widow and their children, Elmire and Émile, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in January 1829.  Daughter Marie Elmire married a Guilbeau cousin.  Joseph Deterville's son also married. 

Only son Joseph Émile, called Émile, married Julie, daughter of fellow Acadians Sylvestre Broussard and Marie Aspasie Babineaux, at the St. Martinville church in February 1843.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Joseph Arthur, called Arthur, in September 1847; Célestine in June 1849; and Sylvain Numa, called Numa, in July 1851.  In November 1850, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted four slaves--an 18-year-old male and three 16-year-old females, all black--on Émile Cormier's farm.  Wife Julie's succession, calling him Émile, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in January 1854.  Émile remarried to Léontine, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Babin and Marie Therzile Thibodeaux, at the St. Martinville church in February 1857.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Marie in April 1858; Marie Sidonie in December 1859; Louise Berthe in July 1864; ...  In June 1860, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted 13 slaves--seven males and six females, all black, ages 60 to 2, living in three houses--on Émile Cormier's farm.  Émile, at age 44, remarried again--his third marriage--to cousin Alzire, daughter of Joseph Allegre and his Acadian wife Marguerite Denise Cormier, at the St. Martinville church in October 1868. ...  Daughters ..., by his second and third wives, married into the Babin, Hébert, and Thibodeaux families by 1870.  None of Émile's sons married by then. 

Michel, fils's fourth son Hervillien Amand, also called Amand le jeune, Joseph Deterville's twin, by first wife Ludivine Guilbeau, married, at age 33, Marie Cephalie, Cephalide, or Cophalite, daughter of Furcy Hollier and Juliette Collins, at the St. Martinville church in April 1838, but they have been married civilly for several years.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Amand, fils in March 1836; Joseph Cléopha, called Cléopha, in September 1837; Émilie in November 1839; Rosémond in September 1841; Julie in June 1843; Louis Homère in August 1845; Léontine in September 1848; and Adelina in March 1850--eight children, four sons and four daughters, between 1836 and 1850.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted five slaves--two males and three females, three blacks and two mulattoes, ranging in age from 38 to 3--on Amand Cormier's farm.  Amand le jeune, called Hervilien, died near Breaux Bridge in October 1879.  The priest who recorded the burial said that "Hervilien" was age 79 when he died.  He was 77.  Daughters ... married into the Broussard, Lasseigne, and Periaux families by 1870.  Two of Hervillien Amand's sons also married by then. 

Second son Joseph Cléopha, called Cléopha, married Palestine, 18-year-old daughter of Alexandre Beslin and Delphine Leleux, at the St. Martinville church in April 1857.  Daughter Marie Delphine Palestine was born in St. Martin Parish in December 1858.  Wife Palestine died in St. Martin Parish in July 1859, age 20, perhaps from complications of childbirth.  During the War of 1861-65, Cléopha served in Company A of the Yellow Jackets Battalion Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Martin Parish, which fought in Louisiana, and in Company A of the Consolidated 18th Regiment and Yellow Jackets Battalion Infantry, into which the Yellow Jackets were incorporated in late 1863, which also fought in Louisiana.  He survived the war and returned to his family.  Cléopha died in St. Martin Parish in May 1869.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Cléopha died "at age 32 yrs."  He was 31.  He evidently had not remarried, so his line of the family, except perhaps for its blood, may have died with him.  

Amand le jeune's third son Rosémond, during the war, served in the same units as his older brother Cléopha and, like his brother, survived the war and returned to his family.  Rosémond married Marie Félicie, called Félicie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Théodore Babineaux and Azélie Melançon, at the St. Martinville church in January 1866.  They settled near Breaux Bridge.  Their children, born there, included Léon or Léonce in December 1868; ... 

Michel, fils's fifth son Nicolas, by first wife Ludivine Guilbeau, married Osite Delphine, called Delphine and also Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadians David Babineaux and Osite Melançon, at the St. Martinville church in February 1828.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Nicolas, fils in April 1829; and Joseph Declemir or Declomir in December 1832.  A succession for Nicolas, not post-mortem, calling his widow Ozite Delphine, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in November 1838, a week or so before his remarriage to Marie Ozea, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Boudreaux and Félice Broussard, at the St. Martinville church late that November.  Their son Jules was born in St. Martin Parish in August 1840--three children, all sons, by two wives, between 1829 and 1840.  In November 1850, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted 11 slaves--eight males and three females, all black, ages 14 to 8--on Nicolas Cormier's farm.  Wife Marie Ozea's succession, perhaps post-mortem, calling her husband Nicolas Sr., was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in May 1854.  Nicolas, père may have died in St. Martin Parish by October 1855, when his succession was filed at St. Martinville courthouse.  He would have been age 51 that year.  His three sons married, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Nicolas, fils, by first wife Delphine Babineaux, married first cousin Émilie, daughter of Antoine Auguste Ledoux and his Acadian wife Ludivine Cormier, his uncle and aunt, at the St. Martinville church in September 1852.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Nicolas Adolphe, called Adolphe, in July 1853; Anatole in June 1855; and Joséphine in December 1859--three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1853 and 1859.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted 28 slaves--11 males and 17 females, 24 blacks and four mulattoes, ages 60 to 5, living in 16 houses--on Nicholas Cormier's plantation; this was Nicolas, fils.  During the war, Nicolas, fils, a captain, commanded Company C of the Yellow Jackets Battalion Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Martin Parish, which fought in Louisiana.  He died probably at his home in St. Martin Parish in December 1863, age 34 (the recording priest said 35), perhaps from wounds suffered in Confederate service.  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in October 1864.  Daughter Joséphine married into the Olivier family after 1870.  Neither of Nicolas, fils's sons married by 1870.  Did either of them married after?

Nicolas, père's second son Joseph Declemir, by first wife Delphine Babineaux, married Clara, daughter of Foreign Frenchman Laurent Tertron of Nantes and his French Creole wife Louise dite Louisianaise Beauvais of Pointe Coupee and Bayou Tortue, at the St. Martinville church in December 1852.  Joseph Declemir died in St. Martin Parish in October 1855, age 23.  His succession, calling him Joseph Sr., may have been filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in November.  One wonders if he fathered any children. 

Nicolas, père's youngest son Jules, by second wife Marie Ozea Boudreaux, likely married fellow Acadian Marie Louise Arceneaux, place and date unrecorded.  Their son Joseph Adam was born near Vermilionville, Lafayette Parish, in November 1870; ...

Michel, fils's sixth and youngest son Éloi, by first wife Ludivine Guilbeau, "domiciled in St. Martinville," according to the priest who recorded his burial, died at the home of Alphonse Oubre at St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in October 1839, but he was buried at Convent in nearby St. James Parish, age 30.  He probably did not marry.  Was Éloi working for Oubre at the time of his death?  Oddly, a succession in Éloi Cormier's name (he was called Eloy) was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in 1816, when this Éloi would have been age 6!  Another succession for Eloy Cormier, which did not mention any parents or a wife, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in August 1847, nearly eight years after this Éloi's death. 

Michel, père's third son Pierre, by second wife Catherine Stelly, called "Pierre of Opelousas," married, at age 18, Marianne, 18-year-old daughter of German immigrants Jacob Miller and Anne-Marie Theigen of Alsace and Maryland, at Opelousas in August 1795 (her parents had come to Louisiana in 1769 from Maryland aboard the ill-starred British transport Britannia).  Pierre and Marianne settled at Carencro at the northwestern edge of the Attakapas District.  Marianne died there in August 1796, age 19, perhaps from complications of childbirth.  Pierre, at age 21, remarried to Rosalie, 16-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Amand Dugas and Geneviève Robichaux of nearby Anse La Butte, at Attakapas in January 1798.  Their children, born at Carencro, included Pierre, fils in March 1799; Marie in c1803 or 1804; Céleste in August 1805; Maximilien or Maxilien in September 1807; Amand le jeune in October 1809; Geneviève in c1810; Arsènne, a daughter, in November 1811; Symphorien in August 1816; and Anasthasie in December 1820 but, called Arthémise, died at age 2 in December 1822--nine children, four sons and five daughters, all by his second wife, between 1799 and 1820.  Pierre, père died at Plaquemine Point, St. Landry Parish, in June 1847, age 71 (the recording priest said 70), and was buried at nearby Grand Coteau.  His succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse that month.  His widow Rosalie did not remarry and died at Carencro in March 1859.  The Grand Coteau priest who recorded her burial said that she died "at age 80 yrs."  She was 77.  Her succession, naming her husband, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse a week after her death.  Strangely, a succession, calling her "wid. Rosalie Dugas, had been filed at the Opelousas courthouse in January 1838, years before his as well as her death.  Daughters Marie, Céleste, Arsène, and Geneviève married into the LeBlanc, Courseau, Guilbeau, Fontenot, Gautreaux, Janis, and Thibodeaux families, three of them twice.  All four of Pierre's sons married.  The oldest son's line was especially vigorous.

Oldest son Pierre, fils, by second wife Rosalie Dugas, married, at age 19, Céleste, 25-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Dominique Babineaux and Marguerite Thibodeaux of Carencro, at the St. Martinville church in May 1818.  They settled at Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Ursin in February 1819; Émilie in November 1820; Lucien in October 1822; Pierre Rosémond, called Rosémond, in February 1824; twins Mélanie and Mélazie or Mélasie in 1825 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in January 1826; Aurelia or Orelia born in January 1828; Bélisaire in July 1830; Joachim baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 3 months, in May 1832; Lasty born in late 1833 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 4 months, in March 1834; and Camille or Clémile baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 5 months, in May 1838--11 children, seven sons and four daughters, including a set of twins, between 1819 and 1838.  In December 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted 16 slaves--10 males and six females, all black, ages 40 to 4--on Pierre Cormier, fils's farm in the parish's western district.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted 30 slaves--15 males and 15 females, 21 blacks and 9 mulattoes, ages 59 years to 5 1/2 months, living in five houses--on Pierre Cormier's cotton plantation at Carencro.  Wife Céleste died at Carencro in August 1869.  The Grand Coteau priest who recorded the burial, and who did not to give any parents' names, said that Céleste died "at age 75 yrs."  She was 76.  Pierre, fils died at Carencro in December 1871.  The Grand Coteau priest who recorded the burial said that Pierre was age 75 when he died.  He was 72.  In his will, Pierre, fils donated land for a church and cemetery at Carencro with the stipulation that the name of the church be St. Pierre.  The land he gave, however, was exchanged for another piece of property closer to the center of the village, where St. Peter church was established in 1874.  For a time, in fact, the village of Carencro was called St. Pierre after the church.  Daughters Mélasie, Orelia, and Mélanie married into the Babineaux, Brasseaux, and Simoneaux families.  Six of Pierre, fils's sons also married, two of them after their military service.  His one son who did not marry died in the Siege of Vicksburg in June 1863. 

Oldest son Ursin married Marie Alexandrine, called Alexandrine, 16-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Murphy Broussard and his first wife Marie Adélaïde Prejean, at the Grand Coteau church in April 1845.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Marie Osea in March 1846 but, called Ozea, died at age 14 (the recording priest said 15) in March 1860; Onésime Luma or Numa, called Numa, born in February 1848; Jean Murphy, called Murphy, in December 1849; Thelesmar in December 1851; Marie Alida in December 1855 but, called Alida, died at age 10 (the recording priest said 11) in December 1865; Pierre Neuville, called Neuville, born in February 1858; Ursin, fils in June 1860 but died age 5 in December 1865; Marie Cidalise born in August 1862; Joseph Cléomile in April 1865 but, called Clémile, died at age 8 in January 1874; ...  In June of 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted three slaves--a male and two females, all black, ages 9, 20, and 4--on Ursin Cormier's farm.  During the War of 1861-65, Ursin served in Company K of the 2nd Regiment Louisiana Reserve Corps, raised in Lafayette Parish, which fought local Jayhawkers.  He survived the war and returned to his family.  Ursin died near Carencro in April 1895, age 76.  His succession was filed at the Lafayette courthouse the following August.  Daughters ... married into the Brasseaux and Prejean families.  Two of Ursin's sons married by 1870, but one of the lines did not endure. 

Oldest son Onésime Numa, called Numa, married Alexandrine, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Guilbeau, fils and Françoise Savoie, at the Grand Coteau church in February 1870. ...  Onésime Numa's succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in January 1881.  He would have been age 32 at the time.  

Ursin's second son Jean Murphy, at age 16, married cousin Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Aurelien Brasseaux and Aurelia Cormier, at the Vermilionville church in June 1866.  Jean Murphy died probably at Carencro in July 1867.  The Grand Coteau priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Morphy, as he called him, died "at age 19 yrs..  He was 17.  His succession, calling him Jean Morphi, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in July 1868.  He evidently fathered no children.

Pierre, fils's second son Lucien married cousin Céleste or Célestine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph dit Joson Babineaux and Céleste Comeaux, at the Vermilionville church in August 1840 (Lucien's mother and wife shared the same first and last names!)  They settled near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Marie Onezia in February 1843; Jean Baptiste in June 1845 (strangely, his baptism was recorded in the Grand Coteau parish's "Black Bk."); Joseph born in December 1845[sic]; Joseph Adolphe in April 1848 but died near Rayne, Acadia Parish, age 38 (the recording priest said 40), in November 1886; Aurelia born in September 1849; Pierre le jeune "in Calcasieu," but his birth was recorded at the Grand Coteau church in November 1850 or 1851; Julien born in May 1853; Louis Alcide, called Alcide, in February 1855; Placide in November 1856; Marie Céleste in November 1858 but, called Céleste, died at age 4 in December 1862; Lucien, fils born in September 1860; Edmonia in November 1862; ...  Lucien, père died near Carencro in February 1892, age 69.  Daughters Aurelia, ... married into the Babineaux, Benoit, Brasseaux, and Hoffpauir families by 1870.  Three of Lucien's sons also married by then, but one of the lines did not endure. 

Oldest son Jean Baptiste married Clara or Claire, daughter of French Canadian Edmond Roger and his Acadian wife Urasie Prejean, at the Vermilionville church in February 1868.  Their son Edmond Lasty, called Lasty, was born in Lafayette Parish in January 1869; ...  Jean Baptiste remarried to Célestine, daughter of Don Louis Carrière and widow of Marcel Arabie, at the Carencro church in May 1883. 

Lucien's second son Joseph married Marguerite Aspasie, another daughter of Edmond Roger and Urasie Prejean, at the Vermilionville church in November 1866.  Joseph died in October 1870, age 25.  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in November.  One wonders if he fathered any children. 

Lucien's fourth son Pierre le jeune may have married French Creole Célima Lebleu, place and date unrecorded.  They settled probably near Youngsville, Lafayette Parish.  Their son Martin was born there in December 1868; ...  

Pierre, fils's third son Pierre Rosémond, called Rosémond, married cousin Cidalise, daughter of fellow Acadians Arvillien LeBlanc and Juliènne Babineaux, at the Vermilionville church in May 1851.  They settled near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Émile in December 1852; a child, name unrecorded, died at birth in August 1854; Télésphore born in September 1855 but died at age 3 months the following January; Marie Azélie born in December 1856 but, called Azélie, died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said "1/2 year") in August 1858; Adam born in January 1859 but died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 1) in August 1860; a child, name unrecorded, died at age 9 days in February 1861; Alcide born in February 1862; Joseph Lastie, called Lasty (named after his uncle who had just died in the trenches at Vicksburg) in August 1863; Aurelien le jeune, also called Augustin and Adrien, in October 1865; Arvillien in January 1868; Erestil, probably Aristide, in August 1870; ...  Rosémond died near Carencro in January 1887.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Rosémond was age 64 when he died.  He was 62.  Daughter ... married a Dugas cousin.  None of Rosémond's sons married by 1870. 

Pierre, fils's fourth son Bélisaire married cousin Aurelia, daughter of fellow Acadians Joachim Dugas and Marguerite Broussard, at the Vermilionville church in January 1857.  They settled probably near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Marie Amélie January 1858; Joachim le jeune in July 1860; Adolphina in May 1863 but died the following October; Marie Osea born in September 1864; Anatole in May 1867; ...  During the war, Bélisaire served probably as a conscript in Company D of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafourche Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  His three younger brothers--Joachim, Lasty, and Clémile--served as volunteers in another company of that regiment.  As the birth of one his sons attests, Bélisaire, like brothers Joachim and Clémile, also survived the war and returned to his family.  None of his children married by 1870. 

During the war, Pierre, fils's fifth son Joachim served with his younger brothers Lasty and Clémile in Company A of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, the Lafayette Prairie Boys, raised in Lafayette Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  He survived the war and returned to his family.  Joachim, at age 33, married Marie Euphémie, called Euphémie, daughter of Simonet Simoneaux and his first wife, Acadian Azélie LeBlanc, at the Vermilionville church in August 1865; Euphémie's stepmother was Mélanie Cormier, Joachim's older sister.  Joachim and Euphémie settled at Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Eva in July 1869; and Honoré in July 1871.  Soon after the death of his wife in the early 1880s, Joachim took up with Azélie, called Azèle, daughter of French Canadian Jean Baptiste Lantier and French Creole Christine Olivier of Grand Coteau.  Joachim and Azèle did not marry; Azèle, in fact, had borne children by Jean Broussard in the 1870s but had not married him either.  Joachim and Azèle's son Honoré Lesseus, called Lesseus or "Seaux," a deaf-mute, was born near Carencro in July 1884; and Léonce in April 1889.  Joachim died of tuberculosis at Carencro in October 1899, age 68.  "Seaux" never married, but Léonce, who took care of his older brother and became a barber in Mermentau in Acadia Parish and Jennings in Jefferson Davis Parish, created a large family with Acadia Parish native Marie Zelma Istre (the author's paternal grandparents). 

During the war, Pierre, fils's sixth son Lasty served in the same company as his older brother Joachim and his younger brother Clémile.  Unlike his brothers, however, Lasty did not survive the war.  He was mortally wounded by a shell fragment to the head during the Siege of Vicksburg in June 1863 and buried at Soldier's Rest in the city's Cedar Hill Cemetery, age 29. 

Pierre, fils's seventh and youngest son Clémile served in the same company as his older brothers Joachim and Lasty and, like Joachim, he survived the war and returned to his family.  Clémile, at age 28, married cousin Alice, also called Caliste, another daughter of Joachim Dugas and Marguerite Broussard, at the Vermilionville church in April 1866.  They settled at Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Onésiphore in January 1867; Horace in December 1868; Esdras in September 1870; ..

Pierre of Opelousas's second son Maximilien or Maxilien, also called Pierre Maximilien and Maxile, from second wife Rosalie Dugas, married Marie Mélanie, called Mélanie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph dit Augustin Broussard and Anne Hébert, at the Vermilionville church in April 1828.  They settled probably near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Maximilien or Maxilien, fils, also called Maxile, fils and Onésime, in November 1829; Narcisse, also called Narcisse Marcus, in December 1831; Marie Rémise in December 1833; Rémis in late 1834 but died at age 8 months in July 1835; Émilia baptized at age 1 month in July 1837; Dosité, probably a son, born in July 1841 but, called Dositée, died at age 5 1/2 in June 1847; Marie Nanette born in December 1844; and a child, name unrecorded, in April 1849 but died at age 4 months the following August.  The birth of Maximilien and Mélanie's final child must have proved fatal to the mother as well as the child.  Wife Mélanie's succession, probably post-mortem, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in July 1849.  In November 1850, the federal census taker in St. Landry Parish counted four slaves--two males and two females, ages 38 to 2--on Maximilien Cormier's farm.  At age 44, he remarried to Alexandrine or Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Louis Richard and his first cousin Eugénie Richard and widow of James Baugh, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in January 1852, and sanctified the marriage at the Grand Coteau church in April 1853.  They settled near Church Point on Bayou Plaquemine Brûlé, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie Flevie in July 1856; Marie Coralie in September 1859; Octavie in December 1861; ...  In the summer of 1860, the federal census taker in St. Landry Parish counted a single slave--a 36-year-old black male--on Maximilien Cormier's farm.  At age 58, he remarried again--his third marriage--to Célestine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Doucet and Carmélite Richard and widow of Césaire Caruthers, at the Church Point church in April 1866.  Their son Pierre le jeune was born near Church Point in April 1870; ...  Daughters Marie Nanette, ..., by his first and second wives, married into the Richard, Derosier, Thibodeaux, Janis, and Matte families.  Maximilien's remaining sons also married. 

Oldest son Maximilien, fils, by first wife Mélanie Broussard, married Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Antoine Boudreaux and Marie Émelie Savoie, at the Grand Coteau church in September 1851.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Marie near Church Point in June 1853; Eulalie near Grand Coteau in August 1855; Marie Adèle in May 1857; Léonal baptized at the Church Point church, age 6 months, in December 1860; François born in February 1862 but died near Church Point at age 3 months the following May; Mélanie born near Grand Coteau in March 1863; ...  Daughters ... married into the Cormier and Mendoza families by 1870.  None of Maximilien, fils's sons married by then. 

Maximilien, père's second son Narcisse Marcus, by first wife Mélanie Broussard, married, at age 29, Marie Mélanie or Mélasie, daughter of Jérôme Janis and Marie Bellard, at the Grand Coteau church in October 1851.  They settled near Church Point.  Their children, born there, included Narcisse, fils in October 1852; Marie Mélanie in December 1854; Pierre le jeune in December 1856; Jérôme in March 1859; Marie Sélanie in September 1861; Marie in May 1863; Jeannette in July 1865; ...  During the war, Narcisse served in Company K of the 29th (Thomas's) Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Landry Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  He survived the war and returned to his family.  Daughters ... married into the Allemand, Daigle, Leger, Matte, Meche, and Spears families after 1870.  One of Narcisse's sons married by 1870.

Oldest son Narcisse, fils married Marie Émilie or Amélie, daughter of Louis Lejeune, probably a fellow Acadian, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in November 1870, and sanctified the marriage at the Church Point church in January 1872. ...

Pierre of Opelousas's third son Amand le jeune, by second wife Rosalie Dugas, married, at age 23, Eurasie, 16-year-old daughter of William Wood or Woods and his Acadian wife Marguerite Brasseaux, at the Opelousas church in July 1832.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Aurelien in April 1833; Uranie baptized at age 3 months in July 1835; Terville or Treville born in March 1838; and Aurelia in March 1849--four children, two sons and two daughters, between 1833 and 1849.  Amand le jeune's succession, calling him Amanoo, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in June 1878.  He would have been age 68 that year.  His daughters did not marry by 1870.  One of his sons did. 

Older son Aurelien married Marianne, daughter of Augustin Frugé and Eléonore Lasage, at the Grand Coteau church in October 1851.  They settled at Pointe Émile Mouton in present-day Acadia Parish near Church Point.  Their children, born there, included Aurelien, fils, in December 1852; Elvina in December 1854; Tainville, probably Stanville, in June 1857; Auguste in January 1860; Edval Joseph or Joseph Edval in October 1862; Aristide or Aurestile in August 1865; Théodore, also called Théodose, in September 1868; ...  Aurelien remarried to Marie Célina, called Célina, Racca in a civil ceremony probably in St. Landry Parish, and sanctified the marriage at the Church Point church in June 1871.  They settled in Lafayette and Acadia parishes.  Aurelien, père died in Acadia Parish by May 1892, when his succession was filed at the Crowley courthouse.  He would have been age 59 that year.  Daughters ..., by his first wife, married into the Matte and Richard families.  None of his sons married by 1870. 

Pierre of Opelousas's fourth and youngest son Symphorien, by second wife Rosalie Dugas, married Célesie, 25-year-old daughter of Noël Vasseur and his Acadian wife Angélique Richard and widow of Thomas Bacon, at the Opelousas church in April 1837.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Rosalie in May 1838; Symphorien, fils in June 1840; Louis Alfred in February 1843; Angélique in September 1845; Marie Aima in December 1847; Pierre Mauléon in October 1849; and Céleste Eléonore near Church Point in August 1851--seven children, four daughters and three sons, between 1838 and 1851.  Symphorien, called Syphroyen by the recording priest, died near Grand Coteau in June 1853, age 36 (the recording priest said 37).  Daughters ... married into the Clark, Sonnier, and Vasseur families by 1870.  One of his sons also married by then.  A daughter gave birth to a "natural son" during the war. 

Oldest son Symphorien, fils married Céleste, daughter of James Desales or Desaulles and Eléonore Bergeron, a French Creole, not an Acadian, at the Grand Coteau church in April 1868. ...  They settled near Church Point and at Plaisance in St. Landry Parish.  Symphorien, fils died near Church Point in June 1894.  The priest who recorded his burial said he was age 58 when he died.  He was 54. 

Daughter Angélique gave birth to Symphorien le jeune, perhaps a "natural" son, named after her father and brother, near Church Point in June 1864.  The priest who recorded the boy's baptism did not give the father's name. 

Michel, père's fourth son Louis, by second wife Catherine Stelly, married Thécla or Thécle, daughter of Michel Meaux from the Saintogne region of western France and his Acadian wife Élizabeth Broussard, at Attakapas in October 1799.  They settled on the upper Vermilion north of present-day Lafayette probably in an area the Acadians called Beaubassin.  They also lived at La Pointe on the upper Teche near today's Breaux Bridge.  Their children, born there, included Ursule in October 1800 but died at age 1 1/2 in July 1802; Julie born in November 1802 but died at age 1 1/2 in September 1804; Célestin, also called Marcellin and Aurelien, born on the upper Vermilion in October 1804; Marguerite at La Pointe in January 1807 but died on the upper Vermilion, age 8 1/2, in August 1815; Alexandre born on the upper Vermilion in June 1809; Onésime dit Lésime in September 1811; Jean Baptiste in February 1814 but died at age 8 in October 1822; Marie Carmélite dite Mélite born in October 1816; and Michel le jeune in May 1819 but died at age 2 in October 1822.  Thécla died in the early 1820s.  Her succession, filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in June 1823, noted that Louis "is not in a situation to have the tutorship of his minor children due to his being in a habitual state of deafness for the last 5 or 6 years."  Thécla's brother, Athanas Meaux, offered to be the tutor of his sister's minor children, sons Alexandre and Lésime, ages 14 and 12, and daughter Mélite, age 8.  Deafness did not prevent Louis from remarrying, at age 44, to Marie, daughter of Antoine Ledoux and his Acadian wife Marguerite Gaudet of St. James Parish and widow of Joseph Clairville Melançon, at the St. Martinville church in July 1823; Marie's brother, Antoine Auguste Ledoux, had married Louis's niece, Ludivine, daughter of his half-brother Michel, fils, only three months earlier.  Louis and Marie's children, born on the upper Vermilion, included a son, name unrecorded, died within hours of his birth in October 1825; twins Joseph and Joséphine born in November 1826, but Joséphine died the following February; Adélaïde born in October 1830; and Don or Jean Louis, called Louis, fils, in c1831--14 children, six daughters and eight sons, by two wives, including a set of twins, between 1800 and 1831.  Louis died at his home along the upper Vermilion in June 1843.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Louis was age 60 when he died.  He was at least 64.  Daughters ..., by both wives, married into the Duhon and LeBlanc families.  Five of Louis's sons also married.

Oldest son Célestin, also called Marcellin and Aurelien, from first wife Thécla Meaux, married first cousin Marguerite, 18-year-old daughter of Augustin Royer of Illinois and his Acadian wife Victoire Cormier, his uncle and aunt, at the Grand Coteau church in May 1822.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Carmélite in October 1823; Alexandre le jeune baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 14 days, in September 1825 but died the day after his baptism; Olézime or Onésime le jeune baptized at age 2 months in February 1827; a child, name unrecorded, died at age 6 days in October 1829; Auguste or Augustin baptized at age 4 months in April 1831 but died at age 22 in April 1853; Osémé born in 1832 and baptized at age 7 1/2 months in April 1833 but died at age 3 in August 1835; a child, name unrecorded, died an hour after birth in May 1835; and another child, name unrecorded, died at age 14 days in August 1837--eight children, at least one daughter and four sons, between 1823 and 1837.  In November 1835, Célestin bought 40.17 acres of land in Lafayette Parish from the federal government.  He "signed" the land deed with an X, so he probably was illiterate.  In the summer of 1860, the federal census taker in St. Landry Parish counted eight slaves--two males and six females, all blacks, ranging in age from 65 to 2--on Célestin Cormier's farm.  Daughter Carmélite married into the Plaisance family.  One of Célestin's sons also married. 

Second son Onésime le jeune married Eurasie, daughter of French immigrant Louis Clément and German Creole Marie Anne Stelly, at the Grand Coteau church in June 1851.  Before she married Onésime, Eurasie had a daughter named Marie Virginie, born near Grand Coteau in April 1849; the priest who recorded the girl's baptism did not name the father.  Onésime le jeune and Eurasie's children, born on the prairies, included Euphémon, also called Eupremont, Fernand, and Fremont, near Grand Coteau in March 1851, so the couple may have been married civilly; and Lerima near Church Point in February 1853.  Onésime le jeune died near Grand Coteau in May 1887, age 55.  Stepdaughter Marie Virginie married into the Schexnayder family.  Onésime's son married by 1870. 

Only son Euphémon likely married fellow Acadian Aurelia or Aurelie Trahan in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in March 1870. ...  Euphémon remarried to Mélasie Beard, also called Melissa Hébert, in a civil ceremony in Acadia Parish in February 1889. ...

Louis's second son Alexandre, by first wife Thécla Meaux, married cousin Susanne, daughter of Charles Alexandre Ledoux and his Acadian wife Susanne Cormier, at the Vermilionville church in January 1829; Susanne's mother was another daughter of Michel Cormier, fils.  Alexandre and Susanne's children, born on the prairies, included Alexandre, fils in Lafayette Parish in October 1829; Césaire in St. Martin Parish in May 1834; Émilie in c1835 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 19 months, in October 1837 but died age 2 the following in December; Amelia born in September 1837; Louis Désiré in May 1839; Azéma in February 1841; Aurelia in February 1842 but, called Amilia, died at age 11 months in January 1843; and Marie Célestine born in May 1846 but not baptized until July 1869, age 23, at Church Point, then in St. Landry but not in Acadia Parish.  In September of 1860, the federal census taker in Calcasieu Parish counted eight slaves--four males and four females, all mulattoes, age 35 years to 6 months--on Alexandre Cormier's farm, so he probably had moved west of Bayou Nezpique or owned land there during the 1850s.  Alexandre, at age 67, remarried to Marie Élisabeth, called Élisabeth, 34-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Prosper Villejoin and his Creole wife Clémentin LaFosse and widow of Ignace Caruthers, at the Grand Coteau church in October 1876. ...  Alexandre died in Acadia Parish by January 1891, when his succession was filed at the Crowley courthouse.  He would have been age 81 that year.  The following April, another record filed in the Crowley courthouse provided for the tutorship of Alexandre's youngest son Fernest, then age 13.  Daughters ..., by his first wife, married into the Mire and Sonnier families.  None of Alexandre's sons married by 1870. 

Louis's third son Onésime, also called Lésime and Louis, fils, from first wife Thécla Meaux, married Marguerite, also called Arthémise and Mary, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Clairville Melançon and his Creole wife Marie Ledoux, at the Vermilionville church in August 1831; Marie Ledoux was Onésime's father's second wife, so he married his stepsister.  Onésime and Marguerite's children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Osémé or Onésime, fils baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 7 weeks, in October 1832; Joseph born in 1837 and baptized at age 15 months in November 1838; a daughter, name unrecorded, died at age 2 months in November 1840; Adam born in January 1842 but died two months later; a child, name unrecorded, died at age 2 months in October 1847 (the Vermilionville priest who recorded the child's burial called the father "Onézime of Queue Tortue," so Onésime probably had moved to that bayou, which runs through the prairies west of Vermilionville, now the city of Lafayette, by the late 1840s); a daughter, name and age unrecorded, died in October 1848; Mary born in late 1849 but died at age 3 months in January 1850; Jean Baptiste Adam born in September 1852; Placide Antoine, called Antoine, in July 1856; Jacques in December 1863; ...  Onésime, père, whom the Vermilionville priest recording the burial called Marcellin, died in Lafayette Parish in January 1879, age 68.  One of his sons married by 1870. 

Oldest son Osémé or Onésime, fils married Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Babineaux and his Anglo wife Hortense Perry, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in August 1850.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Osémé in the 1850s; Marie in April 1855; Pierre in February 1856; Angèle in April 1861; ...  None of Osémé, fils's children married by 1870. 

Louis's seventh son Joseph, a twin, from second wife Marie Ledoux, married Marie Mélanie or Mélasie, daughter of Auguste Royer and his Acadian wife Caroline Bourque, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in July 1849.  They settled near Carencro before moving to the Church Point area.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Marie Joséphine in March 1850; Louis le jeune in August 1852; Marie Natalie in January 1854; Joseph, fils in December 1855; twins Aurelia and Aurelien in January 1859; Jean Lastie in July 1861; another Joseph, fils in December 1866; Luma, probably Numa, in December 1869; ...  By the early 1870s, Joseph had moved his family to the Rayne area of what became Acadia Parish.  He died near Rayne in March 1893.  The priest who recorded the burial said Joseph was age 69 when he died.  He was 66.  Daughters ... married into the Caruthers and Lantier families by 1870.  None of Joseph's sons married by then. 

Louis's eighth and youngest son Don or Jean Louis, called Louis, fils, from second wife Marie Ledoux, married Élisabeth Lock, Rauche, Roche, Rodge, Ross, or Rotche, perhaps an Anglo, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in 1855, and sanctified the marriage at the Grand Coteau church in February 1858.  They settled near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Octave, called Octave, in October 1857; Don Louis, fils in March 1859; Marie in November 1861; William in December 1863; Célestin le jeune in July 1869; Joseph Atherol in May 1872; Adrien in May 1874; ...  Daughters ... married into the Lavergne, LeBoeuf, and Soileau families after 1870.  None of Don Louis's sons married by 1870. 

Michel, père's fifth and youngest son François, by second wife Catherine Stelly, followed his older brother Louis to the upper Vermilion and married Scholastique dite Colastie, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon dit Agros LeBlanc and Anne dit Manon Hébert, at Attakapas in December 1806.  They remained on the upper Vermilion.   Their children, born there, included Marie Anastasie in December 1808; Marie Eugénie, called Eugénie, in October 1810; François, fils, in December 1812; Pierre le jeune in March 1815; Maximilien, called Maxile, in August 1817; and Onésime, also called Onésime F., Onésime François, and Lésime, in August 1820--six children, two daughters and four sons, between 1808 and 1820.  Francois died at his home along the upper Vermilion in February 1835, age 53.  His succession, calling his wife Colastie, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following April.  Daughter Eugènie married into the Duhon family.  All four of François's sons married. 

Oldest son François, fils married married Émilie, also called Amélie, Émilite, Mélite, Carmélite, Lise, and Umélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Benjamin Broussard and Madeleine Hébert, at the Vermilionville church in August 1830.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Marie Aureline or Coraline, called Coraline, in July 1831; Benjamin in September 1833; François Dolzé, called Dolzé, baptized at age 2 months in April 1837; Mathilda born in May 1839 but, called Mathile, may have died at age 2 in September 1841; Jean Bélomy or Bénoni, called Bénoni or Béloni, born n March 1841; Azélie in c1843; Éloi in c1846; and Céleste in March 1849.  In September 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted two slaves--both females, both black, ages 50 and 11--on François Cormier's farm in the parish's western district.  François, fils, at age 40, remarried to Eugénie Simon in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in January 1855.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Marie Ophelia in July 1859; ...  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted the same two black female slaves on François Cormier's farm that had been counted in 1850.  Daughters Azélie, ..., by both wives, married into the Hébert, Broussard, Trahan, and Duhon families by 1870.  Two of François, fils's sons also married by then, both of them after their military service, but one of the lines may not have endured. 

Oldest son Benjamin, by first wife Émilie Broussard, married, at age 27, Marie Belzire, called Belzire, daughter of fellow Acadians Antoine Denis Trahan and Marguerite Hébert, at the Vermilionville church in April 1860.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Marguerite in Lafayette Parish in February 1861; and Émelite near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in March 1863, perhaps conceived before her father went off to war the previous fall.  During the War of 1861-65, Benjamin evidently served as a conscript in Company I of the 1st Regiment Louisiana Heavy Artillery, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  According to a Confederate military record in his name, he "enlisted" in the company in October 1862 and was reported absent sick in City Hospital, Vicksburg, from about the time of his enlistment to well into the following year, so one wonders if he fought in the siege at Vicksburg in the spring and summer of 1863.  He was dropped from company rolls in early 1864, and then his military record falls silence.  Did he survive the war and return to his family?  He and his family do not appear in the federal census of any of the prairie parishes in 1870. 

During the war, François, fils's third son Jean Bénoni, by first wife Émilie Broussard, served in Company E of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafayette Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  He survived the war, returned to his family, and married Louise, daughter of Hilaire Simon and his Acadian wife Aspasie Hébert, at the Vermilionville church in January 1867.  Jean Bénonie may have been the Jean Cormier whose succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in August 1872.  He would have been age 31 that year.  If this was a post-mortem succession, did his line of the family die with him? 

During the war, François, fils's fourth and youngest son may have been the Éloi Cormier who served as a private in Company K of the 2nd Louisiana Reserve Corps, raised in Lafayette Parish, which fought local Jayhawkers.  He survived the war but did not marry by 1870. 

François, père's second son Pierre le jeune married Marie Sidalise, called Sidalise, daughter of Louis Simon and his Acadian wife Marie Louise Trahan, at the Vermilionville church in June 1834.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Marguerite in February 1835; and Siméon, also called Siméon or Simon Duplessis, baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 4 months, in April 1838.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted three slaves--a male and two females, all black, ages 23, 15, and 15--on Pierre Cormier's farm.  During the war, Pierre le jeune, along with younger brother Onésime, served in Company K of the 2nd Regiment Louisiana Reserve Corps, raised in Lafayette Parish, which fought against area Jayhawkers.  Pierre le jeune died in Lafayette Parish in December 1876, age 61.  Daughter Marguerite married into the Duhon family.  Pierre le jeune's son also married. 

Only son Siméon Duplessis married first cousin Azélima, Azélime, or Azélina, also called Julie, daughter of fellow Acadians Maxille Cormier and Azélie Léger, his uncle and aunt, at the Vermilionville church in April 1855.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Mathilde in March 1856; Jules in March 1857; Siméon Duplessis, fils in December 1858; Dolzin in April 1860; Anathilde in February 1862; François Adam in September 1866; ...  Siméon Duplessis remarried to fellow Acadian Octavie Guillot at the Vermilionville church in December 1877.  They probably had married civilly before their church wedding.  Daughters ..., by both wives, married into the Simon and Trahan families after 1870.  None of Siméon Duplessis's sons married by 1870. 

François, père's third son Maximilien, called Maxile, married Azélie dite Zélie, daughter of fellow Acadians Julien Léger and Marie Duhon, at the Vermilionville church in July 1836.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Neuville in Lafayette Parish August 1837; Célima in February 1840; Joseph in October 1842; Vital in 1846; Scholastique in December 1847; Azéline in December 1849; Occuli in March 1852; Azélima in July 1859; Françoise near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in December 1862; ...  In September 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted seven slaves--four males and three females, all black, ranging in age from 30 to 3--on Maxile Cormier's farm in the parish's western district.  Maxille must have owned land in St. Martin Parish as well; in November, the federal census taker in St. Martin counted 20 slaves--11 males and nine females, all black, ages 40 to 3--on his plantation in that parish.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted only three slaves--two males and a female, all black, ages 14, 11, and 50--on Maxile Cormier's farm.  One wonders what happened to so many of his slaves during the 1850s.  Maxille died in Lafayette Parish in August 1877.  The priest who recorded the burial said Maxille was age 58 when he died.  He was 60.  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following January.  Daughters ... married into the Cormier, Hanks, and Manceau families by 1870.  Three of Maxille's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Neuville married Marguerite Azéma, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Hébert and Marie Carmezile Landry, at the Vermilionville church in July 1855.  They settled probably near Youngsville in Lafayette Parish.  Their children, born there, included Odille in August 1856; Olise in December 1857; Joseph in December 1859; a child, name unrecorded, died at age 8 days in January 1862; Léoscar, also called Joseph, born in December 1866; ...  Neuville's succession, not post-mortem, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in September 1878.  He would have been age 41 that year.  None of his children married by 1870.  Neuville, at age 43, remarried to Eulalie Gaspard in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in November 1880. ...

Maxille's second son Joseph married Mélanie, daughter of Ralph R. Hanks and Arthémise Abshire, at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in February 1867.  They settled near Rayne in what became Acadia Parish. ...

Maxille's third son Vital married Edmire or Elmire, daughter of Lessin Simon and his Acadian wife Claire Landry, at the Vermilionville church in August 1866.  They settled at Pointe Émile Mouton near Church Point. ...

François, père's fourth and youngest son Onésime, also called Onésime F., Onésime François, and Lésime, married Eugénie, another daughter of Louis Simon and Marie Louise Trahan, at the Vermilionville church in August 1841.  They settled on Bayou Queue de Tortue at the southwest edge of Lafayette Parish.  Their children, born there, included Désiré in November 1842; Marie Azaema in February 1844; a child, name unrecorded, died at age 2 months in October 1847; Sidalise born in November 1847[sic]; François le jeune in February 1850 but died at age 8 (the recording priest said 7) in March 1858; Jean Baptiste born in January 1852; Léocadie in December 1853; Nicaise in December 1855; Pierre Onésime, called Onésime, in November 1858; Eugènat, called Eugène, in December 1860; Rupert, also called Dupré, in March 1865; Joseph Alcide in August 1868; ...  In September 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted a single slave--a black female, age 6--on Onésime Cormier's farm in the parish's western district.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted only a single slave--a single black female, now age 15--on Onésime Cormier's farm.  During the war, Onésime, along with older brother Pierre le jeune, served in Company K of the 2nd Regiment Louisiana Reserve Corps, raised in Lafayette Parish, which fought against local Jayhawkers.  Daughters ... married into the Broussard, Hébert, and Leleux families by 1870.  None of Onésime's sons married by then. 

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During the early 1800s, relatives of the three Cormier cousins came to Louisiana from exile in Cuba via Haiti--the last Acadian members of the family to emigrate to Louisiana.  They settled at New Orleans, where most of the Haitian exiles remained.  One of them, however, in the 1810s, moved on to the western prairies and settled near his cousins from Halifax: 

Nicolas (1779-1821) à ? à Thomas à Robert Cormier

Nicolas, son of Amand Cormier and Anastasie LeBlanc probably of Chignecto, born at Môle St.-Nicolas, French St.-Domingue, in September 1779, evidently was his parents' second son.  He married Marie Soltero perhaps in Cuba in the early 1800s after escaping the Haitian rebellion in the late 1790s or early 1800s, or he may have married her at New Orleans soon after his arrival there.  One wonders if they had any children.  Nicolas died at New Orleans in October 1821, age 42.

Jean-Baptiste (1784-1831) à Jean à Alexis à ? à Thomas à Robert Cormier

Jean Baptiste, also called Eugène Baptiste, son of Jean Cormier and Élisabeth Morel of Jean-Rabel, French St.-Domingue, born there in March 1784, started a fourth line of Acadian Cormiers in the Bayou State during the early 1800s.  This Jean Baptiste, like his Louisiana relatives, also had roots at Chignecto, but his family's experience during Le Grand Dérangement was different from his cousins'.  In his late teens, Jean-Baptiste likely was among the St.-Domingue French who fled to Cuba in late 1803 and came to Louisiana with the flood of Haitian refugees in 1809.  His sisters Marie-Renée, Marie-Victoire, and Rose probably came with him from Cuba.  New Orleans church records show a baptism for Anne-Joséphine, daughter of Jean Cornier of Jean-Rabel, Santo Domingo, and Marie-Françoise-Virginie Cazejus of Jeremie, Santo Domingo, dated 15 October 1813, so Jean-Baptiste may have been married when he came to Louisiana, or he may have married a fellow Haitian exile soon after he reached New Orleans.  Most of the Haitian/Cuban exiles, including Jean-Baptiste's sisters, remained at New Orleans.  Not Jean Baptiste.  Perhaps now a widower, he moved on to St. Landry Parish, where, at age 34, he married, or remarried to, Marie Louise or Éloise, called Lise, 15-year-old daughter of Louis DeVille II of Poste Rapides and his Acadian wife Marie Jeansonne, at the Opelousas church in June 1818.  The Opelousas priest who recorded the marriage said nothing of a previous wife for the groom.  Jean Baptiste and Marie Louise's son Jean Baptiste, fils was born in St. Landry Parish in August 1828.  Jean-Baptiste, père died in St. Landry Parish in January 1831, age 46.  The Opelousas priest who recorded the burial mentioned his wife and called him "a Frenchman," but he was as much an Acadian as his Cormier cousins, at least in heritage.  His descendants settled on the Opelousas prairie near Ville Platte, then in St. Landry but now in Evangeline Parish.  Meanwhile, at least one of Jean Baptiste, père's nephews, Pierre Mouillé, fils, son of sister Marie Victoire, settled in St. Landry Parish not far from his uncle and cousins. 

Only son Jean Baptiste, fils, by Lise DeVille, perhaps Jean Baptiste, père's second wife, married Cléonise Louise, also called Clonise C., Louise Charles, Eléonore, and Léonise, daughter of fellow Acadian Louis Charles Pitre and his Creole wife Phelonise Joubert, at the Opelousas church in January 1850.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Hermina in February 1853; Lucille near Ville Platte in December 1854; Louis Arthur in March 1857; Corrine in September 1860; Félonise in January 1863; ...  In the summer of 1860, the federal census taker in St. Landry Parish counted five slaves--three males and two females, all black, ranging in age from 26 to 2--on Jean Bte Cormier's farm.  Jean Baptiste, fils died by March 1864, when his wife Cléonise remarried at Opelousas.  One wonders if his death was war-related.  His succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in November 1869.  Daughters ... married into the DeVille and Fontenot families after 1870.  His son did not marry by then. 

Crochet

Yves Crochet of Mégrit, near St.-Malo, northeast Brittany, married Pélagie, daughter of perhaps Claude Benoit and Élisabeth Theriot of l'Assomption, Pigiguit, and Pointe-Prime, Île St.-Jean, at Louisbourg, Île Royale, in February 1758.  One wonders when Yves reached the French-controlled Maritime islands and what was his trade.  Later that year, after the fall of Louisbourg in July, the British rounded up most of the Acadians on Île Royale and deported them to France.  Yves Crochet, now an Acadian exile, and his bride landed at the naval port of Rochefort in early 1759 and then sailed around to St.-Malo, which they reached at the beginning of October.  From St.-Malo, they made the short trip to Yves's hometown area in the countryside southwest of the Breton port, where, between 1760 and 1772, Pélagie gave Yves eight children, five sons and three daughters.  Yves died at Quesny northwest of Mégrit in November 1773, age 41, and was buried at Mégrit.  Despite the size of her family, his widow Pélagie did not remarry. 

Soon after Yves died, Pélagie Benoit and her children were among the hundreds of exiles languishing in the port cities who settled on an influential nobleman's estate near the city of Châtellerault in the interior of Poitou.  Pélagie was pregnant when she left Quesny for Poitou.  Her ninth and final child, another son, was born posthumously in early May 1774, six months after her husband died, and was baptized in St.-Jacques Parish, Châtellerault.  Her youngest daughter, age 2, died a few weeks after her youngest son was born.  After the settlement venture failed, Pélagie and most of her children, along with her recently married sister, Marguerite, retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes.  Pélagie's oldest son Jean-Guillaume, who would have been age 15 in November 1775, was not on the convoy to Nantes with the rest of the family.  He may have become a sailor, perhaps like his father, and gone to sea.  Daughter Marguerite-Perrine, who would have been age 9 in 1775, also was not on the convoy with her mother and siblings.  The girl did not die young, so she probably went to Nantes with another family.  

In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  Pélagie Benoit and most of her Crochet children agreed to take it.  Her second son François-Louis, if he were still living, would have been age 24, and her youngest surviving son age 11 in August 1785, when the family left for Louisiana.  Neither of the two sons accompanied their mother and five siblings, three brothers and two sisters, to the Spanish colony. 

Pélagie Benoit and five of her children--Jean-Guillaume, now age 25; Françoise-Pélagie, age 21; Marguerite-Perrine, age 19; Yves-Jean, age 18; and Julien, age 15--sailed to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships from France, which reached New Orleans in early November 1785.  Two weeks after they reached the city, daughters Françoise-Pélagie and Marguerite-Perrine married fellow passengers Tourchet dit Leonard De La Garde of Surget, France, and Joseph-Augustin Adam of La Rochelle, France, neither of them Acadian.  In mid-December, son Jean-Guillaume also married a fellow passenger at New Orleans--an Acadian.  After a period of recuperation from the long voyage, Pélagie and her expanded family followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche. 

Pélagie Benoit lived long enough to witness the birth of grandchildren and even great-grandchildren.  She died in Lafourche Interior Parish in August 1824, age 83.  Older daughter Françoise-Pélagie and husband Léonard De La Garde lived for a time in New Orleans and then joined her family on the upper Lafourche.  By January 1791, Françoise-Pélagie had become a widow with three young sons.  She remarried to Philippe Bruze of Genoa, Italy, at Lafourche in June 1792 and had more children by him.  They settled down bayou in what became Lafourche Interior Parish, where she died in February 1836, age 72.  Pélagie's younger daughter Marguerite-Perrine died in Lafourche Interior Parish in November 1830, age 64.  All three of her De La Garde sons married and remained on the Lafourche. 

During the early antebellum period, Pélagie Benoit's Crochet sons and their descendants spread up and down the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley, from Pierre Part north of Lake Verret in northern Assumption Parish to Montegut at the edge of the coastal marshes in lower Terrebonne Parish.  A small branch of the family also settled on the river in West Baton Rouge Parish but soon died out.  In 1860, only two Crochets--one in Assumption, the other in Terrebonne--owned a single slave apiece, so the Crochets participated only peripherally in the South's antebellum plantation-based economy.  

Meanwhile, an extended family of non-Acadians with a similar name established a western branch of the family.  By the 1850s, the Crouchette brothers of Toulouse, France, settled at the northern edge of the old Attakapas District in Lafayette Parish, where they married local girls, including some Acadians.  They owned no slaves.  Confusing the genealogical picture even more, they, or some of the priests and parish clerks who recorded their vital statistics, began to call these Foreign French Crochets. 

Acadian Crochets lived in a part of Louisiana hit hard by the War of 1861-65.  Successive Federal incursions devastated the Lafourche and Terrebonne valleys.  At least one member of the family, Prudent Crochet of West Baton Rouge Parish, died in Confederate service; he was mortally wounded in action during the Atlanta, Georgia, campaign in the summer of 1864.  Sadly, his line of the family died with him on that distant battlefield.  A handful of his Terrebonne Parish cousins also served Louisiana in uniform.  All of them survived the conflict. 

After the war, at least five families of Crochets moved from the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley to lower Bayou Teche and then out to the prairies of St. Landry Parish, creating a western branch of the Acadian family.  Today, dozens of Crochet families, most of them descendants of Yves Crochet, can still be found in the towns and cities of southeast Louisiana.  Despite its late start, members of the western branch of the family became as numerous as their eastern cousins.  Western Crochets, most of them Acadians, can be found today across the southwest Louisiana prairies as far as East Texas.  They are especially numerous in Jefferson Davis and Acadia parishes near the city of Jennings.  

In Louisiana, the family's name also is spelled Chrochet, Crochait, Crochaix, Croche, Crochiet, Croge, Crouchet.05

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All three of Pélagie Benoit's Crochet sons married and settled on Bayou Lafourche.  The younger sons' lines were especially robust: 

Jean-Guillaume (1760-1810s) Crochet

Jean-Guillaume, oldest son of Yves Crochet and Pélagie Benoit, born at Quesny near St.-Malo, Brittany, France, in September 1760, followed his widowed mother and siblings to Poitou, Nantes, and Louisiana.  He married Marie-Marthe, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Boudrot and Marguerite Richard, at New Orleans in December 1785 soon after reaching the city.  Marie-Marthe, a native of St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo, where Jean-Guillaume had lived, also had crossed to Louisiana from France on L'Amitié.  After their marriage, they followed his widowed mother to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Their son Joseph-Emérant, called Emérant, was born on the upper bayou in c1800.  Jean-Guillaume died probably in Assumption Parish before July 1821, when he would have been in his early 60s.  Compared to his younger brothers, Jean-Guillaume's family was a small one--he had only one son, and only one of his two grandsons survived childhood, but that grandson married and had several sons of his own, perpetuating this line of the family.  Jean-Guillaume's son and grandson remained in Assumption Parish until after the War of 1861-65, when the grandson moved to New Iberia on lower Bayou Teche.  By the early 1890s, two of Jean-Guillaume's great-grandsons had moved out into the open prairies of eastern Calcasieu, now Jefferson Davis, Parish.  

Only son Joseph Emérant, called Emérant, married Eugénie Scholastique, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Marin Gautreaux and Marie Madeleine Theriot, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in July 1821.  The priest who recorded the marriage noted that the groom's father was deceased at the time of the marriage.  Their daughter Eugénie Uraline or Oraline, called Oraline, was born on the upper Lafourche in October 1822.  Emérant remarried to Adèle Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadians Martin Thibodeaux and Marguerite Dugas, at the Plattenville church in May 1827.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Magloire Sivilien in October 1827; Marie Zéphirine, called Zéphirine, in November 1831; Pamela in the early 1830s; Domitile Elisida, called Elisida, in April 1836; Désiré Trevil or Treville in May 1838 but, called Treville, died at age 6 in September 1843; Agate Elfida born in June 1840 but, called Agathe Olfiela, died at age 2 in July 1842; and Élisabeth Élodie born in January 1843--eight children, six daughters and two sons, by two wives, between 1822 and 1843.  Emérant died in Assumption Parish in April 1845, age 45.  Daughters Oraline, Zéphirine, Pamela, and Elisida, by both wives, married into the Mire, Gautreaux, Cedotal, Dupas, and Mazerolle families by 1870.  Emérant's remaining son also married by then.

Older son Magloire Sivilien, by second wife Adèle Thibodeaux, married Honorine, daughter of Valéry Cedotal and his Acadian wife Henriette Dugas, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in July 1851; Magloire's sister Pamela married Honorine's brother Augustin.  In the late 1860s, Magloire took his famiy to lower Bayou Teche, where some of his cousins settled.  His and Honorine's children, born on the upper Lafourche and the lower Teche, included Emérant le jeune in April 1852; Émile Homer in May 1854; Joseph Camille in March 1856; Ema Victoria in May 1858; Joachin near Pierre Part north of Lake Verret, Assumption Parish, in January 1861; Augustin Joseph near New Iberia, Iberia Parish, in March 1868; Odressi Joseph near Lydia, Iberia Parish, in September 1870; ...  None of Magloire's children married by 1870.  Two of them moved out into the Calcasieur prairies west of the Mermentau during the post-war years. 

Yves-Jean-Guillaume (1767-?) Crochet

Yves-Jean, fourth son of Yves Crochet and Pélagie Benoit, born at Quesny, Brittany, France, in December 1767, followed his widowed mother and siblings to Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Dugas and his third wife Anne Bourg, in c1790.  Anne, a native of La Pahorie near St.-Malo, had come to Louisiana from France in 1785 aboard the first of the Seven Ships.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie-Eulalie-Adélaïde in March 1792; François-Marie in January 1796; Amand-Bernard, also called Emérant, baptized, age unrecorded, in September 1796[sic]; Magloire baptized, age unrecorded, in December 1797 but died in Assumption Parish, age 36 (the recording priest said 31); in August 1834; Julien- or Jean-Baptiste born in October 1799; and Eulalie-Adélaïde in July 1801 but died the following November--six children, two daughters and four sons, between 1792 and 1801.  Yves Jean died in Assumption Parish in the early 1810s, in his mid-40s.  Daughter Marie married into the Templet family.  Three of Yves's sons also married and remained in Assumption Parish, but not all of the lines endured.  One grandson moved to West Baton Rouge Parish in 1830s, where he started a small branch of the family on the river, but it did not endure.  Another grandson moved down bayou to Terrebonne Parish in the 1840s.  After 1865, a few of his descendants moved down into Terrebonne Parish and others to lower Bayou Teche, but most of his descendants remained on upper Bayou Lafourche.

Oldest son François Marie married Eulalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Landry and Marie Madeleine Hébert, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in November 1817.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Bonne Euphrasine in September 1818 but, called Marie Aimée Euphrasine, died at age 7 1/2 in May 1826; Élise Mélanie born in September 1819; Séverin François in June 1821; François Arsène, called Arsène, in August 1823; Mathilde Emérante in January 1826; Louis in January 1828 but died less than a day old; Joseph born in February 1829; Adélaïde Irma in November 1831; Vileor Lucien, also called William, in January 1834; Roséma Élegie in February 1836; Marie Angelina or Angèle, called Angèle, in March 1838; and Docilis Sylvain in June 1842 but, called Silvain, died near Pierre Part north of Lake Verret, age 23 (the recording priest said "age 22 years, 5 months"), in January 1865 (one wonders if his death was war-related)--a dozen children, six daughters and six sons, between 1818 and 1842.  François died in Assumption Parish in July 1844.  The Paincourtville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that François died at "age 59 years."  François Marie would have been age 48 at the time, but who else would it have been?  Daughters Élise, Mathilde, Adélaïde, Angèle, Roséma, ... married into the Hébert, Aucoin, Landry, Trahan, Arceneaux, and Leze families.  François Marie's four remaining sons also married.

Oldest son Séverin François married cousin Euphrosine, daughter of Romain Friou or Freoux and his Acadian wife Pélagie Dugas, at the Paincourtville church in January 1842; they had to secure a dispensation for fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Séraphin Arsène in December 1842; Marie Clémentine, called Clémentine, in February 1844; Joseph Romain, called Romain, in March 1847; Joseph in October 1849; François in early 1850; Pierre Aurelien in July 1851; Christine Élisabeth in January 1854; Marie Adolphine in August 1856; Paul Oleus near Pierre Part north of Lake Verret in February 1859; Hélène Zélamie in December 1860; and Justilien Zéphirin in September 1862--11 children, seven sons and four daughters, between 1842 and 1862.  In late July 1860, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted a single slave--a 55-year-old black male--on Séverin Crochet's farm near Pierre Part in the parish's 14th Ward (Bayou Louis).  Séverin died in Assumption Parish in November 1863.  The Paincourtville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Séverin died at "age 44 years."  He was 42.  One wonders if his death was war-related.  Daughters Clémentine, ... married into the Hopgood, Ducasse or Ducas, and Tureyra families, one of them, Clémentine, twice, by 1870.  One of Séverin's sons also married by then and moved to lower Bayou Teche after the War of 1861-65. 

Oldest son Séraphin married cousin Zélanie, daughter of fellow Acadians Leufroi Guidry and Eléonore Landry, at the Paincourtville church in November 1863; they had to secure a dispensation for fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Daughter Claire Lea was born near Pierre Part in February 1866.  Séraphin moved to St. Martin Parish after 1866 and remarried to Émilie, daughter of fellow Acadians Édouard Hébert and Madeleine Babin, at the New Iberia church, Iberia Parish, in December 1869.  They settled near Loreauville.  Their son Paul was born there in November 1870; ...

François Marie's second son François Arsène, called Arsène, married Justine, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Dupuis and Françoise Daigle, at the Paincourtville church in February 1849.  She evidently gave him no children, at least none who survived infancy.  Arsène remarried to Eurasie, daughter of fellow Acadians François Aucoin and Scholastique Hébert, at the Paincourtville church in April 1853.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included twins Joseph François and Joséphine Mathilde in January 1855, but Joséphine died at age 3 1/2 (the recording priest, who called her Joséphine, said "18 months") in April 1858; Pierre Jean Baptiste born in September 1856; François Pierre near Pierre Part in December 1858; Helena in March 1862; Paul in March 1864 but died the following June; ...  Arsène died near Pierre Part in March 1865, age 41 (the recording priest said 43).  One wonders if his death was war-related.  None of his children married by 1870. 

François Marie's fourth son Joseph married Marie Aurelie Donatille, called Aurelie or Aureline, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Aucoin and Marie Trahan, at the Paincourtville church in April 1850.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Justilia Victoria in March 1851; François Justinien or Justilien, called Justilien, in November 1852; Marie Clémentine in May 1854; Joseph Enoc or Enoch, called Enoch and Eno, in May 1856; Joseph Sarazin or Victorin, called Victorin and sometimes Gustave, near Pierre Part in March 1859; Juliènne Telesia in June 1860; Zélenie Élisabeth in March 1862; ...  After the War of 1861-65, Joseph moved his family to the Bayou Teche valley.  By the 1870s, they were living near Loreauville, Iberia Parish, above New Iberia.  None of Joseph's children married by 1870, but when they did, they married fellow Acadians and remained in Iberia Parish.  Daughter ... married a Crochet cousin. 

François Marie's fifth son Vileor Lucien, also called William, married Clarisse, another daughter of Romain Friou or Freoux and Pélagie Dugas, at the Paincourtville church in August 1854.  Their children, born near Pierre Part, included Marie Aurelia in May 1855; Marie Pélagie, called Pélagie, in December 1856; Marie Amanda in April 1858; Nicolas Siphrin, called Siphrin, in November 1859; and Pierre in January 1862.  Vileor remarried to cousin Félicia, daughter of Yve Leze and Pauline Ozelitte, at the Plattenville church in February 1870; they had to secure a dispensation for fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  None of Vileor's children married by 1870.  Like his older brother, Vileor also moved his family to St. Martin Parish after the war.  

Yves's second Amand Bernard, also called Emérant, married Marie Hortense, called Hortense, daughter of François Friou or Freoux and his Acadian wife Marguerite Adélaïde Gautreaux, at the Plattenville church in February 1813.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Deseada Amada, also called Marie Désirée, in December 1813; François Eugène or Hermogène, called Hermogène, in April 1816; Symphorien Tresime or Trasimond, called Trasimond, in October 1817; Romain Arsène, called Arsène and also Désiré, in January 1819; Narcisse Evremont in October 1820 but died a few days after his birth; Adeline or Adelina Henriette born in November 1821; Télésphore Valéry in January 1823; Onésime Denis, called Denis and Adonis, in November 1824; Joseph Carville in March 1826 but died at age 2 years, 2 months in May 1828; Clermont Marcillien born in February 1828 but, called Marcelien, died at age 14 1/2 in November 1842; Éligie or Élegie, a daughter, born in February 1829 but died at age 5 in July 1834; François Florentin, called Florentin, born in March 1830; and Clémence Sidonise in December 1831--13 children, four daughters and nine sons, between 1813 and 1831.  Daughters Marie Désirée and Adelina married into the Simoneaux and Blanchard families.  Six of Amand's sons also married and settled on the river and the upper Lafourche. 

Oldest son Francois Eugène or Hermogène, called Hermogène, married fellow Acadian Marie Carmélite Daigre, widow of Hippolyte Le Tullier of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in June 1836 and settled near Brusly, West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marianne Célene in April 1837; Prudent baptized at the Baton Rouge church, age 3 months, in June 1839; and Félix Cléofa or Cléopha Isidore born in September 1841--three children, a daughter and two sons, between 1837 and 1841.  Hermogène's daughter did not marry by 1870, but one of his sons did, before he died in Confederate service.  One wonders if the family line, except perhaps for its blood, endured. 

Older son Prudent married Adolphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Adolphe Dupuy and Eléonore Babin, at the Brusly church in January 1861.  During the War of 1861-65, Prudent enlisted in the West Baton Rouge Tirailleurs at Camp Moore in Tangipahoa Parish in May 1861.  The Tirailleurs became Company H of the 4th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, which fought in Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana, Georgia, and Alabama.  Prudent must have secured leave from his unit at least twice--two daughters were born to him during the war--Olymphe in c1862; and Ouida in 1864--but he never saw his second daughter.  During the Atlanta Campaign, Prudent fell mortally wounded at Ezra Church on 28 July 1864.  His comrades were forced to leave him on the field.  He either died on the field or in a Federal hospital and was buried by the enemy.  He was age 25.  His line of the family, except for its blood, died with him on that distant battlefield.  

Amand Bernard's second son Symphorien Tresime or Trasimond, called Trasimond, married fellow Acadian Eléonore Dupuis probably in Assumption Parish in the early 1840s.  She evidently gave him no children.  Trasimond remarried to Rose Aimée, daughter of fellow Acadians Zéphirin Melançon and Marie Faralie Bourgeois, at the Paincourtville church in March 1848.  Daughter Marie Olifida was baptpzed at the Paincourtville church at age 29 days in June 1849 but did not marry by 1870. 

Amand Bernard's third son Romain Arsène, called Arsène and also Désiré, married Bathilde, daughter of fellow Acadian Baptiste Landry and his Creole wife Roseline Simoneaux, at the Paincourtville church in May 1845.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Octavie, perhaps also called Dometille, near Paincourtville in February 1846; Jean Baptiste Gérôme or Jérôme, called John, baptized at the Paincourtville church at age 2 months in March 1848; Joseph Osémé Blanchard born in March 1850; Marie Adeline August 1852; Élizabeth Joséphine in December 1854; Mélanie Élisabeth in January 1857; Romain Arsène, fils near Pierre Part north of Lake Verret in January 1859; ...  After the war, Arsène crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to the Bayou Teche valley and settled among his kinsmen near Loreauville, Iberia Parish.  Daughters Dometille and Marie married Landry cousins by 1870.  One of Arsène's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Jean Baptiste Jérôme married Camilla, daughter of fellow Acadians Désiré A. LeBlanc and Domitille Dugas, at the Paincourtville church in July 1867.  Their children, born near Paincourtville, included Marie Léontine in September 1868; Pierre Léon in June 1870; ...

Amand Bernard's fifth son Télésphore Valéry married fellow Acadian Céleste Boudreaux at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in January 1843.  Their children, born in either Terrebonne or Lafourche Interior Parish, included Louis Donis or Daunis, called Daunis, in February 1848; and Marie Alida in December 1852.  Daughter Marie married into the Baudoin family by 1870.  Télésphore Valéry's son also married by then and settled in Terrebonne Parish. 

Only son Louis Daunis married Eveline, daughter of fellow Acadian Cyrus Hébert and his Creole wife Emérante Malbrough, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in January 1868.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Anna Eva in October 1868; Joseph W. near Chacahoula in June 1870; ...

Amand Bernard's sixth son Onésime Denis, called Denis and Adonis, married Clémentine or Clémence, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexis Aucoin and Rosalie Theriot, at the Paincourtville church in January 1846.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Joseph Valri or Valéry in February 1847; Nicéphore in April 1849; Jean Baptiste Alexi in January 1852 but, called Alexi, died at age 3 months the following April; Léonard born in October 1853; Drosin Jean Baptiste in January 1857 but died at age 7 in February 1864; Joséphine Hélène born near Pierre Part in April 1863; ...  One of Denis's sons married by 1870.

Oldest son Joseph Valéry married Clémentine, daughter of fellow Acadians Sylvanie Templet and Melissa Theriot, at the Pierre Part church, Assumption Parish, in August 1869. ...

Amand Bernard's ninth and youngest son François Florentin, called Florentin, married Amaselie, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Comeaux and Azélie Hébert, at the Paincourtville church in August 1853.  Their children, born in Assumption Parish, included twins Élisabeth Veneda and Marguerite Amanda in December 1854; and Joseph Meridier in January 1858--three children, two daughters and a son, including a set of twins, between 1854 and 1858.  None of Florentin's children married by 1870. 

Yves's fourth and youngest son Julien or Jean Baptiste married Marine, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Landry and Rosalie Hébert, at the Plattenville church in April 1817.  The priest who recorded the marriage noted that the groom's father was deceased.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Françoise Adolphe, called Menna, in January 1819; Françoise Adèle died at age 7 months in July 1820; Marie Émiline born in April 1821; and Marie Rose or Roseline, called Roseline, posthumously in March 1823 but died at age 1 in June 1824--four children, all daughters, between 1819 and 1823.  Jean Baptiste died in Assumption Parish in November 1822, age 23.  Daughter Menna married into the Simoneaux family.  Jean Baptiste fathered no sons, so his line of the family, except for its blood, died with him.  

Julien (1770-c1820) Crochet

Julien, fifth and youngest son of Yves Crochet and Pélagie Benoit, born at Quesny, Brittany, France, in March 1770, followed his widowed mother and siblings to Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and upper Bayou Lafourche.  Julien married Marguerite, daughter of Creoles Nicolas Bélanger and Marguerite Lejeune of False River, Pointe-Coupée, at Baton Rouge in 1798 but settled on the upper Lafourche with his older brothers.  Julien and Marguerite's children, born there, included Marie-Marguerite born in May 1799; Nicolas Léandre, called Léandre, in December 1800; twins Émilie and Pélagie Rosalie in November 1805; Eléonor or Léonor, a son, in the late 1800s or early 1810s; Julien Romain in August 1815 but may have died at age 14 in September 1829; Paulin, also called Magloire, born in the late 1810s; and Henri or Henry probably in the late 1810s--eight children, three daughters and five sons, including a set of twins, between 1799 and the late 1810s.  Julien died in either Lafourche Interior or Terrebonne Parish by October 1822, when he was listed as deceased in a son's marriage record.  He would have been in his early 50s at the time.  Daughters Pélagie Rosalie, Émilie, and Marie Marguerite married into the Gauthier, Bonvillain, and Comeaux families within days of one another.  Four of Julien's sons also married.  During the antebellum period, his sons and grandsons moved down bayou into Lafourche Interior and Terrebonne parishes.  After the War of 1861-65, one grandson moved to the Brashear, now Morgan, City/Berwick area on the lower Atchafalaya, but most of Julien's descendants remained in Terrebonne Parish.  

Oldest son Nicolas Léandre, called Léandre, married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Bergeron and Victoire Benoit, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in October 1822.  The parish clerk who recorded the marriage noted that the groom's father was deceased.  They remained in Terrebonne Parish.  Their children, born there, included Julien Romain le jeune in June 1823; Julie Edmire in July 1824; Jules Léandre in August 1826; Émilie Célina, called Célina, in June 1828; Marie Élodie in June 1831; Elfride probably in the 1830s; Élena or Helena in August 1832; Hippolyte Nicolas in January 1835; Jean Charles in May 1837; Marie Louise in October 1839; Henri probably in the 1840s; Théophile probably in the 1840s; and Thomas Robert or Albert, called Albert, in October 1849--13 children, seven sons and six daughters, between 1823 and 1849.  In 1860, the federal census taker in Terrebonne Parish counted a single slave--a 12-year-old female mulatto--on Léandre Crochet's farm in the parish's Ward 8.  Daughters Julie, Célina, Elfride, and Helena married into the Neal, Bergeron, Robertson, Chiasson, Mazeirac, and Robichaux families, two of them, Julie and Célina, twice, by 1870.  Five of Léandre's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Julien Romain le jeune married a young widow, Rebecca, daughter of Abel Cooper, also called Burket, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in August 1856.  Their children, born near Montegut, included Auguste in October 1856, two months after his parent's marriage; Séverine Augustine in October 1859; Désiré Léondre, probably Léandre, in August 1862; Ada Louise in April 1865; ...  

Léandre's second son Jules Léandre married Louisiane Élisa, also called Élisa, daughter of Aaron King and Mélasie Bergeron, perhaps an Acadian, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in February 1853, and sanctified the marriage at the Houma church in March 1856.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Jean Baptiste in January 1854; Marie Héloise in December 1855; and Madeleine Juliènne in February 1859.  Wife Elisa died in Terrebonne Parish in May 1860, age 33.  Jules remarried to Clémence, daughter of François Lecompte and Adèle Gisclard and widow of E. Bélanger, at the Montegut church, Terrebonne Parish, in May 1867. ...  None of Jules's children married by 1870. 

Léandre's fifth son Henri married Augustine or Justine, daughter of fellow Acadian Auguste Robichaux and his Creole wife Célestine Gisclard, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in January 1859, and sanctified the marriage at the Houma church in March 1865.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Adam Justillien in June 1859; Alexandre Alfred in April 1861; Célestine Victoire in February 1863; Omer Franklin Clémile in November 1870; ...

Léandre's sixth son Théophile married Rosina, daughter of Anaclet Labit and Céleste Pichoff, at the Houma church in December 1869.  Their son Joseph Numa was born near Montegut in October 1870; ...

Léandre's seventh and youngest son Thomas Robert or Albert, called Albert and Alfred, married Marie, another daughter of Auguste Robichaux and Célestine Gisclard, at the Montegut church in June 1867.  Their children, born near Montegut, included Joseph Adam in October 1868; Marie Joséphine in January 1870; ...   

Julien's second son Eléonor or Léonor married Élise, daughter of Laurent Pichoff and his Acadian wife Claire Trahan, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in July 1828.  Their children, born in Lafourche Interior or Terrebonne Parish, included Jule or Jules in December 1829; Amédée Franklin, called Franklin, in March 1834; Céleste Vellina, perhaps also called Elzélina, in January 1835; Édouard or Edward Joseph in February 1838; Julie Mélina or Émelina in December 1840; Elvire in the 1840s; Marie Azémi, perhaps also called Evéline or Evélina, in February 1846; Élisa at Bayou Cannes in Terrebonne Parish in January 1849; and Clet Emil or Émile in March 1852--nine children, four sons and five daughters, between 1829 and 1852.  Daughters Elzélina, Mélina, Evéline/Evélina, and Elvire married into the Arcement, Bergeron, Boudreaux, and Babin families, including two Bergeron brothers, by 1870.  Two of his sons also married by then. 

Second son Amédée Franklin, called Franklin, married Madeleine Lorenza, daughter of fellow Acadians François Babin and Marie Clouâtre, probably in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in the 1850s, and sanctified their marriage at the Houma church in April 1862.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Franklin Édouard in May 1858; Jules Amédéo in June 1861; Julia Ordalie in July 1864; ...  

Léonor's third son Édouard or Edward Joseph married Evéline or Evélina, daughter of Adelin Bergeron, perhaps a fellow Acadian, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in June 1854, and sanctified the marriage at the Houma church in November 1866.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Joseph Aristide in September 1866; Joséphine Camilla in April 1870; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Edward served in Company H of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Terrebonne Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  As the marriage of his children reveal, he survived the war and returned to his family. 

Julien's fourth son Paulin, also called Magloire, married Clémentine, also called Thérèse, Bonvillain probably in Terrebonne Parish in the mid- or late 1830s.  Their children, born in Lafourche Interior or Terrebonne parish, included Pauline Élise, called Élise, in May 1837; Amélie or Émelie Clémentine in April 1840; Hubert Prosper, called Prosper, in August 1842; Joseph Henry in August 1844; and Paulin, fils probably in the late 1840s--five children, two daughters and three sons, between 1837 and the late 1840s.  Paulin père died in Terrebonne Parish in May 1847, probably in his late 30s.  A petition for succession inventory in his name, giving his death date and naming his wife and his children--Pauline, Émelie, Prosper, Joseph, and Paulin--was filed at the Houma courthouse in October 1849.  Daughters Élise and Émelie married into the Legrand and Labit families by 1870.  Two of Paulin's sons also married by then. 

During the War of 1861-65, oldest son Hubert Prosper, called Prosper in the Confederate records, served in Company K of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Terrebonne Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  After he survived the war and returned to his family, he married Susanne, daughter of Jacques Labit and his Acadian wife Henriette Roger, at the Houma church in May 1865.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Marie Victoria in January 1866; Emma Clémentine in April 1867; Joséphine Azera in November 1869; ...

Paulin's second son Joseph Henry married Marie, daughter of Narcisse Marcel and Céleste Rhodes, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in June 1867, and sanctified the marriage at the Houma church in March 1869.  Their son Joseph Norbert was born in Terrebonne Parish in April 1868; ...  

Julien's fifth and youngest son Henri or Henry married Marie Thérèse, also called Myrthe, daughter of William C. Watkins and Uranie Bonvillain, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in December 1839.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Henry Désiré in October 1840; Eve Uranie in November 1843; Marie Lavinia in August 1846; and Pierre Adam, called Adam, in August 1848--four children, two sons and two daughters, between 1840 and 1848.  Henry died in Terrebonne Parish in December 1850, probably in his early 30s.  A "Petition for inventory" in his name, calling his wife Myrthe Watkins, and listing two of their children--Eve and Adam--was filed at the Houma courthouse in January 1851.  Neither of his daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did and settled on the lower Atchafalaya. 

Younger son Pierre Adam, called Adam, married Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Guidry and Marie Pauline Henry, at the Brashear, now Morgan, City church, St. Mary Parish, in June 1870.  By the early 1870s, Adam had moved his family to Berwick, across the Atchafalaya River from Brashear.  Adam remarried to Gracieuse Pennison at the Morgan City church in May 1880.  He remarried again--his third marriage--to Mary, daughter of Jean La Cossette and his Acadian wife, a Gautreaux, at the Morgan City church in December 1888. ...

Daigre/Daigle

Olivier Daigre, born in France in c1643, reached Acadia by c1666, the year he married Marie, daughter of Denis Gaudet and Martine Gauthier.  Between 1667 and 1681, Marie gave Olivier 10 children, seven sons and three daughters.  Olivier died at Port-Royal before c1686, in his early 40s, and Marie remarried to a Fardel or Fredelle.  Two of Olivier's daughters married into the Sibilau, Gouzil, Poitevin dit Parisien, and Tennier or Thénière families.  Second daughter Marie bore two "natural" children, both daughters, by Gabriel Moulaison dit Recontre and Louis Blin evidently between her two marriages to Pierre Sibilau and Jacques Gouzil.  She had legitimate children--a son and three daughters--only by her second husband, Jacques Gouzil.  Olivier's youngest daughter and her family perished aboard the British transport Violet in a storm off the southwest coast of England during the deportation of the island Acadians to France in late 1758.  Only two of Olivier's seven sons, the third and fifth, created their own families by marrying into the Bourg and Blanchard families.  The third son's line was especially vigorous.  In 1755, Olivier's descendants could be found at Annapolis Royal; Grand-Pré and Pigiguit in the Minas Basin; Chignecto and the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto; and on Île St.-Jean and Île Royale in the French Maritimes.  By then, the family's name had evolved from Daigre to Daigle, though some members of the family retained the original spelling.  Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this large family even farther. 

The Acadians at Chignecto were the first to endure a disruption of their lives.  During the spring and summer of 1750, in response to the British building a fort at Beaubassin village, Canadian militia, assisted by Mi'kmaq warriors led by Abbé Jean-Louis Le Loutre, burned Acadian homesteads in the British-controlled area east of Rivière Missaguash, forcing the habitants there to move to the French-controlled area west of the river.  Daigres may have been among the refugees in this petit dérangement.  After yet another war erupted between Britain and France in 1754, Chignecto Acadians were caught in the middle of it.  When British and New-English forces attacked Fort Beauséjour in June 1755, Daigres may have been among the hundreds of local Acadians serving in the fort as militia.  They, too, along with the French troupes de la marine, became prisoners of war when the fort surrendered on June 16.  Lieutenant-Governor Charles Lawrence was so incensed to find so-called French Neutrals fighting with French regulars at Beauséjour he ordered his officers to deport the Chignecto-areaAcadians to the southernmost seaboard colonies.  A Daigre family was transported to South Carolina aboard the transport Edward Cornwallis, which reached Charles Town on November 19.  Also aboard one of the south-bound transports was a Daigre widow and three of her sons.  The following August, the Daigres, including the widow and her sons, were sent with two dozen other Acadians from Charles Town to Prince Frederick Winyaw, a rural Anglican parish farther up the coast at present-day Plantersville, South Carolina. 

Daigres from Minas were deported to Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  The many Daigres sent to Virginia suffered the indignity of being turned away by the colony's authorities.  They languished in the lower James River aboard disease-infested ships until, with winter approaching, Governor Robert Dinwiddie ordered them dispersed to Hampton, Norfolk, and Richmond, while he and the colony's political leaders pondered their fate.  The following spring, the Virginians sent them on to England, where they were packed into warehouses in several English ports.  At least one Daigre died during the crossing to England.  Most of the many Daigres in England were held at Falmouth in Cornwall, but others were held at Southampton and up in Liverpool.  The death toll among members of the family was especially pronounced at Falmouth, where the exiles were struck by a smallpox epidemic soon after reaching the Cornish port.  Others died at Liverpool and Southampton during their first year in England, but life went on, even amidst the squalor of the prison compounds.  Many Daigres married fellow Acadians, and more children were born into the family.  In Maryland, unlike in Virginia, colonial authorities held the Acadians until the end of the war with France.  At least one Daigre family was sent to Pennsylvania.  Several Daigre families were deported to Massachusetts, where they lived at Milton and Boston.  Daigres from Petitcoudiac and Minas who escaped the British roundups in 1755 or left the Maritime islands soon afterwards took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore or moved on to Canada.  At least two married brothers and members of their families were likely victims of a smallpox epidemic that struck Acadian refugees in and around Québec from the summer of 1757 to the spring of 1758.  Daigres also married in the Canadian capital and bore more children there. 

Living in territory controlled by France, the Daigres who remained on the Maritime islands were untouched by the British roundups in Nova Scotia in the summer and fall of 1755.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived, however.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats gathered up most of the habitants on the islands, many Daigres among them, and deported them to St.-Malo and other French ports.  One Daigre family, with many of their neighbors at Malpèque on the northwest shore of Île St.-Jean, escaped the British round up, crossed Mer Rouge, and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore before making their way up to the French stronghold at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  But most of the island Daigres were not so lucky.  The 1758 crossing to France devastated the family.  Daigres died on the deportation transport Duc Guillaume, which left Île Royale in late summer, suffered a mid-ocean mishap, and limped into St.-Malo harbor the first of November.  An entire family of Daigres perished aboard the deportation transport Violet, which left Chédabouctou Bay in a 12-ship convoy in late November, bound for St.-Malo, and sank in a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England.  Most of the island Daigres crossed on one of the five deportation transports that left Chédabouctou Bay in the 12-ship convoy, survived the mid-December storm that sank the Violet and two other vessels in the convoy, and reached St.-Malo together in late January 1759.  The crossing on the Five Ships was nevertheless a terrible one.  The death toll among the 1,033 passengers aboard those vessels reached nearly 50 percent, many of them Daigres.  Another Daigre died in the crossing to St.-Malo aboard an unnamed vessel.  The many island Daigres who survived the crossing did their best to make a life for themselves in the suburbs and villages of the St.-Malo area.  They settled in the suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer; at Trigavou, Pleslin, Créhen, Pleurtuit, Plouër-sur-Rance, Lizenais, and Gallienne on the west side of the river south of the Breton port; and at Pleudihen-sur-Rance, Mordreuc, Les Villes Morvues, La Gravelle, and Le Coquenais across the river.  Island Daigres ended up in other French ports, including the naval port of Rochefort on the Bay of Biscay, the northern fishing center of Boulogne-sur-Mer in Picardie, and at Cherbourg and Le Havre in Normandy.  Some of the Daigres who landed in these ports joined their many kinsmen in the St.-Malo area at the first opportunity.  In the spring of 1763, after prolonged negotiations between the French and British governments, the Acadians in England who had gone there from Virginia were repatriated to France, many Daigres among them.  They landed at St.-Malo and Morlaix in northern Brittany and were especially plentiful aboard the transports Ambition and Dorothée, which took them to St.-Malo. 

In late autumn 1765, Daigres repatriated from England to Morlaix, many of them brothers, along with a Daigre cousin deported to St.-Malo from the French Maritimes, agreed to become part of a new agricultural venture on Belle-Île-en-Mer, recently freed from British occupation, off the southern coast of Brittany.  They settled in all four of the island's districts:  at Chubiguer and Kerbellec near Le Palais on the east end of the island, Kervellent and Kerson near Sauzon on the northern end of the island, Les Cosquet near Locmaria at the southeast end of the island, and at Tynever near Bangor in the island's southern interior.  Some of the Belle-Île Daigres moved on to Lorient in southern Brittany, but most who did returned to the island. 

In the early 1770s, Daigres in several port cities chose to take part in another, even larger, settlement venture, this one in the interior of Poitou.  French authorities were tired of providing for the exiles languishing in the port cities.  An influential nobleman offered to settle them on land he owned near the city of Châtellerault.  After two years of effort, however, most of the Daigres abandoned the venture and retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes, where they lived as best they could on government handouts and what work they could find.  At Nantes, they settled in the parishes of St.-Similien, St.-Nicolas, St.-Jacques, and St.-Martin de Chantenay; and at Paimboeuf, the lower port of Nantes.  Some of the Daigres who settled in the Nantes area did not come there from Poitou.  Two of the Daigre brothers who had gone to Belle-Île-en-Mer moved to Paimboeuf in the early 1780s, perhaps lured there by promises of a new life in Spanish Louisiana.

According to Acadian genealogist Bona Arsenault, one Daigre family, instead of going to Poitou from St.-Servan-sur-Mer with dozens of their fellow Acadians in 1774, joined, instead, an expedition of other exiles led by ship captain Charles Robin to the British-controlled Channel island of Jersey, the Robin brothers' home base.  From Jersey, the Acadians recrossed the North Atlantic and settled at the Robin-controlled fishery in Gaspésie on the northern coast of the Baie des Chaleurs, where, Arsenault insists, members of the family were counted in 1791 and 1792.  Daigres also settled, according to Arsenault, at St.-Basile-de-Madawaska on upper Rivière St.-Jean, and at Richibouctou on the eastern shore of New Brunswick.  Albert J. Robichaux, Jr.'s study of the Acadians in France, however, shows that the father of this family died at St.-Servan in July 1774 and that at least his oldest son remained in France.  The death of a young Daigre daughter at St.-Servan in August 1779 hints that her father's widow also remained in France with her younger children.  If any of her Daigre children "returned" to North America, they likely did not do it in the 1770s. 

During their two and a half decades in the mother country, Acadian Daigres proliferated, even prospered, despite the frustrations of living there.  Yet, in the early 1780s, when the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, at least 58 Daigres from the St.-Malo area, Belle-Île-en-Mer, and especially from Nantes and Paimboeuf, agreed to take it.  But many other Daigres, including the majority of them still on Belle-Île-en-Mer, chose to remain in the mother country. 

In North America, Acadians being held in the seaboard colonies at war's end, theoretically, were free to go, but not until the British discerned their intentions.  Even then, colonial officials discouraged repatriation.  In June 1763, in Pennsylvania, according to a French repatriation list circulating in the colony, a Daigre family was still living there.  That July, in Maryland, Daigres appeared on a repatriation list at Newtown on the colony's Eastern Shore.  In August, in Massachusetts, at least two Daigre famililes appeared on repatriation lists in that colony.  Most of the Acadians in the upper seaboard colonies, Daigres among them, chose to resettle in Canada.  Though now also a British possession, the far-northern province was populated largely by fellow French Catholics, many of them Acadian exiles.  So, in a colony nearly as old as Acadia, descendants of Olivier Daigre began the slow, inexorable process of becoming Canadiennes.  Especially after 1766, Daigres could be found on the upper St. Lawrence at St.-Ambroise, today's Loretteville; St.-Jacques de l'Achigan north of Montréal; and St.-Ours on lower Rivière Richelieu, where they were especially plentiful.  They also could be found at Charlesbourg and Montmagny on the St.-Lawrence below Québec City; and at Bonaventure and Carleton in Gaspésie.  In present-day northeastern New Brunswick, they settled at Richibouctou and Nipisiguit, today's Bathhurst, on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore; and at St.-Basile-de-Madawaska on upper Rivière St.-Jean on the northwestern edge of the province.  Typical of most, if not all, Acadian families, these Acadiennes of Canada lost touch with their Cadien cousins hundreds of miles away, and, until the Acadian reunions of the twentieth century, may even have forgotten the others existed. 

The few Daigres remaining in South Carolina and a Daigre family from Pennsylvania chose to go not to Canada, where the British now ruled, but to St.-Domingue, where they could live not only among fellow Roman Catholics, but also in territory controlled by France.  Although driven from North America by the Seven Years' War, the French were determined to hang on to what was left of their shrinking colonial empire.  A new naval base at Môle St.-Nicolas on the northwest end of St.-Domingue would protect the approaches to their remaining possessions in the Caribbean Basin and assist in the "war of vengeance" to come.  The exiles could provide a source of cheap labor not only for the naval contractors, but also for the colony's major planters, who hoped to supplement the work of their slaves.  To entice them to the tropical island, the French promised the Acadians land of their own there.  It must have worked out for the Daigres who went to St.-Domingue after 1763.  When fellow Acadians from Nova Scotia and Maryland, including a Daigre, came through Cap-Français in the mid- and late 1760s on their way to New Orleans, none of the Daigres in St.-Domingue chose to join them.  A Daigre also ended up at Champflore, Martinique, after the war. 

For the members of the family who had escaped the British in the late 1750s and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, conditions only got worse there.  After the fall of Québec in September 1759, the British prepared to attack the remaining French strongholds in New France, one of which was Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, now a major Acadian refuge.  In late June 1760, a British naval force from Louisbourg attacked Restigouche.  After a spirited fight in which Acadian militia and Mi'kmaq warriors played an important role, the French commander blew up his larger vessels and retreated up Rivière Restigouche, leaving the militia and the Indians to prevent a British landing.  Unable to capture the garrison or lay waste to the area, the British commander ordered his ships to return to their base at Louisbourg.  The following October, after the fall of Montréal, another British naval force, this one from Québec, returned to Restigouche to accept the garrison's, and the Acadians', surrender.  On 24 October 1760, on the eve of formal surrender, French officers counted the 1,003 Acadians still at Restigouche, at least one large Daigre family among them.  During the following months, most of these Acadians, along with others who had either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the region, were sent to prison compounds in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  After the war, one of them, now an orphan, was taken to the French-controlled fishery island of Miquelon off the southern coast of Newfoundland, while his older sister joined hundreds of other Acadians in their search for a new home in the Mississippi valley--the first of the family, in fact, to emigrate to Louisiana. 

The refugees in Maryland endured life among Englishmen who, despite their colony's Catholic roots, did not care much for the French "papists" thrust upon them.  When word reached the Acadians in Maryland that the Spanish would welcome them in Louisiana, they pooled their meager resources to charter ships that would take them to New Orleans.  From 1766 to 1769, four expeditions left Baltimore and Port Tobacco for the Mississippi valley colony, but no Daigres were among them.  A Daigre and his family were among the minority of Acadians in the Cheaspeake colony who chose to remain there before moving on to Canada.  One of their sons evidently did not join them in their journey to the Montréal area.  An historian of the Acadians in Maryland notes that this Daigle became "the captain of the Baltimore-Norfolk packet line who figures so prominently in city records."

Daigres settled early in Acadia, but most of them came "late" to Louisiana.  In fact, if the Spanish government had not coaxed over 1,500 Acadians in France to emigrate to their Mississippi-valley colony, the Acadian branch of the Daigre/Daigle family would be a small one in the Bayou State today, if it existed there at all.  The first member of the family to emigrate to Louisiana--a teenage orphan from one of the prison compounds in Nova Scotia--came from Halifax via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, in 1765 and settled at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  After she married there, she followed her Thériot husband upriver to Baton Rouge.  Not until nearly two decades later, in 1785, did more Acadian Daigre/Daigles reach the colony--58 of them, including nearly a dozen families, aboard six of the Seven Ships from France.  They settled on the river above and below New Orleans, most of them at Manchac south of Baton Rouge; and some in the new Acadian community of Bayou des Écores in the Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge, which they abandoned in the early 1790s.  During the following decades, these river families settled along the entire length of the old Acadian Coast in what became East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge, Iberville, Ascension, and St. James parishes.  They were especially numerous in the Baton Rouge/Manchac area. 

Acadian Daigles from France also settled on upper Bayou Lafourche, which became a second important center of family settlement that eventually stretched all the way down into the Terrebonne country.  (The town of Daigle north of Houma attests to the family's settlement there.)  Most of the Lafourche-valley Daigles, however, remained on the upper bayou in Assumption Parish, especially around Paincourtville.  During the late antebellum and immediate post-war periods, some of them left the bayou and settled near Pierre Part north of Lake Verret.  Meanwhile, in the late 1790s, a Daigle from the river crossed the Atchafalaya Basin and settled in the Attakapas District, but his line did not endure.  During the antebellum period, Daigles from Assumption and the Baton Rouge area moved to Bayou Teche and created a small western branch of the family there.  Late in the period, a few of their cousins from Assumption moved to the Brashear, now Morgan, City area on the lower Atchafalaya, but the number of Acadian Daigles west of the Basin remained small in comparison to their cousins on the river and in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley. 

Not all of the Daigles of South Louisiana are descendants of Olivier Daigre of Port-Royal.  Étienne dit Marlborough d'Aigle, a French-Canadian with German-Austrian roots, came to the colony in the 1720s, decades before his Acadian namesakes reached Louisiana.  He settled across from Chapitoulas just upriver from New Orleans before moving to St.-Charles des Allemands on the lower German Coast.  By the early 1800s, some of his great-grandsons had crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to the Opelousas prairies and settled along upper Bayou Plaquemine Brûlé near present-day Church Point.  Most of the Daigles of southwest Louisiana are descended from these French Canadians, some of whom took Acadian wives soon after they reached the prairies.  Other non-Acadian Daigles may have lived on the river and in the Bayou Lafourche valley during the antebellum period, further complicating the family's genealogical picture in South Louisiana. 

Dozens of Daigres and Daigles, both Acadian and French Canadian, served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65.  At least two of them died in Confederate service, both from disease. ...

In Acadia and during Le Grand Dérangement, the family's surname evolved from Daigre to Daigle, though many members of the family, especially in the Baton Rouge area, retained the original spelling, pronounced DEG.  In Louisiana, the family's name also is spelled Aigle, D'aigle, D'aigre, D'aigrin, Daigue, Daygle, Deagle, Degg, Degle, D'egle, Deglet, Degre, Degue, Degues, Deigue, Desgre, Deygle, Diegle, Digue.06

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The first Acadian Daigre in Louisiana was a 14-year-old orphan who reached the colony in 1765 from Halifax via Cap-Français.  Agnès-Marie, a native of Malpèque, Île St.-Jean, married into the Thériot family at Cabahannocer on the lower Acadian Coast in April 1771 and died at Baton Rouge on the upper Acadian Coast four decades later.

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The great majority of the Acadian Daigre/Daigles who emigrated to Louisiana--at least 58 of them in nearly a dozen families--reached the colony aboard six of the Seven Ships from France in 1785 and settled on the river above New Orleans and on upper Bayou Lafourche. 

The first of them--a childless elderly couple--came to Louisiana from France aboard Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in July 1785.  They settled on the river and upper Lafourche.  No family line came of it:

Charles (1731-?) à Bernard à Olivier Daigre

Charles, fils, second son of Charles Daigre and Françoise Doucet, born at Pigiguit in August 1731, evidently moved to Île St.-Jean after August 1752 and married Anne-Marie, daughter of Joseph Vincent and ____, on the island in c1758.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, soon after their marriage.  They settled at Trigavou on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo, where Charles worked as a ploughman and a pulley maker.  They were that rare Acadian couple who had no children.  They likely were among the hundreds of Acadians in the port cities who went to the interior of Poitou in 1773 and, after two years of effort, retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes.  A Spanish official counted them there in September 1784.  They emigrated to Spanish Louisiana the following year and followed their fellow passengers to Manchac south of Baton Rouge.  At age 54, Charles remarried to Marie-Françoise or Françoise-Marie, 48-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Boudrot and Madeleine- or Marie-Josèphe Doiron and widow of Joseph Clossinet and Marin Dugas, at Manchac in February 1786.  She also gave him no children.  During the late 1780s, they moved on to upper Bayou Lafourche, where they appeared in Spanish census records as late as January 1798.  Charles died probably on the upper bayou not long after the census.  His line of the family died with him. 

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Eleven more Daigres--a bachelor, two female orphans, three wives, a widow, and a small family--came to Louisiana from France aboard La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in mid-August 1785.  They followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, which became the first center of Daigre family settlement in the colony: 

Eustache (1728-1790s) à Bernard à Olivier Daigre

Eustache, fourth son of Bernard Daigre, fils and Angélique Richard, born at Grand-Pré in May 1728, was deported to Virginia in 1755 and to England in the spring of 1756.  In 1759, at age 31, he married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Dupuis and Marie-Madeleine Trahan of Rivière-aux-Canards, at Southampton, England.  Madeleine gave Eustache two children there:  Pierre born in c1760; and Marie-Marguerite in September 1761.  The family was repatriated to St.-Malo, France, in May 1763 aboard L'Ambition and settled at Plouër-sur-Rance on the west side of the river south of the Breton port, where Eustache worked as a day laborer and carpenter.  Madeleine gave him four more children there:  Madeleine-Marguerite born at nearby Liznais in February 1765 but died there at age 5 1/2 in June 1771; Victoire-Marie born in January 1767 but died at Lizenais in August 1773, age 6 1/2; Jean-Joseph born in January 1770; and Charles-Marc in February 1772.  The family did not follow other Acadians repatriated from England to Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany in November 1765.  In 1773, they went, instead, to the interior of Poitou with hundreds of other Acadians from the St.-Malo area.  In March 1776, after two years of effort, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes.  Madeleine gave Eustache four more sons in St.-Nicolas Parish, Nantes:  Fabien born in August 1776 but died at age 15 months in November 1777; Joseph-Grégoire born in February 1779 but died the following August; Isaac-Joseph born in September 1780 but died at age 1 in November 1781; and Étienne born in December 1784--10 children, seven sons and three daughters, between 1760 and 1784, in England and France.  Oldest daughter Marie-Marguerite married into the Hébert family in St.-Nicolas Parish in July 1780.  Eustache, Madeleine, and three of their sons, one of them an infant, along with their married daughter and her family, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Oldest son Pierre, who would have been age 25 in 1785, if he were still living, did not follow his family to Louisiana.  From New Orleans, Eustache and his family followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Madeleine gave him no more children there.  Eustache died on the upper bayou in the early 1790s, in his early 60s.  Madeleine did not remarry.  She died in Assumption Parish in September 1816, in her mid-70s.  Two of her and Eustache's sons married on the upper bayou, but only one of the lines endured. 

Second son Jean-Joseph followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Anne-Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Mazerolle and his first wife Marguerite Trahan, in April 1792.  Anne-Françoise, a native of St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo, also had come to Louisiana aboard La Bergère.  Jean died in Assumption Parish in December 1829, a month shy of age 60.  He and his wife may have been that rare Acadian couple who had no children.  

Eustache's third son Charles-Marc followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and upper Bayou Lafourche.  He died there in December 1799, age 27.  He did not marry. 

Eustache's seventh and youngest son Étienne followed his family to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marie-Marguerite, called Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Landry and Osite Landry, in February 1804.  Marguerite was a native of Louisiana whose parents had come to the colony from Maryland in 1766.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Joseph Étienne in November 1804; Marcellite Osite in March 1806; Constance Élise in October 1807 but drowned in Bayou Lafourche at age 16 1/2 (the priest said 15) in July 1824; Elias Joseph born in February 1810 but died at age 3 1/2 in August 1814; Ursin Raymond born in April 1811; Valéry Tibaut or Tibodau, called Tibodau, in July 1813 but died at age 19 (the recording priest said 21) in June 1833; Adélaïde Zépherine or Zépheline born in December 1814 but died at age 5 1/2 in September 1820; Marcellin Auguste born in April 1817 but died at age 17 1/2 (the recording priest said 20) in August 1834; and Romain Emérant born posthumously in February 1820--nine children, six sons and three daughters, between 1804 and 1820.  Étienne died in Assumption Parish in June 1819, age 34.  Daughter Marcellite married into the Trahan family.  Three of Étienne's sons also married and remained in Assumption Parish.  Some of his descendants settled at Pierre Part on the north shore of Lake Verret in the northwest corner of the parish. 

Oldest son Joseph Étienne married cousin Céleste or Célestine, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Daigle and his Creole wife Marguerite Simoneaux, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in April 1823.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Assumption and Ascension parishes.  Their children, born there, included Vincent de Paul Balsain or Valsin, called Valsin, in July 1824 but died at age 9 in June 1833; Blaise Sylvain born in February 1826; Urbain or Urbin Amédé in July 1828 but died at age 2 1/2 in March 1831; Marie Céleste or Célestine Rosela, called Célestine, born in May 1830; Elmire Marguerite in July 1832 but, called Hermine by the recording priest, died at age 1 (the recording priest said 15 months) in June 1833; and Marcellin born in the c1833.  Wife Céleste died in Assumption Parish in June 1834, age 27.  Joseph remarried to Eugénie, also called Virginie, daughter of André Kent, Carle, Karne, Kerne, or Querne and Madeleine Burt and widow of ____, at the Plattenville church in August 1841.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included twins Félix and Joseph Romain near Plattenville in May 1842, but Joseph Romain may have died at age 3 in August 1845; Marie died at age 4 months in June 1844; Joseph Victor, called Victor, baptized at Paincourtville, age unrecorded, in May 1844; Sead Gilbert born in July 1847; Étienne Alzé or Alcée, called Alcée, in August 1849; Marie Genie Anastasie, called Anastasie, in November 1851; and Marie Zulma in March 1854--14 children, nine sons and five daughters, by two wives, including a set of twins, between 1824 and 1854.  Daughters Célestine and Anastasie, by both wives, married into the Foret and Daigle families by 1870, and the younger one settled near Brashear, now Morgan, City on the lower Atchafalaya.  Two of Joseph Étienne's remaining sons also married by then.  One of them settled near Pierre Part on the north shore of Lake Verret. 

Fourth son Marcellin, by first wife Céleste Simoneaux, married Joséphine, daughter of Hursin, probably Ursin, Querne or Kerne and his Acadian wife Adèle Boudreaux, at the Paincourtville church in July 1858.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Élizabeth near Attakapas Canal, Assumption Parish, in August 1859; Élise Anastasie near Labadieville in December 1862; ...

Joseph Étienne's fifth son Félix, a twin, by second wife Virginie Kerne, married cousin Célina, daughter of fellow Acadians Valéry Blanchard and Augustine Thériot, at the Pierre Part church, Assumption Parish, in April 1866; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry. ...

Étienne's third son Ursin Raymond married Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Chrysostôme Trahan and Madeleine Guidry of Assumption Parish, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in October 1830.  Their son Charles Firmin was born on the upper Lafourche in September 1832 but died at age 2 (the recording priest said 3) in November 1834.  Ursin remarried to Mathilde or Bathilde, daughter of fellow Acadians François Theriot and Marie Bourg, at the Plattenville church in January 1834.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Eusilien François in September 1834; Joseph Étienne le jeune died at age 6 weeks in October 1836; Étienne Désiré, perhaps called Désiré, born in February 1838; Marie Adellina, called Adelisca, in October 1839; Ursin Crepin, called Crepin, near Plattenville in July 1841; Victor near Paincourtville in September 1844; Marie Ophelia, called Ophelia, in November 1845; Marie Zulma in January 1848; Joseph Uzère in November 1849; Étienne Diogène in September 1852; Marie Ermina in November 1855 but, called Ermina, died at age 1 in November 1856; Marie Alise born in January 1858; and Joseph Elphége in October 1860--14 children, nine sons and five daughters, by two wives, between 1832 and 1860.  Ursin died near Pierre Part in February 1864, age 52.  Daughters Adelisca and Ophelia, by his second wife, married into the Dugas and Maroir families by 1870.  Four of Ursin's sons also married by then, but not all of the lines endured.

Second son Eusilien, by second wife Mathilde Theriot, married Augustine, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Dugas and Adeline Babin, at the Paincourtville church in January 1856.  Their children, born near Paincourtville, included Marie Séraphine in September 1860 but, called Séraphine, died at age 5 in October 1865; Israël Eusilien born in May 1863; Marie Zulma in January 1866; Augustin in January 1869; ... 

Ursin Raymond's fourth son Désiré, by second wife Mathilde Theriot, may have married cousin Fideline or Fidelia Daigle, place and date unrecorded.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Joseph Alcé near Attakapas Canal, Assumption Parish, in October 1861; twins Marie Elizabeth Julie and Marie Marguerite Julia in June 1866, but Marie Elizabeth Julie, called Julia, died at age 3 in July 1869; ... 

Ursin Raymond's fifth son Crepin, by second wife Mathilde Theriot, married Clémentine, daughter of Romain Friou and his Acadian wife Adeline Dupuis, at the Plattenville church in April 1861.  During the War of 1861-65, Crepin served in Company D of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Mary Parish, so he probably was a conscript, and in Company E of the 18th Consolidated Louisiana Infantry, which served in Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, and Arkansas.  He survived the war, returned to his family, and died near Paincourtville in October 1869.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Crepin died at "age ca. 25 years."  He was 28.  One wonders if his death was war-related.  Did he father any children? 

Ursin Raymond's sixth son Victor, by second wife Mathilde Theriot, married Julie, daughter of fellow Acadian Sylvain Hébert and his Creole wife Marie Juno, at the Paincourtville church in January 1869.  Their son Joseph Crepin was born near Paincourtville in October 1870; ...

Étienne's sixth and youngest son Romain Emérant married Marie Azélie, called Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Dugas and Marie Landry, at the Plattenville church in May 1839.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Phildeline in May 1840; Marie Élisa in August 1842 but, called Mélize, died at age 10 1/2 in March 1853; Joseph Gervais born in June 1846; and Marie Aimée in August 1848.  Romain remarried to Louise, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Giroir and Adèle Hébert, at the Plattenville church in May 1852.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Veneda in September 1853; Joseph Alcide in August 1856; Marguerite Félicie in December 1859; Marie in August 1862; Marie Adeline in October 1865; Aimée died, age unrecorded, in October 1867; Louise Medora born in February 1869 but, called Louise Modra, died at age 1 1/2 in September 1870; ...  None of Romain's children married by 1870. 

Alexis-Jean-Mathurin (1763-1815) à Pierre à Bernard à Olivier Daigre

Alexis-Jean-Mathurin, called Mathurin, third son of Alexandre Daigre and Élisabeth Granger of Pigiguit and Île St.-Jean, born at Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, in January 1763, followed his family to St.-Malo in May 1766 and settled with them at nearby St.-Servan-en-Mer.  He followed them to Poitou in 1773 and to Nantes in early 1776, where he became an engraver.  In 1785, still a young bachelor, he emigrated to Spanish Louisiana with four of his siblings, most of whom took other ships, and followed them from New Orleans to upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marie-Josèphe-Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Levron and Marguerite Trahan, in January 1788.  Marie, also a native of Boulogne-sur-Mer, had come to Louisiana from France in 1785 aboard a later ship.  The baptismal record of a daughter at the St.-Louis church, New Orleans, dated 18 March 1797, describes Alexis and his wife as "residents of this parish," so they evidently lived in the city during the mid-1790s before returning to the upper Lafourche, where they were counted again April 1797.  Their children, born on the upper bayou, included Joseph-Alex in November 1788; Charles-Marie in March 1790; Jean-Baptiste in April 1792; Sylvestre-Joseph in September 1794; Marie-Claire, called Claire, in January 1797 and baptized at New Orleans the following March; Mathurin, fils born in March 1799; Pierre-Michel or Michel-Pierre in November 1800; Marie-Scholastique dite Colastie in July 1803; and Thomas in 1814 and died at age 11 months in March 1815--nine children, seven sons and two daughters, between 1788 and 1814.  A succession for Mathurin Daigle, perhaps him, was filed at what became the Interior Parish courthouse in November 1806.  A succession inventory, doubtlessly his, calling his wife Françoise LeBlanc[sic], was filed at the Lafourche Interior Parish courthouse in June 1815.  Mathurin died in Assumption Parish in October 1815.  The Plattenville priest who recorded the burial said that Mathurin was age 50 when he died.  He was 52.  Daughters Claire and Marie Scholastique married into the Malbrough family.  Four of Mathurin's sons also married.  Unlike their cousins, most of whom remained on the upper Lafourche in Assumption Parish, Mathurin's sons and grandsons moved down bayou into Lafourche Interior and Terrebonne parishes. 

Oldest son Joseph Alex married Marie Marguerite, called Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Richard and Marie Trahan of Lafourche, at the Plattenville church in March 1818.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Alexandre Joseph or Joseph Alexandre, called Alexandre, in Assumption Parish in February 1819; Marie Claire or Clarisse in August 1821; Matherne or Mathurin Magloire in October 1825; Rosalie dite Rose in April 1828; Joseph Joachim, called Joachim, in Lafourche Interior Parish in March 1830; Charles Henry or Henri, called Henri, in May 1832; and Joseph Émile in May 1842--seven children, five sons and two daughters, between 1819 and 1842.  Wife Marie Marguerite died in January 1850, in her early 50s.  A petition for succession inventory, in her name, listing her husband and most of their children--Henry, Alexandre, Mathurin, Joachim, Marie Clarisse and her husband, and Rose and her husband--was filed at the Houma courthouse, Terrebonne Parish, in May.  Daughters Marie Clarisse and Rosalie married into the Deoux and Lamoureaux families by 1870.  Four of Joseph's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Alexandre Joseph or Joseph Alexandre, called Alexandre, married Odile Victorine, called Victorine, daughter of Auguste Bernon, Berland, Bernar, or Bernou and his French-Canadian wife Anne Arcenot of Terrebonne Parish, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in August 1841.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Anne in June 1842; Joseph Alcé, called Alcé, in April 1845; Augustin, also called Sylvain, in June 1847; and Marie Alexina, called Alexina or Alezzina, and perhaps also Eveline and Evelina, in August 1849--four children, two daughters and two sons, between 1842 and 1849.  Alexandre died in Lafourche Parish in November 1855, age 36.  A petition for succession inventory in his name, calling his wife Victoire Daigle and listing his children--Odilia, Elce (Alcée), Sylvain, and Alezzina--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse on Christmas Eve 1855.  Daughters Marie Anne and Eveline/Evelina married into the Ribbeck and Daigle families by 1870.  None of Alexandre's sons married by then.

Joseph Alex's second son Matherne or Mathurin Magloire married Marie Elesida, Elisida, Elizida, or Lesida, daughter of fellow Acadians Ambroise Dugas and Marcellite Bourgeois, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in July 1847.  Their children, born in Lafourche Interior and Terrebonne parishes, included Louise Elvina or Luvinia, called Luvinia, in Lafourche Interior Parish in July 1848; Marie Helena in May 1850; Célestine Octavie in May 1852; Marie Alfrina in July 1854; Mathurin Octave in March 1857; Joseph Augustin Paulin near Chacahoula, Terrebonne Parish, in May 1859; Pierre Edgard in October 1861; Joséphine Franklina in May 1864; ...  Daughter Luvinia married into the Breaux family by 1870.  None of Mathurin's sons married by then. 

Joseph Alex's third son Joseph Joachim, called Joachim, married Joséphine, also called Delphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Aubin Bénoni Thibodaux, a son of the former governor, and Eugénie Hébert, at the Thibodaux church in December 1849.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joseph le jeune in September 1850; Edgar died four days after his birth in October 1854; Henriette born in June 1853; Marie in May 1856; twins Alfrida Louise and Louis Alfred in October 1859, but Louis Alfred, called Louis, died at age 9 months in August 1860; and Adam born in May 1863.  Joachim remarried to Marie, also called Uranie and Ulalie, daughter of Creoles Zéphirin Olivier and Delphine Chichenouch and widow of Louis Pontiff, at the Thibodaux church in May 1867.  A year or so after their wedding, they moved to the Abbeville area in Vermilion Parish.  Their children, born on the Lafourche and the western prairies, included Cécile in Lafourche Parish in March 1868; Dominique on the prairies in July 1870; ...  None of Joachim's children married by 1870. 

Joseph Alex's fourth son Charles Henri, called Henri, married Ophelia, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Noël Boudreaux and his Creole wife Aimée Caroline Olivier, at the Thibodaux church in August 1855; the marriage also was registered in Terrebonne Parish.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joseph Pierre in June 1856; Henri Edgard in January 1858 but evidently was the unnamed child who died the day of his birth; Marie Elvina born in December 1859; Marie Ociana in December 1861; Marie died "at age 24 hrs." in December 1863; twins Joseph and Pierre born in October 1865; ... 

Alexis Jean Mathurin's third son Jean Baptiste married Marie Carmélite, also called Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Lejeune and Marie Bonne Adélaïde Landry, at the Plattenville church in June 1816.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Josèphe Pauline, called Pauline, in Assumption Parish in July 1819; Joseph in Lafourche Interior Parish in January 1821; Jean Baptiste Onésime or Olésime, called Olésime, in January 1824; Mélanie Madeleine in May 1825; Séraphin in September 1826; and Barthélémy Adam in November 1831--six children, two daughters and four sons, between 1819 and 1831.  Daughters Pauline and Mélanie married into the Richoux and Leonard families by 1870.  One of Jean-Baptiste's sons also married by then. 

Second son Jean Baptiste Onésime or Olésime, called Olésime, married Angèlle Modeste, called Modeste, daughter of fellow Acadian Eugène Bourgeois and his Creole wife Angélique Barrios, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1850.  Their children, born on the lower Lafourche, included Emmanuel Eugène near Lockport in December 1851; Marie Angèle in March 1854; Augustine Eveline in April 1855; Charles Désirée near Raceland in October 1857; Adam in January 1860; Marguerite Myrthée near Lockport in April 1866; ...  None of Olésime's children married by 1870. 

Alexis Jean Mathurin's fifth son Mathurin, fils, at age 21, married Eméranthe, daughter of fellow Acadians François Marie Gautreaux and Félicité Hébert, at the Plattenville church in January 1822.  A son, name and age unrecorded, died in Assumption Parish in October 1822.  Mathurin, fils, at age 27, remarried to Marie Élise, called Élise or Lise, 15-year-old daughter of Nicolas Lirette and Marie Josèphe Malbrough, at the Thibodauxville church in April 1826; the marriage also was registered in Terrebonne Parish.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Lessin in April 1827; Emérante dite Méranthe Phelonise in April 1829; Leufroi Ulgère in August 1831; Aureline in May 1834; Marguerite Delphine in January 1837 but, called Marguerite, died at age 16 (the recording priest gave no age) in February 1853; Alexandrine Evelina or Eveline, called Eveline, born in February 1839; Octave in March 1841; Joseph A., probably Alcé, in June 1843; Marie Aurore in September 1845; Azélie in January 1848; Mathurin Ferdinand in March 1851; and Joseph in July 1854 but died there at age 3 1/2 (the recording priest said 4) in May 1858--13 children, seven sons and six daughters, by two wives, between 1822 and 1854.  According to Terrebonne Parish court records, in June 1842, Mathurin, fils assumed tutelage of his niece Emérente Malbrough, daughter of his sister Marie Scholastique dite Colastie, who had married Joseph Guillaume Malbrough.  Mathurin, fils's daughters Emérante dite Méranthe Phelonise, Aureline, Eveline, Marie, and Azélie by his second wife, married into the Louvière, Labie or Labit, Delaune, Adoue or Adoux, Navarre, and Dugas families, two of them, Méranthe and Aureline, twice by 1870.  Four of Mathurin, fils's sons also married by then. 

Second son Lessin, by second wife Lise Lirette, married Marie Pamela, called Pamela, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Valéry Gautreaux and Théotiste Louvière, at the Thibodaux church in February 1849.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Treville Noël in December 1849; Marie Zulma in March 1852; Marie Irma in November 1854; Orvile in November 1856; Marie Odilia in September 1859; Marie Émilie in January 1862; Marie Marguerite in March 1866; Julie Marie in March 1869; ...  None of Lessin's children married by 1870. 

Mathurin, fils's third son Leufroi, by second wife Lise Lirette, married Rosalie or Eulalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Eugène Thibodeaux and Rosalie Henry, at the Thibodaux church in June 1854; the marriage also was registered in Terrebonne Parish.  Their children, born on the southeastern bayous, included Marie Osea in Lafourche Parish in March 1855; Alae Calix in October 1856; Joseph Ellis in Terrebonne Parish in February 1859; Alfred Camille in Lafourche Parish in May 1860; and Joseph Elfége in June 1862.  Leufroi remarried to Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Augustin Babin and Marguerite Breaux of Terrebonne Parish, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in February 1865.  Their children, born in Lafourche Parish, included Marguerite in November 1866; Louisa Célina in August 1868; ...  None of Leufroi's children married by 1870. 

Mathurin, fils's fourth son Octave, by second wife Lise Lirette, married Marie Zulema or Zulma, daughter of fellow Acadian Forestal Dugas and his Creole wife Marie Adèle Bernon, at the Thibodaux church in September 1861.  Daughter Marie Elida was born in Lafourche Parish in March 1862.  Octave remarried to cousin Marie Evélina, Evéline, Exelina, or Alexina, daughter of fellow Acadian Alexandre Joseph Daigle, his first cousin, and his Creole wife Victorine Bernon, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in February 1865, and sanctified the marriage at the Houma church in April 1866.  Their children, born in Lafourche Parish, included Joseph Camille in September 1867; Elvire Mirtille in January 1869; Marie Octavie in February 1870; ...

Mathurin, fils's fifth son Joseph Alcé, called Alcé, from second wife Lise Lirette, married Evéline or Evélina, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Boudreaux and his Creole wife Rosalie Malbrough, at the Thibodaux church in March 1864.  Their children, born in Lafourche Parish, included twins Alcé, fils and Marie Malvina in January 1865, but Alcé, fils died at age 2 months (the recording priest said 4 months) the following March; ... 

Alexis Jean Mathurin's sixth son Pierre Michel or Michel Pierre married Marie Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Benoît Gautreaux and Élisabeth Bergeron, at the Plattenville church in February 1821.  She evidently gave him no children, at least none who survived infancy.  Pierre Michel remarried to Marie Carmélite, called Carmélite, another daughter of Nicolas Lirette and Marie Josèphe Malbrough, at the Thibodauxville church in October 1823; the marriage was registered in Terrebonne Parish also.  Their children, born on the southeastern bayous, included Joseph Michel in Lafourche Interior Parish in July 1825; Froisine or Euphrosine Éloise in November 1827; Césaire Odile or Odile Cézaire, a daughter, in August 1830; Marie Sivenine or Séverine in October 1833; Marcel Gervais in June 1836; Marcellin Théodule in February 1839; Émile Auguste in January 1842; Joseph Artur in November 1845; and Marcelline Victorine, called Victorine, in January 1851 "at Bayou Cannes"--nine children, five sons and four daughters, between 1825 and 1851.  Daughters Euphrosine, Odile Cézaire, Marie Séverine, and Victorine, by his second wife, married into the Gautreaux, Bergeron, Boudreaux, Porche or Poché, and Levron families by 1870.  Four of Pierre Michel's sons also married by then, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Joseph Michel, by second wife Carmélite Lirette, married Marcelline Delphine, called Delphine, daughter of François Michel Bouquet and his Acadian wife Marie Anne Henry, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in June 1848, and sanctified the marriage at the Houma church in June 1849.  Their children, born at Bayou Cannes, included Edmond Uter in November 1849; Adam Thalma in April 1852; and Frank in December 1854--three children, all sons, between 1849 and 1854.  One of Josesph Michel's sons married by 1870. 

Oldest son Edmond married Émelie or Émilia, daughter of Jean Marie LeBoeuf and his Acadian wife Joséphine Babin, at the Houma church in August 1867.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Marie Ovila in June 1868; Joséphine Eda in September 1870; ...

Pierre Michel's third son Marcel Gervais, by second wife Carmélite Lirette, married Ada, daughter of Philippe Darce and Marie Emelina Dupré of Terrebonne Parish, at the Houma church in June 1856.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included William Wiley in April 1857; Amélie Camilla in March 1858; Marceline Melicier in January 1860; Marie Louise Amanda in November 1861; Ernestine Alida near Montegut in May 1864; Clovis Ulysse in November 1868; ...

Pierre Michel's fourth son Marcellin Théodule, by second wife Carmélite Lirette, married Edmire or Elmire, daughter of Urbain Picou and his Acadian wife Marguerite Babin, at the Montegut church, Terrebonne Parish, in October 1866.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Marguerite Elisea baptized at the Houma church, age unrecorded, in January 1868; and Marie Félicia born in September 1869.  Marcellin died in Terrebonne Parish in November 1870.  The Houma priest who recorded the burial said that Marcelin, as he called him, died "at age 35 yrs."  He was 31. 

Pierre Michel's fifth son Émile Auguste, by second wife Carmélite Lirette, married Cécilia Antonita, Antoniata, or Autin, daughter of Fursi Porché and his Acadian wife Justine Aucoin, at the Houma church in May 1865.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Marie Cécilia in November 1866; Pierre Furri in August 1869; ... 

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Thirty-one more Daigres--six families, one led by a widow, another by a widower; an orphan; and a wife--one of the largest single Acadian family groups to reach the colony, came to Louisiana from France aboard Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in late August 1785.  They followed their fellow passengers to Manchac south of Baton Rouge and created another center of Daigre family settlement.  Some of their descendants moved out to the western prairies during the early antebellum period and founded a third center of Acadian family settlement there: 

Olivier IV (1732-1787) à Olivier, fils à Olivier Daigre

Olivier IV, second son of Olivier Daigre III and Françoise Granger, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in September 1732, married Marie, daughter of Pierre Landry and Marie-Josèphe LeBlanc, there in August 1755, on the eve of their deportation to Virginia, from which colonial officials sent them on to Falmouth, England, in the spring of 1756.  Marie died soon after their arrival, a victim, perhaps, of smallpox.  Olivier IV remarried to Marie-Blanche, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles LeBlanc and Élisabeth Thibodeau of Rivière-aux-Canards, at Falmouth in November 1758.  Marie-Blanche gave Olivier IV a son, Victor, born there in c1761.  Olivier IV, his wife, and son were repatriated to Morlaix, Brittany, France, in the spring of 1763.  She gave him another son, Michel, born at Morlaix in c1764.  In November 1765, they followed his family to Belle-Île-en-Mer, where they settled at Chubiguer near Le Palais on the east coast of the island.  Marie-Blanche gave Olivier IV seven more children there:  François born in December 1765; Simon-François in December 1767; Jean-Baptiste in February 1770; Marie-Geneviève in July 1773; Pélagie in June 1775; Eulalie in March 1779; and twins Honoré le jeune and Marguerite in August 1781.  Second son Michel died on the island, age 30 months, in May 1766.  In 1776, Olivier IV bought his younger brother Jean-Charles's land concession at Le Palais.  However, in the early 1780s, Olivier sold his concessions to older brother Honoré and took his family to Paimboeuf, the lower port for Nantes, where youngest son Jean-Baptiste-Toussaint was baptized in November 1783--11 children, seven sons and four daughters, all by his second wife, between 1761 and 1783, in England and France.  Marie-Blanche died soon after the birth of their youngest son, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth.  A Spanish official counted Olivier and 10 children, six sons and four daughters, at Paimboeuf in September 1784.  Olivier IV was still a widower.  He did not remarry.  Daughter Marguerite, a twin, died at Paimboeuf, age 3 1/2, in November 1784.  In June 1785, Olivier IV and eight of his children, five sons and three daughters, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana aboard one of the ships that sailed from the lower port.  Son Jean-Pierre-Toussaint, who had been baptized at Paimboeuf two years earlier, did not sail with them, so he likely had died soon after his birth.  From New Orleans, Olivier and his children followed their fellow passengers to Manchac south of Baton Rouge.  Olivier died there in August 1787, age 55.  Daughters Pélagie, Marie-Geneviève, and Eulalie married into the Aucoin, Breaux, Landry, and Aid families on the river.  Olivier IV's five remaining sons also married, two of them to sisters, and settled on the river.  Youngest surviving son Honoré le jeune died in Iberville Parish in December 1852, among the last of the Acadian exiles in Louisiana to join his ancestors.

Oldest son Victor, by second wife Marie-Blanche LeBlanc, followed his family to Morlaix, Belle-Île-en-Mer, and Paimboeuf and worked as a carpenter in the lower Loire port.  Still a bachelor in his early 20s, he followed his widowered father and siblings to New Orleans and Manchac, where he married Marguerite-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Doiron and Anne Thibodeau, in May 1786.  Marguerite-Josèphe, a native of St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, across the harbor from St.-Malo, also had come to Louisiana in 1785 aboard Le Beaumont.  Their children, born at Manchac, included Joseph in May 1787; and Jean-Bellony or -Delauny in October 1788.  Victor died probably at Manchac in December 1788, age 27.  His two sons married and settled in what became West Baton Rouge Parish. 

Older son Joseph married Marie, daughter of Andrés Lopes de Acuna and his Acadian wife Catherine Broussard, probably at Manchac in the late 1800s.  They settled in what became West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included twins Jean Thomas and Marie Paulite in December 1810; Pierre Joseph Thomas in December 1812; Oportine Alexandrine, called Alexandrine, in April 1816; and Marie Aureline in January 1819--five children, two sons and three daughters, including a set of twins, between 1810 and 1819.  Daughters Alexandrine and Marie Aureline married into the Tullier and Breaux families.  Neither of Joseph's sons married, but the blood of the family line endured.  

Victor's younger son Jean Bellony, Béloni, or Delauny married cousin Anne Marie or Marie Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Trahan and Anne Geneviève Daigle, probably at Manchac in the 1800s.  Their children, born in West Baton Rouge Parish, included Marie Modeste, called Modeste, in April 1810; Marie Carmélite in early 1815; Marie Céleste in December 1816; another Marie Céleste in May 1819; Marie Adeline in December 1821; Marie Aureline, called Aureline, in September 1825; Marie Doralise, called Doralise, in November 1827; Pierre Aristide in December 1829; and Jean Deossilys in June 1832.  Jean Bellony remarried to Modeste Prospere, place and date unrecorded, and settled near Baton Rouge by the late 1830s.  Their children, born in West Baton Rouge Parish, included Félicienne in late 1838 and baptized at Baton Rouge, age 7 months, in June 1839; Émelie Adolisca or Adoliska, called Adoliska, born in June 1842; and Jean Ulysse in January 1845--a dozen children, nine daughters and three sons, by two wives, between 1810 and 1845.  Jean Bellony, called Béloni by the recording priest, who gave no parents' names or mentioned a wife, died near Brusly, West Baton Rouge Parish, in November 1853.  The priest said that Béloni died at "age 58 yrs."  He was 65.  Daughters Marie Modeste, Marie Carmélite, Doralise, Aureline, and Adoliska, by both wives, married into the Tullier, Labauve, Crochet, Hébert, LeBlanc, Doiron, Aillet, and Francis families, four of them twice, by 1870.  None of Jean Bellony's sons married by then.

Olivier IV's third son François, by second wife Marie-Blanche LeBlanc, followed his family to Paimboeuf, also became a carpenter, and followed his widowered father and siblings to New Orleans and Manchac, where he married Servanne-Laurence, also called Honoriènne, Loraine, Laurire, and Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians René Landry and Marguerite Babin, in June 1793.  Loraine, a native of St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo, was a sister of François's brother Simon-François's wife and had come to Louisiana in 1785 aboard a later ship.  François and Servanne's children, born at Manchac, included Olivier-François in October 1793; Jean-Baptiste in January 1795 but died at age 6 months the following July; Joseph born in November 1796 but died at age 13 in October 1809; Laurent born in May 1798; and Angèl died at Manchac eight days after his birth in May 1803--five children, all sons, between 1793 and 1803.  François died near Baton Rouge in January 1839, age 73.  Two of his son married, but only one of them fathered sons of his own. 

Oldest son Olivier François married cousin Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Olivier Daigre and Marie Richard, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in January 1816.  One wonders if he was the Olivier Daigre "from the highlands" who died near Baton Rouge, age unrecorded, in July 1843.  If so, he would have been age 49 at the time of his death.  Carmélite, called "Mrs. Olivier Daigre," died near Baton Rouge in September 1855, age 59.  Did she and Olivier François have any children? 

François's fourth son Laurent married Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Trahan and Marguerite Doiron, at the Baton Rouge church in April 1821.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included a child, name and age unrecorded, died in May 1823; Idèlle Célestine born in April 1824; Lawrence Turiaf in July 1826 but died at age 11 (the recording priest said 12) in August 1837; Alphonse Forester, called Forester, born in January 1829; Marie Coralie in September 1830; Forestine Azélie or Azélie Florestine in May 1832; Ernest Nicolas in December 1833; Ernestine in the 1830s; Marie Augustine in September 1835; Hortense Victorin or Victoria, called Victoria, in March 1837; and Octave in May 1839--11 children, at least six daughters and four sons, between 1823 and 1839.  Laurent died by October 1850, when he was listed as deceased in a daughter's marriage record.  Daughters Marie Coralie, Azélie Florestine, Ernestine, and Victoria married into the Hébert, Estevan, Henry, Cointment, and Testard families, one of them, Ernestine, twice, by 1870.  One of Laurent's sons married by then.

Second son Alphonse Forester, called Forester, married Marie Adeline, daughter of fellow Acadian Janvier Allain and his Creole wife Marie Élise Bush, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in October 1850.  Their son Alphonse Désiré was born near St. Gabriel in May 1852.  Forester died near St. Gabriel in January 1868.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Florestan, as he called him, died at "age 37 years."  He was 39.  His son did not marry by 1870. 

Olivier IV's fourth son Simon-François, by second wife Marie-Blanche LeBlanc, followed his family to Paimboeuf, became a wet cooper there, and followed his widowered father and siblings to New Orleans and Manchac, where he married Anne-Marie-Jeanne, called Marie, another daughter of René Landry and Marguerite Babin, in November 1794; Anne-Marie-Jeanne was a sister of Simon's older brother Francois's wife Servanne.  Like her sister Servanne, Anne-Marie-Jeanne also was a native of St.-Servan-sur-Mer had come to Louisiana in 1785 aboard La Ville d'Archangel.  She and Simon-François settled at Manchac.  Their son Simon-Baptiste was born there in October 1794.  Simon died probably at Manchac in October 1795, age 28.  Widow Marie remarried to a Guidry.  Her and Simon François's son settled in Iberville Parish, married twice, and had sons by his second wife.  

Only son Simon Baptiste married cousin Constance, daughter of Isidore Tullier and his Acadian wife Marie Daigre, at the St. Gabriel church in April 1822.  She evidently gave him no children.  Simon, living in East Baton Rouge Parish, remarried to Marie Élisabeth, called Élisabeth, daughter of Michel Gareuil and Hélène Lopez and widow of Pierre Aucoin, at the St. Gabriel church in February 1833.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Félix in October 1833; an infant, name and age unrecorded, died in December 1835; Élisabeth born in December 1836 but died at age 4 1/2 (the recording priest said 6) in June 1841; Ernest born in October 1838; Marie Célina in September 1840 but, her name unrecorded, died at age 3 in October 1843; and another Élisabeth born in July 1843--six children, at least two sons and three daughters, by one of his two wives, between 1833 and 1843.  Daughter Élisabeth, the second with the name, by his second wife, married into the Gomes family by 1870.  One of Simon's sons also married by then. 

Older son Félix, by second wife Élisabeth Gareuil, married Théotiste or Théodice, daughter of Rosémond Capdevielle and Arthémise Hernandez, at the St. Gabriel church in February 1864.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Joseph Ernest in December 1864; Jean Baptiste Nepler in December 1866; ... 

Olivier IV's fifth son Jean-Baptiste, by second wife Marie-Blanche LeBlanc, followed his family to Paimboeuf and his widowered father and siblings to New Orleans and Manchac, where, at age 23, he married Marie-Julie, called Julie, 22-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Trahan and Anne dite Nanette Granger, in June 1793.  Julie a native of Bangor, Belle-Île-en-Mer, also had come to Louisiana in 1785 on Le Beaumont, so one wonders if they had known one another since childhood.  Their children, born at Manchac, included Mathilde in September 1793; Jean-Baptiste-Barbier, -Beauvier, -Beauvière, -Beauville, -Bouvier, -Bouvière, or -Bovière in January 1795; Mélanie-Clothilde in April 1796; Constance-Élise, called Élise, in May 1798; Joseph-Léger or -Lezin in c1799 or 1800 and baptized, age 1 1/2 years, in August 1801; an unnamed daughter died five days after her birth in May 1802; Jean Zénon, called Zénon, born in September 1805; and Marie Adeline in January 1808--eight children, five daughters and three sons, between 1793 and 1808.  Daughters Mélanie, Élise, and Adeline married into the Ledoux, Souchon dit Aubin, Theriot, and Arbour families.  Jean Baptiste's three sons also married and settled in West Baton Rouge and Iberville parishes, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Jean Baptiste Barbier or Bouvière married Marie Marthe, daughter of fellow Acadians Isaac Landry and Anne Aucoin, at the St. Gabriel church in April 1817.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie Edeleine, perhaps called Elvina, in December 1819; Virginie Céleste in November 1821; Eléonore Olive in January 1824; Jean Baptiste, fils in October 1826; Julie Carmélite in January 1829; and Marie Célina or Célima posthumously in May 1831--six children, five daughters and a son, between 1819 and 1831.  Jean Baptiste, père died probably in West Baton Rouge Parish in October 1830, age 35.  Daughters Elvina, Virginie, Eléonore, and Marie Célima married into the Lejeune, Lemoine, Trahan, Richard, and Thibodeaux families.  Did Jean Baptiste Barbier's son also marry?  If not, this line of the family, except for its blood, did not endure. 

Jean-Baptiste's second son Joseph Léger or Lezin married cousin Modeste, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Paul Trahan and Marie Josèphe Lejeune, at the Baton Rouge church in April 1826.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Émilie Eléonore dite Léonore in November 1829; and Victorine in November 1831.  Daughter Eléonore married a Lejeune cousin.  Joseph Léger evidently fathered no sons, but the blood of the family line endured.   

Jean-Baptiste's third and youngest son Jean Zénon, called Zénon, married cousin Éloise or Héloise, daughter of Joseph Martinez and Marguerite Lopez, at the Baton Rouge church in February 1827; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included Saturnin or Saturin Zénon, called Zénon, fils and perhaps also Zénon D., in November 1827; Jean Sostènes or Sosthène, called Sosthène, in November 1829; Joseph Alfred, called Alfred, in November 1830; François Aristede or Aristides, called Aristide, in January 1833; Marie Odile in April 1834; Simon Diogènes or Diogène, called Diogène, in February 1836; and Pauline Joséphine, called Joséphine, in June 1837--seven children, five sons and two daughters, between 1827 and 1837.  Zénon died "suddenly" near Baton Rouge in January 1842.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Zemand, as he called him, died at "age 35 yrs."  He was 36.  Daughters Marie Odile and Joséphine married into the Persac and Heude families by 1870.  Zénon's sons also married by then and settled in Iberville Parish, some near Plaquemine on the west side of the river, others near St. Gabriel east of the river, and also near Baton Rouge.  Not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Saturin Zénon, also called Zénon, fils, married Marie Emma, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Blanchard and Delphine LeBlanc, at the St. Gabriel church in June 1853.  Saturnin Zénon, called Zénon D. by the recording priest, evidently remarried to Élise, perhaps a daughter of W. F. C. Duplessis and Célestine Vives, at the St. Gabriel church in May 1859.  Zénon worked as an overseer on the plantation of Widow John Hagan in Iberville Parish.  His and Élise's children, born there, included Odile in March 1860; Marie Cécile in January 1862; Joseph in August 1866; an infant, name and age unrecorded, died in July 1867; twins Marie Joséphine and Marie Philomène born in March 1869; Jean Alphonse in August 1870; ...

Zénon's second son Sosthène married Caecilia or Cécile, another daughter of W. F. C. Duplessis and Célestine Vives, at the St. Gabriel church in February 1854.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included Joseph Jean in February 1855; William Charles Barromee in October 1856; Marie Mathilde in November 1863; and Marie Anne in February 1866.  Sosthène remarried to cousin Odilia, daughter of Éloi Martinez and Victoire Heude, at the Baton Rouge church in June 1869. ...  None of Sosthène's children married by 1870. 

Zénon's third son Joseph Alfred, called Alfred, married Céleste Mary or Marie, called Mary, daughter of Jean Baptiste, called J. B., Rils and his Acadian wife Émelite Dupuy, at the Plaquemine church, Iberville Parish, in October 1857.  Joseph Alfred worked as a merchant in East Baton Rouge Parish.  His and Mary's children, born there, included Jean Alfred in August 1858; Marie Amilda, called Amilda, in November 1859; Joseph Aristide in February 1862; Éloise Emérite in September 1864; ...

Zénon's fourth son François Aristides, called Aristide, married Mary Mathilda, another daughter of Jean Baptiste Rils and Émelite Dupuy, at the Plaquemine church in October 1856.  Aristide died near Baton Rouge in January 1858, age 25.  Did he father any children? 

Zénon's fifth and youngest son Diogène married Marie, perhaps yet another daughter of W. F. C. Duplessis and Célestine Vives, place unrecorded, but it probably was in Iberville Parish, in the late 1850s.  Their son Charles Auguste was born near St. Gabriel in May 1860; ...

Olivier IV's sixth son Honoré le jeune, a twin, by second wife Marie-Blanche LeBlanc, followed his family to Paimboeuf and his widowered father and siblings to New Orleans and Manchac, where he married Marie Adélaïde, also called Adélaïde and Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Hébert and Marguerite Breaux, in January 1802.  Adélaïde was a native of Louisiana whose parents had come to the colony from Maryland in 1767.  Their children, born at Manchac, included Joseph-Hélebert in January 1803; Marie Eugénie, called Eugénie, in August 1804; Joseph Ursin, called Ursin, in September 1806; Marie Domitille, called Domitille, in October 1809; Julien or Joseph Édouard, called Édouard, in June 1812; Pierre Honoré in December 1814 but may have been the Pierre Daigre who died near Brusly, West Baton Rouge Parish, age 41 (the recording priest said 43), in November 1855; Marie born in 1815 but died at age 9 months in July 1816; Marie Célestine, perhaps also Christine, born in April 1817; Théodiste Adélaïde in June 1820; Marguerite Orelin or Aureline in July 1823 but died at age 9 (the recording priest said 10) in June 1832; Paul Olivier, called Olivier, born in January 1826; Victoire Célina in the 1820s; and Marie Colina in December 1828--13 children, five sons and eight daughters, between 1803 and 1828.  Honoré died near St. Gabriel in December 1852, age 71 (the recording priest said 72).  Daughters Eugénie, Christine, Théotisse Adélaïde, Marie Domitille, and Victoire Célina married into the Comeaux, Martinez, Capdevielle, and Landry families, two of them to Martinez brothers.  Three of Honoré's sons also married and settled in Iberville Parish, one of them on the west bank of the river near Plaquemine. 

Second son Joseph Ursin, called Ursin, married Marie Adeline, called Adeline and Adveline, daughter of Edmond Capdeville and his Acadian wife Marie Madeleine Brasset, at the St. Gabriel church in February 1832; Ursin's sister Marie Domitille married Adeline's brother M. Lasain.  Ursin and Adeline's children, born near St. Gabriel, included Marie Malvina, called Malvina, in January 1833; Marie Pamela in June 1835; Joseph Adrien in March 1837; Honoré Roman in March 1839; Marie Emma in August 1842; and Jean Baptiste Émile in May 1844--six children, three daughters and three sons, between 1833 and 1844.  Daughter Malvina married into the Simmons family by 1870.  None of Ursin's sons married by then. 

Honoré's third son Julien or Joseph Édouard, called Édouard, married Marie Annette, Fanette, Finette, or Ginette, also called Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jérôme LeBlanc and Clémence Comeaux, at the St. Gabriel church in February 1839.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Aloysia in the late 1830s; Marie Aloysia in March 1841 but died at age 16 in April 1857; Omer Honoré, perhaps also called Joseph Omer and Omer, born in January 1843; Joseph Octave in December 1847; and Simon Honoré in November 1849 but died at age 1 in December 1850--five children, two daughters and three sons, between the late 1830s and 1849.  Daughter Aloysia married into the Hébert family by 1870.  Two of Édouard's sons also married by then and settled in Iberville Parish.

Oldest son Joseph Omer married Sidonia, daughter of Paul Napoléon Danos and his Acadian wife Marie Eugénie Comeaux of Iberville, at the Plaquemine church in February 1867.  Daughter Mary Ella was born near Plaquemine in August 1869; ... 

Édouard's second son Joseph Octave married Lidoria, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Renard dit Enos Rivet and Lidoria Comeaux, at the St. Gabriel church in November 1866. ...

Honoré's fifth and youngest son Paul Olivier, called Olivier, married Marie Véronique, called Véronique and Véronie, daughter of Alexandre Hotard and Euphémie Lorio, at the St. Gabriel church in June 1849.  Their children, born near Placquemine, included Augustine Olivia in August 1850; Marie Albertine in February 1853; Joseph Delma in October 1854; Adélaïde Alice in December 1856; Marie Véronique in June 1858 but died the following August; Paul Olivier, fils born in August 1859; and Marie Célima in September 1861.  Paul Olivier remarried to Mary Delia, daughter of Thomas Brown and his Acadian wife Constance Landry, at the St. Gabriel church in October 1869. ...  None of Paul Olivier's children married by 1870.

Simon-Pierre (1735-1792) à Olivier, fils à Olivier Daigre

Simon-Pierre, third son of Olivier III and Françoise Granger, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in August 1735, followed his family to Virginia in 1755 and to Falmouth, England, in the spring of 1756.  He married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Thériot and Marie Landry, at Falmouth in c1758.  Marie-Madeleine gave him two children there:  Marie-Marguerite born in October 1759; and Anne-Geneviève in July 1761.  Simon-Pierre and his family were repatriated to Morlaix, France, in the spring of 1763.  Marie-Madeleine gave him a son, Édouard, born at Morlaix in January 1764.  They followed members of Simon-Pierre's family to Belle-Île-en-Mer in November 1765 and settled at Kervellant near Sauzon at the north end of the island.  French officials counted them at Bortemont near Bangor in the southern interior of the island in 1776.  Marie-Madeleine gave Simon-Pierre five more children on Belle-Île-en-Mer:  Simon-Pierre, fils born at Sauzon in June 1766; Jean-Pierre in c1769 or 1770; Élisabeth in c1772; Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, in July 1774; and Joseph-Michel at Bangor in April 1776.  Two years later, Simon-Pierre sold his land to a local sieur named Perron and moved to Paimboeuf, the lower port of Nantes, where he worked as an inkeeper and a ship's carpenter and where Marie-Madeleine gave him another son, François, born in May 1779 but died the following November--nine children, four daughters and five sons, between 1759 and 1779, in England and France.  Second son Jean-Pierre died at Paimboeuf, age 13 1/2, in February 1783.  Wife Marie-Madeleine died at Paimboeuf in January 1784, age 45.  A Spanish official counted Simon-Pierre and his remaining children, three sons and four daughters, at Paimboeuf in September 1784.  At age 49, Simon-Pierre remarried to Anne, 50-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Michel and Marguerite Forest of Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, and widow of Joseph-Ange Dubois, Félix Landry, and Jean Landry, at Chantenay near Nantes in February 1785.  She gave Simon-Pierre no more children.  Later that year, Simon-Pierre, Anne, and his seven children followed his older brother Olivier IV to Spanish Louisiana.  From New Orleans, he followed his brother and their fellow passengers to Manchac.  Daughter Madeleine died at Manchac, age 11, in October 1785, soon after their arrival.  Wife Anne either died on the crossing from France or soon after they reached Manchac.  At age 52, Simon-Pierre remarried again--his third marriage--to Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Thériot and Françoise Landry and widow of Alexandre Aucoin, at Manchac in January 1788.  She gave him no more children.  He died at Manchac in October 1792, age 57.  Daughters Marie-Marguerite, Anne-Geneviève, and Élisabeth, all by his first wife, married into the Lemire dit Mire, Provenché, and Trahan families, including two Trahan brothers, at Manchac and Baton Rouge.  Simon Pierre's three sons also married and settled at Baton Rouge and Cabahannocer on the river and out on the prairies, but the western line did not endure. 

Oldest son Édouard, by first wife Marie-Madeleine Thériot, followed his family to Belle-Île-en-Mer, Paimboeuf, New Orleans, and Manchac, where he married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Henry and Marguerite-Josèphe Trahan, in October 1786.  Marie-Josèphe, a native of St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo, had come to Louisiana from France in 1785 aboard a later vessel.  They were counted at Baton Rouge in 1788 and 1792, away from his family.  They may have lived for a time at Assumption on upper Bayou Lafourche before settling in West Baton Rouge Parish.  A baptismal record, dated November 1795, at St.-Louis church, New Orleans, notes that Édouard and Marie-Josèphe were "residents of this parish," so they may have lived in the city in the mid-1790s before returning to Manchac.  Their children, born on the river and the upper Lafourche, included Édouard, fils at Manchac in August 1787; Zéphirin in April 1789; Florentin in June 1791; Marie in October 1793 and baptized at New Orleans in November 1795; Émilie-Rosalie or Rosalie-Émilie born on the upper Lafourche in January 1800; Fleuriana in the early 1800s; and Marie Pauline in March 1804--seven children, three sons and four daughters, between 1787 and 1804.  Édouard died probably in West Baton Rouge Parish in June 1823, age 59.  Daughters Marie, Fleuriana, and Rosalie Émilie married into the Allain, Martin, and Babin families, and perhaps into the Hébert family as well.  Two of Édouard's sons also married. 

Oldest son Édouard, fils married Agathe, daughter of Michel Betancourt and his Acadian wife Victoire Lavergne, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in January 1816.  Their children, born near Manchac, included Jean Treville, called Treville, in March 1819; Marie Sarille or Félasie in July 1821; and Augustine in September 1829--three children, a son and two daughters, between 1819 and 1829.  Daughters Marie Félasie and Augustine married into the Labauve family.  Édouard, fils's son also married, but the line may not have endured. 

Only son Jean Treville, called Treville, married Marie or Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Evan D. Yates and Frances Roach, at the Baton Rouge church in January 1851; she may also have been called Mary Jane Roddy.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included Martha Mathilda in December 1851; and Mary Susan, perhaps theirs, in January 1861.  Treville Daigle died near Baton Rouge in February 1867.  The priest who recorded the burial did not give any parents' names, mention a wife, or give Treville's age at the time of his death.  This Treville would have been age 47.  His daughters did not marry by 1870. 

Édouard, père's second son Zéphirin married Marguerite, another daughter of Michel Betancourt and Victoire Lavergne, at the Baton Rouge church in February 1810.  Their children, born near Manchac, included Marguerite in March 1811; Marie Éloise, called Éloise, in February 1812; Adeline in February 1820; Ursule in October 1823; and Zéphirin, fils posthumously in May 1825--five children, four daughters and a son, between 1811 and 1825.  Zéphirin, père died probably at Manchac in November 1824.  The Baton Rouge priest who recorded the burial did not give any parents' names, mention a wife, or give Zéphirin's age at the time of his death.  He would have been age 35.  Daughters Marguerite, Éloise, and Adeline married into the Landry, Deslors, Dupuy, and Hébert families.  Zéphirin's son also married.

Only son Zéphirin, fils married, at age 41, Azéma, daughter of Édouard Bossier and Joséphine Hotard, at the Plaquemine church, Iberville Parish, in November 1866. ...  One wonders if this was Zéphirin, fils's first marriage. 

Simon-Pierre's second son Simon-Pierre, fils, by first wife Marie-Madeleine Thériot, followed his family to Paimboeuf, New Orleans, and Manchac, but did not settle there.  In the 1790s, he crossed the Atchafalaya Basin and married Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Trahan and Anne-Euphrosine Vincent and widow of Jacques Fostin, at Attakapas in February 1798.  A Simon Daigle, "instituteur [a teacher] at Benjamin Broussard's, inhabitant on the Lake at Baigneux," died at Agricole Landry's home on the Vermilion River in January 1816.  The priest who recorded the burial did not give Simon's parents' names, his age at the time of his death, or mention a wife.  One wonders if this was Simon Pierre Daigle, fils.  If it was, he would have died at age 50.  He and his wife, who died in the late 1820s, seem to have had no children, so this line of the family did not endure.  

Simon-Pierre, père's third son Joseph-Michel, by first wife Marie-Madeleine Thériot, followed his family to Paimboeuf, New Orleans, and Manchac.  He married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph LeBlanc and his first wife Marguerite LeBlanc, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer downriver from Manchac in November 1800.  Madeleine was a native of Louisiana whose parents had come to Louisiana in 1765 from Nova Scotia.  Joseph-Michel and Madeleine settled at Ascension just above Cabahannocer and lived on upper Bayou Lafourche before returning to St. James Parish, formerly Cabahannocer.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche and the river, included Leufroi in Ascension Parish in September 1801; Lucien in March 1803; Séraphine in March 1805; Mélanie Marcellite in September 1806; Duval in Assumption Parish in October 1811 but died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, age 31, in August 1843; Edesie born in the 1810s; Marcel in St. James Parish in January 1815; and Marie Madeleine born in April 1817--eight children, four sons and four daughters, between 1801 and 1817.  Joseph-Michel died in Ascension Parish in August 1833, age 57 (the recording priest said 58).  Daughters Séraphine and Edesie married into the Melançon, LeBlanc, Allemand, and Savoie families.  One of them, Edesie, settled near Raceland in lower Lafourche Parish.  Two of Joseph Michel's sons married, but not all of the lines endured.  The one who may have had sons of his own settled not on the river but on Bayou Lafourche. 

Oldest son Leufroi married cousin Eméranthe, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Melançon and Osite Barbe LeBlanc, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in May 1821; they had to secure a dispensation for fourth degree of relationship in order to marry.  Leufroi died in Ascension Parish in September 1832, age 31 (the recording priest said "ca. 32 yrs.").  Did he father any children?

Joseph Michel's fourth and youngest son Marcel may have been the Marcellus or Marcelle Daigle, also called Degro and Degre, who married Marie or Maria Hernandez, place and date unrecorded, and settled near Plattenville, Assumption Parish, by the late 1840s before moving farther down Bayou Lafourche.  Their children, born in Lafourche Parish, included Marguerite Aveline (the recording priest called her father Macellus Degro) near Plattenville in February 1849; Alise or Alice Harmine (the recording priest called her father Marcellus Daigle) in April 1850; Marie Madeleine (the recording priest called her father Marcellus Degre) in March 1852; Joseph near Lockport in November 1853; Nazaire Ozémé near Raceland in July 1855; Prudent Foedora near Lockport in May 1858; Cécilia near Raceland in October 1860; and Joséphine in February 1863--eight children, five daughters and three sons, between 1849 and 1863.  Daughters Alice and Marie married into the Barrilleaux and LeBlanc families by 1870.  None of Marcellus's sons married by then.

Jean-Baptiste, fils (c1740-1790s) à Olivier, fils à Olivier Daigre

Jean-Baptiste, fils, third son of Jean-Baptiste Daigre and Marguerite Thériot and first cousin of Olivier IV and Simon-Pierre, born probably at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1740, evidently followed his family to Virginia in 1755, to England in the spring of 1756, and to Morlaix, France, in 1763.  He may have been the Jean-Baptiste Daigle, ploughman, who, at age 43, married Marie-Claudine, daughter of French locals Guillaume Valet and Ursule-Perrine Catot of Quimperlé, France, probably at Nantes, France, in c1783.  Marie-Claudine gave Jean-Baptiste a son, Jean-René, born in St.-Jacques Parish, Nantes, in April 1784.  Jean-Baptiste and Marie-Claudine emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  However, their year-old son Jean-René died at sea.  The now childless couple followed their fellow passengers to Baton Rouge, where they had no more children.  Jean-Baptiste died at Baton Rouge by March 1795, in his mid-50s, when his wife remarried there.  His line of the family died with him. 

François-Marie (c1740-1780s) à Bernard à Olivier Daigre

François-Marie, fourth son of Abraham Daigre and Anne-Marie Boudrot, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1740, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and was counted with them at Havre-de-la-Fortune on the east side of the island in August 1752.  The British deported him to Cherbourg, France, in late 1758.  In January 1761, he married Jeanne, daughter of locals Thomas Holley and Scholastique LeGentilhomme, in Très-Ste.-Trinité Parish, Cherbourg.  Jeanne gave François-Marie at least five children there and across the Baie de Seine at Le Havre:  François-Alexandre, called Alexandre, born at Cherbourg in February 1763; Louis-, also called Isidore,-François, in August 1766; Marie-Jeanne-Jacqueline in September 1769; Flore-Adélaïde at Le Havre in c1770; and Marie-Louise in c1775--two sons and three daughters, between 1763 and 1775.  François-Marie's oldest son married in c1782, place unrecorded.  No member of the family participated in the settlement venture in Poitou in the early 1770s.  By September 1784, however, François-Marie and his family, including his married son, had moved from coastal Normandy to the lower Loire port of Nantes in southeastern Brittany, perhaps in anticipation of emigrating to Spanish Louisiana.  François-Marie, Jeanne, and their four unmarried children, a son and three daughters, along with their married son and his family, emigrated to the Spanish colony the following year.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to Manchac.  François-Marie and Jeanne had no more children in the colony.  He died probably at Manchac by September 1790, in his mid- or late 40s, when he was listed as deceased in a daughter's marriage record.  Daughters Flore-Adélaïde, Marie-Louise, and Marguerite-Jeanne-Jacqueline married into the LeTullier and Arbour families at Baton Rouge, two of them to brothers from Cherbourg.  François-Marie's sons also married, in France and Louisiana, and created vigorous lines in the Baton Rouge area. 

Older son François-Alexandre, called Alexandre, while in his late teens, married Rose-Adélaïde, called Adélaïde, 16-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Charles-Joseph Bourg and Rose Doiron, in c1782 at Le Havre or Nantes.  Adélaïde was a native of Le Havre, so they may have married there on the eve of their going to Nantes.  Alexandre worked as a plowman.  Adélaïde gave him two children at Chantenay near Nantes:  Émilie-Adélaïde born in November 1783; and François-Joseph in April 1785.  Two months later, Alexandre, Adélaïde, and their children followed his family to Spanish Louisiana and settled near them at Manchac.  Alexandre and Adélaïde had more children on the river, including Jeanne-Scholastique born in July 1787; Marie-Christine in December 1789; André-Joseph or Joseph-André, also called Béloni, downriver at Cabahannocer in November 1791; Daniel at Manchac in January 1795; Sara-Dorothée in December 1796; Jean-Baptiste, called John B., in c1799 and baptized, age 2 1/2, in November 1801; Marceline-Eulalie born in c1800 and baptized at age 1 1/2 in October 1802; Thomas baptized, age 5 weeks, in October 1802; and another Thomas born in 1814 but died at Manchac, age 11 months, in March 1815--11 children, five daughters and six sons, between 1783 and 1814, in France and Louisiana.  Daughters Émilie Adélaïde, Jeanne Scholastique, and Marie Christine married into the Hébert, Bossel, and Henry families.  Three of Alexandre's sons also married and settled near Baton Rouge.  One of them married on the western prairies before rejoining his brothers on the river, and a grandson moved to Bayou Teche in the late 1830s.  Two other grandsons settled downriver in Ascension Parish. 

Oldest son François Joseph, called Joseph, followed his family to New Orleans and Manchac and married Brigitte, daughter of Thomas Courtin and Geneviève Bonvillain, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in November 1814.  Their children, born near Manchac, included Treville in July 1816; Valentin in November 1817; and Joséphine in June 1819.  François Joseph remarried to Modeste, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Magloire Babin and his second wife Anne Louise Quimine, at the Baton Rouge church in June 1824.  Their children, born at Manchac, included Arthémise Caroline in April 1824; François Augustin, called Augustin, in August 1826; twins Aurelie or Aureline and Honorine in November 1827; and Athelie or Anathalie in February 1835--eight children, three sons and five daughters, by two wives, including a set of twins, between 1816 and 1835.  Joseph died by April 1852, when he was listed as deceased in a daughter's marriage record.  Daughters Joséphine, Aureline, Arthémise, and Anathalie, by both wives, married into the Munios, Lerey, Delaune, and Blanchard families by 1870.  Two of Joseph's sons also married by then and settled in Ascension Parish. 

Oldest son Treville, by first wife Brigitte Courtin, married Marthe Delaune, place and date unrecorded, and settled near Baton Rouge by the early 1840s.  One wonders if Marthe was a sister of Edward Delaune, who married Treville's sister Arthémise.  If so, Marthe was a daughter of Louis Nicolas Delaune of Baton Rouge, a Foreign Frenchman, not an Acadian, and his Anglo wife Elizabeth Philips.  Treville and Marthe's children, born on the river, included Léocadia Malvina near Baton Rouge in March 1845; Joseph Nicholas baptized at Donaldsonville, Ascension Parish, age 2, in October 1848; Treville Lonzo born near Baton Rouge in January 1849; Élizabeth Rose in March 1853; Augustin Buchannon in October 1856; Charles Forest Lee near Gonzales, Ascension Parish, in December 1864; Marie Cora Alexina in September 1866; Joseph Edgard in August 1870; ...  None of Treville's children married by 1870. 

Joseph's third and youngest son François Augustin, called Augustin, from second wife Modeste Babin, married cousin Marie Amelia or Eurelia, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Landry and Anne Velerente Babin, at the Donaldsonville church in October 1848.  Their children, born on the river, included Félicité Déolize in Ascension Parish July 1849; Anne Clémentine in December 1850; François Leufroid in June 1853; Luce Elixina in December 1854; Simon Ernest near Baton Rouge in August 1856; Isidore Adélard probably near Gonzales in April 1858; Amédé René in March 1860; Agnès Honora in January 1862; Marie Alzire in September 1866; Silvère Olivier in January 1869; ...  Daughter Anne Clémentine married into the Decoteau family by 1870.  None of François Augustin's sons married by then. 

Alexandre's second son André Joseph or Joseph André, also called Béloni, married Adélaïde, daughter of Isleño André Martin of Tenerife and his Acadian wife Marie Anne Landry, at the Baton Rouge church in May 1816.  Their children, born at Manchac, included Lucien in May 1818; and Joseph Maximilien, called Maximilien, Maxillien, and Maxille, in the late 1810s or 1820s.  The younger son moved to Bayou Teche in the the late 1830s, married, and created a vigorous line there. 

Younger son Joseph Maximilien, called Maximilien, Maxillien, and Maxille, married cousin Marie Aurore, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Henry and Marie Daigle, at the Baton Rouge church in May 1837.  Their son Jean Baptiste, called Baptiste and Ldomenie, was born at either Baton Rouge or New Iberia in the late 1830s or early 1840s.  Joseph Maximilien remarried to Marcellite Ida, daughter of fellow Acadians Anaclet Melançon and Anne Doralise Thibodeaux, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in May 1845.  From New Iberia, they moved up the Teche to the Breaux Bridge area of St. Martin Parish later in the decade.  Their children, born on the Teche, included Joseph near New Iberia in March 1846; Jean Baptiste in August 1847; François Numa near Breaux Bridge in March 1849; and Ovide near St. Martinville in September 1851.  Maximilien, probably in his late 40s, remarried again--his third marriage--to Oliva, daughter of Jean Caillier or Cayet and Marie Picou and widow of Ursin Bijeaux, fils, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in April 1857.  Their children, born near Breaux Bridge, included Maximilien, fils in November 1859; St. Cyr in January 1860; Henry in July 1861; Luc in March 1863; Oliva in March 1865; ...  Maximilien's daughter did not marry by 1870, but one of his sons did.  Most of the Acadian Daigles west of the Atchafalaya Basin descend from Maximilien and his sons. 

Oldest son Jean Baptiste, by first wife Marie Aurore Henry, married Émelie or Amelia, daughter of fellow Acadians Léonard Thibodeaux and Ordalie Cormier, at the Breaux Bridge church in April 1868. ...

Alexandre's fourth son Jean-Baptiste, called John B., crossed the Atchafalaya Basin and, at age 24, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Haché and Geneviève LeBlanc of Fausse Pointe, at the St. Martinville church in September 1823.  They lived in recently-created Lafayette Parish before returning to the river.  Their children, born on the prairies and the river, included Jean Baptiste, fils in Lafayette Parish in October 1825 but, called Clelie, died "at the home of Donat Brau at la fausse pointe," age 4 1/2 (the recording priest said 5), in May 1830; Marie born in February 1826; Treville le jeune baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 27 days, in November 1829; Enoch born near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in July 1832 but, called Emeau, died there at age 1 in September 1833; Marie Athalie born near St. Gabriel in May 1835; Pauline near Baton Rouge in October 1837; and Joseph Jean Baptiste in June 1840--seven children, four sons and three daughters, between 1825 and 1840.  Daughter Pauline married into the Horsler and Sovano families on the river by 1870.  One of John B.'s sons may have married by then. 

Second son Treville le jeune may have married Mary Cull, place and date unrecorded.  Daughter Mary Elizabeth was born near Baton Rouge in November 1860.  Treville Daigle died near Baton Rouge in February 1867.  The priest who recorded the burial did not give Treville's parents' names, mention a wife, or give his age at the time of his death. 

François Marie's younger son Louis-, also called Isidore-, and François, became a calker in France.  He followed his family to Nantes, New Orleans, and Manchac, where he married Marie-Rose, called Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Molaison, père and Marie-Blanche Doiron, in July 1790.  Marie-Rose, a native of Cenan, Poitou, France, also had come to Louisiana in 1785 aboard Le Beaumont.  They remained at Manchac before crossing the river to what became West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born at Manchac, included Marie-Rose in July 1791; Josèphe- or Joséphine-Luce in August 1792; Marcelline in the 1790s; Marie-Élise in December 1795; Jacques-Louis in October 1797 but died at age 11 months in October 179[8]; Sophie born in c1799 and baptized at age 1 in November 1800; Amélie-Léonore in c1801 and baptized at age 19 months in October 1802; Louis-Isidore, called Isidore, born in September 1802; François Joachim, called Joachim, in January 1804; Hortense Marcelline in December 1806; Marie Apolline, called Apolline, in June 1809; Marie Orilly or Aureline, called Aureline, in June 1810; and Louis in the 1810s--13 children, nine daughters and four sons, between 1791 and the 1810s.  Daughters Marie Rose, Joséphine, Marcelline, Sophie, Hortense, Apolline, and Aureline married into the Hébert, Thomas, Landry, Esnard, Dupuis, Rappelet, and Demonceaux families.  Three of Louis François's sons also married and settled in West Baton Rouge Parish, but not all of the lines endured.  The middle son's line was especially robust.

Second son Louis Isidore, called Isidore, married, at age 28, cousin Delphine Céleste or Célestine, daughter of fellow Acadian Jacques Molaison, fils and his Creole wife Céleste Bernard du Montier, at the Baton Rouge church in February 1831; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of relationship in order to marry.  Their children, born in West Baton Rouge Parish, included Céleste Cephaline or Chephalide in November 1832; Natalie Rosalie in December 1834, but, according to a Baton Rouge church record, called Natalie, she died at age 14 1/2 in January 1849; Rose Léontine born in February 1837; Rosa, also called Marie Rose, in January 1842; Isidore, fils near Brusly in February 1846; and Marie Amelia in September 1848--six children, five daughters and a son, between 1832 and 1848.  Daughters Céleste Cephalide, Nathalie Rosalie (despite the 1849 burial record), and Marie Rose/Rosa married into the Blanchard, Aillet, Grass, and Woodruff families, one of them, Rosa, twice, by 1870.  Isidore's son did not marry by then. 

Louis François's third son François Joachim, called Joachim, married, at age 19, Dortille or Dorsille, daughter of fellow Acadians Marcel Dupuis and Marie Josèphe LeBlanc, at the St. Gabriel church in May 1823.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie Orellie or Oreline, called Oreline, in October 1825; Estelle in November 1827; Théodore in February 1830; Joachim, fils in January 1833; Amédée Ferdinand in October 1834; twins Louis and Louise in November 1836; Prudent in September 1839; Marie Olympe near Brusly in January 1842 but, called Olympe, died at age 5 1/2 (the recording priest said 7) in April 1847; and Joseph Isidore born in February 1844--10 children, four daughters and six sons, including a set of twins, between 1825 and 1844.  François Joachim, called Joachim by the recording priest, died near Brusly in April 1855, age 51 (the priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said 52).  During the War of 1861-65, four of Joachim's sons served honorably in the same company, which saw much action in the western theatre of operations, but one of them did not survive the war.  Daughters Oreline, Estelle, and Louise married into the Hébert, Blanchard, and Landry families by 1870.  One, perhaps two, of Joachim's sons also married by then, one of them after his war service. 

A "Mrs. Théodore Daigle" died "at Natchez" in June 1855; she was "ca. 19 years" old.  The Brusly priest who recorded her burial did not give her name, so one wonders if her husband was Théodore, oldest son of Joachim, and if Théodore and his wife settled at Natchez, Mississippi, which was a good distance from West Baton Rouge Parish.  Perhaps "Natchez" was the name of a community near Brusly. 

During the war, Joachim's second son Joachim, fils served in Company H of the 4th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in West Baton Rouge Parish, which fought in Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana, Georgia, and Alabama.  In May 1861, at age 28, Joachim enlisted with younger brother Prudent at Camp Moore, Tangipahoa Parish (brothers Louis and Joseph Isidore joined the company later, Louis as an officer).  Joachim's Confederate service did not last long.  He fell sick at New Orleans the month of his enlistment but returned to his unit.  The following winter of 1861-62, he contracted pneumonia at Berwick City on the lower Atchafalaya and was sent to a hospital in New Orleans.  Evidently he did not recuperate.  He was sent home, where he died, age 29.  He did not marry. 

Joachim, père's fourth son Louis served in two companies that fought in different theatres of operations.  He enlisted first as a private in Company F of the 1st (Dreux's/Rightor's) Battalion Louisiana Infantry, raised at New Orleans, which fought in Florida and Virginia.  Louis's Confederate service record says he was age 23 when he enlisted in the company at New Orleans in April 1861.  He was 24.  The record also says he was a resident of Brusly Landing, West Baton Rouge Parish, had a dark complexion, dark hair, hazel eyes, and stood five feet, eight inches tall.  He followed his unit to Pensacola and then to Richmond, Virginia, that spring and summer.  He probably fought at Big Bethel near Newport News, Virginia, in early July 1861, one of the first battles of the war.  Louis's longest service was in neither Dreux's Battalion or in Virginia.  After his battalion was incorporated into another unit, he returned to Louisiana.  In August 1862, at Port Hudson, he enlisted in Company H of the 4th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in West Baton Rouge Parish, which fought in Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana, Georgia, and Alabama.  Also in the company were his younger brothers Prudent and Joseph Isidore.  Older brother Joachim, fils also had served in the company but had died at home, probably of pneumonia, earlier in the year.  Louis, perhaps because of his combat experience, was elected junior second lieutenant of his company three months after his enlistment.  He remained with his regiment until he was captured at Nashville, Tennessee, in December 1864.  The Federals sent him to the military prison at Louisville, Kentucky, and from there to the prison compound on Johnson's Island, Ohio, where Confederate officers were held.  Louis remained at Johnson's Island until June 1865, when, after taking the oath of allegiance to the United States government, the Federals released him.  He made his way home via Sandusky and Cincinnati, Ohio.  If he married, he did so after 1870. 

Joachim, père's fifth son Prudent served in Company H of the 4th Regiment Louisiana Infantry with three of his brothers.  Prudent enlisted at Camp Moore in May 1861, age 21.  Prudent remained with his company until July 1864, when he was wounded at Ezra Church, Georgia, in the Atlanta campaign.  He remained in the Confederate hospital at Forsyth, Georgia, probably until the Confederates evacuated the area that autumn.  Prudent's Confederate service record then falls silent.  Federal forces paroled him as an end-of-the-war prisoner at Baton Rouge in June 1865, so he survived the war and probably returned to his family.  If he married, he did so after 1870. 

Joachim, père's sixth and youngest son Joseph Isidore served in Company H of the 4th Regiment Louisiana Infantry with three of his older brothers.  Joseph Isidore did not enlist in the company until August 1862, after he turned 18.  He signed up at Baton Rouge only a few weeks after the battle there.  He was present with his company until he went on sick furlough at Calhoun Station, Lownes County, Alabama, in late spring of 1864.  He returned to his unit in August and surrendered with it at Meridian, Mississippi, in May 1865.  None of his brothers were still with the unit when it surrendered at Meridian; Joachim, fils had died, Prudent had been wounded in Georgia and spent months in a hospital there, and Louis had been captured at Nashville and spent the rest of the war in a prison camp on an island in Lake Erie.  After the end-of-war surrender, Joseph Isidore returned to his family and married Marie Adonia, called Adonia, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Doiron and Rosalie Lejeune, at the Brusly church in June 1867.  Daughter Marie Carola was born near Brusly in October 1869; ...

Louis, perhaps Louis François's fourth and youngest son, married Marie Seguin at the Baton Rouge church in February 1832.  The priest who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.  One of the witnesses to the marriage was Isidore Daigle, perhaps Louis Isidore Daigre, the groom's oldest brother.  Did Louis and Marie have any children? 

Paul-Olivier (1767-1833) à Olivier le jeune à Pierre à Bernard à Olivier Daigre

Paul-Olivier, oldest son of Miniac dit Olivier Daigre and his first wife Marie Melanson, born at Les Cosquet near Locmaria on Belle-Île-en-Mer, France, in May 1767, followed his father and stepmother to Lorient in southern Brittany, but he did not remain there.  By 1785, he was working as a laborer probably in the lower Loire port of Nantes, southeast of Lorient.  Called a "minor" and an orphan on the ship's passenger list, Paul-Olivier emigrated to Spanish Louisiana with widower Jean Doiron and his kinsman's unmarried daughter.  From New Orleans, he followed them and their fellow passengers to Manchac, where he married cousin Marie-Jeanne, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Richard and his second wife Françoise Daigre, in September 1788.  Marie-Jeanne, also a native of Belle-Île-en-Mer, had come to Louisiana in 1785 aboard Le Beaumont.  Their children, born at Manchac, included Rose, also called Marie Rose, in November 1789; Jean-Baptiste in December 1790 but died at Manchac, age 23 (the priest said 21), in February 1814; Pélagie born in February 1793 but died at age 1 1/2 in September 1794; Geneviève born in April 1794 but died in October; Marie-Josèphe or -Joséphine born in August 1795; Carmélite in February 1797; Joseph in September 1798; Gilbert in c1800 and baptized at age 1 1/2 in August 1801; Paul, fils born in February 1802; Louis in November 1804; Adélaïde in October 1806; Apollonie in February 1810; and Augustine Joséphine in November 1813--14 children, nine daughters and five sons, between 1789 and 1813.  Paul-Olivier died at Baton Rouge in November 1833, age 66 (the recording priest said 69).  Daughters Marie Rose, Carmélite, Marie Joséphine, Adélaïde, and Augustine Joséphine married into the Templet, Babin, Daigre, Brown, and Kleinpeter families, two of them to Kleinpeter brothers.  Three of Paul Olivier's sons also married, at Manchac, Baton Rouge, and in Pointe Coupee Parish, and settled in the Baton Rouge area.  Not all of the lines endured. 

Third son Gilbert married, in his late 30s, Marie Caroline, called Caroline, daughter of Abrah, probably Abraham, Bird, a major planter in the area, and Marie Bowie, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in April 1838.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included Marie Christine, also called Mary E., in 1839 and baptized, age 10 months, in May 1840; Abraham Lucien Gilbert, perhaps called Gilbert, fils, born in October 1841; and Lucie Marie in December 1846--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1839 and 1846.  Gilbert, père died near Baton Rouge in August 1859, age 59.  Daughter Mary E. married into the Von Phul family by 1870.  His son also seems to have married by then.

Only son Abraham Lucien Gilbert may have married Louise Galveston, place and date unrecorded.  Their son Georges Frank was born near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in January 1870;  ...

Paul Olivier's fourth son Paul, fils may have married Ann Thompson, also called Gomes, at Manchac in the 1820s.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included Paul Dava in c1829 and baptized at the Baton Rouge church, age 11, in April 1840; and William born in c1831 but died near St. Gabriel, age 9, in August 1839.  Paul, fils died near Baton Rouge in December 1856.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names of mention a wife, said that Paul died at "age ca. 50 years."  He was 54.  His remaining son did not marry by 1870, if he married at all. 

Paul Olivier's fifth and youngest son Louis married Isabelle, daughter of Benjamin Jewell and Sara Prevot, at the Pointe Coupee church, Pointe Coupee Parish, in May 1832.  Their son Benjamin M. was born probably in Pointe Coupee in c1836 and baptized at the Baton Rouge church, age 17, in July 1853.  Louis's son married and settled on the river.

Only son Benjamin M. married cousin Pauline, daughter of fellow Acadian Dennis Daigre and his Anglo wife Geneviève Buckner, at the Baton Rouge church in June 1859; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included Louisa in November 1860; Isabelle in December 1861; Violet Mary in December 1863; Mary Lila in November 1865; Charles Allain in January 1868; David in February 1870; ...

Joseph dit Joson (1770-1836) à Pierre à Bernard à Olivier Daigre

Joseph dit Joson, a twin, fifth son of Alexandre Daigle and Élisabeth Granger and younger brother of Alexis-Jean-Mathurin of La Bergère and Jean-Baptiste-Alexandre of Le St.-Rémi, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo, France, in March 1770, followed his family to Poitou and Nantes.  He came to Louisiana not with his older siblings but with his uncle Charles Granger, who he followed from New Orleans to the Baton Rouge area, but he did not remain.  In the late 1780s and early 1790s, he was living with his married sister Isabelle-Luce and her husband René Simoneaux at Lafourche, where his two older brothers also had settled.  In December 1795, Joseph was living on the upper Lafourche with the family of Lucas Landry, probably as an engagé.  At age 30, he married cousin Marie-Marthe, 30-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Chrysostôme Trahan and Anne-Françoise Granger, at Assumption in October 1800.  Marie-Marthe, a native of Belle-Île-en-Mer, had come to Louisiana from France in 1785 aboard a later vessel and literally was the girl next door.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Joseph-Clet in April 1802; Jean Baptiste Léon in April 1804 but, called Baptiste, died at age 9 1/2 (the recording priest said 10) in October 1813; Alexandre Simon born in December 1807; Marie Reine in February 1810; and Pierre Clovis, also called Henri, in January 1812--five children, four sons and a daughter, between 1802 and 1812.  Wife Marie-Marthe died near Plattenville, Assumption Parish, in November 1832, age 62.  Joseph did not remarry.  He died in Assumption Parish in July 1836, age 66.  Daughter Marie married into the Breaux family.  Three of Joson's remaining sons also married and remained in Assumption Parish. 

Oldest son Joseph Clet married Hortense or Octavie Mélanie, called Mélanie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Duhon and Adélaïde Landry, at the Plattenville church in January 1827.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Luce Edelvina in December 1829; and Marie Eremise in February 1832.  Joseph Clet remarried to Bathilde or Mathilde, daughter of Maurice Simoneaux and his Acadian wife Geneviève Landry, at the Plattenville church in January 1834.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Jean Baptiste Basil or Basile in March 1836; Louis in August 1837, Marie Élise Aglaïde, called Élise, in September 1839; Désiré in the late 1830s or early 1840s; Léonide or Eléontine Désirée, called Eléontine, in May 1841; Marie Adeline, called Adeline, in December 1842; Marie Joséphine in December 1845; and Ozémé in the 1840s--10 children, six daughters and four sons, by two wives, between 1829 and the 1840s.  Joseph Clet, called Joseph by the recording priest, who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, died in Lafourche Parish in December 1862, age 60.  One wonders if his death was war-related.  Daughters Élise, Eléontine, and Adeline, by his second wife, married into the Dugas, Vegas, and LeBlanc families by 1870.  Two of Joseph Clet's sons also married by then. 

Third son Désiré, by second wife Bathilde Simoneaux, married Flavie, also called Claire, daughter of fellow Acadians Cyrille Landry and Marie Marcellite Gravois, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in September 1858.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Assumption and Ascension parishes.  Their children, born there, included Denas Désiré in October 1859 but, called Désiré, died at age 7 months in May 1860; Marie Odalie born in October 1860 but, called Adeline, died at age 8 months in June 1861; Marie Léontine born in December 1861; Lubin Evariste in March 1863 but died at age 14 month in early 1864; Désiré Anatole born in July 1866; Louise Emma in August 1867; Joseph Jules in March 1869; ...

Joseph Clet's fourth and youngest son Ozémé, by second wife Bathilde Simoneaux, married Virginie, daughter of fellow Acadians Narcisse Guidry and Virginie Savoie, at the Paincourtville church in June 1868.  Their children, born near Paincourtville, included Marie Angéline in September 1869; Éloyse Telcide in November 1870; ...

Joson's third son Alexandre Simon married Justine, another daughter of Maurice Simoneaux and Geneviève Landry, at the Plattenville church in January 1835.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Olive or Oliva Marie in January 1836; Alexandre Cyriague in August 1838; Marie Justine or Justina, called Justina, in November 1840; Aristide Joseph in February 1843; Hélène Elmire in May 1845 but, called Ermine, died at age 4 1/2 in August 1849; Eugène Raimond born in November 1847 but, called Ulgère, died at age 5 in December 1852; and Joseph Laurent born in February 1850 but, called Laurent, died at age 2 1/2 (the recording priest said 3) in December 1852, on the same day his older brother Eugène Raimond died (did they drown together or die of the same contagious disease?)--seven children, three daughters and four sons, between 1836 and 1850.  Alexandre Simon died near Paincourtville in October 1850, age 42 (the recording priest said 43).  Daughters Oliva and Justina married into the Berthelot and Verret families by 1870.  Two of Alexandre Simon's remaining sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Alexandre Cyriague married Carmélite, daughter of Antoine Sanchez and Henriette Sauvain, at the Paincourtville church in September 1862.  They settled near Pierre Part on the north shore of Lake Verret.  Their son Désiré Alexandre was born there in February 1865.  An Alexandre Daigle died near Paincourtville in January 1867.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Alexandre died at "age 27 years," but the priest did not give Alexandre's parents' names or mention a wife.  This Alexandre would have been age 28 at the time, so it probably was him. 

Alexandre Simon's second son Aristide Joseph married cousin Armentine, daughter of Honoré Simoneaux and Arselie Simoneaux, at the Paincourtville church in February 1867.  Daughter Corine Ursule was born near Paincourtville in October 1868; ...

Joson's fourth and youngest son Pierre Clovis, also called Henri, married Marguerite Susanne, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Pierre dit Simonet Boudreaux and Céleste Babin of St. James Parish, at the Plattenville church in January 1834.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Pierre Camil or Camille, called Camille, in October 1835; Adelina in the late 1830s; Marguerite in January 1838; Marie Eusile in March 1840; Simon Oleus, called Oleus, in November 1844; and Édouard Calix in October 1842 but, called Calix, died at age 5 in October 1847--six children, three sons and three daughters, between 1835 and 1842.  Daughter Adelina married into the Bourgeois family by 1870.  Two of Pierre's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Pierre Camille, called Camille, married Adorestine or Adolestine, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Bourgeois and Léonise Breaux, at the Plattenville church in February 1857; Adorestine's brother Simon, fils married Camille's sister Adelina.  Camille and Adorestine's children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Léonise Ernestine in January 1858; Marguerite Victoria in June 1859; Marie Camilla in January 1862; Donis Camille in October 1867; ...

Pierre Clovis's second son Simon Oleus, called Oleus, married Elmire, daughter of fellow Acadians Onésime LeBlanc and Eulalie LeBlanc, at the Paincourtville church in November 1869. ...

Jean-Louis (1774-1811) à Pierre le jeune à Bernard, fils à Bernard à Olivier Daigre

Jean-Louis, son of Jean-Baptiste-Louis Daigle and Marguerite-Ange Dubois, born at Pouthumé, Châtellerault, Poitou, France, in October 1774, followed his family to Nantes when he was still an infant.  At age 11, he came to Louisiana with his widowed mother and followed her and their fellow passengers from New Orleans to Manchac.  His mother remarried twice.  Jean-Marie followed her to upper Bayou Lafourche, where, at age 24, he married Marie-Isabelle, called Isabelle, 24-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Richard and his French wife Marie-Jeanne Daniel of Roscoff, Brittany, at Assumption in August 1799.  Marie-Isabelle, a native of Roscoff north of Morlaix, had come to Louisiana from France in 1785 on a later vessel.  They may have lived at New Orleans in the early 1800s.  Their son Louis, evidently their only child, born in September 1800 and baptized at the New Orleans church in March 1801, died on the upper Lafourche, age 1 1/2, in February 1802.  Jean Louis remarried to Marie Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph François Michel and Geneviève LeBlanc, at Assumption in January 1804.  Marie Josèphe was a native of Louisiana whose parents had come to the colony from France in 1785.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Mélanie Clothilde, also Mélanie Clet or Cletigue, in March 1806; Bardelis or Ordalise Clémence in July 1807; Urbain or Urbin in May 1809; and Céline Henriette or Henriette Célanie in March 1811--five children, two sons and three daughters, by two wives, between 1800 and 1811.  Jean Louis died in Assumption Parish in November 1811, age 37.  Daughters Mélanie Clet, Ordalise, and Henriette, all by his second wife, married into the Faits, Gros, and Boudreaux families.  Jean Louis's remaining son also married and settled in Assumption Parish. 

Second son Urbain or Urbin, by second wife Marie Josèphe Michel, married Doralise, also called Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Boudreaux and Marie Duhon, at the Plattenville church in May 1832.  Their childrn, born on the upper Lafourche included Pierre Rosémond, called Rosémond, in March 1833; Marie Sélanie in July 1834; Zéloïde Angelina in February 1836; Marie Carmélite, called Carmélite, in March 1838; Ursin in September 1839; Malvina Roséma, called Roséma, in October 1841; and Antoinette Célina in November 1843--seven children, two sons and five daughters, between 1833 and 1843.  Daughters Carmélite and Roséma married into the Aucoin, Bonnamour, and Bergeron families by 1870.  One of Urbin's sons also married by then. 

Older son Pierre Rosémond, called Rosémond, married Zulma, also called Roséma, daughter of Rosémond Fremin and his Acadian wife Aglée Thibodeaux, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in October 1866.  Their son Abel Augustin was baptized at the Labadieville church, age unrecorded, in August 1867; ... 

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Seven more Daigres--a small family, a bachelor, two wives, and a widow--came to Louisiana from France aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in early September 1785.  They followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where two new family lines emerged:

Jean-Baptiste (1733-1780s) à Bernard à Olivier Daigre

Jean-Baptiste, fifth and youngest son of Bernard Daigre, fils and Angélique Richard and younger brother of Eustache of La Bergère, born at Grand-Pré in January 1733, was deported to Virginia in the fall of 1755 and to England in the spring of 1756.  He married Marie-Flavie, daughter of Jean dit Lami Boudrot and Agathe Thibodeau, at Southampton in c1758.  Marie-Flavie gave Jean-Baptiste a daughter, Madeleine, born in England in 1763.  In May of that year, they were repatriated to St.-Malo, France, aboard L'Ambition and settled at Plouër-sur-Rance on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo.  Marie-Flavie gave Jean-Baptiste five more children there:  Joseph-Baptiste, fils born at nearby Lizenais in October 1765 but died at age 1 1/2 in March 1767; Joseph-Marie born in July 1767 but died at Lizenais at age 4 1/2 in December 1771; Anne-Marie born in September 1769; an unnamed child, baptized and died the same day at Lizenais in December 1771; and Joseph-Marc born in January 1773.  Meanwhile, older daughter Madeleine died at Lizenais in February 1767, age 4.  In 1773, Jean-Baptiste, Marie-Flavie, and their two remaining children went to the interior of Poitou, where Marie-Flavie gave Jean-Baptiste another son, Jean-Pierre, born in St.-Jean l'Evangeliste Parish, Châtellerault, in July 1775.  In March 1776, after two years of effort, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes, where Marie-Flavie gave Jean-Baptiste another son, Jean-Augustin, born in St.-Similien Parish in July 1781, but he died at age 2 1/2 in April 1784--eight children, at least two daughters and five sons, between 1763 and 1781, in England and France.  Meanwhile, son Jean-Pierre died in St.-Similien Parish, age 3 1/2, in May 1779.  When the family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785, Jean-Baptiste and Marie-Flavie took with them only two of their many children, a daughter and a son.  The others had died in France.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Marie-Flavie gave him no more children there.  She and Jean-Baptiste died on the Lafourche by January 1788, in their early 50s, when their children were listed without parents in a Valenzuela District census.  Daughter Anne-Marie married into the LeBlanc and Landry families on the upper bayou.  Jean Baptiste's remaining son also married and created a vigorous line on the Lafourche.  

Third son Joseph-Marc followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Georgine-Victoire, called Victoire, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Bourg and Anne-Marie Naquin, in January 1794.  Victoire, a native of La Rochelle, France, also had come to Louisiana in 1785 on Le St.-Rémi.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Joseph, fils in August 1795; Marie-Victoire in July 1797; Victor-Maxille, called Maxille, in December 1798; Eulalie-Carmélite, called Carmélite, in October 1800 but died at age 5 in October 1805; Hubert-Pierre born in November 1801; Timothée dit Mathé in July 1803; Henri Landry in November 1805; Jean-Baptiste in January 1808 but died at age 24 (the recording priest said 25)  in November 1832; Lubin born in January 1810 but died the following November; Émilie born in October 1812 but died six days after her birth; and Napoléon, also called Hippolyte, born in November 1816--11 children, eight sons and three daughters, between 1795 and 1816.  Joseph Marc died in Assumption Parish in January 1829, age 56.  Daughter Marie Victoire married into the Simoneaux family.  Six of Joseph Marc's sons also married and settled in Assumption Parish, but not all of the lines endured.  

Oldest son Joseph, fils married cousin Marie Marguerite, called Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Dugas and Marie Geneviève Bourg, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in May 1821.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Joseph Trasimond, called Trasimond, in December 1822; twins Geneviève Emérante and Simonet Sylvain in September 1824, but Simonet died 16 days after his birth, and Geneviève Emérante two weeks later; Justine Céleste, called Céleste, born in November 1825; Simonet Henri, also called Henri Joseph and Henri J., in January 1828; and Emérant Lubin in March 1830--six children, four sons and two daughters, including a set of twins, between 1822 and 1830.  Joseph, fils died in Assumption Parish in April 1835, age 39 (the recording priest said 38).  Daughter Céleste married into the Cedotal family.  Three of Joseph, fils's sons also married and settled in Assumption Parish, two of them near Pierre Part north of Lake Verret. 

Oldest son Trasimond married Rufine, Rufina, or Angéline Marthe, daughter of Antoine Rivero or Rivera and Constance Dominguez, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in May 1847.  Their children, born near Paincourtville, included Marie Delphine in February 1848 but, called Adolphine, died at age 11 1/2 (the recording priest said 12) in August 1859; Marie Adeline born in September 1849; Matilde in April 1851; Françoise Clarissa in December 1852 but, called Françoise, died at age 7 1/2 in February 1860; Eugénie born in February 1854 but died in September; Marguerite Fedilise born in October 1856; and Trasimond Martin posthumously in November 1860--seven children, six daughters and a son, between 1848 and 1860.  Trasimond died near Paincourtville in August 1860, age 38.  Daughters Marie and Mathilde married into the Landry and St. Germain families by 1870.  Trasimond's son did not marry by then. 

Joseph, fils's third son Henri Joseph married cousin Christine, daughter of fellow Acadian Hilaire Bourg and his Creole wife Zepheline Simoneaux, at the Paincourtville church in January 1853.  Their children, born in Assumption Parish, included Joseph Hylaire in February 1854; Luc Clebert in April 1855; Louis Joseph in August 1857; Augustin Léon near Pierre Part in May 1860; Clenie Pierre in November 1861; and Marie Mélanie in December 1864.  Henri Joseph remarried to Lodoiska, daughter of fellow Acadians Treville Landry and Clarisse Blanchard, at the Pierre Part church, Assumption Parish, in September 1866.   Their children, born in Assumption Parish, included Marie Adriènne in August 1867; Marie in August 1868; Marie Alcidie in March 1870; ...  None of Henri Joseph's children married by 1870. 

Joseph, fils's fourth and youngest son Emérant Lubin married Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Mazerolle and Élisabeth Gautreaux, at the Paincourtville church in May 1857.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Ema near Paincourtville in May 1858; Élisabeth Alice near Pierre Part in August 1860; Marie Olive in January 1865 but, called Olive, died at age 2 1/2 in August 1867; Anna Mathilde born in July 1867; ... 

Joseph Marc's second son Victor Maxille, called Maxille and also Baptiste, married cousin Jeanne dite Jeanette, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Daigle and his Creole wife Marguerite Simoneaux, at the Plattenville church in October 1821.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Jean Baptiste in c1822 but died at age 18 months in May 1824; Arsène Valère, called Valère, born in October 1824 but died at age 3 1/2 in July 1828; Urseline Victoire, called Victoire, born in July 1826 but died at age 11 in August 1837; Clarisse Célestine, called Célestine, born in May 1828 but died at age 1 1/2 in September 1829; Jean Baptiste Gervais, called Gervais, born in June 1829; and Félicité Aglace, called Egladie, in January 1833.  Wife Jeanne died in Assumption Parish in July 1834, age 30.  Maxille remarried to Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Aucoin and Marguerite Noël and widow of Simon Landry, at the Plattenville church in November 1834.  Daughter Clémentine Rosalie was born on the upper bayou in September 1835 but died at age 1 in October 1836--seven children, three sons and four daughters, by two wives, between 1822 and 1835.  Daughter Egladie, by his first wife, married a Daigle first cousin.   Maxille's remaining son also married and settled on the upper Lafourche. 

Third and youngest son Gervais, by first wife Jeanette Daigle, married Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadians Marcellin LeBlanc and Arthémise Dugas, at the Paincourtville church in February 1853.  Their children, born near Paincourtville, included Marie Léocadie in December 1853; Joseph Oscar in August 1855; Jeanette Juliènne in January 1857; Joseph Lanzon in February 1859; Louise Adea in August 1861; Octavie Victoria in July 1864; ...  None of Gervais's children married by 1870. 

Joseph Marc's third son Hubert Pierre married cousin Marie, another daughter of Simon Dugas and Marie Geneviève Bourg, at the Plattenville church in January 1827; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of relationship in order to marry.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Victorin Sosthène in November 1827; Sylvestre in December 1828 but, called Sylvain, died near Plattenville, age 33 (the recording priest said 36), in September 1862 (was his death war-related?); Élisabeth Justine, called Justine, born in September 1831; and Joseph E. in c1833 but died at age 1 in October 1834--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1827 and 1833.  Hubert died near Plattenville in October 1853.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who gave no parents' names nor mentioned a wife, said that Hubert died at "age 50 years."  He was a month shy of 52.  Daughter Justine married into the Blanchard family by 1870.  None of Hubert's remaining sons married by then, if they married at all.   

Joseph Marc's fourth son Timothée dit Mathé, married Marcellite, daughter of Simon Simoneaux and his second wife, Acadian Rosalie Hébert, at the Plattenville church in February 1826.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Léon Dorville, called Dorville, in February 1827; Lucien Timothée in July 1828; Édouard in October 1829 but may have died near Plattenville, age 30 (the recording priest said 27), in March 1859; Paul Gervais born in June 1831 but, called Gervais, died at 8 months in February 1832; and Constant Auguste born in November 1832--five children, all sons, between 1827 and 1832.  Timothée died in Assumption Parish in July 1836, a widower.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Timothée was age 30 when he died.  He was 33.  Three of his sons married, and one of them settled near Pierre Part north of Lake Verret. 

Oldest son Léon Dorville, called Dorville, married first cousin Egladie, daughter of fellow Acadians Maxille Daigle and Jeanne dite Jeanette Daigle, his uncle and aunt, at the Paincourtville church in September 1852; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Éduard or Édouard le jeune near Plattenville in November 1852; Jean Baptiste Wilfride in May 1855; Juliènne in January 1858; Marcellite Edma near Paincourtville in August 1860 but, called Edma, died at age 7 in October 1867; Marie Jeanette born in June 1864; Théréza Ella in October 1866 but, called Therza Hela, died at age 8 days in early November; Odalie Victorine born in February 1868; Joseph Paul in March 1870; ...  None of Dorville's children married by 1870. 

Timothée's second son Lucien married cousin Irène, daughter of Jean Baptiste Cedotal and his Acadian wife Constance Daigle, at the Paincourtville church in April 1853.  Their children, born near Paincourtville, included Lucien, fils in March 1854; Anatol in February 1856; Valère Camile in March 1859; Constance Adeline in December 1860; Oleus Aurelien in September 1862; and Cordelia Elizabeth in May 1865--six children, four sons and two daughters, between 1854 and 1865.  Lucien, père died near Paincourtville in March 1870.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Lucien died at "age ca. 38 years."  He was 41.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Timothée's fifth and youngest son Constant married Eglantine, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Charles Gautreaux and his Creole wife Élisabeth Coupelle, at the Pierre Part church, Assumption Parish, in May 1860.  Their children, born in Assumption Parish, included Justine Virginie near Pierre Part in September 1861; Jean Baptiste Maurice Optime in April 1866; Jean Baptiste Ebrard near Paincourtville in June 1868; Fortune Saturnin in November 1870; ...

Joseph Marc's fifth son Henri Landry married Eméranthe Eléonore, also called Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Dugas and his Creole wife Constance Simoneaux, at the Plattenville church in November 1831.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Élisabeth, called Élisabeth, in September 1833; Joseph le jeune, also called Joseph S., in August 1835; Clémentine Élodie in October 1837; Ponati Léonard, called Léonard, in March 1840; Jean Baptiste Honoré in June 1843; Charles Théogène near Paincourtville in November 1845; Constance Claire, called Claire, in August 1848; Olivia or Oliva Hélène in August 1851; and Joseph Hilaire died 3 days after his birth in February 1854--nine children, four daughters and five sons, between 1833 and 1854.  Henri died near Paincourtville in March 1865, age 56 (the recording priest said 57).  Daughters Élisabeth, Claire, and Oliva married into the Simoneaux, Landry, and Blanchard families by 1870.  Two of Henri's sons also married by then. 

 Oldest son Joseph S. married Delphine, daughter of Firmin Friou and his Acadian wife Marine Landry, at the Paincourtville church in April 1857.  Their children, born near Paincourtville, included Nazere Léo in July 1858; Marie Evelia Noémi in January 1860 but, called Evelia, died at age 1 1/2 in September 1861; Marine Léonelle born in June 1861 but died the following September; Joseph Adam Hébert born in September 1862; Lidi Adriènne in March 1866; Fanny Cécilia in November 1867 but, called Fannie, died at age 4 months in April 1868; Cécile Angèle born in May 1869; ... 

Henri Landry's fourth son Charles Théogène, called C. Théogène by the recording priest, married Noémie M., daughter of fellow Acadians Valéry LeBlanc and Clémence Melançon, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in August 1869. ...

Joseph Marc's eighth and youngest son Napoléon, also called Hippolyte, married Zéolide, daughter of Pierre Cedotal and his Acadian wife Marie Hébert, at the Paincourtville church in February 1847.  Their daughter Marie Egladie, called Egladie, was born near Paincourtville in January 1848.  Hippolyte died near Paincourtville in July 1848.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Hippolyte died at "age 33 years."  He was 31.  Daughter Egladie married into the Solard family, so the blood of the line may have endured. 

Jean-Baptiste-Alexandre (1765-1805) à Pierre à Bernard à Olivier Daigre

Jean-Baptiste-Alexandre, fourth son of Alexandre Daigle and Élisabeth Granger, younger brother of Alexis-Jean-Mathurin of La Bergère and older brother of Joseph dit Joson of Le Beaumont, born at Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, in May 1765, followed his family to St.-Servern-sur-Mer near St.-Malo, Poitou, and Nantes and emigrated to Spanish Louisiana as a young bachelor in 1785.  (One wonders why he did not cross with either of his brothers, who came on earlier ships.)  From New Orleans, he followed his fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Dugas and his first wife Anastasie Henry, in June 1786.  Marie, a native of St.-Suliac near St.-Malo, also had come to Louisiana in 1785 aboard Le St.-Rémi.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie baptized, age unrecorded, in May 1787; Jean-Baptiste, called Baptiste, born in February 1789; Anne in May 1791; Marie-Françoise, called Françoise, in November 1793; Jean-Pierre baptized, age unrecorded, in August 1796; Joseph born in September 1798; Marguerite in February 1801; and twins Alexandre and Théotiste in September 1803, but Théotiste died at age 1 1/2 in July 1805--nine children, five daughters and four sons, between 1787 and 1803.  Jean Baptiste Alexandre died at Assumption on the upper Lafourche in October 1805, age 40.  Daughters Marie, Françoise, and Anne married into the Breaux, Friou, Aucoin, and Doiron families, and one of them settled on lower Bayou Teche.  Jean Baptiste Alexandre's four sons also married and settled in Assumption Parish.  A grandson settled down bayou in Terrebonne Parish before returning to Assumption, and two other grandsons moved to the Brashear, now Morgan, City, area on the lower Atchafalaya on the eve of the War of 1861-65. 

Oldest son Jean Baptiste, called Baptiste, married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Suliac Blanchard and Marie Hébert, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1812.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Élise Rosalie in December 1812; Marie Adeline in October 1815 but died the following March; Rosalie Dionese born in May 1816; Jean Baptiste Urbain in April 1818; Joseph Arvillien, also called Aurelien and Eusilien, in October 1819; Henriette in March 1822 but, called Marie Henriette, died at age 9 months in January 1823; and Marie Julie, called Julie, born in May 1824--seven children, five daughters and two sons, between 1812 and 1824.  Jean Baptiste may have been the Baptiste, "age 40, nat. of New Orleans," buried by a Pointe Coupee priest in February 1825.  This Baptiste would have been age 36 at the time.  If this was him, one wonders what a resident of the upper Lafourche was doing in Pointe Coupee Parish; also, he was not a native of New Orleans.  Daughters Élise and Julie married into the Aucoin and Delaune families.  Both of Baptiste's sons also married and settled on the Lafourche.

Older son Jean Baptiste Urbain married Michelle Léonise, called Léonie, 21-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Lambert III and his second wife, Creole Marie Daunis, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in July 1851.  Their children, born in Terrebonne and Assumption parishes, included Jean Baptiste Olissippe in Terrebonne in January 1853; Jean Baptiste Pierre Leufroy near Labadieville, Assumption Parish, in September 1855; Joseph Alfred in February 1857; and Mathurin died a day after his birth in February 1859--four children, all sons, between 1853 and 1859.  None of Jean Baptiste Urbain's sons married by 1870. 

Baptiste's younger son Joseph Arvillien, Aurelien, or Eusilien married Théotiste Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians François Trahan and Josette Aimée Thibodeaux, at the Plattenville church in October 1849.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Clovis in July 1850; Joseph Aristide in July 1852; Auguste Léopolde in March 1854; Léo Cletus in December 1856; Émelina Rosalie Marguerite in December 1860; Aimée Julie in February 1865; ...  Joseph died by July 1865, when he was listed as deceased in a daughter's baptismal record.  He may have been the Joseph Daigle who died near Paincourtville in June 1865.  The priest who recorded the burial gave no parents' names, did not mention a wife, nor did he give the age of Joseph at the time of his passing.  This Joseph would have been in his mid-40s at the time.  Was his death war-related?  None of his children married by 1870. 

Jean Baptiste Alexandre's second son Jean Pierre married Marie Modeste, also called Mathé, daughter of fellow Acadians Eusèbe Arceneaux and Rosalie Bergeron, at the Plattenville church in May 1816.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Amelise or Émelise in August 1817; Pierre Eusèbe in February 1820; Marie Rosalie in October 1822; Marie Clémence or Clémentine, called Clémentine, in May 1825; Marie Pauline in February 1827; Marie Artémise in December 1831; Marie Soraline or Seraline, called Seraline, in September 1835; Evélina in c1838; and Azéma in c1840--nine children, eight daughters and a son, between 1817 and 1840.  Daughters Clémentine, Evélina, ... married into the Aucoin, Caps, Albert, Boudreaux, Bourg, and Simoneaux families.  Three of them settled in St. Mary Parish on lower Bayou Teche, and two of them married the same man.  Jean Pierre's son also married, twice, and settled on the Lafourche and the lower Teche. 

Only son Pierre Eusèbe married Rosalie, daughter of Auguste Verret and his Acadian wife Marie Rose Bourg, at the Plattenville church in September 1841.  She evidently gave him no children.  Pierre Eusèbe remarried to cousin Euphémie, daughter of fellow Acadians Narcisse Trahan and Marcellite Daigle, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in August 1845.  Pierre took his family to the Brashear, now Morgan, City, area on the lower Atchafalaya during the late 1850s.  They were still there a decade later, though they evidently returned to Assumption Parish briefly during the mid-1860s. Their children, born on the upper Lafourche and the lower Atchafalaya, included Joseph Trasimond, called Trasimond, in June 1846; Joseph Désiré in September 1848; Joseph Ozémé in October 1852; Marie Lucina in January 1855; Marie Ophelia near Brashear, now Morgan, City on the lower Atchafalaya in April 1862; Célina Eve near Pierre Part, Assumption Parish, in November 1866; ...  None of Pierre's daughters by 1870, but one of his sons did and settled on the lower Atchafalaya.

Oldest son Trasimond, by second wife Euphémie Trahan, married cousin Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Daigle and his Creole wife Virginie Kerne, at the Plattenville church in February 1867; they had to secure a dispensation for third or fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  They did not remain on the upper Lafourche.  Their son Joseph Alcée was born near Brashear, now Morgan, City in February 1868; ...

Jean Baptiste Alexandre's third son Joseph married Éloise or Louise Ursule Élisabeth, called Louise or Louise Ursule, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Giroir and Isabelle Landry, at the Plattenville church in March 1821.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Joseph Théodule in December 1821 but, called Théodule, died at age 4 1/2 in July 1826; Alexandre le jeune born in February 1823; Pierre Sylvain in November 1824 but, called Sylvanie, died at age 2 1/2 in April 1827; Marie Reine born in April 1826; Joseph Victor in November 1828 but, called Victor, died at age 11 months in October 1829; and Marie Joséphine born in May 1830--six children, four sons and two daughters, between 1821 and 1830.  Neither of Joseph's daughters married by 1870, but his remaining son did and settled on the upper Lafourche and the lower Atchafalaya. 

Second son Alexandre le jeune married cousin Phelisene or Félicie Anazade, daughter of fellow Acadians Auguste Doiron and Marianne Daigle, at the Plattenville church in June 1844.  The marriage was registered in St. Mary Parish also, so they lived for a while on the lower Atchafalaya.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche and the lower Atchafalaya, included Marie Aurelie near Plattenville in February 1845; Élisabeth Aureline in November 1846; Edmond in November 1848; Marie Alexandrine in March 1851; Marie Aurelia in July 1853; Eugénie Augustin near Brashear, now Morgan, City, St. Mary Parish, in January 1864; ...  None of Alexandre le jeune's children married by 1870. 

Jean Baptiste Alexandre's fourth and youngest son Alexandre, a twin, married Marie Élise or Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Hébert and Élisabeth Mazerolle, at the Plattenville church in February 1824.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Joséphine Élisabeth in November 1824; Antoinette Élise in June 1827; Louis in the late 1820s or early 1830s; Marie Éliza or Élise in March 1830 but died the following June; Marguerite Adelina born in September 1831; Edmond Augustin, called Augustin, in July 1837; and Adrien Alexandre in January 1841--seven children, four daughters and three sons, between 1824 and 1841.  Alexandre died near Plattenville in April 1841.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Alexandre died at "age ca. 39 yrs."  He was 37.  Daughters Joséphine, Antoinette, ... married into the Guillot, Campeaux, and Aucoin families by 1870.  Alexandre's three sons also married by then, and one of them settled near Pierre Part on the north shore of Lake Verret. 

Oldest son Louis married first cousin Émelie, daughter of Auguste Campeaux and his Acadian wife Émelie Hébert, at the Plattenville church in July 1854; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry; Louis's sister Antoinette married Émelie's brother Merville.  Louis and Émelie's children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Camille Paule in April 1855; Émeline Félicité in June 1857; Louisa Apoline in June 1862; Marie Eugénie in October 1866; Joseph Léonard in November 1870; ...  None of Louis's children married by 1870. 

Alexandre's second son Edmond Augustin, called Augustin, married cousin Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Hébert and Françoise Landry, at the Paincourtville church in January 1858.  They settled near Pierre Part.  Their children, born in Assumption Parish, included a daughter in c1857 but, her name unrecorded, died at age 3 in July 1860; Joseph Uselien born in December 1858; Joseph Justilien in January 1861 but, called Justilien, died at age 3 (the recording priest said 4) in May 1864; Joseph Élie born in May 1863; Joseph Oreste baptized at the Pierre Part church, age unrecorded, in March 1865; Marie Adriènne born in January 1868; Marie Adeline in March 1870; ... 

Alexandre's third and youngest son Adrien Alexandre married Elmire, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Moïse and Eurasie Comeaux, at the Plattenville church in January 1866.  Their children, born near Plattenville, included Étienne Wichless in August 1866; Marie Adriènne in February 1868; Marie Palmire in April 1870; ...

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Three more Daigres--another small family--evidently came to Louisiana from France aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in early November 1785.  They joined their many kinsmen on upper Bayou Lafourche:

Jean-Baptiste (1759-1829) à Abraham à Bernard à Olivier Daigre

Jean-Baptiste, oldest son of Jean Daigle and Marie-Judith Lacroix dit Durel, born at Cherbourg, Normandy, France, in December 1759, followed his family to Poitou and Nantes.  He married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre LeBlanc and Marie Landry, at Chantenay near Nantes in March 1783.  Marie, a native of Bristol, England, had come to France with her family in 1763.  Marie gave Jean-Baptiste two daughters at Chantenay:  Marie-Judith born in April 1784; and Marguerite-Louise in April 1785.  Four months later, the family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from Paimboeuf, the lower port of Nantes.  (Jean-Baptiste's name does not appear on L'Amitié's embarkation roll, but he does appear on its debarkation roll, which lists the implements he received from the Spanish after his arrival).  His daughters survived the crossing, but wife Marie may not have, or she may have died soon after reaching the colony.  Jean-Baptiste and his daughters followed their fellow passengers from New Orleans to upper Bayou Lafourche, where his daughters also died, in January 1789 and after January 1791.  Meanwhile, Jean-Baptiste remarried to Marguerite, daughter of François Simoneau of Lorraine, France, and his Acadian wife Marie-Osite-Anne Corporon of Annapolis Royal, in April 1786.  Marguerite had come to Louisiana from Maryland in 1766 when she was very young.  She and Jean-Baptiste remained on the upper Lafourche, where she gave him more children, including Marete, perhaps Marie-Osite, baptized, age unrecorded, in March 1787; Marie-Claire baptized, age unrecorded, in September 1788; Anne dite Manette born in c1789; Louis-Maurice born in April 1790; Joseph in March 1792 but died at age 1 1/2 in November 1793; Marie-Françoise, called Françoise, born in March 1794; Constance-Éloise-Marguerite baptized, age unrecorded, in November 1796; Jeanne-Cléotiste born in January 1798; Joseph-Paul, called Paul and Hippolyte, in September 1801; Eugène in the early 1800s; Célestine or Céleste Marie in January 1806; and Baptiste Drosin in c1810 but died at age 3 in August 1813--14 children, nine daughters and five sons, by two wives, between 1784 and 1810, in France and Louisiana.  Jean Baptiste died in Assumption Parish in March 1829.  The Plattenville priest who recorded the burial said that Jean, "husband of Marguerite Samoneau," died at "age 76 yrs."  He was 70.  Daughters Anne, Marie, Constance, Marie Françoise, Jeanne, and Céleste, all by his second wife, married into the Trahan, Bourque, Cedotal, Dupuis, and Daigle families.  Three of Jean Baptiste's sons also married.  The oldest moved to lower Bayou Teche in the 1810s, creating a western branch of the family, but the others remained on Bayou Lafourche.  

Oldest son Louis Maurice, by second wife Marguerite Simoneaux, married Madeleine Anastasie, called Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Breaux and Marie Madeleine Bourg of St. James Parish, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in November 1812.  In the late 1810s, they moved from the Lafourche to lower Bayou Teche, where they helped establish a western branch of the family in St. Mary Parish.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche and in St. Mary Parish, included Almeria Constance in Assumption Parish in August 1813; Adeline Carmélite or Carmélite Amelina, called Carmélite, in July 1815; Louis, fils in St. Mary Parish in February 1821 but may have died in his late 30s, when a succession in his name was filed at the Franklin courthouse in January 1861; Jean Onésime, called Onésime, born in September 1823; and Marcelien or Marcellin in December 1828--five children, two daughters and three sons, between 1813 and 1828.  Louis's succession was filed at the Franklin courthouse, St. Mary Parish, in January 1861.  He would have been age 71 that year.  Daughter Carmélite married into the Broussard and Richard families on the lower Teche.  Two of Louis's sons also married and settled on the lower Teche, but only one of the lines seems to have endured. 

Second son Jean Onésime, called Onésime, married Pamela, daughter of fellow Acadian Nicolas Broussard and his Creole wife Marie Élisabeth Bertrand, at the Pattersonville church, St. Mary Parish, in August 1853.  Onésime's succession was filed at the Franklin courthouse in November 1853, a few months after his marriage.  He would have been age 30 that year.  Did he father any children? 

Louis, père's third and youngest son Marcellin married Adelina Palaskki or Polowski, perhaps a Polish immigrant, at the Pattersonville church in July 1852.  Their children, born near Pattersonville, included Cléophas in August 1853; Mary Sevilla in July 1858; ... 

Jean Baptiste's third son Joseph Paul, called Paul and Hippolyte, from second wife Marguerite Simoneaux, married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Dupuis and Marie Osite Dugas, at the Plattenville church in November 1820.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included a daughter, name unrecorded, died three hours after her birth in May 1821; Eléonore Osite dite Léonore born in October 1822; Louis Basile in June 1825; Jean Baptiste le jeune in February 1828 but died at age 10 months the following December; Eugène Edmond born in December 1829; and Azéma in July 1835 but died at age 12 1/2 (the recording priest said 13) in September 1847--six children, three daughters and three sons, between 1821 and 1835.  Hippolyte, as the Plattenville priest called him, died in Assumption Parish in November 1837, age 36.  Daughter Léonore married into the LeBoeuf family by 1870.  One of Hippolyte's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Louis Basile married Doralise, daughter of Norbert LeBoeuf and Ursule Rodriguez, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in July 1846; Louis Basile's sister Léonore was Doralise's brother Louis's wife.  Louis Basile and Doralise's children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Emma in February 1848; Joseph Lusignon in December 1849; Norbert Hippolyte in March 1852; Uranie Azéma in July 1854; Marie Eléonore baptized at age 22 days in February 1857; and Désiré Léonard born in June 1859--six children, three daughters and three sons, between 1848 and 1859.  None of Louis Basile's children married by 1870. 

Jean Baptiste's fourth son Eugène, by second wife Marguerite Simoneaux, married Rose or Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Templet and Mélanie Hébert, at the Plattenville church in May 1825.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Ovide in August 1826; Jean Baptiste D'orville, called Dorville, in June 1829; and Rosalie in August 1831.  Eugène remarried to fellow Acadian Carmélite Blanchard probably in Assumption Parish in the early 1830s.  Their son Drozin or Drosin was born in Assumption Parish in January 1834--four children, two daughters and two sons, by two wives, between 1826 and 1834.  Eugène's daughters, by his first wife, married into the Breaux and Landry families.  Both of his sons also married and settled on the upper Lafourche. 

Older son Jean Baptiste D'orville, called Dorville, by first wife Rosalie Templet, married Célestine, daughter of fellow Acadians Émile LeBlanc and Arthémise Gravois, at the Paincourtville church in February 1852.  Their children, born near Paincourtville, included Flora Lavina in November 1853; Marie Luciana in October 1854 but, called Osiana, died at age 4 1/2 (the recording priest said 4) in August 1859; Joseph Émile born in October 1856; Joseph Eugène in late 1858 but died at age 6 months in May 1859; Marie Alice born in March 1860; and a second Joseph Eugène posthumously in January 1862 but died at age 1 1/2 in July 1863--six children, three daughters and three sons, between 1853 and 1862.  Dorville died near Paincourtville in November 1861, age 32.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Eugène's younger son Drosin, by second wife Carmélite Blanchard, married Amelia, daughter of fellow Acadians Auguste Landry and Irène Landry, at the Paincourtville church in January 1859.  Their children, born near Paincourtville, included Louise Élodie in June 1860; Jean Baptiste Adrien in October 1861 but, called Adrien, died at age 13 months in November 1862; Gervais born in September 1863 but, called Gegi, died at age 1 1/2 in March 1865; Amilton Wilfrede born in October 1865 but, called Milton, died at age 1 1/2 in August 1867; Marguerite Virginia born in November 1867; Marguerite Eugénie in January 1870; ...

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Six more Daigres--most of them wives married into the Bourg, Clossinet, Hébert, and Pitre families--came to Louisiana from France aboard La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans from St.-Malo in early December 1785.  They followed their husbands and their fellow passengers to the new Acadian community of Bayou des Écores in the New Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge, but they did not remain.  Two hurricanes devastated the settlement in the early 1790s.  Most of the Acadians there moved elsewhere, including the Daigres, who joined their kinsmen on upper Bayou Lafourche, but no new Daigre family lines came of it.

Dantin

Louis Dantin dit La Joye, born in Paris in c1702, married Marguerite, 25-year-old daughter of surgeon Bernard Marres dit La Sonde of Bordeaux and Judith Petitpas of Port-Royal, probably at Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, in c1741.  Marguerite's parents were long-time residents of Port-Toulouse, and she and Louis dit La Joye settled there.  In February 1752, a French official counted Louis, Marguerite, and five of their children--Gabriel, age 10; Jeanne, age 9; Louis, fils, age 7; Barthélémy, age 4; and Joseph, age 2--at Port-Toulouse.  After the counting, Marguerite gave Louis dit La Joye five more children on the island--Marguerite, Michel, Jean, Anne, and Agathe, birth years unrecorded--at least 10 children, six sons and four daughters, between 1742 and the 1750s.  Louis dit La Joye died probably at Port-Toulouse by late 1758.  He would have been age 56 that year. 

Living in territory controlled by France, Marguerite Marres dit La Sonde, widow Dantin, and her many children escaped the roundups in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived, however.  After the fall of the French fortress at nearby Louisbourg in July 1758, the British rounded up most of the habitants on Île Royale and deported them to France.  The crossing was a disaster for the Dantin family.  Marguerite and nine of her children crossed on the transport Queen of Spain, which left Île Royale probably in August.  When the ship reached St.-Malo in late November, sons Louis, fils, age 13, and Barthélémy, age 10, were still alive, but Marguerite and her seven other children had died at sea!   

Louis, fils and Barthélémy lived first at St.-Thual in the Breton interior between Dinan and Rennes, south of St.-Malo, away from other exiles, and then in St.-Malo itself.  In early 1766, Barthélémy, now age 18 and still unmarried, agreed to go to Guinea in west Africa, perhaps as a sailor.  Older brother Louis, fils, who was age 21 and also unmarried, did not go with him.  Barthélémy traveled from St.-Malo to Le Havre, from which he departed in May 1766 aboard La Tamire.   Remaining in France proved to be a wise choice for Louis, fils, and going to Guinea a fatal one for his younger brother.  According to Captain Thomas Domet of La Tamire, Barthélémy died in Guinea.  

Louis, fils became a house carpenter in France.  He moved to Bécherel south of St.-Thual, even farther from his fellow exiles in the Rance valley, and lived at Bécherel from 1766 to 1767.  In January 1767, at age 22, he married Jeanne, 21-year-old daughter of locals Gilles Gesmier and Maurille Beaupied, at St.-André-des-Eaux on the upper Rance south of St.-Malo and northwest of St.-Thual.  Jeanne was a native of Tressaint on the upper Rance between St.-André-des-Eaux and the medieval stronghold of Dinan.  She gave Louis, fils four children in the St.-André-des-Eaux area:  three sons and a daughter, including a set of twins.  Two of the sons did not survive infancy.  In 1773, Louis, fils and Jeanne were among the hundreds of Acadians in Brittany who ventured to the interior of Poitou.  In March 1774, another daughter was born to them there.  In December 1775, after two years of effort, Louis, fils, Jeanne, and their three remaining children, a son and two daughters, retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes, where, between 1776 and 1781, Jeannne gave Louis, fils three more daughters--eight children, two sons and six daughters, between 1768 and 1781.  Jeanne died at Nantes in the early 1780s, not quite age 40.  One of their daughters born at Nantes also died there, as did their remaining son.  In November 1784, at age 39, Louis, fils remarried to Hélène, 41-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Antoine Aucoin and Élisabeth Amireau and widow of Alexis-Gégoire Doiron, at Nantes.  The marriage brought two more children into the family: stepdaughters Françoise-Josèphe and Marie-Victoire Doiron.  When, in the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, Louis, fils and his new wife agreed to take it.

When he came to Louisiana from France in 1785 and followed his fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, Louis Dantin, fils was middle-aged, married to a middle-aged widow, and had buried all three of his sons and a daughter back in France.  The Acadian branch of this family, then, except for its blood, could have died with him on the upper bayou, but that did not happen.  Less than two years after coming to the Spanish colony, Louis, fils, at age 42, married a third time, to a woman half his age, who gave him 10 more children, including six more sons, every one of whom created families of their own.  During the early antebellum period, Louis, fils and his descendants moved down bayou into what became Lafourche Interior and Terrebonne parishes, some as far down Bayou Lafourche as the coastal marshes, where they can still be found today. 

When federal census takers counted slaves in Lafourche Interior and Terrebonne parishes during the late antebellum period, no Dantin appeared on the lists of slaveholders in 1850 and 1860.  Louis Dantin, fils's descendants, then, participated only peripherally in the South's antebellum plantation-based economy.  At least three members of the family, two grandsons and a great-grandson of Louis Dantin, fils, served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65.  They survived the war.  Nevertheless, they and their kinsmen lived in a part of the state that was especially hard hit by the conflict.  Successive Federal invasions devastated the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley early in the war, and Union forces occupied most of the region after 1862.  Confederate foragers also plagued the area when the Federals were not around. ...

Thanks to Louis, fils's fecund sons and grandsons, Dantin is a common surname in Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes today.  It is rare, however, in other parts of today's Acadiana.  In Louisiana, the family's name also is spelled Dantein, D'Antin, Dautin, Dentin, Denton.07

Louis, fils (c1745-1826) Dantin

Louis, fils, second son of Louis Dantin dit La Joye and Marguerite LaSonde, born at Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, in c1745, was counted with his large family there in February 1752.  In late 1758, when he was in his early teens, he was deported with his widowed mother and eight of his siblings aboard the British transport Queen of Spain from Île Royale to St.-Malo, France.  His mother and seven of his siblings died in the crossing!  Louis, fils worked in France as a house carpenter, and, from 1766 to 1773, lived in Breton towns far from other exiles.  He married twice in France, first to Jeanne, daughter of locals Gilles Gesmier and Maurille Beaupied, at St.-André-des-Eaux on the upper Rance south of St.-Malo in January 1767.  She gave him four children there:  twins Louis III and Jeanne born in August 1768, but Louis III died 12 days after his birth; another Louis III born at nearby La Ville de la Deavrie in December 1770 but died at age 3 months the following March; and Florian-Gilles born in May 1772.  In 1773, Louis, fils and Jeanne were among the hundreds of Acadians in Brittany who ventured to the interior of Poitou to settle on land owned by an influential French nobleman near the city of Châtellerault.  Daughter Marie-Anne was born in St.-Jean l'Evangeliste Parish, Châtellerault, in March 1774.  After two years of effort, Louis, fils, Jeanne, and their three remaining children retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes, where Anne gave Louis, fils three more daughters:  Anne born in c1776; Judith- or Julie-Geneviève in Ste.-Croix Parish in June 1778; and Perrine in August 1781.  Wife Jeanne died at Nantes in the early 1780s, not quite age 40.  Youngest daughter Perrine and remaining son Florian-Gilles died at Nantes before September 1784.  At age 39, Louis, fils remarried to Hélène, 41-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Antoine Aucoin and Élisabeth Amireau and widow of Alexis-Grégoire Doiron, in St.-Similien Parish, Nantes, in November 1784.  She gave him no more children.  Louis, fils took his wife, four unmarried daughters, and two unmarried stepdaughters to Spanish Louisiana aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in early November 1785.  From the city, they followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Second wife Hélène died at Lafourche in August 1786, age 38, less than a year after reaching the colony.  Louis, fils, at age 42, remarried again--his third marriage--to Marguerite-Blanche, 20-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Alexis Breau and Marie-Josèphe Guillot, at Lafourche in July 1787.  Marguerite-Blanche, a native of Trigavou southwest of St.-Malo, also had come to Louisiana in 1785 aboard L'Amitié, so he may have known her from the voyage over.  She gave him 10 more children on the upper Lafourche, including Louis-François baptized, age unrecorded, in December 1788; Marguerite born in November 1789; Joseph in September 1791; Fabien-Sébastien in December 1793; Marie-Louise in August 1795; Charles in c1797; Jean-Baptiste in February 1799; Modeste-Carmélite in May 1801; Marie-Carmélite, called Carmélite, in August 1803; and Paul in June 1806--18 children, nine sons and nine daughters, by his first and third wives, between 1768 and 1806, in France and Louisiana.  Louis, fils lived to a ripe old age, surrounded by many children and grandchildren.  He died in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1826, in his early 80s.  His succession inventory, naming his three wives and listing some of his children and some of his daughters' spouses--Marie Carmélite and her husband; Anne and her husband; Louis François; Joseph, Fabien; Charles; Jean Baptiste; Marguerite; Marie Louise; Modeste, deceased; and Jeanne and her husband--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in April 1827.  Daughters Jeanne, Marie Anne, Anne, Julie Geneviève, Marguerite, Marie Louise, Marie Carmélite, and Modeste Marcelite, from his first and third wives, married into Pitre, Hébert, Achée, Levron, Sanchez, Este, Leonard, Boye or Boyer, and Maronge families in New Orleans and on the upper Lafourche.  All of Louis's sons by his third wife married.  The Acadian Dantins in South Louisiana descend from Louis, fils and these youngest sons. 

Fourth son Louis François, by third wife Marguerite Blanche Breaux, married Anne or Jeanne Rosalie, called Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Hébert and Anne Comeaux, at the home of Rosalie's uncle Joseph Ignace Hébert in Ascension Parish in October 1808.  They settled on Bayou Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Constance Pélagie in June 1809; Léandre in March 1811; Basilise Adeline or Adeline Basilise in August 1816; Louis Dufroi or Leufroi, called Leufroi, in June 1819; Jean Charles in January 1822 but died at age 2 in March 1824; Marie Rosalie Emesida born in September 1825; and Joséphine Auveline or Aureline in March 1829--seven children, four daughters and three sons, between 1809 and 1829.  Louis François died in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1840.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial said that Louis François died at age 54.  He was 51.  A succession inventory in his name, listing his wife and most of their children--Aimée Euresida; Joséphine Aureline; Louis Leufroy; Constance Pélagie and her husband; Basilice Adeline and her husband; and Léandre, who the clerk noted was deceased (he was in fact only two months in his grave)--was filed at the Lafourche Interior Parish courthouse in March 1841.  Daughters Constance Pélagie, Adeline Basilise, and Marie Rosalie Emesida married into the Lana, Legendre, and Boutary families.  Daughter Marie Rosalie Emesida, called Marie Emesida or Emesida, lost her husband, Antoine Boutary, in June 1847, when he was age 31.  She gave birth to a son in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1851 and named him Cléopha Dantin, so she may not have remarried before the boy's birth.  Louis François's remaining sons also married and settled on the Lafourche, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Léandre married Rosalie, 25-year-old daughter of Balthasar Triche and Susanne Helfer of St. John the Baptist Parish, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in September 1839.  Léandre died in Lafourche Interior Parish in January 1841, age 30.  He fathered no children, at least none who appeared in area church records, so his line of the family died with him.  

Louis François's second son Louis Leufroi, called Leufroi, married Marie Solidele or Fidelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Clouâtre and Marie Molaison, at the Thibodaux church in May 1840.  Their children, born on the southeastern bayous, included Louisa or Louise in Lafourche Interior Parish in August 1842; Marie died, age unrecorded, in June 1844; Adam André born in April 1847; Marie Alzelia in July 1849; Justin Gustave in Terrebonne Parish in April 1853; Rosela Marceline in July 1855; Rosa Marguerite in October 1857; Rositte Joséphine in May 1860; ...  Daughter Louise married into the Pichoff family by 1870.  One of Louis Leufroi's sons also married by then. 

Older son Adam married Creole Virginia Deroche in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in March 1869. ...

Louis, fils's fifth son Joseph, by third wife Marguerite Blanche Breaux, married Marie Clothilde, called Clothilde, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Janvier Guidry and Marie Josèphe Lebert, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in July 1811.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Scholastique in c1812; Adeline or Adèle in Assumption Parish in May 1816; Joseph Firmin, also called Joseph, fils, in January 1818; Dufrois or Leufroi in Lafourche Interior Parish in March 1820; Marie Joséphine Carmélite, perhaps also called Émelite dite Mélite, in February 1822; Charles Omer, also called C. Omer and Omer, in July 1824; Marie Odile in July 1826; Jean David in late 1828 but, called David, died at age 25 (the recording priest said 22) in October 1853; and Joseph Sirode or Livodé, called Livodé, born in January 1833--nine children, four daughters and five sons, between c1812 and 1833.  Joseph, père died in a yellow fever epidemic in Lafourche Parish in October 1853.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial called him "J." and said he was age 66 when he died.  He was 62.  Wife Clothilde and one of their grown sons also died in the same epidemic.  A petition for succession inventory, giving his death date, noting his wife's name and her recent death, and listing their children, including some of their spouses--David, including details of his death; Adeline and her husband; Joseph, Jr.; Scholastique and her husband; Leufroi; Omer; Livaudais; and Marie Odille--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in January 1854.  Daughters Scholastique, Adèle/Adeline, and Émelie dite Mélite married into the Boutary, Bourg, and Guillot families.  Four of Joseph's sons also married and settled in the Lafourche valley, and a son and a grandson served the Southern Confederacy in uniform. 

Oldest son Joseph Firmin, also called Joseph, fils, married Carmélite, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Valéry Bourgeois and Rosalie Marguerite Richard, at the Thibodaux church in March 1840.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Zoé Agathe in February 1841; Magloire Alfred in April 1843; Marie Ossiana or Oceana in May 1846; Théophilia Agladie in March 1848 but, called Agladie, age at 4 1/2 (the recording priest said 5), in January 1853; Marie Amanda born in May 1850 but, called Amanda, died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 3) in January 1852; Marie Angelina born in February 1852 but died at age 6 in February 1858; Marie Alida born in April 1854 but, called Alida, died at age 8 1/2 (the recording priest said 9) in January 1863; Marie Léonide born in February 1856; Joseph Augustin in August 1858; Laura Joséphine in March 1861; and Henry Valéry in January 1864 but, called Henri, died the following July.  Joseph Firmin, at age 48, remarried to Marie, another daughter of Valéry Bourgeois and Rosalie Marguerite Richard and widow of Joseph Molaison, at the Thibodaux church in April 1866. ...  Daughters Zoé and Oceana, by his first wife, married into the Rossignol and Chappuis families by 1870, within days of one another.  One of Joseph Firmin's sons served in the War of 1861-65.  None of his sons, included that one, married by 1870. 

During the War of 1861-65, Joseph Firmin's oldest son Magloire served in Company G of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafourche Parish, which fought in Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana.  One wonders if he survived the war, returned to his family, and married. 

Joseph's second son Leufroi married Théotilde, daughter of Jean Louis Daunis and his Acadian wife Célesie Carret, at the Thibodaux church in November 1849.  Daughter Marie Louisiana was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in November 1850.  Leufroi remarried to Marie Thérèse Caillouet, place and date unrecorded.  Daughter Mathilda was born in Terrebonne Parish in November 1863; ...  Neither of Leufroi's daughters married by 1870. 

Joseph's third son Charles Omer, also called C. Omer and Omer, married Marcelline, daughter of fellow Acadians Édouard Bergeron and Marie Rassicot, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in January 1845 or 1846.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Ermina in April 1847 but, called Marie Ema, died at age 3 1/2 in January 1851; Joseph Théophile born in December 1848; Gustave Aubin in January 1851; Marie Azéma in March 1853; Charles Omer, fils in July 1856; twins Louise Clothilde and Louisiane Thérèse in December 1858, but, called Thérèse Louisiane, Louisiane Thérèse died the following April; Albert Beauregard born in April 1861; Edmire Victoria in May 1862; Joseph Édouard in January 1865; ...  Daughter ... married a Bergeron cousin by 1870.  None of Charles Omer's sons married by then. 

Joseph's fifth and youngest son Joseph Livodé, called Livodé and Livaudais, married Élisabeth, daughter of Célestin Guyot and Marie Elizabeth Ferguson, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in September 1852, and sanctified the marriage at the Thibodaux church in September 1854.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joseph le jeune in October 1855 but, called Joseph Arthur, died at age 2 months in December; Joseph Arthur, perhaps the second with the name, born in September 1857 but died at age 2 1/2 months in December; a child, name unrecorded, born in c1858 but died in Lafourche Parish, age 2, in May 1860; Eve Amanda born in May 1859; Philippe Anatole in November 1861; Joseph Léon in November 1864; Marie Cécile in July 1866; Clothilde Élisabeth in April 1869; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Livodé, called Livaudais in Confederate records, served in Company D of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafourche Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  He evidently survived the fighting there and returned to his family.  None of his remaining children married by 1870. 

Louis, fils's sixth son Fabien Sébastien, by third wife Marguerite Blanche Breaux, married Marie Eugénie or Virginie, called Virginie, 16-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians François Régis Part and Constance Bourgeois, at the Thibodauxville church in January 1822.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Mélite in November 1822; Fabien D. in March 1824 but died at age 2 in February 1826; Marie Alise or Alice, called Alice, born in October 1826; Louis Soastin or Sosthène, called Sosthène, in April 1828; Marguerite Aiméloee, perhaps also called Mélasie, in February 1833; Charles Bienvenu in September 1837; Forestide Schuyler, called Schuyler, in January 1840; and Marie Elvina, called Elvina, in April 1848--eight children, four daughters and four sons, between 1822 and 1848.  Fabien, père remarried to fellow Acadian Marguerite Breaux, place and date unrecorded, but it probably was in Lafourche Parish in the 1850s or early 1860s.  She died there, age 70, in October 1865, having given him no more children.  He died in Lafourche Parish in September 1869.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial said that Fabien was age 84 when he died.  He was 75.  Daughters Mélite, Alice, Mélasie, and Elvina, by his first wife, married into the Ledet, Lirette, Hébert, Putnam, and Adam families, one of them, Alice, twice, by 1870.  One of Fabien Sébastien's sons also married by then. 

Second son Louis Sosthène, called Sosthène, by first wife Virginie Part, married Louisa, daughter of Jean Baptiste Rodrigue and Françoise Arabie, at the Thibodaux church in February 1852.  They settled near Raceland on the lower Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Odile in August 1853 but died the following April; and Odilia born in June 1855. Sosthène's remaining daughter did not marry by 1870. 

Louis, fils's seventh son Charles, by third wife Marguerite Blanche Breaux, married, at age 23, Claire, 15-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Simon François Guillot and his second wife Rose Comeaux, at the Thibodauxville church in June 1820.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Rose Émillessère or Mélissaire, called Mélissaire, in January 1821; Jean Charles Louis, called Louis, in January 1824; Mélite Aveline, perhaps also called Émilie, in December 1826; and Joseph Leclaire in February 1828--four children, two daughters and two sons, between 1821 and 1828.  Charles died in Lafourche Interior Parish in March 1851.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial, and who did not mention a wife or give any parents' names, said that Charles died "at age 50 yrs."  He was in his early 50s.  Daughters Émilie and Mélissaire married into the Farez or Savez and Benoit families before 1870.  Both of Charles's sons also married by then and settled on the Lafourche. 

Older son Jean Charles Louis, called Louis, married Aurelia, daughter of John Newell or Noel and Marie Denise Morvant, at the Thibodaux church in March 1851.  Their children, born in Lafourche Parish, included Marie Célina, also called Estelina, in October 1851; Denise in September 1864; ...  Daughter Estelina married into the Boudreaux family by 1870. 

Charles's younger son Joseph Leclaire married Azéma Pamela, called Zema, daughter of Cadet Sevin and his Acadian wife Marie Hébert, at the Thibodaux church in June 1851.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie in June 1852; Joseph Théophile in February 1854 but, called Théophile Hyppolite, died at age 3 1/2 (the recording priest said 3) in May 1857; Marie Zelma born in October 1855; Alcide Arthur in July 1857; Joacin Aristide in March 1859; Donathilde Lacraise Osea in February 1861; Joseph, fils in February 1863; Félicien Nicolas in July 1865; Amanda Joséphine in January 1868; Eve Roséma in March 1870; ...  None of Joseph Leclaire's children married by 1870. 

Louis, fils's eighth son Jean Baptiste, by third wife Marguerite Blanche Breaux, married Marie Ange, Angèle, or Angélique, daughter of Urbin Achete, Chete, Eschete, or Este and Anne Madeleine Aman of Lafourche, at the Plattenville church in April 1819.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Jean Baptiste, fils in February 1820 but died at age 9 in March 1829; Marie Clémentine born in March 1822; Marie Téovine or Zéolide, called Zéolide, in March 1824; Anne Phelonise in September 1826; Jean Octave, called Octave, in October 1828; Marie Aveline in January 1831; Elia Gerasime, called Gerasime, in December 1833; Marie Adeline in May 1836; Marie Célina in January 1840; and Marie Éloise in March 1841--10 children, three sons and seven daughters, between 1820 and 1841.  Daughter Zéolide married into the Plaisance family by 1870.  Jean Baptiste's remaining sons also married by then.  One wonders why so many of his daughters did not marry by 1870. 

Second son Jean Octave, called Octave, married Eugénia or Eugénie Darbonne or Terrebonne probably in Lafourche Interior Parish in the early 1850s.  Their children, born on the lower Lafourche, included Louise Joséphine in June 1850; Marie Antoinette in February 1851; Osessy Cléophas near Raceland in December 1853; Octave Grégoire near Lockport in February 1868; ...  

Jean-Baptiste, père's third and youngest son Elia Gerasime, called Gerasime, married Joséphine Moran probably in Lafourche Interior Parish in the early 1850s.  Their children, born on the lower Lafourche, included Clara in August 1851; Georges Louis near Lockport in July 1863; ...  Neither of Gerasime's children married by 1870. 

Louis, fils's ninth and youngest son Paul, by third wife Marguerite Blanche Breaux, married Azélie or Éliza Élisabeth or Isabelle, called Élisabeth, 17-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Benoît Richard and Anne Isabelle Rassicot, at the Thibodauxville church in October 1833.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joseph Paul in June 1836; Céleste Joséphine, called Joséphine, in April 1838; Marie Célina or Célima, called Célima, in April 1840; Louis Jules, called Jules, in April 1842; Joseph Alfred, called Alfred, in April 1844; Alsace or Alces Valéry in July 1846; Evariste Ernest, called Ernest, in August 1848; Marie Julia Joséphine, called Julia, in February 1851; and Léo or Léon in March 1855--nine children, six sons and three daughters, between 1836 and 1855.  Paul died in Lafourche Parish in December 1856.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Paul was age 46 when he died.  He was 50.  A summons for a "Family meeting," calling his wife Élizabeth and listing their children--Célima, Julie (probably Jules, perhaps a dit), Aldred, Alces, Ernest, Julia, and Léon--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in December 1860.  Daughter Joséphine married into the Baye family by 1870.  Three of Paul's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Joseph Paul married cousin Justine, daughter of Étienne Bénoni Boutary and his Acadian wife Scholastique Dantin, at the Thibodaux church in January 1864; Justine's mother was a daughter of Joseph Paul's uncle Joseph Dantin and Joseph Paul's first cousin.  Joseph Paul and Justine's children, born in Lafourche Parish, included Joseph died in Lafourche Parish three days after his birth in November 1864; Marie Justine born in February 1868 but, called Justine, died the following July; ...  

During the War of 1861-65, Paul's second son Louis Jules, called Jules, born in Lafourche Interior Parish in April 1842, served in Company I of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafourche Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  He survived the war, returned to his family, and married Roséma, daughter of John Brown and Justine Pontiff, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in May 1867.  Their children, born near Raceland, included Joseph Edgard in February 1868; Marie Louisiènne in December 1869; ... 

Paul's third son Joseph Alfred, called Alfred, married Euphrasie Webre in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in December 1866.  Their children, born near Raceland, included Marie Emma in January 1868; Marie Élizabeth in October 1869; ...

David

Jean-Pierre David dit Saint-Michel, born in c1699 or 1700 in the parish of St.-Nazaire on the north side of the Loire estuary below Nantes, probably was no kin to the other Davids of greater Acadia.  He emigrated to Canada from France probably soon after Queen Anne's War and worked as a master blacksmith.  He married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Monmellian dit Saint-Germain and Hélène Juineau of Haute-Ville, Québec, probably at Québec in c1717, and settled at Louisbourg, Île Royale, in greater Acadia, where he worked his trade.  There, he was addressed as Sr. David.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1718 and 1743, Marie-Madeleine gave the blacksmith 13 children, nine sons and four daughters, most, if not all of them, born in the French fortress at Louisbourg.  After the British seized Louisbourg in June 1745, they deported Jean-Pierre and his family, along with 1,900 other inhabitants of Louisbourg and the surrounding area, to the French naval port of Rochefort.  Second son Étienne-Michel, called Michel, having married and settled in British-controlled Nova Scotia, was not among the members of his family deported to France.  Michel and his family remained at Minas, while his parents and younger siblings returned to Louisbourg in 1749 after the French resumed control of Île Royale.  Michel's mother Marie-Madeleine Monmellien died at the fortress in the spring of 1755, on the eve of Le Grand Dérangement

Living in territory controlled by France, the blacksmith's family escaped the fate of their fellow Acadians, including son Étienne-Michel, on peninsula Nova Scotia.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived, however.  In late 1758, after Louisbourg fell again, the redcoats deported most of the fisher/habitants on the Maritime islands to France.  Widower Jean-Pierre, two of his daughters, and their families landed at La Rochelle on the Bay of Biscay.  Jean-Pierre, in his late 50s, died at the local hospital soon after they reached the military port and was buried in the hospital cemetery.  Daughter Jeanne did not remain in France.  In 1764, after the war had ended, she followed other exiles to the new French colony of Guiane on the northeastern coast of South America.  That December, in St.-Sauveur Parish in the Cayenne district, she married Sr. Pierre, "major, master wheelwright, living in this city for several years...," son of Sr. Théodore LeClerc and Marguerite Duquesnois of Armoy, Diocese of Senlis, France.  Three and a half years later, in May 1768, Jeanne remarried to M. Guillaume, "habitant of the coastal district, parish of Remiré, native of Virelade, diocese of Bordeau," son of M. Arnauld Paquenault and Pétronille Blaugan.  The marriage record did not reveal Guillaume's profession.  Meanwhile, Jeanne's younger brother Louis married, at age 30, fellow Acadian Anna, also called Jeanne, Trahan in c1762 probably at La Rochelle.  Louis also left France, but he did not follow his sister to Guiane.  In 1765, he and his family returned to North America and settled on Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  In 1778, during the American Revolution, after France became an ally of the United States, the British captured Miquelon and nearby Île St.-Pierre and rounded up this family along with the other French fisher/habitants and deported them to La Rochelle, where Louis's father lay buried for 20 years.  One wonders if Louis and his family remained in France after 1784, when the Newfoundland islands reverted to France and the islanders were allowed to return.  One thing is certain:  if they remained in France, they did not go to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 with most of the Acadians still in the mother country. 

Born at Louisbourg in c1720, brother Étienne-Michel, his father's second son, married Geneviève, 18-year-old daughter of Michel Hébert and Marguerite Gautrot, at Grand-Pré in January 1744.  The recording priest described him as "age ca 20[sic], resident of Louisbourg."  How a young man from the island citadel hooked up with a girl from the Minas Basin is anyone's guess.  Geneviève gave Michel four children at Minas, a daughter and three sons.  In the fall of 1755, the British deported them to Maryland.  Between 1756 and 1761, Geneviève gave Michel four more children there, two daughters and two sons.  In July 1763, they appeared on a French repatriation list at Snow Hill on Maryland's Eastern Shore.  Another daughter was born to them in c1765.  By then, for an entire decade, Michel and his family had endured life among Englishmen who, despite their colony's Catholic roots, did not care much for the French "papists" thrust upon them.  When word reached the Acadians in Maryland that the Spanish would welcome them in Louisiana, they pooled their resources to charter ships that would take them to New Orleans.  Michel had no David relatives in the colony, but wife Geneviève Hébert, a member of one of the largest Acadian families, probably had many kinsmen there.  In the early summer of 1766, the first contingent of Maryland Acadians left Baltimore for Louisiana, where many of their relatives from the prison compounds of Nova Scotia had settled the year before.  Michel, a master blacksmith like his father, in spite of being an Acadian exile, must have been a man of means even during the Great Upheaval.  He booked passage for New Orleans on his own sometime that summer, and he and Geneviève, with eight of their children in tow, reached the river city by early October, a week behind the others.

Another, unrelated David family from Minas suffered a similar fate.  Jean-Baptiste, son of Jean David and Jeanne Bell, born at Château-Richer near Québec in c1693 and probably no kin to the other Davids in greater Acadia, married Marguerite, daughter of Acadians François Lapierre and Jeanne Rimbault, at Grand-Pré in March 1715.  They lived at Annapolis Royal, formerly Port-Royal, in 1716-17 but returned to Minas in 1718.  Marguerite gave Jean-Baptiste 10 children, seven daughters and three sons, at Minas.  Two of their daughters married into the Richard and Dugas families there.  All three of their sons married, into the Landry, Thériot, and Belliveau families at Minas.  In the fall of 1755, the British deported members of the family to Pennsylvania.  Son Jean-Baptiste, fils died in that colony before June 1763, when his widow and four children appeared on a repatriation list there.  His widow, Marguerite Landry, did not remain in Pennsylvania.  In August 1763, she had moved on to Massachusetts, probably to Boston, with the family of cousin Paul Landry.  There were only two persons left in her household, so not all of her children followed her there.  Son Jean-Baptiste III evidently was among the Acadians in Pennsylvania who moved south to Maryland in the 1760s.  He married Marie Ritter or Kidder of Germany in c1770 probably in the Chesapeake colony.  (One wonders who was the Jean David, with wife Marie-Josette ____, son Joseph-Marie, and orphan Marie-Rose ____, listed on a repatriation list at Lower Marlborough, Maryland, in July 1763; Jean-Baptiste III would have been age 15 at the time, too young to have a wife and child.  Perhaps the Jean at Lower Marlborough was a kinsman of the blacksmith Michel or from an entirely different branch of Davids.  They did not go to Louisiana.)  Jean-Baptiste III's son Jean-Baptiste IV, also called Baptiste, fils, was born in c1774.  Bona Arsenault does not say if the boy was born in Maryland or Louisiana, but the baptismal record of one of Jean-Baptiste IV's daughters calls him "native of Maryland."  The last contingent of Maryland Acadians departed for Louisiana from Port Tobacco on the lower Potomac in January 1769.  Evidently Jean-Baptiste David III, like Michel David, went to Louisiana on his own hook, taking his family there sometime after 1774--recruited perhaps in the early 1790s by agents sent to the American seaboard colonies by Spanish Governor Carondelet to lure Europeans settlers, perferrably Roman Catholics, to immigrant-starved Louisiana.

Davids settled in every part of South Louisiana.  The presence of French Creoles, Acadians, Foreign French, Anglo Americans, and even an Irishman bearing this surname created a complex and often confusing pattern of settlement in what became the Bayou State.  Non-Acadian Davids probably outnumbered their Acadian namesakes, but the latter nevertheless created lasting lines in South Louisiana.  Master blacksmith Étienne-Michel David from Louisbourg, Minas, and Maryland came not with an expedition of extended families, as did most of his fellow Louisiana-bound exiles, but sailed to New Orleans at his own expense.  He and his family lingered in the city for a few years before moving upriver to Cabahannocer on the lower Acadian Coast, where Étienne-Michel became a farmer as well as a blacksmith.  Only two of his six sons created families of their own.  One son's descendants remained in St. James Parish, but the line died out during the antebellum period.  Meanwhile, two of Étienne-Michel's grandsons moved to the middle Bayou Teche valley, where their lines flourished in St. Martin Parish.  During the late colonial period, Jean-Baptiste David III of Minas, with his German wife, came to Louisiana from Maryland with only one child, son Jean-Baptiste IV, called Baptiste, fils.  They settled in the Opelousas District, where Baptiste, fils married a fellow Acadian in May 1798 and created a vigorous line of his own on the western prairies.

Judging by the number of slaves they owned, some Davids, both Acadian and non-Acadian, lived well on their vacheries, farms, and plantations during the late antebellum period.  However, none of them rose to the ranks of the great planters.  In 1850, an Acadian David on Prairie Mamou, then in St. Landry but now in Evangeline Parish, held 18 slaves.  His older brother owned eight in another part of St. Landry Parish.  In 1860, the widow of an Acadian David held 12 slaves on her farm in St. Martin Parish.  Her David brother-in-law held 10 slaves on his farm in St. Landry Parish, not far from his 26-year-old David nephew, who also owned 10 slaves. 

Dozens of Davids, Acadians and non-Acadians, served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65.  Over a dozen of them served in a single unit--Company K of the 2nd Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, raised in Pointe Coupee Parish, so they were not Acadians.  Two sets of brothers, one Acadian, the other French Creole, served with the Army of Northern Virginia as General R. E. Lee's Louisiana Tigers.  Confederate service records show that the great majority of the Davids who wore the gray and butternut survived the experience. 

In Louisiana, the family's name also is spelled Devid, Devis, St. Michel.08

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Two Acadian David families, probably not kin to one another, came to Louisiana from exile in Maryland decades apart.  The first of them reached New Orleans in October 1766 and settled at Cabahannocer on the Acadian Coast: 

Étienne-Michel dit Saint-Michel (c1720-?) David

Étienne-Michel, called Michel, dit Saint-Michel, second son of master blacksmith Jean-Pierre David dit Saint-Michel and his wife Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, Monmellian dit Saint-Germain of Louisbourg, Île Royale, was born probably at Louisbourg in c1720.  He married Geneviève, daughter of Michel Hébert and Marguerite Gautrot, at Grand-Pré in January 1744 and became a master blacksmith like his father.  Geneviève gave Michel four children at Minas:  Anne born in November 1744; Michel-Luc in c1746; Joseph in November 1748; and Paul in c1754.  In the fall of 1755, the British deported the family to Maryland.  Between 1756 and 1761, Geneviève gave Michel four more children there, two daughters and two sons:  Marie born in c1756; Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, in c1757; Jean-Baptiste in c1759; and Claude in c1761.  According to a French repatriation list circulating in the colony, Michel, Geneviève, and their eight children were living at Snow Hill on Maryland's Eastern Shore in July 1763.  Daughter Angélique was born in c1765, probably at Snow Hill.  Three years later, Michel, Geneviève, and eight of their children emigrated from Maryland to Louisiana on their own hook and reached New Orleans probably via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, in October 1766.  Oldest son Michel-Luc, who had been listed with them at Snow Hill in 1763 and who would have been age 20 in 1766, did not go with them to New Orleans, so he may have remained in the Chesapeake colony.  If so, one wonders if he married.  The family was still at New Orleans in July 1767, receiving food supplies from the Spanish.  Geneviève gave Michel more children at New Orleans, including Pierre born in March 1770; Rosalie in c1772; and another Marie in c1774--a dozen children, six daughters and six sons, between 1744 and 1774, in greater Acadia, Maryland, and Louisiana.  In the early 1770s, Michel moved his family upriver to Cabahannocer, where they lived among fellow exiles on the lower Acadian Coast.  Spanish officials counted him, Geneviève, and their unmarried children on the left, or east, bank of the river at Cabahannocer in January 1777 and March 1779.  The latter census reveals that, although Michel may have been a blacksmith like his father, he also had become a successful farmer; in 1779, he had stored 10 quarts of rice and four quarts of corn (a quart of that day weighed 160 pounds).  Daughters Marie, Madeleine, and Angélique married into the Chauffe, Jousson, and Oubre families on the river.  Youngest sons Claude and Pierre were counted with the family at Cabahannocer in January 1777, Claude age 16, Pierre, age 9, and then disappear from the local church and civil records, so only three of Michel's sons seem to have married in Louisiana, and two of those lines died out early.  In the 1820s, one of Michel's grandsons moved to the old Attakapas District and settled near St. Martinville on Bayou Teche.  A decade later, a second grandson followed.  This western branch of the family thrived, but the one that remained in St. James Parish did not.  By 1840, no male descendants of Étienne-Michel David remained on the river.  

Second son Joseph followed his family to Maryland and New Orleans.  He was living at 3 Ste.-Anne Street in New Orleans in 1770, employed as a blacksmith.  He married Agathe Pens probably in New Orleans in the early 1770s.  Joseph, described as a "native of Acadia" and "master blacksmith," died at New Orleans in January 1773.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph died at age "26 yr."  He was 24.  Daughter Louise Cirila was born posthumously in the city in April 1773.  Joseph and Agathe may have had no sons, so this line of the family, except perhaps for its blood, died with him.  

Michel's third son Paul followed his family to Maryland, New Orleans, and Cabahannocer, where he married Marie-Pélagie, called Pélagie, daughter of André Oubre and Marie-Élisabeth Bonvillain of St.-Charles des Allemands on the lower German Coast, in February 1775; Pélagie's brother was Paul's sister Angélique's husband.  Paul and Pélagie's children, born at Cabahannocer, included Marie-Dorothée baptized, age unrecorded, in October 1775; Félicité baptized, age unrecorded, in November 1778; Henri baptized, age unrecorded, in June 1780; Élisabeth or Isabelle born in c1781; another Félicité born in February 1787 but died at age 18 in September 1805; Marie-Ursule, called Ursule, born in January 1789; Marcelle in December 1790; and Paul, fils in June 1793.  Paul, at age 40, remarried to Marguerite, daughter of David Rome and Marie Barbe of St.-Jean-Baptiste des Allemands on the upper German Coast, at Cabahannocer in July 1794.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer, included David in April 1795; Justine in September 1796; Alexis in October 1798 but died in St. James Parish at age 13 in March 1812; another Paul, fils born in c1799; Eugène in February 1800; yet another Paul, fils in June 1802 but died in St. James Parish at age 13 1/2 in January 1816; a son, name unrecorded, died, age unrecorded, in December 1805; Ulgère born in November 1806; and Jean Baptiste in October 1809 but died at age 2 in September 1811--17 children, seven daughters and 10 sons, by two wives, between 1775 and 1811.  Paul, père died in St. James Parish in October 1815.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Paul was "age about 58 yrs." when he died.  He probably was a few years older.  Daughters Isabelle, Marie, Ursule, and Justine, by both wives, married into the Rome, Arceneaux, Clairaut, LeRoy, and Rodrigue families.  Only two of Paul's many sons married, and both of them settled on the western prairies.  

Fifth son Paul, fils, the second with the name, by second wife Marguerite Rome, married Renée or Irène Marcelline or Marcellite, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Vincent and Céleste Labauve, at the St. James church, St. James Parish, in February 1821.  They crossed the Atchafalaya Bastin to St. Martin Parish later in the decade.  Their children, born on the river and the Teche, included Paul III near Convent, St. James Parish, in December 1821; Théodule in March 1823; Hilaire, also called Paul Hilaire, in June 1824; Éliza near Convent in November 1825; Carmélite Elvina, perhaps also called Marie Carmélite, in St. Martin Parish in May 1827; Marie Hirène, perhaps also called Marie Poupon, in August 1829; Henriette Amelie or Émilie, called Émilie, in May 1832; Raphaël Lucien or Lucien Raphaël in December 1833 but died at age 11 in September 1845; Arthémise born in September 1835; Marie Zulma or Irma, called Irma, in November 1837; and Charles Ovide in December 1839--11 children, five sons and six daughters, between 1821 and 1839.  Paul, fils died in St. Martin Parish in March 1849, age 50.  His succession, calling him Paul Sr., was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in May.  Daughters Marie Carmélite, Marie Poupon, Émilie, and Irma married into the Louvière, Labauve, LeBlanc, and Leming families by 1870.  Three of Paul, fils's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Paul III married Zulma or Zulmée, daughter of fellow Acadians Nicolas Broussard and Céleste Comeaux, in a civil ceremony in St. Martin Parish in November 1845, and sanctified the marriage at the St. Martinville church the following January.  Their children, born on the prairies and the upper Lafourche, included Jules in St. Martin Parish in August 1846; Mathilda in February 1848 but, called Matilde, died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 2) in October 1849; Louis Hippolyte Duclise born in May 1850; Simon in Lafourche Interior Parish in November 1852; Pierre in Lafayette Parish in September 1855; Pierre D. in c1857 but died at age 2 in February 1859; Ignace born in September 1859; Gustave T., probably Toutant, Beauregard in March 1862; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Paul may have served as a sergeant in Company K of the 2nd Regiment Louisiana Reserve Corps, a local-defense unit raised in Lafayette Parish that fought area Jayhawkers.  He survived the war and returned to his family.  Two of his sons married by 1870.

Oldest son Jules married Arcade, daughter of Louis Albert Aube or Aulie and his Acadian wife Juliènne Trahan, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in April 1869.  Their son Alcibiade was born in Lafayette Parish in January 1870; ...

Paul III's second son Louis Hippolyte Duclise married Félicia, daughter of Manuel Domingue and Arméline Plaisance, at the Vermilionville church in April 1869; the marriage was not recorded civilly until April 1870. ...

Paul, fils's second son Théodule may have married Marie Schexnayder, place unrecorded, in the early 1850s.  Their children, born near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, included Marie Marguerite in September 1854; Charles in October 1856 but died at age 4 1/2 in June 1861; and Célestin born in October 1858--three children, a daughter and two sons, between 1854 and 1858.  None of Théodule's children married by 1870. 

Paul, fils's third son Hilaire married Joséphine, 20-year-old daughter of Louis Langlinais and his Acadian wife Aspasie Boudreaux, at the Vermilionville church in May 1844.  Hilaire, like his paternal ancestors, was a blacksmith.  His and Joséphine's children, born on the prairies, included Julien Hilaire near New Iberia, then in St. Martin but not in Iberia Parish, in March 1845; Marie Edille or Edite, called Edite, in January 1847; Louis Hilaire in February 1849 but, called Louis, died at age 10 (the recording priest said 8) in February 1859; Marie Latetia born in June 1851 but, called Lutitia, died at age 5 1/2 (the recording priest said 4) in November 1856; Adrien born in c1853; Paul le jeune in c1856 but, called Charles, died near Abbeville at age 4 1/2 years in June 1861; Jean Baptiste born near Youngsville, Lafayette Parish, in August 1858; Victor Hilaire in July 1860; ...  Hilaire's remaining daughter did not marry by 1870, but one of his sons did.

Oldest son Julien Hilaire married cousin Eugénie, daughter of fellow Acadians Aurelien Hébert and Azéma Boudreaux, at the Youngsville church in March 1869.  Their son Hilaire le jeune was born near Youngsville in January 1870; ...

Paul, père's sixth son Eugène, by second wife Marguerite Rome, married, in his late 30s, Marie Caroline, daughter of André Oubre and his Acadian wife Rosalie Vincent of St. James Parish, at the St. Martinville church in January 1839.  They settled in St. Martin Parish near his older brother Paul, fils.  Their children, born there, included Marie Philomèle in February 1840; Callixte in June 1841; Alexandre Clebert near New Iberia in September 1843; Céleste Ordalie in March 1847; Lucile in May 1849; Louis in c1851 but died at age 8 in February 1859; Marie Clelie born in December 1853; Eugène Omer in August 1855; Joseph Albert in March 1858 but, called Albert, died at age 4 1/2 in August 1862; ...  Surprisingly, none of Eugène's children married by 1870, at least not in South Louisiana. 

Michel's fourth son Jean-Baptiste, called Jean, followed his family to New Orleans and Cabahannocer, where he married Hélène, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Haché and Marie Dumont of Île St.-Jean, in October 1788.  Hélène, a native of St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo, came to Louisiana from France in 1785.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer, included Jean-Louis in August 1790 but, called Louis, died at age 25 in August 1815; Michel le jeune born in January 1791; Élisabeth in September 1792; Apolline-Éloise in November 1795; Aurore in c1796; an unnamed son, "recently  born," died in October 1799; Jean-Baptiste-Claude born in March 1802 but, called Claude, died at age 1 in March 1803; and Joseph born in October 1804 but died at age 2 in November 1806--eight children, five sons and three daughters, between 1790 and 1804.  Jean Baptiste died near Convent, St. James Parish, in June 1810.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Jean, "nat. Acadia," as he called him, was age 45 when he died.  He was closer to 51.  Daughter Aurore married into the St. Pierre family.  Only one of Jean's sons seems to have married, and he fathered no sons of his own, so this line of the family, except perhaps for its blood, did not endure in the Bayou State. 

Second son Michel le jeune married Marie Louise, daughter of Louis Denis and Marie Boucher and widow of Joseph LaRose, at the Convent church in January 1816.  Their children, born near Convent, included Marguerite in March 1816; and Carmélite in March 1819.  Michel remarried to Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. Joseph Wikiam of Baltimore, Maryland, and his Acadian wife Rosalie Hébert, at the Convent church in Marcy 1821.  She gave him no more children.  Michel died near Convent in August 1823, age 32.  Daughters Marguerite and Carmélite, by his first wife, married Arceneaux brothers.  Michel le jeune evidently fathered no sons, so this family line, except for its blood, evidently died with him. 

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A second, unrelated David family also came from Maryland--in the 1770s or 1780s, not in the late 1760s.  They settled not on the river but on the Opelousas prairies, where they flourished: 

Jean-Baptiste III (1748-?) à Jean-Baptiste David

Jean-Baptiste III, son of Jean-Baptiste, fils and Marguerite Landry, born at Grand-Pré in May 1748, followed his family to Pennsylvania in the fall of 1755.  In the late 1760s, after he came of age, he moved south to Maryland, where he married Marie Ridder or Kidder, a German, in c1770.  She gave him a son, Jean-Baptiste IV, born in the Chesapeake colony in c1774.  The year of their arrival in Spanish Louisiana is anyone's guess.  Perhaps they were recruited by agents sent to the American seaboard colonies in the early 1790s by Spanish Governor Carondelet to lure Europeans settlers, perferrably Roman Catholics, to Louisiana.  From New Orleans, Jean-Baptiste III took his family to the Opelousas prairies, where his son married a fellow Acadian there and created a vigorous line.

Only son Jean-Baptiste IV, also called Baptiste, fils, followed his parents to New Orleans and the Opelousas District, where he married Scholastique dite Scolastie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Savoie and Louise Bourg, in May 1798--the first appearance of Jean-Baptiste III's family in South Louisiana church records.  Their children, born at Opelousas, included Gilbert in April 1799; Caroline baptized, age unrecorded, in May 1801; Hippolyte born in March 1803; Emérante in December 1805; Jean-Baptiste V in May 1807; Émilie dite Émeliènne or Émeline in June 1809; a child, name unrecorded, died at age 3 days in October 1811; Arvillien, also called Arville, Ervillien, Hervillien, Ives, and Ive born in February 1813; Azélie, also called Azéline and Adeline, in May 1816; and François or Françisque in the 1810s or early 1820s--10 children, at least five sons and four daughters, between 1799 and the late 1810s or early 1820s.  Baptiste, fils served as treasurer of the Opelousas church in the 1810s.  His estate record was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in February 1823, and his first succession, listing his wife and minor children--Hypolite, Emérante, Jean Baptiste, Émeliènne, Arville, and Azélina--and his major children--Gilbert, and Caroline and her husband--was filed there the following August.  Jean Baptiste IV would have been in his late 40s that year.  Another succession, mentioning heirs, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in July 1833.  Daughters Caroline, Emérante, Émilie, and Azélie married into the Dupré, Chachere, Foux or Fux, and Rulong families, one of them twice and two of them to Dupré brothers.  Moreover, none of them married fellow Acadians--not unusual for Acadians in St. Landry Parish.  All five of Jean Baptiste IV's sons married, most of them to fellow Acadians, but not all of the lines endured.  Most of his sons remained in St. Landry Parish, but a younger one settled in Lafayette and St. Martin parishes. 

Oldest son Gilbert married Caroline, daughter of German Creoles Jean Taylor or Teller and Marie Ritter and widow of Lasty Lagrand and Éloi Andrus, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in April 1839.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Félicia in August 1841; and Michel Théojeune baptized at the Opelousas church, age 4 months, in May 1843 but evidently died by December 1862, in his late teens, when a succession for Théogène David was filed at the Opelousas courthouse (if this was him, and he died in 1862, one wonders if his death was war-related).   In October 1850, the federal census taker in St. Landry Parish counted eight slaves--five males and three females, all black, ranging in age from 40 to 2--on Gilbert David's farm.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in St. Landry Parish counted 10 slaves--four males and six females, all blacks except for one mulatto, ages 62 years to 5 months, living in two houses--on Gilbert David's farm not far from his nephew Eugène David.  Daughter Félicia married into the Ledoux family.  Gilbert's son evidently did not marry, so this line of the family, except for its blood, did not endure. 

Jean-Baptiste IV's second son Hippolyte married Céleste or Célestine Josèphe, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Victor Richard and Marie Louise Richard, at the Opelousas church in June 1833.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Eugène in November 1834; Hippolyte, fils in October 1836; Eugénie in March 1839; Joseph in February 1844; Marie Célina, called Célina or Céline, in October 1846; Baptiste, Jr. in July 1849; Scholastique in December 1853; Rodolphe in May 1857; Numa near Church Point, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in May 1860; ...  Daughter Célina married into the Daigle family by 1870.  Two of Hippolyte's sons also married by then.

In July 1860, the federal census taker in St. Landry Parish counted 10 slaves--six males and four females, seven blacks and three mulattoes, ranging in age from 24 years to four months, living in two houses--on Eugène David's farm not far from his uncle Gilbert DavidEugène married Octavie, 20-year-old daughter of Alexandre Baptiste Fontenot and Hyacinthe Joubert, at the Opelousas church in April 1861.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Joseph Eugène in July 1862; Marie Blanche in July 1863; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Eugène served as a second lieutenant in Company B of the 8th Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, raised in St. Landry Parish, which fought in Louisiana.  He survived the war and returned to his family. 

Hippolyte, père's second son Hippolyte, fils married Virginie Segura at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in December 1856.  Hippolyte, fils remarried to Elisa, daughter of Théophile Landvalo and Élise Gameter, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in April 1867. ...

Jean-Baptiste IV's third son Jean Baptiste V married Marguerite Elmire, called Elmire, daughter of fellow Acadian Agricole Breaux and his Creole wife Scholastique Picou, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in April 1832.  They settled probably near Church Point.  Their children, born there, included Marie Élodie in July 1834; Scholastique Odille in October 1836; Marguerite Doralise in April 1838; Jules in March 1840; Céline, also called Marie Célima, in May 1842; Lucius B. in July 1844; Joseph Amer in October 1848; Octave in October 1850; and Evélina in January 1854--nine children, five daughters and four sons, between 1834 and 1854.  In November 1850, the federal census taker in St. Landry Parish counted 18 slaves--eight males and 10 females, 13 blacks and five mulattoes, ranging in age from 50 to 2--on Baptiste David's farm.  Jean Baptiste died "at Prairie Mamou," then in St. Landry but now in Evangeline Parish, in November 1855, age 48.  His succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse later that month.  In 1860, the federal census taker in St. Landry Parish counted two slaves--a 33-year-old black female, and an 18-year-old black female--on Marguerite David's farm; this probably was Baptiste's widow Marguerite Breaux's slaves.  Daughters Marguerite Doralise and Marie Célima married into the Richard and McCormick families by 1870.  Two of Jean Baptiste V's sons also married by then, after they completed their war service. 

Oldest son Jules, along with younger brother Lucius B., served in Company F of the 8th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Landry Parish, which fought in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania--one of General R. E. Lee's Louisiana Tigers.  Jules did not join the company until March 1862.  His enlistment papers said he was a clerk.  Soon after he joined the regiment in Virginia, he fell ill and reported to a general hospital.  He rejoined his regiment in time for the Maryland campaign of September 1862 and was wounded and captured at Sharpsburg on September 17.  The Federals sent him to a general hospital at nearby Frederick until he was well enough to travel to Fort McHenry at Baltimore, where he also spent time in a general hospital.  He was exchanged at Aikens Landing, Virginia, on the lower James River, in November 1862, furloughed, and returned to Louisiana, too disabled to return to his unit.  He signed his end-of-war parole at Washington, Louisiana, in June 1865.  Jules "of CP [Church Point], Plaquemine Brûlé," married cousin Marie Laperle, called Laperle, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Breaux and Madeleine Guidry, at the Grand Coteau church in April 1869. ... They settled near Church Point, where he died in September 1892, age 52. 

During the war, Jean Baptiste V's second Lucius B., along with older brother Jules, served in Company F of the 8th Regiment Louisiana Infantry--another of Lee's Louisiana Tigers.  Lucius, who also was a clerk, enlisted in June 1861, nine months before his brother did.  He served continuously with his regiment through its many marches, campaigns, and battles from 1861 to the fall of 1864.  He was wounded in action at Cedar Creek, Virginia, in October 1864 but did not fall into enemy hands.  Evidently he also was too disabled to remain with his unit and was sent home to recuperate.  He also signed his end-of-war parole at Washington, Louisiana, in June 1865.  A notation in a record kept at Confederate Memorial Hall in New Orleans declares that Lucius was a "Good soldier."  He married Agnès, daughter of Jean Barousse and Caroline Fontenot, at the Church Point church in July 1869. ... 

Jean-Baptiste IV's fourth son Arvillien, also called Arville, Ervillien, Hervilier, Hervillien, Ives, and Ive, married Élisa, Élise, or Lise, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Guidry and Victoire Semere, at the St. Martinville church in June 1834.  Their children, born on the prairies and the upper Teche, included Ives in the 1830s; Azélie in February 1836; Homère or Omaire baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 8 months, in December 1839; Marguerite Olzina or Alzina, called Alzina, born in St. Martin Parish in November 1840; Marguerite in October 1842 but, called Emma, may have died near Breaux Bridge, age 6 1/2 (the recording priest said 7), in March 1849; Treville born in Lafayette Parish in c1845 but died near Breaux Bridge, age 4, in March 1849; Joséphine born in St. Martin Parish December 1845; and Anastasie posthumously near Breaux Bridge in February 1848--eight children, five daughters and three sons, between 1830s and 1848.  Arvillien died in St. Martin Parish in December 1847.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial said that "Ervillien," as he called him, died "at age 36 yrs."  He was 34.  In November 1850, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted two slaves--a 50-year-old black male, and a 32-year-old black male--on Zélie David's farm; one wonders if these were Arvillien's widow Lise Guidry's slaves.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted 12 slaves--four males and eight females, all black, ages 63 to 2, living in two houses--on Widow David's farm, between Lullin Guidry and the Widow Louis Guidry; these probably were Lise Guidry's slaves.  Her and Arvillien's daughters Azélie, Alzina, and Anastasie married into the Durio, Gillard, and Champagne families by 1870.  Neither of Arvillien's remaining sons seems to have married by then. 

In November 1850, the federal census taker in St. Landry Parish counted three slaves--two males and a female, all black, ages 42, 16, and 10--on Ives David's farm.  In 1860, the federal census taker in St. Landry Parish counted six slaves--one male and five females, all black, ages 60 to 3--on Ive David's farm.  Was this a son of Arvillien and Lise?  If so, he would have been probably in his late 20s at the time.  If he married, he did not do so by 1870. 

During the War of 1861-65, Arvillien's son Homère served in Company B of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Landry Parish, which fought in Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana.  Homère enlisted at Camp Moore, Tangipahoa Parish, in October 1861 and served with his unit through late February 1862, when his Confederate service record ends.  Did he survive the war and return to his family?  If so, he did not marry by 1870.   

Jean-Baptiste IV's fifth and youngest son François or Françisque married Sélima, 16-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Comeaux, fils and his Creole wife Louise Durio, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in February 1842.  Daughter Célima was born in St. Landry Parish in March 1843 and did not marry by 1870. 

Delaune

Christophe Delaune, born at Periers, Avranches, Normandy, France, in c1705, evidently no kin to Jean Delaunay of northern Brittany, came to the French Maritime islands by c1729 probably as a young fisherman.  Christophe married Marguerite, daughter of Acadians Jean Caissie and his second wife Cécile Hébert of Chignecto, on Île St.-Jean in c1738.  In August 1752, a French official counted Christophe, Marguerite, and five of their children, four sons and a daughter, ages 13 years to 30 months, at Havre-de-la-Fortune on the east coast of Île St.-Jean.  Christophe, père died on the island by 1758, in his early 50s, having given Marguerite 10 children, seven sons and three daughters, on the island between 1740 and 1757. 

In the autumn of 1755, the Delaunes, still on Île St.-Jean, escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia, but their respite from British oppression was short-lived.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the British rounded up most of the habitants on Île St.-Jean, including Marguerite Caissie and her Delaune children, and deported them to France.  They landed at Cherbourg in Normandy, where Marguerite remarried to fellow Acadian and widower Joseph Le Prieur dit Dubois of Annapolis Royal in c1759.  Marguerite's son Jean Delaune married Marie-Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Eustache Part and Anastasie Godin dit Bellefontaine, at Cherbourg in February 1773.  Marie-Anne's mother and three of her siblings had been murdered by New-English rangers on Rivière St.-Jean in early 1759.  Marie-Anne and her father, who also survived the massacre, were held in the prison compound on Georges Island, Halifax, before the British deported them to Cherbourg via England later in the year.  Jean became a sailor and a carpenter in the Norman port.  His younger brother Christophe, fils became a navigator and a ship's carpenter at Cherbourg.  

In 1773, the year of his marriage, Jean Delaune and brother Christophe, fils became part of the major Acadian settlement effort in the interior of Poitou.  Christophe, fils married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Boudrot and Cécile Vécot, at Archigny south of Châtellerault in June 1774.  Each of the brothers fathered a son in the area.  In October 1775, after two years of effort, Jean, Christophe, fils, and their families retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes.  Both families expanded dramatically at nearby Chantenay.  Four more children were born to Jean and Marie-Anne there, and four more to Christophe, fils and Marie, all baptized at St.-Martin de Chantenay, but most of the children died young.  In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  The Delaune brothers and their families were among the majority of Acadians in the mother country who took up the offer.  They crossed to Louisiana aboard the last of the Seven Ships in late 1785. 

If the Spanish government had not coaxed over 1,500 Acadians in France to emigrate to Louisiana, there probably would be no Acadian Delaunes in the Bayou State today.  From New Orleans, the brothers were among the few Acadian exiles from France who chose to settle at Cabahannocer on the river, where Acadians had first gone in 1764 and where they settled in even larger numbers in 1765 and 1766.  The younger brother, Christophe, fils, remained there, but the older brother, Jean, joined the exodus of river Acadians to upper Bayou Lafourche in the late 1780s or early 1790s.  During the early antebellum period, Jean Baptiste, the oldest son of the brother who stayed on the river, joined his cousins on the upper Lafourche, where most of the Acadian exiles from France had gone.  He fathered 12 sons by his two wives.  All of the Acadian Delaunes in Louisiana spring from these sons.  No Acadian Delaune settled west of the Atchafalaya Basin before the War of 1861-65.  By the end of the antebellum period, they could be found only along the river and on the upper Lafourche, where the largest center of family settlement remained in Assumption Parish.  After the war, at least one Acadian Delaune appeared in St. Mary Parish on lower Bayou Teche. 

Meanwhile, non-Acadian Delaunes--who spelled their surname DeLaunay, DeLauney, and Delone, as well as Delaune--settled at Old Mobile, Baton Rouge, in Ascension and Iberville parishes, at New Orleans, and on Bayou Teche, but their numbers never came close to their Acadian namesakes.  However, one line that settled in East Baton Rouge and Ascension parishes was a fairly vigorous one, and some of them took Acadian wives. 

Judging from the number of slaves they owned during the late antebellum period, the Delaunes, both Acadian and French Creole, participated only peripherally in the South's antebellum plantation-based economy.  The largest slave holder in the family was Acadian Christophe Delaune of Assumption Parish, who owned seven slaves in 1860.  

Nearly a dozen Delaunes, Acadian as well as French Creole, served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65.  At least three of them, all non-Acadians from East Baton Rouge Parish, died in Confederate service.  The Acadians survived.  The war hit hard those areas where Delaunes lived.  Even before Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation went into effect in January 1863, Federal commands along the lower Mississippi freed the slaves on every farm and plantation their forces could reach.  Meanwhile, Union navy gunboats shelled and burned dozens of towns and plantation houses along the river.  Successive Federal incursions devastated the Bayou Lafourche valley, which remained under Federal control after 1862, and Confederate foragers plagued the area when the Federals were not around. ...

In Louisiana, the family's name also is spelled Delaney, Delanne, Delannois, Delanue, Delaunais, De Launay, De Laune, De L'Aune, Delauny, Delone, Delonne, Delhonde, Desaunay, Launay.11

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Six Delaunes in two families led by brothers came to Louisiana from France in 1785 aboard La Caroline, the last of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in late December.  The brothers chose to settle at Cabahannocer on the lower Acadian Coast above New Orleans.  The younger brother's line was especially robust.  The older brother's line, in fact, died out by the third generation: 

Jean (1743-?) Delaune

Jean, older son of Christophe Delaune of Periers, Avranches, Normandy, France, and Marguerite Caissie dit Roger of Chignecto, born on Île St.-Jean in November 1743, was counted with his famiy at Havre-de-la-Fortune on the east coast of the island in August 1752.  In late 1758, still in his teens, he followed his widowed mother and siblings to Cherbourg in Normandy and became a sailor and a carpenter there.  At age 30, he married Marie-Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Eustache Part and Anastasie Godin dit Bellefontaine, at Cherbourg in February 1773.  Marie-Anne's mother and three of her siblings had been murdered by New-English rangers on Rivière St.-Jean in early 1759.  Marie-Anne and her father, who also survived the massacre, were held in the prison compound on Georges Island, Halifax, before the British deported them to Cherbourg via England later in the year.  Soon after their marriage, Jean and Marie-Anne ventured to the interior of Poitou as part of a major Acadian settlement scheme.  Marie-Anne gave Jean a son, Jean-Baptiste, also called Jean, fils, born at La Chapelle-Roux southeast of Châtellerault in July 1774.  In October 1775, after two years of effort, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes, where, at nearby Chantenay, Marie-Anne gave Jean more children:  Christophe le jeune born in September 1776 but died before 1785; Pierre-Basile born in December 1779 but died at age 2 in February 1782; Louis-Auguste born in October 1782 but died in August 1783; another Pierre, born in c1784; and Marie-Céleste in February 1785.  Their oldest son Jean-Baptiste also died at Chantenay before 1785.  That year, Jean, Marie-Anne, and their two remaining children--Pierre, age 1; and Marie-Céleste, still an infant--emigrated to Spanish Louisiana.  Son Pierre probably died on the crossing.  Jean and his family chose to settle in the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  Marie-Anne gave Jean more children there, including Marguerite born in June 1787; Joseph-Alexandre, called Alexandre, in the late 1780s; and Rosalie in December 1791--nine children, six sons and three daughters, between 1774 and 1791, in France and Louisiana.  During the late 1780s or early 1790s, they joined the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Daughters Marie-Céleste and Rosalie married into the Aucoin and Rousseau families.  Only one of Jean's sons, born in Louisiana, survived childhood and married, in Lafourche Interior Parish.  Except for its blood, however, this line of the family did not endure in the Bayou State.

Sixth and youngest son Jean Alexandre, called Alexandre, followed his family to Bayou Lafourche.  In his late 20s or early 30s, he married Marie Julie, called Julie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Hébert and Marie Thibodeaux, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in May 1820.  Their children, born on the bayou, included Marie Célestine, called Célestine, in December 1822; Adélaïde in c1823; Rosalie Clémence in September 1824; a son, name unrecorded, died four hours after his birth in November 1827; and Séraphine Eve born in March 1830.  Alexandre remarried to Rosalie, daughter of Jean Olivier and Dorothée Lagrange of St. John the Baptist Parish and widow of Dominique Boudreaux, at the Thibodauxville church in May 1837.  Their son Jean Augustin was born on the Lafourche in February 1838 but died at age 7 1/2 in November 1845--six children, four daughters and two daughters, by two wives, between 1822 and 1838.  Daughters Adélaïde, Séraphine, and Célestine, by Alexandre's first wife, married into the Boudreaux, Peltier, and Chouabe families.  Neither of his sons survived childhood, so this family line, except for its blood, did not endure. 

Christophe, fils (1750-1780s or 1790s) Delaune

Christophe, fils, younger son of Christophe Delaune and Marguerite Caissie dit Roger, born on Île St.-Jean in June 1750, was counted with his family at Havre-de-la-Fortune on the east coast of the island in August 1752.  In late 1758, he followed his widowed mother and siblings to Cherbourg, France.  After he came of age, he became a navigator and ship's carpenter in the Norman port.  In 1773, he followed his older brother Jean and his family to Poitou and married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Boudrot and his first wife Cécile Vecot, at Archigny south of Châtellerault in June 1774.  Marie gave Christophe, fils a son, Jean-Baptiste, born at La Chapelle-Roux near Archigny in July 1775.  That October, after two years of effort, Christophe, fils and his family retreated with brother Jean, his family, and other Poitou Acadians to the lower Loire port of Nantes, where Christophe, fils and Marie also had more children:  Michel born in St.-Nicolas Parish in January 1777 but died at nearby Chantenay the following December; Marie-Céleste born at Chantenay in September 1779 but died at age 2 in February 1782; Christophe III born in October 1782 but died before 1785; and Louis-Augustin, called Augustin, born in June 1784.  In 1785, Christophe, fils, Marie, and their two remaining children--Jean-Baptiste, age 11; and Louis-Augustin, age 1--followed his brother Jean and his family to Spanish Louisiana and settled with them at Cabahannocer on the river, where Marie gave Christophe, fils another daughter, Marie, born in April 1786--six children, four sons and two daughters, between 1775 and 1786, in France and Louisiana.  Christophe, fils died probably at Cabahannocer by September 1793, in his early 40s, when his wife remarried to a Norman immigrant at Cabahannocer.  Both of Christophe, fils's remaining sons married.  The older one settled on the upper Lafourche, but the younger one remained on the river, where his line may not have endured.  Most, if not all, of the Acadian Delaunes of South Louisiana are descendants of Christophe, fils's oldest son.  

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste followed his family to Nantes, Chantenay, New Orleans, and Cabahannocer, where he married Marie-Hyacinthe, called Hyacinthe and Jacinthe, daughter of Joseph Michel, a German Creole, not a fellow Acadian, and Marie Falgout of St.-Jean-Baptiste des Allemands on the upper German Coast, in June 1794.  They settled at Cabahannocer, lived briefly at New Orleans in the early 1800s, returned to Cabahannocer, lived for a while near St. Gabriel in the early 1800s, and then settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Their children, born on the river and the upper Lafourche, included Clarisse at Cabahannocer in January 1795 but died the following December; Christophe le jeune born in December 1796; Jean-Pierre in c1798 or 1799 and baptized at the New Orleans church, age 18 months, in June 1800; Auguste, also called Louis Auguste and Augustin, born at Cabahannocer in March 1800; Ursin at New Orleans in April 1803; Jean-Baptiste, fils at Cabahannocer in April 1805 but died in Assumption Parish, age 10, in July 1815; Sosthène or Faustin born in St. James Parish in May 1807; Azélie or Mélite Dartille near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in February 1810; Arthémise in July 1812; and Théodule in Assumption Parish in February 1815.  Jean Baptiste remarried to Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Hébert and Nathalie Aucoin, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in April 1816.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Joseph in December 1818; Simon Ursin in February 1821; Ferdinand in March 1823; Arsène in November 1826; and Jean Baptiste, fils, the second with the name, in September 1829--15 children, three daughters and 12 sons, by two wives, between 1795 and 1829.  Jean Baptiste, père died in Assumption Parish in August 1855, age 80--one of the last of the Acadian immigrants to Louisiana to join his ancestors.  Daughters Azélie and Arthémise, by his first wife, married into the Bergeron and Boudreaux families.  Nine of Jean Baptiste's sons married and settled on the upper Lafourche, but not all of the lines endured.  The Acadian Delaunes of Louisiana are descended from Jean Baptiste's many sons, especially the eldest.  

Oldest son Christophe le jeune, by first wife Hyacinthe Michel, married Marie Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians François Marie Gautreaux and Félicité Hébert, at the Plattenville church in September 1817.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Jean Baptiste le jeune in December 1818; François Onésime in October 1820; Marie Marcellite in November 1822; Domitille in June 1825 but died at age 9 1/2 in September 1834; Joseph le jeune born in September 1827; and Mathurin Sylvain in November 1830.  Christophe le jeune remarried to Léocadie Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Aucoin and Rosalie Gautreaux, at the Plattenville church in October 1834.  Their children, born on the bayou, included Eugène Christophe Uselien or Eusilien in July 1836 but, called Eusilien, died at age 18 (the recording priest said "age ca. 15 years") in June 1854; Alexis Sostain or Sosthène born in December 1837; Maxilien or Marcellin Jean Baptiste, also called Jean Baptiste, in January 1840; Victorine in November 1841; and Désiré Aristide Théodule, called Aristide, in December 1845--11 children, eight sons and three daughters, by two wives, between 1818 and 1845.  In July 1850, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted seven slaves--five males and two females, all black, ranging in age from 32 years to 1 month--on Christophe Delonde's farm in the parish's Second Congressional District.  In July 1860, the census taker in Assumption Parish counted nine slaves--seven males and two females, all black, ages 57 years to 4 months, living in two houses--on Christophe Delaune's farm between Arsène Delaune and Widow Azélie Delaune in the parish's Ward 6.  Daughters Victorine, by his second wife married into the Lerille family by 1870.  Seven of Christophe le jeune's sons also married by then and settled in the Lafourche valley. 

Oldest son Jean Baptiste le jeune, by first wife Marie Madeleine Gautreaux, married cousin Julie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Daigle and Rosalie Blanchard, at the Plattenville church in February 1842; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Was he the Jean Baptiste Delaune whose "infant son," name unrecorded, died in Assumption Parish, age 1, in August 1854?  Did they have anymore children? 

Christophe le jeune's second son François Onésime, by first wife Marie Madeleine Gautreaux, married Azélie, daughter of Jean Baptiste Colonne and his Acadian wife Marie Blanchard, at the the Plattenville church in October 1842.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Apollinaire François in August 1843; Sylvestre Donable Ariele in September 1844; Marie Léontine, called Léontine, in October 1848; Marie in March 1850; Ulysse in June 1852; and Octave Numa in March 1859--six children, four sons and two daughters, between 1843 and 1859.  Daughter Léontine married a Bergeron cousin by 1870.  One of François Onésime's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Apollinaire François married cousin Elmire, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Ursin Delaune and Mathilde Boudreaux, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in March 1868; they had to secure a dispensation for consanguinity in order to marry.  Their son Auber Savigné was born near Labadieville in September 1868; ... 

Christophe le jeune's third son Joseph le jeune, by first wife Marie Madeleine Gautreaux, married Marie Adélaïde, called Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Rosémond Hébert and Marie Templet, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1848.  Their children, born near Labadieville, included Marie Adoliska, called Adoliska, in July 1856; a son, name and age unrecorded, perhaps theirs, died in October 1858; André Étienne Philoclet born in October 1860; Ovillia died at age 4 months, 10 days, in July 1862; Alcée Amoléo born in February 1863; Marie Alice in November 1864; Louise Valérie in September 1869; ...  None of Joseph le jeune's children married by 1870. 

Christophe le jeune's fourth son Mathurin, by first wife Marie Madeleine Gautreaux, married fellow Acadian Aureline Daigle, place and date unrecorded.  Their son Alfred was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in March 1851.  Mathurin died in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1852, age 22.  His son did not marry by 1870. 

Christophe le jeune's sixth son Alexis, by second wife Léocadie Aucoin, married Louise, daughter of Louis Lerille and his Acadian wife Célestine Poirier, sister of his sister Victorine's future husband Louis, at the Labadieville church in February 1858.  Did they have any children? 

Christophe le jeune's seventh son Marcellin, also called Marcilien and Jean Baptiste, from second wife Léocadie Aucoin, married Armentine or Émelie, daughter of fellow Acadian Rosémond Bergeron and his Creole wife Augustine Barras, at the Labadieville church in April 1866, but they were living together years before their church wedding.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Mathilde in Lafourche Parish in March 1861; Marie Elvira near Lockport on the lower bayou in February 1870; ...  

Christophe le jeune's eighth and youngest son Aristide, by second wife Léocadie Aucoin, married Amanda, daughter of fellow Acadians Homer C. Savoie and Honorine Guidry, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Parish, in April 1869; the marriage also was recorded at the Lockport church the following month.  Their son Homère Félicien was born near Lockport in September 1870;  ...

Jean-Baptiste's third son Auguste le jeune, called Louis-Auguste and Augustin, by first wife Hyacinthe Michel, married Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Theriot and Françoise Guérin, at the Plattenville church in June 1825.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Auguste Carville or Clairville, called Clairville, in September 1822; Augustine in the early 1820s; Auguste, fils in March 1829; Basile Théodule, called Théodule le jeune, in January 1831; Marie Juliènne in May 1833; Amédée Séraphin in September 1835; Joseph Justinien in July 1838; Azémia Françoise in April 1841; and Désiré Octave, called Octave, in December 1846--nine children, six sons and three daughters, between 1822 and 1846.  Auguste, père died near Labadieville, Assumption Parish, in October 1858, age 56.  Daughters Augustine, Azémia, and Marie married into the Bolotte, Perque, and Bourg families by 1870.  Three of Auguste le jeune's sons also married by then, and one may have died in Confederate service.

Oldest son Clairville married Azéma or Irma Arceneaux, perhaps a fellow Acadian, probably in Assumption Parish in the late 1840s.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included François Numa in October 1850; Gustave Joseph in October 1852 but, called Gustave, died near Labadieville, age 18 (the recording priest said 16), in December 1870; twins Clément Octave and Clémentine Octavie born in December 1854, but one of the twins, unnamed, evidently died at age 5 1/2 (the recording priest said 5) in August 1860; Marie Louisane born in May 1859; Victor died near Labadieville a day after his birth in December 1861; Marie Judith Elidia born in March 1865; Eve Cécilia in August 1870; ...  During the War of 1861-65, despite his age, Clairville served in Company A of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. James Parish, which fought in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana.  He enlisted at Camp Pratt near New Iberia in October 1862, age 40, and was captured on Bayou Teche in April 1863.  His Confederate record then falls silent.  As the birth dates of his youngest children attest, he survived the war and returned to his family.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Auguste le jeune's third son Théodule le jeune married Roséma, daughter of Olivier Cancienne and his Acadian wife Felonise Landry, at the Labadieville church in May 1856.  Their son Xavier Pierre was born near Labadieville in June 1858.  Was he their only child? 

During the war, Auguste, le jeune's fourth son Amédée served in Company C of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Assumption Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  His first cousins Clodimir and François Delaune also served in the same unit.  Was Amédée the J. Delaune who died on 15 June 1862, no place recorded? 

Auguste, le jeune's fifth son Joseph Justinien married Eliska, daughter of fellow Acadians Vincent Landry and Élise Arceneaux, at the Paincourtville church in April 1861.  Their children, born near Paincourtville, included Félicité Amelina in May 1866; Félix Octave in January 1869; ... 

Jean-Baptiste's fourth son Ursin, by first wife Hyacinthe Michel, married Clarisse Mélisaire, called Mélisaire, another daughter of Jacques Theriot and Françoise Guérin, at the Plattenville church in May 1826.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Théophile in February 1830; Marie died at age 2 months in November 1832; François Clodonier or Clodimir, called Clodimir or Clodomir, born in October 1833; Marie Léonie in December 1837; and François Léon, also called Léonie, in April 1843--five children, three sons and two daughters, between 1830 and 1843.  Daughter Marie married into the Landry family on the lower Atchafalaya River by 1870.  Ursin's sons also married by then.  The oldest son moved to lower Bayou Teche after the War of 1861-65. 

Oldest son Théophile married Caroline, daughter of Jean Laulan, Lollan, or Lovland and Irène Falteman, at the Plattenville church in January 1853.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche and the lower Teche, included Théophile Eugène in November 1853; Joseph in late 1855 but died near Labadieville, age 7 months, in April 1856; Ernestine Anne born near Franklin, St. Mary Parish, in December 1870; ... 

Ursin's second son Clodimir married cousin Zulma, daughter of Pierre Cancienne and his Acadian wife Rosalie Thériot, at the Labadieville church in February 1858.  Daughter Marie Zulmée was born near Labadieville in November 1858  During the war, Clodimir served in Company C of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Assumption Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  His first cousins Amédée and François Delaune also served in the same unit.  Clodimir, called Cledomir by the recording priest, remarried to Clémentine, daughter of Charles Bolotte and his Acadian wife Marie Landry, at the Labadieville church in April 1864 probably while waiting for his unit to be exchanged.  Their son Victor Clebert Charles was born in Assumption Parish in March 1865; ...  Cloidimir evidently survived the war and returned to his family. 

Ursin's third and youngest son Léonie married Odile, daughter of Olivier Cancienne and Marie Louise Hunot, at the Labadieville church in January 1867.  Daughter Rosela Avelie was born near Labadieville in February 1868; ...

Jean Baptiste's sixth son Sosthène or Faustin, by first wife Hyacinthe Michel, married Marie Marguerite, called Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Michels Aucoin and Marguerite Bourque, at the Plattenville church in June 1828.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Marguerite in February 1830; Azélie Mélasie in December 1832; and Marie Angèle or Angéline, called Angéline, posthumously in August 1834--three children, all daughters, between 1830 and 1834.  Faustin died in Assumption Parish in July 1834.  The Plattenville priest who recorded the burial said that Faustin was age 24 when he died.  He was 27.  Daughters Azélie Mélasie and Angéline married into the Boudreaux and Blanchard families by 1870.  He evidently fathered no sons, but the blood of the family line endured. 

Jean Baptiste's seventh son Théodule, by first wife Hyacinthe Michel, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Arceneaux and Mélanie Gautreaux, at the Plattenville church in February 1841.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Jean François, called François, in January 1842; Euzelien in March 1846; Alida Valentine in October 1848; Cyprien in January 1850; Pélagie Louise in May 1852; Placide Patrice in February 1857; Étienne Octave in November 1859; Appolone Oleus Octave in April 1862; Norbert Justilien in November 1864; ...  Neither of Théodule's daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did, after completing his war service. 

During the War of 1861-65, oldest son François served in Company C of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Assumption Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  His first cousins Amédée and Clodimir Delaune also served in the same unit.  François survived his war service, returned to his family, and married Noémie, daughter of Jean Baptiste Gebelin and Julie Sibille, at the Labadieville church in September 1866.  Daughter Julie Philomène was born near Labadieville in February 1868; ...

Jean Baptiste's eighth son Joseph, by second wife Marie Hébert, married Marie Azélie, called Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadians Basile Boudreaux and Clémence Dugas, at the Plattenville church in January 1842.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie in the early 1840s; Simon Joseph Oncel or Oville, called Oville and Onil, in October 1845; Alcide Ferdinand in June 1848; Théodore Joseph in December 1850; Élizabeth in November 1852; Victor Augustain in July 1854; Pierre Camille in April 1856; and a newborn son, name and age unrecorded, perhaps theirs, died in October 1858--eight children, six sons and two daughters, between 1842 and 1858.  Joseph died near Labadieville in November 1858, age 40.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted two slaves--a 19-year-old black male, and a 17-year-old black female, living in one house--on Widow Azélie Delaune's farm in the parish's Ward 6 next to Christophe Delaune and near Arsène Delaune; these were the slaves of Joseph's widow Azélie Boudreaux.  Daughters Marie and Élizabeth married into the Venissat and Arceneaux families by 1870.  One of Joseph's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Oville married Léontine, daughter of fellow Acadian Magloire Bourgeois and his Creole wife Azélie Himel, at the Labadieville church in October 1867.  Their son Arthur Joseph was born near Labadieville in September 1868; ... 

Jean Baptiste's ninth son Simon Ursin, by second wife Marie Hébert, married fellow Acadian Mathilde Boudreaux probably in Assumption Parish in the late 1840s.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Joseph Émile in October 1849; Elmire Sedalise in March 1851; Léon baptized at the Plattenville church, age unrecorded, in March 1853; Aman Octave born in February 1855 but, called Octave, died at age 1 1/2 in November 1856; Eulalie Victoria born in October 1856; Léonelle Clémence Stella in November 1861; Emma Clémence in November 1863; ...  Daughter Elmire married a Delaune cousin by 1870.  None of Simon Ursin's sons married by then. 

Jean Baptiste's eleventh son Arsène, by second wife Marie Hébert, married Marie or Marine, daughter of fellow Acadians Florentin Blanchard and Marie Émilie Arceneaux, at the Plattenville church in January 1851.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Anatole in July 1852; Augustin in October 1854; Marie Odile in December 1856; Oleus Félix in September 1863; Charles Oscar Octave near Labadieville in December 1864; Sylvestre Joseph in December 1868; ...  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted two slaves--a 26-year-old black female and a 2-month-old black male, living in one house--on Arsène Delaune's farm in the parish's Ward 6 next to Christophe Delaune and near Widow Azélie Delaune.  None of Arsène's children married by 1870. 

Jean Baptiste's twelfth and youngest son Jean Baptiste, fils, the second with the name, by second wife Marie Hébert, may have married fellow Acadian Denise Daigle in Assumption Parish, date unrecorded.  Their children, born in Assumption Parish, included an "infant son," name unrecorded, perhaps theirs, died at age 1 in August 1854; Marie Zulma born in May 1854; and Amanda Louisiana in July 1856--three children, a son and two daughters, between 1853 and 1856...  None of Jean Baptiste, fils's daughters married by 1870. 

Christophe, fils's fourth and youngest son Louis-Auguste or Augustin, called Auguste, followed his family to New Orleans and Cabahannocer.  He married Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Simon Dupuis and Ludivine Landry, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in October 1809.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Marie Geneviève in February 1811; Marie Sélima in March 1813 but, called Célina, died at age 15 1/2 in October 1828; Auguste, fils born in August 1815 but died near St. Gabriel, age 24, in November 1839; Cydalie born in December 1817 but died at age 25 in March 1843; and Jean, also called Jean Théodule, born in June 1821.  Auguste, père remarried to Clotilde, also called Éliza, daughter of fellow Acadians Isaac LeBlanc and Félicité Melançon and widow of Alexis LeBlanc, at the St. Gabriel church in April 1827.  Their son Louis Alexandre baptized at the St. Gabriel church, age unrecorded, in April 1829--six children, three daughters and three sons, by two wives, between 1811 and 1829.  Auguste died near St. Gabriel in March 1851, age 66 (the recording priest said 68).  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Iberville Parish counted seven slaves--four males and three females, all black, ranging in age from 90 to 5, living in one house--on Widow Au. Delaune's farm; these were the slaves of Auguste's second wife, Clotilde LeBlanc.  Daughter Marie Geneviève, by his first wife, married into the Viel family.  Two of Auguste's sons also married.  One wonders if the lines endured. 

Second son Jean Théodule, by first wife Geneviève Dupuis, married Armélise Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians Sylvain Landry and Bathilde Babin of Ascension Parish, at the St. Gabriel church in February 1844.  She evidently gave him no children, at least none who survived infancy.  Jean Théodule, called Juan Théodule by the recording priest, died near St. Gabriel in April 1858, age 36.  His line of the family, except for its blood, may have died with him.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Iberville Parish counted eight slaves--two males and six females, all black, ranging in age from 21 years to 3 months, living in one house--on Widow T. Delaune's farm; this was Armélise Rose Landry.  

Auguste, père's third and youngest son Louis Alexandre, by second wife Clotilde LeBlanc, married Malvina, daughter of fellow Acadians Narcisse Bujole and Adeline Orillion, at the St. Gabriel church in December 1850.  Did they have any children? 

Deroche

Louis, Julien, and Herbe DesRoches of Carolle, Avranches, Normandy, probably not kin to the other DesRochess in greater Acadia, came to the French Maritimes in c1730 when they were still in their teens.  (Herbe may have been a cousin, not a brother, of Louis and Julien.)  Louis and Julien settled on Île St.-Jean, and Herbe on Île Royale.  Louis married Marguerite, daughter of Acadians Pierre Arseneau and Marie-Anne Boudrot, in c1731 and worked as a fisherman/habitant at Malpèque, on the northwest shore of Île St.-Jean.  Marguerite gave him at least eight children there:  Rosalie born in c1732; Eustache in c1736; Marie-Josèphe in c1738; Alexandre in c1740; Marie-Anne in c1742; Joseph in c1743; Henriette in c1747; and Anne in c1750.  Julien, a farmer, married another Arseneau, Marie, daughter of Jacques Arseneau and Marie Poirier, in c1743 probably at Malpèque. They had at least six children, born probably at the isolated settlement:  Julien, fils in c1745, Félix in c1747, Joseph in c1750, Jean in c1754, Basile in c1755, and Mathurin in c1756.  Meanwhile, Herbe married Marie, daughter of surgeon Georges Barbudeau or Berbudeau of Île d'Oléon, France, and Françoise Vrigneau of Plaisance, Newfoundland, probably at Louisbourg in November 1742.  They settled at St.-Esprit, a fishing village on the Atlantic shore, down the coast from Louisbourg, where Herbe worked as a fisherman.  Marie gave him at least five children, all born probably at St.-Esprit:  Marguerite in c1743; François in c1744; Hervé in c1745; Jean in c1749; and Pierre in c1752.  In February 1752, a French official counted the family, sans son Hervé, still at St.-Esprit.  In the household was a 14-year-old female servant from Louisbourg, as well as three hired fishermen.  Herbe and Marie were living next to her parents, who evidently were dependent on them.  The following August, the same official, now on Île St.-Jean, counted Julien, Louis, and their families at Malpèque.  Julien and wife Marie died of disease in c1757, on the eve of the island's dérangement, and their children were raised by family members. 

Living on islands controlled by France, the DesRoches escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia in 1755, but their respite from British oppression was short-lived.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the British deported most of the island habitants to France.  However, the DesRochess--Louis and Julien's families at least--were among the minority of island Acadians who slipped through the British dragnet on Île St.-Jean.  Louis, Marguerite, and their children, as well as Julien and Marie's orphaned children, escaped from the island's northwest shore, crossed Mer Rouge to the mainland, and made their way up to Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, which soon became a major Acadian refuge.  In late June 1760, a British naval force from Louisbourg attacked Restigouche, disabled a small French flotilla there, but failed to capture the garrison.  They nonetheless cut the place off from the rest of New France.  In October, after the fall of Montréal, another British naval force, this one from Québec, returned to Restigouche to accept the garrison's, and the Acadians', surrender.  On 24 October 1760, on the eve of formal surrender, French officers compiled a list of 1,003 Acadians still at Restigouche.  No DesRoches family appears on the list, but there was at least one young member of the family who was counted with Arseneau relatives.  Other DesRochess may have eluded yet another British roundup and taken refuge in Gaspésie, on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs.  Most of the Acadians at Restigouche ended up in prison compounds in Nova Scotia, where they remained for the rest of the war.  After the war, DesRochess returned to St. John Island, formerly Île St.-Jean, where they became one of the largest families in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island.  They were especially numerous at Miscouche on the western side of the province, not far from the family's original settlement at Malpèque.  Typical of most, if not all, Acadian families, these Acadiennes of Canada lost touch with their Cadien cousins hundreds of miles away, and, until the Acadian reunions of the twentieth century, may even have forgotten the others existed. 

One of Julien DesRoches younger sons, Basile, was only age 3 in 1758 when the British struck Île St.-Jean.  He was raised by his maternal aunt Judith Arseneau, 19 years older and still unmarried when she took her nephew into her care.  Judith and her charge were among the island Acadians who made it to Restigouiche.  She married Charles dit Jean-Charles, son of fellow Acadians François Savoie and Marie-Josèphe Richard of Annapolis Royal and widower of _____ and Marie-Madeleine Richard, there in January 1761, so some of the exiles at Restigouche were not sent to prison compounds in Nova Scotia until weeks after their surrender.  In August 1763, Cherl Savois, his unnamed wife, and three unnamed children appeared on a French repatriation list circulated at Halifax.  Basile DesRoches, now age 8, likely was one of the children. 

Acadians being held in Nova Scotia at war's end faced a hard dilemma.  The Treaty of Paris of February 1763 stipulated in its Article IV that persons dispersed by the war had 18 months to return to their respective territories.  However, British authorities refused to allow any of the Acadian prisoners in the region to return to their former lands as proprietors.  If Acadians chose to remain in, or return to, Nova Scotia, they could live only in small family groups in previously unsettled areas or work for low wages on former Acadian lands now owned by New-English "planters."  If they stayed, they must also take the hated oath of allegiance to the new British king, George III, without reservation.  They would also have to take the oath if they joined their cousins in Canada or in other parts of greater Acadia.  After all they had suffered on the question of the oath, few self-respecting Acadians would consent to take it if it could be avoided.  Some Nova Scotia exiles chose to relocate to Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  Others considered going to French St.-Domingue, where Acadian exiles in the British seaboard colonies were going, or to the Illinois country, the west bank of which still belonged to France, or to French Louisiana, which, thanks to British control of Canada, was the only route possible to the Illinois country for Acadian exiles.  Whatever their choice, many refused to remain under British rule.  So they gathered up their money and their few possessions and prepared to leave their homeland.  Of the 600 exiles who left Halifax in late 1764 and early 1765 bound for Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, one was a DesRoches.

Basile DesRoches came to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français in 1765 as a 10-year-old orphan.  He followed relatives to Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans, where he married twice, both times to German-Creole widows.  During the early antebellum period, he and his family joined the Acadian exodus from the river to Bayou Lafourche, where the family who raised him had settled.  Basile's only son created a family of his own on the Lafourche.  The son's six married sons moved down bayou to Terrebonne Parish, some of them settling in the Montegut area at the edge of the coastal marshes, where they probably worked as trappers and fishermen as well as farmers. 

No Deroche/DesRoches appears as an owner on the slave schedules compiled by the federal census bureau in 1850 and 1860, so these families participated only peripherally in the South's antebellum plantation-based economy.   Moreover, no descendant of Basile DesRoches appears in Louisiana or Confederate service records during the War of 1861-65.  The four Desroches who did serve the Confederacy in uniform likely were French Creoles from St. James Parish and New Orleans.  ...

In South Louisiana, the family's name evolved from DesRoches to Deroche.  In Louisiana, the family's name also is spelled DeRoche, DesRoches, Duracheor, Duroche, Durocher, and Durochet.  The Acadian family should not be confused with the non-Acadian families, Frenchmen and Spaniards, bearing similar surnames who settled at New Orleans, Pointe Coupee, Iberville, St. James, Opelousas, Attakapas, and on upper Bayou Lafourche, where the Acadian Deroches did not settle.12

Basile (c1755-?) Deroche

Basile, fifth son of Julien DesRoches and Marie Arseneau, born probably at Malpèque, Île St.-Jean, in c1755, was orphaned at a young age and raised by a maternal aunt, who, during exile, married a Savoie widower of Annapolis Royal.  While still a boy, Basile ended up in the prison compound at Halifax during the early 1760s.  He came to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français with the Savoies in 1765 and followed them to Cabahannocer, where he married German Creole Marie Edelmayre, widow of Louis ____lante, in September 1778.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer, included Agathe baptized, age unrecorded, in March 1780; Marie-Angélique, called Angélique, baptized, age unrecorded, in September 1781; and Pierre born in the 1790s--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1780 and the 1790s.  Basile, in his mid-40s, remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Mathurin Legant or Legau and Marguerite Clairaut of St.-Jean-Baptiste des Allemands on the upper German Coast, at Cabahannocer in November 1801.  She gave him no more children.  During the early antebellum period, Basile settled in Lafourche Interior Parish, down bayou from where his aunt and uncle had settled in the early 1790s, perhaps after his uncle died.  Daughter Angélique, by his first wife, married into the Barbier family.  All of the Acadian Deroches of South Louisiana, many of them still living in Terrebonne Parish, are descended from Basile's son and his many grandsons. 

Only son Pierre, by first wife Marie Edelmayre, married Clémence Pélagie, called Pélagie, daughter of Joseph Baye or Boyer and his Acadian wife Jeanne Marguerite Vincent, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in September 1821.  Their children, born in Lafourche Interior Parish, included Pierre Antoine, called Antoine, in January 1823; Joseph in the 1820s; Florian in the 1820s; Marie Oseglia in February 1828; François in July 1830; Usilien or Eusilien Omère in September 1835; Marie Aimée in October 1838; Émile Théodule in August 1840; Marie Aimée Eveline in September 1842; and Léonard Banon or Banon Léonard, in October 1845--10 children, seven sons and three daughters, between 1823 and 1845.  Daughter Marie Aimée Eveline married into the Aucoin family by 1870.  Six of Pierre's sons also married by then and settled in Terrebonne Parish, but not all of the lines endured.  

Oldest son Pierre Antoine, called Antoine, married Marie Eve Trosclair in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in September 1848.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Eveline Selemee in July 1851; Virginie or Virginia C. in December 1853; and Olyneza in February 1856--three children, all daughters, between 1851 and 1856.  Daughters Eveline and Virginia married into the Bourg and Dantin families by 1870.  

Pierre's second son Joseph married Marie Adeline, called Adeline, daughter of fellow Acadian Stanislas Boudreaux and his Creole wife Mélanie Fortunée Dupré, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in August 1854.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Marie Rose in December 1856; Joseph Onésime in February 1858; Pierre Théodule in February 1860; Odillia in December 1863; Marie Rosina near Montegut in February 1867; Jean Joseph Prosper in January 1870; ...

Pierre's third son Florian married Joséphine Rivas, place and date unrecorded.  Their son Amédée Antoine, called Antoine, was born near Raceland, Lafourche Parish, in March 1855 but died at age 1 1/2 in September 1856.  Did they have anymore children? 

Pierre's fourth son François married fellow Acadian Rosalie Boudreaux in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in June 1862.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Jean Baptiste Ozémée in November 1861; Jean Olésipe in February 1864; Victorin Pierre Joseph near Montegut in March 1869; ...  

Pierre's fifth son Eusilien Omère married Scholastique Victoire or Victorine, daughter of Jérôme Dupré and his Acadian wife Victoire Aucoin of Terrebonne Parish, at the Houma church in June 1862. ...

Pierre's seventh and youngest son Léonard Banon or Banon Léonard married Armélise, daughter of fellow Acadians Leufroi Thibodeaux and Thersile Gautreaux, at the Montegut church, Terrebonne Parish, in February 1866.   Their children, born near Montegut, included Marie Emélie Léonise in November 1866; Angelina Rosalie in February 1869; ... 

Doiron

Jean Doiron or Douaron, native of perhaps St.-Martin, Île de Ré, near La Rochelle, France, reached Acadia with his wife Marie-Anne Canol perhaps aboard L'Oranger in 1671.  They moved from Port-Royal to the Minas Basin in the early 1680s and were counted on Rivière-de-l'Ascension there in 1701.  By 1714, they had moved up the basin to Pigiguit.  Between 1672 and c1690, Marie-Anne gave Jean 11 children, eight sons and three daughters.  Their daughters married into the Hébert, Testard dit Paris, Boisseau, and Vincent families.  Middle daughter Marie and her Testard husband settled at Louisbourg on Île Royale by the 1720s.  Seven of Jean and Marie-Anne's sons married, into the Babin, Gaudet, LeBlanc, Doucet, Guédry, Henry, and Barrieau families.  After Marie-Anne died, Jean remarried to Marie, daughter of Guillaume Trahan and Madeleine Brun, probably at Minas in c1693.  She was 23 years younger than Jean and, between the early 1690s and 1709, gave him eight more children, four daughters and four sons, all of whom created families of their own--19 children, by two wives, between 1672 and 1709.  Jean and Marie's daughters married into the Girouard, Guillot dit L'Angevin, Nogues, and Turcot families.  Jean and Marie's sons married into the Girouard, Doucet, Vincent, and Breau families.  Jean died at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, between April 1735 and June 1736, in his late 80s.  By 1755, his descendants could be found in the Minas Basin at Pigiguit and Cobeguit, at Chignecto, and in the French Maritimes on Île Royale and especially on Île St.-Jean.  Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered the family even farther. 

The Acadians at Chignecto were the first to endure a disruption of their lives.  In the the spring and summer of 1750, in response to the British building a fort at Beaubassin village, Canadian militia, assisted by Mi'kmaq warriors led by Abbé Jean-Louis Le Loutre, burned Acadian homesteads in the British-controlled area east of Rivière Missaguash, forcing the habitants there to move to the French-controlled area west of the river.  Doirons may have been among the refugees.  After yet another war erupted between Britain and France in 1754, Chignecto-area Acadians were caught in the middle of it.  When British and New-English forces attacked Fort Beauséjour in June 1755, Doirons may have been among the 300 Acadians serving in the fort as militia.  They, too, along with the French troupes de la marine and the Canadians, became prisoners of war when the fort surrendered on June 16.  Lieutenant-Governor Charles Lawrence was so incensed to find so-called French Neutrals fighting with French regulars at Beauséjour he ordered his officers to deport the Chignecto Acadians to the southernmost British seaboard colonies.  Doirons were among the locals the British deported to South Carolina in the fall of 1755.  The following spring, the governors of Georgia and South Carolina allowed the Acadians in their colonies who were not under arrest to return to their homeland as best they could.  After purchasing or building small vessels, hundreds of them headed up the coast.  Some made it all the way back to the Bay of Fundy and found refuge on lower Rivière St.-Jean.  Most did not.  In late August, after weeks of effort, 78 exiles came ashore on Long Island, New York, and were detained by colonial officials.  On a list of "names of the heads of the French Neutral families, number of their Children returned from Georgia and distributed through the counties of Westchester and Orange," dated 26 August 1756, were two families of Doirons.  One family moved on to Pennsylvania in c1760 before continuing on to Maryland in the early 1760s.  Back in South Carolina, a Doiron wife remarried to a Lambert widower in c1761, and a Doiron widower remarried to a Lord widow, so other Doirons sent to the southern colony remained.  A Doiron family from Pigiguit was deported to Maryland in 1755, and they were still there in the summer of 1763. 

Doirons from Chignecto escaped the British roundup there in 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  One of them married a Bourgeois in exile.  By 1760, they had made their way up to the French stronghold at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  Other Doirons who had escaped the deportations in greater Acadia moved on to Canada.  A large family, counted by a French official on Île Madame south of Île Royale in February 1752, escaped the roundup on Île Royale by leaving the island before the fall of Louisbourg in July 1758.  The decision to seek refuge in Canada, however, proved a fatal one for some members of the family.  In early January and late February 1758, at least two of them died at Québec, victims, perhaps, of a smallpox epidemic that killed hundreds of their fellow refugees in and around the Canadian capital from the summer of 1757 to the spring of 1758. 

Living in territory controlled by France, the many Doirons on Île St.-Jean and Île Royale were untouched by the British roundups in Nova Scotia in 1755.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived, however.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the British rounded up most of the habitants on the islands and deported them to France.  The crossing devastated the family, ending a number of lines.  Doirons died aboard Le Duc Guillaume, which left Île Royale in late summer and, after a mid-ocean mishap, limped into St.-Malo harbor the first of November.  The greatest loss of life in the family occurred aboard the transport Duke William, which left Chédabouctou Bay in a 12-ship convoy in late November, filled with exiles from Pointe-Prime, Île St.-Jean, bound for St.-Malo.  The Duke William was one of the three transports sunk by a storm off the southwest coast of England during the second week of December.  Most of Noël Doiron's extended family--five of his children and their families, his grandchildren, and even some of his great-grandchildren--went down with the ship.  Doirons also died aboard one or more of the five deportation transports that left Chédabouctou in the same convoy with the Duke William and, despite the mid-December storm, reached St.-Malo together in late January 1759.  Others crossed on the Supply, which left Chédabouctou Bay in the 12-ship convoy, survived the storm that sank Duke William, put in at Bideford, England, for repairs, and did not reach St.-Malo until early March 1759.  Island Doirons also crossed to France aboard other vessels that landed them at Le Havre and Cherbourg in Normandy, and at Boulogne-sur-Mer up in Picardie.  They also ended up at La Rochelle and Rochefort on the Bay of Biscay.  However, most of them settled in the St.-Malo area, including the suburbs of St.-Servan-sur-Mer next to St.-Malo and St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, across the harbor from St.-Malo; St.-Suliac and Pleudihen-sur-Rance on the east side of the river south of St.-Servan; and Pleurtuit, Pleslin, and Plouër-sur-Rance on the west side of the river south of St.-Énogat.  In November 1765, two Doiron brothers living at St.-Énogat followed dozens of fellow exiles, most of them repatriated from England, to Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany and remained there until the 1770s.  One brother took his family back to greater Acadia via the Channel Island of Jersey to work in a British-controlled fishery, while the other moved on to the lower Loire port of Nantes.  In 1773, most of the Doirons in the St.-Malo area and their cousins in other coastal cities became part of a major settlement scheme in the interior of Poitou.  After two years of effort, most of them retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to Nantes.  When, in the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, 30 Doirons--nearly all of the ones remaining in the mother country--agreed to take it.

Meanwhile, in North America, things got only worse for the Acadians who had escaped the redcoats in the late 1750s and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  After the fall of Québec in September 1759, the British gathered their forces to subdue the remaining French strongholds in New France, one of which was the Acadian refuge at Restigouche, which a naval force from Louisbourg attacked in late June 1760.  After a spirited fight in which Acadian militia and Mi'kmaq warriors played an important role, the French commander blew up his larger vessels and retreated up Rivière Restigouche, leaving the militia and the Indians to oppose a British landing.  Unable to capture the garrison or lay waste to the area, the British commander ordered his ships to return to Louisbourg.  Three months later, after the fall of Montréal, another British naval force, this one from Québec, appeared at Restigouche to accept the garrison's, and the Acadians', surrender.  On 24 October 1760, on the eve of formal surrender, French officers counted 1,003 Acadians still at Restigouche.  On the list was a small Doiron family.  The British held them, along with hundreds of other exiles who had been captured by, or surrendered to, British forces in the area, in prison compounds in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  In July and October 1762, British officials at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, counted members of the famly near their old homesteads there.  In August 1763, Fort Cumberland, formerly French Fort Beauséjour, two families of Doirons appeared on a French repatriation list circulating at the fort, not far from the family's old homesteads at Chignecto. 

After the war, some of the Doirons in the Nova Scotia compounds chose to remain in greater Acadia or join their kinsmen in Canada, where some had gone as early as 1756.  Though now also a British possession, the far-northern province was populated largely by fellow French Catholics, many of them Acadian exiles.  So, in a colony nearly as old as Acadia, descendants of Jean Doiron began the slow, inexorable process of becoming Canadiennes.  By the early 1770s, Doirons from greater Acadia and exile in France could be found on the upper St. Lawrence at Nicolet; at St.-Ours on lower Rivière Richelieu; at Napanne in present-day Ontario; on the lower St. Lawrence on Île d'Orléans and at Beaumont, St.-Charles de Bellechasse, and St.-Michel de Bellechasse near Québec city; at Richibouctou in present-day eastern New Brunswick; at Rustico on the north shore of St. John Island, formerly Île St.-Jean, now Prince Edward Island; and on Baie Ste.-Marie, today's St. Mary's Bay, on the western coast of Nova Scotia.  Typical of most, if not all, Acadian families, the Acadiennes of Canada lost touch with their Cadien cousins hundreds of miles away, and, until the Acadian reunions of the twentieth century, may even have forgotten the others existed. 

At war's end, Acadians held in the seaboard colonies, theoretically, were free to go, but not until the British discerned their intentions.  Even then, colonial authorities discouraged repatriation.  In June 1763, a Doiron family who had arrived from New York appeared on a repatriation list circulating in Pennsylvania.  They soon moved on to Maryland.  In July 1763, in Maryland, other Doirons appeared on repatriation lists at Oxford on the colony's Eastern Shore and at Baltimore.  In August 1763, four Doiron families appeared on repatriation lists circulating in South Carolina. 

Urged on by French officials, Doirons from South Carolina emigrated not to Canada but to French St.-Domingue, where they could live not only among fellow Roman Catholics, but also in territory controlled by France.  Although driven from North America by the Seven Years' War, the French were determined to hang on to what was left of their shrinking colonial empire.  A new naval base at Môle St.-Nicolas on the northwest end of the big island would protect the approaches to their remaining possessions in the Caribbean Basin and assist in the war of vengeance to come.  Moreover, the exiles could provide a source of cheap labor not only for the naval contractors, but also for the island's major planters, who hoped to supplement the work of their slaves.  To entice them to the sugar colony, the French promised the Acadians land of their own there.  The promises did not work for at least one member of the family.  When fellow Acadians from Nova Scotia and Maryland came through Cap-Français in the mid- and late 1760s on their way to Louisiana, a Doiron and her family followed one of the parties to New Orleans.  The other Doirons were among the majority of Acadians who remained in the sugar colony. 

Doirons being held in Nova Scotia at war's end faced a hard dilemma.  The Treaty of Paris of February 1763 stipulated in its Article IV that persons dispersed by the war had 18 months to return to their respective territories.  British authorities refused to allow any of the Acadian prisoners in the region to return to their former lands as proprietors.  If Acadians chose to remain in, or return to, Nova Scotia, they could live only in small family groups in previously unsettled areas or work for low wages on former Acadian lands now owned by New-English "planters."  If they stayed, they must also take the hated oath of allegiance to the new British king, George III, without reservation.  They would also have to take the oath if they joined their cousins in Canada.  After all they had suffered on the question of the oath, no self-respecting Acadian would consent to take it if it could be avoided.   Some Nova Scotia exiles chose to go to Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  Others considered going to French St.-Domingue, where Acadian exiles in the seaboard colonies, including Doirons, were going, or to the Illinois country, the west bank of which still belonged to France, or to French Louisiana, which was the only route possible to the Illinois country for Acadians.  Whatever their choice, many refused to remain under British rule.  So they gathered up their money and their few possessions and prepared to leave their homeland.  Of the 600 exiles who left Halifax in late 1764 and early 1765 bound for Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, four were Doirons. 

For a dozen years, the Doirons in Maryland endured life among Englishmen who, despite their colony's Catholic roots, did not care much for the French "papists" thrust upon them.  When word reached the Acadians there that the Spanish would welcome them in Louisiana, where hundreds of their fellow exiles had gone, they pooled their meager resources to charter ships that would take them to New Orleans.  The Doirons had few relatives in the Spanish colony, but they chose to go therer anyway.  One family led by a widow followed a party of 150 exiles who left Port Tobacco on the lower Potomac in late December 1767 and reached New Orleans via Cap-Français the following February.  At least one Doiron family--the one that had ventured from South Carolina to New York to Pennsylvania and finally to Maryland--chose to remain in the Chesapeake colony when their cousins moved on to Spanish Louisiana.  In 1773, these stay-behinds were among the first Acadians at Baltimore to secure a lot in the city's French Town Quarter.  Within a generation or two, they were using the surname Gold, an English iteration of Doiron.

Descendants of Jean Doiron came early to Louisiana, in 1765 from Halifax and 1768 from Maryland, but if the Spanish government had not coaxed over 1,500 Acadians in France to emigrate to Louisiana in 1785, there probably would be no Acadian Doirons in the Bayou State today.  The one male Doiron who came to the colony from Halifax had only one son, who died young.  The three Doirons who came from Maryland were three sisters who married on the river, but, again, no Doiron family lines came of it.  Not until the late 1780s were Doiron families established in Louisiana that survived beyond the second generation there.  By the mid-1790s, three centers of Doiron family settlement had emerged in the colony:  the first and largest along the river around Baton Rouge, especially in what became West Baton Rouge Parish; a second along upper Bayou Teche; and a third on upper Bayou Lafourche that eventually spread south into the Terrebonne country.  During the antebellum and post-war periods, several Doiron families moved from the Lafourche and the river to lower Bayou Teche, while others from the Teche valley moved out into the prairies and marshes of Vermilion, Calcasieu, and Cameron parishes.  However, the largest center of Doiron family settlement remained around Baton Rouge.  

No non-Acadian Doirons appear in Louisiana church records during the colonial and antebellum periods.  Most, if not all, of the Doirons of South Louisiana, then, are descendants of Jean of Minas, perhaps the only exception being Afro Creoles once owned by members of the family who chose to retain the family's name after they were free.  

Judging by the number of slaves they held during the late antebellum period, the Doirons participated only peripherally in the South's plantation-based economy.  One Doiron in West Baton Rouge Parish owned 10 slaves in 1850, and several of his kinsmen who lived nearby owned a few bondsmen, but no Doirons appear as slave holders in the 1860 federal slave census.  None of the Doirons in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley, in fact, appear to have owned slaves.  Only one of their cousins on the western prairies held bondsmen during the period.  

Nearly a dozen Doirons served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65, and four of their cousins, probably brothers from Calcasieu Parish, served in a Texas cavalry unit.  At least two Doirons, one from the upper Lafourche and the other from the river, lost their lives in Confederate service.  Édouard Doiron, probably from Assumption Parish, was conscripted into Company C of the 1st Regiment Louisiana Heavy Artillery in October 1862.  When his unit surrendered at Vicksburg, Mississippi, in July 1863, Édouard, along with most of the other conscripts in the regiment, refused parole.  The Federals sent them to St. Louis, Missouri, and then to the prisoner-of-war compound at Camp Morton, Indiana.  Édouard did not make it to Indiana.  He died at the prison in St. Louis in late July and was buried at nearby Jefferson Barracks Cemetery.  Meanwhile, Louis Oscar Doiron of West Baton Rouge Parish was serving in the 4th Regiment Louisiana Infantry when he died of disease in the hospital at Lauderdale Springs, Mississippi, in July 1863.  Unlike cousin Édouard, several Doirons from the river and the Lafourche survived their time in Federal prisoner-of war-camps after being captured in Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana, and Tennessee.

The war took a heavy toll on the Doirons' economic status, no matter where they settled.  Even before Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation went into effect in January 1863, Federal commands controlling the lower Mississippi freed the slaves on every farm and plantation their forces could reach.  Union gunboats shelled and burned dozens of plantations houses along the lower Mississippi.  Successive Federal incursions into the Bayou Lafourche valley devastated that region, and Confederate foragers plagued the area when the Federals were not around.  On the western prairies, Federal armies marched three times through the Teche-Vermilion valley and burned and pillaged many farms and plantations, some of them perhaps owned by Doirons.  Thanks to these Federal incursions, emancipation came early to the area, with its resulting economic and social turmoil.  Confederate foraging parties and cutthroat Jayhawkers also plagued the area where Doirons lived, adding to the family's misery.  ...

In Louisiana, the family's name also is spelled Darzoin, Deuaron, Doiran, Doirant, D'Oiron, Douairon, Douaison, Douaron, Douerand, Doyron, Duaron, Duarron, Duron, Louaron.13

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A small family of three Doirons came to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, in 1765 and settled at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  No Doiron family line came of it: 

Pierre (c1733-?) à ? à Jean Doiron

Pierre Doiron, born perhaps at Chignecto in c1733, eluded the British in 1755, sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, and married Marie Bourgeois probably in exile.  Later in the decade, they made their way to the Acadian refuge at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  In late October 1760, the couple appeared on a list of 1,003 Acadian refugees still at Restigouche.  The British held Pierre and his family in the prison compound at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, for the rest of the war.  The couple came to Louisiana in 1765 with a daughter, Marguerite, born probably at Fort Edward, and a son, Olivier, born there or on the voyage to Louisiana.  They had no more children in the colony.  In April 1766, a Spanish official counted Pierre in Verret's Company of the Cabahannocer militia.  With him was a wife, a son, and a daughter.  Three years later, Pierre, wife Marie, and only one of their children, son Olivier, occupied lot number 93 on the left, or east, bank of the river at Cabahannocer.  Son Olivier then disappears from the historical record.  Pierre and Marie's daughter Marguerite evidently had died between April 1766 and September 1769, so not even the blood of this family line endured in the colony. 

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Perhaps also in 1765, Marie, daughter of Jean Doiron and Anne LeBlanc of Chignecto, her second husband Pierre Lambert, a daughter from her first marriage to Pierre Boucher, and a stepson, came to Louisiana directly from French St.-Domingue.  They also settled at Cabahannocer on the river.  No new Doiron family line came of it. 

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In February 1768, the widow of Alexandre Doiron and her three daughters from Pigiguit reached New Orleans from Port Tobacco, Maryland.  The daughters married into the Amache, St. Pierre, and Rodriguez families at Fort San Luìs de Natchez, where Spanish Governor Ulloa forced them to settle.  One of them remarried into the LeBlanc family at Cabahannocer, where they resettled after Ulloa's ouster.  No new Doiron family line came of it. 

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In 1785, two decades after the first of their cousins reached the colony, at least 30 Doirons came to Louisiana from France on five of the Seven Ships.  Only then did Doiron family lines take root in the Spanish colony. 

The first of them--seven Doirons in one family, and a Doiron wife married to a Lejeune--arrived aboard Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in July.  They followed their fellow passengers to Manchac on the river below Baton Rouge.  A robust family line came of it: 

Alexandre (c1739-1793?) à Jean Doiron

Alexandre le jeune, fourth son of Thomas Doiron and Anne Girouard, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1738 or 1739, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in c1750 and was counted with them at Rivière-du-Moulin-à-Scie in the interior of the island in August 1752.  In his late teens, he was deported with them to France aboard the transport Duc Guillaume, which reached St.-Malo the first of November 1758.  A mid-ocean mishap aboard the vessel killed many passengers, including Alexandre's father and five of his siblings.  Alexandre, his widowed mother, and his four remaining siblings survived the crossing.  After a short stay in a local hospital to recuperate from the rigors of the voyage, they lived in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer in 1758 and 1759 and at St.-Suliac on the east side of the river south of St.-Servan from 1759 to 1763, where Alexandre worked as a laborer and a carpenter.  He married Ursule, daughter of fellow Acadians François Hébert and Isabelle Bourg of Cobeguit and Pointe-à-la-Jeunesse, Île Royale, at Pleslin, across the river from St.-Suliac, in January 1763.  Ursule gave Alexandre five children at Pleslin:  Marie-Rose born in November 1763; Madeleine-Ursule in August 1765; Isaac-Alexandre in October 1767; Charles-Adrien in April 1770 but died at nearby Ville au Conte, age 3 1/2, in October 1773; and Mathurin-Luc born in October 1772.  In late 1773 or early 1774, they followed other exiles to the interior of Poitou.  Ursule gave him another son there, Marin, born at Bonneuil-Matours south of Châtellerault in February 1775.  In March 1776, after two years of effort, the family retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes.  Ursule gave Alexandre two more sons at nearby Chantenay:  Joseph born in November 1777; and Jean-Baptiste in 1783.  Meanwhile, son Marin died at Chantenay in November 1777, age 2 1/2.  In 1785, Alexandre, Ursule, and their remaining six children, two daughters and four sons, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to Manchac on the river south of Baton Rouge, where Ursule bore another son, Rémi, in May 1789--nine children, two daughters and seven sons, between 1763 and 1789, in France and Louisiana.  An Alexandre Doiron died at Manchac in October 1793.  The San Gabriel priest who recorded the burial did not give any parents' names, mention a wife, or give the age of the deceased, so one wonders if this was him.  If it was, Alexandre le jeune of l'Assomption, Pigiguit, would have died in his mid-50s.  Wife Ursule, who did not remarry, died at Manchac in October 1798, age 56.  Daughters Marie-Rose and Madeleine-Ursule married into the Templet and Benoit families and remained on the river.  Five of Alexandre's sons married, and most of them remained in the Baton Rouge area.  The oldest son joined his cousins on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Most of the Doirons of South Louisiana are descended from Alexandre and his sons.

Oldest son Isaac-Alexandre followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, Chantenay, New Orleans, and Manchac.  At age 44, he married Renée Eulalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Isaac Hébert and Marie Daigre, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in May 1812.  Renée, a native of Nantes, come to Louisiana from France in 1785 aboard a later ship.  They moved on to upper Bayou Lafourche, returned to the Baton Rouge area in the late 1810s, and then moved back to the bayou by the early 1820s.  Their children, born on the river and the Lafourche, included Élise near Baton Rouge in May 1813; Auguste in Assumption Parish in May 1816; twins Eulalie and Marie near Baton Rouge in April 1818; and Ursin Isaac in January 1822--five children, three daughters and two sons, between 1813 and 1822.  Isaac-Alexandre died by January 1827, when wife Renée remarried at Plattenville on the Lafourche.  Daughter Élise married into the Trahan family.  One of Isaac Alexandre's sons also married and settled on the Lafourche.

Older son Auguste married Céleste or Célestine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Joseph Marie Trahan and Anne Adélaïde Lejeune of Lafourche Interior Parish, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in May 1841.  Their children, born on the bayou, inclulded Cléophas in December 1841; Auguste Cléodonly or Clodmire, called Clodomire, in February 1842[sic]; and Jean in January 1846--three children, all sons, between 1841 and 1846.  Two of Auguste's sons married by 1870, one of them after his war service. 

Oldest son Cléophas married Maltese Creole Elvire Lancon in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in February 1870. ...

During the War of 1861-65, Auguste's second son Clodomire served in Company K of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Terrebonne Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  He survived the war, returned to his family, and married Evéline, daughter of fellow Acadians Auguste Giroir and Rosalie Comeaux, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in February 1866.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Adam in February 1869; Élizabeth Eve in October 1870; ...  Daughter Elizabeth Eve married into the Leany family.  A son and a daughter settled on lower Bayou Teche.  

Alexandre's third son Mathurin-Luc followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, Chantenay, New Orleans, and Manchac, where, at age 27, he married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Hébert and Marguerite Richard, in June 1800.  Their children, born at Manchac, included Rémi-Valéry, called Volney, in January 1802; Marie Elvire in May 1803; Marie Angélique in November 1804; Valentin Onésime, called Onésime, in August 1806; Virginie, perhaps also called Azélie, in December 1807; and Fergus, perhaps also called Valmon, in January 1811--six children, three sons and three daughters, between 1802 and 1811.  Mathurin died probably at Manchac in November 1824.  The Baton Rouge priest who recorded the burial did not give any parents' names, mention a wife, or give Mathurin's age at the time of his death.  He was would have been 52.  Daughter Azélie married into the Morgan family.  Mathurin's sons also married on the river, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Rémi Valéry married Marcelline Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Dupuis and Marguerite Bourg, at the Baton Rouge church in March 1825.  Daughter Marguerite Dartille was born near Baton Rouge in December 1825 and did not marry by 1870, if she married at all.  Did the family line endure? 

Maturin Luc's second son Valentin Onésime, called Onésime, married, at age 30, Marguerite Séraphine, called Séraphine, daughter of fellow Acadian Grégoire Alexis Lejeune and his Creole wife Marie Tardit of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the Baton Rouge church in April 1837.  Their children, born in West Baton Rouge Parish, included Marie Audile in January 1838; Marie Azélia or Azélie, called Azélie, in January 1840; Ignace Thérèse Léontine, a daughter, in October 1841; Maturin Oscar, called Oscar, in September 1843; and Joseph Joinville, called Joinville, in January 1846--five children, three daughters and two sons, between 1838 and 1846.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in West Baton Rouge Parish counted three slaves--a 34-year-old black female, a 12-year-old black female, and a 10-year-old black male--on O. Doirron's farm next to Mathurin Lejeune; this probably was Onésime.  Onésime died near Brusly, West Baton Rouge Parish, in April 1855.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Onésime was age 38 when he died.  He was 48.  Daughter Azélie married into the Sarradet family by 1870.  Onésime's two sons also married by then, after their war service. 

During the War of 1861-65, older son Oscar served in Company F of the 4th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in West Baton Rouge Parish, which fought in Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia.  He was captured near Franklin, Tennessee, in December 1864 and spent the rest of the war at Camp Douglas, Illinois, as a prisoner of the Federals.  He survived the war and returned to his family.  In the late 1860s, Oscar married fellow Acadian Marie Anna Cécile Bujole and settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Daughter Marie Constance Anaïse was born there in December 1870; ...

During the war, Onésime's younger son Joinville served as a third corporal in Company H of the 4th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in West Baton Rouge Parish, which fought in Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia.  Joinville was captured at Jonesboro, Georgia, in August 1864 during the Atlanta campaign and ended up at Camp Chase, Ohio, as a prisoner of war.  He survived the war, returned to his family, and married Zenobie, daughter of Jules Trichard and Hermance Revault, at the Brusly church in April 1866. ...

Maturin Luc's third and youngest son Fergus, called Valmon by the recording priest, married Mathilde, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Ephrème Babin and Anne Marine Hébert of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the Baton Rouge church in February 1829.  Daughter Marie was born in 1831 and baptized at the Baton Rouge church, age 7 months, in March 1832 but did not marry by 1870, if she married at all.  The couple evidently had no sons. 

Alexandre's fifth son Joseph followed his family to New Orleans and Manchac, where he married Marie-Modeste, called Modeste, daughter of fellow Acadians Antoine Labauve and Anne Vincent, in the late 1790s.  They settled in what became West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Joseph, fils in November 1800; Marie baptized, age 3 months, in April 1801; Joseph-Élie, called Élien and Élian, born in June 1802; Augustin in January 1804; Alexandre le jeune in July 1805; Célestin in January 1808; Céleste, also called Célestine, in July 1812; Marcellin in February 1814; Gédéon in September 1815; and Rosalie in January 1820--10 children, seven sons and three daughters, between 1800 and 1820.  In August 1850, the federal census taker counted three slaves--all females, all black, ages 60, 38, and 35--on Joseph Doirron's farm.  This was either Joseph, père or Joseph, fils.  Joseph, père's daughters Rosalie and Céleste/Célestine married into the Clément and Hébert families.  Five of Joseph, père's sons also married. 

Oldest son Joseph, fils married Julie Émelie, daughter of fellow Acadians François Marie Lejeune and Marguerite Marie Lebert, at the Baton Rouge church in February 1827.  Their son Joseph III was born probably at Manchac in December 1827.  Joseph, fils remarried to Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Bourg and Théotiste Templet of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the Baton Rouge church in May 1843.  Their children, born near Brusly, included Joseph Albert, called Albert, in March 1844; Rosalie Émilisaire or Amilisser in December 1845; Louis Oscard or Oscar in April 1848; Pierre Armand in October 1850; and Alexandre Prudent in November 1852--six children, five sons and a daughter, by two wives, between 1827 and 1852.  Daughter Rosalie Amilisser married into the Babin family by 1870.  None of Joseph, fils's sons married by then.  Two of his sons served Louisiana in uniform, and one of them died in Confederate service. 

During the War of 1861-65, second son Albert, by second wife Rosalie Bourg, served in Company H of the 4th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in West Baton Rouge Parish, which fought in Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia.  He was wounded at Shiloh, Tennessee, in April 1862 and was sent home.  The Federals captured him there in December 1864 and sent him to New Orleans and then to the prisoner-of-war compound at Ship Island, Mississippi, where he spent the last days of the war.   He did not marry by 1870. 

Joseph, fils's third son Louis Oscar, by second wife Rosalie Bourg, served in Company F of the 4th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, also raised in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Louis must have lied about his age when he enlisted at Baton Rouge in September 1862; he was 14.  His service was cut short when he died of disease at Lauderdale Springs, Mississippi, in July 1863, age 15.   

Joseph, père's second son Joseph Élie, called Élien and Élian, married Hélène, also called Clarisse, daughter of fellow Acadian Julien Lejeune and his Anglo wife Elizabeth Gibson of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the Baton Rouge church in October 1833.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Élisabeth Helena, also called Élina, in December 1836; Joséphine Adonis baptized at the Baton Rouge church, age 4 months, in June 1839; Marie Amelia in January 1841; Joseph Lami in April 1844; Carmélite Virginie in May 1845; Eugène near Brusly in April 1847; Eugénia or Eugénie in September 1849; Marie Anastasie in March 1852; and Victorin François in October 1854--nine children, six daughters and three sons, between 1836 and 1854.  Élien died near Baton Rouge in January 1859.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Élien was "from Livingston Parish," gave no parents' names or mentioned a wife, and said he died at "age 55 years."  He was 56.  Daughters Élina, Carmélite, and Eugénie married into the Paul, Gaille, and Lejeune families by 1870.  None of Élien's sons married by then. 

Joseph, père's fourth son Alexandre le jeune married Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadian Grégoire Alexis Lejeune and his Creole wife Marie Tardit, at the Brusly church in January 1848.  Did they have any children? 

Joseph, père's sixth son Marcellin married Caroline, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Hébert and Ermeline Daigre, at the Baton Rouge church in November 1836.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marcellin, fils in October 1837; Gédéon Balthazar, called Balthazar, in June 1839; Théodore near Brusly in July 1846; René Philippe in May 1850; and Helena in August 1855--five children, four sons and a daughter, between 1837 and 1855.  Marcellin's daughter did not marry by 1870, but one of his sons did and settled on the western bank of the river.

Second son Balthazar married Marie Lauzanne, also called Lozama, daughter of fellow Acadian Zéphirin LeBlanc and his Creole wife Gertrude Voisin, at the Plaquemine church, Iberville Parish, in June 1862. ...

Joseph, père's seventh and youngest son Gédéon, while living in West Baton Rouge Parish, married Marie Alzire, called Alzire, daughter of fellow Acadians Placide Babin and Arthémise Templet, at the Baton Rouge church in January 1846.  They settled near Brusly in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie Victoria in December 1846 but, called Victoria, died at age 4 (the recording priest said 3) in December 1850; Joseph Jules, called Jules, born in August 1848; Apauline Julia in June 1850; Modeste Arthémise in March 1852; Philomène Armantine in August 1853; Jean Roman in June 1855; Élisabeth Louisa in January 1857; Marie Olivia in February 1859; Placide Émile in February 1861; Eugénie Rhema in July 1868; ...  None of Gédéon's children married by 1870. 

Alexandre's sixth son Jean Baptiste followed his famliy to New Orleans and Manchac, where he married Angélique, also called Angela and Angelina, another daughter of Jean Baptiste Hébert and Marguerite Richard, in August 1804.  They moved from Manchac to West Baton Rouge Parish by the 1830s.  Their children, born at Manchac, included Jean Baptiste, fils in June 1805 but died at age 2 in October 1807; another Jean Baptiste, fils born in October 1813; Marguerite Virginia in the 1810s; Marguerite Uranie in the 1810s; Alexandre Hermogène, called Hermogène and Armogène, in August 1817; Émiline in May 1821; and Octave in September 1823--seven children, four sons and three daughters, between 1805 and 1823.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in West Baton Rouge Parish counted 10 slaves--four males and six females, all black, ranging in age from 60 to 15--on John Doirron's farm next to Armejean Doirron and near John B. Doirron, so this was probably Jean-Baptiste, père.  He died near Brusly in July 1851.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Jean Baptiste was age 66 when he died.  He was 68--among the last of the Acadian immigrants in Louisiana to join his ancestors.  Daughters Marguerite Virginia and Marguerite Uranie married into the Aillet and Hébert families.  Two of Jean Baptiste's sons also married and settled in West Baton Rouge Parish, but one of the lines may not have endured.

Second son Jean Baptiste, fils, the second with the name, married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Mathurin Lejeune and Amélite Trahan, at the Baton Rouge church in February 1836.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Jean Baptiste III in December 1836; Jules baptized at the Baton Rouge church, age 5 months, in December 1838; Marie Aspasie born in June 1840; Théodore in September 1842; Maria Adonia, called Adonia, in December 1844; Rosalie Augustine in January 1847; Marie Amanda in June 1849; and another Jean Baptiste III in March 1852--eight children, four sons and four daughters, between 1836 and 1852.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in West Baton Rouge Parish counted a single slave--a 34-year-old black male--on John B. Doirron's farm next to Armejean Doirron and near John Doirron, so this probably was Jean Baptiste, fils.  He died near Brusly in April 1855.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Jean Baptiste was age 43 when he died.  He was 41.  Daughter Adonia married into the Daigre and Tullier families by 1870.  Two of Jean Baptiste, fils's sons also married by then, after their war service. 

Second son Jules was a resident of Shelby County, Tennessee, and still unmarried when war broke out in 1861.  One wonders what he was doing there.  Back in Louisiana in September 1862, at Port Hudson on the river above Baton Rouge, he enlisted, at age 24, in Company H of the 4th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in West Baton Rouge Parish--the same unit in which his younger brother Théodore had been serving for a year and a half.  Jules, who remained a private, was present with the company for the next two years.  He was captured at Hollow Tree Gap near Franklin, Tennessee, in December 1864 and spent the rest of the war at Camp Douglas, Illinois, as a prisoner of the Federals.  He returned home to his family and married Laure, daughter of fellow Acadians Onésiphore Bernard and Zélamie Blanchard, at Brusly in February 1870 and died at Brusly in 1896, age 58. ...

In May 1861, Jean Baptiste, fils's third son Théodore, at age 18, enlisted as a private in Company H of the 4th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in West Baton Rouge Parish, which fought in Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia; older brother Julies also served in the company.  Théodore was wounded in action three times, first at Shiloh, Tennessee, in April 1862; then at Jackson, Mississippi, in July 1863 during the Vicksburg campaign.  While recovering from his second wound, he was promoted to fourth sergeant.  He was wounded again in the battle of Jonesboro near Atlanta in September 1864.  His wounds led to a medical discharge at Meridian, Mississippi, in January 1865.  He returned to his family and married Olivia, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Labauve and Marie Daigle, at the Brusly church in September 1870.  She gave him eight children.  He died at Brusly. 

Jean Baptiste, père's third son Alexandre Hermogène, called Hermogène, married, at age 30, Marie Aureline or Auralise, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Béloni Daigre and Marie Trahan, at the Brusly church in October 1847.  Daughter Marie Armina was born near Brusly in December 1849 but, called Ermina, died at age 6 in December 1855.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in West Baton Rouge Parish counted a single slave--an 8-year-old black male--on Armejean Doirron's farm between John Doirron and John B. Doirron, his father and older brother.  Hermogène died near Brusly in September 1852.  The priest who recorded the burial gave no parents' names nor mentioned a wife and said that Arrmogène, as he called him, was age 29 when he died.  He was 35.  His line of the family died with him. 

Alexandre's seventh and youngest son Rémi, the only one of his father's children born in Louisiana, married, at age 21, Marie Julie, called Julie, teenage daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Richard and Perpétué Aucoin, at the Baton Rouge church in November 1810.  Unlike his older brothers, Rémi remained on the east bank of the river.  His and Julie's children, born at Manchac, included Clonisa or Cléonise in August 1811; Marie Héloise or Éloise in January 1816; Fergus le jeune in October 1819; Jean Villeneuve, also called Vijean, in February 1821; twins Eugène and Eugénie in November 1824; Doralise Virginie in December 1826; Félicité Azélie in February 1829; and Julia Zéolide in January 1831--nine children, six daughters and three sons, between 1811 and 1831.  In November 1850, the federal census taker in East Baton Rouge Parish counted seven slaves--two males and 5 females, all black, ranging in age from 56 years to 1 month--on Remé Doiron's farm in the parish's Ward 10.  Wife Marie Julie died near Baton Rouge in February 1853, age 60.  Rémi did not remarry and died near Baton Rouge in December 1856.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Rémi was "age ca. 60 years" when he died.  He was 67.  Daughters Cléonise, Marie Éloise, Doralise Virginie, and Julie Zéolide married into the Rivas, Babin, Comeaux, and Aucoin families.  Two of Rémi's sons also married and settled in East Baton Rouge Parish. 

Second son Jean or Vijean Villeneuve married Émelie Octavine, called Octavine, daughter of François Souchon dit Aubin and his Acadian wife Mélanie Daigre, at the Baton Rouge church in January 1846.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included Henriette Malvina in January 1846; Marie Lotitia in September 1850; Joseph Amédée in January 1854; Adélaïde Angelina in December 1855; Odilia Amanda in April 1858; Eudora Léontine in December 1860; Rosa Elvina in January 1864; Francis George Villeneuve in April 1869; ...  None of Jean Villeneuve's children married by 1870. 

Rémi's third and youngest son Eugène, a twin, married, at age 31, Marie Delphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Comeaux and Carmélite Hébert, at the Baton Rouge church in April 1855.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included Nager Josiah in February 1856; Marie Julie in September 1857; Emma Phorestine in January 1859; Anne Marie Louise in late 1861 but died at age 3 months in January 1862; Talbert Eugène born in September 1863; ...  None of Eugène's children married by 1870. 

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Five more Doirons--a single family--crossed on La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in mid-August 1785.  Although the head of this family was a younger brother of the Doiron who had gone to Manchac, this family followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where they created a second center of family settlement: 

Jacques dit Jacob (c1742-1810) à Jean Doiron

Jacques dit Jacob, fifth and youngest son of Thomas Doiron and Anne Girouard and brother of Alexandre of Le Bon Papa, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1742, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in c1750 and was counted with them at Rivière-du-Moulin-à-Scie in August 1752.  In his early teens, he followed them to France aboard the transport Duc Guillaume, lived with his widowed mother and his remaining siblings at St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo from 1758-59 and at St.-Suliac on the east bank of the river south of the Breton port, where he married Anne-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Breau and Ursule Bourg of Cobeguit, in July 1765.  They lived at St.-Suliac until 1766, at St.-Servan-sur-Mer from 1766-72, and returned to St.-Suliac.  Anne-Josèphe gave Jacques four children at St.-Servan and St.-Suliac:  Jean-Jacques, called Jacques, born at St.-Servan in August 1768; Simon-Joseph, called Joseph, in April 1770; Ursule-Olive in December 1771; and Jacques-François at St.-Suliac in April 1774.  Jacques and his family went to Poitou soon after the birth of their son, who died at Archigny, south of Châtellerault, in March 1775, age 11 months.  That October, months ahead of his older brother, Jacques and his family retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the lower Loire port of Nantes.  Anne-Josèphe gave Jacques four more children in St.-Nicolas Parish there:  Jean-Baptiste born in January 1776 but died at age 20 months in September 1777; Eulalie-Élisabeth born in February 1778 but died at age 5 in August 1783; Benjamin born in April 1780 but died at age 2 1/2 in January 1783; and another Jean-Baptiste born in November 1783 but died a month later.  Jacob, Anne-Josèphe, and their three remaining children, two sons and a daughter, followed his older brother Alexandre and his family to Spanish Louisiana on a later ship.  Anne-Josèphe was pregnant when they left Paimboeuf, the lower port of Nantes, in May 1785, and a daughter was born in June during the crossing.  At her baptism at the New Orleans church in late August, they named her Martine in honor of her godfather, Spanish intendente Martin Navarro, who did so much for the new arrivals.  Sadly, Martine did not survive infancy.  Jacques and Anne-Josèphe chose to settle not on the river below Baton Rouge near his older brother, but on upper Bayou Lafourche, where most of their fellow passengers chose to go.  They had more children there, including Marie-Madeleine baptized at Ascension, age unrecorded, in January 1788; and Auguste or Augustin born in January 1791--11 children, seven sons and four daughters, between 1768 and 1791, in France and Louisiana, most of whom died young.  Jacques dit Jacob died in Assumption Parish in October 1810.  The Plattenville priest who recorded the burial said that Jacques was age 68 when he died.  Daughters Ursule-Olive and Marie-Madeleine married into the Boudreaux and Bergeron families.  Two of Jacques's sons also married.  One of them moved to lower Bayou Teche by the 1840s. 

Oldest son Jean-Jacques, called Jacques dit Janot, followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and upper Bayou Laforuche, where he married Marguerite-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Ambroise Dugas and Marie-Victoire Pitre, in April 1792.  Marguerite-Josèphe, a native of Nantes, also had come to Louisiana in 1785 aboard La Bergère, so they may have known one another for years.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Ursule in July 1793 but died in Assumption Parish in February 1830, unmarried and age 37, "after receiving the sacraments of the church"; Marie-Françoise, called Françoise, baptized, age unrecorded, in June 1796 but died the following December; Geneviève-Amélie born in February 1799; Jean-Louis, called Louis, in July 1802; Marie in May 1804; Germain, also called Fermin, in April 1807; twins Anne Marie and Étienne in April 1810; Angèl died 15 days after his birth in November 1812; Céleste Doralise, called Doralise, born in August 1814; and Marguerite Azélie born in November 1820--11 children, seven daughters and four sons, including a set of twins, between 1793 and 1820.  Daughters Geneviève, Doralise, Marie, and Anne Marie married into the Mars, Gros, Moresco, and Aucoin families.  Jean Jacques's remaining sons also married and settled in the Bayou Lafourche valley, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Jean Louis, called Louis, married Marie, daughter of Antoine Cuvillier and Jositte Gaspard, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1827.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Jean Baptiste in November 1828[sic]; and Louis Carvil or Clairville, called Clairville, in December 1828[sic].  One of Louis's sons married by 1870. 

Second son Clairville married Aurelie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Barrilleaux and Marcelline Foret, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in July 1856.  Did they have any children? 

Jean Jacques's second son Germain, also called Firmin, married Marguerite Basilise, daughter of Laurent Élie Fremin and his Acadian wife Marguerite Céleste Bourg, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in August 1829.  They settled on the upper bayou near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Maurice in September 1830; Azélie Eugénie in April 1833; Joseph Sylvère in March 1836 but, called Silvère, died in Assumption Parish, age 7 1/2, in September 1843; Justin died at age 8 days in October 1839; Germain Edmond born in May 1841; Émile Trasimond in November 1843; and Thomassile Maxille in December 1846--seven children, six sons and a daughter, between 1830 and 1846.  Germain died near Labadieville in August 1856, age "49 years, 4 months."  Daughter Azélie married into the LeBlanc family by 1870.  Two of Germain's sons also married by then, one before his war service, the other after.

Oldest son Maurice married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Narcisse Thibodeaux and his Creole wife Angélique Malbrough, at the Labadieville church in July 1855.  Their children, born near Labadieville, included Adèle Marie in August 1857; Léa Eximia in December 1859; Anatole Audressy in August 1861; Marie Odilia Lesima in December 1865; Joseph Augustin in January 1867; Joseph Camille Aléo in November 1868; Modeste Hostilia in March 1870; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Maurice, with younger brother Émile and other men from Assumption Parish, served as a conscript in Company C of the 1st Regiment Louisiana Heavy Artillery, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  When his unit surrendered at Vicksburg in July 1863, Maurice, along with his brother and most of the conscripts in the regiment, refused parole.  Maurice spent most of the rest of the war at Camp Morton, Indiana, as a prisoner of the Federals.  As the birth of two of his sons reveal, he survived the war and returned to his family--something that could not be said for many of his fellow conscripted cannoneers. 

During the war, Germain's fifth and youngest son Émile, with older brother Maurice, served as a conscript in Company C of the 1st Regiment Louisiana Heavy Artillery, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  When his unit surrendered at Vicksburg in July 1863, Émile, along with his brother and most of the conscripts in the regiment, refused parole.  He spent most of the rest of the war at Camp Morton, Indiana, as a prisoner of the Federals, returned home, and married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Drausin Naquin and his Creole wife Artémise Gros, at the Labadieville church in February 1870. ...

Jean Jacques's third son Étienne, a twin, married Marie Louise, daughter of fellow Acadians François Trahan and Josette Aimée Thibodeaux, at the Thibodauxville church in September 1832.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joseph Jean Baptiste, called Jean Baptiste, in September 1833; Marie Louise in 1834 but died at age 11 months in August 1835; Étienne Amédée born in July 1836 but died at age 3 in October 1839; Avelline born in November 1837 but, called Evéline, died at age 10 1/2 (the recording priest said 11) in April 1848; Marie Victorine born in June 1839 but, called Victorine, died at age 8 1/2 in April 1848; Marcellite Céline or Célina, called Célina, born in January 1842; Louise Azéma in January 1844 but died at age 3 1/2 (the recording priest said 4) in November 1847; Joseph died in Assumption Parish, age 4 months, in November 1847; Philomène Rosa, called Rosa, born in January 1850; and Louis Lusinien near Labadieville in January 1856--10 children, four sons and six daughters, between 1833 and 1856.  Daughters Rosa, Célina, ... married into the LeBlanc, Pensano, and Duval families by 1870.  One of them settled at Brashear, now Morgan, City, St. Mary Parish, on the lower Atchafalaya.  One of Étienne's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Jean Baptiste married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Barrilleaux and Marcelline Foret, at the Labadieville church in May 1859.  Their children, born near Labadieville, included Lucie Helena Adolia in September 1861; Adrien Jean Baptiste in December 1862; Léo Auguste Valère in December 1864; ... 

Jacques's second son Simon-Joseph, called Joseph, followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and upper Bayou Lafourche.  He died in Assumption Parish in December 1824.  The Plattenville priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph was age 56 when he died.  He was 54.  He did not marry.   

Jacques's seventh and youngest son Auguste or Augustin married Anne Marie dite Nanette, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Daigle and Marie Dugas, at the Plattenville church in January 1812.  They moved from the upper Lafourche to lower Bayou Teche by the 1840s.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Jean Baptiste Auguste in December 1812; Marie Théotiste in August in 1814; Azéline or Azélie in December 1816; Marie Adèle in March 1819; Faustine or Fortine Louise, called Fortine, in February 1821; Anne Agathe Félicissine, called Félicissine or Phelisène, in August 1823; Augustin Pierre in March 1826; Felanise Françoise in August 1827; and Anne Marie in January 1831--nine children, two sons and seven daughters, between 1812 and 1831.  Auguste's succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Franklin courthouse, St. Mary Parish, in January 1845.  He would have been in his mid-50s that year.  Daughters Marie Théotiste, Azélie, Marie Adèle, Fortine, and Phelisène married into the Aucoin, Comeaux, Bertrand, and Daigle families, two of them to Aucoins, and at least one of them settled on lower Bayou Teche, by 1870.  One of Auguste's sons also married by then and settled on the Teche. 

Older son Jean Baptiste Auguste married Basilise, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Aucoin and Victoire Arcement, at the Plattenville church in April 1834; Jean Baptiste Auguste's sister Marie Théotiste married one of Basilise's brothers.  Jean Baptiste Auguste and Basilise's children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Désiré Ugère or Ulgère in March 1836; and Augustave in April 1839.  They evidently followed his father to lower Bayou Teche in the 1840s.  Jean Baptiste Auguste died near New Iberia, Iberia Parish, in January 1868.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Jean Baptiste died "at age 53 yrs."  Jean Baptiste Auguste would have been age 55.  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse, St. Martin Parish, later that month.  Neither of his sons married by 1870. 

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Fourteen more Doirons--a widower with his two daughters, one married, one not; three wives married to a LaGarenne, a Moulaison, and a Loiseleur, one of them without her husband; two widows of a Dugas and a Lalande; and a good-sized family, including four siblings--crossed on Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans during the third week of August 1785.  The widower (whose only surviving son joined him later), the wives, and the widows followed their fellow passengers to Manchac on the river, but the head of the good-sized family chose to settle in the Attakapas District, where he created a western branch of the family: 

Jean (1730-1786) à Jean Doiron

Jean, younger son of Louis Doiron and Marguerite Barrieau, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in March 1730, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in the late 1740s or early 1750s.  He married Anne, daughter of Alexandre Thibodeau and Françoise Benoit, on the island in January 1752.  A French official counted the newlyweds living next to his older brother Alexis and widowed mother at Grande-Anse on the south shore of the island in August 1752.  Anne gave Jean four children on the island:  Gervaise born in c1754; Simon in c1755; and twins Modeste and Dorate in c1758.  Later that year, the British deported Jean, Anne, and their children to St.-Malo, France.  Jean and Anne survived the crossing on one of the so-called Five Ships, but all of their children died at sea.  Jean and Anne settled first at St.-Suliac on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo and then at St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, across the harbor from the Breton port, close to his older brother Alexis.  Anne gave Jean four more children at St.-Énogat:  Jean-Baptiste born in April 1760; Anne-Dorothée in June 1761; Pierre in August 1762; and Marguerite-Josèphe in February 1764--eight children, five daughters and three sons, between 1754 and 1764, in greater Acadia and France.  In November 1765, Jean and his family were among the few island Acadians who chose to go to Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany with other exiles, most of them recently repatriated from England.  They settled near his older brother Alexis at Bortereau near Locmaria on the east side of the island.  Jean sold his concession at Bortereau to a local, Luc Bédex, in 1777 and, like his brother earlier in decade, left the island.  Jean and his family moved to Paimbouef, the lower port of Nantes, where wife Anne died in December 1783, age 53.  Younger daughter Anne-Dorothée married at Paimboeuf in March 1784.  Jean, his two daughters, one married, the other single, and a teenage orphan crossed to Louisiana aboard the same ship in 1785.  Jean's older remaining son Jean-Baptiste, now age 25 and still unmarried, also went to the Spanish colony that year but on a later vessel.  If his youngest son Pierre, who would have been age 23 in 1785, was still alive, he chose to stay in the mother country.  From New Orleans, Jean and his daughters followed their fellow passengers to Manchac, and son Jean-Baptiste joined them there.  Jean did not remarry.  He died at Manchac in July 1786, age 56, less than a year after he reached Louisiana.  Daughters Anne-Dorothée and Marguerite-Josèphe married into the Hébert, Daigre, and Trahan families in France and Louisiana.  Jean's son also married and settled at Baton Rouge.

Third son Jean-Baptiste followed his family to Belle-Île-en-Mer and Paimboeuf, where he became a sailor.  His widowered father and two sisters sailed to Spanish Louisiana aboard the third of the Seven Ships from France in 1785, but Jean-Baptiste, still a bachelor, crossed on the last of the Seven Ships, La Caroline, which reached New Orleans in the third week of December 1785--the last Doiron to go to Louisiana.  He joined his family at Manchac, where, at age 27, he married Anne-Laurence, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Guédry and his first wife Adélaïde Hébert, in December 1787.  Anne-Laurence had been born aboard the transport her family had taken from Île St.-Jean to St.-Malo in 1758-59 and came to Louisiana in 1785 aboard the same ship on which Jean-Baptiste's family had crossed.  Her and Jean-Baptiste's children, born at Manchac, included Alex in November 1788; Joseph-Hippolyte in December 1789; Josèphe in June 1791; Théodore in August 1792 but died at age 1 in November 1793; and Marguerite born in August 1793--five children, three sons and two daughters, between 1788 and 1793.  Only one of Jean-Baptiste's sons married.  After the War of 1861-65, some of his descendants joined their cousins on Bayou Teche.  

Second son Joseph Hippolyte married Marie Catherine, called Catherine, daughter of Jean Paye or Pays and Jeanne Morale, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in April 1815.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Marie Clara or Claire in February 1816; Joseph Hippolyte Merol, called Hippolyte, in February 1818; and Pamela in April 1829--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1816 and 1829.  Daughter Marie Clara married into the Achée family.  Joseph Hippolyte's son also married and created a vigorous line on the river.  In the post-war period, most, if not all, of his descendants moved from the river to the Bayou Teche valley. 

Only son Hippolyte married fellow Acadian Marie or Marguerite Domitille, called Domitille, Dupuy in a civil ceremony probably at St. Gabriel in the 1830s.  Their children, born there, included Marie Féliciènne or Féliciana in August 1838; Marguerite Domitille in November 1839; Catherine in December 1840; Adolphe in January 184[3] but died at age 1 1/2 in August 1844; Hippolyte, fils born in April 1844 but died at age 3 12 in July 1847; Hermogène born in April 1846; Augustave in September 1847; Félix Dewint in July 1849; Louis Cass in October 1851; and John, called Johny, in January 1854--10 children, three daughters and seven sons, between 1838 to 1854.  Daughters Marie Féliciana and ... married into the Suarez and Gueho families by 1870, one of them on Bayou Teche.  Three of Hippolyte's sons also married by then, and, after the War of 1861-65, settled on Bayou Teche.  

Third son Hermogène married Marguerite Alzina, called Alzina, daughter of Clairville Lasseigne and Joséphine Allegre and widow of Ernest Cormier, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in July 1867.  They settled on Bayou Teche.  Their son Paul Hippolyte was born in St. Martin Parish in September 1870; ...

Hippolyte's sixth son Louis Cass married Angèle or Angelina Roy, perhaps a fellow Acadian, at the St. Martinville church in January 1873.  They also settled on Bayou Teche.  

Hippolyte's seventh and youngest son John dit Johny married Clothilde Fels, place and date unrecorded.  They settled on lower Bayou Teche. 

Jean-Baptiste (c1743-1809) à Pierre l'aîné à Jean Doiron

Jean-Baptiste, second son of Paul dit Grand Paul Doiron and Marguerite Michel, born probably at Pigiguit in c1744 or 1745, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in c1750.  In August 1752, a French official counted him with his family on Rivière du Nord-Est in the interior of the island.  In late 1758, he was deported with them to Le Havre, Normandy, France, where he became a carpenter.  He married Marie-Blanche, called Blanche, daughter of fellow Acadians René Bernard and Marguerite Hébert of Chignecto, at Le Havre in January 1766.  Blanche gave Jean-Baptiste three daughters in Notre-Dame Parish there:  Émilie born in October 1766; Marie-Honorine-Hypolithe or Marie-Hypolithe-Honoré in July 1768; and Rose-Luce or -Lucie in c1772.  In 1773, Jean-Baptiste took his family to the interior of Poitou as part of the settlement venture there.  Blanche gave him a son, Jean-Baptiste-Cesar, born at Cenan southeast of Châtellerault in May 1775.  The following October, after two years of effort, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes and settled at nearby Chantenay.  By then, oldest daughter Émilie had died.  Blanche gave Jean-Baptiste four more children at Nantes and Chantenay:  Jean-Louis born in St.-Nicolas Parish in March 1777 but died the following December; Amable-Ursule, called Ursule, born at Chantenay in May 1779; Louis-Toussaint, called Toussaint, in November 1781; and Jean-Charles in July 1784.  Their oldest son Jean-Baptiste-Cesar, still a child, died probably at Chantenay before 1785, when Jean-Baptiste, Blanche, and their five remaining children, three daughters and two sons, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana.  From New Orleans, instead of following their fellow passengers to Manchac on the river, they chose to go to the Attakapas District, where Blanche had family.  They settled at La Pointe on upper Bayou Teche and had more children there, including Marie born in August 1786; and Cyprien in August 1789--10 children, four daughters and six sons, between 1766 and 1789, in France and Louisiana.  Jean Baptiste died at his home on Bayou Teche in March 1809.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial said that Jean Baptiste was age 66 when he died.  Daughters Marie-Honorine, Rose-Lucie, Ursule, and Marie married into the Begnaud, Melançon, Landry, Durio, and Bonin families.  Only two of Jean Baptiste's sons married.  They settled on upper Bayou Teche and out on the southwestern prairies.  

Third son Toussaint followed his family to New Orleans and Bayou Teche.  He died probably at La Pointe on the upper Teche in August 1800, age 19, before he could marry.

Jean-Baptiste's fourth son Jean Charles followed his family to New Orleans and Bayou Teche, where he married Louise dite Lise, daughter of fellow Acadians Claude Broussard dit Beauseoleil and his first wife Louise Hébert of lower Vermilion, in May 1806.  They settled at La Pointe on the upper Teche.  Their children, born there, included Edmond in March 1807; Marie Carmélite in April 1809 but, called Carmélite, died at age 1 1/2 in November 1810; Rosémond born in July 1811; Célestine, also called Marie Célestine, in January 1814; and Édouard in January 1816 but died at age 20 in November 1836--five children, three sons and two daughters, between 1807 and 1816.  Jean Charles's succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse, St. Martin Parish, in January 1845.  He would have been age 61 that year.  Daughter Marie Célestine married into the Bergeron family.  Two of Jean Charles's sons also married and settled on the prairies and in the coastal marshes. 

Oldest son Edmond married Marie Arsène, called Arsène, Bennet, Bonner, or Bonnet, place and date unrecorded.  They settled in Calcasieu Parish and had sons named Cyprien le jeune, Michel, and Valéry.  They may also have had sons named Charles, Edward, and Valmond, most of whom married during the post-war years and settled in what became Cameron Parish. 

Jean Charles's second son Rosémond may have married fellow Acadian Louisa Dugas by the 1850s, place unrecorded.  Daughter Élizabeth was born in Lafayette Parish in April 1855; ... They were living near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in the late 1860s.  

Jean-Baptiste's fifth and youngest son Cyprien "married" Annette _____, place and date unrecorded.  Their son Gérard or Girard was born in St. Martin Parish in c1848.  Cyprien also "married" Marie Rose, called Rose, Landry, place and date unrecorded.  They had a son named Victor.  Their daughter married into the Roy family.  In November 1850, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted four slaves--four males and a female, all black, ranging in age from 35 to 12--on Cyprien Doyron's farm.  In June 1860, when Cyprien would have been in his early 70s, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted three slaves--two males and a female, all black, ages 50, 23, and 20--on his farm.  One of his sons married by 1870. 

Older son Gérard or Girard, by first wife Annette, married Angélique, also called Célestine Louise, Pierre at the Breaux Bridge church, St. Martin Parish, in May 1868. ... 

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Two Doiron sisters accompanying their mother, stepfather, and four stepsisters, crossed to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in early November 1785.  They followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where they married into the Baudoin and Hébert families.  One of them moved on to Attakapas in the 1790s. 

Doucet

Germain Doucet, sieur de La Verdure, of Couperans-en-Brie, today's Coubron, east of Paris, France, was born there in the mid-1590s.  A minor nobleman and "captain at arms" in his late 30s, he came to French Acadia with Isaac de Razilly and the sieur d'Aulnay in 1632, four years before French families, including his own, first arrived in the colony.  Germain served as a master at arms at Pentagouët, present-day Castine, Maine, in 1640 and testified in an inquiry against former governor Charles La Tour that year.  Germain was mentioned in the will of Governor d'Aulnay, written in 1649, the year before the governor died.  In 1654, when the English seized Port-Royal, Germain commanded the post and was a guardian of d'Aulnay's children.  Germain is not listed in the first Acadian census of 1671 because he likely returned to France after the English seized the colony.  According to Bona Arsenault, if Germain had been listed in the first census, he would have been age 76 that year.  Germain married twice, but the names of both of his wives have been lost to history.  According to Stephen A. White, Germain married his first wife in c1620 probably in France, a dozen years before he came to Acadia, probably without her.  According to White, Germain and his first wife had four children, two sons and two daughters, all of whom created families of their own.  Their daughters married into the Dugas and Lejeune dit Briard families.  The capitulation papers Germain presented to English officer Robert Sedgwick in 1654 said Germain left his "brother-in-law" and lieutenant, Jacques Bourgeois, as hostage with the English to insure that the commandant fulfilled the terms of surrender, so Germain's second wife, who, according to White, he married in c1654, may have been a younger sister of Jacques Bourgeois's wife Jeanne, daughter of Guillaume Trahan and his first wife Françoise Corbeneau, but her name also has been lost to history.  According to White, no children by Germain's second wife can be traced.  Sieur Germain's older son Pierre, by his first wife, born in France in c1621, came to Acadia probably in the late 1630s with his mother and sisters and settled at Port-Royal, where he worked as a mason.  According to White, he did not marry until c1660, when he was nearly 40.  His wife Henriette, daughter of Simon Pelletret and Perrine Bourg, was 20 years his junior and gave him 10 children.  Pierre died at Annapolis Royal, formerly Port-Royal, in June 1713, age 92.  His four daughters married into the Hébert, Bernard, Doiron, Chênet Dubreuil, and Comeau families.  Five of his six sons, all born at Port-Royal, married into the Caissie dit Roger, Blanchard, Bourgeois, Broussard, and Lord families.  Sieur Germain's younger son, Germain, fils, born in c1641, was, according to White, from Sieur Germain's first wife.  However, according to recent yDNA evidence garnered from nearly a dozen Doucet descendants, Germain, fils may not have been a son of Sieur Germain at all but rather a Mi'kmaq who the captain at arms adopted, perhaps when he married the boy's mother in c1654.  Germain, fils married Marie, daughter of René Landry l'aîné and Perrine Bourg, at Port-Royal in c1664.  They had nine children, seven sons and two daughters.  Germain, fils died at Port-Royal in the late 1690s, in his late 50s.  One of his daughters married into the Loppinot family.  Five of his sons, all born at Port-Royal, married into the Guérin, Corporon, Babin, Pellerin, and Comeau families.  By 1755, descendants of Germain Doucet de La Verdure and his two wives could be found at Annapolis Royal, Minas, Cap-Sable, Chignecto, Chepoudy in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto, on Île Royale and Île St.-Jean, and in Canada.  Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this large family even farther. 

The Acadians at Chignecto were the first to endure a disruption of their lives.  During the spring and summer of 1750, in response to the British building a fort at Beaubassin village, Canadian militia, assisted by Mi'kmaq warriors led by Abbé Jean-Louis Le Loutre, burned Acadian homesteads in the British-controlled area east of Rivière Missaguash, forcing the habitants there to move to the French-controlled area west of the river.  Doucets may have been among the refugees in this petit dérangement.  After yet another war erupted between Britain and France in 1754, the Chignecto-area Acadians were caught in the middle of it.  When British and New-English forces attacked Fort Beauséjour in June 1755, Doucets may have been among the area Acadians serving in the fort as militia.  They, too, along with the French troupes de la marine, became prisoners of war when the fort surrendered on June 16.  Lieutenant-Governor Charles Lawrence was so incensed to find so-called French Neutrals fighting with French regulars at Beauséjour he ordered his officers to deport the Chignecto Acadians to the southernmost seaboard colonies, Doucets among them. 

At least one Doucet family from Grand-Pré was transported to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  A Doucet family shipped to Virginia endured a fate worse than most of the other refugees deported from the Minas basin.  In mid-November, when five transports appeared unexpectedly at Hampton Roads, Virginia's governor Robert Dinwiddie protested their deportation to his colony without his consent.  Exiles languished in the lower James River aboard disease-infested ships while the colony's political leaders pondereed their fate.  With winter approaching, the governor ordered the refugees to be dispersed to Hampton, Norfolk, and Richmond.  The following spring, the Virginia authorities sent them on to England, where they were packed into warehouses in several ports.  The Doucets who survived the Virginia debacle ended up at Southampton, where their ordeal only worsened.  By 1763, more than half of the exiles in England were dead.  That April, a young Doucet married a fellow Acadian at Southampton on the eve of repatriation. 

At Annapolis Royal, where most of the Doucets still lived in 1755, several hundred haute-rivière Acadians, including Doucets, escaped deportation by hiding in the hills above the Fundy shore, where they spent a hard winter.  The following spring, they crossed the bay to Chepoudy and sought refuge on the mainland.  Nevertheless, in mid-October and early December 1755, the British were able to send off half a dozen transports filled with Annapolis Acadians to Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, and North Carolina.  The ship bound for North Carolina, the Pembroke, fell into the hands of its Acadian "passengers," who took it to the mouth of Rivière St.-Jean, escaped upriver, and joined fellow exiles from Annapolis Royal in the lower St.-Jean settlements.  Meanwhile, the five New England- and New York-bound ships that made it out of the Bay of Fundy sailed on to their destinations.  Many Annapolis Doucets were on these vessels.  

Doucets who escaped the roundups at Chignecto and Annapolis Royal found refuge on the upper Petitcoudiac and at Cocagne, Shediac, Miramichi, and other points on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  In 1756, hundreds of exiles from Chignecto and the trois-rivières gathered on Rivière Miramichi, which had boasted only a hand full of Acadians before Le Grand Dérangement, while others moved on to Canada.  During the second winter of exile, 1756-57, food, clothing, and shelter were in short supply, and many of the refugees perished at ironically-named Camp Espérance--Camp Hope, on Boishébert's, today's Beaubears, Island in the middle of the Miramichi estuary.  When spring finally came, some families moved farther up the shore or followed their kinmen to the St. Lawrence valley, where the Canadiennes treated them with contempt.  Most of the Gulf-shore exiles, including a Doucet family, remained at Miramichi and tried desperately to create a permanent settlement there despite thin soil, harsh winters, and a short growing season.  In late 1758, after the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July, the British sent search-and-destroy missions to the Gulf shore to protect their lines of communication there.  Unable to tend their fields or maintain their pitiful shelters, the Acadians at Miramichi faced another starvation winter before retreating north to the French stronghold at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs. 

Living in territory controlled by France, the Doucets on the French Maritime islands escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia in 1755, but their respite from British oppression was short-lived.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats rounded up most of islands' habitants, including Doucets, and deported them to France.  Not all of them survived the crossing to St.-Malo, Le Havre, La Rochelle, and Rochefort.  Doucets who made it to St.-Malo settled in the suburbs of St.-Énogat, across the harbor from St.-Malo, and at St.-Servan-sur-Mer just below St.-Malo.  Meanwhile, after the fall of Louisbourg, British forces, for a second time since 1756, struck the Acadian enclave in the Cap-Sable area and captured more Acadians there, including a family of Doucets.  The British held them in the prison compound on Georges Island, Halifax, before deporting them to Le Havre late in the year.  There, in January 1759, the Cap-Sable Doucets joined their cousins who had just arrived from the Maritime islands.  In the spring of 1763, after prolonged negotiations between the French and British governments, the Acadians in England were repatriated to France.  In May, the Doucets at Southampton sailed to St.-Malo aboard the transport Ambition and settled at St.-Servan-sur-Mer near their cousins from Île St.-Jean.  In November 1765, the repartriated Doucets followed other exiles from England to Belle-Île-en-Mer, recently liberated from the British, off the southern coast of Brittany.  In 1773, several Doucet families became part of an even larger settlement venture, this one in the interior of Poitou.  An island Doucet, in fact, Augustin dit Justice of St.-Servan-sur-Mer, was one of the Acadian leaders in the St.-Malo area invited by the Marquis de Pérusse des Cars to inspect his lands near Châtellerault and then to coax his fellow Acadians to go there.  Augustin reported favorably on what he saw.  He, in fact, depite his dit, may have been paid to exaggerate the quality of the soil on the marquis's estate.  Hundreds of fellow Acadians followed him to Poitou, but the venture failed.  After two years of effort, several Doucet families retreated with most of the Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes.  Other Doucets who had gone to Poitou, including Augustin dit Justice, were among the 300 Acadians who remained in the province.  By September 1784, Justice's widow and other Doucets who had remained in Poitou joined their fellow Acadians at Nantes.  Meanwhile, Doucets ended up in France by a different route.  After the war with Britain ended in 1763, some of the Doucets being held in Nova Scotia chose to resettle on Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery islands off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  In 1778, during the American Revolution, soon after France joined the Americans in their struggle against their old red-coated enemies, the British captured the Newfoundland islands and deported the fisher/habitants there to La Rochelle and other French ports, Doucets among them.  When, in the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, 13 of the Doucets still in the mother country agreed to take it.  Other Doucets, perhaps the majority, chose to remain in the mother country.  

In North America, things only got worse for the Acadians who had escaped the British in the late 1750s and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  After the fall of Québec in September 1759, the British gathered their forces to subdue the remaining French strongholds in New France, including Restigouche, now a major Acadian refuge.  In late June 1760, a naval force from Louisbourg attacked Restigouche.  After a spirited fight in which Acadian militia and Mi'kmaq warriors played an important role, the French commander blew up his larger vessels and retreated up Rivière Restigouche, leaving the militia and the Indians to oppose a British landing.  Unable to capture the garrison or lay waste to the area, the British commander ordered his ships to return to their base at Louisbourg.  In October, after the fall of Montréal, another British naval force, this one from Québec, appeared at Restigouche to accept the garrison's, and the Acadians', surrender.  On 24 October 1760, on the eve of formal surrender, French officers counted 1,003 Acadians still at Restigouche.  Among them were two Doucet families.  The British held them and other exiles captured or surrendered in the region in prison compounds in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  In 1761 and 1762, British officials at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, counted a Doucet there.  In August 1763, a Doucet family that had surrendered at Restigouche appeared on a French repatriation list circulating in the prison compound at Halifax. 

At war's end, Acadians being held in the seaboard colonies, theoretically, were free to go, but not until the British discerned their intentions.  Even then, colonial officials discouraged repatriation.  Doucets were still living in Massachusetts in August 1763.  That same year, several Doucet families also appeared on a French repatriation list in Connecticut.  Doucets were still in New York that year.  In June 1763, a Doucet widower with four children were listed in Pennsylvania.  In August 1763, the largest concentration of Doucets in the seaboard colonies could be found in South Carolina, where they also appeared on repatriation lists.  In June 1766, officials in Massachuetts counted Doucets still lingering in that colony who wished to be repatriated to Canada. 

Most of Doucets in the northern seaboard colonies chose to resettle in Canada, where some of their kinsmen in greater Acadia had gone as early as 1756.  Though now also a British possession, the far-northern province was populated largely by fellow French Catholics, many of them Acadian exiles.  So, in a colony nearly as old as Acadia, descendants of Sr. Germain Doucet began the slow, inexorable process of becoming Canadiennes.  Especially after 1766, Doucets could be found on the upper St. Lawrence at Trois-Rivières, Bécancour, Pointe-du-Lac, La-Prairie-de-la-Magdeleine, St.-Pierre-du-Sorel, Île Dupas, Batiscan, Pointe-aux-Écureuils, St.-Pierre-les-Becquets, St.-Grégoire-de-Nicolet, Nicolet, Maskinongé, Rivière-du-Loup now Louiseville, Deschambault, L'Assomption, Cap-Santé, and Yamachiche; at St.-Ours on the lower Richelieu; at Québec City; on the lower St. Lawrence at Charlesbourg, Beauport, Rivière Ouelle, Ste.-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, St.-Francois-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, St.-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, and Kamouraska; at Bonaventure in Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs; and on the îles-de-la-Madeleine in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.  In what became eastern New Brunswick, they settled at Nipisiguit, now Bathurst, and on Île Miscou on the far northeastern shore.  In Nova Scotia, they could be found on Baie Ste.-Marie, today's St. Mary's Bay, not far from their old homes at Annapolis Royal; at Yarmouth south of Baie Ste.-Marie not far from their old habitants in the Cap-Sable area; and at Windsor in the Minas Basin, once the Acadian settlement of Pigiguit.  They also settled on French-controlled Île Miquelon before moving on to Rustico on the north shore of Prince Edward Island, formerly Île St.-Jean, near the old Doucet homesteads at Malpèque.  Typical of most, if not all, Acadian families, these Acadiennes of Canada lost touch with their Cadien cousins hundreds of miles away, and, until the Acadian reunions of the twentieth century, may even have forgotten that the others existed.  

While the end-of-war treaty was being negotiated, Acadians still in the seaboard colonies were encouraged by French officials to go to St.-Dominique, where they could not only live among fellow Catholics but also escaped British rule.  Although driven from North America by the Seven Years' War, the French were determined to hang on to what was left of their shrinking empire.  A new naval base at Môle St.-Nicolas on the northwest end of the big island would protect the approaches to what was left of their possessions in the Caribbean basin and help in the "war of vengeance" to come.  French officials saw the exiles as a ready source of labor not only for the naval contractors, but also for the colony's major planters, who hoped to supplement the work of their slaves.  To sweeten the deal, the French promised the exiles land of their own in the sugar colony.  And so Doucets from South Carolina emigrated to French St.-Domingue in 1763 and 1764.  Their experience there must have been tolerable, at first.  When Doucets from Halifax came through Cap-Français in 1765 on their way to New Orleans, only one member of the family in the sugar colony may have joined them.  Nevertheless, beginning in the summer of 1765, after several years of what they saw as fruitless effort, Acadians sought permission to leave the naval base, but French officials refused to let them go.  Some Acadians, including Doucets, left the project anyway and settled at nearby Jean-Rabel, but most of the Doucets remained at Môle St.-Nicolas.  Doucets also settled on the French-controlled islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique after the war. 

Doucets being held in Nova Scotia at war's end faced a hard dilemma.  The Treaty of Paris of February 1763 stipulated in its Article IV that persons dispersed by the war had 18 months to return to their respective territories.  However, British authorities refused to allow any of the Acadian prisoners in the region to return to their former lands as proprietors.  If Acadians chose to remain in, or return to, Nova Scotia, they could live only in small family groups in previously unsettled areas or work for low wages on former Acadian lands now owned by New-English "planters."  If they stayed, they must also take the hated oath of allegiance to the new British king, George III, without reservation.  They would also have to take the oath if they joined their many cousins in Canada.  After all they had suffered on the question of the oath, few self-respecting Acadians would consent to take it if it could be avoided.  Some Nova Scotia exiles, including Doucets, chose to relocate to Île Miquelon.  Others considered going to French St.-Domingue, where Acadian exiles in the British colonies, including Doucets from South Carolina, were going, or to the Illinois country, the west bank of which still belonged to France, or to French Louisiana, which, thanks to British control of Canada, was the only route possible to the Illinois country for Acadian exiles.  Whatever their choice, many refused to remain under British rule.  So they gathered up their money and their few possessions and prepared to leave their homeland.  Of the 600 exiles who left Halifax in late 1764 and early 1765 bound for Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, nine were Doucets. 

Compared to the number of Doucets who resettled in Canada and greater Acadia after Le Grand Dérangement, relatively few descendants of Sieur Germain Doucet emigrated to Louisiana, but those who did were among the earliest Acadians to seek refuge in the Spanish colony.  The first of them came to Louisiana from Halifax with the Broussards in early 1765 and followed them to lower Bayou Teche.  Later that year, more Doucets, one of them a young bachelor, arrived from Halifax and settled at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  Soon afterwards, an Acadian Doucet probably from French St.-Domingue settled at San Gabriel on the river, but his only surviving son moved to the western prairies during the 1810s.  A dozen or so Doucets came to Louisiana from France in 1785.  Most of them settled on upper Bayou Lafourche, creating a third center of family settlement in the colony.  By the antebellum period, Acadian Doucets had disappeared from the river parishes, but they could still be found on Bayou Lafourche as far down as Lockport, and they were especially numerous in the prairie parishes west of the Atchafalaya Basin.  

Doucets from Alabama--Allibamonts, their fellow colonists called them--left Mobile after the British took over eastern Louisiana in early 1764.  They settled on the river above New Orleans before moving to the Opelousas District west of the basin about the time the first Acadians arrived there.  By the 1780s, Acadian as well as Allibamont Doucets were living on the Opelousas prairies, somewhat complicating the family's genealogical picture there.  Many of the Acadian Doucets at Opelousas took Creole brides, but their Creole namesakes tended to marry their own kind, especially fellow Allibamonts.  During the antebellum period, the Creole Doucets lived mainly in St. Landry Parish and in the Ville Platte area of today's Evangeline Parish.  The Acadian Doucets on the prairies, more numerous and more scattered, could be found around Church Point in present-day Acadia Parish, near Grand Coteau and Carencro in St. Landry and Lafayette parishes, in the Bois Mallet area of St. Landry Parish, along upper Bayou Teche in St. Martin Parish, and farther down the Teche in St. Mary Parish. 

Judging from the slave schedules compiled by federal census takers during the late antebellum period, the great majority of the Doucets of South Louisiana participated only peripherally in the South's plantation-based economy.  Two of them, however, one a Creole, the other an Acadian, owned enough slaves by 1860 to qualify as planters.  Creole François Doucet of St. Landry Parish owned 11 slaves in 1850 and 20 in 1860.  In 1850, his older brother Hubert, who lived next to François, owned 15 slaves.  Acadian Pierre Zéphirin Doucet of Lafayette Parish held the most bondsmen.  In 1850, Pierre Z., as he was called, held 19 slaves on his farm in the parish's western district.  A decade later, he held 36 slaves on his Lafayette Parish plantation.  In contrast, only a few of his cousins in the prairies parishes owned more than one or two slaves, and no Doucet who lived on Bayou Lafourche appeared on either of the federal slave schedules.  As a result of the families' participation in the South's peculiar institution, Afro-Creole Doucets could be found on the western prairies during the late antebellum and immediate post-war periods. 

Dozens of Doucets, both Acadian and Creole, served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65, and at least two of them died in Confederate service, one an Acadian, the other a Creole.  Ursin, son of Acadian Anselme Doucet, was age 30 and married when he joined a local militia unit, the Prairie Rangers Company, also called Todd's Prairie Rangers, raised in St. Landry Parish early in the war.  With him were two of his brothers, Paulin and Narcisse.  Ursin died probably of disease at Opelousas in December 1862, four months after his unit was transferred to Confederate service.  François, fils, a Creole, also from St. Landry Parish, was among the dozens of men from South Louisiana who were conscripted into the 1st Regiment Louisiana Heavy Artillery and ended up in the trenches at Vicksburg.  Although his Confederate service record says he survived the siege as well as the war, an Opelousas church record shows that he died during the siege in June 1863, age 18

During the war, successive Federal offensives devastated the regions where Doucets lived.  The Lafourche valley suffered early in the war and remained under the hard hand of Federal occupation for most of the conflict.  Federal armies marched three times through the Teche and upper Vermilion valleys in 1863 and 1864, burning and pillaging many farms and plantations, some of them no doubt owned by Doucets.  Thanks to these Federal incursions, emancipation came early to the area, with its resulting economic and social turmoil.  Confederate foraging parties and cutthroat Jayhawkers also plagued the area where Doucets lived, adding to the family's misery. ...

 In Louisiana, the family's name also is spelled Doucé, Douchet, Dousait, Doussé, Dousset, Duchet, Dusé, Dusset.14

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The first Acadian Doucets--six in a family; and a young female orphan and her mother, a Brun; seven Doucets in all--arrived at New Orleans from Halifax via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, in February 1765.  From the city, they followed the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche.  A robust family line came of it on the western prairies:

Michel-Laurent (1722-1805) à Laurent à Germain, fils à Germain Doucet

Michel-Laurent, called Michel, older son of Laurent Doucet, fils and Marie-Anne Pellerin, born at Annapolis Royal in November 1722, married Marguerite, daughter of Charles Martin and Jeanne Comeau, there in January 1749.  Marguerite gave Michel at least two sons at Annapolis Royal:  Joseph dit Hilaire born in c1752; and Michel, fils in c1753.  They escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and fled to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, where Marguerite gave Michel at least one other son, Pierre, born probably at Miramichi in c1756.  From Miramichi, they made their way up to the French stronghold at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  By then, they may have had more than three sons in their household, or they may have taken in a number of orphans.  In late October 1760, Michel and his family of nine appear on a list of 1,003 Acadians still at Restigouche.  During the early 1760s, the British held them in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Another son, Jean, was born in c1762, probably in one of the compounds.  In August 1763, a Michelle Dousain, his unnamed wife, and eight unnamed children appeared on a French repatriation list at Halifax.  This probably was them.  A daughter, Marie-Marthe, was born in c1764--at least five children, four sons and a daughter, between 1752 and 1764, who survived the ordeals of exile.  Michel, Marguerite, and their five children emigrated to Louisiana in 1764-65, the first of the family to go there.  They reached New Orleans via Cap-Français with the Broussards in late February 1765.  Michel was among the exiles who attempted to exchange their Canadian card money for French funds at New Orleans.  In April, he and his family followed the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche.  Daughter Marie-Marthe, age 1, died in the epidemic that struck the Teche valley Acadians that summer and fall.  The family, despite their loss, remained on the Teche.  By the 1790s, however, they had moved north to the Opelousas prairies.  Michel Laurent died in the Opelousas District in October 1805.  The Opelousas priest who recorded the burial said that Michel was age 105 when he died.  He was a month shy of 83.  All four of his sons married and settled on the prairies, but not all of the lines endured.  Most of the Acadian Doucets of South Louisiana are descendants of Michel and three of his sons, especially the oldest one. 

Oldest son Joseph dit Hilaire followed his parents into exile, into imprisonment at Halifax, to New Orleans, and Bayou Teche.  He married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Landry and Madeleine Broussard, at Attakapas in July 1772.  Judging by the birth patterns of their children, they evidently lived near the boundary between the Attakapas and Opelousas districts before following his family north into the Opelousas District.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Marie, perhaps also called Anne, in October 1773; Joseph, fils baptized at Attakapas, age unrecorded, in May 1776; Anselme born in October 1777; Hilaire, fils baptized at Opelousas, age 2 1/2 months, in April 1780; Valéry born in February 1783 but died at age 23 in June 1806; and Jean, also called Jean-Louis, born in c1786--six children, a daughter and five sons, between 1773 and 1786.  Joseph dit Hilaire died at Opelousas in December 1803, in his early 50s.  Daughter Anne married into the Leger family.  Four of Hilaire's sons also married and settled on the Opelousas prairies, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Joseph, fils followed his family to Opelousas, where he married Céleste, daughter of Antoine Bellard and his Acadian wife Marie Trahan, in May 1805.  Their children, born at Opelousas, included Éloise in February 1806; a child, name unrecorded, died at age 5 months in August 1807; Joseph III born in September 1809; Maximilien in February 1813; Joachine or Joachim in May 1814; Jean in March 1815; Julien, also called Joseph Julien, in c1817 and baptized at the Grand Coteau church, age "about 4 years," in October 1821; and Alexandre born probably in the 1820s--eight children, at least one daughter and six sons, between 1806 and the 1820s.  Joseph, fils died near Grand Coteau in November 1840.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph was age 70 when he died.  He probably was in his 60s.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in St. Landry Parish counted three slaves--a 24-year-old black female, a 22-year-old mulatto male, and a 5-year-old black female--on Céleste Doucet's farm; this likely was Joseph, fils's widow, Céleste Bellard.  Daughter Éloise married into the Comeaux family, and perhaps into the Lejeune family as well.  All six of Joseph, fils's sons seem to have married. 

Oldest son Joseph III married Marie Carmélite, called Carmélite, "natural" daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Richard and Spanish Creole Clothilde Quintero, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in August 1828.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Célestine in July 1829; Joséphine in January 1831; Julie in November 1834; Joseph IV in March 1836; Martin in August 1838; Zéphirin in the late 1830s or early 1840s; Émile in April 1843; Charles in July 1845; Alfred near Grand Coteau in November 1847; Hippolyte in October 1849; Marie Clotilde baptized at the Church Point church, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, age unrecorded, in June 1852; Léon O'Neil born in September 1854; and Narcisse in December 1857--13 children, four daughters and nine sons, between 1829 and 1857.  Daughters Julie, Célestine, Joséphine, and Marie married into the Comeaux, Figurant, Cormier, Sonnier, Frugé, and Matte families, two of them twice, by 1870.  Four of Joseph III's sons also married by then. 

Second son Martin married Irma, daughter of Simon Matte and his Acadian wife Célestine Chiasson, at the Church Point church in May 1858.  Their children, born near Church Point, included Mathila in November 1859;  Caroline in July 1861; Marie Zulma in February 1863; Martin, fils in April 1870; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Martin served probably as a conscript in Company B of the 1st Regiment Louisiana Heavy Artillery, which included many Acadian draftees and which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  Martin was captured at Vicksburg in July 1863 with the rest of his unit, but, unlike most of his fellow conscripts, who refused parole and went to Federal prisoner-of-war camps, Martin accepted a parole of honor, was exchanged, returned to his regiment, surrendered with his unit at Meridian, Mississippi, in May 1865, and returned to his family.  He was a farmer after the war and was living near Crowley, Acadia Parish, in 1891.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Joseph III's third son Zéphirin married Alida or Hida, daughter of French Canadian Joseph Lavergne, fils and his Acadian wife Émeline Jeansonne, at the Grand Coteau church in May 1867.  Their son Philogène was born near Church Point in May 1870; ...  

Joseph III"s fourth son Émile married Pauline, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Lejeune and his Creole wife Phelonise Hall, at the Church Point church in December 1863.  Their son Joseph le jeune was born near Church Point in November 1864.  Émile remarried to cousin Julie or Julia, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Thibodeaux and Zélima Richard, at the Church Point church in December 1866. ...

During the war, Joseph III's fifth son Charles served in Company D of the 7th Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, raised in Lafayette and St. Landry parishes, which fought in Louisiana, especially against prairie Jayhawkers.  Charles married Caroline Lebleu, widow of Charles Bellard, at the Church Point church in November 1866.  Their son Grégoire was born near Church Point in November 1870; ... 

Joseph, fils's second son Maximilien married Marie Anne, daughter of Hippolyte Marcantel and Marguerite Olivier, at the Opelousas church in July 1834.  A civil marriage filed at the Opelousas courthouse in late June 1834 called the couple Maxilien Doucet and Maryann Maurice.  Was this the same couple?  Did they have any children?  Maximilien died in St. Landry Parish in October 1841, age 28.  His family line probably died with him.  

Joseph, fils's third son Joachim may have married Carmélite Braysand, place and date unrecorded.  Did they have any children? 

Joseph, fils's fourth son Jean may have married Adeline Dufrene, place and date unrecorded.  Daughter Élodie was born near Church Point in January 1851.  Did they have anymore children? 

Joseph, fils's fifth son Julien, also called Joseph Julien, married Joséphine, daughter of Joseph Fontenot and Céleste Jacques Fontenot, at the Grand Coteau church in April 1839.  Their children, born on the St. Landry prairies, included Joseph, also called Joseph Julien, fils, in March 1840; Julien, fils near Grand Coteau in December 1843; Joséphine in March 1845; Célestine in December 1847; Jules in December 1849; Onésime near Church Point in February 1853; Julie in June 1858; Célestin in March 1863; Félicien near Grand Coteau in July 1865; Pierre Arvillien near Church Point in March 1867; ...  Daughter Célestine married into the Lejeune family by 1870.  Two of Joseph Julien's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Joseph Julien, fils married Mélaïde, daughter of Louis Valéry LeBlanc, a Creole or French Canadian, not a fellow Acadian, and Marie Caroline Racca, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in July 1861.  Their children, born near Church Point, included Edmond in July 1862; Joseph Lastie in March 1864; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Joseph Julien, fils also served in Company D of the 7th Louisiana Regiment Cavalry, raised in Lafayette and St. Landry parishes, which fought in Louisiana, especially against local Jayhawkers.  Joseph Julien, fils survived the war, returned to his family, and remarried in the late 1870s. 

Joseph Julien, père's second son Jules may have married Anastasie Villeneuve in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in March 1870. ...

Joseph, fils's sixth son Alexandre married fellow Acadian Céleste Comeaux in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in June 1850.  Their children, born near Church Point, included Joseph in March 1851; Jean Dupré in March 1853; Joséphine in December 1854; Jules le jeune in July 1859; Gerasin in July 1861; Mirza in November 1863; ...  None of Alexandre's children married by 1870. 

Joseph dit Hilaire's second son Anselme followed his family to Opelousas and married Marie-Angèle, called Angèle, daughter of fellow Acadians Blaise Lejeune and Marie-Josèphe Breaux, there in November 1802.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Anselme, fils, also called Anse, baptized at Opelousas, age 6 weeks, in January 1807; Achille born in December 1809; Mellon or Mélon, also called Menton or Mouton, in December 1811; Orien in February 1814 but died at age 16 months in June 1815; Célestine born in May 1816; Hilaire le jeune in September 1819; Marie Yrène or Irène, called Irène, in December 1821; Joséphine in April 1825; and Marie Josette in January 1828--nine children, five sons and four daughters, between 1807 and 1828.  Daughters Irène and Joséphine married into the Young (formerly Lejeune) and Venable families.  Four of Anselme's sons also married, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Anselme, fils, married Pauline, 15-year-old daughter of Joseph Bergeau and Marie Miller, at the Opelousas church in February 1828.  They settled at Pointe-aux-Loups, now Iota, Acadia Parish.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Anselm III in c1828; Paulin in December 1830; and Ursin in December 1831.  An estate, not post-mortem, calling his widow Polene Berjott and listing their children--Anselm, age 10; Polen, age 8; and Ursin, age 6--was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in September 1838, two years after his remarriage to Adélaïde, daughter of Joseph Venable and his Acadian wife Anastasie Savoie and widow of André Meche, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in November 1836; the marriage was not sanctified at the Grand Coteau church until May 1847.  They may have settled near Carencro at the northern edge of Lafayette Parish.  Their children, born there, included Célestine in September 1837; Simon in July 1839; Narcisse in January 1841; Onézime or Onésime in November 1842; Joseph in November 1844; Joséphine in May 1847; and Mellon or Mélon le jeune in February 1851--10 children, eight sons and two daughters, by two wives, between 1828 and 1851.  Anselme, fils died by May 1853, when a succession, probably post-mortem, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse.  He would have been age 46 that year.  Daughters ..., by his second wife, married into the Gay family, and perhaps into the Caruthers and Leger families as well, by 1870.  Four of Anselme, fils's sons also married by then. 

Second son Paulin, by first wife Pauline Bergeau, married Célima or Sélina, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Trahan and his Creole wife Célina Fontenot, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in October 1860.  Daughter Pauline was born in St. Landry Parish in May 1864; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Paulin served in the Prairie Rangers Company Cavalry or Todd's Prairie Rangers when it was part of the state militia.  The company transferred to Confederate service in August 1862, but Paulin was discharged on a surgeon's certificate in October 1862 and went home before the company became part of the 3rd (Harrison's) Regiment Louisiana Cavalry.  Paulin's succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in July 1867.  He would have been age 37 that year.  Was the succession post-mortem?  Did his family line endure? 

Anselme, fils's third son Ursin, by first wife Pauline Bergeau, married cousin Eudalie Miller in the mid- or late 1850s, place unrecorded, and settled near Grand Coteau.  Their children, born there, included Anselme in November 1857; Pauline in March 1860; and Marie Anaïs in October 1861--three children, a son and two daughters, between 1857 and 1861.  During the war, Ursin served with two of his brothers in the Prairie Rangers Company Cavalry or Todd's Prairie Rangers when it was part of the state militia.  The company transferred to Confederate service in August 1862.  Ursin died at Opelousas in December 1862, age 31, no cause of death given, before the company became part of the 3rd (Harrison's) Regiment Louisiana Cavalry.  Ursin's succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in April 1863.  Was his death war-related?  None of his children married by 1870. 

Anselme, fils's fourth son Simon, by second wife Adélaïde Venable, married Marguerite or Marie Cora, called Cora, daughter of fellow Acadians Dositée Leger and Marcellite Semer, at the Grand Coteau church in December 1859.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Marie Marcellite in September 1860; Simon, fils in September 1862 but died at age 4 in August 1866; Trasimond born in July 1864; Joseph Adam in January 1870. ...  During the war, Simon served in Company A of the 29th (Thomas's) Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Landry Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  As the birth of one of his sons reveals, he survived the war and returned to his family.. 

Anselme, fils's fifth son Narcisse, by second wife Adélaïde Venable, married Angelina Gatte in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in December 1859.  Daughter Angelina was born near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in October 1861; ...  During the war, Narcisse served with his two older half-brothers in the Prairie Rangers Company Cavalry or Todd's Prairie Rangers when it was part of the state militia.  The company transferred to Confederate service in August 1862.  Narcisse may have served in the unit when it was Company K of the 3rd (Harrison's) Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, which fought in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi.  Like his half-brother Paulin, he survived the war and returned to his family. 

Anselme, père's second son Achille married Mélanie, daughter of Joseph Matte and Esther Bellard, at the Opelousas church in August 1828.  Did they have any children?

Anselme, père's third son Mélon married, at age 19, Hélène, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians François Richard and Hélène Brasseaux, at the Opelousas church in June 1831.  They settled at what became Iota.  Their children, born on the St. Landry prairies, included Helen or Hélène in August 1832; Mélon, fils in March 1835; Théodule in February 1836; Julie in July 1838; Virginie in December 1841; Joseph Portalis, called Portalis, in December 1847; André Duprélon, called Duprélon, in November 1848; and Cora Josette in January 1856--eight children, four daughters and four sons, between 1832 and 1856.  Mélon, père died probably at Iota in April 1859.  The Church Point priest who recorded the burial said that Mélon was age 49 when he died.  He was 47.  His succession, calling him Mélon "of Pointe aux Loups," later Iota, and naming his wife, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in January 1862.  Daughters ... married into the Doucet, Lavergne, Miller, Richard, and Veroni families by 1870.   Mélon's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Mélon, fils married cousin Marie Irma, called Irma, daughter of Alfred Reed and his Acadian wife Marie Hermance Lejeune, at the Opelousas church in March 1859.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Corinne in March 1860; Clémile in December 1861; ...  During the war, Mélon, fils served in the Prairie Rangers Company Cavalry or Todd's Prairie Rangers when it was part of the state militia.  The company transferred to Confederate service in August 1862.  Mélon, fils may have served in the unit when it was Company K of the 3rd (Harrison's) Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, which fought in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi.  He survived the war, returned to his family, and became a farmer and stock raiser. 

Mélon, père's second son Théodule married Marie Azéma or Zulma, daughter of Joseph Lavergne and his Acadian wife Émelie Jeansonne, at the Opelousas church in January 1856, and recorded the marriage at the Opelousas courthouse the following April.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Joseph Théodule baptized the day of his birth at the "Chapel of Bois Mallet," St. Landry Parish, in July 1857; Alicia born in June 1860; Pierre O'Neil near Grand Coteau in July 1862; Augusta in January 1865; Erase, probably Eraste, near Church Point in July 1867; Christophe in Lafayette Parish in September 1870; ...  During the war, Théodule may have served in Company F of the 29th (Thomas's) Regiment Louisiana Infantry, rasied in Terrebonne Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  As the birth dates of some of his children suggest, he survived the war and returned to his family. 

Mélon, père's third son Joseph Portalis married Eugénie, daughter of Eugène Vallet and Marguerite Quebedeaux, at the Church Point church in December 1869. ...

Mélon, père's fourth and youngest son André Duprélon married Octalie or Ortalie, daughter of Denis Quebedeaux and his Acadian wife Louise Trahan, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in May 1868, and sanctified the marriage at the Church Point church in August.  Their son André, fils was born near Church Point in April 1869; ... 

Anselme, père's fifth and youngest son Hilaire le jeune married Azélie or Émelie, also called Irène, 14-year-old daughter of Julien Lasage and Marguerite Bock, at the Opelousas church in January 1839.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Azélie near Grand Coteau in May 1843; Joseph Duprélon, called Duprélon, in December 1843[sic]; Achille le jeune in the 1840s; and Irène in January 1849.  A succession for Hilaire Doucet, perhaps Hilaire le jeune, probably not post-mortem, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in April 1849.  A succession for wife Azélie, probably post-mortem, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in September 1851.  Hilaire le jeune remarried to cousin Marie Hermance, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Lejeune and his second wife Marie Josette Bellard and widow of Alfred Reed, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in September 1859, and sanctified the marriage at the Opelousas church in May 1861.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Marie Ermance in July 1860; Emma in July 1862; ...  At age 47, Hilaire le jeune remarried again--his third marriage--to Célestine, daughter of Jean Simon and his Acadian wife Céleste Granger and widow of Antoine LeBlanc and David Potier (so this was her third marriage also), in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in August 1867, and sanctified the marriage at the Church Point church in August 1868. ...  None of Hilaire le jeune's daughters married by 1870, but two of his sons did. 

During the war, older son Joseph Duprélon, by first wife Azélie Lasage, served in Company D of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Mary Parish, which fought in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana.  He survived the war, returned to his family, and married cousin Virginie, daughter of fellow Acadians Mélon Doucet, père and Hélène Richard, at the Church Point church in May 1867.  Joseph Duprélon may have remarried to fellow Acadian Eugénie Leger in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in December 1868. ...

Hilaire le jeune's younger son Achille le jeune, by first wife Azélie Lasage, married stepsister and cousin Azélime or Sélima, daughter of Alfred Reed and his Acadian wife Marie Hermance Lejeune, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in September 1867, and sanctified the marriage at the Church Point church in October. ...

Joseph dit Hilaire's third son Hilaire, fils married Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Granger and Anne Babin, at Opelousas in January 1805.  Their children, born in what became St. Landry Parish, included Hilaire III baptized, age 6 weeks, on New Years Day 1806; a child, name and age unrecorded, died in September 1808; a child, name unrecorded, born in c1809 but died at age 4 in March 1813; Marie baptized, age 7 months, in July 1810; and Dositée, a son, baptized, age 9 months, in July 1812--five children, at least two sons and a daughter, between 1806 and 1811.  Hilaire, père died in St. Landry Parish in April 1813, a widower.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Hilaire was "about 30 yrs." when he died.  He was 33.  His will was dated the day before his death.  Both of his sons married.

Older son Hilaire III married Marie Louise, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Lejeune and his Creole wife Marie Louise Lacase, at the Opelousas church in February 1828.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Hilaire III in October 1829; Onésime in November 1834; Joseph le jeune baptized at Grand Coteau, age 5 months, in May 1838; and Jean baptized at age 2 months in March 1843--four children, all sons, between 1829 and 1843.  None of Hilaire III's sons married by 1870.   

Hilaire, père's younger son Dositée married Caroline Lejeune, probably a fellow Acadian, in St. Landry Parish during the early or mid-1830s.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Onésime near Grand Coteau in March 1837; Célestine in February 1840; Caroline in February 1844; Dosithée or Dosité, fils in October 1847; Hilaire le jeune in February 1850; Émile in October 1852; Hypolite in April 1855; Marie Oline in c1858 but was baptized at the Opelousas church, age 2, in May 1860; ...  Dositée, at age 56, may have remarried to Marie Courtine in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in January 1869.  Daughters Célestine, ..., by his first wife, married into the LeBoeuf family by 1870.  None of Dositée's sons married by then. 

Joseph dit Hilaire's fifth and youngest son Jean married Susanne, also called Julie, daughter of fellow Acadians Basile Chiasson and his second wife Anne Marie Thibodeaux of Opelousas, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in February 1812.  Jean, called Jean Louis, was a resident of La Butte, then in St. Martin but now in Lafayette Parish, when he died at Prairie Sorel, St. Martin Parish, in December 1812, age 26, less than a year after his marriage.  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in March 1813.  He and his wife probably had no children.  

Michel-Laurent's second son Michel, fils followed his parents into exile, into imprisonment at Halifax, to New Orleans, and Bayou Teche.  At age 40, he married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians René Landry and Marguerite Babin, at Attakapas in January 1793.  They settled on upper Bayou Teche at La Pointe near present-day Breaux Bridge.  Unlike his brothers and parents, who resettled in Opelousas, Michel, fils remained in Attakapas.  Their children, born there, included a son, name and age unrecorded, died of "liver illness" at Attakapas in 1793; Jean-Ursin, called Ursin, baptized, age 8 months, in November 1795; a daughter, name unrecorded, died eight days after her birth in February 1798; a son, name unrecorded, died at age 1 month in July 1799; and Euphrosine born in c1801 and baptized, age 3 1/2 years, in August 1804--five children, three sons and two daughters, between 1793 and 1801.  Michel, fils died at La Pointe in November 1804.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Michel dit Sonfils, as he called him, probably meaning Michel, fils, was age 45 when he died.  He was 51.  His succession was not filed at the St. Martinville courthouse until May 1817.  Daughter Euphrosine married into the Foreman family.  Michel, fils's remaining son also married. 

Second son Jean Ursin, called Ursin, married Marie Apollonie, called Pauline, daughter of Philippe Doré and Marie Grolot of Île des Cypres or Cypress Island, today's Lake Martin, at the St. Martinville church in February 1816.  Their son Ursin, fils, also called Fondalise, was born in St. Martin Parish in November 1816, married, and settled in St. Martin Parish.

Only son Ursin, fils married Irma, also called Emma, daughter of François Champagne and Lise Champagne, at the St. Martinville church in February 1838.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Éloïde or Élodie in June 1841; Ursin III in February 1844 but died the following October; Aurelien Ursin born in September 1845; and Odile in January 1849.  Wife Irma's succession, probably post-mortem, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in September 1850.  Ursin, fils remarried to Amelina, daughter of Balthazar Delahoussaye and Modeste Champagne, at the St. Martinville church in September 1850.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Alexandre in October 1851; Geneviève Ermine in November 1853; and François Balthazar in March 1856--seven children, three daughters and four sons, by two wives, between 1841 and 1856.  Ursin, fils died in St. Martin Parish in August 1858.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Ursin was age 40 when he died.  He was 42.  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse a few days after his death.  Daughters Élodie, ..., by both wives, married into the Bertrand, Delahoussaye, Doré, and Lopez families by 1870.  One of Ursin, fils's sons also married by then

Second son Aurelien Ursin, by first wife Irma Champagne, married Louisa Delahoussaye, place and date unrecorded.  He died in St. Martin Parish in January 1868.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Aurelien died "at age 22 yrs."  His succession, naming his wife, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse two days after his death.  Did they have any children? 

Michel-Laurent's third son Pierre followed his family into imprisonment at Halifax, to New Orleans, and Bayou Teche.  He married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Comeaux and Marie-Madeleine Girouard, at Attakapas in August 1782.  During the 1780s or early 1790s, they followed his family north to Opelousas.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Jean-Pierre dit Fifi baptized at Attakapas, age 4 months, in November 1783; Marie born in March 1786; Pélagie baptized at Opelousas, age unrecorded, in June 1790; Joseph Éloi, called Éloi, born in May 1792; Jacques dit Jean le jeune in April 1796; Céleste or Célestine in March 1801; and a child, perhaps a daughter, name unrecorded, in c1803 but died at age 6 in August 1809--seven children, at least three sons and three daughters, between 1783 and 1803.  Pierre died at Opelousas in February 1807.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Pierre was age 55 when he died.  He would have been 51.  His succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse the following July and again in October 1817.  Strangely, a civil record from St. Landry Parish, dated 1840 and mentioning his son Éloy and wife Magdeleine Comeau, states that Pierre Doucet died in February 1840.  If this was so, he would have been in his early 80s then.  Daughters Marie, Pélagie, and Célestine/Céleste married into the Daigle, Carrière, and Thibodeaux families, two of them to Creole Daigle brothers.  Pierre's three sons also married.  The oldest son returned to his native Attakapas, while the younger ones remained in St. Landry Parish.  

Oldest son Jean-Pierre dit Fifi followed his family to Opelousas and married Marie Louise, called Louise, daughter of Charles Lacase and Félicité Langlois, there in January 1802.  Their children, born in what became St. Landry Parish, included Azélie baptized at Opelousas, age 2 months, in June 1803 but died at age 6 in August 1809; Pierre le jeune, also called Pierre Zéphirin, baptized at age 5 months in May 1805; David baptized at age 6 months in July 1807; Marie baptized at age 8 months in April 1810; and Joséphine born in February 1811--five children, three daughters and two sons, between 1803 and 1811.  Jean-Pierre's succession, probably following Louise's death, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in September 1812.  Jean Pierre remarried to cousin Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Martin and Isabelle Thibodeaux of La Pointe and widow of François Melançon, at the St. Martinville church in February 1813.  They settled at La Pointe on upper Bayou Teche.  She evidently gave him no more children.  Jean Pierre, called Jean Pierre dit Fifi by the recording priest, died at La Pointe in June 1823, age 40.  His post-mortem succession, which identifies his second wife, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in June 1824.  None of Fifi's daughters married by 1870, if they married at all, but one of his sons did.

Older son Pierre le jeune, also called Pierre Zéphirin, from first wife Louise Lacase, married Adeline, also called Azéline, daughter of fellow Acadians François Breaux and Silesie Dugas of La Pointe, at the St. Martinville church in July 1822.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Marie Louise in January 1825; Élisabeth baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 4 months, in December 1826; Annaïsse born in January 1828; Zéphirin, also called Pierre Zéphirin, fils, in September 1829; Félicia or Féliciane in April 1831; twins Valsain or Valsin, perhaps also called Gerasin, and Zarafine in April 1833, but Zarafine, called simply "girl," died in Lafayette Parish in in February 1847, age 12 1/2 (the recording priest said 13); Laure born in January 1836; a child, name unrecorded, died 2 hours after birth in January 1840; Théodule, perhaps also called Cléobule, born in July 1841; Joseph Adolphe, called Adolphe in the 1840s; and François Dassas in January 1854--a dozen children, at least six daughters and five sons, between 1825 and 1854.  In September 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted 19 slaves--10 males and nine females, all black, ranging in age from 40 years to 6 months--on Pierre Z. Doucet's farm in the parish's western district.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted 36 slaves--24 males and 12 females, all black, ranging in age from 58 years to 2 months, living in 11 houses--on Pierre Doucet's plantation next to Gerassin Doucet.  Pierre le jeune's daughters ... married into the Breaux, Broussard, Judice, and Landry families by 1870.  Four of his sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Zéphirin or Pierre Zéphirin, fils married Anaïse, daughter of fellow Acadian Valéry Boudreaux and his Creole wife Celphanie Patin, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in January 1856.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Léo in November 1856; Anaïse in July 1859; Pierre Léopold in December 1860 but died at age 6 1/2 in August 1867; Léontine born in July 1863; Valéry in August 1866 but died at age 1 in September 1867; Albert born in July 1868; ... 

Pierre le jeune's second son Gerasin, perhaps Valsin, a twin, married Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Treville Broussard and Sidalise Broussard, at the Vermilionville church in September 1855.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Adeline in August 1857 but died the following February; Émilia born in August 1859; Valsaint le jeune in November 1861; ...  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted a single slave--a 23-year-old black female, living in her own slave house--on Gerassin Doucet's farm next to Pierre Doucet.  During the War of 1861-65, Gerasin served in Company A of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, the "Lafayette Prairie Boys," raised in Lafayette Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  He survived the war and returned to his family. 

During the war, Cléobule, perhaps Pierre le jeune's third son Théodule, served in Company F of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafayette Parish, which fought in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana.  Cléobule married Émilie, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Guidry and Carmélite Broussard, at the Vermilionville church in September 1865.  Their son Luc was born in Lafayette Parish in July 1866; ... 

Pierre le jeune's fourth son Adolphe married Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Émilien Landry and Uranie Prejean, at the Youngsville church, Lafayette Parish, in September 1866. ...

Pierre's second son Joseph Éloi, called Éloi, married Modeste Divine, daughter of Michel Carrière of Mobile and St. Charles Parish and Juliènne Marcantel of Pointe Coupee Parish, at the Opelousas church in February 1811.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Marie Méline or Émeline in March 1812; Louis, also called Don or Jean Louis, in May 1813; a child, name unrecorded, died "at a young age after birth" from "an injured jaw or an illness of the jaw," in April 1815; Éloi, fils, called Éloisin, born in April 1816; Zéline, also called Marie Azélie or Azéline, in January 1818; Jean Pierre, called Pierre and Léon Pierre, in the late 1810s; Marie Louise, Éloisine, or Loisine in January 1820; Marie Caroline, called Caroline, in December 1821; Joseph Valsin, called Valsin, in January 1824; and Joséphine in January 1826 but died at age 16 1/2 in July 1842--10 children, at least five children and four sons, between 1812 and 1826.  Éloi, called Éloy, is mentioned in a petition filed by his mother to note his father's death in February 1840.  Éloi, père died in St. Landry Parish in March 1842.  The Opelousas priest who recorded the burial said that Eloi was age 45 when he died.  He was 49.  His succession, naming his wife and listing his children--Don Louis; Émeline; Éloisin; Marie Azéline or Zéline and her husband; Marie Éloizine and her husband; Caroline and her husband; Joseph; Joséphine; and Pierre--was filed at the Opelousas courthouse later that month.  Daughters Marie Azéline, Marie Loisine, and Caroline married into the Miller, Bellard, Richard, Lejeune, and Leger families, the two younger ones twice, by 1870.  Three of Éloi's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Don Louis married cousin Sidalise, daughter of Jean Carrière and Marie Stouts, at the Opelousas church in January 1834.  Daughter Sidonie was born in St. Landry Parish in February 1835.  Don Louis may have remarried to fellow Acadian Adeline Chiasson, place and date unrecorded.  Son Joseph was born in St. Landry Parish in July 1841.  Did they have anymore children?  Don Louis's daughter, by his first wife, married into the Darbonne family.  His son did not marry by 1870. 

Éloi's third son Jean Pierre, also called Léon Pierre, perhaps at age 30, married Caroline, daughter of Jean Baptiste Teller or Taylor and Céleste Moore, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in April 1847, and sanctified the marriage at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in March 1848.  They settled on upper Bayou Plaquemine Brûlé on the St. Landry prairies.  Their children, born there, included Jean Pierre, fils in June 1848; Marie in July 1850; Céleste near Church Point, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in April 1854; Joseph in August 1856; Zéphirin in February 1858; Éloi le jeune in January 1860; ...  They were living near Arnaudville, St. Landry Parish, in the late 1860s.  Jean Pierre may have died near Breaux Bridge, St. Martin Parish, in September 1869.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Pierre died "at age 52 yrs."  None of his children married by 1870. 

Éloi's fourth and youngest son Joseph Valsin, while still in his teens, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Chiasson and Marie Tarsille Dugas, at the Opelousas church in April 1840.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Onézime or Onésime in March 1841; Joseph, fils in October 1842; Joséphine in October 1846; David in December 1847; Thersile in October 1849; and Pierre in July 1852--six children, four sons and two daughters, between 1841 and 1852.  Evidently none of Joseph Valsin's children married by 1870. 

Pierre's third and youngest son Jacques dit Jean le jeune married Marie Éloise, Héloise, or Louise, daughter of Jean Baptiste Duplechin and his Acadian wife Marie Rose Trahan, at the Opelousas church in May 1818.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Ortance or Hortense in August 1819; Cyril in December 1821; and Louis le jeune in May 1824--three children, a daughter and two sons, between 1819 and 1824.  Jacques dit Jean's daughter did not marry, but both of his sons did. 

Older son Cyril married Émeline dite Méline, daughter of fellow Acadian Hilaire Leger and his Creole wife Émilie Pariseau, at the Opelousas church in March 1842.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Zéphyrin or Zéphirin near Grand Coteau in March 1845; Phelemon or Philemon in June 1847; and Julia perhaps posthumously near Church Point in March 1851.  In November 1850, the federal census taker in St. Landry Parish counted a single slave--a 1-year-old black female--in the household of Ww., perhaps Widow, Méline Doucet, so Cyril may have died in 1850, still a young man.  Or perhaps he was the Cyrille Doucet who married--in this case, remarried to--Nancy Rosberry, place and date unrecorded.  Their son Thomas was born near Church Point in April 1866 but died "in Opel.," that is, Opelousas, at age 2 in August 1868; ...  And he may have been the Cyril Doucet who died near Church Point in May 1870.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Cyril died "at age 53 yrs.."  This Cyril, son of Jacques dit Jean, would have been age 48.  Neither his daughter nor his remaining sons married by 1870. 

Jacques dit Jean le jeune's younger son Louis le jeune, at age 35, married Marie Bellard in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in September 1859.  Their children, born on the St. Landry prairies, included twins Eugène and Eugénie near Grand Coteau in January 1862, but Eugène died at age 3 in June 1865; Adam born near Church Point in October 1863; Louis, fils in February 1866; ...   

Michel-Laurent's fourth and youngest son Jean followed his family to New Orleans, Bayou Teche, and Opelousas, where, in his late 30s, he married Céleste, daughter of Guillaume Voorhies and Marie Samson, in 1801 or 1802.  Their daughter Marguerite was baptized at Opelousas, age 2 months, in January 1803.  Jean may have died at Opelousas in September 1803, age 41.  Oddly, the priest who recorded the burial said that Jean was a "single person."  Did that mean he was a widower, that wife Céleste did not survive the birth of their daughter?  His successions were filed at the Opelousas courthouse in October 1803 and July 1804.  His line of the family, except perhaps for its blood, likely died with him. 

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Two more Doucets--a wife and a young bachelor--also came to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français in 1765.  They did not follow the Broussards to Bayou Teche but settled, instead, in the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  No new Doucet family line came of it:

Paul (c1744-?) à ? à Germain Doucet

Paul Doucet, age 21, was listed as part of Verret's Company of the Cabahannocer militia in April 1766.  The Spanish official making the report noted that Paul had no one else in his household.  Eleven years later, in January 1777, Spanish authorities counted him still at Cahahannocer.  According to the census taker, Paul was age 33 at the time and working as an engagé with the family of fellow Acadian Joseph Thériot.  The census taker said nothing about a wife for Paul, so he may not have married.  One wonders who his parents may have been and how he was kin to the other Doucets in Louisiana.

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Another young Doucet bachelor came to Louisiana in 1766 or 1767, from whence the records are not clear, but it may have been from Maryland, or perhaps directly from French St.-Domingue.  Unlike Paul from Halifax, this Doucet married in the Spanish colony, but his line of the family did not endure beyond the second generation:

Jean-Baptiste (1743-1814) à Jean à Pierre à Germain Doucet

Jean-Baptiste, also called Jean-Baptiste-Maurice, older son of Jean Doucet, fils and Élisabeth or Isabelle Hébert, born at Grand-Pré in August 1743, followed his family into exile in Pennsylvania in 1755 and appeared on a repatriation list with his widowered father and three siblings in August 1763.  After the listing, now age 20, Jean-Baptiste moved either to Maryland or French St.-Domingue.  He came to Louisiana by July 1767, when Spanish officials counted him at New Orleans with other Acadian exiles.  No other member of his immediate family was with him.  He married Marianne, called Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Comeaux and Madeleine Henry, at San Gabriel on the river above New Orleans in January 1773, but they may have lived in the city in the late 1770s.  Their children, born on the river, included Pierre-Edmond at San Gabriel in November 1774 but died at age 28 in April 1803; Anne-Marie-Josèphe-Adélaïde, called Adélaide, born in October 1777 and baptized at the New Orleans church in September 1778; and Firmin-Maurice, called Maurice, baptized at San Gabriel, age unrecorded, in November 1779--three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1774 and 1779.  Jean-Baptiste died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in May 1814, age 70.  Daughter Adélaïde married into the Dupuis and Wells families and settled on the western prairies.  Only Jean Baptiste's younger son married, on the river, but then moved on to the western prairies, so Acadian Doucets did not permanently settle on what became known as the Acadian Coast. 

Younger son Firmin Maurice, called Maurice, married Marie, daughter of Thomas Reel, Rill, Rille, Rils, Ritter, Vils, or Wiltz and Teresa Hamiliton, at St. Gabriel in January 1804.  After his father died in 1814, Maurice and his family crossed the Atchafalaya Basin and settled at Grande Pointe on upper Bayou Teche.  Their children, born on the river and the Teche, included Mathilde in December 1803; Eugène in December 1805; Jean Baptiste in November 1807 but died in St. Martin Parish at age 27 (the recording priest said 25) in May 1835; Marie Séraphine, called Séraphine, born in May 1809; Adriènne in January 1811; Léonard in March 1813 but died six days after his birth; Apolline dite Pauline born in March 1814; Rosalie at Grande Pointe in October 1816; Julie or Julia in December 1818; Marie, also called Marie Advelière or Velia, in January 1821; Firmin Bélisaire in November 1823 (whose succession, perhaps post-mortem, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in July 1857); and Marie Belsire, called Belsire, in August 1825 but died at age 7 in September 1832--a dozen children, eight daughters and four sons, between 1803 and 1825.  Maurice's succession, calling his wife Marie Rill, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse, St. Martin Parish, in February 1840, two years before he died in April 1842 , age 62.  A post-mortem succession, naming only his surviving children--Mathilde and her husband; Adriènne and her husband; Séraphine and her husband; Rosalie and her husband; Julia and her husband; Appoline and her husband; Eugène; Velia; and Firmin Bélizaire--but not his wife, so he may have been a widower, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse the month he died.  Daughters Mathilde, Séraphine, Adriènne, Rosalie, Pauline, Julie, and Marie Advelière married into the Melançon, Guidry, Latiolais, Patin, and Villier families, including two Guidry and two Latiolais brothers.  None of Maurice's sons seems to have married, at least not by 1870, when the ones who made it to adulthood would have been elderly or well into their middle age.  This line of the family, then, except for its blood, may have died with Maurice.  

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Two decades after the first of their cousins reached the colony, 13 more Doucets came to Louisiana on two of the Seven Ships from France.  The first of them--a 40-year-old bachelor, two wives, and a widow with her two Doucet sons--arrived aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in early November 1785.  The bachelor chose to settle on the river below New Orleans.  The widow and her sons, however, followed most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where the sons created a third center of Doucet family settlement: 

Charles (c1745-?) à ? à Germain Doucet

Charles Doucet was a 40-year-old carpenter when he reached New Orleans from France.  He crossed alone.  One wonders if he was a widower or a confirmed bachelor.  He chose to settle at Nueva Gálvez, also called San Bernardo, an Isleño community along the river south of New Orleans in present-day St. Bernard Parish.  One wonders where he had been born, who were his parents, and how he was kin to the other Doucets in South Louisiana. 

Jean-Baptiste (1766-1825) à Jean à Bernard dit Laverdure à Germain, fils à Germain Doucet

Jean-Baptiste, called Baptiste, fifth son of Augustin Doucet dit Justice by his second wife Marie-Anne Précieux, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo, France, in September 1766, followed his family to Poitou, his widowed mother to Nantes, and her and a younger brother to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Anne- or Marianne-Barbe, called Barbe, daughter of Nicolas Daublin and Catherine, a "free Indian," in June 1789.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Rose-Florence in June 1790; François-Nicolas in April 1793; and Marie-Marguerite, date unrecorded--three children, two daughters and a son, in the 1790s.  In March 1813, an estimation of Baptiste's property, listing two of his children--François Nicolas; and Marie Marguerite, "a minor, her curator is Joseph Fauteley"--was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse, Lafourche Interior Parish; according to the record, Baptiste "apparently ... was still alive."  Baptiste died in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1825, age 59 (the recording priest said 60).  Daughters Rose Florence and Marie married into the Hébert, Martin, and Lenée families.  Baptiste's son also married and settled on the Lafourche.

Only son François Nicolas married Marie Cécile, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Louis Hébert and Marie Doiron, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in June 1816.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joseph Célestin, called Célestin, in September 1817; Marie Clémentine in July 1819; and Adèle, perhaps posthumously, in the early 1830s--three children, a son and two governors, between 1817 and 1833.  François Nicolas died in Lafourche Interior Parish in June 1833, age 40.  His succession inventory, listing his children--Marie Clémentine and Joseph Célestin--was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse that month.  Daughter Adèle married into the Bossnet or Roussuet family.  François Nicolas's son also married and settled on Bayou Lafourche. 

Only son Joseph Célestin, called Célestin, married Rosalie Catherine, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Olivier Bourg and Rosalie Eléonore Benoit and widow of Drosin Gaspard, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1843.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Célestine in May 1844; François Octave in December 1846; Marguerite Eve in January 1848; Cécile Augustine in December 1849; Octave Adam near Raceland in June 1854; and Joséphine Eulalie in June 1856.  Joseph Célestin, at age 50, remarried to Madeleine Fabre or Folse in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in August 1867.  Their son Augustin was born near Lockport in March 1870; ...  Daughter Marguerite, by his first wife, married into the Guidry family by 1870.  One of Célestin's sons also married by then.

Oldest son François Octave, by first wife Rosalie Catherine Bourg, married Marguerite Geneviève Mertilia, 17-year-old daughter of Charles Augeron and his Acadian wife Reine Eugénie Benoit, at the Lockport church in July 1866.  Their son François Lessin was born near Lockport in February 1870; ...

François (1770-1834) à Jean à Bernard dit Laverdure à Germain, fils à Germain Doucet

François, seventh son of Augustin Doucet dit Justice by his second wife Marie-Anne Précieux, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, France, in September 1770, followed his family to Poitou, his widowed mother to Nantes, and her and an older brother to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche, where, at age 32, he married Marie-Adélaïde, daughter of Étienne-Joseph Angilbert or Engilbert and his Acadian wife Félicité Hébert, in May 1802.  Marie-Adélaïde, a native of Nantes, had come to Louisiana from France in 1785 as an infant.  They settled in what became Lafourche Parish.  Their children, born on the bayou, included Marie-Rose in May 1803; Jean Pierre Vinceslas, also called J. Pierre, in September 1807; Hippolyte Mederio in August 1809; Antoine Léandre, called Léandre, in March 1812; Florence in c1814 or 1815; Tarsile in November 1816; Adélaïde Victoire in February 1819; Milesaire or Mélicère Clémentine in August 1821; Célécie or Célenie Euphrasie in March 1824 but died the following October; and Marie Philonise or Felonise, called Felonise, born in February 1826--10 children, seven daughters and three sons, between 1803 and 1826.  François died in Lafourche Interior Parish in March 1834, age 64.  Daughters Marie Rose, Florence, Tarsile, Félonise, and Mélicère married into the Lejeune, Barrios, Parks, Bernard, Molaison, and Scanlen families.  Two, perhaps three, of François's sons also married and settled on the Lafourche.  One of them moved on to lower Bayou Teche.  

Oldest son Jean Pierre Vinceslas, also called J. Pierre, married Marie Rosalie, called Rosalie, 21-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Firmin Guidry and Marie Josèphe Carret, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in February 1829.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Scholastique in April 1830; Marie Cléonise in November 1831 but, called Cléonise, died at age 33 in Lafourche Parish in February 1865; Édouard Silvère born in November 1833; Jacques Aurelien, called Aurelien, in December 1835; Pierre Émil or Émile, called Émile, in January 1838; Marie Rosalie Phrosalie, called Phrosalie, in February 1840; Marie Mathilde, called Mathilde, in March 1843 but died at age 11 1/2 (the recording priest said 11) in July 1854; Edmire or Elmire Émelie in April 1845; and Rosalie in c1850 but, called Roselie, died at age 4 in March 1854--nine children, six daughters and three sons, between 1830 and 1845.  Jean Pierre died in Lafourche Interior Parish in April 1851, age 44.  A petition for "Tutelage," calling him Jean Pierre, naming his wife, and listing some of his children--Cléonise, Édouard, Aurelien,  Émile, Frosalie, Mathilde, and Elmire--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in March 1852.  Daughters Marie Scholastique and Edmire married into the Estivennes and Legendre families by 1870.  Three of Jean Pierre's sons also married by then, but not all of the lines endured. 

Second son Aurelien married Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians Maxile LeBlanc and Marie LeBlanc, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in August 1858.  Their children, born in Lafourche Parish, included Marie Cécilia in January 1861; Marie Brigitte in January 1866; Jacques Philippe in August 1868; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Aurelien served in the Lafourche Parish Regiment of Militia.  In late October 1862, he fought in the Battle of Labadieville in Assumption Parish, fell into Federal hands, was paroled, and sent home. 

J. Pierre's third son Émile married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Marcellin Breaux and Athanaise Broussard, at the Thibodaux church in July 1858.  Their chilidren, born on the Lafourche, included Pierre Aurestile in October 1861; Joseph Adreci in February 1864; Joseph Émile in February 1866; ...  During the war, Émile also served in the Lafourche Parish Regiment of Militia, was captured at Labadieville, paroled, and sent home.  

J. Pierre's fourth and youngest son Édouard Sylvère married Augustine dite Justine, daughter of Étienne Lusignan and Modeste Clairteau, at the Thibodaux church in June 1854.  Their children, born in Lafourche Parish, included Léon Xavier in December 1855 but, called Léo, died at age 25 days; and Marie Mathilde Elavana born in November 1857.  Édouard died in Lafourche Parish in November 1866, age 33.  His line of the family, except perhaps for its blood, may have died with him.  One wonders if his early death was war-related.  His daughter did not marry by 1870. 

François's second son Hippolyte Mederio married fellow Acadian Célestine or Clémentine Bourg, place and date unrecorded.  By the early 1840s, they had moved to St. Mary Parish on lower Bayou Teche.  Their children, born near New Iberia on the lower Teche, included Anne, also called Anna and Hannah, in June 1841; Marie Laurenza in February 1844; and William Osémé in August 1846--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1841 and 1846.  Daughters Anna and Marie Laurenza returned to the Lafourche valley and married into the Foret and Trosclair families in Terrebonne Parish by 1870.  Hippolyte Mederio's son did not marry by then.

A succession inventory for François's third and youngest son Antoine Léandre, called Léandre, was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse, Lafourche Parish, in April 1858.  He would have been age 46 that year.  Evidently he never married, unless he was the Léandre Doucet who married Mélanie Baudin, place and date unrecorded, was living in St. Landry Parish in the early 1850s, and returned to the Lafourche valley later in the decade.  Or he may have been the Lextin Doucet who married Rosalie Bourgeois, perhaps a fellow Acadian, place and date unrecorded, and was living on the Lafourche in the mid-1840s.  If so, his son François Octave was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1846 and did not marry by 1870. 

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Eight more Doucets in two families crossed on La Caroline, the last of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in the third week of December 1785.  One family settled on the river below New Orleans, and the other at Cabahannocer above the city.  No new lasting family lines seem to have come of it:

Joseph, fils (c1730-1797) à Charles à Germain, fils à Germain Doucet

Joseph, fils, older son of Joseph Doucet and Marie-Madeleine Robichaud, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1730, married Marguerite, daughter of Gabriel Moulaison and Marie Aubois of Pobomcoup, at Annapolis Royal in July 1753 and settled at Cap-Sable.  Marguerite gave Joseph, fils a daughter, Marie, born in c1756, the year they eluded the first British attack on the Acadian enclave at Cap-Sable.  Unfortunately for them, in late 1758, after the fall of Louisbourg on Île Royale, another British force attacked the Cap-Sable communities.  They captured Joseph, fils, his family, and other Cap-Sable Acadians, held them in the prison compound on Georges Island, Halifax, and then deported them to Le Havre, Normandy, France, via England late that year.  In February 1759, soon after they reached the Norman port, daughter Marie died at age 2 1/2 probably from the rigors of the crossing.  Marguerite gave Joseph, fils six more children at Le Havre:  Emmanuelle-Victoire born in May 1759; Joseph-Benjamin in October 1761; Adélaïde-Véronique in December 1763; Marie-Marguerite in January 1766; Madeleine-Geneviève-Émilie in January 1768; and Ange in c1770--seven children, five daughters and two sons, between 1756 and 1770, in greater Acadia and France.  In 1773, Joseph and Marguerite, with hundreds of other exiles languishing in the coastal cities, became part of the major settlement scheme in the interior of Poitou.  They settled near Cenan southeast of Châtellerault.  When, after two years of effort, most of the Poitou Acadians retreated to the lower Loire port of Nantes, Joseph and his family remained at Cenan.  Oldest surviving daughter Emmanuelle-Victoire married into the Jaunon family there in September 1778, and daughter Adélaïde-Véronique married into the Arnaud family in January 1781.  Wife Marguerite died at Cenan in April 1784, age 57.  The following year, Joseph, fils, having joined his fellow Acadians at Nantes, took his three youngest children--Marie-Marguerite, age 19; Madeleine, age 17; and Ange, 15--to Spanish Louisiana.  One suspects that their crossing on the last of the Seven Ships is a reflection of the family's discombobulation after Marguerite's death.  Older son Joseph-Benjamin would have been age 24 when his family left for Louisiana.  If he was still alive in 1785, he did not accompany them there.  One suspects that he remained at Cenan with his married sisters and their families.  At New Orleans, Joseph, fils and the two younger children chose to settle at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans--among the few exiles from France who went there.  Daughter Marie-Marguerite remained at New Orleans, where she married René, son of Pierre Arnaud and Marie Remo of Bonneuil-Montours, Poitou, in January 1786, soon after her family's arrival; her husband was a brother or half-brother of older sister Adélaïde-Véronique's husband back in Poitou, France, and perhaps was a widower.  One wonders when René reached Louisiana.  Marie-Marguerite died at New Orleans in February 1792, age 25, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth.  Joseph, fils died at New Orleans in April 1797.  The St.-Louis Cathedral priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph, fils died at age 75.  He was in his late 60s.  His younger children, Madeleine and Ange, though they survived childhood, may not have married, so this line of the family did not endure in the Bayou State.  One wonders if it endured in France. 

Michel, fils (c1744-1792) à Charles à Germain, fils à Germain Doucet

Michel, fils, second son of Michel Doucet and Angélique Pitre, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1744, followed his family to the French Maritimes after 1752 and to Le Havre, France, in the late 1750s, where he worked as a carpenter.  He married Marie-Blanche, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Cousin and Judith Guédry of Ministigueshe near Cap-Sable, at Le Havre in c1766.  Despite her birthplace, Marie-Blanche had been deported to Le Havre in 1758-59 not from the prison compound at Halifax but, like Michel, fils, from the Maritimes.  Marie-Blanche gave Michel, fils three children at Le Havre:  Marie-Rose born in May 1767; Honorine-Eléonore or Eléonore-Honorine in February 1768; and Jean-Baptiste-Michel in c1773.  Oldest daughter Marie-Rose evidently died young.  In 1773, Michel, fils and his family followed other exiles in the port cities to Poitou and, with other Doucets, settled at Cenan southeast of Châtellerault.  A daughter, Marguerite- or Madeleine-Bénoni, was born there in March 1775.  That November, after two years of effort, Michel, fils, Marie-Blanche, and their three remaining children retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the lower Loire port of Nantes.  Son Jean-Baptiste was born at nearby Chantenay in February 1777, but he died the following April--five children, three daughters and two sons, between 1768 and 1777 in France.  In 1785, Michel, fils, Marie-Blanche, and their three remaining children--Eléonore-Honorine, age 17; Jean-Baptiste-Michel, age 12; and Marguerite-Bénoni, age 10--followed hundreds of fellow Acadians to Louisiana.  One wonders why they crossed on the last of the Seven Ships and not on an earlier vessel.  They were among the hand full of Acadians who chose to settle at San Bernardo, also called Nueva Gálvez, an Isleño community below New Orleans.  Michel, fils died at Charity Hospital, New Orleans, in September 1792.  The St.-Louis Parish priest who recorded the burial said he died at age 54.  He was in his late 40s.  One wonders if any of his children married in the Spanish colony and, if so, his family line endured there. 

Dubois

Dubois is a common surname in France, so it is no surprise that a number of Dubois families lived in greater Acadia before 1755.  Among them was a French fisherman, Joseph Dubois, not kin to the other Duboiss in the region, who married Anne, daughter of Louis Michel and Marguerite Forest of Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, probably at Cap-Sable in c1756.  Their daughter Marguerite-Ange was born there the following year.  Although the British had rounded up Acadians in the Cap-Sable/Pobomcoup area in the spring of 1756, Joseph and Anne evidently had eluded them.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, a second British force descended on the Cap-Sable area, and this time the young family fell into enemy hands, unless they were among the cape Acadians who escaped again, took to the woods, and surrendered to British forces the following summer.  They were held in the prison compound on Georges Island, Halifax, until late 1759, when the British transported them aboard the transport Mary to France via England.  Anne was pregnant when the family left Halifax, and another daughter was born to them aboard ship in mid-December.  They reached Cherbourg, France, in the middle of January 1760.  Anne gave Joseph two more daughters in the Norman port.  One of them probably died young.  They crossed the Baie de Seine to Le Havre in the mid-1760s.  In July 1768, Joseph, Anne, and three of their daughters moved on to St.-Malo in northeast Brittany.  They settled in the suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo and at Pleurtuit on the west side of river south of the Breton port.  Joseph died by November 1773, when Anne remarried to an Acadian LeBlanc at St.-Servan.  Meanwhile, daughter Marguerite-Ange, still in her teens, married Jean-Baptiste-Amand, called Jean, son of fellow Acadians Pierre Daigre and Madeleine Gautrot, at St.-Servan in November 1770.  She gave him a son there, but the boy died in infancy.  In 1773, Marguerite-Ange and her husband became part of the grand settlement scheme in the interior of Poitou.  She gave him another son there.  In December 1775, after two years of effort, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes, where Marguerite-Ange gave Jean another son, who also died in infancy.  When, in the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, Jean and Marguerite-Ange agreed to take it.  Jean died at Nantes in late 1784 or early 1785, so when Marguerite-Ange left Paimboeuf, the lower port of Nantes, for New Orleans in June 1785, she was a widow with a child, son Jean-Louis Daigre, age 10 1/2.  Her mother, meanwhile, remarried twice in France, to a Landry at Nantes in October 1777, and to a Daigre at nearby Chantenay in February 1785--four marriages in all.  Marguerite-Ange sailed to Louisiana on the same vessel as her mother, her new stepfather, and seven Daigre step siblings. 

The Duboiss of South Louisiana who are possibly Acadian are descended from a member of the family not kin to Joseph Dubois of Cap-Sable and his daughter Marguerite-Ange.  However, like Marguerite-Ange, her Dubois namesake came to Louisiana aboard one of the Seven Ships from France in 1785.  His connection to greater Acadia, however, is difficult to determine.  Jacques-Olivier, called Jaco or Jacos and Olivier, age 19, son of Olivier Dubois and Marguerite Vallois, was born in Très-Ste.-Trinité Parish, Cherbourg, in January 1766.  His mother was a native of Nantes, France, so she was not Acadian.  His godparents, however, were Acadians--Jacques Delaune and Dorothée Gaudet.  Jaco was an unmarried sailor when he came to Louisiana in November 1785.  With him was his mother, his stepfather Zacharie Boudrot (her fourth husband), and a 15-year-old Boudrot stepbrother.  Within days of his arrival at New Orleans, Jaco married an Acadian exile there and settled with her on upper Bayou Lafourche.  His many sons either remained on the Lafourche or moved to the western prairies during the 1820s.  By the late antebellum period, his descendants in the western parishes rivaled in numbers their cousins in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley.  None of his descendants appear to have settled on the river before the War of 1861-65.

Most of the Duboiss of Louisiana, however, are French Creole or Foreign French, not Acadian.  Many settled at New Orleans.  One family settled along the Cane and Red rivers near Natchitoches early in the colonial period.  Others settled in predominantly-Acadian communities around Baton Rouge, along the Acadian Coast, the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley, and on the western prairies, complicating the family's genealogical picture there.  Many of these French-Creole Duboiss, especially on the prairies, married Acadians.  

Judging by the number of slaves they held during the late antebellum period, the Duboiss of Louisiana, both putatively-Acadian and Creole, with one exception, participated only peripherally in the South's antebellum plantation-based economy.  No Acadian Dubois appears on the federal slave schedules of 1850 and 1860.  The family's only substantial slaveholder in Louisiana was Creole Valentine Dubois, who held 13 slaves in Rapides Parish in 1850 and 17 slaves farther north in Winn Parish a decade later.  

Dozens of Duboiss, both Acadian and Creole, served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65.  At least five of them died in Confederate service. ...

The war took a heavy toll on the Dubois' economic status, no matter where they settled.  Union gunboats shelled and burned dozens of houses and towns along the lower Mississippi.  Successive Federal incursions in the Bayou Lafourche valley devastated that region, and Confederate foragers also plagued the area when the Federals were not around.  On the western prairies, Federal armies marched three times through the Teche/Vermilion valley in 1863 and 1864 and burned and pillaged many farms, some of them likely owned by Duboiss.  Confederate foraging parties and cutthroat Jayhawkers also plagued the prairie region, adding to the family's misery. ...

In Louisiana, the family's name also is spelled Dobois, Duboid, Duvois.15

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Two Duboiss from unrelated families, one of them a native of Cap-Sable, the other of Cherbourg, France, came to Louisiana from France in 1785.  The first was a Dubois widow and her Daigre son, who crossed aboard Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans during the third week of August 1785.  They followed their fellow passengers to Manchac on the river south of Baton Rouge before moving on to upper Bayou Lafourche by the early 1790s. 

The second, a young bachelor, whose link to greater Acadia is tenuous, crossed on L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in early November 1785.  Within days of his arrival at New Orleans, Jaco, as he was called, married an Acadian exile in the city who had arrived on an earlier vessel.  He settled with her on upper Bayou Lafourche, where he created a lasting family line.  The Duboiss of South Louisiana who are possibly Acadian are descended from him and his many sons, who settled not only on the Lafourche, but also on the western prairies: 

Jacques-Olivier, fils (c1766-?) à ? Dubois

Jacques-Olivier, called Jaco or Jacos and Olivier, son of Olivier Dubois and Marguerite Vallois, was born and baptized in Très-Ste.-Trinité Parish, Cherbourg, France, in January 1766.  His mother, a native of Nantes, France, was married to Pierre Dubois before she married Jacques's father, a sailor.  (One wonders if Olivier was an Acadian or a native of France like Marguerite.)  From his earliest days, however, many events in Jacques-Olivier's life hint strongly that he was Acadian.  For instance, his godparents were Acadians--Jacques Delaune and Dorothée Gaudet.  When Jacques-Olivier was in his early teens, his mother remarried again, to Acadian Étienne Térriot at Chantenay near Nantes in November 1780.  She remarried yet again--her fourth marriage--to Acadian Zacharie Boudrot of Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, at Chantenay in September 1782.  By then, Jacques-Olivier was in his late teens and probably had become a sailor like his father.  Unlike some Acadians who became sailors in France, Jaco did not choose to remain there.  He followed his mother and new stepfather, along with a younger stepbrother, to Spanish Louisiana on a ship filled with other Acadians.  He married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Acadians Joseph-François Michel and Anne Daigre, at New Orleans in November 1785, soon after their arrival.  Marie, a native of St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo, had come to Louisiana from France in 1785 with her widowed mother and a sister aboard an earlier ship.  Jacques may have known her in France, or perhaps they met in New Orleans soon after he reached the city.  They followed their families to upper Bayou Lafourche but may have lived for a time in the city, where two of their children were baptized in the early 1790s and in the early 1800s.  If so, they returned to the upper Lafourche after each of the city baptisms.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Anne-Marie baptized, age unrecorded, in January 1787; Joseph-Marcellin, baptized, age unrecorded, in December 1788; Louis-André born in c1791; Joseph-Antoine, called Antoine, in September 1792 and baptized at the New Orleans church the following November; Marie-Henriette born in November 1794 and baptized at the New Orleans church in September 1795; Scholastique-Mélanie baptized at Assumption, age unrecorded, in September 1796; Narcisse-Olivier, called Olivier, born in Assumption in February 1798; Paul in February 1800 and baptized at the New Orleans church the following May; Marcellin born at Assumption in August 1801; Rosalie Rita in June 1804; Sylvain Célestin in September 1805; Joséphine Estelvine in July 1808; and Hubert Zénon, called Zénon, in c1814--13 children, five daughters and eight sons, betweeen 1787 and 1814.  Daughter Joséphine married into the Pinel family.  Seven of Jaco's sons also married.  During the 1820s, four of them moved on to the western prairies, creating a new center of family settlement there, but one of them returned to the Lafourche valley.  Jacques Olivier's older sons remained on the Lafourche, where only one of the lines seems to have endured.  

Oldest son Joseph Marcellin married Marguerite Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Boudreaux and Marie Modeste Trahan and widow of Guillaume Aucoin, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in May 1810.  Marguerite-Marie, a native of St.-Similien near St.-Malo, France, was five and a half years older than Joseph-Marcellin and had come to Louisiana in 1785 on the first of the Seven Ships.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Euphrosine Modeste in February 1811; Prudent Théodule in April 1812 but died at age 21 in June 1833; and Antoine Valéry born in October 1816--three children, all sons, between 1811 and 1816.  None of Joseph Marcellin's sons married, at least not before 1870, so this family line likely did not endure. 

Jacques Olivier's second son Louis André, at age 22, married Ursule, 38-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Henry and his second wife Marie-Madeleine Bernard and widow of Jean Constant Boudreaux, at the Plattenville church in January 1813.  Ursule, a native of France, had come to Louisina from there in 1785 aboard an earlier ship.  Daughter Louise Aimée was born on the upper Lafourche in May 1815.  Louis André remarried to Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Thibodeaux and Marie Dugas, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in August 1823.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Pauline Ursemène in May 1825; Louis Landry in June 1828; Olivier Louifroy or Leufroi in September 1830 but died at age 3 (the recording priest at Plattenville, who did not give the boy's name or gender, said 2) in September 1833; Sylvain le jeune born in c1832 but, called Silvin, died at age 21 in August 1853; and Zéphirin or Zéphir Théodule born in August 1833--six children, two daughters and four sons, by two wives, between 1815 and 1833.  In December 1827, Louis André sold land in Terrebonne Parish to the widow of former Governor Henry Schuyler Thibodaux.  Louis André died in Assumption Parish in May 1834.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Louis was age 46 when he died.  He was closer to 43.  Daughter Louise Aimée, by his first wife, married into the Hébert family by 1870.  Only one of Louis André's sons married by then, but the line, despite three marriages, did not endure. 

Fourth and youngest son Zéphirin or Zéphir Théodule, by second wife Anastasie Thibodeaux, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Boudreaux and Élise Dugas, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Parish, in May 1855.  Their son Louis Velefroi was born near Labadieville, Assumption Parish, in July 1856 but, called Louis Valfroid, died the following November.  Zéphir remarried to Adeline, daughter of Édouard Pelletier and Marcelline Berthelot, at the Labadieville church in September 1858.  During the War of 1861-65, Zéphir may have served in Company C of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Assumption Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  If so, he survived the war and returned to his family.  Zéphir remarried again--his third marriage--to Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Zéphirin Hébert and his Creole wife Baselisse Gros, at the Labadieville church in January 1865.  Zéphir's only son, and perhaps his only child, died young, so the line did not endure. 

Jacques Olivier's third son Joseph Antoine, called Antoine, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Aucoin and Perrine Marguerite Bourg, at the Plattenville church in February 1822.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Clémentine in December 1822 but died at "age 16 or 17 yrs." (actually, 15 1/2) in May 1838; Zénon Joseph born in March 1826; Aziline or Azélie Scholastique in August 1828; Silvanie Mélasie, called Mélasie, in April 1834; Zénon Zedéon in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1836; Eulalie Philomène in December 1839 but, called Philomène, died at age 3 1/2 in October 1843--six children, four daughters and two sons, between 1822 and 1843.  Daughters Azélie and Mélasie married into the Arceneaux and Dubois families by 1870, one of them to a first cousin.  Neither of Antoine's sons married by then.  One was lost in Confederate service before he could marry. 

During the war, younger son Zénon Zedéon served in Company B of the 1st Regiment Louisiana Heavy Artillery, which included many conscripts from Assumption Parish, including Zénon.  The experience proved fatal.  He died at Vicksburg, Mississippi, in April 1863, age 26, on the eve of the siege there, before he could marry and have a family of his own.  

Jacques Olivier's fourth son Narcisse Olivier, called Olivier, married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians François Jean Thibodeaux and Brigide Guérin, at the Plattenville church in August 1819.  They lived for a time on the western prairies and returned to the Lafourche.  Their children, born on the Lafourche and the prairies, included Mathilde Scholastique in Assumption Parish in March 1821; Clémentine Louise in December 1822; Séraphine Angélique in October 1823; Carmélite Virginie or Virginie Carmélite in Lafourche Interior Parish in August 1825; Fergus O. or Farigus either on the upper Lafourche or in Lafayette Parish in the 1820s; Frédique, probably Frédéric, baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 8 months, in August 1828; twins Aurelien Florentin and Julia Aurelia born in Lafourche Interior Parish in August 1831; Aureline Stelvina in August 1834; Ulisse or Ulysse Noël in December 1836; Héline Brigitte in May 1838; Drosin Zephyr in December 1840; and Jean Baptiste in May 1843--13 children, seven daughters and six sons, including a set of twins, between 1821 and 1843.  Daughters Mathilde, Clémentine, and Virginie Carmélite married into the Hébert, Trahan, and Darce families, including two Hébert brothers, by 1870.  Three of Olivier's sons also married by then, one of them after war service, and one of his married sons died in Confederate service. 

A succession inventory for oldest son Fergus was filed at the Terrebonne Parish courthouse at Houma in January 1846.  Fergus would have been in his 20s at the time and evidently did not marry.  A mortgage cancellation listing Fergus's heirs from his succession--sisters Clémentine Dubois and her Hébert husband, Carmélite Dubois and her Trahan husband, and Olivier Dubois, probably his father--was filed at the Houma courthouse the following October. 

Olivier's third son Aurelien Florentin married first cousin Mélasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Antoine Dubois and Marie Aucoin, his uncle and aunt, at the Plattenville church in August 1853.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Joseph Aurelius in May 1854; Silvère Patrice Xavier in March 1857; and Marie Hélène in August 1862--three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1854 and 1862.  During the war, Aurelien served in Company C of the 1st Regiment Louisiana Heavy Artillery, which included many conscripts from Assumption Parish, including Aurelien and his first cousin Zénon Dubois.  The experience proved fatal not only for cousin Zénon, but also for Aurelien.  He died at City Hospital, Vicksburg, Mississippi, in February 1863, age 31.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Olivier's fourth son Ulysse Noël married Mathilde, daughter of Romaine LeBoeuf and his Acadian wife Phelonise Hébert of Terrebonne Parish, at the Houma church in April 1861.  Their children, born near Chacahoula, Terrebonne Parish, included Rosalie Evelina in February 1864; Usella Roselia in December 1867; ...  

During the war, Olivier's sixth and youngest son Jean Baptiste served in Company F of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Terrebonne Parish, which fought, and was captured, at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  While waiting for his unit to be exchanged, Jean Baptiste married Osceana or Otiana, daughter of fellow Acadian Auguste LeBlanc and his Creole wife Adèle Peltier of Lafourche Parish, at the Houma church in October 1863. ...

A succession inventory for Jacques-Olivier's fifth son Paul was filed at the Houma courthouse in January 1846.  Paul would have been age 46 that year.  His succession was filed at the Houma courthouse in May 1847.  Judging by the names of his heirs--brother Louis and his Thibodeaux wife, and niece Louise Émée and her Hébert husband--Paul probably did not marry.  

Jacques Olivier's sixth son Marcellin followed his brothers to Lafayette Parish and married Marie Élise dite Lise, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Mire and Émilie Guilbeau, at the Vermilionville church in February 1825.  They remained in Lafayette Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marcellin, fils born in 1825 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 4 months, in March 1826; Claireville or Clerville baptized at age 4 months in August 1827; Arthémise born in late 1820s and baptized at age 2 in January 1830 but died at age 4 in March 1833; Clémile or Émile born in late 1831 and baptized at age 6 months in May 1832; Cidalise born in late 1833 and baptized at age 5 months in January 1834; Aladin born in late 1835 and baptized at age 6 months in March 1836; Joséphine baptized at age 2 months in May 1838; Onesia, also called Marie Onesia, born in January 1840; Désiré in March 1842; and Marie in April 1844--10 children, five sons and five daughters, between 1825 and 1844.  A succession, probably post-mortem, for wife Élize, as she was called, naming her husband, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in November 1846.  Daughters Marie Onesia and Joséphine married into the Boudreaux, Babineaux, and Kiggs families by 1870.  Three of Marcellin's sons also married by then, one of them after his war service.  They all remained in Lafayette Parish. 

Oldest son Marcellin, fils married Alzire, 17-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Don Louis Broussard and Anastasie Landry, at the Vermilionville church in February 1844.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Émilien in December 1844; Jean Clerville, called Clerville, in August 1846; Louis in August 1849; Anathalie in July 1851; Humbert, also called Hubert and Homer, in June 1858; Marcellin III near Youngsville in February 1861; ...  Marcellin, fils's succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in February 1866.  He would have been age 40 that year.  Daughter ... married into the Lalonde family by 1870.  One of Marcellin, fils's sons also married by then. 

Third son Louis married Alida, daughter of fellow Acadians Clément Mire and Estelle Breaux, at the Youngsville church, Lafayette Parish, in August 1870. ...

Marcellin, père's second son Clairville or Clerville married fellow Acadian Carmélite Hébert in Lafayette Parish in the early 1850s.  They settled probably near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Marie Mathilde in January 1852; Marie Mertille in December 1853; Louis O'Neil in May 1859; ...  Clerville evidently remarried to fellow Acadian Marguerite Landry in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in June 1868.  They settled near Youngsville.  None of Clerville's children married by 1870. 

During the war, Marcellin, père's third son Clémile, also called Émile in Confederate records, with younger brothers Aladin and Désiré, served in Company A of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafayette Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  He survivied the war and returned to his family but did not marry by 1870. 

Marcellin, père's fourth son Aladin, with brothers Clémile and Désiré, served in Company A of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry.  According to one source, Aladin "died at home, on Furlough, fall of 1862."  The same source, however, shows him wounded at Vicksburg on 27 June 1863.  He survived the war, returned to his family, and married Julie, daughter of fellow Acadians Édouard Comeaux and Marguerite Granger and widow of John Bell, at the Youngsville church in October 1865.  Their son Lucien was born near Youngsville in January 1867.  Aladin remarried to Céleste Ozea, called Ozea, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Osémé Boudreaux and Amelina Cormier, at the Youngsville church in January 1868.  Their son Joseph Osémé was born near Youngsville in November 1869; ... 

Marcellin, père's fifth and youngest son Désiré, with older brothers Clémile and Aladin, served in Company A of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry.  He also survived the war but did not marry by 1870. 

Jacques Olivier's seventh son Sylvain Célestin followed his brothers to Lafayette Parish, where he married Rose Adélaïde, called Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Dugas and Élisabeth Landry and widow of Jean Pierre Landry, at the Vermilionville church in October 1826.  They, too, remained in Lafayette Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie Aurelia in October 1827; and Aurelien in June 1830.  Daughter Marie Aurelia married into the Broussard family by 1870.  Sylvain Célestin's son did not marry by then, if he married at all. 

Jacques Olivier's eighth and youngest son Hubert Zénon, called Zénon, followed his brothers to Lafayette Parish, where he married Euphémie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Pierre Landry and Adélaïde Dugas, at the Vermilionville church in March 1827.  They moved to lower Bayou Teche probably in the late 1840s.  Their children, born on the prairies and the lower Teche, included Marie Ludovisca baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in March 1828 but died at age 1 in March 1829; Drausin or Drosin baptized at the Vermilionville church at age 4 1/2 months in July 1832; and Joseph Homère born near New Iberia, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in October 1850--three children, a daughter and two sons, between 1828 and 1850.  Zénon died near New Iberia in August 1856.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Hubert Zénon was age 42 when he died.  His succession was filed at the Franklin courthouse, St. Mary Parish, in May 1859, so he probably owned propery in that parish as well.  One of his sons married by 1870.

Older son Drosin married Valérie, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Boudreaux and Marie Zéline Landry, at the Vermilionville church in May 1852.  Their son Césaire was born in Lafayette Parish in February 1853.  Drosin remarried to Ophelia Dartes, place and date unrecorded.  Their son Pierre Neuville was born near New Iberia in March 1861; ...  Drosin died probably in St. Mary Parish in November 1866, age 34.  His succession was filed at the Franklin courthouse later in the month.  One wonders if his death was war-related.

Dugas

Abraham Dugas, a gunsmith, born in c1616 perhaps at Chouppes north of Poitiers in Poitou, France, reached Acadia in the early 1640s.  (There is genetic evidence that Abraham may have had Jewish ancestry, which would have made him fairly unique among his fellow Acadians.)  In October 1687, Abraham "made his mark on an attestation in favour of Governor d'Aulnay's accomplishments" in Acadia, which had occured in the late 1630s and 1640s--evidence of Abraham's early presence in the colony.  Abraham was more than a gunsmith at Port-Royal.  According to French official Antoine Laumet dit Le Mothe de Cadillac, Abraham "carried out the functions of general representative of the King (in civil and criminal matters)," so Abraham was literate, educated, and may have been part an influential family in France.  He married Marguerite, daughter of Germain Doucet, sieur de La Verdure and his first wife, at Port-Royal in c1647.  Between 1648 and 1667, at Port-Royal, Marguerite gave Abraham eight children, five daughters and three sons, each of whom created families of their own.  Abraham died at Port-Royal by 1700, in his late 70s or early 80s.  In December 1705, in order to increase the size of the fort at Port-Royal, colonial officials appropriated two lots "adjoining and drawing towards the old fort" that belonged to Abraham's heirs.  His daughters married into the Melanson dit La Ramée, Bourgeois, Châtillon, Arseneau, and LeBlanc families.  His sons married into the Bourgeois, Bourg, Petitpas, and Guilbeau families.  In 1755, his descendants could be found in British Nova Scotia at Annapolis Royal, Chignecto, Cap-Sable, and Grand-Pré and Cobeguit in the Minas Basin; at Ékoupag on Rivière St.-Jean; on Île Royale, where one of his grandsons had settled in the 1710s; and on Île St.-Jean in French-controlled Acadia.  They were especially numerous at Annapolis Royal, Cobeguit, and on Île St.-Jean.  Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this large family even farther. 

The Acadians at Chignecto were the first to endure a disruption of their lives.  During the spring and summer of 1750, in response to the British building a fort at Beaubassin village, Canadian militia, assisted by Mi'kmaq warriors led by Abbé Jean-Louis Le Loutre, burned Acadian homesteads in the British-controlled area east of Rivière Missaguash, forcing the habitants there to move to the French-controlled area west of the river.  Dugass may have been among the refugees in this petit dérangement.  When British and New-English forces attacked Fort Beauséjour in June 1755, Chignecto-area Acadians, pressured by the French, served in the fort as militia.  They, too, along with the French troupes de la marine, became prisoners of war when the fort surrendered on June 16.  Lieutenant-Governor Charles Lawrence was so incensed to find so-called French Neutrals fighting with French regulars at Beauséjour he ordered his officers to deport the local Acadians to the southernmost seaboard colonies, Dugass among them.  Later that summer, when the Cobeguit Acadians became aware of the British roundups at Chignecto and at the other end of the Minas Basin, the entire population abandoned their settlements, made their way across the hills to the North Shore villages, crossed Mer Rouge that fall, winter, or spring, and joined their kinsmen on Île St.-Jean, now crowded with hundreds of other refugees from British Nova Scotia. 

In late autumn of 1755, the British shipped the Acadians in the Annapolis Basin to Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, and North Carolina.  Dugass ended up on the Helena, bound for Massachusetts.  However, the ship heading to North Carolina, the Pembroke, never got there.  Soon after the Pembroke embarked from Goat Island in the Annaspolis basin and entered the lower Bay of Fundy with 232 exiles aboard, the Acadians, among them Charles Dugas, took advantage of a storm.  They seized the vessel, sailed it to Baie Ste.-Marie down the Nova Scotia coast, and then crossed the Bay of Fundy to the lower Rivière St.-Jean, where they abandoned the ship and escaped upriver to the settlements where their Dugas cousins lived.  The rest of their Annapolis brethren were not so lucky.  After their ship reached Boston, Dugass deported to Massachusetts were parcelled out to other communities in the colony.  One family, led by a widow, was deported to Connecticut.  Meanwhile, Dugass who had escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal spent a hard winter on the Fundy shore, crossed the bay to Chepoudy the following spring, and found refuge on the upper Petitcoudiac or on lower Rivière St.-Jean among their Dugas cousins.  Some moved on to Miramichi and other places of refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence or endured the long trek up the St.-Jean portage to Canada.  

Living in territory controlled by France, the many Dugass on Île St.-Jean and Île Royale, and the Dugass on Rivière St.-Jean, escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia in 1755.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived, however.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats rounded up most of the habitants on Île St.-Jean and Île Royale, Dugass among them.  The British also attacked the Acadian settlements at Cap-Sable and on lower Rivière St.-Jean that fall and winter, including the Dugas enclave at Ékoupag.  No Dugass were still living at Cap-Sable.  The river Dugass, unlike some of their hapless neighbors, eluded the redcoats and the New-English rangers and escaped upriver to Canada or to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore. 

Meanwhile, the British packed hundreds of island Acadians into deportation transports and shipped them to St.-Malo and other French ports, including, in the case of the Dugass, Boulogne-sur-Mer in Picardie, and La Rochelle and Rochefort on the Bay of Biscay.  The deportation devastated entire Dugas families and was especially fatal to many of their children.  Island Dugass did their best to make a life for themselves in the ports where they landed.  They were especially numerous in the St.-Malo area, where they lived at St.-Suliac on the east side of Rivière Rance south of the Breton port; Pleudihen-sur-Rance on the same side of the river south of St.-Suliac; Pleurtuit, Ploubalay, and Plouër-sur-Rance across the river from St.-Suliac; St.-Coulomb, St.-Méloir-des-Ondes, La Pahorie, La Gouesnière, and Château Malo in the countryside east of St.-Malo; and in the suburbs of St.-Servan-sur-Mer just below the Breton port and St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, across the harbor from St.-Malo.  By the early 1770s, French authorities were tired of providing for the exiles languishing in the port cities.  An influential nobleman offered to settle them on land he owned in the interior of Poitou near the city of Châtellerault--not far from where Abraham Dugas had been born.  Hundreds of Acadians, including Dugass from the St.-Malo area and La Rochelle, went there in 1773.  In late 1775 and early 1776, after over two years of effort, the Dugass, with most of the other Poitou Acadians, retreated in four convoys down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes, where they lived once again on government hand outs and whatever work they could find.  A Dugas family from Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, came to France by a different route.  After the war with Britain ended in 1763, hundreds of Acadians from prison compounds in Nova Scotia, determined to escape British rule, migrated to Miquelon, one of the French-controlled fishery islands off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  Within a few years, French authorities despaired that the islands' dwindling resources would be unable to support such a large population.  Pressured by French authorities obeying a royal decree, Dugass, along with other fisher/habitants, were "deported" to St.-Malo aboard the schooner La Creole in November 1767, where they no doubt were welcome by their many cousins in the area.  It did not take them long to see that conditions in the French port and its suburbs and villages were no better than what they had endured on the crowded fishing islands.  They returned to Miquelon the following March, but another war forced them from the islands again.  In 1778, France joined the United States in its fight for independence against their old red-coated enemies.  The fishery islands, by now, were a chief source of salted cod for the European market, which made them a tempting target.  British forces from Newfoundland seized Miquelon and nearby Île St.-Pierre later in the year.  "In scenes reminiscent of the deportations of 1755," wrote one historian, "the inhabitants of St. Pierre and Miquelon were forced aboard vessels, without being given time 'to even save their clothes,' while soldiers went from house to house, burning the structures and their contents.  Once again, the Miquelonnais were forced to sail to France."  Most of the islanders landed at La Rochelle.  Others went to Brittany.  The Dugass made the crossing back to France aboard the brigantine Jeannette, which reached St.-Malo in early November 1778.  Members of the family died there, including the former privateer Joseph Dugas, fils and his second wife.  In the early 1780s, when the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, at least 55 of the Dugass still in the mother country agreed to take it.  Others chose to remain. 

In North America, Dugass who had escaped the British in the late 1750s and found refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore suffered more reverses in the final years of the war against Britain.  After the fall of Québec in September 1759, the British gathered their forces to subdue the remaining French strongholds in New France, including Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, now a major Acadian refuge.  In late June 1760, a naval force from Louisbourg attacked Restigouche.  After a spirited fight in which Acadian militia and Mi'kmaq warriors played an important role, the French commander blew up his larger vessels and retreated up Rivière Restigouche, leaving the militia and the Indians to oppose a British landing.  Unable to capture the garrison or lay waste to the area, the British commander ordered his ships to return to their base at Louisbourg.  In October, after the fall of Montréal, another British naval force, this one from Québec, appeared at Restigouche to accept the garrison's, and the Acadians', surrender.  On 24 October 1760, on the eve of formal surrender, French officers counted 1,003 Acadians still at Restigouche, Dugass among them.  Two members of the family, in fact, brothers Joseph, fils and Alexandre le jeune, were serving as major and capitain, respectively, in the garrison's militia.  The British held them, and other exiles captured or surrendered in the region, in prison compounds in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  In 1761-62, British officials at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, counted Dugass being held there.  In August 1763, members of the family at Fort Cumberland, formerly French Fort Beauséjour, near their old homesteads at Chignecto, and in the prison barracks at Halifax, appeared on French repatriation lists circulating among the exiles. 

At war's end, Acadians being held in the seaboard colonies, theoretically, were free to go, but not until the British discerned their intentions.  Even then, colonial officials discouraged repatriation.  In August 1763, Dugass appeared on French repatriation lists in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and South Carolina.  Some were still in Massachusetts in June 1766, their names appearing on a list of "The French" still in the colony "Who Wish to go to Canada." 

Most of the Dugass being held in the northern seaboard colonies chose to resettle in Canada, where their kinsmen had gone as early 1756.  Though now also a British possession, the far-northern province was populated largely by fellow French Catholics, many of them Acadian exiles.  So, in a colony nearly as old as Acadia, descendants of Abraham Dugas began the slow, inexorable process of becoming Canadiennes.  Especially after 1766, they could be found on the upper St. Lawrence at Ste.-Foy, Bécancour, Batiscan, Louiseville, St.-Jacques de l'Achigan, and St.-Paul-de-Lavaltire; at Québec City; on the lower St. Lawrence at Rimouski, St.-Charles de Bellechasse, Rivière-du-Loup, and Cap-Chat; at Carleton and Bonaventure in Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs; and at Caraquet in present-day northeastern New Brunswick.  In Nova Scotia, they could be found at Chédabouctou on the Atlantic side of the peninsula; on the western side of the peninsula at Pointe-de-l'Église, now Church Point, Grosses-Coques, L'Anse-aux-Belliveau, and Meteghan on Baie Ste.-Marie, today's St. Mary's Bay; at D'Escousse and Nureichak on Île Madame off the southeast coast of Cape Breton Island, formerly Île Royale; and at Chéticamp on the remote western shore of Cape Breton Island.  Dugass also settled in Newfoundland.  Typical of most, if not all, Acadian families, these Acadiennes of Canada lost touch with their Cadien cousins hundreds of miles away, and, until the Acadian reunions of the twentieth century, may even have forgotten the others existed.  

While the end-of-war treaty was being negotiated, French officials encouraged exiles in the seaboard colonies to go to St.-Domingue.  Although driven from North America by the Seven Years' War, the French were determined to hang on to what was left of their shrinking colonial empire.  A new naval base at Môle St.-Nicolas on the northwest end of St.-Domingue would protect the approaches to what was left of their possessions in the Caribbean basin and help in the "war of vengeance" to come.  French officials saw the exiles as a ready source of labor not only for the naval contractors, but also for the colony's major planters, who wished to supplement the labor of their slaves.  To sweeten the deal, the French promised the Acadians land of their own in the sugar colony.  And so, in 1763 and 1764, Acadians, including Dugass from New England and South Carolina, chose to go to St.-Domingue.  Dugass were sent not only to Môle St.-Nicolas, but also to Mirebalais near Port-au-Prince, in the island's interior, to work on indigo and coffee plantations.  At least one of the Dugass in St.-Domingue was not happy with conditions there.  The British had deported her to South Carolina in 1755, and, after being listed there in August 1763, she and her Marant husband moved on to Môle St.-Nicolas, but they refused to remain.  In early 1765, when fellow Acadians, including Dugass, from Halifax changed ships at Cap-Français on their way to New Orleans, the Dugas and her husband joined them.  With them were two Orillion orphans whose mother was the Dugas wife's sister. 

Dugass being held in Nova Scotia at war's end faced a hard dilemma.  The Treaty of Paris of February 1763 stipulated in its Article IV that persons dispersed by the war had 18 months to return to their respective territories.  However, British authorities refused to allow any of the Acadian prisoners in the region to return to their former lands as proprietors.  If Acadians chose to remain in, or return to, Nova Scotia, they could live only in small family groups in previously unsettled areas or work for low wages on former Acadian lands now owned by New-English "planters."  If they stayed, they must also take the hated oath of allegiance to the new British king, George III, without reservation.  They would also have to take the hated oath if they joined their cousins in Canada.  After all that they had suffered on the question of the oath, no self-respecting Acadian would consent to take it if it could be avoided.  Some Nova Scotia exiles, including Dugass, chose to go to Île Miquelon.  Others considered going to French St.-Domingue, where Acadian exiles in the British colonies, including Dugass, were going, or to the Illinois country, the west bank of which still belonged to France, or to lower Louisiana, which, thanks to British control of Canada, was the only route possible to the Illinois country for Acadian exiles.  Whatever their choice, many refused to remain under British rule.  So they gathered up their money and their few possessions and prepared to leave their homeland.  Of the 600 exiles who left Halifax in late 1764 and early 1765 bound for Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, at least two dozen were Dugass. 

Dugass settled early in Acadia and were among the earliest Acadians to find refuge in Louisiana.  The first of them arrived from Halifax in February 1765.  They followed the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche, but life there soon became unbearable.  An epidemic that summer and fall killed dozens of Teche valley Acadians.  Only one other family (the Bergerons) buried as many family members as the Dugass, and more Dugass died than Broussards!  Most of the family's survivors retreated that autumn with dozens of other Acadians, including the Bergerons, also from Rivière St.-Jean, back across the Atchafalaya Basin to Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  With only one exception, there they remained.  As a result, two centers of family settlement had emerged in the Spanish colony by the late 1760s.  On the western prairies, one Dugas remained at Fausse Pointe on the lower Teche, where the prairie Acadians had first settled.  However, most of his brothers and cousins moved to Anse La Butte and Grand Prairie on upper Bayou Vermilion, which, according to one authority, became "probably the most important historical center of the Dugas clan in the state."  On the Mississippi, some Dugass remained at Cabahannocer, but most moved upriver to Ascension, also part of what Louisianians called the Acadian Coast.  In the 1770s, a Dugas came to Louisiana likely from France and joined his cousins on the upper Vermilion.  The largest contingent of  Dugass who came to Louisiana--55 individuals in a dozen families--reached the colony from France on every one of the Seven Ships of 1785.  One large family of six, some wives, a widow, and a young newlywed, chose to join their kinsmen on the western prairies, but most of the Dugass from France chose to settle on the Acadian Coast or on upper Bayou Lafourche, where a third center of family settlement emerged.  By the late 1790s, nearly all of the Dugass from France had joined the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche, creating a center of family settlement that rivaled in numbers their cousins who remained on the Acadian Coast.  

During the antebellum period, more Dugass from the river, including four brothers from Ascension Parish and two from St. James, joined their kinsmen on Bayou Lafourche, while some Lafourche Dugass moved down to the coastal marshes east of Bayou Terrebonne.  The most dramatic migration of family members, however, occurred on the western prairies.  By the 1850s, Dugass from the Teche and Vermilion valleys had moved west of Bayou Nezpique and the Mermentau River, where they worked large herds of cattle on the Calcasieu prairies.  Some did not stop there.  At least two members of the family fought in the Texas War of Independence in 1836.  By 1860, four Dugas families had joined their kinsman in East Texas, where they tended to spell their surname Dugat.  After the War of 1861-65, at least one Dugas from the Bayou Teche valley settled in the Terrebonne marshes, and others moved from upper Bayou Lafourche to the western prairies.  ...

Meanwhile, a French-Canadian Dugas who may have had Acadian ancestry settled among his namesakes in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley, and a Dugas from Georgia who also may have been a descendant of Abraham the gunsmith settled on the river in Ascension Parish.  During the antebellum period, Foreign-French Dugas/Dugots came to Louisiana from France and Mexico, but none of them seem to have established families in the Bayou State.  ...

Dozens of Dugass and Dugats served Louisiana and Texas in uniform during the War of 1861-65. ...

In Louisiana, The family's name also is spelled Deuga, Douga, Duga, Dugast, Dugats, Dugons, Huga, Hugas.16

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In February 1765, 21 Dugass--two wives, three brothers, several individuals, including a very young orphan, and three families, two of them fairly large--reached New Orleans from Halifax via Cap-Français.  After a brief respite in the city, they followed the Broussards to Bayou Teche.  When an epidemic killed six members of the family that summer and fall, most of the remaining Dugass retreated to Cabahannocer on the river, one Dugas followed her husband to the Opelousas District, and others remained on Bayou Teche, with the result that two centers of family settlement emerged, on the river and the prairies:  

Jean (1712-1765) à Martin à Abraham Dugas

Jean, third son of Abraham dit Grivois Dugas and Marie-Madeleine Landry, born at Annapolis Royal in June 1712, followed his family to Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, later in the decade but returned to British Nova Scotia.  He did not choose to remain there either.  He married Marie-Charlotte, daughter of Gabriel Godin and Andrée-Angélique Jeanne of Rivière St.-Jean, in c1734 at either Annapolis Royal or on Rivière St.-Jean and settled at Ékoupag, today's Meductic, on the lower river, where French officials counted them in 1739 with three children, including a son, Joseph.  From 1740 to 1757, at the river settlement, Marie-Charlotte gave Jean at least five more children:  François born in c1740; Marie-Rose in c1749; Charles in c1750; Athanase in c1753; and Michel in c1757.  Jean and his family escaped the British attacks up Rivière St.-Jean in late 1758 and early 1759 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore before making their way up to the French outpost at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  Marie-Charlotte gave Jean at least one child during exile, Théodore, born in c1759--nine children, at least six sons and a daughter, between 1734 and 1759.  A British naval force from Louisbourg attacked Restigouche in late June 1760.  The blue jackets failed to capture the outpost, now a major Acadian refuge, but they did cut it off from the rest of New France.  In October, after the fall of Montréal, another British naval force, this one from Québec, appeared at Restigouche to accept the garrison's, and the Acadians', surrender.  On October 24, on the eve of formal surrender, Jean Dugas "fils de Pre.[sic]," as he was called, with eight people in his household, appeared on a list of 1,003 Acadians still at Restigouche.  The British held them and other exiles captured or surrendered in the region in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  In August 1763, Jean, his wife, and eight others in his family appeared on a French repatriation list at Halifax.  In 1764-65, Jean, Marie-Charlotte, and six of their children, five sons and a daughter, one of them married with family, followed other Rivière-St.-Jean Acadians to Louisiana via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue.  Jean was among the recent arrivals who tried to exchange their Canadian money for French funds at New Orleans.  In April 1765, he and his family followed the Broussards from the city and across the Atchafalaya Basin to lower Bayou Teche.  Marie-Charlotte died on the Teche that July, age unrecorded, an early victim, perhaps, of an epidemic that struck the Teche valley Acadians that summer and fall.  Jean died in September, age 43, in the same epidemic that killed his wife and oldest son, and was buried at "the first camp lower down."  After Jean's death, his younger children, all of whom survived the malady, retreated with other Rivière-St.-Jean Acadians back across the basin to Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans, where other Dugass from Halifax had recently settled.  Daughter Marie-Rose married into the Landry family on the river and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  All six of Jean's sons married, but not all of the lines endured.  Nevertheless, Jean's was not only the first, it was also the largest Dugas family line established in Louisiana. 

Oldest son Joseph married cousin Cécile, daughter of Barthélémy Bergeron dit d'Ambroise and Marguerite Dugas of Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas, Rivière St.-Jean, probably on the river in the early 1750s.  Cécile gave Joseph at least two children there:  Cécile born in c1753; and Joseph dit Cadet in c1754.  They escaped the British in 1758 and had another child while in exile, Pélagie-Madeleine, born in c1759.  They also found refuge with their families at Restigouche, surrendered with them, and were held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia.  Joseph and Cécile appeared on a repatriation list with three children at Halifax in August 1763.  In 1764-65, they followed his parents and younger siblings to Louisiana.  Cécile was pregnant on the voyage.  Daughter Mathilde, their fourth and final child, was born at New Orleans in March 1765, soon after the family reached the colony, and died less than a week later--perhaps the first Acadian exile to die in Louisiana.  That April, Joseph, Cécile, and their remaining children, a son and two daughters, followed the Broussards and his family to lower Bayou Teche.  Joseph died either in July or October, a victim of the epidemic that struck the Teche valley Acadians that summer and  fall.  After his death, Cécile and her children retreated with other Rivière-St.-Jean Acadians to Cabahannocer.  Cécile remarried twice there, to a Lahure from Lorraine and to an Acadian Bernard.  Her Dugas daughters Cécile and Pélagie married into the Comeau and Bernard families on the river, and the one who married a Bernard, who was her stepbrother, moved on to Bayou Lafourche.  Cécile and Joseph's son also married and settled on the river.

Only son Joseph dit Cadet followed his family into exile, to Halifax, New Orleans, and lower Bayou Teche.  After his father's death in a Teche valley epidemic, Cadet followed his widowerd mother and sisters to Cabahannocer, where he married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Marcel LeBlanc and Marie-Josèphe Breaux, in October 1780.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer, included Étienne Sylvestre in December 1787; Clémence in April 1791; Mélanie-Françoise or Françoise-Mélanie, called Mélanie, in May 1793; Marie-Françoise, called Françoise, in September 1795; Benjamin in October 1799; and Lucas dit Luc, in March 1802--six children, three sons and three daughters, between 1787 and 1802.  Joseph dit Cadet died near Convent, St. James Parish, in January 1833, age 80.  Daughters Clémence, Mélanie, and Françoise married into the Dicharry, Arceneaux, Breaux, and Besson families.  Cadet's three sons also married and settled on the left, or east, bank of the river in St. James Parish.  One lived briefly on the western prairies.  Joseph dit Cadet's youngest son moved to upper Bayou Lafourche by the 1840s, but his older sons remained on the river. 

Oldest son Étienne Sylvestre married Scholastique, daughter of fellow Acadians Bonaventure Godin and Marie Broussard, at the St. James church in August 1806.  Their son Étienne, fils was born near Convent in September 1812.  Étienne, père died there in June 1854, age 66 (the recording priest said 57).  His son married and settled on the river. 

Only son Étienne, fils married Marie Mélisaire or Melissa, also called Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Bourgeois and Marie Angèle Gautreaux, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, upriver from St. James Parish, in October 1834.  Their children, born on the river, included Émilie Marguerite in May 1835; Scholastique Émelia in August 1837 but, called Amelia, died near Convent the following December; Félicien died there at age 2 months in December 1838; Joseph Ludger born in January 1840; Simon in March 1842; Adrien in March 1843 but died the following June; Jean Baptiste born in October 1844; and Étienne Dorsinau in February 1855 but, called Dorsino, died at age 6 1/2 in August 1861--eight children, two daughters and six sons, between 1835 and 1855.  Étienne, fils died near Convent in May 1856.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Étienne died at "age 40 yrs."  He was 43.  Daughter Émilie Marguerite married into the Jacob family by 1870.  One of Étienne, fils's remaining sons also married by then. 

Fifth son Jean Baptiste, at age 25, married Claire Odalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Terence LeBlanc and Léocade LeBlanc, at the Convent church in April 1870. ...

Cadet's second son Benjamin married Louise Marie Émelie Mélisaire, called Mélisaire or Serre, daughter of Benjamin Folcher, Folgues, Folker, Forchere, Fulcher, or Volkes and Marie Arceneaux, perhaps an Acadian, at the Convent church in April 1826.  They settled near Convent until the early 1830s, when they crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to Lafayette Parish, but they soon returned to the river.  Their children, born on the river and the prairies, included Joseph Norbert near Convent in July 1826; Marie Amélie or Émilie in January 1828 but, called Émilie, died in Lafayette Parish at age 4 1/2 (the recording priest said 5) in October 1832; Anne Domitilde or Domitille born in June 1829 but died in Lafayette Parish at age 3 1/2 (the recording priest said 4) in October 1832, four days before her older sister Émilie died; Marie Mélodie, called Mélodie, born near Convent in October 1830; Benjamin, fils in Lafayette Parish in August 1832 but died near Convent at age 15 months in December 1833; Louis born in 1834 and baptized at the Convent church, age 6 months, in February 1835; Marguerite Evélina, called Evélina, born in July 1836; Cécile in December 1838 but, called Cécilia, died at age 14 1/2 (the recording priest said 15) in October 1853, victim, perhaps, of the smallpox epidemic that struck South Louisiana that summer and fall; and Louisa born posthumously in August 1840--nine children, three sons and six daughters, between 1826 and 1840.  (One wonders why they moved to the western prairies during the early 1830s and returned to the river so quickly and why two of their daughters died in Lafayette Parish within less than a week's time in October 1832.)  Benjamin died near Convent in March 1840.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Benjamin died at "age about 37 yrs."  He was 40.  Daughters Mélodie, Evélina, and Louisa married into the Melançon, Theriot, and Blouin families by 1870.  Two of Benjamin's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Joseph Norbert married Marie Elmire, called Elmire, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Clouâtre and Marcellite Bourgeois, at the Convent church in September 1846.  In June 1860, Joe, as he was called, was working as a carpenter in St. James Parish.  His and Elmire's children, born near Convent, included Marie Aimée, called Aimée, in December 1847; Marie Joséphine, called Joséphine, baptized, age 2 1/2 months, in September 1849; Joseph Clairville born in October 1850 but, called Clairville, died at age 8 months in July 1851; Félicie born in July 1852; Joseph, fils in March 1854 but, for some reason called Thomassin, died at age 1 in March 1855; Joseph Benjamin born in September 1855 but, called Benjamin, died at age 5 1/2 (the recording priest said 7) in June 1861; Marie Alice, called Alice, born in September 1857; Marie Adèla in March 1859; Michel Léoville in December 1860; and Joseph Adam Willis in October 1864--10 children, five daughters and five sons, between 1847 and 1864.  Joseph died near Convent in January 1867.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Jos., as he called him, died at "age 40 years," so this probably was him.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Benjamin's third and youngest son Louis married Zulma or Zulmée, daughter of Placide Hymel and Virginie Pertuit, at the Convent church in January 1857.  Their children, born near Convent, included Ignace Camille in July 1858; Hippolyte Florian in August 1859 but died in September; Marie Camilla born in July 1860 but, called Camelia, died at age 3 in June 1863; Marie Corinne born in May 1862; Marie Adèle in April 1864; Joseph Félix in December 1865; Marie Louise in September 1867; Joseph Émile in October 1869; ... 

Cadet's third and youngest son Lucas dit Luc married cousin Marie Émilie dite Émelite, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Mire and Henriette Bernard, at the Convent church in February 1821; they had to secure dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born near Convent, included Luc, fils in August 1824; and Michel Éloi or Éloi Michel in September 1826.  Luc took his family to upper Bayou Lafourche, where, at age 53, he remarried to Marie, daughter of Jean Gross and Marie Anglade and widow of Édouard Babin, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in April 1855.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Assumption and Ascension parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie Philomène in March 1856; and Joseph René in June 1857--four children, three sons and a daughter, by two wives, between 1824 and 1857.  Luc, père died near Paincourtville in December 1863.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Luc died at "age 62 years."  He was 61. One wonders if his death was war-related.  His daughter did not marry by 1870, but two of his sons did, to sisters.

Oldest son Luc, fils, by first wife Émelite Mire, married Aureline, daughter of fellow Acadians Apollinaire Landry and Élise Landry, at the Paincourtville church in May 1845.  She evidently gave him no children.  Luc, fils remarried to Carmélite or Carmenina, daughter of Remon Bermeyo, Bermeau, Balmeo, or Bernuchot and Carmélite Marroi, at the Paincourtville church in June 1850.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Assumption and Ascension parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie Émelie in August 1851; Marie Alida in September 1853; Joseph in November 1855; Joseph Sosthène in October 1858 but, called Sosthène, died in September 1865 only a few weeks shy of age 7; and Ambroise Julian born in January 1861 but, called Ambroise, died at age 8 1/2 (the recording priest said 9) in September 1869--five children, two daughters and three sons, by one of his two wives, between 1851 and 1861.  Luc, fils died in Ascension Parish in October 1863.  The Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Luc died at "age 39 years," so this was him.  One wonders if his death was war-related.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Luc, père's second son Michel Éloi, by first wife Émelite Mire, married Françoise, another daughter of Apollinaire Landry and Élise Landry, at the Paincourtville church in February 1850.  They also settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Assumption and Ascension parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie Amanda, called Amanda, near Paincourtville in December 1850; Joseph Amédée in March 1852; Joseph Lose or Louis, in December 1853 but, called Joseph Luis, died in January; Joseph Oleus born in January 1855; Marguerite Odile in June 1857; Marie Olfida in March 1859; Joseph in April 1861; Marie Virginie in November 1862 but died at age 1 1/2 in July 1864; and Stanislas Elphége born in May 1865 but, called Elphége, died the following October--nine children, four daughters and five sons, between 1850 and 1865.  Michel Éloi died near Donaldsonville in November 1865.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Michel Éloi died at "age 38 years"  He was 39.  One wonders if his death was war-related.  Daughter Amanda married into the Rome family by 1870.  None of Michel Éloi's sons married by then. 

Jean's second son François followed his family into exile and imprisonment, then to New Orleans, lower Bayou Teche, and Cabahannocer, where he married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Babin and Anne Thériot, in June 1768.  They moved upriver to Ascension, where colonial officials counted them on the right, or west, bank of the river in 1770 and 1777.  Their children, born at Ascension, included Joseph le jeune in c1770; Hippolyte dit Paul in c1771; Athanase le jeune, also called François, in September 1773; Michel-Noël in December 1775; Appoline in October 1778; Jean le jeune baptized, age unrecorded, in November 1783; Marguerite baptized, age unrecorded, in December 1786 but died at age 1 1/2 in October 1788; and Jérôme born in April 1790 but died at age 17 in April 1807--eight children, six sons and two daughters, between 1770 and 1790.  François died at Ascension in October 1798.  The priest who recorded the burial said that François was age 66 when he died.  He was closer to 58.  Daughter Apolline married into the LeBlanc family.  Five of François's sons also married and settled on the river, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Joseph le jeune married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Honoré Breaux and Madeleine Breaux, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in February 1795.  They evidently remained childless.  Joseph le jeune remarried to Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Poirier and Marie Cormier and widow of Charles Hébert, at the St. James church, St. James Parish, in February 1809.  Their children, born near Convent, St. James Parish, included Marguerite Arthémise in December 1809; Marguerite, perhaps also called Marie Félonise, in March 1811; and François Camille or Cornille in October 1814--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1809 and 1814.  Joseph le jeune died near Convent in July 1842.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Joseph died at "age 75 yrs.."  He probably was in his early 70s.  Daughters Marie Felonise and Marguerite Arthémise, by his second wife, married into the Landry and Mire families.  Joseph le jeune's son also married and settled on the river.

Only son François Camille, by second wife Marguerite Poirier, married Marie Émelite, called Mélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Louvière and Marguerite LeBlanc, at the Convent church in September 1837; they had to secure dispensation for fourth degree of relationship in order to marry.  They lived on the river near the boundary between St. James and Ascension parishes.  Their children, born there, included Élisabeth Laurentia, called Laurentia, in January 1844; and Joseph Ambroise in December 1846 but, called Ambroise, died at age 1 in November 1847.  François Cornille, as the recording priest called him, remarried, at age 40, to Eve, daughter of fellow Acadians Narcisse Gautreaux and Mathilde LeBlanc, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in May 1855.  They settled near Gonzales in Ascension Parish.  Their son François Constant was born in December 1866; ...  Daughter Laurentia, by his first wife, married into the Richard family by 1870.  Needless to say, François Camille's surviving son did not marry by then. 

François's second son Hippolyte dit Paul married Marie-Juliènne, daughter of fellow Acadians François Duhon and Isabelle Landry and widow of Louis Foret, at Ascension in September 1800.  Hippolyte died by April 1808, when wife Marie remarried again.  He evidently fathered no children. 

François's third son Athanase le jeune married Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Firmin Broussard and Madeleine Landry, at Ascension in February 1798, the same day and at the same place his brother Michel-Noël married.  Athanase le jeune and Françoise's children, born at Ascension, included Marguerite-Arthémise in March 1799 but died at age 1 1/2 in July 1800; Françoise-Delphine born in January 1801; twins François-Larmusion or Jean-Morusian and Madeleine-Aselise or -Azélie, called Azélie, in February 1802, but François-Larmusion died at age 7 in October 1809 and Azélie died at age 12 1/2 in October 1814; twins Jean Vincent and Marie Eméranthe or Marthe born in January 1804, but Marie Marthe died five days after her birth, and Jean Vincent died three weeks after his birth--six children, four daughters and two sons, including two sets of twins, between 1799 and 1804.  Athanase le jeune died at Ascension in July 1807, age 33.  Daughter Françoise married into the Chiasson family.  When his remaining son died two years after Athanase's death, this line of the family, except for its blood, died with them.  

François's fourth son Michel-Noël married cousin Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand Babin and Anastasie Landry, at Ascension in February 1798, the same day and at the same place his brother Athanase married.  Michel-Noël and Madeleine's children, born at Ascension, included Marguerite-Phelonise in March 1800; Michel-Eugène in November 1801 but died age 6 months in May 1802; Louis-Ulgère, also called Michel-Ulgère and Ulger, born in February 1803; Marie died six days after her birth in February 1805; and Joseph Trasimond, called Trasimond, born in October 1806--five children, two daughters and three sons, between 1800 and 1806.  Michel Noël died in Ascension Parish in July 1807, age 31.  Daughter Marguerite Phelonise married into the LeBlanc family.  Two of Michel Noël's sons also married on the river. 

Second son Louis Ulgère, called Ulgère, married cousin Marie Mathilde, daughter of fellow Acadians Auguste Broussard and Émerite Landry, at the Donaldsonville church in December 1825; they had to secure dispensation for third degree of ____ in order to marry.  Their son Léon Mathurin, called Mathurin, was born in Ascension Parish in November 1826 but died in December.  Ulgère remarried to cousin Émilie or Amélie, daughter of fellow Acadians Donat Landry and Lise Melançon, at the Donaldsonville church in October 1829.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Léon in January 1831; Marguerite Euphémie in July 1832; Céleste in the early 1830s; Marie Séraphine in May 1835; Élisabeth Adeline in December 1836; Louise, perhaps theirs, in September 1837; Joseph Goutrand or Gontran in March 1842; Marguerite Nisida in September 1844; Mathilde Madeleine in January 1850 but died at age 15 days in February; and Anastasie Louise born in June 1852--11 children, three sons and eight daughters, by two wives, between 1826 and 1852.  Ulgère died in Ascension Parish in February 1857.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Michel Ulgère, as he called him, died at "age 57 years."  He was 54.  Daughters Céleste and Lise (either Élisabeth Adeline or Louise), by his second wife, married into the Babin and Copponex families by 1870.  Ulgère's remaining sons also married by then. 

Second son Léon, by second wife Émilie Landry, married Rosalie Delphine, called Delphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Richard and Léonise LeBlanc and widow of Francis Guilfou, at the Donaldsonville church in February 1851.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Barbe Aglaé in December 1851; twins Joseph Henry Léon and Marie Léontine in October 1853 but, called Léontine, Marie Léontine died at age 2 months in Decembern 1853, and, called Henry Léon, Joseph Henry Léon died at age 8 months in June 1854.  Léon remarried to cousin Marie Gertrude, called Gertrude, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Landry and Marie Aureline Babin, at the Donaldsonville church in December 1857.  They settled near Gonzales.  Their children, born there, included Arnold Eulger in March 1861; Juste Léon in November 1866; Marie Amélie in October 1869; ...  None of Léon's children married by 1870. 

Ulgère's third and youngest son Joseph Goutraud, by second wife Émilie Landry, called Joseph G. by the recording priest, married cousin Hélène Elmina, daughter of fellow Acadians Omer Hébert and Jeanette Melançon, at the Donaldsonville church in February 1867; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Daughter Laurance Justine was born in Ascension Parish in November 1867; ...

Michel Noël's third and youngest son Joseph Trasimond, called Trasimond, married Mélanie, daughter of Pierre Denoux, also called Gaillard, and Marie Louise Legrange, at the Donaldsonville church in June 1837.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Madeleine Virginie in June 1838 but, called Virginie, died at age 2 in June 1840; Marie Amanda born in August 1839 but, called Amanda, died at age 2 (the recording priest said 3) in July 1841; Joseph Adam, called Adam, born in December 1841; Pierre Trasimond, called Trasimond, fils, in April 1843; Joseph Noël Ozémé, called Ozémé, in April 1845; Jean Thomas, called Thomas, in December 1846; Paul Odrezie in May 1848; Élois Prosper in December 1849; Jérôme Florestan in September 1851; Anne Marie Lucie in December 1852; Constance Azélie in December 1854; Marie Amanda, the second with the name, in March 1856; Marie Athanaize in October 1857; and Madelaine Alice in February 1859--14 children, seven daughters and seven sons, between 1838 and 1859.  Trasimond, père, described as a "res. of Brusly McCall's," died in Ascension Parish in July 1865.  The Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said Trasimond died at "age 50 years."  This Trasimond would have been age 58.  None of his daughters married by 1870, but four of his sons did.  Three of them married Hispanics, two of them sisters. 

Oldest son Adam married Olesida, daughter of Mathias Rodriguez and Joséphine Falcon, at the Donaldsonville church in June 1869. ...

Trasimond's second son Trasimond, fils married Marie Jannette, daughter of Emmanuel Ruiz and Marie Monson, at the Donaldsonville church in September 1863.  Their "2 small children," names and ages unrecorded, died in Ascension Parish in March 1864.  Trasimond, fils remarried to cousin Félicité, daughter of Henry Denoux and Félicité Capdeville, at the Donaldsonville church in January 1866; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree [perhaps third or fourth degree] of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Vileor Justinien in November 1866 but, called Vileor, died at age 1 in November 1867; Victoria Onésima born in September 1868; ... 

Trasimond, père's third son Ozémé married Olivia or Oliva, daughter of fellow Acadians Valère Babin and Adeline Poirier, at the Donaldsonville church in February 1866.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Marie Odelia in January 1867; Léa Valéria in November 1869; ...

Trasimond, père's fourth son Thomas married Lucia, another daughter of Emmanuel Ruiz and Marie Monson, at the Donaldsonville church in August 1869. ...

François's fifth son Jean le jeune married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Duhon and Anne LeBlanc, at St. James in February 1805.  Their children, born on the river, included François Rosémond, called Rosémond, at Ascension in January 1806; Jean Achille, called Achille, at St. James in April 180[7]; twins Jérôme le jeune and Joseph Ovide in August 1808, but Joseph Ovide died in St. James Parish, age 17, in September 1825; Marguerite Arthémise born in March 1813; Marie Fidèle or Fidèlie in November 1815; Joseph Léon, called Léon, in July 1817; and a daughter, name unrecorded, perhaps theirs, died at age 8 days in Ascension Parish in September 1822--eight children, five sons and three daughters, including a set of twins, between 1806 and 1822.  The family moved to upper Bayou Lafourche by the late 1820s.  Jean le jeune died near Plattenville, Assumption Parish, in April 1855, age 72.  Daughters Marguerite Arthémise and Marie Fidèlie married into the LeBlanc and Landry families.  Four of Jean le jeune's sons also married, all to LeBlancs, three of them to sisters, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Rosémond married Marguerite or Marie Mélanie, called Mélanie, daughter of fellow Acadians Donat LeBlanc and Marie Melançon of St. James Parish, at the Donaldsonville church in February 1827.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Sosthène in November 1827 but, called Sosthin, died in December; Jérôme Sosthène, called Sosthène, the second with the name, born in August 1829; Onésime Oscar, called Oscar, in January 1832 but died at age 1 1/2 in September 1833; Marie Coralie born in early 1834 but died in Assumption Parish at age 8 months in November 1834; and Joseph Assard or Aword, perhaps also called Joseph Kempton and Kempton, born in late 1835 and baptized at the Plattenville church, age 6 months, in April 1836--five children, four sons and a daughter, between 1827 and 1835.  Two of Rosémond's sons married and settled on the upper Lafourche. 

Second son Sosthène married Aglaé Renée, daughter of René Langlois and Anne Kislon, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in December 1845.  Their children, born near Paincourtville, included Marie Thérèse Rénée dite Renette in November 1846; Joseph Ernes in June 1853; Jean René in December 1854; Marguerite Mélanie in July 1857; Marie Aglaé in September 1859; Ulysse in August 1862; Joseph Eno baptized at the Paincourtville church, age unrecorded, in March 1864; Joseph Leroi born in January 1866; ...  Daughter Renette married into the LeBlanc and Legrand families by 1870.  None of Sosthène's sons married by then. 

Rosémond's fourth and youngest son Kempton married Adeline, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Blanchard and his Creole wife Carmélite Peltier, at the Paincourtville church in July 1854.  Their children, born near Paincourtville, included Marie Emalaise, perhaps theirs, in August 1855; Joseph Oscar in January 1857; Marie Carmélite in June 1859; Marguerite Elphrida in July 1861; Donat Kempton in August 1864; Ida Christine in July 1866; Marie Adèle in May 1868; ...  None of Kempton's children married by 1870. 

Jean le jeune's second son Achille married cousin Marie Farelise or Farelie, daughter of fellow Acadians Simonet LeBlanc and Françoise Landry, at the Plattenville church in May 1829; they likely had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Simon Aristide in February 1830; Joseph Félix, called Félix, in August 1831; Adeline died at age 17 days in October 1835; Marie Élisabeth born in April 1836 but, called Élizabeth, died at age 14 months in June 1837; Marie Malvine born in February 1838 but, called Malvina, died at age 1 1/2 in August 1839; Marie Anaïse, called Anaïse, born in January 1840; Joseph Jules in January 1842; Joseph Désiré in December 1843 but, called Désiré, died at age 1 1/2 in September 1845; and Marie Pamela, called Pamela, born in October 1846.  Achille, at age 39, remarried to Osite, daughter of Joseph Mollère, fils and his Acadian wife Henriette Blanchard, at the Paincourtville church in February 1847.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Ozitte in February 1848 but, called Osite, died at age 2 1/2 in December 1850; Joseph Cleborde baptized at the Paincourtville church, age 2 months, in June 1849 but, called Joseph Claiborne, died at age 4 1/2 (the recording priest said 5) in February 1854; Jean Alces born in November 1851 but may have been the unnamed infant son who died in late January 1853, age 1 1/2; Isabelle Henriette born in February 1854; François Joseph in October 1855 but died at age 3 1/2 (the recording priest said 4) in July 1859; and Marie Marguerite born in April 1858--15 children, seven sons and eight daughters, by two wives, between 1830 and 1858.  Daughters Anaïse and Pamela, by his first wife, married into the Mollère and Dugas families by 1870.  Only one of Achille's sons married by then.

Second son Félix, by first wife Farelie LeBlanc, married Helena, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Theriot and his Creole wife Marie Caillouet and widow of Telesphore Michel, at the Paincourtville church in May 1855.  Did they have any children? 

Jean le jeune's third son Jérôme le jeune, a twin, married cousin Azélie Euphrosine, another daughter of Simonet LeBlanc and Françoise Landry, at the Plattenville church in September 1841; they likely had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Jérôme died near Plattenville in February 1852, age 43 (the recording priest said 44).  Did he father any children? 

Jean le jeune's fifth and youngest son Joseph Léon, called Léon, married cousin Élise or Élisa, called Lize, yet another daughter of Simonet LeBlanc and Françoise Landry, at the Plattenville church in November 1840; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Coralie in October 1843 but, called Coralie, died at age 10 1/2 (the recording priest said 11) in August 1854; Joseph Elphége born near Paincourtville in April 1846; Marie Aimée in September 1848; Marie in July 1850; Joseph Jules in August 1853 but, called Joseph, died at age 1 in August 1854; Marie Féliciènne born in July 1855; Antoine Ernez in January 1858; Marie Marguerite in April 1862; ...  Daughter ... married into the Champeaux family on lower Bayou Teche by 1870.  None of Léon's sons married by then. 

Jean's third son Charles followed his family into exile and imprisonment, then to New Orleans, lower Bayou Teche, and Cabahannocer.  He married Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians Antoine Babin and Catherine Landry, probably at nearby Ascension in c1772.  Colonial officials counted them on the right, or west, bank of the river there in 1777.  Charles may have taken his family across the Atchafalaya Basin to Attakapas during the late 1770s or early 1780s, but they returned to Ascension.  Their children, born on the river, included Marie-Françoise in October 1773 but died at age 1 1/2 in July 1775; Charles-Grégoire, called Grégoire, born in December 1774; Sophie-Adélaïde, called Adélaïde, in August 1776; Victor in April 1779 but died the following October; Anastasie born in July 1780; Marie-Angèle in August 1783; Paul dit Paulin baptized, age unrecorded, in November 1785; Laurent baptized, age unrecorded, in November 1787 but died at age 1 1/2 in June 1789; Joseph born in March 1790; Jérôme in August 1792; Édouard-Benjamin in July 1795; and perhaps twins Sophie-Eugènie and Rosalie in June 1797, but Rosalie died, age unrecorded, in July 1797--13 children, six daughters and seven sons, perhaps including a set of twins, between 1773 and 1797.  Charles died in Ascension Parish in November 1809, age 59.  Daughters Adélaïde and Anastasie married into the Breaux and Landry families.  Four of Charles's sons also married on the river.

Oldest son Charles-Grégoire, called Grégoire, married Élisabeth- or Isabelle-Sophie, daughter of fellow Acadians Mathurin Landry and Anne Landry, at Ascension in January 1796.  Their children, born there, included Anne-Séraphine in December 1796; Joseph-Nicolas or -Colin in August 1798; Hippolyte-Gustave in December 1800; and Godefroi-Léopold in October 1802.  Grégoire remarried to Françoise Barbay probably at Ascension by 1805.  Their daughter Élise dite Lise Adèle was born there in April 1806--five children, two daughters and three sons, by two wives, between 1796 and 1806.  Grégoire died in Ascension Parish in May 1827, age 52.  Daughters Anne Séraphine and Élise Adèle, by both wives, married into the Godin and Gaudet families.  Two of Grégoire's sons also married at Ascension, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Joseph Nicolas, by first wife Élisabeth Sophie Landry, married cousin Clarisse Eméranthe, daughter of fellow Acadians Édouard Landry and Élisa Landry, at the Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, in March 1821; they had to secure dispensation for third degree of relationship in order to marry.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Sabilia Félix, also called Félix Labas, in December 1821; Paul Edward or Édouard, called Édouard, in January 1826; Marguerite Lise Aima, also called Emma Lise, in July 1828; Joseph Grégoire in January 1834 but died at age 20 in May 1854; and Marie Angelina born in August 1837--five children, three sons and two daughters, between 1821 and 1837.  Joseph Nicolas, at age 42, remarried to Marie Caroline, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Dupuis and Marine Clouâtre and widow of Édouard Blanchard, at the Donaldsonville church in April 1841.  Joseph Nicolas died in Ascension Parish in February 1864.  The Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Joseph Nicolas died at "age 65 years," so this was him.  One wonders if his death was war-related.   Daughters Emma Lise and Marie Angelina, by his first wife, married into the Gaudin and Hébert families by 1870.  Two of Joseph Nicolas's sons also married by then and settled on the river.

Oldest son Félix Labas, by first wife Clarisse Landry, married cousin Marguerite Anne Eléonore, daughter of fellow Acadians Auguste Broussard and Adélaïde Landry, at the Donaldsonville church in October 1842.  Their son Ambroise died at birth in Ascension Parish in December 1843.  Félix remarried to Malvina, daughter of fellow Acadians Milien Babin and Marie Victoire Breaux, at the Donaldsonville church in February 1848.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Raymond Alfred A. in January 1864; Clarisse Adeline in February 1866; Marie Euridice in August 1869; ... 

Joseph Nicolas's second son Edward or Édouard, by first wife Clarisse Landry, married Marguerite Florestine, daughter of Neuville Roth and his Acadian wife Marie Angèle Breaux, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in October 1851.  Daughter Fortunée Athenaise was born in Ascension Parish in February 1853 but, called Athenaise, died in June.  Édouard remarried to cousin Marie Joséphine, called Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Landry and Joséphine Orillion, at the Donaldsonville church in January 1860.  Daughter Marie Elmira was born in Ascension Parish in July 1862 but, called Elmira, died at age 4 (the recording priest said 5) in August 1866; ...

Grégoire's third and youngest son Godefroi Léopold, by first wife Élisabeth Sophie Landry, married first cousin Mathilde, daughter of fellow Acadian Jérôme Dugas and his Creole wife Mathilde Arrieux, his uncle and aunt, at the Donaldsonville church in August 1827; they had to secure dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Godefroi died in Ascension Parish in September 1829.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Godefroi died at "age ca. 22 yrs."  He was 26.  His line died with him. 

Charles's third son Paul dit Paulin married Marie Clémence, called Clémence, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph LeBlanc and Pélagie Doiron of Ascension, at the St. James church, St. James Parish, in February 1808.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Paul Rosémond in July 1809; Joseph Émile in March 1811 but, called Émile, died at age 3 1/2 in July 1814; Jérôme Adélard born in November 1813; Rosalie Claire in September 1816; a daughter, name unrecorded, born in the late 1810s, died at age 4 in September 1822; Florentin Aimé, also called Émile, born in April 1818; Marie Constance in August 1819; Lazare Eleuthère in September 1822; Henri died six days after his birth in July 1824; and Joseph Euphémon born in March 1827 but, called Euphémon, died at age 13 in February 1840--10 children, seven sons and three daughters, between 1809 and 1827.  Paul died in Ascension Parish in November 1842, age 57.  Daughter Rosalie married into the Melançon family.  Three of Paulin's sons also married and settled in Ascension Parish, but not all of the lines endured. 

Third son Jérôme Adélard married first cousin Françoise Elmire, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Dugas and his second wife Aurore Gaudin, his uncle and aunt, at the Donaldsonville church in September 1836.  Did they have any children? 

Paulin's fourth son Florentin Aimé, also called Émile, married Marie Sylveria, called Sylveria, daughter of Antoine Balderas or Baldere and Constance Mollère, at the Donaldsonville church in January 1846.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Clémence Théodosia in November 1846; Paul Wilbrod in January 1848 but, called Wilbrod, died at age 1 1/2 in July 1849; Marie Olympe born in January 1850; and Edesie Brigite in October 1852--four children, three daughters and a son, between 1846 and 1852.  None of Émile's daughters married by 1870. 

Paulin's fifth son Lazare Eleuthère married Marie Laure, called Laure, daughter of fellow Acadians Édouard Donat Gravois and Marie Marthe Eurasie Landry, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in January 1845.  They settled in Ascension Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie Cécile in May 1847; Paul Robert in June 1849 but, called Paul, died at age 15 in June 1864 (one wonders if his death was war-related); Juliane Ermas born in January 1851; Marie Corine in June 1852; Rosalie Octavie in December 1853; Louise Palmire in February 1856; Émelie Georgina in April 1858; Louise Léa in March 1860; George August in November 1861; Elphége Artur in October 1863 but, called Arthur, died at 2 (the recording priest said 22 months) in November 1865; Paul Arthur born in September 1867; ...  None of Lazare's children married by 1870. 

Charles's fifth son Joseph married Hortense, daughter of Pierre Arrieux and Eugénie dite Antoinette Barbe, at the Donaldson church in April 1810.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included a daughter, name and age unrecorded, died in March 1812; and Vernon Ignace or Ignace Vernon born in October 1814.  Joseph remarried to Marie Aurore, called Aurore, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Gaudin and Françoise Babin, at the Donaldson church in December 1816.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Étienne Rosémond, perhaps also called Osémé, in December 1817; and twins Françoise Elmire and Rosalie Palmire in February 1819, but Rosalie died in April--five children, three daughters and two sons, by two wives, including a set of twins, between 1812 and 1819.  Joseph died in Ascension Parish in October 1819, age 29.  Daughter Françoise Elmire married a Dugas first cousin.  Joseph's sons also married on the river, but not all of the lines endured. 

Older son Ignace Vernon, by first wife Hortense Arrieux, married Marguerite Coralie, called Coralie, daughter of fellow Acadian Louis Landry and his Creole wife Carmélite Vives, at the Donaldsonville church in June 1833.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included a newborn daughter, named unrecorded, died in June 1835; Joseph Camille born in July 1836 but died the following October; and Eulalie Amanda born in September 1837--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1835 and 1837.  Ignace's remaining daughter did not marry by 1870, and his son did not survive infancy, so, except perhaps for its blood, this family line did not endure. 

Joseph's younger son Osémé, by second wife Marie Aurore Gaudin, married first cousin Elmire, daughter of fellow Acadians Édouard Gaudin and Lise Gaudet, his uncle and aunt, at the Donaldsonville church in August 1843; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Émilie Duquine died at age 10 months in November 1853; and Joseph Éduarde Bonaventure in July 1856.  Osémé died in Ascension Parish in May 1869.  The Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Ozémé, as he called him, died at "age 51 years."  His son did not marry by 1870. 

Charles's sixth son Jérôme married Eugénie Mathilde, called Mathilde, another daughter of Pierre Arrieux and Eugénie dite Antoinette Barbe, at the Donaldson church in February 1811.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Marie Mathilde, called Mathilde, in September 1812; Claire in August 1814; Juliènne Célestine in February 1817; Étienne Jérôme Valéry, also called Jérôme Étienne Vileor and Vileor, in December 1819; Marine Élise or Élisabeth in June 1822, but a Donaldsonville church record says, probably erroneously, that she died at age 4 (the recording priest, who called her Élise, said 3) in June 1826; Marie Rose Anaïs born in September 1824; and Marie Antoinette Ernestine, called Ernestine, in July 1834--seven children, six daughters and a son, between 1812 and 1834.  Jérôme died in Ascension Parish in February 1839, age 46 (the recording priest said 47).  Daughters Mathildle, Juliènne Célestine, Marine Élisabeth, and Ernestine married into the Dugas, Giraud, Arrieux, and Lavigne families.  Jérôme's son also married and settled on the river, but the line did not endure. 

Only son Étienne Jérôme Valéry, also called Jérôme Étienne Vileor and Vileor, married Marie Élodie, called Élodie, daughter of fellow Acadians Ferdinand Theriot and Aspasie Breaux, at the Donaldsonville church in September 1843.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Marie Aspasie Louise, called Louise, in August 1844; twins Marie Aspasie and Mathilde in December 1847, but Marie Aspasie died nine days after her birth; and Marie Éloise Stella born in August 1849--four children, all daughters, between 1844 and 1849.  During the antebellum period, Vileor served in the Donaldsonville Artillery, then a militia unit, working his way up from flag bearer to first lieutenant.  He was elected sheriff of Donaldsonville in September 1859.  In September 1861, he resigned his commission as first lieutenant in the artillery company to remain in his home town as sheriff.  As a result, he did not serve Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65.  Vileor may have died in Ascension Parish in July 1865.  The Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial, and who called him Villeor, did not give any parents' names, mention a wife, or give the age of the deceased.  Vileor, son of Jérôme, would have been age 45.  Daughter Louise married Joseph Charles Ayraud in March 1869, but she died the following May, age 19, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth.  Vileor evidently fathered no sons, so his father's family line, except for the blood, died with him. 

Jean's fourth son Athanase followed his family into exile and imprisonment, then to New Orleans, lower Bayou Teche, and Cabahannocer, where he married Anne-Rose, called Rose or Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre LeBlanc and Anne Landry, in September 1777.  Their children, born at nearby Ascension, included perhaps Marie-Josèphe in May 1776[sic] (the baptizing priest called her father Jean and her mother Anne); Joseph, also called Jérôme-Athanase, in September 1778; twins Anne-Josèphe, also called Anne-Marie and Anne, and Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, baptized, age unrecorded, in February 1780; Henriette baptized, age unrecorded, in October 1781 but died at age 13 in April 1795; Julie-Cordule, -Rose, or -Rosalie baptized, age unrecorded, in November 1786; Marie-Louise baptized, age unrecorded, in December 1788; and Rosalie Athanaise born in November 1790--eight children, seven daughters and a son, including a set of twins, between 1777 and 1790.  Athanase died at Ascension in March 1791, age 38.  Daughters Madeleine, Anne-Marie, Julie, and Rosalie Athanaise married into the Babin, Foret, Boudreaux, and Gaudin families, and perhaps into the Thibodeaux family as well.  Athanase's son married and settled upriver at St. Gabriel before returning to Ascension, but this line of the family, except for its blood, may not have endured. 

Only son Joseph or Jérôme Athanase married Élisabeth or Isabelle Cécile, daughter of fellows Acadian Firmin Babin and his Creole wife Isabelle Brousse, at Ascension in January 1805.  Their children, born there, included Marius Toussaint in November 1805; Jean Lesimond, called Lesimond, in January 1808; Rosalie in August 1809; Marcelline Adèle or Adèle Marcelline in April 1811; Louis Rigobert in November 1813; Marguerite Mélanie, called Mélanie, in April 1816; Marie Lescade in December 1820; and Jean Marie posthumously in April 1826--eight children, four sons and eight daughters, between 1805 and 1821.  Wife Isabelle died in Ascension Parish in April 1826, age 39, a day after son Jean Marie was born, probably from complications of childbirth.  Jérôme Athanase had died in Ascension Parish in January 1826, age 47, four months before son Jean Marie's birth and his wife's death.  Daughters Rosalie, Adèle Marcelline, and Mélanie married into the Hamilton, Breaux, and Landry families.  Two of Jérôme Athanase's sons also married, but neither of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Marius, at age 34, married Virginia, daughter of Barthélémy Hamilton and his Acadian wife Mélanie Dupuis, at the Convent church in February 1840.  Marius died in Ascension Parish in May 1841, age 35 (the recording priest said 36).  His line probably died with him.   

Jérôme Athanase's second son Lesimond married Marie Adamiène, also called Damiane Rosalie, daughter of Jean Félix Pallaquin and his Acadian wife Josèphe Marie Bellemère, at the Donaldsonville church in April 1826.  Their son Stanislas Jérôme was born in Ascension Parish in September 1827 but died at age 5 "of long illness and fever" in November 1832.  Lesimond (the recording priest called him Onésime) died in Ascension Parish in April 1829.  The priest who recorded Lesimond's burial said that he was age 23 when he died.  He was 21.  When his only son died three years later, this family line died with him. 

Jean's fifth son Michel followed his family into exile and imprisonment, then to New Orleans, lower Bayou Teche, and Cabahannocer, where he married Anne-Sophie, called Sophie, 23-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Bonaventure Forest and Claire Rivet, in February 1778.  Sophie, a native of Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, came to Louisiana with her parents from Maryland in 1767.  Their children, born at nearby Ascension, included twins Marguerite-Pélagie and Marie-Céleste baptized in February 1779, but Marie-Céleste died at age 1 1/2 in November 1780; Michel-Édouard born in January 1781 but died at age 6 months the following July; Marie-Louise born in August 1784; Joseph baptized, age unrecorded, in April 1787; Félicitas baptized, age unrecorded, in March 1789 but died at age 3 1/2 in October 1792; Julia or Julie-Cléothilde born in February 1793; François-Isidore, called Isidore, in October 1793[sic, probably 1794], but died in Ascension Parish, age 33 (the recording priest said 23), in April 1826; and Marie-Clémence, called Clémence, in September 1796 but died at age 1 in September 1797.  Wife Sophie died at Ascension in Sepember 1796, age 41, four days after the birth of daughter Clémence.  Michel, in his early 40s, remarried to Rose or Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Forest and his first wife Isabelle Léger and widow, perhaps, of Joachim Maroi, at Ascension in July 1800.  Rose was a native of Louisiana whose parents had come to the colony from Halifax in 1765.  Their children, born at Ascension, included Joseph-Alexandre, called Alexandre, in April 1801; Joseph-Valéry, called Valéry, in November 1802; Félicité Bathilde or Mathilde in January 1805; Marie Arthémise, called Arthémise, in February 1807 but died at age 4 years, two months, in June 1811; and Thomas Clovis, called Clovis, born in December 1809--14 children, eight daughers and six sons, by two wives, including a set of twins, between 1779 and 1809.  Michel died in Ascension Parish in October 1828, age 71.  Daughters Marguerite Pélagie, Marie Louise, Julie Clothilde, and Bathilde, by both wives, married into the Babin, Futele, Landry, and LeBlanc families.  Four of Michel's sons also married and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche. 

Second son Joseph, by first wife Sophie Forest, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Landry and Osite Landry, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in June 1812.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Arthémise, called Arthémise, in August 1813; Joseph Avantin, Avante, Aventin, Evantin, Evantine, Eventin, or Valentin in February 1815; twins Joseph Drosin, called Drosin, and Marselline Adélaïde in June 1818, but Marselline died at age 1 1/2 November 1819; Marie Domitille born in February 1820; Marie Azélie in September 1821; and Joseph Achille, called Achille, in July 1823--seven children, four daughters and three sons, between 1813 and 1823.  Daughters Arthémise, Marie Domitille, and Marie Azélie married into the Bourg, LeBlanc, and Daigle families.  Joseph's three sons also married and settled on the river and the upper Lafourche. 

Oldest son Joseph Avantin married cousin Marie Séraphine, called Séraphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Babin and Céleste Dugas, at the Donaldsonville church in October 1835; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  They settled on the upper Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Joseph in September 1837; Marie Isabel Irma in August 1839 but, called Marie, died at age 6 (the recording priest said 7) in October 1845; Marie Helena born in April 1842; Marie Avelina or Evélina, called Evélina, in February 1844; Marie Térèsina or Térèse, called Térèse, in February 1846; Marie Ethelvina in March 1848; Joseph Léon in February 1851; Marie Amanda in May 1853; Joseph Arestide in February 1856; and Marie Émée in February 1859--10 children, three sons and seven daughters, between 1837 and 1859.  Joseph Avantin died near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in January 1863.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Aventin, as he called him, died at "age 47 years."  One wonders if his death was war-related.  Daughters Helena, Térèse, and Evélina married into the Giroir, Allemand, and Theriot families by 1870.  None of Joseph Avantin's sons married by then. 

Joseph's second son Drosin, a twin, married first cousin Clarisse, Clarissa, or Claire, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph LeBlanc and Julie Clothilde Dugas, his uncle and aunt, at the Plattenville church in February 1841; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Joseph Léon Théodore in January 1842; Théodule Oscar in February 1843; Marie Adolestine Anatolie in November 1844; Marie Avella in December 1846 but, called Marie Evela, died at age 15 1/2 in October 1862; Marie Julie, called Julie, born in January 1849; Marie Angèle in August 1852 but, called Angèlle, died near Paincourtville, age 10 1/2, in December 1862; Marie Clara born in August 1854 but, called Clara, died at age 1 in October 1855; Joseph Nicols born in December 1860; Joseph Lacroix in May 1863 but, called Lacroix, died at age 1 in June 1864; Marie Virginie born in October 1866; ...  Daughter Julie married into the Hébert family by 1870.  None of Drosin's sons married by then. 

Joseph's third and youngest son Joseph Achille, called Achille, likely married fellow Acadian Marie Marguerite Landry in Assumption Parish during the late 1840s or early 1850s.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Joseph Camille in December 1853; Joseph Vileor in March 1855; Joseph Désiré in February 1856 but, called Désiré, evidently died at "age 14 years, 8 months," near Paincourtville in November 1870; Joseph Trevil born in May 1857; Joseph Edgard in June 1858; Marie Aimée in August 1859; Joseph Aristide in October 1860 but, called Arestide, died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 2) in September 1862; Marie Aima born in May 1862; Joseph Nicolas in September 1863; Joseph Hippolyte in July 1865 but, called Hypolithe, died at age 1 1/2 in October 1866; Marie Désiré in August 1868; ...  None of Achille's children married by 1870. 

Michel's fourth son Joseph Alexandre, called Alexandre, from second wife Rose Forest, married, at age 23, cousin Marie Adeline, called Adeline, 22-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Babin and Madeleine Angélique Foret of Iberville, at the Donaldsonville church in February 1825.  They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Marie Eugénie Adeline in December 1825 but, called Adelina, died at age 29 (the recording priest said 30) in October 1855; Marie Séraphine, called Séraphine, born in September 1827; Joseph Zéphirin, called Zéphirin, in October 1829; Joseph Clovis, called Clovis, in December 1831; twins Séverin and Lise in c1834; twins Josephe, probably Joseph, Augustin or Auguste and Marie Augustine, called Augustine, in January 1837; Marie Rosalie, called Rosalie in September 1839; and Marie Sélima or Célima, Félicity, called Célima, in September 1842--10 children, six daughters and four sons, including two sets of twins, between 1825 and 1842.  Alexandre died before April 1853, when he was listed as deceased in a son's marriage record.  Daughters Séraphine, Lise, and Marie Augustine married into the LeBlanc, Bourg, and Daigle families by 1870.  All four of Alexandre's sons married by then and settled on the upper Lafourche.  The oldest son moved on to lower Bayou Teche after the War of 1861-65.  (Amazingly, all four of the family's twins survived childhood and created families of their own.)

Oldest son Zéphirin married Olive or Oliva, daughter of fellow Acadians Marcellin LeBlanc and Léonise Landry, at the Paincourtville church in April 1853.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Joseph Treville in February 1854; and Joseph Clerville in April 1858.  Joseph Clerville's birth evidently killed his mother.  Zéphirin promptly remarried to Arselie, Arselia, Arsely, Arcelie, or Arceline, daughter of fellow Acadians Onésime Achée and Zéolide LeBlanc, at the Paincourtville church in May 1858.  Their children, born near Paincourtville, included Marie Sélima in February 1859; Joseph Émile in November 1861; ...  They were living near New Iberia and Lydia on lower Bayou Teche soon after the War of 1861-65.  None of Zéphirin's children married by 1870. 

Alexandre's second son Clovis married cousin Lorenza, daughter of fellow Acadians Magloire Landry and Justine Babin, at the Paincourtville church in February 1854.  Did they have any children? 

Alexandre's third son Séverin, a twin, married Marie Élise Aglaïde, called Élise, Lise, Lize, and Éliza, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Clet Daigle and his second wife French Creole Mathilde Simoneaux, at the Paincourtville church in May 1857.  Their children, born near Paincourtville, included Joseph Richard in April 1858; Joseph Alexandre in June 1859; Denis Désiré in October 1861; Édouard Tranquille in July 1866; twins Léo and Léon in September 1868; Alice Mathilde in August 1870; ... 

Alexandre's fourth and youngest son Augustin or Auguste, a twin, married cousin Ernestine, daughter of fellow Acadians Marcellin Landry and Adélaïde Dupuy, at the Paincourtville church in January 1860; they had to secure a dispensation for third and fourth degrees of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Joseph Édouard near Paincourtville in February 1861 but, called Édouard, died at age 1 1/2 in October 1862; Zéphirin Hugues born in April 1862; Marie Sophie Adeline in August 1866 but, called Marie Sophie, died near Paincourtville, age 11 months, in July 1867; Grégoire born near Plattenville in March 1868; Joseph Edmond in July 1870; ...

Michel's fifth son son Joseph Valéry, called Valéry, from second wife Rose Forest, married cousin Marguerite Séraphine, called Séraphine, another daughter of Charles Babin and Madeleine Angélique Foret, at the Donaldsonville church in January 1827.  They lived on upper Bayou Lafourche near the boundary between Ascension and Assumption parishes before moving down bayou.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Valéry, fils in November 1827; Marie Séraphine Ophelia in July 1829 but, called Marie Ofilia, died at age 3 1/2 in November 1832; Marguerite Rosalie born in September 1831 but, called Marguerite Rosela, died at age 26 in November 1857; Joseph Jules, called Jules, born in September 1836; Joseph Séverin or Zéphirin Valéry, called Zéphirin, in August 1839; and Joseph Michel Numa, called Numa, in September 1842--six children, four sons and two daughters, between 1827 and 1842.  Neither of Valéry's daughters married, but all of his sons did and settled on the upper Lafourche.  One of them also settled on lower Bayou Teche and out on the western prairies. 

Oldest son Joseph Valéry, fils married Mélisaire, daughter of fellow Acadians Ursin LeBlanc and Sidalise Breaux, at the Paincourtville church in February 1855.  Their son Joseph Clairville was born near Paincourtville in December 1855 and did not marry by 1870. 

Valéry's second son Joseph Jules, called Jules, married Adelisca, Adeliska, Adoliska, or Odoisca, daughter of fellow Acadians Ursin Daigle and Mathilde Theriot, at the Paincourtville church in May 1857.  Their children, born near Paincourtville, included Joseph in September 1858 but died six days after his birth; Marie Juliènne born in July 1859 but died the following November; Marguerite born in July 1861 but, called Eve, died at age 1 in June 1862; Marie Angélique born in October 1862 but, called Marie, died near Paincourtville, age 1 1/2, in December 1863; Mathilde Athenaise born in December 1864; Marie Marguerite Olivia in December 1866; Jules Ursin in February 1869; Marie Cécilia in November 1870; ...  They were living near Pierre Part, north of Lake Verret, on the eve of war but evidently moved back to the Lafourche during or after the conflict. 

Valéry's third son Zéphirin married cousin Laurenza, daughter of fellow Acadians Marcellin Landry and Adélaïde Dupuy, at the Paincourtville church in January 1861; they had to secure a dispensation for fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born near Paincourtville, included Marie Laurenza in June 1860; Albert Saintville in February 1863; Marie Ernestine in March 1864; Marie Elisca in April 1866; Joseph Edmond in November 1867; Joseph Ulysse Sulpice in January 1870; ...

Valéry's fourth and youngest son Numa married, at age 16, cousin Émelie, daughter of fellow Acadians Armogène Giroir and Marie Dupuy, at the Paincourtville church in February 1859; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  They settled on Bayou Quatre Mille in Assumption Parish before moving to Brashear, now Morgan, City, St. Mary Parish, on the lower Atchafalaya, in the early 1860s and may have returned to upper Bayou Lafourche before moving back to the western prairies after the war.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche and the prairies, included Joseph Evariste near Paincourtville in March 1860; Rosile Claire, evidently a son, near Brashear City in April 1862 but, called a "boy," died "age a few months" in Assumption Parish in May 1862; Joseph Albert born near Plattenville in April 1863 but, called Albert, died near Paincourtville, age 1 1/2, in August 1864; Louis Alfred born near Youngsville, Lafayette Parish, in January 1869; ...

Michel's sixth and youngest son Thomas Clovis, called Clovis, from second wife Rose Forest, married cousin Claire Dugas probably in Ascension Parish in the 1830s and settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Ascension and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie Mathilde, called Mathilde, in May 1833; Marie died as a newborn in May 1836; Marie Elmire, called Elmire, born in May 1837; Joseph Jérôme, called Jérôme, in February 1840; Joseph Ferdinand, called Ferdinand, in March 1842; Joseph Nicolas Elvége or Elphége, called Elphége, in September 1844; Hippolyte Théophile, called Théophile, in May 1847; Marie Clara in July 1850 but died at age 4 in June 1854; and Marie Ernestine born in December 1854 but, called Ernestine, died at age 15 1/2 (the recording priest said  "age ca. 16 years") near Paincourtville in June 1870--nine children, five daughters and four sons, between 1833 and 1854.  Daughters Elmire and Mathilde married into the Landry and Legleu families by 1870.  Three of Clovis's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Jérôme married Clorinthe, daughter of Victorin Simoneaux and Eglantine Freoux, at the Paincourtville church in January 1866. ...

During the War of 1861-65, Clovis's third son Elphége, called Elfege in his Confederate records, served as a private in Company H of the 29th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Assumption Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  He survived the war, returned to his family, and married cousin Pamela, daughter of fellow Acadians Achille Dugas and Marie Pharalie LeBlanc, at the Paincourtville church in January 1867.  Their children, born near Paincourtville, included Jean Ferdinand in December 1867; Thomas in March 1870; ...

Clovis's fourth and youngest son Théophile married Désirée, daughter of Emérand Simoneaux and his Acadian wife Élisabeth Landry, at the Plattenville church in February 1868.  Daughter Scholastique Marie was born near Paincourtville in March 1869; ...

Matilda Dugas gave birth to daughter Marie Alcina in Assumption Parish in August 1852.  The Paincourtville priest who recorded the girl's baptism the following September did not give the father's name nor the mother's parents' names.  A Mathilde Dugas, perhaps Matilda, gave birth to daughter Marie Émeline near Paincourtville in March 1856 and had the child baptized there the following August.  Again, the recording priest said nothing of the girl's father or the mother's parents.  Mathilde Dugas gave birth to daughter Marie Joséphine near Paincourtville in July 1861 and had her baptized at the Paincourtville church the following January.  Once again, the priest who recorded the girl's baptism did not give the father's name.  Marie Joséphine, called Joséphine, died at age 13 months in August 1862.  The Paincourtville priest who recorded the girl's burial did not give the parents' names.  Was the mother of these girls--evidently "natural" children--Marie Mathilde, daughter of Thomas Clovis Dugas and Claire Dugas?  If so, this Marie Mathilde would have been age 19 in the summer of 1852, 22 in March 1856, and 28 in July 1861.  If this was her, she was still living with her parents and younger siblings on her father's sugar plantation near Paincourtville in July 1860, age 27, without any of her daughters listed in the federal census that year, and married Charles, son of Pierre Legleu and Jeanne Cachot, at Paincourtville in February 1864, when she was just shy of age 31. 

Jean's sixth and youngest son Théodore followed his family into imprisonment, then to New Orleans, lower Bayou Teche, and Cabahannocer.  He married Marie-Victoire, called Victoire, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Forest and Marguerite Blanchard, at nearby Ascension in October 1784.  Their children, born at Ascension, included Anne-Céleste in the 1780s; Renné, a daughter, also called Reine and Irène, baptized, age unrecorded, in November 1787; Marie-Madeleine born in February 1790 but died the following October; Françoise-Clémence born in December 1791 but died the following September; Pierre-Octave born in March 1799; and Hubert Séverin in February 1806 but died at age 6 months the following August--six children, two sons and four daughters, between 1787 and 1806.  Théodore died in Ascension Parish in March 1827, age 69.  Daughters Reine and Anne Céleste married into the Guidry and Babin families.  Only one of Théodore's sons married, in Ascension Parish, but, except for its blood, his line of the family did not endure. 

Older son Pierre Octave married Anne Orsise, daughter of Auguste Léveque and Marguerite Justine Prevot, at the Donaldson church in December 1821.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Marie Joséphine in December 1822 but died at age 10 months in October 1823; Aymar Hercule Théodore born in August 1825 but died at age 1 in August 1826; Marie Françoise Eugénie born in August 1827; Marie Joséphine Louise Félicité in late January 1830 but died the following April; and François Augustin Théodore born in October 1833 but died at age 6 months in April 1834--five children, three daughters and two sons, between 1822 and 1833.  Daughter Marie Françoise Eugénie, their only child to survive infancy, married into the Mullett family.  Neither of Pierre Octave's sons survived childhood, so only the blood of this family line may have endured. 

Charles dit Charlitte (c1737-1808) à Claude à Abraham Dugas

Charles dit Charlitte, second son of Charles Dugas and Anne Robichaud dit Niganne, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1736, followed his family into exile.  He married Marguerite, daughter of Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil and Agnès Thibodeau of Peticoudiac, place and date and unrecorded, but it likely was on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Charlitte probably was part of the Acadian resistance in that region led by his father-in-law.  During the late 1750s or early 1760s, Charlitte and his wife either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Charlitte and Marguerite may have been the Cha. Dugas with a family of two held by the British at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, in October 1762.  In 1764-65, still childless, they followed her family from Halifax via Cap-Français to New Orleans, which they reached in February 1765, and followed them to lower Bayou Teche in April.  They survived the Teche valley epidemic that killed members of the family that summer and fall and remained on the lower Teche.  Their children, born there, included Éloi, also called Édouard, in c1770; Marie-Madeleine in April 1773; Louis in November 1776; and an unnamed daughter died of "a bloody flu," age unrecorded, in June 1794--four children, two sons and two daughters, between 1770 and 1794.  Charlitte died at his home at Fausse Pointe on the lower Teche in September 1808.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Charles dit Charlitte "of Lafousse pointe, a native of Acadia," died "at his home ... at age 80 yrs."  He was in his early 70s.  His remaining daughter evidently did not marry.  His sons married and created vigorous lines on the Teche.  Many of his grandsons and a great-grandson married Broussard cousins from Fausse Pointe. 

Older son Éloi, also called Édouard, married Susanne, daughter of Jean-Louis Bonin of Mobile and his Acadian wife Marguerite Prince, at Attakapas in November 1795.  They settled at Fausse Pointe.  Their children, born there, included Éloi, fils in February 1796; Benjamin-Aurelien or Aurelien-Benjamin, also called Benoît and Aurien, in May 1800; Jean-Baptiste in July 1802; Susanne in April 1804; Désiré in April 1806; Louise in August 1808; Louis, also called Louis Éloi, in February 1812[sic]; Rosalie dite Ponponne in June 1812[sic]; and Marie Arthémise in January 1814--nine children, five sons and four daughters, between 1796 and 1814.  Two successions for wife Susanne were filed at the St. Martinville and Vermilionville courthouses in March and September 1834.  Were they post-mortem?  Éloi, père died perhaps at Fausse Pointe in December 1835, age 65.  A succession, calling him Eloi, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse later that month.  Another succession, this one for Elias Dugas, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in April 1836.  If this also was his, and judging from his wife's successions in 1834, the couple evidently owned property in both civil parishes.  Daughters Susanne, Louise, Rosalie dite Ponponne, and Marie Arthémise married into the Judice, Hayes, Gonsoulin, Ranconnet or Ransonnet, and Labauve families.  Élois's five sons also married, two of them to sisters, and settled on the prairies. 

Oldest son Éloi, fils married Julie, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand Broussard dit Beausoleil and his second wife Anne Benoit of Fausse Pointe, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in May 1816.  They settled at Fausse Pointe.  Their children, born there, included Éloi III in December 1817; Jean Baptiste Treville or Treville Jean Baptiste in December 1818; Aurelien le jeune in February 1820 but died at age 8 in April 1828; Julie Hermina, also called Erasina, born in July 1821; Louis Demaselière in January 1823; Édouard, also called Édouard Jules and Jules Édouard, in October 1824; Rosalie or Coralie in March 1826; Louis Ferjus in c1827 but died "at age about 1" in November 1828; Marie Palestine born in February 1829 but died at age 17 1/2 in September 1846; Louis, also called Louis Éloi le jeune and perhaps Don Louis, born in August 1830; a daughter, name unrecorded, died at age 8 days in April 1832; Charles Fualdy or Fualdes, called Fualdes, born in May 1833 but died at age 15 months in August 1834; Anna Ophelia born in January 1835 but died at age 14 months in March 1836; Séverin Onéziphore born in February 1837 but, called Onésiphore, died at age 6 in January 1843; Jean Baptiste Désiré or Ducre born in July 1839; and Félicité Eléonne or Eléonore Félicité in May 1840 and, called Félicité Eléonore, received "emancipation" at age 19 in April 1860--16 children, 10 sons and six daughters, between 1817 and 1840.  A succession, probably post-mortem, for wife Julie, naming her husband, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in December 1843.  Éloi, fils did not remarry.  He died in St. Martin Parish in January 1866.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Éloi died "at age 71 yrs."  He was a few weeks shy of age 70.  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse later in the month.  Daughters Julie Hermina, Coralie, and Eléonore Félicité married into the Broussard, Dugas, Breaux, and Gonsoulin families by 1870.  Five of Éloi, fils's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Éloi III married cousin Céleste Emma, daughter of fellow Acadians Nicolas Amand Broussard and Céleste Comeaux, at the St. Martinville church in September 1838.  She evidently gave him no children.  Éloi III remarried to first cousin Élisabeth Pouponne or Pouponne Élisabeth, daughter of Alexandre Judice and his Acadian wife Susanne Dugas, his uncle and aunt, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in January 1845.  Their children, born near New Iberia, included Julie in October 1845; Anne Corine in October 1846 but, called Corine, died at age 1 1/2 in July 1848; Alexandre Edevard born in October 1847; Marie Ernestine in October 1848; Marie Léotidia baptized at age 7 months in July 1851 but died at age 5 1/2 (the recording priest said 6) in September 1856; Félise born in January 1852; Louise in November 1853 but died at age 1 (the recording priest said 16 months) in December 1854; Maria born in May 1855; Césaire in October 1856; Denis le jeune in September 1858 but, called St. Denis, may have died at age 3 1/2 (the recording priest said 2)  in June 1862; Louis Gaston born in July 1860 but, called Gaston, died at age 11 months in June 1861; Alexandre Sidney born in March 1862; ...  Éloi III, at age 48, remarried--his third marriage--to Irma, daughter of Louis Terence Boutté and Rosilia Judice, at the St. Martinville church in May 1866. ...  None of Éloi III's children married by 1870. 

Éloi, fils's second son Treville Jean Baptiste married cousin Elismène or Élise, also called Lismène, daughter of fellow Acadian Philemon Broussard and his Creole wife Élise Ardoin, at the New Iberia church in April 1841.  Their children, born near New Iberia, included Denis in November 1842; and Marie Alida in August 1846.  Treville died in St. Martin Parish in August 1858.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Treville died "at age 38 yrs."  He was 39.  His succession, which identified his wife, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in December 1861.  Daughter ... married into the Marie family by 1870.  Treville's son did not marry by then. 

Éloi, fils's fifth son Édouard Jules or Jules Édouard married first cousin Émilie Célestine or Ernestine, called Célestine, daughter of fellow Acadians Désiré Dugas and Mélite Broussard, his uncle and aunt, at the New Iberia church in July 1846.  Their children, born near New Iberia, included Pierre Frère in 1847 and baptized at the St. Martinville church, age 14 months, in October 1848; a son, name unrecorded, died probably near New Iberia at age five days in May 1849; Pamphile, perhaps a son, born in June 1850; Émilie in September 1852; Julia in November 1857; Louis in August 1860; Marie Cécile in December 1862; Désiré in May 1865; St. Morc Eusèbe in January 1870; ...  None of Jules Édouard's children married by 1870. 

Éloi, fils's seventh son Don Louis married Marie Lodoiska, called Lodoiska, Toffiez or Toffier at the St. Martinville church in May 1851.  They settled near New Iberia.  Their children, born there, included Auguste Louis in February 1852; Alice in August 1855[sic]; Antoine Onar in November 1855[sic]; and Marie Mathilde in September 1857 but, called Mathilde, died "at age 30 mths." in July 1859--three children, a son and two daughters, between 1852 and 1857.  Neither of Don Louis's remaining children married by 1870. 

During the War of 1861-65, Éloi, fils's tenth and youngest son Jean Baptiste Ducre served in Company D of the Yellow Jackets Battalion Louisiana Infantry, and Company D of the Consolidated 18th Regiment and Yellow Jackets Battalion Infantry, raised in St. Martin Parish, which fought in Louisiana.  Ducre survived the war, returned to his family, and married Azéma, daughter of James Moore and Azema Dejean of Lafayette Parish, at the St. Martinville church in August 1865. ...

Éloi, père's second son Benjamin Aurelien or Aurelien Benjamin married Anne Erasie, also called Élisabeth Anne, Anne Élisabeth, and Anne Aspasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Édouard Broussard and Anne dite Nanette Thibodeaux of Fausse Pointe, at the St. Martinville church in May 1821.  Their children, born near Fausse Pointe, included Benjamin in July 182[2] but died the following December; another Benjamin, also called Benjamin Télésphore and Télésphore Benjamin, born in October 1823; Susanne Elmire, called Elmire, in July 1825; Amélie, perhaps also called Amelia Zéolide, in July 1827; Marie Léonide, also called Élonie, in April 1829 but died at age 7 1/2 (the recording priest said 8) in November 1836; Édouard, also called Darneville Édouard, born in March 1831; Agathe in February 1833 but, called Amelia, may have died at age 14 1/2 in August 1847; Vital Octave born in April 1835 but, called Octave, died at age 2 1/2 in October 1837; Marguerite Odile or Élodie, called Odile Marguerite and Élodie, born in March 1837; Eurasie in May 1841 and, called Erasie, granted "emancipation" at age 18 in January 1860, died at age 21 (the recording priest said 22) in January 1823 (her succession, naming her father, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in February); Éloi Désiré, called Désiré, born near New Iberia in September 1843 but died at age 6 (the recording priest said age 7) in November 1849; Françoise born in December 1845; Joseph Odillon in January 1848 but, called Odilon, died at age 2 1/2 in July 1850; and Bernard Delue born in October 1852--14 children, seven sons and seven daughters, between 1822 and 1852.  Daughters Elmire, Amelia Zéolide, and Odile Marguerite married into the Berard, Hébert, and Segura families by 1870.  Two of Benjamin Aurelien's sons also married by then. 

Second son Télésphore married first cousin Coralie, daughter of Éloi Dugas, fils and Julie Broussard, his uncle and aunt, at the New Iberia church in January 1845.  Their children, born near New Iberia, included Aristide in c1846; Alphonse in c1848; Numa in December 1850 but died at age 1 1/2 in February 1852; and Omer born posthumously in September 1853--four children, all sons, between the late 1840s and 1853.  Telesphore died in St. Martin Parish in January 1853, age 29 (the recording priest said 30).  His succession, naming his wife, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in December 1859.  Two of his sons married by 1870. 

Oldest son Aristide, at age 19 or 20, gained his emancipation in St. Martin Parish in March 1866 and married Philomène, daughter of Charles Darby and Malvina Dupré, at the New Iberia church in August of that year.  Their son Omer Louis was born near New Iberia in July 1870; ...

Télésphore's second son Alphonse married, at age 19, Olymphe, daughter of Sosthène Amy and Uranie Morris, at the St. Martinville church in September 1867. ...

Benjamin Aurelien's third son Darneville Édouard, called Édouard, married Elmire, daughter of St. Clair Gonsoulin and his Acadian wife Marcellite Bourgeois, at the New Iberia church in August 1852.  Their children, born near New Iberia, included Alida Marcellite in June 1853; St. Clair in September 1854; and Cécile in April 1858--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1853 and 1858.  Darneville Édouard died in St. Martin Parish in October 1862.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial said that Derneville, as he called him, died "at age 32 yrs."  He was 31.  His succession, calling him Darneville Édouard and naming his wife, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse the following February.  One wonders if his death was war-related.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Éloi, père's third son Jean Baptiste married Adélaïde or Adèle, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Broussard and Anne dite Manon Broussard of Fausse Pointe, at the St. Martinville church in April 1822.  Their children, born at Fausse Pointe, included Marie Louise Zélina, Zélima, or Élina in January 1823; Susanne, also called Susanne Olivanie, in March 1825; Jean Valcour or DeValcourt in April 1827 but died near New Iberia at age 17 in February 1845; Éloi, also called Éloie Ulinor and Ulinor, born in June 1829; Alexandre Fenelon, called Fenelon, in October 1831; Joseph Clernie or Clesmé in February 1834; and Alcide or Alcée in June 1837--seven children, two daughters and five sons, between 1823 and 1837.  Jean Baptiste died in St. Martin Parish in March 1840.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Jean Baptiste was age 35 when he died.  He was 37.  His succession, calling his widow Adèle Broussard and listing his heirs--Marie Louise Élina and her husband, Suzanne Olivanie, Jean DeValcourt, Éloi Ulinor, Alexandre Fenelon, Joseph Clesmé, and Alcée--was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse the following month.  Daughters Marie Louise Zélima and Susanne Olivanie married into the Broussard and Vuillemont families.  Four of Jean Baptiste's sons also married and settled on the lower Teche. 

Second son Éloi Ulinor gained his emancipation in St. Martin Parish in April 1849, when he was about to turn age 20.  He married cousin Marie Clélie, called Clélie, daughter of Dermancourt Gonsoulin and his Acadian wife Marie Pouponne Dugas, at the St. Martinville church in January 1857.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included twins Joseph Édouard and Pierre Édouard in March 1859; François Edwin in March 1861; Léo in June 1864; ...  Ulinor remarried to Arsène, daughter of Dupréron Bonin and Olivanie Bienvenu, at the New Iberia church in July 1867.  Their son Louis Dupré was born in St. Martin Parish in January 1870; ...

Jean Baptiste's third son Alexandre Fenelon, called Fenelon, married, at age 21, Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Dositée Breaux and Arsène Guilbeau, at the New Iberia church in January 1853.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Joseph Albert in February 1854; Marie Arsène in April 1855; Anne Zoé in February 1857; Aymard in August 1859; Matt Angèle in May 1863 but, called Angèle, died at age 1 (the recording priest said 1 1/2) in June 1864; Didier born in July 1865 but died at age 4 in July 1869; Henri Lanne born in April 1867; ...  None of Fenelon's children married by 1870. 

Jean Baptiste's fourth son Joseph Clesmé married first cousin Louise Mathé or Mathé Louisa, also called Martha and Mathy, daughter of Michel Hayes and his Acadian wife Louise Dugas, his uncle and aunt, at the St. Martinville church in June 1856.  Their children, born near New Iberia, included Anne Aimée in June 1857; Joseph Auguste baptized at the St. Martinville church, age unrecorded, in June 1862; Marie Alice born in April 1863; Joseph Gabriel in January 1869; ... 

Jean Baptiste's fifth and youngest son Alcée married first cousin Adeline, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Éloi Dugas and his second wife Emilia Trahan, his uncle and aunt, at the St. Martinville church in December 1865.  Their son Joseph Carlos was born in St. Martin Parish in December 1866; ... 

Éloi, père's fourth son Désiré married Marguerite Émelie, Émilie, or Amélie dite Mélite, another daughter of Édouard Broussard and Anne Thibodeaux, at the St. Martinville church in January 1829.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Amélie, also called Émilie Célestine and Ernestine, in January 1830; St. Cyr Romauld in February 1832; a son, name unrecorded, died at age 2 months in March 1834; Geneviève, also called Geneviève Clelie, born in January 1835; Marguerite, also called Marguerite Olymphe, in January 1837; Maximilien Désiré in May 1839, emancipated a few months shy of his twentieth birthday in St. Martin Parish in January 1859, but, called Désiré, evidently died in St. Martin Parish, age 27, in October 1866; Octave born in September 1841 but died at age 15 1/2 (the recording priest said 16) in May 1857; and Antoine Oscar born near New Iberia in June 1843 but, according to a church record, probably erroneous, called Oscar, may have died at age 7 in July 1850--eight children, three daughters and five sons, between 1830 and 1843.  A succession for wife Émilie, probably post-mortem, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in July 1848.  Désiré remarried to Marie Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadian David Guidry and his Creole wife Modeste Borda, at the St. Martinville church in October 1849.  She evidently gave him no more children.  Daughters Émilie Célestine, Geneviève Clelie, and Marguerite Olymphe, by his first wife, married into the Dugas, Neuville, and Decuir families by 1870.  Two of Désiré's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son St. Cyr, by first wife Mélite Broussard, married Odé Aurore or Aurore Odé, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Valsin Bernard and Anne Élina Broussard, at the St. Martinville church in November 1856.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Ignace in December 1857; and Henri in December 1861.  St. Cyr remarried to Noémie Gertrude, called Gertrude, another daughter of Louis Valsin Bernard and Anne Elina Broussard, in a civil ceremony in St. Martin Parish in December 1866, and sanctified the marriage at the St. Martinville church the following February. ...

Désiré's fifth and youngest son Antoine Oscar, called Oscar, from first wife Mélite Broussard, married Noémie, daughter of Désiré Judice and his Acadian wife Elma Labauve, at the St. Martinville church in May 1870, despite what the church record of July 1850 may have said about his dying young. ...

Éloi, père's fifth and youngest son Louis Éloi married Marie Adélaïde or Adeline, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques LeBlanc and Marie Rose Brasseaux, at the St. Martinville church in February 1831.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Louis Joseph died at age 1 month in July 1832; Eméranthe Mathilde born in May 1835 but, called Mathilde, died at age 3 1/2 (the recording priest said 5) in January 1839; Edmond born in May 1837; Cléopha Noémi in November 1839; and Louis Charlitte or Charles, called Charles, near New Iberia in January 1842.  A succession, probably post-mortem, for wife Adeline, naming her husband, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in February 1844.  Louis Éloi remarried to Amelia or Émilia, daughter of fellow Acadians François Trahan and Renée Labauve, at the New Iberia church in September 1844.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Célestine in 1844 or 1845 but died in St. Martin Parish at age 5 or 6 in May 1850; Juliette, also called Adeline, born in July 1846; Émilie Altée or Althé, called Althé, in October 1848; Laure in April 1856; Anne Divine in August 1858; Petroville Idea, perhaps a son, in February 1864; ...  Daughters Adeline, ..., by both wives, married into the Dugas, Segura, and Vincent families by 1870.  One of Louis Éloi's sons also married by then.

Fourth son Louis Charlitte or Charles, by first wife Adeline LeBlanc, married Edmonia, daughter of Clet Provost and Aurelia Berard, at the St. Martinville church in January 1866.  Charles remarried to Élina, daughter of Sully Berard and Célima Dejean and widow of Ovide Ranconnet, at the St. Martinville church in May 1869. ... 

Charlitte's younger son Louis married Constance, daughter of fellow Acadians Gilles LeBlanc and Théotiste Godin of Cabahannocer, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in July 1798.  They settled at Fausse Pointe on the lower Teche before moving up bayou to Pont-Breaux, today's Breaux Bridge.  Their children, born at Fausse Pointe, included Louis, fils, also called Pierre Louis, in September 1800; Arthémise in October 1802; Élisabeth, Élise, Élisa, or Éliza in the early 1800s; twins Marie and Sosthène in October 1804; another Marie in April 1806; Hortense in August 1808; Marie Carmélite in September 1810; and Norbert in December 1812--nine children, three sons and six daughters, between 1800 and 1812.  Louis, père died "at his home" at Fausse Pointe in October 1813.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial said that Louis died "at age 40 year."  He was 36.  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in October 1816, on the eve of his widow Constance remarrying to a Bernard who was the father-in-law of her daughter Hortense.  Another succession, not mentioning his wife but listing his living heirs--Louis, Sosthène, Éliza and her husband, Hortense and her husband, Norbert, and Marie Carmélite and her husband--was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in November 1832 (one wonders why a succession was filed there in his name at that time since he lived and died in St. Martin Parish, as did his sons).  Daughters Arthémise, Élisa, Hortense, and Marie Carmélite married into the Mouton, Broussard, and Bernard families.  Louis's three sons also married and settled on lower Bayou Teche. 

Oldest son Louis, fils, also called Pierre Louis, married Clarisse, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Broussard, fils and Scholastique Broussard of Fausse Pointe, at the St. Martinville church in February 1822.  They settled at Fausse Pointe.  Their children, born there, included Louis III in January 1823; Émile in the early 1820s but died probably in his late teens (the recording priest said age 20) in May 1840; François, also called François Ovid or Ovide François, born in January 1825; Pierre Darmancourt, called Darmancourt, in January 1827 but died "age about 2 years" in January 1829; a daughter, name unrecorded, died at age 5 months in September 1829; a son, name unrecorded, died at age 8 days in May 1832; Isabelle or Élisabeth Alphonsine born in August 1833; Guillaume Mozart, called Mozart, in January 1836; Marie Virginie, called Virginie, in May 1838; Constance in May 1840; and a child, name and age unrecorded, died in St. Martin Parish in January 1843.  The birth of this youngest child may have led to the death of wife Clarisse.  A succession, likely post-mortem, for Clarisse Broussard, naming her husband, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in January 1844.  Louis, fils, at age 43, remarried to Élise dite Lise, daughter of fellow Acadian Benjamin Louvière and his Creole wife Lise Bonin, at the New Iberia church in February 1844.  The priest who recorded the marriage said that Louis was "of St. James Parish," so one wonders if he and his family had lived on the river for a time.  Their children, born near New Iberia, included Louis Darcourt, called Darcourt, in January 1845; Marie Léonide in May 1846 but, called Léonide Marie, died at age 13 months in June 1847; Arthur born in December 1847; Ortère, also called Hortère and Arthère, in December 1848; Louise in September 1849; Félicie in September 1851; Mounas in November 1853; and Anatolle in May 1855--19 children, 10 sons and eight daughters, by two wives, between 1823 and 1855.  Louis, fils died in St. Martin Parish in July 1859, age 58 (the recording priest said 59).  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in August.  Daughters Élisabeth Alphonsine, Virginie, Constance, and Félicie, by both wives, married into the Broussard, Decuir, LeBlanc, and Borel families by 1870.  Four of Louis, fils's sons also married by then. 

Third son François Ovide or Ovide François, by first wife Clarisse Broussard, married cousin Marie Lucille, called Lucille and Lucie, daughter of fellow Acadian Éloi Broussard and his Creole wife Marie Irma Boutté, at the St. Martinville church in January 1846.  They settled near New Iberia.  Their children, born there, included Françoise Sylvia in December 1846 but, called Sylvia, died at age 2 in December 1848; Lucie born in May 1848; Édouard died 15 days after his birth in May 1850; Ernest Thierry born in January 1852; Mathilde or Mathilda in January 1854; Charles Louis baptized at the New Iberia church, age unrecorded, in August 1856; Marie Bertha born in December 1857 but, called Marie Berthe, died at age 15 days later that month; François, fils born in December 1858; Joseph in May 1861; Georges François in November 1862; ...  François Ovide died by December 1868, when he was listed as deceased in a daughter's marriage record.  His succession had been filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in November 1867, so he may have died that year.  He would have been age 42.  Daughters Lucie and Mathilda married into the Berard, Gonsoulin, and Gondran families by 1870.  None of François Ovide's sons married by then.   

Louis, fils's seventh son Guillaume Mozart, by first wife Clarisse Broussard, married Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadian Dorestan Prince and his Creole wife Emérante Bonin, at the New Iberia church in May 1857.  Their children, born near New Iberia, included Claris in March 1858; and Ghiaume or Guillaume, fils in February 1862.  Guillaume Mozart's succession, in which the parish clerk called him Mozard, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in September 1865.  He would have been age 29 that year. 

Louis, fils's eighth son Louis Darcourt, by second wife Lise Louvière, married cousin Aurelia or Amelia, daughter of Adolphe Berard and his Acadian wife Susanne Dugas, at the St. Martinville church in September 1866.  They settled near New Iberia.  Their children, born there, included Louis Abuel in January 1868; Alexandre Massena in September 1869; ... 

Louis, fils's tenth son Ortère, by second wife Lise Louvière, married Joséphine, daughter of Étienne Rousseau and Annette Lacrosse, at the New Iberia church in May 1867.  Their son Louis Philias was born near New Iberia in April 1869; ... 

Louis, père's second son Sosthène married Marie Louise dite Tonton, daughter of Alexandre Broussard and Anne dite Manon Broussard of Fausse Pointe, at the St. Martinville church in June 1825.  Their son Sosthène Darmas, called Darmas, was born probably at Fausse Pointe in February 1827.  Sosthène, père died in St. Martin Parish in March 1853, age 48.  His son married and remained on the Teche. 

Only son Sosthène Darmas, called Darmas, married Joséphine Aglaé, called Aglaé, Castille probably in St. Martin Parish during the late 1840s.  They settled near Breaux Bridge.  Their children, born there, included Marie Féliciènne, called Féliciènne, in October 1848; Marie Louise, perhaps also called Cora, in October 1850; Marie Carmélite, called Carmélite, in August 1853; twins Angèle and Anglina in December 1855; Sosthène, fils in December 1860 but died at age 1 1/2 in August 1862; Marie Marthe born in June 1863; and Adam Ozer in February 1866--eight children, six daughters and two sons, including a set of twins, between 1848 and 1866.  Darmas died near Breaux Bridge in October 1867.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Darmas died "at age 35 yrs."  He was 40.  His succession, naming his wife, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in December.  Daughters Féliciènne and Cora married into the Dugas and Judice families by 1870.  Darmas's remaining son did not marry by then. 

Louis, père's third and youngest son Norbert married Marie Eurasie or Erasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Julien Breaux and Euphrasie Melançon, at the St. Martinville church in June 1831.  Their children, born near New Iberia, included Marie Uranie in September 1834 but died at age 5 in October 1839; Philomène, a daughter, in March 1837; Joseph Aristide, called Aristide, born in June 1838; and Marie Erasie posthumously in November 1839--four children, three daughters and a son, between 1834 and 1839.  Norbert died in St. Martin Parish in September 1839.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Norbert was age 30 when he died.  He was 26.  His succession, calling his wife Erasie Braux, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse the following month.  Daughters Philomène and Marie Erasie married into the Mestayer and Laneau families.  Norbert's son also married. 

Only son Aristide married Marie Alice, daughter of François Émile Decuir and his Acadian wife Marie Uranie Babin, at the St. Martinville church in December 1865 perhaps after his war service. ...  Aristide's succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in November 1867.  He would have been age 29 that year.  Was it post-mortem? 

Jean (c1740/41-1809) à Claude à Abraham Dugas

Jean, third son of Charles Dugas and Anne Robichaud dit Niganne, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1740 or 1741, followed his family into exile and imprisonment and his brothers to New Orleans and lower Bayou Teche.  Unlike his older brother Charlitte, Jean did not remain on the Teche.  In the fall of 1765, he evidently retreated with other Attakapas Acadians to Cabahannocer on the river to escape an epidemic.  He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Dupuis and Isabelle LeBlanc, at Cabahannocer in the late 1760s.  Marguerite, a native of Minas, had come to Louisiana from Maryland probably in 1766.  Jean took his bride to Attakapas soon after the marriage.  They settled near one of his brothers at Anse La Butte on upper Bayou Vermilion and then at nearby Grand Prairie, near today's downtown Lafayette.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Augustin in February 1770; Julie in April 1772; Félicité in July 1774; Jean, fils in July 1777; Céleste in c1779; Jean-Charles, called Charles, baptized, age 3 months, in April 1780; another Jean, fils in December 1781; Marie-Sophie in February1785; Marguerite baptized, age unrecorded, in October 1786; Joseph born in July 1788; Isabelle in c1790; and Louis in February 1794 but died at age 3 1/2 in December 1797--12 children, six sons and six daughters, between 1770 and 1794.  Jean, père died at Grand Prairie in September 1809.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Jean "of Acadia, living at la grande prairie ... died at midnight at his residence ... at age 70 yrs."  He was in his late 60s.  Daughters Julie, Céleste, Marie Sophie, Marguerite, and Isabelle married into the Babineaux, Dugas, Gautreaux, Guilbeau, and LeBlanc families.  Four of Jean's sons also married on the prairies.  A grandson settled on the lower Teche and another in the Lafourche/Terrebonne country.  

Oldest son Augustin married Marie-Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles-Claude Duhon and Marie-Josèphe Prejean, at Attakapas in July 1789.  The next month, Augustin appeared on the Attakapas militia list.  They settled at La Butte and at Grand Prairie.  Their children, born on the prairie, included Anastasie in October 1790; Charles dit Charlitte le jeune baptized, age 18 months, in April 1795; Christine born in December 1795 but died at age 2 in November 1797; Marie Augustine born in December 1797; Éloi le jeune in January 1802; another Christine in April 1800; Susanne in February 1803; a daughter, name unrecorded, in 1805 but died at age 3 in October 1808; Louise born in October 1807; and Marie Carmélite in 1810 and baptized at age 10 months in May 1811--10 children, eight daughters and two sons, between 1790 and 1810.  Augustin died at his home at La Butte in May 1811, age 41.  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse, St. Martin Parish, in August 1819.  Daughters Anastasie, Marie Augustine, Christine, Louise, and Susanne married into the Sonnier, Leger, Chiasson, Guidry, and Boudreaux families.  Augustin's sons also married and settled on the prairies, but not all of the lines endured. 

Older son Charles dit Charlitte le jeune married Clarisse or Claire, daughter of fellow Acadians Agricole Landry and Christine Labauve of Vermilion, at the St. Martinville church in May 1818.  They settled at Au Large on the lower Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included a son, name unrecorded, died at birth in April 1819; another son, name unrecorded, died at birth in February 1820; Jeanne born in October 1822; and Gilles or Giles in late 1824 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 23 days, in January 1825--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1819 and 1824.  Charles's succession may have been filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in May 1843.  He would have been age 50 that year.  His daughter did not marry by 1870, if she married at all, but his remaining son did marry by then and settled on the prairies. 

Third son Gilles likely married fellow Acadian Lois or Louise Landry, place and date unrecorded.  Their son Joseph was born near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in August 1851; ... 

Augustin's younger son Éloi le jeune married 20-year-old fellow Acadian Marie Aimée, called Aimée, Chiasson in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in April 1822.  They settled near Grand Coteau.  Their daughter Caroline was born there in December 1823.  Éloi remarried to Marcellite, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Lejeune and his Creole wife Amelia Bock, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in May 1828.  Daughter Caroline, by his first wife, married into the Saine family, so perhaps the blood of this family line endured.   

Jean's second son Jean, fils, the first with the name, died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in January 1847.  The priest who recorded the burial did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, but he did call Jean "a nat. of Lafayette parish" and said he died at "age 69 yrs."  Jean, père's older Jean, fils would have been that age.  He evidently did not marry.  One wonders what he was doing in Iberville Parish, on the river, at the time of his death. 

Jean père's third son Jean Charles, called Charles, married Marie Théodate, Théodose, or Thérèse, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand Gautreaux and Marie Landry of Iberville Parish and widow of Joseph Brasseaux, at the St. Martinville church in January 1808.  After living for a few years near her family at St. Gabriel, they settled at La Butte.  Their children, born on the river and the prairies, included Aurelien near St. Gabriel in November 1808; Sidalise or Cidalise in April 1810 but died at age 3 in March 1813; Charles, fils born at La Butte in December 1812; and Clémentine in March 1820--four children, two sons and two daughters, between 1808 and 1820.  Charles, père's succession may have been filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in May 1843.  He would have been age 63 that year.  Daughter Clémentine married into the Landry family.  One of Charles's sons also married and settled on the Lafayette prairies. 

Younger son Charles, fils married Marie Uranie, called Uranie, daughter of François Primeaux and Justine Baudoin, at the Vermilionville church in December 1833.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Uranie born in 1836 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 8 months in February 1837; and Charles III born in January 1840.  Charles, fils's succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in February 1844.  He would have been age 32 that year.  Neither his children married by 1870. 

Jean's fourth son Jean, fils, the second with the name, married Marie Anastasie, called Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Poirier and Scholastique Babineaux of La Pointe, at the St. Martinville church in February 1808.  They settled at Anse La Butte on the upper Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included Jean III in April 1809; Louis le jeune, called Don Louis, in December 1810; Marie Aspasie, called Aspasie, in December 1812; and Joseph Roseaimé, perhaps called Rosémond, posthumously in April 1815--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1809 and 1815.  Jean, fils died "at his home" at La Butte in August 1814.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial said that Jean died "at age 30 years."  He was 32.  Daughter Aspasie married into the Savoie family.  Jean, fils's sons also married and settled on the prairies, but a grandson settled elsewhere. 

Oldest son Jean III married Amelina, called Mélina and Méline, daughter of fellow Acadians Narcisse Guidry and Emérante Blanchard, at the St. Martinville church in February 1840.  Their son Désiré was born in St. Martin Parish in October 1840 and created his own family, but not on the prairies.

Their only son may have been the Désire Dugas who served in Company D of the Orleans Guard Battalion Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Mary and St. Martin parishes in early 1862, that fought in the Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee, that April.  If so, he survived the terrible battle and may not have returned to his unit after it disbanded at Tupelo, Mississippi, that June.  The war still on, he married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Mathurin Daigle and his Creole wife Élise Lirette, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Parish, in March 1864.  Daughter Marie Mélina was born near Theriot on Bayou du Large, Terrebonne Parish, in January 1865; ... 

Jean, fils's second son Louis le jeune, called Don Louis, married Émelite or Émerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Broussard and Pauline Louvière, at the Vermilionville church in April 1834.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Terence or Therence baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in April 1835 but died in May; Athanase Lasty baptized at age 1 month in June 1836 but died the following September; Marie Natalie baptized at age 2 months in December 1837; Jean le jeune born in April 1840; and Eve Philomène in November 1844--five children, three sons and two daughters, between 1835 and 1844.  None of Don Louis's children married by 1870. 

Jean, fils's third and youngest son Joseph Roseaimé evidently was the Rozémond or Rosémond, also called Pierre Rosémond, who, at age 22, married Amélie, Umélie, or Amelia, daughter of fellow Acadians André Martin, père and Gertrude Sonnier, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in October 1837.  The priest who recorded Rosémond's marriage said he was a son of Anne Dugas but did not give her parents' names nor the name of Rosémond's father.  Rosémond and Amélie's children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Pierre Aderien or Adrien Gesner baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 6 months, in December 1838; Antoine Hortère born in March 1841; Gertrude in June 1843 but died at age 15 1/2 (the recording priest said 16) in May 1859; Cléonise born in October 1845; Mathilde in January 1847; Célestima in January 1850; Noémi in January 1853; Adolphe in September 1855; and Marie Carolie in April 1858--nine children, three sons and six daughters, between 1838 and 1858.  Daughters ... married into the Breaux and Chargois families by 1870.  None of Rosémond's sons married by then. 

Jean père's fifth son Joseph married Marie Célanie, called Célanie, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Breaux, fils and Marie Tarsile Gravois of St. James Parish and Vermilion, at the St. Martinville church in February 1812.  They settled on the upper Vermilion and at La Pointe on upper Bayou Teche.  Their children, born there, included Jean Léonard on the Vermilion in December 1812; Jean Carmillien at La Pointe in December 1814; Marie Euphémie at Vermilion in November 1816; Marguerite Eugénie in July 1818; Charles Urciscien in May 1820; Eulalie Tarsile in Lafayette Parish in March 1822; Pierre in November 1823; Paul Hulerien baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in October 1826; Iumelia or Humilia baptized at age 1 1/2 months in July 1828; and Adrien born in early 1830 and baptized at age 13 months in February 1831 may have been the "boy" of "Mr. Dugas" who died at age 8 in December 1838--10 children, six sons and four daughters, between 1812 and 1830.  Daughter Marie Euphémie married into the Toups family by 1870.  Only one of Joseph's remaining sons married by then. 

Second son Jean Carmillien married Marie or Amelie Célanie, daughter perhaps of fellow Acadian Pierre Cyprien Savoie and his Creole wife Marie Césariènne Bonin, in a civil ceremony in St. Mary Parish in March 1832.  They settled on the lower Teche.  Their children, born there, included Marie Eugénie, called Eugénie, in St. Martin Parish in January 1834; Pierre in June 1835; Joseph in December 1836; and Eve near New Iberia in August 1838--four children, two daughters and two sons, between 1834 and 1838.  None of Jean Carmillien's daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did. 

Older son Pierre married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Émilien Landry and Delisène LeBlanc, at the New Iberia church in March 1855.  They settled probably in St. Mary Parish.  Their children, born near New Iberia, included Alphonsine in January 1856; Marie Odilia in September 1857; Marie Alcide in November 1859; Célanie in October 1862; ... Pierre's succession was filed at the Franklin courthouse, St. Mary Parish, in February 1866.  He would have been age 31 that year.  None of his daughters married by 1870. 

Pierre (c1750-1829) à Claude à Abraham Dugas

Pierre, fifth and youngest son of Charles Dugas and Anne Robichaud dit Niganne, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1749 or 1750, followed his family into exile and imprionment and his older brothers to New Oleans and lower Bayou Teche.  Like his older brother Charlitte, Pierre remained on the Teche despite the epidemic that struck down many of his fellow Teche Valley Acadians, including Dugass, in the summer and fall of 1765.  He married Anne dite Annette or Nanette, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Thibodeau and Brigitte Breau, at Attakapas in July 1772.  They settled at Anse La Butte and Grand Prairie on the upper Vermilion near his older brother Jean.  Pierre and Nanette's children, born on the prairies, included Silesie, also called Céleste, in October 1774 but died at age 54 (the recording priest said 60) in January 1828; twins Pierre, fils and Françoise born in March or June 1777; another Céleste in 1779 and baptized, age 9 months, in April 1780; Marie-Anne dite Nanette in c1782 and baptized at age 2 1/2 in January 1785; another Anne, born in c1785; Louise in January1787; yet another Anne, probably the one called Petite Anne, in February 1788; Alexandre in c1792 or 1793 and baptized at age 6 in April 1799; Élisabeth-Aspasie, called Aspasie, born in August 1794; Anne-Clémence, called Clémence, in October 1796; and Cléonise, also called Marie and Marie Cléonise, in June 1801--a dozen children, 10 daughters and two sons, between 1774 and 1801.  By May 1803, Pierre was by far the wealthiest settler on Grand Prairie near today's downtown Lafayette.  He owned 26 arpents of land, 800 head of cattle, 40 horses, and seven slaves--Daniel, age 36; Henriette, age 35; François, age 15; Marianne, age 13; Isabelle, age 9; Byby, age 8; and Marguerite, age 1.  Pierre died in Lafayette Parish in the late 1820s, in his late 70s.  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in November 1829.  Daughters Céleste, Anne dite Nanette, Aspasie, Clémence, and Cléonise married into the Breaux, Martin, Markham, Bernard, Mouton, and Dupleix families.  Pierre's sons also married on the prairies, to Mouton sisters, but only one of the lines endured. 

Older son Pierre, fils, a twin, married, in his early 30s, Marie Marthe, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean dit Chapeau Mouton and his Creole wife Marie Marthe Borda of Carencro, at the St. Martinville church in February 1810.  They settled at La Butte.  Their children, born there, included Théodule in c1813; Pierre III in January 1815; Valérien, also called Aurelien, in January 1818; Sitalize or Cidalise Élisabeth, called Éliza, in September 1819; Marie Louise, called Louise or Louisa, in July 1821; Adélaïde in October 1823; and Nathalie in the early 1820s.  Wife Marie Marthe's succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in December 1827.  Another was filed in her name there in May 1837 following Pierre, fils's death.  Meanwhile, Pierre, fils, at age 49, remarried to Marie Clarisse, called Clarisse, daughter of François Milhomme and Prudence Chaud of St. Landry Parish, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in January 1827.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Clara baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 6 months, in October 1828; Marie Laura born in c1830 and baptized at age 3 in September 1833; and Marie Aurelia, called Aurelia, born in c1832 and baptized at age 1 in September 1833--10 children, three sons and seven daughters, by two wives, between 1813 and 1832.  Pierre, fils died in Lafayette Parish in April 1837.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said that Pierre was age 40 when he died.  He was 60.  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following June.  Daughters Éliza, Louise, Nathalie, and Aurelia, by both wives, married into the Mouton, Breaux, and Olivier families.  Two of Pierre, fils's sons also married and settled in Lafayette and St. Martin parishes, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Théodule, by first wife Marie Marthe Mouton, married Anne Émelie, called Émelie, daughter of Pierre Bossier and his Acadian wife Marie Guidry of Grand Coteau, at the Vermilionville church in October 1835.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Alexandre in July 1837 but died eight days after his birth; Marie Ernina, Ermina, Esmina, or Hermina in c1839; and twins, names and age unrecorded, died in December 1840--four children, at least one son and one daughter, including a set of twins, between 1837 and 1840.  Théodule died in Lafayette Parish in September 1867.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Théodule died "at age 50 yrs."  He probably was in his late 40s.  Daughter Marie Esmina married into the Bernard family.  Théodule's only known son died young, but the blood of this family line may have endured. 

Pierre, fils's third and youngest Valérien, also called Aurelien, from first wife Marie Marthe Mouton, married Victoire, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Guidry and Victoire Semere, at the St. Martinville church in August 1838.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Marie Ofilia or Ophelia baptized at age 4 months in December 1837; Euphémond born in c1840 but died at age 14 months in August 1842; Félicia born in the early 1840s; Marguerite in February 1843; and Joseph in March 1845--five children, three daughters and two sons, between 1837 and 1845.  Valérien's succession, naming his wife, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in August 1846.  He would have been age 28 that year.  Daughters Ophelia and Félicia married into the Guilbeau and Guidry families by 1870.  His remaining son also married by then. 

Younger son Joseph married Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Thibodeaux and Arthémise Melançon, at the Breaux Bridge church, St. Martin Parish, in August 1866.  Their children, born near Breaux Bridge, included Louis Gesnere in July 1867; René Joseph in August 1868; Valérien in January 1870; ... 

Pierre, père's younger son Alexandre married Adélaïde, another daughter of Jean dit Chapeau Mouton and Marie Marthe Borda of Carencro and widow of Joseph Malchaux, at the St. Martinville church in September 1811.  She evidently gave him no children.  Alexandre remarried to Émilie, called Émelite, daughter of fellow Acadian David Guidry and his Creole wife Marie Modeste Borda of Carencro, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in February 1817.  Alexandre died in Lafayette Parish in March 1835, age 42.  His succession was not filed at the Vermilionville courthouse until October 1840.  He evidently fathered no children by either of his wives. 

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In 1765, three more Dugass--two widows and a wife--also reached New Orleans from Halifax via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue.  Another Dugas wife reached New Orleans that year directly from St.-Domingue.  They and their families did not follow the Broussards to Bayou Teche but settled at the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans, where some of their Dugas kinsmen from the Teche joined them later in the year. 

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Seven more Dugass--a widow with two Dugas sons, three Dugas brothers, and two Dugas bachelors--appear in Louisiana records beginning in the late 1760s, but their dates of arrival and the places from whence they came are difficult to determine.  All but one of them settled on the river, but only one of them created a lasting line, on the prairies:

Anne Landry, widow of _____ Dugas, first appears in Louisiana records in 1768 with two young sons, Athanase and Michel.  In that year, either at New Orleans or Cabahannocer above the city, she remarried to cousin Mathurin, son of Abraham Landry and his first wife Élisabeth Babin and widower of Marie Babin.  Her son Michel Dugas, now age 14, appears with her, along with her second husband and a Landry daughter, in a census at Ascension in August 1770.  There is no mention of her son Athanase Landry in the census, and her Dugas sons appear in no subsequent church or civil records.  One suspects that Anne and her sons reached the colony from Maryland in 1767 or 1768.  No Dugas family lines came of it.

Three brothers--Alexandre, Augustin, and Pierre Duga, as the Spanish official called them--appear in a census taken on the upper Acadian Coast in March 1777.  All three were living on the "left bank ascending," or west bank of the river, at San Gabriel, an Acadian community the Spanish had created a decade earlier for exiles from Maryland.  Alexandre, age 19, unmarried and in possession of six arpents, lived near Augustin, age 30, with his unnamed wife, two unnamed daughters, and six arpents, next to Pierre, age 23, with his unnamed wife, no children, and six arpents.  They then disappear from Louisiana records--the only Dugas males counted at San Gabriel during the colonial period.  Again, strangely, no Dugas family lines came of it, at least not in the Bayou State.  One wonders if they left the colony and, if so, when. 

The older bachelor--Théodore, son of Claude Dugas and Marie Bourg, as noted by the recording priest--first appears in the record of his marriage to fellow Acadian Madeleine Richard, widow of Pierre Babin, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in April 1778.  He appears again in April 1806 for his burial at nearby St. Gabriel.  He was age 60 at the time of his death.  Did he father any children?  Once again, no Dugas family line came of it. 

The younger bachelor also first appears in his marriage record, at Attakapas in January 1779.  Only he maintained a steady presence in Louisiana church and civil records, and only he of the seven created a lasting Dugas family line in South Louisiana:

Amand (c1747-1823) à Claude, fils à Claude à Abraham Dugas

Amand, fourth and youngest son of Claude Dugas III and Anne Hébert, like his older brothers Pierre and Charles, was born probably at Cobeguit.  If he was born there in c1755, as his burial record suggests, he would have been an infant when his parents took him to Île St.-Jean in the fall or winter of 1755 or the spring of 1756.  If he had been born in c1747, as other records suggest, he still would have been too young to have escaped on his own when the British rounded up the habitants on Île St.-Jean in late 1758.  Moreover, if he had escaped the island that year, re-crossed Mer Rouge, and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, unless he followed other exiles to Canada, he would likely have ended up in a prison compound in Nova Scotia by the early 1760s and gone to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, in 1764-65, but he did not.  Most likely he was the Amand Dugast, age 12, who crossed with older brother Pierre and other Maritime islanders from Chédabouctou Bay in a 12-ship convoy in late November 1758 on one of the five deporation transports that reached St.-Malo together in late January 1759.  According to Albert J. Robichaux, Jr.'s study of the Acadians in France, from 1759 to 1766 Amand lived at Plouër-sur-Rance on the west side of the river below St.-Malo, moved to the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer in 1766, and returned to Plouër by 1771.  His older brothers Pierre and Charles and older sister Élisabeth and their families were part of the large settlement venture in the interior of Poitou in 1773.  Amand, who would have been still a bachelor in his 20s, may have followed them there.  In late 1775 and early 1776, after two years of effort, Pierre, Charles, and Élisabeth and their families, and perhaps Amand as well, retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes.  If Amand followed them to Nantes, he did not remain.  He came to Louisiana by the late 1770s, in his late 20s or early 30s, perhaps as a "French" sailor recruited at Nantes during the American War for Independence (France became an ally of the fledgling Unites States in 1778).  What is known for certain is that he married Geneviève, 20-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians René Robichaux and Marguerite Martin dit Barnabé, at Attakapas in January 1779--his first appearance in Louisiana records.  Geneviève, born in c1758 probably at Bédec on Île St.-Jean, had spent her childhood not in France but in refugee camps on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore and in a prison compound in Nova Scotia before coming to Louisiana with her parents and an older sister with the Broussards in 1764-65.  She lost her father in the mysterious epidemic that killed many fellow Acadians on the lower Teche in 1765, but she, her mother, and older sister survived the malady.  Amand's marriage to Geneviève made him a son-in-law of the wife of Attakapas surgeon Antoine Borda and, in June 1783, brother-in-law of Jean dit Chapeau Mouton, who married Marguerite Martin dit Barnabé's daughter Marie-Marthe Borda, Geneviève Robichaux's younger half-sister.  Amand and Geneviève settled at Anse La Butte on upper Bayou Vermilion near two of his Dugas cousins.  In 1785, two of his older brothers, Pierre and Charles, and older sister Élisabeth and her Landry husband, came to Spanish Louisiana from France and joined Amand and his family on the western prairies.  Amand and Geneviève's children, born on the prairies, included Adélaïde in late 1779 and baptized, age 7 months, in April 1780; Rosalie born in May 1781; Isaac in May 1783 but died "from a fall" at age 7 in October 1790; Jean-Amand born in April 1785; Augustin in May 1788; Célestin Amand, also called Ursin, in c1790; another Adélaïde in c1793 and baptized, age 19 months, in October 1795; and Maximien, Maxime, or Maximilien born in May 1797--eight children, three daughters and five sons, between 1779 and 1797.  Wife Geneviève's succession, probably post-mortem, was filed at what became the Vermilionville courthouse in November 1806.  Amand did not remarry.  He died at his home at La Butte in October 1823 after a long illness.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said that Armand, as he called him, died at age 68, hence the 1755 birth year, but he likely was probably well into his 70s at the time of his passing.  He was one of the first to be buried behind the new church in nearby Vermilionville.  His succession, identifying his widow and his "Legal Heirs"--Jean, Celestin, Maximilien, Rosalie, and Adélaïde--was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in August 1824.   Daughters Rosalie and Adélaïde married into the Cormier and Sonnier families.  Four of Amand's sons also married, but not all of the lines endured.  During the late antebellum period, some of his descendants moved to East Texas, but most of them remained on the Louisiana prairies. 

Second son Jean Amand married Marie Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Sonnier and Marie Thibodeaux of St. Landry and La Butte, at Attakapas in August 1806.  They settled at La Butte.  Their children, born there, included Marie dite Valiène in October 1807; Marie Arsènne, called Arsènne, in July 1810; Célestine in February 1812 but died at age 7 1/2 (the recording priest said 10) in August 1820; Cyrille born in October 1813; Marie Clémentine, called Clémentine, in September 1817; and Émilia in September 1825 but died at age 10 in August 1835--six children, five daughters and a son, between 1807 and 1825.  Jean, at age 50, remarried to Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Brasset and Théodise Gautreaux and widow of Pierre Richard, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in July 1835.  She evidently gave him no  more children.  Daughters Marie dite Valiène, Arsènne, and Clémentine, by his first wife, married into the Brasseaux, Dugas, Guidry, and Clark families, including two Brasseaux brothers.  Jean Amand's son also married. 

Only son Cyrille, by first wife Madeleine Sonnier, married Marie Carmélite, daughter of Jean Pierre Frugé and Carmélite Miller, at the Vermilionville church in July 1833.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Cyrille, fils in April 1834 but died at age 3 1/2 (the recording priest said 4) in October 1837; Leufroi born in November 1835; Jean le jeune in July 1837; Arvillien baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in October 1839; Marie Carmélite born in May 1842; Marie Eve Valsainte in January 1846; and Alcides in November 1848--seven children, five sons and two daughters, between 1834 and 1848.  Cyrille's daughters, if they married by 1870, may have done so in East Texas.  By 1860, Cyrille's older remaining sons had moved to East Texas, where they were called Dugat.  

During the War of 1861-65, sons Leufroi, Jean, called John, and Arvillien Dugat served in Company H of the 25th Regiment Texas Cavalry, also known as the 3rd Texas Lancers, which fought in Arkansas.  Brother Arvillien died at Camp Butler, Springfield, Illinois, in February 1863 after his unit was captured at Arkansas Post in January.  Following their release from prison camp, brothers Leufroi and John served the rest of the war in Company H of the Consolidated 24th and 25th Regiment Texas Cavalry, which saw heavy action in the Battle of Chickamauga, Tennessee, in September 1863.   Leufroi and John survived the war and probably returned to their families in East Texas.  

Amand's third son Augustin married Louise, daughter of fellow Acadians Sylvain Sonnier and Madeleine Bourg of St. Landry Parish, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in January 1811.  They settled at La Butte, where Augustin died in May 1815, age 27.  He and his wife had no children, at least none who appear in local church records, so this line of the family died with him.  

Amand's fourth son Célestin Amand, also called Ursin, married cousin Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Dugas and Marguerite Dupuis of La Butte, at the St. Martinville church in September 1809.  They settled at Grand Prairie on upper Bayou Vermilion, near today's downtown Lafayette, and on Mermentau Prairie, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish.  Their children, born at La Butte, included Zénon in June 1811 but died at age 1 1/2 in April 1813; Symphorien born in December 1813; a son, name unrecorded, died at age 7 months in September 1817; and Théogène born in September 1818 but died at age 6 months in March 1819.  Wife Isabelle died at Grand Prairie in September 1818, age 24, probably from complications of giving birth to son Théogène.  Célestin filed a succession at the St. Martinville courthouse in May 1820, which mentioned his widow, and remarried to Julie, daughter of fellow Acadians Basile Chiasson and Marie Thibodeaux of St. Landry Parish and widow of Jean Doucet, at the St. Martinville church in September 1820.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Julie in March 1822; Jule or Jules in 1825 and baptized at age 6 months in April 1826; Marie Idalie born in late 1828 and baptized at age 4 months in March 1829; Prospère or Prosper born in late 1831 and baptized at age 7 1/2 months in June 1832 but died at age 3 1/2 in August 1835; and Céleste Terzille born in November 1835--nine children, six sons and three daughters, by two wives, between 1811 and 1835.  Célestin died in Lafayette Parish in October 1843.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said that Célestine Amand, as he called him, died "at age 52-55 yrs."  His succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in November.  Daughters Julie and Marie Idalie, by his second wife, married into the Sonnier and Begnaud families.  Célestin's remaining sons also married, but only one of the lines seems to have endured. 

Second son Symphorien, by first wife Isabelle Dugas, married Marguerite Arthémise or Arthémise Marguerite, also called Marie Dominique and Marguerite Herminie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Broussard and Anne Hébert, at the Vermilionville church in September 1832.  They settled probably near Carencro.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Alcide baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 3 months, in January 1834 but died at age 3 1/2 in October 1837; Calet or Cadet baptized at age 2 months in March 1835; Joseph baptized at age 1 month in October 1837 but died the following February; Célestin le jeune born in December 1840 but, called Célestine, died in Lafayette Parish at age 13 1/2 (the recording priest said 14) in August 1854; Adam born in September 1848; Jule Siphorin in March 1850; and Eve near Church Point, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in June 1852 but died at age 3 1/2 (the recording priest said 6) in Lafayette Parish in December 1855--seven children, six sons and a daughter, between 1833 and 1852.  Symphorien died probably at Carencro in December 1866.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Syphroyen, as he called him, died "at age 46 yrs."  Symphorien would have been age 52.  His succession, also calling him Syphroyen and his wife Marguerite Herminie, was filed the Opelousas courthouse, St. Landry Parish, in February 1867.  Two of Symphorien's sons married by 1870.

Second son Cadet married cousin Aspasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Marcellin Dugas and Mélanie Boudreaux, at the Vermilionville church in May 1854.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Luc in October 1855; and a child, unnamed, died in Lafayette Parish, at age 5 months in March 1859.  Wife Aspasie died in April 1859, age 20, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth.  Her succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in March 1860.  During the War of 1861-65, Cadet served in Company A, 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafayette Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  However, he did not live long enough to fight with his company.  On 23 or 24 June 1862, not long after his regiment reached the Mississippi citadel, he died probably of disease in Vicksburg's City Hospital and was buried at Soldier's Rest in the city's Cedar Hill Cemetery, age 27.  His son did not marry by 1870. 

Symphorien's fifth son Adam married Mélanie Hay in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in August 1870. ...

Célestin Amand's fifth son Jules, by second wife Julie Chiasson, married cousin Marguerite Félicia, called Félicia, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Dugas, fils and Marguerite Arminionne Hébert, at the Vermilionville church in February 1848.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Julie Idea in Lafayette Parish in May 1851; and Louis in St. Martin Parish in August 1860.  Jules died in Lafayette Parish in December 1865.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Jules died "at age 38 yrs."  He was 40.  His succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in June 1866.  Neither of his children married by 1870. 

Amand's fifth and youngest son Maximien, Maxime, or Maximilien married Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Brasseaux and Théodose Gautreaux of Manchac on the river, at the St. Martinville church in September 1816.  They evidently settled near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Joseph, also called Joseph Marie and Joseph Maximilien, in January 1821; and Narcisse in December 1822.  Maximilien's succession, calling his wife Lucile Brasseux, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in December 1858.  He would have been age 61 that year.  Both of his sons married and settled on the southwest prairies.

Older son Joseph Marie, also called Joseph Maximilien, married, at age 31, Emma, daughter of Narcisse Begnaud and Hortense Patin, at the Vermilionville church in May 1852.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Joseph, fils in February 1853; Jean Numa in June 1854 but, called Numa, died at age 10 1/2 (the recording priest said 12) in January 1865; Pierre Arthur born in July 1855; Paul Alcée in September 1856; and Lucile Célima in April 1858--five children, four sons and a daughter, between 1853 and 1858.  Joseph Marie, called Joseph Maximilien by the Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, died from being "struck by lightning" in June 1858, age 37, two months after his daughter was born.  His succession, calling him Joseph M., and naming his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following September.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Maximien's younger son Narcisse, at age 20, married Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Guidry and Carmélite Broussard, at the Vermilionville church in January 1842.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Narcisse, fils in September 1842 but died by September 1850, when he was not counted with his family in the federal census for Lafayette Parish; Amélie born in c1843 but died in Lafayette Parish at age 5 in May 1848; Emma born in c1846; Antoine Fergus, called Fergus, in April 1849; Aurelien in July 1850; Carmélite Alicia in November 1852; Lucille Alsina in November 1854; Jean in November 1856; and Raphaël in September 1860 but died in August 1861 "as a child"--eight children, five sons and three daughters, between 1842 and 1860.  Wife Carmélite, called Mrs. Narcisse Dugas, died in Lafayette Parish, age 50, in August 1861; she likely was in her late 30s.  Daughters ... married into the Broussard and Dugas families by 1870.  One of Narcisse's sons also married by then. 

Second son Fergus married cousin Cordelia, daughter of fellow Acadians Eusèbe Guidry and Marie Uranie Broussard, at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in January 1869.  Fergus died in Lafayette Parish in November 1869.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Ferjus, as he called him, died "at age 21 yrs."  His family line, though maybe not his father's line, died with him. 

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Even if Acadian immigration to Spanish Louisiana had ended in the 1770s, the Dugas family would have remained a large one in South Louisiana.  But 55 more Dugass crossed aboard every one of the Seven Ships from France in 1785, increasing substantially the size of the family in what became the Bayou State.  Some chose to settle where their cousins had gone, on the river and out on the western prairies, but most chose to go to upper Bayou Lafourche, where they helped create a third center of Dugas family settlement. 

Six Dugass--three small families, one led by a widow, and a wife--crossed on Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in late July 1785.  One new Dugas family line came of it: 

Jean-Baptiste (c1719-1780s) à Claude à Abraham Dugas

Jean-Baptiste, sixth son of Joseph Dugas and Claire Bourg, born probably at Cobeguit in c1719, married Marguerite, daughter of Jean Benoit and Marie-Anne Breau, in c1740 probably at Cobeguit.  Between 1742 and 1753, Marguerite gave Jean-Baptiste six children at Cobeguit:  Jean-Baptiste, fils born in c1742; Marguerite-Josèphe in c1745; Marin in c1747; Marie in c1749; Olivier in c1750; and Perpétué in c1753.  Jean-Baptiste remarried to Madeleine, daughter of François Moyse and Marie Brun, in c1754 or 1755 probably at Cobeguit.  They likely were among the Acadians at Cobeguit who, after hearing of the roundups at Chignecto and Minas, abandoned the settlement, made their way to the North Shore, and crossed Mer Rouge to Île St.-Jean in late 1755 or early 1756.  Madeleine gave Jean-Baptiste two more children on the island:  Mathurin born in c1756; and Anastasie in c1758.  In late 1758, The British deported them to St.-Malo, France.  Wife Madeleine and their two youngest children, Mathurin and Anastasie, died at sea.  Jean-Baptiste took his remaining children to St.-Suliac on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo, where he remarried again--his third marriage--to Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians François Bourg and Madeleine Hébert and widow of Jean-Baptiste Blanchard, in September 1760.  They settled at St.-Méloir-des-Ondes in the countryside southeast of St.-Malo, where Anne gave Jean-Baptiste three more children:  Françoise born at nearby La Pahorie in July 1761 but died at St.-Méloir, age 1 1/2, in December 1762; and twins Mathurin, the second with the name, and Anne, born at La Pahorie in May 1764--11 children, six daughters and five sons, including a set of twins, by three wives, between 1742 and 1764, in greater Acadia and France.  Meanwhile, daughter Marguerite-Josèphe, by first wife Marguerite, married into the Chiasson family at St.-Méloir in June 1761 but died at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer at age 19 in June 1766; and daughter Marie, also by first wife Marguerite, married into the Levis family of St.-Méloir at St.-Servan in January 1774.  Jean-Baptiste's two oldest sons, by first wife Marguerite, Jean-Baptiste, fils and Marin, also married, in 1764 and 1766, at St.-Suliac and St.-Servan.  In 1773, Jean-Baptiste and his family went to the interior of Poitou with hundreds of other exiles.  In March 1776, after two years of effort, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes.  Daughter Perpétué, by first wife Marguerite, married into the Boudrot family in St.-Similien Parish, Nantes, in November 1777.  She gave him two children, a son and a daughter, at nearby Chantenay in 1779 and 1780.  Jean-Baptiste, père's son Mathurin, by third wife Anne, died at Chantenay, age 17, in August 1780.  Son Marin, by first wife Marguerite, died at Chantenay in November 1783, age 36.  Jean-Baptiste, père, third wife Anne, their 21-year-old daughter Anne, still unmarried, and 5-year-old granddaughter Marie-Adélaïde Boudrot from daughter Perpétué, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, fils, who would have been age 43 and the father of at least four children in 1785, and his wife Marie Breau did not follow his father to Louisiana; nor did son Jean-Baptistes's son Olivier; nor Jean-Baptiste's daughter Marie and her husband Joseph Levis, who may have remained at his native St.-Méloir-des-Ondes.  However, son Marin's widow Françoise Boudrot, with her remaining Dugas son, age 12 in 1785, followed her father-in-law to the Spanish colony.  From New Orleans, Jean-Baptiste, père and his family followed their fellow passengers to Manchac on the river below Baton Rouge before joining the Acadian exodus to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Daughter Anne married into the Crochet family on the bayou.  Jean-Baptiste, père's grandson survived the crossing to Louisiana, followed his family to Manchac and the upper Lafourche, and perpetuated his grandfather's family line in the Bayou State. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, fils, by first wife Marguerite Benoit, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, St.-Malo, and St.-Suliac, where he married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Séraphin Breau and Brigitte Martin, in February 1764.  Marie gave Jean-Baptiste, fils five children in three communities in the area:  Joseph-Firmin born at St.-Suliac in December 1764; Pierre-Cyrille at St.-Servan-sur-Mer in November 1766 but died at La Ville de Haute-Chémin near La Gouesnière in the countryside southeast of St.-Servan, age 3, in October 1769; Marie-Josèphe born at nearby St.-Méloir-des-Ondes in December 1768; Marie-Anne-Juliènne at La Gouesnière in October 1770; and another Pierre-Cyrille at St.-Servan in May 1772--three sons and three daughters between 1764 and 1772.  One wonders if they followed Jean-Baptiste, fils's father and stepmother to Poitoiu in 1773 or joined them at Nantes later in the decade.  One thing is certain, neither Jean-Baptiste, fils, Marie, nor any of their children followed his family to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Jean-Baptiste, père's second son Marin, by first wife Marguerite Benoit, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, St.-Malo, St.-Suliac, and St.-Méloir-des-Ondes.  He married Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Boudrot and Marie-Josèphe Doiron and widow of Joseph Clossinet, at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer in November 1766.  Françoise gave Marin four sons there:  Joseph-Augustin born in August 1767 but died at age 5 in October 1772; Jean-Baptiste le jeune born in May 1769 but died at age 3 in October 1772; Olivier-Marc born in April 1772 but died the following November; and Jean-Pierre-Marin, called Pierre, born in October 1773.  Later that year or in 1774, they followed his father and stepmother to Poitou, where daughter Marie-Rose was born at Senillé southeast of Châtellerault in May 1775.  That November, after two years of effort, Marin, Françoise, his two remaining children, and two of her children from her first marriage, retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the lower Loire port of Nantes, where Françoise gave Marin two more children at nearby Chantenay:  Marie-Louise born in March 1777 but died at age 4 1/2 in March 1782; and Jean-Marie born in June 1779 but died at age 1 in August 1780--seven children, five sons and two daughters, between 1767 and 1779, all but one of whom died in childhood.  Daughter Marie-Rose died in St.-Similien Parish, Nantes, at age 15 months in July 1776.  Marin died at nearby Chantenay in November 1783, age 36.  Widow Françoise and her remaining Dugas child, son Jean-Pierre-Marin, followed her father-in-law to Louisiana in 1785 and to Manchac, where she remarried to a Daigre widower--her third marriage.  She and her son followed her new husband and her former father-in-law to upper Bayou Lafourche, where her son created a family of his own. 

Fourth and only remaining son Jean-Pierre-Marin, called Pierre, followed his parents to Poitou, Nantes, and Chantenay and his widowed mother and paternal grandfather to New Orleans and Manchac, where his mother remarried.  He followed her and his stepfather Charles Daigre to upper Bayou Lafourche, where Pierre married Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Arcement and Marie Hébert, in May 1794.  Françoise was a native of St.-Suliac, France, and came to Louisiana in 1785 on a later ship.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Constance-Pélagie in May 1795; Pierre-Marin baptized, age unrecorded, in September 1796; another Constance-Pélagie born in April 1798; Rosalie in February 1800; Basile in December 1801; Clémence Marguerite in November 1804; Marie Adèle in November 1806; and Célie or Azélie Louise in April 1810--eight children, six daughters and two sons, between 1795 and 1810.  Jean Pierre Marin died in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1832, age 59.  Daughters Rosalie, Constance, Clémence, Marie Adèle, and Azélie married into the Talbot, Maillet, Boudreaux, and Richard families by 1870.  One of Pierre's son also married by then and settled on the Lafourche.

Younger son Basile married Claire or Clarisse, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Robichaux and Marie Marthe Élisabeth LeBlanc, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in January 1821.  Their children, born on the bayou, included Basilisse in July 1823; Marie Séraphine, called Séraphine, in January 1825; Élisabeth Élodie in May 1827; Azéline in January 1829; Ovile or Ovide Basile in August 1830; Pierre Amédée, called Amédée, in November 1833; and Marie Odile in September 1835--seven children, five daughters and two sons, between 1823 and 1835.  Daughters Séraphine and Marie married into the Daunis and Boudreaux families by 1870.  Basile's two sons also married by then and settled on the Lafourche, but one of the lines did not endure.

Older son Ovile married Marie Clémentine or Clémence, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Boudreaux and Joséphine Gautreaux, at the Thibodaux church in January 1849.  Their son Désiré was born in February 1850 but died five days after his birth.  Ovile died in Lafourche Parish in December 1857.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial said that Ovide, as he called him, died "at age 28 yrs."  He was 27.  His family line probably died with him. 

Basile's younger son Amédée married Ofilia, daughter of Barthélémy Jolibois and his Acadian wife Mathilde Bourg, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1860.  Their children, born near Labadieville, included Joseph Albains in January 1861; Aurelia Amanda in April 1862; ... 

Jean-Baptiste, père's third son Olivier, by first wife Marguerite Benoit, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and St.-Malo.  Did he join his widowered father at St.-Suliac and St.-Méloir-des-Ondes?  If he followed them to Poitou in 1773, when he would have been in his early 20s, he did not retreat with them to Nantes in March 1776.  Did he marry in the St.-Malo area or die there before 1773?  One thing is certain--he did not accompany his father and stepmother to Spanish Louisiana in 1785, when he would have been in his mid-30s. 

Jean-Baptiste (c1736-?) à Claude, fils à Claude à Abraham Dugas

Jean-Baptiste, oldest son of Charles Dugas and Anne-Marie Benoit, born at Cobeguit in c1737, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and St.-Malo, France, and his widowed mother to St.-Énogat, todays's Dinard, across the harbor from St.-Malo, where he worked as a fisherman.  In the early 1760s, following the war with Britain, Jean-Baptiste signed on to the ship L'Aimable-Thérèse and was reported as having deserted the vessel at New Orleans in July 1765.  He would have been there about the time some of his Dugas cousins from Halifax and French St.-Domingue arrived in the colony.  He did not remain.  He reached Le Havre, France, by October 1767 and was back at St.-Malo in November.  At age 30, he married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Grossin and Marie Caissie of Île St.-Jean, in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer in February 1768.  Marie gave Jean-Baptiste four children at St.-Énogat across the harbor:  Marie-Jeanne born in December 1768 but died at age 4 1/2 in March 1773; Victoire-Marie born in July 1770 but died at age 2 in July 1772; Jean-Grégoire born in March 1772; and Marie-Josèphe in January 1774.  Later that year, Jean-Baptiste and his family followed other exiles in the St.-Malo area to the interior of Poitou.  In November 1775, after two years of effort, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes.  Another son, Étienne, was born in St.-Similien Parish in December 1775, but he died there at age 2 1/2 in March 1778--five children, three daughters and two sons, between 1768 and 1778, most of whom died young.  Older son Jean-Grégoire died at nearby Chantenay in April 1781, age 9.  Jean-Baptiste, Marie, and their remaining child, 11-year-old Marie-Josèphe, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to Manchac near Baton Rouge but had no more children there.  Wife Marie died at Baton Rouge in July 1809, in her early 70s.  Jean-Baptiste was still alive and also in his early 70s at the time of her death.  He did not remarry.  Daughter Marie-Josèphe married into the Lebert family at Baton Rouge, so the blood of the family line endured in the Bayou State. 

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Twenty-four more Dugass--four families, two of them led by brothers whose youngest brother already was in the colony; five wives; and three widows--crossed on La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in mid-August 1785.  Three new family lines came of it, on the upper Lafourche and out on the prairies, where the youngest brother had settled: 

Paul (c1709-?) à Claude à Abraham Dugas

Paul, third son of Joseph Dugas and Claire Bourg and older brother of Jean-Baptiste of Le Bon Papa, born probably at Cobeguit in c1709, married Anne-Marie, also called Marguerite-Marie, daughter of Claude Boudrot and Catherine Hébert, at Grand-Pré in June 1734.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1737 and 1753, Anne-Marie/Marguerite-Marie gave Paul four children, two sons and two daughters.  Other records give them seven children, five daughters and two sons, between 1738 and 1753:  Eulalie born in c1738; Paul, fils in c1740; Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, in c1742; Marguerite in c1744; Marie probably in the 1740s; Simon in c1748; and Élisabeth in c1753.  They moved on to Île St.-Jean probably after August 1752, perhaps by the spring of 1756.  Two of their older daughters, Eulalie and Madeleine, married into the Henry and Hébert families in c1758 on the eve of the island's dérangement.  The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Paul's older son, 19-year-old Paul, fils, died soon after they reached the Breton port.  Paul's wife Anne-Marie/Marguerite-Marie died at the hospital at St.-Malo in February 1759, age 47, also from the rigors of the crossing.  Paul took his family to Pleurtuit on the west side of the river southwest of St.-Malo.  Third daughter Marguerite, still unmarried, died at St.-Bue near Pleurtuit in February 1760, age 16.  Later that year, Paul moved his family to St.-Coulomb near the bay shore northeast of St.-Malo.  Two more of his daughters, Marie and Élisabeth, married into the Giroir and Pitre families at St.-Coulomb and Pleurtuit.  Meanwhile, Paul remarried to Hélène, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Blanchard and Françoise Breau and widow of Alexis Aucoin, at Ploubalay near Pleurtuit in June 1760.  They settled at St.-Coulomb.  Hélène gave Paul two more daughters there:  Marie-Osithe born in June 1761; and Anne-Marie in December 1764--nine children, seven daughters and two sons, by two wives, between 1738 and 1764, in greater Acadia and France.  In 1773, Paul and his family followed other exiles in the St.-Malo area to Poitou.  In March 1776, after two years of effort, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes, where wife Hélène died in St.-Similien Parish in October 1782, age 65.  Paul did not remarry again.  In November 1784, at nearby Chantenay, his daughter Marie-Osithe, by second wife Hélène, married into the Dupuis family.  Paul and two unmarried children, Simon from his first wife and Anne-Marie from his second, along with his married daughters Madeleine, Marie, Élisabeth, and Marie-Osithe, from both of wives, one of them now a widow, and their families, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana aboard the same vessel.  Paul's oldest daughter Eulalie and her Henry husband, if they were still living, chose to remain in the mother country.  From New Orleans, Paul and his family followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Daughter Élisabeth, from his first wife, remarried into the Campos family there and lived to be 84, and daughter Anne-Marie, from his second wife, married into the Dumene family.  Paul's remaining son, well into middle age, also married on the upper Lafourche and created a successful family line there. 

Second son Simon, by first wife Anne-Marie Boudrot, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, St.-Malo, Pleurtuit, and St.-Coulomb.  He worked as a carpenter in France.  In 1773, in his mid-20s, still unmarried, he followed his father and stepmother to Poitou and Nantes and was still a bachelor, in his late 30s, when he crossed to Louisiana with his twice-widowed father and a much younger half-sister in 1785.  His fellow passengers selected him as one of the five leaders of their "expedition."  He followed, or perhaps led, his fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where, at age 39, he married Marie-Geneviève, called Geneviève, 22-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Alain Bourg, and Anne-Marie Comeau, in June 1787.  Geneviève, a native of St.-Suliac near St.-Malo, across the river from Pleurtuit, had come to Louisiana from France in 1785 on a later ship.  Judging by the baptismal and marriage records of their children, they lived on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between what became Ascension and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie-Madeleine baptized, age unrecorded, in September 1788; Magloire born in August 1789; Jean-Baptiste in October 1790; Paul le jeune in February 1792 but died in Assumption Parish, age 44 (the recording priest said 42), in June 1836; Marie-Rose born in September 1793; Anne in May 1795; Isabelle or Élisabeth in November 1797; Marguerite-Marie or Marie-Marguerite in January 1800; Pélagie-Geneviève baptized, age unrecorded, in October 1801; Henriette born in May 1804; Joseph Michel or Michel Joseph in September 1808 but died at age 22 months in July 1810--11 children, seven daughters and four sons, between 1788 and 1808.  Simon died in Assumption Parish in July 1829, age 80.  Daughters Anne, Pélagie Geneviève, Marie Marguerite, Henriette, and Élisabeth married into the Coupelle, Freoux, Daigle, Cedotal, and Hopwood families.  Only one of Simon's sons married, and only one of his grandsons' lines endured.  

Second son Jean Baptiste married cousin Constance, daughter of Joseph Simoneaux and his Acadian wife Madeleine Bourg, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in May 1811.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Hortense Nofleta in March 1812 but died three days after her birth; Jean Baptiste Leufroi, called Leufroi, born in April 1813; Eméranthe Eléonore in November 1815; Honoré Valsin in c1818 but died at age 23 in January 1841; Honorine Henriette born in March 1821; and François Xavier, called Xavier, in December 1823--six children, three daughters and three sons, between 1812 and 1823.  Jean Baptiste died in Ascension Parish in November 1829.  The Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial said Jean Baptiste was age 49 when he died.  He was 39.  Daughters Eméranthe Eléonore and Honorine married into the Daigle and Hébert families.  Two of Jean Baptiste's sons also married, but only one of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Jean Baptiste Leufroi married Clémence or Clémentine, daughter of fellow Acadians Timothée Hébert and Rosalie Comeaux, at the Plattenville church in September 1838.  They settled at nearby Paincourtville.  Their children, born there, included Clémentine in June 1839; Evéline, also called Avélina, in c1841; Marie Angelina in June 1844 but, called Angelina, died at age 19 in June 1863; and Marcelline Codilia or Cordilia, born in May 1846--four children, all daughters, between 1839 and 1846.  Wife Clémence died by August 1860, when J.B.L. Dugas, "Sugar Planter," appeared in the 1860 federal census in Assumption Parish without a wife (called Clémentine, she is listed as "deceased" in daughter Evéline's marriage record at the Plattenville church in January 1861).  Jean Baptiste Leufroi did not remarry and died near Paincourtville in July 1870.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Jean Baptiste L., as he called him, died at "age ca. 53 years."  He was 57.  Daughters Clémentine, Evéline, and Cordilia married into the Phelps, Guidry, LeBlanc, and Landry families, one of them, Clémentine, twice, by 1870.  Jean Baptiste Leufroi evidently fathered no sons, but the blood of the family line endured. 

Jean Baptiste's third son François Xavier, called Xavier, likely married fellow Acadian Armelise Landry, place and date unrecorded, and settled near Paincourtville.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included François Honoré, called Honoré, in February 1844; Marie Camille, called Camille, in July 1845; Émilie or Émelia Constance in March 1847; Joseph Claiborne, called Claiborne, in October 1848; Bernard Ulisse in August 1850; Joseph Félix in March 1852; Jean Baptiste Elphége Thomas in December 1853; Marie Pauline in December 1856; and Arsène Henry in December 1858--nine children, six sons and three daughters, between 1844 and 1858.  Daughters Émelia and Camille married into the Hidalgo and LeBlanc families by 1870.  Two of Xavier's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Honoré evidently served as a sergeant in Company H of the 29th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Assumption Parish, during the War of 1861-65.  While a resident of Paincourtville, he enlisted in the company in Assumption Parish in April 1862, age 18, and served with the unit through the Siege of Vicksburg, where he was captured along with the rest of his regiment in July 1863.  He was paroled at Vicksburg with the rest of his unit and sent home to await exchange.  He likely rejoined his unit after exchange in 1864 and next appears in military records as an end-of-war prisoner at Alexandria in June 1865.  He returned home, was registered as a paroled prisoner-of-war at Napoleonville in November 1865, and married Alphonsine, daughter of Villier Jumeauville or Jumonville and Constance Evela, at the Plattenville church in January 1866.  Their chiildren, born near Paincourtville, included Marie Théréza in November 1866; Marie, perhaps theirs, died at age 1 day in August 1867; Philippe Xavier born in August 1868; Marie Lilia in January 1870; ... 

Xavier's second son Claiborne married double cousin Lee, daughter of fellow Acadians Alcide Landry and Colette Landry, at the Paincourtville church in April 1868.  Daughter Marie Luce was born near Paincourtville in January 1869; ...

Pierre (c1728-?) à Claude, fils à Claude à Abraham Dugas

Pierre, oldest son of Claude Dugas III and Anne Hébert and oldest brother of Amand of Attakapas, born probably at Cobeguit in c1728, married Marguerite Daigre perhaps at Cobeguit in c1752.  Marguerite gave Pierre three daughters there and on Île St.-Jean, to where they fled in late 1755 or early 1756:  Anne-Osite born in c1753; Marguerite-Blanche in c1755; and Victoire-Osite in c1757.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Their youngest daughter died at sea, but the other members of the family survived the crossing.  They settled at Plouër-sur-Rance on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo, where Pierre worked as a carpenter and where Marguerite gave him two more daughters: Anne-Marie born in July 1761; and Marie-Victoire in August 1764--five children, all daughters, between 1753 and 1764, in greater Acadia and France.  In 1773, they followed other Acadians in the St.-Malo area to the interior of Poitou.  In March 1776, after two years of effort, Pierre, Marguerite, and their four daughters retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes.  Oldest daughters Anne-Osite and Marguerite-Blanche married into the Hébert and Bourg families at Nantes and nearby Chantenay in October 1778 and November 1784.  Pierre, Marguerite, and two of their unmarried daughters, along with their married daughters and their families, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  They did not follow most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche but chose to settle on the Opelousas prairies, near Pierre's youngest brother Amand, who had gone to the colony from France in the 1770s.  Pierre died at Opelousas by March 1808, when wife Marguerite was described as a widow in her burial record.  Meanwhile, daughter Marguerite-Blanche evidently died in New Orleans, age about 30, soon after reaching the colony, and her Bourg husband moved on to Bayou Lafourche.  Pierre and Marguerite's youngest daughter Marie-Victoire married into the Richard family at Opelousas.  Their third daughter, Anne-Marie, never married.  Oldest daughter Anne-Osite remarried into the Granger family at Attakapas, so the blood of this family line endured in the Bayou State. 

Charles (c1737-1809) à Claude, fils à Claude à Abraham Dugas

Charles, third son of Claude Dugas III and Anne Hébert and also brother of Amand of Attakapas, born probably at Cobeguit in c1737, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in 1755 or 1756.  In late 1758, the British deported him not to St.-Malo but to Boulogne-sur-Mer in Picardie, France, where he married fellow Acadian Marguerite Granger in c1761.  Marguerite gave Charles two children in the northern fishing port:  Marie-Josèphe born in St.-Nicolas Parish in February 1762; and Jean-Charles in July 1764.  In May 1766, Charles, Marguerite, and their two children took the brigantine Hazard to St.-Malo and settled at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer before crossing the river to Plouër-sur-Rance to be near his brothers.  Marguerite gave Charles four more children at St.-Servan and Plouër:  Pierre-Olivier dit Pierrot born at St.-Servan in November 1766; Joseph-Simon in January 1769; Félicité-Marguerite at Plouër in February 1771 but died there at age 2 1/2 in August 1773; and Victoire-Ange born in August 1772.  Wife Marguerite died at Ville de La Croix Guguel near Plouër in March 1773, age 35.  Later that year, Charles and his five children followed his older brother Pierre to Poitou.  Youngest daughter Victoire-Ange died there in July 1774, age 2.  Charles remarried to Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Daigre and Marguerite Granger, in St.-Jean-Baptiste l'Evangeliste Parish, Châtellerault, in September 1775.  The following November, after two years of effort, Charles, Marguerite, and his four remaining children retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes, where second wife Marguerite gave him three more children:  Jean-Baptiste born in St.-Similien Parish in July 1776 but died there at age 2 1/2 in October 1778; Blaise born in February 1778 but died before 1785; and Marguerite born in c1781--nine children, four daughters and five sons, by two wives, between 1762 and 1781.  Wife Marguerite died at Nantes in April 1784, age 32.  The following year, Charles, still a widower, and his five remaining children, two daughters and three sons, followed his brother Pierre to Spanish Louisiana.  From New Orleans, Charles took his family not to Opelousas, where Pierre settled, but to Attakapas south of Opelousas, where his younger brother Amand had settled in the late 1770s.  At age 60, Charles remarried--his third marriage--to Françoise, 50-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Trahan and Jeanne Daigle and widow of Pascal Hébert, at Attakapas in July 1797.  Françoise, a native of Rivière-aux-Canards, also had come to Louisiana from France in 1785 on a later ship.  She gave Charles no more children.  He died at Attakapas in January 1809.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial, and did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Charles "of Acadia" died "at age 66 years, at his residence at La Prairie Sorel."  Charles was in his early 70s at the time of his death.  Daughters Marie-Josèphe and Marguerite, by his first and second wives, married Richard brothers, who also were their cousins, at Opelousas and Attakapas.  Charles's three remaining sons also married.  They also settled at Attakapas, where two of the lines endured.  The line created by the youngest surviving son was especially robust. 

Oldest son Jean-Charles, by first wife Marguerite Granger, followed his family to St.-Servan-sur-Mer, Plouër-sur-Rance, Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and Attakapas, where he married Esther, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Martin and Isabelle Thibodeau, in January 1789.  Esther was a native of Louisiana whose parents had come to the colony from Halifax in 1765.  Jean Charles died at his home at La Pointe on upper Bayou Teche in November 1818, age 54.  He and his wife may have been that rare Acadian couple who had no children.  

Charles's second son Pierre-Olivier dit Pierrot, by first wife Marguerite Granger, followed his family to Plouër-sur-Rance, Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and Attakapas, where he married Marie-Sophie, called Sophie, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand-Paul Gautreaux and Marie Landry, in February 1795.  Sophie was a native of Louisiana whose parents had come to the colony from Maryland in 1766.  Pierrot and Sophie settled at Grand Prairie on upper Bayou Vermilion, at Anse La Butte on the upper Vermilion, and at Prairie Sorel.  Their children, born there, included Marie-Aspasie baptized, age 9 months, in October 1797 but died at age 1 1/2 in June 1798; Pierre-Onesime born in February 1800; Achille baptized, age "about 5 mths.," in October 1802; Julie born in May 1805; Marcellin in May 1807 but died in Lafayette Parish at age 32 (the recording priest said 30) in January 1840; Joachim born in August 1810; and Léonard in October 1814--seven children, two daughters and five sons, between 1797 and 1814.   Pierrot died a widower at his home on Prairie Sorel in March 1820.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial said that Pierrot was "about 52 years" old when he died.  He was 53.  Hs succession (the parish clerk erroneously called him Pierre Auguste) was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in May 1824.  Daughter Julie married into the Chiasson family.  Three of Pierrot's sons also married, but only two of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Pierre Onesime married Anne Célanie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Broussard and Anne Hébert, at the Vermilionville church in January 1829.  Their son Pierre, fils was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 3 months, in January 1836 (the Vermilionville priest who recorded the baptism called the father Pierre Arvilien and the mother Nanette, so this likely was them).  Pierre Onésime died in Lafayette Parish in April 1861.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Pierre Onésime died at age 52 yrs."  He would have been 61.  His son did not marry by 1870, if he married at all.   

Pierrot's fourth son Joachim married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Broussard and Céleste Hébert, at the Vermilionville church in April 1829.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included a child, name unrecorded, died at age 5 days in February 1830; Silvanie, a daughter, born in June 1831; Aspasie, perhaps their daughter, baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 3 months, in June 1834; Aurelia born in August 1836; Thiburse baptized at age 3 months in July 1839; Eraste born in November 1841; and Alice in May 1847--seven children, at least four daughters and two sons, between 1830 and 1847.  Wife Marguerite's succession, probably post-mortem, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in December 1848.  Joachim remarried to cousin Marie Vallènne, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Amand Dugas and Marie Madeleine Sonnier and widow of Joseph Colin Brasseaux, at the Vermilionville church in February 1850.  Did she give him more children?  Daughters Silvanie and Aurelia, by his first wife, married into the Sonnier and Cormier families by 1870.  Joachim's sons also married by then and settled on the prairies after completing their war service.

During the War of 1861-65, older son Thiburse, by first wife Marguerite Broussard, served in Company F of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafayette Parish, which fought in Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, and Louisiana, and in Company I of the Consolidated 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, which fought in Louisiana.  He survived the war, returned to his family, and married Émelie or Émelia, daughter of Sébastien Hernandez and his Acadian wife Euphrosine Sonnier, at the Vermilionville church in August 1865.  Their son Paul was born in Lafayette Parish in January 1868; ... 

During the war, Joachim's younger son Eraste, by first wife Marguerite Broussard, served in Company A of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafayette Parish, which fought at Vicksburg.  He survived the war, returned to his family, and married cousin Marie Evélina, called Evélina, daughter of fellow Acadians Lessin Jean Olidon Broussard and Mélasie Richard, at the Vermilionville church in June 1867.  They settled probably near Grand Coteau.  Their son Joseph Cléopha was born in October 1868; ... 

Pierrot's fifth and youngest son Léonard married double cousin Marie Célanie, called Célanie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jérôme Gautreaux and Marie Sophie Dugas, at the Vermilionville church in June 1833.  They remained in Lafayette Parish until the late 1840s and then moved to Breaux Bridge on the upper Teche.  Their children, born there, included a child, name unrecorded, died in Lafayette Parish at age 5 days in May 1835; Marcelite born in July 1836 but evidently died the following September (the recording priest called her mother Marguerite and said Marcelite died at age 3 years, not 3 months); Joseph baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 3 months, in March 1838; Pierre Octave baptized at age 2 months in March 1840; Marie Octavie, called Octavie, born in December 1842; Jérôme in September 1846; Marguerite Alice, called Alice or Alisse, near Breaux Bridge in November 1849; Alfred in February 1851; Albert in October 1854; Alexandre in October 1855; Alphonse baptized at the Breaux Bridge church, age 2 months, in October 1857; Léonard, fils born in c1859 but died at age 3 in August 1862; Adolphe born in June 1862; ...  Léonard, père died near Breaux Bridge in September 1867.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Léonard died "at age 52 yrs."  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse, St. Martin Parish, the following December.  Daughters Octavie and Alisse married into the Taylor, perhaps Teller, and Devillier families by 1870.  None of Léonard's sons married by then. 

Charles's third son Joseph-Simon, by first wife Marguerite Granger, followed his family to Plouër-sur-Rance, Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and Attakapas, where he married cousin Céleste or Célestine, teenage daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Dugas and Marguerite Dupuis, in August 1794.  They settled at Grand Prairie on upper Bayou Vermilion, at nearby Carencro, and at La Pointe on upper Bayou Teche.  Their children, born there, included Marie-Aspasie in March 1796 but died at age 2 1/2 in September 1798; Joseph, fils born in 1798 and baptized at age "about 6 mths." in March 1799; Narcisse born in May 1800; Marie, also called Marie Cléonise or Cléomie, in September 1802; Marcellin, also called Maxilien and Maximilien, in October 1804; Marguerite near Carencro in February 1807; Célestine near Grand Prairie in July 1809; Jean, called Jean Laisin, Laissin, or Lessin, at La Pointe in August 1812; and Edmond in c1814 but died at age 3 in September 1817--nine children, four daughters and five sons, between 1796 and 1814.  Joseph Simon died in Lafayette Parish in August 1830, age 61.  His succession, calling him Joseph dit Faraz and naming his widow, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following December.  Widow Céleste died in Lafayette Parish in September 1843, age 64.  Her succession, calling her husband Joseph père, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in May 1845.  Daughters Marie Cléomie, Marguerite, and Célestine married into the Babineaux, Guidry, and Richard families.  Four of Joseph Simon's sons married and settled on the prairies.

Oldest son Joseph, fils married Marguerite Arminionne, daughter of fellow Acadians Moïse Hébert and Marie Louise Richard, at the Vermilionville church in June 1827.  Their children, born in Lafayette and St. Martin parishes, included a son, name unrecorded, died 11 days after his birth in August 1828; Zéoline born in April 1830; Moïse in November 1831; Marguerite Félicia baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in May 1834; Urma baptized, age 50 days, in October 1836 but, called Orphelia, died in Lafayette Parish, age 7, in September 1843; Jean Laisin or Lessin le jeune, called Lessin, baptized, age 2 months, in November 1838; Octavie born in May 1841; Joseph III in September 1843; Alcides, probably Alcide, in February 1846; Omer near Breaux Bridge, St. Martin Parish, in January 1849 but may have died in St. Martin Parish, age 13 1/2 (the recording priest said 12), in November 1862; Narcisse born in Lafayette Parish in June 1851; and Alexandre Thelismar in April 1854--a dozen children, eight sons and four daughters, between 1828 and 1854.  Joseph, fils's first succession, naming his wife and evidently not post-mortem, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in October 1865.  He would have been age 66 that year.  Another succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in January 1867.  One wonders why he would have needed two successions in the same civil parish.  Daughters ... married into the Dugas, Gautreaux, Martin, and Richard families by 1870.  Four of Joseph, fils's sons also married by then. 

Second son Moïse married cousin Alida, daughter of fellow Acadians Cyprien Mouton and Elisa Dugas, at the Vermilionville church in July 1855.  Their son Narcisse Gabriel was born in Lafayette Parish in July 1857.  Moïse died in Lafayette Parish in September 1867.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said Moïse died "at age 34 yrs."  He was 35.  His succession, which named his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the day of his death.  His son was too young to marry by 1870. 

Joseph, fils's third son Lessin may have married Alida Begnaud, place and date unrecorded.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Amédée died there "at age 4 mths." in December 1868; Joseph le jeune born in July 1870; ...

Joseph, fils's fourth son Joseph III married cousin Philomène, daughter of fellow Acadian Lasty Hébert and his Creole wife Adeline Begnaud, at the Breaux Bridge church in February 1862.  Their son Alcée was born near Breaux Bridge in August 1864; ... 

Joseph, fils's fifth son Alcide married cousin Féliciènne, daughter of fellow Acadian Sosthène Darmas Dugas and his Creole wife Aglaé Castille, at the Breaux Bridge church in December 1865.  Wife Féliciènne died near Breaux Bridge in September 1867, age 20.  Her succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in December 1868.  Alcide remarried to cousin Emma, daughter of fellow Acadians Narcisse Dugas and Carmélite Guidry, at the Vermilionville church in July 1868.  Wife Emma died in Lafayette Parish in October 1869, age 22. ...

Joseph Simon's second son Narcisse married Céleste or Célanie, 16-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste dit Mano Cormier and Pauline Martin, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in May 1821.  Their children born in Lafayette Parish, included Célestine in March 1822 but, called Céleste, died at age 18 in July 1840; Émilie born in September 1823; Azélia or Azélie baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 9 months, in September 1826; Émilia N. born in the late 1820s or early 1830s; Élise in April 1828 but died at age 1 1/2 in September 1829; Oliva born in c1829 and baptized at age 17 1/2 months in June 1831; Narcisse, fils born in 1831 and baptized at age 13 months in September 1832, but died the day after his baptism; Joseph, also called Joseph Hernesse, born in 1833 and baptized at age 7 months in March 1834 but died at age 4 (the recording priest said 5) in September 1837; a child, name unrecorded, died at age 3 days in May 1836; Edmond Darty born in May 1837; Célestine Elmyra in October 1839; and Jean in October 1842--a dozen children, at least seven daughters and four sons, between 1822 and 1842.  A succession, probably post-mortem, for wife Céleste, naming her husband, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in March 1847.  Narcisse evidently did not remarry and may have died in Lafayette Parish in April 1860.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Narcisse died "at age 50 ca."  This Narcisse would have been a month shy of 60.  Daughters Azélia and Émilia N. married into the Begnaud and Blanchard families by 1870.  One of Narcisse's sons also married by then. 

Third son Edmond Darty married Émilie McNeil, also called Making, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in April 1857, and sanctified the marriage at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, the following July.  Did they have any children? 

Joseph Simon's third son Marcellin, also called Maxilien and Maximilien, married Mélanie, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Boudreaux and Susanne Breaux, at the Vermilionville church in April 1828.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Marie baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 7 months, in September 1830; Sosthène born in November 1832; Azinaïde or Azénaïsse baptized, age unrecorded, in July 1835; Aspasie born in late 1837 and baptized at age 4 1/2 months in March 1838 but may have died in Lafayette Parish, age 17 (the recording priest said 20), in January 1854; Lorenza born in March 1840 but died at age 1 1/2 in August 1841; Alcide born in April 1842; Jules Olivier in April 1845; Marcel in February 1848; Anna Valentine in March 1853; Alcée in c1855 but died at age 7 in February 1863; and Alice born in February 1857--11 children, six daughters and five sons, between 1830 and 1855.  Marcellin died in Lafayette Parish in November 1857.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Marcellin died "at age 50 yrs."  He was 53.  One wonders if he was a victim of the yellow fever epidemic that struck South Louisiana in the summer and fall of 1857.  Daughters Azénaïsse, ... married into the Gautreaux, Robin, Domingue, Dugas, and Elmer families by 1870.  Three of Marcellin's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Sosthène married Marie Féliciènne, called Féliciènne, daughter of Napoléon Plaisance and Madeleine Domingues, at the Vermilionville church, in April 1856.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Jacques Edgar in July 1857; Jean Martial in May 1859; Alcée in April 1862; ... 

Marcellin's third son Jules Olivier married Marie Thérèse, called Thérèse, daughter of Creoles Melchior Robin and Célima Bergeron, at the Vermilionville church in September 1862.  Their son Félix Jules was born in Lafayette Parish in December 1863; ... 

Marcellin's fourth son Marcel married Marie Rophine, another daughter of Napoléon Plaisance and Madeleine Domingues, at the Vermilionville church in October 1865. ...

Joseph Simon's fourth son Jean Lessin, called Lessin, married Marguerite Azélie, called Azélie, teenage daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Olidon Broussard and Marie Victoire Babineaux, at the Vermilionville church in February 1833.  They settled probably near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Duplessin in November 1833 but, called Duplessis, died at age 1 1/2 in March 1835; a second Duplessis, also called Duplessin, and an unnamed twin brother or sister born in late February 1835, but the twin died at age 5 days on February 27, and Duplessis was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 13 days, on March 7; Joseph le jeune born in late 1836 and baptized at age 4 months in February 1837; Jean, called Dejean, born in September 1839; Marie Fanalie in July 1841; Alexandre in September 1843; Victorin[e] Amélie in September 1846 but, as an unnamed child, may have died in Lafayette Parish, age 5, in September 1851; Céleste Octavie in December 1847; twins Jean Neuville and Joseph Dupréville in May 1850; Marie Élodie in December 1853 but, called an unnamed child, may have died at age 3 1/2 (the recording priest said 4) in March 1857; and Marie Eulalie born in August 1856--13 children, at least seven sons and five daughters, including two sets of twins, between 1833 and 1856.  Jean Lessin, called Lessaint by the recording priest, died in Lafayette Parish in June 1857, age 44 (the recording priest said 45).  His succession, calling him Lessin and naming his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in January 1859.  Daughter ... married into the Gautreaux family by 1870.  Four of Lessin's sons also married by then, and one of them may have died during the war.

Second son Duplessin married cousin Marguerite Aloysia or Olisia, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Richard and Adélaïde Babineaux, at the Vermilionville church in September 1852.  They settled probably near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Marie Eulalie in November 1853; Louis Omer in September 1855; and Lessaint le jeune in January 1857--three childre, a daughter and two sons, between 1853 and 1857.  During the War of 1861-65, Duplessin served in Company A of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafayette Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  If he survived the war and returned to this family, he did not last long.  His succession, perhaps post-mortem, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in January 1866.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Lessin's third son Joseph le jeune married cousin Célanie, another daughter of Louis Richard and Adélaïde Babineaux, at the Vermilionville church in May 1858.  They settled probably near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included twins Marie and Marie (the Vermilionville priest who baptized them noted that "both have same name") in April 1861; Louis Joseph in July 1864; Jean Alcée in January 1869; ... 

Lessin's fourth son Jean dit Dejean married Marie Émelie, daughter of Julien Caruthers and his Acadian wife Elisa Babineaux, at the Vermilionville church in May 1860.  Dejean likely remarried to Ernestine, daughter of fellow Acadian Onésime Richard and his Creole wife Maguerite Arthémise Caruthers, at the Grand Coteau church in February 1867.  Their son Alcée Joseph was born near Grand Coteau in October 1868; ... 

Lessin's fifth son Alexandre, called Alex. in Confederate records, evidently served with his older brother Duplessin in Company A of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, which fought at Vicksburg.  Alex survived the war, returned to his family, and married Marie Célestine, called Célestine, another daughter of Onésime Richard and Maguerite Arthémise Caruthers, at the Vermilionville church in June 1867.  They settled probably near Carencro.  Their son Pierre Ernest was born in July 1870; ...

Ambroise, fils (c1751-1816) à Joseph dit Petit Jos à Joseph à Claude à Abraham Dugas

Ambroise, fils, oldest son of Ambroise Dugas and Marguerite Henry and nephew of the four Dugas brothers from Cobeguit and Île St.-Jean who crossed to Louisiana on Le St.-Rémi, was born at Cobeguit in c1751.  He was taken by his parents to Grande-Ascension, Île St.-Jean, soon after his birth, and was counted with them there in August 1752, age 10 months.  In late 1758, he was deported with his parents and four younger siblings to St.-Malo, France.  Only he and his father survived the crossing.  He followed his father to St.-Suliac on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo, where his father died in October 1760.  Ambroise, fils, only age 9 at the time of his father's death, was raised by relatives (his paternal uncles also had settled at St.-Suliac).  When he came of age, Ambroise, fils worked as a sailor.  At age 22, he married Marie-Victoire, 20-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Amand Pitre and Geneviève Arcement of Cobeguit, at St.-Suliac in March 1773.  Later that year, they followed two of his uncles to the interior of Poitou.  Daughter Anne-Marie was born at Leigné-les-Bois southeast of Châtellerault in December 1774.  In December 1775, after two years of effort, Ambroise, fils and Marie-Victoire  retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes.  Marie-Victoire gave Ambroise, fils four more children there:  Marguerite-Josèphe born in St.-Nicolas Parish in May 1776; Constant-Ambroise in St.-Léonard Parish in December 1777 but died in St.-Jacques Parish, age 1 1/2, in Septmber 1779; Louis-Ambroise born in St.-Jacques Parish in May 1780; and Céleste in May 1784.  Their oldest child, Anne-Marie, died at age 5 in St.-Pierre de Rezé Parish on the south side of the Loire across from Nantes in August 1779.  In 1785, Ambroise, fils, Marie-Victoire, and their three remaining children, two daughters and a son, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana.  Marie-Victoire was pregnant when they left Paimboeuf, the lower port of Nantes.  Daughter Eulalie-Martine was born aboard ship in June and baptized at the New Orleans church in early August, named after her godfather, Spanish intendente Martin Navarro, who stood as godfather for many of the Acadian newborns and became a favorite of the new arrivals.  Ambroise, fils and his family lived on the Acadian Coast above New Orleans and in the city before settling on upper Bayou Lafourche, where his uncles had gone.  Marie-Victoire gave him more children in the colony, including Constant baptized at Ascension, age unrecorded, in February 1787; Marie-Josèphe baptized, age unrecorded, in July 1788; Augustin born at Cabahannocer in January 1790; Olivier-Ambroise in August 1791 and baptized at the New Orleans church in March 1792; Ambroise III born at Lafourche in October 1792 (his baptism in April 1793 was the first for the new church parish of Assumption); Joseph-Marie born in March 1795 but died at age 8 months the following November; and Victoire born in March 1799--13 children, six daughters and seven sons, between 1774 and 1799, in France and Louisiana.  Wife Marie-Victoire died in Assumption Parish in November 1809, age 56.  Ambroise, fils, who did not remarry, died at Assumption in March 1816.  The Plattenville priest who recorded the burial said that Ambroise was "age 63 yrs." and "widower of Maria Pitre."  Ambroise was 65.  Daughters Marguerite-Josèphe, Eulalie-Martine, Marie Josèphe, and Victoire married into the Doiron, Boudreaux, Fernandes, Plaisance, Daniau, and Matherne families.  Three of Ambroise, fils's sons also married and settled in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley, but not all of the lines endured. 

Second son Louis-Ambroise followed his family to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Élisabeth dite Babette, daughter of  Pierre Berthelot and Anne Kerne of St.-Jean-Baptiste-des-Allemands on the upper German Coast, in November 1802.  They settled on Bayou Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Louis Olivier in September 1804 but died in Lafourche Interior Parish, age 22, in May 1826; Marie Pauline, called Pauline, born in August 1807; Rosalie Carmélite or Carmélite Rosalie in October 1809; and Élise Rassi or Rose in October 1812--four children, a son and three daughters, between 1804 and 1812.  Daughters Pauline, Élise Rose, and Carmélite Rosalie married into the Richard and Boudreaux families.  Louis Ambroise's son did not marry, but the blood of the family line endured. 

Ambroise, fils's fifth son Olivier Ambroise married, at age 30 (the recording priest said 26), cousin Marie Eugénie, called Eugénie and also Delphine, 22-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Bernard and Madeleine Dugas, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in February 1822.  They moved to Lafayette Parish on the prairies soon after their marriage but were back on the Lafourche later in the decade.  Their children, born there, included Marie Fideline, called Fideline, in January 1823; Marie Zulma in December 1824; Victor Saintville, called Saintville, Sinville, Jainville, and Joinville, in Lafayette Parish in January 1828; Jean Baptiste Émile, called Émile, in Lafourche Interior Parish in July 1829; Joseph Lovinay or Lovinski, called Lovinski, in March 1831; and Marie Lesida in March 1835 but, called Elizida, died at age 24 (the recording priest said 22) in December 1859--six children, three daughters and three sons, between 1823 and 1835.  Daughters Fideline and Marie Zulma married into the Guillot, Dejean, and Labat or Labie families on Bayou Lafourche, one of them, Marie Zulma, twice by 1870.  Olivier Ambroise's three sons also married by then and remained on the southeastern bayous. 

Oldest son Victor Saintville, called Saintville, married Élisa or Éliza, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Landry and Carmélite Aucoin, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in September 1850.  Saintville was working as a day laborer at Houma, Terrebonne Parish, in July 1860.  His and Éliza's children, born on the southeast bayous, included Estellina Augustine near Plattenville, Assumption Parish, in August 1851 but, called Augustine Estellina, died in Assumption Parish at age 1 1/2 in January 1853; Marie Leda, called Leda, born in March 1853; Catherine Lonée, called Lonée, November 1854; Taylor Victor in Terrebonne Parish in February 1857; Marie Laura, called Laura, near Chacahoula, Terrebonne Parish, in December 1858; Lorinza Marie in Assumption Parish in December 1860; Léonida Suzanne in August 1864; Céline Odalie in March 1867; Robert Adam in July 1869 but died the following November; ...  None of Saintville's children married by 1870. 

Olivier Ambroise's second son Jean Baptiste Émile, called Émile, likely married Marie Céleste, called Céleste, daughter of probably fellow Acadians Urbin Achée and his first wife Azélie Landry of Assumption and Iberville parishes, during the late 1840s.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Ascension and Assumption parishes before moving down bayou to Lafourche and then to Terrebonne Parish.  Their children, born there, included Étienne Newton in Ascension Parish in December 1849 but, called Étienne Nuitine, died in Assumption Parish, age 2 1/2 (the recording priest said 3), in August 1852; Marie Théodile, called Théodile, born in Assumption Parish in February 1851; Jean Baptiste Skailur or Schuyler, called Schuyler, in August 1852; Fortune Elaire in Lafourche Parish in February 1854; Philomène in March 1856 but may have died before March 1867; Joseph Edgard or Edgar, called Edgar, born in January 1858; Joseph Wilfred, called Wilfred, near Chacahoula in November 1859; twins Joseph Camille, called Camille, and Marie Camilla, called Camilla, in August 1861; and Thérèse Atilda or Ezilda, perhaps posthumously, in January 1865--10 children, six sons and four daughters, including a set of twins, between 1849 and 1865.  Émile died probably at Chacahoula in 1865, age 36.  One wonders if his death was war-related.  A petition for succession "Inventory & Tutor," calling his wife Céleste Haché and listing his remaining children--Schuyler, Fortune, Edgar, Wilfdred, Camille, Camilla, Ezilda, and Théodile--was filed in his name at the Houma courthouse in March 1867.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Olivier Ambroise's third and youngest son Joseph Lovinski, called Lovinski, married Rosa, perhaps also called Eve, daughter of A. F. Aycock and Rosalie Close, at the Thibodaux church in October 1857; the marriage was recorded also in Terrebonne Parish.  They settled near Chacahoula.  Their children, born there, included Félix Oscar in July 1858; Eugénia Lelia in October 1859; Henri Donckin or Duncan in December 1861; Marie Aimée in May 1864; Joseph Albert in January 1866; Félix Philippe in May 1868; Joseph Arthur in February 1870; ...

Ambroise, fils's sixth son Ambroise III married cousin Marie Marcellite, called Marcellite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Paul Bourgeois and Marie Rose Henry of St. James Parish, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1814.  They lived on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Ascension and Assumption parishes before moving down bayou to Terrebonne Parish.  Their children, born there, included Pierre Brutus in January 1815; Ambroise IV, also called Ambroise Forestal or Ambroise F., in August 1817; Marie Azete or Azélie, called Azélie, in December 1819; Marie Rosina or Roséma in March 1822; Marie Eugénie Amélie in March 1824; Joseph Hulice or Ulysse, called Ulysse, in May 1826; Marie Lorenza in August 1827; Marie Rose or Rosa in August 1828; and Marie Elisida in December 1830.  Ambroise III, at age 58, remarried to Théodore, probably Théodora, daughter of Mathurin Daunis and his Acadian wife Anne Théodose Bourg and widow of Jean Charles Guillot, at the Thibodaux church in March 1851; the marriage was recorded also in Terrebonne Parish.  She gave him no more children.  Daughters Azélie, Marie Roséma, Marie Rosa, and Marie Elisida, by his first wife, married into the Bergeron, Pichoff, Morange, and Daigle families.  Ambroise III's three sons also married and settled on Bayou Lafourche, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Pierre Brutus, by first wife Marcellite Bourgeois, married cousin Marie Eugénie, called Eugénie, 21-year-old daughter of Jean Philippe Plaisance and his Acadian wife Marie Dugas, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1834, and sanctified the marriage at the Thibodaux church in June 1843.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Marcellite, called Marcellite, in January 1843; and Pierre Brutus, fils in May 1839 but, called Berthus, died near Lockport on the lower Lafourche, age 29 (the recording priest said 28) in May 1868 (one wonders if his early death was war-related).  Daughter Marcellite married a Bourgeois cousin, so the blood of the family line endured.

Ambroise III's second son Ambroise IV, also called Ambroise Forestal or Ambroise F., from first wife Marcellite Bourgeois, may have been the Forestal Dugas who married Marie Adèle or Adèle Marie, daughter of Creoles Auguste Berdon, Bernon, Berlan, Beslan, or Bernard and Anne Arceneaux of Terrebonne Parish, perhaps in a civil ceremony in the late 1830s, and sanctified the marriage at the Thibodaux church in December 1843.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Adelina in September 1837; Célina Matildeor Mathilde, called Mathilde, in September 1839; Pierre Forestal in October 1841 but died at age 13 1/2 in January 1855; Marie Zulma or Zulema born in August 1843; Augustin Gustave Théophile in October 1845 but, called Octave, died at age 1 1/2 in November 1847; Joseph born in March 1848 but died at age 3 1/2 (the recording priest said 4) in December 1851; Joséphine Eve in December 1852; Evariste Adam born in March 1855; Joseph Allain in October 1859; Eulalie Adèla in February 1862; André Edgard in November 1868; ...  Daughters Mathilde, Marie Zulma, and Adelina married into the Legendre, Daigle, and Jones families by 1870.  None of Ambroise IV/Forestal's sons married by then. 

Ambroise III's third and youngest son Joseph Ulysse, called Ulysse, from first wife Marcellite Bourgeois, married Émelie, daughter of Bertrand Aubert and Célenie Navarre, at the Thibodaux church in January 1849.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joseph Émile in November 1849; Joséphine Eliska in November 1851; Charles Volcar in April 1854 but died the following October; Mathilde Marie Louise Die Donne born in July 1856; Alidor Jackson in June 1859; Charles Robert in February 1867; ...  None of Ulysse's children married by 1870. 

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Two more Dugass--the head of a small family and a wife--crossed on Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in late August 1785.  They followed their fellow passengers to Baton Rouge, but no new family line came of it:

Jean-Pierre (1764-?) à Claude le jeune à Joseph à Claude à Abraham Dugas

Jean-Pierre, third son of Jean-Baptiste Dugas le jeune and Marguerite-Josèphe Doiron, born in St.-Nicolas Parish, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Picardie, France in July 1764, followed his family to Île d'Aix near La Rochelle and to nearby Rochefort.  He then followed his widowed mother to the lower Loire port of Nantes, where he married Frenchwoman Jeanne Cabon, no date recorded, but it probably was in the early 1780s.  They crossed to Louisiana in 1785 on the same vessel as his mother and followed her and their fellow passengers to Baton Rouge.  They then disappear from Louisiana records, so the family line may not have endured.

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Twenty more Dugass--four families led by middle-aged brothers; three wives; and an orphan--crossed on Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans the second week of September 1785.  Most of them followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where only one more family line emerged, headed by one of the four brothers: 

Charles (c1724-1780s) à Joseph à Claude à Abraham Dugas

Charles, second son of Joseph dit Petit Jos Dugas and Anne-Marie Hébert, born at Cobeguit in c1724, married Euphrosine Thériot probably at Cobeguit in the 1740s.  They may have followed his parents to Île St.-Jean after August 1752 or escaped to the island with the rest of the Acadians still at Cobeguit in 1755 or 1756.  If they had children at Cobeguit and on Île St.-Jean, their names have been lost to history.  In late 1758, the British deported Charles, Euphrosine, and 6-year-old niece Perpétué Dugas to St.-Malo, France.  Wife Euphrosine died in a St.-Malo hospital in February 1759, age 34, from the rigors of the crossing.  Charles settled at St.-Suliac on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo, where he remarried to Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians François Naquin and Angélique Blanchard of Cobeguit and widow of François Gautrot, in September 1765.  They settled at St.-Méloir-des-Ondes in the countryside northeast of St.-Suliac and seem to have had no children.  They evidently did not follow two of his younger brothers to Poitou in 1773, but they likely had joined them at Nantes by the early 1780s.  Charles, Anne, her 22-year-old daughter Rose-Marie Gautrot from her first marriage, and a 9-year-old Lebert orphan emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from Paimboeuf, the lower port of Nantes, in 1785.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers, including Charles's younger brothers, to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Charles died there by January 1788, in his 60s, when wife Anne was listed in a census as a widow. 

Alexis le jeune (c1726-1795) à Joseph à Claude à Abraham Dugas

Alexis le jeune, third son of Joseph dit Petit Jos Dugas and Anne-Marie Hébert, born at Cobeguit in c1726, married Anne Bourg in c1745 probably at Cobeguit.  Anne gave Alexis five children there and on Île St.-Jean:  Anne-Josèphe born in c1746; Josaphat in c1751; Grégoire in c1753; Joseph in c1755; and Perpétué in c1757.  They may have followed his parents to Île St.-Jean after August 1752 or escaped to the island with the rest of the Acadians still at Cobeguit in 1755 or 1756.  In late 1758, the British deported them to St.-Malo, France.  Wife Anne and all of their children but the eldest daughter died at sea.  Alexis and 20-year-old daughter Anne-Josèphe settled near his brothers at St.-Suliac, where, at age 34, in June 1760, Alexis le jeune remarried to Marguerite, 35-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians François Moyse dit Latreille, fils and Marie Brun of Cobeguit.  One wonders if they had known one another in the old country.  Marguerite gave Alexis another daughter, Marie-Rose, born at St.-Suliac in May 1762--six children, three daughters and three sons, by two wives, between 1746 and 1762, in greater Acadia and France.  Second wife Marguerite died of complications of giving birth at St.-Suliac the day daughter Marie-Rose was born.  Alexis le jeune did not remarry again.  Oldest daughter Anne-Josèphe, by his first wife, married into the Hébert family at St.-Suliac in 1768.  Alexis and his youngest daughter Marie-Rose did not follow Anne-Josèphe and her husband to Poitou in 1773, but they did join them at Nantes by September 1784 and followed them to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  From New Orleans, they followed the Héberts, his brothers, and most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where Alexis le jeune died in September 1795, in his late 60s.  Daughter Marie-Rose married into the Juncal family on the upper Lafourche, so the blood of this family line endured in the Bayou State. 

Pierre (c1733-1813) à Joseph à Claude à Abraham Dugas

Pierre, fifth son of Joseph dit Petit Jos Dugas and Anne-Marie Hébert, born at Cobeguit in c1733, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in c1750 and married Anne-Josèphe Henry of Cobeguit there in c1752.  In August of that year, a French official counted them near his parents at Grande-Ascension on the island's southeastern shore.  Anne-Josèphe gave Pierre three children on the island:  Jean-Pierre born in c1754; Anne-Josèphe in c1755; and Marie-Rose in c1757.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  All of their children died at sea.  Pierre and Anne-Josèphe settled at St.-Suliac near his brothers.  Anne gave Pierre three more children there:  another Marie-Rose born in February 1760 but died at age 1 1/2 in March 1761; Joseph in April 1762; and Marie-Madeleine in January 1764 but died 19 days after her birth.  Wife Anne-Josèphe died at St.-Suliac in May 1766, age 35.  Pierre, at age 35, remarried to 44-year-old Cécile, another daughter of François Moyse dit Latreille, fils and Marie Brun of Cobeguit and widow of Michel Bourg, at St.-Suliac in June 1768.  She gave him no more children.  Pierre, Cécile, and his surviving child, son Joseph, age 11, followed one of his brothers to Poitou in 1773.  In March 1776, after two years of effort, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the lower Loire port of Nantes.  Wife Cécile died in St.-Similien Parish, Nantes, in December 1776, age 52.  Pierre, at age 46, remarried again--his third marriage--to Rose, 37-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques LeBlanc and Marguerite Labauve, at nearby St.-Martin de Chantenay in August 1779.  Rose gave Pierre two more children at Chantenay:  Rose born in February 1782; and Anne-Perrine in January 1785.  Pierre, Rose, and their two young daughters emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Pierre's remaining son Joseph, counted with the family at Nantes in September 1784, would have been age 23 in 1785.  If he was still living, he did not accompany his family to Louisiana.  From New Orleans, Joseph, Rose, and at least one of their daughters followed his brothers and most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Pierre and Rose had another daughter on the upper bayou:  Anne-Marguerite, called Marguerite, baptized at Ascension, age unrecorded, in September 1787--nine children, two sons and seven daughters, by two of his three wives, between 1754 and 1787, in greater Acadia, France, and Louisiana.  Pierre died in Assumption Parish in October 1813, age 79 1/2.  Youngest daughter Marguerite married into the Thibodeaux family on the Lafourche.  Daughters Rose and Anne-Perrine, by third wife Rose, evidently died young.  Anne-Perrine, still an infant, may not even have survived the crossing to New Orleans.  Since neither of his sons followed Pierre to Louisiana, this line of the family, except for its blood, did not endure there.  One wonders if it endured in France. 

Joseph, fils (c1742-1833) à Joseph à Claude à Abraham Dugas

Joseph, fils, sixth son of Joseph dit Petit Jos Dugas and Anne-Marie Hébert, born at Cobeguit in c1742,  followed his family to Grande-Ascension, Île St.-Jean, where he was counted with them in August 1752.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Joseph, fils's parents and a younger brother died on the crossing, so he followed his older brothers and a younger sister to St.-Suliac, where he worked as a pit sawyer and married Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Henry and Anne Aucoin, in June 1761.  Anastasie gave Joseph, fils four children at St.-Suliac:  Joseph III born in May 1762; Marie in March 1764; Cécile-Anne in September 1765; and Élisabeth-Eulalie in March 1768.  Wife Anastasie died at St.-Suliac in March 1769, age 29.  At age 28, Joseph, fils remarried to another Anastasie, this one the 29-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Barrieau and Véronique Giroir, at Pleudihen-sur-Rance on the river south of St.-Suliac in May 1770.  They settled at St.-Suliac.  This Anastasie gave Joseph, fils two more children there:  François-Basile-Étienne born in April 1771; and Anastasie-Céleste-Marie in February 1773.  Later in the year, Joseph, fils and his family followed his older brother Pierre to Poitou, where Anastasie gave Joseph, fils another son, Jean-Pierre, born at Leigné-les-Bois southeast of Châtellerault, in January 1775.  That December, after two years of effort, Joseph, fils, Anastasie, and their seven children retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port of Nantes.  Anastasie gave Joseph, fils three more children there in St.-Similien Parish:  Anne-Marguerite born in January 1778; Olivier-Marie in February 1781 but died at age 1 1/2 in November 1782; and Marguerite-Euphrosine born in August 1783--10 children, four sons and six daughters, by two wives, between 1762 and 1783.  In 1785, Joseph, fils, Anastasie, and his nine children, three sons and six daughters, followed his older brothers to New Orleans and to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Joseph, fils and Anastasie had no more children in the colony.  Joseph, fils died in Lafourche Interior Parish in March 1833, age 91.  Daughters Marie, Élisabeth-Eulalie, Anastasie-Céleste-Marie, Anne-Marguerite, and Marguerite Euphrosine, by both wives, married into the Daigle, Prejean, Caruthers, Guillot, Aucoin, and Lerois familes, and one of them settled on the western prairies before she married twice.  Joseph, fils's three remaining sons also created their own families.  The oldest son settled on the western prairies, but the others remained on Bayou Lafourche.  Only the younger sons' lines endured. 

Oldest son Joseph III, by first wife Anastasie Henry, followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, and New Orleans, but he did not follow them to upper Bayou Lafourche.  He married cousin Élisabeth or Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Landry and his second wife Isabelle Dugas, in the city in October 1785 soon after they reached the colony on different ships.  Isabelle, a native of Plouër-sur-Rance across the river from St.-Suliac, had followed her family from France to New Orleans and then to the Attakapas District.  Her and  Joseph III's only child, Rose-Adélaïde, called Adélaïde, was born there in December 1786.  Joseph III died at Attakapas by August 1789, in his 20s, when his wife remarried to a Landry cousin there.  Daughter Adélaïde married into the Landry and Dubois families, so the blood of this family line endured in the Bayou State. 

Joseph, fils's second son François-Basile-Étienne, by second wife Anastasie Barrieau, followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Hilaire Clément and Tarsille Naquin, in February 179[7].  Marie, a native of Poitou, also had crossed to Louisiana from France in 1785 on Le St.-Rémi.  They remained on the upper Lafourche before moving down bayou to Lafourche Interior Parish.  Their children, born on the bayou, included Marguerite-Céleste in April 1799; Basile-Atille in February 1802; Théotiste Modeste or Modeste Théotiste in November 1804; Rosalie Marie or Marie Rosalie in November 1807; Azélie Théodose in July 1810; and Marcellite Marie in July 1815--five children, four daughters and a son, between 1799 and 1815.  A succession, dated 1 July 1793 and not post-mortem, was filed at what became the Lafourche Interior Parish courthouse and verified that François was a son of Joseeph Dugas, who married first to Anastasie Henry and then to Anastasie Barrieaux, and that François's mother was the second Anastasie.  François died in Lafourche Interior Parish in August 1819, age 48.  His succession inventory, naming brother Jean Pierre as curator for son Basile, Nouel Boudrau for daughter Rosalie, and Jean Clément for daughter Théotiste, was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse the following month, and a family assembly was held in April 1820.  Daughters Marguerite Céleste, Modeste Théotiste, and Marie Rosalie married into the Naquin, Lejeune, and Breaux families.  François's son married twice and perpetuated the family line on Bayou Lafourche. 

Only son Basile Atille was placed under the tutorship of his uncle Jean Pierre Dugas after the death of his father in August 1819, when Basile would have been age 17.  Basile, at age 22, married Eulalie Émilie or Émilie Eulalie, also called Carmélite and Mélite, 16-year-old daughter of Antoine Dias, Dies, or Diez and his Acadian wife Henriette Pitre, at the Thibodauxville church in May 1824.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Théodora in July 1825; Basile, fils in August 1826; Ignace in November 1827; Julien in November 1828; Cyprien or Cyphorien in the late 1820s or early 1830s; Marceline Urma in January 1830; and Jean Marie in January 1832--seven children, two daughters and five sons, between 1825 and 1832.  Basile remarried to Madeleine, daughter of André Tregle and Marie Kerne of St. John the Baptist Parish, at the Thibodauxville church in January 1834.  She evidently gave him no more children.  Daughters ..., by his first wife, married into the Bernard and Richard families by 1870.  Two of Basile's sons also married by then.

Fourth son Cyprien, by first wife Eulalie Dias, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Richard and Élise Landry, at the Thibodaux church in February 1851.  Their child, name unrecorded, died at birth in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1851.  Did they have anymore children? 

 Basile Atille's fifth and youngest son Jean Marie, by first wife Eulalie Dias, married Joséphine, daughter of Alexandre Leray, Lerey, Leroy, Lyret, or Ledet and Arthémise Esteve, at the Thibodaux church in July 1854.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Eulalie in March 1855; Joseph Maximin in November 1857; Symphorien in May 1862; ...  None of Jean Marie's children married by 1870. 

Joseph, fils's third and youngest son Jean-Pierre, by second wife Anastasie Barrieau, followed his family to Nantes, New Orleans, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Renée, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Naquin and Anne Doiron, in February 1800.  Renée, like Jean-Pierre a native of Poitou, also had crossed to Louisiana in 1785 on Le St.-Rémi.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Théotiste-Luduvine in March 1802; Henri Pierre François, called Henri, Henry, and also Jean, in March 1806; Rosalie in c1809 or 1810; Eusèbe in March 1811; Jean Baptiste Placide in November 1813; and Marie Anastasie in February 1820 but died at age 6 1/2 in June 1826--six children, three daughters and three sons, between 1802 and 1820.  Jean Pierre was granted tutorship of nephew Basile Dugas after Jean Pierre's older brother François died in 1819.  Jean Pierre died in Lafourche Interior Parish in either January or February 1832, age 57.  His succession inventory, naming his wife and listing his children--Théotiste and her husband; Henry; Rosalie and her husband; Eusèbe; and Jean Baptiste Placide--was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse in February 1834.  Daughters Rosalie and Théotiste married into the Naquin and Field families.  Two of Jean Pierre's sons also married and settled on the Lafourche. 

Oldest son Henri Pierre François, called Henri or Henry, married Marie Marcellite or Marcelline, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Chiasson and his Creole wife Marguerite Leboeuf of Terrebonne Parish, at the Thibodauxville church in June 1831.  They settled in Terrebonne Parish.  Their children, born there, included Cyprien in October 1833; Joseph Octave, called Octave, in March 1836; twins Marie Evélina and Marie Mélicaire in January 1838; Jean Adam in December 1839; Angelina in December 1841; Marie Fhilmène or Philomène in November 1843; Eugénie in November 1845; Pierre Charles Clairville in December 1849; Henry Octave in November 1851; Clotilde in November 1853; Ulisse Ferdinand in January 1856; Eliska in October 1857; and Eusilien Camelus Philippe in May 1860--14 children, seven sons and seven daughters, including a set of twins, between 1833 and 1860.  Daughters Marie, ... married into the Dupré and Bourg families by 1870.  Two of Henri's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Cyprien married Delphine, daughter of fellow Acadians François Naquin and Eulalie Bourg of Terrebonne Parish, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in June 1859.  They settled near Montegut at the edge of the coastal marshes.  Their children, born there, included Alibee Gobert in August 1864; Félicia Clotilde in May 1868; ... 

Henri's second son Joseph Octave married Marie Anne, daughter of Urbain Picou and his Acadian wife Marguerite Babin, at the Montegut church, Terrebonne Parish, in February 1866.  Their children, born near Montegut, included Alice Angelina in October 1860; Octave Augustin in January 1867; Léo Alexis in December 1869; ... 

Jean Pierre's second son Eusèbe, while a resident of Terrebonne Parish, married Marguerite Emérante or Méranthe, another daughter of Pierre Chiasson and Marguerite Leboeuf of Terrebonne Parish, at the Thibodaux church in November 1843.  They settled near Montegut.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Marie Geneviève in January 1846; Angélique Adeline in April 1848; Marie Roseline in October 1850; Pierre Félix in March 1853; Mathilde Agnès in January 1856; Clovis Amédée in November 1858; Erneste Cre Justin, a son, in May 1861; Dora Eugénie in January 1864; Jean Pierre in June 1867; Marguerite Julie in early July 1870 but died three weeks later; ...  Daughter Marie, probably Marie Geneviève, married into the Lottinger family by 1870.  None of Eusèbe's sons married by then. 

Jean, fils (c1772-1822) à ? à Abraham Dugas

Jean, fils, son of Jean Dugas and Anne dite Jeanne, daughter of François Bonfils and Marie Sevin of St.-Martin Parish, Cheix-en-Retz, on the south side of the lower Loire between Nantes and Paimboeuf, was born in St.-Nicolas Parish, Nantes, in c1772.  His father, who must have been one of the earliest Acadian exiles to settle in the lower Loire port, died there by October 1784, when wife Jeanne remarried to an Acadian Labauve at nearby Chantenay.  In 1785, Jean, fils followed his mother and stepfather to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married cousin Isabelle-Jeanne, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Hébert and Marie-Madeleine Dugas, in August 1797.  They lived on the upper Lafourche near the boundary of what became Ascension and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Pierre-Paul baptized, age unrecorded, in January 1798; Joseph born in September 1799; Marie-Eléonore, called Eléonore, in January 1801; Mélanie in June 1804; Dominique Marcellin in April 1806; and Élisa in c1812--six children, three sons and three daughters, between 1798 and 1812.  Jean died in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1822, age 50.  A petition for his succession inventory, naming his wife and listing his chiildren--Pierre, age 24; Eléonore, age 20; Mélanie, age 18; Dominique, age 15; and Élisa, age 12--was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse in December 1822.  Daughter Mélanie married into the Pizzani family.  One wonders if any of Jean's other daughters, as well as his three sons, married, at least in South Louisiana.

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A young Dugas crossed on L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in early November 1785.  No new family line came of it: 

Claude-Bernard (1759-?) à Claude le jeune à Joseph à Claude à Abraham Dugas

Claude-Bernard, called Bernard, oldest son of Joseph Dugas le jeune and Marguerite-Josèphe Doiron and older brother of Jean-Pierre of Le Beaumont, born in St.-Nicolas Parish, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Picardie, France, in August 1759, followed his family to Île d'Aix near La Rochelle and to Rochefort, and his widowed mother to Nantes.  In late August 1785, age 26, he stowed away on L'Amitié--odd behavior for an Acadian, who would have been eligible to cross on any of the vessels, unless he had been granted passage on Le Beaumont with his widowed mother and married brother but chose to take a later vessel.  From New Orleans, Claude-Bernard did not join his widowed mother and older brother at Baton Rouge but followed his fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marguerite, 34-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Claude Benoit and Élisabeth Theriot and widow of Joseph Précieux, in February 1786 soon after their arrival.  Marguerite, a native of Anse-au-Matelot, Île St.-Jean, also had crossed from France in 1785 on the same vessel, so she and Claude-Bernard may have met at Nantes before 1785, hence the circumstance of his crossing.  His widowed mother, who had crossed with his younger brother on Le Beaumont and followed him, his French wife, and their fellow passengers to Baton Rouge, was living with Claude-Bernard and Marguerite on the upper Lafourche by January 1791.  Claude-Bernard and Marguerite seem to have been that rare Acadian couple who had no children. 

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Two more Dugass--a widow and a wife--crossed on La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans from St.-Malo in early December, and on La Caroline, the last of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans from Nantes in the third week of December 1785.  The widow followed her fellow passengers to the new Acadian community of Bayou des Écores in the New Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge.  The wife who crossed on the last ship went to upper Bayou Lafourche.  No new Dugas family line came of it. 

Duhon

Jean-Baptiste dit Lyonnais, son of Jean-Louis Duon and Jeanne Clémenson, born at St.-Nizier de Lyon, France, in c1684, emigrated to Acadia in the early 1700s, where he served as a notary.  At age 30, he married Agnès, 17-year-old daughter of Antoine Hébert le jeune and Jeanne Corporon, at Annapolis Royal in c1713.  Between 1714 and 1739, at Annapolis Royal, Agnès gave Lyonnais 13 children, 10 sons and three daughters.  Jean-Baptiste dit Lyonnais died there in May 1746, age 65.  His daughters married into the Muis, Vincent, Landieu, and Loustaneau families.  Eight of his sons married into the Vincent, Aucoin, Mius d'Entremont, Comeau, Savoie, Landry, and Préjean families, three of them to Vincent sisters.  In 1755, Jean-Baptiste dit Lyonnais's descendants could be found at Annapolis Royal, Minas, and Cap-Sable.  Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this family even farther. 

In the fall of 1755, The British transported the Acadians at Minas to Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and New England.  Several Duon families ended up on ships bound for Virginia.  Later that fall, the British transported the Acadians at Annapolis Royal to New England, New York, and North Carolina.  The ship to North Carolina, the Pembroke, was seized by the Acadians soon after it left the Bay of Fundy.  No Duons were on that vessel, but Duon families ended up in Massachusetts and New York.  Meanwhile, several Duons and their families escaped the roundup at Annapolis Royal, spent a hard winter on the Fundy shore, crossed the bay to Chepoudy the following spring, and sought refuge on the upper Petitcoudiac or lower Rivière St.-Jean before moving on to Miramichi on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore. 

The Duons shipped to Virginia endured a fate worse than most of the other refugees deported from Minas.  In mid-November 1755, when five transports appeared unexpectedly at Hampton Roads, Virginia governor's Robert Dinwiddie protested their deportation to his colony without his consent.  Exiles died on the filthy, crowded ships anchored in the lower James River while Virginia authorities pondered their fate.  As winter approached, the governor ordered Acadians from one vessel moved up to Richmond, two of the vessels were unloaded at Hampton, and two more at Norfolk.  In the spring of 1756, the governor, his council, and the colony's Burgesses made their decision ... the "papists" must go!  In May, the first shipment of Acadians in hired vessels left for England, and in two weeks all of them had gone--299 to Bristol, 250 to Falmouth, 340 to Southampton, and 336 to Liverpool--1,225 exiles in all by one count.  Duons ended up in warehouses at Liverpool, Bristol, and Southampton.  By 1763, half of the exiles sent to England were dead.  Although their seven years in England were filled with misery, the family did find occasion to celebrate amid the squalor and death.  Members of the family celebrated at least five marriages to fellow Acadian exiles.  The Duons also celebrated births in England, at least three of them at Liverpool.  In May 1763, after prolonged negotiations between the French and British governments, the Acadians in England were repatriated to France.  A Duon family, traveling from Southampton, disembarked from the transport Dorothée at St.-Malo on May 23 and settled at Plouër-sur-Rance on the west side of the river south of the Breton port.  Duons from Liverpool landed at Morlaix in northwest Brittany.  Again, more births and marriages were celebrated, but Duons also buried more children.  The family at Plouër-sur-Rance returned to North America via the Channel Island of Jersey in 1773 probably to work in a British-controlled fishery there. The other Duons from England remained in the mother country, but they did not remain at Morlaix.  In late 1765, they followed other Acadians from the port cities, most of them exiles from England, to Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany, where they helped create an agricultural settlement on the recently-liberated island.  The Duons did not coax much from the island's soil, but they did produce more children at Bangor in the southern interior of the island.  They also buried children there.  And they celebrated at least one marriage.  By 1782, one family had abandoned the island and joined hundreds of other exiles, most of whom had recently left Poitou, in the lower Loire port of Nantes.  In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  Eight of the Duons on Belle-Île-en-Mer and at Nantes agreed to take it.  Others chose to remain on the island.  In c1798, a Duon brother died at Calastrene near Bangor on Belle-Île-en-Mer, in his late 60s. 

In North America, the Duons who had escaped the British at Annapolis Royal in 1755 and found refuge at Miramichi on the Gulf of St. Lawrence celebrated at least one marriage there.  Their stay there proved to be short-lived.  The camp at Miramichi, called Espérance--Camp Hope--soon became so crowded with refugees its limited resources could not support them all.  Many Acadians at Miramichi, including Duons, surrendered to the British in the late 1750s to avoid starvation.  The British held them in prison compounds in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Duons were being held at Fort Edward, formerly Pigiguit, in 1762.  

After war's end, colonial officials in New England and New York encouraged the exiles there to remain.  Most of the Acadians refused and moved on to British Canada.  Not the Duons.  One Duon and his family in Massachusetts resettled, instead, at Cap-Sable, where his wife was born and where a Duon sister had lived.  By 1766, a Duon brother and their youngest sister went from New York, where their widowed mother had died, to the French island of Martinique.  The brother remarried to a Savoie at Champflore there.  The sister married twice, to Frenchmen.  And there they remained.  

Acadians being held in Nova Scotia at war's end faced a hard dilemma.  The Treaty of Paris of February 1763 stipulated in its Article IV that persons dispersed by the war had 18 months to return to their respective territories.  However, British authorities refused to allow any of the Acadian prisoners in the region to return to their former lands as proprietors.  If Acadians chose to remain in, or return to, Nova Scotia, they could live only in small family groups in previously unsettled areas or work for low wages on former Acadian lands now owned by New-English "planters."  If they stayed, they must also take the hated oath of allegiance to the new British king, George III, without reservation.  They would also have to take the oath if they joined their cousins in Canada or other parts of greater Acadia.  After all they had suffered on the question of the oath, few self-respecting Acadians would consent to take it if it could be avoided.  Some Nova Scotia exiles chose to relocate to Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  Others considered going to the French Antilles, where Acadian exiles in the seaboard colonies, including Duons, were going, or to the Illinois country, the west bank of which still belonged to France, or to French Louisiana, which, thanks to British control of Canada, was the only route possible to the Illinois country for Acadian exiles.  Whatever their choice, many refused to remain under British rule.  So they gathered up their money and their few possessions and prepared to leave their homeland.  Of the 600 exiles who left Halifax in late 1764 and early 1765 bound for Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, eight were Duons from Annapolis Royal. 

Though the progenitor of the Duons settled "late" in Acadia, three of his sons were among the earliest Acadians to find refuge in Louisiana.  They came to the colony in late 1765 from the prison compounds in Nova Scotia and settled at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans on what became known as the Acadian Coast.  In the late 1770s, the two younger brothers moved from the river to the Attakapas District and settled at Grand Prairie on upper Bayou Vermilion near present-day downtown Lafayette.  In 1785, a nephew from France went directly to Grand Prairie to settle near his uncles.  Another nephew also came from France in 1785, but he took his family to San Bernardo on the river below New Orleans, where two of his sons created families of their own.  About the time of the Louisiana Purchase, one of the two family lines still on the Acadian Coast also moved to the Vermilion valley.  As a result of these migrations, the larger center of Duhon family settlement shifted from the river to the southwest prairies, especially into what became Lafayette Parish, where it remained.  In the 1810s, Duhon cousins from the New Orleans area and also from the prairies settled on upper Bayou Lafourche, but this third locus of family settlement remained small compared to the others.  Church records reveal, in fact, that the family's tenure along the Lafourche probably was a short one.  Later in the antebellum period, a Duhon from Ascension Parish moved upriver to Pointe Coupee Parish, where few Acadians settled, but most of his cousins on the river remained in St. James Parish on the lower Acadian Coast.  However, a Duhon from St. James Parish moved to St. Landry Parish in the late 1850s.  Meanwhile, on the prairies, Duhons from Lafayette Parish migrated south and west into Vermilion and Calcasieu parishes.  Some ran cattle west of the Mermentau River, while others moved even farther west, to the Lake Charles area and into the coastal marshes of present-day Cameron Parish.  By the early twentieth century, Duhons had migrated to East Texas, where they live in substantial numbers today in the Orange-Port Arthur-Beaumont area. 

During the antebellum period, a family with a similar-sounding surname--Dehon--settled near St. Gabriel on the river and on upper Bayou Lafourche.  After the War of 1861-65, freedmen and women and free persons of color who probably had been owned by members of the Acadian family bore the name Duhon.   The great majority of the Duhons of South Louisiana, however, are descendants of Jean-Baptiste dit Lyonnais of Lyon and Annapolis Royal. ...

In Louisiana, the family's named evolved from Duon to Duhon.  The family's name there also is spelled D'Eon, D'Huan, D'Huon, Dillon, Dion, Douhone, Duan, Duant, Duhan, Duhans, Dujon, Duons, Duyon, Duyons.  This large Acadian family should not be confused with the much smaller Dillon family, who settled near the Duhons on the southwest prairies and whose name was sometimes confused with the Acadian family.17

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In 1765, eight Duons--three families led by brothers, two of them married to sisters--reached New Orleans from Halifax via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue.  They settled at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans, later dubbed the lower Acadian Coast.  The great majority of the Duhons of South Louisiana are descended from these brothers, two of whom moved on to the western prairies, creating a second, even larger, center of family settlement:

Honoré (1716-1784) Duhon

Honoré, second son of Jean-Baptiste dit Lyonnais Duon and Agnès Hébert, born at Annapolis Royal in July 1716, married Anne-Marie, daughter of Michel Vincent and Anne-Marie Doiron of Pigiguit, probably at Annapolis Royal in c1742.  Anne-Marie gave Honoré six children there:  Marie-Josèphe born in c1744; Anne-Perpétué in c1745; Jean-Baptiste, called Jean, in c1747; François in c1748; Marie in c1749; and Pierre in c1750--three daughters and threes sons, between 1744 and 1750.  In the fall of 1755, they eluded the British roundup at Annapolis Royal, endured a hard winter on the Fundy shore, crossed to the mainland the following spring, and found refuge at Miramichi on the Gulf of St. Lawrence Shore.  In the late 1750s or early 1760s, Honoré and his family, along with two of his younger brothers, were either captured by or surrendered to British forces in the area and spent the rest of the war in the prison compound at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, in British Nova Scotia.  In 1765, Honoré and Marie-Anne brought three unmarried children to Louisiana, a daughter and two sons, ages 20 to 16--only half of their children.  One wonders what happened to the others.  Honoré and his family had no more children in the colony.  Honoré died at Ascension, upriver from Cabahannocer, in January 1784.  The priest who recorded the burial said Honoré died at "age 69 years."  He was 67.  Daughter Anne-Perpétué married into the Blanchard family on the river but settled on the western prairies.  Honoré's two sons married and remained on the Acadian Coast, but one of Honoré's grandsons joined his kinsmen on the prairies. 

Oldest son Jean followed his family into exile and imprisonment, and to New Orleans and Cabahannocer, where he married Marie-Anne, called Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph LeBlanc and Isabelle Gaudet, in May 1770.  They settled at nearby Ascension, where they were counted on the right, or west, bank of the river soon after their marriage.  They were still there in April 1777.  Their children, born on the river, included twins Anne and François-Marie baptized, age unrecorded, in June 1771; Marie born in c1773; Joseph in March 1774; an infant, name and age unrecorded, died in November 1775; Rosalie baptized, age unrecorded, in August 1781; Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, born in December 1785; and Marguerite in the 1780s--eight children, at least five daughters and two sons, between 1771 and the mid- or late 1780s.  Jean died at Cabahannocer/St. James in November 1805.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Jean was age 64 when he died.  He was closer to 58.  Daughters Anne, Marie, Rosalie, Madeleine, and Marguerite married into the Babin, Gautreaux, Savoie, LeBlanc, Bertaud, and Dugas families.  Both of Jean's remaining sons also married on the river, but not all of the lines endured.  When his younger brother François's only son moved to the western prairies about the time of the Louisiana Purchase, only Jean's line of the family remained on the river. 

Older son François-Marie married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Bourgeois and his second wife Osite Gautreaux, probably at Ascension in the early 1790s.  They evidently lived on the river near the boundary between Ascension and Cabahannocer before settling on the east side of the river in what became St. James Parish.  Their children, there, included François-Marie, fils in July 1794; Marie-Madeleine-Carmélite in November 1796; Joseph-Paul-Marcellin, called Marcellin, in September 1798 but died near Convent, St. James Parish, age 13, in July 1811; Marie-Baseline or -Baselite born in March 1801; Simon-Colin, called Nicolas, in December 1802 but died near Convent, age 12, in May 1815; Onésime Séverin, called Séverin, born in February 1805; Marie Rosalie, called Rosalie, in July 1807 but died at age 6 1/2 in November 1813; Marie Scholastique born in October 1809; a daughter, name unrecorded, died the day after her birth in March 1812; and Joseph Ludger or Ludgère, also called Théogène Joseph, born in July 1817--10 children, five sons and five daughters, between 1794 and 1817.  François-Marie, père died near Convent in June 1846.  The priest who recorded the burial said that François died at "age 79 yrs."  He was 75.  Daughters Marie Madeleine Carmélite, Marie Baselite, and Marie Scholastique married into the Michel, Guidry, and Bourgeois families.  François Marie, père's three remaining sons also married on the river. 

Oldest son François Marie, fils married Marie Eugénie, called Eugénie, daughter of fellow Acadians François Michel and Marie Madeleine LeBlanc, at the St. James church, St. James Parish, in February 1816.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included Jean Simon or Siméon near Convent in April 1817; and François Ludger, called Ludgère or Ludger and also Ulgère, in November 1818.  Francois, fils remarried to Marie Reine, daughter of Alexis Rome and Marie Charlotte Frederick, at the Convent church in June 1821.  They may have lived briefly on upper Bayou Lafourche soon after their marriage.  Their children, born near Convent, included Marie Reine in May 1822; Olésin or Onésime Séverin le jeune in February 1824; Louis Isaie Léon in April 1827; and Eliza in March 1829--six children, four sons and two daughters, by two wives, between 1817 and 1829.  According to a son's marriage record, dated February 1841, François Marie, fils was "res. Natchitoches" in the Red River valley for a time.  One wonders why he lived there, so far from his fellow Acadians.  François, fils died near Convent in October 1855, age 61.  Daughter Marie Reine, by his second wife, married into the Michel family.  All four of François Marie, fils's sons also married.  One of his older sons moved from Ascension to Pointe Coupee Parish, where few Acadians lived.  Another moved to St. Landry Parish, near his western cousins, on the eve of the War of 1861-65, but the others remained near Convent. 

Oldest son Jean Simon or Siméon, by first wife Eugénie Michel, married Euphrasie or Euphémie, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Richard and Madeleine Arceneaux, at the Convent church in February 1841.  Their children, born near Convent, included Camille in December 1841; Paul Elphége in January 1844 but, called Elfige, died in St. Landry Parish at age 16 in October 1860; Jean Alceste born in April 1846; Alfred in October 1848; Joseph in October 1850; Marie Elmire in July 1853; Alcie in April 1856; Marie Eliska in September 1859; Marie Émilia in November 1862; ...  One wonders what motivated the family's move to St. Landry Parish on the eve of the War of 1861-65.  Daughter ... married into the Nezat and Zeringue families in St. Landry Parish by 1870.  None of Jean Simon's sons married by then. 

François Marie, fils's second son Ludgère or Ulgère, by first wife Eugénie Michel, married Justine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Bourgeois and Angèle Gautreaux, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in February 1840.  She evidently gave him no children.  Ludgère remarried to Marie Carmélite, also called Marie Noémie, daughter of fellow Acadian Abraham Arceneaux and his Creole wife Marie Carmélite Connille, at the Donaldsonville church in February 1846.  Their children, born on the river, included François René in Ascension Parish in November 1846; Marie Eugénie in December 1847; Joseph Volger, Ludgère or Ulgère, called Ulgère, in Pointe Coupee Parish in January 1849; Marie in August 1850 but died in Pointe Coupee at age 1 1/2 in March 1852; and Léonce born in January 1852--five children, three sons and two daughters, between 1846 and 1852.  Ludgère died in Pointe Coupee Parish in October 1853, age 34 (the recording priest did not include his age), one of the relatively few Acadians to settle in that civil parish.  His remaining daughter did not marry by 1870.  One of his sons did, but not in Pointe Coupee.

Second son Ulgère, fils, by second wife Marie Noémie Arceneaux, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Clouâtre and his Creole wife Esilda Rome, at the Donaldsonville church in June 1869.  Daughter Lezida Marie was born near Convent, St. James Parish, in October 1870; ...

François Marie, fils's third son Onésime Séverin le jeune, by second wife Marie Rome, married Élisa or Éliza, daughter of Jean Baptiste Caillouet and his Acadian wife Joséphine Hébert, at the Convent church in February 1851.  Their children, born near Convent, included Louis Joseph in September 1852; Marie Onézima in January 1854 but, called Onésime[sic], died at age 17 months in July 1855; Lucien Léonard baptized at the Convent church, age unrecorded, in March 1856; Marie Lucie born in October 1858; Joseph Ozémi in May 1863; ...

François Marie, fils's fourth and youngest son Louis, by second wife Marie Rome, married Émeline or Émilie, daughter of Placide Himel and Virginie Pertuit, at the Convent church in September 1856.  Their children, born near Convent, included Audry or Odry in June 1857; Joseph Émile in August 1858; Marie Émilie in September 1864; Théophile Joseph in July 1867; François Willy in June 1870; ...

François Marie, père's fourth son Séverin married Marie Sidalise or Sidalise Eulalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Part and Élisabeth Poirier, at the Convent church in February 1829.  Their children, born near Convent, included Séverin Bienvenue, also called François Bienvenu and Bienvenu, in January 1830; Élizabeth in April 1831 but, called Lise, died at age 2 1/2 (the recording priest said 3) in August 1833; Amélie born in January 1833; Émilie in c1834 but died at age 19 in October 1853; Marie Asémia baptized at age 5 1/2 months in June 1835; Onésime born in January 1837; Joseph Thomassin in August 1838 but died at age 2 in September 1840; Madeleine Éloise born in August 1840, but, called Louisa, died at age 4 in August 1844; and Félicien born in March 1843 but died at age 25 in December 1768 (one wonders if his early death was war-related)--nine children, four sons and five daughters, between 1830 and 1843.  Daughter Amélie married into the Lanegrasse and Louvière families by 1870.  Two of Séverin's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son François Bienvenu, called Bienvenu, married Adame Adonise, called Adonise, daughter of Louis Porche and Adélaïde Robillard, at the Pointe Coupee church, Pointe Coupee Parish, in January 1851.  Their children, born on the river, included Augustin near Convent in October 1851 but died at age 8 1/2 (the recording priest said 10) in September 1860; Augusta born in Pointe Coupee Parish in September 1853; and Amelia near Convent in January 1855[sic] but died at age 2 in November 1855--three children, a son and two daughters, between 1851 and 1855.  Bienvenu, called François Bienvenu by the recording priest, died near Convent in October 1855, age 25.  His remaining daughter did not marry by 1870. 

Séverin's second son Onésime married Adélaïde Jeanne, daughter of David Donaldson and Amélie Picou, at the Convent church in September 1861.  Their children, born near Convent, included David Onésime in July 1864; Marie Joséphine in July 1867; Joseph Magnelie in November 1869; ...   

François Marie, père's fifth and youngest son Joseph Ludgère married Adèle, daughter of Noel Wells and Séraphine Stein, at the Convent church in January 1846.  Their children, born near Convent, included Eugène in July 1847; Cécile in December 1848; Joseph St. Yves, called St. Yves, in April 1850; Caroline in September 1852; Charles in c1853 but died at age 2 in July 1855; Florian born in May 1854 but died at age 20 months in February 1856; François Adolphe born in April 1856; Marie Francine in September 1857; Samuel in October 1859; and Marie Evélina in February 1862--10 children, six sons and four daughters, between 1847 and 1862.  Joseph Ludgère died near Convent in January 1864, age 46.  One wonders if his death was war-related.  Daughter Cécile married into the Caillouet family by 1870.  None of Joseph Ludgère's sons married by then. 

Jean's younger son Joseph married Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Landry and Françoise Blanchard, at Ascension in February 1799.  Their children, born there, included Françoise, also called Françoise-Oionisia and Françoise-Denis, in October 1799; Marie-Azélie in September 1801; Hortare Antoine, perhaps actually daughter Hortense Mélanie, in February 1804; twins Joseph, fils and Adélaïde in June 1806, but Joseph, fils died three days after his birth and Adélaïde three days later; an infant, name and age unrecorded, died in March 1807; Marie, perhaps also called Joséphine, born in February 1809; Joseph Ursin in December 1810; Jean Martin in February 1814; and Hélène in December 1816--nine children, at least five daughters and three sons, between 1799 and 1816.  Joseph died in Assumption Parish in September 1832.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph was age 36 when he died.  He was 58.  Daughters Françoise Oionisia, Marie Azélie, Hortense Mélanie, Joséphine, and Hélène married into the Landry, LeBlanc, Bélisle, Daigle, and Breaux families by 1870.  One wonders what became of Joseph's two remaining sons.  They did not marry, if they married at all, by 1870. 

Honoré's second son François followed his family into exile and imprisonment, and to New Orleans and Cabahannocer.  Spanish officials counted him on the left, or east, bank of the river at nearby Ascension in August 1770, still a bachelor.  At age 24, he married Élisabeth, or Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Abraham dit Petit Abram Landry and his second wife Marguerite Flan, at Ascension in November 1772.  In April 1777, Spanish officials counted them on the right, or west, bank of the river there.  Their children, born at Ascension, included Marie-Juliènne dite Marcie in August 1773; Anne-Adélaïde, called Adélaïde and Délaïde, in October 1774; Élisabeth or Isabelle baptized, age unrecorded, in January 1777; Constance born in November 1778; Marguerite in February 1781; and Joseph dit Petit in January 1783.  François remarried to Élisabeth, or Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Darois and Madeleine Trahan, at Ascension in April 1786.  Their daughter Marie-Madeleine was born there in August 1788--seven children, six daughters and a son, by two wives, between 1773 and 1788.  François died at Ascension in November 1789, age 40.  Daughters Isabelle, Marie-Juliènne dite Marcie, Marguerite, Adélaïde, Constance, and Marie Madeleine, by both wives, married into the Trahan, Hébert, Foret, Dugas, Boudreaux, Bourg, Monte or Montet, Meaux, Lee, and Malbrough families, one of them, Marcie, three times.  Some of them settled on the western prairies and on upper Bayou Lafourche.  François's son also married and settled on the western prairies.  

Only son Joseph dit Petit, by first wife Isabelle Landry, married cousin Marie-Rose, called Rosalie and also Dosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Landry and Marine Melançon, at either Ascension or Attakapas in c1801.  They settled on the lower Vermilion.  Joseph's neighbors called him Joseph dit Petit, or Little Joseph, to distinguish him from an older cousin also named Joseph, whom they called Joseph dit Gros, or Big Joseph.  Petit and Rosalie's children, born on the lower Vermilion, included Agricole in July 1803; Marie Denise, called Denise, in March 1805; Marie Delphine, perhaps also called Marie Doralise and Élise, in January 1807; Marie Carmélite in January 1809; Louise Doralise in January 1814; and Joseph Denis in March 1815--six children, two sons and four daughters, between 1803 and 1815.  Joseph dit Petit filed a succession at the St. Martinville courthouse in December 1820, indicating that his first wife had died by then.  At age 37, he remarried to Ursule, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Broussard and Céleste Hébert of Vermilion, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in January 1821.  She evidently gave him no more children.  At age 41, Joseph dit Petit remarried again--his third marriage--to Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Pepin Hébert, père and Madeleine Trahan and widow of Benjamin Broussard, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in January 1824.  She, too, gave him no more children.  Joseph dit Petit died in Lafayette Parish in October 1829.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph was age 51 when he died.  He was 46.  His post-mortem successions, identifying two of his wives and his heirs--Joseph Denis; Marie Doralize; Agricole; Marie Dulcine and her husband; Marie Carmélite and her husband; and Marie Denyse and her husband--were filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in October 1829 and the following June.  Daughters Marie Carmélite, Marie Doralise, and Marie Denise, by his first wife, married into the Trahan, Duhon, and Broussard families.  Both of Joseph dit Petit's sons also married, but only one of their lines seems to have endured. 

Older son Agricole, by first wife Rosalie Landry, married cousin Marguerite Anastasie, also called Marie Aspasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Firmin Duhon and his second wife Marguerite Bourg of Grand Prairie, at the St. Martinville church in June 1821.  Their daughter Marguerite Anastasie was born in Lafayette Parish in June 1824 but died the following August.  Agricole died in Lafayette Parish in November 1843.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said that Agricole died "at age 35 yrs."  He was 40.  His succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following April.  His line of the family died with him. 

Joseph dit Petit's younger son Joseph Denis, by first wife Rosalie Landry, married Marie Eurasie, daughter of Charles Baudoin and his Acadian wife Julie Mouton, at the Vermilionville church in July 1838.  Their son Joseph le jeune was born in Lafayette Parish in August 1839.  Joseph Denis's succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in September 1851.  He would have been age 36 that year.  His son did not marry by 1870. 

Charles (1734-c1803) Duhon

Charles, ninth son of Jean-Baptiste dit Lyonnais Duon and Agnès Hébert and Honoré's brother, born at Annapolis Royal in May 1734, eluded the British there in the fall of 1755 and followed his older brother to Miramichi, where Charles married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Charles Préjean and Françoise Boudrot, in c1759.  Soon after their marriage, they, too, surrendered to British forces and became prisoners at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, for the rest of the war.  Marie-Josèphe gave Charles at least two children in exile and at Fort Edward:  Jean-Baptiste born in November 1759; and Marguerite in February 1764.  Charles, Marie-Josèphe, and their two children followed his older brother to Louisiana in 1765.  Before settling with them at Cabahannocer, the couple baptized their two children in the church at New Orleans on the first of December 1765, giving an idea of when their contingent from Halifax reached the colony.  Spanish officials counted them on the right, or west, bank of the river at Cabahannocer in April 1766 and again in September 1769.  In August 1770, Spanish officials counted them on the west bank of the river at nearby Ascension, but later in the decade Charles took his family to the Attakapas District, creating, with younger brother Claude-Amable, a western branch of the family.  They settled at Grand Prairie on upper Bayou Vermilion.  Marie-Josèphe gave Charles more children in the colony, including Michel born at Cabahannocer in c1768; Marie in the early 1770s; Charles, fils, also called Charles dit Charlitte, at Ascension in March 1773; Marie-Marine or -Madeleine, called Madeleine, in August 1775; Scholastique baptized by an Opelousas priest, no age given, in May 1779; and Adélaïde born at Attakapas in April 1782--eight children, three sons and five daughters, between 1759 and 1782, in greater Acadia and Louisiana.  Charles died probably at Grand Prairie in c1803, in his late 60s.  Daughters Marguerite, Marie, Marie-Madeleine, and Adélaïde married into the LeBlanc, Dugas, Montet, and Guidry families.  Two of Charles's sons also married and settled in what became Lafayette Parish.  His oldest son's line was especially vigorous.  Some of his descendants moved south into Vermilion Parish, but most of them remained in Lafayette. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, called Baptiste, followed his family into imprisonment and to New Orleans.  He was baptized there in December 1765, followed his family to Cabahanncoer, and moved with them to the western prairies in the 1770s.  He married Marie-Josèphe, also called Marie-Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Gautreaux and Louise Thibodeaux, at Attakapas in c1782.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Jean-Baptiste, fils in January 1783; Perosie or Perosine in December 1784; Adélaïde in the 1780s; Joachim in April 1787; Joseph in October 1789; Pierre in February 1792 but died "at his sister's home at la pointe," age 29 (the recording priest said 24), in May 1821; Félicité born in 1794 and baptized, age 5 months, in March 1795; Charles Placide, called Placide, born in August 1797; Marie Arthémise in January 1800 but died at age 10 1/2 in September 1810; Marguerite born in August 1802; and Zéphirin in February 1808--11 children, six sons and five daughters, between 1783 and 1808.  Baptiste died in Lafayette Parish in April 1827.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said that Baptiste was age 78 when he died.  He was 67.  Daughters Perosine, Adélaïde, Félicité, and Marguerite married into the LeBlanc, Guilbeau, Barras, Thibodeaux, and Sellers families.  Four of Baptiste's sons also married and settled on the prairies. 

Oldest son Jean Baptiste, fils married Apollonie, called Pauline and Paulone, daughter of fellow Acadians Augustin Broussard and Anne Landry of Vermilion, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in July or August of 1812.  Their son Jean Baptiste III was born on the Vermilion in September 1813.  Jean Baptiste, fils died at his father's home on the upper Vermilion in April 1814.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial said that Jean Baptiste, fils was age 29 when he died.  He was 31.  His succession, identifying his widow and his son, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in May 1825, 11 years after his death.  His son married and settled on the prairies. 

Only son Jean Baptiste III married Euphémie, daughter of fellow Acadians Célestin Prejean and Marcellite Landry, at the Vermilionville church in February 1833.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Désiré baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 6 weeks, in December 1833; Jean Baptiste IV baptized at age 6 weeks in December 1833; Célima born in April 1835 but died at age 2 1/2 in July 1837; Lucien baptized at age 5 months in May 1837; Hortense baptized at age 3 months in April 1839; Jean Jacques, called Jacques, born in February 1841; Léontine in May 1842; Nérèïde or Nercide in c1845 or 1846; Augustin in February 1848; Maria Aina or Emma, called Emma, in November 1850; and Joseph Sévigné in May 1856 but died at age 1 1/2 in August 1857--11 children, six sons and five daughters, between 1833 and 1856.  Daughters Hortense, Léontine, Nérèïde, and Emma married into the Cayret, Fabre, Landry, and Bernard families by 1870.  Four of Jean Baptiste III's sons also married by then and settled near Youngsville in Lafayette Parish.

Oldest son Désiré married cousin Amelina or Amelia, daughter of fellow Acadians Ursin Jean Bernard and Marguerite Landry, at the Vermilionville church in April 1853.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Marie Usèïde in November 1855 but, called Euzèïde, died at age 2 1/2 (the recording priest said 3) in September 1858; Jules born near Youngsville in January 1859; Louise in October 1860; ... 

Jean Baptiste III's third son Lucien married Olymphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Ozémé Boudreaux and Céleste Amelina Cormier, at the St. Martinville church in January 1860.  Their children, born near Youngsville, included Lucianne in March 1862; Marie Lilia in October 1865; Joseph Ambroise in May 1867; ... 

Jean Baptiste III's fourth son Jacques married Augustine Eusèide, called Eusèide, another daughter Joseph Ozémé Boudreaux and Céleste Amelina Cormier, at the St. Martinville church in August 1860.  Their chilidren, born near Youngsville, included Blanche in July 1861; Lucie in February 1863; Jean Jacques, fils in February 1865; Ulysse in September 1869; ... 

Jean Baptiste III's fifth son Augustin married Louisa or Louise Taylor, also called Sellers, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in June 1868.  Their son Adler was born near Youngsville in December 1869; ... 

Baptiste's third son Joseph married Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Olidon Broussard and Anne Bernard of Vermilion, at the St. Martinville church in November 1810.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Joseph, fils on the Vermilion in October 1812; Carmélite died at age 2 1/2 months in September 1814; Ursin born in October 1815; Marie Azélie or Aspasie, called Aspasie, baptized, age unrecorded, in October 1818; Adélaïde born in August 1820; Aspasie in October 1823; and Théodule in November 1825--seven children, three sons and four daughters, between 1812 and 1825.  Joseph died in Lafayette Parish in June 1827, age 37 (the recording priest said 36).  His succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following January.  Daughter Aspasie married a Sellers first cousin.  Two of Joseph's sons also married and settled on the prairies. 

Oldest son Joseph, fils married cousin Marie Carmélite, called Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Onésime Olidon Broussard and Marie Landry, at the Vermilionville church in February 1839.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Aspasie in late 1839 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 1/2 months, in February 1840; Carmélite born in July 1841; Belzire in June 1846; Euphémie near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in March 1851; Joseph III in March 1859; a daughter, perhaps theirs, died in September 1861, age unrecorded; Azéna born in April 1863; ...  Daughters ... married into the Broussard and Hébert families by 1870.  Joseph, fils's son did not marry by then. 

Joseph, père's third and youngest son Théodule may have married fellow Acadian Sophie Epalmyre, Palmire, or Elmire Thibodeaux in Lafayette Parish in the late 1840s.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Marie Célima in Lafayette Parish in October 1850; Joseph Honoré in December 1852; Marie Azélima in May [?] and baptized at the Abbeville church "prior to 1854"; Numa born near Abbeville in May 1856; Demas in March 1860; Azélina in October 1861; ...  None of Théodule's children married by 1870. 

Baptiste's fifth son Charles Placide, called Placide, married Marie Arsènne, called Arsènne, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Guidry and Scholastique Hébert, at the Vermilionville church in September 1825.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Lasaïda in June 1826 but died the following October; Séverine born in February 1829; Scholastique dite Colastie in c1830 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 15 months, in July 1831; Villior or Vileor, perhaps also called Léon, baptized at age 1 month in July 1832; and Uranie born in February 1834--five children, four daughters and a son, between 1826 and 1834.  Placide died on "his plantation" in Lafayette Parish in January 1835, age 37.  His succession, calling him Placide and his wife Arsène and listing his minor heirs--Sivarino [Séverine], Colastie, Léon, and Uranie--was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in January 1838.  Another succession, calling his wife Marie, was filed at the same courthouse in January 1846.  Daughters Séverine and Scholastique married into the Hébert and Forman families.  Placide's son also married by 1870.

Only son Vileor married Elvie, Elvire, or Elvira, also called Shara, daughter of perhaps Nathan Forman and Tilithe Forman, and perhaps the sister of one of his brothers-in-law, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in March 1856.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Ernestine in January 1858; Elmire in May 1860; Emma in c1862 but died at age 3 in June 1865; Raphaël born in February 1869; ... 

Baptiste's sixth and youngest son Zéphirin married Clémence, another daughter of Joseph Guidry and Scholastique Hébert, at the Vermilionville church in March 1829.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included a child, name and unrecorded, died in April 1830 and "privately baptized"; Charles le jeune born in early 1830 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 11 months, in March 1831 but died at age 7 (the recording priest said 6) in July 1837; Bélizère or Bélisaire baptized at age 5 days in February 1832 but died the following month; twins Séverin and Sévigné born in 1832 and baptized at age 7 months in February 1833; Marie born in April 1835; Jules probably in the 1830s; Scholastique, also called Sophie, in January 1837; Zephirin, fils in January 1839; Azélina, called Zélina, in c1842; Clémence in February 1843; Amelina, called Mélina, in c1844; and Adolphe in c1845--13 children, at least seven sons and five daughters, including a set of twins, between 1830 and the early 1840s.  Zéphirin, père's succession was filed at the Vermilionville church in January 1848.  He would have been age 40 that year.  Daughters Marie, Sophie, Amelina, and Azélina married into the Foreman, Stutts or Stutes, and Peck families by 1870.  Four of Zéphirin's sons also married by then. 

Third son Séverin, a twin, married Azéma, Azéna, or Azélia, daughter of fellow Acadians Don Louis Broussard and Adorisca Hébert and widow of Sosthène Guidry, at the Vermilionville church in January 1855.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Clara in October 1855; Amédée in January 1859; a daughter, name unrecorded, died at age 3 days in April 1861; Helena born in October 1862; Louis Romère in October 1870; ... None of Séverin's children married by 1870. 

Zéphirin's fourth son Sévigné, Séverin's twin, married cousin Marie Delia or Dilia, called Dilia, daughter of fellow Acadians Ursin Hébert and Domitille Thibodeaux, at the Vermilionville church in June 1857.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Marie Irène in January 1860; Félix in October 1862; ... 

Zéphirin's fifth son Jules married Palestina or Palestine, daughter of fellow Acadian Simon Méance Broussard and his Creole wife Octavine Bonnet, at the Vermilionville church in February 1859.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Marie Adolphine in December 1859; St. Julien in March 1862; Célima in November 1864; Simon in February 1870; ...

Zéphirin's seventh and youngest son Adolphe married Marie Medina, called Medina and also Nandana and Zanee, daughter of Nayton Foreman and Fanny Higginbotham, at the Vermilionville church in June 1865.  Their son Éloi was born in Lafayette Parish in December 1866; ... 

Charles's third and youngest son Charles, fils, also called Charles dit Charlitte, married, at age 26, Élisabeth or Isabelle, also called Zabelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Claude Broussard dit Beausoleil and his first wife Louis Hébert of the lower Vermilion, at Attakapas in February 1800.  Their children, born on the Vermilion, included Charles-Onésime or Onésime-Charles, also called Onésime-Charlitte, baptized, "age about four mths.," in May 1801; Marie Dionise or Denise, called Denise, born in March 1802; Julie in December 1803 but died at age 14 in January 1818; Dosithé or Dosité, a son, born in August 1805; Adélaïde in January 1808; and Aurelien in February 1809.  Charles dit Charlitte, at age 44, remarried to Pélagie, daughter of fellow Acadians François Broussard and Pélagie Landry of Vermilion, at the St. Martinville church in November 1817.  Their daughter Azélie dite Zélie was born in St. Martin Parish in December 1818--seven children, three sons and four daughters, by two wives, between 1801 and 1818.  Charles, fils's succession, mentioning his first but not his second wife, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in August 1821.  He would have been age 48 that year.  In his daughter Denise's marriage record, dated 1 Oct 1821, Charles, fils is listed as deceased, so his succession probably was post-mortem.  Daughters Denise, Adélaïde, and Azélie, by both wives, married into the LeBlanc, Boudreaux, and Montet families.  Charlitte's three sons also married on the prairies, but not all of the lines endured.

Oldest son Charles Onésime or Onésime Charles, also called Onésime Charlitte, from first wife Isabelle Broussard, married cousin Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph dit Gros Duhon and Scholastique Hébert, at the St. Martinville church in May 1821.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Azélie dite Azélite in February 1822 but died at age 3 1/2 in August 1825; Scholastique born in 1825 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 9 months in April 1826 but died at age 26 (the recording priest said 25) in May 1852; Carmélite born in late 1826 and baptized, age 4 1/2 months, in March 1827; Joseph baptized at age 11 days in November 1829 but died three days later; Placide baptized at age 4 months in June 1832; Drausin or Drosin baptized at age 4 months in March 1836; Onésime, fils baptized at age 3 months in April 1839; Valentin born in October 1842; Élisabeth in March 1844; Marie in May 1847 but, called a child, name unrecorded, may have died at age 8 months (the recording priest said 10 months) in January 1848; and a daughter, name and age unrecorded, died in April 1852--11 children, six daughters and five sons, between 1822 and 1852.  Wife Marguerite died in Lafayette Parish in November 1870, age 62.  Daughters ... married into the Broussard and Hébert families by 1870.  Two of Charles Onésime's sons also married by then.

Third son Drosin married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Cormier le jeune and his Creole wife Marie Sidalise Simon, at the Vermilionville church in April 1853.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Carmélite in September 1854; Nathalie Odille in September 1856; Élisée in January 1858 but died at age 5 1/2 (the recording priest said 6) in June 1863; Dolzée born in July 1859; Désiré in April 1861; ...  None of Drosin's children married by 1870. 

Charles Onésime's fifth and youngest son Valentin married Marie Louise Simon at the Vermilionville church in June 1860.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Marie Célise in July 1861; Valéry in March 1870.  ...

Charlitte's second son Dosité, by first wife Isabelle Broussard, married Marie Mathilde or Berthilde, called Bertille, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Landry and Madeleine Brasseaux, at the Vermilionville church in April 1831.  Dosité died in Lafayette Parish in November 1832.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said that Dosité was age 24 when he died.  He was 27.  His succession, calling his wife Marie and giving no heirs, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following January.  Evidently he and his wife were that rare Acadian couple who had no children, so his line of the family died with him.  

Charlitte's third son Aurelien, by first wife Isabelle Broussard, married Ceralisse, Ceraline, Célanie, or Coralie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Trahan and his Creole wife Césaire Baudoin, at the Vermilionville church in February 1830.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Aurelien, fils in May 1831; Émile baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 5 months, in May 1834; Amélie baptized at age 4 months in November 1836; Feregus born in late 1839 and baptized at age 4 1/2 months in February 1840 but died near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, age 20 (the recording priest said 21), in June 1860; Valérien born in May 1841; Théodule near Abbeville in January 1846; Philibert in April 1850; and Marital, probably Martial, in June 1851--eight children, six sons and two daughters, between 1831 and 1851.  Daughter ... married into the Broussard family by 1870.  Two of Aurelien's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Aurelien, fils may have married fellow Acadian Marie Uranie, called Uranie or Euranie, Dugas, place and date unrecorded.  Their children, born near Abbeville, included Aurelie in May 1854; Valérien Cestia in August 1856; Charles in January 1859; Jean in November 1861; Olivier in June 1870;  ...

Aurelien's second son Émile married Azélima or Adelima, daughter of fellow Acadians Désiré Broussard and Aurelie Boudreaux, at the Abbeville church in April 1854.  Their son André Farnasse was born near Abbeville in February 1855; ... 

Claude-Amable (1736-1811) Duhon

Claude-Amable, tenth and youngest son of Jean-Baptiste dit Lyonnais Duon and Agnès Hébert and Honoré and Charles's brother, born at Annapolis Royal in February 1736, eluded the British at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and followed his older brothers to Miramichi, where he married Marie-Josèphe dite Josette, another daughter of Michel Vincent and Anne-Marie Doiron of Pigiguit, in c1757.  They, too, were either captured by or surrendered to British forces and became prisoners at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Claude-Amable, Josette, and a Pitre orphan followed his older brothers to Louisiana in 1765 and settled with them at Cabahannocer.  Spanish officials counted Claude-Amable and his family on the right, or west, bank of the river in April 1766 and September 1769.  In 1770, Spanish officials counted them on the west bank at nearby Ascension, still childless.  Their son Joseph Firmin, called Firmin, was born at Ascension in c1771.  Later in the decade, Claude-Amable took his family to the Attakapas District, creating, with older brother Charles, a western branch of the family.  They settled near Charles and his family at Grand Prairie on upper Bayou Vermilion.  Claude Amable, called Amable dit Claude by the recording priest, died at his home on the Vermilion in December 1811.  According to the priest, Amable dit Claude died "at age 87 years."  He was 75.  His son married twice and had many sons of his own.  One of Claude-Amable's grandsons moved to upper Bayou Lafourche during the early antebellum period, but the rest of his descendants remained on the prairies, in Lafayette, St. Martin, and St. Landry parishes.  They were especially numerous on the upper Vermilion around present-day Lafayette. 

Only son Joseph Firmin, called Firmin, followed his family to the western prairies and married, at age 17 or 18, Marie-Madeleine, 21-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Trahan and Marie Boudreaux, at Attakapas in July 1788.  Marie-Madeleine, a native of Mordreuc near Pleudihen-sur-Rance on the river south of St.-Malo, France, had come to Louisiana with her family aboard the second of the Seven Ships from France in 1785.  She moved to the prairies from upper Bayou Lafourche only a short time before their marriage.  Their children, born at Attakapas, included Marie-Madeleine in December 1789; Michel in September 1792; Delphine, actually Delphin, also called Delphy, a son, in January 1793[sic]; Charles le jeune in April 1794 but died at age 4 in May 1798; Firmin, fils born in November 1795; Cécile in September 1797; Marie-Joséphine, perhaps also called Perosine, in May 1799; a son, name unrecorded, died nine days after his birth in November 1800; Alexandre, also called Alexis, born in November 1801; and Jean-Baptiste, also called Jean, Jean Firmin, and Firmin, in December 1803.  Wife Marie-Madeleine died at Attakapas in December 1803, age 35, less than a week after the birth of son Jean-Baptiste.  Firmin, at age 34, remarried to Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Lucien Bourg and Marie Élisabeth Trahan, at Attakapas in February 1805.  Marguerite was a native of Louisiana whose parents also had come to the colony from France in 1785.  Her and Firmin's children, born on the Vermilion, included Marguerite Aspasie, also called Marie Aspasie, in April 1807; Joseph Chevalier, called Chevalier, in November 1810; Marie Denise in December 1813; and Claire, also called Laclaire, in February 1817--14 children, six daughters and eight sons, by two wives, between 1789 and 1810.  Firmin filed a succession, not post-mortem, at the St. Martinville courthouse, St. Martin Parish, in August 1813.  He died at his home on the upper Vermilion in June 1818.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial said that Firmin was "about 50 years" old when he died.  He was closer to 47.  His post-mortem succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse the following month.  Daughters Cécile, Marie, Perosine, Marguerite Aspasie, Marie Denise, and Laclaire, by both wives, married, into the Raulin, Gobelet or Goplet, Leger, Trahan, Duhon, Chaon, and Broussard families.  Oldest daughter Marie, by first wife Marie Madeleine Trahan, gave birth to son Joseph Duhon at Attakapas in December 1805.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the boy's baptism in April 1811 did not give the boy's father's name.  Six of Firmin's sons also married.  His oldest son moved to upper Bayou Lafourche, but his other sons remained on the prairies in what became Lafayette Parish.  During the late antebellum period, some of his grandsons spread out to St. Landry, Vermilion, Calcasieu, and St. Martin parishes, but most of them remained in Lafayette Parish, especially around Youngsville. 

Oldest son Michel, by first wife Marie Madeleine Trahan, married Scholastique, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Foret and Marie Blanchard, at the Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, in April 1809.  They lived on the upper Vermilion before moving to Bayou Lafourche in the 1810s.  Their children, born on the prairies and the upper Lafourche, included Michel Dosité, called Dosité, on the upper Vermilion in February 1810 but died at his parents' home the following May; Geneviève Silesie born in February 1812; Elias Firmin, called Hélie, in Assumption Parish in September 1815 but died there, age 5, in September 1820; Marguerite Pauline born in November 1818; Jean in November 1820 but died at age 9 months in August 1821; twins Clémence and Joseph Michel born in January 1823, but Clémence died at age 1 in February 1824; and François died at age about 3 months in October 1825.  Michel remarried to Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadian Benjamin Hilaire Boudreaux and his Creole wife Anne Élisabeth Farguesine, at the Donaldsonville church in May 1827.  They settled on the Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Marie Lodoisia in March 1828; and Paul Firmin posthumously in July 183[3]--10 children, six sons and four daughters, including a set of twins, by two wives, between 1810 and 1833.  Michel died in Assumption Parish in April 1833.  The Plattenville priest who recorded his burial said Michel died at "age 55 yrs."  He was 40.  Daughter Geneviève Silesie or Célesie, called Célesie Geneviève by the recording priest, by his first wife, gave birth to son Adrien Rosémond in Lafourche Interior Parish in March 1834; the Thibodauxville priest who recorded the boy's baptism did not give the father's name.  Geneviève Célesie married François Marie, son of fellow Acadians Blaise Julien Boudreaux and Perrine Barrilleaux, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in April 1835.  One wonders if François Marie was Adrien Rosémond's father.  Daughter Marguerite Pauline, by his first wife, married into the Forgi family.  Four of Michel's sons died young.  Only one of his remaining sons married, on the western prairies.  The family's presence along the Lafourche, then, except for daughter Geneviève Célesie and her family, may have been a short one. 

Sixth and youngest son Paul Firmin, by second wife Rosalie Boudreaux, married cousin Oliva, also called Odile, daughter of Éloi Simon and his Acadian wife Adélaïde Boudreaux, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in November 1851.  They remained in Lafayette Parish, settling near Youngsville.  Their children, born there, included Firmain or Firmin in March 1853; Cléopha in October 1854 but died by July 1860, when he was not listed with his family in the federal census for Lafayette Parish; Joseph Demas, called Demas, born in October 1855; Clete in October 1857; Emma in November 1859; Éloi in December 1861; Albert in March 1866; ...  None of Paul's children married by 1870. 

Firmin's second son Delphin or Delphy, by first wife Marie-Madeleine Trahan, married cousin Victoire, daughter of fellow Acadians Athanase Trahan and Madeleine Thibodeaux of Vermilion, at the St. Martinville church in January 1813.  They settled on the Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included Milite Delphine in February 1814; Alexis in August 1815; Delphin or Delphy, fils in November 1817; Joseph in the late 1810s or 1820s; Aspasie in January 1821; Joséphine in the early 1820s; Aurelien in February 1829; Claire, also called Laclaire, in December 1831; and Belzire baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in June 1836--nine children, five daughters and four sons, between 1814 and 1836.  Delphin, père's succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in January 1847.  Daughters Aspasie, Joséphine, Laclaire, and Belzire married into the Bourg, Miller, and Trahan families, two of them to Trahan cousins, by 1870.  Delphin's four sons also married by then and settled on the prairies.

Oldest son Alexis married cousin Marie Marguerite, called Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Julien Trahan and Marie Landry, at the Vermilionville church in October 1834.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Alexis, fils in 1835 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age unrecorded, in January 1836; Lasty baptized at age 8 weeks in May 1838; Marie Adveline born in November 1842; Onésime in St. Martin Parish in March 1845; Juliènne in Lafayette Parish in June 1850; François near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in August 1853; Amélie near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in August 1856; and Philosie in April 1858--eight children, four sons and four daughters, between 1836 and 1858.  None of Alexis's daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did and remained in Lafayette Parish.

Oldest son Alexis, fils, during the War of 1861-65, enlisted in Company A of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, the "Lafayette Prairie Boys," in March 1862, age 27.  He was still a bachelor at the time of his enlistment.  After his unit surrendered with the rest of the Vicksburg garrison to General U.S. Grant's army on 4 July 1863, Alexis and his comrades, including one of the author's great-grandfathers, went home on parole to await exchange.  Alexis, fils married cousin Célima or Selvina Trahan in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in February 1864, while waiting for his regiment to be exchanged.  Son Lucien was born near Youngsville in January 1865, while his father was still in Confederate service; ...  Alexis, fils survived the war and returned to his family.  He remarried to Marie Marceliènne, daughter of fellow Acadian Alexandre Templet and his Creole wife Marcellite Ducharme, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in June 1869, and sanctified the marriage at the Youngsville church in June 1870. ...  Alexis, fils died probably at Youngsville in 1913, age 78, and was buried in St. Anne's Catholic Cemetery there. 

Delphin's second son Delphin or Delphy, fils married Marie Olive, daughter of fellow Acadians François Bourg and Séraphine Landry, at the Vermilionville church in August 1837.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included François baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 1 month, in January 1839 but may have died at age 2 1/2 (the recording priest said 3 and called his father Joseph) in July 1841; Azélia, also called Marie Azélia, born in August 1840; and Émile in the 1840s.  A succession, probably post-mortem, for wife Marie Olive, calling her husband Delphie, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in July 1847.  Delphin, fils remarried to cousin Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Jean Baptiste Trahan and his Creole wife Marie Marcellite Sellers and widow of Onésime Trahan, at the Vermilionville church in January 1849.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Camille in November 1849; Joseph Neuville, called Neuville, in September 1851; Pierre Delphine, probably Delphin, in April 1853; Adilia in June 1854; Zélima in August 1856; Donatien near Youngsville in July 1859; Cléonise in May 1861; Palmire in September 1863; Elmire in October 1865; ...  Delphin, fils's succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in April 1868.  He would have been age 51 that year.  Daughter Marie Azélia, by his first wife, married a Trahan cousin by 1870.  Two of Delphin's sons also married by then.

Second son Émile, by first wife Marie Olive Bourg, married Zulma, daughter of Duc Bonin and his Acadian wife Marie Comeaux, at the Youngsville church in February 1866. ...

Delphin, fils's fourth son Neuville, by second wife Carmélite Trahan, married Émelie, daughter of Eugène Simon and Isabelle Whittington, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in November 1869, and sanctified the marriage at the Vermilionville church in April 1870. ...

Delphin, père's third son Joseph married cousin Marie Marcellite, called Marcellite, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre dit Jani Trahan and his Creole wife Ursule Boulet and widow of François Achille Roy, at the Vermilionville church in August 1846.  Their chiildren, born on the prairies, included Marie Armence in Lafayette Parish in January 1848; Théogène in March 1850; Pierre Omer or Homère in May 1852; Marie Louisa in February 1854; Marie Pamela in December 1855; twins Azéma and Zélima in August 1857; Philogène in St. Landry Parish in October 1860; a daughter, perhaps theirs, died in Lafayette Parish in September 1861, age unrecorded; ...  None of Joseph's daughters married by 1870, but two of his sons did, while still in their teens.

Oldest son Théogène, at age 17, married Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadians Valérien Richard and Aspasie Breaux, at the Vermilionville church in January 1868. ...

Joseph's second son Pierre Homère, at age 17, married cousin Eugénie, daughter of fellow Acadians Onésime Leger and Marie Marcellite Trahan, at the Vermilionville church in August 1869. ...

Delphin, père's fourth and youngest son Aurelien may have married Joséphine Schexnayder in Lafayette or Vermilion Parish in the early 1850s.  Their children, born near Abbeville, included Jean Aurelien in January 1854; Élizabeth in September 1855; Élodie in December 1857; Marie Victorine in March 1860; Delphi le jeune in March 1862; Alcide in June 1869; ...  None of Aurelien's children married by 1870. 

Firmin's fourth son Joseph Firmin, fils, by first wife Marie Madeleine Trahan, married Marie Louise, called Louise, "natural" daughter of fellow Acadian Geneviève Theriot of Vermilion, at the St. Martinville church in July 1813.  They settled on the Vermilion.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Firmin Onésime, called Onésime, in December 1814; David in August 1816; Joseph Biballier, Devalde, or Vivaldi, in January 1818; and a son, name unrecorded, died at age 15 days in October 1819.  The birth of their son may have led to wife Louise's early death; her succession, calling her Marie Louise, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in April 1820.  Joseph Firmin, fils remarried to cousin Marie Isabelle or Élisabeth, called Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Trahan and Marie Trahan, at the St. Martinville church in May 1820.  They remained on the Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included twins Mélanie and Rosémond in February 1821; Pierre in June 1823; and Armenie in June 1826--eight children, six sons and two daughters, including a set of twins, by two wives, between 1814 and 1826.  Neither of Firmin, fils's daughters married by 1870, but three of his sons did.  Not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Onésime, by first wife Louise Theriot, married fellow Acadian Marguerite Trahan in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in December 1835.  Did they have any children? 

Joseph Firmin, fils's third son Joseph Devalde or Vivaldi, by first wife Louise Theriot, married Élisabeth or Isabelle, called Élisa, daughter of Noël Vasseur and his Acadian wife Clarisse or Cléonise Richard, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in June 1837.  Their children, born near the boundary between Lafayette and St. Landry parishes, included Zelia in February 1843; Onésime Noël in December 1845; and Marie Elisia in January 1848--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1843 and 1848.  None of Joseph's children married by 1870. 

Daughter Zélia, at age 16, may have given birth to "natural son" Joseph Désiré near Grand Coteau in December 1859; the priest who recorded the boy's baptism did not give the father's name. 

Joseph Firmin, fils's fifth son Rosémond, by second wife Isabelle Trahan, married Meletiènne, Féliciana, or Mélanie Hanks, place and date unrecorded, and settled near Grand Coteau by the early 1850s.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Marie Élisabeth near Grand Coteau in January 1853; Firmin in January 1856; Norbert le jeune on the Mermentau River in June 1866; ... 

Firmin's sixth son Alexandre, also called Alexis, from first wife Marie-Madeleine Trahan, married Marie Marcellite, called Marcellite, daughter of fellow Acadians Hippolyte Savoie and Victoire Guilbeau of Grand Pointe, at the St. Martinville church in February 1819.  They settled on the Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included Alexandre, fils in February 1820; Éléonore in c1823 but died at age 1 in October 1824; Louise, also called Élouise, born in 1825 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 6 months, in April 1826; Désiré born in June 1828; Leufroy or Leufroi in 1831 and baptized at age 7 months in January 1832; Norbert born in c1833 and baptized at age 1 in September 1834; Alix, perhaps also called Alise, baptized at age 3 months in June 1836; Clémire or Clémile born in January 1838; and Azéma in November 1840--nine children, five sons and four daughters, between 1820 and 1840.  Alexandre, called Alexis by the recording priest, died in Lafayette Parish in December 1861, age 60.  Daughters Éloise and Alise married into the LeBlanc and Romero families by 1870.  Three of Alexis's sons also married by then and settled on the prairies.

Second son Désiré may have married fellow Acadian Amelie LeBlanc, place and date unrecorded.  Daughter Marcelite was born in Lafayette Parish in March 1851.  Did they have anymore children?  Daughter Marcelite did not marry by 1870. 

Alexandre's fourth son Norbert married Cidalise, also called Eudalie, daughter of Louis Sellers and his Acadian wife Aspasie Boudreaux, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in May 1854, and sanctified the marriage at the Abbeville church in June 1855.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Richard near Abbeville in April 1855; Élodie in Lafayette Parish in February 1857; Alix le jeune near Youngsville, Lafayette Parish, in July 1858; Oliva in September 1861; Ulalie in February 1864; ...  They were living on the Mermentau River at the end of the War of 1861-65.  Norbert may have remarried to Euphrasie Guillory of St. Landry Parish in the late 1860s. ...

Alexandre's sixth and youngest son Clémile married Eugénie, daughter of fellow Acadians Onésime Broussard and Celestine LeBlanc, at the Youngsville church in January 1861.  They lived in Calcasieu Parish before moving to the New Iberia area by the late 1860s.  Daughter Eugénie Anaïs was born probably in Calcasieu Parish in December 1861; ...

Firmin's seventh son Jean Baptiste, also called Jean, Jean Firmin, and Firmin, from first wife Marie Madeleine Trahan, married cousin Marie Dulcine, called Dulcine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph dit Petit Duhon and his first wife Marie Rose Landry of Vermilion, probably in Lafayette Parish in the mid- or late 1820s.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Marie Natalie baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in May 1827; Marie Clémentine baptized at age 2 months in January 1829; Marguerite born in St. Martin Parish in May 1831; Joseph le jeune in April 1833; Anastasie in Lafayette Parish April 1835; Jean Baptiste in December 1837; Marie Oliva in December 1839; Marie Rose in March 1842; Aurelia in December 1844; Jean Baptiste Firmin in October 1846; and Marie in April 1847--11 children, eight daughters and three sons, between 1827 and 1847.  Daughters ... married into the Clark and Hanks families by 1870.  None of Jean Baptiste's sons married by then. 

Firmin's eighth and youngest son Joseph Chevalier, called Chevalier, from second wife Marguerite Bourg, married cousin Marie Célesie or Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadians François Bourg and Séraphie Landry, at the Vermilionville church in November 1829.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Mélazie in August 1832 but, called Amelesia, died at age 8 1/2 (the recording priest said 9) in June 1841; Azélia baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in September 1835 but died at age 2 1/2 in October 1837; Azéna born in August 1837; Léoville in December 1839 but, called a "child," died at age 15 in February 1855; a daughter, name unrecorded, died at age 3 in September 1843; Marie Séraphine, called Séraphine, born in November 1843; Marguerite in August 1846; and Sophie in February 1855--eight children, seven daughters and a son, between 1832 and 1855.  Joseph Chevalier died in Lafayette Parish in October 1857.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said that Chevalier, as she called him, died "at age 52 yrs."  He was 46.  Daughters Marguerite and Séraphine married into the Clotioux and Trahan families before 1870, so the blood of the family line may have endured. 

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Even if Acadian emigration to Louisiana had ended in 1770, the Duon family would have been a large one in the Spanish colony.  In 1785, however, two decades after their cousins had reached the colony, eight more Duons--a small family, a wife, a widow, and two bachelor brothers--came to Louisiana aboard four of the Seven Ships from France.  Two more family lines came of it on the river and the prairies. 

The first of them, one of the bachelor brothers, crossed on Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans during the third week of August 1785.  No new family line came of it:

Jean-Baptiste (1759-?) à Jean-Baptiste dit Lyonnais Duhon

Jean-Baptiste, oldest son of Cyprien Duon of Annapolis Royal and Marguerite Landry of Rivière-aux-Canards and nephew of Honoré l'aîné, Charles, and Claude-Amable, born at Liverpool, England, in October 1759, followed his family to Morlaix, France, in May 1763, and to Bangor, Belle-Île-en-Mer, in late 1765, where, after he came of age, he worked as a plowman.  Although his younger brother Joseph dit Gros also chose to go to Louisiana, Jean-Baptiste sailed alone to Louisiana on an earlier ship.  He evidently followed his fellow passengers to Baton Rouge, where he disappears from Louisiana records. 

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Another Duon, the wife, crossed on Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships from France, which reached New Orleans during the first week of September 1785.  She, her Trahan husband, and their six children, joined kinsmen in the Attakpas District.

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Five more Duons--the small family and the widow--crossed on L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in early November 1785.  The widow and her seven Aucoin daughters also joined kinsmen at Attakapas.  The Duon family chose to settle on the river, not above but below New Orleans, among the few Acadians to go there.  Another Duon family line came of it: 

Honoré le jeune (1737-1796) à Jean-Baptiste dit Lyonnais Duhon

Honoré le jeune, only son of Jean-Baptiste Duon and Madeleine Vincent and nephew of Honoré l'aîné, Charles, and Claude-Amable, born at Minas in c1737, followed his family to Virginia and England, where he married Anne-Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadians François Trahan and Angélique Melanson of Pigiguit, at Liverpool in October 1758.  Anne-Geneviève gave Honoré le jeune two daughters there:  Marie born in c1760; and Anne in c1761.  In the spring of 1763, the family was repatriated to Morlaix, France, where Anne gave Honoré le jeune a son, François-Marie, born in March 1764, but the boy died at age 20 months in October 1765.  The following month, they joined other Acadian exiles from England on Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany and settled at Martha near Bangor in the southern interior of the island, where Anne gave Honoré le jeune more children:  Augustin-Marie born in June 1766; Honoré-Jacques-Marie-Louis, called Jacques, in August 1768; Jean-Charles in June 1772; Philippe-Marie in June 1774; and Marie-Françoise in March 1777--eight children, three daughters and five sons, between 1760 and 1777, in England and France.  Oldest daughter Marie married into the Maitrejean family at Bangor in June 1777.  The family moved on to the lower Loire port of Nantes by September 1784, when Honoré le jeune and Anne-Geneviève were counted there with four sons, so their daughters Anne and Marie-Françoise, ages 24 and 7 in 1784, either had died on Belle-Île-en-Mer or chose to live on their own by then; the younger one likely had died.  Honoré le jeune, Anne-Geneviève, and their three remaining sons emigrated to Louisiana in 1785.  Youngest son Philippe-Marie, who would have been age 11 in 1785, likely had died young.  Married daughter Marie and her Maitrejean husband also did not follow her parents and brothers to the Spanish colony.  Honoré le jeune and his family were among the hand full of Acadians who chose to settle on the river below New Orleans, at San Bernardo, also called Nueva Gálvez, an Isleño, or Canary-Islander, community.  (One wonders why they did not join their kinsmen on the Acadian Coast or out on the prairies.)  The couple had no more children in the colony.  Honoré le jeune died at San Bernardo, in today's St. Bernard Parish, in October 1796.  The New Orleans priest who recorded the burial said that Honorato, as he called him, died at age "67 yr."  He was in his late 50s.  Two of his sons married at New Orleans and evidently remained at San Bernardo.  A grandson married on upper Bayou Lafourche. 

Second son Augustin-Marie followed his family to Nantes and New Olreans, where he married Marguerite-Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles LeBlanc and his second wife Marie-Madeleine Gautrot, in December 1785, soon after they reached the colony on separate ships.  Marguerite, a native of St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo, had crossed on an earlier vessel.  They settled near his family at San Bernardo and also in New Orleans.  Their children, born at San Bernardo or in the city, included Louis in the late 1780s or early 1790s; Marie-Jeanne in February 1797 but died at age 1 1/2 in October 1799; Charles le jeune born in July 1799 and baptized at home the following day; Jean-Baptiste baptized at the New Orleans church, age 9 days, in March 1801 but died there, age 2 1/2 (the recording priest said 6), in October 1803; Jean born in the city in September 1803; ...  One of their sons married and moved to upper Bayou Lafourche.

Oldest son Louis married Adélaïde, daughter of Mathurin Ferlot and his Acadian wife Françoise Pitre of New Orleans and Lafourche, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in December 1814.  One wonders if they remained on Bayou Lafourche. 

Honoré le jeune's third son Honoré-Jacques-Marie-Louis, called Jacques, followed his family to Nantes and New Orleans and settled with them at San Bernardo.  He married Anne Autran probably at New Orleans in the late 1780s.  In 1812, an Honoré Duhon claimed land along Bayou Terre-aux-Boeufs in St. Bernard Parish.  Since his father had died in 1796, this probably was Honoré Jacques.  Their children, born at San Bernardo or New Orleans, included Pierre in c1786 but died at New Orleans, age 15, in September 1801; ...  

Honoré le jeune's fourth son Jean-Charles, called Charles, followed his family to Nantes and New Orleans and settled with them at San Bernardo.  Jean-Charles died at New Orleans, still a bachelor, in September 1799.  The St.-Louis Cathedral priest who recorded the burial said that Jean-Charles was age 22 when he died.  He was 27.  

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Another Duon, the second bachelor brother, crossed on La Caroline, the last of the Seven Ships from France, which reached New Orleans in mid-December 1785.  He did not join his older brother at Baton Rouge or his cousins at San Bernardo.  He went, instead, to Attakapas and created another vigorous family line on the western prairies: 

Joseph dit Gros (1766-?) à Jean-Baptiste dit Lyonnais Duhon

Joseph, second son of Cyprien Duon and Marguerite Landry, younger brother of Jean-Baptiste of Le Beaumont and nephew of Honoré l'aîné, Charles, and Claude-Amable, was born at Le Palais, Belle-Île-en-Mer, France, in April 1766.  When he came of age, he worked as a plowman there.  Evidently dissatisfied with life in the mother country, he followed his older brother to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 while still in his late teens.  After a short respite in New Orleans, he chose to join his kinsmen in the Attakapas District, where, at age 25, he married Scholastique, 16-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste dit Cobit Hébert and his second wife Théotiste-Marie Hébert, in February 1791.  Scholastique was a native of Attakapas whose parents had come to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765.  The young couple settled at Grand Prairie on the upper Vermilion, near his uncles and cousins.  His neighbors called him Joseph dit Gros, or Big Joseph, to distinguish him from a younger cousin also named Joseph, whom they called Joseph dit Petit, or Little Joseph.  Gros and Scholastique's children, born at Grand Prairie, included Joseph, fils in March 1792; Rosine or Perosine in January 1794; Jean-Baptiste in October 1795 but died at age 2 1/2 in June 1798; a daughter, name unrecorded, died four days after her birth in February 1798; Marie born in September 1799; another Jean-Baptiste in June 1801; Cyprien le jeune in June 1803; Marguerite in October 1804; Scholastique at "Coulée dite d'Argreau" (Coulée Hargroder) "above the Vermillon" in June 1806; Dositée, a son, in 1808 and baptized at the home of Widow Baptiste Cormier at Grand Prairie, age 1, in July 1809; Onésime born in February 1810 but died from an accidental coup de fusil, or firing of a shotgun, in Lafayette Parish, age 18 1/2, in November 1828; Placide born in February 1812; Julien in January 1814; a son, name unrecorded, died at his parents' home on the Vermilion seven days after his birth in July 1816; and another Joseph, fils baptized, age 3 months, in July 1818--15 children, 10 sons and five daughters, between 1792 and 1818.  Daughters Perosine, Marie, Marguerite, and Scholastique married into the Lapointe, Leger, Duhon, and Broussard families.  Six of Big Joseph's sons also married, adding substantially to the number of Duhons on the western prairies though not all of the lines endured.  One of his sons and some of his grandsons moved west to the Calcasieu prairies, but most of the others remained in Lafayette Parish, especially around Youngsville. 

Second son Jean-Baptiste married Pélagie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Trahan and Marie Trahan of Vermilion, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in May 1820.  Their children, born in what became Lafayette Parish, included Jean Baptiste, fils, called Jean, fils, baptized at the Vermilionville church, age unrecorded, in February 1823; Pélagie baptized at age 4 1/2 months in July 1826; ...  Daughters ... married into the Broussard and Vincent families.  Jean-Baptiste, père's son also married. 

Only son Jean Baptiste, fils, called Jean, fils, married Eugénie, also called Aspasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Célestin Landry and Marguerite Granger, at the Vermilionville church in December 1839.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Onésime, called Lésime, in February 1841; Célestin in November 1842; a child, name unrecorded, in c1845 but, still unnamed, died in Lafayette at age 3 in July 1848; Émile born in April 1847; Marguerite in February 1849; Pélagie in October 1850; and a child, name and age unrecorded, died in Lafayette Parish in November 1852--seven children, at least three sons and two daughters, between 1841 and 1852.  Daughter ... married into the Guillot family by 1870.  Jean, fils's three sons also married and settled on the prairies, but not all of the lines endured.

Oldest son Lésime married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Dosité Hébert and Marie Émelite Trahan, at the Vermilionville church in October 1859.  She evidently gave him no children.  Lésime remarried to Aspasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Ferdinand Trahan and Aspasie Boudreaux, at the Youngsville church, Lafayette Parish, in January 1866.  Their son Adrien was born near Youngsville in March 1870; ...

Jean, fils's second son Célestin married cousin Céleste or Célise, daughter of Joseph Duhon and Émelite Cormier, his great uncle and aunt, at the Vermilionville church in August 1860.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Jean Baptiste in September 1861 but died at age 10 months in August 1862; and Olesida born in late 1862 but died at age 3 months in January 1863.  Célestin "from Butte à la Rose" died in Lafayette Parish in December 1862, age 20 (the recording priest said 19).  One wonders if his, and his childrens' deaths, were war-related.  His line of the family died with him.  Widow Céleste may have remarried to cousin Dosité Duhon, fils, widower of Amelina Broussard, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in 1864 and gave him more children. 

Jean, fils's third and youngest son Émile married Amelina, daughter of Eucharist Montet and his Acadian wife Tarsille Bourg, at the Vermilionville church in September 1866. ...

Joseph dit Gros's third son Cyprien le jeune married Julie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Granger and Pélagie Broussard of Vermilion, at the St. Martinville church in February 1820.  Their children, born in what became Lafayette Parish, included Jean Serazin or Sarazin, called Sarazin, in October 1820; Marie Azélie in October 1823; Joseph Camille, called Camille, in 1825 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 11 months, in September 1826; and Clairville born in April 1828--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1820 and 1828.  By the 1840s, Cyprien le jeune had moved his family west of the Mermentau River to the Calcasieu prairies, where he and his sons herded cattle.  Cyprien's daughter married into the Faulk family.  His three sons also married and settled on the prairies. 

Oldest son Jean Sarazin, called Sarazin, married Marie Célanie, called Célanie, daughter of Joseph Faulk and his Acadian wife Victoire Broussard, probably in Lafayette Parish in the late 1830s.  They settled in Calcasieu Parish.  Their children, born there, included Jean Émile in September 1841; Marie Scholastique in February 1843; Paul in January 1852; and Jean Baptiste in February 1856--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1841 and 1856.  Sarazin's daughter did not marry by 1870, but one of his sons did.

Oldest son Jean Émile married Marie Stephanie Lagrange probably in Calcasieu Parish in the 1860s.  Their son Pierre was born probably in Calcasieu Parish in April 1868; ...

Cyprien le jeune's second son Joseph Camille, called Camille, married Agathe Mélasie, called Mélasie, daughter of Nathaniel Ellender and Christine Ellender, probably in Lafayette Parish in the late 1840s.  They also settled in Calcasieu Parish.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Désiré in January 1851; Jean in December 1852; Pélagie in June 1855; Julie in August 1857; a daughter, perhaps theirs, died in September 1861, age unrecorded; ...  Camille remarried to Marie Léa Faulk probably in Calcasieu Parish by the late 1860s.  None of his children married by 1870. 

 Cyprien, le jeune's third and youngest son Clairville married Marguerite Émelie, called Émelie, Ellender probably in Lafayette Parish in the mid-1840s.  They also settled in Calcasieu Parish.  Their children, born there, included Julie in October 1846; Cyprien le jeune in December 1847; Juliènne in April 1852; Pélagie in February 1856; Donatien in May 1868; ...  Daughter ... married into the Hébert family by 1870.  None of Clairville's sons married by then. 

Joseph dit Gros's fourth son Dosité married Eugénie dite Jinny, daughter of fellow Acadians François Cormier and Scholastique LeBlanc, at the Vermilionville church in November 1825.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Clémence baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months in November 1826; François Paulfile, called Paul, born in February 1831; Eugénie in late 1833 and baptized age 3 months in January 1834; Joseph Terence, called Terence, born probably in the early 1830s; Drausin or Drosin in March 1836; Dosité, fils in July 1839; Scholastique dite Colastie in April 1841; Édouard in November 1843; Élisabeth in August 1851; and Jean Numa in October 1855--10 children, four daughters and six sons, between 1826 and 1855.  Dosité, père, called Dosithée by the recording priest, died in Lafayette Parish in September 1863, age 55.  Wife Eugénie, called "Mrs. Dosithée Duhon," died at age 54 in October 1864.  Dosité, père's succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in September 1865.  One wonders if his and his wife's deaths were war-related.  Daughter Clémence married into the Montet family by 1870.  Four of Dosité's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son François Paulfile dit Paul married Marie Aureline, called Aureline, daughter of Eucharist Montet and his Acadian wife Tarsille Bourg, at the Vermilionville church in April 1849; François's sister Clémence married Aureline's brother Méance.  François and Aureline's children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Onésime le jeune in February 1850; Thérèse in February 1854; Jules in October 1855; Marie Axilia in October 1857 but, called Thérèsia, may have died in Lafayette Parish at age 4 in September 1861; Lastie born near Youngsville in September 1859; Gustave in September 1861; Eulalie in June 1864; ...  Daughter ... married a Duhon cousin by 1870.  None of Paul's sons married by then. 

Dosité's second son Joseph Terence, called Terence, married fellow Acadian Marie Émelie, called Émelie, Bourque in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in August 1854.  Their children, born near Youngsville, included a son, name unrecorded, died in Lafayette Parish, "at age 8 yrs." (perhaps the recording priest meant 8 months), in November 1855; Corinne born in March 1859; ... 

Dosité's third son Drosin married Émeline, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Arvillien Trahan and Marie Denise Hébert, at the Vermilionville church in June 1855.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Robert in April 1856; Azéma in February 1859 but died at age 3 1/2 (the recording priest said "4 or 5 yrs.") in October 1862; Albert born in February 1861; Homer in August 1870; ...  None of Drosin's children married by 1870. 

Dosité's fourth son Dosité, fils married Amelina, daughter of fellow Acadians Édouard Jean Broussard and Marie Louise Doucet, at the Vermilionville church in January 1859.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Jean Dupré in March 1860; and Félicianne in September 1861.  Dosité, fils remarried to cousin Céleste or Célestine Duhon, widow, perhaps, of cousin Célestin Duhon, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in April 1864.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Corine in January 1865; Luc in November 1868; ... 

Joseph dit Gros's sixth son Placide married cousin Marie Doralise or Doralie, also called Élise, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph dit Petit Duhon and Marie Rose Landry, at the Vermilionville church in May 1833.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Placide, fils in September 1834; Joseph le jeune in December 1835 but died at age 11 1/2 (the recording priest said 12) in September 1847; Marie Ozea baptized at age 4 months in December 1837; Amélie born in May 1842; and François Clovis in March 1844.  Placide may have remarried to Mélanie Denaise, place and date unrecorded.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Cléopha near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in July 1854; and Eugénie in Lafayette Parish in October 1856--seven children, four sons and three daughters, by two wives, between 1834 and 1856.  Daughter Marie, by his first wife, married into the Broussard family by 1870.  None of Placide's sons married by then. 

Joseph dit Gros's seventh son Julien married cousin Maximiliènne, daughter of fellow Acadian Frédéric Hébert and his Creole wife Marie Simon, at the Vermilionville church in April 1834.  Their daughter Marie was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 7 weeks, in October 1835 but died at age 1 (the recording priest said 2) in October 1836.  Julien evidently fathered no sons, so his family line did not endure. 

Joseph dit Gros's ninth and youngest son Joseph, fils, the second with the name, married Émelie, also called Émelite, Mélite, and Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadian Louis Cormier and his first wife, Creole Thécle Meaux, at the Vermilionville church in May 1835.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included a child, name unrecorded, died at age 10 days in July 1836; Joseph III baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 3 months, in December 1837; Julien le jeune baptized at age 4 months in April 1840; Lucien born in July 1842; Arnold Demosthène in August 1851 but, called Demosthène, died at age 12 in September 1863; Alcide born in February 1857; a daughter, perhaps theirs, died in September 1861, age unrecorded; ...  Daughter ... married a Duhon cousin by 1870.  One of Joseph, fils's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Joseph III married Marie Aspasie, daughter of Pierre Lazare Dronet and his Acadian wife Marie Aspasie Broussard, at the Vermilionville church in May 1858.  Their children, born near Youngsville, included a daughter, perhaps theirs, died in September 1861, age unrecorded; Isidore born in December 1868; ... 

Dupuis

Michel Dupuis, born in c1637 perhaps at La Chaussée south of the middle Loire valley in the region of Loudun, France, married Marie, daughter of François Gautrot and his first wife Marie ____ and widow of _____ Potet, at Port-Royal in c1664.  Between 1665 and 1679, at Port-Royal, Marie gave Michel five children, three sons and two daughters.  Michel died at Port-Royal in the early 1700s.  One of his daughters married into the Flan family.  His sons married into the Landry and Richard families.  By 1755, Michel's descendants could be found at Annapolis Royal, Minas, Chignecto, and on Île St.-Jean.  Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this family even farther. 

The Acadians at Chignecto were the first to endure a disruption of their lives.  During the spring and summer of 1750, in response to the British building a fort at Beaubassin village, Canadian militia, assisted by Abbé Jean-Louis Le Loutre and his Mi'kmaq warriors, burned Acadian homesteads in the British-controlled area east of Rivière Missaguash, forcing the habitants there to move to the French-controlled area west of the river.  Dupuiss may have been among the refugees in this petit dérangement.  After yet another war erupted between Britain and France in 1754, the Chignecto Acadians were caught in the middle of it.  When British and New-English forces attacked Fort Beauséjour in June 1755, Chignecto Acadians served in the fort as militia.  They, too, along with the French troupes de la marine, became prisoners of war when the fort surrendered on June 16.  Lieutenant-Governor Charles Lawrence was so incensed to find so-called French Neutrals fighting with French regulars at Beauséjour he ordered his officers to deport the area Acadians to the southernmost seaboard colonies.  The Dupuis at Chignecto was not among them.  Evidently he and his wife escaped the roundup there later that summer and sought refuge in Canada.

The Dupuiss were hit especially hard when New-English forces rounded up hundreds of Acadians at Minas and Annapolis Royal that fall.  Dupuiss at Minas were deported to Massachusetts, Maryland, and Virginia.  Dupuiss at Annapolis ended up on transports destined for Massachusetts, Connecticut, and South Carolina.  The Dupuiss shipped to Virginia endured a fate worse than most of the other Acadians deported from Minas.  In mid-November, when five transports appeared unexpectedly at Hampton Roads, Virginia's governor Robert Dinwiddie protested their deportation to his colony without his consent.  Exiles died on the filthy, crowded ships anchored in Hampton Roads while the Virginia authorities pondered their fate.  As winter approached, the governor ordered Acadians from one vessel moved up to Richmond, two of the vessels were unloaded at Hampton, and two more at Norfolk.  Finally, in the spring of 1756, the governor, his council, and the colony's Burgesses made their decision ... the "papists" must go!  In May, the first shipment of Acadians in hired vessels left for England, and in two weeks all of them had gone--299 to Bristol, 250 to Falmouth, 340 to Southampton, and 336 to Liverpool--1,225 exiles in all by one count.  Their ordeal only worsened in the English ports, where they were held in warehouses and where many died of smallpox.  Dupuiss were held at Penryn near Falmouth and at Southampton. 

Some of the Dupuiss at Annapolis, like their cousin at Chignecto, escaped the British in 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  A Dupuis and members of his family, after spending a hard winter on the Fundy shore, crossed the bay to Chepoudy the following spring, made their way to the upper Petitcoudiac or the Acadian settlements on the lower St.-Jean, and, either via the St.-Jean portage or the Gulf of St. Lawrence, continued on to Canada.  The family head died at Québec in October 1757, age 60, victim, perhaps, of the smallpox epidemic that struck the Acadian refugees in and around the Canadian capital from the summer of 1757 to the spring of 1758.  Three of his sons and their families evidently had not followed their parents to Canada but remained on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, where they endured starvation, brutal winters, and British raiding parties.  By 1760, they had moved up to the French stronghold at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs. 

Living in territory controlled by France, the Dupuis family on Île St.-Jean escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived, however.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats rounded up most of the habitants on Île St.-Jean, Dupuiss among them.  Nine of them, including seven children, were placed aboard the deportation transport Tamerlane, which, along with 14 other transports, escorted by a Royal Navy frigate, left Port-La-Joye, Île St.-Jean, on November 4.  Debouching into the Mer Rouge, the flotilla headed for Louisbourg on Île Royale via the Gut of Canso.  No sooner had the flotilla entered the treacherous Gut than a storm drove two of the tranports aground.  The Tamerlane was one of them.  The ship was salvaged and repaired and joined its sister vessels in the shelter of Chédabouctou Bay later in the month.  On November 25, 12 of the transports, including the Tamerlane, set sail from Chédabouctou for ports in the south of England, where they would replenish their food and water before continuing on to their common destination, the Breton port of St.-Malo.  During the second week of December, the ships became separated, and three of them perished in a storm that struck them off the southwest coast of England.  Luckily for the Dupuiss, the Tamerlane survived the storm intact and was the first among the dozen transports that reached St.-Malo, on January 16.  Only six of the vessel's 56 passengers died at sea.  The Dupuiss were among the lucky ones--every member of the famliy survived the crossing that took the lives of hundreds of their fellow Acadians on the 12-ship convoy. They settled at Plouër-sur-Rance on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo, where another daughter was born to them in December 1761.  The family head died at nearby La Ville de la Moynnerie in March 1763, in his mid-40s.  His oldest son married at Plouër and settled in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer before returning to Plouër.  His wife, a fellow Acadian, gave him nine children there.  In 1773, he did not take his family to the interior of Poitou, nor did they join hundreds of fellow exiles in the lower Loire port of Nantes later in the decade.  They remained, instead, in the St.-Malo area.  His younger brothers, however, did not remain at St.-Malo or even in France.  In February 1769, they journeyed aboard Le Créole to Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  One of them died at nearby Île St.-Pierre that November, but the younger brother survived the ordeal.  The war long over, he made his way to New England and married a fellow Acadian at Boston, Massachusetts, in October, years after most of the exiles in New England had moved on to Canada or the French Antilles.  Meanwhile, in the spring of 1763, after prolonged negotiations between the French and British governments, the Acadians in England, including Dupuiss, were repatriated to France.  Most of the Dupuiss in England crossed to St.-Malo aboard La Dorothée and L'Ambition, which reached the Breton port in May, and settled near their island cousins at St.-Servan-sur-Mer and Plouër-sur-Rance.  Other Dupuiss from England landed at Morlaix in northwest Brittany.  None of the Dupuis families from England followed their fellow exiles to Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany.  One family from St.-Malo that had been repatriated from England did go to Poitou in 1773 but, after two years of effort, retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to Nantes.  In the early 1780s, when the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, at least nine Dupuiss at St.-Malo and Nantes agreed to take it, but their cousins at Morlaix chose to remain in France. 

In North America, Dupuiss from Annapolis and Minas who had escaped the British in the late 1750s and found refuge on the Gulf shore and Restigouche suffered more setbacks in the war against Britain.  A Dupuis married a Préjean from Annapolis Royal at Restigouche in June 1760.  After the fall of Québec in September 1759, the British gathered their forces to subdue the remaining French strongholds in New France, one of which was Restigouche, now a major Acadian refuge.  A British naval force from Louisbourg attacked the stronghold in late June 1760.  After a spirited fight in which Mi'kmaq warriors and Acadian militia helped defend the remote outpost and prevent its capture, the blue jackets returned to their base at Louisbourg.  Restigouche, however, was now cut off from the rest of New France.  The following October, after the fall of Montréal, another British naval force, this one from Québec, appeared at Restigouche to accept the garrison's, and the Acadians', surrender.  On 24 October 1860, on the eve of formal surrender, French officers compiled a list of 1,003 Acadians still at Restigouche.  No Dupuiss, not even the one just married there, were on it.  Nevertheless, during the following months, members of the family either surrrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and, like their fellow exiles who had surrendered at Restigouche, were held in prison compounds in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  British officials counted a Dupuis family at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, in 1762; and a related Dupuis family appeared on a French repatriation list at Fort Cumberland, formerly French Fort Beauséjour, at Chignecto, in August 1763. 

At war's end, Acadians being held in the seaboard colonies, theoretically, were free to go, but not until the British discerned their intentions.  Even then, colonial officials discouraged repatriation.  In Massachusetts, colonial officials had Dupuiss there in July 1760 and August 1761.  Two years later, in August 1763, at least seven Dupuis families appeared on French repatriation lists circulating in the Bay Colony.  That same year, in Connecticut, at least 10 Dupuis families were listed in that colony--perhaps the largest concentration of Dupuiss in the Acadian diaspora.  In July 1763, Dupuiss in Maryland appeared on a repatriation list at Port Tobacco on the lower Potomac.  Down in South Carolina, in August 1763, a widow and her 20-year-old Dupuis son were still languishing in that colony. 

Most of the Dupuiss held in the northern colonies chose to repatriate to Canada, where some of their kinsmen had gone as early as 1756.  Though now also a British possession, the far-northern province was populated largely by fellow French Catholics, many of them Acadian exiles.  So, in a colony nearly as old as Acadia, descendants of Michel Dupuis of La Chaussée and Port-Royal began the slow, inexorable process of becoming Canadiennes.  Especially after 1766, they could be found on the upper St. Lawrence at Bécancour, Nicolet, St.-Grégoire, Trois-Rivières, Repentigny, Contrecoeur, L'Assomption, St.-Jacques de l'Achigan, Rivière-du-Loup now Louiseville, St.-Philippe-de-La-Prairie, St.-Anicet, Châteauguay, Le Cèdres, and Montréal; at Laprairie and L'Acadie on the lower Richelieu; on the lower St. Lawrence at Kamouraska and L'Islet; on Rivière St.-Jean and at Memramcook in present-day western and eastern New Brunswick; and at Windsor, formerly Pigiguit, in Nova Scotia.  Typical of most, if not all, Acadian families, these Acadiennes of Canada lost touch with their Cadien cousins hundreds of miles away, and, until the Acadian reunions of the twentieth century, may even have forgotten the others existed.  

While the end-of-war treaty was being negotiated, French officials urged exiles in the seaboard colonies to resettle in St.-Dominique.  Although driven from North America by the Seven Years' War, the French were determined to hang on to what was left of their shrinking colonial empire.  A new naval base at Môle St.-Nicolas on the northwest end of the big island would protect the approaches to what was left of their possessions in the Caribbean basin and assist in the "war of vengeance" to come.  French officials saw the exiles as a ready source of labor not only for the naval contractors, but also for the colony's major planters, who hoped to supplement the work of their slaves.  To sweeten the deal, the French promised the Acadians land of their own if they came to the sugar colony.  And so by1764 Dupuiss from Connecticut and South Carolina followed hundreds of their fellow exiles to St.-Domingue.  French officials sent most of the Dupuiss not to the naval base but to the interior community of Mirebalais near Port-au-Prince to work on indigo and coffee plantations.  The experience for many of them there was short and tragic, so much so that, in the spring of 1767, a young Dupuis bachelor, accompanied by a niece and three nephews, one of them an infant, hooked up with the Acadian expedition aboard the ship Virgin, which left Baltimore, Maryland, in April, bound for New Orleans.  The ship lingered at Cap-Français for 17 days, giving the young Dupuiss an opportunity to cross the island to Cap-Français and escape what had befallen their loved ones back at Mirebalais.  The Virgin reached La Balize at the mouth of the Mississippi on July 12 and New Orleans on July 23, the same day the bachelor and his brother's children appear on a Spanish list of new arrivals.  However, despite the staggering death toll among members of the family during their first two years in the tropical colony, most chose to remain. 

Dupuiss being held in Nova Scotia at war's end faced a hard dilemma.  The Treaty of Paris of February 1763 stipulated in its Article IV that persons dispersed by the war had 18 months to return to their respective territories.  British authorities refused to allow any of the Acadian prisoners in the region to return to their former lands as proprietors.  If Acadians chose to remain in, or return to, Nova Scotia, they could live only in small family groups in previoulsy unsettled areas or work for low wages on former Acadian lands now owned by New-English "planters."  If they stayed, they must also take the hated oath of allegiance to the new British king, George III, without reservation.  They would also have to take the hated oath if they joined their many cousins in Canada or other parts of greater Acadia.  After all that they had suffered on the question of the oath, no self-respecting Acadian would consent to take it if it could be avoided.   Some Nova Scotia prisoners chose to relocate to Miquelon, a French-owned fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  Others considered going to French St.-Domingue, where exiles in the seaboard colonies, including Dupuiss, were going, or to the Illinois country, the west bank of which still belonged to France, or to lower Louisiana, which, thanks to British control of Canada, was the only route possible to the Illinois country for Acadian exiles.  Whatever their choice, many refused to remain under British rule.  So they gathered up their money and their few possessions and prepared to leave their homeland.  Of the 600 exiles who left Halifax in late 1764 and early 1765 bound for Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, at least four were Dupuiss. 

Meanwhile, the Dupuiss in Maryland endured life among Englishmen who, despite their colony's Catholic roots, did not care much for the French "papists" thrust upon them.  When word reached the Acadians there that the Spanish would welcome them in Louisiana, where some of their relatives had gone, they pooled their meager resources to charter ships that would take them to New Orleans.  Nearly 600 Maryland exiles took up the offer, including the Dupuiss.  Two large parties left Baltimore for New Orleans in June 1766 and April 1767 with six members of the family aboard.  Nine more Dupuiss left Port Tobacco in late December 1767 in a third expedition, this one led by the Breau brothers of Pigiguit.  They reached New Orleans the following February, nearly doubling the number of Dupuiss who had gone to the colony.

Dupuiss settled early in Acadia, and they were among the earliest Acadians to find refuge in Louisiana.  The first of them came to the colony from Halifax via French St.-Domingue in 1765.  A teenaged orphan from Annapolis Royal followed his widowed aunt to Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans, where he married a fellow Acadian.  Meanwhile, five of his cousins from Rivière-aux-Canards who had been exiled to Connecticut reached New Orleans from St.-Domingue in 1767, among the few Acadians who came to Louisiana directly from the Caribbean Basin.  They, too, settled on the Acadian Coast, at San Gabriel upriver from Cabahannocer.  During the antebellum period, some of them crossed the river and settled near Plaquemine in Iberville Parish or in West Baton Rouge Parish, and some resettled on lower Bayou Teche following the War of 1861-65.  Meanwhile, in early 1768, Minas Basin Dupuiss came to the colony from Port Tobacco, Maryland, as part of the large extended family led by the Breau brothers of Pigiguit.  Spanish governor Ulloa forced them to settle far upriver at Fort San Luìs de Natchez, across from a British outpost, but after Ulloa's ouster in a colonial revolt in October of that year, his successor, Governor-General Alejandro O'Reilly, let the Fort San Luìs Acadians settle where they wanted.  The Dupuiss chose to go to Ascension on the river between Cabahannocer and San Gabriel, now being called the Acadian Coast.  In 1785, three more Dupuis families reached the colony aboard two of the Seven Ships from France.  One family chose to go to the new Acadian community of Bayou des Écores in the New Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge, but after hurricanes devastated the community in the early 1790s they moved downriver to Manchac, south of Baton Rouge, joining their cousins already there.  Most of the Dupuiss from France, however, settled on upper Bayou Lafourche, creating a second center of family settlement.  Curiously, few Dupuiss on the upper Lafourche moved down bayou during the antebellum period, but when they did move south, during or soon after the War of 1861-65, they moved all the way down to the lower Atchafalaya or joined their cousins on lower Bayou Teche.  But long before these Dupuiss settled on the lower Teche, a western branch of the family already had been established farther up the bayou.  A Dupuis from Cabahannocer took his family to the upper Teche at the end of the colonial period and settled at Grande Pointe above today's Breaux Bridge.  In the following decades, the family was joined by cousins from St. Gabriel on the river, one of whom settled on the lower Teche near New Iberia, but he soon returned to the river.  His brothers, however, remained on the upper Teche, adding substantially to the Dupuiss already there.  During the late antebellum and early post-war periods, Dupuiss from the upper Teche moved farther out on the prairies, where they settled at Grand Coteau and Carencro near the boundary of Lafayette and St. Landry parishes; near Abbeville on the lower Vermilion; and on Bayou Plaquemine Brûlé and the Mermentau, even farther out on the prairies. 

By the late 1860s, then, descendants of Dupuiss from Halifax, St.-Domingue, Maryland, and France had settled in nearly every corner of South Louisiana.  Meanwhile, during the colonial and antebellum periods, non-Acadian Dupuis/Dupuys and individuals with similar-sounding surnames also settled in South Louisiana.  Some of them were Foreign Frenchmen from France and the Caribbean Basin who came to New Orleans throughout the antebellum period.  A few of these non-Acadian Dupuy/Dupuiss lived in Acadian communities, but most of them remained at New Orleans. 

Dozens of Dupuy/Dupuiss, both Acadian and non-Acadian, served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65. ...

In Louisiana, Dupuy is a common spelling for the family's name, especially east of the Atchafalaya Basin.  West of the Basin, members of the family tend to prefer Dupuis.  The family's name also is spelled Depui, Depuis, dePuy, Dupeuy, Dupiuy, Dupui, duPuis, Dupuit, and Dupuys in the Bayou State.  The Acadian family should not be confused with the similar-sounding Dupré family of South Louisiana, who lived in the same communities as the Dupuis/Dupuys and were French Canadians, French Creoles, and Foreign French, not Acadians.18

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Four Dupuiss--two daughters with their widowerd mother, a teenaged cousin, and a wife--reached New Orleans from Halifax via Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, in 1765.  They settled in the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer above New Orleans, a stretch of river soon to be dubbed the Acadian Coast.  The young cousin created a vigorous line there before taking his family to upper Bayou Teche at the end of the colonial period:

Joseph (c1751-1803) à Jean-Pierre à Pierre à Michel Dupuis

Joseph, only son of Justinien Dupuis and Anne Girouard, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1751/52, followed his parents into the exile, where they died, and into a prison compound in Nova Scotia, either Fort Edward at Pigiguit with his uncle Michel Dupuis, or Fort Cumberland at Chignecto with uncle Cyprien Dupuis.  In 1764-65, when Joseph was in his early teens, he followed his paternal aunt Anne Gaudet, widow of his uncle Michel, and two female first cousins to New Orleans.  He settled with them at Cabahannocer, where he married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Abraham Poirier and Marie-Josèphe Bourg, in February 1774.  Marie, born in greater Acadia, perhaps in exile, had come to Louisiana as a young orphan in 1765 and was living with an uncle at Cabahannocer when she married.  She and Joseph were still at Cabahannocer, living on the left, or east, bank of the river, in March 1779.  Two decades later, they crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to the Attakpas District, creating another center of Dupuis family settlement in the colony.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer, included Marie-Geneviève, called Geneviève, baptized, age unrecorded, in March 1775; Marie-Monique, called Marie, baptized, age unrecorded, in December 1776; Pierre baptized, age unrecorded, in December 1778; Céleste born in the late 1770s; Rosalie, also called Eulalie, baptized, age unrecorded, in 1781; Joseph, fils born in April 1789 but died at age 7 1/2 in October 1797; Michel born in October 1791; and Marie in January 1794--eight children, five daughters and three sons, between 1775 and 1794.  Joseph died probably at Grande Pointe on upper Bayou Teche in December 1803.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph died "at age 50 yrs."  He was in her early 50s.  Daughters Marie-Monique, Geneviève, Rosalie, and Céleste married into the Theriot, Guilbeau, and Landry families, three of them--Marie-Monique, Rosalie, and Céleste--to Theriots on the river and the prairies, and one of them, Céleste, married twice.  Two of Joseph's sons also married, one of them to a Theriot, and both settled on the Teche.  During the late antebellum and early post-war periods, some of Joseph's descendants remained on upper Bayou Teche, especially around Breaux Bridge, while others moved farther out into the prairies.

Oldest son Pierre married Rosalie-Monique, daughter of fellow Acadians Thomas Theriot and Agnès Daigre, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in February 1800, after his parents had moved to Attakapas.  Later in the decade, Pierre and Rosalie Monique joined his family at Grande Pointe on the upper Teche.  Their children, born on the river and the prairies, included Célestine, also called Célesie and Céleste, at Cabahannocer in January 1801; Élisée, a son, called Élisa by the recording priest, in June 1802; Henriette Hélène in April 1804 but, called Hélène, died at age 1 1/2 in August 1805; Alexandre born at Ascension in May 1807; twins Sylvestre and another son, name unrecorded, at Grande Pointe in May 1810, but the unnamed son died at birth; Pierre, fils born in June 1812 but died at age 3 in July 1815; Marie or Marguerite Uranie born in January 1815; twins Marie Doralise and Marie Roselie or Roseline in February 1817; and Joseph le jeune in February 1819 but died at age 18 months in October 1820--10 children, five daughters and five sons, including two sets of twins, between 1801 and 1819.  Pierre died at Grande Pointe in August 1833, age 55.  His succession, calling his wife Rosalie and mentioning seven of their children, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse the following month.  Daughters Célesie, Marie Roseline, Marie Doralise, and Marguerite Uranie married into the Cormier, Guilbeau, LeBlanc, and Guidry families.  Three of Pierre's sons also married and remained on the upper Teche.  Some of Pierre's grandsons settled in Lafayette Parish.  ~

Oldest son Élisée married, at age 20, cousin Céleste Célesie, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Charles Guilbeau and Céleste Dupuis of La Pointe, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in February 1823.  They settled at La Pointe on the upper Teche.  Their daughter Céleste Célesie was born there in August 1825.  The birth of their daughter led to wife Céleste's early death; she died "at her home at la pointe at age about 20 years" in September.  A succession, calling her Célezie, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in November 1825.  Élisée remarried to Mélanie, minor daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Breaux and Mathilde Broussard, at the St. Martinville church in February 1829.  They settled near Breaux Bridge and in Lafayette Parish.  Their children, born there, included Pierre Élisée in November 1829; Joseph in April 1831; Louis Théolin in November 1832; Silvanie or Sylvanie in August 1834; Théophile baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in June 1836 but died in August; Césaire born in August 1837; Léonard in December 1840; Adélaïde in November 1842; and Théodore in November 1848 but died at age 19 in September 1867 (his succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in April 1868)--10 children, three daughters and seven sons, by two wives, between 1825 and 1848.  Élisée died near Breaux Bridge in July 1849.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Élisée died "at age 50 yrs."  He was 47.  His successions, one of them naming his second wife, were filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in February 1850 and September 1851.  Wife Mélanie's succession, calling her husband Élysée, perhaps post-mortem, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in March 1853.  Daughter Silvanie, by his second wife, married into the Thibodeaux family by 1870.  Three of Élisée's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Pierre Élisée, by second wife Mélanie Breaux, married, at age 37, Lismène, daughter of Louis Colette and Odèle Quebedeaux, at the Breaux Bridge church in November 1866. ...

Élisée's second son Joseph, by second wife Mélanie Breaux, married cousin Marie Eméranthe, called Eméranthe, daughter of fellow Acadians Émilien Arceneaux and Céleste Breaux, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in March 1856.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Alcée near Breaux Bridge in December 1857; Désiré in Lafayette Parish in May 1868 but died at age 1 in July 1869; Joseph Théodore born in October 1870; ...

Élisée's sixth son Léonard, by second wife Mélanie Breaux, married Joséphine, another daughter of Émilien Arceneaux and Céleste Breaux, at the Vermilionville church in January 1866.  Their son Louis Théolin le jeune was born in Lafayette Parish in October 1866; ...

Pierre's second son Alexandre married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Urbain Semere and Éloise Guidry, at the St. Martinville church in May 1834.  They settled near Breaux Bridge.  Their children, born there, included Marie Uranie in March 1835; Alexandre, fils in September 1836; Marie Doralise in October 1838; Célanie in February 1841 but, called Marie Celigne, died at age 1 1/2 in August 1842; Julien born in February 1842 but died at age 13 1/2 (the recording priest said 14) and "buried in Breaux Bridge cemetery" in September 1855; Joassin or Joachim born in March 1845; and Marie in August 1849 but may have died at age 6 (the recording priest said 7) in September 1855--seven children, four daughters and three sons, between 1835 and 1849.  Alexandre, père died in St. Martin Parish in January 1852, age 44 (the recording priest said 45).  His succession, naming his wife, was not filed at the St. Martinville courthouse until May 1859.  Daughters ... married into the Guidry and Melançon families by 1870.  None of Alexandre's sons married by then. 

Pierre's third Sylvestre, a twin, married Henriette, daughter of Alexandre Thibeaux or Thibault and Élisabeth Agrety, at the St. Martinville church in July 1836.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Charles in June 1840 but died at age 2 in October 1842; Julie Felini or Féliciènne born in July 1842; Pierre in June 1845; Marie Félicia, called Félicia, in January 1848; Alexandre le jeune in September 1850 but died at age 11 months in August 1851; Marie Alzire born in December 1852; Joseph Adam in September 1856; Rosalie in August 1860; Élizabeth Marie in March 1863; ...  Daughters Julie and Félicia married into the Krentz and Thibodeaux families by 1870.  None of Sylvestre's sons married by then. 

Joseph's third and youngest son Michel married cousin Marie Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Poirier and Scholastique Babineaux of L'Anse, St. Martin Parish, at the St. Martinville church in April 1816.  They followed his family to Grande Pointe on upper Bayou Teche before moving to Lafayette Parish in the early or mid-1830s.  Their children, born at Grande Pointe, included Michel, fils in July 1817; Marie Azélie in October 1820; Alexandre le jeune in December 1822; Pierre Dolzé in December 1824; Joseph Estonville, Stanville, or Stenville in March 1828; Marguerite Céline in November 1830; Uranie baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 3 months, in March 1835; Célimen, a daughter, baptized at age 2 months in June 1838; and Philomène born in December 1843--nine children, four sons and five daughters, between 1817 and 1843.  Daughters ... married into the Blanchard and Thibodeaux families by 1870.  All of Michel's sons married by then and took their families farther out into the southwest prairies. 

Oldest son Michel, fils married fellow Acadian Marie Joséphine Trahan, place and date unrecorded.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Marie Clevens near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in January 1849; Joséphine in St. Martin Parish in March 1851; Joseph le jeune near Grand Coteau in December 1852; Marie Orelie near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in April 1855; Aglaé in Lafayette Parish  in February 1860; Athanase near Church Point, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in October 1866; ...  Daughter ... married into the Ravel family by 1870.  Neither of Michel, fils's sons married by then. 

Michel's second son Alexandre le jeune married fellow Acadian Marie Ordalise or Ordalie Blanchard, place and date unrecorded.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Ordalise near Grand Coteau in June 1852; Philomène in Lafayette Parish in March 1855; Marie Aglaé near Grand Coteau n October 1857; Joseph in Lafayette Parish in September 1860; Numa near Church Point in December 1868; ...  Daughter ... married into the Broussard family by 1870.  None of Alexandre le jeune's sons married by then. 

Michel's third son Pierre Dolzé married fellow Acadian Marie Louisiane, called Liza and Louise, Duhon in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in May 1858.  They settled even farther out on the prairies  Their children, born there, included Marie Mélasie in March 1860; Jean Baptiste "at Rivière Mentau," probably the Mermentau River, in November 1867; ... 

Michel's fourth and youngest son Joseph Estonville, Stanville, or Stenville married fellow Acadian Marguerite Eugénie Breaux in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in June 1861.  They settled near Church Point.  Their children, born there, included Marie Aséna in July 1863; Marie Osea in November 1863[sic]; ...

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An unmarried Dupuis from Minas, and perhaps her younger sister, reached New Orleans with the first contingent of Acadians from Maryland in September 1766 and followed their fellow exiles to Cabahannocer.  The older sister married a Melanson from Minas at Cabahanocer and remained.  The younger sister married a Dugas from Annapolis Royal and settled on the western prairies. 

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In July 1767, five Dupuiss--a young bachelor and four of his older brother's orphaned children, a niece and three nephews--came to New Orleans directly from French St.-Domingue with the help of their fellow exiles from Baltimore, Maryland, who came to the colony via Cap-Français aboard the Virgin.  After a brief respite in New Orleans, the Dupuis followed their fellow passengers to San Gabriel, a new settlement south of Bayou Manchac on what would be called the upper Acadian Coast.  Three new Dupuis family lines came of it.  In fact, most of the Dupuiss of the lower Mississippi Valley, and many on the western prairies, are descended from the uncle and two of his nephews.  The niece married into the Hébert family at San Gabriel:

Joseph (c1736-1781) à Martin à Michel Dupuis

Joseph, fourth son of Antoine Dupuis père and his second wife Marie-Josèphe Dugas and a twin, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1736, was, in his late teens, deported to one of the British seaboard colonies, most likely Connecticut, perhaps New York, in the fall of 1755.  In late 1763 or 1764, he followed other exiles in the seaboard colonies, including older brothers Antoine, fils and Simon-Pierre, to French St.-Domingue.  The French sent them to the interior community of Mirebalais near Port-au-Prince to work on indigo and coffee plantations.  After witnessing the deaths of his loved ones, including his two brothers and a sister-in-law, Joseph, still a bachelor, with three nephews and a niece, one still an infant, children of his now deceased brother Antoine, fils, emigrated directly from St.-Domingue to Spanish Louisiana, among the few Acadians to do so.  Spanish officials counted Joseph and his charges at New Orleans in July 1767.  After their respite in the city, they followed exiles from Maryland, with whom they had traveled from Cap-Français, to the new Acadian community of San Gabriel below Bayou Manchac.  Joseph, in his early 30s, married Anne-Marie, 24-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Hébert and Marguerite-Josèphe Melanson, at San Gabriel in March 1769; the marriage was recorded at nearby Pointe Coupée because San Gabriel did not yet have a church of its own.  Anne-Marie also was a native of Minas and had come to Louisiana with her family from Maryland in July 1767.  She and Joseph may have met on the leg of the voyage from Baltimore between Cap-Français and La Balize.  Their children, born at San Gabriel, included Joseph-Aubry, called Aubry, in c1771; Jean in January 1773; Anne-Mélanie, called Mélanie, in March 1775; Magloire baptized, age unrecorded, in May 1777; Hippolyte-Paul or Paul-Hippolyte, called Paulin, in January 17[7]9; and Hélène-Louise in July 1781--six children, four sons and two daughters, between 1771 and 1781.  Joseph died at San Gabriel in December 1781, in his mid-40s.  Anne-Marie remarried to a Brunneteau of Champagne, France, at San Gabriel in May 1785.  Her Dupuis daughters Mélanie and Hélène married into the Hamilton, Hébert, and Rinbaud families on the river.  Joseph's sons also married.  Some of his grandsons moved up to West Baton Rouge Parish, and another down to Ascension Parish, but most of them remained in Iberville Parish, either at St. Gabriel or across the river at Plaquemine.  Soon after the War of 1861-65, at least three of Joseph's descendants left the river and moved to Iberia Parish on lower Bayou Teche, joining their cousins already there.  Most of Joseph's descendants, like his daughters and all but one of his sons, married non-Acadians. 

Oldest son Joseph-Aubry, called Aubry, married Marie Clothilde, called Clothilde, daughter of Balthazar DeVillier, "captain of the Pointe Coupée Post," and Marie-Françoise Voisin of New Orleans, at San Gabriel in April 1792.  Their children, born there, included Marie, perhaps also called Emérite, in February 1793; Balthazar, also called Barthélémy, in January 1795; another Marie, perhaps also called Adeline, in August 1798; and Marie-Arthémise, called Arthémise, in August 1800.  At age 39, Aubry remarried to Eugénie, daughter of Louis Léonard and Marie Anne Dardennes and widow of Laurent Dupré, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in August 1810.  Their children, born at St. Gabriel, included Joseph Adolphe, called Adolphe, in July 1811; and Pierre Aubry in January 1814 but died at age 15 in August 1829 (unless he was the Aubry Dupuy who died near St. Gabriel in May 1830, age unrecorded)--six children, three daughters and three sons, by two wives, between 1793 and 1814.  Aubry died at St. Gabriel in May 1830, in his late 50s.  Daughters Emérite, Adeline, and Arthémise, by his first wife, married into the Rills, Black, and Orillion families.  Two of Aubry's sons also married and settled in Iberville Parish. 

Oldest son Balthazar, also called Barthélémy, from first wife Clothilde DeVillier, married Marie Caroline, called Caroline, daughter of Charles François Marrionneaux and Marie Jeanne Guiot, at the St. Gabriel church in May 1814.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Antoinette Familia, also called Marie Antoinette Pamela, in March 1815; Henriette Carmélite in c1816 but died at age 2 in September 1818; Marie Angélique born in January 1817; Guillaume or William Balthazar in August 1820; Marie Pamelie Irma or Ulma in December 1822 but, called Ulma, died at age 1 1/2 in September 1824; and Charles Oscar, called Oscar, born in February 1825.  Balthazar remarried to Marie Doralise, called Doralise, daughter of Louis Marrionneaux and Céleste Dardennes and cousin of his first wife, at the St. Gabriel church in September 1834.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Laura Céleste or Céleste Laura in October 1836; Octave in June 1838; Joseph Achille, called Achille, in February 1840; Albert in August 1841; Pauline Zulma in June 1843; Césaire in February 1845; Marie Octavie in November 1846; Eugène Lodry near Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, in February 1849; Marie Othela or Othilla in October 1850; Anthony Alvar in December 1853; Paul Despane in April 1852; and Marie Malvina in December 1857, when her father was in his early 60s--18 children, nine daughters and nine sons, by two wives, between 1815 and 1857.  Daughters Céleste Laura and Marie Othilla, by his first wife, married into the Lauve and Cropper families by 1870.  Three of Balthazar's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Guillaume or William Balthazar, by first wife Caroline Marrionneaux, married Marie Louise or Louise Marie Clothilde, daughter of Thomas Mille and his Acadian wife Marie Virginia Hébert, at the St. Gabriel church in April 1843.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Guillaume Oscar in February 1844; Joseph Omer or Homère Joseph in August 1845; and Thomas Balthazar born posthumously in early 1847 but died at age 4 months in May--three children, all sons, between 1844 and 1847.  William Balthazar died near St. Gabriel in December 1846, age 26.  One of his sons moved to lower Bayou Teche and married there by 1870. 

Second son Homère Joseph married Marie, daughter of Jules Blanchet and Caroline Ratier, at the New Iberia church, Iberia Parish, in February 1870. ...

Balthazar's second son Oscar, by first wife Caroline Marrionneaux, married Élodie, daughter of fellow Acadians Ursin Landry and Emerante Hébert, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in May 1850.  They settled downriver near Plaquemine, Iberville Parish.  Their children, born there, included Jacob Isaac in May 1853; Heleine Alice in December 1855; Paul Aaron in July 1860; and Charles Ignace in October 1862--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1853 and 1862.  None of Oscar's children married by 1870. 

Balthazar's third son Joseph Achille, by second wife Doralise Marrionneaux, married Pamela Aloysia, daughter of French Creole Jean Baptiste Hilaire Bergeron and his Acadian wife Amelina Landry, at the Brusly church in July 1869.  Daughter Mary Pamela Maud was born near Plaquemine in June 1870; ... 

Aubry's second son Joseph Adolphe, called Adolphe, from second wife Eugénie Leonard, married Uranie or Marie Domitille, called Domitille, daughter of Joseph Thomas Rills and Marianne Céleste Marrionneaux, at the St. Gabriel church in June 1835.  They must have married civilly years before.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Joseph Adolphe, fils in December 1832; Charles Émile, called Émile, in October 1834; Marie Eugénie in December 1836; Hermogène Rodolphe in March 1839; Césaire Théodore, called Théodore, in April 1841; Joseph Auby or Aubry le jeune in May 1843; Jean Louis Philogène in April 1845; Céleste Azéma Domitille in September 1847; Marie Cora in August 1849; Marie Rosa near Plaquemine in December 1851; and Mary Henrietta in October 1857--11 children, six sons and five daughters, between 1832 and 1857.  Daughter Marie Eugénie married a Marrionneaux cousin by 1870.  Four of Adolphe's sons also married by then.

Second son Charles Émile, called Émile, married cousin Marie Céleste, daughter of Daniel Holliday and Pauline Marrionneaux, at the Plaquemine church in June 1859.  They settled near Brusly, West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Céleste Edmond in May 1860; Francis Louisiana in June 1861; Joseph Adolphe in May 1866; ... 

Adolphe's third son Hermogène Rodolphe married Hellen H., daughter of Sébastien U. D. Schlatre and Anne E. Wright, at the Plaquemine church, Iberville Parish, in June 1868. ...

Adolphe's fourth son Césaire Théodore, called Théodore, married cousin Marie Zulma, called Zulma, another daughter of Daniel Holliday and Pauline Marrionneaux, at the Plaquemine church in April 1865.  Their son Daniel Théodore was born near Plaquemine in October 1866; ...

Adolphe's fifth son Joseph Aubry le jeune married Mary Isabella Pardo, place and date unrecorded.  Their son Joseph Aubry, fils was born near Plaquemine in December 1867; ... 

Joseph's second son Jean married Marie Marine, called Marine, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Clouâtre and Madeleine Boudreaux and widow of ____, at San Gabriel in September 1797.  Their children, born there, included Marguerite, also called Marguerite Pauline, in September 1798; Joseph le jeune, also called Pierre Joseph, baptized, age unrecorded, in December 1800; and Marie Caroline, called Caroline, in c1801 or 1802--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1798 and 1802.  Jean died at San Gabriel in April 1802, age 28.  Daughters Caroline and Marguerite Pauline married into the Blanchard, Dugas, and Roth families.  Jean's son also married on the river. 

Only son Joseph le jeune, also called Pierre Joseph, married Marie Sarasine, called Sarasine, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Orillion and his Creole wife Clothilde Marrionneaux, at the St. Gabriel church in December 1825.  They settled on the river near the boundary between Iberville and Ascension parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie Malvina in November 1826 but died the following July; Jean Israël born in June 1828 but, called Israël, died at age 5 in July 1833; Marie Éloie or Élodie, called Élodie, born in May 1830; Clothilde Lorenza or Laurenza in August 1832; Joseph Victor in April 1834 but, called Victor, died at age 14 (the recording priest said 15) in June 1848; Honoré Jean Joseph born in February 1836; Joseph in March 1838; Joseph Omère in March 1840; Marie Mélanie in August 1842; Matilda or Mathilda in December 1843; Céleste Olivia, called Olivia, in May 1846; and Pierre Voltaire, called Voltaire, in March 1848--a dozen children, six daughters and six sons, between 1826 and 1848.  Daughters Élodie, Laurenza, Marie Mélanie, Mathilda, and Olivia, married into the Landry, Breaux, Courte, Orillion, and Barbay families by 1870.  Two of Joseph le jeune's sons also married by then. 

Third son Honoré married Telvina, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles LeBlanc and his Creole wife Euphrasie Trosclair, at the St. Gabriel church in November 1860.  They settled near Plaquemine, across the river from St. Gabriel.  Their children, born there, included Marie Adonia in September 1861 but, called Adonia, died near Plaquemine at age 3 1/2 in April 1865; and Marie Rose born in February 1863.  Honoré may have remarried to French Creole Nancy Marrionneaux, place and date unrecorded.  Their son William was born near Plaquemine in December 1866; ... 

Joseph le jeune's sixth and youngest son Voltaire married Amanda, daughter of Jean Baptiste Bajon and Elvina Frederich, at the Plaquemine church in February 1869.  Daughter Marie Evélina was born near Plaquemine in November 1869; ...

Joseph's third son Magloire married Henriette, daughter of Jean Serrette and Anne Sigur, at San Gabriel in June 1801.  Their children, born on the river, included Anne-Virginie, perhaps also called Azélie, in July 1802; Félice, perhaps also called Azélie, in December 1803; Magloire, fils in April 1805 but a St. Gabriel church record insists that he died in December 1824, age 20 (he would have been age 19 at the time and was still very much alive when he married several years later); Jeanne Senbin, Zerbine, or Zetbinne born in June 1807; Édouard in October 1809; Adolphe Arsène in July 1812; Henriette Cécile, perhaps also called Coralie, in November 1815; and Amélie in October 1818--at least eight children, five daughters and three sons, between 1802 and 1818.  Daughters Azélie, Zetbinne, and Coralie married into the Labauve, Landry, and Comeaux families.  Magloire, père's sons also married.

Oldest son Magloire, fils married Eugénie, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Hébert and Marguerite Gautreaux of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in January 1827.  Their children, born probably in West Baton Rouge Parish, included Marie Emmelice in December 1827; Marguerite baptized at the Baton Rouge church, age 3 months, in March 1832; Gertrude Ernestine born in June 1834; Magloire III in February 1836; and Esther in January 1837--five children, four daughters and a son, between 1827 and 1837.  Daughters Gertrude Ernestine, ... married into the Babin, Hébert, and Lejeune families, and perhaps into the Bolsineur family as well, by 1870.  Magloire, fils's son did not marry by then. 

Magloire, père's second son Édouard married Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand Landry and Marie Marthe Hébert, at the Baton Rouge church in March 1834.  Their children, born probably in West Baton Rouge Parish, included Édouard, fils in February 1835 but died at age 16 1/2 "in presence of Paul Ferbos and William Whellie" near Brusly in November 1851; Marie Delia or Dillia born in January 1837; Marie Amelion baptized at the Baton Rouge church, age 5 months, in June 1839; and Oscar born in December 1842--four children, two sons and two daughters, between 1835 and 1842.  Daughter Marie Dillia married into the Bauer family by 1870.  One of Édouard's sons also married by then. 

Second son Oscar, called P. Oscar by the recording priest, married cousin Madeleine Zoé, daughter of fellow Acadians Valière Landry and Marie Adèle Landry, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in June 1866.  Daughter Adèle Othela was born there in January 1868; ...

Magloire, père's third and youngest son Adolphe Arsène married Eléonore, called Léonore and Léontine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Babin and Marine Hébert, at the Baton Rouge church in June 1835.  They settled near Brusly.  Their children, born there, included Léon Adolph or Adolphe in May 1837; Jules in August 1839; Adolphine baptized, age unrecorded, in October 1841; Marie Zoé, called Zoé, in c1843; Anne Amanda, called Amanda, born in October 1847; Marine in January 1850 but, called Anne Marine, died at age 2 1/2 (the recording priest at Brusly, who gave no parents' names, said 1 1/2) in June 1852; Henriette Coralie born in August 1852; Julie Amélie in November 1854; and twins Jean Fenelon and Joseph Odillon in January 1857, but both boys died the following April, evidently on the same day--10 children, four sons and six daughters, including a set of twins, between 1837 and 1857.  Daughters Adolphine, Zoé, and Amanda married into the Crochet, Hébert, Possner, and Peyronnin families by 1870, one of them, Adolphine, twice.  None of Adolphe Arsène's sons married by then. 

Joseph's fourth and youngest son Hippolyte-Paul or Paul-Hippolyte, called Paul and Paulin, married Marie Madeleine, called Madeleine and also Marguerite, daughter of Jacques Schlatre and Barbara Kleinpeter, at San Gabriel in January 1800.  Their children, born there, included Marie-Éloise or -Héloise, called Héloise, in December 1801; Paulin, fils in April 1804; Louis Faustin, called Faustin, in June 1806; Marie Apollonie dite Pauline in November 1808; Marie Honoré in January 1811; Esther in May 1813; Joseph Valsin or Valsin Joseph, in November 1815; Adèle, also called Estelle, in the late 1810s; Marie Clarisse in April 1818; Pierre Valéry in August 1820; and an unnamed daughter in c1822 but died at age 1 1/2 in December 1823--11 children, six daughters and five sons, between 1801 and 1822.  Daughters Héloise, Pauline, Estelle, and Marie Clarisse married into the Flognes or Folgny, Mille, Godberry or Goldberry, and Hébert families.  (Daughter Pauline, her husband Pierre Thomas Mille, their son Homer, his wife, and a grandchild died in the hurricane that destroyed Île Dernière off the coast of Terrebonne Parish in August 1856; only Pauline's daughter Emma survived.)  Three of Paul's sons also married by 1870. 

Oldest son Paulin, fils married Marie Victoire or Victorine Marrionneaux probably at St. Gabriel in the early 1830s.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included an infant, name and age unrecorded, died in March 1835; Amilcar born in August 1837; Norbert Roselius in May 1839; Arvilien or Aureillien in July 1842; Maria Victoria, called Victoria, in January 1844; Valière Pierre in May 1846; Arther near Plaquemine in January 1849; and Ophelia in June 1851--eight children, at least five sons and two daughters, between 1835 and 1851.  Daughter Victoria married into the Landry and Orillion families by 1870.  Three of Paulin, fils's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Amilcar married Euphémie Henrietta, daughter of Joseph Kleinpeter and Caroline Dardenne, at the Plaquemine church in May 1858.  Did they have any children? 

Paul, fils's second Norbert Roselius married Laura or Laure Euphémie or Stephanie, daughter of Charles N. Bruslé and Euphémie Rils, at the Plaquemine church in April 1861.  Their children, born near Plaquemine, included Paul Amilda in August 1862; Paulin Roselius in October 1864; Charles Nicholas Bruslé in March 1868; ... 

Paul, fils's third son Arvilien, called Aurellien by the recording priest, married Harriet, daughter of John Schlatre and Nancy Dodd, at the Plaquemine church in April 1869.  Their son William was born near Plaquemine in April 1870;  ...

Paulin, père's second son Louis Faustin, called Faustin and L. Faustin, married Marie Honorine, called Honorine, daughter of Jacques DeVillier or Villiers and Isabelle Frachebois, at the St. Gabriel church in June 1835.  They evidently had married, perhaps civilly, before that date.  They settled near Plaquemine on the west side of the river.  Their children, born there, included Marie Esdon in March 1832 but died at age 1 in March 1833; Louise[sic] Omer, probably a son whose first name was Louis, born in December 1834 but, called Omer, died at age 6 1/2 (the recording priest said "age 5 or 6 yrs.") in March 1841; Estelle born in August 1837 but, called Marie Estelle, died at age 4 1/2 (the recording priest said 5) in November 1841; Louis Alcé or Alcée Louis born in January 1841; and Paul Adonis in February 1847--five children, two daughters and three sons, between 1832 and 1847.  Faustin's daughters did not survive childhood, but his remaining sons married and settled on the river but moved to lower Bayou Teche soon after the War of 1861-65. 

Second son Alcée Louis, called Alcée L. by the recording priest, married Élisabeth, daughter of Jean Schlatre and Nancy Dodd, at the Plaquemine church in January 1867.  Soon after their marriage, they moved to lower Bayou Teche.  Their son William Louis was born near New Iberia, Iberia Parish, in May 1869; ... 

Faustin's third and youngest son Paul Adonis followed his older brother to lower Bayou Teche and married Julia, daughter of François Mestayer and Euphèmie Ida Meyer, at the New Iberia church in May 1869.  Their son Paul Adonis, fils was born near New Iberia in March 1870; ...

Paulin, père's third son Joseph Valsin or Valsin Joseph married first cousin Hélène, or Ellen, daughter of Joseph Schlatre and Catherine Kalk, at the St. Gabriel church in February 1846; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Paul le jeune in January 1848; Mary Alexina near Plaquemine on the west side of the river in January 1853 but, called Marie Alexina, died there at age 7 1/2 (the recording priest said 8) in October 1860; Mary Ella born in March 1856; Marie Lilienne in June 1860; Emma Cécilia in January 1862; William Morgan in c1864 and baptized at the Plaquemine church, age 3, in January 1867; ...  None of Valsin's children married by 1870.

Jean-Baptiste (c1752-1831) à Antoine à Martin à Michel Dupuis

Jean-Baptiste, called Baptiste, oldest surviving son of Antoine Dupuis, fils and Marguerite Boudrot, born probably at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1752, followed his family to Connecticut and Mirebalais, French St.-Domingue.  After an uncle, an aunt, and his parents died at Mirebalais in 1764 and 1765, Jean-Baptiste and three of his siblings followed his uncle Joseph Dupuis to Spanish Louisiana.  Spanish officials counted them at New Orleans in July 1767, soon after which Jean-Baptiste and his siblings followed his uncle Joseph to San Gabriel on the Acadian Coast.  Jean-Baptiste married Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexis Benoit and Marie Comeau, at nearby Ascension in February 1775.  Élisabeth, a native of Boston, Massachusetts, came to Louisiana with a younger sister probably in the 1760s from St.-Domingue; her marriage record, in fact, was Élisabeth's first appearance in Louisiana records.  She and Baptiste settled at San Gabriel, where the 1767 exiles from Maryland had gone.  Spanish officials counted them near his uncle and a younger brother on the "left bank ascending," or west bank, of the river there in March 1777, but Baptiste and Élisabeth did not remain.  They were living at Attakapas west of the Atchafalaya Basin, near her sister Anne and her Broussard husband, in the early 1780s.  Their children, born at San Gabriel and on the prairies, included Hippolyte-Joachim in c1775; Julie in July 1777; Anne-Marie or -Marine, called Marine, in October 1778; Adélaïde baptized, age unrecorded, in April 1780; Anne-Marguerite born in March 1782; Jean-Baptiste, fils in June 1783 and baptized at Attakapas in October 1784; Benoît born in March 1786; another Benoît in March 1789; Éloi in June 1791; Élisabeth or Isabelle in January 1793; Dorothée in December 1794; Victor in September 1797; Marie-Adeline dite Deline in September 1799; and Alexis in October 1801--14 children, seven sons and seven daughters, between 1775 and 1801.  In his early 60s, Jean-Baptiste remarried to Marie Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Landry and Anne Theriot and widow of André Martín, at Baton Rouge in December 1816.  She gave him no more children.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish before joining some of his children in the Bayou Teche valley.  Baptiste died in St. Martin Parish in May 1831.  The recording priest, who called him "Jean Baptiste of Acadie," said he died at age 81.  He was in his late 70s.  His succession, naming his second wife, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse later that month.  Daughters Adélaïde, Julie, Marine, Élisabeth, and Deline, by his first wife, married into the Henry, Hébert, Blanchard, Labauve, Tullier, and Guidry families on the river and the prairies.  Four of Baptiste's sons also married and settled on the river and the prairies. 

Oldest son Hippolyte-Joachim, by first wife Élisabeth Benoit, married Anne-Marie-Josèphe-Adélaïde, called Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Doucet and Anne Comeaux, at San Gabriel in January 1800.  Their children, born there and on the Teche, included Jean-Baptiste le jeune at San Gabriel in April 1801 but died at age 1 in June 1802; Marie-Phelonise born in January 1803 but died at age 5 1/2 October 1808; Charles Maigne born in January 1805; Adélaïde Arthémise, called Arthémise, in August 1806 but died at age 2 1/2 in June 1809; Hippolyte, fils born in July 1808 but may have died in St. Martin Parish by March 1868, in his late 50s, when a succession in his name was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse; Maurice Drosin or Drausin, called Drausin, born in March 1810 but died near Breaux Bridge, age 53 (the recording priest said 45) in February 1863, and his succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse that month (one wonders if his death was war-related); Joachim born in March 1812 but died at age 14 months in July 1813; Léon born at St. Gabriel in February 1814; Marie Adveline at Grande Pointe in January 1816; another Adélaïde in March 1819; and Adolphe in August 1821--11 children, seven sons and four daughters, between 1801 and 1821.  As the birth records of his younger children reveal, by the mid-1810s, Hippolyte Joachim had taken his family to upper Bayou Teche and settled near his cousins.   He died at Grande Pointe in April 1824, age 47.  His succession, identifying his widow, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in June 1826.  Widow Marie Anne Adélaïde did not remarry and died in St. Martin Parish, age 78, in April 1853.  Daughters Marie Adveline and Adélaïde married into the Angelle and Patin families.  Three of Hippolyte Joachim's sons also married and remained on the upper Teche. 

Second son Charles Maigne married Célestine or Céleste, daughter of Onésime Patin and his Acadian wife Adélaïde Guidry, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in July 1831.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Désiré in June 1833; Célestine in February 1836; Marie Ernestine, called Ernestine, in September 1838; Stephalide or Cephaline in December 1840; Charles, fils in December 1845; and Euphémon near Breaux Bridge in November 1848--six children, three sons and three daughters, between 1833 and 1848.  Charles "from La Grande Pointe" died probably at his home near Breaux Bridge in March 1850, age 45 (the recording priest said 44).  His succession, calling his wife Célestine, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in April 1853.  Daughters Célestine, Cephaline, and Ernestine married into the Huval, Guidry, Comeaux, and Patin families by 1870, one of them, Célestine, twice.  One of Charles Maigne's sons also married by then. 

Third and youngest son Euphémon married Letitia, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Melançon, fils and Marie Olive Melançon, at the Breaux Bridge church, St. Martin Parish, in March 1870. ...

Hippolyte Joachim's sixth son Léon married Adélaïde, daughter of Joseph Angelle and Adélaïde Quebedeaux, at the St. Martinville church in July 1838; Léon's sister Marie Adveline married Adélaïde's brother Joseph.  Léon and Adélaïde settled near Breaux Bridge.  Their children, born there, included Léon, fils in May 1839; Arthémise in February 1843; Drausin le jeune in April 1847; Valérien in June 1849; Marie Azéline in March 1851; Célestine in January 1853; Marie Aspasie in February 1855; Ermogène baptized at the Breaux Bridge church, age 3 months, in October 1857; Moïse born in October 1859; Joel in October 1864; ...  Daughters ... married into the Guidry family, and perhaps into the Angelle family as well, by 1870.  One of Léon's son also married by then. 

Oldest son Léon, fils married Célestine, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Guidry, fils and Joséphine Thibodeaux and widow of ___ LeBlanc, at the Breaux Bridge church in December 1863.  Their children, born near Breaux Bridge, included Adélaïde in December 1861; Léon III in February 1870; ...

Hippolyte Joachim's seventh and youngest son Adolphe married Eugénie, daughter of Martin Sudrique and his Acadian wife Marie Rose Robichaux, at the St. Martinville church in November 1846.  They also settled near Breaux Bridge.  Their children, born there, included Adolphe, fils in September 1847; Adolphine in February 1850; Jean Baptiste Arthur in August 1852; Martin Rosembert in February 1856; Marie Laurenza in April 1858; Joseph Lucius Beauregard in June 1861; ...  None of Adolphe's children married by 1870. 

Baptiste's fifth son Éloi, by first wife Élisabeth Benoit, married Henriette Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Hébert and Marguerite Gautreaux, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in April 1817.  Unlike two of his brothers, Éloi remained on the river, near Brusly in West Baton Rouge Parish.  His children, born on the river, included Euphémie in September 1817; Eurasie Marie, perhaps also called Virgine, in October 1818; Rosalie in October 1821; Éloi, fils, also called Hippolyte Éloi, in June 1823; Marguerite Henriette or Henriette Marguerite in May 1825; Ferreole, a son, in September 1826; and Édouard in the late 1830s or early 1840s--seven children, four daughters and three sons, between 1817 and the late 1830s.  Daughters Euphémie, Henriette Marguerite, and Eurasie married into the Serrette and McDenmit families, and perhaps into the Labauve family as well.  Éloi's three sons also married and settled on the river. 

Oldest son Éloi, fils married first cousin Marie Edilia, called Edilia, daughter of fellow Acadians Hippolyte Hébert and Céleste Doiron, at the Brusly church in January 1851; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born near Brusly, included Éloy Armond in October 1852; Hippolyte Victor in October 1854; Madius Louis Divigno in October 1855; Marie Albertine in May 1857; Célestine Henriette Lidia in September 1858; Pierre Alexis in February 1861; ...  None of Éloi, fils's children married by 1870. 

Élois, père's second son Ferreole married Marie Adèle, called Adèle, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexis Longuépée and Hortense Comeaux, at the Brusly church in May 1855.  Their children, born near Brusly, included Zulmie in September 1856; Aimé in December 1859; Oscar in June 1861; ...  None of Ferreole's children married by 1870. 

Élois, père's third and youngest son Édouard married Marie Jeanne, daughter of Patton W. Hunt and Melinda Adams, at the Brusly church in April 1857.  Their children, born near Brusly, included Marie Victoria in March 1858; Émile in February 1860; ... 

Baptiste's sixth son Victor, by first wife Élisabeth Benoit, married Modeste Aimée, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles LeBlanc and Marie Aimée Blanchard, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in September 1824, but the wedding took place probably in West Baton Rouge Parish, where Victor's parents lived at the time.  Victor and Modeste followed his brothers to Bayou Teche, but not all of his family remained there.  Members of the family were living near St. Gabriel in the mid-1840s and near Brusly later in the decade.  Victor and Modeste's children, born on the prairies and the river, included Victorin in St. Martin Parish in February 1826 but died near Brusly at age 27 (the recording priest said 22) in September 1853; Vincent born in St. Martin Parish in January 1828; Victorine in late 1829 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 5 1/2 months, in April 1830; Séverine born in St. Martin Parish in October 1831; Pauline Victoire near Baton Rouge in June 1835; Suzanne near New Iberia, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in September 1837; Martin in November 1839; Charles in Lafayette Parish in March 1842; Élisabeth near St. Gabriel in January 1845; and Henriette near Brusly in May 1847--10 children, four sons and six daughters, between 1826 and 1847.  Daughters ... married into the Barbay and Wiley families, one of them at Abbeville on the lower Vermilion, by 1870.  One of Victor's sons also married by then, on the river. 

Victor's second son Vincent married Marie Constance, called Constance, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Breaux and his Creole wife Jeanne Louise Tullier, at the Brusly church in September 1848.  Their children, born near Brusly, included Émée Ermina in February 1850; Constance Ophelia in September 1851; and François Anaclet in July 1853--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1850 and 1853.  None of Vincent's children married by 1870. 

Baptiste's seventh and youngest son Alexis, by first wife Élisabeth Benoit, married his stepsister Marie Cléonise, daughter of Isleño André Martín and his Acadian wife Marie Anne Landry of Baton Rouge, at the St. Martinville church in August 1825; Marie's mother had remarried to Alexis's father at Baton Rouge in December 1816.  Alexis and Marie settled on Bayou Teche near his older brothers.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Marie Irma in August 1826; Théodore late in 1829 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 8 months, in May 1830; Appolline born in January 1830[sic, probably 1831]; Charles Alexis in December 1832; Célestine in February 1835; and Joseph Cléopha in May 1838--six children, three daughters and three sons, between 1826 and 1838.  Daughters Célestine, ... married into the Conner, Bize, and Gisclard families, and perhaps into the Dartes and Gaspard families as well.  Alexis's three sons also married.  One of them and several of his daughters moved farther out on the prairies to the Abbeville area on the lower Vermilion.  His other sons remained on the upper Teche. 

Oldest son Théodore married fellow Acadian Doralise Broussard, place and date unrecorded.  Daughter Marie Adile was born in St. Martin Parish in January 1852.  Did they have anymore children? 

Alexis's second son Charles Alexis married Agathe, daughter of François Carneaux, perhaps Conner, and Virginie Marceau, at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in November 1856.  Their children, born near Abbeville, included Alexis in April 1858; François in April 1860; Éloi in December 1861; Jean Baptiste in c1863 but died at age 2 1/2 in March 1866; Joseph born in April 1866; Agathophile in December 1870; ...

Alexis's third and youngest son Joseph Cléopha married Féliciènne, daughter of Dupré Patin and his Acadian wife Matilde Breaux, at the Breaux Bridge church in January 1869. ...

Baptiste's sixth daughter Dorothée, at age 23, gave birth to Marguerite Adeline, a "natural" daughter, in Assumption Parish on upper Bayou Lafourche in May 1817; the Plattenville priest who recorded the baptism did not give the girl's father's name.  A few years later, Dorothée, now in her late 20s, gave birth to another "natural" daughter, Harmelise or Armelise, who was baptized at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, age 3 months, in June 1821; again, the recording priest did not give the father's name.  Did Dorothée marry like most of her sisters? 

Simon-Joseph (c1754-1814) à Antoine à Martin à Michel Dupuis

Simon-Joseph, second son of Antoine Dupuis, fils and Marguerite Boudrot, born probably at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1754, followed his family to Connecticut and Mirebalais, French St.-Domingue, and his uncle and siblings to Spanish Louisiana when he was still a child.  He settled with them at San Gabriel and was still there in January 1777, living with them on the west bank of the river.  He married, in his early 20s, Marie-Louise-Ludivine or -Divine, called Ludivine, daughter of fellow Acadians Mathurin Landry and his first wife Marie Babin, at nearby Ascension in October 1778 but settled at San Gabriel.  Their children, born there, included Marcel in July 1779; Anne-Marie or Marine, called Marine, in the early 1780s; Marie Euphrosine, called Euphrosine, in the early 1780s; Simon, fils in May 1783; twins Geneviève and Joseph-Gédéon, called Gédéon, in February 1785; Pierre in December 1786; Henriette in August 1788; Charles in April 1790; Jean-Baptiste le jeune in August 1791; Antoine in May 1793; and twins Édouard and Marguerite in February 1795--13 children, eight sons and five daughters, including two sets of twins, between 1779 and 1795.  Simon Joseph died at St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in October 1814, age 60.  Daughters Marine, Euphrosine, Henriette, Geneviève, and Marguerite married into the Richard, Breaux, LeBlanc, Chiasson, Delaune, and Blanchard families.  Simon Joseph's eight sons also married on the river, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Marcel married cousin Marie Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph LeBlanc and Marguerite Landry, at St. Gabriel in June 1806.  Their children, born there, included Marie Dordille or Fortille, called Fortille, in April 1807; Marie Derosile in May 1808 but died the following October; a child, name unrecorded, died at age 3 months in November 1811; and Marguerite Ludivine born in July 1814--four children, at least three daughters, between 1807 and 1814.  Marcel died near St. Gabriel in March 1839, age 59 (the recording priest said 60).  Daughters Fortille and Marguerite Ludivine married into the Daigle and Scott families.  Marcel and his wife seem to have had no sons, at least none who survived childhood, so this line of the family, except for its blood, died with him.  

Simon Joseph's second son Simon, fils married cousin Marie Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Breaux and Marie Perpétué Landry of Iberville Parish, at the Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, in August 1810.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Simon III in July 1811; Trasimond in October 1814; and Marie Laurence in July 1816 but died at age 3 in August 1819--three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1811 and 1815.  Simon, fils died near St. Gabriel in November 1818, age 35.  One of his sons married and remained on the river. 

Simon, fils's younger son Trasimond married Adeline or Adveline, daughter of fellow Acadians Senateur Babin and Élise LeBlanc and widow of Luc Lessassier, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in February 1848.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Thomas Bowling Robertson in December 1848; Joseph P. died 13 days after his birth in February 1851; and Mary born in July 1852--three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1848 and 1852.  Neither of Trasimond's surviving children married by 1870. 

Simon Joseph's third son Joseph Gédéon, called Gédéon, a twin, married, at age 30, cousin Marie Eugénie, called Eugénie, daughter of fellow Acadians Guillaume Raphaël Landry and Marie Madeleine Breaux, at the St. Gabriel church in June 1814.  Their son Joseph Duhamel, called Duhamel, was born near St. Gabriel in September 1815.  Gédéon, at age 35, remarried to cousin Susanne Mathilde, called Mathilde, daughter of fellow Acadians Hippolyte Landry and Marguerite Richard, at the St. Gabriel church in April 1820.  Their children, born at St. Gabriel, included Marguerite Ludevine in April 1821 but died the following September; an unnamed newborn died in May 1822; Octave Gédéon or Gédéon Octave born in July 1823; and Mathilde in July 1825 but died the following January.  Gédéon, at age 44, remarried again--his third marriage--to cousin Marie Telcide, called Telcide, daughter of fellow Acadians Senateur Babin and Élise LeBlanc, at the St. Gabriel church in February 1829.  Their children, born at St. Gabriel, included Marie Ludivine Estephanie in December 1829; a daughter, name and age unrecorded, died in October 1833; Marie Stephanie, called Stephanie, born in November 1832 but died at age 4 1/2 in August 1837; Marie Amelie born in November 1834; Marie Ludioine in November 1836; Marie Élisabeth in August 1839; Joseph Trasimond in August 1844; and Marie Adeline in May 1846--13 children, at least three sons and nine daughters, by three wives, between 1815 and 1846.  Joseph Gédéon, called Gédéon, died near St. Gabriel in March 1848, age 63.  Daughters Marie Elizabeth, ..., all by his third wife, married into the Bird, Joly, and Browne families by 1870.  Two of Gédéon's sons also married by then, but one of the lines did not endure. 

Oldest son Joseph Duhamel, called Duhamel, from first wife Eugénie Landry, married first cousin Sophie Honorine, called Honorine, daughter of Antoine Dupuis and Sophie Daigle, his uncle and aunt, at the St. Gabriel church in April 1838; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Joseph Félix in May 1840; Trasimond Ernest in November 1841; Eugénie Victorine in May 1843; Rose Sophie in December 1845 but, called Marie Rosa Sophie, died at age 1 1/2 in July 1847; Clara Ursule or Ursule Clara born in December 1847; Sophie Valentine in February 1850 but died at age 1 1/2 in May 1851; Joseph Gédéon le jeune born in May 1852 but died at age 10 months (the recording priest said 8 months) in March 1853; Joseph George born in February 1854 but, called Joseph Georges, died at age 9 months (the recording priest said 8 months) the following November; Marie Eve born in December 1855; Joseph Duhamel, fils in June 1858; Jean Adam in October 1862; ...  Daughter Ursule Clara married into the Bird family by 1870.  None of Duhamel's remaining sons married by then. 

Gédéon's second son Octave Gédéon or Gédéon Octave, by second wife Mathilde Landry, married Marie Virginie Aloysia, daughter of Constant Viel and his Acadian wife Marie Delaune, at the St. Gabriel church in September 1849.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Marie Stephanie in June 1849, three months before her parents' wedding; and Marie Octavie in August 1851 but died in October.  Gédéon Octave, called Octave Gédéon, died near St. Gabriel in September 1858, age 35.  Daughter Marie Stephanie married into the Levert family, so the blood of the line may have endured.

Simon Joseph's fourth son Pierre married Marie Héloise, called Héloise, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis François Daigle and Marie Rose Molaison of Baton Rouge, probably at St. Gabriel by 1811.  Their children, born at St. Gabriel, included Pierre, fils in August 1811; twins Héloise Oralline or Oreline, called Oreline, and an unnamed brother or sister in March 1820, but the unnamed twin died the day after his/her birth, and Oreline died in April; and Marie Héloise born in July 1821.  Pierre, at age 39, remarried to Marie Eugénie Carmélite, called Carmélite and Manette, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste LeBlanc and Anne Marguerite Foret, at the St. Gabriel church in April 1826.  Their children, born at St. Gabriel, included another Pierre, fils in August 1827 but died a day after his birth; Pierre Duval born in June 1828; yet another Pierre, fils in August 1831 but died at age 2 in September 1833; Marie Eugénie born in February 1832; and Télésphore in October 1832[sic]--nine children, at least three daughters and five sons, including a set of twins, by two wives, between 1811 and the early 1830s.  Second wife Héloise may have been the "Mrs. Pierre [Dupuy]" who died at St. Gabriel in July 1834.  Pierre, père died there in August 1835.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Pierre died at age 44.  He was 48.  None of his remaining children married by 1870.  

Simon Joseph's fifth son Charles married Marie Marcellite, called Marcellite, Émelie, Anne Marie, Marianne, and Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Antoine Blanchard and Marie Josèphe Hébert, at the St. Gabriel church in May 1812.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Marie Osite in May 1813; Marie Hélène in the early 1810s; Anne Marie in February 1815; Marie Orelly or Oraline in September 1818; Euphémie, also called Euphrosine and Euphrasine, in March 1820; Marie Mathilde in June 1822 but, called Matilde, died at age 1 1/2 in September 1823; Marie Clémentine, called Clémentine, born in December 1823; Virginie in June 1827; an infant, name and age unrecorded, died in August 1829; and Marie Armande Adeline born in January 1831 but, called Amanda, died at age 18 in Ascension Parish in March 1849--10 children, perhaps all daughters, between 1813 and 1831.  Charles, at age 52, remarried to cousin Claire Bathilde, called Bathilde, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Babin and Céleste Landry and widow of Sylvain Landry, at the Donaldsonville church in November 1842.  She evidently gave him no more children.  Charles died near St. Gabriel in December 1850, age 60.  His succession was filed at the Iberville Parish courthouse in November 1851.  Daughters Marie Hélène, Euphrosine, Marie Clémentine, and Virginie, by his first wife, married into the Breaux, Hébert, Broussard, Babin, and Colle families, and perhaps into the Lindsey family as well; one of them settled in Pointe Coupee.  Charles fathered no sons by either of his wives, at least none who survived infancy, so his line of the family, except for its blood, died with him. 

Simon Joseph's sixth son Jean Baptiste le jeune married Marie Henriette, called Henriette, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre LeBlanc and Marguerite Pélagie Breaux, at the St. Gabriel church in February 1810.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included twins Jean Baptiste Adrien, called Adrien, and Marie Henriette in January 1811, but Marie Henriette died at age 1 1/2 in September 1812; Marie Ludrivine born in October 1812 but died at age 10 months in August 1813; Marguerite Domitille, called Domitille, born in February 1814; Apollonie in c1814 or 1815 but died at age 5 in August 1819; Augustine born in March 1817 but died at age 4 1/2 in December 1821; David Archeval born in January 1819 but, called D'Archibalo, died at age 14 1/2 (the recording priest said 16) in June 1834; twins Marie Honorine and Ulma born in April 1821 but Marie Honorine may have died at age 10 1/2 (the recording priest at Convent, St. James Parish, who called her Honorine, said 8) in February 1832; a son, name unrecorded, born in c1822 but died at age 2 in September 1824; and Narcisse born in May 1823 but died the following October--11 children, five sons and six daughters, including two sets of twins, between 1811 and 1823.  Jean Baptiste died near St. Gabriel in May 1826, age 34.  Daughter Domitille married into the Achée family.  Only one of Jean Baptiste's sons married. 

Oldest son Jean Baptiste Adrien, called Adrien, a twin, married Marie Éloise, called Éloise, daughter of fellow Acadian Zéphirin Daigle and his Creole wife Marguerite Betancour and widow of François Deslors, at the St. Gabriel church in August 1842.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie Amanda in July 1843; Narcisse Godefroy or Godefroi in November 1845; Jean Amédée near Brusly in September 1847; and Philomène Adriènne in August 1852--four children, two daughters and two sons, between 1843 and 1852.  Daughter Marie Amanda married into the Tuillier family by 1870.  Neither of Adrien's sons married by then. 

Simon Joseph's seventh son Antoine married Sophie, another daughter of Louis François Daigle and Marie Rose Molaison of Baton Rouge, at the St. Gabriel church in October 1816; the marriage also was recorded at the Baton Rouge church.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Antoine, fils in July 1817; Jean Deregeie or Dugregey in August 1818; Sophie Honorine in February 1821; Eulodie, also called Marie Élodie, in June 1826; Ludivine dite Divine in July 1829; and Oscar Mathurin in November 1837--six children, three sons and three daughters, between 1817 and 1837.  Antoine died near St. Gabriel in November 1847, age 54 (the recording priest said 55), a widower.  Daughters Sophie Honorine, Marie Élodie, and Ludivine married into the Dupuy, Allain, and Grass families by 1870.  Two of Antoine's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Antoine, fils married, at age 30, Marie Palmyre, called Palmyre, daughter of fellow Acadians Abraham Hébert and Ludivine Landry, at the St. Gabriel church in November 1847.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Marie Elmire Félicie, called Félicie, in December 1848; Pierre Antonio in October 1850; François Julio in December 1852; Marie Malvina in January 1856; Marie Cécile Sophie in July 1858; Philomine in February 1861; Gabriel Heno in December 1863; Marie Laure in April 1866; ...  Daughter Félicie married into the Cropper family by 1870.  None of Antoine, fils's sons married by then. 

Antoine, père's second son Jean Dugregey married Marie Telcide, called Telcide, daughter of Alexis Poché and Carmélite Chenet, at the St. Gabriel church in September 1842.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Marie Alix in July 1845; Justin Numa in June 1847; Marie Carmélite in March 1849; Charles Antoine in February 1851; Fauster Audry in June 1853; Rosa Sosthema in August 1855; Marie Julia in September 1857; Louis Albert in October 1859; Paul Edwin in May 1863; ...  Daughter Marie Alix married into the Ellys family by 1870.  None of Jean Dugregey's sons married by then. 

Simon Joseph's eighth and youngest son Édouard, another twin, married cousin Angèle Delphine, called Delphine, another daughter of Guillaume Raphaël Landry and Marie Madeleine Breaux, at the St. Gabriel church in August 1817.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Jean Théodule Irène in June 1818 but, called Jean Irènee Théodule, died at age 23 in May 1842; and Joseph Edgard or Edgar born in December 1833.  Did they have anymore children?  One of Édouard's sons married. 

Younger son Joseph Edgard married Nezida or Nisida, daughter of fellow Acadians Eugène Breaux and Joséphine LeBlanc, at the St. Gabriel church in April 1855.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Dionis Théodule in April 1856; Joseph Edgard, fils in November 1857; Corine Marie in October 1859; George Gabriel in December 1861; ... 

Pierre (c1765-1781) à Antoine à Martin à Michel Dupuis

Pierre, third son of Antoine Dupuis, fils and Marguerite Boudrot, born probably at Mirebalais, French St.-Domingue, in c1765, followed his uncle and siblings to New Orleans in 1767 when he was still a toddler and settled with them at San Gabriel on the river.  Pierre probably was the 12-year-old unnamed orphan boy with brother Baptiste on the "left bank ascending," or west bank, of the river at San Gabriel in March 1777.  Pierre died there in January 1781, in his mid- or late teens, before he could marry. 

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In February 1768, nine more Dupuiss--two families, one led by a widow; a Dupuis widow; and a wife--came to Louisiana from Port Tobacco, Maryland, with the large extended family led by the Breau brothers of Pigiguit.  Despite their protests, Spanish governor Ulloa forced the party to settle at Fort San Luìs de Natchez, far from their kinsmen at Cabahannocer and San Gabriel.  Another Dupuis family line came of it, not at Natchez but on the Acadian Coast: 

Jean-Baptiste (1730-1768) à Martin à Michel Dupuis

Jean-Baptiste, fifth son of Germain Dupuis l'aîné and Marie Granger, born at Minas in August 1730, married cousin Anne, daughter of Jacques Richard and Anne Granger, probably at Minas in the late 1740s or early 1750s.  Anne gave Jean-Baptiste two children there:  Firmin born in c1752 or 1753; and Marie in c1755.  The British deported them to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  In July 1763, Jean-Baptiste, Anne, their son and daughter appeared on a French repatriation list at Port Tobacco on the lower Potomac.  Another daughter, Cécile, was born in c1764 probably at Port Tobacco soon after the listing.  Jean-Baptiste and Anne emigrated to Louisiana in 1767-68 with their son and two daughters.  In September 1768, six months after they reached the remote settlement at Fort San Luìs, Jean-Baptiste, age 38, died there of litroprisis (a form of dropsy).  In 1769, Spanish Governor Ulloa's successor, Governor-General Alejandro O'Reilly, allowed the Natchez Acadians to settle where they wanted.  Widow Anne Richard followed other exiles downriver to Ascension.  She did not remarry.  Her Dupuis daughters Marie and Cécile married into the Hébert, Part, Breaux, Richard, and Mecoler families on the river.  Anne and Jean-Baptiste's son also created his own family there.

Only son Firmin followed his family to Maryland, New Orleans, and Natchez and his widowed mother to Ascension.  He was still there with his mother and a sister on the left, or east, bank of the river in April 1777.  At age 38, Firmin married Marie-Josèphe, 19-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Jacques Theriot and Marguerite Richard, at Ascension in February 1790.  Marie-Josèphe, a native of St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo, France, came to Louisiana with her widowered father and four sisters in 1785.  Her and Firmin's children, born on the river, included Joseph-Firmin, perhaps also called Olivier-Joseph, in December 1790; Jean-Pierre, also called Jean-Noël and Noël, in February 1792; Marie-Rose in February 1793; Renée-Rosalie or Reine-Rose, also called Rosalie-Irène, baptized, age unrecorded, in March 1796; Marie-Céleste born in June 1802; Marie Henriette in c1804; and Valentin Valéry, called Valéry, in January 1805--seven children, three sons and four daughters, between 1790 and 1805.  Firmin died in Ascension Parish in October 1819.  The Donaldson priest who recorded the burial said that Firmin was age 74 when he died.  He was closer to 67.  Daughters Marie Rose, Marie Henriette, Reine Rose, and Marie Céleste married into the Breaux, Parent, and Duplessis families, three of them to Breauxs.  Firmin's three sons also married and settled on the river near the boundary between Ascension and Iberville parishes.  Only one of their lines endured. 

Oldest son Joseph Firmin, who also may have been called Olivier-Joseph, married Marie, daughter of Hanner Gailes and his Acadian wife Anne Adélaïde Hébert of Iberville Parish, at the Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, in August 1810.  Joseph may have died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in September 1850, age 60.  One wonders if he and his wife had any children, at least any who survived childhood.

Firmin's second son Jean Noël, called Noël, married Marie Clémence, called Clémence, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Breaux and Marie Perpétué Landry, at the Donaldson church in April 1820.  They settled on the river near the boundary between Iberville and Ascension parishes.  Their children, born there, included Caroline in c1821 but died at age 7 in July 1828; Marie Carmélite born in December 1822; Joseph Magloire in November 1824 but died at age 10 months in August 1825; and Joseph born in July 1826 but died at age 2 in August 1828--four children, two daughters and two sons, between 1821 and 1826.  Wife Clémence died in Ascension Parish in January 1827, age 29.  Jean Noël did not remarry.  He died near St. Gabriel in October 1853, age 61 (the recording priest said 60).  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, noted that Noël was "buried in a crypt of a large tomb (without wife or child)."  His remaining child, a daughter, did not marry by 1870, if she married at all, so his line of the family likely was buried with him. 

Firmin's third and youngest son Valentin Valéry, called Valéry, married Marie Hortense, called Hortense, daughter of fellow Acadians Donat Hébert and Marie Henriette Hébert, at the Donaldsonville church in May 1826.  They settled on the river near the boundary between Ascension and Iberville parishes, on the Ascension side, probably on the west bank.  Their children, born there, included Trasimond in April 1827; Firmin le jeune in December 1830; Valéry, fils died eight days after his birth in February 1832; Marie Amelina or Améline born in late 1833 and baptized at the Donaldsonville church, age 6 weeks, in January 1834; Marie Célestine born in February 1836; and Euphrasine or Euphroisine in December 1838--six children, three sons and three daughters, between 1827 and 1838.  Daughters Marie Amélie, Marie Célestine, and Euphroisine married into the Landry family by 1870.  Valéry's remaining sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Trasimond married Arthémise, daughter of Jacques Horsler and his Acadian wife Marie Hélène Hébert, at the St. Gabriel church in May 1848.  Their children, born on the river, included Aloysia in Iberville Parish in August 1850; Clément in Ascension Parish in May 1854; Pierre Clémile in December 1856; twins Margaritte and Marie Élena in July 1860; Joseph Sosthène in January 1863; and Amanda in March 1865.  Trasimond, at age 42, remarried to Amina, daughter of Drosin Loupe and Hortense Weber, at the Gonzales church, Ascension Parish, in September 1869.  Daughter Aloysia, by his first wife, married into the Landry family by 1870; ...  None of Trasimond's children married by 1870. 

Valéry's second son Firmin le jeune married Rosaline, daughter of fellow Acadian Olivier Breaux and his Creole wife Phillis Parent, at the St. Gabriel church in August 1847.  Their son Firmin Olivier was born near St. Gabriel in May 1848.  Did they have anymore children.  Their son did not marry by 1870.     

Pierre (c1750-1792) à Jean à Michel Dupuis

Pierre, only son of Jean-Baptiste Dupuis and Anne Breau, born probably at Minas in c1750, followed his family to Maryland.  He appeared on a repatriation list with his widowed mother and three sisters at Port Tobacco in July 1763, followed them to Louisiana in 1767-68, and settled with them at Fort San Luìs de Natchez.  After the Spanish let them resettle where they wanted, they moved downriver to Ascension on the lower Acadian Coast, where Spanish officials counted him and an older sister on the left, or east, bank of the river in August 1770.  He was still a bachelor and his mid-20s when a census taker found him at the same place in April 1777.  He died there in January 1792, age 42, a "young bachelor," as the recording priest desribed him.  

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In 1785, nine more Dupuiss--three families, two of them led by brothers; and three wives--came to the colony aboard two of the Seven Ships from France.  The first of them crossed on La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in mid-August.  They followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where one of the brothers created another center of Dupuis family settlement: 

Joseph (c1746-1807) à Martin à Michel Dupuis

Joseph, older son of Charles Dupuis and Marie-Madeleine Trahan, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1746, followed his family to Virginia, England, and St.-Malo, France.  He became a sailor and a journeyman in the Breton port.  He married Marie-Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Daigre and Angélique Doiron, at Plouër-sur-Rance on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo in February 1768.  She died at nearby Lizenais the following December, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth.  Joseph remarried to Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Landry and Élisabeth Aucoin, at Plouër in November 1771.  Marie gave Joseph a son, Pierre-Joseph, born there in October 1772, but the boy died at Lizenais, age 10 months, in August 1773.  Soon after their son's death, Joseph and his second wife, and perhaps his younger brother Étienne, followed other exiles in the St.-Malo area to the interior of Poitou.  Marie gave him a daughter there, Élisabeth, baptized in St.-Jacques Parish, Châtellerault, in May 1774.  In March 1776, after two years of effort, Joseph and his family retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes.  When Spanish officials counted the Acadians in France in September 1784, Joseph was a widower again, with a single child, daughter Élisabeth.  He and his daughter emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 and followed their fellow passengers, including younger brother Étienne, to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Joseph did not remarry again.  He died in Assumption Parish in November 1807, age 60.  Daughter Élisabeth married into the Bourg family on the upper Lafourche, so the blood of this family line endured. 

Étienne (c1749-1837) à Martin à Michel Dupuis

Étienne, younger son of Charles Dupuis and Marie-Madeleine Trahan, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1749, followed his family to Virginia, England, and St.-Malo, France, where he also became a sailor.  He likely followed his older brother Joseph to Poitou in 1773 and to Nantes in March 1776.  At age 35, Étienne married Marie-Osite, called Osite, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Dugas and his second wife Hélène Blanchard, at Chantenay near Nantes in November 1784.  They followed his brother to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  His fellow passengers aboard La Bergère chose Étienne as one of the five leaders of their expedition.  From New Orleans, he led his brother and most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  His and Osite's children, born there, included Marie baptized, age unrecorded, in February 1787; Étienne, fils baptized, age unrecorded, in March 1788; twins Jean and Joseph born in June 1790; Pierre in February 1792; Hélène in October 1793; Charles le jeune in August 1795; Rosalie in February 1798; Scholastique in July 1799; Angèlle, also called Angélique, in March 1801; Zéphirin-Étienne in c1803; and Firmin Félix in November 1805--a dozen children, five daughters and seven sons, including a set of twins, between 1787 and 1805.  Étienne died a widower in Assumption Parish in November 1837.  The Plattenville priest who recorded the burial said that Étienne was age 95 when he died.  He was closer to 88.  Only his line of the family survived on Bayou Lafourche, but it was a vigorous one.  Daughters Marie, Hélène, Angélique, Rosalie, and Scholastique married into the Aucoin, Bourg, Daigle, Suarez, and Preaux families.  Étienne's seven sons also married, but not all of the lines endured.  They remained in Assumption Parish, as did their sons, at least through the antebellum period.  During the War of 1861-65 or soon afterwards, a few of Étienne's grandsons and great-grandsons moved to the Brashear, now Morgan, City area on the lower Atchafalaya and to St. Mary and Iberia parishes on lower Bayou Teche, but most of his descendants remained in Assumption Parish. 

Oldest son Étienne, fils married Constance Élisabeth or Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Landry and Osite Landry, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in July 1808.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Élise Constance in May 1809; Marie Adeline, called Adeline, in May 1811 but died at age 24 in November 1835; Eugène Lucien born in November 1812; Marie Carmélite in February 1815; Madeleine Adélaïde, called Adélaïde, in May 1817; Rosémond in January 1819; Drosin Augustin in March 1821 but, called Drosin, died at age 26 in November 1847; twins Charles Joseph and Marie Angeline, born in August 1823, but Charles died the following February and Marie Angeline, called Angelina Marie, died the following December; Hélène born in the early 1820s; and Étienne Sylvanie born in December 1826 but died the following April--11 children, six daughters and five sons, including a set of twins, between 1809 and 1826.  Étienne, fils died in Assumption Parish in January 1827, age 39.  Daughters Adélaïde, Marie, and Hélène married into the Moïse, Landry, Giroir, and Bourg families.  Two of Étienne, fils's remaining sons also married. 

Oldest son Eugène Lucien married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Giroir and Élisabeth Landry, at the Plattenville church in August 1836.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Apollinaire Sarasin, also called Eugène, in July 1837 but died at age 1 in June 1838; Evariste born in November 1838; Moïse in c1839 or 1840 but died at age 12 in November 1852; Marie Justine born in September 1840; Élisabeth Laurenza in May 1842; Azéma in June 1843 but died at age 3 1/2 in September 1846; Adeline Eléonore born in November 1844; Joseph Clairville in November 1846; Robert in June 1850; Joseph died at age 8 days in January 1852; and Victor Alexandre born in July 1853--11 children, seven sons and four daughters, between 1837 and 1853.  Daughter Élisabeth married into the Barras family by 1870.  None of Eugène Lucien's sons married by then. 

Étienne, fils's second son Rosémond married Eulalie or Odalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Richard and Hortense LeBlanc, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1842.  Their children, born near Paincourtville, included Evariste Emelus, called Emelus, in May 1845; Léa or Eléa Marie in November 1845[sic]; Marie Eliska, called Eliska, in December 1847; Joseph Eugène Martial in December 1853; Marie Mathilde in March 1857; and Marie Élisabeth in February 1860--six children, two sons and four daughters, between 1845 and 1860.  Rosémond died near Paincourtville in February 1867, age 48 (the recording priest said 47).  Daughters Eliska and Eléa married into the Pintado and Hébert families by 1870.  One of Rosémond's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Emelus married cousin Pamelize, daughter of fellow Acadians Caliste Aucoin and Marcellite Bourg, at the Plattenville church in November 1867; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Daughter Odalie Valérie was born in Assumption Parish in January 1869; ...

Étienne, père's second son Jean, a twin, married cousin Rose Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Hébert and Marie Madeleine Dupuis of Iberville Parish, at the Plattenville church in January 1812.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Carmélite Rose in October 1812 but died at age 10 months in August 1813; Zéphirina Madeleine, also called Marie Madeleine Zépheline, born in July 1814; Emérante Rose in September 1816 but died at age 4 in October 1820; Charles born in December 1818; Gérarde Irène in August 1822; Guillaume Eugène in January 1825; Jean Baptiste, called Baptiste, in July 1827; Marie Zéolide Eugénie in November 1830, Arsènie or Arcélie in c1833; and Drausin in c1834--10 children, six daughters and four sons, between 1812 and the 1830s.  Jean died in Assumption Parish in February 1839, age 48 (the recording priest said 49).  Daughters Marie Madeleine Zépheline, Gérarde, and Arsènie married into the Aucoin, Bourg, and Dupuis families by 1870.  Three of Jean's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Charles may have, in his late 40s, married Marie Félicie or Félicité _____, place and date unrecorded.  Their children, born near Paincourtville, included Marie Mathilda in November 1865; George Ulysses in December 1867; ...

Jean's third Jean Baptiste, called Baptiste, married cousin Marie Joséphine, called Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Bourg and Angeline Dupuis, at the Plattenville church in January 1847; Jean Baptiste's sister Gérarde married Joséphine's brother Zéphirin.  Jean Baptiste and Joséphine's children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Eugène le jeune in October 1847 but died at age 8 in September 1855; Eugénie Angèlie born in April 1851 but, called Eugénie, died at age 4 1/2 in September 1855; Jean Baptiste Cyprien born in March 1854; Marie Odile in April 1857; Joséphine Victoria in June 1860; Joseph Oscar in September 1863; Justilien Calliste in October 1867; ...  None of Baptiste's children married by 1870. 

Jean's fourth and youngest son Drausin, in his early 30s, married cousin Élisa or Éliza, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Hébert and Scholastique Giroir, at the Plattenville church in January 1864; they had to secure a dispensation for fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born in Assumption Parish, included Marie Julie in October 1864; Reyne Onésiphore in November 1866; Hermiliane Alice in January 1869; Cécile Levigna in June 1870; ... 

Étienne, père's third son Joseph, Jean's twin, married Félicité, daughter of Pierre Montet and his Acadian wife Félicité Aucoin, at the Plattenville church in May 1813.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Carmélite, called Carmélite, in May 1814; Édouard Joseph in December 1815; Zéphirin Ermand, perhaps Armogène or Hermogène, in December 1817; Marie Adeline, called Adeline, in June 1820; Gédéon in November 1821 but died at age 2 in December 1823; Louis Joseph, also called Louis Omère, born in November 1824 but, called Louis, died near Paincourtville, age 30, in March 1855; Pierre Paule born in May 1827 but, called Pierre Paul, died near Paincourtville, age 30 (the recording priest said 34), in September 1857; Joseph Ferdinand born in February 1829; and Marie Élisabette, called Élisabette, in January 1831 but died at age 5 in February 1836--nine children, three daughters and six sons, between 1814 and 1831.  Joseph died in Assumption Parish in April 1834, age 43 (the recording priest said 45).  Daughters Carmélite and Adeline married into the Cedotal and Hernandez families by 1870.  Two of Joseph's sons also married by then.  After the War of 1861-65, a grandson and some of his granddaughters left upper Bayou Lafourche and resettled on lower Bayou Teche. 

Oldest son Édouard Joseph married, at age 48, Armeliza, daughter of fellow Acadians Constant Mathurin Theriot and Marie Doralise Arceneaux, at the Paincourtville church in April 1864.  One wonders why he waited so long to marry.  Their children, born near Paincourtville, included Doralize Félicité in January 1865; Marie Odillia in August 1866 but, called Marie Odilia, died the following January; ...

Joseph's second son Zéphirin Ermand, perhaps also called Armogène or Hermogène, likely was the Armogène Dupuis who married Irène, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Marie Barrilleaux and Madeleine Landry, at the Plattenville church in November 1840.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Azéma Joséphine in October 1841; Joseph Euzelien or Eusilien in October 1844; Euzelien Florentin in July 1847 but, called Uselien, died at age 14 1/2 (the recording priest said 12 1/2) in December 1861; Pierre le jeune born in December 1849; Bienvenu Armand in March 1852; Marie Félicité in September 1854; Louis Omère in June 1856; Paul Eléonore or Léonard in October 1858 but, called Léonard, died at age 11 months (the recording priest said 9 1/2) in September 1859; Ofelia Marie born in August 1861 but died at age 3 in July 1864; ...  Daughter ... married into the Friow or Irwin family on lower Bayou Teche by 1870.  One of Armogène's sons also married by then and settled on the lower Teche. 

Oldest son Joseph Eusilien married Augustine, another daughter of Constant Mathurin Theriot and Marie Doralise Arceneaux, at the Paincourtville church in January 1866.  They moved on to lower Bayou Teche.  Their son Zéphirin Constant was born near Lydia, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in November 1868; ... 

Étienne, père's fourth son Pierre married Rosalie Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Landry and Marie Madeleine Hébert, at the Plattenville church in July 1816.  They settled on Bayou Boeuf.  Their children, born there, included Marie Madeleine in April 1817; Louise Hélène in September 1818; Pierre Emérant, called Emérant, in March 1820; Euphrosine Gertrude in November 1821; Euphrosine Eleucade in March 1823 but, called Léocade, died at age 9 1/2 in August 1832; Basile born in June 1825 but died at age 9 (the recording priest said 10) in October 1834; Basilise born in December 1827[sic, probably 1826] but died at age 5 1/2 (the recording priest said 6) in August 1832; Zéphirin Firmin, called Firmin, born in January 1828[sic]; and Calixe or Caliste Ursin in December 1831--nine children, five daughters and four sons, between 1817 and 1831.  Pierre died in Assumption Parish in February 1834.  The Plattenville priest who recorded the burial said that Pierre was age 38 when he died.  He was 42.  Daughters ... married into the Bourg, Giroir, Hotel, and Landry families.  One of them settled in Terrebonne Parish.  Three of Pierre's sons also married and settled in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley. 

Oldest son Pierre Emérant, called Emérant, married Louise Juliènne, daughter of Auguste Jaurette or Joret and his Acadian wife Félonise Boudreaux, at the Plattenville church in August 1844; the marriage was registered also in St. Mary Parish.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Clovis Théophile, perhaps also called Télésphore, in February 1847; Malvina Célestine in September 1849; Ulalie in January 1854; and Julie in April 1855--four children, a son and three daughters, between 1847 and 1855.  None of Emérant's daughters married by 1870, but his son did and settled on lower Bayou Teche. 

Only son Télésphore married Elisa David, perhaps a fellow Acadian, at the New Iberia church, Iberia Parish, in December 1869. ... They remained on the lower Teche. 

Pierre's third son Zéphirin Firmin, called Firmin, married Honorine Honorée Jarret or Joret, probably Jaurette, perhaps a sister or cousin of his older brother Emérant's wife, by the early 1850s and settled in Assumption Parish before moving to the Brashear/Morgan City area on the lower Atchafalaya, St. Mary Parish, by the early 1860s.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche or the lower Atchafalaya, included Marie Cora perhaps near Brashear City in December 1861; Marie Palmire in November 1863; Pierre Augustin in Lafourche Parish in September 1866; Camille Horatio near Brashear City in July 1868; ...  Daughter Marie Cora married into the Church family at St. Andrew's church in Morgan City in November 1879, probably after her Protestant husband had converted to Catholicism. 

Pierre's fourth and youngest son Calixte or Caliste Ursin married first cousin Arsènie, Arcelie, or Aurelie, also called Marcelite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Dupuis and Rose Madeleine Hébert, his uncle and aunt, at the Plattenville church in May 1854; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity on their fathers' side and third degree of consanguinity on their mothers' side in order to marry.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Assumption and Lafourche parishes.  Their children, born there, included Alice Dorothée in February 1855 but died in July; Pierre Oleus born in April 1856; Adeline Florestine in August 1858; Odile in May 1861; Domitille Ernestine in May 1863[sic]; a son, name unrecorded, died in Assumption Parish at age 13 months in August 1864; a daughter, name and age unrecorded but called a "child," died in Assumption Parish in November 1864; Joseph Albert born near Paincourtville in November 1865; ...  None of Caliste's children married by 1870. 

Étienne, père's fifth son Charles le jeune married Marie Françoise, called Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Daigle and his Creole wife Marguerite Simoneaux, at the Plattenville church in August 1818.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included a daughter, name unrecorded, died three days after her birth in May 1819; Emérante Améline dite Mélina born in April; 1820; Adeline in January 1822; a child, name and age unrecorded, died in April 1824; Eulalie Eléonore born in February 1825; Marsilien Valère or Marcellin Valéry in February 1827; Olempe or Olymphe in December 1827; Marie Justine, called Justine, in October 1830; Marie in October 1831; and Augustine Eléocade in August 1832--10 children, at least eight daughters and a son, between 1819 and 1832.  Charles died in Assumption Parish in November 1835, age 40 (the recording priest said 39).  Daughters Mélina, Adeline, Olymphe, and Justine married into the Solares, Cedotal, Friou, Theriot, and Crochet families.  Charles le jeune's son also married and settled on the upper Lafourche. 

Only son Marcillien or Marcellin Valéry married Éliza or Élise, daughter of fellow Acadians Caliste Antoine Aucoin and Éloise Hébert, at the Paincourtville church in March 1847.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Joseph Charles near Paincourtville in August 1848; Bienvenu Maximin in July 1850; Octave Domitille in February 1856; Adrien Dozilia Paul in April 1863; ...  None of Marcillien's children married by 1870. 

Étienne, père's sixth son Zéphirin Étienne married Augustine dite Justine, daughter of fellow Acadians Fabien Aucoin and Susanne Darois, at the Plattenville church in February 1827.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Ferdinand Étienne in August 1828; Zéolide in June 1830 but died at age 11 months, 4 days, in May 1831; Marie Mathilde born in March 1832; and Félicité Marie in July 1837--four children, a son and three daughters, between 1828 and 1837.  Zéphirin died in Assumption Parish in April 1849, age 46.  Daughters ... married into the Cedotal, Landry, and Simoneaux families.  Zéphirin's son did not marry by 1870. 

Étienne, père's seventh and youngest son Firmin Félix married Basilise Victoire, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Jean Aucoin and Anne Victoire Landry, at the Plattenville church in February 1828.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Joséphine Basilise in February 1828; Apolline or Appolonie in September 1830; and Marie Apollinie died two days after her birth in late January 1832.  Firmin remarried to Apolline Constance, called Pauline, another daughter of Joseph Jean Aucoin and Anne Victoire Landry, at the Plattenville church in July 1836.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Zéphirin Narcisse, called Narcisse, in September 1837; and Anastasie Hélène in August 1839--five children, four daughters and a son, by two wives, between 1828 and 1839.  Wife Pauline, called Apoline by the recording priest, died in Assumption Parish in February 1840, age 32.  Firmin, who did not remarry again, died there in July 1852, age 46 (the recording priest said 47).  Daughters Joséphine, Appolonie, and Anastasie, by both wives, married Aucoin cousins, including two brothers.  Firmin's son also married and settled on the upper Lafourche.

Only son Zéphirin Narcisse, called Narcisse, from second wife Apolline Aucoin, married cousin Antoinette, daughter of fellow Acadians Damas Giroir and Carmélite Barrilleaux, at the Plattenville church in February 1860; they had to secure a dispensation for fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Louis Cleber in August 1861; Marie Ostilia in January 1864; Odile Rosalie in May 1866; Pierre Léo in October 1868; Joseph Achille Désiré in November 1870; ...

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The second contingent of Dupuiss to arrive from France--a small family from the St.-Malo area--crossed aboard La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in early December 1785.  They followed their fellow passengers to the new Acadian settlement at Bayou des Écores in the New Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge, but they did not remain.  As a result of their leaving Bayou des Écores in the early 1790s, another line of the Dupuis family was established on the river south of Baton Rouge: 

Ambroise, fils (c1743-1822) à Germain à Martin à Michel Dupuis

Ambroise, fils, oldest son of Ambroise Dupuis and Anne Aucoin, born probably at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1743, followed his family to Île St.-Jean after August 1752, and to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  He married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Theriot and Françoise Landry, at Plouër-sur-Rance on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo in July 1764.  They lived also in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer before returning to Plouër.  Anne gave Ambroise, fils nine children at St.-Servan and Plouër:  Jean-Baptiste born at St.-Servan in July 1765 but died there at age 18 months in October 1766; Jean-Charles born in June 1767; an unnamed son died the day after his birth in January 1769; Jean-Simon-Raphaël born at Plouër in October 1770 but died at nearby La Boisanne at age 3 in May 1773; Pierre-Ambroise born in October 1772 but died at La Boisanne the following December; Marie-Anne-Claire born "at night" in August 1774 but died at St.-Servan the following March; Marguerite-Marie born at St.-Servan in May 1777; Laurent-Charles in August 1778; and Amand-Pierre in March 1780--nine children, seven sons and two daughters, between 1765 and 1780, most of whom died young.  As the birth dates of his younger children reveal, Ambroise, fils and his family did not follow other Acadian exiles in the St.-Malo area to Poitou in 1773, nor did they join hundreds of their fellow exiles in the lower Loire port of Nantes later in the decade.  They nonetheless opted to leave the mother country when the opportunity to do so arose.  Ambroise, fils, Anne, and their remaining children, Jean-Charles and Marguerite-Marie, along with his married sister Marie and her family, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Ambroise, fils's youngest sons Laurent-Charles and Amand-Pierre, who would have been ages 7 and 5 in 1785, did not go with them, so they probably had died before August 1785, when La Ville d'Archangel set sail from St.-Malo.  From New Orleans, Ambroise, fils and his family followed their fellow passengers to Bayou des Écores.  The commandant of the New Feliciana District, a fellow Acadian, counted Ambroise, "one old wife, and one middle female child" at Bayou des Écores in 1793.  Like most of the Acadians who went there, they did not remain.  Soon after the census, they followed other Acadians to Manchac south of Baton Rouge, where some of their Dupuis cousins had settled.  Ambroise, fils and Anne had no more children in the Spanish colony.  He died at Manchac in April 1822, age 80.  Daughter Marguerite-Marie married into the Guidry family there.  Ambroise, fils's remaining son also married at Manchac. 

Second son Jean-Charles, called Charles, followed his family to Louisiana in 1785 when he was in his late teens.  Though he does not appear with his family on the passenger list of La Ville d'Archangel or on the embarkation or debarkation lists of any of the other Seven Ships, Louisiana church records reveal that he not only made the crossing, but also joined his family at Bayou des Écores.  He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Marin Bourg and Marie-Osite Daigre, probably at Bayou des Écores in July 1793.  The priest from Baton Rouge who recorded the marriage called the groom "Carlos of Bayou des ecors."  A few months later, called Charl, he was counted with "one middle wife" at Bayou des Écores.  Soon after, he and Marguerite followed his family to Manchac.  Charles was the only male Dupuis immigrant from France who remained on the river.  His and Marguerite's children, born at Manchac, included Jean-Pierre, called Pierre, in June 1794; Théotiste in March 1796; an unnamed son in c1800 but died at age 2 in October 1802; Henriette born probably in the early 1800s; and Marguerite, perhaps Marcelline, in September 1809--five children, two sons and three daughters, between 1794 and 1809.  Daughters Théotiste, Marcelline, and Henriette married into the Blount, Doiron, Hébert, Rivas, and Templet families, one of them, Marcelline, three times.  Charles's remaining son also married, and he, too, settled at Manchac.  

Older son Jean-Pierre, called Pierre, married Marie Marthe, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Pierre Hébert and Anne Dorothée Doiron, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in January 1819.  Their children, born at Manchac, included Pierre, fils in November 1819 but died there, age 17 (the recording priest said 18), in September 1837; and Paul Fleurimon born in August 1824.  Jean Pierre, at age 40, remarried to Delphine Augustine, daughter of Miguel Gareuil and Hélène Lopez, at the St. Gabriel church in January 1835.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Marie Delphine, called Delphine, in October 1835; and Charles Gareuil in October 1841--four children, three sons and a daughter by two wives, between 1819 and 1841.  Daughter Delphine, by his second wife, married into the LeBlanc family.  None of Pierre's sons married by 1870, at least not in South Louisiana. 

Foret

Gereyt, son of Crispin de Forest and Marguerite Bornstra, was born at Leyden, Holland, in June 1637 to parents who were among the thousands of French Huguenots who had fled persecution in France by moving to the Netherlands.  Gereyt came to French Acadia in c1659, when the English controlled the colony.  He converted to Catholicism in order to marry Marie, daughter of Acadians Étienne Hébert and Marie Gaudet, in c1666.  As a result of his conversion, Gereyt chose the more Catholic-sounding name of Michel and became a farmer.  Marie gave him six children, four sons and two daughters, at Port-Royal before she died.  All of their children created families of their own.  Their daughters married into the Brassaud and Benoit families, their sons into the Petitpas, Célestin dit Bellemère, Richard, Dugas, and Labarre families.  In c1686, Michel, in his late 40s, remarried to Jacqueline or Jacquette, 13-year-old daughter of Martin Benoit and Marie Chaussegros, probably at Port-Royal.  She gave him another daughter, who married into the Comeau family.  Michel died at Port-Royal in c1691, in his mid-50s.  In 1755, his descendants could be found at Annapolis Royal, formerly Port-Royal; Ste.-Famille, Pigigit, and Cobeguit in the Minas Basin; Chignecto; Memramcook and Chepoudy in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto; and on Île St.-Jean and Île-Madam in the French Maritimes.  By then, members of the family had shortened their name to Forest.  Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this family even farther. 

The Acadians at Chignecto were the first to endure a disruption of their lives.  During the spring and summer of 1750, in response to the British building a fort at Beaubassin village, Canadian militia, assisted by Abbé Jean-Louis Le Loutre and his Mi'kmaq warriors, burned Acadian homesteads in the British-controlled area east of Rivière Missaguash, forcing the habitants there to move to the French-controlled area west of the river.  Forests may have been among the refugees in this petit dérangement.  After yet another war erupted between Britain and France in 1754, Chignecto-area Acadians were caught in the middle of it.  When British and New-English forces attacked Fort Beauséjour in June 1755, local Acadians, perhaps including Forests, served in the fort as militia.  They, too, along with the French troupes de la marine, became prisoners of war when the fort surrendered on June 16.  Lieutenant-Governor Charles Lawrence was so incensed to find so-called French Neutrals fighting with French regulars at Beauséjour he ordered his officers to deport the Chignecto and trois-rivières Acadians to the southernmost seaboard colonies.  That fall, Forests ended up in South Carolina.  Colonial officials sent one family to Prince Frederick's Parish, Winyaw, north of Charles Town.  Another Forest family, if they were still at Chignecto, ended up in Pennsylvania.  But most of the Chignecto-area Forests escaped the British and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore or moved on to Canada.  One of them, a refugee from Chepoudy, died at Québec in December 1757, victim, perhaps, of the smallpox epidemic that struck the Acadian refugees in and around the Canadian capital between the summer of 1757 and the spring of 1758. 

The Forests were hit especially hard when British and New-English forces rounded up hundreds of Acadians at Minas and Annapolis Royal in late fall of 1755.  Forests living in the Minas Basin, especially those at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, ended up on transports destined for Virginia, Maryland, and Massachusetts.  A young Forest from Pigiguit escaped the British roundup there and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawerence shore.  Forests at Annapolis were deported to Connecticut, Massachusetts, and South Carolina.  They were especially numerous aboard transports bound for Connecticut.  Some members of the family escaped the roundup at Annapolis, spent a hard winter on the Fundy shore, crossed to Chepoudy the following spring, and sought refuge on the upper Petitcoudiac or lower Rivière St.-Jean before moving on to the Gulf shore or to Canada. 

Forests shipped to Virginia endured a fate worse than most of the Acadians deported from Minas.  In mid-November, when five transports appeared unexpectedly at Hampton Roads, Virginia's governor, Robert Dinwiddie, protested their deportation to his colony without his consent.  Exiles died on the filthy, crowded ships anchored in Hampton Roads while Virginia authorities pondered their fate.  As winter approached, the governor ordered one vessel moved up to Richmond, two of the vessels were unloaded at Hampton, and two more at Norfolk.  Finally, in the spring of 1756, the governor, his council, and the colony's Burgesses made their decision ... the "papists" must go!  In May, the first shipment of Acadians in hired vessels left for England, and in two weeks all of them had gone--299 to Bristol, 250 to Falmouth, 340 to Southampton, and 336 to Liverpool--1,225 exiles in all by one count.  Their ordeal only worsened in the English ports, where they werer held in warehouses and where many died of smallpox.  Forests were held at Southampton. 

Living in territory controlled by France, the two Forest families on Île St.-Jean and Île Madame escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived, however.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats rounded up most of the habitants on the Maritime islands, Forests among them.  One family was deported from Île St.-Jean to Cherbourg in Normandy.  Others from Île St.-Jean and Île Madame were sent to St.-Malo.  Many of them did not survive the crossing.  Those who did settled in the St.-Malo-area suburbs and villages of St.-Servan-sur-Mer, Plouër-sur-Rance, and Pleurtuit, where they had more children, buried some, and married or remarried.  The Forests who had gone to Cherbourg joined their kinsmen at St.-Malo in June 1759.  In the spring of 1763, after prolonged negotiations between the French and British governments, the Acadians in England, including Forests, were repatriated to France.  Several families crossed from England aboard La Dorothée and settled at Plouër-sur-Rance on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo near their loved ones.  Likely because they wished to remain near their kin, in late 1765 none of the Forests followed their fellow exiles from England to Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany.  Only one Forest family at St.-Malo went to the interior of Poitou in 1773.  After two years of effort, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes before returning to St.-Malo.  The others remained at St.-Malo, subsisting on government handouts or whatever work they could find.  In the early 1780s, when the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, 17 of the Forests agreed to take it.  Others, however, especially those who had married into local French families, chose to remain in the mother country. 

In North America, Forests who had escaped the British in the late 1750s and found refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore suffered more hardships in the final years of the war with Britain.  After the fall of Québec in September 1759, the British gathered their forces to subdue the remaining French strongholds in New France, including Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, now a major Acadian refuge.  A British naval force from Louisbourg attacked Restigouche in late June 1760.  After a spirited fight in which Mi'kmaq warriors and Acadian militia helped defend the remote outpost, the blue jackets returned to their base at Louisbourg, but Restigouche was now cut off from the rest of New France.  In October, after the fall of Montréal, another British naval force, this one from Québec, appeared at Restigouche to accept the garrison's, and the Acadians', surrender.  On 24 October 1760, on the eve of formal surrender, French officers compiled a list of 1,003 Acadians still at Restigouche, a Forest from Chignecto and his family of eight among them.  The British held them in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  By the early 1760s, other members of the family either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and also held in Nova Scotia.  In July 1762, British officials counted two Forest families at Fort Edward, across from their old homesteads at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit.  In August 1763, a Forest and his family of eight appeared on a French repatriation list at Fort Cumberland, formerly French Fort Beauséjour, near their old homes at Chignecto. 

At war's end, Acadians being held in the seaboard colonies, theoretically, were free to go, but not until the British discerned their intentions.  Even then, colonial officials discouraged repatriation.  In Massachusetts in August 1763, at least four Forest families were still in that colony, their names appearing on a French repatriation list circulating there.  Sometime in 1763, in Connecticut, five more Forest families appeared on a repatriation list circulating in that colony--perhaps the largest concentration of Forests in the Acadian diaspora.  In June 1763, in Pennsylvania, two Forest families appeared on a repatriation list there.  In Maryland that July, two Forest families were listed at Upper Marlborough; a widow and her Forest daughter at Snow Hill on the colony's Eastern Shore; and another Forest family at Baltimore.  In South Carolina in August 1763, a Forest wife and her family appeared on a repatriation list in that colony.  One wonders what happened to the other Forests who had been deported to the southern colony in 1755. 

Most of the Forests being held in New England chose to repatriate to Canada, where some of their relatives had gone as early as 1756.  Though now also a British possession, the far-northern province was populated largely by fellow French Catholics, many of them Acadian exiles.  So, in a colony nearly as old as Acadia, descendants of Gereyet de Forest of Leyden and Port-Royal began the inexorable process of becoming Canadiennes.  Especially after 1766, they could be found on the upper St. Lawrence at Bécancour, L'Assomption, Nicolet, St.-Grégoire, St.-Jacques de l'Achigan, St.-Michel-d'Yamasaka, Laprairie, and Pointe-aux-Trembles; on the lower St. Lawrence at St.-Charles de Bellechasse, St.-Michel de Bellechasse, St.-Pierre-du-Sud, and Montmagny; and at Bonaventure in Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs.  In Nova Scotia, they settled at Minoudy south of Chignecto; Windsor, formerly Pigiguit; and at Arichat on Île Madame.  Typical of most, if not all, Acadian families, these Acadiennes of Canada lost touch with their Cadien cousins hundreds of miles away, and, until the Acadian reunions of the twentieth century, may even have forgotten the others existed.  

While the end-of-war treaty was being negotiated, French officials encouraged exiles in the British seaboard colonies to go to St.-Dominique.  Although driven from North America by the Seven Years' War, the French were determined to hang on to what was left of their shrinking colonial empire.  A new naval base at Môle-St.-Nicolas on the northwest end of the big island would protect the approaches to what was left of their possessions in the Caribbean basin and assist in the "war of vengeance" to come.  French officials saw the exiles as a ready source of labor not only for the naval contractors, but also for the colony's major planters, who hoped to supplement the work of their slaves.  To sweeten the deal, French officials promised the Acadians land of their own if they came to the sugar colony.  And so Acadians being held in the British seaboard colonies, including Forests, chose to go to the tropical island.  When, in the mid- or late 1760s, exiles from Halifax and Maryland, including Forests, came through or transshipped at Cap-Français down the coast from Môle-St.- Nicolas on their way to New Orleans, none of the Forests still in St.-Domingue accompanied them.  Acadian Forests could be found in the church records of Môle-St.-Nicolas into the 1780s. 

Forests being held in Nova Scotia at war's end faced a hard dilemma.  The Treaty of Paris of February 1763 stipulated in its Article IV that persons dispersed by the war had 18 months to return to their respective territories.  However, British authorities refused to allow any of the Acadian prisoners in the region to return to their former lands as proprietors.  If Acadians chose to remain in, or return to, Nova Scotia, they could live only in small family groups in previously unsettled areas or work for low wages on former Acadian lands now owned by New-English "planters."  If they stayed, they must also take the hated oath of allegiance to the new British king, George III, without reservation.  They would also have to take the oath if they joined their cousins in Canada and other parts of greater Acadia.  After all that they had suffered on the question of the oath, no self-respecting Acadian would consent to take it if it could be avoided.   Some Nova Scotia exiles chose to relocate to Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  Others considered going to French St.-Domingue, where Acadian exiles in the seaboard colonies, including Forests, were going, or to the Illinois country, the west bank of which still belonged to France, or to lower Louisiana, which, thanks to British control of Canada, was the only route possible to the Illinois country for Acadian exiles.  Whatever their choice, many refused to remain under British rule.  So they gathered up their money and their few possessions and prepared to leave their homeland.  Of the 600 exiles who left Halifax in late 1764 and early 1765 bound for Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, a dozen of them were Forests.

The Forests in Maryland endured life among Englishmen who, despite their colony's Catholic roots, did not care much for the French "papists" thrust upon them.  When word reached the Acadians in Maryland that the Spanish would welcome them in Louisiana, where some of their relatives had gone, they pooled their meager resources to charter ships that would take them to New Orleans.  The first and second contingents of Acadians from Maryland that reached New Orleans in September 1766 and July 1767 contained at least 16 members of the family. 

Forests settled early in French Acadia, and they were among the earliest Acadians to find refuge in Louisiana.  The first of them came to the colony in February 1765 with the Broussards from Halifax via Cap-Français, St.-Domingue.  Pierre Forest, a middle-aged bachelor, followed the Broussards to Bayou Teche but failed to produce a family there, at least none that lasted.  More Forests came to Louisiana in 1765, 1766, and 1767 from Halifax and Maryland, and even more of them from France in 1785.  They settled not on the western prairies but on the river above New Orleans in the area that became known as the Acadian Coast.  By the early antebellum period, however, only one line of Acadian Forests remained on the river, descendants of a 1767 immigrant from Maryland who had settled at San Gabriel d'Iberville before crossing the river to what became West Baton Rouge Parish.  The other lines on the river had either died out or moved elsewhere.  A western branch of the family finally emerged in the 1790s when several Forests from the river moved to the Opelousas District, but only a single family line endured there, in what became St. Landry and Evangeline parishes.  They were especially numerous in the Ville Platte area.  Meanwhile, Forests from the Acadian Coast joined the Acadian exodus to upper Bayou Lafourche and created a vigorous center of family settlement there.  During the antebellum period, most Forets in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley had spread out from Assumption on the upper bayou down to the coastal marshes of Terrebonne Parish.  By the early 1860s, a Foret from upper Bayou Lafourche had moved to Brashear, now Morgan, City, on the lower Atchafalaya, and another to the coastal marshes of the Creole area of what later became Cameron Parish.  The great majority of their cousins, however, remained on the southeastern bayous.  The Foret who had moved to the Brashear City area, in fact, returned to upper Bayou Lafourche during the mid-1860s. 

Not all of the Forest/Forets of South Louisiana were descendants of Michel de Forest.  Frenchmen with similar-sounding surnames came to the colony as early as the 1720s.  Most of them remained at New Orleans, but one, Louis LaForet, settled at Cabahannocer, later St. James Parish, on the lower Acadian Coast in the 1790s.  During the antebellum period, Foreign-French Forêts and a German Förstl, called a Forest, settled in St. Landry and St. Mary parishes and on upper Bayou Lafourche, where Acadian Forets had gone.  However, especially along Bayou Lafourche, the numbers of these French and German Forets remained small compared to their Acadian namesakes. ...

In Acadia, the family dropped the "de" in their name, leaving only Forest.  The family's name evolved into Foret in Louisiana, where the name Forest is uncommon today.  The family's name in Louisiana also is spelled Desforets, Faurais, Fauret, Forait, Foraix, Foray, Foré, Fores, Forett, Forey, Forez, Forrest, Forret, Froet, Fure, LaForet.  The descendants of Michel de Forest should not be confused with their fellow Acadians, the De La Forestries of Île St.-Jean, who came to Louisiana from France, or with the Forêts and LaForets of France.19

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In February 1765, a middle-aged Forest of mysterious origins came to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, with the Broussards and followed them to lower Bayou Teche.  No Foret family line came of it: 

Pierre (c1720?-1817?) à ? à Michel Foret

Pierre Forest, called Pedro Fure, was counted at La Manque on the lower Teche with one woman and one boy in his household in April 1766.  There is no church record linking him to anyone specific.  A Pierre Foret, whom the recording priest at Opelousas described as "very poor," died in St. Landry Parish in January 1817 at the astonishing age of 97.  Was this the Pierre Forest who had come to Louisiana with the Broussards half a century earlier?  One thing is certain--he did not create the western line of the Acadian Foret family. 

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Later in 1765, 11 more Forests--a wife, a young unmarried woman; and three families, one of them substantial in size, another led by a young husband whose family had been exiled to Maryland--came to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français and settled at the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  Some of them moved upriver to Ascension, but the others remained in what became St. James Parish.  Many vigorous family lines came of it.  Most of the Acadian Forets in Louisiana, in fact, are descended from the oldest of the family heads and two of his sons.  The parents and sisters of one of the younger 1765 arrivals did not reach the colony until two years later: 

Charles (c1722-1783) à Michel Foret

Charles, sixth son of Jean-Baptiste Forest and Marie-Élisabeth Lebarre, born probably at Menoudy, Chignecto, in c1722, married Marguerite, daughter of Michel Poirier and Jeanne Bourgeois, at Beaubassin in June 1742.  Marguerite gave Charles three children at Chignecto:  Marie born in c1745; Pierre-Paul, called Paul, in c1746; and Rose in c1748.  Charles remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Saulnier and Madeleine Comeau, probably at Chignecto in c1750.  She gave him a son, Anselme, born there in c1752.  They evidently escaped the British in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore before moving up to the French stronghold at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  Marguerite gave Charles another daughter, Marie, evidently the second with the name, born in c1760.  He may have been the Charles Forest with a family of eight who French officers counted among the 1,003 exiles still at Restigouche on 24 October 1760, on the eve of the stronghold's formal surrender.  In July 1762, British officials counted Charles and his family of six at Fort Edward, Pigiguit.  Marguerite gave him at least two more children there:  Marguerite born in c1762; and Charles, fils in September 1764--at least six children, three daughters and three sons, by two wives, between 1745 and 1764, at Chignecto, in exile, and during imprisonment.  In 1765, Charles and Marguerite, with five children, three sons and two daughters, and a niece, followed other exiles in Nova Scotia to Louisiana via Cap-Français.  Son Charles, fils was baptized at the New Orleans church on 10 December 1765 probably soon after their arrival.  They settled at Cabahannocer.  Charles, père died at nearby Ascension in May 1783.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Charles died at age 55.  He likely was in his early 60s.  Daughters Marie and Marguerite, from his second wife, married into the Bergeron and LeBlanc families on the river.  Charles's three sons also married.  Two of them created vigorous family lines on the river and upper Bayou Lafourche.  Charles's youngest son, in fact, was the first Acadian Foret to settle on that bayou. 

Oldest son Pierre-Paul, called Paul, from first wife Marguerite Poirier, followed his family into exile and imprisonment, and, in his late teens, to New Orleans and Cabahannocer.  Spanish officials counted him with his family on the right, or west, bank of the river at Cabahannocer in April 1766.  He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Orillion dit Champagne, père and Marguerite Dugas, probably at Cabahannocer in c1768.  Marguerite and an older brother also had come to Louisiana in 1765 but directly from French St.-Domingue with an uncle and aunt, not from Halifax.  She and Paul were living on the west bank of the river at Cabahannocer in September 1769.  In August 1770, they were counted at nearby Ascension, still on the west bank.  They were still there in April 1777.  Their children, born at Ascension, included Marguerite in c1769 but died at age 2 or 3 in January 1773; Joseph born in c1771; twins Clément-Anaclet and Félicité in November 1773, but Félicité died at age 1 1/2 in April 1775, and Clément-Anaclet died in May; Paul, fils born in November 1775 but died a few weeks later; Madeleine-Angélique, called Angélique, born in November 1778; Louis in May 1782; François-Achille in February 1784; Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, baptized, age unrecorded, in July 1786; and Marie-Renée born in December 1788--10 children, five daughters and five sons, including a set of twins, between 1769 and 1788.  While leading a routine slave patrol along the west bank of the river at Ascension in November 1785, Paul and his patrolmen stumbled upon the notorious "renegade freedman" Philippe hiding in a cabin on the Widow Landry's farm.  The patrolmen failed to capture the wily black man, who, with a "lieutenant," was "plotting a massive slave insurrection," an historian relates.  However, with the help of Houma Indians, local authorities hunted down and killed Philippe and stymied the insurrection.  Paul died at Ascension in October 1797, age 51.  Daughters Angélique, Marie Madeleine, and Marie Renée married into the Babin, Landry, and Orillion families.  Three of Paul's sons also married and settled on Bayou Lafourche near one of their uncles, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Joseph married cousin Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Foret and Isabelle Léger, at Ascension in February 1793.  They may have lived for a time along the upper Lafourche.  Their children, born at Ascension, included Pierre-Paul-Joseph in April 1796; Anne-Marguerite, also called Marianne and Mary Anne, in June 1803; and Joseph Séverin in April 1805.  Joseph remarried to Marie Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Honoré Breaux and Élisabeth LeBlanc, at St. Gabriel in February 1807.  They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche near his uncle and younger brothers.  Their daughter Marie Geneviève was born there in January 1809--four children, two sons and two daughters, by two wives, between 1796 and 1809.  Joseph died in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1832.  The Thibodauxville priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph was age 64 when he died.  He was closer to 61.  Daughters Marianne and Marie Geneviève, by both wives, married into the LeBlanc and Roger families.  Both of Joseph's sons also married and settled on the Lafourche.

Older son Pierre-Paul-Joseph, called Paul, from first wife Marguerite Foret, married Rose Scholastique, daughter of fellow Acadians Tranquille Arcement and Anne Rassicot, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in January 1826.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Adeline in April 1827; Marguerite Rosalie, Rosela, Roselie, or Rosita in October 1829; Pierre Paul, fils in January 1831, Joseph le jeune in February 1833; Élodie Arcelie in April 1836; and Elisca Anne Marie or Marie Eliska in August 1838--six children, four daughters and two sons, between 1827 and 1838.  Daughters Marguerite Roselie, Adeline, Marie Eliska, and Éloidie married into the Brien, Authement, Pelegrin or Peregrin, and Duplantis families by 1870.  One of them, Marguerite Roselie, died only three months after her wedding in 1844.  One of Paul's sons also married by 1870. 

Second son Joseph le jeune married Anna or Hannah, also called Allo, daughter of fellow Acadians Hippolyte Doucet and Clémentine Bourg of New Iberia, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in July 1855.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Joseph Israël in August 1857; Paul Cletus in March 1860; Clémentine Victoria in March 1862; Théophile Augustin in August 1864; Ozémé Raphaël near Montegut in October 1870; ...

Joseph's younger son Joseph Séverin, by first wife Marguerite Foret, married Marie Clémence, 17-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Benoît Richard and Isabelle Anne Rassicot, at the Thibodauxville church in August 1829.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joseph Volfroy or Valfroi, called Valfroi, in January 1832; Pierre Paul in October 1833 but died before December 1850; Marcellin born in c1834; Tresimond or Trasimond Séverin in March 1835; Marguerite Amine in May 1836 but, called Amélie, died at age 17 1/2 (the recording priest said 17) near Raceland in April 1854; Joseph Zéphirin, called Zéphirin, born in December 1838; Justilien in c1839; Joséphine Arthaire in December 1840; Evariste Onésime or Onésippe, also called Charles, in September 1842; Théophile, also called Ellis, in November 1844; Adrien Richard, called Richard, in November 1846; Marie Séverine, called Séverine, in February 1849; and Marie Élodie in March 1852--13 children, nine sons and four daughters, between 1832 and 1852.  (Honoré, son of Séverin's slave Esther, was born near Raceland in October 1846 and was baptized under the name Forest.  Ferdinand, son of "Miss Séverin" Foret's slave Esther, was born near Raceland in June 1853 and also baptized under the name Forest.  One wonders if the boys survived childhood, had families of their own, and retained their mother's master's surname.)  Séverin died near Raceland, Lafourche Parish, in September 1853.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Séverin died "at age 45 yrs."  He was 48.  An "oath of tutor," calling him Joseph Séverin, naming his wife, and listing their minor children--Marcellin, Frasimond, Amélie, Zéphirin, Justilien, Onésipe, Alice (Ellis), Richard, Séverine, and Marie--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in March 1854.  Daughter Séverine married into the Ayo family by 1870.  Eight of Joseph Séverin's sons also married by then, six of them to sisters, and remained on the lower Lafourche. 

Oldest son Valfroi married Marie Euphrosine, called Euphrosine, daughter of Auguste Ledet and his Acadian wife Modeste LeBlanc, at the Raceland church, Lafourche Parish in May 1854.  They remained on the lower Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Joseph near Lockport in April 1857; Marie Elda near Raceland in March 1862; Léa Joséphine near Lockport in July 1864;  Philomène Émilia in October 1866; ___ Félicien baptized at the Lockport church, age unrecorded, in November 1868; ... 

Joseph Séverin's third son Marcellin married Mathilde, daughter of fellow Acadians Valéry Breaux and Marguerite Roger, at the Raceland church in May 1857.  They settled near Lockport.  Their children, born there, included Marie Félonise, called Félonise, near Lockport in February 1858; Jean Beutor or Benton, called Benton, in March 1860; Marguerite Justilia in September 1862; ... 

Joseph Séverin's fourth son Trasimond married Mélasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Narcisse LeBlanc and Célina Robichaux, at the Raceland church in October 1855.  They also settled on the lower Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Mary near Lockport in August 1856 but died near Raceland, age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 5 months), in October 1857; Prosper born in June 1858; Marguerite Célina near Raceland in February 1860; Marie Joémi near Lockport in September 1864; Marguerite Clémentine in September 1866; Marie Marguerite in September 1868; ...

Joseph Séverin's fifth son Zéphirin married Émelina, called Mélina, another daughter of Narcisse LeBlanc and Célina Robichaux, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in May 1863.  Their children, born near Lockport, included Marie Ernestine in May 1866; a daughter, name unrecorded, died at birth near Lockport in October 1869; ... 

Joseph Séverin's sixth son Justilien married Eliska or Elisa, another daughter of Valéry Breaux and Marguerite Roger, at the Lockport church in July 1866.  Their children, born near Lockport, included Marie Justilia in April 1867; Joseph Lee in September 1868; Joseph David baptized at the Lockport church, age unrecorded, in October 1870; ...

Joseph Séverin's seventh son Onésippe, called Charles by the recording priest, married Philomène, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Barrilleaux and Adèle dite Choinette Theriot, at the Lockport church, Lafourche Parish, in April 1866.  Their children, born near Lockport, included Joseph Norbert in June 1867; Marie Blanche in July 1869; ... 

Joseph Séverin's eighth son Ellis, also called Théophile, married Louisa, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne LeBlanc and Azélie Bertrand, at the Lockport church in December 1866.  They remained on the lower Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Marie Éloisa near Lockport in October 1867 but, called Marie Elecia, died in November; Marie Oselie born near Raceland in April 1870; ...

Joseph Séverin's ninth and youngest son Richard married Florence, another daughter of Joseph Barrilleaux and Adèle dite Choinette Theriot, at the Lockport church in February 1867.  Their children, born near Lockport, included Marie Adéla in October 1867 but died the following February; Agnès Valérie born in August 1869; ...

Paul's fourth son Louis married Anne-Marie, called Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Athanase Dugas and Rose LeBlanc, at Ascension in February 1802.  They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche near his uncle and brothers.  Their daughter Marie Delphine, called Delphine, was born there in September 1804 and, at age 15 months, in July 1805, granted tutelage by the Lafourche Interior Parish court because her father Louis had died by then.  He would have been age 23 that year.  Daughter Delphine married into the Bourgeois family.  Louis and his wife evidently had no sons, so this line of the family, except for its blood, probably died with him. 

Paul's fifth and youngest son François-Achille married Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Bergeron, fils and Marie Babin, at Assumption on the upper Lafourche in May 1802.  They remained on the upper Lafourche near his uncle and older brothers.  Their children, born there, included Théotiste in January 1803; Clothilde in the early 1800s; François Placide, called Placide, baptized at Ascension, age unrecorded, in August 1806; Achille Adoptal, Adoptel, or Adolphe, also called Achille D., born in c1807 and baptized at age 15 months in October 1808; Pierre Deterville, called Deterville, born in July 1810; Jean Baptiste Edmond, called Edmond, in the early or mid-1810s; Madeleine Eurasie in the 1810s; Marcelline in December 1816; and Geneviève Cécile in November 1818--nine children, five daughters and four sons, between 1806 and 1818.  François Achille died in Lafourche Interior Parish in July 1844, age 60.  A petition for succession inventory in his name, listing his wife and their children--Clothilde (deceased), and her husband; François Placide; Achille Adoptel; Pierre Destival[sic]; Jean Baptiste Edmond; Marcelline and her first husband; Geneviève Cécile and her husband; and Madeleine Eurasie and her husband--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in July 1845.  Daughters Clothilde, Madeleine Eurasie; Marcelline, and Geneviève Cécile married into the Destival, Bernard, Robichaux, Monier or Monnier, and Mire families, one of them, Marcelline, twice.  François Achille's four sons also married and settled on the Lafourche. 

Oldest son François Placide, called Placide, married cousin Marguerite Eugénie, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians François Babin and Henriette Broussard of Iberville Parish, at the Thibodauxville church in January 1825.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included François Achille le jeune in August 1827; Marguerite Azélie in December 1831; Hippolyte Narcisse in August 1834; and twins Jean Baptiste Ovile and Pierre Deterville le jeune in September 1837--five children, four sons and a daughter, including a set of twins, between 1827 and 1837.  François Placide died near Raceland in November 1863.  The priest who recorded the burial said that François Placide died at age 63.  He was a number of years younger.  One wonders if his death was war-related.  Daughter Marguerite Azélie married into the Theriot family by 1870.  Placide's four sons also married by then and settled on the Lafourche.

Oldest son François Achille le jeune married Marie Isabella, called Isabella and Élisabeth, daughter of Ulgère Hotard and Héloise Tausin, at the Thibodaux church in October 1847.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included François Jean Baptiste Félix, called J. Félix, in August 1848; Pierre Félix Félicien near Raceland in March 1861; ...  One of François Achille le jeune's sons married by 1870.

Older son J. Félix married Marie Théolina or Théolaine Autin in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in October 1866.  Their children, born near Raceland, included Marie Isabela in May 1868; Louis Marcellin in January 1870; ...

Placide's second son Hippolyte Narcisse married Virginie, daughter of Fergus Bourgeois, a Creole, not a fellow Acadians, and Eugénie Baudoin, at the Raceland church in September 1855.  Their children, born near Raceland, included Marie Mathilde in October 1856; Hypolite Ferjus in May 1859; Geneviève Léodile in December 1861; Léo Félicien in January 1864; Marie Isabela in December 1866; Armantine in September 1869; ...

Placide's third son Jean Baptiste Ovile, a twin, married Céleste Clémentine, called Clémentine, daughter of Antoine Matherne and his Acadian wife Céleste Savoie, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in April 1858.  They settled near Raceland and then in Terrebonne Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie Armentine near Raceland in January 1860; Marguerite Angélique in April 1862; Éloise Angela in Terrebonne Parish in February 1865; ...

Placide's fourth son Pierre Deterville le jeune, Jean Baptiste Ovile's twin, married Louisa or Émelie, daughter of George Falgout and Useline Champagne, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in June 1857.  Their children, born near Raceland, included Marie Justine in August 1858; Pierre Deterville, fils in September 1860; Marguerite Useline in October 1862; Marie Odilia in July 1864; François Placide le jeune in March 1867; Philomène Prisca in January 1869; Jean Baptiste Oville le jeune in April 1870; ...

François Achille's second son Achille Adoptal married Julie, 15-year-old daughter of Auguste Tourelle and Catherine Portier of St. James Parish, at the Thibodauxville church in September 1829.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Julie in November 1830; Cécile Uranie in October 1832; Rosalie in December 1834; Virginie Ordalie, called Ordalie, in August 1836; Berthile Ordalie, perhaps also called Ordalie, in November 1838; Ulisse in January 1841 but, called Ulysse, died at age 19 (the recording priest said 18) in February 1860; Félix Achille Laida born in December 1844; Onésime Filema in December 1846; François Trasimond in January 1849; Félix Zezulma near Raceland in March 1851; Geneviève Hélène or Alzina in December 1855; and Eugène Théolise in June 1858 but died the following November--a dozen children, six daughters and six sons, between 1830 and 1858.  Achille, called Doctel Achille by the priest who recorded the burial, died near Raceland in April 1861, age 55.  (A burial record at the same church, using the same name, has him dying in April 1863.)  A "Petition for tutorship," calling him Achille A., naming his wife, and listing his children--Cécile Urazie and her husband, Rosalie and her husband, Ordalie and her husband, Félix, François (age 16), Geneviève Alzina (age 9), and Marie Julie (deceased) and her husband--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in November 1865.  Daughters Cécile Uranie, Rosalie, Marie Julie, ... married into the Sanchez, Lagain, Baudoin, Grabert, and Foret families by 1870.  Two of Achille Adoptal's sons also married by then. 

Second son Félix married Baptistine Hotard, widow of Charles Dutilleu, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in February 1867.  Their children, born near Raceland, included Philomène Genetia in November 1867; Alphonse in October 1869; ... 

Achille Adoptal's fourth son François married Irma, daughter of Paul Autin and his Acadian wife Adeline Hébert, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in April 1869. ...

François Achille's third son Pierre Deterville married Mélanie, 17-year-old daughter of Alexis Autin and Marie Aubert of St. John the Baptiste Parish, at the Thibodauxville church in February 1832.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Pierre Cléoville in September 1833; Félicien in December 1834; Mélanie Froisilie or Froselie Mélanie in September 1836; Pierre Deterville Justilien, called Justilien, in June 1838; Marie Mélanie or Mélasie, called Mélasie, in September 1840; François Alexis in December 1842; Mathilde in January 1844; a daughter, name unrecorded, in c1845 but, her name still unrecorded, died near Raceland, age 10, in July 1855; and Zéolide, a daughter, born in c1846--nine children, four sons and five daughters, between 1833 and 1846.  Pierre Deterville died by December 1850, in his late 30s, when his wife was listed as a widow in the Lafourche federal census.  Daughters Froselie Mélanie, Mélasie, and Mathilde married into the Bourgeois, Falgout, and Thibodeaux families by 1870.  Two of Pierre Deterville's sons also married by then.

Second son Félicien married Céleste Justine, called Justine, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Cyprien Bourgeois and Marie Céleste Landry, at the Raceland church in July 1855; Félicien's sister Froselie Mélanie married Céleste's brother Pierre Evelien.  Félicien and Justine's children, born near Raceland, included Marie Odile in August 1858; twins Augutine and Ernestine in July 1861; Félicie in November 1863; Félicia in July 1866; Joseph Désiré in January 1869; ... 

Pierre Deterville's third son Pierre Deterville Justilien, called Justilien, married fellow Acadian Célina Blanchard in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in March 1864.  Their children, born near Raceland, included Marie Justilia in April 1865; Pierre Félicien in February 1867; ... 

François Achille's fourth and youngest son Jean Baptiste Edmond, called Edmond, married Estelle Elvina or Vina, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Louis Martin and Céleste Theriot, at the Thibodauxville church in October 1835.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Jean Baptiste Edmond, fils in September 1836; Silvin or Sylvain Adam, called Adam, in August 1839; Marie Eve in February 1843; Hippolite or Hippolyte in December 1845, but, called Jules, died, or was at least buried, at Raceland, age 17 (the recording priest said 18), in February 1863 (one wonders if his death was war-related); and Louis Ozémé, called Ozémé, born in April 1849--five children, four sons and a daughter, between 1836 and 1849.  Daughter Marie married into the Robichaux family.  Two of Edmond's sons also married by 1870. 

Second son Adam married first cousin Berthilde Odalie or Odalie Berthilde, called Ordalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Achille Adoptel Foret and Julie Tourelle, his uncle and aunt, at the Raceland church in September 1856.  Their children, born near Raceland, included Léonise Ordalie in July 1857; Marie Eve in October 1861 but, called Marie, died at age 16 months in March 1863; Joseph Adam born in January 1864 but died at age 15 months in April 1865; Marie Ivina born in January 1866; Oscar Adam in June 1868; Sylvain Lucimien in December 1870; ...

Edmond's fifth and youngest son Ozémé married Eugénie, daughter of Eugène Lagain, Laguin, Laquin, or Layain and Marie Metier, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in October 1867.  Their children, born near Raceland, included Geneviève in January 1869; Eugénie Zulema in November 1870; ... 

Charles's second son Anselme, by second wife Marguerite Saulnier, followed his family into exile and imprisonment, and, in his early teens, to New Orleans and Cabahannocer.  Spanish officials counted him with his family on the right, or west, bank of the river at Cabahannocer in April 1766 and near his family on the west bank at nearby Ascension in August 1770.  In his early 20s he married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon LeBlanc and Élisabeth LeBlanc, at Ascension in February 1774.  Madeleine was a native of Louisiana whose father and mother had come to colony from Halifax with their parents in 1765.  She and Anselme were still living on the right bank at Ascension, next to older brother Paul, in April 1777.  Her and Anselme's children, born on the river, included Marie-Madeleine-Victoire at Ascension in November 1774; Jean-Louis, called Louis, baptized at Cabahannocer, age unrecorded, in December 1776; Ludivic born in c1777 but died at age 22 in August 1799; Paul le jeune born at Ascension in December 1778; Hippolyte in c1779 but died at age 20 in May 1799; and Augustin born in December 1780 but died at age 6 months in July 1781--six children, a daughter and five sons, between 1774 and 1780.  Evidently their daughter did not marry, and only one their sons did, but his line may not have endured. 

Oldest son Jean-Louis, called Louis, married Marie-Julienne, daughter of fellow Acadians François Duhon and Isabelle Landry, at Cabahannocer in October 1796.  Their daughter Marie-Madeleine-Marcelline was born at Ascension in November 1797 and married into the Barrilleaux family.  Louis and his wife evidently had no sons.  

Charles's third and youngest son Charles, fils, by second wife Marguerite Saulnier, followed his family to New Orelans.  He was baptized there on 10 December 1765, giving an idea of when his family reached the colony.  Spanish officials counted him with his family on the right, or west, bank of the river at Cabahannocer in April 1766 and September 1769 and on the west bank at nearby Ascension in August 1770 and April 1777.  Charles, fils, at age 22, married cousin Marie-Madeleine, 19-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Bénoni Blanchard and his second wife Madeleine Forest, at Ascension in February 1786.  Marie-Madeleine, a native of France, had come to Louisiana from the mother country with her parents aboard one of the Five Ships the year before her marriage.  She and Charles, fils settled on upper Bayou Lafourche, where her parents had taken her.  She and Charles, fils were the first Foret family to settled on the upper Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Charles-Béloni, also called Jacques, baptized, age unrecorded, in April 1787; twins Ludivine-Carmélite and Scholastique-Marie born in August 1790; Ambroise-Paul in August 1793 but died at age 3 1/2 months the following November;  Élisabeth- or Isabelle-Eléonore born in October 1794; Pierre-Aurelien baptized, age unrecorded, in June 1797; Marguerite-Amada baptized, age unrecorded, in December 1797; Élie born in March 1799; Rosalie in February 1801; another Ludivine-Carmélite in June 1802; Hippolyte in April 1805; and twins Joseph and Marie Joséphine, called Joséphine, in November 1810, but Joséphine died at age 8 1/2 in June 1819--13 children, six sons and seven daughters, including two sets of twins, between 1787 and 1810.  A Marguerite Foret gave birth to "natural" son Moïse in Assumption Parish in November 1817; the Plattenville priest who recorded the boy's baptism did not give the father's name.  Was this Charles, fils's daughter Marguerite Amada, who would have been age 20 at the time of the boy's birth and later married a Fait?  Charles, fils died in Assumption Parish in January 1821, age 57.  Daughters Scholastique, Élisabeth, Ludivine, Marguerite, and Rosalie married into the Duhon, Theriot, Landry, Fait, and Boudreaux families.  Five of Charles, fils's sons also married and settled in Assumption and Lafourche Interior parishes.  Most of his descendants remained in Assumption Parish, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Charles Béloni, also called Jacques, married Angélique, daughter of fellow Acadians Amable Landry and Ursule Pitre, at Assumption in February 1807.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Aimée in January 1808; Jean Charles, called Charles, in September 1809; Étienne Rosémond, called Rosémond, in November 1811; Pierre Evariste, called Evariste, in October 1813; Firmin in July 1816 but died at age 12 1/2 in January 1829; Élie Marius, called Marius, born in January 1819; Jean Zénon, called Zénon, in July 1821 but died at age 6 in October 1827; Pauline born in January 1824; and Jule or Jules in February 1826--nine children, two daughters and seven sons, between 1808 and 1826.  Daughter Marie married into the Pomponeau family.  Daughter Pauline may have been the Pauline Forret who gave birth to daughter Adeline in Assumption Parish in September 1842; the Plattenville priest who recorded the girl's baptism did not give her age or her father's name; Charles Béloni's daughter Pauline would have been age 18 when Adeline was baptized.  Was she the Pauline Foret who married fellow Acadian André Boudreaux, place and date unrecorded, but died in November 1846, "age ca. 30 yrs."?  Charles Bélonie's Pauline would have been only age 22 that year.  Charles Béloni's five remaining sons also married and settled on the upper Lafourche. 

Oldest son Jean Charles, called Charles, married Marie Louise, daughter of fellow Acadians Blaise Boudreaux and Perrine Barrilleaux of Lafourche Interior Parish, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in November 1833.  Their son Baptiste Eugène was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in November 1834.  After the death of his wife, Jean Charles filed a succession inventory at the Lafourche Interior Parish courthouse in April 1835.  He remarried to Marcellite or Marcelline, daughter of Joseph Rousseau and his Acadian wife Eulalie LeBlanc, at the Thibodauxville church in February 1837; Jean Charles's younger brother Marius married Marcellite's sister Marie.  Jean Charles and Marcellite's children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Arthémise Marcellite in March 1838; Angéline Lola in July 1841; Elmire Aselina in August 1843; Oleus Cletus in January 1845; Marie Élisabeth in January 1849 but, called Alice, died the following June; Marie Marguerite born in July 1850 but, called Marguerite, died at age 10 in July 1860; Rosalie Émée or Aimée, called Aimée, in October 1851; and Charles Oscar near Labadieville in December 1858--nine children, three sons and six daughters, by two wives, between 1834 and 1838.  Daughters Aimée, ..., by his second wife, married into the Bourg and Perque families by 1870.  None of Jean Charles's sons married by then. 

Charles Bélonie's second son Rosémond married cousin Élise or Élisa, daughter of fellow Acadians Henri Landry and Adélaïde Gautreaux, at the Plattenville church in May 1835.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Bathiled Orelie in April 1836; and Joseph Eugène, called Eugène, in December 1837 but died at age 11 months in October 1838.  Rosémond remarried to Marie, daughter of Étienne Ordoneaux and his Acadian wife Marie Aimée Blanchard, at the Thibodaux church in June 1847; the marriage was registered also in Terrebonne Parish.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Ovide Voltaire in June 1848; Joachim Martial on Bayou Black in August 1849; Aurelia in July 1852; Angelina Pomelia in January 1854; Justillien in April 1855; Ernestine Euzelia in July 1858; Cyprien in September 1860; Marie Célestine in April 1863; ...  None of Rosémond's children married by 1870. 

Charles Bélonie's third son Evariste married Marie, daughter of François Truxillo and Azélie Rousseau, at the Plattenville church in June 1835.  Their son Jules died in Assumption Parish, age 2 months, in July 1836.  Evariste remarried to Cléonise dite Léonise, daughter of fellow Acadians François Barrilleaux and Florence Aucoin, at the Plattenville church in January 1839.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Antoinette Julie in January 1842; Anatole Demetrius Homère in October 1843; Marie Elvire in November 1845; Odile in August 1848; and Ernest Cyprien in April 1851--six children, three sons and three daughters, by two wives, between 1836 and 1851.  Evariste died in Assumption Parish in October 1853.  The Plattenville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Evariste died at "age ca. 37 years."  He was 40.  Daughter Marie, by his second wife, married into the Boudreaux family by 1870.  One of Evariste's sons also married by then. 

Second son Anatole, by second wife Cléonise Barrilleaux, married Eliska, daughter of Rosémond Fremin and his Acadian wife Aglaé Thibodeaux, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1868. ...

Charles Bélonie's fifth son Élie Marius, called Marius, married Marie, another daughter of Joseph Rousseau and Eulalie LeBlanc, at the Plattenville church in January 1844; Marie's sister Marcellite was the second wife of Marius's oldest brother Jean Charles.  Marius and Marie's children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Clet Marcellus in August 1844; Désiré in August 1846 but died near Labadieville, age 17, in January 1864 (one wonders if his death was war-related); Marcelin Gustave born in April 1848; Prosper Villeaux in December 1850; and Marie in July 1853 but died at age 9 months in April 1854--five children, four sons and a daughter, between 1844 and 1853.  Marius's daughter did not survive children, but one of his sons married by 1870.

Third son Marcellin married Philomène or Philomena, daughter of François Berthelot and his Acadian wife Aglaé LeBlanc, at the Labadieville church in March 1867.  Their children, born near Labadieville, included Marie Amanda in February 1868; Aveleda Julia in January 1870; ...

Charles Bélonie's seventh and youngest son Jules married Élodie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Guillot and Adeline Barrilleaux, at the Plattenville church in January 1853.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Élizabeth in November 1853; Florentine Helena in June 1855; and Léon Anatole in July 1857.  Jules likely was the Jules Forest who served as a sergeant in the Assumption Regiment Louisiana Militia during the War of 1861-65.  He remarried to Léonide or Léonise, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Comeaux and Eulalie Gaudet, at the Plattenville church in September 1864.  Their children, born near Labadieville, included Julia Olympe in June 1865; Alexandre Arthur in March 1867; Ernest Cyprien in September 1868; ...  None of Jules's children married by 1870. 

Charles, fils's third son Pierre Aurelien married Marie Cléonise, called Cléonise, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Bourg and Félicité Landry, at the Plattenville church in June 1819.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Mathilde in October 1820; and Pierre Julien Comes in June 1823.  Pierre died in Assumption Parish in August 1823.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Pierre was age 28 when he died.  He was 25.  His widow may have been the Cléonise Bourg who gave birth to an unnamed daughter in March 1829, nearly six years after Pierre Aurelien died.  Did she remarry?  Neither of her and Pierre Aurelien's children married by 1870, so one wonders if the family line endured. 

Charles, fils's fourth son Élie married Marie Josette or Joséphine, called Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Pitre and Céleste Blanchard, at the Plattenville church in February 1825.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Désiré Azéna, Augena, or Engenas, also called Agenai Désiré and Joseph Augena, in January 1826; Élie Maximin, called Maximin, in December 1827; Valéry Jean Baptiste in April 1829; Joséphine in April 1832; Marie Félicité in July 1836; Angelina Louise in December 1838 but, called Marie Angelina, may have died near Paincourtville, age 26 (the recording priest said 27), in October 1865; Charles Valsin born in December 1840; and Hippolyte in September 1844--seven children, five sons and two daughters, between 1826 and 1844.  Élie died in Assumption Parish in February 1846, age 46.  Daughter Joséphine married into the Escaine family by 1870.  Three of Élie's sons also married by then.  One of them moved to the Brashear, now Morgan, City area on the lower Atchafalaya in the late 1850s, but the others remained in Assumption Parish.  The son who moved to Brashear City, in fact, returned to Assumption Parish in the mid-1860s. 

Oldest son Joseph Augena married first cousin Marie Aséma, called Aséma, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Foret and Denise Theriot, his uncle and aunt, at the Paincourtville church in June 1852; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their chilidren, born near Paincourtville, included Marie Denis in March 1855; Joseph Élie in June 1856 but, called Éli, died at age 4 1/2 (the recording priest said 5) in February 1861; Marie Fédérise born in May 1858; Joseph Désiré in September 1859; Joseph Nicomide in December 1861 but, called Nicomette, died at age 10 months in October 1862; and twins Marie Alida or Olida and Marie Olfida born in July 1863, a month before their father's passing, but Marie Olfida died the following September and Marie Olida in October--seven children, four daughters and three sons, including a set of twins, between 1855 and 1863.  Augena, called Angena by the recording priest, died near Paincourtville in August 1863, age 37.  One wonders if his death was war-related.  None of his remaining children married by 1870. 

Élie's second son Élie Maximin, called Maximin, married Angelina, daughter of Balthazar Percle and Marie Oubane, at the Pierre Part church, Assumption Parish, in May 1860.  Their children, born near Pierre Part, included Marcelin Désiré in August 1861; and Marie Josette posthumously in January 1864.  Maximin died in Assumption Parish in July 1863.  The Paincourtville priest who recorded the burial said that Maximin died at "age 37 years."  He was 35.  His older brother Augena died a month after he did.  One wonders if their deaths were war-related. 

Élie's third son Valéry married Célestine or Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Daigle and Céleste Daigle, at the Paincourtville church in May 1848.  Their children, born near Paincourtville and on the lower Atchafalaya, included twins Clairville and Emeliza, baptized at Paincourtville, age illegible, in September 1849, but Clairville, called Clerville, died the following November; Joseph Romain born in January 1850 but, called Romain, died at age 1 1/2 in October 1852; Joséphine Amélie or Émelie, called Émelie, born in October 1852; Marie Aimée in December 1854; Marie Augustine in June 1856; Céleste Baselise near Pierre Part in December 1859; Adam Lubin near Brashear, now Morgan, City, St. Mary Parish, in March 1862; Joseph Léo near Paincourtville in January 1865; and Marie Zélanie in October 1868 but, called Marie Zélamie, died 15 days later--10 children, seven daughters and three sons, including a set of twins, between 1849 and 1868.  Valéry died near Paincourtville in November 1868.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Valéry died at "age 35 years."  He was 39.  Daughter Émelie married into the Hébert family by 1870.  Neither of Valéry's remaining sons married by then. 

Charles, fils's fifth son Hippolyte married Henriette, daughter of Joseph Antoine Arao, Araou, Araos, Ardos, Arouso, or Harahoue and Marie Antoinette Millan, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in June 1827.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Clete or Clet Hippolyte in June 1827; Marie Élisabeth in July 1830 but, called Marie, died at age 18 in August 1848; Carmélite Clémentine born in August 1831; Joséphine Phélonise in December 1832; and Marcelin died at birth in April 1834--five children, two sons and three daughters, between 1827 and 1834.  Wife Henriette died in April 1834, age 26, soon after the birth of their younger son.  Hippolyte evidently did not remarry.  Daughters Carmélite and Joséphine married into the Himel and Brogden families by 1870, Joséphine in April of that year at age 37.  Hippolyte's remaining son did not marry by then, if he married at all, so only the blood of this family line may have endured. 

Charles, fils's sixth and youngest son Joseph, a twin, married Denise, daughter of fellow Acadians François Theriot and Marie Bourg, at the Thibodauxville church in August 1830.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Élie le jeune in Assumption Parish in May 1831; and Marie Aséma, called Aséma, in the early 1830s.  Daughter Aséma married a Foret first cousin.  Joseph's son also married. 

Only son Élie le jeune married Victorine, daughter of fellow Acadians Urbin Bourg and Marie Bourg, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Parish, in April 1854. Their children, born in nearby Assumption Parish, included Joseph Numa in December 1854; Marie Emma in February 1857; Mathilde Éloise near Attakapas Canal in April 1860; Adam Ernest in August 1861; and twins Louise Elda and an unnamed son in February 1865, but the son died at age 5 months the following July.  Élie le jeune remarried to Léonelle, daughter of Joseph Gastale and Célina Fremin, at the Plattenville church in January 1868. Daughter Lutetia Joséphine was born in Assumption Parish in December 1868; ...  None of Élie le jeune's children married by 1870. 

Pierre (c1739-?) à ? à Michel Foret

Pierre Forest, born in British Nova Scotia in c1739, came to Louisiana from Halifax via St.-Domingue in 1765 with wife Anne Dupuis and no children.  Spanish officials counted them on the left, or east, bank of the river at Cabahannocer in April 1766.  One wonders if they were that rare Acadian couple who had no children.

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Four more Forests--a wife, a widow, a girl traveling with her widowed mother, and a middle-aged bachelor--reached New Orleans in September 1766 in the first contingent of Acadian exiles from Maryland.  Spanish authorities directed them to Cabahannocer, where some of their relatives from Halifax had settled the year before. No new enduring family line came of it: 

Pierre (c1737-1770s) à ? à Michel Foret

Pierre Forest, born probably at Minas in c1737, was exiled to Maryland in 1755 while still in his teens.  He came to Louisiana in 1766 and followed his fellow exiles to Cabahannacer.  After marrying fellow Acadian Marie-Josèphe Landry at New Orleans in c1768, he returned to Cabahannocer.  Spanish officials counted them on the left, or east, bank of the river there in September 1769.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer, included Théotiste baptized, age unrecorded, in June 1771; Marie-Madeleine in April 1773; and Marie-Constance in July 1775--three children, all daughters, between 1771 and 1775.  Pierre died by April 1777, when his wife remarried at Cabahannocer. Daughters Théotiste and Marie-Madeleine married into the Bergeron and Godin families.  He and his wife seem to have had no sons, so this line of the family, except for its blood, evidently died with him.  

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A dozen more Forests--three families, two headed by a father and son--reached Louisiana in July 1767 in the second contingent of Acadian exiles from Maryland.  Spanish authorities placed them in the new settlement of San Gabriel d'Iberville on the east bank of the river below Bayou Manchac to provide militia for a Spanish fort.  Several more family lines came of it: 

Bonaventure (c1723-1770s) à Pierre à Michel Foret

Bonaventure, older son of Pierre Forest, fils and Madeleine Babin, born probably at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in c1723, married Claire, daughter of Étienne Rivet and Anne Leprince, probably at Pigiguit in c1743.  Claire gave Bonaventure six children there:  Pierre born in c1743; Marguerite in c1745; Marie in c1746; Joseph in c1747; Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, in c1748; and Anne-Rose or -Sophie, called Sophie, in c1750--two sons and four daughters, between 1743 and 1750.  The British deported Pierre and members of his family to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  Somehow their younger son, who would have been age 9 in 1755, escaped the British roundup during the chaos at Pigiguit, perhaps with the help of relatives, found refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, was held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia, married there, and went to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765, in his late teens.  Bonaventure and Claire's older son followed the rest of his family to Maryland and married a fellow Acadian in the Chesapeake colony.  Bonaventure, Claire, their four daughters, and a Boudrot orphan appeared on a French repatriation list at Upper Marlborough, and their older son and his family on a repatriation list at Baltimore, in July 1763.  Bonaventure, Claire, and their daughters, as well as their older son and his family, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1767 and followed their fellow passengers to San Gabriel, upriver from where their younger son and his wife had settled two years earlier.  Daughters Madeleine and Sophie married into the Landry, Hébert, Plide, and Dugas families on the river; one of them, Madeleine, married three times.  Bonaventure's two sons also settled on the river, but only one of the lines endured beyond the second generation. 

Older son Pierre followed his family to Maryland, where he married fellow Acadian Marguerite Blanchard in c1762.  They were counted with infant son Pierre, fils at Baltimore in July 1763.  Marguerite gave Pierre two more children in the Chesapeake colony:  Simon born in c1764; and Marie-Victoire in c1767.  A few weeks after the birth of their daughter, Pierre and his family followed his parents and sisters to Louisiana and settled with them at San Gabriel.  Marguerite gave Pierre no more children there.  Pierre remarried to fellow Acadian Marie Breaux, widow of Olivier Babin, at nearby Ascension in December 1775.  Marie gave Pierre three more children on the river, including Marine baptized at Cabahannocer, age unrecorded, in April 1777; St.-Cyre baptized, age unrecorded, in May 1777; and Anne-Muchet[sic] born at Ascension in February 1779 but died the following October--six children, three sons and three daughters, by two wives, between 1762 and 1779, in Maryland and Louisiana.  Pierre, père may have died at San Gabriel in May 1781, age 43.  Daughter Marie-Victoire, by his first wife, married into the Dugas family at Ascension.  None of Pierre's three sons seems to have married, so his line of the family, except for its blood, probably did not endure in the Bayou State. 

Bonaventure's younger son Joseph, while still a child, evidently escaped the British roundup at Pigiguit in the fall of 1755, perhaps with relatives, and was taken to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  In the late 1750s or early 1760s, he either surrendered to, or was captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  He married Isabelle Léger probably in one of the prison compounds before 1765, in his late teens.  That year, still childless, they followed other exiles in Nova Scotia to Louisiana via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, and settled at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans, where Forest cousins also settled.  Joseph and Isabelle may have been living at New Orleans in early 1767, about the time that his parents, older brother, and sisters reached the city from Maryland.  Joseph and Isabelle's children, born on the river, included Jean-Joseph-Bernard at New Orleans in January 1767; Rosalie at Cabahannocer in c1770; Jean-Baptiste in January 1772; Marie died, age unrecorded, in February 1773; and Marguerite baptized, age unrecorded, in July 1774--five children, two sons and three daughters, between 1767 and 1774.  Joseph, at age 29, remarried to Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Martin and Marie-Jeanne Comeau of Annapolis Royal and widow of Pierre Blanchard, at Cabahannocer in June 1775.  She evidently gave him no more children.  Joseph died by July 1778, in his early 30s, when his wife remarried at Cabahannocer.  Daughters Rosalie and Marguerite, by his first wife, married into the Baroa or Maroi, Dugas, and Foret families on the river.  His younger son married and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Some of his descendants settled as far down bayou as the Terrebonne marshes.

Older son Jean-Joseph-Bernard evidently died before he could marry. 

Joseph's younger son Jean-Baptiste, by first wife Isabelle Léger, married Sophie, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Bourgeois and Anne Landry, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer on the river in May 1790 and joined the Acadian exodus to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Jean-Baptiste, fils in January 1798; Michel in March 1800; Rosalie in April 1802; and Joseph le jeune in c1807 but died in Ascension Parish, age 20, in August 1827--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1798 and 1807.  Jean Baptiste, père died in Lafourche Interior Parish in September 1842, age 70.  Daughter Rosalie married into the Barrios family.  Two of Jean Baptiste's sons also married, but only one of their lines seems to have endured.

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, fils, called Jean, married Marguerite, daughter of Manuel Barrios and Antonia dite Antoinette Mora Rodriguez of the Canary Islands and sister of Jean's sister Rosalie's husband, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in July 1820.  One wonders if they had any children. 

Jean-Baptiste, père's second son Michel married Céleste, 18-year-old daughter of François Schweitzer, also called Chaistre, Choise, Choiste, Choitre, Chouasse, Chouave, Chouest, Choueste, Chousse, and Shoesse, and his wife Dorothée Wileich or Vilick, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in April 1825, and sanctified the marriage at the Thibodauxville church in July 1829.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie in August 1828; Marguerite Pamela, called Pamela, in April 1829; Céleste Élodie, called Élodie and Adélaise, in August 1831; Joseph Michel in October 1833; François Robert, called Robert, in November 1837; Alfred in c1838; Barthélémi or Barthélémy in November 1839; Berthille or Berthilde Valentine in February 1842; Olyndre Zulema, called Zulema and Sulema, in June 1844; Théodule Cléopha in January 1848; and Jean Caliste, called Caliste or Callixte, in June 1850--11 children, six daughters and five sons, between 1828 and 1850.  A "petition for tutorship" in Michel's name, calling his wife Céleste Schweitzer, and listing their children and some of their spouses--Marie and her husband, Pamela and her husband, Élodie and her husband, Berthilde and her husband, Joseph, Robert, Alfred, Zulema, Théodule, and Clarisse (son Jean Caliste)--was filed at the Houma courthouse, Terrebonne Parish, in May 1860.  He would have been age 60 that year.  Daughters Marie, Céleste Élodie/Adélaise, Marguerite Pamela, Berthilde, and Zulema married into the Buford, Soudelier, Guidry, Martin, Mayet, and Domingue families by 1870.  Four of Michel's sons also married by then and settled in Terrebonne Parish. 

During the War of 1861-65, 0ldest son Joseph Michel, called Joseph M. in Confederate records, served as a corporal and a private in Company E, 4th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafourche Parish, that fought which fought in Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia.  At age 28, still a bachelor, he enlisted at Tangipahoa, Louisiana, probably Camp Moore, in May 1861 and remained with the unit till the end of the war.  He served mostly on detached service at the "government shop" in Atlanta, Georgia, before moving to the government shop at Montgomery, Alabama, after the Federals captured and burned Atlanta.  He evidently survived the war and returned to his family, but he did not marry before 1870, if he married at all. 

During the war, Michel's second son François Robert, called Robert, also served in Company E, 4th Regiment Louisiana Infantry with older brother Joseph M., but his service was much different.  He, too, enlisted at Tangipahoa in May 1861, age 23, unmarried, and was present with the hard-fount unit through December 1863.  He was wounded in action at Ezra Church, Georgia, on 18 July 1864, during the Atlanta campaign, and was sent to the hospital at Montgomery, Alabama, where a leg was amputated, date unrecorded.  He was given an end-of-war parole at Montgomery at the beginning of June 1865 and returned home to his family, perhaps with his older brother.  At age 31, Robert married Marie Angelina, daughter of Washington Whitney and Arthémise Duplantis, at the Houma church in February 1869, on the same day his youngest brother Caliste married, but at a different place. ...

Michel's third son Alfred married cousin Marie Louise, called Louise, daughter of Édouard Pichoff and his Acadian wife Roséma Dugas, at the Houma church in June 1863.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Toussaint Alidor in November 1864; Victorine Célestine in November 1866; Alfred Beauregard in January 1870; ...

Michel's fifth son Théodule married Aimée, daughter of D. Joseph Dupré and his Acadian wife Céleste Pitre, at the Montegut church, Terrebonne Parish, in May 1870. ...

Michel's sixth and youngest son Caliste married Evelia, daughter of fellow Acadian Edmond Guidry and his Creole wife Elmire Belanger, at the Montegut church in February 1869, on the same day his older brother Robert married, but at a different place.  Daughter Marie Éloise was born near Montegut in January 1870; ...

Jean-Baptiste (c1736-1760s) à ? à Michel Foret

Jean-Baptiste Forest, born probably at Minas in c1736, was exiled to Maryland in 1755 in his late teens.  He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Richard and Marie LeBlanc of Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, probably in Maryland in the early 1760s and appeared on a repatriation list with his wife and an orphan girl at Upper Marlborough in July 1763.  Their children, born in Maryland after the listing, included Marie in c1764; and Pierre-Moïse, called Moïse, in c1766.  Jean-Baptiste took his family to Louisiana in 1767 and settled at San Gabriel.  They evidently had no more children there.  Jean-Baptiste died by May 1770, in his early 30s, when his wife remarried at San Gabriel.  Daughter Marie married into the Blanco family.  Jean-Baptiste's son also married and settled on the river at San Gabriel and West Baton Rouge Parish. 

Only son Pierre-Moïse, called Moïse, followed his family to New Orleans and San Gabriel, where he married Bibianne, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Allain and Catherine Hébert of Minas and Baltimore, in April 1790.  Bibianne also was a native of Maryland who followed her family to Louisiana in 1767.  In the late 1790s or early 1800s, they resettled across the river in what became West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born on the river, included Pierre, also called Moïse, at San Gabriel in December 1796; Marie-Madeleine-Adeline in May 1799; Michel-Rosémond at Baton Rouge in September 1801 but died there at age 6 in October 1807; Marguerite Ermelande, called Ermelande, born in April 1804; Joseph Hippolyte in February 1806; Pierre Treville in February 1808; Pierre Paulin, called Paulin, in February 1810; and Augustin Dorville, called Dorville, in January 1812--eight children, six sons and two daughters, between 1796 and 1812.  Daughters Marie Madeleine Adeline and Emerlande married into the Laguionie, Landry, and Alexandry families.  Three of Moïse's sons also married and settled in West Baton Rouge Parish--the only line of Acadian Forets who remained on the river.  But not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Pierre, also called Moïse, married Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadians Mathurin Landry and his second wife Marie Apolline Hébert, probably at St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in the late 1810s.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Adeline Irma, called Irma, in January 1820; Emérante Ulma in January 1822; Jean Théodule, called Théodule, in July 1823; Marie in November 1825; Pierre Damis, Adamis, or Adonis, called Adonis, in September 1827; Doralise, also called Apolline Doralie, in January 1830; Pierre, fils in May 1834; Élisabeth in the 1830s; Joseph Prudent in August 1836; Marie Louise baptized at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, age 6 months, in July 1841; and Marguerite Ermine in January 1844--11 children, seven daughters and four sons, between 1820 and 1844.  Daughters Irma, Apolline Doralie, Élisabeth, and Marie Louis married into the Molaison, Guénard, Lejeune, Labauve families by 1870.  Two of Pierre's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Jean Théodule, called Théodule, married Williamine Octavine, called Octavine, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Babin and Caroline Lejeune of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in March 1845.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born near Brusly, included Pierre Edgard in May 1847; Marie Adonia in November 1851; Louis Odilon in November 1853; Jean Baptiste René in June 1855; Geniève Amélie in May 1859; Jules Eustache in April 1861; ...  None of Théodule's children married by 1870. 

Moïse, fils's second son Adonis married Alida or Élisa, daughter of fellow Acadians Zénon Lejeune and Élise Martin, at the Brusly church in February 1849; Adonis's sister Élisabeth married Alida's brother Alfred.  Adonis and Alida's children, born near Brusly, included André Victor in April 1852; Joseph Félicien in April 1854; Jean Louis in March 1856; and Marie Altée in November 1858--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1852 and 1858.  None of Adonis's children married by 1870. 

Moïse, père's fifth son Pierre Paulin, called Paulin, married Augustine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Richard and Emerite Blanchard of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the Baton Rouge church in February 1833.   Did they have any children? 

Moïse, père's sixth and youngest son Augustin Dorville, called Dorville, married Marie Adolphine, called Adolphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Valentin Hébert and Marie Élise Hébert, at the Baton Rouge church in July 1836.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their son Théodore Dorville was born there in October 1837.  Dorville remarried to Pauline, daughter of fellow Acadians Zéphirin Blanchard and Élise Lebert, at the Brusly church in June 1847.  They evidently had no children.  Dorville's son married.

Only son Théodore Dorville, by first wife Adolphine Hébert, married Hélène Odile, another daughter of Zéphirin Blanchard and Élise Lebert, at the Brusly church in February 1865; Hélène was a sister of Théodore Dorville's father's second wife.  Daughter Jeanne Augustine was born near Brusly in December 1868; ...

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Twenty years after the first of their cousins reached the colony, 17 more Forests reached Louisiana aboard three of the Seven Ships from France. 

The first of them, a young bachelor, crossed on Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans during the third week of August 1785.  No new family line came of it:

Pierre (c1760-?) à ? à Michel Foret

Pierre Forest, a sailor, born perhaps in France in c1760, came to Louisiana in 1785, still a bachelor.  He followed his fellow passengers to Baton Rouge.  One wonders what happened to him in the Spanish colony.

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A Forest crossed on L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in early November 1785.  She followed her Blanchard husband and their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche. 

A month later, 15 more Forests--three families, two of them led by a father and son, and two wives, both of them daughters of two of the family heads--crossed on La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans from St.-Malo in early December 1785.  They followed their fellow passengers to the new Acadian community of Bayou des Écores in the New Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge.  Only one new family line came of it, not on the river or on the upper Lafourche, but on the western prairies: 

Jacques l'aîné (c1709-1780s?) à Michel Foret

Jacques, sixth and youngest son of Michel Forest, fils and his second wife Marie Célestin dit Bellemère, born probably at Minas in c1709, married Claire, daughter of Michel Vincent and Marie-Josèphe Richard, at Grand-Pré in July 1731.  They settled at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit.  Claire gave Jacques six children there:  Victor born in c1733; Pierre in c1734; Madeleine in c1743; Jacques, fils in c1745; Anne-Rosalie in c1748; and Ignace in c1750--four sons and two daughters, between 1733 and 1750.  Older sons Victor and Pierre, and Jacques, fils, still a child, moved to Île St.-Jean after August 1752, and the older two married there.  The British deported Jacques, Claire, and their younger children to Virginia in the fall of 1755, Virginia officials sent them on to England in the spring of 1756, and they were held at Southampton.  Meanwhile, in late 1758, the British deported Jacques's two older sons and their families, and brother Jacques, fils, still a teenager, from Île St.-Jean to St.-Malo, France.  In May 1763, Jacques, père and his family were repatriated to St.-Malo aboard La Dorothée and settled at Plouër-sur-Rance on the west side of the river south of the Breton port near their older sons.  They all moved to the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer in 1766.  Likely because they wished to remain near their loved ones, Jacques, père and wife Claire did not follow their fellow exiles from England to Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany in late1765.  Second son Pierre drowned in July 1768, perhaps at St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  Wife Claire died at St.-Servan in March 1769, age 64.  Jacques, père did not go to Poitou in 1773, nor did he join hundreds of his fellow Acadians in the lower Loire port of Nantes later in the decade.  His daughters Madeleine and Anne-Rosalie married into the Blanchard and LeBlanc families at Plouër and St.-Servan.  Two of his youngest sons married at St.-Servan, and his oldest son remarried there twice.  Jacques, père, in his mid-70s, remarried to Frenchwoman Angélique, daughter of André Richer and Madeleine Renoux and sister of his oldest son's fourth wife, probably at St.-Servan in late 1784 or early 1785.  She gave him no more children.  Jacques, père and his new wife, along with three of his married children, a son and two daughters, as well as a niece and a nephew, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 aboard La Ville d'Archangel.  His younger sons Jacques, fils and Ignace, who would have been ages 40 and 35 in 1785, if they were still living, remained with their families in France.  From New Orleans, Jacques, père, wife Angélique, and his family followed their fellow passengers to Bayou des Écores, where Jacques died probably soon after their arrival, in his late 70s.  Daughter Madeleine, who had come to Louisiana on an earlier ship, settled with her Blanchard husband on upper Bayou Lafourche, as did daughter Anne-Rosalie and her LeBlanc husband, who had crossed with her family on La Ville d'Archangel but did not go to Bayou des Écores.  Jacques's oldest son resettled at Baton Rouge before moving on to the western prairies, but his line of the family does not seem to have endured in the Bayou State.  If Jacques, père's line of the family did endure, it would have been in France. 

Oldest son Victor, by first wife Claire Vincent, went to Île St.-Jean with two younger brothers after August 1752 and married Judith, daughter of François Robichaud and Agathe Turpin, at Port-La-Joye on the island in May 1756.  Judith's sister Anne-Blanche married Victor's younger brother Pierre on the island.  Judith gave Victor no children.  He remarried to Anne-Josèphe, daughter of Joseph Hébert and Isabelle Benoit, at Port-La-Joye in February 1757.  The British deported them to Cherbourg, France, in late 1758, but they did not remain.  In July 1759, Victor, Anne-Josèphe, and two of her unmarried siblings reached St.-Malo from Cherbourg.  They settled at Pleurtuit on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo before crossing the river to St.-Suliac.  They then crossed the river again, to Plouër-sur-Rance south of Pleurtuit, to be closer to his family.  Victor worked as a sawyer.  Anne-Josèphe gave him six children, including a set of triplets, at St.-Suliac and Plouër:  Joseph-Victor born at St.-Suliac in May 1760; twins Jean-Baptiste-François and Amand-Olivier in December 1761, but Amand-Olivier died at age 1 in January 1763; and triplets Victor, fils, Marie, and Anne-Perrine born at Plouër in March 1764.  Wife Anne-Josèphe died at Plouër in March 1764, age 35, probably from the rigors of giving birth to triplets.  Victor remarried again--his third marriage--to Frenchwoman Julienne Rosereux probably at St.-Servan-sur-Mer in c1766.  Julienne gave Victor six more children there:  Pierre-Guillaume born in March 1767 but died eight days after his birth; Servanne-Julienne born in May 1768; Marie-Adélaïde in August 1770; Jeanne-Élisabeth in February 1772; Jean-Jacques in September 1775; and Étienne-Gilles in c1778--a dozen children, five sons and seven daughters, including a set of triplets, by his second and third wives, from 1760 to 1778.  Like his father, Victor did not take his family to Poitou in 1773, nor did he join his fellow Acadians at Nantes later in the decade.  At age 51, Victor remarried yet again--his fourth marriage--to Marie-Jeanne-Catherine, daughter of St.-Malo locals André Richer and Madeleine Renoux, at St.-Servan-sur-Mer in February 1784.  Marie-Jeanne-Catherine's sister Angélique became Victor's stepmother when she married his father Jacques later that year. Victor's daughter Marie, by his second wife, married into the Landry family at St.-Malo.  Victor, Marie-Jeanne-Catherine, and eight of his remaining children, three sons and five daughters, including his married daughter, followed his father Jacques and his younger siblings to Louisiana in 1785.  One of the triplets by his second wife,Victor, fils, who would have been age 20 that year, if he were still living, did not accompany his father to the Spanish colony.  From New Orleans, Victor and his family followed his father and their fellow passengers to Bayou des Écores before moving downriver to Baton Rouge.  In the early 1790s, Victor moved his family again, this time to the Opelousas District.  Daughters Anne-Perrine, Servanne-Julienne, and Marie-Adélaïde, by his second and third wives, married into the Beziné or Bazinet, Vilgemenol or Vilkensol, and Perez families at New Orleans while their family was living at Bayou des Écores.  They evidently remained in the city.  Oldest daughter Anne-Perrine died at New Orleans in October 1800, in her mid-30s.  Two of their brothers married at Opelousas, but neither of the lines seems to have endured. 

Oldest son Joseph-Victor, by second wife Anne-Josèphe Hébert, followed his family to New Orleans, Bayou des Écores, and Baton Rouge and was at Opelousas with his father's family in the late 1790s, when he would have been in his late 30s.  He probably did not marry. 

Victor's second son Jean-Jacques, by third wife Julien Rosereux, followed his family to New Orleans, Bayou des Écores, Baton Rouge, and Opelousas, where he married Geneviève, daughter of Étienne Ardoin and Marie-Josèphe Lapointe, in January 1802.  They evidently had no children.  

Victor's third and youngest son Étienne-Gilles, by third wife Julien Rosereux, followed his family to New Orleans, Bayou des Écores, Baton Rouge, and Opelousas, where, at age 42, he married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand Hébert and Geneviève Babin and widow of Jean Baptiste Janeau, in March 1820.  Like his older brothers, he, too, may have fathered no children.  

Jacques, père's second son Pierre followed his older brother Victor to Île St.-Jean after August 1752 and married Anne-Blanche, daughter of François Robichaud and Agathe Turpin, at Port-La-Joye on the island in January 1757.  Daughter Anne-Marie was born in c1758 on the eve of the island's dérangement.  The British deported them St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Their daughter died at sea.  They settled in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer before moving in 1759 to Plouër-sur-Rance on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo.  In 1763, they returned to St.-Servan.  Anne-Blanche gave Pierre three more children, all sons, at Plouër and St.-Servan:  Pierre-Joseph born at Plouër in June 1760; François-Jean in April 1762 but died at St.-Servan, age 2, in June 1764; and Jean-Joachim born at St.-Servan in February 1766 but died there at age 1 1/2 in July 1767--four children, a daughter and three sons, between 1758 and 1767, in greater Acadia and France, only one of whom seems to have survived childhood.  Pierre, who may have been a fisherman or a sailor, drowned in July 1768, age 34, and was buried at St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  His remaining son, Pierre-Joseph, who would have been age 25 in 1785, if he were still living, did not follow his grandfather and his uncle Victor to Spanish Louisiana.  One wonders if Pierre-Joseph survived childhood and married in France. 

Jacques, père's third son Jacques, fils, while still very young, followed his older brothers to Île St.-Jean after August 1752, to St.-Malo, St.-Servan-sur-Mer, Plouër-sur-Rance, and St.-Suliac, France.  He was reported as "absent" in 1765, when he would have been age 20, so one wonders if he worked as a seaman.  At age 29, he married Tarsille, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Guérin and Marguerite Henry, at St.-Servan in August 1774.  One wonders if they had any children.  They did not follow his father and oldest brother Victor to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.

Jacques, père's fourth and youngest son Ignace followed his family to Virginia, England, St.-Malo, Plouër-sur-Rance, and St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where he married Jeanne-Cécile, daughter of locals Pierre Descroutes and Élisabeth Calisan, in May 1777.  One wonders if they had any children.  Like his brother Jacques, fils, he did not follow his father and oldest brother Victor to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Étienne (c1750-1790s) à Jean-Baptiste à Michel, fils à Michel Foret

Étienne, younger son of Jean-Baptiste Forest, fils and Madeleine LeBlanc and nephew of Jacques l'aîné, born probably at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in c1750, was taken to Île Madame, off the southern coast of Île Royale, soon after his birth and was counted with his family there in late February 1752.  He followed his widowed mother and siblings to St.-Malo, France, in 1758-59 and settled with them in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  He did not go to Poitou with other Acadian exiles in 1773, when he would have been in his early 20s, nor did he join fellow Acadians in the lower Loire port of Nantes later in the decade.  He remained, instead, in the St.-Malo area.  One wonders what he did for living after he came of age.  He followed his older cousin Jacques Forest le jeune to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Étienne was recorded with no wife on La Ville d'Archangel's passenger list, so he probably was still a bachelor in his mid-30s.  He may have been the Étienne Foret who married Marguerite, daughter of Jacques Clome and Marie-Anne Thomache, place and date unrecorded, and lived and died on the German Coast just upriver from New Orleans.  Marguerite died at the city's Charity Hospital in April 1796.  Her burial record, written by a Spanish priest, describes her as widow of Estevan Forest.  If this was him, one wonders if he fathered any children.  The church records of both St.-Charles des Allemands and St.-Jean Baptiste des Allemands offer no clues. 

Jacques le jeune (c1731-?) à ? à Michel Foret

Jacques Forest, who in Louisiana would have been called Jacques le jeune, born probably at Minas in c1731, was deported to Virginia in 1755 and sent on to England the following spring.  He married Marguerite-Geneviève, daughter perhaps of fellow Acadians Maurice Comeau and Marguerite Thibodeau, in England in c1759.  Marguerite gave Jacques a son, Benjamin, born there the following year.  In May 1763, the family was repartiated to St.-Malo, France, aboard the transport Dorothée.  They settled in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where Marguerite gave Jacques four more children:  Marie born in July 1764; Élisabeth-Marie in November 1766; Pierre-Nicolas in September 1769; and Marguerite-Geneviève in January 1774--five children, two sons and three daughters, between 1760 and 1774, in England and France.  Soon after the birth of their third daughter, they followed other exiles languishing in the port cities to the interior of Poitou to settle on an influential nobleman's land near the city of Châtellerault.  In December 1775, after two years of effort, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the lower Loire port of Nantes.  Youngest daughter Marguerite-Geneviève died at Nantes in September 1777, age 3.  The family returned to St.-Servan-sur-Mer by April 1784, when their older daughter Marie married into the Aucoin family there.  Second daughter Élisabeth-Marie married into the Bedel family at St.-Servan in May 1784; her husband was a native of St.-Servan.  Jacques, Marguerite, their younger son, and their older married daughter Marie and her Aucoin husband emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Younger daughter Élisabeth-Marie, perhaps because she married a Frenchman, remained in the mother country.  Jacques's older son Benjamin, who would have been age 25 in 1785, if he was still living, also chose not to follow his family to Louisiana.  From New Orleans, Jacques and his family followed their fellow passengers to Bayou des Écores, and he and Marguerite may have died there.  Daughter Marie and son Pierre-Nicolas, who would have been age 16 when he reached the colony, did not remain on the river but resettled in the Opelousas District.  Marie remarried into the Bellard family there.  Her brother also married and settled on the prairies. 

Younger son Pierre-Nicolas followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, back to St.-Servan-sur-Mer, to New Orleans, and Bayou des Écores.  After a series of hurricanes devastated the area in the early 1790s, most of the Acadians abandoned the New Feliciana settement and moved on to other Acadian communities on the river or to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Pierre-Nicolas and his older sister chose to resettle on the western prairies, where only one other Forest had gone.  Pierre-Nicolas married Marie-Françoise, called Françoise, daughter of Alabama Creoles Henri Fontenot and Marie-Louise Doucet and widow of Pierre Pitre, at Opelousas in October 1795.  They settled near Marie-Françoise's parents on La Prairie dite de L'Anglais near Prairie Ronde in what became St. Landry Parish.  Their children, born there, included a son, name unrecorded, in c1796 but died at age 7 in November 1803; Jean baptized at Opelousas, age unrecorded, in May 1798; Pierre, fils born in December 1799; Marie-Marguerite, called Marguerite, baptized, age 7 weeks, in November 1801; Cyprien baptized, age 5 months, in February 1804; Mirtille or Murtile, baptized, age 3 months, in July 1807; Delphine baptized, age 4 weeks, in June 1809; Azélie born in August 1811; and a son, name unrecorded, died two days after his birth in November 1813--nine children, five sons and four daughters, between 1796 and 1813.  Pierre Nicholas died "suddenly from an inflammation of the lungs," that is, pneumonia, at Prairie dite de L'Anglais in January or February 1814, age 45.  His successions were filed at the Opelousas courthouse, St. Landry Parish, in October and November 1816.  Widow Marie Françoise remarried to a Jeansonne.  Her and Pierre Nicolas's daughters Marguerite, Mirtille, Delphine, and Azélie married into the Demarest, LaFleur, Henry, Bello, Fontenot, Vigé,  and Broussard families, one of them, Mirtille, three times, another, Azélie, twice.  Only one of Pierre Nicolas's sons married.  Most, if not all, of the Acadian Forets of southwest Louisiana are descended from this married son.  Not unusual for Acadians in St. Landry Parish, Pierre-Nicolas's son, daughters, and grandchildren married few fellow Acadians. 

Fourth son Cyprien married Joséphine, daughter of Étienne Versure Fuselier and Lucille Deshotel, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in September 1824.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Pierre le jeune in July 1825; Geneviève in January 1830; Adolphe in November 1831; Amélia in March 1836; Gérand in June 1838; Lucille in the late 1830s or early 1840s; Onile in c1845; and Félicien in November 1847--eight children, five sons and three daughters, between 1825 and 1847.  Daughter Lucille married a Fontenot cousin by 1870.  Three of Cyprien's sons also married by then and settled near Ville Platte, then in St. Landry but now in Evangeline Parish. 

Oldest son Pierre le jeune married cousin Lucille, called Lise and Lucie, daughter of Pierre Savant and Lucille Philippe Fontenot, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in October 1846, and sanctified the marriage at the Opelousas church in May 1848.  They settled near Ville Platte.  Their children, born there, included Émelia in c1848; Pierre Adolphe in November 1849; Alcée in October 1851; Lucille in April 1856; Arthémon in September 1858; and Joséphine in April 1861--six children, three daughters and three sons, between 1848 and 1861.  Pierre le jeune's succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in November 1862.  He would have been age 37 that year.  If this was a post-mortem succession, one wonders if his death was war-related.  Daughter Émelia married into the McDaniel family by 1870.  Two of Pierre le jeune's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Pierre Adolphe married Nancy, daughter of Isom Lee and Marguerite Gibbons, at the Washington church, St. Landry Parish, in August 1870. ...

Pierre le jeune's second son Alcée married Émeline Tate in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in October 1870. ...

Cyprien's third son Gerand married cousin Marguerite, daughter of Jean Louis Philippe Fontenot and his Acadian wife Marguerite Pouponne Pitre, at the Opelousas church in February 1860.  Their children, born near Ville Platte, included Jérôme Hortan in August 1861; Corine in February 1866; Marie Alidie in September 1867; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Gerand, called Geraud in Confederate records, served in Company F of the 8th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Landry Parish, which served in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania--one of General R. E. Lee's Louisiana Tigers.  In March 1862, Gerand was a farmer, husband, and father, age 25, when he enlisted in the company as a private at Opelousas.  Soon after joining the company in Virginia, he spent time in a hospital, probably to recover from a bout of illness, and was present for duty with his company in Maryland and Virginia from April 1862 until February 1863.  That month he was detailed as a teamster with his company's brigade and served in that capacity until later in the year, when he was transferred to the Quartermaster Department, where he again served as a teamster.  He surrendered with Lee's army at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, on 9 April 1865 and returned home to his family.  Daughter Corine married a Deshotel cousin in December 1881 at Ville Platte.

Cyprien's fourth son Onile also served in Company F of the 8th Regiment Louisiana Infantry.  He, too, was a farmer when he enlisted in the company in June 1861, age 16, eight months before his brother Gerand signed up.  Onile's service, however, was not as distinguished as his brother's.  He was present with the company through February 1862, when he "Remustered for the war," for which he was given a 30-day furlough.  He went home, evidently got sick there, and extended his 30-day furlough without authorization.  As a result, he was reported on company rolls first as absent without leave and then as a deserter.  He never returned to his unit.  In June 1865, however, he did report to the Federal provost office in Washington, north of Opelousas, to sign up as an end-of-war "prisoner."  He married Lucretia or Lucille, daughter of Charles Greenwell and Josèphe L. Fontentot, at the Opelousas church in June 1866.  Their son Joseph Willis was baptized at the Ville Platte church, age 2 months, in February 1868.  They had 18 more children, including many sons. 

Gaudet

Jean Gaudet or Godet may have been born in c1575 at Martaizé, south of the middle Loire valley in the region of Loudun, France.  His first wife's name has been lost to history.  Tradition says that Jean came to Acadia aboard the St.-Jehan in 1636 with three children from his first marriage--Françoise, age 13, Denis, age 11, and Marie, age 3--though they do not appear on the ship's passenger list.  Nevertheless, Jean and his children were among the earliest settlers in Acadia.  His daughters married into the Mercier, LeBlanc, Hébert, and Gareau families.  In 1652, at age 77, Jean remarried to 45-year-old Nicole Colleson, probably a widow, at Port-Royal.  She gave him another son, Jean, fils.  In the first census of the inhabitants of Acadia, that of 1671, the census taker noted that Jean Gaudet was "the oldest inhabitant of Port-Royal ..., the venerable doyen of the colony ... then aged ninety-six years."  Jean died at Port-Royal before 1678, in his late 90s or early 100s.  His two sons married into the Gauthier, Comeau, Henry, and Lejeune dit Briard families.  Though older son Denis married only once, his line of the family was much larger than that of his half-brother Jean, fils, who married three times.  By 1755, descendants of Jean Gaudet could be found at Annapolis Royal; Beaubassin, Veskak, and Tintamarre at Chignecto; at Petitcoudiac and Memramcook in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto; at Grand-Pré and Pigiguit in the Minas Basin; at Anse-du-Nord-Ouest on Île St.-Jean and Port-Toulouse on Île Royale; and in the St. Lawrence valley, where the first of them had gone in the 1720s.  Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this large family even farther. 

The Acadians at Chignecto were the first to endure a disruption of their lives.  During the spring and summer of 1750, in response to the British building a fort at Beaubassin village, Canadian militia, along with Mi'kmaq warriors led by Abbé Jean-Louis Le Loutre, burned Acadian homesteads east of Rivière Missaguash, forcing the habitants there to move to the French-controlled area west of the river.  Gaudets were among the refugees affected by this petit dérangement.  After yet another war erupted between Britain and France in 1754, Chignecto-area Acadians were caught in the middle of it.  When British and New-English forces attacked Fort Beauséjour in June 1755, Gaudets likely were among the area Acadians serving in the fort as militia.  They, too, along with the French troupes de la marine, became prisoners of war when the fort surrendered on June 16.  Lieutenant-Governor Charles Lawrence was so incensed to find so-called French Neutrals fighting with French regulars at Beauséjour he ordered his officers to deport the local Acadians to the southernmost seaboard colonies.  At least one Gaudet family ended up in South Carolia.  Most of the Gaudets at Chignecto and in the trois-rivières, however, escaped the British and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore or in Canada.  Some of their cousins at Annapolis Royal were not so lucky.  The British deported two Gaudet families to New York and another to Connecticut.  But, like their kinsmen up the bay, most of the Gaudets at Annapolis Royal escaped the British in 1755.  They spent a long winter in the hills overlooking the Bay of Fundy, crossed the bay to Chepoudy the following spring, and sought refuge on the upper Petitcoudiac, lower Rivière St.-Jean, the Gulf shore, or in Canada. 

Living in territory controlled by France, none of the Gaudets on Maritime islands were touched by the British roundups in Nova Scotia.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats swooped down on the islands, rounded up most of the habitants there, Gaudets among them, and deported them to France.  Most of the island Gaudets did not survive the crossing.  They and their cousins did their best to make a life for themselves in several of the mother country's coastal cities.  Island Gaudets settled at Lamballe near St.-Brieuc in northern Brittany southwest of St.-Malo and in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  Those sent to Cherbourg moved on to Le Havre across the Baie de Seine in the mid-1760s. 

More Acadian Gaudets arrived in France during the 1760s and 1770s.  Although exile ended for most Acadians in North America by the late 1760s, this was not the case for those who, after the war with Britain finally ended, had chosen to resettle on St.-Pierre and Miquelon, French-controlled fishery islands off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  So many Acadians chose to go there, in fact, that by 1767 the islands became overcrowded, prompting French officials, obeying a royal decree, to pressure the fisher/habitants into moving on to France.  Not all of them remained in the mother country; some made their way back to the Newfoundland islands in 1768.  In 1778, France joined the Anglo-American struggle against their old red-coated enemy, who controlled every part of the Maritimes region except the two French islands.  Later that year, the British wasted no time seizing St.-Pierre and Miquelon and deporting the Acadians there to France.  Gaudets, some of whom had returned to the islands from France, were among the unfortunates who endured yet another crossing, this time on hired British transports.  When, in the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians still in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, only five Gaudets--a bachelor and a father and his three unmarried children--chose to take it.  Most of the Gaudets in the mother country, especially the ones at Le Havre, remained in France.  They included a married daughter of a Gaudet father who had gone to Louisiana, but she joined her family there, probably after she became a widow, in the early 1800s. 

In North America, the Acadians who had escaped the British in the late 1750s and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore were quickly caught up in the lingering war between the imperial rivals.  After the fall of Québec in September 1759, the British gathered their forces to attack the remaining French strongholds in New France.  In late June 1760, a naval force from Louisbourg attacked Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, now a major Acadian refuge.  After a spirited fight in which Acadian militia and Mi'kmaq warriors played an important role, the French commander blew up his larger vessels and retreated up Rivière Restigouche, leaving the militia and the Indians to prevent a British landing.  Unable to capture the garrison or lay waste to the area, the British commander ordered his ships to return to their base at Louisbourg.  The following October, after the fall of Montréal, another British naval force, this one from Québec, arrived at Restigouche to accept the garrison's, and the Acadians', surrender.  On 24 October 1760, on the eve of formal surrender, French officiers counted 1,003 Acadians still at Restigouche, dozens of Gaudets among them.  Other members of the family either surrendered to, or were captuured by, British forces in the area and, along with many of their kinsmen at Restigouche, were held in prison compounds in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Gaudets were held at Fort Edward, overlooking the family's homesteads at Pigiguit; and at Fort Cumberland, formerly French Fort Beauséjour, at Chignecto, also near former Gaudet homesteads.  Some also may have been held in the prison barracks at Halifax. 

At war's end, Acadians being held in the seaboard colonies, theoretically, were free to go, but not until the British discerned their intentions.  Even then, colonial officials discouraged repatriation.  In 1763, Gaudets were still languishing in New York and Connecticut.  Most of them chose to repatriate to Canada, where some of their kinsmen had fled as early 1756.  Though now also a British possession, the far-northern province was populated largely by fellow French Catholics, many of them Acadian exiles.  So, in a colony nearly as old as Acadia, more descendants of Jean Gaudet began the slow, inexorable process of becoming Canadiennes.  Especially after 1766, Gaudets could be found on the upper St. Lawrence at Bécancour, St.-Grégoire, Gentilly, L'Assomption, St.-Jacques de l'Achigan, Nicolet, St.-Pierre-les-Besquets, Pointe-aux-Trembles, St.-Sulpice, Lotbinière, and Yamachiche; at St.-Ours, St.-Denis, St.-Charles, St.-Antoine, and Chambly on the lower Richelieu; on the lower St. Lawrence at Berthier-sur-Mer, Montmagny, and L'Islet; at Boudreau Village, Memramcook, Upper Sackville, Jolicure, and Cap Maringouin in present-day southeastern New Brunswick; at Malpèque on the northwest shore of St. John's Island, formerly Île St.-Jean, renamed Prince Edward Island; on St. Mary's Bay and Île Madame in Nova Scotia; and on the îles-de-la-Madeleine in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.  Typical of most, if not all, Acadian families, these Acadiennes of Canada lost touch with their Cadien cousins hundreds of miles away, and, until the Acadian reunions of the twentieth century, may even have forgotten the others existed.  

While the end-of-war treaty was being negotiated, French officials encouraged exiles in the British seaboard colonies to go to St.-Dominique.  Although driven from North America by the Seven Years's War, the French were determined to hang on to what was left of their shrinking colonial empire.  A new naval base at Môle-St.-Nicolas on the northwest end of the big island would protect the approaches to what was left of their possessions in the Caribbean basin and assist in the "war of vengeance" to come.  French officials saw the exiles as a ready source of labor not only for the naval contractors, but also for the island's major planters, who hoped to supplement the labor of their slaves.  To sweeten the deal, the French promised the Acadians land of their own if they came to the sugar colony.  And so Acadians, including Gaudets, came St.-Domingue in 1763 and 1764.  Gaudets who had been held in one of the seaboard colonies also emigrated to the French island of Martinique. 

Gaudets being held in Nova Scotia at war's end faced a hard dilemma.  The Treaty of Paris of February 1763 stipulated in its Article IV that persons dispersed by the war had 18 months to return to their respective territories.  However, British authorities refused to allow any of the Acadian prisoners in the region to return to their former lands as proprietors.  If Acadians chose to remain in, or return to, Nova Scotia, they could live only in small family groups in previously unsettled areas or work for low wages on former Acadian lands now owned by New-English "planters."  If they stayed, they must also take the hated oath of allegiance to the new British king, George III, without reservation.  They would also have to take the oath if they joined their many cousins in Canada.  After all they had suffered on the question of the oath, few self-respecting Acadians would consent to take it if it could be avoided.  Some Nova Scotia exiles, including Gaudets, chose to settle on Île Miquelon.  Others considered going to French St.-Domingue, where Acadian exiles in the seaboard colonies, including Gaudets, were going, or to the Illinois country, the west bank of which still belonged to France, or to French Louisiana, which, thanks to British control of Canada, was the only route possible to the Illinois country for Acadian exiles.  Whatever their choice, many refused to remain under British rule.  So they gathered up their money and their few possessions and prepared to leave their homeland.  Of the 600 exiles who left Halifax in late 1764 and early 1765 bound for Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, 13 were Gaudets.

Gaudets were among the first families of Acadia and among the earliest Acadians to find refuge in Louisiana.  Relatively few of them came to the colony, however, compared to their kinsmen who chose to go to Canada or remain in greater Acadia.  The first of them came to New Orleans from Halifax in 1765 and settled in the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above the city, and there most of them remained.  Another family of Gaudets came to the colony from France in 1785.  They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche, helping to create a second center of family settlement on the bayou that extended from Assumption down to Terrebonne Parish by the War of 1861-65.  Meanwhile, during the early antebellum period, more Gaudets from the river moved to Bayou Lafourche and added two small lines to that center of family settlement.  Most of their cousins, however, remained on the river in St. James and Ascension parishes.  The only Gaudet/Godets who settled on the western prairies, during the early antebellum period, were a family from Normandy who were not Acadians. 

Judging by the number of slaves they owned during the late antebellum period, some Acadian Gaudets lived very well on their farms and plantations along the river and Bayou Lafourche.  The Gaudets of St. James Parish were especially prosperous.  In 1850, Valéry Gaudet owned over a hundred slaves on his plantation in the parish's eastern district.  Next door, his brother Ursin's widow held 40 slaves.  Nearby, Valéry's youngest brother Drosin owned 23 slaves.  Cousins Joseph Kleber Gaudet and his brothers owned a plantation with 40 slaves not far away.  In 1860, Valéry's son Joseph Adam held 140 slaves on his plantation, most of them doubtlessly inherited from his father.  His uncle Drosin held 25 slaves.  Cousin Michel Drauzin owned 84 slaves, and cousins Joseph Kleber and his brothers held 43 slaves that year. 

At least 21 Gaudets served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65, several of them as officers, and at least one of them died in Confederate service.  Joseph Adam Gaudet of St. James Parish, who owned so many slaves, commanded a company of the St. James Parish Regiment Militia before leading Company K of the 30th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, which, as a regiment and a battalion, fought in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee.  His cousin Oscar Gaudet, graduate of a Virginia medical school, served as an assistant surgeon in a volunteer state militia regiment before becoming a junior second lieutenant in two Louisiana light artillery batteries, including the Pelican Artillery of St. James Parish, which distinguished itself in the Red River Campaign during the spring of 1864.  In March 1862, Émile Honoré Gaudet of Lafourche Parish enlisted in Company I of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, which ended up in the trenches at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  Émile was killed in action at Vicksburg on 22 May 1863. ...

The war took a heavy toll on the Gaudets' economic status.  Even before Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation went into effect in January 1863, Federal commands controlling the lower Mississippi freed the slaves on every farm and plantation their forces could reach.  This no doubt included the Gaudet holdings in St. James and Ascension parishes.  Union gunboats shelled and burned dozens of plantation and farm houses along the river.  Successive Federal incursions in the Bayou Lafourche valley devastated that region, and Confederate foragers also plagued the area when the Federals were not around.  ...

In Louisiana, the family's name also is spelled Gaudais, Gaudé, Gaudée, Gaudit, Gaudy, Godait, Godé, Goudé.  Some church records confuse this family with their fellow Acadians the Gaudins of Rivière St.-Jean, who also remained east of the Atchafalaya Basin.10

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Four Gaudet families, one led by a widow, 13 members of the family in all, reached New Orleans from Halifax via Cap-Français, French-Domingue, in 1765 and settled at Cabahannocer on the river above the city.  Some of them moved on to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Not all of their family lines endured: 

Claude (1713-?) à Pierre l'aîné à Denis à Jean Gaudet

Claude, third and youngest son of Bernard dit le Vieux Gaudet and Jeanne Thériot and the second with the name, born at Annapolis Royal in November 1713, married Catherine-Josèphe, daughter of René Forest and Françoise Dugas, at Annapolis Royal in August 1737.  Catherine-Josèphe gave Claude eight children there:  Joseph born in June 1738; Ambroise in c1739; Jean in c1742; Ursules Joseph, a son, in November 1744; Marie-Élisabeth in 1746; Charles in October 1748; Rosalie in c1751; and Anne in c1754--five sons and three daughters, between 1738 and 1754.  In the fall of 1755, Claude and his family escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal, spent a hard winter on the Fundy shore, crossed the bay with other Acadian exiles the following spring, and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Most of their children evidently died in exile, though the older ones were of marriageable age by the mid-1760s.  Sometime in the late 1750s or early 1760s, Claude, his wife, and their remaining sons, Joseph and Charles, either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, in Nova Scotia, where they were counted in 1761 and 1762.  In late 1764, with hundreds of fellow exiles, Claude, Catherine, and son Charles emigrated Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français.  They settled with older son Joseph and his family, along with fellow exiles from Nova Scotia, at the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer.  Both of Claude's remaining sons married in the Spanish colony, each of them twice, but only one of the lines endured there.  

Oldest son Joseph, while in his late teens, followed his family into exile on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore and into the prison compound at Fort Edward by August 1761.  He may have been transferred to the prison compound at Halifax the following year and been among the Acadian men sent from Halifax to Boston, Massachusetts, in August 1762.  Massachusetts authorities refused to allow the 900 deportees to land, but Joseph may have been among the sick passengers, so colonial authorities let him into the city to recuperate.  When the Acadians from Halifax were returned to the prison compound there in October, Joseph may still have been convalescing in Boston.  He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Claude Bourgeois and Marguerite LeBlanc of Annapolis Royal, at Boston in late 1762 or early 1763.  Soon after his marriage, Joseph and Marguerite evidently followed other exiles in Massachusetts, including one of her brothers, to Connecticut, where they appeared on a French repatriation list sometime in 1763; the compiler of the list called him Joseph Caudray and listed him with an unnamed wife but no children.  They evidently returned to Massachusetts in late 1763 or 1764.  Daughter Rosalie-Victoire was born at Boston in February 1764.  After the birth, they may have found their way back to Nova Scotia to reunite with his family at Fort Edward, or they may have been among the Acadians in New England who emigrated to French St.-Domingue later that year.  If so, they did not remain in the tropical colony.  Perhaps having learned of his parents' intentions via the Acadian "grapevine," and repelled by conditions in St.-Domingue, sometime in 1765 Joseph and his family may have joined an expedition of exiles from Halifax coming through Cap-Français on their way to New Orleans, where they hoped to join his family.  What is certain is that they reached New Orleans by 10 December 1765, when their marriage was "rehabilitiated" at the St.-Louis church and their daughter, nearly four years old, was baptized.  Oddly, no member of Joseph's family witnessed the marriage or the baptism, so his parents and brother may have reached New Orleans in an earlier expedition from Halifax and could not get back to the city in time for the ceremonies.  Joseph and Marguerite settled near his family on the left, or east, bank of the river at Cabahannocer and had more children in the colony, including Joseph-Simon born at New Orleans in November 1766; Jean at Cabahannocer in c1768; Marie baptized, age unrecorded, in April 1771; Joseph, fils baptized, age unrecorded, in March 1774; and Marie-Marguerite, called Marguerite, baptized, age unrecorded, in January 1777--six children, three daughters and three sons, between 1764 and 1777, in Massachusetts and Louisiana.  In 1779, Joseph held two slaves on his farm at Cabahannocer.  In the late 1780s or early 1790s, he joined the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche, where he helped establish a second center of Gaudet family settlement.  In his late 50s, in November 1796, he remarried to Marie-Marguerite, called Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Bénonie LeBlanc and Marguerite Hébert and widow of Germain Bergeron, at Assumption on the upper Lafourche.  One of the witnesses to Joseph's second marriage was future Louisiana governor Henry Schuyler Thibodaux.  Joseph's second wife gave him no more children.  At the time of his remarriage, he held no slaves, but by January 1798 he again owned two slaves on his five-by-50-arpent farm along the Lafourche.  Daughters Rosalie, Marie, and Marguerite, by his first wife, married into the Mouton, Charpentier, and LeBlanc families on the river and the bayou.  Two of Joseph's sons also married, on upper Bayou Lafourche and on the river. 

Second son Jean, by first wife Marguerite Bourgeois, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Poirier and Marie-Anne Bourgeois, at Cabahannocer in January 1791.  Daughter Marie-Josèphe was born at Cabahannocer in December 1791.  Jean remarried to Eulalie, also called Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Guidry and Isabelle Comeaux, at Cabahannocer in August 1797, on the same day and in the same place his younger brother Joseph, fils married Eulalie's sister Félicité.  Jean and Eulalie settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Célestine or Céleste in November 1799; Scholastique in September 1801; Élise dite Lise in February 1803; Élisabeth, perhaps also called Eulalie, in September 1808; Séraphine in January 1810; Jean, fils in July 1813; and Pierre in September 1816--eight children, six daughters and two sons, by two wives, between 1791 and 1816.  Jean died in Assumption Parish in April 1836, age 68.  Daughters Céleste, Eulalie, Séraphine, Lise, and Scholastique, by his second wife, married into the Charpentier, Comeaux, Gaspard, and Ockman families, two of them, Séraphine and Lise, to Gaspard brothers, and two of them, Lise and Scholastique, on the same day, two weeks after their sister Séraphine had married.  Jean's two sons also married and remained in Assumption Parish, either on the bayou or near Pierre Part north of Lake Verret. 

Older son Jean, fils, by second wife Eulalie Guidry, married Marie Madeleine or Doralise, called Doralise, daughter of fellow Acadian Simon Gautreaux and his Creole wife Madeleine Petronille Stout, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1840.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Jean Baptiste, birthplace and date unrecorded, but perhaps it was in October 1838, before his parents' church marriage; Angélique born in February 1842; Marie Joséphine in February 1843; and Marie Euphrosine, called Euphrosine, in March 1846--four children, a son and three daughters, between 1838 and 1846.  Daughter Euphrosine married into the Gaspard family by 1870.  Jean, fils's son also married by then. 

Jean, fils's only son may have been the Jean Baptiste Gaudet who served in the Donaldsonville Artillery, raised in nearby Ascension Parish, during the War of 1861-65.  If so, he enlisted at New Orleans in April 1862, while the battery was in Virginia.  His enlistment papers describe him as "a farmer in Assumption Parish."  He would have been age 23 and still a bachelor at the time of his enlistment.  He joined his unit in Virginia that spring or summer, where he served as one of General R. E. Lee's Louisiana Tigers.  He was present on battery rolls from July to October 1862, during which he likely fought in the Second Manassas campaign, including the Battle of Second Manassas in late August; and at Sharpsburg, Maryland, in September.  He was on sick furlough in a hospital at Richmond from November 1862 to February 1863, missing the Battle of Fredericksburg in December.  He returned to the battery in March 1863 and remained with it until December 1864, participating in most, if not all, of the many battles the cannoneers endured during that time:  Chancellorsville in May 1863; Gettysburg in July, after which he was wounded slightly in the head on July 5 during Lee's retreat to Virginia, captured by Union forces with part of Lee's wagon train at Greencastle, Pennsylvania, and then rescued by Confederate cavalry with other members of the battery; Bristoe Station in October 1863; Mine Run that November and early December; the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Courthouse, and Cold Harbor in May and June 1864; and in the Petersburg campaign from the summer of 1864 into early 1865.  He did not surrender with the battery at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, in April 1865, having been detached to another part of Virginia, where he was released on parole of honor that spring.  He returned to his family and, at age 28, married Marie, daughter of Foreign Frenchman Louis David and his Creole wife Céleste Gros, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in August 1867.  They settled probably on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Assumption and Ascension parishes.  Their children, born there, included Léo Louis in February 1869; Joseph Ulisse in December 1870; ...  Jean Baptiste died at Gretna, Jefferson Parish, across from New Orleans, in October 1923, age 85, perhaps while visiting, and was buried in St. Philomena Catholic Cemetery, Labadieville. 

Jean, père's younger son Pierre, by second wife Eulalie Guidry, married Marie Delphine, called Delphine, daughter of Pierre Stout and his Acadian wife Adèle Thériot, at the Plattenville church in February 1840.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Pamela in Assumption Parish, birth date unrecorded; Joseph born in December 1845; Pierre, fils in July 1847; Pierre Dorsino in November 1848 and baptized at the Pattersonville church, St. Mary Parish, age 16 months, in March 1850 but, called Dorsino, died at age 19 (the recording priest said 18) in Assumption Parish in November 1867; Pierre Honoré born in July 1849; Désiré in c1851; Marie Saralie or Ceraline, called Ceraline, in December 1852; Marie Doralise, called Doralise, in September 1854; Anatol in November 1856; Marie Angela near Pierre Part in August 1859; Francis Numa in February 1862; ...  None of Pierre's daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did.

Oldest son Joseph married Estelle or Esther Ann or Anna, called Anna, daughter of Édouard Clifton and Jane Whittaker, at the Pierre Part church, Assumption Parish, in April 1866.  Their children, born near Pierre Part, included Joseph Christofore in August 1867; Joséphine Adea in July 1869; ... 

Joseph's third and youngest son Joseph, fils, by first wife Marguerite Bourgeois, married Marie-Félicité, called Félicité, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Guidry and Isabelle Comeaux, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in August 1797, on the same day and at the same place his older brother Jean married Félicité's sister Eulalie.  Joseph, fils and Félicité's children, born at Cabahannocer and on the upper Lafourche, included Joseph III in June 1798 but died the following September; Rosémond born in January 1800; a daughter, name unrecorded, died nine days after her birth in June 1803; Félicité born in December 1804; Jean Baptiste, called Baptiste, in March 1806; and Casimire Hortense, called Hortense, in Assumption Parish in October 1817.  Joseph remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Berteau and his second wife Acadian Rose Savoie and widow of Joseph Theriot, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in June 1820.  Their daughter Marie Céleste was born near Convent in April 1821--seven children, three sons and four daughters, by two wives, between 1798 and 1821.  Joseph, fils died near Convent in February 1826, age 52.  Daughters Félicité and Hortense, by his first wife, married into the Oubre and LeBoeuf families.  One of Joseph, fils's sons also married and settled on Bayou Lafourche.

Third son Jean Baptiste, called Baptiste, from first wife Félicité Guidry, married Marie Carmélite, called Carmélite, daughter of German Creole Jean Baptiste Bernard and his Acadian wife Marie Melançon of St. James Parish, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in February 1830.  Their children, born on the river and the Lafourche, included Marie Clairlie in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1831; Rosalie Azélie in November 1832 but, called Azalie, died at age 11 in November 1843; Auguste born near Convent, St. James Parish, in February 1835; Clare or Clara Honorine in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1837; Émil or Émile Honoré in May 1839; Noël Henry Clay on Christmas Day 1844 but died eight days later in early January; and Jaine Martha, perhaps also called Eugénie, born posthumously in May 1846--seven children, four daughters and three sons, between 1831 and 1846.  Baptiste died in Lafourche Interior Parish in November 1845.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial said that Jean Baptiste died "at age 44 yrs."  He was 39.  Daughters Marie, Clara, and Eugénie married into the Roper, Talbot, and Oubre families by 1870, one of them in St. James Parish.  One of his sons died in Confederate service before he could marry.  Another married by 1870. 

Oldest son Auguste married cousin Althée, daughter of German Creole Amand Bernard and his Acadian wife Clémence Préjean, at the Thibodaux church in November 1860.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Rebellia near Labadieville, Assumption Parish, in April 1865; Joseph in August 1868; ... 

During the War of 1861-65, Baptiste's second son Émile served in Company I of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafourche Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  He was killed in action during the Siege of Vicksburg on 22 May 1863, age 24, before he could marry. 

Claude's fourth and youngest son Charles followed his parents into exile and imprisonment, then to New Orleans and Cabahannocer.  In January 1777, still a bachelor, he was living on the east bank of the river at Cabahannocer, perhaps as an engagé, with the family of French Canadian Louis Paquette and his Acadian wife Marie LeBlanc.  At age 38, Charles married Marie-Josèphe, 26-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Michel LeBlanc and Marie Aucoin, at Cabahannocer in April 1786.  Marie-Josèphe, a native of England, had recently arrived in the colony with her widowed mother and a sister aboard one of the Seven Ships from France.  She gave Charles no children.  Charles, at age 46, remarried to Anne, 32-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Comeaux and Marguerite Babineaux dit Des Lauriers of Annapolis Royal and widow of André Bernard, at Cabahannocer in August 1794.  Anne, a native of Connecticut, had come to the colony via French St.-Domingue in the 1760s or 1770s.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer, included twins Marie-Madeleine and Marie-Marguerite in June 1795, but both of them died at age 2 in June and August 1797; and Joseph-Flavin or Fabien-Joseph born in May 1797 but died in Lafourche Interior Parish, age 35, in November 1832--three children, two daughters and a son, including a set of twins, between 1795 and 1797.  Charles died at Cabahannocer in September 1799, in his early 50s.  His daughters did not survive childhood, and his son evidently did not marry, so the family line did not endure 

Charles (1730-?) à Pierre l'aîné à Denis à Jean Gaudet

Charles, older son of Jean Gaudet and Marie Breau, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1730, followed his family into exile in 1755 and into a prison compound in Nova Scotia in the early 1760s.  Charles was still a bachelor when he came to Louisiana in 1765 with his widowed mother and two younger siblings.  He married cousin Cécile Breau, widow of George Clouâtre, at Cabahannocer in May 1768.  About the time of his marriage, he assisted his wife's kinsman, Alexis Breau of Pigiguit, in eluding the Spanish.  By 1779, Charles owned three slaves on his farm along the right, or west, bank of the river at Cabahannocer.  His and Cécile's children, born at Cabahannocer, included Michel baptized, age unrecorded, in 1773; Jérôme baptized, age unrecorded, in September 1775; and Auguste or Augustin baptized, age unrecorded, in November 1778--three children, all sons, between 1773 and 1778.  Charles's sons married and settled in what became St. James and Ascension parishes.  Some of his older sons' descendants became planters in St. James Parish during the antebellum period.

Oldest son Michel married Victoire, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Bergeron dit d'Amboise, père and Marguerite Bernard, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in February 1793.  Their children, born there, included Michel-Valéry, called Valéry, in December 1793; Marie-Modeste, called Modeste, in January 1796; Arthémise in January 1798; a son, name unrecorded, died 10 days after his birth in August 1799; Marie-Cidalise or -Lise, called Lise, born in September 1800; Ursin-Michel or Michel-Ursin, called Ursin, in March 1803; Marie Constance, called Constance, in September 1807; Drosin or Drausin in July 1810; and a daughter, age unrecorded, died 15 days after her birth in April 1815--nine children, four sons and five daughters, between 1793 and 1815.  Michel died in St. James Parish in September 1820, age 48.  Daughters Marie Modeste, Marie Lise, Arthémise, and Constance married into the Blouin, Gaudin, Hébert, and Becnel families.  Three of Michel's sons also married, created vigorous lines, and became planters in eastern St. James Parish.  By 1850, his oldest son had become a great planter--someone who owned more than 50 slaves.  He held, in fact, over 100 slaves on his plantation along the river.

Oldest son Michel Valéry, called Valéry, married Anne Belzire, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Richard and Constance LeBlanc, at the St. James church, St. James Parish, in June 1814.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included a son, name unrecorded, died at age 3 months in September 1816; Pierre Théodule born in May 1818 but, called Téodul, died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 2) in March 1820; Marie Elima born in September 1820 but died at age 1 1/2 in January 1822; Adam Joseph or Joseph Adam, called J. A., born in December 1822; Marie Hermina or Ermina in January 1825; Amédée Michel in February 1827; Pierre Oscar in August 1827 but, called Oscar, died at age 3 1/2 (the recording priest said "almost 2 yrs.") in June 1831; Anne Aima or Emma born in April 1832; and Cécile Louisa in March 1836 but, called Louisa, may have died "at her father's res." in St. James Parish in June 1851, when she would have been age 15--nine children, five sons and four daughters, between 1816 and 1832.  In July 1850, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted 101 slaves on Valéry Gaudet's plantation in the parish's eastern district, between the plantation of his brother Ursin, père's widow and the farms of his nephew Ursin, fils and Valéry's sons J. A. and Amédée.  Two months later, in September, the same census taker counted three more slaves--a male and two females, all black, ages 17, 17 and 14--on Valéry Gaudet's farm in the parish's eastern district.  Was this the same Valéry who owned the big plantation nearby?  Valéry died in St. James Parish in March 1853, age 59.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted a single slave--a 35-year-old black male--on Valéry Gaudet's farm in the parish's First District of the East Bank; one wonders if this was the slave of Valéry's widow, Anne Belzire Richard.  Daughters Marie Ermina and Anne Emma married into the Chastant and Tete families.  Valéry's two remaining sons also married and settled on the river, but one of the lines may not have endured.

Third son Joseph Adam, called J. A., married cousin Marie Arcelite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Pierre Richard and Marguerite Breaux, at the St. James church in March 1846.  In July 1850, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted 11 slaves--nine males and two females, nine blacks and two mulattoes, ranging in age from 30 to 6--on J. A. Gaudet's farm in the parish's eastern district next to his father's plantation.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted 140 slaves living in 30 houses on Adams Gaudet's plantation in the parish's Ninth District of the Right Bank; this was Joseph Adam, who evidently had inherited his father's plantation or at least his many slaves.  During the War of 1861-65, Joseph Adam served as captain of a company in the St. James Parish Regiment Militia before commanding Company K of the 30th Regiment/Battalion Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. James Parish, which fought in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee.  He evidently survived the war and returned to his family.  One wonders if he fathered any children. 

Valéry's fourth son Amédée Michel married Louise Marie, daughter of John Ilsley, Islay, or Isley and Elisa G. Mollère, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in January 1852.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included Marie Louisa in February 1853; John Valéry in November 1854; Anne Marie in January 1857; Emma Cécile in February 1859; James Amédée in August 1861; Anne Philomène Noémi in December 1868; ...  In July 1850, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted six slaves--two males and four females, four blacks and two mulattoes, ranging in age from 22 to 3--on Amédée Gaudet's farm in the parish's eastern district next to brother J. A's farm.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted 11 slaves--six males and five females, three blacks and eight mulattoes, ages 36 to 10, living in six houses--on Amédée Gaudet's farm in the parish's Ninth District of the Right Bank between the plantations of brother Joseph Adam and cousins J. K. Gaudet and brothers.  During the war, Amédée served as a private in older brother Joseph Adam's company of the St. James Parish Regiment Militia, which saw little action during the war.  None of Amédée's children married by 1870. 

Michel's third son Ursin Michel or Michel Ursin, called Ursin, married Élise Adèle, called Lise, daughter of fellow Acadian Grégoire Dugas and his Creole wife Françoise Barbet, at the Donaldson church in February 1822.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included Michel Ursin, fils, called Ursin, fils, in c1822; Jean Baptiste Félix in July 1824; Michel, also called Michel Drausin, baptized at the St. James church, age 2 months, in June 1826; Charles Grégoire Bienvenue or Bienvenu, called Bienvenu, born in April 1828 but died at age 3 1/2 in September 1831; Victoire Mathilde, called Mathilde, born in December 1829; and Charles Théodore in November 1831 but, called Charles Théodose, died at age 18 in March 1850--six children, five sons and a daughter, between 1822 and 1831.  Ursin, père died by July 1850, when the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted 40 slaves on Widow Ursin Gaudet's plantation in the parish's eastern district, next to son Ursin, fils's farm and near brother Valéry Gaudet's large plantation.  Daughter Mathilde married into the Gautreaux family by 1870.  Three of Ursin's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Michel Ursin, fils, also called Ursin, fils, married Marie Carmélite, called Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Donat LeBlanc and Marie Melançon, at the St. James church in February 1842.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included Charles Michel Ursin Félix in February 1844; Joseph N. D. in July 1847; Marie Cécile, also called Cécile Lise, in 1849; and a child, name and age unrecorded, "privately baptized," died in St. James Parish in September 1852--four chldren, at least two sons and a daughter, between 1844 and 1852.  In July 1850, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted two slaves--a 21-year-old black female, and a 7-month-old black girl--on Ursin Gaudet's farm, between his widowed mother's and his uncle Valéry Gaudet's plantations.  Ursin, fils died in St. James Parish in October 1853.  The priest who recorded the burial gave no parents' names nor named his wife, but he did say that Ursin "left [a] wife and three children" and died at age 33, but he probably was a few years younger.  Daughter Cécile Lise married into the Rybiski family by 1870.  Neither of Ursin, fils's sons married by then. 

Ursin, père's second son Jean Baptiste Félix may have married, while still in his teens, fellow Acadian Marie Melançon in St. James Parish in c1840.  Their son Jean Félicien was born near Convent, St. James Parish, in December 1841.  In 1850, the federal census taker in Ascension Parish counted a single slave--a 25-year-old black female--on B. Gaudet's farm.  One wonders if this was Jean Baptiste Félix.  His son did not marry by 1870. 

Ursin, père's third son Michel Drausin married Marie Célestine, called Célestine, daughter of fellow Acadians Ferdinand Landry and Clarisse Landry, at the Donaldsonville church in July 1846.  They lived on the river and on the upper Lafourche before returning to the river.  Their children, born there, included Charles Albert in in St. James Parish in October 1847; Pascal Michel in Ascension Parish in May 1849; Clarisse Adèle Corine near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in September 1850; Vincent Théodose in July 1855; Marie Émelie baptized, age 3 months, at St. James church in September 1857; Ursin Philippe born in May 1859; Paul Parfait in May 1861; George Marc in October 1863; Matilde Olimpe in December 1865; Joseph Justin in August 1868; ...  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted four slaves--two males and two females, all black, ranging in age from 40 to 12--on Michel Gaudet's farm in the parish's Second Congressional District.  Was this Michel Drausin?  In July 1860, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted 84 slaves living in 22 houses on Michel Gaudet's plantation in the parish's Ninth District of the Right Bank between cousins Joseph Adam Gaudet's plantation and Amédée Gaudet's farm.  During the War of 1861-65, Michel Drausin may have served in Company E of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. James Parish, which fought in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana.  If so, he enlisted in the company in October 1861, in his mid-30s.  Soon after he joined up, while his regiment was still in the New Orleans area, he was reported absent without leave.  A late autumn 1861 company report proclaims that the planter-turned-soldier was "left at home on urgent business."  His military record then falls silent.  The birth of his youngest son shows that he survived the war and returned to his family.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Michel's fourth and youngest son Drosin or Drausin married cousin Mélanie, daughter of Jean Gourdain and his Acadian wife Émilie Bergeron, at the St. James church in May 1829; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  They settled on the river near the boundary of St. James and Ascension parishes, evidently on the St. James side of the line.  Their children, born there, included Victoire Irma in April 1830; Émile Gourdain in c1831 but died at age 15 in May 1846; Marie Amélie born in February 1832 but, called Amélie, died at age 8 1/2 (the recording priest said 9) in August 1840; Jean Drauzin or Drosin born near Convent in May 1834; Cécile Uranie or Marie in March 1836; Michel Oscar, called Oscar, in May 1838; Marie Félicie near St. James in July 1841 but, called Félicie, died at age 12 in September 1853; Charles Joseph Arthur born in October 1846; Philomène Alice in October 1849; and Joséphine Laure in September 1851--10 children, seven daughters and three sons, between 1830 and 1851.  In July 1850, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted 23 slaves--18 males and five females, all black, ranging in age from 50 to 9--on Drauzin Gaudet's plantation, between the plantations of his older brother Ursin's widow and his cousin J. K. Gaudet.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted 25 slaves--19 males and six females, all black except for one mulatto, ages 50 years to 9 months, living in 10 houses--on Drauzin Gaudet's plantation in the parish's 6th District of the Right Bank.  None of Drosin's daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did, after his war service. 

Third son Michel Oscar graduated from the Virginia Medical School, Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1857, age 19.  During the War of 1861-65, Oscar served first as an assistant surgeon on the field staff of the Orleans Guard Regiment Louisiana Volunteer State Militia, and then as a junior second lieutenant in the 5th and 6th Batteries of Louisiana Light Artillery, raised in St. James and Iberville parishes, which fought in Louisiana.  Oscar survived the war, returned to his family, and, at age 28, married Aurore Angélique Webre, widow of ___ D'Aquin, at the St. James church in November 1866.  Their children, born near Convent across the river, included Marie Catherine in September 1867; Oscar Henri in October 1868; Pierre Georges in July 1870; ...  Oscar served as coroner of St. James Parish during the post-war years and died in 1907, age 69.  One wonders if the Dr. Gaudet who served as a sergeant in Joseph Adam Gaudet's company of the St. James Parish Regiment Militia also was Oscar. 

Charles's second son Jérôme le jeune married Marie-Louise, called Louise, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Bourgeois and Marie Bergeron, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in April 1793.  Their children, born on the river, included a son, name unrecorded, died three days after his birth in June 1794; Marie-Constance born in June 1795 but, called Constancia, died at age 2 in September 1797; Jérôme-Eugène, called Eugène, born in September 1797; Marie-Marcellite in November 1799 but, called Émilia, died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 2) in July 1801; Marie-Clémence, called Clémence, born in January 1802; and Marie Eugénie in February 1804 but, called Eugénie, died at age 3 1/2 in October 1807--six children, two sons and four daughters, between 1794 and 1804.  Jérôme le jeune died in St. James Parish in April 1831, age 55.  Daughter Clémence married into the Mire family.  One of Jérôme le jeune's sons also married. 

Second son Jérôme Eugène, called Eugène, married Constance Belivère or Melissaire, called Mélissaire, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Richard and Constance LeBlanc, at the St. James church in June 1814.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included Jérôme Kleber, called Kleber in c1819; Eugène Clément in November 1820 but died the following March; Marie Constance Albine or Alvina, called Marie Alvina, born in January 1822; Théophile Séverin in February 1824; and Eugène Théodule or Théogène Eugène posthumously in November 1825--five children, four sons and a daughter, between the 1810s and 1825.  Eugène, père died in St. James Parish in November 1825.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Eugène was age 38 when he died.  He was 28.  In July 1850, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted a single slave--a 40-year-old black male--on Widow Eugène Gaudet's farm in the parish's eastern district, between the plantation of her sons and that of their cousin Drauzin Gaudet.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted a single slave--a 50-year-old black male--on Widow Eug. Gaudet's farm in the parish's Ninth District of the Right Bank next to her sons' plantation; this probably was the same black man she owned a decade earlier.  Daughter Marie Alvina married into the Landry family.  Three of Jérôme Eugène's sons also married and settled on the river.

Oldest son Jérôme Kleber married cousin Élisabeth Amanda, called Amanda, daughter of fellow Acadian Louis Landry and his Creole wife Carmélite Vives, at the Donaldsonville church in July 1849; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  J. K., as he was called, was a lawyer as well as a sugar planter.  His and Amanda's children, born in St. James Parish, included Marie Carmélite in September 1850 but died at age 2 in September 1852; Louis Jérôme born in January 1852; Pierre Édouere in September 1853; Marie Valentine, called Valentine, in February 1856; Eugène Kleber baptized at the St. James church, age unrecorded, in October 1857; Marie Gabriel, called Gabrielle, born in March 1858; Marie Adèle in July 1863; ...  In July 1850, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted 40 slaves on the plantation owned by J. K. Gaudet and his brothers in the parish's eastern district, next to their widowed mother.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted 43 slaves living in 38 houses on the plantation owned by J. K. Gaudet and his brothers in the parish's Ninth District of the Right Bank next to cousin Amédée Gaudet's farm.  J. K. himself owned three slaves of his own--a 36-year-old black female, a 13-year-old black female, and a 2-year-old black male--next to his widowed mother.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Jérôme Eugène's second Théophile Séverin married Rosalie Aisidia, Nesida, or Nisida, daughter of fellow Acadians Ferdinand Theriot and Aspasie Breaux, at the Donaldsonville church in May 1851.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included Rosalie Nisida in November 1853; Théophile Séverin, fils in October 1856; and Marie Cécile in March 1858--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1853 and 1858.  None of Théophile's children married by 1870. 

In June 1860, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted four slaves--all females, all black, ranging in age from 37 to 3, living in one house--on Theo. Gaudet's farm in the parish's First District of the Left Bank.  This probably was Jérôme Eugène's fourth and youngest son Théogène Eugène, who married Mary Ann Ilsley at the Donaldsonville church in September 1862.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included Marie in December 1863; Marie Élisa Gertrude in May 1865; Mary Frances Stella in May 1868; John Jérôme in July 1870; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Théogène may have served in Company A of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. James Parish, which fought in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana.  If so, he enlisted in the company at "Camp Teche," probably Camp Pratt near New Iberia, in November 1862, age 37, after the regiment had been transferred from southern Alabama to South Louisiana.  Judging by his age and his late enlistment, Théogène may have been a conscript.  One wonders if he was the Cheogène Gaudet who had served as a second lieutenant in Joseph Adam Gaudet's company of the St. James Parish Regiment Militia during the Lafourche campaign of autumn 1862.  As the birth dates of his younger children attest, he survived the war and returned to his family. 

Charles's third and youngest son Auguste or Augustin married Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Lacroix and Marguerite Mollère, at Ascension in June 1801.  Their children, born on the river, included Auguste or Augustin, fils in January 1803; Michel Rosémond in September 1804; Léonard, called Jean Léonard and Léon, in September 1807; Céleste or Célestine Cléophile, called Célestine, in August 1808; Marie Aurore in September 1810; and Marie Eugénie, perhaps also called Azéma, in July 1813--six children, three sons and three daughters, between 1803 and 1813.  Augustin, père died in St. James Parish in November 1831, age 53 (the recording priest said 54).  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Ascension Parish counted six slaves--five males and a female, all black, ranging in age from 22 to 5--on Mrs. A. Gaudet's farm; these may have been Marguerite Lacroix's slaves.  Daughters Marie Aurore, Célestine, and Azéma married into the Cure, Cabern, and Breaux families.  Two of Auguste's sons also married, but only one of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Auguste, fils married Marine or Marie Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexis Breaux and Pélagie Richard, at the St. James church in February 1825.  She evidently gave him no children.  Auguste, fils remarried to Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Bergeron and Constance Gaudin, at the St. James church in September 1831.  One wonders if Auguste, fils fathered children by either of his wives. 

Auguste, père's third and youngest son Léonard dit Léon married Marie Louise Tailier, Toelier, Toilier, Toirier, Tonnellier, Troxlier, or Tuilier probably in St. James Parish in the 1830s.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included Marie Estelle near Convent in March 1838; Léonard, fils in March or May 1840; Rosémond in January 1842; Marie Eugénie or Virginie in February 1844; Augustin in March 1846; Marie Léontine in November 1848 but, called Léontine, died near Convent at age 18 in January 1867; Marie Honorine born in May 1851; Laurentia in February 1854 but died at age 6 in April 1860; and Joseph Camille born posthumously in November 1856 but died at age 3 1/2 in May 1860--nine children, five daughters and four sons, between 1838 and 1856.  In September 1850, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted six slaves--two males and four females, four blacks and two mulattoes, ranging in age from 35 to 5--on Léon Gaudet's farm in the parish's eastern district.  Léonard, called Léon by the recording priest, who gave no parents' names, mentioned a wife, or gave his age at the time of his passing, "fell in the Mississippi where he died" in St. James Parish in October 1856, age 49.  Wife Marie Louise was pregnant at the time; his fourth son was born a month after Léon's drowning.  Daughters Marie Estelle and Marie Virginie married into the Pertuit and LeBoeuf families by 1870.  One of Léon's remaining sons also married by then.  He and an older brother fought for the Southern Confederacy in the same unit, but the older brother may not have survived the war. 

During the War of 1861-65, oldest son Léonard, fils served in Company A of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. James Parish, which fought in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana.  He enlisted in October 1861, age 21, and was sent to Pass Manchac later that month as a picket guard.  He was relieved the first of November and returned to his unit, which he followed to northern Mississippi in early 1862.  He fell sick at Corinth, Mississippi, and was left there when his company moved north into southern Tennessee and fought gunboats near Pittsburg Landing.  His service record does not say if he fought with his regiment at the Battle of Shiloh that April.  He was absent sick again in a Mississippi general hospital that spring and summer.  After that, his service record falls silent, so one wonders if he survived the war.  If he did and returned to his family, he did not marry by 1870. 

 Léonard, père's second son Rosémond also served in Company A of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry during the War of 1861.  Like his older brother Léonard, fils, Rosémond enlisted in the company in October 1861--he was age 19-- and, except for a bout of illness that sent him to a general hospital in Mississippi during the summer of 1862, remained with his company.  After November 1863, Rosémond served also in Company C of the Consolidated 18th Regiment and Yellow Jackets Battalion Louisiana Infantry, which fought in Louisiana.  He was still a part of this unit, serving in northwestern Louisiana, when the Confederate armies surrendered.  He signed his end-of-war parole at Natchitoches in early June 1865, so he survived the war and returned to his family.  He married Letitia, daughter of Clairville Hymel and Athenais Poché of Pointe Coupee, at the Convent church in January 1869.  Their son Joseph Léonard was born near Convent in October 1869; ...

Jérôme (1740-?) à Pierre l'aîné à Denis à Jean Gaudet

Jérôme, younger son of Jean Gaudet and Marie Breau, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1740, followed his family into exile and into a prison compound in Nova Scotia in the early 1760s.  He was still a bachelor when he came to New Orleans in 1765 with his widowed mother and two older siblings.  He followed his family to Cabahannocer, where he married fellow Acadian Marie Doucet in the 1770s.  They remained on the Acadian Coast and may have been that rare Acadian couple who had no children.  

Pierre, fils (c1760-?) à ? à Jean Gaudet

Pierre, fils, older son of Pierre Gaudet and Marie-Madeleine Doucet, born in exile in greater Acadian in c1760, followed his family to New Orleans and Cabahannocer in 1765.  Spanish officials counted him with his mother and stepfather, Abraham Roy, at Cabahannocer in January 1777.  He probably did not marry. 

Charles (c1763-?) à ? à Jean Gaudet

Charles, younger son of Pierre Gaudet and Marie-Madeleine Doucet, born in exile in greater Acadia in c1763, followed his family to New Orleans and Cabahannocer in 1765.  Spanish officials counted him with his mother and stepfather, Abraham Roy, at Cabahannocer in January 1777.  Charles, in his late 20s, married Françoise, daughter of Frenchman Pierre Berteau and his second wife Acadian Rose Savoie, at Cabahannocer in June 1792.  Françoise was a native of Cabahannocer whose mother had come to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765.  Charles and Françoise's children, born at Cabahannocer, included Marie-Françoise in June 1793; Pierre in February 1795; Marie-Constance in January 1797 but died the following October; a son, name unrecorded, died a day after his birth in August 1798; Charles-Valéry born in November 1799; Rosalie in January 1802; Jérôme Ursin in January 1804 but died at age 9 in September 1813; and Madeleine Élisabeth born in July 1806--eight children, four daughters and four sons, between 1793 and 1806.  Charles died near Convent, St. James Parish, in January 1841.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Charles died at "age 83 yrs."  He likely was in his late 70s.  Daughters Marie Françoise and Madeleine married into the Frederick and Leche families.  Only one of Charles's sons seems to have married. 

Oldest son Pierre married Eméranthe, daughter of Pierre Loupe and Élisabeth Hautin, at the St. James church, St. James Parish, in June 1818.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included Marie Emérande in c1819 but died near Convent, age 34, in August 1853; Pierre Théodolph or Théodule, called Théodule, born near Convent in February 1821; Marie Elvina or Alvina, called Alvina, in May 1824; Marie Azéma, called Azéma, in January 1829; Jérôme Séverin in March 1832; and Firmin Théogène in August 1836--six children, three daughters and three sons, between 1819 and 1836.  In September 1850, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted a single slave--a 28-year-old black male--on Pierre Gaudet's farm in the parish's eastern district.  Pierre died near Convent in October 1854, age 59.  Daughters Alvina and Azéma married into the Roussel and Delatte families by 1870.  Two of Pierre's sons also married by then, but one of the lines did not endure. 

Oldest son Pierre Théodolph or Théodule, called Théodule, married Marie Séraphine, called Séraphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand Paul Bourgeois and Marguerite Bourgeois, at the Convent church in July 1845.  Their children, born near Convent, included Joseph Edmé in October 1846; Marie Rose or Rosima in May 1848; twins Louis Théophile and Marie Louisa in September 1850, but Marie Louisa died near Convent at age 7 months in May 1851; Jean Théodore born in August 1852 but, called Léon Théodore, died at age 3 in August 1855; Benjamin born in June 1856; twins Marie Anaïs and Marie Azéma in October 1858; Marie Alice in November 1860 but, called Alice Gaudit, died near Convent at age 5 1/2 in July 1866; ...  Daughter Marie Rosima married into the Ledoux family by 1870.  One of Théodule's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Joseph Edmé married cousin Marie Augustine, daughter of fellow Acadians Hervillien Bourgeois and Marie Adolestine Bourgeois, at the Convent church in November 1866; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born near Convent, included Joseph Pierre in March 1868; Marie Adolestine in November 1870; ... 

Pierre's second son Jérôme Séverin married Félicité Justine, daughter of fellow Acadians Valentin Gaudin and Séraphine Dugas, at the Convent church in February 1865.  Jérôme died near Convent in September 1866, age 34.  His line of the family probably died with him.

Charles's third son Charles Valéry may have died young, unless he was the Charles Gaudet who died near Convent in February 1861.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Charles died at "age 66 years."  Charles Valéry would have been age 61.  He evidently did not marry. 

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Twenty years after the first of their cousins reached the colony, five Gaudets--a family of four, and a bachelor cousin--crossed to Louisiana from France aboard two of the Seven Ships of 1785.  They settled on the river above Baton Rouge and on upper Bayou Lafourche. 

The bachelor, who was middle-aged when he reached the colony, arrived on La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in early December, but no new family line came of it:

Joseph-Ignace (c1743-?) à Jean III à Jean, fils à Jean Gaudet

Joseph-Ignace, son of Jean-Baptiste Gaudet and Marie-Josèphe Darois, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1743, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in 1750.  A French official counted him with his parents and five siblings at Anse-du-Nord-Ouest on the south shore of the island in August 1752; he was listed as age 9.  His mother died probably at Anse-du-Nord-Ouest the following year.  In the fall of 1758, Joseph-Ignace, now in his mid-teens, his widowered father, and a younger brother were deported to France aboard the transport Duc Guillaume.  They survived a mid-ocean mishap aboard the vessel, which left the French Maritimes in late summer and limped into St.-Malo harbor on the first day of November, but his father died at the Hotel-Dieu, St.-Malo, a day after they reached the Breton port.  Younger brother Paul-Marie, age 9, died in an area hospital a few weeks later.  Joseph-Ignace, at age 15, settled in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer and worked perhaps as a sailor, but he did not remain.  At the end of October 1761, now age 18, he embarked on the French privateer Duchesse de Grammont to fight the British.  The Royal Navy captured the ship, and the British held Joseph-Ignace as a prisoner in England for the rest of the war.  After his release in the spring of 1763--he was now age 20--he returned to St.-Servan and was counted there in the early 1770s.  In 1785, still a bachelor, now in his early 40s, he chose to follow hundreds of his fellow Acadians to Spanish Louisiana, the only one of his immediate family who went there.  From New Orleans, he followed his fellow passengers to the new Acadian community of Bayou des Écores in the New Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge before disappearing from the historical record.  He does not seem ever to have married, so his father's line did not endure in the Bayou State.  

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The Gaudet family of four crossed aboard La Caroline, the last of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in mid-December 1785.  A robust family line came of it on Bayou Lafourche: 

Louis (1728-?) à Pierre l'aîné à Denis à Jean Gaudet

Louis, third son of Augustin Gaudet and Agnès Chiasson, born at Chignecto in c1728, married Marie, daughter of François Hébert and Anne Bourg, probably at Chignecto in c1751.  Daughter Marie was born there in c1752.  The family escaped the British roundup in the fall of 1755 and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Daughter Madeleine was born in c1757.  By 1760, the family had moved up to Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, where another daughter, Félicité, was baptized in July of that year.  He likely was the Louis Godet counted with a family of six at Restigouche on 24 October 1760, on the eve of the stronghold's formal surrender.  One wonders who the other member of his family may have been.  The British held Louis and his family at Fort Cumerland, formerly French Fort Beauséjour, near their old home at Chignecto, for the rest of the war.  Marie gave Louis two more children during captivity--Basile born in c1761; and Marguerite in c1764--unless they, too, were born before October 1760.  After the war ended in 1763, they followed other Acadians, including older brother Pierre, to the French-controlled fishery island of Miquelon off the southern coast of Newfoundland, where French officials counted them in 1767.  Their daughter Marie-Modeste was born on the island that year.  To relieve overcrowding on Miquelon and nearby Île St.-Pierre, French officials, obeying a royal decree, transported them and other fisher/habitants to France later in the year.  Many of the islanders returned to the fishery in 1768, but Louis and his family evidently remained in France.  French officials counted them at La Rochelle in 1770 and 1772.  Son Pierre le jeune was born probably at La Rochelle in c1770.  In c1773, after the family moved again, son François-Louis was born probably in the lower Loire port of Nantes--eight children, five daughters and three sons, between 1752 and 1773, in greater Acadia and France.  Unlike brother Pierre, Louis survived his time in France.  He and his family remained at Nantes, among the first Acadians to go there.  Oldest daughter Marie married Guillaume, son of Jacques Gaubert and Françoise Perier of Esparsac, in St.-Nicolas Parish, Nantes, in January 1783; Guillaume was a surgeon from the upper Garonne valley in southern France.  In 1785, Louis, wife Marie, and three of their children, two daughters and a son, crossed to Louisiana aboard the last of the Seven Ships.  Oldest daughter Marie and her French husband remained at Nantes, where Marie was recorded on relief in 1797.  She evidently joined her family in Louisiana in the early 1800s after her husband died and lived on Bayou Lafourche into her 80s; she never remarried.  If they were still living, Louis and Marie's third daughter Félicité, age 25; youngest daughter Marie-Modeste, age 18; and older sons Basile and Pierre, ages 24 and 14, in 1785, did not accompany their family to the Spanish colony either then or later.  From New Orleans, Louis and his family followed most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, perhaps the first of the Gaudets to settle there.  Marie gave Louis no more children in the colony.  His succession inventory was filed at what became the Interior Parish courthouse in August 1801, and a succession was filed there in June 1804.  In 1801, he would have been in his early 70s.  Daughter Marguerite married into the Arceneaux family at Cabahannocer on the river.  Louis's daughter Madeleine evidently did not marry.  His son who had come with the family from France also married, on Bayou Lafourche, adding substantially to the number of Gaudets there. 

Third and youngest son François-Louis followed his family to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Caissie dit Roger and Anastasie Dugas, in July 1796.  They settled on the upper bayou near his parents.  Their children, born there, included Joseph in the late 1790s; François, fils in September 1798; Marie-Rose in April 1800; Louis le jeune in August 1801; Guillaume Hippolyte, called Hippolyte, in July 1806; and Marguerite or Marie Silesie, called Silesie or Célesie, in June 1811.  François Louis, at age 43, remarried to Marcelline, daughter of Charles Falgout and Angélique Dufrene of St. Charles Parish on the lower German Coast, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in October 1816.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marcelline Aimée in January 1818; Charles in September 1819; Clémence Élisabeth in June 1821; Léon Fregins in January 1823; Céleste Léontine, called Léontine, in October 1824; Augustin Valisor, also Auguste Valsin, in September 1826; Marcele or Marcel Jule or Jules in February 1829 but, called Marcelle, died at age 11 months in January 1830; and Marie Justine in March 1831--14 children, eight sons and six daughters, by two wives, between the late 1790s and 1831.  François-Louis, called François, père by the recording priest, died in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1831, age 58.  His first succession inventory, naming his second wife and listing his children by both wives--Marcelline Aimée and her husband; Charles; Clémence Élisabeth; Léon; Céleste Léontine; Auguste Valsin; Justine; François, Jr.; Joseph; Louis; Marie Rose and her husband; Marguerite Célesie and her husband; and Hippolyte and his wife--was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse the month of his death, and a petition for a new inventory was filed at the same courthouse in July 1835.  Daughters Marie Rose, Célesie, Marcelline Aimée, Clémence Élisabeth, Léontine, and Marie Justine, by both wives, married into the Hébert, Falgout, Tucker, Evans, Lacapère, and Lesseps families.  François Louis's seven remaining sons also married, in Assumption, Lafourche Interior, and Terrebonne parishes, his three older sons to three of his second wife's sisters, but not all of the lines endured.  A remarkable number of them married first cousins.  One of them married a niece. 

Oldest son Joseph, by first wife Marie Roger, married Céleste, daughter of Charles Falgout and Angélique Dufrene and his stepmother's sister, at the Plattenville church in January 1817.  A successon inventory in Joseph's name, not post-mortem, was filed at the Lafourche Interior Parish courthouse the following July.  His and Céleste's children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Joséphine, called Joséphine, in June 1819; Joseph, fils in June 1822; Marcelle or Marcel Émile in July 1825; Céleste Alexina or Alvina, called Alvina, in August 1827; and Éloise or Héloise Célima in February 1829--five children, three daughters and two sons, between 1819 and 1829.  Joseph died in Lafourche Interior Parish in September 1836, in his late 30s or early 40s.  A post-mortem petition for succession inventory, naming his wife and listing their children--Marie Joséphine, Joseph, Marcel Émile, Céleste Alvina, and Héloise Zelima--and the children's birthdates, was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse the same month.  Daughters Joséphine, Alvina, and Héloise Célima married into the Bourgeois, Williams, and Atkinson families.  Both of Josseph's sons married on Bayou Lafourche, one of them to a double first cousin. 

Older son Joseph, fils married double first cousin Éloise Estelle, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian François Gaudet, fils and his Creole wife Hortense Falgout, his uncle and aunt, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in April 1844, and sanctified the marriage at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in June 1845.  Éloise's mother was Joseph, fils's maternal aunt.  Joseph, fils and Éloise's children, born on the Lafourche, included Joseph Armogaste in March 1845 but, called Joseph Armogasse, died 12 days after his birth; Théophile died five days after his birth in September 1847; Raphaël Pierre born in January 1850; Émile Hippolyte in September 1851; François Léon in February 1854; Marie Anastasie in November 1863; ...  In December 1850, the federal census taker in Lafourche Interior Parish counted a single slave--an 18-year-old mulatto female--on Joseph Gaudet's farm along the bayou.  None of Josesph, fils's children married by 1870. 

Joseph, père's younger son Marcel Émile married Anaïse Félicité, daughter of Jean Baptiste Champagne and Anaïse Félicité Beauvais, at the Thibodaux church in August 1852.  Did they have any children? 

François Louis's second son François, fils, by first wife Marie Roger, married Hortense, another daughter Charles Falgout and Angelique Dufrene, at the Plattenville church in June 1818.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Charles François in c1820; Ortense or Hortense Aimée in December 1822; Éloise Estelle in July 1825; Céleste Amelina in June 1828; Marie Élisa or Éliza in August 1831; Raphaël Léon or Léon Raphaël in July 1833; Léontine Angélique in October 1836; twins Joséphine Céleste and Mathilde Émilie in August 1838; and Berthilde Louise in March 1841--10 children, two sons and eight daughters, including a set of twins, between 1820 and 1841.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Lafourche Interior Parish counted 14 slaves--seven males and seven females, all black except for one mulatto, ranging in age from 35 to 2--on François Gaudet's farm along Bayou Lafourche.  Daughters Hortense Aimée, Éloise Estelle, Marie Élize, Céleste Amelina, Joséphine, and Léontine Angélique married into the Waguespack, Gaudet, Toups, Smith, and Bourgeois families, two of them to Toups brothers, by 1870.  François, fils's two sons also married by then and settled on the Lafourche.

Older son Charles François married Eméranthe, 18-year-old daughter of Jean Louis Waguespack and Eméranthe Waguespack of St. Charles Parish, at the Thibodauxville church in April 1838.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Charlotte Emérante in August 1839; Charles Mertil or Myrtile, called Myrtile, in May 1841; Hortense Lelia in July 1843; François Léon in February 1846; Guillaume J. died at age 1 1/2 months in February 1850; Marie Stephanie born in August 1851; Ernest Noël in December 1853; Marie Octavie in June 1855; and Marie Lucienne Adélaïde in January 1858--nine children, five daughters and four sons, between 1839 and 1858.  Daughter Charlotte married into the Coignet family by 1870.  One of Charles François's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Charles Myrtile, called Myrtille, married cousin Justine, daughter of Ulgère Waguespack and his Acadian wife Marie Adèle Bourgeois, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in August 1865.  Their son Charles Édouard was born in Lafourche Parish in February 1867; ...

François, fils's younger son Léon Raphaël married first cousin Marie Louise, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Gaudet and his Creole wife Berthilde Geneviève Cantrelle, his uncle and aunt, at the Thibodaux church in May 1857.  Their children, born in Lafourche Parish, included Philippe Édouard in October 1861; Laurence Albert in September 1863; Thomas in October 1865; George Edgard in August 1868; Léon Fernand in July 1870; ...

François Louis's third son Louis le jeune, by first wife Marie Roger, married Clémence, yet another daughter of Charles Falgout and and Angélique Dufrene, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in June 1821.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Louise Hélina or Élina in March 1822; Louis, fils in March 1824; Angélique Zilda in February 1826; Urma in February 1828; Julia in January 1830; Aimé Azélia in May 1832 but, called Aimé, died at age 19 (the recording priest said 18) in May 1851; Clémance or Clémence Élodie born in October 1834; François Justin or Justin François in December 1836; Justine Mélie or Meloe in October 1840; Joachim in August 1841; Marie Pamela, called Pamela, in September 1843; Arthur Charles or Charles Arthur in September 1845; and Louisa in June 1847--13 children, nine daughters and four sons, between 1822 and 1847.  Louis le jeune died in Lafourche Parish in October 1858, age 57.  A petition for a family meeting, naming him, his wife, and listing some of their children--Meloe, Joachim, Pamela, Louisa, and Arthur--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in December 1858.  Daughters Justine Meloe, Pamela, ... married into the Toups, Boudreaux, Bourgeois, Legendre, and Richard families by 1870.  Three of Louis le jeune's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Louis, fils married Elisa Adèle, 17-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Guillot and Hortense Pélagie Richard, at the Thibodaux church in May 1845.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Esilda, called Esilda, in September 1847; Louis Émile in November 1848; Léon in February 1851; Joseph Aristide in September 1852; Louisa Amelina in November 1855; Louis Prosper in February 1858; Charles Arthur in December 1860; ...  Daughter Esilda married into the Toups family by 1870.  None of Louis, fils's sons married by then. 

During the War of 1861-65, Louis le jeune's third son François Justin or Justin François, called F. Justin in Confederate records, served as a fourth sergeant in Company G of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafourche Parish, which fought in Mississippi, Tennessee, and Louisiana, and in Company F of the Consolidated 18th Regiment and Yellow Jackets Battalion Louisiana Infantry, which fought in Louisiana.  He survived the war and returned to his family.  François Justin married Marie Angelina, daughter of Mathurin Philippeau and his Acadian wife Lucille Hébert, at the Thibodaux church in May 1869.  Daughter Marie Albertine was born in Lafourche Parish in April 1870; ...

Louis le jeune's fifth and youngest son Charles Arthur married first cousin Marie Edesie, daughter of his fellow Acadian Charles Gaudet and his Creole wife Berthilde Geneviève Cantrelle, his uncle and aunt, at the Thibodaux church in April 1870. ...

François Louis's fourth son Guillaume Hippolyte, called Hippolyte, from first wife Marie Roger, married Marie Eulalie, daughter of Jean Baudoin and Geneviève Andras, at the Thibodauxville church in May 1826.  Hippolyte died in Lafourche Interior Parish in November 1832, age 26 (the recording priest said 27).  His line of the family probably died with him. 

François Louis 's fifth son Charles, by second wife Marcelline Falgout, married Berthilde Geneviève, daughter of Jean Baptiste Cantrelle and Marie Edisie Daspit, at the Thibodaux church in September 1839.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Louise in July 1840; Charles Eugène in June 1844; Marcelline Julia in February 1846 but died at age 4 in February 1850; Jules François born in December 1850; Marie Edezie in August 1852; Émile Arthur in December 1856; and Marie Joséphine in July 1858--seven children, four daughters and three sons, between 1840 and 1858.  Daughters Marie Edezie, ... married Gaudet first cousins by 1870.  One of Charles's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Charles Eugène married cousin Cora Rose or Rosine, daughter of Adolphe Daunaud or Donnard and Esilda Falgout, at the Thibodaux church in August 1869.  Daughter Eugénie Marceline was born in Lafourche Parish in June 1870; ...

François Louis's sixth son Léon Fregins, by second wife Marcelline Falgout, married Émilie, another daughter of Jean Baptiste Cantrelle and Marie Edisie Daspit, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in September 1845.  Their chilidren, born on the bayou, included Léon Firmin in February 1847; Charles Alphonse in May 1849; François Ernest in November 1851; and Marie Léontine in November 1855--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1847 and 1855.  None of Léon's children married by 1870. 

François Louis's seventh son Augustin Valsin, by second wife Marcelline Falgout, married cousin Angélique Amélie or Amelina, daughter of Guillaume Beauvais and Aimé Falgout, at the Thibodaux church in April 1847.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Oscar Augustin in January 1848 but, called François, died at age 3 1/2 (the recording priest said 4) in September 1851; Louis Alexandre born in August 1852; Guillaume Augustin in July 1854 but died at age 1 1/2 in December 1855; Marie born in November 1856; Louise Aimée Henriette in October 1858 but, called Henriette, died in November; and Marie Marguerite born in March 1860.  Augustin remarried to niece Mathilde Émilie, daughter of his half-brother François Gaudet, fils and his Creole wife Hortense Falgout, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in January 1863.  Their children, born in Lafourche Parissh, included Berthe Augustine n September 1865; Léon Fernand in July 1870; ...  None of Augustin's children married by 1870. 

Gaudin

The only branch of the Godin family in New France affected by the Acadian Grand Dérangement was that of Gabriel dit Châtillon, second son of Pierre Godin dit Châtillon and Jeanne Rosselière, born at Montréal in July 1661.  Gabriel dit Châtillon, later sieur de Bellefontaine, married Andrée-Angélique, daughter of Robert Jasne, Jeanne, or Joannes and Françoise-Madeleine Savard, at Québec in July 1690.  Gabriel had lived at Charlesbourg near Québec when he was young and was counted at Port-Royal in the late 1680s.  He evidently returned to Canada to marry.  In 1691, soon after his marriage, he and his wife settled on lower Rivière St.-Jean, where Acadian Commander Joseph Robinau de Villebon had granted them a seigneurie.  The concession soon morphed into the Acadian settlement of Ste.-Anne-du-Pays Bas or Pointe-Ste.-Anne, today's Fredericton, New Brunswick.  Between 1691 and the late 1710s, Andrée-Angélique gave Gabriel a dozen children, eight sons and four daughters, on the river.  Gabriel died probably at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas before August 1730, in his late 60s.  His daughters married into the Saindon, Dugas, and Part families.  All eight of his sons married, seven of them into the Bergeron dit d'Amboise, Bourg, and Melanson families.  In 1755, descendants of Gabriel dit Châtillon Godin, sieur de Bellefontaine, could be found in Canada and at Minas, but most of them were still living on the lower St.-Jean.  

Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this large family even farther.  In the fall of 1755, the British deported a Godin's widow, her second husband and his children by a previous marriage, and her Godin daughter from Minas to Maryland.  Colonial authorities held them at Oxford on Maryland's Eastern Shore. 

Living in territory still controlled by France, the Godins of Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas escaped the roundups of their fellow Acadians in British Nova Scotia in the summer and fall of 1755.  In 1756, a Godin married a Guilbeau from the Annapolis valley who had escaped the roundup there and found refuge with her family on the lower St.-Jean.  The extended family's respite from British oppression was short-lived, however.  In September 1758, after the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg the previous July, British forces established a fort at the mouth of Rivière St.-Jean and raided up the lower river.  Some of the Godins fled north to Canada or east to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, while others remained at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas.  Unfortunately for those who remained, in early 1759 New-English rangers under Lieutenant Moses Hazen moved farther up the St.-Jean and struck Ste.-Anne.  In the mélée that followed the destruction of the village, including its church and 147 houses, rangers fell upon a house that lay apart from the others, killed and scalped six Acadians hiding there, and captured six others.  Five of the Acadians got away.  Though the British insisted that the dead habitants were all men, eyewitness depositions made to French authorities in Québec, and other contemporary sources, confirm that the six Acadians who the rangers killed were actually two women and their four children!  One of the women was Anastasie, daughter of militia leader Joseph Godin dit Beauséjour and the wife of Eustache Part.  Three of the dead children belonged to this couple.  The other murdered woman was Marguerite Guilbeau of Annapolis Royal, wife of Joseph Godin dit Beauséjour's son Michel dit Beauséjour, and the other murdered child was the couple's infant son.  The British transported the captured habitants, including Joseph dit Beauséjour, son Michel dit Beauséjour, and Eustache Part, to the prison compound on Georges island in Halifax harbor.  That November, Lieutenant-Governor Charles Lawrence deported them, along with Acadians captured at Cap-Sable, to England, but authorities there sent them on to Cherbourg, Normandy, France, where they landed in January 1760.  Meanwhile, other Godins from Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas dodged the British onslaught on the lower river and fled north along the St.-Jean portage to Canada.  After the war, a sister of Joseph dit Beauséjour returned to Rivière St.-Jean perhaps from the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore but moved on to Canada, where she died in April 1795 in her mid-80s. 

Some of the Godins who dodged the British onslaught on the lower St.-Jean sought refuge at Miramichi on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore or at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  In the late 1750s, Acadians still at Miramichi, to avoid another hard winter and mass starvation, began to surrender to British forces in the area.  After the fall of Québec in September 1759, the British gathered their forces in the region to attack the remaining French strongholds in New France.  In June 1760, a British naval force from Louisbourg attacked Restigouche, now a major Acadian refuge.  After a spirited fight in which Acadian militia and Mi'kmaq warriors played an important role, the French commander blew up his larger vessels and retreated up Rivière Restigouche, leaving the militia and the Indians to oppose a British landing.  Unable to capture the garrison or lay waste to the area, the British commander ordered his ships to return to their base at Louisbourg.  In October, after the fall of Montréal, another British naval force, this one from Québec, appeared at Restigouche to accept the garrison's, and the Acadians', surrender.  On 24 October 1760, on the eve of formal surrender, French officers counted 1,003 Acadians still at Restigouche.  No Godins appeared on the list.  In the following months, more exiles in the region either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces and held in prison compounds in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  In August 1763, five Godin families appeared on a French repatriation list complied in the prison compound at Halifax.  

The Godins who ended up in France endured life there as best they could.  Joseph dit Bellefontaine dit Beauséjour and his wife Marie-Anne Bergeron dit d'Amboise ended up at Cherbourg, where he died at age 81 in December 1776.  A Godin born in Canada in c1740 ended up in England during the war with Britain, perhaps as a Canadian prisoner of war, and was repatriated to St.-Malo, France, in the spring of 1763.  He married a French woman there the following year.  None of the witnesses to their marriage in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer were Acadian.  They were still at St.-Servan in 1770.  Other Godins in the St.-Malo area married local French, and few of their childrens' godparents were Acadian.  Church records reveal that at St.-Malo, and at Rochefort and La Rochelle on the Bay of Biscay, some members of the family spelled their surname Gaudin, a hint that they may not have been Acadian Godins.  When in the early 1780s the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, none of the Godin/Gaudins in France chose to take it--perhaps because most of them were not Acadians, and the ones who were had married into French families.  

At war's end, Acadians being held in the seaboard colonies, theoretically, were free to go, but not until the British discerned their intentions.  Even then, colonial officials discouraged repatriation.  No Godins from Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas appear on French repatriation lists of Acadian exiles being held in New England, New York, Pennsylvania, or South Carolina in the early 1760s.  In August of 1763, a Godin's widow, her second husband, a Landry, and three of his children from his first marriage appeared on a repatriation list at Oxford on Maryland's Eastern Shore, but they failed to list the wife's Godin daughter.  That she was still in the colony is attested to by her marriage to a Landry stepbrother probably at Oxford in October 1765. 

To put as much distance as they could between themselves and the British on the lower St.-Jean, many of the Godins from Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas had gone to Canada in the late 1750s.  After the war, some of the Godins being held in Nova Scotia joined their kinsmen there, forming, along with their cousins who had been there for decades, the largest concentration of Godins anywhere in the Acadian diaspora.  Though now also a British possession, the far-northern province was populated largely by fellow French Catholics, many of them Acadian exiles.  So, in a colony nearly as old as Acadia, the Godins of Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas also began the inexorable process of becoming Canadiennes.  The river exiles settled near their cousins at Québec City; at Batiscan, Bécancour, Gentilly, and Ste.-Anne-de-la-Pérade on the St. Lawrence above Québec; and at Beauport, Île d'Orleans, Kamouraska, Ste.-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, and L'Isle-Verte on the St. Lawrence below the city.  Godins who chose to remain in greater Acadia could be found in present-day New Brunswick at Petit-Rocher, Caraquet, Grand-Digue, and Memramcook on the Baie des Chaleurs and the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore; at French Village and Sunbury near their former homes at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas in the interior of New Brunswick; and St.-Basile-de-Madawaska up and down Rivière St.-Jean.  In Nova Scotia, river Godins settled at Halifax and at Arichat on Île Madame.  Typical of most, if not all, Acadian families, these Acadiennes of Canada lost touch with their Cadien cousins hundreds of miles away, and, until the Acadian reunions of the twentieth century, may even have forgotten the others existed. 

Acadians still being held in Nova Scotia at war's end faced a hard dilemma.  The Treaty of Paris of February 1763 stipulated in its Article IV that persons dispersed by the war had 18 months to return to their respective territories.  However, British authorities refused to allow any of the Acadian prisoners in the region to return to their former lands as proprietors.  If Acadians chose to remain in, or return to, Nova Scotia, they could live only in small family groups in previously unsettled areas or work for low wages on former Acadian lands now owned by New-English "planters."  If they stayed, they must also take the hated oath of allegiance to the new British king, George III, without reservation.  They would also have to take the oath if they joined their many cousins in Canada or other parts of greater Acadia.  After all they had suffered on the question of the oath, few self-respecting Acadians would consent to take it if it could be avoided.  Some Nova Scotia exiles chose to relocate to Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  Others considered going to French St.-Domingue and other islands in the French Antilles, where exiles in the seaboard colonies had gone, or to the Illinois country, the west bank of which still belonged to France, or to French Louisiana, which, thanks to British control of Canada, was the only route possible to the Illinois country for Acadian exiles.  Whatever their choice, many refused to remain under British rule.  One Godin family did choose to remain, but the others gathered up their money and their few possessions and prepared to leave their homeland.  Of the 600 exiles who left Halifax in late 1764 and early 1765 bound for Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, 20 were Godins from Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas. 

Meanwhile, the Acadians in Maryland endured life among Englishmen who, despite their colony's Catholic roots, did not care much for the French "papists" thrust upon them.  When word reached the Acadians in Maryland that the Spanish would welcome them in Louisiana, where some of their relatives had gone, they pooled their meager resources to charter ships that would take them to New Orleans.  In June 1766, newlyweds Susanne Godin and Vincent Landry and their infant son left Baltimore for Louisiana as part of the first contingent of exiles to depart the Chesapeake colony.  They arrived at New Orleans via Cap-Français late that September. 

Descendants of Gabriel dit Châtillon Godin of Rivière St.-Jean were not a typical family in greater Acadia; they arrived fairly late in the colony, and, being St.-Jean river seigneurs, were not aboiteaux builders of the Fundy shore.  They were, however, among the earliest Acadians who found refuge in Louisiana.  The first of them arrived in February 1765 with the Broussards from Halifax via Cap-Français.  That April, they followed the Broussards to the Attakapas District, where they hoped to create La Nouvelle-Acadie on the banks of Bayou Teche.  Then tragedy struck.  Two of them died in an epidemic that devastated the Teche Valley community that summer and fall.  The lone survivor in the family retreated to the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river, where many more of her Godin kinsmen from Halifax had settled that year.  These Godins, who had been river dwellers in Acadia, remained on the lower Mississippi in what became St. James and Ascension parishes.  Only one line of the family settled on upper Bayou Lafourche, and it died out early, so the great majority, if not all, of the Acadian Godins remained on what Louisianians called the Acadian Coast.  

Non-Acadian Godin/Gaudins came to the colony as early as the 1720s.  One of them, from St.-Francois Parish, Montréal, may have been a Canadian cousin of the Godins at Cabahannocer; he, too, settled there.  Most of the non-Acadian Godin/Gaudins remained at New Orleans, though a few moved out to the prairies of present-day St. Landry and Lafayette parishes.  These French Creoles, in fact, were the only Godin/Gaudins who settled west of the Atchafalaya Basin.  During the early 1800s, Foreign-French Godins emigrated to Louisiana but probably remained at New Orleans.   Meanwhile, the Acadian family's surname evolved from Godin to Gaudin, complicating the genealogical picture wherever they settled near their non-Acadian namesakes. 

Judging by the number of slaves they owned, some Acadian Gaudins participated fully in the South's antebellum plantation-based economy.  Two owned enough slaves to qualify as planters, and one came close.  Valentin Gaudin of St. James Parish held 16 slaves in 1850 and 17 in 1860.  Two of his cousins, in fact, qualified as great planters:  In 1850, Jean-Baptiste Gaudin of St. James Parish held 51 slaves on one plantation and 25 on another.  Michel Gaudin owned 54 slaves in St. James Parish in 1850 and held 88 there a decade later.  But most of their cousins owned few or no slaves on their small holdings on the river. 

Over a dozen Gaudins served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65, and at least one of them died in Confederate service.  Émile Gaudin of St. James Parish enlisted in Company A of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry as soon as the unit was organized in early October 1861.  Émile was severely wounded at the Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee, in April 1862.  Left in enemy hands on the battlefield, the Federals sent him to a general hospital in St. Louis, Missouri, where he died in June.  At home, the war took a heavy toll on the Gaudins' economic status.  Even before Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation went into effect in January 1863, Federal commands controlling the lower Mississippi freed the slaves on every farm and plantation their forces could reach.  This no doubt included the Gaudin holdings in St. James and Ascension parishes.  Meanwhile, Union gunboats shelled and burned dozens of plantation and farm houses along the river. 

During the late colonial period, some Acadian Godins began to call themselves Bellefontaine and Lincour, using their ancestors' dits as their surname.  In Louisiana, the family's name also is spelled Gaudain, Gaudens, Gaudon, Godain, Gode, Godein, Goden, Godon.  Some church records confuse this family with their fellow Acadians, the Gaudets.20

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Three river Godins reached New Orleans in late February 1765 from Halifax via Cap-Français and followed the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche.  Marie-Charlotte Godin died in July, and Anselme-Joseph Godin in September, victims of a mysterious epidemic that struck the Teche Valley Acadians.  That fall, Marie-Madeleine Godin retreated with her husband Ambroise Martin dit Barnabé and their two daughters to Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans, where they remained. 

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Later in 1765, 17 more river Godins--four families, including two led by widows, a wife, two sets of siblings, and a young bachelor--reached New Orleans from Halifax via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue.  They did not follow the Broussards to Bayou Teche but settled, instead, at Cabahannocer on what became known as the Acadian Coast.  Several robust family lines came of it, resulting in the largest concentration of Acadian Godin/Gaudins in South Louisiana: 

Bonaventure dit Bellefontaine (c1715-1780s) à Pierre dit Châtillon Gaudin

Bonaventure dit Bellefontaine, eighth and youngest son of Gabriel Godin dit Châtillon, sieur de Bellefontaine, and Andrée-Angélique Jeanne, born probably at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas in c1715, married in c1739 a woman whose name has been lost to history.  She died soon after their marriage, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth.  Bonaventure remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Barthélémy Bergeron dit d'Amboise, fils and Marguerite Dugas, in c1740 probably at St.-Anne.  Between 1749 and 1756, Marguerite gave Bonaventure at least four children, two daughters and two sons:  Théotiste born in c1749; Marie in c1751; Bonaventure, fils in c1753; and Michel in c1756.  They escaped the British roundups on the river in late 1758 and early 1759 and found refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  By the early 1760s, they either had surrendered to, or been captured by, British forces in the area, who held them in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  In August 1763, Bonaventure, Marguerite, and seven children appeared on a French repatriation list at Halifax.  The couple and four of their children, two sons and two daughers, emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765 and settled at Cabahannocer.  Bonaventure died there before May 1786, in his late 60s or early 70s.  Daughters Théotiste and Marie married into the LeBlanc and Bergeron families at Cabahanncoer.  Bonventure's two sons also married there and created vigorous lines. 

Older son Bonavenuture, fils followed his family into exile and imprisonment, and to New Orleans and Cabahannocer, where he married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Timothée-Athanase Broussard and Anne-Marie Bourgeois of Attakapas, in the mid-1780s; Marie was a granddaughter of Acadian partisan leader Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil.  Her and Bonaventure, fils's chldren, born at Cabahannocer, included Scholastique in c1784; Bonaventure III in January 1787; Rosémond in November 1788 but died at age 22 in January 1811; Marcelle or Marcellite born in February 1792; Michel-Bernard in April 1794; Valentin in c1797 and baptized at Cabahannocer/St. James, age 9, in April 1806; Marie-Cléonise born in October 1798; and Hortense in April 1801 and baptized at the New Orleans church in February 1802--eight children, four sons and four daughters, between 1787 and 1801.  In mid-November 1803, Bonaventure, fils and his family may have been among the Acadians visited by French consul Pierre Clément, baron de Laussat, on the eve of the colony's retrocession to France and the United States.  Bonventure, fils died in St. James Parish in October 1818.  The Convent priest who recorded the burial said that Bonaventure was age 70 when he died.  He was 65.  Daughters Scholastique, Marcellite, Marie Cléonise, and Hortense married into the Dugas, Arceneaux, LeBlanc, and Bourgeois families.  Three of Bonaventure's sons also married in St. James Parish. 

Oldest son Bonaventure III married Reine, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Paul Arceneaux and his Creole wife Élisabeth Fontenot, at the St. James church in August 1806.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included a son, name unrecorded, in 1808 but died at age 6 months in April 1809; Claire Fideline, called Fideline, born in October 1810 but died at age 3 1/2 in June 1814; and Joachim born in December 1812--three children, two sons and a daughter, between  1808 and 1812.  Bonaventure III died in St. James Parish in August 1814, age 27.  His remaining son carried on the line.

Second son Joachim married Célestine, daughter of Charleville Blouin and his Acadian wife Rosalie Part, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in June 1834.  Son Charles was born near Convent in November 1839.  In September 1850, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted 10 slaves--four males and six females, all black, ranging in age from 36 to 2--on Joachim Gaudin's farm in the parish's eastern district.  Joachim died in the 1850s, in his 40s.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted seven slaves--two males and five females, one black and six mulattoes, ages 40 to 3, living in three houses--on Célestine Gaudin's farm in the parish's Left Bank District 2; this probably Joachim's widow widow, Célestine Blouin.  Her Gaudin son created his own family.

Only son Charles married Alphonsine Oubre probably in St. James Parish in the early 1860s.  Their children, born near Convent, included Marie Louisiana in September 1862 but, called Louisiana, died at age 15 months in November 1863; Marie Ida born in February 1864; Marie Julia in February 1865; Marie Rosalie in February 1867; Charles Adrien in September 1869; ... 

Bonavenuture, fils's third son Michel Bernard married Scholastique dite Colastie, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Hébert and Marguerite Poirier, at the Convent church in September 1816.  Michel and Scholastique's children, born in St. James Parish, included Joseph Michel in June 1817; Marie, called Cephalise and Stephenie, in April 1819; Marguerite Alzina in August 1821; Jean Baptiste Félix in May 1823 but, called Félix, died at age 2 (the recording priest said 4) in July 1825; Eugène born in November 1824; Marie Arthémise, called Arthémise, in July 1826; Victor in March 1828; Rozalie, also called Alzina, in November 1829; Corine in c1830; Joseph Flasile or Flagille, called Flagille, in January 1831; Anne Urenie in March 1833 but, called Uranie, died at age 1 in May 1834; Madeleine Anaïs, called Anaïs, born in December 1834; Honorine, also called Dorice, baptized at 3 months in May 1837; Marie Oliva, called Oliva and Olivaria, born in September 1838; Michel Léon, called Léon, in July 1840; Anne Olive, called Olive, in September 1843; and Idonie in the 1840s--17 children, six sons and 11 daughters, between 1817 and the 1840s.  In September 1850, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted three slaves--all males and all black, ages 40, 35, and 25--on Michel Gaudin's farm in the parish's eastern district, where he worked as a wood merchant.  Michel Bernard was living in the Third District of St. James Parish in June 1860.  He died in St. James Parish in August 1867, age 73.  Daughters Marguerite Azlina, Stephenie, Arthémise, Anaïs, Corine, Olive, Oliva, and Idonie married into the Lafor, Arceneaux, Babin, Lanoux, Melançon, Legendre, Louvière, and Rouilett families, one of them, Anaïs, twice, and two of them, Olive and Oliva, to Louvière cousins, by 1870.  Three of Michel's sons also married by then, one after he completed his Confederate service. 

Third son Eugène married Adèle Estival, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Estival Bourgeois and his Creole wife Véronique Keller, at the Convent church in April 1845.  Their children, born on the river, included Marie Delia near Convent in February 1846; Delphine in May 1848; Marie Estelle, called Estelle, in September 1850; Michel Alphred, called Alphred, in Ascension Parish in July 1852; Adèle in c1853; Myrthée in c1855 but died at age 12 (the recording priest said 10) in December 1867; Louise born in February 1856; Delphine, the second with the name, in July 1857; Fulgence in January 1859; Marie in June 1861; Arthur in April 1863; Olympe Joséphine in March 1867; ...  Eugène died near Convent in October 1869.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Eugène died at "age ca. 43 years."  He was 44.  Daughters Estelle, Delphine, ... married into the Melançon family, two of them to the same fellow, by 1870.  None of Eugène's sons married by then. 

Michel Bernard's fifth son Flagille married fellow Acadian Ernestine Boudreaux at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in April 1856.  They settled in St. James Parish near Convent.  Their children, born near Convent, included Marie Mélodie in March 1857; and Marie Julia in December 1859.  Wife Ernestine died near Convent, age 30, in June 1835.  Flagille remarried to first cousin Elmire, daughter of fellow Acadians Trasimond Breaux and Phelonise Gaudin, at the Convent church in December 1866; they had to secure a dispensation for second and third degrees of consanguinity in order to marry.  Son Michel Flagile was born near Convent in November 1867 but, unnamed, died near Convent at age 18 months in April 1869; ...  Meanwhile, wife Elmire died near Convent, age 25, in November 1867, evidently from the rigors of childbirth.  Neither of Flagille's daughters by his first wife married by 1870. 

During the War of 1861-65, Michel Bernard's sixth and youngest son Léon served in Company D of the 14th Regiment Confederate States Cavalry, which fought in Mississippi and Alabama.  He survived the war and returned to his family.  He married Osile or Ozile, daughter of fellow Acadians Marcellin Boudreaux and Sylvanie Gautreaux, at the Convent church in February 1865.  They lived on the river near the boundary between St. James and Ascension parishes.  Their children, born there, included Hilaire Ludger in January 1866; Michel Flagille in November 1867; Joseph Reynaud in February 1868; Marie Lucie in September 1870; ...  

Bonavenuture, fils's fourth and youngest son Valentin married Anne Séraphine, called Séraphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Grégoire Dugas and Élisabeth Sophie Landry, at the Donaldsonville church in December 1816.  Their children, born on the river, included Élisabeth Mathilde in Ascension Parish in January 1818; Marie Célestine near Convent in October 1820; Hortense Virginie in July 1823 but, called Virginie, died at Convent, age 1 1/2, in September 1824; Anne Florestine born in January 1825; Valentin Godefroi, called Godefroi, in March 1826; Charles Émile in March 1828; Gertrude Palmire, called Palmire, in March 1830; Joseph Florian in April 1832 but, called Florian, died at age 3 in March 1835; Ursule Ophelia, called Ophelia, born in March 1834; Georges Aristide, called Aristide, in early 1836 and baptized at the Convent church, age 10 months, in January 1837; and Justina Félicité or Félicité Justine born in July 1838--11 children, seven daughters and four sons, between 1818 and 1838.  In September1850, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted 16 slaves--eight males and eight females, all black, ranging in age from 52 to 6--on Valentin Gaudin's farm in the parish's eastern district.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted 17 slaves--nine males and eight females, seven blacks and 10 mulattoes, ranging in age from 60 to 2, in 4 houses--on Valentin Gaudin's farm in the parish's Left Bank District 2.  Valentin died in St. James Parish in November 1863, age 67.  One wonders if his death was war-related.  Daughters Félicité Justine, ... married into the Gaudet, Caillouet, Guidry, Oubre, and Usé families by 1870.  Two of Valentin's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Valentin Godefroi, called Godefroi, married Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadian Célestin Bourgeois and his Creole wife Gertrude Philippe, at the Convent church in October 1847.  She evidently gave him no children, at least none who appear in local church records.  Godefroi remarried to Victorine, daughter of Joseph Caillouet and his Acadian wife Céleste Thibodeaux and widow of V. Falgout, at the Convent church in February 1851.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included Marie Cécilia near Convent in November 1851; Ann Lutetia in October 1853 but, called Lutecia, died at age 6 1/2 in April 1860; Lucien Valentin born in January 1860; Marie Ursule in November 1868; ...  In June 1860, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted six slaves--five males and one female, all mulattoes, living in two houses--on Godfroy Gaudin's farm in the parish's Left Bank District 2.  None of Godefroi's children married by 1870. 

Valentin's forth and youngest son Georges Aristide, called Aristide, married Rosa or Rosalie Françoise, daughter of François Courfbert or Courflert De La Neuville and his Acadian wife Zélamie Theriot, at the Convent church in November 1859.  Their children, born near Convent, included Marie Palmyre in October 1860; Marie Louise in May 1866; George Thomas in December 1867; Louis Aristide in January 1870; ... 

Bonaventure, père's younger son Michel followed his family into exile and imprisonment, and to New Orleans and Cabahannocer, where he married Françoise, daughter of Louis Barbe and Charlotte Falgout, in October 1787.  In the 1790s, the family moved to New Orleans.  Their children, born on the river, included Émilie at Cabahannocer in c1787 but died at New Orleans, age 12, in September 1799; Dorothée born in November 1788; Jean-Baptiste in July 1790; Édouard in May 1792; Marie-Aurore in December 1794; and Mélanie in c1797 and baptized at the New Orleans church, age 15 months, in January 1799--six children, four daughters and two sons, between 1787 and 1797.  Michel died at New Orleans in October 1798.  The St.-Louis Cathedral priest who recorded the burial called him Pedro, or Pierre, a native of Acadia and resident of the Acadian Coast.  The priest also said "Pedro" was age 40 when he died.  He was 42.  His widow, who remarried to a Dugas, evidently remained in the city for a while.  Daughter Marie Aurore married into the Dugas and Badie families in Ascension Parish.  Michel's two sons also married, settled  in Ascension Parish, and became major planters along the river. 

Older son Jean Baptiste, at age 19, married Rosalie Athanaise, also called Marie Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Athanase Dugas and Rose LeBlanc, at the Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, in October 1809.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Jean Baptiste, fils in August 1810 but died at age 18 in September 1828; Rose or Rosalie Euphrasie born in March 1812; Marie, perhaps also called Gertrude, in January 1814; Élise in March 1816 but evidently died in June; Michel Adélard born in February 1818; Marie Ursule in October 1819; Lise Elmire or Elmire Lise in February 1822; Jérôme Sylvère, also called Jérôme Silvany and Silvany, in August 1824; Uranie Avelline in January 1827; Joseph Michel Léon, called Jean Michel Léon and Léon, in August 1830; and Laurent Édouard, also called Édouard E., in August 1833--11 children, five sons and six daughters, between 1810 and 1833.  Jean Baptiste died in Ascension Parish in January 1845, age 54 (the recording priest said 55).  In September 1850, the federal census taker in Ascension Parish counted 51 slaves--37 males and 14 females, ranging in age from to 70 to 4--on one of Mrs. J. B. Gaudin's plantations, and 25 more slaves--13 males and 12 females, ranging in age from 60 to infancy--on a second plantation of hers in the parish; these were his widow Rosalie Dugas's slaves.  Daughters Rosalie Euphrasie, Gertrude, Marie Ursule, and Elmire Lise married into the Babin, Hébert, Landry, Bujole, and Desnoux families, two of them to Babins, by 1870.  Three of Jean Baptiste's sons also married by then.

Third son Jérôme Silvany, called Silvany, married cousin Marguerite Emma or Aimée Lisa or Lise Marguerite Emma, called Élise and Lise, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Nicolas Dugas and Clarisse Landry, at the Donaldsonville church in February 1846; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Rosalie Clarisse in May 1847; Marguerite Aima or Emma Zoé, called Emma, in November 1849; Joseph Collin in April 1854; Marie in August 1856; Evalthur Crescent in June 1868; ...  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Ascension Parish counted seven slaves--three males and four females, all black, ranging in age from 40 to 4--on Silvani Gaudin's farm in the parish's First Ward.  Daughter Emma married an Hébert first cousin by 1870.  None of Silvany's sons married by then. 

Jean Baptiste, père's fourth son Joseph or Jean Michel Léon, called Léon, married cousin Amelina, daughter of Jean Denoux and his Acadian wife Justine Babin, at the Donaldsonville church in February 1852; they had to secure a dispensation for fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Arcade Amelina in January 1853 but, called Léontine, died at age 14 1/2 (the recording priest said 15) in October 1867; Marie Adorestine, called Adorestine, born in October 1854; Antoine Michel in June 1856 but, called Michel, died at age 9 in September 1866; Bernard born in August 1858; Françoise in 1862 and baptized at the Donaldsonville church in March 1863; Marie Sidonie born in May 1867; Valérie Léonie in June 1869; ...  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Ascension Parish counted three slaves--a 21-year-old female and two males, age 2 and 5, all black, living in one house--on Léon Gaudin's farm in the parish's First Ward.  None of Michel Léon's children married by 1870. 

Jean Baptiste, père's fifth and youngest son Laurent Edward, also called Édouard E., married Anaïs, daughter of fellow Acadians Treville Melançon and Judith Hébert, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in November 1856.  They settled in Ascension Parish.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Édoude, called Edward, in September 1857; Thomas in December 1858 but died at age 10 months in October 1859; Luce La Croix born in May 1860; Ovide Éloi, called Éloi, in August 1861; Lorence Oscar in January 1863 but, called Oscar, died at age 1 in January 1864; Jean Baptiste born in July 1864; Ursule Cécile in October 1865; Louis Christian in March 1867 but, called Cristin, died at age 2 in August 1869; ... 

Michel's younger son Édouard married Marie Élise, called Lise, 17-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Gaudet and Victoire Bergeron, at the St. James church, St. James Parish in January 1820.  They lived on the river near the boundary between St. James and Ascension parishes.  Their children, born there, included Victoire Alsina or Alzina, called Alzina, in November 1820; Michel Édouard, called Édouard, fils, in January 1823; Jean Baptiste Elphége, called Elphége, in January 1825; and Françoise Elmire, called Elmire, in November 1826--four children, two daughters and two son, between 1820 and 1826.  Édouard, père, at age 44, remarried to Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Hébert and Théotiste Landry and widow of Pierre Lalande, at the Donaldsonville church in February 1837.  She evidently gave him no more children.  Arthémise died in Ascension Parish in September 1846.  Édouard, père evidently did not remarry.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Ascension Parish counted 54 slaves--25 males and 29 females, ranging in age from 70 to infancy--on Édouard Gaudin, Sr.'s plantation next to Elphage Gaudin.  In 1860, the federal census taker in Ascension Parish counted 88 slaves--51 males and 37 females, all black, ranging in age from 50 to 7, living in 24 houses--on Edward Gaudin's plantation in the parish's Fourth Ward.  Daughters Alzina and Elmire, by his first wife, married into the Mollère and Dugas families by 1870.  Two of Édouard's sons also married by then and settled on the river, but one of the lines may not have endured.

Oldest son Édouard, fils, by first wife Lise Gaudet, married Adèle, daughter of Baptiste Mollère and Adèle Hatkinson, at the Donaldsonville church in January 1844; Adèle's brother was the husband of one of Édouard, fils's sisters.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Ascension Parish counted eight slaves--three males and five females, ranging in age from 40 to 2--on E. Gaudan, Jr.'s farm.  Edouard, fils remarried to Cécilia, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand LeBlanc and Delphine Landry, at the Donaldsonville church in July 1856.  Did Édouard, fils father any children by his two wives? 

In August 1850, the federal census taker in Ascension Parish counted three slaves--all females, ages 50, 30, and 10--on Elphage Gaudin's farm next to Édouard Gaudin, Sr.  This was Édouard, père's third and youngest son Elphége, by first wife Lise Gaudet, who married cousin Frances or Francisca, daughter of John H. Isley and Élise Mollère, at the Donaldsonville church in April 1865; they had to secure a dispensation for fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Benjamin died a day after his birth in June 1867; Margueritte Anne Marie was born in January 1869; Michel Edward in April 1870; ... 

Barthélémy dit Bellefontaine (c1735-1771) à Gabriel dit Châtillon à Pierre dit Châtillon Gaudin

Barthélémy dit Bellefontaine, second son of Joseph Godin dit Bellefontaine dit Beauséjour and Marie-Anne Bergeron dit d'Amboise and Bonaventure's nephew, born probably at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas on Rivère St.-Jean in c1735, married Marie-Claire, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Martin and Marie Brun, in c1760 during exile.  He evidently had escaped the British on Rivière St.-Jean in 1758-59 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, but he and his wife were either captured by, or surrendered to, British forces in the area soon after their marriage.  Barthélémy, his wife, and an unnamed child appeared on a French repatriation list in the prison compound at Halifax in August 1763.  He and Marie-Claire, without their child, emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765 and settled at Cabahannocer.  Marie-Claire gave Barthélémy more children there, including Louis born in c1767; Barthélémy, fils in c1769; and Marguerite baptized, age unrecorded, in October 1770--at least four children, two sons and a daughter, between the early 1760s and 1770, in greater Acadia and Louisiana.  Barthélémy, père died at Cabahannocer in July 1771, age 36.  Only his older son married, but the line did not endure.  

Older son Louis married Marie-Anne, called Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Louvière and Élisabeth Melanson of Rivière St.-Jean, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in March 1791.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer/St. James, included Célestine or Céleste in September 1794; Arthémise in June 1797 but died at age 10 in July 1807; a daughter, name unrecorded, died in April 1800 a month after her birth; Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, born in January 1802; Félicité baptized, age 3 months, in June 1805; Marie Éloise born in February 1807; Joséphine in c1809; and Estelle Rosalie, called Rosalie, in September 1810--eight children, all daughters, between 1794 and 1810.  Louis died near Convent, St. James Parish, in August 1829.  The priest who recorded the burial called him Luis and gave no parents' names or mentioned a wife.  This Louis would have been in his early 60s.  Daughters Céleste, Madeleine, Joséphine, and Estelle Rosalie married into the Grabert, Blouin, and Hébert families, two of them to brothers.  Louis evidently fathered no sons, so his line of the family, except for its blood, died with him. 

Jacques dit Bellefontaine (c1740-?) à Gabriel dit Châtillon à Pierre dit Châtillon Gaudin

Jacques dit Bellefontaine, fourth son of Joseph Godin dit Bellefontaine dit Beauséjour and Marie-Anne Bergeron dit d'Amboise and Barthélémy's brother, born probably at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas in c1740, evidently followed his brothers into exile, into the prison compound at Halifax, and to Cabahannocer, where Spanish officials counted him in April 1766 and September 1769.  He likely was the Jacques Bellefontaine about whom Cabahannocer commandant Louis Judice complained to Spanish Governor Ulloa in April 1768.  Judice had ordered Jacques and three other Acadians to seize the families of fellow Acadians Honoré and Alexis Breau of Pigiguit, recently arrived from Maryland, who had defied the governor's orders to settle at an upriver post.  Instead of escorting the Breaus to New Orleans so the governor could send them out of the colony, Jacques and his companions warned them about the governor's plans, and the families fled.  Jacques evidently never married. 

Jean-Baptiste dit Bellefontaine (c1746-1811?) à Gabriel dit Châtillon à Pierre dit Châtillon Gaudin

Jean-Baptiste dit Bellefontaine, fifth son of Joseph Godin dit Bellefontaine dit Beauséjour and Marie-Anne Bergeron dit d'Amboise and Barthélémy and Jacques's brother, born probably at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas in c1746, evidently followed his older brothers into exile, into the prison compound at Halifax, and to New Orleans and Cabahannocer, where he married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Melanson and his second wife Osite Hébert, in c1768.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer, included Maguerite baptized, age unrecorded, in October 1771; Jean-Baptiste, fils born in the early 1770s; twins Théotique and Louise-Françoise, called Françise, baptized, age unrecorded, in July 1774; and Marie-Madeleine baptized, age unrecorded, in December 1775.  Wife Madeleine died at Cabahannocer in the mid-1770s.  Jean-Baptiste remarried to Élisabeth Fontenot, widow of David Marx, at Cabahannocer in July 1778.  Their children, born on the river, included Lucas dit Luc probably at Cabahannocer in c1784; and Clothilde in October 1786 and baptized at the New Orleans church the following March--seven children, five daughters and two sons, including a set of twins, by two wives, between 1771 and 1786.  Jean-Baptiste may have died in St. James Parish in April 1811.  The priests who recorded the burial in two separate Convent church records noted that he was either age 40 or age 80 when he died.  This Jean Baptiste would have been age 65.  Daughters Marguerite and Françoise, by his first wife, married into the LeBlanc and Charpiot families.  Two of Jean Baptiste's sons married in St. James Parish.  Jean-Baptiste's was the only family line among his brothers to endure in the Bayou State. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, fils, by first wife Madeleine Melanson, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Forest and Marie Landry, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in May 1791.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer/St. James, included Constance in February 1792; Marcelline or Marcellite in June 1794; Dionese or Denise in May 1796; Jean Raphaël, called Raphaël, in November 1797; Gabriel in February 1800; Eugène in January 1802 but died in St. James Parish, age 33 (the recording priest said 30) in October 1835; Maximilien born in April 1804 but died near Convent, age 30, in September 1834; Simon born in September 1806 but died at age 15 (the recording priest at Convent said 40) in March 1821; and Marie Polonise born in March 1810--nine children, four daughters and five sons, between 1792 and 1810.  Jean Baptiste, fils died by August 1812, when he was listed as deceased in a daughter's marriage record.  Daughters Constance, Marcelline, and Denise married into the Bergeron, Dessarper, Gautreaux, and D'Eperon families.  Two of Jean-Baptiste, fils's remaining sons also married.  

Oldest son Jean Raphaël, called Raphaël, married Azélie dite Zélie, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Hébert and Marguerite Poirier, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in April 1826.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included Marie Augustine, perhaps also called Phelonise, in August 1826; Mélanie, also called Marguerite Mélanie, in July 1828; Désiré in c1829 but died at age 2 in October 1831; Joseph, born in May 1832 but, called Joseph Elphége, died at age 2 1/2 in February 1835; Marie, called also Madeleine and Arthémise, baptized at age 4 months in October 1834; Simon le jeune born in December 1837; Constant in December 1842 but died at age 2 in December 1844; and Joseph Eugène born in January 1845 but died the following October--eight children, three daughters and five sons, between 1826 and 1845.  In September1850, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted eight slaves--four males and four females, all black, ranging in age from 70 to 5--on Raphaël Gaudin's farm in the parish's eastern district.  Raphaël died in St. James Parish in September 1855, age 58.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted four slaves--one male and three females, ages 40 to 9--on the Widow Raphaël Gaudin's farm in the parish's Left Bank District 4; these likely were Azélie Hébert's slaves.  Daughters Phelonise, Marguerite Mélanie, and Arthémise married into the Breaux, Part, and Rouillet families.  Raphaël's remaining son also married and settled on the river.

Third son Simon le jeune married Hélène Justinia, called Justina, Justinia, and Justine, daughter of fellow Acadian François Bourgeois and his Creole wife Marie Rose Antoinette Huguet, at the Convent church in November 1855.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included Marie Rose died at age 11 days in March 1856; Marie Carmélite born in June 1857 but died at age 1 1/2 in October 1858; Simon, fils born in October 1858 but died at age 3 in August 1861; Eve Julia born in January 1862 but died the following October; Joseph Adam born in February 1864 but died the following August; Julie born in July 1865 but died 4 days later; Marie Nathalie born in April 1867; Jean Oreste in June 1869; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Simon served as a sergeant in Company A of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. James Parish, which fought in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana.  As the birth dates of his younger children reveal, he survived the war and returned to his family.  All of his older children died in childhood.  None of his remaining children married by 1870.    

Jean-Baptiste, fils's second son Gabriel married Azélie, daughter of Eugène Senette and Charlotte Barbet and widow of Jean Berez, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in November 1836.  Daughter Marie Asilda or Ezilda was born in Ascension Parish in July 1839 and married into the Carraine family by 1870, so the blood of the family line may have endured.

Jean-Baptiste, père's third and youngest son Lucas dit Luc, by second wife Élisabeth Fontenot, married Henriette, daughter of fellow Acadians Marin Landry and Pélagie Landry, at Cabahannocer in April 1802.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer/St. James, included Marcelline in June 1803; Marie Sidalie, called Sidalie, in May 1805; Victorine in June 1807; Paul, called Paul Vasseur, Vasseur, and Serafens, in November 1809; Amédée in October 1811; Marie Célestine, called Célestine, in Sepember 1815; Apolline Grasieuse in February 1819; Élisabeth in January 1821; and Jean Baptiste in February 1823--nine children, six daughters and three sons, between 1803 and 1823.  Luc died in St. James Parish in March 1830, age 46.  Daughters Marie Sidalie, Marcelline, Victorine, Célestine, Apolline Gracieuse, and Élisabeth married into the LeBlanc, Melançon, Gourdain, Blouin, and Blanchard families, two of them, Célestine and Élisabeth, to Blouin brothers.  One of Luc's sons also married. 

Oldest son Paul Vasseur, called Vasseur and Serafens, married Rosalie Delphine, called Delphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Richard and Rosalie Michel, at the St. James church, St. James Parish, in April 1831.  They settled on the river near the boundary between St. James and Ascension parishes.  Their children, born there, included Rosalie Ofelia in March 1832; Apolline Élodie, called Élodie, in October 1833; and Paul Vasseur, fils in July 1835--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1832 and 1835.  Paul Vasseur, père died in St. James Parish in February 1837, age 26.  Daughter Élodie married into the Garcia family.  None of his other children married by 1870. 

Joseph dit Lincour (c1740-c1771) à Gabriel dit Châtillon à Pierre dit Châtillon Gaudin

Joseph dit Lincour, second son of Jean-Baptiste Godin dit Lincour and Anastasie Bourg, born probably at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas in c1740, escaped the British roundup on Rivière St.-Jean in 1758-59, sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrenc shore, and ended up in a prison compound in Nova Scotia.  He followed his sister Marie-Josèphe and brother Charles to Louisiana in 1765 and settled with them at Cabahannocer, where he married fellow Acadian Marie Forest in April 1766.  Their daughter Rosalie was born at Cabahannocer soon after their marriage, and her birth may have resulted in the death of her mother.  Joseph remarried to Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Landry and Marie-Marguerite Blanchard, probably at Cabahannocer in c1768.  She gave him a son, Édouard dit Lincour, born soon after their marriage.  Joseph dit Lincour died at Cabahannocer or nearby Ascension in c1771, in his early 30s.  Daughter Rosalie, by his first wife, calling herself a Lincourt and described by the recording priest as "resident of this (city)," married into the Dupres family at New Orleans in June 1791.  Joseph's younger brother Charles raised son Édouard, who survived childhood, married, and created a vigorous family line on the river. 

Only son Édouard dit Lincour, by second wife Geneviève Landry, because of the early death of his father, was raised by his uncle Charles dit Lincour, whose only son died young.  Edouard married cousin Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Landry and Anne-Marguerite Babin and widow of Baptiste Landry, at Ascension above Cabahannocer in June 1796.  Their children, born at Ascension, included Alexis Séraphin, called Séraphin (erroneously called Geneviève by the Ascension priest who recorded his baptism), in July 1797; Hermenegilde born in April 1799; François de Sales in January 1801; Casimire or Casimir in March 1803; Marie Carmélite, called Carmélite, in May 1805; Valéry Didier in May 1807; Marie Adèle or Delia in May 1809; and Leufroi Paulin, called Paulin, in June 1812--eight children, five sons and three daughters, between 1797 and 1812.  When Édouard's uncle Charles moved to Terrebonne Parish in the 1820s, Édouard and his family remained in Ascension Parish.  Édouard dit Lincour died in Ascension Parish in March 1840, age 72.  Daughters Hermenegilde, Carmélite, and Marie Delia married into the Henry, Lavergne, and Richard families.  Édouard's five sons also married, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Alexis Séraphin, called Séraphin, married Marie Clémence or Clémentine, daughter of fellow Acadians Sylvain LeBlanc and Rosalie LeBlanc, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in April 1817.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Cyrille in March 1818; Marie Arthémise, called Arthémise, in May 1819; Alexis in November 1820; Colette Joséphine in March 1823 but, called Joséphine Colette, died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said "age 16 mos.") in July 1824; Sylvanie born in July 1825; Pierre Octave in June 1827 but died at age 5 months the following November; Marie Adeline born in February 1829 but, called Adveline, died at age 2 1/2 (the recording priest said 4) in October 1832; Joseph Émile born in September 1830 but died at age 1 in October 1831; Edoward Adrien born in October 1832 but, called Édouard, died at age 20 in July 1852; and Augustin born in May 1837 but died at age 24 in September 1861--10 children, six sons and four daughters, between 1818 and 1837.  Séraphin died in Ascension Parish in August 1852, age 55 (the recording priest said 56).  Daughter Arthémise married into the LeBlanc family.  One of Séraphin's sons also married. 

Oldest son Cyrille married Marie Amelina, called Amelina, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand Gautreaux le jeune and his second wife Marie Melançon, at the Donaldsonville church in January 1837.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Richard, also called Richard Osémé, baptized at the Donaldsonville church, age 4 months, in May 1838 but died at age 6 1/2 in August 1844; Eusèbe Théodule, called Théodule, born in August 1839; Louis Numa, called Numa, in August 1841; Cyrille, fils, perhaps also called Cyrille Amand, in October 1842; Joseph Gustave in September 1844 but died at age 9 months in June 1845; a newborn infant, name unrecorded, died in October 1845; and Léonce born in January 1847 but, called Léon, died the following April--seven children, at least six of them sons, and evidently no daughters, between 1838 and 1847.  Cyrille, called Cyril by the recording priest, died in Ascension Parish in October 1847, age 29.  His three remaining sons married by 1870. 

Second son Eusèbe Théodule, called Théodule, married Marie Aurela, daughter of fellow Acadian Augustin Lanoux and his Creole wife Célestine Anger, at the Donaldsonville church in January 1860.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Marie Berthe Léonie in November 1861 but, called Marie Berthe Eléoni, died at age 3 1/2 in May 1865; Mary Anne Matilde born in October 1863 but, called Marie Anna, died at age 10 months in July 1864; ...

Cyrille's third son Numa married Adèle, daughter of Firmin Desnoyer and his Acadian wife Uranie LeBlanc, at the Donaldsonville church in October 1860.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Louis Numa, fils in January 1861; Félix Amand in May 1864; and Marie Émilia in March 1866--three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1861 and 1866.  During the War of 1861-65, Numa served as a sergeant in Company E of the 29th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Ascension Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  He was wounded during the final days of the Siege of Vicksburg, spent time in a Federal hospital in St. Louis, Missouri, and took the oath of allegiance to the U.S. government in late July 1863, long before the war ended.  In the eyes of his fellow Confederates, he was now a deserter.  He nevertheless returned to his family, fathered a son, and died in Ascension Parish in December 1868.  The Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Numa died at "age 27 years."  Considering his wound, one wonders if his death was war-related. 

Cyrille's fourth son Cyrille, fils, called Cyrille Amand by the recording priest, may have married Utulma, perhaps another daughter of Firmin Desnoyer and Uranie LeBlanc, at the Donaldsonville church in January 1870. ...

Édouard's second son François de Sales married first cousin Marie Delphine, called Delphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Simon Landry and Marguerite Landry, at the Donaldsonville church in January 1822; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included François, fils died in April 1823 a day after his birth; Marie Joséphine born in March 1824; Marie Caroline in October 1825; Onésime Wilfred in April 1827 but died at age 2 in February 1829; Marie Rosalie born in December 1828; Marie Elizida in June 1830 but, called Marie Olezida, died at age 4 (the recording priest said 6) in September 1834; Joseph Lucien born in January 1831; Marie Mathilde in March 1834; Jean Casimir in March 1836; Ambroise in April 1838; Tiburse in the late 1830s or early 1840s; Hilaire in January 1842; and Simon Valentin in February 1845--13 children, eight sons and five daughters, between 1823 and 1845.  Daughter Marie Joséphine married into the Guidry family by 1870.  Only one of François's sons married by then. 

Sixth son Tiburse married Cléonise, daughter of fellow Acadians Evariste LeBlanc and Madeleine Bourg, at the Donaldsonville church in February 1860.  Their children, born near Gonzales in Ascension Parish, included Tiburse, fils in April 1861; Joseph Lucien in June 1862; Evariste in October 1865; Marie Odile in July 1867; Louis Eveque in August 1869; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Tiburse served in Company D of the 14th Regiment Confederate States Cavalry, which fought in Mississippi and Alabama.  As the births of his younger children reveal, he survived the war and returned to his family. 

Édouard's third son Casimir married Françoise Azélie, called Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand Gautreaux le jeune and his first wife Françoise Arthémise Landry, at the Donaldsonville church in May 1827.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Marie Eméline in May 1828 but died in June; an unnamed daughter died at "age several months" in December 1829; Françoise Malvina, called Malvina, born in October 1830; and Marie Audalie or Odalie, called Odalie, in April 1833--four children, all daughters, between 1828 and 1833.  Casimir died in Ascension Parish in July 1833, age 30.  Daughters Malvina and Odalie married into the Rizan and Bourgeois families.  Casimir fathered no sons, but the blood of his family line may have endured.    

Édouard's fourth son Valéry Didier married cousin Marie Delphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Landry and Josèphe Blanchard, at the Donaldsonville church in February 1829; they had to secure a dispensation for fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included a son, name unrecorded, died in Ascension Parish in December 1829 "several months" after his birth; Vincent Albert, called Albert, born in January 1831 but died the following October; and Marie Élise born in December 1832 but died the following June--three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1829 and 1832.  Valery died in Ascension Parish in June 1833, age 26 (the recording priest said 25).   His family line died with him.  

Édouard's fifth and youngest son Leufroi Paulin, called Paulin, married Marie Célesie, called Célesie, another daughter of Amand Gautreaux le jeune and his second wife Marie Melançon, at the Donaldsonville church in February 1834.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Marie Hermina, called Hermina, in March 1835; Léocadie Olivia in December 1836; Cyril Paulin in September 1838; François Vileor, called Vileor, in July 1840; Louis in August 1842; Marie Lisida in October 1845 but, called Hesilia, died at age 2 1/2 in July 1848; Antoine Léonard born in January 1848 but, called Léonard, died at age 4 in July 1852; Étienne Omer born in December 1850 but, called Omer, died at age 13 in April 1863 (one wonders if his death was war-related); and José Guetin Reunes born in October 1852 but, called René, died at age 10 in July 1862 (one wonders if his death was war-related)--nine children, three daughters and six sons, between 1835 and 1852.  Daughters Hermina and Léocadie Olivia married into the Rizan and Bertrand families by 1870.  Paulin's oldest sons also married by then and settled on the river, one of them after his Confederate service.

Oldest son Cyril Paulin married Rosella or Rosellain, daughter of fellow Acadians Lessin LeBlanc and Corrine Lanoux, at the Donaldsonville church in December 1859.  Their children, born on the river, included Marie Félicie Cécile in Ascension Parish in November 1862; Clara Malvina in September 1864; Joseph Albert near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in February 1867; ...  

During the War of 1861-65, Paulin's second son Vileor served in Company A of the 1st Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, raised in Iberville Parish, which fought in Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, Louisiana, and Mississippi.  He survived the war, returned to his family, and married cousin Eugénie, daughter of fellow Acadian Valentin Gautreaux and his Creole wife Héloise Marchand, at the Gonzales church, Ascension Parish, in December 1865; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  They settled near Gonzales.  Their children, born there, included Eve Azélia was born there in October 1866; Marie Ida in February 1869; ... Vileor died at Allemania Plantation, Iberville Parish, in April 1920, age 79.  

Paulin's third son Louis married Joséphine, daughter of Antoine Gomez and Constance Hernandez, at the Donaldsonville church in April 1864.  Their children, born near Gonzales, included Marie Armina Césaria in February 1865 but, called Hermina, died at age 4 1/2 (the recording priest said 4) in August 1869; Joseph Ernest born in August 1866 but, called Ernest, died at age 3 in September 1869; Joseph born in February 1869; ...  

Charles dit Lincour (c1751-c1828) à Gabriel dit Châtillon à Pierre dit Châtillon Gaudin

Charles dit Lincour, third son of Jean-Baptiste Godin dit Lincour and Anastasie Bourg and Joseph's brother, born probably at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas in c1751, escaped the British roundup on Rivière St.-Jean in the late 1750s, followed his family into exile on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, and into a prison compound in Nova Scotia.  Still young, he followed his sister Marie-Josèphe and brother Joseph to New Orleans and Cabahannocer in 1765.  In his late teens, Charles married Marie-Josèphe, daughter perhaps of fellow Acadians Paul Babin and Marie Landry of l'Assomption, Pigiguit, at Cabahanncoer or nearby Ascension in 1769 or 1770.  If this was the Marie-Josèphe daughter of Paul, she came to Louisiana from Maryland with her widowed mother and siblings in 1766.  She and Charles settled at Ascension on the river above Cabahannocer.  Their children, born on the river, included Élisabeth or Isabelle in c1772; Marguerite-Josèphe in October 1779; Madeleine in October 1782; Françoise in January 1784; Ste.-Renée, called Renée, in December 1785 and baptized at the New Orleans church in October 1786; Paul born in March 1789 but died at Ascension, age 5 1/2, in September 1794; and Fidelité or Fidelie born in February 1793--seven children, six daughters and a son, between 1772 and 1793.  After older brother Joseph dit Lincour died in the c1771 in his early 30s, Charles and Marie-Josèphe raised Joseph's only son Édouard dit Lincour, who was only a toddler at the time of his father's passing.  Charles served as a third sous-caporaux in Verret's Company of the Acadian Coast Militia in 1779 during Spain's war with Britain.  Charles and Marie-Josèphe left Ascension in the early 1800s and re-settled in Terrebonne Parish, but his nephew, having come of age and married, remained on the river.  Charles died by June 1824, when wife Marie Josèphe was called a widow in a "Bond with security" filed at the Terrebonne Parish courthouse in Houma.  He would have been in his early 70s.  His succession inventory was filed at the Houma courthouse in October 1828; wife Marie-Josèphe had died by then.  Daughters Isabelle, Françoise, Marguerite, Renée, and Fidelie married into the LeBlanc, Dupré, Babin, Landry, and Watkins families.  Charles's only son died young, so this line of the family, except for its blood, did not endure in the Bayou State.  The husband of Charles's daughter Fidelie, Caleb B. Watkins, served as the first sheriff of Terrebonne Parish in the 1820s.  

Victor dit Lincour (c1753-?) à Jean-Baptiste dit Lincour à Gabriel dit Châtillon à Pierre dit Châtillon Gaudin

Victor, older son of Alexandre Godin dit Lincour and Marie-Anne Bergeron and nephew of Joseph and Charles, born probably at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas in c1753, followed his parents into the exile on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore and into the prison compound at Halifax, where the family appeared on a French repatriation list in August 1763.  Still young, Victor followed his widowed mother and siblings to New Orleans and Cabahannocer, where Spanish officials counted them on the right, or west, bank of the river in September 1769, when he would have been in his mid-teens.  Victor likely survived childhood, but he evidently did not marry. 

Pierre-Paul dit Lincour (c1757-?) à Jean-Baptiste dit Lincour à Gabriel dit Châtillon à Pierre dit Châtillon Gaudin

Pierre-Paul, called Paul, younger son of Alexandre Godin dit Lincour and Marie-Anne Bergeron and Victor's brother, born probably at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas in c1757, followed his parents into exile on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore soon after his birth, into the prison compound at Halifax, and his widowed mother and siblings to New Orleans and Cabahannocer.  Spanish officials counted them on the right, or west, bank of the river at Cabahannocer in September 1769, when Pierre-Paul was age 12.  He did not remain there.  He married Félicité, daughter of Jacques Lepine and Marguerite Astie of St.-Charles des Allemands of the lower German Coast, place and date unrecorded.  They were living at New Orleans in the late 1780s and mid-1790s.  Their children, born at New Orleans, included Mélanie in November 1786; Marie-Louise in January 1792; Guillaume in October 1795; and Élouise in July 1798.  One wonders what became of them. 

Jean dit Bellefontaine (c1747-?) à Gabriel dit Châtillon à Pierre dit Châtillon Gaudin

Jean dit Bellefontaine, younger son of René dit Jean-René Godin dit Valcour and his second wife Françoise Bergeron dit d'Ambroise, born probably at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas in c1747, evidently escaped the British roundup on Rivière St.-Jean in 1758-59 and followed his older half-sister Marie-Madeleine, wife of Ambroise Martin dit Barnabé, to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  By the early 1760s, he either had surrendered to, or been captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia.  In 1764-65, in his late teens, he followed his sister and their family to New Orleans, but he did not follow them and the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche.  He settled, instead, at Cabahannocer, where many of his cousins had settled and where his sister and her family joined him later in the year.  Spanish authorities counted Jean still at Cabahannocer in April 1766, with a single slave in his household.  He was still there, on the east bank of the river, in January 1777, now age 30, living with his sister.  He evidently did not marry. 

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In September 1766, Susanne Godin, her Landry husband, and their infant son reached New Orleans as part of the first contingent of exiles from Maryland.  They, too, settled at Cabahannocer, where they had more children.   

Gautreaux

François Gautrot, whose surname also was spelled Gautreau, Gauthreau, Gotro, and Gottreau, born in c1613 perhaps at Martaizé near Loudun south of the middle Loire valley in central France, and his first wife, Marie, whose family name has been lost to history, were among the first French settlers in Acadia, reaching the colony in the late 1630s.  They had two children, a daughter, Marie, born probably in France in c1636, and a son, Charles, later called l'âiné, born at Port-Royal in c1639, one of the first French children born in Acadia.  Daughter Marie married into the Potet and Dupuis families.  Son Charles, calling himself a Gottreau, moved on to Canada by the 1660s, married into the Cousin family, and remained at Québec.  François, in his early 30s, remarried to Edmée or Aimée Lejeune, sister of Catherine, wife of François Savoie, at Port-Royal in c1644.  Between 1645 and 1668, at Port-Royal, Edmée gave François nine more children, four daughters and five sons--11 children, five daughters and six sons, by two wives, between 1636 and 1668, in France and Acadia.  François and Edmée's daughters married into the Thériot, Labat dit Le Marquis, Girouard, and Lanoue families.  Three of his and Edmée's sons married into the Brun, Thériot, and Rimbault families and, like their sisters, remained in Acadia.  François died at Port-Royal in c1693, age 80.  In December 1705, French authorities expropriated a lot "adjoining the side of the old fort" at Port-Royal "for the extension of the fort."  The lot belonged to François's heirs.  In 1755, descendants of François Gautrot could be found at Annapolis Royal, formerly Port-Royal; Grand-Pré, Rivière Gaspereau, Rivière-aux-Canards, Pigiguit, and Cobeguit in the Minas Basin; and on Île St.-Jean.  Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this large family even farther. 

Gautrots still living in the Minas settlements in the summer of 1755 were the first members of the family to suffer the indignities of deportation.  The British sent most of them to Maryland.  Some found themselves on transports headed to Connecticut and Virginia.  Others eluded the British and made their way north to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore. The Gautrots shipped to Virginia endured a fate worse than most of the Acadians deported from Minas.  In mid-November, when five transports appeared unexpectedly at Hampton Roads, Virginia's governor, Robert Dinwiddie, protested their deportation to his colony without his consent.  Exiles died on the filthy, crowded ships anchored in Hampton Road while Virginia authorities pondered their fate.  As winter approached, Dinwiddie ordered Acadians from one vessel moved up to Richmond, two unloaded at Hampton, and two more at Norfolk.  Finally, in the spring of 1756, the governor, his council, and the colony's Burgesses made their decision ... the "papists} must go!  In May, the first shipment of Acadians in hired vessels left for England, and in two weeks all of them had gone--299 to Bristol, 250 to Falmouth, 340 to Southampton, and 336 to Liverpool--1,225 exiles in all by one count.  Their ordeal only worsened in the English ports, where they were held in warehouses and where many died of smallpox. 

In September 1755, the habitants at Cobeguit, learning of the fate of their cousins on the other end of the Minas Basin, packed up their goods and their loved ones and abandoned their settlements.  Many of them headed cross country to Tatamagouche and other North Shore settlements.  From there, in what boats they could find, they crossed Mer Rouge to French-held Île St.-Jean that winter and spring and joined their kinsmen already there.  By the end of that terrible year of upheaval, and certainly by the spring of 1756, thanks to the abandonment of Cobeguit, more Gautrots could be found on Île St.-Jean than in any other refuge in greater Acadia. 

Their respite from British oppression was short-lived, however.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats rounded up most of the habitants on Île St.-Jean and deported them to France.  Some Gautrots managed to re-cross Mer Rouge and join their cousins on the Gulf of St. Lawrence, but most of the Gautrots who had taken refuge on the island fell into British hands.  Gautrots rounded up at Anse-à-Pinnet, Anse-au-Comte-St.-Pierre, and Rivière-du-Moulin-à-Scie were transported aboard one of the five deportation transports that left Chédaboucto Bay in a 12-ship convoy in late November 1758 and, despite a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England that sank three other transports, reached St.-Malo together in late January 1759.  Many of the families suffered terribly in the crossing.  At least two Gautrot families crossed on the Neptune, also a part of the 12-ship convoy that left Chédabouctou Bay in late November.  Thanks to the mid-December storm, the Neptune reached Plymouth, England, in distress in late December before moving on to the northern fishing center of Boulogne-sur-Mer, which it reached three days later.  Island Gautrots from the Five Ships settled in the St.-Malo area in the suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer; at Ploubalay, Trigavou, Pleslin, and Plouër-sur-Rance on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo; and at St.-Suliac, Châteauneuf, and St.-Méloir-des-Ondes east of the Rance.  Not all of the Gautrots sent to Boulogne-sur-Mer remained there.  After marrying, two young Gautrots moved on to Morlaix in northwest Brittany and to Île d'Aix near La Rochelle on the Bay of Biscay.  A Gautreau, perhaps an Acadian Gautrot, settled at nearby Rochefort.  In the spring of 1763, after prolonged negotiations between the French and British governments, the Acadians in England, including Gautrots, were repatriated to France aboard La Dorothée and L'Ambition.  Most of them joined their kinsmen in the St.-Malo area.  In April 1764, a father and son embarked on Le Fort for the new French colony of Guiane on the northeastern coast of South America.  Neither of them appears on the list of Acadians counted at Sinnamary in the Cayenne district on 1 March 1765, so one wonders what happened to them there.  In late 1765, a Gautrot family followed other Acadian refugees repatriated from England to Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany and settled at Locmaria on the southern end of the island. 

Gautrots also reached the mother country by another route.  During the mid-1760s, following the war with Britain, Acadians being held in Nova Scotia prison compounds chose to avoid British rule by resettling on Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  A large Gautrot family, who had been held at Chédabouctou on the Atlantic shore, was counted on the fishery island in 1767.  That year, to alleviate overcrowding there and on nearby Île St.-Pierre, French officials, obeying a royal decree, coaxed many of the fisher/habitants, including Pierre Gautrot and his family, to move on to La Rochelle, France.  Pierre died in St.-Nicolas Parish, La Rochelle, in September 1769.  His youngest son returned to Miquelon perhaps after his father's death and married a fellow Acadian there in May 1771.  In 1778, after the French joined the United States in their struggle against Britain, the redcoats captured Miquelon and nearby Île St.-Pierre and deported the island Acadians, including Gautrots, to La Rochelle.  But, again, they did not remain.  After the British retroceded the Newfoundland islands to France in 1784, the Gautrots returned to Miquelon and settled on Île St.-Pierre. 

By the early 1770s, authorities in France were weary of providing for the exiles languishing in the port cities.  An influential nobleman offered to settle them on land he owned near Châtellerault in the interior of Poitou.  Hundreds of Acadians, including Gautrots from the St.-Malo area, went there in 1773 and 1774 and did their best to become productive farmers again.  After two years of effort, most of them abandoned the venture.  From November 1775 to March 1776, three Gautrot families retreated in three convoys with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes, where they subsisted as best they could on government handouts and what work they could find.  One Gautrot family, however, remained in Poitou, but in the early 1780s, after the head of the family died, the surviving children joined their relatives at Nantes.  When in the early 1780s the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, most of the Gautrots still in the mother country--at least 41 of them--agreed to take it.  Others, including Gautrots still on Belle-Île-en-Mer, chose to remain in France.

In North America, the Acadians who had escaped the British in the late 1750s and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore were soon caught up in the lingering war between the imperial rivals.  After the fall of Québec in September 1759, the British gathered their forces to attack the remaining French strongholds in New France, including Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, now a major Acadian refuge.  In late June 1760, a British naval force from Louisbourg attacked Restigouche.  After a spirited fight in which Acadian militia and Mi'kmaq warriors played an important role, the French commander blew up his larger vessels and retreated up Rivière Restigouche, leaving the militia and the Indians to oppose a British landing.  Unable to capture the garrison or lay waste to the area, the British commander ordered his ships to return to their base at Louisbourg.  In October, after the fall of Montréal, another British naval force, this one from Québec, appeared at Restigouche to accept the garrison's, and the Acadians', surrender.  On 24 October 1760, on the eve of formal surrender, French officers counted 1,003 Acadians still at Restigouche, two Gautrot families among them.  The British held them and other members of the family captured in the region in prison compounds in the Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  A Gautrot from Cobeguit and his large family, who had surrendered at Restigouche, were held at Chédabouctou on the Atlantic coast.  In August and October 1762, British officials counted several Gautrots at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, near their old homesteads there.  In August 1763, two Gautrot families appeared on a French repatriation list in the prison compound at Fort Cumberland, formerly French Beauséjour, at Chignecto. 

At war's end, Acadians being held in the seaboard colonies, theoretically, were free to go, but not until the British discerned their intentions.  Even then, colonial officials discouraged repatriation.  In 1763, Marguerite Gautrau appeared on a French repatriation list in Connecticut, living alone.  In July of that year, in Maryland, a number of Gautrots appeared on repatriation lists at Newtown and Snow Hill on the colony's Eastern Shore, and at Port Tobacco on the lower Potomac.  No Gautrot exile held in New England chose to resettle in Canada after the war.  However, members of a family from Cobeguit, after a sojourn in France, remained on Île St.-Pierre off the southern coast of Newfoundland, which, along with nearby Miquelon, were dependencies of France, not of British Canada, for most of the islands' history.  The Gautrots in Maryland also chose not to go to Canada. 

Acadians being held in Nova Scotia at war's end faced a hard dilemma.  The Treaty of Paris of February 1763 stipulated in its Article IV that persons dispersed by the war had 18 months to return to their respective territories.  However, British authorities refused to allow any of the Acadian prisoners in the region to return to their former lands as proprietors.  If Acadians chose to remain in, or return to, Nova Scotia, they could live only in small family groups in previously unsettled areas or work for low wages on former Acadian lands now owned by New-English "planters."  If they stayed, they must also take the hated oath of allegiance to the new British king, George III, without reservation.  They would also have to take the oath if they joined their fellow Acadians in Canada.  After all they had suffered on the question of the oath, no self-respecting Acadian would consent to take it if it could be avoided.  Some Nova Scotia exiles, including the Gautrots at Chédabouctou, chose to go to Île Miquelon.  Others considered going to French St.-Domingue, where Acadian exiles in the seaboard colonies were going, or to the Illinois country, the west bank of which still belonged to France, or to lower Louisiana, which, thanks to British control of Canada, was the only route possible to the Illinois country for Acadian exiles.  Whatever their choice, many refused to remain under British rule.  So they gathered up their money and their few possessions and prepared to leave their homeland.  Of the 600 exiles who left Halifax in late 1764 and early 1765 bound for Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, at least three were Gautrots. 

Meanwhile, the Gautrots in Maryland endured life among Englishmen who, despite their colony's Catholic roots, did not care much for the French "papists" thrust upon them.  When word reached them in Maryland that the Spanish would welcome them in Louisiana, where some of their relatives had gone, they pooled their meager resources to charter ships that would take them to New Orleans.  The first and third contingents of Acadians from Maryland that reached New Orleans in July 1766 and February1768 contained at least five members of the family.  Other Gautrots chose to remain in the Chesapeake colony, settling at Frenchtown in Baltimore with other Acadian expatriates. 

Gautrots were among the first families of Acadia, and one of them was among the earliest Acadians to settle in Louisiana.  In February 1765, Pierre Gautrot, his Thibodeau wife, and their infant daughter reached Louisiana with the Broussards from Halifax via Cap-Français.  Pierre died in New Orleans soon after the arrival--perhaps the first Acadian exile to die in the colony.  That April, his widow and daughter followed the Broussards to Bayou Teche, where the daughter married into the Duhon family.  Because Pierre Gautrot did not father a son, a line of the family did not appear on the western prairies for three more decades. 

Meanwhile, two Gautrot brothers from Minas came to Louisiana in 1765 and 1766 from Halifax and Maryland and settled at the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  The younger brother, who came to the colony from Halifax, remained at Cabahannocer and created a substantial, well-to-do, line of the family in what became St. James, Ascension, and Iberville parishes.  They were especially numerous in Ascension Parish.  The older brother, who came to Louisiana from Maryland, had only one son, but it was this son who went to the Attakapas District during the late colonial period and created a western branch of the family.  During the late antebellum period, a Gautreaux moved his family from Ascension Parish to the St. Landry prairies and settled near his cousins, but the western branch of the family remained small compared to the ones east of the Atchafalaya Basin. 

If the Spanish government had not coaxed over 1,500 Acadians in France to emigrate to Louisiana, the Gautrot family would have remained a fairly small one in the Bayou State.  That changed in 1785, when 41 Gautrots in over half a dozen families reached New Orleans aboard five of the Seven Ships from France.  The great majority of them settled on upper Bayou Lafourche, creating a large center of family settlement there.  One is struck, however, by the number of family lines on the upper bayou that died out early.  During the antebellum period, Gautreauxs from Ascension Parish, including three brothers, joined the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche and settled near their cousins there.  By the late antebellum period, Gautreauxs could be found in the Lafourche valley from Assumption all the way down into the Terrebonne country.  During or soon after the War of 1861-65, a few of them moved to the Brashear, now Morgan, City, area on the lower Atchafalaya and to New Iberia on lower Bayou Teche. 

Non-Acadian Gautreaus lived in Louisiana decades before the first of their Acadian namesakes reached the colony, and at least one Foreign-French Gautraud came to Louisiana during the early antebellum period.  Church records reveal that none of these non-Acadians established a large family line in predominantly-Acadian communities.  Nearly all of the Gautreauxs of South Louisiana, then, are descendants of François Gautrot of Martaizé and Port-Royal. 

Judging by the number of slaves they owned during the late antebellum period, some Gautreauxs lived comfortably on their farms and plantations along the river and in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley.  By far the largest slave holders in the family were descendants of Simon Gautreaux.  In 1850, son Joseph Gautreaux's widow, Henriette Adélaïde Landry, held 42 slaves on St. Joseph Plantation in St. James Parish, and son Richard held 20 slaves on his plantation along upper Bayou Lafourche.  A decade later, the widow held 64 slaves on St. Joseph Plantation, and son Richard also owned that number on his Bayou Lafourche holding.  Both plantations raised and processed sugar.  In 1850, É. Gautreaux of Assumption Parish, probably Élie, owned 23 slaves on a plantation he shared with his brothers.  That same year, cousin Joseph Olivier Gautreaux owned 13 slaves on his Assumption Parish farm.  His son Eusilien held seven more slaves in Terrebonne Parish.  In 1860, Dr. Gautreaux of St. James Parish owned 17 slaves.  That same year, Pierre Olivier Gautreaux's widow held eight slaves at Bruslé St. Vincent in Assumption Parish.  The other family slave owners held only a few bondsmen each, and most members of the family owned no slaves at all, at least none who appeared in the federal slave schedules of 1850 and 1860. 

Dozens of Gautreauxs served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65, and at least five of them died in Confederate service.  One of them, Cléophas Gautreaux of Thibodaux, was serving as a second lieutenant in the 18th Louisiana Infantry when he was mortally wounded at Shiloh, Tennessee, in April 1862.  ...

In Louisiana, the most common spelling of the family's surname evolved from Gautrot to Gautreaux.  It also is spelled Gaudrau, Gaudreau, Gaudreault, Gauntrand, Gautereau, Gauteros, Gauterot, Gautherot, Gauthraux, Gauthreaux, Gautraux, Gautreaut, Geauthreaux, Geautreau, Goderot, Godreau, Goltreaux, Gotereau, Gothrau, Gothraux, Gothreau, Gotrau, Gotraud, Gotreau, Gotreaux, Gotro, Gottereau, Gottreau, Goutreaux, Guatraux, and Portreau in the Bayou State.  This large Acadian family should not be confused with the Godreaus or Goudreaus, French Canadians who settled at Pointe Coupée, where few Acadians settled.  Godreaus also lived in St. Landry Parish, where Acadian Gautreauxs settled.21 

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A Gautrot family came to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français with the Broussards in late February 1765.  His family line, except for its blood, did not endure: 

Pierre (?-1765) à ? à François Gautreaux

Pierre Gautrot and wife Louise Thibodeau reached New Orleans from Halifax via Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, in February 1765.  In the record of the February 22 baptism of their 10-month-old daughter Marie-Josèphe, the New Orleans priest noted that Pierre was deceased--perhaps the first Acadian exile to die in Louisiana, unless he died on the long voyage from Halifax.  In April, when members of the Broussard party attempted to exchange their Canadian card money for Louisiana currency, it was Louise, not Pierre, who appeared on the list of Acadian family heads.  That spring, Louise and Marie-Josèphe followed the Broussards to the Attakapas District, where they helped create La Nouvelle-Acadie on the banks of Bayou Teche.  Louise did not remarry.  Marie-Josèphe married into the Duhon family at Attakapas and remained on the western prairies.  She died in Lafayette Parish in January 1833, in her late 60s.

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Later in 1765, another Gautrot reached Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français, but not with the Broussards.  He and his wife settled not on the western prairies but in the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans, and there they remained.  No other South Louisiana line of the Gautreaux family matched this one in size and affluence: 

Simon (c1736-1814) à Claude à François Gautreaux

Simon, fifth son of Charles Gautrot and Marie-Josèphe LeBlanc, born at Minas in March 1736, escaped the British roundup there in 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  During the late 1750s or early 1760s, he either was captured by, or surrendered to, British forces in the area and was held at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, for the rest of the war.  He married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, 19-year-old daughter of Ambroise Breau and Marie-Madeleine Michel of Chepoudy, probably at Fort Edward between August and October 1762.  They were still a childless couple when they reached Louisiana in 1765 and settled at Cabahannocer.  Their children, born there, included Jean-Louis, called Louis, in c1766; Jean-Baptiste in the late 1760s; Charles baptized, age unrecorded, in June 1770; Simon, fils born in August 1772; Marie-Madeleine-Louise, called Madeleine, baptized, age unrecorded, in January 1775; Amand le jeune baptized, age unrecorded, in February 1778; Anastasie, called Marie Anastasie, baptized, age unrecorded, in October 1780; Raphaël born in c1782; Joseph in c1783; and Michel in July 1787--10 children, eight sons and two daughters, between 1766 and 1787.  "Through grant and purchase," Simon created a large plantation near Welcome, present-day St. James Parish, on the west bank of the Mississippi.  The property, used primarily for sugar production, was held by the family for over a century.  Simon died in St. James Parish in November 1814.  According to the priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, Simon died "age about 80 yrs."  He was 78.  Daughters Anastasie and Madeleine married Breaux and Gautreaux cousins.  All eight of Simon's sons married on the river, but not all of the lines endured.  Most of them remained in what became St. James, Ascension, and Iberville parishes--the Acadian Coast.  One of the younger sons created a large plantation in St. James Parish.  One of Simon's sons and some of his grandsons moved down into the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley, and another grandson joined a cousin on the western prairies. 

Oldest son Jean-Louis, called Louis, married Marie-Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul LeBlanc and Anne Babin, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in January 1786.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer/St. James, included Esther in the 1790s; Marie-Angèle, called Angèle, in March 1798; Marie in January 1789; Louis-Urbin, called Urbin, in April 1792; Pierre-Paul in December 1793 but died at age 7 in December 1800; Marie-Apolline born in January 1796; Marguerite-Domitille, called Domitille, in July 1800; Urbin-Anatole, called Anatole, in March 1803; Marie Doralise in May 1805 but died at age 9 1/2 in January 1815; Simon Vital, called Vital, born in April 1809 but died at age 3 1/2 in September 1812; and another Marie, perhaps Marie Sylvanie, called Sylvanie, born in August 1812--11 children, seven daughters and four sons, between the 1790s and 1812.  Louis died near Convent, St. James Parish, in January 1832, age 66.  Daughters Angèle, Marie, Esther, Domitille, and Sylvanie married into the Bourgeois, Lanoux, Bernais, and Boudreaux families.  Two of Jean Louis's sons also married and settled in St. James Parish.

Oldest son Louis Urbin, called Urbin, married Marcelline, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Gaudin, fils and Marie Madeleine Foret, at the Convent church in June 1814.  Their children, born near Convent, included Zénon in June 1817; and twins Justlien, probably Justilien, and Marie, perhaps Marie Azélie, called Azélie, baptized, age 6 weeks, in July 1821, but Justilien died the following October--three children, two sons and a daughter, including a set of twins, between 1817 and 1821.  Urbin, called Urbain by the recording priest, died "at New River," St. James Parish, in April 1853, age 61 (the recording priest said 62).  Daughter Azélie married into the Breaux family by 1870.  Urbin's remaining son also married by then. 

Older son Zénon married Carmélite or Carmélita, daughter of fellow Acadians Marcellin LeBlanc and Arthémise Landry of Ascension, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in July 1842.  They settled downriver, perhaps on the east bank, near the boundary between Ascension and St. James parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie Evillina in May 1843; Madeleine Éloisa in July 1847 but, called Louisa, died near Convent, St. James Parish, at age 2 1/2 in October 1849; Louis Adam born in Ascension Parish in June 1850; and Joseph Andrieux in February 1853--four children, two daughters and two sons, between 1843 and 1853.  None of Zénon's remaining children married by 1870. 

Jean Louis's third son Urbin Anatole, called Anatole, married cousin Eugénie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Gravois and Bibiènne Bourg, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in October 1828; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Daughter Marie Laure, called Laure, was born in Ascension Parish in July 1829.  Anatole died near Convent in January 1845.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Anatole died at "age 39 yrs."  He was 41.  Daughter Laure married a LeBlanc cousin, so the blood of the family line may have endured. 

Simon's second son Jean-Baptiste married cousin Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Charles Breaux and Marie Benoit of Manchac, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in January 1788.  Their children, born at nearby Ascension, included Marie-Louise in October 1790; Jean-Baptiste, fils in February 1792; Simon le jeune in July 1794; and Marie-Clémence in July 1796--four children, two daughters and two sons, between 1790 and 1796.  Jean-Baptiste, père died at Ascension in February 1797, in his early 30s.  Daughter Marie Clémence married into the Thibodeaux family.  His two sons also married and settled in St. James Parish. 

Older son Jean Baptiste, fils married Marie Adélaïde, called Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Landry and Madeleine Michel, place unrecorded, in the early or mid-1810s.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche and the river, included Jean Baptiste Norbert in Assumption Parish in February 1816 but died near Convent, age 15, in December 1830; Charles Arsène, called Arsène, born near Convent in January 1818; Marie Adélaïde in February 1820; Joseph in November 1822; Célestine Virginie in May 1825; and another Joseph in March 1828--six children, four sons and two daughters, between 1816 and 1828.  Neither Jean Baptiste, fils's daughters married by 1870, but his remaining son did.

Second son Charles Arsène, called Arsène, married Marie Arthémise, called Arthémise, Frederic, place and date unrecorded., but it probably was on the river in the late 1830s or early 1840s.  Their children, born on the river, included Charles Numa in c1845 but died near Convent, age 17 months, in September 1846; and Laura probably in the 1840s.  Daughter Laura married into the Aucoin family at Brashear City, now Morgan City, on the lower Atchafalaya, by 1870, so the blood of the family line may have endured. 

Jean-Baptiste's younger son Simon le jeune married Madeleine Pétronille, called Pétronille, daughter of Benjamin Stout and Charlotte Bonvillain, at the Convent church in February 1816.  Their children, born near Convent, included Marie Madeleine, called Madeleine, in November 1816; Marie Delphine in March 1818; Simon Florien in February 1821 but died at age 2 1/2 in October 1823; Marie Natalie born in September 1822 but died at age 1 in October 1823; Marie Rose born in October 1825; Simon Jules in December 1827; Louis Justinien in March 1829; Louis Benjamin in January 1831 but, called Benjamin, died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said "age 91 mos.") in August 1832; and twins Marie Providence and Paul Marcellin born in April 1833, but Paul Marcellin died at age 14 months in July 1834--10 children, five daughters and five sons, including a set of twins, between 1816 and 1833.  Daughter Marie Rose, at age 17, "Made First Vows at St. Michel, La [probably Grand Coteau in St. Landry Parish]" in December 1842.  Daughter Marie Madeleine married into the Gaudet family on upper Bayou Lafourche by 1870.  Neither of Simon le jeune's remaining sons married by then. 

Simon's third son Charles married Marie-Marthe, called Marthe, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand Richard and Marie Breaux of San Gabriel, at St.-Jacques de Cabahanncoer in February 1790.  Their children, born at nearby Ascension, included Simon Allain, called Allain, in April 1792; Marie-Modeste, called Modeste, in October 1793; Jean-Louis le jeune in April 1795; Charles-Julien in January 1797 but died at age 10 in July 1807; Marie-Françoise born in March 1799; Marie-Anne or Anne-Marie in January 1801 and baptized at the New Orleans church in March; twins Charles, fils and Joseph-Perfect born in October 1802, but Charles, fils died at birth; Marie Scholastique born in October 1804; Valentin or Valentine Rosémond in March 1806; Marie Élisabeth dite Élisa in February 1808; Marie Eulalie in December 1809; and Marie Louise in February 1812.  Charles remarried to Constance, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Melançon and Élisabeth Landry, at the Donaldson church in January 1818.  Their son Guillaume, also called Guillaume Séraphin, was born in Ascension Parish in September 1818 but died at age 6 in October 1824--14 children, seven sons and seven daughters, including a set of twins, by two wives, between 1792 and 1818.  Daughters Marie Françoise, Modeste, Anne Marie, Marie Élisabeth, Marie Scholastique, Marie Eulalie, and Marie Louise, from his first wife, married into the Guidry, Melançon, Lucenty, Graneau or Granois, LeBlanc, Lambert, and McCann families.  Three of Charles's sons also married and settled in Ascension Parish, but one of the lines died out early. 

Oldest son Simon Allain, called Allain, from first wife Marthe Richard, married Marie Eugénie, called Eugénie, daughter of fellow Acadians Firmin Landry and Victoire Babin and widow of Emmanuel Villeneuve, at the Donaldson church in October 1821.  They lived on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Ascension and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Simon Charles in August 1822; Ethelvina Euphémie in December 1824 but died at age 13 1/2 in February 1838; Gervais Spire born in c1827; Faustin in December 1829 but died at age 23 in May 1853; and Émilia born in May 1836--five children, three sons and two daughters, between 1822 and 1836.  Allain's remaining daughter did not marry by 1870, but one of his sons did.  His line, however, did not endure. 

Second son Gervais married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadian Ursin Babin and his Creole wife Odile Bertaud, at the Donaldsonville church in January 1852.  Gervais le jeune died in Ascension Parish the following month, age 25.  His line of the family may have died with him. 

Charles's second son Jean Louis le jeune, by first wife Marthe Richard, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Sylvain LeBlanc and Rosalie LeBlanc, at the Donaldsonville church in October 1829.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Augustin Vincent  in July 1830 but, called Octave, died at age 1 in September 1831; Marie Emma born in January 1832 but, called Emma, died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said "age ca. 20 mos.") in September 1833; Marie Rosalie born in October 1833 but died at age 6 1/2 in July 1840; Marguerite Roselia born in December 1835 but, called Rosella, died the following August; and Louisa or Louise born posthumously in February 1837--five children, a son and four daughters, between 1830 and 1837.  Jean Louis le jeune died in Ascension Parish in July 1836, age 41 (the recording priest said "age ca. 40 yrs.").  Daughter Louise, his only remaining child, married into the Gomez family.  Jean Louis le jeune's line of the family, except for its blood, died with him.  His widow remarried to his first cousin, Simon Gautreaux III.  

Charles's sixth son Valentin or Valentine Rosémond, by first wife Marthe Richard, married Héloise, Éloise, or Loise, daughter of Jean Baptiste Marchand and Eugénie Vicknair, at the Donaldsonville church in May 1840.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Joseph le jeune in March 1841; Marie Aimé, probably Aimée, also called Amédosine, in December 1842; Marthe Eugénie, called Eugénie and Eugénia, in September 1844; Charles le jeune in December 1846 but died at age 9 months the following September; Louis born in July 1848; Marie Aurelia, called Aurelia, in January 1851; Vincent Didier in May 1853; and Valentin Rosémond, called Rosémond or Roséma, in September 1855--eight children, five sons and three daughters, between 1841 and 1855.  Daughters Eugénie and Amédosine married into the Gaudin and Marchand families by 1870.  One of Valentin's sons also married by then.

Third son Louis married Colina, daughter of Théodule Hamilton and Elina Grabert, at the Gonzales church, Ascension Parish, in May 1869. ... 

Simon's fourth son Simon, fils married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Duhon and Anne LeBlanc, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in December 1793.  Their children, born at Ascension, included Marie-Marcelline in November 1794; Marie-Rosalie in February 1796; Marie-Arthémise in December 1797 but died at 10 months in October 1798; another Marie-Rosalie born in August 1799; Marie-Cidalise, called Cidalise, in September 1801; Marie-Louise in May 1803; Simon Rosémond in February 1805 but died the following July; twins Marie Esther and Simon Alexandre, called Alexandre, born in September 1806; and Marie Modeste in November 1808.  Simon, fils remarried to Henriette Élisabeth dite Élise, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Melançon and Élisabeth Landry, at the Donaldson church in February 1811.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Jean, also called Jean Vasseur and Vasseur, in December 1811; Élisabeth dite Élisa in June 1813; and Simon III in February 1815--13 children, nine daughters and four sons, including a set of twins, by two wives, between 1794 and 1815.  Simon, fils died in Ascension Parish in September 1815, age 43.  Daughters Marie Marcelline, Marie Rosalie, Cidalise, Marie Esther, Marie Modeste, and Élisabeth, by both wives, married into the Melançon, Michel, Usé, LeBlanc, Frederick, Boudreaux, and Hernandez families; some of them settled on Bayou Lafourche.  Simon, fils's three remaining sons also married.  One of them moved to St. Landry Parish on the prairies and another to upper Bayou Lafourche.  His youngest son remained in Ascension Parish.  A grandson settled upriver in Iberville Parish. 

Second son Simon Alexandre, called Alexandre, a twin, from first wife Marie Duhon, married cousin Euphémie, daughter of fellow Acadians Donat LeBlanc and Marie Josèphe Melançon, at the St. James church, St. James Parish, in January 1829; they had to receive a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  They lived on the river near the boundary between St. James and Ascension parishes before moving to the western prairies.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Adolphe, called Adolphe, in January 1832; Alexandre Dorilio, Dosilia, Dosilien, or Dozilin in November 1833; Valmond or Valmont in January 1836; Marie Aglaé, called Aglaé, in June 1838; and Marie Josèphe Sélima or Célima, called Célima, in August 1842--five children, three sons and two daughters, between 1832 and 1842.  Wife Euphémie died in Lafayette Parish in March 1850, age 34.  Several months later, in August 1850, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted five slaves--three males and two females, all black, ranging in age from 36 to 2--on Alexandre Gauthreaux's farm in the parish's eastern district, so he probably had returned to the river soon after his wife's death.  Daughters Aglaé and Célima married into the Babin and Maire families in St. James and Ascension parishes by 1870.  Alexandre's three sons also married by then.  His older sons remained on the prairies, however, and settled in St. Landry Parish, but his youngest son and his two daughters returned with him to the river. 

Oldest son Joseph Adolphe married Laure, also called Marie and Cora, daughter of Étienne LaMorandière and Élisa Robin, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in December 1853.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Edmonia in October 1857; Edgar Dozelia in August 1860; ... 

Alexandre's second son Alexandre Dorilio married Clara, another daughter of Étienne LaMorandière and Élisa Robin, at the Opelousas church in June 1856.  Their son Albert was born in St. Landry Parish in April 1857.  Dosilia, as he was called by the recording priest, died in St. Landry Parish in June 1857, age 33.  His succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in September 1858, three months after his wife remarried.  His son did not marry by 1870. 

Alexandre's third and youngest son Valmont married Marie Azéma, called Azéma, daughter of fellow Acadian Édouard Landry and his Creole wife Eméranthe Lambremont, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in June 1856.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Marie Laetitia in July 1857; Marie Euphémie in December 1859; Marie Alice in September 1861; Joseph Alexandre in July 1864; ... 

Simon, fils's third son Jean Vasseur, called Vasseur, from second wife Élise Melançon, married Élisabeth, daughter of Hippolyte Carmouche and his Acadian wife Madeleine LeBlanc, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1837.  They remained on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Marie Élise in June 1838; Joseph, also called Vasseur, fils, so his full name probably was Joseph Vasseur, in the late 1830s; Jean Émile, called Émile, in January 1840; Hippolyte Rose Aimé, perhaps also called Simon, in July 1841; Féliciana, actually Félicien, Lucion in June 1845; Thérèse Madeleine, called Madeleine, in April 1847; and Joseph Aurilia in June 1855--seven children, two daughters and five sons, between 1838 and 1855.  Daughters Élise and Madeleine married into the Barbier family by 1870.  Three of Vasseur's sons also married by then and settled near Lockport on the lower Lafourche. 

Oldest son Joseph Vasseur, called Vasseur, fils, married Anaïs, daughter of fellow Acadians Adélard Boudreaux and Joséphine LeBlanc, at the Lockport church, Lafourche Parish, in March 1864.  Their children, born near Lockport, included Joseph Numa in January 1865; Marie Emma in February 1867; Joseph Clément in October 1870; ...

Vasseur's second son Jean Émile, called Émile, married Ursule, daughter of Francis Hernandez and Adèle Medina, at the Lockport church in February 1865, and did not register the marriage civilly until January 1866. ...

Vasseur's third son Hippolyte Rose Aimé, perhaps also called Simon, may have married Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Babin and Séraphine Boudreaux, at the Lockport church in May 1866.  Daughter Séraphine Lilia, perhaps theirs, was born near Lockport in May 1868; ...

Simon, fils's fourth and youngest son Simon III, by second wife Élise Melançon, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Sylvain LeBlanc and Rosalie LeBlanc and widow of his first cousin Jean Louis Gautreaux le jeune, at the Donaldsonville church in February 1839.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Simon Omère in September 1839; Lise in March 1841 but, called Élise, died at age 13 months in May 1842; and Jean Baptiste le jeune born in June 1844--at least three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1839 and 1844.  Simon III died "at his mother's at 11:00 at night ..." near St. James, St. James Parish, in August 1845, age 30 (the recording priest said 28).  The priest who recorded the burial went on to say that Simon "left his wife with four children" and that "Rev. [August] Martin [of the St. James church] was ill, so Simon was inhumed by Mr. Lefranc," probably a parish official.  One wonders who the other two children may have been.  Neither of Simon III"s sons married by 1870. 

Simon, père's fifth son Amand le jeune married Françoise-Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadians Marin Landry and Pélagie Landry, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in November 1798.  Their children, born at Ascension, included Françoise-Arthémise in January 1800; Françoise-Aurelie or -Azélie in August 1801; Charles-Valéry in April 1803 but died at age 8 in August 1811; Marie Henriette in July 1805; Simon Ursin in May 1807 but died at age 1 1/2 in February 1809; and Michel Narcisse, called Narcisse, born in March 1809.  Amand le jeune remarried to Marie, another daughter of Jacques Melançon and Élisabeth Landry, at the St. James church in July 1811; Amand's older brother Simon, fils's second wife was a sister of Marie.  Amand le jeune and Marie's children, born in Ascension Parish, included Pierre, also called Pierre Élien and Élien, in August 1812; Marie Zéline in July 1814; Élisabeth in March 1816; Simon Théodore or Théodule, called Théodule, in March 1818; Marie Améline in May 1820; Marie Venerande in April 1822 but, called Venerante, died at age 11 in June 1833; Théotiste Mélanie, called Mélanie, born in March 1824; Joseph Ercules or Hercules, called Hercule, in February 1826; and Antoine Auguste, called Auguste, posthumously in August 1828--15 children, eight daughters and seven sons, by two wives, between 1800 and 1828.  Amand died in Ascension Parish in May 1828.  The Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial said that Amant, as he called him, died at age 48.  He was 50.  Daughters Françoise Arthémise, Marie Henriette, Françoise Azélie, Élisabeth, Marie Améline, and Mélanie, by both wives, married into the Theriot, Melançon, Gaudin, Bourg, Landry, and Villeneuve families.  Five of Amand le jeune's sons also married and settled in Ascension and St. James parishes.  Like their father, three of them married twice. 

Third son Michel Narcisse, called Narcisse, from first wife Françoise Arthémise Landry, married Marie Mathilde or Bathilde, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques LeBlanc and Rosalie Bourgeois, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in February 1830.  Evidently they lived on the river near the boundary between St. James and Ascension parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie Rosalie, called Rosalie, in May 1831 but died in September; Marie Célestine born in April 1833; Eve in July 1835; Marie Mathilde died at age 17 days in October 1836; Félix, also called Adam Félix or Félix Adam, born in September 1837; Marie Clémentine in November 1839 but died at age 1 in November 1840; Marie Émilie born in October 1841; Jean Léon, called Léon, in September 1843; Joseph Théodule in February 1846; Pierre Amédée in March 1848; Frédéric Ernest in April 1850 but, called Ernest, died the following December; Joseph Narcisse born in December 1851; and Amand Prudent in February 1855--13 children, six daughters and seven sons, between 1831 and 1855.  Daughters ... married into the Bourg and Dugas families by 1870.  Three of Narcisse's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Félix married Célanie, daughter of Édouard Parent and Marie R. Cambre, at the Donaldsonville church in July 1858.  Their chilidren, born in Ascension Parish, included Jean Adam in October 1858; Colum Narcisse in December 1861; Marie Cécilia near Gonzales in May 1865; Marie Rose Amélie in September 1867; Adam Maurice in September 1870; ...

Narcisse's second son Joseph Léon may have married Adveline or Adeline Bergeron, perhaps a fellow Acadian, in Ascension Parish by the early 1860s.  Their children, born near Gonzales, included Marie Mathilda in October 1864; Jean Surville in April 1866; Louis in August 1867; Marcelline Éliza in April 1869; ... 

Narcisse's third son Joseph Théodule married Émelia, daughter of fellow Acadians Émile Breaux and Virginie Hébert, at the Gonzales church in April 1870. ...

Amand le jeune's fourth son Pierre, also called Pierre Élien and Élien, from second wife Marie Melançon, married Rosalie Ursule, called Ursule, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Simon Landry and Marguerite Babin, at the Donaldsonville church in January 1835.  Evidently they, too, lived on the river near the boundary of Ascension and St. James parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie Émilia in February 1836 but died the following August; Prudent Amat born in April 1838 but, called Amant Prudent, died at age 2 in June 1840; Marie Yerma born in February 1840 but, called Yrma, died at age 1 1/2 in May 1841; Marie Lise born in October 1843; Philomène Laura in November 1845 but, called Laure, died at age 6 1/2 in May 1852; and Pierre Amédée born in March 1848.  Élien, at age 48, remarried to Marie Séraphine, called Séraphine, daughter of fellow Acadian Narcisse André Guillot and his Creole wife Rosalie Rousseau, at the Donaldsonville church in November 1860.  Their daughter Sophie Ursule was born in Ascension Parish in September 1861; ...  None of Pierre Élien's children married by 1870. 

Amand le jeune's fifth son Simon Théodore or Théodule, called Théodule, from second wife Marie Melançon, married Marie Victorine, called Victorine, daughter of Jacques Martin Chauvin and his Acadian wife Marie Caroline LeBlanc, at the Convent church in February 1849.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Macaire Noland in January 1851; Marie Pamela in May 1854; Jean Laurent in March 1857; Marie Caroline in May 1860; Eva Myrtha in November 1863; ...  None of Théodule's children married by 1870. 

Amand le jeune's sixth son Joseph Ercules or Hercules, called Hercule, from second wife Marie Melançon, married Marie Augustine, called Augustine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Lanoux and Marguerite Savoie, at the Donaldsonville church in December 1848.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Marie Marceline in November 1849; Edmond Arthur in November 1850; Joseph Vincent in January 1853; and Marie died age 1 day in November 1854.  Hercule remarried to cousin Louisa, also called Élisa, daughter of Martin Jean, also called Isaac, Bernier, and his Acadian wife Domitille Gautreaux, at the Donaldsonville church in January 1858.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Joseph Armand in November 1858 but, called Amand, died at age 3 1/2 in July 1862; and Marie Armantine born in August 1861 but, called Ermantine, died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 2 1/2) in June 1863.  Did Hercule remarry again--this would have been his third marriage--to cousin Marcelline Gautreaux in Ascension Parish in the early 1860s?  If so, daughter Marie Eve was born in Ascension Parish in March 1864; ...  None of Hercule's children married by 1870. 

Amand le jeune's seventh and youngest son Antoine Auguste, called Auguste, from second wife Marie Melançon, married Felonise, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste LeBlanc and Céonise Gaudet, at the Donaldsonville church in April 1850.  She evidently gave him no children.  Auguste remarried to Victorine, daughter of Zénon, also called Charles, Himel or Hymel and his Acadian wife Scholastique Lanoux, at the Convent church in June 1860.  They settled on the river near the boundary of St. James and Ascension parishes.  Their children, born there, included Victoria in March 1861; Valentine in March 1863; John Allen in March 1866; Antoine Alexandre in April 1868; Marie Joséphine in August 1870; ... 

Simon, père's sixth son Raphaël married cousin Marie Constance, called Constance, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Breaux and Marie Aucoin, at Ascension in February 1804.  After living near the boundary between Ascension and St. James parishes, they evidently moved upriver to Iberville Parish.  Their children, born on the river, included Marie Louise in February 1805; Simon Eugène, called Eugène, in July 1807; Joseph Siméon or Siméon Joseph, also called Méon, in March 1809; Marie Héloise in November 1810 but died at age 3 1/2 in July 1814; Olesin Valentin born in January 1813; Marie Delphine, called Delphine, in January 1815; Françoise Héloise or Éloise, called Éloise, in March 1817; Adeline in March 1819; twins Simon le jeune and another son, name unrecorded, born in February 1822, but the unnamed son died in Iberville Parish at age 2 in March 1824; Joseph Jule born in December 1824 but, called Jules, died near St. Gabriel, age 2 1/2, in June 1827; and Joseph Ovide born in October 1827 but died in Ascension Parish at age 7 in October 1834--a dozen children, five daughers and seven sons, including a set of twins, between 1805 and 1827.  Raphaël died in Ascension Parish in February 1835.  The Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial said that Raphaël died at "age 52 1/2 yrs."   Daughters Marie Louise, Delphine, Éloise, and Adeline married into the Hébert, Roth, Gonzales, Elisher or Elizer, and Bourg families.  Two of Raphaël's sons also married and settled in Ascension Parish. 

Oldest son Simon Eugène, called Eugène, married cousin Marie Delphine, called Delphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Urbin Breaux and Marie Rose Dupuy, at the Donaldsonville church in May 1835; they had to secure as dispensation for fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  They lived on the river near the boundary between Ascension and Iberville parishes.  Their children, born there, included Simon Eugène, called Eugène, fils, in April 1836 but died perhaps in a yellow fever epidemic in Ascension Parish, age 17 1/2, in September 1853; Arthémise born in August 1837; Gille in c1838; Jean in September 1839; Raphaël Théophile, called Théophile, in November 1841; Richard in January 1844; Pierre Brise or Brice, called Brice, in November 1846; Alcide in February 1849; and Lucien in March 1851--nine children, eight sons and a daughter, between 1836 and 1851.  Eugène, père died near Gonzales, Ascension Parish, in June 1865, age 57.  The priest who recorded the burial did not give Eugène's parents' names, mention a wife, or give his age at the time of his passing, but this likely was him.  Daughter Arthémise married into the Bernard family by 1870.  Three of Eugène's sons also married by then and settled in the interior of Ascension Parish. 

Second son Gille, at age 30, married first cousin Amilia, daughter of Simon Pierre Elisher and his Acadian wife Éloise Gautreaux, his uncle and aunt, at the Gonzales church in December 1868; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry. ...

Eugène, père's fourth son Théophile, at age 26, married cousin Armentine or Hermentine, daughter of fellow Acadians Marcellin Breaux and Belazire Bourque, at the Gonzales church in February 1867.  Their children, born near Gonzales, included Philomène in May 1868; Marie Appoline in January 1870; ... 

Eugène, père's fifth son Richard, at age 24, married cousin Lylia, daughter of fellow Acadians Adolphe Breaux and Elvina Babin, at the Gonzales church in January 1868. ...

Raphaël's second son Joseph Siméon or Siméon Joseph, also called Méon, married, at age 26, Marie Marthe, 26-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Amédée dit Madé Bourg and Rosalie Mire, at the Convent church in January 1836.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Joseph Jules le jeune in November 1836 but, called Jules, died at age 11 in November 1847; Vincent Adélard or Adélard Vincent born in July 1838; Pierre Ulger in December 1839 but died at age 7 1/2 in September 1847; Lucien Silvany or Sylvanie, called Sylvanie, born in September 1841; Jean Baptiste Adolphe in November 1842; Marie Mélanie, called Mélanie, in July 1844; twins Pamela and Rosella or Rosela in September 1846; Rosalie Eufrasie or Euphrasie, called Euphrsie, in August 1848; and Augustine Adélaïde in December 1850--10 children, five sons and five daughters, including a set of twins, between 1836 and 1850.  Wife Marie, called "Mrs. Siméon Gautreaux" by the recording priest, who did not give her parents' names, died in Ascension Parish at "age 56 years" (she was 47) in June 1856.  Siméon, at age 60, remarried to Élizabeth, daughter of Joseph Gonzales and Andrea Marbias, at the Gonzales church in April 1869.   If she gave him any children, none were born by 1870.  Daughters Mélanie, Rosela, Augustine, and Euphrasie, by his first wife, married into the Bourque, Batts, and Breaux families, two of them, Mélanie and Augustine, to Bourque brothers who were their cousins, by 1870.  Two of Siméon's sons also married by then.

Local lore claims that "A small school was established by Ad[é]lard Gautreaux in 1855 to educate the children" of present-day Gonzales, Ascension Parish.  If this was Siméon's second son Adélard, by first wife Marie Bourg, he must have been a sharp young fellow--Adélard à Siméon would have been age 17 in 1855!  Adélard Vincent or Vincent Adélard married Judith Olivia, called Olivia, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Landry and Judith Melançon, at the Donaldsonville church in July 1858.  Their children, born near Gonzales, included Marie Angelia in June 1859; Vincent Omer in September 1863; Judith Honorine in February 1866; Juste Oculi in March 1868; ... 

Siméon's fourth son Sylvainie, by first wife Marie Bourg, married Mirza, daughter of fellow Acadians Ursin Hébert and Adelite Babin, at the Gonzales church in October 1865.  Their children, born near Gonzales, included Ursule Angèle in October 1866; Joseph Ulysse in February 1869; ... 

Simon, père's seventh son Joseph married Henriette Adélaïde, called Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Abraham dit Pitre Landry and Marguerite Allain, at Ascension in August 1805.  They lived near the boundary of Ascension and St. James parishes, where they established St. Joseph plantation in St. James Parish.  Their children, born there, included Henriette Azéline, also called Marie Aurelie, in June 1806 but died at age 17 1/2 in May 1824; Joseph Gervais, called Gervais, born in August 1808; Marie Euphémie in August 1811 but died at age 7 1/2 in November 1818; Marite Marguerite born in April 1814 but died at age 21 in April 1835; Jean Baptiste born in c1815 but died at age 15 in December 1830; Simon Joseph or Joseph Simon born in October 1816; Joseph Richard, called Richard, in April 1819; Marie Apolline dite Pauline in August 1821; Marie Célestine in October 1823; twins Joseph Justin and Marie Justine in November 1824; Joseph Léon, called Léon, in April 1827; Joseph Cyprien in October 1829 but died at age 5 in October 1834; Madeleine Éliza born in July 1831; and an infant son, name unrecorded, perhaps theirs, died "a few mos. old" in Ascension Parish in March 1832 (the recording priest called the boy's father "Joseph the Blacksmith)"--15 children, seven daughters and eight sons, including a set of twins, between 1806 and 1832.  Joseph died in St. James Parish in March 1841, at "age 58 ... at his home," St. Joseph plantation.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted 42 slaves--37 males and five females, all black, ranging in age from 60 years to 4 months--on Widow Jh. Gauthreaux's plantation next to Gervais Gauthreaux's farm in the parish's eastern district; these probably were the slaves of Joseph's widow, Adélaïde Landry, on St. Joseph Plantation.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted 64 slaves, ages 65 years to 2 months, living in 28 houses, on Widow Jh. Gauthreaux's plantation next to Gervais Gauthreaux in the parish's right-bank 5th District.  Daughter Apolline married into the LeBlanc and Babin families.  Five of Joseph's sons also married, but not all of the lines endured.  Three of them left the river and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Two of them remained on the river in Ascension and St. James parishes. 

Oldest son Joseph Gervais, called Gervais, married Marie Louise, called Louise, daughter of fellow Acadians Donat LeBlanc and Marie Josèphe Melançon of St. James Parish, at the Donaldsonville church in January 1828; Gervais's sister Appolonie married Louise's brother Joseph.  Gervais and Louise settled on the river near the boundary between Ascension and St. James parishes.  Their children, born there, included Gervais Valcourt or Valmont in May 1829 but, called Valmont, died at age 4 (the recording priest at Ascension said 3) in July 1833; Jules Richard born in April 1832; Marie Flavia in October 1834; Marie Élisabeth in June 1836; George Félix, also called Félix Georges, in April 1839; Joseph Alfred in January 1841; Marie Louisa in January 1844; Joseph Léonce in December 1845 but died at age 7 1/2 in September 1853; Joseph Gervais, fils born in September 1848; Marie Blanche in March 1850 but died at age 19 days; Joseph Damas born in December 1851; and Marie Blanche in February 1854--a dozen children, seven sons and five daughters, between 1829 and 1854.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted 11 slaves--six males and five females, all black except for one mulatto, ranging in age from 28 years to 2 months--on Gervais Gauthreaux's farm next to Widow Jh. Gauthreaux's plantation in the parish's eastern district.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted 22 slaves--nine males and 13 females, all black except for one mulatto, ages 38 years to 2 months, living in 15 houses--on Gervais Gauthreaux's plantation next to Widow Jh. Gauthreaux's plantation in the parish's right-bank 5th District.  None of Gervais's daughters married by 1870, but two of his sons did.

Second son Jules Richard married Marie Rose or Rosa, daughter of Louis Albert Lanoix and his Acadian wife Roseline Melançon, at the Donaldsonville church in January 1853.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Marie Pauline Julia in February 1854; Jule Théophile in November 1857; Jules Joseph Aristide Valcour in March 1859; Joseph Albert in May 1864; Joseph Victor in June 1868; Joseph Louis Gervais in May 1870 but died at age 18 days; ... 

Gervais's third son George Félix or Félix Georges married Marie Noémie or Noémie Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Valentin Landry and Élisabeth Landry, at the Donaldsonville church in January 1859.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Joseph Félix in January 1860; Marie Louise in July 1861; Joseph Philippe in March 1863; Marie Carlisle in July 1865; Marie Anatalie in June 1868; ... 

Joseph's third son Simon Joseph or Joseph Simon, married cousin Marie Célestine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Landry and Marguerite Trahan, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1837.  Did they remain on upper Bayou Lafourche?  Were they that rare Acadian couple who had no children? 

Joseph's fourth son Joseph Richard, called Richard, married cousin Angéline or Angelina Landry probably in Assumption Parish, date unrecorded, and settled there by the mid-1840s.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Léontine in January 1846 but died at age 3 1/2 (the recording priest said 30 years!) in May 1849; Joseph Richard Alcet or Alcée, called Alcée, born in October 1847; Marie Angéline November 1849; Joseph Geslain Richard in August 1852; Joseph Urbain Richard in May 1854; Joseph Richard Justin in December 1856 but died at age 11 (the recording priest said 14) in December 1867; Joseph Séverine Samuel born in January 1860; ...  In September 1850, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted 20 slaves--16 males and four females, all black except for two mulattoes, ranging in age from 36 to 1--on Richard Gautreaux's plantation in the parish's Second Congressional District.  Richard's father, and then his mother, owned St. Joseph Plantation in St. James Parish, and some of Richard's slaves may have come from that holding.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted 64 slaves, ages 47 years to 6 months, living in 10 houses, on Richard Gauthreaux's plantation in the parish's 6th Ward; his number of his slaves now equaled that of his widowed mother on St. Joseph plantation in St. James Parish.  Like his parents, Richard was a sugar planter.  His remaining daughter did not marry by 1870, but one of his sons did and remained in the Assumption Parish. 

Oldest son Joseph Richard Alcée, called Alcée, married cousin Claire, daughter of fellow Acadians Duffossard Landry and Amelia LeBlanc, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in October 1867; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born near Paincourtville, included Marie Lydia in March 1869 but died the following October; Marguerite Anne born in July 1870; ... 

Joseph's fifth son Joseph Justin, a twin, married Victoire Mathilda or Mathilda Victoire, daughter of fellow Acadians Ursin Gaudet and Lise Adèle Dugas of St. James Parish, at the St. James church in January 1854.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, incuded Lise Marguerite Adélaïde in December 1854; and Marie Françoise Aline in March 1856.  Neither of Joseph Justin's children married by 1870. 

Joseph's sixth son Joseph Léon, called Léon, married Emma Hélène or Élène Emma, another daughter of Jean Baptiste Landry and Marguerite Trahan, at the Paincourtville church in February 1848; they had to secure a dispensation for fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  They remained on the upper Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Simon Joseph le jeune, called Joseph, near Plattenville in September 1849; Jean Baptiste Henry near Paincourtville in April 1852 but, called Henri, died at age 9 in June 1861; and Marie Emma Henrietta born in October 1854 but, called Henriette, died at age 14 1/2 in March 1869--three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1849 and 1854.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted six slaves--two males and four females, all black except for one mulatto, ranging in age from 34 to 1--on Léon Gautreaux's farm in the parish's Second Congressional District.  Léon died in Lafourche Parish in May 1863.  The Thibodeaux priest who recorded the burial said Léon died "at age 25 years."  He was 36.  One wonders if Léon's death was war-related.  A "Petition for inventory" was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse for Léon Gautreaux in November 1869.  Was this Léon à Joseph?  His daughter did not marry by 1870, but his surviving son did and remained in Assumption Parish.

Older son Joseph married Odalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Armand Blanchard and Clarisse Breaux, at the Paincourtville church in July 1868. ...

Simon, père's eighth and youngest son Michel married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Babin and Marie Landry and widow of Joseph Roger, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in July 1816; they also registered the marriage in Terrebonne Parish, where they probably settled.  Did they have any children there? 

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Four more Gautrots--a small family and two widows--reached New Orleans in September 1766 as part of the first contingent of Acadian exiles from Maryland.  They settled at Cabahannocer, where the widows remarried into the Bourgeois and Landry families.  The small family also settled at Cabahannocer on what was being called the Acadian Coast.  Their major contribution to the family's presence in Louisiana, however, was the creation of a new center of Gautrot family settlement west of the Atchafalaya Basin: 

Amand-Paul (c1732-?) à Claude à François Gautreaux

Amand-Paul, third son of Charles Gautrot and Marie-Josèphe LeBlanc and older brother of Simon, born at Minas in January 1732, may have been serving with younger brother Charles, fils as a domestic in the household of Sr. Louis-Amand Bugeaud at Rivière-du-Nord-Est, Île St.-Jean, in August 1752 before returning to Minas.  Unlike his younger brother Simon, Amand did not escape the British roundup at Minas.  He was a bachelor in his early 20s when the British deported him to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  He married fellow Acadian Marie Landry there in c1758.  Amand-Paul, Marie, a daughter, Marie-Madeleine, and a LeBlanc orphan appeared on a French repatriation list at Newtown on Maryland's Eastern Shore in July 1763.  Another daughter, Anne, was born probably at Newtown in 1765.  She, but not sister Marie-Madeleine, accompanied her parents to Spanish Louisiana in 1766.  After reaching New Orleans, they settled near younger brother Simon at Cabahannocer.  Amand and Marie had more children on the river, including Marguerite born in c1768; Marie baptized, age unrecorded, in December 1770; Marie-Sophie, called Sophie, born in June 1773; Théodose in September 1775; Jérôme in September 1778; and Théotiste in c1780--eight children, six daughters and two sons, between the late 1750s and 1780, in Maryland and Louisiana.  By the early 1770s, Amand had moved his family upriver to Ascension, where they still were being counted in the late 1770s.  In the 1790s, he acquired land on the upper Vermilion in the Attakapas District and took his family there.  Daughters Anne, Théodose, and Sophie married into the Allain, Hébert, Brasseaux, and Dugas families on the river and the prairies.  One of Amand's sons settled on the prairies and created a new center of Gautreaux family settlement. 

Younger son Jérôme married Marie Sophie, called Sophie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Dugas and Marguerite Dupuis of Cabahannocer and Attakapas, probably at Attakapas in the late 1790s.  They lived first on the lower Vermilion River before moving far upstream to Anse La Butte probably to be closer to her family.  Their children, born on the Vermilion, included Jérôme, fils, also called Prom and Valière, on the lower Vermilion in August 1803; Denise in May 1805; Marie Emérante in April 1807 but, called Emérante, died at La Butte, age 6 1/2, in July 1813; Pierre born at La Butte in October 1809; Jean in November 1811; Symphorien Roseaimé in November 1813; Marie Célanie in June 1816; Joseph Armélien in June 1818; Onésime in February 1821; a child, name unrecorded, died at age 3 weeks in March 1823; Marie born in c1824; Marie Eveline in the 1820s; and Marie Clémentine in the 1820s--13 children, at least six sons and six daughters, between 1803 and the 1820s.  Wife Sophie's succession, probably post-mortem, naming her husband, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in November 1825.  Jérôme evidently did not remarry.  Daughters Marie Célanie, Marie, Marie Eveline, and Marie Clémentine married into the Dugas, Guilbeau, Lagrange, and Knott families.  All of Jérôme's sons also married by and settled in St. Martin, St. Landry, and Lafayette parishes. 

Oldest son Jérôme, fils married Arsènne, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Cormier, père and his second wife Rosalie Dugas of Carencro, at the Vermilionville church in October 1831, but they evidently had married a few years earlier, perhaps civilly.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Rosalie in St. Martin Parish in February 1827; Uranie in Lafayette Parish in August 1833; Lessin Jérôme in the early 1830s; Arsène, perhaps a daughter, in St. Landry Parish in April 1836 but died in Lafayette Parish, age 7 1/2, in July 1843; Thérésa born near Grand Coteau in November 1838; and Charles, called Charly, in St. Martin Parish in November 1844--six children, four daughters and two sons, between 1827 and 1844.  A succession for wife Arsène, calling her husband Valière, probably post-mortem, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in October 1848.  Daughter Rosalie married into the Chalonde family by 1870.  Jérôme, fils's sons also married by then and settled in St. Landry Parish. 

Older son Lessin Jérôme married Louise, daughter of Louis Bellard and Céline Carrière, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in September 1861.  Their children, born on the St. Landry prairies, included Lucia in July 1862; Louis near Church Point on upper Bayou Plaquemine Brûlé, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in January 1866; Jérôme le jeune in July 1869; ...

Jérôme, fils's younger son Charles married Marie, daughter of Michel Courville and Françoise Teller, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in November 1866, and sanctified the marriage at the Church Point church in January 1868.  The parish clerk who recorded the civil ceremony noted that Marie's "Nearest relative is an uncle--Hillarte Courville."  Their son Arnest was born near Church Point in August 1868; ...  They were living near Eunice, St. Landry Parish, by the end of the decade.

Jérôme, père's second son Pierre married Louise or Éloise, daughter of Joseph Angèle and Adélaïde Quebedeaux, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in January 1836.  They settled west of Breaux Bridge.  Their children, born there, included Célanie baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in June 1837; Adeline baptized at age 3 months in June 1839; Ourelien or Aurelien, perhaps also called Lasty, born in April 1841; Pierre Destival in December 1842; Eve in January 1845; Aurelia in March 1850; Eugénie in January 1852; Elmire, a daughter, in January 1856; Arthémise in May 1857; Pierre, fils in c1859 but died at age 3 in May 1862; Simon born in March 1860; ...  Pierre, père died near Breaux Bridge in May 1868.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Pierre died "at age 60 yrs."  He was 58.  Daughters Eve, ... married into the Quebedeaux and Taylor families by 1870.  One of Pierre's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Lasty married Olymphe, also called Mathilde, daughter of William Badon and his Acadian wife Azélie Prejean, at the Breaux Bridge church, St. Martin Parish, in December 1866.  Their son Joseph was born near Breaux Bridge in March 1869; ...

Jérôme, père's third son Jean may have married fellow Acadian Carmélite LeBlanc, place and date unrecorded.  If so, they had sons named Azalin or Azolin and Joseph, birth dates and places unrecorded, both of whom married by 1870.

Older son Azolin married Mathilde or Mathilda, daughter of fellow Acadian Onésime Trahan and his Creole wife Émelite Primeaux, at the Church Point church in June 1858.  Their children, born near Church Point, included Marie Coralie in February 1864; Jean le jeune in December 1870; ...

Jean's younger son Joseph married Aspasie, daughter of Nathaniel Hanks and his Acadian wife Marie Nathalie Trahan, at the Church Point church in December 1870. ...

Jérôme, père's fourth son Symphorien Roseaimé married Marie Irène, called Irène, daughter of fellow Acadian Raphaël Landry and his Creole wife Adèle Begnaud, at the St. Martinville church in August 1835.  They settled on the upper Teche near Breaux Bridge.  Their children, born there, included Marie, perhaps also called Euzèïde, baptized at age 1 month in September 1839; Ozémé born in March 1841; Marie Élisa, called Élisa, in November 1842; and Marie Azélie in December 1844--four children, three daughters and a son, between 1839 and 1844.  Symphorien died in September 1846, age 32, and was "buried in Breaux Bridge."  Daughters Euzèïde and Élisa married into the Bouillon and Begnaud families by 1870.  Symphorien's son did not marry by then. 

Jérôme, père's fifth son Joseph Armélien married Azéline, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Placide Richard and Anastasie Hébert, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in November or December 1838, and sanctified the marriage at the Grand Coteau church in November 1858.  They settled near Church Point.  Their children, born there, included Joseph, fils in February 1840; Aséline or Azéline in April 1841; Gérôme or Jérôme le jeune in June 1843; Pierre le jeune in August 1845; Emma in June 1847; and Marie Eugénie in August 1853--six children, three sons and three daughters, between 1840 and 1853.  In 1860, the federal census taker in St. Landry Parish counted three slaves--a 32-year-old black female, a 12-year-old black male, and a 5-year-old black male--on J. A. Gautreaux's farm; this probably was Joseph.  He remarried to Aveline, daughter of Joseph Lavergne and his Acadian wife Augustine dite Gustine Richard and widow of Paulin dit Olin Jeansonne, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in February 1864; Aveline's mother became the mother-in-law of Joseph's son Jérôme le jeune.  None of Joseph's daughters married by 1870, but his sons did and settled on the prairies.

Oldest son Joseph, fils, by first wife Azéline Richard, may have married fellow Acadian Mélaïde LeBlanc, place and date unrecorded.  If so, their son Élisée was born in Lafayette Parish in December 1869; ...

Joseph Aurelien's second son Jérôme le jeune, by first wife Azéline Richard, married Elisida, daughter of fellow Acadians Paulin dit Olin Jeansonne and his French-Canadian wife Aveline Lavergne, at the Opelousas church in April 1864; Elisida's mother was Jérôme le jeune's stepmother.  Jérôme and Elsida's children, born on the Opelousas prairies, included Marie Eve Loetitia in January 1865; Joseph le jeune near Church Point in December 1869; ...

Joseph Aurelien's third and youngest son Pierre le jeune, by first wife Azéline Richard, may have been the Peter Gotreaux who married Sarah Kimball, widow of John Cox, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in July 1869.  The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names. ...

Jérôme, père's sixth and youngest son Onésime married Anastasie, also called Clarice, another daughter of Pierre Placide Richard and Anastasie Hébert, at the Opelousas church in November 1840.  They settled probably near Carencro.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Azélima in September 1841 but, called Zulima, died at age 1 in August 1842; Onésime, fils born in June 1843; Jule or Jules in September 1845; and Marie Anaïs in December 1847.  Onésime, père remarried to Azenaïse, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Marcellin Dugas and Mélanie Boudreaux, at the Vermilionville church in September 1853.  Daughter Marie Philomine was born in Lafayette Parish in February 1856--five children, three daughters and two sons, by two wives, between 1841 and 1856.  Onésime, père died in Lafayette Parish in January 1859.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Onésime died "at age 40 yrs."  He was 37.  His succession, naming his second wife, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in March.  Daughters ..., by his first wife, married into the Thibodeaux family.  His two sons also married and settled on the prairies. 

During the War of 1861-65, older son Onésime, fils, by first wife Anastasie Richard, evidently was the Onézime Gauthreau who served as a private in Company A of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafayette Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  Though a resident of Lafayette Parish, he enlisted in St. Mary Parish in March 1862, age 19, and followed his unit to Mississippi.  In late October 1862, he was reported as having rejoined the regiment "from an unavoidable absence."  He was paroled with his regiment after the fall of the city in July 1863 and went home to await exchange.  His service record remains silent until the end of the war, when he was reported "captured" at New Iberia in July or August 1865, probably to secure his end-of-war parole.  He returned to his family and, at age 22, married Émelie, daughter of fellow Acadians Lessin Dugas and Marguerite Dugas, at the Vermilionville church in April 1866.  One wonders if she died in childbirth.  Onésime, fils remarried to Félicia, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Dugas and Marguerite Hébert, at the Vermilionville church in June 1867.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Onésime III in February 1868; Apollinaire in August 1870; ... 

Onésime, père's younger son Jules, by first wife Anastasie Richard, may have married fellow Acadian Angèle Melançon in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in May 1867, and may have remarried to Fanelie Guilbert and settled in Lafayette Parish later in the decade. ...

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A Gautrot widow came to Louisiana from Port Tobacco, Maryland, in February 1768.  She followed her husband's Breau kinsmen to remote Fort San Luìs de Natchez on the river far above Baton Rouge, but she did not remain.  When Spanish authorities allowed the Fort San Luìs Acadians to settle where they wanted, she took her family to Ascension and settled near her cousins there.  She did not remarry.

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Twenty years after the first of their family reached the colony, 41 more Gautrots came to Louisiana aboard five of the Seven Ships from France in 1785.  Most of them followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, creating a new center of family settlement there.  A few, however, settled on the river and prairies, but no new family lines emerged there. 

The first to arrive were two sisters who crossed on Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in late July 1785.  They followed their fellow passengers to Manchac on the river south of Baton Rouge.  The older sister, Marie-Geneviève, evidently married into the Goloa family on the German Coast.  Younger sister Pélagie-Marie moved to the Opelousas District later in the decade and married a Trahan widower there who was twice her age. 

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Eight more Gautrots--two families, a young bachelor and his unmarried sister, and another bachelor--crossed on La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in mid-August 1785.  They followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where the unmarried sister, Agnès, married into the Hébert family.  Only the younger of the two bachelors, whose parents and siblings would cross on the last of the Seven Ships, created a lasting family line on Bayou Lafourche, helping to establish a new center of family settlement there:

Pierre (c1731-1804) à Charles le jeune à François Gautreaux

Pierre, fils, second son of Pierre Gautrot and his first wife Marie-Josèphe Bugeaud, born at Minas in June 1730, followed his father to Île St.-Jean in the early 1750s.  He married Marie-Louise, daughter of Claude-Antoine Duplessis and Catherine Lejeune, on the island in c1758.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, later that year.  Pierre and Marie-Louise survived the crossing, she despite her pregnancy.  Their son Nicolas was born at Châteauneuf on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo in March 1759, two months after they reached the Breton port, but he died a few months later.  Pierre worked as a farm hand and a carpenter in the Rivière Rance valley.  At Châteauneuf and in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer, Marie-Louise gave Pierre eight more children, many of whom, like Nicolas, died young:  Marie-Angélique born at Châteauneuf in January 1761 but died the following November; Jean-Pierre born at St.-Servan in August 1763; Reine-Anastasie in March 1765; François-André died two days after his birth in June 1766; Joseph-Marie born in October 1767; Henriette-Jacquette in February 1769 but died the following September; another Marie-Angélique born in December 1770; and Louis-Modest in November 1772.  Pierre took his family to the interior of Poitou in 1773.  They had another daughter there, Marguerite-Adélaïde, called Adélaïde, born in St.-Jean l'Evangeliste Parish, Châtellerault, in July 1774.  They also lost two of their children there:  Marie-Angélique died in August 1774, age 3 1/2; and Jean-Pierre in September 1774, age 11.  In December 1775, after two years of effort, Pierre, Marie-Louise, and their four remaining children, along with Marie-Louise's widowed mother Catherine Lejeune, retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes.  Marie-Louise gave Pierre, fils another daughter in Nantes, Marie-Eléonore born in St.-Jacques Parish in c1778, but she died at age 2 in November 1780--11 children, five sons and six daughters, between 1759 and 1778, most of whom died young.  In 1785, Pierre, fils, Marie-Louise, and daughter Marguerite-Adélaïde, now age 11, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana.  Daughter Reine-Anastasie, who would have been age 20 that year, and sons Joseph-Marie, age 18, and Louis-Modest, age 13, if they were still living, chose to remain in France.  From New Orleans, Pierre, fils and his family followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  He and Marie-Louise had no more children in the colony.  Pierre, fils died at Assumption on the upper bayou in March 1804.  The priest who recorded the burial said Pierre died at "age 75 yrs."   He was in his early 70s.  Daughter Adélaïde married into the Friou family on the upper Lafourche, so the blood of the family line may have endured in the Bayou State. 

Marin (c1747-1808) à François III à François, fils à François Gautreaux

Marin, oldest son of Honoré Gautrot and his first wife Marguerite Robichaud, born probably at Cobeguit in c1747, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in 1755 or 1756 and his widowered father and younger siblings to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  They settled at Pleslin on the west side of the river south of the Breton port.  Marin married Gertrude, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Bourg and Françoise Benoit, at St.-Suliac, across the river from Pleslin, in May 1768.  Gertrude gave Marin three children at St.-Suliac:  Marie-Anne born in September 1769 but died at age 2 in November 1771; Jean-François born in March 1771; and Joseph-Marin in August 1773.  They may have gone to Poitou in 1773 and retreated with other Poitou Acadians to Nantes in late 1775 or early 1776.  Gertrude gave Marin at least two more children during those years:  Jean-Louis born in c1774; and Marie in c1776.  Spanish officials counted Marin, Gertrude, and their two youngest children at Nantes in September 1784.  The couple, along with these children, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana the following year.  Older sons Jean-François and Joseph-Marin, who would have been ages 14 and 12 in 1785, if they were still living, did not accompany their family to the Spanish colony.  One suspects they had died before the September 1784 counting.  From New Orleans, Marin, Gertrude, and their two children, Jean-Louis and Marie, followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche and the couple had more children there, including twins Élias and Joseph, baptized, age unrecorded, in February 1786.  Marin remarried to Marguerite-Ange, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph-Ange Dubois and Anne Michel and widow of Jean Daigle and Charles Granger, on the upper Lafourche in January 1792.  She gave him more children there, including Marguerite-Anne born in October 1793; Reine-Ange in September 1794; and Marin-Louis in February 1796 but died in Assumption Parish at age 19 in November 1815--10 children, four daughters and six sons, by two wives, between 1769 and 1796, in France and Louisiana.  Marin died in Assumption Parish in May 1808.  The Plattenville priest who recorded the burial said that Marin died at "age 65 yrs."  He was in his early 60s.  Daughters Marie and Reine Ange, by both wives, married into the Barrilleaux and Granger families.  None of Marin's sons created families of their own in Louisiana. 

Third son Jean-Louis, by first wife Gertrude Bourg, followed his family to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he was counted with them as late as April 1797, when he would have been age 23, so he survived childhood.  He evidently did not marry. 

Pierre-Joseph (1763-1816) à François III à François, fils à François Gautreaux

Pierre-Joseph, fourth and youngest son of Honoré Gautrot and his second wife Jeanne Lebert, Marin's half brother, was born at Pleslin near St.-Malo, France, in March 1763.  One wonders where he lived and what he did in the following year.  In 1785, in his early 20s and still unmarried, Pierre-Joseph followed his older half siblings, including an older sister, to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche, where, at age 33, he married Geneviève-Charlotte-Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand Giroir and Marie-Marguerite Daigle, in March 1796.  Geneviève, a native of Pleudihen-sur-Rance across the river from Pleslin, had followed her family to Louisianain 1785 aboard a later ship.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Louis-Pierre in February 1797 but died at age 2 in June 1799; Constance-Marguerite born in September 1798; another Louis baptized, age unrecorded, in February 1800, but died in Assumption Parish, age 36, in December 1836; Jean-Baptiste-Baradato, called Baptiste, born in February 1802; Hubert Charles in January 1806; a daughter, name unrecorded, died at age 4 months in August 1807; Céleste Henriette born in October 1808; and Clémence, perhaps also called Clémentine, in October 1812--eight children, four sons and four daughters, between 1797 and 1812.   Pierre Joseph died in Assumption Parish in August 1816, age 53.  Daughters Constance and Clémentine married into the LaFontaine and Aucoin families.  Only one of Pierre Joseph's sons seems to have married, but no lasting family line came of it. 

Third son Jean Baptiste Baradato, called Baptiste, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Marie Theriot and Anne Hébert, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in August 1834.  Baptiste died in Assumption Parish in February 1835.  The Plattenville priest who recorded the burial said that Baptiste dit Marquis, as he called him, was age 35 when he died.  He was 32.  One wonders if he fathered any children.

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Twenty-two more Gautrots--four familes, one of them led by a widow, two wives, and an unmarried woman--crossed on Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans during the second week of September 1785.  They followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where the young woman married into the Daunis family and the widow's daughter married a BoudrotGautrots who crossed on this vessels created several new family lines on the upper Lafourche so that, by the end of the colonial period, the number of Gautrots in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley rivaled the size of the family's numbers up on the Acadian Coast: 

Joseph (c1723-1780s) à François, fils à François Gautreaux

Joseph, sixth son of François Gautrot III and Louise Aucoin, born probably at Cobeguit in c1723, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Pierre Hébert and Marguerite Bourg, probably at Cobeguit in c1749.  They moved on to Île St.-Jean after 1752, perhaps in the summer, fall, winter, or spring of 1755-56 after the Cobeguit villages were abandoned in the face of British deportation.  Marie-Josèphe gave Joseph four children at Cobeguit and on the island:  Hélène born in c1749; Marguerite in c1751; Joseph in c1754; and Marie-Josèphe in c1756.  The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  All of the children died at sea aboard one of the so-called Five Ships.  Joseph and Marie-Josèphe settled in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer and at St.-Suliac on the east side of the river south of St.-Servan, where she gave him four more children:  Marie-Françoise born at St.-Servan in January 1759 but died there the following month; Marie-Anne born at St.-Suliac in December 1760 but died nine days after her birth; Joseph-Antoine born in November 1761 but died at age 2 1/2 in February 1764; and Rose-Sébastianne born in December 1763.  Wife Marie-Josèphe died at St.-Suliac in February 1764, age 30.  Joseph remarried to Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Germain Pitre and Marie-Josèphe Girouard and widow of Louis Bourg, at St.-Suliac the following November.  Anne gave Joseph four more children at St.-Suliac:  another Marie-Anne, born in December 1765; Sulia-Charles in April 1767 but died at age 3 1/2 in November 1770; Joseph-Marin born in November 1769; and Pierre-Olivier in December 1771.  Joseph took his family to the interior of Poitou in 1773.  Anne gave him another son, Charles, born at Archigny southeast of Châtellerault in June 1774.  In March 1776, after two years of effort, Joseph, Anne, and their five remaining children retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes.  In St.-Nicolas Parish there, Anne gave Joseph twin sons, François and Jean Guillaume, born in c1777--15 children, seven daughters and eight sons, including a set of twins, by two wives, between 1749 and 1777, in greater Acadia and France.  Joseph, Anne, and six of their children, five sons and a daughter, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Daughter Marie-Anne, the second with the name, if she was still living, would have been age 20 in 1785 but did not accompany her family to Louisiana.  Daughter Rose-Sébastienne, still unmarried and in her early 20s, did accompany them there, but she may not have survived the crossing to New Orleans.  From the city, Joseph, Anne, and their five sons followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  The couple had no more children in the colony.  Joseph died on the upper bayou by January 1788, in his 60s, when wife Anne was called a widow in a Valenzuela District census.  She did not remarry.  Her and Joseph's sons married on the upper bayou, and all but one of their lines endured. 

Fourth son Joseph-Marin, by second wife Anne Pitre, followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Theriot and Marie Boudrot and widow of Firmin-Charles Thibodeaux, in February 1793.  Madeleine, a native of St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Suliac, had come to Louisiana in 1785 with her first husband and two young children also aboard Le St.-Rémi; she was several years older than Joseph-Marin.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Anne-Apollonie dite Pauline in December 1793; Joseph-Olivier in October 1795; Charles-Rosémond, called Rosémond, in September 1798; François-Zénon in October 1800; Eugénie-Scholastique in February 1802; Carmélite Scholastique in February 1805; Jean Valéry, called Valéry, in October 1805[sic]; and Joseph Séraphin in July 1807--eight children, three daughters and five sons, between 1793 and 1807.  Joseph Marin died in Lafourche Interior Parish in June 1847, age 77.  Daughters Anne Apollonie dite Pauline, Eugénie Scholastique, and Carmélite Scholastique married into the Aycock, Boudreaux, and Crochet families, one of them, Pauline, twice.  Four of Joseph Marin's sons also married and settled in Assumption and Lafourche Interior parishes, but one of the lines may not have endured.  Two grandsons settled in Terrebonne Parish. 

Oldest son Joseph Olivier married Rosalie Scholastique, called Scholastique or Colastie, daughter of Frenchman Étienne Pelletier or Peltier and his Acadian wife Jeanne-Marguerite Clossinet, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in September 1816.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Irené, a son, also called Eusilien and Aurelien, in June 1817; Marie Améline in March 1819 but died at age 1 1/2 in September 1820; Azelme, also called Azéma, born in January 1821; Trasimond Olivier in October 1822; Céleste or Célestine Scholastique in December 1824; Cléophas Alexis in August 1826; Joseph Drosin died on Christmas Day in December 1828 six days after his birth; Nicaise Olivier born in December 1829; Clara Cécile in August 1833; Philomèle Éleside in February 1836; Marie Émelie or Amélie, called Amélie, in July 1840; and Marie Olempie in July 1842--a dozen children, five sons and seven daughters, between 1817 and 1842.  In September 1850, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted 13 slaves--nine males and four females, all black, ranging in age from 50 to 19--on Joseph O. Gautreaux's farm in the parish's Second Congressional District.  Joseph Olivier died in Lafourche Parish in October 1852.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph died "at age 59 yrs."  He was 57.  Daughters Azéma, Célestine Scholastique, Clara Cécile, Philomèle, and Amélie married into the Coulon, Boudreaux, Landry, Bergeron, and Terrebonne families.  Three of Joseph Olivier's sons also married, two of them to sisters.  They settled in Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes, and one of them died in Confederate service.

Oldest son Eusilien married Marie Céleste, called Céleste, daughter of Désiré Boyer and Céleste Barras of Assumption Parish, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in September 1839.  They settled near the boundary of Lafourche Interior and Terrebonne parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie Elmira or Elmira Marie, in November 1842; twins Joseph Emil or Émile and Marie Émelie in February 1846, but Marie Émelie died at age 1 1/2 in August 1847; Désiré Oscar born in November 1848; Henry Aurelien in December 1852; Marie Alice in October 1857; Marie Malvina in February 1861; ...  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Terrebonne Parish counted seven slaves--four males and three females, all blacks, ranging in age from 35 to 2--on Euzilien Gautraux's farm.  Daughters Elmira Marie, ... married into the Menuet and LeBlanc families by 1870.  None of Eusilien's sons married by then. 

Joseph's Olivier's second son Trasimond Olivier married Julie, another daughter of Désiré Boyer and Céleste Barras, at the Thibodaux church  in February 1847; the marriage also was recorded in Terrebonne Parish.  They also lived near the boundary of Lafourche Interior and Terrebonne parishes.  Their children, born there, included Julietta in September 1850; Arthur in July 1852; Joseph Désiré in September 1855; Valmont in August 1856; Joseph Aubert Adolphe in May 1858; Alcide Voltaire in June 1860; Franklin Léonie in October 1862; Ernestine Philomène in April 1865; Joseph Alphonse in March 1869; ...  None of Trasimond Olivier's children married by 1870. 

Joseph Olivier's third son Cléophas married Elmire or Edmire, 19-year-old daughter of Paul D. Terrebonne and his Acadian wife Constance LeBlanc, at the Thibodaux church in May 1846; Cléophas's sister Amélie married Elmire's brother Oleus D.  Cléophas and Elmire settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Clay Renée in May 1847; Marie Emma in February 1849; a daughter, name and age unrecorded, died in Lafourche Parish in May 1851; and Louis Rodolphe was born in July 1851 but, called Rodolphe, died in a yellow fever epidemic, age 2, in August 1853--four children, two sons and two daughters, between 1847 and 1851.  Cléophas's wife Elmire also died in the same epidemic, in September 1853.  Cléophas remarried to Ophelia, also called Greba, daughter of fellow Acadians Hubert Aucoin and Delphine Mire, at the Thibodaux church in November 1854.  In 1859, Cléophas opened a grocery store at Thibodaux with Joseph Kleber Gourdain.  During the War of 1861-65, Cléophas served as junior second lieutenant and then second lieutenant in Company G of 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafourche Parish, which served in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana.  His business partner, J. Kleber Gourdain, was the company's first commander.  Seriously wounded at the Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee, on 6 April 1862, Cléophas was transported home, where he died of his wounds on May 16, age 34.  A "Petition for presenting will" in his name was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in January 1866.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Joseph Marin's second son Charles Rosémond, called Rosémond, married Françoise, daughter of François Percle and Marie Louise Triche of St. John the Baptist Parish on the lower German Coast, at the Plattenville church in May 1819.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Angèle or Angelina in August 1820; Jean Théophile in August 1822; Ulisse or Ulysse Victor in November 1824; Rosémond, fils died at age 2 months in May 1826; Séraphin Orelien or Aurelien born in November 1827; Bélanor Joseph or Joseph Bélanor in February 1830; a twin, name unrecorded, died at age 3 hours in October 1832; and a second Rosémond, fils born in April 1834--nine children, at least one daughter and six sons, including a set of twins, between 1820 and 1834.  Charles Rosémond died in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1835, age 36.  Daughter Marie Angelina married into the Lirette family.  One of Rosémond's remaining sons also married by 1870, but the line did not endure. 

Second son Ulysse Victor married Euphrasie or Euphroisine Éloise, 19-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Michel Daigle and his Creole wife Marie Carmélite Lirette, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in May 1848, and sanctified the marriage at the Thibodaux church in January 1850.  Ulysse died in January 1850, age 25.  A petition for a family meeting in his name was filed at the Houma courthouse, Terrebonne Parish, the following August, so he probably had lived in that parish despite his burial having been recorded at the Thibodaux church (the Houma church records begin in 1848, so that parish had been established before his death).  He evidently fathered no children in his brief time as a husband. 

Charles Rosémond's fifth son Joseph Bélanor, described as a white man by the recording priest, married Charlotte, daughter of Charles Ursin LeNormand of St. Martin Parish and Marie Louise Adeline LeSassier of St. Charles Parish, both persons of color, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in July 1867.  They evidently had lived together years before their marriage.  Daughter Marie Eliska was born in Terrebonne Parish in March 1861; ...

Joseph Marin's third son François Zénon married Joséphine, daughter of Hyacinthe Rousseau and his Acadian wife Rosalie Delaune, at the Thibodauxville church in September 1831.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Serasin or Séraphin Joseph in August 1832 but, called Joseph Serafin, died at age 1 1/2 in October 1833; Eufrosie or Euphrasie Eulalie born in March 1835; Evelina in the 1830s; Olésime Théodule in February 1841 but, called Lézime, died at age 1 in March 1842; and Francis or François, fils died 15 days after his birth in March 1843--five children, three sons and two daughters, between 1832 and 1843.  François Zénon died in Lafourche Interior Parish in March 1846.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial said that François died "at age 41 yrs."  He was 45.  Daughters Euprhosie and Evelina married into the Desbous and Gebelin families by 1870.  None of François Zénon sons married, but the blood of the family line may have endured. 

Joseph Marin's fourth son Jean Valéry, called Valéry, married Théotiste, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Louvière and Marie Madeleine Melançon, at the Thibodauxville church in January 1829.  They settled in Terrebonne Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie Pamela in July 1830; and Azélie Azéma in October 1832 but died at age 10 months in September 1833.  Daughter Marie Pamela married into the Daigle family.  Did Valéry father any sons? 

Joseph's fifth son Pierre-Olivier, called Olivier, from second wife Anne Pitre, followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Julie-Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Arcement and Marie Hébert, in June 1794.  Julie-Céleste, also a native of France, had come to Louisiana in 1785 aboard a later vessel.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Pierre-Olivier, fils baptized, age unrecorded, in October 1796; Marie-Mélanie born in December 1798; Élie-Léonard in May 1800; Marguerite-Françoise in July 1801; Rose in September 1802; Anne Joséphine in March 1804; Jean David in November 1805; Pauline Baselise, called Baselise, in August 1807; Joseph Célestin, called Célestin, in September 1809; Silésie or Célesie in November 1811; Hortense Arthémise in c1813; and Pauline Claire or Clarisse, called Clarisse, in June 1816--a dozen children, four sons and eight daughters, between 1796 and 1816.  Pierre Olivier died in Lafourche Parish in October 1851.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial said that Pierre Olivier died "at age 78 yrs."  He was a month shy of 80.  Daughters Marguerite Françoise, Marie Mélanie, Anne Joséphine, Baselise, Célesie, Hortense Arthémise, and Clarisse married into the Boudreaux, Mire, Juneau, and Felteman families, three of them to Boudreaux cousins and two of them to Mire brothers.  Olivier's four sons also married and settled in Assumption and Lafourche parishes, but not all of the lines endured.  A grandson moved to the Chacahoula area of Terrebonne Parish soon after the War of 1861-65.

Oldest son Pierre Olivier, fils married Marie, daughter of Pierre Berthelot and Anne Kerne of Lafourche, at the Plattenville church in August 1817.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Pierre Marcellus or Marcellin in May 1818; Valéry Adrien, called Adrien, in December 1820; Marie Mélacie, Mélazie, or Mélanie in August 1824; François Silvin, Sylvain, or Sylvère, called Sylvère, in March 1828; Marie Madeleine in September 1829; Delphine Julma in August 1831; Eulalie Azéma in December 1834 but, called Eulalie, died at age 6 1/2 in March 1841; and Marcellite Célina born in March 1838--eight children, three sons and five daughters, between 1818 and 1838.  Pierre Olivier, fils died probably in Assumption Parish in July 1849.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial said that Pierre died "at age 54 mths.[years]."  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted six slaves--one male and five females, all black, ranging in age from 25 to 2--on Widow P. O. Gautreaux's farm in the parish's Second Congressional District; these probably were the slaves of Pierre Olivier, fils's widow, Marie Berthelot.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted eight slaves--five males and three females, all black, ages 30 years to 6 months, living in one house--on Widow Pierre O. Gauthreaux's farm in the parish's 9th Ward at Bruly St. Vincent.  Daughters Marie Mélazie/Mélanie, Delphine, and Marcellite married into the Boudreaux and Barrilleaux families, three of them, Marie Mélanie, Delphine, and Marcellite, to Barrilleauxs, two of them brothers.  Pierre Olivier, fils's sons also married and settled in Lafourche Interior Parish. 

Oldest son Pierre Marcellus or Marcellin married Pauline Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians François Aucoin and Marie Boudreaux, at the Thibodaux church in July 1839.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joseph Zéphirin in August 1842; Marie Philomène in February 1844; and Méothilde or Méotille in November 1845--three children, a son and two daughters, between 1842 and 1845.  Daughters Méotille and Marie married into the Barrilleaux and Arcement families by 1870.  Pierre Marcellin's son did not marry by then, if he married at all. 

Pierre Olivier, fils's second son Adrien married Eulalie, daughter of Jean Gagnoux and his Acadian wife Léocadie Boudreaux, at the Thibodaux church in May 1854.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Joseph Adrien near Labadieville, Assumption Parish, in March 1855; Sosthène Joseph in November 1856; Marie Malvina in March 1859; Louis in August 1860; Aubert Sylvère in December 1862; Rosina Célina in August 1865; ...  None of Adrien's children married by 1870. 

Pierre Olivier, fils's third and youngest son Sylvère married Eulalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Richard and Marie Thibodeaux, at the Thibodaux church in February 1851.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Bernard Clotus near Labadieville in April 1852; Louis died at age 15 days in January 1858; Marie Myrthée born in March 1861; Philomène Émilie in May 1868; ...  None of Sylvère's children married by 1870. 

Olivier's second son Élie Léonard married Agathe or Agatha, daughter of fellow Acadians François Aucoin and Marie Boudreaux, at the Thibodauxville church in February 1828.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Tresimond or Trasimond Olivier Thomasin in December 1828; Amélie or Armélise Célina in August 1830 but died at age 4 1/2 in January 1835; Jean Baptiste born in May 1832; Théophil or Théophile Amédée in April 1836 but died at age 7 1/2 in October 1844; Amant Prudent born in c1838 but died at age 2 in June 1840; Eve Alvina born in July 1839; Marie Augustine in March 1841[sic]; Eve Marguerite in December 1841[sic] but, called Eve, died at age 2 1/2 in August 1844; Eulalie Azéma born in February 1843; Azéma Elidorise, called Elidorise, in October 1844; and Adolphine Mathilde in March 1847.  Élie, at age 56, remarried to Virginie, daughter of fellow Acadians Euchariste Barrilleaux and Marguerite Mélanie Hébert, at the Labadieville church in February 1857.  Their children, born near Labadieville, included Philomène Amanda in February 1858; Ozémée Dorvillien in May 1860, the month his father turned 60; and Thérèsia in October 1863--14 children, five sons and nine daughters, by two wives, between 1828 and 1863.  In August 1860, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted 23 slaves--13 males and 10 females, all black except for two mulattoes, ranging in age from 48 years to 2 months, living in three houses--on E. Gauthreaux and Bros. plantation in the parish's 6th Ward along Bayou Lafourche; this may have been Élie and his brother Jean David.  Élie died near Labadieville in May 1865, age 65.  Daughters Malvina, Elidorise, Eulalie, Adolphine, Marie, ..., by his first wife, married into the Lagrange, Barrilleaux, Naquin, Kerne, and Labiche families by 1870.  Two of Élie's sons also married by then.  

Oldest son Trasimond, by first wife Agathe Aucoin, married Eulalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Boudreaux and Éliza Dugas, at the Thibodaux church in February 1853.  Their children, born on the Lafourche and in Terrebonne Parish, included J. Baptiste near Labadieville in June 1854; Joseph Franklin Vinotte in April 1856; Zéphirin Elphége in February 1858; Léonce Cyprien in July 1859; Irma Mirtilia in February 1863; Justilia Philomène in Terrebonne Parish in July 1866; Élise Eda near Chacahoula, Terrebonne Parish, in June 1869; ...  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Terrebonne Parish counted four slaves--a male and three females, two black and two mulattoes, ranging in age from 40 to 7, living in one house--on Trasimond Gautrau's farm in the parish's 3rd Ward.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Élie Léonard's second son Jean Baptiste, by first wife Agathe Aucoin, married Joséphine, daughter of Valsin Vayse and Caroline Juneau, at the Labadieville church in October 1856.  Their son Léon Oleus was born near Labadieville in July 1857.  This Jean Baptiste may have been the Jean Baptiste Gothrau who died near Pierre Part, Assumption Parish, in March 1864.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Jean Baptiste died at "age ca. 32 years."   One wonders if his death was war-related. 

Olivier's third son Jean David married Adèle Rosalie or Rosalie Adèle, daughter of Nicolas Metra and his Acadian wife Susanne Bergeron, at the Thibodauxville church in May 1830.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Mélite in March 1831; Jean, fils in September 1832; twins Azéline and Eulalie Azéma in July 1834, but Eulalie Azéma died at age 1 1/2 in January 1836; Moville born in the early or mid-1830s; Drosin Omer in April 1836; Auguste Jean Baptiste Valentin in February 1838 but, called Auguste, died at age 2 1/2 in October 1840; Marie Roselon or Rosela born in March 1840; Eulalie Augustine in February 1842; twins Angéline Philomène and Eveline in May 1844; Delphina Euranie in May 1846; Lea Félicité in March 1848; and Arvila Delphine in December 1851--14 children, 10 daughters and four sons, including two sets of twins, between 1831 and 1851.  Jean David, called Jean by the recording priest, died near Attakapas Canal, Assumption Parish, in March 1870, age 64.  Daughter Marie Rosela married into the Almindinger or Hermindiger family by 1870.  One of Jean David's sons also married by then. 

Second son Movile married cousin Octavie, daughter of Ursin Falteman and Céleste Bergeron, at the Attakapas Canal church in April 1870. ...

Olivier's fourth and youngest son Joseph Célestin, called Célestin, married Marie Delphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Mire and Henriette Bernard, at the Thibodauxville church in October 1831.  Daughter Sadie was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1833 but, called Eve Aledine, died at age 9 months in December 1833.  Célestin died in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1833, age 24 (the recording priest said 23).  His family line died with him.  Marie Delphine remarried to an Aucoin

Joseph's sixth son Charles, by second wife Anne Pitre, followed his family to Nantes, New Orleans, and upper Bayou Lafourche.  He married cousin Marie-Madeleine-Louise, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Gautreaux and Marie-Madeleine Breau, at Cabahannocer on the river in April 1801.  Madeleine was a native of Cabahannocer whose parents had come to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765.  Charles and Madeleine lived on the river before moving to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Their children, born on the bayou, included Raphaël-Aserin in February 1802 but died at age 27 (the recording priest said 20) in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1829; Charles, also called Charles Placide and Placide, born in March 1804; Marie Modeste, called Modeste, in May 1805; Charles Sylvestre, called Sylvestre, in June 1807; Simon Joseph in March 1810 but died in Lafourche Interior Parish at age 19 (the recording priest said 18) in June 1829; and Charles Valéry born in July 1813--six children, five sons and a daughter, between 1802 and 1813.  Charles, at age 65, remarried to Marie Madeleine, daughter of Jean Borne and Marie Madeleine Vicknair of St. John the Baptist Parish and widow of André Kerne, at the Plattenville church in October 1839; Charles's new wife was the mother-in-law of two of his sons.  She gave him no more children.  Charles died near Plattenville, Assumption Parish, in April 1851, age 76 (the recording priest said 77).  Daughter Modeste, by his first wife, married into the Roger family.  Three of Charles's sons also married and settled in Assumption and Lafourche Interior parishes, but not all of the lines endured.  One of Charles's grandsons settled in Terrebonne Parish. 

Second son Charles Placide, called Placide, from first wife Madeleine Gautreaux, married Virginie, also called Eugénie, daughter of André Kerne and Marie Madeleine Borne of St. John the Baptist Parish, at the Thibodauxville church in June 1831.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Charles Placide, called Placide, fils in April 1832; Drosin, also called Dorcini, in October 1834; Marie, perhaps also called Élodie, in January 1837; and Joseph Leufroy or Leufroi, called Leufroi, in December 1837[sic]--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1832 and 1837.  Placide died in Assumption Parish in January 1839, age 34.  Daughter Élodie married into the Bourg family.  All of Placide's sons married and settled in Assumption Parish. 

Oldest son Placide, fils married Marie Séraphine, called Séraphine, daughter of Auguste Maitrejean and Céline Eléonore Léonard, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in May 1854.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Elphége in c1854 but died at age 15 in September 1869; Joseph Placide born in March 1855; Jean Baptiste Armas in March 1858; Marie Célina near Pierre Part on the north shore of Lake Verret in August 1860; Marie Eugénie in September 1862; Joseph Elphége in January 1865 but, called Elphége, died at age 2 1/2 near Plattenville in October 1867; and Joseph Oleus born in September 1867.  Placide, fils remarried to Lesida, daughter of fellow Acadian Alexandre Hébert and his Creole wife Arthémise Exnicios, at the Labadieville church in April 1868.  Daughter Alida Victoria was born in Assumption Parish in March 1869; ...  None of Placide, fils's children married by 1870. 

Charles Placide's second son Drosin married Marie Élisabeth, called Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Ursin LeBlanc and Zolide Breaux, at the Paincourtville church in February 1856.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Joseph Achille in April 1857; Gervet in November 1859; Marie Victoria near Pierre Part on the north shore of Lake Verret in October 1861; ... 

Charles Placide's third and youngest son Leufroi married cousin Valida, daughter of fellow Acadians Victor Roger and Judith Bourg, at the Pierre Part church, Assumption Parish, in August 1861; they had to secure a dispensation for second and third degrees of consanguinity in order to marry.  Leufroi remarried to Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Landry and his Creole wife Élise Friou, at the Labadieville church in June 1866.  They lived near Brashear, now Morgan, City on the lower Atchafalaya before returning to Assumption Parish.  Their children, born on the lower Atchafalaya and on the upper Lafourche, included a daughter baptized on the lower Atchafalaya, age unrecorded, in July 1867; Drosin Joseph born near Paincourtville in November 1868; Joseph Alphonse near Pierre Part in October 1870; ... 

Charles's third son Charles Sylvestre, called Sylvestre, from first wife Madeleine Gautreaux, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Louis Louvière and Marie Madeleine Melançon, at the Thibodauxville church in November 1835.  Their son Pierre Télésphore, called Télésphore, born probably on the Lafourche in the late 1830s or early 1840s, married and created his own family. 

Only son Pierre Télésphore, called Télésphore, married Adeline Augustine, daughter of Foreign Frenchman Auguste Legendre and his Acadian wife Adeline Baselice Dantin, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in May 1860.  Their son Joseph Adrion was born in Lafourche Parish in March 1861 but, called Joseph Odreci, died in June; ... 

Charles's fifth and youngest son Charles Valéry, by first wife Madeleine Gautreaux, married Félicité, another daughter of André Kerne and Marie Madeleine Borne, at the Thibodauxville church in October 1834.  Did they have any children? 

Joseph's seventh son François, a twin, by second wife Anne Pitre, followed his family to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marie-Charlotte, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Ozelet and Marguerite Landry, in February 1803.  Marie-Charlotte, a native of Poitou, had come to Louisiana from France in 1785 aboard an earlier ship.  François died in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1823, age 46.  He and his wife may have been that rare Acadian couple who had no children.

Joseph's eighth son Jean-Guillaume, François's twin, by second wife Anne Pitre, followed his family to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Françoise-Victoire, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Aucoin and his second wife Anne Hébert, in February 1800.  Françoise-Victoire, a native of Tréméreuc near St.-Malo, France, had come to Louisiana in 1785 aboard a later ship.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Florentin-François, called François, in January 1802; David in May 1804; Jean Pierre in December 1806 but died at age 24 (the recording priest said 25) in October 1831; Marie Anne born in July 1815; and Alexandre Jean Baptiste in January 1821--five children, four sons and a daughter, between 1802 and 1821.  Jean G., as the recording priest called him, died in Lafourche Interior Parish in July 1850, age 74.  Daughter Marie Anne married into the Boudreaux family.  Three of Jean Guillaume's sons also married and settled in Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes. 

Oldest son Florentin François married Thérèse, daughter of Joseph Roussel or Rousselle and Marie Milan, at the Plattenville church in May 1830.  They settled on the upper bayou near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes and were living in Assumption by August 1850.  Their children, born there, included Marie Eulalie, called Eulalie, in February 1831; Joseph Sérafin in c1832 but died at age 18 months in October 1833; Victor born in July 1833; Marie Adeline in November 1834; Marie Victorine, called Victorine, in July 1836; Rose Aima in November 1836[sic, perhaps 1837]; Théliste Malana, also called Fortunatis, in October 1838; Augustin or Auguste Léonard, called Auguste, in November 1839; Éléonise Amélie dite Méa in August 1841; Hermegie, probably Hermonegile, also called Hermogène, in April 1843; Azélie Lélima in September 1845 but, perhaps called Célina, may have died near Labadieville, Assumption Parish, at age 13 in September 1858 (so why was Célina still listed with her family in the federal census of August 1850 at age 4?); and Anathole Oleus born in February 1848 but, called Anathole, died in Lafourche Interior Parish at age 1 in January 1849--a dozen children, six daughters and six sons, between 1831 and 1848.  Wife Thérèse died by August 1850, when Florentin was listed in the federal census for the Second Congressional District of Assumption Parish without a wife.  Daughters Eulalie and Marie, probably Marie Adeline, married into the Himel and Gros families by 1870.  Three of Florentin's sons also married by then, after their war service. 

During the War of 1861-65, third son Fortunatis served in Company C of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Assumption Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  Unlike younger brother Auguste, Fortunatis and the members of his company accepted parole when Vicksburg fell, went home to wait exchange, but, like many others in his regiment, he evidently did not report back to his unit upon its exchange in the summer of 1864.  After the war, he married Élisa or Éliza, daughter of fellow Acadians Célestin Bourg and Hélène Boudreaux, at the Labadieville church in April 1866.  They settled near Labadieville, where he worked as a farm laborer.  Their children, born there, included Philomène Laura Thérèse in December 1868; Marie Aguste in February 1869; ...

During the war, Florentin's fourth son Auguste may have been among the Assumption Parish men conscripted into Company C of the 1st Regiment Louisiana Heavy Artillery in the fall of 1862, when he would have been age 23.  If so, he had a dark compexion, black hair, black eyes, and stood five feet eight and a half inches tall, and was single.  His unit served at Vicksburg, Mississippi, where many of his fellow conscripts succumbed to disease even before the siege of May-July 1863.  When the Confederate army surrendered at Vicksburg in July 1863, Auguste was among the majority of the conscripts in his company who refused parole.  During the following weeks, the Federals sent him and his fellow cannoneers to Memphis, Tennessee, and then to St. Louis, Missouri, where they were received at the Gratiot Street prison in late July.  From there, in early August, they were transferred to the prisoner-of-war compound at Camp Morton, near Indianapolis, Indiana, and held there for the rest of the war.  Auguste survived his prisoner-of-war ordeal and took the oath of allegiance to the U.S. government at Camp Morton in early January 1865, months before the war ended.  After his release from prison, he made his way home as best he could and married fellow Acadian Célina Daigle in Assumption Parish, date unrecorded.  He also worked as a farm laborer there.  His and Célina's children, born near Labadieville, included Rosémond Albert in October 1866; Julien Edgard in November 1867; Émelie Thérèse in January 1869; Camille Augustin in July 1870; ...

Florentin's fifth son Hermonegile served with older brother Fortunatis in Company C of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, also enlisting in the company in March 1862, a month shy of age 19.  He, too, was captured at Vicksburg in July 1863, and, like older brother Fortunatis, accepted parole and went home to await exchange but, like his brother, probably did not report back to his unit when it was exchanged the following year.  After the war, Hermonegile married Angéline or Angelina, daughter of Hermogène Gros and his Acadian wife Joséphine Boudreaux, at the Labadieville church in December 1866.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Louise Françoise in October 1867; Joséphine Mathilde in January 1869; ...  Like his older brothers, Hermonegile worked as a farm laborer. 

Jean Guillaume's second son David married Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Dominique Boudreaux and Marie Olive Landry, at the Thibodauxville church in November 1828.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joséphine in October 1829; and Tresimond or Trasimond in March 1831.  David remarried to Marie Gertrude, daughter of Foreign Frenchman Auguste Honoré and his Acadian wife Marie Arcement, at the Thibodauxville church in January 1836.  They lived on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Assumption and Lafourche Interior parishes.  Their children, born there, included Narcisse Maurice, called Maurice, in October 1836; Marie Odile in May 1839; Marie Honorine in December 1840 but, called Marie Honorée, died at age 1 in November 1841; Lubin born in March 1842; Marie Eulalie in June 1843; Auguste Adam, also called Auguste David, in October 1844; Davy Ignace in July 1846; Thomas Désiré in February 1848; Marie Madeleine Lorenza in July 1849 but, called Marie Madeleine, died at age 1 in May 1850; Marie Euranie born in March 1851; Jean Oleus in December 1852; Paul Émile in August 1854; and Hélène Cécilia in May 1859--15 children, seven daughters and eight sons, by two wives, between 1829 and 1859.  Daughters Marie, ..., by both wives, married into the Hidalgo, Gros, and Usé families by 1870.  Three of David's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Trasimond, by first wife Céleste Boudreaux, married Marie, daughter of Joseph Sarde or Sardes and Marie Pares, at the Attakapas Canal church, Assumption Parish, in April 1858.  Their children, born near Attakapas Canal, included Joseph Camille in May 1859; Joséphine Léocadie in February 1861; Cécilia Marie in January 1864; Thérésa Félicia in March 1866; ... 

David's second son Maurice, by second wife Marie Gertrude Honoré, married Azéma or Rozéma, daughter of Charles Roussel and ____ Friou, at the Labadieville church in May 1865.  Their son Neil Edgard was born near Labadieville in December 1867; ... 

David's fourth son Auguste Adam, called Adam, from second wife Marie Gertrude Honoré, may have been among the Assumption Parish men conscripted into Company C of the 1st Regiment Louisiana Heavy Artillery in the fall of 1862, when he would have been age 18.  If so, Auguste had a dark compexion, black hair, black eyes, and stood five feet eight and a half inches tall, and was single.  His unit served at Vicksburg, Mississippi, where many of his fellow conscripts succumbed to disease even before the siege of May-July 1863.  When the Confederate army surrendered at Vicksburg in July 1863, Auguste was among the majority of the conscripts in his company who refused parole.  During the following weeks, the Federals sent him and his fellow cannoneers to Memphis, Tennessee, and then to St. Louis, Missouri, where they were received at the Gratiot Street prison in late July.  From there, in early August, they were transferred to the prisoner-of-war compound at Camp Morton, near Indianapolis, Indiana, and held there for the rest of the war.  Auguste survived his prisoner-of-war ordeal and took the oath of allegiance to the U.S. government at Camp Morton in early January 1865, months before the war ended.  After his release from prison, he made his way home as best he could and married Léonise, also called Louise, daughter of Joseph Idale and Marie Rodrigues, at the Labadieville church in January 1866.  Their children, born near Labadieville, included Adam Joseph in October 1866; Marie Alice in February 1868; Eulalie Elmire in April 1869; ... 

Jean Guillaume's fourth and youngest son Alexandre Jean Baptiste married Eulalie Scholastique, daughter of Édouard Peltier or Pelletier and Marcellite Berthelot, at the Thibodaux church in February 1843.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included a child, name unrecorded, died a day after his/her birth in August 1845; Marie Doveline born in September 1846 but died at age 4 in November 1850; Marie Louise or Louisiana, called Louisiana, born in October 1848; Alix Adam in May 1851; Émile Toussaint in November 1853; Henry Siméon in January 1856; Louise Modeste in June 1858; Clebert Augustin in December 1861; Marie, perhaps theirs, died the day of her birth in January 1861; Léonida Philomène born in August 1865; ...  Daughter Louisiana married into the Fremin family by 1870.  None of Alexandre Jean Baptiste's sons married by then. 

Charles (1741-?) à François III à François, fils à François Gautreaux

Charles, fils, older son of Charles dit Maringouin Gautrot and Marie-Josèphe Hébert, born probably at Minas in c1741, followed his family to the French Maritimes in the 1750s and to Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, in 1758-59.  He married Anne-Pélagie, called Pélagie, daughter of fellow Acadians René Trahan and Marguerite Melanson, in St.-Joseph Parish, Boulogne-sur-Mer, in August 1763.  They settled in St.-Nicolas parish in the fishing center before moving to Morlaix in northwest Brittany in 1765.  They did not follow other Acadians from Morlaix to Belle-Île-en-Mer that year and were still at Morlaix in September 1784.  Pélagie gave Charles a large family there:  Marie-Josèphe-Pélagie born in St.-Joseph Parish, Boulogne-sur-Mer, in July 1764 but died eight days after her birth; Jean-Charles-Joseph born in St.-Martin des Champs Parish, Morlaix, in June 1765; Marie-Madeleine-Pélagie in December 1766; Louis-Marie in January 1769; Jean-Louis-Laurent in August 1771; Anne-Barbe in December 1773; Nicolas in September 1775; Jean-Marie in May 1777; Pierre-Isidore in September 1780; Anastasie-Marguerite-Marie in August 1782; and Jean-Baptiste-Simon in June 1784--11 children, four daughters and seven sons, between 1764 and 1784.  Having agreed to go to Spanish Louisiana, in late 1784 or early 1785 Charles and his family left Morlaix for Paimboeuf, the lower port of Nantes, either by traveling overland across the Breton peninsula or sailing around the peninsula to the Loire estuary.  In June 1785, Charles, Pélagie, and six of their children, four sons and two daughters, began the crossing.  Sons Louis-Marie, Jean-Louis-Laurent, and Nicolas, and daughter Anne-Barbe, who would have been ages 16, 14, 12, and 10 in 1785, did not follow their family to the Spanish colony.  They likely had died by then.  Infant son Jean-Baptiste-Simon may not have survived the crossing on the overcrowded Le St.-Rémi.  From New Orleans, Charles, Pélagie, and their remaining five children followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  The couple had no more children in the colony.  Daughters Marie-Madeleine-Pélagie and Anastasie-Marguerite-Marie married into the LeBlanc and Havard or Navarre families on the upper Lafourche.  Only one of Charles's three sons who arrived with him in Louisiana married, but he created a vigorous family line in Terrebonne Parish. 

Oldest son Jean-Charles-Joseph, called Charles, became a block maker in France.  He followed his family to Paimboeuf, New Orleans, and upper Bayou Lafourche.  In January 1788, now in his early 20s, he was still a bachelor and living with his parents on the upper bayou.  He evidently did not marry.  

Charles's fifth son son Jean-Marie followed his family to Paimboeuf, New Orleans, and upper Bayou Lafourche.  He died in Lafourche Interior Parish in August 1836, age 59 (the recording priest said 58).  He did not marry.  

Charles's sixth son Pierre Isidore, called Isidore, followed his family to Paimboeuf, New Orleans, and upper Bayou Lafourche.  He married Marie Rosalie, daughter of René Seville or Silvy and Anne Tassin, at the Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, in February 1809.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Assumption and Lafourche Interior parishes and then in Terrebonne Parish.  Their children, born there, included Anne Pélagie, called Pélagie, in April 1811; ___sa, a daughter, perhaps Eugénie, also called Mélite, baptized at the Assumption church, age unrecorded, in August 1815; Pierre Fircie or Furcy, called Furcy, born in January 1818; Rosalie Adélaïde in January 1820; Marie Conception in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1822; Jean Pierre in June 1824; Pauline, perhaps also Apoline, Geneviève in Assumption Parish in January 1827; Azélie Eulalie in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1829; Hysidor or Isidore Neuville or Neuville Isidore, called Neuville, in December 1831; and Thérèse Roseline in October 1834--10 children, seven daughters and three sons, between 1811 and 1834.  In April 1835, a petition for a family assembly, naming his wife and listing his children and one of their spouses--Eugénie; Furcy; Terzile; Marie; Jean; Pauline; Azélie; Neuville; Roseline; Pélagie; and Mélite and her husband--was filed at the Houma courthouse, Terrebonne Parish, in Pierre Isidore's name.  He would have been age 55 that year.  Daughters Mélite/Eugénie, Targille, Marie, Azélie, and Apoline married into the Boudreaux, Lambert, Thibodeaux, Kehoe, Whitney, and Brunet families.  Isidore three sons also married, in Terrebonne Parish, but one of the lines may not have endured. 

Oldest son Pierre Furcy, called Furcy, married Marguerite Sérasine or Sarazine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Clouâtre and Henriette Molaison, at the Houma church in June 1849, the same day and in the same church as his younger brother Jean's wedding.  Furcy and Marguerite's chilidren, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Pierre François in July 1853; Justilien Fidor in August 1854; Marie Odillia in March 1857; Elmire Eliska in April 1859; Joseph Gimmy in March 1862; Aurelia Lutetia near Montegut in April 1865; Henri Albert in December 1867; ...  None of Furcy's children married by 1870. 

Isidore's second son Jean Pierre married Jeanne Victoire, called Victoire, 16-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Joseph Thibodeaux and his Creole wife Agathe Biron, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in September 1847, and sanctified the marriage at the Houma church in June 1849, the same day and in the same church as his older brother Furcy's wedding.  Jean and Jeanne's daughter Marie Jeanne was born in Terrebonne Parish in November 1855.  Did they have anymore children?  Their daughter did not marry by 1870. 

Isidore's third and youngest son Isidore Neuville or Neuville Isidore, called Neuville, married Marie Evéline or Elvine, daughter of fellow Acadian Firmin Blanchard and his Creole wife Ellen LeBoeuf, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in November 1859.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Pierre Meril Alcée near Montegut in December 1860; Treville Alcée near Houma in July 1862; Essee Eve in February 1870; ... 

Pierre-Grégoire (1760-?) à François III à François, fils à François Gautreaux

Pierre-Grégoire, fifth son of Alexandre Gautrot and Marguerite Hébert, born at Trigavou near St.-Malo, France, in March 1760, became a carpenter in France.  One wonders if he followed an older brother to the interior of Poitou in 1773.  If not, he made his way to the lower Loire port of Nantes by September 1784 and joined his widowed mother and siblings there.  Pierre-Grégoire married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Michel and Marguerite Pitre, probably at Nantes in late 1784 or 1785.  When they emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 with his widowed mother, younger siblings, and a nephew, Madeleine was pregnant.  She gave birth to a daughter aboard ship.  They baptized her at the New Orleans church in October 1785 and named her Martina or Martine after her godfather, Spanish Intendente Martin Navarro.  She probably died young.  The family followed their relatives and fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Madeleine gave Pierre-Grégoire more children on the river and the bayou, including Étienne baptized at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer on the river, age unrecorded, in September 1788; Pierre-Simon born on the upper Lafourche in February 1790; Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, in February 1793; and Marguerite-Rosalie, called Rosalie, in September 1794 but died at age 28 (the recording priest said 27)  in September 1822.  Wife Madeleine died by May 1805, when Pierre-Grégoire remarried to Sophie Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Hébert and his second wife Marie Benoit and widow of Mathurin Comeaux, at Assumption on the upper Lafourche.  Sophie, a native of St.-Servan-sur-Mer, not far from Trigavou, had come to Louisiana in 1785 on the same ship Pierre-Grégoire and his wife had taken.  Sophie Marie gave him more children on the upper Lafourche, including Alexis Leufroi, called Leufroi, born in May 1806 but died in Assumption Parish, age 27 (the recording priest said 22), in July 1833; Léocade Émilie born in c1809; and Michel, also called Pierre Michel, in June 1814--eight children, four daughters and four sons, by two wives, between 1785 and 1814.  Daughters Madeleine and Léocade Émilie, by both wives, married into the Waguespack and Chataignier families.  Only one of Pierre-Grégoire's sons married.  He settled in Terrebonne Parish, and his was the only line descended from grandfather Alexandre that endured in the Bayou State. 

Fourth and youngest son Michel, also called Pierre Michel, from second wife Sophie Marie Hébert, married Marie Pauline, called Pauline, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Joseph Guidry and Lucille Carmélite Chiasson, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in July 1843, and sanctified the marriage at the Houma church in September 1849.  Their children, born on the southeastern bayous, included Félix in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1844; Euzélia, perhaps also called Émelie or Emily, in c1847; Robert Frédéric in Terrebonne Parish in June 1849; Marie Aimée in May 1852; Zéolide Eve, called Eve, in December 1855; Bernard Beauregard in June 1862; ...  Daughter Émelie married into the Malbrough family by 1870.  None of Michel's sons married by then. 

Jean-Alain (1764-?) à François III à François, fils à François Gautreaux

Jean-Alain, sixth son of Alexandre Gautrot and Marguerite Hébert, born at Pleslin near Trigavou, France, in September 1764, followed his widowed mother to Nantes by September 1784.  The following year, he followed her and his siblings to Louisiana.  Soon after they reached the Spanish colony, Jean-Alain married Madeleine-Modeste, daughter of fellow Acadians Benjamin Pitre and his second wife Marguerite Boudrot, at New Orleans in January 1786.  They settled with his family on upper Bayou Lafourche and may have been that rare Acadian couple who had no children. 

Charles (1766-1836) à Alexandre à François III à François, fils à François Gautreaux

Charles, oldest son of François-Hilaire Gautrot and Hélène-Catherine Daigre and nephew of Pierre-Grégoire and Jean-Alain, born at Trigavou near St.-Malo, France, in January 1766, followed his family to Poitou in 1773, his paternal grandmother and other kin to Nantes a few years later, and to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche in 1785.  He married Marie-Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Anselme Pitre and his first wife Isabelle Dugas, at New Orleans in June 1789.  They settled at Ascension on the river.  He and his wife may have been that rare Acadian couple who had no children.  Charles died in Ascension Parish in June 1836, age 70. 

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Five more Gautrots--two wives, a young bachelor, and two unmarried sisters--crossed on L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in early November 1785.  Most of them followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where one of the sisters married into the Molaison family.  One of the wives, however, followed her husband to the Attakapas District.  The bachelor married and settled on the upper Lafourche, but his family line did not endure:

Jean-Charles (1761-1790s) à François III à François, fils à François Gautreaux

Jean-Charles, third son of Honoré Gautrot and his second wife Jeanne Lebert, half-brother of Marin and full brother of Pierre-Joseph of La Bergère, born at Pleslin southwest of St.-Malo, France, in November 1761, became a sailor in France.  He followed his siblings to Louisiana in 1785 on a later ship and settled with them on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Soon after his arrival, he married Françoise-Hélène, daughter of fellow Acadians François Blanchard and Hélène-Judith Giroir, at Ascension in February 1786.  Françoise-Hélène, a native of St.-Suliac, across the river from Pleslin, had come to Louisiana in 1785 on the same vessel Jean-Charles had taken.  They settled on the upper Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Jean-François baptized, age unrecorded, in February 1788; and Joseph-Nicolas born in November 1789 but died in Assumption Parish, age 43 (the recording priest said 44), in May 1833.  Jean-Charles died at Lafourche in February 1793, age 32.  Neither of his sons seems to have married, so his line of the family did not endure. 

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Four more Gautrots--a small family and a young unmarried woman--crossed on La Caroline, the last of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans from Nantes in mid-December 1785.  A younger son of the family head had reached the colony on an earlier vessel, settled on upper Bayou Lafourche, and helped create a new center of family settlement there.  His family joined him on the Lafourche, and the family's line became even more robust there.  The young woman, Anne-Angélique, whose sisters had crossed from France on an earlier vessel, did not join them on the Acadian Coast or on the Opelousas prairies but followed other kin to San Bernardo on the river below New Orleans:

Charles (1736-1796) à François III à François, fils à François Gautreaux

Charles, oldest son of Pierre Gautrot and his first wife Agnès LeBlanc, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in October 1736, may not have followed his family to Île St.-Jean in 1750 but remained at Minas, or, if he followed them to the island, may have returned to Minas before the rest of his family were counted at Anse-à-Pinnet on the southeast coast of the island in August 1752.  The British deported Charles, still in his late teens, from Minas to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia officials sent him on to England in the spring of 1763 with hundreds of other exiles.  He married fellow Acadian Catherine Michel either at Minas or, more likely, in England, but she did not survive the ordeal there.  In May 1763, Charles, a young widower now, was repatriated from England to St.-Malo, France, aboard La Dorothée with the family of Jean Melanson, perhaps a kinsman of his stepmother Élisabeth Thériot.  Charles remarried to Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Melanson and Cécile Aucoin of Minas, at St.-Suliac on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo in September 1763.  She gave him a son, Jean-Charles, born in the nearby suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer in July 1764.  In late 1765, Charles, Madeleine, and their infant son followed her widowered father to Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany and settled at Le Coquet near Locmaria on the south end of the island.  Madeleine gave Charles five more children there:  Jean-Pierre born in January 1766 but died at age 3 in April 1769; Marie-Madeleine born in February 1767; Joseph-Benoît, called Benoît, in October 1768; François-Marie in February 1771; and Rosalie-Charlotte in April 1781--six children, four sons and two daughters, by his second wife, between 1764 and 1781.  Their oldest son married a local Frenchwoman at nearby Bangor.  In the early 1780s, Charles and members of his family left Belle-Île-en-Mer for the lower Loire port of Nantes.  In 1785, Charles, Madeleine, and their youngest children, a son and a daughter, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana on the last of the Seven Ships.  Two of their older children, oldest son Jean-Charles and older daughter Marie-Madeleine, who would have been ages 21 and 18 in 1785, chose to remain in the mother country.  When Charles, Madeleine, and their younger children left Nantes, third son Benoît, still in his late teens, already had sailed to Louisiana on an earlier vessel.  From New Orleans, Charles and his family followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where son Benoît awaited them.  Wife Madeleine died by January 1788, when Charles was listed in a Valenzuela District census without a wife.  At age 53, he remarried again--his third marriage--to Luce-Perpétué, daughter of fellow Acadians François Bourg and Marie-Madeleine Hébert and widow of Pierre Hébert and Félix Boudrot, at Ascension in November 1789.  Luce-Perpétué, in her mid-50s at the time of their marriage, also was a native of Minas, had been deported to France from Île St.-Jean, and had come to Louisiana in 1785 with her first husband.  She gave Charles no more children.  Charles's younger daughter Rosalie-Charlotte, by his second wife, married into the Aucoin family on the upper Lafourche.  His youngest son, along with older son Benoît, also married and settled there. 

Oldest son Jean-Charles, by second wife Madeleine Melanson, followed his family to Belle-Île-en-Mer and married local Marie-Madeleine Galoudec or Galuduy at Bangor in the southern interior of the island in 1784.  She gave him a daughter, Marie-Josèphe, at nearby Locmaria in April 1787.  As the birth date of their daughter reveals, they did not follow his parents and younger siblings to Spanish Louisiana. 

Charles's third son Joseph-Benoît, called Benoît, from second wife Madeleine Melanson, while in his teens, followed his family to Nantes and then, still in his late teens, preceded them to Spanish Louisiana aboard La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, in 1785.  He reached New Orleans in mid-August and either remained in the city or followed his fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where his parents and two younger siblings joined him later in the year.  Benoît, at age 20, married Marie-Françoise, 24-year-old orphaned daughter of Frenchman Guillaume Montet and his Acadian wife Marie-Josèphe Vincent of Liverpool and Belle-Île-en-Mer, at the New Orleans church in May 1789.  They may have known one another on Belle-Île-en-Mer.  Marie-Françoise, who had crossed on the same ship as Benoît's family in 1785, died soon after she and Benoît married, perhaps from complications of childbirth.  Benoît remarried to Élisabeth, or Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Germain Bergeron and Marie LeBlanc, at Ascension on the river in November 1790.  Élisabeth's father had come to the colony from Halifax in 1765, and Élizabeth had been born at Cabahannocer/St.-Jacques on the river.  She and Benoît settled on the upper Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Jean-Charles-Vitique or Viltique, called Viltique, in March 1795; Marie-Euphrasie, -Euphrasine, or -Euphrosine in September 1797; Auguste-Arsène in July 1801; Marie-Rosalie in March 1803; Marie Susanne, called Susanne, in October 1807 but died at age 5 1/2 in July 1813; Marie Élise, called Élise, born in March 1811; Marie Eleucade in January 1817; and Élisabeth in the 1820s--eight children, two sons and six daughters, all by his second wife, between 1795 and the 1820s.  Benoît died in Assumption Parish in November 1832, age 64 (the Plattenville priest said 65).  Daughters Marie Euphrosine, Marie Rosalie, Élise, Marie, and Élisabeth married into the Theriot, Daigle, Mazerolle, Cedotal, Templet, and Trahan families.  Benoît's sons also married and settled on the upper bayou.  One of his grandsons moved to lower Bayou Teche after the War of 1861-65. 

Older son Jean-Charles-Vitique or Viltique, called Viltique, from second wife Élisabeth Bergeron, married Constance, daughter of fellow Acadians Eusèbe Arceneaux and Rosalie Bergeron, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in November 1818.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Augustin Philogène in December 1819 but, called Philosin, died near Paincourtville at age 28 in June 1848; and Grégoire Théodule, called Théodule, born in September 1821.  Viltique died in Assumption Parish in January 1834.  The Plattenville priest who recorded the burial, and who gave his wife's name but not his parents', said that Viltique was age 40 when he died.  He was 38.  One of his sons married and settled near Pierre Part, north of Lake Verret, before moving to lower Bayou Teche soon after the War of 1861-65. 

Younger son Théodule married Séraphine, daughter of Valéry Cedotal and his Acadian wife Henriette Dugas, at the Paincourtville church in May 1845.  She evidently gave him no children.  Théodule remarried to Zépheline, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Emérant Crochet and Adèle Arthémise Thibodeaux, at the Paincourtville church in June 1850.  They settled on the upper Lafourche before moving to lower Bayou Teche after the war.  Their children, born there, included Marie Adorestine near Paincourtville in November 1852; Joseph Camille in February 1855; twins Joseph Hilaire and Marie Joséphine Élizabeth in February 1857; Xavier Cyprien near Pierre Part in October 1860; Lusignant Martin in February 1863; Mathilde near Paincourtville in March 1866 but, called Rosella, evidently died at age 8 months the following November; Jean Baptiste Optime born near New Iberia, Iberia Parish, in May 1869; ...  None of Théodule's children married by 1870. 

Benoît's younger son Auguste Arsène, by second wife Élisabeth Bergeron, married Marie Madeleine, daughter of Antoine Coupelle and Marie Desert, at the Plattenville church in July 1825.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Augustin Honoré, called Honoré and Noré, in June 1826; Zéfirin Marcelian in June 1827 but, called Marcilien, died near Plattenville at age 21 (the recording priest said 17) and buried on 25 January 1849, a day after his father and a younger sister were buried; Adrien Désiré born in August 1827[sic] but died at age 1 (perhaps 2) in August 1829; Marie Célestine, called Célestine, born in June 1830; Pierre Anselme in April 1832 but, called Pierre A., died at age 2 in August 1834; a newborn child, name unrecorded, died in October 1833; and Marie Victorine born in May 1835 but, called Victorine, died at age 13 1/2 (the recording priest said 11) and buried on 24 January 1849, the same day her father was buried--seven children, at least four sons and two daughters, between 1826 and 1835.  Auguste died near Plattenville and was buried on 24 January 1849, the same day his youngests daughter was buried and a day before his second son was buried.  The priest who recorded Auguste's burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Auguste died at "age 45 years."  He was 47.  The priest also did not explain why three members of the same family died within a day of one another, so one wonders what befell them.  Daughter Célestine married into the Acosta family.  One of Auguste's remaining sons also married and settled near Attakapas Canal, east of Lake Verret. 

Oldest son Honoré likely married Thérèse or Theresa Houston, Ourso, Ousse, or Uso in Assumption Parish in the late 1840s.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Augustin Carville near Plattenville in September 1850 but, called Auguste Théodore, died the following month; Merville Terstan born in January 1852; Vileor Augustin in November 1853; Marie Urania in April 1855; Charles Ovile in May 1857; Auguste Onézime near Attakapas Canal in February 1859; Zelma Aurelia in January 1861; Marie Olphida in December 1862; ...  None of Honoré's children married by 1870. 

Charles's fourth and youngest son François-Marie, by second wife Madeleine Melanson, followed his family to Nantes, New Orleans, and upper Bayou Lafourche.  He married Félicité-Jeanne, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Hébert and Laure Bourg, at Ascension on the river in March 1792.  Félicité-Jeanne, a native of St.-Suliac near St.-Malo, had come to Louisiana from France in 1785 aboard La Bergère, the same ship François-Marie's older brother Benoît had taken.  François-Marie and Félicité-Jeanne settled on the upper Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Henriette in July 1793; Mélanie in April 1795; Marie-Madeleine in April 1797; Jean-Charles le jeune, called J. Charles and Charles, in June 1799; Emérante-Félicité in August 1801; François, fils in January 1804; Philomin, perhaps Felonise, in May 1806; Claire or Clarisse in April 1808; Doralise in October 1810; and Angèl died the day after his birth in January 1814--10 children, seven daughters and three sons, between 1793 and 1814.  François-Marie died in Assumption Parish in December 1824.  The Plattenville priest who recorded the burial said that François Marie died at age 50.  He was 53.  Daughters Henriette, Felonise, Marie Madeleine, Mélanie, Emérante, Clarisse, and Doralise married into the Aucoin, Delaune, Arceneaux, Daigle, and Hébert families, two of them to Aucoin brothers.  Two of François Marie's remaining sons also married and settled on the upper Lafourche.

Oldest son Jean Charles le jeune, called J. Charles and Charles, married Élise or Élisabeth Mélanie, daughter of Antoine Coupelle and Marie Desert, at the Plattenville church in May 1828.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Élisabeth, called Élisabeth, in July 1829; Jean Baptiste in August 1831 but died near Pierre Part, age 32, in March 1864 (one wonders if his death was war-related); twins Marie Pamela and Marguerite Pamela born in April 1833, but Marguerite Pamela died in May; Désiré Jean born in October 1837; Adeline Philomène, called Philomène, in January 1839; Joseph died, age unrecorded, in March 1841; Marie Eglantine, called Eglantine, born in March 1843; and Clet, also called Pierre, in the early 1840s--nine children, five daughters and four sons, including a set of twins, between 1829 and the early 1840s.  Daughters Élisabeth, Philomène, and Eglantine married into the Escubas, and Vane, originally Vaughn, and Daigle families by 1870.  Two of J. Charles's sons also married by then. 

Second son Désiré Jean married Hélène, daughter of fellow Acadian Édouard Babin and his Creole wife Marie Gros, at the Paincourtville church in May 1858.  Their children, born near Pierre Part, included Joseph Cordilier in October 1859; Joseph Aladin in October 1862; Marie Adea in June 1865; Marie Eve Olivia in March 1868; ...

J. Charles's fourth and youngst son Clet Pierre married cousin Célima or Sélima, daughter of fellow Acadians Marcellin Landry and Felide Landry and widow of Carville Breaux, at the Paincourtville church in May 1862; according to the marriage record, they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry, which means they were first cousins.  Their children, born near Paincourtville, included twins Élise Angélique and Élisabeth Angela in January 1863, but they died near Paincourtville in October 1864, age 1 1/2, within days of one another; Marguerite died 3 days after her birth in November 1864; Marie Angéline born in February 1867; ...

François-Marie's second son François, fils married Felonise, Felonie, or Melanise Henriette, daughter of fellow Acadians Grégoire Aucoin and Marguerite Aucoin, at the Plattenville church in June 1832.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Rosémond François in March 1835; Marie Célenie in May 1837; Françoise Azélie October 1839; Joseph Léon in January 1842; Joseph Vileor in December 1844; Honoré Désiré in December 1847; and Philomène in February 1850--seven children, four sons and three daughters, between 1835 and 1850.  None of François, fils's children married by 1870. 

Girouard/Giroir

François Girouard dit La Varanne, born in c1621 at La Chaussée or nearby Martaizé near Loudun south of the middle Loire valley in central France, was a young laborer and farmer when he came to Acadia in c1640.  He married Jeanne Aucoin of La Rochelle, sister of Michelle, wife of Michel Boudrot, probably at Port-Royal later in the decadeBetween 1648 and 1660, at Port-Royal, Jeanne gave François five children, two sons and three daughters, all of whom created families of their own.  François dit La Varanne died at Port-Royal in the early 1690s, in his early 70s.  His wife did not remarry and died at Annapolis Royal in April 1718, in her late 80s.  Their daughters married into the Blou, Cormier, and Lord dit Lamontagne families.  Their sons married into the Gautrot and Bourgeois families.  In 1755, descendants of François Girouard dit La Varanne and Jeanne Aucoin could be found at Annapolis Royal, formerly Port-Royal; Chignecto, which members of the family helped pioneer in the 1670s; Grand-Pré and Pigiguit in the Minas Basin; and on Île St.-Jean and Íle Royale in the French Maritimes.  Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this family even farther. 

The Acadians at Chignecto were the first to endure a disruption of their lives.  During the spring and summer of 1750, in response to the British building a fort at Beaubassin village, Canadian militia, along with Mi'kmaq warriorss led by Abbé Jean-Louis Le Loutre, burned Acadian homesteads east of Rivière Missaguash, forcing the habitants there to move to the French-controlled area west of the river.  Girouards likely were among the refugees affected by this petit dérangement.  After yet another war erupted between Britain and France in 1754, the Chignecto Acadians were caught in the middle of it.  When British and New-English forces attacked Fort Beauséjour in June 1755, Girouards likely were among the area Acadians serving in the fort as militia.  They, too, along with the French troupes de la marine, became prisoners of war when the fort surrendered on June 16.  Lieutenant-Governor Charles Lawrence was so incensed to find so-called French Neutrals fighting with French regulars at Beauséjour he ordered his officers to deport the local Acadians to the southernmost seaboard colonies.  At least one Girouard family and a number of Girouard wives were shipped to South Carolina.  Most of the Girouards at Chignecto, however, escaped the British and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore or moved on to Canada via the Rivière St.-Jean portage or the lower St. Lawrence. 

That fall, the British deported Girouards at Grand-Pré and Pigiguit to Connecticut and Pennsylvania and perhaps to Virginia.  Girouards in the Annapolis valley ended up on vessels bound for Massachusetts, South Carolina, and New York.  However, like their kinsmen at Chignecto and Minas, most of the Girouards in the Annapolis valley escaped the British roundup.  After a hard winter on the Fundy shore, they crossed the bay to Chepoudy the following spring and sought refuge among other exiles on the upper Petitcoudiac or on lower Rivière St.-Jean.  From there they moved on to the Gulf of St. Lawrence or followed the St.-Jean portage to Canada.  Between the summer of 1757 and the spring of 1758, a smallpox epidemic struck the refugees in and around Québec.  Girouards from Chignecto, Minas, Annapolis, and Île Royale were among the many victims. 

Living in territory controlled by France, Girouards on the French Maritime islands escaped the roundups in Nova Scotia in the summer and fall of 1755.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived, however.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats rounded up most of the habitants there and deported them to France.  The Girouards at Malpèque on the northwest coast of Île St.-Jean were among the islanders who escaped the British by crossing Mer Rouge to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Other members of the family were not so lucky.  That summer and fall, the British deported most of the island Acadians to St.-Malo, France.  The crossing devastated entire families.  Island Girouards, who the French called Giroire, did their best to make a life for themselves in the suburbs and villages of the St.-Malo area.  They settled in the suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer; at Pleslin on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo; and across the river at St.-Suliac, St.-Jouan-des-Guérets north of St.-Suliac, Pleudihen-sur-Rance south of St.-Suliac, and at St.-Colomb in the countryside northeast of St.-Malo.  By the early 1770s, French authorities were weary of providing for the exiles languishing in the port cities.  An influentail nobleman offered to settle them on land he owned in the interior of Poitou near the city of Châtellerault.  Hundreds of Acadians went there in 1773 and 1774, Girouards among them, and did their best to become productive farmers again.  In late 1775 and the following March, after two years of effort, the Girouards retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes, where they subsisted as best they could on government handouts or what work they could find.  When in the early 1780s the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, a dozen Acadian Girouards, now calling themselves Giroir--most of the family still in the mother country--agreed to take it. 

In North America, the Acadians who had escaped the British in the late 1750s and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore were quickly caught up in the lingering war between the imperial rivals.  After the fall of Québec in September 1759, the British gathered their forces in the region to attack the remaining French strongholds in New France.  In late June 1760, a British naval force from Louisbourg attacked Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, now a major Acadian refuge.  After a spirited fight in which Acadian militia and Mi'kmaq warriors played an important role, the French commander blew up his larger vessels and  retreated up Rivière Restigouche, leaving the militia and the Indians to oppose a British landing.  Unable to capture the garrison or lay waste to the area, the British commander ordered his ships to return to their base at Louisbourg.  In October, after the fall of Montréal, another British naval force, this one from Québec, appeared at Restigouche to accept the garrison's, and the Acadians', surrender.  On 24 October 1760, on the eve of formal surrender, French officers counted 1,003 Acadians still at Restigouche, a Girouard family among them.  The British held them and other members of the family captured or surrendered in the area in prison compounds in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Girouards were held at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, near their former homesteads; at Fort Cumberland, formerly French Fort Beauséjour, Chignecto, near their old homesteads there; and at Halifax.  

At war's end, Acadians being held in the seaboard colonies, theoretically, were free to go, but not until the British discerned their intentions.  Even then, colonial officials discouraged repatriation.  In Massachusetts in August 1763, a Girouard family appeared on a French repatriation list circulating in that colony.  Other repatriation lists revealed that Girouards were still in Connecitcut that year, and a Girouard family was still in New York.  A Girouard wife with her family appeared on a listing in Pennsylvania in June 1763.  In South Carolina in August 1763, a Girouard widow and her family, a small Girouard family, five Girouard wives, and two Girouard orphans appeared on repatriation lists in that colony.

Most of the Acadians exiled to New England, including Girouards, chose to resettle in Canada, where dozens of their kinsmen had gone as early as 1756.  Though now also a British possession, the far-northern province was populated largely by fellow French Catholics, many of them Acadian exiles.  So, in a colony nearly as old as Acadia, descendants of François Girouard dit La Varanne of La Chausée and Port-Royal began the slow, inexorable process of becoming Canadiennes.  Especially after 1766, Girouards could be found on the upper St. Lawrence and lower Richelieu at Bécancour, Deschaillons, Deschambault, Gentilly, L'Assomption, Yamachiche, St.-Jacques de l'Achigan, Présentation, Repentigny, St.-Ours, St.-Antoine-de-Chambly, St.-Denis-sur-Richelieu, St.-Hyacinthe, and Ste.-Croix-de-Lotbinière; on the lower St. Lawrence at Beaumont, St.-Charles de Bellechasse, St.-Pierre-du-Sud, Cap-St.-Ignace, and L'Islet; and at Carleton in Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs.  In what became New Brunswick, they settled at Bouctouche and Richibouctou on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, and on lower Rivière St.-Jean.  In Nova Scotia, they could be found at Halifax; Windsor, formerly Pigiguit; Tracadie on the North Shore; and Pointe-de-l'Église, now Church Point, on Baie Ste.-Marie, today's St. Mary's Bay, on the southern shore.  Typical of most, if not all, Acadian families, these Acadiennes of Canada lost touch with their Cadien cousins hundreds of miles away, and, until the Acadian reunions of the twentieth century, may even have forgotten the others existed.  

While the end-of-war treaty was being negotiated, French authorities encouraged exiles in the British seaboard colonies to go to St.-Dominique.  Although driven from North America by the Seven Years' War, the French were determined to hang on to what was left of their shrinking colonial empire.  A new naval base at Môle St.-Nicolas on the northwest end of the big island would protect the approaches to what was left of their possessions in the Caribbean basin and assist in the "war of vengeance" to come.  French officials saw the exiles as a ready source of labor not only for the naval contractors, but also for the island's major planters, who hoped to supplement the work of their slaves.  To sweeten the offer, the French promised the Acadians land of their own if they came to the sugar island.  And so hundreds of exiles, including Girouards from Connecticut and South Carolina, came to St.-Domingue in 1763 and 1764.  Members of the family were sent not only to the naval base, but also to Mirebalais in the interior near Port-au-Prince to work on indigo and coffee plantations.  When in the mid- and late 1760s exiles from Halifax and Maryland, including Girouards, came through Cap-Français on the island's north shore on their way to New Orleans, none of the many Girouards still in St.-Domingue chose to join them.  Acadian Girouards also ventured to another part of the French Antilles.  In the 1770s, they could be found at Champflore, St.-Pierre, and Front-Royal on Martinique.

Girouards being held in Nova Scotia at war's end faced a hard dilemma.  The Treaty of Paris of February 1763 stipulated in its Article IV that persons dispersed by the war had 18 months to return to their respective territories.  However, British authorities refused to allow any of the Acadian prisoners in the region to return to their former lands as proprietors.  If Acadians chose to remain in, or return to, Nova Scotia, they could live only in small family groups in previously unsettled areas or work for low wages on former Acadian lands now owned by New-English "planters."  If they stayed, they must also take the hated oath of allegiance to the new British king, George III, without reservation.  They would also have to take the oath if they joined their many cousins in Canada and other parts of greater Acadia.  After all they had suffered on the question of the oath, no self-respecting Acadian would consent to take it if it could be avoided.  Some Nova Scotia exiles chose to relocate to Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  Others considered going to French St.-Domingue, where Acadians in the seaboard colonies, including many Girouards, were going, or to the Illinois country, the west bank of which still belonged to France, or to lower Louisiana, which, thanks to British control of Canada, was the only route possible to the Illinois country for Acadian exiles.  Whatever their choice, many refused to remain under British rule.  So they gathered up their money and their few possessions and prepared to leave their homeland.  Of the 600 exiles who left Halifax in late 1764 and early 1765 bound for Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, five were Girouards

Girouards settled early in Acadia and some of them were among earliest Acadians to find refuge in Louisiana.  Two of them came to the colony in February 1765 with the Broussards from Halifax via Cap-Français.  One of them married at New Orleans before following the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche that spring, but he fell victim to an epidemic that killed dozens of his fellow Teche valley Acadians that summer and fall.  His cousin Marie, married to an Acadian Bourgeois, survived the epidemic and fled to the river.  The only member of the family who remained on the western prairies was Marie-Madeleine Girouard, married to a Comeau, who had come to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765 and had followed her husband to the Opelousas District, north of Attakapas.  Meanwhile, two more Girouards came to New Orleans from Halifax that year and settled at Cabahannocer on the river above the city.  One of them, who had come to Louisiana as a teenaged orphan, married at Cabahannocer but did not remain.  In the early 1780s, he took his wife and children to the Attakapas District and started a western branch of the family.  

If the Spanish government had not coaxed over 1,500 Acadians in France to emigrate to Spanish Louisiana, the Girouard family would be a small one in the Bayou State today.  In 1785, three families came to the colony, but only one of them had sons.  Spelling his surname Giroir, one of the family heads took his six children to upper Bayou Lafourche, where two of his three sons created vigorous lines and a new center of family settlement.  During the early antebellum period, the Bayou Lafourche valley, including the Terrebonne country, became the largest center of Girouard/Giroir family settlement in South Louisiana.  During and after the War of 1861-65, some of the Lafourche valley Giroirs moved to present-day Morgan City and Berwick on the lower Atchafayala, or to lower Bayou Teche, but most of them remained in Assumption Parish on the upper Lafourche.  No Girouard/Giroir lines arose on the river during the antebellum period.  

Judging by the number of slaves they owned during the late antebellum period, some of the Girouard/Giroirs lived comfortably on their farms, vacheries, and plantations on the prairies and along Bayou Lafourche.  In 1850, a Giroir in Assumption Parish owned 10 slaves.  A decade later, he held 29 slaves on his plantation along Bayou Boeuf.  His youngest son owned five slaves in 1850 and eight a decade later.  Their cousins on the western prairies fared just as well.  In 1850, a Girouard held 21 slaves on his plantation in the western district of Lafayette Parish.  Two of his sons held four slaves each.  In the same year, a Girouard brother owned 11 slaves, his nephew owned five slaves in Lafayette's western district, and another nephew held seven slaves in St. Martin Parish.  A decade later, a federal census taker counted 10 slaves on the farm of one of the nephews.  The number of bondsmen held by a cousin in Lafayette Parish had increased from five to 11.  

Dozens of Girouard/Giroirs served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65, and at least three of them died in Confederate service. ...

In Louisiana, east of the Atchafalaya Basin, the surname is usually spelled Giroir, which was closer to Giroire, the spelling favored in France.  West of the Basin, the family tends to use the original Acadian spelling, Girouard.  That they are all descendants of François Girouard dit La Varanne is clearly seen in the church and civil records of Acadia, France, and Louisiana.  In the Bayou State, the family's name also is spelled Geraunard, Geronnard, Gerouard, Geruar, Giraurd, Giroard, Giroird, Giroiard, Giroüar, Girouerd, Girroir, Giruard.  A Giraud family lived at Plaisance, Newfoundland, and a Girard family lived on Île St.-Jean before Le Grand Dérangement.  Some of the Girards of Île St.-Jean ended up in France, but, unlike the descendants of François Girouard, none of them emigrated to Louisiana.  Nor should the Girouard/Giroirs be confused with the Gerard, Geraud, Geron, Girard, Girau, Giraud, Girault, Giraut, Gireau, Giro, Girod, Giron, Girot, Giroud, Girout, and Giroux families of South Louisiana--not Acadian but French Creoles, Swiss Protestants, and Foreign French who settled at New Orleans, Pointe Coupée, Avoyelles, and in predominantly Acadian communities, including Attakapas and Assumption, in the colonial and antebellum periods.22

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The first members of the family to reach Louisiana--a middle-aged bachelor and a wife--arrived at New Orleans from Halifax via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, in late February 1765 with the Broussards.  No Girouard family line came of it: 

Joseph (1729-1765) à Jacques dit Jacob à François Girouard

Joseph, fourth and youngest son of Jacques Girouard, fils and his second wife Jeanne Amireau, born at Annapolis Royal in December 1729, evidently escaped the British in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  By the late 1750s or early 1760s, he either surrendered to, or was captured by, British forces in the region and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  In 1764-65, still a bachelor, he followed the Broussards from Halifax to New Orleans.  At age 35, at New Orleans, he married Ursule, daughter of fellow Acadians René Trahan and Élisabeth Darois and widow of Joseph-Grégoire Broussard, in April 1765--one of the earliest Acadian marriages in the colony.  They followed the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche soon after their marriage.  Both of them died there in late October 1765, victims of a mysterious epidemic that struck the Tech valley Acadians that summer and fall.  Joseph fathered no children, so his line of the family died with him. 

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Three more members of the family--two wives and a teenaged orphan--reached New Orleans from Halifax via Cap-Français later in 1765.  One of them followed her husband to the Opelousas District, but the other two settled at the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  A Girouard famliy line came of it, but not at Cabahannocer: 

Firmin dit La Prade (c1749-1820) à Pierre à Jacques dit Jacob à François Girouard

Firmin dit La Prade, second son of Louis dit Paul Girouard and Marie Thibodeau, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1749, followed his family to Malpèque, Île St.-Jean, where a French official counted them in February 1752.  In 1758, they escaped the British roundup on the island, crossed Mer Rouge, and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  In the early 1760s, they either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia.  Firmin, in his early teens, appeared on a French repatriation list at Halifax in August 1763.  He was the only member of his immediate family to go to Louisiana.  He arrived at New Orleans in 1765 from Halifax via Cap-Français and settled at Cabahannocer, where, in his early 20s, he married Marguerite, 20-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Cormier, père and Madeleine Richard of Chignecto, in January 1771.  Madeleine and her family had come to the colony in February 1764, among the first Acadian exiles to settle in Louisiana.  The couple were still living on the east bank of the river at Cabahannocer in January 1777.  In the early 1780s, they crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to the Attakpas District and settled at Côte Gélée on the prairie between Bayou Teche and the lower Vermilion, where Firmin established a western branch of the family.  His and Marguerite's children, born on the river and the prairies, included Simon-Joseph, also called Simon dit La Prade and Simonet, baptized at Cabahannocer, age unrecorded, in December 1771; Jacques baptized, age unrecorded, in October 1773; Pierre dit Peleau baptized, age unrecorded, in July 1776; Joseph baptized, age unrecorded, in December 1778; Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, baptized, age unrecorded, at Cabahannocer in April 1781; Scholastique born probably at Côte Gélée in January 1783; Félicité or Félice "in early May 1785"; Anastasie in May 1787; Marguerite in September 1789; and Jean-Baptiste, called Baptiste, in August 1792--10 children, five sons and five daughters, between 1771 and 1792.  Firmin died "at his home at La Côte Gelée," then in St. Martin but now in Lafayette Parish, in July 1820, age 72.  His first succession, naming his wife, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse, St. Martin Parish, the following September; his second succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in March 1827, probably after the death of his wife, whose succession, which named her husband, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in May 1826.  Daughters Marie Madeleine, Félice, Marguerite, Scholastique, and Anastasie married into the Breaux, Thibodeaux, Bernard, Landry, and Granger families.  All five of Firmin's sons married and settled on the prairies, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Simon-Joseph, also called Simon dit La Prade and Simonet, married Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Sylvain Broussard and Félicité Guilbeau, at Attakapas in February 1796.  They settled at Côte Gelée.  Their children, born there, included Adélaïde in August 1797; Simon-Onésime, called Onésime, in May 1799; Marie-Céleste in March 1801; Sylvain, also called Sylvestre-Valmond, in March 1803; Scholastique in October 1805; Zénon in January 1808 but died "at his mother's home," age 17, in November 1825; another Sylvain born in June 1810 but died at age 2 1/2 in February 1813; Sylvanie born in March 1812 but died at age 10 1/2 in September 1822; and Josette born in February 1814--nine children, four sons and five daughters, between 1797 and 1814.  Simon died "at his home" at Côte Gelée in February 1819.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Simon was "about 45 yrs." when he died.  He was closer to 47.  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse, St. Martin Parish, in October 1820.   Daughters Angélique, Marie Céleste, Scholastique, and Josette married into the Landry, Bernard, La Fosse de St. Julien, Broussard, and Thibodeaux families.  Simon Joseph's remaining sons married, but neither of their lines seems to have endured. 

Oldest son Simon Onésime, called Onésime, married Adeline, daughter of Joseph Derouen and his Acadian wife Marie Solange Prejean, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in March 1826.  In November 1850, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted seven slaves--five males and two females, all black, ranging in age from 33 to 1--on Onézime Giroire's farm next to Aurelien Derouen.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted 10 slaves--six males and four females, seven blacks and three mulattoes, ages 49 to 2--on I. O. Girroir's farm; this was probably Onésime.  Simon Onésime's succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse, St. Martin Parish, in January 1866.  He would have been age 67 that year.  He and his wife may have been that rare Cajun couple who had no children. 

Simon Joseph's second son Sylvestre Valmond married Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Fabien Landry and Beatrice Granger, at the Vermilionville church in December 1828.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Louise baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in April 1830; Sylvestre Théodule baptized at age 4 months in October 1831; and Adélaïde born in September 1833--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1830 and 1833.  In October 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted five slaves--two males and three females, all black, ranging in age from 30 to 7--on Sylvestre Girouard's farm in the parish's western district.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted 11 slaves--five males and six females, all black, ages 65 years to 2 months, living in three houses--on Lilvestre Giroid's farm; this probably was Sylvestre.  Daughters Louise and Adélaïde married into the Vasseur or Valleau, Teller, and Boulet families.  Did Syvlestre's son marry?  If he did, it was not by 1870. 

Firmin's second son Jacques married Angélique-Julie, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Broussard and Marguerite Blanchard, at Attakapas in January 1798.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Angélique-Julie in July 1799; and Anne in January 1801.  Jacques died probably at Côte Gelée in September 1801, age 28.  Daughters Angélique and Anne married Broussard cousins.  Jacques and his wife had no sons, so, except for its blood, this line of the family would have died with him.  

Firmin's third son Pierre dit Peleau married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Thibodeaux and Anne Brun and widow of Simon Broussard, fils, at Attakapas in August 1803.  They settled at Côte Gelée.  Their children, born there, included Simon le jeune in August 1804 but died "at his father's home at La Côte Gelée," age 20, in March 1824; Jean, also called JeanValmont and Valmont, born in April 1806; Pierre, fils in April 1808; Joseph le jeune in 1809 or 1810; Maximilien in November 1811; Hilaire in September 1813 but died at age 16 in July 1830; Claire dite Clarisse born in March 1815 but died at age 8 1/2 in August 1823; Adélaïde Aglaé born in November 1816; Madeleine Élina, called Élina, in February 1821 but died the following November; and a daughter, name unrecorded, died at age 1 month in June 1823--10 children, six sons and four daughters, between 1804 and 1823.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted 21 slaves--11 males and 10 females, all black except for one mulatto, ranging in age from 40 years to 3 months--on Pierre Girouard Sr.'s plantation in the parish's western district, next to the farm of J. D. Girouard, who held a single slave--a 20-year-old black male--and near the farms of Maxn Girouard and Pierre Girouard Jr.  A succession for wife Magdalen, as the parish clerk called her, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in April 1853.  Pierre dit Peleau did not remarry.  He died in Lafayette Parish in September 1869.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Pierre died "at age 92 yrs."  His succession, calling him Pierre Sr., was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in December.  Remaining daughter Adélaïde Aglaé married into the Broussard and Mire families.  Four of Pierre dit Peleau's sons also married and settled on the prairies, but not all of the lines endured. 

Second son Jean Valmont married Caroline, daughter of Jean Teller or Taylor and his Acadian wife Marguerite Broussard, at the Vermilionville church in May 1833.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Eve in May 1835; Donatille in May 1837 but died at age 3 1/2 (the recording priest said 5) in August 1840; Odile baptized at age 2 months in March 1839; Paul Napoléon, called Napoléon, born in September 1840; and Marguerite in May 1843--five children, four daughters and a son, between 1835 and 1843.  Jean Valmont's succession, probably posst-mortem, naming his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in October 1846.  He would have been age 40 that year.  Daughters ... married into the Broussard, Clément, and Girouard families.  Jean Valmont's son also married and settled on the prairies.

Only son Napoléon married cousin Susanne, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Osémé Melançon and Mélite Broussard, at the Vermilionville church in September 1859.  Their son Jean Vilmond was born near Youngsville in July 1860 but, called Jean Villemont, died at age 5 in October 1865; ... 

Peleau's third son Pierre, fils married Marie Adeline, called Adeline, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Melançon and Suzette Landry, at the Vermilionville church in April 1830.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Marie Oculi baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in May 1831; Adélaïde Ezilda born in July 1832; Dupré in August 1834; Élina in late 1836 and baptized at age 4 1/2 months in April 1837; Joseph baptized at age 2 months in March 1839; Adolphe born in January 1841; Norbert in August 1843; Léons or Léonce in March 1850; and Léonard in July 1852--nine children, three daughters and six sons, between 1831 and 1852.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted four slaves--two males and two females, all black, ranging in age from 40 to 4--on Pierre Girouard Jr.'s farm in the parish's western district between Maxn Girouard and Jean Melançon and near Pierre Girouard Sr. and J. D. Girouard.  Pierre's succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in January 1868.  He would have been age 60 that year.  Daughters ... married into the Boulet, Leger, and Meaux families by 1870.  All of Pierre, fils's older sons fought for Louisiana and the Southern Confederacy, survived the war, returned to their families, and married by 1870. 

Oldest son Dupré married Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Émilien Prejean and Mélasie Landry, at the Vermilionville church in October 1859.  They settled near Youngsville.  Their children, born there, included Marie in September  1860; Idea in April 1863; ... During the War of 1861-65, Dupré served in Company G of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafourche Parish, which fought in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana.  He also served in Company G of the Consolidated 18th Regiment and Yellow Jackets Battalion Louisiana Infantry, which fought in Louisiana. 

Pierre, fils's second son Joseph married first cousin Anaïs, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Valmont Girouard and his Creole wife Caroline Teller or Taylor, his uncle and aunt, at the Youngsville church, Lafayette Parish, in January 1861.  Their son Napoléon le jeune was born near Youngsville in February 1865; ...  During the war, Joseph served in Company G of the 7th Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, raised in the prairie parishes, which fought in Louisiana later in the war, especially against local Jayhawkers. 

During the war, Pierre, fils's third son Adolphe served in Company F of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafayette Parish, which fought in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana.  He was wounded in action at Shiloh, Tennessee, in April 1862 but did not fall into the hands of the enemy.  He was still on sick furlough in August, when his regiment was stationed in southern Alabama.  He followed his unit back to Louisiana that fall and was captured at the Battle of Labadieville in Assumption Parish in October 1862.  Although the Federals released most of the Confederates they captured in the Lafourche campaign, they held on to Adolphe.  He was not paroled and exchanged until the spring of 1863, after his regiment had spent the winter on the lower Teche and then retreated before an overwhelming Federal force to Opelousas.  In June, after his regiment had returned to the lower Teche, Adolphe was reported sick at the hospital in New Iberia.  He probably was discharged from the company soon afterwards and headed home, but his Confederate service was not yet over.  Adolphe enlisted in Company G of the 7th Regiment Louisiana Cavalry with older brother Joseph.  The regiment was especially successful in fighting local Jayhawkers during the last year of the war.  Adolphe married Clémentine, daughter of fellow Acadian Clément Broussard and his Creole wife Elizabeth Rowan, at the Youngsville church in January 1870. ...

During the war, Pierre, fils's fourth son Norbert served in Company E of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafayette Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  Norbert married fellow Acadian Azélima Boudreaux either during or most likely after the war, place unrecorded, and settled near Youngsville. 

Peleau's fourth son Joseph le jeune may have married Lize or Lise Begnaud, widow of Henry Landry, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in January 1837.  Joseph le jeune's first succession, calling his wife Lise Begueneau, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in December 1865.  He would have been age 55 that year.  A second succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse, St. Martin Parish, in February 1866, so he must have owned property in that parish as well.  Did he and his wife have children?

Peleau's fifth son Maximilien married Ermézille, Carmézille, Carmegille, Carmésile, Carmélite, or Mélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Nicolas Amand Broussard and Adélaïde Broussard, at the Vermilionville church in February 1833.  Their children, born at Côte Gelée, included Caliste, a son, in August 1833 but died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 2) in June 1835; Jean le jeune baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 3 months, in September 1835; Réministère dite Rémise baptized at age 2 months in April 1837; Aima born in February 1839; Amélie in February 1842; Terence born in the late 1830 or early 1840s; Joseph Martial, called Martial, in July 1844; Jules in July 1846; Eugénie in December 1848; Louis in July 1851 but died at age 19 in October 1870; Martin born in November 1854; Nicolas in April 1857; Théodore in November 1859; ... In August 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted four slaves--two males and two females, all black, ranging in age from 30 to 4--on Maxn Girouard's farm in the parish's western district next to Pierre Girouard Jr. and near Pierre Girouard Sr. and J. D. Girouard.  Maximilien's succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in April 1870.  He would have been age 59 that year.  His daughters married into the Broussard and Landry families by 1870.  Three of his sons also married by then, and two of them served Louisiana and the Southern Confederacy in uniform. 

Third son Terence married Adonatille, daughter of fellow Acadians Clet Landry and Adélaïde Landry, at the Vermilionville church in December 1854.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Joseph in July 1856; Ambroise in December 1858; Hilaire near Youngsville in January 1861; Jean in January 1863; Aurore in January 1865; Nicholas in February 1867; Auzaire in St. Martin Parish in January 1869; ... 

During the war, Maximilien's fourth son Joseph Martial, called Martial, served in Company F of the Yellow Jackets Battalion Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Martin Parish, which fought in Louisiana.  He was captured on Bayou Teche in April 1863 during the first Federal invasion of southwest Louisiana.  After the Yellow Jackets Battalion was consolidated with another Louisiana infantry unit in late 1863, Martial served in the 7th Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, raised on the western prairies, which fought in Louisiana, especially against local Jayhawkers.  He survived the war, returned to his family, and married mulatresse Céleste, daughter of persons of color Martin Aubry III and Joséphine Dumartrait of Bayou Tortue, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in May 1870. ...

During the war, Maximilien's fifth son Jules served in Company G of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafourche Parish, which fought in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana.  Though a resident of Lafayette Parish, he enlisted in the Lafourche company in October 1861 and followed it to Tennessee that winter.  His enlistment in a company that was raised a distance from his home probably had something to do with his age; he was only 15 at the time of his enlistment!  Still not yet 16, he was wounded and captured in the Battle of Shiloh in April 1862.  The Federals sent him to a hospital at St. Louis, Missouri, and then to the prison hospital at Camp Douglas, Illinois.  The Federals discharged him from the hospital in June and held him in confinement until his release late that summer.  He returned to his company, stationed in southern Alabama, and followed it to Louisiana later that fall.  After November 1863, he served in Company F of the Consolidated 18th Regiment and Yellow Jackets Battalion Louisiana Infantry, which fought in Louisiana.  He survived the war, returned to his family, and married Louise or Louisa, also called Odile, another daughter of Clet Landry and Adélaïde Landry, at the Youngsville church in November 1866.  Their son Horace was born in St. Martin Parish in January 1869; ... 

Firmin's fourth son Joseph, in his early 20s, married Marie-Anne, called Anne dite Annette, 26-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Landry and Élisabeth Dugas, at Attakapas in May 1801.  Anne, a native of Châtellerault in Poitou, had come to Louisiana from France in 1785.  She and Joseph settled in what became St. Martin and Lafayette parishes.  Either his or her will, calling her Anne, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in April 1813.  Another succession, calling her Annette, not post-mortem, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in March 1830.  She died in Lafayette Parish in October 1835, age 60 (the recording priest, who called her Marie Anette, said she was age 50).  Her post-mortem succession, calling her Anne, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in May 1837.  Joseph did not remarry.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted 11 slaves--four males and seven females, all black, ranging in age from 45 to 3--on Joseph Girouard's farm in the parish's western district.  Joseph died in Lafayette Parish in September 1863, age 84 (the recording priest at the Vermilionville church said 86).  He and his wife may have been that rare Acadian couple who had no children. 

Firmin's fifth and youngest son Jean Baptiste, called Baptiste, married Joséphine, daughter of Joseph Derouen and his Acadian wife Marie Solange Prejean of Petite Anse, at the St. Martinville church in October 1817.  They settled near her family at Petite Anse, near today's Avery Island, south of Côte Gelée, in a corner of what became Lafayette Parish.  Their son Jean Baptiste Treville was born there in July 1818 but died at age 4 1/2 in October 1822.  Baptiste remarried to Julie Lucinde, daughter of Étienne Vallot and Elizabeth Smith, place unrecorded, in the early 1820s.  They settled on Bayou Tortue in Lafayette Parish south of the present city.  Their children, born there, included Anne in the early 1820s; Aimée Zoé in December 1823 but died at age 8 or 9 days; Marguerite Azéma born in May 1825 but, called Azéma, died at age 17 in September 1842; Joseph Amédée, called Amédée, born in December 1827; a child, name unrecorded, privately baptized, died at age 9 days in June 1830; Dominique baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 8 months, in August 1835; and Paul Numa born in October 1840--eight children, at least four sons and three daughters, by two wives, between 1818 and 1840.  A succession for wife Julie, probably post-mortem, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in March 1852.  Jean Baptiste died in Lafayette Parish in January 1855.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Jean Baptiste was age 60 when he died.  He was 62.  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following April.  Daughter Anne, by his second wife, married into the Hust family by 1870.  Two of Jean Baptiste's sons also married by then, but not all of the lines endured. 

Second son Joseph Amédée, called Amédée, from second wife Julie Vallot, married Élodie, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Isidore Broussard and Marcellite Broussard, at the St. Martinville church in October 1849.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Étienne in August 1850; Jean Baptiste Alexandre in August 1852; and Joseph Amédée, fils posthumously in February 1854--three children, all sons, between 1850 and 1854.  Amédée, père died in Lafayette Parish in September 1853.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said that Amédée was age 28 when he died.  He was 25.  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in March 1854.  None of his sons married by 1870. 

Baptiste's third son Dominique, by second wife Julie Vallot, married, at age 16, cousin Eusèïde, daughter of Nicolas Vallot and Marguerite Domingues, at the Vermilionville church in November 1851.  Daughter Marie Azéma was born in Lafayette Parish in May 1854.  Dominique died in Lafayette Parish in July 1854, age 19.  His succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in May 1856.  His daughter did not marry by 1870. 

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A dozen more Girouards came to Louisiana in 1785 aboard three of the Seven Ships from France.  The first of them, a large family, crossed on La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in mid-August.  They followed their fellow passenges to upper Bayou Lafourche, where another large line of the family emerged: 

Prosper-Honoré (c1744-?) à Pierre à Jacques dit Jacob à François Girouard/Giroir

Prosper-Honoré, oldest son of Honoré Girouard and Marie-Josèphe Thériot and first cousin of Firmin dit La Prade of Attakapas, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1744, followed his family to the French Maritimes after 1752.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  They settled at the villages of Pleslin and St.-Suliac on both sides of the river south of the Breton port.  Prosper married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Dugas and Marie Boudrot, at St.-Coulomb northeast of St.-Malo in February 1764.  Marie gave Prosper six children in the area:  Marie-Paule born at St.-Coulomb in January 1765; Anne-Josèphe in June 1766; Joseph-Magloire in January 1768 but died at nearby St.-Jouan des Guérets at age 4 1/2 in September 1772; Jean-Baptiste born in December 1769; Jeanne-Eléonore at St.-Jouan in August 1771; and François in c1772 or 1773.  Prosper took his family to the interior of Poitou in 1773.  Marie gave him another daughter, Marie, born at Leigné-les-Bois southeast of Châtellerault in December 1774, but she died the day after her birth.  In November 1775, after two years of effort, Prosper, Marie, and their six children retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes.  Marie gave him two more sons in St.-Similien Parish there:  Joseph-Magloire born in January 1777 but died at age 6 1/2 in December 1783; and Pierre born in October 1778--nine children, four daughters and four sons, between 1765 and 1778.  Prosper, Marie, and their six remaining children, three daughters and three sons, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where they tended to spell their surname Giroir, reflecting their time in France.  Prosper and Marie had no more children in the colony.  Daughters Anne-Josèphe, Marie-Paule, and Jeanne-Eléonore married into the Guillot, Landry, and Blanchard families on the upper Lafourche.  Two of Prosper's sons who came to Louisiana also married and settled on Bayou Lafourche. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Isabelle, or Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians François-Sébastien Landry and his first wife Marguerite LeBlanc of San Gabriel, in February 1790.  Isabelle was born in either Maryland or San Gabriel, her parents having come to Louisiana from Maryland in 1767.  She and Jean Baptiste settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between what became Ascension and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie-Françoise in March 1791; Marie-Rose in May 1792; a son, name and birth date unrecorded, died an "infant" in June 1793; Françoise-Hélène born in August 1794; Éloise- or Louise-Ursule-Isabelle or -Élisabeth in October 1795; Rosalie-Isabelle baptized, age unrecorded, in April 1797; Jean-Baptiste, fils born in March 1799; François-Apollinaire, called Apollinaire, in November 1800; Fabien-Lucas, called Lucas, in February 1802 but died at age 3 in October 1805; Delphine-Dionese or -Denise born in May 1803; Joseph Damas or Damas Joseph, called Damas, in December 1804; Lucas died at age 3 months in October 1805[sic]; Constance Françoise born in April 1806; Étienne in August 1807; Mélanie in April 1809 but died at age 5 1/2 in September 1814; Carmélite Ovidia or Ovide, called Ovide, born in August 1810; and Marguerite Adélaïde in January 1812--17 children, 10 daughters and seven sons, between 1791 and 1812.  Jean Baptiste, père died in Assumption Parish in September 1818, age 49.  Daughters Marie, Françoise Hélène, Delphine Denise, Louise Ursule Élisabeth, Rosalie Isabelle, Ovide, and Marguerite married into the Montet, Landry, Daigle, Simoneaux, and Dupuis families, three of them to Landry cousins, two of them brothers.  Four of Jean Baptiste's sons also married and settled in Assumption Parish.  In the 1860s, two of his grandsons moved to the Brashear, today's Morgan, City area on the lower Atchafalaya.  

Second son Jean-Baptiste, fils married Rosalie Victoire, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Olivier Bourg and Marie Rose Livois, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1821.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Adeline Adélaïde in December 1821; and Marie Angéline in August 1824 but died in October.  Jean Baptiste, fils remarried to Azélie Eulalie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Joseph Boudreaux and his Creole wife Marie Venerent Montet, at the Plattenville church in June 1836.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included a newborn infant, name unrecorded, died in September 1840; Joseph Alexandre born in March 1841; Joseph Eugène in December 1842; Eulice, perhaps Ulysse, Edmond in November 1843; Marie Élisabeth Yrénée in June 1848; and Marie Malvine in October 1850--eight children, at least four daughters and three sons, by two wives, between 1821 and 1850.  Jean Baptiste, fils died in Assumption Parish in December 1865, age 66.  Daughter Adeline Adélaïde, from his first wife, married into the Boudreaux family by 1870.  One of Jean Baptiste, fils's sons also married by then.

Third and youngest son Eulic Edmond, by second wife Azélie Eulalie Boudreaux, may have married fellow Acadian Anaïse or Athanaise Templet, place and date unrecorded.  Their son Joseph Augustin was born near Brashear, now Morgan, City in February 1868; ... 

Jean-Baptiste, père's third son François Apollinaire, called Apollinaire, married Marie Théotiste, called Théotiste, daughter of fellow Acadians Fabien Aucoin and Susanne Darois, at the Plattenville church in September 1820.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Félicité Adèle in July 1821 but died at age 3 in September 1824; another Félicité born in c1823 but died at age 1 in September 1824; Apollinaire Zéphirin, called Zéphirin, born in June 1825; Malvine Carmélite, called Carmélite, in July 1827 but died at age 2 1/2 in November 1829; Irma Clothide or Clothilde Irina born in October 1829; Joseph Jean Baptiste in March 1832; Louisa Thérèsine in c1834 but died at age 4 in September 1838; Lucie Mélanie born in December 1836; Marie Séverine in February 1839; Julien in June 1842; and Marie Aurelie, called Aurelie, April 1845--11 children, eight daughters and three sons, between 1821 and 1845.  In September 1850, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted 12 slaves--six males and six females, all black, ranging in age from 40 years to 2 months--on Appolinaire Giroir's farm in the parish's Second Congressional District.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted 29 slaves--20 males and nine females, all black except for three mulattoes, ages 60 years to 6 months, living in four houses--on Appolinaire Giroir's plantation in the parish's 14th Ward along Bayou Boeuf next to Zéphirin Giroir.  Daughters Clothilde Irina, Lucie, and Aurelie married into the Joret, Comeaux, and Giroir families by 1870.  One of Apollinaire's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Zéphirin married Armélise or Amélise, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Landry dit Petit René and his second wife German Creole Euphrosine Malbrough, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in April 1850.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche and the lower Atchafalaya, included Justinien Elphége in January 1851; Cordilia in August 1852; Marie Sophie Camilla in March 1854; Étienne near Brashear, now Morgan, City, in August 1864; Elphége Aristide in August 1869; ...  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted one slave--a 30-year-old black female--on Zéphirin Giroir's farm in the parish's 14th Ward along Bayou Boeuf next to Appolinaire Giroir.  Daughter ... married a Landry cousin by 1870.  None of Zéphirin's sons married by then. 

Jean Baptiste, père's fifth son Joseph Damas or Damas Joseph, called Damas, married Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Barrilleaux and Élisabeth Landry, at the Plattenville church in January 1834.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Apollinaire Xavier, called Xavier, in March 1836; Julie Carmélite, called Carmélite, in May 1837; Alcibiade Leufroy or Leufroi, called Alcide, in September 1838; Rosalie Antoinette, called Antoinette, in October 1840; Antoine Achille, called Achille, in June 1842; Joséphine Élisabeth, called Élisabeth, in May 1844; and Léonide or Léonise Célima posthumously in February 1846, seven months after her father died--seven children, three sons and four daughters, between 1836 and 1846.  Damas, called Damase by the recording priest, died in Assumption Parish in July 1845, age 40.  Daughters Léonise, Élisabeth, ... married into the Leze, Guillot, and Dupuis families by 1870.  Damas's sons also married by then, one of them after his Confederate service, and settled on the upper Lafourche and the lower Atchafalaya.

Oldest son Xavier married first cousin Marie Aurelie, called Aurelie, daughter of fellow Acadians François Apollinaire Giroir and Théotiste Aucoin, his uncle and aunt, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in December 1863.  Their son Joseph Henri Ernest was born near Brashear, now Morgan, City, St. Mary Parish, in March 1865; ... 

Damas's second son Alcide married Camilla, daughter of fellow Acadians Narcisse Templet and Irène Melançon, at the Plattenville church in May 1861.  Their son Camille was born in Assumption Parish in June 1862 but died there at age 5 1/2 (the recording priest said 6) in November 1867; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Alcide served in Company H of the 2nd Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, raised in Assumption Parish, which fought in Louisiana, and in the Donaldsonville Artillery, raised in Ascension Parish, which fought in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania--one of General R. E. Lee's Louisiana Tigers.  Alcide evidently survived the war and returned to his family. 

Damas's third and youngest son Antoine Achille, called Achille,  married cousin Clémentine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Blanchard and Clarisse Guillot, at the Paincourtville church in February 1869; they had to secure a dispensation for third and fourth degrees of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their son Jean Baptiste Albert, called Albert, was born near Plattenville in April 1870 but died the at age 2 1/2 months (the recording priest said 10 months) the following June; ...

Jean Baptiste, père's sixth and youngest son Étienne married Adèle, Adeline, or Adelina, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Hébert and Élisabeth Mazerolle, at the Plattenville church in February 1830.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Apollinaire Séraphin Marcellin in April 1832 but died at age 1 1/2 (the transcript record at Plattenville said "age 17 yrs." erroneously) in September 1834; Louise born in c1834; Élodie Élisabeth in September 1838; Adolphe Lazare in January 1841; Marie Florestine in December 1843 but, called Florestine, died at age 9 in November 1852; Émile Justin born in August 1846; Françoise Léontia, called Léontia, in June 1849; Étienne Atlas in December 1851 but, called Adélard, died at age 11 months in November 1852; and Marie Octavie born in June 1854--nine children, four sons and five daughters, between 1832 and 1854.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted five slaves--two males and three females, all black, ranging in age from 60 to 1--on Étienne Giroir's farm in the parish's Second Congressional District.  In August 1860, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted eight slaves--three males and five females, all black, ages 20 to 2, living in one house--on Étienne Giroir's farm in the parish's 9th Ward along Bayou Lafourche.  Daughters Louise, Élodie, and Léontia married into the Daigle, Blanchard, and Guillot families by 1870.  None of Étienne's remaining sons married by then. 

Prosper's second son François followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Madeleine-Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste LeBlanc, fils and Andrée Bourgeois, in January 1794.  Madeleine, a native of St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo, France, also had come to Louisiana in 1785 aboard La Bergère.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between what became Ascension and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie-Scholastique, called Scholastique, in December 1794; Jean-Laurent, called Laurent, baptized, age unrecorded, in September 1796; Anne-Léonarde born in May 1798 but, called Eléonore, died at age 70 (the recording priest said "ca. 66 years") in January 1868; Henriette born in April 1800 but died at age 3 in June 1803; Pierre-Alexandre-Maximilien, called Alexandre, baptized, age unrecorded, in September 1802; Jean Baptiste Terence, called Baptiste, born in June 1804; Auguste or Augustin Joseph, in January 1806; Constance Eulalie in January 1809; Émilie Azélie in June 1811 but died at age 9 in August 1820; Hermogène, also called Armogène, born in April 1813; Leufroi in October 1816 but died three days after his birth; and Florentin Martin born in November 1817--a dozen children, five daughters and seven sons, between 1794 and 1817.  François died in Assumption Parish in February 1836.  The Plattenville priest who recorded the burial said that François was age 64 when he died.  Daughters Scholastique and Constance Eulalie married into the Hébert and Guillot families.  Six of François's sons also married.  Most of them remained in Assumption Parish, but one of them moved down to the Bayou Black area of Terrebonne Parish, and a grandson seems to have settled near present-day Morgan City, St. Mary Parish, in the 1860s. 

Oldest son Jean Laurent, called Laurent, married Anne dite Annette, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Hébert and Élisabeth Mazerolle and widow of Joseph Landry, at the Plattenville church in May 1818.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Jean Adolphe, called Adolphe, in December 1818; Mélanie Anne in May 1821; Azéline Augustine in September 1823; Angela Pamela, called Pamela, in February 1826; Trasimond Alexandre in September 1828; Marie dite Nanete Mélasie in March 1831 but, called Marie Anne, died at age 15 1/2 (the recording priest said 16) in November 1846; Marie in c1834; Ursin Eusèbe born in August 1836; and twins Amédé or Amédée Léon and Hélène in April 1839--10 children, four sons and six daughters, including a set of twins, between 1818 and 1839.  Laurent, called Laurante by the recording priest, who gave no parents' names or mentioned a wife, died in Assumption Parish in August 1854, age 58.  Daughters Mélanie, Pamela, and Marie married into the Campo, Aucoin, and Giroir families by 1870.  Laurent's sons also married by then and settled on the upper bayou. 

Oldest son Adolphe married first cousin Angéline, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Hébert and Marie Scholastique Giroir, at the Plattenville church in January 1842; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Olésiphore Octave, called Octave, in October 1842; Ignace in October 1847; and Joseph in June 1856--three chiildren, all sons, between 1842 and 1856.  Adolphe died near Plattenville in April 1870.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Adolphe died at "age 52 years."  He was 51.  One of his sons married by 1870.

Oldest son Octave married Virginie, daughter of fellow Acadians Henri Breaux and Joséphine Duhon, at the Pierre Part church, Assumption Parish, in September 1862.  Their children, born near Pierre Part, included Marie Adea in November 1863; Marie Alsina in December 1866; Henri Clet in October 1869; ... 

Laurent's second son Trasimond Alexandre married Célestine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Godefroi Templet and Carmélite Bourg, at the Plattenville church in February 1852.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Malvina Oculi in June 1853; Marie Adolphine baptized at 2 days old in December 1854 but, called Adollphine perhaps by the same priest who baptized her, died "a few hours old"[sic] a week after her baptism; Aloysius Evello born in January 1856; Célestine Célina in March 1858; Alcé Edmé in May 1860; Aurelia Adelina in May 1862 but, called Orola, died at age 1 1/2 in October 1863; Marie Agnès born in December 1866; Therze Elvina in October 1868; ...  None of Trasimond's children married by 1870. 

Laurent's third son Ursin Eusèbe married double cousin Aimée, daughter of fellow Acadians Édouard Hébert and Eléonore Giroir, at the Plattenville church in September 1857; they had to secure a dispensation for second and third degrees of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Sabin René in December 1858; Evariste Ludger in October 1860; Edgar Robert in April 1862; Laurent Édouard in April 1866; Emma Marie in September 1867; Eugénie Judith in June 1869 but, called Eugénie, died at age 9 months in March 1870; ...  

Laurent's fourth and youngest son Amédée Léon married first cousin Émelie, daughter of fellow Acadians Isidore Guillot and Eulalie Giroir, at the Plattenville church in February 1859; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Joseph died a few hours after his birth in August 1859; a son, name unrecorded, died at birth in November 1860; Ernest Avi born in November 1861; Jean Baptiste Franklin in June 1866; Joseph Cleborne in September 1868; ... 

François's second son Pierre Alexandre Maximilien, called Alexandre, married Anne dite Nanette, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Pierre Moïse and Anne Blanchard, at the Plattenville church in May 1825.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Honoré Alexandre in May 1826; Marie Angéline in January 1828; Théodule Marcel in January 1830; Alexandre Désiré, called Désiré, in February 1833; Martin Louis in March 1837; Jean Baptiste Jules in July 1839; Aimée Désirée, also called Edesie and Desie, in October 1841; and Zenaïde Florestine in July 1844--eight children, five sons and three daughters, between 1826 and 1844.  Alexandre died in Assumption Parish in September 1851, in his early 50s.  Daughter Edesie married into the Arceneaux family by 1870.  One of Alexandre's sons also married by then. 

Third son Désiré married Florestine, daughter of Edoire Tonnellier and his Acadian wife Arthémise Savoie, at the Paincourtville church in January 1858.  Daughter Emma was born in Assumption Parish in November 1858; and a girl, name unrecorded, "Adopted child of Séverin Landry, died "a few months old" in December 1859.  Wife Florestine died in Assumption Parish, age 22, in May 1859.  Désiré remarried to first cousin Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Laurent Giroir and Anne dite Annette Hébert, his uncle and aunt, at the Plattenville church in February 1860; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Rosalie Thesilia in September 1860 but, called Thezilia, died at age 5 1/2 (the recording priest said 6) in May 1866; Manette Hermina born in March 1862; Ernest in c1864 but, called Erneste, died at age 2 in May 1866; Arthur Alexander baptized at the Labadieville church, age unrecorded, in August 1867; Numa Thomas born near Plattenville in December 1869; ...  

François's third son Jean Baptiste Terence, called Baptiste, married Doralise, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Comeaux and Marie Madeleine Blanchard, at the Plattenville church in February 1825.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Euphémie Barbe in November 1825; Terence Hubert in November 1828; Télésphore in September 1830; Ofilia Marie in June 1833; Marie Amelina in May 1836 but, called Marie, may have died at age 14 1/2 (the recording priest said 15) in January 1851; Marie Félices baptized, age unrecorded, in October 1843; and Aristide Hilaire born in September 1846--seven children, four daughters and three sons, between 1825 and 1846.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted nine slaves--four males and five females, all black except for one mulatto, ranging in age from 40 years to 6 months, living in 1 house--on Jn Bte T. Giroir's farm in the parish's 14th Ward along Bayou Louis.  None of Baptiste's daughters seems to have married by 1870, but three of his sons did and settled on the upper Lafouche. 

Oldest son Terence married Arthémise, daughter of Joseph Marie Rousseau and his Acadian wife Eulalie LeBlanc, at the Plattenville church in February 1852.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Alcidie, probably Alcibiades, Lusignan in June 1852; and Joseph Alcide in May 1854.  Terence may have remarried to cousin Séverine Giroir, place and date unrecorded.  Their children, born near Brashear, now Morgan, City, included Joseph Arthur in August 1864; Joseph Théogène in August 1869; ... None of Terence's children married by 1870. 

Baptiste's second son Télésphore married Clarisse, daughter of Hermogène Friou or Frilot and Bertile Evelina Verret, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in September 1867.  They settled on lower Bayou Teche.  Their son Alexandre Henri was born near New Iberia there in March 1870; ... 

Baptiste's third and youngest son Aristide Hilaire may have married cousin Élisabeth Giroir and settled near Brashear City by the late 1860s. ...

François's fourth son Auguste or Augustin Joseph married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Comeaux and his Creole wife Clémence Simoneaux, at the Plattenville church in March 1832.  Later in the decade, Auguste moved his family down bayou to Lafourche Interior Parish and then to Bayou Black in Terrebonne Parish.  Their children, born in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley, included Rosalie Augustine, called Augustine, in Assumption Parish in January 1833; Auguste or Augustin Lucien dit Justin, in February 1834; Rosémond, perhaps also called Firmin, in August 1835; Jean Baptiste in December 1837; Marie Rosa in Lafourche Interior Parish in June 1839; Victorine Irma in March 1843; Coralie in January 1846; Joséphine on Bayou Black in March 1848; and twins Odilia or Odile and Odilia Evelina or Eveline, called Eveline, in October 1850--10 children, seven daughters and three sons, including a set of twins, between 1833 and 1850.  Daughters Augustine, Victorine, Marie, Eveline, and Odilia/Odile married into the Forestier, Trahan, Arceneaux, Doiron, Pitre, and Bergeron families by 1870.  Augustin's sons also married by then and settled in Terrebonne Parish.

Oldest son Augustin Lucien dit Justin married Clémence Hasson or Hatton, place and date unrecorded, but it probably was in Terrebonne Parish.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Firmin le jeune near Theriot, in the coastal marshes, in June 1858; Adolphine Marie Magnolia, perhaps theirs, in c1861 and baptized at the Houma church, age 13, in September 1874; Marie Léa born in July 1862; ... 

Auguste Joseph's second son Firmin, perhaps also called Rosémond, married Uralise, daughter of fellow Acadian Alexandre Hébert and his Creole wife Urseline Lancon, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in June 1858.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Justine Julie in May 1859; Louis Banon in August 1860; Emma Octavie in October 1862; Théodore Edgard in December 1864; Valérie Urseline in January 1869; ...  

Auguste Joseph's third and youngest son Jean Baptiste married Adèle, another daughter of Alexandre Hébert and Urseline Lancon, at the Houma church in February 1859.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Maxile Cyprien in November 1859; Marie Alfrida in January 1861; Telisia Denis in October 1862; and Firmin Arthur in October 1864.  Jean Baptiste remarried to Uranie, daughter of Marcellin Bonvillain and his Acadian wife Émilie Thibodeaux, at the Houma church in February 1870.  Daughter Émilie Alcide was born in Terrebonne Parish in December 1870; ...

François's fifth son Hermogène or Armogène married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Dupuis and Constance Landry, at the Plattenville church in August 1838.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Amélie Philomène in February 1840; Adélaïde Émelia or Amelia, called Amelia, in October 1841; Joseph Alexandre in December 1842; Joseph Lusignan, called Lusignan, in October 1844; Adorestine Marie Lora in September 1846 but died at age 6 (the recording priest said 7) in August 1852; Foride Télésphore born in April 1849; William Cléophas in October 1851 but, called Cléophas, died "at Bruslé," age 9 1/2 (the recording priest said 10), in April 1862; and Hippolyte Octave Joseph born in March 1854--eight children, three daughters and five sons, between 1840 and 1854.  Daughters Amelia, ... married into the LeBlanc and Dugas families by 1870.  Two of Hermogène's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Joseph Alexandre married cousin Hélène, also called Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Aventin Dugas and Séraphine Babin, at the Paincourtville church in January 1864; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Twins Joseph Léonie and Marie Léonida were born near Paincourtville in November 1868; ... 

Hermogène's second son Lusignan married cousin Adea, daughter of fellow Acadians Désiré A. LeBlanc and Dometille Dugas, at the Paincourtville church in January 1867; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Daughter Marie Domitille was baptized, age unrecorded, at the Plattenville church in February 1870; ... 

François's seventh and youngest son Florentin Martin married Marie Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Dupuis and Rosalie Landry, at the Plattenville church in August 1837.  Their children, born in Assumption Parish, included Florentin Désiré in June 1838; Marie Élène in January 1840; Marie Angéline in February 1842; and Rosalie in April 1844--four children, one son and three daughters, between 1838 and 1844.  Florentin Martin died in Assumption Parish in November 1867, age 50.  None of his children married by 1870, at least not in South Louisiana. 

Prosper's third and youngest son Pierre followed his family to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche, where Spanish officials counted him with his family, still a bachelor at age 19, in January 1798.  He survived childhood but evidently never married.  

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Three more Girouards--a childless family and the unmarried sisters of Prosper-Honoré--crossed on L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in early November 1785.  The sisters and their widowed mother followed most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where they settled near their brother/son, and the sisters married into the Hébert and Landry families.  Their cousin and his French wife did not follow his relatives to Bayou Lafourche but settled, instead, in an Isleño community on the river below New Orleans.  No new Girouard family line came of it: 

Charles (c1731-?) à Pierre à Jacques dit Jacob à François Girouard/Giroir

Charles, son of Jacques dit Jacob Girouard le jeune and Marie Boisseau and first cousin of Firmin and Prosper-Honoré, born probably at Minas in c1731, evidently moved on to the French Maritimes after August 1752.  The British deported him to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758 with his paternal aunt Anne Girouard, her Doiron husband, and their large family.  Charles settled in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where he worked as a calker.  At age 30, he married local Frenchwoman Michelle Patru, widow of Pierre Pirou, at St.-Servan in June 1761.  They did not remain.  In September 1784, a Spanish official counted them in the lower Loire port of Nantes, from which they emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Charles and his wife settled at San Bernardo on the river below New Orleans, away from most of his fellow Acadians.  He and his wife evidently had no children.

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Another Girouard--Charles's teenaged niece, who was traveling with her mother and stepfather--came to Louisiana aboard La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans from St.-Malo in early December 1785.  The niece followed her family and most of their fellow passenges to the new Acadian community of Bayou des Écores in the New Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge.  Like most of the Acadians who went there, they did not remain.  After resettling on upper Bayou Lafourche, Geneviève-Charlotte-Marguerite Giroir, the youngest, and perhaps the last, of Amand Giroir's children, married into the Gautrot family. 

Gousman

Jean Gousman, fils of St.-Nicolas, Andalusia, Spain, came to British Nova Scotia by c1755, when he married Acadian Marie Barrieau probably at Annapolis Royal on the eve of deportation.  One wonders how long he had been in the colony, and if he was a sailor. 

Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s complicated the life of this new "Acadian."  The Gousmans eluded the British at Annapolis Royal during the autumn of 1755 and, along with other Acadian refugees, spent a hard winter on the Fundy shore, crossed the bay to Chepoudy the following spring, and headed north to the safety of the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  In January 1760, at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, now a major Acadian refuge, Jean remarried to Rose, daughter of Acadians Jacques dit Jacquot Bonnevie dit Beaumont, fils and his first wife Marguerite Lord of Annapolis Royal and Île St.-Jean, so first wife Marie did not survive the first years of exile.  Late that June, a British naval force from Louisbourg attacked Restigouche.  After a spirited fight in which Acadian militia and Mi'kmaq warriors played an important role, the French commander blew up his larger vessels and retreated up Rivière Restigouche, leaving the militia and the Indians to oppose a British landing.  Unable to capture the garrison or lay waste to the area, the British commander ordered his ships to return to their base at Louisbourg.  In October, after the fall of Montréal, another British naval force, this one from Québec, appeared at Restigouche to accept the garrison's, and the Acadians', surrender.  On 24 October 1760, on the eve of formal surrender, French officers counted 1,003 Acadians still at the outpost, but Jean and his family were not among them.  The British held them and hundreds of other exiles who had surrendered or been captured in the area in prison compounds in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Jean and Rose evidently were held at Halifax, where, according to Bona Arsenault, Rose gave him two children:  Raphaël born in c1762; and Rose Charlotte in c1764. 

After the war, Jean and Rose chose to go to the French-controlled fishery island of Miquelon off the southern coast of Newfoundland, where they could escape British rule.  Rose gave Jean more children on the island, including Gousman born in c1766; and Étienne in c1767.  By 1767, French authorities were concerned that Miquelon and nearby Île St.-Pierre had become overcrowded.  Obeying a royal decree, they coaxed the fisher/habitants, including the Gousmans, to resettle in France.  In late autumn of 1767, Jean, Rose, and their children, along with other islanders, crossed to Le Havre in Normandy.  Most of the islanders returned to St.-Pierre and Miquelon the following year.  The Gousmans were not among them. 

Rose gave Jean more children at Le Havre:  Joseph-Antoine born in c1768; Jean-Baptiste in c1770; and Anne-Marie in c1772.  In 1772, French officials declared that "'Jean Gussman, native of Seville,'" was "'European,'" not Acadian, and he was denied the King's solde, or six-sol daily allowance, that sustained Acadian families in France.  In spite of this setback, in 1773 Jean, with hundreds of other Acadians languishing in the port cities, took his family to the interior of Poitou, where they hoped to become productive farmers again on a prominent nobleman's land near the city of Châtellerault.  Daughter Ludivine was baptized at Cenan south of Châtellerault in August 1774.  In October 1775, after two years of effort, Jean and his family, with other Poitou Acadians, retreated down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes, where they survived as best they could on what work Jean could find.  Son Jean-Thomas was born at nearby Chantenay in August 1783--nine children, six sons and three daughters, between 1762 and 1783, in greater Acadia and France.  In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  Jean Gousman and his wife Rose Bonnevie, with most of the exiles in France, agreed to take it.  That the French allowed Jean to go there, in fact, attested to his status as an Acadian. 

Jean Gousman, fils, age 56, second wife Rose Bonnevie, age 44, and two of their children--Rosalie-Charlotte, age 21; and Jean-Thomas, age 2--sailed to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships from France, which left Paimboeuf, the lower port of Nantes, in late August 1785.  They reached New Orleans in early November after 80 days at sea.  Seven of their children--Raphaël, Gousman, Étienne, Joseph-Antoine, Jean-Baptiste, Anne-Marie, and Ludivine--who, if they were still living, would have been ages 23, 19, 18, 17, 15, 13, and 11 that year--did not accompany their family to the Spanish colony.  Some of the older children may have elected to remain in France, unusual but not unheard of among Acadians there, but one suspects that the two younger children, as well as some of the older ones, had not survived their time in the mother country. 

From New Orleans, most of the family's fellow passengers chose to settle on upper Bayou Lafourche, but Jean, fils and Rose, along with a few of their fellow passengers, went, instead, to San Bernardo, also called Nueva Gálvez, an Isleño community along Bayou Terre-aux-Beoufs on the river below New Orleans.  The Isleños, or Canary Islanders, had come to San Bernardo in 1779 and still spoke Spanish, so it is no wonder that the Spanish-speaking Andalusian, denied Acadian status by the French though not by the Spanish, chose to settle there. 

In Louisiana, the family's name also is spelled Gouchemen, Gousmont, Gusman, Guzman.23

Jean (c1729-1790s) Gousman/Gusman

Jean, fils, son of Jean Gousman, père and Marie Granielle of St.-Nicolas, Andalusia, Spain, born in c1729, was the widower of Marie Barrieau of Annapolis Royal and the husband of Rose Bonnevie dit Beaumont of Île Royale when he came to Louisiana in 1785 with his wife and only two of their many children.  Second wife Rose, who gave Jean no more children in the colony, died at San Bernardo in October 1791, age 50.  Jean, fils, in his early 60s, remarried again--his third marriage--to Brigitte, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Trahan and his first wife Brigitte Landry and widow of Étienne Landry and Philippe Boudier, at either San Bernardo or New Orleans soon after Rose died.  Brigitte gave Jean, fils another son, Jean III, born in c1793, Jean, fils's tenth child and seventh son.  Jean, fils's daughter Rosalie-Charlotte, by his second wife, probably did not follow her parents to San Bernardo.  In January 1786, she married Frenchman Claude-Epiphane LeFaibre of Caillouel, Picardie, perhaps a crewman aboard L'Amitié.  They settled at New Orleans.  Rosalie-Charlotte remarried to Evan-Jean Detresse at New Orleans in c1795.  Evan-Jean was a native of New York.  Rosalie-Charlotte died at New Orleans in October 1829, a widow.  The priest who recorded her burial said that she died at age "ca. 70 yr.," but she probably was closer to 65.  Jean, fils's and Rose's sixth son Jean-Thomas, who had followed his family to New Orleans and San Bernardo when he was still a child, probably died young in the Isleño community.  Only one of Jean, fils's sons seems to have created a family of his own in the Spanish colony, and, like his father, married three times.  But he did not remain in the New Orleans/St. Bernard Parish area. 

Seventh and youngest son Jean III, by third wife Brigitte Trahan, married Anne Marie Candelaria, called Marie, daughter of Pierre Honoré Veillon and Anne Sanches of St. Bernard Parish, at the New Orleans church in June 1817; the recording priest used the surname Gusman for Jean III.  In c1822, Jean and Marie moved north from St. Bernard to St. Tammany Parish and settled on Bayou Bonfouca near present-day Slidell, perhaps the only Acadian to go there during the antebellum period.  Their children, born at New Orleans, in St. Bernard, and St. Tammany, included Pierre Cyprien at New Orleans in May 1818; Barthélémy Eugène, called Bart, in St. Bernard Parish in February 1820; Valéry in March 1822; Marie Brigitte in September 1826; and Jean Evariste in October 1829.  In 1836, Jean III was living with his family in the Fourth Ward of St. Tammany Parish and owned 70 slaves.  He also "engaged in manufactures at his establishment on Bayou Vincent."  Jean III remarried to Mathilde, 36-year-old daughter of René Baham, in St. Tammany Parish in October 1842.  She gave him more children there, including Paul Lyman born in c1843; and Martin Joseph in November 1845.  Jean III, in his late 50s, remarried again--his third marriage--to Hamilton, daughter of Irishman Samuel Stewart, at the New Orleans church in September 1849.  His will was notarized at New Orleans in January 1857 and filed at the Covington courthouse, St. Tammany Parish.  Jean III died at his home on Bayou Bonfouca in September 1858, age 65.  He was buried next to his first wife in what became Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Cemetery, the site of his old homestead (the Gusman family donated the land for Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic church and school, hence its location on the family's old home site).  Jean III's daughters Joséphine and Marie Brigida, by first wife Marie, married into the Hosmer and Merritt families.  ...

Granger

Laurent Granger, born probably at Plymouth, England, in c1643, was a young sailor when he came to Acadia in the late 1650s during the English occupation.  He married Marie, 17-year-old daughter of René Landry l'âiné and Perrine Bourg, at Port-Royal in c1667, while the colony was still under English rule Laurent nevertheless had to convert to Catholicism to marry his Acadian girl.  She gave him nine children, five sons and four daughters, at Port-Royal.  Laurent died there between 1700 and 1703, in his late 50s.  Wife Marie lived until October 1719, when she died at Annapolis Royal, formerly Port-Royal, in her late 60s.  She and Laurent's daughters married into the Babineau dit Deslauriers, Lanoue, and Melanson families.  Laurent and Marie's sons married into the Guilbeau, Girouard, Thériot, and Bourg families.  In 1755, Laurent and Marie's descendants could be found at Annapolis Royal, Minas, and in the French Maritimes.  Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this large family even farther.  

The Grangers at Minas were the first of the family to suffer the indignities of deportation.  In the fall of 1755, the British deported Grangers to Maryland and Virginia.  The Grangers sent to Virginnia endured a fate worse that most of the Acadians deported from Minas.  In mid-November, when five transports appeared unexpectedly at Hampton Roads, Virginia's governor, Robert Dinwiddie, protested their deportation to his colony without his consent.  Exiles died on the filthy, crowded ships anchored in Hampton Road while Virginia authorities pondered their fate.  As winter approached, the governor ordered the exiles dispersed to Hampton, Norfolk, and Richmond, while he and the colony's political leaders pondered their fate.  The following spring, the Virginians sent their Acadian charges on to England, where they were packed into warehouses in several English ports.  The Grangers were held at Falmouth, with tragic consequences.  Between September 1756 and January 1757, most of the Granger family heads and many of their loved ones died of smallpox.  Over the next seven years, the sons and daughters of these departed family heads buried more of their loved ones and created families of their own in the Cornish port.  By 1763, half of the Acadians sent from Virginia to England were dead. 

Back in Nova Scotia, a few Granger families escaped the British roundup at Minas and sought refuge on lower Rivière St.-Jean or moved on to Canada.  At Annapolis Royal, at least two families ended up on a transport bound for Connecticut, but most of the Grangers at Annapolis Royal escaped the roundup there.  After a hard winter on the Fundy shore, they crossed the bay to Chepoudy the following spring and sought refuge on the upper Petitcoudiac or lower Rivière St.-Jean before moving on to Canada. 

Living in territory controlled by France, Grangers on the French Maritime islands escaped the deportations in Nova Scotia.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived, however.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats rounded up most of the habitants on the islands, including Grangers, and deported them to France.  A young bachelor crossed to St.-Malo aboard the transport Duc Guillame, which left Louisbourg in September and, after a mid-ocean mishap, limped into the Breton port the first of November.  He was one of the lucky ones who survived the crossing.  His younger brother also was deported from Île Royale to France, but he ended up in the naval port of Rochefort on the Bay of Biscay.  A young Granger wife crossed with her husband and two of their young children on one of the five deportation transports that left Chédabouctou Bay in a 12-ship convoy in late November and, despite a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England that sank three other transports, reached St.-Malo together in late January 1759.  She was the only member of her family to survive the crossing or its rigors. 

Island Grangers did their best to make a life for themselves in the suburbs and villages of the St.-Malo area.  In June 1760, the Granger wife who survived the crossing remarried at Pleurtuit on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo, and she helped her second husband create a large famiy in the area.  The Granger bachelor settled in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  On 6 December 1759, he embarked on the ship Duc de Choiseul, probably as a privateer, and was promptly captured by the Royal Navy.  The British held him in England for the rest of the war.  He was repatriated to St.-Malo in 1763 with other Acadian exiles in England and returned to St.-Servan, where he married a fellow Acadian in June 1763.  In April 1764, she gave him a son at St.-Servan.  In 1765, the young family, with other Acadian exiles, left St.-Malo aboard the frigate Aigle for Port-Louis in the Îles Malouines, today's Falkland Islands.  On one of the remote islands, the Grangers had three more children.  In late December 1771, after the colony was abandoned, the family returned to St.-Servan, where they had more children.  The wife died at St.-Servan in February 1775, age 36, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth, and the widowered father remarried to a Thériot widow at St.-Servan in February 1776.  She gave him three more children there--nine children by two wives.  He died probably at St.-Servan-sur-Mer before September 1784, when a Spanish official counted his wife with two of their children in the lower Loire port of Nantes and called her a widow.  They evidently returned to the St.-Malo area soon after the counting.

Grangers from Minas also ended up at Cherbourg in Normandy and at Rochefort, deported either from a French Maritime island in 1758-59 or, having been captured on lower Rivière St.-Jean, from Halifax between 1758 and 1760.  Most of them remained where they landed.  In the spring of 1763, after prolonged negotiations between the French and British governments, the Acadians in England, including many Grangers, were repatriated to France.  In late May, an extended family of siblings and cousins headed by a widower arrived at St.-Malo aboard L'Ambition and settled at St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  The cousin, however, did not remain.  Soon after his arrival, he moved on to Morlaix in northwest Brittany to join his other cousins there.  Meanwhile, the head of the extended family, who did not remarry, died in a St.-Malo hospital in April 1765, age 37.  The largest contingent of Grangers repatriated from England, however, were the widows, sons, and daughters of the Granger heads of families who had died of smallpox at Falmouth in 1756-57.  In the spring of 1763, dozens of these Grangers, all cousins of the Grangers at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, landed not at St.-Malo but at Morlaix in northwest Brittany.  Though they created new families there, they did not remain.  In November 1765, two years after they had reached the Breton port, most, if not all, of them followed dozens of fellow exiles from England, along with some of their compatriots from the St.-Malo settlements, to the recently liberated Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany.  There, they established nine enduring family lines--the largest concentration of Grangers not only in France, but in the entire Acadian diaspora.  They settled in all four of the island districts:  Sauzon on the north coast, Le Palais on the east coast, Bangor in the interior south of Le Palais, and Locmaria on the southwest coast.  Many more children were born to them on the island, and some of their children died before their time.  Most of the Grangers married fellow Acadians on the island, while others married local islanders. 

By the early 1770s, French authorities were weary of providing for exiles still languishing in the port cities.  An influential nobleman offered to settle them on land he owned in the interior of Poitou near the city of Châtellerault.  Hundreds of Acadians went there in 1773 and 1774, a family of Grangers from Cherbourg among them.  Like their cousins on Belle-Île-en-Mer, they would do their best to become productive farmers again, but their experience in Poitou was not to their liking.  In December 1775, after two years of effort, the Grangers retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes, where they subsisted as best they could on government hand outs and what work they could find.  The family head died at nearby Chantenay in May 1785, age 68.  Two of his daughters married into the Moulaison and Boudrot families there and at Nantes. 

When in the early 1780s the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, at least 13 Grangers, a small fraction of the family still in the mother country, agreed to take it.  Most of the Acadians at Cherbourg and Rochefort chose to stay, and only three of the many Grangers on Belle-Île-en-Mer elected to go to the Spanish colony, all of them wives who were married to fellow Acadians.  Two Granger brothers from Minas via Virginia and England, one of them recently widowered at Nantes, crossed with a nephew and two older half-sisters.  The only Granger family of any size that chose to go to Louisiana was led by a widow whose charges included stepchildren from her husband's first marriage. 

Meanwhile, back in North America, the Acadians being held in the seaboard colonies, theoretically, were free to go, but not until the British discerned their intentions.  Even then, colonial officials discouraged repatriation.  According to a repatriation list circulated in Connecticut in 1763, a half dozen Granger families still in the colony expressed their desire "to go to France."  In July of that year, in Maryland, a Grangé, his wife, and 11 children appeared on a repatriation list at Georgetown/Fredericktown on the colony's Eastern Shore.  The husband, wife, and at least one of their children died soon after the list was made, and the remaining children, "victims of small pox and twelve years of exile, asked officials to help in returning to Canada."  One wonders if they received it.  A Granger, his wife, and six children were listed at Snow Hill, also on the Eastern Shore; and a Grangé widow at Oxford on the Eastern Shore.  In South Carolina in August 1763, according to another repatriation list, a 15-year-old Granger orphan was living with the family of Joseph Cormier of Chignecto. 

Most of the Grangers exiled to New England chose to resettle in Canada, where some of their kinsmen had gone as early as 1756.  Though now also a British possession, the far-northern province was populated largely by fellow French Catholics, many of them Acadian exiles.  So, in a colony nearly as old as Acadia, descendants of Laurent Granger began the slow, inexorable process of becoming Canadiennes.  Especially after 1766, Grangers could be found on the upper St. Lawrence at Terrebonne, St.-Philippe-de-La-Prairie, L'Acadie, La-Prairie-de-la-Magdelaine, Trois-Rivières, L'Assomption, and St.-Jacques de l'Achigan; St.-Augustin on the lower St. Lawrence; Carleton in Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs; Memramcook in present-day southeastern New Brunswick; and Windsor, formerly Pigiguit, in Nova Scotia.  Typical of most, if not all, Acadian families, these Acadiennes of Canada lost touch with their Cadien cousins hundreds of miles away, and, until the Acadian reunions of the twentieth century, may even have forgotten that the others existed.  

While the end-of-war treaty was being negotiated, French authorities encouraged exiles in the British seaboard colonies to go to St.-Dominique.  Although driven from North America by the Seven Years's War, the French were determined to hang on to what was left of their shrinking colonial empire.  A new naval base at Môle St.-Nicolas on the northwest end of the big island would protect the approaches to what was left of their possessions in the Caribbean basin and assist in the "war of vengeance" to come.  French officials saw the exiles as a ready source of labor not only for the naval contractors, but also for the island's major planters, who hoped to supplement the work of their slaves.  To sweeten the offer, French officials promised the Acadians land of their own if they came to the sugar colony.  And so hundreds of Acadians, including Grangers, came to St.-Domingue in 1763 and 1764.  The French sent the Grangers not to the naval base at Môle St.-Nicolas but to the interior community of Mirebalais near Port-au-Prince to work on indigo and coffee plantations.  Their experience in the tropical colony tended to be tragic, especially during the first year after their arrival.  Nevertheless, when Acadians from Halifax and Maryland, including Grangers, came through Cap-Français in the mid- and late 1760s on their way to New Orleans, none of the Grangers still in St.-Domingue chose to join them. 

Meanwhile, the Acadians in Maryland endured life among Englishmen who, despite their colony's Catholic roots, did not care much for the French "papists" thrust upon them.  When they heard that the Spanish would welcome them in Louisiana, they pooled their meager resources to charter ships that would take them to New Orleans.  Six Grangers were part of the first two contingents of Acadian exiles who reached the Spanish colony from Baltimore in September 1766 and July 1767. 

Descended from an English sailor, Grangers settled early in Acadia, and they came fairly early to Spanish Louisiana.  The first of them reached the colony from Maryland in 1766 and settled in the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  Two of them, brothers, lived with their mother and stepfather at Cabahannocer and nearby Ascension on what came to be known as the Acadian Coast, but they did not remain.  In the 1770s, they crossed the Atchafalaya Basin and settled first in the Opelousas District and then moved south to Attakapas. The older brother settled on Bayou Tortue west of Bayou Teche, while the younger brother moved to nearby Côte Gelée.  They each created vigorous family lines on the western prairies.  

In 1785, a dozen or so Grangers came to Louisiana from France aboard five of the Seven Ships.  The few males among them went to Manchac south of Baton Rouge and to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Two brothers married at Manchac, but only one of their lines endured, in what became West Baton Rouge Parish.  A widowed cousin who also had gone to Manchac remarried there but moved on to Assumption on upper Bayou Lafourche.  His only son did not remain on the Lafourche but joined his cousins on the western prairies soon after the Louisiana Purchase.  The only Granger family that lived on Bayou Lafourche for any length of time was that of one of the Côte Gelée Grangers, who married at Ascension on the river in the first decade of the new century, returned briefly to Côte Gelée, and then settled in Assumption Parish .  Most of his daughters returned to the western prairies.  Only two of his six sons created families of their own.  By the 1840s, the older son had moved down bayou to Lafourche Interior Parish, but his line, except perhaps for its blood, probably died out during the late antebellum period.  The younger son moved to St. Mary Parish on lower Bayou Teche and then out to the Abbeville area of Vermilion Parish to settle near some of his Attakapas cousins.  

As a result of all this moving about and the demise of several family lines, no Grangers remained on Bayou Lafourche, only a small line remained on the river, and the largest center of family settlement remained on the western prairies.  During the early antebellum period, prairie Grangers moved from the family center in Lafayette Parish out into the prairies of St. Landry and Calcasieu parishes.  By the mid-1830s., a Granger, probably an Acadian, could be found in East Texas.  By the eve of the War of 1861-65, Grangers could be found in nearly every corner of the old prairie districts. 

Granger, of course, was not a French name in Acadia.  Interestingly, though, several immigrants from France who appeared at New Orleans during the antebellum period also bore the name, so one wonders if they were descendants of the many Acadian Grangers who had remained in the mother country.  Anglo-American members of the family settled in Louisiana after Jefferson's Purchase.  Nevertheless, before the War of 1861-65, the great majority of the Grangers of South Louisiana were descendants of Laurent of Plymouth and Port-Royal. 

Judging by the numbers of slaves they owned during the late antebellum period, a few members of the family lived comfortably on their farms and vacharies along the river and out on the prairies.  In 1850, an Acadian Granger held nine slaves in West Baton Rouge Parish, but he does not appear in the federal slave census a decade later.  In Lafayette Parish in 1850, an Acadian Granger held nine slaves, but he, too, does not appear in the 1860 counting.  The widow of this Granger's son does appear in the 1860 counting; she owned a single slave on her farm in the western part of Lafayette Parish.  The largest family slave holders were the ones who had moved out to the southwestern prairies in the early 1800s.  In 1850, a Granger held 10 slaves in Calcasieu Parish.  A decade later, he owned 17.  Two of his sons owned a bondsman apiece.  Most of their Granger cousins, however, owned no slaves at all, participating only peripherally in the South's antebellum plantation-based economy.  

Only a hand full of Grangers served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65.  Three of the five Grangers who appear in Confederate military records served in Company D of the Miles' Legion Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Landry Parish, that fought in Mississippi and Louisiana, especially in the Siege of Port Hudson.  All of the Acadians Grangers who served the Southern Confederacy seem to have survived the war and returned to their families.  During the war, successive Federal incursions devastated the regions where Acadian Grangers lived.  The Bayou Lafourche valley suffered early in the war and remained under the hard hand of Federal occupation for most of the conflict.  Federal armies marched three times through the Teche and upper Vermilion valleys in 1863 and 1864, burning and pillaging many farms and plantations, some of them likely owned by Grangers.  Thanks to these Federal incursions, emancipation came early to the area, with its resulting economic and social turmoil.  Confederate foraging parties and cutthroat Jayhawkers also plagued the area, including the remote Calcasieu prairies, adding to the family's misery. 

In South Louisiana, the family's name also is spelled Grancher, Grandgé, Grandgeai, Grandger, Grandges, Grangé, Grangee, Grangere, Granges, Grangier.24

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The first members of the family to reach the colony--a widow with three unmarried children, a 23-year-old daughter and two teenage sons--came to New Orleans in September 1766 from Baltimore, Maryland.  They followed their fellow exiles to Cabahannocer on the river, where the widow remarried to a Landry and her Granger daughter also married a Landry.  Her older son also married at Cabahannocer, but he and his wife, as well as his younger brother, did not remain there.  Two vigorous family lines came of it not on the river but on the western prairies.  Most of the Acadian Grangers of Louisiana, in fact, are descendants of the brothers from Minas and Maryland: 

Joseph (1746-1798) Pierre à Laurent Granger

Joseph, second son of Pierre Granger, fils and Euphrosine Gautrot, born at Minas in December 1746, followed his family to Maryland, where they were held at Snow Hill on the colony's Eastern Shore.  He then followed his widowed mother to New Orleans and Cabahannocer, where he married Anne-Geneviève, called Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadians René Babin and Madeleine Bourg, in April 1768.  The following year they were still living on the east bank of the river there.  A year later, they were counted on the east bank of the Mississippi upriver at Ascension.  In the 1770s, they crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to the Opelousas District and then moved south to Attakapas.  Their children, born on the river and the prairies, included Joseph, fils at Cabahannocer or Ascension in c1770; Simon-Pierre at Ascension in July 1773; Marie-Euphrosine or -Frosine in February 1775; Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, at Opelousas in January 1777; Raphaël baptized, age unrecorded, in August 1779; twins Anne-Geneviève and Marie-Geneviève baptized at Attakapas, age 6 months, in July 1783; Jean-Baptiste le jeune born at Opelousas in May 1784; and Marie-Françoise, called Françoise, in June 1786--nine children, four sons and five daughters, between 1770 and 1786.  Joseph, père, at age 44, remarried to Anne-Osite, called Osite, 39-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Dugas and Marguerite Daigle and widow of Charles Hébert, at Attakapas in January 1791.  She evidently gave him no more children.  Joseph died at Attakapas in December 1798.  The priest who recorded the burial said Joseph died at age 50.  He was 52.  Daughters Madeleine, Anne-Geneviève, Marie Frosine, and Françoise, from his first wife, married into the Crawford, Hébert, Réo, Doucet, and Simar families.  Daughter Madeleine bore two "natural" sons, Joseph-Simon by fellow Acadian Joseph Mire le jeune in September 1796, when she was 19, four years before she married Adam Crawford of Frederick, Maryland, who adopted Joseph-Simon; and Marcel by Spaniard Antoine Martín in January 1817, when she was age 40 and perhaps the widow of Adam Crawford.  Joseph's four sons also married and settled on the prairies, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Joseph, fils, by first wife Geneviève Babin, married Marguerite, 26-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Landry and Isabelle Dugas, at Attakapas in February 1791.  They settled at Prairie Sorel in present-day Lafayette Parish.  Their children, born there, included Adélaïde in c1791 and baptized, age 4, in September 1795; Joseph III born in October 1792; Éloise in the 1790s; Marie-Phelonise in c1795 and baptized, age 2 1/2, in July 1797; Charles Éloi, called Éloi, in c1796 and baptized, age 9 1/2 months, in July 1797 but died probably at Prairie Sorel at age 19 in June 1814; Marie-Geneviève born in August 1799; Jean-Baptiste le jeune in March 1801 but died at age 14 in August 1815; Zélie born in c1803 but died at age 2 1/2 in September 1804; Dositée, a son, born in c1804 but died at age 3 in October 1807; and Anastasie born in June 1807--10 children, six daughters and four sons, between 1791 and 1807.  Joseph, fils died at Prairie Sorel in November 1812.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph was age 46 when he died.  He probably was closer to 43.  Daughters Éloise and Marie Phelonise married into the Louvière and Morvant families.  In October 1813, three years before she married Julien Louvière, Éloise, in her mid- or late teens, had a "natural" daughter, Marguerite Sylvainie, by an "unknown father"; Marguerite Sylvanie, at age 17, married into the Istre family in September 1830.  Only one of Joseph, fils's sons married. 

Oldest son Joseph III married Julienne, daughter of fellow Acadians Isidore Louvière and Françoise Landry, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in November 1815.  Their children, born on the prairies, included, a son, name unrecorded, died at Prairie Sorel, age 2 months, in November 1816; Carmélite born on the Vermilion in August 1817; a daughter, name unrecorded, died at age 3 months in October 1819; Octave born in October 1820; Marie Élina in October 1823; Orelia, also Aurelia and Amelia, in November 1826; and Augustin in July 1841--seven children, three sons and four daughters, between 1816 and 1841.  Joseph III died in Lafayette Parish in March 1861.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who gave no parents' names or mentioned a wife, said that Joseph was age 72 when he died.  Joseph III was 68.  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following month.  Daughters Carmélite, Amelia, and Marie Élina married into the Breaux, Hébert, and Louvière families by 1870.  One of Joseph III's sons also married by then, but the line, except perhaps for its blood, did not endure.

Second son Octave married Marceliènne or Maximiliènne, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Trahan and his Creole wife Clarisse Dubois, at the St. Martinville church in November 1841.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Marciliènne in October 1842; and Marie Orelie or Aurelia, called Aurelia, in January 1845.  Octave died in Lafayette Parish in August 1865.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial and named only Octave's father said that Octave was age 46 when he died.  He was 44.  His succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in March 1868.  Daughter Aurelia married into the Comeaux family before 1870, so the blood of this family line may have endured.  

Joseph, père's second son Simon-Pierre, by first wife Geneviève Babin, married Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand Landry and Marguerite Melançon of Bayou Tortue, at Attakapas in May 1795.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Anne-Domitille, called Domitille, in October 1797; and Marguerite in November 1799.  Simon died at Côte Gelée in August 1818.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial said that Simon was age 47 when he died.  He was 45.  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse, St. Martin Parish, in September 1820.  Daughters Anne Domitille and Marguerite married into the Hébert, Vallot, and Comeaux families.  Simon seems to have fathered no sons, but the blood of the family line likely endured.  

Joseph, père's third son Raphaël, by first wife Geneviève Babin, married Geneviève, daughter of Simon Gaspard dit Picard of New Orleans and Marie Luque of Mobile, at Attakapas in October 1804.  Their children, born on the prairies, included a son, name and age unrecorded, died at Côte Gelée in July 1808; and Simon le jeune, called Simonet, born in September 1809.  Raphaël's remaining son married. 

Younger son Simon le jeune dit Simonet, at age 21, was supposed to have married Marie, 14 1/2-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Baptiste Trahan and Marie Aucoin, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in February 1831.  The marriage record states that the "Entry was cancelled," perhaps because of her tender age.  He married, instead, fellow Acadian Adélaïde Hébert, widow of Jean Boullé and Pierre Trahan, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in June 1838.  They settled probably near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Marie baptized at age 5 months in June 1839; Simon, fils born in April 1840; Geneviève in August 1841; and François in November 1847.  Simonet remarried to fellow Acadian Felonise Boutin, place and date unrecorded.  Their son Raphaël le jeune was born in St. Landry Parish in January 1858--five children, two daughters and three sons, by two wives, between 1839 and 1858.  Neither of Simonet's daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did.

Oldest son Simon, fils, called Simon de Calcasieu, from first wife Adélaïde Hébert, married Caroline Tile or Till at the Church Point church, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in March 1864.  Their children, born probably in Calcasieu Parish, included Sylvanie in July 1862; Marie in December 1863; ...

Joseph, père's fourth and youngest son Jean Baptiste le jeune, by first wife Geneviève Babin, married Pélagie, daughter of fellow Acadians Claude Broussard and his first wife Louise dite Lise Hébert, at Attakapas early in the 1800s.  They settled at Côte Gelée and then moved out to the Calcasieu prairies.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Julie in March 1804; Jean, called Jean Treville and Treville, in November 1805; Jean Marcellin, called Marcellin, in January 1809; Joseph Bélisaire, called Bélisaire, in September 1811; Lise in May 1814; Anastasie in March 1817; and Joseph Clairville in February 1820--seven children, three daughters and four sons, between 1804 and 1820.  In December 1850, the federal census taker in Calcasieu Parish counted 10 slaves--four males and six females, six blacks and four mulattoes, ranging in age from 60 to 1--on Jean Grangé's farm near Treville Grangé; this probably was Jean Baptiste le jeune.  In September 1860, the federal census taker in Calcasieu Parish counted 17 slaves--eight males and nine females, eight blacks and nine mulattoes, ages 70 to 1, including two sets of twins, living in four houses--on Jean Grangé's farm next to Marceline Grangé; if this was Jean Baptiste le jeune, he would have been in his late 70s.  Daughters Julie, Lise, and Anastasie married into the Duhon, Benoit, and Lebleau families.  Three of Jean Baptiste le jeune's sons also married and settled in St. Landry and Calcasieu prairies. 

Oldest son Jean Treville, called Treville, married, at age 25, Modeste, 15-year-old daughter of Martin Lebleu and Éloise Rion, at the Opelousas church in June 1831.  They settled on the Calcasieu prairie.  Their children, born there, included Séven or Séverin in late c1833 and baptized by a Vermilionville priest, age 18 months, in April 1835; Louis Treville born in January 1840; François Treville in January 1843; Trasimon in March 1847; Marguerite Erice in August 1849; and Martin Adonis in February 1852--six children, five sons and a daughter, between 1833 and 1852.  In December 1850, the federal census taker in Calcasieu Parish counted one slave--a 20-year-old male mulatto--on Treville Grangé's farm near Jean Grangé.  None of Treville's children married by 1870. 

Jean Baptiste le jeune's second son Jean Marcellin, called Marcellin, married, while living in Calcasieu Parish, Azitte, daughter of Anselme Sallier and Catherine Lebleu of Calcasieu, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in February 1829.  Their son Anselme was born in Calcasieu, then part of St. Landry Parish, in January 1839.  Marcellin remarried to Dosithée Lebleu, place and date unrecorded, but it probably was in the early 1840s.  Their children, born in Calcasieu Parish, included Joseph Moïse in September 1847; and Henry in June 1850--three children, all sons, by two wives, between 1839 and 1850.  In September 1860, the federal census taker in Calcasieu Parish counted a single slave--a 13-year-old female mulatto--on Marceline Grangé's farm next to Jean Grangé; this probably was Marcellin.  None of Marcellin's sons married by 1870. 

Jean Baptiste le jeune's third son Joseph Bélisaire, called Bélisaire, married Marie Céleste or Célise, another daughter of Martin Lebleu and Éloise Rion, at the Opelousas church in November 1828.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Bélisaire, fils baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 3 months, in November 1830; Émeline born in c1832 and baptized at age 1 in November 1833; Aladin born in 1834 and baptized at age 8 months in May 1835; Lucille born in October 1839; and Joseph in December 1840--five children, three sons and two daughters, between 1830 and 1840.  In October 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted a single slave--a 17-year-old black female--on B. Grangé's farm in the parish's western district; this may have been Bélisaire.  Daughter Émeline married into the Fenetre family by 1870.  None of Bélisaire's sons married by then. 

Jean-Baptiste (c1752-1842) Pierre à Laurent Granger

Jean-Baptiste, third son of Pierre Granger, fils and Euphrosine Gautrot, born at Minas in c1752, followed his family to Maryland and his widowed mother to New Orleans and Cabahannocer.  In the early or mid-1770s, he followed his older brother to the western prairies, where, in his late 20s, he married Susanne dite Susette, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Cormier and his first wife Marguerite Sonnier of Opelousas, at Attakapas in January 1779.  They settled at the southern edge of the Opelousas District before moving south to Côte Gelée in the Attakapas District.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Hélène, also called Madeleine, baptized at Opelousas, age 6 weeks, in July 1780; Marie-Marguerite, called Marguerite, baptized, age 2 months, in February 1782; Joseph-Laurent, called Laurent, born in January 1783; Anne-Béatrice or Béatrix, called Béatrice, baptized, age unrecorded, in January 1786; Jean-Pierre, called Pierre, born in March 1786; Jean in c1787 or 1788 but died at Côte Gelée, age 18, in May 1805; Euphrosine born at Côte Gelée in February 1790; Cyprien in January 1792; Jean-Baptiste, fils died "as a child," age unrecorded, at Opelousas in August 1795; Susanne born at Côte Gelée in March 1797; and Louis in November 1797--11 children, five daughters and six sons, between 1780 and 1797.  After wife Susanne died, Jean-Baptiste filed successions at the St. Landry and St. Martin parish courthouses in August 1812; the St. Martin Parish succession named his nine surviving children--Hélène, Marguerite, Lorent, Beatris, Pierre, Siprien, Euphrosine, Louis, and Suzane.  Jean Baptiste never remarried.  He died at Côte Gelée, Lafayette Parish, in September 1842.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said that Jean Baptiste was age 103 when he died.  He was closer to 90.  Daughters Hélène/Madeleine, Marguerite, Béatrice, Euphrosine, and Susanne.married into the Simon, Landry, Trahan, and Granger families.  Oldest daughter Hélène, at age 21, had a "natural daughter," Célestine, in June 1803, baptized at St. Martinville in February 1812.  Hélène, called Madeleine by the recording priest, married a Simon in June 1807.  A decade later, in April 1817, at age 13 1/2, daughter Célestine married a Simon widower!  Four of Jean-Baptiste's sons also married and settled on the prairies and on upper Bayou Lafourche, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Joseph-Laurent, called Laurent, married, at age 38, Augustine, called Delle, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Aucoin and Isabelle Duhon and widow of Pierre Trahan, at the St. Martinville church in December 1821.  Laurent died in St. Martin Parish in August 1842, age 59.  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville and Vermilionville courthouses the following November, so he likely owned property in both St. Martin and Lafayette parishes.  He and his wife may have been that rare Acadian couple who had no children.  

Jean Baptiste's second son Jean Pierre, called Pierre, was "res. Vermillion Parish" when he married Renée Angélique, daughter of fellow Acadians Marin Gautreaux and Marguerite Ange Dubois, at the Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, in October 1808.  They lived in Assumption Parish on upper Bayou Lafourche, moved to Côte Gelée in the 1810s, but soon returned to Assumption Parish.  Their children, born on the Lafourche and the prairies, included Jean Baptiste le jeune in Assumption Parish in December 1809 but died there at age 8 months in August 1810; Pierre Urbin born at Côte Gelée in June 1811; Émilite Céleste, called Céleste, in Assumption Parish in April 1812; Louis Valsin in August 1816 but died in Assumption Parish at age 3 in November 1819; Maxile Valcour or Dalcour, called Dalcour, Dalcourt, or Delcourt, born in June 1818; Charles in c1820 and baptized at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, age 3 1/2 or 4, in May 1824, but died the day he was baptized; Marie Irène, called Irène, baptized at age 3 months in May 1824; Augustine in August 1825 and baptized in July 1833; and Louis Elphége, called Elphége, born in Assumption Parish in August 1827--nine children, six sons and three daughters, between 1809 and 1827.  Daughters Céleste, Irène, qnev Augustine married into the Richard, Desormeaux, and Missonnier families and settled in Lafayette Parish.  Only two of Jean Pierre's sons married.  One remained on Bayou Lafourche, where his line, except perhaps for its blood, did not endure.  The other son settled on lower Bayou Teche before moving out to the southwestern prairies. 

Fourth son Maxile Valcour or Dalcour, called Dalcourt, married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Hébert and Élisabeth Bourg of Assumption Parish, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in May 1841.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Eulalie Adèle in Lafourche Interior Parish in September 1840, months before her parents married; Irène Marcelite in June 1842; and Eglaé in October 1845 but, called Aglaé, died at age 1 1/2 in April 1847--three children, all daughters, between 1840 and 1845.  Neither of Dalcourt's remaining daughters married by 1870.  One wonders if he fathered any sons. 

Pierre's sixth and youngest son Louis Elphége, called Elphége, married Rosalie H. Mendoza or Mendoz, place and date unrecorded.  They moved west to the Charenton area of St. Mary Parish in the early 1850s before moving on to the Abbeville area of Vermilion Parish later in the decade.  Their children, born on the lower Teche and the southwest prairies, included Joseph Syphorian or Symphorien near Charenton in October 1854; Marie Eve near Abbeville in January 1856; Élodie in August 1857; Jean Charles in March 1861; Alcide Victorin in September 1864; ...  Daughter Marie married into the Bonin family by 1870.  None of Elphége's sons married by then. 

Jean Baptiste's fourth son Cyprien married Louise, daughter of Michel Pivauteau and his Acadian wife Apollonie Broussard of Bayou Vermilion, at the St. Martinville church in February 1812.  They settled on the Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included Jean Baptiste le jeune in November 1812; Giles in September 1814; and Louise in January 1820.  Cyprien remarried to Sidalise Gaspard, place and date unrecorded, but it probably was in the early 1820s.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Cyprien Landry, called Landry, in the 1820s; Ambroise in the 1820s; Émilien Filosel in c1824 but died in Lafayette Parish at age 1 in August of 1825; Louis le jeune born in the 1830s or early 1840s; Lastie or Lasty in St. Landry Parish in November 1843; Marie Olive in December 1846; and Henry in June 1849--10 children, eight sons and two daughters, by two wives, between 1812 and 1849.  Daughters ... , by his second wife, married into the Guillory and Manuel families by 1870.  Six of Cyprien's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Jean Baptiste le jeune, by first wife Louise Pivauteau, married Élise dite Lise, daughter of Joseph Falk or Faulk and his Acadian wife Victoire Broussard, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in January 1833.  Their children, born on the prairies and the lower Teche, included Jean baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 1 1/2 months, in March 1834; Jean Bélizaire or Bélisaire born in c1835 and baptized at the Grand Coteau church at age 4 in July 1839; Oliva born in c1837 and baptized at age 2 in July 1839; Marie Zémire born there in May 1839; Elizabeth near New Iberia, then in St. Martin Parish, in December 1840; Cyprien le jeune in July 1842; and Joseph near Grand Coteau in February 1851--seven children, four sons and three daughters, between 1834 and 1851.  None of Jean Baptiste le jeune's children married by 1870. 

Cyprien's second son Giles, by first wife Louise Pivauteau, married Cléonise, also called Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians François Xavier Benoit and Marguerite Trahan, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in c1842, and sanctified the marriage at the Grand Coteau church in May 1844.  They settled in recently-created Calcasieu Parish.  Their children, born there, included Anathalie in November 1843; Onézime in January 1849; Eugène in February 1851; and Joseph in April 1857--four children, a daughter and three sons, between 1843 and 1857.  None of Giles's children married by 1870. 

Cyprien's third son Émilien Filosel, by first wife Louise Pivauteau, may have married Louisa Colas, place and date unrecorded.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included twins Clémile and Émile in c1862 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 7 1/2, in September 1870; Edgar born in January 1870; ... 

Cyprien's fourth son Cyprien Landry, called Landry, from second wife Sidalise Gaspard, married Françoise, daughter of Zénon Deshotel and Marie Jean Baptiste Manuel, at the Opelousas church in October 1846.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Landry, fils in September 1848; Géramb or Gérand in August 1851; Estelle in October 1853; and Cyprien le jeune near Ville Platte, then in St. Landry but now in Evangeline Parish, in March 1856--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1848 and 1856.  Landry, père's succession, calling him Landry, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in January 1858; it was not post-mortem.  He remarried to fellow Acadian Célina Aucoin in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in August 1867. ...  His daughter did not marry by 1870, but one of his sons did.

Second son Gérand, by first wife Françoise Deshotel, married Odile, 21-year-old daughter of Valéry Guillory and Rosalie Fontenot, at the Ville Platte church in January 1870. ...  They settled near Eunice in St. Landry Parish.   

Cyprien's fifth son Ambroise, by second wife Sidalise Gaspard, married Marie, another daughter of Zénon Deshotel and Marie Jean Baptiste Manuel, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in November 1846, and sanctified the marriage at the Opelousas church the following January.  Their children, born near Ville Platte, included Odile in March 1848; Clara in April 1855; Alidie in June 1857; Eléonore in December 1860; Armogène in December 1863; Aristides in April 1866; Angelas in December 1868; ...  Daughters Clara and Alidie married into the Guillory family after 1870.  

Cyprien's sixth son Louis le jeune, by second wife Sidalise Gaspard, married Pauline Jean Baptiste, daughter of Jean Baptiste Manuel and Marie Socier, at the Opelousas church probably in July 1861. ... 

Jean-Baptiste's sixth and youngest son Louis married Célina Lopez probably in Lafayette Parish in the 1830s, when he would have been in his 30s.  Daughter Adèle was born in Lafayette Parish in April 1840.  In August 1850, federal census takers in Lafayette Parish counted two slaves--both females, both black, ages 17 and 1--on Louis Grangé's farm near Charles Grangé's farm in the parish's western district.  Louis died in Lafayette Parish in December 1869.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Louis died "at age 72 yrs."  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse a few days after his death.  His daughter, if she survived childhood and married at all, did not do so by 1870. 

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In July 1767, the widow of Alexis Granger of Minas reached New Orleans from Maryland with her younger Granger daughter, Anne-Madeleine.  They followed their fellow exiles to the new Acadian settlement of San Gabriel on the river above Cabahannocer, but they did not remain.  The widow remarried into the Sonnier family, and Anne-Madeleine married a Thériot, at Cabahannocer. 

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Sometime in the late 1760s, two Grangers from Maryland--both young, unmarried women--reached New Orleans.  One--Louise-Ludivine, called Ludivine--married into the Bourgeois family at Cabahannocer and died an aging widow there.  The other, Marie, married a Spanish sergeant named Quintero at New Orleans, lived for a time at Pointe Coupée or Baton Rouge, and died at Ascension on the river above Cabahannocer.  

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Two decades after the first of their cousins reached the colony, 13 more Grangers came to Louisiana on five of the Seven Ships from France.  The first of them--a Granger wife with her Bourg husband and their large family--crossed on La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in mid-August 1785.  They followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche. 

Four more Grangers--a middle-aged widower; two widows who had married Trahan brothers, one of them a half-sister of the Granger widower; and a young, unmarried carpenter--crossed aboard Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans the third week of August 1785.  They followed their fellow passengers to Baton Rouge, and another Granger family line came of it, again not on the river but out on the western prairies: 

Charles-Benoît (c1751-1790s) Pierre à Laurent Granger

Charles-Benoît, fourth son of Joseph Granger by second wife Marguerite Gautrot, born at Minas in c1751, followed his family to Virginia in 1755 and to England in 1756.  In May 1763, followed his widowed mother, stepfather Simon Landry, and their family to St.-Malo, France, and settled with them in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  When he came of age, Charles became a sailor.  By 1777, he had settled at Chantenay near Nantes, France, where, in his late 20s, he married Marie, 31-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Charles LeBlanc and Anne Boudrot of Minas, in September 1780.  She gave him a son, Charles-Simon, born at Chantenay in April 1781, but the boy died at age 2 1/2 in October 1783.  Meanwhile, wife Marie died at Chantenay, age 34, in July 1782.  Charles-Benoît and a Daigre nephew followed his older half-sisters to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  From New Orleans, he followed his fellow passengers to Baton Rouge, where he remarried to Marguerite-Ange, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph-Ange Dubois and Anne Michel and widow of Jean Daigre, in September 1787.  They settled near Fort Bute, Manchac, on the river below Baton Rouge, in July 1788 before joining the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche.  They may have lived for a time at New Orleans.  Marguerite-Ange gave Charles-Benoît another son, Charles-Auguste, born on the upper Lafourche in September 1789; and a daughter, Marie-Lucie, probably at New Orleans in the late 1780s or early 1790s who died in the city in September 1801, age unrecorded--three children, two sons and a daughter, by two wives, between 1781 and the early 1790s, in France and Louisiana.  Charles-Benoît died on the upper Lafourche by January 1792, in his early 40s, when his wife remarried there.  One of his sons married thrice and created his own family not on the upper Lafourche but on the western prairies.  

Younger son Charles-Auguste, by second wife Marguerite-Ange Dubois, joined his cousins on the western prairies when he came of age.  At age 18, he married Constance, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Mire and Madeleine Cormier of Côte Gelée, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in April 1809.  They lived on upper Bayou Lafourche before returning to Côte Gelée.  Their children, born on the bayou and the prairies, included Charles Joseph, also called Charles, fils, in Assumption Parish in February 1810; Anastasie at Côte Gelée in March 1812; Clémence in June 1813; Gérard in June 1816; Irène in c1817 but died at age 3 in August 1820; and Reine born in January 1818.  Wife Constance died in November 1818, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth.  Within days of her death, Charles filed a succession at the St. Martinville courthouse and then, at age 29, remarried to cousin Susanne, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Granger and Susanne Cormier of Côte Gelée, at the St. Martinville church later that month.  Their children, born at Côte Gelée, included Hermogène in December 1819; Augustin in March 1821 but evidently died young; Cléonide born in May 1822; Genereaux, likely a son, in January 1824 but died in February; Joséphine Odile born in March 1825; and Clairville or Clerville in September 1826.  Susanne died in Lafayette Parish in June 1827, age 28.  Her succession, listing four of her unmarried children--Armogène, Cléonise (actually Cléonide), Joséphine, and Clairville--and two of her "relatives," Joseph and Benjamin Mire, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in January 1829.  Charles, at age 39, remarried again--his third marriage--to Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Edmond Giroir and Marguerite Cormier, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in December 1828.  Daughter Estelle Vina was born in Lafayette Parish in November 1829--13 children, six sons and seven daughters, by three wives, between 1810 and 1829.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted nine slaves--six males and three females, all black, ranging in age from 50 to 4--on Charles Grangé's farm near Louis Grangé's farm in the parish's western district; this probably was Charles Auguste.  He died at Côte Gelée in May 1851.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said that Charles was age 72 when he died.  He was 61.  His succession, naming his third wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following August.  Daughters Anastasie, Clémence, Cléonide, Estelle Vina, and Joséphine, by all three wives, married into the Richard, Landry, and Comeaux families, including three Landry cousins, and perhaps into the Stemmann family as well.  Four of Charles Auguste's sons also married and settled in Lafayette and St. Martin parishes, but not all of the lines endured.  

Oldest son Charles Joseph, also called Charles, fils, from first wife Constance Mire, married Cécile, also called Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadian Paul Olivier Breaux and his Creole wife Marie Peltier, at the Vermilionville church in December 1829.  Wife Arthémise's succession, probably post-mortem, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in May 1832.  Charles, fils remarried to Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Landry and Françoise Landry, at the Vermilionville church in November 1833.  Charles, fils died in Lafayette Parish in January 1841, age 30.  His succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse later in the month.  Charles, fils may have fathered no children by either of his wives.

Charles Auguste's second son Gérard, by first wife Constance Mire, married Pouponne Pélagie, called Pélagie, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Broussard and Apollonie Louvière, at the Vermilionville church in June 1838.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included a child, name unrecorded, died at age 9 days in July 1839; Gérard Norvalle or Norville born in August 1840; Charles Annibal or Hannibal in October 1841; Mathilda in March in 1844; and Marcel in July 1846--five children, at least three sons and a daughter, between 1839 and 1846.  Gérard died in Lafayette Parish in June 1848, age 32.  His succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in May 1851.  His daughter did not marry by 1870, but one of his sons did. 

Third son Marcel may have married Alice or Élize Mallet, place and date unrecorded, and settled near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, by the late 1860s. ...

Charles Auguste's third son Hermogène, by second wife Susanne Granger, married Victoire Léonide, daughter of Bertrand Miguez and Léocadie Etie, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in February 1850.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Eusèbe in August 1852; and Léocadie near New Iberia in February 1855.  Hermogène died in Lafayette Parish in March 1855.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who gave no parents' names or mentioned a wife, said that Hermogène was age 37 when he died.  He was 35.  His succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in April.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted a single slave--a 15-year-old female mulatto--on Mrs. Ermogène Grangé's farm; this was Victoire Miguez's slave.  Daughter ... married into the Pelouse family by 1870.  Hermogène's son did not marry by then. 

Charles Auguste's sixth and youngest son Clairville or Clerville, by second wife Susanne Granger, may have married Lelie Réon in Calcasieu Parish in the late 1840s.  She evidently gave him no children.  He married--or remarried to--Arthémise, daughter of Victor Herpin and his Acadian wife Marie Trahan, at the Vermilionville church in April 1849.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Désiré in May 1850; Eugénie in December 1851 but died the following February; Suzanne Adhesira born in January 1853; Adèle in August 1854; Charles le jeune in March 1856 but died at age 1 in August 1857; Adeline born in November 1857; Isaac in December 1860; Fergus in December 1865; Ferlus in September 1866; ...  None of Clairville's children married by 1870. 

Jean-Marie (c1766-?) à ? à Laurent Granger

Jean-Marie Granger, a 19-year-old carpenter when he came to the colony aboard Le Beaumont, followed his fellow passengers to Manchac below Baton Rouge, where he likely plied his trade.  He does not appear in Louisiana church records.  One wonders what became of him. 

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A Granger wife, her Bourg husband, and three of their children crossed on Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in the second week of September 1785.  They followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.

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Another Granger wife, her Trahan husband, and their large family crossed on L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in early November 1785.  They, too, followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche. 

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Five more Grangers--children and stepchildren of Anne Thériot, the second wife and widow of Joseph-Marie Granger of Minas--crossed on La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans from St.-Malo in early December 1785.  They followed their fellow passengers to the new Acadian settlement of Bayou des Écores in the New Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge, but they did not remain.  The widow remarried and took her children to Baton Rouge, where her Granger daughters married into the Labauve and Arthacho families.  Her Granger son and stepson also married at Baton Rouge, and another Granger family line came of it: 

Joseph-Constans (1764-?) à Joseph à Jacques à Laurent Granger

Joseph-Constans, oldest son of Joseph Granger, fils by first wife Marie Cyr, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo, France, in April 1764, followed his family to Îles Malouines, today's Falkland Islands, in 1765, back to St.-Servan in 1771, and followed his widowed stepmother and siblings to New Orleans and Bayou des Écores.  He married, at age 26 Marie-Modeste, 40-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Moulaison and Cécile Melanson and widow of Ambroise Bourg, at Bayou des Écores or Baton Rouge in July 1790.  Marie-Modeste, a native of Cap-Sable, had come to Louisiana from France in 1785 with her first husband and large family aboard the same ship Joseph-Constans had taken.  She gave him no children.  One wonders what happened to them. 

Pierre-Marie (1779-1873) à Joseph à Jacques à Laurent Granger

Pierre-Marie, fourth and youngest son of Joseph-Marie Granger, fils by second wife Anne Thériot, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, France, in December 1779, followed his widowed mother and siblings to New Orleans, Bayou des Écores, and Baton Rouge.  He married Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Hébert and Marguerite Richard of San Gabriel and Baton Rouge, at Baton Rouge in May 1804.  They settled in what became West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born in the Baton Rouge area, included Marguerite Mathilde, called Mathilde, in April 1806; Anselme in January 1807 and died near Baton Rouge, in his early 40s, in c1850; Béatrice born in June 1810; Joseph in April 1811 and died in Lafayette Parish, age 81, in March 1893; Cécile Hortense born in June 1814; Pierre Dorgueville or Dorville, called Dorville, in January 1816; Marie Adélaïde, called Adélaïde in c1818; Juliènne Ignace in October 1820; and Artur in c1822--nine children, five daughters and four sons, between 1806 and 1822.  Pierre Marie died in West Baton Rouge Parish in 1873, age 93, perhaps the last of the Acadian immigrants in Louisiana to join his ancestors.  Daughters Mathilde, Beatrice, Adélaïde, and Juliènne married into the de Richebourg, Wooten, and Peyronnin families, two of them to Peyronnin brothers; one of them, Béatrice, followed her Wooten husband to Catahoula Parish in North Louisiana.  One of Pierre Marie's sons also married and settled in West Baton Rouge Parish. 

Third son Pierre Dorville, called Dorville, married Apolline dite Pauline, daughter of fellow Acadians Mathurin Lejeune and Améline Trahan (the recording priest said Hébert) of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in December 1838.  Their children, born in West Baton Rouge Parish, included Dorville Duffosat in October 1839; Arthur M. in April 1842; Théophile in c1844; Dorgeville near Brusly in July 1846; and A. in c1848 but died at age 2 in c1850--five children, probably all sons, between 1839 and 1848.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in West Baton Rouge Parish counted nine slaves--five males and four females, all black, ranging in age from 36 years to 6 months--on Pierre Grangier's farm; this probably was Pierre Dorville.  One of his sons married by 1870, but not in Louisiana. 

Oldest son Dorville Duffosat married Elizabeth Permelia Stafford of Franklin County, Alabama, in Texas in c1870.  Their children, born in Texas, included Pauline in c1871; Polly Ann in c1875; Marie Elizabeth, called "Bessie," in November 1875; Susann Arena in Llano County in July 1878; Jane Temperance in October 1879; Theodore D. in February 1884; Dozier Weal in August 1885; and Joseph Levi in August 1887--eight children, five daughters and three sons, between 1871 and 1887.  Daughters Bessie and Jane married into the Kilby and Wheat families.  Sons Theodore, Dozier, and Joseph married into the Weir and Kiser families.  Dorville died at DeLeon, Comanche County, Texas, in September 1890, age 51.

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A middle-aged bachelor came to Louisiana probably aboard one of the Seven Ships in 1785.  He married and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche, but no new Granger family line came of it:

Joseph, fils (c1752-?) à Pierre à Laurent Granger

Joseph, fils, fifth and youngest son of Joseph Granger by his second wife Marguerite Gautrot, and Charles-Benoît of Le Beaumont's younger brother, born at Minas in c1752, followed his family to Virginia and England and his widowed mother, stepfather Simon Landry, and their family to St.-Servan-sur-Mer, France.  He followed his mother and stepfather and his older brother and two older half-sisters to Spanish Louisiana in 1785, though he appears on none of the passengers rolls of any of the Seven Ships.  In his early 30s, Joseph, fils married Anne-Marie-Madeleine, 32-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Bernard Savary and Marie Michel dit La Ruine and widow of Pierre Pothier, at Ascension on the Acadian Coast in June 1786.  They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche and may have been that rare Acadian couple who had no children. 

Gravois

Joseph Gravois, born in c1670, place unrecorded, reached Port-Royal by c1691, when he married Marie, daughter of André Mignier dit La Gassé and Jacquette Michel.  They had one child, a son, Joseph, fils, born at Port-Royal in c1692.  Joseph, père seems to have died at Port-Royal soon after the birth of his son.  By 1693, Marie was already remarried to René Martin dit Barnabé, so Joseph, fils would not have remembered his father.  Joseph, fils settled at Chignecto, where he married Marie, daughter of Pierre Cyr and Claire Cormier, in October 1718.  They had at least nine children, five daughters and four sons, there.  Joseph, fils died during exile, perhaps at Halifax, by August 1763, in his late 60s or early 70s.  Three of his daughters married into the Haché dit Gallant and Hébert families.  His four sons married into the Bourgeois, Bugeaud, Bourg, and Jeanson families.  In 1755, Gravoiss could be found at Chignecto and Minas.  None had moved on to the French Maritimes.  Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this small family to the winds. 

The Acadians at Chignecto were the first to endure a disruption of their lives.  During the spring and summer of 1750, in response to the British building a fort at Beaubassin village, Canadian militia, along with Mi'kmaq led by Abbé Jean-Louis Le Loutre, burned Acadian homesteads east of Rivière Missaguash, forcing the habitants there to move to the French-controlled area west of the river.  Descendants of Joseph Gravois, fils and Marie Cyr may have been among the refugees.  After yet another war erupted between Britain and France in 1754, local Acadians were caught in the middle of it.  When British and New-English forces attacked Fort Beauséjour in June 1755, Gravoiss may have been among the Chignecto Acadians who were serving in the fort as militia.  They, too, along with the French troupes de la marine, became prisoners of war when the fort surrendered on June 16.   Lieutenant-Governor Charles Lawrence was so incensed to find so-called French Neutrals fighting with French regulars at Beauséjour he ordered his officers to deport the Chignecto-area Acadians to the southernmost seaboard colonies.  The fate of many of them in the fall of 1755 was exile to Georgia or South Carolina. 

The Gravoiss, however, were among the Chignecto Acadians who escaped the British and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Later in the decade, some of them joined hundreds of other Acadians at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  Jean Gravois's son Joseph le jeune was born at Restigouche in November 1759 and baptized there the following May.  The boy's godfather was Marin Gravois.  Their respite from British oppression ended soon after the boy's baptism.  After the fall of Québec in September 1759, the British gathered their forces to attack the remaining French strongholds in New France, including Restigouche, now a major Acadian refuge.  In late June 1760, a British naval force from Louisbourg attacked the French outpost.  After a spirited fight in which Acadian militia and Mi'kmaq warriors played an important role, the French commander blew up his larger vessels and retreated up Rivière Restigouche, leaving the militia and the Indians to oppose a British landing.  Unable to capture the garrison or lay waste to the area, the British commander ordered his ships to return to their base at Louisbourg.  In October, following the fall of Montréal, another British naval force, this one from Québec, appeared at Restigouche to accept the garrison's, and the Acadians', surrender.  On 24 October 1760, on the eve of formal surrender, French officers counted 1,003 Acadians still at Restigouche, Gravoiss among them.  They included militia Lieutenant Pre., or Pierre, Gravois, and his family of six; and brother Jean and his family of three.  The British held them and other exiles captured in the region in prison compounds in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  In August 1763, Pierre, wife Marie-Rose Bourgeois, and five children; and brother Jean, wife Marie-Anne Bugeaud, and two children were being held in the prison barracks at Halifax.  Joseph, fils may have died at Halifax before the listing, and older sons Pierre and Jean soon after. 

Acadians being held in Nova Scotia at war's end faced a hard dilemma.  The Treaty of Paris of February 1763 stipulated in its Article IV that persons dispersed by the war had 18 months to return to their respective territories.  However, British authorities refused to allow any of the Acadian prisoners in the region to return to their former lands as proprietors.  If Acadians chose to remain in, or return to, Nova Scotia, they could live only in small family groups in previously unsettled areas or work for low wages on former Acadian lands now owned by New-English "planters."  If they stayed, they must also take the hated oath of allegiance to the new British king, George III, without reservation.  They would also have to take the oath if they joined their cousins in Canada.  After all they had suffered on the question of the oath, few self-respecting Acadians would consent to take it if it could be avoided.  Some Nova Scotia exiles chose to relocate to Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  Others considered going to French St.-Domingue, where Acadian exiles in the seaboard colonies were going, or to the Illinois country, the west bank of which still belonged to France, or to French Louisiana, which, thanks to British control of Canada, was the only route possible to the Illinois country for Acadian exiles.  Whatever their choice, many refused to remain under British rule.  So they gathered up their money and their few possessions and prepared to leave their homeland.  Of the 600 exiles who left Halifax in late 1764 and early 1765 bound for Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, three were sons of former militia lieutenant Pierre Gravois

Meanwhile, Pierre and Jean Gravois's younger brother Joseph III fell into British hands.  Still in his teens during the early 1750s, he evidently had moved from Chignecto to Minas, with tragic consequences.  In the fall of 1755, when he was 16, the British deported him along with hundreds of other Minas Acadians to Virginia.  In mid-November, when five British transports appeared unexpectedly at Hampton Roads, Virginia's governor, Robert Dinwiddie, protested their deportation to his colony without his consent.  Exiles died on the filthy, crowded ships anchored in Hampton Roads while the Virginia authorities pondered their fate.  As winter approached, the governor ordered Acadians from one vessel moved up to Richmond, two of the vessels were unloaded at Hampton, and two more at Norfolk.  Finally, in the spring of 1756, the governor and his council and Virginia's House of Burgesses made their decision ... the papists must go!  In May, the first shipment of Acadians in hired vessels left for England, and in two weeks all of them had gone--299 to Bristol, 250 to Falmouth, 340 to Southampton, and 336 to Liverpool--1,225 exiles by one count.  Their ordeal only worsened in the English ports, where they were held in warehouses and many died of smallpox.  In May 1763, after prolonged negotiations between British and French authorities, Joseph III and hundreds of other Acadians in England were repatriated to France.  By then, nearly half of the Acadians in England had died.  Joseph III, one of the lucky survivors, now in his early 20s and still unmarried, crossed on the transport La Dorothée from Bristol, where he may have been held, to St.-Malo in northeast Brittany.  He settled at St.-Suliac on the east side of Rivière Rance south of the Breton port, where he married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Bourg and his first wife Jeanne Hébert of Grand-Pré, in August 1763, not long after his arrival.  They may have known one another in England.  They settled in the nearby suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer, but they did not remain.  In February 1767, the war now over, Joseph took his family, including his in-laws, to England and was counted at Windsor on the upper Thames in 1770.  By the following year, they had returned to greater Acadia.  They settled first at Baie St.-Marie--today's St. Mary's Bay--in southern Nova Scotia, where Joseph III may have engaged in fishing and the coastal trade.  They were still there in 1774.  Again, they did not remain.  From 1775 to 1784, Joseph and his family resided at the British-controlled fishery center of Carleton in Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs, not far from where his brothers had found refuge 20 years earlier.  And, again, they did not remain.  Perhaps unwilling to live under British rule any longer, in the mid-1780s Joseph and his growing family moved to another fishing center, this one on Île St.-Pierre, a French-controlled island near Miquelon off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  It was from there, in 1788, that they sailed to Spanish Louisiana on Joseph's own schooner, the Brigite--likely the only Acadian exiles to go to Louisiana directly from greater Acadia.  

Joseph III's youngest brother, Augustin Gravois, did not go to France or Louisiana.  He and his family were among the Acadians who had remained in Nova Scotia after the war.  By c1775, they had settled at St. Mary's Bay, where brother Joseph III and his family had lived before moving on to Gaspésie.  One wonders if Augustin and his family remained in Nova Scotia.  One thing is certain--they did not join his brothers Pierre, fils and Joseph III in Spanish Louisiana. 

Gravoiss settled fairly early in Acadia, and they were among the earliest Acadians to seek refuge in Louisiana.  The widow of Pierre Gravois of Chignecto came to the colony from Halifax via Cap-Français in 1765 and settled in the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  With her were three Gravois sons, two of whom married and created families of their own, but only one of the lines endured, in Ascension and St. James parishes on what came to be known as the Acadian Coast. 

Meanwhile, a large Gravois family came to Louisiana from Île St.-Pierre, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland, 22 years after their kinsmen had reached the colony from Halifax.  Joseph Gravois III and his family, who traveled in their own schooner, were some of the last Acadian exiles to emigrate to Spanish Louisiana and evidently the only ones who went there directly from greater Acadia.  Three of the navigator's daughters settled on the western prairies, but neither of his sons seems to have produced a family of his own.  So this line of the famiy, except for its blood, did not endure in the Bayou State. 

All of the Acadian Gravoiss of South Louisiana, then, descend from one of the navigator's nephews who had come to the colony in 1765.  Louisiana church and civil records reveal that none of the nephew's descendants moved from the river to the western prairies or to Bayou Lafourche during the late colonial or the antebellum period. 

Non-Acadian Gravoiss do not seem to have come to Louisiana during the colonial period.  During the antebellum period, however, a Gravois, perhaps a Foreign Frenchman, settled in St. John the Baptist Parish on the upper German Coast.  Two of his sons moved upriver to Vacherie in St. James Parish and settled near their Acadian namesakes, complicating the family's genealogical picture there.  It may have been a member of the St. John the Baptiste family who settled in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley late in the antebellum period. 

Judging by the number of slaves they owned during the late antebellum period, some of the Gravoiss lived comfortably on their farms and plantations along the river.  In 1850, a non-Acadian Gravois living in St. John the Baptist Parish held enough slaves (over 50) to qualify as a great planter--he owned 57.  His Acadian namesakes in St. James and Ascension parishes who also held bondsmen owned no more than 14 slaves by 1860.  

At least seven Gravoiss, most of them Acadians from river parishes, served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65.  Two of them were captured in the fighing in Mississippi and Tennessee in 1863 and 1864, but none of the Gravoiss in butternut and gray seems to have lost his life in Confederate service.

In Louisiana, the family's name also is spelled Grabois, Gravua, Gravoa, Gravoi, Gravoire, Gravoix, Gravua.25 

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The first members of the family to reach Louisiana--three brothers accompanying their widowed mother--arrived in 1765 from Halifax via Cap-Français.  They settled in the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans, where the widow promptly remarried to a French-born surgeon who had led their contingent of exiles from Nova Scotia.  Two of the widow's Gravois sons married, but only one of their lines endured: 

Paul (c1751-?) à Joseph, fils à Joseph Gravois

Paul, oldest son of Pierre Gravois and Marie-Rose Bourgeois, born at Chignecto in c1751, followed his family into exile and imprisonment, and his widowed mother to New Orleans and Cabahannocer.  The Spanish counted him with his mother and stepfather, Philippe de Saint-Julien de Lachaussée, on the right, or west, bank of the river there in September 1769.  Ten years later, Paul, now in his late 20s, was still living at Cabahannocer.  He evidently did not marry. 

Joseph le jeune (c1753-c1790) à Joseph, fils à Joseph Gravois

Joseph le jeune, second son of Pierre Gravois and Marie-Rose Bourgeois, born at Chignecto in c1753, followed his family into exile and imprisonment, and his widowed mother to New Orleans and Cabahannocer.  The Spanish counted him with his mother and stepfather on the right, or west, bank of the river at Cabahannocer in September 1769.   Joseph le jeune married Louise-Françoise, called Françoise, daughter of his stepfather Philippe Saint-Julien de Lachaussée and his first wife Rosalie Godin, at Cabahannocer in June 1777.  Louise, a native of lower Rivière St.-Jean, where her father, a French-born surgeon, had lived with his first family before exile, also had come to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer, included Céleste in March 1778; Auguste or Augustin baptized, age unrecorded, in October 1779; Marie-Clémence, called Clémence, born in the 1780s; and Joseph Simon in August 1786 but died at age 9 in September 1795--four children, two daughters and two sons, between 1778 and 1795.  Joseph le jeune died probably at Cabahannocer by January 1791, in his late 30s, when his wife remarried to a Canadian there.  Daughters Céleste and Clémence married into the De Roussel and Prejean families.  One of them settled on Bayou Lafourche, and another died in St. Martin Parish, west of the Atchafalaya Basin, in the late 1860s.  One of Joseph le jeune's sons also married, but his line did not endure. 

Older son Auguste or Augustin married cousin Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Bourgeois and Marie Bergeron, at Cabahannocer in April 1802.  Auguste died in St. James Parish in July 1815, age 35.  Did he father any children?       

Jean le jeune (c1755-1844) à Joseph, fils à Joseph Gravois

Jean le jeune, third son of Pierre Gravois and Marie-Rose Bourgeois, born at Chignecto or in exile in c1755, followed his family into exile and imprisonment, and his widowed mother to New Orleans and Cabahannocer.  The Spanish counted him with his mother and stepfather on the right, or west, bank of the river at Cabahannocer in September 1769, and he was still living with him there a decade later.  Jean le jeune, at age 35, married Bibianne, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Bourg and his second wife Marie LeBlanc, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in June 1790.  They remained on what became known as the lower Acadian Coast.  Their children, born at nearby Ascension, included Joseph le jeune in November 1791; Amédée in October 1793; Hippolyte-Valéry, called Valéry, baptized, age unrecorded, in October 1795; Marie-Céleste, called Céleste, born in December 1797; Michel in c1799 but died in Ascension Parish, age 20, in October 1819; Édouard-Donat, called Edward, born in December 1801; Sylvain in September 1803 and may have been the Simonet Gravois who died near Convent, age 58, in August 1863 (one wonders if his death was war-related); Eugénie Françoise born in February 1806; Clarisse in 1807 and baptized, age 12 months, in June 1808; and Joseph Drosin, called Drosin, born in May 1810--10 children, seven sons and three daughters, between 1791 and 1810.  Jean le jeune died in Ascension Parish in November 1844.  The Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial said that Jean died at "age 95 yrs."; he was in his late 80s.  Daughters Céleste, Clarisse, and Eugénie married into the Mollère, LeBlanc, and Gautreaux families.  Four of Jean le jeune's sons also married on the Acadian Coast, but not all of the lines endured.  Most, if not all, of the Acadian Gravoiss of South Louisiana are descendants of Jean le jeune and three of his sons. 

Oldest son Joseph le jeune married cousin Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Marcel LeBlanc and Marie Madeleine Bourgeois, at the Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, in April 1810.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Céleste Émilie, also called Mélitte, in August 1811; Marie Delphine in July 1813; Marcelline, also called Marie Marcellite, in October 1816; Marie Arthémise, called Arthémise, in December 1818; Rosalie in the late 1810s or early 1820s; Joseph Désiré, called Désiré, in January 1823; Florence Virginie Antoinette, also called Marie Elsesile and Elesille, in June 1825; Jean Baptiste in November1826 but died at age 9 months in August 1827; Pierre Télésphore, called Télésphore, born in December 1828; Marie Adeline in January 1831; and Sadeline dite Sue in c1833 but died at age 1 in May 1834--11 children, eight daughters and three sons, between 1811 and 1833.  Joseph died in Ascension Parish in October 1847, age 55.  Daughters Mélitte, Marie Delphine, Marie Marcellite, Arthémise, and Marie Elesile married into the Rousseau, Landry, LeBlanc, Moore, and Guilfou families.  Daughter Rosalie gave birth to son François Théodule probably in Ascension Parish in February 1840; the priest who recorded the boy's baptism at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in March 1841, notes only that he was a grandson of Joseph Gravois and Rosalie LeBlanc but did not give the boy's father's name.  Daughter Elesille, who married George W. Moore and later Théophile Guilfou, gave birth to son Théodore Bienvenu in Ascension Parish in June 1862; the priest who recorded the boy's baptism called him a Gravois, not a Moore, and did not give the father's name.  Joseph le jeune's remaining sons also married and settled on the river. 

Older son Joseph Désiré, called Désiré, married cousin Émilie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste LeBlanc and Marie Cléonise Gaudin, in a civil ceremony probably in Ascension Parish, date unrecorded, and sanctified the marriage at the Donaldsonville church in May 1844; they had to secure a dispensation for fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Justine, also called Justinia, in September 1845; Joseph Renaud in March 1847; Joseph Lazare in September 1848 but, called Lazare, died at age 5 in September 1853; and Marie Élina born in June 1850--four children, two daughters and two sons, between 1845 and 1850.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Ascension Parish counted a single slave--a 40-year-old black female--on Désiré Gravois's farm.  Désiré died in Ascension Parish in June 1870.  The Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Désiré died at "age ca. 43 years."  He was 47.  Daughters Justinia and Marie Élina married into the Thibodeaux and Breaux families.  Désiré's remaining son did not marry by 1870. 

Joseph le jeune's third and youngest son Pierre Télésphore, called Télésphore, married cousin Elmire, another daughter of Jean Baptiste LeBlanc and Marie Cléonise Gaudin, at the Donaldsonville church in December 1847.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Jean Baptiste in October 1848; Anathalie Jane in August 1850 but, called Anatalie, died at age 1 in July 1851; Joseph Théophile born in October 1852 but, called Théophile, died at age 11 months in September 1853; Marie Cécilia born in October 1854 but died at age 4 in November 1858; Marie Félicie Télésphore born in May 1856; Marie Estelle baptized at the Donaldsonville church, age unrecorded, in November 1859; Adèle died at age 4 months in July 1860; Marie born in February 1862; Joseph in April 1864; Georges in November 1865; ...  None of Télésphore's children married by 1870. 

Jean le jeune's third son Hippolyte Valéry, called Valéry, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Richard and Scholastique Mire, at the St. James church, St. James Parish, in February 1818.  They evidently were that rare Acadian couple who had no children.  Valéry died in Ascension Parish in 1830.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Valéry was age 37 when he died.  He was 35.  Wife Marie died in October 1831, "age ca. 35 yrs." 

Jean le jeune's fifth son Édouard Donat, called Edward, married Marie Marthe Eurasie or Anastasie, also called Marie Rosie and Rasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Donat Landry and Marie Marthe Lanoux, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in October 1821.  Their children, born near Convent, included Amédée le jeune in September 1822 but died at age 18 months in May 1824; Marie born in c1823 but died at age 30 in September 1853; Jean Elphége, called Elphége, born in September 1824; Marie Laure, called Laure, in August 1826; Marie Eléonore, called Eléonore, in July 1828; Constant in March 1830; Marie Octavie in October 1832; Victorine born in 1836 and baptized at the Convent church, age 7 months, in February 1837 but died at age 3 in August 1839; Marie Euranie, called Euranie, born in August 1838; Duradu in September 1840 but, called Dourado, died at age 13 in September 1853; Marie Laurentia born in November 1842; Mary in September 1845; Claire in August 1848; and Marie Victorine, called Victorine, the second with the name, in Septembr 1850--14 children, four sons and 10 daughters, between 1822 and 1850.  In September 1850, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted five slaves--two males and three females, all black, ranging in age from 40 to 8--on Edward Gravois's farm in the parish's eastern district.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted four slaves--two males and two females, all black, ages 50 to 18--on Édouard Gravois's farm in the parish's Left Bank District 4 near the farms of Drauzin and Constant Gravois.  Daughters Laure, Eléonore, Euranie, Claire, and Victorine married into the Dugas, Bourg, Thomassel, Louvière, and Chauvin families.  Édouard Donat's remaining sons also married and settled in St. James Parish, but not all of the lines endured. 

Second son Jean Elphége, called Elphége, married Marie Coralie, called Coralie, daughter of fellow Acadians Onésime LeBlanc and Joséphine Blanchard, at the Convent church in January 1852.  Elphége died near Convent in September 1853.  The priest said that Helphége, as he called him, was age 26 when he died.  He was 29.  He evidently fathered no children. 

Édouard Donat's third son Constant married Marie Marine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Melançon and Carmélite LeBlanc, at the Convent church in July 1854.  Their children, born near Convent, included Joseph Constant in September 1855; Marie Eugénie in July 1857; Marie Séverine in April 1861; Marie Constantine in March 1866; Marie Medarine in June 1868; ...  In June 1860, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted five slaves--all females, all mulattoes, ranging in age from 35 to 10, living in two houses--on Constant Gravois's farm in the parish's Left Bank District 4 near the farms of Drauzin and Édouard Gravois.  None of Constants's children married by 1870. 

Jean le jeune's seventh and youngest son Joseph Drosin, called Drosin, married Apolline dite Pauline, another daughter of Donat Landry and Marie Marthe Lanoux, at the Convent church in September 1832.  They settled on the river near the boundary between St. James and Ascension parished.  Their children, born there, included Marie Calice or Calliste, called Calliste, in October 1833; Marie Apolline, called Marine, in December 1835; Drosin, fils in January 1838 but, called Drauzin, died at age 7 1/2 (the recording priest said 8) in July 1845; Donat Célestin born in April 1842; and Carmélite in October 1845 but died at age 8 (the recording priest said 9) in September 1853--five children, three daughters and two sons, between 1833 and 1845.  In September 1850, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted six slaves--four males and three females, all black, ranging in age from 40 to 10--on Drauzin Gravois's farm in the parish's eastern district near the farm of Simonet Gravois.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted 14 slaves--nine males and five females, all black, ages 48 to 1, living in five houses--on Drauzin Gravois's farm in the parish's Left Bank District 4 near the farms of Constant and Édouard Gravois.  Daughters Calliste and Marine married into the Brasset and Mire families.  Drosin's remaining son also married and settled in St. James Parish. 

Second son Donat Célestin married Madeleine Alphonsine, daughter of fellow Acadians Zénon Arceneaux and Euphémie LeBlanc, at the Convent church in September 1860.  Did they have any children? 

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Nine more Gravoiss--a large family led by an uncle of the three Gravois brothers on the Acadian Coast--reached Louisiana in 1788 aboard their own schooner--among the last of the Acadians exiles to emigrate to Spanish Louisiana and perhaps the only ones who came the colony directly from greater Acadia.  Amazingly, except for its blood, no new lasting family line came of it: 

Joseph III (c1739-c1790s) à Joseph Gravois

Joseph III, third son of Joseph Gravois, fils and Marie Cyr and uncle of Paul, Joseph le jeune, and Jean, born at Chignecto in c1739, left for Minas while still in his teens, perhaps in search of a bride.  In the fall of 1755, the British deported him to Virginia with other Minas Acadians, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  In May 1763, Joseph III was repatriated from Bristol to St.-Malo, France, with a Martin aunt and other Acadians in England aboard La Dorothée.  He settled at St.-Suliac on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo, where, at age 24, he married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Bourg and his first wife Anne Hébert of Minas, in August 1763.  Joseph's aunt Brigitte Martin was Michel Bourg's second wife, so Joseph and Marie-Madeleine had known one another in England and perhaps at Minas.  They settled in the nearby suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where Joseph likely worked as a sailor and where Marie-Madeleine gave him two daughters:  Angélique-Marguerite born in c1764; and Marie-Félicité, called Félicité, in c1766.  In February 1767, Joseph III took his family, including his widowed aunt, to England.  According to Bona Arsenault, British authorities counted them at Windsor on the upper Thames in 1770.  Another daughter, Anastasie, perhaps also called Madeleine-Blanche, was born that year perhaps at Windsor.  One wonders what Joseph, an Acadian navigator, was doing in the interior of England at the time.  They did not remain.  By 1771, Joseph had taken his family back to greater Acadia and settled on Baie Ste.-Marie, today's St. Mary's Bay, on the south shore of Nova Scotia, where his younger brother Augustin had settled and where Joseph may have engaged in fishing and the coastal trade.  Marie-Madeleine gave Joseph his first son there, Joseph-Frédéric, called Frédéric, born in c1772.  Joseph and his family were still on St. Mary's Bay in 1774, but, again, the family moved on.  From 1775 to 1784, Joseph III and his family resided in the British-controlled fishing center of Carleton in Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs, not far from where his brothers had found refuge during exile a decade and a half earlier.  Marie-Madeleine gave Joseph four more children at Carleton:  Marie-Victoire, called Victoire, born in c1775; Marie-Tarsile, called Tarsile, in c1779; Jean-Hébert in c1781; and Susanne in c1784--eight children, six daughters and two sons, between 1764 to 1784, in France, England, and greater Acadia.  By the mid-1780s, Joseph, perhaps disillusioned with British rule, had taken his family to Île St.-Pierre, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  Nearby was Île Miquelon, a smaller fishing island also controlled by France, where even more of his fellow Acadians had settled two decades earlier.  It was from Île St.-Pierre, in 1788, that the family, along with seven other Acadians, sailed to Louisiana aboard Joseph's schooner, the Brigite.  They reached La Balize at the mouth of the Mississippi in December and settled near their kinsmen on the Acadian Coast.  One wonders if Joseph continued his work as a navigator in the Spanish colony.  Both he and Marie-Madeleine died by January 1798, when they were listed as deceased in daughter Tarsile's marriage record, so he died probably in his late 50s, and she in her late 40s or early 50s.  Daughters Angélique, Tarsile, Victoire, and Marie-Félicité married into the Frederick, Breaux, Bertrand, and Mulford families.  One daughter settled at New Orleans, and three followed their husbands to the Attakapas prairies west of the Atchafalaya Basin.  Neither of Joseph III's sons seems to have married, so this line of the family, except for its blood, did not endure in the Bayou State. 

Guédry/Guidry

Claude Guédry dit Grivois dit La Verdure, who also spelled his surname Gaidry, came to Port-Royal soon after the first census of 1671 and married an Indian, Kesk8a, probably a Mi'kmaq, in c1680.  Their daughter Jeanne was born in June 1681 and baptized at Beaubassin at Chignecto; she then disappears from the historical record.  That same year, Claude remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Claude Petitpas and Catherine Bugaret and widow of Martin Dugas, at Port-Royal, so one wonders if the birth of Claude dit Grivois's daughter led to the death of his first wife.  By 1686, Claude had taken his famiy to Mirliguèche, today's Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, northeast of Cap-Sable, on the Atlantic side of the peninsula.  By 1695, they were back at Port-Royal.  In 1708, they returned to the Atlantic shore and settled at La Hève, still a major Métis enclave.  Between 1682 and 1703, Marguerite gave Claude 11 children, nine sons and two daughters, in the colony.  Claude died after January 1723, when he was recorded as baptizing privately the twin daughters of his son Augustin at Boston, so one can assume by this that Claude and Augustin engaged in commerce with New England.  Claude's daughters by his second wife married into the Doiron and Lejeune families.  His older daughter settled at Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, after French Acadia fell to the British in the early 1710s, and his younger daughter also moved to one of the Maritime islands by 1752.  Four of his and Marguerite's many sons also married, into the Mius d'Azy, Hébert, and Brassaud families.  Second son Jean-Baptiste, along with his teenage son Jean-Baptiste, fils, were hanged for piracy in Boston, Massachusetts, in November 1726.  In 1755, descendants of Claude Guédry dit Grivois dit La Verdure and his second wife could be found at Annapolis Royal, formerly Port-Royal; l'Assomption, Pigiguit, and Cobeguit at the eastern end of the Minas Basin; Mirliguèche/Lunenburg on the Atlantic coast; and on Île Royale and Île St.-Jean in the French Maritime islands.  Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this large family even farther. 

The Guédrys at Pigiguit were the first of the family to suffer the indignities of exile.  In the fall of 1755, the British deported two families, one of them recently returned from Île Royale, to Maryland.  Soon after, a large family of Guédrys at Annapolis Royal ended up on a transport bound for Massachusetts.  Most of their kinsmen at Annapolis Royal eluded the redcoats.  After a hard winter on the Fundy shore, they crossed the bay to Chepoudy the following spring and sought refuge on the upper Petitcoudiac or lower Rivière St.-Jean before moving on to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore or to Canada via the St.-Jean portage.  In the late 1750s, after years of suffering in overcrowded refugee camps on the Gulf shore, at least one Guédry family made its way north to the French stronghold at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs. 

One cluster of Guédrys in British Nova Scotia had no chance to escape the British dragnet.  In 1749, heeding the threats of Abbé Jean-Louis Le Loutre, the French agitator, about what would happen to them if they remained under British rule, Guédrys from l'Assomption, Pigiguit, and Annapolis Royal followed dozens of other peninsula Acadians to French-controlled Île Royale.  In March and April 1752, a French official counted members of the family at Pointe-à-la-Jeunesse in the big island's interior and at Baie des Espagnols and Rivière-de-Miré on the Atlantic shore, but not all of these volunteer refugees were content with their new home in the French Maritimes.  As the Guédrys at Baie des Espagnols explained to British authorities two years later, "the Land there" on the island "being so very bad they were utterly incapable of subsisting their Families, and had applied to the Governor of Louisbourg for leave to return to their former Habitations, to which he had consented."  By 9 October 1754, they had made their way by boat from Louisbourg to Halifax.  The Guédrys and their kinsmen beseeched Lieutenant-Governor Lawrence and his Council to let them return to their former lands.  After hearing their case, the Council agreed to the request only if they "voluntarily" took "the Oath of Allegiance to His Majesty" George II "unqualified by any reservation"--a hard request for self-respecting Acadians.  However, "it appearing that they were in very great distress being intirely destitute of all necessitous," the Council minutes noted, they "very cheerfully" took the hated oath and were issued rations to get them through the winter.  Lawrence sent them not to Pigiguit but to Mirliguèche on the coast west of Halifax, where Guédrys and their Mi'kmaq kin had lived decades earlier and where Foreign Protestants had built the settlement of Lunenberg the year before.  When Lawrence and his Council authorized the deportation of the Acadians in Nova Scotia the following July, the Guédrys and their kinsmen at Mirliguèche, despite having taken the unqualified oath, did not escape the hard hand of British oppression.  In September 1755, as their cousins at Minas and Annapolis were being herded onto hired deporation transports, redcoats from Halifax gathered up the Acadians at Mirliguèche, including the Guédrys, and held them in the prison compound on Georges Island in Halifax harbor.  In December, during the second round of deportations, the British herded 50 of the captives from Mirliguèche, including Guédrys, aboard the sloop Providence and deported them to North Carolina--the only Acadians who actually made it to that seaboard colony.  They landed at Edenton on Albemarle Sound in March 1756 and remained there for at least four years.  In c1760, probably after hearing of the fall of Canada, colonial authorities, perhaps tired of the expense of caring for the Acadians, allowed them to join their fellow exiles in Pennsylvania. 

Living in territory controlled by France, the Guédrys still on the French Maritime islands at the end of 1755 were untouched by the roundup of their cousins in Nova Scotia.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived, however.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats rounded up most of the habitants on the islands and deported them to France.  Like their cousins at Minas and Annapolis Royal, some of the island Guédrys, including two brothers living on the western end of Île St.-Jean, managed to elude the British and cross Mer Rouge to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  The Guédrys at Baie des Espagnols and Rivière-de-Miré were gone, languishing in North Carolina, but members of the family still at Pointe-à-la-Jeunesse in the interior of Île Royale and at several other points on the coast of Île St.-Jean were not as lucky.  Two Guédry families were transported to St.-Malo aboard one of the five deportation transports that left Chédabouctou Bay in a 12-ship convoy in late November and, despite a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England that sank three other transports, reached St.-Malo together in late January 1759.  Not all of them survived the crossing or its rigors.  Another family crossed aboard the transport Supply, which left Chédabouctou Bay in the 12-ship convoy, survived the mid-December storm, took refuge at Bideford, England, for repairs, and did not reach St.-Malo until the second week of March.  All of the Guédry's aboard survived the crossing.  A Guédry from Cobeguit deported to France from Île St.-Jean ended up at the naval port of Rochefort on the Bay of Biscay. 

Island Guédrys did their best to make a life for themselves in the suburbs and villages of the St.-Malo area.  They settled in the suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer and at Châteauneuf, Bonaban, La Gouesnière, and especially at St.-Suliac on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo, and at Plouër-sur-Rance on the west side of the river.  Guédry sisters and their aunt also ended up at Rochefort, where two of them married Frenchmen before going the new French colony of Guiane on the northern coast of South America in 1764.  Unlike many of their fellow exiles who went to the tropical colony and returned, the Guédry women remained.  In late 1765, a Guédry widow who remarried at St.-Servan-sur-Mer followed her new husband to Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany.  By the early 1770s, French authorities were weary of providing for exiles languishing in the port cities.  An influential nobleman offered to settle them on land he owned in the interior of Poitou near the city of Châtellerault.  Hundreds of Acadians went there in 1773 and 1774, Guédrys among them, and did their best to become productive farmers again.  Their experience there was not a happy one.  In November and December 1775, after two years of effort, the Guédrys retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes, where they subsisted on governments handouts and what work they could find.  One young Guédry, a native of Île Royale, who had followed his family to St.-Malo, Poitou, and Nantes, did not remain in the Loire port for long.  In the late 1770s, he went to North America, perhaps as a privateer, and married an Hébert widow at New Orleans in December 1780. 

One Guédry family came to France by a roundabout way.  Jean dit Grivois Guédry and wife Marie LeBlanc of Île St.-Jean, after escaping the British on the island in 1758, took refuge at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  After they surrendered there, the British held them in the prison compound at Fort Cumberland, formerly French Beauséjour, Chignecto, where they were counted with two sons in August 1763.  When they were free to go, they chose to resettle not in greater Acadia, Canada, or Louisiana, but on Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  French officials counted them on the island in 1766, but they did not remain.  The following year, overcrowding on Miquelon and nearby Île St.-Pierre compelled French authorities, obeying a royal decree, to "deport" the fisher/habitants to France, Jean and his family among them.  When other islanders chose to return to Miquelon in 1768, Jean and his family remained in the mother country.  In September 1784, Spanish officials counted them at Nantes near their Guédry cousins already there.

When in the early 1780s the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, at least 31 Guédrys--all of the ones at Nantes and at St.-Servan-sur-Mer--agreed to take it.  One family was especially eager to get to New Orleans, where a son had been living for at least five years. 

Meannwhile, in North America, Guédrys who had escaped the British in the late 1750s and found refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore suffered more hardships in the final years of the war with Britain.  After the fall of Québec in September 1759, the British gathered their forces in the region to attack the remaining French strongholds in New France, including Restigouche, now a major Acadian refuge.  A British naval force from Louisbourg attacked Restigouche in late June 1760.  After a spirited fight in which Acadian militia and Mi'kmaq warriors played an important role, the French commander blew up his larger vessels and retreated up Rivière Restigouche, leaving the militia and the Indians to prevent a British landing.  Unable to capture the garrison or lay waste to the area, the British commander ordered his ships to return to their base at Louisbourg.  In October, after the fall of Montréal, another British naval force, this one from Québec, appeared at Restigouche to accept the garrison's, and the Acadians', surrender.  On 24 October 1760, on the eve of formal surrender, French officers counted 1,003 exiles still at Restigouche, a family of Guédrys among them.  The British held them at Fort Cumerland, Chignecto, until the end of the war, after which they chose to resettle on Île Miquelon. 

At war's end, Guédrys being held in the seaboard colonies, theoretically, were free to go, but not until the British discerned their intentions.  Even then, colonial officials discouraged repatriation, but it mattered little to most of the exiles.  In 1763, a Guédry family in Massachusetts appeared on a repatriations list of Acadians who desired to settle in French territory.  In August of that year, in Maryland, two Guèdry families appeared on a similar list compiled at Port Tobacco on the lower Potomac.  That June, in Pennsylvania, several Guédrys living in that colony who had recently arrived from North Carolina revealed their interest in resettling in a French colony by signing a similar repatriation list.  They then joined their cousins in nearby Maryland soon after the August list there was compiled. 

Most of the Acadians in New England, including the Guédrys, chose to resettle in Canada, where some of their kinsmen had gone as early as 1756.  Though now also a British possession, the far-northern province was populated largely by fellow French Catholics, many of them Acadian exiles.  So, in a colony nearly as old as Acadia, descendants of Claude Guédry dit Grivois dit Laverdure began the slow, inexorable process of becoming Canadiennes.  Especially after 1766, they could be found on the upper St. Lawrence at L'Assomption, Repentigny, St.-Jacques de l'Achigan, and Montréal.  In Nova Scotia, they settled at Windsor, formerly Pigiguit; and at Météghan near the mouth of Baie Ste.-Marie, today's St. Mary's Bay, on the province's southern shore.  One member of the family who grew up on the upper St. Lawrence did not remain there.  In the late 1780s or early 1790s, a young Guédry of St.-Jacques de l'Achigan ventured probably via the Great Lakes and the upper Mississippi to Spanish Louisiana, where he married an Acadian widow in the Attakapas District and created a family of his own.  His prairie neighbors gave him the dit "Canada" to distinguish him from a Guédry couisn with the same given name.  However, the Acadiennes of Canada who remained in their far-northern home typically lost touch with their Cadien cousins hundreds of miles away, and, until the Acadian reunions of the twentieth century, may even have forgotten the others existed.

Guédrys still in Nova Scotia at war's end faced a hard dilemma.  The Treaty of Paris of February 1763 stipulated in its Article IV that persons dispersed by the war had 18 months to return to their respective territories.  However, British authorities refused to allow any of the Acadian prisoners in the region to return to their former lands as proprietors.  If Acadians chose to remain in, or return to, Nova Scotia, they could live only in small family groups in previous unsettled areas or work for low wages on former Acadian lands now owned by New-English "planters."  If they stayed, they must also take the hated oath of allegiance to the new British king, George III, without reservation.  They would also have to take the oath if they joined their cousins in Canada or other parts of greater Acadia.  After all they had suffered on the question of the oath, few self-respecting Acadians would consent to take it if it could be avoided.  Some Nova Scotia exiles, including a family of Guédrys, chose to relocate to Île Miquelon.  Others considered going to French St.-Domingue, where Acadian exiles in the seaboard colonies were going, or to the Illinois country, the west bank of which still belonged to France, or to French Louisiana, which, thanks to British control of Canada, was the only route possible to the Illinois country for Acadian exiles.  Whatever their choice, many refused to remain under British rule.  So they gathered up their money and their few possessions and prepared to leave their homeland.  Of the 600 exiles who left Halifax in late 1764 and early 1765 bound for Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, at least two were Guédrys.

Meanwhile, the Acadians in Maryland endured life among Englishmen who, despite their colony's Catholic roots, did not care much for the French "papists" thrust upon them.  When word reached the Acadians there that the Spanish would welcome them in Louisiana, they pooled their meager resources to charter ships that would take them to New Orleans.  Eight Guédrys in two expeditions reached the Spanish colony in July 1767 and February 1768.  Another Guédry family either remained in Maryland or emigrated to French territory other than Louisiana.

Guédrys settled fairly early in Acadia and were among the earliest Acadians to find refuge in Louisiana.  Like the Broussards, they had been a relatively small family in the old country but proliferated dramatically in Louisiana.  Two Guédrys, one married, the other not, came to the colony from Halifax via Cap-Français in February 1765 and followed the Broussards to Bayou Teche that spring.  Sadly, the married one's wife, a Broussard, died in the epidemic that devastated the lower Teche valley community that summer and fall.  The husband also may have died during the first year of settlement.  The unmarried Guédry survived the epidemic, remained on the Teche for a few more years, and then moved to the river, where he created a vigorous line of the family.  Not until the late 1760s did Guédrys "return" to the prairies.  A Guédry wife, her Boutin husband, and their children had come to the colony from Maryland in 1767 and moved to the Opelousas prairies a year or so later.  Her youngest brother Pierre and his bride also had come to the colony from Maryland, in 1768.  Spanish Governor Ulloa forced them with other 1768 arrivals to settle far upriver at Fort San Luìs de Natchez, across from a British stronghold.  After their release from that unhappy place, the brother and his second wife, who he had married at Fort San Luìs, moved downriver to Ascension.  In the early 1770s, following his sister, he took his family to the Grand Coteau area of the Opelousas District, where he remarried to his third wife in c1781.  In the 1790s, he settled on a substantial piece of land he had acquired at Grande Pointe on the upper Teche and became the veritable "Jacob" of the western prairies; a dozen of his 13 sons by his second and third wives created their own families in the region--perhaps the largest single family line established in the Bayou State by an Acadian immigrant.  From the 1780s into the early 1800s, more Guidrys, as they were being called now, including cousins from France and Canada, came to the prairies and added substantially to the western branch of the family. 

More Guédrys settled along the Mississippi than on the western prairies, but, thanks to the amazing fecundity of Pierre of Grande Pointe, the number of river-parish Guidrys remained somewhat smaller than the number of their kinsmen west of the Atchafalaya Basin.  The first Guédry to settle on what became the Acadian Coast--the one who had gone to Bayou Teche with the Broussards in 1765--created a substantial family line in what became St. James Parish.  One of the young Guédrys who came to the colony from Maryland in 1768 remained at Ascension after his sojourn at Natchez and created a vigorous line on the river.  A brother of the Maryland Guédrys who had gone to the prairies appeared at Ascension in 1770, married there in his early 40s, but he and his wife had no children.  A young Guédry born on Île Royale came to the colony from Nantes, France, by July 1780 and married a fellow Acadian at New Orleans--among the few Acadian immigrants who remained in the city.  A young Guédry from the upper St. Lawrence valley, called dit Canada by his neighbors, settled near his cousins on the western prairies in the 1790s.

In 1785, nearly a generation after the first of their kinmen reached the colony, the largest group of Guédrys to emigrate to Louisiana--31 of them--crossed on three of the Seven Ships from France.  They went to Manchac south of Baton Rouge, to Bayou des Écores in the New Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge, and to upper Bayou Lafourche.  They established at least seven new family lines on the Acadian Coast in what became East and West Baton Rouge, Iberville, Ascension, and St. James parishes.  Not until the 1790s, however, did Guidry families appear on upper Bayou Lafourche, creating a third center of family settlement.  During the early antebellum period, more river-parish Guidrys joined the Acadian exodus to the Lafourche valley, some of them settling as far down as the Terrebonne country.  By the 1850s, the Guidrys living along the southeastern bayous nearly equaled in numbers their kinsmen on the river.  During the late antebellum period, at least one Guidry, probably from Ascension, crossed the Amite River to French Settlement in Livingston Parish--among the few Acadians who settled in that area.  More Guidrys from the river moved to the western prairies during or soon after the War of 1861-65. 

Meanwhile, on the prairies, where most members of the family lived, Guidrys emulated the settlement patterns of their Acadian ancestors by staging their own exodus from the center of family settlement along upper Bayou Teche.  By 1850, nearly a dozen Guidry families were living in distant Calcasieu Parish, where they ran hundreds and even thousands of head of cattle on the tallgrass prairies there.  One of them owned 1,800 head and another 3,600 head of cattle that year.  Guidrys also were among the first Acadians to cross the Sabine and settle in East Texas.  On the eve of the Texas War of Independence, which broke out in October 1835, one Guidry took his family to Jefferson County near the Louisiana border.  Two of his brothers and a cousin followed in the early 1840s and settled in Jefferson and Hardin counties. 

The great majority of the Guidrys in South Louisiana and East Texas are descendants of Claude dit Gravois dit La Verdure of Port-Royal.  There were, however, Guidrys on the western prairies whose membership in the family was a predictable result of the family's participation in the South's "peculiar institution."  Afro Creoles who had been owned and in some cases emancipated by Guidrys took the family's surname.  These "free persons of color" appear in local church records as early as the 1830s.  

Judging by the number of slaves they held during the late antebellum period, many Guidrys lived comfortably on their South Louisiana farms, vacharies, and plantations.  Some, especially descendants of Pierre of Grand Pointe, owned enough slaves to qualify as planters (20 or more), and a few were considered to be great planters, with 50 or more bondsmen.  ...

Dozens of Guidrys served Louisiana and Texas in uniform during the War of 1861-65.  Some of them lost their lives in Confederate service.  ...

In Louisiana, the family's name evolved from Guédry to Guidry, perhaps the result of Spanish influence, though some members of the family, especially on the river, retained the original spelling.  The family's name in the Bayou State also is spelled Diedery, Feudry, Gaidrais, Gaidrie, Gaidry, Geddrie, Geddry, Gedery, Gedre, Gedri, Gedrie, Gedry, Gettry, Ghidri, Gidri, Gidrie, Gidry, Gudiry, Guduy, Guéderic, Guéderie, Guédery, Guédoy, Guédri, Guédrie, Guédrig, Guédris, Guéri, Guiddry, Guiderie, Guiddery, Guidery, Guidoy, Guidri, Guidrie, Guiedri, Guiedry, Guildrie, Guildry, Guiridy, Guitry, Huduric, Jedrie, Jeddry, Lledre, Lledri, Yedri.  This large family should not be confused with the much smaller Guidroz family, whose progenitor, a native of Bern, Switzerland, came to Louisiana as a soldier before 1762 and whose descendants settled at New Orleans, Pointe Coupée, and on the western prairies; or the Guidroy family, who likely were French Creoles; or the Guillory family, who also were French Creoles and settled especially in the Opelousas area.26

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The first of the family to reach the colony--one married, the other a bachelor or a widower--came to New Orleans from Halifax via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, with the Broussards in February 1765.  They followed the Broussards to Bayou Teche in April, but the one who survived the rigors of the first year of settlement did not remain.  He moved on to the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans and created a vigorous line on what became known as the Acadian Coast: 

Augustin (?-c1765) à ? à Claude dit Grivois dit LaVerdure Guidry

Augustin, whose parentage, date of birth, and birthplace are unrecorded, married Théotiste Broussard in greater Acadia probably during exile.  They ended up in a prison compound in Nova Scotia in the early 1760s and were a childless couple when they reached Louisiana in February 1765.  Théotiste died at Attakapas in July 1765, age unrecorded, perhaps an early victim of the mysterious epidemic that struck the Teche valley Acadians that summer and fall.  She was buried in one of the cemeteries her kinsmen had established in their Nouvelle-Acadie along the lower Teche.  Since he does not appear in the Spanish census at Attakapas in the spring of 1766 nor in any other South Louisiana civil or church record, husband Augustin may have been another victim of the Teche epidemic, or he may have died the following winter or spring.  It is unlikely that he left the colony after his wife's death. 

Joseph (c1735-1815) à ? à Claude dit Grivois dit LaVerdure Guidry

Joseph Guédry, born in British Nova Scotia in c1735, parents unknown, was age 30 and either a bachelor or a widower when he reached Louisiana.  He appears on the April 1765 list of Acadians who hoped to exchange their Canadian card money at New Orleans before following the Broussards to Bayou Teche.  Spanish officials counted him in the "District of the Point," now Fausse Pointe, in the spring of 1766, with no one else in his household, so, along with most of his fellow exiles on the Teche, he had survived the epidemic of the previous year.  Soon after the April 1766 counting, he left the Teche and settled at Cabahannocer on the river, where he married, or remarried to, fellow Acadian Élisabeth or Isabelle Comeau in May 1767.  A decade later, in January 1777, Spanish officials counted them on the left, or east, bank of the river at Cabahannocer.  Their children, born there, included Donat in the late 1760s; Joseph, fils in c1773; twins Alexandre and Jean-Baptiste baptized, age unrecorded, in January 1773; Félicité baptized, age unrecorded, in September 1774; Eulalie baptized, age unrecorded, in January 1776; another Alexandre baptized, age unrecorded, in December 1777; Pierre baptized, age unrecorded, in May 1779; François born in c1783; Madeleine in c1784; and Joseph-Frédéric in the 1780s or early 1790s--11 children, eight sons and three daughters, including a set of twins, between the late 1760s and the early 1790s.  Joseph may have died in St. James Parish in November 1815.  The Convent priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph was age 85 when he died.  This Joseph would have been closer to 80 that year.  Daughters Félicité, Eulalie, and Madeleine married into the Gaudet and Trahan families, two of them, Eulalie and Félicité, to Gaudet brothers on the same day and at the same place.  Seven of Joseph's sons also married and settled on both sides of the river at Cabahannocer/St. James and on upper Bayou Lafourche, but not all of the lines endured.  At least one of Joseph's grandsons, married to one of his granddaughters, settled farther down Bayou Lafourche, and another settled on the western prairies.  By the eve of the War of 1861-65, Joseph's descendants could be found on the old Acadian Coast from Iberville down to St. James Parish, down the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley from Assumption Parish to the Terrebonne marshes, and out on the St. Landry prairies.

Oldest son Donat married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Bourg and Anastasie Cormier, at St.-Jacques de Cabahanncer in February 1793.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer/St. James and at Convent, included Anastasie in March 1794; Donat, fils in February 1796; Ursin in March 1798 but died near Convent, St. James Parish, age 20, in June 1818; Pierre-Placide, called Placide, born in August 1801; Marie-Clémence in August 1803; Eulalie near Convent in April 1808; Louis in September 1810; and Marie Anne dite Manette in February 1813.  Donat remarried to Henriette, daughter of Joseph Ackmann, Hockman, Ockman, Racman, Ragman, Ragmon, Raukman, or Rofenau and Isabelle Folkes of Galveston, Ascension (the recording priest said Iberville) Parish, and widow of Benjamin Oubre, at the Convent church in October 1814.  Their children, born near Convent, included Edmond in November 1816; Eugène in September 1819; August or Auguste in May 1823; Adélaïde dite Adèle in December 1826; and Sosthène in c1829 but died at age 15 or 16 months in February 1831--13 children, five daughters and eight sons, by two wives, between 1794 and 1829.  Donat, père died near Convent in November 1850.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Donat died at "age 85 yrs."  He probably was a few years younger than that.  Daughters Anastasie, Marie Clémence, Eulalie, Adèle, and Manette, by both wives, married into the Lubilavish, Theriot, Rome, Plaisance, and Bonnecaze families.  Six of Donat's sons also married and settled on the river, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Donat, fils, by first wife Rosalie Bourg, married Marie Rose, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Theriot and his Creole wife Marguerite Berteau, at the Convent church in March 1818.  Their children, born on the river, included Marie Baselie or Basilide in December 1819; Marie Anastasie in March 1822; Marie Rose in July 1824; Adam Marie, called Adam M., in the 1820s; Marie Ephrasie in February 1830; Joseph Donat Eutrope in April 1835 but died at age 1 1/2 in September 1836; Marie Élisabeth born in January 1838; Marie Adam in October 1839; and Marie Augustine in August 1842 but, called Augustine, died at age 2 1/2 (the recording priest said 3) in May 1845--nine children, seven daughters and two sons, between 1819 and 1842.  Daughters Marie Anastasie, Marie Rose, Marie Basilide, and Marie Élisabeth married into the Pertuit, Michel, Bercegeay, and Boze families by 1870.  Donat, fils's remaining son also married by then.

Older son Adam M. married Veleda, daughter of fellow Acadian Rosémond Breaux and his Creole wife Ursule Sompayrac, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in June 1867.  Their son Edgard Emmanuel was born near Gonzales, Ascension Parish, in December 1868 but, called Emmanuel Edgard, died the following February; ... 

Donat, père's third son Pierre Placide, called Placide, from first wife Rosalie Bourg, married his stepsister Rosalie, daughter of Benjamin Oubre and Henriette Ackmann, at the Convent church in April 1831.  Their daughter Marie Aurelia, called Aurelia, was born near Convent in May 1831.  Placide died near Convent in November 1832.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Pierre Placide was age 27 when he died.  He was 31.  Daughter Aurelia married into the Pertuit family, so the blood of the family line may have endured. 

Donat, père's fourth son Louis, by first wife Rosalie Bourg, married Angélique, daughter of Eugène Oubre and Angélique Conrad, at the Convent church in February 1838.  Their children, born near Convent, included Louis, fils in November 1838; Alcée in June 1844 but died at age 23 in October 1852; Louisa, perhaps theirs, born in July 1850 but, called Elouisa, died at age 1 1/2 in December 1851; Félix born in October 1852; Marie Angélique in November 1854; Marie Alcya in January 1857; and Joseph Fulgence in March 1859--seven children, four sons and three daughters, between 1838 and 1859.  None of Louis's children married by 1870. 

Donat, père's fifth son Edmond, by second wife Henriette Ackmann, married Marie Caroline, daughter of Louis Rome and Marie Caroline Oubre, at the Convent church in January 1845.  They settled on the river near the boundary between St. James and Ascension parishes.  Their children, born there, included Edmond Euphémon dit Fémon, in January 1846; Joseph Félix in October 1852; Marie Émilie in January 1860 but, called Marie Émelie, died at age 3 1/2 in September 1863; a child, name unrecorded, born in late 1860 or early 1861 but died at age 3 1/2 in March 1864; Marie Oreline born in November 1864; ...  One of Edmond's sons married by 1870.

Older son Fémon married Cécile, daughter of Francis Guilfou or Guilfout and his Acadian wife Delphine Richard, at the Donaldsonville church in February 1868.  Their son Joseph Euphémon was born in Ascension Parish in January 1869; ... 

Donat, père's sixth son Eugène, by second wife Henriette Ackmann, married Élisabeth, called Élise and Lize, daughter of fellow Acadians Valentin Gaudin and Séraphine Dugas, at the Convent church in February 1842.  Their children, born near Convent, included Marie Eugénie, called Eugénie, in March 1843; Marie Elmire, called Elmire, in April 1846; Joséphine Alice in August 1849 but, called Alice, died at age 15 1/2 (the recording priest said 16) in February 1865; and Reine Émilie born in September 1851--four children, all daughters, between 1843 and 1851.  Eugène may have died near Convent in April 1852.  The priest who recorded the burial did not give any parents' names, mention a wife, or give the age of the deceased.  This Eugène would have been age 32.  Daughters Eugénie and Elmire married into the Arque and Laiche families by 1870.  Eugène evidently fathered no sons, so his line of the family, except perhaps for its blood, died with him. 

Donat, père's seventh son Auguste, by second wife Henriette Ackmann, married Eugénie, daughter of Eugène Oubre and Éloise Rome, at the Convent church in June 1845.  Their children, born near Convent, included Faustin in December 1848; Arsène in April 1850; Augustine in September 1851; and Auguste, fils posthumously in November 1853--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1848 and 1853.  Auguste, père died near Convent in October 1853, age 30.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Joseph's second son Joseph, fils married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Vincent and Marguerite Cormier, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in May 1795.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer/St. James, included Célestine in March 1796; Louis-Joseph in August 1797 but, called Louis, died near Convent, age 61, in April 1859; a son, name unrecorded, "recently born," died in May 1799; Anastasie born in July 1800 but died at age 10 in July 1810; Scholastique-Eulalie or Eulalie-Scholastique born in June 1802; Joachim in May 1805; another Célestine in May 1807; Joseph III in August 1810 but died at age 25 (the recording priest said 24) in October 1835; Justine born in October 1812; Rosalie, also called Rosalie Hélène, in December 1816; and Auguste or Augustin in March 1819--10 children, five daughters and five sons, between 1796 and 1819.  Joseph, fils died near Convent in September 1835, age 62.  Daughters Célestine, Eulalie Scholastique, Justine, and Rosalie Hélène married into the Lambert, Rodriguez, Oubre, and Theriot families.  Only two of Joseph, fils's sons married.  They settled near Convent, and one of them crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to the Opelousas prairies. 

Third son Joachim married Adélaïde, daughter of Joseph Caillouet and his Acadian wife Céleste Thibodeaux, at the Convent church in May 1832.  Their children, born near Convent, included Euphémie in March 1833 but died at age 16 1/2 in February 1850; Joseph Léon baptized at age 4 months, 18 days, in May 1835; Joachim Télésphore born in January 1837; Émile in January 1839; and Marie Hélène in August 1841--five children, two daughters and three sons, between 1833 and 1841.  Joachim, called Joachin by the recording priest, died near Convent in July 1869.  The priest, who did not give any parents' names, said that Joachim died at "age ca. 65 years."  He was 64.  His surviving daughter did not marry by 1870, but one of his sons did. 

Third and youngest son Émile married cousin Amelia, daughter of fellow Acadian Eugène Lambert and his Creole wife Virginie Michel, at the Convent church in July 1866; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born near Convent, included Joseph Joachim in May 1867; John Allen in January 1870; ...

Joseph, fils's fifth and youngest son Auguste or Augustin married Jeanne Ida, called Ida, daughter of Joseph Plaisance and Jeanne Mestereau of La Gironde, Bordeaux, France, at the Convent church in May 1846.  Their children, born near Convent, included Augustin, fils in February 1847; Clémence in March 1848; Joseph Ernest in September 1849; Marie Victoria in December 1851 but, called Victoria, died at age 3 1/2 (the recording priest said 4) in October 1855; and Joseph born Anatole in July 1854--five children, three sons and two daughters, between 1847 and 1854.  Augustin, père died near Convent in May 1856.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Augustin died at "age 36 yrs."  He was 37.  His succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse, St. Landry Parish, in March 1861, so he likely owned property in that prairie parish as well.  Daughter Clémence married into the Toussaint family in St. Landry Parish by 1870.  One of Auguste's sons also married by then and settled in St. Landry. 

Oldest son Augustin, fils married Louise, daughter of fellow Acadian Simon Richard and his Creole wife Céleste Blouin, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in January 1867.  Their son Simon Armand was born in St. Landry Parish in March 1868; ... 

Joseph, père's fourth son Jean Baptiste, a twin, married cousin Marguerite, also called Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadian François Comeaux and his Creole wife Marguerite Charpentier, at Cabahannocer/St. James in July 1805.  They settled in what became St. James Parish and, by the early 1820s, had joined the Acadian exodus from the river to Bayou Lafourche, where they settled near the boundary between Assumption and Lafourche Interior parishes.  Their children, born there, included a son, name and age unrecorded, died in St. James Parish in September 1807; Clémence born in September 1808; François in November 1812; Edmond in c1813; Joséphine in July 1814; Jean Baptiste Sylvère in January 1816; Jérôme, also called Ermogène, in October 1817; Marie Delphine, Elvine, or Elsine near Convent in May 1819; François Célestin, called Célestin, in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1822; Sélise Mélisaire, called Mélisaire, in May 1823; Jean Froisan or Euphrosin, called Phrosin, in July 1824; Pierre Carville or Clairville in October 1825; Madeleine Séraphine in July 1828; and Joseph Armogène or Hermogène, called Hermogène or Armogène, in December 1830--14 children, nine sons and five daughters, between 1807 and 1830.  Jean Baptiste, at age 70, remarried to Isabelle Derrebie, widow of Vincent Comardelle, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1842.  She evidently gave him no more children.  Jean Baptiste died near Raceland, Lafourche Parish, in September 1853.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Jean Baptiste died "at age 74 yrs."  This Jean Baptiste would have been 80.  One wonders if he was a victim of the yellow fever epidemic that struck South Louisiana that summer and fall.  Daughters Clémence, Joséphine, Elvine/Elsine, and Mélisaire, by his first wife, married into the Charpentier, Guidry, Roger, and Bélanger families, including two Bélanger brothers.  Six of Jean Baptiste's sons also married and settled in Lafourche Interior and Terrebonne parishes. 

Third son Edmond, by first wife Marguerite Françoise Comeaux, married cousin Elmire Irma Azel, 16-year-old daughter of Hubert Bélanger and his Acadian wife Sophie Comeaux of St. James Parish, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in April 1835.  They lived near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Terrebonne parishes.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Ulgère or Ludger, called Ludger, in September 1837; Céleste Elida, called Elida, in December 1838; Marie Edelia or Odillia, called Odillia and Onelia, in January 1839; Edmond Michel, called Michel, in December 1840; Célestin in April 1843; Clairvill or Clairville le jeune in December 1848; Mathilde Evelia, called Evelia, in August 1851; Elmire Joséphine in February 1854; Sophie Séverine in February 1855; and Amélia Egyptienne in December 1858.  Edmond, at age 51, remarried to Élodie or Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadian Michel Foret and his Creole wife Céleste Schweitzer and widow of Louis Soudelier of Lafourche Parish, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in July 1864.  They settled near Montegut on the edge of the Terrebonne marshes.  Their children, born there, included Valri, probably Valéry, Robert in June 1865; Edmond Lovinci in June 1866; Joséphine Eva in December 1868; ...  Daughters Elida, Odillia/Onelia, and Evelia, by his first wife, married into the Lecompte, Hébert, and Foret families by 1870.  Four of Edmond's sons also married by then.  

Oldest son Ludger "from Terrebonne Parish," by first wife Elmire Bélanger, married Antoinette, daughter of Séverin Lapeyrouse and his Acadian wife Mélasie Henry of Lafourche Parish, at the Houma church in September 1864.  They settled near Montegut.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Odvssi in March 1866; Thomas Willey in December 1867; Adam Linies in October 1869; ... 

Edmond's second son Michel "from Terrebonne Parish," by first wife Elmire Bélanger, married Louise or Louisa, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Pierre Gabriel dit Briel Chiasson and his Creole wife Henriette Dupré of Terrebonne Parish, at the Houma church in May 1861.  They settled near Montegut.  Their children, born there, included Marie Elvire in October 1862; Alfred Léonce in June 1865; Elmire Eve in March 1869; ... 

Edmond's third son Célestin, by first wife Elmire Bélanger, married Elmire, daughter of fellow Acadians Marcellin Landry and Carmélite Savoie, at the Montegut church, Terrebonne Parish, in January 1866.  Their children, born near Montegut, included Joseph Ernest in November 1867; Joseph Élesse, probably Élisée, in November 1869; ... 

Edmond's fourth son Clairville le jeune, by first wife Elmire Bélanger, married Mary America, called America, daughter of John Rhodes or Roddy and his Acadian wife Henriette Hébert, at the Montegut church in July 1869.  Daughter Marie Ophelia was born near Montegut in June 1870; ... 

Jean-Baptiste's fifth son Jérôme, also called Ermogène, from first wife Marguerite Françoise Comeaux, married Annette dite Nanette, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Arcement and Anne Rosalie Robichaux of Terrebonne Parish, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in May 1839.  They settled in Lafourche Interior before moving to Terrebonne Parish.  Their children, born on the southeastern bayous, included Louise Élodie, called Élodie,  in April 1840; Edmire Batilde or Berthilde, called Berthilde, in March 1843; Louis Ernest, called Ernest, in the early 1840s; Marguerite Edoline in November 184__; Louis in January 1845; Élisa in December 1848 in Terrebonne Parish; Eve Cécile or Cécilia, called Cécilia, in September 1850; Pierre Ellis near Raceland, Lafourche Parish, in July 1854; Joseph Madisson in Terrebonne Parish in February 1857; Adam Albert Anatole in November 1858; and Marie Ernestine in March 1862--11 children, six daughters and five sons, between 1840 and 1862.  Daughters Élodie, Berthilde, and Cécilia married into the Javeaux or Jarreau, Martin, Walker, and Champagne families in Terrebonne Parish by 1870.  One of Jérôme's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Ernest married Marie Odilia, daughter of Charles Champagne and Louise Champagne, at the Houma church in May 1866.  They settled near the boundary between Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie Augusta in December 1867; Marguerite Ida in March 1870; ...

Jean-Baptiste's sixth son François Célestin, called Célestin, from first wife Marguerite Françoise Comeaux, married Marie, 17-year-old daughter of Joseph Dufrene and Marie Arceneaux, perhaps a fellow Acadian, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1844.  They settled near Raceland.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Alidor in January 1845; Joséphine in March 1846; Onésippe in December 1848 but died at age 4 1/2 (the recording priest said 4) in June 1853; Marguerite born in August 1851; Clairville in June 1854;  Marie in February 1858; Célestin, fils in February 1862; and Frosin in December 1865.  Célestin remarried to Bazelise, daughter of Mathieu Hotard and Bazelise Dapit and widow of ____ Birdsall, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in May 1870. ...  Daughter Joséphine, by his first wife, married into the Bourgeois family, and perhaps into the Ledet family also, by 1870.  None of Célestin's sons married by then. 

Jean-Baptiste's seventh son Jean Euphrosin dit Phrosin, by first wife Marguerite Françoise Comeaux, married Éléonise, Cléonise, or Léonise, also called Eléonore and Claudine, another daughter of Louis Arcement and Anne Rosalie Robichaux of Terrebonne Parish, at the Thibodaux church in May 1846; the marriage was recorded also in Terrebonne Parish.  They settled near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Terrebonne parishes.  Their children, born there, included Onesie or Onésille in August 1848; Alidor, also called Alidore E., in September 1850; Marie Olinda in July 1852; Louisa in November 1856; and Marie Émelia in November 1858--five children, four daughters and a son, between 1848 and 1858.  Daughters Marie and Onésille married into the Lepine and Blanchard families by 1870.  Phrosin's son also married by then and settled in Terrebonne Parish.

Only son Alidore E. married Octavie, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Blanchard and his Creole wife Adèle Pelegrin, at the Houma church in October 1870; Alidore's sister Onésille married Octavie's brother Zénon on the same day and at the same place. ...

Jean-Baptiste's eighth son Pierre Carville or Clairville, by first wife Marguerite Françoise Comeaux, married Amélie, 16-year-old daughter of Pierre Lajanni, Lajauni, Lajaunie, Lajaunni, Lajeuni, Lajeonisse, or Lojono and Marie Sidalise Augeron, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in December 1848, and sanctified the marriage at the Thibodaux church the following April.  They settled in Terrebonne Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie Céleste in January 1850; Marguerite Émée in July 1851; Joséphine Octavie in April 1854; Mélanie Laura in October 1856; Adam Elfride in October 1858; Elfrida Fedora in June 1861; Oville William in August 1863; Joseph Meldoff in March 1867; Joseph Oscar in May 1870; ...  None of Clairville's children married by 1870. 

Jean-Baptiste's ninth and youngest son Joseph Hermogène, called Hermogène or Armogène, from first wife Marguerite Françoise Comeaux, may have married Méranthe Comardelle and settled in Lafourche Interior Parish by the late 1840s.  Their daughter Marguerite was born there in September 184__.  Joseph Hermogène may have died near Raceland in May 1866.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Armogène died "at at age 34 yrs."  Joseph Hermogène would have been age 35 that year.  Daughter Marguerite married into the Dufrene family by 1870.  Did Hermogène father any sons? 

Joseph, père's fifth son Alexandre, the second with the name, married Marie Mélanie, called Mélanie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Lambert, fils and Josèphe Marie Célestin dit Bellemère, at the St. James church, St. James Parish, in May 1809.   Their children, born in St. James Parish, included Joseph le jeune in May 1810; and Alexandre, fils died a day after his birth in September 1811.  Alexandre, père died near Convent in October 1815.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Alexandre was age 35 when he died.  He was closer to 38.  His remaining son married and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche. 

Older son Joseph le jeune married Marie Pauline, called Pauline, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Henry and his Creole wife Marie Perque, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in April 1847.  They remained in Assumption Parish.  Their children, born there, included Joséphine Laurenza in June 1847; Joseph Tecle in November 1850; Malvina Epouire in February 1853; Joseph Veuillot in January 1855; Adrien Wilfride near Attakapas Canal in November 1859; Marie Donatille in November 1861; ...  None of Joseph le jeune's children married by 1870. 

Joseph, père's sixth son Pierre, married,at age 30, Rosalie, daughter of Louis Denis or Denys and Marie Anne Bouche or Boucher, at the Convent church in October 1809.  Judging from the baptismal records of their older children, they evidently had "married," or were living together, years before their church wedding.  Their children, born near Convent, included Pierre, fils in September 1807; Charles, also called Charles Neuville, in April 1809; Jean Baptiste Armand in August 1813 but, called Armond, died at age 2 in August 1815; and Donat le jeune born in November 1814 but may have died "at the home of Widow Étienne Part [probably Scholastique Braud]" near Convent, age 39 (the recording priest said 46), in October 1855.  Pierre, père, at age 60, remarried to Marcellite, daughter of Louis LaForet or LaForest and Emina Goudreau of St. James Parish, at the Donaldsonville church in May 1839.  Again, judging by the baptismal records of their many children, Pierre and Marcellite had either married in a civil ceremony in the 1820s, when he would have been in his 40s, or just lived together until they sanctified the union.  They evidently settled on the river near the boundary between Iberville and Ascension parishes.  Their children, born there, included Méranthe in May 1826; Jean, also called Jean Baptiste le jeune, in April 1827; twins Clémence and Savoir in May 1828; Paul in c1830 but baptized at the Donaldsonville church, age 9, in May 1839, a few weeks before his parents married there; Anaclet, called Joseph Anaclet and Naclet, born in c1832 and baptized at age 7 in May 1839; Joseph born in c1834 and baptized at age 5 in May 1839; Marine Émilie, called Émilie, born in June 1836 and baptized in May 1839; Marie Eléonore born in April 1838 and baptized in May 1839; and Carolina Judith born in October 1842--14 children, nine sons and five daughters, including a set of twins, by two wives, between 1807 and 1842.  Daughters Émilie, ..., by his second wife, married into the Parent and Guidry families by 1870.  Five of Pierre's sons also married by then and settled on the river. 

Oldest son Pierre, fils, by first wife Rosalie Denis, married Émelie or Marie Virginie, called Virginie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Paul Bourgeois and Scholastique Babin, at the Donaldsonville church in April 1825.  They settled on the river near the boundary between Ascension and St. James parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie du Carmel, also called Carmélite and perhaps Marie Noémi, in October 1828; Eléonore died at age 6 months in November 1831; Adeline Virginie born in December 1832; and Marie Célestine, called Célestine, in August 1835.  Pierre, fils remarried to Aimée, daughter of François Paraude or Parote and Marianne Shay, at the Donalsonville church in January 1840.  Their son Nicolas Valsin was born in Ascension Parish in December 1840--five children, four daughters and a son, by two wives, between 1828 and 1850.  Daughters Carmélite and Célestine, by his first wife, married into the Breaux and Villard families by 1870.  Pierre, fils's son did not marry by then. 

Pierre, père's second son Charles Neuville, by first wife Rosalie Denis, married first cousin Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Guidry and his first wife Marguerite Françoise Comeaux, his uncle and aunt, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in April 1837.  They remained on the Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Jean Aristide or Aristide Jean in December 1837; Marguerite Élise in February 1839; and Pierre in June 1840.  Charles Neuville remarried to Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Olivier Hébert and Félicité Breaux of Lafourche Interior Parish, at the Thibodaux church in January 1845, two months after a son was born to them.  Their children, born on the bayou, included Neuville Olivier in November 1844; Louis Donat dit Donatre in September 1846; Marie Éloinir in March 1848; Bernard in August 1850; Joséphine in December 18[53]; Clémence in December 1854; Marie Céline in March 1857; Anathole Arthur in November 1864; ...  None of Charles Neuville's daughters married by 1870, but two of his sons did and settled in Terrebonne Parish.

Oldest son Jean Aristide or Aristide Jean, by first wife Joséphine Guidry, married Marguerite Amélie, daughter of Jean Baptiste Duplantis and Séraphine Charpentier, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in October 1863.  They settled near Montegut at the edge of the Terrebonne marshes.  Their children, born there, included Marguerite Joséphine in August 1864; Marie Élize in May 1866; Éloise Amélie in January 1868; Adolphe Amédée in March 1870; ...

Charles Neuville's third son Neuville Olivier, by second wife Rosalie Hébert, married Mathilde, daughter of Charles LeBoeuf and his Acadian wife Roseline Pitre, at the Montegut church in May 1867.  Their son Émile Eugène was born near Montegut in July 1868; ... 

Pierre, père's fifth son Jean Baptiste le jeune, by second wife Marcellite LaForet, married, while a resident of Ascension Parish, Marie Joséphine, called Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadians François de Sales Gaudin and Delphine Landry, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in September 1840.  They lived on the river near the boundary between Iberville and Ascension parishes.  Their children, born there, included Félicité in June 1841; Euphrosie in May 1843; Mathilde in April 1845; Timoléon in December 1846; Delphine in August 1850; Jule in October 1852; Edilia in June 1855; Marie in March 1858; Clarice in February 1861; Justina near Gonzales, Ascension Parish, in February 1864; ...  Daughters Delphine, ... married into the Setton and Bourgeois families by 1870.  Neither of Jean Baptiste le jeune's sons married by then. 

Pierre, père's seventh son Paul, by second wife Marcellite LaForet, may have married Marie Teresa Vicknair, place and date unrecorded.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Paul, fils in April 1855; and Marie Elisida in March 1858.  Neither of Paul's children married by 1870. 

Pierre, père's eighth son Joseph Anaclet, called Anaclet and Naclet, from second wife Marcellite LaForet, likely married Joséphine Gonzales, place and date unrecorded, and settled in Ascension Parish by the early 1850s.  Their children, born there, included Marie Joséphine in August 1855; Constance Ophelia in January 1857; Joseph Naclet, fils in March 1860; John Alfred in December 1861; ...  None of Anaclet's children married by 1870. 

Joseph, père's seventh son François married, in his late 30s, Adélaïde dite Délaïde, 21-year-old daughter of Louis Rodrique or Rodriguez and Ozite Clero of St. John the Baptist Parish, at the Convent church in January 1820.  Their children, born near Convent, included Adélaïde in c1822 but died at age 15 months in July 1824; Angèle born in April 1830; and Jules baptized at age 3 months in June 1836--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1822 and 1836.  François may have died in Ascension Parish in October 1848.  The Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that François Guédry died at "age 67 years"  This François's age would have been close to that.  Daughter Angèle married into the Lefebvre family.  François's son also married and served Louisiana in uniform. 

Only son Jules married, at age 21, Victorine, 16-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Marcellin Melançon and Mathilde Melançon, who were first cousins, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in February 1857.  Jules and Victorine's children, born in Ascension Parish, included Marie Juliane in January 1858; François Olivier in October 1859 but, called Olivier, died at age 8 months in June 1860; Marie Evélie born in November 1860; and Joseph Alfred, called Alfred, in December 1865--four children, two daughters and two sons, between 1858 and 1865.  Jules served much of the War of 1861-65 in the famous Donaldsonville Artillery as one of General R. E. Lee's Louisiana Tigers.  At age 26, while working as a cooper and residing in Donaldsonville, he enlisted in the battery as a private at New Orleans on 21 March 1862.  Jules joined his unit in Virginia, where it had been stationed since the previous fall, and was present on unit rolls to late June 1862, participating perhaps in the battles and movements on the lower Peninsula and in the Richmond defenses.  That summer, Jules fell sick and was reported present in a hospital at Richmond from July 1862 to February 1863, missing the battery's fights in northern Virginia and Maryland, including Fredericksburg and Sharpsburg.  Meanwhile, his brother-in-law, Alfred Prosper Melançon, enlisted in the battery in September 1862 and was soon after mortally wounded in action at Sharpsburg, Maryland, when one of his legs was shot off.  Jules returned to the battery, then at Fredericksburg, in March 1863 and was present with it through August 1864, seeing action in northern Virginia and Pennsylvania, including the fights at Gettysburg and in the lower Shenandoah valley.  On 7 October 1864, Jules, along with the battery's sergeant-major, was captured by the Federals at Osyka, Mississippi, evidently on their way home, perhaps without leave.  The Federals sent Jules to Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Ship Island, Mississippi, and Fort Columbus, New York harbor, before placing him in the prisoner-of-war camp at Elmira, New York, in late November 1864.  He was paroled at Elmira in early February 1865, sent to Boulware and Cox's wharves on the James River in Virginia later that month, and exchanged soon after at Camp Lee, Richmond.  His Confederate record then falls silent; the records do show that he did not surrender with the remnant of the Donaldsonville Artillery and Lee's army at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, on 9 April 1865.  As the birth of his second son reveals, Jules survived the war and returned to his family.  While serving as constable at Donaldsonville in July 1865, he "killed a freedman," but "a jury failed to find a "True Bill.'"  In 1870, he moved his family to the Seventh Ward of East Baton Rouge Parish, where he worked as an overseer on Horace P. Beckwith's Moss Side Plantation.  He died near Baton Rouge before April 1875, when he was listed as deceased in a daughter's marriage record at Gonzales in Ascension Parish.  Widow Victorine remarried to a Landry who was 21 years her senior; the uncle of Jules's battery commander, Captain Prosper Landry, in fact.  None of her and Jules's children married by 1870. 

Joseph, père's eighth and youngest son Joseph Frédéric married Anne Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre LeBlanc and Anne Boudreaux, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1811.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Anne Marie in November 1811; and Rosalie in September 1813.  Daughters Rosalie and Anne Marie married into the Knobloch, Badeaux, and Borne families.  Joseph Frédéric and Anne Rosalie evidently had no sons--none, at least, who can be identified in local church records--but the blood of the family line likely endured. 

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A Guédry wife, her Boutin husband, their five children, and two Boutin orphans reached New Orleans from Baltimore in July 1767 as part of the second expedition of exiles from Maryland.  The Spanish sent them to the new Acadian community of San Gabriel on the river south of Baton Rouge, but they did not remain.  By the early 1770s, they had resettled in the Opelousas District west of the Atchafalaya Basin. 

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Less than a year later, in February 1768, seven more Guédrys--a large family led by a widow, and a young married couple with a daughter--reached New Orleans from Port Tobacco, Maryland, in the third expedition of exiles from the Chesapeake colony.  Spanish Governor Ulloa forced them to settle at distant Fort San Luìs de Natchez on the river above Baton Rouge, far from their fellow Acadians.  A Creole-led revolt ousted Ulloa the following October, and in 1769 Ulloa's successor, Governor-General Alejandro O'Reilly, allowed the Fort San Luìs Acadians to settle where they pleased.  Most of them moved downriver to Acadian settlements below Baton Rouge.  The Guédrys went to Ascension on the lower Acadian Coast, where one of the widow's Guédry daughters married into the Breaux family, and others crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to the southwest prairies.  Three new Guédry family lines came of it, one of them perhaps the largest Acadian family created in South Louisiana:

Pierre (c1742-1825) à Claude dit Grivois dit LaVerdure Guidry

Pierre, third and youngest son of Augustin Guédry and Jeanne Hébert, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1742, followed older brother Joseph and his older sisters to Île Royale in 1749.  In early April 1752, a French official counted Pierre at Baie des Espagnols with sister Ursule and her husband Paul Boutin.  Pierre returned with his kinsmen by ship to British Nova Scotia a year or so after the counting.  In the fall of 1754, after his brother-in-law took the unqualified oath of allegiance to the British king at Halifax, Pierre followed him and his kinsmen to Mirliguèche, a Guédry settlement on the Atlanttic coast south of Halifax.  In September 1755, the British rounded up Pierre, now age 13, and his kinsmen at Mirliguèche and, despite their having taken the oath, held them on Georges Island in the middle of Halifax harbor.  In December, the British deported them, along with other Acadians, many of them kinsmen, aboard the sloop Providence to North Carolina--the only exiles actually to reach that colony.  Pierre was in his early teens.  He and his kinsmen were held at Edenton on the Albemarle Sound.  From Edenton, Pierre, now in his late teens, followed his kinsmen to Pennsylvania in c1760.  In June 1763, called a "boy"--he would have been in his early 20s and still unmarried--he and his kinsmen, still in Pennsylvania, appeared on a repatriations list of Acadians who wanted to resettle in French territory.  Pierre followed his sister Ursule and brother-in-law Paul Boutin to Maryland soon after appearing on the list, and they joined other Acadian refugees at Port Tobacco on the lower Potomac.  Pierre, at age 24, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Dupuis and Anne Breau of Minas and sister of his older brother Joseph's second wife, probably at Port Tobacco in c1764.  She gave him a daughter, Marie, born in c1765.  Two years later, they followed his sister Ursule and brother-in-law Paul, along with other Pigiguit Acadians, to New Orleans and Fort San Luìs de Natchez.  Wife Marguerite did not survive the ordeal at the distant Spanish post, nor did their 3-year-old daughter.  Pierre, in his late 20s, remarried to Claire, daughter of fellow Acadians Antoine Babin and Catherine Landry of Pigiguit, at Fort San Luìs in January 1769.  Soon after their marriage, Spanish authorities allowed the Fort San Luìs Acadians to settle where they wanted.  Pierre and his family joined his brother Joseph on the river below Baton Rouge, where Claire gave Pierre a son, Louis-David, called David, born in c1770.  Pierre, Claire, and their five-month-old son were counted on the left, or east, bank of the river at Ascension on the Acadian Coast in August 1770.  Claire gave Pierre at least two more sons on the river:  Olivier born at Manchac south of Baton Rouge in c1771; and Joseph dit Mines in the early 1770s, probably at Ascension.  They did not remain.  In the early 1770s, despite Spanish restrictions, Pierre and his family crossed the Atchafalaya Basin and settled on the prairies at Bayou Carencro near the boundary between the Attakapas and Opelousas districts.  In 1774, now in his early 30s, Pierre owned 20 head of cattle, five horses and mules, three swine, but no slaves at Carencro.  Claire gave him at least three more sons there:  Jean-Baptiste, called Baptiste, born in July 1776; Paul-Hippolyte, called Hippolyte, baptized, age unrecorded, in July 1779; and Augustin le jeune baptized, age 5 weeks, in July 1780.  Claire died at Carencro in June 1780, age 28, probably from the rigors of childbirth (son Augustin's baptismal record at the Opelousas church, dated 23 July 1780, lists his mother as deceased.)  Her succession was filed at Opelousas Post in January 1781.  Pierre, now in his late 30s, remarried again--his third marriage--to Marguerite dite Peggy, daughter of Scotsman William Miller and Irishwoman Anne Kiven of South Carolina and Pensacola, place and date unrecorded, but it probably was in c1781 at Opelousas.  Some sources say that Peggy was a native of Mobile.  They settled near Grand Coteau, at the southern edge of the Opelousas District northeast of Carencro.  Peggy gave Pierre many more children at Grand Coteau and at Grande Pointe on the upper Teche, where they resettled.  Their children included Marguerite baptized at age 8 1/2 months in September 1782; Louis born in September 1784; Charles in November 1785; Anastasie dite Nastasie in March 1788; Victorien or Victorin in March 1789; Antoine, also called Onésime, baptized at home probably by his parents, date unrecorded, and then by an Opelousas priest, age unrecorded, in September 1792; Pierre, fils born probably at Grande Pointe (he was baptized by a St. Martinville priest) in April 1794; Marie-Céleste or Célestine, called Célestine, born in October 1796; Ludivine in May 1799; a son, name unrecorded, died at age 15 days in November 1801; Arthémise born in May 1803; Rosémond, also called Joseph Rosémond and Pierre Rosémond, in October 1806 and baptized at the home of Antoine Patin (probably the father of Pierre's niece Adélaïde Guidry's soon-to-be husband, Antoine Patin, fils) at Prairie Grand Chevreuil near present-day Henderson in June 1807; and Marie, called Marie Catherine Phélonise, born in July 1809--20 children, seven daughters and 13 sons, by three wives, between 1765 and 1809, in Maryland and Louisiana.  Pierre's rise to economic and social prominence, begun after his remarriage to Peggy Miller, was slow but sure.  In 1785, he held three slaves in the Opelousas District.  In 1788, on the bayou near Grand Coteau, he owned 60 head of cattle, 40 horses, and five slaves on 18 arpents frontage of land.  A few years later, he acquired land at Grande Pointe on upper Bayou Teche in the northeast corner of the Attakapas District, near present-day Cecilia.  Family tradition says he was one of the first settlers in the area, but his children's baptismal records and a 1788 census reveal that he may not have moved there from the Bayou Carencro/Grand Coteau area until the early 1790s, decades after the area was first settled.  (His second wife's succession, dated 7 January 1781, calls her Mrs. Pierre Guidry "of Baillou Carencro.")  By 1812, he held 40 slaves at Grande Pointe--an amazing number at that time and place (for instance, Jean dit Chapeau Mouton, an important Acadian land owner in the Attakapas District, held "only" 28 slaves that year).  By 1812, in fact, Pierre's social prominence was so secure that one of his daughters was able to marry St. Martin Parish judge Ranson Eastin, a native of Virginia.  Successions for his third wife were filed at the St. Martinville and Vermilionville courthouses in January and August 1823, so she must have died by then.  According to one authority, "Before his death ... [Pierre] had amassed a fortune in land, livestock, and slaves, including some 2,000 acres in the Prairie Gros[sic] Chevreuil east of [Grande Pointe on] the Teche and several tracts in the Carencro and Grand Coteau areas within the Opelousas District."  He died at his home at Grande Pointe in November 1825, a widower once again.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial said Pierre died "at about 93 years."  He was 83.  His succession, calling him a native "of Acadie" and listing his three wives and some of his children--two unnamed children by first wife Marguerite Dupuy; Olivier, Joseph, Jean-Baptiste, Hypolite, Augustin, and David by second wife Claire Babin; and Marguerite and her husband, Louis, Charles, Nastasie and her husband, Antoine, Célestine and her husband, Arthémise D. and her husband, Rosémond, and Félonise by third wife Peggy Miller--was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in late November 1825.  Pierre's estate was valued at $200,000 at the time of his death.  He lived long enough to see 12 of his 13 sons, four of his seven daughters, at least nine grandsons, and over a dozen granddaughters establish families of their own in South Louisiana and East Texas (some of his grandsons were among the first Acadians to settle west of the Sabine).  Pierre was, in fact, a great-grandfather many times over when he breathed his last at Grande Pointe.  He also witnessed the burial of five of his sons, four of them married; several of his daughters, one of them married; and many grandchildren who died before their time.  Daughters Marguerite, Anastasie, Célestine, Ludivine, Arthémise, and Marie Catherine Phelonise, by third wife Peggy, married into the Broussard, Rees, Eastin, Picou, Thomas, and Devalcourt families.  Most of the Guidrys of southwest Louisiana descend from Pierre and his 12 married sons. 

Oldest son Louis-David, called David, from second wife Claire Babin, followed his family to the prairies and married Marie-Modeste, called Modeste, daughter of French Surgeon Antoine Borda and his Acadian wife Marguerite Martin dit Barnabé of Chignecto and Île St.-Jean, at Attakapas in September 1787.  They settled near Grand Coteau.  Their children, born there, included Charles le jeune in November 1788; Louis le jeune in c1790 but died at age 21 in March 1811; Onésime-Alexis baptized, age unrecorded, in June 1791; Pierre, called Pierre-Treville, born in April 1791[sic]; Baptiste le jeune in December 1794 but buried "as a child" in February 1801 (he would have been age 6); Marie, also called Mary, born in August 1797; Arsène, a daughter, in April 1799; Augustin or Auguste le jeune in c1800 and baptized, age 16 months, in July 1801; Émilie born in January 1802; Marcelline or Marcellite in March 1804; Joseph in March 1806; another Marie in June 1808; Azéline or Azélie, also called Marie Azélie, in c1809; Claire or Clarisse in December 1810; and Antoine le jeune in January 1816 but died at age 5 months the following July--15 children, eight sons and seven daughters, between 1788 and 1816.  David became partners with his brother-in-law, Jean dit Chapeau Mouton, in land speculation on the southwestern prairies.  According to one authority, in 1803 the pair "purchased from the Attakapas Indians more than 2,000 acres of prairie land on the Mermentau River in the Calcasieu, at that time the cattle frontier of Louisiana."  David died "at his home" near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in April 1821, four years before his father died.  The priest who recorded the burial said that David died "at age 50."  He was buried the next day "in the St. Charles Church cemetery" at Grand Coteau, one of the earliest burials there.  His succession, identifying his widow and heirs--Onézime, Pierre, Mary (deceased), Arsène, Auguste, Mélite, and Marcelite--and minor heirs--Joseph, Azélie, and Clarisse--was filed at the Opelousas courthouse, St. Landry Parish, the following February.  Daughters Marie/Mary, Arsène, Émilie, Marcellite, Marie Azéline/Azélie, Clarisse, and a second Marie married into the Bossier, Dejean, Dugas, Martin, Dupré, Ducrest, Berard, Mouton, and Barras families.  Four of David's sons also married.  

Third son Onésime Alexis married Marie Julie, also called Julie Euphrasie, Euphrasie Julie, and Eléonore, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Potier and his Creole wife Madeleine Ducrest of Bayou Teche, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in June 1813.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Élisabeth dite Éliza in September 1814; Alexis, also called Alexis Onésime, in August 1816; Alouise, perhaps also called Louisa, in July 1818 and died in August 1827, age 9; Onésime, fils born in September 1820; Modeste in December 1822; Valérie or Valéry in November 1824 but died at age 18 in September 1843; Marcellite born in October 1826 but died at age 4 in December 1830; Louisa born in August 1827; Françoise in August 1828; Louis David le jeune in February 1830 but, called David O., died at age 18 in March 1848; Madeleine Mathilde, called Mathilde, born in June 1832 but died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 2) in March 1834; Émilie Constance born in December 1833; Alida Philomène in September 1835; and Benjamin in May 1838.  Onésime Alexis, called Onésime A. by the recording priest and the parish clerk, may have remarried to Amelia Marie or Marie Amélie Vanhill or Vanhille at the Grand Coteau church in January 1840.  Their daughter Julie Amélie was born in St. Landry Parish in April 1841--15 children, 10 daughters and five sons, by two wives, between 1814 and 1841.  Onésime Alexis died near Grand Coteau in April 1850.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Onézime, as he called him, died "at age 59 yrs.," so this was him.  His succession, which mentions only his first wife and calls her Julie, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse the following July.  Daughters ..., by his first wife, married into the Campbell and Guidry families, and perhaps into the Rentrop, Cormier, and Pollingue families as well, by 1870.  Daughter Élisabeth attended school at Grand Coteau from September 1825, when she was age 11, to April 1830, when she was age 15.  Two of Onésime Alexis's sons also married, and one of them became a prominent citizen of St. Landry Parish. 

Oldest son Alexis Onésime, by first wife Julie Potier, married at age 27, cousin Célestine Laperle or Laperle Célestine, daughter of Cyprien, second son of Governor Jacques Dupré, and Cyprien's Acadian wife Marcellite Guidry, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in November 1843.  Their daughter Marie Harmide dite Arny, born in St. Landry Parish in October 1844, "Entered society ... at Our Lady of Seven Sorrows" at Grand Coteau at age 20 in September 1865.  Meanwhile, Alexis O., at age 32, remarried to Palmyre, another daughter of Cyprien Dupré and Marcellite Guidry, at the Opelousas church in October 1848.  They settled near Grand Coteau, where Alexis worked as a doctor of medicine (one wonders where, and when, he received his education).  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Marie Blanche in July 1849; Marie Joséphine in March 1851; Marie Elmire in October 1854; Valéri Cyprien in August 1856; Marie Alexia in September 1858 but died in December; Raoul born in September 1859; Joseph Beauregard Manassas in August 1861 but, called Beauregard M., son of "Dr. Guidry," died at age 1 in May 1862; Marie Erasie Isaure born in November 1862; Marie Annette Aloysia in November 1865; ...  In January 1861, Alexis O. ran for a seat in the state's secession convention to represent the Second Senatorial District, which included Calcasieu, Lafayette, and St. Landry parishes.  He ran as a Cooperationist--that is, an anti-secessionist.  He garnered three votes in Calcasieu (compared to the leading candidate's 245), 91 votes in Lafayette (compared to the leading candidate's 448), and 850 votes in St. Landry (compared to the leading candidates's 941).  The winner of the election was former governor Alexandre Mouton of Lafayette, a Secessionist, who went on to become president of the Louisiana secession convention.  Interestingly, the candidate who received the second hightest number of votes in the polling, another Secessionist, was Lucius J. Dupré of St. Landry, a kinsman of both of Dr. Guidry's wives.  Dr. Guidry did not serve on active duty in the war he hoped to avoid--he was age 44 in January 1861--but his youngest brother Benjamin did serve the Southern Confederacy and was lucky to have returned to his family.  Daughters ..., by his second wife, married into the Guilbeau and Pavy families by 1870.  None of Alexis Onésime's sons married by then. 

Onésime Alexis's fifth and youngest son Benjamin, by first wife Julie Potier, married cousin Martha Coraïde, also called Marthe or Martha Coralie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph David Guidry and Céleste Mouton, at the Grand Coteau church in December 1858.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Julie in November 1860; Marie Hélène in October 1864; ... During the War of 1861-65, Benjamin served in Company B of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Landry Parish, which fought in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana.  The regiment was first commanded by one of Benjamin's wife's kinsmen, Colonel, later Brigadier General, Jean Jacques Alexandre Alfred Mouton.  Benjamin enlisted at Camp Moore, Tangipahoa Parish, in October 1861, age 23.  At least two of his first cousins also served in Company B.  Benjamin followed his regiment to Mississippi and Tennessee, where he likely fought in the Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee, in April 1862.  After the battle, in May and June, he was reported "absent sick at interior hospital," no place given, probably in northern Mississippi, so one wonders if he was wounded at Shiloh.  He returned to his unit by July and was captured at the Battle of Labadieville in Assumption Parish, Louisiana, in October 1862.  The Federals paroled him, along with hundreds of other prisoners, and, after exchange, he returned to his unit.  He probably was with his company in the Teche campaign of spring 1863, retreated with it to Alexandria, and followed it back to South Louisiana by July, when he was reported absent in the hospital at Vermilionville, south of his home.  After his regiment was reorganized at Simmesport, Louisiana, in November 1863, Benjamin served in Company F of the Consolidated 18th Regiment and Yellow Jackets Battalion Infantry, which fought in Louisiana (a daughter was born at Grand Coteau in October 1864, so he evidently went home on leave, authorized or not, early that year).  He may have fought in the Red River campaign of spring 1864.  He received his parole as an end-of-war prisoner at Washington, Louisiana, in June 1865 and returned to his family. 

David's fourth son Pierre Treville married Marie Adélaïde, called Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Bernard and Marguerite Broussard of Carencro, at the St. Martinville church in September 1811.  They settled near Grand Coteau.  Their children, born there, included a son, name unrecorded, died eight days after his birth in January 1814; Pierre Treville, fils born in August 1812; Placide, also called Placide Treville, in April 1815; Alexandre in November 1817 but died at age 20 (the recording priest said 22) in August 1838; Joseph le jeune born in November 1819; Onésime in November 1821; Modeste in November 1823; Azélie in October 1825; a son, name unrecorded, died the day after his birth in August 1827; Marguerite died "at age 2 mths. and a few days" in November 1828; Clarisse born in late 1829 but died at age 3 months in January 1830; Félicité born in April 1831 but died at age 1 1/2 in September 1832; Adélaïde F. born in c1832 and baptized at the Grand Coteau church, age 5, on 9 June 1837; Louis born in c1834 and also baptized on 9 June 1837, age 3; and Philomène dite Philomel born in late 1836 and baptized at age 10 months in July 1837--15 children, eight sons and seven daughters, between 1814 and 1836.  Pierre Treville, père died near Grand Coteau in December 1837.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Pierre Treville was age 44 when he died.  He was 46.  His succession, naming his widow and living children--Pierre, Placide, Joseph, Onézime, Modeste, Azélie, Louis, Adélaïde, and Philomel--was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in November 1839.  Daughters Azélie, Modeste, Adélaide, and Philomène married into the Guidry and Johnson families, and perhaps into the Hardy and Rentrop families as well, by 1870.  Two of Pierre Treville's sons also married by then.

Second son Pierre Treville, fils married double cousin Marie Elmire or Elmire Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Guidry and Marie Bernard, his great-uncle and great-aunt, at the Grand Coteau church in April 1836.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Octave in January 1837 but died at age 18 (the recording priest said 19) in November 1855; Aurelia Marie born in November 1838; Marie Osphilia in August 1840 but, called Dlle. Ophelia T., died at age 16 (the recording priest said 15) in October 1856; Ovide Joseph born in December 1842; Pierre Alcide in August 1845 but, called Alcide, died at age 5 (the recording priest said 6) in October 1850; Maria Cora, called Cora, born in 1847 and baptized, age unrecorded, in October 1848; Elmire born in March 1850; Omer in September 1852 but, called Homère, died at age 6 (the recording priest said "age 8 or 9 yrs.") in October 1858; Marie Oliva born in August 1855; and Marie Corine posthumously in February 1858--10 children, four sons and six daughters, between 1837 and 1858.  Pierre Treville, fils died near Grand Coteau in October 1857.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Pierre Trev., as he called him, died "at age 46 yrs."  He was 45.  His succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in December.  Widow Elmire died near Grand Coteau in April 1863, age 49.  Her succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse the following August.  Daughters Cora, ... married into Domengeaux and Potier families by 1870.  Pierre Treville, fils's remaining son also married by then. 

During the War of 1861-65, second son Ovide Joseph may have served either in the Grivot Rangers Company Louisiana Cavalry, raised in St. Landry Parish, which became Company A of the 2nd Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, or in Company G of the Consolidated Crescent Regiment Louisiana Infantry--units which fought in Louisiana.  He survived the war, returned to his family, and married Jane or Jeanne, daughter of Charles Miller and Mathilde Burleigh, at the Grand Coteau church in January 1866.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Joseph Cléopha in October 1866; Joseph Omer in December 1868; Edgar in December 1870; ...

Pierre Treville, père's third son Placide Treville married Élisa or Éliza, daughter of Benjamin McClelland and Anne Hayes, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in March 1837.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Edmond or Edmund Placide near Grand Coteau in February 1838; Anney Luisa in August 1839 but, called Anne Élisa, died at age 12 in August 1851; Pierre Treville le jeune, called Treville, born in April 1841; Edmonia Francisca in March 1843; Louise or Louisa Stephane in July 1845; James Edgard in April 1847; Marie or Mary Odilia in February 1849; Benjamin Abner near Church Point, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in December 1850; Alix or Alice Melissa in December 1852; Tranolin Aurelian in February 1855; and Isaac Rousseau, called Rousseau, in October 1858--11 children, six sons and five daughters, between 1838 and 1858.  Placide Treville died near Grand Coteau in March 1859.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Placide C., as he called him, died "at age 43 yrs.," so this was Placide Treville.  His succession, calling him Placide T. and naming his wife, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in April.  Daughter ... married into the Chachere family by 1870.  One of his sons also married by then. 

During the War of 1861-65, oldest son Edmond or Edmund Placide served in Company F of the 8th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Landry Parish, which fought in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania--one of General R. E. Lee's Louisiana Tigers.  He enlisted at Camp Moore, Louisiana, age 23 (his Confederate record says 22), in early June 1861 and followed his unit by rail to Virginia, where his regiment was assigned to Colonel Richard Taylor's Louisiana Brigade, Ewell's Division, Jackson's Corps.  He was promoted from private to third sergeant in late April 1862, on the eve of the Seven Day's battles around Richmond, and followed Jackson's Corps to the Shenandoah Valley, where he was wounded in the Battle of Winchester on 25 May 1862.  The wound ended his Confederate service.  He remained in a general hospital, probably first in the Valley and then in Richmond, for months.  In early September 1862, on the eve of Lee's movement into Maryland, Sergeant Guidry was demoted to private, probably because he was unable to serve as sergeant and accompany his unit to Maryland.  He was given a medical discharge in early February 1863 and made his way home as best he could across a war-torn Confederacy.  He evidently did not marry by 1870, when he appears in the federal census in St. Landry Parish in late July of that year, a farmer, age 32, living with his widowed mother Éliza, age 50, in the parish's Fifth Ward near Bayou Chicot (in today's Evangeline Parish).  Éliza, not son Edmond, was listed as head of household, "keeping house," with real estate valued at $15,000, and personal property at $700.  Edmond, oddly, was the only other member of the household in the counting.  One wonders where his younger siblings--the youngest, brother Isaac Rousseau, would have been only age 11 1/2--were living at the time, if they were still alive. ...

Placide Treville's second son Pierre Treville le jeune, called Treville, married Mélanie, daughter of fellow Acadians Madison Young (originally Lejeune) and Marie Anne Richard, at the Opelousas church in January 1861. ...

David's sixth son Augustin or Auguste le jeune married cousin Angèle Mélanie or Mélanie Angèle, daughter of fellow Acadians Marin Martin and Anne Dugas of La Butte, at the St. Martinville church in June 1817.  They settled near Grand Coteau.  Their children, born there, included Auguste Dupréville, called Dupréville, in March 1818 but died at age 19 (the recording priest said 20) in September 1837; Joseph, also called Joseph Augustin or Auguste, born in c1819 or 1820 and baptized "at age about 3 years" in March 1823; Marie Azélie, called Azélie, born in December 1821; Edmond in late 1824 but died at age 7 months in June 1825; Clarisse born in April 1826; Emérite in March 1828; Uranie in April 1829; Eulalie in December 1830 but died at age 2 1/2 (the recording priest said 3) in August 1833; Corine born in August 1833, three weeks before her older sister's death; Victor baptized at age 2 months in September 1836; and Augustin, perhaps theirs, died at age 11 days in December 1841--11 children, five sons and six daughters, between 1818 and 1841.  Was he the Auguste Guidry who died near Grand Coteau in February 1844?  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that August died "at age 50 yrs."  Augustin le jeune would have been age 44, so it probably was not him.  Daughters Azélie, ... married into the Guilbeau, Lyons, and Voorhies families.  Two of Augustin le jeune's sons also married. 

Second son Joseph Auguste married first cousin Azélie, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Treville Guidry, père and Adélaïde Bernard, his uncle and aunt, at the Grand Coteau church in June 1842.  They settled near Grand Coteau.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Mozard in July 1843; Philomène Berte, also called Bertha Philomène, in February 1845; Flavie Angèle in January 1847; Jacques Flavien in October 1848 but, called Jacques, died at age 14 (the recording priest said 13) in February 1863; Pierre Ignace born in February 1851; Marie Laura in February 1853; André Cyrus in March 1856; Joseph Gaston in February 1857 but, called Augustin, may have died at age 6 1/2 in September 1863; twins Joseph Ambroise and Joseph Arthur born in November 1858, but Joseph Ambroise, called Ambroise, died at age 4 1/2 (the recording priest said 2) in March 1863; Marie Flavie Rosa born in July 1860; Marie in May 1862 but died at age 2 1/2 in September 1864; Marie Estelle born in June 1865; ...  Wife Azélie died near Grand Coteau in November 1866, age 42.  Her succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in December.  Daughter Bertha Philomène married into the Dufilho family by 1870.  None of Joseph Auguste's sons married by then. 

Auguste le jeune's fourth son Victor married cousin Constance, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Potier and Virginie Guidry, at the Grand Coteau church in June 1855.  Their children, born there, included a child, name and age unrecorded, died in November 1857; Noélie, perhaps theirs, died at age 2 months in February 1859; Joseph Auguste born in June 1860; and a child, name unrecorded, died "at age 3 wks." in April 1863, while Victor was off to war.  During the War of 1861-65, Victor served as a private and then a sergeant in Company B of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Landry Parish, which fought in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana.  He enlisted at Camp Moore, Tangipahoa Parish, in October 1861, age 25.  At least two of his first cousins also served in Company B.  Victor followed his regiment to Mississippi and Tennessee, where he likely fought in the Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee, in April 1862.  After the battle, in May and June, he was reported "absent sick at interior hospital," no place given, probably in northern Mississippi, so one wonders if he was wounded at Shiloh.  In July and August, he was absent without leave (note the birth of his child in April 1863), but returned to his regiment.  He was with his unit during the Lafourche campaign of fall 1862 and the Teche campaign of spring of 1863 but went AWOL again in late August of that year after his regiment had retreated to Alexandria and then returned to South Louisiana.  After that time, his Confederate service record falls silent.  Did he survive the war and return to his family?

David's seventh son Joseph le jeune married cousin Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean dit Chapeau Mouton and his Creole wife Marie Marthe Borda of Lafayette Parish, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in May 1826; Céleste's father was the founder of Vermilionville, now the city of Lafayette.  She and Joseph le jeune settled probably near Carencro, north of Vermilionville.  Their children, born there, included David Aristide in September 1827; Alexandre Telismar or Thelesmar, called Thelesmar, in May 1830; Félix in February 1834; Stanislas in c1836 and baptized at the Grand Coteau church, age 1, in September 1837; Marthe Corail or Martha Coraïde born in July 1839; Demetre Horace, called Horace, in October 1842; Modeste Hélène or Helena in August 1845; a child, name and age unrecorded, perhaps theirs, died in August 1847; and Jean Baptiste born in March 1852--nine children, at least six sons and two daughters, between 1827 and 1852.  Daughters Martha Coraïde and Modeste Helena married into the Guidry and Dufilho or Dupilho families by 1870.  Five of Joseph le jeune's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son David Aristide married cousin Marie Félicia, called Félicia, daughter of fellow Acadian Edmond Eugène Mouton and his Creole wife Eulalie Voorhies, at the St. Martinville church in January 1849.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Joseph Edmond in March 1850 but died at age 2 1/2 (the recording priest said 3) in December 1852; Céleste Eulalie born in March 1852; Carlos Aristide in February 1854; Édouard Léopold in September 1856; Marie Coraïde Félicie in September 1858; Joséphine Alida in July 1860; Félix in September 1862; Jean Baptiste Adolphe in February 1866; ...  None of David Aristide's children married by 1870. 

Joseph le jeune's second son Thelesmar married first cousin Constance, daughter of fellow Acadians Onésime Alexis Guidry and Julie Potier, his uncle and aunt, at the Grand Coteau church in October 1850.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Joseph Alcée in September 1864; Onésime Léonce in August 1867; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Thelesmar served in Company B of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Landry Parish, which fought in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana.  He enlisted at Camp Moore, Tangipahoa Parish, in October 1861, age 31.  At least two of his first cousins also served in Company B.  Thelesmar followed his regiment to Mississippi and Tennessee, was wounded in action at the Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee, in April 1862, sent home on wounded furlough, and was discharged from the service probably because of his wound in June 1863.  As the birth of two of his sons reveals, he survived the war. 

Joseph le jeune's third son Félix married cousin Éliza Coraïde, called Coraïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Valsin Mouton and Carmélite Dugas, at the Vermilionville church in February 1854.  They settled probably near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Marie Louise Céleste in March 1860; Paul Armand in August 1863; Jean Berkmans in April 1869; ...

Joseph le jeune's fourth son Stanislas married first cousin Philomène, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Treville Guidry, père and Adélaïde Bernard, his uncle and aunt, at the Grand Coteau church in January 1857.  Their son Ferdinand Ferman was born near Grand Coteau in October 1857.  Wife Philomène died near Grand Coteau in May 1858, age 20.  Her succession, naming her husband, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse the following September.  Stanislas remarried to cousin Marie Adélaïde, called Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Potier and Victorine Guidry, at the Grand Coteau church in June 1860.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Jean Alcibiade Manassas in August 1861; Joseph Gayozos in October 1862; Marie Arsène in June 1864; David Stanislas in March 1866; ... 

Joseph le jeune's fifth son Horace married cousin Marie Mathilde, called Mathilde, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Adolphe Guidry and Clémentine Guilbeau, at the Grand Coteau church in December 1862.  Horace may have remarried to Marguerite Lesimane Bouquinais or Bouquinet, place and date unrecorded.  Their children, born near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, included Ernest in October 1866; Marcel in August 1869; ... 

Pierre's second son Olivier, by second wife Claire Babin, followed his family to the prairies and married Victoire, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Semer and Marie Thibodeaux, at Attakapas in June 1791.  They settled near his father at Grande Pointe on upper Bayou Teche.  Their children, born there, included Adélaïde, also called Marie Adélaïde, in the early 1790s; Julien in c1794 and baptized, age 1 1/2 months, in June 1795; Marie-Aspasie, called Aspasie, baptized, age 4 months, in October 1797; Auguste-Zéphirin, called Zéphirin, born in February 1799; Olivier, fils in September 1801; Marie, perhaps also called Arsène, in May 1804; Eugénie in May 1807 but died at Grande Pointe, age 23 (the recording priest said 18), in December 1830; Joseph, also called Joseph Treville or Théoville and Treville, born in August 1809; Louis le jeune in October 1811; Marie Victoire, called Victoire, in August 1814; and Louise, perhaps also called Élisa, in March 1817--11 children, five sons and six daughters, between the early 1790s and 1817.  Olivier, père died in St. Martin Parish in February 1838, age 67.  Daughters Adélaïde, Aspasie, Arsène, Élisa, and Victoire married into the Patin, Landry, Thibodeaux, David, and Dugas families.  Olivier's sons also married, but not all of the lines endured.  Some of his descendants moved to the Abbeville area of Vermilion Parish by the 1850s.  

Oldest son Julien married, at age 37, Marie Eméranthe, called Eméranthe, daughter of French Canadian Solastie Roy and his Creole wife Marie Nezat, at the St. Martinville church in November 1832.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Marie Julie near Opelousas in October 1835; Jules, also called Jules Julien, near St. Martinville in January 1838; and Marie Eliska in September 1839--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1835 and 1839.  Julien, père's succession, naming his wife, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in April 1845.  He would have been in his early 50s that year.  Daughters ... married into the Champagne and Domengeaux families by 1870.  Julien's son also married by then.

Only son Jules Julien married cousin Azélima or Azélina, daughter of Antoine dit Seven Guidry and Hotense Broussard, at the Vermilionville church in October 1856.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Julien Chapman near Grand Coteau in October 1857; a child, name unrecorded, perhaps theirs, died "at age a few hours" in Lafayette Parish in June 1859; a son, perhaps theirs, name unrecorded, died at birth in June 1860; Marie Eve born near Breaux Bridge in January 1862; Joseph Cyrus in March 1865; Jules Noé in August 1866 but died less than a week after his birth; ... 

Olivier's second son Zéphirin married Adeline dite Deline, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Dupuis and Élisabeth Benoit of Manchac and Grande Pointe, at the St. Martinville church in January 1819.  Zéphirin's succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Abbeville courthouse, Vermilion Parish, in 1856.  He would have been age 57 that year.  Did they have any children? 

Olivier's third son Olivier, fils married cousin Isabelle or Élisabeth Belzire, called Belzire, daughter of fellow Acadians Cyrille Thibodeaux and Scholastique Breaux of Grande Pointe, at the St. Martinville church in April 1822.  They settled at Grande Pointe.  Their children, born there, included Caroline in c1822 but died at age 6 in September 1828; Marie born in July 1823; Louis le jeune, also called Don Louis, in July 1824; Aspasie in July 1825; Duprévil or Dupréville probably in 1826 but died at age 5 (the recording priest said 6) in September 1831; Olivier III born in April 1827; Cyrille Trasimond, called Trasimond, in July 1828; Victoire in September 1829; Oliva in June 1831; Julien in April 1832; Élisa in September 1833; Arvillien in March 1835; and another Olivier III died 15 days after his birth in March 1836--13 children, six daughters and seven sons, between 1822 and 1836.  An Olivier Guidry died in St. Martin Parish in August 1855.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that this Olivier died "at age 53 yrs."  Olivier, fils would have been that age, so, given the place of his death, this likely was him.  Daughters ..., by his first wife, married into the Bijeaux, Lemaire, Leonard, and Nunez families by 1870.  Four of Olivier, fils's older sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Louis le jeune, also called Don Louis, from first wife Belzire Thibodeaux, may have married Coralie Dartes, place and date unrecorded, and settled in St. Martin Parish by the late 1840s.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Louis, fils baptized at the Breaux Bridge church, age 2 months, in April 1848; Julie born in July 1851; Julien le jeune in March 1853; Alice in June 1855 but died at age 2 in August 1857; Claire Arthémise born in March 1857; Jules Jean in May 1859; and Giles Thrazimond in September 1861--seven children, four sons and three daughters, between 1848 and 1861.  Louis le jeune likely died near Breaux Bridge in October 1865.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Don Louis, as he called him, died "at age 40 yrs."  Louis le jeune would have been age 41.  His succession, which also called him Don Louis and mentioned his wife, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse later in the month.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Olivier, fils's fourth son Cyrille Trasimond, called Trasimond, from first wife Belzire Thibodeaux, married Azélica or Azélie, daughter of Sébastien Nunez and Clémentine Lapointe, at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in May 1854.  Their children, born near Abbeville, included Cyrille Trasimond, fils in April 1855; Olivier le jeune in January 1857; Arthur in June 1859 but died at age 1 in June 1860; Gilbert born in June 1861; Sébastien in February 1864; twins Adolphe and Rodolphe Anselme in April 1868; ...  None of Trasimond's sons married by 1870. 

Olivier, fils's fifth son Julien, by first wife Belzire Thibodeaux, married cousin Éliza or Élisa, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Thibodeaux and Apolline Arthémise Melançon, at the Breaux Bridge church, St. Martin Parish, in February 1858.  Their children, born near Breaux Bridge, included Marie Idea in September 1858; Emma in February 1864; Achille in September 1865 but died at age 2 1/2 in April 1868; Adam born in November 1869; ...

Olivier, fils's sixth son Arvillien, by first wife Belzire Thibodeaux, married Eveline or Aveline, daughter of Gédéon Hargrave or Hargrove and Clarisse Nunez, at the Abbeville church in January 1856.  Their children, born near Abbeville, included Olympia in November 1856; Arvilien, fils in October 1858; Olivier in October 1864; ... 

Olivier, père's fourth son Joseph Treville or Théoville, called Treville, married Louise, also called Louisa, Loison, and Edervisa, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Potier and his Creole wife Madeleine Ducrest, at the St. Martinville church in June 1831.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Edmond in August 1832 but, called Édouard, died at age 5 in September 1837; Élise or Élisa born in February 1835; Joseph, fils in December 1836; Louis le jeune in July 1839; Louise in December 1841; Modeste in December 1845; Marie Aminthe near Breaux Bridge in June 1848; and Alexis in June 1851--eight children, four sons and four daughters, between 1832 and 1851.  Joseph Treville, at age 57, remarried to Julie, daughter of fellow Acadians Sylvestre LeBlanc and Perosine Duhon, at the Breaux Bridge church in October 1866. ...  Daughter Élisa, by his first wife, married into the Patin family by 1870.  None of Treville's sons married by then. 

Olivier, père's fifth and youngest son Louis le jeune married Marie Eurasie or Erasie, also called Uranie, another daughter of Sylvestre LeBlanc and Perosine Duhon, at the St. Martinville church in May 1832.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Marie Eurasie in July 1832; Marie Azélie in June 1836; Uranie in June 1838; Eugène in June 1840; Euphémie in March 1845 but, called Eupémie, died near Breaux Bridge, age 3 1/2, between September and November 1848; Hypolite born near Breaux Bridge in January 1848 but died the following August; Ernestine born in July 1850; Olivier in April 1853; and Omer in October 1855--nine children, five daughters and four sons, between 1832 and 1855.  Daughters ... married into the Guidry, Huval, and Robert families by 1870.  One of Louis le jeune's sons also married by then, after his Confederate service.

During the War of 1861-65, oldest son Eugène may have served in Company D of the Consolidated 18th Regiment and Yellow Jackets Battalion Infantry, raised in St. Martin and St. Mary parishes, which fought in Louisiana and southern Arkansas.  If so, he survived the war and returned to his family.  Eugène, at age 28, married Marie Amelia, called Amelia, daughter of André Robert and his Acadian wife Adèle Orillion, at the Breaux Bridge church in May 1869; Eugène's sister Ernestine married Amelia's brother Arnaud William. ...

Pierre's third son Joseph dit Mines, by second wife Claire Babin, followed his family to the prairies and married Marie-Scholastique, called Scholastique dite Colastie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Charles Hébert dit Manuel and Madeleine Robichaux, at Attakapas in September 1793.  They settled on the upper Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included Juliènne in c1794 and baptized, age 1, in June 1795; Marie-Aspasie, called Aspasie, in c1796 and baptized, age 1, in November 1797; Joseph, fils born in March 1797; Alexandre Lessin in May 1799; Marie-Arsène in August 1801; Marguerite in June 1804; a daughter, name unrecorded, in c1806 but died at age 2 in August 1808; Marie born in January 1807; Clémence in December 1808; Antoine Levènnes, also called Antoine dit Seven and Seven Antoine, in January 1811; Sosthène in c1811; Onésime in January 1812; Élisa or Lisa in April 1815; Eusèbe in May 1818, and Scholastique Azélie, called Azélie, in September 1819--15 children, nine daughters and six sons, including perhaps a set of twins, between 1794 and 1819.  Joseph's succession, calling him Joseph père and his wife Colastie, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in April 1837.  He would have been in his mid-60s that year.  Daughters Juliènne, Aspasie, Marie Arsène, Clémence, Élisa/Lisa, and Azélie married into the Sonnier, Patin, Duhon, Bergeron, Hébert, and Trahan families.  Five of Joseph's sons also married, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Joseph, fils married Marie Azélie dite Zélie, daughter of fellow Acadians Augustin Comeaux and Céleste Sonnier, at the St. Martinville church in December 1818.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Joseph III in December 1819; Marie, perhaps also called Azélie and Angelica, in August 1821; Augustin, also called Augustin dit Carolus and Auguste, in December 1823; Charles Oculi in c1826 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 years, 1 month, in March 1828; and Sosthène le jeune born in late 1827 and baptized at age 3 months, 7 days, in March 1828, on the same day his older brother was baptized and a few days after their father died--five children, four sons and a daughter, between 1819 and 1828.  Joseph, fils was "found drowned in a 'marret' ('marais' is a marshland, swamp, or lowland area) near L'ille aux Cannes" in March 1828.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph, fils died "at age 33 years."  He was 31.  His first succession, calling him Joseph fils and his wife Zélie Comeau, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in July 1832, and a second succession, calling him "Joseph Sr. of Iberville," his wife Azélie Comau, and naming his minor children--Joseph fils, Azélie, Charles, Sosthène, and Augustin Oriculus--was filed at the same courthouse in August 1838.  Daughter Azélie/Angelica married into the Gaullet or Goulet family.  Joseph, fils's sons also married.

Oldest son Joseph III married Marie Oliva, called Oliva and also Céline, daughter of fellow Acadian Henry Landry and his Creole wife Marie Louise Begnaud, at the Vermilionville church in September 1839.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Alexande, probably Alexandre, in September 1840; Noémi in December 1841; and a child, name and age unrecorded, perhaps theirs, died in August 1847--three children, at least one son and one daughter, between 1840 and 1847.  Daughter Noémie married into the Melançon family by 1870.  Joseph III's son also married by then.

Only son Alexandre married cousin Marie Eugénie, called Eugénie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Landry and Marie Azélie Comeaux, at the Youngsville church, Lafayette Parish, in February 1862.  Their children, born near Youngsville, included Thérèse in November 1862; Marie Cécilia in November 1864; Eraste in April 1866; Edgar in September 1868; ... 

Joseph, fils's second son Augustin dit Carolus, also called Auguste, married Émelia or Amelia, 16-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Sosthène Boudreaux and Anastasie Broussard, at the Vermilionville church in May 1846.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Amilie in Lafayette Parish in March 1847; Joseph Dupré in October 1850; Marie in October 1854; Augustin, fils near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in November 1856; and Rosa in January 1859.  Augustin Carolus remarried to Marie or Marine, daughter of fellow Acadians Philippe de Saint-Julien Lachaussée le jeune and his first wife Hortense LeBlanc and widow of Euclide Bernard, at the Vermilionville church in September 1860.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Elzea, perhaps a son, near Abbeville in August 1861; Edmonia in May 1864; Raphaël near Youngsville in December 1868; ...  Daughter ..., by his first wife, married into the Dartes family by 1870.  None of Augustin Carolus's sons married by then. 

Joseph, fils's third Charles Oculi married first cousin Azélima dite Zélima, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Lessin Guidry and Carmélite Broussard, his uncle and aunt, at the Vermilionville church in February 1851.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Olympe in December 1853; Albert in August 1855; Coralie in May 1857; Marcel in March 1859; Mozart in December 1860 but died the following June; Charles, fils was born in May 1862; ...  None of Charles Oculi's children married by 1870. 

Joseph, fils's fourth and youngest son Sosthène le jeune married Marie Azéma, Aima, or Anna, also called Lodoiska, daughter of fellow Acadians Don Louis Broussard and Lodoiska Hébert, at the Vermilionville church in May 1851.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Lodoiska in February 1852; and François Sosthène in April 1853.  Sosthène died in Lafayette Parish in July 1853, age 25.  His succession, calling his wife Marie Azéma, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in August.  Daughter Lodoiska married into the Breaux family by 1870.  His son did not marry by then. 

Joseph, père's second son Alexandre Lessin married Marie Carmélite, called Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean François Broussard dit Beausoleil and his first wife Gertrude Thibodeaux of Pont du Vermilion or Pin Hook Bridge, at the St. Martinville church in January 1821.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Carmélite in June 1822; Marie died on the day of her birth in February 1824 from "a deformity," the recording priest noted, "that we could with reason, count on her days because of such a large growth on her head which was larger then the head itself--otherwise she was in a natural (perfect) state"; twins Azemor, probably Azéma, and Zélima, also called Azélima, born in c1825 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 20 months, in February 1827; Alexandre, fils born in September 1827; Laisin or Lessin in c1829 and baptized at age 1 1/2 in November 1830; Dupréville, called Dupré, born in 1831 and baptized at age 13 months in June 1832; Éloi, also called Édouard, born in c1833 and baptized at age 1 in January 1834; Treville born in c1834 and baptized at age 1 in August 1835; Seven born in April 1836 but died at age 1 in June 1837; Jule or Jules baptized at age 44 days in April 1838; Zélina, also called Azélina, like her older sister, born in late 1839 and baptized at age 6 1/2 months in April 1840; Erasme, perhaps also called Eraste, born in August 1841; Edgar Prosper in the 1840s; Homère D. in the 1840s; and Amélie, Amelia, or Émilie in January 1843--16 children, six daughters and 10 sons, including a set of twins, between 1822 and 1843.  Wife Carmélite's succession, evidently post-mortem, naming her husband, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in August 1851.  Alexandre, at age 52, remarried to Marcellite, daughter of Jacques Fostin and his Acadian wife Julie Hébert and widow of Valéry Breaux, père, at the Vermilionville church in January 1852, a dozen years after her first husband died "from knife wounds."  She gave Alexandre Lessin no more children, but two of his children, a son and a daughter, by his first wife married two of her children by her first husband the following November and December.  Alexandre Lessin may have died in Lafayette Parish in October 1861.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Lessaint, as he called him, died "at age 54 yrs."  Alexandre Lessin would have been age 62.  His succession, in which he is called Alexandre Sr., was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in December 1861.  Daughters Carmélite, Azélima, Azéma, Azélina, and Émilie, by his first wife, married into the Dugas, Guidry, Breaux, Comeaux, and Doucet families.  Eight of Alexandre Lessin's sons also married, one of them to a stepsister and three of them to Bernard sisters.  Not all of the lines endured.  At least two of his sons served Louisiana and the Southern Confederacy in uniform, one at the cost of his life. 

Oldest son Alexandre, fils, by first wife Carmélite Broussard, married, at age 21, Éloise, Éloisa, or Louisa, daughter of fellow Acadians François Breaux and Marie Cormier, at the Vermilionville church in November 1848.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Félix in December 1849; François Arthure in April 1851 but, unnamed by the recording priest, died in Lafayette Parish at age 2 1/2 (the recording priest said 2) in September 1853; Alexandre III died, age unrecorded, in November 1852; Rose Arsène born in December 1853; Léopold in March 1855 but died at age 1 in May 1856; Marie Cécilia born in August 1856; Clara in December 1857; Marie in July 1859; and Carmélite Annah in January 1861.  During the War of 1861-65, Alexandre, fils likely served in Company B of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Landry Parish, which fought in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana.  If this was him, he enlisted at Camp Moore, Tangipahoa Parish, in August 1861, age 34.  His younger brother Erasme, called Eraste, was a private in Company F of the 18th Louisiana, and several cousins also served in Company B of the regiment.  Perhaps because of his mature age, Alexandre, fils was elected a sergeant in his company.  He was on furlough in early 1862 and rejoined the regiment at Camp Benjamin, Louisiana, in February.  He followed his regiment to Mississippi and Tennessee and was wounded at the Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee, in April 1862.  After going on wounded furlough, he rejoined the regiment in July and followed it to Louisiana, where he fought in the Lafourche valley campaign in autumn 1862 and the Teche valley campaign in spring 1863.  After his unit retreated to Alexandria and then returned to South Louisiana, he served as a provisions guard at Vermilionville later that summer.  Following the reorganization of his regiment at Simmesport, Louisiana, in November 1863, Alexandre, fils served in Company F of the Consolidated 18th Regiment and Yellow Jackets Battalion Infantry in Louisiana.  He went on furlough again, perhaps because of his Shiloh wound, in February 1864, and may not have returned to his regiment.  His name "appears in [the] body of a letter dated Headquarters, U.S. Forces, Plaquemine," Louisiana, 9 April 1865, as a deserter.  He received his parole as an end-of-war prisoner at Washington, Louisiana, in June 1865.  Alexandre, fils, at age 38, remarried to Noémi, daughter of Louis Judice and Marie Labarthe, at the Vermilionville church in April 1866.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Joseph Alcibiade in April 1867; François Alexandre in April 1868; Paul Éloi in May 1869; ...  Alexandre, fils died in February 1920, age 92, and was buried in St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery, Cecilia, near Grande Pointe on upper Bayou Teche.  None of Alexandre, fils's daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did.

Oldest son Félix, by first wife Éloise Breaux, married Julie, daughter of John Creighton and his Acadian wife Euphémie Mouton, at the Vermilionville church in October 1868. ...  

Alexandre Lessin's second son Lessin, by first wife Carmélite Broussard, married stepsister Louisianaise, daughter of fellow Acadian Valéry Breaux, père and his Creole wife Marcellite Fostin, at the Vermilionville church in November 1852; Louisianaise's mother had become Lessin's stepmother the previous January.  Lessin and Louisianaise's children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Bathilde in February 1854; Marie Usaïde in May 1855; Léonard in May 1857; Hélène in January 1859 but died the following September; and Emérite born in February 1863.  Lessin remarried to double cousin Mélasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Treville Broussard and Sidalise Broussard, at the Vermilionville church in January 1866.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Eraste le jeune in October 1866; Numa in January 1870; ...  Daughter ... , by his first wife, married into the Theall or Theald family by 1870.  None of Lessin's sons married by then. 

Alexandre Lessin's third son Dupréville, called Dupré, from first wife Carmélite Broussard, married Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Treville Bernard and Azélie Comeaux, at the Vermilionville church in June 1852.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Joséphine in February 1853; Arthur in July 1855; Robert in April 1858; and Louis in September 1860--four children, a daughter and three sons, between 1853 and 1860.  Dupré may have died in Lafayette Parish in January 1863.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Dupré died "at age 36 yrs."  This Dupré would have been age 31.  One wonders if his death was war-related.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Alexandre Lessin's fourth son Éloi, by first wife Carmélite Broussard, married Elmire, another daughter of Joseph Treville Bernard and Azélie Comeaux, at the Vermilionville church in November 1857.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Jules in November 1858; Marie Émelie in October 1860; a child, name unrecorded, died at "age a few wks." in July 1863; Rodolphe born in August 1864; ...  Éloi died in Lafayette Parish in August 1869.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Éloi died "at age 36 yrs.," so this probably was him.  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse sometime in 1869. 

Alexandre Lessin's fifth son Treville, by first wife Carmélite Broussard, married first cousin Scholastie or Colastie, daughter of Eusèbe Guidry and Marie Uranie Broussard, his uncle and aunt, at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in June 1854.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Onésiphora in March 1855; François Orfila in December 1856; Mathilde in July 1858; Alsina in July 1860; Philomène in February 1863; Élina in August 1864; Adam in November 1866; ...  None of Treville's children married by 1870. 

Alexandre Lessin's seventh son Jules, by first wife Carmélite Broussard, married Belzire, yet another daughter of Joseph Treville Bernard and Azélie Comeaux, at the Vermilionville church in October 1859.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Cécile in October 1860; Azélie in December 1861; ...

Alexandre Lessin's eighth son Erasme, by first wife Carmélite Broussard, called Eraste by the recording clerk, received his emancipation in Lafayette Parish in October 1861, age 20.  During the war, he probably was the Eraste Guidry who served in Company F of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafayette Parish, which fought in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana.  His older brother and several cousins served in Company B of the regiment, his brother as a sergeant.  Eraste enlisted in Company F at Camp Moore, Tangipahoa Parish, in October 1861, several weeks before his emancipation.  He followed his regiment to Mississippi and was wounded in action at the Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee, in April 1862.  He was listed as "wounded present" with his regiment in the spring and summer of 1862, so he may have accompanied his unit to Louisiana in early October, but, because of his wound, he probably remained at a general hospital in Mississippi before following his regiment to Louisiana.  Evidently his wound proved to be fatal.  He died in late October 1862, five days before his regiment fought in the Battle of Labadieville in the upper Lafourche valley.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded his death, and perhaps his burial, and who did not give any parents' names, said Eraste, as he called him, died "at age 19 yrs."  Erasme would have been age 21.  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in November.  He did not marry. 

Alexandre Lessin's ninth son Edgar Prosper, by first wife Carmélite Broussard, married Sarah Jesse, daughter of William Brandt and Isabelle Rulong or Rulang, at the Vermilionville church in May 1866.  Their son Alexandre le jeune was born in Lafayette Parish in November 1870; ... 

Alexandre Lessin's tenth and youngest son Homère D., by first wife Carmélite Broussard, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian and former governor Alexandre Mouton and his second wife Emma Gardner, at the Vermilionville church in June 1868. ...

Joseph, père's third son Antoine Levènnes, also called Antoine dit Seven or Sevène and Seven Antoine, perhaps a twin, married Anne Hortense, called Hortense, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean François Broussard dit Beausoleil and his second wife Hortense Broussard, at the Vermilionville church in August 1831.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included a daughter, name unrecorded, died a day after her birth in September 1832; Azéma born in December 1833; Carmélite baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 4 1/2 months, in October 1835; Zélima born in February 1839; a child, name unrecorded, died at age 9 days in September 1843; Antoine, fils born in c1844 or 1845; Guillaume, called William, baptized, age unrecorded, in January 1852; Marie Corina born in June 1853 but, called Corinne, died at age 9 1/2 (the recording priest said 10) in February 1863; Ophelia born in April 1854; and Jean Joseph, called Joseph, in August 1857--10 children, at least six daughters and three sons, between 1832 and 1857.  Antoine dit Seven died near New Iberia, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in September 1867.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Seven Antoine, as he called him, died "at age 63 years."  He was 56.  Daughters ... married into the Guidry, Mills, and Moore families by 1870.  Two of Antoine dit Seven's sons also married by then. 

During the War of 1861-65, oldest son Antoine, fils may have served in Company A of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafayette Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  He survived the war, returned to his family, and married Mathilde or Mathilda, daughter of Nayton Foreman and ____ Higginbotham, at the Vermilionville church in October 1865. ...

Antoine dit Seven's second son William married Élise, daughter of Cyprien Lalonde and Clara Mayer, at the Arnaudville church, St. Landry Parish, in December 1869. ...

Joseph, père's fourth son Sosthène, perhaps  Seven Antoine's twin, married Uranie, daughter of Jean Pelletier and his Acadian wife Henriette Breaux, at the St. Martinville church in October 1845.  They settled near Breaux Bridge.  Their children, born there, included Uranie in March 1848; and Noémi posthumously in January 1850.  Sosthène died near Breaux Bridge in October 1849.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Sosthène died "at age 38 yrs.," so one wonders if he was the twin of Antoine dit Seven.  Daughters Uranie and Noémi married into the Hébert and Patin families.  Did Sosthène father any sons? 

Joseph, père's sixth and youngest son Eusèbe married Marie Uranie, called Uranie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Broussard and Susanne Boudreaux, at the Vermilionville church in June 1834.  Their children, born on the prairies, included a son, name unrecorded, in c1834 but died in Lafayette Parish, age 8, in September 1841; Scholastique baptized at age 6 months in November 1835; Marie baptized at age 7 days in July 1836 but died two days later; Joseph le jeune born in October 1838; Eusèbe, fils in August 1841 but died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 2) in April 1843; and Olivier born in October 1844 but died near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, at age 16 (the recording priest said 17) in June 1861--six children, four sons and two daughters, between 1834 and 1844.  Daughters ... married into the Dugas and Guidry families by 1870.  Neither of Eusèbe's remaining sons married by then. 

Pierre's fourth son Jean-Baptiste, called Baptiste, from second wife Claire Babin, married Marie-Solange or Solanges, called Solanges, another daughter of Jean-Charles Hébert dit Manuel and Madeleine Robichaux, at Attakapas in June 1797.  They settled on the upper Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included Julie-Zélie in May 1798 but died at age 12 1/2 in September 1810; Marguerite born in August 1799; Céleste in September 1801; Marie in February 1805; Jean Baptiste, fils, called Baptiste, in September 1806; Marie Carmélite in September 1807; Juliènne in November 1809 but died at age 19 (the recording priest said 20) in September 1829; Joseph, also called Joseph Valmond and Valmond or Valmont, born in April 1813; Moyse or Moïse in February 1815; Pierre Lastie or Lasty in December 1817 but died at age 16 in September 1833; Véronique born in c1819; Alexis in February 1820; and Virginie Carmélite in January 1824--13 children, eight daughters and five sons, between 1798 and 1824.  Jean Baptiste, père died in Lafayette Parish in October 1857.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Jean Baptiste, Sr., as he called him, died "at age 85 yrs."  This Jean Baptiste, père would have been 81.  His successions were filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in November 1857 and at the Opelousas courthouse, St. Landry Parish, in January 1858, so he probably owned property in both parishes.  Daughters Marguerite, Marie, and Véronique married into the LeBlanc, Richard, and Hébert families.  Four of Baptiste's sons also married, but not all of the lines endured.

Oldest son Jean Baptiste, fils, called Baptiste, fils, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Dugas and Céleste Dugas, at the Vermilionville church in May 1825.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Théogène in June 1826; Ermogène in October 1828 but died at age 3 (the recording priest said 2 1/2) in October 1831; Zélima baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 4 months, in June 1831; Sosthène baptized at age 13 days in February 1834 but died the day of his baptism; Azélie born in late 1834 and baptized at age 7 months in June 1835; and Célima born in c1838 but died at age 2 in November 1840.  A succession for Baptiste, fils, not post-mortem, so it may have followed the death of his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in August 1838.  He would have been age 32 that year.  At age 55, he remarried to Marie, also called Émelie, daughter of Dominique Hernandez and ____ Hernandez, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in September 1861.  They evidently lived together for years before the wedding.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Théophile in August 1843 but died at age 4 in September 1847; Marie Louise, called Louise and Louisa, born in April 1845; and Jean in May 1850--nine children, five sons and four daughters, by two wives, between 1826 and 1850.  Daughters Azélie and Louise, by both wives, married into the Landry and LeBlanc families by 1870.  Neither of Baptiste, fils's remaining sons married by then; the oldest son may not have married at all. 

Baptiste, père's second son Joseph Valmond, called Valmond or Valmont, married Geneviève Azéma or Azéma Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Bourque and Marguerite Duhon, at the Vermilionville church in October 1833.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Jean Baptiste, also called Jean Baptiste Valmond or Valmont, in March 1835; Joseph, fils baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 1 month, in April 1837; Élise baptized at age 2 months in April 1839; Zélima born in February 1841; Amelina in February 1844 but died in Lafayette Parish at age 10 1/2 (the recording priest said 10) in August 1854; and Anatole born in July 1848--six children, three sons and three daughters, between 1835 and 1848.  Daughter ... married into the Meaux family by 1870.  Two of Valmond's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Jean Baptiste Valmond married Pélagie Euphémie, called Euphémie, daughter of fellow Acadian Aurelien Hébert and his Creole wife Pélagie Dartes, at the Abbeville church in June 1856.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Jean, fils in Lafayette Parish in May 1857; Alsina in April 1859; Pélagie in February 1861; Amelina in July 1862; ...  Jean Baptiste Valmond's succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in February 1867.  He would have been age 32 that year.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Valmond's second son Joseph, fils married Mélanie, perhaps also called Eulalie, another daughter of Aurelien Hébert and Pélagie Dartes, at the Vermilionville church in December 1865.  Their son Adraste was born in Lafayette Parish in February 1868; ... 

Baptiste, père's third son Moïse married cousin Mélanie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Hébert and Élisabeth Duhon, at the Vermilionville church in September 1835.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Joseph baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 40 days, in August 1836 but died at age 25 (the recording priest said 24)  in September 1861 (one wonders if his death was war-related); Élisabeth born in December 1837; Marie Solange baptized at age 8 days in March 1839 and died four days later; Alcide baptized at age 2 months in April 1840; Octavine born in November 1841; and Jean Horace in March 1843.  Moïse "of Vermillion[sic] Parish," probably Baptiste's son, remarried to fellow Acadian Adélaïde Broussard "of Laf. Parish" in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in August 1847.  Their children, born in on the prairies, included Adolphe in Lafayette Parish in October 1848; Alcé in May 1851; Marie Ozena in September 1854; and Azélie near Abbeville in June 1856--10 children, five sons and five daughters, by two wives, between 1836 and 1856.  They were living near Abbeville later in the decade.  Daughters ..., by his first wife, married into the Broussard and Hébert families by 1870.  None of Moïse's sons married by then. 

Baptiste, père's fifth and youngest son Alexis married Marie Sylvanie, called Sylvanie, daughter of Alexandre Dartes and Arthémise Legnon, at the Vermilionville church in November 1841.  Alexis died in Lafayette Parish in August 1842, age 22.  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in September.  Did they have any children? 

Pierre's fifth son Paul-Hippolyte, also called Hippolyte, from second wife Claire Babin, married Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Duhon and Marie Prejean, at Attakapas in May 1800.  They settled on the upper Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included Paul, fils in July 1802 but died the following December; Leufroi born in December 1803; Aspasie in February 1806; Joachim in October 1810; another Paul, fils in c1812 but died at age 18 months in October 1813; Jean Baptiste born in August 1814; and a son, unnamed, died at birth in August 1817--seven children, six sons and a daughter, between 1802 and 1817.  Paul Hippolyte's succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in November 1820.  He would have been age 41 that year.  Daughter Aspasie married into the Chiasson family.  Three of Hippolyte's sons settled in East Texas, some of the first Acadians to go there. 

Second son Leufroi married cousin Christine, daughter of fellow Acadians Augustin Dugas and Marie Duhon, at the Grand Coteau church in April 1822.  In c1835, they were among the first Acadians to move to Texas.  During the Texas War of Independenc, Lefroy, as he was called, served in Captain William Logan's Company and fought in the Battle of San Jacinto in April 1836.  Leufroi and Christine settled in Jefferson County before moving on to Liberty County. 

Paul Hippolyte's third son Joachim married Marie, daughter of Joseph Giroud or Giroux and Céleste Robertson, at the Opelousas church in October 1827.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Aspasie in December 1829 and baptized at the Vermilionville church in October 1830; Adélaïde born in c1831 and baptized at age 2 on 20 September 1833; Azélie baptized at age 4 months also on 20 September 1833 but evidently died in Lafayette Parish at age 20 in December 1853; and Melia born in c1832 and baptized at age 2 in November 1836--four children, all daughters, born in Louisiana between 1829 and 1836.  In the early 1840s, Joachim and his family followed his brother Leufroi to East Texas and settled in the Beaumont area near the Louisiana border.  Joshua, as he was called, was counted with wife Marie and 18-year-old daughter Isabelle, perhaps Adélaïde, in Jefferson County in 1850. 

Paul Hippolyte's fifth son Jean Baptiste followed his older brothers to East Texas in the early 1840s and settled north of Beaumont in Hardin County.  ~

Pierre's sixth son Augustin le jeune, by second wife Claire Babin, married Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Firmin dit Ephrem Robichaux and Marie Anne Surette of La Pointe du Grand Chevreuil, at Attakapas in July 1805.  They settled at Grande Pointe near his father.  Their son Augustin, fils was born there in June 1806.  A succession for Augustin, not post-mortem, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in November 1809, probably on the eve of his remarriage to Scholastique, another daughter of Firmin dit Ephrem Robichaux and Marie Anne Surette.  They settled at Grande Pointe and on the Vermilion before moving to the Calcasieu prairies.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Ursin in February 1810; Edmond in December 1811; Claire in September 1815; Marie in January 1817; Joséphine in March 1819; twins Adélaïde and Céleste in November 1820; Joseph in 1821 and baptized at the Grand Coteau church, age 8 months, in January 1822; Céleste born in c1822 but died at age 10 in October 1832; and Scholastique born in July 1826--11 children, four sons and seven daughters, by two wives, between 1806 and 1826.  Was he the Auguste Guidry who died near Grand Coteau in February 1844?  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that August, as he called him, died "at age 50 yrs.."  Augustin le jeune would have been closer to 64, so this probably was not him.  Daughters Claire and Joséphine, by his second wife, married into the Benoit and Michel families.  Two of Augustin le jeune's sons also married, and some of his grandsons joined their cousins in East Texas during the late antebellum or post-war period. 

Oldest son Augustin, fils, by first wife Adélaïde Robichaux, married Marie Eléontine, Cléontine, Léontine, or Alexandrine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Guilbeau and Marie Arceneaux, at the Vermilionville church in February 1827.  They settled probably near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Marcellite in February 1828 but died at age 3 in January 1831; Alexandre born in September 1829 but died at age 11 1/2 months in August 1830; Marie Alexandrine born in March 1832; Jean Lucien in June 1834 but, called John, died at age 6 in June 1840; Placide A. born in c1837; Jean Huma, perhaps Numa, in August 1838; Marie Adélaïde in August 1840 but died the following January; Marie Emérite born in September 1841; Jean Ernest born in December 1842 but, called Jean Erneste, died in January; Jean Alexius born in January 1844; Alphonse in June 1845 but died at age 22 in October 1867 (one wonders if his death was war-related); and Marie born in December 1848--11 children, five daughters and six sons, between 1828 and 1848.  Daughters ... married into the Guilbeau and Miller families by 1870.  One of Augustin, fils's sons also married by then.

Third son Placide A. married Philomène, daughter of fellow Acadians Treville Thibodeaux and Aspasie LeBlanc, at the Breaux Bridge church in October 1859.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Marie Zoé near Breaux Bridge in July 1861; Augustin le jeune near Grand Coteau in May 1864; ...  Placide A. died in Lafayette Parish in November 1867.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Placide died "age 30 yrs."  His succession, calling him Placide A., was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in April 1868.  A second succession, naming his wife and noting that she "will soon marry Théodore Devalcourt [widower of Placide A.'s cousin Zoé Guidry]," was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in December 1869. ...

Augustin le jeune's second son Ursin, by second wife Scholastique Robichaux, married Matilda, daughter of Nathan Forman and Tibitha Forman, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in March 1833.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Gerasin in June 1834; Sarafin or Séraphin baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 11 months, in November 1836; Anaïse born in December 1837; Séraphine in October 1839; Séverinne in July 1842; Ursin, fils in February 1844; and Colastie in St. Landry Parish in February 1856--seven children, two sons and five daughters, between 1834 and 1856.  An Ursin Guidry died in Lafayette Parish in November 1850.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Ursin died "at age 40 yrs.," which would have been this Ursin's age at the time.  However, the birth/baptismal record for his daughter Colastie attests to his being alive at least as late as 1855, so one wonders who was the Ursin Guidry who died in November 1850.  Daughter Anaïs may have married a Broussard before 1870.  Between 1860 and 1880, his sons were living in Hardin County, Texas, which had been formed from a portion of Jefferson County. 

Pierre's seventh son Louis, by third wife Peggy Miller, married Céleste or Silesie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Savoie and Lise Bourg, at Opelousas in January 1805.  They settled near Grand Coteau.  Their children, born there, included Louis, fils baptized at Opelousas, age 4 months, in June 1806; Onésime born in August 1808; Pierre, also called Pierre Louis, in December 1811; Joseph, also called Joseph Louis or Treville, in June 1814; Hippolyte in May 1816; Alexis in August 1818; Terence in c1819 but died at age 7 in October 1826; Céleste born in May 1821 but died at age 5 in June 1825; and Éloyse, called Marie Louise, born in October 1822.  Louis, père's estate record was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in July 1824, when he was still very much alive.  He remarried to Marguerite Sloan, place and date unrecorded.  Their son Alphonse Toledano was born in St. Landry Parish in May 1841--10 children, eight sons and two daughters, by two wives, between 1806 and 1841.  Louis died in St. Landry Parish in November 1843.  The Opelousas priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Louis died "of old age."  He was 59.  Louis, père's succession, which mentions both of his wives and says his second wife remarried to Benjamin McLelland, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in November 1846.  Oddly, a succession for his first wife Selesie, as the clerk called her, was not filed at the Opelousas courthouse until December 1846.  Daughter Marie Louise, by his first wife, married into the Breaux family by 1870.  Three of Louis's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Louis, fils, by first wife Silesie Savoie, married Marie Josette Fostin, called Josette, Joséphine, and Josèphe, daughter of Solastie Roy, a French Creole or Canadian, not a fellow Acadian, and Marie Nezat, at the St. Martinville church in May 1833.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Julia in c1833; Pierre Solastie dit Lastie, also called P. L., in May 1836; Cyprien in September 1838; Alexandre near Grand Coteau in January 1840; Lastenie, perhaps a daughter, baptized at the Opelousas church, age 2 months, in July 1843; and Joseph Ollius, perhaps also called Augustin, born near Grand Coteau in December 1845--six children, four sons and two daughters, between the early 1830s and 1845.  Louis, fils died in St. Landry Parish in February 1845[sic, probably 1846].  The Opelousas priest who recorded the burial did not give any parents' names, mention a wife, or give Louis, fils's age at the time of his death.  Louis, fils would have been age 40.  His succession, which says he died in 1846 and calling his wife Josette, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in December of that year.  Daughter Julia married into the Latiolais family by 1870.  Two of Louis, fils's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Pierre Solastie dit Lastie married cousin Marie Zélie or Zélia, daughter of Alexandre Nezat and Virginia Patin, at the Breaux Bridge church in February 1859.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Henri Adam in St. Landry Parish in June 1864; Joseph Roi near Breaux Bridge in September 1866; Paul Raoul in St. Landry Parish in August 1870; ...

Louis, fils's second son Cyprien married cousin Félicia, daughter of fellow Acadians Valérien Dugas and Victoire Guidry, at the Breaux Bridge church in April 1858.  Their children, born near Breaux Bridge, included  Louis C., probably Cyprien, in January 1860; Marie Adolphine in November 1861; Marie Élizia in January 1864; ...  Cyprien may have remarried to Marie Louise Julie Pamela, called Pamela, Castille in a civil ceremony in St. Martin Parish in June 1867.  They settled near Breaux Bridge. ...

Louis, père's third son Pierre Louis, by first wife Silesie Savoie, married Marie Joséphine, called Joséphine, 17-year-old daughter of Leufroi Latiolais and Joséphine Daigle, at the Opelousas church in October 1837.  Their children, born on the St. Landry prairies, included Pierre Louis, fils near Grand Coteau in December 1838; Lufroide or Leufroi, also called Leufroi Aymar and Aymar, near Opelousas in December 1840; Marie Onesia, called Onesia, near Grand Coteau in July 1842 but, called Marie, died at age 18 1/2 in January 1861; Marie Philomène, called Philomène, born in September 1844; Marie Joséphine Euphrosyne, called Joséphine, in September 1847; Marie Anne Azélia, called Azélie, in April 1850 but, called Marie Azélie, died near Church Point, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, at age 10 1/2 in October 1860; Joseph Terence born near Church Point in March 1852; François Thelesmar in April 1854; Marie Célesie Eleda in April 1856; and Marie Élisabeth in March 1858--10 children, four sons and six daughters, between 1838 and 1858.  Daughters Philomène and Joséphine married into the Higginbotham and Baugh, Barr, or Bow families by 1870.  One of Pierre Louis's sons also married by then.

Second son Leufroi Aymar married Élisa, daughter of Antoine Fontenot and Madeleine Stutes, at the Grand Coteau church in January 1862.  Their children, born near Church Point, included Louis in April 1863; Joseph Ambroise in July 1868; ... 

Louis, père's fourth son Joseph Louis or Treville, by first wife Silesie Savoie, married Marie Eméranthe, called Eméranthe, daughter of Jean Baptiste Lebleu and his Acadian wife Marie Lejeune, at the Opelousas church in April 1837.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Edmon, also called Edmond Treville, baptized at the Opelousas church, age unrecorded (the priest insisted that the boy had been born in February 1827, but he probably meant 1837), in April 1838; Joseph Will, Vilmon, Vilmont, Velmont, or Valmont, born in February 1840; and Palenion near Grand Coteau in October 1844--three children, all sons, between 1837 and 1844.  Joseph Treville's succession, calling him Terville and naming his wife, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in January 1848.  He would have been age 34 that year.  Two of his sons married by 1870. 

Oldest son Edmond Treville married Marie Anne or Aurore Ovina, called Ovina, daughter of Étienne Latiolais and his Acadian wife Marie Erazie Breaux, at the Grand Coteau church in July 1861.  They settled near Church Point.  Their children, born there, included Marie Erasie in September 1862; Louis in October 1865; Ignace in February 1870; ...

Joseph Louis's second son Joseph Vilmont married Marie Joséphine, called Joséphine, another daughter of Étienne Latiolais and Marie Erazie Breaux, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in August 1861, and sanctified the marriage at the Grand Coteau church the following October.  They also settled near Church Point.  Their children, born there, included Joséphine Berthe in July 1862; Joseph Thomas in August 1864; François Esteve in October 1869; ... 

Pierre's eighth son Charles, by third wife Peggy Miller, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Bernard and Marguerite Broussard of Carencro, at the St. Martinville church in July 1816.  They settled near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Marie Elmire, called Elmire, in August 1817; Adolphe, also called Charles Adolphe, in February 1819; Olivier Corneville or Dorneville in February 1821; Alexandre in February 1823; Alexis in 1824 and baptized, age 14 months, in December 1825; Clémentine baptized "at age about 4 1/2 mths." in November 1827; Marcellite born in October 1829; and Alphred or Alfred in December 1831--eight children, three daughters and five sons, between 1817 and 1831.  Charles died in Lafayette Parish in March 1841.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Charles Sr. died "at age 50 yrs."  He was 55.  His succession, not mentioning his wife, so he may have died a widower, but listing his children--Elmire and her husband; Charles Adolphe; Olivier; Alexandre; Alexis; Clémentine; Marcelite; and Alfred--was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in May.  Daughters Elmire, Marcellite, and Clémentine married into the Guidry, Cormier, and Guilbeau families, and perhaps into the Thomas family as well.  Charles's five sons also married, the three youngest to daughters of the founder of Breaux Bridge, Scholastique Mélanie Picou, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Charles Adolphe married fellow Acadian Clémentine Guilbeau at the Grand Coteau church in November 1841.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Marie Euchariste in August 1842 but died at age 1 1/2 in March 1844; Marie Mathilde, called Mathilde, born in January 1844; Joseph Adolphe in November 1845 but, called Adolphe, died near Abbeville in January 1862, age 16 1/2 (the recording priest, who said Adolphe was born in November 1846, gave no age at the time of his death); Marie Corine born in November 1846; Marie Alisse in August 1849; Marie Emma in October 1852; Marie Noémi in July 1853; Louis Edmond in 1855 but died at age 5 months in March 1856; Pierre Adelma born in February 1857; Alcée in August 1860; Marie Julie in November 1862; Marie in February 1865; ...  Daughters Mathilde, ... married into the Guidry, Guilbeau, and Prejean families by 1870.  Neither of Charles Adolphe's remaining sons married by then. 

Charles's second son Olivier Corneville or Dorneville married Adélaïde Irma or Emma, daughter of fellow Acadians Hippolyte Cormier and Adélaïde Richard, at the Grand Coteau church in February 1844.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Jules in December 1844; Charles le jeune in August 1846; Henri in September 1848; Marie Irma in July 1850; Marie in February 1855; Gérôme in April 1857; Luc in September 1860 but died at age 2 1/2 (the recording priest said 4) in May 1863; Joséphine Ida born in December 1862; ...  Was he the Olivier Guidry who died near Grand Coteau in October 1867?  If so, he would have been age 46 at the time of his passing.  His succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in October 1869.  None of his daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did. 

Third son Henri married Ademiza, Adensia, Adenisa, or Adeniza, daughter of fellow Acadians Treville Leger and Élise Savoie, at the Grand Coteau church in December 1869. ...

Charles's third son Alexandre married Azélie or Azéline, daughter of fellow Acadians Agricole Breaux and his Creole wife Scholastique Mélanie Picou, at the Grand Coteau church in May 1843; the marriage was recorded also in St. Martin Parish.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish or near Grand Coteau, included a son, name unrecorded, perhaps theirs, born in c1843 but died at age 1 in July 1844; and Albert born near Grand Coteau in April 1844.  This may have been the Alexandre, fils whose succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in April 1865.  If the succession was post-mortem, he would have been age 42 at the time.  One wonders if his death was war-related.  His remaining, perhaps only, son, married by 1870. 

Only son Albert married Alicia or Elisia, daughter of fellow Acadian Don Louis Savoie and his Creole wife Aglaé Castille, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in February 1866, and sanctified the marriage at the Grand Coteau church the following April.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Saul Alexandre in January 1867; Louis Lucius in June 1869; ... 

Charles's fourth son Alexis married Erasie, another daughter of Agricole Breaux and Scholastique Mélanie Picou, at the St. Martinville church in March or April 1842.  They settled near Grand Coteau.  Their daughter Émilie was born there in March 1843 but, called Émile, died there at age 15 months in June 1844.  Did they have anymore children? 

Charles's fifth and youngest son Alfred married Thérèsine, Thérècite, or Thérèoite, daughter of Jean François Domengeaux and Scholastique Mélanie Picou, at the Grand Coteau church in January 1858.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Alphonse Alcide in October 1858; Alfred, fils in February 1861; Laurent Émile in February 1863; Arthur in November 1868; ... 

Pierre's ninth son Victorin, by third wife Peggy Miller, married Marie Azélie or Zélie, called Zélie, daughter of Jean Baptiste Calais and Victoire Patin of Grande Pointe, at the St. Martinville church in July 1809.  They settled at Grande Pointe near his father.  Their children, born there, included Victoire in November 1810; Edmond in April 1813; Victorine in December 1815; and Virginia or Virginie in March 1818, two days before her father's death--four children, three daughters and a son, between 1810 and 1818.  Victorin died at Grande Pointe in March 1818.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial said that Victorin was age 27 when he died.  He was 29.  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse the following June.  Daughters Victoire, Victorine, and Virginie married into the LeBlanc and Potier families, including two Potier brothers.  Victorin's son also married.  

Only son Edmond married Marie Josette, called Josette, Joséphine, and Josite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Sonnier and Clémence Breaux, at the Vermilionville church in November 1836.  They settled probably near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Marie Azélie baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 3 1/2 months, in December 1837; Pierre Victorin born in 1839 and baptized at age 7 months in April 1840; Jean Baptiste born in May 1841 and died in Lafayette Parish, age 23 (the recording priest said 24), in May 1864 (one wonders if his death was war-related); Cyprien, also called Edmond, fils, born in March 1843; Clémence Philomène in August 1845; a child, name unrecorded, died "at age 1/2 day" in August 1847; Joséphine born in c1850; and Marie Edmonia, called Edmonia and Adolphina, in St. Martin Parish in March 1853--eight children, at least four daughters and three sons, between 1837 and 1853.  Edmond, père, at age 43, remarried to Arsène, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Dugas and Madeleine Sonnier and widow of Édouard Brasseaux, at the Vermilionville church in May 1856.  She evidently gave him no more children.  Daughters Marie Azélie, Clémence, and Adolphina, by his first wife, married into the LeBlanc, Potier, Zeringue, and Broussard families by 1870, one of them, Azélie, twice.  One of Edmond's sons also married by then. 

Third son Edmond, fils, by first wife Josette Sonnier, may have been the Edmund Guidry who, during the War of 1861-65, served as a private in Company, D, 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Mary Parish.  If this was him, he enlisted at Camp Pratt near New Iberia in late January 1862, no age given, and was present for duty with the company through February 1863.  The Federals captured him in the Teche campaign that April and sent him to New Orleans later that month.  They held him in the city until the second week of May, when he was paroled near Port Hudson above Baton Rouge.  His Confederate record then falls silent.  Edmond, fils survived the war, returned to his family, and evidently married Adèle, daughter of fellow Acadians Moléon Broussard and Azéline Dugas, at the Vermilionville church in October 1865. ...  The Edmund Guidry who served in the 18th Louisiana was buried in Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery, Church Point, Acadia Parish, so this may have been Edmond, fils

Pierre's tenth son Antoine, also called Onésime, from third wife Peggy Miller, married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Potier and his Creole wife Madeleine Ducrest of La Pointe, at the St. Martinville church in October 1820.  They settled on the Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included Antoine, fils, baptized at the Vermilionville church, age unrecorded, in February 1823; Marguerite Antoinette born in November 1823; Pierre Édouard, called Édouard, in c1825 or 1826 and baptized at age 2 1/2 in March 1828; Élisa or Élise born in c1827 and baptized at age 4 in September 1831 but died "at widowed grandmother, Mrs. Charles Potier," age 7, in October 1834; Hippolyte, also called Hippolyte Antoine, born in October 1830; and Madeleine in c1832 and baptized at age 3 years, 4 months in November 1835--six children, three sons and three daughters, between 1823 and 1832.  Daughter Madeleine married into the Breaux family.  Antoine's sons also married, two of them to sisters. 

Oldest son Antoine, fils married Joséphine, daughter of Joseph Chevalier Daigle, fils, a French Canadian, not a fellow Acadian, and his French-Creole wife Lise Dupré, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in March 1844, and sanctified the marriage at the Grand Coteau church the following June.  They settled on the prairie west of Grand Coteau, probably on upper Bayou Plaquemine Brûlé near Church Point, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish.  Their children, born there, included Antoine III in January 1845 but died near Church Point, age 24, in May 1869; Hélène born in February 1847; Marie Eliska in February 1850; Joseph Arcade in July 1853; Edgar in February 1856; Laurent in July 1861; Joseph in May 1863; ...  Daughter ... married into the Jenner family by 1870.  None of Antoine, fils's sons married by then. 

Antoine, père's second son Pierre Édouard, called Édouard, married Élise Bellaire at the St. Martinville church in August 1847.  Their son Velérien or Valéry was born in St. Martin Parish in June 1848 and married by 1870.

Only son Valéry married Mathilde, daughter of Caleb Green and his Acadian wife Émilie Broussard, at the Breaux Bridge church in April 1869. ... 

Antoine, père's third and youngest son Hippolyte Antoine married Marie Azélie, called Azélie, daughter of Joseph Chevalier Daigle, père, a German-Canadian Creole, not a fellow Acadian, and his second wife Joséphine Fontenot, at the Grand Coteau church in May 1853.  They settled near Church Point.  Their children, born there, included Marie Azélie in March 1854; Joseph Wilfre Hippolyte in October 1855 but, called Joseph Wifred, died at age 5 1/2 in March 1861; Marie Hermina born in January 1858 but, called Herminie, died at age 3 1/2 (the recording priest said 5) in November 1861; Eléonor born in March 1860 but, called Eléonore, died at age "1 yrs. & 3 mths." in March 1861; Eve born in February 1862; Marie Laurina in June 1865; Hippolyte, fils in March 1870 but died the following September; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Hippolyte Antoine served in Company K of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Landry Parish, which fought in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana.  He enlisted in the company at Camp Pratt near New Iberia in late January 1863, age 29, and was present for duty through February.  He avoided capture during the Tech campaign that April, but from late May to late June he was absent sick in the hospital at Natchitoches.  He was back on duty in July and August.  In November, he became part of Company C of the Consolidated 18th Regiment and Yellow Jacket Battalion Louisiana Infantry, which fought in Louisiana and southern Arkansas.  He took a five-day furlough in February 1864, after which his Confederate service record falls silent.  As the births of a younger daughter and son reveal, he survived the war and returned to his family.  None of his children married by 1870.  He and his wife are buried in Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery, Church Point. 

Pierre's eleventh son Pierre, fils, by third wife Peggy Miller, married Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Cyrille Thibodeaux and Scholastique Breaux of Grande Pointe, at the St. Martinville church in October 1817.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Marguerite in November 1822; Marie Fanelie in July 1825; Natalie or Anathalie in October 1828; Carmélite Evélina in January 1831; Désiré in c1832 but died at age 4 in July 1836; Pierre Désiré born in April 1833; Olivier le jeune in August 1835; Joséphine in September 1837; Joseph in February 1840; Célestine in July 1843 but, called Célestine Alice, died at age 17 1/2 in December 1860 (however, according to other church records, she may have married twice, in 1861 and 1863!); and Alphonsine born in January 1848--11 children, seven daughters and four sons, between 1822 and 1848.  Wife Joséphine, called "Mrs. Pierre Guidry" by the recording priest, died in St. Martin Parish in June 1855.  Pierre, fils did not remarry and died near Breaux Bridge in May 1860.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Pierre died "at age 70 yrs."  He was 66.  His succession, naming his wife, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse the following November.  Daughters Carmélite, Marie, Joséphine, Célestine, Anathalie, and Alphonsine married into the Webre, Bourgeois, LeBlanc, Angèlle, Dupuis, and Hébert families by 1870, two of them to LeBlancs, and one of them, Célestine, who supposedly died in her teens, married twice.  One of Pierre, fils's remaining sons also married by then. 

Third son Olivier le jeune married Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadian Léon Dupuis, père and his Creole wife Adélaïde Angèlle, at the Breaux Bridge church in April 1859; Olivier le jeune's sister Célestine, a widow, married Arthémise's brother, Léon, fils.  Olivier le jeune and Arthémise's son Pierre le jeune was born near Breaux Bridge in September 1861.  Olivier le jeune's succession, naming his wife and her second husband, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in May 1866.  If this was a post-mortem succession, Olivier would have been in his late 20s or early 30s at the time of his death. 

Pierre, père's thirteenth and youngest son Rosémond, also called Joseph Rosémond and Pierre Rosémond, from third wife Peggy Miller, married Henriette, another daughter of Charles Potier and Madeleine Ducrest, at the St. Martinville church in November 1825, only 11 days before his father died.  The couple were living near Church Point on the St. Landry prairies by the early 1850s.  Their children, born on the upper Teche and the prairies, included Louis Joseph in St. Martin Parish in September 1826; Alexandre Joseph in June 1828; Julie in December 1830; Adrien near Grand Coteau in November 1832; Louise, also called Marie Louise, baptized at the St. Martinville church, age 9 months, in November 1835; Marie Bonne born near Opelousas in January 1837; Marguerite in January 1839; Rosémond, fils in the 1830s or 1840s; Marcellite in December 1842; Modeste in July 1846 but died at age 17 1/2 (the recording priest said 18) near Breaux Bridge in February 1864 (one wonders if his death was war-related); Antoine le jeune born in September 1848; and Marie Divina near Church Point in September 1852--a dozen children, five sons and seven daughters, between 1826 and 1852.  Daughters Julie and Marie Louise married into the Daigle and Latiolais families by 1870.  Four of Rosémond, père's sons also married by then. 

Second son Alexandre Joseph married cousin Uranie, daughter of his first cousin Louis Guidry le jeune and Erasie LeBlanc, at the St. Martinville church in December 1855.  They settled near Breaux Bridge.  Their children, born there, included Joseph in November 1857; Clémentine in March 1859; Herminie in February 1861; Hermina in December 1862; Aloysia in July 1864; Alexandre, fils in December 1868; ...

Rosémond's third son Adrien married Marie, daughter of William Reed and his Acadian wife Marie Hébert, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in September 1857.  Did they have any children? 

Rosémond's fourth son Rosémond, fils married Marie Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadian Placide Blanchard and his Creole wife Marie Combe or Cohem, at the Church Point church in April 1864.  Daughter Marie Amélisia was born near Church Point in July 1864, so they may have been married civilly before their church wedding; ... 

Rosémond, père's fifth and youngest son Antoine le jeune married Alice, daughter of Joseph Daigle III, a French Canadian, not a fellow Acadian, and Marie Célina Fux, at the Church Point church in October 1870. ... 

Firmin (c1753-1799) à Augustin à Claude dit Grivois dit LaVerdure Guidry

Firmin, older son of Jean-Baptiste, called Jean, Guèdry and Anne-Madeleine Dupuis and nephew of Pierre of Grande Pointe, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1753, followed his family to Maryland and his widowed mother and siblings to New Orleans and Fort San Luìs de Natchez.  After their release from the distant settlement, Firmin followed his family downriver to San Gabriel, where he married Marguerite-Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Landry and Marguerite Boudrot, in February 1786.  They remained on the river.  Their children, born at Ascension, included Marie-Modeste baptized, age unrecorded, in April 1787 but died at age 3 1/2 in January 1791; Jean-Baptiste le jeune baptized, age unrecorded, in June 1788; Sébastien-Joseph born in January 1790; Marguerite-Céleste in December 1791; a second Marie-Modeste in 1793 but died at age 6 months in May 1794; twins Édouard-Chanter and Jean-Marie born in August 1795, but Jean Marie died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, age 16, in April 1812; and Marie-Émilite born in Sepember 1796--eight children, four daughters and four sons, including a set of twins, between 1787 and 1796.  Firmin died at Ascension in February 1799, age 46.  Daughter Marguerite Céleste married into the Allain family at age 14 but died 2 1/2 years later, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth.  Three of Firmin's sons also married and settled on the river and upper Bayou Lafourche.

Oldest son Jean Baptiste le jeune married Madeleine Renée or Reine, called Reine, daughter of fellow Acadians Théodore Dugas and Marie Victoire Foret, at Ascension in January 1806.  They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche near the boundary of what became Ascension and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Thomas Hubert, called Hubert, Ouvert, Uber, or Ubert, in December 1806; Gédéon in August 1808; Édouard Sabin in December 1810 but died at age 22 (the recording priest said 21) in July 1833; Marie Euphrasie in February 1813 but died at age 2 1/2 in September 1815; Narcisse Cosme born in September 1815; Basile Leufroi, called Leufroi, in January 1818; Isidore Jean Baptiste in May 1820 but died at age 14 months in July 1821; Adélaïde Caroline born in December 1821; Marie Justine, called Justine, in August 1823; and Jean Baptiste Gérard posthumously in September 1825 but died at age 2 1/2 in May 1828--10 children, seven sons and three daughters, between 1806 and 1825.  Jean Baptiste le jeune died in Assumption Parish in April 1825, age 36.  Daughters Adélaïde and Justine married into the Blanchard and LeBlanc families.  Four of Jean Baptiste le jeune's sons also married and settled on the upper Lafourche. 

Oldest son Thomas Hubert, called Hubert, Ouvert, Uber, or Ubert, married Marie Cléonise, Léonise, or Louise, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Landry and Osite Landry, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1827.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Cécile, perhaps also called Clémentine, in November 1827; Joseph Fostin in March 1829; Joseph in November 1830 but died at age 2 (the recording priest said 4) in November 1832; Joseph Aristide born in June 1832 but, called Orelise, died at age 2 in July 1834; Odille born in c1833 but died at age 13 in November 1846; Joseph Casimir, called Casimir, born in February 1836; Marie Helena Elma in January 1838 but, called Marie Irma, died at age 5 1/2 (the recording priest said 6) in October 1843; Marie Philomène born in January 1840 but died at age 3 1/2 (the recording priest said 4) in October 1843, the same day her older sister Marie Imra died, so one wonders if they perished in a yellow fever epidemic; and Joseph Jean Baptiste, called Jean Baptiste, born near Paincourtville in September 1843--nine children, four daughters and five sons, between 1827 and 1843.  Hubert died near Pierre Part north of Lake Verret in February 1865.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Hubert died at "age 63 years."  He was 58.  One wonders if his death was war-related.  Daughter Clémentine married into the Templet family by 1870.  Two of Hubert's sons also married by then and settled on the upper Lafourche. 

Fourth son Casimir married double cousin Élise, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Landry and Mélanie Landry, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1861; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born near Paincourtville, included Marie Alise in November 1861; Marie Léonide in December 1863; Joseph Henri in December 1866; Marie Julia in October 1869; ... 

Hubert's fifth and youngest son Jean Baptiste married cousin Tilma, daughter of fellow Acadian Lucien Landry and his Creole wife Aurore Marois, at the Paincourtville church in January 1866; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born near Paincourtville, included Marie Anne Zélamie in July 1867; Marie Eugénia in February 1870; ...

Jean Baptiste le jeune's second son Gédéon married Armelise, Artemesia, Carmélite, or Émelise, daughter of fellow Acadians Alain Landry and Eugénie Aucoin, at the Plattenville church in November 1826.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Jean Baptiste Firmin in September 1827; Agnan Joseph Cléophas, called Joseph Cléopha, in November 1830; Joseph Félix, perhaps called Félix, in April 1833; Marie Amélie, called Amélie, in c1835; Joseph Télésphore in August 1837 but, called Télésphore, died at age 3 in October 1840; André Lufrois born in December 1839 but, called Leufroi, died at age 13 1/2 (the recording priest said 15) in September 1853; Marguerite Hélène, called Hélène, born in August 1842; Félix Bienvenu, called Bienvenu, near Paincourtville in November 1844; Marie Célestine, called Célestine, in December 1846; Pulcherie Eugénie, called Eugénie, in February 1849; and Marie Alissa in October 1851 but, called Marie Élisse, died in November--11 children, six sons and five daughters, between 1827 and 1851.  Gédéon died near Paincourtville in October 1855, age 47.  Daughters Marie Amélie, Célestine, and Hélène married into the Feray, LeBlanc, and Bernuchot families, two of them on the same day and at the same place, by 1870.  Three of Gédéon's sons also married by then and settled on the upper Lafourche.

Oldest son Jean Bapiste Firmin may have married fellow Acadian Marie Uranie, called Uranie, Comeaux, place and date unrecorded, but it probably was in Assumption Parish.  Their children, born near Paincourtville, included Lucien Jean Baptiste in October 1852; Demetrius Léonard in November 1855; Marie Marguerite in August 1857; Luc Théodore in October 1859; Marie Eugénie Cécilia in November 1863; Félix Albert in August 1867; Joseph Eugène Benoît in July 1870;  ...  None of Jean Baptiste Firmin's children married by 1870. 

Gédéon's second son Joseph Cléopha married, at age 30, cousin Aimée, daughter of fellow Acadians Lazare Hébert and Céleste Landry, at the Paincourtville church in April 1861; they had to secure a dispensation for fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born near Paincourtville, included Alain Joseph in July 1862; Marie Alphonsine in August 1864; Marie Olympe in August 1866; Marie Sidonie in May 1868; ... 

Gédéon's sixtth and youngest son Bienvenu married Clémentine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Dugas and Clémence Hébert and widow of William Phelps, at the Paincourtville church in December 1868.  Daughter Marie Dilia was born near Paincourtville in October 1869; ...

Jean Baptiste le jeune's fourth son Narcisse Cosme married cousin Virginie, daughter of fellow Acadian Paul Savoie and his Creole wife Félicité Marois, at the Paincourtville church in March 1840; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Paul Elphége near Plattenville in February 1842; Jean Baptiste Enoch or Eno in February 1844; Marie Virginie, called Virginie, near Paincourtville in January 1846; Marie Adea in September 1848; Marie Artémise Adrienne in August 1851 but died in October; Marie Julia, called Julia, born in October 1852; Marie Léontine in November 1854; Marie Angelina in September 1857; a son, name and age unrecorded, died near Paincourtville in February 1858; Marie Élodie born in May 1859; Marie Pauline in July 1862; ...  Daughters Virginie and Julia married into the Daigle and Verret families by 1870.  None of Narcisse Cosme's sons married by 1870.  One of his sons died in Confederate service.

During the War of 1861-65, second son Jean Baptiste Eno served in Company I of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafourche Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  He enlisted in the company at Thibodaux in March 1862, age 18, followed his regiment to Camp Moore, Louisiana, and then to Mississippi.  He did not remain in the regiment long enough to fight with it at Vicksburg.  In October 1862, he was discharged "for disability" probably at Vicksburg.  His disability proved to be fatal.  He died near Paincourtville in June 1864, age 20, and probably did not marry.    

Jean Baptiste le jeune's fifth son Basile Leufroi, called Leufroi, married Eléonore, daughter of fellow Acadians Apollinaire Luque Landry and Élise Landry, at the Plattenville church in May 1838.  They lived briefly in West Baton Rouge Parish before returning to the upper Lafourche.  They were living near Pierre Part, north of Lake Verret, by the late 1850s.  Their children, born on the river and the Lafourche, included Marie Zélanie, called Zélanie, in October 1845 in West Baton Rouge Parish; Joseph Louis Bienvenu, called Bienvenu, near Paincourtville in August 1847; Marie Élisabeth in October 1851; Joseph Patrick Valcour in March 1853; Marie Victorine Honora in December 1854; Joseph Amadéo probably near Pierre Part in September 1859; and Joseph Elphége in January 1862.  Leufroi, called Leufroid by the recording priest, remarried, at age 46, to Clémentine, daughter of fellow Acadians François Templet and Élisabeth Gautreaux, at the Pierre Part church, Assumption Parish, in April 1864. ...  Daughters Zélanie, ..., by his first wife, married into the Crochet and Bonin families, one of them on lower Bayou Teche, by 1870.  None of Leufroi's sons married by then. 

Firmin's second son Sébastien Joseph married Marie Eulalie, called Eulalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Breaux and Marie Aucoin, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in April 1812.  Their children, born near St.-Gabriel, included Lucien Joseph in December 1813; Marie Arthémise in November 1815; Apollonie Marie or Marie Apollonie in June 1817; Marie Joséphine in March 1819; Sébastien in October 1821 but, called Jean Baptiste Sébastien, died at age 27 in October 1848; Marie Arseline born in January 1824 but, called Marie Adveline, died at age 31 in April 1855; and Eugène born posthumously in October 1826 but died the following November--seven children, three sons and four daughters, between 1813 and 1826.  Sébastien Joseph died near St. Gabriel in February 1826.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Sébastien was age 30 when he died.  He was 36.  Daughters Marie Arthémise, Marie Apollonie, and Marie Joséphine married into the Richard, Blanchard, and Broussard families.  One of Sébastien Joseph's sons also married, but, except for its blood, the line may not have endured. 

Oldest son Lucien Joseph married cousin Marie Géralde or Gérarde, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Léandre Breaux and Marie Renée Dupuy, at the St. Gabriel church in May 1835.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Marie Myrza or Mirza in January 1836; and Marie Louisa in April 1838 but died the following September.  Daughter Marie Mirza married into the Armitage family.  Lucien seems to have fathered no sons, but the blood of the family line may have endured.   

Firmin's third son Édouard Chanter, a twin, married Marie Françoise, called Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Gautreaux and Marie Marthe Richard, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in November 1823.  They settled on the river near the boundary between Ascension and Iberville parishes.  Their son Firmin Philosin or Philogène, called Philogène, was born on the river in December 1824.  Édouard remarried to Marie Louise, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Emmanuel Breaux and Anastasie Gautreaux of St. James Parish, at the St. James church, St. James Parish, in March 1829.  They, too, lived on the river near the boundary between Ascension and Iberville parishes.  Their children, born on the river, included Joseph in July 1830; Marie Orelie or Aureline in November 1831 but died at age 7 1/2 months (the recording priest said 6 months) in July 1832; Joseph Dufossard born in June 1832[sic, perhaps 1833]; and Marie Hermine in December 1834--five children, three sons and two daughters, by two wives, between 1824 and 1834.  Édouard died near St. Gabriel in November 1835, age 40.  His remaining daughter did not marry by 1870, but his sons did and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche. 

Oldest son Firmin Philosin or Philogène, called Philogène, from first wife Françoise Gautreaux, married Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadian Augustin Breaux and his Creole wife Eglantine Rousseau, at the Paincourtville church in February 1849.  They remained on the upper Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Edward Ambroise in December 1849; Marie Stefani Mirsa in August 1851; Marie Françoise in January 1853; Maure Claudius in January 1855; Marie Sélimie in September 1856; Marie Blanche Elmyre in November 1858; Joseph Théophile in September 1860; Joseph Justinien in July 1862 but, as an unnamed child, died at age 4 months (the recording priest at Plattenville said 3 months) the following November; Amélie Eglantine born in November 1863; Joseph Armand in January 1866; Léo Lucien in March 1868; Ulysse Joseph in October 1870; ...  None of Philogène's children married by 1870. 

Édouard's second son Joseph, by second wife Marie Louise Breaux, married Zulmée or Zulma, daughter of Gilbert Bernuchaud and Arthémise Rousseau, at the Paincourtville church in February 1851.  They, too, remained on the upper Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Franklin near Paincourtville in September 1852; and Vincent Joseph in January 1854.  Neither of Joseph's sons married by 1870. 

Édouard's third and youngest son Joseph Dufossard, by second wife Marie Louise Breaux, called J. Dufossard by the recording priest, married Élodie, daughter of Carville Verret and his Acadian wife Azélie Landry, at the Paincourtville church in January 1859.  They also settled on the upper Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Marie Lise near Paincourtville in December 1859 but died at age 6 months in June 1860; Joseph Léonard born in December 1861 but died in January; Marie Léonie born in March 1863 but, called Léonie, died the following July; Joseph Léo Dufossard born in October 1864 but, called Joseph Léo, died at age 10 months in August 1865; Joseph Armand born near Plattenville in December 1866; Marie Azélie in March 1868; Marie Louise near Paincourtville in April 1869; ... 

Jean-Baptiste, fils (c1762-?) à Augustin à Claude dit Grivois dit LaVerdure Guidry

Jean-Baptiste, fils, called Jean, fils, younger son of Jean Guèdry and Anne-Madeleine Dupuis and Firmin's brother, born in Maryland in c1762, followed his widowed mother and siblings to New Orleans and to Fort San Luìs de Natchez.  Still a boy in 1769, he followed his mother from the distant settlement to Ascension on the Acadian Coast, but he did not remain.  During the 1780s, he moved to the Attakapas District, where his aunt Ursule and uncle Pierre had settled.  Jean-Baptiste, fils married Marie-Madeleine, called Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Firmin Breaux and Marguerite Breaux, at Attakapas in June 1785.  They settled on the Vermilion and at Grande Pointe on the upper Teche before moving out to Bayou Queue de Tortue on the prairie west of present-day Lafayette.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Jean-Baptiste III, called Jean III, on the Vermilion in January 1786; Augustin in c1788 but died at his parents' home at Grande Pointe, age 22, in January 1810; Joseph born in March 1791; Éloise or Héloise in the early 1790s; Scholastique in May 1795; Marie died, age 1 1/2 months, in October 1797; Narcisse born in August 1799; Adélaïde in November 1801; Anastasie in June 1804; Carmélite in the 1800s; Valéry in September 1809; Marcellite in October 1811; and Célerin or Séverin in January 1815--a dozen children, six sons and six daughters, between 1786 and 1815.  Jean Baptiste, fils, at age 57, remarried to Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians François Joseph Savoie and his third wife Anne Thibodeaux and widow of Jean Charles Benoit, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in November 1818.  She gave him no more children.  Daughters Scholastique, Éloise, Carmélite, and Adélaïde, by his first wife, married into the Melançon, Semere, Ford, and Villier dit Ricard families.  Five of Jean, fils's sons also married and settled on the prairies. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste III, called Jean III, by first wife Marie Madeleine Breaux, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Semere and Marie Thibodeaux, at Attakapas in June 1806; Jean III's sister Éloise married Jean III's wife's brother Urbin.  Jean III and Marguerite settled at Grande Pointe on upper Bayou Teche.  Their children, born there, included Jean Baptiste IV in September 1807; Sosthène in October 1808; Marie Julie, called Julie, in August 1810; Joseph Dulcide, Duclide, or Alcide in July 1812; Théodule, perhaps also called Hippolyte Théodule and Treville, in May 1819; and Marie Alzemire or Zelmire in September 1822--six children, four sons and two daughters, between 1807 and 1822.  A succession for wife Marguerite, calling her husband Jean and likely post-mortem, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in January 1851.  Jean III, at age 65, remarried to Catherine ____, widow of Thomas Flavin of New Orleans, at the Plaquemine church, Iberville Parish, in December 1851.  She gave him no more children.  Jean III died in St. Martin Parish in June 1853.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Jean Baptiste died "at age 70 yrs."  Jean Baptiste/Jean III would have been 67.  Daughters Julie and Marie Zelmire, by his first wife, married into the Angèlle and Dauphine families.  All of Jean III's sons also married, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Jean Baptiste IV, by first wife Marguerite Semere, married Marie Modeste, daughter of Léon Latiolais and his Acadian wife Anne Victoire Robichaux, at the St. Martinville church in September 1835.  Jean Baptiste IV died in St. Martin Parish in March 1853, age 45.  Were he and his wife that rare Cajun couple who had no children?

Jean III's second son Sosthène, by first wife Marguerite Semere, married Adrienne, daughter of fellow Acadian Maurice Doucet and his Creole wife Marie Rils of Iberville Parish, at the St. Martinville church in January 1832.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Marie Emérite in January 1833; Euphémie in September 1834; Joseph Sostène in December 1837 but, called Demosthène, died at age 11 months in December 1838; and Erazie perhaps in the 1840s--four children, three daughters and a son, between 1833 and the 1840s.  One wonders if he was the Sosthène Guidry who died in Lafayette Parish in October 1850.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Sosthène died "at age over 40 yrs."  This Sosthène would have been age 42.  Daughters Marie Emérite, Euphémie, and Erazie married into the Angèlle, Landry, and Patin families, so the blood of the family line may have endured. 

Jean III's third son Joseph Dulcide, Duclide, or Alcide, from first wife Marguerite Semere, married Marie Séraphine, called Séraphine, another daughter of Maurice Doucet and Marie Rils, at the St. Martinville church in October 1831.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Darmasse or Darmas in September 1832; Joseph Alcide, called Alcide, in September 1834 but died in St. Martin Parish at age 4 (the recording priest said 5) in October 1838; Marie Séraphine born in January 1838; Letilia in March 1840; and Firmin in July 1842.  Joseph Dulcide remarried to Marguerite Uranie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Dupuis and Rosalie Theriot, at the St. Martinville church in February 1847.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Paulin in June 1848; Andéolle Joseph in December 1850; and Marie Elisa in November 1853--eight children, five sons and three daughters, by two wives, between 1832 and 1853.  None of Dulcide's daughters married by 1870, but three of his sons did and settled near Breaux Bridge. 

Oldest son Darmas, by first wife Séraphine Doucet, married, at age 23, cousin Marie Doralise, called Doralise, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Dupuis and Marie Semere, at the St. Martinville church in March 1856.  They settled near Breaux Bridge.  Their children, born there, included Ludovie in January 1857; Héloise, also called Marie, in October 1859; Marie Eve in January 1861; Léonce in July 1865; Lessin in February 1868; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Darmas, called D'Armas in Confederate records, served in King's Battery Louisiana Artillery, raised in St. Martin Parish, which fought in Louisiana.  He survived the war, returned to his family, and was buried in St. Bernard Catholic Church Cemetery, Breaux Bridge. 

Dulcide's third son Firmin, by first wife Séraphine Doucet, married Clara, daughter of fellow Acadians Éloi Landry and Marie Bertille Landry, at the Breaux Bridge church in March 1862.  Their son Joseph Firmin was born near Breaux Bridge in July 1864; ... 

Dulcide's fourth son Paulin, by second wife Marguerite Dupuis, married Mathilde or Nathilde, daughter of fellow Acadians Valsin LeBlanc and Eugénie Bourgeois, at the Breaux Bridge church in November 1866. ...

Jean III's fourth and youngest son Théodule, perhaps also called Hippolyte Théodule and Treville, from first wife Marguerite Semere, married fellow Acadian Marguerite Marie Adélaïde or Odile Guilbeau at the St. Martinville church in December 1843.  They settled near Breaux Bridge.  Their children, born there, included Céleste in February 1846; Marie Célestine baptized at age 3 months in September1848 but, called Célestine, died at age 1 1/2 in September 1849; and Alexandre born in July 1850.  Théodule may have remarried to Eméranthe, daughter of Jean Baptiste Lebleu and his Acadian wife Marie Lejeune and widow of Joseph Treville Guidry, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in December 1851.  Their children, born near Church Point, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, included Marie Palmonia or Edmonia, called Edmonia, in November 1852; Hippolyte Cyrus in February 1856; and Nathalie in December 1861--six children, four daughters and two sons, by two wives, between 1846 and 1861.  Daughters Céleste and Edmonia, by both wives, married into the Estilette and Castille families by 1870.  Neither of Théodule's sons married by then. 

Jean, fils's third son Joseph, by first wife Marie Madeleine Breaux, married Melisère or Melissa, also called Modeste and Émiliènne, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Melançon and Claire Breaux of Grande Pointe, at the St. Martinville church in June 1813.  They settled at Grande Pointe and then in Lafayette Parish.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Scholastique at Grande Pointe in April 1814; Pierre in the 1810s; Théogène in January 1817; Marie Azéma in January 1819; Hermogène in February 1821; Julie in August 1824; Euphémie in late 1825 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 10 months, in September 1826; Julien born in November 1828; Uranie in late 1830 and baptized at age 23 months in December 1832; Eugène born in c1834 and baptized at age 2 in January 1836; and Zéphirin born in October 1840--11 children, six daughters and five sons, between 1814 and 1840.  Daughters ... married into the Andrus and Hébert families by 1870.  Three of Joseph's sons also married by then, but not all of the lines endured.  

Oldest son Pierre married double cousin Marie Cléonise, daughter of fellow Acadians Marcellin Melançon and Scholastique Guidry, at the St. Martinville church in May 1839.  Their daughter Marie Zéolide was born in Lafayette Parish in March 1840 and did not marry by 1870. 

Joseph's second son Théogène may have married Julie Hébert, perhaps a fellow Acadian, place and date unrecorded.  Their daughter Marie Azélima ws born near Grand Coteau in October 1850.  Théogène may have remarried to cousin Mélaïde Guidry, again place and date unrecorded.  Their daughter Élisabeth was born near Grand Coteau in May 1856.  Théogène may have died in November 1857.  The Grand Coteau priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife or wives, said that Théogène died "at age 46-47 yrs."  This Théogène would have been age 40.  Neither of his daughters married by 1870. 

Joseph's third son Hermogène may have married fellow Acadian Marie Herminie, called Herminie and also Edmonide, Duhon in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in December 1845.  They settled in Calcasieu Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie Amais in October 1847; Élisabeth in April 1849; Thelismar in September 1851; and Placide in c1854 and baptized at Opelousas church, age 2, in October 1856--four children, two daughters and two sons, between 1847 and 1854.  None of Hermogène's children married by 1870. 

Jean, fils's fourth son Narcisse, by first wife Marie Madeleine Breaux, married Eméranthe, called Méranthe, daughter of fellow Acadian Frédéric Sylvain Blanchard and his first wife Anne Berteau, a Creole, of St. James Parish, at the St. Martinville church in April 1820.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Amelina in December 1820; Joseph, also called Joseph Terence and Terence, in March 1822; Virginie in July 1823; Marie Malvina, called Malvina, in February 1825; Valéry le jeune in September 1826; Valsin in July 1829 but died at age 9 in September 1838; Désiré born in January 1832; Eméranthe or Emérande in December 1833; Marie Azélie in August 1835; Jean Dosité, called Dosité, in December 1837; Alcide Honorat in December 1839; Philomène in January 1842; and Ulzer or Ulger in February 1844--13 children, six daughters and seven sons, between 1820 and 1844.  Narcisse may have died near Breaux Bridge in August 1857.  The priest who recorded the burial did not give any parents' names, mention a wife, or give the age of the deceased.  Narcisse would have been age 58 that year.  Daughters Amelina, Malvina, Emérande, and Philomène married into the Dugas, Latiolais, and Melançon families, including three Latiolais brothers, by 1870.  Six of Narcisse's sons also married by then, two of them to sisters. 

Oldest son Joseph Terence, called Terence, married cousin Céline, daughter of Jacques Doré and his Acadian wife Virginie Blanchard, at the St. Martinville church in June 1847.  They settled near Breaux Bridge.  Their children, born there, included Marie Louisa in August 1851; Jean Laloire in March 1854; Joseph Erville in April 1857; Gabriel in April 1861; Marie Louise in April 1864; ...  Terence's succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in July 1867.  He would have been age 45 that year.  Daughter ... married into the Latiolais family by 1870.  None of Terence's sons married by then. 

Narcisse's second son Valéry le jeune married cousin Virginie Bazeline, called Bazeline, daughter of fellow Acadians Marin Blanchard and Annette Broussard, at the Breaux Bridge church in November 1866. ...

Narcisse's fourth son Désiré married Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadian Guillaume dit William Trahan and his Creole wife Céleste Coralie Bouillon, at the St. Martinville church in December 1860.  Their children, born near Breaux Bridge, included Adonise in October 1861; Alcide le jeune in October 1863; Joseph in March 1866; ... 

Narcisse's fifth son Jean Dosité, called Dosité, married Ophelia, daughter of fellow Acadians Lasty Hébert and his Creole wife Adeline Begnaud, at the Breaux Bridge church in June 1868.  Their son Israël was born near Breaux Bridge in March 1869; ... 

Narcisse's sixth son Alcide Honorat married Marie Louise, called Louise, another daughter of Lasty Hébert and Adeline Begnaud, at the Breaux Bridge church in February 1861.  Their children, born near Breaux Bridge, included Marie Clarissa in November 1861; Cécile in April 1863; Lessin in March 1865; Joseph Ozère in February 1867; Théophile in October 1870; ...

Narcisse's seventh and youngest son Ulzer or Ulger married Adélaïde Alexina, Alexona, or Alenaise, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles LeBlanc and his Creole wife Élisabeth Tullier, at the Breaux Bridge church in November 1866.  Their children, born near Breaux Bridge, included Apollinaire in January 1869; Léopold in October 1870; ...

Jean, fils's fifth son Valéry, by first wife Marie Madeleine Breaux, married Caroline, daughter of William Beard and his Acadian wife Marie Bourque, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in December 1834.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Marie Célezie baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 5 months, in September 1836; Marie Emélise born in 1838 and baptized at age 10 months in February 1839; Marie Aspasie born in October 1841; Marie Irma in January 1845; and Jean Valéry in August 1847--five children, four daughters and a son, between 1836 and 1847.  Daughter ... may have married a Beard cousin by 1870.  Valéry's son did not marry by then. 

Jean, fils's sixth and youngest son Célerin or Séverin, by first wife Marie Madeleine Breaux, married Marie Felonise, called Felonise, daughter of fellow Acadian Frédéric Sylvain Blanchard and his second wife Marie Bertrand, a Creole, not an Acadian, and widow of Joseph Menard, at the St. Martinville church in June 1847.  Their son Jean Sevigné was born in St. Martin Parish in February 1852 and did not marry by 1870. ...

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During the late 1760s, another Guédry reached Louisiana from Maryland and settled on the river.  When his older sister and younger brother moved on to the western prairies, he remained on the Acadian Coast, but no new Guidry family line came of it: 

Joseph (c1732-1815?) à Claude dit Grivois dit LaVerdure Guidry

Joseph, second son of Augustin Guédry and Jeanne Hébert and brother of Ursule and Pierre of Grande Pointe, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1732, followed his older sisters to Île Royale in 1749, where, in early April 1752, a French official counted him with his sister Jeanne, her husband Julien Bourneuf, and their four daughters at Rivière-de-Miré on the island's Atlantic coast.  Joseph returned with his kinsmen by ship to British Nova Scotia soon after the counting and, in the fall of 1754, after taking the unqualified oath of allegiance, followed them to Mirliguèche, south of Halifax.  In September 1755, despite their having taken the oath, the British rounded up Joseph and his kinsmen, held them on Georges Island in Halifax harbor, and, in December, deported them to North Carolina aboard the sloop Providence.  From Edenton, North Carolina, where they had been held for four years, Joseph followed his kinsmen to Pennsylvania in c1760.  Now in his late 20s, he married fellow Acadian Madeleine ____ at Philadelphia in 1761.  In June 1763, they were listed on a French repatriation list in the Quaker colony with three unnamed children.  They followed his kinsmen to Maryland soon after the listing.  If his wife and children were still living, they would have followed him to Spanish Louisiana in the late 1760s and settled with him at Ascension on the river above New Orleans.  A colonial official counted Joseph on the left, or east, bank of the river there in August 1770, without a wife and children, so he may have come to the colony alone.  At age 41, he remarried to Monique, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Dupuis and Anne Breau of Minas, at Ascension in May 1773; she was a sister of Joseph's younger brother Pierre's first wife Marguerite.  Monique may not have given Joseph any children.  They were still on the east bank of the river at Ascension in April 1777, sans children, and held eight arpents frontage on the Mississsippi, 15 head of cattle, 15 swine, two "arms," and one slave.  For some reason, the census taker called Joseph's wife Marie, so perhaps her full name was Marie-Monique or Monique-Marie.  Joseph died in St. James Parish in November 1815, in his early 80s.  His line of the family evidently died with him. 

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Antoine Guédry, whose family was still in France, came to Spanish Louisiana in the late 1770s, perhaps as a privateer during the War for American Independence.  He married a fellow Acadian at New Orleans and remained there.  His twice-widowered father and younger siblings came to the colony in August 1785 on Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships from France.  Though the father and younger siblings settled in the Baton Rouge area, Antoine and his wife remained at New Orleans, among the few Acadians who chose to settle in the city. 

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In 1785, two decades after the first of the family reached the colony, 31 more Guédrys reached Louisiana aboard three of the Seven Ships from France. 

The first of them--23 Guédrys in six families, three of them led by brothers--crossed on Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans during the third week of August.  Most of the families followed their fellow passengers to Manchac south of Baton Rouge.  One of the families chose to settle on upper Bayou Lafourche, and another went to Cabahannocer on the lower Acadian Coast:

Charles (1726-1797) à Claude dit Grivois dit LaVerdure Guidry

Charles, second son of Pierre Guidry dit Grivois dit Labine and Marguerite Brassaud, born at Annapolis Royal in February 1726, married Adélaide-Madeleine, called Madeleine, Hébert, widow of Jean Breau, probably at Annapolis Royal in c1745.  In c1751, they moved to Pointe-à-la-Jeunesse in the interor of Île Royale, where, in March 1752, a French official counted Charles, Madeleine, and their two daughters, the older one from Madeleine's first marriage and the younger one, Marguerite-Victoire, only eight days old.  Madeleine gave Charles a son, Antoine, born on the island in c1754.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Madeleine was pregnant on the crossing aboard the Supply, which, because of a storm off the southwest coast of England and repairs at Bideford, England, did not reach the Breton port until the second week of March 1759.  Another daughter, Laurence-Anne, was born aboard ship on New Year's Day.  Charles and his family settled at Bonaban near La Gouesnière in the countryside east of St.-Malo.  Wife Madeleine died there in April 1760, age 34.  Charles resettled at La Gouesnière and, in January 1761, at age 35, remarried to Agnès, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Bourg and Françoise Dugas, at nearby St.-Suliac on the east bank of Rivière Rance, south of St.-Malo.  They settled in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer north of St.-Suliac.  Agnès gave Charles more children in these places, all sons:  Pierre-Jean born at La Gouesnière in February 1762; Joseph at St.-Servan in March 1766; Jean-Pierre in January 1768; Jacques-Servais in March 1770; and Théodore-Félix in November 1773--eight children, two daughters and six sons, by two wives, between 1752 and 1773, in greater Acadia and France.  Soon after their youngest son's birth, Charles took his family to the interior of Poitou, where they were part of a major Acadian settlement scheme near the city of Châtellerault.  In November 1775, after two years of effort, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes.  Youngest son Théodore-Félix died in St.-Donatien Parish there, age 2, in January 1776.  In the late 1770s, Charles's oldest son Antoine, by his first wife, returned to North America, perhaps as a privateer, and married an Acadian widow at New Orleans in December 1780, while his family was still in France.  Charles's older daughter Marguerite-Victoire, by his first wife, married into the Boudrot family in St.-Similien Parish, Nantes, in August 1780; and his second son, by his second wife, married a Frenchwoman at Nantes before September 1784.  Meanwhile, second wife Agnès died at Les Haut-Pavée in St.-Similien Parish in October 1782, age 46.  In 1785, Charles, his unmarried daughter and his three unmarried sons, along with his married daughter and a married son, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana aboard two of the Seven Ships.  From New Orleans, Charles and most of his family followed their fellow passengers to Manchac on the river south of Baton Rouge.  His oldest daughter and her family went to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Charles did not remarry again in the Spanish colony.  He died at New Orleans, perhaps at his oldest son's home there, in September 1797, age 71 (the recording priest said 72).  His older daughter Marguerite-Victoire remarried into the Chico family on the upper Lafourche, and his younger daughter Laurence-Anne married into the Doiron family at Manchac.  His three younger sons married in the colony and, along with an older brother who had married in France, settled at Manchac, Baton Rouge, and Ascension on the river.  His oldest son remained at New Orleans.  Only three of his sons' lines endured, on the river and Bayou Lafourche. 

Oldest son Antoine, by first wife Madeleine Hébert, followed his family to St.-Malo, Bonaban, La Gouesnière, St.-Servan-sur-Mer, Poitou, and Nantes.  During the late 1770s, at the time of the American Revolution, Antoine, perhaps as a sailor aboard a French privateer or merchant ship, found his way to Spanish Louisiana, where, at age 26, he married cousin Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Hébert and Marguerite-Josèphe Melanson and widow of Augustin Moreno of Spain, at New Orleans in July 1780, while his family was still in France.  Marie, a native of Grand-Pré, had come to Louisiana from Maryland in 1767 and was living at San Gabriel on the Acadian Coast above the city when they married.  They remained in the city, among the few Acadians to settle there.  One wonders what Antoine did there; perhaps he remained a sailor.  Their children, born at New Orleans, included a son, name unrecorded, in c1784 but died at age 3 in July 1787; and Antoine-Eusèbe baptized, age unrecorded, in February 1786.  In 1785, Antoine's twice-widowered father, older sister, and younger siblings reached Louisiana from France aboard two of the Seven Ships and settled at Manchac on the river just north of San Gabriel and on upper Bayou Lafourche.  His father, though having settled at Manchac, died at New Orleans in September 1797, perhaps at Antoine's home.  Antoine died at New Orleans in April 1809, age 54.  One of his daughters married into the Armitage family in the city.  One wonders if any of his sons married and if the family line endured. 

Charles's second son Pierre-Jean, by second wife Agnès Bourg, became a carpenter in France.  He followed his family to Poitou and Nantes, where he married Frenchwoman Louise Blandin in the early 1780s.  They were still childless when they followed his father and siblings to Louisiana and settled with them at Manchac.  Pierre died in East Baton Rouge Parish in May 1833.  The Baton Rouge priest who recorded the burial, and who gave no parents' names or mentioned a wife, said that Pierre was "ca. 69 yrs." old when he died.  He was 71.  He and his wife evidently were that rare Acadian couple who had no children.  

Charles's third son Joseph, by second wife Agnès Bourg, followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and Manchac, where he married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Honoré Breaux and Isabelle LeBlanc, in October 1795.  Their children, born at Manchac, included Jean-Charles, called Charles, in January 1799; and Joseph-Hippolyte, called Hippolyte, in October 1801.  Joseph died probably at Manchac by February 1807, when his wife remarried at nearby St. Gabriel.  Both of his sons joined the Acadian exodus from the river to Bayou Lafourche, where they married.  Their mother also followed them there and lived on the bayou until January 1852. 

Older son Jean-Charles, called Charles le jeune, married, at age 40, Céleste, daughter of Charles Falgout and Angélique Dufrene of St. Charles Parish and widow of Joseph Gaudet, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in January 1839.  They remained on Bayou Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Charles Joseph in December 1839; and François Ernest in October 1841.  Charles le jeune's succession, naming his wife and listing his children--Charles, Jr., and François--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in October 1859.  He would have been age 60 that year.  His two sons married and settled on the Lafourche and in the Terrebonne country. 

Older son Charles Joseph married cousin Émelia, daughter of Émile Leonard or Leonval and Émilie Falgout, at the Thibodaux church in November 1863.  Their children, born in Lafourche Parish, included Marie Hélène in September 1864; Céleste Émelia in November 1866; Charles François in September 1868; ... 

Charles le jeune's younger son François Ernest married Mary Louise, daughter of Walter McEvers or McEness and Célina Cantrelle, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in October 1859.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Louis Ernest in January 1861; Marie Louise in May 1864; ... 

Joseph's younger son Joseph Hippolyte, called Hippolyte, married Clarisse, daughter of fellow Acadians Prosper François Hébert and Céleste LeBlanc, at the Thibodauxville church in February 1823.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joseph Hippolyte, fils, called Hippolyte, fils, in September 1824; Joseph Adrian or Adrien, called Adrien and also Adonis, in February 1826; Aurelien in the 1820s; Céleste in July 1829; a daughter, name unrecorded, died a day after her birth in September 1831; Marie Aglaée or Aglaé, called Aglaé, born in May 1835; Urma or Irma in August 1838 but, called Irma, died in Lafourche Parish, age 17, in July 1855; and Louis Félicien, called Félicien, born in February 1841--eight children, four sons and four daughters, between 1824 and 1841.  Hippolyte died in Lafourche Interior Parish in November 1850, age 49.  A petition for succession inventory in his name, listing his wife, children, and one of their spouses--Hyppolite, Adrien, Céleste and her husband, Aureline (Aurelien), Aglaé, Irma, and Félicien--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in January 1851.  Daughters Céleste and Aglaé married into the Boutary and Sevin families by 1870.  All four of Hippolyte's sons also married. 

Oldest son Joseph Hippolyte, fils, called Hippolyte, fils, married Marcellite, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Lucien Savoie and his Creole wife Marcellite Chauvin, at the Thibodaux church in April 1847.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Alida in January 1848; Alidor in October 1849; Joseph Désiré in September 1851; François Alferes in January 1854; Alfred in September 1856; Marie Alvina in February 1859; Eve Elfrida in January 1861; and Marie Alzina in October 1863--eight children, four daughters and four sons, between 1848 and 1863.  Hippolyte, fils died in Lafourche Parish in April 1866, age 42.  Daughter Marie Alida married into the Duplantis family by 1870.  None of Hippolyte, fils's sons married by then. 

Hippolyte's second son Aurelien married Émelie, daughter of  John C. Brown and Marie Justine Pontiff, at the Thibodaux church in May 1853.  They settled near Raceland on the lower Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included William in February 1854; Joseph Nelson in May 1855; Laura in November 1856; Julia Malvina in November 1857; Aristide in April 1858; Ernest in April 1860; Émile in October 1862; Marie Émelia in January 1865; Marie Irma in December 1866; Gabriel Nicolas in February 1868; Charles in January 1870; ...  None of Aurelien's children married by 1870. 

Hippolyte's third son Joseph Adrien, called Adrien and also Adonis, married Marguerite Émée, Aimée, or Émelie, perhaps also called Lucie, daughter of Étienne Toups and his Acadian wife Marie Carmélite Part, at the Thibodaux church in January 1855.  They evidently had married, perhaps civilly, years before their church wedding.  They settled near Raceland and then near Lockport on the lower Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Émelia in July 1846; Joseph Albert in December 1859; Étienne Ribbeck in September 1861; Marie Ermina in August 1865; Toussaint Philippe in June 1866; Joséphine in September 1867 but died in Lafourche Parish, age 1, in August 1868; Marie Carmélite born in May 1870; ...  None of Adrien's children married by 1870. 

Hippolyte's fourth and youngest son Louis Félicien, called Félicien, married Elmire, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Molaison and Marie Émelie LeBlanc, at the Thibodaux church in October 1866.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Louis Willington in September 1867; Joseph Émile in October 1869; ... 

Charles's fourth son Jean Pierre, by second wife Agnès Bourg, followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and Manchac.  Jean Pierre, at age 45, married Marie Céline, daughter of Pierre Vachard and Angélique Vizette, at Baton Rouge in June 1813.  At age 51, Jean Pierre remarried to Vicenta, daughter of Juan Andres Rodriguez and Augustina Rodriguez, at Baton Rouge in April 1819.   Did he father any children with either of his wives?

Charles's fifth son Jacques Servais, by second wife Agnès Bourg, followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and Manchac, but he did not remain there.  He married Isabelle, also called Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Antoine Babin and Catherine Landry and widow of Paul Breaux, at Ascension in September 1797.  They settled on the river near the boundary between Ascension and Iberville parishes.  Their children, born on the river, included Jean-Narcisse, called Narcisse, in October 1798; Carmélite, called Mélite, in November 1800; Jean died eight days after his birth in July 1803; Marie Élise, Élina, or Hélène born in February 1805; and Valéry Appolin in April 1808 but died at age 22 (the recording priest said 20) in October 1830--five children, threes sons and two daughters, between 1798 and 1808.  Jacques Servais died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in September 1843.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, did say that Jacques was "a nat. of San Malo, France," and died at "age 74 yrs.."  He was 73.  Daughters Marie Hélène and Mélite married into the Frederick, Hébert, and Samson families, one of them, Marie Hélène, three times, twice to Hébert brothers.  Mélite's daughter Joséphine, who called herself a Guidry, married Alexis, son of Isleño Creole François Placentia, at the Donalsonville church, Ascension Parish, in March 1837; this was seven years after her mother had married Clément Samson, so the identity of Joséphine's father is unknown.  Jacques Servais's remaining son married and settled at the western edge of Ascension Parish.  

Oldest son Jean Narcisse, called Narcisse, married Agnès, daughter of Michel Bodin or Boudin and Louise Baron, at the St. Gabriel church in December 1821.  They also settled on the river near the boundary between Iberville and Ascension parishes.  Their children, born there, included Jérôme Trasimond in September 1822; Virginie in May 1825; Damas Émile in September 1827; Marie Emma, called Emma, in October 1830; Émile Joseph in March 1833 but, called Joseph, died "at Bayou Goula," Iberville Parish, at age 21 in May 1854; Louis Thomas born in November 1835; and a newborn son, name unrecorded, died in April 1838--seven children, five sons and two daughters, between 1822 and 1838.  Daughters Virginie and Emma married into the Breaux and Laboye families by 1870.  None of Narcisse's sons married by then. 

Jean dit Grivois (c1729/30-1812) à Claude dit Grivois dit LaVerdure Guidry

Jean dit Grivois, younger son of Paul Guédry dit Grivois and Anne-Marie dite Nannette Mius d'Azy, born at Annapolis Royal in c1729 or 1730, followed his family to Baie des Espagnol, Île Royale, in 1750 and was counted with them there in April 1752.  When his family returned to British Nova Scotia by boat in 1754 soon after the counting and resettled at Mirliguèche near Halifax, Jean, now in his early 20s, did not follow.  He evidently moved to Île St.-Jean, where his older brother Jacques dit Grivois had gone.  Jean married Marie, daughter perhaps of Joseph LeBlanc and Marie-Madeleine Lalande, on the island in c1756.  Marie gave Jean a son on Île St.-Jean, Jean dit Grivois, fils, also called Jean-Fabien, born in c1757 or 1758.  Living perhaps in a remote community on the west coast of the island, they escaped the British roundup there in late 1758, crossed Mer Rouge, and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Marie gave Jean another son, Alexandre, born in c1760.  By then, they had made their way to the Acadian refuge at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  Jean, called a Grivois, with his family of five, appear on a list dated 24 October 1760 of 1,003 Acadians still at Restigouche on the eve of the nearby French garrison's surrender.  The British held Jean, his family, and other exiles captured or surrendered in the area in prison compounds in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  In August 1763, Jean, Marie, and their sons Jean, fils and Alexandre were at Fort Cumberland, formerly French Fort Beauséjour, Chignecto, where they appeared on a repatriation list of Acadians who wanted to resettle in French territory.  Marie gave Jean another son, Joseph, born in c1763 probably soon after the counting, and a daughter, Marie-Marguerite, in c1765.  By then, at war's end, they had chosen to avoid British rule by resettling on the French-controlled fishery island of Miquelon off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  French officials counted them there in 1766.  In 1767, however, overcrowding on Miquelon and nearby Île St.-Pierre compelled French authorities, obeying a royal decree, to send the fisher/habitants to France, Jean and his family among them.  When other island Acadians chose to return to Miquelon in 1768, Jean and his family remained in the mother country.  Marie gave Jean two more children in France:  Jacques born in c1768; and Marie-Josèphe in c1770--six children, four sons and two daughters, between 1757 and 1770, in greater Acadia and France.  In 1772, French officials counted the family--Jean, age 41; Marie, age 40; Jean, fils, age 17; and Jacques, age 5--at Rochefort on the Bay of Biscay.  Evidently sons Alexandre and Joseph and daughters Marie-Marguerite and Marie-Josèphe, who would have been ages 12, 9, 7, and 2, respectively, in 1772, had not survived the rigors of exile.  In September 1784, Spanish officials counted Jean and Marie in the lower Loire port of Nantes, where some of their Guédry cousins had gone after a failed settlement venture in the interior of Poitou.  Strangely, Jean and Marie were counted at Nantes without children, though two were still alive.  In 1785, Jean dit Grivois, Marie, and their remaining sons, Jean, fils and Jacques, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana.  From New Orleans, Jean and his family did not follow their fellow passengers to Manchac on the river south of Baton Rouge but went, instead, to Cabahannocer--among the few Acadians from France who chose to settle there--before joining the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche, where most of their fellow exiles from France, including fellow Guédrys, chose to settle.  Jean dit Grivois's succession, not post-mortem, was filed at the Interior Parish courthouse, present-day Thibodaux, in August 1807, when he would have been in his late 70s.  Wife Marie's succession, calling her husband Jean Guidry, "also known as Grivois," was filed at the Interior Parish courthouse in September.  Jean dit Grivois died in Interior Parish in November 1812, in his early 80s.  His succession inventory was conducted later in the month.  Jean, père's two remaining sons married and settled on the upper Lafourche, as well as on the river on what was being called the Acadian Coast.  Only the younger son's line endured, and it was a vigorous one. 

Oldest son Jean dit Grivois, fils, also called Jean-Fabien, followed his family into exile and imprisonment, and to Île Miquelon and France, where he worked as a carpenter.  He came to Louisiana with his parents, younger brother, and a cousin in 1785 and followed them to Cabahannocer, where he married Célestine- or Céleste-Sibilias, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Boudrot and his second wife Madeleine Bourg of Tracadie, Île St.-Jean, in March 1786.  Célestine, a native of Île Miquelon, had come to Louisiana from France with the family of a married sister aboard the last of the Seven Ships.  By 1791, she and Jean, fils had moved to upper Bayou Lafourche, and they may have lived briefly in the Opelousas District west of the Atchafalaya Basin during the early 1790s.  Their children, born on the river, the Lafourche, and the prairies, included Marie-Madeleine at Cabahannocer in September 1788; Jean-Charles at Ascension in July 1790; and Scholastique near Opelousas in July 1794--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1788 and 1794.  Jean, fils died by October 1794, in his 30s, when wife Célestine remarried to an Augeron on the upper Lafourche.  Her and Jean, fils's daughter Scholastique married into the Daunis family.  Their son does not seem to have married.

Only son Jean-Charles may have died young, unless he was the Jean Guédry, "native of Assumption Parish," who died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in July 1852.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Jean died at "age 63 years."  Jean Charles would have been age 62.  If this was him, did he marry?  If not, his family line, except for its blood, died with him.  

Jean dit Grivois, père's fourth and youngest son Jacques also became a carpenter in France.  He followed his family to New Orleans and Cabahannocer, where he married Anne-Marie, called Marie, daughter of Jacques Bonvillain and Charlotte St. Ives of St.-Charles des Allemands, in July 1789.  Jacques's parents and older brother moved on to upper Bayou Lafourche, but Jacques and Marie remained on the river.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer, included Geneviève in June 1790; Anne-Marie dite Manette in October 1792; Michel baptized, age unrecorded, in May 1794; Philemon born in May 1795; Pierre in October 1796; Céleste in the late 1790s; Marguerite-Scholastique, called Scholastique, in January 1799; and Paul-Jacques or Jacques-Paul posthumously in February 1802--eight children, four daughters and four sons, between 1790 and 1802.  Jacques died at Cabahannocer in October 1801, age 34.  Daughters Geneviève, Céleste, Anne-Marie, and Scholastique married into the Destreval, Michel, Oubre, and LeBoeuf families.  Three of Jacques's sons also married and settled on the river and on Bayou Lafourche.  Most of Jacques's children and grandchildren took non-Acadian spouses. 

Second son Philemon married Eulalie, daughter of Louis Rodrique or Rodrigues and Tonte Claireaux, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in November 1815.  Their children, born near Convent, included Philemon, fils in February 1817; Jean Baptiste Fulger in October 1818; Marcell or Marcel, also called Marcellin, in April 1820; Adélaïde in December 1821; Marie Ulalie in October 1823 but, called Ulalie, died at age 1 in September 1824; Pantaléon dit Léon, born in July 1825; Louise Irma in May 1827 but, called Hirma, died at age 27 (the recording priest said 26) in November 1854; Alexandre Urbin born in March 1829; and Marie Aglaé in December 1831--nine children, five sons and four daughters, between 1817 and 1831.  Daughters Adélaïde and Marie Aglaé married into the Michel and Cantrelle families.  One of them settled on Bayou Lafourche, as did one of her brothers.  Three of Philemon's sons also married. 

Oldest son Philemon, fils married Louise or Louisa, daughter of Michel Matherne and Clarise Oubre, at the St. James church, St. James Parish, in January 1844.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included Marie Félicie in October 1845; Elvina Aimée, called Aimée, in August 1847; Philemon III in September 1849; Marie Louisa in February 1852; Joseph died eight days after his birth in July 1856; Marie Théodule born in October 1857; Marie Alice in January 1860; a second Joseph in May 1862; Marie Joséphine in April 1865 but, called an unnamed child, died a day after her birth; ...  Philemon, fils, at age 51, remarried to Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Landry and his Creole wife Anastasie Poché and widow of Michel Poirier, at the Convent church in October 1868.  Daughters Aimée, Marie Félicie, and Louisa, by his first wife, married into the Paille, Anderson, and Landry families by 1870.  None of Philemon, fils's sons married by then. 

Philemon, père's third son Marcel, called Marcellin by the recording priest, married first cousin Marie Scholastique, called Scholastique, daughter of Creole Pierre Célestin Michel and his Acadian wife Céleste Guidy, his uncle and aunt, at the Convent church in February 1842; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry; moreover, Marcel's sister Adélaïde married Scholastique's brother Pierre, fils.  Marcel and Scholastique's son Marcel, fils was born near Convent in February 1845.  Marcel, père died near Convent in March 1870.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Marcel died at "age 48 years."  He would have been a month shy of age 50.  His son married and settled on the river.

Only son Marcel, fils married Marguerite Constance, called Constance, daughter of fellow Acadians Benjamin Richard and Elmire Richard, at the St. James church in February 1867.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included Marie Solidete in January 1868; Marcel Félix in November 1869; ... 

Philemon, père's fourth son Léon married Delphine, daughter of fellow Acadian François Sébastien Benoit and his Creole wife Marie Éloise Morvant, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in May 1851.  Their children, born on the bayou and the river, included Léo in Lafourche Parish in December 1853; Hilaire in January 1857; and Marie Ophelia near Convent, St. James Parish, in April 1859--three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1853 and 1859.  None of Léon's children married by 1870.

Jacques's third son Pierre married Marie Basiline or Basilite, daughter of fellow Acadians François Duhon and Marie Madeleine Bourgeois, at the Convent church in February 1822.  Their children, born near Convent, included Pierre Thomasin in October 1824 but died at age 9 (the recording priest said 11) in August 1834; Marie Adeline born in December 1825 but died at age 3 1/2 in June 1829; Pierre Lucien, called Lucien, born in January 1828; Pierre Thibert or Théobert in June 1830 but died at age 3 1/2 in March 1834; François Bienvenue, called Bienvenu, born in June 1832; Marie Hélène in February 1834 but died at age 1 1/2 in September 1835; and Marie Augustine born in December 1836--seven children, four sons and three daughters, between 1824 and 1836.  Pierre's remaining daughter did not marry by 1870, but his remaining sons did and settled on the river.

Second son Pierre Lucien, called Lucien, married Louise or Marie Corinne, called Corinne, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Esteval Bourgeois and his Creole wife Véonique Keller, at the Convent church in January 1849.  Their children, born near Convent, included Pierre Arthur, called Arthur, in November 1849; Joseph Ernest, called Ernest, in November 1851; Augustin or Auguste in November 1853; Louis in July 1855; Marie Emma, called Emma, in July 1858; Marie in July 1864; Laure born in 1867 and baptized at the Convent church, age unrecorded, in March 1867; twins Joséphine and a son born in late November 1870, but, name unrecorded, Joséphine died "a few days old" in mid December, and the son, name unrecorded, died 15 days after his birth during the second week of December; ...  None of Lucien's children married by 1870. 

Pierre's fourth and youngest son Bienvenu married Aurelie, Aureline, or Aurelia, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand Bourgeois and Hortense Gaudin, at the Convent church in April 1853.  Their children, born near Convent, included François Alcide in March 1854 but, called Alcide, died at age 6 1/2 in October 1860 (though he was listed with his family, age 6, in the St. James Parish census of June 1860); Julien or Jules born in April 1855; Julia in January 1857; twins Émelia and Émilien in January 1858, but Émelia died at age 10 months the following October, and Émilien died by June 1860, when he was not listed with his family in the federal census in St. James Parish; Amand Albert, called Albert, born in September 1859; François Bienvenu in April 1861; Joseph Willy in December 1862; ...  None of Bienvenu's children married by 1870.  

Jacques's fourth and youngest son Paul Jacques or Jacques Paul married Angéline or Eugénie, daughter of Paul Pertuit and Marie Michel, at the Convent church in January 1832.  They settled on the river near the boundary between St. James and Ascension parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie Eugénie in May 1836; Engéline, also called Angelina, in May 1839; Marie Helena in December 1840; Camille in June 1842 but died at age 15 1/2 (the recording priest said 16) in September 1857; Joseph Victor born in November 1844 but, called Victor, died at age 3 1/2 in March 1848; and Léon Rodolphe born in April 1849--six children, three daughters and three sons, between 1836 and 1849.  Daughters Marie Eugénie, Angelina, and Marie Helena married into the Gentil, Rome, and Gisclard families by 1870.  Paul Jacques's remaining son did not marry by then. 

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A Guédry wife crossed on Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans during the second week of September 1785.  She and her large Boudrot family followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where she remarried to a Spaniard eight years later. 

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Seven more Guédrys, members of a large family led by a 71-year-old whose three older sons had sailed to Louisiana on an earlier vessel, crossed on La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans from St.-Malo in early December 1785.  They followed their fellow passengers to the new Acadian community of Bayou des Écores in the New Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge.  Like most of the Acadians who went there, they did not remain.  They resettled at nearby Baton Rouge.  More family lines came of it, not only on the river, but also on Bayou Lafourche and out on the praries--a settlement pattern not unlike that of their ancestors back in Acadia:

Claude (c1714-?) à Claude dit Grivois dit LaVerdure Guidry

Claude, second son of Jean-Baptiste Guédry, père and Madeleine Mius d'Azy, born perhaps at Pobomcoup near Cap-Sable in c1714, was nine years old when his father and older brother, along with several Mi'kmaq, were hanged for piracy at Boston, Massachusetts, in 1726.  Claude, in his early 30s, married Anne, daughter of Germain Lejeune dit Briard and Marie-Anne Trahan, probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1746 (Bona Arsenault insists they married in c1751 and settled at Cobeguit).  Anne gave Claude at least two sons in the Minas settlements:  Jean-Baptiste le jeune born in c1747; and Joseph-Marie in c1750.  In 1750, they moved on to Île St.-Jean, where Anne gave Claude another son, Pierre-Janvier, born in the summer of 1752.  In August 1752, a French official counted Claude, Anne, and their three sons at Anse-au-Matelot on the island's southeast shore.  Arsenault says Anne gave Claude two more sons on the island:  Charles-Olivier born in c1754; and Claude-Augustin, called Augustin, in c1758.  The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  After reaching the Breton port in late January 1759, Claude took his family to Châteauneuf on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo, where Anne, age 36, and the two younger sons, Charles-Olivier and Augustin, ages 3 years and 10 months, died in February and April 1759 probably from the rigors of the crossing.  Claude, in his late 40s, remarried to another Anne, 26-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians François Moyse and Marie Brun and widow of Joseph LeBlanc, in February 1762 at St.-Suliac, just upriver from Châteauneuf.  This Anne was a native of Annapolis Royal who also had come to France from the French Maritimes.  She gave Claude eight more children at St.-Suliac:  Marie-Cécile born in May 1763; François-Xavier in September 1764; Suliac-Charles in November 1765; Malo-Bénonie in January 1767; Pierre-Olivier in March 1768 but died 11 days after his birth; Anne-Josèphe born in August 1769 but died the following October; Pierre-Claude born in June 1771; and Olivier in c1777--13 children, 11 sons and two daughers, by two wives, between 1750 and 1777, in greater Acadia and France.  Meanwhile, between 1772 and 1774, at St.-Suliac and Plouër-sur-Rance across the river, Claude's three oldest sons, by his first wife, created families of their own.  In the early 1770s, Claude, Anne, and their children evidently remained at St.-Suliac while his older sons took their families to Poitou and retreated to the lower Loire port of Nantes later in the decade.  In 1785, Claude, Anne, and their six unmarried children, five sons and a daughter, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from St.-Malo aboard La Ville d'Archangel.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to Bayou des Écores.  Claude's three married sons and their families, meanwhile, had crossed to Louisiana on Le Beaumont, an earlier vessel that sailed from Paimboeuf, the lower port of Nantes (they having gone there from Poitou a decade earlier).  The older sons settled at Baton Rouge, where their father, stepmother, and younger half-siblings joined them by 1788, when Claude would have been about age 74.  By the early 1790s, perhaps after the passing of their father, the three married sons, along with some of their younger brothers, joined the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche, and one of them resettled in the Attakapas District west of the Atchafalaya Basin.  Daughter Marie-Cécile, by Claude's second wife, married into the Aucoin, Robichaux, and Benz families at Baton Rouge.  His five younger sons, as had his three oldest, also married, at Baton Rouge, Manchac, and on the upper Lafourche, helping to create one of the most vigorous lines of the Guidry family in the Bayou State. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste le jeune, by first wife Anne Lejeune, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, St.-Malo, Châteauneuf, and St.-Suliac.  He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Lebert and Madeleine Lapierre of Rivière-aux-Canards, at Plouër-sur-Rance, across the river from St.-Suliac, in January 1774.  They went to Poitou soon after their marriage.  Their daughter Marie-Jeanne was born there in St.-Jacques Parish, Châtellerault, in January 1775.  The following December, Jean-Baptiste and his family retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes.  Marguerite gave him more children there:  Pierre-Jean-Marie born in St.-Nicolas Parish in November 1776; Louise-Geneviève in January 1779; François in c1781; and Marguerite-Félicité at nearby Chantenay in February 1785--five children, three daughters and two sons, between 1775 and 1785.  Oldest daughter Marie-Jeanne and second daughter Louise-Geneviève evidently died at Nantes or Chantenay before 1785.  That year, the family had been scheduled to cross to Spanish Louisiana on Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in July, but they crossed, instead, on Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in August.  Evidently wife Marguerite, age 32, was too ill to cross on the earlier ship, forcing the family to wait for another vessel, on which Jean-Baptiste le jeune's two younger brothers and their families also crossed.  Marguerite may have died before they crossed on Le Beaumont, or she may have died at sea.  What is certain is that Jean-Baptiste le jeune, his three remaining children, two sons and a daughter, and a Lebert niece reached the Spanish colony.  Most of their fellow passengers chose to settle at Manchac, south of Baton Rouge.  If Jean-Baptiste le jeune took his family there, they did not stay long, nor did younger brother Joseph-Marie, who also had crossed on Le Beaumont.   Jean-Baptiste le jeune, who did not remarry, died by January 1791, in his early 40s, when his younger son was counted in a Lafourche valley census with another family.  Brother Joseph-Marie took in his orphaned children.  Jean-Baptiste le jeune's older son Pierre-Jean-Marie and his youngest daughter Marguerite Félicité evidently died young, at either Manchac or on the upper Lafourche.  His remaining son followed his uncle to the Attakapas District, where he perpetuated the family line. 

Younger son François followed his family to New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and upper Bayou Lafourche.  Unlike the rest of his family, who remained on the Lafourche, when he came of age François crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to the Attakapas District, where he married Céleste, daughter of Jean Dartes and Pélagie Provost and widow of Louis Thibaut, in November 1808.  They settled on lower Bayou Teche and then moved to the upper Vermilion valley.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Virginie Clémentine, called Clémentine, on the lower Teche in February 1810; Natalie in September 1811; Euphrosine, actually Euphrosin, a son, also called Euphrasine, Leufroi, Syphrosie, Euphrane, Euphraisie, Euphraisy, and Euphrossie, in October 1815; Marie Zeïde on the Vermilion in December 1817; Théodule in September 1820; and Edmond in February 1823--six children, three daughters and three sons, between 1810 and 1823.  Daughters Clémentine and Marie Zeïde married into the Landry, Gerbron, and Benoit families.  All three of François's sons married and settled on the prairies. 

Oldest son Euphrosin married Eugénie, daughter of fellow Acadians Éloi Landry and Juliènne Trahan, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in December 1833.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Antoine in Lafayette Parish in October 1834; Leuphroisy or Euphrosin, fils, also called Syphrosie, baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 3 months, in April 1837; Éloi born in April 1839; François le jeune in the 1840s; and Félix near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in November 1858--five children, all sons, between 1834 and 1858.  Two of Euphrosin's sons married by 1870 and settled on the southwest prairies. 

Second son Euphrosin, fils, called Syphrosie by the recording priest, married Alexandrine Zulma, called Zulma, daughter of fellow Acadian Alexandre Leger and his Creole wife Marie Mélaïde Lormand, at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in May 1856.  Their children, born near Abbeville, included Alice in March 1857; Éloïde in November 1858; Euphraisie in February 1861; Mathilde in November 1862; ... 

Euphrosin, père's fourth son François le jeune married Eugénie, daughter of fellow Acadian Louis Hubert Broussard and his Creole wife Lezida Primeaux, at the Abbeville church in May 1869. ...

François's second son Théodule married Célestine, daughter of Michel Touchet and his Acadian wife Célestine Cormier, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in March 1842.  They settled in both Lafayette and Vermilion parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie in Lafayette Parish in May 1843; Darius near Abbeville in August 1844; Omer in December 1845; Célestine in September 1848; Victorin or Victor in February 1849; Onésiphore in July 1850; Clémentine in November 1854; Uranie in February 1855; Horace in July 1861; and Ferjus in December 1865--10 children, four daughters and six sons, between 1843 and 1865.  Théodule may have died near Abbeville in February 1866.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Théodule died "at age 45 yrs."  This Théodule would have been that age.  Was his death war-related?  Daughter ... married into the LeBlanc family by 1870.  Three of Théodule's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Darius likely married Clémentine Slone or Slands, perhaps Sloane, at the Abbeville church in May 1862.  Their children, born near Abbeville, included Marie Emethile in February 1863; Numa in January 1866; ... 

Théodule's second son Omer married Carmélite, daughter of Jean Dartes and his Acadian wife Carmélite Mouton, at the Abbeville church in July 1867. ...

Théodule's third son Victor married Cécilia, another daughter of Jean Dartes and Carmélite Mouton, at the Abbeville church in September 1866. ...

François's third and youngest son Edmond married cousin Marie Aurelia, called Aurelia, daughter of Alexandre Dartes and Arthémise Loigon, at the Vermilionville church in December 1845.  They settled near Abbeville.  Their children, born there, included Marie Nathalie in January 1848; Julien in April 1849; Edmond, fils in September 1851; Jules in May 1854; Callitia in October 1856; Ledea in December 1859; Phedora in May 1862; Joseph baptized at the Abbeville church, age 4 months, in May 1866; François le jeune born in October 1868; ...  None of Edmond's children married by 1870. 

Claude's second son Joseph-Marie, by first wife Anne Lejeune, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, St.-Malo, Châteauneuf, and St.-Suliac, where he married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Comeau and Marguerite Hébert, in November 1772.  A year later, they went to Poitou, where Madeleine gave him a daughter, Anne-Rosalie-Marguerite, called Marguerite, born at Monthoiron south of Châtellerault in December 1774.  In December 1775, after two years of effort, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes and settled there and at nearby Chantenay.  Madeleine gave Joseph-Marie at least four more children at Nantes:  Marie-Jeanne born in St.-Donatien Parish in May 1776; Marguerite-Adélaïde in c1778; Joseph, fils at Chantenay in July 1783; and Reine-Élisabeth at Paimboeuf, the lower port of Nantes, in January 1785.  Meanwhile, oldest daughter Marguerite died at Chantenay in March 1778, age 3 1/2.  Joseph-Marie, Madeleine, and their four remaining children, three daughters and a son, also crossed to Louisiana aboard Le Beaumont and followed his older brother to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Joseph Marie and Madeleine had more children on the upper bayou, including Victoire baptized, age unrecorded, in April 1787; twins Geneviève and Rosalie born in June 1788; Anne dite Annette in June 1791; and twins Augustin and Pélagie in June 1793, but Augustin died near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, age 50, in February 1844--11 children, nine daughters and two sons, including two sets of twins, between 1774 and 1793, in France and Louisiana.  They did not remain on the upper Lafourche.  Later in the decade, they moved to the Attakapas District, where Joseph-Marie died in February 1799, age 50.  Daughters Marguerite-Adélaïde, Renée Élisabeth, Victoire, and Anne married into the Tenholt, Hébert, Dartes, and Senetiere families.  One of the daughters remained on upper Bayou Lafourche, but the others settled at Attakapas.  Joseph-Marie's daughter Rosalie had a "natural" son named Isaac Valsin in St. Martin Parish in May 1816; the recording priest did not give the boy's father's name.  One of Joseph-Marie's sons married and settled on lower Bayou Teche.  

Older son Joseph, fils followed his family to New Orleans, Bayou Lafourche, and Attakapas.  He married Émilie, daughter of Pierre Bonvillain and Thérèse Carlin of St. Mary Parish, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in April 1817.  They settled in St. Mary Parish on lower Bayou Teche.  Their children, born there, included Thérèse Émilie in February 1819; Joseph III in March 1820; Madeleine Irène in October 1822; Marie Joséphine in August 1824; Gertrude Adeline in July 1826; Marguerite Natalie in April 1828; Gustave Pierre in January 1830, Désiré Émile in May 1831, Jean Drozin or Drosin in March 1833; and Euphémie Ermina in September 1835--10 children, six daughters and four sons, between 1819 and 1835.  Daughter Thérèse Émilie married into the Garrett family by 1870.  None of Joseph, fils's sons married by then, at least not in South Louisiana. 

Claude's third son Pierre-Janvier, called Janvier, from first wife Anne Lejeune, followed his family to St.-Malo, Châteauneuf, and St.-Suliac.  Janvier became a workman in France.  He married Marie-Josèphe, another daughter of Paul Lebert and Madeleine Lapierre of Rivière-aux-Canards, at Plouër-sur-Rance, across the river from St.-Suliac, in February 1773.  They, too, went to Poitou that year.  Marie-Josèphe gave Janvier a son, Pierre-Joseph, born in St.-Jacques Parish, Châtellerault, in October 1774.  In December 1775, they retreated with his brothers and other Poitou Acadians to Nantes, where Marie-Josèphe gave Janvier at least four more children:  Jean-Charles born in St.-Donatien Parish in October 1776 but died at nearby Chantenay, age 6 1/2, in March 1783; Marie-Rose born in St.-Donatien Parish in April 1779; Jean-Pierre at Chantenay in July 1781; and Joseph-Firmin in October 1784.  With three sons and a daughter, as well as a Lebert nephew, they also crossed to Louisiana aboard Le Beaumont.  From New Orleans, they did not go to the upper Lafourche with Janvier's older brothers but followed their fellow passengers to Manchac, south of Baton Rouge.  They had more children at Manchac, including Bénoni born in February 1787; Jean-Joseph in October 1788; and Marie-Clothilde in August 1791--eight children, six sons and two daughters, between 1774 and 1791, in France and Louisiana.  In the early 1790s, they joined Janvier's older brothers on upper Bayou Lafourche, where Janvier died in September 1793, age 41.  Daughters Marie-Rose and Marie Clothilde married into the Pitre and Dantin families.  Three, perhaps four, of Janviers sons married and settled on the Lafourche. 

Oldest son Pierre-Joseph followed his family to Nantes, New Orleans, Manchac, and the upper Lafourche, where he married Marie-Marguerite, called Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Bergeron and his first wife Marie Foret of Ascension, in January 1798.  Marguerite was a native of Ascension whose parents had come to the colony from Halifax in 1765.  Her and Pierre-Joseph's children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Charles-Joseph, also called Charley-Joseph and Joseph, in August 1800; Jean-Baptiste in May 1802; Eléonore or Léonore Mélanie in January 1805; Marie Pauline, called Pauline, in December 1806; Napoléon in November 1808; Marie Madeleine in December 1810; Alexandre in April 1814; and Clémence, also called Clémentine, in July 1816--eight children, four sons and four daughters, between 1800 and 1816.  Pierre Joseph died by June 1822, when a parish clerk noted in a civil document at the Houma courthouse, Terrebonne Parish, that Pierre's wife Marguerite's "2nd husband is Jean Baptiste Beausergeant."  Her and Pierre Joseph's daughters Eléonore Mélanie, Marie Madeleine, Pauline, and Clémence married into the Hiens or Harris, Benoit, Chiasson, and Lirette families.  Pierre Joseph's four sons also married and settled in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley. 

Oldest son Charles or Charley Joseph married Lucie or Lucille Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph François Chiasson and his second wife Marie Marguerite Lejeune, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in September 1821, recorded the marriage in Terrebonne Parish the following month, and sanctified the marriage at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in November 1825.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Tarzille Carmélite, also called Émelie, in November 1822; Marie Pauline in November 1824; Jean Baptiste le jeune in April 1827; Charles Jean Baptiste in January 1831 but, called Charles, may have died in Terrebonne Parish, age 23, in April 1854; Marie Félicité, called Félicité, born in December 1831; Hubert Ovile in October 1834; and Joseph baptized at the Thibodaux church, age unrecorded, in February 1841, years after his father's death, so one wonders if he was born posthumously--seven children, three daughters and four sons, between 1822 and the late 1830s.  Charles Joseph died in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1838.  The Thibodauxville priest who recorded the burial said that Charles died "at age 35 yrs."  He was 37.  Daughters Marie Pauline, Tarzille/Émelie, and Marie Félicité married into the Gautreaux, Ledet, Bonvillain, and Munce families by 1870.  One of Charles's sons also married by then. 

Third son Hubert Ovile "from Terrebonne Parish" married Irma or Emma, daughter of Pierre Gautier or Gauthier and his Acadian wife Pélagie Crochet of Terrebonne Parish, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in May 1860, and sanctified the marriage at the Houma church the following August.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Marie Séverine in Januaryh 1862; Séverin Parfait in April 1868; ... 

Pierre Joseph's second son Jean Baptiste married Irène, 19-year-old daughter of Albert Beausergeant and Marie Louise Saint Louis of St. Landry Parish, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in September 1821; the following month, the marriage was recorded in Terrebonne Parish.  One wonders if Irène died from the rigors of childbirth.  Jean Baptiste remarried to Marie Marcelline or Marcellite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Thibodeaux and Marie Dugas, at the Thibodauxville church in November 1823; this marriage also was recorded in Terrebonne Parish.  Their children, born probably in Terrebonne Parish, included Adèle Eusemenie, perhaps also Caroline, in January 1825; Rosalie Mélodie in August 1827; Jean Baptiste Napoléon, called Napoléon le jeune, in July 1830; Alexandre Darieux or Darius, called Darius and Alexandre D., in November 1835; Jean Baptiste, fils, also called Jean Baptiste Célestin, and Célestin, in February 1837; Marie Clémence in October 1839; and Marie Émelia, called Émelia, in March 1842--seven children, four daughters and three sons, all by his second wife, between 1825 and 1842.  Wife Marie Marcelline died by December 1845, when a "Petition for [succession] Inventory" in her name, giving her husband's name and listing some of their children--Adèle Lusennienee and her husband, Jean Baptiste Napoléon, Jean Baptiste Célestin, Alexandre Dergus, Marie Clémence, and Marie Melia--was filed at the Houma courthouse.  Daughters Adèle Eusemenie/Caroline, Marie Clémence, and Émelia married into the Davis, Richard, and Pitre families, including two Pitre brothers, by 1870.  Jean Baptiste's three sons also married by then and settled in Terrebonne Parish.

Oldest son Jean Baptiste Napoléon, called Napoléon le jeune, from second wife Marie Marcelline Thibodeaux, married Victorine Fitch in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in June 1854.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Marcelline Euphrosine Napoléon in June 1855; Séverine Olinda in August 1857; Elmire Ozémée in March 1859; Marie Odillia in July 1861; Adam Drosin in March 1863; Célina Modeste near Montegut in April 1866; ...  None of Napoléon le jeune's children married by 1870. 

Jean Baptiste's second son Alexandre Darius, by second wife Marie Marcelline Thibodeaux, married cousin Eulalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Adrien Naquin and Rosalie Dugas, at the Houma church in April 1855.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Jean Alexandre Camelus in January 1855; Jean Baptiste Désiré in April 1860; Frank Neuville in February 1863; ...  None of Alexandre Darius's children married by 1870. 

Jean Baptiste's third and youngest son Célestin, by second wife Marie Marcelline Thibodeaux, married Marie Arthémise, called Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadian Charle Rosémond Bergeron and his Creole wife Adélaïde Seville or Silvy, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in September 1855.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Jean Louis Célestin Trasimond in June 1856; Jean Baptiste Eusèbe in April 1858; Élise Angélique in April 1860; Adélaïde Célestine in May 1862; ... 

Pierre Joseph's third son Napoléon married Pauline, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Aucoin and Marie Divine Richard, at the Thibodauxville church in November 1832; they had registered the marriage in Terrebonne Parish earlier that month, so they probably were living in that parish as well.  They settled probably in Terrebonne Parish near the boundary with Lafourche Interior Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marceline Pauline in August 1833; Jean Napoléon in January 1836; Olézime or Onésime Henry or Henri in July 1837; Adèle Survina in March 1840; Pierre Frinklin, probably Franklin, in June 1844; and Henry Joseph in February 1852--six children, two daughters and four sons, between 1833 and 1852.  Daughters Marceline and Adèle married into the Malbrough and Lirette families by 1870.  One of Napoléon's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Jean Napoléon married Marie Philomène, called Philomène, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Boudreaux and his Creole wife Rosalie Malbrough, at the Thibodaux church in September 1858; the marriage was recorded also in Terrebonne Parish.  They settled near the boundary between Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes.  Their children, born there, included Félix Édouard in September 1859; Joséphine Odilia in February 1861; Thomas Isaac in March 1864; Myrthile, a son, in June 1866 but, called Mytille, died at age 2 1/2 in September 1868; ... 

Pierre Joseph's fourth and youngest son Alexandre married Marie Félicité, called Félicité, Marcel or Marcelle, place and date unrecorded, but it probably was in the 1830s.  Their children, born on the southeastern bayous, included Joseph Diogène in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1839; Marguerite Luvignan, Luvinia, or Lovinia probably in the early 1840s; Marie Élisie or Élise, called Élise, in December 1845[sic]; and Eugénie Céline in December 1845[sic]--four children, a son and three daughters, between 1839 and 1845.  Alexandre's succession inventory, calling his wife Marie Félicité Marcelle and listing some of his children--Joseph Georgianne, Marguerite Luvinia, and Eugénie--was filed at the Houma courthouse in December 1845, the same month a daughter was born, perhaps posthumously.  He would have been age 34 that year.  Daughters Lovinia, Eugénie Céline, and Élise married into the Hains, Hébert, and Theriot families by 1870.  Alexandre's son did not marry by then. 

Janvier's second son Jean-Pierre followed his family to Nantes, New Orleans, Manchac, and the upper Lafourche, where he married Marianne, daughter of Pierre Daspit and Marie Mayeux of New Orleans, in September 1801.  Their son Pierre-Eugène, called Eugène, was born at Assumption on the upper Lafourche in June 1802, married, and created his own family there. 

Only son Eugène married Marie Célesie, called Élise or Lise, 19-year-old daughter of Jean Baptiste Charpentier and his Acadian wife Marie Gaudet, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1821; the marriage was sanctified at the Thibodauxville church in July 1823.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Thérèse Eugénie, called Eugénie, in October 1822; Marie Eulacie in November 1824; Élise Arcade, called Arcade, in January 1825; Eugène Seroul or Serville, called Serville, in July 1826; Clémance or Clémence Neze in April 1828; Marguerite Uranie in June 1830; Barbe Ludoisca, called Lodoiska, in December 1832; Adoïse in c1833; Paul in March 1836; Jean Julien in January 1837; Adolphe Juacint in December 1838; Geneviève Émelia or Amelia, called Amelia, in July 1841; and Hegesipe Octave in April 1843.  Eugène, "from Lafourche Parish and living in Terrebonne Parish," remarried to Émilie, daughter of Mathieu Hotard and Basilise Daspit of Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes, at the Houma church in January 1863. ...  Daughters Arcade, Clémence, Adoïse, Eugénie, Lodoiska, and Amelia, by his first wife, married into the Daspit, Trocolo, Gabas or Gabasse, Hernandez, and Duplantis families, two of them, Arcade and Clémence, to Daspit brothers, by 1870. Two of Eugène's sons also married by then, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Serville, by first wife Élise Charpentier, married cousin Elvire, 15-year-old daughter of Justin Daspit and Amelia Chauvin, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in June 1852; two of Serville's sisters also married Daspits.  Serville and Elvire settled near the boundary between Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes.  Daughter Edmire Santa was born there in February 1853. A petition for inventory in Alvire's name, dated 13 September 1855, listed one child, daughter Cynthie, perhaps Santa, who did not marry by 1870.  Except perhaps for its blood, the family line did not endure. 

Eugène's fourth son Adolphe, by first wife Élise Charpentier, married Aglaé, daughter of Noël Cadière and Madeleine Badeaux, at the Thibodaux church in May 1864.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joseph Willson in September 1866; Laura Véronique in February 1868; Joseph Wilfrid in October 1869; ...

Janvier's third son Joseph-Firmin, called Firmin, followed his family to New Orleans, Manchac, and the upper Lafourche, where he married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Ignace Carret and Madeleine Clémenceau of Minas, in January 1802.  Marie-Josèphe, a native of Chantenay near Nantes, had come to Louisiana in 1785 on a later ship.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between what became Ascension and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Joseph-Léandre, called Léandre, in October 1802; Marie Rosalie, called Rosalie, in March 1805; Janvier le jeune in January 1808; Jean Pierre le jeune in February 1809; Scholastique dite Scolastie Eléonore in Febuary 1811; and Béloni or Bénoni le jeune in the 1810s or early 1820s--six children, four sons and two daughters, between 1802 and the early 1820s.  Firmin died in Lafourche Interior Parish in April 1842.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial said that Firmin died "at age 60 yrs."  He was 57.  Daughters Rosalie and Scholastique dite Scolastie Eléonore married into the Doucet, Angelito, and Olivier families.  Firmin's four sons also married and settled on the Lafourche, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Joseph Léandre, called Léandre, married Marcellite Susanne, called Susanne, 17-year-old daughter of Jacques Terrebonne and Céleste Incalade of Chenière Caminada on the Gulf in lower Jefferson Parish near Grand Isle, at the Thibodauxville church in April 1828.  Their children, born on the southeastern bayous, included Joseph Théophil or Théophile, perhaps called Théophile, in December 1829; Marcelite Florestine in January 1833; and Ovide in January 1841--three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1829 and 1841.  Léandre's daughter does not seem to have married by 1870, but his sons did and settled at the edge of the coastal marches.

Older son Joseph Théophile, called Théophile, likely married fellow Acadian Azéma, also called Rosalie, Theriot, place and date unrecorded.  They settled near Raceland and then near Lockport on the lower Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Emma in May 1851; Joseph Ulysse in April 1853; Alexis in June 1854; Théophile Blanchard in March 1864; Ezelia Pauline in January 1867; ...  None of Joseph Théophile's children married by 1870. 

Léandre's younger son Ovide married A. Catherine, daughter of Jean Charles Dupré and his Acadian wife Céleste Naquin, at the Montegut church, Terrebonne Parish, in June 1868. ...

Firmin's second son Janvier le jeune married Adèle, daughter of  Louis Augeron and his Acadian wife Louise Céleste De La Mazière, at the Thibodauxville church in February 1829.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joseph Firmin le jeune, called Firmin, in June 1829; Charley or Charles Adrien or Adam in March 1834; Louise Adela Zélima in October 1835; Jean Baptiste Lagande, Lagarde, or Legarde, called Legarde, in January 1838; Louis in November 1839; Clémentine in February 1843; Laiza perhaps in the 1840s; Alexis Théophile or Théophile Alexis in February 1848; Valfroi Onésippe in November 1849; Pierre Béloni near Lockport in June 1851; Adèle Philomène in March 1853; Félicien in February 1855; and Joseph Aurelien near Raceland in November 1857--13 children, nine sons and four daughters, between 1829 and 1857.  Daughter Laiza married into the Ledet family by 1870.  Six of Janvier le jeune's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Joseph Firmin le jeune, called Firmin, married Marie Esilda, daughter of Georges Loup or Loupe and Marie Rose Mailes, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in March 1849, and sanctified the marriage at the Thibodaux church in April 1850.  Their children, born on the middle Lafourche, included Marie Joséphine in February 1850; Joseph Félicien, called Félicien, near Lockport in April 1852; and Marguerite Olinde in December 1853--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1850 and 1853.  Neither of Firmin's daughters married by 1870, but his son did.  

Only son Félicien married Myrtille, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Lessin Bourg and his Creole wife Marcellite Orgeron, at the Lockport church, Lafourche Parish, in March 1869. ...

Janvier le jeune's second son Charles Adrien married cousin Eugénie, also called Jane Amelina, daughter of Charles Augeron and his Acadian wife Renée Jeanne Benoit, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in March 1854.  They settled on the lower Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Pierre Adrien in December 1855; Eugène Sosthène in November 1858; Uranie in January 1861; Charles Jean Marie in August 1862; Clément Ogeron in November 1867; Louis Damas in December 1868; Anastasie Selvina in February 1870; ...  None of Charles Adrien's children married by 1870. 

Janvier le jeune's third son Legarde married cousin Marie Joséphine, daughter of Léandre Augeron and Joséphine Loupe, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in March 1861, and sanctified the marriage at the Lockport church in March 1870.  They settled near Raceland and then near Lockport.  Their children, born there, included Marie Camelia near Raceland in February 1862; Joséphine Dorciane near Lockport in September 1864; Marguerite Malvina in May 1867; ...

Janvier le jeune's fourth son Louis married Clémence, daughter of Esie Melet, also called Hébert, and Delphine Deglases, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in March 1862, and sanctified the marriage at the Lockport church in October 1863.  They settled near Lockport.  Their children, born there, included Louis, fils in April 1863; Félix Anaïse in August 1864; Joseph Armand in November 1868; Léonce Onésime in January 1870; ...

Janvier le jeune's fifth son Théophile Alexis married Marguerite Eve, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Célestin Doucet and Rosalie Catherine Bourg, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in June 1866, and sanctified the marriage at the Lockport church in March 1868.  They settled near Lockport.  Their children, born there, included Alexis Théophile, fils in October 1867; Louis Raphaël in October 1869; ... 

Janvier le jeune's sixth son Valfroi married Marie Marcellite, daughter of Creoles Rémond Bernard and Rosalie Loupe, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in December 1869. ...

Firmin's third son Jean Pierre le jeune married Marie Théotiste, called Théotiste, 18-year-old daughter of Pierre Richoux or Richon and Félicité Duet, at the Thibodauxville church in October 1831.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Séverine, called Séverine, in September 1832; and Honorine in May 1835.  Daughters Honorine and Séverine married Savoie brothers.  Did Jean Pierre le jeune father any sons? 

Firmin's fourth and youngest son Bénoni le jeune married Modeste, daughter of Éloi Maronge and his Acadian wife Modeste Marcellite Dantin, at the Thibodaux church in May 1844.  The civil record of the marriage, filed the same day as the church wedding, says Modeste's mother was Marguerite Brat.  Were they that rare Cajun couple who had no children?

Janvier's fourth son Bénoni followed his family to Bayou Lafourche.  His succession was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse, Interior Parish, in September 1807.  He would have been age 20 that year.  He may not have married, unless he was the Bénoni Guidry who married Loyse Fitche probably in Lafourche Interior Parish in the late 1830s.  Daughter Marie Aglaé was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in July 1840 but evidently did not marry by 1870.   

Claude's sixth son François-Xavier, by second wife Anne Moyse, followed his family to New Orleans, Bayou des Écores, and Manchac, where he married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre LeBlanc and his second wife Geneviève Richard, in the early 1800s.  Their children, born at Manchac, included Charles François, perhaps also called François Charles, in February 1809; Louis in October 1810 but died near Baton Rouge, age 36 (the recording priest said 32), in August 1847; Marie Léocadie born in 1813; and Célestin baptized at the Baton Rouge church, age 4 months, in September 1818--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1809 and 1818.   François died probably at Manchac, East Baton Rouge Parish, in September 1827, age 63.  His daughter did not marry by 1870, if she married at all.  Only one of François-Xavier's sons seems to have married, perhaps twice.

Oldest son Charles François or François Charles may have married Anglo American Lotetia Tompson, place and date unrecorded, and settled near Baton Rouge.  Daughter Françoise was born there in March 1840.  A François Charles, called Charles, Guidry, perhaps Charles François, married, or remarried to, Abigail or Mary Eliza Fleshman or Flachman, place and date unrecorded.  Their children, born near Baton Roue, included Zoé Célestine in July 1845, François Antoine in June 1849; and Willamine Rosalie in January 1853--four children, three daughters and a son, by two wives, between 1840 and 1853.  None of Charles's children married by 1870. 

Claude's seventh son Suliac-Charles, by second wife Anne Moyse, followed his family to New Orleans, Bayou des Écores, and Manchac, where he married Rose-Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Aucoin and Marguerite Thériot, in December 1789.  Rose, a native of Plouër-sur-Rance on the river south of St.-Malo, also had come to Louisiana in 1785 aboard La Ville d'Archangel.  Their children, born at Manchac, included Marie-Arthémise, called Arthémise, in March 1791; Firmin-Isidore in August 1792; Marguerite-Marie or Marie-Marguerite in January 1795 but died the following August; Jean Baptiste born in July 1804; and Charles in January 1812 but died at age 3 1/2 in September 1815--five children, two daughters and three sons, between 1791 and 1812.  Daughter Arthémise married into the Ramirez and Perron families.  One of Suliac Charles's sons also married. 

Oldest son Firmin Isidore married Azélie, also called Julia, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph LeBlanc and Julie Trahan, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in December 1812.  Their children, born at Manchac, included Firmin, fils in August 1815; Sosthène in May 1818; Julia in February 1820; Marie Azéline in October 1821; and Villeneuve, also called Louis Villeneuve, in May 1823--five children, three sons and two daughters, between 1815 and 1823.  Firmin Isidore died in East Baton Rouge Parish in September 1834.  The Baton Rouge priest who recorded the burial said that Firmin was age 38 when he died.  He was 42.  Neither of his daughters seems to have married, but two of his sons did.

Oldest son Firmin, fils likely married Carmélite Marand, Meranda, Miraine, Miranda, Mirande, or Mirana, place and unrecorded, but it probably was in the mid- or late 1830s.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included Augustus in September 1838; Francis Lewis in September 1842; Firmin III in May 1845; Isabella in December 1852; and Martha Odilia in May 1855--five children, three sons and two daughters, between 1838 and 1855.  None of Firmin, fils's children married by 1870. 

Firmin Isodore's third and youngest son Villeneuve married Rose Pauline, also called Dulcinée, daughter of fellow Acadian Dominique Broussard and his Creole wife Eléonore Tullier, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in February 1848.  They lived on the west side of the river near the boundary between West Baton Rouge and Iberville parishes.  Their children, born there, included Timon Eléodore in April 1849; Helvina in September 1850 but, called Elvina, died at age 8 (the recording priest said 7) in September 1858; Charles Louis born in October 1852 but, called Louis, died at age 3 1/2 (the recording priest said 3) in January 1856; Evariste Brunou born in October 1854; and Joseph Émille in July 1861--five children, four sons and a daughter, between 1849 and 1861.  None of Villeneuve's children married by 1870. 

Claude's eighth son Malo-Bénoni, by second wife Anne Moyse, followed his family to New Orleans, Bayou des Écores, and Manchac, where he married Marguerite, 20-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Ambroise Dupuis and Anne Theriot, in July 1797.  Marguerite, a native of St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo, also had come to Louisiana in 1785 aboard La Ville d'Archangel.  Their children, born on the river, included Anne-Marie in May 1798; Isabelle in c1800 and baptized at age 1 in August 1801; Henriette born in July 1802 but died at Manchac at age 11 in July 1813; Rosalie born in Ocotober 1804; Angèl died at Manchac the day after his birth in October 1806; and Jean, also called Jean Baptiste, born in St. James Parish in January 1810--six children, four daughters and two sons, between 1798 and 1810.  Daughter Rosalie married into the Landry family.  One of Malo Bénoni's sons also married. 

Younger son Jean Baptiste married Jeuly Augustine, called Augustine, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Trahan and his Creole wife Adèle Reynaud, at the Baton Rouge church in April 1834.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included Pauline Mary Irma in January 1835; and Jean Baptiste, fils in August 1836.  Jean Baptiste, père may have died near Baton Rouge in February 1844.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Jean Baptiste died at "age 35 yrs."  This Jean Baptiste would have been age 34.  Neither of his children married by 1870. 

Claude's tenth son Pierre-Claude, by second wife Anne Moyse, followed his family to New Orleans, Bayou des Écores, and Manchac, where he married Anne-Marie or Marie-Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians René Landry and Marguerite Babin and widow of Simon-François Daigre, in August 1797.  Anne-Marie, a native of St.-Servan-sur-Mer, also had come to Louisiana in 1785 aboard La Ville d'Archangel.  Their children, born at Manchac, included François in c1798 and baptized, age 1 1/2, in July 1800; Pierre born in c1802 and baptized, age 8 months, in January 1803; Marie-Adélaïde or -Adeline, called Adeline, born in September 1803; and Marie Rosalie in c1809--four children, two sons and two daughters, between 1798 and 1809.  Pierre Claude died at Manchac in June 1810, age 39.  Daughters Marie Rosalie and Adeline married into the Courfaut and Hébert families.  One of Pierre Claude's sons also married.

Younger son Pierre may have been the Pierre Guidry who married Mary Josep or Josey probably at Baton Rouge, date unrecorded.  Their children, born there, included Éloi, also called Édouard and Edward; and Élouar, birth dates and places unrecorded.  One of them married and remained on the river.

Son Éloi or Édouard married Crisia, Kesia, Kessaia, Kisaih, Kisio, Kisarie, Kesia, Kesiah, or Keziahr, also called Anna, daughter of Joseph Gary, Gorey, Guarig, Guioury, Gury, Guroy, Guru, Perkins, or Tory and Phonie Ponkins, at the Baton Rouge church in November 1838.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Manuel baptized at the Baton Rouge church, age unrecorded, in November 1839; Félix born in September 1840; twins Auguste and Célestine in September 1842; Marie Françoise Augustine in October 1845; Clothilde Cécelia in June 1848; Éloi, fils baptized at age 4 months in August 1850 but died two weeks after his baptism; Arthémise born in June 1854; Julienne Agnès in May 1855; Marcelline Adèle Angéline in March 1858; a second Éloi, fils near Brusly in September 1861; ...  Daughter Mary F. A. married into the Dumouil family by 1870.  One of Éloi/Édouard's sons also married by then.

Second son Félix married Mary, daughter of Charles Lange and Felicity Follow, at the Baton Rouge church in January 1870. ...

Claude's eleventh and youngest son Olivier, by second wife Anne Moyse, followed his family to New Orleans, Bayou des Écores, and Manchac, but he did not settle there.  In the 1790s, he followed his older brothers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Henriette, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Bergeron and Marie Babin of Cabahannocer on the river, at Assumption in August 1800.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary of what became Ascension and Assumption parishes before moving down bayou to Lafourche Interior Parish in the early 1810s.  Their children, born there, included Marcellite in June 1801; Édouard baptized, age unrecorded, in March 1804; Marie Julienne born in March 1805; Valmond in February 1807; Joseph in June 1808; Céleste in June 1809; Ludgère or Ulgère, also called Léandre and Legendre, in March 1811; Marcellin in c1814; Azéline in August 1817; Henriette Mélanie in December 1819; Geneviève Olimpie or Olymphe in January 1823; and Moyse or Moïse in December 1824--a dozen children, five daughters and seven sons, between 1801 and 1824.  Daughters Marcellite, Marie Julienne, Céleste, Azéline, Geneviève Olymphe, and Henriette Mélanie married into the Charpentier, Furet or Yuvet, Autin, Danos, Barrios, and Plaisance families.  Four of Olivier's sons also married, and one of them settled in Terrebonne Parish. 

Third son Joseph married Charlotte, 20-year-old daughter of Michel Morvant and Catherine Rome, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in April 1838.  Son Joseph Ulisse or Ulysse was born on the Lafourche in January 1839 and did not marry by 1870. 

Olivier's fourth son Ludgère or Ulgère, married, at age 23, Césaire, 19-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Savoie and Marie Françoise Bergeron, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in April 1834.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Ulgère Valère, called Valère, in January 1835; Lucien in October 1836; Ulysse Auguste in May 1838; Émelina, perhaps also called Ermine, in January 1840; Mélanie Amelia or Amélie, called Amélie, in February 1842[sic]; Baptist or Baptiste Donatien Amédée in April 1842[sic]; François Basile in June 1843; Adrien Félicien in July 1844; Urasie Caroline in September 1845; Mélasie probably in the 1840s; Justinien Marcellin in February 1847; Lina Clémence in March 1848; Théotiste Élise in June 1849; Cyprien near Lockport in February 1851; Joseph in November 1852; Ozite Carmélite near Raceland in June 1855; Marie Mirthée in March 1857; Florestable Robert in April 1863; ...  Daughters Ermine, Amélie, Mélasie, and Lina married into the Autin, Mire, and Duet families, including Autin brothers, and perhaps into the Wilkins family as well, by 1870.  Four of Ludgère's sons also married by then.  A surprising number of his children married first cousins. 

Oldest son Valère married first cousin Evéline, Evélite, Evelia, or Émelie, daughter of George Autin and his Acadian wife Céleste Guidry, his uncle and aunt, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in April 1855; Valère's sister Lina married Eveline's brother Marcellin.  Valère and Eveline settled near Raceland and then near Lockport.  Their children, born there, included Orestile in June 1857; Marie Céliste in January 1861; Laurence Adrien Valase in August 1862; Raphaël in July 1869; ...

Ludgère's second son Lucien married first cousin Marguerite Azéline, daughter of fellow Acadian Marcellin Guidry and his Creole wife Telcide Danos, his uncle and aunt, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in May 1855.  Their children, born near Raceland, included Eve Lorenza in November 1857; Olympe Marceline in April 1858; Valentine in February 1861; ...

Ludgère's third son Ulysse Auguste married first cousin Mélicère, another daughter George Autin and Céleste Guidry, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in April 1859.  They settled near Raceland and then near Lockport.  Their children, born there, included Olivier Donatien in January 1860; Perrine Clémence in December 1860; Pierre Ulysse in June 1862; and Paul Eugène in March 1864--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1860 and 1864.  A "Petition for family meeting" in Ulysse's name, calling his wife Mélicère Autin and listing his children--Olivier and Paul, but not Perrine and Pierre--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in August 1866.  Ulysse would have been age 28 that year. 

Ludgère's sixth son Adrien Félicien may have married Pauline Danos in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in May 1869. ...

Olivier's fifth son Marcellin, married, at age 20, Telcide, Elside, Delade, or Félicie, 17-year-old daughter of Guillaume Danos and Marguerite D'Elmer of Iberville Parish, at the Thibodauxville church in June 1834; the recording priest described Marcellin as a resident of Terrebonne Parish.  They settled near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Terrebonne parishes.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Marcellin in November 1835; Marguerite Azéline in January 1839; Paul in c1842; Alexis Napoléon, called Napoléon, in January 1848; Cécile in April 1852; and Henriette Marceline in January 1855--six children, three sons and three daughters, between 1835 and 1855.  Daughters Marguerite and Cécile married into the Guidry and Cantrelle families by 1870, one of them to a first cousin.  Marcellin's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Joseph Marcellin married Marie Émilie, called Émilie, daughter of Jean Bruce, Bruse, or Bruze and Marie Richoux, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in May 1858.  They settled near Raceland and then near Lockport.  Their children, born there, included Jean Joseph in March 1859; Louis François in October 1860; Émilie Clémence in August 1862; Eugène Marcellin in March 1864; Joseph, fils in September 1870; ...

Marcellin's second son Paul married 17-year-old Eve, another daughter of Jean Bruce and Marie Richoux, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in May 1863.  Their children, born near Lockport, included Louisa Marguerite in May 1864; Marie Pauline in July 1866; ... 

Marcellin's third and youngest son Napoléon married Delphine, daughter of André Cheramie and Clémentine Sevin, and in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in January 1868.  They settled near Lockport.  Their son Paul Gratien was born there in November 1868; ... 

Olivier's sixth and youngest son Moïse married Henriette Adèla, daughter of Charles Sevin and his Acadian wife Henriette Savoie, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in July 1843.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joseph Moïse in May 1844; Prosper Onésippe in June 1846; Seran Félicien near Lockport in March 1852; Edmond Olivier near Raceland in November 1853; Charles Moïse in January 1856; Gratien Auguste in January 1858; and Henriette Azélie in November 1860.  Moïse likely remarried to Laiza or Lizzy Wilton, "widow Edmond Rouvert," in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in January 1863.  They settled near Lockport.  Their children, born there, included Johnson Lee in June 1864; Charles died "at age 19 days" in July 1869; ...  None of Moïse's children married by 1870. 

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During the early 1790s, a Guédry who was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in Canada settled on the western prairies among his many cousins and created a vigorous family line there.  If he traveled to the colony via the Great Lakes and the upper Mississippi, he would have been one of the few Acadians to reach Spanish Louisiana via that route:

Olivier dit Canada (c1764-?) à Pierre dit Grivois dit Labine à Claude dit Grivois dit LaVerdure Guidry

Olivier, fourth son of Jean, also called Augustin, Guédry and Marguerite Picot and nephew of Charles of Manchac, born at Boston, Massachusetts (some sources say Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but it likely was Boston), in c1764, was taken by his family to Canada soon after his birth.  They were counted at Québec in 1766 and in the Acadian enclave at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan north of Montréal in 1767, but Olivier did not remain there.  After he came of age, he headed south.  He first appears in Louisiana records in January 1793, when, at age 29, he married Marie-Félicité, called Félicité, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Aucoin and his second wife Élisabeth Duhon and widow of Joseph Faulk, at Attakapas.  Félicité, a native of Bangor, Belle-Île-en-Mer, France, had come to Louisiana in 1785 on one of the Seven Ships with her widowed mother and six sisters.  She and Olivier settled at Grand Prairie on the upper Vermilion, where his neighbors called him "Canada" to distinguish him from Guidry cousins with the same given name.  His and Félicité's children, born on the upper Vermilion, included Susanne dite Suzette in January 1794; Pierre, also called Firmin, in December 1796; Paul, also called Hippolyte, in March 1798; Olivier, fils in April 1800; Alexandre on Easter Sunday 1803; and Charles in November 1805--six children, a daughter and five sons, between 1794 and 1805.  Daughter Suzette married into the Trahan family.  Canada's five sons also married and settled on the prairies, and most of them retained their father's dit

Oldest son Pierre dit Canada, also called Firmin, married Marie Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Claude Broussard dit Beausoleil and his second wife Catherine Trahan, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in December 1817.  They settled on the upper Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included Étienne in March 1819 but, called Pierre, fils, died at age 1 year, 15 days in March 1820; Joseph Leyssin or Lessin born in October 1820; twins Joseph and Joséphine, also called Marie Joséphine, in November 1823; Treville baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 1 1/2 months[sic], in October 1825; and Émile, perhaps Treville's twin, born in 1825 and baptized at age 8 months in April 1826[sic]Pierre dit Canada remarried to cousin Juliènne, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph dit Cadiz Sonnier and Juliènne Guidry, in a civil ceremony at the home of Judge Herbert Eastin at Vermilionville in May 1825, and sanctified the marriage at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in May 1827; wife Juliènne's mother was a granddaughter of Pierre Guidry of Grand Pointe.  Her and Pierre dit Canada's children, born on the upper Vermilion, included Orephine, also called Alphina, in 1829 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 10 months, in January 1830; Élisa or Éliza baptized at age 3 months in May 1831; Sevigné, a son, baptized at age 3 months in August 1833; and Olephine born probably in the early 1830s--10 children, six sons and four daughters, including perhaps two sets of twins, by two wives, between 1819 and the early 1830s.  Pierre dit Canada may have owned 1,800 head of cattle on the Calcasieu prairie in 1850.  Daughters Marie Joséphine, Alphina, Éliza, and Olephine, by both wives, married into the Trahan, Breaux, Fontenot, and Istre families.  Four of Pierre dit Canada's sons also married and settled on the prairies. 

Third son Joseph, by first wife Marie Joséphine Broussard, married cousin and stepsister Émilie, also called Carmélite, 17-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph dit Cadiz Sonnier and Juliènne Guidry, at the Vermilionville church in April 1842.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Joseph, fils in March 1844; a child, name and age unrecorded, perhaps theirs, died in August 1847; Anathalia born in November 1850; Pierre in September 1852; Joséphine in November 1855; and Alcide in August 1857--six children, at least three sons and two daughters, between 1844 and 1857.  None of Joseph's children married by 1870. 

Pierre dit Canada's fourth son Treville, by first wife Marie Joséphine Broussard, married Marie Léontine, called Léontine, daughter of Thomas Stout, Stouds, or Stutes and his Acadian wife Carmélite Benoit, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in June 1848, and sanctified the marriage at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in July 1850.  They settled probably near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Sevigné in July 1849; Émile le jeune in November 1850; Pierre Dupréville in February 1855; Joseph Edville in May 1856; Émelie in April 1859; Carmélite in October 1861; Octavie in December 1864; ...  They were living near Church Point, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in the late 1860s.  None of Treville's daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did.

Oldest son Joseph Sevigné married Zeliènne Harrington in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in April 1869. ... They settled in Lafayette Parish. 

Pierre dit Canada's fifth son Émile, by first wife Marie Joséphine Broussard, married Marie Louise or Éloise, perhaps also called Marie Mélanie, daughter of Joseph Istre, fils and Marcellite Courville, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in April 1846.  They settled probably near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Joséphine in March 1849; Émile, fils in April 1851; Marcellite in October 1854; and Joseph Clémile in July 1856--four children, two daughters and two sons, between 1849 and 1856.  None of Émile's children married by 1870. 

Pierre dit Canada's sixth and youngest son Sevigné, by second wife Juliènne Sonnier, married first cousin Palmyre, also called Epalmyre and Patricia, daughter of Olivier dit Canada Guidry, fils and his Creole wife Marie Meaux, his uncle and aunt, at the Vermilionville church in June 1851.  They settled near Church Point.  Their children, born there, included Marie Coralie in August 1853; Jean in September 1854 but died the following January; Azéma born in November 1855; Juliènne Donatille in October 1857; Emar in March 1861; Mathilde in March 1863; Éliza in January 1864; Fernes in December 1870; ...  None of Sevigné's children married by 1870. 

Olivier dit Canada's second son Paul, also called Hippolyte, married Scholastique Claire, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Breaux and Marie Madeleine Girouard of Vermilion, at the St. Martinville church in August 1817.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Hippolyte, fils, also called Hippolyte C., in August 1818; and Joseph, also called Joseph C. and Joc., in March 1820.  Hippolyte may have owned 3,600 head of cattle on the Calcasieu prairie in 1850.  Both of his sons married. 

Older son Hippolyte, fils, also called Hippolyte C., married Luce, Lucie, or Lucy Camasac, Cammarsac, or Comassat, daughter of Martin Lebleu and Éloise Reon, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in February 1838.  They settled probably near Carencro before moving to Calcasieu Parish.  Their children, born there, included Scholastique in September 1839; Martin in September 1841; Louise in August 1843; Hippolyte Omer, perhaps called Omer, in November 1846; Luce "in Calcasieu" in July 1850; Odilla in January 1852; Louisa in January 1856; and Léonie Victoria in December 1859--eight children, six daughters and two sons, between 1839 and 1859.  Hippolyte, fils's succession, calling his wife Luce Lebleu, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in August 1863.  He would have been age 45 that year.  If this was a post-mortem succession, one wonders if his death was war-related.  Daughters ... married into the Sittig and Trahan families by 1870.  Both of Hippolyte, fils's sons also married by then and settled on the prairies. 

During the War of 1861-65, older son Martin may have served as a corporal in Company K of the 3rd (Harrison's) Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, raised in St. Landry Parish, which fought in northern Louisiana, and as a private in Company D of the 7th Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, also raised in St. Landry Parish, which fought in Louisiana, especially against prairie Jayhawkers.  Martin likely married cousin Amelia, called Melia, Guidry in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in April 1865.  They settled near Church Point.  She evidently gave him no children.  Her succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in June 1868.  Martin remarried to Marie Azéma, called Azéma, daughter of fellow Acadians Augustin Broussard and Anastasie Comeaux, at the Church Point church, St. Landry Parish, in August 1868. ...  According to his Confederate veteran's monument above his tomb in the St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery, Rayne, in Acadia Parish, his wife died in July 1927, and Martin died in 1940, age 99.  One wonders how many children they had. 

Hippolyte, fils's younger son Omer likely married Sylvanie Stout in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in July 1865.  Their son Hippolyte le jeune was born near Church Point in June 1866.  Omer's succession, naming his wife and calling him Homère, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in August 1867.  He would have been age 21 that year.  Another succession, naming his wife and calling him Omer, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in May 1868, so he must have owned property in both civil parishes. 

Paul's younger son Joseph C., also called Joc., married Clémentine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph LeBlanc and Eurasie Broussard, probably civilly in the late 1830s, and sanctified the marriage at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in July 1850.  They settled probably near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Élisabeth in 1839 and baptized at age 8 1/2 months March 1840; Joseph, also Joseph C., fils, born in June 1841; Oliva in March 1845; Marie Aurelia in January 1847; a child, name and age unrecorded, perhaps theirs, died in August 1847 (was this Marie Aurelia?); Amélie born in February 1850; Thélésphore, also called Jean Télésphore, in December 1852; Hippolyte Onésiphore in February 1855; Françoise Belzire in March 1857; Sylvanie in February 1859; Alexandre Martin in September 1860; ...  Daughter ... may have married a LeBlanc cousin by 1870.  Two of Joseph C.'s sons also married by then.

Oldest son Joseph C., fils married Marie Odile, called Odile, daughter of Lessin Simon and his Acadian wife Claire Landry, at the Grand Coteau church in February 1862.  They settled near Church Point.  Their children, born there, included Joseph III in April 1863; Jean Lenin in March 1866; Pierre Geneus in December 1867; Adam in August 1869; ... 

Joseph C., père's second son Jean Télésphore married Noémi, daughter of Maximilien Lagrange and Marguerite Quebedeaux, at the Church Point church in June 1870. ...

Olivier dit Canada's third son Olivier dit Canada, fils married Marie, 16-year-old daughter of Pierre Meaux and his Acadian wife Modeste Hébert, at the Grand Coteau church in June 1821.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Marie Elmire in November 1823 but died at age 2 in October 1825; Olivier III baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 1 1/2 months, in October 1826; Geneus, Genius, or Genus dit Canada, born in April 1828; Oliva in June 1830; Ernesse, Erneste, or Ernest dit Canada in July 1832; Palmire baptized at age 1 1/2 months in November 1834; twins Alexandre dit Canada le jeune and Ordalie baptized at age 40 days in June 1837; and Adonalise born in July 1839.  A succession for wife Marie, probably post-mortem, naming her husband, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in March 1850.  Olivier dit Canada, fils, called a widower in the marriage record, evidently remarried, at age 43, to cousin Élisa or Élisabeth, 22-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Sonnier and Juliènne Guidry, at the Vermilionville church in April 1843; the priest who recorded the marriage did not give the couples' parents' names.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Louis in August 1847; Antoine in November 1849; Joseph Stevins in August 1851; Marie Emma in December 1853; Limas in March 1856; and Lismène in July 1858--15 children, eight daughters and seven sons, by two wives, between 1823 and 1858.  Daughters ..., by his first wife, married into the Boudreaux, Chiasson, and Guidry families by 1870.  Three of Olivier dit Canada, fils's sons also married by then, two of them to first cousins. 

Second son Geneus, Genius, or Genus dit Canada married cousin Euphémie, daughter of fellow Acadians Leufroi Boudreaux and Marie Hébert, at the Vermilionville church in August 1848; Genus's sister Oliva married Euphémie's brother Ursin.  Genus and Euphémie's children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Marie in December 1850 but died at age 3 1/2 in October 1854; Marguerite born in December 1855 but died at age 2 1/2 (the recording priest said 4) in November 1858; Pierre Geneas born in October 1857; and Paul in June 1859--four children, two daughters and two sons, between 1850 and 1859.  Genus's succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in October 1859.  He would have been age 31 that year.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Olivier dit Canada, fils's third son Ernest dit Canada married first cousin Marie Célestine, called Célestine, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre dit Canada Guidry l'aîné and his Creole wife Marie Céleste Calais, his uncle and aunt, at the St. Martinville church in June 1854.  They settled on the upper Teche between Breaux Bridge and Arnaudville.  Their children, born there, included Ernestine in January 1855; Célestine in June 1856; Élisée in March 1858; Élize in December 1859; Eléonore in August 1862; ...  Ernest's succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in July 1867.  He would have been age 35 that year.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Olivier dit Canada, fils's fourth and youngest son Alexandre dit Canada le jeune, a twin, married first cousin Emérante, another daughter of Alexandre dit Canada Guidry l'aîné and Marie Céleste Calais, at the Vermilionville church in June 1859.  They lived near Arnaudville on upper Bayou Teche.  Their children, born there, included Madeleine in April 1862; Marie Adonatile in October 1864; Adolphe in November 1869; ... 

Olivier dit Canada, père's fourth son Alexandre dit Canada married Marie Céleste, called Céleste and perhaps also Éliza, daughter of Jean Baptiste Calais and his Acadian wife Madeleine Semere, at the St. Martinville church in January 1827.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Alexandre, fils in December 1827; Jean Baptiste Armas or Darmas, called Darmas, in January 1830; Alphred or Alfred in March 1831; Onésime Adras in July 1832; Césaire Evariste in September 1833 but died at age 1 1/2 in February 1835; Eugène born in 1835 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 1 1/2, in November 1836; Marie Célestine, called Célestine, born in November 1836; Étienne D'Assa in August 1839 (a succession was filed in his name at the St. Martinville courthouse in March 1868); Hippolyte le jeune born in August 1840; Emérante in September 1841; Azélie in January 1842; and a son, name unrecorded, perhaps theirs, born in c1843, died at age 1 in July 1844.  A succession, perhaps post-mortem, for wife Céleste, naming her husband, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in March 1846.  Another succession for wife Céleste, who the parish clerk called Éliza, naming her husband, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in January 1847.  Alexandre dit Canada, at age 52, remarried to cousin Céleste or Célestine, daughter of Onésime Patin and his Acadian wife Adélaïde Guidry and widow of Charles Dupuy, at the St. Martinville church in February 1856.  They settled near Breaux Bridge.  Their children, born there, included Marie Ophelia in August 1857; Célanie in December 1858; and Céranie in December 1859--15 children, nine sons and six daughters, by two wives, between 1827 and 1859.  Daughters ..., from his first wife, married into the Guidry, Hébert, and Zeringue families, including two Guidry brothers who also were their first cousins, by 1870.  Four of Alexandre's sons also married by then and settled on the prairies. 

Second son Jean Baptiste Armas or Darmas, by first wife Marie Céleste Calais, married cousin Rose Basilise, called Basilise, 16-year-old daughter of Honoré Zeringue and his Acadian wife ___ Guidry, at the Breaux Bridge church, St. Martin Parish, in December 1850.  Their children, born in  St. Martin Parish, included Onésiphore in May 1855 but may have died near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, age 1, in June 1856; and Célanie born near Breaux Bridge in August 1857.  Jean Baptiste Armas/Darmas remarried to Célestine, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Dupuy and his Creole wife Céleste Patin and widow of Cyrille Huval, at the Breaux Bridge church in March 1863.  A succession for Joseph Desma Guidry was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in August 1866.  One wonders if this was Jean Baptiste Armas/Darmas, son of Alexandre dit Canada, who would have been age 36 that year.  Neither of his children married by 1870. 

Alexandre dit Canada's third son Alfred, by first wife Marie Céleste Calais, married cousin Ernestine, another daughter of Charles Dupuy and Céleste Patin, at the St. Martinville church in June 1855; a few months later, Ernestine became Alfred's stepsister when his father married her mother; Alfred and Ernestine also were cousins because her mother was a Guidry.  They settled near Breaux Bridge.  Their children, born there, included Eugène in September 1856; Emma in February 1859; and Azéma in January 1862--three children, a son and two daughters, between 1856 and 1862.  Alfred died in St. Martin Parish in February 1863, age 31.  His succession, naming his wife, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse the following July.  Was his death war-related?  None of his children married by 1870. 

Alexandre dit Canada's fourth son Onésime Adras, by first wife Marie Céleste Calais, married first cousin Ordalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier dit Canada Guidry, fils and Marie Meaux, his uncle and aunt, at the Vermilionville church in September 1854.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Onésime Adras, fils in February 1856; and Alexandre le jeune in January 1858.  Onésime remarried to Marie Léonia, daughter of Anglo American Charles Greenwell, at the Breaux Bridge church, St. Martin Parish, in November 1866. ... 

Alexandre dit Canada's eighth and youngest son Hippolyte le jeune, by first wife Marie Céleste Calais, married Alexandrine, daughter of Alexandre Lormand or Normand and his Acadian wife Scholastique Blanchard and widow of Pierre Olmes, at the Breaux Bridge church in January 1864.  Their son Joseph Hippolyte was born near Arnaudville, probably posthumously, in October 1864.  Hippolyte le jeune seems to have died in April 1864.  The Breaux Bridge priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Hypolite, as he called him, died "at age 22 yrs."  Hippolyte le jeune would have been age 23.  His succession, calling his wife Alexandrine Normand, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in March 1865.  Was his death war-related? 

Olivier dit Canada, père's fifth and youngest son Charles dit Canada married Caroline, daughter of fellow Acadians Célestin Landry and Marguerite Granger, at the Vermilionville church in December 1828.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included a child, name unrecorded, "privately baptized," died 7 hours after birth in October 1829; Lea born in April 1831; Ofphila, a son, baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 3 months, in September 1833; Marguerite Félicia born in September 1835; Marie Zélima in August 1837; Susanne Euphroysie baptized at age 4 months in August 1840; Élisa born in June 1843 or 1844; Aurelia in November 1846; Belzire in February 1849; and Théovil or Théoville in April 1851--10 children, at least seven daughters and two sons, between 1829 and 1851.  Daughters ... married into the Abshire, Bernard, Harrington, and LeBlanc families by 1870.  Charles dit Canada's two sons also married by then.

Older son Ofphila married fellow Acadian Élisa Leger, place and date unrecorded.  They settled in Lafayette Parish and were living near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, by the late 1850s.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Julien in April 1852; Marguerite in September 1853; Marie in August 1855; and Joséphine in August 1859--four children, a son and three daughters, between 1852 and 1859.  None of Ofphila's children married by 1870. 

Charles dit Canada's younger son Théoville likely married Marreliènne Dubois in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in April 1870. ...

Guilbeau

Pierre Guilbeau, a farmer born in France in c1639, reached Acadia by c1668, the year he married Catherine, daughter of Jean Thériot and Perrine Rau at Port-Royal, towards the end of the 16-year English occupation Between 1669 and 1685, at Port-Royal, Catherine gave Pierre seven children, five daughters and two sons.  Pierre died at Port-Royal in December 1703, in his mid-60s.  His five daughters married into the Blanchard, Dugas, Granger, and Landry families.  Only his younger son married, into the Bourg family.  In 1755, most of Pierre's descendants were still at Port-Royal, which the British had renamed Annapolis Royal in October 1710.  Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this small family to the winds. 

In the fall of 1755, the British deported Joseph Guilbeau le jeune from Annapolis Royal to South Carolina, but he did not remain there.  He may have been among the exiles in Georgia and South Carolina who were encouraged by those colonies' governors to return to greater Acadia by boat in the spring of 1756.  Not all of them made it back to their homeland.  By August 1756, the young Gilboa, as colonial officials called him, was counted at Eastchester, Westchester County, New York.  He evidently moved from New York to Halifax after February 1763.  One wonders who was the Guillebeau with a wife and eight children counted by colonial authorities in South Carolina in August 1763. 

In December 1755, the British at Annapolis Royal forced two Guilbeau brothers, Alexandre and another Joseph, and their families, along with dozens of other exiles, aboard the transport Pembroke, destined for North Carolina.  Soon after the ship left Goat Island in the lower Annapolis River, high winds in the lower Bay of Fundy separated the Pembroke from the other transports filled with Annapolis-valley Acadians.  The exiles aboard the ship, led by Charles Belliveau, a pilot, and including the Guilbeau brothers, overwhelmed the officers and crew of the Pembroke, who numbered only eight, seized the vessel, sailed it to Baie Ste.-Marie on the western shore of Nova Scotia, hid there for nearly a month, and, in January 1756, sailed across the Bay of Fundy to the mouth of Rivière St.-Jean.  There, in early February, they were discovered by a boatload of British soldiers and sailors disguised as French troops.  The Guilbeaus and the others managed to drive off the British force, burn the Pembroke, and make their way with the ship's officers and crew to the lower Rivière St.-Jean settlement of Ste.-Anne-du-Pay-Bas, today's Fredericton, New Brunswick, where they spent the rest of the winter.  One of the Guilbeaus, a daughter of Pierre, married into the Godin family on the river and remained there, with tragic consequence. 

From Rivière St.-Jean, brother Joseph and his family sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, and he may even have participated in the Acadian resistance there.  By 1760, they had moved on to Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, where Joseph, afterward called L'Officier, served as a lieutenant in the post's militia.  On 24 October 1760, on the eve of the stronghold's formal surrender, French officers counted 1,003 exiles still at Restigouche, among them two Guilbeau families.  After the counting, Joseph Guilbeau and his family either fled to or were led down the coast to Nipisiguit, where they were counted in 1761.  To relieve overcrowding in the refugee camp, the British sent some of the exiles, including the Guilbeaus, to prison compounds in Nova Scotia, where they were held for the rest of the war.  Joseph Guilbeau dit L'Officier and his family appeared on repatriation list at Halifax in August 1763. 

When food ran short at Ste.-Anne-du-Pay-Bas in the summer of 1756, Alexandre Guilbeau took his family not to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore but up the St.-Jean portage to Canada.  His wife died at Québec in December 1757, age 42, victim, perhaps, of the smallpox epidemic that killed hundreds of exiles in and around the Canadian capital between the summer of 1757 and the spring of 1758.  Alexandre remarried to a Breau widow at St.-Pierre-les-Becquets below Trois-Rivières in November 1759 and died at St.-Pierre-de-Sorel, today's Sorel, between Trois-Rivières and Montréal, in May 1776, in his late 60s.  Evidently, his older brother Pierre had escaped the roundup at Annapolis Royal in 1755 and took his family to Canada, where he died at St.-Charles de Bellechasse on the river below Québec in April 1758, age 54, perhaps of smallpox.  Members of Alexandre and Pierre's oldest brother Charles, fils's family also had escaped the British at Annapolis Royal and fled to Canada.  Charles, fils's daughters settled near their uncle Alexadnre at St.-Pierre-les-Bequets, while their brother, Joseph le jeune, followed Guilbeau kinsmen from Halifax to Spanish Louisiana.  Typical of most, if not all, Acadian families, these Acadiennes of Canada lost touch with their Cadien cousins hundreds of miles away, and until the Acadian reunions of the twentieth century, may even have forgotten the others existed. 

In late 1758, after the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg on Île Royale, the British rounded up most of the Acadians on the Maritime islands and deported them to France.  Guilbeaus may have been among them.  Pierre, son of René Guilbeau and Marie-Anne Melaize, was born at the naval port of Rochefort on the Bay of Biscay in October 1759.  Marie-Jeanne Guilbeau died at Cherbourg, Normandy, in November 1763, age 62.  Pierre-François Guilbeau died at La Rochelle near Rochefort in June 1780, age 51.  One wonders if they were descendants of Pierre Guilbeau and Catherine Thériot of Annapolis Royal or French members of the family.  

In the winter of 1758-59, after subduing the Maritime islands, British forces invaded the lower Rivière St.-Jean valley.  In early 1759, New-English rangers fell on Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas and killed or captured the refugees there who could not flee.  Among the victims of the bloody raid were Marguerite Guilbeau, wife of militia officer Michel Godin dit Bellefontaine, and their infant son, who, the Acadians insisted, the rangers killed and scalped. 

Acadians being held in Nova Scotia at war's end faced a hard dilemma.  The Treaty of Paris of February 1763 stipulated in its Article IV that persons dispersed by the war had 18 months to return to their respective territories.  However, British authorities refused to allow any of the Acadian prisoners in the region to return to their former lands as proprietors.  If Acadians chose to remain in, or return to, Nova Scotia, they could live only in small family groups in previously unsettled areas or work for low wages on former Acadian lands now owned by New-English "planters."  If they stayed, they must also take the hated oath of allegiance to the new British king, George III, without reservation.  They would also have to take the oath if they joined their cousins in Canada.  After all they had suffered on the question of the oath, few self-respecting Acadians would consent to take it if it could be avoided.  Some Nova Scotia exiles, including a Guilbeau, chose to relocate to French-controlled Île Miquelon.  Others considered going to French St.-Domingue, where Acadian exiles in the seaboards colonies were going, or to the Illinois country, the west bank of which still belonged to France, or to French Louisiana, which, thanks to British control of Canada, was the only route possible to the Illinois country for Acadian exiles.  Whatever their choice, many refused to remain under British rule.  So they gathered up their money and their few possessions and prepared to leave their homeland.  Of the 600 exiles who left Halifax in late 1764 and early 1765 bound for Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, 10 were Guilbeaus. 

In 1764, a Guilbeau--Joseph dit L'Officier's son, Joseph, fils, a navigator--did not follow his family from Halifax to Cap-Français but chose to go, instead, to Île Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  His younger brother Basile-David, called David, joined him.  French officials counted Joseph Guilbeau, fils with at least five children on the island between 1765 and 1777.  In 1767, to relieve overcrowding on Miquelon and nearby Île St.-Pierre, French authorities, obeying a royal decree, transported hundreds of the fisher/habitants to France, but the Guilbeaus either were not among them or, more likely, went to France and promptly returned to Miquelon the following year with most of their fellow islanders.  In late 1778, during the American Revolution, after France joined the United States against its old redcoated rivals, British forces seized îles St.-Pierre and Miquelon and transported the Acadians there to France.  The Guilbeaus probably were among them.  Church records show them at La Rochelle as early as April 1779, when a daughter died in St.-Jean Parish.  The following September, another daughter died there a day after her birth, and another was born in St.-Jean Parish in May 1782.  The war ended in 1783.  The following year, after the British retroceded the Newfoundland islands to France, members of the family returned to Miquelon and moved on to nearby Île St.-Pierre.  Others remained in France.  It was perhaps from La Rochelle that an older son, Joesph III, now grown, left for Louisiana in the late 1780s or early 1790s.  If he had gone to the Spanish colony with hundreds of other Acadians in 1785, his name appears on none of the passenger lists of the Seven Ships expedition Meanwhile, Joseph, fils's younger brother David, who had followed him to Miquelon in 1764 and probably to France, married Victoire, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph-Nicolas Gauthier and Anne LeBlanc, on the fishery island in October 1783, probably after a second sojourn in France.  According to Bona Arsenault, Victoire gave David a son, Joseph le jeune, in 1784.  David worked either as a fisherman or a navigator and died in the sinking of the ship Batterie Verte off the village of Riantec, Morbihan, Brittany, France, in January 1804, in his early 50s. 

Guilbeaus settled early in Acadia, and they were among the earliest Acadians to find refuge in Louisiana.  Almost all of them came to the colony from Halifax via Cap-Français with the Broussards in February 1765.  Joseph Guilbeau dit L'Officier of Annapolis Royal, who signed the Dauterive Agreement with Joseph dit Beausoleil Broussard and six other leaders of the party in April, came to Louisiana not only with his wife and three unmarried children, a daughter and two sons, but also with a married son and three married daughters--an extended family of his own.  They followed the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche in April.  Even after Joseph dit L'Officier died in the epidemic that killed dozens of his fellow Acadians that summer and fall, his family remained on the western prairies, where two more of his sons married and created families of their own.  

Another member of the family who came to Louisiana in 1765 did not go to Bayou Teche with the Broussards.  A younger Joseph Guilbeau, nephew of Joseph dit L'Officier, settled at the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  The younger Joseph--Joseph le jeune--was either a widower or a bachelor in his mid-30s when he reached the colony.  He married, or perhaps remarried to, a fellow Acadian at Cabahannocer, but he and his wife had no children.  

In 1791, yet another Joseph Guilbeau, this one much younger than the other two, settled on the western prairies.  This Joseph, who came to Louisiana on his own probably from France, was a native of faraway Île Miquelon and a grandson of Joseph dit L'Officier by oldest son Joseph, fils.  Joseph III's line of the family also did not endure.  

Non-Acadian Guilbeaus came to Louisiana from France, but none of them produced large families.  Jean-Baptiste Guilbeau of Lorient, France, came to Louisiana in the late colonial period, married, and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  He and his French wife, whose mother was an Acadian LeBlanc, had at least one daughter who married and settled in Ascension Parish, but Jean-Baptiste does not seem to have fathered any sons.  One wonders if Jean-Baptiste was descended from an Acadian Guilbeau who had remained in France in 1785.  Foreign Frenchmen with similar-sounding surnames came to New Orleans during the antebellum period, but few of them stayed.  One of them, François, married and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche and fathered at least one son.  The overwhelming majority of the Guilbeaus of South Louisiana, however, spring from Joseph dit L'Officier of Annapolis Royal and three of his sons.  

Judging by the number of slaves they owned during the late antebellum period, some Guilbeaus lived comfortably on their farms, vacheries, and plantations on the western prairies.  One of them, in fact, became a "great planter."  In 1850, Placide Guilbeau, père of Lafayette Parish owned 49 slaves on his western-district plantation.  His son Placide, fils held 10 slaves.  Cousin Osémé Guilbeau owned 45 slaves on two holdings in Lafayette and St. Martin parishes.  Marcelite Guilbeau held 17 slaves on her Lafayette Parish farm.  But most of the slave-holding Guilbeaus in the western parishes owned less than 10 slaves apiece that year.  A decade later, in 1860, Placide Guilbeau, père owned 86 slaves, living in 20 houses, on his Lafayette Parish plantation; only two other planters, one of them a former governor, owned more slaves in the parish that year.  Placide's son Placide, fils held 17 slaves, son Alphonse 12 slaves, and son Honoré Placide, a physician, 11 slaves.  Cousin Marcelite Guilbeau held 25 slaves on her plantation in 1860. 

Nearly three dozen Guilbeaus served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65, half a dozen of them in the Orleans Guard Battalion Louisiana Infantry, which lost heavily at Shiloh, Tennessee, in April 1862.  At least two members of the family died in Confederate service.  Joseph Sosthène, called Sosthène, of La Pointe, St. Martin Parish, served in Company D of the Orleans Guard Battalion with his younger brother Julien Charles.  Most of the battalion, as its name implies, hailed from the New Orleans area, but Company D, called the DeClouet Guards, was raised in St. Martin and St. Mary parishes.  Sosthène was age 24 and married when he enlisted; Julien C. was 22 and single.  Their company was attached to the Orleans Guard Battalion at New Orleans in March 1862 for 90 days service, and the battalion was promptly sent to reinforce General Pierre G. T. Beauregard's command at Corinth, Mississippi.  In April 1862, the battalion was heavily engaged in the Battle of Shiloh in nearby Tennessee.  Both of the Guilbeau brothers were wounded in the fight, Sosthène mortally.  He died at Jackson, Mississippi, a few weeks later and was probably buried there.  Cousin Lucien A. Guilbeau of Carencro, Lafayette Parish, was in his early 30s, married, a father, and the owner of three slaves when he enlisted in Company A of the Yellow Jackets Battalion Infantry, raised in nearby St. Martin Parish in April 1862.  Lucien joined the company at Camp Pratt near New Iberia in September.  Judging by his marriage status, his age, and the time of his enlistment, he probably was one of the many area conscripts compelled into Confederate service by the power of law.  He marched and fought with his unit in South Louisiana for the year that it remained in existence.  Confederate records are silent about Lucien's service during the rest of 1862 and most of 1863.  He was assigned to Company D of the Consolidated 18th Regiment and Yellow Jackets Battalion Infantry when his depleted battalion was consolidated with another unit full of his fellow Cadiens at Simmesport on the upper Atchafalaya in November 1863.  Son Louis Armand had been born the previous May, eight months after his father's enlistment, while Lucien's unit marched and fought not far from home.  In the first weeks of 1864, Lucien went on a 15-day furlough, "no reason given."  It would be the last time he saw his family.  During the Red River Campaign, Lucien fell mortally wounded at the Battle of Mansfield in April 1864, age 35.  His division commander and Carencro neighbor, General Alfred Mouton, also age 35, was killed in the same battle.

During the war, Federal armies marched three times through the Teche and upper Vermilion valleys and burned and pillaged many farms and plantations, some of them likely owned by Guilbeaus.  Thanks to these Federal incursions, emancipation came early to the area, with its resulting economic and social turmoil.  Confederate foraging parties and cutthroat Jayhawkers also plagued the area where Guilbeaus lived, adding to the family's misery.  ...

In Louisiana, the family's name also is spelled Gilbaux, Gilbeau, Guilbau, Guilbaud, Guilbaut, Guilbeaud, Guilbeault, Guilbeaux, Guileaut, Guillebau, Guillebaut, Guillebeau, Guillebeaut, Guillebeaux, Guillerben, Guillerbo.   They are one of the few Louisiana Acadian families with "eau" at the end of their surname who prefer not to use an "x."27

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Nearly all of the Guilbeaus who came to Louisiana reached New Orleans in late February 1765 from Halifax via Cap-Français.  In April, they followed the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche and remained on the prairies.  The exception was a nephew who came to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français in 1765 but settled on the river, not on the prairies.  Two decades later, a young grandson of the family's Louisiana progenitor reached the colony from France and settled on the prairies near his kinsmen: 

Joseph dit L'Officier (1710-1765) à Pierre Guilbeau

Joseph, fifth and youngest son of Charle Guilbeau, père and Anne Bourg, born at Port-Royal in February 1710, married Madeleine, daughter of Jacques Michel and Catherine Comeau, at Annapolis Royal, formerly Port-Royal, in January 1733.  Between 1733 and 1752, Madeleine gave Joseph nine children there:  Marie born in c1733; Joseph, fils in c1735; Charles in c1736; Anne in c1739; Rosalie in c1741; Marguerite in c1743; Félicité in c1745; François in c1749; and Basile-David, called David, in c1752.  In the autumn of 1755, the British placed Joseph and most of his family, along with older brother Alexandre, his family, and dozens of other Annapolis-valley Acadians, aboard the transport Pembroke, bound for North Carolina.  It did not go there.  After the ship's destruction in February 1756, the Guilbeaus and other Pembroke passengers sought refuge at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas on lower Rivière St.-Jean.  Madeleine gave Joseph another son, Jean, born that year--10 children, five daughters and five sons, between 1733 and 1756.  The following spring, Joseph took his family not to Canada via the St.-Jean portage, where his older brother Alexandre and his family had gone, but to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  By 1760, Joseph and his family had moved up to the French stronghold of Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, also a major Acadian refuge, where Joseph was appointed a lieutenant in the Acadian militia (perhaps the origin of his unusual dit, L'Officier).  Daughter Anne married into the Babineau family at Restigouche in February 1760.  Second son Charles also married there that year.  In late June 1760, a British naval force from Louisbourg attacked the French stronghold.  After a spirited fight in which Acadian militia and Mi'kmaq fighters played an important role, the French commander blew up his larger vessels and retreated up Rivière Restigouche, leaving the militia and the Mik'maq to prevent a British landing.  Unable to capture the garrison or lay waste to the area, the British commander ordered his ships to return to their base at Louisbourg.  In October, after the fall of Montréal, another British naval force, this one from Québec, appeared at Restigouche to accept the garrison's, and the Acadians', surrender.  On October 24, on the eve of formal surrender, French officers counted 1,003 exiles still at Restigouche, among them Joseph and his large family of seven.  Daughter Marie married into the Bernard family at Restigouche in January 1761, so the family evidently remained there for a while after the French surrender.  Daughter Marguerite married a Boudrot about that time.  Joseph and his family were counted at Nepisiguit, today's Bathurst, New Brunswick, down the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, in 1761.  In the early 1760s, the British held the family, and hundreds of other exiles who had surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the region, in prison compounds in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Joseph and his family appeared on a repatriation list circulated among the exiles at Halifax in August 1763.  Daughter Rosalie married into the Thibodeaux family, and oldest son Joseph, fils also married at Halifax.  In 1764-65, Joseph dit L'Officer and most of his family, including four married daughters and a married son and their families, and an unmarried daughter and two unmarried sons, followed the Broussards to New Orleans via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue.  Joseph dit L'Officier was one of the Broussard party's leaders who signed the Dauterive agreement at New Orleans in April.  Soon after, he and his family followed the Broussards to Bayou Teche.  Meanwhile, in Nova Scotia, Joseph's oldest son and his family, along with Joseph's fifth and youngest son, chose to go not to Louisiana but to the French-controlled fishery island of Miquelon off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  Joseph dit L'Officier died on the lower Teche in September 1765, age 55, victim of an epidemic that killed dozens of his fellow Teche valley Acadians that summer and fall.  His youngest daughter Félicité married into the Broussard family at Attakapas that year, and daughter Marguerite remarried into the LeBlanc family there in c1768.  Three of L'Officier's five sons settled on the Attakapas prairies and created one of the largest Acadian family lines there.  A grandson by L'Officier's oldest son also emigrated to Louisiana, from France, after going there from Île Miquelon, and joined his kinsmen on the prairies.  All of the Acadian Guilbeaus of South Louisiana descend from the three sons of Joseph dit L'Officier who followed their father to Attakapas. 

Oldest son Joseph, fils, born at Annapolis Royal in c1735, followed his family into exile and imprisonment at Halifax, where he married Charlotte, daughter of Charles Saint-Étienne de La Tour le jeune and his second wife Marguerite Richard, in February 1763.  They did not follow his parents to Louisiana in 1764 but resettled, instead, on Île Miquelon, where Joseph, fils worked as a navigator.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1765 and 1782, Charlotte gave Joseph, fils nine children, including a set of twins, at Halifax, on Île Miquelon, and in La Rochelle, France:  Joseph III born at Halifax or Miquelon in c1765; twins Charles and Donat probably on Miquelon in c1766; Jacques in c1769; Marguerite-Félicité in c1770; Jean-Baptiste in c1773; Angélique-Gabriel in c1775; Charlotte in c1777; and François at La Rochelle, France, in c1782.  Other records give them another daughter, Élisabeth, born in St.-Jean Parish, La Rochelle, in September 1779 but died there a day after her birth--10 children, six sons and four daughters, between 1765 and 1779, in greater Acadia and France.  French officials counted them on Île Miqueon in 1766 and 1776.  Their presence on the island in 1776 hints that they likely had accompanied other islanders to France in 1767 to relieve overcrowding on the island and returned to Miquelon the following year.  In 1778, during the American Revolution, the British deported them along with their fellow islanders to La Rochelle, France.  Members of the family accompanied Joseph, fils and Charlotte back to Île Miquelon in 1784 and moved on to nearby Île St.-Pierre.  Other members of the family, including two sons and a daughter, ages 19, 11, and 9, remained in France.  Daughter Angélique-Gabrielle, in her late 20s, married into the Pradère family at St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo in March 1802.  At least two of Joseph, fils's sons married, in Louisiana and France, but the line in Louisiana did not endure.

Oldest son Joseph III followed his family to France in 1767, back to Île Miquelon in 1768, back to France in 1778 but evidently did not return to Île Miquelon in 1784, when he would have been in his late teens.  He came of age at La Rochelle and from there went to Louisiana on his own perhaps in 1785, when he would have been age 20, though his name appears on none of the Seven Ships passenger rolls.  From New Orleans, he went to the western prairies to be near his kinsmen, who had been there for two decades.  He married Pélagie, 22-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph dit Vieux Richard and Anne Blanchard of Annapolis Royal and Ascension, at Attakapas in January 1791--his first appearance in Louisiana records.  They settled on Bayou Tortue near the southern outskirts of present-day Lafayette.  Their son Joseph IV was born there in September 1806.  After Pélagie's death, Joseph III filed a succession at the St. Martinville courthouse in June 1814, and a succession in wife Pélagie's name was filed there in October 1815.  At age 52, Joseph III remarried to Julie, daughter of Étienne Vallot and Elizabeth Smith of La Pointe, at the St. Martinville church in July 1817.  They settled at Au Pont la Villeboeuf.  Their daughter Julie was born there in December 1818 but died at age 7 1/2 in July 1826--two children, a son and a daughter, by two wives, in 1806 and 1818.  Joseph died "a sudden death" in Lafayette Parish in August 1822.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph was age 54 when he died.  He probably was a few years older.  His first post-mortem succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in September 1822, and others at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in October 1822 and October 1825, the last one concerning monies owed by Joseph III's estate to his daughter Julie's tutor, or guardian, Ozanne Guilbeau.  Sadly, little Julie died the following July.  Neither of Joseph III's children by either of his wives seems to have married, so the line did not endure.  His widow Julie Vallot remarried to a Giroir less than a year after his death. 

Joseph, fils's fifth son Jean-Baptiste also followed his family to France in 1778 and remained there in 1784, but he did not follow his older brother Joseph III to Spanish Louisiana.  He married, at age 31, Angélique, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Cyr and Marguerite Dugas, at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, near St.-Malo, France, in June 1804.  One wonders what happened to them there. 

Joseph dit L'Officier's second son Charles le jeune dit Charlitte or Charliton followed his family into exile and married fellow Acadian Anne Trahan probably at Restigouche in c1760.  They followed his family into the prison compound at Halifax, to New Orleans, and Bayou Teche.  They had no children when they came to Louisiana in 1765, so one wonders if Anne had given Charles children who did not survive the rigors of exile and imprisonment.  Their recorded children, born on the Teche, included Ludivine dite Divine in c1770; Jean-Charles, called Charles, fils, in December 1771; and Émilie or Amelie in December 1773.  Anne died on the Teche in the early 1770s.  Charles remarried to Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Bourg and Anne Boudrot and widow of Pierre Pitre, at Attakapas in November 1775.  They settled at La Pointe on upper Bayou Teche near present-day Breaux Bridge.  Their children, born there, included Marguerite baptized, age unrecorded, in May 1777; Amand born in May 1778; and Madeleine in September 1781--six children, four daughters and two sons, by two wives, between 1770 and 1781.  Charles died at his home at La Pointe, St. Martin Parish, in August 1809, age 72.  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse the following August.  Daughters Divine, Marguerite, and Émilie, by both wives, married into the Cormier, Barras, Girard, and Mire families, and perhaps into the Primeaux family as well.  Both of Charles's sons married and settled at La Pointe, but his younger son's line died out early. 

Older son Jean-Charles, called Charles, fils, from first wife Anne Trahan, married Félicité or Félice, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Dugas and Marguerite Dupuis, probably at Attakapas in the late 1780s or early 1790s.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Marie in November 1792; Jean-Charles, fils in September 1796 but died at age 18 months in February 1798; Alexandre born in January 1798; and a second Jean-Charles, fils in February 1800.  Jean Charles remarried to Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Dupuis and Marie Poirier of Cabahannocer/St.-Jacques on the river, at Attakapas in July 1801.  Their son children, born at Grande Pointe on the upper Teche, included Michel in November 1802; Silesie, Célesie, or Céleste in November 1804; Godefroi in September 1806; Édouard in November 1808; Eugénie in November 1810; Charles le jeune in October 1812; Edmond in January 1815; Pierre in December 1816; and Élisée in May 1819--13 children, three daughters and 10 sons, by two wives, between 1792 and 1819.  Jean Charles, père died at his home at La Pointe in July 1820, age 48.  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse later that month.  Daughters Marie, Céleste, and Eugénie, by both wives, married into the Begnaud, Dupuis, Babineaux, and Theriot families.  Eight of Jean Charles's sons also married, one of them on the same day and at the same place as one of his sisters, but not all of the lines endured. 

Second son Alexandre, by first wife Félicité Dugas, married Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Poirier and Scholastique Babineaux of La Pointe, at the St. Martinville church in June 1816.  They settled at L'île des Cypres, today's Lake Martin; La Pointe; and Prairie Michaud.  Their children, born there, included Euphémie at L'île des Cypres in June 1817; Alexandre, fils at La Pointe in April 1819 but died at his parents' home on Prairie Michaud at age 1 1/2 in August 1820; Asélie born in c1820 but died "at age about 3 yrs." in July 1823; Marie Roseline born at La Pointe in January 1821; Uranie in October 1823 but died at La Pointe, age 4 1/2, in July 1828; Marie Odile born in August 1825; and Marie Ordalie in August 1827 but died "at her mother's house at la pointe," age 2, in February 1829--seven children, six daughters and a son, between 1817 and 1827.  Alexandre, père died "at his home on Bayou Teche," St. Martin Parish, in October 1828, age 30.  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in July 1829.  Daughter Euphémie married into the Cormier family, so the blood of the family line may have endured. 

Jean Charles's third son Jean Charles, fils, by first wife Félicité Dugas, married Céleste, 15-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Cormier, père and his second wife Rosalie Dugas, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in February 1821.  They settled at nearby Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Charles le jeune, perhaps Jean Charles III, in 1822 and baptized at the Grand Coteau church, age "about 3 mths.," in January 1823; and Pierre born posthumously in early 1825 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 3 months, in June 1825 but died near Grand Coteau at age 24 (the recording priest said 23) in May 1849 (his succession, calling him Pierre C., was filed at the Opelousas courthouse 12 days after his death).  Jean Charles, fils died from being struck by lightning at L'île des Cypres in December 1824, age 24.  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in May 1825.  One of his sons married. 

Older son Jean Charles III may have married cousin Marie Denise, daughter of fellow Acadians Jérôme Gautreaux and Marie Sophie Dugas, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in August 1842, and sanctified the marriage at the Grand Coteau church in May 1844.  The parish clerk and the priest who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Marie Lisia in January 1844; Jean Charles, fils or Jean Charles IV in October 1847; and Adam in March 1850--three children, a daughter and two sons, between 1844 and 1850.  None of Jean Charles III's children married by 1870. 

Jean Charles's fourth son Michel, by second wife Céleste Dupuis, married Clémence, also called Sylvanie, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Potier and his Creole wife Marie Madeleine Ducrest of Bayou Teche, at the St. Martinville church in November 1825.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Valéry, also called Valéry Marie, in October 1826; Auguste in April 1828; Charles le jeune in November 1829; and Louison, a daughter, in September 1832--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1826 and 1832.  Wife Sylvanie's succession, probably post-mortem, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in February 1837.  Michel did not remarry.  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in August 1865.  He would have been age 63 that year.  Daughter Louison married into the Bulliard and Arceneaux families.  Michel's three sons also married, and two of them served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65. 

In November 1850, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted six slaves--three males and three females, all black, ranging in age from 40 to 4--on Valière Guilbeau's farm next to the farm of Charles Potier.  This was oldest son Valéry Marie, who married Marie Anaïs, daughter of fellow Acadians Sylvestre Broussard and Aspasie Babineaux, at the St. Martinville church in October 1854.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted seven slaves--three males and four females, all black except for one mulatto, ages 35 to 1--on Valry Guilbeau's farm near August Guilbeau's farm and next to the farm of Charles M. Guilbeau

Michel's second son Auguste married Marie Sidalise, daughter of André Lasseigne and Marguerite Vicknair, at the St. Martinville church in May 1851.  She evidently gave him no children, at least none who appear in area church records or the federal census for St. Martin Parish in July 1860.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted five slaves--two males and three females, all black, ranging in age from 25 to 4, living in one house--on August Guilbeau's farm near the farms of Widow Charles Potier, Widow Ed. Bulliard, and Valry Guilbeau.  During the war, Auguste, despite his advanced age, may have served in Company D of the Orleans Guard Battalion Louisiana Infantry with younger brother Charles le jeune.  Auguste remarried to Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Treville Thibodeaux and Aspasie LeBlanc, at the St. Martinville church in May 1864, probably after being dismissed from his battalion. ...

Michel's third and youngest son Charles le jeune married Marie Noémie, called Noémie, daughter of Onésime Calais and his Acadian wife Adèle Broussard, at the Breaux Bridge church, St. Martin Parish, in February 1859.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted two slaves--a 12-year-old black male, and a 10-year-old black male--on Charles M. Guilbeau's farm next to Valry Guilbeau's.  During the war, Charles le jeune served as a sergeant in Company D of the Orleans Guard Battalion Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Martin Parish, which fought at Shiloh, Tennessee, in April 1862.  After the Orleans Guard Battalion disbanded in June 1862, Charles le jeune served as a sergeant and second lieutenant in Company A of the 30th Regiment/Battalion Louisiana Infantry, which fought in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee.  Did he survive the war and return to his family?

Jean Charles's fifth son Godefroi, by second wife Céleste Dupuis, married Aimée, daughter of fellow Acadians David Babineaux and Osite Melançon, at the St. Martinville church in April 1833.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Aimée in April 1834; Godefroit or Godefroi, fils in November 1835 but died at age 9 months in August 1836; a second Godefroi, fils died 11 days after his birth in December 1837; and Joseph born in December 1840 but may have died at age 13 1/2 (the recording priest said 17) in November 1854--four children, a daughter and three sons, between 1834 and 1840.  Godefroi, père's last will and his wife Adélaïde's succession, evidently not post-mortem, were filed at the St. Martinville courthouse on the same day in September 1833, soon after they married and years before he died in St. Martin Parish in January 1850.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial said that "Godefroy" died "at age 35 or 38 yrs."  He was 43.  His post-mortem succession, naming his wife, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse later that month.  Daughter Aimée married into the Ledoux family.  None of Godefroi's sons survived childhood, so his line of the family, except for its blood, probably died with him. 

Jean Charles's sixth son Édouard, by second wife Céleste Dupuis, married Madeleine, minor daughter of Armand Wiltz and his Acadian wife Angèlle Melançon, at the St. Martinville church in June 1830, on the same day and at the same place his sister Eugénie married a Babineaux.  Édouard and Madeleine's daughter Silvanie or Sylvanie Angèle, called Angela, was born in St. Martin Parish in February 1832.  Édouard died in St. Martin Parish in September 1847.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial said that Édouard died "at age 34 yrs."  He was 38.  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in January 1850.  In November 1850, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted five slaves--four males and one female, all black, ranging in age from 24 to 4--on Madeleine Guilbeau's farm next to Nezaire Wiltz's farm; these likely were Édouard's widow, Madeleine Wiltz's, slaves.  Daughter Angela married into the Begnaud family.  Édouard evidently father no sons. 

Jean Charles's seventh son Charles le jeune, by second wife Céleste Dupuis, married cousin Adélaïde, also called Emélaïde and Aimée, daughter of fellow Acadians David Guilbeau le jeune and Adélaïde Duhon, at the St. Martinville church in July 1833.  They settled near Breaux Bridge.  Their children, born there, included Adélaïde in April 1834; Jean Charles le jeune in October 1835 but died at age 14 (the recording priest said 12) in January 1850; Charles Joseph Sosthène, called Joseph Sosthène and Sosthène, born in August 1837; Julien, also called Julien Charles and Julien C., in July 1839; Cléleste in August 1842; David le jeune in February 1844; Émilia in June 1846; Juliette baptized at age 2 months in September 1848 but died at age 1 1/2 in October 1849; Joséphine born in June 1850; and Célestine in October 1852--10 children, six daughters and four sons, between 1834 and 1852.  Charles le jeune's succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in November 1855.  He would have been age 43 that year.  Daughters ... married into the Castille, Hayes, and Patin families by 1870.  Two of Charles le jeune's sons also married by then and served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65, one of them at the cost of his life.

Second son Joseph Sosthène married Victoire, daughter of fellow Acadians Placide Isaac Thibodeaux and Arsène Guidry, at the St. Martinville church in May 1856.  They may have been that rare Acadian couple who had no children.  During the War of 1861-65, Joseph Sosthène, called Sosthène in Confederate records, served in Company D of the Orleans Guard Battalion Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Martin Parish, which fought at Shiloh, Tennessee, in April 1862.  Joseph Sosthène died at Jackson, Mississippi, probably in 1862, so he likely was mortally wounded at Shiloh.  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in August 1862.  According to an illustrated history of Louisiana during the War of 1861-65, "Sosthene Guilbeau disappeared during the war and was never heard of again by his family."  If this was the case, his succession must have been a pro-forma document.  Did his family line die with him? 

During the war, Charles le jeune's third son Julien C. served with older brother Sosthène in Company D of the Orleans Guard Battalion.  Julien C. also was wounded at Shiloh, but not mortally.  After the Orleans Guard Battalion was disbanded in June 1862, Julien C. may have served briefly in Company A of the 30th Regiment/Battalion Louisiana Infantry before joining Company K of the 7th Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, raised in Lafayette and St. Landry parishes, later in the war.  They fought mostly against local Jayhawkers.  Julien C. survived the war, returned to his family, and, at age 26, married 20-year-old fellow Acadian Azélie or Azélia Guidry in a civil ceremony in St. Martin Parish in December 1865.  Their son Sosthène le jeune was born near Breaux Bridge in December 1868; ...  Julien farmed in the Cecilia area north of Breaux Bridge; died there at age 61 in April 1901; and was buried in St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery, Cecilia. 

Jean Charles's ninth son Pierre, by second wife Céleste Dupuis, married cousin Marie Roseline or Roselie, called Roseline, Roselia, and Azélina, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Dupuis and Rosalie Thériot, at the St. Martinville church in February 1835.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Marie Oreliènne in February 1837; Pierre, fils in September 1842; Jean Charles le jeune in August 1845 but died at age 22 near Breaux Bridge in October 1867 (one wonders if his death was war-related); Marie Élonee born in November 1848; Euphémon in December 1850; Odilon in September 1854; and Marie Élodie near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in July 1856 but, called Élodie, died at age 5 in November 1861--seven children, three daughters and four sons, between 1837 and 1856.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted a single slave--a 26-year-old black male--on Pierre Guilbeau's farm.  Was this him?  None of his daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did.

Oldest son Pierre, fils married Marie Azéma, daughter of fellow Acadian Édouard LeBlanc, fils and his Creole wife Séraphine Irène Roy, at the Youngsville church, Lafayette Parish, in June 1865; the marriage was not recorded civilly in Lafayette Parish until June 1867.  Their children, born near Youngsville, included Sylvère Antoine in June 1866; Pierre III in March 1868; Clomère in September 1870; ...

Jean Charles's tenth and youngest son Élisée, by second wife Céleste Dupuis, married Marie Elmire, called Elmire, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Deterville Cormier and his Creole wife Aimée Scholastique Webre, at the St. Martinville church in February 1843.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Émile in December 1843; Anaïs in May 1846; Édouard Laisère in January 1849; Léoncia in February 1851 but, called Léontia, died at age 1 1/2 in June 1852; Césaire born in May 1853; Élisa in May 1856; Joseph in September 1858; Louise in December 1861; Joseph Charles Edgard in January 1865; ...  In November 1850, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted five slaves--two males and three females, four blacks and one mulatto, ranging in age from 15 to 1--on Elizé Guilbeau's farm.  Daughter ... married into the Melançon family by 1870.  One of Élisée's sons also married by then.

During the War of 1861-65, oldest son Émile, with two Guilbeau first cousins, served in Company D of the Orleans Guard Battalion Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Martin Parish, which fought at Shiloh, Tennessee, in April 1862.  He survived the ordeal.  Émile also may have served in Companies A and C of the Yellow Jackets Battalion Louisiana Infantry, also raised in St. Martin Parish, which fought in South Louisiana, and in Company A of the Consolidated 18th Regiment and Yellow Jackets Battalion Infantry, which also fought in Louisiana.  Émile survived the war, returned to his family, and married Alida, daughter of fellow Acadians Théogène Melançon and Arthémise Babin, at the St. Martinville church in November 1866.  Émile's succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in February 1868.  He would have been age 25 that year.  If this was a post-mortem succession, one wonders if his early death was war-related and if he fathered any children. 

Charles's younger son Amand, by second wife Marguerite Bourg, married Marguerite, another daughter of Jean Dugas and Marguerite Dupuis, at Attakapas in February 1804.  They settled at La Pointe on the upper Teche.  Their children, born there, included Marguerite in November 1805; and Alexandre le jeune posthumously in early 1807 but died at his maternal grandfather's home at Anse La Butte on the upper Vermilion, age 18 months, in January 1809--two children, a daughter and a son, between 1805 and 1807.  Amand died at his home at La Pointe in December 1806, age 25.  His succession was not filed at the St. Martinville courthouse until April 1812.  Daughter Marguerite married into the Huval family.  Amand's line of the family, except for its blood, did not endure.  

Joseph dit L'Officier's third son François followed his family into exile and imprisonment and to New Orleans and Bayou Teche.  He married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Broussard and Anne LeBlanc, at Attakapas in July 1772.  They settled at La Pointe on the upper Teche and then at Carencro at the northern edge of the Attakapas District before returning to La Pointe.  Their children, born there, included Anastasie dite Nastasie in June 1774; François-Louis dit L'Officier baptized, age unrecorded, in May 1776 but died at age 19 in February 1795; Joseph le jeune born in April 1777; Marie Victoire in the early 1780s; Anne in August 1782 but died at age 1 in August 1783; David le jeune born in July 1785; Séraphine in February 1788; Édouard or Éloi in September 1792 but died at age 4 1/2 in February 1797; Julien baptized, age 6 months, in June 1795; and Julie born in 1797 and baptized, age "about 13 months," in September 1798--10 children, five daughters and five sons, between 1774 and 1797.  François died at his home at La Pointe in September 1822, age 72.  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse the following November.  Daughters Anastasie, Marie Victoire, Séraphine, and Julie married into the Breaux, Achée, Savoie, Hébert, Babin, Broussard, Janise, and Bienvenu families, two of them twice, one of them, Séraphine, three times.  François's remaining sons also married, but not all of the lines endured.

Second son Joseph le jeune married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Hébert and Françoise Hébert, at Attakapas in August 1798.  Joseph le jeune filed a succession at the St. Martinville courthouse in February 1810 probably after his wife died.  She evidently gave him no children.  At age 50, he remarried to Marie Clothilde, called Clothilde, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Marie Landry and his Creole wife Marguerite Pivauteau and widow of Athanase Trahan and Jean Marie Templet, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in October 1826.  Their children, born on the prairies, included François le jeune in St. Martin Parish in November 1828; Madeleine Élodie in December 1830 but, called Élodie, died at age 12 1/2 (the recording priest said 14) in January 1843; and Marguerite Anaïs, called Anaïs, born in December 1833--three children, a son and two daughters, between 1828 and 1833.  In November 1850, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted three slaves--all females, all black, ages 35, 15, and 12--on Joseph Gilbeau's farm.  Joseph le jeune died near New Iberia, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in December 1851.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who listed only the first wife's name, said that Joseph died "at age 79 yrs."  He was 74.  His post-mortem succession may have been filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in February 1858.  Daughter Anaïs, by his second wife, married into the Talley family.  Joseph le jeune's son did not marry by 1870, if he married at all. 

François's third son David le jeune married Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Duhon and Marie Josèphe Gautreaux of Vermilion, at Attakapas in May 1807.  They settled at La Pointe on the upper Teche.  Their children, born there, included Marie Carmélite, called Carmélite, in March 1808; Marcellite, also called Marie Marcellite, in March 1810; Adélaïde Arsène in July 1812; and Adélaïde born posthumously in August 1815--four children, all daughters, between 1808 and 1815.  David was struck by lightning and killed "on the road to the village at the bridge at Bayou Tortue near L'île des Chenes" in June 1815, age 30.  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in June 1820.  Daughters Carmélite, Marie Marcellite, Adélaïde Arsène, and Adélaïde married into the Barras, Patin, Breaux, and Guilbeau families, and perhaps into the Guidry family as well.  David le jeune and his wife had no sons, at least none who appear in local church records, but the blood of the family line likely endured.  

François's fifth and youngest son Julien married Marie Azélie, called Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadians Sylvestre LeBlanc and Euphrosine Duhon, at the St. Martinville church in June 1833.  They settled near Breaux Bridge.  Their children, born there, included Marie Anays or Anaïs, in April 1835 but died the following November; Joséphine born in April 1838; Jules or Julien, fils in October 1841 but died at age 4 months in March 1842; another Jules born in c1842; Eusèïde died at age 7 weeks in March 1845; Alice born in c1846; Célima Emoze in January 1849; Celimène Marie in June 1851 but died at age 1 1/2 in January 1853; and Julie born in September 1855--nine children, seven daughters and two sons, between 1835 and 1855.  In November 1850, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted two slaves--a 60-year-old black female, and a 17-year-old black male--on Julien Gilbeau's farm.  Julien, père died near Breaux Bridge in May 1865, age 70.  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse that month.  Daughters Alice, ... married into the Hardy and Hébert families by 1870.  One of Julien's sons also married by then.

During the War of 1861-65, Jules may have served with three of his Guilbeau cousins in Company D of the Orleans Guard Battalion Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Martin Parish, which fought at Shiloh, Tennessee, in April 1862.  Jules, in fact, may have been wounded in the battle.  He survived the war, however, returned to his family, and married Félicie, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Babin and Tarsille Thibodeaux, at the Breaux Bridge church in October 1865.  Their son Alexandre was born near Breaux Bridge in April 1867 but may have died the following October; ... 

Joseph dit L'Officier's fourth son Basile-David, called David, followed his family into exile and imprisonment, but he did not follow them to Louisiana.  He chose to follow his oldest brother Joseph, fils to Île Miquelon, where French officials counted him in 1767 and 1776 and described him as an orphan.  He probably accompanied his brother to France and back in 1767 and 1768; and to La Rochelle, France, in 1778.  In his early 30s, David married Victoire, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph-Nicolas Gauthier and Anne LeBlanc, in October 1783 probably in France.  According to Bona Arsenault, Victoire gave David a son, Joseph le jeune, born in c1784, either in France or back on Île Miquelon.  David worked either as a fisherman or a navigator on the fishery island and died in the sinking of the ship Batterie Verte off the village of Riantec near Lorient, southern Brittany, in January 1804, in his early 50s.  He was the only son of Joseph dit L'Officier whose family line did not touch Spanish Louisiana.  One wonders what became of his son Joseph le jeune

Joseph dit L'Officier's fifth and youngest son Jean followed his family into exile and imprisonment and to New Orleans and Bayou Teche.  He married Marie-Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadians Salvator Mouton and Anne Bastarache, at Attakapas in July 1783.  Marie-Geneviève died from the rigors of childbirth in August 1784, and their child, name unrecorded, also died, 12 days later.  Jean remarried to Marie-Jeanne, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Arceneaux and Anne Bergeron dit d'Amboise, at Attakapas in May 1788.  They settled at Carencro at the northern edge of the Attakapas District.  Their children, born there, included Marceline in March 1789; Augustine dite Justine in c1790; Hilaire in June 1791; Jean, fils in c1792; Alexandre in c1794; François-Placide, called Placide, baptized, age 2 months, in May 1795; Cyprien-Ozème or -Onésime, called Onésime, born in October 1796 but died at his parents' home at Carencro, not quite age 18, in September 1814; François le jeune born in September 1798; a son, name unrecorded, died eight days after his birth in May 1801; François Adrien, called Adrien, born in October 1802; Marie Clémence in September 1805; Marie Marguerite, perhaps also called Marie Léontine, in February 1808; and François Lucien, called Lucien, in May 1810--14 children, at least four daughters and nine sons, by two wives, between 1784 and 1810.  Jean, père died a widower probably at Carencro, Lafayette Parish, in March 1831.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said that Jean was age 78 when he died.  He probably was closer to 75.  Daughters Justine, Marie Léontine, and Marie Clémence, by his second wife, married into the Hébert, Guidry, and Smith families.  Six of Jean's sons also married and settled in several southwestern Louisiana parishes. 

Second son Jean, fils, by second wife Marie Jeanne Arceneaux, married, at age 29, Marie Carmélite, called Carmélite, Mélite, and Émelie, 16-year-old daughter of Jean Baptiste Castille and Julie Stelly, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in May 1821; the marriage was recorded in both Lafayette and St. Landry parishes.  According to one of his marriage records, Jean, fils owned 270 cattle, 42 horses, and two slaves on 7 1/2 x 40 arpents "at Bayou des Cannes at a place called the passage of the Indians," on the prairies west of Opelousas.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Jean Onésime, called Onésime, in April 1822; Adoulphe or Adolphe in April 1824; and Marie Onesia or Onezia, called Onezia, in December 1826--three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1822 and 1826.  A succession for Jean, fils was filed at the Opelousas courthouse, St. Landry Parish, in August 1825; it was not post-mortem.  He died in Lafayette Parish in July 1827, age 36.  A post-mortem succession, calling his wife Mélite and listing his children--Onesime, Adolphe, and Onezia--was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in February 1828.  Daughter Onezia married into the Petetin family.  Both of Jean, fils's sons also married.

Older son Onésime married cousin Azélie or Azelia, called Zélie, daughter of Zénon Castille and his Acadian wife Carmélite Thibodeaux, at the St. Martinville church in August 1841.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Marie Balie or Idalie, called Idalie, in June 1843; and Arthur Onésime posthumously in October 1846.  Onésime, called Onézime by the recording priest, died near Grand Coteau in September 1846, age 24.  His succession, naming his wife, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in December 1848.  Daughter Idalie married into the Broussard family by 1870.  Onésime's son also married by then.

During the War of 1861-65, only son Arthur served in Company K of the 2nd Regiment Louisiana Reserve Corps, a local-defense unit raised in Lafayette Parish that fought prairie Jayhawkers late in the war.  Arthur married Félicianne, daughter of Lafayette Foreman and his Acadian wife Marie Duhon, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in April 1866. ...

Jean, fils's younger son Adolphe married cousin Eugénie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Thibodeaux and his Creole wife Susanne dite Suzette Castille, in a civil ceremony in St. Martin Parish in April 1844, and sanctified the marriage at the Opelousas church the following June.  They settled near Breaux Bridge.  Their children, born there, included Antoine or Antonin in February 1845 but died at age 1 in May 1846; Joseph born in July 1846; Carmélite Eumea in January 1849; and Jean Clairmand in November 1851--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1845 and 1851.  In November 1850, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted five slaves--two males and three females, all black, ranging in age from 27 to 2--on Adolphe Guilbeau's farm.  Adolphe died probably near Breaux Bridge in November 1852.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial said that Adolphe died "at age 29 yrs."  He was 28.  His succession, calling his wife Eugénie Guilbeau, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in September 1853.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Jean, père's third son Alexandre, by second wife Marie Jeanne Arceneaux, married Marguerite Azélie, called Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Bernard and Marguerite Broussard of Carencro, at the St. Martinville church September 1818.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Alexandre, fils, also called Alexandre J., in June 1819; Marcellite Uranie, called Uranie, baptized "at age about 5 mths." in July 1821; Oliva baptized at age 4 months in April 1823; Sosthène born in August 1824; Clémentine baptized at age 10 1/2 months in November 1827; Adrien born in November 1828; Joseph in March 1831 but died at age 12 in October 1843; Marguerite born in March 1833; Jean le jeune probably in the 1830s; and Louis posthumously in March 1838--10 children, six sons and four daughters, between 1819 and 1838.  Alexandre died in Lafayette Parish in November 1837, age 43.  His succession, naming his wife, was not filed at the Vermilionville courthouse until April 1844.  Daughters Uranie, Clémentine, and Oliva married into the Babineaux, Broussard, Guilbeau, Bernard, and Smith families by 1870, one of them, Clémentine, twice, and two of them, Clémentine and Marguerite, to Bernard cousins.  Four of Alexandre's sons also married by then and settled on the prairies, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Alexandre, fils married fellow Acadian Françoise Savoie at the Grand Coteau church in July 1844.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Aurelien in August 1845 but died at age 2 1/2 in November 1847; Marie Alexandrine born in August 1854; a child, name and age unrecorded, died in March 1859; Alexandre Ozémé born in November 1860 but, called Osémé, died at age 8 months in July 1861; ...  In September 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted three slaves--a 30-year-old black female and two 15-year-old black males--on Alex. Guilbeau's farm in the parish's western district next to Sosthe Guilbeau's farm.  Daughter ... married into the Cormier family, so the blood of this family line endured. 

Alexandre, père's second son Sosthène married Marie Onesia, called Onesia, daughter of fellow Acadian François Bernard and his Creole wife Zulime Carmouche of Lafayette Parish, at the Grand Coteau church in December 1849.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Zuline Honora in May 1851; Honoré in October 1852 but died at age 2 in November 1854; François Omer born in December 1854 but, called Omer, died at age 10 (the recording priest said 9) in October 1865; Jean Horace born in March 1857; Marie Mathilde in July 1859 but died at age 2 in June 1861; Marie Octavie born in December 1861; Marie Olivia in January 1864; Joseph Lucien in April 1870; ... In September 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted two slaves--an 18-year-old black female, and a 12-year-old black male--on Sosthe Guilbeau's farm in the parish's western district next to Alex. Guilbeau's farm.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted five slaves--two males and three females, three blacks and two mulattoes, ages 24 to 3, living in one house--on Sosthène Guilbeaux's farm between the farms of Valéry Guilbeau and Mrs. Ozémé Guilbeau.  None of Sosthène's children married by 1870. 

Alexandre, père's fifth son Jean le jeune married Evélina or Emilina, another daughter of François Bernard and Zulime Carmouche, at the Grand Coteau church in January 1859.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Jean Édouard in October 1859 but died the following January; Louis St. Clair born in April 1861 but died at age 1 in May 1862; Joseph Adam born in January 1863; François Armand in January 1869; ...  In 1860, the federal census taker in St. Landry Parish counted two slaves--a 23-year-old black male, and a 16-year-old black female--on Jean Guilbeau's farm between the farms of Azélie Bernard and Louis Guilbeau.  During the War of 1861-65, Jean le jeune, called John in Confederate records, served perhaps as a conscript in Company D of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Mary Parish, which fought in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana.  He also served in Company D of the Consolidated 18th Regiment and Yellow Jackets Battalion Louisiana Infantry, which fought in Louisiana.  As the birth of one of his sons attests, he survived the war and returned to his family. 

In 1860, the federal census taker in St. Landry Parish counted two slaves--a 19-year-old black male, and a 12-year-old black female--on Louis Guilbeau's farm next to Jean Guilbeau's farm.  This was Alexandre, père's sixth and youngest son Louis, who married cousin Alice, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Guidry and Clémentine Guilbeau, at the Grand Coteau church in December 1866.  Their son Louis Alexandre was born near Grand Coteau in January 1868; ...

Jean, père's fourth son François Placide, called Placide, from second wife Marie Jeanne Arceneaux, served in Captain Francis Connagh's Company Militia during the War of 1812.  According to his pension record, Placide enlisted on 3 January 1815, when he was not quite age 17, probably in response to General Andrew Jackson's call for South Louisiana militia units to reinforce the garrison at New Orleans, and served until the following March, two months after the Battle of New Orleans, which was fought on January 8, probably before Placide's company reached the city.  Placide married Julie, daughter of fellow Acadians Anaclet Cormier and Madeleine Richard, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in February 1819.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Placide, fils, also called Placide Durel, in November 1819; Clémentine in 1822 and baptized at age 8 months in April 1823; Fanille or Fanelie born in January 1824; Valérie or Valéry in April 1826; Jean le jeune in April 1828; Alphonse in June 1830; Honoré, also called Honoré Placide, baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 5 months, in October 1832; Edmon or Edmond born in April 1834; Adolphe in the 1830s; Félix in July 1839 but died at age 1 in November 1840; and Maria Edmonia born in August 1841--11 children, eight sons and three daughters, between 1819 and 1841.  In October 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted 49 slaves on Placide Guilbeau's plantation in the parish's western district.  A decade later, in June 1860, he owned 86 slaves, living in 20 houses, on his Lafayette Parish plantation; he had become a "great planter."  In fact, only two other planters in the parish, one of them former governor Alexandre Mouton, held more slaves than Placide Guilbeau that year.  Placide, père died near Grand Coteau in November 1865, age 70, so he lived long enough to witness the war that ruined him economically.  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in August 1866.  Daughters Clémentine, Fanelie, and Marie Edmonia married into the Guidry, Bernard, and Broussard families.  Placide's seven remaining sons also married.  A younger son became a physician, and several sons and grandchildren served Louisiana and the Southern Confederacy during the War of 1861-65. 

Oldest son Placide, fils, also called Placide Durel, married Clarisse, daughter of fellow Acadians Auguste Guidry and Mélanie Martin, at the Grand Coteau church in April 1841.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Joseph Ermar or Armas, called Armas, in July 1843; Jean Edgar, called Edgar, in September 1845; Placide Kleber in December 1849 but, called Cleber, died at age 11 1/2 in August 1861; Albert born in March 1852 but died at age 9 months in January 1853; Joseph Martin in February 1855; Joseph Wilfride in September 1858 but, called Willis, died the following May; Marie Cidalise Corine born in July 1860; Marie Cora in January 1863; Marie Claire in November 1865; ...  In October 1850, the federal census taker in St. Landry Parish counted 10 slaves--six males and four females, all black, ranging in age from 35 to 3--on Placide Guilbeau, Jr.'s farm.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted 17 slaves--eight males and nine females, 10 blacks and seven mulattoes, ages 50 years to 11 months, living in four houses--on Placide Guilbeau's farm; this probably was Placide, fils.  His 50-year-old black female slave was recorded as an "idiot."  During the War of 1861-65, Placide, fils served in Company K of the 2nd Regiment Louisiana Reserve Corps, a local-defense unit raised in Lafayette Parish that fought prairie Jayhawkers late in the war.  None of Placide, fils's daughters married by 1870, but two of his sons did.

During the war, oldest son Joseph Armas, called J. Armas in Confederate records, served as a sergeant in Company K of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Landry Parish, which fought in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana.  Armas married Louise, daughter of Henry Rees and Aspasie Castille, at the Breaux Bridge church, St. Martin Parish, in January 1869. ...

Placide, fils's second son Edgar married Fanelie, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Arvillien Bernard and Elisa Bernard, at the Grand Coteau church in November 1869. ...  They settled probably near Carencro. 

Placide, père's second son Valéry married Marie Corine, called Corine, another daughter of Auguste Guidry and Mélanie Martin, at the Grand Coteau church in December 1849.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Félix in October 1850; Adelina, perhaps Félix's twin, in c1850 but died at age 3 in September 1853; Adelmar born in January 1853; Marie in January 1855; Marie Élise in October 1856; Marie Joseph Flavins, evidently a son, in September 1858; Jean Benjamin in September 1860; Mélanie Angèle in January 1863; Marie Isaure in April 1864; ...  In November 1850, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted six slaves--three males and three females, all black, ranging in age from 40 to 4--on Valière Guilbeau's farm.  Was this him?  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted 12 slaves--seven males and five females, 10 blacks and 2 mulattoes, ages 40 to 2, living in three houses--on Valéry Guilbeau's farm next to Sosthène Guilbeau's farm.  Was this him?  None of his children married by 1870. 

Placide, père's third son Jean le jeune married Aspasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Louis Bernard and Aspasie Dugas, at the Vermilionville church in September 1848.  Their children, born on the prairies, included an unnamed child died near Grand Coteau at age 1 month August 1849; Marie Julie, called Julie, born in December 1850, Marie in December 1852 but, name and age unrecorded, may have died the following February; Joseph Tilus born in January 1854; and Oscalie near Arnaudville, St. Landry Parish, in February 1856--five children, at least two daughters and two sons, between 1849 and 1856.  Jean le jeune died near Grand Coteau in May 1856, age 28.  His succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in November 1860.  In June 1860, the census taker in Lafayette Parish counted eight slaves on Mrs. John Guilbeaux's farm between Placide Guilbeau, père's large plantation and Lucien A. Guilbeau's farm; these probably were the slaves of Jean, fils's widow, Aspasie Bernard.  Daughter Julie married into the Bulliard family by 1870.  Jean le jeune's sons did not marry by then. 

Placide, père's fourth son Alphonse married Ophelia, daughter of fellow Acadians Valérien Dugas and Victoire Guidry, at the St. Martinville church  in January 1855.  They settled near Grand Coteau and then near Breaux Bridge.  Their children, born there, included Marie Carmène in December 1855; Joseph Arista in December 1856; Alphonse Chapman in November 1858; Honoré Galbert in March 1860; Julie Noélie in September 1861; and Armand in 1864 but died at age 17 months in October 1865.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted 12 slaves--five males and seven females, all black except for one mulatto, ranging in age from 33 years to 6 months--on Alphonse Guilbeau's farm.  During the war, Alphonse, with older brother Placide, fils, served in Company K of the 2nd Regiment Louisiana Reserve Corps.  Alphonse survived the war, returned to his family, and remarried to Blanche, daughter of fellow Acadian Dr. Alexis Onésime Guidry and his Creole wife Célestine Laperle Dupré, at the Grand Coteau church in September 1866.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Alexis Onésime in June 1867; Octave Placide in October 1868; ...  None of Alphonse's children married by 1870. 

Placide, père's fifth son Horace Placide, also called Honoré, a physician, married Anne Elizabeth, daughter of John Thomas and his Acadian wife Arthémise Guidry, at the St. Martinville church in May 1855.  They settled near Breaux Bridge.  Their children, born there, included Arthur John in May 1856; Marie Ida in January 1860; Braxton in c1862 but died at age 18 months in April 1864; Frank Thomas born in December 1867; ...  In June 1860, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted 11 slaves--four males and seven females, all black, ranging in age from 28 years to 8 months, living in two houses--on Dr. H. P. Guilbeau's farm.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Placide, père's sixth son Edmond married Emethilde, daughter of fellow Acadians Ursin Bernard and Éloise Bernard, at the Grand Coteau church in May 1855.  They settled near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Alonzo in June 1854; Joseph Camille in June 1858; Joseph Ernest in June 1859; Joseph Edmond in December 1861; Seymour in c1862 but died near Breaux Bridge, age 4, in October 1866; ...  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted four slaves--three males and one female, all black, ranging in age from 23 to 2--on Edmond Guilbeau's farm next to Ursin Bernard's farm.  Edmond may have remarried to fellow Acadian Ernestille Broussard, place and date unrecorded.  Their son Joseph Roland was born near Breaux Bridge in February 1870. ... None of Edmond's sons married by 1870. 

Placide, père's seventh son Adolphe married Alsina, Alzina, or Azina, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Gerasin Bernard and Eugénie Mouton, at the Vermilionville church in April 1861.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Joseph Adalbert in January 1862, three months before his father enlisted; Joseph Édouard in April 1864, not long after his father returned to his unit after being exchanged; Émelie Élia in August 1865; Massena Berchmans in May 1868; ...  During the war, Adolphe served as a private, fifth sergeant, and second lieutenant in Company E of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafayette Parish, which fought, and was captured, at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  As the births of two of his younger children reveal, he survived the war and returned to his family. 

Jean, père's sixth son François le jeune, by second wife Marie Jeanne Arceneaux, may have married Louise Marguerite Mortier in St. Martin Parish in the 1810s.  Their daughter Evelina was born there in the 1810s or early 1820s.  Was he the François Guilbeau who died in St. Martin Parish in January 1850?  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that François died "at age 68 or 70 yrs."  This François would have been in his early 50s.  If this was him, daughter Evelina married into the Doremus family.  He and his wife evidently had no sons. 

Jean, père's eighth son François Adrien, called Adrien, from second wife Marie Jeanne Arceneaux, married Catherine Arthémise, called Arthémise, daughter of André Neraut and Marie Louise Prudhomme, at the Grand Coteau church in September 1823.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Jean Adrien, also called Adrien, fils, in September 1824; Joseph Osémé, also called Osémé Alexandre, in September 1826; François Lucien le jeune, called Lucien le jeune and Lucien A., in October 1828; Alexandre, also called Alexandre A., in June 1830; Marie Marcelite, called Marcelite, in June 1832; Marie Adriènne, called Adriènne, in April 1834; Delphine Adolphine, called Adolphine, in March 1836; and André Ulger or Ulger Adrien, in May 1838--eight children, five sons and three daughters, between 1824 and 1838.  Adrien died near Grand Coteau in October 1838, age 36.  His succession, naming his wife, was not filed at the St. Martinville courthouse until January 1843.  Daughters Marcelite, Adriènne, and Adolphine married into the LeBlanc and Roy families, including two LeBlanc brothers, by 1870.  Adrien, père's five sons also married by then.

Oldest son Adrien, fils married fellow Acadian Clara Potier at the Grand Coteau church in August 1843.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Clarisse in March 1845; Louis Omir in October 1846; Jean Oscar in September 1848 but died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 23 months) in August 1850; Arthémise born in September 1850; and twins Madeline Alice and Madeleine Emma in January 1855--six children, four daughters and two sons, including a set of twins, between 1845 and 1855.  In November 1850, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted eight slaves--four males and four females, all black, ranging in age from 35 to 1--on Adrien Guilbeau's farm.  Adrien died near Grand Coteau in April 1855, age 30 (the recording priest said 31).  His successions, naming his wife, were filed at the Lafayette Parish courthouse in June 1855, and at the St. Martin Parish courthouse in August 1860.  Daughters Clarisse, ... married into the Durio and Thibodeaux families by 1870.  Adrien, fils's remaining son did not marry by then. 

Adrien, père's second son Osémé Alexandre, also called Joseph Osémé, married first cousin Clémentine, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Guilbeau and Marguerite Azélie Bernard, his uncle and aunt, at the Grand Coteau church in May 1844.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Marie Ozea in September 1845; Marie Ophelia in December 1847; Marie Élodie in July 1849 but, called Élodie, died at age 7 1/2 (the recording priest said 8) in April 1857; and André Auger born in February 1851--four children, three daughters and a son, between 1845 and 1851.  In September 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted 38 slaves on Ozémé Guilbeau's plantation in the parish's western district, next to Marcelite Guilbeau's farm and near Alex. Guilbeau's farm.  In November 1850, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted seven more slaves--three males and four females, all black except for one mulatto, ranging in age from 40 to 4--on Ozémé Guilbeau's farm in that parish.  Osémé died near Grand Coteau in February 1858.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Ozémé Alexandre died "at age 31 yrs," so this was him.  His succession, calling him Ozémé A. and naming his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in March 1858.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted three slaves--two females and one male, two blacks and a mulatto, ages 19, 16, and 13, living in two houses--on Mrs. Ozémé Guilbeau's farm next to Sosthène Guilbeaux's farm.  One wonders what happened to Osémé's other slaves.  Daughters ... married into the Clark and Guidroz families by 1870.  Osémé's son did not marry by then. 

Adrien, père's third son Lucien A. married cousin Alexandrine, daughter of fellow Acadians Augustin Guidry and Marie Léontine Guilbeau, at the Vermilionville church in April 1853.  They settled at Carencro.  Their children, born there, included André Numa in June 1854; François Lucien, fils, called Lucien, in August 1859; Marie Eucharis in July 1861; and Louis Armand in May 1863--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1854 and 1863.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted three slaves--two males and a female, three mulattoes and one black, ages 37, 31, and 17--on Lucien A. Guilbeau's farm between the farms of Mrs. John Guilbeaux and Augustin Guidry.  During the war, Lucien A. served in Company A of the Yellow Jackets Battalion Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Martin Parish, which fought in Louisiana, and in Company D of the Consolidated 18th Regiment and Yellow Jackets Battalion Louisiana Infantry, which also fought in Louisiana.  Lucien was mortally wounded in the Battle of Mansfield, Louisiana, in April 1864 and died there, probably in a field hospital, on May 13, age 35.  After the war, his family retrieved his remains from the battlefield and buried them in St. Peter Catholic Church cemetery at Carencro.  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in June 1867.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Adrien, père's fourth son Alexandre A. married Marcellite, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Guidry and Marie Bernard and widow of Hippolyte Cormier, at the Grand Coteau church in August 1853.  They settled near Arnaudville.  Their children, born there, included Jean Amilcar in December 1854; Charles Alfred in March 1857; Augustin in February 1861; François Adras in May 1864; Joseph Arthur in June 1869; ...  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted three slaves--all males, all black, ages 40, 20, and 18, living in one house--on Alen Guilbeaux's farm near Mrs. Ozémé Guilbeau's farm.  Was this him?  None of his sons married by 1870. 

Adrien, père's fifth and youngest son Ulger Adrien married Coralie, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Comeaux and his Creole wife Lise Durio, at the Opelousas church in September 1856.  They settled near Arnaudville.  Their children, born there, included Marie Laura in November 1857; Joseph Gonzalve in October 1859; Marie Parisade in August 1861 but, called Marie Parish Anne, died at age 3 (the recording priest said 4) in August 1864; Alexandre Habid baptized at the Arnaudville church, age unrecorded, in November 1863; Marie Paribanoux born in August 1865; Joseph Pabelot or Pableau in November 1869 but died the following February; ...  None of Ulger's children married by 1870. 

Jean, père's ninth and youngest son François Lucien, called Lucien, from second wife Marie Jeanne Arceneaux, married Marie Edwige, called Edwige, daughter of Michel Mayer and Mathilde Neraut, at the Grand Coteau church in April 1839.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included a child, name unrecorded, in c1840 but died at age 2 in December 1842; Marie Matilde born in October 1841; Marie Jeanne Marcellite, called Fani Marcelite and Marie Irma Marcellite, in April 1845; Jean Jacques Lucien, called J. J. Lucius and Lucius, in March 1847; Léonine in the 1840s; and François Lucien Edgard in December 1849 but died at age 1 in December 1850--six children, at least three daughters and two sons, between 1840 and 1849.  Lucien died near Grand Coteau in June 1850, age 40 (the recording priest said 39).  His succession, calling his wife Edvige, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in February 1854.  Daughters Marie Irma Marcelite and Léonine married into the Smith family, and perhaps into the Jackson family as well, by 1870.  Lucien's remaining son also married by then.

Older son J. J. Lucius married Mary or Marie Anne, daughter of Benjamin A. Smith and Elizabeth Hardy, at the Grand Coteau church in February 1869.  Their son Joseph Édouard was born near Grand Coteau in December 1869; ... 

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Another Guilbeau came to the colony from Halifax via Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, in 1765, but he did not follow his kinsmen to the prairies.  He settled, instead, on the river above New Orleans, but no new family line came of it. 

Joseph (1730-1770s) à Charles à Pierre Guilbeau

Joseph, older son of Charles Guilbeau, fils and his first wife Marie-Anne Comeau and nephew of Joseph dit L'Officier, was born at Annapolis Royal in December 1730.  The British deported him to South Carolina or Georgia in the fall of 1755.  Though in his mid-20s, he was still unmarried.  He may have been among the Acadians who, in the spring of 1756, the governors of South Carolina and Georgia encouraged to return to greater Acadia by sea.  If so, he and his fellow exiles got no farther than Long Island, New York, where colonial officials held them.  Calling him Joseph Gilboa, colonial officials counted him in Westchester County in August 1756.  He evidently left New York for Halifax after February 1763 and emigrated to New Orleans via Cap-Français in 1765.  He settled in the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans, where Spanish officials counted him on the left, or east, bank of the river in April 1766, still unmarried.  One wonders why he did not join his many Guilbeau kin on the western prairies.  In his late 30s, he married cousin Catherine Comeau, widow of ____ Lafaye, at Cabahannocer in October 1767.  They evidently had no children.  Joseph died by March 1779, in his late 40s, when his wife was listed in an Acadian Coast census as a widow.

Guillot

Brothers Henri, born in c1693, and René Guillot dit L'Angevin, in c1695, reached British Nova Scotia from Doix, western France, in the late 1710s, among the many French immigrants the British allowed to settle in their new Atlantic colony.  The brothers settled at Minas Proper and then moved to Cobeguit on the northeast end of the basin.  Henri, whose wife's name is lost to history, fathered two children there--René le jeune born in c1722; and Marie-Josèphe in c1723--and took his family to Île St.-Jean in c1750.  Son René le jeune, whose wife's name also is lost, fathered at least one child, daughter Marie-Rose, born in c1751, probably on the island.  In August 1752, a French official, who called him Herné, counted Henri with daughter Marie-Josèphe, age 29, and the family of nephew Jean-Baptiste Guillot, at Pointe-Prime on the island's southeastern coast.  Henri's line of the family, except for its blood, probably ended with his passing.  

Brother René dit L'Angevin married Marguerite Doiron probably at Minas in c1719.  They, too, moved on to Cobeguit.  They had at least four children, three sons and a daughter, in the Minas settlements who created families of their own:  Jean-Baptiste born at Minas in December 1720; Marie-Josèphe in c1723; Ambroise at Cobeguit in c1728; and René, fils in c1731.  The oldest son settled at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, but the others remained at Cobeguit.  René died probably at Cobeguit by the early 1750s.  His daughter married into the Breau family there.  His sons married into the Arcement, Bourg, and Daigre families.  All three of the sons followed their uncle Henri to Île St.-Jean in c1750.  In August 1752, two of them and their families were living with their uncle at Pointe-Prime, and the middle brother lived with his family at nearby Pointe-au-Boulleau.  

By 1755, descendants of René Guillot dit L'Angevin and Marguerite Doiron no longer lived in British Nova Scotia.  They could be found, instead, on the southeastern coast of Île St.-Jean.  Living in territory controlled by France, the Guillots escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived, however.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats rounded up most of the habitants on Île St.-Jean and transported them to France.  The rigors of the crossing devastated the family.  A Guillot wife crossed on the deportation transport Supply, which left Chédabouctou Bay in a 12-ship convoy in late November, survived a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England, put in for repairs at Bideford, England, and did not reach St.-Malo until early March 1759.  She survived the crossing, but three of her children did not.  The three Guillot brothers crossed on one or more of the five transports that left Chédabouctou Bay in the 12-ship convoy in late November, survived the mid-December storm, and reached St.-Malo together in late January.  Many of their children did not survive the ordeal, and the oldest Guillot brother, Jean-Baptiste, and the youngest brother's wife, died at sea. 

The island Guillots did their best to make a life for themselves in the suburbs and villages of the St.-Malo area.  They settled at Pleudihen-sur-Rance and St.-Suliac on the east side of the river south of the Breton port, and across the river at Trigavou.  The youngest Guillot brother remarried at St.-Suliac in August 1760, and one of his nephews married at Trigavou in November 1766.   In 1773, the two brothers, but perhaps not the married nephew, took their families to the interior of Poitou, where they and hundreds of other exiles from the port cities worked the land owned by an influential nobleman near the city of Châtellerault.  After two years of effort, the older brother and members of his family, along with other Poitou Acadians, retreated down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes.  The younger brother and two of the older brother's sons, however, remained in Poitou, where the young Guillots married local girls, including two sisters, at Archigny and Cenan south of Châtellerault.  The younger Guillot brother died at Cenan in June 1781, age 50. 

When in the early 1780s the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, only eight members of the family agreed to take it.  Most of the Acadian Guillots remained in the mother country.  The second Guillot brother, his wife, and most their children remained at Nantes.  The youngest Guillot brother's children, some of them grown, probably remained in Poitou after his death, except for a son and a daughter, who followed relatives to Spanish Louisiana from Nantes.  The brothers' sister, her Breau husband, and their daughter, along with a Guillot nephew, chose to go to New Orleans.  Another nephew, son of the oldest Guillot brother, his wife, and their three children also emigrated to the Spanish colony in 1785. 

Guillots settled late in Acadia, and they came "late" to Louisiana.  In fact, if the Spanish government had not coaxed over 1,500 Acadians in France to emigrate to their Mississippi valley colony, there probably would be no Acadian Guillots in the Bayou State today.  Forced deportation and settlement schemes in France devastated the family, but the Acadian Guillots who emigrated to Louisiana in 1785 found peace and comfort, finally, in the Bayou Lafourche valley, where several of their lines proliferated.  By the 1850s, a few of them had slipped south into Terrebonne Parish, one of them as far west as Chacahoula near Bayou Black, but most of them remained along the upper and middle stretches of the Lafourche.  Soon after the War of 1861-65, Guillots from Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes settled west of the Atchafalaya Basin on lower Bayou Teche and on the prairies of Lafayette Parish, creating a westen branch of the family, but most of the Acadian Guillots remained on the southeastern bayous.  Louisiana records reveal that no Acadian Guillots created family lines on the river above New Orleans, at least not before 1870.   

Meanwhile, non-Acadian Guillots who had settled at Pointe Coupee as early as the 1740s moved northwestward into the Avoyelles prairie in the mid-1780s.  Some of them moved south into the Opelousas District, where they still could be found in the late 1850s.  During the antebellum period, Foreign-French Guillots found a home in New Orleans as well as on the river above the city and along Bayou Lafourche among their Acadian namesakes, complicating the family's genealogical picture there. 

Judging by the number of slaves Guillots held during the late antebellum period, a few members of the family, especially on upper Bayou Lafourche, lived comfortably as businessmen and farmers.  In 1850, Acadian Jean Baptiste Guillot held 16 slaves on his farm in Assumption Parish.  Brother Louis Guillot, on the farm next door, held 15.  Ten years later, Acadian Alexandre Guillot of Assumption Parish owned 31 slaves on two holdings along Bayou Lafourche.  His aunt, Eugénie Templet, widow of Jean Baptiste Guillot, held 19 slaves in the same parish.  But, typically, most of the Acadian Guillots owned no slaves at all on their simple farms in the bayou parishes. 

Dozens of Guillots served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65, and at least four of them died in Confederate service.  Ambroise Guillot of Company A, 1st Regiment Louisiana Heavy Artillery, a conscript probably from Assumption Parish, died of disease at Vicksburg, Mississippi, in November 1862, before he could see action.  G. B. Guillot of Company K(2nd), Crescent Regiment Louisiana Infantry, another conscript, joined the company in November 1862 at Camp Pratt near New Iberia and died in a hospital there a few weeks later.  J. B. Guillot of Company D, 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, enlisted in the Lafourche Parish unit in March 1862 and died in a hospital at Mississippi Springs, Mississippi, the following July.  O. Guillot of Company C, 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, a conscript assigned to this unit in October 1862, died the following month probably in a New Iberia hospital, another victim of disease who never saw action on a battlefield.  

During the war, successive Federal incursions devastated the Bayou Lafourche valley.  Confederate foragers also plagued the area when the Federals were not around.  After the war, Guillots began to move even farther from the homes of their immigrant ancestors.  One scholar speculates that the Guillots of Rapides Parish today descend from the French-Creole Guillots of Avoyelles.  Some of the Avoyelles Guillots who settled in the Opelousas area may have moved south into present-day Lafayette Parish, but most of the Guillots who now live in Lafayette, and especially in Iberia Parish, south of the Hub City, are descendants of Acadian Guillots who migrated west from Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes.  A recent count of Guillots in Louisiana found more of them living west of the Atchafalaya Basin than east of it.  A substantial number of them also live in the New Orleans area, descendants not only of Foreign-French Guillots, but also of Acadian and French-Creole members of the family who succumbed to the material economy of the late twentieth century and moved to the Crescent City.   

In Louisiana, the family's name also is spelled Diotte, Guiau, Guihote, Guillau, Guilleau, Guillote, Guillotte, Guilloz, Guyllotte, Guyot.28

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Eight descendants of René Guillot dit L'Angevin came to Louisiana aboard three of the Seven Ships from France in 1785.  The first of them--two unmarried siblings, a brother and a sister--crossed on La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in mid-August.  They followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where the sister married into the Boudrot and Thériot families.  The brother also married there: 

Pierre (1765-?) à René dit L'Angevin Guillot

Pierre, fifth son of René Guillot, fils and his second wife Françoise Bourg, born at Trigavou near St.-Malo, France, in September 1765, followed relatives from France to Spanish Louisiana.  He cannot be found on any of the passenger lists of the Seven Ships expeditions, but Louisiana records place him in the Valenzuela District on the upper Lafourche in January 1788, in his early 20s, so he likely crossed on La Bergère with his younger sister Françoise-Gertrude.  He remained on the upper Lafourche, where, at age 27, he married Isabelle-Olive, daughter of fellow Acadians Anselme Pitre and Isabelle Dugas, in December 1792.  Isabelle-Olive, a native of Pleurtuit near Trigavou, had come to Louisiana from France in 1785 aboard a later vessel.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie-Rose in June 1795; Zénon-Florentin in July 1798; Véronique-Clémence in November 1800; Jean Baptiste in February 1803; Adèle, also called Adeline Phanie, in January 1806; Urbain Louis in March 1808 but died in St. James Parish, age 17,  in October 1825; Pierre Paul born in January 1810 but died in Assumption Parish, age 44, in September 1853; and Pauline Constance born in October 1811--eight children, four daughters and four sons, between 1795 and 1811.  Daughters Véronique, Marie Rose, Pauline, and Adeline Phanie married into the Poirier, Larousse, Bonamour, and Pitre families.  Only one of Pierre's son married and remained in Assumption Parish.  

Second son Jean Baptiste married Marie Adeline, called Adeline, daughter of fellow Acadians François Barrilleaux and Marie Gautreaux, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1833.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Zéolide or Élodie in January 1834; Léopold Télésphore in November 1835; and Alexandre Théophile Joseph in March 1837--three children, a daughter and two sons, between 1834 and 1837.  Jean Baptiste died in Assumption Parish in February 1839.  The Plattenville priest who recorded the burial said that Jean Baptiste was age 33 when he died.  He was 36.  Daughter Élodie married into the Foret family by 1870.  Neither of Jean Baptiste's sons married by then. 

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Four more Guillots--a small family that included two young sons and a daughter--crossed on Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans during the second week of September 1785.  They, too, followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where two vigorous family lines came of it: 

Charles-Olivier (c1746-?) à René dit L'Angevin Guillot

Charles-Olivier, oldest son of Jean-Baptiste Guillot and his first wife Marie-Madeleine Arcement, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1746, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, where he was counted at Pointe-Prime with his widowed father and two sisters in August 1752, and to St.-Malo, France, in 1758.  In November 1766, at age 20, he married Madeleine-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Boudrot and his first wife Henriette Guérin of l'Assomption, Pigiguit, at Trigavou on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo.  Madeleine-Josèphe gave Charles-Olivier four children there:  Isidore-François born in September 1767; Jean-Michel in September 1769; Simon-François in February 1772; and Élisabeth-Madeleine in February 1774--three sons and a daughter between 1767 and 1774.  They evidently did not go to the interior of Poitou in 1773-74, but they did cross Brittany to the lower Loire port of Nantes by September 1784.  Though most of his kinsmen remained in France, Charles-Olivier took his wife, two younger sons, and his daughter to Spanish Louisiana the following year.  Oldest son Isidore-François, who, if he was still living, would have been age 18 in 1785, did not follow them there.  Charles-Olivier and Madeleine-Josèphe had no more children in the Spanish colony.  Daughter Élisabeth Madeleine married into the Hébert family on upper Bayou Lafourche and was one of the last of the Acadian immigrants in France to join her ancestors  Charles-Olivier's two younger sons also married and created vigorous lines on the bayou.  One wonders if his oldest son created a line of the family in France, and if anyone from the oldest son's line joined his/her relatives in Louisiana. 

Second son Jean-Michel, called Michel, followed his family to Nantes, New Orleans, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marie-Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre-Olivier Pitre and Rosalie Hébert of St.-Malo, France, and widow of Michel Godreaux, in November 1789.  Marie-Rose, a native of St.-Suliac across the river from Trigavou, also had come to Louisiana in 1785 aboard Le St.-Rémi.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Olivier in August 1790; Jean-Charles, called Charles, in February 1792; Isidore-François or François-Isidore in March 1794; Jean-Pierre in c1795; Jean-Baptiste baptized, age unrecorded, in April 1797; Narcisse-André or André Narcisse baptized, age unrecorded, in May 1799; Louis-Jean-Baptiste, called Jean-Baptiste, born in June 1800; Marie-Carmélite in April 1802; and Marguerite Éloise, Héloise, or Louise in March 1807--nine children, seven sons and two daughters, between 1790 and 1807.  Jean-Michel died in Lafourche Interior Parish in September 1827, age 58.  His succession inventory, naming his wife and listing his children and some of their spouses--Olivier, Isidore, Jean Pierre, Narcisse, Jean Baptiste, Marie Carmélite and her husband, Héloise and her husband, and Jean Charles and his wife--was filed at the Thibodeauxville courthouse the same month.  Daughters Marie Carmélite and Marguerite Louise dite Héloise married into the Fable and Richard families.  Six of Michel's sons also married and settled in Lafourche Interior Parish on the middle bayou.  Some of his descendants returned to Assumption Parish, and a few moved down into Terrebonne Parish, but most of them remained in Lafourche Interior, later simply Lafourche, Parish.  Most of the Acadian Guillots of South Louisiana descend from Jean-Michel and his fecund sons. 

Oldest son Olivier, married, at age 19, Anne-Marguerite, 18-year-old daughter of Luis Juncal or Oncale of Galicia, Spain, and his Acadian wife Marie Rose Dugas, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in November 1809.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Valéry or Valère Delphi in August 1810; Fergus Olivier Michel in January 1812; Eugène Léon Pierre in c1814 or 1815 (the recording priest said November 1803, six years before his parents married and when his parents would have been in their early teens!); Marcellus in December 1815; Euphrosine Marguerite in February 1818; Marie Azélie in December 1819 but died at age 12 1/2 in September 1832; Olivier Séverin, called Séverin, born in November 1821; Ange Landry or Lange Landry in February 1823; Rosalie in August 1825; Pauline in February 1829; and Marie Roseline in November 1831--11 children, six sons and five daughters, between 1810 and 1831.  In September 1860, the federal census taker in Lafourche Parish counted two slaves--a 16-year-old black female, and a 14-year-old black male--on Olivier Guillot's farm in the parish's Ward 6, next door to son Valéry's farm.  Olivier, no doubt surrounded by children, grandchildren, and even great-grandchildren, died in Lafourche Parish in May 1867.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial said that Olivier was age 82 when he died.  He was 76.  Daughters Euphrosine, Rosalie, Pauline, and Marie Roseline married into the Guillot, Thibodeaux, and Clément families, including two Guillot brothers/cousins.  Olivier's six sons also married.  One of them moved to the western prairies after the War of 1861-65, but his other sons remained in the Bayou Lafourche valley. 

Oldest son Valéry or Valère married Marie Arthémise, called Arthémise, daughter of Joseph Morvant and his Acadian wife Marie Éloise dite Lise Bernard, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in May 1833.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Jean Treville, called Treville, in May 1834; Marie Pauline or Apauline, called Apauline, in December 1837; Jean Aurelien, called Aurelien, in August 1839; Marie Élodie or Aurelie, called Aurelie, in June 1843; Odile in the 1840s; Jean Andreci, called Andreci or Odreci, in March 1846; Joseph Théophile in February 1852 but died at age 18 (the recording priest said 19) in September 1870; and Marie Veillien born in July 1853--eight children, four sons and four daughters, between 1834 and 1853.  In December 1850, the federal census taker in Lafourche Parish counted a single slave--a 16-year-old black female--on Valéry Guillot's farm.  In September 1860, the federal census taker in Lafourche Parish counted a single slave--a 16-year-old mulatto male--on Valéry Guillot's farm in the parish's Ward 6, next door to his father's place.  Daughters Apauline, Odile, and Aurelie married into the Hébert, Adam, and Mire families by 1870.  Three of Valéry's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Treville married Mathilde, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Hilaire Clément and Marie Florine Bernard, at the Thibodaux church in February 1854.  They settled on the upper bayou near the boundary between Lafourche and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Jean Furci in December 1856; Marie Osilia in March 1860; Jean Treville, fils in June 1862; Joseph in February 1865; Clara Flarelie in January 1867; Joseph Alfred in January 1870; ...

Valéry's second son Aurelien married cousin Aloisia or Louisa, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Mire and Adèle Guillot, at the Thibodaux church in January 1862; Aloisia's brother was Jean Aurelien's sister Aurelie's husband.  Aurelien and Aloisia's children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Amanda in January 1863; Marie Liva in August 1864 but, called Oliva, died at age 10 months in May 1865; Marie Otiana born in March 1866; Joseph in April 1868; Émile Félix in August 1869; ... 

Valéry's third son Ordreci married cousin Marie Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadian Vasseur Guillot and his Creole wife Marie Esteve, at the Thibodaux church in February 1870. ...

Olivier's second son Fergus married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Noël Thibodeaux and Euphrosine Élisabeth Boudreaux, at the Thibodauxville church in May 1835.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Cellus Olivier, a son, born in May 1836 but, called Marcelus, died at age 22 in November 1858; Marie Joséphine, called Joséphine, born in March 1838; Delphine in December 1840; Eulalie Marie in December 1843; Jean Baptiste Cletus in February 1847 but died at age 13 months in June 1848; Adolphina born in c1848 but died at age 10 in November 1858; Adam Siméon born in March 1852; Rosa Cléophine Élizabeth in November 1855; and Joseph Clodomir, called Clodimir, in September 1859--nine children, four sons and five daughters, between 1836 and 1859.  Daughters Marie Joséphine, Eulalie, and Delphine married into the Adam, Gros, and Thibodeaux families by 1870.  One of Fergus's sons also married by then. 

Fourth and youngest son Clodimir married cousin Marie Zulma, called Zulima, daughter of Joseph Albert and his Acadian wife Rose Thibodeaux, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in January 1867.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Justilia near Labadieville, Assumption Parish, in December 1866; Justilien Alfred in Lafourche Parish in October 1868; ... 

Olivier's third son Eugène Léon Pierre married Marie Élise or Élisabeth, called Élise, Élisa, Élisabeth, or Lise, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Tertulien Boudreaux and Marie Émilie Boudreaux, at the Thibodauxville church in January 1836.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Séverin Eugène, called Eugène, in February 1837; Jean Orestile Evariste, called Evariste, in September 1838; Marie Honorine in February 1840; Jean Nicolas Émile, called Émile, in December 1841; Joséphine Émelie in January 1844; Donatille Élisabeth in November 1845; and Victoire Odile, called Odile, in April 1848--seven children, three sons and four daughters, between 1837 and 1848.  Eugène died in Lafourche Interior Parish in January 1850, age 35.  Daughters Marie, Joséphine, and Odile married into the Picou, Guillot, and Calligan families by 1870.  Eugène's sons also married by then and settled on the Lafourche.

Oldest son Séverin Eugène, called Eugène, married Clarisse Honorine, called Honorine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Pierre Thibodeaux and Clarisse Marguerite Breaux, at the Thibodaux church in January 1858.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Eugène Maxilien in Lafourche Parish in April 1860; Marie Estellina in January 1862; Marie Cora in January 1864; Joseph Désiré in Assumption Parish in March 1865; Marie Adelina in February 1867; ...  

Eugène's second son Jean Evariste, called Evariste, married Azéma, perhaps also called Marie, daughter of Adam Percle and Mathilde Lagrange, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1862; their marriage was recorded also at the Thibodaux courthouse.  Their son Adam Joseph was born in Assumption Parish in November 1865; ...  

Eugène's third and youngest son Émile married Adolestine or Dorestine, daughter of Jean Pierre Gros and his Acadian wife Céleste Hébert, at the Labadieville church in August 1860; their marriage also was recorded at the Thibodaux courthouse in July 1861.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche and in Terrebonne Parish, included Charles Orville in Assumption Parish in September 1863; Joséphine Mirtilia in November 1867; Elizabeth Angela in Terrebonne in May 1870; ...  

Olivier's fourth son Marcellus married Marie Azélie, 20-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Martin Navarre Thibodeaux and Constance Hébert, at the Thibodaux church in October 1839.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Apollinaire Amélie, perhaps a daughter, in July 1840 but died the following September; Achilles Erneste Marcellus born in September 1841; Joseph in January 1844; Lénard or Léonard in August 1845; Georgina Philomène in July 1847; Julie Onestille in October 1848 but, called Julie Ernestine, died at age 10 months in August 1849; Jean Ernest born in June 1850; Eugène Édouard in March 1852; Evariste in October 1853; Marie in June 1855; and Sidalise in November 1856--11 children, five daughters and six sons, between 1840 and 1856.  None of Marcellus's children seem to have married by 1870, at least not in South Louisiana. 

Olivier's fifth son Séverin married first cousin Pauline, 17-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Isidore François Guillot and Marie Féliciènne Bernard, his uncle and aunt, at the Thibodaux church in November 1840.  They settled on the Lafourche until the early 1860s, when they moved to the Chacahoula area of Terrebonne Parish before continuing on to the western prairies later in the decade.  Their children, born there, included Séverin Teller in August 1841; Marie Octavie, called Octavie, in March 1844; Marie Stelina in February 1847; Skylen baptized at the Thibodaux church, age unrecorded, in July 1850; Victor Elibudy born in February 1852; Isidore Anatold in May 1854; Séverin Théophile in July 1857 but, called Théophile, died in Lafayette Parish, age 11, in September 1868; Jean Baptiste Abdon born in Lafourche Parish in July 1859; Delphine Aggaladie near Chacahoula in October 1861; and Marie Eve in December 1863--10 children, six sons and four daughters, between 1841 and 1863.  Séverin, called a Guyot by the recording priest, died in Lafayette Parish in January 1867, age 45.  Daughter Octavie married into the Hébert family by 1870.  None of Séverin's sons married by then. 

Olivier's sixth and youngest son Lange married Marie Célesie, called Célesie and Olésime, 21-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Mire and Henriette Bernard, at the Thibodaux church in October 1843.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Lorenza in December 1844; and Marie Mathilde or Masilda, called Masilda, in May 1848.  Lange remarried to Marie Mélasie, called Mélasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Narcisse Bourgeois and Caroline Louvière and widow of his first cousin Théophile Guillot, at the Thibodeaux church in April 1855.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Agladie in April 1857; Marie Angela in March 1859; Joseph Nelson in September 1861; and Olivier Aurestile or Aristide Olivier in October 1863--six children, four daughters and two sons, by two wives, between 1844 and 1863.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Lafourche Parish counted eight slaves--three males and five females, seven blacks and one mulatto, ranging in age from 27 to 1, living in two houses--on Lange Guillot's farm in the parish's Ward 8.  Lange died in Lafourche Parish in January 1864, age 40.  A "Petition for family meeting" in his name, listing his second wife and their children--Marie Agladie, Marie Angella, Joseph Nelson, and Airistide Olivier--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in February 1868.  Daughters Marie Lorenza and Masilda, by his first wife, married into the Bourgeois and Jenkins families by 1870.  None of Lange's sons married by then. 

Jean Michel's second son Jean Charles, called Charles, married Théodora Marianne Carmélite, daughter of Mathurin D'Aunis of St.-Brieuc, Brittany, France, and his Acadian wife Anne Théodose Bourg, at the Plattenville church in February 1812.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Rosalie Hortense or Hortense Rosalie in March 1813; François Gaetan in August 1815; Victor Stanislas in April 1817; and Marie Domitille in May 1819 but died at age 8 (the recording priest said 9 in August 1827--four children, two daughters and two sons, between 1813 and 1819.  Jean Charles died in Lafourche Interior Parish in January 1827, age 34.  His succession inventory, naming his wife and listing his children and their ages--Rosalie Hortense, age 13; François Gaetan, age 11; Victor Stanislas, age 9; and Marie Domitille, age 7--was filed at the Thibodeauxville courthouse that month.  Daughter Hortense Rosalie married into the Bourg family.  Both of Jean Charles's sons also married. 

Older son François Gaetan married Marie Séverine, called Séverine, daughter of Benjamin Malbrough and Émilicaire Boudelouche, at the Thibodaux church in February 1841.  Their children, born on the southeastern bayous, included Charles Martial in Lafourche Interior Parish in July 1842; Joseph in November 1844 but died the day after his birth; Zénon Numa born in July 1849 but, called Numa, died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 2) in May 1851; Oleus Omère born in September 1854; Rosa Donatille near Chacahoula, Terrebonne Parish, in December 1858; François Myrtille near Montegut, Terrebonne Parish, in August 1867; ...  

Jean Charles's younger son Victor Stanislas married Rose Virginie, 19-year-old daughter of John Calhoun and his Acadian wife Marie Boudreaux, at the Thibodaux church in May 1840.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Jean Charles Victor in May 1841 but died at age 8 months the following September; Émile born in 1842 but died at age 10 months in July 1843; and Victor, fils born in November 1845 but died at age 5 weeks (though the recording priest's notations about his age and death date are confusing).  Victor remarried to Cécile, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Henry and Marie Rose Boudreaux, at the Thibodaux church in February 1849.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Trasimond Joseph in November 1849 but, called Trasimond, died at age 2 1/2 (the recording priest said 3) in July 1852; Marie Virginie, called Virginie, born in January 1851; Joseph Théophile in June 1852; another Trasimond in August 1854; Victor, fils in September 1856; Marie Théodosia in October 1858; Joseph Aubert in January 1862; Marie Émilie in April 1865; ...  Daughter Virginie, by his second wife, married into the Bélanger family by 1870.  None of Victor Stanislas's remaining sons married by then. 

Jean Michel's third son Isidore François or François Isidore married Marie Féliciènne, called Féliciènne, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Bernard and Pélagie Madeleine Dugas of St. James Parish, at the Plattenville church in October 1814.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Assumption and Lafourche Interior parishes.  Their children, born there, included Isidore Hortère, also called Jean Isidore, in January 1816; Vasseur Isidore in December 1816; Evariste Basile in June 1818; Télésphore in June 1820; François Treville in December 1821 but died at age 4 1/2 in May 1826; Michel, also called Michel Noël and Noël, born in March 1823; Céleste Apolline, also called Marie Pauline and Pauline, in February 1825; Marie Urma or Irma in October 1828; and Marie Adèle, caled Adèle, in June 1832--nine children, six sons and three daughters, between 1816 and 1832.  Isidore Francois died in Lafourche Interior Parish in January 1834, age 39 (the recording priest said 40).  His succession inventory, naming his wife and listing his children--Isidore, age 21; Vasseur, age 20; Evariste, age 19; Télésphore, age 17; Michel, age 15; Marie Pauline age 13; Marie Irma, age 10; and Marie Adèle, age 5--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in September 1837.  Daughters Pauline, Marie Urma, and Adèle married into the Guillot, Thibodeaux, and Bernard families by 1870.  Five of Isidore's sons also married by then and settled on the Lafourche. 

Oldest son Isidore Hortère, also called Jean Isidore, married first cousin Euphrosine or Euphrasie, called Frosine, 20-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Olivier Guillot and his Creole wife Anne Marguerite Oncale, his uncle and aunt, at the Thibodaux church in February 1838; they would have had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Eulalie Marie Azélie, called Azélie, in December 1838; Victorin Adèl in January 1840 but, called Victorine, died at age 1 in February 1841; Jean Baptiste Isidore born in May 1841; Pauline Adèle, called Adèle, in October 1843; Jean Evariste, called Evariste, in the early 1840s; Marie Roseline in March 184__; Octave in April 1846; Jean in December 1847; Estellena or Estelina Georgina in May 1849; Oleus Joseph Cletus in October 1850; Maxille Ulysse, called Ulysse, in November 1852; Célina Olyssia or Lovinia, called Lovinia, in November 1854; twins Amélia Marie and Théophile Aurelien in February 1857; Olivier in July 1861; and Marie Alida in March 1863--16 children, eight daughters and eight sons, including a set of twins, between 1838 and 1863.  Isidore Hortère died in Lafourche Parish in February 1867, age 51.  A "Petition for tutorship" in his name, naming his wife, and listing their children and their spouses--Azélie and her husband, Adèle and her husband, Estellina and her husband, Evariste, Ulysse, Lovinia, Théophile, Elder, and G. Alida--was filed in his name at the Thibodaux courthouse in June 1868.  Wife Euphrosine died in Lafourche Parish in August 1869, age 52.  A petition for "Family meeting" in her name, calling her husband Isidore Guillet, Jr. and listing their children and their spouses--Azélie and her husband, Adèle and her husband, Estellina and her husband, Ulysse, Lovincia, Théophile, Elda, and Alida--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in January 1870.  Daughters Marie Azélie, Adèle, and Estelina married into the Esteve, Bernard, and Thibodeaux families by 1870.  One of Isidore's sons also married by then.

Third son Jean Evariste, called Evariste "of Lafourche Parish," married first cousin Honorine, daughter of fellow Acadians Honoré Thibodeaux and Paulin Guillot, his uncle and aunt, at the Labadieville church in March 1869; the marriage also was recorded in Lafourche Parish; they also would have had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry. ...

Isidore François's second son Vasseur married Marie, 20-year-old daughter of Fernand Esteve and Hélène Sylvie, at the Thibodauxville church in November 1837.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Jean Baptiste Ange in April 1838; François Isidore in February 1840; Marie Joséphine in October 1846; Louis Joseph in August 1848; and Eugénie Aurelie in November 1852--five children, three sons and two daughters, between 1838 and 1852.  Daughter Marie married a Guillot cousin by 1870.  One of Vasseur's sons also married by then.

Second son François Isidore married Domitille, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Hilaire Clément and Marie Florine Bernard, at the Thibodaux church in November 1865.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Adrien Jean in February 1867; Marie Félicie in November 1869; ...  

Isidore François's third son Evariste Basile married Élisabeth dite Élise, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Thibodeaux and Élisabeth Boudreaux, at the Thibodaux church in October 1839.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Evariste Théodomie, called Théodomie, in October 1840; Isidore Émile Ulisse or Ulysse, called Ulysse, in December 1841 but died in 1864, age 23 (one wonders if his death was war-related); Eve Élisabeth in December 1844; Marie Stella or Estellina, called Estellina, in February 1848; Émile in February 1850; Marie Olympe, called Olympe,  in November 1852; Antoinette, perhaps also called Angelina, in February 1855; Marie Hilairiane or Marieanne, called Marieanne, in September 1857; and Féliciane Godilia or Cordelia, called Cordelia, in June 1860--nine children, three sons and six daughters, between 1840 and 1860.  Wife Élise died in Lafourche Parish in 1864.  A "Petition for adm. & inventory" in her name, calling her Élize, naming her husband, and listing their children--Théodomie, Ulysse (d. 1864), Estellina, Émile, Olympe, Angelina, Marianne, and Cordelia--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in March 1870.  Daughter Estelina married into the Aucoin family by 1870.  None of Evariste Basile's sons married by then. 

Isidore François's fourth son Télésphore married first cousin Rosalie, another daughter of Olivier Guillot and Anne Marguerite Oncale, at the Thibodaux church in July 1841.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Victorine in June 1842; Anne Odille or Adèle, also called Marie Léodille, in December 1843; and Jean Baptiste Octave, called Octave and Gustave, in March 1845.  Wife Rosalie died in Lafourche Interior Parish in May 1845, age 20.  A petition for her succession inventory, naming her husband and their three children and their ages--Marie Victorine, "about 6 yrs."; Marie Léodille, "about 4 1/2 yrs."; and Octave, "about 3 yrs."--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in February 1848.  Télésphore remarried to Marie Modeste, called Modeste, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Pierre Thibodeaux and Clarisse Marguerite Breaux, at the Thibodaux church in October 1846.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Roséma in July 1847; Marie Zéolide in July 1848 but, called Marie, evidently died in Lafourche Parish at age 17 (the recording priest said 16) in July 1865; Philippe Emilius born in August 1849; Marie Oliva in February 1851; Honorine Philomène in February 1853; Alfred Oleusne in October 1854; and Isidore Aurelien in May 1856--10 children, six daughters and four sons, by two wives, between 1842 and 1856.  Télésphore died in Lafourche Parish in 1857, age 37.  A petition for "Family meeting" in his name, listing his first wife Rosalie as deceased, and naming his children from his first marriage--Victorine, Léodile, and Octave--was filed at the Thibodaux courthosue in September 1857.  Daughter Odile, by his first wife, married into the Aucoin family by 1870.  One of Télésphore's sons also married by then and settled on the western prairies.

Oldest son Jean Baptiste Octave, called Octave, from first wife Rosalie Guillot, called Gustave by the recording priest, married Pélagie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Duhon and Eugénie Landry, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, February 1870. ...

Isidore François's sixth and youngest son Michel Noël married Marie Séraphine, called Séraphine, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Charles Aucoin and his Creole wife Marie Hélène Leloret, at the Thibodaux church in October 1850.  Their son Eugène Gustave Noël was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in November 1851.  Michel died in Lafourche Parish in May 1853, age 30.  His son did not marry by 1870. 

Jean Michel's fourth son Jean Pierre married Marie Eléonore, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Hébert and Marie Madeleine LeBlanc, at the Plattenville church in November 1816.  Their chilidren, born on the Lafourche, included Adèle Marguerite in August 1817; Marie Félonise or Philonise in February 1820; Marie Madeleine born in July 1825; and Pierre Michel, called Michel, in September 1828--four children, three daughters and a son, between 1817 and 1828.  Jean Pierre died in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1832, age 36.  A succession inventory, naming his wife and listing his children--Adèle, age 18; Philonsi, age 16; Marie, age 10 1/2; and Michel, age 7--was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse in May 1836.  Daughters Marie Philonise, Marie Madeleine, and Adèle married into the Adam, Morvant, and Mire families.  Jean Pierre's son also married. 

Only son Michel married Zéolide, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Hilaire Clément and Marie Florine Bernard, at the Thibodaux church in July 1849.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joseph Thomas in February 1851; Marie Talcide in September 1853; Clara Marie in May 1856; Marie Zumée in May 1859; Marie Gratiana in April 1863; Joseph Alphonse in August 1866; ...  None of Michel's children married by 1870. 

Jean Michel's sixth son Narcisse André or André Narcisse married cousin Anne Rosalie, called Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Bourg and Madeleine Pitre, at the Plattenville church in April 1819; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of relationship in order to marry.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Assumption and Lafourche Interior parishes.  Their children, born there, included André Madeline, perhaps a daughter, in c1819 but died at age 17 in June 1836; Marcellin Narcisse, perhaps called Narcisse, born in April 1820; Marie Joséphine in the 1820s; Pierre Fremin in July 1821; Asélie or Azélie Dometille in February 1823 but died the following September; Marie Caroline born in August 1824; Séraphine in July 1827; Louis Lubin, called Lubin and Urbin, in August 1829; Zulma Zéolide in June 1831 but, called Marie Azéma, died at age 2 1/2 in September 1833; Marie Séverine, also called Marie Evéline, born in March 1833; Marie Clémentine, called Clémentine and Catherine, in February 1834; Léonard Lambert, called Eléonord, born in April 1838; and François in March 1844--13 children, eight daughters and five sons, between 1819 and 1844.  Narcisse-André, called Narcisse, died in Assumption Parish in February 1847, age 48.  Daughters Marie Joséphine, Marie Caroline, Marie Evéline, and Clémentine married into the Conio, Elbrece, Marengo, Breaux, and Caballero families by 1870, one of them, Marie Evéline, twice.  Three of Narcisse André's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Narcisse may have married Marie Rousseau, place unrecorded, in the 1840s.  Their children, born probably on the Lafourche, included Marie Séraphine and François probably in the 1840s.  Daughter Marie Séraphine married into the Gautreaux family by 1870.  Narcisse's son also married by then, on lower Bayou Teche.

Only son François married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian André Henry and his Creole wife Marie Elvina Kerne of Assumption Parish, in a civil ceremony in St. Mary Parish in August 1867, and sanctified the marriage at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, later in the month. ... 

Narcisse André's third son Louis Lubin, called Urbain by the recording priest, married cousin Séraphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Bourg and Carméllite Thibodeaux, at the Thibodaux church in February 1849.  Their children, born on the Lafourche and in Terrebonne Parish, included Ursin near Labadieville, Assumption Parish, in October 1849 but died near Donalsonville, Ascension Parish, at age 3 months the following February; Evelina born in Terrebonne Parish in May 1852; Marie Roselia in December 1854; Alphonse Adam in August 1856; Séraphin Michel in December 1858; Narcisse Paul in May 1861; Jean Louis Jean Pierre near Montegut, Terrebonne Parish, in November 1864; ...  None of Louis Lubin's children married by 1870. 

Narcisse André's fourth son Léonard married fellow Acadian Sylvanie LeBlanc in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in February 1862.  Their children, born near Montegut on the edge of the Terrebonne marshes, included Jean Félicien in June 1864; and Joseph Émile in c1866.  Léonard, called Eléonard by the recording priest and parish clerk, remarried to Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadian François Thibodeaux and his Creole wife Angèle Biron, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in February 1869.  Daughter Rosalie Angelina was born in Terrebonne Parish in January 1869; ...

Jean Michel's seventh and youngest son Jean Baptiste, at age 19, married Hortense Pélagie, called Pélagie, 17-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Basile Marie Richard and Marie Anne Victoire Comeaux, at the Thibodauxville church in April 1820.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Rosalie in December 1822; Firmin Victor in September 1824 but died at age 9 in October 1833; Théosophile or Théophile born in February 1826; Adèle Lisa or Élisa Adèle in April 1828; Marie Estelle, called Estelle, in September 1834; Joseph Joachim in July 1836; and Marie Odile posthumously in November 1837--seven children, four daughters and three sons, between 1822 and 1837.  Jean Baptiste died in Lafourche Interior Parish in May 1837.  The Thibodeauxville priest who recorded the burial said that Jean Baptiste was age 36 when he died.  A succession inventory, naming his wife and listing his remaining children and their birthdates--Marie Rosalie; Théophile; Élisa Adèle; Marie Estelle; and Joseph Joachim--was filed at the Thibodeauxville courthouse in June.  Daughters Marie Rosalie, Élisa Adèle, Estelle, and Marie Odile married into the Hébert, Gaudet, Babin, and Bourgeois families.  Jean Baptiste's remaining sons also married.

Second son Théophile married Marie Mélasie, 17-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Narcisse Bourgeois and Marie Louise Louvière, at the Thibodaux church in April 1845.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Émelie in April 1846 but, called Émelie, died at age 8 (the recording priest said 9 1/2) in April 1854; Paul Jean Baptiste, called Jean Baptiste le jeune, born in February 1848; and Louis Prosper, called Prosper, in October 1849--three children, a daughter and two sons, between 1846 and 1849.  Théophile died in Lafourche Interior Parish in July 1851, age 25.  A petition for "Tutelage," naming his wife and listing his children--Émilie, Jean Baptiste, and Prosper--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse a few weeks after his passing.  His widow remarried to his first cousin, Lange Guillot, four years later.  Théophile's sons married within a month of each other and settled on the Lafourche.

Older son Jean Baptiste le jeune married cousin Adèla, daughter of Jean Baptiste Laine and his Acadian wife Adèle Bourgeois, at the Thibodaux church in February 1869.  Their son Joseph Théophile was born in Lafourche Parish in January 1870; ...

Théophile's younger son Prosper married Hermina, daughter of Augustin Hernandez and Pauline Gonzales, at the Thibodaux church in January 1870.  Their son Joacin, probably Joachim, was born in Lafourche Parish in October 1870; ...

Jean Baptiste's third and youngest son Joseph Joachim married Marguerite Ursuline or Azéline, daughter of fellow Acadians Ursin Babin and Marcelline Bourgeois, at the Thibodaux church in September 1855.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marguerite in July 1856; Joseph Jean Baptiste in September 1858; Camille Omer in July 1865; ...  

Charles-Olivier's third and youngest son Simon-François followed his family to Nantes, New Orleans, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Anastasie-Céleste-Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Dugas and Anastasie Barrilleaux, in May 1792.  Anastasie, a native of St.-Suliac, across the river from Trigavou, also had come to Louisiana in 1785 aboard Le St.-Rémi.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Jean-Pierre or -Paul in June 1793; and Céleste-Eulalie in November 1797.  Simon-François remarried to Rose-Julie, daughter of fellow Acadians Benoît Comeaux and Anne Blanchard, at Assumption on the upper Lafourche in April 1799.  Rose, a native of Chantenay near Nantes, had come to Louisiana from France in 1785 aboard a later vessel.  They settled farther down bayou in Lafourche Interior Parish, where his older brother Jean-Michel had gone.  Simon-François and Rose-Julie's children, born on the bayou, included Basilise-Marie or Marie-Basilise in December 1800; Marie-Modeste in January 1803; Claire in August 1804; Jean Hippolyte in November 1806; Marie Rose Melisère in September 1808; Isidore Hippolyte or Hippolyte Isidore in December 1810; Eugène in August 1815 but died in Assumption Parish, age 32 (the recording priest, who gave no parents' names or mentioned a wife, said 42), in September 1847; Marie Adélaide born in the 1810s; and Arselin Sébastien in January 1818--11 children, five sons and six daughters, by two wives, between 1793 and 1818.  Simon Francois died in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1849, age 76 (the recording priest said 78).  Daughters Claire, Marie Basilise, Céleste Eulalie, Marie Modeste, Marie Rose Melisère, and Marie Adélaïde, by both wives, married into the Dantin, Minguet or Mayet, Levron, Riviere, Aupied, Leriche, Navarre, and Tauzin families, two of them, Marie Basilise and Marie Modeste, twice.  Two of Simon François's sons also married and settled on the Lafourche.  Two of his grandsons moved to the western prairies after the War of 1861-65, establishing a western branch of the family. 

Oldest son Jean Pierre, also called John P., from first wife Anastasie Dugas, married Marie Renée, called Renée, daughter of fellow Acadians Servant Mathurin Lejeune and Marguerite Pitre, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in April 1817.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Adèle in July 1818; Zénon Marcellus in January 1820; Marie Fanie in February 1822 but, called Marie Phanie, died at age 6 1/2 (the recording priest said 7) in June 1828; Marie born in March 1824; Marguerite Pauline in April 1826 but, called Pauline Marguerite, died at age 19 in September 1844; Marie Avelina or Evéline, called Evéline, born in February 1829; Pierre Ursin or Ursin Pierre in January 1832; and Valsin in c1838--eight children, five daughters and three sons, between 1818 and 1838.  Wife Renée, called "Mrs. Jean Pierre" Guillot by the recording priest, evidently died "during [a] yellow fever epidemic" in Lafourche Parish in October 1853.  In December 1850, the federal census taker in Lafourche Interior Parish counted a single slave--a 15-year old black female--on Jean Pierre Guillot's farm.  In September 1860, Jean Pierre, who never remarried, was living with his oldest son Zénon, a farm manager, and his family in Lafourche Parish; Jean Pierre was listed by the federal census taker as a 67-year-old "laborer.  Jean Pierrre died in Lafourche Parish in December 1869, age 76 (the recording priest said 66).  Daughters Marie Adèle, Marie, and Evéline married into the Sanches, Naquin, and Breaux families by 1870.  Jean Pierre's three sons also married by then.

Oldest son Zénon Marcellus married Émilie, called Carmélite, Émelite or Mélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Dantin and Clothilde Guidry, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in May 1841.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Émée or Elmire, called Elmire, in April 1842; Joseph Paulin, called J. Paulin and Paulin, in January 1845; Pauline Ophelia, called Ophelia, in November 1846; Joseph Franklin in December 1848 but, called Joseph François, died at age 2 1/2 in February 1851; Joseph Livodé born in October 1851 but, called Linodé, died at age 3 1/2 in March 1855; and Joseph born in September 1853--six children, two daughters and four sons, between 1842 and 1853.  Wife Émilie died "during [a] yellow fever epidemic" in Lafourche Parish in September 1853, age 30, soon after son Joseph was born.  Zénon remarried to Carmélite's sister, Odille Dantin, at the Thibodaux church in December 1855.  In September 1860, the federal census taker in Lafourche Parish counted three slaves--a 30-year-old female, an 11-year-old female, and a 10-year-old male, all black--on Zénon Guillot's farm in the parish's Ward 2.  Daughter Elmire, by his first wife, married into the Folse family by 1870.  One of Zénon's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Joseph Paulin, called Paulin, from first wife Carmélite Dantin, married Caroline, daughter of Terence Toups and his Acadian wife Marie Caroline Bourgeois, at the Thibodaux church in February 1866.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Louis Albert in February 1867; Joseph Ferduci in January 1869; Charles Henri in July 1870; ...

Jean Pierre's second son Ursin Pierre or Ursin Pierre married Adela Odilia, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Bergeron and Madeleine LeBlanc, at the Thibodaux church in July 1853.  Their children, born in Lafourche Parish, included Louisa in January 1854; Madeleine Laura in March 1863; ...  Neither of Ursin's daughters married by 1870. 

Jean Pierre's third and youngest son Valsin married Helena, daughter of Joseph Dickerson and Marie Powell, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in June 1869.  Their son Jean Pierre le jeune was born in Lafourche Parish in June 1870; ...

Simon François's third son Isidore Hippolyte or Hippolyte Isidore, by second wife Rose Julie Comeaux, married Marguerite Azélie, 19-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Noël Victor Boudreaux and Rose LeBlanc, at the Thibodauxville church in February 1832.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Rose Eulalie in February 1832; Joseph Éloy or Éloi in December 1835; Arcène or Arsène Marcellus, called Marcellus, in December 1836; Théodule Jerasime or Gerasime, called Gerasime, in February 1840; Marie Pauline, called Pauline, in c1842 or 1843 but died at age 6 in May 1849; and Pauline Adolphine born in April 1844--six children, three daughters and three sons, between 1832 and 1844.  Isidore Hippolyte died in Lafourche Interior Parish in March 1846, age 35.  A petition for succession inventory, calling him Hypolite, naming his wife, and listing his children and their approximate ages--Mary, "about 12 yrs."; Joseph, "about 10 yrs."; Marcellus, "about 8 yrs."; Jerasime, "about 6 yrs."; and Pauline, "about 4 yrs."--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse the following May.  Daughter Marie married into the Dupont family by 1870.  Isidore Hippolyte's sons also married by then, and two of them settled in Lafayette Parish on the western prairies soon after the War of 1861-65.  The other one remained on the Lafourche. 

Oldest son Joseph married Clémentine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Hébert and Constance Breaux, at the Thibodaux church in May 1859.  Their children, born on the Lafourche and the western prairies, included Ernest in April 1860; Marie Delphine in August 1861; Ozémé Delphin in December 1862; Marie Zulma near Youngsville, Lafayette Parish, in September 1865; Joseph, fils in November 1867; ...  

Isidore Hippolyte's second son Marcellus married double cousin Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Eugène Guillot and Marie Élise Boudreaux, at the Thibodaux church in September 1856.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Eulolie Louisiana in October 1860; Odile Myrtilia in April 1862; Marc Silvaire in October 1865; Joseph Sylvestre in December 1868; ...  

Isidore Hippolyte's third and youngest son Gerasime married double cousin Joséphine, another daughter of Eugène Guillot and Marie Élise Boudreaux, at the Thibodaux church in May 1861.  Either during or soon after the War of 1861-65 they moved to the western prairies.  Their children, born on the southeastern bayous and the southwest prairies, included Marie near Chacahoula, Terrebonne Parish, in May 1862; Marie Pauline Aurelia near Labadieville, Assumption Parish, in April 1864; Ernest near Youngsville, Lafayette Parish, in October 1866; ...

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Two more Guillots--a wife married to a Breau and her Guillot nephew--crossed on L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in early November 1785.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near their kinsmen already there.  Another vigorous family line came of it:

Fabien-Amateur (1763-1734) à René dit L'Angevin Guillot

Fabien-Amateur, fifth son of Ambroise Guillot and Théotiste Daigre, born at Trigavou near St.-Malo, France, in November 1763, followed his family to Poitou and Nantes, where he worked as a sailor.  In 1785, while most of his siblings remained in Poitou and at Nantes, he followed a paternal aunt, an uncle-in-law, and two cousins to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche, where, at age 22, he married Anne-Josèphe, 20-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Prosper-Honoré Giroir and Marie Dugas, in February 1786; they re-validated the marriage at Assumption in September 1797.  Anne, a native of St.-Coulomb near St.-Malo, had come to Louisiana from France in 1785 aboard an earlier vessel.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Fabien-Thomas, called Thomas and Thomas-Fabien, baptized, age unrecorded, in May 1787; Jean-Baptiste baptized, age unrecorded, in May 1788; Joseph born in September 1789; another Jean-Baptiste in December 1792; Louis-Ambroise in March 1795 but died at age 1 in March 1796; Marguerite born in February 1797; Louis-Giles in September 1798; Anne in September 1800; and Mathurin Eusèbe or Eugène, called Eugène, in November 1804 but died in Assumption Parish, age 42, in September 1847--nine children, seven sons and two daughters, between 1787 and 1804.  Fabien died in Assumption Parish in October 1834, age 71 (the recording priest said 72).  Daughters Marguerite and Anne married into the Bourque and Blanchard families.  Four of Fabien's sons also married and settled in Assumption Parish, but not all of the lines endured.  Some of the sons became prosperous planters in the parish.  

Oldest son Fabien Thomas, called Thomas and Thomas Fabien, married Apolline or Pauline, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Aucoin and Élisabeth Henry of Iberville Parish, at the Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, in May 1809.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche included Thomas Isidore, called Isidore, in March 1810; Eulalie Constance in January 1812; twins Claire Apolline or Clarisse Pauline and Joseph Jean in January 1814; Eugénie Emérante in July 1816; Henriette Rosalie in July 1818; Charles Guillaume in July 1820; Ursin Louis in August 1822; Marie Joséphine in January 1825 but, called Marie, so this probably was her, died at age 19 (the recording priest at the Plattenville church said 1!) in July 1844; and Jean Baptiste le jeune born in December 1827--10 children, five sons and five daughters, including a set of twins, between 1810 and 1827.  Fabien Thomas died in Assumption Parish in September 1830, age 43.  Daughters Clarisse Pauline, Eugénie, and Henriette married into the Blanchard, Aucoin, and Ozelet families.  All of Fabien Thomas's sons married and settled on the upper bayou, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Thomas Isidore, called Isidore, married cousin Constance Eulalie, called Eulalie, daughter of fellow Acadians François Giroir and Madeleine LeBlanc, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in November 1831.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Euphémie, called Euphémie, in September 1832; Eulalie Hélène in November 1836 but, called Hélène, died at age 10 months in October 1837; Élise Octavie, called Octavie, born in January 1839; Cécile Émilite or Émelie, called Émelie, in November 1840; Zéphirin in August 1842; Adrien Aubin in March 1844; Jérôme Émile, called Émile, in September 1846; and Azéline Marguerite in April 1848 but died at age 15 (the recording priest said 20) in September 1863--eight children, five daughters and three sons, between 1832 and 1848.  Thomas Isidore, called Isidore by the recording priest, who gave no parents' names or mentioned a wife, died in Assumption Parish in November 1853, age 43 (the recording priest said 44).  Daughters Euphémie, Émelie, Octavie, and Azéline married into the Templet, Giroir, Landry, and Loftus families by 1870.  Isidore's 15-year-old daughter Élise Octavie, called Octavie, gave birth to a son, Pierre Eugène, in Assumption Parish in June 1854, nearly a dozen years before she married René Landry in Ascension Parish in January 1866; the Plattenville priest who recorded the boy's baptism in 1854 did not give the father's name.  May one assume that, if he survived childhood, Pierre Eugène took the name Guillot?  (The boy does not appear with his mother in the 1860 federal census in Assumption Parish, so he may not have survived childhood.)  Isidore's sons also married by 1870, two of them after their war service, all of them to cousins, and settled on the upper Lafourche.

During the War of 1861-65, oldest son Zéphirin served in Company H of the 29th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Assumption Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  Zéphirin survived the war, returned to his family, and married cousin Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Damas Giroir and Carmélite Barrilleaux, at the Plattenville church in December 1867; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born in Assumption Parish, included Helena Eugénie in December 1868; Ptolemie Anaïze in May 1870; ... 

During the war, Isidore's second son Adrien served in Company H of the 29th Regiment Louisiana Infantry with older brother Zéphirin.  Adrien also survived the war, returned home, and married cousin Evéline, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Guillot and Malvina Hébert, at the Plattenville church in February 1867; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born in Assumption Parish, included Nicolas Numas in December 1867 but, called Numas, died at age 1 (the recording priest said 13 months) in January 1869; Lea Adriènne born in November 1869; ...   

Isidore's third and youngest son Émile married cousin Léonide, daughter of fellow Acadians Olésiphore Aucoin and Marine Guillot, at the Plattenville church in January 1868; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry in the church. ...

Fabien Thomas's second son Joseph Jean, a twin, married first cousin Célestine Célonise, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Giles Guillot and Cléonise Hébert, his uncle and aunt, at the Plattenville church in February 1846; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Felia in December 1846 but, called Ophelia, died at age 6 (the recording priest said "6 years, 6 months") in November 1852; Amadéo Joseph born in January 1849; François Xavier Albert, called Albert, in December 1850; Eulalie Célina in February 1854 but, called Célina, died at age 1 1/2 in September 1855; Marie Herminie, called Herminie, born in April 1858; Marguerite Alzina in October 1861; Marie Aurelia, called Aurelia, in January 1866; ...  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish, counted seven slaves--three males and four females, all blacks, ranging in age from 40 to 3, a 38-year-old male labeled "idiotic" and a 16-year-old male called "insane," all living in a single house--on Jos. T. Guillot's farm in the parish's Ward 3; this probably was Joseph Jean.  Neither of his surviving daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did.

Second son Albert married cousin Angela, daughter of fellow Acadians Calixte Aucoin and Marcellite Bourg, at the Plattenville church in January 1869; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Daughter Françoise Marie Lydia was born in Assumption Parish in December 1869 but, called Lydia, died 15 days after her birth; ...

Fabien Thomas's third son Charles Guillaume married cousin Eléonore, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Aucoin and Victorine Landry, at the Plattenville church in November 1846; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Daughter Marie died in Assumption Parish two days after her birth in August 1847.  Charles remarried to cousin Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Martin Blanchard and Constance Bourg, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1849; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  She evidently gave him no children.  Charles remarried again--his third marriage--to cousin Marie, daughter of Ouvert Simoneaux and his Acadian wife Clémentine Bourg, at the Paincourtville church in January 1852.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted two slaves--a male and a female, both blacks, both 30 years old--on Charles Guillot's farm in the Bruly St. Martin area of the parish's Ward 11.  Despite having been married three times, Charles's family line may have died with him. 

Fabien Thomas's fourth son Ursin Louis married cousin Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Daigle and Élisabeth Hébert, at the Plattenville church in June 1844; they had to secure a dispensation for fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Édouard Augustave in March 1845; Euzelien Yrène in June 1846 but, called Euzilien, died at age 5 in July 1851; Marie Annette or Nanette, called Nanette, born in February 1848; Marie Julie Odile in May 1849; Anne Camilla in November 1851; Odile in c1853 but died at age 1 in December 1854; Marguerite Ernestine born in September 1854; Joseph Ernest in March 1856; Adam Arture in May 1857; Adélaïde Célina near Pierre Part on the north shore of Lake Verret in November 1859; Octavie Adolphine in January 1862; Joseph Evarisse in February 1866; ...  Daughters Nanette and Camilla married into the Mabile and Aucoin families by 1870.  None of Ursin Louis's sons married by then. 

Fabien Thomas's fifth and youngest son Jean Baptiste le jeune married Adorestine, daughter of fellow Acadian Godfroi Breaux and his Creole wife Rosalie Coupelle, at the Paincourtville church in January 1852.  Did they have any children? 

Fabien's third son Joseph married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Pierre Landry and Anne Daigle, at the Plattenville church in August 1814.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Théodule Joseph in December 1815; Joseph Evariste, called Evariste, in c1819; Marie Amelina dite Mélina in January 1820; and Irène Cléonise in May 1822 but died at age 2 in June 1824--four children, two sons and two daughters, between 1815 and 1822.  Joseph, at age 36, remarried to Clémence, daughter of René dit Simon Simoneaux and his Acadian wife Isabelle Luce Daigle, at the Plattenville church in June 1826.  She evidently gave him no more children.  In September 1850, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted a single slave--a 32-year-old black male--on Joseph Guillot's farm in the parish's Second Congressional District.  Joseph died in Assumption Parish in August 1855, age 66.  Daughter Marie Amelina, by his first wife, married into the Mabile family.  Joseph's sons also married and settled on the Lafourche. 

Older son Théodule Joseph, by first wife Marie Landry, married Zépheline Christine, another daughter of René dit Simon Simoneaux and Isabelle Luce Daigle and widow of Hilaire Bourg, at the Plattenville church in January 1839; Zépheline was Théodule's stepmother's sister.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Élodie, called Élodie, in August 1840; Marguerite Anastasie, called Anastasie, in July 1842; Joseph Justinien in February 1845; Ludivine Dorinza in March 1847; and Pierre Luc in November 1850--five children, three daughters and two sons, between 1840 and 1850.  In September 1850, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted three slaves--a male, age 35, a female, age 35, and a 1-year-old female, all black--on Joseph T. Guillot's farm in the parish's Second Congressional District; this probably was Théodule Joseph.  Théodule died by May 1868, when he was noted as deceased in a daughter's marriage record.  Daughters Anastasie and Élodie married into the Grandin, Aleman, and Breaux families, one of them, Anastasie, twice, by 1870.  Neither of Théodule's sons married by then. 

Joseph's younger son Joseph Evariste, called Evariste, from first wife Marie Landry, married Fideline, also called Adeline, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Dugas and Eugénie Bernard, at the Plattenville church in April 1843.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Émelie, called Émelie, in January 1844; and Joseph Émile, called Émile, posthumously in December 1845.  Evariste died in Assumption Parish in May 1845, age 26.  Daughter Émelie married into the Navarre family at Chacahoula, Terrebonne Parish, by 1870.  Evariste's son also married by then.

Only son Émile married Joséphine, daughter of Hermogène Aycock and Rosalie Close, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Parish, in December 1868.  Daughter Joséphine Eda was born near Chacahoula in January 1870; ...

Fabien's fourth son Jean Baptiste, the second with the name, married Eugénie, daughter of fellow Acadians Servant Templet and Céleste Aucoin, at the Plattenville church in July 1814.  One wonders if they had any children.  In September 1850, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted 16 slaves--10 males and six females, 14 blacks and two mulattoes, ranging in age from 40 to 3--on J. B. Guillot's farm in the parish's Second Congressional District.  Jean Baptiste died in Assumption Parish in February 1859, age 66.  His line of the family evidently died with him.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted 19 slaves--14 males and five females, 17 blacks and two mulattoes, ranging in age from 55 to 1, living in three houses--on Widow J. B. Guillot's farm in the parish's Ward 3.  

Fabien's sixth son Louis Giles married Cléonise or Léonise, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Hébert and Élisabeth Mazerolle, at the Plattenville church in April 1817.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Émilie Marie in January 1818 but, called Émelie, died at age 15 (the recording priest said 17) in May 1833; Alexandre Léandre born in January 1820; Célestine Cléonise in February 1822; Louis Lazare, called Lazare, in September 1824; Marine Cléonise in April 1827; Célesia Aloisia in December 1829; Marie Ozélie in February 1832 but, called Azélie Marie, died at age 14 months in April 1833; Ursin Édouard, called Édouard, born in October 1836; a daughter, name unrecorded died a day after her birth in April 1840; and Marie Émelitte born in May 1842 but, called Marie Émilite, died at age 6 1/2 (the recording priest said 7) in January 1849--10 children, seven daughters and three sons, between 1818 and 1842.  In early September 1850, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted 15 slaves--eight males and seven females, 13 blacks and two mulattoes, ranging in age from 67 to 2--on Louis Guillot's farm in the parish's Second Congressional District.  Louis Giles died in Assumption Parish in 1853, age 54.  Daughters Marine and Célestine married into the Aucoin and Guillot families, one of them to a first cousin, by 1870.  Louis Giles's sons also married and settled on the upper bayou. 

Oldest son Alexandre Léandre married cousin Malvina, daughter of fellow Acadians Timothée Hébert and Rosalie Comeaux, at the Plattenville church in January 1843.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Amélite Avelina, Evelina, or Evélline, called Evélline, in October 1843; Thomas Anatole, called Anatole, in December 1845; Malvina Léoncia in October 1848 but, called Léontia, died at age 9 1/2 in January 1858; Oscar Alexandre born in September 1850; Elphége Alexandre in February 1853; Flegy Augustin in November 1855; Hyacinthe Alcé in August 1858 but, called Alcé, died at age 6 in August 1864; Omer Marcelin born in June 1861; Alphonse Rémon in January 1864 but, called Alphonze, died at age 4 in August 1868; Apollonie Cordilia born in February 1867; ...  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted 28 slaves--16 males and 12 females, 27 blacks and one mulatto, ranging in age from 60 years to 6 months, living in seven houses--on A. Guillot and Company's plantation in the parish's Ward 3; this probably was Alexandre.  He also held three more slaves--a 36-year-old mulatto female, a 12-year-old black male, and an 8-year-old black female--on another holding in Ward 3.  Daughter Evélline married a Guillot cousin by 1870.  One of Alexandre's sons also married by then, after his Confederate service.

During the War of 1861-65, Alexandre's oldest son Anatole served in Company H of the 2nd Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, raised in Assumption Parish, which fought in Louisiana.  Anatole was only 16 1/2 years old when he enlisted in September 1862.  He survived the war, returned to his family, and married cousin Léontia, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Giroir and Adèle Hébert, at the Plattenville church in February 1870; they had to secure a dispensation for second and third degrees of consanguinity in order to marry. ...

Louis Giles's second son Louis Lazare, called Lazare, married Ernestine, daughter of fellow Acadians Firmin Aucoin and Pélagie Arceneaux, at the Plattenville church in July 1848; Lazare's wife was his sister Marine's husband's sister.  Lazare and Ernestine's children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Noémi Marie in June 1849; Louis Ernest in February 1853; Firmin Edgar in February 1855; Peragie Véronique in August 1857; Marie Liliia in April 1860; François Xavier in December 1862; ...  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted a single slave--an 18-year-old black female--on Lazare Guillot's farm in the parish's Ward 3.  Daughter Noémi married into the Melançon family by 1870.  None of Lazare's sons married by then. 

Louis Giles's third and youngest son Ursin Édouard, called Édouard, married cousin Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Damas Giroir and Carmélite Barrilleaux, at the Plattenville church in February 1859; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Anaïsse in December 1859 but, called Anaïze, died at age 3 1/2 (the recording priest said 5) in June 1863; Sosthène Evariste born in November 1861 but, called Evariste, died at age 2 1/2 (the recording priest said 2) in March 1864; Augustin Léon Édouard born in May 1863; Achille Oleus in February 1866; Joseph Alcide in May 1869; ...  

Hébert

Louis Hébert came to Acadia with Jean de Biencourt, sieur de Poutrincourt et de Saint-Just, one of the founders of the colony, in the summer of 1606, soon after the French established Port-Royal.  Louis was an apothecary and horticulturist from Paris and a relative of Poutrincourt by marriage.  When the Port-Royal venture failed in 1607, Louis returned to France with most of the other men, but he returned to Port-Royal a few years later when Poutrincourt revived French presence in Acadia.  On neither occasion did he bring to L'Acadie any member of his family.  Unfortunately, Louis was at Port-Royal when Virginia Admiral Samuel Argall burned the settlement in November 1613.  Three years later, back in France, Samuel de Champlain, who had founded Québec in 1608, coaxed Louis into moving to the Canadian outpost, this time with his wife, Marie Rollet, and their three children--Anne, Guillemette, and Guillaume.  Champlain granted Louis a three-year contract as resident physician and surgeon at 200 crowns per year with four hectares (approximately 10 acres) for a homestead at Québec.  The Héberts sailed to the settlement in March 1617.  Before departing Honfleur, however, Louis had learned that the fat salary Champlain's investors had promised him had been cut in half and that after his three-year contract expired he would be expected to work for the company at Québec without any compensation!  Despite this setback, Louis and his family went on to Québec; they were, in fact, the first permanent settlers in what was then only a remote fur trading post but which would become the most important French settlement in North America--Canada.  Louis's skills as an apothecary and a horticulturalist helped make life bearable at the frontier post.  Louis, in fact, was the first settler in all of New France to support himself from the soil.  In 1621, Champlain appointed him King's attorney at Québec.  Louis was especially noted for his relations with the local Natives, who returned his respect and kindness.  In 1623 and 1626, the viceroys of New France granted Louis two land concessions:  Sault-au-Matelot on Cap-Diamant overlooking Québec, and St.-Joseph along Rivière St.-Charles below the settlement.  Louis also received the title of Sieur d'Epinay.  As a result of his appointment and his land grants, Louis and his family became fairly prosperous, but their good fortune was short-lived.  In January 1627, Louis fell through the ice and never recovered.  He died at Québec later in the month, in his early 50s, and was buried in the Récollet chapel there.  His descendants remained at Québec, even under English occupation from 1629 to 1632.  Only one of his children married:  Daughter Guillemette married Guillaume Couillard de Lespinay at Québec in August 1621.  Louis the apothecary of Paris, then, was not the progenitor of the Héberts of Acadia.  

The Acadian branch of the Hébert family did not appear in North America until a generation after the death of Louis of Québec.  Two brothers, Antoine and Étienne Hébert, probably not kin to Louis of Paris, arrived at Port-Royal in c1640.  Some authorities claim that Antoine and Étienne were brothers of Jacques, fils, son of Jacques Hébert and Marie Juneau of La-Haye-Descartes, Touraine, France.  Jacques, fils's name appears in a notarized marriage contract in Québec in 1688, witnessed by Marie-Guillemette Hébert, daughter of Québec pioneer Louis Hébert.  Acadian genealogist Stephen A. White has demonstrated, however, that Jacques Hébert, fils of Québec was actually Jacques Habert, a different family from the Héberts of Québec and Acadia, so the parentage and birthplace of the Hébert brothers are still unknown.  Still, one has to consider that La-Haye-Descartes, a village on the Creuse, a tributary of the Vienne, lies not very far east of Martaizé and La Chausée south of Loudun and the middle Loire valley, home of many of the early settlers who went to French Acadia about the time the brothers arrived there. 

Older brother Antoine, born in c1621, was a young farmer turned cooper when he came to Port-Royal.  He married Geneviève Lefranc there in c1648.  Between 1649 and 1656, Geneviève gave Antoine three children, two sons and a daughter.  Their daughter married into the LeBlanc family.  Both of Antoine's sons, named Jean, survived childhood, but only the younger one created a family of his own.  Jean le jeune married Marie-Anne, daughter of Pierre Doucet and Henriette Pelletret, at Port-Royal in c1676.  Members of the family were counted at Minas in the early 1690s and at Chignecto in 1713.  Between 1677 and the early 1700s, Marie-Anne gave Jean le jeune 14 children, eight sons and six daughters.  Jean le jeune died probably at Minas in c1707, in his 50s.  Wife Marie-Anne died at Grand-Pré in November 1710.  Four of their daughters married into the LeBlanc, Boudrot, and Saulnier families.  Seven of Jean le jeune's sons married, into the Gautrot, Landry, Blou, LePrince, Boudrot, and Bourg families.  Antoine's younger brother Étienne, whose birth year is unknown, married Marie, daughter of Jean Gaudet and his first wife ____, at Port-Royal in c1650.  Étienne was not listed in the first Acadian census of 1671 because he had died a year or two before it was taken.  He fathered 10 children, five daughters and five sons, all born at Port-Royal and all of whom created families.  His daughters married into the Forest, LePrince, Comeau, Pinet, and Barrieau families.  His sons married into the Brun, Comeau, Doiron, Pellerin, Corporon, and Orillon families.  As a result, the Héberts remained one of the largest families in greater Acadia as well as in the Acadian disaspora. 

By 1755, descendants of the Hébert brothers could be found in many of the major Acadian communities, including Annapolis Royal, formerly Port-Royal; Grand-Pré, Pigiguit, and Cobeguit in the Minas Basin; Chignecto, where one of the communites south of the Cumberland Basin was named Rivière-des-Héberts; Chepoudy and Memramcook in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto; Pobomcoup near Cap-Sable; and on Île St.-Jean and Île Royale in the French Maritimes.  Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this big family even farther. 

The Acadians at Chignecto were the first to endure a disruption of their lives.  During the spring and summer of 1750, in response to the British building a fort at Beaubassin village, Canadian militia, along with Mi'kmaq led by Abbé Jean-Louis Le Loutre, burned Acadian homesteads east of Rivière Missaguash, forcing the habitants there to move to the French-controlled area west of the river.  Héberts likely were among the refugees affected by this petit dérangement.  After yet another war erupted between Britain and France in 1754, Chignecto-area Acadians were caught in the middle of it.  When British and New-English forces attacked Fort Beauséjour in June 1755, Héberts probably were among the area Acadians who were serving in the fort as militia.  They, too, along with the French troupes de la marine, became prisoners of war when the fort surrendered on June 16.  Lieutenant-Governor Charles Lawrence was so incensed to find so-called French Neutrals fighting with French regulars at Beauséjour he ordered his officers to deport the Chignecto-area Acadians to the southernmost seaboard colonies.  Hébert families were shipped to South Carolina and Georgia.  Most of the area Héberts, however, escaped the British that summer and fall and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, lower Rivière St.-Jean, or moved on to Canada. 

Many of the Héberts still at Minas and Pigiguit in the fall of 1755 found themselves on transports bound for Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.  They were especially numerous in Massachusetts and Maryland, where they were dispersed throughout those colonies.  The hundreds of Acadians transported to Virginia, the first contingent of which reached Hampton Roads during the second week of November, suffered the indignity of being turned away by the colony's authorities.  For weeks, the exiles, including Héberts, languished in the lower James River aboard disease-infested ships while Governor Robert Dinwiddie and his council pondered their fate.  Later that autumn, as winter approached, the governor ordered the "French Neutrals" dispersed to the ports of Hampton, Norfolk, and Richmond.  The following spring, the colony's Burgesses debated the question of their fate and concluded that the "papists" must go.  Virginia authorities hired more vessels and sent the Acadians on to England, where they were packed into warehouses in several English ports and where many died of smallpox.  Héberts were held at Southampton and Liverpool.  Back in Nova Scotia, the few Minas Héberts who escaped the British in 1755 joined their cousins on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore or in Canada.  Most of the Héberts still at Annapolis Royal escaped the roundup there and on the haute rivière.  After a hard winter on the Fundy shore, they crossed the bay to Chepoudy the following spring and joined their fellow refugees on the upper Petitcoudiac or lower Rivière St.-Jean before moving on to the Gulf shore or to Canada.  At least one Annapolis family, however, was deported to New York.  In September 1755, the habitants at Cobeguit, learning of the fate of their cousins on the other end of the Minas Basin, packed up their goods and their loved ones and abandoned their settlements.  Many of them headed cross country to Tatamagouche and other North Shore settlements.  That fall, winter, or the following spring, in what boats they could find, they crossed Mer Rouge to Île St.-Jean, where they joined their kinsmen from Annapolis Royal, Minas, and Cobeguit who had been there since the late 1740s. 

An Hébert family at Pobomcoup near Cap-Sable, along with the other Acadians there, remained unmolested during the initial round of deportations.  In April 1756, however, a New-English force from Halifax under Major Jedidiah Preble descended on the Cap-Sable villages, including Pobomcoup, and rounded up 72 Acadians there, including a family of Héberts.  After taking them to Georges Island, Halifax, British authorities ordered them to board the ship Mary.  Their destination was North Carolina, but they landed, instead, at Manhattan in late April and refused to be taken to the southern colony aboard H.M.S. Leopard.  New York authorities agreed to let them stay.  The Héberts were sent to Southampton in Suffolk County on Long Island. 

Living in territory controlled by France, the many Héberts on Île St.-Jean and Île Royale escaped the fate of their cousins in Nova Scotia in 1755 and 1756.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived, however.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats rounded up most of the habitants on the islands and deported them to France, Héberts among them.  The crossing to St.-Malo devastated the family.  Island Héberts did their best to create a life for themselves in the suburbs and villages of the St.-Malo area.  They settled in the suburbs of St.-Servan-sur-Mer next to St.-Malo and at St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, across the harbor; in the Rance-valley villages of Pleslin, Plouër-sur-Rance, Ploubalay, Tréméreuc, Pleurtuit, and Trigavou on the west side of the river; at St.-Suliac, Châteauneuf, and Pleudihen-sur-Mer on the east side of the river; at St.-Coulomb and St.-Méloir-des-Ondes in the countryside east of St.-Malo; and in the Breton port itself.  From late 1758 to early 1760, island Héberts, as well as Héberts captured at Cap-Sable in a second offensive there in September 1758, ended up in other French coastal cities, including Cherbourg and Le Havre in Normandy, Morlaix in northwest Brittany, and Rochefort and Bordeaux on the Bay of Biscay. 

In the spring of 1763, after prolonged negotiations between the French and British governments, the Acadians in England, including Héberts, were repatriated to several ports in France, including St.-Malo and Morlaix.  From December 1763 through November 1764, Acadians, most of them refugees from England living at Morlaix, including three Hébert brothers from that Breton port, left France for Guiane on the northeastern coast of South America.  Like most of the settlers who ventured to this newest French colony, their experience there was not a happy one.  Most of the survivors returned to Morlaix later in the decade.  At least one Hébert remained in the tropical colony, but his time there was cut short.  He drowned in Rivière Sinnamary the first of February 1773, age 36, and was buried in the local cemetery.  Meanwhile, in late autumn 1765, Héberts repatriated from England and a few who had been deported from the French Maritimes agreed to become part of a new agricultural settlement on recently-liberated Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany.  None of the Héberts remained on the island after 1773.  One family moved on to Quimper in southern Brittany before going to Poitou, and another moved on to Rochefort. 

In the early 1770s, Acadians in France chose in even greater numbers to take part in another settlement venture, this one in the interior of Poitou.  French authorities were tired of providing for the exiles languishing in the coastal cities.  An influential nobleman offered to settle them on land he owned near the city of Châtellerault.  Héberts from Quimper, Pleslin, St.-Suliac, Plouër-sur-Rance, St.-Méloir-des-Ones, Le Havre, and Rochefort took up the offer, which proved for many of them a poor bargain.  From October 1775 through March 1776, after two years of effort, hundreds of the exiles, including most of the Héberts, retreated in four convoys down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes, but at least one Hébert family remained in Poitou.  At Nantes and nearby Chantenay, the wayward Acadians lived as best they could on government handouts and what work they could find.  

Members of the family ended up in France by a different route, but most of them did not remain.  After the war with Britain ended in 1763, Héberts from Massachusettes chose to resettle on Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland, which offered them an opportunity to escape British rule.  By 1767, French authorities, obeying a royal decree, attempted to relieve Miquelon and nearby Île St.-Pierre of overcrowding by sending the fisher/habitants to France.  Héberts were among them.  Most of them returned to Miquelon the following year.  In late 1778, during the American Revolution, the British seized the Newfoundland islands and deported the fisher/habitants, including Héberts, to France.  Most of them ended up at La Rochelle, where they lingered through the rest of the war.  The British retroceded the Newfoundland islands to France in 1783, and most of the island Acadians, including Héberts, returned to North America in 1784.  Not all of them returned to Miquelon.  Some moved on to the British-controlled fishery in Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs or to the îles de la Madeleine in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, also controlled by Britain.  In the summer of 1794, during yet another war between France and Britain, the British recaptured the Newfoundland islands and detained the fisher/habitants at Boston and Halifax for three years.  In 1797, the British deported the islanders at Halifax to Bordeaux and Le Havre, where they arrived in July and August.  One Hébert family was among the islanders sent to Le Havre.  They were living at Les Pentents, Le Havre, in April 1798 when they petitioned the French government to allow them to return to La Rochelle.  One wonders if the French government granted the family's request and if they returned to Miquelon in the 1810s with other Acadian refugees in France.   

Meanwhile, during their two and a half decades in the mother country, island and repatriated Héberts proliferated, and some even prospered, despite the frustrations of living there.  Yet, in the early 1780s, when the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, at least 106 Héberts--nearly all of the Héberts at Nantes and some of the ones still living near St.-Malo--agreed to take it.  Other members of the family--a few Héberts still at St.-Malo, and Héberts at Morlaix, Cherbourg, Le Havre, and Rochefort--chose to remain. 

Meanwhile, in North America, conditions only got worse for the Acadians who had escaped the British in the late 1750s and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  After the fall of Québec in September 1759, the British gathered their forces to attack the remaining French strongholds in New France, including Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, now a major Acadian refuge.  A British naval force from Louisbourg attacked Restigouche in late June 1760.  After a spirited fight in which Acadian militia and Mi'kmaq warriors played an important role, the French commander blew up his larger vessels and retreated up Rivière Restigouche, leaving the militia and the Indians to prevent a British landing.  Unable to capture the garrison or lay waste to the area, the British commander ordered his ships to return to their base at Louisbourg.  In October, after the fall of Montréal, another British naval force, this one from Québec, appeared at Restigouche to accept the garrison's, and the Acadians', surrender.  On 24 October 1760, on the eve of formal surrender, French officers counted 1,003 Acadians still at Restigouche, including Héberts.  The British held them, along with other exiles who had either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the region, in prison compounds in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  One of the compounds was Fort Edward, overlooking the old Hébert homesteads at Pigiguit.  Another was Fort Cumberland, formerly French Fort Beauséjour, at Chignecto, also near former Hébert homesteads.  The largest was at Halifax.  Between 1761 and August 1763, dozens of Héberts appeared on censuses or repatriation lists in all three of these compounds.

At war's end, Héberts being held in the seaboard colonies, theoretically, were free to go, but not until the British discerned their intentions.  Even then, colonial officials discouraged repatriation.  In the spring and summer of 1763, many members of the family appeared on French repatriation lists in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Maryland.  They could be found in fewer numbers that year on lists in New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Georgia.  But, despite expressing their hope of resettling in French territory, most of the Acadians in the northern seaboard colonies, including many Héberts, chose to re-settle in Canada, where some of their kinsmen from Nova Scotia and Île St.-Jean had gone as early as 1756.  Though now also a British possession, the far-northern province was populated largely by fellow French Catholics, many of them Acadian exiles.  So, in a colony nearly as old as Acadia, descendants of Antoine and Étienne Hébert began the slow, inexorable process of becoming Canadiennes.  Especially after 1766, Héberts could be found on the upper St. Lawrence or the lower Richelieu at Baie-Fébrve, Bécancour, Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Champlain, Châteauguay, Deshaillons, L'Acadie, La Chine, La-Prairie-de-la-Magdeleine, L'Assomption, Les Cèdres, Loretteville, Lotbinière, Nicolet, Rivière-du-Loup, St.-Antoine-de-Chambly, St.-Denis-sur-Richelieu, St.-François-du-Lac, St.-Grégoire-de-Nicolet, St.-Jacques de l'Achigan, St.-Michel-d'Yamaska, St.-Ours, St.-Philippe-de-la-Prairie, Ste.-Thérèse-de-Blainville, Trois-Rivières, and Yamachiche; on the lower St. Lawrence at Baie-St.-Paul, Charlesbourg, Kamouraska, Île d'Orléans, St.-Charles de Bellechasse, St.-François-du-Sud, and St.-Joachim; at Bonaventure in Gaspésie; and on the îles-de-la-Madeleine in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.  In what became New Brunswick, Héberts settled at Cocagne, Nepisiguit, and Shippagan on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore; and at Madawaska on upper Rivière St.-Jean.  Typical of most, if not all, Acadian families, these Acadiennes of Canada lost touch with their Cadien cousins hundreds of miles away, and until the Acadian reunions of the twentieth century, may even have forgotten the others existed. 

Other Héberts still languishing in the seaboard colonies emigrated, instead, to the French Antilles to avoid living in territory controlled by the British.  While the end-of-war treaty was being negotiated, French officials encouraged the exiles in the British colonies to go to St.-Dominique.  Although driven from North America by the Seven Years' War, the French were determined to hang on to what was left of their shrinking colonial empire.  A new naval base at Môle St.-Nicolas on the northwest end of the big island would protect the approaches to their remaining possessions in the Caribbean region and assist in the "war of revenge" to come.  Exiles who could be lured to St.-Domingue would prove a ready source of labor not only for the naval contractors, but also for the island's major planters, who hoped to supplement the work of their slaves.  To sweeten the deal, the French promised the Acadians land of their own in the sugar colony.  The first of them reached Cap-Français in late 1763.  However, the colony's governor sent most of the Héberts from New England not to Môle St.-Nicolas but to the interior community of Mirebalais, 30 miles northeast of Port-au-Prince, to work on coffee and indigo plantations.  They arrived in August 1764.  Many of them did not survive the experience.  Not all of the church records generated by the Acadians there were burials, however, though area church records reveal that the births/baptisms among the Héberts at Mirebalais did not outnumber the deaths.  Nevertheless, when fellow Acadians from Halifax and Maryland, including Héberts, came through Cap-Français on their way to New Orleans during the mid- and late 1760s, none of the Héberts still in St.-Domingue chose to join them.  They evidently had found a place for themselves in the colony's slave-based plantation economy.  One family, that of Pierre Hébert and his wife Anne Bourg, became "planters" by the early 1770s.  Héberts also settled at Môle St.-Nicolas, site of the new naval base, and on other islands in the French Antilles, including Martinique and Guadaloupe.  

Héberts being held in Nova Scotia at war's end faced a hard dilemma.  The Treaty of Paris of February 1763 stipulated in its Article IV that persons dispersed by the war had 18 months to return to their respective territories.  However, British authorities refused to allow any of the Acadian prisoners in the region to return to their former lands as proprietors.  If Acadians chose to remain in, or return to, Nova Scotia, they could live only in small family groups in previously unsettled areas or work for low wages on former Acadian lands now owned by New-English "planters."  If they stayed, they must also take the hated oath of allegiance to the new British king, George III, without reservation.  They would also have to take the oath if they joined their cousins in Canada and other parts of greater Acadia.  After all they had suffered on the question of the oath, few self-respecting Acadians would consent to take it if it could be avoided.  Some Nova Scotia exiles chose to relocate to Île Miquelon, where Héberts from Massachusetts were going.  Others considered going to French St.-Domingue, where Acadian exiles in the British colonies, including many Héberts, were bound, or to the Illinois country, the west bank of which still belonged to France, or to French Louisiana, which, thanks to British control of Canada, was the only route possible to the Illinois country for Acadian exiles.  Whatever their choice, many refused to remain under British rule.  So they gathered up their money and their few possessions and prepared to leave their homeland.  Of the 600 exiles who left Halifax in late 1764 and early 1765 bound for Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, 17 were Héberts. 

The dozens of Héberts in Maryland endured life among Englishmen, who, despite their colony's Catholic roots, did not care much for the French "papists" thrust upon them.  When word reached the exiles in Maryland that the Spanish would welcome them in Louisiana, they pooled their meager resources to charter ships that would take them to New Orleans.  Two Héberts were part of the first contingent of exiles from the Chesapeake colony that reached New Orleans in September 1766, and 35 of them were part of the second contingent that arrived there in July 1767----one of the largest single Acadian family groups to go to the Spanish colony. 

Héberts had settled early in Acadia and proliferated there, and they were among the first Acadians to seek refuge in Louisiana, where they also proliferated.  The first of them came to the colony from Halifax via Cap-Français with the Broussards in February 1765.  In April, they followed the Broussards to Bayou Teche in the Attakapas District.  Later in the year, still more Héberts came from Halifax via Cap-Français and settled at Opelousas, north of Attakapas.  Others from Halifax settled in the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  The following year, in September 1766, two Hébert wives were the first of the family to reach the colony from Maryland; they also went to Cabahannocer.  In July 1767, nine Hébert families, numbering 35 individuals--one of the largest single family groups to come to the colony at a given time--arrived from Maryland and went to the new Acadian community of San Gabriel on the river above Cabahannocer, settling on what became known as the upper Acadian Coast.  One of these San Gabriel families produced a future governor and two future Confederate generals, another a state senator and a parish sheriff.  By the 1780s, substantial centers of Hébert-family settlement had developed on the western prairies and along the entire Acadian Coast. 

Even if the Spanish government had not coaxed over 1,500 Acadians in France to come to Louisiana in the 1780s, the Hébert family would have been a large one in Louisiana, but the latter-day arrivals added substantially to the family's numbers there.  The 1785 flood of immigrants from France included over a hundred Héberts.  There were, in fact, more Héberts on the rolls of the Seven Ships expeditions than any other family.  Some of them settled on the Acadian Coast among their cousins from Halifax and Maryland, and a few chose to settle on the western prairies, but most of them followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, creating a third center of family settlement there.  During the late colonial and early antebellum periods, Héberts from the river joined their cousins in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley, and some of the Héberts from the river and Bayou Lafourche moved on to the western prairies.  During the early antebellum period, in a reversal of the usual Acadian settlement pattern in South Louisiana, Héberts from Bayou Lafourche resettled on the river, but one of their cousins followed the usual pattern by moving from the river to Bayou Lafourche. 

By the end of the antebellum period, then, Héberts could be found in nearly every corner of South Louisiana, as well as in East Texas.  They lived along Bayou Teche from Arnaudville all the way down into St. Mary Parish, and on the southwestern prairies in Lafayette, St. Landry, Avoyelles, Vermilion, and Calcasieu parishes, including the Mermentau River valley.  They were especially numerous in Lafayette Parish.  An Hébert from Lafayette Parish ventured to Beaumont in Jefferson County, Texas, in the early 1840s, lived there for several years, returned to southwest Louisiana, married an Anglo Creole from St. Landry Parish, and returned to East Texas, where he became a major cattleman and land speculator in Jefferson County.  On the river, members of the family could be found on both sides of the Mississippi in St. James, Ascension, and Iberville parishes, farther up in East and West Baton Rouge parishes, especially on the west bank of the river, and even in Pointe Coupee Parish, where few Acadians settled.  In the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley, they settled from the Ascension/Assumption parish line all the way down to the coastal marshes bordering the Gulf of Mexico.  They also settled in the Pierre Part area on the north shore of Lake Verret.  After the war, more Héberts from Bayou Lafourche and the river moved to the prairies, including an Hébert from Iberville who had served as a general in the Confederate army. 

Not all of the Héberts of South Louisiana were Acadians.  A French-Creole Hébert died at Charity Hospital, New Orleans, in 1774.  During the 1770s, two Hébert brothers from Burgundy lived at Pointe Coupée and Ascension before leaving the river.  One of them settled for a time at Ouachita in what is now northeastern Louisiana before joining his brother in the Opelousas District.  Some of them settled far out on the prairie near Ville Platte in present-day Evangeline Parish, others near Opelousas and Grand Coteau.  Few of their descendants married Acadians.  One of the brothers, François dit Milan, had three sons who created families of their own, but, despite their vigorous family lines, the numbers of these French-Creole Héberts remained miniscule compared to their Acadian namesakes.  ...

Most members of the family participated only peripherally in the South's antebellum plantation-based economy.  Some Héberts, however, especially on the river, owned large plantations with significant numbers of slaves.  In 1860 in Iberville Parish, Michel Hébert owned 113 slaves, former Governor Paul Octave Hébert held 94 slaves, and Oscar Hébert and company owned 62. ...

Over 200 Héberts served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65, two of them as generals.  At least two dozen Héberts gave their lives in the struggle for Southern independence.  ...  Early in the war, an Hébert from Lafayette Parish who had gone to East Texas as a young man two decades earlier raised a company of volunteers at Beaumont in Jefferson County and then served as an officer in the East Texas militia at Houston.  ... 

According to a recent study of Louisiana families with French and Spanish surnames, Hébert "is the most frequent surname of French origin, barely outnumbering Landry."  The study, published in 1986, counted over 6,000 households in the state bearing the surname Hébert.  Members of the family can be found in all parts of Louisiana, the study concluded, but they "have remained largely in the southern part of the state near areas first settled by their forebears."  This is especially interesting in light of the fact that more Acadian Landrys and LeBlancs than Héberts emigrated to Louisiana during the colonial period.  One wonders if the results of the 1986 study attest to a vigorous Y-chromosome in the Hébert family, as well as to the number of freed slaves and their Afro-Creole descendants who kept the name Hébert after 1865. 

In Louisiana, the family's name also is spelled Eber, Eberd, Etbert, Heber, Heberd, Hever, Heverre, Hevert, Hiber, Hiver, Iber.29

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The first Acadian Héberts--two males and a female, including a brother and sister---came to New Orleans from Halifax via Cap-Français in February 1765 and followed the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche.  One of the males--Pierre, an orphan, age undetermined--died in the epidemic that struck the Teche valley Acadians that summer and fall.  The young brother and sister survived the sickness and remained on the Teche.  The sister married a younger son of Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil, and her brother created a substantial family line on the western prairies: 

Joseph-Pepin (c1748-?) à Jean-Emmanuel à Emmanuel à Étienne Hébert

Joseph-Pepin, older son of Bénoni Hébert dit Manuel and Jeanne Savoie, born probably at Chignecto in c1748, followed his family into exile and imprisonment, and, while still a teen, to Louisiana with the Broussards in 1764-65 and to Bayou Teche in April 1765.  (Joseph-Pepin should not be confused with his first cousin, Joseph dit Pepin Hébert, who also came to the colony from Halifax in 1765 but settled on the river before moving to the western prairies.)  Spanish officials counted Joseph-Pepin in the "District of the Pointe" in April 1766.  He married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Trahan and Marguerite Broussard, at Attakapas in April 1771.  They settled on the upper Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included Joseph, fils in March 1772; Adélaïde in May 1774; Agricole in October 1776; Célestin baptized, age 6 weeks, in May 1779; Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, born in January 1782; François dit Pepin in April 1784; Julie in November 1786; and Louis in May 1789--eight children, five sons and three daughters, between 1772 and 1789.  In 1777, Joseph-Pepin and Madeleine owned 30 head of cattle, four horses, and 10 hogs.  By 1781, they owned 52 animals, most of them cattle.  Daughter Madeleine married into the Broussard and Duhon families.  Joseph-Pepin's sons also married.  Three of the lines, especially that of his fourth son, became substantial ones.  The other two lines, except for their blood, probably did not endure. 

Oldest son Joseph, fils married, at age 18, cousin Catherine-Marguerite, called Marguerite, 21-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Trahan and Marguerite Duhon, at Attakapas in October 1790.  Marguerite, a native of Bangor, Belle-Île-en-Mer, off the southern coast of Brittany, had come to Louisiana from France in 1785 aboard one of the Seven Ships.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Frédéric, also called Séverin, in July 1792; Scholastique in June 1794; a son, name unrecorded, in September 1796 but buried seven days after his birth, a victim of yellow jaundice; Marie-Eurasie, called Eurasie, born in October 1797; Éloi in November 1799; a son, name unrecorded, died eight days after his birth in November 1801; François le jeune born in c1802 and baptized at Attakapas, age 15 months, in February 1804 but died at the home of Lucien Bourg on the Vermilion, age 2 1/2, in April 1805; and Marguerite died at age 24 hours in August 1804.  Wife Marguerite died at age 37 three days after the birth of daughter Marguerite.  Joseph, fils remarried to Élisabeth or Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadians François Duhon and Isabelle Landry of Ascension and widow of Jean Marie Trahan, at Attakapas in July 1806.  They settled "at Vermillion."  Their children, born there, included a son, name unrecorded, died five days after his birth in May 1807; a daughter, name unrecorded, died eight days after her birth in March 1808; Marguerite born in May 1809; twins Marie Arthémise, called Arthémise, and Marie Felonise or Phelonise in November 1811; Marie Doralise, called Doralise, in January 1814; Marie Aspasie, called Aspasie, in January 1816; Mélanie in December 1817; and Joseph III in February 1820 but died at age 6 weeks the following April--17 children, seven sons and 10 daughters, including a set of twins, by two wives, between 1792 and 1820.  Joseph, fils died in Lafayette Parish in September 1827 "at age 56 years" (he was 55) and was buried "in the church cemetery."  His succession, naming his second wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following month.  Daughters Scholastique, Eurasie, Marguerite, Arthémise, Marie Phelonise, Doralise, Aspasie, and Mélanie, by both wives, married into the Boudreaux, Meaux, Cormier, Broussard, and Guidry families, four of them to Broussards between 1830 and 1832, three of the Broussards with Hébert mothers, and the twins to brothers.  Only two of Joseph, fils's sons married, one of them to a Broussard

Oldest son Frédéric, also called Séverin, from first wife Marguerite Trahan, married Marie, daughter of Frenchman Jean Baptiste Simon of Rennes, Brittany, and his Acadian wife Marie Aucoin of Vermilion, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in November 1813.  They settled on the upper Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included Eusèbe Lessain or Lessin, called Lessin, in August 1814; Marie Denise in March 1816; Maximiliènne in December 1817; Eugénie in November 1819 but died the following February; and Joseph le jeune baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, 2 days, in August 1828--five children, two sons and three daughters, between 1814 and 1828.  Daughters Marie Denise and Maximiliene married into the Trahan and Duhon families.  Frédéric's sons also married. 

Older son Eusèbe Lessin, called Lessin, married cousin Marie Carmélite, called Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Hébert and Geneviève Granger, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in October 1832.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Édouard in August 1834; Cycile or Cécile baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in November 1835; Eugène born in March 1837 but died at age 2 1/2 in January 1840; Célise or Céleste born in October 1838; Armenie or Arminie in February 1839; Ursain or Ursule in July 1841; Théodule in February 1843; Isidore in April 1844 but, unnamed, may have died at age 7 in March 1851; André L. born in c1846; and Marie in June 1848--10 children, five sons and five daughters, between 1834 and 1848.  Daughters Célise, Cécile, Ursule, Marie, and Arminie married into the Simon, Boudreaux, Vincent, and Mouton families by 1870, two of them to Simons.  Eusèbe Lessin's remaining sons also married by then, one of them to a sister's brother, and settled in Lafayette Parish. 

Oldest son Édouard married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Arvillien Mouton and Sydalise Boudreaux, at the Vermilionville church in October 1860.  They settled near Youngsville.  Their children, born there, included Jean in December 1861; François in April 1866; Julien in February 1868; Étienne in December 1869; ... 

Eusèbe Lessin's third son Théodule married Eugénie, daughter of Joseph Simon and his Acadian wife Marie Mire, at the Youngsville church, Lafayette Parish, in October 1865.  Théodule's younger sister Marie married Eugénie's brother Éloi.  Théodule and Eugénie's son Klebert was born near Youngsville in February 1867; ... 

Eusèbe Lessin's fifth and youngest son André L. married Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadians Édouard Vincent and Juliènne Boudreaux, at the Youngsville church in October 1866.  Their son André Euphémon was born near Youngsville in October 1867; ... 

Frédérics's younger son Joseph le jeune married Aspasie, 16-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Rosémond Broussard and Joséphine Broussard, at the Vermilionville church in December 1846.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Amélie in Lafayette Parish in November 1847; Frédéric le jeune in October 1849; Ida in September 1852; Marie Alida in September 1855; Joseph, fils in September 1857; Ema near New Iberia on the lower Teche in July 1859; Clelie in April 1861; Aspasie in Lafayette Parish in October 1865; ...  They were living near Youngsville the following decade.  None of Joseph le jeune's daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did.

Older son Frédéric le jeune married Zelmire, daughter of Foreign Frenchman Louis Delcambre and his Acadian wife Adélaïde Landry, at the New Iberia church, Iberia Parish, in September 1869. ...

Joseph, fils's third son Éloi, by first wife Marguerite Trahan, married Célestine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Breaux and Marie Madeleine Girouard of Vermilion, at the St. Martinville church in February 1819.  They settled on the upper Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included Célestine in January 1819; Sosthène in February 1822; Jean Baptiste in March 1824; Carmélite baptized at age 6 months, 22 days, in December 1826 but died at age 23 1/2 months in May 1828; Alexandre born in 1828 and baptized at the Vermilionville church at age 6 months in January 1829; Laisin or Lessin le jeune baptized at age 3 months in August 1830; Aspasie born in August 1832; Césaire baptized at age 7 weeks in July 1834; Bélizère or Bélisaire baptized at age 6 months in June 1837; Odile baptized at 2 months in October 1839; Ceveline born in September 1841; and Amélie in November 1847--a dozen children, six daughters and six sons, between 1822 and 1847.  None of Éloi's daughters married by 1870, but three of his sons did. 

Oldest son Sosthène married Marie, daughter of James Whittington and his Anglo-Creole wife Elizabeth Sellers, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in January 1843.  They settled probably near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Adolphe in December 1844; Clarisse in September 1846; Lidorisse in January 1848; Onésime in February 1853; Félicia in August 1855; Félicie in February 1858; Félicianne in July 1860; Homère in January 1863; ...  They were living near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in 1866.  None of Sosthène's children married by 1870. 

Éloi's second son Jean Baptiste married Carmélite, 16-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Onésime Charlitte Duhon and Marguerite Duhon, at the Vermilionville church in July 1843.  They settled in Calcasieu Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie in August 1844; Jean Baptiste, fils in March 1847; Eudoxie in October 1849; Zéphirin in April 1852; a child, name and unrecorded, perhaps theirs, died in May 1853; Joseph Dupré born in October 1855; Élizabeth in January 1857; and Honoré in September 1859--eight children, at least three daughters and four sons, between 1844 and 1859.  None of Jean Baptiste's daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did.

Second son Zéphirin married cousin Julie, daughter of fellow Acadian Clairville Duhon and his Anglo-Creole wife Marguerite Ellender of Calcasieu Parish, at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in June 1869.  They probably were living in Calcasieu Parish at the time of their marriage. ... 

Éloi's third son Alexandre married Euphémie, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Zéphirin Mire and his Spanish-Creole wife Marguerite Plaisance, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, August 1857.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Marie Eugénie near Grand Coteau in September 1858; Odeïde in January 1862; Napoléon near Church Point, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in August 1870; ...

Joseph-Pepin's second son Agricole married Hélène, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand Prejean and Marie Theriot, at Attakapas in July 1795.  They settled on the Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included Marie-Domitille in August 1796 but died at age 1 1/2 in June 1798; Nemesie-Olivier, called Olivier, born in July 1798 but died at his parents' home on the Vermilion River, age 18, in March 1817; another Marie, also called Marie Azélie, born in August 1800; Onésime, also called Lésime, in December 1802; Zénon in November 1803; Louis le jeune, called Du Croix, in July 1806; Thomas in December 1808; Joseph Gédéon, called Gédéon, in December 1811 but died at age 2 1/2 in September 1814; Lazare born in October 1814; and Agricole, fils in January 1817 but died at age 5 in September 1822--10 children, two daughters and eight sons, between 1796 and 1817.  Agricole died in Lafayette Parish in February 1833, age 56.  His successions, one naming his wife, the other his children--Onésime, Zénon, Du Croix, Thomas, Zélie and her husband, and Luzane--were filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in March 1831 and April 1833.  Daughter Marie Azélie married into the Vincent family by 1870.  Three of Agricole's sons also married by then.

Second son Onésime, also called Lésime, married fellow Acadian Élisabeth dite Lise or Lisa Landry probably in Lafayette Parish in the early 1820s.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Bélony or Bénoni in February 1825; Sylvanie baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 6 weeks, in April 1826; Don Martin born in August 1827 but died at age 2 in August 1829; Mélanie born in December 1831; Olivanie in December 1833; Célanie, perhaps also called Silvanie, baptized at age 9 months in December 1836; Désiré baptized at age 8 months in October 1837; Émile born in 1838 and baptized at age 11 months in April 1839; a child, name unrecorded, died at age 8 days in September 1839; Joseph born in April 1841; Léon Neri in May 1843; and Thomas in December 1845--a dozen children, at least seven sons and four daughters, between 1825 and 1845.  The family was living near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in the early 1850s.  Daughters Silvanie and Mélanie married into the Montant or Montault and Breaux families by 1870.  One of Onésime's sons also married by then. 

Youngest son Thomas married Clarisse, daughter of French Creole Pierre Dubois, fils, a French Creole, not a Acadian, and his Acadian wife Adélaïde Trahan, at the Abbeville church in June 1867. ...

Agricole's third son Zénon married Célesie, daughter of fellow Acadian Hippolyte Trahan and his Creole wife Marguerite Montet, at the Vermilionville church in February 1831.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Clémentine in late 1831 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 3 months, in February 1832; Célanie baptized, age 5 months, in October 1833; Césaire baptized, age 2 months, in October 1835; Zélima baptized, age 2 months, in April 1837; Anastasie born in April 1839; and Eugénie posthumously in January 1841--six children, five daughters and a son, between 1831 and 1841.  Zénon died in Lafayette Parish in September 1840.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said that Zénon was age 34 when he died.  He was 36.  His succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in August 1842.  His daughter may have married into the Landreneau family by 1870.  His son did not marry by then. 

Agricole's seventh son Lazare may have married Joséphine Roussel, place and date unrecorded.  Their children, born near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, included Joséphine in August 1855; Marie in April 1857; and Odile in April 1859--three children, all daughters, between 1855 and 1859.  None of Lazare's children married by 1870. 

Joseph-Pepin's third son Célestin married Marguerite, another daughter of François Duhon and Isabelle Landry, at Attakapas in January 1801.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Marguerite in February 1802; and Adélaïde in December 1803.  Célestin died in October 1804.  The Attakapas priest who recorded the burial said that Célestin was age 22 when he died.  He was 25.  Daughter Marguerite married into the Baudoin family.  Célestin fathered no sons, at least none who appear in local church records, so, except perhaps for its blood, the family line did not endure. 

Joseph-Pepin's fourth son François dit Pepin married Marie-Anne, called Pétit Anne and Lise, daughter of fellow Acadian Marin Mouton and his first wife Marie-Josèphe Lambert, a Creole, not a fellow Acadian, probably at Attakapas in the early 1800s.  They settled on the lower Vermilion near her family before moving to the upper Vermilion, at the northern edge of the old Attakapas District.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Jean, also called Joseph François, in October 1803; François Arvillien or Aurelien, called Aurelien, in February 1806; a son, name unrecorded, died three days after his birth in October 1808; Sosthène born in October 1812; Césaire in July 1814; Onésime, called Lésime, in December 1815; Olivier, also called Valéry, in January 1820; and Jean Baptiste Lessin, called Baptiste and perhaps also Lessaint, in August 1821--eight children, all sons, between 1803 and 1821.  A succession for wife "Marie Louis or Lise," perhaps post-mortem, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in 1846.  François dit Pepin evidently fathered no daughters.  Seven of his sons married and settled in Lafayette and Vermilion parishes. 

Oldest son Joseph Jean, also called Joseph François, married Marie Denise, called Denise, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Bourg and Marguerite Duhon, at the Vermilionville church in November 1825.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Joseph, fils in October 1826; Aurelien le jeune in c1828 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 1, in September 1829; twins Émile and Euclide born in February 1830; François le jeune baptized at age 5 months in August 1832; Clémile baptized at age 5 months in November 1834; Marie Amélie born in 1836 and baptized at age 1 in August 1837; Étienne baptized at age 3 months in March 1839; and Élisé or Élisée, a son, born in August 1841--nine children, eight sons and a daughter, between 1826 and 1841.  Joseph Jean died in Lafayette Parish in April 1859.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Joseph François, as he called him, died "at age 55 yrs.," so this was him.  His succession, which also calls him Joseph François and identifies his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse later that month.  Joseph's daughter did not marry by 1870.  All eight of his sons did, most of them to Boudreauxs, four of them sisters, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Joseph, fils married cousin Éloise dite Louise, daughter of Jean Montet and his Acadian wife Marie Élisabeth Bourg, at the Vermilionville church in February 1847.  They settled near Youngsville.  Their children, born there, included Marie in October 1847; Jean Baptiste in November 1850; Adelima in March 1854; Félicia in May 1855; Placide in February 1858; Louse in October 1860; ...  Daughters ... married into the Breaux and Claveri families by 1870.  One of Joseph, fils's sons also married by then.

Older son Jean Baptiste married Félicie, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Honoré Breaux and his Creole wife Julie Elmire Boudeloche of Terrebonne Parish, at the Youngsville church in January 1870. ...

Joseph's second son Aurelien le jeune married Azéma, daughter of fellow Acadian François Boudreaux and his Creole wife Marguerite Simon, at the Vermilionville church in May 1849.  They settled near Youngsville.  Their children, born there, included Eugène in June 1850; Eugénie in April 1852; Lezima in October 1854; Suphémie, probably Euphémie, in March 1857; Eraste in March 1860; Alzire in September 1862; Omer in January 1865; Clémile in February 1870; ...  Daughter Eugénie married into the David family by 1870.  One of Aurelien le jeune's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Eugène married Ozea, daughter of fellow Acadian Gerasin Vincent and his Creole wife Delphine Faulk, at the Youngsville church in October 1869.  They settled probably on the lower Vermilion. ...

Joseph's third son Émile, a twin, married Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadian Edmond Boudreaux and his Creole wife Élisabeth Simon, at the Vermilionville church in October 1852.  They settled near Youngsville.  Their children, born there, included Élizabeth in February 1855 but died the following September; Odille born in March 1856; Edmond in September 1857; and Philomène in October 1861--four children, three daughters and a son, between 1855 and 1861.  Émile died in Lafayette Parish in April 1862.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Émile died "at age 30 yrs."  He was 32.  His succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in June 1862.  One wonders if his death was war-related.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Joseph's fourth son Euclide, Émile's twin, married Arméline, Armelina, or Émeline, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Clerville Boudreaux and Adeline Mouton, at the Vermilionville church in April 1853.  Daughter Marie was born near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in December 1853.  Euclide remarried to Sidalise, also called Zélie, another daughter of Edmond Boudreaux and Élisabeth Simon and widow of Euclide Michel Bourg, at the Abbeville church in February 1856.  They settled near Youngsville.  Their children, born there, included Élizabeth in November 1856; Sydalise in October 1858; Marie, the second with the name, in March 1861; Odelia in October 1862; ...  Daughter Marie, by Euclide's first wife, married a Mouton cousin by 1870.  He evidently fathered no sons. 

Joseph's fifth son François le jeune married Célima or Célina, yet another daughter of Edmond Boudreaux and Élisabeth Simon, at the Vermilionville church in December 1855.  They settled near Youngsville.  Their children, born there, included Marie Celvine in July 1857; Emma in February 1859; Irma in March 1863; Ernest in February 1865; Ulysse in January 1867; ...  None of François le jeune's children married by 1870. 

Joseph's sixth son Clémile married cousin Octavine, daughter of fellow Acadians Moïse Guidry and Mélanie Hébert, at the Vermilionville church in October 1860.  Their son Olivier was born in Lafayette Parish in August 1861.  Clémile died in Lafayette Parish in October 1861.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Clémille, as he called him, died "at age 26 yrs."  He was 27.  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in December. 

Joseph's seventh son Étienne married cousin Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Bourg and Marie Sidonie Landry, at the Youngsville church in November 1860.  Daughter Azélie was born near Youngsville in October 1861.  Étienne died in Lafayette Parish in June 1865, age 26.  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in April 1867.  One wonders if his death was war-related. 

During the War of 1861-65, Joseph's eighth and youngest son Élisée probably was the Elisé Hébert who served as a private in Company E of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafayette Parish, that fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  Élisée enlisted at Vermilionville in March 1862, age unrecorded, was captured with his regiment at Vicksburg in July 1863, paroled, and allowed to return home, but there is no evidence that he rejoined his company after the regiment was exchanged the following summer.  Élisée, called Elizé by the recording priest, married Natalia, Natilia, Nathilia, or Mathilde, yet another daughter of Edmond Boudreaux and Élisabeth Simon, at the Youngsville church in April 1866.  Their son Camille was born near Youngsville in March 1867; ... 

François dit Pepin's second son François Arvillien or Aurelien, called Aurelien, married Pélagie, daughter of Jean Pierre Dartes and his Acadian wife Victoire Guidry, at the Vermilionville church in January 1825.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Adélaïde in 1826 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 5 months, in February 1827; Aurelien, fils born in 1828 and baptized at age 10 1/2 months in September 1829; Anastasie born in October 1830; Lise baptized at age 2 months in February 1833; Pélagie Euphémie, called Euphémie, born in 1834 and baptized at age 1 in November 1835; Matile, Mathilde, or Améthilde born in c1836 and baptized at age 14 months in June 1838; Levy Aurelien, also called Alcide, baptized at age 10 months in December 1839; Mélanie born May 1841; Alfred in January 1844; François, fils in February 1846 and baptized at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, "prior to 1854"; Marie Anne, also called Marie Anne Delzine and Adélaïde, born near Abbeville in July 1848; Euphémie Céleste, called Céleste, in July 1851; and Salvator in July 1853--13 children, eight daughters and five sons, between 1826 and 1853.  Daughters Adélaïde, Lise, Améthilde, Mélanie, Marie Anne Delzine, and Céleste married into the Lemaire, Castreau, Meaux, Guidry, Prejean, and Broussard families by 1870.  Three of Aurelien's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Aurelien, fils married Adeluska, Deuska, Delusca, Deluska, Delushka, or Ladoiska Meaux, place and date unrecorded, but it probably was on the lower Vermilion in the late 1840s.  They settled probably on the lower Vermilion River near Abbeville.  Their children, born there, included Azéma in September 1849; Jean Baptiste Alcée, called Alcée, in August 1851; Alcide in October 1853; Zélima in December 1855; Azélina or Azelma in September 1858; Élise in September 1860; Deluska in October 1862; Eraste in October 1865; Guillaume in January 1868; ...  None of Aurelien, fils's children married by 1870. 

Aurelien's third son Alfred may have married cousin Carmélite Hébert at the Abbeville church in May 1866.  Their son Ferjus was baptized at the Abbeville church, age 2 1/2 months, two days after his parents' wedding; ... 

Aurelien's fourth son François, fils married Annonciäde, daughter of fellow Acadians Edmond Broussard and Marguerite Zéolide Prejean, at the Abbeville church in October 1866. ...

François dit Pepin's fourth son Sosthène married Ludivine or Eulalie, called Divine, another daughter of Jean Pierre Dartes and Victoire Guidry, at the Vermilionville church in August 1832.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Seven or Sevènne in June 1833; Séveline in c1834 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 1, in December 1835; Demosthène born in late 1836 and baptized at age 18 months in May 1838; Sosthène, fils, baptized, age unrecorded, in September 1839; Amelia born in August 1840; Jules in July 1843; Octave in June 1846; and Gustave in the 1840s--eight children, six sons and two daughters, between 1833 and the late 1840s.  Sosthène died perhaps near Abbeville in 1853, age 41.  His succession, calling his wife Cidonie Dartes, was filed at the Abbeville courthouse in 1854.  Daughters ... married into the Thibeaux and Trahan families by 1870.  Five of Sosthène's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Sevènne married cousin Marie Joséphine, called Joséphine, daughter of Michel Castreau or Castro and Marie Élise Dartes, at the Abbeville church in April 1854.  Their children, born near Abbeville, included Zélie Alex, probably a daughter, in March 1855; Lezima in September 1856; Azéma in August 1858; Odilia in February 1860; Séverine in June 1861; Numa in February 1866; Dulva Joseph in December 1868; Sevènne, fils in December 1870; ...  None of Sèvenne's children married by 1870. 

Sosthène's second son Demosthène married Azélie, daughter of Cyprien Montet and Julianne Meaux, at the Youngsville church in January 1861.  Their children, born near Abbeville, included Sosthène in January 1863; Odile in March 1865; Guillaume in July 1869; ... 

Sosthène's third son Sosthène, fils married Elizabeth, daughter of August Jackson Porter and his Acadian wife Célestine LeBlanc, at the Abbeville church in July 1856.  Their children, born near Abbeville, included Marie Séveline in January 1858; Céleste in May 1859; Zélie in September 1861; Mauléon in July 1864; Eleard in May 1866; Arthur in April 1869; ...  None of Sosthène, fils's children married by 1870. 

Sosthène's fourth son Jules may have married fellow Acadian Anastasie Trahan at the Abbeville church in March 1862.  Their children, born near Abbeville, included Marie Élodie in August 1864; Euphémon in August 1867; Joseph Delma, called Delma, in July 1869; ... 

Sosthène's fifth son Gustave married Latilia, daughter of Benjamin Faulk and Émilianne Meaux, at the Abbeville church in December 1868.  Their son Oscar was born near Abbeville in October 1870; ...

François dit Pepin's fifth son Césaire married Marie Aspasie, called Aspasie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Trahan and his Creole wife Césaire Boudoin, at the Vermilionville church in December 1833.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Théosime or Théozime, a son, in 1835 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 13 months, in March 1836; Césaire, fils baptized at age 6 months in July 1837; Sarrasin, Sarasin, or Zarasssin baptized at age 7 months in August 1839; Jean Napoléon born in March 1841; and Amelia near Abbeville in October 1853 but died at age 1 (the recording priest said 8 months) in October 1854.  Césaire, at age 41, remarried to Marie or Marguerite Sidalise, called Sidalise, Baudoin, widow of Jean Baptiste Treville Bourg, at the Abbeville church in November 1855.  Their children, born near Abbeville, included Marie Ezilda in February 1856; Marianne in August 1859; Fernez in November 1861; ...  Césaire's remaining daughter did not marry by 1870, but four of his sons did.

Oldest son Théosime, by first wife Césaire Boudoin, married cousin Marie Lezima, called Lezima, Trahan at the Abbeville church in April 1857.  Their children, born near Abbeville, included Odile in August 1861; Marie Eve in August 1865; ...

Césaire's second son Césaire, fils, by first wife Césaire Boudoin, may have married Zelmire Benoit, probably a fellow Acadian, place and date unrecorded.  Their son Jean Gesner was born near Abbeville in February 1869; ...  

Césaire, père's third son Sarasin, by first wife Césaire Boudoin, may have married fellow Acadian Victoire Broussard at the Abbeville church in November 1859.  Their son Arthur was born near Abbeville in February 1861; ...

Césaire, père's fourth son Jean Napoléon, by first wife Césaire Boudoin, married Clara Arthémise Hardisse, perhaps Hardy, at the Abbeville church in February 1862. ...

François dit Pepin's sixth son Onésime dit Lésime married Victorine Lucquet, Luguel, Luguette, Luquet, or Luquette at the Vermilionville church in October 1836.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Belzire baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in August 1838; Jean Baptiste born in February 1840; Joseph in March 1845; Simon near Abbeville in March 1850; Florestan in November 1852; Marie Azéma in April 1855; and Alice in August 1859--seven children,  three daughters and four sons, between 1838 and 1859.  None of Onésime's daughters married by 1870, but two of his sons did.

Oldest son Jean Baptiste may have married cousin and fellow Acadian Belzire Mouton at the Abbeville church in December 1861.  They settled probably on the lower Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included Dulcine in January 1864; Onésime in August 1866; Joseph Mea in December 1870; ...

Onésime's second son Joseph married cousin Odilia, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Jacques Hébert and his Creole wife Marie Fremin of Lafourche Parish, at the Youngsville church in October 1870. ...

François dit Pepin's seventh son Olivier, called Vallière by the recording priest, married Marie Adeline, Adveline, or Areline, daughter of Joseph Faulk and Marie Rose Lapointe, at the Vermilionville church in April 1840.  Their children, on the prairies, included Olivier, fils in Lafayette Parish in October 1841 or 1842; Marie Oliva, called Oliva, in October 1844; Joseph near Abbeville in August 1846; Celiva in May 1848; Félix in March 1850; and Jean Baptiste le jeune in April 1852--six children, four sons and two daughters, between 1841 and 1852.  Daughter ... married into the Bourque family by 1870.  Two of Olivier's sons also married by then.

Third son Joseph married Amanda, daughter of John Stephens or Stevens, at the Abbeville church in May 1867. ...

Valéry's fourth son Félix married Amelie, daughter of Charles Harrington and Émiliènne Lapointe, at the Abbeville church in November 1870. ...

François dit Pepin's eighth and youngest son Jean Baptiste Lessin, called Baptiste and perhaps also Lessaint, married Marie, another daughter of Joseph Faulk and Marie Rose Lapointe, at the Vermilionville church in June 1840.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Théogène in May 1841; and Aristide in the 1840s.  Jean Baptiste Lessin may have remarried to fellow Acadian Tarsile Mouton, place and date unrecorded.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Aurelien near Abbeville in November 1854[sic]; Lessaint of Lessin, fils in March 1855[sic]; Donatille in February 1859; Édouard in March 1860; Alcibiade in August 1868; ...  Jean Baptiste Lessin's daughter did not marry by 1870, but one of his sons did. 

Second son Aristide, by first wife Marie Faulk, married Joséphine, daughter of Onésime Gaspard and Marcelite Derouen, at the Abbeville church in February 1868.  Their children, born near Abbeville, included Lessin Jean in October 1868; Sarasin le jeune in April 1870; ...

Joseph-Pepin's fifth and youngest son Louis married cousin Félicité, also called Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Landry and Marguerite Hébert of Côte Gelée, at the St. Martinville church in February 1808.  Their children, born on the upper Vermilion, included Arsènne, also called Marie Arsènne, a daughter, in March 1809; Félicité Sélima or Élina in September 1812; Louis Treville in December 1814 but died at age 23 in January 1838 (his succession, filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in February, contains"Very little information"); Clarisse born in September 1818; and Sylvère in August 1821--five children, three daughters and two sons, between 1809 and 1821.  A succession for wife Félicité was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in August 1823, so she may have died by then.  Daughters Marie Arsènne, Félicité Élina, and Clarisse married into the Trahan, Primeaux, and Broussard families.  Neither of Louis's sons seems to have married, at least not by 1870, but the blood of the family line probably endured.

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A young Hébert came to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765 either with the Broussards or on a later ship that reached New Orleans that spring.  He settled first on the Opelousas prairies before moving down to Attakapas, where he helped create a new center of family settlement: 

Jean-Baptiste dit Cobit (c1736-1783) à Étienne Hébert

Jean-Baptiste dit Cobit, eighth and youngest son of Antoine Hébert le jeune by his second wife Anne Orillon, born probably at Chignecto in c1736, escaped the British roundup there in 1755, sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, and married Marie-Rose, called Rose, daughter of Pierre Thibodeau and Élisabeth Trahan of Rivière-aux-Canards, in September 1760 while in exile.  Soon after their marriage, they either were captured by, or surrendered, to British forces in the area and were held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Wife Rose did not survive the ordeal.  Cobit, a widower without children, emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1764-65 and followed other exiles from New Orleans to Bayou Teche and then to the Opelousas prairies.  In c1770, in his early 30s, he remarried to cousin Théotiste-Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Bénoni Hébert dit Manuel and Jeanne Savoie, probably at Attakapas.  Théotiste, a native of Cobeguit, also came to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765 and followed her parents to Attakapas.  Cobit and Théotiste's children, born on the upper Vermilion, included Athanase dit Cobit in c1770; Marie dite Manon in November 1771; Scholastique baptized, age unrecorded, in May 1776; Céleste born in February 1777; Nicolas dit Colas in c1778 and baptized, age 14 months, in April 1780; and Modeste born in the late 1770s early 1780s--six children, two sons and four daughters, from his second wife, between 1770 and the late 1770s or early 1780s.  Jean-Baptiste dit Cobit died at Attakapas in August 1783, in his mid- or late 40s.  Daughters Marie dite Manon, Scholastique, Céleste, and Modeste married into the Mercier, LeBlanc, Duhon, Broussard, and Meaux families.  Both of Cobit's sons married and settled in the old Attakapas District, but only one of their lines, a vigorous one, seems to have endured there.  One of Cobit's grandsons settled on the Mermentau River. 

Older son Athanase dit Cobit, by second wife Théotiste Hébert, married Félicité, daughter of fellow Acadians Firmin Breaux and Marguerite Breaux, at Attakapas in January 1793.  They settled at Fausse Point on lower Bayou Teche.  Their children, born there, included Charles in c1793; Louise dite Lise, also called Élisa, in c1794 and baptized, age 5 months, in April 1795; Thérèse or Tarsille, also called Aspasie, born in January 1798; Édouard in October 1799; Constance, also called Hortense and Octavie, in August 1802; Placide in April 1804; Athanase, fils in May 1806; Marie Eurasie, called Eurasie, in April 1808 but died at age 1 1/2 in February 1810; Félice dite Poponne born in January 1810; Pierre in January 1812; and Rosémond in February 1814 but died at age 2 in April 1816--11 children, six sons and five daughters, between 1793 and 1814.  At age 47, Athanase dit Cobit remarried to double cousin Constance, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph dit Pepin Hébert and François Hébert, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in March 1817.  She evidently gave him no more children.  Her succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse, St. Landry Parish, in September 1831.  Daughters Lise, Tarsille, Félice, and Constance, by his first wife, married into the Hébert, Labauve, Mouton, Mallet, and Broussard families.  Four of Athanase dit Cobit's sons also married and settled up and down the Teche. 

Oldest son Charles, by first wife Félicité Breaux, married Mélanie, Améline, Émeline, or Méline Félicité, daughter of Nicolas Picou and his Acadian wife Scholastique Bourgeois of New Orleans and St. James Parish, at the St. Martinville church in December 1817; Émeline's sister Scholastique Mélanie Picou Breaux was the founder of nearby Breaux Bridge.  Charles and Émeline settled at La Pointe on upper Bayou Teche near present-day Breaux Bridge.  Their children, born there, included Charles, fils died at home at birth in April 1819; Charles Nicolas, called Nicolas, born in May 1820; Pierre Ferjus, called Ferjus, in February 1822; Étienne Camille or Clément, also called Pierre Camille and Camille, in August 1823; Adrien Valsin in October 1824; Alphred or Alfred Onésime or Onésime Alfred, called Alfred, in September 1828; and Thomas Lucien or Lucien Thomas in February 1830 but died at age 20 in May 1850 (his succession, mentioning no wife, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse that month)--seven children, all sons, between 1819 and 1830.  A succession for wife Émeline, perhaps post-mortem, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in September 1835.  Charles died near New Iberia on the lower Teche in 1838, age 45.  His succession, appointing tutors for his six remaining sons--Charles Nicolas, Pierre Ferjus, Étienne Clément, Adrien Valsin, Onézine Alfred, and Lucien Thomas--was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in October of that year.  Charles evidently fathered no daughters.  Four of his sons married.  His oldest surviving son married four times, his first two wives first cousins. 

Second son Charles Nicolas, called Nicolas, married first cousin Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadians Agricole Breaux and Scholastique Mélanie Picou, his uncle and aunt, at the St. Martinville church in November 1841.  Daughter Marie Elmire was born in St. Martin Parish in October 1842 but, called Elmire, died there at age 3 in October 1845.  Nicolas remarried to first cousin Marie Aminthe, Arinintte, Armante, or Hermente, daughter of Jean Caillier and Marie Picou, his uncle and aunt, at the St. Martinville church in June 1847.  Their children, born near Breaux Bridge, included Léa in September 1848; and Émeline in October 1850.  Nicolas remarried again--his third marriage--to Oliva, daughter of Pierre Gutriche and Josette Gauthier, at the St. Martinville church in May 1853.  They settled near Breaux Bridge.  Their children, born there, included Marie Célina in February 1855; and Joseph in November 1857--five children, four daughters and a son, by three wives, between 1842 and 1857.  At age 39, Nicolas remarried yet again--his fourth marriage--to Anathalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Guidry and Joséphine Thibodeaux, at the Breaux Bridge church, St. Martin Parish, in February 1863.  Nicolas's succession, which identifies only his second and third wives, so it probably was not post-mortem, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in March 1863, less than a month after his fourth marriage.  Daughters Léa and Émeline, by his second wife, married into the Boresse and Barros families by 1870.  Nicolas's son did not marry by then. 

Charles's third son Camille married Émelie or Amelie Zéolide or Léolide, also called Julie and Émelie, daughter of fellow Acadians Aurelien Dugas and Anne Eurasie Broussard, at the St. Martinville church in April 1847.  They settled on the lower Teche near New Iberia, then in St. Landry but not in Iberia Parish.  Their children, born there, included Pauline Elmire in January 1848 but, called Elmire, may have died in St. Martin Parish at age 10 1/2 (the recording priest said 10) in June 1858; Firmin Odilon born in September 1852; Antoine in September 1854; Charle in July 1856; Marie in April 1859; Joseph Orelien in March 1861; Anne Irma in July 1863; André Octave in December 1865; ...  At age 45, Camille remarried to cousin Ophelia or Ophilia, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre dit Pierrot Hébert and Élise Crochet of Assumption Parish, at the New Iberia church, Iberia Parish, in April 1869.  Their son Victor Vincent was born new New Iberia in January 1870; ...  None of Camille's children married by 1870. 

Charles's fourth son Pierre Ferjus, called Ferjus, married Marie Aurelie, Aurelia, or Olivia, daughter of Joseph Angèlle and Adélaïde Quebedeaux, at the St. Martinville church in May 1852.  They settled near Breaux Bridge.  Their children, born there, included Pierre Ferjus, fils in May 1853; Marie Aurelia in February 1856; Eusèbe in January 1858; Donat in April 1860; Alfred in July 1862; Mazard in December 1864; Désiré in May 1870--...  Pierre Ferjus, père died near Breaux Bridge in July 1870, age 48.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Charles's sixth son Alfred married Élise or Élisa, daughter of Joseph Patin and his Acadian wife Joséphine Landry, at the Breaux Bridge church in February 1850.  They settled on the upper Teche between Breaux Bridge and Arnaudville.  Their children, born there, included Élisabeth in November 1850; Philomène in July 1852; Hilarion Alphonse in August 1855; Marie Cécilia in March 1857; and Rose Anastasie in August 1859--five children, four daughters and a son, between 1850 and 1859.  Alfred's succession, calling his wife Élise, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in May 1860.  He would have been age 32 that year.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Athanase's second son Édouard, by first wife Félicité Breaux, married, at age 30, Madeleine Eurasie or Erasie, also called Marcelline, daughter of fellow Acadians Julien Babin and Séraphine Guilbeau, at the St. Martinville church in January 1831.  They settled near New Iberia.  Their children, born there, included Édouard Bélisaire or Bélisaire Édouard in February 1831; Félicie in June 1833; Joseph Ovile or Ovide, called Ovide, in August 1835 but, called Joseph, may have died in St. Martin Parish, age 27, in March 1863 (one wonders if his death was war-related); Lucien born in December 1837; Armand Marcellus, called Marcellus, in February 1841 but died near New Iberia, age 26, a month shy of 27 (the recording priest said 24) in January 1868; Émilie or Amélie born in 1843; Arthémise in January 1845; Félicia in February 1852; and Marie Erazie in January 1857--nine children, four sons and five daughters, between 1831 and 1857.  Édouard's succession, which called his wife Erazie Babin, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in January 1866.  He would have been age 67 that year.  Daughters ... married into the Breaux, Broussard, Crochet, and Muller families by 1870.  Two of Édouard's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Édouard Bélisaire or Bélisaire Édouard, married, at age 21, Euphrosine dite Froisine, daughter of Jean Baptiste Bonin and Marie Hayes, at the New Iberia church in February 1852.  Their children, born near New Iberia, included Marie Cora in November 1852; Jean Baptiste Alcée in December 1854; and Louise Ezilda in July 1857--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1852 and 1857.  None of Édouard Bélisaire's children married by 1870. 

Édouard's second son Lucien married first cousin Emma, daughter of fellow Acadian Julien Nelson Babin and his Creole wife Marcellite Arthémise Comme, his uncle and aunt, in a civil ceremony in St. Martin Parish in February 1860, and sanctified the marriage at the New Iberia church in February 1861.  Their children, born near New Iberia, included Charles in March 1862; Lucien, fils in August 1863; Jules in April 1866; ...

Athanase's third son Placide, by first wife Félicité Breaux, married Adeline Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadians François Xavier Theriot and Anne Mouton of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the St. Martinville church in May 1825.  Their daughter Marie Euphémie was born in St. Martin Parish in January 1831.  A succession for wife Adeline, probably post-mortem, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in October 1831.  Did she die from the complications of childbirth?  Placide remarried to Adeline or Eveline Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Victor Richard and Marie Louise Richard, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in June 1834.  They settled on the Mermentau River.  Their children, born there, included Louisa in July 1836; Alexandre in April 1838; and Horance in April 1841--four children, two daughters and two sons, by two wives, between 1831 and 1841.  None of Placide's children seemed to have married by 1870, at least not in South Louisiana. 

Athanase's fourth son Athanase, fils, by first wife Félicité Breaux, married cousin Clémence, daughter of fellow Acadian Alexandre Hébert and his Creole wife Clémence Faustin, at the St. Martinville church in August 1828.  Their son Alexis or Alexandre Athanase was born in St. Martin Parish in April 1830.  Athanase, fils may have died near New Iberia in January 1865.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Athanas, as he called him, died "at age 55 yrs."  Athanase, fils would have been age 58.  His son perpetuated the family line by marrying into a prominent local family. 

Only son Alexis or Alexandre Athanase, married, at age 20, Marie Alphonsine, called Alphonsine, 19-year-old daughter of Frédéric Henri Duperier of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and New Iberia, and Marie Hortense Berard, at the New Iberia church in June 1850.  Alphonsine's father had been an important member of the New Iberia community.  Her and Alexis Athanase's children, born at New Iberia, included Henriette in March 1852; Henry in June 1855; John in August 1857; Joseph Alfrede in October 1859; Corine Clémence in March 1862; Alexis, fils in December 1864; ...  None of Alexis Athanase's children married by 1870. 

Jean-Baptiste dit Cobit's younger son Nicolas dit Colas married Louise, daughter of  Jean-Louis Bonin of Mobile and his Acadian wife Marguerite Prince of l'Assomption, Pigiguit, and Maryland, at Attakapas in September 1798.  They settled at Fausse Pointe on the lower Teche.  Their daughter Susanne, perhaps also called Arthémise, was born there in July 1799.  Colas, still in his early 20s, remarried to Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Trahan and Marie Hugon, at Attakapas in June 1801.  They settled on the upper Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included Marie Louise or Louisa, called Louise or Louisa, in April 1802; Onésime, also called Léozime, in January 1804; and Marie Thérèse in October 1805--four children, three daughters and a son, by two wives, between 1799 and 1805.  Nicolas, called dit Cobit by the recording priest, died at his home on the upper Vermilion in March 1806, age 26.  His succession, naming his second wife, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in July 1819, 13 years after his passing.  Daughter Louise/Louisa, in her late teens, gave birth to "natural" daughter Angèlle in c1820 and baptized the girl at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 3, in March 1823, two years before she married a Breaux.  The recording priest did not give the girl's father's name.  Siblings Onésime and Théreste were the girl's godparents.  Daughters Arthémise and Louisa, by both wives, married into the Louvière and Breaux families.  Nicolas's son's line may not have endured, at least not in the Bayou State. 

Only son Onésime/Léosime, by second wife Françoise Trahan, married Christine Ryan in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in June 1825.  Did they remain in Louisiana? 

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In 1765, 13 more Héberts--three families, one of them led by a widow, and two sets of brothers--came to New Orleans from Halifax via Cap-Français on later ships.  They did not follow the Broussards and their Hébert cousins to Bayou Teche but settled, instead, in the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  Most of them, however, moved on to the prairies.  Many new family lines came of it, three on the river and four on the prairies, but not all of the lines endured: 

François (c1735-1798) à Joseph à Jean le jeune à Antoine Hébert

François, oldest son of Joseph Hébert, fils and Anne Poirier, born probably at Chignecto in c1735, followed his family into exile and into a prison compound in Nova Scotia in the early 1760s.  He was still a bachelor in his late 20s when he emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax with his two younger brothers and settled with them at Cabahannocer.  In his early 30s, he married probably to a fellow Acadian, her name lost to history, at Cabahannocer in the late 1760s.  She gave him no children.  François, at age 36, remarried to Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Claude Trahan and Marie-Louise Tillard, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in January 1771.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer, included Charles baptized, age unrecorded, in February 1772; and Joseph baptized, age unrecorded, in March 1776.  At age 59, François remarried again--his third marriage--to cousin Osite, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Landry and Marie Hébert and widow of Pierre Chiasson, at Cabahannocer in November 1794.  She gave him no more children.  François died at Cabahannocer in November 1798.  The priest who recorded the burial said that François was age 70 when he died.  He was closer to 63.  Only one of his sons married and settled in what became St. James Parish. 

Older son Charles, by second wife Madeleine Trahan, married cousin Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Poirier and Marie Cormier, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in May 1792.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer, included Charles-Joseph, called Joseph le jeune, in March 1794; Jean-Baptiste in March 1796 but died at age 1 1/2 in August 1797; Rosalie-Modeste born in September 1797 but died at age 3 in August 1800; Scholastique born in December 1799; Étienne in December 1801 but died at age 22 in December 1823; and Azélie born posthumously in May 1803--six children, three sons and three daughters, between 1794 and 1803.  Charles died at Cabahannocer in May 1803.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Charles was age 45 when he died.  He was 31.  His widow Marguerite remarried to a Dugas.  Daughters Scholastique and Azélie married into the Gaudin family.  Charles's remaining son also married and settled on the river.

Oldest son Charles-Joseph, called Joseph le jeune, married Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Gaudet and Victoire Bergeron, at the St. James church, St. James Parish, in June 1821.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included Joseph Alphée or Elphége, called Elphége, in April 1822; Marguerite Adolestine in August 1825 but died at age 4 in September 1829; Michel Théophile, called Théophile, in September 1827; Marie Lesida, called Lesida, in March 1831; Charles Euphémon, called Euphémon and perhaps Femo, in November 1832; Victoire Hermina in early 1834 but died at age 11 months, 20 days in May 1835; Paulin Oscar born in October 1837 but died at age 4 in October 1841; and a son, name unrecorded, died at age 11 months in June 1840--eight children, five sons and three daughters, between 1822 and 1840.  Joseph may have died near Convent, St. James Parish, in October 1842.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Joseph died at "age 45 yrs."  This Joseph would have been age 48.  Daughter Lesida married into the Reine family by 1870.  Joseph le jeune's remaining sons also married by then and settled on the river. 

Oldest son Elphége married Aglaé, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Mire and Clarisse Arceneaux, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in July 1843.  They lived on the river, probably the east bank, near the boundary between St. James and Iberville parishes.  Their children, born on the river, included Marie Louisa in June 1844 but, called Louisa, died near Convent at age 20 months in March 1846; Eve Angela born near St. Gabriel in June 1846 but, called Angela, evidently died at age 21 (the recording priest said 23) near Convent in May 1868; Michel Gustave born in September 1848 but, called Gustave, may have died near Convent, age 18, in November 1867; and Charles Marius born in September 1858--four childeren, two daughters and two sons, between 1844 and 1858.  Elphége may have died in December 1862.  The Convent priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Elphége died at "age 35 years."  Joseph Elphége would have been 40.  One wonders if his death was war-related.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Joseph le jeune's second son Théophile married Emma, daughter of Evariste Blouin and his Acadian wife Félicité Arceneaux, at the St. James church in June 1847.  They settled on the river near the boundary between Iberville and Ascension parishes.  Their son Michel Clément was born there in January 1849.  Strangely, a church record insists that Théophile Hébert died in Ascension Parish in October 1851 at "age 24 years."  The Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, but Michel Théophile would have been age 24 at the time of the burial.   However, another church record, which includes the parents' names, shows that this Théophile remarried to Élisabeth, also called Éliza, daughter of Edmond Blouin and his Acadian wife Joséphine Richard, at the Convent church in January 1858.  One wonders how Théophile's second wife was kin to his first wife.  His and Élisabeth's children, born near Convent, included Jean Florian in August 1859; Louis Dreux in July 1861; Marie Eva, perhaps theirs, died near Gonzales, St. James Parish, age 2, in November 1863 and was buried "in Sacred Heart Cemetery"; Joséphine Élizabeth Emma born in March 1863; Joseph Alfred in September 1864 but died the following February; ...  None of Théophile's children married by 1870. 

Joseph le jeune's third son Femo, perhaps Euphémon, may have married cousin Delphine Hébert, place and date unrecorded.  Their son Jean Baptiste Alfred was born near Convent in October 1866; ... 

Joseph III (c1736-1798) à Joseph à Jean le jeune à Antoine Hébert

Joseph III, second son of Joseph Hébert, fils and Anne Poirier and brother of François, born at Chignecto in c1736, followed his family into exile and into a prison compound in Nova Scotia in the early 1760s.  He evidently married in exile, but the name of his wife also has been lost to history, as well as the names of any children they may have had.  In his late 20s, he followed his brothers from Halifax to Louisiana in 1764-65 and settled with them at Cabahannocer, where, at age 31, he remarried to fellow Acadian Anne Préjean, widow of Joseph Savoie, in December 1767.  Anne also had come to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer, included Paul in c1769; and Jean-Baptiste baptized, age unrecorded, in October 1770.  Only one of Joseph III's sons married.  He did so twice and remained in St. James Parish. 

Older son Paul, by second wife Anne Prejean, married Anastasie, also called Théotiste, daughter of fellow Acadians Marin Landry and Pélagie Landry of Lafourche, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in June 1790.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer, included Marie-Amélie in August 1792; Arthémise in March 1794; Françoise-Josèphe, called Josèphe, in December 1796 but died at age 1 1/2 in Sepember 1798; Paul, fils born in May 1800 but died at age 19 in July 1819; Marie-Henriette or -Reine born in March 1802 but died at age 3 1/2 in July 1805; Éloi born in August 1803; a son, name and age unrecorded, died in September 1805; Adolphe born in November 1806; and Evariste in January 1809 but died at age 6 in December 1815.  Paul remarried to Charlotte Trosclair probably in St. James Parish in c1810.  Their son Paul, fils was born in St. James Parish in August 1811--10 children, four daughters and six sons, by two wives, between 1792 and 1811.  Paul, père may have died in St. James Parish in October 1814, in his late 40s, or he may have been the Paul Hébert who died in St. James Parish in May 1825, age 55.  Daughter Arthémise, by his first wife, married into the Lalande and Gaudin families.  Only one of Paul's sons married.

Second son Éloi, by first wife Anastasie Landry, married Marie Doralise, called Doralise, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Mire and Esther Arceneaux of St. James Parish, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in February 1827.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included Marie Ophelia in February 1828; Eloye or Éloi, fils in February 1829; Paul Orestile in August 1831 but may have died "at his mother's, widow Éloy Eber," in July 1848, age 16 (the St. James priest who recorded the burial did not give the son's name or age); Jean Baptiste Camille, called Camille, born near Convent in September 1834; and Joseph Édouard Clément in December 1840 but may have died "at his mother's, widow Éloy Eber," in July 1848, age 7 1/2 (the St. James priest who recorded the burial did not give the son's name or age)--five children, a daughter and four sons, between 1828 and 1840.  Éloi, père died "at his home" in St. James Parish in September 1846.  The St. James priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Éloy died at "age 40 yrs."  He was 43.  Daughter Marie Ophelia married a Mire cousin.  One wonders what killed two of Éloi and Doralise's sons in the summer of 1848.  Their remaining sons married.

Oldest son Éloi, fils married Célesie Aurelia, called Aurelia, daughter of Ursin LeBoeuf and his Acadian wife Doralise Babin of Ascension Parish, at the St. James church in February 1857.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included Paul Éloi in February 1859; Louise Marie in September 1866; ... 

Éloi, père's third son Camille married Cécile, daughter of Lucien Roussel and his Acadian wife Anastasie Theriot, at the Convent church in February 1858.  They evidently lived on the river near the boundary between St. James and Ascension parishes.  Their children, born there, included Lucien Camille in January 1860; Joseph Émile in March 1863; Marie Angèle in June 1866; Marie Cécile in November 1867; ... 

Pierre (c1738-?) à Joseph à Jean le jeune à Antoine Hébert

Pierre, third and youngest son of Joseph Hébert, fils and Anne Poirier and brother of François and Joseph III, born at Chignecto in c1738, followed his family into exile and into a prison compound in Nova Scotia in the early 1760s.  Still a bacehlor, he followed his older brothers to Louisiana in 1764-65 and settled with them at Cabahannocer, where, in his late 20s, he married Anne-Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel dit de Nantes Bergeron and his second wife Marie Dugas of Rivière St.-Jean, in July 1767.  They moved upriver to San Gabriel in the 1770s and settled on the right, or west, bank of the river there.  Their children, born on the river, included François le jeune in c1768; Rosalie baptized, age unrecorded, in November 1770; a son, name unrecorded, born in c1773; and a son, name unrecorded, in c1776--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1768 and 1776.  Daughter Rosalie married into the Migot or Migott family.  None of Pierre's sons seems to have married, so, other than perhaps its blood, this line of the family did not endure. 

Joseph dit Pepin (c1739-1790) à Jean-Emmanuel à Emmanuel à Étienne Hébert

Joseph dit Pepin, oldest son of Jean-Baptiste Hébert dit Manuel and Claire Robichaux and first cousin of Joseph-Pepin of Attakapas, with whom he should not be confused, was born probably at Cobeguit in c1739, nine years before his cousin.  Pepin, still in his teens, followed his family into exile and imprisonment and, in his early 20s, married cousin Françoise Hébert probably in a prison compound in Nova Scotia in c1762.  She gave him a son, Louis, born in c1764.  Soon after their son's birth, they followed his widowed mother and siblings to Louisiana via Cap-Français and settled with them at Cabahannocer.  By the late 1770s, they followed his widowed mother and siblings to the Attakapas District and settled at Fausse Pointe on the lower Teche.  Françoise gave Pepin many more children on the river and the prairies, including Nicolas dit Colas born at Cabahannocer in c1769; André baptized at Cabahannocer, age unrecorded, in February 1772; Alexandre baptized, age unrecorded, in February 1774; Marguerite dite Éloise baptized, age unrecorded, in August 1776; Constance born at Attakapas in August 1778; Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, in February 1782; Marie in March 1784; Euphrosine dite Frosine in March 1786; and Placide in April 1788--10 children, five sons and five daughters, between 1764 and 1788, in British Nova Scotia and Louisiana.  Pepin died of a stroke probably at Fausse Pointe on the lower Teche in October 1790, in his early 50s.  His succession was not filed at the St. Martinville courthouse until February 1810.  Widow Françoise did not remarry.  She died at Fausse Pointe in July 1810, age 66.  Daughters Marguerite dite Éloise, Madeleine, Marie, Euphrosine, and Constance married into the Labauve, Guilbeau, Landry, LeBlanc, and Hébert families.  Four of Pepin's sons also married and settled on the prairies, but only two of the lines seem to have endured. 

Oldest son Louis followed his family to New Orleans, Cabahannocer, and the lower Teche.  He married Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Augustin Broussard and Anne Landry, at Attakapas in October 1789.  Their children, born on the Vermilion, included Éloise in the early 1790s; Eugénie in December 1795; Nicolas in March 1798 but died at age 5 months the following August; Alexandre le jeune born in February 1800; Louis, fils, also called Jean Louis, in June 1802; Placide le jeune in December 1804 but died at age 5 in October 1810; Marcellin born in May 1807 but died at age 9 months in February 1808; and Marguerite Aspasie, perhaps also called Anastasie, born in August 1810.  Louis, père, at age 53, remarried to Marie Victoire, called Victoire, daughter of fellow Acadians François Guilbeau and Madeleine Broussard of La Pointe on the upper Teche and widow of Hippolyte Savoie, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish in August 1817.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Joseph in March 1818; Marie Azéma in the late 1810s or early 1820s; and François, also called François Philibert, in February 1824 but died at age 2 1/2 in October 1826--11 children, four daughters and seven sons, by two wives, between the early 1790s and 1824.  Louis, père's succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse, St. Landry Parish, in July 1828.  He would have been in his mid-60s that year.  Daughters Éloise, Anastasie, and Marie Azéma, by both wives, married into the Beraud, Blanchet, and Mills families.  Two of Louis's remaining son also married, but only one of the lines seems to have endured. 

Second son Alexandre le jeune, by first wife Françoise Broussard, married cousin Clarisse, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Broussard and Marie Thibodeaux of Vermilion, at the St. Martinville church in April 1820.  They settled in what soon became Lafayette Parish.  Their children, born there, included Clémence in November 1821; Mélanie in October 1823 but died at age 3 in September 1826; twins Aladin and Aspasie born in August 1825; twins Belzire and Zelmire in November 1827; Carmélite in August 1831; Désiré in late 1836 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 15 months, in February 1838; and Éloisa born in November 1841--nine children, seven daughters and two sons, including two sets of twins, between 1821 and 1841.  Daughters ... married Broussard cousins, and married perhaps into the Lanclos and Miguez families as well.  Both of Nicolas's sons also married.

Older son Aladin, a twin, called Halladin by the recording priest, may have married cousin Euphémie Hébert, place and date unrecorded.  Daughter Rosa was born in St. Landry Parish in January 1854 and did not marry by 1870. 

Alexandre le jeune's second son Désiré married cousin Euphémie, daughter of another Alexandre Hébert le jeune and his Creole Marie Célanie Barras, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in November 1862. ...

Louis's third son Louis, fils, also called Jean Louis, from first wife Françoise Broussard, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Thibodeaux, fils and Marguerite Richard, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in April 1830.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Sidalise near Opelousas in October 1831; and Marie Uranie in c1834 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 8 months, in March 1835.  Louis, fils may have died "at Plaquemine," perhaps upper Bayou Plaquemine Brûlé, in January 1867.  The Opelousas priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Louis died "at age 64 yrs."  Louis, fils would have been that age.  His succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in February.  His daughters did not marry by 1870, and he evidently fathered no sons, so, except perhaps for its blood, his family line may have died with him. 

Joseph dit Pepin's second son Nicolas dit Colas followed his family to the lower Teche and married Julie, daughter of François Prevost dit Collet and Geneviève Bonin, at Attakapas in January 1795.  The settled near his uncle Mathurin Hébert at La Côte-aux-Puces, the Flea Coast, on the lower Teche below New Iberia.  Their children, born there, included Modeste in January 1796; Élisabeth in August 1798; Alexandre le jeune in October 1800; and Julie in October 1802--four children, three daughters and a son, between 1796 and 1802.  Nicolas dit Colas's succession, naming his wife and heirs--Modeste and her  husband, Élizabeth and her husband, Alexandre, and Julie--was filed at the Franklin courthouse, St. Mary Parish, in June 1822.  He would have been in his early 50s that year.  Daughters Modeste, Élizabeth, and Julie married into the Moore, Decuir, and DeBlanc families.  Colas's son also married and settled in St. Mary Parish. 

Only son Alexandre le jeune married Marie Céline, called Céline, daughter of François Barras and Geneviève Porche and widow of Paulin Decuir, at the Pointe Coupee church, Pointe Coupee Parish, in August 1824 but settled in St. Mary Parish on the lower Teche.  Their children, born there, included Marie Céline, called Céline, December 1824; Nicolas Léon or Léo Nicolas in September 1827; François Jules in January 1830; Camille Guy in June 1832 but died at age 3 1/2 in April 1836; Euphémie born in October 1834; and Alexandre Ossa or Oscar, called Oscar, in November 1838--six children, two daughters and four sons, between 1824 and 1838.  One wonders if Alexandre le jeune was the Alexis Hébert who was a partner of James Hight in a business venture in St. Mary Parish during the early 1840s.  Daughters Céline and Euphémie married into the Derouen and Hébert families by 1870.  Two of Alexandre's sons also married by then, but only one of the lines may have endured.

Oldest son Nicolas Léon or Léo Nicolas married cousin Jeanne Idea, daughter of Zénon Decuir and his Acadian wife Élisabeth Hébert, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in January 1845.  Their son Evariste was born near New Iberia in December 1845 but died in January.  Wife Jeanne Idea, called "Mrs. Leo Hébert by the recording priest, died near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in May 1854, age 28.  Nicolas Léon died there in January 1860.  The Abbeville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Léo Nicolas F., as he called him, died "at age 42 yrs."  Nicolas Léon would have been age 32.  His succession, which calls him N. Léo, was filed at the Franklin courthouse in March.  His family line may have died with him. 

Alexandre le jeune's fourth and youngest son Alexandre Oscar, called Oscar, married Athalie, daughter of Joseph Gonsoulin and Marcelline Ransonnet, at the New Iberia church in December 1859.  Daughter Marie Perle was born near New Iberia in November 1861; ...

Joseph dit Pepin's third son André followed his family to the lower Teche.  He was age 5 in May 1777 when he was counted at Attakapas with the rest of his family.  He died at New Orleans in November 1820.  The St. Louis Cathedral priest who recorded the burial called André a native of Attakapas, said he was working in the city as a garçon, or servant/waiter, and that he died at age about 46.  This André would have been age 48.  The priest mentioned no wife for the aging waiter, so one wonders if André died a bachelor. 

Joseph dit Pepin's fourth son Alexandre followed his family to the lower Teche and married Françoise-Clémence, called Clémence, daughter of Jacques Fostin of Illinois and his Acadian wife Françoise Trahan, at Attakapas in December 1798.  They settled at Fausse Pointe.  Their children, born there, included Maximilien in October 1799; Marcellite in the early 1800s; and Françoise Clémence, called Clémence, posthumously in April 1813--three children, a son and two daughters, between 1799 and 1813.  Alexandre died at the home of Joseph Derouen at La Petite Anse, now Avery Island, in November 1812.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial said that Alexandre died at age 40.  He was 38.  His widow Clémence, interestingly enough, remarried to Joseph Derouen.  Her and Alexandre's daughters Marcellite and Clémence married into the Leleux and Hébert families.  Alexandre's only son evidently did not marry, so, except perhaps for its blood, this line of the family did not endure.

Joseph dit Pepin's fifth and youngest son Placide married cousin Louise dite Lise or Élise, daughter of fellow Acadians Athanase dit Cobit Hébert and his first wife Félicité Breaux of Fausse Pointe, at the St. Martinville church in April 1811.  They settled on the upper Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included Louise dite Lise in August 1812; and Louis le jeune in May 1815 but died at age 9 in October 1824.  Placide died by February 1820, when wife Lise remarried to a Labauve at St. Martinville.  Daughter Lise was given a "curator" in December 1824, when she was 12.  She married into the Gonsoulin and Kerry families, so the blood of the family line endured.

Mathurin (c1754-?) à Jean-Emmanuel à Emmanuel à Étienne Hébert

Mathurin, third and youngest son of Jean-Baptiste Hébert dit Manuel and Claire Robichaux and brother of Joseph dit Pepin, born probably at Cobeguit in c1755, was, still an infant, taken by his family into exile and imprisonment.  He followed his widowed mother and siblings to Louisiana in 1765, settled with them at Cabahannocer and, in the 1770s, followed them to the Attakapas District, where, at age 33, he married Catherine, daughter of Gaspard Doré and Marguerite Crebe of St.-Charles des Allemands on the lower German Coast above New Orleans, in January 1787.  They settled at La Côte-aux-Puces, the Flea Coast, on the lower Teche.  Their children, born there, included Céleste in October 1787; Aspasie in January 1796 but died at age 12 in March 1808; Édouard-Mathurin, also called Nicolas-Mathurin, born in May 1799; a son, name unrecorded, in 1801 but buried at age 5 months in April 1802; and Nicolas born in May 1803--five children, two daughters and three sons, between 1787 and 1803.  Daughter Céleste married into the Paynne or Penne family, and perhaps into the Broussard family as well.  Two of Mathurin's sons married into Spanish Creole families from nearby New Iberia. 

Oldest son Édouard Mathurin, also called Nicolas Mathurin, married cousin Marie Rose, daughter of Jean Romero and Charlotte Doré of Spanish Lake, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in April 1818.  They children, born in St. Mary Parish, included Marcellite, also called Marie Marceline, in March 1820; Maximilien in November 1821; and Jean François Mathurin, called François, in October 1823.  Édouard Mathurin remarried to Euphrosine Pélagie, daughter of Joseph Gary and Euphrosine Picard, at the St. Martinville church in September 1829.  Their children, born on the prairies and the lower Teche, included a daughter, name unrecorded, died at age 3 days in February 1831; Édouard Césaire Maturin or Mathurin baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 3 months, in July 1838; Marie born near New Iberia in March 1840; Jean Derosin, perhaps also called Jean Drosin and Drosin, in June 1842; and Mathurin in January 1846--eight children, three daughters and five sons, by two wives, between 1820 and 1846.  Daughters Marie Marceline, ..., by both wives, married into the Menard and Romero families by 1870.  Two of Édouard Mathurin's sons also married by then. 

Second Jean François Mathurin, called François, from first wife Marie Rose Romero, married Sylvanie, daughter of Gaspard Menard and Catherine Hulin, at the St. Martinville church in March 1848; Jean François's sister Marie Marcelline married Sylvanie's brother Terence.  Jean François and Sylvanie's son Jean Amédée Mathurin was born near New Iberia in June 1849 but died at age 3 in August 1852.  Did they have anymore children?   

Édouard Mathurin's fourth son Jean Derosin, perhaps also called Jean Drosin and Drosin, from second wife Euphrosine Pélagie Gary, may have married Philomène Mayard, place and date unrecorded.  Their son Benoît was born near New Iberia in June 1864; ...

Mathurin's third and youngest son Nicolas may have been the Nicolas Hébert, "minor," for whom a succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in June 1821.  If so, it was not a post-mortem succession.  He married Marie, daughter of Jean Gary and Marguerite Ravalette, at the St. Martinville church in July 1825.  Their son Nicolas Mathurin was born in St. Martin Parish in June 1826 and married. 

Only son Nicolas Mathurin, called "Nicolas of St. Landry Parish" by the recording priest, married Suzanne Apolline or Pauline, daughter of Benjamin Borel and Amelia C. Andrus, at the Charenton church, St. Mary Parish, in January 1851.  They settled on the lower Teche between Charenton and New Iberia.  Their children, born there, included Nicolas, fils in August 1852; Henry Gabriel in May 1854; Ozea Victoria in February 1858; Marie Amelia in April 1860; Margarite in May 1862; Benjamin in December 1865; ...  None of Nicolas Mathurin's children married by 1870. 

Jean-Charles (c1751-1830) à Jean-Emmanuel à Emmanuel à Étienne Hébert

Jean-Charles, called Charles, younger son of Bénoni Hébert dit Manuel and Jeanne Savoie and younger brother of Joseph-Pepin of Attakapas, born at Chignecto in c1751, was taken by his family into exile and imprisonment.  Two of his siblings emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1764-65 and followed the Broussards to Bayou Teche, but Charles evidently traveled to the colony with the family of first cousin Joseph dit Pepin Hébert and settled with them at Cabahannocer, where he was counted with them on the left, or east, bank of the river in April 1766.  He may have still been with them in September 1769.  Soon after that counting, he joined his siblings on the western prairies, where he married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians René Robichaux and Marguerite Martin dit Barnabé of Île St.-Jean, at Attakapas in April 1773.  Their children, born on the upper Vermilion, included Ulalie, also called Dorothée, in the early 1770s; Marie-Scholastique, called Scholastique, baptized at Attakapas, age unrecorded, in May 1776; Marie baptized, age unrecorded, in November 1777; Marie-Solange, called Solange, baptized at age 5 months in December 1781; Moyse or Moïse baptized at age 3 months in May 1784; Julie born in April 1787; another Marie in August 1789; Ursin in February 1792; Jean-Baptiste-Valmont, called Valmont, in October 1796; and Marguerite in August 1787--10 children, seven daughters and three sons, between the early 1770s and 1787.  Jean Charles died in Lafayette Parish in October 1830.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said that Charles died at age 93!  He was in his late 70s.  His succession, following that of his wife in January, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in August 1831.  Daughters Ulalie/Dorothée, Scholastique, Marie-Solange, Julie, Marie (probably the second one), and Marguerite married into the Lambert, Guidry, Fostin, Boudreaux, and Breaux famiies.  Jean Charles's three sons also married, two of them to sisters, and settled on the prairies. 

Oldest son Moïse married Marie Louise, called Louise and Lisette, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Richard and Marie Dugas of Anse La Butte, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in February 1809.  Their children, born on the upper Vermilion, perhaps at Anse La Butte, included Moïse, fils in January 1810; a son, name unrecorded, died five days after his birth in July 1811; Marguerite Hermione born in February 1813; Solasti, also called Lasty, Sosti, and Joseph, in August 1815; Marie, probably Marie Duvissa, called Duvissa, in April 1818; Véronique in January 1821; Théogène in June 1823; Émelie Azélima in June 1826; Colombe or Colombus in c1829 but died at age 2 1/2 in July 1831; and Olizia born in c1831 and baptized at age 1 in October 1832, but, called Olifia, died at age 7 (the recording priest said 8) in August 1838--10 children, five sons and five daughters, between 1810 and 1831.  Wife's Marie Louise's succession, calling her husband Moïse père, probably post-mortem, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in November 1849.  Moïse died in Lafayette Parish in January 1859.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Moyse, as he called him, died "at age 72 yrs."  He would have been age 74.  His succession, which called him Moïse, Sr., was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following March.  Daughters Marguerite Hermione, Duvissa, and Émilie Azélima married into the Dugas, Broussard, and Neveu families.  Three of Moïse's sons also married. 

Oldest son Moïse, fils married Margaret, daughter of William Hathorn or Hothorn and Margaret Sloane, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in August 1832.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Élodie in September 1839; Guillaume in March 1841; and Alphonse in December 1844--three children, a daughter and two sons, between 1839 and 1844.  Moïse, fils's succession, calling his wife Marguerite Hathorn, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse, St. Landry Parish, in November 1849.  He would have been age 39 that year.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Moïse, père's third son Solasti, also called Lasty, Sosti, and Joseph, married Marie Adeline, called Adeline, daughter of Jean Begnaud and his Acadian wife Marie Guilbeau, at the St. Martinville church in October 1835.  They settled near Breaux Bridge.  Their children, born there, included Félicia in December 1836; Féliciane in December 1838; Valsin in c1839 but died at age 3 in May 1842; Edmon or Edmond born in February 1840; Philomène in July 1841; Sostène in December 1842 but, called Sostheène, died at age 10 months in October 1843; Marie Louise born in May 1844; Hermogènes or Hermogène in November 1845; Marie Orpheia in December 1847; a child, name unrecorded, in c1848 but died at age 14 months in November 1850; and Emma born in September 1849--11 children, at least six daughters and four sons, between 1836 and 1849.  Daughters Philomène, ... married into the Dugas, Guidry, Patin, and Pourieau families by 1870.  One of Lasty's sons also married by then.

Fourth and youngest son Hermogène married Uranie or Noémi, daughter of fellow Acadian Sosthène Guidry and his Creole wife Uranie Pelletier, at the Breaux Bridge church, St. Martin Parish, in October 1865. ...

Moïse, père's fourth son Théogène married double cousin Victorine Julie or Julie Victorine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Victor Richard and Marie Louise Richard, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in December 1844.  They settled probably near Grand Coteau, near the southeastern edge of St. Landry Parish.  Their children, born there, included Louisa Élodie, called Élodie, in c1846; an unnamed child died in Lafayette Parish at age 5 weeks in October 1849; Marie Odille or Corine born in September 1850; twins Victor and another son in January 1853, but the other son, unnamed by the recording priest, died in Lafayette Parish at age 5 1/2 in July 1858, and Victor also died at age 5 1/2 (the recording priest said 6) that October; Félix born in January 1855; Philomène Zélia in January 1857; and Cécilia in February 1859 but may have died at age 5 1/2 in October 1864--eight children, at least four daughters and three sons, including a set of twins, between the mid-1840s and 1859.  Théogène died probably near Grand Coteau in August 1866.  The priest who recorded the burial did not give any parents' names, mention a wife, or give Théogène's age at the time of his death.  He would have been age 43.  His succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in October.  Daughters Élodie, ... married Richard cousins by 1870.  Théogène's remaining son did not marry by then. 

Jean-Charles's second son Ursin married Marie Marguerite, called Marguerite, another daughter of Pierre Richard and Marie Dugas of La Butte, at the St. Martinville church in June 1810.  Their children, born on the upper Vermilion, included Ursin, fils in April 1811; Joseph, also called Joseph Ursin, in September 1812; Gédéon in August 1815; Caroline in November 1817; Carmélite in the late 1810s; Huranie or Uranie in April 1821; and Jacques in c1822 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 1, in January 1823.  Wife Marie Marguerite's succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in July 1826, six days after her husband's remarriage.  Ursin, père , at age 34, remarried to Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph François Achée and Geneviève LeBlanc, at the Vermilionville church in July 1826.  Their child, name unrecorded, died at age 2 hours in August 1827--eight children, at least four sons and three daughters, by two wives, between 1811 and 1827.  Ursin, père died in Lafayette Parish in December 1835.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who named his second wife but not his first, said that Ursin was age 45 when he died.  He was 42.  His succession, naming only his first wife and two minor children, Jacque and Caroline, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following January.  Daughters Uranie and Carmélite, by his first wife, married into the Broussard and Sonnier families.  Three of his sons also married. 

Oldest son Ursin, fils, by first wife Marguerite Richard, married, at age 23, Marie Domicile, called Domicile and Missile, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Thibodeaux and Marie Louise Broussard, at the Vermilionville church in May 1834, on the same day and at the same place his younger brother Gédéon married.  Ursin, fils and Domicile's children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Azéma baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 3 months, in October 1835; Jean born in December 1838; and Marie Zilia, also called Dilia, in July 1840.  Wife Domicile died in Lafayette Parish, "age 25 to 30 yrs.," in April 1842 (she was 27).  Her succession, naming her husband, was not filed at the Vermilionville courthouse until May 1845.  Ursin, fils, at age 34, remarried to Anathalie or Nathalie, daughter of Antoine Ragazzony or Ragozoni and his Acadian wife Françoise Trahan, at the Vermilionville church in June 1845.  They settled probably near Carencro, at the northern edge of Lafayette Parish.  Their children, born there, included a child, name unrecorded, died at birth in March 1846; a son, name unrecorded, born in c1846 or 1847 but, again unnamed, died at age 5 in January 1851; Antoine Ursin, called Ursin III, born in April 1849; and Angelina in October 1851--seven children, at least three daughters and three sons, by two wives, between 1835 and 1846 or 1847.  Ursin, fils's succession, naming both of his wives, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in November 1853.  He would have been age 42 that year.  Daughters Dilia and Angelina, by both wives, married into the Duhon and Billaud families by 1870.  One of his sons also married by then.

Third and youngest son Ursin III, by second wife Nathalie Ragazzony, married Azéma, daughter of Jean Billaud and Virginie Favre, at the Vermilionville church in June 1869; Ursin III's sister Angeline married Azéma's brother Alexandre. ...

Ursin, père's second son Joseph Ursin, by first wife Marguerite Richard, married Anne Tarsile, daughter of fellow Acadians Olidon Broussard and Anne Bernard, at the Vermilionville church in April 1832.  They settled probably near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Honoré, also called Honorine, if he was not a twin, baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 3 months, in June 1834 but died at age 2 1/2 (the recording priest, who called him Honorine, said 3) in February 1837; Terzile baptized at age 1 month in August 1835; Élisée dit Lisé, a son, baptized at age 2 months in March 1838; Marguerite, perhaps also called Fortalis, born in August 1841; Azélia, perhaps theirs and perhaps Marguerite's twin, died at age 4 months in January 1842; Amélie born in November 1842; Antoine Émile, called Émile, in March 1847; Anne Carmélite, called Carmélite, in May 1849; Joseph, fils in January 1852; an unnamed child, perhaps theirs, died near Grand Coteau at age 3 days in January 1860; Aimé, perhaps their son, in 1865 but died at age 1 in December 1866; ...  Joseph Ursin died by August 1866, when he was listed as deceased in a son's marriage record.  None of his daughters married by 1870, but two of his sons did. 

Second son Élisée dit Lisé married Émelie, daughter of fellow Acadians Gérard Thibodeaux and Cécile Broussard, at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in June 1856.  Daughter Aziliea was born near Abbeville in May 1857.  Did they have anymore children?

Joseph Ursin's third son Antoine Émile married Arminie or Émilie, daughter of fellow Acadians Bélonie Boudreaux and Eugénie Trahan, at the Youngsville church, Lafayette Parish, in August 1866.  They settled probably on the lower Vermilion.  Their son Jean Léodice was born there in December 1868; ... 

Ursin, père's third son Gédéon, by first wife Marguerite Richard, married cousin Azélie, also called Scholastique, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph dit Mines Guidry and Marie Scholastique Hébert, at the Vermilionville church in May 1834, on the same day and at the same place his older brother Ursin, fils married.  Gédéon and Azélie's children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Gédéon, fils in late 1835 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in January 1836; Scholastique baptized at age 2 months in November 1837; Anaïse baptized at age 2 1/2 months in December 1839; Joseph Laurensky born in January 1841; Ignace in November 1841[sic]; Marguerite in October 1846; Eusèbe in December 1848; and Félicia in February 1853--eight children, four sons and four daughters, between 1835 and 1853.  Gédéon's daughters evidently did not marry by 1870, but one of his sons did. 

Fourth and youngest son Eusèbe married Belzire, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Duhon and Carmélite Broussard, at the Abbeville church in June 1866.  They settled near Youngsville.  Their twin sons Onile and Rémi were born there in June 1867; ... 

Jean-Charles's third and youngest son Jean Baptiste Valmont, called Valmont, married Marie Carmélite, called Carmélite, daughter of Swedish Immigrant Charles Frederick and his Acadian wife Angélique Marguerite Gravois of New Orleans, at the St. Martinville church in April 1817.  Their children, born on the upper Vermilion, included Jean Sarrazin or Sarasin, called Sarasin, in October 1818; Théodule in February 1821; Moïse le jeune in August 1822 but died at age 21 (the recording priest said 22) in September 1843; Ovide, also called Théovide and Théoville, born in August 1824; Eusèbe baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in July 1826; and Joseph baptized, age 3 months, in April 1828--six children, all sons, between 1818 and 1828.  Jean Valmont died in Lafayette Parish in December 1847.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said that Jean Baptiste, as he called him, died "at age 49 yrs."  He was 51.  His succession, calling him Jean Valmont, naming his wife, and listing his heirs--Théville; Sarrazin; Eusèbe; and Joseph.--was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse a couple of weeks after his death.  Five of his sons married and settled on the prairies. 

Oldest son Jean Sarasin, called Sarasin, married, at age 20, cousin Anne Véronique, called Véronique, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Guidry and Marie Solange Hébert, at the Vermilionville church in June 1839.  They settled near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included a daughter, name unrecorded, in c1838 but died at age 5 in September 1843; Véronique born in May 1840; Dorcely or Dorcili Michel or Michel Dorcili in September 1841; Marie Pamela, called Pamela, in October 1843; Joseph in the early or mid-1840s; Lucien in January 1847 but may have died at age 4 1/2 (the recording priest said 5) in September 1851; Lucille born in late 1847 or early 1848 and died at age 18 months in May 1849; Madeleine born in May 1849; and a child, name and age unrecorded, died in September 1849 (one wonders if it was Madeleine).  A succession for wife Véronique, probably post-mortem, and calling her husband Sarazin, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in August 1849.  Jean Sarasin remarried to Octavie, daughter of Benoît Laurent and Sophie Dufort, at the Vermilionville church in April 1852.  She evidently gave him no more children.  Jean Sarasin's succession, not post-mortem, listing his first wife and minor children--Michel Dorsalie, Pamela, and Joseph--was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in November 1853.  At age 41, Jean Sarasin may have remarried again--perhaps his third marriage--to fellow Acadian Victoire Broussard at the Abbeville church in November 1859.  Their son Arthur was born near Abbeville in February 1861; ...  Sarasin's daughters, by his first wife, married into the Breaux family, and perhaps into the LeBlanc family as well, by 1870.  Two of his son also married by then.

Oldest son Dorcili Michel, by first wife Véronique Guidry, married Uranie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Trahan and his Creole wife Marie Aspasie Manceau, at the Vermilionville church in September 1866. ...

Sarasin's second son Joseph, by first wife Véronique Guidry, married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Louvière and Delphine Broussard, at the Vermilionville church in September 1867. ...

Valmont's second son Théodule married cousin Élisa or Éliza, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Guidry and Scholastique Hébert and widow of Charles Bergeron, at the Vermilionville church in July 1840.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Théodule, fils in May 1841; Marie Louisiannaise in July 1843; and Jean Edgard in September 1847.  A succession for wife Liza, naming her husband, probably post-mortem, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in February 1849.  Théodule remarried to Eveline or Evelina Laurent, perhaps a sister of his older brother Sarasin's second wife, place and date unrecorded.  Théodule and Evelina's children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Sidné in December 1852; Alfred in December 1855; Henry in March 1858; Marie Cécile in October 1860; Félix Joseph in July 1863; Arthur in January 1866; ...  Neither of Théodule's daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did.

Oldest son Théodule, fils, by first wife Élisa Guidry, married cousin Élodie, daughter of Christophe Neveu and his Acadian wife Azélima Hébert, at the Vermilionville church in July 1868. ...

Valmont's fourth son Ovide, Théovide, or Théoville married Marie Josèphe or Joséphine, 17-year-old daughter of Dorsin Delhomme and Marie Joséphine Bertrand, a Creole, not a fellow Acadian, at the St. Martinville church in November 1842.  Their son Ovide was born in Lafayette Parish in October 1843.  Wife Marie Joséphine may died from the rigors of their son's birth.  Théovide remarried to Scholastique dite Colastie, daughter of fellow Acadians Placide Duhon and Arcène Guidry, at the Vermilionville church in August 1845.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Siméon, also Siméon Louis, in January 1847 but died at age 10 (the recording priest said 12) in April 1857; Antoine born in April 1848; a child, name unrecorded, died "at age a few days" in May 1852; another child, name and age unrecorded, died in October 1855; Arsène born in November 1857; Carmélite in March 1859 but died at age 3 1/2 (the recording priest said "age 3 or 4 yrs.") in July 1862; Tobie born in September 1861 but died at age 8 1/2 in April 1870; Théophile born in May 1864; Jean in August 1866; ...  Théovide died in Lafayette Parish in September 1869.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Théoville, as he called him, died "at age 44 yrs."  Théovide would have been age 45.  None of his remaining sons married by 1870. 

Valmont's fifth son Eusèbe married Eléonore, 16-year-old daughter of Jean Baptiste, also called Jean Louis, Robin and Félicité Delhomme, at the Vermilionville church in July 1844.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Alexandre in November 1846; Alexandrine in September 1848; Onézima or Lesima in May 1851; Eusèbe, fils died 10 days after his birth in February 1854; Jean Valmont born in December 1855; Amédée in December 1858; Irma in August 1861; Eusèbe Israël in February 1868; ...  Daughter Alexandrine married into the Louvière family by 1870.  One of Eusèbe's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Alexandre married Elvina, daughter of fellow Acadians Simonette Breaux and Carmélite Granger, at the Vermilionville church in January 1868. ...

Valmont's sixth and youngest son Joseph married Uranie, also called Marie, another daughter of Placide Duhon and Arcène Guidry, at the Vermilionville church in September 1848.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Placides or Placide in August 1852; Marie Alice in April 1854; Alcide in August 1856; Joseph, fils in January 1859; Thérèse in December 1861; ...  None of Joseph's children married by 1870. 

Jean-Louis (c1763-1810s) à Jean-Baptiste dit Manuel à Jean-Emmanuel à Emmanuel à Étienne Hébert

Jean-Louis, only son of Jean Hébert and Madeleine Gaudet and nephew of Joseph dit Pepin and Mathurin, born probably in a Nova Scotia prison compound in c1763, was a very young orphan when he followed his widowed paternal grandmother and his paternal aunts and uncles to Louisiana via Cap-Français in 1764-65.  He lived with his grandmother, two aunts, and an uncle at Cabahannocer on the river.  In the 1770s, he followed them to the Attakapas District, where, at age 27, he married first cousin Marie-Rose, called Rose and Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Richard and Agnés Hébert of Cabahannocer, his uncle and aunt, in April 1790.  They settled near his uncle Mathurin at La Côte-aux-Puces, the Flea Coast, on the west bank of the lower Teche below New Iberia.  Their children, born there, included Jean-Lacroix or -de la Croix in c1791 and baptized at Attakapas, age 4, in June 1795; Claire dite Clarice or Clarisse born in c1793 and baptized at age 2 years, 3 months in June 1795; Arthémise baptized at age 16 days in June 1795; Exupere, Exhubert, Exuber, Exubert, or Exibert, also called Jubert, born in September 1799; Philibert in March 1802; and Rosalie in September 1805--six children, three sons and three daughters, between 1791 and 1805.  Jean Louis died probably in St. Mary Parish by February 1818, when he was listed as deceased in his oldest son's marriage record.  Daughters Clarisse and Arthémise married into the LeBlanc and Labauve families.  Jean Louis's three sons also married and settled on the lower Teche. 

Oldest son Jean Lacroix or de la Croix married Geneviève, daughter of Pierre Bonvillain and Thérèse Carlin of St. Mary Parish, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in February 1818.  They settled in St. Mary Parish on the lower Teche near the boundary with St. Martin Parish.  Their children, born there, included Jean De la Croix, fils, called Lacroix, in January 1819; Gertrude Adeline in February 1821; Marie Azélia in March 1825; Émile, also called Émile de la Croix, in September 1827; and twins Clémentine and Lufroi or Leufroi La Claire, called La Claire, in January 1830--six children, three sons and three daughters, including a set of twins, between 1819 and 1830.  A succession for Jean Lacroix Hébert was filed at the Franklin courthouse, St. Mary Parish, in December 1867.  Jean Lacroix, père would have been age 76 that year.  His daughters married into the Landry and Louvière families.  His three sons also married.  One settled in Terrebonne Parish, but the others remained on the lower Teche near New Iberia.

Oldest son Jean Lacroix, fils, called Lacroix, married, at age 21, Marguerite Ignace, also called Mary, daughter of Spanish Creoles Ignace Viator and Julie Romero, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in October 1840.  Their children, born near New Iberia, included Julie Matilda in September 1842; Ovid or Ovide in January 1845[sic]; twins Marguerite La Croix and Marie La Croix in August 1845[sic]; André Adoiska in May 1851; Octave Ermogène in February 1853; Amelia in December 1854; Joseph Odilon in January 1857; Onézifort or Onésiphore in March 1860; Victoria in October 1862; ...  A succession for Jean Lacroix Hébert was filed at the Franklin courthouse in December 1867.  Jean Lacroix, fils would have been age 48 that year.  Daughters ... married into the Miguez, Ransonnet, and Romero families by 1870.  One of Lacroix's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Ovide married Marie Octavie, called Octavie, daughter of Dasincourt Borel and his Acadian wife Hermantine Vincent, at the New Iberia church in December 1865; the marriage was recorded also in St. Mary Parish.  Their son Palycorpe, probably Polycarp, was born near New Iberia in September 1866; ... 

Jean Lacroix, père's second son Émile de la Croix married cousin Marie Oline or Olive, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexis LeBlanc and Marie Landry, at the New Iberia church in May 1850.  Their children, born near New Iberia, included Jean Deluc de la Croix, called Deluc, in January 1852; Marie Célestine in October 1854; Joseph Motimor in December 1856; and Émile Ulinor in January 1859--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1852 and 1859.  Émile's daughter did not marry by 1870, but one of his sons did.

Oldest son Deluc married Élina, daughter of Théodule Delcambre and his Acadian wife Orezile Landry and widow of Isaac Landry, at the New Iberia church in October 1870. ...

Jean-Lacroix, père's third and youngest son Leufroi La Claire, called La Claire, a twin, married cousin Odile, Odilia, or Olivia, daughter of fellow Acadians Martin Hébert and Mathilde Dubois of Terrebonne Parish, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in December 1860.  They settled on the lower Bayou Teche.  Their children, born there, included Valière La Claire near New Iberia in August 1861; Adrien Honoré near Lydia, Iberia Parish, in December 1869; ... 

Jean-Louis's second son Exupère, Exhubert, Exuber, Exubert, or Exibert, also called Jubert, married cousin Constance, also called Hortense, Floence, and Octavie, daughter of fellow Acadians Athanase Hébert, père and Félicité Breaux of Fausse Pointe, at the St. Martinville church in February 1820.  Their children, born in St. Mary Parish, included Hortence in October 1824; Rose in October 1827; Désiré in December 1829; Placide in March 1832; Félicia in February 1834; and Aurore in August 1838--six children, four daughters and two sins, between 1824 and 1838.  Exhubert, called Eugène by the recording priest, died probably in St. Mary Parish in January 1840, age 40.  His succession, calling him Hubert, was filed at the Franklin courthouse the following November.  Daughters ... married into the Broussard, Derouen, LeBlanc, and Lions or Lyon families.  Both of his sons also married and settled on the lower Teche. 

Older son Désiré married cousin Domitille, daughter of fellow Acadians François Xavier Louvière and Arthémise Hébert, at the New Iberia church in March 1854.  Their son Désiré, fils was born near New Iberia in April 1857.  Did they have anymore children?  

Exhubert's younger son Placide may have married Marie St. Elia Prevost or Provost at the New Iberia church in November 1852.  They settled in St. Mary Parish.  She evidently gave him no children.  Placide may have remarried to Amélie, daughter of fellow Acadians Benjamin Bourgeois and Nathalie Fécile Bourg, at the Charenton church, St. Mary Parish, in April 1857.  Their children, born on the lower Teche, included Alcide near Charenton in February 1858; Henry in April 1859; Gabriel in January 1862; Arthur near New Iberia in January 1865; Jean Théodore near Lydia in August 1869; ...

Jean-Louis's third and youngest son Philibert married Marie Carmesile or Carmélite, daughter of Jean Baptiste Bourgeois, a Creole, not a fellow Acadian, and Marie Borel, in a civil ceremony in St. Mary Parish in April 1827.  Their children, born in St. Mary Parish, included Élise in June 1828; Philibert Dorneville or Derneville, called Derneville, in July 1830; a daughter, name unrecorded, in 1832 but died at age 10 months in March 1833; Jean Darmas, also called Jean Louis le jeune, born in c1840 and baptized at the Charenton church, age 9, in 1849; and St. Cyr, age unrecorded, died near Charenton in April 1860.  Wife Marie Carmesile's succession, probably post-mortem, naming her husband, was filed at the Franklin courthouse in February 1847.  Philibert, at age 46, remarried to Joséphine, daughter of Joseph Legnon, Leignon, Loignon, Loignion, or Lognon and Eugénie Dartes, at the Charenton church in September 1848.  Their children, born near Charenton, included Philibert, fils  in December 1849; Aristide in August 1851; Féliciana in October 1853; Paul in July 1856; Eugénie in June 1858; Laure Thérèse born in December 1860; ...  Philibert's daughters did not marry by 1870, but three of his sons did. 

Oldest son Philibert Dorneville or Derneville, called Derneville, from first wife Marie Carmesile Bourgeois, married Marie Eudolie, Idalie, Idolie, Udalie, Udelie, or Udoline, daughter of Clairville Bonin and Madeleine Sidalise Borel, at the Charenton church in November 1855.  They settled near Lydia, on the lower Teche between Charenton and New Iberia, in what became Iberia Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie Esperee in April 1856; Marie Thérèse in November 1857; Valderie, probably Valérie, Albert in February 1860; Marie in February 1862; St. Cyr in July 1864; Marie Philomène in June 1865; Justin in September 1866 but died at age 2 1/2 in January 1869; Joseph Damas born in December 1870; ...  None of Philibert Derneville's children married by 1870. 

Philibert's second son Jean Darmas, also called Jean Louis le jeune, from first wife Marie Carmesile Bourgeois, married Alphonsine, another daughter of Joseph Loignon and Eugénie Dartes, at the Charenton church in June 1860; Alphonsine was a sister of Jean Louis's stepmother Joséphine, so he married his step-aunt, if there's such a thing.  Jean Louis and Alphonsine's children, born near Charenton, included Marie Larisienne in March 1861; Jean Oscar in October 1862; ... 

Philibert's fourth son Aristide, by second wife Joséphine Loignon, married Victoire, daughter of Jean Louis Laine and his Acadian wife Victoire Savoie, at the Lydia church in May 1870. ...

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In the late 1760s, dozens of more Héberts came to Louisiana, this time from Maryland.  Only two members of the family, however, came to the Spanish colony in 1766:  An Hébert wife who was married to a Melanson was part of the first contingent of exiles from the Chesapeake colony that reached New Orleans from Baltimore in September 1766.  Another Hébert wife, this one married to a David who was a master blacksmith, came to New Orleans in October, one of the few Acadian families able to pay its own passage on a separate vessel.  These Héberts and their Melanson and David families joined their many cousins living at Cabahannocer.  No new Hébert family lines came of it. 

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Thirty-five more Héberts in nine families, many led by brothers and one by a widow, and two more wives and their families--one of the largest single Acadian family groups to reach the colony--arrived at New Orleans from Baltimore via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, aboard the ship Virgin in July 1767.  The Spanish sent them to the new settlement of San Gabriel d'Iberville on the river above Cabahannocer.  Many new Hébert family lines emerged on what was being called the Acadian Coast, but not all of the lines endured: 

François (1710-1789) à Emmanuel à Étienne Hébert

François, second son of Jacques Hébert and Marguerite Landry, born at Minas in April 1710, married Marie-Josèphe dite Josette, daughter of Jean Melanson and Marguerite Dugas, at Grand-Pré in November 1732.  All of their children, born there, included Paul in August 1733; Alexandre in December 1735; François, fils in June 1738; Amand in April 1740; Jean-Baptiste dit Petit Jean in June 1742; Étienne in October 1744; Pierre-Caieton or -Cajetan in April 1747; Joseph in c1748 or 1749; Charles in c1750 or 1751; and Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, in c1752--10 children, nine sons and a daughter, between 1733 and 1752.  The British deported the family to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  François, père, wife Josette, and eight of their children, seven sons and a daughter, appeared on a French repatriation list at Georgetown on Maryland's Eastern Shore in July 1763.  Third son François, fils was not listed with the family at Georgetown; he was listsed with his wife at Baltimore that month.  Two other sons--Alexandre and Amand--married in the Chesapeake colony after the list appeared.  Oldest son Paul, if still living, would have been age 30 at the time the list was compiled; he alone was not with his family in Maryland, so he may have died before the family went to the Chesapeake colony, or, at age 22 in 1755, he may have escaped the roundup at Minas or been exiled to a different place.  In 1767, François, père, now a widower in his late 50s, took six of his unmarried children, five sons and a daughter, to Spanish Louisiana and settled at San Gabriel.  His three married sons also followed him there.  François, père died at San Gabriel in March 1789, age 79.  Daughter Marie Madeleine married into the Landry family in Louisiana.  Six of François's sons married or remarried on the river, and seven of them created family lines there, but not all of the lines endured. 

Second son Alexandre followed his family to Maryland, where he married fellow Acadian Anne Landry after the July 1763 counting at Georgetown.  They followed his family to Spanish Louisiana in 1767 and settled with them at San Gabriel on the river.  Anne seems to have given Alexandre no children either in Maryland or in Louisiana.  In January 1789, at age 53, Alexandre remarried to Marie-Jeanne, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Thibodeaux and Louise Haché of Grand-Pré, at San Gabriel.  Marie-Jeanne, born either at Minas, in England, or in France, evidently came to Louisiana in 1785 aboard one of the Five Ships.  Soon after their marriage, they moved to the Attakapas District and then to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Their children, born on the prairies and the Lafourche, included Jean-Baptiste at Attakapas in October 1789 but died at Assumption, age 11, in June 1801; and Isabelle-Marie born at Assumption in August 1794.  Alexandre died on the upper Lafourche by 1814, probably in his 70s.  Daughter Isabelle Marie remained at Attakapas and married into the Pomier family, so, except perhaps for its blood, Alexandre's family line died with him. 

François's third son François, fils followed his family to Maryland and married fellow Acadian Marie-Josèphe, also called Marie-Marguerite, LeBlanc there in c1762.  They appeared on a repatriation list at Baltimore in July 1763.  Marie-Josèphe gave François, fils two sons in Maryland:  Charles le jeune born in c1763; and Jean-Baptiste le jeune in c1764.  They followed his family to Spanish Louisiana in 1767 and had more children at San Gabriel, including Bénoni or Béloni Méon born in c1771; Rosalie in c1772; Anne-Marie or -Marine in December 1773 but died at age 5 1/2 (the recording priest said 3 1/2) in September 1779; Colette born in c1776 or 1777; another Anne-Marie, also called Marine, baptized, age unrecorded, in October 1778; and Jacques dit Santiago born in June 1782--eight children, four sons and four daughters, between 1763 and 1782, in Maryland and Louisiana.  Daughters Rosalie, Colette, and Marine, the second with the name, married into the Landry, Simoneaux, and Babin families.  François, fils's sons also married and settled in the Manchac/Baton Rouge area north of San Gabriel and in West Baton Rouge Parish across the river.  One of François, fils's grandsons was among the few Acadians who settled in Pointe Coupee Parish on the river above West Baton Rouge.  Not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Charles le jeune followed his family to New Orleans and San Gabriel, but he did not remain there.  He moved to the Attakapas District when he came of age and, at age 24, married Marguerite, 19-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Amand-Paul Gautreaux and Marie Landry, in December 1787.  The couple returned to the river and settled in the San Gabriel/Baton Rouge area.  Their children, born on the river, included Marie-Laurence in February 1789; Jérôme in October 1790; Marie-Clothilde in the early 1790s; Marine in the early 1790s; Henriette in the early 1790s; Marie, perhaps also called Marie-Marthe, in June 1792; Élias or Élie in May 1794; Hippolyte in March 1796; Céleste in April 1798 but died at age 2 1/2 in January 1801; Marguerite born in c1800 and baptized, age 1, in March 1801; another Céleste born in January 1802; twins Élise Hélène, perhaps called Hélène, and Victor le jeune in April 1805; Eugénie in the early 1800s; and Charles, fils in April 1807--15 children, 10 daughters and five sons, including a set of twins, between 1789 and 1807.  Daughters Marie Clothide, Marine, Henriette, Marie Marthe, and Eugénie married into the Templet, Landry, LeBlanc, Bedate, and Dupuy families.  Twin daughter Élise Hélène may have been the Hélène Hébert who gave birth to son Sostène in August 1829, when she would have been age 24; to daughter Marie Solidaire in early 1830, when Hélène would have been age 25; and an unnamed infant son died in early October 1834, when Hélène would have been age 29.  The St. Gabriel priest or priests who recorded the baptisms and burial did not give the children's father's name or the mother's parents' names.  According to local church records, this Hélène Hébert did not marry.  Four of Charles le jeune's sons did marry, and one of them settled in Pointe Coupee Parish. 

Oldest son Jérôme married Marie, daughter of William Gibson and Marie MacKenna of Kentucky, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in May 1815.  Their children, born at Manchac on the river between Baton Rouge and St. Gabriel, included Herman in October 1816; Maximilien in November 1817; Joseph Camille, called Camille, perhaps in the late 1810s; Valentin Trasimond, called Trasimond, in November 1820; Jean in January 1822; Fergus in May 1824; Marie Azélie in August 1826; Jean Baptiste Valcourt in January 1829; and Jérôme, fils in May 1831 and baptized at the Baton Rouge church, age 10 months, in March 1832--nine children, eight sons and a daughter, between 1816 and 1831.  Jérôme, père died near Baton Rouge in June 1831.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Jérôme was "ca. 38 yrs." when he died.  He was 40.  His daughter did not marry by 1870, if she married at all, but two of his sons did marry in South Louisiana.  Not all of the lines endured. 

Third son Camille married Amelise, Analise, Analize, or Ananise, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Labauve and Virginie Dupuis, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in August 1842.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Sosthène in September 1845; Marie Aloysia near Brusly in October 1848; Virginie Estelle in March 1851; Marie Aline in October 1853; Azélie in October 1856; Jean Baptiste Maximilien in May 1861; ...  None of Camille's children married by 1870. 

Jérôme's fourth son Trasimond married first cousin Amelia or Émelia, daughter of fellow Acadians Magloire Dupuy and Eugénie Hébert, his uncle and aunt, at the Baton Rouge church in May 1843.  She evidently gave him no children.  Trasimond remarried to Nathalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Élien Babin and Amélie Daigre, at the Brusly church in April 1852.  She evidently gave him no children.  Trasimond remarried again--his third marriage, to Domitille, another daughter of Joseph Élien Babin and Amelie Daigre and widow of William Allain, at the Brusly church in July 1856; they had to secure a dispensation for first degree of affinity in order to marry.  Did any of his wives give Trasimond children? 

Charles le jeune's second son Élie married cousin Gertrude, daughter most likely of fellow Acadians Joseph Ephrèm Babin and Anne Marie Hébert, by the early 1820s and settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Joseph in March 1824; Félix in June 1825; Irma or Yrma in August 1827; Apollinaire perhaps in the late 1820s; Rosémond Ulysses in December 1830; Siméon in June 1833 but died near Brusly at age 24 in January 1857; Marguerite Zulma, called Zulma, born in July 1836; Jules Élie in December 1838 but, called Jules, died at age 13 1/2 (the recording priest said 12) in June 1852; Camille Valaise born near Brusly in December 1841; Théodore perhaps in the early 1840s; and Théodule perhaps in the mid-1840s--11 children, nine sons and two daughters, between 1824 and the 1840s.  Élie died in West Baton Rouge Parish in June 1855.  The Brusly priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Élie died at "age 61 years"; Élie would have been 60, so this probably was him.  Daughters Irma and Zulma married into the Bourg and Hébert families by 1870.  Five of Élie's sons also married by then, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Joseph married cousin Victorine, daughter of fellow Acadians Magloire Dupuy and Eugénie Hébert, at the Brusly church in May 1850.  Daughter Apoline Zéolide was born near Brusly in February 1851.  Joseph died near Brusly in December 1852, age 28 (the recording priest said 29).  His daughter did not marry by 1870, and he fathered no sons. 

Élie's second son Félix married Marie Virginie or Virginia, daughter of fellow Acadian Vital Comeaux and his Creole wife Céleste Prosper, at the Brusly church in June 1848.  Their children, born near Brusly, included Joseph Amédée in December 1849; Pierre Élie in April 1850[sic, probably 1851, when he was baptized]; Marie Amalia born in November 1852; and Julie Aurelia in August 1854--four children, two sons and two daughters, between 1849 and 1854.  None of Félix's children married by 1870. 

Élie's third son Apollinaire married Stéphanie, daughter of Auguste D. Collier and his Acadian wife Françoise Mélanie Arbour, at the Brusly church in May 1854.  Daughter Marie Irma was born near Brusly in June 1860.  Apollinaire may have died there in February 1864.  The Brusly priest who recorded the burial did not give any parents' names, mention a wife, or give the age of the deceased.  One wonders if Apollinaire's death was war-related.  Did he father any sons? 

Élie's eighth son Théodore married Odile, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Lejeune and Rosaline Allain and widow of Édouard Bourg, at the Brusly church in November 1866. ...

Élie's ninth and youngest son Théodule married first cousin Adolphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Adolphe Dupuy and Eléonore Babin and widow of Prudent Crochet, at the Brusly church in October 1867; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Daughter Marie Altée was born near Brusly in April 1870; ...

Charles le jeune's third son Hippolyte married Henriette, daughter of Paul Serrette, a Creole not a fellow Acadian, and Anne Sigur and widow of Magloire Dupuis, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in June 1822.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their son Victorin Hippolyte, called Hippolyte, fils, was born there in December 1825.  Hippolyte, père remarried to Célestine or Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Doiron and Modeste Labauve, at the Baton Rouge church in September 1835.  They settled near Brusly in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie Delia or Edilia, called Edilia, in August 1836; Marguerite Célestine, called Célestine, in July 1837; Numa probably in the late 1830s; Cécile or Cécilia baptized at age 4 months in June 1839; Émilie or Émelia baptized at age 2 months in April 1840; Thomas Célestin born in May 1841; Marie Odile, called Odile, in May 1842, Alzire Eugénie, called Eugénie, in September 1843; Alcide Edmond in September 1845; Rose Modeste in January 1847; Joseph Marcelle in March 1848; Armand Ovide in August 1849; Martial Aristide in July 1853; and Marie Virginie in March 1855--15 children, seven sons and eight daughters, by two wives, between 1825 and 1855.  Daughters Marie Edilia, Célestine, Cécilia, Émelia, Marie Odile, and Eugénie, by his second wife, married into the Dupuis, Derichebourg, Ledieu, Tuillier, Labat, Petitjean, and Frechou families, one of them, Marie Odile, twice, by 1870.  Two of Hippolyte's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Victorin Hippolyte, by first wife Henriette Serrette, married, at age 21, Apolline Trasille, Trosile, or Trosine, daughter of fellow Acadians Placide Babin and Arthémise Templet, at the Brusly church in February 1847.  Their children, born near Brusly, included Louis Gilbert in December 1847; Marie Ophelia in December 1849; Appauline Aline in May 1852; Henrietta Ermina in December 1853; Victorin Arnaud in September 1855; Placide Adrien in June 1857 but died the following August; and Samuel Guénard born in October 1858--seven children, four sons and three daughters, between 1847 and 1858.  None of Victorin Hippolyte's children married by 1870. 

Hippolyte, père's second son Numa, by second wife Céleste Doiron, married, perhaps in his late 30s, Marie Léontine, daughter of fellow Acadian Élie Hyacinthe Lejeune and his Creole wife Eléonore Aillet, at the Brusly church in March 1867.  Their son Joseph Henry was born near Brusly in February 1868; ... 

Charles le jeune's fourth son Victor le jeune married cousin Marie Odile, called Odile, daughter of Nicolas Chapoton and his Acadian wife Marie Léocadie Hébert of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the Baton Rouge church in September 1831; they had to secure a dispensation for fourth degree of relationship in order to marry.  They lived on the river near St. Gabriel and in St. James Parish before crossing the river and moving up to Pointe Coupee Parish, where few other Acadians settled.  Their children, born on the river, included Marie Zulma, called Zulma, near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in October 1835; Charles le jeune near Convent, St. James Parish, in November 1837; Marguerite Célestine in January 1840; Françoise Éloise or Élodie near St. James in March 1842; Augustine Anaïse in August 1843; Appoline Emma in Pointe Coupee in May 1847 but died there at age 1 1/2 in July 1848; and Marguerite Léonie born in May 1850--seven children, six daughters and a son, between 1835 and 1850.  Victor le jeune died in Pointe Coupee Parish in February 1868.  The Pointe Coupee priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parent's names or mention a wife, said that Victor died at "age 63 years, 10 months."  Victor le jeune would have been age 62 years, 10 months.  Daughters Marie Zulma, Françoise Élodie, and Augustine Anaïse married into the Vignes, Champagne, and Boudreaux families by 1870.  Oldest daughter Marie Zulma, who had married Adolphe Vignes in February 1854 and with whom she had at least four children, the last one born in October 1861, gave birth to son Joseph Moran Édouard in October 1866, when she was age 31.  The Pointe Coupee priest who baptized the boy the following February called Zulma "widow of Adolphe Vignes" and called her son an Hébert.  One wonders when Adolphe Vignes died, and who was Joseph's biological father.  Did Joseph Moran Édouard survive childhood, call himself an Hébert, and create a family of his own?  Victor le jeune's son also married by 1870, after his Confederate service, and settled in Pointe Coupee. 

Only son Charles le jeune, called Charles D. in Confederate records, likely served as a sergeant in Company A of the Pointe Coupee Battalion Louisiana Artillery during the War of 1861-65.  If this was him, he enlisted at Baton Rouge in May 1861, age 23, and followed the battery to Columbus, Kentucky.  After fighting in the Battle of Belmont, Missouri, in November, the battery served as heavy artillery at Island No. 10 on the Mississippi, where it repulsed a Federal attack in early March 1862.  After service at Fort Pillow, Tennessee, the battery retreated with rest of the army to northwestern Mississippi, where it saw more action at Coffeeville and Fort Pemberton in late 1862 and early 1863.  Next, the battery fought at Port Hudson, Louisiana, where Charles was captured in late March 1863, before the siege there.  He was soon paroled and exchanged, and returned to his unit, though his home lay across the river from Port Hudson.  He remained with the battalion for the rest of the war, serving with it in Mississippi and north Georgia, where it fought in the Atlanta Campaign.  Most of the men in the battalion were captured at Nashville, Tennessee, in December 1864, but sergeant Hébert was not one of them.  He eluded the Federals and surrendered with General Richard Taylor's army at Meridian, Mississippi, in May 1865.  At age 28, he married Virginie Eva, called Eva, daughter of J. B. Alcide Bondy and Eveline Vignes, at the Pointe Coupee church in October 1866.  Their children, born in Pointe Coupee Parish, included Marie Evélina in January 1868 but died at age 1 1/2 in April 1869; Marie Julie Valentine born in June 1870; ... 

François, fils's second son Jean-Baptiste le jeune followed his family to New Orleans and San Gabriel, where he married double cousin Marie-Anne or Anne-Marie, called Anne and Marine, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre-Paul Hébert and Marguerite LeBlanc, in May 1785.  Their children, born probably at Manchac, included Victor in February 1788; Jean-Baptiste, fils in May 1790 but died at age 29 in July 1819; Marie-Louise dite Éliza born in January 1792; Marie in January 1793; Julien in c1794 but died at age 11 in August 1805; Simon born in February 1796; Marie-Emérante dite Méranthe in January 1798; Paul in January 1800; a son, name unrecorded, died 15 days after his birth in March 1802[sic]; Marie-Irène born in May 1803; Marguerite Léonarde in July 1805; and Apollonie dite Pauline in June 1807.  Jean Baptiste, at age 51, remarried to Marie Louise Eméranthe, called Méranthe, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Landry and Anne-Marthe Blanchard, at the Baton Rouge church in August 1815.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Anne Hermes in May 1817; Jean Baptiste Adolphe, called Jean Adolphe and Adolphe, in January 1819; François Enault born in January 1821 but, called Enos, died near Brusly, age 33 (the recording priest said 34), in July 1854; Marthe Ernestine born probably in the early 1820s; Joseph Achille born in March 1823; Henry or Henri Ernest, called Ernest, in June 1825; Pierre Alfred, also called Louis Pierre Alfred and Alfred, in May 1829; and Marie Antoinette, called Antoinette, in January 1831--20 children, 11 sons and nine daughters, by two wives, between 1788 and 1831.  Daughters Éliza, Méranthe, Marie Irène, Pauline, Marthe Ernestine, and Marie Antoinette, by both wives, married into the Hébert, Landry, Bernard du Montier, Williams, Kirkland, and Courtade families.  Five of Jean Baptiste le jeune's remaining sons also married, but not all of the lines endured.  The oldest son served in the Louisiana State Senate.  A grandson served as sheriff of West Baton Rouge Parish. 

Oldest son Victor, by first wife Anne Hébert, married Marie Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis François Daigre and Marie Rose Molaison, at the Baton Rouge church in May 1808.  They settled in what became West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Valmont, called Valmont, in February 1809; Joséphine in March 1810; Marcellin Alexandre in April 1811; Marguerite or Marie Zéolide in May 1812; Denis, also called Adonis and Dionisio, in March 1814; Victor, fils in February 1822; and Jules, called Jules Julien and Jules Joseph, in July 1824--seven children, five sons and two daughters, between 1809 and 1824.  Victor served in the Louisiana State Senate.  Daughters Joséphine and Marie Zéolide married into the Lecoq and Woods families.  Three of Victor's sons also married, but not all of their lines endured.  His oldest son served as sheriff of West Baton Rouge Parish. 

Oldest son Joseph Valmont, called Valmont, while serving as sheriff of West Baton Rouge Parish, married, at age 23, Marguerite Adélaïde, called Adélaïde, daughter of François Ferbose and his Acadian wife Reine Trahan, at the Baton Rouge church in April 1832.  Their children, born in West Baton Rouge Parish, included Joseph Alcide in March 1833; and François Édouard in October 1834 but, called Édouard, died at age 16 in November 1850.  Valmont remarried to Geneviève Collin, place and date unrecorded.  They remained in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Daughter Apolline was born there in July 1843--three children, two sons and a daughter, by two wives, between 1833 and 1843.  None of Valmont's children married by 1870. 

Victor's third son Adonis married Marie Constance, called Constance, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Breaux and his Creole wife Véronique LeTullier of West Baton Rouge Parish and widow of Célestin Allain, at the Baton Rouge church in January 1839.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Jules Adonis in August 1839; Joseph Victor near Brusly in April 1843; and Anatole in January 1846--three children, all sons, between 1839 and 1846.  Two of Adonis's sons married by 1870. 

Oldest son Jules Adonis, called Jules A. by the recording priest, married Émilie Kesia, called Kesia, daughter of James Barker and Delphine Marrionneaux, at the Plaquemine church, Iberville Parish, in February 1860.  Their children, born near Plaquemine, included Edwin Adonis in May 1861; Neda Keseiah in November 1862; Joseph Auguste in February 1866; Marie Lorinne in February 1868; Marie Cécilia in May 1869; ... 

Adonis's third and youngest son Anatole married Marie Aloysia, called Aloysia, daughter of fellow Acadians Sylvère LeBlanc and Joséphine Broussard, at the Plaquemine church in May 1869.  Their son George Edgar was born near Plaquemine in February 1870; ...

Victor's fifth and youngest son Jules, also called Jules Julien and Jules Joseph, may have married Mary Éliza Elliot, also called Élisa Hughes, during the late 1840s or early 1850s, place and date unrecorded, and settled near Plaquemine.  Mary Éliza must have been a Protestant when they married.  In February 1854, at the age 22, she was baptized a Roman Catholic at the Plaquemine church, most likely to sanctify her marriage to Jules.  Her and Jules's children, born near Plaquemine, included Evéline Amillia in c1850 and baptized at the Plaquemine church, age 4, on the same day as her mother, which evidently legitimized her birth; Cora Adélaïde born in July 1855 (her godfather, P. O. Hébert, was governor of Louisiana at the time); and Joseph Jules baptized at the Plaquemine church, age unrecorded, in February 1860--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1850 and 1860. 

Jean-Baptiste le jeune's fifth son Paul, by first wife Anne Hébert, evidently married, at age 28, Marcelline, 20-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Dupuy and Marguerite Bourg and widow of Volny Doiron, at the Baton Rouge church in May 1829; the priest who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their daughter Marie Pamelia was born there posthmously in May 1831.  Paul died there in January 1831, age 29 (the recording priest said 28).  Widow Marcelline remarried to a Rivas at Baton Rouge in 1836.  Her and Paul's daughter evidently did not marry by 1870, if she married at all. 

Jean-Baptiste le jeune's seventh son Jean Baptiste Adolphe, called Jean Adolphe and Adolphe, from second wife Méranthe Landry, living in West Baton Rouge Parish, married Rosalie, daughter of Nicolas Traca, Tracas, or Tracos and Rosalie Bourra or Burat, at the Baton Rouge church in October 1837.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie Corine, called Corine, in August 1838; Jean Baptiste le jeune in October 1839; Christophe near Brusly in October 1843; Jean Léon in Ascension Parish in December 1845 but, called Léon, died near Brusly at age 11 1/2 in May 1857; Marie Léontine born in April 1848; and Marie Rosalie posthumously in February 1850 but died at age 2 1/2 in August 1852--six children, three daughters and three sons, between 1838 and 1850.   Adolphe died near Brusly in September 1849.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Adolphe died at "age 31 yrs."  He was 30.  Daughter Corine married into the Arbuckle and Tuillier families by 1870.  Two of Adolphe's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Jean Baptiste le jeune married cousin Célestine, daughter of fellow Acadians Raphaël Hébert and Odile Landry, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in February 1866. ...

Adolphe's second son Christophe married cousin Henriette Odalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Gilbert Hébert and Céleste Labauve of St. Martin Parish and widow of his uncle Ernest Hébert, at the Brusly church in December 1864. ...

Jean-Baptiste le jeune's tenth son Ernest, by second wife Méranthe Landry, married cousin Marie Dartille, called Dartille, daughter of fellow Acadians Hilaire Hébert and Clarisse Templet, at the Baton Rouge church in November 1845 or 1846.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Wife Dartille died in March 1853, age 24.  Ernest remarried to cousin Henriette Ordalie, daughter of Gilbert Hébert and Céleste Labauve, at the Brusly church in November 1853.  Ernest died by December 1864, when Henriette Ovide remarried to his nephew Chrisotophe Hébert.  One wonders if his death was war-related.  Did he father any children by either of his wives? 

Jean-Baptiste le jeune's eleventh and youngest son Louis Pierre Alfred, also called Louis Alfred and L. P., from second wife Méranthe Landry, married double cousin Marie Elvina, called Elvina, daughter of fellow Acadians Hildebert Landry and Marie Euphémie Landry, at the Brusly church in February 1851.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish near Brusly.  Their children, born there, included Louis Alfred, fils in June 1852; Joseph Walter in c1853 or 1854 but died at age 4 1/2 in August 1858; Marie Ada born in May 1855; Louise Alice in October 1856; Emma Estelle in December 1859; Marie Anna in November 1869; ... None of Louis Alfred's children married by 1870. 

François, fils's third son Bénoni or Béloni Méon married cousin Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Allain, père and Catherine Hébert, at San Gabriel in December 1793; they had to secure a "dispensation ... for kinship" in order to marry.  Their children, born on the river, included Isabelle or Élisabeth, also called Marinne, in February 1794; Marie C. in June 1796; Bénoni, fils in August 1797 but died at age 16 in July 1814; Louis-Joseph born in November 1800 but died at age 8 months in July 1801; Marie-Delphine born in May 1802; and Henriette in the early 1800s.  Bénoni remarried to Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Dupuis and Élisabeth Benoit and widow of Pierre Henry, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in May 1807.  They settled in what became West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Derosin or Drosin in February 1808; Marguerite, perhaps also called Philonise, in August 1809; Adélaïde in December 1810; Euphrasine or Euphronie in February 1812; Jean Baptiste in July 1813; Marie Euphémie in September 1814; and Amelia in December 1818--13 children, nine daughters and six sons, by two wives, between 1794 and 1818.  Bénoni died in West Baton Rouge Parish in February 1825, age 54.  Daughters Marie C., Élisabeth, Henriette, Philonise, and Euphronie, by both wives, married into the Comeaux, LeBlanc, Horsler, Babin, and Marson families.  Neither of Bénoni's remaining sons married, but the blood of the family line likely endured.

François, fils's fourth and youngest son Jacques dit Santiago married cousin Marie Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Hébert and Marguerite Richard, at Baton Rouge in May 1804; as Father Angelus de Revillagodos, the priest at San Gabriel, had done in Jacques's baptismal record in December 1782, the priest at Baton Rouge, Father John Brady, called him Santiago.  The family settled in what became West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Apollonie in April 1807; Marie Arveline, called Arveline, in March 1812; Marie Delphine in February 1814; Zépheline in July 1816; Marie Théotiste in February 1820; Jean Valsin baptized at St. Gabriel, age 6 months, in June 1822; Marguerite Adortille, also called Marie Dartille and Telcide, born in October 1825; and Eugène in November 1827 but died at age 22 in March 1850--eight children, six daughters and two sons, between 1807 and 1827.  Wife Madeleine died near Brusly in October 1854, age 67.  Daughters Apollonie, Arveline, Zépheline, and Telcide married into the LeTullier, Gibson, and Tibivilier families.  Neither of Jacques's sons seems to have married.  

François, père's fourth son Amand, also called Thomas, followed his family to Maryland, where he married fellow Acadian Marie-Claire Landry after the July 1763 counting at Georgetown.  Still childless, they followed his family to Spanish Louisiana in 1767 and settled with them at San Gabriel.  Their children, born there, included Thomas in January 1771; and twins Anne-Marine, called Marine, and Marie-Apolline, called Apolline, in April 1774.  Amand remarried to Anne-Élisabeth or Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Babin and Anne Landry, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer downriver from San Gabriel in June 1777.  Their children, born at San Gabriel, included Marie Léocadie in the late 1770s or early 1780s; Joseph le jeune baptized, age unrecorded, in 1780; a "small" unnamed son, perhaps theirs, drowned in April 1780, no age given; Anne-Élise born in October 1781; and Louis, perhaps theirs, in c1783 but died at age 6 in November 1789--eight children, four sons and four daughters, including a set of twins, by two wives, between 1771 and the early 1780s.  Amand died at San Gabriel in December 1784, age 44.  Daughters Marine, Apolline, and Marie Léocadie, by both wives, married into the Hernandez, Langlois, Landry, Valentinie, Hébert, and Chapelon families, all of them twice.  Two of Amand's sons also married. 

Oldest son Thomas, by first wife Marie-Claire Landry, married cousin Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph LeBlanc and Marguerite Landry, at San Gabriel in July 1795.  Their children, born there, included Thomas, fils in October 1796; Dreville, baptized, age 6 months, in June 1801 may have been the Treville Hébert who died "at Plaquemine," Iberville Parish, in January 1859, age 58 (the recording priest said 68); Surville born in June 1803; a newborn infant, name unrecorded, died in July 1805; Otille or Odile born in February 1810 but died at age 21 (the recording priest said 20) in August 1831; and Joseph Julerie born in January 1814--six children, at least four sons and a daughter, between 1796 and 1814.  Thomas, père died in Iberville Parish in November 1847.  The St. Gabriel priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Thomas died at "age 76 yrs.," so this was him.  He was buried "in Plaquemine cemetary[sic]," on the west side of the river, across from St. Gabriel.  Only one of his sons married. 

Oldest son Thomas, fils married cousin Marguerite Irène, called Irène, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Brasset and Marine Landry, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in January 1820.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Marie Estelle, called Estelle, in April 1821; Jean Anadon in February 1823; and Thomas Anatole, called Anatole, in the mid-1820s--three children, a daughter and two sons, between 1821 and the mid-1820s.  Thomas, fils died near St. Gabriel in January 1827, age 30.  The priest who recorded the burial did not give any parents' names, mention a wife, or give his age at the time of his death, but this was him.  Daughter Estelle married into the Bujole family.  One of Thomas, fils's sons also married.

Younger son Thomas Anatole, called Anatole, married Marie Aurelia, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Richard and his Creole wife Marie Suarez, at the St. Gabriel church in June 1846.  They settled in Iberville Parish on the west bank of the river near Plaquemine.  Their children, born there, included Oscar Roman in November 1846; Jean Émile in July 1848; and Mary Caroline in January 1855--three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1846 and 1855.  None of Thomas Anatole's children married by 1870. 

Amand's third son Joseph le jeune, by second wife Anne-Isabelle Babin, married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Landry and Scholastique Breaux, at San Gabriel in May 1802.  Their son Iribert or Ribert was born at St. Gabriel in August 1804.  Joseph le jeune may have died at Plaquemine in March 1806.  If so, he was age 28 at the time of his death.  His son married.

Only son Ribert, called Joseph Ribert by the recording priest, married cousin Marie Adveline, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Hébert and Mélanie Landry, at the St. Gabriel church in September 1827.  Marie Adveline died near St. Gabriel in March 1828, age 18, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth.  Ribert remarried to Clarisse Accobelle, daughter of Louis Alexandre Reboul and Marie Catherine Schlatre, at the St. Gabriel church in February 1830.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Marie Catherine in January 1831; Jean Baptiste P. in November 1832 but, called simply Jean Baptiste, died at age 9 1/2 (the recording priest said 10) in August 1842; Ophelia probably in the early 1830s; Hermina born in July 1836 but died at age 8 in June 1844; Clarisse Rosa, called Rosa, born in February 1838; and Alexandre in January 1840--six children, four daughters and two sons, between 1831 and 1840.  Ribert died near St. Gabriel in March 1841, age 36 (the recording priest said 37).  Daughters Ophelia and Rosa, by his second wife, married into the Toffier and Noël families by 1870.  Ribert's remaining son also married by then.

Younger son Alexandre, by second wife Clarisse Reboul, married Clarisse or Clarissa Laura, daughter of Valéry Roth and Elizabeth Garlick, at the St. Gabriel church in January 1860.  They settled near Plaquemine.  Their children, born there, included Alexandre Paul Humphrey in April 1861; Sidney Albert in July 1862; Michel Valéry in June 1864; Laurence, perhaps a son, in March 1866; Marie Augusta in November 1867; ...

François, père's fifth son Jean-Baptiste dit Petit Jean, also called Baptiste, followed his family to Maryland and his widowed father and siblings to New Orleans and San Gabriel, where he married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Antoine Dupuis and Marguerite Boudrot of Rivière-aux-Canards, in March 1769 (though the San Gabriel community did not have a parish of its own until 1773).  Madeleine also had come to Louisiana from Maryland in 1767, with three brothers.  She and Petit Jean lived for a time downriver at Cabahannocer before they settled at San Gabriel.  Their children, born there, included Marie-Madeleine in c1770; Marie-Geneviève in December 1773; Dominique in August 1776 but died at age 39 at St. Gabriel in September 1815; Geneviève born in December 1777; Jean-Paul, called Paul and Paulite, baptized, age unrecorded, in February 1780; Mélanie born in May 1782 but died at age 2 in July 1784; another Geneviève died a day after her birth in July 1784; another Mélanie, called Melano by the recording priest, born in October 1785; Jean-Baptiste, fils in November 1787; François le jeune in October 1790; Marie-Rose, called Rose, in January 1793; and Marie-Marguerite, called Marguerite, in October 1795--a dozen children, eight daughters and four sons, between 1770 and 1795.  In September 1779, Petit Jean, a private in the Second Company, San Gabriel militia, fought under Spanish Governor Gálvez at Manchac and Baton Rouge.  He and fellow Acadian Mathurin Landry of nearby Ascension were the only men wounded in Gálvez's Mississippi River campaign; both survived their wounds.  Petit Jean died at Ascension in April 1797, age 55.  Daughters Marie-Madeleine, Geneviève, Mélanie, Marie Marguerite, and Rose married into the Landry, Lavergne, Templet, Comeaux, Melançon, Dupuis, and Bourg families, and some of them settled on Bayou Lafourche.  Three of Petit Jean's sons also married.  One of them settled on Bayou Lafourche and another on the western prairies (where, tragically, he committed suicide).  The oldest married son remained on the river in Iberville Parish. 

Second son Jean Paul, called Paul and Paulite, married Marine, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Babin and Marguerite Brasseux, at St. Gabriel in April 1806.  Their children, born there, included Marie Thersite or Telside in March 1806; Marie Dursine in c1807 but died at age 1 in April 1808; Adélaïde dite Délaïde and Delside baptized, age 8 months, in September 1809 but died at age 3 1/2 in November 1812; Élisa baptized, age 3 months, in April 1811; Marie Orasine born in March 1813 but died at age 2 1/2 in August 1815; an infant, name unrecorded, died a day after his/her birth in March 1816; Louis Norbert, called Norbert, born in September 1817; Paul, fils in January 1821; Marguerite Sylvanie in September 1823; and another Paul, fils in September 1825 and baptized at the St. Gabriel church, perhaps age 1 1/2, in April 1827--10 children, at least six daughters and three sons, between 1806 and 1825.  Paul, père evidently died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in May 1827.  The priest who recorded the burial did not mention a wife or give Paul's age at the time of his death.  He would have been in his late 40s.  Daughter Marie Telside married into the Domingue family.  Two of Paul's sons also married. 

Second son Louis Norbert married Arthémide or Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadians Benjamin Mire and Célestine Arceneaux, at the St. Gabriel church in February 1846.  Norbert served as "manager of the widow, Mrs. Garlick's plantation" in Iberville Parish.  Louis Norbert and Arthémide's children, born perhaps on the plantation, included Joseph Norbert in September 1848 but died at age 5 in October 1853; Amédée born in June 1850; and Marie Evelina in October 1852--three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1848 and 1852.  Norbert, still manager of the widow's plantation, died in Iberia Parish in October 1853, age 36.  One wonders if he and his older son Joseph Norbert, who had died eight days earlier, were victims of a yellow fever epidemic that struck South Louisiana in the autumn of 1853.  Their burial records do not say.  Neither of Louis Norbert's remaining children married by 1870. 

Paul's fourth and youngest son Paul, fils married Clara, daughter of fellow Acadians Neuville Melançon and Marie Constance Orillion, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in January 1847.  They lived on the river near the boundary between Ascension and Iberville parishes.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Paul, called Paul III, in December 1847; Elidia in August 1849; and Hélène Améline in November 1851 but died at age 7 months in July 1852--three children, a son and two daughters, between 1847 and 1851.  Paul, fils remarried to Hélène, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Dupuis and Marcellite Blanchard and widow of Damas Breaux, at the Donaldsonville church in February 1855.  Their child, name unrecorded, died in Ascension Parish the day after his/her birth in August 1857.  Daughter Elidia, by his first wife, married into the Rodrigue family.  Paul, fils's son also married.

Only son Paul III, by first wife Clara Melançon, married cousin Evellina, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Arsène Hébert and his second wife Rosalie Euphrosie Gaudin, at the Donaldsonville church in February 1869.  Their son Joseph Paul was born in Ascension Parish in May 1869; ... 

Petit Jean's third son Jean-Baptiste, fils married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Comeaux and Anne Landry, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in October 1810.  Although their children were baptized at St. Gabriel, the family settled on the upper Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included twins Derosin or Drosin Joseph and Jean Baptiste III in June 1811; and Marie Otilde or Odile in April 1813--three children, two sons and a daughter, including a set of twins, in 1811 and 1813.  One wonders if fils was the Jean Baptiste Hébert who, in 1816, donated land near Thibodauxville on Bayou Lafourche for a new church.  Jean Baptiste, fils may have died in July 1819.  The St. Gabriel priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Jean Baptiste died at "age 29."  Jean Baptiste, fils would have been age 31.  Daughter Marie Odile married into the Hébert and Simoneaux families.  Both of Jean Baptiste, fils's sons married, but only one of their lines seems to have endured.

Twin son Drosin Joseph married cousin Élisabeth dite Élise, daughter of Louis Mollère and his Acadian wife Carmélite Landry, at the Donaldsonville church in April 1837.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Ascension and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Louis Sosthène, called Sosthène, in January 1838; Gervais Félix in June 1839; Joseph Jule Bienvenu in November 1840; Germain Théophile in July 1842 but, called Théophile, died at age 7 (the recording priest at Donaldsonville said 6) in August 1849; Joseph Victoria or Victorin, called Victorin, born in September 1844; twins Joseph Eugène and Marie Eugénie, called Eugénie, in December 1846; François Octave died at age 4 months in August 1849; Adeline Aglaïde or Aglaé, called Aglaé, born in December 1850; and Élisabeth died at birth in June 1856.  Drosin, at age 48, remarried to Azéma, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Marie Barrilleaux and Madeleine Landry, at the Pierre Part church, Assumption Parish, in April 1860.  Daughter Madeline Odilia was born in Assumption Parish in March 1863.  Drosin, at age 58, remarried again--his third marriage--to Élisa, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Marie Richard and Élisa Breaux and widow of Rosémond LeBlanc, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in October 1869.  Their son Louis Joseph was born near Convent, St. James Parish, in September [1870]; ...  Daughters Aglaé and Eugénie, by his first wife, married into the Jardel and Landry families by 1870.  Two of Drosin Joseph's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Sosthène, by first wife Élise Mollère, married, at age 31, cousin Alice, daughter of fellow Acadians Venant Hébert and Honorine Dugas, at the Plattenville church in October 1869.  Daughter Honorine Élizabeth was born near Labadieville, Assumption Parish, in August 1870; ...

Drosin's fifth son Victorin, by first wife Élise Mollère, married Elmire, daughter of fellow Acadians Eugène Comeaux and Aureline LeBlanc, at the Paincourtville church in February 1867.  Their children, born near Paincourtville, included Marie Élodie in February 1868 but died the following August; Joseph Kleber born in October 1869; ... 

Jean-Baptiste, fils's other twin son Jean Baptiste III married, at age 38, cousin Doralise, daughter of fellow Acadians François Marie Gautreaux and Félicité Hébert, at the Plattenville church in April 1849.  Daughter Auphelia Angèle was baptized at the Plattenville church, age 2 months, 5 days, in May 1850 and did not marry by 1870. 

Petit Jean's fourth and youngest son François le jeune moved to Attakapas on the prairies when he came of age and married Anne Domitille, called Domitille, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Granger and Françoise Landry of Côte Gelée, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in May 1815.  They settled at Côte Gelée in what became Lafayette Parish.  Their chldren, born there, included Marie Zelphiline or Zepheline in April 1816; Françoise Lidorise or Sidonie in November 1817; François, fils in January 1820; Siméon in March 1822; and Norbert born posthumously and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 1/2 months, in January 1826--five children, two daughters and three sons, between 1816 and 1826.  In late May 1825, at age 30, François "was found dead at 10:00 (presumably A.M.)" at Côte Gelée.  According to the Vermilionville priest, Father Laurent Peyretti, and two witnesses, Benjamin Mire and ____ Riviere, "Several persons including William Hatteorns, have declared that they went to the field where he [François le jeune] committed suicide."  Not being eligible for last rites or a church burial, "the inhabitants of son cartier (his neighborhood) where he lived" buried him.  His succession, identifying his widow, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in June 1828.  Domitille remarried to a Vallot/Valleaux.  She gave him at least four children, two daughters and two sons, and died in Lafayette Parish, age 45, in November 1837.  Her succession, noting her marriage to François Hébert and saying they had four children (perhaps the parish clerk was referring to the ones still living), was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following January.  Her Hébert daughters Marie Zepheline and Françoise Sidonie married into the Louvière, Racca, and Fabre families.  Two of her and François le jeune's sons also married and settled on the prairies, but only one of the lines endured.

Oldest son François, fils married cousin Amelia, Aurelia, or Orelia, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Granger III and Julienne Louvière, at the Vermilionville church in July 1841.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Anne in January 1843; a child, name and age unrecorded, died there in September 1847; and a daughter, name unrecorded, born in c1847, died, name still unrecorded, at age 4 in October 1851--three children, perhaps all daughters, between 1843 and 1847.  François, fils died in Lafayette Parish in December 1847.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said that François died "at age 25 yrs."  He was 27.  His succession, calling his wife Aurelie Grange, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in February 1848.  His remaining daughter did not marry by 1870.  If he fathered a son, the boy did not survive childhood. 

François le jeune's third and youngest son Norbert married Advelia, Adnelia, or Avelina, daughter of fellow Acadian Gédéon Landry and his Creole wife Anne Georgette Lormand, at the Vermilionville church in January 1847.  Their son François Euphémon was born in Lafayette Parish in August 1849.  A succession for wife Adnelia, as she was called, naming her husband, was filed probably post-mortem at the Vermilionville courthouse in January 1853.  Norbert remarried to Marie Arsènne, called Arsènne, Regina, and Marguerite, another daughter of Gédéon Landry and Anne Georgette Lormand, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in February 1854, and sanctified the marriage at the Youngsville church, Lafayette Parish, in January 1861.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Euphémie near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in March 1856; Anne Eugénie near New Iberia, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in September 1858; Albert in Lafayette Parish in January 1863; Marie near Youngsville in September 1865; Jean in May 1870; ...  None of Norbert's children married by 1870. 

François, père's sixth son Étienne followed his family to Maryland, New Orleans, and San Gabriel.  He married Madeleine, also called Anne, 31-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Landry and Marie-Josèphe Richard of Grand-Pré, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer downriver from San Gabriel in June 1771.  Madeleine, also a native of Minas, had come to Louisiana from Maryland in 1768 with six of her siblings and, after their release from Fort San Luìs de Natchez, settled on the upper Acadian Coast.  She was four years older than Étienne.  They settled on the river near the boundary between San Gabriel and Ascension districts.  Their children, born there, included Joseph-Donat, called Donat, in c1772; Anne-Adélaïde in July 1774; Narcisse in c1777; Étienne, fils in December 1777; Abraham dit Abram in c1778; Anne-Madeleine, called Madeleine, baptized, age unrecorded, in October 1779; Marie-Constance, called Constance, born in April 1782; Janvier in November 1785; and Marie-Lucie in January 1788--nine children, five sons and four daughters, between 1772 and 1788.  Wife Madeleine died at San Gabriel in March 1788, age 48, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth.  Étienne, père, who never remarried, died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in December 1821.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Étienne was age 83 when he died.  He was 77.  Daughters Anne-Adélaïde, Madeleine, and Constance married into the Gale, Babin, and Rivet families.  Étienne's youngest daughter Marie Lucie died near St. Gabriel in September 1853.  The priest who recorded her burial said that Marie died at "age 60 years" (she was 65).  The priest also noted that Marie was "a deaf mute since birth, and later blinded in an accident."  She died at the home of her nephew Volière, son of her oldest brother Donat.  Étienne's five sons married and settled on the river, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Joseph-Donat, called Donat, married cousin Marie-Henriette, called Henriette, daughter of fellow Acadians Prosper-Sébastien Hébert and Marie Dupuis, at Ascension, downriver from San Gabriel, in January 1799.  They settled on the river near the boundary between what became Ascension and Iberville parishes.  Their children, born there, included Joseph perhaps in c1799; Marie-Henriette in August 1800 but, called Maria Henrietta, died at age 4 in September 1804; Marie Rose born in the early 1800s; Abraham le jeune in August 1802; Marie Eugénie in March 1807 but died at age 5 in April 1812; Jean Divolière born in May 1808; Marie Hortense in March 1811; Ursin, also called Urbin, in March 1812; Jean or John Vives, called Vives, in May 1813; Julien Rosémond, called Rosémond, in January 1816 but died at age 3 in October 1819; Joseph Thibolier, also called Volier, Volière, and Olier, born in December 1817; and Marie Clémence in July 1819 but died at age 5 in July 1824--a dozen children, five daughters and seven sons, between 1799 and 1819.  Donat died in Ascension Parish in June 1827, age 55.  Daughters Marie Rose and Marie Hortense married into the Breaux and Dupuy families.  Four of Donat's sons also married.

Second son Joseph married Marie Louise, daughter of fellow Acadians Raphaël Gautreaux and Constance Breaux, at the St. Gabriel church in June 1822.  Their children, born probably at nearby Manchac, included Joseph Leufroy two days before his parents' wedding in June 1822; Joseph Nemese in March 1823 but died near Ascension, age 18 months, in October 1824; Marie Virginie born in September 1824; Virginie in April 1825; Marie Domitile in November 1826; a daughter, name unrecorded, died near Ascension two days after her birth in July 1828; Marie, perhaps theirs, died at "age several wks." in October 1832; and Simon born in February 1836--eight children, three sons and five daughters, between 1822 and 1836.  This Joseph may have been the Joseph Hébert who died in Ascension Parish in October 1836, age 37; the priest who recorded the burial did not give any parents' names or mention a wife.  Daughter Virginie married into the Breaux family by 1870.  Joseph's remaining son did not marry by then. 

Donat's fifth son Ursin, at age 20, married Anne Marie, called Marie and Maria, daughter of William R. Boote and Sara Russell, at the Donaldsonville church in July 1832.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included a son, name unrecorded, died in Ascension Parish, "age several days," in March 1833; and Marie Henriette, also called Mary Harriet, born in November 1834.  Ursin, at age 23, remarried to cousin Eugénie, daughter of fellow Acadian Louis Part and his Creole wife Constance Henderson, at the St. Gabriel church in January 1836; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Eléonore, also called Cléonarde, in November 1836; and Marie Eugénie in January 1839.  The birth of their second daughter may have killed wife Eugénie.  Ursin, at age 27, remarried again--his third marriage--to Adélaïde, Adeline, or Adelitte dite Delitte, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Raphaël Babin and Pauline Marguerite Landry and widow of Auguste Raphaël Landry, at the St. Gabriel church in July 1839, six months after his daughter's birth.  They settled on the river near the boundary between Iberville and Ascension parishes.  Their children, born there, included an infant, name unrecorded, died at age 3 months in August 1840; Joséphine Olivia born in July 1841; Théodule Lucien in January 1843; Marie Myrza or Mirza, called Mirza, in February 1846; and Thérésia, perhaps also called Émelia, in October 1849--nine children, at least two sons and six daughters, by three wives, between 1833 and 1849.  Daughters Marie Henriette/Mary Harriet, Cléonarde, Mirza, and Émelia, by all three wives, married into the Scratchley, LeBlanc, Gautreaux, and Babin families by 1870.  Ursin's remaining son did not marry by then. 

Donat's sixth son Jean Vives, called Vives, married Marie Domitille, called Domitille, daughter of fellow Acadians Simonet Richard and Marguerite Breaux, at the St. Gabriel church in April 1834.  They settled on the river near the boundary between Iberville and Ascension parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie Euphémie in February 1835 but died at age 12 1/2 (the recording priest said 14) in October 1847; Marie Coralie, called Coralie, born in November 1836; Marie Henriette, called Henriette, in August 1840; Vives Léonard in November 1842; Treville Odon in November 1844; Marie Ophelia, called Ophelia, in January 1847; Jean Victor in December 1848 but, called Victor, died at age 2 1/2 (the recording priest said 3) in September 1851; Philippe Émile born in May 1851; Charles Théodore in January 1856; and Domitile Maria in November 1858--10 children, five daughters and five sons, between 1835 and 1858.  Daughters Coralie, Henriette, and Ophelia married into the Guitteau, Breaux, and Landry families by 1870.  None of Vives's sons married by then. 

Donat's eighth and youngest son Joseph Thibolier, called Voliar by the recording priest, married Marie Olivia, called Olivia, daughter of Isidore Bonicard and Ursule Tregre, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in July 1841.  They settled on the river near the boundary between Ascension and Iberville parishes.  Their children, born there, included Isidore Prieur in July 1842; Joseph Thibolier, fils in February 1845; a son, name unrecorded, died four days after his birth in September 1846; Louis Tiston born in December 1847; Alexandre Melony in April 1850; Henriette Elphine in November 1851; and Ursule Elida in December 1853--seven children, five sons and two daughters, between 1842 and 1853.  Joseph Thibolier, père dit Volier died in Ascension Parish in December 1855.  The Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Volier, as he called him, died at "age 38 years."  Neither of his daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did.

Second son Joseph Thibolier, fils married Aurelia, daughter of Creoles François Duplessis and Marie Louise Duplessis, at the St. Gabriel church in January 1870. ...

Étienne's second son Narcisse married Marine, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Rivet and Marie-Josèphe Breaux, at San Gabriel in June 1800.  Their children, born there, included Marie-Angèle, called Angèle, in August 1801; Hippolyte in July 1804; Narcisse, fils in the mid-1800s; Virginie in November 1809 but died at age 10 in January 1820; Surville born in May 1807; and Paulin in c1814.  Narcisse, père evidently remarried to Charity Hood or Wood, place unrecorded, in the late 1810s or early 1820s.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Guillaume in November 1824; a daughter, name unrecorded, died at age 5 months in April 1826; and Mary born in December 1826--nine children, four daughters and five sons, between 1801 and 1826.  Daughter Angèle, by his first wife, married into the Blount family.  At least two of Narcisse's sons married, but not all of the lines endured.

Second son Narcisse, fils, by first wife Marine Rivet, married cousin Marie Virginie, called Virginie, daughter of Antoine Langlois and his Acadian wife Marine Hébert, at the St. Gabriel church in February 1836.  They settled near Plaquemine on the west bank of the river, also in Iberville Parish.  Their children, born there, included an infant son, name and age unrecorded, died in July 1837; Marine or Marie born in July 1838; Auphelia in February 1841 but died the following June; Célina born in November 1842 but died at age 10 months in September 1843; Adonis Pierre born in August 1844; and Marie Joséphine in January 1847 but died at age 2 in February 1849--six children, two sons and four daughters, between 1837 and 1847.  Daughter Marie married into the Achée family by 1870.  Narcisse, fils's remaining son did not marry by then. 

Narcisse, père's fourth son Paulin, by first wife Marine Rivet, married Adeline, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Guidry and Anne Marie Landry, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in February 1844.  Paulin may have died near Baton Rouge in March 1861.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Paulin died at "age ca. 47 years."  Did he father any children? 

Étienne's third son Étienne, fils married Adélaïde Émilie, called Émilie, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Daigre and Rose Adélaïde Bourg, at the Baton Rouge church in June 1805.  They settled in what became West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie Eléonore in May 1806; Joseph in May 1807; Janvier le jeune, also called Jean Louis, in c1808 or 1809; twins François and Louis in October 1810; twins Bénoni and Mélanie in May 1812, but Bénonie died in August; Polino, perhaps Paul, born in October 1813; Adélaïde in October 1818; and Caroline in May 1820--10 children, four daughters and six sons, including two sets of twins, between 1806 and 1820.  Daughter Caroline married into the Doiron family.  Only one of Étienne, fils's sons married, at least in South Louisiana. 

Second son Janvier le jeune or Jean Louis married cousin Marie Améline or Arméline, daughter of fellow Acadians Henri Comeaux and Marguerite Hébert, at the St. Gabriel church in August 1838.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Hubert in June 1839; Eluc Albert, called Albert, in October 1840; Valière Monléon or Moléon in February 1845; Louis near Brusly in June 1847; Homère in October 1849; Marguerite Aurelia in March 1852; and Marie Roselia in March 1855--seven children, five sons and two daughters, between 1839 and 1855.  Neither of Janvier le jeune's daughters married by 1870, but two of his sons did.

Second son Albert married Elvina, daughter of Adolphe Tuillier and his Acadian wife Euphémie Melançon, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in December 1869. ...

Janvier's third son Valière Moléon, called Moléon, married Marie Evella or Evelia, daughter of Jean Gaffeney and Marcelline Propère, at the Brusly church in January 1864.  Daughter Marguerite Minerve was born near Brusly in November 1869; ...

Étienne, père's fourth son Abraham dit Abram married cousin Louise Ludivine, called Ludivine or Divine, daughter of fellow Acadians Firmin Landry and Ludivine dit Divine Babin, at the St. Gabriel church in April 1806.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Élisabeth Arside in November 1807; Marie Beatrice, called Beatrice, in January 1810; an infant, named unrecorded, died at birth in October 1811; Marie Eléonore, called Eléonore, born in November 1812; Marie Dartille or Dertille in the 1810s; François Marcellin, called Marcellin, in May 1815; Louise Ludivine in May 1817; Omer in the late 1810s or the 1820s; Marie or Marine Doralie in January 1823 but died the following September; Marie Pamela born in September 1824; and François Esnard, also called Enault, Enos, François E., Francis Enos, Francis E., and E., in September 1829--11 children, at least seven daughters and three sons, between 1807 and 1829.  Abraham died in Iberville Parish in November 1834, age 56.  Daughters Eléonore, ... married into the Vives, Allain, Blount, Dupuy, Landry, and LeBlanc families.  Abraham's three sons also married. 

Oldest son François Marcellin, called Marcellin, married cousin Marie Sylvine, Sylvina, Sulma, Savina, or Survina, and perhaps also Duloine, daughter of Martin Blount and his Acadian wife Angèle Hébert, at the St. Gabriel church in August 1838; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included a newborn son, name unrecorded, died in September 1839; Amédée born in March 1842; Abraham le jeune in August 1843; Angèle in November 1845; Marie Laura, called Laura, in December 1847; Marcellin, fils in February 1849; Lucien in October 1850; Privat in August 1852, Joseph Prosper in June 1854; Samuel Rodolphe in September 1857; Marie Louise in November 1859; François Omer in September 1863; M., perhaps their son, died, age unrecorded, in September 1866; ...  Marcellin, père died in Iberville Parish in June 1868.  The St. Gabriel priest who recorded the burial, called him Marcellin, gave no parents' names, or mentioned a wife, said that he died at "age 58 years."  François Marcellin would have been age 53.  Daughter Laura may have married into the King family by 1870.  One of Marcellin's sons also married by then.

Fourth son Marcellin, fils married cousin Marie Sydonia, daughter of fellow Acadians Adolphe Hébert and Eugénie LeBlanc, at the St. Gabriel church in January 1869. ...

Abraham's second son Omer married cousin Marie Coralie, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Achille Hébert and his Creole wife Marcellite Lambremont, at the St. Gabriel church in January 1846.  Their son Achille Emer was born near St. Gabriel in October 1846.  Omer remarried to Marie Jeanette, called Jeanette, daughter of fellow Acadians Jérôme Melançon and Madeleine LeBlanc and widow of Sifrin Babin, at the Donaldsonville church in October 1848.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Hélène Elmira or Elmina in July 1849; and Joseph Silvère in June 1852 but, called Silvère, died at age 1 in September 1853--three children, two sons and a daughter, by two wives, between 1846 and 1852.  Daughter Hélène Elmina, by his second wife, married a Dugas cousin by 1870.  Omer's remaining son did not marry by then. 

Abraham's third and youngest son François or Francis Enos married cousin Odile, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Babin and his French-Canadian wife Judith Provenché, at the Baton Rouge church in July 1855; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Daughter Marie Rosa was born near Baton Rouge in June 1856 but died a month later.  François, called Francis, Enos remarried to Emily or Émilie Marie, daughter of Thomas Kelly and Adélaïde Gallaugher, at the Baton Rouge church in October 1863.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included Marie Mai in May 1866; Agnes Lee in February 1868; Joseph Alvin in April [1869]; ... 

Étienne, père's fifth and youngest son Janvier married, at age 42, cousin Marie Phelonise, called Phelonise, 22-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Hébert and Anastasie Babin, at the St. Gabriel church in December 1827; they may have married civilly a few years earlier.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Marie Victorine in c1824 but died at age 9 in September 1833; Henriette Ursule born in October 1828; Euchariste, also called Leucoris, in the late 1820s or early 1830s; and Marie Nusilda in February 1832--four children, all daughters, between 1824 and 1832.  Daughters Henriette Ursule, Euchariste, and Marie Nusilda married into the Bonicard, Imbaud, and Lapeyrolery families, so the blood of the family line may have endured.

François, père's seventh son Pierre-Caieton followed his family to Maryland, New Orleans, and San Gabriel, where he married fellow Acadian Marguerite Babin in the late 1760s.  They evidently lived on the river near the boundary between the San Gabriel and Ascension districts.  Their children, born there, included Henri or Henry in c1771; Paul in August 1772 but may have died in St. James Parish in May 1825 in his early 50s; Joseph born in December 1774; Pierre in c1775 but died at age 9 in July 1784; and Madeleine born in August 1779--five children, four sons and a daughter, between 1771 and 1779.  Daughter Madeleine married into the Roth family.  One of Pierre Caieton's sons married and settled on the western prairies, where he perpetuated his father's family line. 

Oldest son Henri or Henry crossed the Atchafalaya Basin when he came of age and settled in the old Attakapas District.  He married Victoire, daughter of William Gilchrist of North Carolina and his French-Canadian wife Susanne Roy, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in September 1808.  They settled at La Pointe on upper Bayou Teche in St. Martin Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie Arsène in August 1809; Alexandre in December 1811; Henri, fils in December 1813; Césaire in January 1816; Adélaïde in February 1818; Lodoiska in May 1822; and Zéphirin in January 1826--seven children, three daughters and four sons, between 1809 and 1826.  Henri, père died probably at La Pointe in May 1831, age 60.  His succession, calling his wife Victoire Guilcrise, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse, St. Martin Parish, in December 1853, when he would have been in his early 80s.  Daughters Marie Arsène and Adélaïde married into the Imbau and Hoste families.  Two of Henri's sons also married and settled in the Teche valley.

Oldest son Alexandre married Marie Céleste or Calice, also called Euchariste, daughter of fellow Acadian Agricole Breaux and his Creole wife Scholastique Mélanie Picou, at the Breaux Bridge chapel, St. Martin Parish, on Easter Tuesday in April 1841; Calice's mother was founder of the town of Breaux Bridge.  Alexandre and Calice's children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Alexandre, fils in May 1842; Marie Célinne in September 1843 but, called Marie Célima, died at age 11 months (the recording priest said 7 months) in August 1844; Marie Azélie born in January 1845; and Marie Eusèïde posthumously in June 1848--four children, a son and three daughters, between 1842 and 1848.  Alexandre, père died in St. Martin Parish in May 1848.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial said that Alexandre died "at age 33 yrs."  He was 36.  His succession, calling his wife Caliste, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in June.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Henri's second son Henri, fils married Phelonise, Philomise, or Philomène, daughter of fellow Acadians Élisée Thibodeaux and Marie Thibodeaux, in a civil ceremony in St. Martin Parish in January 1845, and sanctified the marriage at the St. Martinville church late the following month.  Son Adéo was born in St. Martin Parish in October 1845.  A succession, probably post-mortem, for wife Felonise, as she was called, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in January 1849.  Henri, fils, at age 40, remarried to Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Julien Guilbeau and Azélie LeBlanc, at the St. Martinville church in August 1854.  They settled near Breaux Bridge.  Their children, born there, included Henri III in September 1855; Julien in January 1857; Joseph Alexandre in March 1859; David in December 1860; Jules in October 1862; ...  Daughter ..., by his first wife, married into the Green family by 1870.  One of Henri, fils's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Adéo, by first wife Phelonise Thibodeaux, married cousin Ada, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Babin and Tersille Thibodeaux, at the Breaux Bridge church in January 1869.  Their son Adrien was born near Breaux Bridge in November 1869; ... 

François, père's eighth son Joseph followed his family to Maryland, New Orleans, and San Gabriel.  He married Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Landry and his first wife Dorothée Babin, at Ascension downriver from San Gabriel in May 1779.  Anastasie had come to Louisiana from Maryland in 1766 with her father and stepmother and settled with them at Cabahannocer, downriver from Ascension.  The couple evidently settled on the river near the boundary between the San Gabriel and Ascension districts.  Their children, born there, included Louis in August 1780; Justine in September 1781; Alexandre in November 1783; Jean-Baptiste in January 1784; Marie-Madeleine in September 1785; Joseph, fils in November 1786 but died near St. Gabriel, age 38, in December 1824; Anastasie born in December 1787; Michel in September 1789; Marie-Françoise in March 1790; Auguste or Augustin in December 1792; and Angèle in August 1794--11 children, six sons and five daughters, between 1780 and 1794.  Joseph, père may have died in Iberville Parish in March 1819.  The St. Gabriel priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Joseph died at "age 68."  This Joseph would have been close to 70.  Daughters Justine and Anastasie married into the Housiaux and Comeaux families.  Four of Joseph's sons also married and settled on the river, but not all of the lines endured. 

Second son Alexandre married Marie-Émilie, called Émilie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean-Charles Comeaux and his Irish wife Anne-Catherine Bush or Boush of San Gabriel, at Assumption on upper Bayou Lafourche in February 1803, but they settled at San Gabriel; one of Émilie's brothers married one of Alexandre's sisters, and one of Émilie's sisters married one of Alexandre's brothers.  Alexandre and Émilie's children, born near St. Gabriel, included an infant, name unrecorded, died the day after his/her birth in October 1804; Joseph Achille, called Achille, born in November 1805; and Anne Céline or Sélima in August 1818--three children, at least one son and a daughter, between 1804 and 1818.  Daughter Anne Sélima married into the Breaux family.  Alexandre's son also married. 

Only son Joseph Achille, called Achille, married Marie Marcellite, called Marcellite, daughter of Jean Baptiste Lambremont and Anne Margaret Hamiliton, at the St. Gabriel church in January 1826.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Amélie in March 1828 but, called Émelie, died in June; Marie Carolie born in July 1829; Léon Achille in April 1831 but died at age 5 1/2 in September 1836; Léon Théodore, called Théodore, born in November 1833; Rigobert Alexandre in January 1836; and Guy Joseph or Joseph Guy in June 1839--six children, two daughters and four sons, between 1828 and 1839.   Joseph Achille died "during the hurricane in late August [1856] and [his] body was found" in September.  The St. Gabriel priest who recorded the burial also noted that Joseph Achille died at "age 50 years, 9 months."  His wife Marcellite also died "during the hurricane," but her "body was never found."  Daughter Marie Carolie married an Hébert cousin.  Achille's remaining sons also married.

Second son Léon Théodore, called Théodore, married cousin Marie Ophelia, called Ophelia, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Arvillien Breaux and Anne Célina Hébert, at the St. Gabriel church in January 1855.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Théodore Ellis in February 1856; Achille Elbert in July 1857; Samuel Stephen in August 1858; John Arie in August 1859; Marie Sélima in June 1861; ...  None of Théodore's children married by 1870. 

Joseph Achille's third son Rigobert Alexandre married Virginie Mille, daughter of John Navy and Nancy C. Brown, at the St. Gabriel church in January 1857.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Marie Coralie in November 1859; Marie Marcellite in August 1861; Jean Eugène Achille in March 1863; ... 

Joseph Achille's fourth and youngest son Guy Joseph or Joseph Guy married cousin Marie Odilia, daughter of P. M. Lambremont and his Acadian wife Marie Louise Breaux, at the St. Gabriel church in September 1860.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Marie Augusta Ella in August 1861; Lawrence Guy Lee in November 1862; Anne Louise in February 1866; Théodore Émile in July 1867; ... 

Joseph's third son Jean Baptiste married, at age 34, Eugénie Catherine, daughter of François Labadie and Catherine Parr, at the St. Gabriel church in July 1818.  Their son Jean Baptiste, fils was born near St. Gabriel in February 1820 but died the following September.  Jean-Baptiste may have died near St. Gabriel in September 1823.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Jean Baptiste died at "age 33 yrs."  This Jean Baptiste would have been age 39.   His family line died with him. 

Joseph fifth son Michel married Victoire, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste LeBlanc and Madeleine Marthe Foret, at the St. Gabriel church in January 1817.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Pierre in September 1818; an infant, name unrecorded, died at birth in November 1821; and Victoire born in September 1823.  Michel remarried to Marie Denise, called Denise, daughter of Michel Lambremont and his Acadian wife Marguerite Breaux, at the St. Gabriel church in February 1825, on the same day and at the same place his younger brother Auguste married Marie Denise's sister.  Michel and Denise's children, born near St. Gabriel, included Marie Palmyre in November 1825; Joseph Michel in September 1827 but, called Michel, died at age 1 in October 1828; Marie Marcellite born in September 1829; and Malvina in June 1832 but died at age 3 (the recording priest said 2 1/2) in June 1835--seven children, at least two sons and four daughters, by two wives, between 1818 and 1832.  Michel, père died near St. Gabriel in January 1833.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Michel was age 40 when he died.  He was 42.  Daughters Marie Palmyre, Marie Marcellite, and Victoire, by both wives, married into the Ellis, Billings, and LeBlanc families.  Michel's remaining son evidently did not marry, but the blood of the family line likely endured.   

Joseph sixth and youngest son Auguste or Augustin married Marie Delphine, another daughter of Jean Charles Comeaux and Anne Catherine Bush or Boush, at the St. Gabriel church in February 1820; one of Auguste's sisters and his oldest brother also married into this family.  Marie Delphine evidently gave Auguste no children.  He remarried to Marie Mathilde, called Mathilde, another daughter of Michel Lambremont and Marguerite Breaux, at the St. Gabriel church in February 1825, on the same day and at the same place his older brother Michel married Mathilde's sister.  Auguste and Mathilde's children, born near St. Gabriel, included Carmélite in December 1825; Pamelia in the late 1820s; Marie Solidaine in August 1827; Marie Élodie in July 1829; Marie in June 1831 but, called Zéolide, died at age 16 1/2 in September 1847 and was buried in St. Raphaël's Cemetery on the west side of the river, across from St. Gabriel; Marguerite Anaïs born in December 1833 but, called Athanaïs, died at age 2 1/2 in October 1836; and Joseph Gustave, called Gustave, born in March 1838--seven children, six daughters and a son, by one of his wives, between 1825 and 1838.  Daughters Pamelia, Marie Élodie, and Marie Solidaine, by his second wife, married into the Breaux, Trosclair, Schmitt, and Aillet families.  Auguste's son also married, but, except for its blood, the family line does not seem to have endured.

Only son Gustave, by second wife Mathilde Lambremont, married Aloysia, daughter of fellow Acadians Édouard Daigre and Finette LeBlanc, at the St. Gabriel church in June 1856.  She evidently gave him no children.  Gustave remarried to cousin Victorine, daughter of fellow Acadians Narcisse Landry and Carmélite Hébert and widow of Théodule Molaison, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in February 1859.  Did Gustave father any children? 

François, père's ninth and youngest son Charles followed his family to Maryland, New Orleans, and San Gabriel.  In March 1777, when he was age 26, Spanish officials noted in the San Gabriel census that Charles was still a bachelor living on a six-arpent farm on the east side of the river with 14 head of cattle, four horses, 18 hogs, and 30 fowl.  With him was his 67-year-old widowered father and a female slave.  His father died at age 79 in May 1789, when Charles was 38.  Charles may have devoted his life to taking care of his elderly parent and may not have married. 

Paul (1712-1805) à Emmanuel à Étienne Hébert

Paul, oldest son of Guillaume Hébert and Marie-Josèphe Dupuis, born at Minas in April 1712, married Marguerite-Josèphe, daughter of Philippe Melanson and Marie Dugas, at Grand-Pré in May 1736 and settled there.  Marguerite-Josèphe gave Paul 10 children at Minas:  Pierre-Paul born in November 1737; Joseph in c1740; Charles in December 1741; Marie-Marguerite in c1743; Anne-Marie in c1745; Ignace in September 1747; Marie-Madeleine in c1749; Jean-Baptiste in c1750; Amand in c1754; and Antoine in c1755.  The British deported the family to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  Marguerite-Josèphe gave Paul more children in the Chesapeake colony:  Marguerite born in c1760; and Paul, fils in c1763--a dozen children, eight sons and four daughters, between 1737 and 1763, at Minas and in Maryland.  Paul, Marguerite, and 10 of their children, six sons and four daughters, appeared on a French repatriation list at Georgetown on Maryland's Eastern Shore in July 1763.  Third son Charles, who would have been 22 that year, was not listed with the family.  One wonders if he died at Minas or in Maryland before the list was compiled, if he was exiled somewhere else, or if he had left Maryland before July 1763.  Meanwhile, two of Paul's older sons married in the Chesapeake colony before and after the July 1763 listing.  Paul, Marguerite-Josèphe, and seven of their unmarried children, four sons and three daughters, along with their two married sons and their families, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1767.  Son Antoine, who was counted with the family in 1763 and would have been age 12 in 1767, did not follow them to Louisiana; considering his age, he likely died in Maryland.  Paul and his family settled on the west bank of the river at San Gabriel with other exiles who had come from Maryland that year.  Marguerite-Josèphe gave him no more children in the colony.  Paul died at St. Gabriel in July 1805, in his early 90s.  Marguerite-Josèphe, who did not remarry, died at St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in December 1811, age 93.  Daughters Anne-Marie and Marie married into the Dupuis, Brunneteau, Moreno, and Guidry families on the river.  Paul's younger sons also married and settled there, six family lines in all, but not all of the lines endured.  Two of his great-grandsons by sixth son Amand graduated from West Point and became Confederate generals, and one of them served as governor of Louisiana in the 1850s. 

Oldest son Pierre-Paul, in his late teens, followed his family to Maryland, where he married fellow Acadian Marguerite LeBlanc in the late 1750s or early 1760s.  She gave him three children in the Chesapeake colony:  Charles le jeune born in c1762; Marianne in c1764; and Marguerite in January 1767.  They followed his family to New Orleans and San Gabriel, where the couple had more children, including Françoise born in the early 1770s; Jean-Élie, called Élie, in August 1773; Pierre in c1775 but died there at age 9 in July 1784; Simon born in October 1777; Rosalie in July 1782; and Jacques in January 1785--nine children, five sons and four daughters, between 1762 and 1785, in Maryland and Louisiana.   Pierre Paul evidently died near St. Gabriel in March 1806.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Pierre was age 64 when he died.  He was closer to 68.  Daughters Marianne, Françoise, and Rosalie married into the Hébert, Landry, and LeBlanc families.  Three of Pierre Paul's sons also married, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Charles le jeune followed his family to New Orleans and San Gabriel, where he married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Janvier Breaux and Osite Landry, in May 1785.  Their children, born at San Gabriel, included Marguerite-Henriette in March 1786; and Marie-Claire or -Clarisse, called Clarisse, in November 1787.  Charles le jeune remarried to Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand-Paul Gautreaux and Marie Landry, at San Gabriel in July 1792.  They settled across the river in what became West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marine in the early 1790s; Auguste or Augustin in May 1794; Henriette in May 1796; Marie or Marine in October 1798; Hippolyte in November 1800; Jérôme in September 1802; Paul in c1803; Eugène in the early 1800s; and Eugénie in January 1807--11 children, six daughters and five sons, by two wives, between 1786 and 1807.  Charles le jeune died probably in West Baton Rouge Parish in October 1829, age 67.  Daughters Clarisse, Marine, and Henriette, by both wives, married into the Hernandez and Landry families.  Four of Charles le jeune's sons also married and settled on the river, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Auguste or Augustin, by second wife Anne Gautreaux, married Rosalie, daughter of Pierre Battiau, Pailliou, Paillot, Paleo, Paliau, Pallia, Pallion, Payou, or Poliot and Rose Tullier of Baton Rouge, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in October 1817.  They settled on the west side of the river at Bayou Goula in Iberville Parish or in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Irma in August 1818; Augustin, fils in April 1820; Bélisaire in August 1824; Jean Numa in May 1827; and Estelle in November 1829--five children, two daughters and three sons, between 1818 and 1829.  Augustin, père may have died at Bayou Goula in September 1847.  The St. Gabriel priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Auguste, as he called him, died at "age 52 yrs."  This Augustin would have been 53.  Daughter Estelle married into the Thompson family by 1870.  Two of Augustin's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Augustin, fils married Marie Doralise, Carolise, or Caroline, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Béloni Daigre and Marianne Trahan, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in March 1842.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie Zuma, perhaps Zulma, in April 1843; Magloire Adélard in October 1845 but, called Adélard, died at age 9 1/2 (the recording priest said 10) in June 1855; Ervile born in January 1848; Gustave in March 1850 but died near Convent, St. James Parish, at age 17 1/2 in November 1867; Jean Demosthène born in December 1852; and Marie Theresa in March 1855--six children, two daughters and four sons, between 1843 and 1855.  Augustin, fils likely died near Brusly in September 1855.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Auguste, fils, as he called him, died at "age 32 years."  Augustin, fils would have been 35.  Daughter Zulma married into the Altazin family by 1870.  Neither his younger daughter nor any of his sons married by then.

Augustin, père's second son Bélisaire married Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadians Firmin Guidry and Azélie LeBlanc of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in September 1846.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Lora near Brusly in June 1847; Pimplire Numa in March 1849 but, called Simplire Numa, died the following July; Léonide born in July 1850; Philippe ___ in January 1852; Joséphine Keate in January 1854; Bienvenu Firmin in March 1857; and Clara, probably theirs, died at age 2 months in June 1858.  Bélisaire remarried to Mary, daughter of Samuel Bates and Martha Cage and widow of ____ McHatten, at the Baton Rouge church in June 1863. ...  None of Bélisaire's children married by 1870. 

Charles le jeune's third son Jérôme, by second wife Anne Gautreaux, married Rosalie, daughter of Jean Charles LeTullier and his Acadian wife Flore Adélaïde Daigre, at the Baton Rouge church in September 1824.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included Anne Mergerina in July 1825; and Trasimond in February 1827 but died near Brusly at age 19 (the recording priest said 21) in November 1846.  Neither of Jérôme's children married. 

Charles le jeune's fourth son Paul, by second wife Anne Gautreaux, married Irène, daughter of fellow Acadians Daniel Benoit and Madeleine Doiron, at the Baton Rouge church in October 1822.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Estelle in October 1823 but died at age 16 (the recording priest at Baton Rouge said 15) in October 1839; and Irène born in September 1825.  Paul may have died in West Baton Rouge Parish in January 1831.  The Baton Rouge priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Paul, "res. of West Baton Rouge parish," died at "age 28 yrs."  Daughter Irène married into the LeBlanc family, so the blood of the family line may have endured.   

Charles le jeune's fifth and youngest son Eugène, by second wife Anne Gautreaux, married Marguerite Séraphine, called Séraphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Xavier Landry and Madeleine Foret, at the Baton Rouge church in January 1827.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Eugène, fils in February 1828; Pierre Ildebert in October 1829 but died at age 8 in December 1837; Charles, also called Charles Édouard and Édouard, baptized at age 1 1/2 months in March 1832; Marguerite A., perhaps Marguerite Athanais, called Athanais, born in September 1834; Marie Nathalie, called Nathalie, in July 1836; François Louis in June 1839; and Marie Amélie in June 1843--seven children, four sons and three daughters, between 1828 and 1843.  Daughters Athanais and Nathalie married into the Mouk or Monk and Ferbos families by 1870.  Two of Eugène's sons also married by then.

Third son Charles Édouard, called Édouard, married Marie Irma, called Irma, daughter of Manuel Lopez and his Acadian wife Clémence Babin, at the Baton Rouge church in July 1851.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their chilidren, born there, included Marie Elvina in January 1853; Charles Helebert, probably Ildebert, in May 1854; Marie Augusta in October 1855; Françoise Alphonsine in December 1857; Wilfried in July 1859; Lee Ide in September 1860; ...  None of Édouard's children married by 1870. 

Eugène's fourth and youngest son François Louis married cousin Célina Aline, called Aline, daughter of Hilaire Bergeron, a Creole, not a fellow Acadian, and his Acadian wife Amelina Landry, at the Brusly church in June 1865; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Daughter Marie Jude Minerve was born near Brusly in October 1868; ...

Pierre-Paul's second son Jean-Élie, called Élie, married cousin Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste LeBlanc and Marguerite Comeaux, at San Gabriel in February 1802.  Their children, born there, included Scholastique in January 1803 but died 15 days after her birth; Apollonie or Apolline dite Pauline born in August 1804 but, called Pauline, died at age 41 in November 1845, having never married; Jean Élie, fils born in June 1806; Marie Emélie, called Emélie, in April 1808; Pierre Valmont, called Valmont, in August 1812; and Joseph Herman in January 1815 but died at age 10 months the following October.  Wife Geneviève died near St. Gabriel in May 1815, age 30, perhaps from the rigors of giving birth to son Joseph Herman.  Élie, père remarried to another cousin, Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph LeBlanc and Marguerite Landry and widow of another Joseph LeBlanc, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in November 1817.  Their daughter Marguerite Adrienne was born  near St. Gabriel in August 1818--seven children, four daughters and three sons, by two wives, between 1803 and 1818.  Daughters Émélie and Marguerite Adrienne, by both wives, married into the Ramouin and Landry familes.  Élie's remaining sons also married, but not all of the lines endured.

Oldest son Jean Élie, fils, by first wife Geneviève LeBlanc, married cousin Marguerite Eugénie, called Eugénie, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul LeBlanc and Marguerite Landry, at the St. Gabriel church in June 1832.  Daughter Marguerite Aloisisa or Aloysia, called Aloysia, was born near St. Gabriel in May 1834.  Jean Élie, fils died near St. Gabriel in November 1837, age 31.  Daughter Aloysia married a LeBlanc cousin.  Jean Élie, fils's line of the family, except perhaps for its blood, evidently died with him. 

Élie's second son Pierre Valmont, called Valmont, from first wife Geneviève LeBlanc, married Marie Élise, Éloise, or Héloise, daughter of Joseph Berret, perhaps Verret, and Marie Angélique Arnandez, at the St. Gabriel church in December 1834.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Eugène in November 1835; Marie Théotiste in April 1837; Joseph Léon, called Léon, in April 1839; Thomas in December 1843; and Marie Evela in February 1847.  Valmont remarried to Ernestine, daughter of Louis Édouard Guitteau and Joséphine Pignoux, at the St. Gabriel church in September 1851.  They settled near Plaquemine in Iberville Parish on the west side of the river.  Their children, born there, included Peter Louis in February 1853; Marie Laur in December 1854; Marie Cléonise in January 1857; Geneviève Cécilia in December 1858; Charles Ernest in January 1862; Émilie Rosa in May 1864; V. died in October 1867, age unrecorded, and was buried in St. Raphaël Cemetery; ...  None of Pierre Valmont's daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did. 

Second son Léon, by first wife Marie Élise Berret, married Zulma, daughter of fellow Acadians Victor Allain and Marie Aimée Breaux, at the St. Gabriel church in January 1868. ...

Pierre-Paul's fourth son Simon married Marie-Marthe, daughter of Diego Hernandez and his Acadian wife Théotiste Babin, at San Gabriel in May 1800.  Daughter Marie-Carmélite was born near San Gabriel in February 1802.  Simon died at nearby Ascension in April 1802, age 24.  Daughter Marie Carmélite married into the Landry family.  Simon evidently fathered no sons, so this line of the family, except perhaps for its blood, died with him. 

Paul's second son Joseph followed his family to Maryland, where he married fellow Acadian Anne Landry, date unrecorded, but it was after July 1763.  Daughter Anne was born in Maryland in January 1767, on the eve of their going to Louisiana in April of that year.  They followed his family to New Orleans and San Gabriel.  Joseph and Anne's other children, born at San Gabriel, included Marie-Josèphe in October 1768; and Anne-Marguerite, called Marguerite, baptized, age unrecorded, in June 1777--three children, all daughters, between 1767 and 1777, in Maryland and Louisiana.  Joseph died at San Gabriel in April 1799.  The San Gabriel priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph was age 50 when he died.  Daughters Marie-Josèphe, Anne, and Marguerite married into the Blanchard, LeBlanc, and Babin families, so the blood of this family line likely endured.  

Paul's fourth son Ignace le jeune followed his family to Maryland, New Orleans, and San Gabriel, where he married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Bonaventure Forest and Claire Rivet, in November 1781.  Their children, born at San Gabriel, included Jean-Louis in October 1782; Antoine le jeune in October 1784; Anne-Marie in March 1786; and Joseph-Raphaël in January 1788--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1782 and 1788.  Ignace died at San Gabriel in December 1790, age 43.  None of his children seem to have married, so this line of the family may not have endured in the Bayou State.

Paul's fifth son Jean-Baptiste followed his family to Maryland, New Orleans, and San Gabriel.  He married Marie-Marguerite, called Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Claude Richard and Cécile Melançon, at Ascension below San Gabriel in June 1774.  They settled upriver in the San Gabriel/Baton Rouge area.  Their children, born there, included Marguerite-Marine, called Marine, in February 1775; Alexis or Alexandre in c1776; Jean-Baptiste, fils, also called Pierre-Jean-Baptiste, in October 1778; Marie-Geneviève, called Geneviève, in December 1780; Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, in January 1785; Valentin in September 1787; and Marie-Rose baptized, age unrecorded, in February 1790--seven children, four daughters and three sons, between 1775 and 1790.  Jean Baptiste died probably in West Baton Rouge Parish, across the river, in September 1824.  The St. Gabriel priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Jean Baptiste "of Baton Rouge" died at "age 73," so this was him.  Daughters Marguerite Marine, Geneviève, and Madeleine married into the Doiron, Granger, and Hébert families.  Jean Baptiste's sons also married, but not all of the lines endured.

Oldest son Alexis or Alexandre married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Chiasson and Marguerite Blanchard, at San Gabriel in May 1799.  They settled in what became West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Rosémond in June 1800; Marguerite in June 1802; Gilbert, also called Gilles, in August 1804; Anne Emérante, called Emérante, in July 1806; Raphaël in September 1809; Joséphine in April 1811; and Marie Marcellite in July 1813--seven children, three sons and four daughters, between 1800 and 1813.  Daughters Emérante and Joséphine married into the Landry and Labauve families.  Alexis's sons also married, and one of them settled on the western prairies. 

Oldest son Rosémond married cousin Marie Joséphine, called Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste LeBlanc and Rosalie Hébert, at the St. Gabriel church in January 1822.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Edmond in January 1823; Rosémond, fils in November 1824; Joseph Adrien in August 1826 but, called Adrien, died near Brusly, West Baton Rouge Parish, age 27 (the recording priest said 29), in October 1855; and Marie Adèle born in November 1828 but, called Adèle, died at age 20 in February 1849.  Rosémond remarried to Marguerite Apolline dite Pauline, daughter of William Marson, Morson, or Morisson and Julie Bruneteau of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the Baton Rouge church in August 1832.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie Azéma in August 1833; Marguerite Annette in November 1834; François Édouard, called F. Edward, in August 1836; Marie Apolline dite Pauline in February 1838; Joseph Hamlin, perhaps also called J. Omer and Joseph Omer, in July 1839; Anne Clara near Brusly in June 1847 but, called Clara Rosémonde, died at age 2 (the recording priest said 3) in August 1849; Marie Rosémonde born in January 1849; and Victoria, perhaps theirs, born posthumously in October 1849--a dozen children, five sons and seven daughters, by two wives, between 1823 and 1849.  Rosémond, père died near Brusly in January 1849, age 48 (the recording priest said 49).  The priest who recorded the burial called him "representative of this parish," so he evidently served in the state legislature.  Daughter Pauline, by his second wife, married a Gassie first cousin by 1870.  Two of Rosémond's sons also married by then.  One wonders what happened to some of his older sons by his first wife and his older children by his second wife. 

Fourth son F. Edward, by second wife Pauline Marson, married Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Marie Labauve and Henriette Coralie Dupuis, at the Brusly church in November 1865.  Their son François Édouard, fils was born near Brusly in July 1869; ... 

Rosémond's fifth and youngest son Joseph Omère, also called J. Omer, from second wife Pauline Marson, married M. Amanda, called Amanda, daughter of fellow Acadians Hermogène Babin and Célestine Landry, at the Brusly church in November 1864.  Daughter Marie G. was born near Brusly in December 1869; ...

Alexis's second son Gilbert or Gilles, when he came of age, crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to the Bayou Teche valley and married Henriette Céleste or Céleste Henriette, also called Célise, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Labauve and Henriette Renée Benoit of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in April 1821.  They settled near New Iberia, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, on the lower Teche.  Their children, born there, included Tryphile or Treville Cerboney, also called Joseph Treville, in October 1822; Émile, also called Émile Gilbert, in December 1824; Joseph Lovenski or Lovenci in March 1826 but died at age 19 (the recording priest said 20) in June 1845; Marie Zéolide born in August 1827; Henriette Ordalie or Odalie, called Odalie, in March 1829; Céleste Irma in April 1833; Ernest Duprélon in July 1834; Gilbert, fils in c1836 but died at age 18 months in November 1837; Marguerite Zélina born in June 1836[sic]; Siméon in September 1838; and Félix Foinville in December 1844--11 children, seven sons and four daughters, between 1822 and 1844.  Daughters Odalie, ... married into the Hébert, Comeaux, LeBlanc, and Vuillemat families, one of them twice to Hébert cousins in West Baton Rouge Parish, by 1870.  Two of Gilbert's sons also married by then, both of them to sisters from West Baton Rouge Parish, but they settled on Bayou Teche.

Oldest son Treville Cerboney, also called Joseph Treville, married cousin Marguerite Pauline, called Pauline, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Alexandre Landry and Emérante Hébert, at the Brusly church in March 1848.  They settled near New Iberia.  Their children, born there, included Marie Octavie in February 1849; Marie Cephalie in December 1850; Alexandre Enaud in December 1852; Félix Numa in February 1857 but, called Numa, may have died at age 4 1/2 in January 1862; Marie Amandee born in June 1858; Paul Octave, named after the former governor and current Confederate general, a distant relative, in December 1862; Marie in September 1865; ...  None of Treville's children married by 1870. 

Gilbert's second son Émile Gilbert married cousin Marie Octavie or Octavine, called Tavie, another daughter of Joseph Alexandre Landry and Emérante Hébert of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the St. Martinville church in December 1850.  They settled on the lower Teche.  Their children, born there, included Paulin Emilda near New Iberia in March 1852; Jeanne Adonia in February 1854; Marie Honoré in December 1858; Marie Lucian in July 1861; Alexandre Bélisaire in June 1864; Delma in 1865; Louis Damus in February 1870; ...  Evidently none of Émile Gilbert's children married by 1870.  Daughter Delma married into the Broussard family.  The family was musically inclined.  According to a family historian: "They lived in a typical Acadian house, except that there was a ballroom built in front and attached to it.  Every Saturday night, in the ballroom, a festive ball was held for the Acadian lads and lasses in the surrounding area.  It was the highlight of the week in the countryside and an event to which everyone looked forward." 

Alexis's third and youngest son Raphaël married cousin Marie Odile, called Odile and Adile, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Landry and Manon Hébert, at the St. Gabriel church in April 1834.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Urbin Aristide, called Aristide, in May 1835; Raphaël, fils in July 1836; Alexis in January 1839; Armant in c1841 but died at age 14 years in October 1855; Marie Amanda born in April 1843 but, called Amanda, died at age 21 in June 1864; Marie Célestine born in December 1845; Marie Jeanne in June 1847; Jynore[sic] in April 1849 but, called Ignace, died at age 14 months in June 1850; Octave born in September 1850 but died at age 15 1/2 (the recording priest said 16) in May 1866; Marie Amélie born in June 1854; Benjamin in October 1856; and Eulalie in November 1858--a dozen children, seven sons and five daughters, between 1835 and 1858.  Daughters Célestine and Marie Jeanne married into the Hébert and Bird families by 1870.  One of Raphaël's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Urbin Aristide, called Aristide, married double cousin Anne Amélie, daughter of fellow Acadians Élie Landry and Henriette Hébert, at the Brusly church in August 1854.  Their daughter Henriette Élisabeth Marie Mélanie was born near Brusly in October 1855.  Urbain Aristide died near Brusly in November 1855.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Aristide, as he called him, died at "age 21 years."  He was 20.  He evidently had no time to father a son.  His daughter did not marry by 1870.  His widow Anne Amélie remarried twice. 

Jean-Baptiste's second son Jean-Baptiste, fils, also called Pierre-Jean-Baptiste, married cousin Marie Léocade, called Léocade, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand Hébert and Élisabeth Babin, at San Gabriel in July 1801.  They settled on the river probably at Manchac between St. Gabriel and Baton Rouge.  Their children, born there, included Irène in the early 1800s; Marie Mathilde, called Mathilde, in April 1804; and Marie Juliènne, called Juliènne, posthumously in January 1806--three children, all daughters, between 1801 and 1806.  Jean Baptiste, fils died near Baton Rouge in December 1805, age 27.  Daughters Irène, Mathilde, and Marie Juliènne married into the Geoffrey, Heith, and Laferry families.  Jean Baptiste, fils seems to have fathered no sons, so this line of the family, except perhaps for its blood, probably died with him. 

Jean-Baptiste, père's third and youngest son Valentin married double cousin Marie Élisabeth, Élise, or Héloise, daughter of Jean Baptiste Hébert and Marine Hébert, at Baton Rouge in April 1810.  They settled in what became West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marguerite Eméranthe in July 1811; Jean Dorgeville in February 1813 but, called Jean Béloni, may have died at age 21 (the recording priest at Baton Rouge said 22) in April 1834; Élias born in November 1815; Marie Adolphine in December 1818; Valentin, fils in October 1821 but may have died at age 34 (the recording priest said 30) in October 1855; Lovinsky born in November 1822; Damis, also called Adamis and Adonis, in December 1825; and Oscar William in January 1828.  Valentin, at age 43, remarried to Marie Euphrosine, daughter of fellow Acadians Isidore Labauve and Jeanne Granger of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the Baton Rouge church in April 1831.  Their children, born in West Baton Rouge Parish, included Léonidas in February 1832; Antoine Numa, called Numa, in January 1834; Marie Élodie, called Élodie, in March 1836; Marie Rebecca, called Rebecca, in August 1838; Ulysse near Brusly in July 1839; Marie Eliska in June 1847; and twins Marie Alice and Philomène Laurenza in August 1849--16 children, seven daughters and nine sons, by two wives, between 1811 and 1849.  Valentin died near Brusly in February 1850, age 62 (the recording priest said 63).  The priest who recorded the burial also said that Valentin was "President of the Church wardens of St. John the Baptist Church of West Baton Rouge," which was the church at Brusly.  Daughters Marie Adolphine, Élodie, and Rebecca, by both wives, married into the Foret, Aucoin, and Aillet families by 1870.  Three of Valentin's sons also married by then.  One wonders what happened to older sons Élias and Oscar William by his first wife and Léonidas by his second. 

Fourth son Lovinsky, by first wife Élisabeth Hébert, married Marie Aureline or Adeline, daughter of fellow Acadians Joachim Daigre and Dartille Dupuy, at the Brusly church in August 1842.  Their children, born near Brusly, included Lucette in c1843; Marie Mirza, called Mirza, in c1845; Joseph Albert, called Albert, in April 1846; Jean Baptiste Lovinski, called Lovinski, in January 1849; Thérèse Olympe, called Olympe, in October 1851; Marie Louisa, called Louisa, in April 1853; and Lucie in December 1856--seven children, five daughters and two sons, between 1845 and 1856.  Daughter Marie Mirza married a Kirkland cousin by 1870.  None of Lovinsky's sons married by then. 

Valentin's fifth son Adonis, by first wife Élisabeth Hébert, married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Zéphirin Blanchard and Élise Lebert, at the Brusly church in March 1851.  Their children, born near Brusly, included Marie Aline in November 1851 but died at 8 months in July 1852; Rosalie Anne born in December 1859; Pauline Lisy in July 1860; ...

Valentin's eighth son Antoine Numa, by second wife Marie Euphrosine Labauve, married Marie Zéolide, called Zéolide, daughter of François Gomez and his Acadian wife Adélaïde Babin, at the St. Gabriel church in February 1854.  They settled near Plaquemine on the west side of the river.  Their children, born there, included Wallis Hamilton in August 1856; Marie Etelvina in June 1860; ... 

Paul's sixth son Amand followed his family to Maryland, New Orleans, and San Gabriel, where he married cousin Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Benjamin Boudreaux and Cécile Melançon, in September 1776; their marriage was recorded across the river at Pointe Coupée.  Their children, born at San Gabriel, included Thomas-Auguste baptized, age unrecorded, in July 1778, who may have been the "small," unnamed son, drowned in April 1780, no age given; Joseph-Zacharie, called Zacherie, baptized, age unrecorded, in January 1780; Michel born in February 1782; Marine-Adélaïde in February 1786; Manoue, perhaps also called Madeleine, in January 1788; Marie, probably also called Marie-Céleste, in February 1791; Valéry in October 1793; Adélaïde in c1785 but died at age 14 in November 1799; Louis, perhaps theirs, in c1783 but died at age 6 in November 1789; another Marie-Céleste born in February 1790 but died in March; Paul le jeune born in February 1796; and Irène in July 1800 but died at age 17 in October 1817--a dozen children, six sons and six daughters, between 1778 and 1800.  According to one of his descendants, Amand "was a man of education and seems to have been looked up to by the inhabitants about him as a sort of Chief and leader.  When Louisiana had been sold by France to the United States (1803) and had applied for Statehood, Amant Hébert was one of the Members of the Convention called to frame a Constitution for the new State (1811)."  Daughters Madeleine and Marie Céleste married into the Landry, LeBlanc, and Boissac families.  Four of Amand's sons also married.  Two of his grandsons followed in his footsteps and became prominent men in Louisiana affairs, one of them a governor. 

Second son Joseph-Zacharie, called Zacharie, married first cousin Hélène, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Dupuis and Anne Hébert, his uncle and aunt, at San Gabriel in June 1801; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born at San Gabriel, included Marie-Joséphine, called Joséphine, in December 1802; Joseph Eugène in February 1805; a son, name unrecorded, died at age 6 months in October 1807; Jérôme died at age 5 weeks in November 1808; Paul Furias or Turiaf, called Turiaf, born in May 1810 but died at age 36 in July 1846; an infant, name unrecorded, died at birth in November 1812; Marguerite Virginie born in October 1813 but died at age 3 1/2 in February 1817; François Forestin or Florestin born in January 1816; Pierre Dorsine in June 1818 but died at age 3 in September 1821; and Marie Claudine born in April 1820 but, called Clothilde Aurore, died at age 13 1/2 in November 1833--10 children, at least three daughters and six sons, between 1802 and 1820.  Zacharie may have died in Iberville Parish in January 1822.  If so, he would have been in his early 40s, not "age 20 or 30 yrs.," as the recording priest from St. Gabriel insisted.  Daughter Joséphine married into the Boush family.  Zacherie's remaining son who married and settled in Pointe Coupee Parish, where few other Acadians lived. 

Fifth son François Forestin, called Forestin, married Adeline or Odelice, daughter of fellow Acadian Zéphirin Daigre and his Creole wife Marguerite Betancourt, at the St. Gabriel church in December 1838.  They settled near Plaquemine on the west bank of the river in Iberville Parish before moving up to Pointe Coupée Parish.  Their children, born on the river, included Hélène Émilia, called Émilia, baptized at 8 months in October 1840; Marie Parmelia born in January 1842; Gustave in July 1843; Élisabeth Auphrlia in October 1845; Zacharie Octave in October 1848; Marie Odalie in October 1850 but died in Pointe Coupee Parish, age 6, in October 1856; Hellen Eugénia born in May 1853; Joseph Amilcar in August 1855; Louis Alfred in December 1857; Joseph Edgard in February 1862; ...  Daughter Émilia married into the Bouanchaud family in Pointe Coupee Parish by 1870.  None of Forestin's other children married by then.  One of his sons died in Confederate service before he could marry. 

Oldest son Gustave likely was the Gustavus Hébert who, at age 19, enlisted as a private in Company A of the Pointe Coupee Battalion Louisiana Artillery at Fort Pillow, Tennessee, in April 1862, soon after it fought in the Battle of Island Number 10 on the upper Mississippi.  Gustave served with the battery at Fort Pillow until it was evacuated in June, and likely fought at Coffeeville, Mississippi, in early December 1862, and at Port Hudson, Louisiana, in March 1863, before moving to Jackson, Mississippi.  Gustave likely fought in the Battle of Champion Hill, Mississippi, west of Vicksburg, in May, and was captured at Vicksburg with the rest of his battery section in July 1863.  After the citadel's surrender, he was paroled with his unit and likely sent home.  While still on parole, he was captured at Canton, Mississippi, in March 1864, sent to Memphis, Tennesee, the following month, and then to the U.S. prisoner-of-war compound at Alton, Illinois, in May.  Gustave died at Alton in June, less than a month after he arrived there, age 20.  He probably is buried there.  His older sister Émilia was the wife of his company commander, Captain Alcide Bouanchaud of Pointe Coupee Parish, who survived the war and returned to his family. 

Amand's third son Michel married cousin Marie Élisabeth or Héloise, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand Hébert and Anne Élisabeth Babin, at St. Gabriel in April 1806.  They settled near St. Gabriel.  Their children, born there, included Marie Virginie, called Virginie, in January 1807; Héloise Fanelie in April 1810 but died at age 9 1/2 in September 1819; Michel, fils born in August 1817; and Joseph Walsit, Walsey, or Volsy, also called J. Wolsy, J. Volsy, and J. V., in January 1822--four children, two daughters and two sons, between 1807 and 1822.  Michel, père died near St. Gabriel in April 1823.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Michel was age 48 when he died.  He was 41.  Daughter Marie Virginie married into the Miller family.  Michel's two sons also married.

Older son Michel, fils married Marie Clarisse, called Clarisse, daughter of fellow Acadian Paul Dupuy and his Creole wife Madeleine Schlatre, at the St. Gabriel church in April 1841.  They settled near Plaquemine on the west side of the river.  Their children, born there, included Marie Aglaé in July 1842; Anne Élisabeth in March 1846; Michel Ellet in November 1849; Thomas in April 1853; Paul Adhemar in May 1856; and Pierre Valière in April 1859 but died at age 1 1/2 in August 1860--six children, two daughters and four sons, between 1842 and 1859.  Daughter Marie Aglaé married into the Mestayer family by 1870.  None of Michel, fils's sons married by then.  

Michel, père's younger son Joseph Volsy married Marguerite Nathalie, called Nathalie, daughter of Jean Baptiste Lessard and his Acadian wife Marie Joséphine LeBlanc, at the St. Gabriel church in June 1846.  They settled near Plaquemine.  Their children, born there, included Marguerite Lize or Lise in July 1847; Joseph Edwin in August 1851; John David in February 1853; Mary Virginia in August 1854; Michael Valsy in February 1857; Émile Robert in April 1859; Marie Martha in July 1860 but, called Marie Marthe, died the following December; Marie Nathalie born in August 1861; Félix Lee in May 1864; ...  Daughter Marguerite Lise married into the Schlatre family by 1870.  None of Joseph Volsy's sons married by then. 

Amand's fourth son Valéry married, at age 21, Marie Clarisse, called Clarisse, daughter of Irishman Louis Bush or Boush and Hélène Hamilton, at the St. Gabriel church in May 1815.  Their plantation was on the west bank of the river, across from St. Gabriel and five miles below Plaquemine.  Their children, born there, included an infant, name unrecorded, died nine days after his/her birth in November 1816; twins Jean Louis, called Louis, and Michel Amand, called Amand le jeune, born in July 1818, but Louis died a few days after his birth; a second Louis born in March 1820; Marie Clarisse, called Clarisse, in November 1821; Marie Hermaie or Armelie, called Armelie, in September 1824; Marie Malvina, called Malvina, in December 1825; Denis Valéry in February 1828 but died at age 11 months in January 1829; Ernestine born in November 1829; Marie Estelle in October 1831; Marie Zoèle or Adèle in April 1833; Gustave Sébastien in April 1835; Charles Oscar, called Oscar, in October 1836; and Christophe Valéry in August 1838--14 children, at least seven sons and six daughters, including a set of twins,, between 1816 and 1838.  According to son Louis, Valéry, a Jacksonian Democrat, "was a man of some note in the country[,] having occupied positions of trust in his life such as Parish Treasurer, Member of the Police Jury, Representative and Senator in the State Senate.  He seemed to stand high in the respect and esteem of his fellow citizens.  He was First Lieutenant in the State Militia at the time of the invasion of Louisiana by the British in 1814, and on account of the absence of the Captain of his Company was in command of the same [at] the attack on New Orleans.  Being posted on the right bank of the Mississippi River, opposite to the city, he did not participate in the main battle of the early morning of January 8th [1815].  It was after the war was over that he married."  Valéry died in Iberville Parish in December 1847, age 54.  He was buried in St. Raphaël's Cemetery on the west side of the river.  Daughters Clarisse, Armalie, Malvina, Ernestine, Marie Adèle, and Marie Estelle married into the Haile, Smith, Hébert, Boatner, Stevens, Lauve, Isbell, and Austin families, two of them, Malvina and Marie Adèle, twice.  Two of Valéry's sons also married.  Son Louis and one of Valéry's sons-in-law, Walter Husted Stevens of New York, served as brigadier generals in the Confederate army during the War of 1861-65. 

Twin son Michel Amand, called Amand le jeune, married Marie Doralise, called Doralise, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Comeaux and Céleste Breaux, at the St. Gabriel church in January 1840.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Valéry Amant and Amand in October 1840; Doralise in March 1842; an infant, name unrecorded, died a week after his/her birth in October 1843; Ernest born in September 1845; Denis Alfred in June 1848; and Alice in October 1850--six children, at least three sons and two daughters, between 1840 and 1850.  Amand died in Iberville Parish in June 1852, age 33.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Valéry's third son Louis, the second with the name, was tutored by live-in teachers on his father's plantation before attending Jefferson College at Convent, St. James Parish, with his older double first cousin, Paul Octave.  Louis attended Jefferson College from 1836 to 1840 and was among the first five graduates.  In June 1841, he arrived at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, graduated in June 1845, third in his class, and was commissioned brevet second lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers.  He reported for duty at New Orleans in the fall of 1845 and served at Fort Livingston, Barataria Bay.  Compelled by his father's poor health, he resigned his commission in February 1846 to attend to his family's business, so he did not participate in the war against Mexico.  Louis, at age 28, married Malvina, daughter of Pierre Mizaël Lambremont and his Acadian wife Marie Louise Breaux, at the St. Gabriel church in March 1848; Malvina's father, who died before the wedding, had, like Louis's father, served in the state legislature.  Louis and Malvina's children, born in Iberville Parish, included Ignace Louis, called Ignace L., in March 1849; Burton Lambremont in September 1850; and Ellis L., probably Lambremont, in December 1857--three children, all sons, between 1849 and 1857.  Louis was elected to the Louisiana State Senate in November 1853 at age 33 and represented the parishes of Iberville and West Baton Rouge.  Like his father, Louis was a Democrat.  In 1855, Louis's first cousin, Governor Paul Octave Hébert, appointed him as chief engineer of Louisiana.  Reappointed by his cousin's successors, Louis was compelled to move his family to Baton Rouge.  In 1859, at age 39, he was elected to the new state Board of Public Works, but the position was abolished by the state legislature soon after it was created.  After a lengthy illness, wife Malvina died at the family plantation in August 1860 and was buried at nearby St. Raphaël Cemetery in Iberville Parish.  Louis never remarried.  After his wife's death, he returned to Baton Rouge and was still living there in 1861.  Though opposed to secession (he had voted for Democrate Stephen A. Douglas in the presidential election of November 1860), Louis, still a colonel of state militia for East Baton Rouge Parish, offered his services to his native state.  Governor Thomas Overton Moore placed him in command of the Louisiana troops who bloodlessly seized the Baton Rouge arsenal from Federal forces in early January 1861.  In May, now age 41, Louis was elected colonel of the 3rd Regiment Louisiana Infantry, which he helped to raise.  He was captured at Pea Ridge, Arkansas, in March 1862.  Exchanged two months later, he was promoted to brigadier general and commanded a brigade in Sterling Price's army in the western theatre of operations.  (Louis's brother-in-law, Walter H. Stevens of New York, West Point Class of 1848 and husband of his sister Ernestine, also served as a brigadier general in the Confederate army.)  Later in the war, Louis commanded the heavy artillery at Fort Fisher near Wilmington, North Carolina.  After the war, he lived with his sons at Plaisance plantation in Iberville Parish until a New Orleans bank foreclosed on the property.  Now homeless, he moved his small family to nearby Plaquemine, where he worked as sub-editor of the Iberville South newspaper until it was sold and then worked as a private teacher on plantations near Bayou Goula and Bayou Jacobs.  His son Burton Lambremont having married in St. Martin Parish in 1870, Louis joined him on the upper Teche in 1876.  Louis again worked as a private teacher, this time on the plantations of the Widow Valéry Huval and of François LeBlanc, and at the private schools of former state lieutenant governor Charles Homère Mouton and of Vincent Barras in St. Martinville.  Louis next taught at a new public school in Iberville Parish but returned to St. Martinville after the school closed.  In subsequent years, he taught also at Plaquemine, Bayou Goula, and New Orleans but again returned to St. Martinville, where he continued teaching into his 70s.  Louis died in St. Martin Parish in January 1901, age 80.  He was buried along the bayou near Breaux Bridge.  His remains, or what were believed to be his remains, were reburied by a local camp of the Sons of Confederate Veterans in St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery at nearby Cecilia in October 2002.  Only one of his three sons married by 1870. 

Oldest son Ignace Louis, following a long illness and, according to his father, "when he had acquired an honorable position," died at New Orleans in April 1873, age 24.  He evidently did not marry. 

Louis's second son Burton Lambremont, called Bruton Louis by the recording priest, married Laure, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Balthazar Martin and Julie LeBlanc, at the Breaux Bridge church, St. Martin Parish, in June 1870. ...

During the War of 1861-65, Valéry's fifth son Gustave Sébastien served as surgeon in three Louisiana units that fought in the western theatre of operations--the 3rd Regiment Louisiana Infantry, which older brother Louis commanded; the 8th Battalion Heavy Artillery; and the 1st Regiment Heavy Artillery, which his first cousin Paul Octave Hébert commanded.  One wonders what happened to Gustave after the war. 

Amand's sixth and youngest son Paul le jeune married Marie Eugénie, called Eugénie, daughter of Scots American Ignace Hamilton and Irish Creole Nancy Boush, at the St. Gabriel church in November 1817.  They settled on the west bank of the river near Bayou Goula, Iberville Parish.  Their children, born there, included Paul Octave in December 1818; Irène in March 1820 but died at age 3 1/2 in July 1823; Ignace born in June 1821; Marie Adveline or Evelina in October 1824; Zépherin in December 1826; Marie Domitile, also called Domitilde Marie, in January 1829; Marie Eugénie in October 1831 but, according to one church record, died at age 8 1/2 (the recording priest said 8) in January 1840, though a marriage record dated 2 July 1850, followed here, has her marrying a "Dr. Hall"; Marie Camille born in June 1832; Adrien dit Amand in March 1835; Gustave Adolphe in June 1837 but died at age 1 1/2 in September 1838; and Marie Isidora born in September 1841 but died in October.  Paul le jeune, at age 48, remarried to Lavinia Jane, daughter of Joseph Devince Hamilton and Margaret Webb, at the St. Gabriel church in January 1845; Lavinia Jane was a cousin of Paul's first wife, so they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of affinity in order to marry.  Their children, born near Bayou Goula, included Joseph Amant or Amand in August 1846; Charles Anay Auguste in July 1850 but, called Charles Anay, died at age 2 in August 1852; and Olga Paul born in September 1851--14 children, seven sons and seven daughters, by two wives, between 1818 and 1851.  Paul le jeune died in Iberville Parish in May 1852, age 56.  Daughters Marie Evelina, Marie Domitille/Domitilde Marie, and Marie Eugénie, by his first wife, married into the Sewall or Sewell, Boissac, Kirk, LeBlanc, Moore, and Hall families, one of them, Marie Evelina, thrice, and another, Marie Domitille/Domitilde Marie, twice, by 1870.  Three of Paul le jeune's sons also married by then, and one of them became a shaker and mover in Louisiana affairs.  Not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Paul Octave, by first wife Eugénie Hamilton, graduated, at age 18, first in his class at Jefferson College in St. James Parish in 1836.  He also was first in his class at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 1840.  He was age 22 when he graduated.  At age 23, he married Cora Laetitia Wills, daughter of Thomas C. Vaughn and Harriet L. Winn, at the St. Gabriel church in August 1842 while on active duty with the United States Army Corps of Engineers.  Their children, born at St. Gabriel, included Thomas Paul in July 1844; Robert Octave in October 1846; Jessie Amand Vaughn in April 1849; Cora Cordelia Lucie Eugénia in December 1851; and Marie Loetitia in December 1857--five children, three sons and two daughters, between 1844 and 1857.  Paul Octave fought in the Mexican War in 1846-47 and was brevetted colonel for gallantry at Molino del Rey in Winfield Scott's campaign against Mexico City.  Paul Octave resigned his commission after the war, went into state politics, and was elected governor of Louisiana in 1851, the youngest ever elected to that office up to that time (he was 33).  He served from January 1852 until January 1856.  From January to March 1861, he served on Louisiana Governor Thomas O. Moore's five-man state Military Board.  During the War of 1861-65, Paul Octave served as colonel of the 1st Regiment Louisiana Heavy Artillery and, like his double first cousin Louis, rose to the rank of brigadier general.  Later in the war, Paul Octave commanded the Department of Texas with headquarters at Galveston, as well as the Subdistrict of North Louisiana.  After the war, he was active in Democratic Party politics.  He died of cancer in New Orleans in August 1880, age 61, and was buried at St. Raphaël Cemetery near Bayou Goula, close to his birthplace.  If any of his children married by 1870, they do not appear in local church records. 

Paul le jeune's second son Ignace, by first wife Eugénie Hamilton, married first cousin Marie Malvina, daughter of fellow Acadian Valéry Hébert and his Creole wife Clarisse Boush, his uncle and aunt, at the St. Gabriel church in March 1845; one suspects they would have had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Ignace died in Iberville Parish in April 1849, age 27 (the recording priest said 28).  Did he father any children?

Paul le jeune's fourth son Adrien dit Amand, by first wife Eugénie Hamilton, married Marie Lodoiska, called Lodoiska, daughter of René Bougère and Joséphine Baugnon of New Orleans, at the St. Gabriel church in November 1853.  Daughter Joséphine Lelia was born near St. Gabriel in March 1856 and did not marry by 1870.

Paul's eighth and youngest son Paul, fils followed his family to New Orleans and San Gabriel.  He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Breaux and Marie-Josèphe Landry, at Ascension on the river below San Gabriel in December 1782 and settled at San Gabriel.  Their children, born there, included Marguerite-Adélaïde in May 1784; Éloi in January 1786 but died at age 1 1/2 in June 1787; Marie-Josèphe born in April 1787; Marie-Scholastique, called Scholastique, in January 1789; Joseph-Éloi, called Éloi, in November 1790; Joseph-Julien, called Julien, in October 1792 but died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, age 38 (the recording priest said 34), in January 1831; and Joseph le jeune born in January 1794--seven children, three daughters and four sons, between 1784 and 1794.  Paul died by January 1802, when he was recorded as deceased in a daughter's marriage record.  He would have been in his late 30s that year.  Daughters Marguerite-Adélaïde and Scholastique married into the Daigre and Landry families.  Two of Paul's sons also married, but one of the lines did not endure. 

Second son Joseph Éloi, called Éloi, married cousin Angélique or Angèle, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Hébert and Anne Marie Babin, at the St. Gabriel church in January 1814.  They settled near St. Gabriel.  Their children, born there, included Valentin or Valentine in December 1817; Marie Judith in August 1819; Éloi, fils in January 1821; a child, name unrecorded, in c1823 but died at age 18 months in November 1824; Marguerite Adolestine born in August 1825 but died at age 1 in September 1826; Anastasie Domitilde born in April 1827 but died the following August; and Marguerite Élodie, called Élodie, born in June 1831--seven children, at least two sons and four daughters, between 1817 and 1831.  Josesph Éloi, père died near St. Gabriel in April 1838, age 47 (the recording priest said 48).  Daughters ... married into the Blanchard, Gallaugher and Melançon families.  Éloi's sons also married.

Older son Valentin or Valentine married Madeleine Adeline, daughter of fellow Acadians Désiré LeBlanc and Phelonise Dugas, at the bride's home in Ascension Parish in February 1840; the marriage was recorded by the Donaldsonville priest.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Faustin in February 1841 but died the following June; Valentin, fils born in May 1842; Théodore in January 1845; Joseph Octave in July 1848; Madeleine Octavie in July 1850; and Hubert Gustave in May 1855 but, called Gustave, died at age 11 months in April 1856--six children, five sons and a daughter, between 1841 and 1855.  Valentin, père may have died in Ascension Parish in October 1855.  The Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Valentin died at "age 30 years."  This Valentin would have been age 37.  None of his children married by 1870.  One of his sons died in Confederate service. 

During the War of 1861-65, Valentin's second son Valentin, fils may have served in the famous Donaldsonville Artillery--one of General R. E. Lee's Louisiana Tigers.  If this was him, he enlisted at Donaldsonville in September 1861, age 19.  He followed his unit to Virginia and was reported present through the early summer of 1862, so he likely saw action on the Virginia Peninsula at Yorktown and Williamsburg, in the Battle of Seven Pines, and during General R. E. Lee's Seven Days' campaign at Richmond.  Later that summer, however, while his unit was maneuvering in central Virginia during the Second Manassas Campaign, Valentin was reported sick at one of the hospitals in Richmond, where he died in mid-August 1862, age 20.  He likely is buried there. 

Joseph Élie's younger son Éloi, fils married Marie Coralie, called Coralie, daughter of fellow Acadians Laurent Daigre and Céleste Trahan, at the St. Gabriel church in January 1849.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Octave in October 1849; Marie Adèle in October 1851 but died the following April; Gustave born in April 1853; Victoria Eve in March 1854; and Marie Augusta in April 1855 but died at age 1 1/2 in August 1856--five children, two sons and three daughters, between 1849 and 1855.  None of Éloi, fils's children married by 1870. 

Paul, fils's fourth and youngest son Joseph le jeune married Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Allain and Marguerite Babin, at the St. Gabriel church in February 1816.  Did he father any children?  Was he the Joseph Hébert who died near Convent, St. James Parish, in October 1842, age 45?  The priest who recorded the burial did not give any parents' names or mention a wife.  This Joseph would have been age 48. 

Ignace (1724-1783) à Emmanuel à Étienne Hébert

Ignace, fifth and youngest son of Guillaume Hébert and Marie-Josèphe Dupuis and youngest brother of Paul, born at Minas in November 1724, married Marie LeBlanc in c1752 probably at Minas.  She gave Ignace a son, Jean-Baptiste, called Baptiste, born there in c1753.  The British deported them to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  Marie gave Ignace a daughter, Marie, born in the Chesapeake colony in c1762.  Ignace and his two children appeared on a repatriation list at Georgetown on the Eastern Shore in July 1763, so wife Marie likely had died by then, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth.  Ignace and his children emigrated to Louisiana in 1767 and settled at San Gabriel.  At age 49, he remarried to Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Babin and Marie Landry and widow of Joseph Babin, at San Gabriel in January 1773.  She gave him no more children.  Ignace died at San Gabriel in November 1783.  The priest who recorded the burial said Ignace was "age 55 years" when he died.  He was 59.  Neither his son nor his daughter married, so his line of the family died with him. 

Only son Jean-Baptiste, by first wife Marie LeBlanc, followed his parents to Maryland and his father and younger sister to New Orleans and San Gabriel.  When Spanish officials counted Jean-Baptiste at San Gabriel in March 1777 with his father and stepmother, the census taker noted that Jean-Baptiste was age 18, but he probably was 23.  Jean-Baptiste may have devoted his life to taking care of his elderly father and stepmother.  He did not marry.  

Charles (1752-?) à Jacques à Emmanuel à Étienne Hébert

Charles, third and youngest son of Amand Hébert and Geneviève Babin, born at Grand-Pré in c1752, was taken by his family to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  He was listed on a repatriation list with his parents and sisters--Josèphe, Geneviève, and Marguerite--at Newtown on Maryland's Eastern Shore in July 1763.  Now in his mid-teens, he followed his family to Louisiana in 1767.  His father died on the voyage from Baltimore to New Orleans.  Charles may not have married, and the fate of his older brothers René and Joseph are lost to history, so his family line, except perhaps for its blood (his three sisters married), may have died with him. 

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The arrival date of an Hébert who settled on the river during the 1770s is difficult to determine.  Evidently no new lasting family lines came of it:

Prosper-Sébastien (c1749-1780s) à Joseph à Jean le jeune à Antoine Hébert

Prosper-Sébastien, called Sébastien, Jacques-Prosper, and Prosper, younger son of Pierre Hébert and his first wife Isabelle Cormier, born probably at Chignecto in c1749, followed his family into exile on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore and into a prison compound in Nova Scotia.  Still in his teens, he may have followed other exiles from Halifax to Louisiana via Cap-Français in 1765.  If so, he likely would have settled in the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans, but Louisiana records do not reveal his presence in the Spanish colony until April 1773, when he married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Dupuis and Anne Richard, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer church; their marriage also was recorded at nearby Ascension in May 1773.  Their children, born on the river, included Joseph in April 1774; Anne in December 1775; Pierre-Paul, also called Pierre-Prosper, baptized, age unrecorded, in July 1777; Michel-Cyprien baptized, age unrecorded, in September 1779; Anne-Henriette, called Henriette, born in September 1781; Jacques-Firmin in March 1783 but died at age 29 in January 1813; and Jacques-Prosper, also called Michel, born in the early 1780s--seven children, five sons and two daughters, between 1774 and the early 1780s.  In April 1777, Prosper and Marie held seven arpents on the left, or east, bank of the river at Ascension and owned a single slave, but they had no children, so their oldest children must have died in childhood.  Prosper died by January 1787, when his wife remarried at San Gabriel just upriver from Ascension.  Her and Prosper's remaining daughter Henriette married an Hébert cousin.  Three of their sons also married, but, except for the blood, all of their lines seem to have died out after the third generation in Louisiana. 

Second son Pierre Paul, also called Pierre Prosper, married Constance, daughter of Charles Robeau and Catherine Novack and widow of Pierre Duplessis, at Ascension in November 1806.  Their daughter Marie Reine was born there in November 1809.  Pierre, called Pierre Prosper by the recording priest, died in Ascension Parish in March 1830, age 53.  Daughter Marie married into the Cambre and Fitzgerald families.  Evidently Pierre and his wife had no sons, at least none who appear in local church records, so this line of the family, except perhaps for its blood, may not have endured. 

Prosper-Sébastien's third son Michel-Cyprien married Madeleine-Anastasie, called Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Firmin Babin and Bibianne Breaux, at Ascension in February 1799.  They settled in the "Island District."  Their children, born on the river, included Rosalie-Henriette in September 1801; Felonie or Phelonise in April 1805; Hippolyte Prosper in January 1807 but died at age 6 in February 1813; Marie Eugénie born in May 1810; and Domitille Henriette in July 1817 but died at age 13 1/2 in November 1831--five children, four daughters and a son, between 1801 and 1817.  Daughters Marie Eugénie and Phelonise married into the Henderson and Hébert families.  Michel Cyprien evidently fathered only one son, who died young, so this line of the family, except perhaps for its blood, did not endure. 

Prosper-Sébastien's fifth and youngest son Jacques-Prosper, also called Michel, married Marie-Victoire, called Victoire, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Breaux and Marie-Perpétué Landry, at San Gabriel in February 1802.  Their children, born at nearby Ascension, included Joseph-Michel in March 1803; Jacques Marcellin in October 1807 but died at age 4 in October 1811; and Joséphine born in December 1810 but died at age 19 (the recording priest said 18) in April 1830--three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1803 and 1810.   Jacques Prosper's daughter did not marry, but his remaining son did.  His family line, however, did not endure. 

Older son Joseph Michel married Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Landry and Renée Godin, at the St. Gabriel church in August 1831.  Joseph died near St. Gabriel in July 1833, age 30 (the recording priest said 31).  His line of the family probably died with him. 

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In 1785, at least 106 Héberts came to Louisiana from France aboard every one of the Seven Ships.  There were more Héberts on the passenger rolls of those ships, in fact, than any other family.  These were Héberts from Pigiguit, Cobeguit, and Île St.-Jean who the British had deported from the Maritime islands directly to France in 1758-59; also Héberts from Minas who the British had exiled to Virginia in the fall of 1755, had deported to England the following spring, and repatriated to France in the spring of 1763.  After enduring the indignities of life in the mother country for a quarter of a century, they took up the Spanish government's offer to start a new life in their Mississippi valley colony. 

The first of them--a family led by an elderly father, a middle-aged widower and his family, and four wives and their families, 10 Héberts in all--crossed on Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in late July 1785.  They followed their fellow passengers to Manchac on the river below Baton Rouge and above San Gabriel, but no new Hébert family line came of it.  The elderly father's surviving son crossed on a later ship, and he, too, settled in the Baton Rouge area, but, again, no new family line emerged: 

François (c1714-1787) à Jean le jeune à Antoine Hébert

François, sixth son of Jean Hébert, fils by his first wife Marie-Marguerite Landry, born probably at Cobeguit in c1714, married Isabelle Bourg in c1738 probably at Cobeguit.  Isabelle gave François seven children there:  Olivier born in c1739; Françoise in c1741; Ursule in c1742; Joseph in c1744; François-Xavier in c1745; Tarsille in c1747; and Marin in c1749.  In c1751, they followed his older brother Ambroise to Pointe-à-la-Jeunesse in the interior of Île Royale, where Isabelle gave François three more children:  Isabelle born in c1751 or 1752; Isaac in c1755; and Derial in c1755--10 children, five sons and five daughters, between 1739 and 1755.  In March 1752, a French official counted François--he called him an Ébert and a ploughman--Isabelle, and eight children, the youngest one, daughter Isabelle, still unnamed, at Pointe-à-la-Jeunesse.  The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Isabelle, who gave birth to their eleventh child on the voyage, along with their four youngest children--Isabelle, age 7 or 8; Isaac, age 4; Derial, age 3; and the unnamed newborn--died on the crossing.  Two other children--François-Xavier, age 14; and Olivier, age 20--died in February and December 1759 probably from the rigors of the crossing.  François took his surviving children--Françoise, age 18; Ursule, age 17; Joseph, age 15; Tarsille, 12; and Marin, age 10--to Pleslin on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo, where he worked as a carpenter.  Son Marin died at Pleslin in June 1763, age 14.  Daughter Ursule married into the Doiron family there in January 1763, and François's remaining son Joseph also married in the St.-Malo area.  François took his family to the interior of Poitou in 1773.  After two years of effort, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes.  Daughter Tarsille married into the LeBlanc family at nearby Chantenay in April 1782.  In 1785, François, still an unmarried widower and in his early 70s, and his three married children emigrated to Louisiana on two of the Seven Ships.  Oldest daughter Françoise, who, if she were still living, would have been age 44 in 1785, did not accompany her family to the Spanish colony.  From New Orleans, François and his daughters followed their fellow passengers to Manchac.  François died there in May 1787, age 75.  His son and his family crossed on a later ship and followed their fellow passengers to Bayou des Écores north of Baton Rouge, but the line did not endure. 

Second son Joseph followed his family to Île Royale and St.-Malo and settled with his widowered father and siblings at Pleslin.  After June 1763, when he was age 19, he was his father's only surviving son.  Joseph, at age 20, married Marie-Madeleine, 23-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Aucoin and Anne Trahan of Rivière-aux-Canards, Minas, at nearby Plouër-sur-Rance in March 1764.  She gave him a large family there and in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer:  Marguerite-Anastasie born at Plouër in December 1765; Marie-Madeleine at St.-Servan in August 1767; Félix-Augustin at Plouër in January 1770 but died at nearby Metterie Pommerais 13 days after his birth; Victoire-Geneviève born in April 1771; Josèphe-Madeleine, in November 1772; Charles-Adrien in December 1774; Julienne-Madeleine in March 1776 but died at age 1 at La Bouillie near Plouër in March 1777; and Françoise-Anne born in February 1778 but died at age 1 1/2 at nearby Port St.-Hubert in October 1779--eight children, six daughters and two sons, between 1765 and 1779.  As the birth dates of his youngest children reveal, Joseph and Marie-Madeleine did not follow his father and sisters to Poitou in the early 1770s or join them and their fellow exiles at Nantes later in the decade.  They remained at Plouër.  In 1785, Joseph, Marie-Madeleine, and two of their daughters, Marie-Madeleine and Victoire-Geneviève, ages 17 and 14, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana aboard La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships, which sailed for New Orleans from St.-Malo.  Three of their other children--Marguerite-Anastasie, Josèphe-Madeleine, and Charles-Adrien--who would have been ages 20, 13, and 11 in 1785, if they were still living, chose to remain in the mother country.  One suspects that the two younger ones were dead when their parents and sisters sailed to the Spanish colony.  From New Orleans, Joseph and his family followed their fellow passengers to the new Acadian community of Bayou des Écores in the New Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge.  One wonders if either of Joseph's daughters married in Louisiana, of if they survived the crossing.  Since none of his sons followed him to the Spanish colony, and Joseph and Marie-Madeleine had no more children there, this line of the family did not take root in the Bayou State. 

Amable (c1742-1816) à Jean à Étienne Hébert

Amable, fourth and youngest son of Jean Hébert, fils by his first wife Marguerite Trahan, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1742, was deported with his family to Virginia in the fall of 1755 and sent on to England with them the following spring.  At age 19, he married Marie-Anne, 20-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Richard and Marie-Josèphe LeBlanc of Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, at Liverpool in c1761.  Marie-Anne gave Amable a daughter, Élisabeth, born there in c1762.  In the spring of 1763, they followed his family and other repatriated Acadians from England to Morlaix, France.  Amable worked as a carpenter in the northwest Breton port.  Marie-Anne gave him two more daughters there:  Marie-Modeste born in St.-Mathieu Parish in January 1764; and Brigitte-Josèphe in St.-Mélaine Parish in September 1765.  Meanwhile, in June 1764, daughter Élisabeth died in St.-Mathieu Parish, age 1 1/2.  In late 1765, Amable and his family followed his father and stepmother, along with many others Acadians from England, to Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany and settled at Locmaria on the south end of the island and then at Sauzon on the north end.  Marie-Anne gave Amable more children on the island:  Marie-Geneviève, called Geneviève, born in February 1768 near Locmaria; Élisabeth, the second with the name, in May 1770 near Sauzon; and Louis-David in March 1772.  Amable and his family did not remain on Belle-Île-en-Mer.  In 1773, probably after his father's death, French officials counted Amable and his family at Quimper on the southern Breton coast.  Son Louis-David died in St.-Mathieu Parish, Quimper, in March 1774, age 2.  Later in the year, Amable and his famliy followed other exiles in the port cities to the interior of Poitou, where they worked the land of an influential nobleman near Châtellerault.  In March 1776, after two years of effort, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes.  Marie-Anne gave Amable three more children in the lower Loire port:  André born in c1776; Marie-Jeanne at nearby Chantenay in March 1778 but died the following July; and Paul-Pierre born in May 1780 but died the following October--nine children, six daughters and three sons, between 1762 and 1780, in England and France, most of whom died young.  Wife Marie-Anne died at Chantenay in May 1780, age 38, probably from the rigors of childbirth.  Second daughter Brigitte-Josèphe married into the LeBlanc family at Nantes.  In 1785, Amable, five of his children, a son and four daughters, one of them recently married, and his widowed stepmother Esther Courtenay emigrated to Louisiana on the first of the Seven Ships.  They followed their fellow passengers to Manchac but moved on to upper Bayou Lafourche later in the decade before returning to Manchac.  Amable did not remarry.  He died probably at Manchac in January 1816.  The St. Gabriel priest who recorded the burial said that Amable was age 80 when he died.  He probably was closer to 74.  Daughters Brigitte-Josèphe, Marie-Modeste, and Élisabeth married into the LeBlanc, Landry, and Duplantre or Duplan families in France and at Manchac.  They settled on the river before moving to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Amable's remaining son survived childhood but did not marry, so, except perhaps for its blood, this family line did not endure in the Bayou State.  

Second son André, age 9, followed his widowered father, step-grandmother, and four sisters to New Orleans and Manchac.  In the late 1780s or early 1790s, he followed them to upper Bayou Lafourche.  André was still living with his father and an older, unmarried sister on the upper Lafourche in April 1797, age 20.  He probably did not marry.  

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Twenty-one more Héberts--five families, one of them led by an aging widower and three by widows--crossed on La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in mid-August 1785.  The majority of the passengers, including most of the Héberts, chose to settle on upper Bayou Lafourche, but one Hébert family, led by one of the widows, settled near cousins on the western prairies.  Seven new family lines came of it, most on the upper Lafourche, which became a third center of Hébert family settlement: 

Charles (c1722-?) à Emmanuel à Étienne Hébert

Charles, fourth son of Guillaume Hébert and Marie-Josèphe Dupuis and brother of Paul and Ignace of Maryland and San Gabriel, born at Minas in c1722, married Élisabeth, daughter of Pierre LeBlanc and Jeanne Thériot, at Grand-Pré in August 1748.  She gave him two daughters there:  Marie-Josèphe born in c1749; and Marie-Yvette in c1752.  The British deported the family not to Maryland, where his older brothers went, but to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  They were held at Southampton, from which they were repatriated to St.-Malo, France, in the spring of 1763.  Their daughters married into the Landry and Henry families in France and became widows there.  The family may have followed other Acadians to Poitou in the early 1770s.  They certainly joined them at Nantes by the early 1780s.  Wife Élisabeth died in St.-Jacques Parish, Nantes, in February 1784, age 63.  The following year, Charles, now in his early 60s, with his younger widowed daughter Marie-Yvette and a Henry grandson, emigrated to Louisiana.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Charles did not remarry, nor did daughter Marie-Yvette.  His older daughter Marie-Josèphe, who would have been a 36-year-old widow in 1785, did not follow her father and sister to the Spanish colony, but her Landry son, Pierre-Joseph, age 15, did follow his relatives there and became an artist and a successful planter in what became Iberville Parish. 

Isaac (c1750-1822) à Jean, fils à Jean le jeune à Antoine Hébert

Isaac, fourth and youngest son of Ambroise Hébert by his first wife Marie-Madeleine Bourg, born probably at Cobeguit in c1750, was taken by his family to Pointe-à-la-Jeunesse, Île Royale, as an infant and followed them to St.-Malo, France, in 1758-59.  He lived with them at Pleslin on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo from 1759 to 1768, when, with other young Acadian exiles, he began his studies for the priesthood under Abbé Jean-Louis Le Loutre at Nantes on the other side of Brittany.  His studies ended after the death of the abbé at Nantes in September 1772, when Isaac was in his early 20s.  He evidently returned to his family at Pleslin, followed them to Poitou in 1773, and retreated with them to Nantes in December 1775.  In July 1780, at age 30, he married Marie-Marguerite, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Eustache Daigre and Madeleine Dupuis of Minas, in St.-Nicolas Parish, Nantes.  Marie-Marguerite, a native of Southampton, England, had been repatriated with her family to St.-Malo in the spring of 1763 and lived with them at Plouër-sur-Rance, near Pleslin, before following them to Poitou and Nantes.  She gave Isaac three children in St.-Nicolas Parish there:  Remig or Rémi born in January 1782; Marie-Marguerite in June 1783 but died at age 1 in May 1784; and Reine-Eulalie born in May 1785.  Only a week and a half after the birth of their second daughter, the family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Isaac's older brothers sailed on a later vessel and joined him there.  Marie-Margueriite gave Isaac more children on the upper Lafourche, including Timothée, also called Mathéo, baptized, age unrecorded, in March 1788; Scholastique born in May 1790; Marie-Françoise in March 1793; Edwige or Hedwige in December 1795; Cromace, Crama, Cramas, or Cronias baptized, age unrecorded, in August 1797; twins Isaac-Joseph, also called Jacques, and Rosalie-Adélaïde born in November 1800; and Mélanie-Madeleine in November 1802--11 children, four sons and seven daughters, including a set of twins, between 1782 and 1802, in France and Louisiana.  Isaac died in Assumption Parish in April 1822, in his late 60s or early 70s.  Daughters Reine Eulalie, Scholastique, Edwige, Mélanie, and Rosalie married into the Doiron, Landry, Aucoin, Cedotal, Potier, and Barrilleaux families on the upper Lafourche.  Isaac's four sons also married.  One settled on the river, the others on the upper bayou.  Not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Rémi, also called Henry and René, followed his family to New Orleans and the upper Lafourche, where he married Renée- or Irène Élisabeth, called Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Guidry and Madeleine Comeaux, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in April 1808.  Renée, a native of Paimboeuf, the lower port of Nantes, came to Louisiana in 1785 as an infant aboard a later vessel.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Rosalie Aglaé, called Aglaé, in June 1808; Jean Baptiste Zénon in March 1810; Adèle Locorrica in July 1812 but died at age 4 in July 1816; Élise Lucie or Lucille born in September 1814; Valéry Leufroi in February 1817 but, called Lifroy Valère, died at age 16 (the recording priest said 18) in November 1833; François Arsène, called Arsène, born in February 1820; Lezin Augustin, also called Augustin and Auguste, in February 1823 but died the following September; Charles Théodore, called Théodore, born in November 1824; and Marie in c1826 or 1827--nine children, four daughters and five sons, between 1808 and the late 1820s.  Rémi evidently died near Brusly, West Baton Rouge Parish, in January 1852.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Rémi died at "age 66 yrs."  This Rémi would have been age 70.  If this was him, one wonders what he was doing in West Baton Rouge Parish at the time of his death.  Daughters Rosalie Aglaé, Élise Lucie, and Marie married into the Berthelot, MazerolleTheriot, and Simoneaux families, one of them, Aglaé, twice.  Two of René's remaining sons also married and settled on the Lafourche. 

Third son François Arsène, called Arsène, married cousin Henriette or Henrietta, daughter of Romain Friou and his Acadian wife Pélagie Dugas, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1842; they had to secure a dispensation for fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche and on the shores of nearby Lake Verret, included Henry Séverin in December 1842; Marie Avelina in November 1845 but died near Paincourtville the following January; Marie Alzina or Alsina, called Alsina, born in November 1846; Joseph Bienvenu in March 1849; Joseph Narcisse in January 1852; Marguerite Émilie in May 1854; Aimé, perhaps a son, in c1855 but died at age 10 in June 1865; Joseph Lazare born in July 1857; Cyprien Jean Baptiste near Pierre Part north of Lake Verret in January 1862; ...  Daughter Alsina married into the Grandin family by 1870.  None of Arsène's sons married by then. 

Rémi's fifth and youngest son Charles Théodore, called Théodore, married Joséphine, daughter of Joseph Grandin or Grandet and Françoise Léonard, at the Paincourtville church in May 1856.  They settled near Pierre Part.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Léonard in July 1857; and Marie Egladie in December 1858.  Did they have anymore children?   

Isaac's second son Timothée, also called Mathéo, married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Comeaux and Anne Landry and widow of Jean Malbrough, at the Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, in January 1809.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Joseph Léon  in June 1810; Venance or Venant Lubin in October 1812; Clémence in September 1814; Marguerite in the 1810s; Maurice Gédéon, called Gédéon, in January 1817; Marie Urma in November 1818; Mélanie Eulalie in January 1821; and Adèle Etelvina or Malvina Euphémie, called Malvina, in January 1823--eight children, three sons and five daughters, between 1810 and 1823.  Timothée died in Assumption Parish in October 1843.  The Plattenville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Timothée died at "age 57 yrs."  He was 55 or 56.  Daughters Marguerite, Clémence, Mélanie, and Malvina married into the Aucoin, Dugas, Melançon, and Guillot families.  Two of Timothée's sons also married. 

Second son Venance or Venant Lubin married Harriet Honorine, called Honorine, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Dugas and his Creole wife Constance Simoneaux, at the Plattenville church in February 1839.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Élisabeth in c1839 but died at age 16 in October 1855; Malvina Juliènne, called Juliènne, born in February 1840; Timothée le jeune in April 1841; twins Élisabeth Harriet and Marie Honorine in November 1844, but Marie Honorine, called Marie, died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 2) in September 1846; Jean-Baptiste born in the 1840s; twins Alice and Alexandre Ailesse or Elesse Didier, called Elesse, in December 1847; and Anastasie Cécile in November 1850.  Venant, at age 45, remarried to Eglantine, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Landry and Carmélite Aucoin, at the Paincourtville church in July 1857.  Daughter Eléonore Adélaïde was born near Paincourtville the following December--10 children, seven daughters and three sons, including two sets of twins, by two wives, between 1839 and 1857.  Daughters Juliènne and Alice, by his first wife, married into the Chadeffaud and Hébert families by 1870.  Two of Venant's sons also married by then.

Second son Jean Baptiste, by first wife Honorine Dugas, married cousin Élodie, daughter of Emérant Simoneaux and his Acadian wife Élisabeth Landry, at the Paincourtville church in January 1860; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born near Paincourtville, included Honorine Odalie in December 1860 but, called Odalie, died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 2) in October 1862; Henri born in November 1862; Thomas Green in October 1866; Marie Loyna baptized, age unrecorded, in September 1868; Philomène Élodie born in July 1870; ...

Venant's third son Elesse, a twin, by first wife Honorine Dugas, married Rosalie, daughter of Francis Alleman and H. E. Rivera, at the Pierre Part church, Assumption Parish, in October 1870. ...

Timothée's third and youngest son Maurice Gédéon, called Gédéon, married Céleste, also called Aglaé, daughter of fellow Acadians Maxille Landry and Eugénie Landry, at the Plattenville church in May 1844.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Emma, called Emma, in February 1845; Égladie Rosalie in December 1846; Thimothée Gervais, called Gervais, in July 1849; Léon Monléon in December 1851; Marguerite Cléontine in September 1854; Maurice Edgard in December 1860; ...  Daughters Egladie and Emma married into the Joly and Landry families by 1870.  One of Gédéon's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Gervais married cousin Ociana, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Landry and Marie Delphine Gravois, at the Paincourtville church in September 1870. ...

Isaac's third son Cromace, Crama, Cramas, or Cronias married cousin Marguerite Uranie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Doiron and Angèle Hébert of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in February 1831.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marguerite Angéline or Angelina in March 1833; Jean Baptiste Oscar in January 1835; Joseph Prudent in March 1836; Marguerite Élina in April 1838; and Charles Cromass or Cromace near Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, in October 1839.  Cromace remarried to cousin Hortense, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Babin and Marie Hébert, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in August 1842.  Their children, born near Brusly, included Marie Odile, called Odile, in August 1843; and Azélie or Azélia in October 1847--seven children, four daughters and three sons, by two wives, between 1833 to 1847.  Cromace died near Brusly in October 1858.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Cromas, as he called him, died at "age 62 years."  Cromace was 61.  Daughters Marguerite Angelina, Marie Odile, and Azélia, by both wives, married into the Lopez, Buquoi, and Templet families, two of them, Marie Odile and Azélia, to Templets and one of them, Marie Odile, married twice, by 1870.  One of Cromace's sons also married by then.

Third and youngest son Charles Cromace, by first wife Marguerite Uranie Doiron, married Olesida, daughter of fellow Acadians Marcellin Templet and Clémentine Guidry, at the Brusly church in September 1866.  Daughter Blanche Agnès was born near Brusly in April 1869; ...

Isaac's fourth and youngest son Isaac Joseph, also called Jacques, a twin, married Henriette, daughter of Jean Malbrough and his Acadian wife Rosalie Comeaux, at the Plattenville church in February 1829.  Son Louis Valère or Valéry was baptized at age 10 days on Christmas Day 1829 but died the following January at age 27 days.  Isaac Joseph, at age 56, remarried to Marie Eléonore, daughter of Pierre Escureix and his Acadian wife Marie Fideline Blanchard, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in May 1857.  Did they have any children.  Isaac Joseph's family line evidently did not endure. 

Pierre-Michel (1766-1845) ? Hébert

Pierre-Michel, oldest son of Jean-Baptiste Hébert and Marie-Madeleine Dugas, born at St.-Coulomb near St.-Malo, France, in April 1766, followed his family to St.-Servan-sur-Mer, Poitou, and Nantes and his widowed mother and siblings to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche, where, at age 25, he married Élisabeth- or Isabelle-Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Mazerolle and his first wife Marguerite Trahan, in September 1791.  Élisabeth-Marie, a native of St.-Servan-sur-Mer, not far from St.-Coulomb, also had come to Louisiana aboard La Bergère.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Alexandre in June 1792; Émelie-Marie in June 1795; Anne-Marguerite in June 1796; Cléonise-Marie in October 1798; Isaac in December 1800; Marie-Cécile, called Célesie, in May 1803; Élise Marie or Marie Élise in August 1805; Claude Élie, called Élie, in February 1808; Adélaïde in November 1810; and Zélie Marcellite in April 1813--10 children, three sons and seven daughters, between 1792 and 1813.  Pierre Michel may have died in Assumption Parish in May 1845.  The Plattenville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Pierre died at "age 80 yrs."  This Pierre would have been age 79, so this likely was him.  Daughters Émelie, Anne, Cléonise, Célesie, and Marie Élise married into the Campo, Landry, Giroir, Guillot, Comeaux, and Daigle families.  Pierre Michel's three sons also married, two of them to sisters.

Oldest son Alexandre married Marie Scholastique, called Scholastique and Colastie, daughter of fellow Acadians François Giroir and Madeleine Françoise LeBlanc, at the Plattenville church in February 1816.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included twins Auguste Alexandre and Florentin in December 1816, but Auguste Alexandre died five days after his birth; Julie Alexandrine or Alexandrine Julie born in October 1818; Jean Baptiste Alexandre in October 1820; Joseph Théodule in March 1823; Angéline or Angelina Azélie in February 1825; Léon Gédéon in February 1827; Zéolide Arseline in November 1829; Marie Tharsile in December 1831; Octave Ursin in November 1833; Élisa Jeanne in May 1836; and Marcelline Élisabeth in January 1839--a dozen children, six sons and six daughters, including a set of twins, between 1816 and 1839.  Alexandre may have died in Assumption Parish in October 1867.  The Plattenville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Alexandre died at "age 'Septantecing yrs.," which, the printed record of the burial notes, "probably means 70 years."  This Alexandre would have been age 75, so perhaps the priest meant to say that Alexandre was in his 70s when he died.  Daughters Alexandrine Julie, Angelina, Marcelline, Marie, and Élisa married into the Simoneaux, Giroir, Landry, and Dupuis families, including two Simoneaux cousins, by 1870.  Five of Alexandre's sons also married by then, two of them to sisters. 

Second son Florentin, a twin, married first cousin Joséphine Célestine, daughter of Auguste Campo and his Acadian wife Émelie Hébert, his uncle and aunt, at the Plattenville church in December 1842; they likely had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Pierre Gustave or Augustave, called Augustave and Gustave, in November 1844; Joseph Evariste in November 1846; Luise in December 1849; Marie Émelie in January 1853; Ulger Aimar in March 1856; Marie in August 1858; and Joseph Séverin in October 1862; ...  Florentin's daughters did not marry by 1870, but one of his sons did.

Oldest son Augustave, also called Gustave, married cousin Clémentine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Hébert and Françoise Landry, at the Plattenville church in February 1868.  Their children, born near Pierre Part on the north shore of Lake Verret, included Marie Alice in February 1869; Marie Emma in December 1870; ...

Alexander's third son Jean Baptiste Alexandre married Alexandrine, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Arceneaux and Marie Aimée Blanchard, at the Plattenville church in January 1845.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Élodie Ernestine, called Élodie, in January 1846; Marie Gracieuse, called Gracieuse, in late 1847 and baptized at age 2 months in January 1848; and Marie Azéma, called Azéma, born in February 1850.  Jean Baptiste remarried to cousin Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Grégoire Aucoin and Clarisse Hébert, at the Plattenville church in September 1852; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Émelie Noémi in January 1854; Léonidas Villier Pierre in April 1858; Bernard Alexandre in July 1860; Gédéon in November 1862; Léonida Agnès in October 1865; Christophe Arseman[sic] in July 1870; ...  Daughters Élodie, Gracieuse, and Azéma, by his first wife, married into the Blanchard, Hébert, and Aucoin families by 1870.  None of Jean Baptiste Alexandre's sons married by then. 

Alexandre's fourth son Joseph Théodule married Marie, Marine, or Marina, another daughter of Alexandre Arceneaux and Marie Aimée Blanchard, at the Plattenville church in May 1848.  Joseph Théodule worked as a storekeeper at Paincourtville.  His and Marine's children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Célestin Théophile, called Théophile, in April 1849; Alcide in April 1851; Pierre Léonidas, called Léonidas, in January 1853; Appolina dite Lumina Madeleine in January 1855; Séverin Aubin in March 1857 but, called Séverin, died the following August; Alice Olésille born in August 1858; Elphége Anatole in November 1860; Marie Angelina in May 1863; Ema Roseline in September 1865; Ignace Joseph in February 1868; Théophile Jean Edmond in March 1870; ...  None of Joseph Théodule's children married by 1870. 

Alexandre's fifth son Léon Gédéon married Armalise, Armélise, or Armélize, daughter of Arieux, also called Hippolyte, Simoneaux and his Acadian wife Célesie Robichaux, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in July 1850.  Their chldren, born on the upper Lafourche, included Joseph Cléopha in September 1851; Quintin in October 1853; Marie Élisabeth in May 1855 but died at age 1 1/2 in February 1857; Louise Armélise born in April 1856 but died in early May; Zélume Colle born in March 1858; Marie Olfida in August 1859; Camille Auguste in June 1862; Jean Baptiste Édouard in November 1865; Éloi Alexandre in December 1867; ...  None of Léon Gédéon's children married by 1870. 

Alexandre's sixth and youngest son Octave Ursin married first cousin Élisa Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Isaac Hébert and Marine Landry, his uncle and aunt, at the Plattenville church in January 1857; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Xavier Aubert in November 1857; Léonard Achille in November 1859; Louisiana Cécilia in April 1862 but, called Louisiana, died at age 6 1/2 in August 1868; Ignace J., probably Jean, Baptiste born in February 1867; Jules Joseph in June 1869; ...

Pierre Michel's second son Isaac married cousin Marie, Marine, or Marian, daughter of fellow Acadians Grégoire Landry and Françoise Hébert, at the Plattenville church in April 1822.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Alexandre Fostin in February 1823; Honoré in November 1825; Mélanie Élise in August 1827; Azélie Veturi in June 1829; Arsène Lazare in January 1832; Marie Roséma Juliènne, called Roséma, in February 1834; Félicité Célesie, called Célesie, in April 1836; Élise or Élisa Françoise in July 1838; and Élodie Clémentine in February 1841--nine children, three sons and six daughters, between 1823 and 1841.  Daughters Mélanie, Azélie Veturi, Élisa Françoise, Roséma, and Célesie married into the Theriot, Aucoin, Hébert, Gagnoux, and Duco families, one of them to a first cousin by 1870.  Isaac's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Alexandre Fostin married cousin Marie Élisa, Éliza, Louise, or Louisa, daughter of Julien Hunot or Unot of Paramé, near St.-Malo, France, and his Acadian wife Modeste Landry, at the Plattenville church in December 1846.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Alexandrine Adolphine in September 1847; Élodie Louise, called Louise, in January 1849; twins Damase Bessond and Thomas Désiré in May 1854; Jean Jacques Honete near Labadieville in May 1859; and Marie Odile Éliza in December 1862.  Alexandre Fostin, at age 40, remarried to Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Comeaux and Eulalie Gaudet, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in December 1863.  Daughter Cécilia Elmire was born posthumously in Assumption Parish in January 1868--seven children, four daughters and three sons, including a set of twins, by two wives, between 1847 and 1868.  Alexandre Fostin may have died in Assumption Parish in November 1867.  The Plattenville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Alexandre died at "age 48 years."  Alexandre Fostin would have been age 44.  Daughters Alexandrine and Louise, by his first wife, married into the Marque and Locker families by 1870.  None of Alexandre Fostin's sons married by then. 

Isaac's second son Honoré married first cousin Élizabeth, daughter of Auguste Campo or Campeau and his Acadian wife Émelie Hébert, his uncle and aunt, at the Plattenville church in April 1852; they likely had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Isaac Oscar in July 1853; Pierre Maurice in January 1855; Edgard Augustin in October 1857; Ernest Prosper in November 1859; Louise Marine Ernestine in June 1863; Éloise Émelie Honorine in August 1865; Marie Adolphine in October 1867; ...  None of Honoré's children married by 1870. 

Isaac's third and youngest son Arsène Lazare married Adolphine, daughter of Firmin Labiche and his Acadian wife Delphine Louvière, at the Labadieville church in April 1856.  Their son Myrtil was born near Labadieville in May 1862 and may have been the Myrtée Hébert who died near Labadieville in July two months later (the recording priest said "age 4 years"); ... 

Pierre Michel's third and youngest son Claude Élie, called Élie, married cousin Eléocade or Léocade, another daughter of Grégoire Landry and Françoise Hébert, at the Plattenville church in June 1830.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Simon Octave in March 1831; Baptiste in June 1833; Hubert in the early or mid-1830s; Marie in January 1835 but died at age 2 1/2 in September 1837; Damaze or Damase Auguste, also called Augustin Damas, baptized, age unrecorded, in October 1836; Célestine born in November 1838; Françoise Élisabeth in November 1840; Evariste in August 1843; Marguerite Evelina or Evélline, called Evélline, in August 1845; Marie Aselie in January 1848; and twins Félicité Mirthée and Marie Philomène in March 1850, but Félicité Mirthée, called Félicité Marine, died three days after her birth--a dozen children, five sons and seven daughters, including a set of twins, between 1831 and 1850.  Daughters Célestine, Françoise, and Evélline married into the Melini or Meligni, Hébert, and Bourg families by 1870.  Three of Élie's sons also married by then. 

Third son Hubert married cousin Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Hébert and Françoise Landry, at the Paincourtville church in January 1856; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  They settled near Pierre Part on the north shore of Lake Verret.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Édouard in October 1856; Joseph Oscar in July 1858; Marie Mathile in February 1861; Marie Élodie in October 1862; ... 

Élie's fourth son Damase Auguste or Augustin Damas married Helena, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Theriot and his French-Canadian wife Marie Sérafine Caillouet and widow of Félix Dugas, at the Pierre Part church, Assumption Parish, in April 1866. ...

Élie's fifth and youngest son Evariste married cousin Gracieuse, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Alexandre Hébert, his first cousin, and Alexandrine Arceneaux, at the Labadieville church in May 1868; they had to secure a dispensation for [third] degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their son Omer Alexandre was born near Plattenville in September 1870; ...

Joseph-Servan dit Joson (1770-1843) ? Hébert

Joseph-Servan dit Joson, second son of Jean-Baptiste Hébert and Marie-Madeleine Dugas and brother of Pierre-Michel, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo, France, in May 1770, followed his family to Poitou and Nantes and his widowed mother and siblings to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche, where, at age 23, he married Marie-Madeleine-Adélaïde, 23-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Landry and Marthe LeBlanc, at Assumption in September 1793.  Marie, also a native of St.-Servan, had come to Louisiana aboard La Bergère, so they may have known one another since childhood.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Joseph-Édouard, called Édouard, in June 1794; Clémence or Clémentine in June 1796; Henriette in August 1798; Lazare in February 1800; Octave in February 1803 but died at age 23 in May 1826; Félix born in January 1806; Marcellite Adélaïde or Adélaïde Marcellite, in September 1808; and Evariste in October 1811--eight children, five sons and three daughters, between 1794 and 1811.  Joson died in Assumption Parish in December 1843.  The Plattenville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Joson, as he called him, died at "age ca. 63 yrs."  He was 73.  Daughters Clémentine, Henriette, and Adélaïde Marcellite married into the Beauvais, Comeaux, and Blanchard families.  Four of Joson's sons also married, two of them to sisters, but not all of the lines endured.

Oldest son Joseph-Édouard, called Édouard, married Eléonore dite Léonore, daughter of fellow Acadians François Girouard and Madeleine LeBlanc, at the Plattenville church in February 1819.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Louise Aglaé, perhaps also called Élisa or Éliza, in December 1820; Joseph André, called André, in November 1822; Eulalie Octavie, called Octavie, in December 1824; Marie Delvina baptized at the Plattenville church, age unrecorded, in November 1826; Augustin or Auguste born in March 1828; Antoinette Félicité in September 1830; Apollonie Laurence, perhaps also called Joséphine, in February 1832; Laura Angelina probably in the 1830s; and Marie Aimée, called Aimée, in August 1839--nine children, seven daughters and two sons, between 1820 and 1839.  Édouard Hébert "of Pierre Part" on the north shore of Lake Verret, died in Assumption Parish in February 1864.  The Plattenville priest who recorded the burial did not give any parents' names, mention a wife, or give the age of the deceased.  This Édouard would have been age 69.  Daughters Éliza, Octavie, Antoinette, Laura Angelina, Joséphine, and Aimée married into the Blanchard, Comeaux, Rodriguez, Babin, Breaux, and Giroir families, including two Blanchard brothers.  Édouard's two sons also married. 

Older son Joseph André, called André, likely married fellow Acadian Célestine Landry, place and date unrecorded.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche and then near Pierre Part, included Marcellin Augustin Oscar, called Oscar, near Paincourtville in November 1844; Léon in November 1846; Alexandra Amanda, called Amanda, in February 1849; Séverin Eugène in November 1851; Nicolas Amédée in November 1853; Joseph Désiré in May 1856 but, called Désiré, may have died at age 5 1/2 in September 1861; Joseph Ernest born near Pierre Part in January 1859; Marie Feline in February 1861; Marie Odilia in March 1863 but, called Odilia, died at age 1 1/2 in September 1864; ...  Daughter Amanda married into the Vegas family by 1870.  One of André's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Oscar married Julie, daughter of fellow Acadians Drosin Dugas and Clarisse LeBlanc, at the Paincourtville church in January 1868.  Daughter Marie Claire was born near Paincourtville in February 1869; ...

Édouard's younger son Augustin or Auguste married Marcellite or Marcelline, daughter of fellow Acadians Édouard Babin and Mathilde Dugas, at the Paincourtville church in January 1849.  They settled on the upper Lafourche and then near Pierre Part.  Their children, born there, included Marie Anne Velida near Paincourtville in August 1852; Joseph Édouard, called Édouard, in November 1855; Marie Ema in March 1858; Cléophas, perhaps their son, in late 1859 but died at age 14 months in January 1861; Marie Mathile born near Pierre Part in February 1861; ...  None of Augustin's children married by 1870. 

Joson's second son Lazare married double cousin Céleste, also called Thérèse, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Landry and Marguerite Landry, at the Plattenville church in February 1820.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Clémentine in June 1823; a daughter, name unrecorded, died eight days after her birth in September 1825; Pauline Uralie born in June 1827; Marie Félicité or Félicie, called Félicie, in July 1829; Marie Marceline Célestine, called Célestine, in September 1831; Marie died at age 3 days in August 1834; and Marie Aimée, called Aimée, born in January 1842--seven children, all daughters, between 1823 and 1842.  Lazare, at age 56, may have remarried to cousin Pamela, born Nicolas, daughter of fellow Acadians André LeBlanc and Marguerite Landry, at the Paincourtville church in July 1856.  Did she give him anymore children?  Daughters Célestine, Pauline, Félicie, and Aimée, by his first wife, married into the Savoy, Landry, Blanchard, and Guidry families by 1870.  Did Lazare's father any sons? 

Joson's fourth son Félix married double cousin Élise Domitille, another daughter of Jean Landry and Marguerite Landry, at the Plattenville church in February 1837.  One wonders if Élise Domitille died from the rigors of childbirth.  Félix remarried to Laure, daughter of Auguste Chaboiseau and Lucie Toffier, at the Plattenville church in April 1839.  She evidently gave him no children either.  Félix remarried again--his third marriage--to cousin Zéphire, daughter of Pierre Charlet and his Acadian wife Estelle Landry, at the Plattenville church in October 1846.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Félix Joseph in May 1846, five months before his parents' marriage; Arthure in February 1849; and Cécilia Aurelie in March 1851--three children, two sons and a daughter, by his third wife, between 1846 and 1851.  Félix's daughter did not marry by 1870, but one of his sons did. 

Older son Félix Joseph, by third wife Zéphire Charlet, married cousin Joséphine, daughter of Jacques Barthe and his Acadian wife Adélaïde Landry, at the Plattenville church in March 1868.  Maximin, perhaps their son, died near Plattenville at "age a few months" in October 1869; ... 

Joson's fifth and youngest son Evariste evidently married Eulalie Augustine, called Augustine, Labadie, place and date unrecorded, and settled on the Lafourche near the boundary between Assumption and Lafourche Interior parishes.  Their children, born there, included Louis Émile or Émile Louis in November 1841; Félix Oscar or Oscar Félix in January 1843; Pierre Aubert, called Aubert, in April 1844; Théodule Arthur, called Arthur, in September 1845; Numa Marie in March 1847; Rodolphe Evariste in February 1849; Louise Athanaise in November 1851; Marie Amanda in September 1853; Lucien Casimir Jean Baptiste in June 1855; and Émelie Daura in May 1859.  Evariste may have remarried to Rosa Badoin, perhaps Baudoin, place unrecorded, by the early 1860s and settled on the upper Lafourche.  Daughter Marie Eulalie was born near Labadieville in May 1864; ...  Daughter Louise Athanaise, by his first wife, married into the McNeil family by 1870.  Three of Evariste's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Louis Émile or Émile Louis, by first wife Augustine Labadie, married Claire Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Désiré LeBlanc and Egladie Comeaux, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in November 1865. ...

Evariste's second son Félix Oscar or Oscar Félix, by first wife Augustine Labadie, married Isabelle Jeanne, daughter of William Dyer and Elizabeth Kelly, at the Labadieville church in March 1870. ...

Evariste's third son Pierre Aubert, called Aubert, from first wife Augustine Labadie, married Léontine, daughter of Jean Webre and Doralise Deslattes, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Parish, in February 1866.  They lived on the upper bayou near the boundary between Lafourche and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Pierre Aubert, fils in January 1867; Jules Evariste in January 1870; ... 

Prosper-François (1779-1813) ? Hébert

Prosper-François, called François, third son of Jean-Baptiste Hébert and Marie-Madeleine Dugas and brother of Pierre-Michel and Joson, born in St.-Similien Parish, Nantes, France, in December 1779, followed his widowed mother and siblings to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche in 1785.  At age 21, he married Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadians Mathurin LeBlanc and Rosalie Thériot, at Assumption on the upper bayou in July 1801.  Céleste was a native of Louisiana whose parents had come to the colony from Halifax in 1765.  Prosper François and Céleste's children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Clarisse in March 1802; Silésie in January 1804; François Duval, called Duval, in January 1805; and François Hubert in February 1808--four children, two daughters and two sons, between 1802 and 1808.  Prosper François died in Assumption Parish in May 1813, age 33.  His succession inventory, naming his wife, was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse, Lafourche Interior Parish, the following August.  Daughters Clarisse and perhaps Silésie married into the Guidry and Falgout families.  Both of Prosper François's sons also married and settled in Terrebonne Parish.

Older son François Duval, called Duval, married Marie Louise, 19-year-old daughter of Louis Chauvin and his Acadian wife Marie Louise Robichaux, at the Thibodauxville church in May 1831.  Their children, born on the Lafourche and in Terrebonne Parish, included Marie Louise, called Louise, in March 1832; François, fils in August 1834; Félix in November 1836 but died probably in Terrebonne Parish by November 1858, when he was not listed as a surviving child in his father's succession inventory; Marie Elmire, called Elmire, born in January 1840; Louis in November 1840; Marie Mirthe or Myrthe, called Myrthe, in January 1843; Célestine in May 1845; Cléophas near Bayou Petit Caillou, Terrebonne Parish, in September 1849; and Marie Florestine in September 1852--nine children, five daughters and four sons, between 1832 and 1852.  François Duval died in Terrebonne Parish in October 1858, age 53.  His succession inventory, calling him Duval, naming his wife, and listing his remaining children--François, Louise, Elvaire (Elmire), Myrthe, Louis, Célestine, and Cléophas--was filed at the Houma courthouse in November 1858.  Daughters Louise, Elmire, Célestine, and Myrthe married into the Sevin, Naquin, and Chauvin families, including two Chauvins, by 1870.  Two of Duval's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son François, fils married cousin Hennely, Émelée, or Ameley, daughter of Adolphe Chauvin and Eugénie Montet, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in December 1854, and sanctified the marriage at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in January 1855; Hennely's brother Adolphe, Jr. later married François, fils's younger sister Célestine.  François, fils and Hennely's children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Albert in August 1856; Marie Eve in May 1859; Adam Oliva in May 1861; Marie Olivia in August 1863; Eugénie Marie in December 1866; François Aldon near Montegut in September 1868; ... 

Duval's third son Louis married Marie Octavie or Octavie Marie, daughter of Pierre Joseph Toups and Mélasie Duplantis of Terrebonne Parish, at the Houma church in January 1862.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Joseph Myrtille in January 1863; Louis Lovenci near Montegut in February 1865; George Evins in October 1866; Jean Aurelien in November 1868; William Ludovic in November 1870; ...

Prosper François's younger son François Hubert married Estelle or Esther, 14-year-old daughter of Léon Falgout and Mélanie Champagne, at the Thibodauxville church in April 1837.  They lived near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Terrebonne parishes.  Their children, born there, included François, fils in August 1838; Jean-Baptiste in the late 1830s or early 1840s; Marie Rosa in September 1840; Jules Alphonse, called Alphonse, in October 1842; Félicie Céleste in January 1845; Marie or Mary Élisa September 1847; Émelie Laura, called Laura, in March 1850; Ernest Albert in June 1858; and Julia Regina in October 1860--nine children, four sons and five daughters, between 1838 and 1860.  François Hubert died in Terrebonne Parish in May 1869.  The Houma priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that François died "at age 60 yrs."  He was 61.  Daughters Marie Rosa, Mary, Félicie, and Laura married into the Scott, Bourgeois, McDonald, and Sevin families by 1870.  Two of François's sons also married by then. 

Second son Jean Baptiste married Zulema or Zulma Mélasie, daughter of Marcellin Sevin and his Acadian wife Carmélite LeBlanc, at the Thibodaux church in February 1862; Jean Baptiste's sister Laura married Zulema's brother Onésippe.  Jean Baptiste and Zulema settled near the boundary between Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes.  Their children, born there, included Félix Émile in February 1863 but died at age 1 1/2 in June 1864; Henri William in February 1865 but, called William, died in Terrebonne Parish at age 2 1/2 (the recording priest said 3) in November 1867; Alexandre Pelham baptized at the Houma church, age unrecorded, in June 1868; Thomas Gibson born in March 1869; ... 

François Hubert's third son Jules Alphonse, called Alphonse, married Louise, daughter of fellow Acadian Simon Pierre LeBlanc and his Creole wife Julie Lause, at the Montegut church, Terrebonne Parish, in January 1866.  Daughter Marie Alice was born near Montegut in December 1868; ...

Étienne (1784-1863) ? Hébert

Étienne, fourth and youngest son of Jean-Baptiste Hébert and Marie-Madeleine Dugas, and brother of Pierre-Michel et al., born posthumously in St.-Similien Parish, Nantes, France, in December 1784, five months after his father's death, was taken by his widowed mother and siblings to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche, where, at age 25, he married Clémence, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Robichaux and Marie Marthe LeBlanc, in a civil ceremony in Interior Parish in September 1809.  The marriage was sanctified at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in April 1811.  Clémence was a native of Louisiana whose parents had come to the colony from Halifax as infants in 1765.  Étienne and Clémence's children, born on the Lafourche, included Onésime or Olésime in April 1811; Evariste in May 1818; Mélanie in February 1820; Adeline Charlotte in February 1822; Narcisse in August 1824; Zélide in June 1826; Eugène in September 1829; and Hippolyte in June 1832--eight children, five sons and three daughters, between 1811 and 1832.  Étienne died near Raceland, Lafourche Parish, in September 1863.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Étienne died "at age 83 yrs."  He was age 79 and one of the last of the Acadian immigrants in Louisiana to join his ancestors.  One wonders if his death was war-related, or if he was just old.  Daughters Zélide, Adeline, and Mélanie married into the Theriot, Autin, and Terrebonne families by 1870.  Three of Étienne's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Onésime or Olésime may have married cousin Marie Elisa Dugas in Lafourche Interior Parish in the 1830s.  Their children, born in Lafourche Interior Parish, included Onésima in October 1837; and Marie Irma in January 1839.  Marie Elisa was listed as deceased in daughter Marie Irma's baptismal records, so she evidently died giving birth.  Onésime may have remarried to Adolphine Leroux, also called Tailier, Toilier, Derouge, and Dereson, place unrecorded, in the early 1840s.  They settled near Raceland on the lower Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Malvina perhaps in the 1840s; Jean Baptiste in January 1850; and Marie Aglaé in February 1852--five children, four daughters and a son, by two wives, between 1837 and 1852.  Daughter Malvina, by his second wife, married into the Calais family by 1870.  Onésime's son, however, did not marry by then. 

Étienne's second son Evariste married Estelle Rosalie, called Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Gaudin and Anne Louvière of St. James Parish, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in May 1838.  Daughter Marie Olésima was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1840.  Evariste remarried to Marie, daughter of Frice or Fine Martin, perhaps a fellow Acadian, at the Thibodaux church in May 1843; oddly, the civil record calls her a Martin, but the church record calls her a Blanchard.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Joséphine in March 1845; Evariste Ozémé, called Ozémé, in December 1847; and Jules in February 1849--four children, two daughters and two sons, by two wives, between 1840 and 1847.  Neither of Evariste's daughters married by 1870, but his sons did.

Older son Evariste Ozémé, called Ozémé, from second wife Marie Martin, married Marie Odile, daughter of Auguste Sanchez and his Acadian wife Marie Adèle or Adeline Guillot, at the Raceland church in December 1869.  Their son Joseph Augustin was born in November or December 1870; ...

Evariste's younger son Jules, by second wife Marie Martin, married Émelie, daughter of François Gervais and Aline Deterval, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in February 1870. ...

Étienne's fourth son Eugène married Émelie dite Melia, daughter of Louis Duet or D'huet and Carmélite Folse, in a civil ceremony probably in Lafourche Interior Parish in May 1850, and sanctified the marriage at the Thibodaux church in January 1853.  Their children, born on the lower Lafourche, included Marie Alsie, Alzie, or Alzire in November 1851; Ema Eugénie in November 1855; Enoc Loving near Raceland in October 1857; Pierre Eugène in June 1859; George Clément in June 1860; Étienne Polite near Lockport in August 1862; Clémence Helena in August 1865; Carmélite Aglaé in September 1868; Damien Nicolas in December 1870; ...  Daughter Alzie married into the Orgeron family by 1870.  None of Eugène's sons married by then. 

Jean-Olivier-Marie (1769-1810s) à Pierre à Jean, fils à Jean le jeune à Antoine Hébert

Jean-Olivier-Marie, only son of Jean-Baptiste Hébert and Luce-Perpétué Bourg, born at St.-Suliac on the river south of St.-Malo, France, in March 1769, followed his family to Poitou and Nantes and his widowed mother and three sisters to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Nathalie-Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Aucoin and his second wife Cécile Richard, in October 1787.  Nathalie, a native of St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St-Suliac, also had come to Louisiana 1785 aboard La Bergère.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Henriette-Marie or Marie-Henriette in August 1788 but died at age 8 1/2 in July 1797; Marie-Eulalie born in February 1791; Françoise in November 1792 but died the following June; Lucie born in October 1796 but died at age 11 months in October 1797; Jean-Arsène, called Arsène, born in July 1798; Jean-Baptiste le jeune in c1800; Célise-Marguerite or Marguerite-Clarisse in August 1801; and Marie Léonarde or Eléonise in December 1805--eight children, six daughters and two sons, between 1788 and 1805.  Jean-Olivier died by April 1816, when he was recorded as deceased in a daughter's marriage record.  He would have been in his late 40s that year.  Daughters Marie Eulalie, Henriette Clarisse, and Marie Eléonise married into the Delaune, Aucoin, and Breaux families.  Both of Jean Olivier Marie's sons also married.  His older son settled in Ascension Parish, his younger son in Assumption. 

Older son Jean Arsène, called Arsène, married Marguerite Cécile, daughter of Louis Judice and his Acadian wife Marie Henriette Rassicot, at the Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, in January 1820.  Marguerite's father had been the commandant of the Ascension District during the late colonial period.  Her and Arsène's children, born in Ascension Parish, included Pierre Arsène in October 1820 but died at age 4 in October 1824; Jean Baptiste born in March 1822; Marguerie Eulalie in September 1823; Jean baptized, age 1 1/2 months, in January 1826; Marie Arsène Sara born in July 1827 but, called Marie Sara Arsine, died at age 1 in June 1828; Louis Arsène, called Arsène, fils, born in May 1829; Joseph Olivier in February 1831; and Pierre Sostain or Sosthène, called Sosthène, in October 1832 but died at age 14 months in December 1833.  Arsène remarried to Rosalie Euphrosine or Euphrasie, perhaps also called Émelie R., daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Gaudin and Rosalie Dugas and widow of Pierre Duval Babin, at the Donaldsonville church in October 1837.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Euphrasie Aglaé in July 1838; Eléonar or Léonard Bienvenu in November 1840; Fidelis or Fidelise Anatalie in August 1842; Félicia, perhaps son Félicien C., in June 1844; Élisabeth Adeline or Adelina, called Adelina, in July 1846; Rose Vitellia in September 1848; Julia Evéline or Evellina, called Evellina, in December 1850; and Genevièf in April 1853--16 children, seven sons and nine daughters, by two wives, between 1820 and 1853.  Arsène may have died in Ascension Parish in September 1859.  The Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Arsènes, as he called him, died at "age 64 years."  Jean Arsène would have been 61.  Daughters Marguerite Eulalie, Euphrasie, Fidelise, Adelina, and Evellina, by both wives, married into the Boudreaux, Melançon, LeBlanc, Babin, and Hébert families by 1870.  Five of Arsène's sons also married by then, one before he served in the war, which he survived, and another after he completed his war service.

Second son Jean Baptiste le jeune, by first wife Marguerite Cécile Judice, married Marie Albina, Alsina, Alzina, or Arcina, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Landry and Juliette Melançon, at the Donalsonville church in May 1843.  They settled near Gonzales in the interior of Ascension Parish.  Their children, born there, included Herculia Dorotée, perhaps also called Émelia, in February 1844; Tersilia Canute in January 1847 but, called Hercilia, died near Gonzales at age 18 in August 1865; Gérard born in October 1849; Olive Cornelia in September 1851; Joseph Second in November 1853; François Ercide in October 1855; Honora in December 1857; Clément Arsènes in February 1860; Séverin in November 1864; Judith in c1865 but died at age 1 in February 1866; Ozille Élisabeth born in July 1868; ...  Daughter Émelia married into the Babin family by 1870.  None of Jean Baptiste le jeune's sons married by then. 

Arsène's fourth son Louis Arsène, called Arsène, fils, by first wife Marguerite Cécile Judice, likely married fellow Acadian Marie Mathilde, called Mathilde, Gaudin in Ascension Parish by the early 1850s.  They settled near Gonzales.  Their children, born there, included Valaintine in February 1853; Marie Elvina in March 1855; Relique Ernisca in November 1856; Vincent Adam in January 1859; Eve Olinza in February 1861; Marie Claire in March 1863; and François Arsène in September 1864.  Arsène remarried to Marie Aimée, called Aimée, daughter of fellow Acadians Hippolyte Breaux and Hélène Duhon, at the Gonzales church in June 1866.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Marie Olympe in April 1867; Hélène Léocadie near Gonzales in November 1868; ...  None of Arsène fils's children married by 1870. 

Arsène's fifth son Joseph Olivier, by first wife Marguerite Cécile Judice, married Marie Claire, daughter of fellow Acadians Olésime Landry and Madeleine Babin, at the Donaldsonville church in August 1852.  Daughter Marie Clara was born in Ascension Parish in April 1867; ...

Arsène's seventh son Félicien C., by second wife Rosalie Gaudin, served in the Donaldsonville Artillery during the War of 1861-65--one of General R. E. Lee's Louisiana Tigers.  Felician, as Confederate records call him, while a resident of Donaldsonville, enlisted in the battery there in September 1861, probably in his late teens.  He followed his unit to Virginia and was reported present on company rolls until the late summer and early fall of 1863, when he was reported absent on wounded furlough in Louisiana.  He likely had been wounded at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in July 1863 but not severely enough to have been left on the battlefield.  He remained in Louisiana for the rest of the war, becoming absent without leave on his battery's rolls in November 1863.  According to one historian, Félicien's war service was not yet over.  Having recovered from his wound and, evidently unwilling to return to Virginia, he enlisted in the Pelican Artillery, raised in St. James Parish and later called the 5th Louisiana Battery, with which he served in Louisiana, including the Red River campaign of 1864, for the rest of the war.  The remnants of the 5th Battery surrendered at Tyler, Texas, in early June 1865.  Félicien signed an end-of-war parole at Natchitoches on the Red River in June 1865, two months after his fellow Donaldsonville gunners had surrendered with Lee's army at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia.  Félicien C. married first cousin Emma M., daughter of fellow Acadians Jérôme Sylvanie Gaudin and Lise Dugas, his uncle and aunt, at the Donaldsonville church in November 1867; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their son Sulpice Félicien was born in Ascension Parish in January 1870; ...

Arsène's eighth and youngest son Léonard Bienvenu, by second wife Rosalie Gaudin, married cousin and fellow Acadian Marie Angelina Dugas at the Donaldsonville church in April 1861; they had to secure a dispensation for fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Euphrasie Oziana in April 1862 but, called Osiana, died at age 8 in June 1870; Joseph Oscar born in February 1866 but, called Oscar, died the following September; Valérie Sidonia born in June 1868; Clarisse Eve in August 1870; ...  Léonard Bienvenu may have been the Léonard Hébert who served in Company D of the 27th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Iberville Parish, that fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  If so, he enlisted in the company in Iberville Parish in March 1862, followed his unit to Vicksburg in May, and was present on his company's rolls though December 1862.  He then disappears from Confederate records, so we cannot know if he participated in the siege of May to July 1863 and surrendered with his unit on 4 July 1863.  One thing is certain--as the birth dates of his younger children attest, he survived the war and returned to his family. 

Jean Olivier Marie's younger son Jean Baptiste le jeune, called Baptiste, married cousin Faralie, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Aucoin, fils and Marie Marguerite Noël, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in May 1821.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marguerite Aremlise in March 1822; Mélanie Céleste in May 1824; Jules, also called Second, in August 1825 but died at age 5 in September 1830; and Marie Ophelia born in August 1827 but died at age 1 in August 1828.  Jean Baptiste le jeune, in his early 30s, remarried to Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Luc Landry and Françoise Hélène Le Borgne de Bélisle, at the Plattenville church in January 1834.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Françoise in April 1835; Joseph Alcide in May 1836; Marie Élisabeth, called Élisabeth, in December 1837; Marie Athanasie dite Anathalie or Natalia in November 1838; Marie Amélie in November 1840 but, called Marie Émelie, died at age 6 1/2 (the recording priest said 8) in August 1847; Marie Clarisse born in October 1841 but died at age 3 in October 1844; Marie Malvina, called Malvina, born in April 1843; Joseph Jean Baptiste in August 1845; and Marie Clémentine, called Clémentine, in December 1847--13 children, 10 daughters and three sons, by two wives, between 1822 and 1847.  Daughters Marie, Élisabeth, Malvina, Anathalie/Natalia, and Clémentine, by both wives, married into the Hébert, Daigle, Theriot, Simoneaux, and LeBlanc families, two of them to Hébert cousins and two of them to the same Simoneaux, by 1870.  One of Jean Baptiste le jeune's sons also married by then. 

Second son Joseph Alcide, by second wife Françoise Landry, married cousin Marie, daughter of Firmin Friou and his Acadian wife Marie Landry, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1858.  They settled near Pierre Part on the north shore of Lake Verret in Assumption Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie Odalie in January 1859; Jean Baptiste Mesmain in December 1861; ... 

Charles dit Charlot (1779-1860) à Charles le jeune à Jean, fils à Jean le jeune à Antoine Hébert

Charles dit Charlot, only son of Charles Hébert, fils and Anne-Osite Dugas of Cobeguit, born in St.-Similien Parish, Nantes, France, in August 1779, followed his widowed mother and two younger sisters to New Orleans and Attakapas, where his mother remarried to a Granger.  Charlot married stepsister Anne-Geneviève, called Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Granger and his first wife Anne-Geneviève Babin of Opelousas, at Attakapas in May 1802.  They settled at Prairie Sorrel in present-day Lafayette Parish and then on the lower Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included Charles III baptized, age 1 1/2 months, in October 1803 but may have died at age 2 in October 1805; Anne Donatille born in August 1805; Joseph Charles in November 1806; Joachim in September 1808; Jean Baptiste, called Jean and also Jean Charles, in May 1810; Dositée, a son, in April 1812; Marguerite in December 1813; Onésime in June 1815; Édouard, "mute from birth," in October 1816 but died "with worms" in Lafayette Parish, age 7 1/2 (the recording priest said 9), in February 1824; Marie Carmélite born in January 1818; Marie in October 1819; Geneviève Mélasie in September 1821; and Pierre in February 1823--13 children, eight sons and five daughters, between 1803 and 1823.  Charles dit Charlot died in Lafayette Parish in November 1860.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Charles, died "at age 79 yrs."  He was 81 and one of the last Acadian immigrants in Louisiana to join his ancestors.  His succession, which called him Charles but which misidentified his wife (it gave his son Joseph's wife's name, not Geneviève's), was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in early December.  Was Charlot a widower at the time of his death?  Daughters Marguerite, Marie Carmélite, and Marie married into the Trahan, Hébert, Leger, and LeBlanc families.  Three of Charlot's remaining sons also married and settled on the prairies. 

Oldest son Charles III, despite a burial record that says he died at age 2, may have been the Charles Hébert who married Anglo-Creole Émilie Hayes, no place or date recorded, but it probably was in southern St. Landry Parish in the mid- or late 1820s.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Jean Louis near Grand Coteau in March 1827 but died at age 1 in February 1828; Émilia born in January 1829; and Pierre near Opelousas in March 1836--three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1827 and 1836.  Evidently neither of Charles III's remaining children married by 1870. 

Charlot's second son Joseph Charles married Marguerite Carmélite, called Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Basile Landry and Marie Anne Mire, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in January 1828.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Adeline in October 1828; Aspasie baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in October 1830; Carmézile born in March 1832 but, called Carmigille, died at age 3 1/2 in January 1836; Marguerite born in March 1834; Charles le jeune baptized at age 2 months in November 1835 but died at age 7 1/2 in July 1843; Eugène baptized at age 1 1/2 months in September 1837; Marie Eugénie in March 1839; Joseph Alcide, called Alcide, born in November 1840; Marie in August 1842; Placide in the early 1840s; Claude in October 1844; and Hilaire in November 1848--a dozen children, six daughters and six sons, between 1828 and 1848.  Joseph Charles's succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in April 1868.  He would have been age 62 that year.  Daughters ... married into the Abshire, Hébert, and Simon families, one of them to a first cousin by 1870.  Four of his sons also married by then.

Second son Eugène married Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadians François Cormier, fils and Émilie Broussard, at the Vermilionville church in December 1861.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Alsina in March 1864; Martial in August 1866; Jean Bénoni in August 1870; ...

Joseph's third son Joseph Alcide, called Alcide, married cousin Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Arvillien Trahan and Marie Denise Hébert, at the Vermilionville church in October 1861.  Their son Alcide, fils was born in Lafayette Parish in February 1865; ...  Alcide, père's succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in March 1867.  He would have been age 27 that year. 

Joseph's fourth son Placide married cousin Marcellite, another daughter of Louis Arvillien Trahan and Marie Denise Hébert, at the Vermilionville church in January 1867.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Donatien in March 1868; Donat in April 1870; ...

Joseph's sixth and youngest son Hilaire married Aurelia, daughter of Stival Simon and his Acadian wife Marie Aureline Broussard, at the Vermilionville church in August 1868.  Son Philibert, born in Lafayette Parish in June 1881, married Elena or Helena Abshire and died near Kaplan, Acadia Parish, in March 1953, age 71.  Their son Whitney, born in Vermilion Parish in March 1902, married Legena C ____ and died in Vermilion Parish in March 1997, age 95.  Whitney's second son Larris Joseph, the author's paternal uncle-in-law, born at Crowley, Acadia Parish, in February 1932 but a long-time resident of Gueydan, Vermilion Parish, married Bessie Jeanne, daughter of Léonce Cormier and Zelma Istre of Mermentau and Jennings, and died at Gueydan in November 1996, age 64. 

Charlot's fourth son Jean Baptiste, called Jean and also Jean Charles, married cousin Marie Carmegille or Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Célestin Landry and Marguerite Granger, at the Vermilionville church in December 1833.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included a son, name unrecorded, may have died in Lafayette Parish two days after his birth in February 1835; Marie Cidalise baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in May 1836 but, called Marie Rémise, died at age 1 in April 1837; Marguerite Azéma born in December 1837; Jean, fils baptized at age 3 days in October 1839 but died the day of his birth; Juliènne, perhaps theirs, died at age 8 days in January 1841; Sylvestre born in December 1842; Émile in April 1845; Désiré in February 1847; Onésime in November 1849; and Théodule in October 1851--10 children, seven sons and three daughters, between 1835 and 1851.  Jean died in Lafayette Parish in February 1852, age 41 (the recording priest said 42).  His succession, which called him Jean Charles, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in June 1856.  Daughter Marguerite married into the Cormier family by 1870.  Three of Jean's sons also married by then. 

Fourth son Émile married first cousin Marie Célise, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Charles Hébert and Marguerite Carmélite Landry, his uncle and aunt, at the Vermilionville church in November 1866.  Their children, born on the southwest prairies, included Arthur near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in November 1867; Eraste in Lafayette Parish in March 1869; ... 

Jean, père's fifth son Désiré married Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Maximilien Vincent, fils and Virginie Duhon, at the Youngsville church, Lafayette Parish, in October 1867, three months before he was granted his emancipation in Lafayette Parish on the eve of his twenty-first birthday.  Their son Jean Dolze was born in Lafayette Parish in September 1868; ... 

Jean, père's sixth son Onésime was granted his emancipation in Lafayette Parish in January 1868, not long after he turned 18.  He married Marie Anathilia or Matilia, daughter of fellow Acadians Treville Duhon and Eulalie Trahan, at the Vermilionville church in January 1869. ...

Charlot's fifth son Dositée married Marie Émilite, Émelie, Amélie, or Mélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Antoine Joseph Trahan and Marie Élisabeth Mire, at the Vermilionville church in December 1831.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Charles, also called Charles Dosité, in 1832 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 1 1/2, in December 1833; Joseph Zéphirin born in August 1835; Julien baptized at age 2 months in March 1837; Jean baptized at age 2 months in May 1839; Édouard born in April 1841; and Marie in March 1843--six children, five sons and a daughter, between 1832 and 1843.  Daughters ... married into the Duhon and Vincent families.  All of Dositée's sons also married, but not all of the lines endured.

Oldest son Charles Dosité married Mare Célanie, called Célanie, daughter of John Danight, Denight, or Denaisse and Marie Montet, at the Vermilionville church in October 1854.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Marie Azéma in October 1855; Marie Azélida in November 1856; Isabella in February 1858; and Élizabeth perhaps posthumously in Lafayette Parish in August 1859--four children, all daughters, between 1855 and 1859.  Charles Dosité may have died in Lafayette Parish in August 1859.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Charles died "at age 23 yrs."  Charles Dosité would have been age 25.  None of his daughters married by 1870. 

Dositée's second son Joseph Zéphirin married cousin Azéline dite Zéline, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Vincent and Marie Zéline Hébert, at the Vermilionville church in February 1855.  They settled probably on the lower Vermilion.  Their children born there, included Climetiste in November 1855; Sosthène in August 1857; Belzire in April 1859; Euphémie in November 1860; ...  None of Joseph's children married by 1870. 

Dositée's third son Julien likely married cousin Marie Eugénie, called Eugénie, daughter of perhaps fellow Acadian Joseph Hébert, at the Vermilionville church in April 1860.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Marie Odile in July 1861; Élodie in September 1865; Rémy in April 1868; ... 

Dositée's fourth son Jean married Marie Azéma, daughter of fellow Acadian Onésime Cormier and his Creole wife Eugénie Simon, at the Vermilionville church in December 1859.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Azéma in January 1861; Geneviève in August 1862; ...

Dositée's fifth and youngest son Édouard married Marie Elmazie, Elmagee, or Edneaset, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Broussard and Pélagie Duhon, at the Vermilionville church in April 1866.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Joseph Fernes in October 1868; Jean near Youngsville in June 1870; ...

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Six more Héberts--three small families, including two sets of brothers--crossed on Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in late August 1785.  Two families followed their fellow passengers to the Baton Rouge area.  The other family settled on the western prairies.  Only one lasting family line came of it, on the river and the prairies: 

Pierre, fils (c1739-1818) à Jacques à Jean le jeune à Antoine Hébert

Pierre, fils, older son of Pierre dit le Jeune Hébert and Marie Bernard, born at Tintamarre, Chignecto, in c1739, evidently followed his widowed mother and brother to the French Maritimes and France, where he worked as a day laborer.  At age 44, he married Charlotte, daughter of fellow Acadians Christopher Pothier and Anne Boudrot and widow of Paul Patry, at St.-Martin de Chantenay near Nantes, France, in November 1783.  She gave him a son, Pierre-Joseph, born at Chantenay in March 1785.  Soon after their son's birth, Pierre, ,fils, Charlotte, and their infant son, along with a Patry stepdaughter and Pierre, fils's bachelor brother Jean-Baptiste, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana and settled on the western prairies.  Pierre, fils and Charlotte had no more children in the colony.  He died at his home at Carencro in February 1818, in his late 70s.  His son married, but the family line, except for its blood, did not endure.

Only son Pierre-Joseph, called Joseph, followed his family to New Orleans and Attakapas, where he married Augustine dite Justine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Guilbeau and Marie Arceneaux of Carencro, at the bride's home in April 1812.  They settled at Carencro.  Their children, born there, included a child, name unrecorded, died at birth in August 1820; Léontine born in June 1825; and Marie Helvetie, perhaps also called Marie Théotiste, in August 1830--three children, at least two daughters, between 1820 and 1830.  A Pierre Hébert died near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in February 1851.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Pierre died "at age 72 yrs."  Pierre Joseph would have been age 66--among the last of the Acadian immigrants in Louisiana to join his ancestors.  Daughters Léontine and Marie Helvetie/Théotiste married into the Clavel and Hébert families.  Joseph evidently fathered no sons. 

Jean-Baptiste (c1745-1801) à Jacques à Jean le jeune à Antoine Hébert

Jean-Baptiste, younger son of Pierre dit le Jeune Hébert and Marie Bernard and Pierre, fils's brother, born at Tintamarre, Chignecto, in c1745, evidently followed his widowed mother and brother to the French Maritimes and France, where he also worked as a day laborer.  In 1785, at age 40, still unmarried, he followed his older brother to Louisiana and settled with him on the western prairies.  Jean-Baptiste did not marry.  He died at Attakapas in October 1801, in his mid- or late 50s. 

Jean-Pierre (c1754-?) à Jean le jeune à René dit Groc à Jean le jeune à Antoine Hébert

Jean-Pierre, only son of Pierre Hébert and his second wife Anne Benoit, born probably at Grande-Anse, Île St.-Jean, in c1754, followed his parents to St.-Malo, France, in 1758-59.  After his father's death at Châteauneuf on the east side of river south of St.-Malo in April 1759, Jean-Pierre followed his mother to the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  He was age 16 when his mother remarried there to widower Jean-Baptiste Hébert.  Jean-Pierre likely followed them to La Rochelle, Belle-Île-en-Mer, Rochefort, and Poitou.  When most of the Poitou Acadians retreated to the lower Loire port of Nantes in late 1775 and early 1776, Jean-Pierre remained in Poitou with his mother, stepfather, and their family.  His stepfather died at Cenan, Poitou, in June 1778, and his twice-widowed mother evidently remained in the province.  At age 25, at Cenan, in January 1779, Jean-Pierre married Marguerite, daughter fellow Acadians Pierre Moulaison and Marie-Josèphe Doucet.  Marguerite died the following October, age 30, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth.  Jean-Pierre, his mother, and his much younger half-brother Jean-Charles Hébert did not remain in Poitou.  By 1784, they had joined other exiles at Paimboeuf, the lower port of Nantes, where, at age 30, Jean-Pierre remarried to Anne-Dorothée, 22-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Doiron and Anne Thibodeau, in May 1784.  Anne-Dorothée was a native of St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, across the harbor from St.-Malo.  She gave Jean-Pierre a daughter, Anne-Marguerite, born at Paimboeuf in January 1785.  Later that year, Jean-Pierre, Anne-Dorothée, and their infant daughter, along with his mother and half-brother Jean-Charles Hébert, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana aboard the same vessel.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to Manchac south of Baton Rouge, where Anne-Dorothée gave Jean-Pierre more children, including Jean-Baptiste born in December 1786; Marie-Renée, called Renée and Reine, in May 1788; Antoine-Anne, evidently a son, in January 1789; Isaac in June 1792 but died at age 13 in November 1805; Scholastique born in the 1790s; Élisabeth in February 1796 but died at age 14 in February 1810; Marie-Marthe born in June 1798; Paul Auguste or Augustin, also called Jean Paul, in c1799; Joseph Raphaël in November 1800 but may have been the Joseph Hébert who died in Ascension Parish in October 1836, age 35 (the recording priest at Donaldsonville said 37); Pierre born in November 1803 but died at age 2 in August 1805; and Hilaire born in April 1805--a dozen children, five daughters and seven sons, all by his second wife, between 1785 and 1805, in France and Louisiana.  Daughters Marie Reine, Scholastique, and Marie Marthe married into the Breaux, Lopez, and Dupuis families on the river.  Three of Jean Pierre's sons also married.  They settled on the river in what became Iberville and West Baton Rouge parishes, and on the prairies in what became St. Landry Parish.

Oldest son Jean Baptiste, by second wife Anne Dorothée Doiron, married cousin Anne Mélanie, called Mélanie, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Landry and Modeste Hébert, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in September 1808.  In the 1820s, Jean-Baptiste evidently moved his family from Iberville to St. Landry Parish.  Their children, born on the river and perhaps the prairies, included Marie Adveline near St. Gabriel in February 1810; Aspoire, a daughter, also called Aimé Asphasie, in December 1811; Eugène in January 1814; Jean Baptiste, fils in December 1816; Valéry in December 1818; Wassain or Valsin Joseph or Joseph Valsin in March 1821; Marie Eulalie near St. Gabriel in March 1823; and Marie Mélanie in the 1820s--eight children, four daughters and four sons, between 1810 and the 1820s.  An estate record for Jean Baptiste Hébert, husband of Mélanie Landry, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse, St. Landry Parish, in January 1820.  It listed his heirs as Joseph Valsin, age 4, and Marie Mélanie, age 2.  One wonders if this was simply a filing of a will with the wrong date on it; Joseph Valsin was born in March 1821, so he would not have turned 4 until 1825.  Jean Baptiste, père's successions (there were two of them) were filed at the Opelousas courthouse in May 1839.  One succession states that Jean Baptiste's widow, Mélanie Landry, remarried to Alexandre Lanclos, père in 1831.  The other succession states that Jean Baptiste's heirs were sons Valcin[sic] and Jean Baptiste, fils and daughter Mélanie.  Daughters Marie Adveline and Aimé Asphasie married into the Hébert and Rivet families on the river.  Three of Jean Baptiste's sons also married, on the prairies, but only one of the lines seems to have endured. 

Second son Jean Baptiste, fils married stepsister Céleste or Célestine, daughter of Alexandre Lanclos and his first wife Marie Louise Hargroder, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in March 1835.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Jean Baptiste III in November 1836; and Alexandre Filias, Philias, or Phileas in October 1839.  Jean Baptiste, fils's sons married, and one of them died in Confederate service.

Older son Jean Baptiste III married Élisa dite Lisa, daughter of French Canadian George Lalonde and his Acadian wife Ursule Boutin, at the Grand Coteau church in November 1858.  They settled on the prairie between Grand Coteau and Arnaudville.  Their children, born there, included Eugène in August 1859 but died at age 7 1/2 in January 1867; Mélanie born in January 1862; Joseph Alice[sic] in November 1868; ...

Jean Baptiste, fils's younger son Alexandre Philias married cousin Marie Mathilde, called Mathilde, daughter of Ulger Lanclos and Marie Eulalie Landry, at the Grand Coteau church in May 1861.  Their son Alexandre Philias, fils was born posthumously near Arnaudville in December 1862.   During the War of 1861-65, Alexandre Philias, called Alexandre P. in the Confederate records, served in Company K of the 29th (Thomas's) Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Landry Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  He enlisted in Company K in St. Landry Parish in April 1862, age 22, but he did not live long enough to serve with his regiment in action.  He died the following July.  His service record says nothing of where he died or what caused his death, but it probably was of a disease contracted at Vicksburg.  His succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in January 1863.  Mathilde remarried to Ursin Hébert, fils of Breaux Bridge at Grand Coteau in May 1867. 

Jean Baptiste, père's third son Valéry, also called Valière, Valsin, Valcin, and Pierre, may have married fellow Acadian Azéma Guidry at the Grand Coteau church in October 1846; the priest who recorded the marriage called the groom Valière and, typically, did not give his or the bride's parents' names.  They may have lived with one another, perhaps under the aegis of a civil marriage, before their church wedding.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Zéphyrin in January 1846[sic]; Marie Mélina in May 1846[sic]; Marie Élima in October 1848; Hortense in May 1853; and Nesima in July 1856--five children, a son and four daughters, between 1846 and 1856.  None of Valéry/Valière/Valsin's children married by 1870. 

Jean Baptiste, père's fourth and youngest son Valsin Joseph or Joseph Valsin married Marie Céline or Célima, another daughter of Ulger Lanclos and his Acadian wife Marie Eulalie Landry, at the Opelousas church in May 1843.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Marie Célestine in April 1844 but died the following September; Joseph Valmont baptized at the Grand Coteau church, age unrecorded, in November 1845 but died at age 4 months in December; and Marie Célima born in December 1847--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1844 and 1847.  Valsin Joseph evidently died near Grand Coteau in January 1848.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Valcin[sic] died "at age 28 yrs." Valsin Joseph would have been age 26.  His daughter married into the Fontenot family, so the blood of this family line may have endured. 

Jean Pierre's fourth son Paul Auguste or Augustin, also called Jean Paul, from second wife Anne Dorothée Doiron, married Marie Carmélite Telcide, called Carmélite, daughter of Michel Gareuil and Helen Lopez, at the St. Gabriel church in February 1820.  Their children, born at St. Gabriel, included a daughter, name unrecorded, in c1820 but died at age 4 in April 1824; Jean Timoléon born in November 1820[sic]; an infant, name unrecorded, died at birth in October 1823; Magloire born in October 1824; Louis Adolphe, called Adolphe, in January 1827; Joseph in August 1829; Justin Philios in February 1832; Alexandre Oduill in February 1834; Carmélite Telside in March 1837; and Marie Caroline in December 1840 but died at age 6 1/2 (the recording priest said 7) in October 1847--10 children, at least six sons and three daughters, between 1820 and 1840.  Daughter Carmélite Telside married into the Babin family by 1870.  Three of Paul Auguste's sons also married by then. 

Third son Louis Adolphe, called Adolphe, married Marie Eugénie, called Eugénie, daughter of fellow Acadians Maximilien LeBlanc and Marie Hélène Allain, at the St. Gabriel church in April 1849.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Marie Sidonia in May 1850; Paul Demosthènes in October 1851; Ignace in July 1853; Eugénia in November 1855; Marc Adolphe in May 1858 but, called A., no age given, may have died at age 8 in September 1866; Marie Rosa born in November 1860; and Georges Maximilien in October 1862.  Adolphe, at age 40, remarried to Marie Amanda, called Amanda, daughter of Auguste Christin or Christen and his Acadian wife Séraphine Babin, at the St. Gabriel church in January 1867.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Marie Ida in November 1867; Augusta Christine in July 1869; ...  Daughter Marie Sidonia, by his first wife, married an Hébert cousin by 1870.  None of Adolphe's sons married by then. 

Paul Auguste's fourth son Joseph married Marie Adélaïde or Adèle, daughter of fellow Acadians Amable LeBlanc and Adélaïde LeBlanc, at the Plaquemine church, Iberville Parish, in July 1855.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Joseph Calvin in August 1856 but died the following January; Joseph Paul born in April 1858; Gabriel Charles in October 1863; André Louis in May 1869; ... 

Paul Auguste's sixth and youngest son Alexandre Oduill married, at age 30, Apolline dite Pauline, daughter of Francis Gomez and his Acadian wife Pauline Comeaux, at the St. Gabriel church in December 1864.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Agnès in August 1867; Marie Alice in October 1869; ...

Jean Pierre's seventh and youngest son Hilaire, by second wife Anne Dorothée Doiron, married cousin Marie Clarisse, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Marie Templet and Marie Hébert of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in May 1826.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included Marie Dertilde or Dartille, called Dartille, in February 1829; Jean Baptiste Amédée, called Amédée, in December 1832; Sosthène in October 1835; and Julie Odile, called Odile, in May 1837--four children, two daughters and two sons, between 1829 and 1837.  Daughters Dartille and Odile married into the Hébert and Penn families.  Both of Hilaire's sons also married and settled on the river. 

Older son Jean Baptiste Amédée, called Amédée, married cousin Marguerite Zulma, called Zulma and also Jeanne, daughter of fellow Acadians Élie Hébert and Gertrude Babin, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in June 1857; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born near Brusly, included Joseph Ozémé in May 1858; Mélanie in February 1860 but may have died at age 4 1/2 (the recording priest said "age 30 months") near Brusly in May 1864; Alexis born in October 1861; Armand Émile in December 1867; Vincent Raymond in January 1870; ...

Hilaire's younger son Sosthène married cousin Julida or Julie, daughter of fellow Acadians Célestin Templet and Hortense Babin, at the Brusly church in August 1855; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born near Brusly, included Anatolde Edgard in August 1856; George Arnaud in April 1858; Joseph Alphonse in April 1860; ... 

Jean-Charles (c1772-1812) à Jean, fils à Jean à Étienne Hébert

Jean-Charles, second son of Jean-Baptiste Hébert by his second wife Anne Benoit and half-brother/distant cousin of Jean-Pierre, born near Locmaria, Belle-Île-en-Mer, France, in January 1772, followed his parents to Rochefort and Paimboeuf and his widowed mother and Hébert half-brother to New Orleans and Manchac.  At age 31, Jean-Charles married Marie-Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Augustin Landry and his first wife Anne-Marie Foret, at Manchac in May 1803.  Marie-Françoise was a native of Louisiana whose parents had come to the colony from Maryland in the late 1760s.  Her and Jean Charles's son Joseph-Joachim, born at Manchac in March 1804, died at age 7 months the following December.  At age 37, Jean Charles remarried to Martine, 24-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Honoré Breaux and Élisabeth LeBlanc, at Manchac in May 1809.  Martine, named for her godfather, Spanish intendente Martin Navarro, had been born aboard one of the Seven Ships when her family crossed from France in 1785.  She and Jean-Charles settled at Manchac.  Their children, born there, included Marie Adeline in July 1810; and Marie Delmire in December 1811 but died at 11 months in November 1812--three children, a son and two daughters, by two wives, between 1804 and 1811.  Jean Charles died at Manchac in October 1812, age 40.  Martine remarried to an Aucoin.  Her remaining Hébert daughter Marie Adeline married into the Melançon family, so the blood of this line may have endured in the Bayou State. 

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Twenty-eight more Héberts--four large families, an aging bachelor, three widows, and three wives--crossed on Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in early September 1785.  The families, the widows, and all but one of the wives followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  The other wife moved on to the western prairies.  Four enduring family lines came of it, adding substantially to the family's presence in the Bayou Lafourche valley and on the western prairies: 

Joseph-Marie (1734-?) à Emmanuel à Étienne Hébert

Joseph-Marie, fifth and youngest son of Jacques Hébert and Marguerite Landry and younger brother of François of Maryland and San Gabriel, born at Minas in April 1734, was deported not to Maryland but to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent him, with hundreds of other exiles, to England the following spring.  At age 24, he married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Richard and Cécile Granger, in c1758 probably at Southampton.  Marguerite gave him a son there, Joseph, fils, born in September 1760.  In May 1763, they were repatriated to St.-Malo, France, aboard the transport Ambition and settled in the suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  Marguerite gave Joseph-Marie a daughter, Geneviève-Marie, born there in February 1764.  Wife Marguerite died at St.-Servan in May 1765, age 32.  Joseph-Marie, at age 32, remarried to Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Benoit and Marie-Madeleine Thériot and widow of René Rassicot, at St.-Servan in January 1766.  Marie gave Joseph-Marie three more children there:  Sophie-Marie born in April 1769; Marie in November 1771 but died at age 1 in December 1772; and an unnamed daughter born in November 1773 but died a day after her birth--five children, a son and four daughters, by two wives, between 1760 and 1771, in England and France.  Joseph-Marie may not have taken his family to the interior Poitou in 1773 or 1774.  Either later in the decade or in the early 1780s, he and his family crossed Brittany and joined many of their fellow Acadians in the lower Loire port of Nantes, where a Spanish official counted Joseph-Marie and Marie with a son and two daughters in September 1784.  They, along with a Benoit niece, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Marie gave Joseph-Marie no more children in the colony.  Daughters Sophie-Marie and Geneviève-Marie, by both wives, married into the Comeaux, Gautreaux, and Culaire families on the upper bayou.  Joseph-Marie's son also married and created a vigorous line in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley. 

Only son Joseph, fils, by first wife Marguerite Richard, followed his family to St.-Servan-sur-Mer and his father, stepmother, and sisters to Nantes by the early 1780s.  He worked as a tanner in France.  Still a bachelor in his mid-20s, he followed his father, stepmother, sisters, and a cousin to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche, where, at age 25, he married Marie-Jeanne, called Jeanne, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Darembourg and Madeleine Henry, in April 1786.  Marie-Jeanne, a native of Cherbourg in Normandy, also had come to Louisiana with her parents and a married sister aboard Le St.-Rémi in 1785.  Her and Joseph, fils's children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Jean-Louis, called Louis, baptized, age unrecorded, in December 1787; Henriette-Deseada born in June 1793; Marie-Louise in January 1798; and Joseph-Auguste, called Auguste, in October 1799--four children, two sons and two daughters, between 1787 and 1799.  Daughter Marie Louise married into the Priou and Corey families.  Both of Joseph, fils's sons also married.  His older son's line was especially vigorous. 

Older son Jean Louis, called Louis, married Susanne, daughter of Jean LeBoeuf and Marie Renée Matherne, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in April 1808.  They lived on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Assumption and Lafourche Interior parishes before moving down bayou to Terrebonne.  Their children, born there, included Henriette Amada in January 1812; Louise or Élise Adèle in March 1817 but died before September 1833; Augustin dit Justin, born in April 1819; Antoine Joseph in February 1822; Martial in July 1823; Jean Baptiste in June 1825; Jean Louis, fils in December 1827; and Joseph in November 1832.  A "mainlevée" naming his wife, now deceased, and their remaining children--Henriette, Antoine, Martial, Jean Baptiste, and Jean Louis, fils--was filed at the Terrebonne Parish courthouse, soon to be moved to Houma, in September 1833, two months after his second marriage.  At age 46, Jean Louis, père remarried to Irène or Reine Mélanie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Babin and Marguerite Gaudin of Terrebonne Parish, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in July 1833; the marriage was recorded also in Terrebonne Parish in June 1833 and perhaps again in April 1850.  Their children, born in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley, included Marguerite Sulvina in November 1835; Léon Orelien or Aurelien in December 1837; Michel in November 1840; Aubert Alfred in January 1842; and Marguerite Camelle or Camilla in June 1845--13 children, four daughters and nine sons, by two wives, between 1812 and 1845.  Jean Louis's succession inventory, naming his wives but getting his second wife and his children by her wrong, but listing correctily his remaining children by his first wife--Justin; Antoine; Martial; Jean Baptiste; Jean Louis, fils; Henriette; and Joseph--was filed at the Houma courthouse in May 1843.  Jean Louis would have been age 56 that year.  Daughters Henriette and Marguerite Camilla, by both wives, married into the Rhodes and Robichaux familes by 1870.  Seven of Jean Louis's sons also married by then and settled in Terrebonne Parish.

Oldest son Augustin dit Justin, by first wife Susanne LeBoeuf, married Marie Azélie, called Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadian Guillaume Bergeron and his French-Canadian wife Marie Arceneaux of Terrebonne Parish, at the Thibodaux church in July 1839.  Their children, born on the Lafourche and in Terrebonne Parish, included Auguste le jeune in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1840; Elvina or Alvinia Virginie and Marie Émelia or Amelia, called Amelia, perhaps twins, in October 1843; Émilie in the 1840s; Aubert, also called Hubert, in the 1840s; Mathilde Zuma in October 1848 in Terrebonne Parish; Jean Léon in February 1851; twins Adam Octave and Eve Céleste in June 1854 but, his name unrecorded, Adam Octave died at age 1 in July 1855; Octave Sckailer, probably Schuyler, Justin born in October 1857; Guillaume Harisse in February 1860; ...   Daughters Alvinia, Émilie, Amelia, and Mathilde married into the Babin, Pitre, and Bélanger families, two of them to Pitres, by 1870.  One of Justin's sons also married by then.

Second son Aubert "from Terrebonne Parish" married Eugénie Céline, daughter of fellow Acadian Alexandre Guidry and his Creole wife Félicité Marcel of Terrebonne Parish, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in January 1864.  She evidently gave him no children.  Aubert remarried to Marie Matores, Hélène, or Helena, daughter of Don Manuel De La Torre, also called Delatorroisse, De La Loire, Delatonis, and Matores and his Acadian wife Eléonore Martin, at the Houma church in May 1866.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Théodule Wiley in March 1868; André Crescent in June 1870; ...

Louis's second son Antoine Joseph, by first wife Susanne LeBoeuf, evidently married cousin Véronique or Veronica LeBoeuf in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in January 1848, and sanctified the marriage at the Houma church in February 1851.  They remained in Terrebonne Parish, on Bayou Black and at Chacahoula.  Their children, born there, included Uverjule dit Verjule Hilaire on Bayou Black in November 1849; Marie Survilla or Luvina, called Luvina, in October 1850; François Orestile in October 1852; Hilaire Xavier near Chacahoula in December 1854; Mélasie in November 1856; Louis Drasa or Drosa in December 1858; Armogène Ermillien in February 1861; Hermina in September 1863; Rosa Célene in May 1868; ...   Daughter Luvina married into the Boudreaux family by 1870.  One of Antoine Joseph's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Uverjule dit Verjule Hilaire married cousin Louisiane, daughter probably of fellow Acadian Jean Mathurin, called Mathurin, Hébert and his Creole wife Adèle Marie or Marie Adèle Adolphe, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in January 1869.  Their son Myrtille was born near Chacahoula in December 1869; ... 

Louis's third son Martial, by first wife Susanne LeBoeuf, married Margaret, 16-year-old daughter of John Clark or Clack and Mary M. Roddy, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in January 1845, and sanctified the marriage at the Houma church in June 1849.  They settled on Bayou Petit Caillou and near Montegut in Terrebonne Parish.  Their children, born there, included Suzanne in August 1845; Émée or Aimée on Bayou Petit Caillou in April 1849; Evariste Jhon, probably John, in September 1851; twins James and Joseph in November 1856; Auguste in February 1859; Robert Douglas in April 1861; Thomas Davis near Montegut in September 1865; Martial Georges in July 1868; ...  Daughter Aimée married into the Stringer family by 1870.  None of Martial's sons married by then. 

Louis's fourth son Jean Baptiste, by first wife Susanne LeBoeuf, married Palmyra, 22-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Célestin Bergeron and Phelonise Babin, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in July 1850.  She evidently gave him no children.  Jean Baptiste remarried to Victorine Modeste, daughter of Urbin Picou and his Acadian wife Marguerite Babin, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in October 1853, and sanctified the marriage at the Houma church in May 1855.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Marie Susanne, called Susanne, in August 1854; Jean Volsey in December 1855; Marguerite Elvire in December 1857; Jean Baptiste Amédée in March 1859; Émile Dolfères in November 1861; Alfred Ellis in August 1863; Palmire Joséphine E. Mérante near Montegut in August 1865; Alexis Philoman, probably Philemon, in August 1867; Aimée Alfrida in April 1870; ...  Daughter Susanne married into the Redman family by 1870.  None of Jean Baptiste's sons married by then. 

Louis's fifth son Jean Louis, fils, by first wife Susanne LeBoeuf, married fellow Acadian Marie Babin of Terrebonne Parish at the Houma church in December 1851.  They lived near the boundary between Terrebonne and Lafourche Interior parishes.  Their children, born there, included Anaistasie or Anastasie in July 1851, months before her parents' church wedding; Turnin Albert in February 1853; Paulinaire Clebert in February 1855; Ersilda Aurelia in February 1857; Célesia in March 1859; Augustin Alfred in May 1861; Rochelle Octave in September 1863; John Herodesney near Montegut in September 1865; Marie Eve in May 1868; Wallace Joachim in April 1870; ...  Daughter Anastasie married into the Hutchinson family by 1870.  None of Jean Louis, fils's sons married by then. 

Louis's seventh son Léon Aurilien, by second wife Irène Babin, married Adilia, Odilia, or Onelia, daughter of fellow Acadian Edmond Guidry and his Creole wife Elmire Irma Azel Bélanger of Terrebonne Parish, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in June 1857, and sanctified the marriage at the Houma church in July 1858.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Léo Jean Baptiste in April 1858; Marie Eve in November 1859; Octavie Joséphine in January 1863; Lucie Amanda near Montegut in December 1866; Marguerite Octavie in September 1869; ... 

Louis's eighth son Michel, by second wife Irène Babin, married Lucette or Lucite, daughter of Valentin Sevin and Modeste Charpentier of Terrebonne Parish, at the Houma church in June 1860.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Ernest Loiseau in March 1860[sic]; Marie Joséphine near Montegut in November 1869; ... 

Joseph, fils's younger son Joseph Auguste, called Auguste, married, at age 20, Rosalie or Rose Susanne, 20-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Alexis Simon Lejeune and Barbe Trahan, at the Thibodauxville church in June 1820.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Célecie or Célina in December 1822; Alexis George or Georges, called Georges, in April 1826; Mathilde in April 1828; Joseph in March 1830; Élie Wochinton in November 1833 but, called Washington, died at age 19 (the recording priest said 21) in September 1853; Octave born in March 1836; Henri Shalière or Schuyler in November 1838; Marie Rose Georgina in March 1842; and Augustin Charles in May 1844.  Joseph Auguste served as tutor for Jean Baptiste Sylvain, minor son of Jean Baptiste Lejeune, his brother-in-law, after the boy's father died in November 1827.  A quittance ending the tutorship was filed at the Houma courthouse in July 1836, when the boy was age 10, and described Jean Auguste as a resident of Lafourche Interior Parish.  Joseph Auguste, at age 58, remarried to Marie Alise, called "Mrs. Alix," Alice, and Aline, 31-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Fabien Sébastien Dantin and Marie Eugénie Part and widow of Célestin Lirette, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in June 1858 [the record says, erroneously, 1838], and sanctified the marriage at the Thibodaux church a few days later.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Augusta Armini, a son, in November 1859; Tailer Lucas in May 1861; Tennessee in 1862 but died at age 11 months in July 1863; Marie born in November 1862[sic]; Étienne Adam in April 1865, when his father was age 65; ...  Daughters Marie Célina, Mathilde, and Marie Rose Georgina, by his first wife, married into the Elfert or Elfort, Toups, and Bergeron families by 1870.  Two of Auguste's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Georges, by first wife Rose Lejeune, married Arcelite, daughter of Urbain Poché and his Acadian wife Célasie LeBlanc, at the Thibodaux church in May 1852.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Félix, also called Nelson, in March 1853; and a child, name and age unrecorded, died "during [a] yellow fever epidemic" in Lafourche Parish in January 1854.  Georges died in Lafourche Parish during the same epidemic in September 1853.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, nor did he give George's age at the time of his death.  This Georges would have been age 27.  A petition for tutorship for son Nelson, as he was called, was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in January 1854.  Félix/Nelson did not marry by 1870. 

Auguste's fifth son Henri Schuyler, by first wife Rose Lejeune, married Marie Eugénie, daughter of Pierre Minou or Minoux and Rosalie Bark, at the Thibodaux church in June 1861.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joseph in c1860 but died at age 3 in April 1863; and Joseph Washington born in March 1862.  Henry Schuyler remarried to Clara, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Rosémond LeBlanc and Carmélite Bergeron and widow of Valsin Boudreaux, at the Thibodaux church in February 1867.  Their son Henri Livaille was born in Lafourche Parish in February 1869; ... 

Joseph-Ignace (c1747-1821) à René dit Groc à Jean le jeune à Antoine Hébert

Joseph-Ignace, second son of Jean Hébert le jeune and his first wife Marie-Madeleine Doiron, born at Minas in c1747, followed his family to Grande-Anse, Île St.-Jean, and to St.-Malo, France, and settled with his widowered father and siblings at St.-Suliac on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo.  Joseph-Ignace married cousin Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Dugas and Marie Hébert, at St.-Suliac in February 1768.  Anne gave Joseph-Ignace four children there:  Pierre-Joseph born in March 1769; Anne-Marie in January 1771 but died the following May; Louis-Joseph born in May 1772 but died the following November; and Olivier-Constant-Mathias born in February 1774.  That year, Joseph-Ignace took his family to the interior of Poitou with thousands of other Acadians.  In December 1775, after two years of effort, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes.  Anne gave Joseph-Ignace four more children in St.-Similien Parish there:  Élisabeth-Jeanne born in March 1776; Joseph, fils in January 1779 but died the day after his birth; Louis-Marie born in February 1781 but died at age 2 in February 1783; and Louis-Ambroise born in November 1783.  In 1785, Joseph-Ignace, Anne, and their four remaining children, three sons and a daughter, emigated to Spanish Louisiana.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where Anne gave Joseph-Ignace more children, including Marie born in December 1788; and Jean-Baptiste in June 1790--10 children, seven sons and three daughters, between 1769 and 1790, in France and Louisiana.  Wife Anne died by May 1805, when, in his late 50s, Joseph-Ignace remarried to Marguerite-Tarsille, 44-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Amand Pitre and Geneviève Arcement and widow of Jean-Nicolas Bertrand, at Assumption on the upper Lafourche.  Marguerite, a native of St.-Suliac, had come to Louisiana from France in 1785 with her father aboard an earlier ship and had married her first husband at New Orleans soon after her arrival.  One wonders if she and Joseph-Ignace had known one another since her childhood.  Joseph-Ignace filed an estate inventory, naming both of his wifes, at what became the Interior Parish courthouse in August 1806 probably as a result of his remarriage.  Marguerite gave him no more children.  He died in Lafourche Interior Parish in September 1821.  The Thibodauxville priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph Ignace died at age 74.  A post-mortem succession, calling him Joseph Ignatius, giving his death date, naming his second wife, his remaining children, and his daughters' spouses--Pierre; Olivier; Jean; Isabelle; and Marie and her husband--as well as three of his married granddaughters by his oldest son and their husbands--Modeste Hébert and her L'Abbé husband; Anastasie Hébert and her Richard husband; and Rosalie Hébert and her Dantin husband--was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse in September 1821 on the day of his death.  A post-mortem succession inventory in his name, giving a much earlier death date--8 April 1815--was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse in June 1822.  There was no other Joseph Igance Hébert of his generation, so this death date likely was wrong.  Daughters Élisabeth and Marie, by his first, married into the Boudreaux and Roger families.  Two, perhaps three, of Joseph Ignace's sons married and settled on the western prairies and in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley.  Two of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Pierre-Joseph, by first wife Anne Dugas, followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and upper Bayou Lafourche.  At age 19, he married Anne-Eléonore dite Nanette, 17-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Benoît Comeaux and Anne Blanchard, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer on the river in July 1788.  Anne-Eléonore, a native of Cherbourg in Normandy, had come to Louisiana from France in 1785 aboard a later ship.  They lived on the lower Acadian Coast and in New Orleans in the early 1790s.  A few years later, they crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to the Opelousas District.  Their children, born on the river and the prairies, included Anne-Rosalie at Ascension in October 1789; Raymond-Antoine or Antoine-Raymond at New Orleans in October 1791; Marie-Modeste, called Modeste, at Opelousas in February 1793; Anastasie in April 1795; Céleste in October 1798; Jean-Charles in February 1801; and a son, name and age unrecorded, died in April 1803--seven children, four daughters and three sons, between 1789 and 1803.  Pierre died by October 1808, when he was listed in a daughter's marriage record as deceased.  He would have been in his 30s then.  Daughters Anne Rosalie, Marie Modeste, Anastasie, and Céleste married into the Dantin, Lacombe, Labbé, Richard, and Bourque families on the river and the prairies.  Two of Pierre Joseph's sons also married, but not all of the lines endured.  One of them and a daughter "returned" to Bayou Lafourche.  His oldest son remained in St. Landry Parish, and it was his line that endured. 

Oldest son Antoine Raymond married Marie Céleste or Célestine, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Trahan and Célestine Lejeune, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in May 1815.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Antoine, fils in October 1816; Célestine in December 1818; Marie or Mary in December 1820; Anne Eléonore dite Nannette in June 1823 but died at age 6 1/2 in October 1829; Marie Angèle, called Angèle, born in June 1826; Marie Joséphine in February 1829; Pauline in December 1834; and Charles in April 1837--eight children, two sons and six daughters, between 1816 and 1837.  A succession, perhaps post-mortem, for "Mrs. Antoine" Hébert, perhaps Marie Céleste Trahan, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in July 1843.  Daughters Mary, Célestine, Angèle, and Pauline married into the Means, Sonnier, Simar, and Chiasson families by 1870.  Both of Antoine Raymond's sons also married by then.

Older son Antoine, fils married Marie Louise, called Louise, 17-year-old daughter of Joseph Bergeot, Bergeau, Bergeaut, or Berjeau and Marie Miller, at the Opelousas church in July 1836.  They settled near Grand Coteau.  Their children, born there, included Céleste or Célestine in January 1839; Antoine III in June 1842; Théodule in December 1844; Théogène in April 1848; Eugénie in December 1850; Théophile in July 1852; Marie Odile in March 1855; Marie Sylvanie in April 1858; and Marie Célenie in January 1861--nine children, five daughters and four sons, between 1839 and 1861.  Antoine, fils's succession may have been filed at the Opelousas courthouse in 1862, when he would have been age 46, and "transferred to Acadia Parish" after that parish was created from St. Landry in 1887.  If it was a post-mortem succession, one wonders if he died during the war and if his death was war-related.  Daughter Célestine married into the Vigé family by 1870.  One of Antoine, fils's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Antoine III married Marie Suzanne, called Suzanne, daughter of Edward Courtele, Courtille, Courtin, Courtine, or Corty and Suzanne Istre, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in September 1863, and sanctified the marriage at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in July 1865.  Their son Antoine IV was born near Church Point, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in February 1867; ... 

Antoine Raymond's younger son Charles married Louise or Éloise, daughter of Jean Baptiste Taylor and Célestine Moore, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in September 1858.  Daughter Marie Anaïs was born near Grand Coteau in October 1861; ... 

Pierre Joseph's second son Jean Charles married Clarisse Melvina, called Clavie, daughter of Vincent Comardelle and Marie Catherine Caholi of New Orleans, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in October 1825.  They settled in St. Landry before returning to the Lafourche.  Their children, born on the prairies and the bayou, included Anne Eléonore in St. Landry Parish in July 1826; Ange or Lange Jean Charles in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1828 but died there at age 2 1/2 (the recording priest said 18 months) in July 1830; and Marie Frosile born in January 1830--three children, all daughters, between 1826 and 1830.  None of Jean Charles's daughters seem to have married by 1870, if they married at all, so one wonders if even the blood of this family line endured. 

Joseph-Ignace's second son Olivier-Constant-Mathias, by first wife Anne Dugas, followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where, at age 21, he married Barbe-Anne, 22-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Charles LeBlanc and Rosalie Trahan, in November 1795.  Barbe-Anne, a native of St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Suliac, also had come to Louisiana in 1785 aboard Le St.-Rémi.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Joseph-Olivier, called Olivier, in October 1796; Célestin-Valentin in November 1797; and Martin in November 1799--three children, all sons, between 1796 and 1799.  Olivier's succession inventory, probably not post-mortem, was filed at what became the Interior Parish courthouse in September 1798.  All of his sons married. 

Oldest son Joseph Olivier, also called Olivier, married Félicité, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Honoré Breaux and Marie Félicité Trahan, at the Thibodauxville church in April 1820.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Rosalie Félicité in May 1821; Joseph Célestin in February 1823; Abdèle Eulalie in February 1825; Marie Hortance in February 1826; Onésime in February 1829; Joseph Oville in February 1831; Rosalie Doralisse, called Doralisse, in December 1832; Mathilde Zéolide in January 1835; Clémentine Azélie in February 1837; and François Tresimond or Trasimond in October 1839--10 children, six daughters and four sons, between 1821 and 1839.  Daughters Rosalie, Doralisse, ... married into the Guidry, LeBoeuf, Babin, Guillot, and Trahan families by 1870.  Two of Olivier's sons also married by then.  The oldest son moved to lower Bayou Teche after the War of 1861-65. 

Oldest son Joseph Célestin, also called W. Joseph, married Mathilde, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Marcellin Landry and Rosalie Savoie of Terrebonne Parish, at the Thibodaux church in January 1846; the marriage was recorded also in Terrebonne Parish.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joseph Octave in October 1848; Augustave Ozémé in June 1850; Marie Zilda in March 1852, but, called Marie Zelda, died at age 3 1/2 in July 1855; Marie Octavie born in February 1854; Joseph Roselius in February 1856; Joseph Alfred in March 1858; Marie Malvina in September 1861; Joseph Théophile in January 1864; ...  Daughter ... married a Landry cousin on lower Bayou Teche, where Joseph and Mathilde were living in 1866, after the war.  None of Joseph Célestin's sons married by 1870. 

Olivier's second son Onésime married Rosa, Rosalie, or Roselia Eve, daughter of fellow Acadian Marin Trahan and his Creole wife Odile Waguespack, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in March 1861, and sanctified the marriage at the Montegut church, Terrebonne Parish, in November 1868.  Their children, born in Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes, included Lezin near Montegut in February 1863; Marie Delphine in July 1865; Jean Baptiste Lovency in January 1868; Marie Joséphine in Lafourche Parish in December 1870; ... 

Olivier's second son Célestin Valentin married Marcelline, also called Célesie, 20-year-old daughter of Louis Baudoin and Geneviève Himel, at the Thibodauxville church in February 1822.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Louis Célestin in November 1822 but died age 2 in November 1824; Alexis Cyprien or Cyprien Alexis born in September 1824; Marie Pauline, called Pauline, in January 1826; Marie Céleste in April 1829; Marie Séraphine, called Séraphine, in October 1831; and Marie Marcelline or Marcellite posthumously in December 1833--six children, two sons and four daughters, between 1822 and 1833.  Célestin, père died in Lafourche Interior Parish in September 1833, age 35.  His succession inventory, naming his wife and listing his remaining children--Alexis Cyprien, Marie Pauline, Marie Céleste, Marie Séraphine, and Marie Marcelline--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in November 1838.  A petition for family meeting in his name, calling his wife Marcelline Baudoin Hébert and listing his daughters--Marie Marceline, Marie Séraphine, and Marie Céleste--but not his remaining son, was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in October 1846, 13 years after his passing.  Daughters Pauline, Séraphine, and Marie Marcellite married into the Boudreaux and Bourg families, including two Boudreaux brothers, by 1870.  Célestin's son also married by then.

Younger son Alexis Cyprien or Cyprien Alexis married Marie Pauline, called Pauline, daughter of fellow Acadians Théodore Boudreaux and Marie Blanche LeBlanc, at the Thibodaux church in April 1845; Cyprien Alexis's sisters Pauline and Marie Marcellite married his wife Pauline's brothers Eugène and Daniel.  Alexis and Pauline's children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Victorine in February 1846; and Alexis, fils died in Lafourche Interior Parish six days after his birth in February 1849.  Alexis, père died by May 1850, when his wife remarried to a Mire in Lafourche Interior Parish.  Daughter Marie married Boudreaux cousins by 1870.  Did his family line, except perhaps for its blood, endure? 

Olivier's third and youngest son Martin married Marie Josèphe, 24-year-old daughter of Nicolas Gabriel Albert, fils and his Acadian wife Madeleine Bourg, at the Thibodauxville church in July 1829.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Valéry Olivier in April 1830; Azélie, perhaps also called Adèle, in June 1831; Marie Marcelite, called Marcelite, in December 1832; Joseph Olésime or Onésime in February 1835; Marie Zéolide, called Zéolide, in April 1837; Victorine in late 1838 but died at age 2 months in January 1839; Evariste born in March 1840; Cléofa or Cléopha Léon in November 1842; and Rosela Armantine in August 1844--nine children, four sons and five daughters, between 1830 and 1844.  Martin died in "1860 or 1861," in his early 60s.  An "Application for administration," naming his wife and listing his children and some of their spouses--Valéry, Adèle and her husband, Marcellite and her husband, Joseph, Zéolide, Evariste, Cléophas, Rosela, and Marie--was filed at the Houma courthouse, Terrebonne Parish, in December 1865.  Daughters Adèle, Marcelite, and Marie married into the Thibodeaux, Adam, and Hotard families by 1870.  Two of Martin's sons also married by then.  His older son moved to the Bayou Teche valley after the War of 1861-65. 

Oldest son Valéry married Evéline or Evelina, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Noël Boudreaux and his second wife Aimée Caroline Olivier, a Creole, at the Thibodaux church in June 1857; the marriage was recorded also in Terrebonne Parish, but they lived on the upper bayou near the boundary between Lafourche and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie Alfredge in April 1858 but, called Alfrege, died the following November; André Treville born in November 1859; Louis Henri in April 1862; Jean Elphége in March 1864; ...  They were living near Breaux Bridge, St. Martin Parish, on the middle Teche, in 1866.  Valéry's succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse, St. Martin Parish, in April 1868.  He would have been age 38 that year. 

Martin's second son Joseph Onésime married Euphrosine, daughter of Thomas Calegan and his Acadian wife Pauline Boudreaux, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in March 1867; the marriage was recorded also in Lafourche Parish. ...

Joseph-Ignace's third son Louis Ambroise, by first wife Anne Dugas, followed his family to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche. After he came of age, he followed his oldest brother to the western prairies and settled at the northern edge of the Attakapas District.  He died near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in August 1824.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Louis, "native of the city of Nantes in France," died "at age 42 years" and was "buried ... in the parish cemetery dans mon absence (during my absence)."  Louis actually was age 40 and evidently did not marry. 

Joseph-Ignace's fourth and youngest son Jean Baptiste, called Jean, from first wife Anne Dugas, evidently was the Jean Baptiste Hébert who married Céleste Azélie or Azélie Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadians Basile Prejean le jeune and Rosalie Lachaussée, in Lafourche Interior Parish in the late 1810s.  Their children, born on the bayou, included Marie Doralise in December 1818; Rosalie in the late 1810s or early 1820s; Jean Baptiste Célestin in January 1820; Pauline Constance or Constance Pauline in August 1821; Denyse or Denise in January 1823; Élodie in c1824 but died at age 8 in September 1832; Neuville Alexandre or Alexandre Neuville, called Neuville, born in November 1824; Odile in January 1828; Céleste Rosalie in May 1830; Marie Totille in January 1833; Marie Lesida in December 1835; and Marie Solomé, perhaps also called Marie Psalme, in June 1840--a dozen children, 10 daughters and two sons, between 1818 and 1840.  One wonders if he was the Jean Baptiste Hébert who, in 1816, donated land near Thibodauxville on Bayou Lafourche for a new church.  Daughters Rosalie, Marie Doralise, Constance Pauline, Denise, Céleste, and Marie Psalme married into the Bernard, Roger, Delatte, Adam, and Levert families, including two Delatte cousins, by 1870.  Jean Baptiste's sons also married, and one of them moved to lower Bayou Teche. 

Older son Jean Baptiste Célestin married Marie Eulalie, also called Marie Zoé and perhaps Céleste, daughter of Philippe Vigneau, Vignaud, Vigneaud, Vignaux, or Vignon, also called Provost, and Hortense Prevaux, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in January 1846, and sanctified the marriage at the Thibodaux church the following month.  They remained on the Lafourche until after the War of 1861-65, when they moved to lower Bayou Teche.  Their children, born there, included Bélisaire Derneville in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1846; Hilaire in March 1849; Marie Céleste in September 1850; Jean Philippe in December 1851; Henri Onésiphore in September 1853; Abel Thearne in March 1855 but, called Abel, died at age 1 1/2 in June 1856; a child, name and age unrecorded, died in November 1856; Marie Esilda, Elezida, Lesida, or Lezida born in February 1858; Néomie Amanda in November 1859; Émelie Sidonia in November 1861; Jean Baptiste, fils in January 1865; Joseph Luke near New Iberia, on lower Bayou Teche, in September 1866; ...  Daughter Lesida may have married into the Bonvillain family by 1870.  One of Jean Baptiste Célestin's sons also married by then, on Bayou Lafourche, but did not remain. 

Oldest son Bélisaire married first cousin Ernée or Émée, daughter of Hermogène Adam and his Acadian wife Denise Hébert, at the Thibodaux church in May 1869.  Their son Louis Jean Baptiste was born near Lydia, Iberia Parish, in May 1870; ...

Jean Baptiste's younger son Neuville Alexandre or Alexandre Neuville, called Neuville, married Marie Adèle, called Adèle, daughter of Jean Baptiste Kerne and Céleste Vicknair of St. John the Baptist Parish, at the Thibodaux church in February 1846.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Alexandre Émile in November 1847; Simon Alfred in April 1849; Marie Rosalle in July 1851; Blanche Adèla in March 1853, but, called Adèla, died at age 2 1/2 August 1855; Eugène born in February 1855; Numa in July 1857; Léocadie Otato in January 1860; Joséphine Lidia in September 1861; Octavie Cécilia in September 1863; Julie Alida in January 1866; ...  None of Neuville's children married by 1870. 

Jean-Baptiste (c1748-1820) à René dit Groc à Jean le jeune à Antoine Hébert

Jean-Baptiste, third and youngest son of Jean Hébert le jeune and his first wife Marie-Madeleine Doiron, born at Minas in c1748, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and St.-Malo, France, and settled with his widowered father and siblings on the river south of the Breton port at St.-Suliac, where he married Anne-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexis Dugas and Anne Bourg, in February 1768--on the same day and at the same place his older brother Joseph-Ignace married Anne-Josèphe's Dugas cousin.  Anne-Josèphe gave Jean-Baptiste three sons at St.-Suliac:  Alexis-Toussaint born in November 1768; Jean-Joseph in April 1771; and Ambroise-Mathurin in November 1772.  Jean-Baptiste and his family followed his older brother to the interior of Poitou in 1773 or 1774.  Son Firmin-Joseph was born at Leigné-les-Bois east of Châtellerault in October 1774 but died four days after his birth.  In December 1775, after two years of effort, they retreated with his brother and other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtelleraultg to Nantes.  Oldest son Alexis-Toussaint died in Ste.-Croix Parish there in March 1776, age 7 1/2.  Meanwhile, Anne-Josèphe gave Jean-Baptiste four more children in the lower Loire port:  Anne-Marguerite born in Ste.-Croix Parish in August 1776 but died in May 1777; Simon born in St.-Similien Parish in April 1778; Marie-Jeanne in March 1781 but died the following June; and Alexis-Thomas born in December 1782.  In 1785, Jean-Baptiste, Anne-Josèphe, and their four remaining sons followed his older brother to Spanish Louisiana.  Another son, Martin, was born aboard ship or at New Orleans and named after his godfather, Spanish intendente Martin Navarro--nine children, seven sons and two daughters, between 1768 and 1785, in France and aboard ship, most of whom died young.  Jean-Baptiste and Anne-Josèphe followed his brother and their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche and had no more children in the colony.  Their youngest child, Martin, evidently did not survive childhood.  Jean-Baptiste died in Ascension Parish in March 1819, in his early 70s.  His successions, dated 20 and 22 May 1819, which called his wife Anne Dugas and Anne Joseph Dugas, and listed his remaining children, his grandchildren, and some of their spouses--son Ambroise; son Alexis; granddaughter Eléonore or Léonora and her husband; granddaughter Constance and her husband; granddaughter Joséphine; and grandson Jean Baptiste le jeune--were filed at the Lafourche Interior Parish courthouse, Thibodauxville; another succession was filed at the Terrebonne Parish courthouse, Houma, in April 1820; and a succession inventory was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse in November 1831.  Neither of Jean Baptiste's daughters survived childhood.  Three of his sons married and created vigorous lines in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley. 

Second son Jean-Joseph, also called Jean-Baptiste, fils, followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste LeBlanc and his second wife Marguerite Célestin dit Bellemère, at Assumption in April 1793.  Madeleine, a native of Belle-Île-en-Mer, had come to Louisiana from France in 1785 with four of her siblings aboard an earlier vessel.  By the early 1800s, she and Jean Joseph had moved down bayou into what became Interior, late Lafourche Interior, Parish.  Their chldren, born on the bayou, included Ludivine-Constance or Constance-Ludivine in August 1795; Marie-Marguerite in October 1797; Marie-Eléonore in May 1799; Josèphe- or Joséphine-Modeste in May 1801; Jean-Baptiste le jeune in c1803; and Rosalie Susanne in November 1805--six children, five daughters and a son, between 1795 and 1805.  Jean Joseph's succession inventory, naming his wife, was filed at what soon would become the Interior Parish courthouse at Thibodauxville in December 1806.  He would have been age 35 that year.  Daughters Constance Ludivine, Marie Eléonore, and Joséphine married into the Thibodeaux, Guillot, and Mussau or Musseau families.  Jean Joseph's son also married and settled down bayou in Terrebonne Parish.  

Only son Jean-Baptiste le jeune married cousin Marie Angélique, called Angélique, 23-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Martin LeBlanc and Céleste Pitre, at the Thibodauxville church in August 1828.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Jean Jacques in May 1829; and Céleste Virginie in November 1831.  In his late 30s, Jean Baptiste, living in Terrebonne Parish, remarried to Marie Élise, called Élise, Hélise, Louise, and Augustine, daughter of Jean Baptiste Fremin and his Acadian wife Marie Françoise Aucoin, at the Thibodaux church in November 1839.  Their children, born on the Lafourche and in Terrebonne Parish, included Eulalie Marie in Lafourche Interior Parish in August 1840; Adèle Julie in July 1842; Robert Ernest in December 1844; Joseph Lhomère at Bayou Black, Terrebonne Parish, in January 1850; Pierre in November 1851; Jean Marie in November 1853; Odillia Evelina in October 1855; Adam Armogène in December 1861; ...  Jean-Baptiste's daughters, by both wives, married into the Breaux and LeBoeuf families by 1870.  One of his sons also married by then and moved to the western prairies after the War of 1861-65. 

Oldest son Jean Jacques, by first wife Angélique LeBlanc, married cousin Marie Azélie, daughter of Augustin Fremin and his Acadian wife Fannie Hébert, at the Thibodaux church in August 1852.  They settled in Terrebonne Parish before moving to the western prairies.  Their children, born there, included Jean Baptiste le jeune in Terrebonne Parish in December 1853; Odillia Stéphanie in April 1856; Aurelien near Youngsville, Lafayette Parish, in October 1866; ...  Daughter ... married an Hébert cousin in Lafayette Parish by 1870.  None of Jean Jacques's sons married by then. 

Jean-Baptiste's third son Ambroise-Mathurin followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where, at age 21, he may have fathered a "natural child," Pierre-Félix-Ambroise, by fellow Acadian Marie-Marguerite, called Marguerite, Lejeune, in October 1794.  Marguerite, age 25 in 1794, a native of Morlaix in Brittany, had come to Louisiana from France in 1785 aboard a later ship.   There is no record of a marriage between Ambroise-Mathurin and Marguerite (she went on to marry widower and fellow Acadian Joseph-François Chiasson of St.-Servan-sur-Mer at Assumption on the upper Lafourche in January 1797, and they raised her Hébert son), but Ambroise-Mathurin did marry Isabelle-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles-Olivier Guillot and Madeleine Boudreaux, at Assumption in November 1797.  Isabelle-Madeleine, a native of Trigavou on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo, also had come to Louisiana in 1785 aboard Le St.-Rémi.  Her and Ambroise-Mathurin's children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie-Madeleine in c1796 or 1797; Joséphine in July 1798; Alexis-Ambroise in April 1801; Rosalie Clémence in the early 1800s; a child, name obscured in the record, in January 1803; Jean Vincent, called Vincent, in April 1805; Olivier Marcellin, also called Olivier B., in March 1807; Théotiste Pélagie in June 1809; Ambroise Mathurin, fils in May 1811; and Marie Estelle in c1814--11 children, at least five sons and five daughters, by two women, between 1794 and 1814.  A succession, naming his wife, listing his children and some of their spouses--Marie Madeleine, age 25, and her husband; Rosalia Clémence, age 19, and her husband; John Vincent, age 17; Oliver Marcelin, age 15; Théotiste, age 13; Ambroise Mathurin, fils, age 11; and Marie Estelle, age 8--and providing for the tutelage of his minor children was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse, Lafourche Interior Parish, in February 1822.  He would have been age 50 that year.  Daughters Marie Madeleine, Rosalie Clémence, Théotiste Pélagie, and Marie Estelle married into the Sevin, McLahlan, Pichot, Lejeune, and Babin families, two of them to Sevin brothers, and Joséphine may have married into the Caillouet family at Convent on the river.  Two of Ambroise Mathurin's sons also married and settled on the Lafourche. 

Third son Jean Vincent, called Vincent, married Tarsile Geneviève, 19-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Hilaire Clément and Geneviève Sophie Boudreaux, at the Thibodauxville church in June 1828.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Jean Ursin, called Ursin, in November 1829; Marie Louise Silvanie, called Louise, in August 1831; Silvin or Sylvain Cyprien, called Sylvain, in October 1833; Marie Adèle Justine in August 1835 but died at age 1 1/2 in November 1836; Marie Pauline Anette, called Pauline, born in July 1837; Estelle in c1841; Marie Adolphine, called Adolphine, in January 1843; and Marie Clara, called Clara, in August 1845--eight children, two sons and six daughters, between 1829 and 1845.  Vincent died in Lafourche Parish in October 1861.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial said that Vincent died "at age 58 yrs."  He was 56.  Daughters Louise, Pauline, Clara, Estelle, and Adolphine married into the Benoit, Morvant, Breaux, and Boudreaux families, two of them to Benoits and two of them on the same date and at the same place, by 1870.  Both of Vincent's sons also married by then. 

Older son Ursin married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Benoit and his Creole wife Rosalie Navarre, at the Thibodaux church in February 1854; Marie was a sister of Ursin's younger sister Estelle.  Ursin and Marie's children, born on the Lafourche, included Angelina Clémence in November 1854; Joseph Émile in June 1856 but, called Émile, died in July; twins Émile, the second with the name, and Marie Adelina, in June 1858, but Émile died a day after his birth; Neuville Adam born in September 1860; Joseph Ozéma in January 1863; Martial in March 1865; Marie Victoria in July 1867; Joseph Félix in February 1870; ...  None of Ursin's children married by 1870. 

Vincent's younger son Sylvain married Apauline dite Pauline, daughter of fellow Acadian Valéry Guillot and his Creole wife Arthémise Morvant, at the Thibodaux church in April 1854.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie in April 1855; Joseph Silvère in January 1858; Joseph Olivain in April 1860; Jean Émile in May 1862; Joseph Adrici in June 1864; Marie Odilia in November 1866; Marie in March 1869; ...  None of Syvain's children married by 1870.  

Ambroise Mathurin's fourth son Olivier Marcellin, also called Olivier B., married Tarsile Marie or Marie Tarsile, 22-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Noël Victor Boudreaux and Rosalie LeBlanc, at the Thibodauxville church in October 1834.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joseph Trémond in March 1836 but, called Joseph Rémond, died at age 5 months, 4 days, the following September; Ulgère Marcellin Adam, called Marcellin, born in June 1837; Charles Jean Baptiste in November 1838 but, called Charles, died at age 4 1/2 (the recording priest said 6) in May 1843; Auguste Félix born in November 1840 but, called Auguste, died at age 18 in December 1858; Victorine Joséphine born in December 1842; Marie Zéolide, perhaps also called Euphrasie, in June or December 1845; Marie Odillia, called Odillia, in December 1846; and Azélie in March 1849--eight children, four sons and four daughters, between 1836 and 1849.  Letters of tutorship for three of Oliver's daughters--Victorine, Odelia, and Euphrasie--naming his wife, were filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in July 1859.  He would have been age 52 that year.  Daughters Victorine and Odillia married into the Rabat, Rabatte, or Rabbas, Clément, and Tauzin families, one of them, Victorine, twice, by 1870.  One of Olivier's sons also married by then. 

Second son Marcellin married Adèle, daughter of fellow Acadian Eugène Part and his Creole wife Adèle Estivennes, at the Thibodaux church in September 1856.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Eugène Marcellin in July 1857; and Aurestile Marcelin Adam posthumously in March 1859.  Marcellin died in Lafourche Parish in January 1859, age 21 (the recording priest at the Thibodaux church said age 22). 

Jean-Baptiste's fifth son Simon followed his family to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche.  He was still living with his parents at Assumption on the upper bayou in January 1798, age 20, but may not have married.  

Jean-Baptiste's sixth son Alexis Thomas followed his family to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marie Pélagie, daughter of fellow Acadians Firmin Charles Thibodeaux and Marie Thériot of St. James on the river, at Assumption in February 1804.  Marie Pélagie had been born in Louisiana soon after her family came to the colony aboard Le St.-Rémi.  Her and Alexis Thomas's children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Éloise Devani, also called Louise Ludivine, in February 1806; Jean Joseph in May 1807; Alexis Séraphin in November 1809; Léandre, also called Léon and Alexandre, in October 1811; Pierre dit Pierrot in the 1810s; and Euphrosine Rosalie or Pélagie in September 1816--six children, two daughters and four sons, between 1806 and 1816.  Alexis Thomas died in Ascension Parish in May 1820, age 38.  Daughters Louise Ludivine and Euphrosine Pélagie married into the Aucoin and Barbier families.  Three of Alexis Thomas's sons also married, and one of them settled on the lower Teche.

Second son Alexis Séraphin married Anne Arsène Jeanne, called Arsène, daughter of Jean Langlinais and his Acadian wife Céleste LeBlanc, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in May 1832.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche and the lower Teche, included Alexis Zéphirin in Assumption Parish in February 1836; Jean Séverin in January 1838; Anselme Jule in April 1840; and Célestine Joséphine near Charenton, St. Mary Parish, on the lower Teche, in September 1844--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1836 and 1844.  None of Alexis Séraphin's children married by 1870, at least not in South Louisiana. 

Alexis Thomas's third son Léandre, also called Léon and Alexandre, married cousin Amelina, Émelina, Carmelina, Evéline, or Mélina, daughter of Auguste Campo and his Acadian wife Mélite Hébert, at the Plattenville church in November 1836.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Augustine, called Augustine, near Plattenville in August 1837; Augustin Alexis in August 1839; Clémence, called Clémentine, in February 1842; Marine Odilia in August 1844; Maria Offilia or Ophélia, called Ophélia and Mary, in December 1846; Pierre Désiré in April 1849; and Joseph Alexi or Alexis, called Alexis, near Paincourtville in October 1852--seven children, four daughters and three sons, between 1837 and 1852.  Daughters Augustine and Clémentine married into the Landry and Rodrigue families by 1870.  None of Léandre's sons married by then. 

Alexis Thomas's fourth and youngest son Pierre dit Pierrot married Élise or Élisa, daughter of fellow Acadians François Crochet and Eulalie Landry, at the Plattenville church in May 1838.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Pélagie in March 1839; Adolphe Joseph in December 1840; Aurelia Marie in November 1842 but, called Marie Aurelia, died the following March; Joseph Eusilien born near Paincourtville in August 1844 but, called Joseph Dasilia, died the following October; Pierre Joseph born in April 1846; Justilien Sainville in April 1849; Marie Ofelie in November 1850; Silvain François in September 1853; and Cécilia in January 1857--nine children, four daughters and five sons, between 1839 and 1857.  Daughters ... married into the Hébert and Trahan families, one of them to a cousin on lower Bayou Teche, by 1870.  None of Pierrot's sons married by then. 

Joseph (c1749-1780s) à Jacques à Emmanuel à Étienne Hébert

Joseph, second son of Charles Hébert, père and his first wife Marguerite LeBlanc and nephew of François of Maryland and San Gabriel and Joseph-Marie of Le St.-Rémi, was born at Minas in c1749.  He followed his family to the French Maritimes and to St.-Malo, France, in 1758-59, when he was still a child, and settled with his widowered father and brother at St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, across the harbor from St.-Malo, before moving to St.-Suliac across the river from St.-Énogat and south of St.-Malo.  Joseph, at age 23, married Jeanne, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean De La Forestrie and his first wife Marie Bonnière of St.-Pierre-du-Nord, Île St.-Jean, at Plouër-sur-Rance across the river from St.-Suliac in July 1772.  Jeanne gave Joseph a son, Joseph-Marie, born at Plouër in July 1773.  Later that year, they followed other exiles to the interior of Poitou, where Jeanne gave him another son, Charles, born in St.-Jacques Parish, Châtellerault, in May 1775.  That November, after two years of effort, Joseph, Jeanne, and their two sons retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes.  Jeanne gave Joseph three more children in the lower Loire port:  Marie-Rose born in St.-Similien Parish in February 1777; Louis-Jean in June 1779; and Anne-Marguerite at nearby St.-Martin de Chantenay in March 1785--five children , three sons and two daughters, between 1773 and 1785.  Joseph, Jeanne, and their five children, one of them still an infant, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Joseph died there before January 1788, when wife Jeanne was listed in a Valenzuela District census as a widow.  She remarried to fellow Acadian Sébastien Benoit the following year, and she and her Hébert children followed him to the far southwestern prairies.  Her Hébert daughters Marie Rose and Anne Marguerite married into the Lebert, Bodin, and Olivier families on the prairies.  Her Hébert sons also married, two on the prairies and one on the upper Lafourche, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Joseph-Marie followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and upper Bayou Lafourche.  In the late 1790s, after he came of age, he followed his mother and stepfather to the southwestern prairies, where he married cousin Marie-Barbe, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Jeannot of Québec and Cabahannocer and his Acadian wife Marguerite Hébert, at Opelousas in May 1799.  Joseph and Marie-Barbe remained in the Opelousas District, now St. Landry Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie Euphrosine, called Euphrosine and Froisine, baptized, age 3 months[sic], in April 1802; Auguste or Augustin born in c1803 and baptized at age 1 in November 1804; Joseph, fils baptized, age 11 months, in December 1806; Adélaïde born in June 1807; Maximilien in February 1810; Augustine in February 1812; Alexandre in January 1814; and Charles le jeune in December 1817 but died at age 1 1/2 in October 1819--eight children, three daughters and five sons, between 1802 and 1817.  Daughter Euphrosine married into the Frugé family in her early teens.  Two of Joseph Marie's remaining sons also married and settled in Lafayette Parish, south of Opelousas, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Auguste or Augustin may have married fellow Acadian Pétit Anne Trahan in Lafayette Parish in the early 1820s.  Their children, born there, included Adélaïde or Adeline in October 1823; Edmond in 1825 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 9 months, in August 1826; and Paul born perhaps in 1828--three children, a daughter and two sons, between 1823 and 1828.  Successions for Petit Ann Trahan, naming her husband Auguste Hébert, were filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in September 1828 and April 1831.  One wonders if the successions were post-mortem.  Daughter Adeline married into the Lejeune family by 1870.  One of Auguste's sons also married by then.

Younger son Paul married Marie Eugénie, called Eugénie, daughter of Antoine Labbé and his Acadian wife Madeleine Comeaux, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in November 1861, and sanctified the marriage at the Church Point church, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in May 1867.  Daughter Marie Marceline was born near Church Point in October 1862; ...

Joseph's second son Joseph, fils married Marie Boullé, widow of Marcel Essin, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in April 1826.  Daughter Marie Célestine was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 1 month and 28 days, in October 1827.  Joseph, at age 61, remarried to Aclament, daughter of Joseph Javille and Caroline Frugé, at the Church Point church in January 1867.  Daughter Marie Célestine, by his first wife, may have married into the Abshire family.  Did Joseph, fils father a son by either of his wives? 

Joseph's second son Charles followed his family to Nantes, New Orleans, and upper Bayou Lafourche.  During the late 1790s, after he came of age, he followed his mother, stepfather, and older brother to the southwestern prairies, where he married Pélagie, daughter of Vincent Dumesnil and his Acadian wife Rose Trahan of St. James on the river, at Attakapas in April 1804.  They settled at Carencro on the northern edge of the Attakapas District.  Their children, born there, included Simon Séverin, called Séverin and also Désiré, in February 1805; Adélaïde in January 1807; Sosthène in January 1809; Joseph in May 1811; and Ursin in July 1813--five children, four sons and a daughter, between 1805 and 1813.  Charles died probably at Carencro in March 1857, age 81 (the recording priest at Grand Coteau said 82).  Daughter Adélaïde married into the Caruthers family.  Three of Charles's sons also married and settled on the prairies. 

Oldest son Simon Séverin, called Séverin and also Désiré, married Marcellite or Marcelline, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Babineaux and Céleste Comeaux, at the Vermilionville church in July 1826.  They settled near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Joseph le jeune died at birth in January 1828; Alexandre died at age 1 month in April 1829; another Joseph le jeune died the day of his birth in February 1830; Désiré born in January 1833; yet another Joseph le jeune in November 1834; Jean in October 1838; Céleste in December 1840; a son, name unrecorded, died at birth in August 1842; Pélogie or Pélagie born in September 1843; Charles le jeune in August 1845; Hippolyte in June 1848; Marie in November 1850; and Eugénie in October 1853 but died at age 8 days in early November--13 children, nine sons and four daughters, between 1828 and 1853.  Séverin died probably at Carencro in December 1868.  The Grand Coteau priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Séverin died "at age 65 yrs."  Simon Séverin would have been 63.  His succession, calling his wife Marcelite, had been filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the previous August, so he may have died of a lengthy illness.  Daughters Céleste and Pélagie married into the Prejean and Kilchrist families by 1870.  Four of Séverin's sons also married by then. 

Third son Désiré married Marie Elmire, called Elmire, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Treville Breaux and Marie Richard, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in January 1854.  They settled probably at Carencro.  Their chilidren, born there, included Marcellite Élodie in October 1854; Alcée in July 1856 but died at age 1 in October 1857; Marie Emitile born in May 1858; Onésime Claircee in July 1860; Jean Clairfe in November 1862; ...  None of Désiré's children married by 1870. 

Simon Séverin's fourth son Joseph le jeune, the third with the name, married, at age 19, cousin Marie Théotiste, Helvetie, or Helvetre, perhaps also called Mélasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Hébert and Justine Guilbeau, at the Grand Coteau church in May 1854.  They settled probably at Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Émilia in May 1854; and Pierre in June 1855 but died a month shy of age 13 in May 1868.  Wife Marie died probably at Carencro at age 25, nine days after son Pierre was born.  Her succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse a few days after her death.  Joseph le jeune remarried to Marie Azélie, daughter of French Canadian Louis Roger le jeune and his Acadian wife Marie Azéline Prejean, at the Vermilionville church in April 1857.  Joseph le jeune and Marie Azélie also settled near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Martial in July 1858; Jérôme in December 1859; Joseph, fils in July 1861; and Josette Azéma perhaps posthumously in June 1863--six children, two daughters and four sons, by two wives, between 1854 and 1863.  Joseph le jeune's succession, indentifying both of his wives, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in January 1863.  He would have been age 28 at the time.  One wonders if the succession was post-mortem and, if so, if Joseph le jeune's death was war-related.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Simon Séverin's fifth son Jean married Coralie, daughter of fellow Acadian Julien Comeaux and his Anglo-Creole wife Arthémise Caruthers, at the Vermilionville church in June 1861.  She evidently gave him no children.  Jean remarried to first cousin Athanaise, daughter of fellow Acadians Sosthène Hébert and Rosalie Benoit, his uncle and aunt, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in January 1866, and sanctified the marriage at the Church Point church in January 1867.  Their children, born near Church Point, included Joseph Marcial in November 1866; Jean Charles, perhaps their son, in Lafayette Parish in November 1869; ... 

Simon Séverin's seventh and youngest son Hippolyte married Marie Emerida dite Merida, daughter of fellow Acadians Hippolyte Breaux and Sidalise Benoit, at the Vermilionville church in July 1867. ...  They settled probably at Carencro. 

Charles's second son Sosthène married Marguerite Rosalie or Rosella, called Rosella, daughter of fellow Acadians François Xavier Benoit and Marguerite Trahan, at the Vermilionville church in February 1833.  They may have settled in what became Calcasieu Parish.  Their children, born on the prairies, included François Ducroiselle, called Ducroiselle, baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 6 months, in August 1834 but, called Deiloizel, died at age 3 in September 1837; François Israël born in December 1837; Marguerite Athenais in September 1842; twins Jean Jules and Joseph Gilles in March 1845; Charles Honoré, called Honoré, in February 1848; Marie Anaïse in October 1849; Étienne in April 1852; and Ernest in June 1855--nine children, three daughters and six sons, including a set of twins, between 1834 and 1855.  Sosthène died in Lafayette Parish in January 1870.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Sosthène died "at age 62 yrs."  He was 61.  Daughters ... married into Hébert and Missonnier families, one of them to a first cousin, by 1870.  One of Sosthène's sons also married by then.

 Fifth son Charles Honoré, called Honoré, married Azéna, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre LeBlanc and Adeline Broussard, at the Vermilionville church in May 1870. ...

Charles's fourth and youngest son Ursin married Marie Aimée, Émilie, or Emma, daughter of Hubert Janise and his Acadian wife Lise Thibodeaux, at the Vermilionville church in July 1834.  They settled near Carencro and then on upper Bayou Teche between Arnaudville and Breaux Bridge.  Their children, born there, included Darmasse or Darmas in June 1835; Élisabeth Marie or Marie Élisabeth baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 5 months, in July 1837; Joseph le jeune born in December 1838; Élisa in September 1840 but died in November; Ursin, fils born in December 1841; Marie Oberine in January 1844 but, called Marie Oliverie, died at age 8 in January 1852; Louis Homère or Omer born in May 1847; Marie Uveline in September 1849; Jacques Barthélémy in March 1851; Émelline in March 1853; Félix Numa in September 1855; Marie Cepalide near Arnaudville in March 1858; an unnamed child, perhaps theirs, died near Grand Coteau at age 3 days in January 1860; Hippolyte Mehu, perhaps Aimé, born near Arnaudville in December 1864 but may have died at age 1 in December 1865; ...  Daughter Élisabeth married into the Dohmann family by 1870.  Three of Ursin's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Darmas married Célestine, daughter of fellow Acadian Alexandre Guidry and his Creole wife Marie Céleste Calais, at the Arnaudville church, St. Landry Parish, in August 1867.  Their son Hippolyte Mehu was born near Arnaudville in June 1868; ... 

Ursin's second son Ursin, fils "of Pont Breaux" married Marie Mathilde, called Mathilde, daughter of Ulger Lanclos and his Acadian wife Eulalie Landry and widow of Alexandre Philias Hébert, at the Grand Coteau church in June 1867.  Mathilde's first husband had died in the War of 1861-65.  Ursin, fils and Mathilde's son Joseph Léophas was born near Arnaudville in March 1870; ...

Ursin, père's fourth son Louis Omer married Marie Louise, another daughter of Ulger Lanclos and Eulalie Landry, at the Arnaudville church in August 1867.  Their son Louis Lucius was born near Arnaudville in December 1869; ... 

Joseph's third and youngest son Louis-Jean followed his family to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche.  In the early 1790s, when he was still a boy, his mother, stepfather, and older brothers moved to the Calcasieu River area at the far western edge of the Opelousas District, near present-day Lake Charles, but Louis-Jean did not follow them there, or, more likely, he followed them there but returned to the upper Lafourche after he came of age.  At age 32, he married Félicité Julie, daughter of fellow Acadians Martin Bénoni Pitre and Jeanne Dantin, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in November 1812.  Félicité had been born in Louisiana a few years after her family had come to the colony from France in 1785 aboard the last of the Seven Ships.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Louise in c1818; and Virginie Rosalie Clémentine in December 1820 (though the recording priest at Thibodauxville did not give the father's name).  Daughter Marie Louise married into the Guin family.  Louis Jean evidently fathered no sons, but the blood of the family line may have endured. 

Joseph-Nicolas (1754-1818) ? Hébert

Joseph-Nicolas, called Nicolas, son of Pierre Hébert and Marie-Madeleine Daigre, born probably at Grand-Prè in c1754, ended up in France, perhaps via one of the French Maritime islands or via Virginia and England.  He came to Louisiana with the family of his uncle Blaise Thibodeau in 1785 and followed them to upper Bayou Lafourche, where, at age 32, he married Agnès, 30-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Honoré Gautreaux and Jeanne Lebert, in May 1786.  They may have been that rare Acadian couple who had no children.  Nicolas died in Assumption Parish in August 1818.  The Plattenville priest who recorded the burial said that Nicolas was age 72 when he died.  He was 64.  

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Ten more Héberts--two families, one a small one, the other a large one, a widow, and a young orphan--crossed on L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in early November 1785.  They followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where two more family lines added substantially to the number of Héberts there: 

Ambroise, fils (c1745-1813) à Jean, fils à Jean le jeune à Antoine Hébert

Ambroise, fils, second son of Ambroise Hébert and his first wife Marie-Madeleine Bourg and older brother of Isaac of La Bergère, born probably at Cobeguit in c1745, followed his family to Pointe-à-la-Jeunesse, Île Royale; St.-Malo, France; and nearby Pleslin, where he worked as a house carpenter.  He followed his family to Poitou in 1773 and, after two years of effort, retreated with them to Nantes in December 1775.  He followed his younger brothers to Louisiana in 1785 and settled with them on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Ambroise, fils never married.  Area church records reveal that he witnessed many marriages at the Assumption church at Plattenville, so he may have been a lay official of the parish.  He died in Assumption Parish in May 1813, in his late 60s. 

Jean-Pierre (c1747-1824) à Jean, fils à Jean le jeune à Antoine Hébert

Jean-Pierre, third son of Ambroise Hébert and his first wife Marie-Madeleine Bourg and brother of Isaac and Ambroise, fils, born probably at Cobeguit in c1747, followed his family to Île Royale, St.-Malo, Pleslin, Poitou, and Nantes.  In 1785, still a bachelor, he emigrated to Louisiana with older brother Ambroise, fils, also a bachelor, and settled with him and younger brother Isaac on upper Bayou Lafourche.  At age 40, Jean-Pierre married Eudoxile, 40-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Honoré Girouard and Marie-Josèphe Thériot, at Ascension on the river in October 1787 and settled on the upper Lafourche.  This was a first marriage for Eudoxile as well as Jean-Pierre.  She gave him no children, at least none who appear in local church and civil records.  Jean-Pierre died in Assumption Parish in November 1824, in his late 70s. 

Étienne (c1746-c1805) à Antoine le jeune à Étienne Hébert

Étienne, older son of Jean Hébert and Marguerite Mouton, born at Cap-Sable, Nova Scotia, in c1746, was captured with his family there in September 1758.  He followed them to Georges Island, Halifax, and, in November 1759, to Cherbourg, France, via England.  He arrived at Cherbourg in January 1760 and, though only in his early teens, worked in the Norman port as a sailor.  Later in the decade, he crossed the Baie de Seine to Le Havre, where, in Notre-Dame Parish, in his early 20s, he married Marie, 27-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Lavergne and Françoise Pitre, in January 1767.  Marie gave Étienne at least four children at Le Havre:  Marie-Cécile-Rose born in October 1767; Jean-Louis-Étienne in May 1769; Guillaume-Bénoni or -Béloni in c1772; and Marie-Marguerite-Julie in c1773.  They followed other Acadian exiles in the port cities to the interior of Poitou in 1773, where Marie gave Étienne another son, Louis-Gabriel, born at Cenan south of Châtellerault in February 1775.  The following November, after two years of effort, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes, where Marie gave him more children:  twins Charles-Lazare and Marguerite-Adélaïde born in St.-Nicolas Parish in September 1778, but Charles died eight days after his birth.  Wife Marie died in October 1778, age 40, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth, a month after the birth of her twins.  Étienne remarried to another Marie, this one daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Bourg and Françoise Benoit of Cobeguit, in St.-Nicolas Parish, Nantes, in August 1779.  She evidently gave him no more children, at least none who appear in local records, and died at Nantes in November 1780.  At age 28, Étienne remarried again--his third marriage--to Anne-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexis Breau and Marie-Josèphe Guillot, at St.-Martin de Chantenay near Nantes in August 1781.  Anne-Madeleine gave Étienne another daughter, Marie-Madeleine, born at Chantenay in May 1785--eight children, four daughters and four sons, by two of his three wives, between 1767 and 1785.  Later that year, Étienne, Anne-Madeleine, and his five remaining children, three sons and two daughters, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana.  Daughters Marie-Marguerite-Julie, who would have been age 12, and Marguerite-Adélaïde, a twin, who would have been age 7 in 1785, did not accompany the family to the Spanish colony, so they likely had died at Nantes by then.  Étienne and his family followed their fellow passengers from New Orleans to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Wife Anne-Madeleine gave Étienne no more children in the colony.  His succession, probably post-mortem, was filed at what became the Interior Parish courthouse in Thibodauxville in August 1805.  He would have been in his late 50s at the time.  Daughters Marie Cécile Rose and Marie Madeleine, by his first and third wives, married into the Neveu and Boutary families on the Lafourche.  Two, perhaps three, of Étienne's remaining sons also married, and two of them created vigorous lines on the upper Lafourche.

Oldest son Jean-Louis-Étienne, by first wife Marie Lavergne, followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marie-Victoire, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexis-Grégoire Doiron and Hélène Aucoin, in June 1791.  Marie-Victoire, a native of St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, across the harbor from St.-Malo, France, also had come to Louisiana in 1785 aboard L'Amitié.  They lived at New Orleans and Cabahannocer on the river before settling on Bayou Lafourche.  Their children, born on the river and the bayou, included Louis-Étienne, called Étienne, at Cabahannocer in August 1792; Cyrille baptized at Assumption on the upper Lafourche, age unrecorded, in December 1796; Marie, also called Marianne, born at New Orleans in November 1798; Marie-Cécile, called Cécile and perhaps Claire, in the late 1790s; Rosalie in October 1803; Hippolyte at Assumption in December 1804; Jean Baptiste in June 1807 but may have been the Jean Baptiste Hébert who died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, age 22, in April 1829; and Auguste Florentin born in the early 1810s--eight children, five sons and three daughters, between 1792 and the early 1810s.  Jean Louis died in Lafourche Interior Parish in May 1825.  The Thibodauxville priest who recorded the burial and who did not give any parent's names of mention a wife said that Jean Louis was age 60 when he died.  He was 55.  Daughters Marianne, Marie Cécile, and Rosalie married into the Lanconi or Lanzon, Doucet, and Martin families on the Lafourche.  Two, perhaps three, of Jean Louis Étienne's sons also married and settled on the bayou, but not all of the lines endured.

Oldest son Louis Étienne, called Étienne, married Rose, also called Fleurance, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Doucet and his Creole wife Barbara Daublin, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in May 1811.  Did they have any children who survived childhood? 

Jean Louis Étienne's third son Hippolyte was still a minor when a succession appointed Louis Hébert, probably his elder brother, as his tutor in July 1818.  Hippolyte married Marie Faralie or Fanalie Rose, also called Eulalie, 18-year-old daughter of Joseph Forgeron, also called Ford and Forge, and his Acadian wife Rosalie Roger, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in July 1825.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marcelin, perhaps daughter Marcelline Clémentine, in August 1827; Hippolyte, fils in March 1829; Rosalie Susanne in June 1831; Séveline Aglaé or Aglaé Séverine in September 1833; Jule or Jules Pierre or Pierre Jules in December 1835; Mathilde in January 1839; Séraphine in January 1841; Élodie Roséma, called Roséma, in September 1842; Pauline Anaïse, called Anaïse, in January 1845; Adélaïde in January 1848; and Marie Pauline in July 1851--11 children, two sons and nine daughters, between 1827 and 1851.  Daughters Marcelline Cémentine, Rosalie, Aglaé Séverine, Mathilde, Séraphine, Roséma, Anaïse, and Adélaïde married into the Thibodeaux, Andra, Boudreaux, St. Charles, Hans or House, Molaison, and Martin families, two of them to Boudreauxs, by 1870.  Two of Hippolyte's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Hippolyte, fils married Victoire Angélique or Angélique Victoire, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Boudreaux and his Creole wife Angélique Toups, at the Thibodaux church in October 1848; Hippolyte, fils's sister Aglaé Séverine married Victoire's brother Étienne.  Hippolyte, fils and Angélique's children, born on the Lafourche, included Joacin or Joachim Hippolyte in November 1849; Marie Pauline, called Pauline, in July 1851; Louisa Rosa in April 1855; Drauzin in June 1858; Joseph Adam in October 1861; Louisa Victoria in June 1864; ...  Daughter Pauline married into the Chiasson family by 1870.  None of Hippolyte, fils's sons married by then. 

Hippolyte, père's younger son Pierre Jules married Marie Clémentine, called Clémentine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Boudreaux and Modeste Clémence Thibodeaux, at the Thibodaux church in May 1860.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Adélaïde Pamela in March 1861; Paul Lovinsci in February 1862; Marie Lovina in March 1863; Julia Joséphine in January 1865; Julie Clémence in December 1866; Marcellin in June 1869; ... 

Jean Louis Étienne's fifth and youngest son Auguste Florentin died in Terrebonne Parish, "a minor," in 1829.  His succession inventory, listing his sisters--Cécile, Rosalie, and Marianne--as heirs, was filed at the Houma courthouse in September 1833.  He may have had a son named Cirille who evidently was grown in April 1835, when he, Cirille, filed a quittance with the widow of Henry Schuyler Thibodaux at the Houma courthouse.  One wonders who was Cirille's mother and if she had married his father, or if Cirille actually was Cyrille, older brother of Auguste Florentin, who, if he was still living, would have been age 39 in 1835 and who evidently never married.  Regardless, there is no evidence that Auguste Florentin's line, even if it existed, endured. 

Étienne's second son Guillaume-Bénoni or -Béloni, by first wife Marie Lavergne, followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marie-Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Dantin and his first wife Jeanne Gesmier, a Frenchwoman, in January 1793.  Marie-Anne, a native of Poitou, also had come to Louisiana in 1785 aboard L'Amitié.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche and perhaps also at New Orleans, included Marie-Louise in October 1793; François-Louis in October 1795; Jean-Louis, called Louis, in August 1797; Eugénie Renée in October 1799 and baptized at New Orleans the following May; Marguerite-Marcellite, called Marcellite, born in May 1801; Louis-Auguste or -Augustin in August 1803; and Céleste in March 1805--seven children, four daughters and three sons, between 1793 and 1805.  Guillaume Bénoni died by June 1816, when he was recorded in daughter Eugénie's marriage record as deceased.  He would have been in his early 40s that year.  A "Sale of slaves" in his and his wife's names was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse in April 1821.  A public auction of his estate property was held in Lafourche Interior Parish in April 1833.  Daughters Marie, Eugénie, Marcellite, and Céleste married into the Molaison, Thibodaux, Adam, and Lirette families, one of them to a son of a future Louisiana governor.  Guilaume Bénoni's three sons also married, two of them to sisters, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son François Louis likely married Lucie Adélaïde, called Adélaïde, daughter of Jean Pierre Lirette of Nantes and his Acadian wife Marie Madeleine Darembourg, probably in Assumption Parish in the mid or late 1810s; one of François's sisters married one of Adélaïde's brothers, and François's youngest brother married one of Adélaïde's sisters.  François and Adélaïde settled on the upper bayou near the boundary between Assumption and Lafourche Interior parishes.  Their children, born there, included François Sylvain, also called François, fils, in March 1817 but died at age 11 in September 1828; Louis Marcellien, Marcillien, Marcelière, Morselière, or Maxillière born in May 1818; Delphine Émilissine in December 1819; Marie Modeste in August 1822; Mélasie Adélaïde in January 1824; Auguste Voltaire in December 1825; Pierre Cyrus, called Cyrus, in December 1827; François Dural, called Dural, in February 1830; Jean Mathère, called Mathère, Mather, and Walter, in January 1831; another François, fils in August 1836; and Aubert in the late 1830s--11 children, eight sons and three daughters, between 1817 and the late 1830s.  François, père died in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1850, age 54 (the recording priest said 55).  Daughters Delphine, Marie Modeste, and Mélasie Adélaïde married into the Estivenne and Bergeron families, including two Estivenne brothers whose mother was a Boudreaux.  Six of his remaining sons also married, but not all of the lines endured.

Second son Louis Maxillière, called Maxillière, married Lise, 17-year-old daughter of Pierre Pontiff and Mérente Elmer, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in January 1837.  She evidently gave him no children.  Louis Maxillière remarried to Louise Adèle or Odile, daughter of fellow Acadians Auguste Babin and Marianne Bergeron, at the Thibodaux church in July 1840, five months after a daughter was born.  Their children, born on the Lafourche and in Terrebonne Parish, included Marie Caroline in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1840; Adelia in November 1841; François Vital in September 1844; Émelite dite Mélite in August 1846; Marie Phabie in November 1848; Cécile Azélie in September 1850; Hippolyte Volcar in January 1853; Bertram in Terrebonne Parish in April 1854; François Amédéo in January 1856; Malvina in October 1857; Jean Madéo in July 1859; Constance Zélina in July 1862; ...  Daughters Marie Caroline, Mélite, and Marie, by his second wife, married into the Martin, Naquin, and LeBoeuf families by 1870.  One of Louis Maxillière's sons also married by then.

Oldest son François Vital, by second wife Louise Adèle Babin, married Uranie, daughter of André Borne and Élodie Haydel, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in April 1868.  They settled near Chacahoula in Terrebonne Parish.  Their children, born there, included Cléo Paul in January 1869; Marie Lucile in March 1870; ...

François Louis's third son Auguste Voltaire married Marie Anne, another daughter of Auguste Babin and Marianne Bergeron, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in December 1842.  Auguste died in Lafourche Interior Parish in August 1847, age 21 (the recording priest said 22).  Did his family line die with him? 

François Louis's fourth son Cyrus married Méranthe, daughter of Guillaume Malbrough and his Acadian wife Scholastique Daigle, at the Thibodaux church in September 1846.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Pierre Clebert or Cleber, called Cleber, in April 1848; Marie Eveline, called Eveline or Evelina, in July 1850; and Joséphine Eve in March 1853 but died 10 days after her birth.  Cyrus remarried to Odilia, daughter of fellow Acadian Evariste Babin and his Creole wife Marie Rosalie LeBoeuf, at the Houma church in March 1859.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Marie Augustine in September 1864; Marie Odilia in October 1867; ...  Daughter Eveline, by his first wife, married into the Crochet family by 1870.  Cyrus's son also married by then. 

Only son Pierre Cleber, called Cleber and Clebert, from first wife Méranthe Malbrough, married Émilie, another daughter of Evariste Babin and Marie Rosalie LeBoeuf, at the Houma church in August 1865; Émilie's sister Odilia was Cleber's stepmother, so Émilie was Cleber's aunt by marriage!  Cleber and Émilie's children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Calixtia Evelina in October 1865; Marie Séverine in November 1869; ...

François Louis's fifth son Dural married Martha, also called Mace, daughter of Isaac Cobet, Cobbett, Coubet, or Colet and Azélie Fabre, at the Thibodaux church in April 1850.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Philocles in February 1854; Thomas Ubel in January 1856; Sarah Rebecca in April 1858; Henry Arthur in May 1860; Isaac in October 1862; François Philippe in August 1865; Alice Élisabeth in December 1869; ...  None of Dural's children married by 1870. 

François Louis's sixth son Mathère, also called Walter, married Marie Esther, called Esther, daughter of fellow Acadian François Pitre and his Creole wife Scholastique Boutary, at the Thibodaux church in October 1849.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Émile Onestile in November 1851; Azélina in November 1852 but, name and age unrecorded, may have been the child who died "during [a] yellow fever epidemic" in Lafourche Parish in September 1853; Marie Osea born in October 1853; Marie Azélina in December 1854; Mathilde Élisabeth in November 1856; Joseph Désiré in January 1858; Augustin in June 1860; Louisa Donatil in August 1861; Marie Célina in June 1863; Joséphine Gertrude in December 1864; and another Joseph Désiré in November 1870 (four days before his mother died, in her early 40s); ...  None of Louis's children married by 1870. 

François Louis's seventh son Aubert married Marcellite, daughter of fellow Acadians Marcellin Robichaux and Tarzile Bertrand, at the Thibodaux church in August 1854.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Amanda in September 1855; Marie Émelie in June 1858; Anatole in January 1861; Joseph Adolphe in May 1865; Louis Alphonse in May 1870; ...  None of Aubert's children married by 1870. 

Guillaume-Bénoni's second son Jean Louis, called Louis, married Marie Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians François Gaudet and Marie Roger, at the Plattenville church in October 1816.  They lived on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Assumption and Lafourche Interior parishes.  Their children, born there, included François in October 1817; Louis, fils, also called Noël Louis, in March 1819; Marie Clotine or Clothilde, called Clothilde, in June 1820; Guillaume le jeune in November 1821; Clémentine Rose in December 1823 but, called Clémentine, died at age 23 (the recording priest said 22) in May 1847; Marcelline Célecie born in July 1826; Émilie in February 1828; Marie Delphine in March 1830; Auguste or Augustin le jeune in June 1832; Hippolyte in December 1834; Joseph Vincent in July 1837; Marguerite in December 1838; Anne Mathilde, called Mathilde, in March 1841; Odilia in August 1843; twins Jules and Ozémé in July 1845, but Jules died eight days after his birth; and Joseph born in c1846 but died at age 10 in August 1856--17 children, nine sons and eight daughters, including a set of twins, between 1817 and 1846.  Jean Louis died in May 1850.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial said that Jean Louis died "at age 54 yrs."  He was 52.  A petition for family meeting in his name, calling his wife Marie Rose Gaudé and listing some of his children, evidently the minor ones--Hypolite, Marguerite, Joseph, Mathilde, Odilia, and Ozamine (probably son Ozéme)--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in September 1850.  Daughters Marcelline, Marie Delphine, Émilie, Clothilde, Mathilde, and Odilia married into the D'Huet, Richard, Levron, Breaux, and Molaison families, including two Richard brothers, by 1870.  Five of Jean Louis's remaining sons also married by then. 

Oldest son François married Marie Victorine, called Victorine, 18-year-old daughter of Étienne Toups and his Acadian wife Carmélite Part, at the Thibodaux church in April 1839.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included François Hamilton, perhaps also called Wellington F., in January 1840; Lorenza or Laurenza Philomène in May 1841; Marguerite Odillia in March 1843; Augustin Charles in December 1844 but, called Charles, died at age 25 (the recording priest said 23) in February 1870; George born in December 1846 but, called Georges, died at age 8 1/2 (the recording priest said 11) in June 1855; Amédée Vasseur born in January 1849; Étienne in October 1850 but died at age 6 in December 1856; twins Joseph and Marie Joséphine born in December 1852; a child, name unrecorded, died at age 3 months in July 1855; Émelitte Eugénie born in October 1857; and Victorine Élise in December 1864 but died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 7 months) in July 1866--a dozen children, at least six sons and five daughters, including a set of twins, between 1840 and 1864.  Daughters Marguerite Odillia and Laurenza married into the Knobloch and Bergeron families by 1870.  One of François's sons also married by then, after completing his war service.

During the War of 1861-65 oldest son Wellington F., as Confederate records called him, served as a fourth corporal in Company D of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafourche Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  Wellington survived the war, returned to his family, and married Eglantine, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Sylvain Thibodeaux and Marie Séraphine Thibodeaux, at the Raceland church, Lafourche Parish, in January 1869. ...

Jean Louis's second son Louis, fils, also called Noël Louis, married Eulalie, 20-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Grégoire Ignace Usé and Marie Boudreaux, at the Thibodaux church in February 1839.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Louis Oleus in July 1840; Marie Philomène in September 1841; Marguerite Lulecia or Lutetita, called Lutetia, in July 1843; Émelie or Émilie in September 1845; Emil or Émile in December 1846; Joseph Arthur in April 1848 but died at age 7 1/2 (the recording priest said 8) in October 1855; Henri born in May 1850; Eulalie Célina in February 1853; Cécilia in December 1853[sic]; Brigitte in September 1855; Rosela Alice in January 1858; Marie Louisa in August 1860; ...  Daughters Lutetia, Émilie, Marie, and Eulalie married into the Boudreaux, Toups, D'Huet, and Andra or Andras families by 1870.  None of Louis, fils's sons married by then. 

Jean Louis's third son Guillaume le jeune married Marie Rosalie, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Guillot and Pélagie Richard, at the Thibodaux church in February 1841.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Odillia, called Odillia, in November 1841; Émelia or Amelia Célima, called Amelia, in March 1844; Jule or Jules in April 1847; Arthur in November 1848; Joseph Ernest in March 1855; Joseph Félicien in March 1861; ...  Daughters Odillia and Amelia married into the Richard and Boudreaux families by 1870.  One of Guillaume's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Jules married Lea, daughter of fellow Acadian Léon Boudreaux and his Creole wife Roseline Pontiff, at the Thibodaux church in August 1868.  Marie Eustochie was born in Lafourche Parish in November 1869; ...

Jean Louis's fourth son Augustin married Marcellite Émée, called Émée and Emma, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Benoît Richard and Céleste Breaux, at the Thibodaux church in July 1850.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Ema or Emma Augustine in January 1853; Marie in June 1854 but, called Alvina, died at age 10 months, 7 days in April 1855; Joseph Augustin born in January 1856; Pierre Théogène in June 1858; Joseph Adam in November 1863; Adam in September 1865; Jean Baptiste in November 1867; ...   Daughter Emma married into the Lirette family by 1870.  None of Augustin's sons married by then. 

Jean Louis's seventh son Ozémé, a twin, married Marie Adéline or Adelina, daughter of Arsène Ledet and Adèle Legendre, a Creole, not a fellow Acadian, at the Thibodaux church in April 1864.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joseph Amadéo in February 1865; Marie Osea in February 1867; Louis Émile in December 1870; ...

Guillaume-Bénoni's third and youngest son Louis Auguste or Augustin married Marie Anne Clémence, another daughter of Jean Pierre Lirette and Marie Madeleine Darembourg, at the Plattenville church in June 1819; one of Marie Anne's brothers married one of Auguste's sisters, and Auguste's oldest brother married one of Marie Anne's sisters.  Auguste died in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1840, age 37 (the recording priest said 36).  His succession sale occurred in Lafourche Interior Parish in November.  He and his wife may have been that rare Acadian couple who had no children. 

Étienne's third son Louis-Gabriel, by first wife Marie Lavergne, followed his family to Nantes, New Orleans, and upper Bayou Lafourche.  He was still with them there in April 1797, in his early 20s.  He may have married Julie-Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadian Louis Dantin, fils and his first wife, Frenchwoman Jeanne Gesmier, at Assumption in the late 1790s and died at New Orleans in January 1801, age 26 (the recording priest, calling him Luis Guillelmo, said 27).  If so, his widow, a native of Nantes, France, who evidently gave Louis-Gabriel no children, remarried to a Levron at Assumption in February 1802. 

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Twenty-four more Héberts--four families, one led by a widow, five wives, and a middle-aged bachelor--crossed on La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans from St.-Malo in early December 1785.  Most followed their fellow passengers to the new Spanish settlement of Bayou des Écores in the New Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge.  One family, led by a widow with three daughters, and a wife and her family, chose to go directly to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Five new family lines came of it on the river and especially on the upper Lafourche, where most of the Bayou des Écores Héberts resettled in the 1790s: 

Joseph, fils (c1735-?) à Jean, fils à Jean le jeune à Antoine Hébert

Joseph, fils, oldest son of Joseph Hébert and his first wife Isabelle Benoit, born probably at Cobeguit in c1735, followed his father and stepmother to Pointe-à-la-Jeunesse, Île Royale, and St.-Malo, France.  None of his siblings accompanied him on the transport he took to France.  He settled at St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, across the harbor from St.-Malo, before moving to nearby Pleurtuit, where he married Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Comeau and Marie Landry, in August 1763.  They settled in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer and also at Plouër-sur-Rance near Pleurtuit.  Françoise gave Joseph, fils 10 children there:  Marie-Madeleine born in December 1764; Françoise-Pélagie in March 1766 but died at La Chiennais near Plouër, age 6 1/2, in January 1773; Marie-Josèphe born in April 1767; Pierre-Jean in June 1768; Alain-Mathurin at Plouër in August 1769 but died at La Chiennais, age 2 1/2, in March 1772; Marguerite-Geneviève born in March 1771 but died at La Chiennais, age 2 1/2, in August 1773; Thérèse-Anne born in July 1772; Jean-Joseph-Laurant-François in March 1774 but died at nearby La Pommerais, age 5 1/2, in October 1779; Anne-Madeleine born in May 1775 but died at nearby La Mettrie Pommerais, age 2 1/2, in February 1778; and Julien-Joseph born in April 1777 but died at La Mettrie Pommerais the following January.  As the birth dates of his youngest children reveal, Joseph, fils did not take his family to the interior of Poitou in 1773 or join his fellow exiles at Nantes later in the decade.  Wife Françoise died at St.-Servan in December 1778, age 35.  Joseph, fils remarried to Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Daigre and Angélique Doiron of Cobeguit and widow of Jean-Baptiste Landry and Honoré Richard, place and date unrecorded, but it probably was at St.-Servan in the late 1770s or early 1780s.  Marguerite gave Joseph, fils another son, Jean-Pierre, born probably at St.-Servan in February 1785--11 children, six daughters and five sons, by two wives, between 1764 and 1785.  Later that year, Joseph fils, Marguerite, four of his remaining children, two daughters and two sons, by both wives, and a Richard stepdaughter from Marguerite's second marriage, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana.  Oldest daughter Marie-Madeleine, who would have been age 21 in 1785, did not follow her family to Louisiana.  From New Orleans, Joseph, fils and his family followed their fellow passengers to Bayou des Écores.  Daughter Thérèse-Anne married into the Ximines family at New Orleans.  One wonders if Joseph, fils's older daughter Marie-Josèphe, by his first wife, age 18, in 1785, survived the crossing from France and also married in the Spanish colony.  Only one of Joseph, fils's sons married and remained on the river.  The youngest son, who was an infant when the family crossed to France, may not have survived the crossing. 

Oldest son Pierre-Jean, by first wife Françoise Comeau, followed his family to New Orleans and Bayou des Écores, where he married Marguerite-Olive, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Longuépée and Marie-Françoise Bourg, in November 1791.  Marguerite, a native of St.-Servan-sur-Mer, also had come to Louisiana in 1785 aboard La Ville d'Archangel.  After the Acadians abandoned the Feliciana settlement in the late 1780s and early 1790s, Pierre-Jean and Marguerite settled downriver near San Gabriel below Baton Rouge on the upper Acadian Coast.  Their children, born on the river, included Pierre-Cyrille, called Cyrille, baptized, age unrecorded, in April 1794; Édouard born in January 1795 but died at age 11 in June 1806; Zénon born in June 1800; Landry-Urbin, called Urbin, in May 1802; and Marie Hélène, perhaps called Hélène, in July 1805 but died at age 28 on 27 September 1834--five children, four sons and a daughter, between 1794 and 1805.  Pierre Jean, called Jean Pierre by the priest who recorded the burial, died near St. Gabriel in May 1807, age 39.  Daughter Élise Hélène may have been the Hélène Hébert who gave birth to son Sostène in August 1829, when she would have been age 24; daughter Marie Solidaire in early 1830, when she would have been age 25; and an unnamed infant son died in early October 1834, when she would have been age 29.  The St. Gabriel priest or priests who recorded the baptisms and burial did not give the children's father's name or the mother's parents' names, nor did the priest say if the mother was dead or alive at the time of the unnamed boy's burial in 1834.  According to local church records, this Hélène Hébert did not marry. Three of Pierre Jean's sons did marry and settled on the river, but not all of the lines endured.  Two of the sons married the same woman. 

Oldest son Pierre Cyrille, at age 22, married Marie Constance, called Constance, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Athanase Landry and his second wife Creole Marie-Anne-Barbe Moreau, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in April or August 1816.  Their children, born on the river, included Cyrille, fils died, age 2 months (another record said 6 years), in February or March 1818; Marie Célestine born in February 1819 but died near St. Gabriel at age 12 (the recording priest said 14) in April 1831; Pierre Timoléon, called Timoléon, born in October 1821; and twins Marie Amaranthe and Pierre Valéry in December 1825, but Pierre died at age 6 months in June 1826, and Marie Amaranthe died at age 14 1/2 (the recording priest said 15) in March 1840.  Pierre Cyrille, at age 44, remarried to Marie Hélène, called Hélène, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Servais Guidry and Élisabeth/Isabelle Babin and widow of Sébastien Frederick and Pierre Cyrille's brother Urbin, at the St. Gabriel church in November 1838; they had to secure a dispensation for first degree of affinity in order to marry.  Their daughter Marie Irma was born near St. Gabriel in May 1840--six children, three sons and three daughters, by two wives, between 1818 and 1840.  Pierre Cyrille died near St. Gabriel in December 1840.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Pierre Cyrille died at "age 40 yrs."  He was in his mid-40s.  Daughter Marie Irma, by his second wife, married into the Chebert family by 1870.  His remaining son also married.

Second son Pierre Timoléon, by first wife Constance Landry, married cousin Marie Gertrude, called Gertrude, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Raphaël Landry and his Creole wife Joséphine Couillard, at the St. Gabriel church in June 1842.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Marie Evelina in April 1843; and Pierre Hermogène, called Hermogène, in January 1846.  Pierre Timoléon's daughter did not marry by 1870, but his son did. 

Only son Hermogène married Dilia, daughter of fellow Acadians Valentin Babin and Sérazine Breaux, at the Gonzales church, Ascension Parish, in January 1870. ...

Pierre-Jean's third son Zénon married Marie Louise, called Louise, daughter of Guillaume Germain Dubeau, Dubois, or Dubourg and his Acadian wife Esther LeBlanc and widow of Célestin Morales, at the St. Gabriel church in August 1824.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Marie Éloise in August 1825 but died at age 9 in August 1834; Juliènne born in January 1830 but died the following June; Louis Zénon born in May 1831; Marie in early 1833 but died at age 9 months in October 1833; Guillaume born in October 1834; Rose in February 1837; and a newborn son, perhaps theirs, died in August 1839--seven children, four daughters and three sons, between 1825 and 1839.  Zénon died near St. Gabriel in May 1841.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Zénon died at "age 37-40 yrs."  He was a month shy of 41.  His remaining daughter did not marry by 1870, nor did either of his remaining sons. 

Pierre-Jean's fourth and youngest son Landry Urbin, called Urbin, married Marie Hélène, called Hélène, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Servais Guidry and Élisabeth/Isabelle Babin and widow of Sébastien Frederick, at the St. Gabriel church in February 1834.  Urbin died by November 1838, when his widow remarried to his oldest brother Pierre Cyrille.  Did Urbin father any children?

Pierre le jeune (c1736-?) à Jean, fils à Jean le jeune à Antoine Hébert

Pierre le jeune, older son of Jean Hébert III and Marie-Claire Dugas, born probably at Cobeguit in c1736, followed his widowed mother and siblings to Grande Anse, Île St.-Jean, in c1751 and married Madeleine Blanchard there in c1755.  She gave him two daughters on the island:  Marie-Josèphe born in c1756; and Anne-Josèphe in c1758.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  The daughters died at sea, and wife Marguerite died at St.-Malo soon after she and Pierre le jeune reached the Breton port.  Pierre le jeune, now without a family, settled at Ploubalay in the countryside southwest of St.-Malo.  He remarried to Susanne, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Pitre and Marguerite Thériot and widow of Jean-Baptiste-Olivier Henry, at nearby Pleurtuit in June 1760.  They settled at Ploubalay and nearby Tréméreuc, where Susanne gave Pierre le jeune seven more children:  another Marie-Josèphe born at Laurodel near Ploubalay in April 1761; Pierre-Jean at Ploubalay in February 1763; another Anne-Josèphe in February 1765; François-Étienne in February 1767; Joseph-Yves in May 1769; Mathurin-Pierre-François in October 1771; Jean-Baptiste-Olivier in c1774; and Anne-Perrine at Tréméreuc in November 1775 but died at nearby Villou, age 7 1/2, in March 1783--10 children, five daughters and five sons, by two wives, between 1756 and 1783, in greater Acadia and France.  As the birth and death dates of his younger children reveal, Pierre le jeune did not take his family to Poitou in 1773, nor did he join other Acadian exiles at Nantes later in the decade.  Pierre le jeune, Susanne, six of their children, a daughter and five sons, and a 35-year-old Henry stepdaughter, Marguerite-Josèphe, from Susanne's first marriage, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from St.-Malo in 1785.  Fourth daughter Anne-Josèphe, who, if she was still living, would have been age 20 in 1785, did not go with them.  One wonders why not.  From New Orleans, Pierre le jeune and his large family followed their fellow passengers to Bayou des Écores, where Pierre le jeune, called Pierre Heberd, may have been counted in the New Feliciana census of 1793, which would have made them among the last of the Acadians to leave the settlement.  Daughter Marie-Josèphe married into the Aucoin family at Manchac below Baton Rouge.  All five of Pierre le jeune's sons married Acadians who had sailed with them on La Ville d'Archangel, which means they likely had known one another since childhood in the St.-Malo villages.  Pierre le jeune's older sons married on the river, his younger sons on Bayou Lafourche, and all of them settled on the Lafourche.  All but one of the family lines endured, and most of them were robust. 

Oldest son Pierre-Jean, by second wife Susanne Pitre, was still unmarried when he followed his family to New Orleans and Bayou des Écores, where, at age 25, he married cousin Anne-Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Aucoin and Anne Hébert, in May 1788.  Anne-Marie, a native of Tréméreuc near Ploubalay, also had come to Louisiana in 1785 aboard La Ville d'Archangel.  After the Acadians abandoned Bayou des Écores in the early 1790s, Pierre-Jean and Anne-Marie joined the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Their children, born on the river and the bayou, included Pierre-Jean, fils at Bayou des Écores in May 1788; Marie-Virginie in February 1790; and Jean-Baptiste, perhaps theirs, at Assumption on the upper Lafourche in June 1794--three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1788 and 1794.  Pierre Jean died in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1827.  The Thibodauxville priest who recorded the burial said that Pierre was age 66 when he died.  He was 64.  Daughter Marie Virginie married into the Mayet or Maillet family.  Both of Pierre Jean's sons also married on the Lafourche, but only one of the lines endured. 

Older son Pierre Jean, fils married Marie Madeleine, daughter of Jean Maillet, Mallet, Mars, Mayere, Mayet, or Mayot and his Acadian wife Osite Perpétué Theriot, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in July 1808.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche near the boundary of Assumption and what became Lafourche Interior parishes, included Jean Pierre in April 1809; Henriette Scholastique in January 1811; Joseph Rosémond, called Rosémond, in June 1813; Augustin in April 1824; and Pierre Siméon, called Siméon, in February 1832--five children, four sons and a daughter, between 1809 and 1832.  Pierre Jean, fils died in Assumption Parish in November 1832, age 44 (the recording priest said 45).  Daughter Henriette Scholastique married into the Juneau family by 1870.  Three of Pierre Jean, fils's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Jean Pierre married cousin Azélie, daughter of Pierre Cedotal and his Acadian wife Marie Hébert, at the Plattenville church in February 1833.  Their son Marcellin Pierre was born probably in Assumption Parish in c1833 but died at age 3 1/2 in July 1837.  Jean Pierre remarried to Eulalie Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Noël André Templet and his second wife Marie Crochet, at the Plattenville church in January 1836; Eulalie Marie was half-sister of Jean Pierre's brother Rosémond's wife.  Jean Pierre and Eulalie's children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Roséma Eléocade in September 1836; Valéry Augustin, called Augustin, in December 1838; Sylvany Adolphe in September 1841; and Joseph Octave near Paincourtville in May 1844--five children, four sons and a daughter, by two wives, between 1833 and 1844.  Jean Pierre's daughter did not marry by 1870, but two of his sons did.

Second son Augustin, by second wife Eulalie Marie Templet, married cousin Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Élie Hébert and Léocade Landry, at the Pierre Part church, Assumption Parish, in January 1860.  Their son Joseph Léo was born near Pierre Part on the north shore of Lake Verret in December 1860; ... 

Jean Pierre's fourth and youngest son Joseph Octave, by second wife Eulalie Marie Templet, married Elea, daughter of fellow Acadians Rosémond Dupuis and Odalie Richard, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in August 1870; ...

Pierre Jean, fils's second son Joseph Rosémond, called Rosémond, married cousin Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Noël André Templet and his first wife Mélanie Hébert, at the Plattenville church in May 1832; Marie's mother was a half-sister of brother Jean Pierre's second wife.  Rosémond and Marie's children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Adélaïde, called Adélaïde, probably in the early 1830s; Catherine died at age 8 months in December 1835; Théophile Adam born in May 1839 but died the following December; Rosensa Odilia, called Odilia, born in December 1840; and Théodule Eugène in February 1844--five children, three daughters and two sons, between the early 1830s and 1844.  Rosémond died in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1846, age 32 (the recording priest did not give his age at the time of his death).  Daughters Adélaïde and Odilia married into the Delaune and LeBlanc families by 1870.  Rosémond's remaining son also married by then, having moved to the western prairies after the War of 1861-65. 

Younger son Théodule Eugène married Euphémie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Comeaux and Pélagie LeBlanc, at the Youngsville church, Lafayette Parish, in January 1870. ...

Pierre Jean, fils's fourth and youngest son Siméon married Pauline, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Boudreaux and Marie Gautreaux of Assumption Parish, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Parish, in May 1855.  They settled on the upper bayou near the boundary between Lafourche and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Numa Léo in August 1857; Théodule Gustave in March 1861; ... 

Pierre Jean, père's younger son Jean Baptiste may have married Céleste Azélie or Azélie Céleste, daughter of, perhaps, fellow Acadians Basile Prejean le jeune and Rosalie Lachaussée, in Lafourche Interior Parish in the late 1810s; church records make it difficult to determine which Jean Baptiste Hébert this may have been.  Or, perhaps more likely, he died young.  Note that he does not appear with his family in the Valenzuela censuses of 1795, 1797, or 1798, when he would have been ages 1, 3, and 4. 

Pierre le jeune's second son François-Étienne, by second wife Susanne Pitre, followed his family to Spanish Louisiana.  He married Angélique, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Henry of Cobeguit and his second wife Anne Thibodeau, at New Orleans in January 1786, soon after they reached the colony on the same ship.  Angélique was a native of Pleurtuit near Ploubalay and also had crossed on La Ville d'Archangel.  They followed their families to Bayou des Écores and to upper Bayou Lafourche, where they were counted in the Valenzuela District in the mid- and late 1790s without children.  François Étienne died in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1844.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial said that François died "at age 83 yrs."  He was 77.  One wonders if he was a widower when he died, and if he and his wife were that rare Acadian couple who had no children. 

Pierre le jeune's third son Joseph-Yves, by second wife Susanne Pitre, followed his family to New Orleans and Bayou des Écores, where he married Marie-Victoire, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Thibodeau and Madeleine Henry, in August 1788.  Marie-Victoire, a native of Pleurtuit, also had come to Louisiana in 1785 aboard La Ville d'Archangel.  In the early 1790s, Joseph and Marie-Victoire joined the exodus of Feliciana Acadians to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Their children, born on the river and the Lafourche, included Cyrille-Lacroix at Bayou des Écores in March 1790; Joseph-Mathurin at Lafourche in January 1793; Sylvain-Hilaire in the early 1790s; Marie-Célestine or -Céleste in January 1795; Constance-Scholastique baptized, age unrecorded, in April 1797; Julie-Marie or Marie-Julie born in September 1798; Joseph-Élie or Élie-Joseph in February 1802; Amand in August 1805; Louis Laborias in August 1806; Jean Pierre in December 1808; Zéphirin Jean in February 1811; and Fanny Adeline or Adelise in October 18[1]2--a dozen children, eight sons and four daughters, between 1790 and 1812.  Joseph Yves died in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1843.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph died "at age 77 yrs."  He was 74.  Daughters Marie Céleste, Julie, and Fanny Adelise married into the Lagrange, Delaune, and Fremin families.  Four of Joseph Yves sons also married.  One of them settled on Bayou Teche, but the others remained in the Bayou Lafourche valley. 

Oldest son Cyrille Lacroix married Rosalie, daughter of Grégoire Chico and his Acadian wife Marguerite Guidry, at the Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, in May 1809.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marcel Eugène in January 1811; Marie Clémentine or Clémence in May 1813; Rosalie Adeline, called Rose, in August 1815; Séverin Octave born in November 1817; Félix Charles Marie in September 1820; and Pierre Zéphirin, called Zéphirin, in December 1822--six children, four sons and two daughters, between 1811 and 1822.  Cyrille Lacroix died in Lafourche Interior Parish in January 1824.  The Thibodauxville priest who recorded the burial and did give any parents' names or mention a wife said that Civil Lacroix, as he called him, was age 30 when he died.  He was 33.  Daughters Rose and Marie Clémence married into the Boudreaux and Thibodeaux families.  Three of Cyrille's sons also married and settled on the Lafourche.

Oldest son Marcel Eugène married Marie Céleste, daughter of Laurent Élie Fremin and his Acadian wife Marguerite Bourg, at the Thibodauxville church in June 1837.  They lived on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Léodomi Joseph in March 1838; Félix François in September 1840 but, called Félix, may have died at age 12 (the recording priest said 14) in September 1852; Pierre Narcisse born in November 1842; Arman Lovinci in April 1845; and Émile Ulger in March 1848--five children, all sons, between 1838 and 1848.  Marcel died in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1850.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial said that Marcel died "at age 41 yrs."  He was 39.  None of his sons married by 1870. 

Cyrille Lacroix's third son Félix married Marie, daughter of Florentin Friou and Céleste Montet, at the Plattenville church in March 1845.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Joséphine Oceana in June 1845, three months after her parents' wedding; Paulens Lovincy in May 1847 but, called Paul Lovincy, died the following February; Louisiane Octavie born in November 1848 but, called Louisiane, may have died at 17 (the recording priest said "age about 22 years") in January 1866; Justinien Adam born in June 1851; Placide Nelson in October 1854; and Marie Célestine in June 1856--six children, three daughters and three sons, between 1845 and 1856.  None of Félix's children married by 1870. 

Cyrille Lacroix's fourth and youngest son Pierre Zéphirin married Ursuline, daughter of fellow Acadians Antoine Boudreaux and Marie Josèphe Michel, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in May 1847.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Olivia in February 1847 and baptized the day after their wedding; Théotilde born in November 1848; Pauline in February 1851; Joseph Émile in June 1856; Pierre Numa in October 1858; Joseph Lestan in May 1861; ...  Daughter Théotilde married into the Larose family by 1870.  None of Pierre Zéphirin's sons married by then. 

Joseph Yves's third son Sylvain Hilaire married Marie Madeleine, daughter of Jean Baptiste Juneau and Marie Madeleine Lagrange of St. John the Baptist Parish on the upper German Coast, at the Thibodauxville church in July 1825.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Silvin or Sylvain Hilaire, fils, called Hilaire, in April 1828; Joachim Adrien in March 1830; Alexandre Eugène in June 1832; Marie Pauline in June 1834; Michel Adélard in September 1836 but died at age 2 in October 1838; Auguste born in the 1830s; Lovinci Oscar in May 1843; Clairville Ozémé in March 1847; and Julie in May 1850--nine children, seven sons and two daughters, between 1828 and 1850.  Daughter Julie married into the Daigle family by 1870.  Five of Sylvain Hilaire's sons also married by then.  His oldest son moved to the western prairies after the War of 1861-65.  His younger sons remained on the upper Lafourche. 

Oldest son Sylvain Hilaire, fils married Joséphine, daughter of Foreign Frenchman Georges Adolphe and his Acadian wife Victoire Boudreaux, at the Thibodaux church in November 1847.  They settled on the upper bayou near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Adrien Claudomire in March 1849; Trasimond in February 1851; Célestine Adelina in December 1852; Jean Pierre Auguste in May 1855; Louis Adolphe Alexandry in April 1857; Joseph Adelain in April 1861; Marie Mathilde in February 1863; and Théodule Cléophas in May 1865.  Hilaire, a month shy of age 41, remarried to Pauline, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Boudreaux and Marie Anne Gautreaux of Lafourche Parish and widow of Siméon Hébert, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in March 1869. ...  None of Hilaire's children married by 1870. 

Sylvain Hilaire's second son Joachim Adrien married Louise, daughter of Augustin Lagrange and Rosalie Mayet, at the Thibodaux church in April 1854.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Jean Baptiste in January 1855; and Marie Eliza in September 1856 but, called Marie, died the following December.  Joachim remarried to Émelie, daughter of fellow Acadians Valéry Foret and Céleste Daigle, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in March 1868.  Daughter Aurelia Rosina was born near Labadieville in October 1869; ...  None of Joachim's children married by 1870. 

Sylvain Hilaire's third son Alexandre Eugène married Marie, also called Azéma, daughter of fellow Acadians Grégoire Aucoin and Clarisse Hébert, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in September 1857.  Their children, born near Labadieville, included Mélanie Alix Alea in October 1859; Pauline Adela in June 1865[sic]; Villier Ernest in November 1865[sic]; Thérésia Alicia in August 1868; ... 

Sylvain Hilaire's fifth son Auguste married Elmire, daughter of Homogène, probably Hermogène, Clause or Cloze and Marie Rodry, at the Labadieville church in February 1859.  Their son Joseph Albert was born near Labadieville in October 1868; ... 

Sylvain Hilaire's sixth son Lovinci Oscar may have married fellow Acadian Amelisa Foret, place and date unrecorded.  Daughter Aimée Estrela was born near Labadieville in January 1869; ... 

Joseph Yves's fourth son Joseph Élie or Élie Joseph married Azélie, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre André Pitre and Angélique Bourgeois, at the Thibodauxville church in July 1828.  They crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to St. Martin Parish by the early 1830s.  Their children, born on the Lafourche and the lower Teche, included Pierre Adrien in Lafourche Interior Parish in June 1829; Émil or Émile Euclien in April 1831; Marie Azélina or Azéma in July 1833 and baptized at the St. Martinville church, age 3 years, 10 months, in May 1837; Marguerite Azéma born in Lafourche Interior Parish in September 1835; Joséphine in the 1830s; and Joseph near New Iberia, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in December 1843 but died at age 1 1/2 in September 1845--six children, three sons and three daughters, between 1829 and 1843.  Élie died near New Iberia in August 1844.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Élie died "at age 40 yrs."  He was 42.  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse, St. Martin Parish, in November 1851.  Daughter Joséphine married into the Desmaret family in St. Landry Parish by 1870.  One of Élie's sons also married by then and remained on the lower Teche.

Oldest son Pierre Adrien married Madeleine Amelina, called Amelina, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Robichaux and Domitille Louvière, at the Charenton church, St. Mary Parish, in February 1854.  They settled between Charenton and New Iberia.  Daughter Martilia Octavia was born there November 1857.  Did they have anymore children? 

Joseph Yves's eighth and youngest son Zéphirin Jean married Basilise Aimée, daughter of Jean Baptiste Gros and Jeanne George Inglar, at the Thibodauxville church in October 1830.  They lived on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie Azélie in February 1832 but died at age 1 1/2 in May 1833; Joseph Zéphirin, called Zéphir, born in December 1833; Villier in the 1830s; Gustave Claire in February 1836 but, called Augustave Claireville, died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 2) in October 1837; Félicité Angélique born in July 1839; Rosalie Euphrosine in March 1841; Augustin Clairville in October 1842; Marie Madeleine in August 1844; Zélina Adolphine or Adolphina dite Dolphina in March 1846; Azélie Alisse or Alice, called Alice, in December 1847; Rosela Aurelia in April 1849; Théolin Thomée in April 1851; Joseph in June 1853; Jean Baptiste Similien in May 1856; and Joseph Estivin in December 1858--15 children, seven daughters and eight sons, between 1832 and 1858.  Daughters Marie, Adolphine, Alice, ... married into the Dubois, Boudreaux, Usé, and Chouabe families by 1870.  Two of Zéphirin Jean's sons also married by then, on the Lafourche, but they did not remain.  One of them resettled on the west bank of the Mississippi in Iberville Parish, and the other joined his cousins on lower Bayou Teche and the western prairies after the War of 1861-65. 

Oldest son Zéphir married double cousin Marie, daughter of Arsène Gros and his Acadian wife Adeline Hébert, at the Thibodaux church in May 1854.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche and the river, included Damien Ozémé Théolan near Labadieville, Assumption Parish, in July 1856 but, called Ozémé, died near Labadieville at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 2) in May 1858; Adeliska Philomène born in January 1858; Arsène Joseph near Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, in January 1860; ... 

Zéphirin Jean's second son Villier married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Arcement and his Creole wife Césaire Lagrange, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in May 1864.  They were living near New Iberia on lower Bayou Teche later in the decade and then moved out to the prairies.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche and the prairies, included Ana Eliska near Labadieville, Assumption Parish, in April 1865; Pierre Dupré in Lafayette Parish in March 1869; ... 

Pierre le jeune's fourth son Mathurin-Pierre-François, by second wife Susanne Pitre, followed his family to New Orleans, Bayou des Écores, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marie-Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians François-Xavier Bourg and Isabelle LeBlanc, in September 1797.  Marie-Élisabeth, a native of Pleurtuit, also had come to Louisiana in 1785 aboard La Ville d'Archangel and was a sister of Mathurin's brother Jean-Baptiste-Olivier's wife.  Mathurin and Marie-Élisabeth's children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Pierre-Mathurin in September 1799 but died in Lafourche Interior Parish, age 20, in June 1820; Joseph born in December 1801; Rose Élisabeth in the early 1800s; Hortense Carmela or Carmélite in July 1805; Ursin in March 1807; Alexandre Lacroix in September 1809; twins Céleste Marie and Valéry Mathurin or Mathurin Valéry, in March 1812; Adeline Eulalie in January 1817; and Édouard or Edmond Adrien in May 1822--10 children, six sons and four daughters, including a set of twins, between 1799 and 1822.  Mathurin likely died in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1846.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial said that Mathurin died "at age 17 yrs."  The good priest probably meant 77.  Mathurin Pierre François would have been age 75.  Daughters Rose Élisabeth, Hortense Carmélite, Céleste Marie, and Adeline Eulalie married into the Fremin, Boudreaux, and Gros families, including two Gros brothers.  Five of Mathurin's sons also married and settled on the Lafourche.

Second son Joseph married Azélie, Zélie, or Marie Clémence, called Clémence, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Boudreaux and Marie Françoise LeBlanc, at the Thibodauxville church in February 1821.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Jean Maturin or Mathurin, called Mathurin, in December 1821; Jean Baptiste Joseph, called Baptiste, in January 1825; and Marie Clémence, called Clémence, in August 1827.  Joseph, at age 38, remarried to Victoire Catherine, daughter of fellow Acadian ____ Boudreaux and his Creole wife Marie Julienne Brossier, at the Thibodaux church in June 1840.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Mirte or Myrthe in March 1841; and Lucien in May 1844--five children, three sons and two daughters, by two wives, between 1821 and 1844.  Daughters Marie Clémence and Marie Myrthe, by both wives, married into the Gros and Theriot families by 1870.  Two of Joseph's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Jean Mathurin, called Mathurin, from first wife Clémence Boudreaux, married cousin Adèle Marie or Marie Adèle, daughter of Georges Adolphe and his Acadian wife Victoire Boudreaux, at the Thibodaux church in January 1842.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Théophine in May 1843; Louisiane Zoémie in May 1845; and Adolphe Eugène in June 1847--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1843 and 1847.  Mathurin died in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1847, age 26.  Daughter Louisiane evidently married an Hébert cousin by 1870.  Mathurin's son also married by then.

Only son Adolphe Eugène married Léocade, daughter of Clairville Octave Peltier and his Acadian wife Séraphine Eve Delaune, at the Labadieville church in January 1869.  Daughter Julie Marie was born near Labadieville in July 1870; ... 

Joseph's second son Baptiste, by first wife Clémence Boudreaux, married Marguerite Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians Valéry Pitre and Marcellite Bourg, at the Paincourtville church in February 1848.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Adam Oneville near Plattenville in April 1851; and Joseph Treville in October 1853.  Neither of Baptiste's sons married by 1870. 

Mathurin's third son Ursin married Marie Constance, daughter of fellow Acadians François Boudreaux and Marie Thibodeaux, at the Thibodauxville church in November 1828.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Eugène Joachim, called Joachim, in November 1829; Rosalie Obeline, called Obeline, in April 1831; Victor in August 1833; Ferdinand Fresimond, perhaps Trasimond, in January 1835; Orville in August 1837; Pauline in November 1839; Adonis in the late 1830s or early 1840s; Zéphirin Alexandre in December 1842; Jean Vilcor in April 1846; Angelina in November 1848; and Vinotte André in February 1852--11 children, eight sons and three daughters, between 1829 and 1852.  Daughters Obeline, Pauline, and Angelina married into the Gros, Bourg, and Boudreaux families by 1870.  Three of Ursin's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Eugène Joachim, called Joachim, married Armantine, Armentine, Augustine, or Hermantine Victoire, daughter of Georges Adolphe and his Acadian wife Victoire Boudreaux, at the Thibodaux church in December 1848.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Julie Louise in September 1849; Azélie in October 1851 but, called Azélia, died at age 4 (the recording priest said 3) in October 1855; Adolphe Léon born in September 1853; Marie Rosina in October 1855; Osea Ulalie in February 1858; François Joachim in January 1863; ...  None of Joachim's children married by 1870. 

Ursin's third son Ferdinand married first cousin Méothilde or Miotil, daughter of fellow Acadian Alexandre Lacroix Hébert and his Creole wife Arthémise Exnicios, his uncle and aunt, at the Labadieville church in June 1860; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Daughter Lea Marie was born near Labadieville in September 1862; ...

Ursin's fifth son Adonis married cousin Onésile, daughter of fellow Acadians François Joseph Boudreaux and Marie Phelonise Thibodeaux, at the Labadieville church in July 1869. ...

Mathurin's fourth son Alexandre Lacroix married Arthémise, daughter of Louis Exnicios and Marie Louise Pontiff, at the Thibodauxville church in July 1834.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie Elisida dite Lesida in June 1835; Rosalie Méotille, called Méotille, in March 1837; Joseph Isidor or Isidore in February 1839 but may have been the Joseph Hébert who died near Labadieville, age 23 (the recording priest said 24), in January 1862 (one wonders if his death was war-related); Émile Cleborne or Claiborne born in December 1840; Clairville Laziman in September 1842; Clodomir Aurelien in January 1845; Elmire Eulalie in May 1848; Oscar in May 1849; Alexandre, fils in December 1852; and Marie Osea in November 1856--10 children, five daughters and five sons, between 1835 and 1856.  Daughters Méotille, Lesida, Elmire, ... married into the Boudreaux, Gautreaux, Romagos, and Hébert families, one of them to a first cousin, by 1870.  Three of Alexandre Lacroix's sons also married by then. 

Second son Émile Claiborne married Mathilde, daughter of fellow Acadians Lubin Aucoin and Anne Doiron, at the Labadieville church in February 1867.  She gave him no children.  Émile Claiborne remarried to Odilia, daughter of fellow Acadian Louis Bourg and his Creole wife Geneviève Gaspard, at the Labadieville church in December 1870. ...

Alexandre Lacroix's third son Clairville married Joséphine, daughter of Thomas Calegan and his Acadian wife Pauline Boudreaux, at the Labadieville church in June 1866.  Their son Onésiphore Arthur was born near Labadieville in October 1870; ...

Alexandre Lacroix's fourth Clodomir Aurelien married Aimée, daughter of fellow Acadians Leufroi Boudreaux and Adèle Thibodeaux, at the Plattenville church in May 1867.  Their children, born near Labadieville, included Marie Aimée in February 1868; Pierre Clodomir in June 1869; ... 

Mathurin's fifth son Valéry Mathurin or Mathurin Valéry, a twin, married Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadian Eugène Prejean and his Creole wife Mélite Exnicios, at the Thibodaux church in September 1838.  They lived on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie Anaïse or Anaïs, called Anaïs, in August 1839; Théophile Émile, called Émile, in December 1841; Joseph Mirthile in July 1844; Savinien Villot in January 1847 but, called Similien, died at age 10 1/2 (the recording priest said 11) in October 1857; Eugène born in February 1849; Philomène Louisiane in March 1852; Théodore Trasimond in February 1854 but died at age 4 1/2 (the recording priest said 5) in August 1858; and Jean Augustin Uzèbe born in November 1856--eight children, two daughters and six sons, between 1839 and 1856.  Daughter Anaïs married into the Chouabe family by 1870.  One of Valéry Mathurin's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Émile married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadian Magloire Barrilleaux and his Creole wife Clotilde Lagrange, at the Labadieville church in January 1861.  Their children, born near Labadieville, included Joseph François in November 1861; Émile Adrien in December 1862; ...

Mathurin's sixth and youngest son Édouard or Edmond Adrien married Marie Carmélite, daughter of Foreign Frenchman Pierre Lie, Lis, or Lys and his Acadian wife Marguerite Boudreaux, at the Thibodaux church in July 1845.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Elvina Marguerite in February 1847; Jean Baptiste Armant in March 1848; Floriska Eugénie in September 1849; Delphine Azélia in December 1850; Jean Baptiste Oscar in May 1852; Léo in October 1853; Marie Joséphine in June 1857; Eveline Osea in March 1860; André Pierre in June 1862; Auguste in August 1864; Mirtil Arthur in February 1867; ...  None of Édouard/Edmond's children married by 1870. 

Pierre le jeune's fifth and youngest son Jean-Baptiste-Olivier, called Baptiste-Olivier or Baptiste, from second wife Susanne Pitre, followed his family to New Orleans, Bayou des Écores, where he may have been counted with his widowed father in 1793, and to upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Élisabeth- or Isabelle-Félicité, another daughter of François-Xavier Bourg and Isabelle LeBlanc, in August 1795.  Élisabeth, a native of Pleurtuit, near Ploubalay, also had come to Louisiana in 1785 aboard La Ville d'Archangel and was a sister of Jean-Baptiste-Olivier's brother Mathurin's wife.  Baptiste and Élisabeth-Félicité's children, born on the Lafourche, included Louis-Jean-Baptiste in August 1797; Marguerite-Mélanie-Isabelle in January 1799; Joseph-Marie in December 1800 and may have been the Joseph Hébert who died in Ascension Parish in October 1836, age 35 (the recording priest at Donaldsonville said 37); Susanne born in December 1802; Rosalie-Céleste in November 1803; Hubert François in February 1805; Phelonise in February 1807; Étienne Valéry in September 1808; Cyrille Mathurin, also called Cyrille Valéry, in February 1811; twins Amable Rosémond and Martin Achille in January 1817, but Amable Rosémond died at age 12 1/2 in December 1829; Alexandre Maxille born in October 1819; and Edmond in February 1823--13 children, nine sons and four daughters, including a set of twins, between 1797 and 1823.  Daughters Marguerite Mélanie, Phelonise, and Rosalie married into the Barrilleaux, LeBoeuf, and Granger families.  Daughter Phelonise, who, at age 18, married Romain LeBoeuf of St. John the Baptist Parish at the Thibodaux church in July 1825, evidently his second marriage, likely was the Phelonise Hébert, "res. Lafourche parish," who gave birth to daughter Marie Victorine in September 1826; the girl was baptized at St. Gabriel on the river the following May; oddly, the recording priest did not give the father's name, so it may not have been Romain LeBoeuf.  Yet, between February 1830 and June 1849, in Lafourche Interior and Terrebonne parishes, the couple had at least four sons and six daughters, so, if Phelonise's first daughter was a "natural" child, her marriage nevertheless survived the complication.  Seven of Baptiste's sons also married and settled in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Louis Jean Baptiste married Cécile Émilie or Émilie Cécile, daughter of fellow Acadians Blaise Julien Boudreaux and Perrine Barilleaux, at the Plattenville church in June 1817.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Assumption and Lafourche Interior parishes.  Their children, born there, included Théotiste Rosalie in September 1818; Marie Rosalie in September 1820; Anne Rosalie in June 1822; Erma or Irma Cléonise in August 1824; Neuville in January 1827 but died in Terrebonne Parish by June 1847, age 20, when his succession was filed at the Houma courthouse; Victorie Hemilie born in February 1829; and a daughter, name unrecorded, died at age 8 days in June 1831.  Louis Jean Baptiste remarried to cousin Anne Mélanie, called Mélanie, 28-year-old daughter of Nicolas Albert and his Acadian wife Madeleine Bourg, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in October 1832.  Their chldren, born on the Lafourche, included Élodie in January 1834; Marie Louise in October 1835; and Jean Baptiste in February 1838--10 children, eight daughters and two sons, by two wives, between 1818 and 1838.  Daughters Marie Rosalie, Théotiste Rosalie, and Irma Cléonise, by his first wife, married into the Boudreaux, Trahan, and LeBlanc families by 1870.  Louis Jean Baptiste's remaining son also married by then, but the line did not endure.  As a result, only the blood of this family line evidently endured in the Bayou State. 

Younger son Jean Baptiste, fils, by second wife Mélanie Albert, while residing in Terrebonne Parish, married Evéline, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexis Blanchard and Anne Marguerite Trahan of Terrebonne Parish, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in February 1864.  Their daughter Evelina Mélanie was born in Terrebonne Parish 12 days after her father's death in December 1864.  Jean Baptiste, fils died in Terrebonne Parish in December 1864, age 26.  A petition for inventory and tutorship for his daughter was filed at the Houma courthouse in January 1866, when she was age 1.  One wonders if Jean Baptiste's death was war-related.  He fathered no sons. 

Baptiste's third son Hubert François married Marie Pauline or Pauline Marie, daughter of Jean Baptiste Juneau and Marie Madeleine Lagrange, at the Thibodauxville church in November 1827.  They lived on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Jean Baptiste le jeune in March 1835; Mélasie Eulalie, called Eulalie, in November 1836; Pierre Dosilia, called Dosilia and Dosilien, in September 1838; Joséphine Azéma in September 1840 but died at age 5 months the following March; Lovenci Ovile born in January 1843; Azéma in June 1845; Marie Joséphine in August 1849; and Philomène Zéomie in January 1852--eight children, three sons and five daughters, between 1835 and 1852.  Daughters Eulalie and Marie married into the Pontiff and Tardif families by 1870.  Two of Hubert François's son also married by then.  The older one settled in Terrebonne Parish, and the younger one, after his Confederate service, married a first cousin on the western prairies. 

Second son Dosilien married Mathilde, daughter of fellow Acadian Barthélémy Thibodeaux and his Creole wife Clémence Durocher of Lafourche Parish, at the Houma church in April 1861.  Their children, born near Chacahoula, included Marie Victoria in February 1862; Joseph Dosilien Olymphe in June 1864; ... 

During the War of 1861-65, Hubert François's third and youngest son Lovenci Ovile served in Company C of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Assumption Parish.  He joined the company in March 1862, age 19, followed it to Vicksburg, Mississippi, survived the siege there in the spring and summer of 1863, was captured with his unit, paroled, and probably went home.  His Confederate record does not say if he returned to his unit in the summer of 1864 after it was exchanged.  During or after the war, he resettled on the western prairies, where he married first cousin Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadian Cyrille Mathurin Hébert and his Creole wife Céleste Percle of Lafourche Parish, his uncle and aunt, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in December 1868. ...

Baptiste's fourth son Étienne Valéry married Louise or Léonise Aimée, called Aimée, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Dubois and Ursule Henry, at the Thibodauxville church in July 1830.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Arelien or Aurelien Silvère or Sylvère, called Sylvère and Sylvain, in November 1831; Jean Baptiste Henry in November 1832 but died at age 10 months in October 1833; Louis Victor born in February 1834; Evariste Adrien in May 1836; Thelysphor or Telesphore Aimable dit Tellio in July 1837; Eulalie Agladie in January 1839; Émilie Philomène in November 1840; Eugénie Eulodie or Élodie, called Élodie, in November 1842; Alvina in March 1846; Louisiane Evelina in August 1850; Phroisine or Euphrosine Ursule, called Euphrosine, in August 1852; Amédée Aladin in November 1854; and Julie Roséma near Chacahoula, Terrebonne Parish, in July 1858--13 children, six sons and seven daughters, between 1831 and 1858.  Daughters Élodie, Émilie Philomène, and Euphrosine married into the Brunet, Gauthier, and Bourgeois families by 1870.  Three of Étienne Valéry's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Sylvère or Sylvain married cousin Mathilde, daughter of Romain LeBoeuf and his Acadian wife Felonise Hébert, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in February 1854, and sanctified the marriage at the Chacahoula church, Terrebonne Parish, in April 1859.  They lived near the boundary between Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes.  Their children, born there, included Silvère or Sylvère Arvillien in August 1855; Ernest Télésphore in November 1857; and Amelia near Chacahoula in December 1859--three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1855 and 1859.  Sylvère died near Chacahoula in March 1860.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who called the deceased Sylvain, did not give any parents' names, mention a wife, or give Sylvain's age at the time of his death.  Sylvère would have been age 28.  A "Petition for family meeting" in his name, naming his wife, giving her second husband's name, and listing Sylvère's children--Sylvère Avilien, Ernest Télésphore, and Elmire (perhaps daughter Amelia or a niece)--was filed at the Houma courthouse in March 1867.  None of Sylvère's children married by 1870. 

Étienne Valéry's fourth son Evariste Adrien married Azélie, also called Adolise and Adelise, daughter of Jean Gagnoux and his Acadian wife Léocade Boudreaux, at the Chacahoula church in April 1859.  Daughter Marie Amanda was born in Terrebonne Parish in February 1859.  Evariste remarried to Justilia, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Martial Usé and his Creole wife Marie Adèle Sanchez, at the Chacahoula church in November 1864.  Their children, born near Chacahoula, included Joseph Augustin in September 1865; Marie Célestine in August 1867; ... 

Étienne Valéry's fifth son Télésphore Aimable dit Tellio married Octavie, daughter of fellow Acadians Séverin Guillot and Pauline Guillot, at the Thibodaux church in March 1862; the marriage was recorded also in Terrebonne Parish. ...

Baptiste's fifth son Cyrille Mathurin, also called Cyrille Valéry, married Célesie or Céleste, daughter of Pierre Percle and Geneviève Dufour, at the Thibodauxville church in August 1830.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie Rosa in August 1831; Adrien Benjamin in May 1833; Éloise in August 1835; Florestile Lesida in November 1837; Odile in January 1840; Éloiza Arvilla in November 1841; Félix died at age 1 month in July 1844; Azélie Célesie born in August 1843; Jean Baptiste Olésiphore in January 1845; Neuville in October 1846; Ferdinand Sylvaire in October 1848; Eulalie Malvina in December 1850; Emma Philomène in August 1853; Roséma Angela in October 1854; and Victoria Atelesia in August 1859--15 children, 10 daughters and five sons, between 1831 and 1859.  Daughters Odile, ... married into the Thibodeaux, Boudreaux, Hébert, and Olivier families, one of them to a first cousin in Lafayette Parish, by 1870.  Four of Cyrille's sons also married by then.  His younger sons and at least one of his daughters moved to the western prairies after the War of 1861-65.  His oldest son remained on the upper Lafourche. 

Oldest son Adrien Benjamin married Ophilia, also called Elia, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Boudreaux and Marie Gautreaux, at the Labadieville church in May 1856.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Théo Adrien in May 1857; Léonard Gervais in January 1859; Philomène Lilia in February 1861; Adrien Cletus in April 1862; Ernest Neuville in February 1867; ... 

Cyrille's third son Jean Baptiste Olésiphore married Azélie, another daughter of Paul Boudreaux and Marie Gautreaux, at the Labadieville church in August 1867.  They were living near Lydia, Iberia Parish, on lower Bayou Teche, in 1870. ...

Cyrille's fourth son Neuville married Lorenza, daughter of Zéphirin Olivier, fils and Séraphine Lagrange of Lafourche Parish, at the Vermilionville church in February 1869. ... 

Cyrille's fifth and youngest son Ferdinand Sylvère married Zulma, another daughter of Zéphirin Olivier, fils and Séraphine Lagrange, at the Vermilionville church in February 1870. ...

Baptiste's seventh son Martin Achille, a twin, married Mathilde, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Dubois and Rosalie Thibodeaux, at the Thibodauxville church in May 1835.  They settled down bayou near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Terrebonne parishes.  Their children, born there, included Achille Olivier in March 1836; Émelia Élisabeth in February 1838; Edmond Clodomir in August 1839; Léonie Ozea or Aurelia Léonie in October 1840; Euphrosine Odillia in March 1843; and Trasimond Arthur in October 1853--six children, three sons and three daughters, between 1836 and 1853.  Daughters Émelia Élisabeth, Aurelia Léonie, ... married into the Boudreaux, Sanders, Bergeron, and Hébert families by 1870.  Two of Martin Achille's sons also married by then.  One of them moved to lower Bayou Teche after the War of 1861-65 but returned to Terrebonne Parish. 

Oldest son Achille Olivier married Marie Joséphine, called Joséphine, daughter of Ferdinand Aguillard and Cécile Salem or Saleme, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in November 1856.  Daughter Delphine Odillia was born in Terrebonne Parish in March 1858.  Did they have anymore children? 

Martin Achille's second son Edmond Clodomir "from Terrebonne Parish" married cousin Dalila, daughter of Maltese Creole Philippe Lancon and his Acadian wife Marianne Hébert of Terrebonne Parish, at the Houma church in July 1859.  Their children, born in Terrebonne and on the lower Teche, included Evelia Loulère in July 1860; Abanne Martin in January 1862; Rosa Mary in Terrebonne Parish in August 1864; and Placide near New Iberia in April 1867.  Edmond remarried to Hélène or Helena, daughter of Jules Boudeloche and Delphine Lancon, at the Houma church in September 1870. ...

Baptiste's eighth son Alexandre Maxille, while a resident of Terrebonne Parish, married cousin Ursuline, another daughter of Philippe Lancon and Marianne Hébert of Terrebonne Parish, at the Thibodaux church in September 1839.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Adèle Rosalie in January 1841; Euralise in July 1842; and Malvina Octave, probably a daughter, born posthumously in January 1846--three children, all daughters, between 1841 and 1846.  Alexandre M., as the record called him, died in September 1845, age 25.  His succession inventory, calling him Alexander M., his wife Urseline Lancon, and naming his children at the time--Adèlle and Uralise--was filed at the Houma courthouse in October 1845.  Daughters Adèle and Euralise married Giroir brothers.  Alexandre Maxille evidently fathered no sons, but the blood of the family line may have endured. 

Baptiste's ninth and youngest son Edmond married Clémentine, another daughter of Olivier Dubois and Rosaslie Thibodeaux, at the Thibodaux church in May 1841.  They settled in Terrebonne Parish on Bayou Black and near Chacahoula.  Their children, born there, included Irèine Evéline in January 1843; Marie Armina, perhaps also called Malvina, in July 1844; Rosalie Colina in October 1845; Marie Philomène in June 1848; Clémence Evéline at Bayou Black in September 1849; Arelia Julia in Lafourche Parish in July 1852; and Joseph Adam near Chacahoula in April 1859--seven children, six daughters and a son, between 1843 and 1859.  Daughters Clémence, Malvina, ... married into the Olivier and Boudreaux families, and perhaps into the Cloutier family as well, by 1870.  Edmond's son did not marry by then. 

Joseph (c1744-?) à Jean, fils à Jean le jeune à Antoine Hébert

Joseph, second son of François Hébert and Élisabeth or Isabelle Bourg, born at Cobeguit in c1744, followed his family to Pointe-à-la-Jeunesse, Île Royale, and St.-Malo, France, and settled with his widowered father and sister at Pleslin on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo.  Joseph, at age 20, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Aucoin and Anne Trahan, at nearby Plouër-sur-Rance in March 1764.  Marie-Madeleine gave Joseph a large family at Plouër and in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer:  Marguerite-Anastasie born at Plouër in December 1765; Marie-Madeleine at St.-Servan in August 1767; Félix-Augustin at Plouër in January 1770 but died at nearby La Metterie Pommerais 13 days after his birth; Victoire-Geneviève born in April 1771; Joseph-, probably Josèphe-, Madeleine in November 1772; Charles-Adrien in December 1774; Julienne-Madeleine in March 1776 but died at nearby La Bouillie, age 1, in March 1777; and Françoise-Anne born in February 1778 but died at nearby Port St.-Hubert, age 1, in October 1779--eight children, six daughters and two sons, between 1765 and 1779.  As the birth dates of his youngest children reveal, Joseph did not take his family to Poitou in 1773 or join his fellow exiles at Nantes later in the decade.  In 1785, he, Marie-Madeleine, and two of their daughters, Marie-Madeleine and Victoire-Geneviève, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from St.-Malo.  Three of their children--Marguerite-Anastasie, Joseph-Madeleine, and Charles-Adrien--who would have been ages 20, 14, and 13 in 1785, if they were still living, chose to remain in the mother country.  One suspects that the two sons were dead when their parents and sisters sailed to the Spanish colony.  From New Orleans, Joseph and his family followed their fellow passengers to Bayou des Écores.  They had no more children in the colony.  Did their daughters marry in Louisiana, if they survived the crossing? 

François (c1745-1801) ? Hébert

François Hébert, born in greater Acadia in c1745, evidently was deported to France in late 1758 and likely settled in the St.-Malo area.  Middle-aged and still unmarried, he emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 aboard La Ville d'Archangel.  He appears on the ship's debarkation but not its embarkation list, and he was listed alone, with no age or occupation, so he may have been a stowaway.  From New Orleans, he followed his fellow passengers to Bayou des Écores, and, like most of the Acadians who went there, he did not remain.  He may have been the Françisco Hébert "of this colony" who died at Baton Rouge in June 1801, age 56.  The priest who recorded the burial did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, so one wonders if François married and fathered any children.

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Seven more Héberts--two small families and three wives--crossed on La Caroline, the last of the Seven Ships from France, which reached New Orleans in mid-December 1785.  One family followed other Acadians to Nueva Gálvez, also called San Bernardo, an Isleño community below New Orleans.  The other family, consisting of three unmarried siblings, and two of the wives and their families, chose to go to upper Bayou Lafourche.  The other wife and her family went to Cabahannocer on the river.  No new Hébert family lines came of it.

Ambroise le jeune (c1730-1780s) à Jean, fils à Jean le jeune à Antoine Hébert

Ambroise le jeune, second son of Charles Hébert l'aîné and his first wife Marie-Marguerite Landry, born probably at Cobeguit in c1730, followed his family to Pointe-à-la-Jeunesse, Île Royale.  He married Félicité, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Lejeune and Françoise Guédry of Minas, probably on the island in c1755.  Félicité gave Ambroise le jeune two daughters there:  Marie born in c1755; and Tarsile in c1757.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Luckily, they did not cross on the Duke William with his parents and unmarried siblings, who died on the stricken vessel.  They crossed, instead, on one of the five deportation transports that left Chédabouctou Bay in late November in the same 12-ship convoy as the Duke William and, despite the mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England that sank the Duke William and two other transports, reached St.-Malo together in late January 1759.  Although Ambroise le jeune and Félicité survived the crossing, their daughters did not.  The now-childless couple settled at Ploubalay in the countryside southwest of St.-Malo before moving to nearby Pleslin.  Félicité gave Ambroise 10 more children in the St.-Malo-area villages:  Isaac-Joseph born at Laurodel near Ploubalay in April 1760; Jean-Marguerite at Pleslin in November 1761; Alexis-Pierre in July 1763; Jean-Baptiste in November 1764 but died at age 2 1/2 in July 1767; Marie-Jeanne born in February 1766 but died at age 1 1/2 in July 1767; Marie-Félicité born in February 1768 but died at age 1 in March 1769; Gertrude-Anne born in September 1769; Ambroise-Alexandre-Baptiste in February 1771; Victor-François in September 1772 but died at nearby La Lyonnais the following April; and Marie-Jeanne born in February 1774.  Ambroise le jeune took his family to interior of Poitou in 1774.  Félicité gave him another daughter there, Hélène, born in St.-Jacques Parish, Châtellerault, in December 1775.  In March 1776, after two years of effort, the family retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes.  One of their sons, Ambroise, fils, died at nearby Chantenay, age 7, in October 1777.  Félicité gave Ambroise le jeune three more children at Chantenay:  Sophie born in June 1777 but died at age 4 1/2 in March 1782; Marie-Madeleine born in July 1779 but died at age 3 1/2 in November 1782; and Jean-Louis born in September 1781 but died at age 1 in December 1782--16 children, nine daughters and seven sons, between 1755 and 1781, in greater Acadia and France, most of whom died young.  Ambroise le jeune and Félicité, understandably, chose to emigrate to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  They were supposed to have taken the fifth ship, L'Amitié, but crossed instead on the last of the Seven Ships.  Astonishly, Ambroise le jeune and Félicité took to the Spanish colony only one of their many children, 16-year-old daughter Gertrude-Anne.  They had lost two children on the crossing from the Maritimes to France, buried four children in the St.-Malo villages and four more at Nantes--10 in all.  Five of their other children--Isaac-Joseph, Jean-Marguerite, Alexis-Pierre, Marie-Jeanne, and Hélène--if they were still living, would have been ages 25, 24, 22, 11, and 10, respectively, in 1785.  Perhaps the three older children chose to remain in France.  One suspects the two younger children, like so many of their siblings, had not survived childhood.  When Ambroise le jeune, Féilcité, and Gertrude, accompanied by a 20-year-old Gautrot niece, reached New Orleans, they chose to settle in the Isleño community of San Bernardo on the river below the city, where only a few of their fellow Acadians had gone.  Ambroise le jeune died there in the late 1780s, in his late 50s.  His long-suffering widow Félicité remarried to a Salier probably at New Orleans, where she died in September 1792, in her early 50s.  Daughter Gertrude married Charles Tardit of Bordeaux, France, at either San Bernardo or New Orleans in the early 1790s and gave him several daughters, so the blood of this remarkable family endured in the Bayou State. 

Joseph (1772-?) à Charles, père à Jacques à Emmanuel à Etienne Hébert

Joseph, only son of Charles Hébert, fils and Marguerite-Louise Valet, born and baptized at St.-Suliac on the river south of St.-Malo, France, in December 1772, followed his family to Poitou and Nantes.  He came to Louisiana with an older half-brother and a younger sister and followed them to upper Bayou Lafourche.  He was living with them in the Valenzuela District in January 1788, in his mid-teens, so he survived childhood, but he does not seem to have married. 

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Probably in the 1780s, about the time the hundreds of Acadians from France were arriving at New Orleans, a young Hébert from Canada, whose parents had lived at Grand-Pré, came to Louisiana via St. Louis, then in upper Spanish Louisiana.  He married a fellow Acadian on the Acadian Coast and settled there, but no new Hébert family line came of it: 

Paul-Hippolyte (c1761-?) à René dit Groc à Jean le jeune à Antoine Hébert

Paul-Hippolyte, called Hippolyte, only son of Amand Hébert and Françoise Gautrot, born in Connecticut in c1761, followed his family to Laprairie on the upper St. Lawrence across from Montréal later in the decade, but he did not remain.  He may have followed a first cousin to St. Louis on the upper Mississippi after he came of age and then moved down to lower Louisiana in the late 1780s--one of the few Acadians who came to the colony via the upper Mississippi.  He married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Michel and his second wife Marie Léger, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans in February 1790.  Their children, born on the river, included Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, in December 1790; Marguerite-Josèphe in September 1792; Félicité in July 1794; Marie-Carmélite, called Carmélite, in February 1797 but died at age 14 1/2 in August 1811; Paul-Eugène born in December 1799 but died at age 28 (the recording priest said 26) in February 1828; a son, name unrecorded, "recently born," died in September 1802; Marie Hélène, perhaps called Hélène, born in January 1804; and Marie Razie in May 1806--eight children, six daughters and two sons, between 1790 and 1806.  Daughters Félicité and Madeleine married into the Pertuit and Desormeaux families.  Daughter Marie Hélène may have been the Hélène Hébert who gave birth to son Sostène in August 1829, when she would have been age 25; daughter Marie Solidaire in early 1830, when she would have been age 26; and an unnamed infant son died in early October 1834, when she would have been age 30.  The St. Gabriel priest or priests who recorded the baptisms and burial did not give the children's father's name or the mother's parents' names.  According to local church records, this Hélène Hébert did not marry.  None of Hippolyte's sons married, so, except perhaps for its blood, this family line did not endure in the Bayou State. 

Henry

Robert Henry or Henri, born at Rouen on the lower Seine in France in c1643, came first to Canada, where he served as a domestic servant for Quentin Moral.  He was confirmed in the Catholic faith at Trois-Rivières in 1666, so he likely had been a Huguenot.  He moved to Chignecto in c1676, not long after its settlement, and two years later married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Pierre Godin dit Châtillon and Jeanne Rousselière, also of Canada, who had moved to Chignecto.  Robert and Marie-Madeleine were counted at Port-Royal in 1686, but by 1693 they had moved on to the Minas Basin.  They eventually settled at Cobeguit at the northeast end of the basin.  Marie-Madeleine gave Robert 13 children, six sons and seven daughters, in the colony.  Five of their daughters married into the Doiron, Pitre, Druce, Radoux, Pinet, and Guérard families.  All six of Robert and Marie-Madeleine's sons married, into the Hébert, Deveau, Brasseur, and Pitre families.  Most of them moved on to the French Maritimes in the late 1740s and early 1750s.  They were especially numerous on Île St.-Jean on the eve of deportation, which scattered this large family even farther. 

Most of Robert's descendants, living in French-controlled territory in 1755, escaped the roundups in British Nova Scotia that summer and fall.  Robert's fourth son Pierre, however, had remained at Minas and was still there when a New-English force arrived that summer.  He and his family escaped the roundup there and found refuge in Canada.  Pierre died at Chambly east of Montréal in 1770, age 70.  His only child, daughter Madeleine, married a Girouard and settled at L'Islet on the lower St. Lawrence--perhaps the only descendants of Robert of Rouen to settle in the St. Lawrence valley.  Any Henrys still at Cobeguit in the summer of 1755 abandoned their homes before the British arrived and sought refuge in the surrounding woods and hills.  That fall, winter, or spring they would have followed the cattle trail to Tatamagouche and other villages on the North Shore, crossed Mer Rouge, and joined their many relatives on Île St.-Jean. 

The islanders' respite from British oppression was painfully short.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats deported most of the habitants on the Maritime islands to France, dozens of Henrys among them.  The deportations to St.-Malo and Cherbourg devastated the family.  At least three nuclear families ceased to exist, and dozens of other Henrys, especially the old folks and the younger children, died at sea or from the rigors of the crossing.  Island Henrys did their best to create a life for themselves in the suburbs and villages of the St.-Malo area.  Members of the family settled in the suburbs of St.-Servan-sur-Mer and St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, across the harbor from St.-Malo; in the villages of Pleurtuit and Créhen on the west bank of Rivière Rance; and in the east bank villages of St.-Suliac and Pleudihen-sur-Rance, south of St.-Malo.  One extended family of island Henrys landed at Cherbourg in Normandy, and some of them resettled across the Baie de Seine at Le Havre.  A Henry family from St.-Malo settled briefly at Morlaix in northwest Brittany in the early 1770s.  Meanwhile, in the mid-1760s, one of the young Henrys at St.-Malo followed other exiles to Port-Louis in the îles Malouines, today's Falkland Islands, in the South Atlantic, and may have returned to the Breton port when the distant venture was abandoned in the 1770s. 

Meanwhile, in 1773-74, Henrys in France chose to take part in a major settlement venture in the interior of Poitou.  French authorities were tired of providing for the exiles languishing in the port cities.  An influential nobleman offered to settle them on land he owned near the city of Châtellerault.  Most of the Henrys still in France were living in the St.-Malo area, and most of them refused to be a part of the new venture.  However, a few chose to follow hundreds of their fellow exiles to Poitou.  After two years of effort, most of the Acadians abandoned the venture.  From October 1775 through March 1776, hundreds of them, including the Henrys, retreated in four convoys down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes, where they lived as best they could on government handouts and on what work they could find.  

During their two and a half decades in the mother country, Henrys had proliferated, and some had even prospered, despite the frustrations of living there.  But many did not.  When in the early 1780s the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, at least 48 Henrys agreed to take it.  A surprising number of their kinsmen chose to remain.  During the following decades, before, during, and after the French Revolution, Acadian Henrys could be found in impressive numbers in the St.-Malo villages and at Le Havre in Normandy. 

Meanwhile, a Henry family at St.-Servan-sur-Mer had chosen to participate in a settlement venture more perilous than the one in Poitou.  In 1774, while their kinsmen were struggling with the thin, rocky soil on the nobleman's estate near Châtellerault or maintaining their humble homes in the St.-Malo villages, a Henry and his family joined an expedition of fellow exiles led by sea captain Charles Robin that gathered on the British-controlled island of Jersey, the home of Robin and his brothers.  From there, the Henrys and dozens of other exiles returned to North America and settled in the British-controlled fishery at Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs--perhaps the only descendants of Robert Henry of Rouen who returned to greater Acadia after deportation.  Four daughters and a son married at Bonaventure in Gaspésie, and two of the sons settled on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore in present-day southeastern New Brunswick--the only members of the family to settle in that part of the Acadian diaspora. 

Henrys settled early in Acadia, but they came "late" to Louisiana.  In fact, if the Spanish government had not coaxed over 1,500 Acadians in France to emigrate to their Mississippi valley colony, there probably would be no Acadian Henrys in the Bayou State today.  Ten families came from France aboard five of the Seven Ships of 1785.  They settled on the river at Manchac, Baton Rouge, and Bayou des Écores, and on upper Bayou Lafourche.  By the mid-1790s, many Henrys had left the river and joined their kinsmen on the upper Lafourche.  During the late colonial and early antebellum periods, many moved down bayou into what became Lafourche Interior and Terrebonne parishes, so that by the late antebellum period the southeastern bayous and the coastal marshes became the larger center of Henry family settlement.  One Terrebonne family moved to lower Bayou Teche during the late antebellum period, the only Acadian Henry family to live west of the Atchafalaya Basin before the War of 1861-65, but they returned to the Montegut area of Terrebonne Parish by the mid-1860s. 

Henry is a common surname not only in France, but also in the rest of Europe, so it should be no surprise that non-Acadians with the name and its various spellings settled in colonial Louisiana as early as the 1720s.  Most of the Henrys of South Louisiana, in fact, are not Acadians.  Henrys, including French and Germans, were some of the earliest arrivals in French Louisiana, and Spanish Enrriques and Hennriques, including Isleños from the Canary Islands, settled in Louisiana during the late colonial period.  Most of the non-Acadian members of the family lived at New Orleans, but a few of them moved out to the western prairies during the late colonial and early antebellum periods and settled in what became St. Landry, St. Martin, and St. Mary parishes.  The many Henrys of southwest Louisiana today are likely descendants of an immigrant from Germany or Sweden who appeared at Opelousas in the early antebellum period.  Meanwhile, throughout the antebellum and into the post-war period, Foreign-French, German, and Anglo-American Henris and Henrys settled in many communities of South Louisiana.  Some of them were Afro Creoles either owned by members of the Henry family, or, more likely, children or grandchildren of slaves or free men of color named Henry.  These Afro Creoles were especially numerous on the western prairies and in Pointe Coupee Parish. 

Judging by the number of slaves they owned during the late antebellum period, the Henrys of South Louisiana, both Acadian and non-Acadian, participated only peripherally in the South's plantation-based economy.  The largest slaveholder in the family--Acadian Joseph Similien Henry of Iberville Parish--held 11 slaves in 1850 but only six a decade later.  ...

Dozens of Henrys, both Acadian and non-Acadian, served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65, and at least seven of them died in Confederate service. ...

In Louisiana, the family's name also is spelled Anrry, Enri, Hanry, Hennry, Henrico, Henriquez, Henrry, Hervory.30

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Forty-eight descendants of Robert Henry of Rouen emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 aboard five of the Seven Ships from France.  The first of them--a large family and a wife and her family, eight Henrys in all--crossed on Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in late July.  They followed their fellow passengers to Manchac on the river below Baton Rouge, and a small family line came of it, which, except for its blood, may not have endured: 

Joseph (c1743-1821) à Martin à Robert Henry

Joseph, second son of François Henry and Marie Dugas, born probably at Cobeguit in c1743, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, where he was counted with them at Grande-Ascension on the southeastern shore of the island in August 1752.  He was deported with his parents and siblings to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758 and followed his widowed mother to St.-Suliac on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo, where he married Cécile, daughter of fellow Acadians Antoine Breau and Cécile Bourg, in May 1764.  She gave him three children there:  Jean-Laurent born in August 1765; Marie-Josèphe in April 1769 but died in June; and Joseph-Suliac born in August 1770.  Joseph took his family to the interior of Poitou in 1773.  Cécile gave him another son there, Pierre-François, born at Bonnes south of Châtellerault in August 1774.  In March 1776, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes, where, in St.-Similien Parish, son Pierre-François died in June 1776, age 1 1/2, soon after their arrival.  Cécile gave Joseph four more children in the parish:  another Marie-Joséphe, also called Marie-Joséphine, born in February 1777; Pierre-Similien in May 1779; Anne-Françoise in May 1781; and Madeleine-Apolline in c1784.  The following year, Joseph, Cécile, and their six remaining children, three sons and three daughters, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana on the first of the Seven Ships with Joseph's sister Élisabeth and her family.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to Manchac on the river below Baton Rouge.  Cécile gave Joseph another daughter, Modeste, born at Manchac, in July 1789--nine children, four sons and five daughters, between 1765 and 1789, in France and Louisiana.  Joseph died probably at Manchac in August 1821, age 78.  Wife Cécile, who did not remarry, died there in August 1828, in her early 80s.  Daughters Marie-Josèphe and Modeste married into the Breaux and Capdeville families on the river.  Joseph's remaining sons also married there, but none of the lines, except for the blood, seems to have endured.  

Oldest son Jean-Laurent followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and Manchac.  In his late 30s, he married Marine, daughter of fellow Acadians Hyacinthe Landry and Marguerite Landry of Manchac, at Ascension on the river below Manchac in November 1803.  Marine was a native of Louisiana whose parents had come to the colony from Maryland in 1767.  One wonders if they were that rare Acadian couple who had no children. 

Joseph's second son Joseph-Suliac followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and Manchac, where he married Marie-Rosalie, called Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Charles Comeaux and his first wife Cécile Dugas, in February 1800.  Rosalie was a native of Louisiana whose parents had come to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765 and Maryland in 1767.  Rosalie and Joseph Suliac settled at Manchac.  Their children, born there, included Joseph-Similien in December 1800; Rose-Cléonie, perhaps called Cléonise, in August 1802 but died at age 13 (the recording priest said 4) in August 1815; and Joseph, fils born posthumously in October 1804--three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1800 and 1804.  Joseph Suliac died at Manchac in August 1804.  The St. Gabriel priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph "came from New Orleans, very ill," and was age 30 when he died.  He was 34.  One wonders if he, too, died of yellow fever, his younger brother Pierre Similien having died of the dreaded disease in early September of that year.  One of Joseph Suliac's sons married and settled in Iberville Parish, but the line may not have endured. 

Older son Joseph Similien married Marie Séraphine, called Séraphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Arsène Breaux and Marie-Geneviève Daigre, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in January 1826.  They settled near St. Gabriel.  Their children, born there, included Marie Euphrosine in September 1827; Marie Lodiska in June 1829; Joseph, fils in February 1832; Marie Avelina in March 1834; Marie Odile in March 1836; Oscar in July 1841; and Eugène Denis in October 1842 but, called Eugénie Denis, died two weeks after his birth--seven children, four daughters and three sons, between 1827 and 1842.  Joseph Similien remarried to Marie Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Landry and Eulalie Daigre and widow of Valéry Trahan, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in January 1845 or 1846.  She evidently gave him no more children.  In July 1850, the federal census taker in Iberville Parish counted 11 slaves--six males and five females, all black except for one mulatto, ranging in age from 80 to 1--on Joseph Henry's farm next to the farm of A. Breaux, perhaps his former father-in-law.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Iberville Parish counted six slaves--two males and four females, all black, ages 50 to 24, living in six houses--on Joseph Henri's farm.  Daughters Marie Euphrosine and Marie Odile, by his first wife, married into the Trahan, LeBlanc, and Roth families by 1870.  One of Joseph Similien's sons also married by then, but the line may not have endured.

Oldest son Joseph, fils, by first wife Séraphine Breaux, married, at age 21, Ernestine, daughter of fellow Acadians Laurent Daigre and Céleste Trahan, at the St. Gabriel church in April 1853.  Daughter Mary Alice was born near St. Gabriel in January 1854.  Joseph, fils died near St. Gabriel in February 1855, age 23.  His daughter did not marry by 1870.  He evidently fathered no sons, so his line of the family, except perhaps for its blood, may have died with him. 

Joseph's fourth and youngest son Pierre-Similien followed his family to New Orleans and Manchac, where he married Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Dupuis and Élisabeth Benoit, in September 1803.  Adélaïde was a native of Louisiana whose parents had come to the colony from French St.-Domingue in the late 1760s.  Pierre-Similien died of yellow fever "on [his] father's plantation" at Manchac in September 1804, perhaps before he could father any children. 

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Another Henry, only in his teens, crossed with close relatives on La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in mid-August 1785.  No new family line came of it:

Pierre (c1771-?) à ? à Robert Henry

Pierre, son of ____ Henry and Marie-Yvette Hébert, born in France in c1771, accompanied his widowed mother and maternal grandfather, Charles Hébert, to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 and followed them to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Though he may have survived childhood, Pierre evidently died before he could marry. 

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Seven more Henrys, including two families, crossed on Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in the third week of August 1785.  They followed their fellow passengers to Baton Rouge, where one of the wives, who had been pregnant on the voyage, gave birth to a son--the eighth Henry who had crossed on the vessel.  Only one new Henry family line emerged on the river, and this one, unlike many others, endured the test of time: 

Charles (c1732-?) à Robert Henry

Charles, oldest son of Joseph Henry dit le Petit Homme and Christine dite Catherine Pitre, born probably at Cobeguit in c1732, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in c1751 and married Françoise-Josèphe, daughter of Joseph Thériot and Françoise Melanson, probably before August 1752, when a French official counted the couple at Rivière-de-l'Ouest on the south end of the island near his family.  They had no children at the time.  Françoise-Josèphe gave Charles two children on the island:  Maximin born in c1754; and Marie-Josèphe in c1757.  The British deported the family to France in late 1758.  They landed not at St.-Malo but at Cherbourg in Normandy, where Charles worked as a mariner.  His two children evidently did not survive the crossing.  Françoise-Josèphe gave him another son, Joseph, born at Cherbourg in November 1759, but the boy died the following January.  Meanwhile, wife Françoise-Josèphe died in late December, age 26, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth.  Charles remarried to Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians René Bernard and Marguerite Hébert, in Très-Ste.-Trinité Parish, Cherbourg, in January 1761.  Marie-Madeleine gave him six more children at Cherbourg and across the Baie de Seine at Le Havre:  Marie-Madeleine born at Cherbourg in January 1762; Anastasie-Blanche in May 1763 but died at Le Havre at age 5 in July 1768; Pierre-Charles born in Notre-Dame Parish, Le Havre, in June 1765; Victoire-Adélaïde or Adélaïde Victoire in April 1767 but died at age 1 1/2 in July 1768; Benjamin-Louis born in St.-François Parish, Le Havre, in May 1769 but also died young; and Rose-Anastasie born in c1771.  In 1773, Charles took his family to Poitou, where Marie-Madeleine gave him another daughter, Cécile, born in St.-Jean l'Evangeliste Parish, Châtellerault, in April 1774.  In October 1775, after two years of effort, Charles, Marie-Madeleine, and their four remaining children, a son and three daughters, retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the lower Loire port of Nantes.  Another daughter, Ursule, was born at Nantes soon after they got there.  Daughter Cécile, born in Poitou, evidently died at Nantes in the late 1770s or early 1780s.  In his early 50s, Charles remarried again--his third marriage--to Marie, 43-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Victor LeBlanc and Marie Aucoin of Tintamarre, Chignecto, and widow of Jean-Jacques Bonnière and Charles Robichaud, at St.-Martin de Chantenay near Nantes in October 1784.  The following year, Charles, Marie, and four of their children--three of his daughters from his second wife and one of her sons from her first husband--emigrated to Spanish Louisiana.  Unlike most of their fellow Acadians, Charles and Marie paid their own passage.  Charles's oldest son Pierre-Charles, who, if he was still living, would have been age 20 in 1785, did not follow his family to the Spanish colony.  Marie was pregnant when their ship left Paimboeuf, the lower port of Nantes.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to Baton Rouge, where son Jean-Baptiste was born in October 1785 and baptized at nearby San Gabriel the following March--a dozen children, five sons and seven daughters, by three wives, between 1754 and 1785, in greater Acadia, France, and Louisiana.  Charles and Marie had no more children in the colony.  Charles died at Baton Rouge in April 1794, in his early 60s.  Daughters Marie-Madeleine, Rose-Anastasie, and Ursule, by his second wife, married into the Fournier, Bourgeois, Boudreaux, and Dubois families on the river.  Charles's remaining son married at Baton Rouge and created an enduring line there.

Fifth and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, by third wife Marie LeBlanc, married Marie Christine, called Christine, daughter of fellow Acadians François Alexandre Daigre and Rose Adélaïde Bourg, probably at Baton Rouge in the mid- or late 1800s.  Their children, born on the river, included François Henri in July 1809; Jean Baptiste, fils, also called Jean Marie and J. M., in December 1813; Marie Rose Joséphine in July 1814 but died at age 5 1/2 in May 1820; Marie Aurore born in August 1821; and Marie Euphémie in April 1825--five children, two sons and three daughters, between 1809 and 1825.  Jean Baptiste died in Iberville Parish in June 1832.  The St. Gabriel priest who recorded the burial said that Jean Baptiste was age 45 when he died.  He was 46.  Daughter Marie Aurore married a Daigre cousin.  Both of Jean Baptiste's sons also married on the river, but not all of the lines endured. 

Older son François Henri married, at age 27, Marie Aureline, called Aureline, daughter of fellow Acadian Grégoire Alexis Lejeune and his Creole wife Marie Tardit of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in April 1837.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Evariste baptized at the Baton Rouge church, age 5 months, in December 1838; Juliènne Aurore born in c1840; and Bélizaire or Bélisaire baptized, age unrecorded, at the Brusly church in July 1841.  François, at age 35, remarried to Julie Amélie, daughter of fellow Acadians François Marie Lejeune and Marguerite-Marie Lebert and widow of Étienne Richard of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the Baton Rouge church in September 1844.  They remained in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born near Brusly, included Élie Anatole in July 1846; and Armantine Amelica in July 1847 but died at age 1 in June 1848.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in West Baton Rouge Parish counted four slaves--all female, all black except for one mulatto, ranging in age from 40 to 5--on François Henry's farm.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in West Baton Rouge Parish counted four slaves again--a male and three females, all black, ages 25 to 1 1/2--on François Henry's farm.  At age 56, François remarried again--his third marriage--to Ernestine, daughter of fellow Acadian Louis Robichaux and his Creole wife Modeste Prosper and widow of Jean Baptiste Rosémond Aucoin, at the Brusly church in November 1865.  Daughter Marie Éliza was born near Baton Rouge in August 1866; ...  Daughters Juliènne Aurore, by his first wife, married into the Labauve family by 1870.  Two of François's sons, after their war service, also married by then. 

During the War of 1861-65, oldest son Evariste, by first wife Aureline Lejeune, served in Company H of the 4th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in West Baton Rouge Parish, which fought in Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana, Alabama, and Georgia.  Evariste was wounded at the Battle of Shiloh in April 1862 and may not have returned to his unit.  He survived the war, returned to his family, and married Marie Eléonore, daughter of André Lemoine and his Acadian wife Virginie Daigre, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in January 1865.  Their children, born near Brusly, included Olivia Odile in February 1868; Paul Ernest in November 1869; ...  Evariste worked as a store clerk after the war. 

During the war, François's second son Bélisaire, by first wife Aureline Lejeune, served in the Orleans Guard Battalion Louisiana Infantry and in Company A of the 30th Regiment/Battalion Louisiana Infantry, raised in Orleans Parish, which fought in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee.  Bélisaire was captured near Atlanta, Georgia, in August 1864.  The Federals sent him to Louisville, Kentucky, before transferring him to the prisoner-of-war compound at Camp Chase, Ohio, where he was held for the rest of the war.  He was released from Camp Chase in early June 1865, returned to his family, and married Rose Letaive probably in West Baton Rouge Parish, date unrecorded.  Daughter Marie Albertine was born near Baton Rouge in December 1867; ...

Jean-Baptiste's younger son Jean Baptiste, fils, also called Jean Marie and J. M., married cousin Juliènne Célima, Celina, or Céline, also called M. Céline, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Marc Henry and Hermenegilde Gaudin of Ascension Parish, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in November 1842; the recording priest called him Jean Marie.  Their children, born on the river, included Marie Rosenda or Rosanna in Ascension Parish in March 1844; Euphrosine Idelia in February 1846; and Marie Idalie near Baton Rouge in October 1848--three children, all daughters, between 1844 and 1848.  Daughters Marie Rosanna and Marie Idalie married into the Sanchez and Swear families by 1870.  Jean Baptiste, fils evidently fathered no sons, so this line of the family, except perhaps for its blood, may not have endured. 

Pierre (c1734-?) à Robert Henry

Pierre, fifth son of Germain Henry and Cécile Deveau, born probably at Cobeguit in c1734, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in c1750 and was counted with them at Port-La-Joye on the southern end of the island in August 1752.  Pierre married Marguerite, daughter of Claude Trahan and Marie Tillard, there in February 1753.  She gave Pierre a son, Pierre, fils, born on the island in c1757.  The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Their son either died at sea or from the rigors of the crossing.  Marguerite had been pregnant during the crossing, and their newborn son, François-Guillaume, died in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer in February 1759 three days after his birth.  Pierre worked as a laborer and a seaman in the Breton port.  Marguerite gave Pierre eight more children at St.-Servan:  Pierre-Marin born in February 1760; Jean-Félix in May 1761; Joseph-Phlippe in July 1762; Amand in July 1764; Marguerite-Sophie in October 1765; Cyrille-François in August 1767; François-Michel in February 1769; and Adélaïde-Marie in March 1770.  In February 1772, Pierre received permission to take his family to Morlaix in northwest Brittany.  Another son, Augustin, was born in St.-Martin des Champs Parish, Morlaix, in May 1773--11 children, nine sons and two daughters, between 1757 and 1773, in greater Acadia and France.  Later that year, Pierre took his family to Poitou.  Their youngest daughter Adélaïde-Marie and youngest son Augustin may have died there.  In October 1775, after two years of effort, Pierre, Marguerite, and seven of their children, six sons and a daughter, retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes.  Their older and only remaining daughter, Marguerite-Sophie, age 13, died at nearby St.-Martin de Chantenay in January 1778.  Son Joseph-Philippe married at St.-Martin de Chantenay in April 1785.  Later that year, Pierre and Marguerite emigrated to Spansh Louisiana with an unmarried son, Cyrille-François.  Married son Joseph-Phillipe crossed with his family on a later vessel.  Four of Pierre and Marguerite's other sons--Pierre-Marin, Jean-Félix, Amand, and François-Michel, ages 15, 14, 13, and 6, respectively, in October 1775 on the convoy to Nantes, if they were still living in 1785, chose to remain in the mother country.  Did any of them create families of their own in France?  From New Orleans, Pierre, Marguerite, and son Cyrille-François followed their fellow passengers to Baton Rouge.  However, their married son and his wife, when they reached the colony, chose to settle not at Baton Rouge but on upper Bayou Lafourche.  The line, however, may not have endured in the Bayou State. 

Fifth son Joseph-Philippe followed his family to Poitou and Nantes, where he worked as a seaman.  He married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Thibodeau and Hélène Gautrot and widow of Nicolas Metra of Metz, at nearby St.-Martin de Chantenay in April 1785.  He, his wife, and two stepsons crossed to New Orleans later that year aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fifth of the Seven Ships, and followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  One of the stepsons was still an infant when the family crossed and either died on the voyage or soon after reaching the colony.  Joseph-Philippe and Marie's daughter Rosalie was born on the upper Lafourche in February 1788.  Joseph-Philippe died perhaps in Lafourche Parish and was buried near Labadieville, Assumption Parish, in October 1853 "during [a] yellow fever epidemic."  The priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph Philippe died at "age ca. 95 years."  He was 91 and one of the last of the Acadian immigrants in Louisiana to join his ancestors.  Daughter Rosalie married into the Boudreaux family.  Joseph Philippe seems to have fathered no sons, so his line of the family, except perhaps for its blood, died with him. 

Pierre, père's seventh son Cyrille-François followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and Baton Rouge, where he was counted with them in July 1788, when he would have been age 21, so he survived childhood but did not marry.  

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Two Henrys--a wife and a small family--crossed on Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in early September 1785.  They followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  No new Henry family line came of it.

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Thirty more Henrys--six families, three led by brothers, and six wives, including two sets of sisters--crossed on La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in early December 1785.  La Ville d'Archangel was the second of two ships that sailed directly from St.-Malo to New Orleans; the other five sailed from Paimboeuf and Nantes.  More Henrys crossed on this vessel for the simple reason that in 1773 most members of the family had remained in their St.-Malo enclaves rather than follow their fellow exiles to Poitou.  When most of the Poitou Acadians, including the few Henrys who had gone there, abandoned the venture two years later, they moved on to Nantes, not back to St.-Malo.  As a result, Henrys in France remained separated for a decade by the girth of eastern Brittany.  From New Orleans, the Henrys from La Ville d'Archangel followed their fellow passengers to a new Spanish settlement at Bayou des Écores in the New Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge.  Few remained.  Two new family lines appeared on the river, but three especially robust lines emerged on upper Bayou Lafourche, which over the following decades became the principal center of Henry family settlement: 

Jean, fils (c1731-?) à Martin à Robert Henry

Jean, fils, oldest son of Jean Henry dit Le Neveu and Marie-Madeleine Thériot, born probably at Cobeguit in c1731, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in c1750.  He married Marie, daughter of Joseph Pitre and Isabelle Boudrot, at Port-La-Joye on the island in January 1752.  The following August, a French official counted them at nearby Rivière-de-l'Ouest near his parents.  Marie gave Jean, fils three children on the island:  Jean-Baptiste born in c1753; Charles in c1755; and Marie in c1757.  The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Son Charles and daughter Marie died at sea.  Jean, fils took his family to Pleurtuit on the west side of the river south of the Breton port.  Marie gave him five more children there and at nearby Créhen:  Maximilien born probably at Pleurtuit in May 1760; Marie-Jeanne-Madeleine at Créhen in April 1762; Marguerite in March 1764 but died at Créhen the following August; Isabelle-Modeste born at Pleurtuit in May 1765; and Marie-Rose at Créhen in July 1768--eight children, three sons and five daughters, between 1753 and 1768, in greater Acadia and France.  Oldest son Jean-Baptiste died at Créhen in March 1765, age 12.  Jean fils worked as a wheelwright in the two villages.  In the late 1760s and early 1770s, he plied his trade "in the Indies" while Marie minded the children at Pleurtuit.  If Jean, fils was back from the Indies in 1773, he did not follow other exiles in the St.-Malo area to the interior of Poitou, nor did he and his family join their fellow Acadians at Nantes later in the decade.  In 1785, he, Marie, and three of their children, a son and two daughters, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from St.-Malo.  Daughter Marie-Jeanne-Madeleine, who would have been age 13 in 1785, did not accompany them to the Spanish colony, so she probably had died by then.  If they followed their fellow passengers from New Orleans to Bayou des Écores, they soon moved on.  Wife Marie died at nearby Baton Rouge in August 1786, age 53.  Jean, fils did not remarry.  Daughters Élisabeth-Modeste and Marie-Rose married into the Thériot, Longuépée, and Arbour families at Bayou des Écores and Baton Rouge.  Jean, fils's remaining son also married on the river. 

Third and youngest son Maximilien followed his parents to New Orleans, Bayou des Écores, and Baton Rouge.  He married Adélaïde, daughter of Saturnin Bruno and his Acadian wife Scholastique Léger, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer on the lower Acadian Coast in October 1792, but they settled at Baton Rouge, where Spanish officials counted them soon after their marriage.  During the late 1790s and early 1800s, they lived for a time in New Orleans before returning to the Baton Rouge area.  Their children, born on the river, included Constance-Adélaïde in September 1794; Louis-Isidore, called Isidore, in September 1800 and baptized at New Orleans in February 1802; Marianne-Henriette, called Henriette, born in August 1801 and baptized at New Orleans in February 1802; and Françoise-Adeline born in March 1803 and baptized at New Orleans in July--four children, three daughters and a son, between 1794 and 1803.  Daughter Henriette married into the Mahier family.  Maximilien's son also married and settled on the river.

Only son Louis-Isidore, called Isidore, married fellow Acadian Arthémise Daigre at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in March 1841.  Their children, born at Baton Rouge, included Théodule in October 1841; Oscar in July 1843; Louis Largus in September 1844; and Jean Baptiste in November 1847 but died at age 2 1/2 (the recording priest said 22 months) in September 1850--four children, all sons, between 1841 and 1847.  None of Isidore's sons married by 1870. 

Pierre (c1734-?) à Martin à Robert Henry

Pierre, second son of Jean Henry dit Le Neveu and Marie-Madeleine Thériot, born probably at Cobeguit in c1734, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and was counted with them at Rivière-de-l'Ouest in August 1752.  He married Marguerite-Josèphe, daughter of Charles Bourg and Cécile Melanson, at nearby Port-La-Joye in May 1756.  Son François-Marie was born on the island in c1757.  The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Pierre and Marguerite survived the crossing, but their infant son died at sea.  They settled near his brothers at Pleurtuit, where Marguerite gave Pierre eight more sons, only one of whom survived childhood:  Pierre, fils born at Les Forges near Pleurtuit in March 1760 but died at age 11 in June 1771; Daniel-Jean born in July 1762 but died at nearby Créhen, age 1 1/2, in January 1764; Jean-Vincent born at Créhen in December 1764; François-Pierre at La Jehannie near Pleurtuit in May 1767 but died at age 8 in September 1775; Joseph-Joachim born at La Jehannie in October 1769 but died at age 4 1/2 in September 1775, two days after his older brother François died; Charles-Isaac born at La Jehannie in October 1772 but died there at age 3 1/2 in August 1776; Pierre-Laurent born at La Jehannie in September 1775 but died there the following December; and Pierre-Isaac born in July 1778 but died before August 1785, when he would have been age 7--nine children, all sons, between 1757 and 1775, in greater Acadia and France, most of whom died young.  As the birth and death dates of his younger sons reveal, Pierre did not take his family to Poitou in 1773, nor did they join their fellow exiles at Nantes later in the decade.  In 1785, Pierre, Marguerite-Josèphe, and their remaining son emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from St.-Malo.  Pierre and his family went from New Orleans to Bayou des Écores and probably resettled at Baton Rouge not long after their arrival.  The son married on the river, and his son settled on upper Bayou Lafourche, but, except for its blood, the family line may not have endured. 

Fourth son Jean-Vincent followed his family to New Orleans, Bayou des Ecores, and Baton Rouge.  He may have been the Jean Henry who married ____ Rigart, place and date unrecorded, and settled downriver at Ascension.  If so, their son Jean, fils, whose birth place and date also were unrecorded, married and settled on Bayou Lafourche.

Jean, fils, also called Jean Henry and Jean Marc, perhaps the only son, married Hermengilde, daughter of fellow Acadians Édouard Godin and Marie Madeleine Landry, at the Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, in June 1816.  Their children, born in Ascension and on upper Bayou Lafourche, included Marie Élisabeth, called Élisabeth, in Ascension in September 1817; Julian or Julien in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1821; and Juliènne Célima, called Célima and M. Céline, probably in the 1820s--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1817 and the 1820s.  Daughters Élisabeth and Juliènne Célima married into the Brasset or Brasseaux, Henry, and Comeaux families, the younger one twice.  Jean, fils' son, if he married at all, did not do so by 1870. 

Charles (c1736-?) à Martin à Robert Henry

Charles, third son of Jean Henry dit Le Neveu and Marie-Madeleine Thériot, born probably at Cobeguit in c1736, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and was counted with them at Rivière-de-l'Ouest in August 1752.  He married Françoise, daughter of Joseph Hébert and Isabelle Benoit of Pigiguit, at Port-La-Joye on the island in October 1756.  Daughter Marie-Madeleine was born on the island in c1758.  Later that year, the British deported the family to St.-Malo, France.  They all survived the crossing and settled near his brothers at Pleurtuit before moving to nearby St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, across the harbor from St.-Malo.  Daughter Marie-Madeleine died at Pleurtuit in January 1763, age 5.  Françoise gave Charles 11 more children at Pleutuit and other communities on the west side of the river:  Joseph-Jean born probably at Pleurtuit in March 1760; Charles-Guillaume at Les Forges near Pleurtuit in July 1761 but died there at age 1 1/2 in January 1763; Amateur-François born at Les Forges in December 1762 but died at nearby Créhen at age 3 1/2 in May 1766; Rémy-Charles born at Créhen in November 1764 but died at La Ville au Beure near Pleurtuit at age 2 1/2 in July 1767; another Amateur-François born at La Ville au Beure in November 1766 but died at nearby Jouvente at age 2 1/2 in January 1769; Françoise-Victoire born at Jouvente in February 1769; Marguerite-Toussainte at Pleurtuit in November 1772; Charles, fils in c1775; Perrine-Jeanne at St.-Énogat in December 1776 but died there at age 1 1/2 in May 1778; and Perrine born at St.-Énogat in early1779 but died there at age 9 months the following October--a dozen children, five daughters and seven sons, between 1758 and 1779, in greater Acadia and France, most of whom died young.  As the birth and death dates of his younger children reveal, Charles did not take his family to Poitou in 1773, nor did they join their fellow exiles in Nantes.  In 1785, Charles, Françoise, and three of their remaining children, two daughters and a son, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from St.-Malo.  Oldest son Joseph-Jean, if he was still living, would have been age 25 in 1785; he did not follow his parents and younger siblings to the Spanish colony.  From New Orleans, Charles, père and his family went to Bayou des Écores and then to Baton Rouge.  Charles, père died by July 1788, when wife Françoise was listed in a Baton Rouge census as a widow.  Daughters Marguerite-Toussainte and Françoise-Victoire married into the Broussard and Usé families at Baton Rouge.  Charles's remaining son also remained on the river but did not perpetuate the family line. 

Sixth and youngest son Charles, fils followed his family to New Orleans and Bayou des Écores and probably was one of the children in his widowed mother's household at Baton Rouge in July 1788, when he would have been age 13.  If he survived childhood, he did not marry. 

Charles (c1736-?) à Robert Henry

Charles, fifth son of Jean dit le Vieux Henry and Marie Hébert, born probably at Cobeguit in c1736, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in c1750 and was counted with them at Rivière-de-l'Ouest in August 1752.  In late 1758, the British deported Charles to St.-Malo, France, with the family of older brother Pierre.  Charles settled near his brother and cousins at Pleurtuit before moving on to the suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where he married Marguerite-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians François Thériot and Françoise Guérin, in January 1761.  Marguerite gave Charles five children, three daughters and two sons, at St.-Servan:  Marie-Josèphe born in May 1762; Pierre-Charles in May 1764 but died at age 3 in July 1767; Jean-Baptiste-Théodore born in July 1766; Jeanne-Françoise in March 1769; and Marguerite-Angélique in December 1770 but died at age six months the following June.  In 1773, when hundreds of their fellow exiles in the St.-Malo area went to the interior of Poitou, Charles and his family, like his many cousins, remained at St.-Malo, nor did they join their fellow exiles at Nantes later in the decade.  In 1785, Charles, Marguerite-Josèphe, and their remaining children, two daughters and a son, along with Marguerite-Josèphe's mother and older sister Marie, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from St.-Malo.  They, too, went to Bayou des Écores and resettled at Baton Rouge.  Charles and Marguerite-Josèphe had no more children in Louisiana.  Daughters Marie-Josèphe and Jeanne-Françoise married into the Daigre and Robichaux families, and one of them resettled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Charles's remaining son married twice and also resettled on the upper Lafourche, where he created a vigorous family line. 

Younger son Jean-Baptiste-Théodore followed his family to New Orleans, Bayou des Écores, and Baton Rouge, where Spanish officials counted him in July 1788 and November 1792.  He married Marie-Félicité, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Boudreaux and his first wife Marie-Modeste Trahan of Nantes, at Baton Rouge in January 1794.  Marie-Félicité, a native of Nantes, had come to Louisiana from France in 1785 aboard the first of the Seven Ships.  Her and Jean-Baptiste-Théodore's children, born on the river and upper Bayou Lafourche, included Marie-Julie near Baton Roue in October 1794 but died four days after her birth; Jean-Baptiste-Théodore, fils born in November 1795; François-Constant at Assumption on the upper Lafourche in 1797; Charles-Magloire in July 1799; Guillaume-Célestin in September 1800; and David-Valéry in August 1802.  Jean-Baptiste-Théodore, in his late 30s, remarried to Anne-Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Naquin and Anne Doiron of St.-Malo, at Assumption in July 1803.  Anne-Marie, a native of St.-Suliac near St-Servan-sur-Mer, also had come to Louisiana in 1785 aboard an earlier vessel.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marianne, also called Anne Marie, in May 1805; and Jean Baptiste in July 1812--eight children, two daughters and six sons, by two wives, between 1794 and 1812.  Jean Baptiste Théodore died in Lafourche Interior Parish in September 1834, age 67.  A succession inventory, calling his first wife, incorrectly, Anne M. Dugas (deceased) and his second wife, correctly, Anne Naquin, and listing his children--son Charles M. and his wife, calling her second husband Stanislas Boudreaux; daughter Anne Marie and her husband--and two of his grandchildren, Cécile and Maximin, from his oldest son--was filed at the Houma courthouse, Terrebonne Parish, in June 1847, so he must have owned property in that parish as well.  Daughter Anne Marie, from his second wife, married into the Boudreaux family.  Jean Baptiste Théodore's three oldest sons also married and settled in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley. 

Oldest son Jean Baptiste Théodore, fils, by first wife Marie Félicité Boudreaux, married cousin Marie Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Boudreaux and Marguerite Ludivine Pitre, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1817.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Euphrosine in December 181[8]; Léandre Guillaume baptized at the Plattenville church, age unrecorded, in September 1821; Marcelin Basile born in March 1822; Carmélite in December 1822[sic]; Cécile Liobe in July 1824; Clarisse Pélagie Ortense in November 1825; Célesie Catherine in March 1829; Maximin in the 1820s or early 1830s; and Roseline in December 1834 but, called Roseline, died at age 11 1/2, in November 1846--nine children, six daughters, and three sons, between 1818 and 1834.  Jean Baptiste Théodore, fils, at age 40, remarried to Rosalie Madeleine, daughter of François Boudeloche and his Acadian wife Madeleine Trahan, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in April 1836.  She evidently gave him no more children.  Jean Baptiste Théodore, fils died in Terrebonne Parish in August 1842, age 46.  A petition to appoint a legal representative, as well as his succession inventory, naming his wife and listing his children--Marie Euphrosine, Léandre Guillaume, Marcelin Basile, Cécile, Maximin, Célesie, and Rosaline--and other heirs--brother Charles Magloire and his wife, daughter Carmélite and her husband, and daughter Clarisse Pélagie and her husband--were filed at the Houma courthouse in March 1844.  Daughters Clarisse, Célesie, Carmélite, and Cécile, by his first wife, married into the Darce, Lenain, Trone, and Guillot families, including two Darce brothers, by 1870.  Jean Baptiste Théodore, fils's three sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Léandre Guillaume, by first wife Marie Rose Boudreaux, married Élise, Lise, or Lisa Aurelia, daughter of fellow Acadians Drausin Bergeron and Constance Arcement, at the Thibodaux church in November 1846; the marriage also was recorded in Terrebonne Parish.  Their children, born on the Lafourche and in Terrebonne Parish, included Marie Cécilia in November 1849; Jean Baptiste le jeune in August 1850; Trasimond Lubin in March 1853; Joseph Oleus in Terrebonne Parish in November 1854; Marie Malvina in January 1856; Gustine Zélémée in September 1857; Célina Ernestine in January 1861; Magloire Onésie in October 1862; Henri Wolsey in June 1864; Marie Letitia near Montegut, Terrebonne Parish, in March 1866[sic]; Oleus near in August 1866[sic]; Marie Doliska in February 1868; Adam Séraphin in September 1869; ...  None of Léandre's children married by 1870. 

Jean Baptiste Théodore, fils's second son Marcellin Basile, by first wife Marie Rose Boudreaux, married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Thadée Landry and Anastasie Dugas, at the Thibodaux church in July 1841.  Daughter Euselia Eve was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in November 1844.  Marcellin Basile remarried to Esther, daughter of Georges Mars and Adeline Pascal, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in December 1856.  Their children, born near Montegut, included Octavie Honoré in September 1862; Jean Baptiste Octave in January 1865; ...  None of Marcellin's children married by 1870. 

Jean Baptiste Théodore, fils's third son Maximin, by first wife Marie Rose Boudreaux, married Marie Élise, Élisa, Éliza, or Liza, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Marcellin Landry and Carmélite Rosalie Savoie, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in February 1853.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Joseph Manillien in March 1854; Armantine Marie in September 1855; Marie Léontine in August 1857; Marie Léonise in August 1859; Marie Glorvina Lorenza in August 1861; Marie Evéline in November 1863; Augustave Alydore near Montegut in October 1865; Marie Ada in October 1867; Théophile Joseph in July 1870; ...  None of Maximin's children married by 1870. 

Jean Baptiste Théodore, père's second son François Constant, by first wife Marie Félicité Boudreaux, married Louise Euphémie, called Euphémie, daughter of Jean Dupré and his Acadian wife Ives Naquin, at the Plattenville church in May 1818.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included François Magloire or Magloire François, called Magloire, in May 1820; Maturin or Mathurin Léon, called Léon, in February 1822; Victor Drosa or Drosin, called Drosin, in December 1823; Éloi Clément in November 1825; Urbin Euchariste in April 1826; Marcellin Sylvain, called Sylvain, in January 1827; Marcellus in the late 1820s or early 1830s; Félicité Targile or Tersile, called Tersile, in December 1831; Rosalie Susanne in January 1836; François Eugène Félicien Eusèbe in February 1838; and Émelie Phelomène in May 1840--11 children, eight sons and three daughters, between 1820 and 1840.  Daughters Rosalie and Tersile married into the Authement and Porché families.  Seven of François Constant's sons also married. 

Oldest son François Magloire or Magloire François married Eulalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Marcellin Landry and Carmélite Rosalie Savoie, at the Thibodaux church in June 1841.  Their children, born on the Lafourche and in Terrebonne Parish, included Eustasie in March 1842; Noël Jourdain, called Jourdain, in December 1844; Éloi Eugène in Terrebonne Parish in December 1847; Émée Fidelise in April 1849; Thomas Clodomir in December 1850; Cléophine near Lockport, Lafourche Parish, in September 1855; and Duval in Terrebonne Parish in September 1858--seven children, three daughters and four sons, between 1842 and 1858.  Daughters Eustasie and Émée married into the Milere and Trosclair families by 1870.  One of Magloire's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Noël Jourdain, called Jourdain, married Mary Émilie, called Émilie, daughter of Adam Trosclair and Nathalie Gaspard, at the Montegut church, Terrebonne Parish, in July 1866.  Their children, born near Montegut, included Augustave in November 1867; Marie Augustavie in October 1869; ...

François Constant's second son Léon married Célina, daughter of Jérôme Authement and Marie Faule, at the Houma church in May 1850.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Léonce Lovinci in July 1852; Orestile François in October 1854; and Lorenzor Sulvena in March 1857--three children, all sons, between 1852 and 1857.  None of Léon's sons married by 1870. 

François Constant's third son Drosin may have married fellow Acadian Marguerite Bourgeois, place and date unrecorded.  Daughter Marie Fidelise was born near Plattenville, Assumption Parish, in April 1854.  Did they have anymore children?  Drosin's daughter did not marry by 1870.   

François Constant's fourth son Éloi Clément, called Trasimous Clément by the recording priest, may have married Maria Sapa in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in June 1860. ...

François Constant's fifth son Urbin, at age 40, married Lusia, daughter of Fortunate Vitto and Cléonise Waguespack, at the Montegut church in April 1866.  Urbin may have remarried to Marie Domingue soon after his first marriage.  If so, their son Adam Cilesse was born near Montegut in December 1869; ...

François Constant's sixth son Sylvain married Geneviève Victorine, another daughter of Jérôme Authement and Marie Faule, at the Houma church in April 1850.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Julia Evelia in February 1856; and Oscar Pierre in January 1858.  Sylvain remarried to Rosalie, another daughter of Adam Trosclair and Nathalie Gaspard of Terrebonne Parish, at the Houma church in May 1863.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included François Ovilier in April 1864; Marie Rose near Montegut in October 1865; ...  None of Sylvain's children married by 1870. 

François Constant's seventh son Marcellus married cousin Élisa or Lisa, daughter of fellow Acadians Stanislas Boudreaux and his Creole wife Mélanie Dupré, at the Thibodaux church in June 1853; the marriage also was recorded in Terrebonne Parish.  Their children, born in Terrebonne and on the lower Teche, included Euzèbre, probably Eusèbe, Trasimond in Terrebonne Parish in August 1856; Philemon Désiré near Pattersonville, St. Mary Parish, in March 1860; Marie Lize Lorinza near Montegut in September 1866; Mathilde Elvire in October 1868; ...  None of Marcellus's children married by 1870. 

Jean Baptiste Théodore, père's third son Charles Magloire, by first wife Marie Félicité Boudreaux, married Mélanie Fortune, another daughter of Jean Dupré and Ives Naquin, at the Plattenville church in January 1820.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Abdèlle in January 1821; Jean Rosémond in April 1823; Ermand or Armand Marcellus in April 1825; and Haire or Hilaire Mathurin in September 1827--four children, a daughter and three sons, between 1821 and 1827.  Charles Magloire's daughter did not marry by 1870, but two of his sons did. 

Second son Armand Marcellus married cousin Félicité, daughter of Basile Dupré and Adèle Léonard, at the Houma church in June 1854.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Armentine Odillia in January 1854; and Arman Erneste in May 1856. Neither of Armand's children married by 1870. 

Charles Magloire's third and youngest son Hilaire Mathurin married Élisabeth, daughter of François André Dubois, a Creole, not a fellow Acadian, and Geneviève Durocher, at the Houma church in September 1850.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Marie Élisabeth in June 1851; Joseph Fabien in January 1854; Marguerite Basilise in March 1855; Jean Armand in November 1856; Élienne, perhaps Étienne, in April 1858; Marie Lisa in September 1859; Marie Joséphine in March 1861; Tersille Odillia in January 1863; Charles Magloire near Montegut in November 1864; Sue Adam in March 1867; ...  None of Hilaire's children married by 1870. 

Barthélémy (c1745-?) à Martin à Robert Henry

Barthélémy, fourth son of Pierre Henry and Anne Aucoin, born probably at Cobeguit in c1745, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in c1751 and was counted with them at Anse-de-la-Boullotière on the southeast coast of the island in August 1752.  Barthélémy, in his early teens, was deported with his family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758 and settled with his siblings at St.-Suliac on the east side of the river south of Breton port.  He moved to Pleurtuit across the river in 1761, to Pleudihen-sur-Rance south of St.-Suliac in 1763, and back to St.-Suliac later that year.  At age 25, he married Anne-Radegonde, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Bourg and Ursule Hébert of Minas, at St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, across the harbor from St.-Malo in February 1770.  They settled there and at Pleudihen-sur-Rance, where Anne gave Barthélémy six children:  François-Barthélémy born at La Coquenais near Pleudihen in December 1770; Jacques-François at nearby La Ville Ger in Septembr 1772; Barthélémy-Charles at La Ville Ger in May 1775; Anne-Marguerite at St.-Énogat in December 1777 but died at age 1 in December 1778; Anne-Marguerite born in September 1779 but died the following January; and Marie-Jeanne born in February 1782.  As the birth and death dates of their younger children reveal, Barthélémy and Anne did not follow their fellow exiles to Poitou in 1773, nor did they join them at Nantes later in the decade.  They remained at St.-Énogat.  In 1785, Barthélémy, Anne, and their four remaining children, three sons and a daughter, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from St.-Malo.  Anne evidently was pregnant on the voyage.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to Bayou des Écores in the New Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge, where their unnamed daughter, "young," died in June 1786, not long after their arrival.  Barthélémy and Anne had another son at Bayou des Écores, Jean-Baptiste, baptized at age 6 months in August 1788--eight children, four sons and four daughters, between 1770 and 1788, in France and Louisiana.  In 1793, a Spanish official counted Barthélémy, described as "one old male," "one old wife," likely Anne, "one young male child," probably youngest son Jean-Baptiste, and "two middle male children," sons Jacques-François and Barthélémy-Charles," in a New Feliciana District census--among the last of the Acadians to remain there.  They soon moved on.  After 1793, they followed other Bayou des Écores Acadians to upper Bayou Lafourche but had no more children there.  Remaining daughter Marie-Jeanne probably died young.  Oldest sons François-Barthélémy and Jacques-François, though they survived childhood, evidently did not marry, but Barthélémy and Anne-Radegonde's younger sons married on Bayou Lafourche.  

Second son Jacques-François followed his family to New Orleans, Bayou des Écores, and Bayou Lafourche and died in Lafourche Interior Parish in June 1835.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Jacques was age 60 when he died.  He was 62.  He does not seem to have married.    

Barthélemy's third son Barthélémy-Charles followed his family to New Orleans, Bayou des Écores, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married cousin Jeanne-Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Bourg and his second wife Anne-Josèphe Daigle, in August 1798.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Jean-Baptiste le jeune in November 1799; Marie-Madeleine in January 1802; Constance-Mélanie in December 1803; Rosalie Cécile in January 1806; Adélaïde Adèle in February 1808; Marcellin François in August 1810; Théodule in August 1813; Mélasie in March 1817; and Basile perhaps in the 1810s--nine children, four sons and five daughters, between 1799 and the 1810s.  Barthélémy Charles died in Lafourche Interior Parish in July 1847.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial said that Barthélémi, as he spelled his name, died "at age 70 yrs."  He was 72.  A request for a succession inventory, calling him Barthémy, his wife Gendre or Jeanne Bourg, and listing some of his children and their spouses--Jean Baptiste (deceased) and his wife; Marie (deceased) and her husband; Rosalie, age 43; Marcelin, age 40; Bazile, age 38; Malazie, age 36; and Constance (deceased) and her deceased husband--was filed at the Houma courthouse, Terrebonne Parish, in January 1848, so he must have owned property in that parish as well.  Daughters Rosalie, Marie, and Constance married into the Thibodeaux, Richard, and Lapeyrouse families.  Only one of Barthélémy Charles's sons seems to have married, at least in South Louisiana. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste le jeune, while a resident of Pointe Coupee Parish, married Marie Eve, called Eve, Eudes, and Sophie, daughter of François Percle and Marie Louise Triche of St. John the Baptist Parish, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in November 1818.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Apollinaire in February 1820 but died at age 4 1/2 in September 1824; Marie Pauline born in April 1821; Henri Jean in December 1822; Jean Baptiste Marcellin in December 1824 but, called Jean Baptiste, died at age 25 in May 1849; Marcellus born in late 1824 but died at age 13 months in January 1826; Adèle born in February 1826, but, called Adaile, died at age 1 1/2 in August 1827; Jean Baptiste Maximin, called Jean and Jean Henri, born in February 1827; George or Georges Adam in August 1828; a son, name unrecorded, died at age 1 month in December 1829; Marcelline born in c1833 but died at age 11 1/2 in December 1844; and twins Jean Baptiste, fils and Marie died at age 4 months, five days apart, in May 1834--a dozen children, eight sons and four daughters, including a set of twins, between 1820 and 1834.  Jean Baptiste le jeune died in Lafourche Interior Parish in September 1847, age 47 (the recording priest said 48).  Daughter Marie Pauline married into the Guidry family by 1870.  Two of Jean Baptiste le jeune's sons also married by then and settled in Assumption Parish.

Fifth son Jean Baptiste Maximin, also called Jean Henri, married cousin Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Auguste Bourg and Julie Bourg, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in December 1848.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Emma in September 1853; Henri Oscar in November 1855; Elmire Félicia near Canal in September 1858; Marie Odile and Odilia Marie, likely twins, in September 1865; Joseph in March 1868; ...  None of Jean's children married by 1870. 

Jean Baptiste le jeune's sixth son Georges Adam married Marie Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Boudreaux and Mélanie Gautreaux, at the Plattenville church in May 1855.  Daughter Marie Evella was born on the upper Lafourche in January 1857. Georges Adam remarried to Marie, daughter of Jean Lacoste and Marie Lacoste, at the Attakapas Canal church, Assumption Parish, in April 1864. ...

Barthélémy's fourth and youngest son Jean-Baptiste followed his family to upper Bayou Lafourche and married Juliènne, daughter of Pierre Percle and Seice Naitre of St. John the Baptist Parish, at the Plattenville church in February 1812.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Silésie or Célesie in May 1815; Marie Josèphe in December 1817; Dauphine Adèle in September 1820; Jean Baptiste Zéphirin in May 1822 but died at age 27 in May 1840; Azélie Séraphine born in September 1826 but died at age 25 (the recording priest said 24) in October 1851; Sylvère Hermogène born in December 1828; Eulalie Malvina, also called Roselie, in January 1832; and Marcelin in April 1834--eight children, five daughters and three sons, between 1815 and 1834.  In July 1850, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted six slaves--two males and four females, all black except for one mulatto, ranging in age from 40 to 6--on Jean Bte. Henri's farm in the parish's Second Congressional District.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Lafourche Parish counted a single slave--a 23-year-old black female--on Baptiste Henry's farm.  Was this Jean Baptiste?  In August 1860, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted three slaves--a male and two females, all black, ages 45, 43, and 23--on Jean Bte Henry's farm in the parish's Ward 6 along Bayou Lafourche.  Daughters Célesie, Marie, Dauphine, and Eulalie/Roselie married into the Borne, Talbot, and Boudreaux families by 1870, two of them to Talbot brothers.  One of Jean Baptiste's sons also married by then. 

Second son Sylvère Hermogène married Adelina, daughter of Augustin Fremin and his Acadian wife Fanny Hébert, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in July 1859.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Odilia in June 1860; Henri Eugène in October 1862; Joseph Émile in February 1865; Léonce Robin in December 1867; Marie Natilia Ovilia in May 1870; ...

Pierre, fils (c1756-1826) à Jean dit Le Vieux à Robert Henry

Pierre, fils, second son of Pierre Henry and his first wife Marie-Madeleine Pitre, born on Île St.-Jean in c1756, was deported with his family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758 and settled with his widowered father near their kinsmen at Pleurtuit southwest of St.-Malo.  One wonders what Pierre, fils did for a living in the mother country when he came of age.  He evidently did not go to Poitou or Nantes in the 1770s but remained in the St.-Malo area.  He was still a bachelor in his late 20s when he followed two of his half-sisters to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  He married Marie-Françoise-Jeanne, 20-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Longuépée and Marie-Françoise Bourg, at New Orleans in January 1786, soon after reaching the colony.  Marie-Françoise-Jeanne, a native of St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo, also had crossed on La Ville d'Archangel in 1785.  They followed their fellow passengers to Bayou des Écores, where, in 1793, a Spanish official counted Pierre, fils, Marie-Françoise, and daughter Marie-Anne in a New Feliciana District census--among the last of the Acadians remaining in the settlement.  After the 1793 counting, they moved on to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Their children, born in New Feliciana and on the upper Lafourche, included Marie-Anne at Bayou des Écores in May 1790; Pierre-Joseph-Marie at Assumption on the upper Lafourche in October 1797; and Faustin Isidore in October 1805--three children, a daughter and two sons, between 1790 and 1805.  Pierre, fils died in Lafourche Interior Parish in March 1826, age 70.  Daughter Marie Anne married into the Bouquet family on the upper Lafourche.  Pierre, fils's older son did not marry, but his younger son did and created an enduring line on the Lafourche. 

Younger son Faustin Isidore married Brigitte Matilde, daughter of André Ourbane and Marie Jacob of St. John the Baptiste Parish, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in January 1826.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Andral or André Isidore in March 1828; and Pierre Zéphirin in May 1832 but, called Pierre Zéphirin Henry, died at age 12 (the recording priest said 13) in September 1844.  Faustin died in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1833, age 28.  His remaining son married. 

Older son André Isidore married Marie Elvina, called Elvina and Vina, daughter of André Kerne and Marie Madeleine Borne, at the Paincourtville church in January 1848.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Christine in December 1849; Joseph Sostin or Sosthène in August 1851; André, fils in September 1853; and Joseph Drosin in April 1855--four children, a daughter and three sons, between 1849 and 1855.  André, père died near Paincourtville in January 1856.  The priest who recorded the burial said that André died at "age 25 years."  He was 27.  Daughter ... married into the Guillot family on lower Bayou Teche by 1870.  None of André Isidore's sons married by then. 

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INTRODUCTION

BOOK ONE:        French Acadia

BOOK TWO:        British Nova Scotia

BOOK THREE:     Families, Migration, and the Acadian "Begats"

BOOK FOUR:      The French Maritimes

BOOK FIVE:        The Great Upheaval

BOOK SIX:          The Acadian Immigrants of Louisiana

BOOK SEVEN:     French Louisiana

BOOK EIGHT:      A New Acadia

BOOK NINE:        The Bayou State

BOOK TEN:          The Louisiana Acadian "Begats"

BOOK ELEVEN:  The Non-Acadian "Cajun" Families of South Louisiana

BOOK TWELVE:  Acadians in Gray

 

 SOURCE NOTES - BOOK TEN-2

01.  See 1850 Federal Census, Jefferson County, TX; 1850 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Lafayette Parish; 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Ascension, Lafourche, & Lafayette parishes; Arsenault, Généalogie, 897-908, 1657, 2219-20, 2272-74, 2458-59; Brasseaux, "'Grand Texas,'" 275, 285n8 (source of quotations); BRDR, vols. 1a(rev.), 2, 3, 4, 5(rev.), 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:143-44, 148; "Fort Cumberland, 24 Aug 1763"; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 78-79; Hébert, D., LA Families in Southeast TX, 405, 408; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vols. 1, 2, 3, 4; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 1-A, 1-B, 2-A, 2-B, 2-C, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 234, 236, ; Milling, Exile Without End, 41-42; NOAR, vol. 2; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family Nos. 53, 57, 58, 62, 152, 156, 182; Richey, Tirailleurs, 269; "Ristigouche, 24 Oct 1760"; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 26; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 40-41; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 198-202; White, DGFA-1, 347-58; White, DGFA-1 English, 78-80; Books One, Three, Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Chiasson family page.  

02.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 819, 1454, 1457-58, 2009, 2187; BRDR, vols. 2, 3, 4, 5(rev.), 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; "Census for Ile Royale by Sr de la Rocque," in <acadian-home.org>; De La Roque "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:10; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 80; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vols. 1, 2, 3, 4; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 1-A, 1-B, 2-A, 2-B, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; NOAR, vols. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Reine_d_Espagne.htm>, Family No. 15; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 27; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 41; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 202, 780-82; Robichaux, German Coast Families, 202-08, 318-19; Taylor, J. G., Louisiana, 147; White, DGFA-1, 552, 1575, 1582-83; Books Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Clément family page. 

03.  See 1850 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, St. James Parish; 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, St. James Parish; Arsenault, Généalogie, 1136-37, 2459-60; Brasseaux, ed., Quest for the Promised Land, 133; BRDR, vols. 1a(rev.), 1b, 2, 3, 4, 5(rev.), 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vols. 1, 2, 3, 4; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 1-A, 1-B; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 93, 99, 153, 182; Wood, Acadians in Maryland, 107-09; Books Three, Five, Six, & Eight; Clouâtre family page. 

04.  See 1850 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Assumption, Iberville, Lafayette, St. James, St. Landry, St. Martin, St. Mary, & West Baton Rouge parishes; 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, Iberville, Lafayette, St. Landry, St. Mary, Vermilion, & West Baton Rouge parishes; Arsenault, Généalogie, 484-93, 1137-38, 1365-66, 1546-57, 2220-21, 2296-97, 2460-63; BRDR, vols. 1a(rev.), 2, 3, 4, 5(rev.), 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:26, 155-56, 159; "Fort Edward, 1761-62"; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 60, 82-83, 294, 308, 585-86, 598, 600-01; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vols. 1, 2, 3, 4; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 1-A, 1-B, 2-A, 2-B, 2-C, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 25, 66, 204-05, 175-78, 193, 218, 232-36, 251-52, 267-68; Menn, Large Slaveholders of LA, 1860, 376, 380-81; NOAR, vols. 2, 4, 6; <porttoulouse.com/html/1717a.html>; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Duc_Guillaume.htm>, Family No. 48; "Ristigouche, 24 Oct 1760"; Robichaux, Acadians in Chatellerault, 19-20; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 28-29, 42-43, 560, 749; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 123-24, 206-13, 311, 356-57; Tate & De Ville, Baton Rouge & New Feliciana; West, Atlas of LA Surnames, 50-52, 159-60; White, DGFA-1, 369-93; White, DGFA-1 English, 83-88; White, DGFA-2 (up); Wood, Acadians in Maryland, 109-10; Dave Comeau, descendant; Books One, Three, Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Comeaux family page. 

05.  See 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Assumption & Terrebonne parishes; BRDR, vols. 2, 3, 4, 5(rev.), 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:121; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 62-65; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vols. 1, 2, 3, 4; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 1-A, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; NOAR, vol. 4; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 27-28; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 222-23, 824; Books Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Crochet family page. 

06.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 500-01, 946-47, 1143-50, 1368-74, 1557-58, 2228, 2328-32, 2467-69; BRDR, vols. 1a(rev.), 2, 3, 4, 5(rev.), 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:15, 84-85, 103, 106, 112, 116, 119, 128, 115; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 93-97, 196, 263-64, 280, 415, 556-58, 562, 565, 569, 573, 599, 608, 610, 613, 631, 635; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vols. 1, 2, 3, 4; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 1-A, 1-B, 2-A, 2-B, 2-C, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 15-16, 65-66, 69, 150, 175, 217; Milling, Exile Without End, 21, 41, 44; NOAR, vols. 1, 2, 5, 6, 7; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Duc_Guillaume.htm>, Family Nos. 23, 24, 25; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family Nos. 17, 63, 64, 65, 75, 77, 78, 79, 80, 84, 85, 91, 93, 165, 169, 180; "Ristigouche, 24 Oct 1760"; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 28-29; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 43-49, 68, 89, 111-12; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 38-39, 114-15, 141-44, 153-54, 203, 231-53, 316, 344, 359-60, 387-89, 391-93, 533, 554-55, 753-55; West, Atlas of LA Surnames, 54-55, 160-61; White, DGFA-1, 446-52; White, DGFA-1 English, 100; Wood, Acadians in Maryland, 110-11; Books One, Three, Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Daigle/Daigre family page. 

07.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 2011-12, 2029; BRDR, vols. 2, 3, 4; De La Roque "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:17; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vols. 1, 2, 3, 4; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 2-C, 9; NOAR, vol. 4; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Reine_d_Espagne.htm>, Family No. 7; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 29; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 49-50; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 253-56; White, DGFA-1, 1120-22; Books Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Dantin family page.

08.  See 1850 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, St. Landry & St. Martin parishes; 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Lafayette, St. Landry, & St. Martin parishes; Arsenault, Généalogie, 1151-52, 1834, 2188, 2229, 2470-71; BRDR, vols. 1a(rev.), 1b, 2, 3, 4, 5(rev.), 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; De Ville, Loppinot Papers, 14; <familyheritageresearchcommunity.org/david-dna.html>; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 99-100; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vols. 1, 2, 3, 4; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 1-A, 1-B, 2-A, 2-B, 2-C, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 151; NOAR, vols. 1, 2, 3, 6, 7;  <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Duc_Guillaume.htm>, Family No. 47; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 82; Wood, Acadians in Maryland, 31, 111-12; White, DGFA-1, 1216; Wood, Acadians in Maryland, 111-12; Books Three, Four, Five, Six, & Eight; David family page. 

Book Eight describes Carondelet's efforts in the early 1790s to lure settlers from the American seaboard colonies to Spanish LA. 

09.  See 1850 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Calcasieu, Lafayette, St. Landry, & St. Martin parishes; 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Lafayette, St. Landry, & St. Martin parishes; Arsenault, Généalogie, 494, 909-28, 2221-22, 2275-76, 2297, 2463-66; Brasseaux, Foreign French, 1:130; BRDR, vols. 2, 3, 4, 5(rev.), 9; Brasseaux, Founding of New Acadia, 142, 205-06; Brasseaux, ed., Quest for the Promised Land, 16, 114-15, 128; <thecajuns.com>, "Acadians Who Arrived in New Orleans in 1764"; La Famille Cormier genealogy database; Faragher, A Great & Noble Scheme, 430-31; Griffin, Attakapas Country, 72; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 3, 84-86, 332; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 1-A, 1-B, 2-A, 2-B, 2-C, 3, 4, 5, 6; Melanson, Cormier Genealogy; "Mi'kmaq Families at St. George Bay," AGE, May 2008, 44; Milling, Exile Without End, 41-42; NOAR, vols. 4, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13; Oubre, Vacharie, 68-69; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Duc_Guillaume.htm>, Family No. 51; Robichaux, Acadian in St. Malo, 213-14, 277; Robichaux, German Coast Families, 329-32; Surette, Mésagouche & LaButte; Surette, Tintamarre & Le Lac; U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907; West, Atlas of LA Surnames, 52-53, 160; Stephen A. White, "Cormier, Pierre," in DCB, online; White, DGFA-1, 400-10; White, DGFA-1 English, 89-92; Books One, Three, Five, Six, & Eight; Cormier family page. 

10.  See 1850 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Ascension, Assumption, Lafourche Interior, St. Landry, & St. James parishes; 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, St. Landry & St. James parishes; Arsenault, Généalogie, 554-61, 964-76, 1386-87, 1658, 2232-34, 2278-79, 2339, 2490; Brasseaux, Foreign French, 3:122; BRDR, vols. 1a(rev.), 2, 3, 4, 5(rev.), 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:56, 85, 102, 164-65; "Fort Cumberland, 24 Aug 1763"; "Fort Edward, 1761-62"; Hall, W., 26th LA Infantry, 225; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 98-99, 106-07; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 147-49; Hébert, South LA Records, vols. 1, 2, 3, 4; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 1-A, 1-B, 2-C, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 206; Marshall, M., Gallant Creoles, 202, 399; Menn, Large Slaveholders of LA, 1760, 352, 355-56; NOAR, vol. 2; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Duc_Guillaume.htm>, Family Nos. 2, 14, 45; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 28; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 41; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 187, 228; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 178-79, 334-37; White, DGFA-1, 666-86; White, DGFA-1 English, 139-44; Marc Bourgeois, family historian; Books One, Three, Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Gaudet family page. 

11.  See 1850 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Assumption Parish; 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Ascension, Assumption, & Iberville parishes; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2084; Booth, LA Confed. Units, 2:589-90; BRDR, vols. 2, 3, 4, 5(rev.), 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:126-27, 141; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 103-04; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vols. 1, 2, 3, 4; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 3, 8, 9; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; NOAR, vol. 7; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 33, 99; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 53-54; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 4; Books Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Delaune family page. 

12.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 1688, 2014, 2086, 2188, 2298, 2471; BRDR, vols. 1b, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:9-10, 153; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vols. 1, 2, 3, 4; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 252; White, DGFA-1, 23, 25, 503-05; Books Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Deroche family page. 

13.  See 1850 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, East Baton Rouge, St. Martin, & West Baton Rouge parishes; 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, St. Martin Parish; Arsenault, Généalogie, 505, 952-53, 1374-82, 1482-84, 2333-34, 2471-73; BRDR, vols. 1a(rev.), 1b, 2, 3, 4, 5(rev.), 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:9, 27, 86, 101-02, 109, 115, 120-21; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 113-14; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vols. 1, 2, 3, 4; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 1-A, 1-B, 2-A, 2-C, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 18-19, 28, 30, 99, 158, 184, 186, 217, 233-37, 253, 258; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Duc_Guillaume.htm>, Family Nos. 9, 14, 15, 16; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Supply.htm>, Family No. 24; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family Nos. 68, 69, 77, 116; Richey, Tirailleurs, 222-24; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 34-35; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 54-57; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 265-76; White, DGFA-1, 513-26; White, DGFA-1 English, 109-112; Books One, Three, Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Doiron family page. 

14.  See 1850 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Lafayette & St. Landry parishes; 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Lafayette & St. Landry parishes; Arsenault, Généalogie, 505-24, 953-59, 1153-55, 1560-61, 2230, 2278, 2334, 2473-75; BRDR, vols. 1a(rev.), 2, 3, 5(rev.), 9; Bunnell, French & Native North American Marriages, 42; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:90, 96, 158; "Fort Edward, 1761-62"; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 115-19; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vols. 1, 2, 3, 4; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 1-A, 1-B, 2-A, 2-B, 2-C, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; NOAR, vols. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 57; "Ristigouche, 24 Oct 1760"; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 2, 35-37, 42, 60-61, 91, 121-22, 127, 158; Robichaux, Acadians at Nantes, 58, 81-82; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 198, 276-79, 437-38; West, Atlas of LA Surnames, 60-61, 162-63; White, DGFA-1, 526-51; White, DGFA-1 English, 112-16; Acadian/Cajun History; Keith Doucet, descendant, <familyheritageresearchcommunity.org/doucet_dna.html>; online Wikipedia, "German Doucet"; Books One, Three, Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Doucet family page. 

15.  See Delaney, "Chronology of the Deportations"; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 121; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 28-29, 67; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 45; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 242, 283, 561; Books Three, Five, Six, & Eight; Dubois family page. 

16.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 524-34, 959-60, 1155-58, 1484-88, 1648, 2230-32, 2299, 2475-81; Attakapas Census of 1803 (Grande Prairie), 177; BRDR, vol. 1a(rev.), 2, 3, 4, 5(rev.), 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:16-17, 19, 22, 86, 116-17, 124, 153; Frazier, Blood on the Bayou, 47; <genforum.genealogy.com/dugas/messages/549.html>; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 123-25, 616; Hébert, D., LA Families in Southeast TX; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vols. 1, 2, 3, 4; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 1-A, 1-B, 2-A, 2-B, 2-C, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 39, 78, 96-97, 107-08, 120, 178, 209, 232-34, 249, 252, 263, 267; Marshall, M., Gallant Creoles, 16, 22; NOAR, vols. 2, 4, 5; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Supply.htm>, Family No. 15; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Tamerlan.htm>, Family No. 6; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family Nos. 55, 66, 67, 70, 71, 73, 74, 75, 76, 111, 113, 119, 144, 190, 192; Bernard Pothier, "Dugas (Dugast), Joseph," DCB, online; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 37-39; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 24, 58-65; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 285-307, 596; West, Atlas of LA Surnames, 64-65, 163-64; White, DGFA-1, 562-80; White, DGFA-1 English, 119-20, 121-24; White, DGFA-2 (up); Books One, Three, Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Dugas family page. 

17.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 535-37, 1158-59, 2335, 2481-86; BRDR, vols. 1a(rev.), 2, 3, 4, 5(rev.), 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; "Fort Edward, 1761-62"; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 125-26, 560; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vols. 1, 2, 3; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 1-A, 1-B, 2-A, 2-B, 2-C, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 57, 67, 178, 193; NOAR, vols. 2, 4, 6, 7; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 65-66; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 273-74, 309-10; West, Atlas of LA Surnames, 66-67, 164-65; White, DGFA-1, 581-84; White, DGFA-1 English, 125; Books One, Three, Five, Six, & Eight; Duhon family page. 

18.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 538-42, 1160-70, 1658, 2486-87; Brasseaux, Foreign French, 1:184-85, 2:104, 3:94; Brasseaux, ed., Quest for the Promised Land, 187; BRDR, 1a(rev.), 1b, 2, 3, 4, 5(rev.), 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; Clark, A. H., Acadia, 116, Fig. 2; De Ville, ed., Mississippi Valley Mélange, 2:14; "Fort Cumberland, 24 Aug 1763"; "Fort Edward, 1761-62"; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 128-30; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vols. 2, 3, 4; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 1-A, 1-B, 2-A, 2-B, 2-C, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; NOAR, vols. 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Tamerlan.htm>, Family No. 1; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family Nos. 27, 39; White, DGFA-1, 596-607; White, DGFA-1 English, 126-27; Wood, Acadians in Maryland, 114-16; Books One, Three, Five, Six, & Eight; Dupuis/Dupuy family page.  

19.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 544-49, 960-64, 1383-86, 2488-90; Brasseaux, Founding of New Acadia, 193; BRDR, vols. 1a(rev.), 2, 3, 4, 5(rev.), 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:26; "Fort Edward, 1761-62"; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 140; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vols. 1, 2, 3, 4; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 1-A, 1-B, 2-A, 2-B, 2-C, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; NOAR, vols. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 16, 109, 151, 155, 158, 175-76, 204, 218, 234; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family Nos. 13, 18, 88, 89; "Ristigouche, 24 Oct 1760"; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 68; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 14, 43, 63-64, 324-31, 576-77; White, DGFA-1, 621-40; White, DGFA-1 English, 131-35; Wood, Acadians in Maryland, 117-20; Books One, Three, Five, Six, & Eight; Foret family page. 

20.  See 1850 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Ascension, Orleans, St. James, & St. Landry parishes; 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Ascension, Jefferson, St. James, & St. Landry parishes; Arsenault, Généalogie, 579, 1632-43, 2494-96; Baudier, The Catholic Church in LA, 397; Brasseaux, ed., Quest for the Promised Land, 129n172; BRDR, vols. 1a(rev.), 2, 3, 4, 5(rev.), 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 149; NOAR, vols. 1, 3, 4, 6, 7; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vols. 1, 2, 3; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 1-A, 1-B, 3, 4, 8; "Ristigouche, 24 Oct 1760"; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 363, 623-24, 1011; White, DGFA-1, 740-50; White, DGFA-1 English, 153-54, source of quotation about Pierre dit Châtillon; Stephen A. White, "Acadians on the St. John River 1755-1760," <acadian-home.org>; Books One, Three, Five, Six, Eight, & Ten; Godin/Gaudin family page. 

21.  See 1850 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Assumption, St. James, & Terrebonne parishes; 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Ascension, Assumption, St. James, St. Landry, St. Mary, & Terrebonne parishes; Arsenault, Généalogie, 566-67, 1170-74, 1388-89, 1488-90, 1658, 2235, 2339-40, 2490-92; BRDR, vols. 1a(rev.), 2, 3, 4, 5(rev.), 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:99, 107-08, 112, 125; De Ville, Opelousas History, 9; "Fort Edward, 1761-62"; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile, 58-59; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 150-52; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vols. 1, 2, 3, 4; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 1-A, 1-B, 2-A, 2-B, 2-C, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 150-51, 153, 205; NOAR, vols. 1, 2, 4, 7; Menn, Large Slaveholders of LA, 1860, 125, 127-28, 355-56, 413, 418-19; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family Nos. 43, 91, 97, 99, 100, 101, 102, 191; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 41-44; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 69-70; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 338-53; West, Atlas of LA Surnames, 77-78, 168-69; White, DGFA-1, 691-705; White, DGFA-1 English, 145-48; Wood, Acadians in Maryland, 50, 122-23; Books One, Three, Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Gautreaux family page. 

22.  See 1850 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Assumption, Lafayette, & St. Martin parishes; 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Assumption, Lafayette, & St. Martin parishes; Arsenault, Généalogie, 567-79, 976-82, 1389-92, 1659, 2236, 2492-94; BRDR, vols. 1a(rev.), 2, 3, 4, 5(rev.), 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:25, 31, 158-59; "Fort Cumberland, 24 Aug 1763"; "Fort Edward, 1761-62"; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 156-57; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vols. 1, 2, 3, 4; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 1-A, 1-B, 2-A, 2-B, 2-C, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 25, 178, 193, 205-06, 231, 233-36, 251, 263, 308; Marshall, M., Gallant Creoles, 167, 331, 399-400, 565n31; NOAR, vol. 2; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Duc_Guillaume.htm>, Family Nos. 8, 15, 32, 37; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Supply.htm>, Family No. 5; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 96; "Ristigouche, 24 Oct 1760"; Robichaux, Acadians in Chatellerault, 44-45; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 70-71; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 359-62; White, DGFA-1, 718-39; White, DGFA-1 English, 150-53; Books One, Three, Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Girouard/Giroir family page. 

23.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 583, 1659, 2096, 2236; Hodson, Acadian Disaspora, 171; NOAR, vols. 3, 4, 6, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 45-46; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 71; Marsha Schneider Ladner, descendant; Gousman family page; Books Three, Five, Six, & Eight; Gousman family page.    

24.  See 1850 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Calcasieu, Lafayette, & West Baton Rouge parishes; 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Calcasieu Parish; Arsenault, Généalogie, 583-87, 1174-82, 2302, 2341-49, 2496-98; Brasseaux, Foreign French, 1:249, 2:143, 3:132; BRDR, vols. 1a(rev.), 2, 3, 4, 5(rev.), 6, 7; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 161-67, 561-64, 580-81; Hébert, D., LA Families in Southeast TX; 404; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vols. 1, 2, 4; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 1-A, 1-B, 2-A, 2-B, 2-C, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; Jehn, Acadians Exiles in the Colonies, 150-51, 157, 204-05, 234; McMichael, Atlantic Loyalties, 10; NOAR, vols. 2, 7; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Duc_Guillaume.htm>, "Family" No. 58; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 25; "Ristigouche, 24 Oct 1760"; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 71-73; Robichaux, Acadian in St.-Malo, 364-69; White, DGFA-1, 761-70; White, DGFA-1 English, 157; Books One, Three, Five, Six, & Eight; Granger family page. 

25.  See 1850 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Ascension, Orleans, St. James, & St. John the Baptist parishes; 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, St. James, St. John the Baptist, & Terrebonne parishes; Arsenault, Généalogie, 587, 982-83, 1659; 2498-99; Brasseaux, Founding of New Acadia, 105, 208; BRDR, vols. 2, 3, 4, 5(rev.), 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vols. 3, 4; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 1-A, 2-A, 4, 8; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 251, 257; NOAR, vol. 7; "Ristigouche, 24 Oct 1760"; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 369; White, DGFA-1, 770-71; White, DGFA-1 English, 157; Books One, Three, Five, Six, & Eight; Gravois family page. 

26.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 588-92, 1490-92, 2236, 2499-2502; Brasseaux, ed., Quest for the Promised Land, 187; BRDR, vols. 1a(rev.), 1b, 2, 3, 4, 5(rev.), 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:40, 46, 61, 80, 111, 160; Dew, "The Lost Returns," 360, 362; "Fort Cumberland, 24 Aug 1763"; Guidry, "Guédrys Exiled to North Carolina," The Guédry-Labine Family website; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 173; Hébert, D., LA Families in Southeast TX; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vols. 1, 2, 3, 4; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 1-A, 1-B, 2-A, 2-B, 2-C, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 239; Marshall, M., Gallant Creoles; McMichael, Atlantic Loyalites, 48;  NOAR, vols. 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Supply.htm>, Family Nos. 14, 18; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family Nos. 103, 184; "Ristigouche, 24 Oct 1760"; Atlas of LA Surnames, 81; White, DGFA-1, 771-74; White, DGFA-1 English, 158; West, Atlas of LA Surnames, 79-80, 169-70; Wood, Acadians in Maryland, 120-22; Books One, Three, Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Guidry family page

27.  See 1850 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Lafayette, Orleans, St. Landry, & St. Martin parishes; 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Jefferson, Lafayette, Orleans, St. Landry, & St. Martin parishes; Arsenault, Généalogie, 595-99, 1643-46, 2237, 2502-04; Brasseaux, Foreign French, 1:239, 257, 3:137; BRDR, vols. 2, 3, 4, 7; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 173; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vol. 3; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 1-A, 1-B, 2-A, 2-B, 2-C, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 26, 231, 252; Menn, Large Slaveholders of LA, 1860, 260-61; Moneyhon & Roberts, Portraits of Conflict, 88, 325; "Ristigouche, 24 Oct 1760"; White, DGFA-1, 780-82; White, "Acadians on the St. John River 1755-1760," <acadian-home.org>; White, DGFA-1 English, 159; Books One, Three, Five, Six, & Eight; Guilbeau family page. 

28.  See 1850 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Assumption, Avoyelles, Lafourche, & Orleans parishes; 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Assumption, Avoyelles, Jefferson, Lafourche, & Orleans parishes; Arsenault, Généalogie, 1493-94, 2504-05; Brasseaux, Foreign French, 1:259, 260, 262, 2:149, 151, 3:138; BRDR, vols. 1a(rev.), 1b, 2, 3, 4, 5(rev.), 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; Burton & Smith, Colonial Natchitoches, 28; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:119, 122; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vols. 1, 2, 3, 4; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vol. 1-A, 1-B, 2-A, 2-B, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 311; NOAR, vols. 1, 2, 7; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Supply.htm>, Family No. 8; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family Nos. 92, 93; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 47-50; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 387-93, 621, 908; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 43; West, Atlas of LA Surnames, 84-85, 170-71; White, DGFA-1, 783-84; Books One, Three, Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Guillot family page. 

29.  See "Acadian Pioneers of Texas," AGE, Jan 1988, 3; Arsenault, Généalogie, 599-606, 989-1002, 1183-95, 1392-1401, 1494-96, 1561-62, 1659, 2237-39, 2279-80, 2352-53, 2507-17; Baudier, The Catholic Church in LA, 133, 137; Ethel M. G. Bennet, "Hébert, Louis," in DCB, 1:367-68, & online; Adrien Bergeron, "Hébert, Étienne," in DCB, & online; Brasseaux, ed., Quest for the Promised Land, 100, n144; Eric Beerman, "Victory on the Mississippi, 1779," transl. & ed. by Gilbert C. Din, in Din, ed., The Spanish Presence in LA, 199; Brasseaux, Foreign French, 2:158, 3:142; BRDR, vols. 1a(rev.), 1b, 2, 3, 4, 5(rev.), 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; Champagne, William Harris, ed., "A Condensed Autobiography of Louis Hebert," typescript, 70-71; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:38-41, 78, 100, 102, 106-07, 116, 134, 147; Eccles, Canadian Frontier, 24, 34; Faragher, A Great & Noble Scheme, 358-59; Fischer, Champlain's Dream, 197, 217, 350-52, 356, 364, 372-73, 375, 385, 417, 419, 424, 450, 465, 470, 515, 517, 522, 551, 566, 698, 702, 715, 732; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 19, 46, 51-52, 90, 105, 111, 137, 139, 171, 177, 181-91, 270, 272, 276, 280-81, 292, 326, 338, 358, 376, 379, 390, 404, 406, 418, 432-33, 564-65, 587, 608-11, 613-14, 619, 625, 632, 636-39, 641-42; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vols. 1, 2, 3, 4; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 1-A, 1-B, 2-A, 2-B, 2-C, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; Hébert, Denise, "The Hebert Family and the Music of Acadiana," Attakapas Gazette, fall 1988, 99-110; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 15, 25, 31, 77, 93-94, 96, 119, 150-51, 151a, 154, 158, 175-78, 204-06, 217, 231, 249, 267, 276, 278, 307-08, 313; Menn, Large Slaveholders of LA, 1860, 238, 244-45; NOAR, vols. 3, 14; Parkman, France & England, 1:305, 319; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Duc_Guillaume.htm>, Family Nos. 10, 11, 12, 13, 36; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Supply.htm>, Family Nos. 12, 14, 18, 23, 26, 30; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family Nos. 1, 16, 20, 35, 39, 41, 43, 44, 45, 49, 66, 80, 99, 102, 106, 107, 109, 110, 111, 112, 114, 118, 119, 124, 125, 127, 133, 145, 146, 162, 169, 171, 177; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 54-58; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 84-94; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 445-79; Tate & De Ville, Baton Rouge & New Feliciana; Trudel, Beginnings of New France, 88, 111, 114, 117, 124, 129, 131-32, 134, 139, 165, 175; West, Atlas of LA Surnames, 85-87, 171-72; White, DGFA-1, 798-840; White, DGFA-1 English, 163-76; "Winslow's Journal 2," 166; Books One, Three, Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Hébert family page

30.  See 1850 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Assumption, Iberville, Orleans, St. Landry, & West Baton Rouge parishes; 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Assumption, Iberville, Lafayette, Lafourche, Orleans, & West Baton Rouge parishes; Arsenault, Généalogie, 606, 1496-1504, 2116, 2191, 2302; Brasseaux, Foreign French, 1:270-71, 2:160-61, 3:144-45; BRDR, vols. 1a(rev.), 2, 3, 4, 5(rev.), 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; De La Roque "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:39, 41, 72, 77-78, 80-83, 117, 119, 121, 124-25; NOAR, vols. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 192-94, 414; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vols. 1, 2, 3, 4; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 1-A, 1-B, 2-A, 2-B, 2-C, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; Mouhot, "Emigration of the Acadians from France to LA," p. 145, source of quotation; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Duc_Guillaume.htm>, Family Nos. 27, 28, 29, 30; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family Nos. 3, 59, 73, 76, 104, 105, 113, 117, 121, 122, 123, 124, 126, 127, 128, 129, 131, 132, 134, 154, 158, 173, 192; Richey, Tirailleurs, 235; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 58-59; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 94-98; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 480-507; Tate & De Ville, Baton Rouge & New Feliciana; White, DGFA-1, 840-45; White, DGFA-1 English, 177-78; Books One, Three, Five, Six, & Eight; Henry family page. 

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