BOOK TEN:  The Louisiana Acadian "Begats"

 

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 ELEVEN:  The Non-Acadian "Cajun" Families of South Louisiana

BOOK TWELVE:  Acadians in Gray

 

Acadian Settlement and Marriage Patterns, 1764-1870:  the Louisiana Acadian "Begats"

The antebellum period witnessed the burgeoning of established Acadian communities and the creation of new ones.  From the lower and upper Acadian coasts, Acadian families continued to move upriver into the Baton Rouge area, some even into Pointe Coupee, where few Acadians had settled during the colonial period.  Acadians from upper Bayou Lafourche tended to move in the opposite direction--down bayou to the lower Lafourche, over into the Bayou Terrebonne valley, and on to the edges of the vast coastal marshes, where they settled on other distributaries such as bayous du Large, Grand Caillou, Petit Caillou, and Pointe-aux-Chênes.  The most dramatic movements of Acadian families were out on the prairies.  There, the direction of migration was generally westward, up to and across the Mermentau and its many tributaries, on to the Calcasieu, and even west of the Sabine into East Texas.  Others moved down into the coastal marshes at the southwest corner of the state, where they settled atop the tree-covered chênières running parallel to the coast.   

Meanwhile, Acadians continued to play a role in the creation of a regional "melting pot" by taking wives and husbands from other cultures.  Their rate of exogamy in colonial Louisiana, based on family surnames, had stood just below 20 percent when Jefferson's Purchase turned them into Americains.   Five and a half decades later, at the end of the antebellum period, their exogamy rate had doubled to nearly 40 percent.  The culture had been transformed.  No family or community, old or new, escaped this demographic phenomenon.  Even Anglo-American families became "Cajunized" when their children adopted the folkways of their Acadian mothers.  Aristocratic French Creoles, as they had done during the colonial period, did their best to dissuade their children from marrying "lowly" Acadians, but as descendants of Acadian exiles became members of Louisiana's planter elite, proud Creoles allowed their sons and daughters to marry into those families.  By the eve of war in 1861, families of various nationalities had intermarried so often with Acadians, they, too, were becoming "Cajuns."01  

The Acadian Families Who Came to Louisiana But Failed to Establish Lasting Lines in the Bayou State

From 1764 into the early 1800s, members of at least 157 Acadian families emigrated to Louisiana, but not all of their names survived there.  Fifty-six of these families, many of them latecomers to Acadia, most of them exiles from France in 1785, failed to perpetuate agnatic lines in the Bayou State:69 

Arosteguy

Basque fishermen were among the first Europeans to go to North America, and some of them settled in French Acadia.  Pierre Arostey or Arosteguy, perhaps a French Basque, emigrated to British Nova Scotia probably from his native Bayonne in the Gascogne region by May 1737, when he married Marie, daughter of Charles Robichaud dit Cadet and his second wife Marie Bourg, at Grand-Pré.  They moved on to Chignecto, where they settled on the Beauséjour ridge.  Marie gave Pierre at least six children, three sons and three daughters:  Pierre, fils; François; Anne; Marie-Théotiste; Jean; and Marguerite.  Although they lived near the site of Fort Beauséjour, built by the French in 1751, after the fort's fall in June 1755, Pierre and his family managed to escape the British roundup at Chignecto and seek refuge, most likely, on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  By the early 1760s, however, they had either surrendered to, or been captured by, British forces in the area and returned to Beauséjour as prisoners of war.  In August 1763, Pierre, wife Marie, and five of their unmarried children--François, Anne, Jean, Marguerite, and Marie--appeared on a French repatriation list in the prison compound at Fort Cumberland, formerly French Fort Beauséjour, near their old home at Chignecto.  Son Pierre, fils married fellow Acadian Isabelle Comeau during exile.  He, Isabelle, and two children--Marguerite and Joseph--also appeared on the August listing at Fort Cumberland. 

When the extended family followed other Acadian exiles in Nova Scotia to Louisiana via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, in 1764-65, not all of the family members counted at Fort Cumberland sailed with them.  Missing were Pierre and Marie's son François, age unknown, and both of Pierre, fils and Isabelle's children, who must have died soon after the August 1763 counting.  Isabelle, however, was pregnant on the voyage. 

Pierre, fils and Isabelle's daughter Marie-Rose was born at New Orleans on 17 August 1765 and baptized at St.-Louis church the same day, which gives an idea of when the family reached the colony.  They settled at Cabahonnocer, an established Acadian community on the river above New Orleans, with 300 other Acadians who came to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français that year.  Pierre, père and wife Marie Robichaud likely died soon after their arrival, among the dozens of Acadians at Cabahannocer who perished during the first year of settlement.  Evidence of their early death can be found in the Spanish census at Cabahannocer of April 1766, which counts both Pierre, père and Pierre, fils, each with a "woman" and a "girl" in their respective households, followed by a Spanish report of Acadians at New Orleans in July 1767, in which daughters Marie-Théotiste and Marguerite and son Jean (whom the Spanish official called Arostéllies) are counted without their parents.  No other census record in colonial Louisiana enumerates Pierre Arosteguy, père and Marie Robichaud after April 1766. 

Two of their three daughters married soon after they came to the colony, neither of them to fellow Acadians.  Anne wed Bernard, son of Antoine Capdeville and Catherine Larcosse of Ste.-Foix de Morlaas, Bern, Switzerland, at New Orleans in February 1766--one of the earliest marriages in Louisiana between an Acadian and a non-Acadian.  Bernard was chief surgeon of the French vessel Intelligence, and his marriage to an Acadian girl hinted that he planned to settle in the Spanish colony.  Anne died soon after their marriage, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth, and Bernard remarried to another Acadian girl, Anne Clouâtre of Minas and Maryland, at Fort San Luìs de Natchez on the river above Baton Rouge in December 1768; she gave him many children.  Pierre, père's daughter Marie-Théotiste married Antoine-Emmanuel Morin at New Orleans in January 1768.  There is no record of Pierre, père's daughter Marguerite or son Jean ever marrying, so it fell to older son Pierre, fils to carry on the family's name in Louisiana.  It was not to be.  Pierre, fils evidently fathered no sons, and there is no evidence that his daughter Marie-Rose ever married, so only the blood of this Acadian family may have endured in the Bayou State through a branch of the Morin family.03

Barthélémy

In April 1766, Spanish officials counted Joseph Barthélémy, age 33, as part of Judice's Company of militia at Cabahannocer, an enumeration consisting mostly of Acadians who had arrived from Halifax via French St.-Domingue the year before.  One wonders if Joseph was Acadian.  All of the Barthélémys/Barthélémis in Louisiana, then, are French Creoles or Foreign French, not Acadians.04

Bastarache

Jean or Joannis Bastarche dit Le Basque, whose family name also was spelled Basterretche, was born probably at Bayonne, in the Basque country of southern France, in c1658.  Jean came to French Acadia in the early 1680s and married Huguette, daughter of Pierre Vincent and Anne Gaudet, at Port-Royal in c1684.  According to Acadian genealogist Bona Arsenault, Jean's brother Michel dit Le Basque, a flibustier, or pirate, also came to Acadia, with a wife and two children.  Jean and Huguette settled on what Acadians called the haute-rivière, above Port-Royal, today's upper Annapolis River.  There they had five children, and there they remained, among the few early Acadian families who did not move on to other settlements.  Jean and Huguette's three sons married, into the Labauve, Richard, and Forest families, and they, too, remained in the Annapolis valley.  Jean and Huguette's daughters married into the Orillon dit Champagne and Girouard families.  In January 1752, one of Jean's granddaughters, Anne, from his second son Jean, fils, married Salvator, son of Sr. Jean Mouton, a surgeon at Chignecto, and Marie Girouard, who also had lived at Annapolis and Minas. 

Le Grand Dérangement of 1755 scattered the Bastarches to the winds. One family ended up on the island of Martinique in the French Antilles.  Another Bastarache was exiled to South Carolina in the fall of 1755 but escaped and made his way back through the North American wilderness to his family in greater Acadia.  After the war with Britain ended in 1763, they joined fellow exiles on Baie Ste.-Marie, today's St. Mary Bay, in Nova Scotia.  One Bastarache took his family to Yamachiche on the upper St. Lawrence near Trois-Rivières.  Other Bastaraches settled at Bouctouche and Tracadie on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore of what became eastern New Brunswick.  

In the fall of 1755, Anne Bastarache and husband Salvator Mouton escaped the British roundup at Chignecto and fled to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  With them went two of Anne's younger sisters, Marie-Modeste and Élisabeth.  In c1760, at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, Marie-Modeste married Salvator's younger brother Louis.  Élisabeth married Salvator's and Louis's nephew, Jean dit Neveu, son of Jacques Mouton and Marguerite Caissie, in one of the Nova Scotia prison compounds in c1763.  In 1765, the Moutons and their Bastarache wives were among the hundreds of Acadians from Halifax who ventured to New Orleans via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, and settled in the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above the city. 

Since Anne, Marie-Modeste, and Élisabeth were the only descendants of Jean dit Le Basque to come to Louisiana, only their blood, through several lines of the Mouton family, survived in the Bayou State.  Anne Bastarche, who died probably at Cabahannocer, present-day St. James Parish, soon after she came to the colony, was, in fact, the paternal grandmother of Louisiana's first popularly-elected governor, Alexandre Mouton of Lafayette Parish.  Sister Isabelle, wife of Jean dit Neveu Mouton, died at Attakapas on the western prairies, where she and her husband had settled, in April 1798, in her early 50s.  Sister Marie-Modeste, wife of Louis Mouton, was buried at St. Joseph Catholic Church cemetery, Baton Rouge, in August 1818, in her mid-80s--the last of her family in Louisiana to join her ancestors.05

Baucher dit Saint-Martin

François dit Saint-Martin or Martain, son of Pierre Baucher or Boschet and Marie Labbé of Ste.-Croix, bishopric of Rouen, was born at Rouen, date unrecorded.  He emigrated to Plaisance, Newfoundland, by January 1703, when he married Marie-Anne, daughter of Pierre Baudry and Jeanne Meschin of Plaisance.  He worked as an armateur, or shipowner, there, so he likely engaged in fishing and commerce.  In the early 1710s, after the British secured possession of Newfoundland, François and his family, along with the other French fisherfolk at Plaisance, relocated to Petit-Dégrat, a small island off the southeast coast of Île Madame, then part of the new French province of Île Royale.  Between 1704 and the mid-1720s, at Plaisance and Petit-Dégrat, Marie-Anne gave François nine children, five daughters and four sons.  François died probably at Petit-Dégrat between 1724 and 1726, age unrecorded.  Three of his daughters married into the Hiriard, Auger, and Morin de Fonfay families on Île Royale.  Only one of his sons created a family of his own, but not in greater Acadia.

Third son Pierre dit Saint-Martin, born probably on Petit-Dégrat in c1723, was still very young when his father died.  In 1726 at Petit-Dégrat, his widowed mother was counted with eight children, four sons and four daughters, a domestic servant, 60 fishermen under her employ, nine chaloupes, and two bateaux ou goélettes en pêches, a total of 11 fishing boats, so her husband, and now she, ran a good-sized fishing operation.  In c1734, she remarried to Jean Hiriard, père, father of her daughter Marie-Anne's husband.  Marie-Anne Baudry died at Petit-Dégrat in c1740, age unrecorded.  Son Pierre Baucher dit Saint-Martin, after he came of age, evidently followed his father's trade of fisherman, merchant, and sea captain.  Pierre does not appear in the Sieur de La Roque's census of Île Royale in early 1752, so he may have been at sea at the time.  He would have been in his early 30s and still unmarried when war came again to greater Acadia in 1755. 

Early in the Seven Years' War, Pierre Baucher dit Saint-Martin appeared at New Orleans--one of the first exiles from greater Acadia to go to French Louisiana, though, unlike the hundreds of others who followed, the young mariner went there perhaps without duress.  Still a bachelor in his early 30s when war came to greater Acadia, he may have plied the waters of the Atlantic as a privateer, or he may have been a simple fisherman seeking refuge in a part of New France not yet overwhelmed by British might.  In October 1758, three months after the British had captured the French citadel of Louisbourg on Île Royale not far from his home, Pierre dit Saint-Martin, at age 35, married a Louisiana Creole, Charlotte-Thérèse, daughter of Julien, also called François, Gallot, "former employee at the naval bureau," and Marie-Thérèse Drillant, at New Orleans.  The couple remained in the city, where Pierre likely engaged in ship-borne commerce, and where Marie-Thérèse gave him a family, including Charlotte born in September 1759; Pierre-Auguste in January 1761; Louis in December 1762; François-Louis in April 1766; and Marie-Félicité in September 1768--at least five children, two daughters and three sons, between 1759 and 1768.   Younger daughter Marie-Félicité married into the Labatut family at New Orleans in April 1785, age 16, and died at age 70 in the city in August 1838.  Oldest son Pierre-Auguste married Geneviève-Thérèse, daughter of Louis-Antoine De Callonge and Marie-Thérèse Carrière, at New Orleans in May 1785.  Youngest son François-Louis married Céleste, daughter of Dominique Daspit St. Amand and Françoise Pugeole, probably at New Orleans by August 1796, when their daughter Marie-Adeline was born in the city.  Pierre dit Saint-Martin died at New Orleans in March 1805, age 82. 

If any of Pierre Baucher dit Saint-Martin's descendants settled in the predominantly-Acadian areas west of New Orleans, or if they remained in the city, despite their Louisiana ancestor's birthplace and his status as an exile from greater Acadia, they most likely called themselves French Creoles, not Acadians.82 

Bélisle

The Le Borgne de Bélisle family, called Bélisle in Louisiana, was one of the most distinguished families in Acadian history, though they were not very prolific there.  In 1642, Emmanuel Le Borgne, sieur du Coudray, a native of Calais but now a wealthy merchant of La Rochelle, became a partner, and creditor, of Charles de Menou, sieur d'Aulnay de Charnisay, Acadia's future governor.  However, not until after d'Aulnay's death in 1650 did Le Borgne bother to go to the colony, and not as a settler.  In the summer of 1653, he sailed to Port-Royal to complete what his henchmen had failed to accomplish in the years since d'Aulnay's death--the conquest of all rivals in Acadia, including former governor Charles La Tour, and the collection of the huge debt d'Aulnay's widow still owed him.  But Le Borgne did not remain in Acadia long.  In the summer of 1654, a New-English fleet under Robert Sedgwick attacked French Acadia.  Le Borgne was compelled to return to France, but he left his oldest son, Emmanuel du Coudray, as a hostage to the English, who were determined to maintain their hold on the colony.  After a few months, young Emmanuel was allowed to return to France.  In November 1757, while the English still held the colony, the Company of New France declared the elder Le Borgne proprietary governor of Acadia, in absentia.   The following spring, Le Borgne sent his second son, Alexandre, then only age 18, to secure the family's interests in Acadia.  The impetuous Alexandre attacked the English garrison at La Hève, on the Atlantic side of the peninsula.  The attack failed, Alexandre fell into English hands, and was held prisoner at Boston and London.  In September 1659, the English relented, and La Hève was returned to the Le Borgnes.  

Alexandre did not return to Acadia until the summer of 1670, after the English surrendered the colony to France.  By then, he was age 30 and still a bachelor.  He also had assumed his father's seigneuries in Acadia, which included Port-Royal as well as La Hève.  In c1675, at age 35, he married Marie, daughter of former governor Charles La Tour and d'Aulnay's widow Jeanne Motin de Reux, who had remarried to La Tour Alexandre was now styling himself Le Borgne de Bélisle, and he alone of his three brothers settled in Acadia.  Marie gave him seven children, including two sons who created families of their own.  Older son Emmanuel le jeune married Cécile, a daughter of Pierre Thibodeau, in c1698.  In December 1707, younger son Alexandre, fils married Anastasie, daughter of capitaine de sauvages Jean-Vincent d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin, third baron de Saint-Castin, and Abenaki princess Mathilde.  Emmanuel le jeune had no sons.  Alexandre, fils had two sons, Alexandre III, who married Marie, daughter of Jean LeBlanc and Jeanne Bourgeois, at Grand-Pré in January 1731; and Jacques, who married Marie-Anne Maurice probably at Annapolis Royal in c1730.  Before Alexandre III died in August 1744, age 36, probably at Minas, he fathered at least four sons:  Alexandre IV; Anselme; Jean-Pierre, called Pierre; Joseph-Marie; and Mathurin.  Jacques's son Jacques, fils married Cécile, daughter of Claude Doucet and Marie Comeau, at Annapolis Royal in January 1752.

During Le Grand Dérangement, Alexandre IV, age 19 in 1755, fled from Minas to Canada, where, at L'Islet, on the St. Lawrence River below Québec City, he created a family of his own.  His widowed mother and younger siblings, however, were deported from Minas to Maryland, where British authorities counted them at Annapolis in July 1763.  By then, Alexandre III's son Anselme, while in his early 20s, had married cousin Anne, daughter of Paul Babin and Marie LeBlanc of l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in Maryland in the late 1750s or early 1760s; Anselme's mother, also, was a LeBlanc, Marie, in fact, so he and his wife Marie were cousins.  Anselme and Anne were counted at Annapolis in July 1763 with no children.  By 1767, however, Anselme had fathered a son, Paul, born probably in the Maryland capital in October 1766. 

It was son Anselme who brought the family name to Spanish Louisiana.  He, wife Anne, and infant son Paul were in the second contingent of Maryland Acadians who arrived at New Orleans via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, aboard the English ship Virgin in July 1767.  His widowed mother and none of his siblings accompanied him to the colony.  Anne was pregnant on the voyage.  Son Pierre-Jacques was born in New Orleans on August 8 and baptized in the St.-Louis church there the day of his birth.  Anselme, Anne, and their sons followed their fellow passengers to San Gabriel, a new Spanish post/settlement on the river above New Orleans.  Anne died not long after the family reached Louisiana, and Anselme remarried to another cousin, Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Joseph Dupuis and Élisabeth LeBlanc of Minas, probably at Ascension on the river between San Gabriel and Cabahannocer in the late 1760s or early 1770s.  They appear in a Spanish census at Ascension, conducted in August 1777, living on the right, or west, bank of the river on five arpents of frontage with a single slave.  By then, Anselme's children included not only Paul, now age 13; but also Marie, age 6; Françoise-Hélène, age 4; and Marguerite, age 2.  Another son, Joseph-Anselme, was baptized at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer, age unrecorded, in May 1778.  Son Auguste was born at either Cabahannocer or Ascension in c1782--seven children, four sons and three daughters, between 1766 and 1782, in Maryland and Louisiana.  During the late 1780s, Anselme took his family to upper Bayou Lafourche, where they settled among dozens of Acadian families who had recently come to Louisiana from France.  In 1788, Anselme owned 14 head of cattle but still only a single slave.  By 1797, he owned three slaves.  Whatever aristocratic pretensions he may have brought to Louisiana likely had been beaten down by exile and resettlement.  He died in Assumption Parish on the upper Lafourche in February 1817, age 80. 

Meanwhile, in 1793 and 1799, Anselme's daughters Françoise-Hélène and Marguerite married into the Landry family at Ascension and Assumption on the upper Lafourche.  The priests who recorded the marriages called Anselme's daughters Belille.  Anselme's oldest son Paul died at Ascension in August 1791, age 25, still a bachelor.  Third son Joseph-Anselme married at least twice, the second time, in his early 70s, to Marie Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Duhon and Adélaïde Landry and widow of Augustin LeBlanc, at Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in September 1850; the recording priest there called him Joseph dit Beline.  Marie Azélie gave him no children.  Joseph Anselme, called Joseph Leborn Debilile by the recording priest, died near Plattenville, Assumption Parish, in November 1851, age 74.  Anselme's youngest son Auguste died near Paincourtville in May 1855, age 73.  Area church and civil records hint that neither of Anselme's married sons fathered children of their own, at least not in South Louisiana, so only the blood of this prominent Acadian family seems to have survived in the Bayou State.06

Bellemère

André Célestin dit Bellemere, a blacksmith born in France in c1648, married 22-year-old Perrine Basile in France in c1685.  They came to French Acadia in c1690 and settled at Grand-Pré, a new settlement in the Minas Basin, where they raised seven children, two sons and five daughters.  Three of their daughters married into the Forest, Brasseur dit La Citardy, and Pinet families.  Older son Jacques married Marie, daughter of Claude Landry and Catherine Thibodeau, at Grand-Pré in February 1719 and used his father's dit, Bellemère, as a surname.  Younger son Antoine married Marie, daughter of Charles Gautrot and Françoise Rimbault, at Grand-Pré in November 1718 and called himself a Célestin

In the fall of 1755, members of both Jacques's and Antoine's families were still living at Minas.  The British rounded up members of the family and deported them to three seaboard colonies.  Antoine's descendants went to Maryland, where they were counted at Annapolis in July 1763.  Amazingly, when 625 of the Acadians in Maryland set sail for New Orleans in the late 1760s, none of them were Célestins. 

Brother Jacques dit Jacob's descendants were sent from Minas to Massachusetts and Virginia.  One of Jacques's daughters, Marie-Osite, married a Breau in Massachusetts and followed him to Canada in the late 1760s.  The fate of Jacques's descendants sent to the Old Dominion was even more tragic than that of their cousins who ended up in the other colonies.  In late autumn of 1755, when five transports appeared unexpectedly at Hampton Roads, Virginia's royal 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 Burgesses made their decision ... the "papists" must go!  On 10 May 1756, the four transports filled with Acadians left for England--299 to Bristol, 250 to Falmouth, 340 to Southampton, 336 to Liverpool--1,225 exiles by one count.  The English held them in warehouses at several major ports.  Many exiles died of smallpox soon after they reached Bristol.  Jacques's descendants were held at Southampton. 

In the spring 1763, after prolonged negotiations between the British and French governments, the Acadians in England were repatriated to France.  The Bellemères sailed aboard the transport L'Ambition, which reached St.-Malo in late May.  They settled in the suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer with hundreds of fellow exiles.  In the early 1770s, they followed dozens of fellow exiles to the interior province of Poitou, where members of the family perished.  A decade later, only two of Jacques's descendants were still living in France--at Chantenay near Nantes on the lower Loire, across the Breton peninsula from St.-Malo.  Jacques's daughter Anastasie, now in her mid-40s, was married to second husband Honoré, son of Jean-Baptiste Comeau and Anne-Marie Thibodeau of Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, and widower of Marguerite Poirier.  Jacques's son Bruno had died in Poitou a decade earlier, but Bruno's daughter Josèphe-Marie was still alive and living with relatives in Nantes.  When the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, Anastasie and Josèphe-Marie agreed to take it. 

Josèphe-Marie was age 18 when she came to Louisiana aboard Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships, in August 1785 and followed her fellow passengers to Cabahannocer on the Acadian Coast.  Her aunt Anastasie and uncle Honoré Comeau, along with three of Anastasie's Boudrot sons from her first marriage, arrived aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth ship of the Seven Ships, in September and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Josèphe-Marie married twice in Louisiana, first to Pierre, fils, son of fellow Acadians Pierre Lambert and his third wife Marie Doiron of Chignecto, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in October 1787.  She gave him a number of children, including at least three sons.  She remarried to Jean Félix, called Félix, son of Canadians Baptiste Pallaquin and Joséphine Dejen of Québec, at Cabahannocer/St. James in January 1805 and gave him two daughters.  Josèphe Marie died in Assumption Parish on upper Bayou Lafourche in October 1846, age 79, a widow again--the last of her family in the Bayou State.  Although no male Bellemères came to Louisiana, the blood, at least, of this Acadian family survived in a number of lines of the Boudreaux and Lambert families.07

Belliveau

The Belliveaus were among the earliest families to settle in Acadia.  Antoine Belliveau, a farm worker perhaps from La Chaussée south of the middle Loire in the region of Loudun, came to the colony in the mid-1640s, during the civil war being fought between rival colonial leaders Charles La Tour and the sieur d'Aulnay In c1651, Antoine married Andrée Guyon, a widow, at Port-Royal and remained there.  Andrée gave him two children, a daughter who married Germain Bourgeois, and a son, Jean, who became a carpenter as well as a farmer.  Jean married twice, first to Jeanne, daughter of Antoine Bourg and Antoinette Landry, at Port-Royal in c1673, and then to Cécile, daughter of Charles Melanson dit La Ramée and Marie Dugas, at Port-Royal 30 years later, when he was in his early 50s.  Both of Jean's wives gave him children:  his first wife three sons and a daughter, his second wife another son and two more daughters.  His daughters married into the Boudrot, Fourgère, and Dugas families.  All four of Jean's sons created families of their own by marrying into the Melanson, Thériot, and Haché dit Gallant families. 

Perhaps to escape British rule, in the early 1720s, Jean took his second wife and their children to Port-Toulouse on the French Maritime island of Île Royale, today's Cape Breton Island, where he likely worked as a carpenter.  Later in the decade, he moved his family to Île St.-Jean, present-day Prince Edward Island, part of the Maritime colony of Île Royale.  Jean died at Tracadie on the north shore of Île St.-Jean in the mid-1730s, in his 80s.  His descendants by his second wife remained on the island, settling at Port-La-Joye, the island's headquarters, and St.-Pierre-du-Nord east of Tracadie.

Most of Jean's children by his first wife, meanwhile, remained at Port-Royal, renamed by the British Annapolis Royal, where they became a fairly prominent family.  One of Jean's grandsons, Charles, by his oldest son Jean, fils, married a daughter of René Granger and Marguerite Thériot of Grand-Pré, in November 1717 and worked as a pilot and ship's carpenter in the colonial capital.  A few Belliveaus settled at Chignecto on land their ancestor Antoine had purchased there. 

Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this family to the winds.  Some Belliveaus escaped the British roundup at Annapolis, spent a hard winter on the Fundy shore, crossed to Chepoudy the following spring, and took refuge on lower Rivière St.-Jean before continuing on to Canada.  The Belliveaus who fell into British hands at Annapolis were placed on ships heading to Massachusetts and North Carolina.  However, the ship destined for the southern colony, the Pembroke, did not make it there.  Soon after it left Annapolis Basin, the ship fell into the hands of the exiles led by Charles Belliveau the pilot.  He and his compatriots sailed the Pembroke first to Baie Ste.-Marie on the western shore of Nova Scotia, where they hid for a month, and then crossed the Bay of Fundy to the mouth of Rivière St.-Jean in January 1756.  In early February, they fought off a British attack in the lower St.-Jean, burned the vessel, and retreated upriver to the Acadian settlement at Ste.-Anne-du-Pay-Bas, today's Fredericton, New Brunswick, where they spent the rest of the winter.  That summer, food having run low in the St.-Jean settlements, the Belliveaus and other Pembroke passengers made their way north to Québec, while others went to Miramichi and other refugee camps on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Charles Belliveau, the hero of 1755, died at Québec in early 1758, perhaps a victim of the smallpox epidemic that killed hundreds of Acadians in and around the Canadian capital between the summer of 1757 and the spring of 1758. 

Meanwhile, Belliveaus at Chignecto either escaped the British roundup there and joined their cousins in Canada, or the British deported them to South Carolina and Massachusetts.  When the war with Britain finally ended in 1763, the Belliveaus in Massachusetts joined their cousins in Canada.  Especially after 1766, members of the family could be found in present-day Québec Province at Trois-Rivières; Bécancour, Maskinongé, St.-Grégoire-de-Nicolet, and Nicolet between Trois-Rivières and Montréal; St.-Jacques de L'Achigan, St.-Sulpice, and L'Assomption near Montréal; and at Grande-Rivière on the southern shore of the Gaspé Peninsula.  They also settled at Memramcook in present-day southeastern New Brunswick; at Rustico on the north shore of Prince Edward Island; at Pubnico, Grosse-Coques, and Ste.-Anne-du-Ruisseau-de-l'Anguille north of Cap-Sable; and at St.-Bernard and Pointe-de-l'Église, now Church Point, on the Baie Ste.-Marie, today's St. Mary's Bay, in western Nova Scotia.  One community along the eastern shore of the Baie Ste.-Marie became L'Anse-aux-Belliveau, now Belliveau Cove.  

In 1755, the Belliveaus of Île St.-Jean, living in territory controlled by France, escaped the British roundup in Nova Scotia, but their respite from British oppression was short-lived.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg on Île Royale in July 1758, Louis Belliveau and his family at Tracadie escaped the British roundup on the island but likely ended up in a British prison camp in Nova Scotia in the early 1760s.  After the war, in the mid-1760s, they settled on Île Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  Louis died on Miquelon in December 1775, age 65.  Another war with Britain--the American Revolution, in which France sided with the Americans--resulted in British deportation of the Acadians on Île Michelon, including the Belliveaus, to La Rochelle, France, in 1778.  Two of Louis's children died at La Rochelle in July and August 1779.  His widow Louise Haché dit Gallant died there the following October, age 65.  Their daughters Rose married Pierre Le Clair of Île Miquelon, widower of Anne Comeau, at St.-Nicholas, La Rochelle, in January 1782.  In the early 1780s, when the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in their Mississippi-valley colony, the Belliveaus at La Rochelle had either returned to Miquelon or chose to remain in France.  No member of the family can be found on the passenger lists of the Seven Ships bound for Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Only one member of this prominent Acadian family seems to have gone to Louisiana.  According to the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, he was Pierre Belliveau dit Bideau.  Judging by his dit, he likely was a descendant of Charles dit Bideau of Annapolis Royal, one of Jean, père's sons by his first wife.  The date of Pierre dit Bideau's arrival in Louisiana, where he settled, and who he married, if he married at all, remain a mystery.  He did not come to Louisiana from France.  Did he arrive in 1765 with the exiles from Halifax, or between 1766 and 1770 with the Acadians from Maryland?  A perusal of the church records of the New Orleans, river, and prairie parishes, where the Acadian exiles settled, turns up no one named Belliveau.  Nor can anyone with that name be found in the surviving Spanish colonial censuses.  It is safe to say, then, that the family name brought to Acadia by Antoine Belliveau, whose descendants in Canada can be numbered in the thousands, did not survive in the Bayou State.  Antoine's blood, however, and that of his wife Andrée Guyon, can be found in many South Louisianans (including this one).08

Billeray

Claude-Joseph, called Joseph, son of Jean-Claude Billeray and Anne-Monique Godard, was born at Vermier-Fontaine, Diocese of Besancon, France, in November 1727.  Joseph married Brigitte, daughter of Michel de Forest, fils and his second wife Marie Célestin dit Bellemère, at Port-La-Joye, Île St.-Jean, in June 1752.   A French official counted them at Anse-au-Matelot on the south end of the island in August.  Having just married, they had no children.  Brigitte gave Joseph least two children on the island:  Jeanne in c1753; and Charles in c1755. 

When the British rounded up the Acadians in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755, the Acadians on Île St.-Jean were safe for now because they lived in territory controlled by France.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats gathered up most of the habitants on Île St.-Jean and deported them to France.  Joseph Billeray, his wife Brigitte, and their two children crossed aboard one of the five deportation transports that left Chédabouctou Bay in a 12-ship convoy in late November 1758 and, despite a mid-December storm that sank three other vessls,  reached St.-Malo together in late January 1759.  All of the family survived the crossing that took the lives of scores of their fellow Acadians, but daughter Jeanne must have been weakened by the ordeal; she died in May 1759 probably in a St.-Malo hospital.   Joseph and Brigitte joined other Acadians at Pleurtuit on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo, where she gave him more children:  Marie-Jeanne in July 1759; Joseph-Jean or Jean-Joseph in November 1761; and Anne-Brigitte in June 1764.   In 1765, Joseph took his family to Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittay, where they joined hundreds of other Acadians, most of them recently repatriated from England, in a venture they hoped would provide them independence from the government handouts on which they subsisted at St.-Malo.  They lived in the village of Kervarigeon near Bangor in the island's southern interior, where, in February 1767, Joseph and Brigitte recounted their respective family genealogies for French authorities.  They also lost two more children at Kervarigeon.  Two years later, in c1771, wife Brigitte died, leaving Joseph with two children, Charles, then 16, and Marie-Jeanne, age 12.  Joseph remarried to Marie Thomas, probably a local, and fathered at least two more daughters.  He died on the island in c1779, in his early 50s.  His daughter Marie-Jeanne, by his first wife, married Frenchman François Le Sommer of Grandchamp probably on Belle-Île-en-Mer. 

When in the early 1780s the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana., Joseph Billeray's widow and most of his children chose to remain on Belle-Île-en-Mer, where they were counted by French officials in 1792.  However, oldest surviving daughter Marie-Jeanne, now a young widow, agreed to take up the Spanish offer.  She sailed aboard La Ville de Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships from France, with the family of 75-year-old Jacques Forest, her maternal uncle.  The ship reached New Orleans in December, and she followed the Forests and most of her fellow passengers to the new Acadian community of Bayou des Écores in the New Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge. 

 Marie-Jeanne Billeray was age 27 when she came to Spanish Louisiana.  One wonders if she remarried there.  Since she was the only member of her family to emigrate to the colony, the Billerays of Île St.-Jean, St.-Servan-sur-Mer, and Belle-Île-en-Mer are among the Acadian families who did not set down roots in the Bayou State.11

Bonnevie

Jacques Bonnevie dit Beaumont of Paris, a corporal in the King's service, married Françoise, daughter of Philippe Mius d'Azy and his first wife, a Mi'kmaq woman whose name has been lost to history, at Port-Royal in c1701.  By 1732, Jacques, age 72, was on the list of retired disabled veterans of the French army on Île Royale in the French Maritimes, having served for 17 years and suffered a wound to his thigh, which disabled him.  Françoise gave the old corporal six children, three daughters and three sons, at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal:  Marie-Charlotte in c1700; Françoise in c1701; Jean in c1702; Jacques in c1704; and Charles in 1715.  Two of the sons married, oldest son Jean to Anne Gautrot in c1721, place unrecorded, who gave him a son, Joseph, in 1722.  Second son Jacques dit Jacquot dit Beaumont became a blacksmith and married three times, first to Marguerite, daughter of Alexandre Lord and Marie-Françoise Barrieau, in c1729, perhaps at Annapolis Royal; to Françoise, daughter of Jean Comeau, in c1745; and then in c1755 to Anne dite Nannette, daughter of Paul Melanson and widow of Jacques-François Thébeau.  By 1755, Jacquot and his family had settled at Chignecto.  All three of his sisters married:  Marie-Charlotte to Jacques dit Lamontagen, son of Julian Lord and Anne Bourg, place and date unrecorded; and Françoise first to Pierre Olivier, and then to master tailor Jean, son of Étienne Helie dit Nouvelle and Marguerite Laporte of Poitiers, Poitou, dates unrecorded, perhaps at Annapolis Royal.  Youngest sister Marie married François Duguay of Pluvigné, bishopric of Vannes in southern Britanny, on Île St.-Jean in c1737.  François was one of the first settlers on the island, having gone there as a young fisherman in 1720, when the island was first settled.  Sister Françoise and her second husband joined Marie and François on the island in c1749.  In August 1752, a French official counted the two families living next to one another at Rivière-du-Nord-Est near the island's northern shore.  With Françoise, age 50, and husband Jean, age 46, were son Jean-Baptiste Olivier, age 19, from her first marriage, and Jeanne ____, age 30.  With Marie, age 48, and François, age 50, were six children, four sons and two daughters, ages 15 years to 19 months.  François was described as a "ploughman." 

Living in territory controlled by France, the Bonnevie sisters 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.  In late 1758, after the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July, the redcoats rounded up most of the habitants on Île St.-Jean and deported them to France.  Sadly, the old corporal's daughters and their families never made it to France.  In December 1758, they perished with dozens of other exiles aboard the Violet, a deportation transport that left Chédabouctou Bay in late November in a 12-ship convoy and sank in a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England on its way to St.-Malo, taking everyone down with it.  

In Nova Scotia, one their brothers also failed to escape the British.  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.  Jacquot Bonnevie and his family 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, Jacquot may have been one of the Chignecto Acadians serving in the fort as militia.  If so, he, 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. 

The British deported Jacques dit Jacquot, wife Nannette Melanson, and four children to South Carolina aboard the British transport Edward Cornwallis, which reached Charles Town in November 1755.  They likely were among the Acadians in that colony allowed by the governor and his council to return to Nova Scotia by sea, which they accomplished in the spring of 1756--among the relatively few exiles who made it all the way.  After finding refuge on lower Rivière St.-Jean, they may have been among the Acadians granted permission to move on to Île St.-Jean, where Jacquot's sisters could be found, or, more likely, they moved on to the refuge at Miramichi on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Later, they joined other Acadian exiles at Restigouche, at the head of the Baie de Chaleurs, where Jacquot's youngest daughter was baptized in May 1760.  Three of Jacques dit Jacquot's children married during the family's stay at Restigouche:  Rose to Jean Gousman, an Andalusian sailor and widower of Marie Barrieau, in January 1760; Amand to Catherine Gaudet in July 1760; and Joseph to Marguerite Haché-Gallant in May 1761.  After the fall of Québec in September 1759, a British naval force from Louisbourg attacked Restigouche in late June 1760 but failed to capture the place and returned to its base.  After the fall of Montréal in September 1760, essentially ending the war in North America, another British naval force, this one from Québec, returned to Restigouche to accept the garrison's, and the Acadians', surrender. Jacques dit Jacquot, his wife, and five of their children were among the 1,003 Acadians on a surrender list dated 24 October 1760.  The British held them and other exiles in prison compounds in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Jacques dit Jacquot died by 1761, when his wife remarried.  Members of his family were held at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, before being transferred to the larger prison on Georges Island in Halifax harbor, where a British official counted some of them in August 1763.  The war now over, two of Jacquot's sons, Jacques, fils and Amand, and their sisters Théotiste and her Breau husband, who she had recently married, and Rose and her Spanish husband, chose to go to the French-controlled fishery island of Miquelon off the southern coast of Newfoundland to escape British rule.  Jacquot's other children chose to remain in greater Acadia.  Sons Joseph, Sylvain, and later Jacques, fils and sister Théotiste, who had gone to Miquelon, and sister Anne and her Richard husband, settled at Chezzetcook near Halifax.  Joseph moved on to Menoudie at Chignecto, on the other side of Nova Scotia, and settled perhaps near the family's old homeplace there.  After his death, his wife Marguerite Haché-Gallant remarried to Englishman Jean Downing, whose mother was a Boudrot, and followed him to nearby Cap-Pelé in present-day southeastern New Brunswick, where three of her Bonnevie daughters married into the Forest, Duguay dit La Vieux, and Bourque families.  Evidently Joseph's brothers Jacques, fils and Sylvain and sisters Théotiste and Anne remained at Chezzetcook on the Atlantic shore. 

Jacques dit Jacquot's third son Amand dit Beaumont and his family outdid their kinsmen in their wanderings.  He followed his family to South Carolina, back to greater Acadia, to the Gulf shore, Restigouche, where he married, and into a prison compound in Nova Scotia before going to Île Miquelon.  He and his family were at Port-Louis, France, in 1768, having been sent to the mother country with other Newfoundland islanders in 1767 to relief overcrowding in the fishery.  They were back on Miquelon later in the year.  A decade later, in November 1778, the British captured the islands during the American Revultion and deported Amand and his family, along with other fisher/habitants, to St.-Malo, France, aboard the brigantine La Jeanette.  Amand died at St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo in c1779, in his early or mid-40s.  His widow Catherine Gaudet returned to Miquelon in c1784, after the war was over, and moved on to the îles-de-la-Madeleine in the Gulf of St. Lawrence by the late 1780s.  Son Pierre, a fisherman, married Françoise Briand on the isolated islands in c1790 but did not remain.  They were living at Halifax later in the decade, where a daughter was born to them in c1796.  They moved on to Le Havre in Normandy, where another daughter was born in August 1799, and their older daughter died in September, age 2 1/2. Meanwhile, Pierre's brother Amand, fils married Marie LeBorgne, probably a fellow Acadian, became a carpenter, and also settled at Le Havre.  Between 1797 and 1805, Marie gave Amand, fils at least six children, five sons and a daughter, at the Norman port.  Two of them died in infancy.  Joseph's and Amand, fils's sister Marie-Modeste married into the Doucet family at Le Havre. 

Meanwhile, sister Rose and her Spanish husband Jean Gousman, fils joined other members of her family on Île Miquelon after they departed the prison at Halifax.  Pressured by the French government to vacate the overcrowded island, they, too, crossed to France, where they were counted at Le Havre in 1772.  Unlike brother Amand's widow, however, they remained in France with the hundreds of other Acadian exiles still living there.  Despite their many relocations, Jean, fils and Rose had at least nine children, including six sons, but all of these children except two died in childhood, not an uncommon fate among Acadian exiles during the Great Upheaval.  In the early 1770s, Rose and Jean went to the interior provincie Poitou with hundreds of their fellow exiles to settle on land that belonged to an influential nobleman near the city of Châtellerault.  The venture failed after two seasons of effort. In October 1775, Rose and Jean retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire to the lower Loire port of Nantes, where they lived as best they could on what work they could find and on government handouts.  When in the early 1780s the Spanish offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, Rose Bonnevie and her husband agreed to take it.  

Rose Bonnevie, age 44, husband Jean Gousman, fils, age 56, and two children--Rosalie-Charlotte, age 21, and Jean-Thomas, age 2--crossed to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships from France, which reached New Orleans in early November 1785.  They did not follow most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche but settled downriver from the city.  Nueva Gálvez, also called San Bernardo, in present-day St. Bernard Parish, was an Isleño, or Canary Islander, community, where a hand full of other Acadian families from L'Amitié chose to settle.  Rose and Jean, fils may have gone to San Bernardo because he, too, was Spanish.  Rose died there in October 1791, age 50, and Jean, fils remarried again, to a Trahan, at San Bernardo; she gave him another son.  Jean, fils died in the Isleño community probably in the late 1790s. 

Rose was the only Acadian Bonnevie who settled in Louisiana.  Her son Jean-Thomas Gousman probably died young, but her daughter married twice at New Orleans and had children of her own.  So, although the Acadian branch of the Bonnevie family did not take root in the Bayou State, its blood survived in at least two New Orleans families.12

Boucher

Pierre Boucher, one of a number of Acadians with the surname, married Marie, daughter of Jean Doiron and Anne LeBlanc, probably at Chignecto in the early 1750s.  They had at least one child, daughter Marie-Anne, at Chignecto in c1754, on the eve of Le Grand Dérangement.  In the autumn of 1755, the British deported Pierre Boucher, wife Marie, and their infant daughter to South Carolina aboard the sloop Dolphin, which left Chignecto on October 13 and reached Charle Town on November 19.  Pierre died in South Carolina, and Marie remarried to Pierre, son of fellow Acadian Philippe Lambert and widower of Marguerite Arseneau and _____, there in c1761.  Two years later, in August 1763, Marie Doiron, daughter Marie-Anne Boucher, Pierre Lambert, a son by her husband's previous marriage, Pierre and Marie's infant son Jean, and three orphans still living in the colony; Marie-Anne was age 9 at the time.  Soon after, the family seems to have followed hundreds of other exiles languishing in the British Atlantic colonies to French St.-Domingue, where the French were building a new naval base at Môle St.-Nicolas on the northwest end of the island. 

Marie-Anne Boucher, now age 11, came to Louisiana probably from French St.-Domingue with her mother Marie Doiron, age 28; stepfather Pierre Lambert, père, age 39; and stepbrother Pierre Lambert, fils, age 14, in 1765.  They may have sailed from St.-Domingue on their own or, more likely, joined a contingent of Acadian exiles from Halifax who stopped at Cap-Français, east of Môle St.-Nicolas, on their way to New Orleans.  The Lamberts, including Marie-Anne, settled in the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  Marie-Anne married Jean-Baptiste, son of Jean Goudreau and Geneviève Bélanger, at Cabahannocer in August 1775; Jean-Baptiste was either a French Creole or a French Canadian. 

Marie-Anne evidently was the only Acadian Boucher who emigrated to Louisiana, so this branch of the family, except for its blood, did not take root in the Bayou State.  The Bouchers of South Louisiana are French Creoles or French Canadians, not Acadians, as Bobby the Waterboy could tell you.13

Brun

Like the Belliveaus, the Bruns were among the earliest families to settle in Acadia.  Vincent Brun was a laborer from La Chaussée in the Loudun area south of the middle Loire.  In the early 1630s, still a bachelor, he evidently came to Acadia as a laborer.  After his contract was up, he returned to La Chaussée and married a girl from his village, Renée Breau, in c1644 or 1645 and returned to Port-Royal with her in c1648.  They brought with them their two daughters, who married into the Trahan, Bézier dit Joan dit Larivière, Thériot, and Hébert families.  Renée gave Vincent two more daughters in Acadia who married into the Bourg and Gautrot families.  

Vincent and Renée had only one son, Sébastien, who married Huguette, daughter of Antoine Bourg and Antoinette Landry, at Port-Royal in c1675.  Sébastien and Huguette had seven children, two daughters and five sons, all born at Port-Royal.  Sébastien and Huguette's two daughters married into the Pitre and Moyse dit Latreille families.  Four of their sons married into the Dugas, Pellerin, Gautrot, and Comeau families.  Huguette died at Port-Royal sometime in the late 1680s or early 1690s.  Sébastien, who never remarried, may have lived for a time at Cobeguit at the eastern end of the Minas Basin the early 1700s.  If so, he returned to Annapolis Royal, where he died in August 1728, age 73.  By 1755, descendants of Vincent Brun and Renée Breau were still in the Annapolis River valley, where they had lived for generations, but one family could be found at Chignecto.  Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this large family to the winds. 

The first Acadians rounded up by British forces in the fall of 1755 were the ones in the Chignecto area.  Nova Scotia Lieutenant-Governor Charles Lawrence was so incensed that so-called French Neutrals had fought with the French in the defense of Fort Beauséjour that summer, he ordered his officers to deport the Chignecto-area Acadians to the southern-most seaboard colonies.  One Brun wife ended up in South Carolina, where she was counted as a widow in 1763.  Other Bruns eluded the British at Chignecto and escaped north to French-controlled Île St.-Jean or to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  The Brun who went to Île St.-Jean escaped to the Gulf shore after 1758 and joined his younger brother there.  The younger brother married a Boudrot at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs in January 1760, a few months before a British naval force from Louisbourg attacked the French stronghold.  

Acadians rounded up in the Annapolis River valley in the fall of 1755 were deported to Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, and North Carolina.  The ship headed for North Carolina, the Pembroke, never made it to that colony.  The ships bound for New England and New York, however, reached their destinations.  Bruns were definitely on some of the vessels that landed at Massachusetts and Connecticut. 

Some Bruns at Annapolis Royal escaped the British roundup, spent a hard winter on the Fundy shore, crossed to Chepoudy the following spring and made their way to lower Rivière St.-Jean, or to Shediac, Richibouctou, and Miramichi on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, where they fought starvation, more hard winters, and British raiding parties.  Some moved on to Canada.  A great-granddaughter and a great-grandson of Vincent Brun died at Québec City in November 1757 and May 1758, respectively, victims, perhaps, of the yellow fever epidemic that killed hundreds of the refugees in and around the Canadian capital from the summer of 1757 to the spring of 1758. 

Living in territory controlled by France, the hand full of Bruns 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 and deported them to France.  A Brun from Pointe-de-Beauséjour, Chignecto, was among the deportees.  She married a Labauve from Rivière-aux-Canards, Minas, in St.-Martin des Champs Parish, Morlaix, France, in September 1770 and died in France by October 1784, when her husband remarried at St.-Martin de Chantenay near Nantes. 

In North America, the Bruns who had found refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore suffered even more set backs in the fight against Britain.  After the fall of Québec in September 1759, British forces 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.  After the fall of Montréal in September 1760 and the end of fighting in North America, the French at Restigouche surrendered to a British naval force from Québec in October.  Some of the Acadians there managed to escape, but most of the others fell into British hands.  About that time, Acadians who had resisted the British on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore also surrendered or were captured and held in prison compounds in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  A Brun married to a Broussard was held on Georges Island in Halifax harbor. 

In the early 1760s, even before the war with Britain ended, French authorities encouraged exiles in the seaboard colonies to emigrate to French St.-Domingue, where the French hoped to use them as cheap labor on a new naval base on the northwest end of the big island.  Another Brun from Pointe-de-Beauséjour, Chignecto, who had been held in South Carolina and who was a sister of the Brun who was deported to France, married a Godichon from Gonnave, Anjou, d'Angers, France, at Môle St.-Nicolas, the site of the new naval base, in February 1782. 

At war's end, a Brun wife, widow of a Doucet, left Massachusetts in 1764 with an infant daughter and joined her fellow exiles at Halifax.  Most of the Bruns in New England and New York, however, chose to join their relatives 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 Vincent Brun began the slow, inexorable process of becoming Canadiennes.  Especially after 1766, Bruns could be found on the upper St. Lawrence or along the lower Richelieu at St.-Anne-de-la-Pérade, Bécancour, Nicolet, St.-Philippe-de-Laprairie, L'Acadie, Maskinongé, St.-Michel-d'Yamaska, Yamachiche, Verchères, Pointe-du-Lac, and St.-Denis-sur-Richelieu; at Québec City; on the lower St. Lawrence and the lower Chaudière at St.-Marie-de-Beuce, Ste.-Famille and St.-Pierre on Île d'Orléans, Rivière-Ouelle, Cap-St.-Ignace, Rivière-du-Loup, and Kamouraska; and at Carleton in Gaspésie on the northern shore of the Baie des Chaleurs.  Bruns also settled in present-day New Brunswick on Rivière St.-Jean in the middle of the province and at Memramcook near the southeastern shore.  In Nova Scotia, they settled on Baie Ste.-Marie, today's St. Mary's Bay, on the western shore of the peninsula. 

The 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, including a Brun wife, 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 a Brun, 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 who left Halifax in late 1764 and early 1765 bound for Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, two were Bruns.

Despite the substantial size of the family in Acadia, only two Acadian Bruns--one a widow, the other a wife--found refuge in Louisiana.  They both reached New Orleans in February 1765 with the Broussard party from Halifax via Cap-Français, St.-Domingue.  After a short respite in the city, they followed the Broussards to the Attakapas District, where they helped establish La Nouvelle-Acadie on the banks of Bayou Teche.  Anne Brun, age 27, came with husband Jean-Baptiste Broussard, age 34, and two sons, ages 13 and 1.  She died at Attakapas in November 1798, age 60.  Agnès Brun, age 22, widow of Paul Doucet, came with a year-old daughter.  Agnès remarried to widower Olivier Thibodeaux at Attakapas in c1770 (the marriage was sanctified at the Attakapas church in September 1786), and gave him more children.  She died at the home of her son Cyrille Thibodeaux at Grande Pointe on the upper Teche in October 1809, in her late 60s.  

Since no male Acadian Bruns came to Louisiana during or after Le Grand Dérangement, only the blood of this family endured in the Bayou State, in several branches of the Broussard and Thibodeaux families.  The Bruns and Lebruns of South Louisiana, then, are descendants of French Creoles or Foreign French, not Acadians.14

Carret

Ignace dit Saint-Jacques Carret, one of two Acadians with the surname, was born in France in c1687, probably no kin to the other Carret in Acadia.  Ignace came to the colony by c1718, the year he married Cécile, daughter of Martin dit Robert Henry and Marie Hébert of Cobeguit.  They settled at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in the Minas Basin south of Cobeguit, where, between 1722 and 1744, they had at least 10 children, eight sons and two daughters (Bona Arsenault places them at Cobeguit).  In the late 1740s or early 1750s, the family joined dozens of other Acadians in the Minas settlements who slipped away from British Nova Scotia and moved to the French Maritime islands to get clear of British rule.  In 1752, a French official counted Ignace dit Saint-Jacques and his family at Pointe-à-la-Jeunesse in the interior of Île Royale, today's Cape Breton Island.  

Living in territory controlled by France, Ignace Carret and his family escaped the British roundup of their former neighbors at Pigiguit during the fall of 1755.  But, like their namesakes on Île Royale, their respite from British oppression was short-lived.  After the fall of the French fortress at nearby Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats rounded up most of the habitants on the island and deported them to France. 

The deportation of 1758-59 devastated this branch of the Carret family.  They crossed to St.-Malo, France, on one or more of the five deportation transports that left Chédabouctou Bay in late November in an 12-ship convoy and, despite a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England, reached St.-Malo together in late January 1759.  Ignace, père, age 84 according to the passenger list (in truth, he was in his early 70s), and his wife Cécile Henry, age 65, survived the crossing despite their advanced ages.  So did unmarried sons Honoré, age 25, and Ignace, fils, age 13, who traveled with them.  Sadly, eight members of the family did not survive the crossing, including three other unmarried sons who traveled with them:  Joseph, age 31, died in the hospital in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer in March 1759, soon after reaching the Breton port.  François, age 21, died in the hospital probably at St.-Malo in February 1759.  And Zénon, age 20, died probably in the St.-Malo hospital three days after his brother François died.  Oldest son Charles, age 37, a widower, traveled with three children--Susanne, age 5; Rosalie, age 2; and Pierre, age 4.  All three of the children died at sea.  Charles died in the hospital at St.-Servan in early March 1759.  Second son Jean, age 35, also a widower, accompanied his two daughters--Marie-Rose, age 9, and Thérèse, age 7--aboard one of the Five Ships.  The girls survived, but Jean died in the hospital probably at St.-Malo in February 1759.  

Ignace, père and the survivors of his family made a life for themselves as best they could in the villages and suburbs of the St.-Malo area.  Fifth son Honoré married Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Benoit and Marie-Madeleine Thériot, at St.-Servan-sur-Mer in March 1759.  He and his wife lived for a while at Châteauneuf on the east side of the river south of St.-Servan, where Honoré worked as a day laborer.  They returned to St.-Servan in 1760 and were still there in 1772.  Youngest son Ignace, fils, also a day laborer, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Clémençeau and Françoise Gautrot, at St.-Servan in October 1767 and remained there.  Honoré and Ignace, fils's brother Jean's daughter Marie-Rose also married a Benoit, at St.-Servan in February 1770.  Meanwhile, Honoré and Ignace, fils's mother, Cécile Henry, died at St.-Suliac near Châteauneuf in August 1761, age 65.  Ignace, père died at St.-Suliac three months later, age 74. 

In the early 1770s, French officials came up with a scheme to settle exiles languishing in the port cities on farmland owned by an influential nobleman in Poitou near the city of Châtellerault.  Honoré and Ignace, fils remained at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, refusing to join the venture, but their niece Marie-Rose and her Benoit husband went to Poitou with hundreds of other Acadians.  After two years of effort, most of the Poitou Acadians, including Marie-Rose and her family, retreated to the lower Loire port of Nantes.  By 1784, Honoré and Ignace, fils and their families also had left St.-Servan and 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, descendants of Ignace Carret jumped at the opportunity.  

Two middle-aged Carret brothers brought three sons with them to the Spanish colony, providing a chance for this family to set down roots in Louisiana.  They all sailed on Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships of 1785, which reached New Orleans in September.  Honoré Carret and his wife Françoise Benoit brought son Pierre-Marin, age 24, to the colony.  He was their only surviving child.  He did not marry, and he may not even have survived the crossing from France.  Honoré and Françoise had no more children in Louisiana, so this line of the family did not endure in the Bayou State.  Honore's niece Marie-Rose, daughter of older brother Jean, came to Louisiana with her husband Grégoire Benoit and a half dozen of her Benoit children, three of whom created families of their own, so at least the blood of Jean Carret's line of the family survived in the Bayou State.  Marie-Rose's younger sister Thérèse married a French-Creole Gautier family at Lafourche. 

Honoré and Jean's younger brother Ignace, fils was the other Carret head of household who came to Louisiana from France.  Daughter Marie-Josèphe married into the Guidry family at Assumption on upper Lafourche in January 1802 and died in Lafourche Interior Parish in her early 70s.  Her brothers Eustache-Ignace and Jean were the only Carrets who could have perpetuated an Acadian line of the family in Louisiana.  Jean died young; he may not have survived the crossing from France.  Eustache-Ignace married Marie-Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Boudrot and Perpétué Dugas, at Assumption on upper Bayou Lafourche in March 1796.  Eustache Ignace died by July 1813, in his 40s, when his wife remarried at Assumption.  His two daughters, born at Assumption--Marie Carmélite in August 1804; and Silesie in January 1808--married into the Daunis and Prejean families.  Silesie, called Célesie by the recording priest, evidently gave birth to a daughter, Marie Philomène Caret, in Lafourche Inteiror Parish in March 1841, when she would have been in her early 30s.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the girl's baptism did not give the father's name.  Eustache's son Leufroi, born at Assumption in April 1810, did not marry, so, like brother Jean, only the blood of Ignace, fils's line of the family endured in the Bayou State.  The Carrets of South Louisiana, then, are French Creoles, Spanish Creoles, or Foreign French, not Acadians.15

Chaillou

Jeanne, daughter of Claude Chaillou and Marthe Bastrate, born in c1733 perhaps at Nantes, France, married first to Nicolas Cuomel and may have followed him to Newfoundland in the early 1760s.  She remarried to Jean-Baptiste, son of Abraham Bourg le jeune and Marie Dugas of Annapolis Royal, on Île St.-Pierre, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland, in October 1763.  Their daughter Marie-Geneviève was born on nearby Île Miquelon in c1767.  

Soon after Marie-Geneviève's birth, French authorities determined that Île St.-Pierre and nearby Île Miquelon were overcrowded and that the fisher/habitants there must be transported to France.  Obeying a royal decree, the first of them left in early October 1767 and landed in the ports of St.-Malo, Brest, and Lorient in Brittany, and Rochefort on the Bay of Biscay.  More followed in November.  Jean-Baptiste Bourg, wife Jeanne Chaillou, and their daughter evidently were among the deportees.  They likely ended up at La Rochelle near Rochefort.  Three more children, all sons, were born to them in France, two at La Rochelle in c1769 and c1771, and another at Monthoiron, Poitou, in January 1775.  The family's presence in Poitou in the mid-1770s reveals that it was part of the major Acadian settlement venture near the city of Châtellerault, which began in 1773.  In March 1776, after two years of effort, Jean-Baptiste, Jeanne, and their children retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire to the lower Loire port of Nantes.  Jean-Baptiste died there in August 1777, age 44. 

In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France a chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  Jeanne Chaillou and her children agreed to take it.  They sailed to Louisiana aboard La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in August 1785.  With her were her four Bourg children, three sons and four daughters, ages 18, 16, 14, and 10.  They followed most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Jeanne died there probably in the early 1790s, in her late 50s or early 60s.  Her daughter and two of her sons created families of their own along the bayou. 

Jeanne, widow of Jean-Baptiste Bourg, was the only Chaillou to go to Louisiana.  Except for its blood, then, this family from greater Acadia did not survive in the Bayou State.16

Clémençeau

The Clémençeau family came relatively early to Acadia.  Jean Clémençeau dit Beaulieu of Bordeaux, France, a sergeant in the King's service, reached Port-Royal before 1703, when he ran afoul of Acadian Governor Jacques-François de Mombeton de Brouillan during the early months of Queen Anne's War.  The governor had authorized Clémençeau "to work on the distribution of the King's provisions and munitions" at the Port-Royal fort, but one of Clémenceau's superiors received word that the sergeant "was involved in some malfeasance."  The superior complained to the governor, who ordered the sergeant's arrest when Clémençeau returned to the fort, "but shortly thereafter he was released and his clothing was returned to him ...."  Evidently the sergeant had found an ally in one demoiselle Barat, "who promised to represent him whenever and as often as would be necessary."  Two years later, the war still raging, Clémençeau married Anne, daughter of Jean Roy and Marie Aubois, a métisse, in Boston, so the English must have captured him during Colonel Benjamin Church's raid up the Bay of Fundy in the summer of 1704.  Back at Port-Royal in 1706, Jean and Anne's marriage had their marriage blessed by a priest.  She gave him six children, four daughters and two sons, at Port-Royal.  Only the older son married.  Jean and Anne's four daughters married into the Martin, Héon, Lavigne, and Lejeune dit Briard families.  Most of them moved to Île Royale, today's Cape Breton Island, but one of them settled on Île St.-Jean, today's Prince Edward Island.  In the 1710s, Jean took up with Marguerite, daughter of Jean Corporon and Françoise Savoie, with whom he had a "natural" son, Jean-Pierre, in March 1712.  Wife Anne Roy died at Annapolis Royal in October 1717, soon after giving birth to her sixth child with Jean.  Jean dit Beaulieu's sons Louis and Jean-Pierre married into the Caissie dit Roger, Martin, and Gautrot families.  By 1755, the sergeant's descendants could be found at Port-Toulouse on Île Royale, on Île St.-Jean, at Chignecto, and Grand-Pré.  Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this family even farther.

In the fall of 1755, British forces deported the Acadians at Minas to Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and New England.  Jean-Pierre Clemençeau, his second wife Françoise, and at least two of their daughters, Marie and Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, ended up in Virginia, where they endured a fate worse than most of their fellow refugees.  The Virginia governor, Robert Dinwiddie, refused to allow the hundreds of Acadians sent to him to remain in the colony.  Exiles died on the filthy, crowded ships anchored in Hampton Roads while the Virginia authorities pondered their fate.  As winter approached, Dinwiddie ordered Acadians from one vessel to be 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 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.  The English held them in warehouses in these crowded ports, where many died of smallpox during the following months. 

One of Jean dit Beaulieu's daughters, Marguerite dit Beaulieu, wife of Jean-Baptiste Lejeune dit Briard, who had been counted on Île St.-Jean in August 1752, died at St.-Jean, Île d'Orléans, south of Québec City, in November 1756.  She and her family may have returned to Nova Scotia after the 1752 counting and escaped the British roundup there in the fall of 1755, or they may have left Île St.-Jean for Canada when they learned of the Nova Scotia deportations.  

Jean dit Beaulieu's other descendants on Île St.-Jean and the ones on Île Royale, living in territory controlled by France, 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 redcoats rounded up most of the habitants on the islands and transported them to France.  Jean dit Beaulieu's daughter Marie-Anne, widow of Nicolas Lavigne, and five of her children crossed to St.-Malo on the deportation transport Queen of Spain, which left the Maritimes in late summer and reached the Breton port during the third week of November.  Marie-Anne died on the crossing, along with three of her younger children.  Marie Clemençeau, age 20, wife of Antoine Haché, and two of his relatives, crossed 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.  They all survived the crossing and settled at St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, across the harbor from St.-Malo before crossing the harbor to St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  

The Acadians in England endured life in the port cities as best they could.  By 1763, more than half of them were dead, including most likely Jean-Pierre Clemençeau and his wife.  In May of that year, after prolonged negotiations between the French and British governments, the Acadians in England were repatriated to France.  Among them were Jean-Pierre's two daughters--Marie, now 12; and Marie-Madeleine, now 11--who sailed to St.-Malo with relatives aboard the ship Ambition with relatives and settled near their island cousins.  Younger sister Marie-Madeleine was the first to marry.  She wed Ignace, son of fellow Acadians Ignace Carret and Cécile Henry, at St.-Servan-sur-Mer in October 1767.  Marie married Pierre, son of fellow Acadians Pierre Trahan and Madeleine Comeau, and widower of Marguerite LeBlanc, Élisabeth Darois, and Madeleine Vincent, in St.-Donatien Parish, Nantes, France, in February 1783; Marie was in her early 30s at the time of the wedding, and Pierre was old enough to be her father.  Meanwhile, in the early 1770s, their cousin Marie Clemençeau, her husband Antoine Haché, and their children were part of an attempt by French authorities to settle exiles languishing in the port cities on land owned by an influential nobleman in the interior of Poitou.  The venture failed after two years of effort, and in late 1775 Marie and her family retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire to the lower Loire port of Nantes.  Marie died at nearby Chantenay in November 1782, age 40.  One wonders if cousin Marie and her husband Pierre Trahan also had gone to Poitou in the early 1770s and retreated to Nantes or if they had gone there straight from the St.-Malo area.  The priest who recorded her marriage to Pierre noted that she had been "resident of the Parish of Saint-Donatien in Nantes about 7 years," so they likely had gone to Poitou. 

In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  Sisters Marie and Marie-Madeleine Clemençeau and their husbands agreed to take it.  Marie, age 34, husband Pierre Trahan, age 62, and a year-old daughter, crossed to Louisiana aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships from France that reached New Orleans in September 1785.  Younger sister Marie-Madeleine, age 33, husband Ignace Carret, age 41, and three children, ages 15, 14, and 7, also crossed from France aboard Le St.-Rémi.  Both families followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Both sisters remarried at Cabahannocer on the river in the early 1790s, Marie-Madeleine to Frenchman François, son of Pierre L'Autel and Anne Dansi of Bordeaux, France, in November 1791 and settled with him on the upper bayou, though she may have died in St. James Parish on the river.  Marie remarried to Frenchman Louis, son Pierre Delanoir and Marie-Dominique Noblez of Dunkirk, Flanders, in October 1794 and may have remained on the river. 

No male members of this branch of the Clémençeau family emigrated to Louisiana, so, except for its blood, the family did not take root in the Bayou State.  The Clémençeaus of South Louisiana are French Creoles or Foreign French, not Acadian.17

Clossinet

Louis Closquinet dit Dumoulin, a carpenter, born at Verrier, Reims, France, in c1700, married Marguerite, daughter of Vincent Longuépée and Madeleine Rimbault, at Louisbourg on Île Royale, now Cape Breton Island, in c1722.  In c1737, they settled at Rivière-du-Nord-Est in the interior of Île St.-Jean, today's Prince Edward Island, where they had at least eight children, all born on Île St.-Jean:  François in c1723; Pierre in c1725; Marie-Madeleine in c1727; Louis, fils in c1730; Joseph and Jean-Baptiste in c1732; Louise-Geneviève, also called Marie-Louise, in c1735; and Amable in July 1739.  Louis and Marguerite's son Pierre married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Paul Boudrot and Madeleine-Josèphe Doiron of Rivière-du-Moulin-à-Scie, at Port-La-Joye, Île St.-Jean, in January 1751.  Marie married Pierre-Mathurin, son of Pierre Girard of Nantes, France, at Port-La-Joye in September 1751 and settled on Rivière-de-Peugiguit in the interior of the island.  Louis, fils married Anne Jacquemart or Jaquemin.  Joseph married Françoise, another daughter of Paul Boudrot and Madeleine-Josèphe Doiron, on Île St.-Jean in c1756.  And Louise married Charles, son of André Savary and Marie-Marthe Doucet, on the island in c1755.  

The Closquinets of Île St.-Jean, living in territory controlled by France, escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived.  After the fall of the French stronghold at Louisbourg in July 1758, the British rounded up most of the habitants on Île St.-Jean and deported them to France.  Marie Closquinet, age 34, who was pregnant, her husband Pierre Girard, age 39, two of their young children, and a domestic servant; brother Louis, fils, age 29, and his wife Anne Jacquimin, age 26; brother Joseph, age 28, his wife Françoise Boudrot, age 20, and their sons Grégoire, age 2, and Pierre le jeune, age 1; and sister Louise, age 24, her husband Charles Savary, age 31, their sons Jean-Charles, age 2 1/2, and infant Charles--all crossed on the deportation transport Supply, which left Chédabouctou Bay in an 12-ship convoy in late November, was damaged in a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England, put in to Bideford, England, for repairs, and did not reach St.-Malo until early March 1759.  All of them survived the crossing except for Louise's infant son Charles, who died at sea, and husband Charles Savary, who died in a St.-Malo hospital in late April. 

During their time in France, the family's name evolved from Closquinet to Clossinet.  Marie Clossinet and her family lived at Châteauneuf on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo in 1759-60, where a daughter was born in March 1759 but died less than two months later, and in the suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer from 1760-64, where another daughter was born in April 1760.  In April 1764, aboard Le Fort, the family left France for the new French colony of Guiane on the northern coast of South America.  They were counted at Sinnamary in the Cayenne district on 1 March 1765; the census taker noted that Marie and Pierre were suffering from fièvre at the time.  Meanwhile, Louise Clossinet remarried to Charles, son of fellow Acadians Étienne Trahan and Marie-Françoise Roy, at Châteauneuf in August 1759.  A daughter was born there in October 1760, and another daughter at nearby St.-Servan in March 1764.  Meanwhile, in April 1760, Louise's husband Charles shipped out on the corsair Hercules to fight the British but was promptly captured by the Royal Navy and held as a prisoner of war.  He remained in England until June 1763, when he was finally repatriated to France.  In April 1764, Louise and her family also left for Cayenne aboard Le Fort.  When French authorities counted the settlers at Sinnamary, Cayenne, on 1 March 1765, Charles Trahan and his two daughters were not on the list; wife Louise was counted with her sister Marie's family, so one suspects that her husband and daughters had died by then.  Louise remarried again--her third marriage--to Antoine-Joseph-Christophe Verge, place unrecorded, but it may have been in Guiane.  After reaching St.-Malo, brother Louis, fils and his wife Anne Jacquemin lived at St.-Servan-sur-Mer from 1759-64.  Anne died there by November 1774, when Louis, fils remarried to Marie-Marguerite, called Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Daigle and Anne-Marie Breau and widow of Amand Giroir, at Pleudihen-sur-Rance on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo.  Brother Joseph and his family lived in the St.-Malo suburbs of St.-Enogat, today's Dinard, across the harbor from St.-Malo, from 1759-65; at St.-Servan-sur-Mer in 1765-66; St.-Méloir-des-Ondes in the countryside east of St.-Servan in 1767; and back in St.-Servan from 1767-72.  Daughter Jeanne-Marguerite was born at St.-Énogat in April 1760; and Marie-Marguerite in July 1762 but died at age 18 months in February 1764--four children, two sons and two daughters, between 1756 and 1762, in greater Acadia and France.  Brother Joseph died at St.-Énogat in 1764 or 1765, and wife Françoise Boudrot remarried to Marin, son of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Dugas and Marguerite Benoit, at St.-Servan in November 1766.  She gave him four sons, born at St.-Servan between 1767 and 1773.  In the early 1770s, Marin, Françoise, and their children, including Grégoire and Jeanne-Marguerite Clossinet, became part of the attempt to settle exiles languishing in the port cities on an influential nobleman's land in the interior province of Poitou.  After two years of effort, Marin and Françoise retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire to the lower Loire port of Nantes, where they subsisted as best they could on government hand outs or on what work they could find.  Françoise's daughter Jeanne-Marguerite Clossinet married Frenchman Étienne, son of Jean Peltier and Renée Prime of Baune, Angers, France, at St.-Martin de Chantenay near Nantes in August 1784; Étienne was a stonecutter.  Their son Jean was born at L'Hermitage, Chantenay, in May 1785. 

In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  Mosts of the Acadians in the mother country took up the offer, including a hand full of Clossinets and their spouses.  Marie Clossinet, age unrecorded, and husband Charles Comeau, age 37, a childless couple, came to Louisiana aboard Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in August 1785.  They followed their fellow passengers to Baton Rouge.  Louis Clossinet, fils, age 54, second wife Marie-Marguerite Daigle, age 37, and stepdaughter Geneviève Giroir, age 16, sailed to Louisiana aboard La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans from St.-Malo in December 1785.  They followed their fellow passengers to the new Acadian community of Bayou des Écores in the Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge.  After a series of hurricanes devastated the settlement in 1794, they moved on to upper Bayou Lafourche and settled among the hundreds of Acadians already there, including a Clossinet niece.  Louis and Marie-Marguerite brought no children with them to Louisiana and bore none there, at least none who survived childhood.  The only member of Louis, fils's brother Joseph's family to emigrate to Louisiana was daughter Jeanne-Marguerite Clossinet, age 25, her French husband Étienne Peltier, who crossed as a stowaway on L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, and their infant son Jean.  If Jeanne-Marguerite and little Jean sailed to Louisiana aboard one of the Seven Ships, and it's evident that they did, they do not appear on any of the passenger lists.  The couple settled at Baton Rouge, a hint that Jeanne-Marguerite and her son crossed either on Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships, or Le Beaumont with her aunt Marie.  Spanish officials counted Jeanne-Marguerite and her family at Baton Roue in July 1788.  She and Étienne had more children in the colony.  By the mid-1790s, they had moved on to upper Bayou Lafourche, where Jeanne died in October 1800, age 40.  

Acadian Louis Clossinet, fils and his wife Marie-Marguerite had no surviving children.  The many children of Louis, fils's niece Jeanne-Marguerite Clossinet were Peltiers, and the children of Marie Clossinet, probably a cousin, would have been Comeaus.  Except for its blood, then, the Acadian branch of the Clossinet family did not endure in the Bayou State.  The Closquinets or Clossinets of South Louisiana today are French Creoles or Foreign French, not Acadians.18

Corporon

Like the Belliveaus and the Bruns, the Corporons were among the earliest families to settle in French Acadia, but none of these old families established lasting lines in the Bayou State.  Jean Corporon, a farmer from France, married Françoise, oldest daughter of François Savoie, at Port-Royal in c1670.  She gave him 15 children, eight daughters and seven sons, between 1671 and 1696.  Seven of their daughters married into the Boudrot, Doucet, Le Clerc dit Laverdure, Hébert, Johnson dit Jeanson, Samuel, and Seigneur dit La Rivière families.  Three of Jean's sons married into the Pinet, Joseph dit Lejeune, Viger, and Pichot families. In 1755, descendants of Jean Corporon and Françoise Savoie could be found at Mirliguèche on the Atlantic coast southwest of Halifax, perhaps in the Minas Basin, at Pobomcoup near Cap-Sable, and especially in the French Maritimes on Île Royale and Île St.-Jean. 

Two of Martin Corporon's daughters by his second wife were deported from Minas to two of the British seaboard colonies during the fall of 1755.  Françoise, wife of Jean Roy, was deported with her family to Massachusetts.  Youngest sister Marie-Osite-Anne, called Anne, was shipped off to Maryland, where she married François Simoneau, a native of Lorraine, in c1759.  They were counted at Oxford on Maryland's Eastern Shore in July 1763. 

Their oldest sister Marie, wife of Honoré Trahan, outdid her Corporon kin in bouncing from one place to another, although they, too, ended up in Maryland.  In 1749, Marie and Honoré moved from Pigiguit to Baie-des-Espagnols on Île Royale, where son Pierre was born the following year.  Dissatisfied with conditions in the isolated fishing village, in the fall of 1754, fearing starvation, they followed other Acadians from Baie-des-Espagnols to Louisbourg and sailed from there to Halifax in British-controlled Nova Scotia.  After they took the hated oath of allegiance without reservation, Lieutenant-Governor Charles Lawrence sent them not back to Pigiguit, where they wanted to go, but to Mirliguèche on the Atlantic coast southwest of Halifax, near the Foreign-Protestant community of Lunenburg.  When the British rounded up the Acadians in Nova Scotia during the summer and fall of 1755, Honoré, Marie, and Pierre, despite having taken the unqualified oath, were among the first Acadians held at Georges Island in Halifax harbor.  In December 1755, the British loaded them, along with other Acadians from Mirliguèche, most of them kin, aboard the sloop Providence and deported them to North Carolina, where they landed probably at Edenton on Albemarle Sound in January.  They remained in the Chowan County area of North Carolina until c1760, when colonial officials allowed them to leave.  Most of their relatives found their way to Philadelphia, but Honoré, Marie, and Pierre moved to Maryland instead, where colonial officials counted them at Port Tobacco on the lower Potomac in July 1763.  Soon afterwards, relatives who had gone to Pennsylvania joined them at Port Tobacco. 

Living in territory controlled by France, the Corporons on the Maritime islands escaped the roundups in Nova Scotia in 1755-56.  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.  The result was a disaster for the Corporon family.  Martin's widow Marie-Josèphe Viger, age 55, with her second husband Paul Benoit and her 25-year-old son Jean-Charles Corporon, were deported to St.-Malo aboard the deporatation tranport Duke William, which left Chédabouctou Bay in an 12-ship convoy in late November and sank in mid-December in a storm off the southwest coast of England, taking most of its passengers with it.  Martin and Marie-Josèphe's daughter Marie-Josèphe-Marguerite, called Marguerite, age 24, wife of Joseph Lejeune, was not aboard the Duke William.  She crossed, instead, with her husband and two young children aboard one of the five deportation transports that left Chédaboutou Bay in the 12-ship convoy, escaped the mid-December storm, and reached St.-Malo together in late January 1759.  Nearly half of the islanders aboard the Five Ships did not survive the crossing, Marie-Josèphe-Marguerite and her family among them. 

Island Corporons did survive the crossing to France, but few, if any, made it to St.-Malo.  In April 1762, Anne Corporon married day laborer Jean Thubert, a widower, in Notre-Dame Parish, Rochefort, the naval port on the Bay of Biscay; the priest who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names, but he did note that the bride and groom were "anciens habitants de l'Île Royale."  In June 1784, Anne-Madeleine, daughter of Jean Corporon, whom the recording priest described as an "officier sur les navires," and Jeanne Pichot of Louisbourg, married carpenter Jacques Dixmier, a widower, in St.-Nicolas Parish, La Rochelle, near Rochefort.  Another Corporon ended up in France by a different route.  Pierre, son of Martin Corporon by his first wife Cécile Joseph, Pierre's wife Marie-Josèphe Viger (not to be confused with his stepmother of the same name), and their children were living at Pobomcoup near Cap-Sable in 1755.  They escaped the roundup there in early 1756 and remained unmolested until after the fall of Louisbourg on Île Royale in July 1758.  That autumn, a British force landed at the cape and rounded up many of the habitants in the area, including the Corporons.  The British held them in the prison compound on Georges Island, Halifax, before deporting them to England.  The English sent them on to France, and they landed at Cherbourg in Normandy in January 1760.  Daughter Marie-Blanche died in the Norman port in February 1760, age 11; and daughter Anne died there in April 1760, age 18.  Wife Marie-Josèphe died by November 1761, when Pierre remarried to Marie Simon, perhaps a fellow Acadian, in Trés-Ste.-Trinité Parish, Cherbourg.  Pierre died there before September 1772, in his mid- or late 50s.  When, in the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France a chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, none of the hand full of Corporons still in the mother country agreed to take it.

Eustache, son of Jean-Baptiste Corporon, Eustache's wife Angélique Viger, and their children evidently escaped the British roundup on Île Royale in late 1758, so they were not deported to France.  They sought refuge either in a remote corner of the Maritimes islands or, more likely, made their way across Mer Rouge to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Sometime in the late 1750s or early 1760s, they either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the region and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  British officials counted Eustache Corp, likely Corporon, his unnamed wife, and five unnamed children on Georges Island, Halifax, in August 1763.  The war over, they did not follow their fellow exiles to Louisiana, Île Miquelon, or the French Antilles but chose to remain in British Nova Scotia. 

At least one Corporon ended up in the French West Indies by the early 1760s.  Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Corporon and Charlotte Roy, actually Marie-Charlotte Bourhis, born at Louisbourg in c1737, died at Fort Royal, Martinique, in November 1764, in her early 30s.  Her father had died on Île Royale in c1749, before the deportations there, and she married Jean Pitard "de Libourne," perhaps Lisbon, at Louisbourg in October 1752.  They likely were deported to France with her widowed mother and siblings in late 1758 and may have landed at Rochefort, where, in July 1760, Madeleine remarried to Jean, son of Antoine Borde and Marguerite Faur, also of Louisbourg, in Notre Dame Parish.  Jean was a "garçon ferblantier," or apprentice to a tinsmith.  They did not remain in the naval port.  Soon after their marriage, they resettled on Martinique in the French Antilles.  When Madeleine died there in November 1764, the Fort Royal priest said nothing of a husband, so one wonders if she was a widow at the time of her passing and if she had given either of her husband children. 

At war's end, most of the Acadians being held in New England 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 Jean Corporon began the slow, inexorable process of becoming Canadiennes.  Françoise Corporon and her family from Massachusetts settled at Repentigny on the St. Lawrence above Québec, where she remarried to Canadian Antoine Dupuis dit Raymond in February 1785.  She died at Repentigny in February 1799, age 79.  Her cousin Eustache, who remained in greater Acadia after the war, chose to settle in a future part of Canada.  By 1770, he and his family were living at Pointe-de-l'Est near Halifax, Nova Scotia.  His older son Joseph married a Boudreau and remained in the Halifax area.  His younger son Abraham-Gilbert married a Doucet and moved on to Bas-de-Tousquet, today's New Tusket, at the northwestern end of Nova Scotia, in the early 1800s. 

Meanwhile, Françoise's sisters Marie and Anne and their Trahan and Simoneau families, still languishing in Maryland, also spurned life in a British colony when the war finally ended, but they did not go to Canada.  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 o New Orleans.

The first Acadian Corporon to find refuge in Louisiana was Marie-Osite-Anne, called Anne, age 31, daughter of Martin Corporon and his second wife Marie-Josèphe Viger of Île Royale.  Marie-Osite-Anne reached New Orleans from Baltimore in 1766 with husband François Simoneau, age 38, a native of Lorraine, France.  They and their four children, ages 6 to infancy, followed their fellow Maryland exiles to Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans, where hundreds of Acadians already had settled.  By the late 1770s, they had moved downriver to Ascension.  During the late 1780s and early 1790s, Spanish officials were counting Marie-Anne-Osite Corporon, husband François Simoneau, and their children on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Marie-Anne-Osite died at Assumption on the upper bayou in September 1802, in her late 60s.

Marie-Anne-Osite's older sister also went to the Spanish colony from Maryland--in this case, from Port Tobacco--but their experience was very different from that of the Simoneaus.  Marie, husband Honoré Trahan, age 43, and their 18-year-old son Pierre left Port Tobacco in January 1769 aboard the British schooner Britannia.  With them were other Acadian families and eight German Catholic families who also refused to remain in a British colony.  The ship's master somehow missed the mouth of the Mississippi River, and the Britannia ran aground on the Texas coast near Espiritu Santo Bay.  Spanish officials, who feared that these ragged refugees were smugglers or spies, held them at nearby La Bahía, where they worked as semi-slaves at the presidio and on nearby ranches.  After six long months, word reached the presidio commander that the crew and passengers of this vessel were harmless and should be sent on to Louisiana.  After a 420-mile overland trek from La Bahía to Natchitoches on the Red River, they reached the remote post in October.  Spanish authorities wanted to Acadians, including the Trahans, to remain at Natchitoches, but they refused to settle so far away from their extended families.  After a short sojourn on the Acadian Coast, where the Spanish sent them, Marie and Honoré chose to settle on the Opelousas prairies, where Honoré had family.  Marie died at Opelousas in August 1810.  The priest who recorded her burial said that she was "de cent ans et plus," or over 100 years old, when she died.  She was closer to 90.  

No male Corporon came to Louisiana, so this old Acadian family, except for its blood, did not take root in the Bayou State.  However, all of the many Simoneuxs of South Louisiana, and many of the Trahans on the western prairies, are Corporons through their maternal lines.19

Cousin

Jean, son of Guy Cousin of Dol, Brittany, France, probably no kin to the other Cousins in greater Acadia, was born at St.-Malo in c1716.  He reached British Nova Scotia by November 1737, when he married Judith, 16-year-old daughter of Paul Guédry and Anne Mius d'Azy, at Grand-Pré.  Jean and Judith settled near her family at Ministigueshe near Cap-Sable, but they did not remain.  In April 1752, a French official counted them at Baie-des-Espagnols, Île Royale, today's Cape Breton Island.  The census taker noted that Jean was age 35, that his wife, age 30, was a "native of Boston," and that "They have settled in the Colony for two years and have rations for that time."  The census taker added that their "dwelling was granted verbally by Messrs. Desherbiers and Prevost [Des Herbiers was the King's commissioner, or commandant, for Île Royale, and Prevost, actually Prévost de La Croix,  was the colony's financial commissary]."  Living with Jean and Judith were four children:  Bénomy, probably Bénoni, age 9; Marie-Blanche, age 7; Jean-Baptiste, age 5; and Marie-Madeleine, age 4.  They may have had another son, Yves, born on the island in 1758. 

Living in territory controlled by France, Jean Cousin and his family 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 British rounded up most of the habitants on Île Royale and deported them to France, Jean's family.  In c1768, at age 23, his daughter Marie-Blanche married Michel, fils, son of fellow Acadians Michel Doucet and Angélique Pitre, probably at Le Havre in Normandy.  In the early 1770s, the couple and three of their children were part of the major settlement venture in the interior of Poitou.  Daughter Marguerite-Bénoni was born at Cenan near Châtellerault in March 1775.  After two years of effort, the Doucets retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire to the lower Loire port of Nantes.  Meanwhile, Jean Cousin, back in his native St.-Malo, may have remarried to fellow island Acadian Thérèse Savary there in c1775.  If so, he would have been in his late 50s at the time of the wedding.  Two sons--Louis-Mathurin-Jean and Jean-François--were born to the couple at Pleudihen-sur-Rance on the east side of the river south of the Breton port in June 1776 and June 1780. 

In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  If he was still alive, Jean Cousin did not take up the offer.  Daughter Marie-Blanche and her husband Michel Doucet, however, jumped at the chance, but they almost did not make it to Spanish Louisiana.  They booked passage aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships that left Paimboeuf, the lower port of Nantes, in late August 1785, but for some reason they did not cross on that vessel.  Marie-Blanche, now age 37, husband Michel Doucet, age 45, and three of their children, ages 17, 12, and 9, crossed to Louisiana aboard La Caroline, the last of the Seven Ships, which left Nantes in late October and did not reach New Orleans until late December 1785.  Michel made his living as a sailor, so he and Marie-Blanche chose to settle with some of their fellow passengers at San Bernardo in what is now St. Bernard Parish, on the river below New Orleans.  San Bernardo had been settled by Isleños from the Canary Islands six years earlier, and the population of the settlement remained largely Isleños even after a dozen Acadian families settled there.  

Marie-Blanche Cousin was the only member of the Acadian branch of her family to emigrate Louisiana.  The Cousins of South Louisiana, then, are not Acadians but French Creoles or Foreign French.20

Darembourg

Pierre Darembourg, born probably in France in c1692 and no kin to the other Darembourgs in greater Acadia, married Marie, daughter of Louis Mazerolle dit Saint-Louis and Geneviève Forest of Annapolis Royal, at Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, in c1722.  They settled at Petit-Dégrat down the coast from Port-Toulouse before moving on to Havre-St.-Pierre on the northern shore of Île St.-Jean, where Pierre died in May 1742.  Pierre and Marie had at least five children, all born in the French Maritimes:  Marie-Josèphe in c1727; Geneviève in c1730; Anne in March 1734; Jean-Baptiste in October 1736; and Jacques in October 1739.  Daughter Marie-Josèphe married Jacques dit Jacqui, son of François Langlois and Madeleine Comeau of Annapolis Royal and Port-Toulouse and widower of Madeleine Prétieux, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord, the church for Havre-St.-Pierre, in April 1744.  In August 1752, a French official counted Marie Mazerolle with her second husband, Parisian Étienne-Charles Philippe dit La Roque, at Rivière-du-Nord-Est in the island's upper interior.  With them were two of Marie's Darembourg sons (called Du Rambour):  Jean-Baptiste, age 15; and Jacques, age 13. 

Living on an island controlled by France, the Acadians of Île St.-Jean escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia during 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 British rounded up most of the habitants on the Maritime islands and deported them to France.  Pierre Darembourg's family ended up at Cherbourg in Normandy, where son Jean-Baptiste, at age 22, married Madeleine, 19-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Antoine Henry and Claire Hébert of Grand-Pré, in May 1759.  Jean-Baptiste worked as a navigator, sailor, and day laborer in the Norman port.  He and Madeleine had at least four children there:  Jean-Baptiste, fils in c1761; Marie-Madeleine in c1762; Jean-Pierre in c1765 but died at age 6 in August 1771; and Marie-Jeanne in c1768--two sons and two daughters, between 1761 and 1771.  In 1773, Jean-Baptiste and Madeleine followed hundreds of other exiles languishing in the coastal cities to the interior province of Poitou, where they settled on an influential nobleman's land near the city of Châtellerault.  After two years of effort, Jean-Baptiste and his family retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire to the lower Loire port of Nantes.  In February 1781, remaining son Jean-Baptiste, fils died at Chantenay near Nantes, age 20.  At about that time, older daughter Marie-Madeleine married Jean-Pierre, son of François Lirette and Michaela Chaillou of Nantes, probably in that city.  Jean-Baptiste, père's older sister Marie-Josèphe died by c1772, when her Langlois husband remarried.  One wonders what was the fate of Jean-Baptiste, père's other siblings during exile.  Was the Jacques Duborg of Île St.-Jean, age 21, who was counted at Sinnamary in French Guiane in March 1765, a son of Pierre of Île St.-Jean and Jean-Baptiste, père's younger brother?  Brother Jacques would have been age 25 that year. 

In the early 1780s, when the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, some of the Île St.-Jean Darembourgs took up the offer.  Jean-Baptiste Darembourg, père, now age 49, wife Madeleine Henry, age 45, and daughter Marie-Jeanne, age 18, reached New Orleans in September 1785 aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships from France.  After a brief respite in the city, they followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Daughter Marie-Jeanne married Joseph, fils, son of fellow Acadians Joseph Hébert and his first wife Marguerite Richard, at Lafourche in April 1786.  Joseph, a native of England, also had come to Louisiana aboard Le St.-Rémi.  Jean-Baptiste and Madeleine's older daughter Marie-Madeleine, age 23, and two of her daughters--Marie-Jeanne Lirette, age 2; and Rose-Adélaïde Lirette, still an infant--also crossed to Louisiana aboard Le St.-Rémi, but Marie-Madeleine's French husband, Jean-Pierre Lirette, did not accompany them.  He came to the colony on a later ship, and they also settled on the upper bayou.  

When Jean-Baptiste Darembourg and Madeleine Henry emigrated to Louisiana in 1785, they were too old to have any more children.  Their two sons--Jean-Baptiste, fils and Jean-Pierre--lay buried in France.  The Acadian branch of the Darembourg family did not take root in the Bayou State, though its blood endured there in two lines of the Lirette and Hébert families.  

This humble Acadian family should not be confused with another family in Louisiana whose name was similar.  The aristocratic Darenbourg or D'Arensbourg, descended from a German-Swedish soldier, lived on the German Coast above New Orleans from its establisment in 1722.  The progenitor of the family, Karl Frederick Darensbourg, commanded the German districts from 1722 to the late 1760s, decades before the Acadian Darembourgs reached the colony. The Darembourgs of South Louisiana, then, are either German-Swedish Creoles, French Creoles, or Foreign French, not Acadian.21

Darois

Jérôme Darois, born in Paris in c1670, arrived in Acadia by 1698, the year he married Marie, daughter of Dominique Gareau and Marie Gaudet, and widow of ____ Lachapelle, at Port-Royal.  Between 1699 and 1719, Marie gave Jérôme 10 children, five daughters and five sons, most of them born at Port-Royal.  In 1706, during Queen Anne's War, the British held Jérôme and his family as prisoners in Boston, Massachusetts.  After the war, he moved his family to Minas and then to Petitcoudiac in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto, putting even more distance between themselves and British authorities at Annapolis Royal.  Jérôme died at Petitcoudiac in c1750, age about 80.  Wife Marie did not remarry and returned to Minas to live with some of her children after her husband's death.  Their five daughters married into the Trahan, Breau, Gaudet, Saulnier, and Pitre families.  Only two, perhaps three, of Jérôme's sons married.  Oldest son Jean, born in c1700, married Marguerite, daughter of Antoine Breau and Marguerite Babin of Pigiguit, probably at Minas in c1722.  He moved his family to Petitcoudiac with the rest of the clan.  Pierre-Jérôme, born in c1701, never married.  Étienne, born in c1703, married Anne Breau, sister of older brother Jean's wife Marguerite, in c1725, and settled at Minas.  Paul, born in Boston in February 1706 while his family was being held prisoner by the English, never married.  Youngest son Joseph, born at Grand-Pré in October 1711, also never married.  

Le Grand Dérangement of 1755 scattered this family to the winds.  Marie Gareau was a widow in her late 70s when the British deported her from Minas to Virginia in the autumn of 1755.  The Acadians transported to the Old Dominion suffered the indignity of being turned away by the colony's authorities.  For weeks they languished in the lower James River aboard disease-infested ships until, with winter approaching, Virginia's Governor Robert Dinwiddie ordered them to be dispersed to Hampton, Norfolk, and Richmond, while he and the colony's political leaders pondered their fate.  The following spring, the Virginia authorities sent them on to England, where they were packed into warehouses in several ports.  Marie Gareau died either in Virginia, on the voyage to England, or in one of the English seaports soon after her arrival.  At least two of her married daughters--Ursule Darois, wife of Sylvestre Trahan; and Madeleine Darois, wife of Alexis Trahan--landed at Liverpool.  Madeleine's husband died in exile, and she remarried to Claude, son of fellow Acadians Marc Pitre and Jeanne Brun and widower of Élisabeth Guérin, at Liverpool in May 1760.  Marie Gareau's son Étienne Darois and his wife Anne Breau also were exiled to Virginia.  With them were daughter Élisabeth, age 25 in 1755, and son Étienne, fils, age 17.  They, too, were held at Liverpool.  Élisabeth, at age 28, married fellow Acadian Pierre Trahan, fils there in February 1758 but died, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth, by May 1760, age 30, when her husband remarried.  Étienne, fils, at age 21, married Madeleine Trahan probably at Liverpool in c1759.  Their daughter Élisabeth, or Isabelle, named after his recently deceased sister, was born probably at Liverpool in c1761. 

In the spring of 1763, after prolonged negotiations between the French and British governments, Étienne Darois, fils, his wife, his daughter, and his paternal aunts, along with other Acadians in England, were repatriated to France.  The Daroiss were sent to Morlaix in northwest Brittany.  Étienne, fils's parents probably had died in England.  Étienne, fils became a tanner at Morlaix.  He and his family lived in St.-Martin des Champs Parish in the Breton port.  Between 1766 and 1773, Madeleine gave him at least five more children, a son and four daughters, there.  In 1773, Étienne took his family to the interior of Poitou as part of a major settlement venture.  Madeleine gave him another daughter at Pouthumé near Châtellerault in August 1775, but she died only five weeks after her birth.  After two years of effort, Étienne, fils and his family retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire to the lower Loire port of Nantes.  They settled at nearby Chantenay, where, between 1776 and 1783, Madeleine gave Étienne, fils at least three more children, a daughter and two sons--10 children, three sons and seven daughters, between 1761 and 1783, in England and France.  By 1784, most of Étienne, fils and Madeleine's children, including all three of their sons and three of their daughters, had died--motivation, most likely, for the family to take up the Spanish government's offer to join their fellow exiles in Louisiana. 

Other members of the family repatriated to Morlaix went not to Poitou in 1773 but to an island surrendered by the British after the war, where French authorities offered Acadians a chance to become productive farmers again.  In late 1765, Étienne, fils's aunts Ursule and Madeleine Darois followed their husbands and other exiles recently repatriated from England to Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany.  Madeleine's second husband, Claude Pitre, died at Sauzon on the north end of island in March 1775.  When, in the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in their Mississippi valley colony, Ursule Darois did not have the opportunity to go there.  She had died at Sauzon in December 1776, in her early 50s.  Husband Sylvestre Trahan, however, was still alive, but he refused to go to the Spanish colony.  He died on Belle-Île-en-Mer in 1786, the year after nearly 1,600 of his fellow Acadians, including his Darois nephew, sailed on Seven Ships from France to New Orleans.  Sylvestre's children remained on island, where French officials counted some of them in 1792, during the early years of the French Revolution.  Members of Madeleine Darois's family--perhaps Madeleine herself--were counted by French officials at Sauzon in 1792, so they, too, remained in France.  Her son Paul Trahan from her first marriage died on the island in 1826, in his mid-70s.

Meanwhile, in North America, Daroiss from Minas and Petitcoudiac escaped the British in 1755 and made their way up to Canada via the Rivière St.-Jean portage.  Jérôme and Marie's second son Pierre-Jérôme died there in September 1757, age 56, victim, perhaps, of the smallpox epidemic that struck the exiles in and around the Canadian capital from the summer of 1757 to the spring of 1758.  Pierre-Jérôme's oldest brother Jean died there, too, the following December, age 57, perhaps also a victim of the pox.  Jean's oldest son Simon may have lost his wife Anne Thibodeau to the pox in 1758.  Simon remarried to a Canadian in c1760 and the following year settled in the Acadian enclave at Bécancour across from Trois-Rivières on the upper St. Lawrence.  Jean's youngest son Basile also married a Canadian and settled at L'Islet on the lower St. Lawrence.  He and some of his descendants spelled their surname Deroy.  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. 

At least two Daroiss--Jérôme and Marie's oldest daughter, Isabelle, wife of Sylvain Breau; and Pierre, middle son of Jean Darois and Isabelle's nephew--also escaped the British roundups in 1755, but they did not go to Canada.  They sought refuge, instead, on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  In the late 1750s or early 1760s, they either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the region and held in prison compounds in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Pierre Daroy appears alone on a list of prisoners at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, in October 1762.  Pierre married Marie, daughter of Paul Bourgeois and Anne Brun of Chignecto, perhaps at Fort Edward after the 1762 counting.  Isabelle Darois and her second husband Sylvain Breau, now an elderly couple, likely were held on Georges Island, Halifax. 

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 British 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.  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, two were Daroiss. 

In late 1764, Isabelle Darois and her husband Sylvain Breau followed the Broussards from Halifax to Louisiana via Cap-Français.  They reached New Orleans in February 1765 and followed the Broussards to the Attakapas District in April, where they helped establish La Nouvelle-Acadie on the banks of Bayou Teche.  Isabelle was age 66 when she reached New Orleans; Sylvain was 52.  They lasted only six months on the lower Teche.  In October 1765, Isabelle and Sylvain died two days apart, victims of an epidemic that killed dozens of their fellow Teche valley Acadians that spring, summer, and fall.  Isabelle and Sylvain were buried au dernier camp d'en bas (at the camp lower down), near present-day Loreauville.  

Isabelle's nephew Pierre Darois, age 28, and wife Marie Bourgeois, age 30, also came to Louisiana from Halifax with the Broussards.  Marie was pregnant when they reached New Orleans in February.  Later that month, son Michel was born in the city and baptized there on the same day.  In early April, on the eve of their moving to Bayou Teche, Pierre and Marie sanctified their marriage in front of a New Orleans priest--one of the earliest Acadian marriage ceremonies in Louisiana.  Spanish officials counted Pierre and Marie still on the Teche in April 1766.  Son Michel was not with them, so he, too, probably had died in the Teche valley epidemic of 1765.  Pierre and wife Marie did not remain on the Teche but joined other Acadians at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans in c1770.  Spanish officials counted Pierre, now age 40, and Marie, age 42, on the right, or west, bank of the river there in January 1777.  After the death of son Michel, the couple had no more children.  Pierre died at Cabahannocer in October 1803, age 66.  Marie died there in July 1805, age 70. 

The last of the Acadian Daroiss who came to Louisiana arrived 20 years after their cousins had reached the colony.  Étienne Darois, fils, age 47, wife Madeleine Trahan, age 45, and their four surviving daughters--Élisabeth, age 24; Marie-Madeleine, age 18; Susanne, age 13; and Marie-Élisabeth dite Babet, age 8--crossed aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships from France, which reached New Orleans in September 1785.  From the city, they followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche and then moved down bayou to what became Lafourche Interior Parish, where wife Madeleine died in September 1830, age 90.  Étienne died there in November 1833.  The Thibodauxville priest who recorded the burial said that Étienne was age 106 when he died.  He was 95.  (Strangely, daughter Marie-Madeleine passed on the same day her father died, also in Lafourche Interior Parish, age 66.)  All of Étienne and Madeleine's daughters married on Bayou Lafourche.  Oldest daughter Élisabeth married François, son of fellow Acadians Honoré Duhon and Anne-Marie Vincent and widower of Élisabeth Landry, at Lafourche in April 1786, but he died soon after the marriage.  She did not remarry.  Youngest daughter Marie-Élisabeth dite Babet, at age 14, married Joseph-Marie, son of fellow Acadians Jean-Charles Boudreaux and his first wife Agnès Trahan, at Lafourche in May 1791.  Her husband also died not long after the marriage.  Daughter Susanne married Fabien-Isaac, son of fellow Acadians Joseph Aucoin and his first wife Marie-Josèphe Hébert of St.-Malo, at Assumption on the upper bayou in April 1799.  The following November, daughter Marie-Madeleine married Mathurin-Jean, brother of sister Susanne's husband Fabrien Aucoin, the same day her youngest sister Marie-Élisabeth remarried to Jean-Marie, son of fellow Acadians Grégoire Benoit and Marie-Rose Carret.  Jean-Marie, like Marie-Élisabeth and his Aucoin brothers-in-law, also had been born in France.  

Pierre Darois's only son Michel died young.  Étienne Darois, fils brought no sons to Louisiana, and he fathered none after he got there.  As a result, the Acadian branch of this family, except for its blood, did not take root in the Bayou State.  The Daroiss of South Louisiana are descendants of French Creoles or Foreign Frenchmen, not Acadians.22

De Goutin de Ville

From the late 1680s to 1710, the de Goutins were a privileged family in Acadia.  Mathieu, the family's progenitor, was second only to the governor in power and influence.  At one time, he held four important positions--chief judge of civil and criminal matters, counselor, colonial secretary, and paymaster--and in 1691 he was granted a seigneurie on the Atlantic side of peninsula Acadia.  He complained at one point that he had "no set time for drinking and eating, (for) I am more busy on feast days and Sundays than on working days, (because) the settlers use these days to conduct their business when they come to Mass."  One of those settlers was Pierre Thibodeau.  When de Goutin married Jeanne, one of Thibodeau's daughters, the young official established a lasting connection with a significant number of settlers, from Port-Royal all the way around to the upper Fundy settlements.  One Acadian governor complained that it would be difficult for de Goutin to render an objective judgment in many civil and criminal cases "because a third of the settlers are related to his wife."  De Goutin may have been, in fact, the only colonial official that the Acadians trusted to look after their best interests.  Between 1690 and 1711 at Port-Royal, wife Jeanne gave the busy official 13 children, six sons and seven daughters, most of whom created families of their own.  Mathieu's long career in Acadia ended with Britain's final seizure of Port-Royal in 1710.  Although he was given an important position on Île Royale, now Cape Breton Island, when the French established a colony there in 1714, he died within a year of his appointment.  His wife and children remained on Île Royale.  De Goutin's oldest son, François-Marie, also became a colonial official, on Île Royale and Île St.-Jean, and was nearly as highly placed as his father had been at Port-Royal. 

It was de Goutin's sixth and youngest son, Joseph de Ville, who was the first recorded Acadian native to go to Louisiana.  Joseph was born at Port-Royal in March 1705 during Queen Anne's War.  He was only the second of his parents' many sons to create a family of his own; all of his five brothers survived childhood, but only he and his oldest brother, François-Marie, took a wife.  Joseph was five years old when a British force captured Port-Royal and his father took the family to France.  When Joseph was nine, his father received an appointment as scrivener on the French-controlled island of Île Royale, and Joseph followed his family to Louisbourg, which the French transformed into a fortress.  Joseph's father died in December 1714, soon after the family moved to Île Royale.  Joseph came of age at Louisbourg and, like his oldest brother, became an army officer, perhaps serving in the Louisbourg garrison as an officer of troupes de la marine.  When his mother died there in April 1741, Joseph would have been age 36; he was still unmarried.  He may have been a part of the garrison at Louisbourg when it surrendered to New-English and British forces in July 1745.  If so, he would have been among the troupes de la marine transported to France, to be exchanged for British prisoners of war.  He did not remain in France very long.  He came to New Orleans in c1746, while the war was still on, perhaps still an officer on active duty.  At age 42, he married a local Creole girl, Marie-Jeanne, teenage daughter of Jean Caron and Marie-Anne Monique, in July 1747.  The marriage encouraged him to remain in the colony.  By the early 1750s, he was an officer in the colonial militia and "settled (in business)" at New Orleans.  Between 1750 and 1765, he fathered at least eight children, three daughters and five sons, all born at New Orleans:  Marie-Grégoire in May 1750; Jean-Baptiste-Joseph in June 1751; Marie-Françoise, called Françoise, in October 1752; Marie-Jeanne baptized, age unrecorded, in March 1755; Charles born in October 1757; Louis in January 1760; Joseph, fils in June 1761; and François-Marie le jeune in June 1765.  Not surprisingly, most of the godfathers for Joseph's children were fellow officers, some of them chevaliers of the Order of St.-Louis. 

Joseph de Ville's kinship with many of his fellow Acadians may have been a factor in so many of them coming to Louisiana.  Historians note that Olivier Landry of Chignecto, whom the British had deported to Georgia in 1755, who ended up at New York the following year, and was back in Georgia at war's end, was a kinsman of the de Goutins (Olivier's paternal grandmother, Marie Thibodeau, was Joseph de Ville's mother's older sister).  As the story goes, while Olivier and his family languished at Savannah in the early 1760s, they somehow communicated with his cousin in New Orleans, who informed them that the French authorities in Louisiana would welcome Acadians there. The Landrys and three other families--the Cormiers, Poiriers, and Richards, 21 in all--left Savannah for Louisiana via Mobile in December 1763 and reached New Orleans the following February--the first recorded Acadian exiles to go to Louisiana.  Olivier and Joseph may have enjoyed a tearful reunion when the families reached the river port, and it would be no surprise if Joseph was kin to other members of the party as well (de Goutin's eldest son Jean-Baptiste De Ville, only 12 years old, served as godfather for 3-year-old Jean-Baptiste, one of Jean Poirier's sons, soon after the party reached New Orleans).  Olivier, Jean, and their fellow exiles went on to Cabahannocer on the river above the city and sent word out by the remarkable Acadian grapevine that the French authorities in Louisiana had indeed welcomed them to the colony.  Exactly a year later, in February 1765, the first large contingent of Acadian exiles--200 men, women, and children led by resistance fighters Joseph and Alexandre Broussard dit Beausoleil-- reached New Orleans from Halifax via Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, and settled on lower Bayou Teche, not far from a land grant held by Joseph de Ville.  The resistance fighters also were kinsmen of Joseph de Goutin de Ville; the Beausoleil Broussards' wives, one of them now deceased, were nieces of Joseph de Ville's mother, Jeanne Thibodeau.  Hundreds more Acadians came from Halifax later that year, and hundreds more from Maryland in the next four years. 

It is possible, then, that Joseph de Goutin de Ville, the first Acadian in Louisiana, played a significant role in his kinsmen's mass migration there.  Joseph de Ville's contribution was so significant, in fact, that Acadian genealogist/historian Stephen A. White calls him "the Godfather of the New Acadia in Louisiana."  White adds that during the October 1768 Creole-led rebellion against the unpopular Spanish Governor Antonio de Ulloa, the Acadians from Cabahannocer and San Gabriel who participated in the uprising rallied at Joseph de Goutin's home in New Orleans, evidence that the "first Acadian" remained close to his fellow Acadiennes, at least for political purposes. 

Joseph de Goutin de Ville died between 1768 and 1778, in his 60s or early 70s, probably in New Orleans.  In May 1786, his widow Marie lay claim to 50x40 arpents of land along the east bank of Bayou Teche granted by Spanish Governor Miró, the title for which was confirmed by Governor Carondelet in May 1794 and by Morales, a Spanish official, in April 1802 (this probably was her husband's original French grant of June 1764), but there is no evidence that she and her children moved there.  She sold the land to fellow colonist Charles Jumonville de Villier in July 1802, who promptly sold it to Alexandre Delhomme of Attakapas.  Marie-Jeanne did not remarry.  She died at New Orleans in June 1802, age about 70, and was buried in St. Louis Cathedral "in the third section of the nave of the chapel of the Holy Virgin of the Rosary."  This honor, and the fact that so many of her childrens' godfathers were her husband's fellow army officers, attests to the family's elevated position in New Orleans society. 

Only one of Joseph de Ville's daughters, Françoise, seems to have married, into the Peyroux family at New Orleans in August 1786.  Of his five sons, only the fourth one, Joseph, fils, created a family of his own.  The younger Joseph, who used the surname Bellechasse or Villechasse, served from a young age in the Spanish army and, in his mid-30s, secured his place in the colony's French-Creole elite.  At age 36, he married Marie-Josèphe-Adélaïde, called Adélaïde, daughter of Étienne Lalande d'Alcour and Adélaïde Oliver de Vézin, at New Orleans in October 1797.  His wife's maternal grandfather, Pierre-François Olivier du Closel de Vézin, a native of Maine, Lorraine, France, had lived at Trois-Rivières, Canada, before moving to New Orleans, where he served as royal councilor and chief surveyor and inspector of colonial roads during the French regime.  Adélaïde's maternal uncle, Charles-Honoré-Hughes Olivier de Vézin, served as regidor of New Orleans during the Spanish period and moved his family to Bayou Teche in the 1790s.  As a lieutenant in the Fixed Spanish infantry regiment of Louisiana, Joseph, fils served as commandant of Spanish Fort San Fernando de las Barrancas at present-day Memphis, Tennessee, in 1796-97; he commanded the New Feliciana District as a captain in 1798; and, as a colonel, he commanded the Louisiana militia from December 1803 to 1805.  After leaving military service, Joseph, fils became a successful New Orleans businessman.  In 1805, he was elected an alderman and city recorder in the municipal council at New Orleans.  In 1806, he served as president of the city council, recorder, and judge for the Orleans Territory.  He was a member of the legislative council of the territorial General Assembly in 1806-07, served as president of the legislative council in 1810, and was appointed to the administrative council of New Orleans Charity Hospital in 1811.  The following year, he became a member of Louisiana's first constitutional convention and helped create the Pelican State.  His children, born at New Orleans, included Caroline in c1799 but died at age 2 1/2 in September 1802; twins Joseph, fils and Jacques-Étienne born in April 1802 and baptized in May, but Joseph, fils died at age 1 in April 1803; Marie Thérèse Charlotte baptized, age unrecorded, in December 1806; Jacques Émile Adolphe born in June 1808, Marie Josèphe Céleste in January 1810; and Jean Louis in August 1814, on the eve of the family's departure for Spanish Cuba.  In c1815, Joseph, fils moved his family to a sugar plantation in Matanzas province, Cuba, and served in the Spanish militia there.  In May 1830, when he would have been in late 60s, records show him serving as a lieutenant colonel in the Matanzas infantry, "probably indicating his last years were spent under the flag he had served for most of his active career."  By then, the family's name disappears from South Louisiana records.23

De La Forestrie

Joseph LaForest, born at Angers, France, in c1690, reached Havre-St.-Pierre on the north shore of French-contolled Île St.-Jean in c1722.  In c1726, he married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Guyon Chiasson dit La Vallée and his second wife Marie-Madeleine Martin of Chignecto and widow of Jean Pothier, probably at St.-Pierre-du-Nord, the church for Havre-St.-Pierre.  Joseph and Marie had three sons, all born at Havre-St.-Pierre.  Two of them married.  Oldest son Étienne, born in c1727, probably died young.  In August 1752, a French official counted Marie Chiasson, age 60, widow of Joseph La Foresterie, as he called him, and her unmarried sons Joseph, fils, age 22 (he was 24), and Jean, age 20, on the road from Havre-St.-Pierre to Havre-aux-Sauvages on the north shore of the island.  The official noted that Marie had lived on the island for 30 years.  Joseph, fils married Susanne, daughter of Pierre dit Cadet Robichaud and Susanne Brassaud of Cobeguit, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord in July 1753.  Susanne gave him a daughter, Anne, at Havre-St.-Pierre in August 1754.  In November 1756, Joseph, fils remarried to Marie-Anne, daughter of Jean-Baptiste-Abel Duvivier and Marie-Madeleine Caissie, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord.  She gave him another daughter, Marie-Madeleine, at Havre-St.-Pierre in December 1757.  Younger brother Jean married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Pierre Bonnière and Madeleine-Josèphe Forest of Pigiguit and Île St.-Jean, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord in November 1752.  Marie-Madeleine gave Jean three daughters on the island:  Jeanne in c1753; Marie-Rosalie in c1754; and Marguerite in c1757 or 1758. 

When the British rounded up the Acadians in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755, the Acadians 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 Île St.-Jean and deported them to France. 

Joseph LaForest, fils, his second wife Marie-Anne Duvivier, and his two daughters, Anne and Marie-Madeleine, reached St.-Malo, France, from "other ports" in 1760.  They settled at Plouër-sur-Rance on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo.  Wife Marie-Anne died there by 1761, when Joseph remarried again--his third marriage--at La Gouesnière in the countryside southeast of St.-Malo in August 1761.  His third wife was Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of Pierre Duboscq and Suzanne Lemercière of Rouen.  The Duboscqs also had lived on Île St.-Jean and had endured deportation to France.  Madeleine gave Joseph at least four more children, most of them at Plouër:  Jean-Charles-Joseph in January 1763; twins Jean-Joseph and Jeanne-Charlotte in April 1766, but Jean-Joseph died the following August; and Joseph III in June 1777 at the naval port of Rochefort on the Bay of Biscay. 

Meanwhile, Joseph's younger brother Jean, age 28, whose surname was spelled La Foresterie on the passenger list, his wife Marie-Madeleine, age 25, and their daughters Jeanne, age 5; Marie-Rosalie, age 4; and Marguerite, age 6 months, crossed to France aboard one of the five deportation transports that left Chédabouctou Bay in a 12-ship convoy in late November 1758, survived a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England, and reached St.-Malo together in late January 1759.  Jean, Marie-Madeleine, and two of their daughters survived the crossing, but infant daughter Marguerite died at sea.  They settled at Plouër-sur-Rance near brother Joseph, fils and his family.  Marie-Madeleine gave Jean two more daughters at Plouër, twins Angélique-Madeleine-Marie and Renée-Laurence in January 1760, but Renée-Laurence died 10 days after her birth.  Jean's oldest daughter Jeanne married Joseph, son of Charles Hébert and Marguerite LeBlanc, at Plouër in July 1772.  Jean's wife Marie-Madeleine died by 1773, when he remarried to Michelle, daughter of locals Julien Hervé and Gilette Lorre, at Plouër in February of that year. 

In 1773, soon after his second marriage, Jean, his new wife, his two unmarried daughters by his first wife, Marie-Rosalie and Angélique, and oldest daughter Jeanne and her family, became part of the major settlement venture in the interior of Poitou, while Jean's brother Joseph and his family remained at Plouër-sur-Rance before moving on to Rochefort.  After two years of effort, Jean and his family retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire to the lower Loire port of Nantes.  Michelle gave Jean more children there:  Paul-Michel in St.-Similien Parish in January 1776 but died at age 4 1/2 at nearby Chantenay in June 1780; Marie-Madeleine at Chantenay in May 1778 but died there at age 14 months in July 1779; Jean-Michel in June 1780; Jean-Marie-Michel in c1783 but died at age 6 1/2 in June 1780; and Marie-Adélaïde in September 1785.  Daughter Marie-Rosalie married Michel, son of fellow Acadians Pierre Aucoin and Marguerite Dupuis of Rivière-aux-Canards, in Ste.-Croix Parish, Nantes, in July 1779.  Daughter Angélique married Moïse, son of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste LeBlanc and Marguerite Bellemère, at St.-Martin de Chantenay in November 1780.  By then the family name had evolved from LaForest and LaForestrie to De La Forestrie

In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  Joseph De La Forestrie, fils and his third wife Marie-Madeleine Duboscq, perhaps still at Rochefort, as well as brother Jean and his second wife Michelle Herve at Chantenay, chose to remain in France.  Not so Jean's married daughters.  The three De La Forestrie sisters followed their husbands to Louisiana aboard two of the Seven Ships of 1785--Angélique and her family on the third ship, Le Beaumont, which reached New Orleans in August; and Jeanne and Marie-Rosalie and their families on the fourth ship, Le St.-Rémi, which arrived in September.  All three families chose to go to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Angélique may not have survived the crossing to Louisiana.  Jeanne's husband, Joseph Hébert, died by January 1788, when she was listed in a Valenzuela District census as a widow.  She remarried to Nicolas-Jean-Sébastien, called Sébastien, son of fellow Acadians Augustin Benoit and Françoise Thériot, at Lafourche in August 1789.  Jeanne died by December 1795, when her husband was counted at Valenzuela without a wife.  

No male De La Forestrie ventured to Louisiana, so the Acadian branch of the family did not take root in the Bayou State.  Its blood did survive, however, in several lines of the Aucoin, Hébert, and LeBlanc families.24

De La Mazière

Jean-Baptiste dit Ladouceur, son of François Massier and Marguerite Lemoine of Véraise, bishopric of Saintes, near Rochefort, France, born in c1710, was a soldier in the troupes de la marine when he came to French Acadia.  He married Marie, daughter of François Poirier and Marie Haché dit Gallant of Chignecto, at Port-La-Joye, Île St.-Jean, in February 1737 probably after he retired from the King's service.  Marie gave Jean-Baptiste at least six children on the island:  Louis in c1737; Félicité in c1740; Marguerite in c1741; Jean in c1742; Marie-Louise in c1744; and Jean-François, called François, in c1746.  In August 1752, a French official counted François Mazierre, as he was called, age 6, Marie and Jean-Baptiste's youngest son, living with the family of Pierre Duval and Marie-Madeleine Haché dit Gallant on the south bank of Rivière-du-Nord-Est in the island's interior.  Marie-Madeleine was young François's maternal great aunt. 

Living in territory controlled by France, the Mazières of 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 British rounded up most of the habitants on Île St.-Jean and deported them to France.  The fate of Jean-Baptiste dit Ladouceur, his wife Marie, and most of their children has been lost to history, but his son Jean-François--called François Maricre on the passenger roll, no age given, but he would have been age 11--made the crossing to St.-Malo aboard the deportation transport Duc Guillaume with some of his maternal kin.  The vessel left the Maritimes in late summer 1758 and, after a mid-ocean mishap, limped into the Breton port the first of November.  The family François had been counted with on Île St.-Jean--his maternal great aunt Marie-Madeleine Haché, her husband Pierre Duval, and five cousins--died at sea.  Only François and cousin Jacques Haché survived the crossing. 

Jean-François De La Mazière, as he was called in France, settled at St.-Malo until July 1760, when French authorities granted him permission to move to Cherbourg in Normandy, where he worked as a navigator, blacksmith, and carpenter.  Probably at Cherbourg, in c1768, he married Véronique, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Renaud dit Arnaud and Marie-Madeleine Pothier of Île St.-Jean.  Véronique also had been deported to France in 1758 but had landed at Cherbourg.  Their son Jean-François, fils may have been born at Cherbourg in the late 1760s or early 1770s.  In 1773, Jean-François and his family, with hundreds of other Acadians languishing in the port cities, ventured to the interior of Poitou to settle on an influential nobleman's land near the city of Châtellerault.  Véronique gave Jean-François a daughter, Marguerite, born at La Chapelle-Roux southeast of Châtellerault in July 1775.  In October 1775, after two years of effort, Jean-François and his family retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire to the port of Nantes.  They settled at nearby Chantenay, where at least four more children were born to them:  Jean-Baptiste born in April 1777; Louise-Cécile in November 1778; Rose-Jeanne in November 1781; and Marie in January 1783 but died the following June.  Two more of their children died at Chantenay:  Marguerite at age 5 in October 1780; and Jean-François, fils, date of death unrecorded.  

When in the early 1780s the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, Jean-François De La Mazière and his family agreed to take it.  Jean-François, age 37, wife Véronique Renaud, age 37, and their three remaining children--Jean-Baptiste, age 8; Louise-Cécile, age 6; and Rose-Jeanne, age 4--sailed to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, which left Paimboeuf, the lower port for Nantes, in late August 1785 and reached New Orleans in early November.  During the crossing, another daughter was born to them in early October  At her baptism in the St.-Louis church in late November, two weeks after their arrival, they named her Martina, or Martine, after her godfather, Louisiana's Spanish intendant Martin Navarro, who treated the newly-arrived Acadians with sensitivity and respect and stood as godfather for all of their newborns.  From New Orleans, the family followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Martine may have died at Lafourche, or she may have died earlier, in New Orleans.  In any case, she was not counted with the family at Lafourche in January 1788.  The couple had another daughter, Scholastique-Esther, at Lafourche in c1791--eight children, two sons and six daughters, between the late 1760s and 1791, in France and Louisiana. 

Jean-François's remaining son and three of his daughters found mates of their own on the upper bayou.  First to marry was daughter Louise-Cécile, who married Louis, son of Jean Augeron and Marie-Louise Levron of Les Sables-d'Olonne, France, at Assumption in January 1800; Louis's mother may have been a fellow Acadian.  Son Jean-Baptiste married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Robichaux and his second wife Anne Hébert and widow of Jean-François Rassicot, at Assumption in February 1800.  Younger daughter Rose Jeanne married Antoine, son of Antoine Ledet and Marguerite Vilic of St. John the Baptist Parish, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in April 1811.  Rose Jeanne died in Lafourche Parish in May 1865, in her early 80s--one of the last Acadian immigrants in Louisiana to join her ancestors.  Jean-François's youngest surviving daughter Scholastique Esther married French Creole Pierre Lagarde and died in Lafourche Interior Parish in November 1839, in her late 40s.  One of her daughters married a son of former Louisiana governor Henry Schuyler Thibodaux

Jean François De La Mazière died in Lafourche Interior Parish in January 1828.  The Thibodauxville priest who recorded the burial said that Jean François died "at age 85 yrs."  Two succession inventories, naming his wife Véronique and listing his children and their spouses--Jean Baptiste, "presumed dead"; Louise Cécile and her Ogeron husband; Rose Jeanne and her Leday/Ledet husband; and Scholastique Esther and her De Lagarde husband--were filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse in January and February 1828.  His daughters had children of their own, but his son Jean Baptiste, who died in Lafourche Interior Parish in c1813, in his mid-30s, evidently did not.  As a result, the family line, except for its blood, did not endure in the Bayou State.25

Dumont

Jean-Baptiste dit Dumont, son of carpenter René Dubois and Anne-Julienne Dumont of Montréal, married Marie, daughter of André Simon dit Boucher and Marie Martin, at Port-Royal in May 1710.  They evidently were living at Petit-Degrat off the southeast shore of Île Madame, at the south end of the new French colony of Île Royale, when their son Joseph was born in March 1712.  Jean-Baptiste died at Grand-Pré in November 1713, but not before fathering another child, daughter Geneviève in c1713, according to Bona Arsenault.  The daughter, according to Arsenault, married into the Martin and Gauterot families in Canada, the first marriage at St.-Thomas-de-Montmagny below Québec City in October 1765.  Son Joseph chose as his surname not Dubois but his father's dit and his paternal grandmother's surname, Dumont.  He followed his mother and stepfather, Dominque Viarrieu dit Duclos, back to the French Maritimes and, in February 1739, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Vécot and Marie Chiasson, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord, the church for Havre-St.-Pierre on the north shore of Île St.-Jean.  He and Marie-Madeleine had six daughters on the island:  Anne in c1740; Marie-Madeleine in c1741; Marie in c1742; Marie-Josèphe in c1745; Hélène in c1747; and Susanne in c1751.  Wife Marie-Madeleine died probably at Havre-St.-Pierre before August 1752, when a French official counted Joseph and four of his daughters there--Anne, Marie, Hélène, and Susanne.  Joseph did not remarry. 

When the British rounded up the Acadians of Nova Scotia in the autumn of 1755, Joseph and his daughters, 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 Île St-Jean and deported them to France.  Joseph and three of his daughters--Anne, age 20; Marie, age 17; and Hélène, age 12--made the crossing aboard one of the five deportation transports that left Chédabouctou Bay in a 12-ship convoy in late November 1758, survivied a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England, and reached St.-Malo together in late January 1759.  Joseph, age 46, died at sea, but his daughters survived the crossing.  

In France, Hélène Dumont grew up an orphan.  At age 20, she married Grégoire, son of fellow Acadians Jean Lejeune and Françoise Guédry of Minas and widower of Frenchwoman Charlotte Des Croutes, in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer in June 1767.  They settled at Pleurtuit on the west side of the river south of the Breton port.  Between 1768 and 1772, Hélène gave Grégoire a son and two daughters there.  The son died in March 1769 three months after his birth.  In 1773, Hélène, Grégoire, and their daughters followed other exiles to the interior of Poitou, where they were part of a major settlement venture centered around the town of Châtellerault.  Another daughter was born there in May 1774, but she died the following August.  Their second daughter died later that month, age 2.  By December 1775, after two years of effort, Grégoire, Hélèn, and their remaining daughter retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire to the lower Loire port of Nantes, where Grégoire, a sailor, found work when he could.  Between 1778 and 1784, Hélène gave Grégoire three more sons and another daughter at nearby Chantenay.  The oldest of the three sons died at age 6 in March 1784 and the daughter in October 1784 a month after her birth, leaving the couple with only two sons and a daughter.  At about that time, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  Hélène Dumont and her husband Grégoire Lejeune agreed to take it.

With three of their children--Marie, age 14; Grégoire-Alexis, called Alexis, age 4; and Julien, age 2--Hélène Dumont, age 38, and husband Grégoire Lejeune, age 45, crossed to Louisiana aboard Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in July 1785.  After a month of recuperation in the city, they followed their fellow passengers to Manchac on the river south of Baton Rouge.  They had no more children in Louisiana.  Hélène died in West Baton Rouge Parish in September 1815, in her late 60s.  Grégoire outlived her by 11 years, dying in July 1826, in his late 80s.  He never remarried.

Hélène was the only member of her family to make it to Louisiana, so the Dumonts of South Louisiana are French Creoles or Foreign French, not Acadians.  Only the blood of the Acadian Dumonts survived in the Bayou State, as did the blood of the Vécots of Île St.-Jean, through Hélène and her children by Grégoire Lejeune.26

Duplessis

Surgeon Claude-Antoine, son of Claude Duplessis and Marie Derivi of St.-Jean de St.-Quentin, Noyons, Picardie, France, born in c1710, reached British Nova Scotia by September 1736, when he married Catherine, daughter of Pierre Lejeune and Marie Thibodeau, and widow of Antoine Lanoue, at Grand-Pré.  Catherine was eight years older than her surgeon husband and a granddaughter of Pierre Thibodeau of Pré Ronde and Chepoudy.  In the 1740s, Sr. Claude-Antoine moved his family to Chignecto.  They were there in the spring and summer of 1750 when,  in response to the British building a fort at Beaubassin village, Canadian soldiers and Abbé Le Loutre's Mi'kmaq warriors burned the villages east of Rivière Missaguash to drive the Acadians into French-controlled territory west of the river  The surgeon and his family may have been among the refugees of this petit dérangement.  Soon after, Claude-Antoine and Catherine moved on to Port-La-Joye on Île St.-Jean probably to escape the chaos at Chignecto.  In August 1752, a French official counted the family at Havre-St.-Pierre on the north side of the island.  Their children were Anastasie-Adélaïde, born at Grand-Pré in June 1737; Marie-Louise in April 1839; and François-Marin, born probably at Chignecto in c1749.  With them was orphan Louis Labauve, age 12, native of Acadia's Atlantic coast.

Living in territory controlled by France, Claude-Antoine Duplessis and his family escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia in 1755-56.  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.  Claude-Antoine, now age 49, Catherine, age 60, François-Marin, age 9, and a 16-year-old surgeon's apprentice made the crossing on one of the five deportation transports that left Chédabouctou Bay in a 12-ship convoy in late November 1758, survived a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England, and reached St.-Malo together in late January 1759.  For some reason, daughter Anastasie-Adélaïde, ages 21 and still unmarried, was not with them.  Claude-Antoine and Catherine survived the crossing, but their son died at sea.  The apprentice, Louis Labauve, called La Bore, son of René, on the ship's passenger list, died in a hospital probably at St.-Malo several months after they reached the port.  Claude-Antoine and Catherine settled first at Chateauneuf on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo before moving to nearby St.-Suliac in 1762.  A year later, they moved to the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where Claude-Antoine died in September 1772, age 62. 

Meanwhile, Claude-Antoine and Catherine's younger daughter Marie-Louise had married Pierre, fils, son of fellow Acadians Pierre Gautrot and Marie Bugeaud of Grand-Pre, on Île St.-Jean in c1758, on the eve of the island's dérangement.  They, too, fell into the hands of the British later that year and were deported to France aboard one of the Five Ships, perhaps the one on which her family crossed.  Pierre and Marie-Louise survived the crossing, she despite her pregnancy.  A son was born probably at St.-Malo in March 1759, two months after they reached the Breton port, but he died a few months later.  Pierre, fils worked as a farm hand and a carpenter near her family at Châteauneuf.  Between 1761 and 1772, Marie-Louise gave Pierre, fils eight more children, four daughters and four more sons.  Most of them died young, five of them at Châteauneuf and St.-Servan-sur-Mer, and two of them in the early 1770s when the family was part of the settlement venture in Poitou, where their tenth child, a daughter, was born at Châtellerault in July 1774.  In December 1775, after two years of effort, Pierre, Marie-Louise, four of their children, two sons and two daughters, and Marie-Louise's widowed mother, retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire to the port of Nantes, where they lived as best they could on government handouts and what work they could find.  Their eleventh and final child, another daughter, was born in St.-Jacques Parish, Nantes, in c1778 but died at age 22 months in November 1780.  In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  Marie-Louise Duplessis and husband Pierre Gautrot agreed to take it, but only one of their 11 children went with them to the Spanish colony.  Three of their older children, ages 20, 18, and 13 in 1785, if they were still living, did not accompany their family to Louisiana. 

Marie-Louise Duplessis and husband Pierre Gautrot made the journey to Louisiana in the spring and summer of 1785 aboard Le Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships from France.  Only daughter Marguerite-Adélaïde Gautrot, called Adélaïde, age 9, accompanied them; all of their other children had been buried in France or chose to remain.  Marie-Louise and her family followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  She and Pierre, fils had no more children there.  Daughter Adélaïde married François, fils, son of French Creole François Friou and his Acadian wife Susanne Robichaux, at Lafourche in February 1792.  Marie-Louise died in Assumption Parish in January 1808, age 68. 

Frenchmen named Dupleci and Duplessiss were living in colonial Louisiana as early as the late 1740s.  They became especially numerous at New Orleans by the 1770s.  Marie-Louise Duplessis of Grand-Pré was the only member of her family to emigrate to Louisiana.  Except for its blood, then, the Acadian branch of this family did not survive in the Bayou State.  The many Duplessiss of South Louisiana are descended from French Creoles or Foreign French, not Acadians.27

Durel

Charles Lacroix dit Durel, son of Pierre Lacroix and Jeanne Deville of St.-Denis-Le-Gast, Coutances, Normandy, born in c1705, came to greater Acadia by September 1730, when he married Judith, daughter of Gabriel Chiasson and Marie Lejeune of Chignecto, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord, the church for Havre-St.-Pierre, on the north shore of French-controlled Île St.-Jean.  Judith gave Charles a son and five daughters at Havre-St.-Pierre:  twins Marie-Élisabeth and Marguerite in September 1731; Anne-Marie in January 1734; Marie-Judith, called Judith, in August 1736; Charles, fils in February 1739; and Charlotte-Anne in November1741.  Two of Charles and Judith's daughters married on the island:  Anne-Marie to Charles, son of Noël Pinet and Rose Henry of Minas, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord in April 1753;  and Marguerite to Joseph, fils, son of Joseph Préjean and Marie-Louise Comeau, probably at St.-Pierre-du-Nord in c1758.  Meanwhile, Charles, père died by September 1748, when wife Judith remarried at Beaubassin in British Nova Scotia.  She and her new husband did not remain there.  In August 1752, a French official counted her, second husband Pierre Le Prieur dit Dubois l'aîné, and her Lacroix dit Durel children at Havre-de-la-Fortune on the southeast coast of Île St.-Jean.  Judith and Charles's children tended to use as their surname not Lacroix but their father's dit, DurelLe Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this family to the winds. 

Living in territory controlled by France, they and other Acadians on Île St.-Jean escaped the roundups in Nova Scotia during the fall of 1755.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived.  In late 1758, after the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July, the redcoats swooped down on Île St.-Jean, rounded up most of the habitants there, and deported them to France.  Charles and Judith's daughter Anne-Marie and her husband Charles Pinet dit Pinel, as well as daughter Judith, ended up on a crowded ship that took them to Cherbourg, Normandy, where they landed safely.  Other members of the family were not so lucky.  Judith Chiasson, her second husband Pierre Le Prieur dit Dubois, with whom the sisters had been counted at Havre-de-la-Fortune in August 1752, and their younger siblings and half-siblings, all perished aboard the deportation transport Violet, which left Chédaboutctou Bay in a 12-ship convoy in late November, destined for St.-Malo, but sank in a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England.  Judith's namesake daughter Judith married Jean, son of perhaps fellow Acadians Abraham Daigre and Marie Boudrot of Havre-de-la-Fortune, at Cherbourg in c1759, or she may have married him on Île St.-Jean on the eve of the island's dérangement

Charles dit Durel's daughter Marguerite and her husband Joseph Préjean, fils of Chepoudy managed to elude the British on Île St.-Jean, cross Mer Rouge to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, and make their way to Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, where one of Joseph, fils's brothers served as a lieutenant in the Acadian militia.  In the early 1760s, Marguerite and Joseph either were captured by, or surrendered to, British forces in the region and were held as prisoners at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, in British Nova Scotia, with dozens of other exiles.  Daughter Victoire was born there in c1761.  They did not remain.  British officials counted Joseph, fils, his wife, and their daughter at Fort Cumberland, formerly French Fort Beauséjour, at Chignecto, in August 1763.  In late 1764 or 1765, the war now over, Marguerite and Joseph chose to accompany 600 of their fellow exiles from the Nova Scotia compounds to Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, to get themselves clear of British rule.  From Cap-Français they moved on to New Orleans, which they reached sometime in 1765. 

Meanwhile, in France, Marguerite's younger sister Anne-Marie gave her husband Charles Pinet dit Pinel at least three children, a son and two daughters, at Cherbourg, between 1763 and 1771.  Sister Judith and her husband Jean Daigre, who worked as a fisherman, also had at least three children, all sons, in the Norman port, between 1759 and 1763.  In 1773, Anne-Marie and Charles followed hundreds of other exiles languishing in the port cities to the interior of Poitou as part of a major settlement venture around the city of Châtellerault.  Their second son was born at La Chapelle-Roux near Châtellerault in January 1775.  Evidently sister Judith, Jean, and their sons did not follow them to Poitou.  After two years of effort, Anne-Marie and her family retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire to the port of Nantes, where they subsisted as best they could on government handouts and what work they could find.  Older daughter Marie-Modeste Pinet dit Pinel married Jean-Baptiste-Charles, son of fellow Acadians Charles Haché and Marie Hébert, at nearby St.-Martin de Chantenay in November 1784. 

In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  Anne-Marie, no doubt fully aware that her older sister Marguerite had been living in the Spanish colony for two decades, husband Charles Pinet, their remaining son Louis, unmarried daughter Marie-Madeleine, and married daughter Marie-Modeste and her Haché husband, agreed to take it.  Sister Judith and husband Jean, if they were still alive, chose to remain in France.  However, their oldest son, Jean-Baptiste Daigre, his LeBlanc wife, and their two daughters, followed his aunt and her family to the Spanish colony in 1785.

Marguerite Durel, her husband Joseph Préjean, and two of their children--Victoire, age 4, and Jean-Baptiste, fils, in utero--were among the earliest Acadians to find refuge in Louisiana, in 1765, and settled at the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  Joseph died by the early 1770s, and, in June 1772, Marguerite remarried to Joseph, fils, sons of fellow Acadians Joseph Bourg and François Dugas and widower of Anne-Marguerite Léger and Marie LeBlanc.  They remained at Cabahannocer, where Marguerite bore two more daughters.

Twenty years after Marguerite came to Louisiana, her younger sister Anne-Marie, husband Charles Pinet dit Pinel, and three of their children--Louis, age 22; Marie-Madeleine, age 14; and Marie-Modeste, age 20, who came with her husband Jean-Baptiste-Charles Haché and his family--sailed to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships from France, which reached New Orleans in November 1785.  After a brief respite in the city, they followed their fellows passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, not far from Anne-Marie's sister at Cabahannocer.  After 27 years of separation, the Lacroix dit Durel sisters of Île St.-Jean finally were reunited.  

Since only female members of this family came to Louisiana, and since they used their father's dit, not his surname Lacroix, the Durel families in the Bayou State today are French Creoles or Foreign French, not Acadians.  The blood of Charles Lacroix dit Durel and Judith Chiasson did endure, however, in lines of the Achee, Bourg, Daigle, Pinet, and Prejean families.28

Flan

Jean-François Flan of Paris, France, married Marie, daughter of Michel Dupuis and Marie Gautrot, at Port-Royal in January 1706.  Jean-François served as clerk for the Port-Royal fortifications--commis des fortifications, was his title--and for a time he oversaw the rebuilding of the town's defenses.  In June 1714, after the British formally took over the colony, Jean-François was among a number of Acadians who went to Île Royale, today's Cape Breton Island, to look at land there.  Evidently he did not move to Île Royale but remained at Port-Royal, which the British had renamed Annapolis Royal in 1710.  By the late 1710s, Jean-François had moved his family to Rivière-aux-Canards in the Minas Basin probably to put more distance between himself and the British authorities at Annapolis Royal.  Between 1707 and 1718, his wife gave him five children, four daughters and a son, in the two communities.  Their son, born at Port-Royal in May 1709, does not seem to have lived long enough to create a family of his own.  Three of the commissioner's daughters did marry, so the blood of the Parisian Flans survived in the colony in two of the colony's largest families.  Oldest daughter Marie-Josèphe, at age 22, married Charles-André, youngest son of André LeBlanc and Marie Dugas, at Grand-Pré in October 1730.  Third daughter Anne, at age 20, married Alexandre, son of Abraham Landry and Marie Guilbeau, at Grand-Pré in February 1732.  Youngest daughter Marguerite, at age 18, married Abraham dit Petit Abram Landry, widower of Élisabeth LeBlanc and brother of her older sister Anne's husband, probably at Grand-Pré in c1746.  Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this family to the winds. 

In the fall of 1755, British forces deported Jean-François Flan's second daughter, Anne, her husband Alexandre Landry, and their children to Maryland, where Alexandre died in the late 1750s or early 1760s.  Jean-François's youngest daughter, Marguerite, her husband Abraham dit Petit Abram Landry, and their children, some from his first marriage, also ended up in Maryland.  In July 1763, members of the family were counted in two places in the Cheaspeake colony:  the widowed Anne and six of her children, four sons and two daughters, at Baltimore; and Marguerite and her family, including 10 children, at Oxford on Maryland's Eastern Shore.  Marguerite died in Maryland in the mid-1760s, in her late 40s, leaving her husband Petit Abram a widower again. 

When word reached the Acadians in Maryland that the the Spanish would welcome them in Louisiana, they pooled their meager resources to charter ships that would take them to New Orleans.  Petit Abram Landry and nine of his children, six of them from second wife Marguerite Flan, were among the first of the Maryland Acadians to emigrate to Louisiana, in 1766.  They and their fellow passengers settled in the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans. 

In April 1767, Anne Flan, still a widow (she never remarried), left Baltimore for New Orleans in the second expedition from Maryland with most of her Landry children and 200 other Acadian exiles.  They reached New Orleans in July and settled in the new Acadian community of San Gabriel on the river above Cabahannocer.  Anne was the only Acadian Flan to find refuge in Louisiana.  The Acadian branch of this family, then, did not take root in the Bayou State.  However, its blood did survive in two lines of the Landry family that settled on what came to be called the Acadian Coast.29

Fouquet

Charles, fils, son of Charles Fouquet and Claude Duvivier, born at St.-Jean-de-la-Haize, Avranches, Normandy, in c1702, came to greater Acadia in c1722.  He married Marie-Judith, daughter of Étienne Poitevin dit Parisien and Anne Daigre, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord, the church for Havre-St.-Pierre on the north shore of Île St.-Jean, in September 1724.  Marie-Judith gave Charles, fils at least 11 children on the island:  Jean-Baptiste in c1727; Louis in December 1728; Charles III l'aîné in August 1730; Jean-Aubin, called Aubin, in May 1732; Marie-Judith in April 1736; Jean-Martin, called Martin, in November 1738; Anne in July 1741; Élisabeth or Isabelle in c1743; Simon in November 1747; Françoise in c1748; and Charles III le jeune in November 1751.  In August 1752, a French official counted Charles, Marie, and nine of their children at Nigeagant near Havre-St.-Pierre.  Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this family to the winds. 

When British forces rounded up the Acadians in Nova Scotia in 1755, Charles Fouquet and his family, 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 Île St.-Jean and deported them to France.  Charles Fouquet, père and four of his sons--Louis, age 30; Jean-Aubin, age 26; Martin, age 20, and Simon, age 11--ended up on a deportation transport that landed at Cherbourg in March 1759.  Sons Jean-Aubin and Martin reached the Norman port, but of Charles, père and his other sons the record says only, "The fate of their father is unknown," which means he probably did not survive the crossing.  One wonders what became of sons Louis and Simon.  Soon after they reached the Norman port, Jean-Aubin and Martin sailed from Cherbourg down to St.-Malo in northeast Brittany, which they reached in late March.  Their mother, Marie-Judith Pointevin, age 50, and five of their siblings--Marie-Judith, age 23, Anne, age 17, Françoise, age 12, Élisabeth, age 14, and Charles III le jeune, age 8--had become separated from Charles, père and the older boys during the chaos of deportation and had crossed on one of the five deporation transports that left Chédabouctou Bay in a 12-ship convoy in late November 1758, survived a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England, and reached St.-Malo together in late January.  They all survived the crossing, but not its rigors.  Daughter Élisabeth died in a St.-Malo hospital two months after she reached the Breton port.  Her mother also must have have been fatally weakened by the voyage.  When her daughter Marie-Judith Fouquet married Honoré, son of fellow Acadians Charles Thériot and Angélique Doiron and widower of Isabelle Bergeau, in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer in February 1760, both of the bride's parents were recorded as deceased. 

Marie-Judith and husband Honoré Thériot settled at Pleudihen-sur-Rance on the east bank of the river south of St.-Servan, where they had at least seven children.  Sister Anne married a French sailor, Georges, son of Nicolas Pollin and Jeanne Label of St.-Servan, at the naval port of Rochefort on the Bay of Biscay in June 1764.  Brother Jean-Aubin married, or rather remarried to, Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Quimine and Marie-Josèphe Chiasson of Chignecto and Île St.-Jean, probably in the late 1760s, place unrecorded.  This may have been Jean-Aubin's third marriage, first to Marie Chevalier, date and place unrecorded, likely was after he reached St.-Malo; and the second to Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Savary and ____ and widow of Jean Audaire, perhaps in Notre Dame Parish, Rochefort, in September 1763.  Evidently the first two wives gave him no children.  If he and Marguerite Quimine married in the St.-Malo area, they did not remain.  She gave him at least two daughters at Port-Louis near Lorient in southern Brittany:  Marie-Charlotte in c1770; and Jeanne-Madeleine in c1774.  They resettled in the lower Loire port of Nantes by September 1784. 

 In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  Jean-Aubin Fouquet and his wife Marguerite agreed to take it.  The rest of his family--sisters Marie-Judith, Anne, and Françoise, and brothers Martin and Charles III--evidently remained in France, one way or another. 

Jean-Aubin age 52, wife Marguerite Quimine, age 50, and daughters Marie-Charlotte, age 15, and Jeanne-Madeleine, age 11, crossed to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships of 1785, which reached New Orleans in early November.  They likely followed some of their fellow passengers to the Isleño community of San Bernardo, also called Nueva Gálvez, on the river below New Orleans, or they settled in the city.  Marguerite gave him no more children in the colony.  Only a month after her family reached Louisiana, daughter Marie-Charlotte, at age 15, married Silvestre, son of Silverio Gomes and Maria Gutierres of Senseca, Castille, Spain, at New Orleans.  Jean-Joseph Fouquet was born at New Orleans in November 1797.  A Spanish priest at the St.-Louis church recorded the boy's baptism the following January and called the mother Maria Magdalena Fouquet, "native of Acadia, resident of this city."  This likely was Jeanne-Madeleine, who would have been age 23 at the time.  The priest did not give the boy's father's name. 

Jean-Aubin Fouquet brought only daughters to Louisiana and seems to have fathered no sons there.  One of his daughters married a Spaniard soon after the family reached the colony, and another daughter seems to have borne a "natural" son at New Orleans a dozens years later.  The Acadian branch of this family, then, except for its blood, did not take root in the Bayou State.  The Fouquets of South Louisiana are French Creoles or Foreign French, not Acadians.30

Grossin

Brothers Michel, born in c1705, and Pierre, in c1708, sons of Jean Grossin and Perrine Pétain of Carolles, Avranches, Normandy, settled at Havre-St.-Pierre on the north shore of Île St.-Jean in the late 1720s.  Michel married Marie, daughter of Jean Caissie dit Roger and his first wife Anne Bourgeois, probably at St.-Pierre-du-Nord, the church for Havre-St.-Pierre, in c1730.  Pierre married Cécile Caissie dit Roger and his second wife Cécile Hébert, younger half-sister of brother Michel's wife, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord in July 1733.  Marie gave Michel a large family on the island:  Jean born in September 1732; Marie-Louise, called Louise, in c1734; Marie in c1737; Jacques-Christophe in February 1738; Baptiste-Louis, called Louis, in August 1740; Henriette in September 1742; Michel, fils in c1745; Brigitte in c1748; Françoise in c1749; Modeste in c1751; and Robert was baptized, age unrecorded, in November 1755 but died at age 8 months in July 1756--11 children, five sons and six daughters, between 1732 and 1755.  Oldest daughter Louise married Pierre, son of Jacques Quimine and Marie-Josèphe Chiasson of Chignecto, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord in February 1755.  Michel's younger brother Pierre and wife Cécile also raised a large family on the island:  Michel le jeune born in October 1734; Cécile in 1737; Madeleine in 1739; Anne in 1741; Jacques in August 1744; Marguerite in 1746; Rosalie in 1750; Pierre, fils in c1751; Marie-Louise in 1754; and Louis in August 1756--10 children, four sons and six daughters, between 1734 and 1756.  Oldest son Michel le jeune married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of François Chiasson and Anne Doucet, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord in January 1758.  

Living on an island controlled by France, the Grossins escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755, but they did not escape the terrors of Le Grand Dérangement.  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.  The Grossins were among the families who were packed aboard one or more of the five deportation transports that left Chédabouctou Bay in a 12-ship convoy in late November, survived a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England, and reached St.-Malo together in late January 1759.  The family suffered terribly in the crossing.  Michel, père died at sea.  Two of his children who reached France--Jacques-Christophe, age 20, and Françoise, age 9--died in the hospital at Paramée, a St.-Malo suburb, in April 1759, a few months after they reached the port.  Michel, père's oldest daughter Louise, age 25, wife of Pierre Quimine, crossed on one of the Five Ships with two of their young daughters.  Louise and Pierre survived the crossing, but both of their daughters died at sea.  Pierre Grossin, père and his family also crossed in one of the Five Ships and lost two of their children:  Pierre, fils, age 7, died at sea; and Rose, age 11, died in the same hospital as her cousins in April 1759.  Pierre, père, his wife, and their seven other children survived the crossing, but Pierre, père died at St.-Malo soon after they got there.  Pierre, père's son Michel le jeune and his wife Marie-Josèphe Chiasson also crossed on one of the Five Ships.  She was pregnant when they left Chédabouctou in late November.  A son, Michel, fils, was born on 2 February 1759, soon after they reached the Breton port, but he died 18 days later.  Wife Marie-Josèphe died in the hospital at Paramé in early June 1759, leaving Michel le jeune a widower. 

Pierre Grossin, père's widow Cécile Caissie settled at Paramé, where, at age 46, she remarried to Nicolas, fils, 37-year-old son of Nicolas Bouchard and Anne Silvain of St.-Thomas, Canada, and widower of Acadian Marie Chiasson, in June 1760.  Nicolas and his family were living at Rivière-du-Nord-Est on Île St.-Jean in August 1752, when Cécile and her family were counted at nearby Étang-St.-Pierre, so one wonders if he had known the Grossins back on the island.  Cécile gave him no more children.  Her son Michel Grossin le jeune also had settled at Paramé and remarried to Frenchwoman Françoise, daughter of Augustin Renault and Marguerite Dagorne, at St.-Malo in February 1760, less than a year after his first wife died.  Françoise gave him at least two children at Paramé:  Pierre-Michel in April 1761; and Jeanne-Françoise-Nicolle in January 1763.

The war over, in April 1764 Cécile Caissie, second husband Nicolas Bouchard, and their blended family left France aboard Le Fort for the new French colony of Guiane on the northern coast of South America aboard.  Michel Grossin le jeune, his wife, and children followed his mother and stepfather to Guiane aboard the same ship.  His unmarried brothers Jacques and Louis and unmarried sisters Cécile, Madeleine, and Marguerite also went to Guiane, along with married sister Anne and her husband François-Jean, son of Jean-Baptiste Bard and Josèphe Talon of St.-François, Québec, who she had married in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer in April 1764, on the eve of their departure.  Cécile Caissie's husband Nicholas was an early casualty of the venture.  She remarried again, her third marriage, to Frenchman Alexis, son of Jean-Isaac Hilairet and Marie David of Lansac, Sainte, France, at St.-Sauveur in the Cayenne district in July 1765.  Cécile died at St.-Sauveur in August 1768, age 54, surrounded by her loved ones.  The decision to go to the jungles of South America proved to be a fatal one for son Jacques Grossin as well.  He died at Sinnamary in the Cayenne district in March 1765, age 22, still unmarried.  In that same month, French officials took a census of the settlers at Sinnamary.  Among them were Marie Grossin, veuve Belier, age 40, of St.-Servan, and her children Pierre, age 16; Julien, age 14; and Jacqueline, age 12, all named Cousin and all born at Louisbourg.  One wonders how they were kin to Michel le jeune and his family.  Michel le jeune and Françoise had at least one more child in the tropical colony:  Joseph at St.-Sauveur, Cayenne, in November 1766.  Brother Louis survived the rigors of life in the tropics and married Madeleine Lope, widow of Jean dit Maroc Guilbert, at St.-Joseph de Sinnamary in May 1781.  One wonders what was the fate of Michel le jeune and his sisters in the distant colony.  Anne died probably at Cayenne.  Husband François-Jean Bard returned to St.-Malo via Brest in July 1769 and remarried to a widow at St.-Servan0sur-Mer in January 1770. 

Meanwhile, Michel Grossin, père's daughter Marie, at age 31, married Jean-Baptiste, son of fellow Acadians Charles Dugas and Marie Benoit, at St.-Servan-sur-Mer in February 1768.  They settled at St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, across the harbor from St.-Malo, where they had at least one daughter.  Marie's older sister Louise died probably at St.-Servan by January 1770, when husband Pierre Quimine remarried to Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Charles Dugas and Marie Benoit, at St.-Énogat, so Marie became her former brother-in-law's sister-in-law again.  Marie, husband Jean-Baptiste, and two of their children were part of the settlement venture in the interior of Poitou in the early 1770s and, after two years of effort, were among the Poitou Acadians who retreated down the Vienne and the Loire to the port of Nantes in November 1775.  Jean-Baptiste worked as a day laborer there.  Meanwhile, Marie's brother Michel, fils, at age 23, married Frenchwoman Cécile-Julienne, daughter of Pierre Troude and Suzanne Picart, at St.-Malo in December 1768.  Their son Michel-Pierre was born at St.-Malo in December 1769.  They were still there in 1772. 

In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  Marie Grossin and husband Jean-Baptiste Dugas at Nantes agreed to take it.  Other members of her family--the ones who took French spouses or had not gone to Guiane--chose to remain in France.  This included Marie's younger sister Henriette, wife of Frenchman François Galien, who she had married probably in the St.-Malo area.  Henriette and François had signed up to go to Louisiana aboard La Ville d'Archangel, which left St.-Malo in mid-August 1785, but a note on the passenger list states:  "la famille Gallien n'embarque pas," that is, the Galien family did not embark, so older sister Marie Grossin was the only member of her family to emigrate to the Spanish colony. 

Marie Grossin, age 49, husband Jean-Baptiste Dugas, also age 49, and their 11-year-old daughter Marie-Josèphe Dugas came to Louisiana aboard Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in July 1785.  They followed their fellow passengers to Manchac south of Baton Rouge.  A Spanish official counted them at Baton Rouge in July 1788.  Marie and Jean-Baptiste had no more children in Louisiana.  Daughter Marie-Josèphe, a native of St.-Énogat, married Pierre-Joseph, son of fellow Acadians Charles Lebert and Anne-Marie Robichaux, at Baton Rouge in 1794; Pierre-Joseph was a native Plouër-sur-Rance, on the west side of the river south of St.-Énogat, and had come to Louisiana as a teenager with his widowed mother aboard La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships.  Marie died at Baton Rouge in July 1809, in her early 70s.

Marie Grossin was the only member of her family to emigrate to Louisiana, so the Acadian branch of the Grossin family did not take root in the Bayou State.  Daughter Marie-Josèphe Dugas and her husband Pierre-Joseph Lebert had no sons, but their only daughter, Lise Lebert, Marie Grossin's granddaughter, married Zéphirin, son of fellow Acadians Jacques Blanchard and Modeste-Aimée Bourg, probably in West Baton Rouge Parish in March 1813.  Zéphirin and Lise had many children, including at least six sons.  Zéphirin became a great planter, holding 66 slaves on his West Baton Rouge Parish plantation in 1850, so the blood of the hard-suffering Grossin family survived in the Bayou State.  The Grossins of South Louisiana today are descendants of French Creoles or Foreign French, not Acadians.31

Guénard

In July 1712, James, son of Andrew Gainier and Margaret Benard of Dublin, Ireland, was serving as a soldier with the British army when he married Cécile, daughter of Pierre Cellier and Marie-Josèphe-Aimée Lejeune of Minas, at Beaubassin.  James later called himself Jacques Guénard dit Gaudereau, signifying his entry into Acadian society.  Cécile gave her Irishman-turned-Acadian at least three children, a son and two daughters.  Their older daughter Marie-Rose married into the Bastien family.  Jacques and Cécile died before 13 July 1742, when their daughter married at Beaubassin.  Son Timothée, born in Maryland (an indication that his father was engaged in commerce) was baptized at Annapolis Royal in October 1716 and again in November 1718.  He married Anne-Marie, daughter of Pierre Thibodeau le jeune and Anne-Marie Aucoin, probably at Annapolis Royal in c1744.  Anne-Marie gave him at least two children there:  Joseph in c1746; and Anastasie in c1750.  There may have been two others.  Le Grand Dérangement of 1755 scattered this small family to the winds.

Timothée, Anne-Marie, and their children evidently escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755, 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 the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  By 1760, they had made their way north to the French stronghold at Restgouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, now a major Acadian refuge.  And then the war may have caught up to them in earnest.  After the fall of Québec in September 1759, the British marshaled their forces to attack the remaining French strongholds in New France, including Restigouche.  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 captured 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 Restgouche to accept the garrison's, and the Acadians', surrender.  On October 24, French officers, on the eve of formal surrender, counted 1,003 exiles still at Restigouche, including Timothée Guemard and his family of six.  The British held them, along with hundreds of other Acadians captured or surrendered in the region, in prison compounds in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  In October 1762, British officials counted Timothée Guenar and his family of five at Fort Edward, Pigiguit. 

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 go to Île 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 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, four of them were Timothée Guénard, his wife, and two remaining children. 

Timothée Guénard, age 49, wife Anne-Josèphe Thibodeau, age 42, and their two children--Joseph, age 19; and Anastasie, age 14--reached New Orleans sometime in the spring of 1765.  After a brief respite in the city, they followed Anne-Josèphe's Thibodeau kin to Bayou Teche and, perhaps to escape an epidemic there, moved up bayou to the Opelousas prairies.  Timothée did not survive the ordeal.  He died either on the voyage to New Orleans, soon after they reached the city, or at Opelousas before April 1766.  He may even have been a victim of the Teche valley epidemic that struck in the spring, summer, and fall of 1765, though he does not appear in the Attakapas priest's burial record.  Anne-Marie remarried twice at Opelousas, first, at age 44, to French Creole François-Marie Rivard in c1767, and then, at age 63, to Joseph, son of Jean-Baptiste Loiseau dit Francoeur and Marie-Ursule Jutras of Montréal, in November 1786.  Daughter Anastasie Guénard married Amable dit Beaulieu, son of Giles Bertrand, a French Canadian, not a fellow Acadian, and Thérèse La Jeunesse, at Opelousas in February 1766 and died there in March 1789, age 38.  Anastasie's succession was filed at what became the Opelousas courthouse in February 1791. 

Anne-Marie's Guénard son Joseph also married, to Véronique, daughter of Philippe Duplechin and his first wife Renée Boff of New Orleans and Pointe Coupée, in November 1772--the first recorded exogamous marriage by an Acadian male in Louisiana.  Wife Véronique also was a resident of Opelousas at the time of their marriage.  They remained there.  Véronique died at Opelousas in November 1787.  Evidently Joseph did not remarry.  His and Véronique's daughter Ursule married into the Bracogne and Dauzat families.  Neither of Joseph's sons--Benoît, born at Opelousas in c1772; and Dominique in c1776--seems to have survived childhood. 

Guénards settled fairly late in Acadia, but they were among the earliest Acadians to find refuge in Louisiana.  The immigrant progenitor died soon after he came to the colony, if he made it there at all, so it was up to his only son, and his son's Creole wife, to carry on the line there.  The son and his wife had at least two sons, but neither produced a family of his own.  Their daughter married twice, however, so the blood of the Acadian Guénards, if not the name, endured in the Bayou State in two non-Acadian families.  The Guénards of South Louisiana are descendants of French Creoles or Foreign French, not Acadians.32

Guérin

François Guérin, perhaps from Poitou, France, married Anne, daughter of Jean Blanchard and Radegonde Lambert, at Port-Royal in c1659, so he was one of the earliest settlers in French Acadia.  Anne gave him five children, three daughters and two sons, there.  Their daughters married into the Godin dit Châtillon dit Beauséjour, Arseneau, and Doucet families.  François, père died at Port-Royal before the first Acadian census was taken in 1671.  Anne remarried to Pierre l'aîné, son of Denis Gaudet and Martine Gauthier, at Port-Royal c1672.  Anne's younger son François Guérin, fils probably died young, but older son Jérôme came of age and fathered many children of his own.  Jérôme married Isabelle, or Élisabeth, daughter of  Martin Aucoin and Marie Gaudet, at Port-Royal in c1698.  They moved to Cobeguit, at the east end of the Minas Basin, by 1701, one of the first families to settle there, and had 13 children, eight daughters and five sons.  Seven of their daughters married into the Bourg, Thériot, Pitre, Boudrot, and Dugas families, two of them to brothers.  Jérôme and Isabelle's five sons, all born at Cobeguit, married into the Bourg, Mius, LeBlanc, and Henry families.  All of them left Cobeguit for Île St.-Jean or Île Royale before 1752.  By 1755, most, if not all, of François Guérin's descendants were living on the French Maritime islands.  

When the British rounded up Acadians in Nova Scotia in the summer and fall of 1755, the Guérins, living on islands controlled by France, were safe for now.  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.  The crossing devastated the family.  Jérôme's daughter Marguerite Guérin, wife of Pierre Thériot, lost her husband and three of their five children aboard the transport Duc Guillaume, which left Île Royale in late summer and, after a mid-ocean mishap, limped into St.-Malo harbor at the beginning of November.  The rigors of the voyage soon caught up to her:  she died in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer soon after her ship reached the Breton port.  According to the Duc Guillaume passenger list, sister Françoise, widow of François Thériot, also died on the same vessel (in truth, she survived the crossing).  Six children of Jérôme's son Pierre also crossed on the Duc Guillaume.  Two of them--Josèphe and Agricole--perished, while Gertrude, Joseph, Louis, and Pierre, fils survived the crossing.  Soon after reaching France, Louis and Pierre, fils moved from St.-Malo to Lorient in southern Brittany to work as sailors.  Pierre Guérin's's sister Isabelle and her family also died aboard the Duc Guillaume.  Brother François, his wife Geneviève Mius, and their two daughters crossed on the transport Duke William, 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, taking the family, and most of the other passengers, with it.  François's sister Henriette, age 45, wife of Olivier Boudrot, age 47, crossed with her family aboard one of the five deporation 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 1759.  Like brother François and so many of her nieces and nephews, Henriette perished on the voyage, along with four of her own children.  Only husband Olivier and a 15-year-old daughter survived the crossing.  Brother Jean-Baptiste Guérin, age 36, wife Marie-Madeleine Bourg, age 35, and four of their children also crossed on one of the Five Ships.  Jean-Baptiste and Marie-Madeleine survived the crossing, but two of their children--daughter Marie-Madeleine, age 4; and son Xavier, age 2--died at sea.  Sons Jean-Pierre, age 9; and Jérôme, age 6, survived the crossing.  Jean-Baptiste's younger brother Dominique, age 36, his wife Anne LeBlanc, age 31, and six of their children crossed on one of the Five Ships.  Dominique and Anne survived the crossing, but two of their children--Anastasie, age 10; and Françoise, age 3--died at sea, and two more daughters--Anne-Josèphe, age 12; and Marie, age 3 month--died in the hospital at St.-Malo soon after reaching the Breton port.  Only daughter Marguerite, age 8, and son Joseph, age 6, survived the crossing.  Youngest brother Charles, age 34, wife Marguerite Henry, age 34, and four of their children also crossed on one of the Five Ships.  Charles died in a St.-Malo hospital two months after reaching France.  Marguerite survived the crossing, but half of their children--sons Marin, age 8; and Alexis, age 5 months--died at sea.  Only daughters Tarsile, age 11, and Marguerite-Josèphe, age 5, made it to France.  Marie, age 59, one of Jérome Guérin's oldest daughters and wife of Claude Thériot, ended up not at St.-Malo but at Rochefort on the Bay of Biscay, where she died at the Hôpital des oprhelins soon after she reached the naval port. 

The island Guérins did their best to make a life for themselves in the suburbs and villages of the St.-Malo area.  After brothers Louis and Pierre, fils Guérin left St.-Malo for Lorient in January 1759, they disappear from the historical record, unless Louis was the Guérin who went to French St.-Domingue and died there in January 1776.  Dominique Guérin and wife Anne LeBlanc settled first at Ploubalay on the west bank of the river south of St.-Malo and then at nearby Trigavou and had more children there:  Élisabeth, or Isabelle, in October 1760; another Françoise in May 1763; another Anastasie in February 1766 but died at age 1 1/2 in June 1767; and Brigide in August 1769.  In 1773, Dominique and his family, along with hundreds of other exiles languishing in the coastal cities, ventured to the interior of Poitou, where they hoped to become productive farmers.  In March 1776, after two years of effort, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire to the port of Nantes, where Dominique, Anne, and their younger children lived in St.-Jacques Parish across the river from Nantes.  Son Joseph lived in St.-Similien Parish on the northwest side of Nantes, where he married Agnès, daughter of fellow Acadians Benjamin Pitre and Jeanne Moïse, in April 1776.  Two daughters were born to them at Nantes:  Marie-Joséphine in St.-Similien Parish in January 1777; and Françoise in St.-Jacques Parish in April 1784.  Dominique's wife Anne died in St.-Jacques Parish in May 1782, age 56.  Daughter Françoise married Jacques, son of fellow Acadians Étienne Thériot and Hélène Landry, in St.-Jacques Parish in November 1784.  Meanwhile, after the crossing from the Maritimes, Dominique's older sister Françoise settled in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  She was a widow when she came to France and did not remarry.  Dominique's older brother Jean-Baptiste and wife Marie-Madeleine Bourg settled at St.-Suliac on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo, where they had more children:  Joseph in September 1760; and Ambroise in August 1762.  Jean-Baptiste died at St.-Suliac in December 1771, age 50.  His son Jérôme le jeune married fellow Acadian Marie Pitre perhaps at St.-Suliac in the late 1770s.  Dominique's niece Tarsile, daughter of younger brother Charles, married Jacques, fils, son of fellow Acadians Jacques Forest and Claire Vincent, at St.-Servan in August 1774.  Jacques, fils also had come to France aboard one of the Five Ships.  The fate of Tarsile's younger sister Marguerite-Josèphe is lost to history. 

In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  Several of the Guérins, including Dominique and his family, a sister, and a nephew, agreed to take it.  Other members of the family chose to remain in France. 

The nine Acadian Guérins who emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from France sailed aboard three of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans from mid-August to early December 1785.  Most of them followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche. 

Dominique Guérin, age 63, now a widower, sailed to New Orleans aboard La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in August 1785.  With him were two of his unmarried daughters--Élisabeth, or Isabelle, age 25; and Brigide, age 15.  Dominique may have died on the crossing or in New Orleans soon after the ship arrived; he appears in no Louisiana census.  Élisabeth married Jean-Pierre, son of fellow Acadians Prosper Landry and Isabelle Pitre, at Lafourche in February 1786 but died by 1790, when her husband remarried there.  Jean-Pierre, a native of Pleurtuit near St..-Malo, also had come to Louisiana aboard La Bergère, so he and Élisabeth probably had known one another in France.  Brigide married François-Jean, son of fellow Acadians Blaise Thibodeaux and Catherine Daigle, on the upper Lafourche in July 1796.  François-Jean, a native of Mordreuc near Pleuidhen-sur-Rance, on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo, also had come to the colony from France, aboard a later vessel.  Brigide died in Assumption Parish in April 1830.  The Plattenville priest who recorded her burial said that she died at "age 66 yrs."  She was 60. 

Dominique's son Joseph, age 33, also crossed on La Bergère, with wife Agnès Pitre, age 38, and their year-old daughter Françoise.  One wonders if Françoise survived the crossing.  Joseph and Agnès had another daughter, Agnès, at Lafourche in September 1787, but they had no sons.  Joseph died in Assumption Parish in December 1813, in his early 60s.  His line of the family died with him. 

Dominique's middle daughter, Françoise, age 22, crossed on La Bergère with husband Jacques Thériot, age 25, and an infant daughter.  Françoise died a widow in Assumption Parish in October 1849.  The Plattenville priest who recorded her burial said that she died at "age 47 years."  She was 86!

Dominique's nephew, Jérôme, son of Jean-Baptiste Guérin, age 35, crossed with wife Marie Pitre, age 38, and infant son Jean-Pierre on Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in September 1785.  Jean-Pierre either did not survive the crossing or died in Louisiana soon after the family reached the city.  Jérôme and Marie had a daughter in Louisiana, Marie-Anne, but they had no more sons.  They also settled on the upper Lafourche.  Jérôme's date of death is unrecorded.

Only one of the Acadian Guérins who came to Louisiana from France chose to settle on the river above New Orleans.  Dominique's older sister Françoise, age 75, widow of François Thériot, crossed on La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships, which sailed to New Orleans from St.-Malo.  With her was the family of Charles Henry and Marguerite Thériot, probably her daughter and son-in-law.  They reached New Orleans in early December and followed their fellow passengers probably to the new Acadian community of Bayou des Écores in the Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge before resettling at Baton Rouge. 

Guérins were early settlers in Acadia, but, compared to other Acadian families, they came "late" to Louisiana.  Three families from France reached the colony in 1785, giving promise that the Acadian Guérins would thrive there.  But none of the family heads who came to the Spanish colony had sons who created families of their own, so only the blood of this long-suffering family from the Maritimes endured in the Bayou State.  The Guérins of South Louisiana today are descendants of French Creoles or Foreign French, not Acadians.33

Hamon

Two Frenchmen with similar-sounding surnames came to greater Acadia during the early 1730s and settled in the French Maritimes.  One suspects that they hailed from different families.  An "Acadian" who emigrated from France to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 and who also bore the name Hamon likely was not a descendant of either of the island progenitors but may have been a native of France. 

Jean, fils, son of perhaps Jean Amont, also called Hamond, Hémond, and Emond, and Marguerite Gastineau-Duplessis of Trois-Rivières, Canada, where he may have been born in November 1695, married Acadian Marie Blanchard and settled in the French Maritimes, most likely on Île St.-Jean.  They had at least three sons there:  Pierre born in c1732; Ignace in c1748; and Joseph in c1752.  Jean and Marie died on one of the islands probably before 1758.

Another Jean, son of Oliver Hamon and Françoise Pireau, born at Reintembault, diocese of Dol, Brittany, France, in c1714, emigrated to Louisbourg on Île Royale by January 1736, when he married Marie, daughter of Joannis Daguerre and Marie Charlant, at the French citadel.  Jean may have been a soldier stationed in the garrison.  He and Françoise had at least six children, three daughters and three sons, at Louisbourg:  Françoise born in c1737; Jean-Baptiste in c1738; Jean-François in c1739; Mathurin in c1739 or 1740; Marie-Gervaise in c1742; and Cécile in c1744.  One of their daughters married into the David and Maigne families. 

When the British rounded up the Acadians in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755, the habitants and soldiers on the Maritime islands, living in territory controlled by France, escaped the deportations.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived, however.  After the fall of Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats rounded up the military personnel and most of the habitants on the islands and deported them to France. 

Jean Hamon, wife Françoise Pireau, and their children at Louisbourg were deported to the naval port of Rochefort on the Bay of Biscay.  In October 1759, Jean took his family to St.-Malo, where the majority of the Maritime Acadians had been transported.  They lived in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer from 1760 to 1763.  Jean's son Mathurin, age 20 in 1760, served probably as a privateer in the war against Britain.  He was captured by the Royal Navy, held as a prisoner in England until the end of the war, and returned to St.-Servan in the spring of 1763.  Later that year, Mathurin, his father, and perhaps the rest of the family left France aboard Le Marie-Charlotte and settled on one of the French-controlled fishery islands, St.-Pierre or Miquelon, off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  Mathurin did not remain there.  He returned to France by January 1766, when he married Marie, daughter of locals René Renault and Élisabeth Lelardon, at St.-Servan.  They had at least two children there:  Mathurin, fils in c1768; and Julien in c1772.  Mathurin and Marie sailed from France to St.-Pierre or Miquelon in the late 1760s or the 1770s, but, again, Mathurin, this time not of his own volition, did not stay there long.  During the American Revolution, after France joined the war on the side of the Americans, the British seized Miquelon and St.-Pierre and deported the fisher/habitants there to France.  Mathurin and his family made the crossing aboard the schooner La Modeste, which reached St.-Malo in November 1778.  One wonders if they returned to the Newfoundland islands in 1784, after the war had ended. 

Pierre, oldest son of Jean Hamon of Trois-Rivières and Île St.-Jean, escaped the British roundup on the island in 1758, crossed Mer Rouge to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, and fled to Canada, where, at age 35, he married Marie-Thérèse, daughter of French Canadian Jacques Fradet, at St.-Vallier on the south bank of the St. Lawrence below Québec City in November 1767.  Pierre, called Le Cadien by his family and neighbors, died at St.-Charles de Bellechasse near Québec in 1831, purportedly at age 99.  His many descendants in Canada call themselves Emond.

Pierre Hamon's younger brothers--Ignace, age 10, and Joseph, age 6, in 1758--were captured by the British, who transported them to St.-Malo.  They crossed with related families aboard one or more of the five deporation transports that left Chédabouctou Bay in a 12-ship convoy in late November, survived a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England that sank three other transports, and reached the Breton port together in late January 1759.  Joseph crossed with the family of Pierre Blanchard, probably a relative, Pierre's wife Madeleine Hébert, and two of their children.  Joseph did not survive the crossing but died along with Pierre Blanchard and both of his children aboard the transport; only Pierre's wife Madeleine made it to St.-Malo.  Ignace crossed with the family of another Pierre Blanchard, Pierre's wife Françoise Breau, and their 21-year-old son Charles.  Pierre and Françoise died at sea.  Son Charles made it to France but died in a St.-Malo hospital three months after he reached the port city.  Only young Ignace Hamon endured the crossing without losing his health.  He lived probably with relatives at Pleurtuit on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo from 1759 to 1760 before moving to Pleudihen-sur-Rance across the river.  French officials counted him at Morlaix in northwest Brittany in 1764-65, though he claimed to be a resident of Pleudihen.  He was back at Pleudihen in May 1770, when, at age 22, he married Anne-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Bourg and Cécile Michel.  Ignace and Anne-Josèphe's daughter Anne-Madeleine was born at Pleudihen in July 1773.  Soon after her birth, Ignace and Anne-Josèphe followed hundreds of other exiles languishing in the port cities to the interior of Poitou, where they worked an influential nobleman's land near the city of Châtellerault.  Anne-Josèphe gave Ignace another daughter there, Marie-Modeste, born in St.-Jacques Parish, Châtellerault, in May 1775.  In March 1776, after two years of effort, Ignace, Anne-Josèphe, and their daughters retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire to the port of Nantes, where Igance worked as a quarryman.  At least three more children were born to them at Chantenay, where the Nantes-area quarries were located:  Catherine-Françoise in c1777 but died at age 5 in August 1782; Jean-Étienne baptized on 9 June 1780, age unrecorded, but died a few weeks later; and an unnamed child, gender and unrecorded, buried in November 1782--a dreadful year for the family. 

Guillaume, son of Joseph Hamon and his French wife Marie Dameue, born perhaps at Chantenay in c1761, married Marguerite, daughter of Acadians Charles Saulnier and Euphrosine Lalande of Rivière-aux-Canards, at St.-Martin de Chantenay in November 1780.  Guillaume worked as a carpenter in Nantes, where Spanish agents counted him with his wife and hundreds of others Acadians in September 1784.  His relationship to Ignace and the other Hamons is anyone's guess.  

When the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, Ignace Hamon and Guillaume Hamon agreed to take it.  Guillaume, age 24, and wife Marguerite Saulnier, age 27, crossed to Louisiana aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in September 1785.  From the city, they followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where they remained childless.  Ignace, age 39, wife Anne-Josèphe Bourg, age 41, and daughters Anne-Madeleine, age 12, and Marie-Modeste, age 10, reached New Orleans aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, the following November.  Anne-Josèphe gave birth to another daughter, christened Martine after her godfather, Spanish intendente Martin Navarro, in New Orleans soon after they arrived.  Ignace and Anne-Josèphe had no more children in Louisiana.  All three of their daughters married on the upper bayou, none of them to fellow Acadians:  Anne-Madeleine to Urbanne, son of Amable Stelly and Marianne Moniceau of Montréal, in August 1793; Marie-Modeste to Pierre-Victor, son of Pierre Chataignier and Marguerite Mainville of Le Havre, France, in January 1799; and Martine to Jean-Baptiste, son of Louis Léonard and Anne Dardaine of New Orleans, in September 1804.  A petition for a family meeting was filed in Martine's name at the Thibodauxville courthouse, Lafourche Interior Parish, in August 1821; she would have been in her mid-30s that year. 

Hamons settled "late" in greater Acadia, and they came "late" to Louisiana.  Two families, likely not kin to one another, emigrated from France aboard two of the Seven Ships and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Ignace Hamon and his wife had three surviving daughters but no sons, and Guillaume Hamon and his wife had no children, so the Acadian branch of the family, except for its blood, did not take root in the Bayou State.  The Hamons of South Louisiana today are descended from French Creoles or Foreign French, not Acadians.34

Hugon

Louis, son of Henri Hugon and Madeleine Lafond, born at Villefagnan, Angouleme, France, in c1695, married Marie, daughter of Claude Bourgeois and Anne Blanchard, at Chignecto in April 1720.  They had six children, two daughters and four sons there:  Marie-Josèphe in c1721; Louis in c1723; Jacques in c1730; Joseph in c1732; Anne-Marie in c1733; and Michel in c1740.  Two of the sons created families of their own.  Older son Jacques married a woman whose name has been lost to history probably at Chignecto.  Younger son Joseph married Marie-Théotiste, called Théotiste, an older aughter, perhaps, of Alexandre Broussard dit Beausoleil and Marguerite Thibodeau, probably at Chignecto in the early 1750s.  In 1755, Louis Hugon and Marie Bourgeois and their descendants could still be found at Chignecto, where Louis had settled in the early 1700s.  Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this small family to the winds.

The first Acadians in Nova Scotia rounded up by the British in the fall of 1755 were the ones at Chignecto.  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, 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 the French at Beauséjour he ordered his officers to deport the Chignecto Acadians to the southernmost seaboard colonies.  Hugons were among them.  In the fall of 1755, British forces deported Louis Hugon and his family to South Carolina aboard the English sloop Endeavour.  Louis must have died in South Carolina.  Colonial officials counted his widow Marie Bourgeois, son Jacques, Jacques's daughter Marie-Madeleine, and Jacques's son Joseph, still living in the colony in August 1763.  Jacques's wife was not in the census with them, so she, too, probably had died before the census was taken.  

Jacques's younger brother Joseph and his wife Marie-Théotiste, called Théotiste, Broussard, escaped the British roundup at Chignecto and sought refuge on the upper Petitcoudiac probably with Théotiste's Broussard kin (some historians say she was an older daughter of Alexandre Broussard dit Beausoleil).  Joseph and Théotiste's daughter, Anne-Marie, called Marie, was borned on the Petitcoudiac in February 1756 and baptized there in June 1757.  Joseph may have served in the Acadian resistance with his Broussard in-laws.  In the late 1750s or early 1760s, Joseph, if he was still living, and his family either were captured by, or likely surrendered to, British forces in the area and were held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of war.  Joseph did not survive exile and imprisonment.  When Théotiste and daughter Marie followed her Broussard relatives from Halifax to New Orleans via Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, Théotiste was a widow. 

During the final months of the war, French officials encouraged exiles in the seaboard colonies to resettle in 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 empire.  A new naval base at Môle St.-Nicolas on the northwest end of the 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 deal, the French promised the Acadians land of their own in the sugar colony.  Jacques Hugon was one of the South Carolina Acadians who, in August 1763, communicated with a high French official in Paris about going to St.-Domingue.  Receiving the go-ahead, Acadians, including Jacques and his family, emigrated to the island in February 1764 to take up land at Môle.  Jacques's son may have died soon after they reached the colony.  The loss of his loved ones, along with the dismal state of the venture, evidently prompted Jacques to quit the place as soon as they could.  This occurred in January 1765 when fellow Acadians from Halifax, led by the Beausoleil Broussards and including Jacques's sister-in-law Théotiste Broussard, came through Cap-Français, east of Môle, on their way to New Orleans.  But at least one member of the family, Jacques's daughter Marie-Madeleine, stayed in St.-Dominique.  She married three times, first to Félix Thibault, then to Francois Regnault, and then to Jean-Baptiste Chaumette, son of Nicolas, bourgeois, and Catherine Bardin of St.-Didier, Sommeil en Barrois, France, at Môle St.-Nicolas in June 1785.  

None of Jacques Hugon's children were with him when he came to Louisiana, so his family either had died or, in the case of his daughter Marie-Madeleine, remained in St.-Domingue.  The place and time of Jacques's death are clues that he hooked up with the Broussard party from Halifax.  He would have reached New Orleans in late February and followed the Broussards to Bayou Teche in the Attakapas District that April.  Fate did not give Jacques the opportunity to start another family there.  He died on October 8, only a few months after he got there, victim of an epidemic that struck down dozens of his fellow Teche valley Acadians that summer and fall.

Théotiste Broussard, perhaps remarried, and daughter Marie followed their kinsmen to Bayou Teche.  Sadly, Théotiste did not witness her brother-in-law's death.  She, too, was a victim of the epidemic; called "spouse of Augustin Guédry," not the widow of Joseph Hugon, she died on July 26 and was buried "at the lower cemetery ... a cause de longeur et des chaleurs (because of the distance and the heat)" the following day.  Dozens of their fellow Acadians escaped the sickness by fleeing to the river, but daughter Marie, age 9, remained in the Attakapas District with her Broussard kin.  At age 16, she married cousin Paul, son of fellow Acadians Michel Trahan and Anne-Euphrosine Vincent, at Attakapas in July 1772.  Their marriage was recorded at Pointe Coupée, but the priest who recorded the ceremony noted that Marie and Paul were residents of Attakapas and that they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of affinity in order to marry. 

Hugons settled "late" in Acadia, but two of them, including Jacques, son of Louis, were among the earliest Acadians to find refuge in Louisiana.  Jacques, a widower when he reached the colony, died before he could remarry and father another son.  The only other Acadian Hugon who came to Louisiana was Jacques's niece Marie, so the Acadian branch of the Hugon family did not take root in the Bayou State.  However, Marie bore a number of children for her Trahan husband, so her family's blood lived on in a robust line of that family. 

In early Louisiana church records, the family's name is often spelled Dugon.35

Josset

According to the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana, Paul Josset was Acadian.  He evidently came to Louisiana in February 1765 with the Broussard party from Halifax via Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, and followed the Broussards to Bayou Teche in April.  He died in late August 1765, a victim of the epidemic that took the lives of dozens of his fellow Teche valley denizens.  The priest who recorded the burial did not give Paul's parents' names or his age at the time of his death.  South Louisiana church and civil records give no hint that he had married or fathered any children, so this branch of the Josset family did not take root in the Bayou State.36

Lafaye

According to the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Marie-Marquis Lafaye, daughter of _____ Lafaye and Catherine Comeau, was Acadian on her father's as well as her mother's side.  Marie was counted at Cabahannocer, now St. James Parish, in the Spanish census of April 1766 living with her widowed mother and the family of Acadian Abraham Roy, who may have been a relative.  Since Marie-Marquis was the only member of her family to reach Louisiana, the Lafayes in the Bayou State today are either French Creole or Foreign French, not Acadian.37

La Garenne

 Louis Chênet, Chenais, or Chesnay dit La Garenne, son of Bertrand, sieur de Lothainville and Élisabeth Aubert, born at Québec in August 1678, moved to Port-Royal and married Jeanne, daughter of Barnabé Martin and Jeanne Pelletret, in c1697.  They had two children there:  Marie-Josèphe in c1698, and Jean in c1700.  Jeanne remarried to Gabriel, fils, son of Gabriel Samson and Françoise Durand, at Port-Royal in April 1704, so Louis dit La Garenne had died by then.  In the late 1710s or early 1720s, she followed her second husband to Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, where she died in c1728.  Her daughter Marie-Josèphe Chênet dit La Garenne married Charles Charpentier at Port-Toulouse in c1723, and remarried to Jean-François, son of Jean Morel and François Briand, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord, the church for Havre St.-Pierre on the north shore of Île St.-Jean, in August 1739.  Louis's son Jean took his father's dit, La Garenne, as his family name and married Anne, daughter of Jean Potier and Marie-Madeleine Chiasson, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord in October 1728.  Jean and Anne raised seven or eight children on the island, all born there:  Jean-Baptiste in October 1732; Charles in September 1734; Claire in 1736; Lange in May 1738 but died 10 months later; Joseph in May 1740; Geneviève in 1744; and Élisabeth in 1750.  They also had a daughter named Cécile.  Jean's oldest son Jean-Baptiste married Anne-Hippolythe, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Doiron and Marguerite Michel, either at St.-Pierre-du-Nord in the late 1750s or in France in the early 1760s. 

When the British rounded up the Acadians in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755, those on Île St.-Jean, including the Chenet dit La Garennes, living in territory controlled by France, were safe for now.  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 the habitants on the Maritime islands and deported them to France. 

Marie-Josèphe Chênet (she did not take her father's dit as her brother Jean had done), now age 60 and twice widowed, and three of her Charpentier sons crossed to St.-Malo aboard the deportation transport Supply, which left Chédabouctou Bay in a 12-ship convoy in late November 1758, was damaged in a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England that sank three other transports, put in to Bideford, England, for repairs, and did not reach St.-Malo until early March 1759.  They survived the crossing and settled in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer, from which Marie-Josèphe, her son Louis, and other members of the family ventured to the new French colony of Guiane on the northern coast of South America aboard Le Fort in 1764.  She does not appear on the 1 March 1765 census at Sinnamary in the Cayenne District with her family, so she may have died in the tropical colony by then. 

Meanwhile, Jean Chênet dit La Garenne, his wife Anne Pothier, and their children also crossed to France probably on a British packet boat that carried them first to Portsmouth, England, and then to Cherbourg in Normandy.  There, Jean died, perhaps during a small pox epidemic that struck the Acadians at Cherbourg in late 1759.  Daughter Cécile married Germain, son of fellow Acadians François Landry and his first wife Marie-Josèphe Babin of l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in Tres-Ste.-Trinité Parish, Cherbourg, in July 1767.  In April 1774, Anne Pothier and daughter Geneviève Chênet, age 30 and still single, were among the Acadians transported from Cherbourg to the naval port of La Rochelle on the Bay of Biscay aboard Le Thomas.  Geneviève evidently moved on to the lower Loire port of Nantes, where she married Pierre, fils, son of fellow Acadians Pierre Breau and Marguerite Guédry, at nearby St.-Martin de Chantenay in August 1780.  Pierre Breau, fils had been living at Nantes for 10 years at the time of their wedding; he was, in fact, one of the first Acadians to reside in that port city, where hundreds of his fellow Acadians gathered after their adventure in Poitou in the mid-1770s.  Jean and Anne's oldest son Jean-Baptiste dit La Garenne and his wife Anne-Hippolythe Doiron endured life in the mother country as best they could, perhaps at Cherbourg with his widowed mother and sister.  He, too, was living at Nantes in September 1784. 

When in the early 1780s the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, Jean-Baptiste and Anne-Hippolythe agreed to take it.  Two of sister Cécile's children--Bonne-Marie-Adélaïde and Jean-Jacques-Frédéric Landry, ages 16 and 15 in 1785--followed their paternal grandfather, François Landry, to the Spanish colony, so Cécile and her husband must have died in France.  Other members of Jean-Baptiste's family remained in the mother country, including sister Geneviève Chênet and her Breau husband at Nantes. 

Jean-Baptiste dit La Garenne, now age 55, and wife Anne-Hippolythe Doiron, age 46, crossed on Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in August 1785, and followed their fellow passengers to Baton Rouge.  They brought no children to Louisiana and were too old to have any after they got there.  The Chênet dit La Garenne family of Île St.-Jean, then, did not take root in the Bayou State.38

Lagrèze

According to the Acadian Memorial at St. Martinville, Pierre Lagrèze was Acadian.  He came to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, in February 1765 with the Broussard party.  Pierre died on the lower Teche, where the Broussards and their kinsmen had settled, only a few months after he arrived in the colony, probably a victim of the epidemic that killed dozens of Teche valley Acadians that summer and fall.  He must have been a notable member of the Broussard party because he appears on the list of Acadians who exchanged Canadian card money in New Orleans two months after they reached the city.  Moreover, fellow Attakapas Acadian Jean-Baptiste Semer mentions one La Greze, probably Pierre, in an April 1766 letter to his father in France.  The young Acadian wrote:  "I will tell you then my very dear father that I arrived here in the month of February 1765 with 202 Acadian persons, including Joseph Brossard, called Beauplaisir (sic), and all of his family, La Greze, and Catalan, all coming from Halifax and having passed by the Cape [Français]."  Why would young Semer mention La Greze if he was not an important member of the party?  He may have been the Sr. Lagrèze counted among the 1,003 refugees at Restigouche on 24 October 1760, on the eve of the post's surrender.  One suspects he was a French or Canadian officer who chose to follow the Broussards to Louisiana, and that if he was an Acadian, he was an honorary one. 

Evidently Pierre Lagrèze was not married when he came to Louisiana, so his branch of this family did not take root in the Bayou State.  Two brothers with a similar-sounding surname settled on upper Bayou Lafourche during the late antebellum period, but they were Foreign French, not Acadian.  They did, however, marry Acadian LeBlanc sisters, so that branch of the family has Acadian "blood."39

Lamoureaux

In c1693, at Plaisance, Newfoundland, then part of greater Acadia, Jean Lamoureux dit Rochefort, born in Rochefort, France, in c1664, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Abraham Pichot and Madeleine Aubert.  Jean was a fisherman and served as a major of the Plaisance militia before being compelled by the Treaty of Utrecht to move from British-controlled Newfoundland to French-controlled Île Royale, today's Cape Breton Island, in October 1714.  He and his family remained on Île Royale until the mid-1720s.  According to the many censuses taken at Louisbourg during those years, Marie-Madeleine died before 1719, and Jean, who did not remarry, became a prominent fisherman/merchant with many boats and helpers.  In 1726, he was counted at Baie-de-L'Indienne on the Atlantic coast of Île Royale with one domestic servant, 36 sailors and fishermen in his employ, six chaloups, and a bateau ou goélette en pêche, which in that day was a respectable-sized fishing vessel.  By 1728, he and his children had moved again, this time to Pointe-de-l'Est on Île St.-Jean.  By 1734, they had moved westward to Havre-St.-Pierre on the north side of the island.  Jean dit Rochefort died there in September 1739, age 75.  During their life together, he and Marie-Madeleine had five children, four daughters and a son, all but one of whom survived childhood and created families of their own.  Three of Jean dit Rochefort's daughters married into the Morin dit Langevin, Dutraque, and Baudoin Le Cluzeau families either at Plaisance or on Île Royale.  Son Jean-Baptiste dit Rochefort, born at Plaisance in c1704, married Marie-Claire, daughter of Jean Pothier and Marie-Madeleine Chiasson, at Saint-Pierre-du-Nord, the church for Havre-St.-Pierre, in July 1740, soon after his father died.  Jean-Baptiste and Marie-Claire had at least five children, four sons and a daughter, on Île St.-Jean:  Jean-Baptiste, fils born in May 1741; Louis in October 1742; Judith in c1744; François in c1750; and Martin in November 1753.

When the British rounded up the Acadians in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755, the Acadians on Île St.-Jean, including the Lamoureauxs, living in territory controlled by France, were safe for now.  Their respite from British oppression was a short one.  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.  Jean-Baptiste Lamoureaux dit Rochefort died at St.-Pierre-du-Nord in May 1758, age 54, on the eve of the island's dérangement.  The British deported his widow Marie-Claire Pothier and their children from Île St.-Jean aboard a transport that sailed first to Portsmouth, England, and then to Cherbourg in Normandy, while most of the other island Acadians were deported to St.-Malo in northeast Brittany.  

Jean-Baptiste dit Rochefort's older sons both married fellow Acadians at Cherbourg.  Jean-Baptiste, fils married Marie, daughter of Pierre Bertrand and Marie-Josèphe Moulaison, in Tres-Ste.-Trinité Parish in October 1763.  Louis, who became a sailor, married Marie, daughter of Jean Hébert and Marguerite Mouton, in Tres-Ste.-Trinité Parish in August 1763.  Louis and Marie's son Jean-Louis was born at Cherbourg in c1765.  Eight years later, in 1773, despite Louis's occupation as a sailor, he and Marie became part of a major settlement venture in the interior of Poitou, where hundreds of exiles from the port cities tried to become productive farmers again on an influential nobleman's land near the city of Châtellerault.  Daughter Marie-Adélaïde was born in St.-Jean l'Evangeliste Parish, Châtellerault, in June 1774.  In November 1775, after two years of effort, Louis and his family retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire to the port of Nantes, where they subsisted again on government handouts and what work they could find.  In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  Louis and Marie agreed to take it.  However, older brother Jean-Baptiste, fils and his family remained in France. 

Louis dit Rochefort, age 44, wife Marie Hébert, age 36, and their children--Jean-Louis, age 20; and Marie-Adélaïde, age 10--booked passage aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, but for some reason they did not take that ship to Spanish Louisiana.  They sailed, instead, on La Caroline, the last of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in mid-December 1785.  After a brief respite in the city, they chose to settle at Cabahannocer on the river above the city, in an area that had come to be known as the Acadian Coast.  Neither Jean-Louis nor Marie-Adélaïde seems to have married in the Spanish colony, and Louis dit Rochefort and Marie had no more children there, so the Acadian branch of the Lamoureaux family did not take root in the Bayou State.  The Lamoureauxs of South Louisiana today likely are descended from a Foreign Frenchman, Louis-Ambroise, who came to Louisiana in the 1820s, settled on Bayou Lafourche, and married two Acadian women from the Boudreaux and LeBlanc families.40

Latier

According to an historian of the Acadian exiles in Maryland, Louis Latier, or Lasté, born in c1730, married Anne, daughter of Étienne Trahan and Marie-Françoise Roy and widow of Jean-Baptiste Benoit, at Louisbourg, Île Royale, in c1751, but the marriage likely took place at Port Tobacco, Maryland, in c1761, soon after the death of Anne's first husband.  Louis may very well have been a soldier serving in the French fortress at Louisbourg in the early 1750s before he ended up in Maryland, though most of the military and naval personnel at Louisbourg were deported directly to France in late 1758. 

In July 1763, colonial officials counted Louis, Anne, and their children, including three Benoit "orphans," likely daughters from Anne's first marriage, at Port Tobacco on the lower Potomac.  Considering that the great majority of the Acadians deported to Maryland had come from the Minas Basin, one wonders how a family from Louisbourg got to the Chesapeake colony.  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.  The Latiers, following their Trahan and Benoit kin, were among the last to go. 

Louis Latier, wife Anne Trahan, and their children, left Port Tobacco in early January 1769 aboard the English schooner Britannia.  With them were sons Antoine and Paul Lantier, daughter Élisabeth Latier, and Anne's three daughters--Marie-Rose, Marie-Anne, and Marguerite--by her first husband, Jean-Baptiste Benoit.  Unfortunately, either through incompetence or ill luck, the master of the Britannia missed the entrance to the Mississippi River, and the ship ran aground on the Texas coast at Espiritu Santo Bay.  A Spanish patrol "rescued" the passengers and crew, and Spanish authorities held them at the nearby presidio of La Bahía for several months, suspecting them of being spies or smugglers.  After the Spanish released them, the Latiers and their fellow passengers traveled to Natchitoches Post on the Red River, arriving there in late October after a 420-mile overland trek.  After insisting that the Acadians remain at Natchitoches, and the Acadians refusing, Spanish authorities relented and allowed them to settle where they wanted.  In April 1770, the Benoit girls followed their uncle Pierre-Olivier Benoit, who also had sailed on the Britannia with his family, to the Acadian community of San Gabriel on the river above New Orleans.   Later in the decade, two of the girls moved on to the Opelousas District.  

The Latiers may also have moved to the Opelousas prairies after living for a time at San Gabriel.  The fate of the Acadian Latiers in Louisiana is difficult to determine.  No member of the family appears in the church records of South Louisiana, at least not under the name Latier.  This family should not be confused with the Lantier or Nantier family, whose pregenitors came to South Louisiana from France and Montréal during the late colonial period and settled at Opelousas.41

Lavergne

Pierre Lavergne, born probably in France, was the servant of the Père du Breslay of Port-Royal in the early 1690s.  Pierre married Anne Bernon there in c1693.  She gave him five children, four daughters and a son:  an unnamed daughter in c1696; Françoise in April 1703; Jacques in April 1706; and twins Cécile and Geneviève in March 1708.  Pierre's wife Anne died at Annapolis Royal in August 1728, age 60.  The date and place of Pierre's death has been lost to history.  Daughter Françoise married into the Petitpas, Lavandier or La Vaudière, and Clergé families and settled at Port-Toulouse on Île Royale probably in the 1720s.  Twins Cécile and Geneviève married brothers:  Cécile to Pierre, son of Michel Haché dit Gallant and Anne Cormier of Chignecto, probably at Annapolis Royal, in c1726; and Geneviève to Pierre's brother Charles at Annapolis Royal in February 1727.  Pierre and Anne's son Jacques married Françoise, daughter of Claude Pitre and Marie Comeau, at Annapolis Royal in November 1727.  In the 1730s, members of the family left Annapolis Royal and moved to French-controlled Île St.-Jean.  Cécile and Geneviève and their families were counted at Port-La-Joye on the island in 1734; their husbands' family, in fact, was the first Acadian family to settle on the island.  Cécile died at Port-La-Joye in December 1743, age 35.  Members of the family were still on the Maritime islands in February and August 1752, and other members came there later in the decade. 

Pierre's son Jacques and his wife Françoise Pitre had at least 11 children, four sons and seven daughters, probably at Annapolis Royal:  Joseph in c1728, Pierre le jeune in c1730; Marguerite in c1731; Anne in c1733; Marie-Josèphe in c1734; Jean-Baptiste in c1736; Denis in c1739; Rose in the 1740s; Madeleine in c1744; Cécile in c1749; and Osite in c1755.  Of Jacques's four sons, only the second one, Pierre le jeune, seems to have created a family of his own.  Hs first wife was Anne, daughter of Pierre Lord and Jeanne Doucet, whom he married at Annapolis Royal in October 1753.  After a brief stay at Ste.-Anne, probably Tintamarre at Chignecto, they joined his sisters and their families in the French Maritimes.  Anne gave him a daughter, Marguerite, in c1753, at either Ste.-Anne or on Île St.-Jean. 

Living in territory controlled by France, descendants of Pierre Lavergne and Anne Bernon escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia during 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 on Île St.-Jean and deported them to France.   

Jacques Lavergne and his family landed at Le Havre in Normandy, where he died in December 1759, age 53, perhaps from the rigors of the crossing.  Son Pierre le jeune, wife Anne Lord, and daughter Marguerite, age 5 in 1758, survived the crossing.  Anne gave Pierre le jeune two more children at Le Havre:  Jean-Baptiste-Alexandre in c1760; and Victoire-Bellarmine in c1763.  Anne died soon afterwards, perhaps from complications of childbirth.  Pierre le jeune remarried to Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Abraham Daigre and Anne-Marie Boudrot and widow of Eustache Bourg, in Notre-Dame Parish, Le Havre, in November 1763; Marguerite's first husband Eustache had died at Plymouth, England, so she had come to France from England in the spring of 1763 and also landed at Le Havre.  Pierre le jeune earned his living as a carpenter in the Norman port.  Marguerite gave him more children there:  Pierre-Benjamin in August 1764 but died at age 18 months in March 1766; Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, in March 1767; and another Pierre-Benjamin in March 1768--at least six children, three daughters and three sons, by two wives, between 1753 and 1768, in greater Acadia and France.  In 1773, Pierre took his family with hundreds of other exiles 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 to the river port of Nantes and settled at Paimboeuf, the lower port for the city.  Oldest daughter Marguerite, by Pierre le jeune's first wife, married into the Trahan family in St.-Nicolas Parish, Nantes, in October 1778.  Second wife Marguerite Daigre died at Paimboeuf in September 1782, age 50.  Pierre le jeune remarried again--his third marriage--to Gillette, daughter Marc Caudan and Perrine LeBiedee of Lanvaudan, diocese of Vannes in southwest Brittany, and widow of Claude Bigot, at Paimboeuf in January 1785.  She gave him no more children.   

Meanwhile, Pierre le jeune's sister, at age 33, Marie-Josèphe married Étienne, 21-year-old son of fellow Acadians Jean Hébert and Marguerite Mouton, in Notre-Dame Parish, Le Havre, in January 1767.  They, too, went to Poitou, where a son was born to them at Cenan near Châtellerault.  They also retreated to Nantes in November 1775.  Marie-Josèphe died by August 1779, when Étienne remarried in St.-Nicolas Parish.  Meanwhile, in November 1767, Pierre le jeune and Marie-Josèphe's sister Rose, age 24, married sailor Guillaume, 27-year-old son of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Laborde and Marie Prieur of Île St.-Jean and widower of Marie-Rose Daigre, in Notre-Dame Parish, Le Havre.  Pierre le jeune et al's younger sister Cécile married François Jacquet, a watchmaker, in France, place and date unrecorded. 

When in the early 1780s the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, Pierre Lavergne le jeune grabbed it, but he did not take his third wife with him.  Only a few weeks after they were married, Gillette died at Paimboeuf in late March 1785, age 36, leaving Pierre le jeune a widower once again.  His oldest son Jean-Baptiste-Alexandre, who would have been age 25 in 1785, if he was still living (he was counted with the family on the convoy from Châtellerault to Nantes in November 1775), did not accompany his family to the Spanish colony.  Pierre's remaining sisters also chose to stay in France.   

A few weeks after his third wife's death, Pierre Lavergne le jeune and three of his unmarried children--Victoire-Bellarmine, age 22; Marie-Madeleine, age 18; and Pierre-Benjamin, age 17--along with married daughter Marguerite and her Trahan family, boarded Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships, at Paimboeuf and sailed to Spanish Louisiana.  Aboard ship, Victoire married Michel, son of Manuel Betancourt and Maria Ignacia ____ of La Gracieuse, Morge, Switzerland, whom she probably had known in France.  The marriage was blessed at New Orleans in September 1785, a few weeks after they reached the colony.  After a brief respite in New Orleans, Pierre and his family followed their fellow passengers to Baton Rouge.  Daughter Victoire and her new husband Michel joined her father and younger siblings there.  Daughter Marie-Madeleine married Jean, son of Jean Prosper and Marie Rus of St.-Michel, Carcassone, France, at Baton Rouge in July 1787.    

Pierre le jeune's oldest daughter Marguerite, age 32, also crossed to Louisiana aboard Le Beaumont with husband Joseph Trahan, age 35, and two of their children, ages 4 and 2.  Marguerite was pregnant on the crossing and gave birth to son François-Antoine Trahan probably at Baton Rouge in early December; the boy was baptized there late that month.  Joseph died probably at Baton Rouge, and Marguerite remarried to Jean, son of Étienne Raffray and Françoise Soneru of St.-Malo, France, and widower of Marie-Madeleine Landry, probably at Baton Rouge.  They moved north and settled in what became West Feliciana Parish. 

Pierre le jeune's son Pierre-Benjamin also married, but not until he was age 34.  He married Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste dit Petit Jean Hébert and Marie-Madeleine Dupuis of San Gabriel, at Ascension on the river below Baton Rouge in October 1802.  Although Pierre-Benjamin and Geneviève married on the lower Acadian Coast, they settled near Baton Rouge, close to his family.  Their children, born on the river, included Marguerite, perhaps Marie-Farnalie, in August 1803; Pierre Lamaire in January 1806 but died at age 3 1/2 in July 1809; Marie, probably Marie-Adélaïde, in December 1807; Jean-Baptiste in March 1810; and Pierre-Élie in May 1812--at least five children, two daughters and three sons, between 1803 and 1812.  Pierre Benjamin died probably at Manchac, south of Baton Rouge, in February 1819, age 50.  Since he was the only one of his father's sons who followed him to the Spanish colony, all of the Acadian Lavergnes of South Louisiana would have descended from Pierre Benjamin.  His daughters Marie Farnelie and Marie Adélaïde married into the Anselme, Tuttle, and Terrell families, but there is no evidence that any of his three sons created families of their own.  Pierre Benjamin's line of the family, then, except for its blood, probably died with him.  The many Lavergnes of South Louisiana are descendants of French Creoles, French Canadians, or Foreign French, not Acadians.  One Lavergne family in New Orleans claims to have descended from French royalty.  One wonders what became of Pierre-Benjamin's older half-brother Jean-Baptiste-Alexandre, who remained at Nantes.  Did he create a family of his own in France and perpetuate his father's line there?42

L'Enfant

According to the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Jean L'Enfant, born in c1758 perhaps in Maryland, was Acadian.  As a 20-year-old orphan, he came to Louisiana in February 1768 with the large party of Acadian refugees from Maryland led by the Breau brothers of Pigiguit.  On orders from Spanish Governor Ulloa, the party, including Jean, traveled up the Mississippi to the new community of Fort San Luìs de Natchez far above Baton Rouge and across from a British fort at Natchez.  One wonders what became of Jean after he reached Fort San Luìs.  One suspects that the L'Enfants of South Louisiana today are descendants of French Creoles or Foreign French, not Jean from Maryland.43

Livois

Pierre, son of Jean Livois and Louise Basile, born at Drago or Drayé, Normandy, France, in c1722, came to the French Maritimes in c1740 probably as a young fisherman.  He married Anne, daughter of Denis Boudrot and Agnès Vincent of Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, at Port-La-Joye, Île St.-Jean, in May 1751.  Their daughter Marie-Anne was born there in March 1752, and Anne died soon after, perhaps from complications of childbirth.  (The following August, a French official insisted that Pierre was the widower of Marie Daigre, not Anne Boudrot, when he listed him as a fisherman and farmer at Étang-St.-Pierre on the north shore of the island with daughter Marie-Anne, age 5 months.)  Pierre remarried to Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Michel Poirier and Jeanne Bourgeois, at Havre-St.-Pierre on the island's north shore in January 1753.  Marie-Madeleine gave him three more children there:  Marie-Madeleine in November 1753; Pierre, fils in June 1755; and Judith in July 1757.  

Living in territory controlled by France, the Livoiss of Île St.-Jean escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia during the summer and fall of 1755.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived, however.  In late 1758, after the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July, the redcoats rounded up most of the habitants on Île St.-Jean and deported them to France.  For Pierre Livois and his family, the crossing was a disaster.  Pierre, in his 40s, and wife Marie-Madeleine Poirier, in her 30s, lost four of their five children on one of the five deportation transports that left Chédabouctou Bay in a 12-ship convoy in late November 1758, survived a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England, and reached St.-Malo together in late January 1759.  Marie-Anne, age 6, from his first wife; and his and Marie-Madeleine's children Pierre, fils, age 3; and Judith, age 14 months--all died at sea.  Marie-Madeleine was pregnant during the crossing.  On 5 February 1759, soon after they reached the Breton, son Ambroise-Pierre was born to them, but he died four months later, in June, another victim of the deportation.  Only daughter Marie-Madeleine, age 5, survived the ordeal.  

Pierre and wife Marie-Madeleine settled in the suburb of Paramé northwest of St.-Malo and then moved to nearby St.-Ideuc in 1771, among the relatively few Acadians to live there.  They had five more children in the St.-Malo area:  Pierre-Joseph-Jean at Paramé in March 1760; Perrine-Françoise at nearby La Barbinais in January 1762; twins Françoise-Nicole and Marie-Rose at Paramé in March 1764; and Jeanne-Céleste at La Barbinais in May 1766.  Pierre died at St.-Ideuc in October 1772.  The priest who recorded the burial noted that Pierre was age 55 or 56 when he died.  Soon after his death, Marie-Madeleine Poirier, along with hundreds of other exiles languishing in the port cities, took her family to the interior of Poitou to work the land owned by an influential French nobleman near the city of Châtellerault.  Daughter Marie-Madeleine Livois married Jean-Grégoire, called Grégoire, son of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Blanchard and Anne Bourg, in Poitou in c1774.  Their daughter was baptized in St.-Jacques Parish, Châtellerault, in February 1775, but died a year later and was buried in nearby St.-Jean-Baptiste l'Evangeliste Parish.  In March 1776, after two years of effort, Grégoire and Marie-Madeleine, a month after burying their daughter, retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire to the port of Nantes.  They settled in St.-Similien Parish there and had two more children, a daughter and a son, in July 1776 and March 1778.  Happily, both children survived childhood.  Another son was born at Nantes in early 1785.  Marie-Madeleine's mother Marie-Madeleine Poirier and five of her Livois children--Pierre-Joseph-Jean, Perrine-Françoise, Marie-Rose, Françoise-Nicole, and Jeanne-Céleste--likely followed her older daughter and son-in-law to Nantes. 

In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  Grégoire Blanchard, wife Marie-Madeleine Livois, and her sister Marie-Rose, still unmarried, agreed to take it.  Marie-Madeleine Poirier, still very much alive in 1785, chose to remain in France, as did at least two of her other daughters and perhaps her remaining son.  Marie-Madeleine was counted at Nantes, age 84, in 1797.  Daughter Marie-Rose's twin, Françoise-Nicole, married Pierre Testard, perhaps a fellow Acadian, and was counted at Nantes, a widow now, in February 1791.  Her sister Perinne-Françoise married a Frenchman named Melliard or Mesléard and was counted at Nantes in February 1791 and 1794, during the French Revolution.  She was still at Nantes, a widow, in 1820, when she would have been in her late 50s.

Marie-Madeleine Livois, age 31, husband Jean-Grégoire Blanchard, age 37, their three small children, ages 9, 8, and 1, and Marie-Madeleine's sister Marie-Rose, age 21, sailed to Louisiana aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships from France, which reached New Orleans in September 1785.  After a brief respite in the city, they followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Marie-Madeleine died in Assumption Parish in December 1815, age 62, a widow.  Five months after she had reached the colony, sister Marie-Rose married Charles-Casimir, son of fellow Acadians André Templet and his second wife Marguerite LeBlanc, at Lafourche in February 1786.  Charles-Casimir, a native of St.-Servan-sur-Mer near Paramé, had come to Louisiana from France aboard the first of the Seven Ships.  He and Marie-Rose lived at Baton Rouge perhaps until Charles-Casimir died, and then Marie-Rose returned to upper Bayou Lafourche, where, at age 30, she remarried to Pierre-Olivier, 27-year-old son of fellow Acadians Pierre Bourg and Marie Naquin, at Assumption in October 1794.  Pierre-Olivier, a native of St.-Suliac near St.-Malo, also had come to Louisiana aboard Le St.-Rémi.  Marie-Rose died in Assumption Parish in October 1827, age 63, a widow again.  

No male Acadian Livois came to Louisiana, but the blood of this family, in several lines of the Blanchard, Bourg, and Templet families, endured in the Bayou State.  The Livoiss of South Louisiana today are descendants of French Creoles or Foreign French, not Acadians.44

Marant

According to the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Joseph Marant, born in c1729, was Acadian.  He married Angélique Dugas in c1755 probably at Chignecto.  Soon after their marriage, the British deported them to South Carolina, where they appeared on a French repatriation list at Charles Town in August 1763 (for some reason he was called Joseph Moreau on the list).  Joseph and Angélique probably went to French St.-Domingue with other Acadians from South Carolina soon after the count was taken and may have been among the hand full of Acadians there who hooked up with the refugees from Halifax who changed ships at Cap-Français in early 1765.  

Joseph, now age 36, and his wife Angélique, age 31, reached New Orleans in 1765 with several orphans in tow, including Angélique's nephew and niece, Joseph Orillion dit Champagne, fils, age 17, and Marguerite Orillion dit Champagne, age 15, whose mother was a Dugas and who had been counted with them in South Carolina in 1763.  From New Orleans, they followed other exiles to Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans where 20 Acadians from Georgia had settled the year before.  By the 1770s, Joseph and his family had moved to Ascension, farther upriver, where he served as a "publican," so he must have been an educated man.  Joseph and Angélique had no children, at least none who survived exile or appear in Louisiana church and civil records, so the Acadian branch of the Marant family did not take root in the Bayou State.45

Mius d'Entremont

The Mius d'Entremonts, descendants of French nobles from Savoy and Normandy, were among the earliest and most distinguished families in French Acadia.  Philippe Mius d'Entremont of Cherbourg, Normandy, came to Acadia in 1651 as a lieutenant of erstwhile governor Charles La Tour, a childhood friend.  Philippe was 50, a lieutenant-major, married to Madeleine Hélie, and father of a daughter when he was named La Tour's adjutant.  In 1653, during his second tenure as governor of the colony, La Tour awarded his trusty lieutenant with the seigneurie of Pobomcoup, now Pubnico, near Cap-Sable, where Philippe and Madeleine settled for most of their time in Acadia; Philippe thus became the sieur d'Entremont, baron de Pobomcoup, lieutenant-major et commandant des troupes.  His barony ran from Cap-Nèigre, northeast of Cap-Sable, around to Cap-Fourchu near present-day Yarmouth.  He built his feudal house near the entrance to the harbor at Pobomcoup.  Biographer Clément Cormier asserts:  "D'Entremont played an important part in the colony's history both because of what he did as an administrator and because he was one of the rare Acadian seigneurs to concern himself with cultivation and with clearing land; he attracted to his estate 'several indentured workers and a few families from Port-Royal ... and this seigneury eventually formed a small centre of population.'"  In 1670, upon the restoration of the colony to France, Philippe, at age 69,  became the King's attorney in Acadia.  He served in this capacity until 1688, when old age and infirmity (he was 87!) compelled him to relinquish the post.  In his final days, he lived for a time at Minas with his older daughter and died in c1700 at age 99, "with all his teeth," either at Minas or Port-Royal.  He and his wife Madeleine had four more children in Acadia.  Their older daughter Marguerite married Pierre Melanson dit LaVerdure, fils.  Their three sons also married, the two oldest--Jacques de Pobomcoup and Abraham de Pleinmarais--to daughters of Charles La Tour, and the youngest, Philippe d'Azy, to two Mi'kmaq women, the second named Marie. 

In 1755, descendants of Philippe Mius d'Entremont could be found at Annapolis Royal, on Île St.-Jean, and in France, but they were especially plentiful in the family's barony at Pobomcoup.  The Great Upheaval scattered the family even farther.  While the British were gathering up the Acadians in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755, Marguerite Mius d'Azy of Port-La-Joye, Île St.-Jean, and her new husband, Jean Delâge dit Langlois, left the island for Québec, where Marguerite died in early October 1755, age 36, among the first Acadian refugees to go there.  

A member of the family still at Annapolis Royal in 1755, Philippe Mius d'Azy's granddaughter Marie-Josèphe, with her husband Jean-Baptiste Raymond, was deported to North Carolina aboard the Pembroke in December.  Soon after the ship left Goat Island in the lower Annapolis River, a storm 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 Jean-Baptiste Raymond, saw their opportunity.  They 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 then, 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.  Raymond and the others managed to drive off the British force, burn the ship, and make their way with the ship's officers and crew to the Rivière St.-Jean settlement of Ste.-Anne-du-Pay-Bas, today's Fredericton, New Brunswick, where they spent the rest of the winter.  When food ran short at Ste.-Anne-du-Pay-Bas in the summer of 1756, Jean-Baptiste took his family via the St.-Jean portage to the St. Lawrence valley.  Marie-Josèphe died in a smallpox epidemic at Québec in December 1757, two weeks before her husband died.  

Most of the Mius d'Azys at Annapolis Royal remained in British hands.  Philippe Mius d'Azy's grandson Joseph and his wife Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Jean Préjean and Andrée Savoie, according to Bona Arsenault, ended up at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in late 1755.  Three of Joseph's younger brothers--Charles dit Charles-Amand and his wife Marie-Marthe, daughter of Antoine Hébert and Jeanne Corporon; François and his wife Jeanne, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Duon and Agnès Hébert; and Jean-Baptiste and his wife Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Pierre Surette and Jeanne Pellerin--along with their families, were deported to Massachusetts.  In October 1761, according to Arsenault, Joseph remarried to widow Marie Vincent at Philadelphia. 

Members of the family still living on the family's seigneurie at Pobomcoup and Cap-Sable escaped the British roundups in the rest of Nova Scotia during the fall of 1755.  However, in the spring of 1756, the British swooped down on Cap-Sable and Pobomcoup and sent two English sloops, the Mary and the Vulture, with approximately 170 Acadians from the Cap-Sable area to New York and Massachusetts.  One of these Cap-Sable deportees was Jacques Mius d'Entremont, fils, his wife Marguerite, daughter of François Amireau and Marie Pitre, and some of their children.  They sailed aboard the Vulture to Boston.  Jacques, fils died at Walpole, Massachusetts, in July 1759, age 80, and was buried at nearby Roxbury.  Jacques, fils's daughter Anne married Abel, son of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Duon and Agnès Hébert of Annapolis Royal, at Marblehead, Massachusetts, in 1756.  Jacques, fils's son Joseph married Agnès, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Belliveau and Agnès Gaudet, in Massachusetts in 1763.  

Other Mius d'Entremonts of Pobomcoup, including children of the captured Jacques, fils, escaped the 1756 round up, but their respite from British oppression was short-lived.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, 400 British soldiers disembarked at Cap-Sable in late September to search for Acadians still in the area.  Two sailboats manned by British troops sailed along the shore above and below the the cape "to prevent the vermin from escaping in canoes," one British officer commented.  This time luck ran out for the Mius d'Entremonts of Pobomcoup.  The British burned all of the houses and other buildings in the area to deny the habitants shelter and sustenance.  In late October, the British embarked 68 Acadians they had captured at Cap-Sable, plus their priest, on the transport Alexander II.  This probably included Mius d'Entremonts.  Several Acadian families escaped the ruthless rangers sent out to catch them but, after a hard winter in the woods, surrendered to British authorities the following June and were held as prisoners at Georges Island, Halifax.  Meanwhile, the Alexander II sailed from Cap-Sable to Halifax, which it reached the first week of November.  From Halifax, in December 1758, the British sent the Cap-Sable Acadians to France with the Acadians they were deporting from the Maritime islands.  The Mius d'Entremonts went to Cherbourg in Normandy.   

Among the family members sent to France in late 1758 were three daughters and a son of Joseph Mius d'Azy and Marie Amireau dit Tourangeau of Pobomcoup who had resettled on Île St.-Jean in the early 1750s and chose to remain there.  Living in territory controlled by France, the Mius d'Azys of Île St.-Jean escaped the British roundup in Nova Scotia during the fall of 1755, but, like their kinmen at Cap-Sable, the Great Upheaval soon caught up to them.  After the fall of Louisbourg, the redcoats rounded up most of the Acadian habitants on Île St.-Jean and deported them to France.  The crossing devastated the family.  Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Joseph Mius d'Azy, and her husband Jean-Baptiste Henry; sister Geneviève and her husband François Guérin; and sister Rosalie and her husband Éloi Lejeune were deported aboard the deporation transport Duke William, which left Chédabouctou Bay in late November in a 12-ship convoy, destined for St.-Malo.  All of them, along with their children, and nearly all of their fellow passengers, perished in a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England.  Cousin Charles-Benjamin Mius d'Azy, age 30, and wife Marie-Josèphe Guédry, age 36, of Pointe-à-la-Jeunnesse, Île Royale, crossed with five of their children--Marie-Josèphe, age 9; Anastasie, age 7; Jean-Baptiste, age 6; Véronique, age 4; and Firmin, age 2--on one of the five transports which left Chédabouctou Bay in the 12-ship convoy, survived the mid-December storm that sunk the Duke William and two other transports, and arrived at St.-Malo together in late January 1759.  Charles-Benjamin and all five of his children died at sea.  Widow Marie-Josèphe remarried--her third marriage--to a LeBlanc widower at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer in February 1763 and followed him to Belle-Île-en-Mer, off the southern coast of Brittany, in late 1765, where she died in August 1767, age 47.  Meanwhile, Marie-Madeleine Mius d'Entremont, widow of Jean Lafitte of Île Royale, also was deported to France in 1758.  She ended up in the naval port of Rochefort on the Bay of Biscay, where she died in August 1760, age 70.  

That the Cap-Sable Mius d'Entremonts were at Cherbourg by late January 1759 is attested to by the baptism of Abraham, younger son of Jacques Mius d'Entremont III and Marguerite Landry of Pobomcoup, in Tres-St.-Trinité Parish, Cherbourg, on 22 January 1759; Abraham's baptismal record states that he was born "aux quatre Sables," that is, at Cap-Sable, on 8 December 1758, so this gives an idea of when the family was transported from Nova Scotia to France.  The following year, 1760, was especially tragic for the Cap-Sable Mius d'Entremonts at Cherbourg:  Marie-Jeanne-Charlotte, age 3 weeks, daughter of Simon Mius d'Entremont and his first wife Marie Amireau, and Simon, age 5, perhaps another child of Simon and Marie, died in February.  Claire Mius d'Entremont, wife of Charles-Paul Hébert, age 50; and Joseph, age 72, son of Jacques Mius d'Entremont, père, died in March.  Charles, age 33, a bachelor, son of Joseph Mius d'Entremont; Anne Mius d'Entremont, age 30; and Marguerite, age 45, daughter of Charles Mius d'Entremont, died in May.  Two more bachelor sons of Joseph--Jean, age 27, and Abraham, age 38--died in June.  Jacques Mius d'Entremont III also died at Cherbourg in 1760.  The rigors of deportation probably contributed to so many deaths in the family that year.  Also, French ports were hotbeds of ship-borne epidemics such as smallpox and plague.  Nevertheless, there were also moments for the family to celebrate, such as the baptism of young Abraham Mius d'Entremont in January 1759.  But tragedy was always near.  Cécile, daughter of Joseph Mius d'Entremont, died at Cherbourg in c1762, in her late 30s.  Still, there were marriages to celebrate.  Simon, son of Joseph Mius d'Entremont and Cécile Boudrot and widower of Marie Amireau, married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Gabriel Moulaison and Marie Aubois of Pobomcoup and widow of François Viger, in September 1763.  Joseph le jeune, son of Charles Mius d'Entremont and Marguerite Landry, married cousin Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians François Landry and Marie Belliveau, in February 1764, soon after Joseph le jeune's parents died at Cherbourg.  His son Joseph-David was born that December; and Pierre-Marin was born posthumously in August 1766; Joseph le jeune had died at Cherbourg in March, only two years after his marriage.  Madeleine, daughter of Joseph Mius d'Entremont and Marie-Josèphe Moulaison, married Jean, fils, son of fellow Acadians Jean Granger and Madeleine Melanson of Annapolis Royal, at Cherbourg in May 1764.  That same month, Madeleine, daughter of Charles and Joseph le jeune's sister, married Basile, son of fellow Acadians Pierre Boudrot and another Madeleine Melanson of Annapolis Royal, but Madeleine, the bride, died in December 1770, age 40.  Pierre, brother of Joseph le jeune and Madeleine, joined his siblings in death at Cherbourg in July 1778, at age 47.  He never married.  

Not all of the Muis d'Entremonts remained at Cherbourg.  By the early 1780s, Jacques IV, now in his 20s, had moved down the coast to St.-Malo in northwest Brittany, where he married Frenchwoman Marie Herve of nearby St.-Brieuc, widow of Louis Landromon dit Langlinais of that city.  Jacques IV signed as a witness to a marriage in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer in February 1784, about the time the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  Jacques IV, wife Marie, and his widowed mother, Marguerite Landry, were the only members of his extended family who agreed to take it, but Jacques IV, aware of his aristocratic roots, put a price on his emigration to the Spanish colony.  Before he and his family set sail for Louisiana in August 1785, the Spanish made him a captain in recognition of the noble status of his family in old Acadia.  

Meanwhile, the Mius d'Entremonts and Mius d'Azys who had been exiled to Massachusetts and Pennsylvania waited patiently for the war with Britain to end.  When it did, in early 1763, they were able to leave the British colonies, where they had never felt welcome.  Most of the Acadians in New England, New York, and Pennsylvania repatriated to Canada.  However, Jacques Muis d'Entremont, fils's children and grandchildren returned to Pobomcoup.  They no longer held the seigneurie there--that ended with their exile--but at least they were home again.  One of Jacques, fils's younger sons, Bénoni, died at Pobomcoup, now Pubnico, Nova Scotia, in February 1841, in his late 90s.  

Joseph Mius d'Azy and his family left Philadelphia for Massachusetts in 1763 to join his younger brothers and his cousins there.  One of Joseph's daughters, Marie-Cécile, married Frenchman Pierre Rinard of Granville, Normandy, in Massachusetts in c1765.  By 1767, the Mius d'Azys also had returned to Cap-Sable--to Ste.-Anne-du-Ruisseau-de-l'Anguille, Pointe-à-Rocco, Pointe-des-Ben, and Bas-de-Tousket, now Tusket, near Pobomcoup.  In the 1780s, one of Charles Mius d'Azy's sons, Barthélemy, and his wife Madeleine Doiron moved to Arichat on Île Madame, off the southern coast of Cape Breton Island, formerly French Île Royale.  In the 1790s, they moved on to Prince Edward Island, formerly French Île St.-Jean.  But most of the Mius D'Entremonts and Mius d'Azys remained in the Cap-Sable area.  

Only one descendant of Philippe Mius d'Entremont, baron de Pobomcoup, found refuge in Louisiana.  Philippe's great-grandson, Jacques IV, son of  Jacques Mius d'Entremont III and Marguerite Landry, came to Louisiana aboard La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships from France, that reached New Orleans from St.-Malo in early December 1785.  The recently appointed captain was only age 29 when he made the crossing.  With him was his widowed mother, age unrecorded; wife Marie Hervé, age 30; son Jacques-Ferdinand, age 1; newborn daughter Marie-Martine, born probably aboard ship; and three Langlinais stepchildren, ages 11, 9, and 7.  Infant Martine, named after Martin Navarro, Spanish intendente of Louisiana, her honorary godfather, was baptized at New Orleans soon after the family reached the city.  

From New Orleans, Jacques IV took his family to upper Bayou Lafourche, where his wife soon died.  He does not seem to have remarried.  Despite the captaincy given to him by the Spanish, censuses taken on upper Bayou Lafourche in the late 1780s and early 1790s reveal a man who was not much more affluent than fellow Acadians from humbler families.  In January 1788, Jacques IV, now a widower, was living on the upper bayou with daughter Martine and two Langlinais stepchildren.  (The census taker said nothing about son Jacques-Ferdinand, who would have been age 3 or 4 at the time, so the boy evidently had died by then.)  Jacques IV's humble habitation along the bayou was 8 arpents wide (the typical Acadian land grant was 6 arpents frontage), he owned a single slave, one horned cow, and one pig.  Three years later, still living with his daughter and two Langlinais stepchildren, he could boast 10 arpents of frontage on the bayou, but he still owned only a single slave and one cow.  His swine herd, however, had increased to 10--still a much more humble "seigneurie" than that of his distinguished ancestor.

Jacques Mius d'Entremont IV's daughter Martine survived childhood at Lafourche, but she did not remain there.  After she came of age, she crossed the Atchafalaya Basin and married Jean-Baptiste, son of fellow Acadians Jean-Athanase Trahan and Madeleine Thibodeaux, at Attakapas in July 1802.  They settled on the prairie at La Grosse Île du Vermilion.  She gave him a daughter on the Vermilion in June 1804 and a son in August 1806.  Perhaps a victim of the rigors of childbirth, Martine died in St. Martin Parish in October 1807, age 23.  As far as Louisiana church and civil records reveal, this proud, old family from Acadia, then, except through a line of the Trahan family, did not endure in the Bayou State beyond the second generation.46

Neveu

According to Acadian genealogist Bona Arsenault, Laurent, son of Jean Neveu and Catherine Cayer of Santon, La Rochelle, France, a widower, emigrated to Île St.-Jean, today's Prince Edward Island, in the early 1700s.  In November 1721, Laurent married Jeanne, daughter of Pierre Robin of St.-Jean, La Rochelle, at Port-La-Joye on the island.  Laurent and Jeanne settled at Tracadie on the island's north shore.  One wonders why no one in this family was counted on Île St.-Jean in August 1752. 

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 deported them to France.  Descendants of Laurent Neveu of Île St.-Jean may have been among these hapless Acadians.  Vincent, fils, son of Vincent Neveu and Marie Bernard, born probably in France in c1765 and perhaps a descendant of Laurent Neveu, was the only member of the family to emigrate to Louisiana with the Acadians from France.  He crossed on L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in November 1785. 

Soon after his arrival, Vincent, fils married Cécile, daughter of Acadians Étienne Hébert and his first wife Marie Lavergne, at New Orleans; she also had crossed on L'Amitié.  Vincent and Cécile followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where Spanish officials counted them in January 1788 and January 1791.  In both Valenzuela District censuses, the couple had no children.  According to Ascension-area church records, no Neveu children were born between 1791, when Cécile Hébert was still in her early 20s, and 1819, when she would have been in her early 50s, so Vincent and Cécile may have been that rare Acadian couple who had no children.  

Non-Acadian Neveuxs, Neveaus, Nevauts, and Neveus also lived in Louisiana and created at least one family line there.  The first of the family, a Canadienne from Montréal, appeared in the late 1720s, when she married a first cousin at New Orleans.  Not until the antebellum period do other members of the family appear in South Louisiana--west of the Atchafalaya Basin.  The most vigorous line, one that settled on upper Bayou Teche in St. Martin Parish before moving to Vermilionville in nearby Lafayette Parish, came from Rouen and probably was not related to Vincent Neveu of France.  Other non-Acadian Neveus lived in St. Landry and St. Martin parishes.  Afro-Creole Neveus--free persons of color--also lived in St. Martin Parish during the antebellum period.  The Neveus of South Louisiana today, then, are descendants of Foreign French or Afro Creoles, not Acadians.47

Noël

Pierre Noël, born "in Acadie" in c1725, lived at Grand-Pré in the Minas Basin.  One wonders who his parents may have been and when the first of his family came to the colony.  In the late summer of 1755, Pierre Noël and dozens of his fellow Acadians were rounded up by New-English forces under Lieutenant-Colonel John Winslow and held in the church at Grand-Pré.  Winslow's list calls Pierre a Noails and says he had a daughter, so he must have been married, or perhaps he was a 30-year-old widower by then; Winslow's list does not name or even count the settlers' wives.  The list also reveals that Pierre owned no "bullocks," no "cowes," and no hogs, only five sheep. 

Pierre, perhaps with his daughter, ended up on a British transport bound for Virginia, which they reached with hundreds of other Minas Acadians that autumn.  The following spring, Virginia authorities sent them and the other exiles from Minas on to England.  Pierre remarried to Marie-Madeleine Barbe, perhaps a fellow Acadian, soon after he reached England.  Two children were born to them in one of the coastal compounds where they were kept:  Marie-Madeleine in c1757; and Jean-Baptiste in May 1759. 

In May 1763, Pierre, now age 38, Marie-Madeleine, age 25, and their two children were repatriated from England to St.-Malo, France, aboard the ship Ambition.  They settled in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where two more daughters were born to them:  Marie-Marguerite in February 1764; and Perrine-Rosalie posthumously in March 1766.  Pierre died at St.-Servan in late August 1765, "at age about 40 years."  Daughter Perrine-Rosalie died at St.-Servan in May 1766, only seven weeks after her birth.  In the early 1770s, Marie-Madeleine Barbe, still an unmarried widow, took her three surviving Noël children to the interior of Poitou as part of the large settlement venture there.  In late 1775, after two years of effort, they, along with dozens of other Poitou Acadians, retreated down the Vienne and the Loire to the port of Nantes, where they lived on government hand outs and on what work they could find.  Marie-Madeleine Barbe died at Chantenay near Nantes in February 1779, age 41.  Her orphaned children--Marie-Madeleine, Jean-Baptiste, and Marie-Marguerite Noël--were ages 22, 20, and 15 at the time of her death.  Interestingly, the first of the Noël daughters to marry was not the older Marie-Madeleine but the much younger Marie-Marguerite.  At age 20, she married 56-year-old Frenchman Guillaume-Jean Roquemont of St.-Vivien, Rouen, probably at Chantenay in c1784.  Guillaume-Jean died either later that year or in 1785.  They probably had no children.  

In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  The Noël sisters, one a young widow, the other still unmarried, agreed to take it.  Brother Jean-Baptiste, however, now in his mid-20s, chose to remain in France.  "A mariner by profession," he married Luce, daughter perhaps of fellow Acadians Joseph Granger and Anne Poirier, probably at Nantes.  Luce had been born at Cherbourg in Normandy in March 1768, so she was nine years younger than Jean-Baptiste.   Their son Pierre was born at Nantes in April 1789, and a second Pierre in October 1790.  In 1794, during the French Revolution, Jean-Baptiste, his wife, and two sons appeared on a list of Acadians and Canadians at Nantes who, according to "the law of 25 February 1791," were entitled to a subsidy from the Revolutionary government.  One hopes they survived the Reign of Terror with their heads intact. 

The only Acadians Noëls who emigrated to Spanish Louisiana--Marie-Madeleine Noël, age 28, and younger sister Marie-Marguerite, called Marguerite, age 21, a young widow--crossed on La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in August 1785.  They followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where Marguerite, age 22, remarried to Charles, fils, 39-year-old son of fellow Acadians Charles Aucoin and Anne-Marie Dupuis of Grand-Pré, in January 1786.  Charles, a native of Minas, also had gone to France from England and crossed from Nantes aboard La Bergère, so they may known one another in the mother country.  Despite his age, this was his first marriage.  Spanish officials counted them on the upper bayou in January 1788.  They had no children at the time.  Marguerite's older sister Marie-Madeleine was the only other person counted in their household.  By January 1791, Marguerite had given Charles a daughter.  She gave him more children before he died at Ascension in January 1805, in his late 50s, leaving Marguerite a widow again.  She did not remarry.  She died in Assumption Parish in April 1840.  The Plattenville priest who recorded the burial said that she died "at age 70 a widow."  She was 76. 

Marie-Madeleine Noël did not remain with her younger sister and brother-in-law on the upper Lafourche.  In April 1788, when she was age 31, she married Blaise, son of fellow Acadians Michel Rivet and his first wife Anne Landry, at San Gabriel on the river.  Blaise, a native of Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, had come to Louisiana from Maryland as a young bachelor in 1768.  Although he was age 41 at the time of their wedding, this also was his first marriage.  Blaise died at San Gabriel in September 1797, age 50, but not before Marie-Madeleine gave him two sons and at least two daughters there.  Marie-Madeleine, at age 48, remarried to Frenchman Jean Baptiste, son of Antoine Lagarde and Marguerite Alrig of Languedoc, at St. Gabriel in July 1805.  She probably did not give him any children.  She died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in March 1838, age 81.  One of her Rivet sons by her first husband settled on upper Bayou Lafourche, but her other Rivet son remained on the river. 

Noëls settled "late" in Acadia, and, compared to most other Acadian families, they came "late" to Louisiana.  The two sisters' only remaining sibling, brother Jean-Baptiste, a sailor, although married to a fellow Acadian, remained in France.  Both sisters helped create families of their own in the Spanish colony, and both of them lived to ripe old ages.  Since the sisters were the only members of their family to emigrate to Louisiana, no Acadian Noël family lines emerged in the Bayou State.  The blood of the family survived, however, in several lines of the Rivet and Aucoin families. 

Noël is a fairly common surname in France, so it is no surprise that during the late colonial and antebellum periods non-Acadian members of the family also lived in Louisiana.  Most of them probably were Foreign Frenchmen who came to the Bayou State after Jefferson's Purchase.  Some were Afro Creoles whose surname came from an ancestor's given name, "Noël." The Noëls of South Louisiana, then, are descendants of French Creoles, Foreign French, or Afro Creoles, not Acadians.48

Olivier

Pierre Olivier, a tailor, born in c1692 in the Parish of St.-Mederic, Paris, came to Acadia by 1718, the year he married Françoise, daughter of Jacques Bonnevie and Françoise Mius d'Azy, at Annapolis Royal.  They had eight children, including four daughters who married into the Caissie, Dubois, and Haché dit Gallant families.  Three of their sons, all born at Annapolis Royal, also created families of their own.  Oldest son Paul, born in c1727, settled first at Chignecto and then at Pigiguit in the Minas Basin before moving on to Île St.-Jean, where he married Marguerite, daughter of François Poirier and Marie Haché dit Gallant, in September 1749.  Jean-Baptiste, called Baptiste, born in c1728, also settled at Chignecto before moving on to Île St.-Jean.  He married twice, first to Susanne Pitre in c1749 and then to Marie Haché dit Gallant during exile.  Youngest son Joseph, born in c1730, settled at Chignecto, where he married Marguerite, daughter of Paul Martin dit Barnabé and Marguerite Cyr, in c1752.  They remained there.  In 1755, descendants of Pierre Olivier the tailor could be found at Chignecto and 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.  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.  Oliviers 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, local habitants, 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 the French at Beauséjour he ordered his officers to deport the Chignecto Acadians to the southernmost seaboard colonies.  

In the fall of 1755, the British deported Joseph Olivier and his wife Marguerite Martin dit Barnabé to South Carolina.  In the spring of 1756, they evidently were not among the Acadians who took advantage of the South Carolina governor's permission to return to greater Acadia by boat.  In August 1763, six months after the war had ended, Joseph and his family appeared on a list of Acadians in South Carolina "who desire to withdraw from under the standard of their king ...."  Joseph was able to sign the repatriation list, indicating that he was literate.  Soon afterwards, he and his family, along with hundreds of other exiles in the seaboard colonies, emigrated to French 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 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 revenge" to come.  Exiles lured to St.-Domingue could serve as a ready source of labor not only for the naval contractors, but also for the island's wealthy 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.  Joseph Olivier and his family emigrated to St.-Domingue in late 1763 or 1764, but they found no farmland at the naval base, only misery and death.  Evidently Joseph and Marguerite settled for a time at Cap-Français on the coast east of Môle, where their son Jean-Baptiste was born perhaps in late 1763, soon after their arrival, though he may have been born in South Carolina on the eve of their leaving for the sugar colony.  Fed up with life in St.-Domingue, Joseph and Marguerite looked for an opportunity to leave the tropical colony.  Their opportunity came in 1765 or 1766, when exiles from Halifax and Maryland came through Cap-Français on their way to New Orleans.  The Oliviers were among the relatively few Acadians who emigrated to Louisiana directly from the French Antilles. 

Living in territory controlled by France, Joseph's older brothers Paul and Jean-Baptiste, sister Anne, and their families, still on Île St.-Jean, escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia in 1755.  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 the habitants on the island and transported them to France.  Sister Anne and her husband Jean-Baptiste Haché dit Gallant, fils, landed at the northern fishing center of Boulogne-sur-Mer in Picardie.  Her brothers may have landed there, too.  They then moved on to St.-Malo in northeast Brittany and settled in the suburb of St-Servan-sur-Mer, where Anne's husband Jean-Baptiste died in February 1767.  Anne did not remarry, but brother Jean-Baptiste, a 39-year-old widower, did remarry, to Marie-Josèphe, 40-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Haché dit Gallant, père and Marie Gentil of Île St.-Jean, at St.-Servan in January 1767.  Jean-Baptiste's wife Marie-Josèphe was sister Anne's dead husband's sister.  When in the early 1780s the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, hundreds of them, including Anne Olivier and members of the Haché family agreed to take it, but her brothers, if they were still in France in 1785, chose to remain. 

Meanwhile, younger brother Joseph, his wife Marguerite Martin dit Barnabé, and young son Jean-Baptiste le jeune, emigrated to Louisiana from French St.-Domingue by July 1767, when Spanish officials recorded them at New Orleans.  Judging by the date, they likely had hooked up with refugees from Maryland who came through Cap-Français.  Unlike the great majority of his fellow Acadian exiles, Joseph remained at New Orleans:  son Marc was born in the city in February 1768; and daughter Rosalie in April 1771.  Only by settling among other Acadians on the river, along Bayou Lafourche, or out on the western prairies could Joseph's descendants have had a chance to maintain their Acadian identity. 

Two decades after Joseph and his family reached the colony, his older sister Anne, now a widow; daughter Anne-Marie Haché, wife of Jean-Charles Benoit, and their four children, as well as grand-niece Madeleine-Appoline Haché crossed to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships from France, which reached New Orleans in November 1785.  Anne Olivier followed her daughter and son-in-law, who was sailor, to the largely-Isleño community of San Bernardo, south of the city, instead of to a predominantly Acadian settlement west of New Orleans.  Meanwhile, brother Joseph's remaining son, Jean-Baptiste le jeune, married Marie-Madeleine-Adélaïde, daughter of Pierre Mioton of Lyon and Jeanne L'Éclaire of La Rochelle, France, at New Orleans in June 1785.  Marie-Madeleine-Adélaïde was a native of the city.  Their children, born there, included Joseph le jeune in July 1787; Eulalie in October 1789 but died at age 3 in September 1792; Guillaume, also called Étienne, in August 1791 but died at age 1 in September 1792, nine days before his sister Eulalie died (were they victims of an epidemic?); Émilie-Marie born in October 1793; Marie Céleste in January 1796; Louise in January 1798; Arsène-Augustine February 1800; ...  There they remained. 

Most of the many Oliviers of South Louisiana, then, are descended from French Creoles and Foreign French, not Acadian exiles who remained at New Orleans and may have lost their Acadian identity in a generation or two.49

Patry

Guillaume, son of Louis Patry and Mathurine Mahez of St.-Coulomb near St.-Malo, France, born at St.-Brieuc down the Breton coast in c1714, came to the French Maritimes in c1732 probably as a young fisherman.  He married Françoise, daughter of Gabriel Chiasson and Marie Savoie and widow of Guillaume Gallet, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord, the church for Havre-St.-Pierre, on the north shore of Île St.-Jean in October 1741.  Guillaume and Françoise had four children there:  Georges in July 1742; Angélique in June 1744; and twins Paul and Françoise in c1747.  A French official, who called him a Patris, counted Guillaume, Françoise, and six children, two of them from Françoise's first marriage, and four of their own, at Havre-St.-Pierre in August 1752.  The French official noted that Guillaume "has been in the country 20 years." 

Living in territory controlled by France, Guillaume Patry and his family escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia during the fall of 1755.  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 the habitants on Île St.-Jean and deported them to France.  Guillaume, age 53, Françoise, age 54, and three of their children crossed on one of the five deportation transports that left Chédabouctou Bay in a 12-ship convoy in late November 1758, survivied a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England that sank three other transports, and reached St.-Malo together in late January 1759.  Amazingly, all of Guillaume's family survived the crossing that killed hundreds of their fellow exiles.  They settled at La Gouesnière in the countryside east of St.-Malo, just south of Guillaume's family's home base at St.-Coulomb, from 1759-61, and then in the nearby suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer until 1765.  In March 1765, the war now over, Guillaume took his family to Miquelon, a French-conrolled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland, aboard Le Duc de Choiseul, but they did not remain on the island.  In 1767, French authorities, obeying a royal decree to relieve overcrowding on Miquelon and nearby Île St.-Pierre, coaxed the fisher/habitants to resettle in France.  The Patrys landed at La Rochelle.  Most of the islanders returned to Miquelon the following year, but Guillaume and his family remained at La Rochelle before returning to St.-Malo in March 1768.  Guillaume's wife Françoise may have died by then.  He remarried to a Frenchwoman, Jeanne, daughter of Mathurin Joucan and Charlotte Rouault of Bauger-Morvan near Dol, in the countryside southeast of St.-Malo, widow of Pierre Beaugendre, at St.-Servan in October 1769.  They settled at St.-Malo.  She gave him no more children.  Guillaume was still alive in November 1770, when he served as godfather to son Paul's oldest daughter at St.-Servan.  Guillaume's family was reported as still residing at St.-Malo in 1772. 

Guillaume's younger son Paul was still a child when his family settled at La Gouesnière and St.-Servan-sur-Mer and in his teens and early 20s when he accompanied them to Île Miquelon and back.  At age 23, he married Charlotte, daughter of fellow Acadians Christophe Pothier and Anne Boudrot, at St.-Servan in January 1770.  They had at least three children there:  Jeanne-Charlotte-Rosalie in November 1770; Paul-Charles in December 1771 but died the following September; and Anne-Perrine in August 1773.  Either on the eve of, or soon after, Anne-Perrine's birth, Paul took his family to the interior of Poitou as part of a major settlement venture.  After two years of effort, they retreated with other Poitoiu Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire to the port of Nantes.  Paul and his family settled at nearby Chantenay.  They had another daughter there in June 1777.  Paul died in his early or mid-30s probably at Chantenay before November 1783, when his wife remarried there to Pierre, fils, son of fellow Acadians Pierre Hébert and Marie Bernard of Chignecto. 

One wonders what happened to Paul's older siblings, Georges and Angélique, after the family reached St.-Malo in 1759.  Angélique served as godmother to Barthélemy, fils, twin son of Barthélemy Cosset and his third wife Françoise Gallais, at Bonnaban near St.-Malo in the spring of 1762, so she survived not only the crossing, but also its rigors.  Brother Paul served as godfather to Barthélemy, fils's twin sister, Louise-Geneviève.  The twins' mother, Françoise Gallais or Gallet, was Angélique and Paul's half-sister by their mother's first marriage.  Paul, himself, was a twin, of his sister Françoise, who died before the family was deported to St.-Malo. 

Soon after Paul Patry's death at Chantenay in the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  His widow Charlotte Pothier and her second husband Pierre Hébert, fils agreed to take it.  Her Patry in-laws, if they were still alive, chose to remain in France.  Daughters Jeanne-Charlotte-Rosalie and Marie-Modeste Patry, who would have been 14 and 8 in 1785, also did not go to Louisiana, so, like their father, they probably had died at Chantenay.  However, daughter Anne-Perrine, age 12 when they crossed, did accompany her mother and stepfather, along with an infant half-brother, to the distant colony. 

Anne-Perrine Patry, called Anne Hébert on the passenger list of Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships from France, emigrated to Louisiana with her relatives in the summer of 1785.  Their ship reached New Orleans in late August.  After a few weeks in the city recuperating from the crossing, the family did not follow their fellow passengers to the Baton Rouge area but chose to settle in one of the prairie districts west of the Atchafalaya Basin. 

Anne-Perrine married Pierre-Grégoire, son of fellow Acadians Mathurin Richard and Élisabeth Landry of Grand Coteau, at Opelousas in October 1794.  Pierre-Grégoire was a native of San Gabriel on the river, his family having come to Louisiana from Maryland in 1767.  He and Anne-Perrine settled at Beaubassin near Carencro on upper Bayou Vermilion at the northern edge of the Attakapas District.  Anne Perrine died suddenly at Beaubassin in August 1817, age 44.  Her husband did not remarry.  Since she was the only member of her family to emigrate to Louisiana, the Acadian branch of the Patry family did not take root in the Bayou State.  Its blood, however, did survive in a line of the Richard family.50

Pellerin

François Pellerin, born in c1636, came to Acadia from Québec by 1665, the year he married Andrée, daughter of Pierre Martin and Catherine Vigneau, at Port-Royal.  François died at Port-Royal in c1678, in his early 40s.  After his death, his widow Andrée moved to Chignecto, where she remarried to Pierre Mercier dit Caudebec.  Before his death, Andrée had given François seven children, six daughters and a son.  Five of their daughters married into the Trahan, Thériot, Hébert, Godin, Caissie, and Moyen families.  François and Andrée's seventh child, son Pierre, born at Port-Royal in c1678, the year his father died, moved to Canada in the early 1700s with his mother and stepfather.  Pierre married Marie-Anne, daughter of Canadians Jacques Bélanger and Élisabeth Thibault, at St.-Pierre-du-Sud below Québec City in June 1722 and died there in c1731, in his early 50s.  At least two of François and Andrée's daughters also moved to Canada.  Catherine dit Caudebec married Pierre, son of Laurent dit Châtillon dit Beauséjour Godin and Anne Guérin, probably in Canada in c1697 and died at St.-François-du-Sud, today's Montmagny, below Québec City, in May 1758.  The priest who recorded her burial said she died at age 85.  Pierre's daughter Jeanne married first to Roger, son of Guillaume Caissie and Marie-Françoise Poirier, probably at Chignecto in c1703, and then to Jacques Moyen, probably a Canadian, in c1711.  Jeanne died at St.-Pierre-du-Sud in April 1744, in her late 60s.  As far as is known, no member of this branch of the Pellerin family emigrated to Louisiana. 

Another Pellerin, Étienne, born in c1647, was, according to Acadian genealogist Bona Arsenault, François's younger brother.  However, Acadian genealogist Stephen A. White, followed here, asserts:  "We are ... in no position to affirm, as certain genealogists have claimed, that François and Étienne were brothers."  Étienne reached Acadia after the first census was taken in 1671 and married Jeanne, daughter of François Savoie and Catherine Lejeune, at Port-Royal in c1675.  They remained in the Port-Royal area.  At one time Étienne owned Hog Island on Rivière-au-Dauphin, now the Annapolis River, near Port-Royal.  In August 1714, soon after the British officially took over the colony, Étienne was among the Acadians who traveled to Île Royale, today's Cape Breton Island, aboard the King's vessel Marie Joseph to look at land with the possibility of removing to French territory.  Evidently he did not like what he saw there and returned to Annapolis Royal, where he endured British rule in the Acadian capital.  He died at Annapolis Royal in November 1722, age 75.  He and Jeanne had 10 children, five daughters and five sons, at Annapolis Royal.  Their daughters married into the Calvé dit LaForge, Gaudet, Doucet, Brun, and Surette families.  Four of Étienne's sons married into the Martin, Robichaud, and Gaudet families and remained at Annapolis Royal.  In 1755, descendants of Étienne Pellerin and Jeanne Savoie could be found at Annapolis Royal, on Île St.-Jean, and on the St. Lawrence below Québec.  Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this family even farther. 

In December 1755, after the British rounded up the Acadians at Annapolis Royal, they forced three sons of Bernard Pellerin--Pierre, Grégoire, and Charles--and their families aboard the transport Pembroke, destined for North Carolina.  Soon after the ship left Goat Island in the lower Annapolis River, a storm in the lower Bay of Fundy separated the Pembroke from the other deportation transports filled with Annapolis Royal Acadians.  The exiles aboard the Pembroke, led by Pierre Pellerin's father-in-law Charles Belliveau, a pilot, and including the Pellerin brothers, saw their opportunity.  They 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 then, 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 Pellerins and the others managed to drive off the British force, burn the ship, and make their way with the ship's officers and crew to the Rivière St.-Jean settlement of Ste.-Anne-du-Pay-Bas, where they spent the rest of the winter.  When food ran short at Ste.-Anne-du-Pay-Bas the following summer, brothers Grégoire and Charles took their families to Miramichi on the Gulf of St. Lawrenc shore and then to the French outpost at Restigouche at the head of the Baie de Chaleurs, while brother Pierre and his family went on to Canada probably via the St.-Jean portage.  Charles remarried to a Thibodeau at Restigouche in c1759.  A son was baptized there in June 1760, on the eve of the British attack on the French stronghold.  Brothers Grégoire and Charles remained at Restigouche until the French garrison there surrendered to the British in late October 1760.  From Restigouche, they fled to Nipisiguit down the coast, where they were counted in 1761, and then they were taken to the prison compound at Halifax with other captured exiles from the area.  The brothers appeared on a repatriation list there in August 1763.  Grégoire and his wife were listed with two children, and Charles and his wife were childless, so their son had died by then.  Meanwhile, brother Pierre remarried to a Canadian at Lotbinière above Québec City in 1762.  His daughters also settled on the St. Lawrence. 

Descendants of Étienne Pellerin also were deported from Annapolis Royal to Massachusetts, New York, and South Carolina in 1755.  The Pellerin sent to the southern colony died there in c1762.  After the war, the Pellerins in Massachusetts chose to resettle in Canada, where members of the family had gone as early as the late 1740s and in 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 Étienne Pellerin began the slow, inexorable process of becoming Canadiennes.  Especially after 1766, they could be found at Québec City; at Bécancour,Yamachiche, Yamaska, Lotbinière, St.-Jacques de l'Achigan, Louiseville, Nicolet, and St.-Grégoire on the St. Lawrence above Québec; and on Île d'Orléans on the St. Lawrence below the city.  They also could be found at Memramcook in present-day southeastern New Brunswick; at Chezzetcook near Halifax in Nova Scotia; and at Pointe-de-l'Est, today's East Point on Prince Edward Island, formerly French Île St.-Jean. 

After the war, descendants of Étienne Pellerin escaped British rule by resettling on the French island of Martinique.  Agathe "of Acadie," daughter of Jean-Baptiste Pellerin and Marie Martin and a granddaughter of Étienne, died at St.-Pierre on the island in October 1764, age 40.  She never married.  Agathe's older sister Marguerite, widow of Claude Doucet, who came to the island from exile in New York, died at St.-Pierre in December, age 54.  One suspects that Agathe came to the island with her sister. 

The Pellerins 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 that 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 British colonies, including Pellerins, 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, two were descendants of Étienne Pellerin

Two Pellerin brothers, Grégoire and Charles, came to Louisiana with the Broussards from Halifax via Cap-Français in late February 1765.  In April, they followed the Broussards across the Atchafalaya Basin to the Attakapas District, where they helped establish La Nouvelle-Acadie on the banks of Bayou Teche. 

Grégoire Pellerin, age 41, came with wife Cécile Préjean, age 33.  Cécile's mother was an older sister of the Beausoleil Broussard brothers, hence their relationship with the partisan leaders.  The two unnamed children who had been with Grégoire and Cécile on Georges Island in 1763 evidently had died before they departed Halifax in late November 1764.  Despite their middle age, the couple had more children on the Teche, including Émilie in c1766; Frédéric in December 1770; Marie in c1771; and Eugènie in March 1772.  Grégoire died at Attakapas by May 1777, in his early or mid-50s, when his wife was listed in an Attakapas census as a widow.  Cécile did not remarry and lived until January 1808, when she died in her late 70s.  Daughters Émilie, Marie, and Eugènie married into the Sigur, Frere, and Auger or Oger families.  Judging by the numbers and the names of the witnesses on Grégoire's daughters' marriage documents, this humble Acadian's children married men of means and influence, none of them fellow Acadians.  Daughter Émilie and her husband, Pierre René Sigur, married at Attakapas in November 1788 but settled in Iberville Parish on the river.  Nevertheless, a succession for Émilie, naming her Sigur husband, was filed at the Franklin courthouse in September 1826; she would have been in her late 50s or early 60s at the time.  Her siblings remained on the lower Teche.  Only brother Frédéric, baptized by a Pointe Coupée priest at age 2 1/2 in April 1773, married cousin Marie Anne, daughter of Frenchman François Pecot and his Acadian wife Rosalie Préjean of Mirebalais, Haiti, formerly French St.-Domingue, at Attakapas in July 1805.  Marie Anne's family had come to Louisiana from Haiti via Cuba not long before she married Frédéric.  The couple settled on lower Bayou Teche in what became St. Mary Parish.  Their children, born there, included Cécile Rosalie Silenie in August 1806; Marie Rose Eugènie, also called Marie Angélique Désirée Coralie, in April 1811; and Charles Frédéric in March 1819.  By the late 1820s, Fréderic had become one of the pioneer sugar planters on lower Bayou Teche.  His and Marie Anne's daughters married into the Sorrel family.  His succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Franklin courthouse, St. Mary Parish, in July 1833.  He would have been age 63 that year.  Older daughter Cécile Rosalie Célenie married Antoine François Solange, called Solange, Sorrel, a medical doctor, in October 1820 and remained in St. Mary Parish.  Her succession, naming her husband, perhaps post-mortem, was filed at the Franklin courthouse in October 1828; she would have been age 22 at the time.  Younger daughter Marie, wife of Martial Sorrel, avocat of Chautisse arrondissement de St. Martin, Department de Mere, France, Solange's younger brother, accompanied her husband back to France after their 1834 marriage.  They did not return to Louisiana.  Marie died in France in May 1843, age 32.  Fréderic and Marie Anne's son Charles Frédéric's succession, which named his parents but no wife, was filed at the Franklin courthouse, St. Mary Parish, in August 1835, when he would have been age 16.  It was not post-mortem; he did not die until October 1841.  The New Iberia priest who recorded the burial said that Chas. Frédéric died "at age 20 yrs."  He was 22.  He was buried in t    he "cemetery of Martial Sorrel," a brother-in-law, near New Iberia.  Since Charles Frédéric did not marry, his line of the family, except for its blood, died with him. 

Grégoire's younger brother Charles, age 35, came to Louisiana with second wife Élisabeth, or Isabelle, Thibodeau, age 27, and no children, but Élisabeth was pregnant when they reached New Orleans in February 1765.  Their daughter Marie was born at Attakapas the following August or September.  Charles died at Attakapas sometime between 1766 and 1768, in his late 30s (Bona Arsenault says Charles died at Opelousas in January 1809).  He had no surviving sons, and daughter Marie also probably died young, unless she was the Marie Pellerin who married Joseph Sennet in a civil ceremony in St. Mary Parish in September 1818.  Nevertheless, this family line, except perhaps for its blood, did not endure in the Bayou State. 

The Pellerins of South Louisiana, then, are descended not from the Acadian brothers but from French Creoles and Foreign French.  During the late colonial and early antebellum periods, two vigorous lines established by sons of the Opelousas District's first commandant, Louis-Gérard Pellerin of New Orleans, son of Gérard Pellerin, native of Mezières-sur-Meuse, Diocese of Reims, and French official in the city, settled in what became St. Martin, St. Mary, and Lafayette parishes.  Typical of affluent French Creoles throughout South Louisiana, these Pellerins married into some of the area's most prominent families, but few married Acadians.51

Précieux

Joseph Prétieux, whose name eventually became Précieux, born in Charente, southwestern France, in c1665, married Anne Gautrot probably at nearby La Rochelle in c1688; Anne evidently was not kin to the Gautrots of Acadia.  Their son Joseph, fils was born at La Rochelle in c1689.  A daughter, Anne, born in c1691, was their only other child.  After coming to Acadia soon after the birth of their children, Joseph, père and his family settled at Minas, where they were counted in the census of 1693.  Joseph, père died perhaps soon after the census was taken.  Daughter Anne bore a "natural" son named Jacques in June 1708 and two years later married Pierre, fils, alias Blaise des Brousses dit Bonapetit, son of Pierre Lalande and Marie Labonne, at Port-Royal.  

In January 1719, Joseph, fils married Anne, daughter of Michel Haché dit Gallant and Anne Cormier, at Chignecto.  In c1724, Joseph, fils and Anne followed her family to Port-La-Joye on Île St.-Jean, where they raised five children:  Marie-Anne born in c1732; Louise-Marguerite in c1733; Pierre in c1737; Pierre-Joseph, called Joseph III, in c1739; and Louis in c1741.  They were among the first Acadians to settle on the island.  Joseph, fils's oldest daughter Marie-Anne married Augustin dit Justice, son of Jean Doucet and Françoise Blanchard and widower of Cécile Mius, at Port-La-Joye in December 1752.  Augustin and Marie-Anne were counted in August of that year at Rivière-du-Nord-Est in the interior of the island with Augustin's sons Joachim and Joseph Doucet by his first wife.  Augustin and Marie-Anne had two children on the island:  Pierre Doucet born in c1753; Marie Doucet in c1755; and Augustin Doucet, fils, whose birth year was not recorded.  Marie-Anne's sister Louise-Marguerite married Jean-Baptiste, son of François Chiasson and Anne Doucet, on the island in c1752. 

Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this family to the winds.  When British forces rounded up the Acadians in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755, the Précieuxs and Doucets 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 Île St.-Jean and deported them to France.  Marie-Anne and husband Augustin Doucet made the crossing aboard separate ships.  Marie-Anne and her children Pierre, Marie, and Augustin, fils crossed on the deportation transport Tamerlane, which left Chédabouctou Bay in a 12-ship convoy in late November, survived a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England that sank three other transports, and reached St.-Malo in mid-January 1759.  Marie-Anne and her older children survived the crossing, but little Augustin, fils died at sea.  Marie-Anne's father Joseph Précieux, fils, age 67, her mother Anne Haché, age 50, and brothers Joseph III, age 19, and Louis, age 16, also made the crossing on Tamerlane.  One wonders what happened to brother Pierre, who would have been age 21 in 1758.  Joseph, fils, Anne, and their two younger sons made it to St.-Malo, but Louis died at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer in late February, probably from the rigors of the crossing.  Joseph, fils took his family to St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, across the harbor from St.-Servan.  Daughter Louise-Marguerite, wife of Jean-Baptiste Chiasson, did not cross with her family on Tamerlane.  The Chiassons crossed on one of the five deporation transports that left the Chédabouctou Bay in the 12-ship convoy, also survived the mid-December storm, and reached St.-Malo together in late January 1759.  Two of their children. ages 6 and 4, died at sea.  Louise, age 26, survived the crossing but died in a hospital at St.-Malo in early February.  Husband Jean-Baptiste was the only member of the family who survived the ordeal.  Meanwhile, Augustin dit Justice Doucet, who had landed in the naval port of Rochefort on the Bay of Biscay in early 1759, was determined to reunite with his wife and children.  He sailed from Rochefort to St.-Malo in April 1759, and he and Marie-Anne settled at St.-Énogat near her family.  

In France, Marie-Anne and Augustin had more children, including two sons:  Jean-Baptiste Doucet at St.-Servan-sur-Mer in September 1766; and François Doucet in September 1770.  In the early 1770s, they ventured to the interior of Poitou with other St.-Malo-area Acadians as part of a settlement venture near the city of Châtellerault.  Marie-Anne's brother Joseph Précieux III married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Claude Benoit and Élisabeth Thériot, in St.-Jacques Parish, Châtellerault, in February 1775, but Joseph III died soon afterwards.  After two years of effort, most of the Poitou Acadians retreated in four convoys from Châtellerault down the Vienne and the  Loire to the port of Nantes.  Augustin and Marie-Anne remained in Poitou, but she did not remain there long.  Augustin died in Poitou the late 1770s or early 1780s.  Marie-Anne moved on to Nantes by September 1784, when she was counted there with her Doucet sons, now in their teens.   

In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  Marie-Anne Précieux, widow of Augustin dit Justice Doucet, was the only descendant of Joseph Prétieux left in France who could agree to take it.  Marie-Anne's former sister-in-law, Marguerite Benoit, still unmarried, also agreed to go to Louisiana, along with Marguerite's sister Pélagie Benoit, widow of Yves Crochet.  The three widows, with seven children in tow, crossed to the Spanish colony on the same vessel in August 1785. 

Marie-Anne Précieux, age 52, and her two Doucet sons--Jean-Baptiste, age 19, and François, age 14--sailed to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships from France, which reached New Orleans in early November 1785.  After a brief respite in the city, they followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche and settled in a community the Acadians would call Assumption, in the district the Spanish called Valenzuéla.   Since Marie-Anne was the only Acadian Précieux who emigrated to Louisiana, the Acadian branch of this family did not take root in the Bayou State.  Its blood, however, was perpetuated in two lines of the Doucet family.52

Quimine

Jacques, son of Daniel Kimin, Kimine, or Quimine and Marie Torel of Pennemart, diocese of Nantes, France, born there in c1692, came to British Nova Scotia by February 1715, when he married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Gabriel Chiasson and Marie Savoie, at Chignecto.  Between 1718 and 1738, Marie-Josèphe gave Jacques eight children, six daughters and two sons, there:  Marie in c1718; Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, in c1721; Anne in c1722; Pierre in c1726; Jean-Jacques in c1729; Judith in c1732; Françoise in c1733; and Marguerite in c1738.  Jacques took his family to Île St.-Jean in c1742.  Four of his and Marie-Josèphe's daughters married into the Prieur dit Dubois, Bertaud dit Montaury, Aubin dit Le Buffe, and Douville families on the island.  Younger son Jean-Jacques married Madeleine, daughter of Charles Thériot and Angélique Doiron of Cobeguit, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord, the church for Havre-St.-Pierre, on the north end of the island, in November 1751.  They had at least four children on the island:  Jean-Louis in September 1752; Marie-Madeleine in September 1754; Anne in July 1756 but died eight days after her birth; and Alexis born in June 1757.  In August 1752, a French official counted Jacques, age 60, "fisherman and ploughman, in feeble health," Marie-Josèphe, age 58, four of their unmarried children, including oldest son Pierre, and younger son Jean-Jacques and his family, at Étang-St.-Pierre west of Havre-St.-Pierre.  The same official counted daughter Madeleine, her husband Jacques Bertaud dit Montaury, and their four children at the harbor.  Jacques and Marie-Josèphe's daughter Anne, her husband Sr. Louis Aubin dit Le Buffe, and their two daughters were counted at nearby Nigeagant.  Jacques and Marie-Josèphe's older son Pierre married Marie-Louise, daughter of Michel Grossin and Marie Caissie, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord in February 1755.  Louise gave Pierre at least two children on the island:  Marie-Josèphe in January 1756; and Geneviève in June 1757.  Pierre remarried in France during exile.  

When the British rounded up the Acadians in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755, the Quimines, 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 redcoats rounded up most of the habitants on Île St.-Jean and deported them to France.  The deportation devastated the family.  Jacques Quimine, age 60 on the ship's roll (he probably closer to 66), wife Marie-Josèphe Chiasson, age unrecorded (probably 64), and unmarried daughter Françoise, age 23, crossed on one of the five deportation transports that left Chédabouctou Bay in late November 1758 in a 12-ship convoy, survived a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England that sank three other transports, and reached St.-Malo together in late January 1759.  Jacques and Marie-Josèphe died at sea, but daughter Françoise survived the crossing.  Jacques's daughter Anne, age 40, and husband Louis-Aubin Le Buffe, age 43, also made the crossing aboard one of the Five Ships.  One of their children--daughter Marguerite, age 2--died at sea; the other three, ages 10, 8, and 5, survived the crossing.  Jacques's daughter Marguerite, age 20, crossed with sister Anne's family and also made it to St.-Malo.  Daughter Judith, age 28, and husband Jacques, son of Île St.-Jean pioneers François Douville and Marie Roger, age 32, sailed aboard one of the Five Ships with two of their children and servant Pierre Cosset; all of them survived the crossing.  Jacques's older son Pierre Quimine, age 32, wife Louise Grossin, age 25, and daughters Marie-Josèphe, age 3, and Geneviève, age 2, also made the crossing aboard one of the Five Ships.  Pierre and Louise survived the ordeal, but their daughters died at sea.  Jacques's daughter Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, and husband Jacques, son of Pierre Bertaud dit Montaury and Marie Martin, crossed with six children aboard the transport Supply, which also left Chédabouctou Bay in the 12-ship convoy, survived the mid-December storm, put in at Bideford, England, for repairs, and did not reach St.-Malo until early March 1759.  Two of their children--a 3-year-old son and a son born aboard ship--died at sea. 

Jacques's youngest son Jean-Jacques Quimine, wife Madeleine Thériot, and their children do not appear on the rolls of the St.-Malo-bound ships nor in any church records in France.  One wonders, then, if they escaped the British roundup on Île St.-Jean, crossed Mer Rouge, and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore or made their way north to Canada.  

From France, Jacques Quimine's daughters scattered to the winds.  Madeleine and husband Jacques Montaury settled in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer, but they did not remain.  In 1763, after the war with Britain ended, "the entire family went to reside at St. Pierre and Miquelon," French-held fishery islands off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  Anne Quimine and husband Louis-Aubin Le Buffe also settled at St-Servan, where a son was born to them in January 1760 but died the following month.  Louis-Aubin died "at the hospital" probably at St.-Servan in June 1762.  The following year, Anne and her children, following her older sister, took Le Marie Charlotte to St.-Pierre and Miquelon.  Judith Quimine was pregnant when she crossed to St.-Malo.  A daughter was born to her and husband Jacques Douville at St.-Servan in January 1759 less than a week after they reached the Breton port.  Another daughter was born at St.-Servan in December 1761.  They followed Judith's sisters to St.-Pierre and Miquelon in 1763.  Marguerite Quimine, still unmarried, followed her sisters to the fishery islands but did not remain. 

Meanwhile, Jacque's daughter Françoise Quimine married Louis, son of fellow Acadians Charles Charpentier and Marie-Josèphe Chenet of St.-Pierre-du-Nord, at St.-Servan in February 1760.  They did not follow her sisters to St.-Pierre and Miquelon.  In 1764, the war now over, "the entire family," including infant son Louis-Jacques-Laurent, followed other Acadians in France aboard Le Fort "to Cayenne" in the new French colony of Guiane on the northern coast of South America.  When French authorities conducted a census of the inhabitants at Sinnamary in the Cayenne District in March 1765, they counted Louis Charpenter but not Françoise and Louis-Jacques-Laurent.  Next to Louis's name was the word dissentaire, so one wonders if any member of the family survived the rigors of the tropics.  Also in French Guiane was Françoise's kinswoman, perhaps a niece, Marie-Jeanne Quimine, who would have been age 9 in 1765.  She does not appear in the March 1 census at Sinnamary, so one wonders when she reached the tropical colony.  In February 1771, when she was age 15, she married Jean-Louis, 30-year-old son of Guillaume Busson and Françoise Guillot of Sinnamary.  The recording priest noted that Marie-Jeanne was a daughter of Yves Quenine, as he spelled it, and Marie Grossin.  One wonders if this was Françoise Quimine's older brother Pierre and his wife Marie-Louise Grossin, who had remained in France.  The Sinnamary priest who recorded Marie-Jeanne's marriage also noted that "The said Quenine has stated she does not know how to sign."  In April 1776, at age 20, Marie-Jeanne remarried to Étienne, 27-year-old son of fellow Acadians Pierre Saulnier and his first wife Marguerite Vincent of Minas, at Sinnamary.  Two sons were born at nearby Anse Mapbo in October 1776 and February 1782, so Marie-Jeanne remained in the colony.

Jacques's older son Pierre was the only member of the family who remained in France after the war with Britain ended.  He made his living as a carpenter first at Paramé on the coast northeast of St.-Malo and then at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where his sisters had lived for a time.  He and wife Louise Grossin had more children in France:  Anne-Louise at Paramé in May 1760; and Marie-Perrine in January 1762.  Wife Louise died at St.-Servan in September 1765, in her early 30s, and Pierre remarried to Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Dugas and Marie Benoit, at St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, across the harbor from St.-Malo, in January 1770.  Marie-Madeleine gave him at least one more daughter, Victoire-Françoise at St.-Servan in March 1771--at least five daughters, by two wives, between 1756 and 1771, in greater Acadia and France.  In 1773, Pierre and his family became part of an attempt by the French government to settle exiles from the port cities on land owned by an influential nobleman near the city of Châtellerault in the interior of Poitou.  In March 1776, after two years of effort, Pierre and his family retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and  the Loire to the port of Nantes.  They settled at nearby Chantenay and subsisted on government handouts and what work they could find.  Daughter Marie-Perrine married Pierre-Ignace, son of fellow Acadians Ignace Heusé and his second wife Cécile Bourg, at St.-Martin de Chantenay in April 1785.  Pierre's older daughter Anne-Louise remained unmarried in France. 

Meanwhile, Pierre's youngest sister Marguerite returned from îles St.-Pierre and Miquelon, where she had gone with her older sisters in the early 1760s.  She married Jean-Aubin, son of fellow Acadians Charles Fouquet and Marie-Judith Poitevin of Île St.-Jean and widower, perhaps, of Marie Chevalier and Madeleine Savary, probably in France in the 1760s.  They were at Port-Louis near Lorient in southern Brittany in 1770 and moved on to Nantes by September 1784. 

In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  Hundreds of them, including Pierre and Marguerite Quimine, agreed to take it.  

Members of the family sailed to Louisiana aboard two of the Seven Ships from France in 1785.  Pierre Quimine, age 59, sailed to Louisiana aboard Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in July.  With him were second wife Marie-Madeleine Dugas, age 53, and unmarried daughters Anne-Louise, age 24, and Victoire-Françoise, age 14, by both his wives.  Also aboard the vessel was daughter Marie-Perrine from his first wife and her husband Pierre-Ignace Heusé.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to Manchac on the river south of Baton Rouge.  Pierre died there in the late 1780s, in his early 60s.  Daughter Anne-Louise married Simon-Magloire, son of fellow Acadians Simon Babin and his first wife Anastasie Thériot and widower of Marie-Madeleine Lejeune, at Manchac or Baton Rouge in December 1789.  Simon-Magloire, a native of England, had come to Louisiana from France aboard a later vessel.  On the same day and probably at the same place, Pierre's youngest daughter Victoire-Françoise married Jacques-Olivier, son of fellow Acadians André Templet and his second wife Marguerite LeBlanc.  Jacques-Olivier, a native of St.-Servan-sur-Mer, also had come to Louisiana from France aboard La Bon Papa.  Anne-Louise and Victoire-Françoise followed their husbands, as well as their widowed mother, to upper Bayou Lafourche, where Victoire-Françoise remarried to Antoine, son of Jean-Baptiste Ledet and Marianne Rois, and widower of Marguerite Bilique, a Frenchman from Île de Ré near La Rochelle, France, in November 1797. 

Marguerite Quimine, age 50, sailed to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in November 1785.  With her were husband Jean-Aubin Fouquet, age 52, and two daughters, ages 15 and 11.  They evidently followed some of their fellow passengers to San Bernardo, also called Nueva Gálvez, an Isleño community on the river below New Orleans. 

By the mid-1790s, Spanish officials were counting Quimines from France on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Anne-Louise died by April 1822, when her husband Simon Babin remarried in Lafourche Interior Parish.  Victoire-Françoise's husband Antoine Ledet remarried in the early 1800s, but area church records do not provide her burial date.

Pierre Quimine brought no sons to Louisiana and fathered no sons after he got there.  As a result, the Acadian branch of this family did not take root in the Bayou State.  Its blood, however, did survive in two lines of the Babin and Ledet families.53

Rassicot

René, son of Jean Racicot or Rassicot and Marguerite Crosnier of St.-Jean-Ursin, bishopric of Coutances, Normandy, born there in c1705, settled on Île St.-Jean in the late 1720s.  In October 1729, he married Marie, daughter of Michel Haché dit Gallant and Anne Cormier of Chignecto and widow of François Poirier, at Port-La-Joye on the island.  He and Marie had at least seven children there:  Jean-Baptiste dit Ratier in c1730; Louise-Geneviève in c1731; René, fils in October 1733; Dominique in c1735; Henri in c1737; and Louis in c1739.  They also had a daughter named Marie, birth date unrecorded, but it probably was in the 1740s--five sons and two daughters.  Wife Marie died on Île St.-Jean in September 1749, age 55.  In August 1752, a French official noted that René also was deceased and that his brother-in-law, Charles Haché, living on the south side of upper Rivière-du-Nord-Est in the island's interior, was, according to one source, providing for the Rassicot children, "minor and major."  At least three of René and Marie's children created families of their own on the island.  Jean-Baptiste dit Ratier, at age 23, counted in Auguste 1752 on Rivière-de-Peugiguit in the island's interior, married Marie-Henriette, called Henriette, daughter of Louis Pothier and Cécile Nuirat of Chignecto and Havre-à-l'Anguille and stepdaughter of Norman fisherman Julien Compagnon of Havre-St.-Pierre, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord, the church for Havre-St.-Pierre, in January 1754.  Jean-Baptiste became a sailor.  René, fils, at age 24, married Marie, daughter of Charles Benoit and Madeleine Thériot of Pigiguit, at Port-La-Joye in October 1757.  Marie married Nicolas Laporte, date and place unknown. 

When the British rounded up the Acadians in Nova Scotia in the summer and fall of 1755, René Rassicot's children, 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 redcoats rounded up most of the habitants on the island and deported them to France. 

René Rassicot, fils, age 25, and wife Marie Benoit, age 22, crossed on the deporation transport Tamerlane, which left Chédabouctou Bay in a 12-ship convoy in late November, survivied a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England that sank three other transports, and reached St.-Malo in mid-January 1759.  Both survived the crossing and settled at Châteauneuf on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo.  They seem to have been that rare Acadian couple who had no children.  In 1760, René, fils volunteered for service aboard the corsair Hercules, was captured by the Royal Navy, and held as a prisoner of war in England.  Meanwhile, in 1761, wife Marie moved from Châteauneuf to the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer, perhaps to be closer to the port when her husband returned from corsair duty.  He did not return.  She was listed at St.-Servan as a widow in 1764, a year after the Acadians in England, including captured privateers, were repatriated to France.  In January 1766, she remarried to Joseph, son of fellow Acadians Jacques Hébert and Marguerite Landry and widower of Marguerite Richard, at St.-Servan. 

In 1759, René, fils's older brother Jean-Baptiste dit Ratier and wife Marie-Henriette Pothier landed at Cherbourg in Normandy, where at least five children were born to them in Très Ste.-Trinité Parish:  Jean-Baptiste, fils in c1761; Louis in c1763; Jean-François in June 1765; Anne-Marguerite in c1768; and Marie-Henriette in c1770.  In late May 1771, they sailed from Cherbourg down and around to St.-Malo, arriving there the first of June.  They settled at Plouër-sur-Rance on the west side of the river south of the Breton port and across from where younger brother René, fils had settled before moving up to St.-Servan..  Jean-Baptiste died at La Ville de Port St.-Hubert near Plouër in June 1771, age 40.  In the early 1770s, Marie-Henriette and her children ventured to the interior of Poitou, where French authorities hoped to settle Acadians from the port cities on land owned by an influential nobleman near the city of Châtellerault.  Marie-Henriette remarried to Pierre, son of fellow Acadians Augustin Gaudet and Agnès Chiasson of Chignecto and widower of Anne Giroir, at Châtellerault in October 1775.  The following month, after two years of effort, she, her new husband, and her Rassicot children retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire to the port of Nantes.  By 1785, Marie-Henriette was a widow again.  Her son Jean-Baptiste Rassicot, fils married Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph D'Amours de Chaufours and Geneviève Leroy, at St.-Martin de Chantenay, near Nantes, in May 1781.  Jean-Baptiste, fils died soon after the wedding, and Rose remarried to a Thibodeau

In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  Hundreds of them, including Marie-Henriette Pothier and three of her Rassicot children, agreed to take it.  

Marie-Henriette Pothier, age 46, widow of Jean-Baptiste dit Ratier Rassicot, and three of her children--Jean-François, age 20; Anne-Marguerite, age 17; and Marie-Henriette, age 15--sailed to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships from France, which reached New Orleans in November 1785.  They followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where Marie-Henriette died in January 1787.  

Both of her daughters created families of their own in the Spanish colony.  Anne-Marguerite married Tranquille-François, son of fellow Acadians Pierre Arcement and Marie Hébert, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans in July 1788.  They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Anne Marguerite died in Lafourche Interior Parish in July 1834, in her mid-60s.  Younger sister Marie-Henriette married twice, first to French Creole Pierre Lecompte at Lafourche in July 1791.  A few years later, she was a young widow and caught the eye of one of the most influential men in the colony.  Louis Judice, born at New Orleans in October 1731, had married Marie-Jeanne, daughter of Jacques Cantrelle, founder of the Cabahannocer settlement.  By 1765, Judice and his family were living on a large holding at Cabahannocer granted to him by the French authorities in New Orleans.  After the Spanish took over the colony in March 1766, Louis became co-commandant of the Cabahannocer district with his brother-in-law, Nicolas Verret.  In 1769, Spanish General Alejandro O'Reilly appointed Louis as commandant of the Lafourche des Chitimachas District, which the Acadians called Ascension after its church.  Louis and Marie-Jeanne Cantrelle had a number of children.  By the 1790s, the aging Louis was a widower, but he was determined to take another wife.  In June 1795, 64-year-old Louis Judice, captain of the German Coast militia and commandant of the Ascension District, married 25-year-old Marie-Henriette Rassicot, the widow Lecompte, at Ascension.  Marie-Henriette died a widow in Ascension Parish in February 1826, age 56. 

Marie-Henriette Pothier's son Jean-François, called François, was the only Acadian male Rassicot to make it to Louisiana.  He also settled on upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Antoine Boudrot and Brigitte Apart, in January 1787.  A native of Trigavou near Plouër-sur-Rance, Marie-Madeleine also had crossed to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié, so she and François may have known one another in France.  She died within days of their wedding, so she gave him no children.  François remarried to Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Robichaud and his second wife Anne Hébert, at Lafourche in June 1788.  Marie-Josèphe, a native of St.-Suliac across the river from Plouër, had crossed to Louisiana aboard an earlier ship.  She and Jean-François settled on the upper Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Henriette-Adélaïde in March 1790; Marie-Adélaïde in November 1792; Isabelle-Anne in May 1793; Marie-Clémence in March 1795; and Rosalie, birth date unrecorded--five daughters who married into the Bertrand, Guillon or Guillou, Gaubert, Richard, Bergeron, and Robichaux families and remained on Bayou Lafourche.  Jean-François died at Assumption in c1797, age 32.  His succession, calling him Juan Francisco Rauvichau and his wife Maria Rauvichau, was filed at what became the Lafourche Interior Parish courthouse in January 1800.  He fathered no sons.  As a result, the Acadian branch of the Rassicot family did not take root in the Bayou State.  Its blood, however, did survive in a number of South Louisiana families.54

Renaud

Renaud is a common surname in France, so, as early as 1685, a number of Frenchmen with the name emigrated to greater Acadia.  Among the last of them was Jean dit Arnaud, son of Pierre Renaud and Marie-Madeleine Gainné of Rochefort, France, born there in c1704.  Probably unrelated to the other Renauds in Acadia, Jean dit Arnaud came to Île St.-Jean in the early 1720s and married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Acadians Jean Pothier and his second wife Marie-Madeleine Chiasson, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord, the church for Havre-St.-Pierre on the north shore of the island, in October 1733.  They settled at nearby Havre-au-Sauvage, where a French official counted the couple and seven of their children in August 1752.  The official noted that Jean Arnauld, as he called him, "has been in the country 28 years."  From 1734 to 1758, Marie-Madeleine gave Jean at least 10 children, seven daughters and three sons, on the island:  Marie in December 1734; Rosalie in January 1737; Collette in February 1739; Jean, fils in April 1741; Anne in October 1743; Véronique in c1747; Madeleine-Josèphe in March 1752; Jean-Charles in August 1754 but died at age 3 months the following November; Jacques in December 1755; and Marie-Anne in August 1758.  Oldest daughter Marie married Raphaël La Clair at St.-Pierre-du-Nord in January 1754.

As a result of the British conquest of Île St.-Jean in the summer of 1758, at least one of Jean Renaud dit Arnaud's sons, Jean, fils, and two of his daughters, Colette and Véronique, ended up at Cherbourg in Normandy.  There, Colette married Frenchman René Le Tuillier of Roville, bishopric of Coutances, Normandy, in c1762.  Jean, fils, who became a sailor, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Poirier and Madeleine Granger of Port-Royal, in Tres-Ste.-Trinité Parish, Cherbourg, in January 1764.  Véronique married Jean-François, called François, son of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste De La Mazière dit Ladouceur and Marie Poirier of Île St.-Jean, at Cherbourg in c1768.  Jean-François was a navigator, a blacksmith, and also a carpenter.  The siblings and their spouses had a number of children in their years at Cherbourg.  Colette and husband René had at least seven children, four sons and three daughters.  Jean, fils and wife Marie had at least four children:  Jean III or Jean-Baptiste in July 1765; Isidore-Marin; Pierre-David; and Marie-Anne in April 1772.  Véronique and husband Jean-François had at least two children, a son and a daughter.  

In 1773, all three families followed hundreds of other exiles languishing in the port cities to the interior of Poitou as part of a major settlement venture there.  An influential nobleman had offered to settle them on land he owned near the city of Châtellerault.  Colette and her husband lost a son there, who died at age 2.  Jean, fils and his wife had another son, Louis-Auguste, baptized in St.-Jean-l'Evangeliste Parish, Châtellerault, in February 1775.  Véronique and her husband also had another child, a daughter, baptized at La Chapelle-Roux near Châtellerault in July 1775.  In October and December 1775, after two years of effort, the Renaud siblings and their families retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes.  They settled at nearby Chantenay, where they lived as best they could on government handouts and what work they could find.  Colette and her husband buried a son, age 9, at Chantenay in July 1776.  Their daughter Marie-Rose Le Tullier married Jean-Baptiste, son of fellow Acadians François Legendre and Marguerite Labauve of Meillac south of St.-Malo, France, at St.-Martin de Chantenay in September 1783.  Jean, fils's son Joseph-Abraham was baptized at St.-Martin de Chantenay in April 1777.  Véronique and her husband had four more children, a son and three daughters, at Chantenay between 1777 and 1783, but the youngest daughter died at age 5 months in June 1783.  Meanwhile, in October 1780, they buried a 5-year-old daughter.  In January 1784, at age 50, Colette's husband, René Le Tullier, died, leaving her a widow with three teenage children to look after. 

When in the early 1780s the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in Louisiana, most of the Acadians there, but very few Renauds, agreed to take it.  Jean, fils, for instance, though married to a fellow Acadian, chose to remain at Nantes.  However, his sisters Colette and Véronique and their husbands, and Colette's married daughter Marie-Rose Le Tullier and her husband, agreed to go to the Spanish colony. 

Marie-Rose, age 20, husband Jean-Baptiste Legendre, age 25, and their infant daughter Rose sailed to Louisiana aboard 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.  Colette, age 45, and three of her unmarried Le Tullier children, ages 19, 16 and 14, sailed to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, which left Paimboeuf, the lower port of Nantes, in late August and reached New Orleans in November 1785.  They did not follow their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche but chose to join daughter Marie-Rose and her husband at Manchac.  Colette's sister Véronique, age 37, also sailed aboard L'Amitié, with husband Jean-François De La Mazière, age 37, and three children, ages 8, 6, and 4.  Véronique was pregnant when the ship left Paimboeuf.  In early October, during the crossing, she gave birth to another daughter, whom she and her husband named Martina, or Martine, in honor of Louisiana's Spanish intendente, Martin Navarro, who served as godfather to the newborn Acadians. Véronique and her family followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where the De La Mazières shortened their name to Mazière.  

The Renaud sisters from Île St.-Jean were the only Acadians with the name to settle in Louisiana.  Younger sister Véronique's Mazière's son Jean-Baptiste fathered no children.  However, Colette's Le Tullier sons married Daigre sisters and created vigorous lines in the Baton Rouge area, so the blood of the Acadian Renauds survived in the Bayou State.  The Renauds or Reynauds of South Louisiana today are descendants of French Creoles, Foreign French, or Afro Creoles, not Acadians.55

Ritte

According to the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Catherine Ritte, widow of Guillaume Blanchard, was Acadian.  Evidently she settled in the Opelousas District, where she was buried in April 1790 under the name Catherine Rieter.56

Savary

François Savary, a mason and stone cutter, was indentured to Antoine Héron "for the company of Acadia" in 1686.  In c1689, free from his contract, François married Geneviève Forest at Port-Royal.  They had one child, son André, born at Port-Royal in c1690.  When the boy was age 2, his mother remarried to Louis Mazerolle dit Saint-Louis, so François must have died soon after his son was born; André may even have been born posthumously.  Louis Mazerolle raised André, who, in February 1712, married Marie-Marthe, daughter of Bernard Doucet dit Laverdure and Madeleine Corporon, at Annapolis Royal, formerly Port-Royal.  Between 1714 and 1739, Marie-Marthe gave André 11 children, five sons and six daughters.  Three of their daughters married into the Doiron and Horne families.  Three of André and Marie-Marthe's sons also married.  In the 1730s and 1740s, the couple lived at Pigiguit and Grand-Pré in the Minas Basin before moving on to Île St.-Jean in c1750.  One wonders if Marie-Marthe had died by then.  In August 1752, André, now a widower, age 60, was counted at Petite-Ascension in the interior of the island with six unmarried children:  Charles, age 25; Marguerite, age 23; Marguerite-Josèphe, age 21; Jean-Baptiste, age 20; Françoise-Anastasie, age 18; and Charles-Olivier, age 13.  Oldest son Bernard, born at Annapolis Royal in October 1714, married Marie, daughter of François Michel dit La Ruine and Marguerite Meunier, probably at Pigiguit in c1734.  They followed his father to Île St.-Jean and were counted at Petite-Ascension in August 1752 with seven of their 13 children:  André le jeune, age 17; Jean-Baptiste le jeune, age 14; Agnès, age 10; Isaac, age 9; Rose, age 7; Charles le jeune, age 3; and Louis, age 13 months.  André's second son Joseph, born at Grand-Pré in February 1721, married Françoise, daughter of Antoine Barrieau and Angélique Thibodeau, probably at Pigiguit in c1747.  He and Françoise also followed his family to Île St.-Jean, where they were counted at Petite-Ascension in August 1752 with two children:  Joseph, age 4; and Marie, age 2.  André's third son Charles, born at either Pigiguit or Grand-Pré in c1727, followed his father to Île St.-Jean and married Louise-Geneviève, daughter of Louis Closquinet or Clossinet and Marguerite Longuépée, on the island in c1755. 

When the British rounded up the Acadians in Nova Scotia during the summer and fall of 1755, the Savarys on Île St.-Jean, 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 redcoats rounded up most of the habitants on Île St.-Jean deported them to France. 

Some of the Savarys on Île St.-Jean managed to elude the British.  André, perhaps sensing the futility of remaining on the island during a full-blown war between in greater Acadia between Britain and France, fled north to Québec even before the fall of Louisbourg.  He was buried at St.-Jean, Île d'Orléans, just downriver from Québec City, in November 1757, age 65, a year before the British captured the Maritimes islands--victim, perhaps, of the smallpox epidemic that killed hundreds of exiles in and around the Canadian capital from the summer of 1757 to the spring of 1758.  Son Joseph and his family must have gone to Québec with him; Joseph died at St.-Charles de Bellechasse across from Québec City in January 1758, age 37, probably another victim of the pox.  Oldest son Bernard and his family, except for daughter Anne-Marie-Madeleine, also may have escaped the British roundup on Île St.-Jean. 

Other Savarys on Île St.-Jean did not escape the British in 1758.  André Savary's third son Charles, age 31, wife Louise Clossinet, age 34, and sons Jean-Charles, age 2 1/2, and Charles, fils, age unrecorded, made the crossing to St.-Malo, France, aboard the deportation transport Supply, which left Chédabouctou Bay in late November in a 12-ship convoy, was damaged in a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England that sank three other transports, put in at Bideford, England, for repairs, and finally reached St.-Malo during the second week of March 1759.  Charles, père, Louise, and Jean-Charles survived the crossing, but Charles, fils died at sea.  Charles, père died at St.-Suliac on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo in late April 1759, probably from the rigors of the crossing.  Widow Louise remarried to fellow Acadian Charles Trahan at Châteauneuf south of St.-Suliac in August 1759.  Another Charles Savary, age 18, probably André's fifth and youngest son Charles-Olivier, crossed alone on one of the five deportation 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.  Young Charles survived the crossing.  In February 1760, perhaps having become a sailor, he embarked on the ship Prince-Édouard, perhaps a privateer vessel, and disappears from history. 

Charles, père's and Charles-Olivier's niece--oldest brother Bernard's daughter Anne-Marie-Madeleine, age 17--made the crossing on a deportation transport that took her to Cherbourg in Normandy.  One suspects she crossed with relatives who looked after her.  She did not remain in the Norman port.  She was living probably with relatives at Pleudihen-sur-Rance on the river south of St.-Suliac from 1759 to 1771 and was at Plouër-sur-Rance across the river from Pleudihen in 1772.  Still in her teens, she married fellow Acadian Pierre Pothier, widower of Marie Comeau, at Pleudihen in May 1771.  One wonders if they joined hundreds of other Acadians in the settlement venture in Poitou in the early 1770s and moved on to the lower Loire port of Nantes in the mid-1770s.  By September 1784, Anne was living at Nantes, a widow, with two young Pothier sons:  Baptiste-Olivier, born in c1773; and Jacques-Sylvain in c1778.  When in the early 1780s the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, Anne-Marie-Madeleine Savary and her sons agreed to take it.  The other Acadian Savary who might have still been in France--first cousin Jean-Charles, who, if he was still alive, would have been age 29 in 1785--chose to remain. 

Anne-Marie-Madeleine, age 31, crossed to Louisiana aboard La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships from France, with her two sons, Baptiste-Olivier Pothier, age 12, and Jacques-Sylvain Pothier, age 7.  They reached New Orleans in August 1785 and followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where Anne remarried to Joseph, fils, son of fellow Acadians Joseph Granger and Marguerite Gautrot, in June 1786.  Joseph, fils, a native of Minas, also had come to Louisiana from France in 1785, though on which vessel the records do not say.  Anne-Marie-Madeleine had no more children by him.  Her younger son Jacques-Sylvain Potier seems to have died not long after the family reached Louisiana.  Older son Baptiste-Olivier Potier married Élisabeth or Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Aucoin and Élisabeth Hébert, who also had come to Louisiana from France, aboard the third ship Le Beaumont.  Baptiste-Olivier and Isabelle set down roots on Bayou Lafourche. 

No male descendant of an Acadian Savary emigrated to Louisiana.  However, the blood of one family, that of François Savary of Port-Royal and his only son André of Île St.-Jean, survived through a line of the Potier family that sprang from one of André's granddaughters.  The Savarys, or Savorys, of South Louisiana today are descended from French Creoles, Foreign French, or Anglo Americans, not Acadians.57

Ségoillot

Émilien dit Sans-Chagrin, son of Dominique Ségoillot and Marie Boulet (Acadian genealogist Bona Arsenault says the mother was Étiennette Ducharme), born at St.-Pierre, Autun, Bourgogne, France, in c1714, served in the Louisbourg garrison as a senior sergeant of troupes de la marine beginning in the early 1730s.  Probably after he retired from the King's service, he married Élisabeth-Blanche, 17-year-old daughter of Acadians François LaVache and Anne-Marie Vincent, at Port-La-Joye on Île St.-Jean in September1752.  A few days earlier, a French official counted them at Grande-Anse on the south shore of the island.  Élisabeth-Blanche gave Émilien dit Sans-Chagrin a son, François-Dominique, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord on the north end of the island in July 1753.  The old sergeant remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Jacques Naquin and Jeanne Melanson of Cobeguit, at Port-La-Joye in September 1755.  Marguerite gave him a daughter, Marie, born probably on the island in c1756.

When the British rounded up the Acadians in Nova Scotia in the summer and fall of 1755, the Ségoillots on Île St.-Jean, 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 redcoats deported most of the habitants on Île St.-Jean to France.  Émilien dit Sans-Chagrin, age 45, wife Marguerite Naquin, age 35, son François-Dominique, age 5 1/2, and daughter Marie, age 21 months, made the crossing aboard one of the five deportation transports that left Chédabouctou 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.  All of the family survived the crossing except little Marie, who died at sea.  

In France, Émilien dit Sans-Chagrin and his family settled at St.-Suliac on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo.  Marguerite gave the old soldier another daughter at St.-Suliac, Marie-Françoise in January 1764.  The year after Marie-Françoise's birth, the family moved from St.-Suliac to Belle-Île-en-Mer, where they joined dozens of other Acadians from the coastal cities, most of them recently repatriated from England, who were determined to bring life to the sandy soil of the big island off the southern coast of Brittany.  Another daughter, Marguerite-Josèphe, was born on Belle-Île-en-Mer in c1766--four children, a son and three daughters, between 1753 and 1766, in greater Acadia and France.  A French official counted the family at Borbren in the parish of Locmoria on the southeast end of the island in February 1767.  Émilien dit Sans-Chagrin and Marguerite died on the island, he in c1769, in his late 50s, she in December 1773, in her late 40s.  After his parents died, François-Dominique, age 20 in 1773, if he was still living, may have resolved to remain on the island.  His sisters did not. 

In September 1784, Spanish officials counted Marie Sigoliau, probably Marie-Françoise, and an unnamed orphan, probably Marguerite-Josèphe, in the lower Loire port of Nantes in southeastern Brittany.  They would have been ages 20 and 18 at the time of the survey, and they were recorded on a list of Acadians in the city who expressed interest in going to Louisiana at the expense of the Spanish crown.  When it was time to board a ship for New Orleans, however, Marie-Françoise did not go.  Perhaps she married a Frenchman at Nantes who insisted that they remain in the mother country, or she may have died before the first of the Seven Ships set sail from Paimboeuf, the lower port of Nantes, in May 1785.  Younger sister Marguerite-Josèphe evidently had no reason to stay. 

Marguerite-Josèphe Ségoillot, age 19, crossed to Louisiana alone aboard La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships from France, which reached New Orleans in August 1785.  After a short respite in the city, she may have followed most of her fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, or she may have remained at New Orleans.  She was the only Ségoillot to emigrate to Louisiana, and there is no evidence that she married there.  The Acadian branch of this family, then, perhaps including its blood, did not take root in the Bayou State.  

One wonders what happened to her after she reached the colony with hundreds of her fellow exiles.  One possibility is a tragic one.  According to the most careful study of the Seven Ships expedition, that of Oscar Wenzerling, the first ship, Le Bon Papa, reached New Orleans from Paimboeuf in late July 1785.  Winzerling continues: "The voyage was a success in its freedom from storms, and from epidemics and sickness of any kind.  Only one death," that of an infant, he adds, "marred an otherwise perfect voyage."  Such was not the fate of the second ship, La Bergère, which left Paimboeuf in May only four days after Le Bon Papa set sail, but La Bergère did not reach New Orleans until the middle of August.  Le Bon Papa had carried 156 passengers; La Bergère, a frigate and a larger ship, was burdened with 273.  La Bergère reached New Orleans "fortunately without any mishap," Winzerling notes, but the voyage was not as "perfect" as the previous one.  Six elderly persons had died at sea, but seven babies had been born before the ship reached the city.  Sadly, nine more passengers from La Bergère died at New Orleans while they recuperated from the 93-day voyage.  The debarkation list for La Bergère, which has survived, does not include the name of "single girl" Marguerite-Josèphe Ségoillot; she appears only on the ship's embarkation list.  Was the 19-year-old daughter of the old sergeant from Île St.-Jean one of the passengers who died at New Orleans during the period of recuperation?58

Surette

Pierre, son of Noël Surette and Françoise Colarde of Mauset, diocese of La Rochelle, France, born in c1679, was a sailor when he came to French Acadia.  He married Jeanne, daughter of Étienne Pellerin and Jeanne Savoie, at Port-Royal in February 1709.  They remained at Port-Royal and settled in the parish of St.-Laurent on the haute rivière, now the upper Annapolis River.  Although Pierre became a farmer along the haute rivière, he also continued to work as a sailor.  As late as 1724, when he was in his mid-40s, records show him as a crew member on Englishman William Winniett's sailing vessel.  Between 1709 and 1728, at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, Jeanne gave Pierre nine children, three sons and six daughters.  Pierre died at Annapolis Royal in October 1749, age 70.  Four of his daughters married into the Doucet, Gignac, Long, Mius d'Azy, and Petitot dit Saint-Seine families.  His three sons also created families of their own, but they did not remain on haute rivière.  Oldest son Pierre II, as he was called, born in December 1709, married Catherine, daughter of Pierre Breau and Anne LeBlanc, at Grand-Pré in September 1732 and lived at Minas before moving to Petitcoudiac in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto.  Middle son Joseph, born in May 1712, married Marguerite, daughter of Claude Thériot and Marguerite Cormier, at Grand-Pré in October 1730.  They remained at Minas before moving to Petitcoudiac, where Joseph drowned in the river there in c1750.   Pierre, père's youngest son Paul, twin of sister Madeleine, born in November 1721, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of ____ Landry and Élisabeth Thériot and widow of Jean Landry, in c1758 during exile.  In 1755, descendants of Pierre Surette, père could be found at Annapolis Royal, Minas, and Petitcoudiac.  Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this family even farther. 

After yet another war erupted between Britain and France in the early 1750s, area Acadians were caught in the middle of it.  When British and New-English forces attacked Fort Beauséjour in June 1755, Surettes were among the trois-rivières Acadians who were serving in the fort as militia, though they may have left the fort a few days before it surrendered on June 16.  Lieutenant-Governor Charles Lawrence was so incensed to find so-called French Neutrals fighting with French troupes de la marine at Beauséjour he ordered his officers to deport the area Acadians to the southernmost seaboard colonies.  Evidently the Surettes, led by Pierre II, escaped this first round of deportations.  They instead helped form an Acadian resistance that both attacked the British in their Missaguash forts and protected their homes in the trois-rivières.  The British managed to capture some of the resistance fighters, including Pierre II, who was confined in Fort Cumberland, formerly Beauséjour, but he did not remain in British custody for long.  In late February 1756, Pierre II, who had ingratiated himself with his British captors, led a daring escape from Fort Cumberland.  Eighty Acadians squeezed through a tunnel they had dug with discarded horse bones.  They escaped to the woods and managed to elude the British, but they paid a terrible price in doing so. 

At Miramichi on the Gulf of St. Lawrence they suffered almost as much as they had done in the woods north of Chignecto.  In November 1759, near Memramcook, Pierre II and two other Acadian resistance leaders, Jean and Michel Bourg, "surrendered" to the British, but Pierre Surette II, at least, escaped again.  The following spring, he rejoined the resistance movement at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, now a major Acadian refuge, which a British naval force from Louisbourg attacked in late June 1760.  After a spirited fight in which Acadian militiia 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 resist a British landing.  Unable to capture the garrison and 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, returned to Restigouche to accept the French garrison's, and the Acadians', surrender.  On October 24, on the eve of formal surrender, French officers compiled a list of 1,003 Acadians still at Restigouche.  No Surettes appeared on the list, not surprising when one considers the stealthy nature of the Acadian resistance.  However, the French in Canada had surrendered that colony after the fall of Montréal, and the resistance could no longer expect assistance of any kind from that quarter.  During the following months, the refugees at Restigouche, along with hundreds of other exiles who either were captured by, or surrendered to, British forces in the area, were held in prison compounds in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  British officials counted Pierre II with a family of five in the prison compound at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, in October 1762. 

At war's end, Pierre II and members of his family decided to remain in greater Acadia.  They settled at Chezzetcook near Halifax until c1770, when they moved down the coast to Ste.-Anne-du-Ruisseau, present-day Pointe-à-Rocco, northeast of Cap-Sable.  Pierre II's sons Charles-Amand, Joseph, and Paul, along with some of their Surette cousins, settled on Rivière St.-Jean in the late 1760s, but some of them joined Pierre II near Halifax by 1769.  Pierre II's nephew Pierre le jeune, son of Joseph, settled at Pointe-du-Diable near the British settlement of Dartmouth, across from Halifax.  Surettes, especially descendants of Pierre II, also settled at Météghan and other Acadian communities on Baie Ste.-Marie, today's St. Mary Bay, along the western shore of Nova Scotia.

Other members of the family who had escaped the British in 1755 sought refuge in Canada.  Pierre II's widowed mother Jeanne Pellerin died at Québec in late January 1758, age 70, victim, perhaps, of the smallpox epidemic that killed hundreds of exiles in and around the Canadian capital from the summer of 1757 to the spring of 1758.  Brother Joseph's daughter Anne, widow of Paul Doucet, remarried to fellow Acadian Jean-Baptiste Pitre at St.-Pierre-les-Becquets above Québec in March 1761.  Pierre II's youngest sister Françoise, widow of Joseph Petitot dit Saint-Seine, remarried to Jacques, fils, son of Jacques Gignac and Marie-Anne Richard and widower of Anne-Françoise Lafond dit Mongrain, at Ste.-Foy near Québec City in October 1764.  Joseph's daughter Marguerite married Jacques, fils, son of Canadians Jacques Tessier and Marie-Louie Monet, at La Chine above Montréal in January 1766.

As Pierre II would attest, 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, like Pierre II and his family, 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 remained, 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 loved ones in Canada or in other corners of greater Acadia.  After all that 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 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, including one of Pierre Surette II's kinsmen, refused to remain under British rule.  So they gathered up their money and their few possessions and prepared to leave their homeland.  Among the 600 exiles who left Halifax in late 1764 and early 1765 bound for Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, three were Surettes. 

In late 1764, Pierre Surette, age unrecorded, his wife Marie Thibodeau, age 25, and their 3-year-old daughter Anne-Marie followed the Beausoleil Broussards from Halifax via Cap-Français to New Orleans, which they reached in late February 1765.  Also in the party were Marie's widowed mother and three of Marie's younger siblings.  After a short respite in New Orleans, during which daughter Marie-Anne was baptized on March 4 at the St.-Louis church, Pierre and Marie followed the Broussards and the Thibodeaus to the Attakapas District, where they helped create La Nouvelle-Acadie on the banks of Bayou Teche.  Marie was pregnant when they reached the colony, and in June, two months after they settled on the lower Teche, she gave birth to son Augustin.  

That summer and fall, a mysterious epidemic swept through the Teche valley settlements and killed dozens of Acadians.  When French officials counted the surviving Attakapas settlers in April 1766, only Marie Thibodeaux and daughter Marie-Anne Surette were left in her household at La Manque on the lower Teche.  Pierre and the infant Augustin must have died by then, perhaps unrecorded victims of the epidemic.  Marie remained on the Teche and remarried to fellow Acadian Jean-Baptiste Semer at Attakapas in c1768.  

Marie-Anne Surette married Firmin dit Ephrem, son of fellow Acadians Bruno Robichaux and Félicité Broussard, at Attakapas in April 1778.  She gave him 10 children between 1779 and his death in 1804.  In August 1811, in her late 40s, she remarried to Marcel, son of fellow Acadians Paul LeBlanc and Agnès or Anne Babin, at the St. Martinville church in St. Martin Parish.  Soon after their marriage, Marie-Anne's second husband secured a decree of separation from her.  She died at her home at Grande Pointe on the upper Teche in November 1817.  The priest who recorded her burial said that she died at "age about 53 years."  She was 55.  Her successions were filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in August 1811 and December 1817. 

Though her parents produced a son in Louisiana, the boy died in childhood, and her father Pierre did not live long enough to father more children.  The Acadian branch of the family, then, survived in a line of the Robichaux family, but it did not take root in the Bayou State.  The Surettes of South Louisiana today are French Creoles or Foreign French, not Acadians who share blood with the famous resistance fighter, Pierre II.59

The Foundational Acadian Families of South Louisiana

The failure of these 56 families to establish detectable agnatic lines in the Bayou State left 101 other Acadian families to serve as the foundation of today's Cajun culture.  Forty-six of these "foundational families" produced fairly large lines in Louisiana.  Among the largest, eight of them--Babin, Boudreaux, Breaux, Hébert, Landry, LeBlanc, Richard, and Thibodeaux--were some of the oldest families in French Acadia.  Two others--Broussard and Guidry--had been relatively small families in the old country but proliferated dramatically in Louisiana.  Many of the other, older families--Arceneaux, Aucoin, Benoit, Bergeron, Bernard, Blanchard, Bourg/Bourque, Bourgeois, Chiasson, Comeaux, Cormier, Daigre/Daigle, Doucet, Dugas, Dupuis, Foret, Gaudet, Gautreaux, Girouard, Godin/Gaudin, Guilbeau, Leger, Lejeune, Martin, Melançon, Pitre, Prejean, Robichaux, Savoie, Sonnier, Theriot, and Trahan--created substantial lines in the Bayou State.  Several families--Duhon, Guillot, Mire, and Mouton--had reached Acadia somewhat later than the others and were relatively small in size there, but in Louisiana they, too, proliferated during the antebellum period.  Most of the Acadian families in the Bayou State, however--Achee, Allain, Arbour, Arcement, Babineaux, Barrilleaux, Bertrand, Boutin, Brasseaux, Bujole, Clément, Clouâtre, Crochet, Dantin, David, Delaune, Deroche, Doiron, Dubois, Gousman, Granger, Gravois, Henry, Jeansonne, Labauve, Lachaussee, Lalande, Lambert, Lanoux, Lebert, Legendre, Levron, Longuépée, Louvière, Mazerolle, Michel, Moise, Molaison, Naquin, Orillion, Ozelet, Part, Pinel, Poirier, Potier, Prince, Rivet, Roger, Roy, Semere, Talbot, Templet, Use, Villejoin, and Vincent--were, by the end of the antebellum period, comparatively smaller in numbers than their prolific cousins.02

The surviving families settled in every corner of South Louisiana, including areas in which, during the colonial period, Acadians had not gone or had been numerical minorities.  Beginning in the 1830s, led by the Guidrys, a hand full of Acadian families from the southwest prairies crossed the Sabine River and resettled in East Texas, the first of them while Texas was still a province of Mexico.  One family--the Gousmans, who were descended from a Spaniard who married in British Nova Scotia--moved from the river below New Orleans north to St. Tammany, and there they remained.  Most of the foundational families, however, remained in the predominantly-Acadian areas of South Louisiana:  in the river parishes above New Orleans, still called the Acadian Coast; the Bayou Lafourche/Bayou Terrebonne valley; and on the southwest prairies.  Members of many families, especially the largest ones, could be found in all three Acadian areas of settlement, east and west of the Atchafalaya Basin: 

Achée

Michel Haché dit Gallant, son of Pierre Larcher or Larché of St.-Pierre parish, Montdidier, Picardie, in northern France, and an unidentified Indian woman, was born at Trois-Rivières, Canada, in c1662.  Michel came to Acadia as a young servant of Michel Le Neuf de La Vallière, the seigneur of Chignecto, between 1678 and 1682, and married Anne, daughter of Chignecto pioneers Thomas Cormier and Madeleine Girouard, in c1690.  Around 1720, probably to escape British authority in Nova Scotia, Michel dit Gallant became a pioneer himself when he moved his family from Chignecto to what the French called Île St.-Jean.  According to many historians, Michel Haché dit Gallant was "one of the island's first European settlers" and the first Acadian who settled on the island.  He built his new home on a red sandstone cliff now called Rocky Point, overlooking a promising harbor that came to be known as Port-La-Joye, across the channel from today's Charlottetown, the capital of the province of Prince Edward Island.  Michel dit Gallant and Anne had 12 children.  He died after falling through the ice at the mouth of Rivière-du-Nord, across from Port-La-Joye, in April 1737, age 74.  His daughters married into the Poirier, Rassicot, Prétieux, Jacqueline dit Lorraine, Hango dit Choisy, Duval, and Belliveau families.  His seven sons, all born at Chignecto, married into the LeBlanc, Gaudet, Gentil, Lavergne, and Boudrot families and settled on Île St.-Jean, though one of them, the oldest, returned to Beaubassin at Chignecto.   Le Grand Dérangement scattered this family even farther. 

The Chignecto Acadians 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 milita, 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.  Hachés may have been were among the refugees of 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 Chignecto Acadians to the southernmost seaboard colonies.  Two Haché brothers ended up on the sloop Endeavor, which left Chignecto on October 13 and reached Charles Town, South Carolina, on November 19.  Evidently they were among the exiles in South Carolina who colonial officials encouraged to return to Acadia by boat the following spring.  After a long, trying journey to the lower Rivière St.-Jean, which they reached that summer, they continued on to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore or moved on to Canada. 

Members of the family at Chignecto who escaped the British in the fall of 1755 also took refuge in Canada.  A Haché married to a Doucet died at Québec in November or December 1757, in her late 20s, victim, most likely, of the smallpox epidemic that killed hundreds of exiles, including her husband's father, in and around the Canadian capital from the summer of 1757 to the spring of 1758.  Her sister, also married to a Doucet, died at Trois-Rivières on the upper St.-Lawrence in August 1762, in her early 40s, during the final months of the war. 

The many Hachés still on Île St.-Jean in 1755 escaped the roundup of their loved ones at Chignecto.  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 island habitants and deported them to France.  Most of the island Haché dit Gallants escaped the British, crossed Mer Rouge, and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  By 1760, some of them moved on to the French stronghold at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, where they joined their cousins from Chignecto.  Some of their island cousins, however, were deported to France. 

The crossing to France devastated the family.  Hachés crossed on the deporation transport Duc Guillaume, which, left the Maritimes in September and, after a mid-ocean mishap, limped into St.-Malo harbor in early November.  Some of them died at sea.  Other Hachés fared just as badly on the crossing to St.-Malo.  A Haché wife and her family were lost at sea on the British transport Violet, which left Chédabouctou Bay in a 12-ship convoy in late November and sank in a mid December off the southwest coast of England.  None survived.  Hachés crossed on the transport Supply, which left Chédabouctou Bay in the 12-ship convoy, survived the storm that sank the Violet, put in at Bideford, England, for repairs, and did not reach St.-Malo until early March 1759.  More members of the family perished.  A Haché wife and her family crossed on the transport Tamerlane, which left Chédabouctou Bay in the 12-ship convoy, survived the mid-December storm, and reached St.-Malo in mid-January.  They all survived the crossing.  Hachés also crossed on one of the five transports that left Chédabouctou Bay in the 12-ship convoy, survived the storm, and reached St.-Malo together in late January, but many more members of the family were lost.  Island Hachés did their best to make a life for themselves in the suburbs and villages of the St.-Malo area.  They settled at St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, across the harbor from St.-Malo; in the suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer across from St.-Énogat; and at Châteauneuf on the east side of the river south of St.-Servan.  Island Hachés also landed at the northern fishing port of Boulogne-sur-Mer in Picardie, not far from their ancestor's birthplace, but few remained.  Island Hachés also landed at Cherbourg in Normandy, but none of them remained.  Many of the Hachés in these ports joined their cousins at St.-Énogat and St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  Members of the family ended up at the southern port of Bordeaux on the Bay of Biscay, and there they stayed.  In late 1765, a widow and her Haché children followed her second husband to Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany--among the relatively few island Acadians who went there with dozens of fellow Acadians recently repatriated from England.  In February 1767, French officials counted the widow and her family at Keruest near Bangor in the island's southern interior.  One of Michel Haché dit Gallant's descendants made it to France by a different route.  She evidently had followed her husband to Île Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  One wonders if she and her family went to Miquelon from imprisonment in Nova Scotia at war's end, or if they were deported from the French Maritimes to France in 1758-59 and followed other Acadians from the mother country to the Newfoundland island in the 1770s.  No matter, she did not remain on the island.  In the summer of 1778, during the American Revolution, the British captured the Newfoundland islands and deported her family, along with the other islanders, to France.  She died in St.-Nicolas Parish, La Rochelle, in October 1779, age 65.  In the early 1770s, Hachés languishing in the port cities 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 port cities.  An influential nobleman offered to settle them on land he owned near the city of Châtellerault.  Members of the family went there from St.-Énogat, St.-Servan-sur-Mer, Cherbourg, and Boulogne-sur-Mer.  Beginning in October 1775, after two years of effort, most of the Poitou Acadians, including the Hachés, retreated in four convoys down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes, where they subsisted as best they could on government handouts and on what work they could find.  They settled in the parishes of St.-Jacques and St.-Nicolas at Nantes and especially at nearby Chantenay.  In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France a chance for a new life in Louisiana.  At least 17 Hachés, all from the Nantes parishes, agreed to take it.  Some of the island Hachés, however, perhaps the majority of them, chose to remain in the mother country.  They included a family from Belle-Île-en-Mer that had moved on to Lorient in southern Brittany, as well as the remaining Hachés at Bordeaux.

In North America, things got only worse for the Acadians who had escaped the British in the late 1750s and taken 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, 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 at Restgouche, many Haché dit Gallants among them.  They, along with other exiles captured or surrendered in the region, were held in prison compounds on the Gulf shore or in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  In August 1763, a Haché family appeared on a repatriation list at Fort Cumberland, formerly French Fort Beauséjour, near their old family homesteads at Chignecto. 

After the war, Haché dit Gallants from Chignecto and Île St.-Jean who had taken refuge in Canada and at Restigouche could be found in scattered communities from the upper St. Lawrence down to Cape Breton Island, all part of present-day Canada.  Though a conquered British possession after the fall of Montréal, the far-northern province was populated largely by fellow French Catholics, many of them fellow Acadian exiles.  So, in a colony nearly as old as Acadia, descendants of Michel Haché dit Gallant and Anne Cormier began the slow, inexorable process of becoming Canadiennes.  From the 1760s, members of the family could be found at Pointe-du-Lac, Louiseville, St.-Grégoire, Nicolet, Gentilly, and St.-Antoine-de-Chambly on the upper St. Lawrence; Barachois in Gaspésie; Shippagan, Caraquet, Nepisiguit, now Bathurst, Richibouctou, Grande-Digue, Shédiac, Cap-Pélé, and Memramcook in present-day eastern New Brunswick; Amherst and Nappan in northwestern Nova Scotia; Mont-Carmel, Egmont Bay, Cascumpec, and Rustico on St. John Island, renamed by the British St. John's Island and then Prince Edward Island; Margaree on the western coast of Cape Breton Island; and in 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. 

At least one of them ended up on Martinique in the French Antilles, where she escaped British rule.  However, the Haché family at Fort Cumberland in 1763, like most of their kinsmen in the region, chose to remain in British-controlled greater Acadia. 

The only members of the family to go to Spanish Louisiana did so aboard at least two of the Seven Ships from France in 1785.  In July 1785, the first of the Seven Ships, Le Bon Papa out of the Paimboeuf, the lower port of Nantes, reached New Orleans with two sets of unmarried Haché sisters, all born in France, and an unmarried cousin.  Three of the sisters were daughters of Joseph Haché dit Gallant and Marie Dumont.  They may have followed their fellow passengers to Manchac on the river below Baton Rouge.  If so, they did not remain there.  Oldest sister Hélène married Jean-Baptiste, son of fellow Acadians Michel David and Geneviève Hébert, at Cabahannocer downriver from Manchac in October 1788.  Third sister Élisabeth, or Isabelle, married Joseph, son of Claude-François Calandrot and Marie Rossetalon of France, at Cabahannocer in May 1794.  Second sister Marie-Josèphe married Antonio Ramirez, a Spaniard, perhaps an Isleño or Canary Islander, probably at San Bernardo, an  Isleños community on the river below New Orleans, in the late 1780s.  The second set of sisters aboard Le Bon Papa were daughters of Jacques Haché dit Gallant and Anne Boudrot.  They, too, followed their fellow passengers to Manchac, and they, too, did not remain there.  Older sister Marie-Jeanne, called Jeanne, married François, son of Charles Sevin and Marie Hugue of St.-Malo, a Frenchman, at nearby Baton Rouge in June 1787 and moved on to Bayou Lafourche, where, at age 52, she remarried to fellow Acadian Magloire-Simon Babin, a widower, in Lafourche Interior Parish in April 1822 .  Younger sister Marguerite-Marie never married and died in St. James Parish, formerly Cabahannocer, on the river in October 1847, age 74.  Their first cousin Marie-Jeanne, daughter of Antoine Haché dit Gallant and Marie Clémenceau, married fellow Acadian Mathurin-Charles Heusé at San Gabriel on the river in November 1786, settled north of Bayou Manchac in the Baton Rouge District, and then moved on to upper Bayou Lafourche. 

In November 1785, the fifth of the Seven Ships, L'Amitié, also out of Paimboeuf, reached New Orleans.  Aboard were several Haché families.  Anne-Marie Haché and her husband Jean-Charles Benoit settled at San Bernardo on the river below New Orleans, as did Madeleine-Apolline Haché, sister of Hélène et al.  Madeleine-Apolline came to the colony on L'Amitié with an aunt, Anne Olivier of Annapolis Royal, widow of her father's brother Jean-Baptiste Haché dit Gallant.  Unlike her sisters, Madeleine-Apolline did not marry. 

The other Haché families that crossed on L'Amitié followed most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  The family of Louis Haché of Île St.-Jean was led by his second wife, Françoise Doucet, age 46.  Louis did not take L'Amitié to the colony but came later.  With Françoise were son Pierre-Charles, age 10, and three orphans:  niece Marie-Anne Haché, age 19; and nephews Pierre-Alexis Haché, age 16; and Joseph-François Haché, age 10.  Marie-Anne married Frenchman Louis-Antoine Charrié of Nior, Poitou, at New Orleans in December 1785; Louis-Antoine also had crossed on L'Amitié.  After a brief respite in New Orleans, Françoise and her charges, along with Marie-Anne and her husband, settled on the upper Lafourche.  In December 1790, Marie-Anne remarried to Pierre de St. Angel of Québec, at Lafourche.  Nine years later, in May 1799, Marie-Anne remarried again--her third marriage--to Michel Barré of Montréal.  Meanwhile, Louis Haché joined his wife Françoise Doucet at Lafourche.  They had no more children in Louisiana, so Louis's line was perpetuated by his only son, Pierre-Charles.  Louis's Haché's nephews Pierre-Alexis and Joseph-François, the youngest sons of Louis's older brother Pierre, went with their aunt and uncle to the Lafourche, where Pierre-Alexis remained, but Joseph-François left the valley after he married and settled on Bayou Teche, west of the Atchafalaya Basin.  Two of Louis's grandsons settled in Iberville Parish on the river in the early 1800s, but most of his descendants remained on Bayou Lafourche in Assumption and Lafourche Interior parishes.  

Another Haché family that crossed on L'Amitié was led by Jean-Baptiste-Charles, 22-year-old son of Jean-Charles Haché and his second wife Marie Hébert.  Jean-Baptiste-Charles had been born at Chantenay near Nantes.  His 20-year-old wife, Marie-Modeste Pinet dit Pinel, also had been born in France.  With them were Jean-Baptiste-Charles's sister Marie-Bonne, age 18; his brother Frédéric, age 15; and his infant daughter, Martina, or Martine, who had been born a week before the ship's departure from Paimboeuf in August (Martine was one of the Acadian infants baptized at New Orleans in late 1785 who was named in honor of Louisiana intendant Martin Navarro, who served as the childrens' honorary godfather and who the Acadians adored).  This family also went to the upper Lafourche, where Jean-Baptiste-Charles died before fathering any sons.  Sister Marie-Bonne did not remain at Lafourche but crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to the Attakapas District, where she married Joseph dit Tito St. Germain of Fort Chartres, Illinois, in August 1788.  Brother Frédéric moved from the bayou to the river and probably never married.  Jean-Baptiste-Charles's widow, Marie-Modeste, remained on the upper Lafourche, where she remarried to fellow Acadian Jean-François, called François, Benoit, in September 1789.  Jean-Baptiste-Charles's daughter Martine survived childhood and married fellow Acadian Jean-Baptiste Thibodeaux, widower of Marie-Rose Damour, at Assumption on the upper Lafourche in November 1804.  Jean-Baptiste Thibodeaux and his family also had emigrated to Louisiana from France in 1785.  Martine died in Lafourche Parish in July 1861, age 75--one of the last of the Acadian immigrants in Louisiana to join her ancestors. 

By the end of the colonial period, most of the Hachés were living on upper Bayou Lafourche in present-day Assumption Parish.  Although some of their descendants moved to the river in the early 1800s, the Bayou Lafourche valley remained the largest center of Achée family settlement.  Lafourche valley Achées also moved to the old Attakapas District during the early antebellum period, but not until after the War of 1861-65 did a line of the family set down roots on the western prairies. 

Local church records reveal no Hachés, other than Acadians, living in Louisiana during the colonial period.  A few non-Acadian Hachés, or families with names similar to Achée, into which the name Haché morphed, appear in South Louisiana records during the antebellum period, but their numbers never came close to matching their Acadian namesakes on the Lafourche and the Mississippi.  

Judging from the number of slaves they owned during the late antebellum period, the Achées participated only peripherally in the South's plantation-based economy.  Jean Pierre Achée of Assumption Parish owned six slaves in 1850.  His younger brother Jean Baptiste, also of Assumption Parish, held two slaves that year.  But no Achée owned enough slaves (20) to be considered a planter.  Most members of the family, in fact, held no slaves at all. 

At least half a dozen Achées served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65, and at least one of them gave his life while doing it.  Two brothers from Iberville Parish--Jules and Rosémond--deserted their unit, the 9th Battalion Louisiana Infantry, in the final days of the war, but their cousins served honorably.  Léon Achée from Assumption Parish served in the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry as a junior second lieutenant before resigning his commission in September 1862.  Another Assumption Parish Achée--one of three brothers--served as a sergeant in the 8th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, which was part of General R. E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.  Jean Léopold Achée suffered such a serious wound at Malvern Hill, Virginia, in July 1862 that, after his recuperation, he was discharged from service.  His older brother Joseph Oscar served in the 2nd Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, was wounded and captured at Henderson Hill, Louisiana, in March 1864, early in the Red River Campaign, and was held by the Federals at New Orleans until the following July.  Their youngest brother Bélisaire enlisted early in Company G of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, members of which styled themselves the Lafourche Creoles.  Bélisaire was promoted to corporal on 1 April 1862 and was killed in action five days later at Shiloh, Tennessee.  

During the war, successive Federal incursions devastated the Bayou Lafourche valley, where most of the Acadian Achées still lived.  Confederate foragers also plagued the area when the Federals were not around.  ...

In Acadia, the family's name was spelled Galland, Hachey, and Larché dit Gallant, as well as Haché dit Gallant (haché is French for hatchet).  In Canada, family members tend to use their ancestors' dit, Gallant, as their surname.  They are especially numerous on Prince Edward Island, where the family's pregenitor settled.  The original part of the family name is also spelled Ashee, Hache, Hachey, and Hachez in the provinces.  In Louisiana, the family's name evolved fromt Haché to Achée and is also spelled Achais, Aché, Acher, Achet, Ahhe, Hachet, Hachez, and Hacker there.60

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Seventeen members of the family came to Louisiana from France in 1785, most crossing on L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in early November 1785.  The Acadian Hachés/Achées of South Louisiana descend from three of them, an uncle and two nephews, who settled on the Lafourche and lower Bayou Teche: 

Louis (1741-?) Michel dit Gallant Achée

Louis, eighth son of Jean-Baptiste Haché dit Gallant and Anne-Marie Gentil and grandson of the family's progenitor in Acadia, was born at St.-Pierre-du-Nord, the church for Havre-St.-Pierre on the north shore of Île St.-Jean, in June 1741.  In late 1758, Louis survived the deportation to Cherbourg, France, and moved on to St.-Malo to be near his family at St.-Énogat across the harbor from the Breton port.  After being held as a prisoner of war in England in 1760-63 following his capture on a French corsair, Louis married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Claude Benoit and Élisabeth Thériot, in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer in February 1765.  She gave him two children, a son and a daughter, in the area:  Louis, fils born at St.-Servan in March 1766; and Marguerite-Yvonne at Quesny near Mégrit southwest of St.-Malo in September 1767 but died at St.-Servan age 1 1/2, in March 1769.  Wife Anne died at Mégrit in September 1767, age 23, probably from the rigors of childbirth.  Louis remarried to Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians François Doucet and Marie Carret and widow of Alexis Renaud, at St.-Servan in February 1770.  She gave him two more children there:  Jean-François born in January 1771; and Osithe-Françoise-Thomasee in April 1772.  Louis took his family to Poitou in 1773.  Françoise gave him another son, Pierre-Charles, born at Châtellerault, in November 1774.  In December 1775, Louis, Françoise, and their four children, three sons and a daughter, retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes.  Françoise gave Louis four more children at nearby Chantenay:  Joseph born in May 1776 but died at age 1 1/2 in October 1777; Ange-Fréderic born in c1778 but died at age 2 1/2 in June 1780; Barbe-Michelle born in November 1779; and Jean-François in June 1781 but died at age 2 1/2 in February 1784--nine children, six sons and three daughters, by two wives, between 1766 and 1781, many of whom died young.  Louis was the only member of his father's family to emigrate to Spanish Louisiana.  Wife Françoise, with one of their sons, two nephews, and a niece, crossed on L'Amitié, and Louis followed on a later vessel.  Sons Louis, fils and Jean-François and daughters Osithe and Barbe-Michelle, who, if they were still living, would have been ages 19, 14, 13, and 6 in 1785, did not accompany their family to Louisiana.  One suspects that most, if not all, of them also died young.  Louis, Françoise, and their son settled on upper Bayou Lafourche, where she gave Louis no more children.  He died on the upper bayou after 1798, in his late 50s or early 60s.  His son created a vigorous line there. 

Third son Pierre-Charles, by second wife Françoise Doucet, followed his family to Nantes, New Orleans, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marie-Mélanie, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Bourgeois and Anne-Osite Landry of Cabahannocer on the river, in c1797.  Marie was a native of Louisiana whose father had come to the colony from Halifax in 1765 with the Broussards.  She and Pierre-Charles settled at Assumption, lived on the river for a time, and then returned to the bayou.  Their children, born on the upper bayou and the river, included Urbin in September 1798; Louis le jeune in November 1799; François-Marie in May 1801; Pierre-Sylvain or Simon, called Simon, at Ascension in December 1805; Onésime in November 1806; Marcellin in St. James Parish in January 1811; François Simon in January 1812 and baptized in St. Jean the Baptist Parish on the lower German Coast in September 1814; Rosémond born probably in Assumption Parish in the early 1810s; and Zéphirin in August 1815--nine children, all sons, between 1798 and 1815.  Pierre Charles died in Assumption Parish in July 1831, age 56 (the recording priest said 58).  Four of his sons married.

Oldest son Urbin married Azélie, also called Madeleine, 18-year-old daughter of fellows Acadian Benjamin Landry and Anne Landry, at the St. James church, St. James Parish, in January 1820.  They settled on upper bayou Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Louis Urbin in July 1821 but died at age 15 months in October 1822; and Marie Céleste in November 1823.  Urbin remarried to Carmélite Placencia or Plaisance, probably an Isleño or Canary Islander probably in the late 1820s.  Their son Narcisse was baptized at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, age 4 months, in July 1829.  The birth of her son may have killed Carmélite.  Urbin remarried again--his third marriage--to Marguerite Domitille, called Domitille, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Dupuy and Henrietta LeBlanc, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in March 1829.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Clorinda in December 1829; Pierre in October 1831; Mélanie in the early 1830s; Marguerite Henriette, called Henriette, in January 1835; and Joseph in March 1836 but died a week after his birth--eight children, four sons and four daughters, by three wives, between 1821 and 1836.  Urbin died in December 1836, age 38 (the recording priest said 35).  Daughter Marie Céleste, by his first wife, may have married into the Dugas family, and daughters Mélanie and Henriette, by his third wife, married into the Housiaux, LeBlanc, and Geinglins families by 1870, one of them twice.  Only one of Urbin's sons married by then.  He settled on the river and the prairies.    

Third son Pierre, by third wife Domitille Dupuy, married Marie or Marine, daughter of fellow Acadians Narcisse Hébert and his Creole wife Mary Virginia Langlois, at the Plaquemine church, Iberville Parish, in June 1854.  They settled near Placquemine on the west bank of the river before moving to the Teche valley after the War of 1861-65.  Their children, born there, included Jean Silezian in May 1856 but, called Jean Silentiel, died "at the point across from Plaquemine" at age 6 months in November; Pierre Rudolphe born in February 1859; Apollinaire in July 1861; Marie Virginie or Virginia in March 1864; Joseph Oscar in St. Martin Parish in March 1867; Paul in March 1870. ...  Daughter Marie Virginia married into the Cormier family at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in January 1881; the priest who recorded the marriage noted that the bride's parents were deceased at the time of the wedding.  One of Pierre's sons may have married by 1870. 

Second son Pierre Rudolphe may have married Spanish Creole Mathilde Lopez, place and date unrecorded.  

Pierre-Charles's fourth son Simon married Colette Bathilde, also called Belotte and Marie Colette, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Landry and Scholastique Templet, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in November 1834.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Désiré Simon in May 1837; Oristille or Aurestile Forestal in December 1838; Eugénie in October 1840; Joseph Gervile in September 1842; Simon Pierson, called Pierson, in September 1846; Marie Clémentine in August 1849; Marguerite Ultima Pauline in May 1851 but, called Marie Tilma, died at age 2 in July 1853; Constant Camille born in December 1854; Ernest Adrien in March 1860; ...  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted a single slave--a 49-year-old black male--on Simon Achée's farm in the parish's Second Congressional District.  Daughter Eugénie married into the Barbier family by 1870.  One of Simon's sons married also married by then. 

Fourth son Simon Pierson, called Pierson, married Emma, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Boudreaux and his Creole wife Émilie Wanney, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in July 1869.  Daughter Marie Émelie was born near Paincourtville in May 1870; ... Pierson remarried to Marguerite Bennett , place and date unrecorded, and moved to St. Mary Parish, on lower Bayou Teche, during the late 1800s.  

Pierre-Charles's fifth son Onésime married Marie Zéolide or Zéolite, daughter of fellow Acadians Lubin LeBlanc and Marie Mélanie Aucoin, at the Plattenville church in October 1828.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Mélanie Éliza in March 1831 but, called Marie Mélanie, died at age 18 in June 1849; Malvina or Melvina Eulalie, called Eulalie, in June 1832 but died at age 1 in June 1833; Marie Elesine born in March 1835; Euphémie died at age 1 month in February 1836; Marie Arselie or Arselia, called Arselia, born in May 1836[sic]; Marie Célesie May 1839 but, called Marie Seresine, died at age 4 in September 1843; Joseph Serverin or Séverin born in February 1841 but, called Séverin, died at age 8 (the recording priest said 9) in July 1849; Eulalie born in September 1843; Marie Azémilla in January 1846 but, called Asimia, died near Paincourtville, age 5 1/2, in July 1851; Paul Théolin or Théophile, called Théophile, born in January 1848; and Marie Augustine in February 1857--11 children, nine daughters and two sons, between 1831 and 1857.  Daughters Arselia and Eulalie married into the Dugas and Simoneaux families by 1870.  Onésime's remaining son also married by then. 

Younger son Théophile married Alida, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Blanchard and Elisa Hébert, at the Paincourtville church in June 1867. 

Pierre-Charles's eighth son Rosémond married Marie Claire, called Claire and Clara, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Doiron and his Creole wife Catherine Paille, at the St. Gabriel church in November 1834.  They settled in Iberville Parish near his older brother Urbin.  Their children, born there, included a son, name and unrecorded, died an infant near St. Gabriel in August 1835; Marie June born in October 1836; Sébastien in September 1839 but died at age 1 in October 1840; Valsin born in December 1840; Rosémond, fils in November 1842; Théodule, also called Jules, in March 1845; Émile in December 1846; Marie Zéolide in January 1849; and Carmélite Alezia near Plaquemine in November 1850--nine children, six sons and three daughters, between 1835 and 1850.  Rosémond's daughters did not marry by 1870, but two of his sons did. 

During the War of 1861-65, fourth son Rosémond, fils served in Companies A and C of the 9th Battalion Louisiana Infantry, raised in East Baton Rouge Parish, which served in Louisiana.  He deserted his unit late in the war and was captured by the Federals.  Rosémond, fils married Louisiana Husiaux or Housiaux at the Plaquemine church in July 1868.  Daughter Marie Eliska was born near Plaquemine in July 1869; ...

Rosémond, père's fifth son Théodule, also called Jules, married Evelina, daughter of Jérôme Toups and Marie Marguerite Brown, at the St. Gabriel church in April 1864.  During the war, Jules, as he was called in Confeferate service records, also was a member of Companies A and C of the 9th Battalion Louisiana Infantry who deserted his unit in the last days of the war and returned to this family.  He remarried to Marie Uranie, daughter of Omer Antoine Langlois and Virginia Langlois, at the St. Gabriel church in September 1867. 

Jean-Baptiste-Charles (1762-c1786) à Jospeh dit Gallant à Michel dit Gallant Achée

Jean-Baptiste-Charles, called Jean-Charles, elder son of Jean-Charles Haché and his second wife Marie Hébert, born in Très-Ste.-Trinité Parish, Cherbourg, France, in December 1762, was a sailor in France.  He evidently followed his family to the lower Loire port of Nantes later in the decade, among the few Acadians who went there before 1775-76.  He married Marie-Modeste, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Pinet dit Pinel and Anne-Marie Durel, at St.-Martin de Chantenay near Nantes in November 1784.  Their daughter Martine was born at Nantes or its lower port of Paimboeuf in August 1785, a week before their ship's departure.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where Jean-Charles died probably in c1786, age 24, soon after their arrival.   Daughter Martine married into the Thibodeaux family, so the blood of the family line endured. 

Frédéric  (c1770-1839) à Jospeh dit Gallant à Michel dit Gallant Achée

Frédéric, younger son of Jean-Charles Haché and his second wife Marie Hébert, born at Nantes, France, in c1770, followed his older brother Jean-Baptiste-Charles and other relatives to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche, but he did not remain there.  During the late colonial or early antebellum period, he moved to what became Iberville Parish, where he died near St. Gabriel in March 1839.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Frédéric, "nat. of Nantes, France," died at "age 80 yrs."  He probably was closer to 70.  Evidently he did not marry. 

Pierre-Alexis (1768-c1818) à Jean-Baptiste dit Gallant à Michel dit Gallant Achée

Pierre-Alexis, called Alexis, elder son of Pierre Haché and his third wife Madeleine Dingle, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo, France, in March 1768, may have followed his uncle Louis Haché to Poitou in 1773 and to Nantes in December 1775.  He, a younger brother, and an older half-sister followed his paternal aunt Françoise Doucet, second wife of his uncle Louis, to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  After his uncle Louis reached the colony on a later vessel, Alexis and his brother followed his uncle and aunt from New Orleans to upper Bayou Lafourche, where Alexis married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadian Louis Dantin and his French wife Jeanne Gesmier, at Assumption in June 1795.  Anne, a native of Nantes, France, also had come to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié.  She and Alexis settled down bayou in what became Interior and then Lafourche Interior Parish.  Their children, born on the bayou, included Jean-Pierre baptized at Assumption, age not given, in December 1796; Jean-Baptiste born in c1798; Achille in January 1799; Rosalie in May 1800; Carmélite in December 1801; Célestin in March 1805; Adélaïde Aspasie in September 1806; Sophie Arthémise in February 1810; Eugénie Emélissene or Arthémise in June 1817; and Joseph François le jeune, called François, in July 1818--10 children, five sons and five daughters, between 1796 and 1818.  Pierre Alexis's succession inventory, naming his wife, was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse, Lafourche Interior Parish, in July 1818.  He would have been age 50 that year.  Daughters Rosalie, Carmélite, Adélaïde Aspasie, and Eugénie married into the Pitre, Roger, Ledet, Usé, and Malbrough families.  Three of Pierre Alexis's sons also married, but only one of the lines endured.  It was a vigorous one. 

Oldest son Jean Pierre married Rosalie Ayraud or Aymond, place and date unrecorded, but it probably was in the late 1820s or early 1830s.  They settled in Ascension, St. James, Assumption, and Lafourche Interior parishes on the river and the upper Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Oscar, also called Oscar J., in Ascension Parish in November 1833; Pierre Théar or Théard in April 1835; Jean Marie Louis in St. James Parish in April 1837; Jean Léopolde or Léopold, called Léopold and Jean Marie Léon, in Ascension Parish in February 1839; Bélisaire Clément in St. James Parish in September 1840; Jérôme Kleber or Clebert, called Clebert, in June 1842; Catherine Manette in Ascension Parish in July 1845[sic]; Marie Geneviève in December 1845[sic]; Rosalie Jeanvier in 1845 or 1846 but died in Lafourche Interior Parish, age 3 1/2, in June 1847; Benjamin Elphége, called Elphége, born in November 1846; Pierre Ernest in July 1848 but died in Lafourche Interior Parish, age 2 1/2, in February 1851; François Silvestre born in October 1851; William Prosper near Labadieville, Assumption Parish, in June 1852; Lucien Augustin in July 1853; and Antoine Anathole born in November 1855--15 children, a dozen sons and three daughters, between 1833 and 1855.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish, counted six slaves--two males and four females, all black, ranging in age from 40 years to 9 months--on Jean Pierre Achée's farm in the parish's Second Congressional District.  Daughter Catherine Manette married into the Munch family by 1870.  Five of Jean Pierre's sons also married by then.  One of Jean-Pierre's sons died at Shiloh during the War of 1861-65 before he could marry. 

Oldest son Joseph Oscar, also called Oscar J., married Elina, daughter of Joseph Simoneaux and his Acadian wife Clémense Bergeron and widow of Terence LeBlanc, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in May 1857.  Their children, born in Assumption Parish, included Joseph Samuel in October 1858; Rosalie Clémence in December 1860; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Joseph Oscar served in Company H of the 2nd Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, raised in Assumption Parish, which fought in Louisiana.  In March 1864, at the beginning of the Red River campaign, he was captured along with his unit at Henderson Hill and spent some time in a U.S. army hospital at New Orleans, so he may have been wounded in action.  He was exchanged the following July.  After the war, Joseph Oscar may have crossed the Atchafalaya Basin and moved to St. Martin Parish, where he remarried to Amelie Courville, date unrecorded.  Their daughters were born near Breaux Bridge in St. Martin Parish.  Joseph Oscar's children did not marry by 1870. 

Jean-Pierre's second son Pierre Théard may have married Natalie Quarantin, place and date unrecorded.  Their son Osémé was born near Paincourtville in February 1853.  Pierre remarried to Rosalie Amanda, daughter of Amand Bernard, a German Creole, not a fellow Acadian, and his Acadian wife Clémence Roger, at the Thibodaux church in September 1855.  They lived on the upper bayou near the boundary between Lafourche and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie Élise in October 1856; Louis Philibert in November 1858, Joseph William Bélisaire in August 1866, Pierre Samuel in December 1868; ...  

Jean-Pierre's fourth son Jean Léopold, called Léopold, Jean Marie Léon, and Léon, married Marie Adolphine, called Adolphine, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Pitre and his Creole wife Matilde Adélaïde Marse, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1859.  During the war, Jean Léopold served as a sergeant 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.  Jean Léopold was seriously wounded in the Battle of Malvern Hill, Virginia, in July 1862.  He was sent to hospitals at Lynchburg and Danville to recuperate.  In November 1862, he was placed on a list of soldiers unfit for duty, demoted to private, discharged for disability, and allowed to go home.  His and Adolphine's children, born on the upper bayou, included Mathilde Rosalie in December 1863; André Courade in November 1867; ... 

During the war, Jean-Pierre's fifth son Bélisaire Clément served in Company G of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafourche Parish, which fought in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana.  He enlisted in the company at Camp Moore, Louisiana, on 5 October 1861, age 21, and was promoted to corporal on 1 April 1862.  Five days later, he was killed in action in the Battle of Shiloh near Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee. 

Jean-Pierre's sixth son Jérôme Kleber or Clebert, called Clebert, married Aimée, daughter of John Burnes and Amelia Porche, at the Labadieville church in June 1864.  Daughter Mary Luvinia was born near Labadieville in March 1865; ...

Jean-Pierre's seventh son Benjamin Elphége, called Elphége, married Florence, daughter of François Barthet and his Acadian wife Irma Aucoin, at the Labadieville church in May 1870. ...

Alexis's second son Jean Baptiste married Marie Ursule, daughter of Antoine Boutary and his Acadian wife Marie Hébert, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1820.  They settled on the upper bayou near the boundary between Assumption and Lafourche Interior parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie Pauline in February 1821 but, called Marie Delphine, died at age 2 1/2 (the recording priest said 3) in October 1823; and Adèle Séraphine born in March 1822 but died at age 1 in March 1823.  In December 1850, the federal census taker in Lafourche Interior Parish counted two slaves--a 30-year-old black male, and a 27-year-old black female--on J. B. Achée's farm near Thibodaux.  Jean Baptiste died in Lafourche Parish in August 1855.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial said that Jean Baptiste was age 62 when he died.  He probably was closer to 57.  A "petition for homologation of will," naming his wife, was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in September 1856.  His daughters did not survive childhood, and he seems to have fathered no sons, so the family line may not have endured.  

Alexis's fifth and youngest son Joseph François le jeune, called François, married Marie Clarisse, daughter of Maurice Simoneaux and his Acadian wife Geneviève Landry, at the Plattenville church in April 1833.  They settled in the old Attakapas District near his namesake uncle but returned to the upper Lafourche by the 1840s.  Their children, born perhaps on the upper bayou and on the prairies, included Élène or Hélène was born in 1834 and baptized at Vermilionville, age 15 months, in December 1835; Marie Premise born in Lafayette Parish in April 1838; Clarisse in October 1840; and Marie Florence in Assumption Parish in April 1844--four children, all daughters, between 1834 and 1844.  Joseph François le jeune died in St. Martin Parish in September 1859, age 41.  His succession, in which the parish clerk called him Joseph Hatchet, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse two days after his death.  None of his daughters married by 1870.  He seems to have fathered no sons, so one wonders if the family line endured. 

Joseph-François (1772-1831) à Jean-Baptiste dit Gallant à Michel dit Gallant Achée

Joseph-François, also called Joseph dit Canawche, younger son of Pierre Haché and his third wife Madeleine Dingle, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo in June 1772, may have followed his uncle Louis Haché to Poitou in 1773 and to Nantes in December 1775.  Joseph, an older brother, and an older half-sister followed his paternal aunt Françoise Doucet, second wife of his uncle Louis, to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  After his uncle Louis reached the colony on a later vessel, Joseph and his brother followed his uncle and aunt from New Orleans to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Joseph-François married Anne-Geneviève, called Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste LeBlanc and Marguerite Célestin dit Bellemère, at Ascension in January 1803.  Geneviève, a native of Belle-Île-en-Mer, France, had come to Louisiana also as an orphan with four of her siblings aboard an earlier ship.  They did not remain on the upper Lafourche.  In the 1800s, they crossed the Atchafalaya Basin and settled at Fausse Pointe on lower Bayou Teche.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche and the lower Teche, included Jean Pierre at Assumption in September 1804; Marie Arthémise in December 1805; Anne Rosalie, called Rosalie, in July 1806; and Célestine Adélaïde in November 1810 but died at age 4 1/2 in July 1815--four children, a son and three daughters, between 1804 and 1810.  Geneviève, called Marie by the St. Martinville priest who recorded her burial, died at the home of Nicolas LeBlanc at Fausse Pointe in August 1812. age 30.  Joseph François remarried to Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadians François Guilbeau and Madeleine Broussard and widow of Donat Breaux, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in October 1819.  She seems to have given him no more children.  Joseph Francois died in Lafayette Parish in December 1831.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph, as he called him, was age 55 when he died.  He was 59.  Daughters Marie and Rosalie, by his first wife, married into the Daigle, Hébert, and L'ascange or Lascoureiges families.  Son Jean-Pierre accompanied his family to the Attakapas District, but he may not have married, so, except for its blood, this line of the family did not endure in the Bayou State. 

Allain

Louis Allain, a blacksmith, born probably in France in c1654, arrived at Port-Royal in c1685.  In July 1687, the seigneur of Port-Royal, Alexandre Le Borgne de Bélisle, gave Louis permission to build a sawmill near the village.  A tributary of the lower Rivière-au-Dauphin, on which Port-Royal was located, took its name from the sawmill operator--Rivière Allain.  Around 1690, Louis married Marguerite, daughter of Antoine Bourg and Antoinette Landry.  Louis died at Annapolis Royal in June 1737, in his early 80s.  His only daughter married into the Gauthier dit Bellaire family.  Louis's son-in-law, Joseph-Nicolas, called Nicolas, Gauthier dit Bellair, became a wealthy Annapolis valley merchant whose estate on haute rivière, Bellaire, was one of the most impressive in the colony.  During King George's War of the 1740s, Nicolas joined the Acadian resistance against the British, for which Marie and their son Nicolas, fils, spent time in the Fort Anne dungeon.  In 1749, his fortune gone, Nicolas dit Bellair took Marie and their children to Île St.-Jean, where the French compensated him with two pieces of property on Rivière-du-Nord-Est in the island's interior.  Nicolas died there in April 1752, age 63.  Marie did not remarry.  Meawhile, Louis Allain's only son Pierre married Marguerite, daughter of Antoine LeBlanc and Marie Bourgeois, probably at Annapolis Royal in c1717 and settled at Minas.  Pierre's oldest son Louis le jeune moved to Petitcoudiac, but his younger sons--Pierre, fils, Joseph-Antoine, Benjamin, and Jean-Baptiste--remained at Minas.  By 1755, descendants of Louis Allain, the blacksmith and sawmill owner, and Marguerite Bourg could be found not only in the Annapolis River valley, where Louis had done so well, but also at Minas, at Petitcoudiac in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto, and on Île St.-Jean. 

When the British rounded up the Acadians at Chignecto and the trois-rivières in the fall of 1755, Pierre Allain's oldest son Louis le jeune and his wife Anne Léger fled north to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, where they took refuge with hundreds of other Acadians.  Over the next few years, they made their way up to Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  When the British attacked the French stronghold at Restigouche, now a major Acadian refuge, in late June 1760, Louis le jeune and his family escaped another roundup.  After the war, his descendants could be found at Bouctouche, Miramichi, Néguac, and Caraquet on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore in what became eastern New Brunswick.  Meanwhile, Pierre's third son Benjamin and his wife Marie-Rose Bugeaud had escaped the British at Minas in 1755 and also fled northward.  When the British struck Restigouche, Benjamin was serving as a captain in the Acadian militia.  He and his family were forced to surrender to a second British force, this one from Québec, in late October, and likely were held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  After the war, they also chose to remain in greater Acadia.  They resettled at Carleton in the British-controlled fishery in Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baies des Chaleur, east of Restigouche, and there they remained.  Pierre's youngest son Jean-Baptiste, age 14 in 1755, escaped the British roundup at Minas and took refuge in Canada.  He married Marguerite dite La Branche, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Cormier and Marie Cyr of Chignecto, at Bécancour across from Trois-Rivières on the upper St. Lawrence in January 1762.  In the decades following exile, some of Jean-Baptiste's descendants moved downriver to St.-Ours on the lower Richelieu northeast of 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. 

Pierre, fils and his wife Catherine Hébert were not as lucky as his brothers.  The British rounded them up at Minas in the summer of 1755 and deported them to Maryland.  For a dozen years, Pierre and his family endured life among Englishmen who, despite their colony's Catholic roots, did not care much for the French "papists" thrust upon them.  In July 1763, Pierre, fils, Catherine, and their children, two sons and a daughter appeared on a repatriation list at Baltimore.  When word reached the Acadians in Maryland that fellow exiles had been welcomed in Louisiana, they pooled their meager resources to charter ships that would take them to New Orleans.  Pierre Allain, fils had no close relatives in Louisiana, nor did his wife, but life had to be better there than in a British colony where they were treated like pariahs.  In April 1767, as part of the second contingent of Maryland Acadians to head to the Spanish colony, the Allains booked passage on the English ship Virgin with 200 other exiles.  With Pierre and the Baltimore Acadians went a precious package, still carefully hidden, that the Minas exiles had carried with them during their 12-year exile. 

After reaching New Orleans in July 1767, Pierre, Catherine, and their five children settled at the new Spanish settlement of San Gabriel on the east bank of the river south of Bayou Manchac, below Baton Rouge.  Their two daughters married into the Landry and Forest families.  The Acadian Allains of South Louisiana descend from two of Pierre, fils's three sons, whose descendants settled largely in Iberville, East Baton Rouge, and West Baton Rouge parishes, on both sides of the river. 

On the eve of the War of 1861-65, one of his grandsons held 18 slaves.  Other grandsons owned fewer slaves on their humble Iberville Parish farms.  Two grandsons moved upriver to the Baton Rouge area.  Two more left the river and moved to Bayou Lafourche, where one of them held seven slaves on the eve of the war.  Many members of the family, however, held no slaves at all.

When the Acadian Allains came to Louisiana from Maryland in July 1767, an Allain family was well established in Pointe Coupée, a French-Creole enclave on the river above New Orleans.  Jean-François Allain, fils of Touraine, France, was appointed commandant of the Pointe Coupée District in February 1770.  His two older sons, Jean-François III and Augustin, who married sisters from the prominent Ricard family, also served as officers in the Pointe Coupée militia.  Jean-François III and Augustin went on to create sturdy branches of their family tree.  Jean-François III's sons moved downriver to West Baton Rouge Parish, while Augustin's sons remained in Pointe Coupee Parish.  This Creole branch of the family fared very well during the antebellum period.  Jean-François III's youngest son, Sosthène, held 113 slaves on his West Baton Rouge Parish plantation in 1850.  Ten years later, the federal census taker counted 158 slaves in 30 houses on Sosthène's holdings in the parish.  Two of Jean-François III's grandsons also owned dozens of slaves on their West Baton Rouge plantations in the decade before the war.  Augustin's sons and grandsons owned only a hand full of slaves on their humble Pointe Coupee farms.  

At least 20 members of both the French-Creole and Acadian branches of the Allain family served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65.  None of them served as officers, but a number of them were corporals and sergeants.  Two great-grandsons of Pierre, fils the Acadian served as first sergeants of their companies, one while still in his teens.  Extant military records show that all of the Allains in the Confederate army survived the war.  

The war took a terrible toll on the families' economic standing.  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 included the vast Creole Allain holdings in West Baton Rouge Parish and the more humble Acadian ones in Iberville Parish.  Union gunboats shelled and burned dozens of plantation 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 Alain, Alin, Aling.  The Acadian and French-Creole Allains should not be confused with the Anglo-American Allens who lived in their communities.63 

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Only one family of Acadian Allains emigrated to Louisiana, from Baltimore, Maryland, in 1767.  They settled at San Gabriel on the river above New Orleans.  A robust family line came of it:  

Pierre, fils (c1723-1807) à Louis Allain

Pierre, fils, second son of Pierre Allain and Marguerite LeBlanc, born at Minas in c1723, married Catherine, daughter of Jacques Hébert and Marguerite Landry, probably at Grand-Pré in c1750.  Catherine gave Pierre, fils two children there:  Jean-Baptiste in c1751; and Marguerite in c1752.  The British deported them to Maryland in 1755.  Catherine gave Pierre, fils three more children at Baltimore:  Simon born in 1760; Pierre III in 1764; and Bibianne in September 1766.  In 1767, from New Orleans, Pierre, fils took his family to San Gabriel, where Catherine gave him two more daughters:  another Marguerite born in October 1771; and Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine in March 1774--seven children, three sons and four daughters, between 1751 to 1774, in greater Acadia, Maryland, and Louisiana.  Pierre, fils died at St. Gabriel in December 1807, age 85.  Daughters Marguerite, Bibianne, and Madeleine married into the Landry, Forest, and Hébert families in the Spanish colony.  Pierre, fils's three sons also created their own families, and two of the lines endured on the river. All of the Acadian Allains of South Louisiana, in fact, descend from Pierre, fils's two older sons. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, called Baptiste, followed his parents to Maryland, New Orleans, and San Gabriel, where he married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians René Blanchard and Marguerite Thériot, in c1780.  Their children, born at San Gabriel, included Jean-Baptiste, fils in July 1781; Pierre le jeune in October 1782; Marie-Elyde in September 1784; Marie-Marguerite in January 1786; Landry in May 1787 but died at age 3 in August 1790; Bernard-Sosthène or Sosthène-Bernard born in September 1789; and another Jean-Baptiste, fils born posthumously in July 1791--seven children, five sons and two daughters, between 1781 and 1791.  Jean-Baptiste, père died at San Gabriel in March 1791, age 40.  The priest who recorded the burial noted that Jean-Baptiste was "major domo" of the church.   Daughter Marie Marguerite married into the Rivas family.  Three of Baptiste's sons married, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, fils, at age 25, married Marguerite Céleste, called Céleste or Célestine, daughter of fellow Acadians Firmin Guidry and Marguerite Landry, at the St. Gabriel church in August 1806.  Their son Jean Derosin, called Derosin or Drauzin, was born in Iberville Parish in April 1807.  Jean Baptiste, fils remarried to Marie Carmélite, called Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Firmin Landry and Ludevine Babin, at the St. Gabriel church in February 1811.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Marie Emélie in August 1812; Marie Lucille, called Lucille, in December 1820; and Jean Baptiste Aimé in September 1825--four children, two sons and two daughters, by two wives, between 1807 and 1825.  Jean Baptiste, fils died in Iberville Parish in January 1834.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Jean Baptiste was age 55 when he died.  He was 43.  Daughters Marie Émilie and Lucile, by his second wife, married into the Miremont, LeBlanc, and Allain families by 1870.  Jean Baptiste, fils's two sons also married by then, but only one of the lines may have endured. 

Older son Jean Derosin, called Derosin or Drauzin, from first wife Céleste Guidry, married Marie Dartille, called Dartille, daughter of fellow Acadians Abraham Hébert and Ludevine Landry, at the St. Gabriel church in May 1826.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Jean de Valcourt in June 1827 but drowned in Bayou Plaquemine at age 15 in July 1842; Marie Herminie born in January 1829 but, according to a church record, died the following June; another Marie Herminie born in February 1830; and Marie Lea in March 1835 but died 13 days after her birth.  Derosin remarried to Clémence, daughter of fellow Acadians Auguste Landry and Clémence Richard, at the St. Gabriel church in December 1837.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included a child, named and age unrecorded, baptized at St. Gabriel in December 1837 and, called J.G.W. by the recording priest, with no reference to the child's gender, died at age 4 months in February 1838; Marie Célestine Aglaé born in March 1839; Marie Emma in October 1840 but died at age 1 in November 1841; Jean Baptiste Sosthène born in November 1842; ...  At age 45, Derosin remarried again--his third marriage--to Victorine, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier LeBlanc and Madeleine Braud, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in May 1852.  They remained on the upper Lafourche.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Bruly St. Martin Ward 11, Assumption Parish, counted a single slave--a 17-year-old mulatto female--on Wm. Drauzin Allain's farm.  Daughter Hermina, by his first wife, married into the Picou family.  Derosin's remaining son did not marry by 1870.   

Jean-Baptiste, fils's younger son Jean Baptiste Aimé, by second wife Carmélite Landry, married Odile, daughter of Alexander Étienne Reine and Marguerite Poché of St. James Parish, at the St. Gabriel church in July 1844.  Jean Baptiste Aimé died in Iberville Parish in June 1848, age 22.  His line of the family died with him.  

Baptiste's second son Pierre le jeune, at age 25, married Victoire, daughter of fellow Acadians Isaac LeBlanc and Félicité Melançon, at the St. Gabriel church in May 1807.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Marie Céleste in December 1808; Pierre Ursin, called Ursin, in April 1811; and Marie Euphémie, called Euphémie, in August 1817 but died at age 1 1/2 in January 1819--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1808 and 1817.  Pierre le jeune's son married, but his line did not endure. 

Only son Ursin married cousin Emilie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Allain, fils and Marguerite Céleste Guidry, his uncle and aunt, and widow of Pierre Miremont, probably in Iberville Parish.  Ursin died at the home of Célestin Roth, Iberville Parish, in December 1858.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Ursin was "a local person" and was age 51 he died.  He was 47.  He seems to have fathered no sons, so his line of the family died with him.   

Baptiste's third son Bernard Sosthène, at age 27, married cousin Apollonie or Apolline, daughter of fellow Acadians Victor Blanchard and Marie Madeleine Richard, at the St. Gabriel church in February 1817; Apollonie's father was a nephew of Bernard Sosthène's mother.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Apolline in February 1818; Marie Victorine in March 1820; Bernard, fils in August 1821 but, according to a church record, died at age 8 months in November 1823 (this was his younger brother); and Jean Zénon born in April 1823 but died the following November--four children, two daughters and two sons, between 1818 and 1823.  Daughters ... married into the Arceneaux and Blanchard families.  Bernard Sosthène's remaining son also married.  

Older son Bernard, fils married Euphémie, daughter of Louis Édouard Guitteau and Joséphine Pignoux, at the St. Gabriel church in November 1842.  A daughter, name unrecorded, died "3 or 4 hours" after her birth in September 1843.  Bernard, fils remarried to Marie Élodie, called Élodie, daughter of fellow Acadians Antoine Dupuy and Sophie Daigle, at the St. Gabriel church in August 1846.  They settled in St. Gabriel Parish near the boundary with Ascension Parish.  Their children, born there, included Sosthènes Bernard le jeune born in July 1847; Antoine Roger in December 1848; Sophie Victoria in February 1851; Marie Élodie in December 1852; and Mathilde Apolline in March 1855.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Iberville Parish counted 18 slaves--10 males and 8 females, 16 blacks and 2 mulattoes, ranging in age from 55 to infancy--owned by "Blanchard Allain," probably Bernard Sosthène and his wife Apollonie.  At age 39, Bernard, fils remarried--his third marriage--to Henrietta Anne, daughter of Trasimond Richard and and his Creole wife Uranie Pujol, at the St. Gabriel church in May 1861.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Henrietta in January 1863; B., a daughter, age unrecorded, died in October 1867; ...  None of Bernard, fils's daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did. 

Older son Sosthènes Bernard le jeune, by second wife Élosie Dupuy, married Ann Amélie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Arvillien Breaux and Anne Selina Hébert, at the St. Gabriel church in January 1868. 

Pierre, fils's second Simon followed his parents to New Orleans and San Gabriel.  He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Babin and Isabelle LeBlanc, at Pointe Coupée across the river in July 1785.  The priest who recorded the marriage noted that the couple "came [to Pointe Coupée]  from Manchac to be married, as there was no priest there."  Although San Gabriel had a parish of its own since 1773, Manchac to the north across the eponymous bayou evidently was not part of San Gabriel parish in 1785.  Their children, born at San Gabriel, included Jean-Baptiste le jeune died two days after his birth in August 1786; Marie-Hélène born in January 1788; Janvier in January 1790; Marie-Anne in November 1791; Adélaïde in November 1793; Siméon in September 1797 but died at age 39 in June 1837; Jean-Julien, called Julien, born in June 1802; Élisabeth in March 1805 but died at age 5 in June 1810; and Victor or Victorin born in April 1807--nine children, five sons and four daughters, between 1786 and 1807.  Simon died at St. Gabriel in October 1809, age 49.  Daughters Marie Hélène and Adélaïde married into the LeBlanc and Hébert families.  Three of Simon's sons also married on the river. 

Second son Janvier married Élise Mary, Marie Elizabeth, or Mary Eliza, called Elizabeth, daughter of Irishman Jean Louis Bouche, Boush, or Bush and Hélène Hamilton, at the St. Gabriel church in January 1817; Elizabeth was a sister of Clarisse Boush, who married Valéry Hébert and so was the mother of future Confederate General Louis Hébert.  Janvier and Elizabeth's children, born in Iberville Parish, included Joseph Clément in November 1817 but, called Clément, died at age 2 in October 1819; Albert born in April 1819; Marie Euphémie in August 1820; another Clément in November 1821 but died at age 3 1/2 in January 1825; a daughter, name unrecorded, died at age 3 weeks in January 1826; Louis Sylvain, called L. S. and Louis Silva, born in February 1827; Marie Eliza, called Eliza, in December 1828; Marie Adeline in December 1830; Louis Sylvestre in December 1832; Simon Erneste or Ernest, called Ernest, in January 1835; Victor Amédée, called Amédée, in March 1837; and Faustin or Faustée Alcée, called F. Alcée and F. A., in October 1844--a dozen children, eight sons and four daughters, between 1817 and 1844.  Janvier died in Iberville Parish in June 1852, age 62.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge parish, counted seven slaves--four males and three females, two blacks and five mulattoes, ranging in age from 46 to 4--on Janvier Allain's farm.  Daughters Marie Euphémie, Eliza, and Marie Adeline married into the Gallaugher, Comeaux, and Daigre families by 1870.  Four of Janvier's sons also married by then, and one, perhaps two, of them left the river and settled on Bayou Lafourche.  

Second son Albert married Marie Elisa or Eliza, called Eliza, daughter of fellow Acadian Lazare Landry and his Creole wife Marie Céline Lambremont, at the St. Gabriel church in February 1842.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Albert Numa in November 1842; Marie Célina, called Célina, in January 1844; Louis Dustine in November 1845 but, called Louis Dutisne, died at age 4 1/2 in April 1850; Louisa Victoria born in April 1847 but, called Louise Victoire, died at age 1 (the recording priest said "age 11 years, 3 months") in March 1848; and Eugénie Eliska, called Eliska, born in February 1849.  Albert remarried to Arzelia, daughter of Joseph Barthélémy Ramouin and his Acadian wife Amélie Hébert, at the St. Gabriel church in January 1852.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Joseph Guy in October 1852 but died at age 7 months the following May; Marie Adeline, called Adeline, born in September 1854; Émilie Althée in August 1856; Euphémie in September 1859; Angélique Florestine in February 1861; Marie Eda in February 1863; ...  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Iberville Parish counted a single slave--a 38-year-old black female--on Albert Allain's farm; he worked as a carpenter.  None of his children married by 1870, when they were living near Bouttée Station in St. Charles Parish. 

Janvier's fourth son Louis Sylvain or Silva married Clara E., daughter of Henri Knobloch and his Acadian wife Rosalie Guidry of Lafourche Interior Parish, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in November 1851.  They remained on Bayou Lafourche.  Their children, born in Lafourche Parish, included Louisa Olivia in August 1852; Marie Amanda in January 1854; twins Mathilde Ada and Thérèse Emma in October 1856; Catherine Andette in April 1858; Louis Hamilton in February 1860; Clara Eugénie in October 1861; Marie Ermine in August 1864; ...  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Lafourche Parish, counted seven slaves--three males and four females, five blacks and two mulattoes, ranging in age from 38 years to 3 months, living in one house--on L. S. Allain's farm in the parish's War 7.  During the War of 1861-65, Louis Sylvain, a first cousin of Confederate General Louis Hébert, served as a corporal in Company E of the 4th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafourche Parish, which fought in Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee.  Louis Sylvain's younger brother Simon Ernest also served in that company.  Louis Sylvain survived the war, returned to his family, and, called Louis by the recording priest, remarried to Amanda, daughter of Louis Bush and Hélène Hamilton, at the Thibodaux church in January 1866; Amanda would have been Louis Sylvain's maternal aunt!  His and Amanda's son Ernest was born near Baton Rouge in October 1869; ...  Louis Sylvain died in Lafourche Parish in 1878, age 51.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Janvier's sixth son Ernest, during the war, served as a sergeant in Company E of the 4th Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafourche Parish, so he may have followed older brother Louis Sylvain to Bayou Lafourche.  He was wounded at Shiloh, Tennessee, in April 1862 and captured at Nashville in December 1864.  Did he survive the war?

Janvier's seventh son Victor Amédée, called Amédée, married Virginia Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadian Denis Daigre and his Anglo-American wife Geneviève Buckner, at the Baton Rouge church in November 1863.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included Mary Lilian in March 1865; Stella Cécilia in September 1867; ...

Janvier's eighth and youngest son Faustin Alcée, also called F. Alcée, during the war, served as first sergeant of Company H of Ogden's Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, which fought in Louisiana and Mississippi.  After the war, he married Ernestine, daughter of fellow Acadian Gilbert Comeaux and his wife Creole wife Adeline Gallaugher, at the Baton Rouge church in November 1865.  Daughter Mary Estella was born near Baton Rouge in August 1866.  "Mrs. Alcée Allain" died at age "ca. 20 years" near Baton Rouge in September 1866.  This probably was Faustin Aclée's wife Ernestine, who evidently died from the rigors of childbirth.  Faustin remarried to Léontine, daughter of fellow Acadians Frédéric Arbour, fils and Adeleine Daigre, at the Baton Rouge church in June 1868.  Their chldren, born near Baton Rouge, included Marie Coecilia in March 1869; Frédéric Vincent in August 1870; ...

Simon's fourth son Julien married Marie Alphonse Hortense, called Hortense, daughter of fellow Acadians Isaac LeBlanc and Félicité Melançon, at the St. Gabriel church in March 1827.  Their children, born in St. Gabriel Parish, included Marie Zéolide in December 1827 but, called Zéolide, died at age 4 in December 1831; Marie Zoé, called Zoé, born in February 1830; Julien, fils in October 1832; a son, name unrecorded, died as an infant in April 1835; Emma Catherine born in November 1836 but died at age 1 year, 9 months in September 1838; Marie Léocadie born in May 1839 but died at age 18 1/2 in September 1857; Élodie born in May 1842; and Alphonse in August 1846 but died at age 15 months in December 1847--eight children, five daughters and three sons, between 1827 and 1846.  Julien died in Iberville Parish in August 1849, age 47.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Iberville Parish counted three slaves--a male and two females, all black, ages 35, 20, and 5--on Hortense Allain's farm.  This was Julien, père's widow, Hortense LeBlanc.  Daughter Zoé married into the Redditt family from Tennessee by 1870.  Julien's remaining son also married by then. 

Oldest son Julien, fils married Marie Dina, called Dina, daughter of Foreign Frenchman François Dupuy and his Creole wife Françoise Rose Desbains, at the St. Gabriel church in September 1858.  Their children, born near Plaquemine on the west side of the river, included Marie Léocadie in July 1859; Antoine Arthur in May 1861; Marie Ella in July 1864; Anne Cécile in June 1867; Joseph Charles in February 1869; ...  During the war, Julien, fils served as first sergeant of Company D of the 27th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Iberville Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  As the births of his younger children reveal, he survived the war and returned to his family. 

Simon's fifth and youngest son Victor or Victorin married Marie Françoise Aimée, called Marie Aimée and Aimée, daughter of fellow Acadians Arsène Breaux and Marie Geneviève Daigre, at the St. Gabriel church in June 1830.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Marie Aimée, evidently also called Emma and Marie Elina, in May 1832; Victorin, fils in April 1834; Simon Aimé or Émile in July 1839; and Marie Zulma, called Zulma, in August 1841--four children, two daughters and two sons, between 1832 and 1841.  Victorin, père, called Victorien dit Victor, died in Iberville Parish in July 1845, age 38, and was buried in St. Raphael's cemetery on the west side of the river.  Daughters Emma/Marie Elina and Zulma married into the Landry, Rivière, and Hébert and families by 1870.  Both of Victorin's sons also married by then. 

Older son Victorin, fils married cousin Armina, daughter of Rosémond Lambremont and his Acadian wife Clémentine Breaux, at the St. Gabriel church in November 1856.  Their children, born near Bayou Goula on the west side of the river, included Victorin Antonio in September 1857; Rosémond Nemours in July 1859, and Joseph Olivier and Pierre Marcellin, probably twins, in August 1861--four children, all sons, including a set of twins, between 1857 and 1861.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Iberville Parish counted a single slave--a 22-year-old black female--on "Victorian" Allain's farm.  During the war, Victorin, fils served as a courier in Company I of the 2nd Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, raised in Iberville Parish, which fought in Louisiana.  According to family tradition, he visited his home near Bayou Goula as often as he could and was nearly captured by Federal patrols on at least two of these visits.  Did he survive the war and return to his family?

Victorin, père's younger son Simon Aimé, called Simon Émile by the recording priest, married Mary Josephine, daughter of Ulger Baugnon and Lavinia Marionneaux, at the St. Gabriel church in November 1867.  

Pierre, fils's third and youngest son Pierre III followed his parents to New Orleans and San Gabriel.  He married Geneviève-Anne, called Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand-Paul Gautreaux and Marie Landry, downriver at Ascension in February 1786.  Their children, born at San Gabriel, included Pierre IV in February 1787 but died at age 31 in March 1818; Marguerite-Collette, called Collette, born in March 1789 but died at age 1 1/2 in August 1790; and Pierre Landry, called Landry, in the early 1790s--three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1787 and the early 1790s.  Pierre III died by July 1792, in his late 20s, when his wife remarried at San Gabriel.  One of his sons married, but his family line, except for its blood, may not have survived in the Bayou State. 

Younger son Landry married fellow Acadian Rosalie Templet probably in the early 1810s.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included Rosaline Anne in March 1811; and Célestin in September 1813.  Landry remarried to Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Édouard Daigre and Marie Henry, at the St. Gabriel church in June 1818.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge and in Iberville Parish, included Clémentine in July 1819; Apollinaire in January 1822 but died at age 15 in November 1837; and Aureline born in January 1826--five children, by two wives, between 1811 and 1826.  Daughters ..., by both wives, married the Bourque, Lejeune, and Thibodeaux families.  One of Landry's sons also married, but the line did not endure. 

Older son Célestin, by first wife Rosalie Templet, married Marie Constance, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Breaux and his Creole wife Jeanne LeTullier of West Baton Rouge Parish, probably in West Baton Rouge Parish in March 1836.  Their daughter Marie Analyese or Analise was born in West Baton Rouge Parish in January 1837.  Célestin died in West Baton Rouge Parish in September 1837, age 24 (the recording priest said 26).  Daughter Marie Analise married a Tuillier cousin.  Célestine fathered no sons, so his line of the family likely died with him. 

Arbour

Michel, fils, son of Michel Harbour or Arbour and Marie Constantineau, born at Petite-Rivière-St.-Charles, Québec, in c1674, married Barbe, daughter of Acadians Pierre Morin and Françoise Chiasson of Chignecto and Gaspésie, in c1700, probably at Québec.  Michel, fils was age 26 and Barbe age 14 at the time of their marriage.  Michel, fils's wife's paternal grandfather, Pierre Morin dit Boucher, had gone to French Acadia during the early 1660s, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Acadian pioneers Pierre Martin and Catherine Vigneau of St.-Germain de Bourgeuil in central France, and settled at Chignecto in the 1670s.  During the late 1680s, Pierre dit Boucher's second son Louis fathered an illegitimate child by Marie-Josèphe, daughter of former Acadian governor Michel Le Neuf de La Vallière de Beaubassin, the seigneur of Chignecto.  As a result of the scandal, the entire Morin family, including in-laws, was banished from the colony.  They resettled first at Gaspésie along the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs before moving on to the St. Lawrence valley.  Barbe gave Michel, fils nine children, eight sons and a daughter, in Canada.  All of their sons created families of their own on the lower St. Lawrence. 

Michel, fils and Barbe's second son François married Marie-Jeanne-Thérèse, called Thérèse, daughter of Henri Picoron dit Descôteaux and Marguerite Martin, at Ste.-Anne-de-la-Pocatière near Kamouraska on the lower St. Lawrence in October 1740.  Their second son, François, fils, born in Canada in c1743, may have followed his family to one of the French Maritime islands in greater Acadia when he was still very young and may have been deported to France in 1758 with other islanders, or he may have gone to France on his own after the war with Britain ended in 1763.  He first appears in the historical record at Le Havre in coastal Normandy in November 1765, when his marriage record, calling him an Arbour, says he was "of Quebec, Canada," and had been living at the port "for 1 1/2 yrs.," perhaps having arrived there from one of Maritime islands a few years earlier.  François, fils, age 22, married 24-year-old Marie Henry, an island Acadian, at Le Havre.  She gave him five sons in France between 1767 and 1785, three of whom survived childhood.  The couple remained at Le Havre until 1773, when François, fils took his family to the interior of Poitou as part of a major Acadian settlement venture.  By September 1784, they had joined other exiles who had gone to Poitou in the lower Loire port of Nantes.  In 1785, François, fils, Marie, and their three remaining sons followed hundreds of their fellow exiles to Spanish Louisiana.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to Baton Rouge, where the three sons married. 

One of them created a vigorous line at Baton Rouge.  The great majority of the Arbours of South Louisiana are descended from François, fils's grandson, Frédéric, fils.  During the antebellum period, he and his sons became successful planters.  In 1850, Frédéric, fils owned 30 slaves in East Baton Rouge Parish.  A decade later, he held 56 slaves on two plantations in East Baton Rouge and Iberville parishes. 

At least four Arbours, three of them sons of Frédéric, fils, served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65, one of them as an officer.  Meanwhile, the war took a terrible toll on the Arbour family's economic standing.  Even before Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation went into effect in January 1863, Federal forces controlling the lower Mississippi freed the slaves on every farm and plantation their forces could reach.  This included the Arbour holdings in East Baton Rouge and Iberville parishes.  Union navy gunboats shelled and burned dozens of plantations houses along the lower river.  After the war, the Arbours of Baton Rouge had to endure as best they could a free-labor postwar Southern economy.  ... 

Dozens of Arbours can be found today in the Baton Rouge area, most of them descendants of Frédéric the planter. ... 

In Louisiana, the family's name also is spelled Arbot, Arboure, Arbourg, Arboux, Hambourg, Harbour, Harbourg, and Harbourgh in the Bayou State.64

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Only one possibly-Acadian Arbour family came to Louisiana, from France in 1785.  They followed their fellow passengers to Baton Rouge, where one of their lines endured.  Another, much smaller line, possibly arose on the western prairies during the antebellum period: 

François, fils (c1743-1780s) à Michel, fils à Michel Arbour

François, fils, son of François Arbour and Marie-Jeanne-Thérèse, called Thérèse, Picoron dit Descôteaux, born in Canada in c1743, may have followed his parents to the French Maritimes, part of greater Acadia, later in the decade or in the early 1750s and perhaps was deported with them to France in 1758, when he would have been in his early teens.  Or he may have gone to France on his own, from Canada or greater Acadia, during the final months of the war with Britain; he would have been age 20 in 1763, when the war ended.  He worked as a caulker in the mother country and married Marie, daughter of Acadians Joseph Henry and Christine Pitre, at Le Havre in November 1765.  The priest who recorded his marriage noted that both of François, fils's parents were deceased at the time of the wedding and that he had resided at Le Havre for a year and a half--that is, since 1763.  Marie gave François, fils at least five children in France, all sons, the first three born probably at Le Havre:  François-Henry in c1767; Jean-Louis-Firmin, called Louis, in c1770; and Frédéric-Édouard in c1772.  In the early 1770s, François, fils, Marie, and their three sons went to the interior of Poitou.  Marie gave François, fils another son there, Louis-Nicolas, at Archigny south of Châtellerault in June 1774.  Despite the retreat of most of the Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes in late 1775 and early 1776, François, fils and Marie remained at Archigny, where yet another son, Louis-Joseph, was baptized in June 1778--five children, all sons, between 1767 and 1778.  Son Louis-Nicolas died at Archigny, age 9, in December 1782.  By September 1784, however, François, fils and his family had joined the hundreds of exiles who had gone to Nantes.  Youngest son Louis-Joseph died probably at Nantes in late 1784 or early 1785.  François, fils, now age 45, wife Marie, age 40, and their three remaining sons chose to follow hundreds of their fellow exiles to Spanish Louisiana.  They crossed aboard Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships from France, which reached New Orleans in August 1785.  After a brief respite in the city, they followed their fellow passengers to Baton Rouge.  François, fils and Marie had no more children in the colony.  The marriage record of their oldest son François-Henry, dated 27 September 1790, notes that the groom's father was deceased at the time of the wedding, so François, fils died probably at Baton Rouge during the late 1780s, in his late 40s.  As François, fils had done, all three of his sons married Acadians, lending credence to the possibility that the Arbours also considered themselves to be Acadians, but only one of the sons, the youngest, seems to have perpetuated the family line in the Bayou State. 

Oldest son François-Henry followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and Baton Rouge.  He married Marie-Jeanne-Jacqueline, called Jeanne, daughter of fellow Acadian François Daigre and his French wife Jeanne Holley, at nearby San Gabriel in September 1790.  Jeanne, a native of Cherbourg, also had come to Louisiana aboard Le Beaumont.  Their children, born at Baton Rouge, included Anne-Scholastique-Geneviève baptized, age unrecorded, in June 1782; François-Alexandre born in c1792 and died at age 2 in August 1794; Eulalie born in c1798 and baptized, age 3, in November 1801; Marie-Rose born in July 1799; Charles-François, called François le jeune, in c1800 and baptized, age 2, in October 1802; Eulalie-Carmélite dite Mélite born in October 1801; Apolline or Pauline in October 1803; Jean-Pierre died, age unrecorded, in April 1806; and Françoise Mélanie, called Mélanie, born in March 1809--nine children, six daughters and three sons, between 1782 and 1809.  Daughters Scholastique, Mélite, Pauline, and Françoise Mélanie married into the Altazin, Lerry, Guerry, and Collier families.  One of François Henry's sons married and settled on the western prairies.  One wonders if the line endured. 

Second son Charles François, called François le jeune, may have married Marie Aurore, called Aurore, Leroi or Roy, place and date unrecorded, but it probably was in the Baton Rouge area in the 1820s or 1830s.  Their children, born on the river and the prairies, included Marie Delia baptized at Baton Rouge, age unrecorded, in December 1839; and François Bonicase born near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in March 1842.  Neither of Charles François's children married by 1870.

François, fils's second son Jean-Louis-Firmin, called Firmin and perhaps Cadet, followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and Baton Rouge.  He married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Poirier and Marie Cormier of Cabahanncoer, at Cabahannocer on the river in April 1793.  Rosalie was a native of Louisiana.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer/St. James, included Jean-Pierre in c1794 but died at age 12 in November 1806; Rosalie born in December 1796[sic]; Marie-Geneviève, called Geneviève, in January 1797[sic] but died at age 3 years, 5 months, in June 1800; Marcellite born in March 1799; Louis-Evariste in January 1801; Achilles in February 1803; a son, name and age unrecorded, died at St. James in September 1806 (the recording priest called the father "Cadet," so one wonders if this was Jean-Louis-Firmin's child); and an infant, name and gender unrecorded, died at St. James in December 1806--eight children, at least four sons and three daughters, between 1794 and 1806.  Jean Louis Firmin remarried to Susanna, daughter of George Glover and P. Roberson of Virginia, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in July 1812.  Did she give him anymore children?  Daughter Rosalie, by his first wife, married into the Legendre family.  None of Jean Louis Firmin's sons seem to have married, so this line of the family, except for its blood, may have died with him.  

François, fils's third son Frédéric-Édouard followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and Baton Rouge, where he married double cousin Marie-Rose, called Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Henry and Marie Pitre of St.-Malo, France, in September 1798; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Marie-Rose, a native of Créhen near St.-Malo, had come to Louisiana from France aboard a later ship.  Their children, born at Baton Rouge, included Rosalie-Modeste, also called Marie-Rose, in January 1802; Frédéric, fils in December 1803; Emma Eglantine in December 1808; and Albery Gustave baptized, age unrecorded, in June 1829--four children, two daughters and two sons, between 1802 and 1829.  Frédéric died at Baton Rouge in March 1848.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give his parents' names or mention a wife, said that Frederick, as he called him, died at "age 80 years."  He was 76.  Daughter Marie Rose married into the Delahay family.  Both of Frédéric Édouard's sons also married.  The great majority of the Arbours of South Louisiana are descended from Frédéric Édouard's older son, who fathered at least half a dozen sons of his own.  During the antebellum period, the older son and his sons became successful planters on the river. 

Older son Frédéric, fils married Marie Adeline or Adèle, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Daigre and Julie Trahan, at the Baton Rouge church in July 1825.  Their children, born at Baton Rouge, included Frédéric III baptized, age 6 months, in March 1827; Joseph born in July 1828; Édouard Bienvenu, called Bienvenu, in October 1830; Eugène Arnes or Ernest, called Ernest, in November 1832; Octave Roland or Roland Octave, in September 1834; Marie Adeline in September 1836; Marie Adèle baptized, age unrecorded, in December 1838; Arthur born in c1841; Marie Léontine, called Léontine, in November 1843; Oscar in October 1845; and Marie Coralie in February 1849 but died at age 2 1/2 (the recording priest said 3 1/2) in October 1851--11 children, seven sons and four daughters, between 1826 and 1849.  In September 1850, the federal census taker in East Baton Rouge Parish counted 30 slaves--20 males and 10 females, all black except for two mulattoes, ranging in age from 60 years to 2 months--on Frédérick Arbour's plantation near Baton Rouge city.  In the 1850s, Frédéric, fils employed 30 of his East Baton Rouge slaves in a sawmilling venture.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in East Baton Rouge Parish counted 33 slaves--age 65 years to 4 months--on Frederick Arbour's plantation near Baton Rouge.  In July 1860, he also held 23 more slaves--19 males and four females, all blacks except for one mulatto, age 80 to 6--in Iberville Parish.  Frédéric, fils died near Baton Rouge in December 1866.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Frédéric was age 75 when he died.  He was 63.  Daughter Léontine married an Acadian Allain by 1870.  Six of Frédéric, fils's sons also married by then.  Most of them served in the Confederate army, one of them as an officer, another as a sergeant. 

Oldest son Frédéric III married Ludoviska or Lodoiska Josephine Marie Adelay, D'Lahay, or De Lahay, probably at Baton Rouge in the early 1850s.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included Joseph André Victor Frédéric in February 1853, Marie Aglaé Adèle Léontine in January 1855; Adolphe Joseph in July 1858, Ida Alice Mary in January 1861; George Édouard in April 1868; ...   During the War of 1861-65, Frédéric III served in Company D of the 27th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Iberville Parish.  He enlisted as a second lieutenant in March 1862, was promoted to first lieutenant the following June, and fought with his unit at Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1862-63.  After the Confederate surrender at Vicksburg in July 1863, Frédéric III, along with thousands of other Southerners, was sent home on a parole of honor.  His Confederate record then falls silent.  Judging by the birth date of a younger son, he survived the war and returned to his family. 

Frédéric, fils's second son Joseph married Julie, daughter of Charles Maurin or Morin and Céleste Verret, at the Baton Rouge church in December 1851.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included Mary Clara in April 1854; Marie Philomène, perhaps theirs, in February 1855; Cécelia in October 1856 but, called Cécilia, died the following April; Marie Céleste born in February 1858 but, called Marie, died at age 4 (the recording priest said 3) in February 1862; Joseph, fils born in August 1859 but died at age 16 months in December 1860; Joseph Charles born in December 1861; Henri Antoine in February 1867; Marie Julie in June 1869; ...  None of Joseph's children married by 1870. 

Frédéric, fils's  third son Édouard Bienvenu, called Bienvenu, married cousin Célestine, daughter of Éloi Martinez and Victoire Heude, at the Baton Rouge church in February 1854; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included Marie Eulalie Coralie in February 1855 but, called Marie Coralie, died at age 1 1/2 in July 1856; George Edward born in June 1857; Marie Rosa Coralie in February 1859; Marie Célestine Anna in December 1860; Marie Victoire Ada in January 1865; John Early in December 1867; Lucie Marie Célestine in February 1870; ...  During the war, Bienvenu, along with younger brother Octave, served in Company A of Miles' Legion Louisiana Infantry, raised in Orleans Parish but which contained a number of soldiers from Baton Rouge.  The unit served in Mississippi and Louisiana.  The Miles' Legion fought at the siege of Port Hudson in the spring and summer of 1863.  Bienvenu missed the siege, however.  He was captured at the Comite River north of Baton Rouge in early May 1863 and held by the Federals at Mobile, Alabama, until they paroled him at Grant's Island near Mobile at the end of May.  As the birth of one of his sons shows, he survived the war and returned to his family. 

Frédéric, fils's fourth son Eugène Ernest, called Ernest, married Emma, daughter of André D'Lahay or De Lahay and Marie Anne Vigoureux, perhaps a sister of his brother Frédéric III's wife, at the Baton Rouge church in October 1854.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included Emma Marie Ernestine in April 1858 but, called Marie Ernestine, died at age 2 in June 1858[sic, probably June 1860]; and William Ernest born in February 1860. 

Frédéric, fils's fifth son Octave Roland or Roland Octave married Caroline or Carrie Gayle in a civil ceremony probably in East Baton Rouge Parish in December 1860, and sanctified the marriage at the Baton Rouge church in March 1868.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included William Roland in December 1861; Frances, a daughter, in July 1866; Mary Blanche in May 1868; Cécile in December 1869; ...  During the war, Octave served as corporal and fifth sergeant in Company A of Miles' Legion Louisiana Infantry, raised in Orleans Parish, which fought in Mississippi and Louisiana, but his service with the unit was more praiseworthy than brother Bienvenu's.  He enlisted in Company A at Baton Rouge in September 1862, was promoted to corporal a few weeks later, and then to fifth sergeant in March 1863.  After the surrender of Port Hudson in July 1863, members of Company A of the Miles' Legion served in Company I of Ogden's Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, which also fought in Louisiana and Mississippi, Octave among them.  He remained a sergeant, surrendered with his unit at Gainesville, Alabama, in May 1865, and, as the birth of his oldest daughter attests, returned to his family. 

Frédéric, fils's sixth son Arthur was a single, 20-year-old lawyer living in Baton Rouge when he enlisted in Company B of the 7th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in East Baton Rouge Parish, in June 1861.  His regiment fought in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, so he was one of General R. E. Lee's Louisiana Tigers.  Arthur was not part of the 7th Infantry for very long.  In early October 1861, he was sent to a hospital in Richmond, Virginia.  His illness or injury must have been serious, because in early November, after he was examined by a medical board, he was discharged from Confederate service for disability.  He probably returned to Baton Rouge.  He married Olivia, daughter of Acadian Gilbert Comeaux and his Creole wife Adeline Gallagaher, at the Baton Rouge church in July 1868.  

Frédéric Édouard's younger son Albery Gustave may have married Marguerite Zénon, place and date unrecorded.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included Alphonse in May 1856; ... 

Arcement

Pierre-Claude Arcement, Arcemont, or Hersmence, born probably in France in c1694, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Pierre Thériot and Marie Bourg, in c1722 and settled at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in the Minas Basin.  They had eight children, including four sons, one of whom was a twin to one of his sisters.  By 1750, Pierre-Claude and his family had moved to Île St.-Jean.  In August 1752, a French official, calling Pierre-Claude a Herrement, "native of l'Acadie," which he was not, counted him, his wife, and three of their younger children at Grande-Anse on the south shore of the island.  Pierre-Claude's daughters married into the Guillot, LePrince, and Pitre families.  Three of his four sons, all born probably at Pigiguit, also created families of their own. 

When the British deported the Acadians of Nova Scotia in the autumn of 1755, Pierre-Claude Arcement, wife Marie-Josèphe Thériot, and their children, still on Île St.-Jean, were living in territory controlled by France.  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.  Pierre-Claude Arcement's son Pierre, age 25, his wife Marie Hébert, age 23, their infant son Pierre, fils, and Marie's sister Anne Hébert, crossed on the British transport Supply, which left Chédabouctou Bay in a 10-ship convoy in late November.  After dodging a deadly storm off the southwest coast of England that sank three other transports, the Supply limped to Bideford, England, for repairs during the third week of December before sailing on to St.-Malo, which it finally reached in early March 1759.  Pierre and his family survived the crossing.  His sister Geneviève, age 35, husband Amand Pitre, age 35, and eight of their children, ages 12 to 3, also crossed on Supply, but they were not as lucky.  Three of their children, ages 12, 4, and 3, died at sea, and a daughter, age 8, died in April 1759 probably from the rigors of the crossing.  One wonders what happened to Pierre and Geneviève's parents and their other siblings, some of whom may have remained at Pigiguit when the rest of the family moved to Île St.-Jean in 1750. 

Pierre and Marie settled at St.-Suliac on the east side of Rivière Rance south of St.-Malo, where she gave him many more children.  Pierre's sister Geneviève, husband Amand Pitre, and their four surviving children also settled at St.-Suliac, where another daughter was born in February 1761.  In the early 1770s, Amand and Geneviève were part of the major settlement scheme in the interior of Poitou.  In March 1776, after two years of effort, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians from Châtellerault down the Vienne and the Loire to the port of Nantes, where they subsisted on government hand outs and on what work they could find.  Geneviève died at Nantes sometime in the late 1770s or early 1780s, in her late 50s or early 60s.  Meanwhile, her brother Pierre, wife Marie, and ther large family remained at St.-Suliac. 

When in the early 1780s the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, Pierre Arcement, fils, wife Marie, and seven of their children, two sons and five daughters, agreed to take it.  So did his widowed brother-in-law Amand Pitre and four of his children.  Pierre, Marie, and their seven children emigrated to Louisiana directly from St.-Malo in 1785.  From New Orleans, they did not follow their fellow passengers to the new Acadian settlement of Bayou des Écore in the New Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge, but went, instead, to upper Bayou Lafourche, where their children created families of their own.  At least one of Pierre, fils's descendants moved to lower Bayou Teche during or after the War of 1861-65. 

During the late antebellum period, only a few Arcements owned slaves.  Pierre's younger son Guillaume Romain, now in his 80s, owned five slaves in July 1850 on the eve of his death.  Federal census takers counted no slaves on Arcement farms in 1860.  The family, then, participated only peripherally in the South's antebellum plantation-based economy.  

At least four descendants of Pierre Arcement served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65.  One of them, a conscript from Lafourche Parish, was captured at Vicksburg in July 1863, refused parole, and was shot to death by a Yankee guard at Camp Morton, a prisoner-of-war camp in Indiana, the following January.  His three kinsmen, only one of them a volunteer, survived the conflict.  The war was just as tragic for the Arcements who stayed at home.  Successive Federal incursions devastated the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley early in the war, and Confederate foragers plagued the area when the Federals were not around.  After the war, the Arcements of the Lafourche and Terrebonne valleys had to endure as best they could a free-labor postwar Southern economy.  One family moved on to lower Bayou Teche and settled in St. Mary Parish, but the rest of them remained in Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes.

In Louisiana, the family's name also is spelled Arceman, Arcemant, Arcemand, Arcemont, Archemant, Arsman, Arseman, Arsemans, Arsement, Arsemon, Hersemence, and should not be confused with the more numerous Arceneauxs.65

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Only one Arcement family, eight of them, came to Louisiana, in 1785 from France.  They crossed from St.-Malo to the Spanish colony aboard La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in late December.  They chose to go to upper Bayou Lafourche, where most of their fellow exiles from France had gone.  Two vigorous family lines came of it in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley: 

Pierre (1733-?) Arcement

Pierre, son of Pierre-Claude Arcement and Marie-Josèphe Thériot, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1733, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, where a French official counted them at Grande-Anse on the south shore of the island in August 1752.  Pierre married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Hébert and Madeleine Doiron, on the island in c1757.  In late 1758, the British deported Pierre, Marie, infant son Pierre, fils, and Marie's sister Anne to St.-Malo, France.  They all survived the crossing.  Pierre and Marie settled at St.-Suliac on the east side of the river south of the Breton port, where, between 1760 and 1776, she gave him nine more children:  Marguerite-Ludivine born in September 1760; Marie-Josèphe in October 1762; Charles-Suliac in August 1764; Tranquille-François in June 1766; Victoire-Hélène in March 1768; Perrine-Madeleine in May 1770; Guillaume-Romain in January 1772; Julie-Céleste in c1773; and Françoise in c1776--10 children, four sons and six daughters, between 1758 and 1776, in greater Acadia and France.  As the birth years of their younger children reveal, they did not go to Poitou in 1773, nor did they join hundreds of their fellow exiles in the lower Loire port of Nantes later in the decade.  Pierre, Marie, and most of their children, two sons and five daughters, emigrated to Louisiana in 1785 from St.-Malo.  However, three of their children--Pierre, fils; Marguerite-Ludivine; and Charles-Suliac--who, if they were still living, would have been ages 27, 25, and 21 in 1785, did not follow their family to the Spanish colony.  From New Orleans, the family moved to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Pierre and Marie's daughters who did go to Louisiana--Marie, Victoire, Perrine, Françoise, and Julie--married into the Naquin, Aucoin, Richard, Thibobeaux, Dugas, and Gautreaux families on the upper Lafourche.  Both of Pierre's remaining sons also married  there.  Descendants of the older son settled in what became Lafourche Interior and Terrebonne parishes.  Descendants of the younger son remained in Assumption Parish or moved down bayou into Lafourche Interior.

Third son Tranquille-François followed his family to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche.  He married Anne-Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Rassicot dit Ratier and Marie-Henriette Pothier, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer on the Acadian Coast in July 1788.  Anne-Marguerite, a native of Cherbourg, had come to Louisiana from France aboard an earlier ship.  They settled near Tranquille's father and siblings on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Marie-Bathilde in July 1789; François-Louis in May 1791; Henriette-Adélaïde in February 1794; Louis baptized, age unrecorded, in June 1797; Nicolas born in March 1802; Rose-Scholastique or -Scholastie in March 1803; Eulalie in the early 1800s; Constance Perrine in July 1805; and Auguste Martial in June 1810--nine children, five daughters and four sons, between 1789 and 1810.  Tranquille died in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1829.  The Plattenville priest who recorded the burial said that Tranquille was age 66 when he died.  He was 63.  A public sale in his name was held at the Lafourche Interior Parish couthouse in November 1832; the notification listed his wife and children, including Marie and her deceased Honoré husband, Henriette and her Brunet husband, Louis, Eulalie and her Bellanger husband, Nicolas, Rose and her Forest husband, and Constance and her Bergeron husband.  Daughters ... married into the Bellanger, Bergeron, Brunet, Foret, and Honoré families.  Two of Tranquille's sons also married and settled in Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes.  

Second son Louis married Anne Rosalie, Rosaline or Rose, 22-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Robichaux and Anne Prejean, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in June 1820.  Their children, born on the bayou, included Anne Rose dite Nanette and Annette in September 1820; Louis Michel in September 1821; Pauline in January 1823 but died the following December; Prosper Pierre born in March 1824; Joseph Nicolas, called Nicolas, in February 1826; Pierre in May 1830; Melina, also called Émelie and Milie, in July 1835; and Louis Cletus, called Cletus, in December 1837--eight children, three daughters and five sons, between 1820 and 1837.  Louis, père died in Terrebonne Parish in November 1843, age 46.  His succession inventories, dated 14 May 1842 and 29 January 1844 at the Terrebonne Parish courthouse, called his wife Rosaline Robichau and listed their children and one of their spouses:  Nanette, age 23, and her Guidry husband; Louis, age 22; Prospère, age 20; Nicolas, age 17; Cléomise, age 15; Pierre, age 13; Milie, age 11; and Cletus, age 6.  Louis's succession, filed at the Terrebonne Parish courthouse in May 1845, listed another heir, Eulalie Arcement, widow of Valéry Bellanger.  Daughters Annette and Émélie married into the Guidry and Duplantis families by 1870.  Four of Louis's sons also married by then, but not all of the lines endured.  One of Louis's sons settled on lower Bayou Teche during or after the War of 1861-65. 

Oldest son Louis Michel, while residing in Terrebonne Parish, married, at age 23, cousin Modeste, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Robichaux and Marie Madeleine Breaux of Terrebonne Parish, at the Thibodaux church in July 1845 (though a civil record at Houma, Terrebonne Parish, says they married "probably 1830 or 1831," when Louis Michel would have been age 9 or 10!).  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Louis Dalpheres in December 1849; Jean Onesi in August 1852; and Marie Odillia in November 1859--three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1849 and 1859.  In October 1850, the federal census taker in Terrebonne Parish counted a single slave--a black 15-year-old male--on Louis Arcement's farm; this was Louis Michel.  At age 46, Louis Michel remarried to Adeline, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexis Aucoin and Anne-Marguerite dite Annette Dugas, at the Montegut church, Terrebonne Parish, in July 1868.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Louis's second son Prosper Pierre married Elzélina, Eveline, or Ezélina, 19-year-old daughter of  fellow Acadian Eléonore Crochet and his Creole wife Célise Pichoff, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in March 1851.  Their children, born on the southeast bayous, included Émée Odile in Lafourche Parish in February 1853; and Marie Zulma in Terrebonne Parish in May 1856.  Neither of Prosper's daughters married by 1870. 

Louis's fourth son Pierre may have been the Pierre Arsemon who married Geneviève Dauphin, place and date unrecorded.  If they married on the Lafourche, they did not remain.  Daughter Mathilda was born near Franklin, St. Mary Parish, on lower Bayou Teche, in March 1865; ...  

Louis's fifth and youngest son Louis Cletus, called Cletus, married Malvina, daughter of fellow Acadian Lucien Savoie and his Creole wife Marceline Chauvin of Lafourche Parish, at the Houma church in November 1859.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Marie Lorenza was born in August 1860; and Marie Eva, called Eve, in August 1862.  Cletus died in Terrebonne Parish in October 1863, age 25.  One wonders if his death was war-related.  He fathered no sons.  A petition for inventory and tutor for his daughter Eve, naming his wife and the fellow she remarried in December 1865, was filed at the Houma courthouse in February 1866. 

Tranquille François's third son Nicolas, at age 32, married Rosalie, 20-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Pitre and Marie Anne Bourg, at the Thibodauxville church in May 1834.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Nicolas Ovile, called Ovile, in February 1835; Marcellin Austin in September 1836; Louise Huranie in July 1838 but, called Louise, died at age 14 1/2 (the recording priest said 15) in May 1853; Joseph Wilfrid born in October 1840 but, called Joseph, died at age 18 1/2 (the recording priest said 18) in February 1859; Charles born in March 1843; Louis Félix in September 1845; Victor Olésime in October 1848; and Marie Justine in July 1851--eight children, six sons and two daughters, between 1835 and 1851.  Nicolas died in Lafourche Interior Parish in January 1862.  The priest who recorded the burial and named Nicolas's wife said that Nicolas died "at age 62 yrs."  He was 59.  Daughter Marie Justine married into the Robichaux family by 1870.  Two of Nicolas's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Nicolas Ovile, called Ovile, married Azéma, daughter of fellow Acadians Augustin Blanchard and Marcelline Robichaux, at the Thibodaux church in October 1860.  They settled near Raceland.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Augustin in July 1861; Marie Ovilia in January 1863; Paul Orestil in July 1864; Joseph Oscar in January 1867; Marguerite Olidia in February 1869; ...  

Nicolas's second son Marcellin Austin married Pauline, daughter of Auguste Sanchez and his Acadian wife Adèle Guillot, at the Thibodaux church in February 1863.  Their son Joseph Albert was born near Raceland in October 1865; ... 

Pierre's fourth and youngest son Guillaume-Romain followed his family to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he worked probably as an engagé with several Acadian families.  At age 31, he married Marianne, daughter of François Aysenne and Maria Thérèse Smith of St.-Charles des Allemands on the lower German Coast, at Assumption on the upper Lafourche in February 1803.  They settled near the boundary of what became Assumption and Lafourche Interior parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marianne in April 1804; François Guillaume in September 1806; Pierre Séraphin in July 1808; Claire in September 1810 but, called Clarice, died at age 21 in September 1831; Basilise dite Élise born in July 1812; Joseph in August 1816; Valsin Théodule in January 1818 but died in Lafourche Interior Parish, age 29, in October 1848; Étienne Joseph born in September 1820; Marie Marguerite in January 1822; Onésiphore Antoine Basile in February 1823 but died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 2) in November 1824; Jean Baptiste Ulisse or Ulysse, called Baptiste, born in October 1824; Joachim Auguste or Augustin in June 1826; Azélie Victoire in December 1827 but died at age 22 months in October 1829; Joachim Narcisse born in July 1830; and Marie Azéma in June 1834 but died in July (the recording priest said she died "at age 13 mths.," but it was not even 13 weeks)--15 children, six daughters and nine sons, between 1804 and 1834.  Guillaume died on the Lafourche in July 1850.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial said that Guillaume was age 73 when he died.  He was 78.  Three days after Guillaume's death, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted five slaves--two males and three females, all black except for a single mulatto, ranging in age from 30 years to 1 month--on Guillaume Arceman's farm in the parish's Second Congressional District.  Daughters Élise and Marie married into the Juneau and Boudreaux families.  Four of Guillaume Romaine's sons also married, but not all of the lines endured.  His youngest son died in Confederate service before he could marry.  Guillaume Romaine's oldest son's line was especially robust.  His descendants settled up and down the Lafourche valley from Assumption south to Lafourche Parish.   

Oldest son François Guillaume married Marie Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadian Hyacinthe Laurent Aucoin and his Creole wife Marie Céleste Delond and widow of Joseph Richard, at the Thibodauxville church in January 1835.  They lived on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Théophil or Théophile Hubert in October 1835; Pierre Aristide in February 1837 but died at age 3 1/2 in November 1840; Augustine Roséma born in June 1838, but, called Azéma Augustine, died the following December; Joseph Augustin born in September 1839 but, called Joseph Auguste, died at age 8 (the recording priest said 9) in October 1847; Léo born in February 1841 but, called Louis, died at age 6 1/2 (the recording priest said 7) in October 1847; Jules Alexandre born in January 1843; Alfred Félicien in December 1844; Ikiler Oleus in January 1847; Augustin Wilfrid in May 1849; Auguste Ozémé in December 1852; Marie Oliva in July 1854; and Léonie Numa in February 1857--a dozen children, eight sons and four daughters, between 1835 and 1857.  None of François Guillaume's daughters married by 1870, but three of his sons did.  They settled on the upper Lafourche. 

Oldest son Théophile Hubert married Emilia, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Richard and Marie Thibodeaux, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in May 1858.  During the War of 1861-65, Théophile was conscripted into Company C of the 1st Regiment Louisiana Heavy Artillery, which was composed of many Lafourche valley conscripts, including his uncle Joachim Arcement.  The unit fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  Théophile, along with his unit, was captured there in July 1863, he refused parole, and spent the rest of the war in Camp Morton, a prisoner-of-war camp near Indianapolis, Indiana.  Unlike his uncle, Joachim, who was shot to death by a sentinel at Camp Morton, Théophile survived the ordeal and returned to his family. 

François Guillaume's fifth son Jules Alexandre, during the war, served in Company C, 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Assumption Parish, which fought, and was captured, at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  Jules married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Marcellin Gautreaux and Pauline Aucoin, at the Labadieville church in April 1864, while he was waiting to be exchanged.  As the births of his children reveal, he survived the war and returned to his family.  Their children, born near Labadieville, included Mary Oceana in November 1865; Joseph Désiré in July 1868; ... 

François Guillaume's sixth son Alfred Félicien married Letitia, daughter of fellow Acadian Auguste LeBlanc and his Creole wife Adèle Peltier, at the Labadieville church in January 1867.  Their children, born near Labadieville, included Marie Odilia in October 1867; Aurelia in November 1869; ...

Guillaume Romain's second son Pierre Séraphin married Rosalie Césaire, called Césaire, daughter of Augustin Lagrange and Rosalie Mayer, at the Thibodaux church in May 1838.  They lived on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Séraphin in c1839 but died between May and July 1853, age 14; a son, name unrecorded, born in c1841 but died at age 14 in May or July 1853; Marie Victorine born in December 1842; Adolphine Fetille in December 1844; Victorine Zoémie in October 1846; and Marie Victorine, evidently the second with the name, in February 1849--six children, two sons and four daughters, between 1839 and 1849.  Pierre Séraphin died probably in August 1849, age 41.  In July 1850, not quite a year after Pierre's death, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted three slaves--a 40-year-old female, a 7-year-old female, and a 3-year-old male, all black--on Widow Pierre Arseman's farm in the parish's Second Congressional District.  Daughters Marie, Adolphine, ... married into the Hébert, Martin, and Boudreaux families by 1870.  Pierre Séraphin's sons did not survive childhood, so only the blood of this family line endured in the Bayou State. 

Guillaume Romain's seventh son Jean Baptiste Ulysse married Sarah Jane or Jeanne, daughter of Olibbe Bone, Borne, Borns, Burns, Burs, or Van and Marie Romer, at the Labadieville church in October 1856.  They settled near Attakapas Canal east of Lake Verret.  Their children, born there, included Auguste Lesta in July 1858, Henry Cleber in December 1859, Louise Amanda in November 1861; Pierre Léony Jean Baptiste in September 1863, Marie Antonia in April 1865; Joseph William in December 1866, twins Jean Baptiste Vinson and Joseph Nicholls in February 1870; ... 

Guillaume Romain's eighth son Joachim Auguste or Augustin married, at age 37,  Elena, daughter of Ursin Oncal or Oncale and Euphemie Maillet, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in August 1863.  A few months before his marriage, Auguste, a private in the Lafourche Parish Regiment Militia, fought in the Battle of Labadieville in Assumption Parish, not far from his home; fell into Federal hands in November 1862; and was released on a parole of honor.  His and Elena's children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Veudeen died at age 2 days near Labadieville in February 1864; Mertil Predeau born in April 1865; Guillaume Romain in April 1867; Joseph Nicholls Cléome in April 1869; ... 

During the war, Guillaume Romain's ninth and youngest son Joachim was conscripted into Company C of the 1st Regiment Louisiana Heavy Artillery, which was composed of many Lafourche valley conscripts, including his nephew Théophile Arcement.  The regiment fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  Joachim, along with his unit, was captured at Vicksburg in July 1863.  He refused parole, and so the Federals sent him, along with nephew Théophile and others who had refused parole, to Camp Morton, a prisoner-of-war camp near Indianapolis, Indiana.  In January 1864, a Yankee sentinel shot and killed Joachim.  He was age 33 and probably still a bachelor. 

Arceneaux

Coastal pilot Pierre Arseneau, as his name came to be spelled, born perhaps in the hamlet of La Flamancherie, Saintonge, southwest France, in September 1646, may have come to Acadia from La Rochelle aboard L'Oranger in 1671.  He and his wives Marguerite Dugas and Marie Guérin created a large family in the colony.  In 1676 and 1678, first wife Marguerite gave Pierre two children, both sons, both of whom married, into the Boudrot, Gaudet, and Mirande families.  Between 1690 and 1702, second wife Marie gave him seven more children, six sons and a daughter--nine children, eight sons and a daughter, by two wives, between 1676 and 1702.  Pierre's daughter evidently died young, but five of his sons by his second wife also married, into the Mirande, Poirier, Bernard, Richard, and Savoie families.  Pierre, Marguerite, and Marie's descendants settled not only at Chignecto, but also in the French Maritimes, where they were especially numerous at Malpèque on the northwest coast of Île St.-Jean.  As a result, not all of Pierre's descendants were "typical" Fundy Acadians. 

In the fall of 1755, the Asceneaus remaining 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 milita, 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.  Arseneaus probably were among the refugees of 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 Chignecto Acadians to the southernmost seaboard colonies.  An Arseneau wife was among them.  She ended up in South Carolina. 

Chignecto Arseneaus who escaped the British roundup in Nova Scotia in 1755 hurried north to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Others moved on to Canada.  Two young Arseneaus from Chignecto died in a smallpox epidemic that struck the Acadians in and around Québec City from the summer of 1757 to the spring of 1758.  After 1759, other members of the family congregated at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  Still others escaped to French-controlled Île-St. Jean, where their cousins had lived for decades.  Their respite from British oppression there 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 and deported them to France.  Most of the Arseneaus on Île St.-Jean, living at remote Malpèque, escaped the redcoasts by crossing Mer Rouge and joining their cousins on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore. 

A few Arseneaus on Île St.-Jean could not get away.  Anne-Marie, daughter of Pierre Arseneau and Marguerite Cormier and wife of François Vécot of Boucherville, Canada, was counted with her family on the south bank of Rivière-du-Nord-Est, in the interior of the island, in August 1752.  In September 1758, the British deported them to St.-Malo, France, aboard the deportation transport Duc Guillaume, which suffered a mid-ocean mishap, perhaps an explosion.  Four of Anne-Marie's five children died aboard ship.  The crippled vessel arrived at St.-Malo on 1 November 1758.  One record notes that Anne-Marie "died in the roadstead at St.-Malo," so she almost made it to the mother country.  She was age 32.  Her husband died on November 4, just three days after the ship made port.  In the immediate family, only their son François Vécot, fils, age 13, survived the ordeal.  Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Pierre Arseneau and Anne Boudrot of Havre-St.-Pierre, Île St.-Jean, and widow of Jean Delaunay of Lacasse, Brittany, was deported to Cherbourg, Normandy, in late 1758 but moved on to St.-Malo in August 1759.  She lived at St.-Cast on the coast west of St.-Malo, at Corseul in the interior southwest of St.-Malo, and again at St.-Cast, where she died in October 1763, in early 40s.  Jean, fils, son of Jean Arseneau and Marie Lamy, a day laborer, married Élisabeth, daughter of locals Barthélemy Sansovoine and Anne Pasquier of St.-Martin de Péré, in Notre-Dame Parish, Rochefort, the naval base on the Bay of Biscay, in May 1771; Jean, fils's brothers Pierre, André, and Élie witnessed the marriage.  One wonders if they were descendants of Pierre the pilot. 

Some of the Arseneaus held by the British in North America came to the mother country by a different route.  After the war, they eresettled on the French-controlled fishery island of Miquelon off the southern coast of Newfoundland.   The choice, however, for many of them, proved to be a troublesome one.  Louise, daughter of Abraham Arseneau and Jeanne Gaudet and widow of Jean Vigneau dit Maurice, remarried to Joseph Dugas, fils, widower of Marguerite LeBlanc, in the prison compound at Chédabouctou, Nova Scotia, in October 1762.  At war's end, they chose to remain in greater Acadia, but not under British rule.  The marriage was "reinstated" at Notre-Dame-des-Ardiliers, on Île Miquelon, in May 1766.  Marie-Madeleine, daughter of François Arseneau, and husband Jean dit Jeannotte Bourg, were counted on the island in 1767.  Overcrowding on the islands soon led the French, obeying a royal decree, to send many of fisher/habitants to the mother country.  Louise and husband Joseph crossed on the schooner La Creole and reached St.-Malo in November 1767, but they refused to stay.  They returned to the island the following March with most of their fellow Miquelonnais.  Jean Arseneau, wife Madeleine Boudrot, and their family also went to France in 1767, but they did not return to the island.  They settled, instead, at Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany with other exiles, most recently repatriated to France from England.  Jean drowned probably off the island in September 1768.  His family chose to remain in France, but not on Belle-Île-en-Mer.  Son Basile, now a sailor, married Anne, daughter of Joseph Bourgeois and Marguerite Hébert of Notre-Dame, Île Miquelon, at St.-Jean church, La Rochelle, in April 1780.  Meanwhile, in 1778, during the American war for independence, France joined the Americans against their old enemy, Britain.  The redcoats promptly captured St.-Pierre and Miquelon and deported the Acadians there to La Rochelle and other French ports.  Soon after reaching La Rochelle, Louise Arseneau and husband Joseph Dugas, fils returned to St.-Malo aboard the brigantine La Jeannette in November 1778.  This time they stayed.  They settled in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where Louise died in June 1779, age 63.  Pierre Arseneau and his wife Théotiste Bourgeois of Chignecto also went to France via the Newfoundland islands.  As a teenager, Pierre, with younger brother Jean-Baptiste, escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in 1755, sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, and married Théotiste at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs in July 1760.  The wedding occured soon after the British attacked Restigouche in late June.  The attacked failed, so the British returned to their base at Louisbourg.  However, after the fall of Montréal in September 1760 and the end of the fighting in North America, the French surrendered Restigouche in late October.  The British held many of the Acadians captured there and in the surrounding region, including Arseneaus, in prison compounds in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  At war's end, Pierre and Théotiste chose to follow their kinsmen to Miquelon.  They likely went to France in 1767 and returned the following year.  They were on the island in 1778 when the British captured Miquelon and nearby Île St.-Pierrre and deported the Acadians to France.  Pierre, Théotiste, and their family were still at La Rochelle when their daughter Marie-Anne was born in St.-Jean Parish there in February 1779, but she died two months later.  Their daughter Judith, called Julie, was born in St.-Jean Parish in March 1781 and died there in March 1782.  Pierre also died there that year.  Three of his older children--Marie-Scholastique, Pierre, and Charles--refused to remain in the mother country.  They returned to Île Miquelon probably in 1784, after the war had ended in France's favor, and moved on the îles-de-la-Madeleine in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. 

In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  If the few Arceneaus still in the mother country were aware that many of their kin had gone to Louisiana two decades earlier and were thriving there, it may not have mattered.  None took up the Spanish offer. 

In North America, Arseneaus who escaped the British roundup on Île St.-Jean in 1758 made their way to Restigouche, where they joined their Chignecto cousins already there.  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 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 October 24, on the eve of formal surrender, French officers counted 1,003 Acadians still at Restigouche, many Arseneaus among them.  Most were sent to prison compounds in Nova Scotia, including Fort Cumberland, formerly French Fort Beauséjour, near their old homes at Chignecto; and Halifax.  A hand full of Arseneaus may have escaped this latest roundup and moved to Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs, or to Île Miscou at the entrance to the bay, or they may have gone there from Nova Scotia after the war. 

Acadians being held in the seaboard colonies, theoretically, were free to go, but not before the British discerned their intentions.  Even then, colonial authorities discouraged repatriation.  In August 1763, Marie Arseneau, husband Simon Leblan, and Cormier and Quesy [Caissie] orphans, all from Chignecto, appeared on a French repatriation list circulating in South Carolina.  One wonders where Marie might have gone after the listing. 

Most of the Arseneaus still in North America at war's end resettled in Canada or remained in greater Acadia, from the upper St. Lawrence down to the Maritimes.  Though now also a conquered 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 Arseneau the coastal pilot began the slow, inexorable process of becoming Canadiennes.  Especially after 1766, they could be found on the upper St. Lawrence at Lotbinière, Bécancour, St.-Jacques de l'Achigan, L'Assomption, and Montréal; at St.-Pierre-de-Sorel, St.-Ours, and St. Antoine-de-Chambly on the lower Richelieu; at Québec City; on Île d'Orléans and at Rimouski on the lower St. Lawrence; on the îles-de-la-Madeleine in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; at Carleton and Bonaventure in Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs; at Île Miscou, Caraquet, Cocagne, and Grande-Digue along the shore of today's eastern New Brunswick; at Louisbourg and Chéticamp on Cape Breton Island, formerly Île Royale; and at Windsor, formerly Pigiguit, in Nova Scotia.  Some of them managed to return to St. John's Island, which the British renamed Prince Edward Island in 1798.  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.  

Arseneaus 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 Arseneaus, chose to go to Île Miquelon.  Others considered going to French St.-Domingue, where Acadian 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.  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 18 were Arseneaus. 

Arseneaus settled early in Acadia, and they were among the earliest Acadians to seek refuge in Louisiana.  The first of them came to the colony from Halifax via Cap-Français in February 1765 with the Broussards.  In April, they followed the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche, but they did not remain there.  When an epidemic struck the Teche valley settlements later that year, all of the Arseneaus fled to Cabahannocer on the river, where other Arseneaus from Halifax had settled earlier that year.  Most of them stayed there, creating the first center of family settlement in the colony on what became known as the Acadian Coast.  Not until the late colonial period did Arceneauxs return to the prairies, creating a western branch of the family that eventually rivaled in numbers their kinsmen on the river.  Meanwhile, an Arceneaux from the river moved to upper Bayou Lafourche, creating a third center of family settlement there.  In the 1820s, two brothers from St. Martin Parish joined their cousins along Bayou Lafourche.  One of the brothers returned to Bayou Teche, but the other one remained on the Lafourche.  

Though some of them moved on to Île St.-Jean soon after Acadians began settling that island in the early 1700s, the Arseneaus of Acadia had tended to concentrate at Chignecto, which the progenitor of their family helped pioneer.  The Arceneauxs of Louisiana, however, exhibited a very different settlement pattern than that of their Acadian forebears.  From the late colonial into the antebellum period, beginning at their base in what became St. James Parish, they spread out to nearly every corner of today's Acadiana--up the Mississippi as far as Baton Rouge; on Bayou Lafourche from Assumption down to Thibodaux and Lockport; on Bayou Teche from Breaux Bridge down to Charenton, and out into the prairies north and west of present-day Lafayette. 

Most Arceneauxs of South Louisiana are descendants of Pierre of Rochefort and Chignecto, but a family of French Canadians with a similar-sounding surname also settled in today's Acadiana.  Michel Arcenot of Cap-de-Madeleine, Canada, came to Louisiana over a decade before his Acadian namesakes arrived.  He and his family settled first on the German Coast above New Orleans before moving upriver to the Acadian Coast, where they lived among Acadian Arceneauxs who had already settled there.  One of Michel's sons moved to Bayou Lafourche, where his descendants settled near their Acadian namesakes as far down as the Terrebonne country.  Some of Michel's descendants married Acadians. ...

Dozens of Arceneauxs, most of them Acadians, served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65, and some of them died in Confederate service. ...

In Louisiana, the Acadian family's name evolved from Arseneau and Arsenault to Arceneaux.  The family's name also is spelled Arcellon, Arcenaux, Arcenos, Arcenot, Arsenaud, Arseneau, Arseneault, Arseno, Arzenaud in the Bayou State.  Sometimes in local church and civil records, the much smaller Arcement or Arsement family of Acadians is confused with the more numerous Arceneauxs.70

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In February 1765, 11 Arseneaus, including three brothers, came to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français with the Broussards and followed them to lower Bayou Teche, but not all of them remained.  Three vigorous family lines came of it on the prairies and the river: 

Jean (c1728-1800) à Abraham à Pierre Arceneaux

Jean, oldest son of Pierre Arseneau and Marguerite Hébert, born at Pointe-de-Beauséjour, Chignecto, in c1728, married Judith Bergeron probably at Chignecto in the early 1750s.  She gave him a son, Jean-Charles, there in c1752.  They escaped the British roundup at Chigneco in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Judith gave Jean another son, Joseph, born in c1756.  By 1760, they made their way to Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, where Jean Arseneau dt Cointin, with a family of four, appeared on a list of 1,003 Acadians still there in October 1760.  The British held them in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Judith gave Jean two more sons in exile:  Guillaume born in c1761; and Pierre-Paul, called Paul and Hippolyte, in c1762.  The British counted Piere, his wife, and four sons on Georges Island, Halifax, in August 1763.  Jean took his family to Louisiana with the Broussards in 1764-65 and followed them to lower Bayou Teche in the spring of 1765.  That fall, he and his family retreated to Cabahannocer on the river to escape an epidemic that struck the Teche valley community.  They remained at Cabahannocer, on what became known as the Acadian Coast, where they had more children, including Marie-Anne dite Manon born in c1769; François baptized, age unrecorded, in August 1771; and Laurent in August 1773--seven children, six sons and a daughter, between 1752 and 1773, in greater Acadia and Louisiana.  Jean fared well at Cabahannocer for an Acadian exile; in March 1779, Spanish officials counted three slaves on his farm along the river.  He died there, a widower, in January 1800.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Jean was age 75 when he died.  He was closer to 72.  Daughter Manon married into the Clouâtre and Tomlette families on the river.  All six of Jean's sons married and settled on the Acadian Coast, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Jean-Charles followed his family into exile and imprisonment, to New Orleans, Bayou Teche, and back to the river, where he married Marie-Josèphe, 14-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Basile Babin and Anne Saulnier and stepdaughter of Michel Cormier of Opelousas, at the St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer church in January 1777.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer, included Cécile-Félicité, called Félicité, baptized, age unrecorded, in November 1779; Abraham baptized, age unrecorded, in January 1782; Denise or Dyonise born in March 1783; Justine in April 1787; and Louise- or Héloise-Scholastique in October 1791--five children, three daughters and two sons, between 1779 and 1791.  Jean died in St. James Parish in April 1813, in his early 60s.  Daughters Dyonise, Félicité, Justine, and Héloise married into the Sonnier, Picou, Bernard, and Melançon families.  His son married twice and created a vigorous line on the river. 

Only son Abraham, at age 20, married Marie Éloise, Héloise, or Louise, 25-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph dit Adons LeBlanc and Marie-Marguerite Landry of San Gabriel, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in August 1802.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included Marie Adalie, Cidalise, or Sidalise in May 1804; Jean Abraham in November 1806; Euphémie, also called Marie Euphémie, in January 1808; Domitille or Donitille in May 1810; and Delsine or Telcide Marie in April 1813.  Marie died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in May 1813, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth; the recording priest said she was age 25, but she was closer to 35.  Abraham remarried to Marie Carmélise or Carmélite, daughter of Salvador Comil, Coneille, Conille, Connille, or Counille and Marianne Peleret of New Orleans and widow of François Huguet, at the Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, in March 1815.  Their children, born on the river, included Marie Marthe in April 1817; Abraham Amédée, called Amédée, in October 1818 but died at age 32 in December 1850; Evariste Abraham born in October 1819; Palmire or Palmyre in July 1823; Marie Carmélite in March 1825; and Florentine Myrthe in February 1828 but died at age 1 in April 1829--11 children, eight daughters and three sons, by two wives, between 1804 and 1828.  Abraham, père died near Convent, St. James Parish, in September 1830.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Abraham was age 46 when he died.  He was closer to 48.  Daughters Sidalise, Marie Euphémie, Donitille, Telcide, Marie Carmélite, and Palmyre, by both wives, married into the Menier or Munier, Estevan, Arceneaux, Landry, Duhon, Bourgeois, and Cornet families.  Only one of Abraham's sons married.

Third and youngest son Evariste Abraham, by second wife Carmélite Connille, married Marie Victorine, daughter of fellow Acadians Bernard Allain and Apollonie Blanchard, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in February 1840.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Joseph Elphége in August 1841; Martial in October 1842; and Léontine in September 1844 but died near Baton Rouge at age 17 1/2 (the recording priest said 19) in June 1862--three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1841 and 1844.  During the War of 1861-65, Evariste's two sons served Louisiana in separate units.  Evariste Abraham's daughter died before she could marry, but one of his sons married, after his war service, and settled in Texas.  The other son died during the war before he could marry. 

Older son Joseph Elphége served in Company A of the 1st Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, raised in Iberville Parish, which fought in Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, Louisiana, and Mississippi.  Joseph E. was present on all of the rolls of his company from his enlistment in New Orleans in August 1861 until June 1863.  He was captured along with many of his fellow troopers at Big Hill, Kentucky, in late July 1863.  The Federals sent him to the Military Prison at Louisville, Kentucky, in early August; transferred him to Fort Delaware, Delaware, in February 1864; and sent him on to Camp Chase, Ohio, in March.  He was exchanged at City Point, Virginia, in March 1865, but he may not have returned home to Iberville Parish.  He married Amanda Susan, daughter of Anglo American John C. Darby, at Logan, Kentucky, in December 1866.  She was a year older than Joseph Elphége.  He likely met her during his Confederate service.  They did not settle in South Louisiana but remained in Kentucky before moving to Texas by the mid-1870s.  Joseph Elphége died in Texas between 1910 and 1919, in his 60s. 

Evariste's younger son Martial, called Martialis by the priest who recorded his burial, died near Gonzales, St. James Parish, in April 1864, age 21.  He probably did not marry and likely was the M. Arceneaux who, during the war, served in Company A of the 3rd Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Iberville Parish, which fought in Arkansas, Missouri, and Mississippi.  M. was captured at Corinth, Mississippi, in September 1862; was released by the Federals soon afterward; and went home on sick furlough in November.  His wartime service probably contributed to his early death. 

Jean's second son Joseph followed his family into exile and imprisonment, to New Orleans, Bayou Teche, and back to the river, where he married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Dupuis and Anne Gaudet and widow of Joseph Blanchard, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in September 1780.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer, included Céleste baptized, age unrecorded, in September 1781; Esther in the 1780s; Joseph, fils in June 1786; and Pélagie in December 1790--four children, three daughters and a son, between 1781 and 1790.  Joseph, père died in St. James Parish in January 1811, age 56.  Daughters Esther, Céleste, and Pélagie married into the Mire, Breaux, and Aucoin families.  Joseph's son also married. 

Only son Joseph, fils married Marie Constance, called Constance, daughter of fellow Acadians Mathurin Bergeron and Marie Godin, at Cabahannocer/St. James in June 1805.  Their children, born in what became St. James Parish, included Joseph Léon or Léonard Joseph, called Léon and Jacques, in April 1806; Félix in May 1808; Marie Domitille in June 1810; Vital in November 1812; Théodule in April 1815; a daughter, name and age unrecorded, died in September 1817; and Marguerite Contance, called Constance, posthumously in November 1818--seven children, four sons and three daughters, between 1806 and 1818.  Joseph, fils died in St. James Parish in June 1818.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph was age 35 when he died.  He was 32.  Daughter Constance married into the Blouin family.  Three of his sons also married, but one of the lines did not endure. 

Oldest son Joseph Léon, also called Jacques, married cousin Marie Arthémise, called Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Bergeron and Marine Landry, at the St. James church, St. James Parish, in November 1824.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included Joseph Michel Léonard in October 1825; Marie Octavie in November 1827; Marie Clémence Amelia in November 1829; Émilie Marie dite Irma, also called Amélie Irma and Marie Irma, in May 1831; Marie Honorine Olive in February 1833 but died "at her fathers," age 24, in May 1857; Marie Paulisix born in February 1835 but, called Marie Pauline Poliska, died "at her fathers," age 18, in October 1853, victim, perhaps, of a yellow fever epidemic that struck South Louisiana that summer and fall; and Désirée died at age 3 months in December 1836--seven children, a son and six daughters, between 1825 and 1836.  Joseph Léon may have died in St. James Parish in October 1847.  If so, he would have been age 41.  The recording priest at St. James church said Joseph was age 40 and that he had "d. at his home and inhumed by Rev. Father [Pierre] Ladavière [then the pastor at Convent], due to illness of Rev. [Auguste] Martin," the pastor at St. James Church.  Daughters Marie Octavie and Irma married into the Simoneaux and Chevet families.  Joseph Léon's son also married.

Only son Joseph Michel Léonard married cousin Marie, daughter of Daniel Blouin and his Acadian wife Marguerite Constance Arceneaux, at the St. James church in 1859; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.

Joseph, fils's second son Félix married cousin Domitille, daughter of fellow Acadians Abraham Arceneaux and Marie Éloise LeBlanc, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in October 1830.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included Constance Vellida or Veleda, called Veleda, in September 1831; and Marie Noémie in December 1833.  Félix died near Convent in August 1840, age 32.  Widow Domitille did not remarry and died "at her mother's widow Michael Bergeron" in St. James Parish in June 1851, age 41.  Daughter Veleda married into the Barthélémy family by 1870.  Félix evidently fathered no sons, so his line of the family, except for its blood, may have died with him. 

Joseph, fils's third son Vital married Marie Euphrasie, called Euphrasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Poirier and Marie Landry, at the St. James church in February 1834.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included Michel Nicolas Vtimen, called Euthymese, in November 1834; Marie Eudalie in October 1836; Vital, fils in c1837 but died at age 12 in June 1849; Marie Philamène born in October 1838; Marie Louise in November 1840; Marie Rebecca Louise in November 1841; Marie Fedora in February 1843; Marie Constance in May 1845; Marie Lotitia in December 1847; and Poleska in late 1853 but died the following June--10 children, two sons and eight daughters, between 1834 and 1853.  The family lived in New Orleans during the early 1850s.  None of Vital's daughters married by 1870, but his remaining son did and settled on the western prairies. 

Older son Euthymese married Élodie Picard, place and date unrecorded.  He remarried to Louison, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Guilbeau and Clémence Potier and widow of Jérome Étie Valéry Arthur Bulliard, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in September 1866. 

Jean's third son Guillaume followed his family to New Orleans, Bayou Teche, and back to the river, where he married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Gaudet and Marie Hébert, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in March 1786.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer, included Charles-Guillaume in January 1787; Joseph-Louis in March 1788; Anne-Françoise, called Françoise, in July 1790; Rosalie-Marguerite or Marguerite-Rosalie in November 1792; Henriette-Éloise in January 1795; Jean-Baptiste-Valéry in January 1797; Joseph-Zénon in March 1799; twins Raymond and Rosémond in March 1801; Marie-Josèphe or -Joséphine in March 1803; and Henriette in March 1806 but died at age 9 1/2 in August 1815--11 children, six sons and five daughters, between 1787 and 1806.  Guillaume died in St. James Parish in December 1818, age 56.  None of his children married fellow Acadians.  Daughters Françoise, Rosalie, and Joséphine married into the Cox, Tassin, and Pahud families.  Only one of Guillaume's many sons married, but the line did not endure. 

Third son Jean Baptiste Valéry married Alexandrine, daughter of Antoine Maxent and Marguerite Mollère, at the St. James church in April 1817.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included Marie Armelise in January 1818; and Marie Uranie in May 1819 but, called Uranie, died at age 4 1/2 in October 1823.  Jean Baptiste died in Ascension Parish in September 1820, age 23.  Daughter Marie Armelise married into the Engeron family, so the blood of the family line may have endured.   

Third daughter Héloise, also called Éloise, evidently did not marry, but she gave birth to sons Joseph Vital and Joseph in St. James Parish in September 1832 and August 1836.  The priest who recorded the boys' baptisms in February 1839 did not identify the boys' father(s) or give the mother's parents' names.  Héloise also had a son named Marcellin, born likely in the 1840s, who married first cousin Modestine, daughter of Joseph Baptiste Tassin, at the St. James church in April 1869.  Significantly, Modestine's mother was Rosalie Arceneaux, probably Héloise's sister, because the couple had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Héloise's sons evidently considered themselves Arceneauxs. 

Jean's fourth son Pierre-Paul, called Paul and Hippolyte, followed his family to New Orleans, Bayou Teche, and back to the river, where he married Élisabeth or Isabelle Fontenot probably at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in the late 1780s.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer, included Claire or Clarice in July 1789; Renné or Reine in January 1792; Zénon in c1793; Simon in June 1794; and a son, name unrecorded, in c1795 but died at age 1 in January 1797--five children, two daughters and three sons, between 1789 and 1795.  Pierre Paul died in St. James Parish in September 1804, age 42.  Daughters Reiné and Clarice married into the Gaudin, Poirier, and Mire families.  Only one of Paul's sons married, but the line did not endure. 

Oldest son Zénon married Marie Louise, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Melançon and Osite Barbe LeBlanc, at the St. James church in January 1813.  Their children, born near Convent, included Adélaïde in December 1814 but died at age 21 in January 1836; Théogène born in January 1817 but died at age 6 in September 1823; and Zénon, fils born in January 1819--three children, a daughter and two sons, between 1814 and 1819.  Zénon, père died in St. James Parish in October 1819, age 27.  One of his sons married, but the line did not endure. 

Younger son Zénon, fils married cousin Euphémie, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul LeBlanc and Adélaïde Melançon, at the Convent church in January 1837; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of relationship in order to marry.  Their children, born near Convent, included Marie Louise in December 1837; Barbe Aglaé, called Aglaé, in November 1839; Émilie in December 1841 but, called Amélie, died at age 4 in November [1845]; and Madeleine Alphonsine born in April 1844--four children, all daughters, between 1837 and 1844.  Zénon, fils died near Convent in April 1852.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Zenon died at "age 34 years."  He was 32.  Daughters Marie Louise, Aglaé, and Madeleine Alphonsine married into the Matherne, Melançon, and Gravois families.  Zénon, fils evidently fathered no sons, so his line of the family, except for its blood, died with him. 

Jean's fifth son François married Ludivine, also called Luce and Lucie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Charles Breaux and Marie Benoit, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in January 1789.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer, included Charles-Simon or Simon-Charles in February 1792; François-Benjamin, called Benjamin, in December 1794 but died at age 5 in November 1799; and Marie-Célise in September 1800--three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1792 and 1800.  François died in St. James Parish in April 1810, age 37.  One of his sons married. 

Older son Simon Charles married Françoise or Marie Mélanie, called Mélanie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Dugas and Marguerite LeBlanc, at the St. James church in May 1811.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included Marguerite Célestine in July 1813 but, called Célestine, died at age 6 1/2 (the recording priest said 10) in April 1820; François Forestin born in February 1815 but, called François Faustin, died at age 3 in January 1819; Simon Léon born in September 1816 but died near Convent, age 28 (the recording priest said 30), in April 1845; Charles Félix, called Félix, born in December 1818; and Jacques Jules, called Jules, in November 1821--five children, a daughter and four sons, between 1813 and 1821.  Simon died in St. James Parish in October 1822, age 30.  Two of Simon Charles's sons married and settled on the river. 

Third son Charles Félix, called Félix, married Marie Virginie, called Virginie, daughter of Jacques Mainville, Mainvielle, or Mienvielle and Delphine Mayer, at the Convent church in April 1837.  Their children, born near Convent, included Élisabeth in c1837 but died at age 18 in June 1855; Marie Mélanie, called Mélanie, born in August 18[3]9; Louis Félix in August 1842 but, called Félix, fils, died at age 2 in August 1844; Marie Félicie born in March 1845 but died at age 1 in October 1846; François Simon born in January 1848; Marie Odilia in February 1851 but, called Marie, died at age 4 1/2 in June 1855; and Marie Virginie born in February 1854--seven children, five daughters and two sons, between 1837 and 1854.  Daughter Mélanie married into the Babin family by 1870.  Charles Félix's remaining son did not marry by then. 

Simon Charles's fourth and youngest son Jacques Jules, called Jules, married Louise Stephanie, called Stephanie, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Gaudin and Scholastique Hébert, at the Convent church in April 1847.  Their children, born near Convent, included Barbe Uranie in December 1848; Mathilde in January 1850; Joseph Léon in January 1852, François Elphége in February 1853, Marie Léontine in May 1854; Michel Oscar in February 1857; and Albert in June 1859 but died at age 1 in June 1860--seven children, three daughters and four sons, between 1848 and 1859.  None of Jacques Jules's children married by 1870. 

Jean's sixth and youngest son Laurent married Félicité, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Bourgeois and Ludivine Granger, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in January 1792.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer, included Carmélite in January 1793; Dyonisio, also called Denise-Félicité and Félicité, in December 1796; Marie-Madeleine in February 1798; Célestine or Céleste in March 1800; Azélie, also called Marie Azélie, in March 1803; Désiré in November 1804; Doralise in the late 1800s or early 1810s; and Evariste in April 1813--eight children, six daughters and two sons, between 1793 and 1813.  Laurent died in St. James Parish in February 1824, age 50.  Daughters Carmélite, Marie Madeleine, Céleste, Félicité, Marie Azélie, and Doralise married into the Michel, Richard, Mire, Blouin, Dicharry, and Savoie families.  Laurent's sons also married on the river. 

Older son Désiré married Marie Céleste, called Céleste, Enger or Hinger probably in St. James Parish in the early 1820s.  Their daughter Marie Corrine was born in St. James Parish in March 1826.  Désiré, at age 26, remarried to Anne Gracieuse or Gratieuse, daughter of Jacques Dicharry and his Acadian wife Clémence Dugas, at the Convent church in June 1831.  Their children, born near Convent, included Françoise Irma in March 1832; Marie Adelise or Adeline Gracieuse in April 1834; and Désiré, also called Laurent Désiré and L. Désiré, in November 1838--four children, three daughters and a son, by two wives, between 1826 and 1838.  Désiré, père may have died near Convent in October 1841.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Désiré was age 30 when he died.  If this was him, he would have been age 36.  His widow Gracieuse did not remarry and died in Ascension Parish, age 35, in June 1849.  Daughters Marie Corrine, François Irma, and Adeline Gracieuse, by both wives, married into the LeBlanc, Mollère, and Poirier families.  After his war service, Désiré's son also married and settled on the river.

Only son Laurent Désiré, by second wife Anne Gracieuse Dicharry, served in the Donaldsonville Artillery, raised in Ascension Parish, which fought in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania--one of General R. E. Lee's Louisiana Tigers.  Laurent Désiré was present with his company from his enlistment in September 1861 until early 1864, when he was reported absent without leave.  He probably did not return to his battery.  The Federals paroled him at Natchitoches in June 1865, so he may have joined another Confederate unit when he came home without leave.  Laurent Désiré married cousin Estelle, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Theriot and his Creole wife Elize Comes, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in January 1866; they had to secure a dispensation for fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Marie Léonie in January 1867; Laurent Désiré, fils in October 1868; Marie Corine in December 1870; ... 

Laurent's younger son Evariste married Marie Belzire, called Belzire, daughter of fellow Acadians Urbin Breaux and Anne Marcellite Breaux, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in June 1834.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Félicité in May 1837; Marie Estelle in April 1838; Marguerite Eliska in August 1840 but, called Eliska, died near Baton Rouge, age 19, in June 1860; Geneviève Laurentine born in January 1843; Hélène Victoria, called Victoria, in July 1845; Evariste Désiré in February 1848; Joséphine Lydie in September 1850; and Philomène Émelise in August 1853--eight children, seven daughters and a son, between 1837 and 1853.  Evariste, père died near Baton Rouge in October 1853, age 40 (the recording priest said 41), victim, perhaps, of a yellow fever epidemic that struck South Louisiana that summer and fall.  Daughters Joséphine and Victoria married into the Cannon and Keller families by 1870.  Evariste's son did not marry by then. 

Joseph (c1740-1790s) à Abraham à Pierre Arceneaux

Joseph, second son of Pierre Arseneau and Marguerite Hébert, born at Pointe-de-Beauséjour, Chignecto, in c1740, escaped the British roundup there in the fall of 1755.  While in exile, he married Marie, daughter of Barthélémy Bergeron dit d'Ambroise and Marguerite Dugas of Rivière St.-Jean, in the early 1760s.   Soon after their marriage, they 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.  They appeared on a repatriations list at Halifax in August 1763.  They had no children.  Like older brother Jean and his family, Joseph and Marie came to Louisiana with the Broussards in 1764-65, followed them to lower Bayou Teche in April 1765, and, like his brother and his family, retreated to Cabahannocer on the river that autumn to escape an epidemic that struck the Teche valley community.  Joseph and Marie remained on the river.  They evidently lived in New Orleans briefly during the late 1760s, but they were back at Cabannnocer by September 1769, when Spanish officials counted them on the left, or east, bank of the river there.  Their children, born on the river, included Marie-Anne in November 1766 and baptized as Marie-Françoise at New Orleans in May 1767; Scholastique baptized at Cabahannocer, age unrecorded, in February 1772; Jean-Charles baptized, age unrecorded, in July 1774; Josèphe baptized, age unrecorded, in February 1776; Joseph, fils baptized, age unrecorded, in August 1777; Auguste or Augustin born in c1778; and Marie-Modeste baptized, age unrecorded, in January 1779--seven children, four daughters and three sons, between 1766 and 1779.  Joseph died probably at Cabahannocer by February 1798, when he was listed as deceased in a daughter's marriage record.  He would have been in his late 50s that year.  Daughters Marie-Anne, Scholastique, and Marie-Modeste married into the LeBlanc, Bourgeois, and Mire families.  Two of Joseph's sons also married on the river, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Jean-Charles married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Part and Marguerite Melançon, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in February 1799.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer, included Édouard in November 1799 but died in St. James Parish, age 46, in January 1846; a son, name unrecorded, died eight days after his birth in August 1801; Joseph-Simon, called Simon, born in September 1802; Marie dite Mélite in May 1804; Jean Amédée, called Amédée, in March 1806; a son, name and age unrecorded, died in April 1808; Marie Eulalie born in January 1808; Joseph le jeune in December 1810; Marguerite Eugènie baptized, age 1 month, in November 1813; and Pierre Joachim, called Joachim, born in February 1815 but died at age 55 in August 1870--10 children, seven sons and three daughters, between 1799 and 1815.  Jean Charles died in St. James Parish in January 1816.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Jean was age 45 when he died.  He was 41.  Daughter Marie dite Mélite married into the LeBlanc family.  Only two of Jean Charles's sons married, to sisters, but one of the lines may not have endured.  Two other sons lived well into their middle age but probably did not marry. 

Third son Joseph Simon, called Simon, married Jane Marguerite, called Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Michel David and his Creole wife Marie Louise Denis, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in May 1836.  Their children, born near Convent, included Marie Aglaé in August 1837; Marie Odile in January 1840; and Augustin in June 1843--three children, two daughters and a son,, between 1837 and 1843.  Simon died near Convent in October 1861.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Simon died at "age 48 years."  He was 59 and a widower.  Daughters ... married into the Cantrelle and Decarraux families by 1870.  Simon's son did not marry by then. 

Jean Charles's fourth son Jean Amédée, called Amédée, married Carmélite, another daughter of Michel David and Marie Louise Denis, at the Convent church in October 1837.  Their children, born near Convent, included Lise Émilia in June 1838; and Marie Adhelma in January 1840.  He likely was the Amédée Arceneaux who died near Convent in December 1850.  The Convent priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Amédée died at "age 32 years," but this Amédée would have been 44.  Neither of his daughters married by 1870. 

Joseph's third and youngest son Auguste or Augustin married Marcelline or Marcellite, daughter of fellow Acadians Bonaventure Gaudin and Marie Broussard, at the Convent church in September 1810.  Their children, born near Convent, included Marie in October 1810; Auguste or Augustin, fils, in November 1814 but died at age 23 (the recording priest said 22) in May 1838; another Marie born in August 1817; Augustine in April 1821; Corinne Agenie in October 1823; and Lucien in August 1825--six children, four daughters and two sons, between 1810 and 1825.  Augustin, père died near Convent in November 1842.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Augustin died at "age 65 yrs."  Daughter Augustine married into the Bourgeois family.  Augustin's remaining son also married, but the line may not have endured. 

Younger son Lucien married Célina, daughter of Francois Boze or Folse and Marie Aimée Trouflox, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in June 1852.  Daughter Marie Aimée was born posthumously in Ascension Parish in September 1853.  Lucien died in Ascension Parish in June 1853, age 27. 

Pierre, fils (c1749-?) à Abraham à Pierre Arceneaux

Pierre, fils, third and youngest son of Pierre Arseneau and Marguerite Hébert of Pointe-de-Beauséjour, Chignecto, was, according to Acadian genealogist Bona Arsenault, born there in c1749.  He evidently escaped the British roundup in the fall of 1755, took refuge with his family on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, 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 likely came to Louisiana from Halifax with his older brothers and a sister in 1764-65, followed them and the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche, and retreated with his siblings to Cabahannocer on the river that autumn.  Pierre, fils married Marie, daughter, probably, of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Bergeron dit d'Amboise and Marguerite Bernard of Rivière St.-Jean, at Cabahannocer in 1766 or 1767.  Their children, born on the river, included Françoise-Julienne in November 1768 and baptized at New Orleans the following April; Pierre III born in c1770; Jean le jeune in c1772; and Alexandre baptized at Cabahannocer, age unrecorded, in April 1777--four children, a daughter and three sons, between 1768 and 1777.  In January 1777, Spanish officials counted Pierre, fils, his wife, and two sons, on the right, or west, bank of the river at Cabahannocer.  None of Pierre, fils's children seem to have created families of their own, so this line of the family did not endure in the Bayou State.  

Pierre le jeune (c1731-1790s) à Pierre, fils à Pierre Arceneaux

Pierre, son of Jean Arseneau and Marie-Jeanne Hébert of Pointe-de-Beauséjour, Chignecto, born there in c1731, escaped the British roundup in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  During exile, he married Marie-Anne, called Anne, daughter of Barthélémy Bergeron dit d'Amboise and Marguerite Dugas of Rivière St.-Jean, in c1757.  In the late 1750s or early 1760s, they either surrrendered 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.  British officials counted Pierre, Anne, and a child, probably newborn daughter Marie-Catherine dite Rosalie, born on Georges Island, Halifax harbor, in August 1763.  They came to Louisiana with the Broussards in 1764-65.  With Pierre was his wife and infant daughter as well as an older, widowed sister.  Pierre was one of the signers of the Dauterive agreement at New Orleans, which means he was considered to be one of the leaders of the Broussard party.  That spring, he and his family followed the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche but retreated to Cabahannocer on the river that autumn to escape an epidemic that struck the Teche community, and there they remained for two decades.  Their other children, born at Cabahannocer, included Marie-Jeanne in c1766; Françoise in c1768; Louis in c1770; Pierre, fils baptized, age unrecorded, in January 1773; Alexandre baptized, age unrecorded, in June 1774; François baptized, age unrecorded, in April 1779; and Pierre Cyprien, called Cyprien, born in c1787--eight children, three daughters and five sons, between 1763 and 1787, in greater Acadia and Louisiana.  Pierre did better than most Acadians at Cabahannocer.  In March 1779, Spanish officials counted a dozen slaves on his farm along the river, an astonishing number for an Acadian exile at that time.  Nevertheless, during the late 1780s, in violation of Spanish policy, he and his family returned to the western prairies.  In April 1786, Pierre "obtained title, through an order of survey, to a tract of land measuring 40x40 arpents between present-day Carencro and Beaubassin" on upper Bayou Vermilion.  Pierre became a successful rancher in the area.  He owned 400 head of cattle at the time of his death.  His succession was filed at what would become the St. Martinville courthouse, St. Martin Parish, in 1793.  He would have been in his early 60s that year.  Daughters Marie Catherine dite Rosalie, Françoise, and Marie-Jeanne married into the Breaux, Carmouche, and Guilbeau families on the river and the prairies.  All five of Pierre le jeune's sons also married, but not all of the lines endured.  His many descendants settled in a number of communities west of the Atchafalaya Basin--on the prairies southwest of Opelousas, on lower Bayou Teche as far down as Charenton, and especially in the Carencro-Grand Coteau area of Lafayette and St. Landry parishes. 

Oldest son Louis married Marie Anne, called Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Athanase Breaux and Marie LeBlanc, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in May 1788; Anne's brother was a husband of Louis's oldest sister Rosalie.  Louis and Anne followed his parents to the western prairies, though Louis retained ownership of land at Cabahannocer.  He inherited from his father a 6x80-arpent holding on upper Bayou Vermilion in the early 1790s.  He named his home after the settlement in Acadia where his father was born.  His and Anne's children, born on the upper Vermilion, included Louis Joachim, called Joachim, in March 1791; Marie-Cidalise, called Cidalise, baptized, age 4 months, in May 1795; Marguerite born in March 1797; Alexandre Toussaint, called Laissin and Toussaint, in December 1798 but died at age 35 in January 1834 (his succession was filed at the Lafayette Parish courthouse the following December); and Céleste born in July 1801 but died at age 2 1/2 in January 1804--five children, two sons and three daughters, between 1791 and 1801.  Louis died at "Beau Bassin," his home near Carencro, in March 1812.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial, which took place "in the parish cemetery," said that Louis died at age 44.  He may have been a couple of years younger.  His succession, naming his remaining children and calling him a widower, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse soon after his death.  Widow Anne's first succession was not filed until December 1829, at the Lafayette Parish courthouse.  A second succession for her was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in February 1831.  Her and Louis's daughters Cidalise and Marguerite married into the Mouton and Sonnier families.  Only one of Louis's sons married but fathered no children.  This line of the family, then, except for its blood, did not endure in the Bayou State. 

Older son Louis Joachim, called Joachim, married Marie Aspasie, called Aspasie, daughter of fellow Acadians François Bernard and Madeleine Broussard of La Pointe, at the St. Martinville church in February 1811.  Joachim died in Lafayette Parish in August 1834.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Joachim died "at age 37 yrs."  He was 43.  His succession, calling him Joissin and naming his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in December 1844.  He and his wife may have been that rare Acadian couple who had no children, at least none who appear in local church records, so his family line probably died with him.

Pierre's second son Pierre, fils, married Clémence, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Cormier and his second wife Anne Michel, at Opelousas in April 1792.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Pierre, also called Pierre Cyprien, le jeune and Cyprien, near Opelousas in November 1793; and Marie-Louise died at 11 days in September 1795.  Pierre, fils remarried to Marie-Josèphe, called Josèphe and Josette, daughter of Pierre Nezat of Layrac, France, and Madeleine Provost of Fort de Chartres, Illinois, at Attakapas in February 1802.  Their children, born at Attakapas, included Pierre Émile, called Émile, in November 1802; Louis Sosthène, called Sosthène, in March 1804; Marie Josèphe in December 1805 but died at age 8 1/2 in June 1814; Joséphine in c1806; Marie Euphrosine or Euphrasie born in May 1808; Pierre Joseph in February 1810; Pierre Bienvenu, called Bienvenu, in December 1811; and Pierre Sosthène in April 1813--10 children, six sons and four daughters, by two wives, between 1793 and 1813.  Pierre, fils died at his home near Carencro in August 1814, age 41.  His widow Marie Josette's successions were filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in May 1830 and the Vermilionville courthouse in July 1834; she does not seem to have remarried.  Her and Pierre, fils's daughters Marie Euphrasie and Joséphine married into the Bernard, Theriot, and Vavasseur families.  One of them settled on the river.  All six of Pierre, fils's sons married, two to first cousins, but not all of the lines endured.  Most of them, in fact, probably did not. 

Oldest son Pierre Cyprien le jeune, called Cyprien, from first wife Clémence Cormier, married cousin Marie Brigitte Aglae, called Brigitte and Aglaé, daughter of François Carmouche and his Acadian wife Françoise Arceneaux, at the St. Martinville church in April 1816.  They settled near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Marguerite Françoise in July 1817; Marie Ameline, Amelina, or Clemelina in December 1819; Marie in July 1821; Louise in April 1823 but died at age 1 in June 1824; Marie Brigide born in 1827 and baptized at age 5 months in March 1828; Pierre le jeune, also called Saintdoux, born in c1830 and baptized at Vermilionville, age 2, in May 1832 but died at age 10 in October 1840; Erasie born in January 1832; and François, also called François Ovignac and Ovignac, in early 1834 and baptized at age 11 months in February 1835--eight children, six daughters and two sons, between 1817 and 1834.  Daughters ... married into the Delhomme and Prejean families by 1870.  One of Cyprien's sons also married by then. 

Younger son François Ovignac, called Ovignac, married cousin Eméranthe, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Rosémond Breaux and Calixte Arceneaux, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in April 1857.  They settled at Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Marie Olivia in March 1858; a child, name unrecorded, died at birth in April 1859; François Ambroise born in July 1860; Pierre Ovide, called Ovide, in January 1862; Sosthènes Alexandre in September 1863; Joseph Ganidos in March 1870; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Ovignac served in Company C of the Consolidated Crescent Regiment Louisiana Infantry, which fought in Louisiana.  As the birth date of his fourth son reveals, he survived the war and returned to his family.  None of his children married by 1870.  Ovignac died at Carencro in February 1894, age 60. 

Pierre, fils's second son Pierre Émile, called Émile, from second wife Josette Nezat, married Marie Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Breaux and Mathide Broussard, at the St. Martinville church in December 1821.  Their children, born near Carencro, included Pierre Émile, fils, called Émile, in July 1824; Marie Émilie in March 1826; Marie Joséphine baptized a day after her birth in November 1828 but died less than a week later; Louis Joseph baptized at Vermilionville six days after his birth in November 1829; and Marie Josette born in August 1831 but died at age 8 1/2 in November 1839--five children, two sons and three daughters, between 1824 and 1831.  Émile died in Lafayette Parish in July 1847, age 44 (the recording priest said 43).  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in January 1848.  Daughter Marie Émilie married into the Valière family.  Émille's two sons also married.

Older son Pierre Émile, fils, called Émile, fils, married Marie Alzina or Alzire, also called Alzina and Alezinore, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Fabien Richard and Eugénie Savoie, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in August 1849.  They settled on the prairie near the boundary between St. Landry and Lafayette parishes.  Their children, born there, included Eugénie Alphoncine in May 1850; Louis Sostène le jeune in September 1851; Marie Amyntha in June 1853; Louise in February 1855; Pierre Émile III in March 1857 but, called Émile, died at age 9 in September 1866; Marie born in October 1858; Marie Azélie in May 1861; Cécile in December 1862; ...  Daughter ... married into the Joubert family by 1870.  Pierre Émile, fils's remaining son did not marry by then. 

Émile's younger son Louis Joseph married double cousin Marie Amélie, called Amélie and Amelia, daughter of fellow Acadians Émilien Arceneaux and Céleste Breaux, at the Opelousas church in April 1852.  They settled near the boundary between St. Landry and Lafayette parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie Alicia in May 1854; François Alexandre in July 1855; Louis Adalbert in April 1858; a child, name unrecorded, perhaps theirs, died "at age a few weeks" in Lafayette Parish in February 1860; Bibian Émilien born in December 1860; Philomène Olympe in October 1862; Pierre Joseph le jeune in June 1864; Pierre Clément in November 1866; Louis Barthélémy in August 1868; ...  None of Louis Joseph's children married by 1870. 

Pierre, fils's third son Louis Sosthène, called Sosthène, from second wife Josette Nezat, married cousin Marie Euphanie, called Fannie, daughter of French Canadian Solastie Roy and his Creole Marie Nezat, at the St. Martinville church in November 1830.  They settled in Lafayette Parish.  Their children, born in there, included a daughter, name unrecorded, died there 2 hours after her birth in March 1832; Marie Sosthène baptized at Vermilionville, age 2 months, in October 1833 but died the following May; and Eve Marie Josette born in October 1838 but died at age 1 (the recording priest said 18 months) in August 1839--three three children, all daughters, between 1832 and 1838.  Louis Sosthène died in Lafayette Parish in September 1839.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Louis was age 33 when he died.  He was 35.  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in February 1840.  One wonders if he fathered any sons. 

Pierre, fils's fourth son Pierre Joseph, by second wife Josette Nezat, married Marie Joséphine, called Joséphine, daughter of James Blaire or Blaise and his Acadian wife Marie Céleste Breaux, at the Vermilionville church in May 1837.  Daughter Josette Rebecca, also called Marie Josette Rebecca, was baptized at Vermilionville at age 2 months in April 1838.  Wife Joséphine's succession, likely post-mortem, was filed at the Lafayette Parish courthouse in May 1841.  Pierre Joseph's succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in March 1852.  He would have been age 42 that year.  Daughter Marie Josette Rebecca married into the Latiolais family, so the blood of the family line endured.   

Pierre, fils's fifth son Pierre Bienvenu, called Bienvenu, by second wife Josette Nezat, married first cousin Marie Adéle, Azèle, or Azélie, also called Azelia, daughter of fellow Acadians François Arceneaux and Marie Mouton, his uncle and aunt, at the Vermilionville church in June 1838.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Marie Gosette or Josethe Isminie in March 1839 but died at age 4 1/2 in September 1843; and Marie Azèlle born in December 1840 but died the following February.  Wife Marie Azélie died in January 1841 probably from complications of childbirth.  Her succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following June and again in July 1870.  Pierre Bienvenu evidently did not remarry.  He died in Lafayette Parish in July 1855, age 43 (the recording priest, who did not give any parents' names nor mentioned a wife, said 42).  Pierre Bienvenu's succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse later that month.  His family line died with him. 

Pierre, fils's sixth and youngest son Pierre Sosthène, by second wife Josette Nezat, married first cousin Geneviève Désirée, daughter of fellow Acadian Alexandre Arceneaux and his Creole wife Hélène Carmouche, his uncle and aunt, at the Vermilionville church in December 1838.  Did Pierre Sosthène father any children?

Pierre, père's third son Alexandre married Hélène, daughter of Pierre Carmouche of Pensacola and Pointe Coupée and Geneviève Rousseau, at Ascension in March 1802.  They settled at Beaubassin on upper Bayou Vermilion east of Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Alexandre, fils in June 1803; Geneviève, also Geneviève Caliste, in April 1805; a newborn son, name unrecorded, died in November 1806; twins Paulin and Pauline born in October 1807, but Pauline died in November; Marie Euphrosine born in March 1809; Geneviève Désirée in November 1810; Lazare Terssy, Belcy, or Bercy in September 1812; Marie, also Marie Alexandrine, in February 1814; and Claire Armante in c1818 but died at age 11 in May 1829--10 children, four sons and six daughters, including a set of twins, between 1803 and 1818.  Alexandre, père died probably at Carencro in September 1833, age 59 (the recording priest said 58).  His successions were filed at the Opelousas and Vermilionville courthouses the following March.  Daughters Marie Euphrosine, Geneviève Caliste, Geneviève Désirée, and Marie Alexandrine married into the Eastin, Breaux, Arceneaux, and Carmouche families, one of them in Pointe Coupée.  Alexandre had adopted Mary Arceneaux, whose son Alexandre le jeune was baptized at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, age 2 1/2, in July 1839.  Three of Alexandre's sons also married, one of them to a free woman of color. 

Oldest son Alexandre, fils married mulatresse affranchie, or free mulata, Mary Balqué or Beck, former slave of Joseph Balqué, free man of color, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in October 1860; the recording priest noted that the couple had been living together "25 or 26 years."  Their daughter Alexandrine was born in late 1836 or early 1837, baptized at Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in July 1839, and married into the Fuselier family.

Alexandre, père's third son Paulin, a twin, married Céleste Armillionne or Erminionne, daughter of André Martin, a French Creole, not a fellow Acadian, and his Acadian wife Gertrude Sonnier, at the Vermilionville church in December 1828.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included André Destival in 1829 and baptized at Vermilionville, age 8 months, in June 1830; Alexandre Seveigny or Sevigné, called Sevigné, born in early 1831 and baptized at age 13 months in May 1832; Marie Coraïde or Coralie baptized at age 4 months in June 1833; Déma or Demas baptized at age 6 months in October 1835; Luma born in 1838 and baptized at age 15 months in August 1839; Estras born in 1840 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age unrecorded, in December 1841; Gertrude born in November 1842; Marie Agnèz in January 1847; Marie Céleste in December 1850; a child, name and age unrecorded, died in January 1852; ...  Daughter Coralie married into the Dominguez family by 1870.  Three of Paulin's sons also married by then. 

Second son Alexandre Sevigné, called Sevigné, married Marie Azéoline, called Zéoline, Azadine, Claline, and perhaps also Azélina, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Brasseaux and Valiene Dugas, at the Vermilionville church in April 1852.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Marie Emelina in November 1843 [the record probably meant 1853]; Joseph Ebeard in March 1856; Paul Duplessis in May 1859; Adam in June 1861; Joseph Israel in May 1863; Jean Jacques in November 1865; ...  Alexandre Sevigné may have remarried to Marguerite Valérie, called Valérie, daughter of fellow Acadian André Prejean and widow of Joachim Richard, at the Vermilionville church in July 1870.  Alexandre Sevigné's daughter, by his first wife, married into the LeBlanc family by 1870.  None of his sons married by then. 

Paulin's third son Demas or Déma married Azélie, also called Célia, Isilia, and Zélia, another daughter of Joseph Brasseaux and Valiene Dugas, at the Vermilionville church in October 1855.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Marie in March 1857; Albert in Lafayette Parish in August 1858; Marie Emethilde in March 1861; Marie Andréa near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in December 1862; Edgard near Church Point, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in September 1868; Amédé in Lafayette Parish in March 1870; ...

Paulin's fourth son Luma, called Numa by the parish clerk, may have married fellow Acadian Valentine Richard in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in January 1870. ...

Alexandre, père's fourth and youngest son Lazare Terssy, Belcy, or Bercy married Hortense, daughter of fellow Acadian Simon Bourgeois and his Creole wife Marcellite Judice, at the Vermilionville church in March 1837.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Marcelite Elena or Hélène in May 1838; Alexandre le jeune in January 1840; Simon Bercy in May 1841; and Marie Armande in November 1844--four children, two daughters and two sons, between 1838 and 1844.  Lazare, called Lazard by the recording priest, died in Lafayette Parish in September 1847.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said that Lazard was age 30 when he died.  He was 35.  Widow Hortense, having never remarried, died in Lafayette Parish in May 1864, age 53.  Daughter Marcellite Hélène married into the Broussard and Dufay or Duffay families by 1870.  Neither of Lazare's sons married by then. 

Pierre, père's fourth son François married, at age 34, Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Frédéric Mouton and Anastasie Cormier of the lower Vermilion, at the St. Martinville church in July 1813.  Their children, born near Carencro, included a daughter, name unrecorded, died at age 7 weeks in September 1814; François Émilien or Émilien François, called Émilien and Milien, born in October 1815; Emérente or Eméranthe, also Erémise Emérante and Éloise, in September 1817; Laure in November 1820 but died at age 3 1/2 in August 1823; Marie Adèle or Azèlle born in September 1822; and François, fils in September 1824--six children, four daughters and two sons, between 1814 and 1824.  François, père filed a succession at the Vermilionville courthouse in October 1832, perhaps following the death of wife Marie.  He remarried to Scholastique, daughter of fellow Acadians Firmin Breaux and Marguerite Breaux and widow of Cyrille Thibodeaux, at the Vermilionville church in March 1834.  She evidently gave him no more children.  François, père died in Lafayette Parish in May 1838.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said that François was age 58 when he died.  His post-mortem successions, the first one naming his first wife, the second one mentioning no wife, were filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in June 1838 and April 1842.  Daughters Éremise Eméranthe and Marie Azèlle, from his first wife, married into the Comeaux and Arceneaux families.  Both of François's sons married, but neither of the lines seems to have endured. 

Older son Émilien François married Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Breaux and his Creole wife Marcellite Carmouche, at the Vermilionville church in February 1833.  They settled near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included a child, name and age unrecorded, died in November 1833; Marie Amelia or Amélie baptized at age 3 1/2 months in September 1835; Marcelite Letitia born in June 1837; Françoise in March 1839; Marie Emérante in May 1840; and Marceline Joséphine in March 1842--six children, five of them daughters, between 1833 and 1842.  Émilien died "at Carencro" in May 1842, age 26.  Daughters Marie Amélie and Marie Emérante married into the Arceneaux and Dupuis families.  If their first child was a son, he did not survive infancy, but the blood of the family line endured. 

François's younger son François, fils married Marie Amelia, called Amelia, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Thibodeaux and Marie Cléonise Savoie, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in October 1850.  Daughter Marie Cordelia was born near Grand Coteau in December 1851. Francois, fils died in Lafayette Parish in January 1860.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said that Francois died "at age 40 yrs." He was 35.  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following September.  His daughter did not marry by 1870.  He evidently fathered no sons. 

Pierre, père's fifth and youngest son Pierre Cyprien, called Cyprien, married Adélaïde, another daughter of Jean Frédéric Mouton and Anastasie Cormier, at Attakapas in May 1805.  They also settled at Beaubassin near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Cyprien, fils at his uncle Louis's home at Beaubassin in July 1806; François Aurelien, called Aurelien, in February 1808; Marie Malvina in December 1809 but died in September 1810; Simon Ursin, called Ursin, born in July 1811 but died at age 8 in January 1819; Azélie in c1812 but died "at age about 8 or 9 years" in October 1820; Joseph Joachim, called Joachim, born in March 1813 but died at age 2 in September 1815; Marie Azélie born in December 1814; Agerin in December 1816; Rosalie, also called Rosalie Céleste and Céleste, in September 1818; Marie dite Belzire in July 1820; Jean Pierre in May 1822; Clara in April 1824 but died at age 16 1/2 in March 1841; Louis Lucien born in March 1826; Anastasie in February 1828 but died at age 3 1/2 (the recording priest said 1 1/2) in October 1831; and Laure in January 1831 but died the following October--15 children, seven sons and eight daughters, between 1806 and 1831.  Cyprien, père died in Lafayette Parish in May 1832, age 45.  His successions, the first one naming his widow and children--Céleste, Agerin, Belzire, Jean Pierre, Clara, and Lucien--were filed at the Opelousas courthouse in June 1832 and the Vermilionville courthouse in April 1833, so he must have owned propery in St. Landry as well as Lafayette Parish.  Daughters Marie Belzire and Céleste married into the Bin and Ynogass or Inogoso families.  Four of Cyprien's sons married.  Two of them settled on the lower Teche. 

Oldest son Cyprien, fils married Marie Bonne or Labonne, called Bonne, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Breaux and his Creole wife Marcellite Carmouche, at the Vermilionville church in June 1829.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included a child, name unrecorded, died at age 5 days in April 1830; Joseph Romaire baptized at Vermilionville, age 7 months, in September 1831; Cyprien Maismain born in December 1832; Hippolyte Nicolas baptized at age 4 months in April 1835; Pierre Edmond baptized at age 1 month in December 1836; Petronille baptized at age 1 1/2 months in June 1839; twins Azélie and Clarisse born in March 1841; Clara in January 1843; Marie Belzire near Grand Coteau in July 1849[sic]; Eusèbe in August 1849[sic]; and Tercie, perhaps a daughter, in c1850 but died at age 7 in November 1857--a dozen children, at least five sons and six daughters, including a set of twins, between 1830 and 1850.  Cyprien, fils died in Lafayette Parish in January 1852.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Cyprien died "at age over 40 yrs."  He was 45.  His estate record, not post-mortem, had been filed at the Opelousas courthouse in May 1847.  Daughters ... married into the Baquet, Cazaudebat, Johnson, Stemmam, and Tatman families, one of them at Ville Platte in what became Evangeline Parish.  Three of Cyprien, fils's sons also married. 

Second son Cyprien Maismain married Marie Azénaïde, called Azénaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Cyprien Mouton and Eliza Dugas, at the Vermilionville church in February 1854.  Their children, born on the prairies and the lower Teche, included Lucien in Lafayette Parish in March 1856; Stanislaus Albert near New Iberia, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in May 1858; Eustache Romain in Lafayette Parish in September 1860; and Dominique in November 1862.  Wife Azénaïde died a little over two weeks after son Dominique was born, probably of complications from giving him birth.  Cyprien remarried to fellow Acadian Marie Aphanelie, called Fanelie, Dugas, widow of Aurelien Chiasson, at the Vermilionville church in September 1864.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Marie Mathilda in December 1865; Cyprien Adam in May 1870; ...

Cyprien, fils's third son Hippolyte Nicolas married Azélima, also called Adelina, daughter of fellow Acadians Augustin Benoit and Anastasie Babineaux, at the Vermilionville church in May 1854.  They settled near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Joseph in January 1856; Marie Élizabeth in November 1857 but, called Marie, died at age 10 months in September 1858; Louis Pancrase born in May 1860; Eve Hélène in January 1864; Edmond in December 1867; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Hippolyte served as an officer's cook in Company K of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Landry Parish, which fought in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana.  As the birth of his third son reveals, he survived his war service and returned to his family. 

Cyprien, fils's fourth son Pierre Edmond married Justine, daughter of Juste Bertinot or Bertinos and Brigitte Stelly, at the Grand Coteau church in April 1867.  Their son Juste Cyprien was born near Grand Coteau in September 1868; ... 

Cyprien, père's second son François Aurelien, called Aurelien, married Anglo Creole Mary Andrews or Andrus in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in May 1835.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Aurelia in 1836 and baptized at Vermilionville, age 7 months, in January 1837; Marie Godrot born in March 1838; Marie Anastaise in October 1840 but, called Anastasie, died at age 16 in November 1856; Françoise born in February 1843; François Connas near Grand Coteau in December 1846; Louis Bellanger in June 1848; John Sidney near Church Point, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in January 1851; Charles Hiram in October 1853; Omer in December 1855; Moïse in March 1858; ...  Daughters ... married into the Andrus, Broussard, and Lyons families by 1870.  One of Aurelien's sons also married by then. 

Second son Louis Bellanger, called Louis B. by the recording clerk, married Anglo American Mary Wingate in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in October 1869. 

Cyprien, père's fifth son Agerin married fellow Acadian Rose Labauve probably at New Iberia in the early 1840s.  Their children, born on the lower Teche, included Alderie Félix near Charenton, St. Mary Parish, in May 1847; Marie Clara in October 1850; ...   Daughter ... married into the Lyons family by 1870.  Agerin's son did not marry by then. 

Cyprien, père's sixth son Jean Pierre married Félicia Félicité, daughter of Honoré Buquois and his wife Eugénie ____, at the New Iberia church in September 1842.  Their children, born on the lower Teche and the prairies, included Ambroise near New Iberia in February 1848; Adélaïde Avantine in Lafayette Parish in November 1850; Marie Ophelia in December 1852; Jean Pierre, fils in June 1855; Zitus near New Iberia in October 1857; ... None of Jean Pierre's children married by 1870. 

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Later in 1765, at least seven more Arseneaus came to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français, but they did not follow their kinsmen to lower Bayou Teche.  They chose, instead, to remain at Cabahannocer on the river, where some of their Teche valley kinsmen soon joined them.  Another vigorous family line came of it on Bayou Lafourche and the prairies:    

Pierre (c1735-1760) à Abraham à Pierre Arceneaux

Pierre, son of perhaps Jean-Baptiste Arseneau and Anne Cyr, born at Chignecto in c1735, escaped the British roundup there in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  He married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Godin dit Lincour and Anastasie Bourg of Rivière St.-Jean, in c1760 perhaps at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  The British may have captured them soon after their marriage, or they may have surrendered to British forces after the fall of Restigouche and were held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  British officials counted Pierre, Marie-Josèphe and an unnamed child, probably infant son Eusèbe, at the prison compound on Georges Island, Halifax, in August 1763.  They followed their kinsmen to Louisiana in 1764-65.  Another son, Pierre, fils, was born to them in 1765 either aboard ship or at New Orleans soon after they reached the colony.  Pierre kept his family at Cabahannocer.  Marie-Josèphe gave him no more children there.  Pierre died at Cabahannocer by September 1769, in his early 30s, when Marie-Josèphe was listed in a Cabahannocer census with her second husband, Basile Préjean.  Both of Pierre's sons created their own families.  His older son settled on upper Bayou Lafourche in the 1790s.  His younger son married twice on the river and joined his cousins on the western prairies about the time his older brother moved to the Lafourche. 

Older son Eusèbe followed his family to New Orleans and Cabahannocer.  Still a teenager, he was living with his stepfather, mother, and siblings on the right, or west, bank of the river at nearby Ascension in April 1777.  Eusèbe married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Bergeron dit d'Amboise and Marguerite Bernard, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in August 1788.  They settled near the boundary between the Cabahannocer and Ascension districts before moving to Assumption on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Their children, born on the river and the upper bayou, included Eusèbe-Alexandre, called Alexandre, at Cabahannocer in July 1789; Louis-Narcisse, called Narcisse, in November 1790 but died in Assumption Parish, age 25, in April 1816; Michel born at Ascension in June 1792; Constance at Cabahannocer in July 1794; Marie-Modeste at Assumption in June 1796; Jean-Baptiste, called Baptiste, in April 1798; Valéry-Joseph at Cabahannocer in February 1800; Marie-Émilie in January 1802; Alexandre le jeune, called Alex and Merville, at Assumption in May 1803; twins Michel, the second with the name, and Marie Basilise in February 1805, but Michel died at age 2 in September 1807; Marie Doralise born in December 1807; and Pierre Lucien, called Lucien, in October 1809--13 children, eight sons and five daughters, including a set of twins, between 1789 and 1809.  Eusèbe died in Assumption Parish in October 1825, age 62.  Daughters Marie Modeste, Constance, Marie Émilie, and Marie Doralise married into the Daigle, Gautreaux, Blanchard, and Theriot families.  Five of Eusèbe's sons also married.  Most of them remained on the upper Lafourche, but some of them settled as far down bayou as Lockport in Lafourche Interior Parish.  A grandson moved to the Gonzales area of Ascension Parish after the War of 1861-65. 

Oldest son Eusèbe Alexandre, called Alexandre, married Marie Aimée, daughter of fellow Acadians Suliac Blanchard and Marie Hébert, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in May 1810.  They settled at Brûlé St. Vincent.  Their children, born on the upper bayou, included Angèl, a son, died at age 4 months in July 1811; Eusèbe Théodule, called Théodule, born in April 1812; Siméon Suliac in February 1814 but died at age 17 (the recording priest said 19) in July 1831; Marie Basilise, called Baselise, born in June 1816; twins Jean Baptiste and Hubert in May 1818; Élise Zaccarie, also called Élisabeth, in October 1820; a newborn son, name unrecorded, died in March 1825; Marie Alexandrine, called Alexandrine, baptized at Plattenville, age unrecorded, in April 1827; Victoire born in July 1829; and Irma Eléonore in May 1831--11 children, six sons and five daughters, including a set of twins, between 1811 and 1831.  According to a Plattenville church record, an Alexandre Aucoin, "husband of Marie Blanchard," died in Assumption Parish in June 1833, age 46.  This Alexandre would have been a month shy of age 43.  There was no Alexandre Aucoin married to a Blanchard, so this likely was him.   Daughters Baselise, Élise, and Alexandrine married into the Aucoin, Landry, and Hébert families.  Two of Alexandre's remaining sons also married and settled on the Lafourche. 

Second son Théodule married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Grégoire Aucoin and Marguerite Aucoin, at the Plattenville church in December 1833.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Cyprien Justinien in July 1835 but died at age 9 months (the priest who recorded his burial and did not mention his name said 7 months) in April 1836; and Joseph Pierre born in March 1837.  Théodule remarried to Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadians Isidore Aucoin and Marguerite Daigle, at the Plattenville church in January 1843; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of affinity in order to marry.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Victorine, called Victorine, in November 1843; Honorine Matilde, called Mathilde, in February 1845; Maximilien or Marcellin Justilien in October 1846; Joseph died an "infant" in November 1848; Clairville born in February 1849; Valsin Aristide Prospère in May 1852; Émile Alcide Gustave near Labadieville in August 1856 but, called Alcide, died the following January; Marguerite Emma born in October 1863; ...   Daughters Victorine, Mathilde, ..., by his second wife, married into the Aucoin and Blanchard families by 1870.  Two of Théodule's sons also married by then.

Second son Joseph Pierre, by first wife Marie Aucoin, married cousin Élisabeth, called Elisa, daughter of fellow Acadians Florentin Blanchard and Émilie Arceneaux, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1861.  Their children, born near Labadieville, Joseph Alcide in March 1866; Marie Amélie in January 1869 but, called Marie Émilie, died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 8 months) in December 1870; ... 

Théodule's third son Marcellin, by second wife Azélie Aucoin, married Élizabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Delaune and Azélie Boudreaux, at the Labadieville church in February 1870. ...

Alexandre's fourth or fifth son Hubert, a twin, married Hirma or Irma, daughter of Zénon Rodrigue and Céleste Laguaman of St. John the Baptist Parish, at the Plattenville church in May 1840.  Their children, born on the upper bayou, included Marie Sélima or Célima, called Célima, in March 1841; Marie Zelma in September 1842; Amélie Azéma in June 1844; Numa in c1845 but died at age 7 in December 1852; Philippe born in April 1846; Joseph Arséma in July 1848 but, called Arcement, died at age 3 1/2 (the recording priest said 1 1/2) in March 1852; Jean Baptiste Aima born in November 1851; Rosémond in c1852 or 1853 but died at age 5 in January 1858; Philomène born in August 1853; Eulalie Philoma in February 1858; Alma in January 1862; Louis Léoma, called Léomas, in August 1864; ...  Daughters Célima, ... married into the Landry, Aucoin, and Blanchard families by 1870.  None of Hubert's sons married by then.

Eusèbe's fourth son Jean Baptiste married Marie Mélanie, called Mélanie, daughter of fellow Acadians François Marie Gautreaux and Félicité Hébert, at the Plattenville church in July 1818.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Jean Baptiste Pantaléon, called Léon, in July 1819; Marie Luce in April 1821; Félicité Rosalie in January 1824 but, called Marie Rosalie, died at age 13 1/2 in September 1836; Marie Carmélite born in March 1826; Jean Baptiste Apollinaire in February 1829 but died at age 8 1/2 (the recording priest said 9 1/2) in August 1837; Marcellin born in December 1831 but, called Marcellus, died at age 5 1/2 (the recording priest said 6) in September 1837; Mélasie Eugénie born in June 1834; and Rosiline or Roseline in December 1837--eight children, three sons and five daughters, between 1819 and 1837.  Daughters Marie (probably Marie Luce), Mélasie, and Roseline married into the Delaune and Blanchard families, including two Blanchard brothers, by 1870.  Jean Baptiste's remaining son also married.

Oldest son Jean Baptiste Pantaléon, called Léon, married Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadians Antoine Dubois and Marie Aucoin, at the Plattenville church in October 1844.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Philomène in November 1845; Thérèse in August 1847; Marie Azélide in January 1850; Marie Alisse, Alice, or Alis in October 1851; Louise died a day after her birth in June 1853; Guillmar Joseph Auzémé born in August 1854; a son, name and age unrecorded, died, after a private baptism, in November 1857; Joseph Alcé born in January 1859; Célina Odalie near Raceland on the lower bayou in March 1861; Alisia near Lockport on the lower bayou in October 1863; Marie Donatile baptized at the Lockport church, age unrecorded, in May 1867; ...  Daughters Thérèse, Marie, and Alice married into the Roger, Richard, and Fonseca families by 1870.  None of Léon's sons married by then. 

Eusèbe's fifth son Valéry Joseph married Basilise, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Aucoin and Marguerite Bourg, at the Plattenville church in January 1826.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joseph Drosin died 15 days after his birth in November 1826; Marcellus Eusèbe born in June 1828; Marie Basilise in September 1830; Marie Mélanie in May 1832; Alexandre le jeune in April 1834 but died at age 3 1/2 in October 1837; Octave Joseph born in February 1836 but, called Joseph, died at age 9 1/2 in August 1845; Estella Augustine born in November 1838; Rosalie Mathilde in October 1841; Jules Lucien in December 1844; and Olésiphore in c1846 but died at age 15 months in January 1848--10 children, six sons and four daughters, between 1826 and 1846.  Daughters Mélanie, ... married into the Trahan, Prudhomme, Barrilleaux, and Thibodeaux families by 1870.  Valéry Joseph's two remaining sons also married by then, one of them after his war service.

Second son Marcellus married Angèle or Angelina, daughter of Joseph Friou and his Acadian wife Azélie Trahan, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in May 1854.  Their children, born near Pierre Part on Lake Verret in Assumption Parish, included Marie Rosalie in May 1855; Marie Hélène in January 1857; Anastasie Hortense in April 1859; Joseph Jules in October 1861; Marie Augustine in May 1864; Cyprien Joseph in September 1866; ...  None of Marcellus's children married by 1870. 

During the War of 1861-65, Valéry Joseph's fifth son Jules served in Company F of the Lafourche Parish Regiment Militia.  The Federals captured him with most of his unit in Lafourche Parish in early December 1862 and released him soon afterwards.  He married cousin Julie, daughter of Rosémond Lagrange and his Acadian wife Léocade Aucoin, at the Labadieville church in April 1866.  Daughter Marie Victorine was born near Labadieville in December 1869; ...

Eusèbe's sixth son Alexandre le jeune, also called Merville, married Eulalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Templet and Marie Crochet, at the Plattenville church in May 1832.  Their son Charles Honoré, called Honoré, was born in Assumption Parish in March 1833.  Alexandre le jeune died in Assumption Parish in May 1833, age 30.  His son married and resettled near Gonzales in Ascension Parish. 

Only son Charles Honoré, called Honoré, married cousin Angèle, daughter of fellow Acadians François Crochet and Eulalie Landry, at the Paincourtville church in May 1854.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Joseph Eugène in June 1855; and Marie Evela in April 1857.  Honoré remarried to Helena, daughter of fellow Acadian Zénon Bourgeois and his Creole wife Eurasie Lessard, at the Gonzales church, Ascension Parish, in January 1867.  Their children, born near Gonzales, included Marie Rosémée in October 1867; Zénon Audressy in February 1870; ...  None of Honoré's children married by 1870. 

Eusèbe's eighth and youngest son Pierre Lucien, called Lucien, married Élise, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Theriot and Anne Hébert, at the Paincourtville church in July 1847.  Their son Jean Lucien was born in Assumption Parish in August 1849 and did not marry by 1870.  

Pierre's younger son Pierre, fils followed his family to Cabahannocer, where he married Pélagie, daughter of Jacques Bebe and his Acadian wife Marguerite Landry of Lafourche, in April 1786.  Pélagie likely died in childbirth.  Pierre, fils remarried to Angélique, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Bourgeois and Anne-Osite Landry, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in April 1787.  Angélique's parents had come to Louisiana in February 1765 with the Broussard party but had retreated to Cabahannocer that fall to escape an epidemic.  In the early 1790s, Pierre, fils and Angélique followed his older brother Eusèbe to upper Bayou Lafourche.  In 1798, they moved again, this time to the Attakapas District, where they settled near the Attakapas Post, now St. Martinville.  Their children, born on the river and the prairies, included Pierre III at Cabahannocer in June 1788; Henriette in November 1789; Valentin dit Durville or Surville at Ascension in November 1792; Alexandre probably at Cabahannocer in c1794 and baptized there, age 1, in April 1795; Jean-Baptiste-Valéry born in January 1797; and Nicolas, also called Paul, baptized at Attakapas, age 5 months, in March 1799, two months after his father died--six children, five sons and a daughter, between 1788 and 1799.  Pierre, fils died at Attakapas in January 1799, age 34.  Daughter Henriette, by his second wife, married into the Robichaux family and remained on Bayou Lafourche.  Four of his sons also created their own families.  One of them remained on Bayou Lafourche, but the others settled on upper and lower Bayou Teche at Breaux Bridge, New Iberia, and Charenton.  At least one of Pierre, fils's grandsons moved west into Calcasieu Parish. 

Oldest son Pierre III, by second wife Angélique Bourgeois, followed his family to Bayou Lafourche and Attakapas, where he married Marie Aspasie, called Aspasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Josaphat Broussard and Marie Françoise Trahan of Fausse Pointe, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in July 1817.  They settled at Fausse Pointe on lower Bayou Teche before moving to the Bayou Lafourche valley in the late 1820s.  They returned to the Teche valley by the early 1830s.  Their children, born there, included Marie Zulma at Fausse Pointe in May 1818; Catherine in July 1819; Françoise Clémence in November 1820 but died at age 14 1/2 in September 1835; Pierre IV born in March 1822; a son, name unrecorded, died at age 2 months in July 1824; Marie Delvina or Talvina born in the 1820s; Joseph Rosémond in September 1825; Marguerite Géolide in Lafourche Interior Parish in September 1827; Nicolas Adrien in December 1828; and Jeanne Marie in St. Martin Parish in November 1832--10 children, six daughters and four sons, between 1818 and 1832.   Daughters ... married into the Boulet, Leleux, Robichaux, and Sellers families on Bayou Teche by 1870.  Two of Pierre III's sons also married by then, to sisters on the lower Teche. 

Oldest son Pierre IV married Oliva or Olivia, daughter of Louis Sellers and his Acadian wife Aspasie Boudreaux, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in May 1843.  Their children, born near New Iberia, included Gertrude in March 1844; Ursule in June 1845; Pierre V in August 1847; Marcelite in November 1849; and Valérien in c1852 but died at age 4 in October 1856--five children, three daughters and two sons, between 1844 and 1852.  None of Pierre IV's children married by 1870. 

Pierre III's third son Joseph Rosémond married Marie Célesie, another daughter of Louis Sellers and Aspasie Boudreaux, at the New Iberia church in October 1848.  Joseph Rosémond remarried to Émilie or Amélie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Labauve and Élise Hébert, at the New Iberia church in September 1851.  Their children, born near New Iberia, included Joseph in July 1852 but died at age 6 months the following February; Marie Clémence born in November 1853; Eugène in November 1855; and Marie Aspasie in July 1856--four children, two sons and two daughters, between 1852 and 1856.  None of Joseph Rosémond's children married by 1870. 

Pierre, fils's second son Valentin dit Durville or Surville, by second wife Angélique Bourgeois, followed his family to Bayou Lafourche and Attakapas, where he married Anne dite Annette, another daughter of Josaphat Broussard and Marie Françoise Trahan of Fausse Pointe, at the St. Martinville church in May 1817.  They settled at nearby Petit Anse.  Their children, born there, included Émilie dite Mélite in July 1818; Marcellite in October 1819; Valentine or Valentin Valière, called Valière, in November 1821; and Carmélite in August 1824--four children, three daughters and a son, between 1818 and 1824.  Valentin died at his father-in-law's home at Fausse Pointe in September 1825, age 32.  His succession, which calls him Lurville and lists his wife and four minor children--Mélite, Marcellite, Valentin, and Carmélite--was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in May 1827.  Valentin's daughters married into the Amy, Blanchard, Brown, and Dartes families, and one of them settled on the river.  His son also married and settled on the Teche. 

Only son Valentin Valière married Eugénie, daughter of Joseph Patin and his Acadian wife Julienne Robichaux, at the St. Martinville church in October 1852.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Marie Delia in October 1853; Amélie in March 1855; and Nicolas Valière near Breaux Bridge in December 1856--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1853 and 1856.  Valentin Valière may have remarried to cousin Zéolide Arceneaux and settled near New Iberia by the late 1860s.  None of Valentin Valière's children married by 1870. 

Pierre, fils's third son Alexandre, by second wife Angélique Bourgeois, followed his family to Bayou Lafourche and Attakapas, where he married Marie Marguerite, called Marguerite, yet another daughter of Josaphat Broussard and Marie Françoise Trahan of Fausse Pointe, at the St. Martinville church in July 1820.  They also settled at Fausse Pointe.  Their children, born there, included Amélie in December 1821; Marie in July 1823; Marguerite in September 1825; a son, name unrecorded, died eight days after his birth in May 1827; Étienne born in March 1828; Rosémond in September 1830; Alexandre, fils in December 1831; Alexis Perin in July 1834; and Marie Aspasie in May 1837--nine children, four daughters and five sons, between 1821 and 1837.  Alexandre died in St. Mary Parish in January 1838.  The Franklin priest who recorded the burial noted in French that "trouvé mort dans le grand marais du dft. Claud" (he was found dead in the marshes near a place owned by a fellow named Claude).  The priest also said that Alexandre was age 40 when he died.  He was closer to 44.  His succession was filed at the Franklin courthouse the following July.  Daughters ... married into the Hardy and Verret families.  Three of Alexandre's sons also married.  Two of them remained in St. Mary Parish, but one of them and a grandson moved out to the Calcasieu prairies by the early 1860s.

Second son Étienne married Célestine or Ernestine, daughter of Jean Jacques Dartes and Julienne Loignon, at the Charenton church, St. Mary Parish, in February 1852.  Their children, born near Charenton, included Julie Ernestine in June 1855; Marie Lelia in March 1857; Louis in January 1861; ...  None of Étienne's children married by 1870. 

Alexandre's third son Rosémond married Domitille Justine, daughter of fellow Acadians Simonet Robichaux and Domitille Louvière, at the Charenton church in February 1852.  Their son François Alexandre was born near Charenton in February 1853; Marie Lucille "in Calcasieu" in December 1856; ...  Neither of Rosémond's children married by 1870. 

Alexandre's fourth son Alexandre, fils married cousin Onesima Broussard, place and date unrecorded.  Their son Alexandre III, born in February 1862, was baptized by a priest from Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, but the family probably was living in Calcasieu Parish at the time.  During the War of 1861-65, Alexandre, fils served in Company F of the Consolidated 18th Regiment and Yellow Jackets Battalion Louisiana Infantry, created in November 1863, which fought in Louisiana and Arkansas.  In April 1864, he transferred to the second Company A of Daly's Battalion Texas Volunteer Cavalry, which recruited heavily in southwestern Louisiana.  According to his enrollment papers, Alexandre, fils was age 35 (he actually was 32), stood five feet seven inches, and was a farmer living in Calcasieu Parish when he joined the Texans in Calcasieu in April 1864.  He evidently did not care much for the Texas cavalry.  In late September, five months after his enlistment, Alexandre, fils was arrested as a deserter and sent to the provost marshal's office in Houston (probably a jail) before being returned to his old unit, the Consolidated 18th Louisiana Infantry, then serving in southern Arkansas.  The next month, however, company rolls show him back on duty with Daly's Battalion at Sabine Pass, Texas, where he died of disease in November 1864.  Again, the Confederate rolls got his age wrong.  The military clerk noted that he died at age 35, but he was still 32. 

Pierre, fils's fifth and youngest son Nicolas, also called Paul, from second wife Angélique Bourgeois, did not remain on the Teche.  He married cousin Marie Carmélite, called Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Breaux and Marie Anne Bourgeois of Convent, St. James Parish, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in August 1818.  They returned to the Teche but, by the middle 1820s, had moved to Lafourche Interior Parish.  Their children, born on the river, the Teche, and the Lafourche, included Rosalie near Convent in September 1819; a child, name unrecorded, died at birth on the Teche in October 1821; Séraphine born in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1824; Jean Honoré in May 1826; Azéline Melissar or Mélisaire, called Mélisaire, in July 1828; Nicolas, fils in January 1831; Leufroi died 15 days after his birth in December 1833; Louis Désiré born in April 1842; and Onésippe or Onésime probably in the early 1840s--nine children, at least three daughters and five sons, between 1819 and 1840s.  Daughters ... married into the Barrios and Roger families, three of them to Barrios brothers, by 1870.  Four of Nicolas's sons also married by then and settled on the Lafourche. 

Oldest son Jean Honoré married Marie Césaire, called Césaire, daughter of Jacques Matherne and Marie Sevin, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in April 1852.  Their children, born on the lower bayou, included Gilles Léo near Lockport in September 1853; Adam Victorine in January 1855; Delphine in December 1856; Louis Victorin near Raceland in March 1859; Marie Sophie in August 1861; Angélique Alamantine near Lockport in August 1864; Zéphirin in August 1866; Joseph in March 1870; ...  None of Jean's children married by 1870. 

Nicholas's second son Nicholas, fils married Eugénie, daughter of Jean Adam Lasseigne and Marie Poché, at the Raceland church, Lafourche Parish, in February 1855.  Their children, born on the lower bayou, included Marie Neizelle in December 1855; Marie Gracieuse in February 1858; Désiré Nicolas in June 1860; ...  None of Nicolas, fils's children married by 1870. 

Nicholas, père's fourth son Louis Désiré married Zéolide, 16-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Victor Melançon and Farelie Savoie, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in January 1860.  Their children, born on the lower Lafourche, included Louis, fils near Raceland in January 1863; Marie Félicie near Lockport in June 1866; Marie Félicia in October 1868; ... 

Nicholas, père's fifth and youngest son Onésippe married Aimée Désirée, also called Edesie and Desie, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Giroir and Anne dite Nanette Moïse, at the Lockport church, Lafourche Parish, in September 1863.  Their children, born near Lockport and on the upper bayou, included Joachim Elphége in August 1864; Marie Sélima in December 1867; Marie Louisiane in Assumption Parish in June 1870; ...   

Firmin (c1753-1776) à ? à Pierre Arceneaux

Firmin Arseneau, born probably at Chignecto in c1753, came to Louisiana from Halifax as a young orphan probably with the family of his kinsman Pierre Arseneau of Pointe-à-Beauséjour.  In April 1766, Spanish officials counted Firmin on the left, or east, bank of the river at Cabahannocer with the family of his kinsman.  Although he was only age 13 in 1766, the Spanish census taker said that Firmin possessed four arpents of frontage on the river.  The Spanish counted him again at Cabahannocer in September 1769, this time on the right, or west, bank of the river, and still living with Pierre Arceneaux and his family.  Firmin died at Cabahannocer in October 1776, age 23.  He probably did not marry. 

Aucoin

Martin Aucoin, born in France in c1651, married Marie, daughter of Denis Gaudet and Martine Gauthier, at Port-Royal in c1673 and created a large family in the colony.  Between 1674 and 1707, Marie gave Martin 19 children, 10 sons and nine daughters, including a set of twins.  Five of their daughters married into the Guérin, Gautrot, Thériot, Thibodeau, and Bourg families.  Nine of Martin and Marie's sons married, three of them to sisters, but "only" eight of them created lasting family lines by marrying into the Thériot, Bourg, Breau, Comeau, Trahan, and Dupuis families.  Martin and Marie's descendants settled at Minas Proper, Pigiguit, and Cobeguit in the Minas Basin; Chignecto; Petitcoudiac in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto; and in the French Maritimes, where they were especially numerous on Île St.-Jean by 1752. 

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 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.  Aucoins may have been among the refugees affected by this pétit dérangement.  After yet another war erupted between Britain and France in 1754, the Chignecto-area Acadians, including those in the trois-rivières, were caught in the middle of it.  When British and New-English forces attacked Fort Beauséjour in June 1755, local Acadians 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 Acadians to the southernmost seaboard colonies.  In the fall of 1755, the British deported an Aucoin from Petitcoudiac to South Carolina. 

Most of the Aucoins from the Chignecto area escaped the British and headed up to Canada.  Others sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore and, by 1760, some may have moved up to the French stronghold at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  An Aucoin family from Minas escaped the roundup there and also took refuge in Canada, where one of them died in c1757, victim, perhaps, of a smallpox epidemic that killed hundreds of exiles in and around the Canadian capital from the summer of 1757 into the spring of 1758.  His widow remarried to a fellow Acadian at St.-Pierre-les-Becquets on the upper St. Lawrence below Trois-Rivières in November 1759. 

Minas Aucoins who did not escape the British ended up on deportation transports bound for Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.  The Aucoins sent to the Old Dominion endured a fate worse than most of their fellow 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's 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.  Aucoins were held at Liverpool, Bristol, and Gloucester.  Seven years later, more than half of the Minas Acadians sent to Virginia had died in England. 

In 1763, after the war with Britain had finally ended, Acadians being held in the British seaboard colonies, theoretically, were free to go, but not until the British discerned their intentions.  Even then, colonial officials discouraged repatriation.  In June 1763 in Pennsylvania, several Aucoin families from Minas were still living in that colony.  Instead of moving to Canada, they moved down to Maryland and joined their fellow Acadians there, including fellow Aucoins.  When over 600 Maryland Acadians emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in the late 1760s, only one Aucoin, a young female orphan, may have been among them.  In Maryland, surrounded by fellow exiles and French expatriates, the Aucoins who remained settled at Frenchtown in Baltimore, where their transition from Acadiens to Americains went faster for them than for their cousins who had gone on to Spanish Louisiana.  In a generation or so, the family's name in Baltimore no longer was Aucoin but Wedge

In August 1763 in South Carolina Aucoins appeared on a repatriation list of Acadians "who desire to withdraw under the standard of their king his very Christian Majesty."  A trois-rivières-area Aucoin who had been deported to South Carolina in 1755 was no longer in that colony in 1763.  He may have been among the exiles who had taken up the South Carolina governor's offer in the spring of 1756 to return to their homes by boat.  If he and his family were among the lucky refugees who made it all the way back to Rivière St.-Jean, they likely moved up to Canada via the St.-Jean portage and joined their Chignecto kinsmen there.  Though now a conquered 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 Martin Aucoin began the slow, inexorable process of becoming Canadiennes.  Especially after 1766, members of the family, including the refugee from South Carolina and escapees from Chignecto, could be found on Île d'Orleans and at St.-Thomas-de-Montmagny and Rivière-du-Loup on the St. Lawrence below Québec; at St.-Joseph-de-Beauce on Rivière Chaudière south of Québec; at Yamachiche on the north shore of Lac St.-Pierre above Trois-Rivères; and St.-Pierre-les-Becquets on the south shore below Trois-Rivières.  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. 

At war's end, some Aucoins in the seaboard colonies emigrated not to Canada, where the British ruled, but to the French Antilles, where they did not.  While the end-of-war treaty was being negotiated, French officials encouraged exiles in the British 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 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 revenge" to come.  Exiles lured to St.-Domingue would prove a ready source of labor not only for the naval contractors, but also for the islands's wealthy 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.  Aucoins were among the hundreds of exiles who emigrated to the sugar colony from the seaboard colonies in 1763 and 1764.  When the opportunity came in the mid- and late 1760s to join hundreds of their fellow Acadians from Halifax and Maryland on their way to New Orleans via Cap-Français, the Aucoins still in St.-Domingue chose to remain at Môle-St.-Nicolas.  One Aucoin was an exception.  As an infant, he had been taken to one of the British Atlantic colonies in 1755 and then to St.-Domingue probably in the early 1760s.  In 1769, now 14 years old, he took the ship Americain from Cap-Français not to New Orleans but to St.-Malo, France, which he reached the first of October.  He lived with an Aucoin couisin at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer for the next several years, where he took up the woodworking trade as a joiner.  Later in the decade he moved south to the lower Loire port of Nantes in southwest Brittany, where he married a fellow Acadian and took her to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.

Meanwhile, in 1755, the Aucoins who had moved to Île St.-Jean before the deportations or who had fled there from Chignecto and Cobeguit during the British roundups in Nova Scotia were living in territory controlled by France, so they 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 swooped down on the Maritime islands and rounded up most of the habitants there.  Some escaped from the more remote corners of Île St.-Jean by crossing Mer Roue to the mainland and taking refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore or in Canada.  Most of the island Acadians, however, including the Aucoins, were deported to France, with tragic result.  Aucoins crossed on the deportation transport Duke William, which left Chédaboutou Bay in a 12-ship convoy in late November but sank in a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England on its way to St.-Malo.  Others crossed on Tamerlane, which left Chédabouctou Bay in the same convoy, escaped the mid-December storm, and reached St.-Malo in mid-January 1759.  Even more Aucoins crossed on one or more of the five deporation transports--the so-called Five Ships--that left Chédabouctou Bay in the 12-ship convoy, escaped the mid-December storm, and reached St.-Malo together in late January.  Many members of the family did not survive the crossing.  Island Aucoins did their best to create a life for themselves in the suburbs and villages of the St.-Malo area.  They were especially numerous in the suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer; at St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, across the harbor from St.-Malo; at St.-Lunaire on the Breton coast west of St.-Malo; at Ploubalay, Tréméreuc, Langrolay-sur-Mer, and Plouër-sur-Rance on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo; at St.-Suliac and Pleudihen-sur-Rance on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo; and at St.-Coulomb in the countryside northeast of the Breton port.  Island Aucoins also ended up in other French ports, including Cherbourg in Normandy, Boulogne-sur-Mer in Picardie, Calais in Artois, and on Île d'Aix south of La Rochelle off the coast of Aunis, but few of them remained there. 

In the spring of 1763, after prolonged negotiations between the French and British governments, the Acadians in England were repatriated to France aboard the transports Dorothée and Ambition.  Most of the repatriated Aucoins settled in the St.-Malo area, where they added substantially to the number of their kinsmen already there.  An Aucoin repatriated from England ended up at Boulogne-sur-Mer but did not remain.  In May 1766, he took his family aboard the brigantine Hazard to St.-Malo, and they settled near their kinsmen at St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  Another Aucoin repatriated from England did not remain long in the coastal city to which he had been shipped.  He and his family arrived at Ploujean near Morlaix in northwest Brittany during the spring of 1763.  In November 1765, they followed other Minas Acadians repatriated from England to Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany.  In the late 1770s, after a decade of effort, they left Belle-Île-en-Mer for the Loire port of Nantes. 

Meanwhile, in the early 1770s, Aucoin families from St.-Malo and Cherbourg participated in an even larger settlement scheme.  French authorities were tired of providing for the 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.  The venture largely failed.  In late 1775 and early 1776, after two years of effort, most of the Poitou Acadians, including the Aucoins, retreated 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. 

Two brothers from Minas who had been deported to Virginia and England and settled in the St.-Malo villages also chose to participate in a resettlement scheme, but not in the mother country.  In 1773, while their cousins headed to the fields of Poitou, they, along with other exiles in France, took their families to the Isle of Jersey, one of the British-owned Channel islands off the western coast of Normandy, from whence they returned to greater Acadia to work in British-controlled fisheries.  The Aucoins worked in the fishery at Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs before settling in the fishery at Chéticamp on the western shore of Cape Breton Island, formerly Île Royale.  In the 1790s, members of the family resettled in the îles-de-la-Madeleine in the Gulf of St. Lawrence northwest of Chéticamp. 

Despite their trials and tribulations, the Aucoins who remained in France--the great majority of them--proliferated in their various settlements, but life in the mother country evidently was not a happy one for many members of the family.  In the early 1780s, when the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, at least 93 Aucoins agreed to take it, while only a few chose to remain.  In fact, only two other families, the Héberts and the Trahans, outnumbered the Aucoins in the Seven Ships expeditions of 1785. 

After a period of recuperation in New Orleans, Aucoins from four of the Seven Ships settled at Manchac below Baton Rouge, on upper Bayou Lafourche; below New Orleans at San Bernardo; and on the western prairies at Attakapas and Opelousas.  Most of them, however, crossed on the sixth of the Seven Ships and followed their fellow passengers to the new Acadian community of Bayou des Écores in the New Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge, but the settlement did not last.  By the time two hurricanes devastated the area in the early 1790s, most of the Acadians at Bayou des Écores had abandoned the place.  A few Feliciana Aucoins remained on the river in what became Iberville, East Baton Rouge, and West Baton Rouge parishes.  Some went to the Opelousas prairies even before the hurricanes struck.  Most, however, moved down to upper Bayou Lafourche, adding significantly to that center of family settlement.  Assumption Parish on the upper Lafourche retained the largest concentration of Aucoins during the antebellum period, though some moved down bayou into Lafourche Interior and Terrebonne parishes.  After the War of 1861-65, Aucoins from the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley moved west to the Morgan City area on the lower Atchafalaya and to New Iberia on lower Bayou Teche.  Meanwhile, Aucoins west of the Atchafalaya Basin, whose ancestors from France had gone there in the late 1780s, settled in St. Landry, St. Mary, Calcasieu, and Evangeline parishes, most of them remaining on the Opelousas prairies.

Evidently non-Acadian members of the family did not settle in South Louisiana during the colonial or antebellum periods.  The great majority, if not all, of the Aucoins of Louisiana, then, are descendants of Martin of Port-Royal and his numerous progency who came to the Spanish colony from France in 1785. 

Judging by the number of slaves they held during the late antebellum period, the Aucoins of South Louisiana participated only peripherally in the South's plantation-based economy.  Few appeared in the federal slave registers of 1850 and 1860, and, among the ones who did, none came close to holding enough slaves to qualify as planters. ...

.Dozens of Aucoins served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65.  Perhaps no Acadian family lost more sons to the Confederate war effort than the Aucoins of Assumption Parish. ...

In Louisiana, the family's name also is spelled Au Coin, Au Coing, Aucouin, Aukonaut, Auquoin, Ocoin, Ocuyan, Oquin, Oquoin.71 

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The first member of the family to reach the Spanish colony--Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Paul Aucoin and Marie LeBlanc of Minas--first appears in Louisiana records in January 1777, when, at age 19 or 20, she married a Breaux in the Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans, where exiles from Maryland had gone in 1766.  Marie-Josèphe and her husband settled upriver on the right, or west bank, of the river at San Gabriel, where Maryland Acadians had gone in 1767.  By what route, and when, she came to Louisiana the records do not say. 

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The other Aucoins who came to Louisiana--over 90 of them in at least 17 families--reached New Orleans in 1785 aboard five of the Seven Ships from France.  Some of them followed their fellow passengers to established Acadian communities on the river and the prairies, but most of them went to new Acadian settlements on upper Bayou Lafourche and in the New Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge. 

The first of them--six Aucoins from France, part of a single family--crossed aboard 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 but did not remain.  In the late 1780s, they moved on to upper Bayou Lafourche, where most of their fellow exiles from France had gone, and established two robust family lines there: 

Joseph (c1748-?) à Michel à Martin Aucoin

Joseph, only son of Paul Aucoin of Cobeguit and Marie LeBlanc of Minas, born probably at Minas in c1748, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, where they were counted on Rivière-du-Nord-Est in the island's interior in August 1752.  Joseph was deported with them to Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, in 1758, followed them to St.-Malo in May 1766, settled with them at Pleudihen-sur-Rance on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo, and married Élisabeth, or Isabelle, daughter of François Henry and Marie Dugas, at nearby St.-Suliac in May 1770.  Élisabeth gave Joseph two daughters at St.-Suliac:  Marie-Josèphe born in March 1771; and Isabelle-Jeanne in July 1773.  Later that year, they followed other exiles in the port cities to the interior of Poitou.  In March 1776, after two years of effort, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the lower Loire port of Nantes, where, in St.-Similien Parish and at nearby Chantenay, Élisabeth gave Joseph four more children:  Joseph-Jean born in September 1776; François-Toussaint in October 1778; Marie-Modeste at Chantenay in March 1781; and Victoire-Claire in June 1783.  Oldest daughter Marie-Josèphe died at Chantenay in September 1779, age 8 1/2.  Joseph, Élisabeth, and their remaining five children, three daughters and two sons, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to Manchac below Baton Rouge, where Élisabeth gave Joseph four more children:  Marguerite born in August 1786; twins Paul-Marie and Appoline dite Pauline in March 1788; and Rosalie in September 1789--10 children, seven daughters and three sons, between 1771 and 1789, in France and Louisiana.  The family moved on to upper Bayou Lafourche by 1791.  At age 49, Joseph remarried to Euphrosine, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Barrilleaux and Véroinque Giroir and widow of François Boudreaux and Charles Broussard, at Assumption on the upper Lafourche in October 1797.  Euphrosine, a native of Pigiguit, also had gone to France from Île St.-Jean and had come to Louisiana aboard Le Bon Papa with her second husband.  She gave Joseph no more children.  His daughters Isabelle-Jeanne, Marie-Modeste, Victoire-Claire, Rosalie, and Apolline, by his first wife, married into the Richard, Blanchard, Boudreaux, Barbier, and Guillot families.  Daughter Élisabeth-Jeanne, born near St.-Suliac in July 1773, died in Assumption Parish in September 1867, age 94, one of the last of the Acadian immigrants in the Bayou State to join her ancestors.  Joseph's three sons, two of them born in France, married on the bayou. 

Oldest son Joseph-Jean, by first wife Isabelle Henry, followed his family to New Orleans, Manchac, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Anne-Victoire or Victorine, called Victoire or Victorine, daughter of fellow Acadians Vincent Landry and Susanne Gaudin, in September 1802.  Victoire was a native of Louisiana whose parents had come to Louisiana from Maryland in 1766.  Her and Joseph Jean's children, born on the upper bayou, included Basilise Victoire in c1805; Rosalie Anne in October 1806; Apolline Constance dite Pauline in August 1808; Arthémise Marguerite in May 1811; Marie Henriette in January 1813 but died at age 17 in February 1830; Joseph Paul, called Paul, born in September 1815; Eléonore in July 1817; Caliste or Calixte Jean in October 1818; Louis Trasimond, called Trasimond, in August 1820; and Marie in c1823 but died at age 7 in February 1830--10 children, seven daughters and three sons, between 1806 and 1820.  Joseph Jean died in Assumption Parish in February 1832, age 55.  Daughters Basilise Victoire, Pauline, and Eléonore married into the Dupuis and Guillot families, two of them to the same fellow.  Joseph Jean's three sons also married and settled on the upper Lafourche. 

Oldest son Joseph Paul, called Paul, married cousin Eugénie, daughter of fellow Acadians Fabien Thomas Guillot and Pauline Aucoin, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1838.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Ursin Jean Baptiste in February 1839; Augustin Joseph in August 1840; Désiré Amédé in August 1842; Clémentine Barbe in December 1844; Charles in September 1846; Paul Israël in July 1849; Octave in January 1852; Marie Apollonie in February 1854; Marie Camilla in April 1856; Arture in April 1858; ...  In September 1850, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted three slaves--a male and two females, all black, ages 30, 9, and 2--on Paul Aucoin's farm in the parish's Second Congressional District; this probably was Joseph Paul.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted three slaves--a male and two females, all black, ages 40, 20, and 18, living in one house--on Paul Aucoin's farm in the parish's Third Ward; one wonders if these were the same three slaves that Paul owned a decade earlier.  His daughters did not marry by 1870, but one of his sons did. 

Oldest son Ursin married Léonelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Émile LeBlanc and Arthémise Gravois, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in August 1861.  Daughter Marie Elmina was born near Paincourtville in June 1862; ...

Joseph Jean's second son Caliste or Calixte Jean, married Marcellite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Bourg and Angélique Dupuis, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in January or February 1849.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Angela Antoinette in December 1849; Marie Pomeline or Pamelize, called Pamelize, in February 1851; Marie Palmira Célima in April 1853; and Joseph Elphége in November 1855 but, called Joseph, died at age 2 1/2 in February 1858--four children, three daughters and a son, between 1849 and 1855.  Caliste, called Calixte by the priest at Plattenville, died in Assumption Parish in June 1856, age 37 (the recording priest said 38).  Daughters Pamelize and Angela married into the Dupuis and Guillot families by 1870.  Caliste's only son died young, so his line of the family, except for its blood, probably died with him. 

Joseph Jean's third and youngest son Louis Trasimond, called Trasimond, married Azélie Veturi, daughter of fellow Acadians Isaac Hébert and Marine Landry, probably in Assumption Parish in the late 1840s.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Arzélie or Alida in September 1850; and Téodule or Théodule Eusilien in September 1851.  Wife Azélie, called Arcellie by the recording priest, died in Assumption Parish in October 1851, age 22, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth.  Trasimond remarried to cousin Edesie, called Daisie, Desie, Desi, Desima, or Desy, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Mazerolle and Élisabeth Gautreaux, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in October 1853; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Narcisse Lacroix in September 1854; Marie Florestine in November 1855; Louis Paul in April 1857; Hélène Élizabeth in September 1858; Marie Lucie in January 1860; Aimée Mathilde near Pierre Part in February 1863 but, called Mathilde, died at age 1 in January 1864; twins Élisabeth Mélanie and Marie Zélamie born in December 1864; ...  Daughter Marie Alida, by his first wife, married into the Melançon family by 1870.  Trasimond's sons did not marry by then. 

Joseph's second son François-Toussaint, by first wife Isabelle Henry, followed his family to New Orleans, Manchac and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Rosalie Brigitte, daughter of fellow Acadians François-Sébastien Landry and Marguerite LeBlanc of Iberville, in November 1799.  Their children, born on the bayou, included Isabelle-Sabine or Sabine-Isabelle, also called Élisabeth-Tabithe, in August 1800; François-Eugène in November 1801 but died the following February; Carmélite-Rosalie or Rosalie-Carmélite in c1802; Marie Françoise in August 1805; and Marguerite Clarisse in March 1807.  François-Toussaint remarried to Scholastique, daughter of fellow Acadians Isaac Hébert and Marie Daigle, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1810.  Their children, born on the bayou, included Angèl died a day after his birth in December 1810; Rosaline Lucie born in November 1811 but, called Roseline, died at age 36 (the recording priest said 37 and said nothing about a husband) in April 1848; Mélanie Élise born in April 1813 but died the following February; Élise Claire born in April 1815; Marie Arthémise in December 1816 but died at age 30 in December 1846, evidently still unmarried; Irène born in December 1818 but died at age 6 1/2 in June 1825; Eléonore Clarisse born in February 1821 but died at age 26 in April 1847; Rosalie Julie born in December 1823; Jean Baptiste, called Baptiste, in April 1826; Joseph Grégoire in May 1827; Irène Armelise in April 1828 but, called Armelise, died at age 19 in December 1847; Emérande Azélie born in September 1831 but died at age 16 in December 1847; and Eurasie in c1833--18 children, 14 daughters and four sons, by two wives, between 1800 and 1833.  Wife Scholastique, who the recording priest at the Plattenville church called an Aucoin, died in Assumption Parish in February 1843, age 53.  François Toussaint died in Assumption Parish in November 1846, age 68.  Daughters Élisabeth Tabithe, Rosalie Carmélite, Marie Françoise, and Eurasie, by both wives, married into the Potier, Aucoin, Friou, Boudreaux, and Crochet families.  François Toussaint's remaining sons also married, to sisters who were also their first cousins. 

Third son Jean Baptiste, called Baptiste, from second wife Scholastique Hébert, married first cousin Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Firmin Dupuis and Basilise Aucoin, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1849; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  They moved on to lower Bayou Teche after the War of 1861-65.  Their children, born on both bayous, included Wilfreide Erneste in Assumption Parish in October 1849; Cécilia Zefire in September 1851; Marie Élisabeth in September 1853; Joseph le jeune died in Assumption Parish a week after his birth in April 1855; Marie, perhaps theirs, born in late 1856 but died the following January; Docilice Félix born near Paincourtville or Pierre Part in January 1859; Joseph Sainclair near Pierre Part in November 1864; Étienne Philias near New Iberia on lower Bayou Teche in August 1870. ...  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted five slaves--three males and two females, all black, ranging in age from 50 to 21--on Jn. Bte. Aucoin's farm in the parish's Fourth Ward; this could have been Jean Baptiste.  Or he may have been the J. B. Aucoin who held only a single slave--a 37-year-old black male--in the same ward.  Daughter ... married into the Molbert family on the lower Teche by 1870.  None of Baptiste's sons married by then. 

François Toussaint's fourth and youngest son Joseph Grégoire, by second wife Scholastique Hébert, married first cousin Azélie Apolline dite Pauline, another daughter of Firmin Dupuis and Basilise Aucoin, at the Plattenville church in January 1849; they, too, had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born on the upper bayou, included Léo in December 1851 but, called Léon, died at age 9 (the recording priest said 10) in February 1861; Helena Armellina born in December 1853 but, called Hélène, died the following February; Elphége Saint Clair born in December 1854 but, called Elphége St. Clair, died at age 6 in January 1861; Narcisse Ludovic born in April 1857; ...  None of François Toussaint's children by 1870. 

Joseph's third and youngest son Paul Marie, a twin, by first wife Isabelle Henry, followed his family to upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Dupuis and Marie Osite Dugas, at the Plattenville church in August 1809.  Paul died in Assumption Parish in November 1865, age 77.  One wonders if he and his wife had any children.  If not, his line of the family died with him. 

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Eighteen more Aucoins--four families, two brothers and sister, one of them a bachelor, and several wives--arrived 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, where several more robust family lines emerged: 

Jean-Baptiste (c1714-1780s) à Martin Aucoin

Jean-Baptiste, called Jean, son of René Aucoin and Madeleine Bourg, born probably at Minas in c1714, married Jeanne-Anne, daughter of Jean Thériot and Marie Daigre, in c1746 probably at Minas.  Jeanne-Anne gave Jean two daughters at Minas:  Élisabeth, or Isabelle, born in c1748; and Marie-Anastasie in c1754.  That year they moved on to Petitcoudiac in the trois-rivières area and then to Port-La-Joye, Île St.-Jean, in 1755.  Jeanne-Anne gave Jean a son, Charles, born on the island in c1756.  The British deported them to Boulogne-sur-mer, France, in late 1758.  Another daughter, Anne-Félicité, was born to them at Boulogne-sur-Mer in May 1765--four children, three daughters and a son, between 1748 and 1765, in greater Acadia and France.  Daughters Élisabeth and Marie-Anastaise married into the Pitre and Thériot famlies in France.  Jean, Jeanne, and their youngest daughter, along with their married daughters and their families, emigrated to Louisiana in 1785 aboard La Bergère.  Son Charles, who would have been age 29 in 1785, if he was still living, did not accompany his family to the Spanish colony.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Daughter Marie-Anastasie remarried into the Blanchard family on the Lafourche, and daughter Anne-Félicité married into the Montet family there, so the blood of this family line endured in the Bayou State. 

Olivier (c1727-1813) à Martin Aucoin

Olivier, oldest son of Charles Aucoin and Anne-Marie Dupuis, born at Minas in c1727, married Marguerite Vincent probably at Minas in c1750.  Marguerite gave Olivier two children--Firmin born in c1751; and Marie in c1753--at Rivière-aux-Canards on the eve of exile.  The British deported them to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  Marguerite died in England.  After being repatriated to St.-Malo, France. in May 1763, Olivier and his children settled in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  Olivier remarried to Cécile, daughter of Pierre Richard and Cécile Granger, there in November 1765.  Cécile gave Olivier more children at St.-Servan:  Nathalie-Marie born in Sepember 1766; Marguerite-Geneviève in July 1768; Marie-Cécile in September 1770; and Élisabeth-Anne or Anne-Élisabeth in November 1772.  Olivier took his family to Poitou in 1773.  Youngest daughter Élisabeth-Anne died in St.-Léger Parish, Chauvigny, south of Châtellerault, at age 2 in September 1774.  Son Pierre-Charles was born there in December 1774.  In March 1776, after two years of effort, Olivier and his family retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  Son Olivier-Louis was born at nearby Chantenay in August 1777 but died there at age 2 in October 1779--eight children, three sons and five daughters, by two wives, between 1751 and 1777, in greater Acadia and France.  Oldest daughter Marie, by his first wife, married Acadian shaker and mover Olivier Térriot at Nantes in 1777, and his oldest son, by his first wife, married there in May 1778 but died before 1785.  Evidently Olivier's second son, by his second wife, also died at Nantes before 1785.  Olivier, Cécile, and three unmarried daughters emigrated to Louisiana in 1785.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  The couple had no more children in Louisiana.  Olivier died in Assumption Parish in August 1813, age 86.  Daughters Nathalie-Marie, Marguerite-Geneviève, and Marie-Cécile, by his second wife, married into the Hébert, Blanchard, and Templet families on the upper Lafourche.  Though Olivier's only married son, by his first wife, died in France, Olivier's grandson emigrated to Louisiana with his widowed mother and created  his own famliy on the upper Lafourche, so the family line endured. 

Oldest son Firmin, by first wife Marguerite Vincent, followed his family to Virginia, England, and France, where he became a sailor.  He married Marguerite, daughter of Alexandre Bourg and Marguerite-Josèphe Hébert, in St.-Jacques Parish, Nantes, in May 1778.  Their son Firmin-Louis was born in the parish in February 1779.  Firmin died before 1785, and his widow, along with her widowed mother and her only child, a son, emigrated to Louisiana in 1785 on the same vessel which took Firmin's father and stepmother to the Spanish colony.  Firmin's son created his own family in Louisiana. 

Only son Firmin Louis followed his widowed mother to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche.  He married Pélagie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Arceneaux and Marie Dupuy at St. James on the river in February 1806 but settled at Assumption on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Adeline in March 1807; Apollinaire Firmin or Firmin Apollinaire in August 1810; Théodule in November 1811; Evariste in January 1813 but died at age 10 in October 1823; Irène born in August 1816; Eulalie in April 1819; Olisiphore or Onésiphore in March 1822; and Nanette Ernestine in December 1824--eight children, four daughters and four sons, between 1807 and 1824.  Firmin Louis died in Assumption Parish in January 1825.  The Plattenville priest who recorded the burial said that Firmin was age 42 when he died and did not mention his wife of 19 years.  Firmin Louis was age 46.  Daughters Adeline, ... married into the Melançon, Bertaud and Guillot families.  Firmin's three remaining sons also married. 

Oldest son Apollinaire Firmin or Firmin Apollinaire married Marguerite Irma, called Irma, Azéma, and Irène, daughter of fellow Acadians Timothée Hébert and Rosalie Comeaux, at the Plattenville church in February 1836.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Firmin Aristide in October 1836 but, called Firmin Oristil, died at age 1 in July 1837; Hernes or Ernest Firmin born in January 1838; Armistine Marguerite in January 1839 but, called Ernestine, died at age 10 1/2 (the recording priest said 11) in July 1849; Evariste Clairville born in February 1840 but, called Evariste Clerville, died the following May; Joseph Octave Numa born in March 1841; Gustave Evariste, called Evariste, in March 1843; Félix in February 1845; Marie Cécilia in January 1848 but died at age 1 1/2 in July 1849; Camille born in January 1850; and Marie Elvine or Evilina in June 1851 but died seven hours after her birth--10 children, seven sons and three daughters, between 1836 and 1851.  Apollinaire Firmin, called Firmin, died in Assumption Parish in June 1852, age 41.  Two of his remaining sons married by 1870.

Second son Ernest married cousin Marie Philomène, called Philomène, daughter of fellow Acadians Hippolyte Breaux and Hélène Duhon, at the Plattenville church in September 1859; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Firmin Aristide in October 1860; Ernest, fils, perhaps theirs, died at "age a few months" near Plattenville in September 1861[sic]; Hélène Corine born in December 1861[sic]; André Eleste in March 1864; another André died at age 6 months in July 1868; Jeanne Irma born in January 1867; Philippe Elphége in December 1868; ...

Apollinaire Firmin's fifth son Evariste married Estelle, daughter of Jean Baptiste Edwins and his Acadian wife Marcellite Landry and widow of Cléopha Smith, at the Plattenville church in March 1867. 

Firmin Louis's second son Théodule, at age 44, married Maria, daughter of Santiago Truxillo and Rosalie Rodriguez and widow of Francisco Hidalgo, at the Plattenville church in August 1856.  Their son Joseph Irené was born in Assumption Parish in June 1859.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted a single slave--a 38-year-old black male, living in one house--on Théodule Aucoin's farm next to Joseph Truxillo in the parish's Third Ward. 

Firmin Louis's fourth and youngest son Onésiphore married Marine, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Guillot and Cléonise Hébert, at the Plattenville church in February 1845.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marine Léonide, called Léonide, in November 1845; Louise Venada or Veneda, called Veneda, in August 1849; Achille Olésiphore or Onésiphore in January 1852 but, called Achille, died at age 8 in February 1860; Palmira or Palmire Paulina born in July 1853; Marguerite died the day of her birth in January 1855; François Camille born in January 1856; Jacques Guillemore Juste in July 1860; Oléziphore Lazare in September 1862; Eugénie in August 1864; Charles Fernand Alcide in November 1867; ...  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted three slaves--a male and two females, all black, ages 28, 25, and 15, living in one house--on Oneziphor Aucoin's farm in the parish's Third Ward.  Daughters Veneda, Léonide, and Palmire married into the Landry, Guillot, and Templet families by 1870.  None of Onésiphore's sons married by then. 

Charles, fils (c1747-1805) à Martin Aucoin

Charles, fils, also called Pierre-Charles, third and youngest son of Charles Aucoin and Anne-Marie Dupuis, born probably at Minas in c1747, followed his family to Virginia, England, and France, where he worked as a sailor.  He was a middle-aged bachelor when he came to Louisiana in 1785 aboard La Bergère with unmarried sister Félicité.  On the eve of the crossing, his fellow passengers chose him as one of the five onboard leaders of their "expedition."  The passenger list also noted that Charles was "well fixed financially," so his work as a mariner must have been lucrative.  At age 39, he married Marie-Marguerite, called Marguerite, 22-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Noël and Marie-Madeleine Barbe of Minas and England and widow of Frenchman Guillaume-Jean Roquemont, at Lafourche in January 1786 soon after they reached the colony aboard the same ship.  Marguerite was a native of St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo, France.  Her family also had been repatriated to France from England in 1763, and she also had crossed to Louisiana aboard La Bergère.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marguerite-Eugénie, called Eugénie, in January 1790; Marcellin-Firmin in May 1791 but died at age 11 in December 1802; Marie-Mélanie, called Mélanie, born in January 1793; Augustin-Babilas in January 1795 but died at age 20 in August 1815; Marguerite-Farelie born in September 1797; Anne-Carmélite, called Carmélite and also Élisabeth, in July 1799; and Evariste-Claude in September 1801 but died at age 15 1/2 in February 1817--seven children, four daughters and three sons, between 1790 and 1801.  Charles died at Lafourche in January 1805, age 58.  Daughters Eugénie, Mélanie, Carmélite, and Farelie married into the Landry, LeBlanc, Daigle, and Hébert families.  None of Charles's sons married, so this line of the family, except for its blood, did not endure in the Bayou State.

Antoine, fils (c1729-?) à Martin Aucoin

Antoine, fils, third and youngest son of Antoine Aucoin and Anne Breau, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1729, followed his family to the French Maritimes after 1752 and was deported to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  He married Françoise, daughter of Pierre Hébert and Marguerite Bourg and widow of Élie LeBlanc, at St.-Suliac on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo in January 1760.  Françoise gave Antoine, fils four children there:  Marguerite-Françoise born in July 1761 but died at age 1 1/2 in February 1763; Pierre-Joseph-Antoine in January 1765; François-Charles in November 1767; and Louis-Jean in January 1770--a daughter and three sons, between 1761 and 1770.  Françoise died at St.-Suliac in January 1771.  Antoine did not remarry.  He took his sons to Poitou in 1773.  In March 1776, after two years of effort, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  In 1785, he and two of his sons emigrated to Louisiana.  Second son François-Charles, who, if he was still living, would have been age 18 that year, did not follow his family to the Spanish colony.  From New Orleans, Antoine, fils and his sons followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Both of the sons married on the Lafourche, but only one of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Pierre-Joseph-Antoine followed his widowed father to Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and Bayou Lafourche, where he married cousin Félicité, 36-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Aucoin and Anne-Marie Dupuis, in July 1786.  Félicité, a native of Minas, also had come to Louisiana aboard La Bergère.  She died in Assumption Parish in November 1820.  The Plattenville priest who recorded her burial said that she was age 75 when she died.  She was 70.  Pierre did not remarry.  He died in Assumption Parish in August 1829.  The Plattenville priest who recorded the burial said that Pierre died at age 66.  He was 64.  He and his wife were that rare Acadian couple who had no children.  

Antoine, fils's third and youngest son Louis-Jean followed his widowed father to Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and Bayou Lafourche.  In 1788, he was working six arpents of frontage on the upper bayou as a 17-year-old bachelor.  He married Victoire-Hélène, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Arcement and Marie Hébert, at Lafourche in August 1789.  Victoire, two years older than Louis-Jean and also a native of St.-Suliac, had come to Louisiana from France on a later ship.  One wonders if they had known one another since childhood.  They settled at Assumption and may have lived for a time in New Orleans.  Their children, born on the bayou, included Pierre-Louis in November 1790 but died at age 9 in November 1799; Louis-Ambroise, called Ambroise and Louis, fils, born in July 1792; Antoine-Joseph in July 1795; Valentin in September 1797 but died at age 18 in October 1815; Noël born in September 1799 and baptized at New Orleans in January 1800; Eugène born in June 1800; Louise probably in the early 1800s; Basilise in August 1805; Marie in August 1809; and Clarisse in May 1811--10 children, six sons and four daughters, between 1790 and 1811.  Louis died in Assumption Parish in March 1841, age 71 (the recording priest said 72).  Daughters Louise, Basilise, and Marie married into the Bourg, Almindingue, Doiron, and Lejeune families.  Four of Louis's sons also married and settled on the Lafourche. 

Second son Louis Ambroise, called Ambroise, married Françoise Marie or Marie Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Daigle and Marie Dugas, at the Plattenville church in September 1811.  They settled on Bayou Boeuf.  Their children, born there, included Azélie in June 1812; Fiacro died at age 6 months in September 1813; Marcel or Marcellin Louis or Louis Marcellin born in October 1814; Valsin Isidore in April 1817; Valentin in December 1818; Alexandre Eusilien or Eusilien Alexandre, also called Azelin, in September 1820; Eugène Zéphirin, called Zéphirin, in April 1823 but died at age 5 in September 1828; Marcellus Félicien, called Félicien, born in February 1827; Roseline in September 1830; and Eugène Arturien in March 1837--10 children, two daughters and eight sons, between 1812 and 1837.  Wife Marie Françoise died by October 1856, when her succession was filed at the Franklin courthouse, St. Mary Parish, on the lowe Teche.  At age 61, Ambroise remarried to Joséphine Desbains, daughter of Joseph Chauvin and Marie Webre and widow of Pierre Charpentier, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Parish, in February 1857.  She gave him no more children.  Daughter Roseline, by his first wife, married into the Landry family.  At least five of Louis Ambroise's sons also married.  Most of them remained on Bayou Lafourche, but three of them settled on the lower Teche. 

Second son Marcellin Louis or Louis Marcellin, by first wife Françoise Daigle, married cousin Azélie, also called Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Auguste Doiron and Anne Daigle, in a civil ceremony in St. Mary Parish in July 1834, and sanctified the marriage at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1835.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Émilie Alvina in June 1835; Marie Alida in April 1840; Alexandre Armelin in March 1842; Marie Augustine in September 1847; and Aureline Victoire in January 1850--five children, four daughters and a son, between 1835 and 1850.  None of Marcellin's children married by 1870. 

Ambroise's third son Valsin Isidore, by first wife Françoise Daigle, married Euphrosine Adelina, daughter of Pierre Hippolyte Brez and his Acadian wife Marie Lucie Boudreaux and widow of Jean Baptiste Valéry Aucoin, probably in Assumption Parish in the late 1830s.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Victorine Augistine in March 1841; Adeline Clarisse Léodi in April 1845; Marie Julie in November 1847; and Valsian Téodule in May 1850.  Valsin may have remarried to Armantine Bourgeois and settled near Brashear, now Morgan, City, St. Mary Parish, in 1850.  Their children, born near Brashear City, included Marie Olivia in March 1862; Joseph in February 1865; ...  In December 1850, the federal census taker in St. Mary Parish counted a single slave--a 20-year-old black female--on Valsin Aucoin's farm.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in St. Mary Parish counted three slaves--all females, all black, ages 30, 10, and 2--on Valsin Aucoin's farm in the parish's western district.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Ambroise's fourth son Valentin, by first wife Françoise Daigle, married Marie Mathilde, called Mathilde, daughter of Augustin Verret and his Acadian wife Marie Rose Bourg, in a civil ceremony in St. Mary Parish on lower Bayou Teche in May 1844, and sanctified the marriage at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in July 1844.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Assumption and Lafourche parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marcelin Augustin in April 1845; Marie Pamele or Pamela in November 1849; Louis Odreus in September 1852; and Victor Lésime in December 1856--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1845 and 1856.  Daughter Marie Pamela married into the Newton family by 1870.  None of Valentin's sons married by then. 

Ambroise's fifth son Alexandre Eusilien or Eusilien Alexandre, by first wife Françoise Daigle, married cousin Marie Clémentine, called Clémentine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Pierre Daigle and Marie Modeste Arceneaux of Assumption Parish, in a civil ceremony in St. Mary Parish in December 1845.  They lived in Assumption Parish until the late 1850s or early 1860s and then settled on the lower Atchafalaya near Brashear, now Morgan, City, St. Mary Parish.  Their children, born on both bayous, included Calixte Aveline near Plattenville in October 1846; Victor Zéphiran, called Zéphirin, near Paincourtville in April 1849; Armelin Théophile in February 1851; Basile Justilien in June 1853; Rosalie Eugénie in April 1855; Modeste Célina near Brashear City in April 1861; Alexandre Ovide in October 1864; ...  Alexandre Eusilien's daughter did not marry by 1870, but one of his sons did, on the lower Teche. 

Oldest son phirin married Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadian Athanase Broussard and his Creole wife Célestine Vaughn of Assumption Parish, at the New Iberia church, Iberia Parish, in October 1869.  Their son Louis Gaston was born near New Iberia in September 1870; ...

Ambroise's seventh son Félicien, by first wife Françoise Daigle, married fellow Acadian Telanie or Uranie Doiron perhaps in Assumption Parish in the late 1840s or early 1850s before settling near Brashear, now Morgan, City, St. Mary Parish before 1860, near two of his older brothers.  Félicien and Telanie's children, born on the Lafourche and the lower Atchafalaya, included Sévillien in c1849; Félicie in c1851; Victor Odvery in Assumption Parish in October 1853; Azémie in c1857; Ernestine in c1859; Louis Ernest baptized at Brashear City, age unrecorded, in May 1862; Augustin Numa born in January 1866; ...  None of Félicien's children married by 1870. 

Louis Jean's third son Antoine Joseph married Eléonore dite Léonore, 24-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Marie Boudreaux and Isabelle Pitre, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in August 1828.  Their children, born on the bayou, included Louis, also called Louis Ernest and perhaps Lovincy L., in July 1829; Noël Odresse, Andresci, or Andressi, called Andressi and Adrien, in March 1832; Truca, probably Irma, Eufrasine in November 1835; Jean Aurestile Skailer or Schuyler in Lafourche Interior Parish in April 1838 but, called Aurestile, died at age 8 in June 1846--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1829 and 1838.  Antoine died in Lafourche Parish in February 1853.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial said that Antoine died "at age 54 yrs."  He was 57.  Daughter Irma married into the Barthet family by 1870.  Antoine's remaining sons also married by then and settled on the Lafourche.

Oldest son Lovincy married cousin Émelie, daughter of fellow Acadians Ambroise Naquin and Carmelite Boudreaux, at the Thibodaux church in November 1851.  They settled on the upper bayou near the boundary between Lafourche and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Edgar in May 1852; Marie Louise in April 1855; Marie Julie in September 1856; Élise Marie in December 1858; Joseph Émile in December 1861; Émelie Joséphine in April 1865; Cécile Eléonore in September 1867; ...  None of Lovincy's children married by 1870. 

Antoine Joseph's third son Andressi married Julie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Charles Blanchard and Rosalie Blanchard, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in April 1854, and sanctified the marriage at the Thibodaux church in May 1855.  Their children, born on the middle Lafourche, included Antoine Aurestile in December 1854; Marie Victoria in April 1857; Auguste Désiré in May 1860; Victor Myrtile in October 1861; Marie Eléonore in April 1864; ...  None of Andressi's children married by 1870. 

Louis Jean's fifth son Noël married Marie Théotiste, called Théotiste, another daughter of Auguste Doiron and Anne Daigle, at the Plattenville church in April 1834.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marcellin Noël in March 1835; Marie Léonide, called Léonide, in February 1836; Zéphirin Armand, called Armand, baptized at Bayou Boeuf, age unrecorded, in May 1837; Louis Victor born in January 1839 but, called Louis Noël, died at age 9 1/2 in November 1848; Hernes or Ernest Lovency born in October 1840 but, called Ernest, died at age 11 1/2 (the recording priest said 12 1/2) in February 1852; Marie Ernestine born in August 1842 but, called Ernestine, died at age 1 in September 1843; Alphonse Léonard born in August 1844; Amédé Emelius in October 1846 but, called Amédé, died at age 2 1/2 in April 1849; Félicia Anastasia born in May 1851; and twins Emma Eugénie and Numa Eugène in November 1854--11 children, seven sons and four daughters, including a set of twins, between 1835 and 1854.  Daughter Léonide married into the Legendre family by 1870.  One of Noël's sons also married by then.

Second son Armand married Félicité, daughter of Foreign Frenchman Louis Lamoureaux and his Acadian wife Adélaïde LeBlanc, at the Thibodaux church in October 1866; Félicité's mother was her father's second wife and the widow of Joseph Eugène Aucoin.  Armand and Félicité's children, born on the Lafourche, included Henry Adolphe in February 1868; Noël Félix in July 1869; Louise Hortense in November 1870; ...

Louis Jean's sixth and youngest son Eugène married Clémentine or Clémence, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Gautreaux and Geneviève Giroir, at the Plattenville church in February 1837.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Louis Ernest in October 1837; Armentine Genevièfe in February 1839; Marie Eugénie in July 1841; Euranie Félicité in January 1845; Eugène Anatole in July 1847; Euphrosine in November 1849; Elmire Émilie, perhaps theirs, in November 1852; and Noémie Félicia in October 1854--eight children, two sons and six daughters, between 1837 and 1854.  Daughters Euranie, ... married into the Kerne and Martin families by 1870.  Neither of Eugène's sons married by then. 

Fabien (c1746-1799) à Alexis dit Lexy à Martin Aucoin

Fabien, second son of Alexis Aucoin, fils and Hélène Blanchard, born at Cobeguit in c1746, escaped to Île St.-Jean with his family in the fall of 1755, followed them to France in 1758, and settled with them in the St.-Malo suburbs.  He worked as a carpenter in France, participated in the Poitou venture of the early 1770s, and, after two years of effort, retreated with hundreds of other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes.  He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Dupuis and Marie Trahan of Rivière-aux-Canards in St.-Similien Parish, Nantes, France, in May 1776.  They came to Louisiana in 1785 and followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Fabien died at Assumption in August 1799, age 53.  He and Marguerite evidently were that rare Acadian couple who had no children.   

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Another Aucoin family--three with the name--arrived from France aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans during the second week of September 1785.  They also followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, but no lasting family line came of it:

Michel (c1755-?) à René à Martin Aucoin

Michel, only son of Pierre Aucoin le jeune and Marguerite Dupuis, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1755, somehow became separated from his family as an infant, perhaps in the care of his older sister Anne, and, with her, was deported to one of the British seaboard colonies.  In the early 1760s, Michel, perhaps with his sister, ventured with other Acadians to French St.-Dominique, where French authorities employed Acadians to work on a new French naval base at Môle-St.-Nicolas on the northwest end of the island.  At age 14, Michel, perhaps with his sister, sailed aboard Le Americain from Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, to St.-Malo, France, which he reached in October 1769.  From 1769 to 1772, he lived with the family of his uncle Jean Aucoin in the suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer and became a woodworker there.  One wonders if he went to Poitou in 1773 and retreated with other Poitou Acadians to Nantes in 1775 or 1776.  He married Marie-Rosalie, called Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean De La Forestrie and his first wife Marie-Madeleine Bonnière of Île St.-Jean, in Ste.-Croix Parish, Nantes, in July 1779.  Rosalie gave him three daughters at Nantes and at nearby Chantenay:  Marie-Françoise born in Ste.-Croix Parish in April 1780; Louise-Adélaïde in St.-Nicolas Parish, Nantes, in September 1781 but died at Chantenay, age 1, in September 1782; and Rose-Adélaïde, called Rosalie, born at Chantenay in April 1784.  Sister Anne, meanwhile, married a Frenchman, Joseph Cheramie, in St.-Vincent Parish, Nantes, in April 1784, a year before they emigrated to Louisiana.  With their two daughters, Michel and Rosalie followed his sister and brother-in-law to Louisiana and Bayou Lafourche, where they had more children:  Michel, fils baptized at Ascension, no age given, in December 1786; another Rosalie born in September 1791; and Célestin in December 1793--six children, four daughters and two sons, between 1780 and 1793, in France and Louisiana.  Michel died in Assumption Parish in June 1833.  The Plattenville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents's names or mention a wife, said Michel died at age 76.  He probably was a few years older.  Daughter Marie-Françoise married into the Dumon family in New Orleans.  Neither of Michel's sons seems to have married, so this line of the family, except for its blood, did not endure in the Bayou State.

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More Aucoins--a dozen of them, including three families, one led by a widow--arrived from France aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in early November 1785.  Like their cousin Michel of Le St.-Rémi, none of the male newcomers created lasting family lines in the colony: 

Alexandre (1725-1780) à Martin Aucoin

Alexandre, eighth son of Alexis dit Alexy Aucoin and Anne-Marie Bourg, born at Cobeguit in August 1725, married Marie, daughter of Pierre Trahan and Jeanne Daigre, at Minas in c1750 and settled at Rivière-aux-Canards.  Their daughter Marie was born there in c1754.  The British deported the family to Virginia in 1755 and sent them on to England in 1756.  Marie and perhaps their daughter died in England.  Alexandre remarried to Élisabeth, or Isabelle, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Duon and Madeleine Vincent of Minas, at Liverpool in October 1759.  She gave him a daughter, Anne-Marie, born at Liverpool in July 1761.  After repartratiation to the mother country, the family landed at Pleujean, Morlaix in northwestern Brittany, in the spring 1763.  Their daughter Geneviève was born there in June 1765.  That fall, they joined other exiles from England on Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany and settled near Bangor in the southern interior of the island.  Élisabeth gave him more daughters there:  Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, born in January 1768; Marie-Félicité, called Félicité, in February 1770; Élisabeth-Josèphe in June 1772; and Anne-Augustine, called Augustine, in July 1775.  They remained on the island for a dozen years and then moved on to the lower Loire port of Nantes in southeastern Brittany.  Daughter Marie-Renée was born in St.-Similien Parish in November 1778--eight children, all daughters, between 1754 and 1778, in greater Acadia, England, and France.  Alexandre died in St.-Similien Parish, Nantes, in October 1780, age 55.  Widow Élisabeth and her seven Aucoin daughters emigrated to Louisiana in 1785 aboard L'Amitité.  Daughters Madeleine, Félicité, Élisabeth-Josèphe, Augustine, and Marie-Renée married into the Simon, Faulk, Guidry, Benoit, Trahan, Granger, and Sellers families in the Attakapas District west of the Atchafalaya Basin, so the blood of his family endured in the Bayou State. 

Joseph, fils (c1725-?) à Martin Aucoin

Joseph, fils, older son of Joseph Aucoin and Anne Trahan, born probably at Minas in c1725, married Françoise Breau in c1747.  She gave him two daughters probably at Minas:  Marie-Blanche born in c1748; and Marie-Anne in c1751.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  Françoise died in England.  Joseph, fils and his daughters were repatriated to St.-Malo, France, in the spring of 1763.  They settled at Plouër-sur-Rance on west side of the river south of the Breton port.  Joseph, fils remarried to Madeleine, daughter of François Gautrot and Marie Vincent of Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, and widow of Pierre Boudrot, at Pleudihen-sur-Rance across the river from Plouër in February 1764.  She evidently gave him no more children.  Joseph, fils's older daughter Marie-Blanche died at Pleudihen, age 25, in July 1773; she did not marry.  Younger daughter Marie-Anne, who made it to St.-Malo in 1763, also may have died in one of the Rivière Rance villages.  Joseph, fils may not have taken his family to Poitou in 1773, but he and Madeleine did join hundreds of other exiles in the lower Loire port of Nantes later in the decade.  A Spanish official counted them there in September 1784, without children.  The following year, they followed most of their fellow exiles in France to Spanish Louisiana.  From New Orleans, they did not follow their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche but may have settled, instead, in the Attakapas District west of the Atchafalaya Basin. 

Joseph (c1752-?) à ? à Martin Aucoin

Joseph Aucoin, born perhaps in British Nova Scotia in c1752, was a 33-year-old sailor living at Nantes when he emigrated to Louisiana in 1785, alone, aboard L'Amitié.  He seems to have followed some of his fellow passengers to the Isleño community of Nueva Gálvez, also called San Bernardo, south of New Orleans.  He evidently did not create a family of his own in the colony. 

Mathurin-Jean (c1755-?) à Alexis dit Lexy à Martin Aucoin

Mathurin-Jean, third and youngest son of Alexis Aucoin, fils and Hélène Blanchard of Cobeguit and brother of Fabien of La Bergère, born at Cobeguit in c1755, followed his family to Île St.-Jean as an infant, was deported with them to France in 1758, and came to Louisiana alone and unmarried in 1785.  In 1788, he was living at Lafourche with older brother Fabien and his wife.  In the 1790s, while in his early 40s, Mathurin-Jean served as an engagé, or hired worker, on the upper Lafourche farm of fellow Acadian Élie Blanchard, probably a kinsman.  Unlike his older brothers Joseph le jeune and Fabien, Mathurin-Jean did not marry.  

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Most of the Aucoins who emigrated from France to Louisiana--53 of them, one of the largest single Acadian family groups to come to the colony--crossed aboard the La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in early December 1785.  More successful family lines came of it in the three major settlement areas of South Louisiana--the river, the prairies, and Bayou Lafourche.  One of the lines on upper Bayou Lafourche was especially vigorous: 

Jean-Baptiste (c1719-?) à ? à Martin Aucoin

Jean-Baptiste, called Jean, Aucoin, born probably at Minas in c1719, may have been a middle-age bachelor in the fall of 1755, when the British deported him to Virginia.  Virginia officials sent him and other exiles to England the following spring.  At age 38, Jean married fellow Acadian Marguerite Thériot in England in c1757.  She gave him two childrenn there:  Marie born in c1758; and Simon in May 1761.  They were repatriated to France in the spring of 1763 aboard the transport Dorothée and settled at Plouër-sur-Rance on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo, where Marguerite gave Jean more children:  Jean-Baptiste born in May 1764; Rose-Madeleine in January 1766; Rose-Anastasie in May 1768; Anne-Julienne in April 1771 but died at La Frenelais, age 1, in August 1772; and Pierre-Firmin born in May 1774--seven children, three sons and four daughters, between 1758 and 1774, in England and France.  They did not go to Poitou in 1773 or follow other exiles to the lower Loire port of Nantes later in the decade.  In 1785, Jean and Marguerite, with two sons and three daughters, emigrated to Louisiana.  Oldest son Simon, who would have been age 24 that year, if he was still living, did not accompany his family to the Spanish colony.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to the new Acadian settlement of Bayou des Écores in the New Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge.  They had no more children in the colony.  Daughters Marie and Rose-Anastasie married into the Aucoin and Guidry families there.  Both of Jean's younger sons created their own families in Louisiana. 

Second son Jean-Baptiste, fils followed his family to Bayou des Écores, where he married Rose-Madeleine or Madeleine-Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians Marin Bourg and Osite Daigle.  Rose-Madeleine, also a native of Plouër-sur-Rance, had come to Louisiana aboard La Ville d'Archangel.  After the Acadians abandoned Bayou des Écores in the early 1790s, Jean-Baptiste, fils and Rose moved to nearby Manchac, south of Baton Rouge, and then to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Rose-Eléonore at Manchac in February 1795 but, called Rose, died there the following June; Françoise dite Fany- or Fanchi-Rose born probably in the late 1790s; Isabelle in c1799 and baptized at age 2 in November 1801; Jean-Baptiste III born in March 1801; Marie-Rose in the early 1800s; Clarisse-Cléonise at Assumption in March 1803; Marie Augustine, also called Augustine Anne, in December 1804; Mélanie Marie at Ascension in June 1807; and Julie Scholastique at Assumption in December 1811--nine children, eight daughters and a son, between 1795 and 1811.  Jean Baptiste, fils died in Assumption Parish in June 1812, age 48.  Daughters Françoise dite Fany Rose, Marie Rose, Augustine Anne, Clarisse, Mélanie, and Julie married into the Landry, Porche, LeBlanc, Picou, and Bourg families, including two Landry brothers and a third Landry.  Jean Baptiste, fils's only son may have died young but the blood of the family line certainly endured in the Bayou State. 

Jean's third and youngest son Pierre-Firmin followed his family to New Orleans and Bayou des Écores.  When the Acadians abandoned the settlement in the early 1790s, Pierre-Firmin's older brother followed most of their cousins to upper Bayou Lafourche, but Pierre-Firmin moved, instead, to nearby Baton Rouge, where he married Doncella-Pélagie, called Pélagie, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Daigre and Marie LeBlanc of Belle-Île-en-Mer, France, in August 1796.  They lived for a time at Cabahannocer on the lower Acadian Coast before returning to the Baton Rouge area.  Their children, born on river, included Florestin or Florentin at Cabahannocer in January 1798; Pélagie-Céleste in c1799 and baptized at Baton Rouge, age 2, in May 1801; Pierre, fils born in June 1802; Marguerite in January 1805; and Scholastique in February 1808--five children, two sons and three daughter, between 1798 and 1808.  Pierre Firmin may have remarried to Marguerite Venoy, widow of A. Vignon of Arkansas, at Baton Rouge in July 1812.  The unnamed child, name and age unrecorded, who died near Baton Rouge in July 1823, may have been theirs.  If so, this would have been Pierre Fimin's sixth child.  Daughters Pélagie, Marguerite, and Scholastique, by his first wife, married Tullier brothers whose mother was a Daigre.  Both of Pierre Firmin's sons created their own families on the river.

Older son Florentin, by first wife Pélagie Daigle, married Élisabeth, daughter of André Verdau, Verdiou, Verdon, or Verdou and Marie Venaille, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in September 1820.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included Florentin, fils in December 1821; Pierre Apollinaire, called Apollinaire, in July 1824; Albert Florestin or Florestin Albert in June 1826; Simon Adolphe or Adolphe Simon in October 1828; Éliza Désirée, Désirée, in December 1830; Célestin Jules or Jules Célestin in April 1833; Élisabeth Audile or Odile Élisabeth in June 1835; Marie Eselda or Azilda in August 1838; and Victoria Coralie or Coralie Victoria in July 1842--nine children, five sons and four daughters, between 1821 and 1842.  Florestin, père died near Baton Rouge in December 1847, age 49.  In November 1850, the federal census taker in East Baton Rouge Parish counted a single slave--a 30-year-old black female--in Elizabeth Aucoin's household in the parish's Tenth Ward; this was Florestin's widow, Élisabeth Verdon.  Daughters Odile Élisabeth, Marie Azilda, Désirée, and Coralie Victoria married into the Picou, Edmonston, Comeaux, and Martinez families by 1870.  Four of Florestin's sons also married by then.  One of them did not survive Confederate service. 

Second son Apollinaire married Melissa Catherine, daughter of Joseph Bouillion and his Acadian wife Marcelline Babin, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in February 1856.  Their children, born on the river, included Cora Élizabeth near Baton Rouge in November 1857; Sarah Beatrix in May 1859; Marie Neddy in January 1861; John W. Octave in September 1862; Albert Florestin near Gonzales, Ascension Parish, in July 1864; Joséphine Ada in January 1866; John Gardner in December 1867; James Maples near Baton Rouge in December 1867; ...

Florestin's third son Albert Florestin or Florestin Albert married Julie Zéolide, daughter of fellow Acadians Rémi Doiron and Julie Richard, at the Baton Rouge church in March 1851.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included Télésphore in December 1851; Abner Sotter in April 1853; Julia Ludevisca in March 1855; Mary Ophelia in April 1857; Alphonse Odey in November 1858; and Élizabeth Lilly in October 1860--six children, three sons and three daughters, between 1851 and 1860.  During the War of 1861-65, Florestin Albert, as he was called in Confederate records, served in Company A of the 9th Battalion Louisiana Infantry, raised in East Baton Rouge Parish, which fought in Louisiana and Mississippi.  Perhaps because of his age and maturity--he was age 35 at the time of his enlistment--Florestin Albert enlisted as a second corporal in the spring of 1862 and was elected a junior second lieutenant in August.  He was promoted to second lieutenant in September, and this was the rank he held during the siege of Port Hudson in the spring and summer of 1863.  According to his burial record, Florestin Albert was "killed in siege of Port Hudson," but his Confederate service record does not reveal the exact date of his death; he would have been age 37 (the recording priest said 30) at the time.  He probably was buried on the battlefield, and, after the war, his family disinterred his remains and buried them in Highland Cemetery, Baton Rouge, in November 1865.  None of his children married by 1870, at least not in South Louisiana. 

Florestin's fourth son Simon Adolphe or Adolphe Simon married Mary Margaret, daughter of Michael Adam or Adams and Marguerite Trager, at the Baton Rouge church in June 1853.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included Canute Agnès, evidently a daughter, in January 1855; Margaret Élisabeth in October 1856; Marie Lugeria in September 1858; Julius Adolphe in November 1859; Célestine Émilie in December 1860; Geneviève Odilia in August 1862; Mirtile Coralie in July 1863; William Madison in October 1865; Michel Buffington in April 1867; Joseph Lawrence in January 1869; ...  In August 1860, the federal census taker in East Baton Rouge Parish counted a single slave-a 14-year-old black female--in Adolphe Aucoin's household.  During the war, A. S., as Confederate records call him, served in Company A of the 9th Battalion Louisiana Infantry with his brothers Florestin Albert and Jules Célestin.  Like Jules Célestin, he, too, was conscripted into Confederate service, and, like Jules Célestin but unlike brother Florestin Albert, A. S. survived the war and returned to his family.

Florestin's fifth and youngest son Jules Célestin married Elizabeth Gordon, daughter of John Cunningham and Ellen Humphreys, at the Baton Rouge church in April 1858.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included Alphonse Godfrey in April 1860; Florence Caroline in January 1859 but not baptized until March 1864; Jules Adolphe born in July 1862; Forest Albert in June 1865; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Jules Célestin served in Company A of the 9th Battalion Louisiana Infantry with his older brothers Florestin Albert and Adolphe Simon.  Like Adolphe Simon, he, too, was conscripted into Confederate service and survived the war, as revealed in the birth date of one of his sons.  

Pierre Firmin's younger son Pierre, fils, by first wife Pélagie Daigle, married Élisabeth, daughter of Michel Gareuil of Marseille and Helena, also called Anne, Lopez, at the St. Gabriel church in May 1825.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included twins Derosin and Derosine in February 1826, but Derosine died in June, and Derosin died at age 2 1/2 in November 1828; Jean Baptiste born in October 1828; and Mathilde in September 1829--four children, two sons and two daughters, including a set of twins, between 1826 and 1829.  Pierre, fils died in Iberville Parish in June 1831, age 29 (the recording priest said 27).  Daughter Mathilde married into the Hébert family.  His remaining son evidently did not marry by 1870. 

Joseph l'aîné (c1721-?) à Martin Aucoin

Joseph, sixth son of Alexis dit Lexy Aucoin and Anne-Marie Bourg and uncle of the seven Aucoin sisters who crossed on L'Amitié, born at Cobeguit in c1721, married Anne, daughter of Pierre Blanchard and Françoise Breau, in c1743 probably at Cobeguit.  Anne gave Joseph two daughters at Cobeguit:  Osite born in c1750; and Radegonde in c1753.  They likely were among the Cobeguit habitants who abandoned the settlement in the late summer of 1755 and escaped to Île St.-Jean.  Anne gave Joseph a son, Joseph, fils, born on the island in c1756.  The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Anne and all three of the children died at sea.  Joseph remarried to Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Hébert and Marie-Claire Dugas and widow of Jean Blanchard, at Ploubalay on the west side of the river southwest of St.-Malo in October 1759.  They settled there and at nearby Tréméreuc, where Anne gave Joseph 11 more children:  Joseph-Yves born at Ploubalay in November 1760 but died at Haute-Marchandais near Tréméreuc, age 23, in July 1783; Pierre-Alexis born at Tréméreuc in May 1762; Anne-Marie at Villou near Tréméreuc in April 1764; Jean-Charles at Tréméreuc in July 1766; Françoise-Marie in June 1768 but died at Tréméreuc the following December; François-Malo born in November 1769; Gabriel-Guillaume in March 1772; Marie-Madeleine at La Marchandais in August 1774; Françoise-Victoire at Tréméreuc in May 1777; Julie-Marie-Françoise at La Haute-Marchandais in February 1780 but died there at age 1 1/2 in September 1781; and Hyacinthe-Laurent born in April 1785--14 children, seven daughters and seven sons, by two wives, between 1750 and 1785, in greater Acadia and France.  As the birth dates of their children reveal, Joseph did not take his family to the interior of Poitou in 1773, nor did they join hundreds of other Acadian exiles in the lower Loire port of Nantes later in the decade.  Joseph, Anne, and six of their children, three daughters and three sons, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from St.-Malo in 1785.  One wonders why third and fourth sons Pierre-Alexis and Pierre-Charles, who, if they were still living, would have been ages 23 and 19 in 1785, did not follow their family to France.  From New Orleans, Joseph and his family followed their fellow passengers to Bayou des Écores.  They had no more children in the colony.  Joseph died by the early 1790s, when widow Anne and her Aucoin children followed other Feliciana Acadians to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Daughters Anne-Marie, Marie-Madeleine, and Françoise-Victoire, by his second wife, married into the Hébert, Bourg, and Gautreaux families on the river and upper Bayou Lafourche, and all of them settled on the Lafourche.  Anne and Joseph's sons also settled on the Lafourche, but only one of the lines endured. 

Fifth son François-Malo, by second wife Anne Hébert, followed his family to Bayou des Écores and his widowed mother to upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marie Perrine, daughter of fellow Acadian Amand Boudreaux and his second wife Marie-Perrine Nogues, a Frenchwoman, at Assumption in February 1800.  Marie, a native of Plouër-sur-Rance near Tréméreuc, also had come to Louisiana aboard La Ville d'Archangel.  She and François-Malo settled at Assumption.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joseph-François in December 1801 but, called Joseph, died at age 43 in January 1845; Jean Baptiste Valéry born in October 1805; Agathe in November 1806; Pauline Marie in August 1809; Amand Constant in March 1811; and Zénon Nicolas in December 1816--six children, four sons and two daughters, between 1801 and 1816.  Daughter Agathe married into the Gautreaux family.  One of François Malo's sons also married, but, except for its blood, this line of the family did not endure. 

Second son Jean Baptiste Valéry married Euphrosine Adelina, daughter of Pierre Hippolyte Bree, Bret, or Brez and his Acadian wife Marie Lucie Boudreaux, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in February 1835.  Their daughter Marie Élisabeth was born on the upper bayou, posthumously, exactly a week after her father's death in November 1835.  Jean Baptiste Valéry died in Lafourche Interior Parish that month, age 30.  His line of the family, except perhaps for its blood, died with him.  His widow Euphrosine remarried to another Aucoin.  Her and Jean Baptiste Valéry's daughter did not marry by 1870. 

Joseph l'aîné's sixth son Gabriel-Guillaume, by second wife Anne Hébert, followed his family to Bayou des Écores and his widowed mother to upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marguerite-Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Boudreaux and Marie-Modeste Trahan, at Assumption in April 1800.  Marguerite-Marie, a native of St.-Similien Parish, Nantes, had come to Louisiana aboard Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships.  One wonders if Gabriel Guillaume and Marguerite-Marie had any children.  She remarried in May 1810 to an Acadian Dubois, so Gabriel Guillaume was dead by then.  Interestingly, her third husband, whom she married at Thibodaux in February 1848, was her first husband's younger brother Hyacinthe Laurent!  Moreover, she was age 65 at the time of the marriage. 

Joseph l'aîné's seventh and youngest son Hyacinthe Laurent, also called Pierre Hyacinthe, from second wife Anne Hébert, a newborn when his family crossed from France, followed them to Bayou des Écores and his widowed mother to upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marie-Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Delaune and Marie Anne Part, at Assumption in July 1804.  Marie-Céleste, a native of Chantenay near Nantes, had come to Louisiana from France aboard the last of the Seven Ships.  They settled on Bayou Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Rosalie Anne in May 1805; Hubert Valéry in August 1806; Adeline in October 1808; Marie Céleste in October 1810; Théotiste in September 1812; Valsin Rosémond in January 1817 but, called Valsein, died at age 8 (the recording priest said 9) in September 1825; Auguste or Augustin Zéphirin born in April 1819; and Euléocade or Léocadie Ursule in March 1821--eight children, five daughters and three sons, between 1805 and 1821.  At age 62, Hyacinthe remarried to Marguerite Marie, 65-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Boudreaux and Marie Modeste Trahan and widow of Gabriel Guillaume Aucoin, his older brother, and Joseph Marcellin Dubois, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in February 1848.  Needless to say, she gave him no more children.  In June 1860, the federal census takers in Assumption Parish counted two slaves--a 50-year-old black female and an 11-year-old black male--in Hyacinthe Aucoin's household in the Eighth Ward of Napoleonville.  Hyacinthe died probably at Napoleonville in October 1861.  The priest who recorded his burial said that Hyacinthe died at "age 72 years."  He was 75.  A petition for a family meeting was filed in his name--Hyacinth, listing his deceased son Hubert and his wife--at the Thibodaux courthouse in March 1862, so Hyacinthe may have owned property in Lafourche Parish as well.  He was one of the last of the Acadian immigrants in Louisiana to join his ancestors.  Daughters Rosalie Anne, Marie Céleste, and Léocadie, by his first wife, married into the Boudreaux, Richard, Arcement, and Lagrange families.  His remaining sons also married and settled on the Lafourche. 

Oldest son Hubert Valéry, by first wife Marie-Céleste Delaune, married Marie Delphine, called Delphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Mire and Henriette Bernard and widow of Joseph Célestin Gautreaux, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in May 1838.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Ofilia or Ophelia, called Ophelia, in January 1836, two years before her parents' marriage; Marie Eveline, called Eveline, in December 1838; Augustin or Auguste Pierre in October 1840; Charles died three weeks after his birth in April 1843; Marie Rose in August 1844; Philomène Dalila in July 1846 but, called Dalida, died "during [a] yellow fever epidemic" in Lafourche Parish, age 7 1/2 (the recording priest said 6), in October 1853; and Catherine Huberine born in December 1848--seven children, five daughters and two sons, between 1836 and 1848.  A petition for tutorship of four of Hubert's older remaining children--Ophelia, Eveline, Auguste, and Marie--was filed in his name at the Thibodaux courthouse in October 1854, so he probably had died by then, perhaps in his late 40s.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Lafourche Parish counted a single slave--a 25-year-old black male--in Mrs. H. Aucoin's household in the Seventh Ward of Thibodaux "city"; this may have been Delphine Mire's slave.  Daughters Ophelia, Eveline, and Marie Rose married into the Gautreaux, Lagarde, and Hargis families by 1870.  Hubert's remaining son also married by then and settled on the Lafourche.   

Older son Auguste Pierre married Rebecca, daughter of fellow Acadian Eugène Chiasson and his Creole wife Hortense Lagarde, at the Thibodaux church in January 1866.  Their children, born on the middle Lafourche, included Marie Alice in November 1866; Pierre Charles in December 1867; ... 

Hyacinthe's third and youngest son Auguste or Augustin Zéphirin, by first wife Marie-Céleste Delaune, married Clémentine, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Marie Boudreaux and his Creole wife Rosaile Aisene, at the Thibodauxville church in November 1838.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Jules Léonie in March 1841; Marie Roséma in February 1843; Auguste Delphi or Delphi Auguste in January 1845; Adelisa or Adoliska Thérèse in February 1847; Gustave in February 1849; Octave in December 1850; Joseph Matheus in October 1852 but, unnamed, died "during [a] yellow fever epidemic," age 1, in September 1853; Adolphine Zulma born in June 1854; and Julia Rosela in June 1860--nine children, five sons and four daughters, between 1841 and 1860.  In September 1850, federal census takers in Assumption Parish counted four slaves--all male, all black, ages 44 to 22--on Auguste Aucoin's farm in the parish's Second Congressional District; this may have been Auguste Zéphirin.  Auguste died near Labadieville in November 1860, age 41 (the recording priest said 42).  Daughters Adoliska, ... married into the Creszioni and Richard families by 1870.  One of Auguste's sons also married by then.

Second son Delphi Auguste married cousin Marie Elfrida, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Boudreaux and Marie Gautreaux, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in September 1863.  Daughter Marie Augustine was born near Labadieville in October 1864; ...

Claude (c1728-1794) à Martin Aucoin

Claude, younger son of Joseph Aucoin and Anne Trahan and brother of Joseph, fils of L'Amitié, born probably at Minas in c1728, was still a bachelor when he followed his family to Virginia in 1755 and to England in 1756.  He married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Saulnier and Madeleine Comeau of Petitcoudiac, in England in c1757.  Marie-Josèphe gave Claude a son, Jean-Baptiste, born at Bristol in c1758.  They, too, were repatriated to St.-Malo, France in May 1763.  They settled in several communities on the west side of Rivière Rance south of St.-Malo, where Marie-Josèphe gave Claude many more children:  Perpétué born at La Moysias near Pleurtuit in June 1763 (so Marie-Josèphe had been pregnant on the crossing from England); Charles-Joseph at nearby Plouër-sur-Rance in September 1765; Anne-Anastasie in September 1767; Pierre-Jean in May 1769 but died at La Metrie Pommerais near Plouër, age 4, in October 1773; Mathurin-Casimir born in March 1771; Marie-Gertrude in December 1772; Pierre in c1776; and François-Augustin in October 1779 but died at Sous-Banniene near Plouër six days after his birth--nine children, six sons and three daughters, between 1758 and 1779, in England and France.  As the birth years of their children reveal, they did not follow their fellow exiles from England to Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany in late 1765, or other exiles from the port cities to Poitou in 1773, or join their fellow exiles at Nantes later in the decade.  Their oldest son married in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer in 1784.  When the Spanish offered to send the Acadians in France to their Louisiana colony, Claude and his family likely were still living along the Rance.  Claude, Marie-Josèphe, and five of their unmarried children, two sons and three daughters, along with their married son and his wife, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Second son Charles-Joseph, who would have been age 20 that year, if he was still living, did not follow his family to Louisiana.  From New Orleans, Claude and his family evidently followed their fellow passengers to Bayou des Écores, but, like most of their fellow exiles who went there, they did not remain.  They moved on the Opelousas District west of the Atchafalaya Basin, where, at age 60, Claude remarried to Marie-Geneviève, 64-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Matthew Brasseaux dit La Citardy and Jeanne Célestin dit Bellemère and widow of Pierre-Olivier Benoit, in November 1788.  Marie-Geneviève, a native of Grand-Pré, had come to Louisiana from Maryland and Texas with her first husband in 1769.  Needless to say, she gave Claude no more children.  Claude died at Opelousas in August 1794, age 66.  Daughters Perpétué and Anne-Anastaise, by his first wife, married into the Normand and Bertrand dit Beaulieu families at Opelousas.  Three of his sons, also by his first wife, created their own families in France and Louisiana, but not all of the lines endured.  Typical of Acadians who settled on the Opelousas prairies, few of Claude's descendants married fellow Acadians. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, by first wife Marie-Josèphe Saulnier, followed his family to St.-Malo and married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Forest and Marguerite or Marie Comeau, at St.-Servan-sur-Mer near the Breton port in April 1784.  Marie gave Jean-Baptiste a daughter, Marie-Jeanne, there, in February 1785.  Later that year, they followed his family to New Orleans and Bayou des Écores, where they had more children:  Marie-Josèphe born in December 1787; Émilie dite Lise in c1790 and baptized at Pointe Coupée, age 2, in February 1792; and Julie-Léonore or -Eléonore baptized, age 5 weeks, in February 1792--four daughters, between 1785 and 1792, in France and Louisiana.  Jean-Baptiste, Marie, and their daughters followed his family to the Opelousas District after the birth of daughter Julie.  Jean-Baptiste died by November 1802, when he was listed as deceased in a daughter's marriage record at Opelousas.  He would have been in his early 40s that year.  Daughters Marie Jeanne, Émlie dite Lise, and Julie Eléonore married into the Bellard, Fontenot, Desmarais, and Vigé families at Opelousas.  Jean Baptiste and Marie evidently had no sons, so this line of the family, except for its blood, did not endure in the Bayou State.  

Claude's fourth son Mathurin-Casimir, by first wife Marie-Josèphe Saulnier, followed his family to New Orleans, Bayou des Écores, and Opelousas, where he married Susanne dite Susette, daughter of Philippe Langlois and his Acadian wife Marie Jeansonne, in October 1796.  Their children, born at Opelousas, included Jean-Baptiste baptized, age unrecorded, in February 1797; Marie baptized, age unrecorded, in June 1798; Mathurin, fils baptized, age unrecorded, in February 1800; Silesie baptized, age 6 weeks, December 1801; and Pierre le jeune born in c1823 but died at age 6 in September 1829--five children, three sons and two daughters, between 1797 and 1823.  Daughters ... married into the Bergeau and Trahan families.  Only one of Mathurin Casimir's sons created his own family. 

Oldest son Jean Baptiste married Marguerite Saucier probably in St. Landry Parish in the 1820s.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Jean Baptiste, fils, called Jean, in August 1825; and Florentine in November 1827.  Jean Baptiste, père died in St. Landry Parish in July 1828, age 31.  Daughter Florentine married into the St. Germain family.  Jean Baptiste's son also married.

Only son Jean Baptiste, fils, called Jean, married Susan Smith, widow of ___ Hall, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in April 1853.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Jean Baptiste III was born near Ville Platte, now in Evangeline Parish, in August 1853; Marie Nancy near Opelousas in August 1856; Elvina near Ville Platte in April 1862; ...  None of Jean's children married by 1870. 

Mathurin's second son Mathurin, fils may have died young, unless he was the Treville Aucoin who married Marie Ellender in St. Landry Parish in the early 1820s.  (Area church records consistently call Marie Ellender's husband Treville.)  By the late 1840s, Treville and his family were living on the Calcasieu prairies.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Joseph in March 1823; Michel in c1826 and baptized at Grand Coteau, age 13, in July 1839; Marie Sylvanie born in c1829 and baptized at age 10 in July 1839; Pierre born in c1831 and baptized, age 8, in July 1839; Paul born in c1834 and baptized, age 5, in July 1839; and Martin born in c1836 and baptized, age 3, in July 1839--six children, five sons and a daughter, between 1823 and 1836.  Treville's daughter evidently did not marry, but two of his sons did, to cousins.

Oldest son Joseph may have married cousin Sylvanie Aucoin, date and place unrecorded, and settled in Calcasieu Parish. 

Treville's third son Pierre may have married cousin Ceranie or Cirene Ellender, place unrecorded, in the early 1850s.  Their children, born on the St. Landry prairies, included Levi Georges in January 1853; and Jean Pierre in June 1856.  Neither of Pierre's sons married by 1870. 

Daughter Marie Sylvanie gave birth to son Jean Pierre in St. Landry Parish in February 1857, when she was in her late 20s.  The Opelousas priest who recorded the boy's baptism did not give the father's name.  The previous year, Marie Sylvanie had given birth to a daughter whose father's name also was not recorded. 

Claude's fifth son Pierre, by first wife Marie-Josèphe Saulnier, followed his family to New Orleans, Bayou des Écores, and Opelousas, where he married Françoise, daughter of Joseph Silvestre and Catherine Hayes, in January 1800.  Their children, born at Opelousas, included son Jean Pierre, also called Pierre, fils, baptized, age unrecorded, in May 1801.  At age 42, Pierre remarried to Marie-Jeanne, daughter of Philippe Fontenot and Marie Brignac and widow of Joseph Saucier, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in May 1818.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Lastie or Lasty in May 1819; Onésime in April 1822; and Célestin in November 1825--four children, all sons, by two wives, between 1801 and 1825.  All of Pierre's sons married.  Most of the Aucoins in the western parishes descend from Pierre and his four sons.  Not unusual for Acadians in St. Landry Parish, few of them married fellow Acadians. 

Oldest son Jean Pierre, also called Pierre, fils, from first wife Françoise Silvestre, married, at age 25, Hyacinthe Françoise, 16-year-old daughter of François Fontenot dit Fontaine and Constance Bertrand Beaulieu, at the Opelousas church in January 1826.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Félonise in July 1827; Pierre III in November 1829; Joseph in August 1832; Jacinte or Hyacinthe, a daughter, in October 1834; Jean Pierre in September 1836; Cyprien Pierre in July 1839; Marie Mélite, called Mélite, born in February 1844; Arcadins in September 1846; Clémentine in January 1849; and Marius in April 1852--10 children, four daughters and six sons, between 1827 and 1852.  Pierre, fils's succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in March 1856.  He would have been in his mid-50s that year.  Daughters Félonice, Hyacinthe, Marie Mélite, and Clémentine married into the Fontenot, Bushnell, Vizina, McCauley, and Brunet families, one of them, Mélite, twice, by 1870.  None of Pierre, fils's sons married by then. 

Pierre's second son Lastie or Lasty, by second wife Marie Jeanne Fontenot, married cousin Céleste or Célestine, 19-year-old daughter of Henry McCauley and Louise Belvue Fontenot, at the Opelousas church in May 1838.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Célestine in April 1839; Adeline in October 1840; Pierre le jeune baptized at Opelousas, age 22 days, in March 1843; Henri in March 1845; Léocadie in February 1848; and Zilien in March 1849--six children, three daughters and three sons, between 1839 and 1849.  Daughters Célestine and Adeline married into the Fontenot and Fuselier families by 1870.  Two of Lastie's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Pierre le jeune married cousin Célestine, daughter of Pierre Jacques Fontenot and Adrienne Fontenot, at the Ville Platte church, then in St. Landry but now in Evangeline Parish, in August 1865.  They settled near Eunice.  Their children, born there, included Pierre, fils in March 1867; Arthelus in November 1869; ... 

Lasty's second son Henri likely married Elmire Ardoin in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in October 1868. 

Pierre's third son Onésime, by second wife Marie Jeanne Fontenot, married Félicité, daughter of Zénon Deshotel and Marie Manuel, at the Opelousas church in February 1842.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Célina baptized at age 3 months in March 1843; Pauline born in August 1845; Joseph in March 1848; Onézime, fils in May 1851; Dorsin near Ville Platte in March 1855; Zénon in July 1860; Pierre le jeune October 1862; ...  Onésime's daughters did not marry by 1870.  One of his sons did, and another married in the late 1870s.

Oldest son Joseph married Azéline, daughter of Simon Baptiste Manuel and Azélie _____, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in July 1868.  They settled near Ville Platte. 

Fourth son Zénon married Adeline Bertrand at the Ville Platte Baptist Church, then in St. Landry but now in Evangeline Parish, in January 1878. 

Pierre's fourth and youngest son Célestin, by second wife Marie Jeanne Fontenot, married Denise Desmaret, widow of Pierre Vizina, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in February 1849.  Their son Denis was born in St. Landry Parish in December 1849. 

Michel le jeune (c1732-early 1790s) à Michel à Martin Aucoin

Michel le jeune, son of Antoine Aucoin le jeune and Élisabeth Amireau, born probably at Cobeguit in c1732, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in the late summer of 1755 or the winter of 1756 and married Élisabeth, or Isabelle, Hébert on the island in c1758.  The British deported the newlyweds to St.-Malo, France, later that year.  They settled at St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, across the harbor from St.-Malo, where Élisabeth gave Michel a large family:  Joseph-Michel born in May 1760; Jean-Charles at nearby St.-Lunaire in July 1761; Françoise in February 1763 but died the following September; Marie-Josèphe born in March 1764; Anne-Théodose in May 1765; François-David in August 1766 but died at age 2 1/2 in March 1769; Grégoire-Alexis born in October 1767; Michel-Pierre in February 1769; Pierre-Paul in July 1770; Isabelle in July 1772; François-Étienne in December 1773; Jeanne in April 1778 but died at age 9 months in February 1779; Florianne or Florence-Marguerite born in November 1780; and Constant-Jean-Baptiste in October 1782--14 children, eight sons and six daughters, between 1760 and 1782.  As the birth of their children reveal, Michel and Élisabeth did not follow other exiles in the port cities to Poitou in 1773, nor did they join other exiles in the lower Loire port of Nantes later in the decade.   In 1785, Michel, Élisabeth, and 10 of their children, six sons and four daughters, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana directly from St.-Malo.  Oldest son Joseph-Michel, who would have been age 25 that year, if he was still living, did not accompany his family to Louisiana.  From New Orleans, Michel and his family followed their fellow passengers to Bayou des Écores.  Michel died there by 1793, when wife Élisabeth was called a widow in the New Feliciana District census.  He would have been in his late 50s or early 60s when he passed.  Soon after his death, his family became part of the Acadian exodus from that settlement to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Older daughters Marie-Josèphe and Anne-Théodose did not marry.  Younger daughters Isabelle and Florianne Marguerite married into the Potier, Pedeau, and Barrilleaux families on the Lafourche.  Five of Michel's sons also married and settled there, creating probably the largest line of Aucoins in the Bayou State. 

Second son Jean-Charles followed his family to New Orleans and Bayou des Écores, where he married Hélène, 20-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Thibodeaux and Madeleine Henry, in November 1787.  Hélène, a native of St.-Antoine near Pleurtuit south of St.-Énogat, also had come to Louisiana aboard La Ville d'Archangel.  Before 1793--he and his wife do not appear with his widowed mother and younger siblings in the New Feliciana District census of that year--Jean-Charles and Hélène may have moved first to nearby Baton Rouge before joining his family on Bayou Lafourche by 1795.  Their children, born on the river and the bayou, included Casimir at Bayou des Écores in November 1788; Renée-Isabelle baptized at Pointe Coupée, age unrecorded, in April 1792; Francois-Élie, called Élie, baptized at Baton Rouge, age unrecorded, in April 1794; Emérante-Émilie or Émilie-Emérante born at Assumption in November 1795; Leufroi-Désiré in January 1798; Paul-Eléander or -Léandre, also called Léandre-Paul, in February 1801; Tarzelle-Marie in c1802; and Jean Charles, fils in April 1808--eight children, five sons and three daughters, between 1788 and 1808.  In October 1810, in Jean Charles, père's succession, the Lafourche Interior Parish court named Jean Baptiste Aucoin curator for daughter Tarsil, then age about 8 (the record says 16), and Guillaume Arcement as curator for Jean Charles's son Léandre Aucoin, then age 9 (the record says 19), so Jean Charles probably had died by then; he would have been age 49 that year.  In October 1813, the same court named Joseph Hébert as tutor for Jean Charles's minor children.  In April 1820, the same court named Baptiste Aucoin as tutor for son Jean Charles, fils, who would have been age 12.  Daughters Émilie Emérante and Tarzelle Marie married into the Lecompte, Boudreaux, and Breaux families.  Three of Jean Charles's sons also married and settled in Lafourche Interior Parish.  Two of his grandsons moved down into Terrebonne Parish.

Second son Francois Élie, called Élie, married Cécile Marie Marine probably in Assumption Parish in the early 1810s.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Jean Baptiste Élie, called Baptiste, in June 1815; Urbin Ursin in May 1818; Evariste Paul in July 1821; Séraphine Abdèle in January 1825; and Adeline Bélise in September 1828--five children, three sons and two daughters, between 1815 and 1828.  At age 42, Élie remarried to double cousin Marie Françoise, 42-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Alexis Joseph Aucoin and his first wife Françoise Henry and widow of Jean Baptiste Fremin, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in June 1836.  Marie Françoise also was a native of Louisiana whose family had come to Louisiana from France.  She evidently gave him no more children.  Élie died by October 1867, when his wife's burial record called her his widow.  He would have been in his early 70s that year, though he likely died years earlier.  Daughters Séraphine and Adeline, by his first wife, married into the Boudreaux and Adam families.  Élie's three sons also married.

Oldest son Jean Baptiste Élie, by first wife Cécile Marine, married Julie, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Levron and his Creole wife Marie Adam, at the Thibodauxville church in September 1833.  Their children, born on the bayou, included Jean Baptiste Valsin, called Valsin, in September 1834; Marie Alfonside or Alphonsine Baptilde in January 1836 but, called Alphonsine, died at age 14 1/2 (the recording priest said 16) in October 1850; Marie Ordalie, called Ordalie or Hordalie, born in December 1837; Arvila Armelise in October 1839; Elisida or Lesida in August 1841; Marcilia Franklin, called Franklin, in March 1843; and Célestine Julie in October 1845; and Alphonse perhaps posthumously in the late 1840s--eight children, three sons and five daughters, between 1834 and the late 1840s.  Jean Baptiste died in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1847, age 31.  A bond for the tutorship of his surviving children, listing his children--Valsin, Alphonse, Ezilda, Ordalie, Franklin, Julie, and Arvila--and calling his wife Julie Levrons, was filed in his name at the Thibodaux courthouse in March.  A petition for sale of his effects, calling his wife Julie Levron, was filed there in April.  Daughters Lesida, Ordalie, ... married into the Naquin, Bourg, and Robichaux families by 1870.  Both of Jean Baptiste Élie's remaining sons also married by then, after their war service. 

During the war, second son Franklin served in Company G of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafourche Parish, which fought in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana.  Franklin was living in New Orleans when he enlisted in Company G in early October 1861 at age 18.  According to war records, he had a florid complexion, auburn hair, blue eyes, and stood five feet eleven inches tall.  He was wounded at the Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee, in April 1862 and sent home on a 60-day furlough.  That summer, his company's orderly sergeant reported that he had "heard of him, unwell."  Franklin was still at home recuperating from his wound and perhaps serving with the local Lafourche Parish militia when he fought in the Battle of Labadieville in October.  The Federals captured him in late November, and he was exchanged aboard the steamer Frolic near Baton Rouge in late February 1863.  Franklin returned to the 18th Louisiana later in the year and was reported on the rolls of the Consolidated 18th Regiment and Yellow Jackets Battalion in late 1863.  He fell into the hands of the Federals again at Lafourche in September 1864.  He was not exchanged this time.  The Federals sent him to Ship Island, Mississippi, and then to Fort Columbus, New York harbor, from where he was transferred to the prisoner-of-war camp at Elmira, New York, in late November.  Though he was still recuperating from his wound, he survived the terrible winter at Elmira, was paroled there in early February 1865, and sent to James River, Virginia, to be exchanged, but he was not exchanged.  Being "not able to travel," he was returned to Elmira, where he took the oath of allegiance to the United States government in late June 1865.  He returned home and married Léontine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Bourg and Euphrosine Boudreaux of Lafourche Parish, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1866; the marriage also was recorded in Lafourche Parish.  Their children, born on the middle Lafourche, included Alice Ulyssia Victoria in December 1866; Jean Baptiste Joseph in October 1868 but died at age 1 in September 1869; Marie Julie born in November 1870; ...  Franklin died in Lafourche Parish in August 1920, age 77, and is buried in St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery, Thibodaux. 

During the war, Jean Baptiste Élie's third and youngest son Alphonse served in Company I of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafourche Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  Like older brother Franklin, he survived his war service and returned to his family.  Alphonse married Élise Charpentier of Terrebonne Parish at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in November 1866.  Their children, born on the middle Lafourche, included Joseph Louis in September 1869; Marie Clémence in September 1870; ... 

Élie's second son Urbin, by first wife Cécile Marine, married Céleste Adèle or Adèle Céleste, daughter of Marcellin Adam and his Acadian wife Marcellite Hébert, at the Thibodaux church in December 1843.  Their children, born on the southeastern bayous, included Marie Céleste in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1845; Marceline in January 1847; Joseph in March 1849; Laisa or Laiza Philomène in February 1851; Léontine Cléona in December 1852; and Ernest Marcelin in Terrebonne Parish in November 1854--six children, four daughters and two sons, between 1845 and 1854.  Daughters Marie and Laiza married into the Bouvier and Chiasson families by 1870.  Neither of Urbin's sons married by then. 

Élie's third and youngest son Evariste, by first wife Cécile Marine, married Marie Émilie, called Émilie, daughter of fellow Acadian Florentin Boudreaux and his Creole wife Marianne Durocher, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in February 1842, and sanctified the marriage at the Thibodaux church in August 1845.  Their children, born in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley, included Émelia or Amelia in November 1844; and Élisa or Éliza Eve in January 1845.  Evariste died in April 1846, age 24.  A petition for a succession inventory, calling his wife Marianne Émelie Boudreau and listing his children--Eliza and Amelia--was filed at the Houma courthouse in August 1847, so he probably had moved to Terrebonne Parish.  Daughters Éliza and Amelia married into the Chiasson and Landry families by 1870.  Evariste evidently fathered no sons, so this line of the family, except for its blood, died with him. 

Jean Charles's fourth son Paul Léandre or Léandre Paul was age 9 when the Lafourche Interior Parish court named Guillaume Arcement as his curator. Léandre, at age 21, married Cécile, daughter of fellow Acadians Mathurin Joseph Ozelet and Marie Élisabeth Landry, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in November 1822.  Their children, born on the upper bayou, included Paul Joseph in August 1823 but died at age 8 months in May 1824; Maximilien Zéphirin, called Similien, born in October 1825; Alexandre Élise or Élie in November 1827; Jean Baptiste Marcellin in November 1829; Marie Aurelie in November 1831; and Firmin probably in the early or mid-1830s.  Paul Léandre remarried to Marine, another daughter of Mathurin Joseph Ozelet and Marie Élisabeth Landry, at the Plattenville church in October 1836.  Their daughter Angèlle was born posthumously in Assumption Parish in November 1837--seven children, five sons and two daughters, by two wives, between 1823 and 1837.  Paul Léandre died in Assumption Parish in July 1837, age 36 (the recording priest, who called him Léandre, said 37).  His daughters did not marry by 1870, but his four remaining sons did and settled on the upper Lafourche.

Second son Similien, by first wife Cécile Ozelet, may have married fellow Acadian Aglaé, perhaps also called Adélaïde, Landry in Assumption Parish in the early 1850s.  Their son Evelien Oscar was born in Assumption Parish in November 1854 but, called Oscar, died at age 9 months the following August.  An Adélaïde Landry, wife of Similien Aucoin, died in Assumption Parish in June 1855, age "18 years, 9 months"; the Plattenville priest who recorded the burial did not give the young wife's parents' names; this may have been Aglaé.  Similien remarried to cousin Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Firmin Dupuis and Apolline Aucoin, at the Plattenville church in April 1857; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born near Plattenville, included Hélène Justine in September 1864; Marie Gracieuse in January 1867; Edgar Firmin in October 1870; ...  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted four slaves--two males and two females, all black, ages 30 to 1--on Maximilien Aucoin's farm in the parish's Fourth Ward. 

Léandre's third son Alexandre Élie, by first wife Cécile Ozelet, may have married fellow Acadian Joséphine Aureline Dantin, place and date unrecorded.  They evidently settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Assumption and Lafourche parishes.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Aurelien in March 1852; Victoria Georgina in July 1854; Marie Odelia Ofelia in July 1857; Ofilia Ovelia in July 1858; Nilson Séverin in January 1860; Cécilia Malvina in April 1863; Léo Émile in February 1866; ...  None of Alexandre's children married by 1870. 

Léandre's fourth son Jean Baptiste Marcellin, by first wife Cécile Ozelet, married Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadian Léandre Boudreaux and his Creole wife Baselisse Rousseau, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1857.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie, perhaps theirs, in late 1856 but died at age 3 months in January 1857; Amadéo Elphége born in June 1861; Eugénie Alice in August 1864; Eulalie Élodie in December 1866; Albert Léo Jean in April 1869; ...  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted five slaves--three males and two females, all black, ranging in age from 50 to 21--on Jn. Bte. Aucoin's farm in the parish's Fourth Ward; this could have been Jean Baptiste.  Or he may have been the J. B. Aucoin who held only a single slave--a 37-year-old black male--in the same ward. 

Léandre's fifth and youngest son Firmin, by first wife Cécile Ozelet, married cousin Roséma, daughter of fellow Acadians Rosémond Aucoin and Clarisse Gautreaux, at the Labadieville church in April 1861.

Jean Charles's fifth and youngest son Jean Charles, fils was age 12 in April 1820 when the Lafourche Interior Parish court named Baptiste Aucoin as his tutor.  Jean Charles, fils, at age 22, married Marie Hélène, daughter of François Le Lorre or Leloret and his Acadian wife Marie Augustine Richard, at the Thibodauxville church in October 1830.  Their children, born on the middle Lafourche, included Marie Séraphine in May 1832; Ulisse or Ulysse Drosin in November 1834; Joseph Arlésime or Onésime, called Onésime, in June 1837; Rosalie Emelina in November 1839; Felonise in December 1841; Marie Melina probably in the early 1840s; and Joseph Franklin in November 1844--seven children, four daughters and three sons, between 1832 and 1844.  Jean Charles, fils died in Lafourche Parish in November 1855, age 47 (the recording priest said 48).  Daughters Marie Melina, ... married into the Mire and Guillot families by 1870.  Two of Jean Charles, fils's sons also married by then, one before and the other after his war service. 

Oldest son Ulysse married Marie Odilia, called Odilia, daughter of fellow Acadian Evariste Mire and his Creole wife Azeline Morvant, at the Thibodaux church in May 1861.  Their children, born on the middle Lafourche, included Marie Mertilia in March 1862; and Dauphine in March 1864.  During the war, Ulysse served with younger brother Onésime in Company F of the Lafourche Regiment Militia.  Ulysse was captured at the Battle of Labadieville in October 1862, paroled by the Federals, and sent home.  His Confederate service record says nothing of his taking the oath of allegiance to the United States government either during or at the end of the war.  Ulysse, called Euliste by the recording parish clerk, remarried to Estelina, daughter of fellow Acadians Isidore Hortère Guillot and Euphrosine Guillot and widow, perhaps, of Edward Jenkins, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in October 1870; the marriage was recorded also in Lafourche Parish.  ...

During the war, Jean Charles, fils's second son Onésime served with older brother Ulysse in Company F of the Lafourche Regiment Militia.  He was captured in Lafourche Parish in November1862, took the oath of allegiance to the United States government, and went home.  Onésime married Adèle, another daughter of Isidore Hortere Guillot and Euphrosine Guillot, at the Thibodaux church in February 1864. 

Michel le jeune's fourth son Grégoire-Alexis followed his family to New Orleans and Bayou des Écores, where he married cousin Marguerite-Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Aucoin and Geneviève Thériot, in February 1789.  Marguerite-Geneviève, a native of Plouër-sur-Rance south of St.-Énogat, also had come to Louisiana aboard La Ville d'Archangel.  After the New Feliciana District census of 1793, in which he, his wife, and "five young male children" were counted, Grégoire and Marguerite followed his widowed mother and other Acadians to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Their children, born on the river and the Lafourche, included Augustin at Bayou des Écores in December 1789; Simon-Michel baptized at Pointe Coupée, age unrecorded, in May 1792; Louis-Grégoire born in January 1793 but died at Assumption, age 7 years and 9 months, in November 1800; Isidore-Joseph, called Joseph, born at Assumption in August 1795; Leufroi in March 1798; Florence in December 1799; Grégoire, fils dit Grig in February 1802; Rosémond in December 1803; Léonore Phiosine, also called Euphrosine, in March 1806; Félonise, also called Félonise Henrietta, in May 1808; and Marie in c1815--11 children, seven sons and four daughters, between 1789 and 1815.  Grégoire died in Assumption Parish in April 1844, age 76 (the recording priest said 77).  His widow Marguerite died there in October 1846, age 78.  Daughters Florence, Euphrosine, Félonise Henrietta, and Marie married into the Blanchard, Landry, Gautreaux, and Arceneaux families.  Grégoire's six remaining sons also married and settled on the Lafourche. 

Oldest son Augustin followed his family to upper Bayou Lafourche.  He returned to the area of his birth when he came of age and lived along Bayou Sarah, near St. Francisville, in the Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge, but he did not remain.  He married Henriette, daughter of fellow Acadians François Marie Gautreaux and Félicité Hébert, at the Plattenville church in March 1810; the priest who recorded the marriage called him "Augustin of the Felicianas."  Their chilidren, born on the upper Lafourche, included Angèl died a day after his birth in April 1814; Augustin, fils born in April 1815; Marcellin Jean Pierre in May 1817 but died at 11 months in May 1818; Batilde Henriette born in May 1819; Marie Félicissime in August 1821; Marie Rose in February 1824; Eusilien François in July 1826; and Joseph François, also called Joseph A., in January 1829--eight children, five sons and three daughters, between 1814 and 1829.  Augustin, père died in Assumption Parish in June 1829, age 39.  None of his daughters married by 1870, if they married at all.  His three remaining sons did marry by then.  Two of his grandsons from his youngest son Joseph A., brothers Adolph and Kleber, became prominent citizens of Donaldsonville, Ascension Parish, in the early twentieth century. 

Second son Augustin, fils married Estelle Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Landry and Rosalie Landry, at the Plattenville church in January 1838.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Honosiphore or Onésiphore Auguste in April 1839; a son, name unrecorded, died at age 8 months (the recording priest said 8 years) in July 1841; Étienne Augustin born in February 1844; Alexis Siméon Félix in February 1846; Adolphine Odilia in May 1848; Marie Avelina in January 1851; Henrietta in July 1853; Clete Hubert Maximin in December 1855; Aimée Philomène in September 1860; and Estelle Félicité Alice in February 1861--10 children, five sons and five daughters, between 1839 and 1861.  In September 1850, federal census takers in Assumption Parish counted four slaves--all male, all black, ages 44 to 22--on Auguste Aucoin's farm in the parish's Second Congressional District; this probably was Augustin, fils.  None of Augustin, fils's daughters married by 1870, but two of his sons did. 

Oldest son Onésiphore Auguste married Célima, daughter of fellow Acadian Hubert Arceneaux and his Creole wife Irma Rodrique, at the Labadieville church in February 1859.  Their son Arma Demofort was born near Labadieville in January 1861.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted three slaves--a male and two females, all black, ages 28, 25, and 15, living in one house--on Oneziphor Aucoin's farm in the parish's Third Ward; this could have been Onésiphore Auguste. 

Augustin, fils's third son Étienne Augustin married cousin Victorine, daughter of fellow Acadians Théodule Arceneaux and Azélie Aucoin, at the Labadieville church in September 1865; they had to secure a dispensation for consanguinity in order to marry, but the marriage record does not reveal the degree of consanguinity between them.  Their children, born near Labadieville, included Jean Albert in December 1867; twins Aurelia Alicida and Aurelie Alcidie, evidently two daughters, in December 1869; ...  Étienne died near Labadieville in September 1870, age 26. 

Augustin, père's fourth son Eusilien François married Louisa, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Guillot and Cléonise Hébert, at the Plattenville church in January 1852.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Coralie Amanda in December 1852; Augustin Euzilien in February 1854; Evariste Vincent Arthur in July 1855; Melchiora Odalie Félisme in December 1856; Saturnin Guilmore Colon in November 1859; Antoinette Louisa Amélia in January 1862; Marie Velia Joséphine in November 1864; Clet Ulger Sabba in December 1866 but died the following March; Arthur Aubin Evariste born in March 1868; ...  None of Eusilien's children married by 1870. 

Augustin, père's fifth and youngest son Joseph A. married Pamela, daughter of fellow Acadians Laurent Giroir and Anne Hébert, at the Plattenville church in February 1849.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Aurelia Tholemie in December 1849; Marie Julie in December 1850 but, called Judith, died at age 10 months in September 1851; Numa born in April 1852; Pierre Willibrodus Auzémé in June 1855; Clebert or Kleber Joseph in November 1857; Auzelien Albert in February 1860, Adolphe Laurent Arthur in September 1862; Ema Lea Marguerite in July 1865 but, called Ema, died the following October; Pierre Anatole born in January 1867; ...  In August 1860, the census taker in Assumption Parish counted six slaves--two males and four females, all black, ranging in age from 38 to 1--on Jos. A. Aucoin's farm in the parish's Ninth Ward along Bayou Lafourche.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Grégoire Alexis's second son Simon Michel followed his family to upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marie Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Mathurin Trahan and Marie Blanchard, at the Plattenville church in May 1812.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Simon, fils in c1813 but died at age 4 in February 1817; Joseph Dominique born in August 1814 but, called Joseph, died near Paincourtville, age 44 (the recording priest said 43), in September 1858; Augustin Gédéon born in April 1816 but died at age 19 months in December 1817; Marie Émeline born in July 1818 but died at age 3 in June 1821; Jean Baptiste Adrien, called Adrien, born in July 1820; Célestine Victorine or Victorine Célestine in July 1822; Marcel Grégoire in November 1822[sic]; Eulalie Melissaire Eurasie in April 1827 but, called Eurasie, may have died near Paincourtville, age 37, in May 1864; Gédéon Germain born in July 1829; and Marie Aurelie Donatille, called Aurelie, in October 1831--10 children, six sons and four daughters, between 1813 and 1831.  Simon, père died near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in August 1847, age 56.  Daughters Victorine Célestine and Aurelie married into the Savoie and Crochet families.  Three of his sons also married and settled on the Lafourche. 

Fourth son Adrien married cousin Rosalie or Rosaline, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexis Aucoin and Rosalie Thériot, at the Plattenville church in January 1841.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche and near Pierre Part, on the shore of Lake Verret, included Octave Joseph in December 1842; Alexis Maximin, called Maximin, in May 1846; Eléonore Élisse, called Élisse, near Paincourtville in December 1848; Marie Lodie or Élodie, called Élodie, in December 1850; and Rosalie Octavie, called Octavie, in January 1853--five children, two sons and three daughters, between 1842 and 1853.  Evidently none of Adrien's daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did. 

Second son Maximin married Angélique, daughter of fellow Acadians Sylvanie Templet and Melisa Thériot, at the Pierre Part church, Assumption Parish, in August 1869.  Daughter Cordilia Amanda was born near Pierre Part in June 1870; ...

Simon Michel's fifth son Marcel Grégoire, in his early 20s, married Mathilde Emérante, teenage daughter of fellow Acadians François Marie Crochet and Eulalie Landry, probably in Assumption Parish in the early 1840s.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Sylvestre Marcellin near Paincourtville in December 1844; Aurelia Marcelline in November 1846; and Claiborne Désiré in January 1849 but, called Joseph Clairbonn, died the following September.  Wife Mathilde died near Paincourtville, age 23, in September 1849.  Marcel, in his early 30s, remarried to fellow Acadian Aurelie or Aureline Templet in Assumption Parish in the early 1850s.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Eugénie in August 1853; Joseph in January 1855; Douradon Clément in September 1857; Maximin Xavier near Pierre Part in July 1859; Joseph Victorin Florilien in March 1861; and Pierre Amadéo in September 1862 but, called Pierre, died at age 4 1/2 (the recording priest said 5) in June 1867.  At age 41, Marcel remarried again--his third marriage--to Adeline, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Daigle and Élise Hébert, at the Plattenville church in September 1864.  Their children, born on the upper bayou, included Camille Lusignan in July 1865; Joseph Émile, perhaps called Émile, in January 1867 but may have died at age 1 1/2 in September 1868; Jean Baptiste Dorilien born in January 1869; ...  Marcel's daughters did not marry by 1870, but one of his sons did. 

Oldest son Sylvestre Marcellin, by first wife Mathilde Crochet, married Camille or Camilla, daughter of fellow Acadians Ursin Guillot and Joséphine Daigle, at the Paincourtville church in February 1869.  Daughter Cécilia Scholastique was born in Assumption Parish in February 1870; ...

During the war, Simon Michel's sixth and youngest son Gédéon Germain served as a corporal in Company B of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Mary Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  In his late 30s, Gédéon, called "Gédéon G. of St. Mary Parish" by the recording parish clerk and Lédéon by the recording priest, married Émilie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Basile Naquin and his Creole wife Adelle Ayo, at the Chacahoula church, Terrebonne Parish, in February 1868.  Their children, born near Chacahoula, included Simon Folcar in March 1869; Adrien Henri in July 1870; ...

Grégoire Alexis's fourth son Isidore Joseph, called Joseph, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Daigle and Marie Dupuy, at the Plattenville church in June 1817.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Joseph Jean Baptiste in November 1818; Marguerite Azélie in November 1820; Marie Florence in November 1822; Euphrosine in June 1825 but died at age 1 in May 1826; Honoré Eusilien, called Eusilien, born in February 1827; Félicien Théodule, called Théodule, in December 1829; François in February 1832 but died a month later; François Arcème or Arsène born in March 1833; Augustin Menery in November 1835; Roseline Victorine in February 1838; Grégoire Théodule Ysidore or Isidore in April 1840; Adrien in June 1842; Azéma Philomena in January 1846; and Marcelite in January 1848--14 children, eight sons and six daughters, between 1818 and 1848.  Daughters ... married into the Arceneaux and Blanchard families by 1870.  Four of Isidore's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Joseph Jean Baptiste married Eléonore dite Léonore, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Barrilleaux and Marcellite Foret, at the Plattenville church in April 1844.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Azéma Donatilde in March 1845; Silvani or Sylvanie Numa in April 1846; Lirode Désiré in December 1851 but, called Désiré, died at age 2 1/2 in May 1854; Victorine Faustine born in September 1853; Onil Pierre Gedot in January 1856; Mathilde Palmire in August 1860; Adrien Philippe in July 1865; ...  Daughter Azéma married into the Landry family by 1870.  None of Joseph Jean Baptiste's sons married by then. 

Isidore Joseph's second son Eusilien married cousin Marie Clarisse, called Clarisse, daughter of fellow Acadians Auguste Blanchard and Marguerite Aucoin, at the Labadieville church in January 1860.  Their children, born near Labadieville, included Joseph Damien in May 1861; François Justilien Louis Amédée in March 1863; ... 

Isidore Joseph's third son Théodule married cousin Aimée, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Aucoin and Baselisse Arceneaux, at the Labadieville church in February 1858.  Their son Alcide Lucas was born near Labadieville in April 1862; ... 

Isidore Joseph's fifth son François Arsène married Uranie, daughter of Valière Barras and Adèle Rousseau, at the Labadieville church in July 1865.  Their son Alexandre Justilien was born near Labadieville in October 1866; ... 

Grégoire Alexis's fifth son Leufroi married Henriette, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Blanchard and Jeanne Giroir, at the Plattenville church in April 1819.  Their children, born on the upper bayou, included Marie Élise in January 1820; and Leufroi Heli in November 1821.  Leufroi remarried to Phelonise, another daughter of François Marie Gautreaux and Félicité Hébert, at the Plattenville church in July 1823.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Simon Jérôme, also called Firmin, in September 1824 but died at age 2 months the following December; François Rosémond died at age 7 weeks in April 1826; Édouard Pierre born in December 1827; Adolphe in August 1829; Felonise Marie in July 1832; Adrien Augustin in March 1834; Honoré Luselien or Eusilien le jeune in March 1836; Célestine Marie in December 1840; Octave François in August 1843; and Mérante Carmélite in March 1845--a dozen children, four daughters and eight sons, by two wives, between 1820 and 1845.  Leufroi's succession was filed at the Franklin courthouse, St. Mary Parish, on lower Bayou Teche, in June 1848, so he may have owned property there; he would have been age 50 at the time; one wonders if the succession was post-mortem.  None of his daughters seems to have married by 1870, but one of his sons did. 

Sixth son Adrien Augustin, by second wife Phelonise Gautreaux, married Marie Domitille, daughter of Jean Romain and Marie LeBoeuf, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in April 1859.  They settled near Brashear, now Morgan, City, St. Mary Parish on the lower Atchafalaya.  During the war, Adrien served in Company F of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Mary Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  He survived the war and returned to his family.  His and Marie Domitille's children, born on the lower Atchafalaya, included Adam Onésiphore near Brashear City in April 1863 while his father was serving in the trenches at Vicksburg; Joseph Sylvanie in November 1865 after his father returned from the war; ... 

Grégoire Alexis's sixth son Grégoire, fils dit Grig married cousin Henriette Clarisse, called Clarisse, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Hébert and Anatalie Aucoin, at the Plattenville church in June 1823.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Clarisse Marcellite in June 1824; Henriette Florence in September 1826; Pierre Grégoire, called Grégoire III, in December 1829; Marie Élisabeth in December 1830; Marguerite Mélanie in April 1833; Joseph Vileor, called Vileor or Vilcord, in February 1836; Marie Aséma in February 1838; Anathalie Cereline in April 1840; Uranie in c1842 but died at age 5 in December 1847; Orelia born in May 1843; and Aurilien or Aurelien Ursin in June 1846--11 children, eight daughters and three sons, between 1824 and 1846.  Grégoire, fils died in Assumption Parish in May 1849.  The Plattenville priest who recorded the burial said that Grégoire died at "age 44 years."  He was 47.  Daughters ... married into the Barras, Baudoin, Cancienne, Hébert, and Landry families by 1870.  Grigs's two older sons also married by then.  One of them moved to the southwestern prairies after the war, and the other died in Confederate service. 

Oldest son Grégoire III married Delphine, daughter of Auguste Cancienne and his Acadian wife Élise Rosalie Blanchard, at the Plattenville church in September 1851.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche and the western prairies, included Léon Numa in November 1852; Aimée Zulma Aurelia in September 1855; Grégoire Clebert in October 1856; Hélène Zulmée in August 1860; Marie Adolphine in September 1865; Joseph Demas near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in November 1870; ...  None of Grégoire III's children married by 1870. 

Grig's second son Vileor married Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Urbain Daigle and Doralise Boudreaux, at the Labadieville church in May 1859.  Their son Joseph Villier was born near Labadieville in October 1860.  During the war, Vileor, called Vilcord in Confederate records, was one of the dozens of Assumption Parish men conscripted into the 1st Regiment Louisiana Heavy Artillery and sent to Vicksburg, Mississippi, in October 1862.  He served in Company B and died probably of disease in the city hospital at Vicksburg the following January or February, age 27. 

Grégoire Alexis's seventh and youngest son Rosémond married Clara or Clarisse, yet another daughter of François Marie Gautreaux and Félicité Hébert, at the Plattenville church in February 1827.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Jules Adélaine in December 1828; Domitille in March 1831 but died at age 12 1/2 in November 1843; Marie Clarisse born in July 1833; Therence or Terence Zephyr in February 1836; Célestine Victorine Amelie Philomène in July 1838 but, called Émelie, died at age 5 1/2 (the recording priest said 4) in November 1843; and Rose Aima born in October 1841--six children, two sons and four daughters, between 1828 and 1841.  Rosémond died in Assumption Parish in March 1844, age 40.  His daughters married into the Aucoin and Blanchard families by 1870.  One of his sons also married by then. 

Older son Jules married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Simonet Comeaux and Eulalie Gaudet, at the Plattenville church in March 1853.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Jules Arthur in January 1854 but, called Arthur, died at age 6 1/2 in November 1860; and Alcée Arthur Thibaut born in July 1855.  Jules, père died in Assumption Parish in November 1855, age 26 (the recording priest said 27).  His remaining son did not marry by 1870. 

Michel le jeune's fifth son Michel-Pierre followed his family to New Orleans, Bayou des Écores, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marguerite-Perrine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Bourg and Anne Daigle, in May 1800.  Marguerite-Perrine, a native of La Gravelle near Pleudihen-sur-Rance, south of St.-Malo, also had come to Louisiana aboard La Ville d'Archangel.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Hubert-Onésime in August 1801; Marie in the early 1800s; Marguerite in September 1804; Basilise in January 1806; Eugénie Carmélite in November 1807; Michel Suliac in September 1809; and Hortense Cléonise in July 1811 but died at age 1 in September 1812--six children, two sons and four daughters, between 1801 and 1811.  Daughters Marie, Basilise, and Marguerite married into Dubois, Arceneaux, and Delaune families.  Michel Pierre's two sons also married and settled on the upper Lafourche. 

Older son Hubert Onésime married cousin Élisabeth or Élise, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Daigle and Rosalie Blanchard, at the Thibodauxville church in February 1831.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Guillaume Olysime or Onésime, called Onésime, in Assumption Parish in January 1832 but died at age 13 months in May 1833; Eugénie Adeline born in September 1833; Élisabeth dite Élise in May 1836; Marie Urenie or Uranie, called Euranie, in January 1838; Marie Rosalie in May 1840; Aimée Octavie, called Octavie, in December 1842; Henriette Julie in January 1845; and Élodie Rosalie in September 1847--eight children, a son and seven daughters, between 1832 and 1847.  Hubert, called Ouvert, died in Assumption Parish in January 1850, age 48.  Daughters Élise, Euranie, and Octavie married into the Bourg and LeBlanc families, including two Bourg brothers, by 1870.  Hubert's only son did not survive childhoold, so his line of the family, except for its blood, likely died with him. 

Michel Pierre's younger son Michel Suliac married Basilisse, Rosalie, or Arselie, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Arceneaux and Marie Aimée Blanchard, at the Plattenville church in February 1835.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Michel Honoré Théodule in February 1836 but, called Honoré, died at age 12 in October 1848; Joseph born in December 1837; Yrène or Irène Aimée, called Aimée, in September 1839; Marie Félicia in November 1841; Arcène or Arsène Vincent in April 1843; Louis Éloi, called Éloi, in March 1845; Alise Désirée October 1849; André Ulysse in June 1852; and Émile Augustin in July 1854--nine children, six sons and three daughters, between 1836 and 1854.  Michel died in Assumption Parish in May 1855, age 45.  Daughter Aimée married an Aucoin cousin by 1870.  One of Michel's sons also married by then. 

 Fourth son Éloi married first cousin Azéma, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Hébert and Alexandrine Arceneaux, at the Plattenville church in August 1869; Azéma's mother was Éloi's maternal aunt, so they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.

Michel le jeune's sixth son Pierre-Paul followed his family to New Orleans, Bayou des Écores, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Rosalie-Charlotte, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Gautreaux and Madeleine Melançon, in October 1799.  Rosalie, a native of Belle-Île-en-Mer, France, had come to Louisiana aboard the last of the Seven Ships.  They settled at Assumption.  Their children, born there, included Joseph-Marie in September 1800; Eugène in January 1802 but died at age 31 (the recording priest said 32) in June 1833; Léocadie Marguerite born in May 1804; Rosalie or Rose Euphrosine in August 1806; Pierre Michel in July 1808 but died at age 4 in October 1812; François born in November 1810; Lubin Jean Pierre in September 1813; and Isidore Théodule or Théodule Isidore, in January 1817--eight children, six sons and two daughters, between 1800 and 1817.  Pierre Paul died in Assumption Parish in April 1818, age 47.  Daughters Léocadie Marguerite and Rosalie married into the Blanchard, Delaune, and Bourg families.  Four of Pierre Paul's remaining sons also married and settled on the upper Lafourche, but one of the lines may not have endured. 

Oldest son Joseph Marie married cousin Rosalie Carmélite or Carmélite Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians François Aucoin and Rosalie Landry, at the Plattenville church in August 1822.  Their son Julien Joseph was born in Assumption Parish in January 1824.  Joseph Marie died in Assumption Parish in March 1825, age 25.  His son did not marry by 1870, if he married at all. 

Pierre Paul's fourth son François married Marie Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Boudreaux and Marie Melanie Gautreaux, at the Plattenville church in October 1838.  They settled at Bayou L'ours.  Their children, born there, included Marie Françoise in October 1839; Célestine Marceline in March 1842 but, called Célestine, died at age 9 1/2 (the recording priest said 10) in September 1851; Julie Aurela born in April 1848; and Eugène Désiré Théodule in February 1845--four children, three daughters and a son, between 1839 and 1845.  Daughter ... married a Gautreaux cousin by 1870.  François's son did not marry by then. 

Pierre Paul's fifth son Lubin Jean Pierre married Anne Marie, called Marie and Annette, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Doiron and Marguerite Dugas, at the Plattenville church in July 1833.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Arsène Pierre in June 1834; Rose Aimée Marie in November 1836; Evellina Amellina dite Melina in April 1838[sic]; Françoise in October 1838 [sic, probably 1839] but died at age 8 in November 1847; Eulalie born in September 1842; Mathilde Zulmira in April 1844; and Victorine Odilia in February 1847--seven children, a son and six daughters, between 1834 and 1847.  Lubin died in Assumption Parish in August 1860.  The Plattenville priest who recorded the burial said that Lubin died at "age 48 years."  He was 46.  Daughters Melina, Victorine, Mathilde, and Eulalie married into the Barras, Bergeron, Hébert, and Bolot families by 1870.  Lubin's son did not marry by then. 

Pierre Paul's sixth and youngest son Isidore Théodule or Théodore Isidore married Madeleine Louise Mélanie or Mélanie Louise, daughter of Élie Friou and his Acadian wife Marguerite Bourg, at the Plattenville church in April 1841.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Carmélite Angelina in August 1842; Jean Théodore in February 1844; Joseph Silvanie or Sylvanie in August 1845; Marie Lucie in June 1848; and Zoé Élodie in August 1850--five children, three daughters and two sons, between 1842 and 1850.  None of Isidore Théodule's children married by 1870. 

Michel le jeune's seventh son François-Étienne followed his family to New Orleans, Bayou des Écores, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married cousin Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Comeaux and Marguerite Aucoin and widow of François Bourg, in June 1800.  Madeleine, a native of St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo, also had come to Louisiana aboard La Ville d'Archangel.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Euchariste- or Cariste-Antoine, also called Calixte, in December 1800; and Hélène in July 1802.  Francois Étienne, called Étienne Francois by the priest who recorded his burial, died in Assumption Parish in October 1837, age 64.  His daughter did not marry, but his son did and settled on the upper Lafourche.

Only son Euchariste, Calice, Calixe, or Cariste Antoine married Louise Ludivine, also called Éloise or Louise Divine, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexis Thomas Hébert and Marie Pélagie Thibodeaux, at the Plattenville church in February 1825.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Joseph Euchariste in September 1828; Marie Élise in July 1830; Léandre Alexis in September 1831; Pierre Vileor in December 1832; Simon Justinien in February 1835; Ameline Augustine in January 1837 but, called Elina, may have died near Paincourtville, age 18 (the recording priest said 17), in February 1855; Adrien Valmon born in June 1840; Joséphine Marie in October 1842; François Félicien, called Félicien, in January 1845; and Henry Émile in July 1851--10 children, seven sons and three daughters, between 1828 and 1851.  Euchariste died near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in May 1868, age 67.  Daughters Marie, ... married into the Dupuy and Simoneaux families by 1870.  Three of Cariste's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Joseph Euchariste married Marie, daughter of Jean St. Germain and his Acadian wife Azélie Savoie, at the Paincourtville church in May 1857.

Euchariste's third son Pierre Vileor married cousin Rosalie, daughter of Rosémond Simoneaux and his Acadian wife Odile Hébert, at the Paincourtville church in June 1857.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Pierre Paul Denis in June 1858; Léonard Avalse in March 1861 but, called Léonard, died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 2) in December 1862; Séverin Vileore born in November 1862; Marie Séverine in February 1865; Joseph Aristide in August 1866; Oscar in October 1868; ... 

Euchariste's sixth son Félicien married Clémentine, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Landry and his Creole wife Euphrosine Malbrough and widow of Joseph Blanchard, at the Paincourtville church in July 1867.  She evidently gave him no children.  Félicien remarried to Agathe or Agatha, daughter of fellow Acadian Dorville Robichaux and his Creole wife Honorine Simoneaux, at the Paincourtville church in October 1869.  Daughter Félicia Clémentine Honorine was born near Paincourtville in August 1870; ...

Michel le jeune's eighth and youngest son Constance- or Constant-Jean-Baptiste crossed with his family to Louisiana.  If he survived the rigors of the crossing (15 passengers aboard La Ville d'Archangel died in the hospital at Algiers, across from New Orleans, soon after reaching the city), Constant would have followed his family to Bayou des Écores.  He may have been his widowed mother's "one young male child" in the New Feliciana census of 1793, when he would have been age 10 or 11, but fails to appear in the Valenzuela District census of December 1795 on the upper Lafourche with the rest of his family.  He would have been age 13 at the time, and there is no record of his having married, so he likely died young, perhaps soon after his family reached Bayou Lafourche. 

Simon (c1732-1790s?) à ? à Martin Aucoin

Simon Aucoin, born probably at Minas in c1732, was exiled to Virginia in 1755 and sent on to England in 1756.  In his early 30s, he married Marie-Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Thériot and Françoise Landry, in England in c1758.  Marie-Geneviève gave him a daughter there, Perpétué, born in October 1759.  In the spring of 1763, the family was repatriated to St.-Malo, France, aboard the transport Dorothée.  They settled at Plouër-sur-Rance on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo, where Marie-Geneviève gave him more daughters:  Marie-Madeleine born in April 1764 but died at nearby du Pres, age 2, in March 1766; Marie-Élisabeth born in May 1766; Marguerite-Geneviève in July 1768; Anne-Olive in October 1771; and Rose-Félicité in November 1773--five children, all daughters, between 1759 and 1773, in England and France.  As the birth of their children reveal, Michel and Élisabeth did not follow other exiles in the port cities to Poitou in 1773, nor did they join other exiles in the lower Loire port of Nantes later in the decade.  Simon, Marie-Geneviève, and four of their daughters, still unmarried, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana directly from St.-Malo in 1785 and, from New Orleans, followed their fellow passengers to Bayou des Écores.  Simon and Marie-Geneviève had no more children in the Spanish colony.  One wonders if youngest daughter Rose-Félicité survived the crossing, or if Simon himself did.  If so, he died by July 1799, when his wife was called a widow in her burial record at Assumption on upper Bayou Lafourche, a hint that if Simon survived the crossing and the family's time at Bayou des Écores, he took his family to the upper Lafourche in the late 1780s or early 1790s.  Older daughters Perpétué, Marguerite-Geneviève, and Anne-Oliver married into the Richard, Aucoin, and Landry families on the river and on upper Bayou Lafourche, so the blood of this family line endured in the Bayou State. 

Charles (c1735-?) à Martin Aucoin

Charles, younger son of Pierre Aucoin by his second wife Catherine Comeau, born at Minas in c1723, married Madeleine, daughter of Pierre Trahan and Jeanne Daigre of Pigiguit, at Rivière-aux-Canards in November 1753.  The family, which now included newborn son Pierre le jeune, was deported to Virginia in the fall of 1755, sent on to England the following spring, repatriated to St.-Malo, France, aboard the transport Dorothée in May 1763, and settled at Plouër-sur-Rance on the west side of the river south of the Breton port.  Evidently Pierre le jeune remained their only child.  They did not go to Poitou in 1773, nor did they join other exiles at Nantes later in the decade.  Charles, Madeleine, Pierre le jeune, and two kinswomen emigrated to Louisiana from St.-Malo in 1785 and followed their fellow passengers to Bayou des Écores.  One wonders if Charles died there, and, if so, when. 

Only son Pierre le jeune followed his family to Virginia, England, Plouër-sur-Rance, and New Orleans, where, at age 30, he married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Pierre Hébert and his second wife Susanne Pitre, in January 1786, soon after they reached the Spanish colony with his parents.  Marie-Josèphe was a native of Ploubalay north of Plouër.  From New Orleans, they may have followed their families to Bayou des Écores, where Marie-Josèphe may have died from the rigors of childbirth.  If Pierre le jeune went to Bayou des Écores, he did not remain.  He remarried to Marie-Cécile, daughter of fellow Acadians Claude Guidry and his second wife Anne Moïse, at San Gabriel below Baton Rouge in October 1788.  She gave him two sons there:  François born in October 1789; and Pierre-Élie, called Élie, in February 1791.  Pierre le jeune died at San Gabriel in August 1792, age 37.  Both of his sons married and settled in what became West Baton Rouge Parish. 

Older son François, by second wife Marie Cécile Guidry, married Marie Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Richard and Cécile Dupuis and widow of Bernard Comeaux, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in January 1818.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Marie Euphémie in November 1818 but, called Euphémie, died at age 15 1/2 in February 1834; Trasimond François born in March 1821; Sylvanie or Sylvain in c1822; François Philosin in October 1823; Valsentin in March 1825 but, called Valentin, died at age 9 1/2 in June 1834; Pierre Telesphore, called Telesphore, born in March 1829; an infant son, name unrecorded, died at birth in November 1831; Marie Amelia born in June 1833; and Valmond in August 1835--nine children, two daughters and seven sons, between 1818 and 1835.  François, père died near St. Gabriel in January 1844.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not mention a wife or include any parents' names, said that François was age 50 he died.  He was 54.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Iberville Parish counted a single slave--a 52-year-old black female--on Widow F. Aucoin's farm; this may have been Francois's widow, Marie Rose Richard.  Her and François's daughter did not marry by 1870, but four of their sons did.  They settled in West Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge, and Iberville parishes, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Trasimond married Solidaine or Solidenne, daughter of fellow Acadians Maximilien LeBlanc and Hélène Allain, at the St. Gabriel church in October 1844.  They settled near St. Gabriel.  Their children, born there, included Philippe Alcide in August 1845 but, called Alcide, died at age 10 months in June 1846; Joseph Alcé born in December 1847; and Déozan in June 1851.  Trasimond remarried to Marie Bardy, daughter of Pierre Beronne or Peyronne and Marie Ambloy of Savoie, France, at the St. Gabriel church in April 1856.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Arthur in July 1857; and Marie Ernestine in December 1858--five children, four sons and a daughter, by two wives, between 1845 and 1858.  None of Trasimond's children married by 1870. 

François's second son Sylvanie, also called Sylvain, married Émilie, daughter of Félix Bernard du Montier, fils and Joséphine Seguin, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in April 1852.  Their children, born on the river, included François Pierre near Brusly in July 1853 but, called Franklin Pierce, died near Baton Rouge at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 2) in February 1855; J. B. Rodolphe born near Baton Rouge in April 1856 but, called Jean Baptiste Rodolphe, died there at age 3 in June 1859; Marie Olivia born near  Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, in June 1859; Marie Joséphine near St. Gabriel in December 1861; Marie Elmire in May 1864; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Sylvanie served in Company A of the 3rd Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Iberville Parish, which fought in Missouri, Arkansas, and Mississippi.  Sylvanie died in Iberville Parish in January 1868, age 46.  One wonders if his early death was a result of his war service.  None of his children married by 1870. 

François's fifth son Pierre Télésphore, called Télésphore, married cousin Élodie or Élodia, daughter of fellow Acadians Valentin Hébert and Euphrosine Labauve, at the Brusly church in February 1853; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  They settled near Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, on the west bank of the river.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Ulysses in October 1854; and Marie Regina in April 1859.  During the war, Télésphore served in Company A of the 3rd Regiment Louisiana Infantry with his brother Sylvanie.  Did he survive the war and return to his family?  Neither of his children married by 1870. 

François's seventh and youngest son Valmond married Libbie Stockwell, place and date unrecorded.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included James Lee in July 1865; William Randolph in January 1867; ....

Pierre le jeune's younger son Pierre Élie, called Élie, from second wife Marie Cécile Guidry, married Martine, daughter of fellow Acadians Honoré Breaux and Élisabeth LeBlanc and widow of Jean Charles Hébert, at the St. Gabriel church in October 1819.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Jean Baptiste Rosémond in September 1820; Élisabeth Uranie, called Uranie, in January 1822 but died at age 14 1/2 in December 1837; Marie Ferasine born in August 1824 but died the following December; and Madeleine Adrienne born in July 1826--four children, a son and three daughters, between 1820 and 1826.  Élie died in December 1835.  The St. Gabriel priest who recorded the burial said that Élie was age 42 when he died.  He was 44.  Remaining daughter Madeleine Adrienne married into the Betancourt family.  Élie's son also married, settled in West Baton Rouge Parish, and also died young. 

Only son Jean Baptiste Rosémond married Ernestine, daughter of fellow Acadian Louis Robichaux and his Creole wife Modeste Prospere of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in October 1843.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born near Brusly, included Pierre Baltasar n February 1848; Marie Amelia in June 1849; Déozan in June 1851; twins Élisabeth Aloysia and Jean Baptiste Rosémond, fils in November 1853, but Jean Baptiste Rosemond, fils died eight days after his birth; Ernestine Philomène born in March 1856; and Élie Benjamin in September 1857--seven children, four sons and three daughters, including a set of twins, between 1848 and 1857.  Jean Baptiste Rosémond died near Brusly in October 1858.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Rosémond, as he called him, died at "age 32 years."  He was 38.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Alexandre (c1740-1780s) à Martin Aucoin

Alexandre, second son of Charles Aucoin and Anne-Marie Dupuis and brother of Olivier and Charles who crossed on La Bergère, born at Grand-Pré in c1740, followed his family to Virginia and England, where he married Rosalie, daughter of Charles Thériot and Françoise Landry, in c1761.  Daughter Geneviève was born in England the following year.  The family was repatriated to St.-Malo, France, aboard the transport Dorothée in May 1763, settled in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer, and at Plouër-sur-Rance on the west bank of the river south of St.-Malo.  Daughter Geneviève died at St.-Servan in December 1763, age 15 months.  Rosalie gave Alexandre many more children at St.-Servan and Plouër:  Marie-Élisabeth born at St.-Servan in May 1764; Marie-Madeleine in March 1766 but died at age 5 at Lannoie near Plouër in March 1771; Jean-Baptiste-Fabien born at St.-Servan in March 1768; twins Françoise-Théotiste and Noël-Alexandre at Lannoie in December 1770, but Noël died there, age 15 months, in May 1772, and Françoise died at St.-Servan, age 11, in February 1779; Perrine-Marie born at La Caillibotais near Plouër in August 1773; Marguerite-Josèphe at St.-Servan in April 1775 but died there the following October; Marie-Jeanne born in March 1777; Mathurin in c1781; and Marguerite-Josèphe in October 1783 but died at age 1 1/2 in May 1785--11 children, eight daughters and three sons, between 1762 and 1783, in England and France.  As the birth dates of their children reveal, Michel and Élisabeth did not follow other exiles in the port cities to Poitou in 1773, nor did they join other exiles in the lower Loire port of Nantes later in the decade.  In 1785, Alexandre, Rosalie, and three of their children--Marie-Élisabeth and Marie-Jeanne, and Mathurin--emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from St.-Malo.  Oldest son Jean-Baptiste-Fabrien and fifth daughter Perrine-Marie, who would have been ages 17 and 12 that year, if they were still living (unlikely), chose to remain in the mother country.  From New Orleans, Alexandre and his family followed their fellow passengers to Bayou des Écores.  Alexandre died by January 1788, when his wife remarried at nearby Baton Rouge.  Daughters Marie-Élisabeth and Marie-Jeanne married into the Raoul and Bourg families on the river, and one of them moved on to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Son Mathurin was age 4 when he came to the Spanish colony.  If he survived the crossing from France, he did not marry, so only the blood of this family line endured in the Bayou State. 

Joseph le jeune (c1744-1790s?) à Alexis à Martin Aucoin

Joseph le jeune, oldest son of Alexis Aucoin, fils and Hélène Blanchard, brother of Fabien of La Bergère and Mathurin-Jean of L'Amitié and nephew of Joseph l'aîné of La Ville d'Archangel, was born at Cobeguit in c1744.  He escaped with his family to Île St.-Jean in 1755 or 1756, followed them to St.-Malo, France, and settled with his widowed mother at Ploubalay on the west bank of the river southwest of St.-Malo and at St.-Coulomb in the countryside northeast of the port.  Joseph le jeune married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Hébert and Marie-Claire Dugas, at Ploubalay in March 1764.  Marie-Josèphe gave Joseph le jeune a large family at nearby Tréméreuc and in other villages near Ploubalay:  Alexis-Joseph born in April 1765; Pierre-Jean at nearby La Croix in May 1766; Charles-Étienne at Tréméreuc in October 1767 but died at age 10 in November 1777; Fabien-Isaac born in May 1769; Marie-Madeleine-Julienne in September 1770 but died at age 7 in November 1777 three days before brother Charles-Étienne died; Mathurin-Jean born in April 1772; Joseph-Marie in April 1775; Anne-Marguerite in December 1776 but died at age 11 months in November 1777; Malo-Jean born in February 1778; and Malo-Dieutonne at Villou in March 1780 but died at age 1 in May 1781.  Marie-Josèphe died at Villou near Tréméreuc in June 1781, age about 37.  As the birth dates of his children reveal, Joseph le jeune did not take his family to Poitou in 1773, nor did they join hundreds of other Acadians exiles in the lower Loire port of Nantes later in the decade.  He and four of his sons emigrated to Louisiana directly from St.-Malo.  Second son Pierre-Jean, who would have been age 19 in 1785, if he were still living, did not follow his family to the Spanish colony.  Seventh son Malo-Jean, who also did not go to Louisiana, would have been age 7 in 1785, so he probably had died young.  From New Orleans, Joseph le jeune and his sons followed their fellow passengers to Bayou des Écores.  At age 44, Joseph le jeune remarried to cousin Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Aucoin and Marguerite Thériot, probably at Bayou des Écores in May 1788.  Marie gave him more children there:  Germain-Jacques born in December 1788; and Jean-Baptiste baptized by a Pointe Coupée priest, age unrecorded, in May 1792--a dozen children, 10 sons and two daughters, by two wives, between 1765 and 1792, in France and Louisiana.  Joseph le jeune may have died at Bayou des Écores in the 1790s.  Four of his sons created their own families on upper Bayou Lafourche, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Alexis-Joseph, by first wife Marie-Josèphe Hébert, followed his widowed father and brothers to New Orleans, where he married Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Henry and his second wife Anne Thibodeau, at New Orleans in January 1786 soon after they reached Louisiana on the same vessel.  Françoise was a native of Pleurtuit near Tréméreuc.  One wonders if they followed his family to Bayou des Écores or went straight to Bayou Lafourche, where Françoise gave him two daughters:  Marie-Françoise born in October 1794; and Rosalie-Josèphe baptized at Assumption, age unrecorded, in April 1797.  At age 34, Alexis remarried to Anne-Marguerite dite Annette, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Dugas and Anastasie Barrilleaux, on the upper Lafourche in January 1799.  Marguerite, a native of St.-Similien Parish, Nantes, had come to Louisiana from France aboard an earlier ship.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Anne-Victoire or Victoire-Anastasie in December 1799; Alexis-Célestin, called Célestin, in May 1801; another Marie-Françoise, called Françoise, in September 1803 but died at age 19 (the recording priest said 20) in June 1823; Jean Baptiste le jeune born in July 1805; Théotiste Rosalie in July 1807; Léon in May 1811; Basile Joseph or Joseph Basile in December 1812 but died Assumption Parish, age 24, in 1836; Ursin born in c1814; Joseph Hermogène, also called Mathurin, in April 1817; and Adeline Clémentine in July 1819--12 children, six daughters and six sons, by two wives, between 1794 and 1819.  Alexis died in Lafourche Interior Parish in March 1826, age 61.  His succession inventory was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse the following month.  It listed his second wife and his surviving children, from both wives, including Ursin, age 12; Adeline, age 7; Rosalie and her husband; Victoire and her husband; Célestin, no age given (he was 25 and unmarried); Jean Baptiste, age 20; Mathurin, no age given (he was 9); Basile, age 4; Théotiste, age 18; and Léon, age 15.  Daughters Marie Françoise, Rosalie, Victoire, Théotiste, and Adeline married into the Fremin, Aucoin, LeBoeuf, Dupré, and Arcement families, one of them, Marie Françoise, twice, and two of them, Victoire and Théotiste, to Dupré brothers.  Two of Alexis's sons also married, but only one of the lines endured, in Terrebonne Parish. 

Oldest son Alexis Célestin, called Célestin, from second wife Anne Marguerite Dugas, married Constance, daughter of fellow Acadians Francois Thibodeaux and Brigitte Guénard and widow of Jean Boudeloche, at the Thibodaux church in February 1841.  One wonders if he and his wife had any children. 

Alexis Joseph's second Jean Baptiste le jeune, by second wife Anne Marguerite Dugas, died in Lafourche Interior Parish in July 1857, age 52.  He may not have married.   

Alexis Joseph's third son Léon, by second wife Anne Marguerite Dugas, was still alive in September 1839, when he receipted land to brother-in-law Jérôme Dupré in Terrebonne Parish.  Léon may not have married.  

Alexis Joseph's fifth son Ursin, by second wife Anne Marguerite Dugas, married Rosalie Marianne, called Marianne, Comstock of New Orleans and Terrebonne Parish, at the Thibodaux church  in January 1840; Marianne was baptized the same day she married, so she probably was a Protestant when she met Ursin.  They settled on the lower Lafourche and in Terrebonne Parish and had children years before their marriage.  Their children, born there, included Marie Emélia in September 1836; Ursin Evariste, called Evariste, in April 1839; Azéma Marie in September 1841; Marie Louise in April 1845; Adeline Norbert in Terrebonne Parish in June 1848; and Delphine Augustine in September 1851--six children, five daughters and a son , between 1836 and 1851.  Daughters Marie, ... married into the Trosclair and Benoit families by 1870.  Ursin's son also married. 

Only son Evariste married Marie Aimée, called Aimée and Émelina, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Deroche and his Creole wife Pélagie Baye of Terrebonne Parish, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in April 1859, and sanctified the marriage at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, the following June.  They settled near Montegut at the edge of the coastal marshes.  Their children, born there, included Marie in February 1860; Magdeline Marguerite Louisa in June 1865; Marie Malvina in February 1868; ...

Joseph le jeune's fourth son Fabien-Isaac, by first wife Marie-Josèphe Hébert, followed his widowed father and brothers to New Orleans, Bayou des Écores, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where, at age 29, he married Susanne, 30-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Darois and Madeleine Trahan, in April 1799.  Susanne, a native of Morlaix in Brittany, was Fabien's brother Mathurin's wife's sister and had come to Louisiana from France aboard an earlier vessel.  Her and Fabien's children, born on the Lafourche, included Marguerite-Susanne in February 1800; Fabien-Alexis, called Alexis, in March 1801; Marie Théotiste in January 1804; Marie Justine or Augustine, called Augustine and Justine, in January 1808; and Joseph Eugène in July 1809--five children, three daughters and two sons, between 1800 and 1809.  Fabien Isaac died in Assumption Parish in May 1835, age 67.  Daughters Marie Théotiste, Marguerite, and Augustine married into the Giroir, Theriot, and Dupuis families.  Fabien's two sons also married and settled on the Lafourche. 

Older son Alexis married cousin Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Marie Theriot and Anne Hébert, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in November 1822; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of relationship in order to marry.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Roseline in October 1823; Constant in November 1824; Séraphine Clémence in January 1826; Augustine in October 1827; Joseph Drosin or Drausin, called Drosin, in March 1828; Zéphirin in April 1831 but died at age 9 in November 1840; Napoléon Auguste or Augustin, called Augustin, born in February 1833; and Fabien Jean Baptiste in December 1834--eight children, three daughters and five sons, between 1823 and 1834.  Alexis died in Assumption Parish in June 1835, age 34 (the recording priest said 36).  Daughters ... married into the Aucoin, Blanchard, and Crochet families.  Two of Alexis's sons also married by 1870.

Second son Drosin, at age 42, married Célina, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Trahan and his Creole wife Éleonore Oufnac and widow of Émile Breaux, at the Pierre Part church, Assumption Parish, in March 1870. ...

Alexis's fourth son Augustin married Séraphine, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Landry and his Creole wife Roseline Simoneaux, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in July 1856.  They settled near Pierre Part on Lake Verret.  Their children, born there, included Marie Élizabeth in October 1857; and Clémentine Julienne in September 1860.  Augustin remarried to Desi Rosalie or Edesie, daughter of Anaclet Simoneaux and his Acadian wife Constance Landry and widow of Arsène Frioux, at the Paincourtville church in February 1867.  Their children, born near Paincourtville, included Marie Palmire in August 1867; Augustin Albert in October 1870; ... 

Fabien Isaacs's younger son Joseph Eugène married Marie Madeleine Zépheline or Zéphirine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Dupuis and Rose Hébert, at the Plattenville church in February 1834.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Rose Tarzille in December 1834; Élize Augustine in April 1836; Octavie Joséphine in February 1838; Apollinaire Augustin in April 1840; Augustine Arselie in May 1842; Jean Baptiste Adrien in February 1844; J. Baptiste Eugène, called Eugène, in September 1846; and Marie Victoria in October 1848--eight children, five daughters and three sons, between 1834 and 1848.  Daughters ... married into the Gorret and Theriot families by 1870.  One of Joseph Eugène's sons also married by then and settled on the lower Atchafalaya. 

Third and youngest son Eugène married Laura, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Arsène Gautreaux and his Creole wife Marie Arthemise Frederick of St. James Parish, at the Brashear, now Morgan, City church, St. Mary Parish, in October 1869. 

Joseph le jeune's fifth son Mathurin-Jean le jeune, by first wife Marie-Josèphe Hébert, followed his widowed father and brothers to New Orleans and Bayou des Écores, where he married cousin Madeleine Aucoin "of Lafourche" in the early 1790s.  Their children, born at nearby Baton Rouge, included Jean-Baptiste in May 1792; and Joseph-Firmin baptized, age unrecorded, in April 1794 but died at age 20 months the following September.  Mathurin-Jean remarried to Marie-Madeleine, another daughter of Étienne Darois and Madeleine Trahan, at Assumption on upper Bayou Lafourche in November 1799.  Marie-Madeleine, a native of Morlaix, was Mathurin's brother Fabien's wife's sister and had come to Louisiana from France aboard an earlier ship.  Her and Mathurin-Jean's children, born on the river and the Lafourche, included Désiré-Mathurin in March 1801 but, called Désiré Jean, died in Assumption Parish, age 27, in June 1828; and Joseph Eugène, also called Mathurin Joseph, born in June 1805--four children, all sons, by two wives, between 1792 and 1805.  Mathurin Jean le jeune died in Lafourche Interior Parish in April 1835, age 63.  Only one of his sons married. 

Fourth and youngest son Joseph Eugène, by second wife Marie-Madeleine Darois, married Azélie Adélaïde, called Adélaïde, 16-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Hippolyte LeBlanc and Marie Marguerite Gaudet, at the Thibodauxville church in May 1826.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Azélie or Azèle Domitilde in April 1828; Mathurin Eugène in February 1830; Marie Louise, called Louise, in December 1831; and Joseph Louis, called Louis, in November 1836--four children, two daughters and two sons, between 1828 and 1835.  Joseph Eugène died in Lafourche Interior Parish in April 1839, age 33.  An appraisement of his estate, naming his wife and listing his children--Mathurin, Louise, Louis, and Azèle and her Meyer husband--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in February 1847.  According to the appraisement, Joseph Eugène's widow Adélaïde remarried to a Lamoureaux.  Daughters Azélie and Marie Louise married into the Meyer and Hoffmann families.  Joseph Eugène's two sons also married and settled on the bayou.

Older son Mathurin Eugène married Catherine, daughter of André Skinner and Hortense Maronge, at the Thibodaux church in May 1849.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Adélaïde in July 1851; Jules Apollinaire in July 1853 but, called Jule A., died at age 1 1/2 in November 1854; Louisa Amanda born in November 1854; Rosa Émelie in April 1857; and twins Joseph Louis Mathurin, called Louis, and Octave Adrien in November 1859, but both of them died 10 days apart the following April--six children, three daughters and three sons, including a set of twins, between 1851 and 1859.  Mathurin remarried to Eugénie, daughter of fellow Acadians Ursin Barrilleaux and Cléonise Potier, at the Thibodaux church in January 1861.  None of Mathurin's daughters married by 1870. 

Joseph Eugène's younger son Joseph Louis married Cécilia Marie Anne, daughter of Jean Baptiste Lagarde and Marie Anne Legendre, at the Thibodaux church in November 1865. 

Joseph le jeune's sixth son Joseph-Marie, by first wife Marie-Josèphe Hébert, followed his widowed father and brothers to New Orleans, Bayou des Écores, and upper Bayou Lafourche.  In 1795 and 1797, in his early 20s, Joseph-Marie was living with his brothers at Assumption on the upper Lafourche.  He probably did not marry.  One wonders if he was the Joseph Aucoin who died in Assumption Parish in February 1832, or the Joseph dit Joson Aucoin who died in Assumption Parish in December 1833  The Plattenville priest or priests who recorded the burials, and who did not give any parents' names or mention any wives, said that both Josephs died at age 50, which places their birth years in the early 1780s.  Joseph Marie à Joseph, born in April 1775, would have been in his late 50s in 1832-33, so this may not have been him. 

Joseph le jeune's tenth and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, by second wife Marie Aucoin, followed his family to upper Bayou Lafourche and married Marie Ludivine, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Richard and Marie Josèphe Trahan, at the Plattenville church in February 1811.  Their children, born on the Lafourche included Jean Baptiste Alexis in December 1811 but died at age 23 in 1834; and Pauline born probably in the 1810s.  Jean Baptiste died in Lafourche Interior Parish in November 1844, age 54.  Daughter Pauline married into the Guédry family.  Jean Baptiste's son evidently did not marry, so this line of the family, except for its blood, did not endure. 

Babin

Antoine Babin, a farmer perhaps from La Chaussée south of the middle Loire in the region of Loudun, France, born in c1631, came to Acadia by c1662, when he married Marie, daughter of  ____ Mercier and Françoise Gaudet.  (After Marie's father died, her mother remarried to Daniel LeBlanc and became the matriarch of an even larger Acadian clan.)  Antoine died at Port-Royal in c1687, in his mid-50s, and Marie Mercier became a widow like her mother.  But before his death, she gave Antoine 11 children, seven daughters and four sons, at Port-Royal.  Their daughters married into the Rimbault, Landry, Richard dit Sansoucy, Doucet, Breau, Comeau, Doiron, Benoit, Martin, Sauneuf, and Pitre families.  Three of their four sons married into the Richard, Thériot, and Boudrot families.  Antoine and Marie's descendants settled not only at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, but also at Cap-Sable; Grand-Pré, Rivière-aux-Canards, and Ste.-Famille and l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in the Minas Basin; Chignecto; and in the French Maritimes.  They were especially numerous at Minas.  Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this large family even farther. 

The Acadians at Chignecto were the first to fall into the hands of the British, who exiled the ones they could catch to their southermost seaboard colonies.  In the fall of 1755, the British deported a Chignecto Babin family to South Carolina.  His brother, meanwhile, slipped away from the British, made his way to Canada, and resettled at Cap-St.-Ignace on the St. Lawrence River below Québec City.  Babin families rounded up at Grand-Pré and Pigiguit were deported to Massachusetts, Maryland, and Virginia.  The few Minas Babins who escaped the British moved north to Miramichi, Nepisiguit, and other refugee camps on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  In the late 1750s or early 1760s, Basile Babin, a grandson of Antoine's oldest son Charles, either surrendered to, or was captured by, British forces in the area and held in the prison compound on Georges Island, Halifax, where he married a Saulnier and was counted with her in August 1763.  Two, perhaps three, other Babins, who had taken refuge at Nepisiguit also ended up at Halifax, where, along with their married cousin, they appeared on a repatriation list in August 1763.  Unlike Basile's widow and daughters, who refused to live under British rule, these Babins chose to remain in greater Acadia, settling at Ste.-Anne-du-Ruisseau northwest of Cap-Sable.  A Babin in the region who may have eluded capture chose to resettle in the British-controlled fishery at Bonaventure in Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs.  Another chose to go first to Minudie, Chignecto, then received landgrants at Scoudouc on the Gulf shore of southeastern New Brunswick in the early 1800s.  After the war, Minas Babins who had endured exile in Massachusetts chose to join their cousins in Canada.  Especially after 1766, they could be found in the far-northern province at Deschambault and Trois-Rivières on the upper St. Lawrence; and at Cap-St.-Ignace, St.-Jean-Port-Joli, and St.-Roch-des-Aulnaies on the lower St. Lawrence.  Babins also settled in greater Acadia at Rivière St.-Jean in the interior of present-day New Brunswick.  Typical of most, if not all, Acadian families, these Acadiennes of Canada and greater Acadia 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 Babins 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'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 Acadians from one vessel to be 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.  By 1763, more than half of the exiles sent from Virginia to England were dead. 

At least two Babins who ended up in France did not get there via Virginia and England.  When the British rounded up the Nova Scotia Acadians in the autumn of 1755, the Acadians on the Maritime islands remained unmolested because they were living in territory controlled by France.  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 islands and deported most of the habitants to France.  A family of Babins crossed on the transport Tamerlane, which left Chédabouctou 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 vessels, reached St.-Malo in mid-January 1759.  Another island Babin ended up on one of the five deportation transports that left Chédabouctou Bay in the 12-ship convoy and, despite the storm, reached St.-Malo together in late January 1759.  He settled at Pleudihen-sur-Rance on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo.  In 1761, he joined the crew of the corsair Tigre but was captured and held in England until 1763.  He returned to Pleudihen that year and then left for the îles Malouines, today's Falkland Islands, aboard L'Aigle in November 1765. 

In the spring of 1763, after prolonged negotiations between the French and British governments, the Acadians in England, including Babins, were repatriated to France.  They arrived at St.-Malo in late May aboard La Dorothée and settled in the suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  In the fall of 1765, most of them joined fellow exiles from Virginia in a settlement venture on Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany.  Not all of them remained there.  Later in the decade, a family of Babins, along with other Acadians in France, resettled on the French-controlled fishery islands of St.-Pierre and Miquelon off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  In 1773, at least one Babin followed other Acadian exiles to the Channel island of Jersey on their way back to North America to work in British-controlled fisheries in the Gulf of St. Lawrence region.  At least two Babin families remained at St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  Another Babin reached St.-Malo "from other ports" in 1763.  He lived at neaby Pleudihen-sur-Rance but moved on to Morlaix on the northwest coast of Brittany in 1764.  Another Babin ended up in France by a different route.  At age 12, he had escaped the British roundup at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in 1755, sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, and ended up in the prison compound at Halifax in the early 1760s.  At war's end, he chose to go to Île Miquelon, where, at age 23, he married a fellow exile in Notre-Dame-des-Ardiliers Parish in May 1766.  In 1767, French officials, obeying a royal decree to relieve overcrowding on the fishery islands, evidently sent the couple with other fisher/habitants to France.  Along with most of the other islanders, the young couple likely returned to Miquelon in 1768 and created a family there.  In 1778, during the American Revolution, the British, again at war with France, captured îles St.-Pierre and Miquelon and deported the fisher/habitants to France.  The Babin family left Miquelon aboard La Jeannette, reached St.-Malo that November, and settled at St.-Servan-sur-Mer among their Babin cousins.  Meanwhile, French authorities grew tired of providing for the exiles languishing in the port cities.  In the early 1770s, an influential nobleman offered to settle them on land he owned in the interior of Poitou near Châtellerault.  A Babin family who had come from Virginia and settled at St.-Servan agreed to go.  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 and settled at nearby Chantenay, where they returned to the government dole.

In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  Four of the Babins still in the mother country agreed to take it.  At least one Babin, who had married a local French girl, remained on Belle-Île-en-Mer, where, in 1792, during the early stages of the French Revolution, his fellow citizens elected him a municipal officer at Le Palais, the island's capital.  He remarried at Le Palais, and two of his daughters married in France. 

In North America, at war's end, at least one family of Babins in the seaboard colonies emigrated not to Canada, where the British ruled, but to the French Antilles, where they did not.  While the end-of-war treaty was being negotiated, French officials encouraged exiles in the British 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 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 revenge" to come.  Exiles lured to St.-Domingue would prove a ready source of labor not only for the naval contractors, but also for the islands's wealthy 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.  Victoire, daughter of Chares Babin and Marie Hébert, was born at the new French naval base of Môle St.-Nicolas, St.-Domingue, in c1781. 

Babins 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, as some did, 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 any 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 Babins, chose to relocate to Île Miquelon.  Others considered going to French St.-Domingue, where Acadian exiles in the British colonies, including Babins, 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, two were very young Babin sisters who came with their widowed mother. 

The many Babins in Maryland endured life among Englishmen who, despite their colony's Catholic roots, did not care much for the French "papists" thrust upon them.  In July 1763, the war now over, nearly a dozen Babin families appeared on French repatriation lists at Georgetown, Fredericktown, Princess Anne, Port Tobacco, Upper Marlborough, and Oxford.  These were the Babins from the Minas settlements--Grand-Pré, Rivière-aux-Canards, and Pigiguit--whom the British had deported to the colony eight years earlier.  When word reached the Acadians in Maryland that fellow exiles had been welcomed in Louisiana, they pooled their meager resources to charter ships that would take them to New Orleans.  At least 61 Babins left for Louisiana in 1766, 1767, and 1768 and settled in a number of communities there.  Other Babins chose to remain in Maryland.  Surrounded by fellow exiles and French expatriates, some of these stay-behinds settled at Frenchtown in Baltimore, where their transition from Acadien to Americain went faster for them than for their cousins who had gone on to the Spanish colony. 

The last group of Babins to come to Louisiana did so in a unique way.  In 1788, five Babins--three brothers and two sisters, ages 25 to 15, all unmarried, children of Joseph Babin--were living with their widowed mother, Marine LeBlanc, on Île St.-Pierre, one of the French-controlled fishery islands off the southern coast of Newfoundland that had been returned to France five years earlier.  Joseph Gravois III of Chignecto, probably a kinsman, was captain of the schooner La Brigite, based at Île St.-Pierre.  The widow and her five children agreed to accompany Gravois and his family to Louisiana aboard La Brigite, which reached New Orleans in December 1788--the only group of Acadians to travel directly from greater Acadia to Louisiana and some of the last Acadians to reach the bayou country.  One of the daughters married at Cabahannocer on the Acadian Coast.  One wonders what became of her siblings. 

Another Acadian Babin came to Louisiana decades after the Babin siblings arrived from Île St.-Pierre.  Early in the antebellum period, in 1809, while Louisiana was a territory of the United States, thousands of refugees from Haiti via Cuba and Jamaica arrived at New Orleans.  With them were Acadians who had left the British colonies in the early 1760s and settled in the French colony of St.-Domingue, which became the independent nation of Haiti in 1804.  Among these refugees was a young woman, Victoire, daughter of Charles Babin and Marie Hébert, who married an Anglo American from Boston, Massachusetts, in St. James Parish in September 1816.  The priest who recorded the marriage called the Babin bride a "nat. of St. Nicolas, Santo Domingo," probably the French naval base at Môle St.-Nicolas on the northwest end of the island, to where the French had lured Acadian exiles to help in its construction nearly a decade before Victoire's birth. 

Babins were among the early settlers of Acadia and some of the earliest Acadians to find refuge in Louisiana.  Two young Babin sisters came to the colony from Halifax with their widowed mother in 1765 and settled in the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans before following their Saunier mother to the Opelousas prairies.  Over the next few years, dozens of Babins from Maryland settled along the river from Cabahannocer on the lower Acadian Coast all the way up to the Spanish side of the river across from Natchez.  In the late 1760s or early 1770s, one family from the river moved to upper Bayou Teche and created a small western branch of the family.  The hand full of Acadian Babins who came to Louisiana from France in 1785 established vigorous lines among their cousins near Baton Rouge and a smaller line on upper Bayou Lafourche.  During the late colonial and early antebellum periods, Babins moved from the river to Bayou Lafourche and added substantially to that center of family settlement.  By the late antebellum period, some of them had settled as far down bayou as Lockport and Montegut at the edge of the coastal marshes in Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes.  Soon after the war of 1861-65, a few Babins from the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley moved to lower Bayou Teche and out to the St. Landry prairies.  Most Babins, however, remained on the old Acadian Coast in West Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge, Iberville, Ascension, and St. James parishes.  They were especially plentiful around Gonzales, Ascension Parish, during and after the war. 

During the early colonial period, Babins from France lived at Mobile, then a part of French Louisiana.  They also could be found at New Orleans and Pointe Coupée.  Several Foreign-French Babins came to Louisiana during the antebellum period.  The great majority of the Babins of South Louisiana, however, are descendants of Antoine of La Chaussée and Port-Royal.  

Some of the Babins who remained on their original river holdings created sugar plantations that rivaled in size those of their wealthier non-Acadian neighbors.  Paul P. Babin owned 800 acres in West Baton Rouge Parish in 1860, and a hundred slaves worked his plantation and its steam-powered sugar mill.  The great majority of the Babins who owned slaves, however, held much fewer than their cousin Paul P.  In fact, most members of the family held no slaves at all, at least none who appeared in the federal slaves schedules of 1850 and 1860, so they participated only peripherally in the antebellum South's plantation-based economy. ...

Dozen of Babins served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65, and several of them died in Confederate service.  ...  Meanwhile, the war took a terrible toll on the Babin family's economic standing.  After Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation went into effect in January 1863, Federal forces controlling the lower Mississippi freed the slaves on every farm and plantation their forces could reach.  This included the Babin holdings in the Acadian Coast parishes.  Meanwhile, Union navy gunboats shelled and burned dozens of plantations houses along the lower river.  ...

In Louisiana, the family's name also is spelled Babain, Babein, Baden, Baven, Boben, Vaven.74

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The first Acadian Babins in Louisiana were two sisters--Lisa-Marie-Josèphe, called Lise, Lizette, or Marie, age  5; and Marie-Josèphe, age 1--born in the prison compound at Halifax, Nova Scotia.  They followed their widowed mother--Anne Saulnier, widow of Basile Babin--to New Orleans from Halifax via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, in 1765, settled with her at Cabahannocer, followed her to Opelousas, returned to the river after they came of age, and married.  The younger sister remained at Cabahannocer, while the older one followed her husband to Bayou Lafourche. 

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Twenty-one more Babins came to the colony from Maryland in September 1766.  They included the first male Babins--three sets of brothers from the Pigiguit area.  Each of them settled at Cabahannocer and Ascension on the river, but some of their descendants moved down to Bayou Lafourche and even farther down into the Terrebonne country.  Most of the Babins of South Louisiana descend from these 1766 arrivals:

 Charles (c1742-?) à Jean à Antoine Babin

Charles, eldest son of Paul Babin and Marie Landry, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1742, followed his family to Maryland in 1755. He, his widowed mother, and many of his siblings appeared on a repatriation list at Oxford on Maryland's Eastern Shore in July 1763.  Still a bachelor in his mid 20s, he came to Louisiana with two of his younger unmarried siblings.  Charles married cousin Élisabeth, also called Madeleine, daughter of perhaps Germain Babin and Marguerite Landry, at Cabahannocer in March 1767 soon after reaching the colony.  In 1770, they were living on the left, or east, bank of the river at Ascension above Cabahannocer.  Their children, born on the river, included Joseph in c1769; Alain in c1772; Marie-Madeleine in March 1774; Marie-Constance, called Constance, baptized, age unrecorded, in April 1777; and Marie, perhaps Marie-Victoire, called Victoire, born in March 1779--five children, two sons and three daughters, between the late 1760s and 1779.  Charles died by November 1781, when wife Madeleine remarried to a Landry widower at Ascension.  Daughters Victoire and Constance married into the Breaux and Landry families.  Both of Charles's sons married on the river.  The older son settled in Lafourche Interior Parish and created a vigorous family line there and in the Terrebonne country.  The younger son's line did not endure.  

Older son Joseph married cousin Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Godin dit Lincour and Marie-Josèphe Babin, at Ascension in June 1801.  Their children, born at Ascension, included Renée-Mélanie in May 1802; Rosalie in September 1803; Joseph Thomas in December 1804; Jean Varice or Evariste, called Evariste, in October 1806; Félonise in July 1808; twins Madeleine or Marie Joséphine and Marie Hortense in October 1814; Marcellin in January 1817; and Charles Dominique, called Charles D., Damis, Dom, Domi, Donis, Dumien, and Rami in September 1820--nine children, five daughters and four sons, between 1802 and 1820.  In the 1820s, Joseph moved his family to Lafourche Interior Parish.  Daughters Renée Mélanie, Rosalie, Félonise, and Marie Joséphine married into the Hébert, Babin, Bergeron, and LeBoeuf families.  All of Joseph's sons married.  Some of his children remained on Bayou Lafourche, while others settled in Terrebonne Parish.  

Oldest son Joseph Thomas married Céleste Phelonise, called Phelonise, daughter of Jean Jacques LeBoeuf and Marie Jeanne Lirette of Terrebonne Parish, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in August 1830.  They settled at Bayou Cannes or Cane in Terrebonne Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marguerite Asilda or Elezida, called Elezida, in September 1831; Marie Florinne in November 1833; Joseph Blaise, called Blaise, in February 1836; Étienne Eusilien, called Eusilien, in December 1838; Théodule Éloi in December 1841; Marie Odilia, Odelia, or Odile at Bayou Cannes in April 1847; Léontine Élisabeth, called Élisabeth, in January 1850; Mathilde Alida or Elda, called Elda, in the early 1850s; and Alide Célestine, called Célestine, in November 1854--nine children, six daughters and three sons, between 1831 and 1854.  Joseph T., as the recording clerk called him, died in Terrebonne Parish in July 1863, age 58.  A petition for administration of his estate, naming his wife and giving her death date (May 1864), as well as naming their children, including Elezida and her husband, Blaise and his wife, Marie and her husband, Euzelien, Odile and her husband, Léonce[sic, probably Élisabeth] and her husband, Elda, and Célestine--was filed at the Houma courthouse in January 1870.  Daughters Elezida, Marie, Odelia, Élisabeth, and Mathilde Alida married into the Bourgeois, Hébert, Barrios, Rhodes, and Choistre or Choueste families by 1870.  Two of Joseph Thomas's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Joseph Blaise, called Blaise, married Milie Gurvillia, Sévelienne, Survilia, or Suvilia, daughter of Narcisse Marcel and Céleste Rhodes or Rose of Terrebonne Parish, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in December 1858, and sanctified the marriage at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in March 1860.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Joseph Narcisse, called Narcisse, in October 1859; Cez Adorestille in August 1861 but died "at age 5 or 6 mths." the following January; a child, name unrecorded, died "at age 5 or 6 mths." in Terrebonne Parish in January 1862; Louisianne Malvina; and Felonise, also called Joséphine, in May 1865--five children, at least one son and three daughters, between 1859 and 1865.  Blaise died in Terrebonne Parish in October 1866.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Blaise died "at age 40 yrs."  He was 30.  A petition for tutorship of his children, calling him Blaise, giving his parents' names, calling his wife Suvilia Marcel, and listing his remaining children--Narcisse, Louisana, and Joséphine--was filed at the Houma courthouse in January 1870. 

Joseph Thomas's second son Eusilien married Odille, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Broussard and his Creole wife Marie Louise Buquet of Terrebonne Parish, at the Houma church in October 1859.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Pauline Evelia in January 1861; Jean Celas Elphége in September 1863; Michel Aristide in September 1866; Marie Onesilia in May 1869; ... 

Joseph's second son Jean Evariste, called Evariste, married Marie Rosalie or Rosalie Marie, also called Marguerite and Marie Josephine, another daughter of Jean Jacques LeBoeuf and Marie Jeanne Lirette, at the Thibodauxville church in May 1833.  They settled on the Lafourche and at Bayou Cannes or Cane in Terrebonne Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie Adeline, called Adeline, in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1834; Marguerite Evelina in September 1836; Fidelie Andilia or Odille, called Odille, in April 1840; Élise Phelonise dite Lise in December 1842; Rosa Émelie, called Émelie, in July 1845; Private Trasimont, called Trasimond, on Bayou Black in August 1848; Mélissen Mathilda or Mathilde, called Mathilde, at Bayou Cannes in August 1851; Marie Lurina or Turvina in April 1854; and Faustin or Fostin Marcellin in February 1857--nine children, seven daughters and two sons, between 1834 and 1857.  Evariste died in Terrebonne Parish in October 1857, age 51.  A petition for tutorship of his children, calling him Evariste and naming his wife and children, including spouses--Adeline and her husband, Odille and her husband, Lise and her husband, Émelie, Trasimon, Mathilde, Fostin Marcellin, and Marie Turvina--was filed at the Houma courthouse in August 1860.  Daughters Adeline, Odille, Lise, Émelie, and Mathilde married into the Buquet, Hébert, and LeBoeuf families, including two Buquets and two Héberts, by 1870.  Neither of Evariste's sons married by then. 

Joseph's third son Marcellin married Théotiste, daughter of Narcisse Marcel and Céleste Rhodes of Terrebonne Parish, place and date unrecorded, but it probably was in Terrebonne Parish in the late 1830s, when Marcellin would have been in his early 20s.  In July 1838, at the Terrebonne Parish courthouse, Marcellin, age 21, awarded a mainlevée, or relief, probably from a mortgage, to fellow Acadian Célestin Bergeron.  Marcellin and Théotiste's children, born on the Lafourche and in Terrebonne Parish, included Marguerite Uzelia in November 1840; Célestin Théophile in January 1843; Marcellin, fils in June 1845; Aurelie in Terrebonne Parish in June 1848; Lutetia in December 1850; Eusilien in November 1854; and Narcisse in October 1858--seven children, three daughters and four sons, between 1840 and 1858.  Daughters Marguerite Uzelia and Aurelie married into the Darce family by 1870, evidently to the same fellow.  One of Marcellin's sons also married by then. 

During the War of 1861-65, Marcellin's second son Marcellin, fils served in Company D of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafourche Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  He survived the war, returned to his family, and, at age 25, married cousin Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Achille Babin and Angelina Pitre, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in July 1870.  Daughter Marie Lotitia was born in Terrebonne Parish in September 1870; ...

Joseph fourth and youngest son Charles Dominique, also called Damis, married Marie Estelle, daughter of Antoine Domingue and Jeanne Sylvie, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in October 1842.  Their son Louis was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in August 1843.  Charles Dominique/Damis remarried to Spanish Creole Marie Esteve at the Houma church in June 1849, but they evidently had lived together for a time or had married civilly before their church wedding.  They settled on Bayou Petit Caillou and at Montegut in Terrebonne Parish.  Their children, born there, included twins Carlos Émile and Joseph Apoda or Spoda in October 1845; Antoine Florida in March 1850; Marie in June 1854; Adam Erneste in November 1856; Emma Eda in November 1859; Célestin Théophile in December 1866; ...  None of Damis's children married by 1870. 

Charles's younger son Alain married Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadians Anselme Landry and Osite Landry, at Ascension in May 1794.  Their children, born at Ascension, included Alain-Séverin in February 1795; and Marie-Bathilde posthumously in January 1797.  Alain died at Ascension in October 1796, age 24.  Did any of his children survive childhood?

Amand (c1743-1808) à Jean à Antoine Babin

Amand, second son of Paul Babin and Marie Landry and brother of Charles, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1743, followed his family to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  In his early 20s in Maryland, he married Marie-Anastasie, called Anastasie, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Abraham dit Petit Abram Landry and his second wife Marguerite Flan, in c1766.  Anastasie also was a native of Pigiguit.  They came to Louisiana in 1766 with two of his unmarried sisters and settled on the left, or east, bank of the river at Ascension above Cabahannocer near the boundary between the two districts.  Amand and Anastasie's children, born on the river, included Paul in c1768 but died at age 4 in August 1772; Grégoire born in c1769 but died at age 3 in September 1772; Alexandre-Eusèbe or Eusèbe-Alexandre, called Alex, born in c1772; Simon-Raphaël, called Simonet and Raphaël, in August 1773; Jean-Jacques, called Jacques, in January 1775 but died the following July; Anne-Madeleine, called Madeleine, baptized, age unrecorded, in January 1777; Marguerite born in August 1779 but died at age 22 in July 1802; Augustin born in April 1781 but died at age 2 1/2 in July 1783; Landry born in November 1782; Pierre-Maximilien, called Maximilien and Émilien, in November 1784; Louis in April 1786; Justine in June 1787 but died at age 21 months, 4 days, in September 1789; Isabelle-Augustine baptized, age unrecorded, in March 1788; Marie-Bathilde born in October 1789--14 children, nine sons and five daughters, between 1768 and 1789.  Wife Anastasie died at Ascension in August 1795, age 48.  Amand did not remarry.  He died in Ascension Parish in April 1808, age 66.  Daughters Madeleine and Marie Bathilde married into the Dugas and LeBlanc families.  Four of Amand's sons married and created large families of their own.  Two of them settled on Bayou Lafourche.  The others remained on the river in Ascension Parish.  Some of Amand's grandsons settled in nearby Iberville Parish.  Many of his descendants married cousins and helped create the largest Babin family line in South Louisiana. 

Third son Alexandre-Eusèbe dit Alex married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Duhon and Anne LeBlanc, at Cabahannocer in December 1793.  Their children, born at nearby Ascension, included twins Alexandre-Valéry, called Valéry, and Madeleine, also called Madeleine-Adélaise, in October 1795; Narcisse in December 1797 but died at age 18 in February 1816; Marguerite-Eugénie born in March 1800; Maximilien le jeune, called Émilien and Milien, in February 1802; and Marie Clémence, called Clémence, in September 1804.  Alex, in his late 30s, remarried to cousin Madeleine Sylvina, daughter of fellow Acadian Sylvain LeBlanc and Marie Josèphe Babin and widow of Pierre Landry, at the Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, in January 1809.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Vital Trasimond, called Trasimond, in November 1809; Alexandre Homer or Homer Alexandre, in September 1811 but died at age 1 in September 1812; and Madeleine born in January 1815--nine children, five sons and four daughters, by two wives, between 1795 and 1815.  Alex, in his early 50s, remarried again--his third marriage--to cousin Marie Madeleine Breaux, widow of Raphael Landry, at the Donaldsonville church in September 1825; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  She gave him no more children.  Alex, called Eusèbe by the Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial, died in Ascension Parish in November 1831.  The priest said Eusèbe was age 65 when he died.  He was closer to 60.  Daughters Madeleine Adélaise, Marguerite Eugènie, Clémence, and Madeleine, by his first two wives, married into the Landry and LeBlanc families, three of them to Landrys, the youngest, Madeleine, to two of them.  Three of Alex's sons also married to cousins on the river. 

Oldest son Alexandre Valéry, called Valéry, a twin, from first wife Anne Duhon, married double cousin Adélaïre or Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Babin and Osite LeBlanc, at the Donaldson church in August 1816.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Antoine Valéry in April 1817; Catherine Euphrosie in March 1819 but died the following October; Alexandre Maximilien or Maximilien Alexandre born in August 1820; and Thomas or Damas Albert in March 1823 but died at age 5 months the following September--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1817 and 1823.  Valéry died in Ascension Parish in February 1826, age 30.  Adélaïde remarried to a Landry widower at the Donaldsonville in July 1827.  Valéry's remaining sons married.

Oldest son Antoine Valéry married cousin Delphine Élisabeth or Élisabeth Delphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Éloi Joseph Landry and Madeleine Sidalise Babin, at the Donaldsonville church in January 1838.  They lived near the boundary between Ascension and Iberville parishes.  Their children, born there, included Alexandre Amédée, called Amédée, in March 1839; Calliste Valmon or Valmond in October 1841; Albert Hiriart in February 1844 but, called Antoine Hiriart, died at age 1 1/2 in September 1845; Louis Despalier born in August 1847; and Delphine Sidalise posthumously in February 1850--five children, four sons and a daughter, between 1839 and 1850.  Antoine V., as the recording priest called him, died "at New River," Ascension Parish, in November 1849, age 32.  His daughter did not marry by 1870, but two of his sons did.

Oldest son Amédée married double cousin Constance, daughter of fellow Acadians Anselme Landry and Joséphine Landry, at the Donaldsonville church in January 1862.  Daughter Élisabeth Ela was born in Ascension Parish in January 1863; ...

Antoine Valéry's third and youngest son Louis Despalier married fellow Acadian Marie Evelina Hébert, place and date unrecorded.  Their son François Terence was born near Gonzales, Ascension Parish, in October 1869; ... 

Alexandre Valéry's second son Alexandre Maximilien or Maximilien Alexandre married Marie Clémentine, called Clémentine, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Dupuy and Marianne Blanchard, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in August 1842.  They, too, lived near the boundary between Ascension and Iberville parishes.  Their children, born there, include Eusèbe Alces or Alcée, called Alcée, in August 1843; Martin Alfred in November 1845; Michel Alcide in September 1847 but, called Alcide, died at age 1 in November 1848; Justine Amanda born in September 1849; and Louis Auguste Marchand in September 1853--five children, four sons and a daughter, between 1843 and 1853.  Alexandre Maximilien died near St. Gabriel in September 1853, age 33.  His daughter did not marry by 1870, but one of his sons did. 

Oldest son Alcée married Adelina, daughter of fellow Acadians Arsène Hébert and Euphrosine Gaudin, at the Donaldsonville church in January 1870.  Daughter Clémentine Alixe was born in Ascension Parish in October 1870; ...

Alexandre Eusèbe's third son Maximilien le jeune, called Émilien and Milien, from first wife Anne Duhon, married cousin Marie Victoire, called Victoire, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Breaux and Victoire Babin, at the St. Gabriel church in July 1825; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Victoire Malvina, called Malvina, in March 1829; an unnamed daughter, age unrecorded, died in March 1831; an infant son, name unrecorded, died several days after his birth in January 1833; Alexandre Germain, called Germain, born in February 1834; Étienne Adélard in December 1836; Barbe in December 1839 but died the following August; Anne Adeline born in December 1841 but died at age 2 1/2 in September 1844; and Marie Eugénie, called Eugénie, born in September 1847--eight children, five daughters and three sons, between 1829 and 1847.  Milien died in Ascension Parish in September 1853, age 51 (the recording priest, who gave no parents' names nor mentioned a wife, said 52).  Daughters Malvina and Eugénie married into the Dugas and Lamarre families by 1870.  One of Milien's sons also married by then. 

Second son Alexandre Germain, called Germain, married cousin Aimée, daughter of fellow Acadians Siffrien Babin and Jeanette Melançon, at the Donaldsonville church in February 1855.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Marie Elmire in November 1855; Germaine Victoire, a daughter, in March 1858; Marie Althée in May 1859 but, called Marie Altée, died at age 1 in May 1860; Marc Ulise, probably Ulysse, born in October 1860; Geneviève Norma in January 1862 but died the following September; Horvilia born in c1865 or 1866 but died at age "1 year and 11 months" in January 1868; Simon Gilbert born in February 1868 but, called Gilbert, died the following August; ...  None of Germain's children married by 1870. 

Alexandre Eusèbe's fourth son Vital Trasimond, called Trasimond, by second son Madeleine LeBlanc, married cousin Clarisse Zoé, daughter of fellow Acadians Jérôme Melançon and Madeleleine LeBlanc, at the Donaldsonville church in August 1829; they had to secure a dispensation for fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Alexandre Sosthène, called Sosthène, in October 1830; Madeleine Élodie in January 1833 but died at age 14 1/2 in June 1847; Julienne Élisabeth born in February 1835; a newborn, name unrecorded, died at age 8 days in April 1837; twins Marie Élisabeth Eugènie, called Eugénie, and Marie Irène born in October 1838; Clairesse or Clarice Adelina, perhaps also called Elvina or Elvenia Clarisse, in September 1840; Marie Hermini in November 1842; Vincent Vital, called Vital, in April 1845; Jules in May 1847; and Marie Elmire, called Elmire, in October 1851--11 children, at least three sons and seven daughters, including a set of twins, between 1830 and 1851.  Daughters Julienne Élisabeth, Eugénie, Elvina Clarisse,and Elmire married into the LeBlanc, Lavergne, Breaux, Babin, and Bullian families, one of them, Clarisse, three times, twice to Breauxs, and two of them, Julienne and Eugénie, on the same day, by 1870.  Two of Trasimond's sons also married by then, one of them evidently after completing his war service. 

Older son Alexandre Sosthène, called Sosthène, married Marie Euphémie, called Euphémie, daughter of fellow Acadians Valéry Breaux and Marie Rose Hébert, at the Donaldsonville church in January 1851.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Alexandre Sosthène, fils in December 1851; Auger Vilior in February 1855; Jean Vintrex in October 1856; and Madelaine Justilia in July 1858--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1851 and 1858.  None of Sosthène's children married by 1870. 

Trasimond's younger son Vital may have been the V. Babin who served in the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry during the War of 1861-65.  If so, he survived the war, returned to his family, and married cousin Emelia, daughter of fellow Acadians Ursin Hébert and Delite Babin, at the Gonzales church, Ascension Parish, in January 1868.  Their children, born near Gonzales, included Michel Just in September 1868; Ursin Hippolyte in August 1870; ...

Amand's fourth son Simon-Raphaël dit Simonet married cousin Marguerite-Apolline, called Apolline, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Landry and Marguerite LeBlanc of San Gabriel, at Ascension in January 1796.  Their children, born at Ascension, included Simon-Sifroi, called Sifroi, Siffren, Siffrin, Siffrien, and Siphrin, in November 1796; Augustine-Séraphine, called Séraphine, in January 1798 but died at age 3 in January 1801; Alexandre-Eugène born in April 1799; Constance-Adélaïde in July 1800 but died at age 11 in October 1811; Evariste born in October 1801; Marguerite-Léonise or -Cléonise in September 1803; Louis Survandeau in April 1805; Adile, also called Adélaïde or Adeline dite Adélitte, in May 1807; a son, name unrecorded, died an infant in August 1808; Maxile born in the late 1800s; Valentin Jean born in March 1810; and Marcellin Michel in September 1811 but died at age 19 (the recording priest said 20) in February 1831--12 children, nine sons and three daughters, between 1796 and 1811.  Simon Raphael died in Ascension Parish in July 1822, age 49.  Daughters Marguerite Cléonise and Adile dite Adélitte married into the LeBlanc, Landry, Hébert, and Melançon families, one of them three times.  Four of Simonet's sons also married on the river, all of them to cousins, one of them four times, another twice. 

Oldest son Simon Sifroi, Siffrin, or Siffrien married cousin Madeleine Julienne, called Julienne and Sevastienne, daughter of fellow Acadian Simon Bénoni Landry and his Creole wife Marie Jeanne Chauvin, at the Donaldson church in June 1818; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of relationship in order to marry.  Their son Raphaël Jacques or Raphaël Guy was baptized at Donaldson, age unrecorded, in June 1819.  Siffrien remarried to cousin Marie Loraide or Zorai, daughter of fellow Acadians Francois Landry and Constance Babin, at the Donaldsonville church in May 1823.  Their daughter Marie Elvinia was born in Ascension Parish in February 1824.  Siffrien remarried again--his third marriage--to another cousin, Marie Léocade, called Léocade, 19-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Nicolas Landry and Osite LeBlanc, at the Donaldsonville church in January 1826, but she died soon after their wedding.  Siffrien remarried yet again--his fourth marriage--to cousin Marie Jeanette, called Jeanette, daughter of fellow Acadians Jérôme Melançon and Madeleine LeBlanc, at the Donaldsonville church in February 1829; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of affinity and fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born in Ascenion Parish, included Jérôme Émile, called Émile, in January 1830; an infant son, name unrecorded, died a week after his birth in April 1831; Édouard born in April 1832 but died at age 1 1/2 in January 1834; Marie Elmire born in April 1834 but, called Elmire, died at age 19 in June 1853; Aimée Marguerite or Marguerite Aimé born in September 1836; Simon Sifrain or Siffrien, called Siffrien, fils, in July 1840; Félix in July 1842 but died in September; Julienne Emma born in January 1845 but, called Emma, died at age 1 1/2 in April 1846; and Joseph Tailor born posthumously in May 1847 but, called Joseph Taylor, died at age 1 1/2 in September 1848--10 children, seven sons and three daughters, by three of his wives, between 1819 and 1847.  Siffrien, called Siffrin, died in Ascension Parish in February 1847, age 50 (the recording priest said 51).  Daughter Aimée, by his fourth wife, married a Babin cousin by 1870.  Three of Siffrien's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Raphaël Jacques, by first wife Julienne Landry, married cousin Euphémie, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Landry and Judite Melançon, at the Donaldsonville church in May 1840.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Marie or Mary Olivia in January 1842; Paul Olime in November 1845; Jacques Olivier in May 1847; Judit Aufelia in March 1853; Élisabeth Ursule in September 1855; Anne Georgina in April 1857; Marie Eugénie in April 1860; Eva Julia in August 1864; ...  Daughter Mary Olivia married into the Bourgeois family by 1870.  Neither of Raphaël's sons married by then. 

Siffrien's second son Émile, by fourth wife Jeanette Melançon, married Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadians Ulgère Dugas and Émelie Landry, at the Donaldsonville church in September 1851.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Albert in November 1852; Jérôme Alcé in September 1854; a child, age unrecorded, in late December 1858 but died at age 20 days in January 1859; Ambroise Émile, called Émile, born in April 1861; Anne in March 1862 but, called Sidonie, may have died at "age ca. 1 year" in March 1863; Joseph A. born in October 1863 but died at age 3 in September 1866; Marie Eve born in January 1866; Wilfrid Édouard, called Édouard, in October 1867; Pierre Victor in November 1869; ...  Émille became a school teacher after the War of 1861-65.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Siffrien's fifth son Siffrien, fils, by fourth wife Jeanette Melançon, married Athanaise, daughter of fellow Acadian Derosier Breaux and his Creole wife Madeleine Denoux, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in January 1860.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Siffrien Quentin in October 1860; Laurent Eugène in October 1861 but, called Laurent, died at age 6 in December 1867; Louis Alexandre born in March 1863 but, called Louis, died at age 3 in August 1866; Martin Ozémé born in November 1864; Simon Alcide in September 1866; Madeleine Alosia in August 1869; ... 

Simonet's third son Evariste married cousin Marie Rose, called Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Melançon and Marguerite Élisabeth Orillion, at the Donaldsonville church in January 1828; they had to secure a dispensation for fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  They settled near the boundary of Ascension and Iberville parishes.  Their children, born there, included Silvanie in July 1829 but, called Sylvanie, died at age 2 in September 1831; Marie Eudolie born in August 1832 but, called Marie Eugénie, may have died at age 20 in September 1852; Olivia Élisabeth baptized, age unrecorded, in May 1835; Corentin Joseph born in February 1837; Aulime, also called Trasimond Aulime, in May 1839 but, called Trasimond Olivier, died at age 2 1/2 in October 1841; Honorine Athanaise born in August 1841; Marie Aglaé, called Aglaé, in October 1843; Vincent Adonis, called Adonis, in September 1845; Elmire Palmire or Palmira, called Palmira, in January 1849; and Thersile Julienne in May 1852--10 children, four sons and six daughters, between 1829 and 1852.  Daughters Aglaé and Palmira married into the Breaux and Denoux families by 1870.  Two of Evariste's sons also married by then. 

Second son Corentin married Élise dite Lise, daughter of Joseph Delmaire Lavergne and his Acadian wife Eléonore Breaux, at the St. Gabriel church in June 1856.  They settled on the river near boundary between Iberville and Ascension parishes before moving to the Gonzales area of Ascension Parish.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Marie Corine in January 1862; Marie Cora near Gonzales in September 1865; Eléonore Cornelie in December 1869; ...

Evariste's fourth and youngest son Adonis married Juliette, daughter of Albert Poché and Malvine Lavergne, a Creole, not a fellow Acadian, at the Gonzales church in January 1866; Juliette's mother was the sister of Adonis's brother Corentin's father-in-law.  Adonis and Juliette's children, born near Gonzales, included Marie Alixe in September 1868[sic]; Albert Vincent in October 1868[sic, probably 1869]; ... 

Simonet's fourth son Maxile married double cousin Adeline, daughter of fellow Acadians Donat Landry and Angèle Landry, at the Donaldsonville church in August 1828; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Joseph Duval, called Duval, in March 1829; Simonette or Simonet Osémy or Osémé, a son, in November 1830; Marie Adelina Domitille, called Marie Domitille, in July 1832; Maxile Comes in September 1833; Sabaosear, Sabat, or Sala Oscar, called S. Oscar and Oscar S., a son, in December 1834; Homer in March 1838; Raphaël Viléon in July 1839; Marie Eveline in August 1840; and Adelina Marguerite in July 1844--nine children, six sons and three daughters, between 1829 and 1844.  Daughter Marie Domitille married into the Marchand family by 1870.  Two of Maxile's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Duval married Françoise Adams probably in Ascension Parish in the early 1850s.  Daughter Marie Alixe was born there in August 1854 and did not marry by 1870. 

Maxile's fourth son S. Oscar married cousin Élène, Elina, Elisca, or Elvina Clarisse, daughter of fellow Acadians Trasimond Babin and Clarisse Melançon, at the Donaldsonville church in February 1858; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Marie Odile in October 1858; Magdalene E. in April 1860; Joachim Hercule in March 1862; Joseph Homerum near Gonzales in March 1864; ... 

Simonet's seventh son Valentin Jean married cousin Clothilde Eméranthe, called Eméranthe, daughter of fellow Acadians Édouard Landry and Eliza Landry, at the Donaldsonville church in August 1833; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Lise Apolline in January 1835; Valentin Privat or Privat Valentin in August 1837; Victoire Élisabeth in December 1839; and Félix Édouard in August 1842.  Valentin remarried to Marie Sérasine, Sarrazine, Sévarine, or Séraphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Valéry Breaux and Marie Rose Hébert, at the St. Gabriel church in May 1846.  They lived on the river near the boundary between Ascension and St. James parishes.  Their children, born there, included Jean Albert in February 1847; Marie Asimond in September 1848; Marie Pamela, called Pamela, in July 1850; Marie Elmira in September 1851; Adam in November 1852; Marguerite Dilia, called Dilia, in March 1854; Marie Tersilla in November 1856; Avite Isidora in June 1858; Marie Eugénie in March 1862; Colombe Dema near Gonzales in December 1863 but died at age 1 1/2 in August 1865; Joseph Edgard born in November 1865; Louis Vincent in December 1867; ...  Daughters Pamela and Dilia, by both wives, married into the Breaux and Hébert families by 1870.  Two of Valentin's sons also married by then.   

Oldest son Privat Valentin, by first wife Eméranthe Landry, married cousin Emelia or Ersilia, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Hébert and Alzina Landry, at the Donaldsonville church in October 1858.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Laurent Camille in May 1859; Jean Baptiste Silvère in October 1860; Odeam Hersila in September 1864; ... 

Valentin Jean's second son Félix Édouard, by first wife Eméranthe Landry, married double cousin Eugénie, daughter of fellow Acadians Norbert Landry and Élisa Landry, at the Gonzales church in November 1866.  Their children, born near Gonzales, included Louise Clothilde in December 1867; Éliza Octavie, called Octavie, in January 1870[sic]; Marie Lily, perhaps theirs in June 1870[sic]; ...

Amand's seventh son Landry married cousin Marie-Louise, called Louise, daughter of fellow Acadians François Landry and Rose Dugas, at Ascension in April 1802.  By the mid-1820s, Landry moved his family down bayou to Lafourche Interior Parish.  Their children, born on the river and the Lafourche, included Marie-Justine, called Justine, in September 1803; Édouard Landry in November 1805; Marguerite Céleste, called Céleste, in August 1808; Pierre Trasimond in May 1810; Hélène Mathilde in August 1812 but died in Lafourche Interior Parish, age 16 1/2, in April 1829; Nicolas dit Colas or Colin born in November 1814; Casimir Sifrien in March 1817 but, called Casimir, died at age 18 in Ascension Parish in November 1835; Léonise or Léonie Apolline born in February 1819; and Élisabeth Telvina, Elvina, or Ethelvina, called Ethelvina, in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1825--nine children, five daughters and four sons, between 1803 and 1825.  Landry died in Lafourche Interior Parish in August 1827.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial called him Lanory and said he died "at age 47 yrs."  He was 44.  His succession inventory, naming his wife and his children, with some of their spouses--Pierre Trasymond, age 17; Hélène Mathilde, age 15; Collin, age 12; Casimir Syphrien, age 10; Léonice Apolline, age 8; Élizabeth Elvina, age 2; Maria Justine, then age 24, and her husband; Margurerite Céleste, age 19, and her husband; and Édouard, then age 22 and a year and a half married--was filed at the Lafourche Interior Parish courthouse in October.  Daughters Marie Justine, Céleste, Léonie Apolline, and Ethelvina married into the Denoux (also called Gaillard), Robichaux, LeBlanc, and Melançon families, and perhaps into the Landry family as well.  Three of Landry's sons also married, but not all of the lines endured.  Some of his children and grandchildren settled in Ascension Parish, perhaps on the upper bayou, while others remained farther down bayou in Lafourche Interior Parish. 

Oldest son Édouard Landry, at age 19, married double cousin Clotilde Hortense, called Hortense, 16-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Jacques Landry and Marie Louise Dugas, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in February 1825.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Honorine Coralie in December 1825; Marie Louise Amelina in April 1827 but died at age 2 1/2 (the recording priest said 3 1/2) in December 1829; Édouard, fils, also called Landry le jeune, born in March 1828; Mathilde Élisabeth in May 1829 but died at age 3 in May 1832; Nicolas Émile born in March 1831 but died at age 1 1/2 in July 1832; Jean Baptiste died a few days after his birth in February 1833; and Joseph Casemir born in July 1835 but, called Casimire, died in Ascension Parish at age 18 (the recording priest said 20) in June 1854--seven children, three daughters and four sons, between 1825 and 1835.  Remaining daughter Honorine Coralie married into the Juneau and Bernier families by 1870.  Édouard Landry's remaining son also married by then but, except perhaps for its blood, the family line may not have endured. 

Oldest son Édouard Landry, fils married Adveline or Advelina, daughter of Ambroise Grabert and Eléonore Hamiliton, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in February 1851.  They settled in Ascension Parish, perhaps on the upper Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Marie Aurelia in March 1852; and Édouard le jeune in April 1854.  Neither of Édouard Landry, fils's children married by 1870. 

Landry's second son Pierre Trasimond married Marie Estelle, called Estelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Ambroise Mathurin Hébert and Élisabeth Madeleine Guillot, at the Thibodauxville church in April 1834.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Azéma in January 1835; Élisabeth F. in July 1836; Marie Louise, called Louise, in May 1839; Marie Lorenza Clara in August 1842; Marie Ofilia in February 1844; Elsilda Émelina in April 1845; Thasie Ursule in October 1847; Pierre, fils died at age 3 months in November 1850; Philomène Mathilde Amanda born in June 1852; and Pauline Gustine Donatild in June 1854--10 children, nine daughters and a son, between 1835 and 1854.  Daughters Louise, ... married into the Breaux, Landry, Provost, and Simoneaux families by 1870, two of them on lower Bayou Teche.  Pierre's only son did not survive childhood, so, except for its blood, the family line did not endure.   

Landry's third son Nicolas dit Colas, also called Colin, married Gertrude, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Gaudin and Rosalie Dugas, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in September 1834.  They settled not on the upper Lafourche but along the river.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Marie Rosalie Lutetia in August 1835; Marius Nicolas in December 1838; Pierre Julien in August 1840 but died in September; Édouard Césaire born in August 1841 but died at age 2 in October 1843; Théodore Jean Baptiste born in the early 1840s; Marie Lise Carmel in July 1843; Cyrile or Cyrille Landry, called Landry le jeune, in August 1845; Césaire Trasimond, called Trasimond, in August 1847; a child, name and age unrecorded, died in October 1849; and Sandon Joseph Félix, called Félix S., born in October 1850--10 children, at least two daughters and seven sons, between 1835 and 1850.  Colas, called Colin by the recording priest, who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, died in Ascension Parish in September 1853, age 38.  Daughters ... married Landry cousins by 1870.  Nicolas dit Colin's remaining sons also married by then and, like their sisters, most married Landry cousins, including a first cousin. 

Oldest son Marius Nicolas married Eliza, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul LeBlanc and Lodoisca Breaux, at the Donaldsonville church in March 1859. 

Nicolas dit Colin's fourth son Théodore Jean Baptiste married cousin Clarisse, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Landry and Mélanie Dugas, at the Donaldsonville church in January 1861; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.

Nicolas dit Colin's fifth son Landry le jeune married cousin Marie Cécile, called Cécile, daughter of fellow Acadians Norbert Landry and Élise Landry, at the Gonzales church, Ascension Parish, in March 1868; they had to secure a dispensation for third and fourth degrees of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their son Demas Colin was born near Gonzales in November 1868; ... 

Nicolas dit Colin's sixth son Trasimond married cousin Zélamie, daughter of fellow Acadians Apollinaire Landry and Élise Landry, at the Donaldsonville church in February 1868; they had to secure a dispensation for fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry. 

Nicolas dit Colin's seventh and youngest son Sandon Joseph Félix, also called Félix S., married first cousin Ange Eugénie, also called Eugénie A., daughter of fellow Acadians Adélard Landry and Ursule Gaudin, his uncle and aunt, at the Donaldsonville church in September 1869; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry (their mothers were Gaudin sisters).  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Éliza Octavie, perhaps theirs, was born near Gonzales in January 1870[sic]; Marie Lily, perhaps theirs, in June 1870[sic]; ... 

Amand's eighth son Pierre Maximilien, called Maximilien and Émilien, married cousin Julie Rosalie or Rose Julie, daughter of fellow Acadians Athanase Dugas and Rose LeBlanc, at Ascension in May 1804; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Onésime, called Azéline by the baptizing priest, in April 1805; Anauville or Merville Rosémond in July 1806 but, called Merville, died at age 18 in September 1825; Pierre Duval born in May 1808; Jérôme Léon, called Léon, in January 1810; twins, a son and a daughter, names unrecorded, in August 1811 but died at birth; Sifroi Henri born in July 1812; Julie Rosalie or Rose Julie in August 1814; Amand Prudent, called Prudent, in October 1816; Sifroi Victorin, called Victorin, in September 1818; twins Gotraud Théodule, called Théodule, and Rupert Detrean in March 1821, but Rupert died at age 5 months the following September; Julie Euphrosine born in May 1823; Pierre Sylvanie in November 1827; and Rose Julie in late September 1830--15 children, 11 sons and four daughters, including two sets of twins, between 1805 and 1830.  Wife Julie likely was the "Mrs. Émilien [Babin]" who died in Ascension Parish, no age or parents' names given, in October 1830.  If this was her, she would have been age 45 at the time of her passing, her death likely related to the birth of her fifteenth child a few weeks earlier.  Despite the size of his family, including many young children, Pierre Maximilien did not remarry.  He died in Ascension Parish in January 1837.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Maximilien was age 54 when he died.  He was 52.  Daughter Rose Julie, probably the younger one with the name, married into the Breaux family.  Six of Pierre Maximilien's sons also married on the river, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Onésime married Marie Arthémise, called Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadians Raphaël Landry and Marie-Madeleine Breaux, at the Donaldsonville church in February 1824.  Their son Pierre Onésime, called Onésime, fils, born posthumously in February 1826, died at age 10 months the following December.  Onésime died in Ascension Parish in July 1825, age 21.  Arthémise also died in December 1826, age 22, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth.  The family line did not endure. 

Maximilien's third son Pierre Duval married cousin Rosalie Euphrosine, called Euphrosine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Gaudin and Rosalie Dugas, at the Donaldsonville church in January 1830; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Pierre probably in 1830 but died, age unrecorded, in April 1831; Marie Rosalie Elvania born in June 1831; and Pierre Gustave in February 1835--three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1830 and 1835.  Pierre Duval died in Ascension Parish in December 1836, age 28.  Daughter Marie Elvania married a Richard cousin by 1870.  Pierre Duval's remaining son did not marry by then. 

Maximilien's fourth son Jérôme Léon, called Léon, married Élise, daughter of fellow Acadians Victor Landry and Jeanette Melançon, at the Donaldsonville church in October 1835.  Léon died in Ascension Parish in February 1836, age 26.  He probably fathered no children.  If so, his line of the family died with him. 

Maximilien's seventh son Amand Prudent, called Prudent, married Marguerite Célina, Sélima, Zéline, or Zélina, daughter of fellow Acadians Jérôme Rivet and Marie Élisabeth Melançon, at the Donaldsonville church in October 1839.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Pierre dit Turiaffe in July 1840; Marguerite Olivai or Olivia, called Olivia, in August 1844; Marie Ofalia in July 1846; and Marie Célina in October 1848--four children, a son and three daughters, between 1840 and 1848.  Daughter Olivia married into the Boudreaux family by 1870.  One of Prudent's sons also married by then, after his distinguished war service, but the line did not endure. 

During the War of 1861-65, only son Turiaffe served in the Donaldsonville Artillery, an old militia company from Ascension Parish mustered into Confederate service in August 1861.  He was working as a clerk in Donaldsonville when he enlisted in the battery there in September 1861, age 21.  He followed his battery to Virginia, where it became a part of the Army of Northern Virginia, so he became one of R. E. Lee's Louisiana Tigers.  Turiaffe played the violin, which endeared him to his fellow canoneers.  He was wounded in the calf at Gaines' Mill, Virginia, in June 1862 but soon returned to his unit.  He was still with the battery when it surrendered with the rest of Lee's army at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, in April 1865.  Back home, Turiaffe married cousin Louise Lodoiska, daughter of fellow Acadians Aulime LeBlanc and Ethelvina Babin, at the Pointe Coupee church, Pointe Coupee Parish, in January 1866; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  They settled in Ascension Parish, where he worked as a farm overseer and  later owned a hack line and livery stable.  Later, he clerked and collected for a local steamship company, earning the sobriquet "Captain Babin."  He and Louise Lodoiska remained childless, but they raised several orphans.  He died in Ascension Parish in January 1918, age 77, was buried in his UCV camp's tomb in the Ascension Catholic cemetery in Donaldsonville, and was mourned by the entire community. 

Maximilien's eighth son Sifroi Victorin, called Victorin, married cousin Marie Laurenza, daughter of Jean Denoux, also called Gaillard, and his Acadian wife Justine Babin, at the Donaldsonville church in September 1839.  Their children, born in Ascensuon Parish, included Jean Baptiste Théodule in October 1840; and Julie Justine Etelvina in September 1844.  Victorin died in Ascension Parish in April 1846, age 27 (the recording priest said 28).  Neither of his children married by 1870. 

Maximilien's ninth son Gotraud Théodule, called Théodule, a twin, married double cousin Aureline Euphémie, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Babin and his Creole wife Madeleine Denoux, at the Donaldsonville church in June 1843.  They settled on the river near the boundary between Ascension and Iberville parishes.  Their children, born on there, included Julie Ema in Ascension Parish in March 1844; Rémis or Rémi Prudent in October 1845; Marie Hermina in May 1847 but, called Marie E., died at age 4 1/2 in August 1851; Maxille Amadéo born in September 1848 but, called Amadéo, died at age 4 1/2 (the recording priest said 5) in July 1853; Marguerite Eulalie born in February 1853; Madeleine Ernestine in September 1854; Françoise Pamelia near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in August 1856; and Lelia in November 1858--eight children, six daughters and two sons, between 1844 and 1858.  Théodule died near St. Gabriel in October 1859, age 38 (the recording priest said 37).  None of his children married by 1870. 

Amand's ninth and youngest son Louis married Anne Céleste, called Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadians Théodore Dugas and Marie Victoire Forest, at Ascension in May 1806.  They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche near the boundary between Ascension and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Alexandre Louis in April 1807; twins Cyprien Sevin and Marie Justine in September 1808, but Cyprien Sevin died at age 11 in January 1820; Marguerite Delia or Dilia born in July 1810 but died at age 2 in August 1812; Rosémond Ambroise born in May 1812; Eugène Hubert or Ulgère Hubert, called Hubert, in March 1814; Marie Séraphine in March 1816; Pierre Casimir, called Casimir, in February 1818; Marie Marine in June 1821 but died at age 1 1/2 in September 1822; Léon Laurent born in August 1823; Joseph Magloire in February 1826; Joseph Faustin in February 1830 but died the following April; and François Xavier born in late 1831 or early 1832 but died at age 18 months in June 1833--13 children, nine sons and four daughters, between 1807 and 1831/32.  Louis died near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in December 1862.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Louis died at "age 78 years."  He was 76.  Daughters Marie Justine and Marie Séraphine married into the Landry and Dugas families.  Like his father, Louis had many sons, but nearly half of them died young.  Five of them married.  Most remained on the upper Lafourche near the Ascension/Assumption line. 

Oldest son Alexandre Louis married cousin Henriette Phelonise, called Phelonise or Felonise, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Babin and Marguerite Pélagie Dugas, at the Donaldsonville church in August 1827; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  They, too, lived near the boundary of Ascension and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie Élise, called Eliza, in October 1829; Marie Séraphine in March 1831 but died the following November; Joseph Villiot born in March 1833 but, called Vileor, died near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, age 22, in September 1855; Jean Osémé, called Osémé, born in February 1835; Marie Aurore, called Aurora, in Februarh 1838; Joseph Thelesphore or Telesphore, called Telesphore, in June 1840; and Joseph Achille, called Achille, in January 1843.  Wife Henriette Phelonise died near Paincourtville in September 1853.  The priest who recorded her burial said that she died at "age 50 years."  Was she a victim of the yellow fever epidemic that struck South Louisiana that summer and fall?  At age 48, Alexandre remarried to Marie Pouponne, called Pouponne, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier LeBlanc and Madeleine Breaux, at the Paincourtville church in January 1856.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Madeleine Alexandrine in January 1857; Louis Alexandre in March 1859; Marie Emmée in September 1860; Paul Amard in January 1863; ...  Daughters Eliza and Aurora, by his first wife, married into the LeBlanc family by 1870.  Three of Louis's sons also married by then. 

Second son Osémé, by first wife Phelonise Babin, married Oside or Ozite, daughter of fellow Acadians Hubert Landry and Victorine LeBlanc, at the Paincourtville church in January 1861.  Their child, name unrecorded, died a newborn near Paincourtville in November 1861.  Osémé remarried to first cousin Laurenza, daughter of fellow Acadians Magloire Landry and Justine Babin and widow of Clovis Dugas, his uncle and aunt, at the Paincourtville church in January 1866; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry. 

Alexandre's third son Telesphore, by first wife Phelonise Babin, married Elmire, daughter of fellow Acadians Hermogène LeBlanc and Marie Melançon, at the Paincourtville church in January 1867.  They lived in St. James Parish on the river before returning to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Marie Adine in St. James Parish in October 1867; Marie Eugénie near Paincourtville in March 1870; ...

Alexandre Louis's fourth son Achille, by first wife Phelonise Babin, married cousin Noémie, daughter of fellow Acadians Hippolyte Landry and Justine Guédry, at the Paincourtville church in January 1867; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Joseph Félix in September 1867; Joseph Hippolyte in February 1870; ...

Louis's fourth son Hubert married cousin Marie Eugénie, called Eugénie, another daughter of Paul Babin and Marguerite Pélagie Dugas, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in January 1831.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Joseph François Xavier in December 1831; Marie Azéma in July 1833 but, called Azéma, died at age 16 in July 1849; Marie Célima born in September 1835 but, called Célima, died at age 20 in August 1855; Joseph Numa, called Numa, born in February 1838; Joseph Aristide, called Aristide, in March 1840; Joseph Félix in March 1842; Édouard Joseph died 7 days (the recording priest said 4 days) after his birth in February 1844; and Joseph Artur born in November 1845--eight children, six sons and two daughters, between 1831 and 1845.  Hubert, called Ulger Hubert, died in Ascension Parish in December 1847, age 33 (the recording priest said 32).  Neither of his daughters married, but two of his sons did.  One of them died in Confederate service after he married, and his family line evidently did not endure. 

Second son Joseph Numa, called Numa, married cousin Elmire Zoé, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Bujole and Lisa Elmire Gaudin, at the Donaldsonville church in June 1859; they had to secure a dispensation for fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Daughter Marie Eugénie was born in Ascension Parish in September 1861.  Numa, at age 24, while residing at Donaldsonville, enlisted in Company K of the 8th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Ascension Parish, in March 1862 and joined his unit in Virginia, where he became one of General R. E. Lee's Louisiana Tigers.  Numa was present with his unit to late September, when he was reported as absent without leave, but he likely was in one of the Richmond hospitals recovering from illness.  He returned to his unit in November and was present through February.  Now age 25, Numa was mortally wounded in action near Fredericksburg, on 4 May 1863, during the Chancellorsville campaign, and died the following day.  He probably was buried on the battlefield. 

Hubert's third son Aristide married Hortence, daughter of Prussian Immigrant Jean Paulin Schomer and his Acadian wife Élisabeth LeBlanc, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in September 1865.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Aristide Bruno  in June 1866; Lora Antonia in May 1870; ... 

Louis's fifth son Pierre Casimir, called Casimir, married Anne dite Nanette, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Marie Boudreaux and Anne dite Nanette Dugas, at the Donaldsonville church in January 1842.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Édouard Joseph Casimir in March 1843; Joseph Théodule in June 1844 but died a few weeks later; Marie Thérèse born in May 1846; Priscille Amelina in July 1848; Marie Louise in April 1850 but died at age 3 1/2 in September 1853; and Louis Léonce born in April 1852--six children, three sons and three daughters, between 1843 and 1852.  Casimir died in Ascension Parish in April 1853.  The Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Casimire, as he called him, died at "age 30 years."  Pierre Casimir would have been age 35.  Daughters Amelina, ... married into the Babin and Rougeau families by 1870.  Neither of Casimir's remaining sons married by then. 

Louis's sixth son Léon Laurent married cousin Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Valéry LeBlanc and Hortense Landry and widow of Jean Paulin Schomer, at the Paincourtville church in May 1850; they had to secure a dispensation for fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  They lived on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Assumption and Ascension parishes before settling on the river.  Their children, born there, included Marie Evela near Paincourtville in March 1851; Léon Boniface in June 1853; Louis Jean Baptiste in Ascension Parish in December 1854; Alice in July 1857; Rosalie Léonie in September 1859; Joseph Hector near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in August 1861; Marie Élisabeth in January 1866; ...  None of Léon's children married by 1870. 

Louis's seventh son Joseph Magloire married cousin Apolline, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Gautreaux and Henrietta Landry and widow of Joseph LeBlanc, at the Donaldsonville church in April 1854; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry. 

Vincent-Ephrèm (c1745-1810) à Jean à Antoine Babin

Vincent-Ephrèm, called Ephrèm, third and youngest son of Paul Babin and Marie Landry, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1745, followed his family to Maryland and came to Louisiana with two siblings in 1766.  They settled at Cabahannocer, where Ephrèm married fellow Acadian Marguerite LeBlanc in c1767.  A decade later, Ephrèm and Marguerite were living on the left, or east, bank of the river at Ascension above Cabahannocer.  Their children, born on the river, included Paul-Dominique baptized, age unrecorded, in June 1770 but may have died in Iberville Parish, age 45, in April 1815; Petronille-Victoire, called Victoire, born in May 1774; Jean-Jacques, called Jacques, baptized, age unrecorded, in April 1777; Joseph-Alexandre born at Ascension in March 1779 but may have died in Ascension Parish in March 1838 at age 59 (the recording priest, who called the deceased Joseph Ephrèm, said 61); Simon born in December 1781 but may have died in Ascension Parish, age 22, in March 1804; and Marine born in c1785 but died at age 14 in July 1799--six children, four sons and two daughters, between 1770 and 1785.  Ephrèm contracted smallpox at Ascension in October 1787 but survived.  He died in Ascension Parish in September 1810, age 67.  Daughter Victoire married into the Landry family.  One of Ephrèm's sons married, but, other than its blood, even that family line may not have endured. 

Second son Jacques married Marie Françoise, called Françoise and also Jeanne, daughter of fellow Acadians Hyacinthe Landry and Marguerite LeBlanc, at Ascension in November 1796.  Their children, born there, included Marguerite-Madeleine in the late 1790s; Joseph-Ephrèm in July 1799 but died at age 2 in December 1801; Céline born in May 1801 but died at age 1 in June 1802; Ameline born in July 1803; Eurasie in February 1804 but died at age 4 1/2 in August 1808; Rosalie born in c1805 but died at age 4 in September 1809; Marie Eugénie born in August 1809; Leufroi Ephrem in August 1811; Honoré in August 1813; and Sylvestre in January 1816 but died at age 7 in February 1823--10 children, six daughters and four sons, from the late 1790s to 1816.  Jacques died in Ascension Parish in March 1816, age 38, a widower, so his wife may have died from complications of childbirth a few weeks earlier, when their youngest son was born.  Daughter Marguerite Madeleine married into the Bujole and LeBlanc families.  One wonders if either of his remaining two sons married.  Except for its blood, this family line may not have endured in the Bayou State. 

Joseph, fils (c1745-?) à Jean à Antoine Babin

Joseph, fils, elder son of Joseph Babin and Anne Thériot, born probably at Pigiguit in c1745, followed his family to Maryland and came to Louisiana in 1766 with his widowed mother and two siblings.  They settled at Cabahannocer, where Joseph, fils married fellow Acadian Marie Landry in February 1768.  In August 1770, they were living on the left, or east, bank of the river at Ascension upriver from Cabahannocer.  By January 1777, they had crossed the river to the right, or west, bank at Cabahannocer and probably lived near the boundary between that district and Ascension.  Their children, born on the river, included Élisabeth or Isabelle baptized, age unrecorded, in May 1771; Marie-Marguerite, called Marguerite, born in March 1773; Jean-Louis, called Louis, in November 1775 but died at age 21 in July 1796; Joseph, fils baptized, age unrecorded, in March 1777; Auguste or Augustin born in November 1778; Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, in March 1780; Julienne in July 1781; and Louise in February 1784--eight children, five daughters and three sons, between 1771 and 1784.  At age 52, Joseph, fils remarried to Anne-Apolline, 59-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Doiron and Marguerite Michel and widow of Jean-Baptiste Chênet dit La Garenne, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in February 1797.  Anne, also a native of Pigiguit, had come to Louisiana from France in 1785.  She gave him no more children.  Daughters Isabelle, Marguerite, and Marie Madeleine, by his first wife, married into the Robichaux, Bourgeois, Roger, and Gautreaux families.  One of Joseph, fils's sons married and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  

Third and youngest son Auguste or Augustin, by first wife Marie Landry, married Marianne or Anne Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Bergeron and Marie Foret of Ascension, at Assumption in May 1800.  They settled there and in what became Lafourche Interior Parish, although they may have lived for a time at New Orleans.  Their children, born on the Lafourche and the river, included Alexis-Charles in July 1802; Marguerite Modeste in November 1806; Jean Auguste or Augustin, called Justin and Augustin, in December 1809; Onésime, called Olésime, Lésime, and Clézime, in May 1816; François Omer or Homer, also called François Bernard and perhaps Françoise[sic] Lemaire, in May 1821; Louise Adèle in June 1824; and Marianne in December 1828--seven children, four sons and three daughters, between 1802 and 1828.  Daughters Louise Adèle and Marguerite Modeste married into the Hébert and Picou families.  Three of Auguste's sons also married.  Some of his grandsons settled in Terrebonne Parish. 

Second son Jean Auguste or Augustin dit Justin, married Marie Marguerite, called Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Honoré Breaux, fils and Marie Félicité Richard, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in September 1827.  Their children, born on the bayou, included Eugène Marcellin in June 1831; Marie Marguerite in October 1835; Joseph Armogène or Hermogène, called Hermogène, in November 1839; and Ozémé Florantin in August 1843--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1831 and 1843.   In March 1870, Augustin, as the parish clerk called him, donated land to three of his married children--Marie Marguerite and her husband, Eugène Marcellin, and Joseph Hermogène; the donation record also indentified Augustin's wife.  Daughter Marie Marguerite married into the Robson and Daigle families by 1870.  Two of Justin's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Eugène married fellow Acadian Adèle Hébert in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in January 1854.  Their children, born on the southeastern bayous, included Eugénie Marie in Lafourche Parish in November 1854; Rosalia Virginia in November 1856; Joseph Augustin near Montegut at the edge of the Terrebonne coastal marshes in August 1867; ...  None of Eugène's children married by 1870. 

Jean Auguste's second son Hermogène married Marie, daughter of Isidore Dupré and his Acadian wife Théotiste LeBlanc of Terrebonne Parish, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in April 1860.  They settled on the middle Lafourche before moving to Montegut.  Their children, born there, included Marie Malvina in September 1861; Paulin Ozémé in July 1865; François Valéry Élie in April 1868; Joseph Arthur in November 1870;  ...

Auguste's third son Onésime or Olésime was living in Terrebonne Parish when he married Pauline, daughter of François Malbrough and his Acadian wife Madeleine Duhon, at the Thibodaux church in January 1842.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Elvire or Elvira Rosea in March 1844; Émile Omer in March 1845; Henry, also called Frank Henry, in March 1847; Clinton Vega in June 1849; Julienne Marie or Marie Julienne in October 1851; Joseph Ignace in August 1854; and Auguste Washington in September 1855--seven children, two daughters and five sons, between 1844 and 1855.  Why was Onésime, called Olézime, counted by the federal census taker in Terrebonne Parish in November 1850 with older brother Augustin's family but without his own wife and children?  Where were they?  The census taker noted that Olézime owned $300 in real estate, that brother Augustin owned $400 worth of real estate and was a farmer, but the census taker listed no occupation for Olézime).  Daughters Elvira and Marie Julienne married into the Lirette and Robichaux families by 1870.  One of Olésime sons also married by then. 

Second son Frank Henry married Théolene, daughter of Émile Fangui or Fanguy and Uranie Chauvin, at the Houma church in September 1870. ...

Auguste's fourth and youngest son François Homer, called Homer, Omer, and L'Omer, married Estelle Anne or Anne Estelle, daughter of fellow Acadian Florentin Boudreaux and his Creole wife Marianne Durocher, at the Thibodaux church in June 1839.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Camilla Eve in February 1841; Joseph Numa in January 1843; and Marianne Émelie in December 1844.  François Homer remarried to Eve, 17-year-old daughter of Pierre Bertin Roussel and Marie Madeleine Alexandre, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in June 1848.  Their son Félicien Léon was born on Bayou Black in June 1849.  François Homer remarried again--his third marriage--to Ursule Malbrough, widow of Francis Darce, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in January 1856.  François Homer, called F. Omer by the recording parish clerk and F. O. by the recording priest, remarried yet again--his fourth marriage--to Victorine, daughter of Jean Baptiste Navarre and his Acadian wife Mélicère Guillot and widow of Ulysses Toups, at the Montegut church in March 1867.  Their children, born near Montegut, included Augustin in December 1867; Joseph in December 1869; ...  Daughters Marianne, ..., by his first wife, married into the Chauvin and Duplantis families by 1870.  None of François Homer's sons married by then. 

Jean-Jacques (c1748-1780s?) à Jean à Antoine Babin

Jean-Jacques, called Jacques, younger son of Joseph Babin and Anne Thériot, born probably at Pigiguit in c1748, followed his family to Maryland and came to Louisiana in 1766 with his widowed mother and two siblings.  They settled at Cabahannocer, where Jacques married Marguerite, daughter most likely of fellow Acadians Abraham dit Petit Abrahm Landry and his second wife Marguerite Flan of Pigiguit, in c1771.  (If his wife was that Marguerite Landry, she also had come to Louisiana from Maryland in 1766.)  Later in the decade, Jacques and Marguerite were living on the right, or west, bank of the river at Cabahannocer near the boundary with Ascension district.  Their children, born on the river, included Pélagie in c1772; Donat baptized, age unrecorded, in September 1773; Paul baptized, age unrecorded, in September 1776 but may have died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, age 39, in April 1816; Éloi or D'Artoise, also called Eusèbe, born in December 1778; Marie-Céleste or -Célestine, called Célestine, in June 1781; Jacques-Alexandre in December 1783; and Pligio in c1787, perhaps posthumously, but died at age 9 in November 1797--seven children, two daughters and five sons, between 1772 and 1797.  Jacques evidently died by May 1787, when his wife remarried to a Savoie at Cabahannocer.  Daughters Pélagie and Célestine married into the Richard and Boudreaux families, and one of them settled in St. Martin Parish, west of the Atchafalaya Basin.  Two of Jacques's sons also married.  The older one remained in Ascension Parish, where his line of the family, except for its blood, died out early.  The younger one settled on Bayou Lafourche, where his family line thrived. 

Third son Eusèbe dit D'Artoise married cousin Anne Francoise, called Francoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Anselme Landry and Françoise Blanchard, at Ascension in June 1805; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Marie Rose in November 1805; Marie Éméranthe in May 1807 but died at age 5 1/2 in October 1812; Françoise Azélie born in July 1808; Eusèbe Rosémond in December 1809 but died at age 11 months in October 1810; Anne Arthémise, called Arthémise, born in January 1812; and Marie Ondine in October 1817--six children, five daughters and a son, between 1805 and 1817.  Daughters ... married into the Lambert, Blanchard, and Breaux families.  Eusèbe's only son died young, so, except for its blood, this line of the family did not endure.  

Jacques's fourth son Jacques Alexandre married Julienne, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Melançon and Osite LeBlanc, at St. James in November 1804.  They settled on the river and on Bayou Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Ursin, also called Justin, at St. James in September 1805; Jean Jacques le jeune, called Jacques or Jacquin, at Ascension in November 1806; Joseph Oleus in May 1808; Paul Onésime, called Onésime and Lésime, in January 1810; Jacques Eugène, called Eugène, in November 1811; Marie Osite, called Osite, in August 1813; Jacques Alexandre, fils in March 1816; Marie Marguerite near Convent, St. James Parish, in October 1818 but died in Lafourche Interior Parish, age 15, in November 1833; Louis David, called David, born in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1821; and twins Marcélite or Marcéline and Julienne in December 1828, but Julienne died at age 11 1/2 in September 1840--11 children, seven sons and four daughters, between 1805 and 1828.  As the birth of his youngest son shows, by the early 1820s, Jacques had moved his family to Bayou Lafourche.  Jacques died in Lafourche Interior Parish in June 1849, age 65 (the recording priest said 66).  A petition for his succession inventory, naming his wife and listing his children, including the spouse of one of his daughters--Ursin, Jean Jacquin, Onézime, Osite and her husband, David, Marcéline, and Eugène--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in July.  Daughters Osite and Marcéline married into the Bourgeois and Part families.  Five of Jacques Alexandre's sons also married and settled in Lafourche Interior Parish. 

Oldest son Ursin, also called Justin, married cousin Marcelline, 16-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Bourgeois and Marguerite Babin, at the Thibodauxville church in April 1826.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Ursior or Ursin Orelien or Aurelien, called Aurelien, in January 1826; Joseph Rémy or Rémi in August 1828 but, called Rémi, died at age 26 in July 1855; Jean Onésime, called Onésime and Olézime, born in August 1830; Jacques Justin in August 1833 but died at age 3 1/2 in January 1837; Marguerite Ucelimme or Ursuline born in April 1835; Julienne Osilia or Azélia, called Azélia, in September 1837; Marcellin Maximin probably in the late 1830s or early 1840s; Marie or Marcelite Mathilde, called Mathilde, in March 1842; Aureline Crexeuse in June 1844 but, called Cresence, died at age 2 1/2 in February 1847; Omer Magloire born in January 1847; Eugène le jeune died six days after his birth in November 1849; Trasimond Adam born in December 1850; and Louis Ernest in August 1852--13 children, nine sons and four daughters, between 1826 and 1852.  Daughters Marguerite Ursuline, Azélia, and Marcelite Mathilde married into the Guillot and Breaux families by 1870.  Four of Ursin's sons also married by then, three of them to sisters, and remained on the Lafourche. 

Oldest son Ursin Aurelien, called Aurelien, married Marie Anaïs, called Anaïs, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Breaux and Clémentine Robichaux, at the Thibodaux church in February 1848.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Camelia in c1848 but died at age 7 in 1855; Ursin Léo born in June 1850; Marie Héloise or Loisa, called Loisa, in October 1851; Marguerite Louise in April 1854; Marie Mathilde in March 1856; Clémentine Cécilia in October 1861; Madeleine Marcelline in July 1865; ...  Daughter Loisa married a Breaux cousin by 1870.  Ursin Aurelien's son, though older, did not marry by then. 

Ursin's third son Jean Onésime or Olézime married Marie Estelle, called Estelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Guillot and Hortense Pélagie Richard, at the Thibodaux church in January 1852.  Their children, born in Lafourche Parish, included Marie Stelina in March 1854; Marie Estelle in July 1855; Marie Emma in August 1857; Marie Odilia in July 1860; Joseph Onésime, fils in September 1865; Françoise Marceline in March 1867; ...  None of Jean Onésime's children married by 1870. 

Ursin's fifth son Marcellin Maximin married Angéline, Engéline, or Angelina, another daughter of Paul Breaux and Clémentine Robichaux, at the Thibodaux church in January 1866.  Their children, born in Lafourche Parish, included Marie Louisianne in November 1866; Joseph Philippe in February 1868; ...

Ursin's sixth son Omer married Odilia, yet another daughter of Paul Breaux and Clémentine Robichaux, at the Thibodaux church in April 1869.  Daughter Marie Odilia was born in Lafourche Parish in August 1870; ...

Jacques Alexandre's second son Jean Jacques dit Jacquin, married Anne Séraphine, called Séraphine, 17-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Marie Boudreaux and Anne Dugas, at the Thibodauxville church in September 1827.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Séraphine Eugénie, called Eugénie, in January 1831 but died the following November; Jérôme Adam, called Adam, born in January 1834; Joseph Augustave in May 1836; Jean Baptiste Laurenza or Laurence, called Laurence and Lawrence, in September 1838; Marie Eve in January 1841; Eugène Delphine, called Delphin, in November 1845; Joséphine in November 1849; and Jean Jacques, fils near Lockport on the lower Lafourche in October 1853--eight children, three daughters and five sons, between 1831 and 1853.  Daughters Joséphine, ... married into the Gautreaux and Badeaux families by 1870.  Four of Jean Jacques le jeune's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Adam married Lise, daughter of fellow Acadian Ursin Savoie, fils and his Creole wife Azélie Matherne, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in November 1860.

Jacquin's second son Joseph Augustave married Roséma, daughter of fellow Acadian Trasimond Trahan and his Creole wife Virginie Carmouche, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in February 1860.

Jacquin's third son Laurence married Mathilde, daughter of William Wilton and Marcelline Guitreau, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in September 1860, and sanctified the marriage at the Thibodaux church in June 1863.  Their children, born on the lower Lafourche, included Marie Alice in September 1861 near Raceland; Emmy Léonie near Lockport in November 1864; Louis Lawrence in August 1870; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Laurence served in the Lafourche Parish Regiment Militia and, along with most of his unit, was captured at Labadieville in nearby Assumption Parish in late October 1862.  The Federals released him in early November, and he returned to his family. 

Jacquin's fourth son Delphin married cousin Eliza, daughter of fellow Acadians Adélard Boudreaux and Joséphine LeBlanc, at the Lockport church in February 1867.  Their children, born near Lockport, included Célestine Phonie in January 1868; Séverine in July 1869; ...

Jacques Alexandre's fourth son Paul Onésime, called Onésime and Lésime, married Mélasie, 19-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Donat Landry and his Creole wife Geneviève Stieven, at the Thibodauxville church in July 1829.  Their children, born on the bayou, included Paul Onésime, fils in September 1830; Marie Mélasie in February 1833 but, called Mélasie, died near Raceland, Lafourche Parish, age 22 (the recording priest said 23), in July 1855; Jacques Donat, called Donat, born in January 1836; Félix Julien in January 1839; Marie Euphrosie or Euphrasie, called Euphrasie, in January 1842; Pierre Eufrosin or Euphrosin, called Froisin, in June 1844; and Marie E., probably Émilie, in April 1847--seven children, four sons and three daughters, between 1830 and 1847.  Daughters Euphrasie and Émilie married into the Robichaux and Bourgeois families by 1870.  Paul Onésime's sons also married by then and settled on the lower Lafourche. 

Oldest son Paul Onésime, fils married Eugénie, daughter of Edmond Bourgeois, not a fellow Acadian, and Adèle Baudoin, at the Raceland church, Lafourche Parish, in May 1856; one of Paul Onésime's sisters married Eugénie's brother.  Paul Onésime, fils and Eugénie's children, born near Raceland, included Paul III in February 1857; Marie Émelia in September 1858 but, called Émelie, died at age 5 months the following February; Félix le jeune born in January 1861; Joseph Apollinaire in April 1863; Félicie in September 1865; Marie Victoria in December 1867; Pierre Alix in February 1870; ... 

Onésime's second son Donat married Séraphine, daughter of fellow Acadian Furcy Theriot and his Creole wife Marie Autin, at the Raceland church in May 1857.  Their children, born near Raceland, included Marie Armentine in July 1858 but, called Armantine, died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 2) in March 1860; Félicie born in November 1860; Marie Félicie in April 1863; Justinien in November 1865; ... 

Onésime's third son Félix married Céleste, another daughter of Furcy Theriot and Marie Autin, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in April 1869.  Their son Louis Félix was born near Raceland in March 1870; ...

Onésime's fourth and youngest son Froisin married Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadian Rosémond Usé and his Creole wife Geneviève Maigret, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in May 1867.

Jacques Alexandre's fifth son Jacques Eugène, called Eugène, married Adèle, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Charles Broussard and his Creole wife Anne Stieven, at the Thibodauxville church in July 1832.  Their children, born on the bayou, included Eugénie in January 1834; Eugène Charles in March 1836; Marguerite Adela or Adèle, called Adèle, in December 1838; Joseph Adla or Adélard, called Adélard, in April 1841 but, called Adélard, died at age 8 (the recording priest said 9) in June 1849, four days after his father died; and Pierre Octave, called Octave, born in January 1844--five children, two daughters and three sons, between 1834 and 1844.  Eugène, père died in Lafourche Interior Parish in June 1849, age 37, a widower. "Letters of tutorship" for his children--Eugénie, Eugène, Adèle, and Octave--were filed at the Thibodaux courthouse three weeks after his death.  Daughters Eugénie and Marguerite Adela married into the James and Legendre families by 1870.  Neither of Eugène's remaining sons married by then. 

Jacques Alexandre's seventh and youngest son Louis David, called David, married Scholastique, daughter of fellow Acadians Valéry Breaux and Marguerite Roger, at the Thibodaux church in April 1847.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Louis in July 1848; David Cléophas died at age 2 months in March 1850; Marie Louisiane, called Louisiane, born in August 1851; Marguerite Augustine in January 1853; and Joseph David born posthumously near Lockport in November 1854--five children, three sons and two daughters, between 1848 and 1854.  David, père died in Lafourche Parish in October 1854, age 33.  A petition for tutorship of his children, naming his wife and remaining children--Louis, Louisiane, Marguerite, and Joseph--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse the following February.  One of David's sons married by 1870. 

Oldest son Louis married Agnès, also called Eme, daughter of fellow Acadians Adélard Boudreaux and Joséphine LeBlanc, at the Lockport church in December 1869.

Joseph (c1748-1809) à Jean à Antoine Babin

Joseph, son of Jean-Baptiste Babin and Ursule Landry, born at Minas in c1748, followed his family to Maryland in 1755 and his widowed mother and three sisters to Louisiana in 1766.  They settled at Cabahannocer, where Joseph married Osite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques LeBlanc and Catherine-Marie-Josèphe Forest, in January 1771.  Osite also had come to Louisiana from Maryland in 1766.  By April 1777, she and Joseph were living on the right, or west, bank of the river at Ascension above Cabahannocer.  Their children, born on the river, included Rosalie in c1772; Marie-Madeleine in June 1773 but may have died in Ascension Parish, age 66 (the recording priest said 72), in October 1839; Joseph-Ephrèm born in November 1774; Paul in March 1776; Jean- or Joseph-Charles, called Charles, in c1777; Pierre-Delage, called Delage, in April 1779 but died at age 6 in August 1785; Marguerite born in July 1780; Adélaïde in September 1783; Henriette in January 1785; Simon-Joseph baptized, age unrecorded, in May 1787; another Adélaïde born in July 1789; Anne-Élise or -Lise in February 1790; Claude-Raphaël in September 1793; Valéry-Damase in December 1796 but died at his brother Paul's home in Ascension Parish, age 28, in March 1824; Claire born in July 1798; and Marie-Justine in September 1802--16 children, nine daughters and seven sons, between 1772 and 1802.  Joseph died in Ascension Parish in March 1809.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph was age 66 when he died.  He was closer to 61.  Daughters Rosalie, Marguerite, Henriette, Adélaïde, and Anne-Lise married into the LeBlanc, Boudreaux, Landry, and Babin families, two of them twice.  Five of Joseph's sons married and settled in Ascension Parish, but some of his grandsons moved upriver into Iberville and West Baton Rouge parishes.  

Oldest son Joseph-Ephrèm married cousin Anne Marie or Marine, called Marie or Marine, daughter of fellow Acadians François Hébert and Marie LeBlanc, at San Gabriel upriver from Ascension in April 1797.  Their children, born on the river, included an unnamed son died age eight days after his birth in February 1799; Marianne- or Marie-Clémence born in February 1800; Alain-Joseph or Joseph-Alain, also called Joseph Élien or Élieu, in August 1802; Gertrude in December 1804; Hortense in June 1807 but died at age 13 (the recording priest said age 6 and did not give the mother's name) in October 1820; Rosaline born in November 1809; Mathilde in December 1811; Trasimond Ephrème in December 1813; Liboire Apollinaire in June in 1816 but, called Apollinair, died at age 2 in June 1818; Léonarda or Eléonore born in June 1819; and Mathilde, the second with the name, or perhaps Hortense, the second with the name, in May 1821--11 children, four sons and seven daughters, between 1799 and 1821.  Joseph Ephrèm died in Ascension Parish in March 1838.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph was age 61 when he died.  He was 63.  Daughters Marie Clémence, Mathilde, Eléonore, and Hortense married into the Lopez, Doiron, Dupuy, and Hébert families.  Joseph Ephrème's two remaining sons also married and settled farther upriver in West Baton Rouge Parish. 

Second son Alain Joseph or Joseph Alain, also called Joseph Élien or Élieu, married Rosalie Amelie or Amelie Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Édouard Daigre and Marie Josèphe Henry, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in January 1824.  They settled near Brusly, West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Domitille in November 1825; Joseph Arnesse or Arsène, also called Philogène and Philosine, in July 1827; Ernest Daigre in April 1828 but died at age 23 in April 1851; Philogènes Alisse, a daughter, born in February 1831; Émelie Athalie or Nathalie, called Nathalie, in Novemer 1833; and Adélard in the 1830s--six children, four sons and two daughters, between 1825 and the 1830s.  Alain, called Élien by the recording priest, who gave no parents' names nor mentioned a wife, died near Brusly in June 1855, age 52.  Daughters Domitille and Nathalie married into the Allen and Hébert families by 1870.  Two of Alain's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Philogène married Arthémise Élodie, called Élodie, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexis Longuépée and Constance Comeaux, at the Brusly church in April 1852.  Their children, born near Brusly, included Aurelia in February 1853; Jean died two days after his birth in June 1854; Baziline Célina born in November 1855; Joseph Adonis in June 1860; ...  None of Philogène's children married by 1870. 

Alain's third and youngest son Adélard married first cousin Antoinette, daughter of fellow Acadians Célestin Templet and Hortense Babin, at the Brusly church in September 1864; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Daughter Anna was born near Baton Rouge in March 1868; ...

Joseph Ephrèm's third son Trasimond Ephrème, while living in West Baton Rouge Parish, married Julienne, daughter of Pierre Clément and his Acadian wife Marie-Madeleine Legendre of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the Baton Rouge church in August 1845.  They settled across the river near Brusly.  Their children, born there, included Trasimond Arthur or Arthur Trasimond in May 1846; Joseph Arnileas in December 1847; Jean Ephrème in November 1849; Pierre Magloire in October 1851; Étienne David in December 1853; Arcade Thélésphore in January 1856 but died the following August; Marie Joséphine born in June 1857; Marie Olivia in June 1859; Marie Eugénie in March 1861; ...  None of Trasimond Ephrèm's daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did. 

Oldest son Arthur Trasimond married Augustine or Anne Anastasie, called Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadian Élie Hyacinthe Lejeune and his Creole wife Eléonore Aillet, at the Brusly church in January 1867.  Their children, born near Brusly, included Marie Léonie in April 1868; Marie Regina in March 1870; ...

Joseph's second son Paul married cousin Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Landry and Marie Babin, at Ascension in September 1797.  Their children, born there, included Claire-Batilde in the late 1790s or early 1800s; Honorine, also called Justine, in January 1805 but died at age 21 in February 1826; Anne Valerine or Valerante born in July 1806; Simon Leufroi, called Leufroi, in August 1808; a daughter, name unrecorded, in October 1810 but died two months later; Clothilde Euphrosine born in September 1811; Hippolyte Adolphe, called Adolphe, in December 1813; and Raphaël Valéry, called Valéry, in September 1816--eight children, five daughters and three sons, between the late 1790s and 1816.  Paul died in Ascension Parish in July 1835, age 59.  The recording priest, probably parish curé Father Hercule Brassac, who did not mention a wife or give any parents' names, only the decedent's given name, said Paul died at "age ca. 60."  Daughters Claire Batilde, Anne Valerante, and Clothilde Euphrosine married into the Landry, Dupuis, and Denoux, also called Gaillard, families.  All of Paul's sons married, but only one of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Simon Leufroi, called Leufroi, married cousin Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Bénoni Babin and Marguerite Gaudin, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in April 1834.  A "procuration" filed for Rosalie at the Houma courthouse, Terrebonne Parish, in April 1843, says that "Leufroy died in Ascension Parish" but gives no date of his death, and lists her heirs as her siblings, so she and Leufroi may have had no children, or at least none who survived childhood.  Evidently Rosalie joined her siblings in Terrebonne Parish after Leufroi died, either in the late 1830s or early 1840s. 

Paul's second son Hippolyte Adolphe, called Adolphe, married Marie Arthémise, called Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadians Jérôme Rivet and Élisabeth Melançon and stepdaughter of Nicolas Landry, at the Donaldsonville church in August 1836.  They settled on the river near the boundary between Ascension and Iberville parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marguerite Utecia or Uteria, called Utecia and Marguerita Luthecia, in July 1837; Hippolyte Germain born in July 1839; Sandon in October 1842; Lucain or Lucian Gerent in October 1844; Christine Félicea in September 1847; Philomène Eliska in August 1849; Marie Julie in May 1852; and Élisabeth Valentine in March 1854--eight children, five daughters and three sons, between 1837 and 1854.  Daughter Marguerite Utecia married into the Favre family by 1870.  None of Adolphe's sons married by then. 

Paul's third and youngest son Valéry married Adeline, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Poirier and Caroline Mire, at the Donaldsonville church in February 1844. Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Marie Azéma in February 1847; and Geneviève Olive or Olivia, called Olivia, in January 1850.  Valéry, called Valaire by the Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial, may have died in Ascension Parish in August 1858.  If so, he would have been age 41 at the time of his passing (the recording priest said 40).  Daughter Olivia married into the Dugas family by 1870.  Valéry's line of the family, except for its blood, probably died with him. 

Joseph's third son Charles married cousin Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Isaac LeBlanc and probably his first wife Marie-Rose Melançon, at Ascension in c1796.  Their children, born there, included Marguerite-Modeste in November 1797; Joseph Valéry, called Valéry and Valère, in March 1799; Joseph-Hubert in November 1800; Aureline in c1804 but died at age 4 1/2 in September 1808; Charles, fils born in February 1809 but died at age 20 months in October 1810; and Isaac Colin born in June 1811 but died at age 1 in December 1812.  In his mid-40s, Charles remarried to Madeleine, daughter of Frenchman Pierre Denoux, also called Gaillard, and his Creole wife Marie Lagrange of Ascension, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in December 1822.  Daughter Aureline Euphémie was born posthumously in Assumption Parish in September 1823--seven children, three daughters and four sons, by two wives, between 1797 and 1823.  Charles died probably in Assumption Parish by February 1827, in his late 40s or early 50s, when his wife remarried there.  Daughter Aureline, by his second wife, married a Babin cousin.  One of his remaining sons also married.  

Oldest Joseph Valéry, called Valéry, from first wife Françoise LeBlanc, married Marie Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Orillion and Marie Rose Breaux, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in November 1819.  They settled on the river near the boundary of Iberville and Ascension parishes and also on the upper Lafourche. Their children, born there, included a son, name unrecorded, died a day after his birth in October 1820; Marie Françoise born in August 1822; and Valéry, fils died a month after his birth in January 1828.  Joseph Valéry remarried to Andrea, daughter of Joseph Corbo and Marie Barrienta, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in June 1829.  They settled near the boundary of Ascension and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Ovide or Ovid in September 1830 but, called Joseph, died at age 14 1/2 in February 1845; Charles Antoine or Antoine Charles born in July 1832; Léonise Carmélite in March 1834; and Therence or Terence in September 1837--seven children, five sons and two daughters, by two wives, between 1820 and 1837.  Joseph Valéry, called Valère, died in Ascension Parish in October 1847, age 48.  Daughters ..., by both wives, married into the Leroy and Gomez families by 1870.  One of Valéry's remaining sons also married by then.  

Fourth son Antoine Charles, by second wife Andrea Corbo, married Carmélite Diez probably in Ascension Parish in the late 1850s.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Marie Grégoria Anastasia in November 1858; Joseph Antoine in January 1861; Carmélite Léonise in January 1866 but, called Carmélite, died at age 1 1/2 in September 1867; Marguerite Angéline born in February 1868; ...

Joseph's fifth son Simon Joseph married Sidalise Marguerite or Marguerite Sidalise, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Landry and Angèle LeBlanc of Ascension, at the St. Gabriel church in April 1814.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Honoré in March 1815; Anselme in April 1817; Désiré in May 1819; Marguerite Azélie in January 1828; Joseph Leufroi in July 1830; Simon Valsein or Valsin in May 1832; and Eléonore in c1839 but died at age 2 in July 1841--seven children,five sons and two daughters, between 1815 and 1839.  Neither of Simon Joseph's daughters married by 1870, if they married at all, but two of his sons did.  Not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Honoré married cousin Marie Mathilde, called Mathilde, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Landry and Marine Melançon, at the Donaldsonville church in April 1838.  Their daughter Marie Eléonore was born in Ascension Parish in July 1839.  Honoré died in Ascension Parish in March 1840.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not mention a wife or give any parents' names, said that Honoré was age 26 when he died.  He was 25.  His daughter did not marry by 1870, and he fathered no sons.  One wonders if at least the blood of his line endured.   

Simon Joseph's fifth and youngest son Simon Valsin married Martha Laurenda Wallis, place and date unrecorded.  Their son William Honoré was born near Gonzales, Ascension Parish, in January 1866; ... 

Joseph's sixth son Claude Raphaël married Marie Arthémise, called Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadians Donat Landry and Angèle Landry, at the St. Gabriel church in August 1819.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included a daughter, name unrecorded, died at age 3 1/2 months in September 1820; Michel Raphaël or Raphaël Michel born in September 1821; Denis Dosile, called Dosile or Dozilia, in October 1823; and Varis Théodule in February 1826--four children, a daughter and three sons, between 1820 and 1826.  Claude Raphaël died in Ascension Parish in July 1828, age 34.  Two of his sons married by 1870. 

Oldest son Michel Raphaël or Raphaël Michel married cousin Alzire Apolline dite Pauline, daughter of fellow Acadians Corentin LeBlanc and Phelonise Babin, at the St. Gabriel church in May 1844.  Their children, born in the river, included Auphelia or Ophelia near St. Gabriel in November 1845; and Michel Dosilia in Acension Parish in December 1847 but, called Michel Damas, died there the following April.  Michel Raphaël remarried to Marie Tarsile, called Tarsile, daughter of Antoine Léon Duplessis and his Acadian wife Céleste Dupuis, at the Donaldsonville church in June 1853.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Maxine Cora in May 1854; Marcelus Malcour in December 1855; Guillemine Tersilia in January 1857; Marie Cécilia in November 1858; Rigobert Nelville in January 1861; Bertin Raphaël in September 1862; Joséphine Elmira in August 1864; Relique Sylvère near Gonzales in June 1866; Victorine Aurela in July 1868; ...  Daughter Ophelia, by his first wife, married into the Breaux family by 1870.  None of Michel Raphaël's sons married by then. 

Claude Raphaël's second son Denis Dosile, called Dosile or Dozilia, at age 42, married Malvina, daughter of Joseph Delmaire Lavergne and his Acadian wife Eléonore Breaux, at the Gonzales church, Ascension Parish, in December 1865.  Their children, born near Gonzales, included Joseph Denys in September 1866; Paul Johnny in January 1870; ...

Joseph dit Dios (c1754-1782) à Joseph à Vincent à Antoine Babin

Joseph dit Dios, elder son of Pierre Babin and Anne Forest, born probably at Pigiguit in c1754, was taken by his family to Maryland.  He came to Louisiana in 1766 with his widowed mother and younger brother Charles and settled with them at Cabahannocer.  Their mother remarried at New Orleans soon after they reached the colony but returned to Cabahannocer.  Joseph dit Dios married Marine, daughter of fellow Acadians Désiré LeBlanc and Marie-Madeleine Landry, at Ascension above Cabahannocer in February 1775.  A few years later, they were living on the right, or west, bank of the river at Ascension.  Their children, born on the river, included Paul-Hippolyte, called Hippolyte, at Ascension in November 1775; Charles in May 1777 but died at age 2 in December 1779; Benjamin baptized at Cabahannocer, age unrecorded, in July 1778; and Jérôme baptized, age not recorded, in May 1780--four children, all sons, between 1775 and 1780.  Joseph dit Dios died at Ascension in February 1782, age 28.  Two of his sons married, but only one of them produced a family line that endured.  In spite of the son's early death, it became a substantial one in what became St. James and Ascension parishes.  

Oldest son Paul-Hippolyte married first cousin Henriette, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon LeBlanc and Marie-Anne Arceneaux, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in June 1796; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  They settled at Cabahannocer but may have lived briefly on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Their children, born on the river and the upper bayou, included Eugène at Cabahannocer in March 1797 but died at the home of Rosémond LeBlanc at Fausse Pointe, St. Martin Parish, age 25, in June 1822; Anne-Clémence, called Clémence, born in May 1799 but died at age 6 in July 1805; Antoine born at Assumption in November 1800 but died at the home of Widow Rosémond LeBlanc at Fausse Pointe, age 26, in September 1826; Arthémise born at Cabahannocer in September 1802 but died at age 17 1/2 in March 1820; and Désiré born at St. James in June 1805 but died at age 6 in September 1811--five children, three sons and two daughters, between 1797 and 1805.  Hippolyte died in St. James Parish in August 1811.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Hippolyte was age 27 when he died.  He was 35.  Neither of his daughters married, nor either of his remaining sons, who moved to lower Bayou Teche and died there in their mid-20s, still bachelors.  This line of the family, then, including its blood, did not endure in the Bayou State. 

Joseph dit Dios's third son Benjamin married Félicité, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Marie Richard and Rose Bourgeois, at the St.-Jacques de Cabahanncoer church in May 1797.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer, included Joseph in March 1799; Adélard in January 1801; Marie-Josèphine, called Joséphine, in June 1803; Marie Doralise, called Doralise, in January 1806; Benjamin Ursin, called Ursin, in August 1808; and Nicolas in April 1810--six children, four sons and two daughters, between 1799 and 1810.  Benjamin, père died in St. James Parish in September 1811, age 33.  Daughters Marie Joséphine and Doralise married into the Richard and LeBoeuf families.  All of Benjamin'd sons married. 

Oldest son Joseph married Théotiste Basilise or Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Éloi Landry and Marie Melançon, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in January 1827.  They settled near Convent, St. James Parish.  Their children, born there, included Benjamin Rigobert in January 1828; Philias Constant, called Constant, in February 1829; Marie Madeleine Octavie in January 1831; Henriette Félicité, also called Marie Félicité, in August 1832; Joseph, also called Joseph Landry and Landry, in 1834 and baptized at age 1 year, 26 days in October 1835; Nicolas le jeune born in May 1837; Marie Doralise in January 1840; and Elizabeth in July 1842 but, called Éliza, died at age 2 (the recording priest said 3) in September 1844--eight children, four sons and four daughters, between 1828 and 1842.  Daughters ... married into the Falgout and Theriot families by 1870.  Two of Josseph's sons also married by then, but only one of the lines endured. 

Second son Constant married Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Gaudin and Scholastique Hébert, at the Convent church in January 1851.  Did they have any children? 

Joseph's third son Joseph Landry married Mélanie, daughter of fellow Acadian Félix Arceneaux and his Creole wife Virginie Minvielle, at the Convent church in June 1859.  They lived in St. James Parish before and during the War of 1861-65 and moved upland into the area around Gonzales, Ascension Parish, after the war.  Their children, born on the river, included Marie Théotiste near Convent in August 1860; Marie Félicité in October 1863; Louis Joseph Landry in June 1865; Marie Doralice near Gonzales in July 1867; ... 

Benjamin's second son Adélard married Henriette Elise or Lise, 21-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Melançon and Apollonie LeBlanc, at the St. James church, St. James Parish, in June 1820.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Félicité in April 1821 but died at age 1 in July 1822; Marguerite born in July 1822 but died in October; Marie Elvina, called Elvina, in c1823; Marie Zulma born in December 1825 but died at age 10 months in October 1826; Simon Oscar, called Oscar, born in February 1828 but died died "age ca. 25 years" in January 1853; and Adélard, fils died several days after his birth in August 1831.  Adélard remarried to Célanie, Céline, or Cléonise, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Breaux and Élise Breaux, at the Donaldsonville church in December 1835.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included a newborn, name unrecorded, died in October 1836; Pierre Adélard born in March 1838; and Mary Amanda, called Amana, in August 1838[sic, probably 1839]--eight children, at least four daughters and three sons, by two wives, between 1821 and 1839.  Adélard, père died in Ascension Parish in November 1839, age 39.  Daughters Elvina and Amanda, by both wives, married into the Breaux and Poché families by 1870.  Adélard's remaining son did not marry by then. 

Benjamin's third son Benjamin Ursin, called Ursin, married Marie Adèle or Odile, called Odile, Berteau probably in Ascension Parish in the early 1830s.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Marie Madeleine, called Madeleine, in July 1834; Joseph Ursin or Ursin Joseph in October 1836; Marie Aselina in September 1838; Fortunat, perhaps theirs, despite his name, died hours after his birth in July 1840; Laura Félicité born in December 1842; Joseph died at age 9 days in June 1845; Joséphine Camille born in September 1848; Rosalisa in August 1852; and Joanna Mathilde in June 1854--nine children, six daughters and three sons, between 1834 and 1854.  Daughter Madeleine married into the Gautreaux and Landry families by 1870.  Benjamin Ursin's remaining son also married by then, during his war service. 

During the War of 1861-65, oldest son Joseph Ursin or Ursin Joseph, called Ursin in Confederate records, served in Company A of the 3rd Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Iberville Parish, which fought in Arkansas, Missouri, and Mississippi.  Ursin was a plasterer, with a dark complexion, light-colored hair, and gray eyes, standing 5 feet 11 inches tall, when he enlisted as a sergeant at New Orleans in May 1861, age 24.  He was his company's first lieutenant when he was captured at Iuka, Mississippi, in September 1862.  Later that month, the Federals sent him to Corinth, Mississippi; to Camp Douglas, Illinois, a prisoner-of-war camp near Chicago; and then to the exchange depot at Cairo, Illinois.  He was exchanged aboard the steamer Esmerelda near Vicksburg, Mississippi, in early November 1862, returned home, and married cousin Marie Élise, daughter of Luc Lesassier and his Acadian wife Aveline Babin, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, later that month.  Ursin returned to his company and was captured and paroled at Vicksburg in July 1863.  After his exchange, he returned to his unit.  In early 1865, he transferred to Company H of Ogden's Regiment Louisiana Cavalry and served as the company's captain.  His command operated in eastern Louisiana along the Amite River and in the Baton Rouge area and surrendered with General Richard Taylor's army at Gainesville, Alabama, in May 1865, Ursin among them.  His and Marie Élise's children, born in Iberville Parish, included Joseph Georges in October 1864 when Ursin was waiting to be exchanged; Charles Samuel in March 1866; Paul Ursin in November 1867; Marie Odile in February 1870; ... 

Benjamin's fourth and youngest son Nicolas married Marie Antoinette, called Antoinette, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Breaux and Marguerite Richard, at the Donaldsonville church in February 1837.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Jean Baptiste Théodore in April 1837; Joseph Alexandre, called Alexandre, in March 1838; Louis Albert in August 1839; and Joseph Nicolas in April 1842 but died at age 3 1/2 in December 1845--four children, all sons, between 1837 and 1842.  Nicolas died in Ascension Parish in January 1842, age 31.  One of his sons married by 1870. 

Second son Josesph Alexandre married Avelina or Evelina, daughter of fellow Acadians Isidore Landry and Élisabeth Gautreaux, at the Donaldsonville church in April 1860.  Their son Paul Oscar was born in Ascension Parish in December 1864; ... 

Charles (c1760-1783) à Joseph à Vincent à Antoine Babin

Charles, younger son of Pierre Babin and Anne Forest, born probably in Maryland in c1760, came to Louisiana in September 1766 with his widowed mother and older brother Joseph dit Dios.  Charles died at Ascension in January 1783, age 22.  He probably did not marry.  

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At least 20 more Babins, including a large extended family, arrived from Maryland in July 1767.  Spanish officials sent them to the new Acadian community of San Gabriel d'Iberville on the river above Cabahannocer, where several new family lines emerged, though not all of them endured.  One member of the family followed an older married sister to the Attakapas District and created a western branch of the family there: 

Joseph (c1713-?) à Antoine Babin

Joseph, fourth son of Vincent Babin and Anne Thériot, born at Minas or Pigiguit in c1713, married Anne-Marie, daughter of Pierre Landry and Marguerite Forest, at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, probably in c1730.  Anne-Marie gave Joseph many children there:  Dominique born in c1731; Pierre dit Pitre in c1732; Étienne in c1736; Joseph in c1739; Anne-Élisabeth in c1743; another Étienne in c1749; and Cyprien in c1750--six sons and a daughter, between 1731 and 1750.  Older sons Dominique and Pierre married into the Boudrot and Forest families at Minas and Pigiguit.  In the fall of 1755, the British deported Joseph, wife Anne-Marie, daughter Anne-Élisabeth, unmarried sons Étienne and Cyprien, and married sons Dominque and Pierre and their families to Maryland with dozens of their Babin cousins.  In 1767, Joseph, now a 54-year-old widower, three of his unmarried younger children, two sons and a daughter, emigrated to Louisiana from Maryland.  Joseph, père did not remarry in the colony.  Daughter Anne-Élisabeth married twice into the Hébert family in the Spanish colony.  One of Joseph père's younger sons also created his own family there, but the line did not endure.  Joseph, père's married sons Dominque and Pierre died in Maryland before 1766.  Pierre's sons Joseph dit Dios and Charles followed their widowed mother, Anne Forest, to Louisiana in 1766; and Dominique's seven children, four sons and three daughters, having also lost their mother in Maryland, followed their paternal grandfather and other relatives to Louisiana in 1767, two of them with families of their own.  All of the grandsons, including the one who had come to the colony earlier, married, one of them on the western prairies, so this large family line endured. 

Fifth son Étienne followed his family to Maryland and his widowed father and siblings to Louisiana in 1767.  He married a woman perhaps at San Gabriel whose name has been lost to history.  Evidently she gave him two sons, names unrecorded, who did not survive childhood.  Étienne remarried to Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Bonaventure LeBlanc and Marie Thériot, at Cabahannocer downriver from San Gabriel in January 1778.  Their children, born at San Gabriel, included Joseph in October 1778 but died at age 10 months in 1779; Isaac born in September 1780 but died in Iberville Parish, age 64 (the recording priest said 63), "unmarried," in September 1844; Joseph-Bénoni born in December 1781 but died at age 3 in October 1784; Marie-Madeleine born in March 1784; Augustin in March 1786 but died in Iberville Parish, age 41, in May 1827; Françoise in November 1787[sic]; Louis-Raphaël in January 1788[sic]; and Dorothée born perhaps in the 1780s--10 children, seven sons and three daughters, by two wives, between the 1760s and 1788.  Étienne died at San Gabriel in December 1788, age 39.  Daughters Dorothée and Marie Madeleine, by his second wife, married into the Seguinaud, Lacave, and Lopez families.  None of Étienne's remaining sons seems to have married, so this branch of the family, except for its blood, did not endure in the Bayou State. 

Joseph's sixth and youngest son Cyprien followed his family to Maryland, his widowed father and sibling to Louisiana in 1767, and settled with them at San Gabriel.  In the late 1700s or early 1800s, he moved upriver to the Baton Rouge area, where he died in January 1814.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Cyprien was age 70 when he died.  He was closer to 64.  He never married.   

Jean-Baptiste (c1739-?) à Joseph à Vincent à Antoine Babin

Jean-Baptiste, oldest son of Dominique Babin and Marguerite Boudrot and grandson of Joseph, born probably at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in c1739, followed his family to Maryland, where he married fellow Acadian Isabelle- or Élisabeth-Marguerite LeBlanc, in the late 1750s or early 1760s.  She gave him two children there:  Marguerite in c1765; and Pierre in January 1767.  Jean-Baptiste, Isabelle, their two children, and a 3-year-old Babin orphan followed his paternal grandfather, uncles, and aunt to Louisiana in 1767 and settled on the "right back ascending" [the east bank] at San Gabriel.  Son Pierre evidently died there, if he survived the crossing from Maryland.  Isabelle gave Jean-Baptiste more children at San Gabriel, including Grégoire in c1768; Joseph-Casimir in c1773; Senateur, called Nateur, Nator, and Joseph-Senateur, in September 1774; Pierre-Olivier, called Olivier, baptized at Cabahannocer, age unrecorded, in June 1777 but died at San Gabriel at age 10 in March 1787; Jean-Pierre born in November 1778 but died near St. Gabriel, age 47, in September 1826; Félix-Simon, called Simon, born in May 1781; Paul in June 1783; and Marie-Anne in March 1786--10 children, two daughters and eight sons, between 1765 and 1786, in Maryland and Louisiana.  Daughters Marguerite and Marie Anne married into the Allain, Breaux, and LeBlanc families.  Five of Jean-Baptiste's sons also married and settled on the river. 

Second son Grégoire married Marie-Anne, called Manette, Marine, or Marinette, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph LeBlanc and Marguerite Landry, at San Gabriel in May 1800.  Their children, born there, included Marieline or Marceline in July 1801; Marie-Félonise in June 1803; Sylvère or Sylvestre in December 1804; Élisabeth in September 1806; Marine in June 1808; Grégoire Napoléon, called Napoléon, in April 1810; Marguerite Adeline in April 1812; Balthazar in September 1814; and Édouard Marcellin in October 1816--nine children, five daughters and four sons, between 1801 and 1816.  Grégoire died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in October 1828.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Grégoire was age 60 when he died.  Daughters Marceline and Marguerite married into the Comeaux and LeBlanc families.  Three of Grégoire's sons also married and settled in what became West Baton Rouge Parish. 

Oldest son Sylvère or Sylvestre married Marie Euphémie, called Euphémie, daughter of fellow Acadians Bénoni Hébert and his second wife Adélaïde Dupuy of West Baton Rouge Parish, probably at St. Gabriel in the early 1830s.  Their son Telesphore was born near Baton Rouge in December 1834.  Sylvestre remarried to Ameline, Amelina, or Melvina, another daughter of Bénoni Hébert and Adélaïde Dupuy, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in February 1838; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of affinity in order to marry.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included Antoine Omer in September 1838; Édouard in July 1842; Zoé Adélaïde baptized, age unrecorded, in June 1840; Joseph Buffington, called Buffington, in November 1843; Edgar in September 1845; Aloysia in March 1847; Jean Baptiste Forester in November 1850; and Marie Aurelia posthumously in April 1852--nine children, six sons and three daughters, by two wives, between 1834 and 1852.  Sylvestre died near Baton Rouge in November 1851, age 46 (the recording priest said 48).  Daughter Marie Aurelia, by his second wife, married into the Langlois family by 1870.  One of Sylvestre's sons also married by then. 

Fourth son Buffington, by second wife Ameline Hébert, married Mazelia, daughter of François Xavier Zimmer and Célestine Grose, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in September 1869. ...

Grégoire's second son Napoléon married fellow Acadian Marie Virginie, called Virginie, Hébert perhaps in West Baton Rouge Parish by the early 1840s.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included Domitille Alexine in August 1846; Joseph le jeune in December 1849; Jean Baptiste Winfield Scott in November 1852; Odile Geneviève in June 1855; Albert in February 1859; Jean Charles in December 1862; ...  None of Napoléon's children married by 1870. 

Grégoire's third son Balthazar married Martha, daughter of Louis Buckner and Marie Treger, at the Baton Rouge church in January 1853.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included Mary in March 1864; Martha in September 1867; ...

Jean-Baptiste's third son Joseph-Casimir married Anne or Marie Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Hébert and Anne Landry, at San Gabriel in October 1798.  Their children, born there, included Madeleine, also called Anne Madeleine, in July 1799; Marguerite-Eugènie in November 1801; Joseph-Casimir, fils, called Casimir, in March 1803 but died at age 7 1/2 in December 1810; Jean Baptiste le jeune born in May 1804; François Napoléon Théophile, called Théophile, in April 1806; twins Derosin or Drosin and Jean Pierre in June 1808, but Jean Pierre died at age 7 1/2 in February 1816; François Célestin, called Célestin, born in October 1810; Marie Euphémise or Euphémie in February 1813 but died in August; Henry Wallmond or Valmond, called Henry V. and H. V., born in September 1814; Jean Baptiste Joseph Marcellin, called Joseph Marcellin, in February 1818; Marie Virginie in February 1820 but, called Virginia, died near Baton Rouge, age 31 (the recording priest said 30), in September 1851 and was buried in Highland Cemetery; and Élisabeth Florestine born in November 1822--13 children, five daughters and eight sons, including a set of twins, between 1799 and 1822.  Joseph Casimir may have been the Joseph Babin who died near Baton Rouge in May 1830, age 55.  If so, he would have been in his late 50s at the time of his passing.  Daughters Anne Madeleine, Marguerite Eugénie, and Élisabeth married into the Thomas, Provenché, Philips, and Aubin families.  Six of Joseph's sons also married, but not all of the lines endured. 

Second son Jean Baptiste le jeune married Judith, daughter of French Canadian David Provenché and his Acadian wife Anne LeBlanc, at the Baton Rouge church in January 1828; Judith's brother married one of Jean Baptiste's sisters.  Jean Baptiste le jeune and Judith's children, born near St. Gabriel, included Marie Eziloa in June 1830; Jean Baptiste, fils died eight days after his birth in March 1832; and Eugénie Audile or Odile, also called Marie Odile, born posthumously in August 1834[sic, probably 1833]--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1830 and 1833.  Jean Baptiste le jeune evidently was the "Jeane Bte. [Babin]" who died near St. Gabriel in June 1833.  The recording priest, who gave no parents' names or mentioned a wife, said he died at age 32.  He was 31.  Daughter Odile married an Hébert cousin, but her early death, probably from childbirth, meant that not even the blood of this family line may not have endured.   

Joseph Casimir's third son Théophile married cousin Phelonise, daughter of Bénoni Hébert and his second wife Adélaïde Dupuy of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the Baton Rouge church in February 1827.  She evidently gave him no children.  Théophile remarried to Victorine, daughter of François Souchon Aubin and his Acadian wife Mélanie Daigre and widow of Théophile's youngest brother Joseph Marcellin, at the Baton Rouge church in December 1848.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included Théophile Joseph or Joseph Théophilus in December 1849; Palmire in June 1852; Mary Victoria in September 1854; Emma Dora in March 1857; Henriette Aloysia in June 1859; Antoinette Loelia in January 1862; Olivia Elvina in August 1867; ...  None of Théophile's daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did.

Only son Joseph Théophilus, by second wife Victorine Aubin, married Virginia, daughter of Jean Baptiste Fuentes and Marie Navarre, at the Baton Rouge church in November 1869. ...

Joseph Casimir's fourth son Derosin or Drosin, a twin, married Catherine Bouillon probably at Baton Rouge in the early 1830s.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included Marianne Madeleine dite Mary in April 1834; Gilbert Derosin in February 1835; Élizabeth in c1839; Jane Lavinia in July 1840 but, called Lavinia, died at age 10 1/2 (the recording priest said 12) in June 1851; Joseph Théophile born in February 1843; Francis or François le jeune in February 1845; Esthelle in c1847; and Mary Agnès in September 1851--eight children, five daughters and three sons, between 1834 and 1851.  Daughter Élizabeth married into the Aubin family by 1870.  None of Derosin's sons married by then. 

Joseph Casimir's sixth son François Célestin, called Celestin, married Marie Éloise, Héloise, or Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Rémi Doiron and Julie Richard, at the Baton Rouge church in July 1836.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included Marie Julia Odilia in August 1838; Palmiro Marien, also called Mary Anne Palmyra, in May 1841; François Célestin, fils in February 1843; Zépherine Élodie, called Élodie, in October 1844; Apollinaire in January 1851 but died at age 14 (the recording priest said 13) in February 1865; and Emma Lousinga born in September 1856--six children, four daughters and two sons, between 1838 and 1856.  At age 55, François Célestin, père remarried to Caroline, daughter of Luke Blount and Sarah Powers and widow of Louis Powers, at the Baton Rouge church in May 1866; they had to secure a dispensation for "difference of religion" in order to marry.  Did she give him anymore children?  Daughters Marie Julia Odilia, Mary Anne Palmyra, and Élodie, by his first wife, married into the Oldham, Bradshaw, Heroman, and Grear families by 1870.  None of Célestin's sons married by then. 

Joseph Casimir's seventh son Henry Valmond, called Henry V., while living in West Baton Rouge Parish, married fellow Acadian Faustine or Florestine Trahan of West Baton Rouge Parish at the Baton Rouge church in June 1838.  Daughter Malvina was born probably near Baton Rouge in c1842.  Henry V. served as sheriff of East Baton Rouge Parish from 1851 to 1864.  Daughter Malvina married into the Haynes family.  Henry V. and his wife evidently had no sons, so his line of the family, except for its blood, may not have endured. 

Joseph Casimir's eighth and youngest son Joseph Marcellin married Victorine, daughter of François Souchon Aubin and his Acadian wife Mélanie Daigre, at the Baton Rouge church in January 1844.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included François Jean Baptiste in October 1845; and Ernestine Adonia, also called Émiline, in October 1847.  Joseph Marcellin died by December 1848, when his widow remarried to his older brother Théophile.  Neither of Joseph Marcellin's children married by 1870. 

Jean-Baptiste's fourth son Senateur, called Nateur and Nator, married, at age 24, 24-year-old Élise, Éloise, or Héloise, another daughter of Joseph LeBlanc and Marguerite Landry, at San Gabriel in April 1799.  Their children, born there, included Isabelle-Adeline, called Adeline, in March 1800 but died at age 2 in February 1802; Senateur-Victor or Victor-Senateur born in August 1801; Joseph Neville in August 1803 but died at age 10 months in June 1804; Adeline born in June 1805; Marie Thirside or Telcide in November 1807; Joseph or William Neuville, called Neuville, in December 1809; Marie Céline or Celina in December 1812; and Marie Adeline or Advelina, called Advelina, in February 1815--eight children, five daughters and three sons, between 1800 and 1815.  Senateur died near St. Gabriel in March 1821.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Senateur was age 40 when he died.  He was 46.  Daughters Adeline, Marie Telcide, Marie Celina, and Advelina married into the Joly, Dupuy, and Lesassier families, including two Joly brothers.  Senateur's remaining sons also married and settled at St. Gabriel. 

Oldest Senateur Victor or Victor Senateur married cousin Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Isaac LeBlanc and Félicité Melançon and widow of Victorin Chiasson, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in December 1826.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Michel Adolphe, called Adolphe, in September 1827; Élise in December 1831 but, called Eliza, died at age 21 (the recording priest said 22) in September 1853; and Marie Myrza, called Myrza, born in August 1838--three children, a son and two daughters, between 1827 and 1838.  Victor Senateur died near St. Gabriel in July 1844, age 42.  Daughter Myrza married into the Berry family.  Victor's son also married by 1870. 

Only son Michel Adolphe, called Adolphe, married Léocade, daughter of Venance St. Amant and Marianne Joly, at the St. Gabriel church in March 1851.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Marianne Hermine in December 1851; Eliza in January 1853; Victor Alfred in January 1856; Michel Adolphe, fils in April 1858; Marie Adèle in June 1860; Euphrasie in May 1862; Paul Firmin in September 1866; ...  None of Adolphe's children married by 1870. 

Senateur's third and youngest son Neuville married Mélanie, daughter of fellow Acadian Louis Part and his Anglo-American wife Constance Henderson, at the St. Gabriel church in February 1836.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Marie Irma in December 1836; Louis Senateur in June 1838; Emma in September 1840; Michael Oscar, called Oscar, in September 1842; Marie Myrza in November 1844 but died at age 7 1/2 in June 1852; Alexandre Neuville born in October 1847; Lucien Arthur in April 1849 but died at age 1 1/2 in December 1851; Alphonse born in October 1852; Joseph in September 1854; and Marie Alice in June 1857--10 children, four daughters and six sons, between 1836 and 1857.  Daughters Marie Irma and Emma married the same Boissac by 1870.   Two of Neuville's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Louis Senateur married Mary Odile, called Odile, daughter of fellow Acadians Édouard LeBlanc and Lucille Allain, at the St. Gabriel church in November 1868.  Their son Henry Édouard had been born in Iberville Parish in October 1868 and was baptized perhaps on the day of his parents' wedding; ... 

Neuville's second son Oscar married Marie Louise, daughter of Timoléon Boissac and his Acadian wife Odile LeBlanc, at the St. Gabriel church in January 1869; two of Marie Louise's brothers married two of Oscar's sisters. ...

Jean-Baptiste's seventh son Félix Simon, called Simon, married cousin Henriette, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Landry and Devine Babin, at the St. Gabriel church in June 1804.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Marie Henriette Zenolie in October 1805 but, called Fannelly, died at age 44 (the recording priest said 45) in June 1850; Simon Eugène, called Eugène, born in April 1807; Célestine in February 1809; Marie Joséphine in May 1811 but, called Joséphine, died at age 44 (the recording priest said 40) in September 1855; Simon Rosémond, called Rosémond, born in September 1813; Henriette Séraphine in January 1814[sic, probably 1816]; Jean Baptiste Dorville or Dorval, called Dorval, baptized, age unrecorded, in May 1818; Jean Adolphe born in December 1820; Marie Melidas in May 1822; and Madeleine Séraphine, called Séraphine, in August 1825 but died at age 3 in September 1828--10 children, six daughters and four sons, between 1805 and 1825.  Simon may have died near St. Gabriel in June 1826.  The priest who recorded the burial, and did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Simon was age 40 when he died.  Félix Simon à Jean Baptiste would have been age 45.  Daughters Célestine and Henriette Séraphine married into the Desbains and Christen families.  Félix Simon's sons also married, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Eugène married double cousin Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Henri Babin and Marie Louise Landry, at the St. Gabriel church in April 1845.  Eugène died near St. Gabriel in November 1852, age 45.  His line of the family probably died with him. 

Félix Simon's second son Simon Rosémond, called Rosémond, married Hermina, daughter of Firmin Duplessis and Louise Tusson, at the St. Gabriel church in November 1843.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Anthony in November 1846 but died at age 1 in December 1847; Eliza born in December 1847; Marie Olivia in May 1849; a daughter, name unrecorded, in c1850 but died at age 3 in October 1853; and George Dallas born in October 1851--five children, two sons and three daughters, between 1846 and 1851.  Rosémond died near St. Gabriel in October 1853, age 40 (the recording priest, who called him Simon Rosémond and named his wife and parents, said 41).  None of Rosémond's remaining children married by 1870. 

Félix Simon's third son Jean Baptiste Dorval, called Dorval, married double cousin Marie Alazida or Alzida, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Babin and Sidalise Babin of Ascension Parish, at the St. Gabriel church in February 1844.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Alcesse or Alcée Elphége in July 1846; Austin in June 1848; and Léonard Lorenz in November 1852--three children, all sons,  between 1846 and 1852.  None of Dorval's sons married by 1870. 

Félix Simon's fourth and youngest son Jean Adolphe may have married cousin Elvina Babin and settled in Ascension Parish by the early 1840s.  Did the family line endure?

Jean-Baptiste's eighth and youngest son Paul married Marie-Céleste, called Céleste, daughter of Frenchman Jean Pierre Cullere or Dulaire and his Acadian wife Madeleine LeBlanc, at the St. Gabriel church in February 1813.  Their children, born at St. Gabriel, included Marie Azélie, called Azélie, in January 1814; and Pierre Paul, called Paul, fils, in May 1816.  Daughter Azélie married into the Brasset and Duplessis families.  Paul's son also married. 

Only son Pierre Paul, also called Paul, fils, married cousin Euphémie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Paul LeBlanc and Marguerite Landry, at the St. Gabriel church in January 1837.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Marie Emma in May 1837 but, called Mathilde, may have died near Baton Rouge, age 7, in July 1844; Pierre Paul, fils born in October 1838; and Jean Numa in January 1843 but died at age 1 1/2 in November 1844--three children, a daughter and two sons, between 1837 and 1843.  Paul, fils died near St. Gabriel in December 1845 "of blows received the preceeding[sic] day in a battle with Adams and others."  Paul, fils was age 29.  One wonders what caused the altercation "with Adams and others" and who was Adams.  Paul, fils's remaining son married by 1870. 

Older son Pierre Paul, fils married Rosalie Amilisser, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Doiron and Rosalie Bourg, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in April 1864. ...

Ignace (c1741-1791) à Joseph à Vincent à Antoine Babin

Ignace, second son of Dominique Babin and Marguerite Boudrot, born probably at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in c1741, followed his family to Maryland, where he married fellow Acadian Marguerite Breau, date unrecorded.  She gave him a son, Paul le jeune, there in December 1766.  They followed his paternal grandfather and brothers to Louisiana soon after their son's birth and settled at San Gabriel on the river, where they had more children, including Joseph in December 1768; and Anne in c1776.  Ignace remarried to Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Landry and Marie-Josèphe Comeau and widow of Joseph Blanchard, at Cabahannocer downriver from San Gabriel in February 1778.  They settled at San Gabriel, where Marie-Josèphe gave Ignace another son, Pierre-Paul, baptized at San Gabriel, age unrecorded, in December 1779 but died at age 17 in January 1797--four children, three sons and a daughter, by two wives, between 1766 and 1779, in Maryland and Louisiana.  Ignace died at San Gabriel in November 1791, age 50.  Daughter Anne, by his first wife, married into the Moreau family and settled at Attakapas west of the Atchafalaya Basin.  Ignace's sons did not marry, so, except for its blood, this line of the family did not endure in the Bayou State. 

Oldest son Paul le jeune, by first wife Marguerite Breau, may have been the Paul Babin who died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in April 1815.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Paul was age 45 when he died but did not give his parents' names or mention a wife.  This Paul would have been age 48.  The priest said nothing of a wife. 

Paul (c1751-1802) à Joseph à Vincent à Antoine Babin

Paul, third son of Dominique Babin and Marguerite Boudrot, born probably at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in c1751, followed his family to Maryland in 1755.  He came to New Orleans in 1767 with the family of kinsman Pierre Babin, fils and followed them, his paternal grandfather, and other relatives to San Gabriel, where he married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Brasseux and Élisabeth Richard, in February 1784.  Their children, born at San Gabriel, included Paul-Henri, called Henri or Henry, in March 1785; Pierre in May 1786; Anne-Marine, called Marine, in May 1788; Dorothée-Adélaïde in July 1789; Marie-Claire or Clarisse, called Clarisse, in February 1794; Hubert in July 1796 but died near St. Gabriel, age 30, in April 1827; Euphrosine or Froisine born in January 1799 but died at age 7 in March 1806; and Victor born in June 1801 but died at age 15 months in October 1802--eight children, four sons and four daughters, between 1785 and 1802.  Paul died at San Gabriel in January 1802, age 50.  Daughters Marine, Dorothée Adélaïde, and Clarisse married into the Hébert, Thibodeaux, Landry, Gomes, Seguinot, and LeBlanc families, one of them, Marine, three times, another, Clarisse, twice.  Two of Paul's sons also married and settled in what became Iberville Parish. 

Oldest son Paul Henri, called Henri or Henry, married cousin Marie Louise, called Louise, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Landry and Brigitte Babin, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in August 1809.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Paul Célestin, called Célestin, in June 1810 but died at age 28 in January 1839; Marie Adèle, called Adéle, born in December 1811 but died at age 19 (the recording priest said 20) in April 1831; Marie Clarisse born in February 1817 but died at age 3 1/2 in June 1820; Marie Artémise born in December 1820; and Jean Charles, called Charles, in November 1824--five children, two sons and three daughters, between 1810 and 1824.  Daughters ... married into the Babin and Joly families.  Paul Henri's remaining son also married. 

Younger son Jean Charles, called Charles, married cousin Marguerite Élise, Élisa, Éliza, or Élysa, daughter of Edmond Joly and his Acadian wife Adeline Babin, at the St. Gabriel church in May 1855.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Marie Olympe in March 1856; Marie Adeline in January 1858; Edmond Henri in September 1859; Charles Joseph in July 1861; Louis Florian in September 1863; Gabriel Ignace in July 1866; Marie Louise in February 1868; Cyrille in January 1870; ...

Paul's second son Pierre married cousin Marine or Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Chiasson and Madeleine Richard, at the St. Gabriel church in February 1811.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Pierre Ursin in November 1811; a son, name unrecorded, died a few days after his birth in December 1813; Adeline, also called Adèle, born in January 1815; Jean Trasimond, called Trasimond, in April 1818; Marie Apollonie dite Pauline in January 1821; Marine in October 1824; and Adolphe, also called Adolphe Pierre and Pierre Adolphe, in August 1827--seven children, four sons and three daughters, between 1811 and 1827.  Pierre died near St. Gabriel in June 1851, age 65.  Daughters Adèle, Marine, and Pauline married into the Ross, Brown, and LeBlanc families, all of them non-Acadians.  Two of Pierre's sons also married. 

Third son Jean Trasimond, called Trasimond, married Domitille, daughter of Antoine Lopez and his Acadian wife Élisa Comeaux, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in January 1848.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Magloire in October 1848; Antonio Oscar in January 1850 but died the following July; Pierre Alexandre born in June 1851; Delphine Laurenza in December 1853; Marie Élise in June 1856; Philippe de Osselis in August 1858; Marcel Alonzo in November 1860; Joseph Dhema in November 1865; Trasimond, fils in November 1867; ...  None of Trasimond's children married by 1870. 

Pierre's fourth and youngest son Adolphe Pierre or Pierre Adolphe married Carmélite Telcide, daughter of fellow Acadian Paul Augustin Hébert and his Creole wife Carmelite Gareuil, at the St. Gabriel church in January 1854.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Paul Ostere in November 1854; Pierre Enos in August 1857; Henry Alphonse in July 1860; Alfred in March 1863; Marie Eliska in January 1865; twins Amédée and Émile in February 1867; Joseph Armand in November 1869; ...  None of Adolphe Pierre's children married by 1870. 

Joseph le jeune (c1755-1820) à Joseph à Vincent à Antoine Babin

Joseph le jeune, fourth and youngest son of Dominique Babin and Marguerite Boudrot, born in Maryland in c1755, came to Louisiana probably in 1767 with his paternal grandfather and his older brothers.  If so, he likely would have followed them to San Gabriel on the river before moving to the Attakapas District, where he first appeared in the general census of 1771 as a 16-year-old living in the household of Claude Martin and Marie Babin, probably his older sister and brother-in-law.  Joseph appeared again on an Attakapas District militia list in January 1773.  He was the first Babin male to remain on the western prairies and the only one to settle there during the colonial and antebellum periods.  He married Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Honoré Melançon and Marie Breaux, at Attakapas in February 1778.  They settled at La Pointe on upper Bayou Teche near present-day Breaux Bridge.  Their children, born on the upper Teche, included Adélaïde baptized, age 5 months, in May 1779; Joseph, fils in September 1783 but likely was the Joseph Babin who died in St. Martin Parish in May 1834, age 50 (the recording priest said 53), whose succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in November 1836; Julien born in September 1786; Pierre-Alexandre or Alexandre-Pierre in October 1792; Louise-Céleste in February 1795; a daughter, unnamed, died a day after her birth in August 1799; and Marcelline- or Marcellite-Arthémise born in July 1802--seven children, three sons and four daughters, between 1779 and 1802.  Joseph, père died at his home at La Pointe, St. Martin Parish, in October 1820.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph died at "age about 60 years."  He was closer to 65.  His succession, which calls him "widr. of Anastasie Melançon," was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in April 1821 (so why was Anastasie's succession record not filed at the St. Martinville courthouse until July 1828?).  Daughters Adélaïde, Marcellite Arthémise, and Louise Céleste married into the Savoy, LeBlanc, and Sonnier families.  Two of Joseph le jeune's sons also married and settled along the middle Teche.  His youngest son's family line was especially vigorous. 

Second son Julien married Séraphine, daughter of fellow Acadians François Guilbeau and Madeleine Broussard of La Pointe, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in August 1807.  Their children, born at La Pointe, included Jean or Julien Nelson, called Nelson, in October 1809; Madeleine Uranie or Urasie in March 1812; Marie Uranie, called Uranie, in October 1814; and a son, name unrecorded, died at his parent's home at La Pointe 17 days after his birth in January 1819--four children, two sons  and two daughters, between 1809 and 1819.  Julien, père died at his home at La Pointe in October 1819, age 33, and was buried "in the parish cemetery."  His succession, naming his wife, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in September 1821.  Daughters Madeleine Urasie and Uranie married into the Hébert and Decuir families.  Julien's remaining son also married. 

Older son Jean or Julien Nelson, called Nelson, married Marcellite Arthémise, also called Marguerite, daughter of Charles Cohem, Cohen, Comb, Combe, Come, or Comme and Marie Laviolette, at the St. Martinville church in July 1834.  They settled near Breaux Bridge.  Their children, born there, included a son, name unrecorded, in May 1835 but died three days after his birth; Julien Fostin, perhaps also called Jules N. and Jean Baptiste, born in August 1836; Eudgar Numa, called Numa, in March 1838; Marguerite Aima in February 1840; Charles Orel in October 1842; Victoire in October 1844; Omer baptized, age unrecorded, in August 1848; and Jean born in March 1850--eight children, six sons and two daughters, between 1835 and 1850.  Nelson's succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in December 1867.  He would have been age 58 that year.  Daughters ... married into the Hébert and Romero families by 1870.  Two of his sons also married by then. 

Second son Julien Foster/Jules N./Jean Baptiste married Agnès Victorine, called Victorine, daughter of Bernard Romero and Lise Caroline Feignant, in a civil ceremony in St. Martin Parish in August 1857.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Jules Aubin in February 1859 but probably died at age 9 1/2 in October 1868; Léonce Numa born in January 1861; Léonard in June 1863 but died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 2) in May 1865; Eugènat born in January 1866 but died the following August; Adam Omer born in August 1867 but died at age 2 in September 1868; Lucas born near Breaux Bridge in December 1869; ...  A succession for Jules Babin was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in November 1867.  If this was Julien Fostin, a.k.a. Jean Baptiste, he would have been age 31 that year.  Judging by the birth of one of his sons, it would not have been a post-mortem succession. 

Nelson's third son Eudgar Numa, called Numa, married  Marie C. Romero, place and date unrecorded.  Their son Numa Euzèbe was born near Breaux Bridge in April 1863; ... 

Joseph le jeune's third and youngest son Pierre Alexandre or Alexandre Pierre, called Alexandre, married Marie Tarsille, daughter of fellow Acadians Isaac Thibodeaux and Félicité Bernard of La Pointe, at the St. Martinville church in February 1817.  Their children, born at La Pointe, included Alexandre, also called Pierre-Alexandre, fils, in December 1817 but, called Pierre, died at age 8 1/2 in January 1830; Placide born in March 1819; Joseph, fils, also called Joseph Dermancourt or Dermancourt, in November 1820; Charles, also called Charles Sidné, in August 1822; Anastasie in April 1824; Arthémise, perhaps theirs, in c1825; Julien le jeune in January 1826 but died at age 38 in May 1864 (one wonders if his death was war-related); Jean Omair or Omer, called Omer and also Amédé, born in October 1827; Michel in September 1829; Marie, in September 1831; Alexandre, fils in March 1833, but, called Orelle, died at age 3 1/2 in October 1836; Placide Émile, called Émile, born in January 1835; Irène Théogène, called Théogène, in March 1837; Marguerite Léontine in May 1839; Olymphe Delphine in December 1840; Marie Anaïse in October 1842; Félicité or Félicie in June 1844; and Amorilda in August 1846--18 children, 10 sons and eight daughters, between 1817 and 1846.  Alexandre, père died probably at La Pointe in December 1855, age 63.  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse the following February.  Daughters ... married into the Broussard, Cormier, Guilbeau, Hébert, and Mouton families, and perhaps into the Melançon family as well, by 1870.  Six of Alexandre's sons also married by then. 

Second son Placide may have died near Lydia, Iberia Parish, in December 1870.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that P. Babin died "at age 50 yrs."  Placide à Pierre Alexandre would have been age 51.  One wonders if he married.  

Alexandre's third son Joseph Dermancourt, called Dermancourt, married Marguerite Cléonise or Cléonide, daughter of Joseph Allegre and his Acadian wife Marguerite Cormier and widow of Achille Sonnier, at the St. Martinville church in April 1853.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Alice in March 1853; Ubalde in May 1854; Marie Ludivine in March 1856; Albert in March 1858; Marie Ersilie in March 1862; Odile in January 1864; ...  None of Dermancourt's children married by 1870. 

Alexandre's fourth son Charles Sidné married cousin Marie Léomire or Louise, also called Marie Henri, daughter of fellow Acadians Colin LeBlanc and Marcellite Arthémise Babin, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, April 1844.  They settled up bayou near Breaux Bridge.  Their children, born there, included Marie Cecilia in March 1845; Charles, fils baptized, age unrecorded, in January 1848; Cécile born in April 1849; Pierre Egmard in January 1852; Rose Arthémise in March 1854; Élodie in April 1856 but died at age 6 1/2 in June 1863; Marie Elmire born in July 1858 but, called Elmira, died at age 4 1/2 (the recording priest said 3) in June 1863; Marie Blanche born in February 1862 but, called Blanche, may have died at age 2 1/2 in January 1865; Joseph Gaston born in November 1864; Luc in October 1868; ...  None of Charles Sidné's children married by 1870. 

Alexandre's sixth son Jean Omer, called Omer and also Amédé, married cousin Uranie, daughter of fellow Acadians Élisée Paul Thibodeaux and Marie Thibodeaux, at the Breaux Bridge church in January 1851.  They settled near Breaux Bridge.  Their children, born there, included Omer, fils in December 1851; Élise in July 1853; Alicia in June 1855; Marie in July 1858; Élizée in May 1860 but, called Élisée, died at age 1 1/2 in December 1861; Honoré born in October 1862; and Oser in January 1865 but died at age 1 1/2 in June 1866--seven children, four sons and three daughters, between 1851 and 1865.  Omer died in St. Martin Parish in November 1867.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Omer died "at age 37 yrs."  He was 40.  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in December.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Alexandre's seventh son Michel married Marie Azéma, called Azéma, another daughter of Joseph Allegre and Marguerite Cormier, at the St. Martinville church in February 1853.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Gabriel in August 1855; Ernest in November 1855[sic]; Alexandre le jeune in March 1858; Michel Alcibiade in December 1860; Sidonie Blanche in August 1862 but, called Blanche, may have died at age 2 1/2 in January 1865; Marie Eucharis born in September 1864; ...  Michel's succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in November 1867.  He would have been age 38 that year.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Alexandre's ninth son Placide Émile, called Émile, married Joséphine Letitia, called Letitia, daughter of Joseph Baptiste Castille and Adeleine Nerault and widow of Alexandre Girard, at the St. Martinville church in December 1860.  Daughter Marie Eudolie in September 1861. Wife Letitia died in August 1863, age 26.  One wonders if her death was war-related. 

Alexandre's tenth and youngest son Iréné Théogène, called Théogène, married Mathilde, daughter of Lucien Decuir and his Acadian wife Cléonise Breaux, at the New Iberia church in January 1861.  Their son Joseph Alcide was born near New Iberia in January 1866; ...   

Pierre, fils (c1723-?) à Charles à Antoine Babin

Pierre, fils, son of perhaps Pierre Babin and Madeleine Bourg of Minas, born probably at Minas in c1723, married Madeleine, daughter of perhaps Joseph Richard and Mare LeBlanc of Minas, probably at Minas in the early 1750s.  Madeleine gave Pierre, fils a daughter, Louise-Ludivine, born there in c1754.  The British deported them to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  The couple with their daughter appeared on a repatriation list at Upper Marlborough in July 1763.  Son Simon-Pierre or Pierre-Simon was born there in c1764.  Pierre, fils, Madeleine, their two children, and a teenaged Babin orphan went to Louisiana in 1767 and followed their fellow passengers to San Gabriel.  They remained on the river, where they had more children, including Joseph-Dosité born in January 1774; and Madeleine-Adélaide, called Adélaïde, baptized, age unrecorded, in May 1777--four children, two daughters and two sons, between 1754 and 1777, in greater Acadia, Maryland, and Louisiana.  In March 1777, they were living on the "right bank ascending," that is, the left or east bank, of the river at San Gabriel.  Pierre died by April 1778, in his early 50s, when his wife remarried to a Dugas downriver at Cabahannocer.  Daughters Louise-Ludivine and Marie-Adélaïde married into the Landry and Pujol families.  Both of Pierre, fils's sons also married.  His older son settled on the west bank of the river near the boundary of what became Iberville and West Baton Rouge parishes, where most of his sons died young or did not marry.  One of them, however, did create a family of his own and became a prosperous sugar planter in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Pierre's younger son remained in St. Gabriel, but his line died out despite two marriages.  

Older son Simon-Pierre or Pierre-Simon married cousin Marguerite-Constance, called Constance, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Richard and Anne Landry, at San Gabriel in April 1795.  Their children, born at San Gabriel, included Simon in December 1796 but may have died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, age 29 (the recording priest said age 40), in June 1826; Simon-Pierre, fils, also called Vernon-Pierre, born in August 1801 but died at age 33 (the recording priest said 35) near St. Gabriel in January 1835; Joseph-Valéry, called Valéry, born in May 1803 but died at age 19 in February 1822; twins Apollonie and Emérante born in April 1805, but Apollonie died the following September; Marie Joséphine born in August 1806; Geneviève Victorine, called Victorine, in January 1808 but died the following July; Marie Mathilde, called Mathilde, born in March 1809 but died in West Baton Rouge Parish, age 22, in August 1831; and Pierre Paul or Paul Pierre born posthumously in June 1810--nine children, four sons and five daughters, including a set of twins, between 1796 and 1810.  Simon Pierre died near St. Gabriel in December 1809.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Simon Pierre was age 50 when he died.  He was closer to 45.  Evidently none of his daughters married.  Only one of his sons married and settled in West Baton Rouge Parish, where he became a major planter. 

Fourth and youngest son Pierre Paul or Paul Pierre, called Paul, at age 26, married Henriette, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles LeBlanc and Élisabeth Hébert of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in May or June 1836.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie Emma, called Emma, probably in the late 1830s; Frances in c1838; Ernest, also called Franklin, in July 1840; Thomas W. in c1842; Marie Henriette in February 1846; and Marie Estelle in May 1848--six children, four daughters and two sons, between 1838 and 1848.  In 1860, Paul P. Babin, as he was called, owned 1,400 acres, 800 of them "improved," in West Baton Rouge Parish; 110 slaves worked his plantation and its steam-powered sugar mill, making him one of the state's "great planters."  Daughter Marie Emma married into the Blanchard family by 1870.  Paul's sons evidently did not marry by then. 

Pierre, fils's younger son Joseph-Dosité, called Dosité, married cousin Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Hébert and Anne Landry, at San Gabriel in October 1798; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  She evidently gave him no children, at least none who survived infancy.  At age 45, Dosité remarried to cousin Marie Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Daigre and Marie Jeanne Richard and widow of Augustin Templet, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in May 1819.  Dosité died in Ascension Parish in January 1857.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mentioned a wife, said that Dosité died at "age 90 years."  He was 83.  He evidently produced no children by either of his wives, so his line of the family died with him.  

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Twenty more Babins, including three brothers, came to Louisiana with the Breau party from Port Tobacco, Maryland, in February 1768.  Spanish Governor Ulloa insisted that they go to the new outpost-settlement at San Luìs de Natchez, across from British Natchez and far upriver from the other Acadian settlements.  Like most of their fellow passengers, the Babins hoped to live among their relatives at Cabahannocer, Ascension, or San Gabriel, so they settled only reluctantly at the isolated outpost.  The following year, after suppressing a French-Creole-led rebellion against Ulloa at New Orleans, Spanish Governor-General Alejandro O'Reilly, Ulloa's successor, allowed the Fort San Luìs Acadians to abandon the post and settle where they wanted.  Most of the Babins at Fort San Luìs resettled at Ascension on the Acadian Coast and in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley, where two more vigorous family lines emerged: 

Joseph l'aîné (c1730-late 1760s or early 1770s) à ? à Antoine Babin

Joseph Babin l'aîné, born at Minas in c1730, married cousin Rosalie, daughter of Paul Babin and Marie Landry, probably in Maryland.  Colonial officials counted them with a son at Port Tobacco on the lower Potomac in July 1763.  They came to Louisiana in February 1768 with two young children--Simon, age 5; and Marie-Rosalie, age 2--and Joseph's younger brother Joseph le jeune, and followed their fellow passengers to Fort San Luìs de Natchez.  After the Acadians were allowed to leave the outpost in 1769, Joseph evidently took his family to San Gabriel.  He died there by January 1773, when wife Rosalie remarried to an Hébert widower.  His son died at San Luìs de Natchez soon after reaching Louisiana, and his daughter also may have died young, so this line of the family did not endure in the Bayou State.  

Joseph le jeune (c1754-?) à ? à Antoine Babin

Joseph Babin le jeune, born at Minas in c1754, came to Louisiana in February 1768 with the family of his older brother Joseph l'aîné, who was old enough to be his father.  Joseph le jeune followed them to Fort San Luìs de Natchez and perhaps to San Gabriel after 1769.  He does not seem to have married.

François-Marie (c1742-1796) à Vincent à Antoine Babin

François-Marie, eldest son of Antoine Babin and Catherine Landry, born at Minas in c1742, followed his family to Maryland, where he married Marguerite-Hélène, called Hélène, daughter of Amand Breau and Marie Landry of Pigiguit in c1763.  Hélène gave him two sons in the colony:  Charles born in c1765; and Paul in August 1767.  Soon after their second son's birth, the family, along with two young Babin orphans, François-Marie's widowed mother, and a younger brother, followed the Breaus to Spanish Louisiana.  They were forced to settle at Fort San Luìs de Natchez and, after the Acadians were allowed to leave, resettled at Ascension on the Acadian Coast, where they had more children, including Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, born in December 1771 and baptized at New Orleans the following April; François, fils born at Ascension in May 1774; and Marguerite-Isabelle or -Élisabeth baptized, age unrecorded, in December 1777--five children, three sons and two daughters, between 1765 and 1777, in Maryland and Louisiana.  François died at San Gabriel in October 1796, age 54.  Daughters Madeleine and Marguerite Éisabeth married into the Rivet and LeBlanc families.  François-Marie's three sons also married, but not all of the lines endured.  His oldest son remained on the river, though two of his sons settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  His youngest son left the river and moved to Terrebonne Parish.  

Oldest son Charles married Madeleine-Angélique, called Angélique, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre-Paul Foret and Marguerite Orillion dit Champagne of Ascension, at San Gabriel above Ascension in January 1801.  They lived near the boundary between those districts.  Their children, born there, included Charles-Édouard, called Édouard, in October 1801; Marie-Adeline in March 1803; twins Joseph Arsène, called Arsène, and Marguerite Séraphine in January or February 1805; twins, names unrecorded, died a day after their birth in November 1806; an infant, name and age unrecorded, died in October 1809; Marie Isabelle born in March 1811; and Zéphirin Napoléon in August 1812--nine children, at least three sons and three daughters, including two sets of twins, between 1801 and 1812.  Charles, père died in Ascension Parish in December 1826, age 61.  Daughter Marie Adeline married into the Dugas family.  Two of Charles's sons also married and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche. 

Oldest son Charles Édouard, called Édouard, at age 24, married cousin Mathilde, 23-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Dugas and Rosalie Foret, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in January 1825; they had to secure a dispensation for fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  They settled at Bruly on the west side of the river in Ascension Parish near the boundary with Assumption Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie Berthilde Marcellite, called Marcellite, in November 1825; Joseph Michel in September 1827 but died at age 3 1/2 in July 1831; Joseph Achille, called Achille, born in October 1829; Joseph Édouard, called Édouard, fils, in February 1832; Joseph Napoléon in April 1833 but died at age 15 1/2 in January 1849; and Joseph Dernon born in July 1835.  Édouard remarried to Marie Domitille, daughter of Jean Baptiste Gros and Marie Englehardt, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in November 1838.  They settled near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie Hélène, called Hélène and Helena, in August 1839; Joseph Mélite in July 1847; and Joseph Anatole, called Anatole, in April 1849--nine children, two daughters and seven sons, by two wives, between 1825 and 1849.  Charles Édouard died near Paincourtville in January 1852, age 50 (the recording priest said 51).  Daughters Marcellite and Helena, by both wives, married into the Hébert and Gautreaux families by 1870.  Four of Charles Édouard's sons also married by then.  His youngest son settled on lower Bayou Teche after the War of 1861-65, but the others remained on Bayou Lafourche. 

Second son Joseph Achille, called Achille, from first wife Mathilde Dugas, married Louise, daughter of fellow Acadian Godefroi Breaux and his Creole wife Rosalie Copelle, at the Paincourtville church in January 1853.  They settled in Assumption Parish between Paincourtville and Pierre Part.  Their children, born there, included Marie Camilla in May 1854; Joseph Camille in March 1856 but, called Camille, died at age 7 in January 1864; Joseph Théophile born in April 1858; Neré Lusignant in May 1861; ... None of Achille's children married by 1870. 

Édouard's third son Joseph Édouard, called Édouard, fils, from first wife Mathide Dugas, married Laura Angéline, called Angéline, daughter of fellow Acadians Édouard Hébert and Eléonore Giroir, at the Paincourtville church in February 1854.  They also settled between Paincourtville and Pierre Part.  Their children, born there, included Angéline in April 1855; Joseph Édouard, fils in August 1856; and Marie in August 1858--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1855 and 1858.  Édouard, père died near Paincourtville in January 1860, age 27.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Édouard's fifth son Joseph Dernon, called Dernon, from first wife Mathilde Dugas, married cousin Aimée, daughter of fellow Acadians Eugène Landry and Françoise Landry, at the Paincourtville church in January 1860; they had to secure a dispensation for third or fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  They lived on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Assumption and Ascension parishes.  Their children, born there, included Joséphine Emma in March 1863; Jannette Florvilla in July 1866; ...

Édouard's seventh and youngest son Joseph Anatole, called Anatole, from second wife Marie Domitille Gros, married Caroline, daughter of fellow Acadians Édouard Broussard and Cléorie Louvière and a widow, at the New Iberia church, Iberia Parish, in January 1868.  Their son Joseph Catoire was born near New Iberia in September 1868; ... 

Charles's second son Joseph Arsène, a twin, married Marie Louise, called Louise, daughter of François Constant Peignier and Rosalie Foutelet, at the Donaldsonville church in October 1837.  They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Marie Octavie in June 1840; Joseph Félix, called Félix, in August 1842; Marie Emelina in April 1844 but, called Marie Amelina, died at age 2 in May 1846; and Marie Malvina born in August 1846--four children, a son and three daughters, between 1840 and 1846.  Joseph Arsène, called Arcène by the recording priest, died near Paincourtville in January 1847, age 42 (the recording priest said 43).   None of his daughters married by 1870, but his son did and settled in Ascension Parish, perhaps on the upper bayou. 

Only son Félix married cousin Amelina, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Casimir Babin and Nanette Boudreaux, at the Donaldsonville church in December 1868. ...

François-Marie's second son Paul married Marguerite-Pélagie, another daughter of Michel Dugas and Rosalie Foret, at Ascension in April 1802.  They settled near the boundary of what became Ascension and Iberville parishes.  Their children, there, included Henriette Félonie in February 1803; Valéry Joseph or Joseph Valéry in April 1804 but died at age 19 in January 1824; Jean or Paul Laurent born in August 1806 but died at age 7 in August 1813; Eulalie Clotilde born in March 1809 but died 12 days after her birth; and Marie Eugénie, called Eugénie, born in October 1810--five children, three daughters and two sons, between 1803 and 1810.  Daughters Henriette Félonise and Marie Eugénie married into the Babin and L'Alemand families, including two Babin brothers.  Neither of Paul's sons were able to marry, so, except for its blood, this line of the family did not endure. 

François-Marie's third and youngest son François, fils married Henriette, daughter of fellow Acadians Firmin Broussard and Madeleine Landry, at Ascension in April 1799.  They settled on the river near the boundary between Ascension and San Gabriel.  Their children, born there, included Françoise-Séraphine, called Séraphine, in March 1800 but died at age 3 in May 1803; Louis-Étienne born in October 1801; Firmin Henri in July 1804; Marguerite Eugénie dite Jeanne in April 1806; and François Maximilien, called Maximilien, in the mid- or late 1800s.  At age 35, François, fils remarried to Marie Marcellite, called Marcellite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Clouâtre and Marie Thibodeaux, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in October 1809.  By the early 1820s, Francois, fils moved his family to what became Terrebonne Parish.  Their children, born on the river and in Terrebonne, included Marie Marcellite, called Marcellite, at St. Gabriel in September 1810; Joseph Dorville, called Dorville and perhaps also Huberville, in December 1811; Pierre Achille, called Achille, in March 1813; Marie Josèphe or Joséphine Hellena dite Élinor in August 1815; Dreville Adrien in March 1817; Élie Napoléon, called Napoléon, baptized at St. Gabriel, age 9 months, in May 1819; Marie Madeleine Lorenza born probably in what soon became Terrrebonne Parish in August 1821; Louis Théodule in January 1824; Marie Oreline in May 1826; and Jacques in July 1828--15 children, six daughters and nine sons, by two wives, between 1800 and 1828.  François, fils died in Terrebonne Parish in January 1850, age 75, a widower.  His succession inventory, naming his deceased second wife and listing his children and his daughter's spouses--Joseph Dorville, Pierre Achille, Firmin Henry, Maximilien, Napoléon, Jacques, Jeanne and her husband, Marie Marcellite and her husband, Élinor and her husband, Madeleine Lorenza and her husband, and Mazee Oreline and her husband--was filed at the Houma courthouse in February.  Daughters Marguerite Eugénie, Marcellite, Marie Joséphine Hellena, Marie Oreline, and Marie Madeleine Lorenza, from both wives, married into the Foret, Chatanier, Pitre, Pye, Olivier, and Crochet families.  Six of François, fils's sons also married.  His older sons settled in Ascension Parish, but his younger ones remained on the southeastern bayous in Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes.  Three of his sons married Babin cousins who were sisters!

Second son Firmin Henri, by first wife Henriette Broussard, married cousin Renée or Rosalie Sidalise, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Bénoni Babin and Madeleine Dugas, at the Donaldsonville church in February 1830; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  They remained in Ascension Parish on or near the river.  Their children, born there, included Henri Joseph in July 1831 but, called Henry Joseph, died at age 17 in August 1848; Henriette Dothilde born in April 1833 but, called Dotila, died in May 1865, age 32, 15 days before her mother died; Marie Adélaïde born in March 1835 but died the following October; Vincent Telesphore, called Telesphore, born in March 1836 but died near Gonzales, Ascension Parish, at age 28 in April 1864 (one wonders if his death was war-related); François Dorville, called Dorville, born in February 1839; Marie Aimée in April 1841; Eugène Hilarion in October 1844 but died near Gonzales, age 21 (the recording priest said 18), in August 1865 (was Eugène Hilarion's death war-related?); and Jacques born in c1847 but died at age 3 in October 1850--eight children, five sons and three daughters, between 1831 and 1847.  Wife Rosalie died near Gonzales in May 1865.  The priest who recorded her burial said she died at "age 64 years, 9 months."  Evidently none of her and Firmin's children married by 1870. 

Third son François Dorville, called Dorville, seems to have served in Company D of the 14th Regiment Confederate Cavalry and Company A of Ogden's Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, raised in Ascension Parish, which fought in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama during the War of 1861-65.  Confederate records called him Dorvalle.  Did he survive the war and return to his family?  If he did, he did not marry by 1870. 

François, fils's third son François Maximilien, called Maximilien, from first wife Henriette Broussard, married cousin Adélaïde, another daughter of Joseph Bénoni Babin and Madeleine Dugas, at the Donaldsonville church in June 1836.  They remained in Ascension Parish.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Maximilien in March 1837; Marie Joséphine in September 1839; Henriette Séraphine in December 1841; Marie Madeleine in January 1843; Eve Rosalie in December 1849; and François Xavier in March 1854--six children, two sons and four daughters, between 1837 and 1854.  A Maximiliani Babin died near Gonzales in February 1864.  One wonders if this was François Maximilien.  If so, he would have been in his late 50s at the time of his death.  None his children seems to have married by 1870, at least not in South Louisiana. 

François, fils's fourth son Joseph Dorville, by second wife Marcellite Clouâtre, married cousin Rosalie Mathilde, called Mathilde, yet another daughter of Joseph Bénoni Babin and Madeleine Dugas, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in October 1838.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Matilde Mélanie in November 1839; Joseph Treville in February 1843; and Adam Marc in April 1845--three children, a daughter and two sons, between 1839 and 1845.  Daughter ... married into the Robichaux family by 1870.  Neither of Joseph Dorville's sons married by then. 

François, fils's fifth son Pierre Achille, called Achille, from second wife Marcellite Clouâtre, married Marie Angelina, called Angelina, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Ambroise Pitre and his Creole wife Rose Adélaïde Lirette, at the Thibodauxville church in May 1836.  Their children, born on the Lafourche and in Terrebonne Parish, included Achille Pierre in February 1837; Olésime, also called Onésime Lloyd, James, and Lesin, in October 1838; Marie Zeluma in December 1840; Marie Emma, called Emma, in May 1845; Damase d'Orvil in Terrebonne Parish in August 1848; Joséphine in April 1851; Mathilde Eurelia in March 1854; and Rose Elvina in September 1858--eight children, three sons and five daughters, between 1837 and 1858.  Daughters Emma and Joséphine married into the Bonvillain and Babin families by 1870.  Two of Achille's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Achille Pierre married Luvinia, daughter of Narcisse Marcel and Celestin Rhodes of Terrebonne Parish, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in April 1859.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Marie Graziane in January 1860; Éloise Euzelia in May 1862; ...

Achille's second son Onésime, also called James, married Elvire, daughter of fellow Acadian Léonard Crochet and his Creole wife Élise Pichoff, at the Houma church in December 1860.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Marie Susanne inm August 1862; Adam Aubin in March 1864 but, called Adam, died at age 2 1/2 in November 1866; Urselia born in October 1866; Eve Cécilia in January 1870; ... 

François, fils's seventh son Élie Napoléon, called Napoléon, from second wife Marcellite Clouâtre, married double cousin Marie Sylvanise, 17-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Eugène Babin and Céleste Babin, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in January 1847, and sanctified the marriage at the Houma church in March 1848.  Daughter Marie Clémentine was born near Houma in November 1847 and married into the Cadière family by 1870. 

François, fils's ninth and youngest son Jacques, by second wife Marcellite Clouâtre, married Marianne, daughter of Jacques Labit and his Acadian wife Henriette Roger, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in September 1853, and sanctified the marriage at the Houma church in June 1854.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Marie Henriette, called Mary, in December 1853; Jacques Justilien in January 1855; François Eugène in November 1856; Marianne Jacqueline in September 1857; Franklina in September 1860; Jean Marie in November 1862; Surville Privat in October 1864 but, called Privat, died at age 3 (the recording priest said 2) in November 1867; Eve Laura born in March 1869; Eveline Mélasie in December 1870; ...  None of Jacques's children married by 1870. 

Firmin (c1747-1790s) à Vincent à Antoine Babin

Firmin, second son of Antoine Babin and Catherine Landry, born at Minas in c1747, followed his family to Maryland and his widowed mother and brothers to New Orleans and Fort San Luìs de Natchez, where he married Bibianne, another daughter of Amand Breau and Marie Landry, in January 1769; she was the sister of Firmin's older brother François-Marie's wife Hélène.  After the Acadians were allowed to leave Fort San Luìs, Firmin and Bibianne followed his family to Ascension on the Acadian Coast.  Their children, born on the river, included Paul-Firmin at Fort San Luìs in c1770; Marianne in the 1770s; Joseph-Bénoni, called Bénoni and Bélonie, at Ascension in January 1774; Pierre-Firmin, called Firmin, fils, in December 1775 but died at age 17 in October 1792; and Marie-Madeleine-Anastasie, called Anastasie, baptized at Cabahannocer, age unrecorded, in February 1778.  Firmin remarried to Isabelle, daughter of Arche Brousse or Brusse and Isabelle ____, at Ascension in November 1781.  In January 1788, they were living on the right, or west, bank of the river at Ascension.  Their children, born there, included Simon-Théodore in December 1782; François le jeune in March 1785; Isabelle-Cécile baptized, age unrecorded, in December 1787; and Joseph-Toussaint in November 1789 but died at age 1 in September 1790--eight children, six sons and three daughters, by two wives, between 1770 and 1790.  Firmin died at Ascension by January 1792, when his wife remarried there.  He would have been in his mid-40s that year.  Daughters Marianne, Anastasie, and Isabelle Cécile, from both wives, married into the Landry, Lavergne, Hébert, and Dugas families.  Four of Firmin's sons also married.  His two oldest sons settled on upper Bayou Lafourche, but his younger sons remained on the river.  

Oldest son Paul-Firmin, by first wife Bibianne Breau, married Dorothée, daughter of Joseph Pichoff and Marguerite Bilique of the upper German Coast, at Assumption on upper Bayou Lafourche in May 1802.  Their children, born there, included Marie-Susanne in April 1803; Michel Eugène, called Eugène, in May 1805; Marcellin in August 1808 but died at age 2 in October 1810; Paul Victorin, called Victorin, born in October 1811; Pierre Destival, called Destival, in February 1815; and Auguste Alexandre in February 1818--six children, a daughter and five sons, between 1803 and 1818.  Paul Firmin's daughter did not marry by 1870, if at all.  Four of his sons did marry by then.  One of his sons and a grandson "returned" to the river.  Another son and a grandson settled in Terrebonne Parish. 

Oldest son Michel Eugène, called Eugène, married first cousin Marie Célesie, Céleste, or Célestin, called Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Bénoni Babin and Madeleine Dugas, his uncle and aunt, and widow of Zénon LeBlanc, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in January 1830; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included twins Marie Sylvanie and Joseph, but Joseph died five days after his birth in October 1830; Joseph Paul born in September 1832; Pierre Derosin, called Derosin, in February 1835; Marie Aspasie in January 1837; and Céleste Zoé in July 1839 but, called Marie Céleste Zoé, died at age 1 in May 1840--six children, three daughters and three sons, between 1830 and 1839.  Eugène may have died in Lafourche Parish in September 1853 "during [a] yellow fever epidemic."  If so, he would have been age 48 at the time of his death.  Daughters ... married into the Babin and Villeneuve families by 1870.  One of Eugène's remaining sons also married by then. 

Third and youngest son Derosin left the upper Lafourche valley and married Marie Eléonore, called Eléonore, daughter of Norbert Villeneuve and his Acadian wife Marcellite Landry, at the Donaldsonville church in October 1856.  They settled on the river near the boundary between Ascension and St. James parishes.  Their children, born there, included Eugène in September 1857; Alzide N. in July 1859; Bathilde in January 1863; Adam near Gonzales in June 1865; Ulger in February 1868; ...  

Paul Firmin's third son Paul Victorin, called Victorin, married Marie Marcelline or Marcellite Frosite, daughter of fellow Acadian Alexandre Bergeron and his Creole wife Euphroisine Bellanger of Terrebonne Parish, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in January 1833.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Mérante or Emérante Marie in April 1834; Susanne in April 1839; and Telesphore in September 1841--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1834 and 1841.  Daughters Emérante and Susanne married into the Agnelly and Lalonde families and settled in St. Landry Parish on the prairies.  Victorin's son also married but settled in Terrebonne Parish. 

During the War of 1861-65, only son Télésphore served in Company H 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 Marguerite Paola, daughter of Alexis Jolet and Marie Azélie Falgout, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in September 1866.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Jean Franklin in July 1868; Joseph Ferdinand in July 1870; ...

Paul Firmin's fourth son Pierre Destival, called Destival, married Marcelline, daughter of fellow Acadians Donat Landry and Angèle Landry and widow of Placide LeBlanc, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in February 1844.  They remained on the river.  Son Blaise Félix was born in Ascension Parish in February 1847 and did not marry by 1870. 

Paul Firmin's fifth and youngest son Auguste Alexandre married Eléonore, another daughter of Alexandre Bergeron and Euphroisine Bellanger, at the Thibodaux church in May 1839.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Lufroy or Leufroi in February 1840; and Marie Eve in December 1841.  Auguste remarried to Félicité, also called Émelie, 19-year-old daughter of Jacques Bonvillain and his Acadian wife Émelie Crochet, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in June 1849, and sanctified the marriage at the Houma church in June 1850.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Auguste Adams in April 1850; Émelia or Émelie Evelia in October 1851; Aimée Lexigna, evidently called Lovinia, in December 1853; and Edwin in May 1856--six children, three sons and three daughters, by two wives, between 1840 and 1856.  Auguste, père died in Terrebonne Parish in July 1858, age 40.  Daughters Émelie and Lovinia, by his second wife, married into the Bacon or Baron and Lester families by 1870.  None of Auguste's sons married by then, at least not in South Louisiana. 

Firmin's second son Joseph-Bénoni, called Bénoni or Bélonie, from first wife Bibianne Breau, married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Athanase Dugas and Rose LeBlanc, at Ascension in July 1800.  They lived near the boundary between the Ascension and Valenzuela districts before moving down bayou.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie-Anne in April 1801; Marie-Silesia or Célesie, also called Célanie, in December 1802; Rosalie Reine, called Reine, in January 1805; Henriette Bibianne in June 1807; Joseph in October 1809 but evidently died in June 1833, age 23 (the recording priest, who called him Joseph Bélloni, said 19); Eugène le jeune born in January 1817; Valentine, a son, in April 1820; and Rosalie Mathilde in October 1822--eight children, five daughters and three sons, between 1801 and 1822.  In the 1820s, they moved down bayou to Lafourche Interior Parish, where their children also settled close to their cousins.  Joseph Bénoni died in Ascension Parish in December 1836.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Bénoni was age 75 when he died.  He was 62.  Daughters Célesie, Reine, and Mathilde married into the LeBlanc, Babin, and Lambert families, one of them, Célesie, three times.  Two of Joseph Bénoni's sons also married, but one of the lines may not have endured. 

Second son Eugène le jeune married Céleste, another daughter of Alexandre Bergeron and Euphroisine Bellanger, at the Thibodaux church in September 1838.  Their children, born on the Lafourche and in Terrebonne Parish, included Joseph Alexandre in June 1839; Valentin le jeune in November 1841; Lufroid or Leufroi Homère in Terrebonne Parish in October 1847; and Eugène Adam in September 1854--four children, all sons, between 1839 and 1854.  Two of Eugène le jeune's sons married by 1870, one of them after his Confederate service. 

Oldest son Joseph Alexandre married Marie Elfreda or Elfrida, daughter of Auguste Chete, Echete, or Eschete and Héloise Bellanger of Terrebonne Parish, at the Houma church in January 1864.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Marie Alida in November 1864; Ernest Leufroi in December 1866; François Xavier in April 1869; ... 

During the War of 1861-65, Eugène's second son Valentin le jeune served in Company E of the 1st (Dreux's/Rightor's) Battalion Louisiana Infantry, raised in Terrebonne Parish, which fought in Virginia during the first year of the conflict.  Valentin married cousin Elvina, daughter of fellow Acadians Justin Hébert and Azélie Bergeron, at the Houma church in March 1863 after he returned from Virginia.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Eugène Augustin in December 1864; Eugénie Aurelie in January 1867; Joseph Albert in November 1868; ... 

Bénoni's third and youngest son Valentine married Anne Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Clouâtre and Marie Élisabeth Thibodeaux, at the Thibodaux church in June 1840.  One wonders if they had any children, at least any who survived childhood. 

Firmin's fourth son Simon Théodore, by second wife Isabelle Brousse, married Marie Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Landry and Marie Babin, at Ascension in February 1805.  Their children, born there, included Raphaël Simon or Simon Raphaël in September 1806 but died at age 2 in July 1809; Madeleine Clothilde born in October 1809; and a son, name unrecorded, died at age 2 months in October 1811.  Simon Théodore remarried to cousin Henriette, also called Sidalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Babin and Olide LeBlanc and widow of Firmin Landry, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in June 1815.  Their children, born at Ascension, included Ursule Delphine in March 1816 but died at age 3 1/2 in October 1819; Marie Aureline born in February 1818 but died at age 29 (the recording priest said 30) in December 1847; Marie Hélène in August 1819 but died at age 2 in September 1821; Mathilde born in October 1821; François Gédéon, called Gédéon, in October 1824; and Marie Alzida in the 1820s--nine children, three sons and six daughters, by two wives, between 1806 and 1820s.  Simon Théodore died in Ascension Parish in November 1842.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Simon died at "age 66 yrs."  He was 59.  Daughters Madeleine Clothilde, Mathilde, and Marie Alzida, by both wives, married into the Landry, Lamare or Lamarre, and Babin families.  Simon Théodore's remaining son also married. 

Third and youngest son son François Gédéon, called Gédéon, from second wife Henriette Babin, married fellow Acadian Clémence Guidry probably in Ascension Parish in the late 1840s.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Marine Eliska in March 1850; François Numa in April 1851; Albert Séverin in October 1853; Pierre Dorza in December 1855; and Alexandre in March 1858--five children, a daughter and four sons, between 1850 and 1858.  None of Gédéon's children married by 1870. 

Firmin's fifth son François le jeune, by second wife Isabelle Brousse, married Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Breaux and Monique Guidry, at the St. Gabriel church in October 1813.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Marie Euphèmise in September 1815; Marie Elmire in November 1816; an infant, name unrecorded, died at age 2 months in August 1818; Joseph Pierre born in June 1819; Simon Missael or Marcellus, called Marcellus, in January 1823; Henri Dreville or Treville in March 1825 but died at age 3 in July 1828; and Madeleine died at age 3 months in May 1827--seven children, at least three daughters and three sons, between 1815 and 1827.  François le jeune died near St. Gabriel in June 1835.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents'  names or mention a wife, said that François was age 45 when he died.  He was 50.  Neither of his remaining daughters married by 1870, if they married at all.  Only one of his remaining sons married by then and remained on the river.

Second son Simon Missaël or Marcellus, called Marcellus, married Marie Amenaïde, called Amenaïde, daughter of Alexandre Reine and Marguerite Poché, at the St. Gabriel church in June 1841.  They lived on the river near the boundary between Iberville and Ascension parishes.  Their children, born there, included Adélaïde in May 1843; Joseph, also called Joseph Marcellus, in February 1845; Louisa Émeline in September 1846; Marguerite Laura Laurent in January 1851 but, called Laurent, died at age 1 1/2 in April 1852; Marie Aloisia born in 1854; Joséphine[sic] Calixte, a son, in October 1859; Marie Eve near Gonzales in February 1865; ...  None of Marcellus's daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did. 

Oldest son Joseph Marcellus married Marie Lezida, called Nizida, daughter of fellow Acadians Eugène Breaux and Joséphine LeBlanc, at the Gonzales church, Ascension Parish, in February 1869.  Their son Pierre Amilcar was born near Gonzales in August 1870; ...

Charles (c1750-1773? 1779?) à Vincent à Antoine Babin

Charles, third and youngest son of Antoine Babin and Catherine Landry, born at Minas in c1750, followed his family to Maryland and his widowed mother and older brothers to Fort San Luìs de Natchez and Ascension.  He may have been the Charles Babin who died, probably from drowning, in June 1774, or the Charles Babin who died at Ascension in December 1779. The priest who recorded the 1779 burial did not give Charles's age or his parents' names, nor did he mention a wife. 

Olivier (c1750-?) à ? à Antoine Babin

Olivier Babin, born at Minas in c1750, followed his family or relatives to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  He came to Louisiana from Maryland in February 1768 as an 18-year-old orphan with the family of Pierre Guédry, followed his fellow exiles to Fort San Luìs de Natchez, and resettled with some of them downriver at San Gabriel, where he married fellow Acadian Marie Breau, date unrecorded.  Marie gave Olivier at least two sons on the river:  Jacques at New Orleans in February 1770; and Jean-Baptiste-Olivier at San Gabriel in March 1773.  One wonders if the family line endured.

Younger son Jean Baptiste Olivier may have been the Jean Baptiste Babin, "widower," who died in Terrebonne Parish in January 1850, age 77.  Jean Baptiste Olivier would have been exactly that age that year.  If this was him, who had he married, and who were his children, if he had any?

Mathurin (c1756-?) à ? à Antoine Babin

Mathurin Babin, born in Maryland in c1756, came to Louisiana in February 1768 as a 12-year-old orphan with his younger sister Anne and the family of kinsman Francois-Marie Babin.  He followed them to Fort San Luìs de Natchez.  If he survived childhood, there is no evidence in local church and civil records that he created his own family. 

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Another young Babin came to Louisiana from Maryland during the late 1760s, but no new family line came of it:

Étienne (c1754-?) à ? à Antoine Babin

Étienne Babin, born probably at Minas in c1754, came to Louisiana by March 1777, when Spanish officials counted him on the "left bank ascending" at San Gabriel.  He was age 23 and still a bachelor.  One wonders what became of him. 

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Five more Babins came to Louisiana aboard three, perhaps four, of the Seven Ships from France in 1785.  Two of them, a sister and brother, crossed on Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in late July.  They settled first on the river before moving to upper Bayou Lafourche, where the sister remarried and the brother created a new center of Babin family settlement: 

François-Marie (c1766-1810s) à Jean à Charles à Antoine Babin

François-Marie, younger son of Simon Babin and his first wife Anastasie Thériot, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo, France, in November 1766, followed his family to the interior of Poitou in 1773 and his widowed father and siblings to the lower Loire port of Nantes in November 1775.  His father, a sailor, died at sea in October 1780, when François-Marie was in his early teens.  He came to Louisiana with his older sister Marie, her husband Louis-William Stebens, and their three children and followed them to Manchac, on the river below Baton Rouge, where, at age 21, he married Marie-Anne, 21-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Ignace Usé and his second wife Cécile Bourg, in December 1786.  Marie-Anne, also a native of St.-Servan, like François-Marie had come to Louisiana aboard Le Bon Papa, so they may have known one another since childhood.  They were still living at Manchac in July 1788, but, soon after, they joined the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche, the first Babin family to settle there.  Their children, born on the river and the upper Lafourche, included Marie-Madeleine, called Marie, at Manchac in October 1787; Anne-Émelie dite Milite in December 1789; François-Auguste, called Auguste and Augustin, at Ascension in January 1792; Marie-Scholastique, called Scholastique, at Assumption on the upper bayou in February 1793; Jean-Baptiste in July 1797; François, fils in October 1799; and Raphaël-Édouard, called Édouard, in January 1803--seven children, three daughters and four sons, between 1787 and 1803.  François-Marie's succession inventory and inventory of propery--which mentioned children Marie, then age 29 and nine years married; Émilie dite Milite, age 26 and six years married; Auguste, age 24; Scholastique, age 23 and several months married; Jean Baptiste, age 19; François, fils, age 16; and Édouard, age 13--was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse, Lafourche Interior Parish, in September 1816.  François Marie would have been age 50 that year.  Daughters Marie, Milite, and Scholastique married into the Comte or Lecompte, Robichaux, and Toups families, two of them, Marie and Scholastique, to the same man, Eugène Toups.  Three of François Marie's sons also married on the Lafourche.  Some of his grandsons settled in Terrebonne Parish. 

Oldest son François Auguste, called Auguste and Augustin, at age 30, married Justine, 22-year-old daughter of André Toups and Marie Dervin and widow of Charles Rome, at the Thibodauxville church in February 1822.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Justine in July 1822; Toussaint Marcellin in November 1825; Scholastique in April 1828; Auguste, fils in December 1830; Séraphine in March 1832; Marceline in March 1834; Justin in February 1837; Amédée in March 1838; and Aurelie in February 1841--nine children, five daughters and four sons, between 1822 and 1841.  Daughters ... married into the Grabert, Martin, Pertuit, and Robichaux families.  François Auguste's sons also married on the Lafourche, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Toussaint Marcellin married Carmélite Grabert probably in Lafourche Interior Parish in the 1840s.  Their children, born in Lafourche Interior Parish, included Auguste le jeune in May 1847; and Anasthasie in April 1849.  Toussaint remarried to Marie Ernestine, called Ernestine, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Landry and Melicère Bourgeois, at the Raceland church, Lafourche Parish, in February 1854.  Their children, born near Raceland, included Eulalie Uranie in October 1855; Marie Phroisine in July 1858; Pierre Froisin in November 1862; Joseph baptized at Raceland, age unrecorded, in January 1865 but died the following day; Marie Meloe born in February 1867; Joseph Melous in July 1869; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Toussaint served in the Lafourche Parish Regiment Militia and, along with most of his unit, was captured at Labadieville in nearby Assumption Parish in late October 1862; he was a month shy of age 37.  The Federals released him in early November, and he returned to his family, perhaps in time to witness the birth of one of his sons.  None of Toussaint's children married by 1870. 

Auguste's second son Auguste, fils married Émelia, daughter of Léonce Walker and Aimée Price, at the Raceland church in March 1855.  Auguste, fils died near Raceland the following July, age 24.  His line of the family evidently died with him. 

Auguste, père's third son Justin married Alexina, daughter of Hippolyte Laneuville and Anaïs Texier, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in January 1866.  Their children, born near Raceland, included Robert died at age 2 months in September 1866[sic]; Justine Alida born in November 1866[sic]; Richard in September 1869; ...

Auguste, père's fourth and youngest son Amédée married French Creole Julie Zulma or Zulema Folse in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in November 1858.  Their children, born near Raceland, included Marie Amanda in October 1859; Marie Catherine in October 1861 but died at age 3 1/2 in May 1865; Palmire born in October 1863; Amédée, fils in December 1865; Marguerite Ofelia in April 1868; Julie in October 1870; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Amédée may have served in the Lafourche Parish Regiment Militia with brother Toussaint.  If so, he, too, was released by the Federals after most of his unit was captured at Labadieville in October 1862 and returned to his family.

François-Marie's second son Jean-Baptiste married Marie Aglaé, called Aglaé, 21-year-old daughter of Pierre Gisclard and Françoise Mayer, at the Thibodauxville church in November 1828.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Jean Baptiste, fils in September 1829; and François le jeune in July 1832.  Both of Jean Baptiste's sons married and settled in Terrebonne Parish. 

Older son Jean Baptiste, fils married Roseline, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Martin LeBlanc and Marie Lejeune, at the Thibodaux church in August 1854; the marriage also was recorded in Terrebonne Parish.  Their children, born on the Lafourche and in Terrebonne Parish, included Marie Camelia in Terrebonne Parish in May 1855; Clémence Aglaé in March 1857; Jean Baptiste III in Lafourche Parish in December 1858; Esilda Emma in April 1860; François in c1860 or 1861 but died at age 3 in April 1864; Joseph Collin born in October 1861; Joséphine Lovencie, probably theirs, in October 1866; Léo Joseph near Montegut, in the coastal marshes of Terrebonne Parish, in March 1870; ...  None of Jean Baptiste, fils's children married by 1870. 

Jean Baptistes's younger son François le jeune married Rosa, daughter of François Picou and his Acadian wife Irma Aucoin, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in April 1854.  They settled near Montegut.  Their children, born there, included Anatole in July 1855; Justine Odillia in March 1857; Célestine Aglaé in January 1859; Jean Baptiste Arthur in August 1860; Théophile Gustave in October 1862; Augustin Henri in September 1864; Laurina Marie Malvina in October 1866; Joseph Edwin in August 1868; François Hamilton in October 1870; ...  None of François le jeune's children married by 1870. 

François-Marie's third son François, fils married Élise Euphrosine dite Frosine, 21-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Martin and his Creole wife Marie Charpentier, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in August 1821, and sanctified the marriage at the Thibodauxville church the following February.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joseph François in January 1822; twins Euphrosine Séraphine and Louis in November 1823; Édouard in February 1827; and Guillaume or William Marcelin in March 1829--five children, four sons and a daughter, between 1822 and 1829.  François, fils's daughter did not marry, at least not by 1870, and only one of his sons seems to have done so. 

François, fils's fourth and youngest son Guillaume or William may have married Victoria Ordalie ____, place and date unrecorded.  Their son Joseph William was born near Lockport, Lafourche Parish, in January 1864; ...   

François-Marie's fourth and youngest son Raphaël Édouard may have been the Édouard Babin of Ascension Parish who "drowned in [the] Mississippi River" in May 1845 and was buried near Convent, St. James Parish.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Édouard was age 43 when he died but did not give his parents' names or mention a wife.  Raphaël Édouard would have been age 42. 

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An older brother of François-Marie Babin of Le Bon Papa came to Louisiana from France aboard L'Amitité, the fifth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in early November 1785.  He settled at Baton Rouge near his kin before moving on to Bayou Lafourche, but his many children remained on the river:  

Magloire-Simon or Simon-Magloire (1762-c1833) à Jean à Charles à Antoine Babin

Magloire-Simon or Simon-Magloire, called Simon, fils, older son of Simon Babin and his first wife Anastasie Thériot, born in England in January 1762, was repatriated with his family to St.-Malo, France, aboard the Dorothée in May 1763.  He settled with them in the suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer, followed them to Poitou in 1773, and to the lower Loire port of Nantes in 1775.  Simon,  fils came to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, perhaps as a stowaway, and joined his siblings at Manchac, where he married Marie-Jeanne-Perrine-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Eustache Lejeune and his first wife Marie Carret, in June 1787.  Marie-Madeleine, a native of St.-Suliac near St.-Servan, had come to Louisiana aboard Le Bon Papa.  She gave Simon, fils no children, or none who survived infancy.  He remarried to Anne-Louise, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Quimine and his first wife Marie-Louise Grossin, at Manchac in December 1789.  Anne, a native of Paramé near St.-Servan, also had come to Louisiana aboard Le Bon Papa.  Their children, born on the river, included Auguste or Augustin at Manchac in the early 1790s; Placide in November 1793; Paul-Joachim in February 1796; Eusilien, also called Louis, in February 1798; and Modeste probably in the early 1800s--five children, four sons and a daughter, by one of two wives, between 1790 and the early 1800s.  In the early 1800s, Simon, fils and Anne moved to Bayou Lafourche, where, at age 60, he remarried again--his third marriage--to Marie-Jeanne, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Achée and Anne Boudreaux and widow of François Sevin, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in April 1822.  Marie-Jeanne, also native of St.-Servan, had also come to Louisiana on Le Bon Papa.  She evidently gave Simon, fils no more children.  His succession inventory was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in January 1833.  The parish clerk who recorded the succession noted that Simon, fils was age 56 at the time of the filing.  He was closer to 71.  Daughter Modeste, by his second wife, married into the Daigre family.  All four of Simon's sons married and remained on the river, in Iberville, East Baton Rouge, and West Baton Rouge parishes, but not all of the lines endured.  

Oldest son Auguste or Augustin, by second wife Anne Louise Quimine, married fellow Acadian Théotiste Templet probably at Manchac in the early 1810s.  Their children, born there, included Marie Pauline, called Pauline, in August 1812; and Treville in February 1814.  Daughter Pauline married into the Labadiole family.  Augustin's son also married. 

Only son Treville married Marie Eléonore, called Eléonore and Léonore, daughter of Valéry Bergeron, a Creole not a fellow Acadian, and Marie Madeleine Prosper, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in January 1836.  They settled near Brusly, West Baton Rouge Parish, and may have moved to southeastern Pointe Coupee Parish after the War of 1861-65.  Their children, born near Brusly, included Marie Aurore, called Aurore, in October 1836; Léon Treville in March 1840; Treville, fils in July 1846; Alfonse or Alphonse in April 1849; Marie Aloysia in November 1851 but, called Aloysia, died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 3) in September 1853, victim, perhaps, of the yellow fever epidemic that struck South Louisiana that summer and fall; Auguste Villeray or Valéry born in July 1853; Louis Martial in July 1855; and Marie Louise in February 1858--eight children, three daughters and five sons, between 1836 and 1858.  Daughter Aurore married into the Eckles and Simoneaux families by 1870.  None of Treville's sons married by then. 

Simon,  fils's second son Placide, by second wife Anne Louise Quimine, married Marie Arthémise, called Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean André Grégoire Marie Templet and Marie Doiron of Baton Rouge, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in August 1816.  Their children, born on the river, included Florentin probably in the late 1810s; Valsin Derosin, called Derosin, baptized, age unrecorded, in March 1824; Apolline Trohile or Trosile, called Trosile, born in February 1826; and Marie Alzire, called Alzire, in January 1828--four children, two sons and two daughters, between the late 1810s and 1828.  Daughters Alzire and Trosile married into the Doiron and Hébert families.  Both of Placide's sons married, but not all of the family lines endured. 

Older son Florentin married Cerasine, daughter of Louis Terence DeRichebourg and his Acadian wife Mathilde Granger, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in February 1847.  One wonders if they had any children, at least any who survived childhood.

Placide's younger son Valsin Derosin, called Derosin, married Emma, daughter of fellow Acadian Élie Hyacinthe Lejeune and his Creole wife Eléonore Aillet, at the Brusly church in January 1861. 

Simon,  fils's third son Paul Joachim, by second wife Anne Louise Quimine, married Caroline, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Lejeune and Marie Doiron, at the St. Gabriel church in September 1817.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Pauline, perhaps also called Williamine Octavine, in April 1818; Hermogène or Armogène, in late 1819 and baptized at age 8 months in May 1820; Philogène born in November 1822; Antoine Coriolan or Coriolas in June 1824; Charlotte Octavine in July 1826; Séverine in October 1828; Joseph Alfred, called Alfred, in November 1830; Auguste in February 1834; and Paulin probably in the 1830s--nine children, three daughters and six sons, between 1818 and the 1830s.  Paul Joachim died near Brusly in September 1853, age 57 (the recording priest, who gave no parents' names or mention a wife, said 58).  Daughter Williamine Octavine married into the Foret family.  Four of Paul Joachim's sons also married. 

Oldest son Hermogène or Armogène married Célestine, daughter of fellow Acadians Dorville Landry and Aureline Daigle of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the Baton Rouge church in February 1844.  He worked as an overseer in West Baton Rouge Parish.  His and Célestine children, born near Brusly, included M., perhaps Marie, Amanda, called Amanda, in c1844; and Jean Armond or Armand, called Armand, in April 1846.  Wife Célestine died before August 1850, when Hermogène was counted in the West Baton Rouge federal census with only their two children.  Armogène remarried to Marie Célestine, called Célestine, daughter of Foreign Frenchman Pierre Gassie and his Creole wife Elmire Marson, at the Brusly church in October 1851.  Their children, born near Brusly, included Élisabeth Anne in July 1852; Marie Caroline in August 1853 but, called Caroline, died at age 2 in October 1855; Samuel David, called David and Dave, born in December 1854; Marie Elmire in December 1856; Paul Émile in June 1858; Jean Homère in June 1859; and Pierre Olivier in November 1861--nine children, four daughters and five sons, by two wives, between 1844 and 1861.  In his late 40s, Armogène remarried again--his third marriage--to Adolphine, daughter of Isaac Gibson and his Acadian wife Euphrosie Templet and widow of Thomas C. White, at the Brusly church in May 1867.  Daughter M. Amanda, by his first wife, married into the Hébert family by 1870.  None of Armogène's sons married by then. 

Paul Joachim's third son Antoine Coriolan or Coriolas married Gertrude Ernestine, called Ernestine, daughter of fellow Acadians Magloire Dupuy, fils and Eugènie Hébert, at the Brusly church in February 1852.  Their children, born near Brusly, included Paul Louis Hotaire in July 1853; Ophelia Lucette in January 1855; Marie Odillia in November 1856; Anne Célestine in September 1859; and Laurent Émile in August 1860--five children, two sons and three daughters, between 1853 and 1860.  None of Antoine's children married by 1870. 

Paul Joachim's fourth son Joseph Alfred, called Alfred, married Amelie, daughter of fellow Acadians Élie Landry and Henriette Hébert and widow of Aristide Hébert and Maximilien Trosclair, at the Brusly church in February 1860. ...

Paul Joachim's sixth son Paulin married Élodie, daughter of Jean Alexandrie and his Acadian wife Emerante Foret, at the Brusly church in January 1861. ...

Simon,  fils's fourth and youngest son Eusilien, also called Louis, from second wife Anne Louise Quimine, married Marie Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Doiron, fils and Rosalie Bourg of West Baton Rouge Parish, probably in Iberville Parish in the late 1810s.  Their daughter Marie Carmélite was born in Iberville Parish in July 1819 and did not marry by 1870, so this line of the family evidently did not endure. 

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An aging Babin bachelor came to Louisiana from France aboard La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in early December 1785, but no new family line came of it. 

Paul (c1732-?) à Vincent? à Antoine Babin

Paul, son of perhaps Pierre Babin and Marie Landry, born perhaps at Minas in c1733, was deported from one of the French Maritimes islands to St.-Malo, France, in 1758 and settled at Pleudihen-sur-Rance on the east side of the river south of the Breton port.  He may have been the Paul Babin who embarked on corsair duty aboard Le Tigre in 1761, was captured by the British, released in 1763 at war's end, returned to Pleudihen-sur-Rance, sailed from France to the Falkland Islands aboard L'Aigle in November 1765, and returned to France.  In 1785, in his early 50s, still unmarried, he sailed with the family of his widowed brother-in-law René Landry from St.-Malo to New Orleans and followed them to the new Acadian community of Bayou des Écores in the New Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge.  He probably never married.  

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Another Babin came to Louisiana from France in 1785 but appears on none of the passenger rolls of the Seven Ships expeditions.  No new family line came of it:

Bonaventure (1759-1815) à Jean à Claude à Charles à Antoine Babin

Bonaventure, son of Joseph Babin and Marine LeBlanc of Minas, born at Southampton, England, in November 1759, followed his family to St.-Malo, France, in the spring of 1763.  He lived with them in the suburb St.-Servan-sur-Mer from 1763 to 1765, followed them to Belle-Île-en-Mer in late 1765, and lived with them at Loqueltas near Sauzon on the north end of the island until 1773, when he returned with his family to St.-Servan.  Bonaventure's family returned to North America in the late 1770s or early 1780s and settled on Île St.-Pierre, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  Bonaventure, who would have been in his late teens or early 20s when his family left for Île St.-Pierre, evidently remained in France, but he did not finish his days there.  Though he appears on none of the passenger rolls of the Seven Ships' expeditions, he likely followed hundreds of his fellow exiles to Louisiana in 1785, when he would have been age 26, unless he had become a sailor in his late teens and came to Louisiana on his own in the early or mid-1780s.  What is certain is that in November 1788, a month before Joseph Gravois's La Brigite reached Louisiana from Île St.-Pierre carrying widow Marine LeBlanc and five of her Babin children, a Bonaventure Babin married Félicité, 38-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians René Landry and his first wife Marie Thériot and widow of Charles Melançon, at Ascension on the Acadian Coast.  The priest who recorded the marriage did not give the groom's parents' names, but the groom likely was Bonaventure of England and France, who would have been age 29 at the time of his marriage.  One suspects that he had somehow communicated with his mother on faraway Île St.-Pierre after he reached Louisiana and that his being there was her motivation to risk the long voyage from Newfoundland to the Gulf of Mexico.  Félicité gave Bonaventure three children on the river:  Casimir at Ascension in September 1789; Valéry in December 1791 but died at age 7 months the following August; and Félicité at nearby Cabahannocer in November 1795 but died at age 5 in January 1801.  The childrens' baptismal and burial records, as transcribed by the Diocese of Baton Rouge, do not give the father's parents' names.  The baptismal records of the older son and the daughter, however, say their godfathers were Moyses, probably Pierre-Moïse, and Maturin, probably Mathurin-Louis, sons of Joseph Babin and Marine LeBlanc and younger brothers of the Bonaventure Babin born in England.  Wife Félicité died at Cabahannocer/St. James in May 1807, in her late 50s.  Louisiana church records reveal that a Bonaventure Babin died at St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, on the river above Ascension in May 1815, age 65.  Bonaventure à Joseph would have been age 55 at the time, so one wonders if the St. Gabriel priest recorded the wrong age, or if this was another fellow.  One of Bonaventure's sons did not survive childhood, and the other, like his siblings, may have died young, so not even the blood of this branch of the family endured in the Bayou State.  

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The last large group of Babins to come to Louisiana--six of them--did so in a unique way.  During exile, Marine LeBlanc, wife of Joseph Babin of Grand-Pré, became a widow either in France or after her family returned to greater Acadia.  In 1788, Marine, now age 52, and five of her children were living on Île St.-Pierre, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  Joseph Gravois of Chignecto, probably a kinsman, was captain of the schooner La Brigite.  Marine and five of her Babin children--Marie-Victoire, age 25; François-Laurent, age 22; Pierre-Moïse, called Moïse, age 20; Anne-Marguerite, age 18; and Mathurin-Louis, age 15--along with Marine's uncle Charles Babin, age unrecorded, agreed to accompany Gravois and his family to Louisiana aboard La Brigite, which reached New Orleans in December 1788--the only group of Acadians to travel directly from greater Acadia to Louisiana, and some of the last Acadians to reach the colony.  Anne-Marguerite Babin married Valentin-Désiré, son of fellow Acadians Amand Richard and Marie Breaux and widower of Susanne Marique, at Cabahannocer in July.  One wonders why none of the three brothers who traveled with her married and created families of their own. 

Babineaux

Nicolas Babineau dit Des Lauriers, born in France in c1653, came to Acadia probably as a soldier.  At one time or other he was a fur trader or a fisherman.  He married Marie-Marguerite, daughter of Laurent Granger and Marie Landry, in c1687 probably at Port-Royal.  They were counted at Pentagöuet, present-day coastal Maine, in 1693 during King William's War but returned to Port-Royal by July 1701.  Soon after, they purchased from Martin Bourg, who had moved on to the new Acadian settlement at Cobeguit, a homestead along Rivière-au-Dauphin, now the Annapolis River, "on the estate of the late M. d'Entremont," below and across from the port.  A map of the river basin, dated 1707, shows Nicolas's homestead lying at the head of a large marsh at a place called Les Coriers, between the homesteads of Bernard and Abraham Bourg and not far from the homes of his brothers-in-law Claude and René Granger and his mother-in-law, the widow Granger.  Between the late 1680s and 1709, Marie-Marguerite gave Nicolas six children, four sons and two daughters, all of whom married.  Marie-Marguerite died at Annapolis Royal in April 1719, age 51.  Nicolas did not remarry.  He died probably at Annapolis Royal before November 1723, in his 60s.  His daughters married into the Savoie and Forest families.  His sons married into the Savoie, Bourg, Dugas, and Breau families.  Most of his sons remained at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal and raised large families.  The youngest son settled in the Minas Basin before moving on to Petitcoudiac in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto.  But that was the extent of their wandering.  The Babineaus--including Nicolas's younger brother Jean, who married a Boudrot and had two daughters but no sons--were among the few Acadian families in the Fundy settlements whose members did not move on to the French Maritimes.  None of Jean's descendants emigrated to Louisiana.  At least five of Nicolas's descendants did. 

Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this family to the winds.  Some of Nicolas's descendants were rounded up at Annapolis Royal and deported to New England, but most of them eluded the British and escaped to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore or moved on to Canada.  The Babineaus at Petitcoudiac also eluded the British in 1755 and retreated to Cocagne, farther up the shore.  One family continued on to Canada, where they joined their cousins on the upper St. Lawrence at Bécancour, Pointe-du-Lac, and St.-Grégoire and Nicolet across from Trois-Rivières.  Another family returned to the Petitcoudiac, perhaps to join the Acadian resistance there, and either surrrendered to, or were captured by, the British in the early 1760s and held in the prison compound at Fort Cumberland, formerly French Fort Beauséjour, Chignecto, not far from their former homes.  At war's end, members of the family being held in the region chose to remain in greater Acadia.  They settled at Bouctouche, Richibouctou, and St.-Louis-de-Kent on the Gulf shore in present-day eastern New Brunswick.  Others settled at Carleton in Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs, a British-controlled fishery.  A cousin took a different route to Canada.  At age 30, he had married into the Bourg family on the eve of deportation.  The British deported the newlyweds to New England the autumn after their marriage.  The wife died in one of the New-English colonies by May 1759, when the Babineau cousin remarried into the Michel family.  After the war, they chose to join their kinsmen in Canada and settled at Beauport near Québec City.  The cousin drowned at Beauport in December 1775, age 50.  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 Babineaus deported to New England included two sisters who preferred the surname Des Lauriers.  One of them, Marie-Marguerite, married a Comeau probably in Connecticut in c1758.  The couple, along with their parents, were among the minority of refugees from Connecticut who went not to Canada, where the British ruled, but to French St.-Domingue, where they did not, in the early 1760s.  The Des Lauriers's sister's marriage was blessed at Mirebalais in the island's interior near Port-au-Prince in September 1764, where French officials had sent them to work on cofee and indigo plantations.  Their children were baptized there that same month, but one of them died on the day of his baptism.  Another son, a twin, died at age 5 in October.  The couple had another son at Mirebalais in November 1766 who did not survive infancy.  Meanwhile, her Babineau father died at Mirebalais in January 1765, age 65. 

Before Le Grand Dérangement, Louis-Charles, called Charles, son of Clément Babineau of Annapolis Royal, married a Doucet.  She died either before or during exile, leaving him with four children, all born at Annapolis Royal.  Charles and his family escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in 1755, spent a hard winter on the Fundy shore, crossed the bay to Chepoudy the following spring, and took refuge on the upper Petitcoudiac before moving on to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  By the end of the decade, they had taken refuge at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, where Charles remarried to Anne Guilbeau, also of Annapolis Royal, in February 1760.  Late that June, after the fall of Québec the previous September, 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 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 Charles Babineau and his famiy of three.  The British held them and other Acadians captured or surrendered in the region at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, where a son was born in c1761.  The family appeared on a repatriation list at Halifax in August 1763.  Only their two-year-old son was still with them, so Charles's children by his first wife, who would have been ages 18, 17, 14 and 10 in 1763, either had died in exile or, like daughter Anne-Marie, who went to French St.-Domingue, had gone off on their own.  Anne Guilbeau gave Charles another son in the prison compound at Halifax in 1764. 

At war's end, the Babineaus still at Halifax 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 British colonies, including Babineaus, 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, three were Babineaus--Charles and his little family. 

Charles and his two sons were only the first of the Babineaus to go to Louisiana.  In late 1766 or 1767, after their father's death, two Babineau dit Des Lauriers sisters, along with the older sister's husband and their daughter, left Mirebalais, French St.-Domingue, and made their way to New Orleans--among the few Acadian refugees who emigrated to the Spanish colony directly from the French Antilles.  They settled on the river above the city. 

Charles, called "Grand Louis" in Louisiana, his second wife, and two young sons, reached New Orleans in February 1765 with the Broussards, who were kin from Charles's first marriage.  That spring, Charles and his family followed the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche and survived the mysterious epidemic that killed dozens of their fellow Teche valley Acadians that summer and fall.  Anne gave Charles two more sons not long after they settled on Bayou Teche.  From these four sons sprang the Babineaux clan of southwest Louisiana.  Emulating the family's settlement pattern in Acadie, none of Charles's sons, grandsons, or even great-grandsons moved from the prairies to other Acadian settlements on the river or in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley before the War of 1861-65.  Instead, they remained on the Attakapas and Opelousas prairies west of the Atchafalaya Basin well into the twentieth century.  (The only Acadian Babineauxs on the river, in fact, were the two sisters from St.-Domingue who preferred the surname Des Lauriers, not Babineaux.)  During the antebellum period, some of Charles dit Grand Louis's descendants fanned out from the Teche valley into the nearby prairies, one of them moving westward to Bayou Plaquemine Brûlé and on to the Mermentau River valley before drifting even farther west into the Calcasieu country.  Another lived along Bayou Queue de Tortue on the prairie south of present-day Rayne, at the southwestern edge of the old Attakapas District.  Others moved up and down the Teche from their ancestor's homestead at La Pointe, near present-day Breaux Bridge, as far north as Arnaudville and as far south as New Iberia.  

Judging by the number of slaves Babineauxs held during the late antebellum period, some of them lived comfortably on their farms, plantations, and vacheries on the southwest parishes.  In 1850, Joseph David, son of David Babineaux, owned 48 slaves on his plantation along the upper Teche; 10 years later he still held 37 slaves.  His St. Martin Parish cousins, descendants of Théodore Babineaux, owned only a hand full of slaves in 1850 and do not appear on the 1860 federal slave schedules.  Some of the Babineaux cousins in Lafayette Parish also held slaves, though none of them owned as many as Joseph David.  In 1850, François, son of Joseph, père, held 18 slaves on his farm along Bayou Queue de Tortue on the western edge of the parish.  Older brother Joseph, fils at Carencro held 12 slaves in 1850 and 15 in 1860.  Cousin Charles at Carencro owned eight slaves in 1850, and Charles's nephew Edmond held three slaves at Carencro that year.  Charles owned only six slaves in 1860.  His son Onésime, whose farm was next to his, also held six slaves in 1860, and Charles's older son Achilles owned a single slave on his farm in St. Landry Parish on the eve of war.  Many members of the family held no slaves at all, at least none who appeared on the federal slave schedules of 1850 and 1860.

At least 17 Babineauxs served Louisiana and Texas in uniform during the War of 1861-65, and the war took the lives of at least four members of the family, three of them in the same company.  In March 1862, cousins Athanase, Belisaire, Charles V., Émilien, and Théodore Babineaux enlisted in Company A of the 26th Louisiana Regiment Infantry--the "Lafayette Prairie Boys''--at Vermilionville, the seat of Lafayette Parish.  After the fall of New Orleans in April, Confederate authorities sent the 26th Louisiana to Mississippi.  Théodore was the first of the Babineaux cousins to die.  He fell ill and died at Masonic Hall, Vicksburg, in June 1862.  The next month, cousin Athanase died probably of disease at Mississippi Springs.  Charles V. died at Vicksburg the following December.  Only Bélisaire and Émilien remained among the Babineaux cousins when the regiment fought at Chickasaw Bluffs in late December 1862 and in the Siege of Vicksburg the following spring and summer.  They surrendered at Vicksburg with the remnants of the regiment on 4 July 1863, returned home as parolees, reported to a parole camp at Alexandria, Louisiana, in early summer 1864, were exchanged the following August, and returned home from the war in late spring of 1865.  Another Babineaux cousin died in Confederate service, but not from disease.  In late winter of 1862, Louis Desincourt, called Desincourt, joined the "DeClouet Guards," an elite militia company raised in St. Martin and St. Mary parishes that became Company D of the Orleans Guard Battalion Louisiana Infantry.  The battalion mustered into Confederate service for 90 days in early March 1862.  Confederate authorities sent the unit to Corinth, Mississippi, to reinforce the command of Louisiana native General P. G. T. Beauregard.  The Orleans Battalion fought in the first truly bloody battle of the war, at Shiloh, Tennessee, in early April 1862.  On the first day of battle, the Orleans Guard lost heavily in the massive Confederate assault against Federal General Ulysses S. Grant's army at Pittsburg Landing.  The Guard's blue militia uniforms proved to be especially troublesome; their fellow Confederates fired on them in the confusion of battle.  When the battalion's loses were tallied after the second day of fighting, it had lost a frightful 17 killed, 55 wounded, and 18 missing.  Among the wounded was Desincourt Babineaux, who may have been sent home to recuperate.  Desincourt's wound proved mortal; he died in late July 1862, age 22.  A dozen other Babineauxs served the Southern Confederacy in uniform, most of them honorably.  One Louisiana Babineaux even served in a Texas cavalry unit.  When the war began, Wilmont, son of Alexandre Babineaux of Carencro, was living in Calcasieu Parish, west of the Mermentau River.  As a war historian notes:  "On several occasions during 1863 and 1864, Texas Confederate troops moved into southwestern Louisiana. These soldiers entered the state to collect supplies or to assist in protecting the area from Union invasion. While performing these tasks, the Texans took advantage of their situation to recruit local men into their military units. One unit that enlisted a sizeable number of Louisianians was Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Daly’s Texas Cavalry Battalion (later commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Samuel G. Ragsdale). Some of the Louisianians had served previously in units from their own state, while others were enlisting for the first time."  Wilmont Babineaux joined Company A of Daly's Battalion.  

During the war, 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 no doubt owned by Babineauxs.  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 Babineauxs lived, adding to the family's misery.  

After the war, seeking new opportunities in a free-labor Southern economy, especially as part of the Louisiana rice and petroleum industries, a few more Babineauxs moved farther west across the southwestern prairies, especially to the burgeoning city of Lake Charles, and, in the early twentieth century, on into East Texas.  A few moved east to Baton Rouge or southeast to New Orleans, where they helped to add an Acadian flare to that unique urban culture.  After World War II, as a result of military service and job opportunities in a material economy that Cajuns inevitably embraced, Babineauxs became part of a new Acadian diaspora and moved to every corner of the United States.  According to a recent study of Louisiana families with French and Spanish surnames, however, most of them remained where their immigrant ancestors had settled, in St. Martin, Iberia, and especially Lafayette Parish.  One of the most prominent Cajuns of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries came from the Teche valley branch of the family.  Former Louisiana governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco of New Iberia is a direct descendant of "Grand Louis" of La Pointe (and one of the author's distant cousins). 

In Louisiana, the family's name also is spelled Babinau, Babineau, Babinos, Babinot, Bobino.75

The Acadian Babineauxs of South Louisiana are descended from an exile who was among the earliest Acadians to settle there: 

Louis-Charles dit Grand Louis (1728-1815) à Nicolas Babineaux

Louis-Charles, called Charles, son of Clément Babineau and Renée dite Renoche Bourg, born at Annapolis Royal in March 1728, married, at age 16, Marguerite, daughter of René Doucet and Marie Broussard, at Annapolis Royal in January 1745.  Bona Arsenault says Marguerite gave Charles at least four children at Annapolis Royal:  Jean-Baptiste born in c1745; Marie-Josèphe in c1746; Charles, fils in c1749; and Marguerite in c1753.  Other records give them another daughter there, Anne-Marie.  They escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Marguerite and most of their children died during exile.  In February 1760, Charles, at age 31, remarried to Anne, 20-year-old daughter of Joseph dit L'Officier Guilbeau and Madeleine Michel of Annapolis Royal, in the Acadian refuge at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  The following October, Charles Babinau and his family of three (the child perhaps daughter Anne-Marie from his first marriage) appear on a list, dated 24 October 1760, of 1,003 Acadians at Restigouche who, along with the French garrison, were about to surrender to a British naval force from Québec.  The British sent them to a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war, where Anne gave Charles another son, Charles-Dominique, called Dominique, born perhaps in the prison camp at Fort Edward, formerly Pigiguit, in c1762.  If so, they did not remain.  In August 1763, British officials counted Cherle Babinos, his wife, and their child, probably son Dominique, on Georges Island, Halifax.  Anne gave Charles another son there, Julien-Joseph, called Joseph, born in c1764.  Charles, Anne, and their two sons came to Louisiana in February 1765 with the Broussards and followed them that spring to lower Bayou Teche in the Attakapas District.  Despite the epidemic which struck down dozens of the Teche valley Acadians that summer and fall, Charles and his family remained at Attakapas, where, between 1766 and 1774, Anne gave him more children, including Théodore born in c1766; Scholastique in c1769; David in April 1771; and Anne in October 1774--11 children, five daughters and six sons, by two wives, between 1745 and 1774, in greater Acadia and Louisiana.  "Grand Louis," as his neighbors called him, died at his farm near La Pointe on the upper Teche in the mid-1770s, in his early 50s.  Daughter Anne-Marie, from first wife Marguerite, did not accompany her father, stepmother, and stepbrothers to Louisiana but went, instead, to French St.-Domingue, today's Haiti.  There, she married three times, first to Jacques Bruyard, then to Jacques Pincer, and finally to Pierre-Félix Martin of St.-Étienne d'Agde, Languedoc, France, at Môle St.-Nicolas on the northwest end of the island in September 1788.  Her first and second husbands, like her third, seem to have been Frenchmen, and she evidently remained in the sugar colony after her third marriage.  One wonders why she did not follow her father and stepmother to Louisiana from Halifax in 1764-65; nor did she follow two of her Babineau dit Des Lauriers cousins from St.-Domingue to the Spanish colony later in the decade.  Charles's daughter Scholastique, by second wife Anne, married into the Poirier family on the prairies.  Four of his sons, all from second wife Anne, also married.  The older ones settled along Bayou Carencro at the northern edge of the Attakapas District.  His younger sons remained on the upper Teche near their father's farm at La Pointe.  Amazingly, not until the 1810s did a descendant of Grand Louis Babineaux in Louisiana, a granddaughter, marry a non-Acadian.  

Third son Dominique, by second wife Anne Guilbeau, followed his family to Louisiana and Bayou Teche, where, at age 20, he married Marguerite-Blandine, -Blondine or -Claudine, 17-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Amand Thibodeaux and Gertrude Bourg, in February 1783.  They settled at Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Charles-Dominique, fils in November 1783; Marie in November 1785; Marguerite in July 1788; Victoire in November 1789; Céleste in May 1793; Alexandre baptized, age 5 months, in May 1795; Adélaïde born in May 1797; and Julienne in November 1799--eight children, two sons and six daughters, between 1783 and 1799.  In 1809, on his farm at Carencro, Dominique held a frontage of only five arpents with a valuation of $1,000, but he owned five slaves.  He died at his home there in August 1815, age 54.  His succession, naming his wife, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in August 1819.  Widow Marguerite, who never remarried, died probably at Carencro in July 1856.  The Grand Coteau priest who recorded the burial said she died "at age 100 years," but she was "only" 90.  Daughters Marie, Victoire, Marguerite, Céleste, Julienne, and Adélaïde married into Benoit, Broussard, Mathias, Cormier, LeBlanc, and Richard families.  Both of Dominique's sons also married and created vigorous lines on the prairies.

Older son Charles-Dominique, fils married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Melançon and Madeleine Prejean of Carencro, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in September 1807.  They settled at Carencro.  Their children, born there, included twin sons Arsène and Marcellin in July 1808, but Marcellin died at age 13 in November 1820 and Arsène at age 21 in October 1829; Charles, also called Charles D., fils and Charles Treville, and Treville, born in April 1810; Achilles in September 1811; a son, name unrecorded, died eight days after his birth in July 1813; a son, name unrecorded, died at age 6 weeks in October 1814; Antoine Gerasin, also called Antoine Sarasin, born in August 1816 but died at age 14 "from falling off a horse" in June 1829; Onésime dit Onés, born in November 1818; Marie, also called Marie Zéolide, in March 1822; Jean Euclide in December 1825; Émilien dit Milien in c1827; Émilie or Émelie in April 1828; and a child, name unrecorded, died a day after his/her birth in April 1830--13 children, at least 10 sons and two daughters, between 1808 and 1830.  In September 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted eight slaves--five males and three females, all black, ranging in age from 30 to 3--on Charles Babineau's farm in the parish's western district; this was probably Charles Dominique, fils.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted six slaves--five males and one female, all black except for one mulatto, ranging in age from 47 to 12, one of them a 25-year-old male mulatto--on Charles Babineaux's farm; again, this was probably Charles Dominique, fils.  Charles-Dominique, fils died at Carencro in June 1864.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said that Charles, as he called him, was age 83 when he died.  He was 80.  Daughters Marie Zéolide and Émelie married into the Benoit and Prejean families.  Four of Charles Domingue, fils's remaining sons also married and settled on the prairies around Carencro. 

Third son Charles married cousin Céleste Louise, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis André Richard and Julia Babineaux, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in February 1835.  They settled near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Florentine in October 1836; a child, name unrecorded, died at age 9 days in April 1838; Clairville died at age 3 months in November 1839; Julie Florisa born in November 1842 but, called Florisa, died the following February; Honorate or Honoré born in January 1844; Marie Florina in January 1846; Horace in May 1848; Alphonse in September 1851; Joseph Dernas in September 1853; Joseph Alse in January 1856; ...  Charles died at Carencro in September 1869.  The Grand Coteau priest who recorded the burial said that Charles, fils, as he called him, died "at age 62 yrs."  He was 59.  His succession, calling him Charles Treville, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following November.  Daughter Florentine married into the Cormier family by 1870.  One of Charles's sons also married by then. 

Second son Honoré probably served in Company F of the Yellow Jackets Battalion Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Martin Parish.  The Federals captured him at "Brass Works," Louisiana in April 1863, probably during the first Teche valley campaign.  His Confederate record then falls silent.  He likely was exchanged soon after his capture.  He may have returned to his unit.  One thing is certain--he survived the war and returned to his family.  Honoré married Azélie, daughter of Louis Roger, a French Canadian, not a fellow Acadian, and his Acadian wife Azelima Prejean and a widow, at the Vermilionville church in September 1866.  They settled probably near Carencro.  Their child, name unrecorded, died "at age 8 days" in January 1868; ... 

In 1860, the federal census taker in St. Landry Parish counted a single slave--a 30-year-old black male--on Achile Babineau's farm.  This was Charles-Dominique, fils's fourth son Achilles, who would have been age 49 that year and evidently did not marry.  

Charles-Dominique, fils's eighth son Onésime dit Onés married cousin Julienne, daughter of fellow Acadians Augustin Benoit and Anastasie Babineaux, at the Vermilionville church in October 1836.  Their children, born at Carencro, included Séverin, also called Sevènne, Sevigné, and Sevignier, in September 1837; Arvènne baptized, age 5 months, in August 1839; Esther born in June 1840; Émilie in April 1842; Joseph Bélisaire, called Bélisaire, in November 1843; Jules Alvigue or Levigné, called Levingné, in May 1845; Marie Edilia, called Edilia, in November 1846 but, according to a church record, died at age 10 1/2 (the recording priest said 12) in September 1857 (but she was counted in the 1860 Lafayette Parish census as Edilia, age 12, in June 1860!); and Amélie born in August 1847.  Wife's Julienne's succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in August 1850.  Onésime remarried to fellow Acadian Émelie or Émeline Landry in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in September 1850, and sanctified the marriage at the Grand Coteau church in December 1851.  Their children, born at Carencro, included Marie Onézima, called Onézima, in October 1851; Marguerite Emérade in April 1853; Onésime in c1854; Joseph Neuville, called Neuville, in May 1856; Ursule Améa or Uméa, called Uméa, in April 1858; Paul in February 1860; Eulalie in January 1862 but died the following December; André born in January 1864; Edmonia in September 1865; Eucharis in March 1868 but died at age 10 months in January 1869; Émilien born in January 1870; ...  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted six slaves--two males and four females, all black except for one mulatto, ages 48 to 6, one of them a 12-year-old mulatto--on Onez Babineaux's farm next to Charles Babineaux; this probably was Onésime living near his elderly father.  Daughters ..., by both wives, married into the Brasseaux, Breaux, Leger, Prejean, Simoneaux, and Richard families by 1870.  Three of Onésime's sons also married by then, one before and two during their Confederate service. 

During the War of 1861-65, oldest son Sevènne, by first wife Julienne Benoit, served probably as a conscript in Company B of the 2nd Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, raised in Natchitoches Parish, which fought in Louisiana.  Sevènne married Onezia, daughter of Alexis Jacqueneau and his Acadian wife Joséphine Savoie, at the Vermilionville church in March 1863 while still serving in the Confederate cavalry.  Their children, born at Carencro, included Martial in February 1863; Onésifort in March 1865 a few months before his father returned from the war; and Louis Solivain, perhaps Sullivan, in April 1867.  Sevènne remarried to Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Aurelien Brasseaux and Aurelia Cormier and widow of Jean Murphy Cormier, at the Vermilionville church in October 1869.  Their son Jean Murphy was born in Lafayette Parish in July 1870; ...

Onésime's second son Arvène, by first wife Julienne Benoit, married Uranie Idalie, called Idalie, daughter of fellow Acadian André Basile Landry and his second wife Creole Céline Callier, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in July 1860.  Called Arvaine in Confederate records, he enlisted in Company E of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. James and St. Mary parishes, in October 1862, probably as a conscript, six months after the regiment's bloody participation in the Battle of Shiloh under command of Acadian Colonel Alfred Mouton.  After the Tennessee battle, Arvène's unit served also in Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana.  He was AWOL from his unit in the fall of 1863 but returned in time to serve in Company E of the Consolidated 18th Regiment and Yellow Jackets Battalion Infantry, which served in Louisiana for the rest of the war.  He was sick in hospital at Camp Taylor, Louisiana, from December 1863 until February 1864, when he disappears from Confederate records.  One wonders if he fought with his unit in the Battle of Mansfield, Louisiana in April 1864.  No matter, he survived the war and returned to his family.  He and wife Idalie sanctified their marriage at the Vermilionville church in July 1865.  Their son Jules was born in Lafayette Parish in July 1866 but died at age 2 in August 1868; ... 

During the war, Onésime's third son Joseph Bélsaire, called Bélisaire, from first wife Julienne Benoit, served in Company E of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafayette Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  Probably while he was waiting for his regiment to be exchanged after its surrender at Vicksburg in July 1863, Bélisaire married Josette Ophelia, daughter of French Canadian Louis Roger and his Acadian wife Azélima Prejean, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in April 1864.  They settled probably near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Théophile in June 1866; Téophe in January 1870; ...

Charles-Dominique, fils's ninth son Jean Euclide married fellow Acadian Marie Philomène, called Philomène, Broussard in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in May 1860.  Their chidren, born near Carencro, included Jean Anill in June 1861; Marie Elvina in May 1865; ...  They were living near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, by the late 1860s. 

Charles Dominique, fils's tenth and youngest son Émilien married, in his late 20s, Élise, Élisa, or Éliza, 15-year-old daughter of André Basile Landry and his second wife Creole Célanie Caillet or Caillier, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in September 1855.  They settled probably near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included a child, name unrecorded, died "during birth" in June 1856 (the Vermilionville priest who recorded the newborn's burial did not give the mother's name or the father's parents' names); Marguerite Alida, called Alida, born in May 1857; and Maria Alicia, called Alicia, in March 1859--three children, at least two daughters, between 1856 and 1859.  In the federal census of June 1860 for Lafayette Parish, Émilien was described as a planter, though he had no slaves, living next door to his elderly father, who held six slaves.  His wife Élisa, age 20, and their two daughters, ages 5 and 2, were listed with him.  "Mrs. Émilien Babineaux" died in Lafayette Parish in January 1861.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said she died at age 20.  He did not give her actual name, but it probably was Élise Landry.  The young widower probably was the Émilien Babineaux who served as a private and then as a corporal in Company A of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafayette Parish in the spring of 1862, that fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  He survived the war and returned to his family.  A Milien Babineaux 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 (Émilien evidently did not remarry, despite having two small children at home), said that Milien died "at 38 yrs."  He would have been in his early 40s.  One wonders if his early death was war-related.  Having not remarried and fathered no sons, his line of the family, except perhaps for its blood, died with him. 

Dominique's younger son Alexandre married Marie Cléonise, called Cléonise and Cléomie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Simon dit Joson Dugas and Céleste Dugas, at the Grand Coteau church in May 1821. (In 1819, Grand Coteau had become the closest church to Carencro, which lay south of Grand Coteau across the bayou in what soon would become Lafayette Parish.  In 1821, a new church at Vermilionville south of Carencro would become the closest church to Carencro, which did not get a church of its own until 1874.)  Their children, born at Carencro, included Edmon or Edmond in March 1822; Vallemon or Valmont in August 1823 but died at age 7 weeks the following October; Eliza born in November 1824; Azélie in February 1827; Amelia in 1829 and baptized, age 7 1/2 months, in January 1830; Céleste, also called Céleste Essida or Azelida, born in June 1832; Wilmont baptized at age 6 months in June 1835; and Marie Cléonise baptized at age 4 months in December 1837, after her mother died--eight children, three sons and five daughters, between 1822 and 1837.  Alexandre died at Carencro in January 1850, age 55 (the recording priest said 57).  Alexandre's succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following month.  Daughters Azélie, Éliza, Céleste Essida, and Marie Cléonise married into the Mouton, Caruthers, Prejean, and Benoit families.  Two of Alexandre's sons also married. 

Oldest son Edmond married fellow Acadian Uranie Guilbeau at the Grand Coteau church in May 1844.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included a child, name unrecorded, died at birth in February 1845; and Alexandre Neuville born in October 1846.  In September 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted three slaves--a 20-year-old black female, a 5-year-old black male, and a 1-year-old black male--on Édouard Babineau's farm in the parish's western district; this was probably Edmond.  Edmond died at Carencro in June 1854, age 32.  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the day before his death.  His son married. 

Perhaps only son Alexandre Neuville married Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste LeBlanc and Adrienne Guilbeau, at the Breaux Bridge church, St. Martin Parish, in April 1866.  They settled near Arnaudville.  Their son Jean Baptiste Shermann was born in March 1869; ... 

During the war, Alexandre's third son Wilmont, living in Calcasieu Parish, served in the first Company A of Daly's/Ragdale's Battalion Texas Cavalry, which recruited heavily on the southwestern Louisiana prairies later in the war.  Wilmont may have married fellow Acadian Céline Aucoin during or after the war. 

Grand Louis's fourth son Joseph, by second wife Anne Guilbeau, followed his family to Louisiana and Bayou Teche, where he married Félice, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Cormier and his first wife Marguerite Sonnier of Opelousas, in c1786.  Their children, born at Carencro, included Joseph, fils, dit Joson, in October 1787; David le jeune in July 1789; François in December 1790; Julien in January 1792; Julie baptized, age 5 months, in May 1795; Anastasie dite Terzille born in August 1796; Jean in September 1801; and Marcelline in March 1810--eight children, five sons and three daughters, between 1787 and 1810.  In 1809, Joseph's farm at Carencro had a frontage of 11.5 arpents and was valued at $2,000; he owned two slaves.  He died at his home at Carencro in June 1827, age 63.  His succession, which names his wife and children--Joseph, David, Julien, François, Jean, Terzille and her husband--was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse later that month.  Daughters Julie and Anastasie dite Terzille married into the Richard and Benoit families.  All five of Joseph's sons married and settled near Carencro, but not all of the lines endured.

Oldest son Joseph, fils dit Joson married Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Comeaux and Esther LeBlanc of Carencro, at the St. Martinville church in January 1809.  Their children, born at Carencro, included Marcelite in the late 1800s; Eugénie, also called Marie Eugénie, in June 1810; Gérard in August 1813; a son, name unrecorded, died shortly after his birth in September 1823; Célestine in May 1825; and a daughter, name unrecorded, perhaps theirs, in c1831 but died at age 4 1/2 in October 1836--six children, four daughters and two sons, between 1809 and 1831.  In September 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted 12 slaves--seven males and five females, all black, ranging in age from 60 to 3--on Joseph Babineau's farm in the parish's western district; this probably was Joson.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted 15 slaves--six males and nine females, all black except for one mulatto, ranging in age from 50 to 2--on Joseph Babineaux's farm.  Joson died at Carencro in April 1865.  The Grand Coteau priest who recorded the burial, and did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Joseph Jason, as he called him, was age 79 when he died.  Joseph dit Joson was 77.  Daughters Marcelite, Eugénie, and Célestine married into the Hébert, Benoit, and Cormier families.  Only one of Joson's sons married, but, except for its blood, the line did not endure.  

Older son Gérard married Eugénie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Bourque and Marguerite Richard, at the Grand Coteau church in May 1831.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Marie Cléonise in April 1832 but may have died at age 9 1/2 (the recording priest, who did not include the girl's parents' names, said 11) in September 1841; Marie Azélie born in June 1833; Marie Azèlle, called Azèlle, in March 1836; Marie Lezima in January 1839 but, called Marie Lesima or Marie Lesina, died at age 2 1/2 in September or October 1841; Marie Marguerite born in March 1843; Marie Céleste in May 1846; and Marie Azalida or Azelida in January 1849--seven children, all daughters, between 1832 and 1849.  Daughters Marie (probably Marie Azélie), Azèlle, Marie Marguerite, Marie Céleste, and Marie Azelida married into the Caruthers, Forestier, Prejean, and Benoit families, including two Forestier brothers, by 1870.  Did Gérard father any sons? 

Joseph's second son David le jeune married Marie Éloise, Héloise, or Louise, daughter of fellow Acadians Marin Prejean and Marie Rose Benoit, at the St. Martinville church in December 1816.  Their children, born at Carencro, included Joseph le jeune in December 1817; Ursin in May 1819; twins Delphine and Dom Louis in July 1821; Onésime in September 1823 but died at age 11 months in June 1824; Marie Rose born in April 1825; Marie Zélime, called Zélime, Zélima, Zulima, or Julima in May 1827; Joséphine in the late 1820s; and Marie in early 1829 but died at age 3 months in July 1829, after her mother's death--nine children, four sons and five daughters, between 1817 and 1829.  A successon for David, "wdr. of Marie Louise Prejean," was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in June 1829, a month after wife Marie Louise had died at age 32.  Her post-mortem succession was not filed at the Vermilionville courthouse until May 1834.  He did not remarry.  Another succession for him, again not post-mortem, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in March 1833.  David le jeune died at Carencro in March 1852.  The priest who recorded the burial said that David was age 65 when he died.  He was 62.  Daughters Marie Rose, Joséphine, and Zélime married into the Boudreaux, Stelly, and Breaux families.  David le jeune's remaining sons also married, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Joseph le jeune, at age 47, married cousin Aurelia, daughter of fellow Acadians Lucien Cormier and Célestine Babineaux, at the Vermilionville church in August 1865.  One wonders if this was his first marriage and if he fathered any children.  

David le jeune's second son Ursin married cousin Mélasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Cormier, fils and Céleste Babineaux, at the Grand Coteau church in November 1841.  Their children, born at Carencro, included Eugénie in September 1842 but died at age 1 in November 1843; Honoré born in November 1844 but died at age 2 1/2 in September 1847; Maria Odilia, called Delia, born in November 1846; Placide in November 1848; Alcide in February 1850 but died at age 1 1/2 in October 1851; Émile Ursin born in September 1852; Pierre Clémile in January 1855 but, called Clémile, died at age 7 in August 1862; Marie Azélie born in January 1857; Mary in 1859; a child, name unrecorded, died at age one day in February 1862; Coralie born in September 1862 but died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 11 months) in December 1863; ...  Ursin's remaining daughters did not marry by 1870, but one of his sons did.  . 

Second son Placide married Marie Coralie, called Coralie, daughter of fellow Acadians Gédéon Richard and Elisa LeBlanc, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in February 1867.  They settled probably at Carencro.  Their son Gédéon was born there in August 1870; ...

David le jeune's third son Don Louis married Eméranthe, daughter of Toussaint Quebedeaux and Marie Barbe Frossard, at the Vermilionville church in January 1854.  They settled probably at Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Marie Marcellite in February 1856; Joseph Emérant in December 1857; Marie Éloise; ...  None of their children married by 1870. 

Joseph's third son François may not have married, but he created a family line nonetheless.  Son Julien le jeune, born in c1818, died probably at Carencro at age 5 in August 1823.  The priest who recorded the boy's burial did not give Julien le jeune's mother's name, only the father's, so François may not have been married to her.  In October 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted 18 slaves--10 males and eight females, all black except for two mulattoes, ranging in age from 50 to 1--on François Babineaux's farm along Bayou Queue de Tortue, a tributary of the Mermentau River on the prairie west of Vermilionville.  A month later, François lost a nephew, name and age unrecorded, who was probably living with him.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the boy's burial did not give the parents' names.  François died probably at his home on Bayou Queue de Tortue in October 1854, age 64.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said nothing of a wife. (François may have cohabitated with Anne Ringuet of Vermilion Parish and fathered a son by her named Joseph Amédée.)  François's successions were filed at the courthouses at Vermilionville and Opelousas the following November and December, so he must have owned property in Lafayette and St. Landry parishes. 

Joseph Amédée, called Amédée, Babineaux of St. Martin, son of Anne Ringuet, married Felnire, Selmire, or Zelmire, daughter of Paul Toups and Suzette Corner, probably Conner, at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in October 1855.  The priest who recorded the marriage did not give the groom's father's name, only the surname Babineaux, but one wonders if it was François Babineaux, late of nearby Bayou Queue de Tortue, who may have simply co-habited with Anne Ringuet.  François had died probably at his home on the bayou the previous October; the priest who had recorded François's burial did not mention a wife, but François had buried a 5-year-old son named Julien back in August 1823.  On that occasion, also, the recording priest had not recorded a wife for François Babineaux, but some church records link him with Anne Ringuet.  Amédée' and Zelmire's children, born on the prairies, included Joseph Edgard near Abbeville in September 1856; Paul Trasimond in July 1858; Marie Elossière in September 1860; Philemon in St. Martin Parish in March 1864; ...  Amédée's succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse, St. Martin Parish, in February 1868.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Joseph's fourth son Julien married Marie Christine, called Christine, another daughter of Marin Prejean and Marie Rose Benoit, at the St. Martinville church in April 1813.  Their children, born near Carencro, included Marie Urasie or Eurasie, called Eurasie, in February 1814; Anastasie in March 1815; Marie Azélie, called Azélie, in January 1817 but died at age 12 1/2 in October 1829; Julien, fils baptized at Grand Coteau, several months old, in July 1819; Marguerite born in September 1820; and Marie in April 1823--six children, five daughters and a son, between 1814 and 1823.  Julien, père died in November 1852, age 60.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said Julien was "of Marmento," which means he was living in the Mermentau River valley west of Vermilionville at the eastern edge of the Calcasieu prairie.  Daughters Eurasie, Anastasie, Marguerite, and Marie married into the Perry, Green, Vasseur, and Benoit families.  Julien's son may not have survived childhood, so this family line, except for its blood, may have died with him.  

Joseph's fifth and youngest son Jean married Hortense, daughter of Englishman William Perry or Perret and his French-Canadian wife Marguerite Roger, at the Vermilionville church in May 1825.  Their children, born near Carencro, included Hypolite or Hippolyte in May 1826 but died at age 7 (the recording priest said 8) in October 1833; Julie born in November 1827; Marguerite died at age 1 1/2 months in November 1829 on the day of her baptism; Anasthasie born in June 1831; Marie in October 1833; Aspasie in September 1835; and Jean Clairville in August 1838--seven children, two sons and five daughters, between 1826 and 1838.  Jean may have died by July 1841, when a succession naming his wife was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse.  He would have been age 31 that year.  His daughters married into the Benoit, Breaux, Cormier, and Gary families by 1870.  His remaining son did not marry by then. 

Grand Louis's fifth son Théodore, by second wife Anne Guilbeau, married Julie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Dugas and Marguerite Dupuis, at Attakapas in May 1788.  Their children, born at La Pointe on the upper Teche, included Jean-Baptiste in April 1789 but died probably at La Pointe, age 57 (the recording priest said 58), in January 1846 (his succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse the following month); Isidore or Théodore, fils died eight days after his birth in October 1790; Adélaïde born in c1792 but died at age 3 in March 1795; Maximilien, also called Maxilien, born in November 1797; Marie-Aspasie, called Aspasie, in April 1800; Louis, also called Louis- Valéry or -Valière, in January 1803; Julie in March 1805; and Joseph Théodore in January 1808--eight children, five sons and three daughters, between 1789 and 1808.  Théodore died at his home at La Pointe in July 1808.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial said that Théodore was age 35 when he died.  He was in his early 40s.  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in September 1817.  Wife Julie's succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in January 1819, when her youngest child, Joseph Théodire, was only age 10.  Nicolas Cormier of La Pointe became Théodore's son Joseph Théodore's tutor when the boy got older, and Nicolas became the boy's cousin-in-law when he married Osite Delphine, a daughter of Théodore's brother David.  Théodore's daughters Marie Aspasie and Julie married into the Broussard and Breaux families.  Three of Théodore's sons also married, one of them three times, and created lasting lines on the prairies. 

Third son Maximilien or Maxilien married Marie Clémence, called Clémence, daughter of fellow Acadian Paul Olivier Breaux and his Creole wife Marie Pelletier, probably in St. Martin Parish in the early 1820s.  Their children, born at La Pointe and on the prairies, included Dolsin in c1823 but died at age 3 in September 1826; Maxilien or Maximilien, fils born in February 1824; Eugène in November 1825 but died at age 1 1/2 in August 1827; Marie baptized at age 1 month, 2 days, in October 1827 but died at age 10 months in August 1828; Belizer or Bélisaire baptized at Vermilionville, age 1 1/2 months, in August 1830; Marie Thenaïse born in c1831 and baptized at age 13 1/2 months in September 1833; Marie Artémise born in October 1835; Hippolyte in late 1837 and baptized at age 5 months in January 1838 but may have died in his late teens by October 1854, when a succession in his name was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse; Louis Desincourt, called Desincourt, born in August 1839; George in August 1841 but died at age 21 (the recording priest said 18) near Breaux Bridge in March 1863 (one wonders if his death was war-related); and Aurelien born in December 1843--11 children, eight sons and three daughters, between 1823 and 1843.  Maximilien died near Breaux Bridge, St. Martin Parish, in November 1848.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Maximilien was age 56 when he died.  He was 51.  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse the following month.  Daughter ... married into the Melançon family.  Only one of Maximilien's sons married, before he died in the War of 1861-65. 

Sixth son Desincourt married Louise Célestine, called Célestine, daughter of Émile Latiolais and his Acadian wife Malvina Guidry, at the Breaux Bridge church in May 1860.  In early 1862, Desincourt, not only a husband but also a father, enlisted in Company D of the Orleans Guard Battalion Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Martin and St. Mary parishes.  He followed his unit to Tennessee and was mortally wounded at Shiloh in April 1862.  He died perhaps at his home near Breaux Bridge the following July, age 22 (the recording priest said 23).  His and Célestine's children, born near Breaux Bridge, included Alcide in May 1861, before his father's Confederate service; and Alcée posthumously in September 1862.  

Théodore's fourth son Louis Valéry, called Valéry or Valière, married Marguerite Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Theriot and his Creole wife Justine Lahure, at the St. Martinville church in June 1825.  Their children, born at La Pointe, included Louis Bélisaire or Bélisaire Louis in December 1826; Charles le jeune in March 1829; Jean Senville in May 1831; Marguerite Mellisoeur in March 1834; Joseph Théodore le jeune, called Théodore; in January 1837; Athanase in May 1839; Maxille Marie in November 1841; Julie Ayau in January 1843 but died at age 3 1/2 (the recording priest said 5) in October 1846; Pierre born in November 1845; and Damas in December 1849--10 children, eight sons and two daughters, between 1826 and 1849.  In November 1850, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted four slaves--three males and a female, three blacks and one mulatto, ranging in age from 34 to 7--on Valière Babineau's farm; this probably was Louis Valéry.  He died in St. Martin Parish in August 1852, age 49 (the recording priest gave no age).  Louis Valière's succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in February 1864 (one wonders why it took so long to filed it).  His remaining daughter did not marry by 1870, if she married at all.  Three of Louis Valéry's sons married by then, one of them three times, and two of his sons died in Confederate service, one of them before he could marry. 

Oldest son Louis Bélisaire or Bélisaire Louis married Marie Cléonide, daughter of Charles Vallot and Julie Romero, at the St. Martinville church in September 1851.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Joseph in August 1851; and Agathe in September 1854.  Wife Marie Cléonide's succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in August 1855.  Bélisaire remarried to Marcellite Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Trahan and his Creole wife Clarisse Dubois and widow of _____ Matthew, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in December 1856.  Their children, born on the prairies and the lower Teche, included Louis Mirtile near Grand Coteau in September 1858; and Charles Alexandre near New Iberia, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in March 1867.  Bélisaire remarried to fellow Acadian Alix Duhon--his third marriage--in c1868 and remained near New Iberia.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Valéry's third son Jean Senville married Louise, daughter of Foreign Frenchman Louis Édouard Galtier and his Acadian wife Adeleine Boudreaux, at the St. Martinville church in April 1864. ...

Valéry's fourth son Joseph Théodore le jeune, called Théodore, married Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Marcellin Dubois and Élise Mire, at the St. Martinville church in May 1858.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Théodora in January 1859; Joseph Omer in March 1860; and Marguerite in March 1862--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1859 and 1862.  Joseph Théodore le jeune's succession, mentioning his wife, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in February 1864.  A Théodore Babineaux serving in Company A of 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry at Vicksburg, Mississippi, had died in the river citadel in June 1862, probably of disease, before his unit saw action.  This likely was him.  He would have been age 26 at the time of his passing. 

Valéry's fifth son Athanase, serving with Company A of the 26th Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafayette Parish in early 1862, died probably of disease at Mississippi Springs, Mississippi, in July 1862, age 23.  He evidently did not marry.  

Théodore's fifth and youngest son Joseph Théodore married, at age 20, Marie Sylvanie, called Sylvanie, daughter of fellow Acadian Anaclet Broussard and his Creole wife Madeleine Wiltz, at the St. Martinville church in October 1828.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Joseph, also called Joseph Théodore, died at age 2 months at his maternal grandfather's home in November 1829; and a daughter, name unrecorded, perhaps theirs, born in c1831, died at age 4 1/2 in October 1836.  Joseph Théodore, at age 24, remarried to Marie Uranie, called Uranie, daughter of fellow Acadians Julien Breaux and Eurasie Melançon, at the St. Martinville church in February 1833.  She evidently gave him no children.  Joseph Théodore, at age 28, remarried again--his third marriage--to Marie Adeline, Azélie, or Zélie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Melançon and Marie Savoy, at the St. Martinville church in November 1836.  Their children, born at Petite Anse in St. Martin Parish, included Marie Julie, called Julie, in October 1837; Pierre Auscar or Oscar, called Oscar, in April 1839 but died at age 1 (the recording priest said 18 months) in July 1840; Pauline born in c1842; Marie Émelie in May 1843; Félicia, also called Marie Félicie and Félicie, in March 1845; Charles in February 1847; Joseph Elmar, called Elmar, in January 1850; Casimir in March 1852; and Joseph Aladin in March 1854, the day before his father died, and, called Aladin, died at age 16 (the recording priest said 17) in June 1870 (successions in his name were filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in February and June of that year, calling him an orphan)--11 children, six sons and five daughters, by two of his wives, between 1829 and 1854.  In November 1850, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted one slave--a 35-year-old black male--on J. T. Babineau's farm at Petite Anse; this was probably Joseph Théodore.  He died in St. Martin Parish in March 1854, age 46 (the recording priest said 45).  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse the following month.  Daughters Julie, Pauline, and Marie Félicie, by his third wife, married into the Melançon, Doré, and Cormier families by 1870.  None of Joseph Théodore's remaining sons married by then. 

Grand Louis's sixth and youngest son David, by second wife Anne Guilbeau, married Marie-Osite, called Osite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Melançon and Barbe Babin, at Attakapas in July 1800.  They settled on the upper Teche.  Their children, born there, included David, fils in June 1801 but died at age 2 1/2 in October 1803; Joseph David, also called Joseph le jeune, born in March 1804; Jean Baptiste in February 1806; Osite Delphine, called Delphine, in September 1807; Louis, also called Don Louis, in February 1810; Aimée, also called Divine, near L'Anse in October 1811; and Marie Arthémise, also called Marie Tarzile and Tarzile, near La Pointe in January 1814--seven children, four sons and three daughters, between 1801 and 1814.   David died at his home at La Pointe in January 1828, "at age about 55 yrs."  He was 56.  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse later that month.  Daughters Osite Delphine, Aimée/Divine, and Marie Arthémise married into the Cormier, Guilbeau, and Theriot families.  David's remaining sons also married, but not all of the lines endured. 

Second son Joseph David married Rosalie Manuel, daughter of Spanish Creoles François Segura and Marie Deprados of Lake Tasse, now Spanish Lake, near New Iberia, at the St. Martinville church in November 1822.  Their chilidren, born on the Teche, included a son, name unrecorded, died at his home at La Pointe four days after his birth in January 1824; Joséphine Rosalie born in February 1825; Marie Odoiska in August 1827; Isabelle Anys in February 1830 but, called Élizabeth Anaïs, died at age 7 1/2 in October 1837; a daughter, name unrecorded, perhaps theirs, in c1831 but died at age 4 1/2 in October 1836; Marie Euseyde in December 1832; Léontine in May 1835; Marcelite Alzire in November 1838; Clara Jeanne in March 1841; Joseph, fils in January 1844; and Osilie Basilie in November 1847--11 children, two sons and nine daughters, between 1824 and 1847.  In November 1850, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted 48 slaves--20 males and 28 females, all black except for one mulatto, ranging in age from 60 to 1--on Joseph Babineau's plantation; this probably was Joseph David.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted 37 slaves--16 males and 21 females, 26 blacks and 11 mulattoes, ranging in age from 69 years to 4 months, living in nine houses--on J. D. Babineaux's plantation.  Joseph David, called Joseph Davide by the recording priest, who gave neither his parents' names, his age, or mentioned a wife, died in St. Martin Parish in December 1865, age 61.  Daughters ... married into the Bayard, Dautreuil, Gondran, and Viand families by 1870.  Joseph David's remaining son did not marry by then. 

David's third son Jean Baptiste married Eugénie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Charles Guilbeau and Céleste Dupuis, at the St. Martinville church in June 1830.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Désiré in July 1831; Joseph in March 1833 but died at age 2 1/2 in September 1835; Charles born in September 1835; and David le jeune posthumously in August 1837 but died at age 5 in July 1842--four children, all sons, between 1831 and 1837.  Was he the Jean Baptiste Babineaux who was granted a "curatorship to Joseph Dugas" in Lafayette Parish in August 1826?  If so, how was he related to Joseph?  Jean Baptiste died in St. Martin Parish in June 1837, age 31.  His succession, naming his widow and two heirs--Désirée[sic] and Charles--was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse later that month.  His remaining sons married, but only one of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Désiré married Marguerite Uranie, called Uranie, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Onésime Cormier and Céleste Dupuis, at the St. Martinville church in January 1850.  Their children, born near Breaux Bridge, included Jean Baptiste le jeune in November 1850 but died at age 9 months (the recording priest said 5 months) the following August; Césaire born in October 1854; Eugénie in June 1857; and Michel in July 1862--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1850 and 1862.  Désiré died in St. Martin Parish in November 1862, age 31 (the recording priest said 32).  His succession, calling his wife Marguerite A., was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse later that month.  One wonders if his death was war-related.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Jean Baptiste's third son Charles married cousin Élise, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Theriot and Tarsile Babineaux, at the St. Martinville church in December 1857.  Charles's succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in November 1862, so he may have died by then.  A Charles V. Babineaux serving in Company A of the 26th Louisiana Regiment Infantry at Vicksburg, Mississippi, and died there in December 1862, probably of disease, so this may have been him.  He would have been age 27 at the time of his death.  

David's fourth and youngest son Louis, also called Don Louis, married Carmélite, daughter of Olivier Blanchet and his Acadian wife Carmélite Boudreaux, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in February 1843.  Daughter Carmélite Osée or Auzithe, called Auzithe, was born near Vermilionville, Lafayette Parish, in January 1844.  Louis died in St. Martin Parish in August 1844, age 34 (the recording priest said 32).  His succession, naming his wife, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse the following November.  Daughter Auzithe married into the St. Julien family.  Don Louis evidently fathered no sons. 

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In late 1766 or 1767, after her father's death, Marie-Marguerite Babineau dit Des Lauriers, her Comeau husband, their daughter, and Marguerite's younger sister Madeleine--first cousins of Louis-Charles "Grand Louis" Babineau of the Bayou Tech valley--left Mirebalais, French St.-Domingue, and made their way to New Orleans, among the few Acadian refugees who emigrated to the Spanish colony directly from the French Antilles.  From New Orleans, they did not join their cousin on Bayou Teche but settled, instead, in the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above the city.  The younger sister promptly married a Comeau widower. 

Barrilleaux

Nicolas Barrieau, born in France in c1648, may have come to Acadia aboard L'Oranger in 1671.  He married Martine, daughter of Étienne Hébert and Marie Gaudet, at Port-Royal in c1682.  They moved on to the Minas Basin, where they settled first at Grand-Pré and then at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, on the eastern end of the basin, in the early 1700s.  Nicolas and Martine had nine children, five daughters and four sons.  Four of their daughters married into the Bourg, Doiron, Girouard, and Lord dit Lamontagne families.  Their four sons married into the Thibodeau, Gautrot, Turpin, and Girouard families.  By the early 1750s, Nicolas's sons and their families had left Pigiguit and moved to the French Maritimes to escape British rule.  On Île St.-Jean in August 1752 a French official counted several Barrieau families at Rivière-du-Moulin-à-Scie, Anse-à-Dubuisson, and Rivière-des-Blonds in the center of the island, at Port-Toulouse on Île Royale, and on Île Madame south of Île Royale. 

Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this family to the winds, but not at first.  The islands on which the Barrieaus lived in 1755 were controlled by France, so the British roundups in Nova Scotia in the fall of that year would have touched none of them and their fellow islanders, at least not directly.  Nevertheless, one of Nicolas's sons and his family left Île St.-Jean in the early- or mid-1750s and moved on to Canada.  For those who remained on the island, 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 and rounded up the habitants there.  Most of the remaining Barrieaus escaped the British, crossed Mer Rouge to the mainland, and followed their kinsmen to the St. Lawrence valley.  After the war, they could be found on the upper St. Lawrence at La Prairie south of Montréal; Champlain above Trois-Rivières; St.-Francois- and St.-Joseph-de-Beauce on Rivière Chaudière in the interior south of Québec; St.-Charles de Bellechasse, Château-Richer, and St.-Thomas de Montmagny on the St. Lawrence below Québec; Baie-St.-Paul on the northern shore of the lower St. Lawrence; and at St.-Joachim far down on the southern shore at the northern edge of the Gaspé Peninsula.  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 Barrieaus on the Maritime islands were rounded up in late 1758 and deported to France.  Some, including Jean-Baptiste Barrieau of Pigiguit and Rivière-du-Moulin-à-Scie, crossed to St.-Malo aboard one or more of the five deportation transports that left Chédabouctou Bay in a 12-ship convoy in late November 1758 and, despite a storm off the southwest coast of England that sank three other transports, reached the Breton port together in late January 1759.  Not all members of the family survived the crossing.  A cousin crossed aboard La Picotte, in a different convoy, and he also perished.  Others were transported Cherbourg in Normandy before joining their kinsmen at Pleudihen-sur-Rance on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo.  In 1763, Olivier Barrieau, who had signed up for corsair duty in the early 1760s and was captured by the British, was released from prison in England at war's end in 1763.  He settled near his brother Jean-Baptiste at Pleudihen, married, remarried, and created a family of his own.  In November 1764, a Barrieau refugee from Île St.-Jean chose to accompany other exiles aboard the ship Deux Frères from Boulogne-sur-Mer, where he evidently had landed in 1759, to the French colony of Guiane on the northeast coast of South America.  He died in St.-Joseph Parish, Sinnamary, in March 1765, still in his 20s. 

In 1773, Jean-Baptiste Barrieau, wife Marie Daigle, and their three remaining children signed on to an even grander settlement venture, this one in the interior of Poitou.  French authorities were tired of providing for the Acadians languishing in the port cities.  An influential French nobleman offered to settle them on land he owned near the city of Châtellerault, where Marie gave Jean-Baptiste another son.  After two years of effort, Jean-Baptiste and his family retreated with most of the other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes, where they subsisted on government handouts and what work they could find.  There, in St.-Jacques Parish, more children were born to them and more were buried, and a Barrieau widow, one of Jean-Baptiste's sisters, remarried.  Meanwhile, while his kinsmen struggled in Poitou, Olivier Barrieau and his family followed other Acadian refugees to the Channel island of Jersey, still held by the British, from which they returned to North America by 1774.  They settled in the British-controlled fisheries at Bonaventure and Carleton in Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs, where Acadian refugees from the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore also had settled. 

In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  The Barrieaus still languishing at Nantes--Jean-Baptiste, four of his sisters, and their families--agreed to take up the offer.  They booked passage on four of the Seven Ships from France that reached New Orleans in 1785--the only members of the family to go to the Spanish colony. 

Two of the Barrieau sisters--one married to a Landry, the other to a Broussard--crossed to Louisiana aboard the first of the Seven Ships and followed their fellow passengers to Manchac on the river south of Baton Rouge, but they did not remain there long.  Brother Jean-Baptiste and two more of his sisters--one married to a Dugas, the other to a Boudrot--crossed on three more of the Seven Ships and chose to follow their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  By the mid-1790s, the sisters at Manchac had joined their siblings on Bayou Lafourche, and there they remained.  During the early and middle 1800s, two of Jean-Baptiste's descendants moved from their base in Assumption Parish to the edge of the coastal marshes surrounding lower Bayou Lafourche and Bayou Terrebonne, while others remained on the upper Lafourche. 

When federal census takers visited Assumption, Lafourche, and Terrebonne parishes in 1850 and 1860, they found no slaves on any of the Barrilleauxs' farms, or at least none who appeared on the federal slave schedules for those years.  One could conclude, then, that the family participated only peripherally in the antebellum South's plantation-based economy.  

Only three Acadian Barrilleauxs appear on the rolls of Louisiana units during the War of 1861-65, each of them probably conscripts compelled to serve the Southern Confederacy.  Droson (probably Drosin) Bariot of Assumption Parish served in Company D of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Mary Parish.  Two of his cousins, Auguste Rosémond and Apollinaire Barrilleaux of Assumption Parish, joined the 1st Regiment Louisiana Heavy Artillery (Regulars) as conscripts in the fall of 1862.  Auguste Rosémond survived the siege of Vicksburg and imprisonment in an Indiana prisoner-of-war camp, but military service proved fatal for Apollinaire.  He died in a hospital at Vicksburg in late November 1862 probably from disease, which took the lives of many men in the regiment from Assumption that autumn and winter.  Meanwhile, back at home, successive Federal incursions devastated the Lafourche and Terrebonne valley where the Barrilleaux family had set down roots.  Confederate foragers also plagued the area when the Federals were not around.  

After the war, Auguste Rosémond and other Barrilleauxs migrated westward from the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley.  Their descendants can be found today in Lafayette, Lake Charles, and other communities west of the Atchafalaya Basin, but the great majority of Barrilleauxs remained in southeast Louisiana, where their immigrant ancestors had settled.  

In Louisiana, the family's name evolved from Barrieau to Barrilleaux.  The family's name also is spelled Banelleau, Bariau, Bariault, Barilau, Barileu, Barillaud, Barilleaux, Barilliaux, Barillo, Barillot, Barilloux, Barilot, Bariot, Barriault, Barrieau, Barrilleau, Barrilo, Barrillot, Barrio, Barrios, Barriot, Bériau, Mariot, Varillot, Vario, Variot, Varriot.  This Acadian family should not be confused with an Isleño family from the Canary Islands, the Barrios.76

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The Acadian Barrilleauxs of South Louisiana are descended from an exile and two of his sons who crossed on La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships from France, which reached New Orleans in mid-August 1785.  They followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, and two robust family lines came of it in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley:  

Jean-Baptiste (c1733-late 1780s) à Nicolas Barrilleaux

Jean-Baptiste, second son of Pierre Barrieau and Véronique Girouard, born at Minas in c1733, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in c1750, and was counted with them at Rivière-des-Blancs in the island's interior in August 1752.  Still a bachelor, he followed them to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  In June 1764, at age 31, Jean-Baptiste married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Daigre and Anne-Marie Breau, at Pleudihen-sur-Rance on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo.  Between 1765 and 1773, at Pleudihen and nearby Mordreuc, Marie gave Jean-Baptiste seven children:  Jacques-Alain born in October 1765; Jean-Pierre in June 1767 but died the following October; Jean-Marie in May 1769; Marie-Rose born in September 1770 but died the following January; Perrine born in January 1772; Charles-Pierre in November 1773 but died the day after his birth; and Anne-Jeanne born in November 1773 but died the following month.  Jean-Baptiste took his family to Poitou in 1773.  Marie gave him another son, François, born at Châtellerault in January 1775.  In December of that year, the family 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.-Jacques Parish there:  Joseph-Marie born in July 1778 but died in August; and Louis-Constant born in July 1779 but died at age 4 in July 1783--10 children, seven sons and three daughters, between 1765 and 1779, most of whom died young.  In 1785, Jean-Baptiste, wife Marie, and their four remaining children, three sons and a daughter, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  They had no more children in the Spanish colony.  Jean-Baptiste died by January 1788, in his early or mid-50s, when wife Marie was counted in a Valenzuela District census without a husband.  Marie did not remarry.  Remaining daughter Perrine married into the Boudreaux family.  Two of Jean-Baptiste's sons also married on Bayou Lafourche, where the family's name morphed into Barrilleaux.   The oldest son's line was especially vigorous. 

Oldest son Jacques-Allain followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marie-Perpétué, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Mazerolle and his first wife Marguerite Trahan, in the late 1780s.  Marie, a native of St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo, also had crossed from France aboard La Bergère.  They built their habitant next to his widowed mother and younger brother François.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Jacques, fils baptized, age unrecorded, in June 1789; François le jeune, also called Jean-François, born in July 1790; Jean-Marie le jeune in August 1792; Étienne- or Jean-Baptiste, called Baptiste, in September 1795; Pierre baptized, age unrecorded, in August 1797; Isaac born in June 1800; Simon in January 1803; and Joseph in May 1805--eight children, all sons, between 1789 and 1805.  Jacques Alain died in Assumption Parish in June 1819, age 54.  Six of his sons married fellow Acadians, but not all of the lines endured.  Most of Jacques Alain's descendants remained in Assumption Parish, but one line drifted down bayou and settled near Raceland and Lockport in Lafourche Interior Parish.  

Oldest son Jacques, fils married Élisabeth Rosalie, called Rosalie and Babette, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Pierre Landry and Élisabeth Guérin, at Ascension in April 1806.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Julie Marie Adèle in May 1807; Carmelite baptized, age unrecorded, in July 1809; Émilie Élisabeth born in June 1811; Claire Marcelle in August 1813 but died a few weeks later; Jacques Zénon born in November 1814 but died at age 4 months in March 1815; Seraphine born in November 1816; Marie Charlotte in December 1818 but died at age 4 1/2 in September 1823; and Désiré Marcellin, called Marcellin, born in May 1821 but died at age 18 months in October 1822--eight children,  six daughters and two sons, between 1807 and 1821.  Jacques, fils died in Assumption Parish in July 1822.  The priest who recorded the burial noted that Jacques, fils was "age about 28 yrs." when he died.  He was closer to age 33.  Daughters Émilie and Carmélite married into the Landry and Giroir families.  Neither of Jacques, fils's sons survived childhood, so this line of the family, except for its blood, did not endure.  

Jacques Allain's second son François le jeune married Florence, also called Clémence, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Aucoin and Isabelle Hébert and widow of Michel Pedeau, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in November 1814.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Cléonise Florence in September 1815; Marie Françoise in June 1818; Florence Jeanne in November 1820; Salvador Maurice in September 1823 but, called Maurice, died at age 24 in October 1847; and Cyprien Auguste, called C. A., born in September 1825--five children, three daughters and two sons, between 1815 and 1825.  Francois le jeune died in Assumption Parish in September 1841, age 51.  Daughters Cléonise and Marie married into the Foret and Colbut families.  One of François le jeune's sons also married and was a victim of the Last Island hurricane of August 1856, which killed hundreds of people at the popular resort south of the Terrebonne marshes. 

Younger son Cyprien Auguste, called C. A., married Stephanie Manette, daughter of fellow Acadian Marcellin Bourg and his Creole wife Éloise Folse, at the Plattenville church in December 1855.  Their son Cyprien Auguste, fils was born posthumously in Assumption Parish in February 1857.  Cyprien died "about 14 August at Last Island," Terrebonne Parish, a victim of the hurricane that destroyed the island on 10 August 1856; he was buried in Assumption Parish the following October.  The Plattenville priest who recorded the burial said that Cyprien A., as he called him, died at "age 29 years."  He was a month shy of 31.  C. A.'s widow Stephanie died near Plattenville in November 1858, age 23.  One wonders who raised their son Cyprien, fils, who would have been age 1 1/2 when his widowed mother died.

Jacques Allain's third son Jean Marie le jeune married Marie Madeleine, called Madeleine, another daughter of Jean Pierre Landry and Élisabeth Guérin, at the Plattenville church in August 1815.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Heremberg Valentin, called Valentin, in May 1816; Marie Charlotte in April 1818; Jean Baptiste in September 1820; Irène Carmélite in February 1823; Joseph le jeune in November 1824; Azelma or Azéma Clémence in December 1826; Drosain or Drosin in February 1829; and Mélanie in April 1831--eight children, four sons and four daughters, between 1816 and 1831.  Jean Marie le jeune died in Assumption Parish in August 1843, age 51.  Daughters Marie, Irène, Mélanie, and Azéma married into the Boudreaux, Dupuis, Martin, and Hébert families by 1870.  Two of Jean Marie's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Valentin married fellow Acadian Marcellite Thibodeaux probably in Assumption Parish in the 1840s.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Mélasie Clémentine near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in March 1847; Elphége Euzelien in October 1848; Ozémé Martin in November 1850; Orela Lida in July 1853; and Joseph Gervey in October 1855--five children, between 1847 and 1855.  Daughter Mélasie married into the Richard family by 1870.  None of Valentin's sons married by then. 

Jean Marie le jeune's second son Jean Baptiste married fellow Acadian Pamela Bourg probably in Assumption Parish in the 1840s.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche and on nearby Lake Verret, included Hilaire Euzelien near Paincourtville in December 1847; Madeleine in April 1850; Marguerite Pamelie in December 1855; a son, name and age unrecorded, died in November 1863; Zéphiline Malvina near Pierre Part on Lake Verret in September 1862; Pierre Cyprien in April 1864; ...  None of Jean Baptiste's daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did.

Oldest son Hilaire Eusilien married Athanaise, daughter of Dorsin Simoneaux and Aureline Frioux, at the Pierre Part church, Assumption Parish, in April 1869. ...

Jean Marie le jeune's fourth and youngest son Drosin may have been the Droson (probably Drosin) Bariot who, in September 1862, enlisted in Company D of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Mary Parish, probably as a conscript.  If this was him, he would have been age 33.  Droson joined the 18th Louisiana at Camp Pratt outside of New Iberia, where area conscripts were gathered to fill the ranks of front-line units.  Company rolls say he was sick in the general hospital at New Iberia from November 1862 through February 1863.  He then disappears from the rolls.  If he survived the war, he does not seem to have married by 1870, when he would have been in his early 40s. 

Jacques Allain's fourth son Étienne or Jean Baptiste, called Baptiste, married Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Amable Landry and Ursule Pitre, at the Plattenville church in July 1816; his marriage record called him Jean Baptiste.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Azélie, called Azélie, in April 1817; Étienne Paulin, called Paulin, in June 1818; Jean Zénon in August 1820 but, called Zénon, died at age 33 (the recording priest, who called his parent "Widow Baptiste Barriau, said he died "age ca. 31 years") in October 1853; Pierre Adolphe, called Adolphe, born in March 1822 but died at age 30 in November 1852; Alexandre Simon born in March 1824; Marcellite Azelma or Azéma, called Azéma, in November 1826; and Honorine Eugénie, called Eugénie, in February 1829--seven children, three daughters and four sons, between 1817 and 1829.  Jean Baptiste died in Assumption Parish in October 1840, age 45 (the recording priest said 46).  Daughters Azélie, Azéma, and Eugénie married into the Bergeron, Chevrier, and Vigreaux families.  Two of Jean Baptiste's sons also married. 

Oldest son Paulin married Pauline, daughter of Florentin Frioux and Céleste Montet, at the Plattenville church in April 1843.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Apollinaire in c1844; Marie Augustine, called Augustine, in October 1846; Ophelia or Ovilia Roseline in January 1848; Émelia or Amelina Joséphine near Labadieville, Assumption Parish, in April 1849; Lovinci in July 1851; Adolphine Célestine, called Célestine, in March 1853; Charles Uma in November 1854; Cyprien Arthur in December 1856; Philomène Adèle or Odille, called Odille, in December 1859; Émile Aurelien in April 1862 but died at age 1 1/2 in June 1863; Glova Paulin born in October 1863; Marie Alida in February 1867; ...  Daughters Augustine, Ovilia, and Amelina married into the Aysenne, Prejean, and Vigreux families by 1870.  None of Paulin's sons married by then, one of them because he died in Confederate service.

During the War of 1861-65, oldest son Apollinaire was conscripted, along with many Assumption men, into Company C of 1st Regiment Louisiana Heavy Artillery, which served at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  He joined the company at the end of October 1862, in his late teens, but died in a hospital at Vicksburg in late November 1862 probably from disease, which took the lives of many men in the regiment that autumn and winter.

Baptiste's fourth and youngest son Alexandre Simon married Domitille, also called Mathilde, daughter of Bernard Mars and his Acadian wife Geneviève Doiron, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in July 1851.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Alexandrine near Labadieville, Assumption Parish, in June 1852; Jean Baptiste Auguste in Lafourche Parish in October 1854; Fhilomène, probably Philomène, Honorine in February 1859; Joseph Lee in March 1865; ...  None of Alexandre Simon's children married by 1870. 

Jacques Allain's fifth son Pierre married Marie, also called Marcelite and Marceline, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Louis Foret and Marie Duon, at the Plattenville church in November 1817.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Jean Jérôme in September 1818 but died nine days after his birth; Marie Carmélite born in November 1819; Batilde Julie in June 1821; Eléonore Emelissère in May 1825; Joséphine Marie born in December 1827; Adrien in February 1830; Marie in March 1833; Eugène Carville in November 1835; Marcellite Aurelie in November 1838; and Donatilde Antoinette in November 1841--10 children, three sons and seven daughters, between 1818 and 1841.  Pierre died in Assumption Parish in November 1848 in his early 50s (the recording priest said 52).  Daughters ... married into the Aucoin, Blanchard, Boudreaux, and Doiron families by 1870.  One of Pierre's sons also married by then. 

Third and youngest son Eugène Carville married Augustine, daughter of fellow Acadians Valérie Arceneaux and Baselisse Aucoin, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in August 1859.  Their children, born near Labadieville, included Justilia Marie Élodie in October 1860; Augustine in May 1865; and Julie Héloise in November 1867.  Eugène may have remarried to fellow Acadian Victorine Aucoin in the late 1860s.  Daughter Oceana Émelie was born near Labadieville in November 1868; ...

Jacques Allain's eighth and youngest son Joseph married Phelonise Adèle, called Adèle, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Theriot and Françoise Guérin, at the Plattenville church in December 1825.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Virginie in September 1826 but died early the following month; Ferdinand born in September 1827; Joséphine in January 1830; Sylvania Fursine dite Fursy in June 1831 but died at age 2 1/2 in October 1833; Evéline Marie born in June 1833; Françoise Rose in December 1835; Marie Basilise in February 1838 but, called Marie, died at age 15 1/2 (the recording priest said 16) in October 1853; Philomène Marguerite born in June 1840; Domitille Adelline in October 1842; François Léonard in March 1845; and Florence in late 1847 and baptized at age 3 months in January 1848--11 children, nine daughters and two sons, between 1826 and 1847.  Daughters Evéline, Philomène, and Florence married into the LeBlanc and Foret families, including Foret brothers, by 1870.  Joseph's two sons also married by then. 

Older son Ferdinand married Justine, daughter of Evariste Lepine and his Acadian wife Marie Anastasie Martin, at the Raceland church, Lafourche Parish, in February 1856.  Their children, born on the lower Lafourche, included Joseph Thompson in Assumption Parish in June 1857; Camille Evariste in August 1858; Rémi Samuel near Raceland in October 1861 but died at age 20 months in June 1863; Marguerite Victoria born in January 1863; Élize Grasiola in February 1866; twins Elizabeth Selma and Marie Emma in September 1868; ... 

Joseph's younger son François married Alice, daughter of fellow Acadian Marcellin Daigle and his Creole wife Marie Hernandez, at the Lockport church, Lafourche Parish, in August 1867.  Their children, born near Lockport, included Adèle in March 1869; Joseph Arthur in November 1870; ...

Jean-Baptiste's third son Jean-Marie followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and upper Bayou Lafourche but may not have remained there.  He may have been the Juan Barrios or Barrio who died at San Gabriel on the river in July 1789, no age given.  Jean-Marie Barrieau would have been age 20 that year.  He did not marry. 

Jean-Baptiste's fifth son François followed his family to Nantes, New Orleans, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Marin Gautreaux and Gertrude Bourg, at Assumption in May 1797.  Marie, born in France, also had crossed aboard La Bergère.  They settled next door to his widowed mother and older brother Jacques.  Their children, born on the upper bayou, included Marie-Modeste in February 1798; Émilie-Rosalie in July 1799; Euchariste- or Evariste-Noël in December 1800; Renée-Anastasie in September 1802; twins François, fils and Françoise in October 1805; Ange in June 1808 but died three days after his birth; Ursin born in the early 1800s; Clarisse Marie in September 1808; Élise in June 1811; Marie Adeline in August 1813; Caremélite Ursine in August 1816 but died at age 10 1/2 in November 1827; and Florence born in c1820 but died at age 18 years, 9 months in August 1839--13 children, nine daughters and four sons, including a set of twins, between 1798 and 1823.  Francois died in Assumption Parish in February 1832.  The Plattenville priest who recorded the burial and did not include a wife's name or the name of his parents, noted that François was age 60 when he died.  He was 57.  Daughters Marie Modeste, Émilie, Élise, and Marie Adeline married into the Theriot, Bourque,Calhoun, Blanchard, and Guillot families.  Three of François sons also married, to fellow Acadians, but not all of the lines endured.  One line, the larger one, drifted down into Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes, while the other, smaller, line remained in Assumption Parish.  

Oldest son son Euchariste or Evariste Noël married Marguerite Mélanie Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Hébert and Élisabeth Bourg of Lafourche Interior Parish, at the Plattenville church in July 1820.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Assumption and Lafourche Interior parishes.  Their children, born there, included Magloire in July 1821; Irène in November 1822; Louis Arsène, called Arsène and Louis A., in July 1824 but died at age 5 1/2 in December 1829; Neuville born in February 1826; Virginie in February 1830; Jean Baptiste in October 1831; and Adrien Théophil or Théophile in February 1833--seven children, five sons and two daughters, between 1821 and 1833.  Daughters ... married into the Boudreaux, Gautreaux, and Gros families.  Echariste's four remaining sons also married. 

Oldest son Magloire married Clothilde Armelise, daughter of Augustin Lagrange and Rosalie Mayet, at the Thibodaux church in May 1848.  As the birth dates of their older children reveal, they evidently had married years earlier, probably civilly.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Rosalie or Rose in June 1841; Auguste Rosémond in December 1842; Gerasie or Gerasime Laurencie in October 1844; Eugène Davis in December 1846; Neuville Adrien in September 1849; Marie Orella in July 1852 but, called Marie, died at age 10 months in August 1853; Théophile Isidore born in May 1854; Villier Henri in October 1856; Joseph Sogeus in January 1859; Roséma Zulma in March 1861; Clairville Telesma in February 1864; Auguste in April 1865; Oziana Célestine in April 1867; ...  Daughters Rose, ... married into the Hébert and LeBlanc families by 1870.  Three of Magloire's sons also married by then. 

During the War of 1861-65, oldest son Auguste Rosémond served in the 1st Regiment Louisiana Heavy Artillery as a conscript.  He joined Company C of the 1st Heavy Artillery in late October 1862 when the regiment was serving in the lines at Vicksburg.  Disease took the lives of many of the Assumption Parish conscripts, including at least one Barrilleaux cousin, that summer, fall, and winter.  Auguste survived the contagion and fought in the Siege of Vicksburg in the spring and summer of 1863.  Auguste and many members of his regiment refused to accept the parole that Union General U. S. Grant offered the 29,000 Confederates he captured at Vicksburg on 4 July 1763.  Later in the month, the Federals sent Auguste and other Confederates who had refused parole to Memphis, Tennessee, then to the Gratiot Street Military Prison in St. Louis, Missouri, before shipping them by train to the prison-of-war compound at Camp Morton, Indiana, near Indianapolis.  The authorities at Camp Morton recorded Auguste's physical features in case he tried to escape:  dark complexion, black hair, 5-foot-6 3/4-inches tall.  He languished at Camp Morton for nearly two years.  His military service record says he was released from the camp the first of June 1865 after he took the oath of allegiance to the United States government.  But his marriage record says he was married in Assumption Parish two months earlier, so he must have taken the oath of allegiance early in the year and made his way home as best he could as the war slowly drew to a close.  He married Elidorise, daughter of fellow Acadians Élie Gautreaux and Agathe Aucoin, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in April 1865.  They settled near Labadieville before moving to Chacahoula near the boundary between Assumption, Lafourche, and Terrebonne parishes.  Their children, born near Labadieville and Chacahoula, included Eve Evela near Labadieville in March 1868; Joseph Justile near Chacahoula in November 1870; ...  The family evidently moved on to the lower Teche valley.  Auguste is buried in St. Peter Catholic Cemetery, New Iberia, beneath a Confederate veteran's marker.  

Magloire's second son Gerasime married Moetille or Mirtil, daughter of fellow Acadians Marcellus Gautreaux and Pauline Aucoin, at the Labadieville church in February 1864.  Their children, born near Labadieville, included Mary Evelia in July 1866; Mirtilia Joséphine in December 1868; ...

Magloire's third son Eugène married Joséphine, daughter of Maximin Ayo and his Acadian wife Azélie Naquin, at the Labadieville church in December 1866.  They settled near Montegut, Terrebonne Parish.  Their children, born there, included Ernest Myrtile in November 1867; Myrtille Philomène in January 1869; ...  

Evariste's third son Neuville married Marie Mélanie, also called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Olivier Gautreaux and his Creole wife Marie Berthelot, at the Thibodaux church in October 1847; Neuville's wife's brother Élie was his sister Virginie's husband.  Neuville and Marie Melanie's children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Pierre Clovis near Labadieville in September 1849; Théodule in March 1851; Marie Philomène in February 1853; Marie Eveline in June 1854; Evelina Roséma in April 1856; twins Irma Marie and Numa Marcellus in October 1858; and Emma Victoria in November 1860.  Neuville remarried to Marie Séverine, called Séverine, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Robichaux and his Creole wife Marie Baselisse Dupré, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in February 1862.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marcilien Ovide near Labadieville in November 1863; Adolphine Evelia in January 1865; Joseph Anatole in Lafourche Parish in September 1866; Alphonse Ernest near Lockport in April 1868; Joseph William in November 1869; ...  None of Neuville's daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did. 

Oldest son Pierre Clovis, by first wife Marie Mélanie Gautreaux, married Philomène, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexis Bergeron and Rosalie Thibodeaux, at the Chacahoula church, Assumption Parish, in July 1870. ...

Evariste's fourth son Jean Baptiste married Delphine, another daughter of Pierre Olivier Gautreaux and Marie Berthelot, at the Thibodaux church in April 1853.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Augustave Joseph near Labadieville in February 1854; Marie Joséphine in November 1855; Ernest Symphorien in August 1861; Adolphine Myrte in June 1864; and Emma Velida in February 1866.  Jean Baptiste remarried to Azélia, daughter of fellow Acadians Hubert Usé and Pauline Boudreaux, at the Labadieville church in February 1870. ...  None of Jean Baptiste's children married by 1870. 

Evariste's fifth and youngest son Adrien married Élodie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Boudreaux and Joséphine Anne Gautreaux, at the Labadieville church in April 1856.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Eve Élodie in September 1859 but died at age 10 days later in the month; Désiré Aubert born in August 1862; Adolphine Eliska in December 1863; Alma Emma in August 1865; Henri Hippolyte in November 1867; Émile in August 1869; ...  

François's second son François, fils, a twin, married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Isaac Hébert and Marie Daigle, at the Plattenville church in January 1828.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Drosin Jule in October 1828; Rosalie or Rosalia in August 1830 but died at Brûlé St.-Vincent, age 11 months in July 1831; Léonor Urasi baptized, age unrecorded, in August 1833; and Hermelie or Armelise Mélanie born in July 1836--four children, three daughters and a son, between 1828 and 1836.  François, fils died in Assumption Parish in September 1841, age 36.  Daughter Armelise married into the Truxillo family by 1870.  François, fils's son, if he married at all, did not marry by then. 

Only son Drosin Jule may have been the Droson (probably Drosin) Bariot who, in September 1862, enlisted in Company D of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Mary Parish, probably as a conscript.  If this was him, he would have been a month shy of age 34.  Droson joined the 18th Louisiana at Camp Pratt outside of New Iberia, where area conscripts were gathered to fill the ranks of front-line units.  Company rolls say he was sick in the general hospital at New Iberia from November 1862 through February 1863.  He then disappears from the rolls.  If he survived the war, he does not seem to have married by 1870, when he would have been in his early 40s. 

François's fourth son Ursin married Cléonise, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Potier and Isabelle Aucoin, at the Plattenville church in January 1826.  Their chilidren, born on the upper Lafourche, included Ferdinand Ambroise in April 1827; Isidore in May 1829; Ursin, fils in April 1831; Carmélite Aurelia or Aurelia Carmélite in March 1835; Marie Antoinette, called Antoinette, in September 1837; Philomène Élisabeth in November 1839; Eugénie probably in the early 1840s; and Clémentine Élisabeth in July 1843--eight children, three sons and five daughters, between 1827 and 1843.  Daughters Aurelia Carmélite, Antoinette, Eugénie, and Philomène married into the Lajaunie or Lajaunis, Martin, Aucoin, and LeBlanc families by 1870.  Two of Ursin's sons also married by then. 

Second son Isidore married Marie Armelise, called Armelise, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Robichaux and his Creole wife Marie Baselisse Dupré, at the Houma church in January 1857.  Their children, born on Bayou Lafourche, included Edmond Taylor in November 1857; Arthur Édouard in March 1859; Henri Philippe in October 1860; Charles Alcide in May 1863; Isidore Elphége in November 1865; ...  

Ursin's third son Ursin, fils married Marcellite, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Olivier Gautreaux and his Creole wife Marie Berthelot, at the Labadieville church in February 1857.  Their children, born near Labadieville, included Marie Eugénie in December 1858; Eugénie Célestine in September 1860; Marie Aurelia in February 1862; Eugène Mendorf in November 1864; ... 

Benoit

Martin Benoit or Benoist dit Labrière, born probably at Rochefort, France, in c1643, may have come to Acadia aboard L'Oranger in 1671, soon after the first census was taken in the colony.  The following year, Martin married Marie Chaussegros at Port-Royal.  He and his family were first counted at Port-Royal in 1678, when they already had four children, two daughters and two sons--the oldest, a daughter, born soon after their marriage.  In c1708, Martin took his family to Pigiguit in the Minas Basin.  He and Marie eventually had 10 children, five daughters and five sons, all born at Port-Royal, most of whom produced families of their own.  Martin died at Port-Royal, date and age unrecorded.  Four of his daughters married into the Forest, Trahan, LePrince, Lejeune, and Thibodeau families.  His five sons married into the Forest, Babin, Breau, Amireau, LeJuge, and Hébert families.  By the family's third generation in the colony, descendants of Martin Benoit dit Labrière had established roots in nearly a dozen settlements in greater Acadia, including Annapolis Royal; in the Minas Basin at Rivière-aux-Canards, Pigiguit, and Cobeguit; at Memramcook in the trois rivières area west of Chignecto; at Anse-au-Matelot and Grande-Ascension on the south shore of Île St.-Jean; and at Pointe-à-la-Jeunesse, Rivière-des-Habitants, and Baie-des-Espagnols on Île Royale.  Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this large family even farther. 

When the British rounded up the Acadians at Minas, Pigiguit, and Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755, many of the Benoits there ended up in Massachusetts.  Others found themselves on transports bound for Maryland, and one of them may have gone to Virginia.  Many of the Benoits at Annapolis Royal and in the trois-rivières area, as well as some of their cousins at Minas, escaped the British and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore or moved on to Canada.  

Living in territory controlled by France, the Benoits in the Maritimes islands escaped the roundups in Nova Scotia.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived, however.  The fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758 gave the British easy access to the remaining Acadian communities in the region.  Later that year, the redcoats rounded up most of the habitants on the Maritime islands and deported them to France.  Among them were dozens of Benoits, many of whom did not survive the crossing.  Some of them crossed on the deportaion transport Duc Guillaume, which left the Maritimes in late summer, suffered a shipboard mishap, and limped into St.-Malo harbor the first of November.  The death toll among the Benoits was significant.  Three entire Benoit families perished with hundreds of other Acadians when two of the deportation transports in a 12-ship convoy, the Violet and the Duke William, left Chédabouctou Bay in late November, also bound for St.-Malo, and sank in a mid-December off the southwest coast of England.  Benoits crossed on the Tamerlane, which left Chédabouctou Bay in the 12-ship convoy and, despite the mid-December storm, reached St.-Malo in mid-January 1759.  Some died at sea or at St.-Malo from the rigors of the crossing.  Benoits crossed on one or more of the five deporation transports that left Chédabouctou Bay in the 12-ship convoy and, despite the mid-December storm, reached St.-Malo together in late January.  More members of the family perished aboard the so-called Five Ships.  Benoits also crossed on the Supply, which left Chédabouctou Bay in the 12-ship convoy, survived the storm, limpted to Bideford, England, for repairs in late December, and did not reach St.-Malo until early March.  Again, more members of the family died at sea or in the Breton port. 

Island Benoits did their best to create a life for themselves in the suburbs and villages of the St.-Malo area.  After they reached the Breton port, three Benoit brothers, a carpenter and two sailors, moved on to Lorient on the other side of Brittany.  One of the sailors, evidently while pursuing his trade, died on the French island of Guadaloupe in March 1764.  The Benoits who remained in the St.-Malo area lived at Châteauneuf on the east side of the river south of St-Malo; in the suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer; at St.-Suliac near Châteauneuf, where one family lived on Rue des Bouchers; and at Mégrit in the countryside southwest of St.-Malo.  In 1763, a Benoit family at St.-Servan-sur-Mer signed on with other Acadians to a risky venture--a long, arduous voyage aboard the ship Aigle to the îles Malouines, today's Falkland Islands, near the southern tip of South America.  Three more children were born to them there.  The British soon seized the islands and sent the Benoits and other Acadians back to St.-Malo in April 1768.  They settled again at St.-Servan.  Meanwhile, in April 1760, a Benoit who had lost his entire family on the crossing to St.-Malo embarked on the corsair Hercules out of the Breton port and fell into the hands of the British, who held him as a prisoner in England for the rest of the war.  Back in France in 1763, he moved to St.-Servan and created a second family there.  In 1758-59, island Benoits landed in other ports, including the northern fishing center of Boulogne-sur-Mer in Picardie; and La Rochelle and especially Rochefort on the Bay of Biscay, but not all of them remained.  In 1760, a Benoit family moved from the naval port of Rochefort to Mégrit before moving on to St.-Servan.  A Benoit, described as a "Canadian who died in England in the service of the King," was "buried" in St.-Nicolas Parish, Boulogne-sur-Mer, in March 1763, age 23.  He may have been one of the young Acadians who signed up to serve on a French corsair soon after they reached France and paid dearly for it.  A young Benoit reached St.-Malo in 1763, perhaps one of the hundreds of Acadian exiles held in England after being deported from Virginia who were repatriated to France in the spring of 1763.  After he reached France, he lived at St.-Servan, probably still a bachelor in his late 20s, but he refused to remain in the mother country.  In 1764, he returned to North America with other Acadian exiles and settled on Île Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  He then disappears from the historical record.  In 1764, an island Benoit, along with his unnamed wife, took the ship Désirée to the new French colony of Guiane on the northeast coast of South America.  The experience proved fatal.  He died in St.-Saviour Parish, Cayenne, in late October 1764. 

In 1773, Benoits still in the St.-Malo area chose to take part in another, much grander, 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.  Among the takers were four Benoit families from St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  The experience was a brief one.  In late 1775 and early 1776, after two years of effort, hundreds of Poitou Acadians, including most of the Benoits, retreated in four convoys from Châtellerault down the Vienne and the Loire to the port of Nantes.  A Benoit wife joined her relatives at Nantes a few years later.  There and at nearby Chantenay, the exiles lived as best they could on government handouts and on what work they could find.  In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  Many of the Benoits, a least two dozen of them, agreed to take it.  Some of them, however, remained in France, especially the ones who had taken French spouses.  A Benoit daughter married a fellow Acadian from one of the Newfoundland islands at Ingouville near Le Havre, Normandy, in May 1800.  The groom was a sailor.  The priest who married them noted that the bride had been "deported from Isles of St.-Pierre et Miquelon," which may explain why she had not accompanied her brother and other relatives to Spanish Louisiana. 

In North America, 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 June 1763 a few Benoits could be found on a repatriation list in Pennsylvania.  In August 1763 in Massachusetts, a number of Benoit families also were listed there.  Benoits who had escaped the 1758 roundup on the Maritime islands and eluded the redcoats managed to remain in greater Acadia.  After the war, these Benoits settled at Arichat on Île Madame off the southern coast of Cape Breton Island, formerly Île Royale; at Petit-Bras d'Or and D'Escousse on Cape Breton; and on the French-controlled fishery island of St.-Pierre, near Miquelon, off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  Some of the Benoits on Île St.-Pierre came there from exile in France.  In the 1790s and early 1800s, Benoits from Cape Breton and Île St.-Pierre moved north to Newfoundland, where they settled in the Codroy Valley, at Baie d'Espoir, and especially on Baie St.-George.  Some of these Newfoundland Benoits married anglophone wives and anglicized their surname to Bennett.  Others retained the French spelling of their name, which sometimes appears in the records as Benoite.  Most of the Benoits held in Massachusetts chose to go to Canada.  Especially after 1766, they could be found on the upper St. Lawrence at Trois-Rivières, St.-Michel-d'Yamaska, and Yamachiche; and on the lower Richelieu east of Montréal at Chambly and St.-Ours.  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. 

Acadian Benoits also emigrated from the seaboard colonies to the French Antilles to escape British rule.  Orphan sisters born in Massachusetts may have gone to French St.-Domingue with other Acadians from New England in the early 1760s.  If so, they moved on to Louisiana by 1775, among the relatively few Acadian exiles who went to the Spanish colony directly from the French Antilles.  A 24-year-old Benoit sailor, whose family had been exiled from Île Royale in 1758, died "in the home of Mr. Pécou, master surgeon, at Petit-Bourg, Guadeloupe, in March 1764.  A Benoit, perhaps an Acadian exile, serving as arpenteur du roi, or land surveyor for the King, and his French wife, were living at Petit-Bourg, Guadeloupe, when their daughter died at age 4 months in April 1764.  They were still there in January 1768, when another daughter was born to them.  A Benoit from Louisbourg, Île Royale, perhaps another a sailor, died at Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, in April 1764, age 26.  A Benoit wife or widow from Cobeguit died at Fort-Royal, Martinique, in November 1766, age 55.  Another young Benoit woman from Cobeguit ended up at Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, where she married a Frenchman from Petit-Loupy, Lorraine, in April 1768; the groom was a merchant.  A Benoit master blacksmith born near Bordeaux, France, perhaps an Acadian, married an Acadian girl at Le Mouillage, Martinique, in February 1771; the bride had been born in Acadie.  The couple were still at Le Mouillage when a son was born in December 1789. 

The Benoits from the Minas Basin who had been exiled to Maryland endured life among Englishmen who, despite their colony's Catholic roots, did not care much for the French "papists" thrust upon them.  In August 1763, a few months after the war with Britain finally ended, one Benoit family, a couple of Benoit wives, and half a dozen Benoit orphans appeared on a French repatriation list at Port Tobacco on the lower Potomac River, all of them refugees from Pigiguit.  When the Acadians in Maryland learned that fellow exiles had been welcomed in Louisiana, hundreds of them, first in June 1766 and again in April 1767, headed for New Orleans via Cap-Français, St.-Domingue.  The Benoits were not among them.  Not until December 1767 did any of them book passage for the Spanish colony, this time with the large extended family at Port Tobacco led by Alexis and Honoré Breau of Pigiguit.  They became the first Acadian Benoits to reach the colony.  Nearly a year later, in January 1769, a Benoit family from Port Tobacco joined other exiles on the English schooner Britannia bound for the lower Mississippi. 

No group of Acadians who came to Louisiana suffered as much as this fourth and last group of exiles from Maryland to get to their Mississippi-valley promised land.  The Britannia (sometimes spelled Britania) left Port Tobacco for New Orleans on 5 January 1769 with seven Acadian families aboard, including a Benoit, his second wife, and three of his children.  Also on the ship were eight Catholic German families who, for reasons of their own, no longer wanted to live in a British colony.  The crew of the Britannia sighted the coast of Louisiana on February 21, but the ship's master, either through bad luck or incompetence, missed the mouth of the Mississippi because of heavy fog.  Strong winds drove the ship westward, and a few days later the Britannia ran onto the Texas coast at Espiritu Santo Bay.  The crew went ashore and located a Spanish officer, who suspected them of being spies or smugglers.  Instead of giving them food and fresh water, he arrested them and ordered his men to escort everyone on the ship to the nearby post of La Bahía.  The passengers and crew of the Britannia remained there for six long months, waiting for the Spanish authorities to decide their fate.  While at La Bahía, they were forced to work as semi-slaves around the presidio and on nearby ranches.  Finally, in early September, a Spanish officer arrived at the presidio with instructions for the commandant there to send the captives overland to Natchitoches in central Louisiana.  They could not return to the abandoned Britannia because the Spanish and the coastal Indians had stripped the vessel so thoroughly it was no longer seaworthy.  On September 11, the Acadians joined the other passengers and the English crew on the 420-mile trek to Natchitoches on the Red River, which they did not reach until late October.  Spanish Governor-General Alejandro O'Reilly had decided that the Acadian families in the group would settle at Natchitoches because of their familiarity with growing rye and wheat.  Natchitoches settlers welcomed the newcomers and supplied them with food, tools, and animals.  The Germans were ordered to continue to New Orleans via the Red and Mississippi rivers.  After they would pick up supplies in the city, they would settle at San Gabriel on the Mississippi above the city, where Acadians from Maryland had settled two years earlier.  Most of the Britannia Acadians, including the Benoits, refused to remain at Natchitoches, which was too far away from their kinfolk to the south.  The Benoits moved on to San Gabriel before following other Acadians from the ill-starred ship to the Opelousas prairies.

Meanwhile, the Pigiguit Benoits from Port Tobacco reached New Orleans with the Breau party in February 1768.  Spanish Governor Ulloa forced them to settle far upriver at Fort San Luis, across from British-controlled Natchez.  After Ulloa's ouster in a colonial uprising later that year, Governor-General O'Reilly, who suppressed the rebellion, allowed the Acadians at Fort San Luis de Natchez to settle where they wanted.  Most moved downriver to what was being called the Acadian Coast.  Natchez Benoits went to San Gabriel and Ascension, but one of them, after he married, moved on to Attakapas west of the Atchafalaya Basin, where he created a western branch of the family.  The Benoits from the Brittania who moved on to the Opelousas District, north of Attakapas, also established a vigorous family line on the western prairies.  In 1785, two dozen more Acadian Benoits came to Louisiana from France.  One of them, like his cousins from Maryland, also moved out to the prairies, in this case to the western edge of the Calcasieu country near present-day Lake Charles.  Meanwhile, his cousins from France settled on the river below New Orleans or at Manchac on the river south of Baton Rouge.  Most of the Benoits from France, however, settled on upper Bayou Lafourche, where they created a third center of family settlement.  

In Louisiana, then, the Benoits exhibited the same settlement pattern their ancestors had followed in Acadie--instead of clustering in a single settlement area, they scattered all over the region.  The family from France that settled near Baton Rouge in the late 1780s disappears from local church records by the early 1800s, but by then their Benoit cousins could be found on the fringes of South Louisiana from the river below New Orleans, along the shore of Vermilion Bay, and in the Calcasieu River valley near the border of Spanish Texas.  They were especially numerous along the banks of Bayou Lafourche as far down as the Terrebonne country, on the prairie at Carencro north of today's Lafayette, on upper Bayou Teche near present-day Breaux Bridge, and on the prairies of what became Vermilion Parish.  

Benoit is a common surname in France and French Canada, so non-Acadian members of the family also lived in South Louisiana during the colonial period, most of them at New Orleans.  The most significant non-Acadian family was that of Jean-Baptiste Benoist or Benoît de Sainte-Claire, a French-Canadian officer in the King's army who became a chevalier of the prestigious Order of St.-Louis.  As a lieutenant, he served as commandant of Fort Toulouse on the Alabama River, then part of French Louisiana, from 1733 to 1734.  He was a captain serving in Illinois, also part of French Louisiana, during the late 1740s, when he married the daughter of a superior officer.  He moved his family to New Orleans in the 1750s.  By the early 1780s, they had moved on to the Attakapas District, where they became socially prominent members of that community.  Typical of upper-caste French Creoles, few, if any, of them married Acadians.  During the antebellum period, quite a few Foreign-French Benoits came to New Orleans, and most remained there.  One Foreign Frenchman, Victor- or Victorin-Simon Benoit of Bordeaux, settled on upper Bayou Lafourche in the 1820s.  He married an Acadian, and his only married son took an Acadian bride, so one wonders if he was descended from Acadian Benoits who had remained in France in 1785.  A number of Benoits who were free persons of color established families on the western prairies during the antebellum period.  But these non-Acadian Benoits, including the Benoist de Sainte-Claires, never came close in numbers to their Acadian namesakes who lived nearby. 

When federal census takers visited Calcasieu, Lafourche, St. Martin, and Vermilion parishes in the 1850s, they found a number of slaves owned by Acadian Benoits, especially on the western prairies.  In 1850, Augustin Benoit of Lafayette Parish held 10 slaves in the parish's western district and 11 slaves there 10 years later.  In 1850, the widow of Éloi Benoit of Lafayette Parish owned five slaves in the parish's western district and nine slaves there a decade later.  In 1850, Donatien Benoit le jeune of Lafourche Interior Parish held five slaves.  He had doubled that number 10 years later.  In 1860, Edmond Benoit of Lafayette Parish held 15 slaves.  Other Lafayette, Vermilion, and Lafourche Parish Benoits owned one, two, or three slaves during the late antebellum period, but most members of the family owned no slaves at all, participating only peripherally in the South's plantation-based economy. 

Over 40 Benoits, most of them Acadians, served Louisiana and Texas in uniform during the War of 1861-65.  They included Sylvain Benoit of Terrebonne Parish, who served in the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in South Louisiana, which fought in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana.  His younger brother Ulysse and distant cousin Claiborne J. Benoit served in Company G of the 18th Louisiana, raised in Lafourche Parish.  Ulysse's brothers Octave and Paulin served in the Lafourche Parish Regiment of Militia and fell into Federal hands after the Battle of Labadieville during the fall of 1862.  Cousin Osémé Benoit served in Company G of the 30th Regiment/Battalion Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. John the Baptist and other nearby parishes.  Osémé was captured at Nashville, Tennessee, in December 1864 and held as a prisoner at Camp Chase, Ohio, in the final months of the war.  Cyprien Benoit of St. Landry Parish served in Company K of the Chalmette Regiment Louisiana Volunteer State Troops Militia Infantry, which fought in Louisiana during the early part of the war.  Placide Benoit served in Company K of the 3rd (Harrison's) Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, raised in St. Landry Parish, which fought in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi.  Julien Benoit served in Company K of the 2nd Regiment Louisiana Reserve Corps, a local unit raised in Lafayette Parish that fought prairie Jayhawkers during the final months of the war.  Désiré Benoit served in Company E of the 7th Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, raised in Lafayette and St. Martin parishes later in the war, which also fought against local Jayhawkers.  Michel Benoit, fils served in Company A of Daly's/Ragdale's Battalion Texas Cavalry, a unit that recruited heavily in Calcasieu Parish late in the war.  Meanwhile, Federal armies marched three times through the Teche and upper Vermilion valleys, including the Bayou Carencro area, burning and pillaging many farms and plantations, some of them no doubt owned by Benoits.  They also devastated the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley where many Benoits lived.  Thanks to these Federal incursions, emancipation came early to the region, with its resulting economic and social turmoil.  Confederate foraging parties and cutthroat Jayhawkers also plagued the areas where Benoits lived, adding to the family's misery. ...

In Louisiana, the family's name also is spelled Bennoit, Benois, Benua, Venua.77

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A Benoit wife and a Benoit orphan, both from the Minas Basin, came to Louisiana from Mayland in early 1768, the first of the Acadian Benoits to settle in the colony.  He and his family moved on the western prairies nearly two decades after his arrival and helped create a new center of family settlement there: 

Étienne (c1751-1787) à Jean à Martin dit Labrière Benoit

Étienne, son of Claude Benoit le jeune and Anne Comeau, born probably at Pigiguit in c1751, was taken by relatives to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  In his late teens, he followed other exiles from Port Tobacco, Maryland, to Spanish Louisiana, reached New Orleans in February 1768, and was forced to settle with his relatives at Fort San Luìs de Natchez.  After being allowed to leave the distant post, he married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Breau and Claire Trahan of l'Assomption, Pigiguit, at the St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer church on the lower Acadian Coast in January 1771.  Madeleine also had come to Louisiana from Maryland in 1768 and gone to Natchez.  She and Étienne lived at San Gabriel and Ascension, upriver from Cabahannocer.  By the mid 1780s, they had crossed the Atchafalaya Basin and settled at Carencro at the northern edge of the Attakapas District.  Their children, born on the river and the prairies, included Joseph-Simon, called Simon, on the river in c1771; Bénoni in the early 1770s but died in September 1779, age unrecorded; Étienne, fils born in June 1773; Marie-Angèlle, called Angèlle, in June 1775; Charles baptized, age unrecorded, in April 1777; François-Xavier, called Xavier, born in March 1779; Éloi baptized, age unrecorded, in June 1781; Marie-Henriette, called Henriette, born in c1784; and Augustin at Carencro in April 1786--nine children, seven sons and two daughters, between c1771 and 1786.  Étienne died at Carencro in December 1787, age 36.  His widow Madeleine became the third wife of Michel Cormier of Chignecto and Opelousas in February 1789, but a year and a half later she was a widow again, having given him no children.  Her and Étienne's daughters Marie Angèlle and Henriette married into the Cormier and Huval families on the prairies.  Four of Étienne's sons also married and settled on the prairies, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Joseph-Simon followed his family to the prairies and married Élisabeth or Isabelle-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Aucoin and Isabelle Duon of Belle-Île-en-Mer, France, at Attakapas in January 1793.  Simon died in Lafayette Parish in August 1834, age 64.  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following January.  He and his wife may have been that rare Acadian couple who had no children.  

Étienne's fifth son François Xavier, called Xavier, followed his family to the prairies and, while a resident at Carencro, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Michel Trahan and his Creole wife Marguerite Faustin of the lower Vermilion valley, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in September 1807.  They settled at Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Michel in August 1808; Emérente in May 1810; Julienne Emérente in May 1812 but died at age 3 1/2 in August 1815; Marguerite Rose dite Rosella, born in July 1814; François Rosémond died eight days after his birth in July 1816; Marie Hélène dite Elina, born in July 1817; Marguerite died 10 days after her birth in August 1819; François Octave, called Octave, born in November 1820 but died at age 5 1/2 in August 1826; and Marguerite Cléonise, called Cléonise, born in April 1823--nine children, three sons and six daughters, between 1808 and 1823.  Xavier's succession, naming his widow and heirs--Michel, Amérant, Rosella, Elina, Octave, and Marguerite--was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in July 1823.  He would have been age 44 that year.  Daughters Élina, Rosella, and Cléonise married into the Lagrange, Hébert, and Granger families.  One of François Xavier's remaining sons also married and settled on the prairies. 

Older son Michel, while living in the Calcasieu area, married Élise, Lise, or Élodie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Granger and Pélagie Broussard of Calcasieu, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in February 1829.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Adeline in c1829 and baptized by a Vermilionville priest, age 1, in October 1830; Oliva baptized at age 3 months in October 1831; Michel, fils born at Calcasieu and baptized by a Vermilionville priest, age 10 months, in November 1834; Jean Baptiste born in late 1836 and baptized at age 6 months in May 1837; Marie Zelmire born in February 1839; Julien in February 1842; Élisa in May 1843; and Jacques "in Calcasieu" in July 1850--eight children, four daughters and four sons, between 1829 and 1850.  In December 1850, the federal census taker in Calcasieu Parish counted a single slave--a 30-year-old female mulatto--on Michel Benoit's farm.  None of Michel's daughters married by 1870, if they married at all.  Three of his sons married by 1870. 

Oldest son Michel, fils married Marie Cléonise, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Babineaux and Cléonise Dugas, probably in Calcasieu Parish in February 1854.  Daughter Marie Uméa was born probably in Calcasieu Parish in December 1857.  During the War of 1861-65, Michel, fils served in Company A of Daly's/Ragdale's Battalion Texas Cavalry, a unit that recruited heavily in Calcasieu Parish later in the war.  He enlisted in Company A in Calcasieu Parish in April 1864.  According to his Confederate record, he was a farmer who stood five feet eleven inches tall, had black hair, blues eyes, and a florid complexion.  His record says he was age 31 when he enlisted; he had just turned 30.  Later in the year, he was detailed as a hospital attendant.  His wartime service was brief.  He was discharged for disability at Sabine, Texas, in January 1865, still age 30.  He returned to his family in Calcasieu, where he was still living, in the parish's Third Ward near Lake Charles, in June 1870. 

Michel's second son Jean Baptiste married Marie Onesia, daughter of fellow Acadians Lucien Cormier and Célestine Babineaux, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in November 1858.  Their children, born probably near Carencro, included Clément Dupré in October 1859; Marie Osea in October 1861; ...  

Michel's third son Julien "of Calcasieu" married Marie Émeline or Émelina, daughter of fellow Acadians Laisan Broussard and Mélasie Richard, at the Grand Coteau church in August 1861.  They settled probably at Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Jean Théophile in October 1863; Cléopha in March 1866 but died at age 1 in August 1867; ...  During the war, Julien served in Company K of the 2nd Regiment Louisiana Reserve Corps, a local unit raised in Lafayette Parish that fought against prairie Jayhawkers during the final months of the war.  

Étienne's sixth son Éloi followed his family to the prairies and, in his early 20s, married Marie-Eugénie, called Eugénie, daughter of fellow Acadians François Louvière and Marie-Louise Thibodeau, at Attakapas in May 1801.  Their children, born on the lower Teche and prairies, included François le jeune at Fausse Point on the lower Teche in August 1802; Claire or Clarisse in July 1804; Madeleine in December 1806; Marie Phelonise, perhaps also Cléonise, in February 1809; Marie Carmélite Elina, called Carmélite Elina and Elina, in September 1811; Marguerite in January 1814 but died at age 20 months in September 1815; Céleste dite Selima born in September 1816 but died at Vermilion, age 6, in December 1821; and Eloy or Éloi dit Désiré, also called Éloi, fils, born in January 1820.  Wife Eugénie's succession, probably post-mortem, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in March 1821.  Éloi, in his early 40s, remarried to Christine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Labauve and Françoise Broussard and widow of Agricole Landry, at the St. Martinville church in September 1821.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Marguerite baptized, age 18 days, in August 1822 but died less than a week after her baptism; and a child, name unrecorded, died at age 12 days in October 1823--10 children, at least two sons and seven daughters, by two wives, between 1802 and 1823.  Éloi died in Lafayette Parish in October 1846.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Éloi was age 70 when he died.  He was 65.  His succession, naming his second wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following month.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted five slaves--one male and four females, all black, ranging in age from 30 to 5--on the Widow Éloi Benoit's farm in the parish's western district; these were Christine Labauve's slaves.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted nine slaves--one male and eight females, two blacks and seven mulattoes, ranging in age from 57 to 2, the 6-year-old female mulatto "deaf & dumb," living in two houses--on the Widow Éloi Benoit's farm.  "Mrs. Éloy Benoit"--that is, Christine Labauve--died in August 1871, age 70.  Élois's daughters Clarisse, Carmélite Elina, and Cléonise, by his first wife, married into the Bonin, Broussard, and Melançon families.  Éloi's two sons also married and remained on the southwest prairies, but not all of the lines endured. 

Older son François le jeune, by first wife Eugénie Louvière, married Anne Cléonise, called Cléonise, Montet probably in Lafayette Parish in the late 1820s.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Valsin in April 1830; Eugénie in August 1832 but died at age 5 1/2 in October 1837; Éloi le jeune baptized, age 7 days, in January 1835 but died three days later; Jean Baptiste born in February 1836; Azéma baptized at age 13 days in October 1838; Désirée, actually Désiré, born in July 1841; and Abraham or Abram in January 1847--seven children, five sons and two daughters, between 1830 and 1847.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted a single slave--a 20-year-old black male--on François Benoit's farm next to Valsin Benoit.  Daughter Azéma married into the Comeaux family.  Three of François le jeune's sons also married by 1870. 

Oldest son Valsin married Adélaïde Idea, called Idea, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Evariste Broussard and Scholastique Girouard, at the St. Martinville church in April 1851.  They settled probably near Youngsville, Lafayette Parish.  Their children, born there, included Eugénie in March 1852; Marie Ezilda in February 1854; Numa in June 1856; Joseph Albert in March 1859 but, called Albert, died at age 1 in June 1860; Marie Clorida born in January 1862; Gustave in January 1866; Filias, also called Filia, in March 1870 but died nine days after his birth; ...  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted a single slave--an 18-year-old black female--on Valsin Benoit's farm next to François Benoit.  Daughter ... married into the Domingue family by 1870.  Neither of Valsin's remaining sons married by then. 

François le jeune's fourth son Désiré married Émelia, called Melia, daughter of fellow Acadians Édouard Isidore Broussard and Aspasie Broussard, at the Vermilionville church in September 1861.  They settled probably at Carencro.  Their chiklren, born there, included Éloi le jeune in August 1862; William in November 1863; ...  During the war, Désiré served in Company E of the 7th Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, raised in Lafayette and St. Martin parishes, which fought in Louisiana. 

François le jeune's fifth and youngest son Abram married cousin Idea or Edia, daughter of fellow Acadians Julien Benoit and Marie Zéolide Babineaux, at the Vermilionville church in April 1870. ...

Éloi's younger son Éloi dit Désiré, also called Éloi, fils, from first wife Eugénie Louvière, married, at age 20, Clémentine, daughter of fellow Acadians Éloi Landry and Julien Trahan, at the Vermilionville church in February 1840.  She evidently gave him no children.  Wife Clémentine's succession, probably post-mortem, naming her husband, was filed at the Lafayette Parish courthouse in April 1842.  Éloi dit Désiré, at age 23, remarried to Célima, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Chevalier Thibodeaux and Marguerite Thibodeaux, at the Vermilionville church in January 1843.  Their children, born in northern Lafayette Parish, included Marguerite in November 1844; Eugénie in April 1846; and Marie Gadret or Godrate in February 1848--three children, all daughters, by one of his wives, between 1844 and 1848.  Wife Célima's succession, calling her husband Désiré, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in March 1848.   Daughters ..., by his second wife, married into the Broussard and Comeaux families by 1870.  One wonders if Éloi dit Désiré fathered a son by either of his wives. 

Étienne's seventh and youngest son Augustin married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Dominique Babineaux and Marguerite Blandine Thibodeaux, at the St. Martinville church in February 1809.  They settled at Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Edmond or Emond in September 1809; Marguerite in December 1810 but died at age 4 1/2 in September 1815; and Marie Cidalise or Cydalise, called Cidalise, born in January 1813 but died at age 2 1/2 in August 1815.  A succession, probably post-mortem, for wife Marie was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in August 1815.  Augustin remarried to Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Babineaux and Félicité Cormier and his first wife's first cousin, at the St. Martinville church in August 1815.  They remained at Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Julien in February 1817; Émilien in July 1818; Julienne in June 1820; Eugénie in October 1821 but died at age 3 1/2 in August 1825; Rosémond born in July 1823; Estelle, also called Assèlle, in February 1825; Hippolyte baptized, age 2 months, in May 1826 but died at age 9 in August 1835; Arvilien born in October 1827 but died at age 14 1/2 in September 1842; Simon died at age 3 weeks in December 1829; Augustin, fils born in January 1831; Emérant Lessaint in August 1832 but died at age 10 (the recording priest said 8) in September 1842; Aurelien born in March 1834 but died the following August; and Salomé, perhaps also called Azélima, born in August 1837--16 children, 10 sons and six daughters by two wives, between 1809 and 1837.  Wife Anastasie's succession, perhaps post-mortem, naming her husband, was filed at the Lafayette Parish courthouse in April 1846.  If this was a post-mortem succession, Augustin did not remarry.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted 10 slaves--six males and four females, all black, ranging in age from 50 to 1--on Augustin Benoit's farm in the parish's western district.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted 11 slaves--seven males and four females, all black except for one mulatto, ranging in age from 50 to 3, living in two houses--on Augustin Benoit's farm next to Rosémond Benoit.  Augustin died probably at Carencro in August 1868, a widower.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Augustin died "at age 84 yrs."  He was 82.  Augustin's succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse two weeks after his death.  Daughters Julienne, Assèlle, and Azélima, by his second wife, married into the Babineaux, Comeaux, and Arceneaux families.  Four of Augustin's sons also married, but not all of the lines endured.

Oldest son Edmond or Emond, by first wife Marie Babineaux, married cousin Marie Eugénie, called Eugénie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph dit Joson Babineaux and Céleste Comeaux, at the Vermilionville church in October 1828.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Marie Eugénie baptized at age 2 months in March 1832; Cidalise born in late 1834 and baptized at age 45 days in January 1835; Marguerite baptized at age 2 months in April 1837; Edmond, fils baptized, age 2 months, in February 1840 but died at age 2 1/2 in August 1842; Anastasie born in April 1843; and Augustin le jeune in August 1848--six children, four daughters and two sons, between 1832 and 1848.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted 15 slaves--eight males and seven females, nine blacks and six mulattoes, ages 40 years to 6 months, living in three houses--on Edmond Benoit's farm.   His daughters married into the Breaux and Prejean families by 1870.  His remaining son also married by then.

Second son Augustin le jeune married cousin Marie Azélia or Azélida, daughter of fellow Acadians Gérard Babineaux and Eugènie Bourg, at the Vermilionville church in January 1867.  Their son Théophile Joseph was born in Lafayette Parish in January 1869; ... 

Augustin's second son Julien, by second wife Anastasie Babineaux, married cousin Marie Zéolide, called Joline, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Dominique Babineaux, fils and Marguerite Melançon, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in January 1843, and sanctified the marriage at the Grand Coteau church in April 1844.  Their children, born probably near Carencro, included Marie Aranie in October 1843; Onézime or Onésime in November 1845; Eulalie in January 1848; a child, name and age unrecorded, died in September 1851; Eudea born in January 1853; and Euphémie in May 1855--six children, at least four daughters and a son, between 1843 and 1855.  Daughters ... married into the Benoit and Leger families by 1870.  Julien's son did not marry by then. 

Augustin's third son Émilien, by second wife Anastasie Babineaux, married cousin Élisa, daughter of fellow Acadians Arvillien LeBlanc and Julienne Babineaux, at the Vermilionville church in April 1839.  Their children, born in northern Lafayette Parish, included Azélie in February 1840; Marie Ozélie in June 1842; and Marie Émeline, perhaps posthumously, in October 1844 but, called Mélina, died at age 10 in August 1854--three children, all daughters, between 1840 and 1844.  Émilien's succession, calling his wife Éliza, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in September 1844.  He would have been age 26 that year.  His remaining daughters did not marry by 1870.  He evidently fathered no sons, so his family line, except perhaps for its blood, may have died with him. 

Augustin's fourth Rosémond, by second wife Anastasie Babineaux, married Anastasie Eremise, called Eremise, daughter of fellow Acadian François Savoy III and his French-Canadian wife Louise Eméranthe Morin, at the Grand Coteau church in July 1849.  She evidently gave him no children.  Rosémond remarried to Estelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Eugène Breaux and Eugénie Sonnier, at the Vermilionville church in May 1853.  They settled probably near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Simon in October 1854 but died at age 15 1/2 in May 1870; Marie Philomène born in August 1856; Éloy le jeune in September 1859 but died at age 1 1/2 in February 1861; Marie Célimène in November 1861; Félix in May 1864; Augustin le jeune in March 1866; ...  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted two slaves--a 24-year-old black male and an 11-year-old black female--on Rosémond Benoit's farm next to Augustin Benoit.  None of his children married by 1870. 

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Seven more Benoits from Maryland came to Louisiana aboard the ill-fated English schooner Britannia in the fall of 1769.  They included the widow of Jean-Baptiste Benoit of Pigiguit and three of her Benoit daughters and the widow's brother-in-law, his wife, and three of their children.  Another vigorous family line emerged on the western prairies:

Pierre-Olivier (c1729-1787) à Pierre l'aîné à Martin dit Labrière Benoit

Pierre-Olivier, called Olivier, second son of Pierre Benoit, fils and Anne-Marie Gaudet, born at Pigiguit in c1735, evidently remained at Pigiguit when his family moved on to the French Maritime islands in the early 1750s.  The British deported him to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  He married fellow Acadian Susanne Boudrot in c1756 probably at Port Tobacco.  Susanne gave Olivier three children in the Chesapeake colony, a son and two daughters:  Jean-Charles, called Charles, born in c1759; Marie-Rose in c1761; and Madeleine in c1763.  Olivier remarried to Marie-Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadians Mathieu Brasseau and Anne Célestin dit Bellemère, probably at Port Tobacco in c1765.  She evidently gave him no more children.  Olivier, Marie-Geneviève, and his three children emigrated to Louisiana from Port Tobacco in 1769.  After their ordeal in Texas and Natchitoches, they lived at San Gabriel on the Acadian Coast until the 1780s, when they moved on to the Opelousas District.  Olivier died at Opelousas in December 1787, age 58.  Daughters Marie-Rose and Madeleine, by his first wife, married into the Préjean, Boone, Martin, Favron, and Boudreaux families at Attakapas and Opelousas, one of them twice, the other three times.  His son created a vigorous family line on the prairies. 

Only son Jean-Charles, called Charles, followed his family to Texas, Natchitoches, San Gabriel, and Opelousas.  He married Anne dite Nanette, daughter of fellow Acadians François Savoie and Anne Thibodeau of Cabahannocer and Attakapas, at Attakapas in September 1785.  They settled on upper Bayou Plaquemine Brûlé in the Opelousas District, but they did not remain.  In the early 1800s, they moved to Petite-Anse, now Avery Island, at the southern edge of the Attakapas District, and then to Grand Bois on the lower Teche.  Their children, born on the prairies, included an unnamed son, "born recently" at Opelousas, died in October 1786; another unnamed son died at age 1 month in November 1787; Jean-Baptiste baptized at Opelousas, age unrecorded, in October 1789; Joseph baptized, age unrecorded, in June 1791; Denis-Olivier, called Olivier, born in October 1793; Suzanne baptized, age unrecorded, in October 1796; François-Eufroi born probably at Petite-Anse in September 1801; Charles-Cyprien in August 1803; Marie Susanne in October 1805; and Marie Carmélite, called Carmélite, in August 1808--10 children, seven sons and three daughters, between 1786 and 1808.  Jean Charles died at Grand Bois in January 1813.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial said that Jean Charles was "age about 50 years" when he died.  He was closer to his mid-50s.  Daughter Carmélite married into the Stouts family.  Five of Charles's sons also married, but not all of the lines endured.

Third son Jean Baptiste married Hélène, daughter of Louis Roger dit Brisbois, a French Canadian, not a fellow Acadian, and his Acadian wife Marie Landry of Carencro, at the home of Sylvère Mouton of Carencro in March 1812.  They moved southwest to Bayou Queue de Tortue on the prairie west of the Vermilion valley.  Their children, born there, included Marguerite in May 1813; Jean, also called Jean Baptiste, fils, in March 1822; and Théodule in December 1824--three children, a daughter and two sons, between 1813 and 1824.  Jean Baptiste, père died on the prairies in July 1858.  The Grand Coteau priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Jean Baptiste died "at age 75 yrs.," so this probably was him.   Daughter Marguerite married into the Jagneau family.  Jean Baptiste's two sons also married. 

Older son Jean Baptiste, fils may have married Anglo American Rosalie Strickland, widow of Anare Meche, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in June 1840.  She evidently gave him no children.  Jean Baptiste, fils remarried to Marcellite, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Lebert and his Anglo-Creole wife Émelie Hayes, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in October 1842.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Adolphe died at age 2 months in October 1843; Marie Osea born in October 1844; Onesia in September 1847; Jean in December 1849 but died at age 3 1/2 (the recording priest said 4) in March 1853; Charles born in October 1852; Joseph Doustan in July 1855; Jules in April 1860; ...  Daughters ... married into the Boudreaux and Bourgeois families by 1870.  None of Jean Baptiste, fils's sons married by then. 

Jean Baptiste, père's younger son Théodule married Emma, also called Anne, Anna, and Aima, daughter of Antoine Forestier and his Acadian wife Anne Marguerite Blanchard, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in January 1854.  They evidently had been living together years before their wedding.  Their children, born probably at Carencro, included Hélaine in 1846 but died at age 9 months in June 1847; Joseph Homère born in March 1848; Jean Baptiste Honoré in December 184[9]; Olympiade in December 1852; Marie Alexina in December 1855; Antoine Aurelien in November 1857; Aséma in July 1860; Henri Auvignac in September 1862; ...  Daughters ... married into the Bourque and Richard families by 1870.  None of Théodule's sons married by then. 

Jean Charles's fourth son Joseph married Marcelline or Marcellite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Bourque and Marguerite Richard of Prairie Basse near Grand Coteau, at the Opelousas church in May 1816.  Their children, born at Carencro, included Clémence in September 1818; Joseph Durelle, called Joseph, fils, in March 1820; Agricole baptized at Grand Coteau, age 10 months, in December 1822; Céleste born in March 1824 but died at age 1 1/2 "at the home of ___ Nixon at l'ance" in July 1825; Marie Carmesille born in June 1825; Neuville baptized at Vermilionville, age 3 months, in October 1828; Jean Rosiclair, called Rosiclair, born in January 1831; Aurelien in August 1833; and François Fedorin, called Fedorin, in c1836 and baptized, age 1, in August 1837--nine children, three daughters and six sons, between 1818 and 1836.  Joseph, père's succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in December 1862.  He would have been in his early 70s that year.  Daughters ... married into the Clément, Royer, and Thibodeaux families by 1870.  Five of Joseph's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Joseph, fils married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Julien Babineaux and Christine Prejean, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in May 1840, and sanctified the marriage at the Grand Coteau church in July 1846.  They settled probably near Carencro.  Their children, born near Carencro, included Jean in January 1846; Marie in December 1848; Emilisia in October 1850; ...  None of Joseph, fils's children married by 1870. 

Joseph's second son Agricole married Julie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Babineaux and his Creole wife Hortense Perry, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in June 1841, and sanctified the marriage at the Grand Coteau church in May 1847.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Fillio in late 1842 but died probably at Carencro at age 3 months the following February; Émilien born in November 1845; Lelia in January 1847; Jean De Theate in January 1849; François Fridolin or Fedorin in January 1851; Pierre Philias in c1852 and baptized at Vermilionville, age 2, in October 1854; Aurelia born in August 1855; Onizia in June 1857; Marie Osea in June 1859; Camilla near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in May 1862; Émilie in July 1863; Omer in May 1866; Dema in June 1869; ...  None of Agricole's children married by 1870. 

Joseph's fourth son Jean Rosiclair married fellow Acadian Émilie Thibodeaux probably in St. Landry Parish in the late 1850s.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included twins Joseph le jeune and Marie Belzire in July 1857; Émilie in June 1859; Marie Azéma in September 1861; ... Rosiclair's succession was filed at the Abbeville church in 1866.  He would have been age 35 that year.  None of his children married by 1870.  

Joseph's fifth son Aurelien married fellow Acadian Zelmire Broussard, place unrecorded, probably in the late 1850s.  Daughter Lismine was born tnear Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in April 1860.  Aurelien remarried to Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Béloni Broussard and Joséphine Landry, at the Church Point church, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in May 1866, unless Marie and Zelmire were the same person and the Church Point wedding was the validation of a civil union. 

Joseph's sixth and youngest son François Fedorin, called Fedorin, married Belzire, daughter of fellow Acadians Marcellin Thibodeaux and Louise Broussard and widow of Joseph Istre, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in August 1857.  They settled near Church Point.  Their children, born there, included Marie Euphémie in October 1859; Marie Marcelite in July 1860; Edval François in September 1862; ...  

Jean Charles's fifth son Denis Olivier, called Olivier, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Richard and Pélagie Babin of L'Anse, St. Martin Parish, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in January 1816.  Their children, born on the upper Teche and the prairies, included Gustave at La Pointe in March 1816 but died at nearby L'île des Cypres, or Cypress Island, today's Lake Martin, at age 4 in October 1820; Clémence born in c1818 but died at L'île des Cypres, age 2, in January 1820; Marguerite Clémence born in January 1818; Azélie in c1821 but died at age 4 in September 1825; Susette Helena born in December 1823; François Azolin in April 1826; and Joseph near Grand Coteau in October 1829--seven children, three sons and four daughters, between 1816 and 1829.  Daughters ... married into the Trahan and Weekly families.  Neither of Olivier's remaining sons married by 1870. 

Jean Charles's sixth son François Eufroi married fellow Acadian Aspasie Guidry probably in St. Martin Parish in the early 1820s.  They settled near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Jean in c1825 and baptized at Vermilionville, age 17 months, in August 1826; Placide baptized at age 11 months in December 1828; Joseph born in July 1829; Marie in October 1831; Mélanie in January 1834; Alcide in c1836 and baptized, age 1, in May 1837; François Oscar, called Oscar, born in July 1838; Silvanie in September 1841; Cyprien in December 1843; and Jean Dupré in August 1847--10 children, eight sons and two daughters, between 1825 and 1847.  Daughter Mélanie married into the Breaux family.  Three of François's sons also married by 1870. 

Second son Placide married cousin Euphémie Guidry probably in St. Landry Parish in the early 1850s.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Modeste in Auguste 1853; Albert in c1855 and baptized at Opelousas, age 1, in October 1856; Uranie born in April 1858; Zéphirin in July 1860; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Placide served in Company K of the 3rd (Harrison's) Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, raised in St. Landry Parish, which fought in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi.  He survived the war and returned to his family. 

François Eufroi's fifth son François Oscar married Marie Cléorine, called Cléorine, daughter of fellow Acadians Rosémond Richard and Anastasie Poirier and widow of Firmin Breaux, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in March 1866, and sanctified the marriage at the Church Point church in January 1867.  Daughter Antoinia had been born near Church Point in January 1864; ...  

During the war, François Eufroi's sixth and youngest son Cyprien served in Company K of the Chalmette Regiment Louisiana Volunteer State Troops Militia Infantry, which fought in Louisiana during the early part of the war.  Cyprien married Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadians Dosité Blanchard and Marie Azélie Dupuis, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in November 1865.  They settled near Church Point.  Their son Jean Baptiste was born there in January 1869; ... 

Jean Charles's seventh and youngest son Charles Cyprien married Claire or Clarisse, daughter of fellow Acadians Augustin Guidry and Scholastique Robichaux, at the Vermilionville church in April 1830.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Valsin baptized at Vermilionville, age 5 months, in May 1831; Laissaint born in 1834 and baptized at age 13 months in June 1835; Céleste or Célestine born in January 1837; and Jean Dupré in August 1847--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1831 and 1847.  Daughter Célestine married into the Teal family by 1870.  One of Charles Cyprien's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Valsin married Éloise or Loise, daughter of fellow Acadians Antoine Boudreaux and Marie Émelie Savoie, at the Grand Coteau church in July 1850.  They settled near Church Point.  Their children, born there, included Gerasin in June 1851; Cyprien le jeune in October 1852; Lessaint le jeune in December 1855; Valsin, fils in August 1860 but died at age 2 1/2 in October 1862; Aladin Joseph born in November 1862 but died at age 5 1/2 in July 1868; ...  None of Valsin's sons married by 1870. 

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During the late 1760s, three more Benoits came to Louisiana--two sisters from Massachusetts via French St.-Domingue, and another young orphan perhaps from Maryland.  No new family line came of it. 

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Not until 1785, when 24 of them crossed to Louisiana aboard at least five of the Seven Ships from France, did more Acadian Benoits come to the colony.  Two of them arrived aboard Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in July, but no new family line came of it: 

Daniel (c1748-1825) à Pierre le jeune à Martin dit Labrière Benoit

Daniel, younger son of Claude Benoit and Élisabeth Thériot, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1748, followed his family to Anse-au-Matelot on Île St.-Jean, to Rochefort, France, and to Mégrit in the countryside southwest of St.-Malo.  He married Henriette, daughter of fellow Acadians Francois Legendre and Marguerite Labauve, at St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo in February 1768.  Henriette gave Daniel two children there:  Daniel-Henry born in October 1769; and Jeanne-Eléonore-Anastasie in January 1772 but died the following August.  In 1773, they went to Poitou.  Son Daniel-Henry died at Châtellerault in June 1774, age 3 1/2.  In November 1775, the now-childless couple retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes.  Daughter Henriette-Renée was born at nearby Chantenay in June 1778.  Daniel and Henriette crossed to Louisiana with their daughter in 1785 and followed their fellow passengers to Manchac south of Baton Rouge.  Henriette died at Baton Rouge in February 1798, age 46.  Daniel, at age 51, remarried to Madeleine-Ursule, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Doiron and Ursule Hébert, probably at Baton Rouge in c1799.  Madeleine, who was 17 years younger than Daniel, was a native of Pleslin near St.-Malo, and she, too, had come to Louisiana aboard Le Bon Papa.  She gave him more children at Baton Rouge, including an infant, name unrecorded, died at age 1 month in August 1800; Joseph born in June 1802; Célestin in April 1804; a daughter, name and age unrecorded, died in December 1805; and Irène born in April 1807--eight children, at least three sons and four daughters, by two wives, between 1769 and 1807, in France and Louisiana.  Daniel died at the home of older daughter Henriette Renée in St. Martin Parish in December 1825.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial said that Daniel was age 84 when he died.  He was closer to 77.  Daughters Henriette Renée and Irène, by both wives, married into the Labauve and Hébert families.  Neither of Daniel's remaining sons seems to have married, so this line of the family, except for its blood, did not endure in the Bayou State.  

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A Benoit wife crossed on Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in August 1785.  She, too, settled at Baton Rouge, where she remarried.  No new family line came of it. 

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Eleven more Benoits, including seven in one family, crossed on Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in September 1785.  They followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where one of them established a new center of family settlement there: 

Grégoire (c1744-1829) à Pierre le jeune à Martin dit Labrière Benoit

Grégoire, older son of Claude Benoit and Élisabeth Thériot and the older brother of Daniel of Le Bon Papa, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1744, followed his family to Anse-au-Matelot on Île St.-Jean, to Rochefort, France, and to Mégrit near St.-Malo.  He married Marie-Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Carret and Rose Trahan, at St.-Servan-sur-Mer in February 1770.  Marie-Rose gave Grégoire two sons there:  Joseph-François born in October 1771 but died at age 1 in December 1772; and Jean-Marie born in September 1773.  The family went to Poitou later that year.  Daughter Marie-Rose was born in St.-Jean l'Evangeliste Parish, Châtellerault, in May 1775.  Along with brother Daniel and his family, Grégoire and Marie-Rose retreated with other Poitou Acadians to Nantes in November 1775.  Marie-Rose gave Grégoire more children at nearby Chantenay:  Donatien born in c1777; Françoise-Félicité probably in c1782; and Rémond-Grégoire in July 1783.  The family crossed to Louisiana in 1785 with five children, three sons and two daughters, and Grégoire's sister-in-law.  Marie-Rose was pregnant on the voyage and gave birth to daughter Marine or Martina, named after Spanish intendente Martin Navarro, at La Balize or New Orleans in September 1785, six days after the family reached the colony.  She was baptized at St.-Louis church in the city in late October.  From New Orleans, Grégoire and his family followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  (One wonders why they did not choose to settle near his younger brother Daniel at Baton Rouge.)  Marie-Rose gave Grégoire more children on the Lafourche, including Pierre-Marie born in May 1788; Jean-Marie le jeune in February 1792; and François-Sébastien dit Bastien in May 1794--10 children, seven sons and three daughters, between 1771 and 1794, in France and Louisiana.  Grégoire died in Lafourche Interior Parish in January 1829.  The Thibodauxville priest who recorded the burial said that Grégoire was age 88 when he died.  He was 85.  His succession had been filed in January 1809 at what became the Thibodauxville courthouse.  Daughters Marie Rose and Françoise Félicité married into the Boudreaux and Tauzin families.  Three of Grégoire's sons also married and settled on the Lafourche.  The oldest son's line was especially vigorous. 

Second son Jean-Marie l'aîné followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married cousin Marie-Élisabeth or Isabelle, 23-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Darois and Madeleine Trahan and widow of Jean-Marie Boudreaux, in November 1799.  Marie-Élisabeth was a native of Chantenay near Nantes and also had come to Louisiana on Le St.-Rémi.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Donatien-Marie or Jean-Donatien, called Donatien le jeune, in November 1801; Alexis-Célestin in October 1803; Marie Carmélite, called Carmélite, in June 1805; Jean Baptiste in June 1807; Elmira or Elmire in June 1812; Séverine Abdeline or Adeline Séverine, called Séverine, in June 1816; Célestin Séverin in February 1818; Eugène Evariste, called Evariste, in July 1822; and Adrien in the 1820s--nine children, six sons and three daughters, between 1801 and the 1820s.  Jean Marie l'aîné died in Lafourche Interior Parish in July 1844, age 70.  His succession "sale of effects," not listing his wife, so she may have died by then, and listing his children and his daughters spouses--Alexis, Donatien, Jean Baptiste, Célestin, Evariste, Adrien, Carmélite and her husband, Elmire and her husband, Séverine and her husband, and Célestin again--was recorded at the Thibodeaux courthouse in March 1846.  Daughters Marie Carmélite, Elmire, and Adeline Séverine married into the Navarre, Boudreaux, and Clément families.  Five of Jean Marie's sons also married, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Donatien le jeune married Andrese Carmélite, daughter of François Domingue and Marie Sanchez, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in February 1825.  They may have been that rare Acadian couple who had no children.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Lafourche Interior Parish counted five slaves--three males and two females, three of them blacks and two of them mulattoes, ranging in age from 35 to 1--on Donatien Benoit's farm along Bayou Lafourche.  In August 1860, the federal census taker in Lafourche Parish counted 10 slaves--four males and six females, four of them blacks and six of them mulattoes, ranging in age from 44 to 1--on J. Donatien Benoit's farm in the parish's Ward 2.  At age 61, Donatien remarried to Mélissaire, 42-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Dantin and Claire Guillot, at the Thibodaux church in April 1863.  He evidently had no children by either of his wives, so his line of the family died with him.  

Jean Marie l'aîné's second son Alexis Célestin married Marie Adélaïde, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Hilaire Clément, père and Geneviève Sophie Boudreaux, at the Thibodauxville church in June 1824.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Telvina in August 1825; Dufroid Félix, called Félix, in July 1827; Charles Madéo or Amédée Cléopha, called Amédée, in November 1829; Clairville Silvin or Sylvain Alexis, called Sylvain, in December 1831; Marie Armélise in January 1834 but, called Armélise, died in Lafourche Parish, age 16 1/2, in September 1851; Ursin Octave, called Octave, born in May 1836; Arcène or Arsène Hulisse or Ulysse, called Ulysse, in August 1838; Phideline Zoé in November 1841 but, called Zoé, died at age 10 (the recording priest said 12) in November 1851; Pierre Paulin, called Paulin, born in February 1843; twins Joseph Alfred and Marie Adelina Joséphine, called Joséphine, in March 1846; and Hexis Félix in March 1849--a dozen children, four daughters and eight sons, including a set of twins, between 1825 and 1849.  In August 1860, the federal census taker in Lafourche Parish counted three slaves--all female, all mulattoes, ages 21, 3, and 3 months--on Alexis Benoit's farm in the parish's Ward 1.  Alexis Célestin died in Lafourche Parish in September 1869, age 65.  Daughters Marie Telvina and Joséphine married into the Tabor and Bergeron families by 1870.  Five of Alexis Célestin's sons also married by then, two before their war service, another after, but not all of the family lines endured. 

Oldest son Félix married Malvina, daughter of Nicolas Sevin and his Acadian wife Marie Hébert, at the Thibodaux church in May 1848.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Hexis Félix in March 1849; Jean Joseph in June 1851; Joseph died at age 2 months in June 1853; Marie Zoé Ozella born in April 1854; Joachim Sylvain in June 1857; Victoire Letitia in October 1859 but, called Victoire, died the following March; Marie Alida Aglaée born in October 1861; Étienne in December 1864; ...  None of Félix's children married by 1870. 

Alexis Célestin's second son Charles Amédée dit Madéo married Evelina or Melina, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Evariste Louvière and Nicolette dite Colette LeBlanc, at the Thibodaux church in September 1856.  Their children, born on the southeastern bayous, included Pierre Nicolas in Lafourche Parish in July 1857; Marie Adela and Marie Odilia, evidently twins, at Chacahoula, near the boundary between Lafourche, Assumption, and Terrebonne parishes, in October 1858; Paulin Ernest in April 1861; Joseph in December 1862; Joseph Volzi in June 1866; Marie Thelvina in May 1868; Marie in April 1870; ...  

Alexis Célestin's third son Sylvain married Léontine, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Basile Naquin and his Creole wife Théotice Ayo, at the Chacahoula church, Terrebonne Parish, in May 1859.  Their children, born there, included Marie Élise in March 1860; Marie in February 1864; and Philomène in November 1866--three children, all daughters, between 1860 and 1866.  During the War of 1861-65, Sylvain served in the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in South Louisiana, which fought in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana.  He survived the war, returned to his family, but, called Sylvin, died in Terrebonne Parish in June 1868, age 36.  One wonders if his early death was war-related.  His line of the family, perhaps except for its blood, evidently died with him.   

Alexis Celestin's fourth son Octave married Odile, daughter of Onesime Pontiff and Ozelia Morvant, at the Thibodaux church in February 1858.  Their children, born on the southeastern bayous, included Marie Joséphine near Chacahoula in December 1858; Jean Treville in February 1860; Émile Andreci in March 1862; Marie in November 1863; Jules Alexis in September 1865 but, called Jules, died at age 4 in August 1869; Joseph Taylor born in May 1868; Marie Octavie in February 1870; ...  During the war, Octave served in the Lafourche Parish Regiment of Militia.  He fought in the Battle of Labadieville in nearby Assumption Parish in late October 1862, fell into Federal hands, was paroled, and returned to his family.  

During the war, Alexis Celestin's fifth son Ulysse served in Company G of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafourche Parish, which fought in Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, and Louisiana.  He survived the war, returned to his family, and married married cousin Adèle or Odile, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Naquin and Adèle Noël Boudreaux, at the Thibodaux church in February 1867.  Their children, born in Lafourche Parish, included Charly Joseph in November 1867; Marie Félicie in March 1870; ...  

During the war, Alexis Célestin's sixth son Paulin also served in the Lafourche Parish Regiment of Militia, was captured at Labadieville, paroled, and returned to his family.  Paulin died in Lafourche Parish in February 1869, age 26 (the recording priest said 24).  He did not marry.  

Jean Marie l'aîné's third son Jean Baptiste married Rosalie Marie or Marie Rosalie, called Rosalie, daughter of Jean Marie Navarre and his Acadian wife Anne Jeanne Boudreaux, at the Thibodauxville church in October 1835.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Mathilde in August 1836; Evariste Arsène in September 1837; Jean Hylaire or Hilaire in November 1838; Amélie Élodie in March 1840 but, called Émilie Odile, died the following December; Émilie Mathilde, called Mathilde, born in April 1841; Osémé in the early 1840s; Joseph Demetruis in February 1843; Émelie Zoé in June 1845 but died in Lafourche Parish, age 14 (the recording priest said 15), in June 1859; Marie Pauline born in June 1847; Jean Joseph in August 1849; Arsène Paulin in March 1852; and Joséphine Donatilde in May 1854--a dozen children, six daughters and six sons, between 1836 and 1854.  Daughters Marie and Mathilde married into the Hébert and Benoit families by 1870.  Two of Jean Baptiste's sons also married by then, one of them after his war service. 

Oldest son Evariste Arsène married Estelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Vincent Hébert and Tarzille Clément, at the Thibodaux church in April 1864.  Daughter Joséphine Julia was born on the Lafourche in March 1868; ...

During the War of 1861-65, Jean Baptiste's third son Osémé served in Company G of the 30th Regiment/Battalion Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. John the Baptist and other nearby parishes.  Osémé was captured at Nashville, Tennessee, in December 1864 and held as a prisoner at Camp Chase, Ohio, in the war's final months.  Back from the war, Osémé married Clara, daughter of Eugène Morvant and Delphine Adam, at the Thibodaux church in August 1866.  Their children, born in Lafourche Parish, included Rosalie Delphine in October 1867; Joseph Valcour in February 1870; ...

Jean Marie l'aîné's fourth son Célestin Séverin married first cousin Émelie dite Mélite, daughter of fellow Acadian François Sébastien dit Bastien Benoit and his Creole wife Marie Éloise Morvant, his uncle and aunt, at the Thibodaux church in October 1846.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joseph Darville or Dorville, called Dorville, in October 1849; Camille in March 1852; Justin Honoré in January 1854; Ophelia Zulma in October 1856; Joséphine Émelia in August 1859; Joseph Olivain in October 1861; Marie Louisa in June 1864; ...  None of Célestin's daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did. 

Oldest son Dorville married Dozilia, daughter of Léon Tauzin and Eugénie Miguez, at the Thibodaux church in April 1869.  Their son Anry, probably Henry, Joseph was born near Vacherie, St. James Parish, in January 1870; ...

Jean Marie l'aîné's fifth son Eugène Evariste, called Evariste, married Marie Mélite, called Mélite, daughter of Bernard Morvant and his Acadian wife Marie Boudreaux, at the Thibodaux church in April 1848.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included twins Marie Aurelia, called Aurelia, Houlia, and Horelia, and Marie Odilia in April 1849; Joseph Théophile in August 1851; Émile in May 1853; Marie Joséphine in May 1857; and Marie Félicia in January 1860--six children, four daughters and two sons, including a set of twins, between 1849 and 1860.  Daughter Aurelia married into the Trosclair family by 1870 at Vacherie, though the marriage was recorded also in Lafourche Parish.   None of Evariste's other children married by then. 

Grégoire's third son Donatien followed his family to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche, but he did not remain.  He died at Opelousas on the western prairies in August 1797, age 20.  He probably did not marry.  

Grégoire's fourth son Rémond-Grégoire followed his family to Louisiana in 1785 but may not have survived the crossing from France.  

Grégoire's fifth son Pierre Marie married Eugénie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Marie Boudreaux and Marie Élisabeth Darois, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in May 1817.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Eléocade dite Léocade Eugénie in January 1818 but, called Léocade, died at age 46 (the recording priest said 43) in November 1864 (did she ever marry?); Pierre Grégoire, called Grégoire le jeune, born in July 1820; Denise Philonise in March 1822; Jean Pierre died two days after his birth in December 1823; Anne, probably theirs, died a day after her birth in June 1825; Marie Rosile born in April 1828; Adeline Perrine in June 1830; Joseph Émilien in July 1833; and Mélasie Elmire in April 1834--nine children, six daughters and three sons, between 1818 and 1834.  Pierre Marie, called Pierre by the recording priest, died in Lafourche Parish in February 1854, age 65.  Daughters Marie and Adeline married into the Tabor and Panvil families by 1870.  Pierre's remaining sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Pierre Grégoire, called Grégoire le jeune, married Pauline, daughter of fellow Acadians Martin Thibodeaux and Constance Hébert, at the Thibodaux church in February 1852.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joseph in December 1852; Marie Zéolide in March 1855 (perhaps 1853) but, called Zéolide, died at age 6 in February 1859; Pierre born in October 1855[sic]; and Marie Floreska in October 1858--four children, two sons and two daughters, between 1852 and 1858.  Grégoire le jeune died in 1859, probably in Lafourche Parish, age 39.  A "Petition for tutorship" for his children, Joseph and Émile, and naming his wife, was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in November 1865.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Pierre Marie's third and youngest son Joseph Émilien married Marie or Mary Radivine, daughter of Gaspard Toups and his Acadian wife Marie Adèle Thibodeaux, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in February 1862.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Pierre in December 1862; Sevère Gaspard in May 1864; Joseph Sylvère in December 1866; Arthur Oleus in October 1868; ... 

Grégoire's seventh and youngest son François Sébastien dit Bastien married Marie Éloise or Héloise, 22-year-old daughter of Joseph Morvant and his Acadian wife Marie Éloise Bernard, at the Thibodauxville church in October 1822.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Émelie or Émelite dite Mélite in July 1823; Marie Delphine, called Delphine, in January 1825; Marie Eveline in July 1826; Joseph Marcellus in December 1827; Marie Azéline in June 1830; Marie Armélise in May 1832; Marie Adolestille in April 1834; Théoliste or Célestine Euphémie in January 1837; Jean Baptiste, called Baptiste, in June 1838; and Evariste Augustin in July 1843--10 children, seven daughters and three sons, between 1823 and 1843.  Bastien died in Lafourche Parish in June 1868.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial said that Bastien was age 71 when he died.  He was 74.  Daughters ... married into the Adam, Benoit, Caillouet, Guidry, and Morvant families by 1870.  Two of Bastien's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Joseph Marcellus married Louise, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Vincent Hébert and Tarzille Clément, at the Thibodaux church in May 1851.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joseph Anatole in July 1852; Jean Joacin, probably Joachim, in September 1855; Marie Louise Clara in February 1860; Marie Alisse Alida in August 1865; Marie Villia in July 1868; ...  None of Joseph's children married by 1870. 

Bastien's second son Jean Baptiste, called Baptiste, married cousin Mathilde, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Benoit and his Creole wife Rosalie Navarre, at the Thibodaux church in August 1861.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Jean Émile Bonnefaith in February 1862; Vilfrid in October 1863; Émelie Osea in January 1855; Joseph in May 1866; Joseph Clément in St. James Parish in October 1867; ...  

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Two Benoit widows, one without children, crossed on L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in November 1785.  Also aboard that vessel was the wife of a Benoit and her four children whose husband came to Louisian on a later ship.  The husband, a sailor, crossed on La Caroline, the last of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in December 1785.  Reunited with his wife and children, he took them not to an established Acadian community west of New Orleans but to English Turn below the city, one of the few Acadians who settled so far down the Mississippi: 

Jean-Charles (c1746-?) à Pierre le jeune à Martin dit Labrière Benoit

Jean-Charles, son of Charles Benoit and Marie-Madeleine Thériot, born probably at Pigiguit in c1746, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in 1750, was counted with them at Anse-au-Matelot on the south shore of the island in August 1752, was deported with them to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758, and lived with them at Châteauneuf on the east side of the river south of the Breton port.  Jean-Charles married Anne-Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Haché and Anne Olivier, in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer in January 1770.  She gave him a son, Jean-Marie, born there in November 1770.  They went to Poitou in 1773.  Son Paul-Frédéric was born in St.-Jean l'Evangeliste Parish, Châtellerault, in October 1775.  In December, they followed other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes.  Anne-Marie gave him two more children there:  François-René born in c1778; and Sophie-Renée in c1783--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1770 and 1783.  Anne-Marie and their four children crossed to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié, and Jean-Charles, who may have been at sea when L'Amitié left Paimboeuf, the lower port of Nantes, followed on La Caroline, which sailed to New Orleans directly from Nantes.  Reunited at New Orleans, they chose to settle with a hand full of other Acadians at English Turn near the Isleño community of San Bernardo in present-day St. Bernard Parish on the river below the city.  Jean-Charles was a sailor by profession, so his living near the port city, away from the the great majority of his Acadian brethren, may have been dictated by his employment.  One wonders if he and Anne-Marie had more children in Louisana.  At least one of his sons married there. 

Oldest son Jean-Marie followed his family to Poitou and Nantes, his mother and siblings to New Orleans, and his family to English Turn.  One wonders if he married. 

Jean-Charles's second son Paul-Frédéric followed his family to Nantes, his mother and siblings to New Orleans, and his family English Turn.  One wonders if he married. 

Jean-Charles's third and youngest son François-René followed his mother and siblings to New Orleans and his family to English Turn.  He married Luisa, daughter of Francisco Cobos and Francisca Demourel of Pensacola, Florida, at New Orleans in June 1803.  One wonders where they settled. 

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Though they do not appear on any of the passenger rolls, two young Benoit cousins likely came to Louisiana from France on one or more of the Seven Ships of 1785.  Both of them settled on upper Bayou Lafourche, where one of them remained.  During the late 1790s, the other one moved on to the southwest prairies and settled at the western edge of the Opelousas District.  Two more robust family lines came of it: 

Nicolas-Jean-Sébastien (1760-c1841) à Claude à Jean à Martin dit Labrière Benoit

Nicolas-Jean-Sébastien, called Sébastien, son of Augustin Benoit and Françoise Thériot, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo, France, in November 1760, followed his parents to the îles Malouines, today's Falkland Islands, when he was only three years old and lived in that forbidding place for five years.  His family was back in France by 1768, and Sébastien came of age there.  In the 1770s, he evidently followed his family probably via the Channel island of Jersey to St.-Pierre or Miquelon, fishery islands off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  In 1778, during the American Revolution, the British captured the islands and deported Sébastien and his family, along with the other fisher/habitants, to La Rochelle, France.  Many of the Acadians returned to the Newfoundland islands in 1784 after the war had ended.  Sébastien, now in his early 20s, did not.  If he did not return to the St.-Malo area, he may have made his way to the lower Loire port of Nantes by the early 1780s.  It is not clear which, if any, of the Seven Ships he may have taken to Louisiana in 1785.  He appears on neither the embarkation nor debarkation rolls of any of the expeditions, so he may have gone to Louisiana on his own hook after 1785.  He first appears in Louisiana records in August 1789, when, at age 28, he married Jeanne, 36-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean De La Forestrie and Marie-Madeleine Bonnière of Île St.-Jean and widow of Joseph Hébert, at Lafourche.  Jeanne, a native of Havre-St.-Pierre on Île St.-Jean, had come to Louisiana with her husband and five young children aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships.  Her husband died at Lafourche by January 1788, when she was listed in the Valenzuela District census there as a widow.  She probably gave Sébastien no children.  Jeanne died on upper Bayou Lafourche by December 1795, in her late 30s or early 40s, when Sébastien was listed as a widower in the Valenzuela census.  Soon after her death, Sébastien crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to the Opelousas District.  His uncle Étienne Benoit, who had come to Louisiana from Maryland in 1768, had settled at Carencro near the southern edge of the district in the late 1770s, so this probably was Sébastien's motivation to move to the western prairies.  At age 39, Sébastien remarried to Hippolythe dite Pauline, daughter of Barthélémy Lebleu and Marie-Josèphe Lamirande of Calcasieu, probably at Opelousas in August 1800.  He and his new wife settled near her family at the western edge of the district on the Calcasieu River near present-day Lake Charles.  Their children, born on the Calcasieu prairies, included Augustin le jeune in c1804; Marie Josèphe dite Josette in c1807; Adélaïde baptized, age 3 months, in May 1810; and Marcelite born in c1812--four children, a son and three daughters, between 1804 and 1812.  Sébastien died probably in Calcasieu Parish in c1841, in his early 80s.  Daughters Marie Josèphe and Marcelite, by his second wife, married into the Courvelle and Lacase families by 1870.  Sébastien's son also married and created a vigorous family line on the southwest prairies. 

Only son Auguste or Augustin le jeune, by second wife Pauline Lebleu, married Marie Tarsile, called Tarsile, daughter of fellow Acadians André Préjean and Marie Bernard, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in December 1828.  Their children, born on the prairies, included André probably at Calcasieu in c1829 and baptized at Vermilionville, age 6 months, in April 1830; and Lucien baptized at Vermilionville, age 16 days, in November 1831 but died two days later.  A successon, probably post-mortem, for wife Marie Terzille, as she was called, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in July 1833.  Auguste remarried to Marie Eusèïde dite Zèïde, daughter of fellow Acadian François Guidry and his Creole wife Célestine Dartes and widow of François Gerbron, at the Vermilionville church in March 1834.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Auguste or Augustin, fils near Carencro in October 1835; Sébastien le jeune born in 1838 and baptized at Vermilionville, age 9 1/2 months, in January 1839; François born probably in Calcasieu in May 1842; Marie Euzéide in January 1847; Alfred in June 1849; Étienne in January 1854; Pauline in October 1856; Clémentine Virginie in February 1859; Éloi in August 1861; ...  In November 1850, the federal census taker in Vermilion Parish counted a single slave--a 45-year-old black female--on Augustin Benoit's farm in Ward 6 of the parish's western district.  Daughter Marie Euzèïde, by his second wife, married into the Cormier family by 1870.  Four of Augustin le jeune's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son André, by first wife Tarsile Prejean, married Marthe, also called Emma, Mallet probably in Vermilion Parish in the early 1850s.  Their children, born in Vermilion Parish, included Alcide in April 1854; Aurelia in January 1856; Albert in March 1859; Alcée in February 1870; ...  None of André's children married by 1870. 

Augustin le jeune's third son Auguste or Augustin, fils, by second wife Zèide Guidry, married fellow Acadian Émelie or Amelia Broussard probably in Vermilion Parish in the early 1850s.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Antoine in August 1853; Sébastien le jeune in April 1855; Céleste in April 1856; Élizabeth in March 1859; Joseph in November 1860; Éloi in August 1861; and Amélie posthumously in July 1863--seven children, four sons and three daughters, between 1853 and 1863.  None of August, fils's children married by 1870. 

Augustin le jeune's fifth son François, by second wife Zèïde Guidry, married Adèle Mallet at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in August 1859.  Their children, born in Vermilion Parish, included Antoine Cléophas in May 1860; Numa in February 1862, Jules in November 1866; ... 

Augustin le jeune's sixth son Alfred, by second wife Zèïde Guidry, likely married cousin Ozelia Benoit, place and date unrecorded.  Their son Auguste was born in Vermilion Parish in December 1869; ...   

François-Jean-Baptiste (1765-1831) à Pierre le jeune à Martin dit Labrière Benoit

François-Jean-Baptiste, also called Jean-François, third son of Augustin Benoit and his second wife Marie-Madeleine Gautrot, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo, France, in October 1765, followed his family to Poitou and Nantes and went to Louisiana probably in 1785 as a young bachelor.  He married Marie-Modeste, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Pinet dit Pinel and Anne-Marie Durel and widow of Jean-Charles Achée, at Lafourche September 1789.  They settled on the upper bayou.  Their children, born there, included Joseph-Marie in June 1790; Françoise-Barbe in April 1792; twins Charles and Judith-Pélagie baptized at Assumption, no age given, in November 1796; Rosalie-Léonore or -Eléonore born in June 1798; Carméllite-Modeste or Carmélite-Modeste in February 1801; Marie-Marguerite in February 1803; Françoise Basilise in July 1804; and Reine Eugénie in June 1806--nine children, two sons and seven daughters, between 1790 and 1806.  François evidently died in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1831.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial called him Joseph François and said he was age 86 when he died.  He was 66.  Daughters Françoise Barbe, Rosalie Eléonore, Modeste Carmélite, Judith Pélagie, Reine Eugénie, and Françoise Basilise married into the Elsworth, Lamir, Bourque, Leonard, Pierron, Brosseart, Augeron, and Bedford families.  François's two sons also married, and they and their sons settled in what became Lafourche Interior and Terrebonne parishes. 

Older son Joseph Marie married Justine or Christine Angélique, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Thibodeaux and Marie Dugas, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in August 1815.  They evidently lived on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Assumption and Lafourche Interior parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie Carolione or Caroline in January 1820; Dauphine Amédé in October 1821; Élodie Célestine, called Célestine, in October 1823; Carville Jacques, called Jacques, in October 1825; and Joseph Cleborne or Claiborne or Claiborne Joseph, called Claiborne J., in December 1829--five children, three daughters and two sons, between 1820 and 1829.  Wife Justine died by April 1847, when a "Petiton for tutelage," listing two of her and Joseph's children--Célestine and Claiborn--was filed at the Houma courthouse, Terrebonne Parish.  Daughters Dauphine and Marie Caroline married into the Welsh, Kling, and Marcel families, and perhaps into the Danion family as well, by 1870.  One of Joseph's sons also married by then and settled in Terrebonne Parish. 

Older son Carville Jacques, called Jacques, married Marie Émelia or Émelia Marie, 15-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Ursin Aucoin and his Anglo-American wife Rosalie Comstock, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in April 1850.  He worked as a farm laborer.  According to the federal census of 1850, Jacques could not read or write.  His and Marie's children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Amant Joseph, called Joseph, in April 1852; Marie Elmire in January 1855; Maximilien Carville in November 1857; Amédée in February 1860; Malvina Gustine in September 1862; Jean Marie Octave Laurent near Montegut in April 1865; Angélique Lorenza in July 1867; ...  None of Jacques's children married by 1870. 

During the War of 1861-65, Joseph Marie's younger son Joseph Claiborne or Claiborne Joseph, called Claiborne J., served in Company G of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafourche Parish, which fought in Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana.  Did he survive the war?  If so, he did not marry by 1870. 

Jean-François's younger son Charles married Marie Farelia or Farelie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Thibodeaux and Adélaïde Vincent, at the Plattenville church in June 1814.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Augustin in March 1816; Eugène in December 1817; Ursin Victorin in February 1820; and Virginie in March 1822 but died at age 2 1/2 (the recording priest said 3) in June 1824.  Charles remarried to Marie Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Guidry and Marguerite Bergeron of Bayou Terrebonne, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in April 1825.  Their son Jean Baptiste was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in November 1827 but died at age 1 1/2 in October 1829--five children, four sons and a daughter, by two wives, between 1816 and 1827.  Charles died in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1832.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial said that Charles died at age 39, but he probably was in his early 30s.  Two of his remaining sons married and settled on the bayou.

Second son Eugène, by first wife Marie Farelia Thibodeaux, married cousin Marie Ludovine, called Ludivine, Thibodeaux probably in Lafourche Interior Parish in the late 1830s or early 1840s.  Their children, born on the southeastern bayous, included Rose Eugénie in June 1841; Charles Elesiphore in July 1844; Joseph Augustin at Bayou Petit Caillou, Terrebonne Parish, in March 1851; Louisiana in June 1853; Adam in January 1856; Agathe Élodie in March 1862; Marie Louise near Montegut in October 1866; ...  Daughter Louisiana, at age 17, gave birth to son Jean Baptiste Prosper Benoit near Montegut, Terrebonne Parish, in June 1870.  The priest who recorded the boy's baptism did not give the father's name.  None of Eugène's daughters, including Louisiana, married by 1870, but one of his sons did.

Oldest son Charles Elesiphore married cousin Nathalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Thibodeaux and Tarsile Gautreaux, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in June 1864.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Coralie Olenda in March 1864; Marie Elvina near Montegut in February 1865; Charles Augustin in May 1869; ...  

Charles's third son Ursin Victorin, by first wife Marie Farelia Thibodeaux, married fellow Acadian Marie Cléonise Trahan probably in Lafourche Interior Parish in the early 1840s.  Daughter Joséphine Amelia was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in September 1842 and did not marry by 1870.  Ursin evidently fathered no sons, so the line may not have endured. 

Bergeron

Barthélémy Bergeron dit d'Amboise, a storekeeper-turned-soldier from Amboise near Tours in the middle Loire valley of France reached Canada in c1685 and accompanied Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, the future founder of Louisiana colony, on an expedition to Hudson's Bay during King William's War.  In c1695, while the war was still on, Barthélémy married Geneviève, daughter of Jean Serreau de Saint-Aubin, sieur de Passamaquoddy, and Marguerite Boileau, and widow of Jacques Petitpas.  Geneviève and Barthélémy settled at Port-Royal.  During Queen Anne's War, the English held Barthélémy and his family as prisoners at Boston, but they were exchanged for English prisoners in September 1706 and allowed to return to Port-Royal.  In 1707, Barthélémy was living on the south bank of Rivière-au-Dauphin, today's Annapolis River, next to Abraham Dugas, fils, just below the village at Port-Royal.  In the 1730s, his extended family crossed the Bay of Fundy to lower Rivière St.-Jean, where they helped establish the settlement of Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas, now Fredericton, the capital of today's New Brunswick.  Barthélémy and Geneviève's six children, three sons and three daughters, were born either in Québec or at Port-Royal.  The date and place of Barthélémy dit d'Amboise's death has been lost.  His daughters married into the Roy and Godin dit Bellefontaine, Godin dit Beauséjour, and Godin dit Bellefeuille families.  His three sons married Dugass, two of them sisters, on Rivière St.-Jean, where they remained until the deporations of the 1750s scattered the family to the winds. 

Living in territory controlled by France, the Bergerons on Rivière St.-Jean escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia in the summer and fall of 1755.  The family's respite from British oppression was short-lived, however.  In September 1758, after the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg on Île Royale in July, redcoats under command of Colonel Robert Monckton constructed Fort Frederick at the mouth of the St.-Jean, establishing a military presence there.  Later in the year and in early 1759, British forces, including cutthroat New-English rangers, struck the lower St.-Jean settlements, including Ste-Anne-du-Pays-Bas and Ékoupag, where Bergerons also lived.  River habitants who fell into British hands were transported to Georges Island in Halifax harbor.  In November 1759, Governor Charles Lawrence deported them, along with Acadians captured at Cap-Sable, to England, but British authorities sent them on to Cherbourg in Normandy, France, where they landed in January 1760.  None of the captured river habitants seem to have been Bergerons.  Eluding the British, they fled either to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore of present-day eastern New Brunswick, where they joined hundreds of exiles from Nova Scotia, or they continued up the St.-Jean portage to Canada. 

According to Acadian genealogist Bona Arsenault, all three of Barthélémy Bergeron dit d'Amboise, père's sons were captured by British forces during exile, held as prisoners at Halifax with their families, and made their way to Louisiana in 1765 via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue.  Other sources tell a different story.  Oldest son Barthélémy dit d'Amboise, fils evidently escaped the British roundup on the lower St.-Jean in late 1758 and moved on to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  A year of so later, he either surrendered to, or was captured by, British forces in the region and held in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  However, the genealogists at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana, do not list him as one of the Acadians who emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765.  Eight of his children, including four sons, did go to the Mississippi Valley colony that year, but Barthélémy, fils did not.  His younger brother Michel dit de Nantes also eluded the British in 1758, surrendered or was captured in the early 1760s, and held in Nova Scotia, but the Acadian Memorial does not list him, either, as one of the refugees who reached Louisiana in 1765.  Six of his sons, after escaping the British, sought refuge in Canada, perhaps with their father.  However, three of Michel dit de Nantes's daughters did choose to go to Louisiana in 1764-65 probably after they were held in a Nova Scotia prison compound.  Barthélémy, fils and Michel dit de Nantes's youngest brother Augustin was the only one of Barthélémy dit d'Ambroise, père's three sons who made it to Louisiana.  With him went his wife and the family of his son Jean-Baptiste dit d'Amboise.  However, at war's end, Augustin's younger sons, along with a sister, did not follow their parents and older brother to the Mississippi valley colony.  They chose, instead, to resettle in the British-controlled fishery at Gaspesié on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs, or they joined their cousins in Canada. 

Many, if not most, of the Acadian Bergerons, then, did not go to Louisiana after the war but resettled in Canada and greater Acadia by the late 1760s.  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 Barthélémy Bergeron dit d'Ambroise began the slow, inexorable process of becoming Canadiennes.  After the war, they could be found along the upper St. Lawrence at Bécancour, St.-Grégoire-de-Nicolet, Nicolet, Gentilly, Trois-Rivières, and Yamachiche; at L'Îsle-Verte, Kamouraska, St.-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, and Cacouna on the lower St. Lawrence; and at Carleton, Bonaventure, New-Carlisle, Paspébiac, and Percé in Gaspésie.  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.  

All of the Acadian Bergerons who emigrated to Louisiana came from the prison compounds in Nova Scotia.  In August 1763, Jean Bergeron, his wife, and four children; Augustin Bergeron, his wife, and three children; and Cherle Bergeron, his wife, and three children appeared on a French repatriation list compiled at Halifax.  At war's end, these members of the family 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 exiles in Nova Scotia 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 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, these members of the family 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 29 were Bergerons. 

The first of the Acadian Bergerons who came to Louisiana were part of the Broussard party, which reached New Orleans from Halifax in February 1865.  That April and May, they followed the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche, but they did not remain.  Nearly half of them died in an epidemic that killed dozens of their fellow Teche valley Acadians that summer and fall.  The family's survivors--"those of the Rivière de Saint-Jean," a young Acadian described them--joined dozens of other Acadians in a retreat back across the Atchafalaya Basin to Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans, where some of their siblings and cousins had settled that year.  The Bergerons already at Cabahannocer, who also had come to the colony from Halifax via Cap-Français, had been led there by Jean-Baptiste dit d'Amboise, grandson of the family's progenitor.  A few of them, mostly the descendants of Jean-Baptiste dit d'Amboise, remained on the river in what became St. James Parish, some, during the antebellum period, slipping upriver as far as Pointe Coupee Parish, where few fellow Acadians lived.  By the mid-1790s, however, most of the river Bergerons had moved on to Bayou Lafourche, where they settled from Ascension on the upper bayou as far down as Raceland on the middle Lafourche and into the Terrebonne country.  The Lafourche/Terrebonne valley, then, not the Acadian Coast, became the major center of settlement for the Acadian Bergerons. 

No Acadian Bergeron family returned to the western prairies during the late colonial period.  Only one family settled there during the antebellum period, and not until the 1850s.  Though Bergerons could be found on the prairies as early as 1799, these were not descendants of Barthélémy dit Ambroise of Rivière St.-Jean.  At least half of the Bergerons who lived in South Louisiana, and nearly all of them west of the Atchafalaya Basin, were French Creoles, not Acadians, most of them descendants of Guillaume Bergeron dit Saintonge, a French soldier who had come to Louisiana in the 1730s, decades before his Acadian namesakes reached the colony.  Guillaume dit Saintonge's descendants either remained at their ancestral base on the river around Pointe Coupée or, during the late colonial and early antebellum periods, crossed the Atchafalaya Basin and spread throughout the old Attakapas and Opelousas districts, mostly in what became St. Landry Parish, a predominantly-Creole area.  Typically, only a hand full of them married Acadians.  Another family of French Creole Bergerons, whose progenitor was from the German Coast and whose name also was Guillaume, lived for a time along upper Bayou Lafourche before heading west to Lafayette and St. Martin parishes.  A smaller line of this Creole family moved north from the Lafourche to the Iberville/Baton Rouge area and lived among the other Bergerons there, further complicating the genealogical picture of the family along the river.  

Judging by the number of slaves they held during the late antebellum period, some of the Acadian Bergerons lived well on their holdings along the river and the southeastern bayous.  Michel, son of Acadian immigrant Jean-Baptiste Bergeron dit d'Amboise of St. James Parish, died a few months before the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted 56 slaves on his plantation on the east bank of the river in the summer of 1850.  ...  Most members of the family, however, held no slaves at all, at least none who appear on the federal slave schedules of 1850 and 1860. ...

Dozen of Bergerons, many of them Acadians, served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65.  Most returned home to their families, but at least two of them died in Confederate service.  In April 1862, Surville Bergeron, probably an Acadian, enlisted in Company E of the 29th (Thomas') Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Ascension Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  But Surville did not live long enough to fight there.  After serving on extra duty as a teamster that summer, he fell ill and died in a Vicksburg hospital in September 1862.  Lucien Bergeron, an Acadian from Assumption Parish, was conscripted into Confederate service in the fall of 1862 and sent to Vicksburg, where in late October he was assigned to Company B of the 1st Regiment Louisiana Heavy Artillery.  The assignment proved to be a death sentence.  Along with dozens of other Acadian conscripts in the regiment, many of them from Assumption Parish, Lucien fell sick that winter.  He died at City Hospital, Vicksburg, in early March 1863, on the eve of the great siege.  Meanwhile, the war took a heavy toll on the Bergerons' 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 in the lower river parishes.  Successive Federal incursions in the Bayou Lafourche valley devastated that region, and Confederate foragers also plagued the area when the Federals were not around.  Thanks to these Federal incursions, emancipation came early to the area with its resulting economic and social turmoil. ...

In Louisiana, the family's name also is spelled Bagsebon, Bargeron, Berger, Berjeron, Bersilone.78

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The first Acadian Bergerons who emigrated to Louisiana--four wives, an aging grandfather, two fathers and their seven children, 14 members of the family in all--arrived with the Broussards in February 1765 and followed them to lower Bayou Teche.  Six of the Bergerons--the three family heads and three of their infants-- died in a mysterious epidemic that struck the Teche valley settlement that summer and fall.  The family's survivors retreated with other Rivière St.-Jean Acadians to Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  As a result, no new center of Bergeron family settlement, at least none among the Acadians who bore that name, arose on the western prairies.  However, most of the retreating members of the Acadian family did not remain on the river, where other kinsmen from Halifax settled in 1765.  In the late 1780s or early 1790s, they moved on to the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley, where they helped create an even larger center of Bergeron family settlement:

Augustin (1710-1765) Bergeron

Augustin, third and youngest son of Barthélémy Bergeron dit d'Amboise, père and Geneviève Serreau de Saint-Aubin, born at Port-Royal in c1710, married Marie, daughter of Claude Dugas and Marguerite Bourg, probably at Annapolis Royal, formerly Port-Royal, in c1730.  They followed their families to Ste.-Anne-du-Pay-Bas on lower Rivière St.-Jean.  Between 1730 and 1752, at Annapolis Royal and Ste.-Anne-du-Pay-Bas, Marie gave Augustin four children, three sons and a daughter:  Jean-Baptiste born in c1730; Pierre in c1735; Charles-André in c1743; and Élisabeth in c1752.  Augustin and his family evidently escaped the British roundups on Rivière St.-Jean in 1758-59, took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the region, and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war:  Augustin, Marie, and three of their children appear on a French repatriation list at Halifax in August 1763.  Augustin was the only one of his father's sons to emigrate to Louisiana, and not all of Augustin's children followed him there.  In 1764-65, he, Marie, and their oldest son and his family followed the Broussards from Halifax via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, to New Orleans and then to lower Bayou Teche that spring.  Augustin on August 30, along with his son on November 2, his 15-month-old grandson on August 18, and a newborn granddaughter on August 31, died in an epidemic that swept through the Teche valley settlement that summer and fall.  Augustin was age about 55 at the time of his death.  Late that summer or early that fall, Augustin's widow Marie, his son's widow, and his son's four surviving children retreated to Cabahannocer on the river to escape the epidemic.  They did not return to the western prairies, nor did all of Augustin's Louisiana descendants remain on the river.  His oldest son's family line was amazingly robust.  Meanwhile, in the early 1760s, Augustin's two younger sons and his only daughter chose to remain in greater Acadia before resettling in Canada.  Daughter Élisabeth married into the Boucher family at Kamarouska on the lower St. Lawrence in September 1771.  The two youngers sons settled in Gaspésie on the northern shore of the Baie des Chaleurs, now part of today's Québec Province, and on the upper St. Lawrence, making this one of the most widely dispersed Bergeron family lines across the Acadian diaspora. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste followed his family to Rivière St.-Jean and married Catherine, daughter of Michel Caissie dit Roger and his first wife Catherine Poirier of Chignecto, probably at Ste.-Anne-du-Pay-Bas in c1750.  Between 1750 and 1756, at Ste.-Anne, Catherine gave Jean-Baptiste four children:  Madeleine born in c1750; Osite in c1752; Jean-Baptiste, fils in c1754; and Charles in c1756.  They, too, escaped the British roundups on Rivière St.-Jean in 1758-59 and, like his family, either surrendered to, or were captured by, the redcoats in the early 1760s and ended up in the prison compound at Halifax.  Jean-Baptiste likely was the Jean Bergeron with a wife and four children who appeared on a repatriation list there in August 1763.  Catherine gave Jean-Baptiste another son, Joseph, born at Halifax in July 1764.  Jean-Baptiste, Catherine, and their five children followed his parents and the Broussards to Louisiana in 1764-65.  Catherine was pregnant on the voyage to Louisiana and on the flatboat voyage to lower Bayou Teche in the spring of 1765.  Another daughter, Marianne, was born on the lower Teche at the end of May--six children, three daughters and three sons, between 1750 and 1765, in greater Acadia and Louisiana.  Jean-Baptiste died in early November 1765, in his mid-30s, one of the last victims of the Teche valley epidemic.  He had lost his youngest son Joseph, still an infant, and newborn daughter Marianne weeks before.  After Jean-Baptiste's death, his widow Catherine retreated with her four remaining children to Cabahannocer on the river.  She did not remarry.  Oldest daughter Madeleine married into the Renauld or Renaud family at New Orleans, lived with her husband there, and then joined her family on the upper Lafourche after he died.  Like her mother, she did not remarry.  Catherine and Jean Baptiste's second daughter Osite did not marry.  Their two remaining sons married, one of them twice, and created robust lines.  They and their sons helped establish a new center of family settlement in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, fils, called Baptiste, followed his family into exile, imprisonment, and to New Orleans and lower Bayou Teche in 1764-65.  After his grandfather, his father, and two of his siblings died in the Teche valley epidemic of 1765, Jean-Baptiste, fils retreated with his widowed mother and siblings to Cabahannocer on the river, where he married Lise-Marie-Josèphe, called Lise or Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Basile Babin and Anne Saulnier and stepdaughter of Michel Cormier of Opelousas, in June 1778.  Lise-Marie, a native of Halifax, and also had come to Louisiana in 1765.  By the mid-1790s, the couple had moved on to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Their children, born on the river and the bayou, included Françoise-Julienne, also called Marie-Françoise, baptized at Cabahanncoer, age unrecorded, in July 1779; Henriette born at Ascension in January 1781; Geneviève in the early 1780s; Jean-Pierre at Cabahannocer in February 1787[sic]; Marie-Scholastique in September 1787[sic]; Constance in November 1788; Clémence in November 1790 but, according to an Ascension church record, probably erroneous, died at age 1 1/2 in June 1792; Édouard born in December 1792; Éloise-Carmélite, called Carmélite, in January 1798; Arthémise in April 1800; François, called François-Maximilien, François M. and Maxille, at Assumption in August 1802; and Drosin or Drausin in March 1809--a dozen children, eight daughters and four sons, between 1779 and 1809.  Jean Baptiste's succession, calling his wife Marie and naming his children and some of their spouses--Jean Pierre, Édouard, François, Françoise and her husband, Henriette and her husband, Geneviève and her husband, Constance and her husband, Clémence and her husband, Carmélite and her husband, Arthémise and her husband, and Drausin--was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse, Lafourche Interior Parish, in October 1827.  He would have been in his early 70s that year.  Daughters Françoise, Henriette, Geneviève, Clémence, Costance, Arthémise, and Carmélite married into the Savoie, Guidry, Foret, Richard, Melançon, Mire, and LeBlanc families.  All four of Jean Baptiste, fils's sons also married.  His oldest son's line may have died out early, but his younger sons' lines endured.  His two middle sons settled in Lafourche Parish, one grandson as far down bayou as Raceland.  Baptiste's youngest son moved even farther south, to Terrebonne Parish, settling near Montegut at the edge of the coastal marshes.  

Oldest son Jean Pierre followed his family to Bayou Lafourche.  He married Marie Modeste, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul LeBlanc and Marie Boudreaux of Manchac, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in May 1811.  Daughter Célanie or Célanise was born on the upper Lafourche in c1814.  Wife Marie Modeste died by March 1817, when her succession was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse; it listed only a single child, daughter Célanise, age 2 1/2.  Jean Pierre remarried to Pauline Theaux in Lafourche Interior Parish in the late 1820s.  Their son Jean Bernard Sylvain, called Sylvain, was born probably in Lafourche Interior Parish in the late 1820s.  Jean Pierre died in Lafourche Interior Parish in June 1828, age 41.  Daughter Célanie, by his first wife, married into the Autin family.  Jean Pierre's son also married, but the line did not endure.

Only son Sylvain, by second wife Pauline Theaux, married Clara Radaville or Rodeville, daughter of Noël Haydel and Carmelite Haydel, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Parish, in February 1855.  Sylvain died in Terrebonne Parish in April 1858, in his late 20s or early 30s.  A petition for succession inventory, calling him Sylvain and his wife Clara Rodeville but listing no children, was filed at the Houma courthouse in May 1858.  His line of the family evidently died with him.   

Baptiste's second son Édouard married Marie Clémence, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean François Rassicot and his second wife Marie Josèphe Robichaux, probably in Assumption Parish in the early 1810s.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joachim Drosin in March 1815; François Régis or Rémi in October 1817; Augustin or Auguste in September 1819; Léonise in c1820; Evariste in February 1821 but died at age 3 in June 1824; Arsène, a son, born in November 1824; Marceline in June 1826; Édouard Jourdain in September 1828 but, called Édouard, died at age 17 in February 1845; Marcellin born in March 1833; and Eugène in December 1835--10 children, eight sons and two daughters, between 1815 and 1835.  Édouard, père, at age 50, remarried to Marianne, daughter of Jean Pierre Lirette and his Acadian wife Marie Madeleine Darembourg, at the Thibodaux church in February 1843.  She evidently gave him no more children.  In December 1850, the federal census taker in Lafourche Interior Parish counted six slaves--four males and two females, all black except for one mulatto, ranging in age from 33 to 12--on Édouard Bergeron's farm along Bayou Lafourche.  Édouard, père died in Lafourche Parish in April 1859, age 66.  His succession inventory, calling him Edward, not naming his wife, and listing his children and some of their spouses--Léonise and her husband, Joachim, François, Auguste, Marceline and her husband, Marcelin, and Eugène (where was son Arsène?)--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse later in April.  Daughters Léonice and Marceline, by his first wife, married into the Boutary and Dantin families.  Six of Édouard's sons also married.  

Oldest son Joachim Drosin, by first wife Marie Clémence Rassicot, married Florianne Estelle, called Estelle, daughter of Pierre Lagarde and his Acadian wife Scholastique Esther De La Mazière, at the Thibodauxville church in April 1834.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Joséphine in January 1836 but died at age 1 1/2 in June 1837; Joseph Joachim, called Joachim, born in May 1837; Émelie Léonise in October 1840; Émile Abram in October 1842 but, called Émile, evidently died in Terrebonne Parish, age 17 1/2 (the recording priest said 17), in July 1860; Amelia Joséphine born in October 1847; Esther Louise in March 1850; Pierre Anatole in November 1851; Arthur Thomas in November 1853; Édouard Albery in June 1855; Henry Cléophas in April 1857; Marie Malvina in December 1858; Lucille Véronique in November 1860; Vilfrid Edgard in December 1862; ...  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Lafourche Parish counted two slaves--a 43-year-old black male and a 30-year-old black female--on Joachim Bergeron's farm; this probably was Joachim Drosin.  Daughter Émelie married into the Caillouet family by 1870.  One of Joachim's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Joseph Joachim married Marie Rosa Georgiana, called Georgina, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Auguste Hébert and Rosalie Lejeune, at the Thibodaux church in February 1858.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Gorgina, probably Georgina, in December 1858; Laura Rosalie in August 1860; Joseph Émile in December 1861 but, called Émilie, died at age 5 1/2 (the recording priest said 5) in September 1867; Marie Émelie born in March 1863; Joseph Augustin in February 1865 but, called Joseph, died at age 7 months the following September; Louis Kleber born in February 1867; Joseph Henri in October 1869; ...  

Édouard's second son François Régis, by first wife Marie Clémence Rassicot, married Marie Élisabeth or Élise, called Élise or Élisa, daughter of Paul Grabert and his Acadian wife Marie Madeleine Gaudin of St. James Parish, at the Thibodaux church in May 1839.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Élisabeth in February 1840; Marie Enna in January 1842 but, called Enia, died at age 3 1/2 in October 1845; Marie Émelie or Amélie born in October 1843; Édouard le jeune in September 1845; François, fils, called Frank, in October 1847; twins Octave and Marguerite Octavie, called Octavie, in December 1849; Marie Madeleine, called Madeleine, in October 1851; Joseph, Léonise Emma, called Emma, and Paul, evidently triplets, in October 1853, but Joseph died at age 2 months in December, and Paul died at age 4 1/2 (the recording priest said 3) in June 1858; Pierre Pauline, probably Paulin, born in June 1856; another Joseph in c1858 but died at age 4 1/2 in September 1863; and Osée, perhaps Osea, probably a daughter, born in March 1859 but evidently died by June 1860, when she was not counted with her family in the federal census in Lafourche Parish at that time--14 children, seven daughters and seven sons, including a set of twins and a set of triplets, between 1840 and 1859.  In December 1850, the federal census taker in Lafourche Interior Parish counted two slaves--a 17-year-old male and an 18-year-old female, both black--on François Bergeron's farm along the bayou; this probably was François Régis.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Lafourche Parish counted four slaves--two males and two females, all black except for one mulatto, ranging in age from 45 to 1--on François Bergeron's farm in the parish's Eighth Ward.  Daughters Élisabeth, Marie Amélie, and Madeleine married into the Guidroz, Barrios, and Richard families by 1870.  Two François Régis's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Édouard le jeune married Azélie Adélaïde, daughter of Henri Hoffman and his Acadian wife Louise Aucoin, at the Thibodaux church in April 1869.  Daughter Marie was born in Lafourche Parish in August 1870; ...

François Régis's second son Frank married Céleste, daughter of Hermogène Adam and his Acadian wife Denise Hébert, at the Thibodaux church in February 1869.  Daughter Marie Alice was born in Lafourche Parish in July 1870; ...

Édouard's third son Auguste, by first wife Marie Clémence Rassicot, married Émilie Mélicère, 20-year-old daughter of Terence Toups and his Acadian wife Marie Caroline Bourgeois, at the Thibodaux church in April 1845.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Émelie Augustine or Augusta, called Augusta, in January 1846; Arsène Émile in January 1847 but, called Émile, died at age 16 in April 1863 (was his death war-related?); François Henry born in October 1848; Terence Édouard in January 1851; a child, name and age unrecorded, died in a yellow fever epidemic in September 1853; Félix Théogène born in March 1854; Joseph Augustin in September 1855; Marie Zéolide in February 1857; Émée Mathilde in February 1860 but died at age 2 1/2 in October 1862; and Narcisse Ozéma born in October 1862.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Lafourche Parish counted two slaves--both female, both black, ages 26 and 12--on Auguste Bergeron's farm in the parish's Eighth Ward not far from Mrs. Terence Toups; the census taker noted that Auguste was the "employer," so he may not have actually owned the slaves.  Auguste, at age 46, remarried to Laurenza, daughter of fellow Acadian François Hébert and his Creole wife Victorine Toups, at the Thibodaux church in July 1866.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Émelie Berthilde in June 1867; Georges Étienne in September 1868; Charles in February 1870; ...  Daughter Augusta, by his first wife, married into the Lefort family by 1870.  None of Auguste's sons married by then. 

Édouard's fifth son Arsène, by first wife Marie Clémence Rassicot, married Anne Armina or Hermina,19-year-old daughter of Jean Lagarde and his Acadian wife Adélaïde Templet, at the Thibodaux church in April 1845.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Julia in April 1846 but died at age 1 in May 1847; Joseph Arthur born in July 1848; Anne Adélaïde Ena in May 1850 but, called Anne Adélaïde, died at age 5 1/2 in September 1855; Jean Léon born in February 1852; Charles Augustin in June 1854 but died at age 1 in July 1855; Paul Arsène Oscar born in July 1856; and Amanda Joséphine in May 1858.  Arsène remarried to Marie Éloise or Léonie, called Léonie, another daughter of Paul Grabert and Marie Madeleine Gaudin and widow of cousin Joseph Laurence Bergeron, at the Thibodaux church in January 1859.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Madeleine Aloina in October 1860; Cécile in November 1863; Paul in April 1866 but died two months later; twins Joseph and Louis born in December 1868, but Joseph died at age 5 months the following May; ...  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Lafourche Parish counted four slaves--three males and one female, all mulattoes except for one black, ages 27 to 12--on Arcène Bergeron's farm in the parish's Eighth Ward.  None of Arsène's daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did. 

Oldest son Joseph Arthur, by first wife Hermina Lagarde, married Marie Emma, daughter of Théophile Daunis and Marie Adele Boutary, at the Thibodaux church in January 1870.  Their son Joseph Thomas was born in Lafourche Parish in October 1870; ...

Édouard's seventh son Marcellin, by first wife Marie Clémence Rassicot, married Marie or Mary, daughter of John C. Brown and Marie Justine Pontiff, at the Thibodaux church in February 1851.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Perrin in November 1851; Marie Louisianne in October 1854 but, called Marie Louisiane, died at age 11 in October 1865; Marie Armina born in May 1856; Eugénie Azéma in January 1858; Léon Marcellin in December 1859; Marie Amanda in November 1861; a child, name and age unrecorded, perhaps theirs, died in Lafourche Parish in November 1862; Marie born in October 1863 but, called Mercedes, died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 22 months) in May 1865; Heve Zulema born near Raceland in December 1865; Jean in November 1867; another Marie in September 1870; ...  None of Marcellin's children married by 1870. 

During the War of 1861-65, Édouard's eighth and youngest son Eugène, by first wife Marie Clémence Rassicot, served in Company D 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 Philomène, daughter of Adolphe Legendre, a Foreign Frenchman, not a fellow Acadian, and Célesie Ledet, at the Thibodaux church in December 1865.  Their children, born in Lafourche Parish, included Marie Eugénia in December 1866; Marie Célesie in September 1868; ...

Baptiste's third son François, called François Maximilien, François M., and Maxille, at age 22, married Marie, 21-year-old daughter of Alexis Autin and Marie Aubert of St. John the Baptist Parish, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in November 1824.  Daughter Marie, also called Nannet Marie, was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in September 1825.  François, at age 27, remarried to Marie Pauline or Pollone, 24-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Clouâtre and Marie Élisabeth Thibodeaux, at the Thibodauxville church in January 1830.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Azéline in November 1830; and Azélie Caroline, called Caroline, in February 1832.  François, at age 41, remarried again--his third marriage--to Joséphine, daughter of Justin Pontiff and his Acadian wife Marie Madeleine Lejeune, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in December 1843.  Their children, born on the southeastern bayous, included Azéma in March 1845; Estelina or Estellina in March 1846; Jean Baptiste in March 1847 but died at age 18 in February 1866 (was his early death war-related?); Azélie Malvina, called Malvina, born in June 1848; Marie died at age 15 days in March 1851; Marie Alida or Adèle was born in November 1852; Louis Joseph in January 1856; and François, fils in May 1857, when his father was in his early 50s--11 children, eight daughters and three sons, by three wives, between 1825 and 1857.  François Maximilien died in Lafourche Parish in April 1858.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial said that François was age 57 when he died.  He was 55.  A "bond of administrator," calling him François Maxi, giving his death date, naming his wives (more or less, in two cases only their family names, and listing his children and some of their spouses--Marie and her husband, Coraline (Caroline), Azéma, Estellina, Jean Baptiste, Malvina, Azélie, Appolinaire, Marie Alida, Louis Joseph, and François--was filed at the Houma courthouse in May 1858 (one wonders who was Appolonaire).  Daughters Nannet Marie, Caroline, Estellina, and Marie Alida, by all three wives, married into the Dufrene, Haydel, Maronge, and Janchler or Jouchler families by 1870.  Daughter Azéma may have, at age 19, given birth to daughter Marie in Lafourche Parish in October 1864; the Thibodaux priest who recorded the baby's baptism did not name the father.  None of François Maximilien's sons married by 1870. 

Baptiste's fourth and youngest son Drosin or Drausin married Marie Constance, called Constance, 23-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Tranquille François Arcement and Anne Rassicot, at the Thibodauxville church in February 1832.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Élise, Élize, or Lise Aurelia or Orelia in November 1832; Joachim Drosin le jeune, also called Drosin, fils, in January 1834; Melina Célima, called Célima, in July 1835; Charles Amédée in January 1837; Justine Élodie, also called Augustine, in March 1838; and Raphaël in March 1840.  Drosin, père, at age 50, remarried to Julie Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Pierre Pitre and Rosalie Achée, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in March 1859.  Their son Aristide Mames was born in Terrebonne Parish in August 1860--seven children, three daughters and four sons, by two wives, between 1832 and 1860.  Drosin, père, called Drauzin, died near Montegut, Terrebonne Parish, in August 1868, age 59.  A petition for administration of his estate, naming both of his wives and some of their children--Élize and her husband, Drauzin, Jr., Justine and her husband, and Raphaël by his first wife, and Orestile [Aristide] by his second wife--was filed at the Houma courthouse, Terrebonne Parish, the following October.  Daughters Élise, Célima, and Justine, by his first wife, married into the Henry, Ledet, and Navarre families by 1870.  Two of his sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Joachim Drosin le jeune, by first wife Constance Arcement, married Mathilde, daughter of  Nicolas Malbrough and his Acadian wife Clarisse Daigle and widow of Valéry Berthelot, at the Houma church in August 1857.  Daughter Augustillia was born in Terrebonne Parish in August 1858.  Drosin, fils remarried to Elda Gerbeau in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in December 1866.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Laurence, either a son or daughter, in October 1867; another Laurence, called Lauranze, perhaps a son, in February 1870; ...

Drosin's third son Raphaël, by first wife Constance Arcement, married Berthilde, daughter of Joseph Duplantis and François Charpentier, at the Houma church in July 1859.  They settled near Montegut.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Valère in December 1863; Joseph Raphaël in June 1865; Jean Americus in November 1869; Marie Ada in January 1867; ...  

Jean-Baptiste, père's second son Charles le jeune followed his family into exile, imprisonment, and to New Orleans and lower Bayou Teche in 1764-65.  After his grandfather, his father, and two of his siblings died in the Teche Valley epidemic of 1765, Charles le jeune retreated with his widowed mother and siblings to Cabahannocer on the river.   He married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Forest and Marguerite Saulnier, at Ascension above Cabahannocer in October 1779.  Marie also had been born in greater Acadia during exile and had come to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765.  Their children, born at Ascension, included Marguerite, also called Marie-Marguerite, in August 1780; Marie-Anne, called Anne, in August 1793; Pierre-Charles, also called Charles, fils, baptized, age unrecorded, in January 1786; Jean-Baptiste baptized, age unrecorded, in November 1788; an infant son, name and age unrecorded, died in September 1790; and Alexandre born in August 1792.  In the early 1790s, Charles le jeune moved his family to upper Bayou Lafourche, where he remarried to Victoire-Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Augustin Benoit and Marie Madeleine Gautreaux, at Assumption in January 1794.  Victoire, a native of St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo, France, and had come to Louisiana in 1785 aboard one of the Seven Ships.  They lived on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between what became Ascension and Assumption parishes before moving down bayou to present-day Terrebonne Parish.  Their children, born on the river and the bayou, included Éloise at Ascension in October 1794; Pierre-Paul in February 1795; Pierre-Paul-Rosémond, also called Rosémond and Charles-Rosémond, in the late 1790s; Guillaume probably at Assumption in the late 1790s; Jean-Charles, called Charles and Jean-Charley, in December 1799; Arsène, a daughter, in c1800; Adélaïde-Claire in August 1801; Pierre-Célestin, called Célestin, in February 1803; Madeleine Victoire in April 1806 (her godfather was future Louisiana governor Henry Schuyler Thibodaux); and Marcellin Vital in November 1809--15 children, five daughters and 10 sons, by two wives, between 1780 and 1808.  Charles le jeune's successions were filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse, Interior Parish, in January 1808 and December 1810.  He would have been in his early 50s in those years.  The January 1808 succession listed some of his children:  Pierre, Jean Baptiste, and Alexandre from his first wife.  Daughters Marguerite, Anne, Éloise, Adélaïde, Madeleine, and Arsène, by both wives, married into the Guidry, Beausergeant, Babin, Rhodes, Thibodaux, Crochet, and Himmel families, one of them, Adélaïde, to the oldest son of a future governor.  Eight of Charles's sons also married and settled in Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes, some as far south as Montegut at the edge of the coastal marshes.  

Oldest son Pierre Charles, also called Charles, fils, from first wife Marie Foret, followed his family to upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marie Louise, daughter of François Boudeloche and his Acadian wife Marie Madeleine Trahan, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in November 1809.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Jean Pierre in August 1810; Florentin in the early 1810s; Jean Baptiste Isidore in September 1815; Narcisse in January 1817; Jean Eusèbe, called Eusèbe, in December 1819; Marie Odine Melicère in November 1824; Hubert in October 1827; and Ursaline Pauline in June 1831--eight chldren, six sons and two daughters, between 1810 and 1831.  Daughters ... married into the Aubert and Donohue families by 1870.  Five of Charles, fils's sons also married by then. 

Second son Florentin married Marie Marcelline or Marcellite, daughter of fellow Acadians Honoré Breaux and Marie Félicité Richard, at the Thibodauxville church in June 1833.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Pierre Drosin, called Drosin, in April 1834; Jean Baptiste le jeune in April 1836; Narcisse Théodul in April 1838; Marie Matilde in May 1840 but died at age 1 1/2 in December 1841; Pauline Eve Émelie, called Émelie, born in June 1842; Eve Émelia, called Émelia, in January 1845; Florentin Aurestile, called Aurestile, in July 1847; Marie Estelina in January 1849; Philomène, perhaps also called Julia, in October 1850; and Joseph Adam in February 1855--10 children, five sons and five daughters, between 1834 and 1855.  Florentin died in Terrebonne Parish in July 1857, in his 40s, a widower (his wife had died 11 months earlier).  A petition for the administration of his estate, naming his wife and listhing his children--Drauzin, Jean Baptiste, Narcisse, Amelia and her husband, Amelie and her husband, Orestilde, Julia, and Marie--was not filed at the Houma courthouse until September 1866.  Daughters Émelie and Émelia married into the Le Lorre or Lorette and Robichaux families by 1870.  Two of Florentin's sons also married by then. 

During the War of 1861-65, oldest son Drosin served in Company D of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafourche Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  Drosin may have married fellow Acadian Azéma Bourg in Terrebonne Parish during or just after the war.  Their children, born near Montegut, included Joachim Raphaël in September 1866; Marie Edita in March 1868; ...   

During the war, Florentin's third son Narcisse le jeune served in the Terrebonne Parish Regiment Militia.  He married Azéma, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Boudreaux and his Creole wife Aimée Caroline Jeanne Olivier and widow of Treville Juneau, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in December 1865; the marriage was recorded also in Lafourche Parish (Azéma's first husband had died of disease at Vicksburg in late 1862 while serving as a draftee in Company C of the 1st Regiment Louisiana Heavy Artillery).  Narcisse and Azéma's son Jules was born in Lafourche Parish in October 1866; ...   

Pierre Charles's third son Jean Baptiste Isidore, living in Terrebonne Parish, married Délaïde, Delcie, Delcide, Delside, Eleida, Eleide, Felcide, Felicise, Félicité, Felgide, Felsie, Telcide, Teleide, Telsi, Telside, or Thelside, daughter of Nicolas Lirette and Marie Malbrough, at the Thibodauxville church in May 1834.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Jean Baptiste, fils in March 1835; Pierre Eusèbe, called Eusèbe, in December 1836; Marie Ursule in July 1839; Adam Trasimond, called Trasimond, in November 1843; Julia perhaps in the 1840s; Aglone, perhaps also called Élisabeth, in November 1846; François[e] Malvine or Malvina, called Malvina, in March 1849; Denis Julien at Bayou Cannes in October 1851; and Euphrosine Camilla in March 1853--nine children, five sons and four daughters, between 1835 and 1853.  In October 1850, the federal census taker in Terrebonne Parish counted two slaves--a 20-year-old female and a 3-year-old male, both black--on Jean Bte. Bergeron's farm; this may have been Jean Baptiste Isidore.  Daughters Marie Ursule, Élisabeth, Malvina, and Julia married into the LeBoeuf, Marcel, Savoie, and Adam families by 1870.  Two of Jean Baptiste's sons also married by then.  A third served Louisiana in uniform and survived the war but did not marry by 1870. 

Oldest son Jean Baptiste, fils married Élodie, daughter of Furcy Poché or Porche and his Acadian wife Justine Aucoin, at the Houma church in June 1857.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Eléonore Augustine in November 1858; Elmire Ermina in February 1860; Henri Ernest in July 1863; Marie Lucette in December 1866; Jules Adrien in April 1869; ...  

Jean Baptiste Isidore's second son Eusèbe married Justine Euselia, called Euselia, daughter of Philippe Darce and Marie Émeline Dupré of Terrebonne Parish, at the Houma church in April 1856.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Lucien Ambroise in March 1857; Marie Eve in February 1859; Florence in August 1862; Dorothée Adam in February 1866; Élisabeth Julia in October 1868; ...   

During the War of 1861-65, Jean Baptiste Isidore's third son Trasimond served in Company F of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Terrebonne Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  He survived the war and returned to his family, but he did not marry by 1870. 

Pierre Charles's fourth son Narcisse, living in Terrebonne Parish, married Marie Azélie, called Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadians Ambroise Dugas and Marcellite Bourgeois, at the Thibodaux church in September 1839.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Ambroise Octave, called Octave, in July 1840; Pierre Franklin, called Franklin, in February 1842; Narcisse Skailer, probably Schuyler, called Schuyler, in February 1844; Marie Célina, called Célina, in August 1846; Joseph Ulysse in December 1848 but, called Joseph, died at age 2 1/2 (the recording priest said 3) in October 1851; Marie Marthilde born in September 1851; and Evariste Narcisse perhaps posthumously in February 1854--seven children, five sons and two daughters, between 1840 and 1854.  Narcisse may have died in Lafourche Parish in September 1853 "during [a] yellow fever epidemic."  If so, he would have been age 36.  Daughter Célina married into the Stevens family by 1870.  Three of Narcisse's sons, after their war service, also married by then. 

During the War of 1861-65, oldest son Octave served as a sergeant in Company H 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 Léontine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Charles Sonnier and Rosalie Breaux, at the Thibodaux church in November 1866.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Félix Michel in September 1867; Charles Ave in January 1869; ...  

During the war, Narcisse's second son Franklin may have served in Company I of the 26th Regiment Infantry, raised in Lafourche Parish.  He married Marie Émée, called Émée, daughter of Théodule Estivenne or Stephen and his Acadian wife Mélasie Hébert, at the Thibodaux church in October 1864 while still in Confederate service.  He survived the war and returned to his family.  His and Émée's children, born on the Lafourche, included Joséphine Franklin in July 1865; Marie Lilia in June 1867; Joseph in June 1868; Oscar in c1769 but died at age 1 in June 1870; Marguerite Angèle born in August 1870; ...  

During the war, Narcisse's third son Schuyler served in the same unit as older brother Octave.  Schuyler also survived the war, returned to his family, and, called Miler by the recording priest, married Emma, daughter of fellow Acadians Hermogène Louvière and Meranthe Daigle, at the Thibodaux church in October 1866; the marriage also was recorded in Terrebonne Parish.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joseph Giles in September 1867; Joseph Albert in January 1870; ...

Pierre Charles's fifth son Eusèbe married Marie Modeste, called Modeste, daughter of fellow Acadian François Hébert and his Creole wife Adélaïde Lirette, at the Thibodaux church in September 1841.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Eve in August 1842; François Eusèbe, called Eusèbe, fils, in July 1844; Henri or Henry Cle or Clay in December 1845; Auguste Clayborne or Claiborne in February 1848; Joséphine Victorine baptized, age indecipherable, in February 1850; Marie Olinva, perhaps also called Sidolie, born in July 1852; Amanda in March 1854; Alcide Joseph in February 1856; Paulin Dalpherez in June 1860; Malvina Franklina in June 1861; ...  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Terrebonne Parish counted a single slave--a 5-year-old male--on Eusèbe Bergeron's farm.  Daughters Marie and Sidolie married into the Gerbeau and Trahan families by 1870.  Two of Eusèbe's sons also married by then. 

During the War of 1861-65, oldest son Eusèbe, fils served in Company D 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 Alida or Elida, daughter of Pierre Gerbeau and his Acadian wife Eglantine Trahan, at the Thibodaux church in August 1868; Eusèbe, fils's sister Marie married Alida's brother Émile.  Daughter Marie Olympe was born in Lafourche Parish in May 1870; ... 

Eusèbe, père's second son Henry Clay married Odile, daughter of fellow Acadians Auguste Giroir and Rosalie Comeau and widow of Alfred Pitre, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in April 1869.  Their son Henry Baptiste was born in Terrebonne Parish in May 1870; ...

Pierre Charles's sixth and youngest son Hubert married Euphrosine, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Daigle and his Creole wife Émelie Lirette and widow of Ulysse Gautreaux, at the Houma church in January 1853. ...

Charles le jeune's second son Jean Baptiste, by first wife Marie Foret, married Rosalie, daughter of Maltese Creole Laurent Lancon or Lanzon and his Acadian wife Anne Michel, at the Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, in February 1809.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Rosalie Bathilde in May 1815; Marie Delphine in July 1817; Jean Baptiste, fils in March 1819; and Célestin Vital in December 1825--four children, two daughters and two sons, between 1815 and 1825.  Daughter Marie Delphine married into the Savoie family, and daughter Rosalie Bathilde perhaps into the Chiasson family.  Jean Baptiste's two sons also married. 

Older son Jean Baptiste, fils may have married fellow Acadian Marie Josèphe or Joséphine Pitre in either Lafourche Interior or Terrebonne Parish in the late 1830s or early 1840s.  Their children, born on the Lafourche and in Terrebonne Parish, included Marie Latitia in May 1841; Eugène Félix in November 1843; Ulys or Ulysse Jean Baptiste in December 1845; Bathilde Ezilia or Euselia, called Euselia, in Terrebonne Parish in January 1848; Adolphe in late 1848 but, called Adolph,died in Assumption Parish, age 5 months, in February 1849; Frank Benjamin baptized at Houma, age 3 months, in December 1849; Léo Adoisca born in November 1851; Marceline Arelina in April 1854; Élie Désiré in May 1856; Joseph Aurelien in January 1859; Aurelia Octavie in July 1863; ...  In October 1850, the federal census taker in Terrebonne Parish counted two slaves--a 20-year-old female and a 3-year-old male, both black--on Jean Bte. Bergeron's farm; this may have been Jean Baptiste, fils.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Terrebonne Parish counted five slaves--three males and two females, all black, ranging in age from 28 to 2, living in a single house--on J. B. Bergeron's farm in the parish's Fourth Ward; this may have been Jean Baptiste, fils.  Daughters Euselia, ... married into the Bergeron and Comeaux families by 1870.  One of Jean Baptiste, fils's sons also married by then. 

Second son Ulysse married fellow Acadian Joséphine Giroir in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in March 1867.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Lorence, perhaps a daughter, in January 1867; Elphége in March 1868; Rosalia Euselia in September 1870; ...  

Jean-Baptiste, père's younger son Célestin Vital married Marie Adeline, called Adeline, 16-year-old daughter of Jean Pierre Ledet and his Acadian wife Marie Josèphe Roger, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in October 1848, and sanctified the marriage at the Houma church in March 1855.  Their children, born on the southeastern bayous, included Marie Eveline or Evelina, called Evelina, in Terrebonne Parish in November 1849; Evelina Palmira in Lafourche Parish in December 1852; Rosalie in Terrebonne Parish in January 1855; Céleste Aurelie in December 1856 but, called Célestine Aurelie, died in Terrebonne Parish, at age 1 1/2 in July 1858; Eve Hortense born in February 1859; Ezélina Corine in August 1863; Hubin Ellis in March 1861; Ernest Cepin in October 1866; Marie Adelina in May 1869; ...  Daughter Evelina married a Bergeron cousin by 1870.  None of Célestin Vital's sons married by then. 

Charles le jeune's fourth son Alexandre, by first wife Marie Foret, married Marie Euphrosine, called Euphrosine dite Froisine, daughter of French Canadian Nicolas Bélanger and his Creole wife Marguerite Lejeune, at the Plattenville church in July 1817.  They evidently had lived together before their wedding, settling first on the upper bayou near the boundary between Assumption and Lafourche Interior parishes and then in Terrebonne Parish.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Euphrasie Marcellite, called Marcelitte, in September 1815; Céleste in August 1817; Léon Joikim or Joachim, also Jean Joachim, called Joachim, in August 1819; Eléonore in April 1821; Benjamin, also called Lomere or Homer, in c1823 and baptized at Thibodauxville, age 4, in December 1827; Éloise Julie, called Julie, born in January 1824; Charlesville or Charles in February 1828; Marie Froisine, Euphrosine, or Euphrosie, called Euphrosie, in October 1830; Cleborne or Claiborne Thomas in July 1833; and Marie Pauline, called Pauline, in October 1835--10 children, six daughters and four sons, between 1815 and 1835.  Alexandre died before October 1850, when the federal census taker in Terrebonne Parish counted six slaves--all females, all black except for one mulatto, ranging in age from 38 to 8--on Euphrosine Bergeron's farm; these probably were the slaves of Alexandre's widow, Euphrosine Bélanger.  In May 1852, a petition for Alexandre's succession inventory, naming his wife and listing his children, including some of their spouses--Marcellite and her husband, Joachim, Céleste and her husband, Lomer, Charles, Julie and her husband, Euphrosine and her husband, Pauline and her husband, and Clairborne--was filed at the Houma courthouse.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Terrebonne Parish counted 11 slaves--six males and five females, all mulattoes except for one black, ages 48 to 1, living in two houses--on Mrs. A. Bergeron's farm in the parish's Sixth Ward; again, these were Euphrosine Bélanger's slaves.  Daughters Marcellite, Céleste, Julie, Euphrosie, and Pauline married into the Babin, Robertson or Robinson, Loewenstein, and Duthu families, two of them to Babins and two of them to the same man, a Foreign-French Duthu, by 1870.  Alexandre's four sons also married by then, two of them to sisters. 

Oldest son Joachim married Eve Eveline, 17-year-old daughter of Hippolyte Chataignier and his Acadian wife Émelie Léocade Gautreaux, at the Houma church in February 1852.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included John Arthur in October 1856; Gemmy Bernard in August 1864; ...   

Alexandre's second son Homer, at age 40, married cousin Émilie Ada, daughter of Auguste Echete and Héloise Bélanger, at the Houma church in May 1863; one wonders if this was his first marriage.  Their son Joseph Alexis was born in Terrebonne Parish in January 1867; ...  Homer died in Terrebonne Parish in October 1870, in his late 40s.  A "Petition of inventory" in his name, calling his wife Émily Echete, was filed at the Houma courthouse later in the month.  

Alexandre's third son Charles married cousin Elfride, 20-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Léandre Crochet and Madeleine Bergeron, at the Houma church in May 1852.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Eve Victoire in July 1854 but, called Victoire Eve, died at age 4 1/2 in February 1859; Camillia Lurigna born in May 1858; Charles Léondre in September 1860; Mary Jane in July 1864; ...  None of Charles's children married by 1870. 

Alexandre's fourth and youngest son Claiborne Thomas married cousin Pauline Émilia or Émilia Pauline, another daughter of Auguste Echete and Héloise Bélanger, at the Houma church in February 1857.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Alexandre Ulysse in November 1857; Marie Augustin, probably Augustine, in May 1860; Joseph Claiborne in October 1862; Joseph Edween, probably Edwin, in March 1864; Joseph Ernest in May 1867; Marie Héloise in December 1869; ... 

Charles le jeune's sixth son Pierre Paul Rosémond, called Charles Rosémond and Rosémond, from second wife Victorie Marie Benoit, married Adélaïde Eulalie, called Eulalie, daughter of Pierre Seville or Silvy and his Acadian wife Cécile Boudreaux of Lafourche Parish, at the Plattenville church in June 1819.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Pierre Paul in c1820 and baptized at Thibodauxville, age 2, in September 1822; Cécile Victoire, perhaps also called Marie Cécile, born in October 1822; Charles Gédéon in c1825 and baptized at age 2 in June 1827; Marie Arthémise, called Arthémise, born in April 1828; Augustin dit Justin, in March 1831; Joseph in the 1830s; Jean Baptiste in March 1840; and Marie Adélaïde in June 1845--eight children, five sons and three daughters, between 1820 and 1845.  Rosémond died in Terrebonne Parish in January 1849, a widower probably in his early 50s  A petition for his succession inventory, giving his death date, calling him Rosémond, calling his wife Adélaïde Sylvie, noting her death (but gives no date when she died), and listing their remaining children, including a daughter's spouse--Marie Cécile and her husband, Charles, Marie Arthémise, Justin, Joseph, and Jean Baptiste--was filed at the Houma courthouse later in January.  A succession, calling him Charles Rosémond, not mentioning his wife, and listing his heirs, including spouses--Marie Cécile and her husband, Charles, Augustin [dit Justin], Marie Artémise, Joseph and Jean Baptiste--was filed at the Houma courthouse in October 1854.  Daughters Marie Cécile and Arthémise married into the Domingue and Guidry families by 1870.  Three of Rosémond's sons also married by then. 

Second son Charles Gédéon married Julie, 15-year-old daughter of Joachim Poché or Porche and his Acadian wife Théotiste Bourgeois, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in September 1847.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Marie Julia in August 1852; and Joseph le jeune in November 1858.  None of Charles Gédéon's children married by 1870. 

Pierre Paul Rosémond's third son Augustin dit Justin married Émilie, daughter of Henri Roddy and his Acadian wife Élisabeth dite Lise Hébert of Lafourche Parish, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in February 1854, and sanctified the marriage at the Houma church in April 1856.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Henri in November 1854; Lise Berthilda in November 1857; Marie Célestine in August 1860; and Jean Baptiste in May 1862.  Justin remarried to Marie Esther or Estelle, daughter of William Buford and his Acadian wife Marie Foret, at the Houma church in March 1864.  Their children, born near Montegut, included Marie Eveline in February 1865; Joseph Willey in November 1866; Jean Jimmy Washington in December 1868 but, called Jemmy, died near Montegut at age 9 months in September 1869; Adam Alidor born in August 1870; ... None of Justin's children married by 1870. 

Pierre Paul Rosémond's fourth son Joseph married Eveline, Evelina, or Velina, daughter of Jean Sylvère Baudoin and Estelle Bourgeois, a French Creole, not a fellow Acadian, of Lafourche Parish, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in July 1857, and sanctified the marriage at the Houma church in November 1859.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Marie Adélaïde in September 1859; Marguerite Evelia in April 1861; Virginie Berthille in January 1863; Odilia Émeline near Montegut in February 1865; Zoé Joséphine in February 1867; Marie Julia in October 1869; ...

Charles le jeune's seventh son Guillaume, by second wife Victorie Marie Benoit, married Marie, daughter of Gabriel Arceneaux, a French Canadian, not a fellow Acadian, and Catherine LeBoeuf of St. Charles Parish, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in June 1818.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie in April 1819; Carmélite Lucretia in November 1822; Pierre Telesfor or Telesphore, called Telesphore, in December 1827; Anne Alida in January 1830; Jean Léon, called Léon, in November 1831; Marcellin Léandre in October 1834; Victoire Lesida in October 1836; Catherine in July 1839; and Julia in c1842--nine children, six daughters and three sons, between 1819 and 1842.  Daughter Marie married into the Hébert family by 1870.  One of Guillaume's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Télésphore married fellow Acadian Élisa Boudreaux in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in September 1850.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Octave baptized at Houma, no age given, in September 1852; Marie Elisxdor, actually Élizisida, in July 1854; and Léon Alcide born in April 1857--three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1852 and 1857.  Wife Élisa may have died by June 1860, when she was not counted  in the federal census in Terrebonne Parish that year with Telesphore and their three children, who were living in his father's household, perhaps because Telesphore was widowered.  None of his and Élisa's children married by 1870. 

Charles le jeune's eighth son Jean Charles, called Charles, from second wife Victorie Marie Benoit, married, at age 20, 16-year-old Arthémise, also called Carmélite, another daughter of Gabriel Arceneaux and Catherine LeBoeuf, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1820, and recorded the marriage in Terrebonne Parish in June 1822.  Their children, born in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley, included Charles, also called Charles Ursin and Ursin, in June 1822; Pierre Octave, Orther, Hortaire, Hotard, or Arthur in April 1825; Carmélite in April 1827; Norbert in April 1829; Sylvère in November 1831; Susanne Celia in March 1835; Jean Washington or Washington Berger, called Washington, in January 1837; Hubert in January 1838; Jean Baptiste Crejus or Frejus, called Baptiste and Frejus, in February 1840; Théophile in September 1844[sic, probably earlier]; Marie Silvanie in October 1844[sic]; Aimé Victoire in May 1846; and Aubert Osémé in July 1849--13 children, nine sons and four daughters, between 1822 and 1849.  Daughters ... married into the Bonvillain and Marcel families by 1870.  Six of  Jean Charles's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Ursin, at age 23, married Adèle, 17-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Comeaux and Marguerite Crochet, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in June 1845, and sanctified the marriage at the Houma church in January 1851.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Thomas Adam at "Lau Bleu" in October 1848; Eve Ursule or Urselia, called Urselia, in January 1851; Marie Ada in September 1855; Jean Baptiste in May 1858; Henri Séraphin in December 1862; Joséphine Camilla in April 1865; Wily in July 1868; ...  Daughter Urselia married into the Maronge family by 1870.  None of Ursin's sons married by then. 

Jean Charles's second son Pierre Orther or Arthur married 18-year-old Émilie, another daughter of Jean Comeaux and Marguerite Crochet, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in February 1844, and sanctified the marriage at the Houma church in September 1849.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Robert in the mid- or late 1840s; Adam or Eubin Amédée, also called Jean Labin, in February 1849; Eve Olenda in February 1852; Rosémée Gilver in May 1854; Marie Octave in November 1856; and Palmira Evelina in October 1858.  Pierre Arthur remarried to Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadian Eléonore dit Léonor Crochet and his Creole wife Élise Pichoff, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in August 1860, and sanctified the marriage at the Houma church in June 1862.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Elzelina Emma in June 1861; Elvina Joséphine in August 1863; Honora Elizabeth in December 1865; Augustin Alexis in August 1869; ...  None of Pierre Arthur's daughters married by 1870, but two of his sons did. 

Oldest son Robert, by first wife Émilie Comeaux, married cousin Euselia, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Bergeron and Joséphine Pitre, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in September 1864, and sanctified the marriage at the Houma church in March 1870.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Ernestine in May 1867; Urbain in September 1869; Jean Baptiste Ernest in December 1869[sic]; ...  

Pierre Arthur's second son Adam, also called Eubin, from first wife Émilie Comeaux, married cousin Evelina, daughter of fellow Acadian Célestin Bergeron and his Creole wife Adeline Ledet, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in November 1868.  Daughter Olynda Eve was born near Montegut, Terrebonne Parish, in January 1870; ...

Jean Charles's third son Norbert married Eles, Helea, Helena, Lea, Leah, or Léoi, 19-year-old daughter of Jacques Bonvillain and his Acadian wife Émelie Crochet, at the Houma church in June 1852, on the same day and at the same place that Norbert's sister Susanne married Leah's brother Célestin.  Norbert and Leah's children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Adam in June 1854; Héloise Joséphine in September 1855; Erneste Henri Clay in February 1857; Aurelia Orestille in July 1859; Émilie Marguerite in Novembre 1860; Mathilde Emma in April 1862; Narcisse Myrtille in September 1864; ...  None of Norbert's children married by 1870. 

During the War of 1861-65, Jean Charles's fifth son Washington served in Company H of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Terrebonne Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  Washington married Edmire or Elmire, daughter of Adolphe Danion or Damien and his Acadian wife Marie Benoit, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in December 1863 while he was home awaiting exchange, and sanctified the marriage at the Houma church in January 1864 while still in Confederate service.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Joseph Charley in November 1864; Eusilien André in October 1868; ...   As the birth of his children attests, Washington survived the war and returned to this family. 

Jean Charles's seventh son Baptiste married Émeline, Émelina, or Melina, another daughter of  Léonor Crochet and Élise Pichoff, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in February 1859, and sanctified the marriage at the Houma church in May 1860.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Adam Baptiste in January 1860; Joseph Aurelien in April 1862; Laura Ernestine in August 1867; Eve Joséphine in September 1870; ...  

Jean Charles's eighth son Théophile married fellow Acadian Célina Pitre in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in February 1865. ...

Charles le jeune's ninth son Célestin, by second wife Victorie Marie Benoit, married Phelonise, also called Clonise, daughter perhaps of fellow Acadians Joseph Babin and Marguerite Gaudin dit Lincour of Lafourche Interior Parish, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in October 1824.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Séverine Marguerite, called Marguerite, in May 1825; Marie Séverine in the late 1820s; Marie Palmira, called Palmyra, in April 1828; Tresimond or Trasimond Cleborne or Claiborne, also Claiborne Trasimond, in May 1829; Thomas Felimond or Philemon, called Philemon, in January 1833; Charles Léon, called Léon, in May 1834; Matilde Fidelise in February 1837; Victoire in November 1838; Armélise Victorine in June 1840; Charles Émile, called Émile, in April 1842 but died at age 18 in July 1860; Joséphine born probably in the early 1840s; and Georges Célestin in June 1845--a dozen children, seven daughters and five sons, between 1825 and 1845.  Célestin's probate sale, naming his wife, Felonise, and their remaining children--Séverine Marguerite, Marie Palmira, Claiborne Trasimon, Thomas Philimon, Léon, Victoire, Armélize, Charles Émile, Joséphine, and "1 infant not yet named" [Georges Célestin?]--was held in Terrebonne Parish in January 1846.  Célestin would have been age 43 that year.  In November 1850, the federal census taker in Terrebonne Parish counted six slaves--three males and three females, all black, ranging in age from 35 to 2--on Felonise Bergeron's farm; these probably were Phelonise Babin's slaves.  Daughters Palmyra, Marie Séverine, and Victoire married into the Hébert, Bratten, and Luke families by 1870.  Two of Célestin's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Trasimond may have married Martha Shy in Terrebonne Parish in the mid-1850s.  Their children, born there, included Paul Wilson in c1856 and baptized at the Houma church, age 10 years, in June 1866; Mary Miny born in c1859 and baptized at the Houma church, age 7, in June 1866, the same day as her brother; ... 

Célestin's second son Philemon married Camillia or Cornelia, daughter of Théogène Marcel and his Acadian wife Survillia Chiasson, at the Houma church in April 1861.  Daughter Louisa Séverina was born in Terrebonne Parish in March 1862.  Philemon died by January 1864, when Cornelia remarried in Terrebonne Parish.  He would have been age 31 that year.  One wonders if his death was war-related. 

Charles le jeune's tenth and youngest son Marcellin Vital, by second wife Victorie Marie Benoit, married Julie Celie, Celisie, Cidloi, Cylois, Eulalie, Justine, Sidelie, Siglaie, or Silvie Bonvillain of St. Mary Parish in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in July 1833.  Their children, born there, included Marcellite Luvinia or Lavinia in May 1834; Uranie Émelia or Aurelie, called Aurelie, in January 1836; Arthur dit Arti in the 1830s; Marcellin Aristide in the 1830s; Charles le jeune in January 1839[sic]; Joseph Franclin or Franklin, also Franklin Joseph dit Frank, in March 1839; and Thérèse Renelia, perhaps also called Cornelia, in August 1840--seven children, three daughters and four sons, between 1834 and 1840.  Marcellin Vital died probably in Terrebonne Parish in November 1841.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial said that Marcelin, as he called him, was age 34 when he died.  He was 32.  He was "Buried in Cemetery in Terrebonne."  A petition for a family meeting, calling him Marcelin, his wife Julia Beal, and listing his children--Franklin, Arti, Cornelia, Marcellin Aristide, and Amelia--was filed at the Houma courthouse in April 1853.  Daughters Aurelie, Marcellite Lavinia, and Cornelia married into the Monsan, Bonvillain, and Antill families by 1870.  Three of Marcellin's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Arthur dit Arti married Marie Elvina, called Elvina, daughter of fellow Acadians Martin Hébert and Mathilde Dubois, at the Houma church in March 1860.  Their son Léonce Marcelin was born in Terrebonne Parish in January 1861; ...  

Marcellin's second son Marcellin Aristide married cousin Aurore Evelina, daughter of Aubert Bonvillain and Virginie Watkins, at the Houma church in January 1866.  Their children born in Terrebonne Parish, included Rémi Hasy Lawson in October 1866; Luly Emma in November 1869; ... 

Marcellin's fourth and youngest son Frank married Joséphine O., daughter of Joseph Perigeaux and Louisa Oram, at the Houma church in February 1859.  Daughter Emma Louisa was born in Terrebonne Parish in July 1861; ...

Augustin's second son Pierre followed his family to Ste.-Anne-du-Pay-Bas if he was not born there.  He evidently eluded the British on the river in 1758-59, when he would have been in his early 20s, and may have followed his family to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  He married fellow Acadian Geneviève Poitevin in c1760, place not given.  If it was on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, they may have followed his family into a prison compound in Nova Scotia, but they did not follow his parents and an older brother to Louisiana after the war.  They chose, instead, to return to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore before moving on to Gaspésie on the north side of the Baie des Chaleurs, if they had not been there since soon after their marriage.  British officials counted them at Miramichi on the Gulf of St. Lawrence, today's eastern New Brunswick, in 1776 and 1777; at Percé in Gaspésie in 1779; and at nearby Bonaventure soon after.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1770 and 1790, Geneviève gave Pierre seven children, three sons and four daughters.  Pierre died at Bonaventure in March 1823, in his late 80s.  One of his daughters married into the Allain and Cormier families at Bonaventure and nearby Paspébiac.  Two of his sons married into the Huard and Vienneau families at Bonaventure and nearby New Carlisle. 

Augustin's third and youngest son Charles-André followed his family to Ste.-Anne-du-Pay-Bas if he was not born there.  He evidently eluded the British on the river in 1758-59 with his family and may have followed them to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore and into the prison compound at Halifax.  If so, at war's end, he did not follow his parents and an older brother to Louisiana.  Instead, he may have followed brother Pierre back to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore before moving on to Canada, where he married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Poirier and Marie Gaudet of Chignecto, in c1771, place not given.  They settled at Nicolet on the upper St. Lawrence across from Trois-Rivières.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1772 and 1789, Madeleine gave Charles-André eight children, three sons and five daughters.  He died at St.-Grégoire-de-Nicolet in 1825, in his early 80s.  Three of his daughters married into the Bergeron and Bourg families at Nicolet.  Two of his sons married into the Desrosiers dit Darby, Bourque, and Thibodeau families at nearby St.-Grégoire. 

Barthélémy III (c1740-1765) à Barthélémy dit d'Amboise Bergeron

Barthémy III, third son of Barthélémy dit d'Amboise Bergeron, fils and Marguerite Dugas and nephew of Augustin, born probably at Ste.-Anne-du-Pay-Bas, Rivière St.-Jean, in c1740, evidently escaped the British on the river in 1758-59 and followed his family into exile and imprisonment.  He married Anne, daughter of Jean Arseneau and Anne-Marie Hébert and sister of his older brother Charles's wife Isabelle, probably at Halifax in c1762.  In 1764-65, they followed the Broussards from Halifax to Louisiana via Cap-Français, reaching New Orleans in late February.  Anne was pregnant on the voyage to Louisiana.  Son Charles-Henry was born either aboard ship or at La Balize or New Orleans in January or February 1765.  After a brief respite in New Orleans, Barthélémy, Anne, and their infant son followed the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche, with tragic result.  Both Barthélémy III, in his mid-20s, and his infant son died on the Teche in late October, victims of an epidemic that struck the settlement that summer and fall.  After the death of her loved ones, Anne, along with dozens of other Teche-valley Acadians, fled to Cabahannocer on the river, where many of her husband's kinsmen had settled.  She remarried to a LeBlanc at Cabahannocer in November 1767 and gave him many children.  Barthélémy's line of the family, however, died with him and his only son. 

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More Bergerons--including two widows, a wife, her two teenage half-sisters, three brothers, two of them married, and seven children, 15 members of the family in all--came to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français in 1765, but they did not follow the Broussards and their Bergeron kinsmen to lower Bayou Teche.  They settled, instead, in the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans, where, with their fleeing kinsmen from Bayou Teche, they created a lasting center of family settlement.  However, one branch of the family did not remain on the river but followed his kinsmen to upper Bayou Lafourche, where they helped create a new, much larger, center of Bergeron family settlement: 

Jean-Baptiste dit d'Amboise (c1722-?) à Barthélémy dit d'Amboise Bergeron

Jean-Baptiste dit d'Ambroise, oldest son of Barthélémy Bergeron dit d'Amboise, fils and Marguerite Dugas and brother of Barthélémy III, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1722, followed his family to Ste.-Anne-du-Pay-Bas on Rivière St.-Jean in the 1730s and married Marguerite Bernard, probably of Chignecto, on the river.  Marguerite gave Jean-Baptiste four children at Ste.-Anne-du-Pay-Bas:  Jean-Baptiste dit d'Amboise, fils born in c1750; Marie-Blanche in c1752; Marin in c1755; and Mathurin in c1756.  Like the rest of his family, Jean-Baptiste dit d'Ambroise and his family evidently escaped the British roundups on Rivière St.-Jean in 1758-59, took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, and surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the region in the early 1760s and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Jean-Baptiste dit d'Ambroise may have been the Jean Bergeron with a wife and four children who appeared on a repatriation list at Halifax in August 1763.  In 1764-65, he, Marguerite, their four children, his widowed mother, two brothers, a sister, and their families, along with dozens of other Acadians under Jean-Baptiste's leadership, emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français and settled at Cabahannocer.  Marguerite gave Jean-Baptiste two more children there:  Rosalie born in c1768; and Victoire baptized, age unrecorded, in January 1772--six children, three sons and three daughters, between 1750 and 1772, in greater Acadia and Louisiana.  Daughters Marie-Blanche, Rosalie, and Victoire married into the De St.-German de Gournondage, Arceneaux, and Gaudet families at Cabahannocer, and Marie-Blanche settled at New Orleans.  Two of Jean-Baptiste dit d'Ambroise's sons also married and settled in what became St. James Parish.  

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste dit d'Amboise, fils followed his family into exile, imprisonment, and to New Orleans and Cabahannocer, where he married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Forest and Rose-Osite Gautrot, in January 1775.  Marie also had been born in Acadia during exile and had come to Louisiana with her widowed mother probably from Maryland in the late 1760s.  The couple lived on the right, or west, bank of the river near the boundary between the Cabahannocer and Ascension districts.  Their children, born there, included Michel baptized at Cabahannocer, age unrecorded, in December 1775; Jean-Pierre baptized, age unrecorded, in February 1778; Marie-Charlotte baptized, age unrecorded, in January 1781; Marguerite-Clémence-Thimotea, called Clémence, born in January 1783; and Scholastique in c1792--five children, two sons and three daughters, between 1775 and 1792.  Jean-Baptiste, fils died at Cabahannocer in October 1801, age 50.  Marie did not remarry.  She died at son Michel's home in St. James Parish in October 1847.  The priest who recorded her burial said she was age 94 at the time of her death.  Daughters Clémence and Scholastique married into the Breaux, Simoneaux, and Landry families.  Only Jean-Baptiste, fils's older son created his own family.  He remained in what became St. James Parish and became a major planter there.  Most of Jean-Baptiste, fils's grandsons remained in St. James Parish, but one grandson moved upriver to Pointe Coupee, where few Acadians settled, and lived among his French-Creole namesakes there. 

Older son Michel married Marie or Marine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Landry and Françoise Blanchard, at Ascension in September 1796.  Their children, born on the river, included Jean-Michel-Vidal in August 1797 but died at age 1 in August 1798; Marie-Clémence-Émilie, called Marie-Émelie, born in February 1799; Marie-Godelive in January 1801; an infant son, name and age unrecorded, died at Cabahannocer in September 1802; and Marie Arthémise, called Arthémise, born in November 1803.  Michel, at age 44, remarried to first cousin Marguerite Constance or Constance Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Mathurin Bergeron and Marie Godin dit Bellefontaine, his uncle and aunt, and widow of Joseph Arceneaux, at the St. James church, St. James Parish, in August 1819.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included Evariste Désiré in October 1820; Michel Bienvenu, called Bienvenu, in July 1823; Marie Adeline baptized, age 2 months, in November 1825 but, called Marie Adelina, died "at parents' home," age 20 (the recording priest said 21), in September 1845; Jean Baptiste Telesphore born in December 1827; and Marie Emélite or Amelie in November 1832--10 children, five sons and five daughters, by two wives, between 1797 and 1832.  Michel became a major planter in St. James Parish.  He died there in January 1850, age 74.  In July 1850, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted 56 slaves--35 males and 21 females, all black, ranging in age from 60 years to infancy--on Widow Michel Bergeron's plantation next to Bienvenu Bergeron's and J. B. Bergeron's farms in the parish's eastern district; these were Constance Bergeron's slaves.  Daughters Marie Émilie, Arthémise, and Marie Amelie, by both wives, married into the Breaux and Arceneaux families.  Three of Michel's sons also married on the river, and one of them settled in a river community where few other Acadians lived but where Bergeron Creoles proliferated. 

Third son Evariste Désiré, by second wife Constance Bergeron, married Julie Aglaé, daughter of François Vincent Bouis and Hélène Croiset, at the Pointe Coupee church, Pointe Coupee Parish, in February 1851.  Their son Bouis Albert was born in Pointe Coupee Parish in April 1852 and may not have married by 1870.  Evariste and his family were among the few Acadians who settled in Pointe Coupee. 

Michel's fourth son Michel Bienvenu, called Bienvenu, from second wife Constance Bergeron, married Marie Séraphine, called Séraphine, minor daughter of Carmélite Green, at the St. James church in September 1842.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included Michel Bienvenu, fils in October 1844; Jean Baptiste Fulgence, called Fulgence, in December 1845; Marie Adèle Carmélisse in November 1847, but, called Carmélite, died at age 3 1/2 (the recording priest said 3 1/2 months) in June 1851; Anne Honorine born in January 1849 but died at age 1 in March 1849; Marie Léontine born in January 1850; Joseph Clément in September 1851; Marie Monique Amélie in May 1853; Luc Félix, called Félix, in November 1854; and Marie Louisa in April 1856--nine children, four sons and five daughters, between 1844 and 1856.  In July of 1850, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted two slaves--a 30-year-old male and a 17-year-old female, both black--on Bienvenu Bergeron's farm next to Widow Michel Bergeron and J. B. Bergeron in the parish's eastern district.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted five slaves--two males and three females, all black, ranging in age from 24 years to 10 months, living in two houses--on Bienvenu Bergeron's farm in the parish's Ninth Ward on the right bank of the river.   None of Bienvenu's remaining daughters married by 1870, but two of his sons did. 

During the War of 1861-65, oldest son Michel Bienvenu, fils served in Gaudet's Company of the St. James Parish Regiment Militia, and in Company E of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. James Parish, which fought in Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana.  He survived the war, retunred to his family, and married fellow Acadian Uranie Gaudet, place and date unrecorded.  Daughter Marie Amélie was born in St. James Parish in July 1870; ... 

Bienvenu's second son Fulgence married fellow Acadian Mathilde Dugas at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in November 1869.  Their son Joseph Louis was born in Ascension Parish in September 1870; ...

Michel's fifth and youngest son Jean Baptiste Télésphore, by second wife Constance Bergeron, married Marie Laurena, daughter of fellow Acadians Édouard Breaux and Rosalie Clouâtre, at the St. James church in January 1847.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included Marie Adelina Constance in June 1849 but, called Marie Constantine, died at age 2 in May 1851; Marie Archange Désiré, perhaps a son, born in July 1851 but, called Marie Archangel Désiré, died at age 2 in September 1853; Marie Or. Eve born in October 1853 but, called Marie Or. Laurenza, died in early November; Marie Élisabeth Irma born in November 1854; Marie Constance Joséphine in November 1859; Marie Alice in January 1862; Louise Blanche in October 1864; Jean Baptiste Édouard in August 1867; Charles Bienvenu in January 1870; ...  In July 1850, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted a single slave--a 20-year-old black male--on J. B. Bergeron's farm next to Widow Michel Bergeron and Bienvenu Bergeron in the parish's eastern district.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted only a single slave--a 25-year-old black female--on J. B. Bergeron's farm in the parish's Ninth Ward on the right bank of the river; this was Jean Baptiste Télésphore.  None of his surviving children married by 1870. 

Jean-Baptiste dit d'Amboise, père's second son Marin followed his family into exile, imprisonment, and to New Orleans and Cabahannocer.  He was still living with his parents there in March 1779, when he would have been in his early or mid-20s.  He probably did not marry.

Jean-Baptiste dit d'Amboise, père's third and youngest son Mathurin followed his family into exile, imprisonment, and to New Orleans and Cabahannocer, where he married first cousin Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Bonaventure Godin dit Bellefontaine and his second wife Marguerite Bergeron dit d'Amboise, his uncle and aunt, in the early 1780s.  Marie also was a native of Rivière St.-Jean and had come to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer, included Joseph in c1783; Marie-Constance or Constance-Marie in the 1780s; Émilite in the 1780s; Marie-Justine in May 1786; Marguerite in September 1787; and Euphrosine in June 1794--six children, a son and five daughters, between 1783 and 1794.  Mathurin died in St. James Parish in April 1814, age 58.  Daughters Marie Constance, Émilite, Marie Justine, and Euphrosine married into the Arceneaux, Bergeron, Gourdain, Bourgeois, and Serre families.  Mathurin fathered only one son, but the son's line endured in St. James Parish.  

Only son Joseph married cousin Constance, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Gaudin, also Godin, and Marie Madeleine Foret, at the St. James church in August 1812.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included Joseph, fils in May 1813 but died at age 3 in 1817; Timothée born in August 1814; Marie in March 1816; and another Joseph, fils posthumously in December 1817--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1813 and 1817.  Joseph, père died in St. James Parish in September 1817, age 34.  Daughter Marie married into the Gaudet family.  One of his sons also married. 

Third son Joseph, fils married cousin Marie Marine, daughter of fellow Acadians Donat Breaux and Marie Godelive Bergeron, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in April 1839; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included Joseph Mathurin in September 1840; Michel Rémi in February 1842; a "newly born child," name unrecorded, "privately baptized," died in October 1843; Jean Baptiste Alfred born in September 1844; Marie Aglaé in October 1846; and Marie Anne Julia in November 1848--six children, at least three sons and two daughters, between 1840 and 1848.  Joseph, fils's daughters did not marry by 1870, but one of his sons did. 

Second son Michel Rémi married cousin Alice, daughter of fellow Acadians Evariste Louvière and Mathilde LeBlanc, at the Convent church in April 1869; they had to secure a dispensation for fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry. ...

Charles (c1728-c1766) à Barthélémy dit d'Amboise Bergeron

Charles, second son of Barthélémy Bergeron dit d'Amboise, fils and Marguerite Dugas, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1728, followed his family to Ste.-Anne-du-Pay-Bas on lower Rivière St.-Jean in the 1730s.  He married Isabelle, daughter of Jean Arseneau and Anne-Marie Hébert of Chignecto, probably at Ste.-Anne in the late 1740s or early 1750s; Charles's younger brother Bathélémy III married Isabelle's sister Anne.  Isabelle gave Charles a son, Simon, born at Ste.-Anne in c1753.  Like the other Bergerons, Charles and his family escaped the British roundups on Rivière St.-Jean in 1758-59, took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, and surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the region and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Isabelle gave Charles two more children probably at Halifax:  Jean-Théodore, called Théodore, born in c1762; and Marguerite in c1763--three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1753 and 1763.  In 1764-65, they followed brother Jean-Baptiste dit d'Amboise to Louisiana and also settled at Cabahannocer.  Charles died there in c1766, age 38, soon after the family's arrival.  Isabelle also died there that year.  Relatives raised their children, who were ages 13, 4, and 3 when their parents passed.  Daughter Marguerite married into the Melançon family in the Attakapas District west of the Atchafalaya Basin but returned to the river.  Older son Simon died at Cabahannocer before December 1767, in his early teens.  His younger brother created a robust family line in the colony, first on the river and then on Bayou Lafourche.

Younger son Jean-Théodore, called Théodore, followed his family to New Orleans and Cabahannocer, where he married Théotiste, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Forest and Marie-Josèphe Landry, in February 1786.  Théotiste was a native of Cabahannocer whose parents had come to the colony from Maryland in 1766.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer, included Théotiste in August 1788; Scholastique in October 1791; Simon-Pierre or Pierre-Simon in October 1793; Jean- or Pierre-Ursin, called Ursin, in April 1796; Benjamin in November 1799; and Édouard in January 1803 but died at age 1 in February 1804.  Théodore, at age 51, remarried to Constance, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Bourgeois and Rosalie LeBlanc and widow of François Régis Part, at the St. James church, St. James Parish, in October 1815.  Constance was a native of St. James Parish.  In the late 1810s, Théodore became part of the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche, where he joined his many cousins.  His older children followed.  His and Constance's children, born on the river and the upper Lafourche, included Marie Silvanie or Sylvanie, called Sylvanie, near Convent, St. James Parish, in October 1816; Marie Adèle, called Adèle, in Assumption Parish in March 1819; and Marie Séraphine, called Séraphine, in Lafourche Interior Parish in November 1822--nine children, five daughters and four sons, by two wives, between 1788 and 1822.  Théodore died in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1832.  The Thibodauxville priest who recorded the burial said that Théodore was age 78 when he died.  He was 70.  A petition for succession inventory, naming his wives and some of his children--Sylvanie, age 15; Adèle, age 13; Séraphine, age 10; Théotiste, now deceased, and her husband; Simon; Ursin; and Benjamin--was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse in December 1832.  Daughters Théotiste, Marie Silvanie, Adèle, and Marie Séraphine, by both wives, married into the Boudreaux, Toups, Champagne, and Autin families.  Three of Théodore's sons also married.  The middle son settled near the river in Ascension Parish, but the oldest and youngest sons remained on Bayou Lafourche.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Lafourche Interior Parish counted three slaves--a 60-year-old male, a 52-year-old female, and a 13-year-old male, all black--on Widow T. Bergeron's farm in the Cotan area of the parish; these probably were Constance Bourgeois's slaves. 

Oldest son Simon Pierre or Pierre Simon, by first wife Théotiste Foret, married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Mathurin LeBlanc and Rosalie Theriot, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in August 1814.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Pierre Désiré, called Désiré, in December 1818; Madeleine Irma, called Irma, in October 1820; Élise in September 1823; Joseph Laurence, called Laurence, in November 1825; Jean Adolphe in April 1829 but, called Adolphe, died in Lafourche Parish, age 35 (the recording priest said 38), in December 1864 (one wonders if his death was war-related); Adèle Elmire born in September 1830; Valfroid Michel or Michel Valfroi, called Valfroi, in December 1832; Odile in December 1835; and Théoliste Émilie, called Émilie or Émelie, in April 1840--nine children, four sons and five daughters, between 1818 and 1832.  Simon Pierre died in Lafourche Parish in July 1861.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial said that Simon was age 71.  He was 67.  Daughters Madeleine Irma, Adèle Elmire or Odile, and Émelie married into the Robichaux, Guillot, and Richard families.  Three of Simon's sons also married, but not all  of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Pierre Désiré, called Désiré, married Marie Uranie, called Uranie, daughter of Paul Grabert and his Acadian wife Marie Madeleine Gaudin, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in May 1843.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Pierre Laurence in August 1845 but, called Lourence, died at age 19 in February 1865 (one wonders if his early death was war-related); Marie Edmire born in March 1848; Marguerite Aymé in November 1849; Joseph in March 1852; Philomène Emma in March 1854; Honorine Louisiane in February 1856; Marie Anasthasie in February 1858; Marguerite Amanda in January 1860; ...  None of Désiré's children married by 1870. 

Simon Pierre's second son Joseph Laurence, called Laurance, married Marie Éloise, Léonie, or Louise, another daughter of Paul Grabert and Marie Madeleine Gaudin, at the Thibodaux church in February 1849.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joseph Octave in January 1851 but, called Octave, died in October 1853, age 2 1/2, "during [a] yellow fever epidemic"; Joseph died at age 2 months in December 1853; Evemot, a daughter, baptized at Thibodaux, no age given, in 1854 (probably January) but, called Ema Eve, died in Lafourche Parish, age 4 weeks, in late January 1854, probably soon after her baptism--three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1851 and 1854, none of whom survived childhood.  Laurence died in Lafourche Parish in August 1855.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial said that Laurence was age 27 when he died.  He was 29.  His wife remarried to another Acadian Bergeron.  

Simon Pierre's fourth son Michel Valfroi married Philomène, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Gautreaux and his Creole wife Scholastique Peltier of Assumption Parish, at the Thibodaux church in April 1855.  Their children, born on the Lafourche and in Terrebonne Parish, included Marie in January 1856 but died at age 2 1/2 in October 1858; Agnès Malvina born in September 1857; Joseph Numa in April 1859; Philippe Cléophas in January 1861; Simon Alcide in August 1862; Marie Louise in August 1863; Philomène Lucile in November 1865; Marie Émelie in February 1868; Valérie Odille near Chacahoula in October 1870; ...  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Lafourche Parish counted a single slave--a 15-year-old black female--on Valfroid Bergeron's farm in the parish's Seventh Ward.  

Théodore's second son Ursin, by first wife Théotiste Foret, married Léocade, daughter of Michel Migott or Migou and his Acadian wife Rosalie Hébert, at the Convent church in July 1814.  They followed his family to upper Bayou Lafourche in the late 1810s, but they did not remain there.  They were living in Ascension Parish, probably on the river, in the1820s.  Their children, born on the river and the bayou, included Jean Félicien, called Félicien, near Convent in May 1817; Marie Émelie in Ascension Parish in September 1820; Jean in May 1825; Joseph Arsène, called Arsène, in June 1828; Marie Odile in June 1829; Marie Elmire in March 1831; and Étienne Rahul, Reul, or Riul in June 1835--seven children, four sons and three daughters, between 1817 and 1835.  Ursin died in Ascension Parish in November 1845, age 49.  Ursin's daughters married into the Sanches and Warner families by 1870.  His four sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Félicien, at age 37, married Julienne, daughter of fellow Acadians Casimir Boudreaux and Marie Landry, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in February 1854.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Joseph Prosper in February 1855; Joseph Lucien died 11 days after his birth in July 1856; Joseph Félicien born in March 1858; Marie Victoria in January 1861; and Joseph Butler in November 1862--five children, four daughters and a son, between 1855 and 1862.  Félicien died in Ascension Parish in August 1863, age 46  (the recording priest said 47).  None of his children married by 1870. 

Ursin's second son Jean, at age 35, married Constance, daughter of Isleños Creoles Raphaël Hernandez and Marie Hidalgo, at the Donaldsonville church in May 1857.  Their son Jean, fils was born in Ascension Parish in July 1858.  Jean, père died in Ascension Parish in November 1863, age 38.  Was his death war-related? 

Ursin's third son Joseph Arsène, called Arsène, married Octavie, daughter of fellow Acadians Zéphirin Melançon and Marie Farelitte Bourgeois, at the Donaldsonville church in January 1852.  Their son Pierre Léo was born in Ascension Parish in February 1853 but, called Pierre Théodose, died at age 7 months the following October.  Arsène likely remarried to fellow Acadian Marthe Élise, called Élise, Élisa, and Élisabeth LeBlanc at the Donaldsonville church in April 1857.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Joseph Samuel in January 1858; Justin Olivius in September 1868; Marie Alice in August 1760 but, called Alice, died at age 7 months in March 1861; Marie Olympe born in December 1861 but, called Olympe, died at age 10 months in November 1862; Evella born in c1862 but died at age 2 in September 1864; Marguerite born in December 1863; another Marguerite in August 1865; ...  Arsène died in Ascension Parish in March 1870.  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 ca. 35 years."  Joseph Arsène would have been 41.  None of his surviving children married by 1870. 

Ursin's fourth and youngest son Étienne Ruel married Virginia or Virginie, daughter of Antoine Gomes and Constance Hernandez, at the Donaldsonville church in August 1859.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Ursin le jeune in October 1861 but died at age 1 in October 1862; Adam Constant born in October 1863 but, called Adam, died at age 3 in October 1866; Jean le jeune born in December 1865; François Armand in March 1868; Joseph Léon in June 1870; ...

Théodore's third son Benjamin, by first wife Théotiste Foret, married Marie Célesie, daughter of Louis Dué and Célesie Richau of St. Charles and Lafourche Interior parishes, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1820.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Scholastique dite Colastie in November 1821; Benjamin Ludger, called Ludger and Ulgère, in May 1823; Marie Avelina in January 1825; Louis Armogène in c1826 or 1827 but died at age 10 in January 1837; Jean Adélard, called Adélard, born in c1829; Adam in October 1830; Pierre Émile in August 1832; Adolphe Amédée in January 1834; Émelie Honnorinne in June 1834[sic]; Marie Zoée in April 1838; Marie Matilde in January 1841; and Louis Oleus in August 1842--a dozen children, five daughters and seven sons, between 1821 and 1842.  Daughter Colastie married into the Cantrelle family by 1870.  Two of Benjamin's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Ludger or Ulgère married Adeline, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexis Lejeune and Marie Marguerite Thibodeaux, at the Thibodaux church in September 1845.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Charles Joseph in December 1847; and Louis Auguste in November 1849 but, called Louis Oleus, died at age 10 months in September 1850.  Ludger remarried to Victorine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph F. Richard and Elisa Landry, at the Thibodaux church in January 1854.  Their children, born in Lafourche Parish, included Théophile in January 1856; Élisa Lydia in November 1864; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Ludger served as fifth sergeant in Company D of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafourche Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  He survived the war and returned to his family. 

Benjamin's sixth son Jean Adélard, called Adélard, became a cooper.  He married at age 26, Adèle, 16-year-old daughter of Joseph Munson and his Acadian wife Marie Daigle, at the Thibodaux church in September 1855.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Clothilde, called Clothilde, in July 1856; Gertrude Euphémie, called Euphémie, in May 1858; Emma Modeste in June 1859; Charles Lucien, called Lucien, in November 1860; Cécile Eugénie in July 1862; Edwige Adèle Philomène in December 1863; and Marie Émelie in September 1865--seven children, six daughters and a son, between 1856 and 1865.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Lafourche Parish noted that Adelard was illiterate, worked as a cooper in the parish's Seventh Ward, and owned $700 worth of real property and $700 of personal property.  A petition for tutorship for his children--Euphémie, Emma, Lucien, Cécile, Adèle, and Émelie--that called his wife Adèle Monson, was filed in Adélard's name at the Thibodaux courthouse, Lafourche Parish, in July 1866.  He would have been in his late 30s at the time.  If the petition for tutorship was post-mortem, as it usually was, one wonders why Adélard died so young.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Germain (c1743-1790s) à Barthélémy dit d'Amboise Bergeron

Germain, fourth and youngest son of Barthélémy Bergeron dit d'Amboise, fils and Marguerite Dugas, born probably at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas on Rivière St.-Jean in c1743, evidently escaped the British on Rivière St.-Jean in 1758-59 and followed his family into exile and imprisonment and his widowed mother and married siblings to New Orleans and Cabahannocer, where he married Marie-Marguerite, called Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Bénoni LeBlanc and Marguerite Hébert, in May 1768.  In the late 1780s or early 1790s, they moved to upper Bayou Lafourche, where they helped create a new center of family settlement.  Their children, born on the river and the bayou, included Marie-Élisabeth of -Isabelle probably at Cabahannocer in the early 1770s; Jean-Louis in c1772; Marie baptized, age unrecorded, in October 1774; Marie-Susanne, called Susanne, baptized, age unrecorded, in September 1778; Geneviève-Rosalie baptized, age unrecorded, in December 1780; Jean-Charles-Germain, called Germain, fils, born probably at Ascension in c1786; Auguste- or Augustin-Béloni in October 1788; and François-Joseph in October 1790--eight children, four sons and four daughters, between 1772 and 1790.  Germain, père died on the upper Lafourche by November 1796, when his wife remarried there.  Daughters Isabelle and Susanne married into the Gautreaux and Metra families.  Two of Germain's sons also married and created vigorous lines in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley.  In the 1850s, one of Germain's grandsons settled on lower Bayou Teche, perhaps the only member of the family to settle west of the Atchafalaya Basin during the antebellum period. 

Second son Jean Charles Germain, also called Germain, fils, married Marie Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Doiron and Anne Josèphe Breaux, at Assumption in April 1805.  Their children, born on the bayou, included Élise in August 1807; Alexis Valéry, called Valéry and Valère, in March 1809; Adeline Henriette or Henriette Adeline in June 1810; Jean Pierre, called Pierre, in June 1812; Théodule in c1814; Evariste Cyprien in February 1817; Justin Sixte in August 1818; Eusèbe Eusilien in December 1820 but, called Uzelien, died "during [a] yellow fever epidemic" in Lafourche Parish, age 32 (the recording priest said 26), in September 1853; Jean Baptiste born in May 1821; Auguste or Augustin Magloire in March 1823 but died in Lafourche Interior Parish, age 25, in January 1849; and Germain III, also called Charles Germain, born in October 1824--11 children, two daughters and nine sons, between 1807 and 1824.  Germain, fils died in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1824, age 38.  A petition for his succession inventory, naming his wife and children--Alexis Valère, age 15 1/2; Henriette Adelene, age 14 1/2; Jean Pierre, age 12 1/2; Théodule, age 10 1/2; Evariste, age 8; Uselien age 5; Jean Baptiste, age 4 1/2; Augustin, age 2; and Germain, 4 months--was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse in January 1825.  Daughter Adeline Henriette married into the Gros family.  Five of Germain, fils's sons also married. 

Oldest son Alexis Valéry, called Valéry and Valère, married Rosalie Basilise, daughter of fellow Acadians Martin Thibodeaux and Anne Marguerite Dugas, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in January 1837.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Hubald Hermengild, called Huberville or Hubertville, in January 1838; Olfida in December 1839 but, called Rosalie Alfreda, died at age 3 1/2 (the recording priest said 4) in September 1843; Valsin Théodose born in January 1842; Joseph Trasimond in November 1843; Marie Evelina, called Evelina, in October 1845; Philomène in October 1847; Aminville or Erminville perhaps in the 1840s; Marie Angelina, called Angelina, near Labadieville, Assumption Parish, in May 1849; Azélie Victorine October 1851; Evariste Vileor in October 1853; and Uselien Justilien in September 1855 but, called Euzelien, died at age 2 in December 1857--11 children, six sons and five daughters, between 1838 and 1855.  Daughters Evelina, Angelina, and Philomène married into the Naquin, Portier, and Barrilleaux families by 1870.  Two of Valéry's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Huberville married Élise Marcel in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in April 1860.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Marie Reine in April 1861; Séverine in February 1863; Hubertville, fils in April 1866; Marie Eugénie in August 1868; Evelia Camilla in November 1869; ...  

Valéry's fourth son Erminville married Marie Passiana or Pationaire, daughter of Célestin Close and Léodile Bourgeois, perhaps a fellow Acadian, at the Chacahoula church, Terrebonne Parish, in April 1864 while he was serving in Company F of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Terrebonne Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  Daughter Antoinette Amélie was born near Chacahoula in January 1865, so he likely survived the war and returned to his family; ...   

Germain, fils's second son Jean Pierre, called Pierre, married Rosalie, also called Adèle, daughter of Joseph Ayo and his Acadian wife Adélaïde Naquin, at the Thibodaux church in July 1839.  Their son Joseph was born near Raceland on the lower Lafourche in September 1854; ...  

Germain, fils's third son Théodule married Pauline Célesie, called Célesie, daughter of fellow Acadian Paul Valentin Boudreaux and his Creole wife Catherine Berthelot, at the Thibodaux church in October 1849.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Omer Valmont near Labadieville, Assumption Parish, in February 1851; Marie Laura in October 1852; Joseph Oleus in Lafourche Parish in April 1854; Jean Baptiste in April 1856; Joseph Silvaire in March 1858; Victor Adolphe in February 1860; Oceana Philomène in February 1863; ...  None of Théodule's children married by 1870. 

Germain, fils's seventh son Jean Baptiste married Cléonise Estelle, daughter of Hyacinthe Rousseau and his Acadian wife Rosalie Delaune, at the Thibodaux church in May 1842.  They lived on the upper bayou near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Euphrosine Adolphine, called Adolphine, in June 1843; Jean Baptiste Homère in December 1844; Pierre Franklin, called Franklin, in November 1846; Marie Félicia in October 1853; Philomène Rosalie in May 1855; Joseph Ernest in December 1861; ...  Daughter Adolphine married into the Legendre family by 1870.  One of Jean Baptiste's sons also married by then, perhaps after his war service. 

During the War of 1861-65, second son Franklin may have served in Company I of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafourche Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  If so, he survived the war, returned to his family, and married Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexis Célestin Benoit and Marie Rosalie Clément, at the Thibodaux church in May 1868. ...

Germain, fils's ninth and youngest son Germain III, also called Charles Germain, married Marie Clorene, daughter of Valéry Exnicios and his Acadian wife Marie Marcellite Roger, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1850.  They moved down to Terrebonne Parish after the war.  Their children, born on the Lafourche and in Terrebonne Parish, included Ernest Onésime near Labadieville in April 1851; Azélia Joséphine in Lafourche Parish in January 1854; Célestine Aglée in December 1855; Marie Émelie in May 1857; Émelia in July 1860; Lucia Emissia near Chacahoula in Terrebonne Parish in November 1861; Marie Adrienne in September 1864; Elwige in June 1866; Joseph Hectorne in August 1868; Marie Virginie in December 1870; ...  In August 1860, the federal census taker in Lafourche Parish counted a single slave--a 41-year-old black female--on Germain Bergeron's farm in the parish's First Ward; this was Germain III.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Germain, père's third son Auguste- or Augustin Béloni married Françoise Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Theriot and Françoise Guérin, at Ascension in July 1806.  Their children, born on the upper bayou, included Norbert in June 1807; Sélanie Marie in October 1809 but died at age 1 in November 1810; Édouard born in April 1812; Zénon Théodule in October 1814; Auguste, fils in October 1816 but died 15 days after his birth; Marguerite died at birth in July 1818; Ferdinand Jule, called Jules, born in November 1819; Joseph Auguste in September 1823 but, called Auguste, died at age 2 in October 1825; and Rosémond Janville born in January 1826--nine children, seven sons and two daughters, between 1807 and 1826.  Auguste Bénoni died in Assumption Parish in May 1833.  The Plattenville priest who recorded the burial said that Auguste was age 48 when he died.  He was 44.  Neither of his daughters survived childhood.  Five of his sons married and settled on the upper Lafourche.  One of them was perhaps the only Acadian Bergeron who settled west of the Atchafalaya Basin during the antebellum period. 

Oldest son Norbert married Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Delaune and his German Creole wife Hyacinthe Michel, at the Plattenville church in May 1830.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Mathilde Euphrasie in February 1831; Fulcien or Lucien Honoré in December 1832; Irma Marie in September 1834; Marie Clémentine in April 1837; Laisin Augustin in May 1839 but, called Lesin, died at age 5 in September 1844; Omer Auguste born in December 1840; Dubregny Norbert or Norbert Dubregny in December 1842; Aurelien Désiré in January 1845; Désiré Ciprien or Cyprien in July 1847; and Odile Philomène in March 1849 but died at age 1 1/2 in October 1850--10 children, four daughters and six sons, between 1831 and 1849.  In July 1850, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted four slaves--a male and three females, all black, ranging in age from 40 years to 7 months--on Norbert Bergeron's farm in the parish's Second Congressional District.  Norbert died in Assumption Parish in March 1851, age 43.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted five slaves--one male and four females, two blacks and three mulattoes, ranging in age from 27 years to 3 months, living in a single house--on Widow Norbert Bergeron's farm in Ward 6 along the bayou; these were Azélie Delaune's slaves.  Her and Norbert's daughters married into the Cancienne family by 1870.  Three of Norbert's sons also married by then and settled on the upper Lafourche.  At least three of his sons served the Southern Confederacy in uniform, one of them at the cost of his life. 

During the War of 1861-65, oldest son Lucien served as a conscript in Company B of the 1st Regiment Louisiana Heavy Artillery, which was composed of dozens of fellow Acadian conscripts from Assumption Parish that fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  Like many of his fellow conscripts from Assumption, Lucien did not survive the war.  He was reported "sick in quarters" for much of his time at Vicksburg and died probably at City Hospital there, of disease, in May 1863, age 31.  He did not marry. 

During the war, Norbert's third son Omer Auguste likely served in Company C of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Assumption Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  After being captured and paroled at Vicksburg in July 1863, Omer Auguste went home to await exchange.  After his exchange, he was captured at Grand Lake, Louisiana, in July 1864 and spent the rest of the war in a series of Federal prisoner-of-war camps at Ship Island, Mississippi, Fort Columbus, New York Harbor, and in the notorious compound at Elmira in upstate New York.  Unlike hundreds of his fellow Confederates who died in the squalor of Elmira, Omer Auguste survived his ordeal there and returned to his family.  He married Evella, daughter of fellow Acadians Edmond Blanchard and Marie Bathilde Talbot, at the Attakapas Canal church, Assumption Parish, in February 1868.  Their son Arthur Maurice Ernest was born in Assumption Parish in July 1869; ... 

During the war, Norbert's fourth son Dubregny served in Company C of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry with older brother Omer Auguste.  He, too, was captured and paroled at Vicksburg in July 1863 and went home to await exchange.  After his exchange, he was captured at Grand Lake, Louisiana, in July 1864 and spent the rest of the war in a series of Federal prisoner-of-war camps at Ship Island, Mississippi, Fort Columbus, New York Harbor, and at Elmira, New York.  He also survived his ordeal there and returned to his family.  He married Zulmée or Zulma Gilbert at the Labadieville church in February 1867.  Their son Noe Renault Wuilly was born near Labadieville in October 1869; ... 

Norbert's fifth son Aurelien Désiré married cousin Léontine, daughter of fellow Acadian François Delaune and his Creole wife Azélie Colonne, at the Labadieville church in February 1869; they had to secure a dispensation for an unrecorded degree of consanguinity in order to marry. ...

Auguste Bélonie's second son Édouard married Anne Pélagie, called Pélagie, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Boudreaux and Ursule Olive Doiron, at the Thibodauxville church in September 1834.  Their chldren, born on the Lafourche, included Édouard Jean, called Desédouard and Desed, in August 1835; Émile Joseph in April 1837; Ozémie Dozilienne, perhaps a daughter, in November 1839 but, called Ozémé, died at age 9 1/2 (the recording priest said 8) in March 1849; Jule or Jules born in January 1842 but, called Jules Escular (Skuyler, likely Schulyer), died the following September; Olésiphore born in April 1845; Joseph Augustin in September 1847; Alfred in October 1850; and a son, name and age unrecorded, died in January 1856--eight children, seven sons and a daughter, between 1835 and 1856.  Two of Édouard's sons married by 1870, and both served the Southern Confederacy in uniform. 

Oldest son Desédouard dit Desed married Marcellite, daughter of Ursin Falteman and Céleste Bergeron, perhaps a fellow Acadian, which would make the couple cousins, at the Attakapas Canal church in September 1859.  Their children, born near Attakapas Canal, included Joseph Thelor in August 1859, the month before his parents' wedding; Victor born in July 1861; André Anatole in December 1865; Dutereil or Utrel died at age 7 months in October 1867; Joséphine Oscarine Ema in February 1868; Oscar Valentine in February 1870; ...  During the war, Desédouard, called Desedore in Confederate records, served in Company H of the 2nd Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, raised in Assumption Parish, which fought in Louisiana.  As the birth of some of his children, testify, he survived the war and returned to his family. 

During the war, Édouard's second son Émile, with two of his first cousins, served in Company C of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Assumption Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  Like his cousins, he survived his service and returned to his family.  Émile married Oceana, daughter of fellow Acadians Trasimond Roger and Antoinette dite Manette Comeaux, at the Plattenville church in June 1865.  A child, perhaps theirs, died a day after his/her birth in Assumption Parish in December 1866.  Wife Oceana died the day their child died, so she evidently died from the rigors of childbirth.  Émile remarried to Mathilde, daughter of fellow Acadians Faustin Amand Blanchard and Clarisse Breaux, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in November 1868.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Armand Laurent in September 1869 but died two days after his birth; twins Emma Berthe and an unnamed son born in December 1870, but the son died three days after his birth; ...

Auguste Bélonie's third son Zénon Théodule married Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Barrilleaux and Françoise Landry, at the Plattenville church in December 1835.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Eugène Amédée in November 1836; a newborn, name unrecorded, died in February 1838; Émile Théodule born in July 1839; Désiré Léon in July 1841; Eulise or Ulysse Gustave in November 1843; Eugénie Amelia in August 1846; Pierre in February 1849; Euzelien Vela in May 1851; twins Justinien Olefin and Lucien Félicien in May 1854; and Cléophas Anatole in July 1856--11 children, at least nine sons and a daughter, including a set of twins, between 1836 and 1856.  Daughter Eugénie married into the Dodman family by 1870.  Two of Zénon's sons also married by then, one of them after his war service. 

Oldest son Eugène married Roséma, daughter of fellow Acadians Urbain Daigle and Doralise Boudreaux, at the Labadieville church in May 1859.  Daughter Marie Célina was born near Labadieville in May 1860.  Eugène remarried to Victorine, daughter of fellow Acadians Lubin Aucoin and Anne Marie dite Nanette Doiron, at the Labadieville church in April 1866. ...

During the war, Zénon's fourth son Ulysse served in Company B of the 1st Regiment Louisiana Heavy Artillery, which was composed of dozens of fellow Acadian conscripts, including a first cousin, from Assumption Parish that fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  Ulysse surrendered with his regiment in July 1863 but, along with many of his fellow conscripts in the unit, refused to sign a parole.  Federal authorities sent him, via Memphis, Tennessee, and St. Louis, Missouri, to the prisoner-of-war compound at Camp Morton, Indiana, near Indianapolis.  He survived his ordeal there and was released on taking the oath of allegiance to the U.S. government in January 1865.  Ulysse married Célestine, daughter of Gédéon Cancienne and his Acadian wife Marcellite Aucoin, at the Labadieville church in January 1867. ...

Auguste Bélonie's fifth son Ferdinand Jules, called Jules, married Félicienne, daughter of Francois Truxillo and Azélie Rousseau, at the Plattenville church in January 1839.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Augustin in January 1840 but died the following September; Octave Jules born in December 1842; Onésiphore Ulise or Ulysse in December 1843; Marie Octavie, called Octavie, in March 1846; Evelina Alice, called Alice, in January 1848; and twins Léo Augustin and Léon Lovenci in May 1851--seven children, five sons and two daughters, including a set of twins, between 1840 and 1851.  In the 1850s, Jules took his family to St. Mary Parish on lower Bayou Teche--the only Acadian Bergerons to settle west of the Atchafalaya Basin before the war.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in St. Mary Parish counted seven slaves--three males and four females, ranging in age from 40 to 3--on Jules Bergeron's farm in the parish's western district.  Daughters Alice and Octavie married into the Ampere and Simoneaux families in Assumption Parish by 1870.  None of Jules's sons married by then. 

Auguste Bélonie's seventh and youngest son Rosémond Janville married Augustine or Justine, daughter of Antoine Barras and his Acadian wife Rosalie Bourg, at the Plattenville church in January 1846.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Armentine or Armantine Marie in January 1847; Elvina in March 1849; Auguste le jeune in August 1851; another Auguste le jeune in June 1854; and Justinien Antoine in September 1856--five children, two daughters and three sons, between 1847 and 1856.  Daughter Armantine married into the Delaune family by 1870.  None of Rosémond Janville's sons married by then. 

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A Bergeron living in the colony during the late colonial period may have been a wayward Acadian:

Joseph (?-?) à ? à Barthélémy dit d'Amboise Bergeron

Joseph Bergeron married Acadian Marie Boudreaux probably at Ascension on the river, date unrecorded.  The only other Joseph Bergeron who had come to Louisiana was an infant who had died during the Teche valley epidemic in October 1765, so the Joseph of Ascension was a different one.  One wonders who his parents were.  In December 1792, Marie gave Joseph a son, Joseph-Valentin, who may have died young, taking his line of the family with him. 

Bernard

René Bernard, born probably in France in c1663, came to Chignecto soon after the census of 1686, perhaps to work for the Chignecto seigneur, Michel Le Neuf de La Vallière.  René married Madeleine, daughter of Pierre Doucet and Henriette Pelletret, at Chignecto in c1689.  They had eight children, five sons and three daughters.  Their daughters married into the Girouard, Poirier, and Arseneau families.  Four of René's sons married into the Blou, Gaudet, and Brasseur dit La Citardy families.  Most of their descendants were still at Chignecto when  Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this 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 in the British-controlled area east of Rivière Missaguash, forcing the habitants there to move to the French-controlled area west of the river.  Bernards probably were 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, 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 at least two Bernard families to South Carolina with hundreds of others.  Some of the Bernards were still there in August 1763, where they appeared on a French repatriation list circulating in the colony.  One wonders if, in 1764, they moved on to French St.-Domingue with other Acadians from that colony.  

Most of the Bernards at Chignecto escaped the British and fled up the coast to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  There, they found refuge at Miramichi and other camps along the shore and later at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, while others moved on to Canada, with tragic results.  Some died in a smallpox epidemic that struck the Acadians at Québec and the surrounding area from the summer of 1757 to the spring of l 758.  After the war with Britain ended, Acadian Bernards could be found in Canada and greater Acadia at Lotbinière between Québec and Trois-Rivières on the upper St. Lawrence, at Bonaventure in Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs, and along Baie Ste.-Marie on the southwest coast of 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. 

Some members of the family ended up in France.  Several of René Bernard's descendants had moved from Chignecto to Île St.-Jean by the mid-1750s.  Living in territory controlled by France, they and other island Acadians 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 Île St.-Jean and deported most of the habitants there to France, Bernards among them.  One family ended up at Cherbourg in Normandy and moved on to Le Havre across the Baie de Seine.  In the early 1770s, they became part of the grand settlement venture in the interior of Poitou.  In late 1775, after two years of effort, they, along with most of the other Poitou Acadians, retreated in four convoys down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the lower Loire port of Nantes, where they subsisted as best they could 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, a Bernard and her husband agreed to take it.

Two of René Bernard's grandsons--one of them married, the other still a bachelor--escaped the British roundup at Chignecto with their parents and siblings.  Unlike many members of the family, who continued on to Canada, Pierre and Michel, along with other kinsmen, sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore and at Restigouche.  In late June 1760, after the fall of Québec the previous September, a British naval force from Louisbourg attacked the French stronghold at 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 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 compiled a list of 1,003 Acadians still at Restigouche, including Bernards.  The bachelor brother married at Restigouche in January 1761.  He and his wife, along with his older brother, his family, other Bernards, and hundreds of other exiles who either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area, were held in prison compounds in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  A family historian asserts:  "The major portion of the Bernard families of Louisiana comes from two brothers, Michel and Pierre Bernard, who arrived on the Mississippi shores about 1762 from Ristigouche at the top of the Baie des Chaleurs, where they fled after the deportation of 1755.  They probably sailed on one of the fishing boats that some Acadians of that time built and owned."  The problem with this family historian's assertion is one of simple physics:  people cannot be in two places at the same time.  The brothers, their wives, and their children could not have been in Louisiana in 1762 when, in August 1763, they appeared on a repatriation list with other Acadian prisoners at Halifax.  

The Bernard brothers of Chignecto did not reach Louisiana on a fishing boat from greater Acadia in 1762.  At war's end, the Acadians being held in Nova Scotia, including the Bernard brothers and their families, 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 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 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.  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 of them, including the brothers, were descendants of René Bernard

Although descended from only two immigrant progenitors, Acadian Bernards created a substantial branch of the family in South Louisiana.  The first of them reached New Orleans with the Broussards from Halifax in February 1765.  Younger brother Michel followed the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche that spring and remained on the western prairies, where two of his sons created vigorous lines at Carencro and Côte Gelée in the old Attakapas District.  Their descendants spread out along the Teche from Fausse Pointe near New Iberia all the way up to Port Barre east of Opelousas; some remained at Carencro and Côte Gelée in Lafayette Parish; and others moved out into the prairies of Vermilion and St. Landry parishes.  Older brother Pierre, for some reason, did not follow Michel and the Broussards to Bayou Teche in 1765 but settled at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  (Pierre may have taken a later ship from Halifax to New Orleans.)  He and his discendants settled on what came to be called the Acadian Coast, but they did not remain.  Pierre's oldest son settled on Bayou Lafourche, creating an important center of family settlement there.  His second son joined his cousins on the prairies, where one of his sons created a vigorous line in Lafayette and St. Landry parishes.  

Bernard is a common surname in France, French Canada, and many other parts of Europe, so it should be no surprise that members of the family came early to Louisiana.  Alsatian Germans and French Creoles with the name were living in the colony by the 1750s and settled on the river above New Orleans.  During the antebellum period, dozens of Foreign-French Bernards and Bernhards came to New Orleans from ports in Mexico and the Caribbean Basin as well as from France.  By the end of the antebellum period, non-Acadian Bernards could be found on the Avoyelles prairie south of Red River, on the lower Mississippi from Pointe Coupée and Baton Rouge all the way down to New Orleans, and on Bayou Lafourche and lower Bayou Teche near their Acadian namesakes.  One French-Creole family at Baton Rouge sprang from French nobility.   

Judging by the number of slaves they held during the late antebellum period, some of the Acadian Bernards of South Louisiana lived well on their farms and vacharies along the the bayous and especially out on the prairies.  ...  The majority of the Bernards who owned slaves, however, owned only a few, and many members of the family held no slaves at all, at least none who appeared in the federal census slave schedules of 1850 and 1860. ...

Dozens of Bernards--Acadians, French and German Creoles, Anglos, and even Afro Creoles--served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65.  Amazingly, despite the hard service of many of them, none seem to have died in Confederate service.  ...

In Louisiana, the family's name also is spelled Benard, Bernar, Bernardo.79

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An Acadian Bernard and his family came to Louisiana from Halifax with the Broussards in February 1765, followed them to lower Bayou Teche, and remained.  Most of the Acadian Bernards of South Louisiana are descended from him and two of his sons: 

Michel (c1734-1809) René Bernard

Michel, younger son of Jean-Baptiste Bernard and Cécile Gaudet, born at Chignecto in c1734, escaped the British roundup there in 1755 and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore with his older brother Pierre and his family.  Michel married Marie, daughter of Joseph dit L'Officier Guilbeau and Madeleine Michel, at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs in January 1761, several months after the French garrison there, along with a thousand Acadian refugees, surrendered to the British.  In the early 1760s, Michel and his bride, along with his brother and his family, endured imprisonment at the prison compound at Halifax.  Marie gave Michel twin sons--Jean-Baptiste dit Jean; and Pierre le jeune--born in c1762 perhaps at Halifax.  In August 1763, Michel, his wife, and an unnamed child, probably son Jean, appeared on a French repatriation list at Halifax; son Pierre le jeune evidently had died by then.  For some reason, Michel and his family did not go to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français in the same expedition as his older brother Pierre.  Marie was pregnant on the voyage to New Orleans and gave birth to another son, Michel, fils, in January 1765 probably aboard ship.  The couple and their two young sons reached Louisiana with the Broussards in February 1765.  That April, in New Orleans, Michel was among the newly-arrived Acadians who appeared on a list of exiles who hoped to exchange their Canadian card money for Louisiana funds.  Michel, Marie, and their two sons followed the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche later that month.  Son Michel, fils died in the Teche valley epidemic in October 1765, age 9 months.  A year of so later, Michel and his family moved up bayou to La Pointe near present-day Breaux Bridge, where Marie gave him more children, including Jean-François, called François dit Micheau, born in c1766; Félicité in c1768; another Michel, fils in c1769; Marie-Anne, called Anne, in September 1770; and Marie baptized, age unrecorded, in December 1774--eight children, five sons and three daughters, from 1762 to 1774, in greater Acadia and Louisiana.  Wife Marie died by October 1774, in her early 40s, when Michel was listed in an Attakapas District census without a wife.  Perhaps the birth of youngest daughter Marie contributed to her death.  Michel did not remarry.  He died at La Pointe in August 1809, age 74.  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse, St. Martin Parish, in March 1810.  Daughters Anne, Félicité, and Marie married into the Broussard, Thibodeaux, and Préjean families on the prairies.  Three of Michel's sons also married and lived in widely scattered prairie communities.  During the early 1780s, Michel's oldest son settled near Carencro at the northern edge of the Attakapas District; his middle son, after he remarried in the late 1810s, moved down bayou from La Pointe to Fausse Pointe; and his youngest son settled at Côte Gelée on the prairies south of present-day Lafayette in the 1790s.  Michel's first son's line was especially robust.  His youngest son's line may not have endured. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, called Jean, a twin, followed his family to New Orleans and Bayou Teche, where he married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph-Grégoire dit Petit Jos Broussard and his second wife Marguerite Savoie, in June 1782.  Marguerite had been born in late April 1765 on her parents' journey from New Orleans to Bayou Teche via the Atchafalaya Basin--the first Acadian child born west of the Mississippi.  Her father, Petit Jos, was the oldest son of the famous Acadian resistance leader Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil.  She and Jean settled on the upper Vermilion east of Carencro at a place the Acadians called quartier de Beau Bassin, named after the Chignecto settlement in Acadia where Jean's father had been born.  Their children, born at Beaubassin and nearby Carencro, included Jean, fils in April 1783; Joseph in the mid- or late 1780s; Marie in November 1787; François le jeune in January 1793; Ursin in c1795; Marie-Adélaïde, called Adélaïde, in January 1796; Marie-Barbe in July 1798; Éloi in August 1800; Marguerite, also called Marguerite Azélie, in July 1802; Louis Arvillien or Ervillien in April 1805; Marcelline or Marcellite in June 1807 but died at age 18 in November 1825; and Marie Tarsille, called Tarsille, born in February 1809 but died at age 4 1/2 in October 1813--a dozen children, six sons and six daughters, between 1783 and 1809.  Jean, père died probably at Beaubassin in February 1833.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Jean was age 79 when he died.  He was closer to 71.  His succession, with "very little information," was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in 1834.  Daughters Marie Adélaïde, Marie (perhaps Marie-Barbe), and Marguerite Azélie married into the Guidry, Guilbeau, and Caruthers families.  All six of Jean's sons married, and many of their descendants to cousins.  Not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Jean, fils married Scholastique, daughter of fellow Acadians Firmin dit LaPrade Girouard and Marguerite Cormier of Côte Gelée, at Attakapas in c1802.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Jean Louis le jeune, called Don Louis, in October 1803; Ursin at the residence of Jean Guédry at La Pointe on the upper Teche in January 1806 but died the following April; Joseph Léon, called Léon, born in the late 1800s; Hilaire Nelson at Côte Gelée in April 1810; Scholastique Célanie in March 1812 but died the following October four days after her baptism; and Ursin Clairville, also called Ursin Jean, born in December 1813--six children, five sons and a daughter, between 1803 and 1813.  Jean, fils, at age 60, remarried to Marie Modeste, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean dit Chapeau Mouton and his Creole wife Marie Marthe Borda and widow of Pierre Laurent Potier, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in February 1844.  She evidently gave him no more children.  In early September 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted 26 slaves--15 males and 11 females, all black except for one mulatto, ages 60 to 1--on Jean Bernard's plantation in the parish's western district.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted 14 slaves--eight males and six females, all black except for one mulatto, ranging in age from 48 years to 8 months--on John Bernard's farm next to Donlouis and Dupré Bernard, so this was probably Jean, fils, who would have been in his late 70s.  Jean, fils died in Lafayette Parish in April 1866.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Jean died "at age 85 yrs."  He was 83.  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse four days after his death.  Four of his sons created their own families. 

Oldest son Don Louis married Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Landry and his Creole wife Marie Louis Begnaud of Côte Gelée, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in September 1824.  They settled in Lafayette Parish.  Their children, born there, included Louis Dupréville or Dupréville Louis, also called Louis Dupré or Dupréville, in December 1825; Marie Hryma or Irma baptized at age 4 months and 18 days in July 1827; Jean Dema in February 1828 but died at age 13 months in March 1829; and Célima baptized at age 2 months in August 1833.  Don Louis, at age 54, remarried to cousin Euphrasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Guidry and Caroline Landry, at the Vermilionville church in May 1858, but they may have married civilly a year or so before.  Their children, born near Youngsville, included Marie Élize in March 1858; Marguerite in October 1860; and Rosa posthumously in December 1863--seven children, two sons and five daughters, by two wives, between 1825 and 1863.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted five slaves--three males and two females, all black, age 40 to 3--on Donlouis Bernard's farm next to Dupré Bernard and near John Bernard.  Don Louis died in Lafayette Parish in July 1863.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Don Louis died "at age 58 yrs."  He was 59.  One wonders if his death was war-related.  His successions were filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in September 1863 and August 1865.  Daughter Marie Irma, by his first wife, married a Landry cousin by 1870.  Don Louis's remaining son also married by then. 

Older son Louis Dupré or Dupréville, by first wife Camélite Landry, married Marcellite, daughter of fellow Acadians Onésime Melançon and Marie Mélanie Prejean, at the Vermilionville church in December 1849.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Zulma in December 1850 but died at age 15 (the recording priest said 14) in December 1865; Eraste born in August 1852 but died at age 14 1/2 in June 1867; Albert born in August 1854; Sigismond in May 1857; Louis near Youngsville in August 1859; Alice in October 1861; Anna in February 1864; ...  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted three slaves--a 36-year-old male, a 35-year-old female, and an 11-year-old female, all black--on Dupré Bernard's farm, between Donlouis Bernard and John Bernard.  Louis Dupré's succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in January 1866.  He would have been age 41 that year.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Jean, fils's third son Joseph Léon, called Léon and Jean Léon, married cousin Marie Arthémise, called Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadians Aurelien Breaux and Marie Bernard of St. Martin Parish, at the Vermilionville church in July 1829.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Marie Octavine in February 1831; Joséphine in September 1833; Jean Clémile, called Clémile, in September 1835; Louis Despanet, also called Joseph Desparet, Despanet, and Desparet, baptized at Vermilionville, age 2 months, in December 1837; Ulalie, also called Émilie Eulalie, born in December 1839; twins Théodule, perhaps Joseph Théodule dit Cléobule, and Théophile in February 1842, but Théophile died at age 5 1/2 in November 1847; Rosa in c1843; Louis le jeune born in April 1846 but died at age 15 months in August 1847; Élisabeth Léocadie, called Léocadie, born in December 1847; Valerie Corine in January 1850 but, called Corinne, died at age 13 (the recording priest said 11) in March 1863; Félix born in January 1852; and Félicia in December 1853 but died at age 8 1/2 in March 1862--13 children, seven daughters and six sons, between 1831 and 1853.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted four slaves--two males and two females, all black, ranging in age from 30 to 12--on Joseph L. Bernard's farm next to Mrs. Aurelien Breaux's plantation; she was Joseph Léon's mother-in-law.  Daughters Joséphine, Émilie Eulalie, Léocadie, and Rosa married into the Neveu, Patin, Constantin, and Judice families by 1870.  Three of Joseph Léon's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Jean Clémile, called Clémille, married Eugénie Celima or Celima Eugénie, daughter of fellow Acadians Melise Richard and Azéline Richard, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in August 1857.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Marie Alba in Lafayette Parish in September 1858; Cléophas in July 1860; Joseph le jeune in June 1862, while his father was in Confederate service; Eugénie Alici in St. Landry Parish; Octave in November 1867; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Clémile served as a corporal and then a sergeant in the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in South Louisiana, which fought in Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana.  He also served with younger brother Desparet in Company A of the Consolidated 18th Regiment and Yellow Jacket Battalion Infantry, which fought in Louisiana.  As the birth of one of his sons reveals, he survived the war and returned to his family. 

Joseph Léon's second son Despanet married Julie or Julia, daughter of Alexandre Castille and Émelia Robin, at the Opelousas church in April 1860.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Marie Lelia in July 1861; Joseph Omer, called Omer, in March 1864, while his father was in Confederate service; Jean Clébert in June 1867; Louis Albert in April 1870; ...  During the war, Desparet served as a sergeant in Company A of the Consolidated 18th Regiment and Yellow Jacket Battalion Infantry with his older brother Clémile.  He also survived the war and returned to his family.  Despanet died in St. Landry Parish in November 1905, age 68, a widower, and was buried in the St. Landry Catholic Cemetery in Opelousas. 

Joseph Léon's third son Joseph Théodule dit Cléobule, may have married Cordelia Florentine, also called Marie Cordolia, Foreman at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in April 1861.  Their son Joseph Gaston was born in Lafayette Parish in August 1867; ... 

Jean, fils's fourth son Hilaire Nelson, at age 21, married Marie Arthémise, called Arthémise, 19-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Henri, called Henri, Landry and his Creole wife Marie Louise dite Lize Begnaud, at the Vermilionville church in January 1832.  They settled at Côte Gélée in Lafayette Parish.  Their children, born there, included Jean Nelzon or Nelson, called Nelson, in October 1832; Marie Uranie or Erasie, called Erasie, born in 1834 and baptized at Vermilionville, age 5 months, in January 1835; Désiré baptized at age 2 months in May 1836; Sosthène baptized at age 4 months in May 1838; Marie Elisa or Eliza, called Eliza, born in December 1839; Jean le jeune in August 1843; Luca or Lucas dit Pacheaux c1843; a child, unnamed, in c1845 but died at age 4 in January 1849; Hippolyte born in April 1848; Jean Henri or Henry, called Henri and Jean Marie in his baptismal record, in October 1853; Marie Reginia, called Regina, born in August 1856; Alcée near Youngsville in February 1859; and Homer in c1863--13 children, at least nine sons and three daughters, between 1832 and 1863.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted eight slaves--five males and three females, all black, ages 35 to 1--on Hilaire Bernard's farm in the parish's western district.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted 15 slaves--six males and nine females, 10 blacks and five mulattoes, ranging in age from 40 to 1, living in 3 houses--on Hilaire Bernard's farm next to Ursin Jn. Bernard.  Daughters Erasie and Eliza married Landry brothers, who also were their cousins, by 1870.  Six of Hilaire's sons also married by then, two of them to Landry cousins. 

Oldest son Jean Nelson, called Nelson, married Clarisse, daughter of fellow Acadians Édouard Comeaux and Marguerite Granger, at the Vermilionville church in February 1854.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Valéry in December 1854, Jean Sevigné in October 1856; Eliza near Youngsville in August 1859; and Omer in February 1863.  During the War of 1861-65, Nelson, served in Company A of the Consolidated 18th Regiment and Yellow Jackets Battalion Louisiana Infantry, which fought in Louisiana.  He survived the war and returned to his family.  Nelson remarried to cousin Élisabeth, called Eliza, daughter of Armand Hulot and his Acadian wife Françoise Landry, at the Youngsville church, Lafayette Parish, in February 1866.  Their children, born near Youngsville, included Jean in September 1868; Louis in June 1870; ...  None of Nelson's children married by 1870. 

Hilaire's second son Désiré married Maria Ernina or Esmina, called Ernina, daughter of fellow Acadian Théodule Dugas and his Creole wife Anne Émilie Bossier, at the Vermilionville church in February 1857.  Daughter Eve Émile, probably Émilie, was born in Lafayette Parish in March 1858.  During the war, Désiré served in Company A of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, the Lafayette Prairie Boys, raised in Lafayette Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  Désiré likely remarried to cousin and fellow Acadian Victorine Irène Landry in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in April 1864 soon after his company's exchange.  He survived the war, returned to his family, and settled near Youngsville.  

Hilaire's third Sosthène married cousin Émilie, daughter of fellow Acadians Norbert Landry and Émilia Landry, at the Vermilionville church in April 1860.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Marie Anaïsse in January 1861; Eucharis in July 1864; Norbert in March 1870; ...  During the war, Sosthène also served in Company A of the 26th Louisiana Infantry with older brother Désiré.  Judging by the birth date of his second son, he survived the war and returned to his family. 

Hilaire's fourth son Jean le jeune married fellow Acadian Aspasie Mouton in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in October 1860. ...

During the war, Hilaire's fifth son Lucas served in the same company, the Lafayette Prairie Boys, as his older brothers Désiré and Sosthène.  Lucas married Mélanie or Mélasie, daughter of Léon Montet and his Acadian wife Louise Broussard, at the Youngsville church in August 1865.  Their son Jean Azare was born near Youngsville in December 1868; ... 

Hilaire's sixth son Hippolyte married Philomène, daughter of fellow Acadians Evariste Trahan and Adélaïde Savoie, at the Youngsville church in January 1869.  Their children, born near Youngsville, included Arthur in January 1870; Ulysse in 1872; and daughters, Elida, Cécile, and Henrietta.  ...

Jean, fils's fifth and youngest son Ursin Jean married Marguerite or Marcellite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Landry and Marie Rose Melançon, at the Vermilionville church in April 1833.  They settled near Côte Gélée.  Their children, born there, included Demas baptized at Vermilionville, age 3 months, in May 1834; Amelina baptized at age 1 1/2 months in April 1836; Émilia baptized at age 3 months in July 1838; Marcelite born in March 1840 but died at age 8 (the recording priest said 9) in April 1848; Helena born in September 1842; Euphémon in January 1845; Adélaïde in December 1846; Marie died at age 3 months in May 1849; Émilie, the second with the name, born in August 1852 but died at age 2 1/2 in January 1855; a son, perhaps theirs, name unrecorded, died 13 days after his birth in August 1854; Omer born in November 1855; ...  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted 10 slaves--eight males and two females, all black, ranging in age from 30 to 3--on Ursin J. Bernard's farm in the parish's western district; this was probably Ursin Jean.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted 11 slaves--nine males and two females, all black except for one mulatto, ranging in age from 45 years to 7 months--on Ursin Jn. Bernard's farm next to Hilaire Bernard.  Ursin Jean, at age 52, remarried to Marie Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadians Édouard Comeaux and Marguerite Granger and widow of Pierre Landry, at the Youngsville church in February 1866.  Daughters ..., by his first wife, married into the Duhon, Langlinais, and Reaux families by 1870.  Two of Ursin Jean's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Demas, by first wife Marguerite Landry, married cousin Bertille Victorine, called Victorine, daughter of fellow Acadians Éloi Jean Landry and Madeleine Sidalise Babin, at the Vermilionville church in June 1853.  They settled near Youngsville.  Their children, born there, included Marie Dilia in January 1855; Stanislas in January 1858; Ulysse in February 1861; Guillaume Demas in October 1862; Robert Émile in October 1866; Marianne Luce in February 1870 and baptized at Gonzales, Ascension Parish, in April; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Demas, probably a conscript, served as a corporal in Company A of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. James Parish, which fought in Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana.  He then served in companies A and C of the Consolidated 18th Regiment and Yellow Jackets Battalion Infantry, which fought in Louisiana.  Their daughter Marianne's baptism at Gonzales in April 1870 makes one wonder if Demas and Victorine left the prairies during the late 1860s and resettled near the Mississippi River.  None of Demas's children married by 1870. 

During the war, Ursin Jean's second son Euphémon, by first wife Marguerite Landry, served with his cousins in Company A of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafayette Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  Euphémon married Emma, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Duhon and Euphémie Prejean, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in May 1866, and sanctified the marriage at the Youngsville church in July.  Their son Jean Numa was born near Youngsville in January 1869; ... 

Jean, père's second son Joseph married Marguerite, another daughter of Firmin dit La Prade Girouard and Marguerite Cormier of Côte Gelée, at the St. Martinville church in January 1810.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Joseph Treville, called Treville, at Carencro in October 1810; Ursin, also Ursin Joseph and Joseph Ursin, at Côte Gelée in May 1812; Jean Baptiste, also called Jean Baptiste Émile, in May 1814; François Émilien or Émilien François in September 1816; Marguerite Menaïde at Côte Gelée in January 1819; Lucien in January 1821 but died at age 2 in April 1824; Louis Euclide, called Euclide, born in April 1823; Joséphine dite Théonide in February 1825; Marie Carmélite in c1826 but died at age 4 in June 1830; and Marie Adeline baptized at age 18 days in March 1829 but died four days later--10 children, six sons and four daughters, between 1810 and 1829.  Joseph's succession, probably post-mortem, naming his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in January 1842.  The parish clerk did not record Joseph's age.  He would have been in his mid-50s.  In October 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted eight slaves--five males and three females, all black, ages in 50 to 3--on W. Joseph Bernard's farm in the parish's western district; these probably were Marguerite Girouard's slaves.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted 16 slaves--seven males and nine females, all black, ranging in age from 60 to 2--on Mrs. Joseph Bernard's farm between Pauleon and Aurelien St. Julien; again, these probably were Marguerite Girouard's slaves.   Her and Joseph's daughter Théonide married into the St. Julien family.  Joseph's five remaining sons also married. 

Oldest son Joseph Treville married Célesie, also called Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadians Augustin Comeaux and Céleste Sonnier and widow of Joseph Guidry, at the Vermilionville church in July 1832.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included a child, name unrecorded, died at age 6 days in July 1833; Azélie or Azélia dite Zélia born in late 1834 and baptized at Vermilionville, age 5 months, in February 1835; Elmire born in 1836 and baptized at age 13 months in May 1837; Fergus or Ferjus baptized at age 2 1/2 months in August 1838 but died at age 2 in August 1840; twins Joseph Émile and Joséphine Émilia baptized at age 4 1/2 months in May 1840 (Joseph Émile was emancipated in April 1859); and Céleste, perhaps also called Belzire, born in November 1842--seven children, at least four daughters and two sons, including a set of twins, between 1833 and 1842.  Was he the Treville Bernard of Lafayette Parish who married--in this case, remarried--to Arthémise, 19-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Eugène Gautreaux and Marie Delphine Breaux, at Donaldsonville, Ascension Parish, in September 1856?  If so, he would have been a month shy of age 46 at the time of the wedding.  Also if so, she evidently gave him no more children.  Joseph Treville died in Lafayette Parish in March 1858.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Joseph Treville died "at age 50 yrs."  He was 47.  His succession, which called him Joseph Treville, was filed at the Vermilionville courthous later that month.  Daughters Azélie, Elmire, and Belzire married into the Guidry family, two of them brothers, by 1870.  Joseph Treville's remaining son did not marry by then. 

Joseph's second son Ursin Joseph or Joseph Ursin married Marguerite Sylvanie, called Sylvanie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Comeaux and Rosalie Prejean, at the Vermilionville church in January 1834.  Their children, born in Lafayette and Vermilion parishes, included Clara baptized at Vermilionville, age 3 months, in June 1835; Louis Mosar or Mozart, called Mozart, baptized at Vermilionville, age 3 1/2 months, in June 1837; Louisa baptized at 8 months in October 1839; Adolphe in January 1841; Jules in June 1843; Élisa in November 1846; and a son, perhaps theirs, name unrecorded, died 13 days after his birth in August 1854--seven children, three daughters and four sons, between 1835 and 1854.  In November 1850, the census taker in Vermilion Parish counted 11 slaves--five males and six females, all black, ages 30 to 4--on Ursin J. Bernard's farm in the parish's Fourth Ward.  In 1860, the federal census taker in Vermilion Parish counted five slaves--two males and three females, all black, ranging in age from 50 to 16, living in a single house--on Uresan Bernard's farm in the parish's western district.  Ursin Joseph died by October 1866, when he was listed as deceased in a son's marriage record.  Daughters ... married into the LeBlanc family by 1870.  Ursin Joseph's three remaining sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Mozart married fellow Acadian Pélagie Idalie or Idolie Broussard at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in July 1861.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Joseph Ursin near Abbeville in April 1862; Berthe near New Iberia in October 1864; Édouard Léonce in September 1866 but, called Léonce, died at age 2 1/2 (the recording priest said 4) in January 1869; Louis Philias born in February 1869 but, called Philias, died the following June; ...   

Ursin Joseph's second son Adolphe married fellow Acadian Adélaïde Broussard, perhaps kin to brother Mozart's wife, at the Abbeville church in August 1862.  Their children, born near Abbeville, included Gilbert Adolphe in October 1862; and Louis Numa in August 1864.  Adolphe remarried to Marie Azelia, daughter of Sébastien Nunez and Clémence LaPointe and widow of Hippolyte Myrtile Abadie, at the Abbeville church in December 1869. ...

Ursin Joseph's third son Jules married Emetille, daughter of fellow Acadian Sevenne Boudreaux and his Creole wife Euphémie Roy, at the Abbeville church in October 1866. ...

Joseph's third son Jean Baptiste Émile married Marie Joséphine, another daughter of Jean Baptiste Comeaux and Rosalie Prejean, at the Vermilionville church in December 1837.  They lived in western Lafayette Parish before moving farther out on the prairies to Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included Ermasse, also called Marie Ermance, in October 1839; Philomène in March 1840; and a child, perhaps theirs, name and age unrecorded, died in January 1842.  Jean Baptiste Émile remarried to Julie Émeline, daughter of Jean Pierre Allouard and Eléonore Jahoteau, at the Vermilionville church in November 1844.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Émilie in c1845; Marie Zulma, called Zulma, in January 1848; Marie Joséphine in August 1850; Edgard near Abbeville in September 1853; Marie Pauline Blanche, called Blanche, in December 1854; Marie Antoinette in January 1858; Marie Germaine Eléonore in May 1861; ... In August 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted nine slaves--four males and five females, all black, ages 30 to 4--on Émile Bernard's farm in the parish's western district; this probably was Jean Baptiste Émile.  His succession was filed at the Abbeville courthouse in 1869.  He would have been age 55 that year.  Daughters ..., by both wives, married into the LeBlanc, Frank, and Le Guenec families by 1870.  Jean Baptiste Émile's son did not marry by then. 

Joseph's fourth son Émilien François married cousin Marguerite, daughter perhaps of fellow Acadians Alexandre Guilbeau and Marguerite Azélie Bernard of Carencro, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in December 1849.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Marie Azélie in September 1850; Marie Marcelitte in 1852; and Franz Alexandre in September 1854--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1850 and 1854.  In September 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted two slaves--a 4-year-old black male and a 13-year-old black female--on Émilien Bernard's farm in the parish's western district; this probably was Émilien François.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted seven slaves--five males and two females, all black except for one mulatto, ranging in age from 30 to 2--on Émelien Bernard's farm.  Daughter ... married a Bernard cousin by 1870.  Émilien's son did not marry by then. 

Joseph's sixth and youngest son Louis Euclide, called Euclide, married Mavine, daughter of fellow Acadians Philippe de Saint-Julien Lachaussée and Hortence LeBlanc, at the Vermilionville church in April 1842.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included N. in c1843; Ferjus in c1845; and Antoine in July 1848--three children, at least two sons, between 1843 and 1848.  .In August 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted seven slaves--five males and two females, all black, ages 55 to 3--on Euclide Bernard's farm in the parish's western district.  Euclide died in Lafayette Parish in May 1851.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Euclide was age 26 when he died.  He was 28.  His succession, calling his wife Marine, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following month.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted five slaves--two males and three females, all black, ranging in age from 34 to 3--on Mrs. Euclide Bernard's farm, next to Raphaël Lachaussée; these were Mavine Lachaussée's slaves; Raphaël was her brother.  One of Mavine and Euclide's sons married by 1870, after his war service. 

During the war, second son Ferjus, called Ferguste L. in the Confederate records, likely served in Company E of the 7th Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, raised in Lafayette and St. Martin parishes, which fought in South Louisiana, mostly against local Jayhawkers.  Ferjus married Élisabeth, daughter of Aristide Labbé, Labre, Labrie, or Labry and Caroline Taylor, at the Youngsville church in October 1866.  Their son Joseph Félix was born near Youngsville in March 1869; ... 

Jean, père's third son François le jeune, at age 19, married Louise, 17-year-old daughter of Anglo American David Caruthers and his Acadian wife Isabelle Dugas of Carencro, at the St. Martinville church in April 1812.  Even before the marriage, in October 1810, François le jeune, called François, Jr., had been named an heir in David Caruthers's will.  François le jeune and Louise's daughter Marguerite Urasie was born in St. Martin Parish in March 1813.  François le jeune, at age 22, remarried to Marie Zélime, Zulime, or Zuline, also called Marie Julienne or Julie, 18-year-old daughter of François Carmouche, captain of the local militia, and his Acadian wife Françoise Arceneaux of Carencro, at the St. Martinville church in June 1815.  They settled near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Marie Zélime in June 1816 but, called Marie Azélima, died at age 31 in January 1848; Marguerite born in January 1818 but, called Elmire, evidently died at age 5 1/2 in October 1823; Julienne born in the late 1810s or early 1820s; François, fils in February 1820 but died the following May; Adélaïde born in November 1821; a daughter, name unrecorded, in c1822 but died at age 1 1/2 in January 1824; Joseph le jeune born in February 1824; Émilien in March 1826; a daughter, name unrecorded, died 2 1/2 days after her birth in May 1828; Honoré baptized at Vermilionville, age 5 1/2 months, in November 1829; Onezia, also called Marie Onezia, born in January 1832; Clémence baptized at Vermilionville, age 4 months, in December 1835; Azélie baptized at Vermilionville, age 2 months in October 1838 but died at age 11 1/2 (the recording priest at Grand Coteau said 13) in March 1850; and Evelina born in May 1841--14 children, 10 daughters and four sons, by two wives, between 1813 and 1841.  Wife Marie Zélime/Julienne, called Mrs. François Bernard by the Grand Coteau priest who recorded the burial, died probably at Carencro in August 1849, age 50; she was 52.  Her succession, calling her Juline, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in January 1850.  In September 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted eight slaves--four males and four females, all black, ages 40 to 3--on François Bernard's farm next to son Joseph in the parish's western district.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted seven slaves--four males and three females, all black, ranging in age from 45 to 7--on Françious Bernard's farm next to Joseph Bernard; François le jeune would have been in his late 60s that year.  Daughters Marie Urasie, Julienne, and Marie Onezia, by both wives, married into the LeBlanc, Prejean, and Guilbeau families.  Two of François le jeune's sons also married. 

Second son Joseph le jeune, by second wife Françoise Arceneaux, married double cousin Marie Evelina, called Evelina, 20-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Treville Bernard and Marie Euphrasie Arceneaux, at the Vermilionville church in November 1842.  They settled probably near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Joseph, fils in August 1843; Émilien Homère, called Homère, in January 1845; and Anastasie in c1847--three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1843 and 1847.  In September 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted a single slave--an 18-year-old black male--on Joseph Bernard's farm next to François Bernard in the parish's western district.  Joseph died probably at Carencro in November 1850.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Joseph died "at age 30 yrs."  He was 26.  Daughter Anastasie married into the Guchereau family by 1870.  Joseph le jeune's two sons also married by then. 

In June 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted a single slave--a 15-year-old black female--on Joseph Bernard's farm next to Françious Bernard; this probably was Joseph le jeune's older son Joseph, fils, who married cousin Clémentine, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Guilbeau and Azélie Bernard and widow of Onésime Guilbeau, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in July 1861. ...  

Joseph le jeune's younger son Homère married cousin Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadians Émilien Bernard and Marguerite Guilbeau, at the Grand Coteau church in June 1869.  They settled probably near Carencro. ...

François le jeune's fourth and youngest son Honoré, by second wife Françoise Arceneaux, married double cousin Marguerite Anastasie, called Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Arvillien Bernard and Elisa Bernard, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in October 1849.  They settled probably near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Marie Zulime in August 1851; Louis Honoré in March 1853; and Pierre François in December 1854.  Wife Anastasie died probably at Carencro in January 1855, age 23, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth.  Honoré remarried to Virginia or Virginie, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Lebert and Marguerite Thibodeaux, at the Grand Coteau church in April 1856.  Their children, born probably near Carencro, included Marguerite Anastasie in April 1857; Virginie Amélie in September 1859; Célina Théodosia in January 1862; Marie Alicia in December 1863; Joseph Ambroise in October 1866 but, called Ambroise, died at age 18 months in April 1868; ...  In September 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted a single slave--a 35-year-old black male--on Honoré Bernard's farm in the parish's western district.  In 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted 28 slaves--15 males and 13 females, 16 blacks and 12 mulattoes, ranging in age from 61 years to 4 months, living in eight houses--on Honoré Bernard's plantation.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Jean, père's fourth son Ursin married cousin Marie Éloise, called Éloise and Louise, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Bernard, fils and Anastasie Breaux, at the St. Martinville church in June 1815.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Ursin Alexandre, called Alexandre, near Carencro in April 1818 but died at age 6 in March 1824; Marguerite Oliva, called Oliva, born in February 1820 but died at age 5 1/2 in June 1825; Anastasie born in September 1822 but died at age 12 in October 1834; Marie Anatalie born in March 1825 but died in December; Pierre Arvillien born in December 1827 but died at age 2 in December 1829; Marie Adèlle, called Adèle, baptized at 3 months in April 1831; and Marie Emetilde, called Emetilde, in May 1837--seven children, two sons and five daughters, between 1818 and 1837.  In September 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted 16 slaves--seven males and nine females, all black except for one mulatto, ranging in age from 50 to 1--on Ursin Bernard's farm in the parish's western district.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted 18 slaves--13 males and five females, 14 blacks and four mulattoes, ranging in age from 70 to 11--on Ursin Bernard's farm next to Pierre Cormier's plantation at Carencro  Ursin died in Lafayette Parish in March 1870.  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 75 yrs."  Daughters Adèle and ... married into the Francez and Guilbeau families.  Neither of Ursin's sons survived childhood, so this family line, except for its blood, died with him.  

Jean, père's fifth son Éloi married cousin Marie Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Girouard or Giroir and Adélaïde Broussard of Côte Gelée, at the St. Martinville church in August 1821.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Théodule baptized at Vermilionville, age unrecorded, in February 1823 but died at age 3 1/2 or 4 in June 1826; Marie Estelle born in November 1824; Marcellite in August 1826; Anatalie dite Natalie in December 1827; Arvillien le jeune in 1829 and baptized, age 2 months, 18 days, in January 1830 but died at age 9 months the following July; Pascal born in c1831 but died at age 5 in October 1836; Opar or Oscar born in late 1831 and baptized at age 3 months in January 1832; Émilia baptized at age 3 1/2 months in September 1833 but died at age 2 in September 1835; and Éloi, fils born posthumously in March 1835--nine children, five sons and four daughters, between 1823 and 1835.  Éloi, père died in Lafayette Parish in January 1835, age 34.  His succession, naming his wife, who the clerk called a Giroir, and six children--Marie Estelle, Marcelite, Anatalie, Éloy[, fils], Émelie, and Oscar--was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in December 1836.  Daughters Marie Estelle, Marcelite, and Natalie married into the Lange, LeBlanc, and Derouen families by 1870.  Only one of Éloi's remaining sons married by then, but the line does not seem to have endured. 

Sixth and youngest son Éloi, fils married Adèle, daughter of Alexis Buteau and Marie Irma Lange, at the Charenton church, St. Mary Parish, in November 1855.  They settled in Lafayette Parish.  Éloi, fils died in Lafayette Parish in October 1856, age 21.  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following January.  His family line evidently died with him. 

Jean, père's sixth and youngest son Louis Arvillien, Ervillien, or Hervilien, also called Julien, married cousin Elisa, Eliza, or Lisa, daughter of fellow Acadian Simon Bernard and his Creole wife Cidalise Carmouche, at the Vermilionville church in May 1830.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Marguerie Anastasie, called Anastasie, in 1831 and baptized at Vermilionville, age 7 months, in February 1832; Marie Cidalise baptized at age 3 months in October 1833; Marie Ismaine baptized at age 3 months in December 1835; Pierre Vital born in April 1837; Jean Adrien in June 1839; François Éloi in February 1841; a child, name unrecorded, died a day after his/her birth in August 1843; Éloi Ervilien died, age unrecorded, in September 1843; François Anaïs born in September 1844; Elina, perhaps theirs, in September 1845; Louis Ignace, called Ignace, in October 1846; Édouard Adolphe in January 1849; Amelia in April 1850; Jean Baptiste near Opelousas in January 1853; and Jacques Ambroise in September 1855 but died at age 14 months in December 1856--15 children, at least five daughters and nine sons, between 1831 and 1855.  In late August and early September 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted 38 slaves--20 males and 18 females, all black, ages 40 years to 1 month--on Hervilien Bernard's plantation in the parish's western district; this was probably Arvillien.  Louis Hervilien, as he was called, died at Carencro in December 1859, "at age 54 or 55 yrs."  He was 54 1/2.  His succession, calling him Louis Arvillien and his wife Eliza, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse later that month.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted 34 slaves--17 males and 17 females, all black except for one mulatto, ranging in age from 70 years to 6 months, living in seven houses--on Mrs. L. Evilien Bernard's plantation; this was Louis Arvilien's widow, Elisa Bernard.  The same census taker counted a single slave--an 8-year-old black female--in Cidalise Bernard's household nearby; Cidalise may have been Elisa's mother Cidalise Carmouche.  Daughters ... married into the Bernard, Carmouche, Estilette, and Guilbeau families by 1870.  Two of Louis Arvillien's sons also married by then. 

In June 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted a single slave--a 15-year-old black female--in Pierre Bernard's household next to Mrs. L. Evilien Bernard's plantation.  This probably was oldest son Pierre Vital, who married cousin Eméranthe, daughter of fellow Acadian Valsin Bernard and his Creole wife Madeleine Nezat, at the Breaux Bridge church, St. Martin Parish, in April 1862.  Daughter Félicianne was born near Arnaudville in March 1864; ...

In June 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted a single slave--a 12-year-old black female--in John Bernard's household next to Pierre Bernard.  This probably was Louis Arvillien's' second son Jean Adrien, who married Hélène, daughter of fellow Acadians Rosémond Breaux and Calixte Arceneaux, at the Grand Coteau church in November 1865. ... 

In June 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted a single slave--a 12-year-old black female--in "Ismène" Bernard's household near Mrs. L. Evilien Bernard's plantation.  This probably was Louis Arvillien's fourth son Ignace, who would have been only age 13 1/2 at the time and did not marry by 1870. 

Michel's fourth son François dit Micheau married Madeleine, another daughter of Joseph-Grégoire dit Petit Jos Broussard and his second wife Marguerite Savoie, at Attakapas in February 1790.  They remained at La Pointe on the upper Teche.  Their children, born there, included François, fils in either May 1793 or January 1794; Marie-Aspasie, called Aspasie, baptized at age 2 months in July 1795; Marie-Tarsille born in August 1797; Marie-Azélie or -Zélie in October 1799 but died at age 14 in October 1813; Madeleine-Célestine born in March 1802 but died at age 2 1/2 in October 1804; Pierre Arvillien, called Arvillien, born in October 1804; Émilie in March 1807 but, called Carmélite, died at age 2 1/2 in September 1809; Maurice Émile born in March 1809 but died the following October; Marie Erasie born in February 1811; and François Joachim in September 1813 but died the following December.  According to family tradition, François fought in the Battle of New Orleans in January 1815, though he would have been in his late 40s then.   François dit Micheau, still in his late 40s, remarried to Constance, daughter of fellow Acadians Gilles LeBlanc and Théotiste Godin, widow of Louis Dugas and one of his son's mother-in-law, at the St. Martinville church in October 1816.  They settled down bayou at Fausse Pointe.  Their children, born there, included Ovide in August 1817 but died at age 10 months in July 1818; Elmire, also Marie Elmire, born in February 1819; Louis Valsin, called Valsin, in January 1821; and Jean Oscar, called Oscar, in February 1823 but died at age 11 1/2 in August 1834.  Wife Constance's succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in July 1829.  François dit Micheau, in his early 60s, remarried again--his third marriage--to Euphrosine or Euphrasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Dominique Jean dit Minique Melançon and Rose Luce Doiron and widow of Julien Breaux, at the St. Martinville church in November 1829.  Their children, born at Fausse Pointe, included Joseph Damonville in November 1830; and Pierre Vilmont in March 1833--16 children, nine sons and seven daughters, by three wives, between the early 1790s and 1833.  François died probably at Fausse Pointe in April 1834.  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 66 yrs."  This François may have been a year or two older.  Two successions, the first, dated 14 April 1834, naming his second wife Constance and his minor children by her--Elmire, Valsin, and Oscar--and another dated April 19, were filed at the St. Martinville courthouse just before or soon after his death.  Another, naming his third wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, the following August, so he evidently owned property in both civil parishes.  Daughters Marie Aspasie, Marie Tarsille, Marie Erasie, and Marie Elmire, from his first and second wives, married into the Arceneaux, Perrodin, Huval, Martin, and Broussard families.  Three of Micheau's remaining sons also married. 

Second son Pierre Arvillien, called Arvillien, by first wife Madeleine Broussard, married Hortense, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Dugas and Constance LeBlanc of Fausse Pointe, at the St. Martinville church in November 1822; Hortense's mother was one of Arvillien's stepmothers.  His and Hortense's children, born at Fausse Pointe, included a son, name unrecorded, died at birth in August 1823; Aspasie Laure, perhaps also called Aurore, born in May 1825; Élodie in May 1827; Marie Ernestine, called Ernestine, in May 1830 but died at age 14 1/2 in March 1845; Jean Euclide, called Euclide, born in March 1832; Constance in October 1835; and Elina, perhaps theirs, in September 1845--seven children, two sons and five daughters, between 1823 and 1845.  In November 1850, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted 17 slaves--10 males and seven females, all black except for one mulatto, ages 65 to 5 months--on Hervilien Bernard's farm; this was probably Arvillien.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted 16 slaves, eight males and eight females, 11 blacks and five mulattoes, ranging in age from 70 to 6, living in 6 houses--on Arvillin Bernard's farm next to Euclide Bernard.  Daughters Aurore, Élodie, and Constance married into the Bulliard and Broussard families.  Arvillien's remaining son also married. 

Oldest son Jean Euclide, called Euclide, married cousin Ermine or Herminie, daughter of fellow Acadians Placide Thibodeaux and Caroline Bernard, at the St. Martinville church in June 1854.  They settled near Arnaudville.  Their children, born there, included Adolphe died at age 6 in June 1861 (he is not counted with his family in the federal census of July 1860 for St. Martin Parish, so he may have died in June 1860); Marie Idea or Elmire, called Elmire, born in April 1855; Marguerite Hortance, called Hortance, born in September 1857; Marguerite Clarisa, called Clarisa, in January 1859; Hervillien Davis in June 1861; ...  In June 1860, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted four slaves--two males and two females, all black, ranging in age from 20 years to 8 months--on Euclide Bernard's farm next to Arvillin Bernard.  During the War of 1861-65, Euclide served as a sergeant in Company H of the 7th Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, raised in St. Martin, St. Landry, and Vermilion parishes, which fought local Jayhawkers late in the war.  None of his children married by 1870. 

François dit Micheau's sixth son Louis Valsin, called Valsin, from second wife Constance LeBlanc, married, at age 19, double cousin Anne Hélène, called Hélène, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Broussard and Scholastique Broussard, at the St. Martinville church in January 1840.  Their children, born on the lower Teche, included Ovide, probably Ode Aurore, a daughter, in November 1840; Valère or Valéry Oscar near New Iberia in December 1842 but, called Oscar, died at age 3 1/2 in June 1846; Félicie born in March 1845 but died at age 3 1/2 in September 1848; Gertrude, also called Noémie, born in March 1847; Joseph, also called Dermas, in c1849; Anatole near New Iberia in October 1851; Marie Élodie near St. Martinville in August 1853; Louis in February 1854; and Charles dit Carlos in November 1857.  In October 1850, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted nine slaves--five males and four females, all black, ranging in age from 30 to 1--on Valsin Bernard's farm at Fausse Pointe.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted nine slaves--four males and five females, all black except for one mulatto, ranging in age from 40 to 4, living in three houses--on Valsin Bernard's farm; this could have been Louis Valsin or a distant cousin with the same name who also lived in the parish.  At age 44, Louis Valsin remarried to Cécilia, daughter of Louis Terence Boutté and Rosalie Judice, at the St. Martinville church in December 1865.  She evidently gave him no more children.  Louis Valsin, at age 47, remarried again--his third marriage--to Marie Philomène, called Philomène, David, perhaps a fellow Acadian, in a civil ceremony in St. Martin Parish in March 1868.  Their son Calliste was born near New Iberia in May 1869; ...  Daughters Aurore and Noémie Gertrude, by his first wife, married into the Dugas family by 1870; they married the same man, in fact.  None of Valsin's sons married by then. 

In November 1850, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted a single slave--a 21-year-old mulatto male--on Damonville Bernard's farm.  This was François dit Micheau's eighth son Joseph Damonville, by third wife Euphrosine Melançon, who married Susanne, daughter of Félix Veillon Chachere and Éloise Lavergne, a French Creole, not a fellow Acadian, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in November 1860.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Marie Elmire in March 1862; Anna in February 1865; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Joseph Damonville served in Company F of 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.  Joseph Damonville was a merchant when he enlisted in Company F in March 1862, in his early 30s.  He was promoted from private to third corporal the following April.  In July 1862, however, he was reduced to the ranks, but his Confederate service record does not say why.  He was captured at Rappahannock Bridge, Virginia, in November 1863 along with many others in his company.  The Federals sent him to the prisoner-of-war camp at Point Lookout, Maryland, where he was paroled and exchanged in early 1864.  After his release, he returned home, probably on approved leave, but he did not return to his unit.  After the war, Joseph Damonville resumed his trade as a merchant and planter along Bayou Queue de Tortue, was elected the first mayor of the incorporated town of Rayne, and represented Acadia Parish in the Louisiana House of Representatives in the 1880s.  

Michel's fifth and youngest son Michel, fils, the second with the name, the first having died in the Teche valley epidemic of 1765, was counted with his family at Attakapas in December 1769, when the Spanish census taker noted that Michel was age 5 and was living with Michel Bernard and his family.  One wonders if the census taker meant to say that this Michel, fils was age 5 months, not 5 years, and had been born earlier in the year.  Michel, fils also appears with his family in the Attakapas census of 1771, which hints that he was age 2 at the time.  Michel, fils, at age about 19, married Marguerite, 15-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Broussard and Marguerite Blanchard, at Attakapas in June 1788.  Their children, born perhaps at Côte Gelée, included Marie-Louise in January 1791; Adélaïde in March 1794; Édouard in May 1796; Doralise in c1797 but died at age 7 in September 1804; Anne born in June 1798; and Alexandre posthumously in November 1801--six children, four daughters and two sons, between 1791 and 1801.  Michel, fils died perhaps at Côte Gelée in November 1801, "age 34 yrs. more or less" (it was less).  Widow Marguerite remarried to an Anglo-American Taylor in August 1806, generating a succession in her and Michel, fils's name that August.  Daughters Marie Louise and Adélaïde married into the Mire and Boulee or Boulet families.  Despite two of Michel, fils's sons marrying, this line of the family may not have endured.  

Older son Édouard married Marie Arthémise, called Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadian Nicolas Thibodeaux and Eléonore Prejean, at the St. Martinville church in May 1829.  Their children, born on the upper Teche, included a son, name unrecorded, died at Grande Pointe shortly after his birth in November 1830; Agnès born in December 1831 but died at age 4 1/2 in January 1836; a daughter, name unrecorded, died at birth in May 1834; Raphaël Idamar or Idamore, called Idamore, born in September 1835 but died the following February; Joseph, also called Joseph Timothée, born in May 1837 but died at age 19 (the recording priest said 20) in September 1856--five children, three sons and two daughters, between 1830 and 1837.  Édouard's succession, calling his wife Arthémise, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in March 1850.  He would have been age 54 that year.  In November 1850, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted three slaves--a 58-year-old female, and two males, ages 34 and 27, all black--on Artémise Bernard's farm; these probably were Arthémise Thibodeaux's slaves.  The only one of her and Édouard's children who survived childhood did not marry, so this line of the family did not endure.  

Michel, fils's younger son Alexandre, at age 39, married Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Breaux and Éléonore Landry, at the Vermilionville church in December 1840.  In October 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted four slaves--three males and a female, all black, ranging in age from 37 to 5--on Alex Bernard's farm in the parish's western district.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted eight slaves--three males and five females, all mulattoes except for one black, ranging in age from 44 to 1, living in a single house--on Alex. Bernard's farm.  Alexandre died in Lafayette Parish in June 1869, age 68.  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse a week after his death.  He and his wife may have been that rare Acadian couple who had no children.  

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Another Acadian Bernard also came to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français in 1765, but not with the Broussards.  He did not join his younger brother Michel on Bayou Teche but settled, instead, at the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  His descendants created new family lines not only on the river, but also on upper Bayou Lafourche and near their cousins on the western prairies.  With him was an older Bernard cousin who came with her family and also settled at Cabahannocer: 

Pierre (c1731-?) René Bernard

Pierre, elder son of Jean-Baptiste Bernard and Cécile Gaudet, born at Chignecto in c1731, married, at age 21, Marguerite Arseneau there in c1752.  Marguerite gave Pierre a son, Jean-Baptiste, born in c1753.  They escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in 1755 and, with his younger brother Michel, sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore before moving up to Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  Marguerite gave Pierre two more children in exile:  Pierre, fils dit Pierrot Perret born in c1758; and Marie in c1760.  In August 1763, Pierre, his wife, and four children also appeared on a French repatriation list at Halifax in August 1763.  In late 1764, Pierre, Marguerite, and their three children emigrated from Halifax to New Orleans via Cap-Français and settled at Cabahannocer on the river above the city.  One wonders why they did not follow younger brother Michel and his family, along with the Broussards, to lower Bayou Teche that spring.  Pierre's wife Marguerite died at Cabahannocer by September 1769, when Pierre was counted there without a wife.  Daughter Marie, who would have been age 9 that year, also does not appear in the September 1769 census with her father and brothers, so she likely had died by then.  Pierre, at age 39, remarried to Cécile, daughter of fellow Acadians Barthélémy Bergeron dit d'Amboise, fils and Marguerite Dugas and widow of Joseph Dugas and Nicolas Lahure, at Cabahannocer in June 1770.  Cécile, a native of Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas on lower Rivière St.-Jean, had come to Louisiana in February 1765 with the Broussards but had fled to Cabahannocer that fall to escape the epidemic that killed her husband and other relatives.  She gave Pierre more children at Cabahannocer, including Adélaïde baptized, age unrecorded, in January 1773; and Louis baptized, age unrecorded, in February 1774--five children, three sons and two daughters, by two wives, between 1753 and 1774, in greater Acadia and Louisiana.  Daughter Adélaïde, by his second wife, married into the Poirier family. Pierre's three sons also married, but not all of the lines endured.  By the 1810s, Pierre's sons and grandsons had left Cabahannocer/St. James on the river.  His oldest son moved to Bayou Lafourche, creating a vigorous line and a third center of Bernard family settlement there.  His middle son crossed the Atchafalaya Basin and joined his cousins in the old Attakapas District.  His youngest son remained on the river but, in spite of two marriages, seems to have produced no sons of his own.  This essentially ended the presence of Acadian Bernards on the Acadian Coast.

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, called Baptiste, from first wife Marguerite Arseneau, followed his family into exile and imprisonment and to New Orleans and Cabahannocer, where he married Pélagie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Dugas and Cécile Bergeron, his stepsister, in September 1776.  They evidently lived briefly at New Orleans in early 1801.  Their children, born on the river, included Jean-Baptiste, fils baptized at Cabahannocer, age unrecorded, in February 1778; Anne-Henriette, called Henriette, baptized, age unrecorded, in May 1780; Eliza, also called Éloise and Héloise, born in c1781; Françoise, also called Marie-Françoise, in March 1786; Michel-Archange, -Ange, or -Archangel, called Michel A., in December 1787; another Jean-Baptiste, fils, dit Peret, in October 1789; Joseph in December 1792; Félicienne, also called Marie Félicienne, in December 1794 and baptized at New Orleans in March 1801; Destival, also called Christophe, Estival, Élie, Elias, Stivane, and Stoval, born in November 1795; François-Eugène or -Eusèbe, in March 1798 but died at age 14 months in May 1799; Eugénie-Josèphe, also called Marie-Eugénie and Delphine, born in March 1800 and baptized at New Orleans in March 1801; and Marie Adèle in c1804--a dozen children, six sons and six daughters, between 1777 and 1804.  Probably in the 1810s, Baptiste and his family joined the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche.  His succession inventory, listing his wife, children, and some of his daughters spouses--Henriette and her husband; Héloise and her husband; Maria Francisca and her husband; Michel Archangel; John Baptiste; Joseph; Marie Eugénia, age 21; Maria Féliciana and her husband; Elias; and Marie Adèle, age 19--was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse, Lafourche Interior Parish, in October 1821.  Baptiste would have been in his late 60s that year.  Daughters Henriette, Eliza, Marie Françoise, Marie Félicienne, Marie Adèlle, and Eugénie married into the Mire, Morvant, Blanchard, Guillot, Boyer, and Dugas families.  Four of Baptiste's sons also married and settled on Bayou Lafourche. 

Second son Michel Archange married Justine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Charles Arceneaux and Marie Josèphe Babin, at Cabahannocer/St. James in 1806.  They followed his family to upper Bayou Lafourche in the mid- or late 1810s and settled near the boundary between Assumption and Lafourche Interior parishes.  Their children, born on the river and the bayou, included Marie Florine near Convent, St. James Parish, in December 1806; Edmond in January 1810; Mélite in c1813; Marie Célanie or Célenie in the 1810s; Marie Zéline or Delphine on the upper Lafourche in April 1817; Françoise Adèle, called Adèle, in March 1819; Michel Amédée in March 1821 but died at age 12 in March 1833; Trasimond born in June 1824; Laurent in August 1826; Jean Baptiste, also called Jean Baptiste Clotaire and Clotaire, in June 1828; and Victorine in July 1830--11 children, six daughters and five sons, between 1806 and 1830.  Michel died in Lafourche Parish in March 1862, age 74, a widower.  A "Decree for homologation of his will," giving his death date, naming his wife, noting that she was deceased, and listing his children--Florine and her husband, Émelie and her husband, Delphine and her husband, Laurent, Clotaire, Victorine and her husband, Trasimond, Zelime (deceased) and her widower, Edmond (deceased) and his widow, and Adèle (deceased) and her widower--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse the following June.  Michel also owned land in Terrebonne Parish.  Daughters Marie Florine, Mélite, Célenie, Delphine, Adèle, and Victorine married into the Clément, Bourg, Lejeune, and Bernard families, including Clément and Bourg brothers.  Four of Michel's sons also married, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Edmond married Marie, 20-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians François LeBlanc and Marie Pitre, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in September 1828.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included twins Justine Émilie and Marie Azélie Aveline or Eveline, called Eveline, in June 1829, but Justine died in September; Séraphine Mathilde, called Mathilde, born in January 1833; Apollonie in February 1835; Michel Aubin in March 1837 but, called Aubin, died at age 9 1/2 (the recording priest said 10), in November 1846; Marguerite Aglace or Aglaé, called Aglaé, born in December 1838; Élie in October 1841; Achille or Aquila probably in the early 1840s; and Marie Philomène in May 1845, a month before her father's death, but, called Philomène, died at age 1 in March 1846--nine children, six daughters and three sons, including a set of twins, between 1829 and 1845.  Edmond died in Lafourche Interior Parish in July 1845, age 35 (the recording priest said 36 1/2).  A petition for tutelage of his remaining children--Eveline, Aguila, Mathilde, Aglai, and Élie--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in December 1849.  Daughters Mathilde and Aglaé married into the Adam and LeBlanc families by 1870.  Edmond's remaining sons also married by then, after completing their war service. 

During the War of 1861-65, second son Élie served probably in Company F of the Lafourche Parish Regiment Militia, commanded by his uncle, Captain Clotaire Bernard.  Élie was captured with most of his regiment at the Battle of Labadieville in nearby Assumption Parish in late October 1862, held by the Federals, and then paroled at Thibodaux in late November; his brother Aquila served in the same unit.  Élie married Adèle, daughter of fellow Acadians Isidore Guillot and Euphrosine Guillot, at the Thibodaux church in November 1865.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Jean Élie in September 1867; Jean Mirtille in May 1869; ... 

During the war, Edmond's third and youngest son Aquila served in Company F of the Lafourche Parish Regiment Militia, the same unit as his older brother Élie.  He, too, was captured and paroled after the Battle of Labadieville.  Aquila married Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadian Evariste Mire and his Creole wife Azéline Morvant, at the Thibodaux church in March 1867.  Their children, born in Lafourche Parish, included Augustin Étienne was born in Lafourche Parish in August 1868; Marie Valérie in April 1870; ...   

Michel Archange's third son Trasimond married Amelina Constance, 15-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Marcellin Breaux and Azélie Dugas, at the Thibodaux church in June 1846.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Trasimond Joseph in October 1849 but, called Joseph Trasimond, died at age 3 1/2 in February 1853; Michel Joseph Clotaid born in September 1851; Joseph Michel in November 1853; Marie Amelia in June 1856; Édouard Joseph Arthur in March 1858; Augustin Washington in February 1860; Marcellin Henri Adeoda in March 1862 but, called Marcelin, died at age 6 months the following September; Henri Edgard born in July 1864; Justine Azélie in April 1866; Joseph Marcellin Rodolph in May 1868; Émée Amelina Valérie in May 1870; ...  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Lafourche Parish counted two slaves--a 45-year-old female and an 11-year-old male, both black--in Trasimond Bernard's household in the Seventh Ward of Thibodaux City next to Mrs. J. B. Bernard; Trasimond was listed as "employer," so he probably did not own the two slaves.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Michel Archange's fourth son Laurent married Urma Marcellite Zoé, called Zoé, daughter of fellow Acadian Basile Dugas and his Creole wife Eulalie Dies, at the Thibodaux church in June 1849.  In 1860, the federal census taker in Lafourche Parish counted three slaves--a 31-year-old black female, a 5-year-old mulatto male, and a 3-year-old mulatto female--on Laurent Bernard's farm in the parish's Seventh Ward.  Laurent died in Lafourche Interior Parish in April 1867, age 40.  A petition for probate of his will, naming his wife, was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse the following month.  He and his wife evidently had no children, so his line of the family died with him.  

Michel Archange's fifth and youngest son Jean Baptiste Clotaire, called Clotaire, married first cousin Phelonise, daughter of Joseph Morvant and his Acadian wife Élise Bernard, his uncle and aunt, at the Thibodaux church in June 1848.  He became a school teacher.  He and Phelonise's children, born on the Lafourche, included Julien V. or Valcour in January 1849; Marie Eliska in May 1850 but, called Eliska, died at age 15 (the recording priest said 16) in July 1865; Joseph Vallon born in June 1851; Joseph, also called Joseph Valday, in April 1853; Félix Valse in March 1855; Joseph Valcar or Valcour in May 1856; a second Joseph Valcart or Valcour in December 1861; Étienne Vick in December 1862; ...  In September 1860, the federal census taker in Lafourche Parish counted a single slave--a 16-year-old mulatto female--on schoolmaster J. Bte. Clotaire Bernard's farm in the parish's Sixth Ward.  During the War of 1861-65, Clotaire served as captain of Company F of the Lafourche Parish Regiment Militia.  Along with much of his regiment, including two Bernard nephews, he was captured at Thibodaux in early November 1862 a few days after the Confederate disaster at Labadieville in nearby Assumption Parish, held by the Federals, and then paroled and exchanged a short time later, perhaps in time to witness the birth of his son Étienne Vick on Christmas Eve.  Clotaire died in Lafourche Parish in July 1878, age 50.  One of his sons married by 1870. 

Oldest son Julien Valcour married Françoise Émelia, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Mire and Adèle Guillot, at the Thibodaux church in February 1870. ...

Baptiste's third son Jean Baptiste, fils, dit Peret, married first cousin Marie Esther, called Esther, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Bernard and Rosalie Blanchard, his uncle and aunt, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in April 1812.  Soon after their marriage, they followed his family to Bayou Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Clitandre Bernard in May 1816; Evariste in April 1818 but died at age 14 in August 1832; Louis Adolphe born in April 1820; Eulalie Elmire in February 1823 but, called Elmire, died at age 10 1/2 in June 1833; Mélacie born in March 1825 but died at age 1 1/2 in June 1826; Théotille, also called Marie Théotille and Marie Théodile, born in November 1826; Modeste Rosalie, also called Marie Modeste, in October 1828; Émile Eucher in November 1830 but died at age 10 1/2 in March 1841; Miles Taylor, also called Jean Baptiste Miles Taylor, Taylor, and M. J., born in December 1834; and Émilie Aglaée in May 1838--10 children, four sons and six daughters, between 1816 and 1838.  In December 1850, the federal census taker in Lafourche Interior Parish counted 34 slaves--19 males and 15 females, all black, ranging in age from 50 to 5--on J. B. Bernard's plantation along Bayou Lafourche; this probably was Jean Baptiste, fils dit Peret.  Peret died during a yellow fever epidemic in Lafourche Parish in November 1853, age 64.  A petition for administration of his estate, calling him Jean Baptiste, his wife Esther, and naming his children, including some of their spouses--Miles Taylor, Marie Théodule (Théotille) and her husband, Marie Marte (Marie Modeste) and her second husband (deceased), and Louis--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in December.  His widow Marie Esther, at age 58, remarried to a 64-year-old LeBlanc widower at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in June 1856.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Lafourche Parish counted a single slave--a 25-year-old mulatto male--in Mrs. J. B. Bernard's household in the Seventh Ward of Thibodaux City.  One wonder if this was Ester Bernard's slave.  If so, what happened to the other slaves the family had owned a decade earlier?  Were they given to Ester's Bernard children or sold off to pay a debt?  Her and Peret's remaining daughters Marie Théodile and Marie Modeste married into the Ledet, Williams, Robichaux, and Aubert families, one of them, Marie Modeste, three times, by 1870.  Two of Peret's remaining sons also married by then, but only the younger one's line endured. 

Third son Louis Adolphe married Marie Victorine, daughter of Henri Ledée and his Acadian wife Marie Anne Delphine Levron, at the Thibodaux church in August 1840.  A "Curatorship of interests of absentee" in his name, mentioning his widowed sister Marie Théodile and her Ledet husband, and his widowed mother Marie Esther Bernard and her deceased second husband André LeBlanc, but not Louis's wife, was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in July 1860.  Were Louis and Marie Victorine that rare Cajun couple who had no children?  

Peret's fifth and youngest son Miles Taylor married Justine Émilie, called Émilie, daughter of Félix Adolphe Knobloch and Marie Héloise Gros, at the Thibodaux church in November 1854.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Jean Baptiste Lauredan in September 1856; Louis Miles in November 1858; Émelie Tailoria in July 1860; and Justine Lorina in September 1862; ...  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Lafourche Parish counted four slaves--three males and one male, all black except for one mulatto, ranging in age from 41 to 15--on M. Taylor Bernard's farm in the Seventh Ward of Thibodaux city.  During the War of 1861-65, Taylor served in Company D of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafourche Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  He fell sick in Mississippi in August 1862, a month before one of his daughters was born back in Lafourche Parish, and he was left at a hospital at Edward's Depot.  He recovered from his illness, rejoined his regiment, was captured at Vicksburg along with his comrades in July 1863, and, like most of them, went home on a parole of honor to await exchange.  Wife Émelie, called "Mrs. Taylor Bernard by the recording priest," died in Lafourche Parish in October 1864, probably while he was still in Confederate service.  Taylor remarried to Azélia, daughter of Paul Price and his Acadian wife Azélie Martin, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in August 1867, and sanctified the marriage at the Thibodaux church the following December.  They were living in St. Mary Parish on lower Bayou Teche in 1870. ...

Baptiste's fourth son Joseph married Marie Constance, called Constance, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand Breaux and Madeleine Clouâtre and widow of Simonet Breaux, at the St. James church, St. James Parish, in December 1809.  They followed his family to upper Bayou Lafourche in the mid- or late 1810s.  Their children, born on the river and the bayou, included Joseph Rosémond, called Rosémond, in St. James Parish in August 1811; Joseph Edmond in October 1813 but died in Lafourche Interior Parish, age 20, in May 1834; Marie Delphine, called Delphine, born in the 1810s; and Marie Zéline or Azéline, called Azéline, in Assumption Parish in March 1817--four children, two sons and two daughters, between 1811 and 1817.  Daughters Delphine and Azélie married into the Olivier, Thibodeaux, and Cointment families.  Joseph's remaining son also married.

Older son Joseph Rosémond, called Rosémond, married Madeleine Eurasie, 15-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians François Achille Foret and Geneviève Bergeron, at the Thibodauxville church in September 1829.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Azéline Geneviève in November 1830; Achille Livode or Livaudais, called Livaudais, in January 1834; Joseph Marcellin Lucien, called Lucien, in September 1835; Joseph E. in March 1838; Marie Azéma in March 1840; and Joseph Rosémond, fils in September 1843--six children, two daughters and four sons, between 1830 and 1843.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted a single slave--a 16-year-old black female--on Rosémond Bernard's farm in the parish's Second Congressional District.  In 1860, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted five slaves--three males and two females, two black and three mulattoes, ranging in age from 26 to 1, living in a single house--on Rosémond Bernard's farm in the parish's Fourth Ward.  Daughters Azéline and Marie Azéma married into the Hoble and Badeau families by 1870.  Two of his sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Livaudais married Célestine, daughter of Norbert Courcier and Uranie Barrios, at the Thibodaux church in April 1855.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included a daughter, name unrecorded, in c1855 but died in Lafourche Parish, age 1 1/2, November 1856; Sulmée Malvina born in January 1856; François Émile Arthur near Labadieville, Assumption Parish, in March 1857 but, called Émile Arthur, died at age 3 months, 13 days, the following July; Marie Eugénie born in January 1861; Joseph Clodius Sibilly in April 1863; ...  None of Livaudais's children married by 1870. 

Rosémond's second son Lucien married Ellen, daughter of Joseph Walsh and Margaret Gallway, at the Thibodaux church in May 1855. ...

Baptiste's fifth son Destival, also called Christophe, Estival, Élie, Elias, Stivane, and Stoval, followed his family to Bayou Lafourche and married Henriette Eugénie, called Eugénie, daughter of fellow Acadians Sébastien Landry and Constance Landry of Iberville Parish, at the Thibodauxville church in October 1821.  They lived briefly in St. Martin Parish west of the Atchafalaya Basin and returned to Bayou Lafourche in the late 1820s.  Their children, born on the bayous, included Joseph Vilor in St. Martin Parish in May 1827 but, called Villeor, died at age 14 in October 1841; Émile Joseph born in Lafourche Interior Parish in July 1829 but, called Joseph Émile, died at age 12 1/2 in November 1841; Marie Eléonore dite Marina born in January 1833; Pierre Evariste or Evariste Pierre, called Evariste, in February 1836; and Aurelie in July 1838--five children, three sons and two daughters, between 1827 and 1838.  Destival died in Lafourche Interior Parish in August 1838, age 42 (the recording priest said 43).  Daughters Marina and Aurelie married into the Johnson and Montet families.  Destival's two older sons, barely in their teens, died a month apart in 1841.  One wonders why.  Only his youngest son married.  Destival's widow Eugénie died in Lafourche Parish "during [a] yellow fever epidemic" in October 1853, age 60.  

Third and youngest son Evariste married Adèle, daughter of François Leloret and his Acadian wife Augustin Richard, at the Thibodaux church in December 1853.  She evidently gave him no children, at least none that survived infancy.  Evariste remarried to Amelia or Émelia, daughter of Léonce Walker and Aimée Price and widow of Auguste Babin, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in August 1858.  Their son Joseph was born near Raceland, Lafourche Parish, in August 1869; ...  

Pierre's second son Pierre, fils, dit Pierrot Perret, by first wife Marguerite Arseneau, followed his family into imprisonment at Halifax and to New Orleans and Cabahannocer, where he married Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Athanase Breaux and Marie LeBlanc, in c1785.  Anastasie had been born either aboard ship or at Cabahannocer in c1765, her family also having come to Louisiana from Halifax that year.  In the late 1780s, they crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to Attakapas and settled at Carencro at the northern edge of the district near his cousins.  Their children, born on the river and the prairies, included Pierre III at Cabahannocer in December 1786; Jean-Louis, called Louis, probably at Carencro in the late 1780s; Simon in November 1789; Héloise in January 1794; Eufroi or Leufroi in December 1796 but died at age 16 in December 1812; Joseph-Maximilien born in February 1799 but died at age 4 1/2 in October 1803; and Pierre, also called Treville, born in April 1802--seven children, six sons and a daughter, between 1786 and 1802.  Pierre, fils died "at his home" at Carencro in December 1820.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial said that Pierre dit Pierrot Perret, as he called him, died "at age about 70 years."  He was in his early 60s.  His succession, naming his heirs--Jean Louis, Simon, Terville, and Héloise--was filed at the Lafayette Parish courthouse in December 1820.  Daughter Héloise married a Bernard cousin.  Three of Pierre, fils's sons also married, but only one of the lines, a prolific one, seems to have endured.  His descendants remained in the Carencro area of Lafayette Parish, drifted eastward into the upper Vermilion valley west of Breaux Bridge, or moved northward into the prairies of St. Landry Parish. 

Oldest son Pierre III died at his parents' home at Carencro in November 1817, age 31.  He probably did not marry.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial noted that Pierre could not receive communion on his deathbed "because of the state of insanity which he suffered for 14 years," which may explain why Pierre III did not create a family of his own. 

Pierre fils's second son Jean Louis married Élisabeth or Isabelle Aspasie, called Aspasie and also Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Dugas and Anne Thibodeaux of La Butte, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in February 1810.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Pierre Gerasin, Sarasin, or Sarazin at Carencro in July 1811; Marie Caroline in September 1812; Louis Evariste in October 1813 but died at age 4 in October 1817; a son, name unrecorded, died at birth in March 1815; Marguerite Uranie, called Uranie, born in October 1816; Adolphe in December 1818; Marie Zelmire in December 1820 but died at age 3 1/2 in March 1824; Bonne born in December 1822; Odile, a son, in May 1823; Ursin or Valsin in October 1824; Treville le jeune in 1826 and baptized at Vermilionville, age 1 year, 29 days, in September 1827; Aspasie baptized at age 2 1/2 months in July 1828; Eulalie born in 1833 and baptized at age 14 months in July 1834; and Jean Louis, fils died a day after his birth in June 1836--14 children, eight sons and six daughters, between 1811 and 1836.  In September 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted 18 slaves--11 males and seven females, all black, ages 50 to 1--on Jean Louis Bernard's farm in the parish's western district.  In November 1850, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted five slaves--two males and three females, all black, ages 28 to 4--on Caroline Bernard's farm; she was Jean Louis's daughter and the widow of Placide Thibodeaux.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted 13 slaves--seven males and six females, all black except for one mulatto, ranging in age from 38 years to 4 months--on Louis Bernard's farm; this was probably Jean Louis.  Jean Louis died probably at Carencro in October 1867.  The Grand Coteau priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Jean Louis died "at age 82 yrs."  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in October 1870.  Daughters Marie Caroline, Uranie, Bonne, and Aspasie married into the Thibodeaux, Melançon, Delhomme, Caruthers, Peck, Guilbeau, and Roy families, one of them, Bonne, three times, and another, Aspasie, twice.  Five of Jean Louis's remaining sons also married, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Pierre Gerasin, Sarasin, or Sarazine married Eugénie, daughter of fellow Acadians François Mouton and Clémence Dugas, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in April 1831.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Clémence Athenaïse in October 1832; Anazie in December 1833; Numa in c1835 and baptized at Vermilionville, age 1 1/2, in January 1837; Anastasie dite Anaïse died at age 3 months in March 1836; Clémence baptized at age 3 weeks in September 1837; Erness or Ernest baptized at age 4 months in August 1839; Marie Alzina born in January 1841; Louis Alcide in December 1842; Blanche in April 1844; Meunier died at age 2 1/2 months in October 1847; and Albert born in July 1851 but, name unrecorded, died at age 1 in September 1852--11 children, six daughters and five sons, between 1832 and 1851.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted 20 slaves--10 males and 10 females, all black, ranging in age from 45 to 1--on Gerassin Bernard's plantation in the parish's western district.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted 37 slaves--21 males, 15 females, and one undetermined, all black except for one mulatto, ranging in age from 65 years to 3 months, living in seven houses--on Gerossin Bernard's plantation.  Gerasin died in Lafayette Parish in October 1867, age 56.  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in December.  Daughters ... married into the Couret, Estilette, Francez, and Guilbeau families by 1870.  Two of Gerasin's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Numa married Athanaise, daughter of Élisée Missonnier and his Acadian wife Lise Thibodeaux, at the Vermilionville church in August 1858.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included twins Rose, also called Blanche, and François Gabriel, called Gabriel, in June 1859, but Rose died in Lafayette Parish at age 3 in May 1862, and François may have died in St. Martin Parish, age 3 1/3 (the recording priest said 4), in September 1862; Joseph Paschali, called Pascalie, born in September 1860; ...  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted three slaves--all males, all black, ages 24, 20, and 12--on Numar Bernard's farm next to Louis Misonnier.  During the War of 1861-65, Numa served as a sergeant in Company D of the Consolidated Crescent Regiment Louisiana Infantry, which fought in Louisiana.  He survived the war and returned to what was left his family.   

Gerasin's second son Ernest married Laure, another daughter of Élisée Missonnier and Lise Thibodeaux, at the Vermilionville church in February 1861.  Daughter Clara Philomène was born in Lafayette Parish in February 1862; ... During the war, Ernest served as a second and third corporal and then a first sergeant in Company A of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, the Lafayette Prairie Boys, raised in Lafayette Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  He evidently survived the war and returned to his family. 

Jean Louis's fourth son Adolphe married fellow Acadian Fanelie Guilbeau at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in December 1841.  Son Adolphe, fils was born near Grand Coteau in September 1842.  Adolphe, père's succession, calling his wife Fannely, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in January 1851.  He would have been age 33 at the time.  One wonders if the succession was post-mortem. 

Only son Adolphe, fils, who received his emancipation at age 18 in April 1861, died probably at Carencro in May 1864, age 21.  He probably did not marry.  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following July.  One wonders if his death was war-related.  His family line died with him. 

Jean Louis's fifth son Odile married Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadian Nicolas Colin Broussard and his Creole wife Mélanie Sudrique, at the Breaux Bridge church, St. Martin Parish, in March 1851. Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Edgard in December 1851 but died at age 10 (the recording priest said 9) in July 1862; Albert born in December 1853; Odile, fils in October 1856; Jean Adolphe near Breaux Bridge in April 1859 but, called Jean Odile, died at age 6 in October 1865; ...  In June 1860, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted five slaves--one male and four females, all black except for one mulatto, ranging in age from 28 years to 10 months--on Odile Bernard's farm next to Widow Colin Broussard, his mother-in-law, and not far from Valsin Bernard.  Odile died near Breaux Bridge in February 1864.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Odile was age 38 when he died.  He was 40.  One wonders if his death was war-related.  None of his sons married by 1870. 

Jean Louis's sixth son Valsin, at age 18, married Madeleine, daughter of Antoine Nezat and Eméranthe Gauthier, at the St. Martinville church in September 1842.  Their children, born on the parishes and the upper Teche, included Emérente near Grand Coteau in September 1843; Joseph Alcide, called Alcide, in June 1846; Aspasie inn April 1851; Anthenor probably in the late 1840s; Félicianne in St. Martin Parish in September 1855 but, called Féliciane, died in Lafayette Parish, age 3 1/2 (the recording priest said 3), in August 1859; Pierre Auguste born near Breaux Bridge in November 1857; Louis Adolphe in December 1860; Marie Alicia in November 1864; ...  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 60 to 15--on Valsin Bernard's farm.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted nine slaves--four males and five females, all black except for one mulatto, age 40 to 4, living in three houses--on Valsin Bernard's farm not far from Odile Bernard; this could have been him or a distant cousin with the same name who also lived in the parish.  Valsin, at age 45, remarried to Ordalie, daughter of Aurelien Angèle and his Acadian wife Julie Guidry, at the Breaux Bridge church in June 1869.  They settled up bayou near Arnaudville.  Daughters ..., by his first wife, married into the Bernard, Gillard, and Richard families by 1870.  Two of Valsin's sons also married by then, but only one of the lines endured. 

Oldest Alcide, by first wife Madeleine Nezat, married fellow Acadian Emma Richard and died near Breaux Bridge in May 1868.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Alcide died "at age 22 yrs."  Joseph Alcide would have been a month shy of that age.  His succession , naming his wife, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in May 1869.  Did he father any children?

Valsin's second son Anthenor, by his first wife Madeleine Nezat, married Marie, daughter of Joachim Begnaud and Josette Guilbert, at the Breaux Bridge church in December 1867.  Their children, born on the upper Teche, included Noe near Breaux Bridge in March 1869; Jean Jacques near Arnaudville in December 1870; ...

Jean Louis's seventh son Treville le jeune married Anaïs, daughter of Ulgère Roy, a French Canadian, not a fellow Acadian, and Zelia Nezat, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in April 1854.  Their daughter Marie Élodie was born in St. Landry Parish in February 1855.  Wife Anaïs, called Marie Anaïs Roy by the priest who recorded her burial, died in St. Landry Parish, age 20, in June 1855, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth.  Did Treville le jeune remarry?  His daughter did not marry by 1870. 

Pierre, fils's third son Simon married Geneviève Cidalise, called Cidalise, daughter of François Carmouche, captain of the local militia, and his Acadian wife Françoise Arceneaux of Carencro, at the St. Martinville church in December 1811.  Their daughter Marie Élisabeth dite Elisa was born in St. Martin Parish in September 1813.  Simon's succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville in August 1826.  He would have been age 37 that year.  Daughter Elisa married a Bernard cousin.  Simon may have fathered no sons, at least none who survived infancy, so this family line, except for its blood, evidently died with him. 

Pierre, fils's sixth and youngest son Pierre Treville or Terville, called Terville, married Marie Euphrasie, called Euphrasie, 14-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Arceneaux and his Creole wife Marie Josette Nezat, at the Grand Coteau church in January 1822.  They settled near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Marie Azélie in December 1822; Joséphine, also called Marie Joséphine, in March 1824 but died at age 3 1/2 in August 1828; Euphrasie Elvina born in 1825 and baptized at Vermilionville, age 3 months, in February 1826; Marie Amelia or Emilia baptized at age 6 days in March 1834; Pierre Bienvenu Anthéole, called Anthéole, baptized at age 7 months in November 1836; and Marie Octavie in late 1838 and baptized at age 13 months in January 1840 but died at age 3 in October 1841--six children, five daughters and a son, between 1822 and 1838.  Judging by his age--he would have been 54!--he is unlikely the Treville Bernard of Lafayette Parish who married--in his case, remarried--to Arthémise, 19-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Eugène Gautreaux and Marie Delphine Breaux, at Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in September 1856 and settled in nearby St. James Parish.  In September 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted 11 slaves--seven males and four females, all black, ranging in age from 40 years to 8 months--on Pierre T. Bernard's farm in the parish's western district.  Treville must have owned land in St. Landry Parish as well.  In October 1850, the federal census taker in that parish counted three slaves--all males, all black, ages 50, 33, and 23--on Treville Bernard's farm.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted 19 slaves--10 males and nine females, 10 blacks and nine mulattoes, ages 60 years to 3 months--on P. Treville Bernard's farm next to Anthéole Bernard.  Pierre Treville died in Lafayette Parish in September 1868.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Pierre Treville died "at age 70 yrs."  He was 66.  Daughters ... married into the Bernard and Mouton families by 1870.  Treville's son may not have married.

In June 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted a single slave--a 68-year-old black male--on only son Anthéole Bernard's farm next to Pierre T. Bernard.  During the war, Anthéole may have been conscripted into Confederate service in the summer of 1862.  He served in either the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry or the Yellow Jackets Battalion Louisiana Infantry, which had been raised in St. Martin Parish, until November 1863, and then in Company D of the Consolidated 18th Regiment and Yellow Jackets Battalion Infantry, which fought in Louisiana.  In December 1863, he reported ill at the Taylor hospital somewhere in central Louisiana.  His Confederate service record loses track of him after that.  One wonders if he survived the war, returned to Lafayette Parish, and created a family of his own. 

Pierre, père's third and youngest son Louis, by second wife Cécile Bergeron, married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Blanchard and Marie Dupuis, at the St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer church in April 1795.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer, included Marie-Modeste, called Modeste, in February 1796; and Marie-Esther in December 1797.  Louis remarried to Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Poirier and Madeleine Richard, at Cabahannocer in November 1798.  She evidently gave him no more children.  Louis died at Cabahannocer/St. James in April 1804, age 30.  Daughters Modeste and Marie Esther, by his first wife, married into the Breaux, Bernard, and LeBlanc families, one of them on Bayou Lafourche in her late 50s.  Louis and his wives evidently had no sons, so his line of the family, except for its blood, probably died with him.  

Bertrand

Not until Claude Bertrand--no kin to Clément or Jean-François, other Bertrands in Acadia--came to Port-Royal in the mid-1680s did a Bertrand family take root in peninsula Acadia.  Soon afrer his arrival, Claude married Catherine, daughter of Jean Pitre and Marie Pesseley, who gave him 10 children, at least seven sons and two daughters.  Their daughters married into the Comeau, Le Breton, Martin, and Blanchard families.  Four of Claude's sons married into the Léger, Doucet, and Moulaison families.  According to Acadian genealogist Bona Arsenault, Claude moved to Port-Razoir, now Shelburne, Nova Scotia, on the Atlantic side of the peninsula northeast of Cap-Sable, in c1693, but he probably did not move there until the early 1700s.  He died by February 1727 probably at Port-Razoir.  By 1755, his descendants had settled at Annapolis Royal, formerly Port-Royal; Chepoudy and Petitcoudianc in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto; Minas; Pobomcoup near Cap-Sable; and on French-controlled Île St.-Jean.  Meanwhile, another Bertrand family, whose progenitor had come to Plaisance, Newfoundland, then a part of greater Acadia, from Île de Ré near La Rochelle, France, in the 1660s, settled on nearby Île Royale.  In April 1752, a French official counted Marie Le Borgne de Bélisle, wife of Jean, grandson of Jean-François Bertrand of Île de Ré, along with her Bertrand children, at Rivière-de-Miré on the Atlantic coast of Île Royale.  Marie was a granddaughter of former Acadian governor and Port-Royal seigneur Alexandre Le Borgne de Bélisle, so this branch of Bertrand family would have considered themselves colonial aristocracy. 

Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered these families even farther.  A grandson of Claude Bertrand and some of his family escaped the British roundup at Chepoudy in the fall of 1755 and fled north to Canada.  He died at Québec in late December 1757, victim, perhaps, of the smallpox epidemic that struck the Acadian refugees in and around the Canadian capital from the summer of 1757 through the spring of 1758.  After the war with Britain, his descendants could be found on the upper St. Lawrence at Lavaltrie between Trois-Rivières and Montréal, and at Ste.-Thérèse near Montréal.  Meanwhile, another Bertrand, perhaps also a grandson of Claude, ended up as a widower on Île St.-Pierre, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  Typical of most, if not all, Acadian families, these Acadiennes of Canada and the Maritimes region 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. 

When the British rounded up the Acadians in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755, Bertrands on Île St.-Jean, living in territory controlled by France, escaped the fate of their kinsmen on the Fundy shore.  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 and deported them to France.  This likely included Bertrands still on Île Royale. 

Claude Bertrand's older daughter, her second husband, and their children were deported aboard the transport Violet with 400 other Acadians.  On 13 December 1758, the Violet sank in a storm off the southwest coast of England on its way to St.-Malo, France.  All were lost.  One of Claude's sons, his wife, and a daughter survived the crossing to France aboard a different vessel.  Claude's younger daughter and her family survived the crossing on yet another vessel, but they did not remain in France.  They were counted on Île Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland, in 1767.  That year, obeying a royal decree, French officials, hoping to relieve overcrowding on the island, sent them and other fisher/habitants to France.  They settled in Brittany, where the daughter died soon after making her third Atlantic crossing.  Some of Claude's grandchildren who had survived the 1758 deportation settled at Cherbourg and Le Havre in Normandy.  In the early 1770s, a grandson and his family were part of the attempt to settle exiles from the port cities on an influential nobleman's land near the city of Châtellerault in the interior of Poitou.  After two years of effort, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians from Châtellerault down the Vienne and the Loire to the port of Nantes, where they subsisted on government handouts or what work they could find.  Another of Claude's grandsons worked as a ship's carpenter at Cherbourg and Le Havre.  He and his family also were part of the Poitou venture and retreated to Nantes.  Another grandson worked as a day-laborer and sailor at Cherbourg, in Poitou, and at Nantes, where he died at age 50.  His son, when he was old enough, worked as a sailor and, when he could, watched after his widowed mother.  In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  Most of Claude's descendants still in the mother country--14 of them--agreed to take it, but one of his granddaughters and her husband chose to remain in France.

Meanwhile, a Bertrand who had worked as a master carpenter at Louisbourg before being exiled ended up at Pointe-à-Pitre on Guadeloupe in the French Antilles.  He married the daughter of a master fisherman in July 1769 but died a few weeks later, age 30.  Another Île Royale Bertrand emigrated to Louisiana.  Born at Havre-la-Baleine, Île Royale, in c1741, he likely was deported to France with some of his kinsmen in late 1758.  Sometime in the late 1700s, he found his way to New Orleans, evidently with a wife named Bernarda.

Although several young Acadian Bertrand males came to Louisiana in 1785 aboard two of the Seven Ships from France, only one of them created a family of his own.  He had only one son, so the Acadian branch of the family is a very small part of the Bertrand presence in South Louisiana.  These few Acadian Bertrands remained on Bayou Lafourche. 

When federal census takers visited the Lafourche valley parishes in 1850 and 1860, they found no slaves on Bertrand farms, at least none who appeared on the federal slave schedules for those years.  The family, then, participated only peripherally in the South's antebellum plantation-based economy.  

Dozens of Bertrands served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65.  Most of them, understandably, were non-Acadians. ...

In Louisiana, the family's name also is spelled Beltrand, Berterand, Berterant, Berthrand, Bertran, Bertrant.80

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A Bertrand, his wife, and seven of their children 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, but no lasting family line came of it: 

Pierre-Jacques (c1731-1790s) Claude Bertrand

Pierre-Jacques, only son of Pierre Bertrand and Marie-Josèphe Moulaison, born probably at Pobomcoup near Cap-Sable in c1731, probably was captured by the British there in late 1758, held on Georges Island, Halifax, for a year, and was deported to Cherbourg, France, with other exiles.  When he landed at Cherbourg in early 1759, he was still a bachelor.  He worked as a manual laborer and a sailor in the Norman port.  In his early 30s, he married Catherine, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Bourg and his second wife Marguerite Landry, in Très-Ste.-Trinité Parish, Cherbourg, in February 1764.  Catherine evidently gave Pierre-Jacques a son there, Pierre-Joseph, birth date unrecorded.  They crossed the Baie de Seine to Le Havre, where Catherine gave Pierre-Jacques another son, Ambroise-Bénoni, called Bénoni, born in October 1766.  After they returned to Cherbourg, she gave him more children in Trés-Ste.-Trinité Parish:  Jean-Augustin born in September 1769; and Marie-Catherine in January 1772.  In 1773, Pierre-Jacques took his family to Poitou, where Catherine gave him another daughter, Marie, in St.-Jean l'Evangeliste Parish, Châtellerault, in March 1774.  In December 1775, after two years of effort, the family retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the lower Loire port of Nantes.  Catherine gave Pierre-Jacques more children in St.-Jacques Parish there:  François born in November 1776 but died the following January; another François born in c1779 but died at age 3 in September 1782; Adélaïde born in December 1777; Louis in September 1782; and Anne-Madeleine in March 1785--10 children, six sons and four daughters, between 1764 and 1785.  Pierre-Jacques, Catherine, and seven of their children--three sons and four daughters, ages 19 to infant--emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Oldest son Pierre-Joseph, who would have been about age 20 that year, if he was still living, did not follow his family to the Spanish colony.  From New Orleans, Pierre-Jacques and his family followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where the middle-aged couple had no more children.  Three of their children who had come with them to the colony--Jean-Auguste and Louis, ages 15 and 3 in 1785; and Anne-Madeleine, an infant during the crossing--were not counted with the family in Lafourche valley censuses during the late 1780s and early 1790s, so they probably died young, if they survived the crossing.  Daughters Marie-Catherine, Marie, and Adélaïde married into the Caillier, Boudreaux, and Bourg families on the Lafourche.  None of Pierre-Jacques's sons married, at least none in Louisiana, so only the blood of this large Acadian family endured in the Bayou State.  

Second son Ambroise-Bénoni, called Bénoni, followed his family from Le Havre back to Cherbourg, to Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he died in Assumption Parish in August 1814, age 48, still a bachelor. 

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Another Bertrand, his wife, and four children, and a widow and her Bertrand son, crossed to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans during the first week of November 1785.  They also followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche and settled near their kinsmen already there.  One lasting family line came of it: 

Eustache (c1736-?) Claude Bertrand

Eustache, fourth and youngest son of Jean Bertrand l'aîne and Marie-Françoise Léger dit LaRosette and Pierre-Jacques's first cousin, born in British Nova Scotia in c1736, evidently escaped to one of the French Maritime islands in the late 1750s while other members of his family sought refuge in Canada.  In late 1758, after the fall of Louisbourg, the British deported Eustache and dozens of other island Acadians to Cherbourg, Normandy, France, where he worked as a ship's carpenter.  He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Benjamin Landry and Marguerite Babin, in Très-Ste.-Trinité Parish, Cherbourg, in March 1764.  Marguerite gave Eustache five children there and across the Baie de Seine at Le Havre:  Madeleine-Marguerite born at Cherbourg in c1766; Jean-Baptiste-Léonor or Léonor-Jean-Baptiste in Notre-Dame Parish, Le Havre, in April 1768 but died at Cherbourg, age 6 1/2 months, the following November; Geneviève-Adélaïde born at Cherbourg in May 1770; Marie-Geneviève in October 1772; and Marie-Louise in c1773 or 1774.  Like his cousin Pierre-Jacques, Eustache took his family to Poitou in 1773.  Marguerite gave him another daughter there, Marguerite-Lucie born at Archigny southeast of Châtellerault in October 1774.  In December 1775, after two years of effort, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the lower Loire port of Nantes.  Daughter Geneviève-Adélaïde, who would have been age 5 in 1775, was not with them on the convoy to Nantes, so she probably had died by then.  Daughter Marie-Louise died at Chantenay near Nantes, age 22 months, in August 1776.  Daughter Marguerite-Lucie also died at Nantes or Chantenay between 1776 and 1785.  At Chantenay, Marguerite gave Eustache four more children:  Guillaume-Eustache born in c1776 but died at age 1 in May 1777; Marie-Josèphe born in c1778; Charles in July 1780 but died at age 18 months in April 1782; and Louis-Martin born in c1784--10 children, four sons and six daughters, between 1766 and 1784, over half of whom did not survive childhood.  In 1785, with their four remaining children--three daughters and a son, ages 19 to 1--Eustache and Marguerite emigrated to Spanish Louisiana and followed his cousin and their fellow passengers from New Orleans to the upper Lafourche.  Eustache and Marguerite had no more children in Louisiana.  Oldest daughter Madeleine-Marguerite married into the LeBlanc and Dubois families on the bayou.  Younger daughters Marie-Geneviève and Marie-Josèphe did not marry, nor did Eustache's only surviving son.  Marie-Geneviève, age 11 in 1785, may not have survived the crossing from France. 

Fourth and youngest son Louis-Marin followed his family to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche.  He was counted with them on the bayou in the late 1780s and early 1790s and died in Assumption Parish in February 1815.  The Plattenville priest who recorded the burial said that Louis Marin died at age 35.  He was 31.  He did not marry.  His father's line of the family, then, except for its blood, died with him. 

Jean-Nicolas (c1764-1804) à Jean le jeune à Claude Bertrand

Jean-Nicolas, called Nicolas or Colas, older son of Jean Bertrand and Marguerite Blanchard of Chepoudy, born perhaps in the prison compound at Chédabouctou, Nova Scotia, in c1764, was taken to Île Miquelon soon after his birth and to France in 1767.  Most of the islanders returned to Miquelon the following year, but Nicolas's family remained at Cherbourg in Normandy.  Nicolas followed his family to Poitou in 1773 and retreated with them to Nantes, where his father died in November 1781, when Nicolas was in his late teens.  In 1785, when he was age 21 and still a bachelor, Nicolas followed his widowed mother to Spanish Louisiana.  He married Marguerite-Tarsille, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand Pitre and Geneviève Arcement, at New Orleans in December 1785 soon after he reached the city.  Marguerite, a native of St.-Suliac near St.-Malo, had crossed from France on an earlier vessel.  They settled with his widowed mother on upper Bayou Lafourche and may have lived briefly at nearby Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  Marguerite gave Nicolas a son, Jean-Baptiste, at Cabahannocer in January 1789--their only child.  Nicolas, described by the recording priest as an "inhabitant of Bayou de la fourche," died at Opelousas, west of the Atchafalaya Basin, in February 1804.  The Opelousas priest who recorded the burial said that Nicolas died "at age about 43 yrs."  He probably was closer to 40.  A civil record says he died in December 1805, but that was the same day his succession inventory was filed at what became the Thibodauxville courthouse, Lafourche Interior Parish, so he likely still owned propery in that parish.  In May 1807, his son inventoried Nicolas's property.  The Acadian Bertrands of Louisiana are descended from Nicolas and his son, who also had only one son.  

Only son Jean-Baptiste followed his family to upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Henriette Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean François Rassicot and his second wife Marie Josèphe Robichaux, in July 1806.  Henriette was born on the Lafourche soon after his father, a native of Cherbourg, France, remarried to her mother there.  Jean Baptiste and Henriette's children, born on the upper bayou, included Auguste in June 1810; Clémence in December 1811; Tersille in c1813; and Henriette Zéline, Azélie, or Evelina in August 1816--four children, a son and three daughters, between 1810 and 1816.  Jean Baptiste's succession inventory was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse in September 1816.  He would have been age 27 that year.  Wife Henriette remarried to a Foreign Frenchman.  Her and Jean Baptiste's daughters Tersille, Azélie/Evelina, and Clémence married into the Robichaux, LeBlanc, Landry, and Bourgeois families.  Jean Baptiste's son also married.  

Only son Auguste was age 14 in June 1824 when his stepfather, Louis Guillan, was named his and his younger sister Clémence's curator.  Auguste married Euphémie, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne LeBlanc and Marguerite Melançon, at the Thibodauxville church in May 1832; Euphémie's brother Étienne married Auguste's sister Azélie.  Auguste and Euphémie's children, born on the Lafourche, included Auguste, fils in March 1833; Marguerite Euphémie in January 1835; Jean Baptiste Euphémon, called Euphémon, in December 1836; Charles Abel in December 1838; and Augustin in December 1840 but died at age 5 months the following May.  Auguste, père may have remarried to Louise Fiche or Fitch, place and date unrecorded, but it probably in Lafourche Interior Parish in the early or mid-1840s.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Augusta in November 1847; and Ema or Emma Isidora in January 1849--seven children, four sons and three daughters, by two wives, between 1833 and 1849.  Auguste, père's succession inventory, giving his death date and listing his children and their ages, all from his first wife--Auguste, fils, age 20; Marguerite, age 18; Euphéman, age 16; and Charles, age 14--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in November 1853.  Auguste, père would have been age 43 that year.  Daughters Marguerite and Emma, by both wives, married into the Legendre and Delatte families by 1870.  Two of Auguste's sons also married by then, one of them after his war service. 

Oldest son Auguste, fils, by first wife Euphémie LeBlanc, married Julie Marie, daughter of Bernard Romagosa and Azema Riche, at the Thibodaux church in September 1857. ...

During the War of 1861-65, Auguste, père's second son Euphémon, by first wife Euphémie LeBlanc, served in Company E of the 4th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafourche Parish, which fought in Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, and Alabama.  In 1862, a year after his enlistment, Euphémon returned home on sick leave and evidently did not rejoin his unit.  He married Marguerite Adèle, called Adèle, daughter of Pierre Roger, perhaps a Creole, not  a fellow Acadian, and Adèle Guillon or Guillou, at the Thibodaux church in April 1863.  Their son Augustave Pierre was born in Lafourche Parish in February 1864 while Euphémon was still in Confederate service.  Euphémon remarried to Elmire or Edmire Euphrosine, daughter of fellow Acadians Hermogène Robichaux and Madeleine Hirma Bergeron, at the Thibodaux church in April 1869.  Daughter Marie Héloise was born in Lafourche Parish in February 1870; ... 

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Another Acadian Bertrand, no kin to the others, came to Louisiana with his wife in the 1790s and settled at New Orleans, but no new family line came of it: 

Jean-Thomas (c1740-1801) à François, fils à Jean-François Bertrand

Jean-Thomas, son of Jean Bertrand, colonel of militia in Newfoundland, and Marie Le Borgne de Bélisle, granddaughter of a former governor of French Acadia, born at Havre-la-Baleine, Île Royale, in c1740, likley was counted with his widowed mother and siblings at Rivière-de-Miré on the Atlantic cost of Île Royale in April 1752.  The French official who made the counting noted that Jean-Thomas's widowed mother was "wintering here with her family," where she hoped to settle.  After the French fortress at nearby Louisbourg fell to the British in July 1758, Jean-Thomas, still in his teens, likely was deported to France with some of his kinsmen.  Sometime in the late 1700s, perhaps in 1785, he found his way to New Orleans, evidently with a wife named Bernarda.  Unlike the other Acadian Bertrands in Louisiana, Jean-Thomas was a descendant of Sr. Jean-François of Île de Ré and Plaisance, not Claude of Port-Royal and Port-Razoir.  Jean-Thomas died at New Orleans in November 1801.  The St.-Louis Cathedral priest who recorded the burial said that Jean-Thomas was age about 60 when he died.  The priest said nothing about children from Jean-Thomas's union with the mysterious Bernarda. 

Bijeaux/Bujole

Pierre-Alain, called Alain, son of Daniel Bugeaud, notary of St.-Ciers-du-Taillon in Saintonge north of Bordeaux, France, and Marie de La Vergne, was born at Bois, Saintonge, in November 1672 and christened at the Protestant church in that city.  Alain came to French Acadia in c1690 and married Élisabeth or Isabelle, daughter of Pierre Melanson, fils and Marguerite Mius d'Entremont, probably at Port-Royal in c1695.  One assumes that he converted to Catholicism before his marriage; his father-in-law, interestingly enough, also had been "born" a Protestant and had to abjure his Calvinist faith to marry.  Alain and Élisabeth settled with her family at Grand-Pré, where Alain served as a churchwarden, surgeon, and notary.  Sr. Alain, as his fellow Acadians called him, died probably at Grand-Pré in c1708, and his wife remarried to René LeBlanc of Grand Pré the following year.  But before he died, Sr. Alain fathered six children, five sons and a daughter, all born at Minas.  His daughter married into the Gautrot family.  Four of his sons married into the Landry, Granger, Doucet, and Boudrot families.  His and Élisabeth's descendants settled not only at Grand-Pré, but also at Pigiguit across the Minas Basin, and on Île St.-Jean.  In August 1752, a French official counted three Bugeaud families on the north bank of Rivière-du-Nord-Est and on Rivière-du-Moulin-à-Scie in the island's upper interior.  The official noted that the Bugeauds had been living on Île St.-Jean from four years to a month. 

Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this family even farther.  Bugeauds who had remained at Pigiguit when the rest of the family moved on to Île St.-Jean were rounded up by the British in the fall of 1755 and deported to Maryland.  Bugeauds who had remained at Grand-Pré were deported to Pennsylvania.  When the British rounded up their cousins in the Minas Basin , the Bugeauds on Île St.-Jean, 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 redcoats swooped down on Île St.-Jean, rounded up most of the habitants there, and deported them to France.  Some island Bugeauds managed to elude the British , cross Mer Rouge to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, and find refuge there and at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  But most of their Bugeaud kinsmen fell into British hands.  The result was devastating to the extended family.  An entire family, including seven children, were among the hundreds of Acadians who disappeared without a trace when one of the deportation transports bound for St.-Malo foundered in a storm off the southwest coast of England in mid-December 1758.  Two Bugeaud families crossed aboard one or more of the five transports that left Chédabouctou Bay in an 12-ship convoy in late November 1758, survived the mid-December storm, and reached St.-Malo together in late January 1759.  Most did not survive the crossing.  The hand full of Bugeauds who reached St.-Malo settled in a suburb there before moving down the coast to La Rochelle on the Bay of Biscay.  In the early 1780s, when the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, nearly 1,600 Acadians accepted the offer, but none of them were Bugeauds.  

Back in North America, conditions only got worse for the Acadians who had escaped the British in the late 1750s.  After the fall of Québec in September 1759, the British gathered their forces to attack the remaining French strongholds in New France, one of which was Restigouche, now a major Acadian refuge.  A naval force from Louisbourg attacked the remote outpost 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 October 24, on the eve of formal surrender, French officers counted 1,003 Acadians still at Restigouche, many of them Bugeads.  Two were serving as officers of militia, one a captain, his son a lieutenant;  Also on the list were two other Bugead famliies.  The British held them in prison compounds in Nova Scotia, including Fort Cumberland, formerly French Fort Beauséjour, near Chignecto, for the rest of the war.  At war's end, most, if not all, of the Bugeauds in Nova Scotia chose to remain in greater Acadia.  They settled at Carleton and Bonaventure in Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs, where they worked in a British-controlled fishery.  During the following years, Bugeauds from Gaspésie moved south to Caraquet and Néguac on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore in present-day northeastern New Brunswick.  Typical of most, if not all, Acadian families, these Acadiennes of Canada and the Maritimes 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 being held in the seaboard colonies, theoretically, were free to go, but not until British officials discerned their intentions.  Even then, colonial officials discouraged repatriation.  In June 1763 in Pennsylvania, a Bugeaud, his wife, and three of their children, as well as one of their sons and his family, appeared on a French repatriation list circulating in the colony.  A daughter married into the Dreux family at Philadelphia in September 1772, so the family may have remained there instead of following their fellow exiles to Canada or to the French Antilles.  The Bugeauds in Maryland endured life among Englishmen who, despite their colony's Catholic roots, did not care much for the French "papists" thrust upon them.  Members of the family, called Bigeos, appeared on a repatriation list at Oxford on Maryland's Eastern Shore in July 1763.  When word reached the Acadians in Maryland that fellow exiles had been welcomed in Louisiana, they pooled their meager resources to charter ships that would take them to New Orleans.  The Bugeauds had no close relatives in Louisiana, though they may have had cousins living there.  No matter, two Bugeaud brothers and their families signed up with the first contingent leaving the colony, which left Baltimore for New Orleans in June 1766. 

The brothers reached New Orleans in September 1766 and, at the behest of the new Spanish governor, settled on the river above the city in the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer.  One of the brothers was married and the other a widower who soon remarried, and they both fathered more children in Louisiana.  In the late 1770s or early 1780s, one of their sons crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to the Attakapas District and created a western branch of the family.  His descendants settled in present-day St. Martin, St. Mary, and Lafayette parishes and tended to spell their surname Bijeau/Bijeaux.  The other Bugeaud sons remained on the river on what came to be known as the Acadian Coast.  During the antebellum period, they settled in Ascension, Iberville, and West Baton Rouge parishes, where they tended to spell their surname Bujol/Bujole.  Interestingly, none of them moved down into the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley, at least not before the War of 1861-65. 

During the late colonial and antebellum periods, non-Acadian families with similar-sounding names--Bigeau, Pujol, Pujos--settled at Pointe Coupée, Baton Rouge, on the Acadian Coast, along Bayou Lafourche, and out on the western prairies.  The most prolific of these families was that of Francois-Philogène Pujol of Haiti, who settled near San Gabriel, not far from the Acadian Bujoles. 

According to federal census slave schedules of 1850 and 1860, not a single Bijeaux on the western prairies owned a slave, so this part of the family participated only peripherally in the South's antebellum plantation-based economy.  This was not the case with their cousins along the river.  Most of the Bujoles there, especially in West Baton Rouge and Iberville parishes, held only a hand full of slaves at the time.  However, Edmond Bujole of Ascension Parish had become a major slave holder.  In 1850, he owned 36 slaves, qualifying him as a planter.  A decade later, he owned more than twice that number--77--which made him a "great planter."  

At least two members of the family, one from the eastern branch, the other from the western, served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65.  J. Edmond Bujole became a sergeant in Company K of the 8th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Ascension Parish, that served in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, so he was one of General R. E. Lee's Louisiana Tigers.  His regiment fought in many battles and campaigns, so J. Edmond was lucky to have survived the war and returned to his family.  A distant cousin from St. Martin Parish, Achille Bijeaux, served probably as a conscript in the Consolidated 18th Regiment and Yellow Jackets Battalion Louisiana Infantry, which fought in Louisiana, but, unlike his cousin on the river, he did not compile a distinguished Confederate service record.  

Although the war did not take the life of either of the Bijeaux/Bujoles in gray, it took a terrible toll on their families and their way of life.  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 included the Bujole holdings in West Baton Rouge, Iberville, and Ascension parishes.  The loss for Edmond Bujole, especially, must have been staggering.  Union gunboats shelled and burned dozens of plantation houses along the river.  Meanwhile, Federal armies marched three times through the Teche and upper Vermilion valleys in 1863 and 1864, burning and pillaging many farms, some of them likely owned by Bijeauxs.  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 Bijeauxs lived, adding to the family's misery.  

The spelling of this family's name has changed subtly over the decades.  In Louisiana, the family spells its name Bijeau, Bijeaux, Bijou, Bujol, Bujold, and Bujole.  The original spellings in Acadia--Bugeaud, Bugeault, Bugau, Bugaud, Bugault, Bugaut, Bugeau, Bugeot, Bugot, and Bujau--disappeared in Louisiana, where the family name also is spelled Bejeaul, Bicheau, Bigeau, Bigeaud, Bigeaut, Bigeol, Bigeos, Bigiau, Bigost, Bigot, Bigou, Bijeau, Bijeaud, Bijeot, Bijot, Bijoux, Bisaux, Bisou, Bugeauld, Bujeau, Bujeaut, Bujeaux, Bujeux.

This family should not be confused with the Pujols, sometimes called Bujol, who were French Creoles and Hispanics, not Acadians.10

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All of the Acadian Bijeaux/Bujoles of South Louisiana are descendants of the two brothers from Pigiguit who came to the colony from Maryland in 1766 and settled on the river:

Joseph, fils (c1723-1806) à Alain Bijeaux/Bujole

Joseph, fils, second son of Joseph Bugeaud and Marie-Josèphe Landry, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit in c1723, married Anne, daughter of Jean LeBlanc and Jeanne Bourgeois, probably at Pigiguit in c1750.  Anne gave Joseph, fils three children there:  Marguerite born in c1751; Augustin in c1753; and Félicité-Perpétué, called Perpétué, in c1755.  The British deported the family to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  Anne gave Joseph, fils two more daughters in the colony:  Anne born in c1759; and Marie in c1761.  In July 1763, Joseph, fils, Anne, and four of their children were at Oxford on Maryland's Eastern Shore.  Anne gave Joseph, fils another daughter, Marie-Madeleine, born in Maryland in c1765.  Joseph, fils, Anne, and their five children, four daughters and a son, came to Louisiana in 1766 and settled at Cabahannocer, where Joseph, fils and Anne had another son, Joseph Paul, born in May 1769--seven children, two sons and five daughters, between 1751 and 1769, in greater Acadia, Maryland, and Louisiana.  They settled on the right, or west bank, of the river at Cabahannocer.  In August 1770 and April 1777, Spanish officials counted them on the west bank of the Mississippi at Ascension, upriver from Cabahannocer.  Joseph, fils died at Ascension in February 1806, in his early 80s.  Daughters Marguerite, Félicité-Perpetué, Anne, and Marie-Madeleine married into the Constant, Vives, Prevost,  Buquoy, Landry, and Verret families on the river.  Perhaps reflecting the family's status in old Acadia, Joseph, fils's youngest daughter Marie-Madeleine married a son of Ascension district commandant Don Nicolas Verret.  His oldest daughter's two husbands also were colonial shakers and movers.  His older son settled on the western prairies.  His younger son remained at Ascension. 

Older son Augustin followed his family to Maryland, New Orleans, and Cabahannocer, where he married Anne-Gertrude, called Gertrude, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Landry and Marie-Josèphe Bourg, in February 1774.  Gertrude, a native of Minas, also had come to Louisiana from Maryland in 1766.  Later in the decade, Augustin and Anne moved to the Attakapas District and created a western branch of the family at Anse de la Pointe on upper Bayou Teche.  Their children, born on the river and Teche, included Marie at Ascension in October 1774; Auguste, fils at Attakapas in March 1778; Goudor in c1780 but died at age 7 in September 1788; Maximilien, called Émilien, born in September 1781 but died at age 20 in November 1802; Marguerite born in February 1782; another Marie, called Pouponne, in December 1784 but died at age 26 in January 1811; Carmelle born in April 1787; and Ursin in January 1789.  In January 1801, at Attakapas, Augustin remarried to Félicité, daughter of François Senetiere and Marie-Anne Sauvagin of St.-Charles des Allemands on the lower German Coast.  Son Aurelien was born at Attakapas in January 1802--nine children, four daughters and five sons, by two wives, between 1774 and 1802.  Augustin died at his home at Anse de la Pointe in February 1822.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial said that Augustin was "age about 75 years" when he died.  He was closer to 69.  None of his daughters seem to have married.  Three of his sons did marry and remained on the upper Teche, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Auguste or Augustin, fils, by first wife Anne Gertrude Landry, married Marie Marthe, daughter of Joseph Castille of Menorca and his Acadian wife Rose Osite Landry and widow of Laurent Ducrest, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in May 1807.  They may have been that rare Cajun couple who had no children.  Augustin, fils died "at his home on Bayou Teche" in February 1824, age 47.  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse the month he died.  His line of the family died with him.  

Augustin, père's fourth son Ursin, by first wife Anne Gertrude Landry, married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Victor Richard and Marie-Madeleine Brasseaux and widow of Anaclet Cormier, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in August 1814.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Azéma in June 1815; Ursin, fils, also called Demosthènes in May 1817; Cyrille, also called Sosthène Cyrille, in August 1819; and Adélaïde, also called Adélaïde Pamela, in March 1821 but died at age 5 1/2 (the recording priest said "age about 7 years") in January 1827--four children, two daughters and two sons, between 1815 and 1821.  A succession for wife Madeleine, probably post-mortem, naming him, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in December 1846.  Ursin, père died in St. Martin Parish in January 1849, age 60.  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse later that month.  Remaining daughter Azéma married into the Patin family.  Ursin's two sons also married. 

Older son Ursin, fils, also called Demosthènes, married Laure, Aurore, and Eve, daughter of Joseph Patin and his Acadian wife Julienne Robichaux, at the St. Martinville church in April 1836.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Edmond died at age 6 months in November 1837; Louis Trasimond born in January 1839; and Leueval in c1841 but died at age 3 in October 1844.  Ursin, fils remarried to Oliva, daughter of Jean Caillier, probably in St. Martin Parish in the early 1840s.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Ursin III in October 1845; Jean Murat in c1849 and baptized at St. Martinville, age 2, in September 1851; and Félix born posthumously in November 1851--six children, all sons, by two wives, between 1837 and 1851.  Ursin, fils died on the upper Teche in May 1851.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial said that Ursin "of Grand Pointe," as he called him, was age 32 when he died.  He was 34.  His succession, naming his second wife, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse later that month and another succession, calling him Demosthène and naming his second wife, at the same courthouse in April 1857.  Two of his sons married by 1870. 

Fourth son Ursin III, by second wife Oliva Caillier, married first cousin Félicia, daughter of fellow Acadians Cyrille Bijeaux and Aspasie Guidry, his uncle and aunt, at the Breaux Bridge church, St. Martin Parish, in October 1865. ...

Ursin, fils's sixth and youngest son Félix, by second wife Oliva Caillier, married cousin Marie Bijeaux at the Breaux Bridge church in December 1870. ... Was she Marie Virginie or Marie Eve, both of them daughters of his uncle Cyrille? 

Ursin, père's younger son Cyrille married Aspasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Guidry and Élisabeth Thibodeaux, at the St. Martinville church in November 1841.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Marie Virginie in August 1843; Félicia in April 1845; Marie Eve in July 1851; Augustin Adam in August 1853, Euphémon in February 1856; Cyrille Trazimond near Breaux Bridge in April 1860; ...  Daughters Félicia and Marie Eve married Bijeaux first cousins by 1870.  None of Cyrille's sons married by then. 

Augustin, père's fifth and youngest son Aurelien, by second wife Félicité Senetiere, married Marie, daughter of Luke Collins and Zoé Courtableau and widow of Guillaume Wiltz, at the St. Martinville church in September 1826.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Susanne Ovelia or Aurelia, called Aurelia, in August 1827; Marguerite Marthe in February 1829 but died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest, not givining her name, said "at age about 2 years") in December 1830; Achille or Achilles born in October 1830; Hélène in January 1835; Odile in March 1837 but, called Odilla, died at age 6 1/2 in June 1843; and Mathilde born in January 1839--six children, five daughters and a son, between 1827 and 1839.  Aurelien's wife, called Mrs. Adrien Bijeau by the St. Martinville priest, died in St. Martin Parish in October 1843, age 50.  Her succession, calling her Marie Collins and naming him, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in November.  Aurelien evidently did not remarry.  His daughters married into the Bertrand, Jones, Melançon, and Wiltz families.  Aurelien's son also married. 

Only son Achille married Célestine, daughter of Alexandre Wiltz and Marie Celima Barras, at the St. Martinville church in April 1857.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Marie in January 1858 but died at age 1 in February 1859; Sosthènes born in September 1859 but, called Sostènes, died at age 8 months in May 1860; Joseph Adam born in June 1861; Julie Anne Eva in July 1864; Aurelien le jeune in December 1868; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Achille served probably as a conscript in Company A of the Consolidated 18th Regiment and Yellow Jackets Battalion Louisiana Infantry, which fought in Louisiana--perhaps the only member of his extended family to serve the Southern Confederacy in uniform.  He was absent without leave in early 1864 and may not have returned to his unit.  A daughter was born in July 1864, so in late 1863, when his regiment was stationed in the lower Red River valley, he may have gone AWOL then as well.  As the birth of his younger children attest, he survived the war and returned to his family. 

Joseph, fils's younger son Joseph-Paul married Marie dite Manette, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Picou of New Orleans and Marie Lorot, perhaps Lirard, "of Louisbourg in Canada," at Assumption on upper Bayou Lafourche in May 1796.  Their children, born at Ascension, included Jean-Joseph in May 1803; and Narcisse Carville in November 1804.  Joseph Paul died in Ascension Parish in October 1808, age 40.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in West Baton Rouge Parish counted two slaves--a 50-year-old black female and an 11-year-old black female--on Manet Bujol's farm; this probably was Joseph III's widow Manette Picou.  Evidently Manette returned to the Bayou Lafourche valley in the 1850s.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Lafourche Parish counted two slaves--an 80-year-old black female and a 47-year-old black female--on Mrs. Manette Bujol's farm in the parish's Seventh Ward; this probably was Manette Picou, who would have been close to age 80 herself.  One of her and Joseph Paul's sons married and settled on the river. 

Younger son Narcisse Carville married Adeline, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Orillion and his Creole wife Clothilde Marionneaux, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in May 1825.  They settled on the river near boundary between Iberville and Ascension parishes.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Narcisse in April 1826; Emma in the late 1820s or early 1830s; Anne Marie Malvina or Elvania in October 1836 but died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest, who called her Elvania, said "age 15 yrs.," but the burial record may have meant months) in August 1838; Antoinette Elvagna, perhaps also called Malvina, born in March 1837(sic); Joseph Terbone, probably Terrebonne, in September 1839; Narcisse Théodore in August 1841 but likely was the Charbonnet Bujol who died at age 14 in September 1855; Marie Ophelia, called Ophelia, born in May 1843--seven children, three sons and four daughters, between 1826 and 1843.  Narcisse died near St. Gabriel in September 1855.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Narcisse was age 55 when he died.  He was 50.  Daughters Emma, Malvina, and Ophelia married into the Devilliers, Desaunnay, Roth, and Rivet families by 1870.  None of Narcisse's sons married by then. 

Étienne (c1725-1786) à Alain Bijeaux/Bujole

Étienne Bugeaud, third son of Joseph Bugeaud, père and Marie-Josèphe Landry and brother of Joseph, fils, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1725, married Brigitte, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Chênet and Anne Pothier of Île St.-Jean, probably at Pigiguit in c1750.  Brigitte gave Étienne two sons at Pigiguit:  Mathurin born in c1752; and Pierre in c1755.  The British deported the family to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  Brigitte gave Étienne twin daughters--Marie; and Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine--born in the colony in c1761.  In July 1763, Étienne, Brigitte, and their four children appeared on a repatriation list at Oxford on Maryland's Eastern Shore near his older brother Joseph, fils.  Wife Brigitte died in Maryland soon after appearing on the list.  Étienne and his four children followed his older brother and his family to Louisiana in 1766 and settled near them on the right, or west, bank of the river at Cabahannocer.  Étienne remarried to fellow Acadian Anne Forest, widow of Pierre Babin, at New Orleans in c1768.  She gave him another son, Jean-Augustin-Gabriel, born probably at Cabahannocer in October 1768, who was baptized upriver at Pointe Coupée the following February--five children, three sons and two daughters, by two wives, between 1752 and 1768, in greater Acadia, Maryland, and Louisiana.  By August 1770, Étienne and his family were living next to brother Joseph, fils on the west bank of the river at Ascension above Cabahannocer and were still there seven years later.  Étienne died at Ascension in October 1786, in his early 60s.  Twin daughters Marie and Madeleine, by first wife Brigitte, married into the Blanchard and Bourg families on the river.  Two of his sons also married, but only the youngest one created an enduring line.  Étienne's descendants settled in Ascension, Iberville, and West Baton Rouge parishes.  One of his great-grandsons in Ascension Parish became a major planter by 1860.  

Oldest son Mathurin, by first wife Brigitte Chênet, followed his family to Maryland, New Orleans, Cabahannocer, and Ascension, where he was counted in August 1770 as a 17-year-old head of "family."  He evidently did not marry.  

Étienne's second son Pierre, by first wife Brigitte Chênet, followed his family to Maryland, New Orleans, and Cabahannocer, where he married Osite, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Landry and Geneviève Broussard, in April 1776.  Pierre died at Ascension the following October, age 21.  His line of the family died with him.   

Étienne's third and youngest son Jean-Augustin-Gabriel, by second wife Anne Forest, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Bourg and Madeleine Granger, at Ascension in February 1786 on the same day and at the same place his older half-sister Marie married Marie-Josèphe's brother Pierre.  Jean-Augustin-Gabriel and Marie-Josèphe's children, born at Ascension, included Joseph-Sylvestre baptized, age unrecorded, in October 1787; Emérante-Marie or Marie-Emérante, also called Constance, born in June 1792; Étienne-Eugène, called Eugène, in March 1793 but died at Ascension at age 20 in April 1814; Simon-Edmond, called Edmond and Édouard, born in c1796; and Marie-Clothilde, called Clothilde, born in November 1797.  Jean remarried to Marie Eugènie, daughter of Michel Lambremont and his Acadian wife Marguerite Pélagie Breaux, at St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, upriver from Ascension, in March 1818.  Their children, born at St. Gabriel, included Étienne le jeune in February 1819; and Jean Baptiste Théodule posthumously in January 1821 but died the following September--seven children, five sons and two daughters, between 1787 and 1821.  Jean died in Ascension Parish in December 1820.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Jean was age 32 when he died.  He was 52.  Daughters Clothilde and Marie Emérante, by his first wife, married into the LeBlanc family.  Three of his sons also married on the river. 

Oldest son Joseph Sylvestre, called Sylvestre or Silvestre, from first wife Marie Josèphe Bourg, married cousin Marie Françoise dite Manette, daughter of Augustin Leveque and Justine Prevault of New Orleans, at the Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, in April 1811; they had to secure dispensations for third and fourth degrees of consanguinity in order to marry.  The lived near the boundary between Ascension and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marguerite Justine in February 1812; Sylvestre Augustin Casimir in December 1813; Joseph Hubert in October 1815; Joseph Amédée, called Amédée, in the late 1810s; Marie Pauline, called Pauline, in October 1817; Joseph François, also called François Joseph, in July 1819; Marie Clémence, also called Marie Céleste, in May 1821; and Marie Angeline or Angelina, called Angeline, in July 1823--eight children, four daughters and four sons, between 1812 and 1823.  Joseph Sylvestre died in Assumption Parish in October 1824, age 37.  Daughter Pauline entered the Academy of the Sacred Heart at Grand Coteau in October 1834, when she was age 14; she left for the religious house at St. Louis, Missouri, in June 1842, when she was 24, but she later married.  Daughter Angéline followed her older sister to the Academy of the Sacred Heart in June 1838, when she was 15, but she did not take her vows; she also married.  Daughters Marie Céleste, Angéline, and Pauline married into the Youngblood, Fourrier, and Gellusseau families.  Two of Joseph Sylvestre's sons also married and moved upriver to the Baton Rouge area.  

Third son Joseph Amédée, called Amédée, married Anne Adèle, called Adèle, daughter of fellow Acadian Manuel Landry and his Creole wife Céleste Bruneteau, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in June 1839.  Their children, born in West Baton Rouge Parish, included Marianne Cécile, called Cécile, near Brusly in c1839 or 1840; Marie Mathilde, called Mathilde, in June 1841; Marie Amélie, called Amélie, in July 1843; Marie Augusta Adèle, called Adèle, in June 1845; Marie Philomène Estelle in April 1847 but died at age 1 in June 1848; Marie Pauline born in March 1849; Marie Sophie died, age unrecorded, in September 1851; Marie Julie died at age 6 1/2 months in September 1851, three days after her older sister Marie Sophie died (were they victims of a yellow fever epidemic?); Marie Anaïse Amenide, called Anaïse, born in August 1852; Marie Félicie, called Félicie, in July 1854; and Joseph Sylvester Amédée in May 1856--11 children, 10 daughters and a son, between 1839 and 1856.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in West Baton Rouge Parish counted two slaves--a 19-year-old black male and a 19-year-old black female--on Amédée Bujol's farm next to Manuel Landry, who held 36 slaves.  Joseph Amédée died near Brusly in June 1857.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Joseph Amédée died at "age 38 years."  Daughters Mathilde, Marie Augusta Adèle, Marie Amélie, ... married into the Hotard, Bergeron, and Landry families by 1870.  Joseph Amédée's son did not marry by then. 

Joseph Sylvestre's fourth and youngest son François Joseph or Joseph François "of New Orleans" married Marie Irma, called Irma, daughter of fellow Acadians Narcisse Landry and Carmélite Hébert of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the Baton Rouge church in January 1846.  Their children, born in West Baton Rouge Parish, included Sylvestre Aristide near Brusly in December 1845, a month before his parents' wedding, but died at age 3 1/2 (the recording priest said 4 1/2) in September 1849; Carmélite Appauline born in July 1849 but died the following September; Joseph Francois born in March 1852 but died the following July; Narcisse Provesty born in September 1856; and Marie Joséphine in June 1859--five children, three sons and two daughters, between 1845 and 1859.  None of François Joseph's remaining children married by 1870. 

Jean Augustin Gabriel's third son Simon Edmond, called Edmond and Édouard, from first wife Marie Josèphe Bourg, married Marguerite Madeleine or Modeste, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Babin and Françoise Landry, at the Donaldson church in January 1817.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Edmond, fils in February 1818; a son, name unrecorded, died two days after his birth in September 1819; and Jacques dit Job in c1820--three children, all sons, between 1818 and 1820.  Edmond, père died in Ascension Parish in March 1823, age 26.  His remaining sons married and settled in Ascension Parish, where one of them became a properous planter. 

Oldest son Edmond, fils, called Édouard by the recording priest, married Marie Ethelvina, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Blanchard and Judith LeBlanc, at the Donaldsonville church in February 1838.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Joseph Edmond, called J. Edmond and Edmond, in November 1838; and Joseph Jules Alcé in May 1844 but, called Joseph Jules Alcée, died at age 16 months in October 1845.  Edmond, fils remarried to Éléonise Élisabeth, called Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Neuville Melançon and Marie Eléonise Hébert, at the Donaldsonville church in May 1850.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Jacques le jeune in late 1852 but died at age 9 months in August 1853; Marie Edmonia born in February 1854; Modeste Anastasie in September 1855 but, called Anastasie, died at age 11 months in August 1856; Beltran Théodule born in October 1856; Filmore died at age 5 months in May 1859; Madelaine Léonise born in July 1860; Jeanne Ethelvina died at age 4 months in October 1867; ...  In September 1850, the federal census taker in Ascension Parish counted 36 slaves--16 males, 10 females, all black, ranging in age from 60 years to 1 month--on E. Bujole's plantation; this probably was Edmond, fils.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Ascension Parish counted 47 slaves--32 males and 15 females, 42 blacks and five mulattoes, ranging in age from 55 to 1, living in 11 houses--on Edmund Bujol's plantation in the parish's First Ward next to Widow Lise Bujol.  The same census taker counted 30 more slaves--16 males and 14 females, ages 58 to 5, living in eight houses--owned by Edmund Bujol & Co. nearby--77 slaves in all, which made him a "great planter."  One of his sons married by 1870. 

Oldest son J. Edmond, also called Joseph Edmond, from first wife Marie Ethelvina Blanchard, married, at age 19, Hermina, daughter of Henri Brugere and his Acadian wife Rosalie Melançon, at the Donaldsonville church in October 1857.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Filmore in late 1858 or early 1859 but died at age 5 months in May 1859; Clothilde Ethelvina born in June 1860 but died the following November; Marie Eve born in October 1861; Joseph Adam in September 1862; Pierre Gustave in August 1865; Samson Joseph Bruce in July 1868; Paul Henry in June 1870; ...   During the War of 1861-65, J. Edmond served as a sergeant 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.  Faced with conscription, he enlisted as a private at Donaldsonville in March 1862, age 23, and joined his regiment already in Virginia.  For much of his first year in service--May to August 1862, and January to May 1863--he was absent sick at Lynchburg, Virginia.  Despite his absences, he was promoted to corporal in April 1863 and to sergeant in late July 1863, so he must have been a valuable soldier.  He was absent sick at Lynchburg again in early and mid-1864.  Having returned to his family in late 1864 probably on a medical discharge, he did not surrender with his regiment at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, in April 1865. 

Edmond, père's second son Jacques dit Job married Elmire Élise dite Lise, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Gaudin and Rosalie Dugas, at the Donaldsonville church in October 1841.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, inlcuded Elmire Zoé in July 1842; Joseph Jean Baptiste in January 1844; Étienne le jeune in December 1845; Modeste Noémi, called Noémi, in November 1847; Marie Louise in August 1849; Jacques Léonce in January 1852; Julie Rosalie in May 1853; and Marguerite François posthumously in February 1856--eight children, five daughters and three sons, between 1842 and 1856.  In September 1850, the federal census taker in Ascension Parish counted a single slave--a 50-year-old black male--on Jacques Bujole's farm.  Jacques died in Ascension Parish in October 1855.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Jacques was age 36 when he died.  He may have been a year or two younger.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Ascension Parish counted five slaves--three males and two females, one black and four mulattoes, ranging in age from 35 to 5, living in two houses--on Widow Lise Bujol's farm in the parish's First Ward between Edmund Bujol's plantation and Edmund Bujol & Co.; this was Jacques's widow Lise Gaudin.  Daughters Elmire, Noémi, ... married into the Landry and Babin families by 1870.  One of Jacques's sons also married by then.

Second son Étienne le jeune, called Étienne T. by the recording priest, married first cousin Amelina, daughter of fellow Acadians Adélard Landry and Ursule Gaudin, his uncle and aunt, at the Donaldsonville church in April 1868; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their son Jacques André was born in Ascension Parish in February 1869; ... 

Jean Augustin Gabriel's fourth son Étienne le jeune, by second wife Marie Eugénie Lambremont, married Marie Caroline, called Caroline and Carolina, daughter of Joseph Martinez and Marguerite Lopez, at the Baton Rouge church in January 1846.  Their children, born in nearby Iberville Parish, included Jean Amédée, called Amédée, in January 1846; Marguerite Hermogène, called Imogène, in March 1847; Joseph Augustin in November 1848 but, called Joseph Augustave, died at age 5 in September 1853; and Thomas Ostein, called Austin, born in December 1851--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1846 and 1851.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Iberville Parish counted five slaves--two males and three females, all black, ranging in age from 48 to 4--on E. Bujle's farm; this probably was Étienne le jeune.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Iberville Parish counted 11 slaves--four males and seven females, all black, ranging in age from 45 to 1, living in a single house--on Étienne Bujol's farm.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Blanchard

Jean Blanchard, born in France in c1611, was one of the earliest settlers in French Acadia At age 31, he married 21-year-old Radégonde Lambert at Port-Royal in c1642.  Between 1643 and 1656, she gave him six children, three daughters and three sons.  Radegonde died at Port-Royal in the 1670s or 1680s, leaving Jean a widower.  He did not remarry.  He died at Port-Royal on his homestead next to the fort in the early 1690s, soon after he turned 80.  His daughters married into the Richard dit Sansoucy, Guérin, and Gaudet families.  Two of his sons married into the LeBlanc and Gougeon families and created large families of their own.  Jean and Radegonde's descendants settled at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal; Grand-Pré, Rivière-aux-Canards, and Cobeguit in the Minas Basin; Chignecto; Petitcoudiac in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto; and on Île St.-Jean in the French Maritimes.  They were especially numerous at Annapolis Royal. 

Two other Blanchard families, none of them kin to Jean, also set down roots in French Acadia.  François Blanchard dit Gentilhomme from St.-Marc-le-Blanc, Brittany, France, reached Acadia in c1712.  He married Anne, daughter of Jacques Corne and Marie Renaud, at Grand-Pré in c1719.  She gave him no children, at least none who appear in Bona Arsenault's Généalogie.  François remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Carret and Angélique Chiasson of Chignecto, in c1725.  According to Arsenault, between 1730 and 1746, Marguerite gave François at least eight children, two sons and six daughters.  François took his family to Île St.-Jean in c1737 and settled at Malpèque on the island's northwest coast.  A French official counted them there in August 1752.  Four of François's daughters married into the Audy, Lapierre, and Porlier families on Île St.-Jean and Île Miquelon.  Both of his sons married into the Deveau and Haché dit Gallant families.  Toussaint, son of Jean Blanchard and Pétronille Ferrier of Évran, near St.-Malo, Brittany, France, no kin to Jean or François dit Gentilhomme, married Angélique, daughter of Claude Bertrand and Catherine Pitre and widow of François Martin, at Annapolis Royal in c1727.  Toussaint took his family to Petitcoudiac, where they lived near some of Jean Blanchard's descendants.  According to Arsenault, between 1734 and 1746, Angélique gave Toussaint at least three sons.  Other records show that, in 1740 and 1744, Angélique also gave Toussaint two daughters at Petitcoudianc.  Their daughters married into the Bertrand, Comeau, and Mondon families.  One of Toussaint's sons married into the Granger family.

Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered these families even farther. Blanchards at Petitcoudiac and Annapolis Royal escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia in the autumn of 1755 and found refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore or moved on to Canada.  One of them died at Québec in late December 1757, a victim, perhaps, of the smallpox epidemic that struck the Acadian refugees in and around the Canadian capital from the summer of 1757 through the spring of 1758.  Another died at Québec in January 1758.  Blanchards still at Cobeguit in the summer of 1755, after learning of the British roundups at the other end of the Minas Basin, would have, that fall, winter, or the following spring, escaped via Tatamagouche and other villages on the North Shore to Île St.-Jean, where their kinsmen already had gone.  When British troops arrived at Cobeguit during the third week of September 1755, they found the entire village complex abandoned! 

Other Blanchards did not elude the British.  Two of Jean's descendants, probably from Petitcoudiac, ended up in faraway South Carolina but, with permission of the colony's governor, made their way back to greater Acadia by boat in the spring of 1756.  Several Blanchards at Minas were deported to Maryland.  Colonial officials counted them at Baltimore in July 1763.  Two Blanchard sisters from Minas, with their husbands and children, were transported to Virginia.  There they endured a fate worse than their fellow exiles 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, Dinwiddie 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.  By 1763, more than half of the exiles in England were dead.  Meanwhile, Blanchards from the Annapolis valley were deported to Pennsylvania, New York, and Massachusetts.  

The Blanchards on Île St.-Jean, living in territory controlled by France, enjoyed a brief respite from the clutches of the British, and then the Great Upheaval caught up to them with a vengeance.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats swooped down on the island, rounded up most of the habitants, and deported them to France.  A Blanchard crossed aboard the deportation transport Tamerlane, which left Chédabouctou Bay in an 12-ship convoy in late November and, despite a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England, reached St.-Malo in mid-January 1759.  Most of his kinsmen, however, crossed aboard one of the five deportations transports that left Chédabouctou Bay in the 12-ship convoy and, despite the mid-December storm, reached St.-Malo together in late January.  Many perished on, or as a result of, the crossing, dying in St.-Malo-area hospitals.  Island Blanchards landed in other French ports, including the northern fishing center of Boulogne-sur-Mer in Picardie, the naval port of Rochefort on the Bay of Biscay, and Cherbourg in Normandy.  Some of them also died from the rigors of the crossings.  Nearly a decade later, Toussaint Blanchard of Petitcoudiac, his wife Angélique Bertrand, and one of their sons ended up at Cherbourg, having been sent there from the French-controlled fishery island of Miquelon off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  In 1767, French officials, obeying a royal decree to relieve overcrowding on the island, deported the fisher/habitants to France.  Both Angélique and Toussaint died at Cherbourg soon after their arrival. 

Island Blanchards did their best to make a life for themselves in the villages and suburbs of the St.-Malo area, including the suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer; Pleslin, Langrolay-sur-Rance, and Plouër-sur-Rance on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo; and St.-Suliac, Pleudihen-sur-Rance, and nearby La Gravelle and Mordreuc on the east side of the river south of the Breton port. 

In the spring of 1763, after prolonged negotiations between the British and French governments, the Acadians in England were repatriated to France.  A Blanchard wife married to a LeBlanc from Grand-Pré, with three of their children, sailed from Liverpool to Morlaix in northwest Brittany.  In late 1765, they and dozens of other Acadians from England chose to go to Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany, where the Blanchard wife died at Sauzon on the north end of the island, age 84

In the early 1770s, hundreds of Acadians from the port cities, including many Blanchards from the St.-Malo area, participated in a grand 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.  After two years of effort, the Blanchards and most of the other Poitou Acadians abandoned the venture.  In late 1775 and early 1776, they retreated in four convoys down the Vienne and the Loire to the port of Nantes, where they lived as best they could on government handouts and what work they could find.  At Nantes, descendants of Jean Blanchard lived in St.-Similien, Ste.-Croix, and St.-Jacques parishes.  Toussaint Blanchard's descendants, who had gone to Poitou from Cherbourg and also retreated to Nantes, lived at nearby Chantenay.

In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  Many of the Blanchards, including Toussaint's son, chose to remain in France, but at least 30 other Blanchards, most of them descendants of Jean, agreed to take it, and Toussaint's three daughters also agreed to go.  

In North America, Blanchards who had escaped the British in the late 1750s suffered more reverses 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 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 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 October 24, on the eve of formal surrender, French officers counted 1,003 Acadians still at Restigouche, including two Blanchard families.  After the surrender, these and other Blanchards who had either been captured by, or surrendered to, British forces in the area were held in prison compounds in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  In 1761-62, British officials counted members of the famliy at Fort Edward, Pigiguit. 

The war over, the Blanchards being held in the British seaboard colonies, theoretically, were free to go, but not until the British discerned their intensions.  Even then, colonials authorities discouraged repatriation.  In June 1763 in Pennsylvania, a widow and her four Blanchard children appeared on a French repatriation list in that colony.  That July, in Maryland, Blanchard and his family appeared on a repatriation list at Baltimore.  In 1766, years after the war with Britain ended, Blanchards exiled to Massachusetts, and perhaps others who had gone to 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, Blanchards from all three branches of the family began the slow, inexorable process of becoming Canadiennes.  Especially after 1766, they could be found on the upper St. Lawrence at Deschambault, Repentigny, Nicolet, St.-Jacques de l'Achigan, St.-Michel-d'Yamaska, Varennes, Louiseville, and Yamachiche; at St.-Ours on the lower Richelieu; and on the lower St. Lawrence at St.-François-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Berthier-sur-Mer, and Kamouraska.  They also settled at Caraquet on the southern shore of the Baie des Chaleurs in present-day northeastern New Brunswick; at Chédabouctou, now Guysborough, Nova Scotia; at Rustico on the north shore of Prince Edward Island, formerly Île St.-Jean; and on the French-controlled fishery island of Miquelon off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  Typical of most, if not all, Acadian families, these Acadiennes of Canada and the Maritimes 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.  

During the early 1760s, Blanchards from the seaboard colonies and France also resettled in the French Antilles--at Fort-Dauphin and Môle St.-Nicolas in French St.-Domingue, today's Haiti; at Sinnamary, Cayenne, in French Guiane on the northeast coast of South America; and at St.-Pierre, Fort-Royal, and Champflore on the island of Martinique, where they were especially numerous.  One Blanchard family from Annapolis Royal caught a lingering glimpse of the French Antilles nearly a decade before they resettled on Martinique.  In December 1755, their deportation ship, the Experiment, on its way from the Annapolis valley to New York, had been blown off course to the British-controlled island of Antigua, north of Martinique, before doubling back to New York the following spring.  Evidently the family liked what they had seen during their unexpected sojourn in the Windward Islands and chose to return there after the war. 

Blanchards 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, including Blanchards, chose to relocate to Île Miquelon.  Others considered going to the French Antilles, where exiles in the seaboard colonies, including Blanchards, 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 descendants of Jean Blanchard.

Meanwhile, the Blanchards 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 fellow exiles had been welcomed in Louisiana, they pooled their meager resources to charter ships that would take them to New Orleans.  The first continent of Maryland exiles left Baltimore for New Orleans in late June 1766 and got there via Cap-Français the following September.  Three Blanchards were part of that expedition, but most members of the family in the Chesapeake colony--at least 15 of them--were part of the second contingent that left Baltimore in April 1767 and reached New Orleans via Cap-Français the following July.

Blanchards had settled early in Acadia, and they also were among the earliest Acadians to find refuge in Louisiana.  They came to Spanish Louisiana in three waves:  from Halifax via Cap-Français in 1765, from Maryland in 1766 and 1767, and from France in 1785.  The 1765 arrivals did not follow the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche but settled on the river above New Orleans in the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer.  In the 1770s, a few of these early arrivals crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to the western prairies but failed to create family lines there.  Most of the 1765 arrivals remained on the river.  The Blanchards from Maryland went where Spanish authorities told them to go, to Cabahannocer and to San Gabriel on the river above Cabahannocer.  Most remained.  One of the Maryland exies, Anselme Blanchard of Grand-Pré, became a shaker and mover in the Acadian community and a Spanish official.  For a few years in the early 1780s he commanded the Spanish district of Valenzuela on upper Bayou Lafourche, was placed in charge of welcoming his fellow Acadians from France in 1785, and commanded the New Feliciana District above Baton Rouge in the early 1790s.  

If the Acadians in France had remained in the mother country, the Blanchard family, thanks to the exiles from Maryland, would still have been a respectable-sized Acadian family in South Louisiana, but five Blanchard families, including 30 individuals, three of them daughters of Toussaint Blanchard but most of them descendants of Jean Blanchard, arrived on five of the Seven Ships from France in 1785.  One of them settled in what became West Baton Rouge Parish, and some of his sons became prominent planters there, but most of the Blanchards from France settled on upper Bayou Lafourche, where they became one of the largest families on the southeasten bayous. 

Not until the early antebellum period did Acadian Blanchards establish a western branch of the family.  Although four successful lines set down roots in St. Martin and St. Landry parishes, compared to the centers of family settlement on the river and especially in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley, the Bayou Teche and prairie Blanchards remained relatively few in numbers.  Some Blanchards moved from the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley to lower Bayou Teche and the western prairies after the War of 1861-65, but the great majority of them remained on the southeastern bayous.  By the immediate post-war period, then, Blanchards, emulating their ancestors in Acadia, had moved to nearly every corner of South Louisiana.  They could be found as far up the Mississippi as Pointe Coupee Parish and as far down the river as St. James Parish; along Bayou Lafourche from Ascension and Assumption down to Thibodaux and Raceland; near Houma and Montegut at the edge of the coastal marshes in Terrebonne Parish; along the lower Teche in St. Martin, St. Mary, and Iberia parishes; and on the southwestern prairies as far west as present-day Acadia Parish. 

Judging by the number of slaves they held during the late antebellum period, some of the Blanchards of South Louisiana lived well on their farms and plantations along the river and the southeastern bayous.  In 1850, one of them owned 66 slaves in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Another held 42 slaves in Assumption Parish.  ...  The majority of the Blanchards who owned slaves, however, owned only a few, and many members of the family held no slaves at all, at least none who appeared in the federal census slave schedules of 1850 and 1860. ...

Dozens of Acadian Blanchards served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65, and a number of them died in Confederate service.  The war was especially hard on the Blanchards of the Bayou Lafourche valley. ...

In Louisiana, the family's name also is spelled Blanchar, Blanchart, Blancher.81

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The first Acadian Blanchards in Louisiana--nine of them--arrived from Halifax via Cap-Français in 1765.  They included a brother and sister and two sets of brothers, all of whom settled in the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans, but most of them did not remain there.  Emulating the settlement patterns of their Acadian forebears, they scattered across the region by moving farther upriver, down into the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley, or across the Atchafalaya Basin to the western prairies.  Three of their family lines endured: 

Joseph (c1739-?) à Guillaume à Jean Blanchard

Joseph, third son of Pierre Blanchard and Anne Robichaux, born probably at Petitcoudiac in c1739, may have been deported to South Carolina in 1755, returned to greater Acadia by boat in 1756, took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, was captured by, or surrendered to, the British in the early 1760s, and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Still a bachelor, he followed his younger, married brother Amable to Louisiana in 1764-65 and settled with him at Cabahannocer, where he married fellow Acadian Anne-Esther, called Esther, Bourgeois, in c1769.  Their children, born at Cabahannocr, included Félicité baptized there, age unrecorded, in December 1770; Anne-Marguerite baptized, age unrecorded, in March 1772; Maurice born at New Orleans in May 1774; Joseph, fils baptized, age unrecorded, in February 1775; Frédéric-Sylvain baptized, age unrecorded, in September 1777; Anne-Modeste, called Modeste, born in February 1783; and Jean-Pierre in October 1786--seven children, three daughters and four sons, between 1770 and 1786.  Daughters Félicité and Modeste married into the Bourg and Cahier families.  Three of Joseph's sons also married.  Only one of them remained on the river.  The others moved on to Bayou Lafourche and the western prairies, where they helped establish new centers of Blanchard family settlement.  

Oldest son Maurice married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Augustin Fontenot and his Acadian wife Isabelle Martin dit Barnabé, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in August 1800.  During the 1810s, he took his family to upper Bayou Lafourche and settled in Assumption Parish.  Their children, born on the river and the bayou, included Marie-Louise or -Héloise at Cabahannocer in November 1801; Maurice-Augustin, called Augustin and also Jean-Maurice, in May 1803; Jean Baptiste, called Jean, in June 1805; Alexandre in February 1808; Marguerite Virginie in March 1810; Pierre Élie in August 1812; Marie Marguerite in November 1814; Marie Roseline in c1815; Madeleine Césaire in December 1816; Michel Archange, called Archange, in Assumption Parish in January 1819; Marguerite in March 1821; Basil or Basile in Lafourche Interior Parish in June 1823; and Marguerite Roseline in May 1826--13 children, seven daughters and six sons, between 1801 and 1826.  Daughters Marie Héloise, Marguerite Virginie, and Marie Roseline married into the Martin, Robichaux, and Pitre families.  Four of Maurice's sons also married.  All but one of them moved down bayou into Lafourche Interior and Terrebonne parishes.  One of them moved to the old Opelousas District west of the Atchafalaya Basin and settled in St. Landry Parish.  In late November 1860, the federal census taker in Terrebonne Parish counted six slaves--four males and two females, all black, ranging in age from 55 to 22--partly owned by a Blanchard, who may have been from this line of the family.  

Oldest son Maurice Augustin, called Augustin, at age 40, married Marcelline, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Robichaux and Henriette Arceneaux, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in May 1843, and sanctified the marriage at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in August 1844.  Their children, born on the bayou, included Marguerite Azéma, called Azéma, in March 1844; Valmont, perhaps theirs, birth year unrecorded; and Madeleine Célina in October 1847--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1844 and 1847.  Augustin, called Jean Maurice, died near Raceland, Lafourche Parish, in February 1862, age 59.  Daughter Azéma married into the Arcement family by 1870.  Augustin's putative son also married, on the Lafourche, by then before moving on to the western prairies after the War of 1861-65.

Putative son Valmont married Adelina Dies, Dias, or Diaz in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in January 1861.  Their children, born on the lower Lafourche and the western prairies, included Gustave near Raceland in November 1861; Louis Lastie in August 1863; Cléopha near Church Point, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in August 1867; ... 

Maurice's second son Jean Baptiste, called Jean, followed his family to upper Bayou Lafourche.  After he came of age, he moved on to the prairies of St. Landry Parish, where he married Suzette, daughter of fellow Acadians Cyril Thibodeaux and Adélaïde Chiasson and widow of Pierre Pariseau, at the Opelousas church in April 1833.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included twins Edmond and Valmont le jeune in October 1833; Adélaïde in June 1838; and Célina in April 1841.  Jean Baptiste evidently remarried to Marie Barousse in St. Landry Parish in the late 1830s or 1840s.  Son Paul was born in St. Landry Parish in the late 1830s or early 1840s--five children, three sons and two daughters, by two wives, between 1833 and the early 1840s.  Daughters ..., by his first wife, married into the Bergeron and Breaux families.  Two of Jean Baptiste's sons also married. 

Second son Valmont le jeune, a twin, by first wife Suzette Thibodeaux, married Célise Louise Servant probably in St. Landry Parish in the late 1850s.  Their son Valmont Roy was born in St. Landry Parish in January 1859; ... 

Jean-Baptiste's third and youngest son Paul, by second wife Marie Barousse, married Marie Denise, daughter of Creoles Baptiste Bergeron and Delphine Guidroz and widow of Caliste Marks, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in May 1862.  They settled near Arnaudville at the southeastern edge of St. Landry Parish.  Their son Jean Baptiste le jeune was born there in March 1863; ... 

Maurice's fourth son Pierre Élie married Susanne Adèle, called Adèle or Adélie, 17-year-old daughter of Jean Laurent Pellegrin and Catherine Andra, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1834.  Their children, born on the Lafourche and in Terrebonne Parish, included Marie Léonise in June 1834; Quinnet Félicy in April 1837; Marguerite Ezilda, called Ezilda, in May 1839; Augustine Uranie in July 1841; Pierre Alcée in September 1843; S. Doralise in January 1846; Théophile at Bayou Petit Caillou, Terrebonne Parish, in December 1847; Zénon in July 1850; Marie Octavie, called Octavie, in April 1852; Marie Polmire or Palmire, called Palmire, in August 1854; Pierre Telesse in November 1856; and Pierre Clairville in December 1859--a dozen children, seven daughters and five sons, between 1834 and 1859.  Daughters Ezilda, Octavie, and Palmire married into the Charpentier, Guidry, and Mataire families by 1870.  Two Pierre Élie's sons also married by then. 

Second son Théophile married cousin Lydia, daughter of Fortune Pellegrin and Elizabeth Lauff, at the Montegut church, Terrebonne Parish, in August 1870. ...

Pierre Élie's third son Zénon married Onesille, daughter of fellow Acadians Euphrosin Guidry and Cléonise Arcement, at the Houma church in October 1870. ...

Maurice's fifth son Michel Archange married Justine, daughter of Gabriel Rodrique and Geneviève Dufresne, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in April 1841.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Isllda or Mesilda, called Mesilda, in September 1841; Valmont, perhaps theirs, not older brother Maurice-Augustin's son, birth year unrecorded; Marie Roseline born in March 1844; Marie Louise or Louisa in June 1846; Augustin Michel in September 1848; Marguerite Theresa near Raceland in December 1853; Joseph in November 1856; and Marie Odilia in February 1861--eight children, five daughters and three sons, between 1841 and 1861.  Daughters Louise/Louisa, Mesilda, and Marguerite married into the Boudreaux, Araby, Robichaux, and Monnier families by 1870.  If Valmont was his son, he also married on the Lafourche by then before moving on to the western prairies after the War of 1861-65.

Joseph's second son Joseph, fils married Angélique-Marie or Marie-Angélique, also called Émilie, daughter of Jean-Louis Picou and Marie-Françoise Demoulins, at the St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer church in January 1803.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer/St. James, included Louis Joseph in April 1804 but died at age 34 (the recording priest said 28) at Bayou Goula, Iberville Parish, in February 1838; Marie Arsélie born in July 1805; Marguerite Aurore in April 1807; Jean Louis in March 1809 but died at age 2 in September 1811; Marie Émilie born in October 1813; and Augustin Sylvain, called Sylvain and Sylvanie, in March 1815--six children, three sons and three daughters, between 1804 and 1815.  None of Joseph, fils's daughters and only one of his sons married. 

Third and youngest son Augustin Sylvain, called Sylvain and Sylvanie, married Adèle LaCroix probably in Ascension Parish in the 1840s.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Joseph Oscar in July 1847; Louis le jeune in July 1849; and Doralise died at age 4 months in October 1851.  Sylvain remarried to Marguerite Élodie, daughter of fellow Acadians Éloi Hébert and Angèle Hébert, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in June 1853.  Their son Sylvain, fils was born near Plaquemine, Iberville parish, across the river from St. Gabriel, in June 1854 and, evidently, his name unrecorded, called only "infant," died soon after his birth--four children, at least two sons and a daughter, by two wives, between 1847 and 1854.  None of Sylvain's children married by 1870. 

Joseph, père's third son Frédéric-Sylvain married Anne, daughter of French Immigrant Pierre Berteau and his second wife Rose Savoie, an Acadian, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in February 1800.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer/St. Jacques, included Emérenthe or Emérente in December 1800; and Marie-Scholastique, called Scholastique, in September 1802.  Frédéric remarried to Marie, daughter of Frédéric Bertrand, a Creole, not a fellow Acadian, and Geneviève Mayer of New Orleans and the upper German Coast, place unrecorded, in the late 1800s.  They moved upriver from St. James Parish first to St. Gabriel in Iberville Parish and then to the Baton Rouge area.  In the 1810s, they left the river and moved to the northern edge of the old Attakapas District, where they settled at Grande Pointe on the upper Teche.  Their children, born on the river and the upper Teche, included Marie Virginie in St. James Parish in March 1808; Marie Joséphine, called Joséphine, near St. Gabriel in October 1810; Marie Félonie or Félonise in August 1812; Pierre Édouard near Baton Rouge in May 1814; Norbert near Baton Rouge or in St. Martin Parish in the early or mid-1810s; twins Alexis and Dositée or Dosité, a son, in St. Martin Parish in October 1816; twins Placide and Séverin in October 1818; Olivier in February 1821, and Marie Asélie or Azélie, called Azélie, posthumously in March 1823--13 children, six daughters and seven sons, including two sets of twins, by two wives, between 1800 and 1823.  Frédéric died at his home at Grande Pointe in March 1823, age 45.  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse a few weeks later.  Oddly, a last will and succession for a Frederick Blanchard were filed at the St. Landry Parish courthouse in January 1845, long after Frédéric Sylvain died, so this likely was another Frederick Blanchard who settled on the prairies, perhaps an Anglo-American.  Frédéric Sylvain's daughters Emérente, Scholastique, Marie Virginie, Joséphine, Marie Félonise, and Azélie, by both wives, married into the Guidry, Lormand, Doré, McNeel, Menard, and Martin families.  Six of Frédéric Sylvain's sons also married, some of them twice, but not all of the lines endured.  Three of them remained in St. Martin and Lafayette parishes.  Four of them moved north and west to the old Opelousas District, where they settled in present-day St. Landry and Acadia parishes. 

Oldest son Pierre Édouard, by second wife Marie Bertrand, married Marguerite Elmire, daughter of fellow Acadians Julien Poirier and Céleste Theriot, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in December 1835.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Marguerite Célimène, called Célimène, in December 1836; and Marie Rosalie in February 1840.  Pierre died in St. Martin Parish in December 1842, age 28 (the recording priest said 25).  Daughters Célimène ... married into the Trahan family, and perhaps into the LeBlanc family as well, by 1870.  Pierre Édouard evidently fathered no sons, so only the blood of the family line endured.  

Frédéric Sylvain's second son Norbert, by second wife Marie Bertrand, married Delphine, daughter of John Peter McNeil and Marie Laviolette, at the St. Martinville church in October 1832.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Marie Ordalie in July 1833; Marie Uranie in November 1835 but, called Uranie, died at age 1 in October 1836; Marguerite Eléonore born in March 1838; and Jean Vileor in November 1840.  Norbert remarried to Carmélite, perhaps daughter of fellow Acadians Rosémond Richard and Anastasie Poirier, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in July 1846.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Marie Eléonore in February 1846; Marie Ophilia or Ophelia, called Ophelia, in March 1847; Marie Ophelisia in January 1851; and Norbert, fils in April 1853--eight children, six daughters and two sons, by two wives, between 1833 and 1853.  Norbert, père remarried again--his third marriage--to Clémentine, daughter of Balthazar Plaisance and his Acadian wife Henriette Breaux and widow of Pierre Valéry Roy, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in April 1862.  In his 50s, Norbert, père remarried yet again--his fourth marriage--to fellow Acadian Joséphine Broussard in the 1860s; he was four decades older than she was, old enough to be her grandfather!  They settled near Church Point, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish.  Their son Telesphore was born in May 1870; ...  Daughter Ophelia, by his second wife, married into the Benoit family by 1870.  One of Norbert's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Jean Vileor, by first wife Delphine McNeil, may have married Marie Denise Bergeron, probably a French Creole, not a fellow Acadian, and settled near Arnaudville.  Their son Paul was born there in April 1866; ... 

Frédéric Sylvain's third son Alexis, a twin, by second wife Marie Bertrand, married Émilia N., daughter of fellow Acadians Narcisse Dugas and Céleste Cormier, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in August 1851.  She evidently gave him no children, at least none who survived infancy.  Alexis remarried to fellow Acadian Céleste Thibodeaux at the Grand Coteau church in September 1860.  Daughter Marie Anastasie was born near Grand Coteau in July 1861; Marie Azélie in July 1864; ...

Frédéric Sylvain's fourth son Dosité, Alexis's twin, by second wife Marie Bertrand, married Marie Azélie, called Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Dupuis and Marie Azélie Poirier, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in July 1838.  Their children, born on the prairie and the lower Teche, included Dositée or Dosité, fils near Vermilionville in July 1839; Uranie near St. Martinville in February or August 1841; Marie Azélie, called Azélie, in May 1844; Pierre Telesphore near New Iberia in January 1846; Céleste near Grand Coteau in February 1847; Marguerite Anaïs in February 1850; and Philomène in November 1852--seven children, two sons and five daughters, between 1839 and 1852.  Daughters ... married into the Benoit, Laviolette, and Prejean families by 1870.  One of Dosité, père's sons also married by then. 

Older son Dosité, fils married Marie Annette Martin, perhaps a fellow Acadian, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in July 1861.  They settled near Church Point.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Télésphore in December 1862; Jean Dupleci in April 1866; ...  

Frédéric Sylvain's fifth son Placide, a twin, by second wife Marie Bertrand, married Marie, daughter of Charles Combe or Cohem and Marguerite O'Henry, at the St. Martinville church in April 1839.  Their children, born in St. Martin parish, included Marie Azélie in January 1840; Frédérick or Frédéric in November 1841; Charles in September 1842; Amélie in June 1849; and Marie Amelisia in March 1852.  Placide remarried to Modeste Lejeune, perhaps a fellow Acadian, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in March 1858, and sanctified the marriage at the Church Point church in November 1864.  They settled near Church Point.  Their children, born there, included Marie Leleda in December 1863; Marie Léocade in October 1865; Martin in September 1867; ...  Daughter Marie Azélie, by his first wife, married into the Guidry family by 1870.  None of Placide's sons married by then. 

Frédéric Sylvain's sixth son Séverin, Placide's twin, by second wife Marie Bertrand, while a "resident of Atchafalaya," died near Breaux Bridge, St. Martin Parish, in March 1848, age 30.  His was the first burial recorded at the Breaux Bridge church.  He probably did not marry.  

Frédéric Sylvain's seventh and youngest son Olivier, by second wife Marie Bertrand, married Élizabeth, daughter of John Talley or Tolle and Marie Artache, at the St. Martinville church in April 1839.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Marie in May 1840; Eugénie in June 1842; Olivier, fils in the 1840s; Elisa in January 1845; and Joseph in June 1847.  Olivier, père remarried to Élise, daughter of Paul Champagne and Élise Piard, in a civil ceremony in St. Martin Parish in June 1854.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Marie Élodie in April 1855; Rosa in December 1856; Marie Odile in February 1859; Olympe in February1861 but died at age 2 in February 1863; Marie Cora born in January 1863 but, called Cora, died at age 2 1/2 in July 1865; Désiré born in February 1865; Albert Joseph in January 1868; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Olivier, père served as a conscript from St. Martin Parish.  Daughters ..., by his first wife, married into the Cassadey and Champagne families by 1870.  One of Olivier's older sons "returned" to Iberville Parish on the river and married by then. 

Oldest son Olivier, fils, by first wife Elizabeth Talley, married Malvinia or Malvina, daughter of J. F. Rils and D. A. Barbay, at the Plaquemine church, Iberville Parish, in February 1869.  Daughter Dorothée Angelina was born near Plaquemine in August 1870; ... 

Amable (c1742-?) à Guillaume à Jean Blanchard

Amable, fourth and youngest son of Pierre Blanchard and Anne Robichaux, born probably at Petitcoudiac in c1742, was deported to South Carolina in 1755, returned to greater Acadia by boat with his old brother in 1756, sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, was captured by, or surrendered to, British forces in the area in the early 1760s, and held in the prison compound at Halifax.  He married Anastasie, daughter of François Girouard and Marie Guilbeau of Annapolis Royal, perhaps at Halifax in c1762.  Anastasie gave Amable a son, Marin, born probably at Halifax in c1765.  They brought their infant son to Louisiana in 1765 and settled at Cabahannocer near Amable's older brother Joseph.  Amable and Anastasie's other children, born at Cabahannocer, included Pierre in c1767; Anastasie or Nathalie in the late 1760s; Marguerite baptized at home, age unrecorded, in January 1773 but may have died at age 1 1/2 in August 1774; Jean-Baptiste baptized, age unrecorded, in October 1777 but died at St. James, formerly Cabahannocer, age 30, in March 1807; Célestine born in c1780 but died at age 17 in August 1797; and Rosalie baptized, age unrecorded, in December 1780--seven children, three sons and four daughters, between 1765 and 1780, in greater Acadia and Louisiana.  Daughter Anastasie or Nathalie, called Anatalia by the recording priest, married into the Arnaud family.  Only one of Amable's sons married.  He settled upriver in West Baton Rouge Parish, and one of his grandsons settled in Pointe Coupee.

Oldest son Marin followed his family to Cabahannocer, where Spanish officials counted him with them on the left, or east, bank of the river as late as March 1779, when he would have been in his mid-teens.  If Marin survived adulthood, he did not marry. 

Amable's second son Pierre married Élisabeth or Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Mouton and Marie Bastarache, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in April 1792.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer, included Pierre-Prosper or Prosper-Pierre, in June 1793; Marie-Modeste in April 1795; Célestine-Delphine in May 1799; Élise-Azélie in December 1801; and Jean Privat, called Privat, in August 1804--five children, two sons and three daughters, between 1793 and 1804.  By the 1820s, they had moved upriver to West Baton Rouge Parish.  Pierre died there, in July 1829, age 62.  Daughters Marie Modeste, Célestine, and Élise Azélie married into the LeBlanc, White, and Richard families in the Baton Rouge area.  Pierre's two sons also married and settled in West Baton Rouge and Pointe Coupee parishes. 

Older son Pierre Prosper or Prosper Pierre married Élisabeth or Héloise, daughter of Thomas Courtin and Geneviève Bonvillain, probably in West Baton Rouge Parish in October 1815.  Their children, born there, included Héloise in December 1816; Marie Dolisca in October 1818; and Célestine Élisabeth in August 1820.  Pierre Prosper remarried to Madeleine, also called Arsène, Chutz or Chustz first in a civil ceremony in Pointe Coupee Parish, and then sanctified that marriage at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in April 1831.  Their children, born in West Baton Parish, included Marie Angela in December 1831; Mary Nathalie, called Nathalie, in April 1834; Marie Virginie in October 1835; and Pierre Louis Anselm, called Anselme le jeune and also Samuel, in August 1841--seven children, six daughters and a son, by two wives, between 1816 and 1841.  Pierre Prosper likely died in West Baton Rouge Parish in September 1849.  The Baton Rouge priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said Pierre died at "age 50 years."  Pierre Prosper would have been age 56.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in West Baton Rouge Parish counted seven slaves--two males and five females, all black except for a single mulatto, ranging in age from 35 to 1--on Mrs. P. Blanchard's farm; these were Pierre Prosper's widow Madeleine Chutz's slaves.  Daughters Marie Dolisca, Marie Angela, Nathalie, and Marie Virginie, by both wives, married into the McFaddin, Cazes, Richard, Bernard du Montier, and Nolan families, one of them, Nathalie, twice, by 1870.  Pierre Prosper's son also married by then. 

Only son Anselme le jeune, by second wife Madeleine Chutz, married Cephalide, daughter of Félix Bernard du Montier, fils and Joséphine Seguin, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in February 1869; Anselme's sister Nathalie's second husband was Cephalide's brother Louis.  Anselme and Cephalide's son Joseph Bénoni was born near Brusly in November 1869; ... 

Pierre's younger son Jean Privat, called Privat, married Marie Léocadie, called Léocadie, Barras first in a civil ceremony in Pointe Coupee Parish, and sanctified the marriage at the Baton Rouge church in June 1830.  They settled perhaps in West Baton Rouge Parish before moving to Lakeland, Pointe Coupee Parish, by the late 1840s, among the few Acadians to settle there.  Their children, born on the river, included Jean Baptiste in February 1833; Marie Eveline in February 1835; Louis Laimable or Amable in January 1837; Célestine C. baptized at the Baton Rouge church, age 4 months, in January 1840; Joseph Sylvanie born in June 1849 but, called Joseph Silvani, died at age 15 in April 1864; ...  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Pointe Coupee Parish counted eight slaves--three males and five females, all black, ranging in age from 18 to 1--on John Blanchard's farm; this likely was Privat.  Daughters ... married into the Breaux and Sicard families by 1870.  Two of Privat's sons also married by then and remained in Pointe Coupee. 

Oldest son Jean Baptiste le jeune married Marie Sophie Alphonsine, called Alphonsine, daughter of Simon Major and Élise Gremillion, at the Pointe Coupee church in April 1856.  Their children, born in Pointe Coupee Parish, included Joseph Amédée in February 1857; Marie Philomène in February 1859; Marie Athalie near Lakeland in July 1861; Louis Privat in October 1866; Marie Josèphe in July 1870; ...  Jean Baptiste le jeune served in the Fausse River Gaurds Company of Militia during the War of 1861-65 and, as the birth of his younger son reveals, survived the war and returned to his family.  

Privat's second son Louis Amable married cousin Émilie or Amélie, daughter of Ovide Barras and Élose Decuir, at the Pointe Coupee church in 1857.  Their children, born in Pointe Coupee Parish, included Jean Baptiste le jeune in March 1858; Marie in December 1859 but died at age 3 months in March 1860; Marie Angelina born in February 1861; Élisabeth in April 1864; Marie Blanche in February 1866; Anastasie in November 1868; ... 

Joseph (c1748-1778) à Antoine à Guillaume à Jean Blanchard

Joseph, elder son of Paul Blanchard and Judith Savoie, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1748, escaped the British roundup there in the fall of 1755, followed his family into exile, and, with them in the early 1760s, 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.  Joseph came to Louisiana in 1765 as an orphaned teenager with his younger brother Pierre and settled with him at Cabahannocer.  Joseph married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Dupuis and Anne Gaudet, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in November 1772.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer, included Rosalie baptized, age unrecorded, in March 1774; Marie-Anastasie, called Anastasie, baptized, age unrecorded, in November 1776; and Marie-Henriette, called Henriette, baptized posthumously, age unrecorded, in September 1778--three children, all daughters, between 1774 and 1778.  Joseph died at Cabahannocer in August 1778, age 30.  All of his daughters married.  They also died young.  Second daughter Anastasie, wife of Louis Richard, died at Ascension in December 1794, age 17, only a year after her marriage.  She gave him no children.  Oldest daughter Rosalie and husband Louis Bernard remained on the river, but she died in Februry 1798, age 25, after she gave him at least three daughters.  Youngest daughter Henriette followed husband Jean-Baptiste Breaux to Bayou Teche soon after their marriage in 1797.  She gave him at least three daughters.  She remarried to Joseph Savoie on the Teche, and, after giving him two sons, died on the bayou in 1815, in her late 30s.  Joseph fathered no sons, so his line of the family, except for its blood, died with him. 

Pierre (c1749-early 1800s) à Antoine à Guillaume à Jean Blanchard

Pierre, younger son of Paul Blanchard and Judith Savoie, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1749, escaped the British roundup there in the fall of 1755, followed his family into exile, and, with them in the early 1760s, 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.  Pierre came to Louisiana in 1765 with his old brother Joseph and followed him to Cabahannocer.  Pierre married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Charles Breau and Marie Benoit, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in February 1778.  Their children, born there, included Marie-Céleste or -Célestine in November 1778; Marie-Henriette, baptized, age unrecorded, in October 1780; Pierre, fils born in c1784; Maguerite in c1786 but died at age 11 in October 1798; and Marie, perhaps Marie-Marguerite, born in December 1787--five children, four daughters and a son, between 1778 and 1787.  Pierre died probably at Cabahannocer by 1798, in his late 40s.  Daughters Marie-Célestine and Marguerite married into the Thibodeaux and Michel families.  Pierre's son also married. 

Only son Pierre, fils married Marie Françoise Baptiste, called Françoise Baptiste and also Anaïse, daughter of fellow Acadians Baptiste Bernard and Madeleine Dugas, at the Cabahannocer/St. James church in February 1806.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included Marie Fideline in November 1806; Pierre III in March 1809; Marie Cléonise, also called Estelle, in the late 1800s or early 1810s; Evariste in February 1814; Louis in August 1819 but died at his mother's home in St. James Parish, age 24, in November 1843; and Pierre Sostain or Sosthène, called Sosthène, born "posthumously" in November 1822--six children, two daughters and four sons, between 1806 and 1822.  Pierre, fils died in St. James Parish in October 1822, age 38.  In September 1850, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted four slaves--three males and a female, all black, ranging in age from 60 to 40--on the Widow Prr. Blanchard's farm in the parish's eastern district; this probably was Pierre, fils's widow, Françoise Baptiste Bernard.  Daughters Marie Fideline and Marie Cléonise/Estelle married into the Escureix, Michel, and Lejeune families.  Three of Pierre, fils's sons also married, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Pierre III married Carmélite, daughter of Marcellin Oubre and his Acadian wife Félicité Bourg, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in July 1840.  Daughter Marie Louise was born near Convent in November 1841 but, called Louisa, died at age 12 in October 1853, victim, perhaps, of the small pox epidemic that struck South Louisiana that summer and fall.  Pierre III remarried to Melicère, daughter of Benjamin Fulcher and Modeste Arceneaux, perhaps a fellow Acadian, and widow of Benjamin Duge, at the Convent church in January 1846.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included Modeste Eugénie January 1847; Pierre IV in March 1848 but died at age 6 1/2 in May 1854; and Félix Oscard born in December 1849 but, called Oscar, died at age 6 in June 1855--four children, two daughters and two sons, by two wives, between 1841 and 1849.  In September 1850, the census taker in St. James Parish counted eight slaves--three males and five females, all black, ranging in age from 45 to infancy--on Pierre Blanchard's farm in the parish's eastern district.  Pierre III died in St. James Parish in September 1853, age 44 (the recording priest said 46).  His remaining daughter did not marry by 1870, and both of his sons died young. 

Pierre, fils's second son Evariste married Marguerite, daughter of Michel LeBoeuf and his Acadian wife Scholastique Guidry, at the Convent church in July 1840.  Evariste died in St. James Parish in October 1843, age 29 (the recording priest said 28).  One wonders if he fathered any children.    

Pierre, fils's fourth and youngest son Pierre Sosthène, called Sosthène, married Doralise, daughter of Pierre Oubre and his Acadian wife Anne Marie dite Manette Guidry, at the Convent church in February 1846.  Their children, born near Convent, included Pierre Sosthène, fils in January 1847; Louis Adolphe in April 1848; Jean Baptiste Léonard in November 1854; Joseph Alceste in October 1856; Joséphine Théolia in April 1858 but died at age 5 1/2 in August 1864; Marie Mathilde born in June 1860; Florian in October 1863 but died at age 6 months in May 1864; a child, name unrecorded, died at "age a few days" near Convent in October 1867; Marie Augustine Berthe born in August  1869; ...  None of Sosthène's children married by 1870. 

Victor (c1752-1822) à René à Guillaume à Jean Blanchard

Victor, only son of René Blanchard, fils and Isabelle Comeau, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1752, followed his family to Canada, where his father died in a smallpox epidemic at Québec in January 1758.  His mother evidently returned with her children to greater Acadia, where, in the early 1760s, they were either captured by, or surrendered to, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Victor's mother, like his father, may not have survived exile.  With older sister Marguerite and other Halifax exiles, Victor, now in his early teens, came to Louisiana in 1765 and followed them to Cabahannocer.  He married Anne-Perpétué, called Perpétué, daughter of fellow Acadians Honoré Duhon and Marie Vincent, at nearby Ascension in February 1775.  Soon after their marriage, they followed his sister and her Broussard husband to the Attakapas District, the first Acadian Blanchards to settle on the western prairies.  Victor died a widower in St. Martin Parish in December 1822, age 70.  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in July 1823.  Evidently he and Perpétué were that rare Acadian couple who had no children, so his line of the family died with him. 

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Three more Blanchards--a Blanchard wife; and a spinster and her 6-year-old orphaned niece, also a Blanchard--came to Louisiana from Maryland in September 1766.  They also settled at Cabahannocer on the river, but no new Blanchard family lines came of it. 

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The next contingent of Blanchards to reach Louisiana--12 of them, all part of an extended family led by a patriarch in his late 60s--also arrived from Maryland, in July 1767.  Spanish Governor Ulloa ordered them to settle in the new community of San Gabriel d'Iberville on the east bank of the river between Cabahannocer and Bayou Manchac, where they would serve as a barrier against the British across the bayou.  They and most of their descendants remained at San Gabriel, creating robust family lines in what became Iberville Parish:  

René, fils (c1701-1788) à Martin à Jean Blanchard

René, fils, oldest son of René Blanchard and Anne Landry, born probably at Minas in c1701, married Marguerite, daughter of Germain Thériot and Anne Richard, at Grand-Pré in July 1726.  Marguerite gave René, fils a large family at Minas:  Olivier born in c1728; Joseph in June 1730; Anne in c1732; Amand in c1734; Désiré in c1736; Marguerite in c1738; Anselme in May 1741; Marie-Josèphe in c1743; Mathurin in c1745; Françoise in c1746; Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, in c1749; and Marguerite in c1754--a dozen children, six sons and six daughters, between 1728 and 1754.  The British deported members of the family to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  In July 1763, René, fils, Marguerite, and two of their younger daughters, Françoise and Madeleine, appeared on a French repatriation list at Baltimore.  Nearby lived second son Joseph, his wife, and two children; and fifth son Anselme and his wife.  René, fils and members of his family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1766 and 1767 and settled at Cabahannocer and San Gabriel on the river above New Orleans.  René, fils, who came to the colony with his wife, two unmarried daughters, two married sons, and a married daughter in 1767, died at nearby Ascension in September 1788, age 87.  Daughters Françoise, Madeleine, & Marguerite married into the Landry, Chiasson, and Allain families in Maryland and Louisiana.  Youngest daughter Marguerite survived childhood but evidently did not marry.  René, fils's oldest son Olivier remained in greater Acadia.  Two of his younger sons followed their parents to Maryland, married, and established successful family lines in Spanish Louisiana.  The youngest remaining son, in fact, became a colonial official in the Spanish regime. 

Second son Joseph followed his family to Maryland, where he married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Landry and Anne Flan of l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1758.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie-Josèphe gave Joseph two children in the Chesapeake colony:  Firmin born in c1760; and Anne-Marguerite, called Marguerite, in c1762.  Other records give them a second son, Joseph, fils, born in c1766.  The couple, with their two sons and a daughter, followed his parents and siblings to Louisiana in 1767.  Marie-Josèphe was pregnant on the voyage.  She gave Joseph another son, Anselme-Olivier, born at New Orleans during the third week of August; the boy's godfather was 29-year-old Anselme Le Borgne de Bélisle, scion of an influential family in French Acadia and a fellow exile from Maryland.  After their son's baptism, Joseph and Marie-Josèphe settled near his family at San Gabriel, where they had more children, including Anne-Marthe, called Marthe, born probably in the late 1760s; Pierre-Isidore, called Isidore, in October 1772; Marie-Josèphe in c1773; and Victor in February 1774--eight children, five sons and three daughters, between 1760 and 1774, in Maryland and Louisiana.  Joseph died at San Gabriel by March 1777, in his 40s, when his wife was listed in a census there as a widow.  Daughters Marie-Josèphe, Marthe, and Marguerite married into the Landry, LeBlanc, and Comeaux families.  Three of Joseph's sons slso married and settled on the east bank of the river in the San Gabriel/Ascension area.  One of the lines, except for its blood, seems to have died out by the 1850s.  

Oldest son Firmin followed his parents from Maryland to New Orleans and San Gabriel.  He married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Bujole and Brigitte Chênet of Île St.-Jean, at nearby Ascension in May 1781.  They settled near the boundary between the San Gabriel and Ascension districts.  Their children, born there, included Marie-Henriette, called Henriette, in December 1782; Marie-Lena-Constance, called Constance, in the 1780s; Lucie baptized at Ascension, age unrecorded, in May 1786; Pierre-Joseph, called Joseph le jeune, born in May 1788; Marie-Rose, perhaps also called Clémence, in August 1791 but died as Clémence, age 19, in September 1810; Marie-Mélanie born in October 1794; Augustin-Valière in October 1797; and Paul-Firmin in January 1803--eight children, five daughters and three sons, between 1782 and 1803.  Firmin died at Ascension in March 1803, age 45.  Daughters Constance and Henriette married into the LeBlanc and Landry families.  One of Firmin's sons also married. 

Oldest son Joseph le jeune married Marie Judith, called Judith, daughter of fellow Acadians Anselme LeBlanc and Madeleine Babin, at the Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, in November 1809.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Siffroy or Leufroi in January 1812; Alexandrine Emma or Aima in February 1814 but died at age 18 in August 1832; Anselme Faustin or Joseph Faustin, called Faustin, born in April 1816; Amélie or Émélie Carmélite in December 1817 but died at age 18 in September 1836; Marie Marthe, also called Marie Marthe Aimée and Marie Aimée, born in November 1819; Marie Ethelvina, called Ethelvina, born in June 1822; Marie Judith Eugénie died in March 1826 three weeks after her birth; Joseph Martial or Martial Joseph born in July 1827 but died at age 10 in June 1837; Hippolyte Adolphe born in August 1829; Estelle in late 1830 but died at age 7 months in June 1831; Pierre Ambroise, also called Pierre Onésime, born in April 1833 but died at age 4 months the following July; and another Marie Judith born in November 1834 but died six days after her birth--a dozen children, five sons and seven daughters, between 1812 and 1834.  Joseph le jeune drowned in the Mississippi River at Ascension in June 1841, age 53 (the recording priest said 54).  Daughters Marie Aimée and Marie Ethelvina married into the Landry and Bujole families by 1870.  Two of Joseph's sons also married by then, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Siffroy married cousin Victorine, daughter of fellow Acadians Victor Blanchard and Madeleine Richard, his great uncle and great aunt, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in July 1834.  Their children, born on the river, included Victorine Angélique or Angélique Victorine in October 1835; Siffroy Victor or Victor Siffroy in March 1837 but died at age 18 months in October 1838; and Louise Élisabeth born in August 1838 but died at age 2 in August 1840--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1835 and 1838.  Siffroy died in Ascension Parish in April 1840, age 28 (the recording priest, who called him. L. Sifrois, said 30).  His widow Victorine remarried to a Bercegeay from Belgium two years later.  Her and Siffroy's daughter Angélique Victorine, the only one of their children to survive childhood, married into the Warren family by 1870.  Siffroy's only son did not survive childhood, so this family line, except for its blood, died with him. 

Joseph le jeune's second son Faustin married cousin Marie Apolline, daughter of fellow Acadians Bernard Sosthène Allain and Marie Apolline Blanchard, at the St. Gabriel church in February 1836.  They settled in Ascension Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie Malvina in November 1836 but, called Malvina, died at age 11 1/2 in February 1848; Sosthène Faustin born in September 1838 but died at age 9 months in June 1839; Joseph René born in November 1839; Bernard Enaux in April 1841 but, called Bernard Enaud, died at age 2 1/2 in September 1843; Judity Athala born in March 1843; Anne Hermina in October 1846; Joseph Léonce in January 1849; Firmin in July 1851 but died at age 3 in September 1854; and Bernard Adrien born in December 1852--nine children, three daughters and six sons, between 1836 and 1852.  In early August 1850, the federal census taker in Ascension Parish counted seven slaves--two males and five females, all black, ranging in age from 52 to 3--on Faustin Blanchard's farm.  Faustin died in Ascension Parish in July 1854, age 38.  None of his daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did. 

Second son Joseph René married Marie Élodie, daughter of Bernard Capdeville and his Acadian wife Virginie Landry, at the St. Gabriel church in January 1861.  Their son Joseph Marie Faustin was born near St. Gabriel in November 1861; ... 

Joseph, père's fourth son Pierre Isidore, called Isidore, followed his older brother Firmin to Ascension, where he married Marie-Sophie, daughter of fellow Acadians Isaac LeBlanc and Marie Melanson, in August 1793.  Their children, born at Ascension, included Pierre-Gilbert in November 1794 but, called Gilbert, died at age 5 1/2 in March 1800; Joseph-Marie born in May 1796; Marie-Josèphe or -Joséphine in July 1798 but died at age 30 months in October 1800; twins Anselme le jeune and Jérôme born in March 1800, but Anselme le jeune died six days after his birth, and Jérôme died at age 5 months the following October; Éloi born in April 1801; Marie-Marthe in January 1803 but died the following October; another Marie Joséphine, called Joséphine, born in December 1806; Narcisse in August 1808; Marie Eulalie in March 1810; Marie Arthémise in March 1812 but died at age 5 1/2 in January 1818; and Pierre born in April 1814 but died six days after his birth.  Isidore remarried to Marie Clothilde, called Clothilde, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste LeBlanc and Marguerite Comeaux, at the St. Gabriel church in December 1817.  Their daughter Marie Élisabeth was born near St. Gabriel in January 1819--13 children, seven sons and six daughters, by two wives, between 1794 and 1819.  Isidore died at St. Gabriel in October 1819.  The priest who recorded his burial said that Isidore was age 60 when he died.  He was 47.  Daughters Joséphine and Marie Élisabeth, by both wives, married into the LeBlanc and Artaux families by 1870.  Only one of Isidore's sons married by then, but the line did not endure.

Fourth son Éloi, by first wife Marie Sophie LeBlanc, married cousin Marie Louise, called Louise, another daughter of Jean Baptiste LeBlanc and Marguerite Comeaux, at St. Gabriel in January 1821; Louise's sister Clothilde was Éloi's stepmother.  Élois and Louis's children, born near St. Gabriel, included Éloi, fils in December 1821 but died at age 23 in February 1845; Marie Aureline, called Aureline, born in October 1823; Armantine or Aureline in August 1826; and Valsain or Valsin in June 1828 but died at age 9 in August 1837--four children, two sons and two daughters, between 1821 and 1828.  Éloi, père, at age 47, remarried to Odile, daughter of fellow Acadians Artoise Babin and Françoise Landry and widow of Marcellin Breaux, at the St. Gabriel church in July 1848.  She evidently gave him no more children.  In early August 1850, the federal census taker in Iberville Parish counted eight slaves--four males and four females, all black, ranging in age from 40 to 2--on C. Blanchard's farm; the C. may have been a clumsy E for Éloi, père.  Daughter Aureline, by his first wife, married into the Landry family.  Neither of his sons married, but the blood of the family line endured. 

Isidore's sixth son Narcisse, by first wife Marie Sophie LeBlanc, died in Ascension Parish in February 1853.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Narcisse was about age 50 when he died.  He was 44.  He probably did not marry, so this branch of the Blanchard family, except for its blood, probably died with him.

Joseph, père's fifth and youngest son Victor married first cousin Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Richard and Anne Landry, his uncle and aunt, at San Gabriel in November 1796; Victor and Madeleine's mothers were sisters, so they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born at San Gabriel, included Marie Apollonie, called Apollonie, in September 1799; Victor, fils in December 1800 but died at age 29, "a bachelor," in July 1829; Joseph-Hyacinthe born in March 1802 but died the following May; Thomasin born in April 1803 but died at age 40 in January 1841; Élisabeth born in January 1804; another Élisabeth in January 1805; Joseph Joachim, called Joachim, in November 1806; Victorine in September 1808; Madeleine Céline in February 1811 but died the following September; Pierre Wallmond or Valmont, called Valmont, born in August 1812; a son, name unrecorded, died at birth in May 1814; and Jean Adrien born in January 1815 but, called Adrien, died at age 26 in March 1841--a dozen children, seven sons and five daughters, between 1799 and 1815.   Victor, père died at St. Gabriel in August 1835, age 61 (the recording priest said "age about 60 yrs.").  Daughters Apollonie, Victorine, and Élisabeth married into the Allain, Blanchard, Bercegeay, and Scott families.  Two of Victor's sons also married and remained on the river.  

Fourth son Joseph Joachim, called Joachim, married Marie Apolline, called Apolline, daughter of fellow Acadians Sébastien Guidry and Eulalie Breaux, at the St. Gabriel church in June 1835.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Victor le jeune in September 1836; Joseph Numa, called Numa, in April 1838; Marie Pulcherie, called Pulcherie, in March 1841; Armant or Amand in November 1846 but died at age 19 in February 1866; and Samuel Adam born in July 1855--five children, four sons and a daughter, between 1836 and 1855.  In early August 1850, the federal census taker in Iberville Parish counted 19 slaves--10 males and nine females, 16 blacks and three mulattoes, ranging in age from 45 to infant--on J. Blanchard's farm; this was probably Joachim.  Joachim drowned in the Mississippi River "near his home on the island" near St. Gabriel in August 1857.  The priest who recorded the burial noted that Joachim was buried at 1 a.m. the day he was found "because of having been in the water for over 56 hours," and that he was "age 55 years and 5 months" when he died.  He was 50.  Daughter Pulcherie married into the Blouin family by 1870.  Two of Joachim's sons also married by then, after their war service. 

During the War of 1861-65, oldest son Victor le jeune served as a lieutenant in Company D of the 27th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Iberville Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  He survived the war, returned to his family, and married Amanda L., daughter of fellow Acadian Jules Comeaux and his Creole wife Victorine Darbois, at the St. James church, St. James Parish, in January 1866.  They settled on the river near the boundary between St. James and Iberville parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie Linda in September 1866; Francis Numa in February 1868; Victor Sydney in August [1869]; ...

During the war, Joachim's second son Joseph Numa, called Numa, served in Company A of the 3rd Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Iberville Parish, which fought in Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana.  Numa married Delia Aurelia M., daughter of Valéry Roth and Elizabeth Garlick, at the St. Gabriel church in April 1864, after he left his regiment.  Daughter Marie Ela was born near St. Gabriel in March 1865; ...

Victor, père's fifth son Pierre Valmont, called Valmont, married cousin Marie Anne Hermina, called Hermina, Hermine, Alvina, and Malvina, daughter of fellow Acadians Demond LeBlanc and Delphine Landry, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in August 1834; they had to secure a dispensation of second and third degrees of consanguinity in order to marry.  They lived on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Ascension and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie Élisabeth in April 1836 but, called Marie Élise, died at age 1 1/2 in August 1837; Marie Sophronie, called Sophronie, born in September 1839; Pierre Harman in July 1841 but died at age 1 in September 1842; Marie Marguerite Odalie born March 1843; Caroline Félicité in July 1844 but died in October; Francois Adam Léo born in July 1845; Joseph André Édouard in December 1846; Marie Clara in August 1847 but died at age 1 1/2 in December 1848; Joseph Adam Léon Pierre born in May 1849; Désiré Edgar in December 1849[sic] but died at age 18 in June 1868; Blanche Mélanie born in March 1852; Saturin Ducroisil in November 1853; Jean Ducatele in September 1855; Reine Valmonia in September 1857; Julia Roberta in January 1859; and Robertin in c1860 but died at age 3 in January 1863--16 children, eight daughters and eight sons, between 1836 and 1860.  Valmont died in Ascension Parish in March 1861, age 48.  Daughter Sophronie married into the Claverie family by 1870.  None of Valmont's sons married by then. 

René, fils's fifth son Anselme, while still a teenager, followed his family to Maryland, where, in his early 20s, he married fellow Acadian Esther LeBlanc in the early 1760s.  The couple appeared on a repatriation list at Baltimore in August 1763; they had no children.  After the counting, Esther gave Anselme two children in the Chesapeake colony:  Rose-Osite-Barbe, called Osite-Barbe, born in c1763; and Jérôme in c1765.  They followed his family to Louisiana in 1767 and settled near them at San Gabriel, where the couple had more children, including Antoine born in c1768; and Louis in c1778 but died at age 11 months in July 1779--four children, a daughter and three sons, between 1763 and 1778, in Maryland and Louisiana.  Anselme served the Spanish regime with distinction.  In the late 1770s, under contract, he helped construct the Isleños settlement of Valenzuela on upper Bayou Lafourche, served briefly as commandant there in the early 1780s (he was not popular with the Canary Islanders), and was commissioner to the Acadians who came to Louisiana from France in 1785.  In the late 1780s, after his work with the new arrivals was done, he returned with his family to San Gabriel, where two of his sons came of age, but he was not through with his service to Spain.  By 1793, he was commandant of the New Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge--his second such command--and conducted a census there that year.  Anselme died in New Orleans, perhaps again in Spanish service, in November 1799 and was buried there.  The St.-Louis Cathedral priest who recorded the burial noted that Anselme was age 64 when he died.  He was 58.  The priest called him "army lieutenant in the service of His Catholic Majesty, [and] former commandant of LaFourche and New Feliciana districts in this province."  Daughter Osite-Barbe married into the Mollère family.  Anselme's remaining sons married and settled on the upper Acadian Coast in what became Iberville and Ascension parishes.  During the late antebellum and immediate post-war periods, some of Anselme's great grandsons crossed to the west bank of the river and settled near Plaquemine in Iberville Parish or farther upriver in West Baton Rouge Parish. 

Oldest son Jérôme followed his family to New Orleans and San Gabriel, where he married Marie-Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre-Sylvain Clouâtre and Madeleine Boudrot, in February 1787.  Their children, born at San Gabriel, included Henriette-Adélaïde in February 1789; Marie-Carmélite, called Carmélite, in August 1791; and Jérôme, fils, also called Olivier Jérôme, posthumously in April 1793--three children, two daughters and a son, from 1789 to 1793.  Jérôme, père died at San Gabriel in March 1793, age 28.  Daughters Henriette and Carmélite married into the Mollère, Capdeville, and Lacroix families.  Jérôme's son also married. 

Only son Jérôme, fils married Marie Marcellite, called Marcellite, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Orillion dit Champagne and his Creole wife Clothilde Marrionneaux, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in February 1811.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Ciriaque in March 1812; Jérôme III in November 1813; Jérôme Ducerviser in December 1815; Marie Coralie in November 1817; Louis Declousel in the late 1810s; Jérôme Ducateau, also called Joseph Ducatel and Jean Ducatel, in December 1819; Joseph in January 1822 but died at age 1 1/2 in July 1823; Clothilde, also called Mary Clothilde Olivia, Olvia C., and C. Olivia, in January 1826; and Théodore posthumously in February 1828--nine children, seven sons and two daughters, between 1812 and 1828.  Jérôme, fils died at St. Gabriel in October 1827, age 35.  Daughter Mary Clothilder Olivia married into the Mars and Balch families.  Four of Jérôme, fils's sons also married. 

Second son Jérôme III married Armeline or Amelina Roth in a civil ceremony in Iberville Parish probably in the mid-1830s.  Their children, born on both sides of the river in Iberville Parish near the boundary with Ascension Parish, included Ernest near St. Gabriel in September 1837; Adonis in January 1840; Ursine Ducatel, perhaps a daughter, in September 1842; Émile Jérôme in Ascension Parish in July 1846; Matthieu Roseluce near Plaquemine across the river, in Iberville Parish, in March 1851; Marie Zoïde Laetitita in December 1853; John Nemour in September 1856; and Julia Pauline in March 1859--eight children, five sons and three daughters, between 1837 and 1859.  Jérôme III's daughters did not marry by 1870, but two of his sons did. 

Oldest son Ernest married Louisa Emma, daughter of Alexandre Esnard and his Acadian wife Joséphine Broussard, at the Plaquemine church, Iberville Parish, in November 1860. ...

Jérôme III's third son Émile Jérôme married Joséphine, daughter of Jacques Caire and his Acadian wife Marie Élodie Bourg, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in August 1869. ...

Jérôme, fils's third son Louis Declousel married Éloise Joséphine, daughter of Arnaud Robert and Louise Vignaud, at the St. Gabriel church in November 1838.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Marie or Mary Dylia or Dilia in August 1839; Louis Duclosel or Declousel, fils in October 1841; and Éloise Cornelia in January 1844--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1839 and 1844.  Louis Declousel, père remarried to Lavinia, daughter of William Dodd and Elizabeth Pritchett, at the Plaquemine church in May 1854.  She evidently gave him no more children.  Daughter Mary Dilia, by his first wife, married into the Lemarie family by 1870.  Louis's son did not marry by then. 

Jérôme, fils's fifth son Jérôme Ducateau, also called Joseph Ducatel, Jean Ducatel, and J. A., married Euphémie, daughter of Alexandre Hotard and Euphémie Loriot, at the St. Gabriel church in January 1843.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Marie Marcellite Euphémie in November 1843; Marie Cécile in September 1846; Joseph Ducatel, fils in January 1848; Marie Angèle in July 1850; Mary Virginia near Plaquemine in July 1852; Marie Coralie in September 1854; and Joseph Buckanan, probably Buchanan, in August 1856.  Joseph Ducatel may have remarried to Eulalie Lendor, Landor, or Landoy in a civil ceremony in Iberville or Ascension Parish in the late 1850s, and sanctified the marriage at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in October 1861.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Jules Amand in October 1860 but died six days after his birth; Marie Constance born in November 1864; Marguerite Odalie in September 1867; Joseph Manuel in September 1870; ...  Daughters Cécile and Marie Angèle, by his first wife, married into the Landry and Holliday families by 1870.  None of Joseph Ducatel's sons married by then. 

Jérôme, fils's seventh and youngest son Théodore married Élisabeth dite Élise, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Denis Landry and Élisabeth Labauve, at the Plaquemine church in September 1855.  They evidently married civilly years earlier.  Their children, born near Plaquemine, included William Seymour in June 1847; twins Laura Élisabeth and Mary Linda in March 1852; twins Charles Cresselle and Joseph Aramis in February 1854, but Joseph Aramis, called Aramis, died at age 7 in May 1861; twins Joseph Théodore and Mary Théodora born in March 1857; Élise Laperle in January 1861; Marguerite Olivia in April 1863; and Marie Noémi in August 1865--10 children, four sons and six daughters, including three sets of twins!, between 1847 and 1865.  None of Théodore's children married by 1870. 

Anselme's second son Antoine married Anne-Marie-Josèphe dite Manon, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Hébert and Marie Landry, at San Gabriel in April 1788.  Their children, born there, included Anselme le jeune in November 1789; Joseph-Valentin in February 1792; Antoine-Célestin in January 1794; Marie-Marcelle or -Marcellite, also called Anne-Marie, in October 1795; Édouard in November 1797; twins Jérôme le jeune and Susanne-Monique or Monique-Susanne in May 1800, but Jérôme died the following October; and Adeline in the early 1800s--eight children, five sons and three daughters, including a set of twins, between 1789 and the early 1800s.  Antoine died at St. Gabriel in January 1804, age 36.  Daughters Marie Marcellite, Adeline, and Monique Susanne married into the Dupuis, Newell, and Frayard families.  Two of Antoine's remaining sons also married. 

Second son Joseph Valentin married Marie Marguerite, called Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Joseph Dupuis and Ludivine Landry, at the St. Gabriel church in May 1812; Joseph's sister Marie Marcellite married Marguerite's brother Charles on the same day, at the same place.  Joseph and Marguerite's children, born in Iberville Parish, included Marie Gertrude, called Gertrude, in April 1813; Antoine le jeune in May 1814; and Marie Coralie in January 1817.  Joseph Valentin remarried to Marie Delphine, called Delphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Isaac LeBlanc and Félicité Melançon, at the St. Gabriel church in July 1820.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Joseph Sosthène in December 1821 but died at St. Charles College, Grand Coteau, a few days short of his 18th birthday in November 1839 (his body was shipped home for burial the following May); Jean Terville or Surville born in February 1824; Marie Aimée or Emma in February 1826; an infant, name and age unrecorded, died in September 1832; and Marie Aurelie or Aureline born in January 1837 but died at age 1 1/2 in August 1838--eight children, at least four daughters and three sons, by two wives, between 1813 and 1837.  Joseph Valentin died in Iberville Parish in April 1850, age 58.  Daughters Gertrude and Marie Emma, by both wives, married into the Landry and Daigre families by 1870.  Two of Joseph Valentin's sons also married by then, but one of the lines did not endure.

Oldest son Antoine le jeune, by first wife Marguerite Dupuis, married Apolline Grasieuse, daughter of fellow Acadians Luc Gaudin and Henriette Landry of St. James Parish, at the St. Gabriel church in December 1839.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Marie Louise in August 1840 but, called Marie Louisa, died in September; and Marie Aloysia died at age 3 months in June 1842.  The couple had no sons, and neither of their daughters survived childhood, so the family line did not endure. 

Joseph Valentin's third and youngest son Jean Surville, called Surville, from second wife Delphine LeBlanc, married cousin Victorine, daughter of fellow Acadian Élie LeBlanc and his Creole wife Irène Hernandez, at the Plaquemine church in March 1851.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Marie Cécile in December 1851; Marie Emma in October 1853; Joseph Nemour Ennémond in July 1856 but, called Joseph Nimbus Ennémond, died at age 1 in August 1857; and Marie Léontine born in October 1858.  Jean Surville remarried to first cousin Marie Louise, daughter of Célestin Roth and his Acadian wife Arthémise LeBlanc, at the St. Gabriel church in August 1861; Marie Louise's mother was Jean Surville's maternal aunt, so he and Marie Louise had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Julia Amelia in January 1863; Marie Lidia Artemise in July 1864; Louise Delphine in December 1865; Marie Rose in December 1868; Marie Léa in June 1870; ...  None of Jean Surville's daughters married by 1870. 

Antoine's fourth son Édouard married Marie Caroline, called Caroline, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Dupuis and Marie Marine Clouâtre, at the St. Gabriel church in May 1819.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Anne Marie Mélanie in October 1820 but, called Mélanie, died at age 17 in October 1837; Édouard Valhmond or Valmont born in October 1822; Édouard Gustave, called Gustave, baptized at St. Gabriel, age unrecorded, in May 1827; and Édouard, fils born in May 1829 but died at age 3 in November 1832--four children, a daughter and three sons, between 1820 and 1829.  Édouard, père died in Iberville Parish in August 1829, age 31.  One of Édouard's remaining sons married by 1870.

Second son Gustave married fellow Acadian Rose Julie, called Julie, Babin in the early 1850s probably in Ascension Parish.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Jean Macair Déoscar in January 1853; Caroline Augustine in August 1854; Marie Manette in April 1856; Rose Modeste in June 1858; Cartir Gustave in October 1860 but, called Édouard, died at age 15 months in January 1862; Marie Téodora born in May 1862 but, called Théodora, died at age 3 in June 1865; Julie Thelcide born in July 1864 but, called Talcide, died at age 16 months in December 1865; Joseph Sosthène born in November 1866; ...  None of Gustave's children married by 1870. 

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At least 30 more Blanchards came to Louisiana aboard five of the Seven Ships from France in 1785.  Some settled on the Acadian Coast near their cousins already there, but most went to upper Bayou Lafourche, where they created a new center of family settlement. 

The first contigent--a widow and six of her Blanchard children--crossed on La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in mid-August 1785.  Three of the widow's four sons created families on the upper Lafourche, but only two of the lines endured: 

Laurent-Olivier (1765-1816) à Martin, fils à Martin à Jean Blanchard

Laurent-Olivier, second son of Joseph Blanchard and Anne-Symphorose Hébert, born at St.-Suliac on the east side of the Rance south of St.-Malo, France, in August 1765, followed his family to Poitou and Nantes and his widowed mother and siblings to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married cousin Anne-Simone, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Hébert and Madeleine Dugas, in July 1786.  Anne, a native of St.-Coulomb near St.-Malo, also had come to Louisiana aboard La Bergère.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Joseph Laurent baptized, age unrecorded, in September 1787 but died in Assumption Parish, age 61 (the recording priest said 60), in November 1848; Marie-Anne born in September 1788 but died at age 25 in January 1814; twins Étienne and Louis born in August 1790; Élie-Magloire in November 1792; and Augustin-Valéry, called Valéry, in September 1801--six children, five sons and a daughter, including a set of twins, between 1787 and 1801.  Laurent became captain of the Assumption militia and died there in June 1816, age 51.  His only daughter survived childhood but did not marry.  Four of his sons did marry and remained on the upper Lafourche. 

Second son Étienne, a twin, married Marine Osite Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Landry and Osite Landry, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1814.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Lucien Joseph Étienne in January 1820; Eléonore or Élise Marine in February 1821 but died in March; Valéry Florentin born in October 1822; Louis in April 1825; Joseph Gédéon in May 1827; Marine Clarisse in May 1831 but, called Claris/Clarisse, died at age 2 1/2 in October 1833; and twins Étienne Aristide and Firmin Osémé born in September 1835, but Étienne Aristide, called Arestile, died the following December--eight children, six sons and two daughters, between 1820 and 1835.  Étienne died in Assumption Parish in November 1856, age 66.  Neither of his daughters survived childhood.  Four of his remaining sons married by 1870, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Lucien Joseph Étienne married Euphémie, daughter of fellow Acadians Marius Melançon and Marcelline Gautreaux, probably in a civil ceremony in Assumption Parish in the late 1840s or early 1850s, and sanctified the marriage at the Plattenville church in April 1863.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Joseph Lucien near Paincourtville in February 1851; Marie Odilia in May 1853 but died in June; Joseph Ernest born in May 1857; Antoine Artus in March 1860, and baptized at Plattenville, age 3,  in May 1863, but died at age 3 1/2 (the recording priest said 4) in September 1863; and Marie Mirtie born in May 1862.  Lucien remarried to Stephanie, daughter of fellow Acadians Théophile Landry and Célestine Hébert, at the Plattenville church in February 1866.  Their children, born in Assumption Parish, included Louise Florestine in December 1866; Ulysse Stanislas in August 1869; ...  None of Lucien's children married by 1870. 

Étienne's second son Valéry Florentin married Augustine, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Thériot and his Creole wife Marie Caillouet, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1846.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Cécile Célina, called Célina, in November 1846; and Marie Avelline in May 1849.  In September 1850, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted three slaves--all female, all black, ages 60, 25, and 3--on Valéry Blanchard's farm in the parish's Second Congressional District.  Valéry Florentin remarried to cousin Angelina, daughter of fellow Acadians LaCroix Narcisse Trahan and Marcellite Daigle and widow of Jean Alleman, at the Paincourtville church in February 1854.  She evidently gave him no more chldren.  Daughter Célina, by his first wife, married into the Daigle family by 1870.  Did Valéry father any sons?

Étienne's third son Louis married Obelline, another daughter of Marius Melançon and Marcelline Gautreaux, at the Plattenville church in August 1850.  One wonders if they were that rare Acadian couple who had no children. 

Étienne's fourth son Joseph Gédéon married fellow Acadian Apolline dite Pauline Thériot in Assumption Parish in the early 1840s.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Charles François in August 1844; Jean Baptiste, called Baptiste, in February 1847; Homer Calisse or Caliste in February 1852; Marie Olesida in October 1854; and Justilien Romain in August 1857--five children, four sons and a daughter, between 1844 and 1857.  Joseph Gédéon's daughter did not marry by 1870, but two of his sons did, after moving on to lower Bayou Teche following the War of 1861-65. 

Oldest son Charles François married Hélène, daughter of Hermogène Simoneaux and his Acadian wife Emelina dite Menna Crochet, at the Pierre Part church, Assumption Parish, in January 1865.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche and the lower Teche, included Joseph Athenadore in Assumption Parish in January 1866; Dorsylva near New Iberia in September 1869; ...

Joseph Gédeon's second son Baptiste married Élisabeth, daughter of Eugène Borel and Céleste Bonin, at the New Iberia church, Iberia Parish, in January 1868.  They settled near New Iberia.  Their son Joseph was born there in November 1868; ...   

Laurent Olivier's third son Louis, Étienne's twin, married Céleste dite Colette, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Landry and Rosalie Hébert, at the Plattenville church in November 1812.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Emérante or Emérence Marie in January 1814; Méline Marine in June 1816; Timothée Arsène, called Arsène, in August 1818; Colette Céleste, perhaps also called Clarisse, in February 1821; Irène Azélie in July 1823; Marie Joséphine, called Joséphine, in November 1825; Adon in December 1828; Joseph Adrien, called Adrien, in February 1831; Lusinian or Lusignan in April 1833; and Marie Aimée or Emma, called Emma, in November 1836--10 children, six daughters and four sons, between 1814 and 1836.  Louis died in Assumption Parish in January 1860, age 69 (the recording priest said 69 1/2).  Daughters Emérence, Irène, Clarisse, Joséphine, and Emma married into the Landry, Michel, and Copel families, including four Landrys, two of them brothers, and one of the daughters, Emérance, married twice.  All four of Louis's sons married, and one of them died in Confederate service, leaving his widow with a number of orphans to raise. 

Oldest son Timothée Arsène, called Arsène, married Adeline, daughter of fellow Acadian Amand Crochet and his Creole wife Hortense Friou, at the Plattenville church in April 1842.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Noémie in March 1843; Joseph Natalia or Anatole, called Anatole, in September 1845; Marguerite Laurenza in October 1848; Élizabeth in February 1851; Jean Baptiste Nicolas in December 1852; Hedvige Joseph, evidently a son, in September 1854; Joseph in February 1858; and Joséphine Émelie in January 1860--eight children, four daughters and four sons, between 1843 and 1860.  Arsène may have died in Assumption Parish in September 1867.  The Paincourtville priest who recorded the burial did not give any parents' names, mention a wife, or give the age of the deceased.  Timothée Arsène would have been age 49 at the time.  None of his daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did.

Oldest son Anatole married Léocade, daughter of fellow Acadian Godfroi Breaux and his Creole wife Rosalie Coupelle, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in October 1866.  Their children, born near Paincourtville, included Élisabeth Émilia in September 1867; Joseph Émile in February 1869; ... 

Louis's second son Adon married Justine or Christine, daughter of fellow Acadians Hubert Daigle and Marie Dugas, at the Paincourtville church in February 1851.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Joseph Edga in November 1851; Joseph Arture in April 1853 but, called Arthur, died at age 14 months in September 1854; Joseph Enoc born in July 1856; Joseph in February 1859; Théodore Wuilbroen in April 1860; and Marie Zulemé in December 1862--six children, five sons and a daughter, between 1851 and 1862.  During the War of 1861-65, Adon, despite his age and the size of his family, was conscripted into Company B of the 1st Regiment Louisiana Heavy Artillery in October 1862 with other men from Assumption Parish.  The regiment served at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  Adon, however, did not live long enough to fight in the famous siege there.  He died at the Marine Hospital, Vicksburg, in December 1862, age 34.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Louis's third son Joseph Adrien, called Adrien, married Élodie, daughter of fellow Acadians Henri Daigle and Eméraude Dugas, at the Paincourtville church in February 1858.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Joseph Jules in March 1859; Lusignant Louis in November 1861; ...  

Louis's fourth and youngest son Lusignan married cousin Apollonie Joséphine, called Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Blanchard and Claire Guillot, at the Paincourtville church in March 1867.  Their children, born near Paincourtville, included Maria Thérèsa in October 1868; Joseph Claiborne in March 1870; ...

Laurent Olivier's fourth son Élie Magloire, called Élie, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Fabien Guillot and Anne Giroir and widow of Jean Baptiste Bourg, at the Plattenville church in November 1826.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Trasimond Élie in January 1828; Ursin Magloire in May 1829 but died at age 17 in September 1846; Marie Joséphine born in May 1831; Jean Baptiste Octave in October 1833 but died at age 2 in December 1835; Marie Aurore born in January 1836; and Evariste in June 1838--six children, four sons and two daughters, between 1828 and 1838.  Élie Magloire died in Assumption Parish in August 1840, age 47.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted six slaves--five males and one female, two blacks and four mulattoes, ranging in age from 30 years to 1 month--on Widow Élie Blanchard's farm in the parish's Second Congressional District; these were Marguerite Guillot's slaves.  (One of the slaves likely was 9-year-old Étienne, son of Adélaide, the female slave in the household.  Étienne was born in Assumption Parish in August 1841.  His godparents were Ursin Blanchard, his mother's owner's 12-year-old son, and Marie Bourg, probably his mother's owner's grown daughter by a previous marriage.)  A few days later, in August 1850, the same federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted three more slaves--a 25-year-old female and two girls, ages 4 and 2, all black--on another of Widow Élie Blanchard's properties in the same district.  Daughter Marie, probably Marie Joséphine, married into the Campo family by 1870.  Marguerite and Éloi Magloire's remaining sons also married by then, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Trasimond Élie married Augustine, daughter of fellow Acadians François Bourg and Adélaïde Bertrand, at the Plattenville church in March 1847.  Did they have any children? 

Élie Magloire's fourth and youngest son Evariste married cousin Élodie, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Giroir and Adèle Hébert, at the Plattenville church in May 1858; they had to secure a dispensation for fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Cordelia Ladina in February 1859; Richard René in April 1860; Numa Étienne in December 1862 but, unnamed, died at age 10 months in October 1863; Charles Trasimond born in November 1865; Joseph Prosper Clet in October 1868; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Evariste was conscripted into Company B of the 1st Regiment Louisiana Heavy Artillery in October 1862 with other men from Assumption Parish, including a first cousin who died soon after he joined the unit.  The regiment fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  Evariste was captured with the rest of his unit at Vicksburg in July 1863, and, like most of his fellow conscripts, refused to be paroled.  The Federals sent him and his fellow gunners to Gratiot Street Prison in St. Louis, Missouri, and to Memphis, Tennessee, before transferring them to the prisoner-of-war camp at Camp Morton near Indianapolis, Indiana.  Perhaps to shorten his stay in the prisoner camp, Evariste, with other prisoners from his unit, took the oath of allegiance to the United States government in early January 1865--months before the war ended.  The Federals released them after they took the oath, and they made their way home as best they could. 

Laurent Olivier's fifth and youngest son Augustin Valéry, called Valéry, married Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Servant Templet and Céleste Aucoin, at the Plattenville church in January 1824.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Eugénie Augustine in February 1825; Eulalie Émilie in August 1826 but died at age 19 (the recording priest said 20) in January 1846; Carmélite died the day after her birth in February 1828; twins Carmélite Aséma and Marie Pamela, called Pamela, born in December 1828, but Pamela died at age 4 1/2 (the recording priest said 5) in June 1833; Marie Aurelle born in November 1830; Augustin Désiré, called Désiré, in April 1833 but died at age 2 in March 1835; Augustine Hélène born in January 1835; Ursin or Valsin Augustin in December 1836 but died the following August; Arcture or Arthur Désiré born in July 1838; Célina Céleste in April 1840 but, called Célima, died at age 15 1/2 (the recording priest said 12) in September 1855; Clarisse Florestine born in February 1842; and Marie Seliment in December 1843--13 children, 10 daughters and three sons, between 1825 and 1843.  None of Valéry's daughters married by 1870, if they married at all, but his remaining son did.

Third and youngest son Arthur Désiré married first cousin Cécilia, daughter of fellow Acadians Godefroi Templet and Carmélite Bourg, at the Plattenville church in June 1868; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  A "newborn child," name unrecorded, died near Plattenville in March 1869; another "newborn child," name unrecorded, died near Plattenville the following December; ...

Pierre-Joseph (1769-1827) à Martin, fils à Martin à Jean Blanchard

Pierre-Joseph, third son of Joseph Blanchard and Anne-Symphorose Hébert, born at St.-Suliac near St.-Malo, France, in September 1769, followed his family to Poitou and Nantes and his widowed mother and siblings to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marguerite-Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Aucoin and his second wife Cécile Richard, in July 1790.  Marguerite, a native of St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Suliac, also had crossed to Louisiana aboard La Bergère.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Élise-Bonne in September 1792 but died at age 4 1/2 in July 1797; Henriette-Marie born on June 1794; Claire in April 1796; Pierre-Firmin, called Firmin, in July 1798; Élie le jeune in August 1800; twins Édouard and Pierre, fils in August 1802; Alexis in March 1805 but died in Assumption Parish, age 46, in March 1851; and Marcellite or Marcelline born in April 1809--nine children, four daughters and five sons, including a set of twins, between 1792 and 1809.  Pierre died in St. James Parish on the river in August 1827.  The Convent priest who recorded the burial noted that Pierre was a resident of Lafourche Parish, which at the time was called Lafourche Interior Parish, and that he was age 55 when he died.  He was 57.  Daughters Henriette and Marcellite married into the Landry and Foley families.  Marcellite and her husband Arthur Foley, despite their advance age and his infirmity, miraculousy survived the Last Island disaster of August 1856.  Three of Pierre Joseph's sons also married and remained on the upper Lafourche, but not all of the family lines endured.  

Oldest son Firmin married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Fabien Amateur Guillot and Anne Josèphe Giroir, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in July 1818.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included a son, name unrecorded, died a day after his birth in March 1819; Zéphirin Lucien born in June 1820; Octave Louis or Louis Octave in December 1821; Ursin Basile, called Basile, in January 1824; and Anne Malvina in May 1826--five children, four sons and a daughter, between 1819 and 1826.  Was Pierre Firmin the Fermin Blanchard who died near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in December 1870?  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Fermin died at "age 70 years."  Pierre Firmin would have been age 72, so this probably was him.  His daughter did not marry by 1870, if she married at all.  Two of his sons did marry by then and remained on the upper Lafourche. 

Third son Octave Louis or Louis Octave married Uranie, also called Euphrasine, daughter of Honoré Folse, in Assumption Parish in the 1840s.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Cécilia Malvina in November 1845; Zephirin Arthure in July 1847; Lucien Tamour in December 1848; Marie Emma Azela in January 1850; Elvina in April 1852; Octavie Adelina in January 1853 but, called Octavie, died at age 4 1/2 in July 1857; Henry Firmin Egar born in November 1854; Marie Uranie in March 1857; Paul Octave Robert in July 1860; ...  In September 1850, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted eight slaves--seven males and one female, all black, ranging in age from 28 to 4--on Octave Blanchard's farm in the parish's Second Congressional District.  Daughter Cécilia M. married into the Walsh family by 1870.  None of Octave's sons married by then. 

Firmin's fourth and youngest son Ursin Basile married fellow Acadian and cousin Adélaïde Guillot in either Assumption or Ascension parish probably in the early 1840s.  Their son Octave Basile was born in either Assumption or Ascension parish probably soon afterwards.  Ursin Basile may have been the Ursin Blanchard who died at "age ca. 21 yrs." in Assumption Parish in October 1844; the Plattenville priest who recorded the burial did not give any parents' names or mention a wife.  Ursin Basile's son married by 1870. 

Only son Octave Basile married Anaïs Drivon, widow of Adrien Chiasson, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in July 1865. ...

Pierre-Joseph's second son Élie le jeune married Marie Judith, called Judith, daughter of Thomas Alexandre and Marguerite Vicknair of St. John the Baptist Parish, at the Plattenville church in April 1824.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Élie Elesiphore or Olésiphore in February 1825 but died at age 16 years and 8 months in September 1841; Lea born in December 18___, probably 1828, and baptized, age not given, in June 1829; Maximin Telesphore born in May 1829; and Marie Judith posthumously in December 1830--four children, two sons and two daughters, between 1825 and 1830.  Élie le jeune died in Assumption Parish in November 1830, age 30.  None of his children married by 1870, if they married at all. 

Pierre-Joseph's third son Édouard, a twin, died in Assumption Parish in September 1868.  The Plattenville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Édouard died at "age 66 years," so this probably was him.  Amazingly, Édouard died less than a week before his twin brother Pierre, fils died.   Did Édouard ever marry? 

Pierre-Joseph's fourth son Pierre, fils, Édouard's twin, married Adélaïde Marcellite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Hébert and Marie Madeleine Adélaïde Hébert, at the Plattenville church in February 1834.  Pierre, fils died near Plattenville in September 1868.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Pierre died at "age 66 years," so this was him.  Amazingly, Pierre, fils died less than a week after his twin brother Édouard died.  Did Pierre, fils father any children, or did his family line die with him?  

Louis-Suliac (1771-1793) à Martin, fils à Martin à Jean Blanchard

Louis-Suliac, fourth son of Joseph Blanchard and Anne-Symphorose Hébert, born at St.-Suliac near St.-Malo, France, in October 1771, followed his family to Poitou and Nantes and his widowed mother and siblings to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche.  He died in Assumption Parish on the upper Lafourche in May 1793, age 22, still a bachelor. 

Élie (c1774-1845) à Martin, fils à Martin à Jean Blanchard

Élie, fifth son of Joseph Blanchard and Anne-Symphorose Hébert, born in Poitou, France, in c1774, followed his famliy to Nantes and his widowed mother and older siblings to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married cousin Eudoxe-Marie-Gillette, called Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians François Blanchard and Hélène-Judith Giroir, in January 1793.  Marie, a native of St.-Suliac near St.-Malo, France, had crossed to Louisiana on a later ship.  Élie and Marie were still childless in 1798, so they may have been that rare Acadian couple who had no children.  Élie died in Assumption Parish in December 1845, age 71.  

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The next contingent of Blanchards--a family of five, including two sons and a daughter--crossed on Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in September 1785.  They, too, followed their fellow passenger to upper Bayou Lafourche, where the two sons created more family lines: 

Jean-Grégoire (1745-1811) à Joseph à Martin à Jean Blanchard

Jean-Grégoire, called Grégoire, son of perhaps Jean-Baptiste Blanchard and Anne Bourg, born perhaps at Cobeguit in c1745, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, where a French official counted them on Rivière-du-Nord-Est in the island's interior in August 1752.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Grégoire became a wood polisher there and married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Livois and his second wife Marie-Madeleine Poirier, probably in Poitou in c1774.  Marie-Madeleine gave Grégoire a daughter, Marie-Anne, born in St.-Jean l'Evangeliste Parish, Châtellerault, in February 1775, but the girl died there at age 1 in February 1776.  In March, after burying their daughter, Grégoire and Marie retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes.  Between 1776 and 1785, in St.-Similien Parish, Nantes, Marie gave Grégoire more children:  Marie born in July 1776; Jean-Baptiste, called Jean, in March 1778; and Pierre-Charles in c1785--four children, two daughters and two sons, between 1775 and 1785.  Grégoire, Marie-Madeleine, and their three remaining children, a daughter and two sons, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana soon after the birth of their younger son.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Marie gave Grégoire no more children there.  He died in Assumption Parish on upper Bayou Lafourche in October 1811, age 66.  Daughter Marie married into the Landry family on Bayou Lafourche.  Both of Grégoire's sons also created their own families there. 

Older son Jean-Baptiste, called Jean, followed his family to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marie-Modeste, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Aucoin and Élisabeth Henry, in January 1802.  Marie-Modeste, a native of Chantenay near Nantes, had crossed to Louisiana from France aboard the first of the Seven Ships.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between the Ascension and Assumption districts.  Their children, born there, included Jean-Baptiste, fils in November 1802; Joseph Jean baptized, age unrecorded, in November 1804 but died the following July; Hippolyte Charles born in May 1806 but, called Hyppolite, died at age 43 in May 1849; Thadée Martin, called Martin, born in November 1808; and Marguerite Rosalie in April 1811--five children, four sons and a daughter, between 1802 and 1811.  Jean, at age 35, remarried to Marie Adélaïde, 33-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Boudreaux and Perpétué Dugas and widow of Eustache Carret, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in July 1813.  Marie Adélaïde also was a native of Chantenay who had crossed to Louisiana aboard the first of the Seven Ships.  She evidently gave Jean no more children.  Jean Baptiste, père died in Assumption Parish in December 1848.  The Plattenville priest who recorded the burial said that Jean Bte., as he called him, died at age 73.  He was 70.  Daughter Marguerite Rosalie, by his first wife, married into the Sause family.  Two of Jean's sons also married and remained on the upper Lafourche.

Oldest son Jean Baptiste, fils, called Baptiste, from first wife Marie Modeste Aucoin, married cousin Clarisse or Claire Pauline, daughter of fellow Acadians Fabien Thomas Guillot and Pauline Aucoin, at the Plattenville church in July 1832.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Claris in April 1833 but died at age 1 1/2 in June 1834; Jean Baptiste III died, age unrecorded, in March 1834; Jean Baptiste Joseph, called Joseph, born in April 1835; Zéphirin Dorville in August 1836 but, called Orville, died at age 19 in October 1855; Augustin Evariste born in February 1839; Marie Eugénie Henriette in February 1841; Apollonie Joséphine, called Joséphine, in December 1842; Firmin Édouard in October 1844 but, called Firmin, died at age 11 in October 1855; Marie Clémentine, called Clémentine, born in June 1847; Désiré Evariste in March 1849; Eugina Evellina in February 1851; Octave Adrien in February 1853 but, called Adrien Octave, died a few weeks later; and Pauline Clara born in January 1855 but, called Claire, died at age 1 in January 1856--13 children, six daughters and seven sons, between 1833 and 1855.  In August 1850, the census taker in Assumption Parish counted seven slaves--five males and two females, all black, ranging in age from 49 to 1--on Jean Baptiste Blanchard's farm in the parish's Second Congressional District.  In August 1860, the census taker in Assumption Parish counted six slaves--four males and two females, three blacks and three mulattoes, ages 40 years to 6 months, living in one house--on Jn Bte Blanchard's farm in the parish's 9th Ward along Bayou Lafourche near Jn Bte Blanchard Jr (probably son Jean Baptiste Joseph).  Jean Baptiste, fils died in Assumption Parish in May 1861, age 58.  Daughters Joséphine, Clémentine, ... married into the Blanchard, Girouard, and LeBlanc families by 1870.  Two of Baptiste's sons also married by then, to sisters, and both of the sons died in Confederate service. 

Second son Jean Baptiste Joseph married Clémentine, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Landry and his Creole wife Euphrosine dite Froisine Malbrough, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1859.  Their children, born in Assumption Parish, included Amélie Geneviève Victorine in January 1860; and Elmina Odelia Élizabeth in February 1862.  In August 1860, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted nine slaves--six males and three females, all black, ranging in age from 59 to 1, living in one house--on Jn Bte Blanchard Jr's farm in the parish's 9th Ward along Bayou Lafourche, near Jn Bte Blanchard; these probably were Jean Baptiste Joseph's slaves.  Jean Baptiste Joseph was conscripted into Company B of the 1st Regiment Louisiana Heavy Artillery in October 1862 with other Assumption Parish men, including younger brother Augustin Evariste.  The regiment fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  Jean Baptiste was captured with the rest of his unit at Vicksburg in July 1863, and, like most of his fellow conscripts, refused parole.  The Federals sent him and his fellow gunners to Memphis, Tennessee; St. Louis, Missouri; and to the prisoner-of-war compound at Camp Morton, Indiana.  Jean Baptiste died at Camp Morton probably of disease in May 1864, age 29.  Neither of his children married by 1870. 

Baptiste's fourth son Augustin married Mélanie, another daughter of Jean Baptiste Landry and Euphrosine dite Froisine Malbrough, at the Paincourtville church in January 1861.  Their son Elphége Gervet Eugène was born in Assumption Parish in November 1861.  Augustin Evariste also was conscripted into Company B of the 1st Regiment Louisiana Heavy Artillery with older brother Jean Baptiste Joseph and suffered a similar fate.  Augustin Evariste died in the spring or summer of 1863 during the Siege of Vicksburg, cause and date of his death unrecorded.  He would have been in his mid-20s.  His son, of course, did not marry by 1870. 

Jean-Baptiste père's fourth and youngest son Thadée Martin, by first wife Marie Modeste Aucoin, married Constance Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Olivier Bourg and Marie Rose Livois, at the Plattenville church in January 1832.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Constance in November 1832; and Arsène Thadée in the early 1830s.  Thadée Martin died in Assumption Parish in February 1837, age 28.  Daughter Marie married into the Guillot family.  Thadée's son also married.

Only son Arsène Thadée married Marie Noémi dite Mimi, daughter of fellow Acadians Henri Breaux and Marie Joséphine Duhon, at the Paincourtville church in January 1854.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Alice in August 1856; Joseph died, age unrecorded, in March 1859; Odalie Angela born in April 1862 but, called Odalise, died at age 6 1/2 in August 1868; and Joseph Arsène perhaps posthumously born in January 1868--four children, two daughters and two sons, between 1856 and 1868.  Arsène may have died in Assumption Parish in September 1867.  The Paincourtville priest who recorded the burial did not give any parents' names, mention a wife, or provide the age of the deceased.  This Arsène would have been in his 30s.  Neither of his remaining children married by 1870. 

Grégoire's younger son Pierre Charles was a nursling when he reached New Orleans with his parents and siblings.  They took him to upper Bayou Lafourche, where he came of age.  Called André Pierre by the recording priest, Pierre Charles married Julie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Dupuis and Élisabeth Benoit of St. Gabriel, at St. Gabriel on the river in August 1804.  Julie was a native of Louisiana whose parents had come to Louisiana from Maryland in 1767.  Pierre Charles and Julie settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Pierre in December 1807; Marie Adélaïde, also called Marie Arthémise and Arthémise, in August 1809; Jean Rosémond, called Rosémond, in January 1812; Faustin Amand, called Amand, in March 1814; and a daughter, name unrecorded, died at birth in February 1818.  Pierre Charles remarried to Carmélite Euphémie, daughter of Étienne Peltier and his Acadian wife Jeanne-Marguerite Clossinet of Chantenay near Nantes, at the Plattenville church in February 1819.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Gatien or Gratien Olivier in December 1819; Marie in December 1821; Apolline Gertrude in July 1823 but died at age 1 in July 1824; Clément Neuville, called Neuville, born in November 1825; Joseph Osémé, called Osémé, in November 1827; Marie Adeline, called Adeline, in May 1830; and Joseph Amédée, called Amédée, in June 1832--a dozen children, seven sons and five daughters, by two wives, between 1807 and 1832.  Pierre Charles died in Assumption Parish in March 1835, age 50.  Daughters Arthémise and Adeline, by both wives, married into the Breaux and Dugas families.  All seven of Pierre Charles's sons married and remained on the upper Lafourche. 

Oldest son Pierre, by first wife Julie Dupuis, married Élisa dite Lisa, daughter of fellow Acadians Édouard Hébert and Eléonore Giroir, at the Plattenville church in November 1836.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie in May 1839 but died the day of her birth; Joseph Elphége born in September 1840 but, called Joseph, died at age 13 1/2 (the recording priest said 14) in June 1854; Pierre Adolphe, called Adolphe, born near Paincourtville in August 1844; Pierre Neuville in December 1846 but, called Neuville, died at age 16 months in April 1848; Marie Lorenza or Laurenza, called Laurenza, born in May 1849; Thérèsa Alida, called Alida, in November 1851; Édouard Dufroissel in February 1854; and Pierre Devillier in September 1856--eight children, three daughters and five sons, between 1839 and 1856.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted five slaves--two males and three females, four blacks and one mulatto, ranging in age from 35 to 2--on Pierre Blanchard's farm in the parish's Second Congressional District.  Pierre died in Assumption Parish in January 1864, age 56 (the recording priest at Paincourtville said 55).  Daughters Alida and Laurenza married into the Achée and Marroy families by 1870.  One of Pierre's sons also married by then. 

Second son Adolphe married Oliva, daughter of fellow Acadians Henry Daigle and Emérante Dugas, at the Paincourtville church in April 1869.  Their son Pierre Henri was born near Paincourtville in December 1870; ...

Pierre Charles's second son Jean Rosémond, called Rosémond, from first wife Julie Dupuis, married Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Guidry and Renée Dugas, at the Plattenville church in August 1839.  Son Pierre was born in Assumption Parish in April 1843.  Rosémond remarried to Octavie, another daughter of Édouard Hébert and Eléonore Giroir, at the Paincourtville church in June 1855.  Their children, born near Paincourtville, included Marie Élodie in December 1856; and twins Joseph and Marguerite Adeline in December 1858, but Joseph died three days after his birth--four children, two sons and two daughters, by two wives, including a set of twins, between 1843 and 1858.  Rosémond died in Assumption Parish in April 1860.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Rosémond was age 45 when he died.  He was 48.  None of his remaining children, including his older son, married by 1870. 

Pierre Charles's third son Faustin Amand, called Amand, from first wife Julie Dupuis, married Clarisse or Claire, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Breaux and Céleste Arceneaux, at the Plattenville church in November 1836, five days after his older brother Pierre married in the same church.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Jule or Jules Meno in December 1837; a son, name unrecorded, died at age 13 days in November 1839; Joseph Séverin, called Séverin, born in December 1840; Mathilde in February 1843; Marie Ernestine, called Ernestine, near Paincourtville in April 1845; Claire Élisabeth in April 1847; Louise Audalie or Odalie, called Odalie, in August 1849; Joseph, age unrecorded, died in February 1852; Antoine Deville born in January 1854; Marguerite in December 1855 but died at age 2 1/2 (the recording priest said 2) in July 1858; and Joseph Hermogène born in September 1858 but died two days after his birth--11 children, six sons and five daughters, between 1837 and 1858.  Amand, at age 49, remarried to Adoisca, daughter of fellow Acadians Marcellin Hermogène LeBlanc and Eléonise Landry, at the Paincourtville church in December 1863. ...  Daughters Claire, Odalie, Mathilde, and Ernestine, by his first wife, married into the Newchurch, Gautreaux, Bergeron, and Gilbert families by 1870.  Two of Amand's sons also married by then, after their war service. 

During the War of 1861-65, second son Jules, by first wife Clarisse Breaux, served probably as a conscript in Company H of the 29th (Thomas's) Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Assumption Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  Jules survived the war, returned to his family, and married Coralie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pharon LeBlanc and Coralie Landry of Ascension Parish, at the Paincourtville church in November 1865.  Their children, born near Paincourtville, included Marie Clara in June 1869; Marie Odalie in November 1870; ...

During the war, Amand's third son Séverin, by first wife Clarisse Breaux, served in the Donaldsonville Artillery, raised in Ascension Parish, which fought in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania--one of General R. E. Lee's Louisiana Tigers.  Except for a brief detachment as a teamster with an ordnance train, Séverin was present on every roll of his unit from his enlistment in September 1861 until he surrendered with General R. E. Lee's army at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, in April 1865.  He returned to his family and married Lorenza, daughter of fellow Acadian Bienvenu Landry and his Creole wife Lorenza Capdevielle, at the Paincourtville church in November 1865.  Their son Thomas Ange was born in Assumption Parish in September 1866; ...  

Pierre Charles's fourth son Gatien or Gratien Olivier, by second wife Carmélite Euphémie Peltier, married Anaïse dite Naïse, another daughter of Marcellin Hermogène LeBlanc and Eléonise Landry, at the Paincourtville church in 1842.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Pierre Nichols, called Nichols, in June 1843; Marie Aurelia in July 1846 but, called Aurelia, died at age 7 in September 1853, victim, perhaps, of the the yellow fever epidemic that struck South Louisiana that summer and fall; Paul Necomide or Nicomede born in September 1848; Marie Alida in August 1850 but, called Alida, died at age 13 1/2 in November 1863; Marie Léonide Carmélite born in August 1853 but, called Eléonidia, died at age 8 in September 1861; Joseph Ernest born in March 1856; Anastasie Orphida in April 1858; Joseph Léoni in March 1860; Marie Virginie in October 1862; Marie Cécile in September 1866; ...  None of Gratien's daughters married by 1870, but two of his sons did. 

Oldest son Nichols married Alida, another daughter of Bienvenue Landry and Lorenza Capdevielle, at the Paincourtville church in October 1867.  Daughter Marie Clara was baptized at the Paincourtville church, age unrecorded, in October 1869; ...

Gratien's second son Nicomède married cousin Cordelia, daughter of fellow Acadians Augustin Melançon and Mélanie Hébert, at the Paincourtville church in July 1870; they had to secure a dispensation for third and fourth degrees of consanguinity in order to marry. ...

Pierre Charles's fifth son Clément Neuville, called Neuville and Norville, from second wife Carmélite Euphémie Peltier, married Félicie, daughter of fellow Acadian Paul Savoy and his Creole wife Félicité Maroi, at the Plattenville church in July 1849.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Félicie or Félicia, called Félicia, near Paincourtville in July 1850; Marie Adrienne in December 1851; Marguerite Corine in July 1853; Jean Joseph Samuel in February 1855; Jean Randolph in December 1856; Antoine Paul in June 1859; Joseph Lefranc in November 1861; a son, name unrecorded, died a day after his birth in May 1864; Marguerite Anna born in October 1865; ... Daughter Félicia married into the LeBlanc family by 1870.  None of Neuville's sons married by then. 

Pierre Charles's sixth son Joseph Osémé, called Osémé, from second wife Carmélite Euphémie Peltier, married Félicie, daughter of fellow Acadians Lazare Hébert and Céleste Landry, at the Paincourtville church in October 1851.  Their son Théodore Demophon was born in Assumption Parish in October 1853; ... 

Pierre Charles's seventh and youngest son Joseph Amédée, called Amédée, from second wife Carmélite Euphémie Peltier, married Clémentine, daughter of Dufossard Mollère and Basilisse Rousseau, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in January 1855.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Joséphine Geneviève Octavie in January 1856 but, unnamed, died at age 2 1/2 in May 1858; Octavie Eugénie born in June 1859 but died the following November; Alphonse Fernant born in January 1861; Jean Amédée in August 1864; George Eugène Joseph in November 1866 but, called Georges, died at age 2 1/2 (the recording priest said "age ca. 3 years") in September 1869; Eugène Édouard born in January 1869; ...  During the war, Amédée served in Company C of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Assumption Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  As the birth dates of some of his younger children reveal, he survived the war and returned to his family.  None of his children married by 1870. 

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More Blanchards--three of Toussaint's daughters; and a wife, two brothers, and their families, descendants of Jean; 16 Blanchards in all--crossed on L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in November 1785.  They, too, followed their fellow passengers to Bayou Lafourche.  Not all of the lines endured, but the ones that did tended to be robust: 

François (c1731-1794) à Martin à Jean Blanchard

François, sixth son of Joseph Blanchard and Anne Dupuis and uncle of Jean-Grégoire of Le St.-Rémi, born perhaps at Cobeguit in c1731, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in 1755 or 1756, and to St.-Malo, France, in 1758.  in his early 30s, he married Hélène-Judith, daughter of fellow Acadians Honoré Girouard and Marie-Josèphe Theriot, at Pleslin on the west side of Rivière Rance southwest of St.-Malo in October 1763.  They settled at nearby St.-Suliac, where Hélène gave François three daughters:  Françoise-Hélène born in May 1765; Eudoxe-Marie-Gillette, called Marie, in September 1769; and Rose-Anne in January 1773.  They went to Poitou soon after the birth of their youngest daughter, and Hélène gave François a son, Joseph-François, at Leigné-les-Bois east of Châtellerault in April 1775.  In March 1776, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the lower Loire port of Nantes, where Hélène gave François four more children in St.-Similien Parish:  Pierre-Sébastien born in January 1777 but died the following May; Jean in July 1779 but died the following June; Marguerite-Anne in August 1780; and Rosalie-Adélaïde in May 1782 but died at age 1 1/2 in November 1783--eight children, five daughters and three sons, between 1765 and 1782.  Daughter Rose-Anne evidently died at Nantes before 1785.  François, Hélène, and their remaining children, three daughters and a son, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  The couple had no more children in the colony.  François died at Assumption in January 1794, age 63.  Daughters Françoise-Hélène, Eudoxe-Marie, and Marguerite-Anne married into the Gautreaux, Bourg, Blanchard, and Comeaux families on the upper Lafourche.  François's son survived childhood but evidently did not marry, so this line of the family, except for its blood, did not endure in the Bayou State.  

Oldest son Joseph-François followed his family to Nantes, New Orleans, and upper Bayou Lafourche.  A Spanish official counted him with his family at Valenzuela on the upper bayou in January 1788, age 12.  He then disappears from the historical record. 

Bénoni (c1741-1821) à Martin à Jean Blanchard

Bénoni, eighth and youngest son of Joseph Blanchard and Anne Dupuis and François's brother, born perhaps at Cobeguit in c1741, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in 1755 or 1756, and to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  In his early 20s, he married Agnès, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Dugas and Isabelle Bourg, at St.-Suliac on the east side of Rivière Rance south of St.-Malo in February 1764.  She gave him a son, name unrecorded, born at St.-Malo, who died the following August, soon after his birth.  Agnès died two days later, probably from the rigors of childbirth.  Bénoni remarried to Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Forest and Claire Vincent, at Plouër-sur-Rance, across the river from St.-Suliac, in February 1766.  They settled in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer before returning upriver to St.-Suliac.  Madeleine gave Bénoni more children there:  Marie-Madeleine born at St.-Servan in February 1767; Joachim-Jacques at St.-Suliac in October 1768; Bénoni-Jacques in June 1771; and Anne-Marguerite in c1773.  They also went to Poitou in 1773.  Madeleine gave Bénoni another son there, Étienne-Charles-Marie, born in St.-Jean l'Evangeliste Parish, Châtellerault, in April 1775.  In March 1776, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes, where Bénoni worked as a day-laborer and seaman.  He and Madeleine buried their year-old son Étienne in Ste.-Croix Parish, Nantes, in April 1776, and Madeleine gave Bénoni four more children there:  Céleste born in August 1776; Rosalie in May 1778 but died at age 1 1/2 in January 1780; Angélique born in August 1780 but died two weeks later; and Moïse born in February 1782--10 children, five sons and five daughters, by two wives, between 1764 and 1782.  Bénoni, Marguerite, and their six remaining children, three daughters and three sons, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 and also settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  The had no more children in the colony.  Youngest son Moïse, age 3 when the family left France, may not have survived the crossing.   Bénoni died in Assumption Parish in July 1821, age 80.  Daughters Marie-Madeleine, Céleste, and Anne-Marguerite, from his second wife, married into the Forest, Pitre, and Moyse families on the upper Lafourche.  Two of Bénoni's older sons also married and created vigorous lines on the bayou. 

Second son Joachim-Jacques, by second wife Madeleine Forest, followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marie-Madeleine dite Manon, daughter of fellow Acadians André Templet and Marguerite LeBlanc, in August 1793.  Marie-Madeleine, a native of St.-Servan-sur-Mer, had crossed to Louisiana from France on the first of the Seven Ships.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche included Jean-Charles, called Charles-Joachim-Jean by the priest who baptized him at Assumption, age unrecorded, in November 1796; Augustin or Auguste born in February 1797; Florentin baptized, age unrecorded, in October 1798; Ambroise born in July 1800; Marie-Adèle, called Adèle, in July 1802; Clarisse in November 1803; and Marie, perhaps also called Anne, in April 1805--seven children, four sons and three daughters, between 1796 and 1805.  Joachim died in Assumption Parish in March 1825, age 57.  Daughters Adèle and Anne married into the Violin, Galland, and Ordoneaux families.  All  four of Joachim's sons also created families of their own.  His second and third sons' lines were especially robust.  One of Joachim Jacques's sons and two of his grandsons moved from the Lafourche valley to the Mississippi River and settled in West Baton Rouge Parish, but his other descendants remained on the upper Lafourche.  

Oldest son Jean Charles married cousin Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Pierre Marc Blanchard and Jeanne Giroir, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1818.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included twins Uxelien Alexandre and Jean Charles, fils in November 1818; Élie Volusien in October 1819 but, called Hélie, died at age 23 in February 1843; Élise Rosalie born in May 1821; Jean Baptiste Grégoire in March 1823; Auguste in the 1820s; Joachim in December 1826; Marin Charles, also called Jean Charles Marin, in January 1827; and Julie Roseline in December 1827--nine children, seven sons and two daughters, including a set of twins, between 1818 and 1827.  Jean Charles, père died in Assumption Parish in September 1829, age 33.  Daughter Julie married into the Aucoin family by 1870.  Four of Jean Charles's sons also married by then, but not all of the lines endured.  Two of them settled in West Baton Rouge Parish and two on the upper Lafourche. 

Oldest son Euzelien, a twin, married Émilie, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Landry and Rosalie Landry, place and date unrecorded, but it probably was in Assumption Parish during the late 1840s.  Their children, born there, included Marie Odile in December 1847 and baptized at Plattenville on 8 November 1853; Jean born in July 1849 and also baptized at Plattenville on 8 November 1853; Marie Hélène born in December 1851; Octavie Marie in early 1852 but died in November; and Louisa Evella born posthumously in October 1853 but died at age 3 1/2 in May 1857--five children, four daughters and a son, between 1847 and 1853.  Euzelien died in Assumption Parish in September 1853, age 34, a victim, perhaps, of the small pox epidemic that struck South Louisiana that summer and fall.  The Plattenville priest who recorded the burial did not give any parents' names or mention a wife.  The Plattenville priest who recorded daughter Louisa Evella's burial in May 1857 noted that Émelie Landry, widow of Euzelien Blanchard, had remarried to Ferdussi Cailler by then (they married in June 1855).  None of Euzelien's children married by 1870. 

Jean Charles's fifth son Auguste married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Isidore Aucoin and Marguerite Daigle, at the Plattenville church in May 1846.  Were they that unusual Acadian couple who had no children? 

Jean Charles's sixth son Joachim married Anathalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Daigre and Modeste Babin, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in April 1852 and settled there.  Daughter Marie Althée was born near Baton Rouge in February 1860; ...

Jean Charles's seventh and youngest son Jean Charles Marin, called Marin, when he came of age, followed his older brother to West Baton Rouge Parish, where he married Marie Adèle, called Adèle, daughter of Joseph Aillet and his Acadian wife Virginie Doiron, in January 1854 at the Brusly church.  They settled near Brusly.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Ozémé in November 1854 but, called Jean Osémé, died at age 5 1/2 months in May 1855; Jean Baptiste born in December 1857; ... 

Joachim Jacques's second son Augustin or Auguste married Florence Marguerte, also called Emérance, daughter of fellow Acadians Grégoire Aucoin and Marguerite Aucoin, at the Plattenville church in August 1818.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Augustin, fils, called Étienne by the priest who recorded his baptism, age not given, in August 1819; Marie Batilde Cidalise born in July 1821; Victor Thomas Simon, called Victor Simon or Simon, in March 1823; Michel Jule or Jules in January 1825; Joseph Joachim Adrien in November 1826; Abraham in November 1828; Clarisse Azélie in July 1830; Grégoire Thomas in March 1832; Raymond in January 1834; Mathurin in November 1835; Étienne Silvain or Sylvain, called Sylvain, in December 1837 but, called Sylvanie, died at age 3 in December 1840; François Maximin, called Maximin, born in December 1839; Louis, also called Louis François and François, in January 1842; and Angéline Mélanie in January 1845--14 children, 11 sons and three daughters, between 1819 and 1845.  Daughter ... married an Aucoin double cousin.  Ten of Augustin's sons also married and settled on the upper Lafourche.  Two of them married to first cousins who were sisters, and three of them married to another set of sisters. 

Oldest son Augustin, fils married Mathilde, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Barrilleaux and Marcelline Foret, at the Plattenville church in June 1843.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Maximin le jeune in June 1844; Gustave Léon or Léon Gustave in February 1847; Pierre Augustin in September 1849; Delphine Ofelia in March 1852 but, called Dauphine, died at age 2 in April 1854; and Marie Amédé born in October 1854--five children, three sons and two daughters, between 1844 and 1854.  Augustin, fils's remaining daughter did not marry by 1870, but one of his sons did.

Second son Léon Gustave married cousin Mirtilia, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Boudreaux and Carmélite Barrilleaux, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in June 1867. ...

Augustin, père's second son Victor Simon married first cousin Marie Azéma, called Azéma, daughter of Étienne Ordoneaux and his Acadian wife Marie Aimée Blanchard, his uncle and aunt, at the Thibodeaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in September 1846.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Victor, fils in September 1846; Aurestile Philomène in October 1849; Vilman in November 1851; Clet Simon Siméon in February 1853; Xavier Trasimond Numa in September 1855; Silvain Gédéon in July 1857; Lucien Onésiphore in October 1861; ...  None of Victor Simon's children married by 1870. 

Augustin, père's third son Michel Jules married Marie Rosalie or Rosalie Marie, daughter of Antoine Barras and his Acadian wife Roselie Bourg, at the Plattenville church in February 1847.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Sylvanie Aristille in September 1847 but, called Aristide, died at age 13 in November 1860; Louvinia Rosa born in May 1851 but, called Rosa Lovia, died at age 1 1/2 in August 1852; Célestin Ernest born in July 1853; Emma Adoliska in May 1862; Amédée Audressi in August 1865; ...  None of Michel's children married by 1870. 

Augustin, père's fourth son Joseph Joachim Adrien married first cousin Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Rosémond Aucoin and Clarisse Gautreaux, at the Plattenville church in April 1852; they probably had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consangunity in order to marry.  Their children, born near Labadieville, down bayou from Plattenville, included Pierre Camille Abraham in May 1856; Alcida Marie in December 1858; Judith Zoé in November 1863; Oceana Philomène baptized at Labadieville, age unrecorded, in August 1866; Valérie Philomène born in October 1869; ...  

Augustin, père's fifth son Abraham married first cousin Zéphire, another daughter of Rosémond Aucoin and Clarisse Gautreaux, at the Plattenville church in January 1853; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consangunity in order to marry.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Jule Osémé in May 1854; Elphége Camille Augustin in August 1856; Myrtil Émile in March 1859; Sidalise Sulmée in December 1862; Émelie Amodea in July 1865; ...  None of Abraham's children married by 1870. 

Augustin, père's sixth son Grégoire Thomas married Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Arceneaux and Mélanie Gautreaux, at the Plattenville church in February 1852.  Their children, born in Assumption Parish, included Marie Sereline near Platteville in December 1852; Philomène in January 1855; Elida Félecia near Labadieville in May 1857; Ofilia Mirtilia Marguerite in July 1866; ...  None of Grégoire's children married by 1870. 

Augustin, père's seventh son Raymond married Mélasie, another daughter of Jean Baptiste Arceneaux and Mélanie Gautreaux, at the Labadieville church in January 1856.  Their children, born near Labadieville, included Judith Olivia Elvina in December 1861; Justilien Augustin in April 1869; ... 

Augustin, père's eighth son Mathurin married Roseline or Carmélite, yet another daughter of Jean Baptiste Arceneaux and Mélanie Gautreaux, at the Labadieville church in February 1858.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Audalie Élizabeth in November 1858; Émile Oscar Savien in September 1859; Faustin baptized at Labadieville, age unrecorded, in January 1866; Célestine Valérie in May 1868; Auguste Amédée born in November 1870; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Mathurin was conscripted into Company C of the 1st Regiment Louisiana Heavy Artillery in October 1862 with other Assumption Parish men, including brother François and first cousin Eugène Camille Blanchard, who served in Company B.  The regiment fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  Mathurin was captured with the rest of his regiment at Vicksburg in July 1863, and, like most of his fellow conscripts, refused parole.  The Federals sent him and his fellow gunners to Gratiot Street Prison in St. Louis, Missouri, and to Memphis, Tennessee, before transferring them to the prisoner-of-war camp at Camp Morton, Indiana.  Perhaps to shorten his stay in the prison camp, Mathurin, with other survivors from his unit, took the oath of allegiance to the United States government in early January 1865--months before the war ended.  The Federals released them after they took the oath, and they made their way home as best they could. 

Augustin, père's tenth son Maximin married Armendine or Harmentine Martin, perhaps a fellow Acadian, probably in the early 1850s in Assumption Parish.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Judith, perhaps theirs (the recording priest called her father Maxime), in early 1853 but died at age 15 months in April 1854; Joseph Clarville Samiramis born in September 1854; Joséphine Léonide in April 1856; Olésiphore in July 1860; Élisabeth Armentine in September 1861; Edgar Alphonse in October 1862; Marie Ema in February 1865; ...  None of Maximin's children married by 1870. 

During the war, Augustin, père's eleventh and youngest son François served as a conscript in Company B of the 1st Regiment Louisiana Heavy Artillery and endured the hardships of that service with his older brother Mathurin and cousin Eugène Camille Blanchard, including months of captivity as a prisoner of war at Camp Morton, Indiana.  He also survived the ordeal and returned home to his family.  François married Élodie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Hébert and Alexandrine Arceneaux, at the Labadieville church in December 1865.  Daughter Numina Amélie was born near Labadieville in January 1870; ...

Joachim Jacques's third son Florentin married Marie Émilie, called Émilie, daughter of fellow Acadians Eusèbe Arceneaux and Rosalie Bergeron, at the Plattenville church in May 1821.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Léandre Valsin in March 1822; twins Marie Clémence and Marie Rosalie in July 1823, but Marie Rosalie died at age 9 months in April 1824; Basilise Eléonore born in May 1825; Jean Baptiste, called Baptiste, in January 1827; Clémentine in April 1828; Alexandre Vincent in December 1829; Marine in the early 1830s; Marie Rosalie, called Rosalie, in June 1831; Zéolide Eugénie in December 1834; Eugène Camil or Camille in August 1836; Amédée in October 1838; Charles in November 1840; Marie Élisabeth in November 1842; and Jean Florentin, called Florian, in May 1845--15 children, seven sons and eight daughters, between 1822 and 1845.  In September 1850, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted five slaves--two males and three females, all black, ranging in age from 40 years to infancy--on Florentin Blanchard's farm in the parish's Second Congressional District.  Daughters Basilise, Marine, Zéolide, and Rosalie married into the Landry, Delaune, Cancienne, and Arceneaux families, two of them to Landrys, by 1870.  Six of Florentin's sons also married by then and remained on the upper Lafourche. 

Second son Jean Baptiste married fellow Acadian Virginie Delaune probably in Assumption Parish in the early 1850s.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Pierre Camille in October 1853; Marie Alice Elmire in August 1856; Xavier Augustin in December 1858; Philomène Victorine in May 1860; Odilia Palmire in October 1861; Angela Marie in December 1863; Luc Ernest in December 1864; Jules Albert in October 1867; ...  None of Jean Baptiste's children married by 1870. 

Florentin's third son Alexandre Vincent married Angéline or Angèle, daughter of fellow Acadians Faustin Delaune and Marguerite Aucoin, at the Plattenville church in April 1854.  Their children, born near Labadieville, included Émile Gustave in March 1855; Célestine Alexandrine in April 1857; Émelie Olimpe in July 1866; Marguerite Judith in July 1870; ...  None of Alexandre's children married by 1870. 

Florentin's fourth son Eugène Camille married cousin Azéma, daughter of fellow Acadian Hubert Arceneaux and his Creole wife Irma Rodrigue, at the Labadieville church in January 1861; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Numa Léoma Philippe in November 1861; Emma Philomène in May 1863 when her father was in Confederate service; Cyprien Domas in December 1865; Telema Jean Boe in March 1870; ... During the war, Eugène Camille was conscripted into Company B of the 1st Regiment Louisiana Heavy Artillery in October 1862 with other Assumption Parish men, including first cousins François, who served in Company B, and Mathurin Blanchard, who served in Company C.  The regiment fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  Eugène was captured with the rest of his unit at Vicksburg in July 1863, and, like most of his fellow conscripts, including his cousins, refused parole.  The Federals sent him and his fellow gunners to Gratiot Street Prison in St. Louis, Missouri, and to Memphis, Tennessee, before transferring them to the prisoner-of-war camp at Camp Morton, Indiana.  Perhaps to shorten his stay in the prison camp, Eugène Camille, with other prisoners from his unit, took the oath of allegiance to the United States government in early January 1865--months before the war ended.  The Federals released them after they took the oath, and they made their way home as best they could.   

During the war, Forentin's fifth son Amédée served in Company C of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Assumption Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  Amédée married Uranie, daughter of Tiburce Barras and Uranie Bonvillain, at the Labadieville church in January 1865.  Daughter Marie Helena was born near Labadieville in February 1868; ...

Florentin's sixth son Charles married cousin Mathilde, daughter of fellow Acadians Théodule Arceneaux and Azélie Aucoin, at the Labadieville church in December 1865; they had to secure a "dispensation for relationship" in order to marry.  Their son Octave Adam Aubert was baptized at the Labadieville church, age unrecorded, in April 1869; ... 

Florentin's seventh and youngest son Florian married Odille, daughter of fellow Acadians Auguste Aucoin and Estelle Landry, at the Labadieville church in January 1867. ...

Joachim Jacques's fourth and youngest son Ambroise married Marie, daughter of Thomas Aillet and Jeanne Crunile of Baton Rouge, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in December 1821 and settled upriver in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Michel Drosin, called Drosin, in December 1825; Valmont Vileor in November 1827; Ambroise Davis in November 1830; Marie Aimée or Emma in December 1832; and Jean Baptiste baptisted at age 6 months in July 1841 but died at age 20 (the recording priest said "ca. 22") in November 1861--five children, four sons and a daughter, between 1825 and 1841.  Ambroise died probably in West Baton Rouge Parish in December 1860, age 60.  Daughter Marie Emma married into the Cazes family by 1870.  One of Ambroise's sons also married by then, and two of his sons died as young bachelors.  

Oldest son Michel Drosin, called Drosin, married Éliza, daughter of Pierre Tullier and his Acadian wife Modeste Daigre, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in January 1847.  Their children, born in West Baton Rouge Parish, included Marie Emé near Brusly in September 1847; Coralie Élisa in November 1848; Marie Drausine in February 1850 but died the following April; Michel Devis, probably Davis, born in July 1851--four children, three daughters and a son, between 1847 and 1851.  Daughter Coralie married into the Castro family by 1870.  Drosin's son did not marry by then. 

In August 1850, the federal census taker in West Baton Rouge Parish counted a single slave--a 68-year-old black female--on Valmont Blanchard's farm.  This probably was Ambroise's second son Valmont Vileor, who died in West Baton Rouge Parish in December 1857, age 30 (the recording priest said 29).  He may not have married.  

Bénoni's third son Bénoni-Jacques, by second wife Madeleine Forest, followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married cousin Marguerite-Aimée, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Trahan and Marie Boudreaux, in May 1798; Marguerite's mother was one of Bénoni-Jacques's many cousins.  Marguerite, a native of Pleudihen-sur-Mer near St.-Suliac, had crossed to Louisiana from France aboard an earlier vessel.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included twins Anne-Marguerite and Ignace-Jacques in October 1798, but Ignace-Jacques died at age 12 1/2 in May 1811; Alexis born in July 1800; Paul-Bénoni baptized, age unrecorded, in November 1801; Constance born in January 1805; Charles Marie in February 1807; Firmin in February 1809; Sylvain or Sylvère in February 1811; Carmélite Josèphe in August 1812; Hippolyte in the early 1810s; Bénoni Mathurin in December 1815; and Jean Baptiste in June 1818--a dozen children, three daughters and nine sons, including a set of twins, between 1798 and 1818.  Daughter Anne Marguerite married into the Forestier family.  Six of Bénoni Jacque's remaining sons also married, most of them to sisters.  The oldest remained in Assumption Parish and became a wealthy planter, but most of the other sons and grandsons settled down bayou in either Lafourche Interior or Terrebonne Parish.  One of Bénoni Jacques's younger sons moved to St. Landry Parish west of the Atchafalaya Basin in the late 1840s or early 1850s.  In late November 1860, the federal census taker in Terrebonne Parish counted six slaves--four males and two females, all black, ranging in age from 55 to 22--partly owned by a Blanchard, who may have been from this line of the family.  

Second son Alexis married, at age 26, cousin Anne Marguerite, called Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Trahan and Anne Daigle, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in May 1827.  Their children, born on the Lafourche and in Terrebonne Parish, included Marguerite Olymphe, called Olymphe, in March 1828; Pauline in the late 1820s or early 1830s; Hilaire in January 1832; Delphine Nanette or Monetto in c1833 and, called Killis Malvina, baptized at Houma, age 21, in May 1854; Trasimond Drauzin or Drosin born in June 1834 but, called David by the recording priest, died in Assumption Parish at age 18 in October 1853; Alexis Joseph born in February 1836; Théodule Jean Baptiste in December 1838; Octava Maria in June 1842; Jean Baptiste Ludivic in June 1846; twins Adelina Odesia and Marie Eveline Lutetia, called Eveline, in November 1847 (oddly, one of the twin's baptisms was recorded at Thibodaux, the other at Houma); and Osémé Adolphe born at Bayou Black, Terrebonne Parish, in October 1850--a dozen children, six daughters and six sons, including a set of twins, between 1828 and 1850.  In late September 1850, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted 42 slaves--22 males and 20 females, all black except for a 19-year-old mulatto female--on Alexis Blanchard's plantation in the parish's Second Congressional District.  Alexis died in Assumption Parish in March 1851, age 50.  Daughters Olymphe, Pauline, Delphine Nanette, Eveline, ... married into the LeBoeuf, Lancon, Hébert, Bourg, and Comeaux families, one of them in Lafayette Parish on the western prairies, by 1870.  Three of Alexis's sons also married by then.  Two of them, along with a sister, also moved on to the western prairies after the War of 1861-65. 

Oldest son Hilaire married Azélie, 18-year-old daughter of Romain LeBoeuf and his Acadian wife Phelonise Hébert, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in January 1852, and sanctified the marriage at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in May 1854; Azélie's brother François Maurice married Hilaire's sister Olymphe.  Hilaire and Azélie's children, born in Terrebonne Parish and on the western prairies, included Hilaire Romain in Terrebonne in October 1855; Joachim Alexis in May 1857; Edmond Joseph in February 1859; Survillian Justillien in August 1860; Ogendine Théolinde in March 1862; Marthe Emma in March 1864; Théodule Trasimond in January 1866; Ursin near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in February 1868; ...  After the war, they evidently settled near Carencro at the northern edge of Lafayette Parish.  None of Hilaire's children married by 1870. 

Alexis's third son Alexis Joseph married first cousin Émelie or Emelia, daughter of Antoine Forestier and his Acadian wife Marguerite Blanchard, his uncle and aunt, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in February 1867.  They remained in Lafayette Parish. 

Alexis's fourth son Théodule Jean Baptiste married Zulime or Zulema, daughter of Creole Zéphirin Olivier and his Acadian wife Alida Bergeron, at the Houma church in January 1870. ...

Bénoni Jacques's fourth son Charles Marie married Marie Louise, daughter of fellow Acadian Stanislas Boudreaux and his Creole wife Marie Rosalie Lefere, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in February 1836.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marguerite Rosalie in January 1837; Eugénie Aglaée in March 1839; Émile Madée or Amédée in September 1840; Joseph Athéole in October 1843; and Marie Louise Clara, perhaps theirs, baptized at age 5 months in October 1849--five children, three daughters and two sons, between 1837 and 1849.  Daughter Eugénie Aglaé married into the Dupré and Theriot families by 1870.  One of Charles's sons also married by then and moved down into the Terrebonne marshes. 

Younger son Joseph Athéole married Armantine, daughter of Philippe Esbreese or Elbrece and his Acadian wife Caroline Guillot, at the Montegut church, Terrebonne Parish, in August 1866.  Their children, born near Montegut, included Charles Ulysse in October 1863; Philippe Joseph in February 1870; ...

Bénoni Jacques's fifth son Firmin married Marie Hélène, daughter of Romain LeBoeuf and his Acadian wife Phelonise Hébert of Terrebonne Parish, at the Thibodauxville church in January 1838.  Their children, born on the Lafourche and in Terrebonne Parish, included Romain Edmond in December 1838; Elvine Marie or Marie Eveline in January 1840; Zéoloïde Adeline or Zéolide Evelina in May 1842; Louise or Éloise Malvina, probably theirs, in June 1846; Ovil Pielsirll Adam at Bayou Black in November 1848; Julia Alzina Catherina at Bayou Petit Caillou in October 1850; Marie Noémi, perhaps theirs, in late 1851 but died on the upper Lafourche at age 5 1/2 months in April 1852; Alur Firmin born in Terrebonne Parish in April 1853; Alcida in February 1855; and Ernest Donatien in July 1857--10 children, between 1838 and 1857.  Daughters Zéolide Evelina, Marie Eveline, Éloise, and Julia married into the Lambert, Gautreaux, Duplantis, and Navarre families by 1870.  None of Firmin's sons married by then. 

Bénoni Jacques's sixth son Sylvain or Sylvère married Marie Célesie, called Célesie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Martin LeBlanc and Céleste Pitre, at the Thibodauxville church in May 1835.  Their children, born on the Lafourche and in Terrebonne Parish, included Céleste Virginie in May 1836; Édouard George in April 1839, Angelina Eve, called Eve, in February 1840; Marie in February 1842[sic]; Zélaïde, Zéolide, or Zéotide in April 1842[sic, probably later]; Silvain or Sylvain Jean Baptiste in October 1845; Amelina in the 1840s; Marie Rosea or Rosela Aurelie, called Rosela, at Bayou Black in March 1848; Lutetia Paumela, probably theirs, in February 1850; Marie Rose in Terrebonne Parish in May 1855; twins Sylvanie Villeor and Sylvère Adam in December 1857; and Célesie in December 1860--13 children, nine daughters and four sons, including a set of twins, between 1836 and 1860.  Daughters Eve, Amelina, Zéolide, and Rosela married into the Adam, Chauvin, and Boudreaux families, including two Chauvin brothers, by 1870.  One of Sylvère's sons also married by then. 

Second son Sylvain Jean Baptiste married Aspasie, daughter of Louis Toups and Coralie Carlin, at the Houma church in January 1870. ...

Bénoni Jacques's seventh son Hippolyte married Marie Céleste or Célestine, another daughter of Stanislas Boudreaux and Marie Rosalie Lefere, at the Thibodauxville church in November 1836.  Their chlidren, born on the Lafourche and in Terrebonne Parish, included Roselia Dhatille in May 1839; Urema Urasie in December 1840; Amédée in December 1841; Clodomir or Clédomire Hippolyte Paschal at Bayou Petit Caillou, Terrebonne Parish, in October 1850; Tany Bélonie in October 1857; Marguerite Odillia in in September 1861; Alexis Félicien near Montegut, also at the edge of the Terrebonne marshes, in November 1865; ...  Daughter ... married into the Authement and Richard families by 1870.  One of Hippolyte's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Amédée married Marie Pauline, daughter of fellow Acadians Sylvain LeBlanc and Eléonore Nathalie Thibodeaux, at the Montegut church in October 1865.  They settled near Montgut.  Their children, born there, included Clémence Amélie in August 1866; Pierre Clodomir Hippolyte in March 1870; ...

Bénoni Jacques's eighth son Bénoni Mathurin married Marie Éloise, called Éloise, another daughter of Romain LeBoeuf and Phelonise Hébert, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in February 1842.  In the late 1840s or early 1850s, they crossed the Atchafalaya Basin and settled in St. Landry Parish.  Their children, born on the Lafourche and the St. Landry prairies, included Joseph Théodule in February 1843; Armalise in November 1844; Jouville Isidore, called Isidore, in Lafourche Interior Parish in June 1846; François near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in February 1853; Mathurin Laurent in July 1856; ...  One of Bénoni Mathurin's sons married by 1870.

Second son Isidore likely married fellow Acadian Clarice Hébert and settled near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, by the late 1860s. ...

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A Blanchard from Brittany came to Louisiana aboard La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in early December 1785.  He settled on the river near his namesakes and created a vigorous family line there: 

Jacques (c1767-1829) à ? à Jean? Toussaint? François dit Gentilhomme? Blanchard

Jacques, son of Gabriel Blanchard and Marguerite Conand, was born in Brittany, France, in c1767.  One wonders what was his connection to the Acadian progenitors Jean, Toussaint, and François dit Gentilhomme Blanchard.  Despite the obscurity of his origins, his patterns of behavior were typically Acadian.  Called Santiago Blanchard, "imigré," on the passenger list of La Ville d'Archangel, which sailed out of St.-Malo during the second week of August 1785, Jacques, at age 21, married Aimée-Modeste, daughter of Acadians Ambroise Bourg and his second wife Marie-Modeste Moulaison, at New Orleans in January 1786, a little over a month after they reached the Spanish colony aboard the same vessel and on the eve of their following other passengers from their ship to Bayou des Écores in the New Feliciana District above Baton Rouge.  Aimée also was a native of France, born at Le Havre in coastal Normandy to parents from Cobeguit and Cap-Sable who had been deported to France from Île St.-Jean and England via Virginia.  Aimée-Modeste's family was living at Pleurtuit near St.-Malo in northeast Brittany on the eve of their going to Louisiana.  In 1793, soon after appearing in the New Feliciana census of that year, Jacques and Aimée-Modeste followed other Acadian families from Bayou des Écores to the Baton Rouge area and settled in what became West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born on the river, included Modeste at Bayou des Écores in November 1787; Jacques, fils baptized at Pointe Coupée, age unrecorded, in May 1789; twins Zéphirin and Emérite-Marie, probably called Marie, baptized at Pointe Coupée, age unrecorded, in May and June 1792; Marain or Marin born at Bayou des Écores in February 1793; Joseph at Baton Rouge in April 1796; Louis Amand, called Amand and Armand in c1798 and baptized at Baton Rouge, age 1 1/2, in July 1800; Augustina born in April 1802; Hyacinthe in c1803 but died near Brusly, West Baton Rouge Parish, in January 1864, age 60; Célestin Valentin born in December 1804; Joachim François or François Joachim in June 1807; Joséphine in February 1810; and Emélie Rosalie in c1813--13 children, five daughters and eight sons, including a set of twins, between 1787 and 1813.  Jacques, who the priest called Pierre in his burial record, died in West Baton Rouge Parish in July 1829, age 62.  Daughters Modeste, Marie, and Emélie Rosalie married into the LeBlanc, Richard, and Broussard families, all Acadians.  Five of Jacques's sons also married, all but one to an Acadian, but not all of the lines endured.  Three of them remained in West Baton Rouge Parish, and one of them became a prosperous planter.  During the early antebellum period, two of Jacques's sons crossed the Atchafalaya Basin and settled along Bayou Teche, but one of them returned to West Baton Rouge in the 1840s. 

Oldest son Jacques, fils married Marie Apolline dite Pauline, daughter of François Duplessis of Tours, France, and Marianne Rousseau and widow of Pierre Allain, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in February 1821.  Daughter Emma, also called Marie Emma, was born at Baton Rouge in September 1822.  Jacques died at Baton Rouge in January 1852.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Jacques was age 68 when he died.  He was 62.  Daughter Emma married into the Graham family.  Jacques, fils seems to have fathered no sons, so this line of the family, except for its blood, probably died with him.  

Jacques's second son Zéphirin married Élise dite Lise, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Joseph Lebert and Marie Josèphe Dugas, probably in West Baton Rouge Parish in March 1813 (some sources list the bride's surname as Hébert, but the marriage record is clear--it was Lebert).  Their children, born in West Baton Rouge Parish, included Élise in November 1813; Augustine, also called Augustine Marie and Marie Augustine, in February 1816; Apolline Irma in October 1819; Rosalie in January 1822; Pierre Victoria or Villeneuve, called Villeneuve, in July 1824; Théodore Élie or Élie Théodore, in January 1826; Marie Zéolide in March 1828; Carmélite Amélie in April 1830; Azélia in June 1832; Pierre Victorin, called Victorin, in the late 1820s or early 1830s; Louisa Gertrude in August 1837; twins Anatole Alphonse and Jean Baptiste Arthur, called Arthur, baptized at Baton Rouge, age 8 months, in October1840, but, called Alphonse, Anatold Alphonse died at age 14 (the recording priest said 15) in December 1854; Héléne Odile in the 1840s; and Cécilia Margarita born in June 1848--15 children, 10 daughters and five sons, including a set of twins, between 1813 and 1848.  In January 1815, early in his marriage, Zéphirin fought in the Battle of New Orleans under General Andrew Jackson.  Remarkably, in the early 1820s Zéphirin owned 19 slaves.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in West Baton Rouge Parish counted 66 slaves--40 males and 26 females, all black except for seven mulattoes, ranging in age from 80 to infancy--on Z. Blanchard's plantation, the value of which was assessed at $18,000; this was Zéphirin's holding on the river near Brusly Landing next to his son Théodore.  Zéphirin died in West Baton Rouge Parish in August 1852, age 63.  He likely was a few years older.  Daughters Hélène Odile, ... married into the Foret, Barnett, Bergeron, Borgas, Coony, and Hébert families.  Three of Zéphirin's sons also married, but only two of the lines seem to have endured.  His youngest son died in Confederate service before he could marry. 

Oldest son Pierre Villeneuve, called Villeneuve, married Estelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Joachim Daigre and Dartille Dupuy, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in April 1847 but settled across the river in East Baton Rouge Parish.  In August 1850, the census taker in the city of Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, counted six slaves--four males and two females, all black, ranging in age from 55 to 18--in Villeneuve Blanchard's household.  Did he and his wife have any children? 

Zéphirin's second son Théodore Élie or Élie Théodore married Céleste Cephaline, daughter of fellow Acadians Isidore Daigre and Célestine Molaison, at the Brusly church in February 1850.  Wife Céleste died near Brusly in January 1852, age 20, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth.  She gave him no children who survived infancy.  Théodore remarried to Marie Emma, called Emma, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Paul Babin and Euphémie LeBlanc, at the Brusly church in October 1853.  Their children, born in West Baton Rouge Parish, included Henri Daniel in September 1854; Joseph Louis in October 1857; Victor Thomas in January 1861; ...  In August 1850, the federal census taker in West Baton Rouge Parish counted a single slave--a 49-year-old black male--on Théodore Blanchard's farm next to Z. Blanchard.  None of Théodore Élie's sons married by 1870. 

Zéphirin's third son Pierre Victorin, called Victorin, married Anne Adèle, called Adèle, daughter of Pierre Gassie and Elmire Marson, at the Brusly church in October 1851.  Their children, born in West Baton Rouge Parish, included Élise Victorine Augusta near Brusly in November 1852; Pierre Alcée in May 1854; Marie Lidia in May 1856; Marie Augustine in August 1858; Marie Aimée in May 1860; Philippe in September 1861; Zéphirin Justin in August 1870; ...  None of Victorin's children married by 1870. 

Zéphirin's fifth and youngest son Jean Baptiste Arthur, called Arthur, unlike twin brother Alphonse, survived adolescence, but Arthur did not survive early manhood.  In May 1861, at age 21, he enlisted in Company H of the 4th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, the West Baton Rouge Tirailleurs, at Camp Moore, Tangipahoa Parish.  He fought with his regiment at Shiloh, Tennessee, in April 1862 and was wounded in action at the Chattahoochee River, Georgia, in July 1864 during the Atlanta campaign.  He soon returned to duty.  In the battle of Ezra Church later that month, he was wounded in the head by a wooden sabot fired from a cannon and died three weeks later in a hospital at Forsyth, Georgia, age 24.  He did not marry.  

Jacques's third son Marin married Sophie, daughter of fellow Acadians Xavier Thériot and Anne Mouton, probably in West Baton Rouge Parish in December 1815.  In the early 1820s, the couple moved to Fausse Pointe on lower Bayou Teche.  Their children, born on the river and the Teche, included Euphrosine Sophie in the late teens or early 1820s; Marin Séverin in October 1818 but evidently died near Grand Coteau, age 21 (the recording priest, who called him Sosthène, said 19), in November 1839; Achille Lavina, a daughter, born in December 1821 but died in St. Martin Parish, age 15 1/2 (the recording priest said 18), in September 1837; Armand Adelien or Adrien, called Adrien, born near Baton Rouge in September 1823; and Louis Désiré, called Désiré, in St. Martin Parish in September 1825 but died there at age 2 in August 1827.  Wife Sophie's succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in February 1827.  Marin remarried to Annette dite Nanon, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph dit Josaphat Broussard and Françoise Trahan and widow of Valentin Surville Arceneaux, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in May 1827.  Their children, born on the Teche and the Mississippi, included Marin Drosin or Drauzin in September 1828 and baptized as "Rose" at St. Martinville in August 1829; Marie Aspasie, called Aspasie, born in January 1830; Virginie in February 1832[sic, perhaps 1831] but died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 3) in October 1833; Marie Félicia born in September 1832[sic]; Virginie Cléonise in September 1834 but, called Cléonise, died at age 27 (the recording priest said 25) in December 1862; Virginie Odile, called Odile, born in February 1836; Virginie Basiline, called Basiline, in January 1838; Françoise near New Iberia in May 1840; Joséphine near St. Gabriel in November 1842; Anaïs probably in the early 1840s; and Marie Malvina in March 1847--16 children, four sons and a dozen daughters, by two wives, between 1818 and 1847.  Daughter Odile, at age 23, gave birth to son Joseph Gabriel Blanchard, probably a "natural" son, near Breaux Bridge, St. Martin Parish, in February 1859.  The priest who recorded the boy's baptism did not name the father.  Daughters Euphrosine Sophie, Aspasie, Basiline, Anaïs, and Joséphine, by both wives, married into the Ducharme, LeGrand, Angèle, Guidry, Zimmerman, and Cormier families, one of them, Basiline, twice.  Two of Marin's sons also married.  One remained in St. Martin Parish, but the other returned to West Baton Rouge Parish in the 1840s.  

Second son Amand Adrien, called Adrien, from first wife Sophie Thériot, followed his family to Bayou Teche but returned to West Baton Rouge Parish after he came of age.  He married Sophie Élodie, called Élodie, daughter of fellow Acadians Eusilien Broussard and Emérite Thibodeaux, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in August 1849.  Their children, born in West Baton Rouge Parish, included Henry Franklin in August 1850; Olympe Emérite in April 1852; Peter Edgard in October 1854; Sophie Louise in February 1857; Paul Alcée in March 1859; Jule Adrien in January 1861; Louis Albert in July 1865; ...  None of Adrien's children married by 1870. 

Marin's fourth and youngest son Marin Drosin, by second wife Nanon Broussard, married Félicienne, daughter of Charles Combe, Comes, or Cohil and his Acadian wife Céleste Poirier and widow of Ursin Talley, at the St. Martinville church in October 1855.  They settled near Breaux Bridge.  Their children, born there, included Éloi in December 1856; Julien in c1857 but died at age 3 in February 1861; Marie Émilia born in September 1858; Apolline born in March 1862 but, called Appolline, died at age 2 1/2 (the recording priest said 2) in March 1864; Adolphe Eusèbe born in May 1864; Joseph Adam in March 1866; ....  During the War of 1861-65, Drosin served in Company C of the 8th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Martin Parish, which fought in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania--one of General R. E. Lee's Louisiana Tigers.  Drosin enlisted in March 1862 probably to avoid conscription.  His daughter Apolline was born five days after he enlisted.  He was absent sick from his regiment from April 1862 to February 1863 before returning home on sick furlough in March.  He did not return to his regiment.  

Jacques's fifth son Louis Amand or Armand, called Amand, married Françoise, another daughter of Xavier Thériot and Anne Mouton of West Baton Rouge Parish, probably in West Baton Rouge Parish in January 1823.  She evidently gave him no children, at least none who survived birth.  Amand remarried to Céleste Théotiste, daughter of fellow Acadians Benjamin Landry and Anne Landry, probably in West Baton Rouge Parish in January 1826.  Their children, born there, included twins Zelamie and Zelanie in October 1826, or they may have been the same person; Léon Amand in April 1828; Marie Aimée, called Aimée, born in March 1830; Marie Émilie, called Émelie, in December 1831; Jean Baptiste in November 1833; and Marie Joséphine in August 1835--six or seven children, four or five daughters and two sons, between 1826 and 1835.  Louis Amand, called Armand by the recording priest, died in West Baton Rouge Parish in September 1836, age 38.  Daughters Aimée and Émelie married Richard brothers who were their cousins by 1870.  Neither of Amand's sons married by then, if they married at all. 

In early August 1850, the federal census taker in West Baton Rouge Parish counted five slaves--a male and four females, all black, ranging in age from 24 to infancy--on Léon Blanchard's farm.  This likely was older son Léon Amand, who died in West Baton Rouge Parish in February 1856, age 27.  The Baton Rouge priest who recorded the burial did not give any parents' names or say anything about a wife, so Léon evidently did not marry.

Jacques's eighth and youngest son Joachim François or François Joachim followed his older brother Marin to Bayou Teche, where he married Émelie or Émelite, daughter of fellow Acadians Valentin Arceneaux and Annette Broussard, at the St. Martinville church in December 1837.  Their children, born on the lower Teche and the Mississippi, included Jacques Illaive near New Iberia in February 1839; and Marie Apolline dite Pauline near Baton Rouge in January 1843.  Joachim remarried to Marie Théotiste, daughter of François Tacneau and Clémence Seguin, at the Brusly church in August 1849, so he must have returned to the river.  Their children, born in West Baton Rouge Parish, included Joseph O'Connell in September 1850; Marie Clémentine Alida in July 1855 but, called Clémence, died at age 1 (the recording priest said "age 15 months") in August 1856; Joachim Amédée born in November 1857; and Marie in June 1860--six children, three sons and three daughters, by two wives, between 1839 and 1860.  In late August 1850, the federal census taker in West Baton Rouge Parish counted a single slave--a 24-year-old black male--on F. J. Blanchard's farm.  Daughter Pauline, by his first wife, married into the Drozgrey family by 1870.  None of Joachim François's sons married by then.

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Three more Blanchards--a widower whose brothers had reached the colony earlier, and the widowers' two sons--crossed on La Caroline, the last of the Seven Ships from France, which reached New Orleans in mid-December 1785.  They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche near their relatives, and several more vigorous family lines came of it: 

Charles (c1733-1780s) à Martin à Jean Blanchard

Charles, seventh son of Joseph Blanchard and Anne Dupuis and brother of François and Bénoni of L'Amitié, born perhaps at Cobeguit in c1733, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in 1755 or 1756 and to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  He married Marguerite-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Dugas and Isabelle Bourg, at St.-Suliac south of St.-Malo in January 1762.  Marie gave Charles four children there:  Suliac-François born in August 1764; Rose-Anne in c1765 but died at age 8 in September 1783; Charles-Pierre-Marc born in March 1768; and Marie-Françoise in July 1770--two sons and two daughters, between 1764 and 1770.  Charles took his family to Poitou in 1773.  Wife Marguerite-Josèphe died there in February 1775, age 36.  Charles did not remarry.  In March 1776, he and his three children, with other Poitou Acadians, retreated down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes.  Daughter Marie-Françoise died in St.-Similien Parish, Nantes, in July 1777, age 7.  Charles and his two sons emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  From New Orleans, they joined his brothers on upper Bayou Lafourche, where Charles died by January 1788, in his early 50s, when he was not listed with his sons in a Valenzuela District census.  Both of his sons created their own families on the Lafourche. 

Older son Suliac-François followed his family to Poitou and Nantes and his widowed father and younger brother to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marie-Gertrude-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Hébert and Laure Bourg, in October 1788.  Marie, also a native of St.-Suliac, had come to Louisiana from France aboard an earlier ship.  They settled near Suliac François's younger brother Charles.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie-Aimée in November 1789; Jean-Charles, called Charles, in March 1790; Rosalie in January 1792; Céleste-Marie in August 1794 but died at age 3 in April 1797; Firmin born in November 1796; twins Clarisse and Isidore in March 1799, but, called Claire, Clarisse died at age 6 1/2 in October 1805; Valière born in November 1801 but died at age 18 in January 1820; Suliac, fils born in April 1804; and Ulise or Lise Rosalie in February 1807--10 children, five daughters and five sons, between 1789 and 1807.  Suliac François died in Assumption Parish in August 1808, age 44.  Daughters Marie Aimée, Rosalie, and Lise Rosalie married into the Arceneaux, Daigle, and Cancienne families.  Three of Suliac François's sons also married, but not all of the lines endured.  They remained in Assumption Parish.  

Oldest son Jean Charles, called Charles, married Désirée Anne, called Anne, daughter of Pierre Cancienne and his Acadian wife Marguerite Landry, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1816.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Pierre Edmond, called Edmond or Edouard, in October 1816; Firmin Abraham in March 1820; Marie Batilde Azelma or Azéma, called Azéma, in November 1823; Cyprien LaCroix in May 1827; Marie Louise in October 1829; and Jean Baptiste Honoré in March 1833 but, called Jean Baptiste, died at age 12 1/2 in September 1845--six children, four sons and two daughters, between 1816 and 1833.  Jean Charles died in Assumption Parish in June 1833, age 43 (the recording priest said 44).  Daughter Azéma married into the Boudreaux family by 1870.  Two of Jean Charles's remaining sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Edmond married Marie Mathilde, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis André Talbot and Rosalie Dugas, at the Plattenville church in January 1847.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Louise Evella in November 1847; Eulalie Evellina or Evela, called Evela, in March 1849; Camile or Camille Désiré in September 1850; Louis Oscar in February 1853; Edmond Ursin in September 1854; Alfred Norbert in June 1856; Dion Cyprien in October 1858; Octave in October 1860; Noémi Maurice in September 1862; ...  In September 1850, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted seven slaves--four males and three females, all black--on Edouard Blanchard's farm in the parish's Second Congressional District.  Daughter Evela married into the Bergeron family at Attakapas Canal in Assumption Parish by 1870.  None of Edmond's sons married by then. 

Jean Charles's third son Cyprien LaCroix married fellow Acadian Esther Boudreaux probably in Assumption Parish in the late 1840s.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Cyprien Alfred in November 1849 but died at age 9 years (the recording priest said 9 months) in November 1858; Zulma Octavie born in May 1852; and Octave Sullia, probably Suliac, in February 1855--three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1849 and 1855.  Cyprien LaCroix died in Assumption Parish in November 1858, age 31 (the recording priest said 30).  None of his children married by 1870. 

Suliac's second son Firmin may have died near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in December 1870.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Fermin, as he called him, died at "age 70 years."  This Firmin would have been age 73.  Did he marry? 

Suliac's third son Isidore married Léocade, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Aucoin and Rosalie Gautreaux, at the Plattenville church in May 1827.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included a daughter, name unrecorded, died an hour after her birth in March 1829; and Rosalie born in October 1831.  Isidore died in Assumption Parish in April 1832, age 33.  His remaining daughter did not marry by 1870, so the family line, perhaps even its blood, died with him. 

Suliac's fifth and youngest son Suliac, fils married Marie, another daughter of Pierre Cancienne and Marguerite Landry and widow of Édouard Thériot, at the Plattenville church in February 1833.  Their son Sulia or Suliac Marcel was born in Assumption Parish in January 1835.  Marie died probably from complications of childbirth soon after her son was born.  Suliac, fils remarried to Marie Azélie, daughter of Joseph Montet and his Acadian wife Marie Giroir, at the Plattenville church in September 1835.  Their daughter Marie Azélie died at age 1 month in November 1836.  Suliac, fils remarried again--his third marriage--to Élise, daughter of fellow Acadians François Barrilleaux and Marie Gautreaux, at the Plattenville church in May 1839.  Suliac, fils died in Assumption Parish in September 1845, age 41.  His son married, so the family line endured. 

Only son Suliac Marcel, by first wife Marie Cancienne, married Célima, daughter of Joseph Gaspard and his Acadian wife Séraphine Gaudet, at the Plattenville church in October 1856.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Édouard Benoît in January 1858; Emma Hélène in December 1862; Alexandre Osémé Topson in March 1865 but, called Ozémé, died in July; Wilson Joseph Alcée born in December 1868; ...  

Charles's younger son Charles-Pierre-Marc followed his family to Poitou and Nantes and his widowed father and older brother to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Jeanne-Eléonore, daughter of fellow Acadians Prosper-Honoré Girouard and Marie Dugas, in February 1791.  Jeanne, a native of St.-Jouan-des-Guérets just north of St.-Suliac, had come to Louisiana from France aboard an earlier vessel.  Charles and Jeanne were counted next door to his older brother Suliac on the upper Lafourche in December 1795.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included a son, name unrecorded, buried seven days after his birth in May 1793; Marie-Anne born in August 1787; Rosalie-Marie in March 1794; Henriette-Isabelle in July 1797; Élie-Charles dit Elichal in February 1799; and Jean-Baptiste baptized, age unrecorded, in May 1800 but died in Assumption Parish, age 31 (the recording priest said 30), in October 1831--six children, three sons and three daughters, between 1793 and 1800.  Charles remarried to Marie-Anastasie, called Anastaise, 43-year-old daughter of Jean-Baptiste Aucoin and Jeanne-Anne Theriot and widow of Joseph Thériot, at Assumption in February 1802.  Marie-Anastasie, a native of Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, had crossed to Louisiana from France aboard an earlier ship.  She evidently gave him no more children.  Charles-Pierre-Marc died by May 1820, probably in his late 40s or early 50s, when a priest recorded him as deceased in a son's marriage record.  Daughters Rosalie, Henriette, and Marie Anne, by his first wife, married into the Blanchard, Aucoin, and Colonna families.  Only one of his sons created a family of his own, but the line was robust.  By the 1850s, Charles's grandsons had left the Lafourche valley and settled near the village of Pierre Part on the north shore of Lake Verret at the northwestern edge of Assumption Parish.  Two of them moved on to lower Bayou Teche after the War of 1861-65. 

Second son Élie Charles, by first wife Jeanne Eléonore Girouard, married Émilie, daughter of Pierre Montet and his Acadian wife Félicité Aucoin, at the Plattenville church in May 1820.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Joseph Hélie or Élie in February 1821; Auguste Jean Baptiste, called Baptiste, in February 1823; Pierre Paul in March 1825; Virginie Angéline in January 1828 but, called Marie Angelina, died at age 14 1/2 in September 1842; Marie born in c1829 but died at age 6 in December 1835; Marie Julienne born in July 1830 but, unnamed by the recording priest, died at age 11 months in June 1831; Evariste Théodule, called Calixte, born in April 1833; Eusilien Auguste in July 1835; and Charles Pierre in September 1839--nine children, six sons and three daughters, between 1821 and 1839.  None of Élie's daughters survived childhood, but his sons did, and five of them married.  The youngest sons moved on to lower Bayou Teche after the War of 1861-65. 

Second son Auguste Jean Baptiste, called Baptiste, married fellow Acadian Clothilde Thériot probably in Assumption Parish in the early or mid-1840s.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Augustine Géralde in October 1845; Joseph Désiré in March 1847; Ambroise Adolfor or Adolphe in May 1850; Marie Sedalise in April 1853; Clémentine Amanda in September 1854; Célestin in April 1856; Ambroise Aurelien in December 1857 but, called Aurelien, died at age 4 1/2 (the recording priest said 5) in September 1862; and Marie Zélamie born in April 1859--eight children, four daughters and four sons, between 1845 and 1859.  None of Baptiste's children married by 1870. 

Élie Charles's third son Pierre Paul married Augustine dite Justine, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexis Aucoin and Rosalie Theriot, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1848.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Basil in March 1851; Joseph Alexi in October 1852; Marie Angéline in August 1854; Cyprien Aurelien in August 1855; Elphége in October 1856 but died at age 11 days; Jean Baptiste born in July 1857; Marie Helena in October 1858; Casimire in March 1861; Joséphine in January 1865; ...  None of Pierre Paul's children married by 1870. 

Élie Charles's fourth son Calixte married Marie, daughter of Evariste Freoux and his Acadian wife Marie Aucoin, at the Paincourtville church in June 1855.  Their children, born in Assumption Parish, included Joseph Xavier in December 1856; Joseph Adrien near Pierre Part in March 1859; Evariste Oscar in January 1861; Hemelia Ofelia in February 1864; ...  None of Calixte's children married by 1870. 

Élie Charles's fifth son Eusilien Auguste married Zulmé, daughter of fellow Acadians Auguste Roger and Marie Emérante Bourg, at the Paincourtville church in January 1856.  They moved to lower Bayou Teche after the war.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche and the lower Teche, included Marie Emérante near Paincourtville in February 1857; Joseph Casimir near Pierre Part in March 1859; Joseph Ernest in August 1861; Marie Alfida in January 1865; Romain near New Iberia, Iberia Parish, in February 1868; ...  

Élie Charles's sixth and youngest son Charles Pierre married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Landry and his Creole wife Roseline Simoneaux, at the Pierre Part church in July 1860.  They also moved to the lower Teche after the war.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche and ower Bayou Teche, included Alexandre Lusignan in March 1863; Fursi Adam in January 1865; Jean Baptiste near Charenton, St. Mary Parish, in May 1867; ... 

Boudreaux

Michel Boudrot, born probably at Cougnes, near La Rochelle, France, in c1600, came to Port-Royal in the late 1630s, one of the earliest settlers in the colony, and, in his middle age, married Michelle Aucoin at Port-Royal in c1641Michel served as one of the first syndics of Port-Royal, similar to a present-day mayor.  In 1684, he was serving as lieutenant général civil et criminel du Port-Royal, or general representative of the King for justice, at the colony's capital.  In August 1688, he gave up his post as lieutenant général because of his "great age"; he was 88!  He died between 1688 and 1693, perhaps in his early 90s.  Wife Michelle, two decades his junior, lived until December 1706, when she died at Port-Royal, age 85.  She gave Michel 11 children, four daughters and seven sons, all of whom created their own families.  Their daughters married into the Robichaud, Thériot, Bourg, Babineau, and Poirier families.  Michel and Michelle's sons married into the Bourg, Bourgeois, Melanson, Cormier, Petitpas, Thibodeau, and Belliveau families.  By the early 1700s, Michel Boudrot's many descendants could be found at Port-Royal, Chignecto, and at Grand-Pré and Pigiguit in the Minas Basin.  Soon after the British gained formal possession of the colony in 1713, Boudrots spread out even farther from the family base at Port-Royal, renamed by the British Annapolis Royal.  In August 1714, Boudrots from Annapolis Royal received permission from French authorities to settle on Île Royale, now Cape Breton Island, where they became navigators and ship builders.  During the following decades, they spread out to Port-d'Orléans and Louisbourg on the island's Atlantic coast.  In the 1720s, Boudrots also moved to French-controlled Île St.-Jean, now Prince Edward Island, and became one of the largest families there.  By the early 1750s, they could be found on Île St.-Jean at Tracadie and Havre-St.-Pierre-du-Nord on the island's north shore; at Port-La-Joye, Grande-Anse, Anse-à-Pinnet, and La Traverse on the south shore; and on Rivière du Nord-Est and Rivière-du-Moulin-à-Scie in the island's interior.  By 1755, then, descendants of Michel Boudrot could be found in nearly every major community in greater Acadia.  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 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.  Boudrots 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, Boudrots likely were among the dozens of 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 area Acadians to the southernmost seaboard colonies.  At least one Boudrot family from Chignecto ended up in South Carolina.  Another ended up in Georgia.  But not all of the Boudrots sent to the southern colonies remained there until the end of the war.  In the spring of 1756, the governors of Georgia and South Carolina encouraged the Acadians in their colonies who were not under arrest to return to their homeland as best they could.  Dozens of them--perhaps as many as 200--purchased or built small vessels and 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, at the insistence of Charles Lawrence, 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, can be found a Boudrot and his family, who were sent to the "Orange precincts, south of the Highlands." 

Boudrots still at Minas and Pigiguit in the fall of 1755 were deported to Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.  The Acadians transported to Virginia suffered the indignity of being turned away by the colony's authorities.  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 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.  In England, they were packed into warehouses in several seaports and many died of smallpox.  Boudrots were held at Bristol and Falmouth.  Meanwhile, at least one Boudrot family from Annapolis Royal was deported to New York in late 1755.  Boudrots who escaped the British roundups found refuge with hundreds of other exiles at Shediac, Richibouctou, and Miramichi on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, where they fought starvation, hard winters, and British raiding parties.  Some moved on to the French stronghold at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  Others moved on to Canada. 

Living in territory still controlled by France, the Boudrots on Île St.-Jean and Île Royale escaped the deportations in Nova Scotia in 1755-56.  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 islands, rounded up most of the habitants there, and deported them to France.  Many Boudrots did not survive the crossing, and entire families were lost.  Island Boudrots who landed at St.-Malo did their best to create a life for themselves in suburbs and villages around the Breton port, including the suburbs of St.-Servan-sur-Mer and St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, across the harbor from St.-Malo; Ploubalay, Langrolay, and Trigavou on the west side of the river south of St.-Énogat; and St.-Suliac and Pleudihen-sur-Rance on the east side of the river south of St.-Servan.  Some of the island Boudrots landed in other ports, including the northern fishing center of Boulogne-sur-Mer in Picardie; Le Havre and Cherbourg in Normandy; Morlaix in northern Brittany; and La Rochelle, Rochefort, and Bordeaux on the Bay of Biscay.  They were especially numerous at Cherbourg and La Rochelle.  In the spring of 1763, after prolonged negotiations between the French and British governments, the exiles in England, including many Boudrots, were repatriated to France.  Arriving in two vessels from the English ports, these Boudrots settled in the St.-Malo area, where they added substantially to the number of their kinsmen already there.  The later arrivals settled not only at St-Servan-sur-Mer, St.-Suliac, and Pleudihen-sur-Rance, but also at Plouër-sur-Rance on the west side of the river southeast of Trigavou.  In late autumn 1765, Acadians repatriated from England, as well as a few island Acadians, agreed to become part of a new agricultural settlement on Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany.  Boudrots were among them.  In the early 1770s, Boudrots in the St.-Malo area, most of them exiles from England, chose to take part in another, even grander, settlement venture, this one in the interior province 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 in the interior of Poitou.  In late 1775 and early 1776, after two years of effort, most of the Poitou Acadians, including most, but not all, of the Boudrots who went there, retreated in four convoys down the Vienne and the Loire to the port of Nantes.  At Nantes and nearby Chantenay, the wayward Acadians lived as best they could on government handouts and what work they could find.  During their two and a half decades in the mother country, despite the rigors of living there, Acadian Boudrots proliferated, and some even prospered.  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 86 Boudrots agreed to take it.  Many of the Boudrots in France, however, chose to remain in the mother country. 

In North America, things got only worse for the Acadians who had escaped the redcoats in the late 1750s.  After the fall of Québec in September 1759, the British gathered their forces to attack the remaining French strongholds in New France, one of which was Restigouche, now a major Acadian refuge.  A 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 October 24, on the eve of formal surrender, French officers counted 1,003 Acadians still at Restigouche, Boudrots among them.  Other Acadians, including Boudrots, took refuge in Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs east of Restigouche.  French officials counted the widow of Jean Boudrot and nine dependents at Grande-Rivière, Gaspésie, at the end of July 1761.  Most of the other Boudrots were captured by, or surrendered to, the British, who held them in prison compounds in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  One of the compounds was at Fort Edward, overlooking the old Boudrot homesteads at Pigiguit.  Another was Fort Cumberland, formerly French Fort Beauséjour, at Chignecto, near the family's old homesteads there.  The largest was at Halifax.  Boudrots were among the hundreds of Acadians held in these places. 

At war's end, Boudrots 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, Boudrots could be found on French repatriation lists circulating in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and South Carolia.  Most of the Acadians 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 Michel Boudrot began the slow, inexorable process of becoming Canadiennes.  Especially after 1766, Boudrots could be found on the upper St. Lawrence at Deschambault, Ste.-Croix de Lotbinière, Nicolet, Repentigny, Trois-Rivières, L'Acadie, Ste.-Anne-de-la-Pérade, Baie-du-Fébvre, Cap-Santé, St.-Philippe-de-Laprairie, and Ste.-Foy; at St.-Ours, St.-Luc, and St.-Antoine-de-Chambly on the lower Richelieu; at Baie-St.-Paul, St.-Joachim, St.-Charles-de-Bellechasse, and Île-aux-Coudres on the lower St. Lawrence; and at Carleton, Cascapédia, now New Richmond, and Bonaventure in Gaspésie.  Boudrots also settled on the îles-de-la-Madeleine in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and on St. John Island, later Prince Edward Island, formerly Île St.-Jean, for a time.  In New Brunswick, Boudrots settled on the St. John River; on Île Miscou at the entrance to the Baie des Chaleurs; at Petit-Rocher on Nepisiguit Bay, an arm of the Baie des Chaleurs; and at Memramcook near the southeastern shore.  In Nova Scotia, they settled at Baie Ste.-Marie, today's St. Mary's Bay; at Chédabouctou, now Guysborough; at Petit-de-Grat and Chéticamp on Cape Breton Island; at Arichat on Île Madame, south of Cape Breton; and at Chezzetcook near Halifax.  Others settled on the French-controlled fishery island of Miquelon off the southern coast of Newfoundland, from which some of them were compelled to return to France in 1767 to relieve overcrowding.  Many returned to the island, but in 1778, during the American Revolution, the British seized Miquelon and nearby Île St.-Pierre and deported the fisher/habitants there to France.  Some of them returned in 1784 after the islands were restored to France.  Typical of most, if not all, Acadian families, these Acadiennes of Canada and the Maritimes 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 Boudrots being held in the seaboard colonies did not move on to Canada.  At least one family returned to Nova Scotia to join kinsmen being held there.  Others emigrated to the French Antilles to avoid British control.  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 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 would provide 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 if they came to the sugar colony.  Most of the Boudrots who went there from the seaboard colonies in 1764 were sent not to Môle St.-Nicolas but to the interior community of Mirebalais near Port-au-Prince to work on indigo and coffee plantations.  It must have worked out for them.  When fellow Acadians held in Nova Scotia and Maryland, including Boudrots, came through Cap-Français in the mid- and late 1760s on their way to New Orleans, none of the St.-Domingue Boudrots chose to join them.  At least one Boudrot went to another island in the French Antilles.  Marie Boudrot died at La Carénage on the island of Ste.-Lucie in December 1763, age 18.  In the early 1760s, French officials coaxed Acadians languishing in the coastal cities of France to settle at Cayenne in the new French colony of Guiane on the northeast coast of South America.  Boudrots were among them. 

Boudrots 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 Boudrots, chose to relocate to Île Miquelon.  Others considered going to French St.-Domingue, where Acadian exiles in the British colonies, including Boudrots, 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 seven were Boudrots. 

The Boudrots 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 fellow exiles had been welcomed in Louisiana, they pooled their meager resources to charter ships that would take them to New Orleans.  Some Boudrots chose to remain in the Chesapeake colony, but four of them agreed to go to Louisiana in 1767. 

Boudrots were among the earliest settlers in French Acadia, and they came early to Louisiana.  The first of them went to lower Bayou Teche with the Broussards in the spring of 1765.  Later that year, Boudrots newly arrived from Halifax settled at Cabahannocer, now St. James Parish, on the river above New Orleans.  A hand full of Boudrots arrived from Maryland in 1767 and 1768, but only one of them was male.  In the 1770s, he joined his kinsmen on the western prairies.  Most of the western Boudreauxs settled in what became Lafayette Parish.  Others settled at Grande Pointe on upper Bayou Teche, near Grand Coteau in St. Landry Parish, in the New Iberia area on lower Bayou Teche, on the lower Vermilion near Youngsville and Abbeville, and out on the prairies near Church Point on upper Bayou Plaquemine Brûlé.  

If the Acadians in France had chosen to remain in the mother country, the Boudreauxs would be a fairly small family in Louisiana today.  But most of the many Boudrots who had been exiled to France grabbed at the offer of the Spanish government to join their fellow Acadians in the lower Mississippi valley.  In 1785, at least 86 of them arrived aboard every one of the Seven Ships from France that reached New Orleans that year.  Two of them chose to go to the Attakapas prairies.  The others moved to Acadian communities on the river above the city or, especially, to upper Bayou Lafourche.  A hand full of the Boudreauxs from France remained on the river, in Iberville and Pointe Coupee parishes, but relatively few family lines developed there.  Some later joined their cousins on the western prairies, settling along Bayou Teche as far down as Pattersonville in St. Mary Parish.  But most of them settled on upper Bayou Lafourche in what became Assumption Parish.  During the late colonial and early antebellum periods, many of them drifted down bayou into Lafourche Interior and Terrebonne parishes.  A number of Lafourche/Terrebonne valley Boudreauxs moved on to Bayou Teche and the southwestern prairies after the War of 1861-65, but the great majority of them remained on the southeastern bayous, forming one of the largest concentrations of an Acadian family in the Bayou State. 

By the eve of the War of 1861-65, Boudreauxs, emulating their ancestors in Acadia, had settled in nearly every corner of South Louisiana and had become one of the largest Acadian families in the region.  A few non-Acadian Boudreaus settled among their Acadian namesakes during the antebellum period; one was a native of La Rochelle, France, another of Montréal.  The great majority of the Boudreauxs of South Louisiana, however, are descendants of Michel Boudrot of Cougnes and Port-Royal.  And, for all we know, the Boudreaus from La Rochelle and Montréal may have been Acadians who took their time following their cousins to Louisiana. 

Judging by the number of slaves they owned during the late antebellum period, some Boudreauxs lived comfortably on their farms, vacharies, and plantations especially on the western prairies.  In 1850, Augustin Boudreaux, fils's widow held 40 slaves on her plantation near Grand Coteau.  That same year, Olivier Boudreaux held 32 slaves in Lafayette Parish, and Evariste Boudreaux owned 37 slaves in Pointe Coupee Parish.  In 1860, Osémé Boudreaux owned 29 slaves on his plantation in St. Martin Parish, and Gerasime Boudreaux held 20 slaves in Lafourche Parish.  The great majority of the Boudreauxs who owned slaves, however, held only a few, and most members of the family held no slaves at all on their vacharies and farms. ...

Dozens of Boudreauxs served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65, and at least a dozen of them lost their lives in Confederate service, most of them as conscripts. ...

In Acadia, the family's name was usually spelled Boudrot or Boudreau.  In Louisiana, it evolved into Boudreaux but was somtimes spelled Boudraux.  The family's name also is spelled Baudreau, Baudros, Bodreau, Bodro, Boudereaux, Boudraud, Boudreault, Boudreaut, Boudro, Boudrot, Boudroz, and Budro in the Bayou State.73

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In February 1765, three Boudrots, an aging widow and a small family, came to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français with the Beausoleil Broussards and followed them to lower Bayou Teche.  A robust family line came of it on the western prairies:

  Jean (c1740-1760s) à François à Michel Boudreaux

Jean, third and youngest son of Michel Boudrot and Anne-Marie or Marie-Anne LeBlanc, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1740, escaped the British roundup there in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph dit L'Officier Guilbeau and Madeleine Michel, in the late 1750s perhaps at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, where Marguerite's father served as an officer in the Acadian militia.  In October 1760, Jean and Marguerite were among the 1,003 Acadians who surrendered at Restigouche to a British naval force from Québec.  The British held them in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Jean and wife Marguerite, still sans children, appeared on a repatriation list at Halifax in August 1763.  Their son Jean-Charles dit Donat was born there soon after the listing.  In late 1764, Jean, Marguerite, and their infant son followed her parents to Louisiana.  In April 1765, at New Orleans, Jean's name appeared on a list of members of the recently-arrived Broussard party who sought to exchange their Canadian card money for legitimate French funds.  Later that month, Jean, Marguerite, and their son followed the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche in the Attakapas District, where they survived the epidemic that devastated the Teche valley community that summer and fall.  The couple had no more children in Louisiana.  Jean died by the late 1760s, in his mid- or late 20s, when his wife remarried at Attakapas.  Jean's son survived childhood and created a vigorous line of the family on the western prairies.

Only son Jean-Charles dit Donat followed his parents to Louisiana in 1764-65 and was still a boy when his father died at Attakapas in the late 1760s.  He married Anne-Dorothée, called Dorothée, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Comeaux and Anastasie Savoie of Opelousas, in c1785 Dorothée was a native of the Opelousas District.  She and Donat settled along upper Bayou Vermilion at the northern edge of the Attakapas District.  Their children, born there, included Jean-Baptiste, called Jean, in March 1788; Leufroi baptized at Opelousas, age unrecorded, in July 1789; Susanne born in December 1790; Augustin, also called Joseph, in c1793 and baptized at Attakapas, age 2, in June 1795; Célesie born in November 1795; Marie-Euphémie in December 1797; Aspasie in the late 1790s; Louis, called Don Louis, in January 1801; and Émilie dite Carmélite in January 1803--nine children, four sons and five daughters, between 1788 and 1803.  Donat died at this home on the upper Vermilion in June 1807.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial said that Jean-Charles died at age 45.  He was a few years younger.  Daughters Susanne, Aspasie, Marie Euphémie, and Carmélite married into the Mouton, Broussard, Langlinais, and Blanchet families.  All four of Donat's sons created their own families in what became Lafayette and Vermilion parishes. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, called Jean, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Marin dit Capuchon Mouton and his first wife French Creole Marie-Josèphe Lambert, at Attakapas in October 1804.  Marguerite was the sister of Jean's brother-in-law, Salvator Marin Mouton.  Jean and Marguerite settled at Bas Vermilion, or the lower Vermilion, south of present-day Lafayette.  Their children, born there, included Jean Léon in October 1805; Joseph Drosin, called Drosin, in October 1807; François Onésime, called Onésime, in July 1810; Charles Sosthène, called Sosthène, in June 1813; Symphorien or Syphroien in April 1815; Marie Zélie or Azélie in October 1817; Toussaint in October 1819; Caroline baptized at age 3 months in April 1823; Julie born in c1825 and baptized at age 20 months in November 1826; Caroline, the second with the name, born in February 1826 but died at age 3 1/2 in September 1829; Adélaïde in the 1820s; Seven or Sevènne born in 1829 and baptized at Vermilionville, age 13 months, in May 1830; Anastasie baptized at age 2 months in April 1831 but died at age 2 in April. 1833; and Belzire baptized at age 4 months in May 1834--13 children, seven sons and six daughters, between 1805 and 1834.  Jean's succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in November 1841.  He would have been age 53 that year.  In October 1850, the federal census taker in Vermilion Parish counted 19 slaves on Widow Jean Boudreaux's farm in Ward One of the parish's western district, next to Sevènne Boudreaux; these probably were Marguerite Mouton's slaves.  Daughters Marie Azélie, Caroline, Adélaïde, and Belzire married into the Broussard, Blanchet, De France, Suzanne, and Roy families.  Six of Jean's sons also married. 

Oldest son Jean Léon married Pauline, daughter of Hippolyte Mallet and Céleste Fabre of Baton Rouge, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in August 1828.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Jean Léo baptized at Vermilionville, age 3 months, in September 1829; Marcel born in late 1832 and baptized at age 5 months in April 1833; Dupréville born in late 1833 and baptized at age 14 months in January 1835; Marguerite Edita baptized at age 2 months in February 1837; and Amélie baptized at age 3 months in March 1839--five children, three sons  and two daughters, between 1829 and 1839.  None of Jean Léon's children married by 1870, if they married at all in South Louisiana. 

Jean's second son Joseph Drosin, called Drosin, married Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Duhon and Élisabeth Broussard, at the Vermilionville church in February 1826.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Euclide in July 1827; Clair, probably a daughter, baptized at age 3 months and 8 days in October 1830 but died two days after her baptism; Méance born in late 1831 and baptized at age 10 months in September 1832 but died at age 6 in September 1837; Edgard baptized, age 7 1/2 months, in October 1834; Claira born in c1836 and baptized at age 1 in September 1837; Julie born in February 1839; Carmélite in October 1840; Sevènne le jeune in May 1843; Jules in the 1840s; and Adélaïde in the 1840s--10 children, five sons and five daughters, between 1827 and the 1840s.  Wife Adélaïde's succession, probably post-mortem, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in June 1851.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted five slaves--three males and two females, all black, ranging in age from 50 to 10--on Drauzin J. Boudreaux's farm next to Euclide Boudreaux in the parish's western district.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted seven slaves--three females and four males, three blacks and four mulattoes, ages 70 to 1, living in a single house--on Drauzin Boudreaux's farm next to Chs. Marin Mouton and near Augustin Boudreau, probably his uncle.  Daughters Clara, Carmélite, and Adélaïe married into the Mouton, Servat, and Melançon families, one of them, Adélaïde, to the brother of one of her brother's wives.  Four of Drosin's sons also married, but not all of the lines endured.

Oldest son Euclide married Onésima, also called Lisemène, daughter of Onésime Baudoin and Marcelite Dartes, at the Vermilionville church in April 1847.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Eugénie in October 1848; and Marcelite in March 1851.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted a single slave--a 24-year-old black male--on Euclide Boudreau's farm between Drauzin J. Boudreau and Bélonie Bodouin in the parish's western district.  Euclide died in Lafayette Parish in August 1853, age 26.  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse that month.  Neither of his daughters married by 1870.  He evidently fathered no sons. 

Drosin's second son Edgard married Elmire or Elvira, daughter of Jean Dartes and his Acadian wife Marie Mouton, at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in February 1854.  Their children, born near Abbeville, included Cécelia in July 1856; Marcus in January 1859; and Séverin in September 1862.  Edgard may have remarried to fellow Acadian Émilie Guidry, place and date unrecorded.  Their son Euclyde was born near Abbeville in September 1866; ...  None of Edgard's children married by 1870. 

During the War of 1861-65, Drosin's third son Sevènne le jeune, a resident of Vermilion Parish at the time of his enlistment, may have served as a corporal in Company A of the 8th Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, raised in Rapides Parish, which fought in Louisiana.  Sevènne le jeune married Euphémie, daughter of fellow Acadians Onésime Melançon and Marie Prejean, at the Youngsville church in February 1867; the marriage was not civilly recorded until February 1869; Sevènne's sister Adélaïde married one of Euphémie's brothers soon after the war. ...

Drosin's fourth and youngest son Jules married cousin Marie Azélima or Angelina, daughter of Placide Montet and his Acadian wife Azelie Duhon, at the Youngsville church, Lafayette Parish, in June 1865.  Their son Philippe Mozart was born near Youngsville in October 1868; ... 

Jean's third son François Onésime married Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Trahan and his Creole wife Césaire Baudoin, at the Vermilionville church in April 1830.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Lezima, also called Nézima, baptized at Vermilionville, age 2 months, in March 1832; Onésime, fils born in March 1834; and Théozime or Théosime born in late 1835 and baptized at age 5 months in March 1836--three children, a daughter and two sons, between 1832 and 1835.  François Onésime died by November 1840, when his succession, calling him Onézime, naming his wife and two minor children--Nézima and Onézima [probably Onésime]--was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse.  He would have been age 30 that year.  His daughter did not marry by 1870, if she married at all.  One of François Onésime's sons married by 1870. 

Older son Onésime, fils may have married fellow Acadian Ezilda Broussard, place and date unrecorded.  Daughter Lezima was born near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in February 1857; ...

During the War of 1861-65, François Onésime's younger son Théosime, called Théorime in Confederate records, may have served in Company K of the Consolidated 18th Regiment and Yellow Jacket Battalion Louisiana Infantry, which fought in Louisiana.  Did he survive the war?  He did not marry by 1870. 

Jean's fourth son Charles Sosthène, called Sosthène, married Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Éloi Broussard and Marguerite Thibodeaux, at the Vermilionville church in August 1831.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Émilia baptized at Vermilionville, age 2 1/2 months, in November 1832; and Charles Sosthène, fils baptized at age 2 1/2 months in October 1834.  In November 1850, the federal census taker in Vermilion Parish counted eight slaves--three males and five females, all black, ranging in age from 40 to 1--on Sosthènes Boudreaux's farm in Ward Four of the parish's western district.  Charles Sosthène, père died near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in June 1856, age 43 (the recording priest said 42).  Daughter ... married into the Guidry family.  Sosthène's son also married, but the line may not have endured.

Only son Charles Sosthène, fils married fellow Acadian Elisa Prejean, place and date unrecorded, and settled near Abbeville by the mid-1850s.  Their children, born in Vermilion Parish, included Maria in December 1856; Anastasie in May 1858; Émelia in December 1859; ...   In 1860, the federal census taker in Vermilion Parish counted three slaves--two males and a female, all black, ages 27, 15, and 2, living in one house--on Sustain Boodro's farm in the parish's western district.  This probably was Charles Sosthène, fils.  He died near Abbeville in December 1868.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Sosthène died "at age 34 yrs.," so this was him.  Daughter ... married into the Hardy family.  Charles Sosthène, fils evidently fathered no sons, but the blood of the family line likely endured. 

Jean's fifth son Symphorien or Syphorien married Joséphine, another daughter of Éloi Broussard and Marguerite Thibodeaux, at the Vermilionville church in April 1834.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Théosime, a son, in April 1835; Clély, a daughter, baptized at Vermilionville, age 1 month and 10 days, in May 1837; Joséphine, perhaps theirs, born in c1838 but died at age 5 in August 1843; Théodule, perhaps also called Pierre Théodule, born in April 1839; Symphorien, fils in March 1841; Jules in June 1843; and Maria perhaps in the 1840s--six children, three daughters and three sons, between 1835 and the 1840s.  Symphorien, père evidently died by 1850, in his 30s.  In October of that year, the federal census taker in Vermilion Parish counted a single slave--a 40-year-old mulatto male--on Widow Eyfroyin Boudreaux's farm next to Sevènne Boudreaux in Ward One of the parish's western district; these probably were Joséphine Broussard's slaves.  Her and Symphorien's daughters Clély and Maria married into the Lemaire and Trahan families.  Two of Symphorien's sons also married by 1870. 

During the War of 1861-65, oldest son Théosime, called Théorime in Confederate records, may have served in Company K of the Consolidated 18th Regiment and Yellow Jacket Battalion Louisiana Infantry, which fought in Louisiana.  Did he survive the conflict?  He did not marry by 1870. 

Symphorien's second son Pierre Théodule, called Théodule, may have married Carmélite Lemaire, place and date unrecorded.  Their children, born near Abbeville, included Pierre Théodule, fils died in November 1862, age 2 months; Emérite born in June 1864; Emmard in October 1866; ... 

Symphorien's third and youngest son Symphorien, fils may have married fellow Acadian Clémence LeBlanc at the Abbeville church in July 1865.  They settled near Youngsville.  Their son Phineas was born there in December 1866; ... 

In October 1850, the federal census taker in Vermilion Parish counted five slaves--three males and two females, all black, ranging in age from 18 to 1--on Jean's seventh and youngest son Sevènne's farm between Widow Eyfroyin Boudreaux and Widow Jean Boudreaux in Ward One of the parish's western district; Sevènne would have been age 21 at the time.  He married Euphémie Roy, perhaps a fellow Acadian, probably in Vermilion Parish in the late 1840s.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Emetille in c1850; Eraste in c1852; Amanda in c1854; Elvire near Abbeville in February 1855; Sevènne, fils in May 1856; Alice in December 1857; Euphémie in c1859; Charles Sosthène le jeune in May 1861; Marie Eudolie, called Eudolie, in September 1862; Éliza near Youngsville in December 1862; ...   During the war, Sevènne, a resident of Vermilion Parish at the time of his enlistment, may have served as a corporal in Company A of the 8th Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, raised in Rapides Parish, which fought in Louisiana.  Wife Euphémie died by June 1870, when she was not listed with Sevènne and their children in the federal census for Abbeville.  Daughter Emetille married into the Bernard family by 1870.  One of Sevènne's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Eraste, in his late teens and working as a farm hand on his father's farm near Abbeville, married Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Clet LeBlanc and Marcellite Bernard, at the Youngsville church, Lafayette Parish, in September 1870. ...

Jean-Charles dit Donat's second son Leufroi married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Charles Hébert and Madeleine Robichaud "of Vermillion," at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in January 1808.  They settled on the upper Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included a son, name unrecorded, died six days after his birth in November 1808; Jacques Leufroi, called Leufroi, fils, born in November 1809 but died in Lafayette Parish, age 59 (the recording priest said 60) in January 1869; Judith dite Julie born in October 1811; Eusèbe, also called Eugène, in January 1814 but died at age 7 in February 1820; a son, name unrecorded, died at birth in March 1816; Marie Carmélite, called Carmélite, born in February 1818; a son, name and age unrecorded, died in January 1820; Moïse born in February 1820 but died in Lafayette Parish, age 50, in March 1870; a child, name unrecorded, died a day after his/her birth in February 1823; Duclise, also called Euclide, born in April 1824; Ursin in May 1827; Euphémie in October 1830; and Félicia, also Marie Félicia, in 1833 and baptized at age 7 months in April 1834--13 children, at least eight sons and four daughters, between 1808 and 1834.  Wife Marie's succession record, perhaps post-mortem, naming her husband, was filed at the Lafayette Parish courthouse in February 1847.  Leufroi evidently did not remarry.  In September 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted three slaves--two males and a female, all black, ages 40, 35, and 17--on Leufroy Boudreau's farm in the parish's western district.  Leufroi died in Lafayette Parish in July 1866.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Luffroy died at "age 84 yrs.," which would have made him older than brother Jean.  Leufroy likely was in his late 70s.  Daughters Julie, Carmélite, Euphémie, and Marie Félicia married into the Frederick, Sonnier, Guidry, Brasseaux, and Templet families.  His two youngest sons also married and settled in Lafayette Parish, but not all of the lines endured. 

Seventh son Duclise married Azélie, Azélia, or Zilia, 16-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Treville Thibodeaux and his Creole wife Madeleine Constantin, at the Vermilionville church in December 1846.  Their son Jérôme died in Lafayette Parish, age unrecorded, in November 1847.  Duclise, called Euclyde by the recording priest, died in Lafayette Parish in January 1859, age 33 (the recording priest said "age 35 ca.").  His family line probably died with him.   

Leufroi's eighth and youngest son Ursin married Oliva, daughter of fellow Acadian Olivier Guidry and his Creole wife Marie Meaux, at the Vermilionville church in December 1848.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Maria in December 1849; Genus in November 1851; a child, name unrecorded, died at age 2 months in March 1854; Alexandre born in May 1855; Euphémie in October 1859; Paul in December 1866; ...  None of Ursin's children married by 1870. 

Jean-Charles dit Donat's third son Augustin, also called Joseph, married Scholastique, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Hébert and Marguerite Trahan, at the St. Martinville church in April 1812.  They settled on the upper Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included Augustin, fils in May 1813 but died at age 15 in March 1829; Joseph Clairville born in January 1815; a son, name unrecorded, died in May 1816 five weeks after his birth; Sylvanie, also called Marie Sylvanie, born in April 1817; Scholastique Silenie, perhaps also Cidalise, in March 1819; Mélanie in December 1822; a child, name unrecorded, died at age 9 months in November 1823; Julienne born in February 1821; Eremise, a daughter, in April 1824; Norbert in December 1825; Aspasie in December 1827; twins Carmélite and Caroline baptized at Vermilionville, age 2 months, in May 1830; Désiré baptized at age 2 months in June 1832; Onézime or Onésime A., also called O. A., born in January 1834; and Ursule baptized at age 1 month in June 1836--16 children, at least six sons and nine daughters, including a set of twins, between 1813 and 1836.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted a single slave--a 7-year-old black male, on Augustin Boudreau's farm near Drauzin Boudreaux.  Daughters Cidalise, Marie Sylvanie, Eremise, Julienne, and Caroline married into the Mouton, Baudoin, Vincent, and Picard families, including two Vincent brothers.  Three of  Augustin's sons also married. 

Second son Joseph Clairville married Adeline, daughter of fellow Acadians Onésime Mouton and Tarsille Hébert, at the Vermilionville church in April 1836; Adeline's brother was husband of Joseph Clairville's sister.  Joseph Clairville and Adeline's children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Armeline or Armelina baptized at Vermilionville, age 2 months, in August 1837; Antoine born in December 1838; Anastasie in February 1841; Victorin in March 1843; and Marie Belzire in January 1845--five children, three daughters and two sons, between 1837 and 1845.  Daughter Armelina married an Hébert cousin by 1870.  One of Joseph Clairvlle's sons also married an Hébert cousin by then. 

Older son Antoine married cousin Ursule, daughter of fellow Acadians Eusèbe Lessaint Hébert and Carmélite Hébert, at the Vermilionville church in July 1860 or 1861.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Ozea in August 1861 but died at age 1 in October 1862; and a son, name unrecorded, died in Lafayette Parish in April 1863 nine days after his birth.  During the War of 1861-65, Antoine served probably as a conscript in Company B of the Crescent Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Orleans Parish, which fought in Tennessee and Louisiana, and Company C of the Consolidated Crescent Regiment Infantry, which fought in Louisiana.  Antoine enlisted in the Crescent Regiment at Camp Pratt near New Iberia in late August 1862 and remained with his company until the summer of 1863, when he reported sick at the Confederate hospital in New Iberia.  Daughter Ozea had died in Lafayette Parish, age 1, in October 1862, a few weeks after his enlistment, and his wife died in April 1863 probably from complications of giving birth to a son, who also died, so this may have been a factor in Antoine's illness.  It certainly would have affected his morale.  He returned to his company, which changed its designation due to consolidation with another unit in November 1863.  Antoine remarried to Apolline, daughter of Louis Sellers and Belzire Baudoin, at the Youngsville church in August 1866. ...

Augustin's fifth son Norbert married fellow Acadian Adalise or Ordalize Mouton and settled near Youngsville.  Their children, born there, included Pierre in August 1859; Adam in April 1861; ...

Augustin's seventh and youngest son Onésime A. married Azélia, daughter of Don Louis Langlinais and his Acadian wife Azelle Trahan, at the Vermilionville church in January 1859.  They settled near Youngsville.  Their children, born there, included Israël in September 1861; Félix in October 1862; Aristide in March 1870; ...

Jean-Charles dit Donat's fourth and youngest son Don Louis married Marie Madeleine, Adeline, Azéline, Céline, Zéline, and Zélie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Landry and Marie Melançon, at the St. Martinville church in February 1820.  They settled on the upper Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included  Marie Virginie in December 1820; Marie in October 1822; Marguerite Emela in 1824 and baptized at Vermilionville, age 8 months, in July 1825; Adeline born in December 1826; Euclide died at age 13 days in April 1829; Valérie, a daughter, born in March 1830; Natalie baptized at age 4 months in September 1832 but, called Desina, may have died at age 15 (the recording priest said 12) in July 1847; a child, name unrecorded, died at age 6 days in September 1834; Dema, a son, born in October 1835; Numa baptized at age 3 months in April 1838; Ursule born in February 1840 but died at age 3 1/2 in September 1843; and Étienne born in August 1843 but died perhaps at age 18 in September 1861, when his succession, perhaps post-mortem, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse--a dozen children, at least seven daughters and four sons, between 1820 and 1843.  In September 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted three slaves--a male and two females, all black, ages 50, 47, and 10--on Donlouis Boudreau's farm in the parish's western district.  Daughters ... married into the Broussard, Dubois, Galtier, Landry, LeBlanc, and Taylor or Teller families by 1870.  One of Don Louis's sons also married by then, after his Confederate service.

During the War of 1861-65, third son Numa served in Company C of the 8th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Martin Parish, which served in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania--one of General R. E. Lee's Louisiana Tigers.  Numa enlisted in June 1861, and, except for a bout of illness later that year which sent him to a Richmond, Virginia, hospital, he was with his company in all of its many marches, campaigns, and bloody battles until the summer of 1864.  Wounded in action at the Battle of Monocacy, Maryland, in July 1864, he fell into enemy hands.  The Federals sent him to the general hospital at nearby Frederick, Maryland, and then to Baltimore and Fort McHenry, where he was still in the hospital in late November.  Recovered sufficiently from his wound, in early January 1865 the Federals sent him to the prisoner-of-war camp at Point Lookout, Maryland, and held him there until the following March, when he was paroled and exchanged at Aiken's Landing, Virginia.  He evidently was unable to return to his unit by the time General Lee surrendered his army at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia; Numa's name does not appear on the list of parolees of the Army of Northern Virginia surrendered there in April 1865.  Numa returned home as best he could and married Élodie, daughter of Raphaël Segura and his Acadian wife Carmélite Broussard, at the Youngsville church in September 1865.  In August 1889, Numa, now in his early 50s, served in the honor guard at the funeral and reburial of Lieutenant Louis Edmond LeBlanc of his company.  Lieutenant LeBlanc had fallen at the Battle of Malvern Hill in July 1862 and was buried on the field by his comrades, who carved the fallen officer's name and unit into a wooden headboard.  Amazingly, over a quarter of a century after the young lieutenant fell on the Virginia battefield, the caretaker of the nearby Federal cemetery, while exploring in the area, discovered the timed-worn headboard and the lieutenant's remains.  The LeBlanc family returned their loved one to his home on Bayou Teche, and hundreds of people, including Numa Boudreaux, attended the lieutenant's re-interment in St. Michael's Cemetery at St. Martinville. 

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Later in 1765, four more Boudrots--a young bachelor, a widower with a son, and a wife and her large family--reached Louisiana from Halifax via French St.-Domingue and settled not on lower Bayou Teche but in the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  One of them created a vigorous family line there and on the western prairies: 

Olivier (1728-1782) à Claude à Michel Boudreaux

Olivier, seventh and youngest son of Michel Boudrot le jeune and his first wife Cécile LeBlanc, born at Minas in May 1728, married Anne-Marie, daughter of Antoine Dupuis and Marie-Josèphe Dugas, probably at Minas in c1752.  She gave him a son, Simon, born there in c1753.  They evidently escaped the British roundup at Minas in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  They likley had more children in exile, their names and birth dates unrecorded.  By the late 1750s, they had made their way to the French stronghold at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, now a major Acadian refuge.  In October 1760, Olivier and his family of six were among the 1,003 Acadians counted at Restigouche, most of whom were sent to a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  British officials counted Olivier and his family of six in the compound at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, not far from their old homes, in August 1762.  In 1764-65, Olivier, now a widower, emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax with his 12-year-old son Simon.  One wonders what happened to the rest of his children who had been counted at Restigouche and Fort Edward.  Were they actually his children or were some of them nieces and nephews?  From New Orleans, he and his son went to Cabahannocer, where Olivier, at age 39, remarried to Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Gaudet and Marie Belliveau and widow of Michel Dupuis, in October 1767.  She gave him no more children.  Olivier died at Cabahannocer in November 1782, age 54.  His son created a vigorous family line on what became known as the Acadian Coast.  Some of his grandsons settled on the upper Lafourche and out on the western prairies.

Oldest, or perhaps only, son Simon, by first wife Anne-Marie Dupuis, followed his family into exile and imprisonment and his widowed father to New Orleans and Cabahannocer, where he married his stepsister Monique, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Dupuis and Anne Gaudet, in May 1774.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer, included Marie baptized, age unrecorded, in December 1775; Simon-Pierre dit Simonet baptized, age unrecorded, in December 1778; Michel born in c1783; Henriette in the 1780s; Olivier le jeune in July 1788; Françoise-Émilie in November 1790; Jean-Baptiste in April 1793 but died at age 1 in August 1794; Antoine born in October 1795; and Anne in c1796 but died at age 9 months in April 1797--nine children, four daughters and five sons, between 1775 and 1797.   Simon died in St. James Parish in March 1824.  The priest who recorded the burial and did not give any parents' names or mention a wife said that Simon was "age about 70 yrs." and "nat. of Acadia," so this was him.   Daughters Marie, Françoise Émilie, and Henriette married into the LeBlanc, Breaux, and Boudreaux families, and one of them settled on the prairies.  Three of Simon's sons also married.  In the late 1800s or early 1810s, they crossed the Atchafalaya Basin and settled on upper Bayou Teche.  Two of them returned to the river, but the youngest one remained on the prairies.  One of Simon's grandsons settled on Bayou Lafourche. 

Oldest son Simon-Pierre dit Simonet married Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Jacques Babin and Marguerite Landry, at Cabahannocer in April 1800.  They lived at Grande Pointe on upper Bayou Teche later in the decade but returned to the river in the early 1810s.  Their children, born on the river and the Teche, included Casimir at Cabahanncoer in May 1801 but died at age 2 in August 1803; Célestine, perhaps also called Adeline, born in January 1803; Marie Sidalise in October 1805; Simon Casimir, called Casimir, in October 1808; Olivier Gédéon at Grande Pointe in June 1811 but died at age 9 in September 1821 and buried at Ascension; Marguerite Susanne born at Opelousas in March 1814; Jean Baptiste Adélard, called Adélard, in St. James Parish in April 1817; and Marie Célesie, perhaps also called Telesie, in March 1821--eight children, four sons and four daughters, between 1801 and 1821.  Daughters Adeline, Marguerite, and Telesie married into the LeBlanc, Daigle, and Melançon families.  Two of Simonet's sons also married and settled on the river and on Bayou Lafourche. 

Second son Simon Casimir, called Casimir, married Marie Henriette, called Henriette, daughter of fellow Acadians Éloi Landry and Madeleine Melançon, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in February 1835.  They lived on upper Bayou Lafourche before returning to the river, where they settled near the boundary between St. James and Ascension parishes.  Their children, born there, included Julienne Madeleine in February 1836; Marie Aglaé in October 1837 but died at age 2 in September 1839; Marguerite Olfilla born in September 1839 but, called Marie Olfida, died at age 1 in October 1840; Marie Olphida or Ophida born in March 1841; Jean Baptiste Simon in January 1844; Joseph Landry, called Landry, in May 1846; Joseph Eugène in April 1848; Joseph Trinidad in February 1850; Simon in June 1852 but died at age 15 (the recording priest said 13) in October 1867; Joseph Émile born in July 1855 but, called Émil, died at age 5 1/2 (the recording priest said 7) in February 1861; and Marie Corine born in July 1860--11 children, five daughters and six sons, between 1836 and 1860.  A "dau. of Casimere Boudreaux" gave birth to an infant, "age 6 days," in Ascension Parish in February 1857.  Was this daughter Ophida, who would have been age 16 at the time of the baby's birth?  Daughters Julienne and Ophida married into the Bergeron, Krieger, and LeBlanc families by 1870.  Three of Simon Casimir's sons also married by then and settled in Ascension Parish. 

Oldest son Jean Baptiste Simon married Élisa or Éliza, daughter of fellow Acadians Arsène Bourgeois and Augustine Arceneaux, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in April 1866.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Marie Emma in May 1868; Marie Corine in July 1870; ...

Casimir's second son Joseph Landry, called Landry, married Lutetia, daughter of Marcellin Junot and his Acadian wife Coralie Babin, at the Donaldsonville church in May 1868.  Their son Joseph Lucien was born in Ascension Parish in February 1870 but, called Lucien, died there the following July; ...

Casimir's fourth son Joseph Trinidad married Philomène, daughter of Manuel Aleman and Marie Falcon, at the Donaldsonville church in February 1870.  Their son Joseph Simon was born in Ascension Parish in December 1870; ...

Simonet's fourth and youngest son Jean Baptiste Adélard, called Adélard, married Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadian Narcisse LeBlanc and his Creole wife Joséphine Senette, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in June 1838.  They remained on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Ascension and Assumption parishes until the late 1850s, when they moved down bayou to the Lockport/Raceland area of Lafourche Parish.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Théodule in July 1839; Luce in December 1840; Marie Célestine in July 1842; Agnès, also called Eme, in the 1840s; Marguerite Anaïs, called Anaïs, in June 1845; Élisabeth dite Éliza in July 1847; Marie Aimée in November 1849; Marie Joséphine, called Joséphine, in June 1851; Joseph Camille in January 1853; Joseph Melisé in June 1855; twins Jean Baptiste and Joseph near Lockport in February 1858; Julien Claixte, probably Calixte, near Raceland in January 1860; Marie Adelia near Lockport in January 1862; and Elmire Virginie near Raceland in May 1863--15 children, six sons and nine daughters, including a set of twins, between 1839 and 1863.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted three slaves--two males and a female, all black, ages 33, 30, and 22--on Adélard Boudreau's farm next to Valéry LeBlanc in the parish's Second Congressional District.  Daughters Anaïs, Éliza, Agnès, and Joséphine married into the Gautreaux, Babin, and McEvers families by 1870, two of them on the same day at the same church.  One of Adélard's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Théodule married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Valéry Breaux and Marguerite Roger, at the Lockport church, Lafourche Parish, in April 1866.  Their children, born near Lockport, included Joseph Ernest in March 1867; Matilde in December 1870; ...

Simon's second son Michel married Théotiste, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Théodore Bergeron and Théostiste Foret, at Cabahannocer/St. James in January 1807.  They lived briefly at Anse la Butte on the upper Vermilion River before returning to St. James Parish.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included Marie Eulalie in February 1808; Marguerite in January 1810; Marie Silvanie or Sylvanie in May 1812; Michel Ursin, called Ursin, in January 1815; Marie Antoinette, called Antoinette, in May 1817; and Marie Belzire in October 1819--six children, five daughters and a son, between 1808 and 1819.  In September 1850, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted seven slaves--three males and four females, all black, ranging in age from 60 to 4--on Michel Boudreau's farm in the parish's eastern district.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted seven slaves again--four males and three females, thee blacks and four mulattoes, ages 70 to 3, living in two houses--on Michel Boudreau's farm in the parish's Left Bank 4th District.  One of Michel's slaves, a 3-year-old mulatto male, was recorded as "insane."  Michel died near Convent, St. James Parish, in October 1864, age 81.  Daughters Marie Eulalie, Marie Sylvanie, Antoinette, and Marie Belzire married into the Mire, Melançon, and Chauvin families, two of them to Mire brothers.  Michel's son also married and remained in St. James Parish. 

Only son Ursin married Marie Justine, called Justine, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Melançon and Marie Louise Lanoux, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in November 1838; Justine's brother married one of Ursin's sisters.  Ursin and Justine's children, born near Convent, included Ursin Saturnin in February 1840 but, called Saturnin, died at age 2 in May 1842; Philomène born in June 1842; Joseph Audressy, called Audressy, in September [1845]; Marie Ursuline in October 1847 but, called Ursuline, died at age 16 1/2 (the recording priest said 17) in July 1864; M., gender unrecorded, born in December 1849; and Michel in October 1852--six children, at least three sons and two daughters, between 1840 and 1852.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Ascension Parish counted a single slave--a 22-year-old mulatto female--on U. Boudreau's farm in the parish's Fifth Ward.  Daughter ... married a Lanoux cousin by 1870.  One of Ursin's sons also married by then.

Second son Audressy married cousin Phelonise, daughter of fellow Acadians Cyprien Bourgeois and Amelie Landry, at the Gonzales church, Ascension Parish, in February 1867; they had to secure a dispensation for third to fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born near Convent, included Joseph Cyprien in January 1868; Paul Michel in June 1870; ...

Simon's third son Olivier le jeune followed his older brothers to the western prairies, where he married Susanne dite Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians François Breaux and Silesie Dugas of Bayou Vermilion, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in August 1811.  They settled at Anse la Butte on the upper Vermilion and at nearby Grande Pointe on upper Bayou Teche before moving out to the prairies of western Lafayette Parish.  There they ran a large plantation/vacharie and accumulated many slaves.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Valéry in September 1812; Mélanie in April 1815; Olivier Rosaime in March 1817; Aurelien Drosin, called Drosin and A. D., in November 1818; Eugénie in April 1821; Marie Euphémie, called Euphémie, in July 1822 but died at age 4 in September 1826; Céleste born in September 1824; Susanne, also Émilia Suzanne, in 1826 and baptized at age 1 year, 1 month in March 1827; Cidalise born in April 1827; Zéphirin in June 1828; Olive in c1830 and baptized at age 1 in February 1831; Léocade baptized at age 3 months in May 1833; Ofilia born in c1836 but baptized at age 1 in November 1837; and Célina born in early 1838 and baptized at age 11 months in March 1839--14 children, four sons and 10 daughters, between 1812 and 1838.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted 32 slaves--18 males and 14 females, all black except for one mulatto, ranging in age from 45 to 1--on Olivier Boudreau's plantation next to Drauzin, probably son A. D., Boudreau in the parish's western district.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted 43 slaves--22 males and 21 females, all black except for seven mulattoes, ages 63 years to 7 months, living in five houses--on Olivier Boudreaux's plantation between Françious Breaux and Ozémé Boudreaux.  Wife Susanne, called "Mrs. Olivier" by the recording priest, died in Lafayette Parish in January 1865, age 72.  Daughters Mélanie, Eugénie, Émilia Suzanne, Léocade, and Cidalise married into the Dugas, Broussard, Breaux, Daigle, and LeBlanc families.  Three of Olivier le jeune's sons also married and settled in Lafayette Parish, but not all of the lines endured.  One of Olivier le jeune's sons became a prominent planter, cattleman, and political figure in the parish. 

Oldest son Valéry married Marie Silvanie or Sylvanie, called Sylvanie, Azélina, and Celphanie, daughter of Ursin Patin and his Acadian wife Marie Aspasie Guidry, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in February 1832.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Athanaise, perhaps also Azelina, baptized at Vermilionville, age 5 months, in December 1833 but, called Azelina, died at age 9 1/2 in August 1843; and Azénay or Azénais baptized at age 3 months in July 1835.  Valéry's succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in February 1845.  He would have been age 33 that year.  In August 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted six slaves--two males and four females, all black, ranging in age from 42 to 2, living in a single house--on Mrs. Valéry Boudreaux's farm; these probably were Marie Sylvanie Patin's slaves.  Daughter Azénais married into the Doucet family.  Valéry evidently fathered no sons, but the blood of the line endured. 

Olivier le jeune's third son Aurelien Drosin, called A. D., married Azéma, 17-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Martin and his French-Canadian wife Caroline Daigle, at the Vermilionville church in June 1842.  They settled on the prairie a few miles west of Vermilionville, today's Lafayette.  Their children, born there, included Simon le jeune in the 1840s; Marie Emérita or Emérite, called Emérite, in December 1844; twins Charles Alphonse and Charlotte Alphoncine in May 1848; Alexandre Olivier, called Olivier, in August 1850; Emérida in November 1852; Marie in August 1854; and Valéry le jeune in October 1857--eight children, four sons and four daughters, including a set of twins, between the 1840s and 1857.  In August 1850, federal census takers in Lafayette Parish counted three slaves--a male and two females, all black, ages 52, 18, and 15--on Drauzin Boudreau's farm next to Olivier Boudreau's plantation in the parish's western district; these probably were A. D.'s slaves.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted six slaves--three males and three females, all black except for one mulatto, ages 65 to 3--on Drozin A. Boudreaux's farm; this probably was A. D.  When war broke out in 1861, A. D. was colonel of the Lafayette Parish militia and secretary of the parish's Committee of Vigilance.  During the war, A. D. served as captain of Company K, 2nd Regiment Louisiana Reserve Corps, a local unit raised in Lafayette Parish that fought prairie Jayhawkers.  After the war, his neighbors still called him "Colonel."  By the early 1870s, his plantation/vacharie comprised 300 acres near present-day Scott.  In August 1874, during Reconstruction, the Colonel became president of White League Club Begnaud No. 2 in Lafayette Parish.  He was still alive and in his late 70s when, in April 1896, two of his farm hands, Alexis and Ernest Blanc of France, murdered neighbor and kinsman Martin Begnaud at nearby Scott Station (Begnaud, a prominent merchant in Scott, was a brother of one of the Colonel's daughters-in-law).  The Colonel's daughter Emérite married into the Butcher family by 1870.  One of the Colonel's sons also married by then, another in the 1870s.

Oldest son Simon le jeune married cousin Céleste, daughter of French Canadian Joseph Daigle and his Creole wife Élise Dupré, at the Vermilionville church in May 1866.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included François Osmar in March 1867 but may have died at age 2 1/2 (the recording priest, who did not give the parents' names, said 11 months) in September 1869; Laurent Dupré born in April 1870; ... 

A. D.'s second Charles Alphonse married 19-year-old Mathilde Pellerin, a Creole, not a fellow Acadian, probably in Lafayette Parish in c1875.  Their son Adolphe Charles was born near Scott in June 1880. 

Adolphe Charles married Roselia, called Rosa, daughter of Foreign Frenchman Jean Castex and his Acadian wife Alice Landry of Mermentau, Acadia Parish, probably at Mermentau in the early 1900s.  Rosa's father, born in France in March 1837, emigrated to Louisiana in 1855.  He married Rosa's mother in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in April 1861, and sanctified the marriage at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in February 1862.  Neither the parish clerk nor the Grand Coteau priest who recorded the marriage gave the couple's parents' names.  Adolphe and Rosa settled in the village of Mermentau on the east bank of the eponymous river in Acadia Parish, where they ran a general store.  Their son Mark A. was born at Mermentau in c1908; Castex M., called C. M., in c1910; and James Louis in c1918.

James Louis, called Jim or Jimmy, married Adeline, oldest daughter of Léonce Cormier and Zelma Istre of Acadia Parish (the author's paternal grandparents).  In 1965, Jimmy and Adeline, with their three youngest children--James, Jr.; Debra; and Cynthia--perished in a Christmas Day car crash on U.S. Highway 90 between Jennings and Mermentau, in Jefferson Davis Parish.  Only oldest daughter Yvette, married at the time, remained in her line of the family. 

Olivier le jeune's fourth and youngest son Zéphirin married Célestine, daughter of Alexandre Delhomme and Delphine Bergeron, a Creole, not an Acadian, at the Vermilionville church in July 1855.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Alexandre Olivier le jeune in May 1856; Sydalise Ophelia in April 1859; Louis Didier in c1860 but died at age 2 in December 1862; Jean Didier born in July 1861; Marie Elisca in August 1864; Evariste in October 1866; ...  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted four slaves--three males and a female, all black, ranging in age from 55 to 13, living in one house--on Ziphirin Boudreaux's farm.  During the War of 1861-65, Zéphirin, in his early 30s, served as a corporal in Company A of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. James Parish, which fought in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana, and as a private in Company A of the Consolidated 18th Regiment and Yellow Jacket Battalion Infantry, which fought in Louisiana.  He may have been a conscript.  A daughter was born in August 1864 when Zéphirin was with his unit in the Red River valley.  As the birth of one of his sons attests, Zéphirin survived the war and returned to his family.  He is buried in St. John the Evangelist Catholic Cemetery, behind the cathedral in Lafayette, formerly Vermilionville.

Joseph (?-?) à ? à Michel Boudreaux

Joseph, son of perhaps Joseph Boudrot and Anne Blanchard, may have been born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, before the Acadian Grand Dérangement.  He may have been the Joseph Boudrot who appeared on the French repatriation list of Acadian exiles at Halifax, Nova Scotia, in August 1763 with an unnamed wife and no children, as well as the Joseph Boudrot on the list of Acadians in Nicolas Verret's company of militia at Cabahannocer in April 1766.  If this was him, he would have come to Louisiana in 1765 from Halifax via Cap-Français.  With him at Cabahannocer in April 1766 was an unnamed wife and unnamed girl.  He may have been the Joseph Boudreaux who married, or remarried to, Marie-Rose, called Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Babin and Osite LeBlanc and widow of Benjamin LeBlanc, at Ascension on the river in May 1806.  One wonders what became of him and if he fathered any sons. 

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In July 1767, Marie, daughter of Benjamin Boudrot and Cécile Melanson, a native of Maryland, was a young orphan when she reached Louisiana from Baltimore with a family of Richards.  She followed them to the new Acadian community of San Gabriel on the river south of Bayou Manchac.  She married cousin Amand, son of fellow Acadians Paul Hébert and Marguerite-Josèphe Melanson, at San Gabriel nine years later, helped create a large famliy there, and died at St. Gabriel in her 90s.  Two of her grandsons, Paul Octave and Louis Hébert, first cousins, graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, Paul Octave first in his class.  He became an engineer and was elected governor of Louisiana in the early 1850s.  Paul Octave and cousin Louis served Louisiana and the Confederate States of America as brigadier generals during the War of 1861-65. 

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In February 1768, three more Boudrots--a young orphan and two wives who were sisters--reached Louisiana from Port Tobacco, Maryland, and were compelled by Spanish Governor Ulloa to settle at Fort San Luìs de Natchez on the river far above Baton Rouge.  After the Spanish released the Acadians from the distant post in 1769, the young Boudrot joined his cousins on the western prairies and created a vigorous line there: 

Augustin dit Rémi (c1755-1830) à Jean-Baptiste à Charles à Michel Boudreaux

Augustin dit Rémi, younger son of perhaps Pierre Boudrot and Anne Hébert, born probably at Pigiguit in c1755, was taken by his widowed mother to Maryland soon after his birth.  In July 1763, when he would have been age 8, he was living with the family of Jean-Charles Breau at Port Tobacco, Maryland, on the lower Potomac and was described as an orphan.  When he was age 13, he followed the Breaus to Louisiana in February 1768.  From New Orleans, he followed them to Fort San Luìs de Natchez, far up the Mississippi in what is now Concordia Parish, but, like the rest of his fellow Acadians who Governor Ulloa sent there, did not remain.  When the Spanish released the Acadians from the isolated settlement in 1769, the young orphan left the river and moved to the Attakapas District, where he married Judith-Philippe, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Martin and Rosalie Trahan, in c1777.  In the early 1800s, the couple were living at "Arcoquisson," which may have been Calcasieu at the western edge of the Opelousas District.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Pierre in January 1779; Augustin, fils in April 1782; Jean dit Rémi, also called Arsène, baptized at Attakapas, age 2 months, in May 1784; Anne born in May 1786; Benjamin in April 1789, baptized at home, and then by an Opelousas priest in June 1794; Marguerite born in February 1793 but died at age 19 in January 1813; and Eliza in the late 1790s or early 1800s--seven children, four sons and three daughters, between 1779 and the early 1800s.  Augustin dit Rémi, at age 60, remarried to fellow Maryland exile and cousin Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Benoit and Susanne Boudreaux and widow of Amand Martin and André Favron, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in July 1815.  She gave him no more children.  Augustin dit Rémi died in St. Landry Parish in June 1830.  The Opelousas priest who recorded the burial said that Rémi was age 85 when he died.  He likely was in his mid- or late 70s.  His successions were filed at the Opelousas courthouse in August 1822 and October 1830.  Daughters Anne and Eliza, by his first wife, married into the Boone and Prejean families.  Three of Augustin dit Rémi's sons also married, but one of the lines may not have endured. 

Second son Augustin, fils, by first wife Judith Martin, married Françoise, daughter of Michel Ritter and Marie Louise Stelly, at Opelousas in August 1805.  They settled on the upper Vermilion near the boundary of what became St. Landry and St. Martin parishes.  Their children, born there, included Adélaïde in January 1808; Marie Céleste in September 1809; Augustin III baptized at Opelousas, age 8 months, in October 1811; Evariste born in September 1813; Louise, perhaps also called Éliza and Élisa, in July 1816; Marie Modeste in April 1818; Françoise in April 1820; Joseph baptized at Grand Coteau, age 6 months, in November 1822; Onésime, called Onésime A., born in March 1824; and Treville in June 1826--10 children, five daughters and five sons, between 1808 and 1826.  Augustin, fils died in St. Landry Parish in February 1835, age 53.  His succession, naming his widow, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in March.  In October 1850, the federal census taker in St. Landry Parish counted 40 slaves--19 males and 21 females, all black except for two mulattoes, ranging in age from 60 years to 6 months--on Widow Augn Boudreau's plantation; these probably were Françoise Ritter's slaves.  Her and Augustin, fils's daughters Marie Céleste, Adélaïde, Élisa or Éliza, Marie, probably Marie Modeste, and Françoise married into the Savoie, Burleigh, Prejean, Caruthers, Richard, Robin, Stelly, and Miller families.  Augustin, fils's five sons also married and settled near Grand Coteau, but not all of the lines endured.  A grandson settled near Church Point on upper Bayou Plaquemine Brûlé. 

Oldest son Augustin III married Sarah, daughter of Robert Burleigh and Marie Teller, at the Grand Coteau church in February 1832; Sarah's brother had married one of Augustin III's sisters.  Augustin III died near Grand Coteau in February 1847.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Augustin died "at age 40 yrs."  He was 36.  His succession may have been filed at the Opelousas courthouse in May 1850.  His family line may have died with him.  In October 1850, the federal census taker in St. Landry Parish counted five slaves on Widow A. Boudreaux, Jr.'s farm next to William Burleigh near Grand Coteau; these probably were Sarah Burleigh's slaves.   

Augustin, fils's second son Evariste married first cousin Marie Arsènne, called Arsènne, daughter of Jean dit Rémi Boudreaux and Marguerite Caruthers, his uncle and aunt, at the Grand Coteau church in April 1835.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Marie Alvarie or Amélie in November 1835; and Evariste Jean in October 1837.  Evariste, père died near Grand Coteau in August 1839, age 26.  His succession, naming his wife and her second husband, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in May 1841, the same month that widow Marie Arsènne remarried to Anglo-American William Fisher at Grand Coteau.  Daughter Marie Amélie married into the the Thibodeaux family.  Evariste's son also married.

Only son Evariste Jean married Marie Ozea, called Ozea, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Benoit and Marcellite Lebert, at the Grand Coteau church in January 1860.  They settled near Church Point on upper Bayou Plaquemine Brûlé, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish.  Their children, born there, included Jean in December 1860; Marcelite in May 1864; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Evariste Jean served in Company K of the 29th (Thomas's) Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Landry Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  A daughter was born in May 1864 while Evariste Jean was at home waiting for the exchange of his regiment, which had been captured at Vicksburg the previous summer.  Evariste Jean died near Church Point in June 1868.  The Grand Coteau priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Evariste died "at age 28 yrs."  Evariste Jean would have been age 30.  One wonders if his early death was war-related.  His succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in March 1869.

Augustin, fils's third son Joseph married Joséphine Marks at the Grand Coteau church in January 1842.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Joseph, fils baptized, age unrecorded, in November 1843 but died 10 days after his birth; Madeleine Célina or Célima, called Célima, born in November 1844; Marie Améline in May 1846; Marie Élodie in March 1848; Marie Eliska in April 1849; and Joseph Edgar, called Edgar, in August 1850--six children, two sons and four daughters, between 1843 and 1850.  In October 1850, the federal census taker in St. Landry Parish counted six slaves--four males and two females, all blacks, ranging in age from 60 to 2--on Joseph Boudreau's farm.  One wonders if this was Joseph, son of Augustin, fils.  In 1860, the federal census taker in St. Landry Parish counted five slaves--three males and two females, all black, ages 60 to 13--on Joseph Bodreau's farm.  This probably was the same fellow who held the six slaves a decade earlier.  Daughters Célima, ... married into the Darby, Bertinot, and Boutte families by 1870.  Joseph's remaining son did not marry by then. 

Augustin, fils's fourth son Onésime A. married Joséphine, daughter of Alexandre Castille and Joséphine Stelly, at the Grand Coteau church in October 1845.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Josette Alvina, called Alvina, in September 1846; and Onésime A., fils in August 1850 but died at age 7 in October 1857.  In October 1850, the federal census taker in St. Landry Parish counted 13 slaves--11 males and two females, all black, ranging in age from 50 to 15--held by Onézime Boudreau & Co.  This may have been Onésime A., who died near Grand Coteau in May 1854, age 30 (the recording priest said 29).  His succession, calling him Onézime A. and naming his wife, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse the following month.   Daughter Alvina married into the Mouton family.   Except for its blood, this family line likely did not endure. 

Augustin, fils's fifth and youngest son Treville married Marie Azéma, called Azéma, Marks at the Grand Coteau church in August 1846.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Treville, fils in July 1847; Françoise Adélaïde in October 1848; an unnamed child in late 1848 but died at age 3 months in February 1849; Alida born in September 1850; Ernest in December 1853 but died at age 7 1/2 in April 1861; Alberd born in August 1855; Félix in April 1857; and Aurore in January 1859 but died at age 1 1/2 in April 1860--eight children, at least four sons and three daughters, between 1847 and 1859.  Treville died near Grand Coteau in August 1860.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Treville died "at age 31 yrs."  He was 34.  His succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in October.  Daughter Alida married into the Stelly family by 1870.  At least one of Treville's sons may have married by then.

Oldest son Treville, fils may have married Victoria Dwyer, place and date unrecorded.  Their son Adam was born near Breaux Bridge, St. Martin Parish, in June 1868; ... 

Augustin dit Rémi's third son Jean dit Rémi, by first wife Judith Martin, married Marguerite, daughter of William Caruthers and Elizabeth Bickham of North Carolina and New Jersey, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in September 1806.  They settled east of Carencro and south of Grand Coteau in an area along the upper Vermilion the Acadians called Beaubassin.  Their children, born there, included Marguerite Arthémise in June 1807; Marie Adélaïde in July 1808; a child, name unrecorded, died at age 1 month in June 1810; Jean Symphorien, called Symphorien and also Cyprien, born in May 1811; Marie Arsènne, called Arsènne, in February 1812; Julien in January 1815; Éloyse or Éloise in October 1816; Pierre Onésime, called Onésime, in December 1818; Joseph Dupréville in April 1821 but, called Dupréville, may have died near Grand Coteau, age 20 (the recording priest said 30), in August 1841; Marie Clarisse born in September 1824 but died at age 2 in August 1826; and Émilie, perhaps also called Émelina, perhaps their daughter, born in April 1839--11 children, at least six daughters and four sons, between 1807 and 1839.  Jean dit Rémi died near Grand Coteau in December 1841.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Jean died "at age 55 yrs."  He was 57.  His succession, naming his wife, had been filed at the Opelousas courthouse the previous January, along with his wife's.  Daughters Marie Adélaïde, Marguerite, Arsènne, and Émelina married into the Richard, Boudreaux, and Fisher families, including two Richard brothers, one of them, Arsènne, twice, and the youngest sister perhaps into the Robin family as well.  Two of Jean dit Rémi's sons also married and settled near Grand Coteau.  His oldest son's line was especially vigorous. 

Oldest son Jean Symphorien, also called Cyprien, married Marie or Mary, daughter of Robert Burleigh and Marie Teller, at the Grand Coteau church in December 1832.  Their children, born on the prairie, included Dupréville in October 1833; Damonville in December 1835; Clarisse in October 1837; Jean Syphroin or Symphorien born in September 1839; Joséphine in March 1841; John Raphaël, called Raphaël, in June 1842; Joseph Lichy in October 1843; Mathilda in June 1845; Élisabeth in July 1846; Marie Penelope Sylphroen in November 1847 but, called Penelope, died at age 1 1/2 in August 1849 (the recording priest at Grand Coteau, not noted for his sterling record keeping, said she was born on 14 November 1829!); Félix born in May 1849 but died in Lafayette Parish at age 15 (the recording priest said 14) in July 1864 (one wonders if his death was war-related); Marie Anna born in October 1850; John in January 1853; and Lorina near Church Point, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in June 1855--14 children, seven sons and seven daughters, between 1833 and 1855.  In 1860, the federal census taker in St. Landry Parish counted 10 slaves--five males and five females, all black, ranging in age from 50 to 1, living in two houses--on Symphorien Boudreau's farm.  Daughters ... married into the Ledoux and McClelland families by 1870.  Two of Symphorien's sons also married by then. 

Second son Damonville married Éliza or Élila E. Jones or Johns in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in May 1860.  They settled near Church Point.  Their children, born there, included Lulla Gertrude in May 1861; Marie in March 1863; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Damonville served in Company K of the 3rd (Harrison's) Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, originally called the Prairie Rangers, raised in St. Landry Parish, which fought in Louisiana and southern Arkansas.  The Prairie Rangers were, in fact, the headquarters guard for Major General Richard Taylor, commander of Confederate forces in South Louisiana during the last two years of the war.  A daughter was born to trooper Damonville in March 1863, when he was with his company.  He survived the war, returned to his family, and remarried to Célestine, daughter of fellow Acadians Augustin Jeansonne, fils and Céleste Pitre, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in February 1869. ...

During the war, Symphorien's fourth son Raphaël served in Company B of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Landry Parish, which fought in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana, and as a corporal in Company F of the Consolidated 18th Regiment and Yellow Jacket Battalion Infantry, which fought in Louisiana.  Raphaël enlisted in the 18th Louisiana at Camp Moore in May 1861, served on detached service as a pioneer in the spring of 1862, and was captured at Alexandria, Louisiana, in May 1863.  The Federals held him briefly, releasing him at Grant's Island, near Mobile, Alabama, later in the month.  He also survived the war and married Corinne, daughter of fellow Acadians François Louis Pitre and Félicia Pitre, at the Opelousas church in December 1868.  They settled near Washington, north of Opelousas.  Their son Francis Thomas was born in September 1869; ...  

Jean dit Rémi's second son Julien was supposed to have married Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadians André Préjean and Joséphine Breaux, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, on 2 July 1838, but the wedding did not take place.  Julien died near Grand Coteau three days later, age 23, evidently too ill to attend the ceremony.  His succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in August. 

Jean dit Rémi's third son Pierre Onésime, called Onésime, married Marie Mélicère or Melissa, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Savoie and Modeste Préjean, at the Grand Coteau church in May 1837.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Joseph Émile baptized, age unrecorded, in April 1838; and Marie, perhaps theirs, died near Grand Coteau age unrecorded, in September 1839.  In October 1850, the federal census taker in St. Landry Parish counted 13 slaves--11 males and two females, all black, ranging in age from 50 to 15--held by Onézime Boudreau & Co.  One wonders if this was him and not a cousin.  In 1860, the federal census taker in St. Landry Parish counted two slaves--a 26-year-old black male, and an 8-year-old black female--on Onejime Boudreau's farm.  His son did not marry by 1870. 

Augustin dit Rémi's fourth and youngest son Benjamin, by first wife Judith Martin, married Irène, daughter of Philippe Lacase and Geneviève Carrière, at the Opelousas church in February 1817.  Irène was from Bois Mallet near present-day Eunice, St. Landry Parish.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Benjamin, fils in March 1812; and twins Benjamin, fils, the second with the name, and Judique or Judith in October 1817.  Irène died after giving birth to the twins.  Benjamin, père remarried to stepsister and cousin Céleste, daughter of André Favron and his Acadian wife Madeleine Benoit, probably in St. Landry Parish in c1818; Céleste's mother was Benjamin's father's second wife.  Son Louis was born in St. Landry Parish in August 1818--four children, three sons and a daughter, by two wives, between 1812 and 1818.  Benjamin, père's succession, listing his first wife, called Erine Lacaze by the parsh clerk, and his children--Benjamin and Judique--but not his second wife, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in December 1822.  He would have been age 33 that year.  Daughter Judith, by his first wife, married into the Guilbert family.  One wonders if any of his sons married. 

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A Boudrot came to Louisiana perhaps from Maryland by the late 1760s and settled on the river, but no lasting family line came of it:

Augustin (1740s?-1770s) à Claude à Michel Boudreaux

Augustin, son of Pierre Boudrot and his first wife Marie Doiron, born at Minas or Pigiguit probably in the 1740s, may have become separated from his family before they moved on to Île St.-Jean in 1750, or perhaps he went there with them but returned to the Minas Basin before August 1752, when they were counted at Rivière-du-Moulin-à-Sci in the island's interior.  One wonders what was his fate during Le Grand Dérangment.  He first appears in Louisiana records in January 1771, when he married Osite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Hébert and Marguerite Landry and widow of Alexandre Melanson, at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  Osite had come to Louisiana from Maryland in 1766, a widow with six of her Melanson children.  Augustin died by January 1777, when his wife was listed in a Cabahannocer census with four of her Melanson children but no husband.  One wonders if Augustin fathered any children of his own. 

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The great majority of Boudrots who came to Louisiana--at least 86 of them in over 20 families--did so aboard every one of the Seven Ships from France in 1785.  Many settled on the river above New Orleans, where their cousins already had gone.  Others went to the western prairies, where Boudrots also had settled.  Most chose to follow their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where they created a third, even larger, center of Boudrot family settlement--one of the largest concentrations of an Acadian family in all of South Louisiana.

Eleven Boudrots--a wife, two widows, a female orphan, and three families--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.  Two robust family lines came of it on the river, Bayou Lafourche, and lower Bayou Teche:  

Jean-Baptiste (c1753-1832) à François à Charles à Michel Boudreaux

Jean-Baptiste, son of Alexandre Boudrot and Marie-Madeleine Vincent, born probably at Minas in c1753, was deported with his family to Virginia in the fall of 1755 and to England the following spring.  His father died at Bristol, England, in August 1756, perhaps of smallpox, not long after his family's arrival.  His mother remarried to fellow Acadian Joseph Breau, with whom she had another son, Joseph Breau, fils, in 1761.  In May 1763, when Jean-Baptiste was age 10, he, his mother, once again a widow, and his stepbrother, age 2, were repatriated to St.-Malo, France, aboard La Dorothée.  They settled at St.-Suliac on the east side of the Rance south of St.-Malo, where Jean-Baptiste became a sailor.  He nevertheless followed other exiles in the coastal cities to the interior of Poitou in 1773 and married Marie-Modeste, called Modeste, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Trahan and Anne Thériot, at Châtellerault in October 1774.  Marie-Modeste gave Jean-Baptiste a son, Jean-Baptiste, fils, born in St.-Jean l'Evangeliste Parish, Châtellerault, in September 1775, but the boy died nine days later.  In December 1775, after two years of effort, Jean-Baptiste and his wife retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes, where, in St.-Similien Parish, she gave him four more children:  Marie-Félicité born in February 1777; Jean-Constant, called Constant, in November 1778; François-Marie in February 1781 but died at age 1 1/2 in September 1782; and Marguerite-Marie or Marie-Marguerite born in March 1783--five children, three sons and two daughters, between 1775 and 1783.  In 1785, Jean-Baptiste, Marie-Modeste, and their three remaining children, a son and two daughters, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana aboard the first of the Seven Ships.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to Manchac south of Baton Rouge, where Marie-Modeste died later that year.  Jean-Baptiste, in his early 30s, remarried to Anne-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Henry and his first wife Marie-Madeleine Pitre of l'Assomption, Pigiguit, and widow of Théodore Thériot, at Baton Rouge in February 1786.  Anne-Josèphe had been deported to France from Île St.-Jean, not from England, and had come to Louisiana on one of the later Seven Ships.  Spanish authorities counted Jean-Baptiste's family at Baton Rouge in the summer of 1788 and again in November 1792.  By January 1798, however, they had joined the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Anne-Josèphe gave Jean-Baptiste no more children.  Jean-Baptiste died in Lafourche Interior Parish in June or July 1832, age 79.  Daughters Marie-Félicité and Marguerite-Marie, by his first wife, married into the Henry, Aucoin, and Dubois families.  His remaining son married and had a son of his own before dying young.  The grandson created a vigorous line in Assumption, Lafourche Interior, and Terrebonne parishes.

Second son Jean-Constant, by first wife Marie-Modeste Trahan, followed his family to Manchac and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Ursule, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Henry and Marie Bernard, in April 1800.  Ursule, also a native of France, had come to Louisiana aboard a later vessel.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Evariste-Joseph in August 1801; and Léocade Théotiste in the early 1800s.  Jean Constant died by January 1813, when his wife remarried in Assumption Parish.  Daughter Léocade married into the Lauzet or Losefeille and Lagneaux families.  Jean Constant's son also married and settled on the upper Lafourche.

Only son Evariste Joseph married Hortense Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Mathurin Hébert and Marie Bourg, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in March 1824.  They settled on the upper bayou near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Ulisse or Ulysse Jean in January 1825; Neville Evariste in September 1826 but, called Neuville, died at age 3 1/2 (the recording priest said 4) in March 1830; twins Jean Joseph and Marie Eugénie born in December 1830, but Marie died at age 22 in September 1853; Tresimond or Trasimond R. born in January 1838; and Osémé Evariste in March 1845--six children, five sons and a daughter, including a set of twins, between 1825 and 1845.  Evariste Joseph's daughter did not marry, but his remaining sons did and settled in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley.  Two of them moved on to lower Bayou Teche after the War of 1861-65.

Oldest son Ulysse married cousin Émelie, Émeline, or Amelia Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Martin Hébert and Mathilde Dubois of Terrebonne Parish, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in February 1855.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish and on the lower Teche, included Marie Angelina in April 1857; Pierre Oscar in June 1859; Wilfred Victor in July 1861; Philippe Léonie in June 1863; Euclide near Lydia, Iberville Parish, in November 1868; ...  None of Ulysses's children married by 1870. 

Evariste Joseph's third son Jean Joseph married cousin Louise, daughter of fellow Acadian Cyrille Mathurin Hébert and his Creole wife Céleste Percle, at the Thibodaux church in January 1855.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Philomène in December 1855; Jules Joseph in April 1857; Martin Oscar in February 1863 but, called Oscar Martin, died the following September; Désiré Trasimond born in July 1865; ...  None of Jean Joseph's children married by 1870. 

Evariste Joseph's fourth son Trasimond R. married Letitia, daughter of Jean Gauchy or Gouchy and Angélique Berthelotte, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in September 1863.  Their children, born near Labadieville, included Émelie Dolia in July 1864; Alice in July 1867; Athenois Julie in July 1870; ...

Evariste Joseph's fifth and youngest son Osémé married cousin Julie, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Boudreaux and his Creole wife Adèle Fremin, at the Labadieville church in April 1866.  They moved to Iberia Parish on lower Bayou Teche.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche and near New Iberia, included Malvina Angela near Labadieville in April 1867; Pierre near New Iberia in February 1869; ... 

Paul-Marie (1771-1846) à François à Claude à Michel Boudreaux

Paul-Marie, son of Joseph-François Boudrot, fils and his second wife Euphrosine Barrieau, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, near St.-Malo, France, in October 1771, followed his family to Poitou and Nantes and his mother, stepfather Charles Broussard, and four half-siblings to New Orleans and Manchac.  In the early 1790s, he followed his once-again widowed mother to upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Élisabeth/Isabelle-Modeste, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Pitre and Anne Henry, in September 1794.  Élisabeth, a native of Pleurtuit on the west side of Rivière Rance south of St.-Servan, had come to Louisiana aboard a later ship.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Isabelle-Euphrosine or Euphrosine-Élisabeth in March 1795; Jean-Baptiste-Arthur-, Artulien, -Arturien, -Tertulien, -Tertullien, or -Vertulien in c1797; Joseph-Paul in April 1799; Marguerite-Carmélite in July 1801; Eléonore-Scholastique in July 1803; and Marie Adèle in February 1813--six children, four daughters and two sons, between 1795 and 1813.  Paul Marie died in Lafourche Interior Parish in September 1846, age 75, a widower.  Daughters Euphrosine Isabelle, Marguerite Carmélite, and Eléonore married into the Thibodeaux, Naquin, and Aucoin families.  Only one of Paul Marie's sons married.  He settled on the upper Lafourche and created a vigorous line there. 

Older son Jean Baptiste Tertulien married cousin Émilie Marie or Marie Émilie, also called Amelia, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Boudreaux and Ursule Olivie Doiron, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in October 1817.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Élisabeth dite Élise in November 1818; Joseph Paul or Paul Joseph  in March 1820; Pauline Olive in February 1821; Jean Baptiste Ermogène or Hermogène, called Hermogène, in June 1822; Bazile or Basile David in April 1824; Marie Adèlle in August 1825 but died at age 2 1/2 (the recording priest said 3) in January 1828; Drausin born in the 1820s; Honoré or Neuville Constant, called Constant, in February 1827; Jean Baptiste, also called J. C., in April 1828; Dalmace Drosine in December 1830; Moysse or Moïse died two days after his birth in February 1832; Paul Eugène, called Eugène, born in September 1833; Édouard in January 1835; Victor Zéphirin in July 1837; Victoire Eugénise or Eugénie, called Eugénie, in January 1838[sic]; twins Evelina and Louis Orestile, called Orestile, in May 1839, but Evelina died at age 3 in October 1842; Matilde Evelina born in January 1841; Jean Émile, called Émile, in May 1842; and Marie Eveline, perhaps theirs, in March 1844--20 children, seven daughters and 13 sons, including a set of twins, between 1818 and 1841.  Jean Baptiste Tertulien died near Labadieville, Assumption Parish, "after receiving the sacraments," in September 1867.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Paul Tertulien, as he called him, died at "age 72 years."  Jean Baptiste Tertulien would have been a few years younger.  Daughters Élise, ... married into the Guillot, Bourg, Calligan, Gros, and Thibodeaux families by 1870.  Eleven of Jean Baptiste Tertulien's sons also married by then, but not all of the lines endured.  Two of them moved to Bayou Teche after the War of 1861-65, but most of them remained on Bayou Lafourche. 

Oldest son Joseph Paul or Paul Joseph married Théotiste Marie, daughter of Jacques Morillon and his Acadian wife Constance Naquin, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in January 1842.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joséphine, age unrecorded, died in July 1843; Adam Merville or Melvin born in October 1844; Jean Baptiste Émile in August 1846; Vincent Augustin in June 1849; Ernest Théogène in February 1852 but died at age 3 1/2 in November 1855; Marie Eve born in November 1852; Eve Lucinda in October 1854; Pierre Justilien in June 1857; and Marie Émilie in December 1860--nine children, four daughters and five sons, between 1842 and 1860.  None of Joseph Paul's daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did.

Oldest son Adam married Cécilia, daughter of Domingo Falcon and Augustine Hidalgo of Lafourche Parish, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in May 1869; the marriage was recorded also in Lafourche Parish.  Daughter Marie Letitia was born in Lafourche Parish in May 1870; ...

Jean Baptiste Tertulien's second son Jean Baptiste Hermogène, called Hermogène, married Céleste, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Amand Lejeune and Clémentine LeBlanc of Terrebonne Parish, at the Thibodaux church in July 1845.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Pierre Théophile died the day after his birth in June 1845 or 1846; Marie Eve or Evelina, called Evelina, born in October 1848; Joseph Alfred in March 1850; Joseph Cletus in April 1852; Émelia Pauline in February 1854; Jean Aurelius in January 1857; Augustin Aubaune in September 1860; and Eulalie, perhaps theirs, in c1861 but died at age 1 in October 1862--eight children, five sons and three daughters, between 1845 and 1861.  Daughter Evelina married into the Roundtree family by 1870.  None of Hermogène's sons married by then. 

Jean Baptiste Tertulien's third son Basile David married Élodie Marie or Marie Élodie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Marie Bourg and and his first wife Carmélite Thibodeaux, at the Thibodaux church in January 1851.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes, included Eve Evelina dite Velina in November 1851; Basile Adam Edgar, called Edgar, in June 1853; Rose Azéma, called Azéma, in August 1854; Jean Baptiste, also called Volcar, in November 1855; Marie or Mary Rosela in November 1857; Rosela or Robela Osea in January 1859; Eugénie Oliva in February 1861; Victorine Victoria in June 1862; Joséphine Émelie in October 1863; Evela Angela in July 1866; ...  None of Basile's children married by 1870. 

Jean Baptiste Tertulien's fourth son Drausin married Azélie, another daughter of Jean Baptiste Bourg and Carmélite Thibodeaux, at the Thibodaux church in January 1851.  Did they have any children?

Jean Baptiste Tertulien's fifth son Honoré or Neuville Constant, called Constant, married Azélie Adèle, daughter of Joseph Albert and his Acadian wife Rosalie Thibodeaux, at the Thibodaux church in May 1848.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Jean Baptiste Joseph near Paincourtville in August 1850; Neuville Adam in February 1852; Philomena Victor, probably a daughter, in May 1854; Lovinci Amédée in October 1855; Joseph Desedoin in November 1857; Jean Delphy Neuville in July 1859; and Numa in June 1861--seven children, six sons and a daughter, between 1850 and 1861.  In August 1860, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted a single slave--a 40-year-old mulatto male--on Neuville Boudreaux's farm in the parish's Sixth Ward on Bayou Lafourche.  One wonders if this was Neuville Constant.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Jean Baptiste Tertulien's sixth son Jean Baptiste, also called J. C., married Marie Chantale, another daughter of Jacques Morillon and Constance Naquin, at the Thibodaux church in June 1848.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Louis Adolphe in April 1849; Joseph in October 1850 but, called Joseph Vincent, died in Lafourche Interior Parish the following December; Paul Henison born in November 1854; Philomène Adela in July 1857; Léandre Myrtil in February 1860 but, called Myrtil, died near New Iberia, on lower Bayou Teche, age 8, in July 1868; Eugénie born in December 1861; Désiré Edgar in May 1864; ...  As the death of one of his sons reveals, Jean Baptiste moved his family to lower Bayou Teche after the War of 1861-65.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Jean Baptiste Tertulien's eighth son Paul Eugène, called Eugène, married Marie Elisida, called Lezida, daughter of fellow Acadian Alexandre Hébert and his Creole wife Arthémise Exnicios, at the Labadieville church in September 1855; the marriage also was recorded in Lafourche Parish.  Did they have any children? 

Jean Baptiste Tertulien's ninth son Édouard married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Basile Dugas and Clarisse Robichaux, at the Thibodaux church in January 1863.  They lived on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Lafourche and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born near Labadieville, included Mirtilia Émelie Roséma in November 1863; Elda Élodie in October 1865; Marie Elida in August 1868; ...

Jean Baptiste Tertulien's tenth son Victor Zéphirin married Elmire, daughter of Valsin Vaise and Caroline Junot, at the Labadieville church in April 1861.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Victoria in July 1862; Apollinaire Placide in October 1864; ...  They were living near Breaux Bridge, St. Martin Parish, on upper Bayou Teche, in the late 1860s. 

Jean Baptiste Tertulien's eleventh son Louis Orestile, called Orestile, married Marie, daughter of Jean Pierre Gros and his Acadian wife Céleste Hébert, at the Labadieville church in February 1861.  Their children, born on the Lafourche and in Terrebonne Parish, included Marie Paumela Athelesia near Labadieville in January 1862; Meril Joseph Barthélémy in August 1864; Émilien Andressi in Terrebonne Parish in May 1869; ... 

Jean Baptiste Tertulien's twelfth and youngest son Jean Émile, called Émile, married cousin Emma, daughter of fellow Acadians Neuville Boudreaux and Azélie Dugas, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in June 1866, and sanctified the marriage at the Labadieville church in June 1870.  They settled on the river near the boundary between Lafourche and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Aimée Angélique in December 1866; Léonce Adolphe in February 1870; ...

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Five more Boudrots--a wife, a widow with a half-brother, and two unmarried members of the family with their widowed mother--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.  Another vigorous family line came of it on the western prairies:

Joseph (1767-1838) à Denis à Charles à Michel Boudreaux

Joseph, son of Charles Boudrot and his second wife Marie-Madeleine Bourgeois, born posthumously at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, near St.-Malo, France, in May 1767, followed his mother and stepfather to Nantes and his older half-sister Cécile, widow of Charles Richard, to Spanish Louisiana.  From New Orleans, Joseph (called Jean for some reason on the ship's embarkation list) followed his sister to Ascension on the upper Lafourche, but he did not remain.  During the late 1780s or early 1790s, he crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to the Attakapas District, where he married Élisabeth- or Isabelle-Apolline, called Apolline and Zabelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Trahan and Marguerite Doiron, in November 1792.  Isabelle, a native of Belle-Île-en-Mer, had come to Louisiana from France aboard a later ship.  She and Joseph settled at the northern edge of the Attakapas District.  Their children, born there, included Scholastique in 1794 and baptized, age 10 months, in May 1795; Joseph, fils born in February 1796; Marie in c1797 but died age 2 1/2 in September 1800; twins Marie-Euphémie and Philemon dit Edmond, also called Aimond, Aymond, Emon, Emond, and Euphémon, born in April 1798; Pélagie in March 1800; Anne-Adélaïde, called Adélaïde, in April 1802; Anastasie in October 1803; and François in October 1807--nine children, six daughters and three sons, between 1794 and 1807.  A succesion for wife Isabelle Pauline was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in July 1835, a month after her death at age 68.  Joseph died near Vermilionville, Lafayette Parish, in December 1838.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph was age 68 when he died.  He was 71.  Daughters Scholastique, Pélagie, and Adélaïde married into the Landry and Simon families, two of them to Simon brothers whose sisters married two of their brothers, and daughter Anastasie may have married a Sellers.  Joseph's three sons also married and settled in Lafayette Parish, but one of them moved to the New Iberia area on the lower Teche, then in St. Martin Parish.  Some of his grandsons settled in Vermilion Parish. 

Oldest son Joseph, fils married Ismène, Lisemaine, Lismène, or Lise Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians François Labauve and Éloise Hébert, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in May 1815.  They settled on the upper Vermilion near present-day Lafayette.  Their children, born there, included Joseph III in March 1816; Marie Célanie or Céranie in October 1817; François Rosémond, called Rosémond, in July 1819; Jean Clairville, called Clairville, in August 1821; Éloise or Louise in September 1823; Émile in 1825 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 11 months, in August 1826; Marie Lisemaine or Lismène born in December 1827; Seville in October 1829; Joséphine in December 1831; and Théodule in late 1833 and baptized at age 9 months in August 1834--10 children, six sons and four daughters, between 1816 and 1833.  Joseph, fils died in Lafayette Parish in April 1834.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph, fils was age 35 when he died.  He was 37.  His succession, calling him Joseph Jr. and calling his wife Lismène Labauve, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in July 1835.  Daughters Marie Céranie, Louise, Marie Lismène, and Joséphine married into the Thibodeaux, Bouquinet, and Desmarets families, and perhaps into the Broussard family as well.  Five of Joseph, fils's sons also married and settled in Lafayette Parish, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Joseph III married Marie Sylvanie, called Sylvanie, daughter of fellow Acadians François Bourg and Séraphie Landry, at the Vermilionville church in 1836.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Élisabeth, also called Marie Élizabeth, baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in August 1837; Cléopha baptized at age 3 months in July 1839 but died at age 4 1/2 in August 1843; Marie Félicia in the 1840s; Jules Désiré born in October 1850; Anatole in January 1852; and Louis Amédée in September 1854.  Joseph III remarried to Marie Eulalie, daughter of Joseph Nunez and Marie Tarsille Toups, at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in November 1856.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Joseph William in October 1858 but, called Martial, died at age 1 1/2 in February 1860; Albert born near Youngsville in September 1860 but died at age 8 months in May 1861; Adam born in April 1862; ...  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted eight slaves--five males and three females, all black, ranging in age from 40 to 11, living in three houses--on Joseph Boudreau's farm next to Widow Edmond Boudreaux.  Was this Joseph III?  If so, the widow next door would have been his aunt by marriage.  Daughters Marie Élizabeth and Marie Félicia, by his first wife, married into the Broussard and Seaon or Seeon families by 1870.  None of Joseph III's remaining sons married by then. 

Joseph, fils's second son François Rosémond, called Rosémond, married Angeline, daughter of fellow Acadian Felonise Hébert, at the Vermilionville church in March 1837.  The priest who recorded the marriage did not give Angeline's father's name.  She and François Rosémond evidently had no children.  Rosémond remarried to Élizabeth, daughter of Louis Lormand and Marie Fremaux, at the Vermilionville church in April 1842.  Their children, born in Lafayette and Vermilion parishes, included Marie in April 1844; François, also called François Dorcili, in August 1843 but, called Dorcili, died near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, age 10, in March 1854; Urulie born in September 1845; Natile in October 1847; Marie Irénée in June 1851; and Ursule in September 1853--six children, five daughters and a son, between 1844 and 1853.  Rosémond died near Abbeville in May 1854.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that François Rosémond died "at age 36 yrs."  He was 34.  Daughter ..., by his second wife, married into the Broussard family.  His only son did not survive childhood, so his family line, except for its blood, may have died with him. 

Joseph, fils's third son Jean Clairville, called Clairville, married Marcellite, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Hébert and Marie Eurasie Mire, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in April 1852.  Their son Louis was born near Abbeville in March 1853.  Jean Clairville remarried to Marie Anesia or Onesia, daughter of fellow Acadians Marcellin Dubois and Élise Mire, at the Vermilionville church in April 1856.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Jean Alcide in February 1857; Théodule near Abbeville in July 1858; ...  None of Clairville's sons married by 1870. 

Joseph, fils's fifth son Seville married Marie Lise, called Lise, daughter of fellow Acadians Valéry Broussard and Marguerite Landry, at the Vermilionville church in June 1849.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Valéry in March 1850; and Joseph le jeune perhaps posthumously in December 1851 but may have been the unnamed child who died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 1) in August 1853.  Seville's succession, perhaps post-mortem, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in December 1851.  He would have been age 22 that year.  Seville's remaining son did not marry by 1870. 

Joseph, fils's sixth and youngest son Théodule may have married ____, daughter of fellow Acadian Édouard Broussard, place and date unrecorded.  He may have been the Théodule Boudreaux who died "at the home of Mr. Edward Broussard, his father-in-law," near Abbeville in February 1854.  The priest who recorded the burial did not give Théodule's parents' names or his age at the time of his death.  Did he father any children? 

Joseph, père's second son Philemon dit Edmond, also called Euphémon, a twin, married Élisabeth or Isabelle, also called Zabelle, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Simon and his Acadian wife Marie Madeleine Aucoin of Grand Prairie, at the St. Martinville church in January 1821; two of Élisabeth's brothers married two of Edmond's sisters.  Edmond and Élisabeth settled on the upper Vermilion in what soon came to be Lafayette Parish.  Their children, born there, included Anastasie, also called Aspasie, in January 1822; Melonie or Melopose, evidently Béloni, also called Honoré, in March 1824; Carmengille or Carmezile in 1826 and baptized at age 7 1/2 in June 1827 but died before August 1850, when she was not counted with her family in the Lafayette Parish federal census; Carmélite born in October 1828; Cidalise or Sidalise in December 1830; Élisabeth in October 1833; Célina, also called Oliva, in late 1835 and baptized at age 7 months in June 1836 but died at age 15 months in March 1837; Edmond, fils baptized at age 6 months in June 1838; Célima or Sélima born in December 1840; Sevènne in May 1843 but died at age 14 1/2 (the recording priest said 13) in March 1858; Marie Natalia or Natilia, called Natalia, born in November 1846; and Sosthène in July 1849--a dozen children, seven daughters and five sons, between 1822 and 1849.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted three slaves--two males and a female, all black, ages 24, 18, and 16--on Edmond Boudreau's farm not far from François Boudreau in the parish's western district.  Philemon dit Edmond died in Lafayette Parish in February 1853.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Emond, as he called him, died "at age 50 yrs."  He was 54.  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse that month.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted a single slave--an 18-year-old black female, on Widow Edmond Boudreaux's farm next to Joseph Boudreau; this was Isabelle Simon's slave.  The Joseph Boudreaux next door probably was her nephew by marriage.  Edmond and Isabelle's daughters Aspasie, Carmélite, Sidalise, Élisabeth, Sélima, and Natalia married into the Trahan, Thibodeaux, Bourg, and Hébert families, four of them to Hébert brothers, one of them, Sidalise, to two of the brothers, by 1870.  Two of Edmond's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Béloni, also called Honoré, at age 21, married Eugénie, also called Arminie, 14-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Trahan and his Anglo-Creole wife Marie Marcellite Sellers, at the Vermilionville church in July 1843.  They settled near Youngsville, Lafayette Parish.  Their children, born there, included Nicolas in April 1847; Marie Armeine in July 1849; Marie Azéma in September 1851; François in July 1854; Jules in September 1856; Albert in March 1859; Jean Baptiste in January 1863; ...  Béloni's succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in June 1868.  He would have been age 44 years that year.  Daughters ... married into the Broussard and Hébert families by 1870.  One of Béloni's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Nicolas married cousin Louisianaise, daughter of Manuel Armentor and his Acadian wife Méranthe Trahan, at the Youngsville church in September 1867.  Their son Cléopha was born near Youngsville in May 1870; ...

Philemon dit Edmond's second son Edmond, fils married fellow Acadian Belzire Thibodeaux at the Abbeville church in February 1858.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Edmond Duplessis near Youngsville in November 1858; Arthur near Abbeville in April 1860; Alphée in January 1862; Azéna Doralise in May 1863; ... 

Joseph, père's third and youngest son François married Marguerite, another daughter of Jean Baptiste Simon and Marie-Madeleine Aucoin, at the Vermilionville church in December 1824.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish and on the lower Teche, included Maximiliènne, a daughter, in August 1825; Siphorien or Symphorien baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 4 months and 20 days, in October 1827; Marcelite born in August 1829; Azéma in January 1831; Oliva in October 1832; Marguerite in November 1834; Célima baptized age 2 months in December 1836 but, called Célina, died at age 10 months in August 1837; Siphroy or Sifroi born in October 1839; Adrien in August 1842; Joseph le jeune in Lafayette Parish in February 1845; Jean near New Iberia, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in October 1845; and Robert Baube in Lafayette Parish in October 1849--a dozen children, six daughters and six sons, between 1825 and 1849.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted five slaves--two males and three females, all black, ranging in age from 25 years to 2 months--on François Boudreaux's farm next to widow Charles Baudoin and not far from Edmond Boudreau in the parish's western district.  François's succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in November 1853.  He would have been age 46 that year.  Daughters ... married into the Baudoin, Broussard, Hébert, and Sellers families.  Three of François's sons also married, and two of his sons died in Confederate service before they could marry. 

Oldest son Symphorien married Marguerite Azéma, called Azéma, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Thériot and Scholastique Poirier, at the Abbeville church in April 1856.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Simon in Lafayette Parish in July 1857; Désiré near Youngsville in May 1859; Lifroid near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in September 1861; ...  In 1860, the federal census taker in St. Landry Parish counted 10 slaves--five males and five females, all black, ranging in age from 50 to 1, living in 2 houses--on Symphorien Boudreau's farm. 

According to a succession filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in February 1866, Syphroy Boudreaux "died at Port Hudson[, Louisiana,] in 1863."  Sifroi, second son of François, would have been age 23 during the Siege of Port Hudson that summer.  One wonders in which Confederate unit he was serving and what killed him. 

François's third son Adrien served in Company E of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafayette Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  He died at Vicksburg probably from disease in April 1863, age 20, on the eve of the siege there. 

François's fourth son Joseph le jeune married Amélie or Amelia, daughter of fellow Acadians Éloi K. Broussard and Rose Hébert, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in September 1865.  Their son Adrien was born near New Iberia in July 1866; Joseph, fils in February 1868; ... 

François's sixth and youngest son Robert Baube married Euphémie, daughter of fellow Acadians Aladin Vincent and Azema Trahan, at the Youngsville church in February 1868. ...

Jean-François (1773-?) à Joseph à Claude à Michel Boudreaux

Jean-François, son of Jean-Baptiste Boudrot and Marie-Josèphe Daigre, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo, France, in September 1773, followed his family to Poitou and Nantes and his sister and widowed mother to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche.  In January 1798, at age 24, he was living alone on his six-arpent lot fronting the upper bayou.  He never married. 

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Two more Boudrots, a wife and a young family head, reached 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 Baton Rouge, but no new enduring family line came of it: 

François-Xavier (1760-1798) à Jean-Baptiste à Charles à Michel Boudreaux

François-Xavier, called Xavier, second son of Antoine Boudrot and Brigitte Apart, born at Trigavou southwest of St.-Malo, France, in March 1760, followed his family to Poitou and Nantes.  He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Claude Dugas and his second wife Marguerite Cyr, at St.-Martin de Chantenay near Nantes in May 1785, only weeks before their ship set sail for Spanish Louisiana.  Marguerite was a native of the northern fishing Frenchport of Boulogne-sur-Mer.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to Manchac south of Baton Rouge, where Marguerite died in August 1786 after giving birth to daughter Louise-Isabelle, who followed her mother to the grave two months later.  Francois-Xavier remarried to Marie-Francoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph LeBlanc and Anne Hébert, at nearby San Gabriel in May 1787.  Marie-Francoise, a native of St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo, had come to Louisiana from France aboard a later vessel.  Their children, born at Manchac/San Gabriel, included Joseph in July 1788 but died at age 22 near St. Gabriel in June 1810; Marguerite born in November 1790; Jérôme in June 1791; Marie-Henriette or Henriette-Marie in March 1792; Blanche- or Marie-Angèle, called Angèle, in September 1794; Pierre in February 1797; and Louis posthumously in February 1798, less than three weeks after his father died--eight children, four daughters and four sons, by two wives, between 1786 and 1798.  Francois-Xavier died near San Gabriel in February 1798, age 37.  Daughters Marguerite, Henriette, and Angèle, by his second wife, married into the Trosclair, Acoste, and Tircuit families.  Only one of his sons married.  He, too, settled in Iberville Parish.  His line did not endure. 

Second son Jérôme, by second wife Marie Françoise LeBlanc, married Marcellite, daughter of Henri Edelmer and Marie Louise Quindler, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in March 1817.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Thérèse Émilie in February 1818; Jean Debus in September 1819 but, called Jean Debuys, died at age 30 in May 1850; Joseph born in February 1826 but, called Joseph Azolin, died at age 18 in August 1844; Marie Mathilde born in December 1828 but died near St. Gabriel at age 29 in October 1858; and twins Cécile Sidalie and Marie Eugénie, called Eugénie, born in October 1831 but, called Marie Cidalise, Cécile Sidalie died at age 17 1/2 (the recording priest said 18) in June 1849--six children, four daughters and two sons, including a set of twins, between 1818 and 1831.  Jérôme died at St. Gabriel in December 1835, age 44.  Daughter Eugénie married into the Joly family.  Neither of Jérôme's sons married, so this line of the family, except for its blood, did not endure. 

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Sixteen more Boudrots, including two sets of brothers, crossed from France aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in September 1785.  They followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche and helped create a large family presence there: 

Félix (1729-1780s) à Charles à Michel Boudreaux

Félix, third son of François Boudrot and Angélique Doiron, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in April 1729, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Jean LeBlanc and Jeanne Bourgeois, at l'Assomption in May 1748.  Marie-Josèphe gave Félix a daughter, Félicité, born there in c1753.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755; colonial officials sent them on to England the following spring; the English held them at Bristol; and, after seven years of confinement, in May 1763 they were repatriated to Morlaix in northwest Brittany, where Félix worked as a carpenter.  Marie-Josèphe gave Félix a son, Joseph-Simon, born at Morlaix in June 1764.  The family was counted in St.-Mathieu Parish, Morlaix, that year and at Boudrun in the Sauzon district on the north shore of Belle-Île-en-Mer, off the southern coast of Brittany, in 1767, where they had gone in late 1765.  Marie-Josèphe died near Sauzon in 1773.  Later in the decade, in his 40s, Félix remarried to fellow Acadian Madeleine Hébert, perhaps widow of Pierre Blanchard, and they moved from Sauzon to the lower Loire port of Nantes.  She gave Félix no more children.  Daughter Félicité married into the Lejeune family at Nantes in November 1782.  Félix's son, now a sailor, also created a family of his own in France.  Félix, Madeleine, and his married daughter and her family, as well as his son and his wife, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785, the son and his wife on a later vessel.  The entire family settled on the upper Lafourche.  At age 58, Félix remarried again--his third marriage--to Luce-Perpétué, daughter of fellow Acadians François Bourg and Marie-Madeleine Hébert and widow of Pierre Hébert, on the upper bayou in August 1787.  She gave him no more children.  Félix died probably in his late 50s by November 1789, when his wife remarried at Lafourche.   His married daughter and her husband proved to be that rare Acadian couple who had no children, but his son's family line endured on the upper Lafourche.

Only son Joseph-Simon, by his father's first wife Marie-Josèphe LeBlanc, followed his family to Belle-Île-en-Mer and Nantes and became a sailor.  In the 1780s, he married Marie-Julienne, called Julienne, daughter of French locals Pierre Brossier and Jeanne Delinot, place unrecorded, perhaps at Nantes.  The still childless couple followed his family to Spanish Louisiana, but they crossed on La Caroline, the last of the Seven Ships, not on Le St.-Rémi with his father, stepmother, and sister.  After living for a time on the river, Joseph-Simon and Julienne joined his family on upper Bayou Lafourche; they lived for several years also at New Orleans.  Julienne evidently was pregnant when they reached New Orleans in December 1785.  Their children, born on the river, the upper Lafourche, and in the city, included Marie-Madeleine baptized at Ascension, age unrecorded, in January 1786; Jean-Joseph born at Cabahannocer in April 1788; Marie-Luce at Ascension in March 1790; Joseph, fils at Assumption in July 1793; Jeanne-Adélaïde or Adélaïde-Jeanne, in December 1795 and baptized at the New Orleans church the following June; Joseph-Alexandre born in March 1798 and baptized at New Orleans the following July perhaps because he was in danger of dying; Victoire-Catherine born in October 1800 and baptized at New Orleans in March 1801; Marie Carmélite born perhaps in the city in the early 1800s; Philonise Julienne or Julienne Philonise at Ascension in December 1806; and Hippolyte Alphonse at Assumption in April 1810--10 children, six daughters and four sons, between 1786 and 1810.  Daughters Marie Lucie, Jeanne Adélaïde, Victoire Catherine, Marguerite Carmélite, and Julienne Philonise married into the Bret, Landry, Adolphe, Hébert, Labadie, and Foret families.  Two of Joseph Simon's sons also married and settled in Assumption Parish.  

Oldest son Jean Joseph married Marie Vincente or Venerante, daughter of Pierre Vincent Monte or Montet and his Acadian wife Félicité Aucoin, at the Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, in November 1808.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Adèle Julie or Julie Adèle in October 1809; François Napoléon, also called Joseph Napoléon, in January 1812; Eulalie Azélie in June 1816; Lucien Pierre or Pierre Lucien in June 1818; Marie Carmélite in May 1820; Félicité Joséphine in October 1822; Laurent died at age 9 days in August 1824; Julienne Augustine born in November 1825; Roseline Adélaïde in August 1828; Jeanne Améline in March 1831; and Baptiste Joseph Landry, called Baptiate and Joseph le jeune, in June 1833--11 children, seven daughters and four sons, between 1809 and 1833.  Daughters ... married into the Giroir, Lamoureaux, Love, Mazerolle, and Penisson families, and perhaps into the Frion family as well, by 1870.  Three of Jean Joseph's sons also married by then.

Oldest son François or Joseph Napoléon married Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Delaune and his first wife Hyacinthe Michel, a German Creole, not an Acadian, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in September 1831.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Flora Agladée in November 1832; Pierre in the 1830s; Marie Amat in September 1840; and Léo in April 1849--four children, two daughters and two sons, between 1832 and 1849.  Neither of François Napoléon's daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did. 

Older son Pierre married Marie Louise, called Louise, daughter of Olivier Cancienne and his Acadian wife Felonise Landry, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1858.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche and the lower Teche, included Ernest C. in Assumption Parish in February 1859; and Lama Célina near Pattersonville, St. Mary Parish, in November 1860; ... 

Jean Joseph's second son Pierre Lucien married Rosalie Adèle or Marie Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Pierre Daigle and Marie Modeste Arceneaux, at the Plattenville church in September 1841.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Pierre Lucien, fils in August 1842; Marie Lucie in January 1844; Marie Rosa in January 1846; and Joseph Alexandre in October 1847--four children, two sons and two daughters, between 1842 and 1847.  Daughter ... married into the Albert family in St. Martin Parish, west of the Atchafalaya Basin, by 1870.  Neither of Pierre Lucien's sons married by then. 

Jean Joseph's fourth and youngest son Joseph le jeune married Marie Zélie, daughter of fellow Acadian Adélard Bourgeois and his Creole wife Radivine Baudoin of Lafayette Parish, at the Plattenville church in July 1855.  Did they have any children? 

Joseph Simon's second son Joseph, fils married Eléonore Clémence, daughter of fellow Acadians Basile Marie Richard and Marie Victoire Comeaux, at the Plattenville church in April 1818.  Their son Basile Trasimond was born on the upper Lafourche in March 1819.  Joseph, fils remarried to Marie Mélanie, called Mélanie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Olivier Gautreaux and Julie Arcement, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in September 1821. Their children, born on the upper bayou, included Marie Céleste in August 1822; Juliana Adelina in April 1824; Louise in March 1826; Victoire or Victorine Marcelite in January 1828; Joséphine Eulalie, called Eulalie, in March 1830; Pierre Théodule in February 1833; Lucien in January 1835 but died at age 1 in February 1835; Joseph Julien born in January 1836; Jean Pierre, perhaps theirs, in February 1837; Dometilde Philomène in November 1838; Pierre in c1839 but died at age 10 in July 1849; and Eugène Marcelin born in June 1841 but, called Eugène, died at age 8 in July 1849--13 children, seven sons and six daughters, by two wives, between 1819 and 1841.  Joseph, fils may have died in Assumption Parish in July 1849.  The Plattenville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not given any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Joseph Boudraux died at age 55.  This Joseph would have been 56.  Daughters Eulalie, ..., by his second wife, married into the Falteman, Boudreaux, Aucoin, Besse, Bourgeois, Henry, and Mire families by 1870.  Only one of Joseph, fils's sons married by then. 

Oldest son Basile Trasimond, by first wife Eléonore Richard, married Adeline Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Giroir and Rosalie Bourg, at the Plattenville church in May 1840.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche and the lower Atchafalaya, included Euphroisine Adelina, called Adelina, in March 1841; Rosalie Victorine in March 1843; Victor Trasimon or Trasimond in June 1844; Joseph Olésime in December 1845; Jean Baptiste Claiborn or Claiborne in March 1847; Basile Émile in April 1849; Trasimond Gill in September 1850; Marie Philomena in May 1854; Augustin Gervais in August 1855; Marie Justilia near Brashear, now Morgan, City, St. Mary Parish, in March 1862; ...  In September 1850, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted a single slave--a 24-year-old black male--on Bazile T. Boudreaux's farm in the parish's Second Congressional District.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted a single slave--a 25-year-old black male--on Bazile T. Boudreaux's farm in the parish's Bayou Boeuf Ward 14.  By early 1862, Basile had moved all the way down to near Brashear, now Morgan, City, St. Mary Parish, on the lower Atchafalaya River.  At age 50, Basile, called Bazile by the recording priest, remarried to Célesie, 52-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians François Chiasson and Clarisse Comeaux, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Parish, in June 1869.  This was Célesie's first marriage.  Needless to say, she gave Basile no more children.  Daughters Adelina, ..., by his first wife, married into the Peltier and Bourgeois families by 1870.  Only one of Basile Trasimond's sons married by then and settled on the lower Atchafalaya. 

Second son Joseph Olésime, by first wife Adeline Giroir, married Julia, daughter of fellow Acadians Zénon Bourgeois and Louise Helina Gaudet, at the Thibodaux church in January 1867.  Their son Désiré Marc was born near Brashear, now Morgan, City, on the lower Atchafalaya River, in April 1870; ... 

Jean-Charles (c1733-1790s) à Charles à Michel Boudreaux

Jean-Charles, fifth son of François Boudrot and Angélique Doiron, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in 1733, followed his family to Virginia in the fall of 1755 and to England the following spring, where they were held at Bristol.  Jean-Charles married Agnès, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Trahan and Charlotte Comeau, at Bristol in c1758.  Agnès gave Jean-Charles two children there:  Jean-Charles, fils born in January 1760; and Marie in September 1761.  The family was repatriated to St.-Malo, France, in May 1763 aboard La Dorothée and settled at Plouër-sur-Rance on the west side of the river south of the Breton port.  Charles worked as a wood polisher and wigmaker there.  Agnès gave Jean-Charles four more children at nearby Port St.-Hubert:  Joseph-Marie born in May 1765; Pierre in November 1767; Rose-Geneviève in May 1770 but died at age 2 1/2 in February 1773; and Henriette-Charlotte born in September 1772.  Jean-Charles took his family to Poitou in 1773.  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.  In February 1776, Agnès gave Jean-Charles another daughter, Renée, born in St.-Donatien Parish, Nantes.  Agnès died there the following June, age 34.  Jean-Charles remarried to Marguerite-Victoire, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Guédry and his first wife Adélaïde-Madeleine Hébert of Île Royale, in St.-Similien Parish, Nantes, in August 1780.  Marguerite-Victoire gave Jean-Charles three more children there:  Marguerite-Renée born in June 1781; Pierre-David in April 1783; and Félix-Marie in June 1785.  Jean-Charles also buried two of his sons in St.-Similien Parish, both from first wife Agnès:  Pierre in August 1777, age 9 1/2; and Jean-Charles, fils in June 1783, age 23.  His oldest daughter Marie, by his first wife, born in England, married into the Havard family in St.-Similien Parish in August 1783.  In 1785, Jean-Charles, Marguerite-Victoire, and five of his unmarried children, three sons and two daughters, along with married daughter Marie and her infant son, crossed to Louisiana on Le St.-Rémi.  Marie's Havard's husband crossed on the next vessel, L'Amitié.  From New Orleans, Jean-Charles and his family followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Marguerite-Victoire gave him another daughter there, Marie-Rosalie, born in February 1788--11 children, five sons and six daughters, by two wives, from 1760 to 1788, in England, France, and Louisiana.  Jean-Charles died probably on upper Bayou Lafourche by January 1791, when wife Margerite-Victoire was listed in a Valenzuela District census as a widow.  Daughters Marguerite-Renée and Marie-Rosalie, by his second wife, married into the Heusé/Usé family in Louisiana, and his oldest daughter Marie, by his first wife, evidently remarried into the Forgeron family there as well.  Three of Jean Charles's sons also married and settled on the Lafourche.  The youngest son's line was especially vigorous.

Second son Joseph-Marie, by first wife Agnès Trahan, followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marie-Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Darois and Madeleine Trahan, in May 1791.  Marie-Isabelle, a native of Chantenay near Nantes, also had come to Louisiana aboard Le St.-Rémi.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Joseph-Marie, fils in May 1792; and Marguerite-Eugénie in July 1794.  Joseph-Marie, père died before December 1795, in his late 20s, when Spanish officials counted his wife at Assumption without a husband.  She remarried to a Benoit.  Daughter Marguerite Eugénie married into the Benoit family.  Joseph-Marie's son did not marry, so only the blood of this family line endured.

Jean-Charles's fourth son Pierre-David, by second wife Marguerite Victoire Guédry, followed his family to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians François Duhon and his first wife Isabelle Landry and widow of Paul Dugas, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in April 1808.  Marie was a native of Louisiana whose parents had come to Louisiana in 1765 and 1766 from Halifax and Maryland.  Her and Pierre David's children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Doralise, called Doralise, in November 1808; Pierre Rosémond, called Rosémond, in March 1810; and André Onésime in September 1812--three children, a daughter and two sons, between 1808 and 1812.  Pierre died in Assumption Parish in October 1844.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Pierre died at "age 65 yrs."  He was 61.  Daughter Doralise married into the Daigle family.  Pierre David's sons also married, but only one of their lines seems to have endured, in Assumption Parish. 

Older son Pierre Rosémond, called Rosémond, married Marie Céline or Adeline, daughter of Antoine Barras and his Acadian wife Rosalie Bourg, at the Plattenville church in June 1835.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Pierre Rosémond, fils baptized at the Plattenville church, age unrecorded, in January 1838; Adèle Osalie or Rosalie born in May 1842; Drosin Eulice in April 1844; Amédéor Amédée Octave, called Amédée, in March 1846; and Elvine Rosalie in February 1850--five children, three sons and two daughters, between 1838 and 1850.  Neither of Rosémond's daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did.

Third and youngest son Amédée married cousin Adeline, daughter of Joannis, probably Jean, Fremin and his Acadian wife Zéolide Boudreaux, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in June 1870. ...

Pierre David's younger son André Onésime married fellow Acadian Pamela or Pauline Foret probably in Assumption Parish by the early 1840s.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Désiré in 1843 but died at age 10 months in August 1844; and Eveline Julienne born in April 1845.  Daughter Eveline married into the Gaspard and Comeaux families by 1870, so the blood of the family line endured. 

Jean-Charles's fifth and youngest son Félix-Marie, by second wife Marguerite-Victoire Guédry, followed his family to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Philippe Henry and Marie Josèphe Thibodeaux, in February 1805.  Rosalie was a native of Louisiana, but her family also had sailed from France aboard Le St.-Rémi.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included François Joseph, also called François Noël and perhaps Joseph François, in October 1805; Joseph Noël, also called Zénon, in December 1807; Pierre Benjamin in May 1812; and Élise Noële or Noëlinne in December 1816 but died at age 15 1/2 in September 1832--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1805 and 1816.  Félix Marie died in Lafourche Interior Parish in August 1827, age 42.  His three sons married and settled in Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes. 

Oldest son François Joseph, also called François Noël and perhaps Joseph François, married Marie Phelonise, called Phelonise, daughter of fellow Acadians Martin Thibodeaux and Anne Marguerite Dugas, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in April 1828.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Silvanie or Sylvain Trasimond in January 1829; Zéolide in July 1830; Azéma died at age 8 months in November 1833; Haunesime or Onésime born in September 1834; Emérand or Emérant Magloire in April 1837; Cléopha Lesiphor or Olésiphore, called Olésiphore, in June 1839; François Joseph, fils in July 1842; Julie Eusile or Onesile, called Onesile, in December 1844; and Elsina Marie in March 1847 but, called Marie Elisina, died at age 8 1/2 in October 1855--nine children, five sons and four daughters, between 1829 and 1847.  François Joseph, père may have died near Labadieville, Assumption Parish, in June 1868.  The 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 62 years."  François Joseph, père would have been that age.  Daughters Zéolide and Onesile married into the Fremin and Hébert families by 1870.  Three of François Joseph's sons also married by then, two of them after finishing their war service. 

During the War of 1861-65, third son Emérant served in Company D of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Terrebonne Parish, which fought in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana.  He enlisted in the company at Camp Pratt near New Iberia probably as a conscript in September 1862, age 25.  His service in the company was not sterling; he was lucky to have survived it.  In the late winter of 1863, he was "under sentence of a general court martial for desertion."  He returned to his unit in March, but in July he deserted again, this time at Bayou Boeuf, not far from his home (his younger brother Olésiphore had deserted from Company G of the 18th Infantry two days earlier).  Emérant may not have returned to his unit ... again.  Called Eméran by the recording priest, he married Méotile or Méotilde, daughter of fellow Acadian Alexandre Hébert and his Creole wife Arthémise Exnicios, at the Labadieville church in December 1865.  Their children, born near Labadieville, included Angela Angéline in September 1866; Abel Numa in July 1869; ... 

During the war, François Joseph's fourth son Olésiphore served in Company G of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafourche Parish, which fought in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana, and, like his older brother, he did not serve honorably.  He deserted his company in July 1863 when it was operating near his home (his older brother Emérant deserted from Company D of the 18th Infantry two days later).  Olésiphore may not have returned to his unit.  He married Amelia, called Melia, daughter of Valéry Oncale and Azélie Tregle, at the Thibodaux church in October 1868.  Daughter Marie Elvina was born in Lafourche Parish in August 1870; ...

François Joseph's fifth and youngest son François Joseph, fils married cousin Angelina, daughter of fellow Acadians Ursin Hébert and Marie Boudreaux, at the Labadieville church in January 1870.  Did he also serve Louisiana in uniform? 

Félix Marie's second son Joseph Noël, also called Zénon, married Rosalie Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Hyacinthe Aucoin and Marie Céleste Delaune, at the Thibodauxville church in June 1826.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Neuville Benjamin in April 1827; Marie Rosalie in March 1829; Azélie or Azélia Célestine born in September 1831; and Joseph Augustin died at age 2 months in March 1834.  Joseph Noël remarried to Aimée Caroline, called Caroline, daughter of Jean Olivier and Dorothée Lagrange of St. John the Baptist Parish, at the Thibodaux church in October 1836.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Azémilia Ophilia in July 1837; Marie Eveline in December 1839; Clairville or Treville Amadé or Amédée in November 1842; Azéma in November 1843; and Jules Davis in March 1845.  Joseph Noël remarried again--his third marriage--to Céleste, daughter of Dominique Bergeron, a French Creole, not a fellow Acadian, and his Acadian wife Henriette Breaux and widow of Ursin Falteman, at the Plattenville church in October 1850.  Their son Joseph Estephen was born near Labadieville on the upper Lafourche in August 1851.  At age 59, Joseph Noël remarried yet again--his fourth marriage--to cousin Eulalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Boudreaux and Mélanie Gautreaux and widow of Lasty Falteman, at the Plattenville church in February 1867.  Their daughter Marie Wella was born near Attakapas Canal, Assumption Parish, in September 1868; ...  Daughters Azélia, Azéma, ..., by his first and second wives, married into the Vaise, Junot, Bergeron, Daigle, Hébert, and Richard families by 1870.  Three of Joseph Noël's sons also married by then.  One of them settled on the western prairies, but the others remained in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley. 

Oldest son Neuville Benjamin, by first wife Rosalie Aucoin, married Adeline, daughter of Augustin Lagrange and Rosalie Mayet, at the Thibodaux church in January 1848.  They settled on the upper Lafourche in Assumption Parish.  Their children, born there, included Émile Augustave in December 1848; Octave in September 1850; Léonie in September 1853; Jules Anatole in May 1856 but, called Anatole Jules, died the following August; Théophile Léonard born in June 1857; Joseph Dorville in February 1862; Clairville Aubert in August 1864; Numa Cyprien in January 1867; Mirtilia Cécilia in October 1869; ...  In August 1860, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted a single slave--a 40-year-old mulatto male--on Neuville Boudreaux's farm in the parish's Sixth Ward on Bayou Lafourche.  One wonders if this was Neuville Benjamin.  One of his sons married by1870.

Oldest son Émile Augustave may have married cousin Emma Boudreaux in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in June 1866.  They settled in Assumption Parish. 

Joseph Noël's third son Treville, by second wife Caroline Olivier, married Émée, daughter of fellow Acadian Hermogène Roger and his Creole wife Pauline Adam, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in February 1864.  Daughter Marie Olivia was born in Terrebonne Parish in November 1864.  Treville may have remarried to Marianne Marcel in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in April 1869.  Daughter Marie Camilla was born in Terrebonne Parish in May 1870; ...

Joseph Noël's fourth son Jules Davis, by second wife Caroline Olivier, married Odilia or Odelia, daughter of fellow Acadians Basile Talbot and his second wife Marie Blanchard, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in February 1869.  Their son Numa was born in Lafayette Parish in November 1869; ...

Félix Marie's third and youngest son Pierre Benjamin married Adèle, daughter of Jean Baptiste Fremin and his Acadian wife Marie Françoise Aucoin, at the Thibodaux church in April 1839.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Lusignon Armogène or Hermogène in February 1840; Jules Félix in July 1842; Marie Julie Lorenza in December 1844; Marie Adoleska in July 1847; Oscar Aimé in February 1850; Marie in July 1853; Louise Octavie in October 1859; Méotile Noémie in June 1861; Julie in April 1866; ...  Daughter ... married a Boudreaux cousin by 1870.  None of Pierre Benjamin's sons married by then. 

During the war, oldest son Lusignon served probably as a conscript in Company G of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafourche Parish, which fought in Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, and Louisiana.  Lusignon joined the company in October 1862 at Camp Pratt near New Iberia and deserted a month later.  He rejoined the company in February 1863, in time to help resist a Federal invasion of the Bayou Teche region that spring.  Later that summer, after the regiment had retreated to the Red River valley and then returned to the Lafourche area, Lusignon was "left behind sick" and disappears from the Confederate record.  One wonders if he survived the war, returned to his family, and married. 

Jean-Baptiste, fils (1759-1799) à Jean dit Lami à Claude à Michel Boudreaux

Jean-Baptiste, fils, oldest son of Jean-Baptiste Boudrot and Anastasie Célestin dit Bellemère, born in England in October 1759, was repatriated with his family to St.-Malo, France, aboard L'Ambition in May 1763 and settled with them at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  In 1773, he followed his family to Poitou.  He married Marguerite, daughter of locals François Bedel dit Picard and Jeanne ____ of Targé near Châtellerault, at Targé in June 1778, so he did not follow most of the Acadians in Poitou to Nantes in 1775-56.  Marguerite gave Jean-Baptiste, fils a daughter, Marie-Marguerite, born at nearby Cenan in September 1779.  In the early 1780s, they moved on to the lower Loire port of Nantes, where Marguerite gave Jean-Baptiste, fils a son, Jean-Baptiste III, born in c1783.  Spanish authorities counted Jean-Baptiste, fils, his wife, and a son at Nantes in September 1784, so daughter Marie-Marguerite had died by then.  Marguerite gave Jean-Baptiste, fils another son, Jean-Charles, born in St.-Martin de Chantenay Parish near Nantes in March 1785.  Jean-Baptiste, fils, Marguerite, and their two sons crossed to Louisiana in 1785 and followed his family to upper Bayou Lafourche.  One wonders if their two sons, Jean-Baptiste III and Jean-Charles, survived the crossing; they do not appear with the rest of the family in the Valenzuela District censuses of 1788 and 1791.  Marguerite gave Jean-Baptiste, fils six more children on the upper Lafourche:  Laurent baptized at Ascension, age unrecorded, in February 1787; Antoine born in c1789; Marie-Léonore or -Eléonore in August 1791; Marguerite in December 1793; another Jean-Baptiste III, called J. B., in March 1796; and twins Élise-Rosalie and François-Gilbert in February 1798, but Françis-Gilbert died the following September--nine children, three daughters and six sons, from 1779 to 1798, in France and Louisiana.  Jean-Baptiste, fils died at Assumption on the upper Lafourche in August 1799, age 39.  Daughters Marie Eléonore and Marguerite married into the Williamson and Lis families.  Three of Jean Baptiste, fils's sons also married, but not all of the lines endured.  They settled down bayou in Lafourche Interior Parish, and a grandson moved farther down to Terrebonne Parish. 

Third son Laurent married, in his early 20s, Marie Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Thibodeaux and his second wife Marie Dugas, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in July 1810.  One wonders if they were that rare Acadian couple who had no children.  "Mrs. Laurent Boudreaux," perhaps Marie Madeleine Thibodeaux, died in Lafourche Parish in April 1857.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial did not give her age at the time of her passing, as well as her name.  Marie Madeleine would have been age about 70. 

Jean Baptiste, fils's fourth son Antoine married Marie Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph François Michel and Geneviève LeBlanc and widow of Jean Louis Daigle, at the Plattenville church in January 1814.  They lived on the upper Lafourche near the boundary of Assumption and Lafourche Interior Parish.  Their children, born there, included Jean Baptiste Gédéon, called Gédéon, in October 1814; Armélise in December 1816; Ursuline Marguerite in January 1819; François Hermogène in March 1821 but died at age 19 in July 1840; Mathieu Auxilien, also called Achille Sylvain or Sylvanie, born in February 1823; Pierre Marcellus in June 1825; Geneviève in September 1830; and Zulmée Zéolide in November 1835--eight children, four sons and four daughters, between 1814 and 1835.  Antoine died in Lafourche Interior Parish in November 1849, age 60 (the recording priest said 61).  Daughters Armélise, Ursuline, Zéolide, ... married into the LeBlanc, Bonvillain, Hébert, and Thibodeaux families by 1870.  Three of Antoine's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Jean Baptiste Gédéon married Marcelline or Marcellite, also called Ursuline, daughter of fellow Acadian Marie Adèle Sonnier, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in January 1837 (one wonders who Marcellite's father may have been).  The couple evidently lived on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Augustin in December 1837; Villier in the late 1830s; Joseph François, called François, in June 1840; Ernest in April 1842; Telesie Adèle near Thibodaux in June 1844; and Marie Ophelia near Labadieville, Assumption Parish, in September 1850 but died at age 2 1/2 in February 1853--six children, four sons and two daughters, between 1837 and 1850.  In June 1860, federal census takers in Assumption Parish counted three slaves--a male and two females, all black, ages 22, 2, and 4 months, living in one house--on Gédéon Boudreaux's farm in the parish's Fourth Ward.  Gédéon's remaining daughter did not marry by 1870, but three of his sons did.

Second son Villier married Zéolide, daughter of fellow Acadians Mathurin Bourg and Léocade LeBlanc, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1861.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included François Ricard in November 1861; Augustin Hector in July 1866; Marie Julie in October 1868; Joachim Jules in September 1870; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Villier, called Villie in wartime records, had, according to one of those records, a dark complexion, black hair, black eyes, and stood five feet, eight inches tall.  He was conscripted into Company C of the 1st Regiment Louisiana Heavy Artillery in October 1862 with other Assumption Parish men.  Along with his regiment, Villier served at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  When Union General Ulysses S. Grant's army captured the regiment at Vicksburg in July 1863, most of its conscripts, including Villier, refused parole.  The Federals sent him and his fellow gunners to Gratiot Street Prison in St. Louis, Missouri, before transferring them to the prisoner-of-war compound at Camp Morton, Indiana.  Perhaps to shorten his stay in the dreadful place, Villier, with other prisoners from his unit, took the oath of allegiance to the United States government in early January 1865--months before the war ended.  The Federals released them after they took the oath, and they made their way home as best they could. 

During the war, Gédéon's third son François may have served in Company C of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Assumption Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  He survived the war, returned to his family, and married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Evariste Foret and Cléonise Barrilleaux, at the Labadieville church in October 1865.  Their son Joseph Albert was born on the upper Lafourche in September 1866; ... 

Gédéon's fourth and youngest son Ernest married Aurelie or Aurelia, daughter of fellow Acadian Auguste LeBlanc and his Creole wife Adeline Peltier, at the Labadieville church in December 1865.  Their children, born near Labadieville, included Aubert Auguste in September 1866; Marie Cécilia in June 1868; ... 

Antoine's third son Mathieu Auxilien, also called Achille Sylvain or Sylvanie, married Marie Olisida dite Lesida, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Thibodeaux and Élisabeth Landry of Assumption, at the Thibodaux church in October 1848.  They evidently settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Assumption and Lafourche parishes.  Their children, born there, included Antoine Oscar in April 1852; Émilina Ursenie in October 1855; Osémé Oleus in February 1860; twins Théogène Mirtil and Osemilia Mirtilia in May 1863; Alida Augusta in July 1866; ...  None of Mathieu/Achille/Sylvanie's children married by 1870. 

Antoine's fourth and youngest son Pierre Marcellus married Marie Eléonore, called Eléonore, Léonore, and Leonna, daughter of fellow Acadians Mathurin Bourg and Léocade LeBlanc, at the Thibodaux church in October 1849.  Their children, born near the boundary between Assumption and Terrebonne parishes, included Joseph Justilien in April 1851; Françis Sirius in October 1853; Honorine Carmélite in July 1855 but, called Carmélite Honorine, died near Labadieville, age 14 months, in August 1856; Marie Émelie born near Labadieville in June 1857[sic]; Marie Louise in Terrebonne Parish in December 1857[sic]; Edga Augustin near Labadieville in April 1859; Rose Eléonase Milie in Terrebonne Parish in March 1860; Onésiphore Noé near Labadieville in May 1861; Joseph in February 1870; ...  None of Pierre Marcellus's children married by 1870. 

Jean-Baptiste, fils's fifth son Jean-Baptiste III, called J. B., married cousin Anne Marie or Marie Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians François Joseph Boudreaux and Marie Thibodeaux, at the Plattenville church in February 1818.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Jean Baptiste Rosémond or Rosémond Jean Baptiste, in December 1818; Marie Élise in November 1820 but died at age 6 1/2 in September 1827; Batilde born in July 1822; Victor Proile in April 1825; Zéphirin Neuville, called Arville or Orville, in May 1828; François Gédéon in June 1831; Auguste Ferdinand in March 1835; and Marguerite in May 1839--eight children, five sons and three daughters, between 1818 and 1839.  Daughters Marguerite, ... married into the Prejean, Calahan, and Guillot families by 1870.  Four of J. B.'s sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Jean Baptiste Rosémond or Rosémond Jean Baptiste married cousin Amelie Victoire or Victoire Émilie, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Hébert and Amelie Boudreaux of Terrebonne Parish, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in April 1846, and, called Rosémond Jean Baptiste by the recording priest, sanctified the marriage at the Thibodaux church the following August.  Their children, born on the southeast bayous, included Louis Neuville in the late 1840s; Rosémond, fils near Bayou Black, Terrebonne Parish, in March 1849; Orvil Faustin in May 1851; Rosa in April 1853; Zulma Pamela in May 1855; Alida Angelina Lafourche Parish in January 1858; Ernest near Chacahoula, Terrebonne Parish, in May 1860; Octave Élisie in April 1863 but, called Octave Élizée, died at age 5 1/2 near Montegut in September 1868; Eulalie Elvina born near Montegut, at the edge of the Terrebonne coastal marshes, in June 1865; Myrtile Arestile in November 1868; ...  In November 1850, the federal census taker in Terrebonne Parish counted four slaves--all males, all mulattoes except one black, ages 24 years to 6 months--on Jean Bt. Boudreau's farm.  One wonders if this was Jean Baptiste Rosémond.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Terrebonne Parish counted seven slaves--three males and four females, all mulattoes except for one black, ranging in age from 50 to 4, living in a single house--on J. B. Boudreau's farm in the parish's 11th Ward.  One wonders if this also was Jean Baptiste Rosémond.  None of his daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did.

Oldest son Louis Neuville married Marie Elvina, daughter of William Evariste Price and Eulalie Maillet, at the Montegut church in January 1867.  Their children, born near Montegut, included Marie Malvina in June 1868; Joseph Faustin in March 1870; ...

J. B.'s third son Zéphirin Neuville, also called Arville or Orville, married Odile, daughter of Jean Lagrange and his Acadian wife Marie Hébert, at the Thibodaux church in April 1853.  They settled on the upper bayou near the boundary between Lafourche and Assumption parishes.  Daughter Marie Victorine, born there in February 1854, married into the Fremin family.  One wonders if Orville fathered any sons. 

J. B.'s fourth son François Gédéon may have been the François Boudreaux who served in Company C of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Assumption Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  François Gédéon married double cousin Elfrida, called Frida, daughter of fellow Acadian Valsin Boudreaux and his Creole wife Delphine Lagrange, at the Labadieville church in February 1866.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Émile Valsin in November 1866; Amelia Zoémie in February 1869; ... 

J. B.'s fifth and youngest son Auguste Ferdinand married Adolphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Basile Talbot and his first wife Marie Joséphine Henry, at the Labadieville church in May 1866.  Daughter Cécile Christine was born near Labadieville in March 1867; ...

Joseph-Marie (1766-?) à Jean dit Lami à Claude à Michel Boudreaux

Joseph-Marie, second son of Jean-Baptiste Boudrot and Anastasie Célestin dit Bellemère, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, near St.-Malo, France, in March 1766, followed his family to Poitou and Nantes, and his mother, stepfather Honoré Comeau, and his brothers to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Anne, also called Isabelle, perhaps the daughter of fellow Acadians Joachim-Hyacinthe Trahan and his second wife Marie-Madeleine Duhon, in February 1786.  If this was Anne/Isabelle, daughter of Joachim-Hyacinthe, she was a native of Morlaix, France, and also had come to Louisiana aboard Le St.-Rémi.  According to the Valenzuela District censuses of December 1795 and April 1797, Isabelle Trahan, wife of Joseph Boudreaux, gave him at least three children, two daughters and a son on the upper bayou, including Rose in c1786/87; Madeleine in c1788/89; and Angèl in c1794.  One wonders what became of them. 

Charles (1769-?) à Jean dit Lami à Claude à Michel Boudreaux

Charles, third and youngest son of Jean-Baptiste Boudrot and Anastasie Célestin dit Bellemère, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, France, in January 1769, followed his family to Poitou and Nantes, and his mother, stepfather, and brothers to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he was counted in the Valenzuela District censuses of January 1788 and January 1791 living with his once-again widowed mother and brother Joseph-Marie.  Charles would have been in his late teens and early 20s at the time.  Evidently he never married.

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Many more Boudrots--29 of them, including two sets of brothers--reached Louisiana from France aboard 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 and created more vigorous family lines there: 

Zacharie (1721-?) à Charles à Michel Boudreaux

Zacharie, sixth son of Jean-Baptiste Boudrot and his first wife Cécile Corporon, born at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in c1721, married Marguerite, daughter of Charles Daigre and Françoise Doucet, in c1748 perhaps at Ste.-Famille.  Marguerite gave Zacharie a daughter there, Marie, born in c1749.  They moved on to Île St.-Jean in 1751.  Son Paul was born either at Ste-Famille or on the island that year.  In August 1752, a French official counted Zacharie, Marguerite, their two children, and orphan Marguerite Boudrot next to his parents at La Traverse on the island's south shore.  Marie gave Zacharie three more children on Île St.-Jean:  Charles born in c1753; Marguerite in c1756; and Benjamin in c1758.  The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Zacharie and Marguerite survived the voyage aboard one of the Five Ships, but all five of their children died at sea.  The now childless couple settled at Trigavou on the west side of Rivière Rance south of St.-Malo, where they created another family.  Their children born there included another Benjamin born in July 1760 but died at age 6 1/2 in May 1767; Paul-Dominique, called Dominique, born in September 1761; another Charles in March 1764; Jean-Baptiste in August 1766 but died the following March; another Marguerite born in March 1768 but died at age 6 in August 1773; and Benjamin-Hilaire, also called Hilaire-Benjamin, born in January 1770--11 children, eight sons and three daughters, between 1749 and 1770, in greater Acadia and France.  All of their daughters and all but three of their sons died young.  Zacharie took his family to Poitou in 1773, probably soon after the death of his youngest daughter.  In October 1775, 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.  Marguerite died in St.-Nicolas Parish, Nantes, in October 1780, age 51.  At age 61, Zacharie remarried to Frenchwoman Marguerite Vallois, widow of Pierre and Olivier Dubois and Étienne Terriot, father of Olivier Terriot, in nearby St.-Martin de Chantenay Parish in September 1782.  This Marguerite gave him no more children.  Zacharie's oldest surviving son married at Chantenay the following year, and another son married in St.-Nicolas Parish, Nantes, in c1784.  The oldest son and his family took the first of the Seven Ships to Spanish Louisiana, but Zacharie, Marguerite, his other married son and his family, the unmarried son, and a stepson crossed on L'Amitié.  From New Orleans, the oldest son followed his fellow passengers to Manchac on the river, but Zacharie and the rest of his family went to upper Bayou Lafourche, where the oldest son joined them in the early 1790s.  Only three of Zacharie's many sons married, in France and Louisiana.  His oldest surviving son's line was especially vigorous. 

Fifth son Paul-Dominique, called Dominique, by first wife Marguerite Daigre, followed his family to Poitou and Nantes, where he worked as a seaman.  He married Marie-Olive, daughter of fellow Acadians Anselme Landry and Agathe Barrieau, in St.-Martin de Chantenay Parish in May 1783.  Marie-Olive gave Dominique a son, Paul-Marie, born at Chantenay in May 1784.  They crossed to Louisiana on Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in late July 1785.  From the city, they followed their fellow passengers to Manchac on the river south of Baton Rouge, where Marie-Olive gave Dominique another son, Joseph-Marie, born in January 1786, so she had been pregnant on the crossing from France.  Spanish authorities counted them near Fort Bute north of Bayou Manchac in the summer of 1788, but by 1795 they had moved on to upper Bayou Lafourche, where his father, stepmother, and brothers, who had come on a later ship, had settled.  Paul-Dominique and Marie-Olivie had many more children on the river and the upper Lafourche, including Charles-Romain born at Manchac in November 1787; Mathurin in July 1789; Marie-Françoise in June 1792; Florentin-Janvier at Assumption on the upper Lafourche in January 1795; Zacharie le jeune in April 1799; Jean-Pierre, called Pierre, in August 1801; Anselme in March 1805; Céleste in March 1808; and Paul le jeune in May 1811--11 children, nine sons and two daughters, between 1784 and 1811, in France and Louisiana.  Paul-Dominique died in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1832, age 71.  Daughter Céleste married into the Gautreaux family.  Eight of Dominique's sons also married, though not all of the lines endured.  The ones that did endure--in Ascension, Assumption, Lafourche Interior, and Terrebonne parishes--helped create one of the most vigorous lines of the Boudreaux family in the Bayou State.  Many of Dominique's grandsons and great-grandsons served Louisiana during the War of 1861-65, and at least two of them died in Confederate service. 

Oldest son Paul-Marie followed his family to New Orleans, Manchac, and Bayou Lafourche.  He was age 13 when Spanish officials counted him with his family in the Valenzuela District on the upper bayou in April 1797, so he survived early childhood.  He may not have married. 

Dominique's second son Joseph Marie followed his family to upper Bayou Lafourche and married Anne Josèphe dite Nanette, daughter of fellow Acadians Athanase Dugas and Rose LeBlanc and widow of Louis Foret, at Ascension in August 1806.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Joseph, fils, also called Paul Joseph, in April 1807; Charles Jérôme, called Jérôme, in July 1809; Charles Maxille, called C. Maxille, probably in the early 1810s; Marieanne dite Nanette Scholastique in February 1816; Leufroi in c1818; and Anne Milicère in March 1822--six children, four sons and two daughters, between 1807 and 1822.  Joseph Marie may have died in Ascension Parish in December 1852.  The Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph Boudreaux died at "age 66 years" but gave no parents' names or mentioned a wife.  This Joseph would have been that age and probably a widower, so it likely was him.  Daughter Nanette Scholastique married into the Babin and Landry families.  All of Joseph Marie's sons married.  One of them returned to the river, but the others remained on the upper Lafourche. 

Oldest son Joseph, fils, also called Paul Joseph, married cousin Élise Rose, also called Élise Basie, daughter of fellow Acadian Louis Ambroise Dugas and his Creole wife Élise Barbe Berthelot, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in October 1829.  They settled on the upper bayou near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Élisa in November 1830; Rosalie Eulalie in September 1832; Joseph III in May 1834; Deservain in the mid- or late 1830s; Marie Victorine in June 1838; Azélie Angelina in January 1839; Pauline in June 1840 but, called Pauline Adèle, died at age 15 1/2 (the recording priest said 16) in November 1855; Silvère or Sylvère Séraphin born in January 1843 but, called Séraphin, died at age 2 1/2 in August 1845; Adam Léon, called Léonie, born in April 1845; and Alfred Silvanie or Sylvanie in November 1847--10 children, five daughters and five sons, between 1830 and 1847.  Joseph, fils may have died near Labadieville, Assumption Parish, in March 1858.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Joseph died at "age 50 years."  He would have been a month shy of 51.  Daughters ... married into the Dubois, Gautreaux, Richard, and Thibodeaux families by 1870.  Two of Joseph, fils's sons also married by then, but not all of the lines endured. 

Second son Deservain married Victorine or Victoria, daughter of fellow Acadian Apollinaire Thibodeaux and his Creole wife Émilia Olivier, at the Labadieville church in August 1860.  Daughter Victoria Mary was born near Labadieville in December 1861.  During the War of 1861-65, Deservain was conscripted into Company C of the 1st Regiment Louisiana Heavy Artillery in October 1862 with other Assumption Parish men and was sent to the trenches at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  However, he did not live long enough to fight in the great siege there.  He died at Jackson, Mississippi, in March 1863, probably of disease, one of the many Assumption conscripts to perish in the war. 

Joseph, fils's fourth son Léonie married Evela, perhaps Marie Émelie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Bernard Landry and Baselisse Blanchard, at the Labadieville church in early May 1869.  Their son Jean Baptiste Alex was born near Labadieville in late May 1869; ... 

Joseph Marie's second son Jérôme married Henriette, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Louis Daigle and Marie Michel, at the Thibodauxville church in June 1832.  She evidently gave him no children, at least none who survived infancy.  Jérôme remarried to Rose or Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadian Cyrille Lacroix Hébert and his Creole wife Rosalie Chique, at the Thibodauxville church in January 1835.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joséphine Antoinette in January 1836; and Rosalie in c1839 but died at age 1 1/2 in January 1841.  Jérôme remarried again--his third marriage--to Adélaïde or Adèle, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Delaune and Julie Hébert, at the Thibodaux church in December 1841.  They settled on the upper bayou near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Tulles in November 1840, nearly a year before his parents' marriage, but, called Jules Joseph, died at age 2 1/2 (the recording priest said 4) in September 1843; Adam Adélard born in October 1842; Joseph in January 1845; Julie Marguerite in January 1847; Odilia in September 1848; Jean Baptiste in September 1850; Marie Angélique in February 1854[sic]; Nemie Victoria in August 1854[sic]; Anne Anaïs in September 1856; and Alexandre Aurelien near Attakapas Canal, Assumption Parish, in June 1858--a dozen children, seven daughters and five sons, by two of his wives, between 1836 and 1858.  None of Jérôme's children married by 1870. 

Joseph Marie's third son Charles Maxille, called Maxile, married Marie Phelonise, called Phelonise, daughter of André Vaise, Variste, or Waise and Madeleine Labiche, at the Thibodauxville church in January 1837.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Orelien died 16 days after his birth in May 1838; Marie Iséma or Azéma, called Azéma, born in August 1839; Huma or Numa Williamson in September 1840; Zulma Philomène in July 1842; Ernest Justin in January 1844 but, called Ernest, died at age 1 1/2 in October 1845; Bernard Hippolyte, called Hippolyte, born in June 1847; Marie Ema in March 1852; Hermine Joséphine in January 1855; and Ernest Anatole in January 1857--nine children, five sons and four daughters, between 1838 and 1857.  Daughters Azéma and Zulma married into the Naquin and Lacoste families by 1870.  Two of Maxile's sons also married by then, one of them after his war service. 

During the War of 1861-65, second son Numa served in Company H of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Terrebonne Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  After returning to his family, Numa married Zéolide, daughter of fellow Acadians Sylvère Blanchard and Célise LeBlanc, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in January 1866.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Joseph Wilfried in October 1866; Marie Letitia in October 1867; Joséphine Eva in April 1869; ... 

Charles Maxille's fourth son Hippolyte married Mathilde, daughter of André Brien and Marie Domingue, at the Houma church in December 1868; the marriage also was recorded in Lafourche Parish.  Their son André Félicien was born in Terrebonne Parish in October 1870; ...

Joseph Marie's fourth and youngest son Leufroi married Marguerite Eulalie, called Eulalie, daughter of fellow Acadian Arsène Hébert and his Creole wife Marguerite Cécile Judice, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in January 1842.  They settled at Corner View on New River Bayou, Ascension Parish, where Leufroi owned a plantation and operated a small sugarhouse.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Octave Crisse in January 1843; Joseph Gustave, called Gustave, in November 1844; Florentine Cécile, called Cécile, in September 1847; Joseph Frédéric in February 1850; Mames Théophile near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in August 1851; Arsène in Ascension Parish in December 1854; Anne in February 1857; Marguerite I. in July 1862, but, name unrecorded, died near Gonzales, Ascension Parish, at age 3 in August 1865; Marie Virginiae baptized, age unrecorded, at the Gonzales church in March 1865; ...  Leufroi died probably in Ascension Parish in 1900, in his early 80s.  Daughter Cécile married into the Landry family by 1870.  Leufroi's older sons served Louisiana during the War of 1861-65, and one of them married by 1870, after his military service. 

Oldest son Octave Crisse served in the Donaldsonville Artillery during the war.  Octave, who, according to Federal army records, had a light complexion, light hair, blue eyes, and stood five feet, eight inches tall, enlisted in the battery in September 1861, age 18.  Except for a wound suffered at the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, which resulted in a "furlough of indulgence" in early 1864, Octave remained with his unit throughout its service with General R. E. Lee's army in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania--one of Lee's Louisiana Tigers.  Octave, in fact, surrendered with Lee's army at Appomattox Courthouse in April 1865.  After the surrender, he and his comrades made their way home as best they could.  Octave, at age 22,  married cousin Olivia, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand Prudent Babin and Marguerite Celina Rivet, at New River, Ascension Parish, in October 1865; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  (Olivia's brother Pierre "Turiaffe" Babin had served with Octave in the Donaldsonville Canonniers.)  Octave and Olivia's children, born near Gonzales, included Marguerite Octavie in October 1866; Marie Ermite in June 1868; René Achille in November 1870; ...

Leufroi's second son Joseph Gustave, called Gustave, served with brother Octave in the Donaldsonville Artillery during the war.  Gustave, too young to enlist in 1861, joined the battery at New Orleans in April 1862, age 17, and soon was serving with his older brother in Virginia, so he, too, was one of General R. E. Lee's Louisiana Tigers.  Gustave served with the battery during its many marches, campaigns, and bloody battles until the final days of the war.  In April 1865, he was captured at Hatcher's Run, Virginia, the day Grant's army broke through the Confederate lines around Petersburg.  The Federals sent Gustave to nearby City Point and then to the prisoner-of-war camp at Point Lookout, Maryland.  Not until June was he allowed to take the oath of allegiance to the United States government.  After the Federals released him, he made his way home as best he could.  He did not marry by 1870. 

Dominique's third son Charles Romain married Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Robichaux and Marthe LeBlanc, at the Donaldson church in October 1808.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Euphémon dit Fémon in the late 1800s; Charles Marie in the early 1810s; Hélène in August 1812; Jean Baptiste in May 1817; Céleste in June 1822; Jean Pierre Narcisse, called Narcisse, in December 1825; Élisa in December 1828 but died at age 3 1/2 (the recording priest said 5) in September 1832; Adèle born in October 1832[sic]; and Eugène in December 1832[sic]--nine children, five sons and four daughters, between 1808 and 1832.  At age 54, Charles Romain remarried to Anne Pauline, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Marin Gautreaux and Marie Madeleine Thériot and widow of Borel Aycock, at the Thibodaux church in July 1842.  In October 1850, the federal census taker in Terrebonne Parish counted a single slave--a 20-year-old black female--on Chs. R. Boudreau's farm near Bayou Black.  Daughters ..., by his first wife, married into the Bourg and Olivier families.  Four of his sons also married and settled in Assumption, Lafourche Interior, and Terrebonne parishes. 

Oldest son Euphémon dit Fémon, by first wife Céleste Robichaux, married Carmélite Rosalie or Rosalie Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadian Louis Ambroise Dugas and his Creole wife Élise Barbe Berthelot, at the Thibodauxville church in April 1834.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Charley Marcelly in January 1835; Marcellite Agladie in August 1836; Lesida Roséma in February 1838; Clovis Fortunate in February 1840; Adrien Émile in June 1842; Émile Ozémé in November 1843; Jean Pierre in November 1845; Letitia Philomène in August 1848; and Désiré in the late 1840s--nine children, six sons and three daughters, between 1835 and the late 1840s.  Euphémon's wife, called Rosalie Carmélite by the recording priest, died near Labadieville, Assumption Parish, age 49, in April 1858.  Daughters Agladie and Letitia married into the Olivier and Legendre families by 1870.  Four of Euphémon's sons also married by then, two of them after they completed their military service, and settled in Terrebonne Parish. 

During the War of 1861-65, second son Clovis served in Company F of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Terrebonne Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  Clovis married Odilia, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Napoléon LeBlanc and his Creole wife Marie Pontiff, at the Chacahoula church, Terrebonne Parish, in December 1864, while he was still a Confederate soldier.  He survived the war and returned to his family.  In 1866, they were living near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, on the southwestern prairies, but moved to Lafourche Parish a few years later.  Daughter Marie Evellia was born in Lafourche Parish in November 1868; ...

During the war, Euphémon's third son Adrien Émile may have served with older brother Clovis in Company F of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry.  He survived the war, returned to his family, and married Zulma or Zulema, another daughter of Jean Napoléon LeBlanc and Marie Pontiff, at the Chacahoula church in January 1867.  Their son Alcide Numa was born near Chacahoula in February 1869; ... 

Euphémon's fourth son Émile Ozémé married Élizabeth, daughter of Philippe Darce and Emilina Dupré, at the Chacahoula church in July 1868.  Daughter Émelie Franceline was born near Chacahoula in April 1869; ...

Euphémon's sixth and youngest son Désiré married Luvinia, daughter of fellow Acadian Antoine Hébert and his Creole wife Véronique LeBoeuf, at the Chacahoula church in November 1865.  Their children, born near Chacahoula, included Ernestine Suvillia in December 1866; Amédé Ernest in August 1868; ... 

Charles Romain's second son Charles Marie, by first wife Céleste Robichaux, married Marie Mélasie, called Mélasie, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Olivier Gautreaux and his Creole wife Marie Berthelot, at the Thibodaux church in June 1843.  They settled on the upper bayou near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Oleus Noël in December 1844 but died in January 18 days after his birth; Marie Alphrida or Elfrida born in April 1846; Marcellus Joseph in May 1848; Alfred Bernard in July 1850; Laurent Fortunatisse in December 1852; Hillaire Silvair Célestin in April 1855; Charles Adrien baptized at the Labadieville church, age unrecorded, in August 1858; Lelia Justine born in September 1860; ...  Daughter Marie Elfrida married into the Aucoin family by 1870.  None of Charles Marie's sons married by then. 

Charles Romain's third son Narcisse, by first wife Céleste Robichaux, married Célestine Scholastique or Scholastique Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Gautreaux and his Creole wife Scholatique Pelletier, at the Thibodaux church in February 1847.  Their daughter Marie Célestine, called Célestine, was born in Lafourche Parish in March 1848.  Narcisse remarried to Ernestine, daughter of Désiré Boyer and Joséphine Haydel, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in June 1854.  She evidently gave him no children, at least none who survived infancy.  Narcisse remarried again--his third marriage--to Odilia, daughter of Hermogène Aycock and Rosalie Clause, at the Chacahoula church in February 1859.  Their children, born in Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes, included Charles Henry near Chacahoula in January 1860; Joseph Welly in Lafourche Parish in July 1861; ...  Daughter Célestine, by his first wife, married into the Bertrand family by 1870.  Neither of Narcisse's sons married by then. 

Charles Romain's fourth and youngest son Eugène, by first wife Céleste Robichaux, married Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Molaison and Marie Bourgeois, at the Houma church in February 1855.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Numa Aristide in December 1856; Marie Malvina in September 1858; Eugène Aristide near Chacahoula in August 1860; Joseph Beauregard in April 1862; twins Albert Marie and Allen Marie in January 1864; Laurea Anastasie in October 1865; Joseph Edgard in February 1868; Félix in January 1870; ... 

Dominique's fourth son Mathurin married Henriette, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Paul Bourgeois and Marguerite Babin, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1812.  Daughter Marie Doralise was born in Assumption Parish in June 1816.  Mathurin died in Lafourche Interior Parish in March 1817, age 28.  His succession, naming his 9-month-old daughter, was filed at the Lafourche Interior Parish courthouse six days after his death.  Daughter Marie Doralise married into the Daspit family.  Mathurin's line of the family, except for its blood, probably died with him.  

Dominique's fifth son Florentin Janvier married Marie Anne, daughter of André Deroche, Duroche, or Durocher, also called Castillian or Castillon, and his Acadian wife Marguerite Trahan, at the Plattenville church in June 1815.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Assumption and Lafourche Interior parishes.  Their children, born there, included Pauline Esther in July 1816; Jean Baptiste in April 1818; Anne Esther or Estelle, also called Estelle Anne, in March 1820; Mélanie in June 1821; twins Laurenza and Marianne in May 1823; Clotilde in June 1825; Joseph, also called Joseph Florentin, in January 1828; Joachim in March 1830; Paul Franclin, also called Léopold Franklin, in January 1833; Norbert in December 1835; and Micael or Michel Aglaé in May 1838--a dozen children, six daughters and six sons, between 1816 and 1838.  In his mid-50s, Florentin remarried to Clarisse, daughter of André Tregle and Marie Tregle and widow of François Deslattes, at the Thibodaux church in April 1849.  She evidently gave him no more children.  Daughters ..., by his first wife, married into the Aucoin, Babin, Darce, Exnicios, Fremin, Landry, LeBlanc, and Lirette families by 1870.  Five of Florentin's sons also married by then and settled in Terrebonne Parish, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Jean Baptiste, by first wife Marie Anne Deroche, married Marie Mélisaire, called Mélisaire, daughter of  Philippe Darce and Emilina Dupré, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in February 1844, and sanctified the marriage at the Thibodaux church in June 1846.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Terrebonne Parish counted seven slaves--three males and four females, all mulattoes except for one black, ranging in age from 50 to 4, living in a single house--on J. B. Boudreau's farm in the parish's 11th Ward.  One wonders if this was Jean Baptiste.  One also wonders if he fathered any children.

Florentin's second son Joseph Florentin, by first wife Marie Anne Deroche, may have married Marie Eveline Exnicios in the early 1850s.  Their children, born on the Lafourche and in Terrebonne Parish, included Robert in Assumption Parish in May 1852; Eveline Medora in Terrebonne Parish in July 1856; Pauline Rebecca in December 1858; Marie Malvina in May 1861; Henri Davis in November 1863; ...  None of Joseph Florentin's children married by 1870. 

Florentin's third son Joachim, by first wife Marie Anne Deroche, married Odile Cézaire, also called Clotile, 21-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Michel Daigle and his Creole wife Marie Carmélite Lirette, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in March 1852.  Their children, born on the southeastern bayous, included Ladoix François in Lafourche Parish in January 1853; Marianne Octavie in Terrebonne Parish in December 1854; Ella Aglaé in December 1854; Lisée in June 1859; Marie Leda in November 1861; ...  None of Joachim's children married by 1870. 

Florentin's fourth son Léopold Franklin, by first wife Marie Anne Deroche, married Zulma, daughter of Joseph Samain, Samani, or Sanami, also called James, and his Acadian wife Adèle Thibodeaux of Lafourche Parish, at the Houma church in August 1860.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Joseph Tucker in August 1861; Martial Rodolphe in July 1863; Félix Dalferese in May 1865; Jean Léopold in September 1867; Sidney Benoît in July 1870; ...

Florentin's fifth son Norbert, by first wife Marie-Anne Deroche, married Azéline, daughter of Henri Lirette and Marie Domingue of Terrebonne Parish, at the Houma church in February 1860.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Marie Victoria in January 1861; Marthias Henri in September 1862; Ernest Florentin in May 1864 but, called Florentin, died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 7 months, perhaps meaning 17 months) in August 1865; Henry Jean Baptiste born in May 1866; Marie Joséphine Osea in October 1868; ... 

Dominique's sixth son Zacharie le jeune married Angélique Eléonore, daughter of Pierre Berthelot and Anne Barbe Kerne, at the Plattenville church in January 1820.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Jean Pierre Zacharie, called Pierre, in November 1820; Joachim Rosémond in April 1824; Charles Useline or Eusilien in July 1825; Joseph Neuville, called Neuville, in November 1827; Valère in December 1829; Rosalie or Roseline Eugénie in September 1832; Delphine Azélie or Azélie Delphine in April 1836; and Trasimond Elgar in May 1838--eight children, six sons and two daughters, between 1820 and 1838.  Zacharie le jeune died in Lafourche Interior Parish in January 1839, age 39 (the recording priest said 40).  The first mass performed at Brûlé Labadie, now Labadieville, was in Zacharie's widow's home in 1842, so they must have lived near that community, down bayou from Plattenville.  In September 1850, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted seven slaves--four males and three females, all black, ages from 40 to 2--on Widow Zachary Boudreau's farm in the parish's Second Congressional District.  These probably were Angélique Berthelot's slaves.  Daughters Roseline and Azélie Delphine married into the Billard, Lesseigne, and Bourg families.  All six of Zacharie le jeune's sons married and settled in Assumption Parish, but not all of the lines endured.

Oldest son Jean Pierre Zacharie married Constance, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon LeBlanc and Julienne Hébert, at the Thibodaux church in May 1843.  They settled on the upper bayou near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie Azéma or Aséma in February 1844; Joachim O. in October 1846; Lorenza Uranie in March 1847 but died at age 3 1/2 (the recording priest said 4) in September 1850; Philomène Catherine in April 1849; Théodule Oleus in January 1851; Evariste Alfred in February 1853; and Julie in April 1855--seven children, four daughters and three sons, between 1844 and 1855.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Lafourche Interior Parish counted two slaves--a 21-year-old black female, and a 16-year-old black male--on Zacherie Boudreau's farm along Bayou Lafourche.  One wonders if this was Jean Pierre Zacharie.  He died near Labadieville, Assumption Parish, in June 1856.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who gave no parents' names nor mentioned a wife, said that Jean Pierre, as he called him, died at "age 37 years."  Jean Pierre Zacharie would have been age 35.  Daughter Aséma married into the Gros family at Vacherie in St. James Parish by 1870.  None of Jean Pierre Zacharie's sons married by then. 

Zacharie le jeune's second son Joachim Rosémond married Élodie, daughter of fellow Acadians Basile Dugas and Clarisse Robichaux, at the Thibodaux church in May 1845.  She evidently gave him no children.  Joachim Rosémond remarried to Zoé, daughter of Jean Baptiste Hymel and Uranie Madere of St. John the Baptist Parish, at the Labadieville church in May 1856.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Joachim Rosémond, fils in February 1857; Zoémie Euphémie in October 1858; Letitia Méoleda in October 1860; Angélique Joséphine in October 1862; Emma Myrtilia in January 1865; Émile Albert in December 1866; Julia Philomène in January 1869; ... 

Zacharie le jeune's third son Charles Eusilien married Virginie, daughter of fellow Acadians Euchariste Barrilleaux and Marguerite Mélanie Hébert, at the Thibodaux church in May 1848.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Jean Baptiste Oscar in May 1849; Léonore or Eléonore Mélanie in December 1850; and Théodule in December 1852--three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1849 and 1852.  Charles Eusilien died near Labadieville in August 1855.  The priest who recorded the burial, and did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Charles Euzelien died at "age 28 years."  He was 30.  Daughter Eléonore married into the Richard family by 1870.  Neither of Charles's sons married by then. 

Zacharie le jeune's fourth son Joseph Neuville, called Neuville, married Azélie, another daughter of Basile Dugas and Clarisse Robichaux, at the Thibodaux church in March 1848.  They settled on the upper Lafourche, near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Philomène Emma, called Emma, near Labadieville in January 1849; Victorine Julie in February 1850; and Irma Élodie in September 1852--three children, all daughters, between 1849 and 1852.  In August 1860, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted a single slave--a 40-year-old mulatto male--on Neuville Boudreaux's farm in the parish's Sixth Ward on Bayou Lafourche.  One wonders if this was him.  Daughters Emma and Victoire married into the Boudreaux and Fremin families by 1870.  Neuville evidently fathered no sons, but the blood of the family line endured. 

Zacharie le jeune's fifth son Valère married Marie, daughter of Pierre Juneau or Junot, also called Bellegarde, and his Acadian wife Hortense Gautreaux, at the Thibodaux church in January 1853.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Joseph Franklin in January 1854 but, called Franklin, died at age 1 1/2 in May 1855; Evelina or Eveline Delphine born in June 1855; Ernest Cletus in February 1857; Victoria in October 1860; Lidia Mary in August 1862; Aubert Apollinaire in July 1864; Bapt., probably Baptiste, Klebert Bernard in November 1867; Pierre Allen in July 1868; Henri Devillier in June 1870; ...  None of Valère's children married by 1870. 

Zacharie le jeune's sixth and youngest son Trasimond Elgar married Florentine or Florestine, daughter of fellow Acadian Cyrille Mathurin Hébert and his Creole wife Célesie Percle, at the Labadieville church in January 1860.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Treophim Oscar in December 1860; Asélie Roséma in August 1862; Jean Baptiste Adam in August 1864; Sostène Neuville in November 1866; Zacharie Adolphe in October 1870; ...

Dominique's seventh son Jean Pierre, called Pierre, married Anne Joséphine or Joséphine Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Olivier Gautreaux and Julie Arcement, at the Thibodauxville church in November 1821.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Assumption and Lafourche Interior parishes.  Their children, born there, included Azélie Julie in October 1823; Marie Clémentine in February 1825; Joséphine Domitille in September 1826; Pierre, fils died an hour after his birth in June 1828; Jean Pierre, fils born in July 1829 but died at age 12 in October 1841; Valère Florantin born in October 1831; Marie Élodie in November 1833; Pauline Augustine in January 1836 but died at age 2 in March 1828; Désiré Silver or Sylvère born in July 1837; Marselien or Marcillien Olézime or Olésime, called Olésime, in January 1843; and Maurice Silvanie or Sylvain, also Sylvain Maurice, in September 1839--11 children, five daughters and six sons, between 1823 and 1839.  Pierre died in Assumption Parish in August 1859.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Pierre died at "age 55 years."  He was 58.  Daughters ... married into the Barrilleaux, Dugas, Jolibois, and Peltier families by 1870.  Three of Pierre's sons also married by then, two of them after completing their war service.  One of them died in Confederate service. 

Third son Valère Florantin married cousin Roséma, daughter of Jean Pierre Juneau or Junot and his Acadian wife Élise Arcement, at the Labadieville church in January 1860.  Daughter Oceana Zulma was born in Assumption Parish in November 1860.  During the War of 1861-65, Valière, as he was called, according to wartime records, had a dark complexion, black hair, brown eyes, and stood five feet, eight inches tall.  He may have been conscripted into Company C of the 1st Regiment Louisiana Heavy Artillery in October 1862 with other Assumption Parish men, including younger brothers Olésime and Maurice and first cousin Gervais Boudreaux.  Along with his regiment, Valière served at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  When Union General U. S. Grant's army captured the regiment at Vicksburg in July 1863, most of its conscripts, including Valière, refused to accept parole.  The Federals sent him and his fellow gunners to Gratiot Street Prison in St. Louis, Missouri, before transferring them to the prisoner-of-war camp at Camp Morton, Indiana.  Perhaps to shorten his stay in the dreadful place, Valière, with other survivors from his unit, took the oath of allegiance to the United States government in early January 1865--months before the war ended.  The Federals released them after they took the oath, and they made their way home as best they could.  Valière remarried to double cousin Célestine, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Valentin Boudreaux and Carmélite Scholastique Gautreaux, at the Labadieville church in December 1866. ...

During the war, Jean Pierre's fifth son Marcillien Olésime, called Olésine in Confederate records, may have been conscripted into Company C of the 1st Regiment Louisiana Heavy Artillery in October 1862 with other Lafourche/Terrebonne valley men, including brothers Maurice and Valière and first cousin Gervais Boudreaux.  When Grant's army captured the regiment at Vicksburg, Mississippi, in July 1863, most of its conscripts, including Olésime, refused parole.  Military records lose him after the surrender, but the Federals probably sent him, along with many of his fellow gunners, to Gratiot Street Prison in St. Louis, Missouri, before transferring them to the prisoner-of-war compound at Camp Morton, Indiana.  Marcillien Olésime survived the war, returned to this family, and married Anastasie, daughter of Victorin Keller and Marie Roussel, at the Labadieville church in April 1867.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Lafourche and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Thompson in January 1868; Mary Céleste in July 1870; ... 

Jean Pierre's sixth and youngest son Maurice Sylvain, at age 20, married cousin Myrté, daughter of fellow Acadians Joachim Mire and Célesie Gautreaux, at the Labadieville church in April 1860; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their son Maurice Delmo was born in Assumption Parish in May 1861.  During the war, Maurice was conscripted into Company C of the 1st Regiment Louisiana Heavy Artillery in October 1862 with other Assumption Parish men, including older brothers Valière and Olésime and first cousin Gervais Boudreaux.  Along with his regiment, Maurice served at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  When Grant's army captured them at Vicksburg in July 1863, most of the regiment's conscripts, including Maurice, refused to accept parole.  The Federals sent him and his fellow gunners to Gratiot Street Prison in St. Louis, Missouri, before transferring them to the prisoner-of-war camp at Camp Morton, Indiana.  Unlike his brothers and cousin, however, Maurice did not survive the terrible conditions at Camp Morton.  He died there, probably of disease, in September 1863, age 24. 

Dominique's eighth son Anselme, at age 19, married Marie Modeste, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Gautreaux and Marie Duhon, at the Thibodauxville church in January 1825.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, incuded Pierre Leufroi, called Leufroi, in November 1826; Marie Rosalie in December 1827 but, called Rosalie Marie, died at age 3 1/2 in September 1831; Marie Élise born in September 1829; Charles Anselme in August 1832; Lucien Théodule in October 1833 but died at age 14 months in January 1835; Marie Agladie born in August 1835; Pierre Dosilia in February 1837; Marguerite Eveline in November 1841; Émile Athanase in May 1843; Oleus Apollinaire in December 1844; and Marie Philomène in late November 1848 but died at age 3 months (the recording priest said two hours!) in late February 1849--11 children, six sons and five daughters, between 1826 and 1848.  Anselme, at age 44, remarried to Marie Eve, daughter of François Percle and Marie Louise Triche and widow of Peltier Barthélémi, at the Thibodaux church in August 1849.  She evidently gave him no more children.  Anselme, at age 51, remarried again--his third marriage--to Marie, daughter of Jean Lacoste and Marie Lacoste, at the Plattenville church in April 1856.  She also seems to have given him no more children.  Daughters ..., by his first wife, married into the Bourg, Davis, Lagrange, and Thibodeaux families by 1870.  Two of Anselme's remaining sons also married by then and settled in the Lafourche valley.

Oldest son Leufroi, by first wife Marie Modeste Gautreaux, married Adèle, daughter of fellow Acadians Firmin Thibodeaux and Carmélite Robichaux, at the Thibodaux church in June 1847.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie Émée, called Émée, near Labadieville, Assumption Parish, in November 1848; Emma in April 1850; Émile Trasimond in October 1852; Laurent in October 1854; Marie Laura in July 1856; Jean Baptiste in November 1858; Jean in March 1860; Clairville Ovide in November 1862; ...  Daughter Émée married into the Hébert family by 1870.  None of Leufroi's sons married by then. 

Anselme's second son Charles, by first wife Marie Modeste Gautreaux, married Séraphine, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Arcement and his Creole wife Césaire Lagrange, at the Thibodaux church in June 1855.  Their children, born in Assumption Parish, included Emma Orfida near Attakapas Canal in Decembe 1858; Zulma Odilia in January 1861; Nycée Augustine in April 1863; Telesmar Adrien in January 1866; Léo Émile in March 1868; ... 

Dominique's ninth and youngest son Paul le jeune married Marie Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Guillaume Gautreaux and Françoise Victoire Aucoin, at the Thibodauxville church in February 1832.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Pauline in January 1833; Paul, fils in September 1835; Gervais in c1836; Rosilia Ofilia in March 1838; Marie died at age 3 months in October 1840; Marguerite Philomène, Philomène, born in July 1842; Marie Azélie, called Azélie, in January 1845; Désiré in July 1846; Marie Uranie in July 1849; and Artur Oscar in March 1855 but, called Arthur, died at age 4 1/2 (the recording priest said 5) in August 1859--10 children, six daughters and four sons, between 1833 and 1855.  Daughters Azélie, Marie, Philomène, ... married into the Hébert, Boudreaux, Peltier, and Junot families, one of them on the western prairies, by 1870.  Two of Paul le jeune's sons also married by then and settled on the upper Lafourche.

Second son Gervais married Odilia, daughter of Jean Baptiste Juneau or Junot and his Acadian wife Henriette Hébert, at the Labadieville church in February 1859.  He and sister Philomène, in fact, married siblings on the same day, at the same place.  Gervais and Odilia's children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Ritus Cléophas, called Cléopha, in October 1860; Marie Hilma in November 1865; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Gervais, who, according to wartime records, had a light complexion, brown hair, blue eyes, and stood five feet, four inches tall, was, around age 26, conscripted into Company C of the 1st Regiment Louisiana Heavy Artillery in October 1862 with other Assumption Parish men, including first cousins Valière, Olésime, and Maurice Boudreaux.  Along with his regiment, Gervais served at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  When Grant's army captured the regiment at Vicksburg in July 1863, most of its conscripts, including Gervais and his cousins, refused parole.  The Federals sent them and their fellow gunners to Gratiot Street Prison in St. Louis, Missouri, before transferring them to the prisoner-of-war camp at Camp Morton, Indiana.  Perhaps to shorten his stay in the dreadful place, Gervais, with other survivors from his unit, took the oath of allegiance to the United States government in early January 1865, months before the war ended.  The Federals released them after they took the oath, and they made their way home as best they could.  U.S. records show that Gervais was being held by the provost marshal in Washington, D.C., in July 1865.  The record calls him one of the "refugees & rebel deserters" to be furnished transportation to Ascension Parish, Louisiana.  After the war, Gervais settled in Assumption Parish before moving to the western prairies.  He and his family were living in Lafayette Parish in the late 1860s and moved down to the Lydia/Jeanerette area of Iberia Parish on lower Bayou Teche.  Gervais died in Iberia Parish and was buried at St. Peter Catholic Cemetery, New Iberia. 

Paul le jeune's third son Désiré married Eulalie, daughter of Édouard Lagrange and Mélasie Lagrange, at the Labadieville church in September 1869.  Daughter Julie Alcida was born near Labadieville in Augusts 1870; ...

Zacharie's sixth son Charles, by first wife Marguerite Daigre, followed his family to Poitou and Nantes.  He married Marie-Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Gautrot and his second wife Anne Pitre, probably in St.-Nicolas Parish there in c1784.  Marie-Anne gave Charles a son, Charles-Marie, born in St.-Nicolas Parish in March 1785.  Soon after their son's birth, they followed his father, stepmother, his younger brother, and his stepbrother to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche.  The couple evidently had no more children in the colony.  Charles died in Lafourche Interior Parish in May 1833, age 69.  His son married and settled on the upper bayou. 

Only son Charles Marie followed his parents to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Victoire Claire, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Aucoin and Isabelle Henry, in June 1805.  Victoire Claire, a native of Chantenay near Nantes, also had come to Louisiana in 1785, aboard the first of the Seven Ships.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Valéry Charles in April 1806; Roséline, also called Marie Rosaline, in August 1807; Rosémond in December 1809; and Élise Basilise in January 1812 but, called Marguerite Élise by the recording priest, died at age 23 in February 1835.  Charles Marie remarried to Rosalie Dorothée, daughter of François Aysenne and Marie Theresa Smith of St. Charles Parish, at the Plattenville church in November 1815.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included François Alexis or Laisin in February 1817 but died at age 18 in September 1835; Gervais Valsin or Ursin, called Valsin, born in June 1818; Louis in February 1820; Julienne Clémentine, called Clémentine, in May 1821; Emelina in c1823 but died at age 11 in May 1834; Élise Joséphine, called Joséphine, born in July 1826; and Maurice in June 1828 but died at age 3 in August 1831--11 children, six sons and five daughters, by two wives, between 1806 and 1828.  Charles Marie died in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1835, age 50.  Daughters Marie Rosaline, Clémentine, and Joséphine, by both wives, married into the Percle, Aucoin, and Gros families by 1870.  Four of Charles Marie's sons also married by then and settled in Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Valéry Charles, by first wife Victoire Claire Aucoin, married cousin Théotiste, daughter of fellow Acadians Hyacinthe Laurent Aucoin and Marie Céleste Delaune, at the Thibodauxville church in June 1832.  Their son Valéry Désiré was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in July 1833 but, called Désiré, died at age 18 in June 1851.  Valéry, called Valérie by the recording priest, died in Assumption Parish in June 1860, age 54 (the recording priest said 55).  His family line died with him. 

Charles Marie's second son Rosémond, by first wife Victoire Claire Aucoin, married Marie Carmélite, called Carmélite and Mélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Vincent Landry and Marie Madeleine Bourg, at the Thibodauxville church in May 1832.  They settled on the upper bayou near the boundary of Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie Honorie or Honorine in February 1833 but died the following October; Marie Domithilde died at age 2 months in December 1834; Orelia Azéline, also called Céline and Célenie, born in November 1835; Marie Urcenie or Ursenie, called Ursenie, in October 1838; Trasimond Désiré in October 1840 but, called Trasimond, died at age 8 1/2 in May 1849; Marie Desie or Deside, called Desie, born in April 1843; Mirthea Léontine in August 1846; Odile or Adèle probably in the late 1840s; and Roséma Myrtilia in March 1849--nine children, eight daughters and a son, between 1833 and 1849.  Rosémond died in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1850, age 40.  A petition for a "Family meeting," naming his wife Carmélite and listing his children--Ursenie, Céline, Marie Deside, and Odile--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in May 1851.  Daughters Céline/Célenie, Desie, and Adèle/Odile married into the Bouvet, Himel, Breaux, and Prejean families by 1870, one of them, Desie, twice, so the blood of the family line endured. 

Charles Marie's fourth son Valsin, by second wife Rosalie Aysenne, married Dauphine or Delphine, daughter of Jean Lagrange and his Acadian wife Marie Hébert, at the Thibodaux church in November 1838.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Séraphin Léonis in September 1839; Séraphine Odilia born in February 1841 but, called Séraphine, died at age 8 1/2 (the recording priest said 9), in October 1849; Roséma Elphinda or Elfrida dite Frida born in April 1842; Silvert or Sylvère Ernest, called Ernest, in April 1844; Auguste in August 1846; Camille in June 1849; Julies Xavier in January 1852; Marie Aurelia in April 1854; and Joseph Auguste perhaps posthumously in August 1861--nine children, six sons and three daughters, between 1839 and 1861.  Valsin may have died in Assumption Parish in December 1860.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Valsin died at "age 40 years."  He would have been a couple of years older.  Daughter Frida married a Boudreaux cousin by 1870.  Two of Valsin's sons also married by then.

Second son Ernest married cousin Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Boudreaux and Marie Gautreaux, at the Labadieville church in January 1869.  Daughter Marie Alida was born near Labadieville in March 1870; ...

Valsin's third son Auguste married cousin Eveline, daughter of Rosémond Lagrange and his Acadian wife Léocade Aucoin, at the Labadieville church in January 1868; they had to secure a dispensation for fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry. ...

Charles Marie's fifth son Louis, by second wife Rosalie Aysenne, married cousin Pauline, daughter of fellow Acadians Noël Victor Boudreaux and Rosalie LeBlanc, at the Thibodaux church in September 1839.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Louise Roséma in June 1840; Louis Émile in September 1843; Adrien Justimin in August 1845 but, called Adrien, died at age 2 in September 1847; Carmélite, perhaps theirs, died in Assumption Parish, no age given, in October 1846; Joseph Aubin born in September 1847; and Ernest in October 1849 but died the following February--six children, two daughters and four sons, between 1840 and 1849.  Wife Pauline died in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1852, age 32.  Louis may have died in Assumption Parish the following October.  The Plattenville priest who recorded the burial did not give any parents' names, mention a wife, or give Louis's age at the time of his passing.  If this was Louis, son of Charles Marie, he would have been age 33.  Daughter Louise married into the Gros family by 1870.  None of Louis's sons married by then. 

Zacharie's eighth and youngest son Benjamin-Hilaire or Hilaire-Benjamin, by first wife Marguerite Daigre, followed his family to Poitoiu and Nantes and his father, stepmother, a married brother, and a stepbrother to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche.  He married Anne-Isabelle, called Isabelle, daughter of Anselme Ferguson and Usina Berry of Virginia, at San Gabriel on the river, where his oldest brother had settled, in July 1790, but Benjamin and Isabelle did not remain there.  They settled on the upper Lafourche next to his older brother Charles.  Their children, born there, included twins Charles-Maximilien and Marie-Josèphe in May 1791; Paul-Valentin, called Valentin, in January 1792; Auguste-Guillaume, called Guillaume, in c1794; Marie-Victoire-Ignacia in March 1795 and baptized the New Orleans church the following year; Rosalie born in March 1798; Carmélite-Eugènie or Eugènie-Carmélite in May 1800; Théotiste in January 1802; and Zacharie Hyacinthe in May 1804--nine children, four sons and five daughters, including a set to twins, between 1791 and 1804.  Daughters Marie Josèphe, Marie Ignacia, Théotiste, Eugénie Carmélite, and Rosalie married into the Callahan, Fromental, Duroche, Fait, Berthelot, and Duhon families.  Benjamin Hilaire's sons also married, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Charles Maximilien, called Maximilien, a twin, married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Foret and Marie Madeleine Blanchard, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1827.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Joséphine in April 1829; and Élie Maximilien or Maximilien Élie, called Maximilien, fils and Maximin, in April 1831.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted two slaves--a 30-year-old black female and a 12-year-old black male--on Chs. Maximin Boudreaux's farm in the parish's Second Congressional District.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted five slaves--two males and three females, all mulattoes, ages 47 to a few months, living in one house--on Emilien Boudreaux's farm in the parish's Fourth Ward.  Was this Maximilien, or son Maximilien, fils?  Maximilien, père died in Assumption Parish in October 1868.  The Plattenville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Maximilien died at "age 84 years, 5 months."  He was 77.  Daughter Marie Joséphine married into the Frioux family.  Maximilien's son also created his own family.

Only son Élie Maximilien or Maximilien Élie, called Maximilien, fils, married Eugénie Émilie, daughter of fellow Acadians Mathurin Bourg and Léocade LeBlanc, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Parish, in April 1853.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Lorenza in February 1854; René Émile Barthélémy in August 1855; Fidelis Welfride Maximilien in August 1858 but, name omitted, died at age 6 in November 1864; a newborn, name unrecorded, perhaps theirs, died in Assumption Parish in February 1860; Amadéo Maximin baptized at the Labadieville church, age unrecorded, in August 1862; a son, name and age unrecorded, died in August 1863; Emma Irma born in June 1864; Adam Aubert Élie in May 1866; Jules Nelson in July 1869; ...  None of Maximilien, fils's children married by 1870. 

Benjamin Hilaire's second son Paul Valentin, called Valentin, married Catherine, daughter of Pierre Berthelot and Anne Barbe Kerne, at the Plattenville church in January 1816; Catherine's brother married one of Valentin's sisters.  Valentin and Catherine's daughter Pauline Célesie was born on the upper Lafourche in June 1818.  Paul Valentin remarried to Carmélite Scholastique, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Marin Gautreaux and Marie-Madeleine Thériot, at the Thibodauxville church in April 1828.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Auguste Valmond in August 1829; Silvère or Sylvère Benjamin in June 1831; Urbin or Urbain Vileor in May 1833; Didie, evidently a daughter, in 1835 but died at age 8 months in January 1836; Antoinette Azélina born in June 1837; Marie Célestine, called Célestine, in December 1841; and Émile Homer in November 1843--eight children, four daughters and four sons, by two wives, between 1818 and 1843.  Valentin, called Paul Volentin by the recording priest, died near Labadieville in June 1862.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Paul Valentin died at "age 74 years."  He was 70.  Daughters Célestine, ..., by both wives, married into the Boudreaux, Bergeron, and Juneau families by 1870.  Three of Valentin's sons also married by then and settled in Assumption and Lafourche parishes. 

Oldest son Auguste, by second wife Carmélite Gautreaux, married Azélie Mélasie, called Mélasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Faustin Delaune and Marie Marguerite Aucoin, at the Thibodaux church in February 1851.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Jean Baptiste Henry in November 1853; Auguste Volcar in June 1856; Léontine Judith in August 1861; Urbain Luc in November 1865; Marie Augusta in Lafourche Parish in January 1870; ...  None of Auguste's children married by 1870. 

Valentin's second son Sylvère Benjamin, by second wife Carmélite Gautreaux, married cousin Malvina, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Naquin and Marie Adèle Boudreaux, at the Thibodaux church in February 1853.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Adam Léonie Henri in January 1855; Émelia Evélina in November 1856; Joseph Auguste in June 1858; Paul Mirtile in February 1861; ...  None of Sylvère's children married by 1870. 

Valentin's third son Urbain, by second wife Carmélite Gautreaux, married Delvina or Elvina, daughter of Jean Lagrange and his Acadian wife Marie Hébert, at the Thibodaux church in April 1853.  They settled on the upper bayou near the boundary between Lafourche and Assumption parishes.  Daughter Arselia Rosina was born in January 1856 but, called Alcilien, died at "age 2 months, 20 days" near Labadieville, Assumption Parish, in March, so not even the blood of the family line endured.

Benjamin Hilaire's third son Auguste Guillaume married Marguerite Françoise, called Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Olivier Gautreaux and Julie Arcement, at the Thibodauxville church in April 1820.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Mélasie in March 1821; a child, name unrecorded, in c1822 but died at age 6 months in February 1823; Théodule born in February 1823; twins Maximen Apollinaire, called Apollinaire, and Pauline Clotine or Clautilde in October 1825, but both of them died on the same day, age 7, in September 1832; Jean Valmond Éloi, called Éloi, born in January 1828; Benjamin Silvanie or Sylvain, also Sylvain Benjamin, in July 1829 but, called Silvanie Binjamin, died at age 2 in September 1831; Théoliste or Théotiste Azélie born in April 1831; Marie Marguerite in October 1835; Louis Jules in October 1837; Maxinien or Maximien in December 1839 but, called Delphi Maximin, died at age 8 1/2 in June 1848; Joséphine born in September 1841; Augustin in c1842 but died at age 1 1/2 in August 1844; Azélie Rosalie born in September 1844; and Laure Victorine in November 1851--15 children, at least seven daughters and seven sons, including a set of twins, between 1821 and 1851, many of whom died young.  Auguste Guillaume, called Guillaume by the recording priest, who also named his wife, died in Lafourche Parish in September 1861, age 67.  Daughters Théotiste, Marie, Joséphine, and Azélie married into the Rousseau, Park, Clement, and Gros families by 1870.  Two of Auguste Guillaume's remaining sons also married by then and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche. 

Third son Éloi married Séraphine, daughter of fellow Acadian Élie Aucoin and his Creole wife Marie Marine, at the Thibodaux church in May 1848.  They settled in Assumption Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie in March 1849; and Marie Myrtilia Lidia in July 1858.  Daughter Marie married into the Gros family by 1870.  One wonders if Éloi fathered any sons.  

Guillaume's fifth son Louis Jules married Sylvanie, daughter of Michel Sevin and his Acadian wife Théotiste Hébert, at the Thibodaux church in May 1861.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joseph Jules Aurelien in March 1862; Félix Clebert in February 1863; Cléophas in December 1864; Marie Élena in February 1867; Marie Marguerite in February 1869; Thomas Aurelien in December 1870; ...

Benjamin Hilaire's fourth and youngest son Zacharie Hyacinthe married Marguerite Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Landry and Marie Madeleine Bourg, at the Plattenville church in August 1829.  One wonders if they were that rare Acadian couple who had no children. 

Marin (c1732-1786) à Claude à Michel Boudreaux

Marin, oldest son of Étienne Boudrot and Marie-Claire Aucoin, born at Minas in c1732, followed his family to Virginia and England.  After the war, in May 1763, he followed his younger brothers Charles and Étienne, fils to St.-Malo, France, aboard La Dorothée.  He settled with them at Pleudihen-sur-Rance on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo, where he married Pélagie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Barrieau and Véronique Girouard, in May 1765.  Pélagie gave Marin four children in the Pleudihen area:  Joseph-Marie born at Mordreuc in July 1767; Anastasie-Marie in May 1769 but died the following September; Jean-Basile born in July 1770; and Étienne le jeune in May 1772.  Marin took his family to Poitou in 1773, where Pélagie gave him another son,  Pierre-Anne, born in c1773.  They also buried two of their older sons in Poitou:  Jean-Basile in St.-Jean l'Evangeliste Parish, Châtellerault, age 4, in October 1774; and Joseph-Marie, age 7, there a few days later.  In December 1775, after two years of effort, Marin, Pélagie, and their two remaining sons retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes.  Pélagie gave Marin four more children in St.-Jacques Parish there:  Jean-Pierre born in April 1776 but died at age 1 1/2 in February 1778; Marie-Pélagie born in March 1778 but died at age 2 in June 1780; Joseph born in October 1780 but died at age 1 1/2 in March 1782; and Marie-Anne born in September 1783--nine children, six sons and three daughters, between 1767 and 1783, most of whom died young.  They also buried another son, Pierre-Anne, in St.-Jacques Parish September 1781, age 8.  Marin and Pélagie took their two remaining children, a son and a daughter, to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 and followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Marin died there in October 1786, age 54, less than a year after his arrival.  Pélagie died soon after.  Daughter Marie Anne married into the Pitre family in the Spanish colony.  Marin and Pélagie's remaining son also married there and created a vigorous line.

Third son Étienne le jeune followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and upper Bayou Lafourche.  After his parents died, Étienne le jeune, still in his teens, moved in with his paternal uncle Étienne Boudrot, fils, who also lived on the bayou.  Étienne le jeune married Ursule-Olive, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Doiron and Anne Breau, at Assumption on the upper Lafourche in March 1794.  Ursule, a native of St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo, had sailed to Louisiana from France on an earlier vessel.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between the Ascension and Valenzuela districts.  Their children, born there, included Étienne-Magloire, called Magloire, in November 1794 but died at age 26 in December 1821; Jean-Parfait born in c1797; Marie-Émilie or Émilie-Marie in January 1798; David-Valentin in January 1801; Marin le jeune in c1802; Maria, also called Marie Adèle, baptized at Assumption, age unrecoverable, in March 1804; Constant born in March 1805; Zéphirin dit Zéphir Supriano in August 1806; Victoire Adèle in October 1807; Marie Marguerite in November 1812; and Anne Pélagie in the 1810s--11 children, six sons and five daughters, between 1794 and the 1810s.  Étienne le jeune died in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1833, age 61.  Daughters Émilie Marie, Marie Adèle, Victoire Adèle, and Anne Pélagie married into the Boudreaux, Trosclair, and Bergeron families.  Five of Étienne le jeune's sons also married and settled in Lafourche Interior Parish, but not all of the lines endured.  Some of his grandsons settled on lower Bayou Teche after the War of 1861-65. 

Second son Jean Parfait, in his early 20s, married Marguerite Françoise or Françoise Marguerite, 17-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Naquin and Anne Théotiste Robichaux, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in July 1819.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Anne Rosalie or Rosalie Anne in c1819; Odate Worbertine, probably a son, in January 1822; Arsène Symphonier or Symphorien, called Symphorien, in August 1823; Cléonise Cléophine or Bathilde in March 1825; Marie Aveline or Eveline in April 1827; Jean Hermogène, called Hermogène, in January 1829; Cléophas Lovinsis or Lovenci in June 1831; Ferdinand in June 1833; Elisida Adèle in December 1835; Siphorien or Symphorien Amédée, called Amédée, in February 1837; and Isidore Parfait in April 1840.  Wife Marguerite Françoise died in Lafourche Interior Parish in April 1840, age 38, probably from the rigors of childbirth.  Her succession inventory, naming her husband and listing their children--Rosalie Anne, "about 20 yrs.," and her husband; Adèle Ubertile, age 19, and her husband; Cléonice Eveline, age 17; Arsène Siphorien, age "about 15 yrs."; Clélie Cléophine, age 13; Jean Hermogène, age 12; Cléophas Lovinski, age 10; Ferdinand, age "about 8 yrs."; Adèle Elezida, age "about 6 yrs."; Amédée Syphorein, age "about 4 yrs."; and Isidore Parfait, age "about 1 yr."--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in April 1841.  A petition for family meeting in wife Marguerite's name, naming her husband and listing their children--Rosalie and her husband, Adèlle and her husband, Syphorien, Clonise and her husband, Clélie and her husband, Armogène, Cléopha, Elisiela, Ferdinand, Amédé, and Jean[sic] Parfait--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in December 1846.  Meanwhile, Jean Parfait remarried to Léocade, daughter of Noël Delatte and Marie Rodrigue and widow of Sylvère Trosclair, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in September 1841.  Their children, born on the bayou, included Marie Eve or Evela, called Evela, in January 1842; and Madeleine in July 1844--13 children, seven sons and six daughters, by two wives, between 1822 and 1844.  Jean Parfait died in Lafourche Interior Parish in April 1848.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Jean died "at age 52 yrs."  Daughters Anne Rosalie, Marie Eveline, Cléonise Bathilde, and Evela, by both wives, married into the Kerne, Robertson, Callaghan, and Trosclair families, including two Kerne brothers, by 1870.  Six of Jean Parfait's sons also married by then and settled in Assumption, Lafourche Interior, and Terrebonne parishes, but not all of the lines endured. 

Second son Symphorien, by first wife Marguerite Naquin, married Madeleine, also called Lissie, daughter of André Elte, Helde, Helt, or Helte and Azélie Folse, at the Thibodaux church in January 1845.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Alexandre Ernest in March 1846; Evariste in October 1849; Justinien Léo in September 1851; and Louis André in October 1853.  Symphorien remarried to Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Guillaume Arcement and his Creole wife Marianne Aysenne, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in May 1856.  Their son Antoine Anatole was born in Assumption Parish in March 1857--five children, all sons, by two wives, between 1846 and 1857.  None of Symphorien's sons married by 1870. 

Jean Parfait's third son Hermogène, by first wife Marguerite Naquin, married Élisabeth, also called Hélène, daughter of Georges Whan, also called Borne, Down, Hunt, Hoin, Oine, Toine, Wane, Wine and Scholastique Falk, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in July 1849, and sanctified the marriage at the Thibodaux church in June 1850.  They lived on the upper bayou near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Lovinci Hippolyte in August 1850; Sylvain in January 1852; Clovis Parfait in May 1854; Jean Hermogène in August 1856; Léon Joseph in December 1859; Philibert Émile in February 1862; Arthur Anatole in January 1866; Sera Philomène Silvenia in December 1869; ...  None of Hermogène's children married by 1870. 

Jean Parfait's fourth son Cléophas, by first wife Marguerite Naquin, married Pauline, another daughter of Georges Whan and Scholastique Falk, at the Thibodaux church in January 1851.  They also settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Odile Evélina or Evéline in June 1852; Jean Cletus in February 1855; Célina in March 1857; Marie Angelina in April 1859 but died at age 1 1/2 in August 1860; Philomène Adoliska born in April 1863; Alfred in November 1865; Marie in January 1868; ...  Daughter Evélina married into the Peltier family by 1870.  None of Cléophas's sons married by then. 

Jean Parfait's fifth son Ferdinand, by first wife Marguerite Naquin, married Honorine Loland probably in Assumption Parish in the early 1850s.  Their children, born in Assumption Parish, included Marie Justilia in June 1853; Julia Joséphine in July 1855; and Marie Aurelia posthumously in December 1857--three children, all daughters, between 1853 and 1857.  Ferdinand died near Attakapas Canal, Assumption Parish, in August 1857, age 24.  None of his daughters married by 1870. 

Jean Parfait's sixth son Amédée, by first wife Marguerite Naquin, married Irène, daughter of fellow Acadians Edmond Hébert and Clémentine Dubois, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in July 1856, and sanctified the marriage at the Chacahoula church, Terrebonne Parish, in April 1857.  Their children, born on the southeastern bayous, included Marie Elisida or Elezida, called Elezida, in Lafourche Parish in August 1857; Uranie Marguerite near Chacahoula in October 1858; Adèle Evelina, called Evelina, in March 1861; Sylvère Faustin in Terrebonne Parish in June 1863; Emedilia in c1865; and Léontine in April 1866--six children, five daughters and a son, between 1857 and 1866.  Amédée died in Terrebonne Parish in November 1867, age 30.  A petition for succession inventory, naming his wife and listing his children--Elezida, age 12; Uranie, age 11; Evelina, age 8; and Emedilia, age 4--was filed at the Houma courthouse in September 1869.

Jean Parfait's seventh and youngest son Isidore, by first wife Marguerite Naquin, married, at age 21, Lucretia, called Lucie, daughter of Louis Burns and Marie Romer, at the Attakapas Canal church, Assumption Parish, in April 1861.  Their children, born near Attakapas Canal and on the lower Teche, included Edmond Camille in December 1859; Eusilien Aristide in June 1861; Marie Victoria in November 1862, soon after her father was conscripted; Féliciana Marie near Attakapas Canal in January 1867; Marie Odilia in September 1868; John Kelly near Franklin, St. Mary Parish, in November 1869; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Isidore, who, according to wartime records, had a light complexion, black hair, blue eyes, and stood five feet, six and a quarter inches tall, was conscripted into Company B of the 1st Regiment Louisiana Heavy Artillery in October 1862 with other Assumption Parish men, including first cousin Claiborne Boudreaux.  Isidore, along with his regiment, served at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  A daughter was born in late November 1862 while Isidore was serving there.  When Union General U. S. Grant's army captured the regiment at Vicksburg in July 1863, most of its conscripts, including Isidore and his cousin, refused to accept parole.  The Federals sent them and their fellow gunners to Gratiot Street Prison in St. Louis, Missouri, before transferring them to the prisoner-of-war compound at Camp Morton, Indiana.  Perhaps to shorten his stay in the prison camp, Isidore, with other survivors from his unit, took the oath of allegiance to the United States government in early January 1865--months before the war ended.  The Federals released them after they took the oath, and they made their way home as best they could.  As the birth date of Isidore's youngest son shows, he took his family to lower Bayou Teche in the late 1860s. 

Étienne le jeune's third son David Valentin married Marguerite, daughter of Frédéric Riche or Richet and Constance Duchanes of Pointe Coupee Parish, at the Thibodauxville church in February 1821.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included  Louis Clairville, called Clairville, in February 1823; Victoire Amélie, called Amélie or Emelia, in March 1825; David, fils in September 1827; Furcy in the late 1820s or early 1830s; a daughter, name and age unrecorded, died in February 1832; Marie Eve born in January 1833 but, called Marie, died at age 16 1/2 (the recording priest said 17) in July 1849; Alcide born in April 1835; Hallen Léopold, probably a daughter, in February 1837 but, called Hellens Léopole, died at age 1 1/2 in October 1838; Furcie Ozémée born in January 1840; Eullalie in January 1841; Étienne Frédérick in May 1843; and Victorin Irma, evidently a daughter, in February 1846 but, called Irma, died in Assumption Parish, age 3 1/2 (the recording priest said 18 months), in March 1849--a dozen children, six sons and six daughters, between 1823 and 1846.  Daughter Émelia married into the Benite family by 1870.  Four of David Valentin's sons also married by then, on the Lafourche, but moved to lower Bayou Teche before and after the War of 1861-65.

Oldest son Clairville married Marie Odile or Adèle, daughter of Christophe Trosclair and Marie Borne, at the Thibodaux church in December 1842.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes before moving to lower Bayou Teche by the early 1850s.  In June 1860, Clairville worked as a notary public at Berwick City, St. Mary Parish, so he was literate.  In June 1870, in his late 40s, he worked as a store clerk in Pattersonville, now Patterson, St. Mary Parish.  His and Odile's children, born on the Lafourche and the lower Teche, included Marie Elmire, called Elmire, on the upper Lafourche in October 1843; Émelie Eléonore in April 1845; Marie Célina, called Célina, in April 1847; Louis Rodolphe, called Rodolphe, in May 1849 (he was still living at home in Pattersonville and working as a brickmaker in June 1870); Zulma probably in the late 1840s or early 1850s; Eulalie Edwidge in October 1851; Joseph, also called Robert, near Pattersonville in October 1853; James David dit Davie in August 1855; Marguerite Victorine in August 1857; Adam A. in April 1860; Ellen Odille, called Odile, baptized at the Pattersonville church, age unrecorded, in March 1862; Charlotte Joséphine born in August 1865; Charles Carlos, called Carlos, in September 1868; ...  Daughters Marie A, probably Marie Elmire, and Zulma married into the Korn and Trosclair families on the lower Teche and the Lafourche by 1870.  None of Clairville's sons married by then.   

David Valentin's second son David, fils married Estelle or Ester Falteman or Feltiman probably in Assumption Parish in the late 1840s.  They also moved to lower Bayou Teche in the 1850s but returned to the Lafourche.  Their children, born on the Lafourche and the lower Teche, included Jean Baptiste Henry in Assumption Parish in January 1851; Marie Eve in February 1853; John Émile near Pattersonville in May 1855; Adam James in Assumption Parish in December 1856; Joseph David near Attakapas Canal, Assumption Parish, in February 1859, Octave Alcide in November 1861; François in December 1864; Evelline in September 1868; ... 

David Valentin's third son Furcy married Léonide or Léonie, daughter of John Vining and his Acadian wife Adèle Comeaux, at the Pattersonville church in May 1866.  Their son Eugène Clet was born near Pattersonville in November 1866; ... 

During the War of 1861-65, David Valentin's fourth son Étienne Frédéric served in the St. Mary Cannoneers, later the 1st Battery Louisiana Artillery, raised in St. Mary Parish, which fought in Louisiana and southern Arkansas.  He survived the war and returned to his family.  Étienne, "from St. Mary Parish," married Adeline, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Landry and Marie Dephine Gravois, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in March 1867, but they settled on the lower Teche.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche and the lower Teche, included Marie Alice near Paincourtville in December 1867; Henry Édouard near Pattersonville in February 1870; ...

Étienne le jeune's fourth son Marin le jeune married Marie Madeleine, 33-year-old daughter of Michel Carantin and Marie Madeleine Charlesville of St. John the Baptist Parish and widow of Jean Borne, fils, at the Thibodauxville church in August 1829.  Their daughter Marie Madeleine Joséphine, called Marie Joséphine and Joséphine, was born on the Lafourche in May 1835 and married into the Ayo or Ayot family.  One wonders if Marin le jeune fathered any sons. 

Étienne le jeune's fifth son Constant married Hélène, 18-year-old daughter of Jean Baptiste Picou and his Acadian wife Félicité Arceneaux of St. James Parish, at the Thibodauxville church in February 1830.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Ursenie, called Urcenie, in December 1830; Marie Urceline or Ursuline, called Ursuline, in May 1832; and Marie Constance, called Constance, posthumously in June 1833--three children, all daughters, between 1830 and 1833.  Constant died in Lafourche Interior Parish in June 1833, age 28 (the recording priest said 26).  His succession inventory, listing his wife and daughters, was filed at the Lafourche Interior Parish courthouse in January 1836.  His widow remarried to a Gendron.  Her and Constant's daughters Urcenie, Ursuline, and Constance married into the Breaux, Barrios, and Pastor families.  Constant fathered no sons, at least none who appeared in local church records, so this line of the family, except for its blood, died with him. 

Étienne le jeune's sixth and youngest son Zéphirin dit Zéphir Supriano married Azélie Louise, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Dugas and Françoise Arcement, at the Thibodauxville church in February 1828.  They settled in the Attakapas Canal area of Assumption Parish, east of Lake Verret.  Their children, born there, included Eulalie Silvanie in July 1829 but died at age 4 1/2 (the recording priest said 3 1/2) in November 1833; Louise Delphine born in March 1834; Marie Zéolide in November 1835; Louis Cleborne or Claiborne, called Claiborne, in April 1837; Marie Félicia in February 1847; Joséphine Julmie in October 1839; and Eulalie Séraphine in September 1843 but, called Eulalie, died at age 5 1/2 (the recording priest said 6) in July 1849--seven children, six daughters and a son, between 1829 and 1843.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted a single slave--a 25-year-old black male--on Zéphirin Boudreaux's farm in the parish's Second Congressional District.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish again counted a single slave--a 40-year-old black male--on Zéphir Boudreaux's farm near Attakapas Canal.  Daughters Félicie, ... married into the Roger and Lauland families.  Zéphir's son also married.

Only son Claiborne married Estellina, daughter of fellow Acadians Evariste LeBlanc and Edesie Bourg, at the Attakapas Canal church in February 1862.  Their children, born near Attakapas Canal, included Louise Estella in January 1863; Louis Agnès in January 1866; Marie Sele in October 1867; Pierre Agnile in June 1869; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Claiborne, who, according to wartime records, had a light complexion, brown hair, gray eyes, and stood five feet, seven and a half inches tall, was conscripted into Company B of the 1st Regiment Louisiana Heavy Artillery in October 1862 with other Assumption Parish men, including first cousin Isidore Boudreaux.  Claiborne was promoted to corporal and, along with his regiment, served at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  A daughter was born in January 1863 while Claiborne was serving there.  When Union General U. S. Grant's army captured the regiment at Vicksburg in July 1863, most of its conscripts, including Claiborne and his cousin, refused to accept parole.  The Federals sent them and their fellow gunners to Gratiot Street Prison in St. Louis, Missouri, before transferring them to the prisoner-of-war compound at Camp Morton, Indiana.  Perhaps to shorten his stay in the dreadful place, Claiborne, with other survivors from his unit, took the oath of allegiance to the United States government in early January 1865--months before the war ended.  The Federals released them after they took the oath, and they made their way home as best they could. 

Étienne, fils (c1743-1825) à Claude à Michel Boudreaux

Étienne, fils, third and youngest son of Étienne Boudrot and Marie-Claire Aucoin and Marin's younger brother, born at Minas in c1743, followed his family to Virginia and England.  After the war, in May 1763, he followed his brothers Marin and Charles aboard La Dorothée to St.-Malo, France, where he worked as a seaman and a joiner.  Étienne, fils married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Antoine Thibodeau and Susanne Comeau, at Pleudihen-sur-Rance on the east side of the river south of the Breton port in May 1764.  Marguerite gave Étienne, fils four children in the Pleudihen area:  Joseph-Marie born at Mordreuc in September 1765; Cécile-Marguerite in March 1767; Blaise-Julien or Julien-Blaise in January 1769; and Anne-Henriette in May 1771.  Étienne, fils took his family to Poitou in 1773, and Marguerite gave him another son there, David-Valentin, born in Notre-Dame Parish, Châtellerault, in October 1774.  In December 1775, with other Poitou Acadians, they retreated down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes and settled in several church parishes there.  Marguerite gave Étienne, fils four more children in the lower Loire port:  Marie born in St.-Léonard Parish in September 1776 but died in St.-Similien Parish, age 6, in July 1783; Jean-Étienne born in St.-Clément Parish in April 1779; Marguerite-Suzanne in St.-Léonard Parish in May 1782; and Yves-Cyprien in St.-Similien Parish in January 1785.  They also buried their 2-year-old son David-Valentin in St.-Nicolas Parish in June 1776.  In 1785, Étienne, fils, Marguerite, and seven of their children, four sons and three daughters, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana and followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Marguerite gave Étienne, fils another daughter there, Marie-Émilie, born in March 1790--10 children, five sons and five daughters, between 1765 and 1790, in France and Louisiana.  Étienne, fils died in Lafourche Interior Parish in January 1825.  The Thibodauxville priest who recorded the burial and did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said Étienne died at age 84.  He was a few years older.  His succession inventory, listing his wife, children, and his childrens' spouses--Joseph and his wife; Julien Blaise and his wife; Anne Henriette and her husband; Jean Étienne; Ives Cyprien; and Marie Émilie and her husband (one wonders what happened to oldest daughter Cécile-Marguerite)--was filed at the Lafourche Interior Parish courthouse the following April.  Daughters Cécile-Marguerite, Anne-Henriette, and Marie Émilie married into the Ayo, LeBlanc, Boudreaux, and Roger families on Bayou Lafourche.  Four of Étienne, fils's sons also married, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Joseph-Marie followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, and Louisiana and married Marie-Charlotte, daughter of fellow Acadians Claude Pitre and Marie Richard, at New Orleans in January 1786.  Marie, also a native of Pleudihen-sur-Rance, had come to Louisiana from France aboard a later ship.  They followed his family to upper Bayou Lafourche, where Marie died in November 1786, age 17, perhaps from complications of childbirth.  If so, their child appeared in no church record.  In October 1787, Joseph-Marie remarried to Marguerite-Ludivine, daughter of fellow Acadians Anselme Pitre and his first wife Isabelle Dugas, at Lafourche.  Marguerite, a native of Pleurtuit southwest of St.-Malo, had crossed to Louisiana aboard an earlier vessel.  They settled on Bayou Darbonne in Assumption Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marguerite-Marthe in September 1788; Joseph-François in January 1790; Julian-Marie in February 1791; Phélonie-Cécile in January 1793; Joseph-Isidore, called Isidore, in March 1794; Constance-Rose in October 1795; Simon-Valentin in September 1797; François-Célestin in March 1799; Marie-Rose baptized at Assumption, age unrecorded, in April 1801; Renaud-Toussaint born in October 1802; Anne Scholastique in November 1804; Pelegrin in the early 1800s; Victoire in the 1800s; and Marguerite Ludivine in January 1812--14 children, seven daughters and seven sons, by his second wife, between 1788 and 1812.  Daughters Constance Rose, Marie Rose, and Victoire married into the Dupré, Henry, and LeBlanc families.  Five of Joseph Marie's sons also married and settled in Lafourche Interior and Terrebonne parishes, but not all of the lines endured.  His oldest son's line was especially vigorous. 

Oldest son Joseph François, by second wife Marguerite Ludivine Pitre, married Renée, also called Reine, Raine, Renette, Irène, and Perrine, daughter of Jean Dupré and his Acadian wife Ives Naquin, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in October 1812.  Their children, born on the Lafourche included Jean Baptiste in November 1814; Marie Rosalie or Rose in February 1817; Louis Guillaume in August 1819; Rose in July 1821; Véronique Susanne in August 1823; Thérèse Clémence in October 1825; Joseph Théophile in February 1828; and Jules probably in the early 1830s--eight children, four sons and four daughers, between 1814 and the early 1830s.  According to the clerk at the Houma courthouse, Terrebonne Parish, in January 1834, "Mr. Joseph Boudreaux of New Orleans" was acting as tutor for his younger brother Isidore's minor children.  Daughter Rose (one wonders which one) married into the Himel family.  Three of Joseph's sons also married by 1870. 

Oldest son Jean Baptiste married Rosalie, daughter of François Malbrough and his Acadian wife Madeleine Duhon of Terrebonne Parish, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in September 1836.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joseph Ludgère, called Ludgère, in c1837; Philomène in c1839; Alfred in c1841; Théodule Irené in December 1844; Eveline or Evelina Clara in February 1847; Zacharie Alphonse, called Alphonse, in November 1848; Joseph Léon in July 1850; Marie Alida in February 1853; Julia Amanda in January 1855; Julie Ursule born in April 1856; Timon Luc in July 1859; Paul Onésippe in December 1862; Marie Corine in February 1865; ...  Daughters Philomène, Evelina, and Marie married into the Guidry, Daigle, Lirette, and Landry families by 1870, one of them, Evelina, twice.  One of Jean Baptiste's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Joseph Ludgère married cousin Rosalie or Rose, daughter of Joseph Étienne Malbrough and Marcellite Venerate Duplantis, at the Thibodaux church in February 1857.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Blaise Ludger in February 1858 but, called Eucher Blaise, died at age 2 in February 1860; Marguerite Alice born in November 1859; Charles Delaunay in January 1862; Louis le jeune in April 1864; Marie Céleste in May 1866; Agnès Valérie in February 1869; ...

Joseph François's second son Louis Guillaume married Alcidie or Oleidie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Charles Theriot and his Creole wife Dorcastre Sheuster, at the Thibodaux church in June 1847; the marriage also was recorded in Terrebonne Parish.  They settled on the middle Lafourche near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Terrebonne parishes.  Their children, born there, included Neuville in November 1848 but died "during [a] yellow fever epidemic," age 5, in October 1853; Washington Alsendois born in November 1850; Julie Clotilde in November 1852; Edmond Alcide in November 1854; and Oscar in January 1857--five children, four sons and a daughter, between 1848 and 1857.  None of Louis's children married by 1870. 

Joseph François's fourth son Jules married Evéline or Evélina, daughter of fellow Acadian Léonore Crochet and his Creole wife Célise Pichoff, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in May 1854.  They also settled on the middle Lafourche near the boundary between Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes.  Their children, born there, included Rosalie Julia in October 1854; François Neuville born in October 1856; and Jules Adam in January 1860.  Jules, père remarried to Mary, daughter of Christian Meyer and Mary Weaver, at the Thibodaux church in March 1864.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Julien in January 1865; Marie Cécile in December 1865[sic]; Marie Corine in February 1868; Valérie in October 1870; ...  None of Jules's children married by 1870.

Joseph Marie's second son Joseph Isidore, called Isidore, from second wife Marguerite Ludivine Pitre, married Marie Modeste, daughter of François Dubois of Paris and his Acadian wife Marie Madeleine Bertrand, at the Plattenville church in May 1815.  They lived on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Assumption and Lafourche Interior parishes.  Their children, born there, included Hermogène Cursio in April 1815; Marie Phelonise, called Phelonise or Felonia, in March 1816; Joseph Isidore, called Isidore, fils, in September 1817; Marguerite Oliviènne in April 1819; Eustache Urbin in March 1820; Ferdinand Florentin Joseph, called Florentin and Joseph Florentin, in May 1821; Arsène David in February 1823; Jean Apollinaire in Lafourche Interior Parish in July 1824; Cofine or Clophine Scholastique in April 1826 but died at age 6 1/2 (the recording priest said 8) near Convent, St. James Parish, on the river in January 1833; and Isidore Eugène born in October 1827--10 children, seven sons and three daughters, between 1815 and 1827.  Isidore, père's succession inventory, mentioning his wife, was filed at the Terrebonne Parish courthouse in June 1832.  He would have been age 38 that year.  In January 1834, his older brother, "Mr. Joseph Boudreaux of New Orleans," was, according to the clerk at the Houma courthouse, acting as tutor for Isidore's minor children, including Felonia, Isidore, fils, Marguerite, Eustache, Florentin, Jean, and Arsène.  None of Isidore's daughters married by 1870, if they married at all.  Two of his sons did marry by then, but not all of the lines endured. 

Fourth son Joseph Florentin may have married Marie Eveline Exnicios in the early 1850s.  They lived on the upper Lafourche before moving down bayou to Terrebonne Parish.  Their children, born there, included Robert in Assumption Parish in May 1852; Henri Davis in Terrebonne Parish in November 1863; ... 

Isidore's sixth son Jean Apollinaire married cousin Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon LeBlanc and Marie Élisabeth Boudreaux, at the Thibodaux church in May 1847; the marriage was recorded also in Terrebonne Parish.  Their son Alfred was born in early c1852 but died in Lafourche Interior Parish, age 17 months, in June 1853, a month after his father died.  Jean died in Lafourche Parish in May 1853, age 28 (the recording priest said 27).  His line of the family died with him and his only son. 

Joseph Marie's fourth son François Célestin, by second wife Marguerite Ludivine Pitre, married Eméranthe Marie or Mélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Charles Aucoin and Hélène Thibodeaux and widow of Pierre Lecompte, at the Thibodauxville church in February 1821.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Louison in December 1821; Anne Marie in May 1823; Roseline Victoire in September 1824; Marguerite Mélagie in April 1828; and Marie Sélesie in April 1830--five children, all daughters, between 1821 and 1830.  François Célestin died by January 1834, when his wife was called a widow in Lafourche Interior Parish document.  None of their daughters married by 1870, at least not in South Louisiana, and François evidently fathered no sons, so one wonders if the family line endured. 

Joseph Marie's fifth son Renaud Toussaint, by second wife Marguerite Ludivine Pitre, married Anne Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Théodore Henry and Anne Naquin, at the Thibodauxville church in January 1824.  They lived on the upper bayou before moving down to Terrebonne Parish, yet their children were born on the upper Lafourche.  They included Marie Rose Gérante Léocade in October 1824; Batilde Emérante in Assumption Parish in November 1826; Marie Joséphine in November 1828; Marie Élisabeth in October 1830; and Marguerite Pauline in January 1833 but may have died at age 2 1/2 in November 1835--five children, all daughters, between 1824 and 1833.  None of Renaud's daughters married by 1870, if they married at all, so one wonders if the family line endured.   

Joseph-Marie's sixth and youngest son Pelegrin, by second wife Marguerite Ludivine Pitre, married Marie Marthe Pélagie, called Pélagie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph LeBlanc and Marie Gautreaux, at the Thibodauxville church in November 1827.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Josèphe in August 1828; Joseph in November 1829; Florbert in April 1830; Cécile Virginie in November 1832; Ignace Siméon in February 1884[sic, probably meant 1834]; and Pauline Agathe in February 1836--six children, three daughters and three sons, between 1828 and 1836.  None of Pelegrin's daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did.

Second son Florbert married Florentine, daughter of Françisque Rodrigue and Marie Baselise LeBoeuf, at the Thibodaux church in October 1853.  Did they have any children?

Étienne, fils's second son Blaise-Julien or Julien-Blaise followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where, at age 23, he married Perrine, 20-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Barrilleaux and Marie Daigre, in February 1792.  Perrine, also a native of Pleudihen-sur-Rance, had come to Louisiana from France in 1785 aboard an earlier ship.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie-Josèphe in January 1794; Émilie, also called Cécile-Émilie, in January 1796; Jean-Baptiste dit Blaise in October 1798; François-Marie in December 1800; Basile-Mathurin in January 1803; Anne Rosalie, called Rosalie, in March 1805; Euphrosine in March 1808; Théotiste in March 1810; and Marie Louise in August 1813--nine children, six daughters and three sons, between 1794 and 1813.  Blaise Julien's succession inventory, which listed his children--Marie Joseph, age 23; Émilie Marie, age 20; Jean Baptiste, age 17; François Marie, age 14; Basile Mathurin, age 13; Rosalie, age 11; Euphrosine, age 9; Théotiste, age 7; and Marie Louise, age 3--was filed in the Thibodauxville courthouse in March 1816.  Blaise would have been age 47 that year.  Daughters Marie Josèphe, Cécile Émilie, Rosalie, Euphrosine, Théotiste, and Marie Louise married into the Bouvet, Hébert, Landry, Bourgeois, Toups, and Foret families.  Blaise's three sons also married and settled in Assumption and Lafourche Interior parishes. 

Oldest son Jean Baptiste dit Blaise married Constance Ludivine dite Divine, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Naquin and Anne Robichaux, at the Plattenville church in February 1820.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Arsène Blaise or Blaise Arsène in September 1821; Marie Euphrosine dite Froisine in January 1823; Francois Léon, called F. Léon, Léon F., Léon, and Léo, in July 1825; Jean Baptiste Clovis, called Clovis, perhaps theirs, in c1828; twins Eugénie Aveline and Eugène, also called Jean Baptiste Eugène, born in October 1829, but Eugénie died the following January; Adolphe Symphorien or Olisipe born in July 1831; Constance Pamela in August 1835; and Armogène or Hermogène Olesima in May 1837--nine children, six sons and three daughters, between 1821 and 1837.  Wife Constance Divine died in Lafourche Interior Parish in June 1847, in her late 40s.  A succession inventory in her name, calling her husband Jean Baptiste alias Blaise and listing their children--Blaise Arsène; François Léon; Jean Baptiste Clovis, age 20; Jean Baptiste Eugène, age 18; Adolphe Olesipe, age 15; Constance Pamela, age 14; and Hermogène, age 10--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in March 1848.  Jean Baptiste dit Blaise may have been the Jean Baptiste Boudreaux who died "during [a] yellow fever epidemic" in Lafourche Parish in September 1853.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial, and who gave no parent's names or mentioned a wife, said Jean Baptiste died "at age 50 yrs"; Jean Baptiste dit Blaise would have been age 54 then.  A "Decree ordering [a] family meeting," calling him Jean Baptiste alias Blaize and listing two of his sons--F. Léon and Eugène--and their wives was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in February 1856, so he may have died later.  Daughters ... married into the Borne, Levert, and Vicknair families.  Five of Blaise's sons also married and settled in Lafourche Parish.

Oldest son Arsène married, at age 27, Marie Ursanie, called Ursanie, daughter of fellow Acadian Ursin Prejean and his Creole wife Urasie Levert, at the Thibodaux church in October 1848.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Philomène Odilia in October 1849 who, called Philomène, may have died "during [a] yellow fever epidemic" in Lafourche Parish, 4, in November 1853; and François Xavier Clovis born in December 1851.  Wife Ursanie died "during [a] yellow fever epidemic" in Lafourche Parish in September 1853, age 28.  A "Petiton for tutorship" for their children, calling the wife Marie Ursimie and him Blaise Arsène, and listing their children--Philomène Odillia and François Xavier Clovis--was filed in Ursanie's name at the Thibodaux courthouse in October 1866.  Arsène evidently did not remarry.  His son also may have died young; in August 1860, the federal census taker in Lafourche Parish counted in the parish's First Ward Arcène Boudreaux, a 40-year-old farmer, living alone, next to the household of Clovice Boudreaux, age 33, and Hermogène Boudreaux, age 23, Arsène's younger brothers, who also were farmers. 

Blaise's second François Léon, called F. Léon and Léon, married Éloise or Héloise, daughter of Joseph Haydel and Euphrosine Becnel of St. John the Baptist Parish, at the Thibodaux church in April 1850.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Jean Baptiste Victor, called Victor, in March 1851; and Pierre Joseph in June 1853.  Léon died in Lafourche Parish in December 1854, age 29.  A petition of "Tutorship" for his sons, calling him Léon F., naming his wife, and listing his sons--Pierre and Victor-- was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in February 1865.  In August 1860, the federal census taker in Lafourche Parish counted three slaves--two males and a female, all mulattoes, ages 60, 20, and 2, living in one house--owned by Mrs. Léon Boudreaux "& 2 minors" in the parish's First Ward.  These probably were Éloise Haydel's slaves.  Neither of her and Léon's sons married by 1870. 

Blaise's third son Jean Baptiste Clovis may have been the Clovis Boudreaux, son of Jean Baptiste, who married cousin Zéolide Boudreaux, place and date unrecorded, and settled on the upper Lafourche, where daughter Zoémi Honorine was born near Labadieville, Assumption Parish, in August 1862. He may also have been the Clovice Boudreaux, age 33, who, with three others, perhaps his brothers, in August 1860, held 32 slaves--13 males and 19 females, 16 blacks and 16 mulattoes, ranging in age from 80 years to 8 months, living in 5 houses--in the First Ward of Lafourche Parish.  This Clovis may have died in Lafourche Parish in January 1867, age 38. 

Blaise's fourth son Jean Baptiste Eugène, called Eugène, married Euphémie Célesie, daughter of Jean Baptiste Borne and his Acadian wife Célesie Henry, at the Thibodaux church in March 1851.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Jean Baptiste in August 1851; Harriet dite Henriette, perhaps theirs, in the early 1850s; and Arsène Noël, also called Noilarson, in December 1853--three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1851 and 1853.  Jean Baptiste Eugène died in Lafourche Parish in September 1854, age 25.  Tutorship for his two sons was granted in April 1860.  Daughter Harriet may have married into the Chinn or Shinn family by 1870.  Neither of Jean Baptiste Eugène's sons married by then. 

Blaise's fifth son Adolphe married Marie Mathilde, called Mathilde, daughter of Valéry Vicknair and Adèle Vicknair, at the Thibodaux church in January 1853.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Agli or Aglaé, called Aglaé, in December 1853; Elphége Hermogène in November 1855; Labin Vicner in January 1858 but, called Sabin, died the following September; Henri Clément born in November 1859; Joseph Adolphe Valéry in February 1863; and Marie Mathilde Eliska in September 1864.  Adolphe remarried to Émelie, daughter of fellow Acadians Arsène Prejean and Marie Carmélite Carret, at the Thibodaux church in October 1866.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Adolphe Abel in August 1867; Victorin in May 1870; ...  Daughter Aglaé, by his first wife, married into the Kerne family by 1870.  None of Adolphe's sons married by then. 

Blaise's sixth and youngest son Hermogène, at age 23, married Eulalie, another daughter of Ursin Prejean and Urasie Levert, at the Thibodaux church in June 1860 (strangely, Hermogène was living in Ward One, Lafourche Parish, with older brother Clovis, a 33-year-old bachelor, when the federal census taker counted them in August 1860, so the marriage to Eulalie may have occured later in the year).  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Léontine in October 1860; Joseph Hermogène in March 1862; Jean Baptiste Éloy in November 1863; Philomène Louisa in June 1866; Valérie Alice in May 1868; Charles Symphorien in August 1870;...

Blaise Julien's second son François Marie married cousin Marie Adèle, called Adèle, 22-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Boudreaux le jeune and Ursule Olive Doiron, at the Thibodauxville church in February 1825.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Victoire Eulalie in September 1825 but died at age 2 in October 1827; François, fils born in April 1827 but died at age 5 in June 1833; Rose Evelina born in October 1829 but, called Elvina, died at age 3 1/2 (the recording priest said 5) in June 1833; Vinat Emil or Émile Vinot born in September 1831; and Étienne le jeune died an infant probably in the early 1830s.  François Marie remarried to Geneviève Célesie, called Célesie, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Duhon and Scholastique Foret, at the Thibodauxville church in April 1835.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Adrien Rosémond in c1835; and a son, name unrecorded, died posthumously a week after his birth in May 1836--seven children, five sons and two daughters, by two wives, between 1825 and 1836.  François Marie died in Lafourche Interior Parish in March 1836, age 35.  A succession inventory, listing his wives and "surviving" children--Émile Vinot from his first marriage, age 4; and a "child, yet unborn from 2nd marriage"; but not Adrien Rosémond, who would have been an infant at the time and perhaps not François Marie's son--was filed at the Lafourche Interior courthouse 10 days after François Marie's passing.  (Another civil record claims that François Marie did not die until April 1848, when he would have been in his late 40s, and that he married only once, to Marie Boudreaux, who predeceased him.  This document records a petition for "family meeting" in May 1848 and states that François Marie's only child was Émile Vinot.)  Neither of his daughters survived childhood.  His remaining sons, one of them probably not his, married and settled on the Lafourche.  Ironically, only the "natural" son's line seems to have endured. 

Second son Émile Vinot or Vinot Émile, by first wife Adèle Boudreaux, married Marie M., daughter of Jean Baptiste Borne and his Acadians wife Célesie Henry, at the Thibodaux church in January 1853.  Did they have any children? 

François Marie's fourth "son" Adrien Rosémond, by second wife Célesie Duhon, married cousin Irma or Zulma, daughter of fellow Acadians Célestin LeBlanc and Armélise Boudreaux, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in November 1856.  The priest who recorded the marriage noted that Adrien was "son of Mrs. Célesie Duhon by an act received from Mr. Marel, justice of the peace, dated 18 May 1852."  So who was Adrien Rosémond's father?  His and Zulma's children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Ofilia Célestine in November 1857 but, called Ophilia, died at age 11 months in October 1858; Émile Adam Ausineau born in March 1861; Michel died a day after his birth in April 1862; Matilda Julia born in October 1863; Augustin Amédée in December 1865 but, called Augustin, died at age 2 1/2 in August 1868; Marie Isabellia born in August 1867; Joseph Léonce in September 1869; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Adrien Rosémond may have served in Company B of the 30th Regiment/Battalion Louisiana Infantry, raised in Orleans and St. James parishes, which fought in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee.  Adrien enlisted at Thibodaux in March 1862, a month before one of his sons was born (and died), but his service with the 30th Infantry was short.  That autumn, he spent a few weeks in the hospital at Clinton, Louisiana, before being discharged in December, probably for medical reasons.  As the births of his younger children reveal, he survived the war and returned to his family. 

Blaise Julien's third and youngest son Basile Mathurin, at age 22, married Clémence, 20-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Marin Dugas and Françoise Arcement, at the Thibodauxville church in April 1825.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie Azélie in July 1826; Maturin, also called Furcy Mathurin, in November 1827; Estère Madeleine in July 1829; Mathilde Basilise in April 1831; Ulalie Uranie, also called Athalie, in February 1833 but died the following October; Marcelite Arvila born in December 1834 but, called Arfila, died at age 4 in November 1838; Hallen Léopold born in January 1837 but may have died at age 12 (the recording priest, who called him Alence, said "age 14 years") in June 1849; Eugénie Orellia born in November 1838 but, called Aurelia, died at age 17 (the recording priest said 18) in December 1855; a son, name unrecorded, died at age 3 days in July 1840; Donathilde Eulalie born in September 1841; Marie Odile, called Odile, in April 1844; and Alfred Basile in February 1847 but died at age 1 1/2 in May 1848.  In c1849 or 1850, probably in Assumption Parish, Basile Mathurin remarried to Célenie or Sélenie Basilisse, daughter of fellow Acadians Fabien Hippolyte Bourg and Marie Anne Theriot and widow of Pierre Marie François Gilbert, a native of L'Orient, France, who had died in August 1847.  Basile and Célenie's children, born in Assumtpion Parish, included Désiré Joseph in May 1851; Justine Angelina in Febuary 1854; Clara Élisabeth in October 1857--15 children, 10 daughters and five sons, by two wives, between 1826 and 1857.  In September 1850, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted a single slave--a 15-year-old black female--on Bazile Boudreau's farm in the parish's Second Congressional District.  This may have been Basile Mathurin.  Daughters Donathilde, Odile, ... , by his first wife, married into the Hanlon, Boudreaux, and Delaune families.  Basile's oldest son also married and settled in Assumption Parish. 

Oldest son Furcy Mathurin, by first wife Clémence Dugas, married Azéma, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Charles Blanchard and his Italian-Creole wife Anne Désirée Cancienne, at the Plattenville church in June 1845.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Siméon Eulice in January 1846; Justilien Eusylia in September 1849; Oscar Amédéo in November 1847; Judith Malvina in October 1853; Octave Désiré in January 1856; Olympe Amélie in December 1865; ...  None of Furcy's children married by 1870. 

Étienne, fils's fourth son Jean-Étienne, called Étienne, followed his family to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Élisabeth-Jeanne dite Babette, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph-Ignace Hébert and his first wife Anne Dugas, in November 1799.  Élisabeth also was a native of Nantes and had come to Louisiana from France in 1785 on an earlier vessel.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included twins Jean-Étienne, fils and Jean-Marie in February 1802; Henri Étienne in August 1805; and Philonise Isabelle in August 1806--four children, three sons and a daughter, including a set of twins, between 1802 and 1806.  None of Étienne's children seem to have married, so the family line did not endure. 

Étienne, fils's fifth and youngest son Yves Cyprien followed his family to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marie Rosalie, called Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Caissie dit Roger and his first wife Rosalie Richard, at Ascension in May 1805.  Rosalie was a native of Louisiana whose parents had come to the colony from Halifax in 1765.  She and Yves settled on the upper Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Marie Céleste in November 1806; Yves Léandre, also called Jean Baptiste Léandre and Léandre, born in September 1808; and Auguste Gerasime or Gerasime Augustin in January 1818--three children, a daughter and two sons, between 1806 and 1818.  Yves Cyprien died in Lafourche Interior Parish in July 1829, age 44.  His widow evidently did not remarry and lived until April 1853, when she died in her late 60s.  Daughter Marie Céleste married into the Usé family.  Both of Yves Cyprien's sons also married.

Older son Yves Léandre, also called Jean Baptiste Léandre and Léandre, married Rosalie Basilise, called Basilise and Roselisse, daughter of Joseph Marie Rousseau and his Acadian wife Eulalie LeBlanc, at the Thibodauxville church in July 1829.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Delphine Eulalie in June 1830 but died at age 1 in July 1831; Eronie Azélie born in September 1831; twins Eulalie Rosalie and Léandre, fils in June 1833, but Léandre, fils died in August and Eulalie in December; Rosalie Marie born in January 1835; Marie Uranie, called Uranie, in September 1836 but died the following February; Trasimond Adam born in April 1838; and Eugénie in April 1840--eight children, six daughters and two sons, including a set of twins, between 1830 and 1840.  Jean Baptiste Léandre died in Lafourche Interior Parish in May 1842.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Jean Baptiste Léandre died "at age 36 yrs."  He was 33.  In September 1850, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted five slaves--two males and three females, all black, ages 30 to 1--on Widow Léande Boudreau's farm in the parish's Second Congressional District.  These probably were Basilise Rousseau's slaves.  Daughters Eugénie, ... married into the Himel, Aucoin, and Marquet families by 1870.  Léandre's remaining son also married by then, after his war service, and settled on the Lafourche.

During the War of 1861-65, younger son Trasimond Adam served as a sergeant in Company C of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Assumption Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  He survived the war, returned to his family, and, at age 29, married cousin Odile or Adèle, daughter of fellow Acadians Basile Mathurin Boudreaux and Clémence Dugas, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in April 1867.  Daughter Louse Corinne was born near Labadieville in September 1869; ...

Yves Cyprien's younger son Auguste Gerasime or Gerasime Augustin married Séraphine Marie Antoinette, called Antoinette, daughter of Jean Borne and Marie Madeleine Carantin of St. John the Baptist Parish, at the Thibodauxville church in October 1837.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Gustave in the late 1830 or early 1840s; Auguste F. in March 1841; Augustine Léonide in November 1842 but died at age 9 months in August 1843; Jean Baptiste Ernest, called Ernest, born in January 1843[sic]; and Jerasime or Gerasime Auguste, fils in June 1846.  At age 30, Auguste Gerasime, père remarried to Céleste Marcellite, called Marcellite, daughter of Benjamin Borne and Rose Aimée Laurent, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in May 1848.  Marcellite probably was a cousin of Auguste Gerasime's first wife.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Assumption and Lafourche parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie Eve Malvina in January 1850; Marcelite Philomène in March 1851; a child, name and age unrecorded, died "during [a] yellow fever epidemic" in Lafourche Parish in November 1853; Joseph Léonce born in March 1857; Joseph Léo in December 1858 but, called Léo, died at age 1 1/2 in April 1860; Adam Arthur born in September 1860; Albert in June 1863; Élize Céleste in March 1865; ...  In September 1850, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted five slaves--three males and two females, all black, ranging in age from 50 to 4--on Gerazime Boudreaux's farm in the parish's Second Congressional District.  In August 1860, the federal census taker in Lafourche Parish counted 20 slaves--10 males and 10 females, all blacks except for one mulatto, ages 68 years to 7 months, living in four houses--on Gerasime Boudreaux's plantation in the parish's First Ward.  A petition for tutorship of Gerasime's older children, naming his wife and listing his children--Gustave, Auguste, Ernest, and Augustine[sic]--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in August 1870.  None of Gerasime's remaining daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did. 

Oldest son Gustave, by first wife Antoinette Borne, married Noémie, daughter of Mathurin Philippeau and Lucille Hébert or Hubert, at the Thibodaux church in January 1870. ...

Joseph (1744-?) à Michel le jeune à Claude à Michel Boudreaux

Joseph, older son of Michel Boudrot, fils and Claire Comeau, born probably at Minas in c1744, followed his family to Virginia and England and his younger brother Michel III to St.-Malo, France, aboard La Dorothée in May 1763--the only surviving members of their immediate family.  Joseph became a carpenter in the mother country and married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Richard dit Sapin and Cécile Gautrot, in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer in July 1763.  Marguerite gave him seven children there:  Marie-Marthe born in May 1764; twins François and Joseph-Marie in June 1766, but François died a few weeks later, and Joseph-Marie died the following February; Jean-Charles born in November 1767; an unnamed daughter in February 1771 who may have been stillborn; an unnamed child who died the day after its birth; and Pierre-Jean-Joseph-Marie born in August 1773.  Joseph took his family to Poitou in 1773.  Marguerite gave him another daughter there, Anne-Pélagie, born at Monthoiron south of Châtellerault in December 1774.  In November 1775, after two years of effort, Joseph, Marguerite, and their four children retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the lower Loire port of Nantes, where Marie gave him four more children at nearby Chantenay:  Jean-Joseph dit Joson born in July 1776; Jean-Marie in c1777 but died at age 4 1/2 in December 1782; Henriette-Josèphe born in April 1780 but died at age 2 1/2 in December 1782; and Sophie born in April 1782.  In 1785, Joseph, Marguerite, and four of their children, two daughters and two sons, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana.  Fourth son Pierre-Jean-Joseph-Marie, who would have been age 12 in 1785, did not follow them there.  He had been with them in the convoy from Poitou to Nantes in November 1775, when he would have been age 2 1/2, so he likely died at Nantes or Chantenay before 1785.  From New Orleans, Joseph and his family, along with an Hébert orphan, followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Marguerite was pregnant during the crossing, and another son, Simon, was born either at New Orleans or on the upper Lafourche and baptized at Ascension the following February--13 children, at least five daughters and seven sons, from 1764 to 1786, in France and Louisiana.  Daughters Marie Marthe and Sophie married into the Crochet and Dagbert families in Louisiana.  Joseph's remaining sons also married and created vigorous lines on the Lafourche.

Third son Jean-Charles followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where, at age 19, he married Marguerite-Anne, 20-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre LeBlanc and Marie Landry, in May 1787.  Marguerite, also a native of St.-Servan-sur-Mer, had come to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié in 1785, so they may have known one another since childhood.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Simon-Hippolyte, called Hippolyte, in November 1788; and Jean-Charles, fils in February 1790.  Jean-Charles, at age 25, remarried to Marie, 19-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Bertrand and Catherine Bourg, at Ascension in February 1793.  Marie, a native of Châtellerault in Poitou, had come to Louisiana from France in 1785 aboard an earlier ship.  Their children, also born on the upper Lafourche, included Louis-Narcisse, called Narcisse, in September 1793; and Étienne-Valentin, called Valentin, in December 1795 but died and was buried at New Orleans the following July, a "very young child"--four children, all sons, by two wives, between 1788 and 1795.  Two of Jean Charles's sons married.  The older married son lived on the western prairies before settling on the river, and the younger one remained on upper Bayou Lafourche. 

Oldest son Simon Hippolyte, called Hippolyte, from first wife Marguerite Anne LeBlanc, married cousin Marie Henriette, called Henriette, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Boudreaux and Monique Dupuy, at the St. James church, St. James Parish, in August 1808.  They moved to St. Martin Parish, west of the Atchafalaya Basin, soon after their marriage and settled on upper Bayou Teche near present-day Breaux Bridge.  In the late 1810s, they returned to the river.  Their children, born on the Teche and the river, included Hippolyte Marcellin, called Marcellin, at Anse La Butte, St. Martin Parish, in March 1809; Nicolas Clairville at Grande Pointe, St. Martin Parish, in June 1811 but died at age 2 in November 1813; Hippolyte Evariste, called Evariste, born in January 1814; Mélanie in November 1815; Narcisse in St. James Parish in September 1817; Marie Élise dite Lise in May 1820; Marie Zélie in September 1822; Marie Antoinette baptized at the St. James church, age 3 months, October 1825; and Carmélite was born in the late 1820s or 1830s--nine children, four sons and five daughters, between 1809 and the late 1820s or 1830s.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted seven slaves--all female, all black, ranging in age from 30 to 4--on Hyppolite Boudreau's farm in the parish's eastern district.  Hippolyte died "at his home, where he left a wife and his son," in St. James Parish in November 1854, age 68 (the recording priest, who gave no parents' names or the name of Hypollite's wife, as he called him, said 67).  In July 1860, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted 13 slaves--six males and seven females, eight blacks and five mulattoes, ages 42 to 3, living in seven houses--on Widow Hp Boudreau's farm in the parish's Right Bank District 9.  These probably were Henriette Boudreaux's slaves.  Daughters Mélanie, Lise, and Carmélite married into the St. Pillac, Capdeville, and Courege families.  Two of Hippolyte's sons also married and settled in St. James and Ascension parishes. 

Oldest son Hippolyte Marcellin, called Marcellin, married Marie Sylvanie, called Sylvanie, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Gautreaux and Marie LeBlanc, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in October 1830.  They settled on the river near the boundary between St. James and Ascension parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie Émilie or Amélie in September 1831; Henriette Nersitine in January 1833; twins Hippolyte le jeune and Marie Henriette or Henriette in February 1835; Louis Félix, called Félix, in December 1836; Jean Ulger in November 1838 but, called Eulgé, died near Gonzales, Ascension Parish, age 25, in March 1864 (one wonders if his death was war-related); Joseph Aurelien born near Convent in March 1841; Marie Mélanie in March 1843; Osilia or Osile Angelina in March 1845; twins Justine Mélodie and Marie Odile in May 1847; Joseph Camille in January 1850; and Marie Elisca in January 1855--13 children, eight daughters and five sons, including two sets of twins, between 1831 and 1855.  Daughters Marie Amélie, Henrietta, Osile, and Marie Odile married into the Letulle, Lusk, Gaudin, Pertuit families by 1870.  Two of Marcellin's sons also married by then, one of them after his war service.

During the War of 1861-65, oldest son Hippolyte le jeune, a resident of Ascension Parish when he enlisted at Baton Rouge, age 26, in October 1861, served as a private and then a corporal in Company H of the 1st Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, raised in East Baton Rouge Parish, which fought in Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana, and Alabama.  He was reported present on his company's rolls from the time of his enlistment through December 1863, when the rolls end, and surrendered with his unit, and the rest of General Richard Taylor's army, at Gainesville, Alabama, in May 1865, age 30.  Hippolyte le jeune returned to his family and, at age 31, married Feliciana, daughter of Joseph Yarbrough and Élisabeth Gonzales, at the Gonzales church, Ascension Parish, in November 1866.  Their children, born near Gonzales, included Eugénie in September 1867; Joseph Willie in August 1869; ... 

Marcellin's second son Félix married Anna Griffin probably in Ascension Parish in the late 1850s or early 1860s.  Their son Louis Alfred was born near Gonzales in November 1862; ...

Hippolyte's third son Hippolyte Evariste married, at age 26, Anne Mathilde, called Mathilde, daughter of Joseph Martin Capdeville and his Acadian wife Modeste Henry, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in February 1839.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Joseph in July 1840; Marie Aimée in May 1842 but, called Aimée, died at age 7 in June 1849; and Hyacinthe Scot born in September 1847--three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1840 and 1847.  Evariste died in Ascension Parish in July 1848, age 34 (the recording priest said 33).  One of his sons married by 1870, after military service, and remained on the river. 

During the War of 1861-65, second son Hyacinthe Scott, called H. S. in Confederate records, served briefly in Company A of the 3rd Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Iberville Parish, which fought in Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana.  H. S. enlisted at Princeville, Mississippi, in late June 1862, a substitute for Hermogène LeBlanc, but H. S. was only 14 1/2 years old at the time of his enlistment!  He was discharged in late July probably after Confederate authorities discovered his true age.  Did he later serve in another Confederate unit?  After the war, and after he came of age, he married Adèle Lopez, place and date unrecorded.  Daughter Marie Laure was born in Ascension Parish in August 1870; ... 

Jean Charles's third son Louis Narcisse, called Narcisse, from second wife Marie Bertrand, married Angélique Julie, called Julie, daughter of Joseph Adam and his Acadian wife Marguerite Crochet, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in April 1815.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Célestin Lucien in February 1817[sic]; Basilisse Fidelie in July 1817 but died at age 8 1/2 in January 1826; Louis Valière born in August 1819; Maximilien in July 1821; twins Joseph Eugène, called Joe, and Théodule Ignace in July 1823; Clémentine in November 1825; Ursin or Valsin Joachim in January 1828; and Marie Mélanie in September 1831 but died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 2) in June 1833--nine children, six sons and three daughters, including a set of twins, between 1817 and 1831.  Narcisse died in Assumption Parish in June 1833.  The Plattenville priest who recorded the burial said that Narcisse was age 42 when he died.  He was 39.  His remaining daughter did not marry by 1870, but four of his sons did.  They settled in Assumption and Lafourche Interior parishes. 

Second son Louis Valière married Marie Carmélite, called Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Barrilleaux and Marcellite Foret, at the Plattenville church in February 1842.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Louise in December 1842; Florence Mirtilia, called Mirtilia, in February 1845; Carmélite, perhaps theirs, died in Assumption Parish, no age given, in October 1846; Élodie Anaïs born in November 1847; Céline Alvina in December 1849; and Louis Augustave in August 1852--six children, five daughters and a son, between 1842 and 1852.  Louis Valière may have died in Assumption Parish in October 1853.  If so, he would have been age 34 at the time of his death.  Daughter Martilia married into the Blanchard family by 1870.  Louis's son did not marry by then. 

Narcisse's third son Maximilien married Antoinette, daughter of Bertrand Mars and his Acadian wife Geneviève Doiron, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in July 1850.  They settled on the upper bayou near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie Alcina near Labadieville, Assumption Parish, in April 1850 but, called Alzina, died in Lafourche Parish, age 2, in June 1852; Valsin Enet born in February 1852; Marie Julie in August 1854; Angela in February 1857; and a newborn, name unrecorded, perhaps theirs, died in Assumption Parish in February 1860--five children, at least three daughters and a son, between 1850 and 1860.  None of Maximilien's remaining children married by 1870. 

Narcisse's fourth son Joseph Eugène married cousin Marie Azélie, called Azélie, daughter of Marcellin Adam and his Acadian wife Marcellite Hébert, at the Thibodaux church in November 1849.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Arthur in October 1851; Charles Édouard in February 1853 but died at age 14 1/2 in September 1867; Marie Catherine born in February 1855; Marie Léontine in March 1857 but died at age 2 1/2 (the recording priest said 3) in November 1859; and Marguerite Julienne born in August 1858--five children, two sons and three daughters, between 1851 and 1858.  None of Joseph Eugène's remaining children married by 1870. 

Narcisse's sixth and youngest son Valsin married Eliska, daughter of François Ledet and his Acadian wife Scholastique LeBlanc, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in November 1852, and sanctified the marriage at the Thibodaux church in May 1854.  Their son Oscar was born in Lafourche Parish in January 1854.  Valsin remarried to Clara, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Rosémond LeBlanc and Carmélite Bergeron and widow of Vincent Madere, at the Thibodaux church in April 1857.  Their children, born in Lafourche Parish, included Pascal Nelson in May 1858 but died at age 1 in July 1859; and Marie Emérantia born in December 1862--three children, two sons and a daughter, by two wives, between 1854 and 1862.  Valsin died in Lafourche Parish in January 1863, age 35 (the recording priest said 36).  One wonders if his death was war-related.  Neither of his remaining children married by 1870. 

Joseph's fifth son Jean-Joseph dit Joson married Eulalie-Martine, daughter of fellow Acadians Ambroise Dugas and Marie Pitre, at Assumption in June 1803.  Eulalie-Martine had been born aboard La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, on the crossing from France and was named after her godfather, Spanish intendente Martin Navarro, who stood as godfather for all of the Acadian newborns coming from France in 1785.  Her and Joson's children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Hermogène in the 1800s; Fanny Basilise in March 1805; Marie Adeline in February 1809 but died at age 2 in March 1811; Ambroise born in July 1812; Edmond in c1815 but died at age 20 in March 1835; Paule Virginie, called Virginie, born in December 1817 but died at age 2 1/2 in June 1820; and twins Marie Estelle Eveline and Joséphine Ameline or Eméline, called Eméline, born in April 1820, but Eméline died at age 1 1/2 in November 1821, and Marie Estelle Eveline at age 2 1/2 in January 1823--eight children, three sons and five daughters, including a set of twins, between the early 1800s and 1820.  Jean Joseph died in Assumption Parish in October 1821, age 45.  Daughter Fanny Basilise married into the Michel and Pertuit families, and perhaps into the Frion or Friou family as well.  One of Joson's sons also married.

Oldest son Hermogène married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Marie Barrilleaux and Madeleine Landry, at the Plattenville church in November 1834.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Joseph Vileor, called Vileor, in November 1835; and Jean Baptiste Aristide in September 1840.  Hermogène remarried to Marie Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians François Toussaint Aucoin and Rosalie Brigitte Landry and widow of Alexis Evariste Frioux, at the Plattenville church in November 1841.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Joseph Ulise or Ulysse in June 1843; Élisabeth Domithilde in October 1845; and Clémentine Rosalie in February 1848.  Hermogène remarried again--his third marriage--to Carmélite Albarau or Albarado at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in October 1853.  Their children, born in Assumption Parish, included Carmélite Félicia in August 1853; and Joseph Lucien in August 1855--seven children, four sons and three daughters, by three wives, between 1835 and 1855.  Daughters Elizabeth, ..., by his second wife, married into the Barbier and Simoneaux families by 1870.  One of Hermogène's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Vileor, by first wife Marie Barrilleaux, married Marie, daughter of Pierrique Cavalier, Cavaliere, Cavaliero, or Cavallero and Marie Falcon, at the Paincourtville church in December 1855.  They were living near Pierre Part, north of Lake Verret, on the eve of the War of 1861-65 but may have returned to the Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Constance Marie near Paincourtville in December 1856; Jean Baptiste Valère near Pierre Part in December 1858; Ulisse in September 1860; Élisabeth Cécilia in January 1862; Delphine Ozélia in March 1864 but, called Azélia and Ozélia, died at age 6 1/2 (the recording priest said 7) in December 1870; Marie Glore Aurela born in June 1866; Joseph André in February 1868; Antoine Perique in January 1870 but died in March; ...  None of Vileor's children married by 1870. 

Joseph's seventh and youngest son Simon, baptized at Ascension in February 1786, only three months after the family reached New Orleans, came to Louisiana in utero.  He died in Assumption Parish in February 1816, age 30, and probably did not marry. 

Charles-Michel (1761-?) à Jean-Baptiste à Charles à Michel Boudreaux

Charles-Michel, third son of Antoine Boudrot and Brigitte Apart, born at Trigavou near St.-Malo, France, October 1761, followed his family to Poitou and Nantes and his widowed mother and siblings to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche.  He was counted with her on the upper bayou in January 1788 and January 1791, when he would have been in his late 20s, but does not seem to have married.  

Joseph (1765-?) à Jean-Baptiste à Charles à Michel Boudreaux

Joseph, fourth son of Antoine Boudrot and Brigitte Apart, born at Trigavou near St.-Malo, France, in February 1765, followed his family to Poitou and Nantes and his widowed mother and siblings to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he may have married Marie-Jeanne, daughter of Louis Langlinais and Marie Hervé of St.-Malo, France, in February 1791.  Marie-Jeanne, a native of St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo, had come to Louisiana in 1785 with her mother and stepfather, Acadian Jacques Mius d'Entremont IV, from France aboard a later vessel.  One wonders if Joseph fathered any children.  If he was the Joseph Boudreaux who married Marie-Jeanne Langlinais, he died by May 1796, when she remarried at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.

Étienne (1766-1810s) à Jean-Baptiste à Charles à Michel Boudreaux

Étienne, fifth son of Antoine Boudrot and Brigitte Apart, born at Trigavou near St.-Malo, France, in December 1766, followed his family to Poitou and Nantes and his widowed mother and siblings to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche, where, at age 21, he married Victoire-Andée or -Andrée, 19-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Gautreaux and Marguerite Hébert, in January 1788.  Victoire, a native of Pleslin near Trigavou, had come to Louisiana from France in 1785 aboard an earlier ship.  One wonders if they had known one another since childhood.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between the Ascension and Valenzuela districts.  Their children, born on the upper bayou and the river, included Charles baptized at Ascension, age unrecorded, in February 1789; Pierre-Alexandre born in January 1790; Augustin or Auguste upriver at San Gabriel in November 1791; Stanislas dit Tumi at Assumption on the upper Lafourche in September 1793; Marguerite-Brigitte-Eulalie in October 1795; Françoise-Anastasie, also Aspasie, in September 1797; Jean, also called Léon, in July 1799; Étienne-Simon or Simon-Étienne in May 1801; François-Michel in September 1803; Fabien Magloire in January 1808; Mathurin in December 1809; and Auguste Léon or Léon Auguste in April 1812--12 children, 10 sons and two daughters, between 1789 and 1812.  Étienne's succession inventory, mentioning his wife, was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse, Lafourche Interior Parish, in March 1819.  He would have been age 52 that year.  Daughters Marguerite and Françoise Aspasie married into the Stivene or Stieven and Martin families.  Nine of Étienne's sons also married and settled in Lafourche Interior and Terrebonne parishes, creating one of the largest Boudreaux lines in the Bayou State.

Oldest son Charles, in March 1819, when he was in his late 20s, petitioned the Lafourche Interior Parish court to make him "curator" for his younger brother Simon Étienne, who was age 17.  Charles married, at age 40, Angélique Désirée, 14-year-old daughter of Drosin Toups and Judith Mayer, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in September 1829.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Jean Charles in September 1830; Victoire or Victorine in the early 1830s; Étienne le jeune in July 1834; Angélique died at age 2 days in May 1836; Drosin or Drausin François born in May 1837; Victorin or Victor in July 1839; Éliza Marie in c1841; and Madeleine Louisa in July 1845--eight children, four sons and four daughters, between 1830 and 1845.  Charles died in Lafourche Interior Parish in March 1846.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Charles died "at age 61 yrs."  He was 57.  A petition for his succession inventory, naming his wife and their remaining children and listing some of their ages--Victoire and her husband; Jean, age 16; Étienne, age 14; Drausin, age 12; Victorin, age 10; and Éliza, age 8--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in March 1849, and a "family meeting," naming his wife and listing their remaining chldren, along with a daughter's spouse--Victorine and her husband, Jean, Étienne, Drosin, Victor, and Éliza--was held in August 1850.  Daughters Victoire and Éliza Marie married into the Hébert and Borne families by 1870.  All of Charles's sons also married by then and settled on the Lafourche. 

Oldest son Jean Charles married Méranthe, daughter of Joseph Estivenne, Estivennes, Estival, Stephen, or Stephens and Méranthe Lemaire, at the Thibodaux church in January 1858.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joseph in November 1858; Joséphine in November 1860; Charles in June 1864; Adam died in March 1870 a month after his birth; ...

Charles's second son Étienne le jeune married Aglaé Séverine, daughter of fellow Acadian Hippolyte Hébert and his Creole wife Faralie Forgeron, at the Thibodaux church in February 1854.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Charles Étienne in November 1854; Étienne Perin in March 1856; Pierre Jules in late 1858 and baptized at age 6 months in April 1859; Joseph Ernest born in May 1861; Alphonse Arthur in February 1865; Paul Denes in September 1869; ...  None of Étienne le jeune's sons married by 1870. 

Charles's third son Drausin François married Ordalie, another daughter of Joseph Estivenne and Méranthe Lemaire, at the Thibodaux church in January 1860.  They settled near the boundary between Lafourche and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie Ezilda in May 1861; Joseph Félicien in December 1862; Marie Estelina in January 1864; Pierre Alces in October 1865; Joseph Arthur in November 1867; Paul Philocles in March 1870; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Drausin served in the Lafourche Parish Regiment Militia and was captured at the Battle of Labadieville, Assumption Parish, in late October 1862.  The Federals soon released him, and he returned to his home.

During the war, Charles's fourth and youngest son Victorin may have served briefly in Company E of the 4th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafourche Parish, which fought in Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana, Alabama, and Georgia.  Victorin enlisted in the company in May 1861 but was discharged at Ship Island, Mississippi, the following autumn.  The records are silent as to why he was dismissed from Confederate service so early in the war.  Did he serve in any other Confederate units?  He married Eulalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Hippolyte Richard and Marie Pélagie Thibodeaux, at the Thibodaux church in October 1866.  They also lived near the boundary between Lafourche and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie Valérie Désirée in December 1868; Louise Victoria in February 1870; ...

Étienne's third son Augustin or Auguste married Catherine, daughter of Charles Pontiff and Catherine Offmann, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in May 1816.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Adèle in August 1818; Auguste Théodore, called Théodore, in July 1820; Justin in June 1822; Asélie in January 1824; Clairville or Claireville in July 1825 but died at age 12 (the recording priest said 13) in November 1837; Jean born in January 1828, Élisa in 1829 but died at age 11 months in June 1830; Antoine Mathurin born in June 1832; and Adeline Aglaée in July 1834--nine children, four daughters and five sons, between 1818 and 1834.  Auguste died in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1837.  The Thibodauxville priest who recorded the burial said that Auguste was age 40 when he died.  He was 46.  Daughters Marie Adèle, Asélie, ... married into the Andras, Ordogne, and Thibodeaux families.  Two of Augustin's sons also married. 

Oldest son Auguste Théodore, called Théodore, married Élisabeth, called Élise or Lise, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Thibodeaux and Martine Haché, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in June 1841, and sanctified the marriage at the Thibodaux church in April 1843.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Jean Joseph Théodore in June 1842; Lorenza or Laurenza in May 1845; Augustin le jeune in February 1847; a child, name unrecorded, died at age 6 days in January 1849; Marie Elvanie, perhaps theirs, born in December 1849; Théodore died at birth in September 1850; François Adam born in November 1851 but, called Adam, died at age 11 1/2 in May 1863; Marie Eve born in March 1854; Pierre Edmond in May 1856; Odile in November 1858; Laura Sidonia in March 1861; ...   Daughter Lorenza married into the Gonzales family by 1870.  None of Augustin Théodore's sons married by then.

Augustin's fifth and youngest son Antoine Mathurin married Adeline, daughter of Joseph Nicolas Ordogne and Félicité Dué, at the Thibodaux church in August 1855.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included François Henry in June 1856; Henriette Helina in December 1857; Joseph Théodule in April 1861; Prosper in August 1862; ... 

Étienne's fourth son Stanislas dit Tumi married Marie Rose, called Rose or Rosalie, Lefer, Lefere, or Lefevre in either Assumption or Lafourche Interior Parish in the 1810s.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joseph Aurelien, called Aurelien, in the early 1810s; Marie Louise in August 1817; Marie Célestine in May 1821; Eugenius Romolus in April 1823; and François in August 1825.  Stanislas remarried to Mélanie Fortunée, daughter of Jean Dupré and his Acadian wife Agnès Naquin and widow of Charles Henry, at the Thibodauxville church in February 1833.  Their children, born on the Lafourche and in Terrebonne Parish, included Victoire Emelisa in May 1835; Marie Adeline in April 1837; Jean Eusèbe in February 1839; Ulger or Ulgère Madison in February 1844; twins Pierre Paul Fosstal or Florestal, called Florestal, and Rosalie on Bayou Petit Caillou, Terrebonne Parish, in March 1846; Stanislas Curial in May 1849; and Désiré probably in the early 1850s--13 children, eight sons and five daughters, by two wives, between the early 1810s to the early 1850s.  Stanislas died near Montegut, Terrebonne Parish, in March 1867, age 73.  Daughters ..., by both wives, married into the Blanchard, Deroche, and Henry families by 1870.  Four of Stanislas's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Joseph Aurelien, called Aurelien, from first wife Rose Lefer, married cousin Émelie, also called Eugénie and Mélite, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Isidore Gautreaux and his Creole wife Marie Seville of Terrebonne Parish, at the Thibodauxville church in January 1834.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joseph Étienne Marcellin, called J. E. Marcellin and Marcellin, in November 1834; and Jean Pierre in February 1837.  Joseph Aurelien died in Lafourche Interior Parish in May 1837, probably in his 20s.  The following September, a grant for tutelage for younger son Jean Pierre, still an infant, mentioning the boy's mother as well as his father, was filed at the Terrebonne Parish courthouse in Houma.  One of Aurelien's sons married by 1870 and settled in Terrebonne Parish.

Oldest son Marcellin married Madeleine A., daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Lambert and Célanie Babin of Terrebonne Parish, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in August 1859.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Émilie Loise in December 1860; Élisida Célanie Émelia in December 1863; Pierre Wallace near Montegut in December 1866; Marie Roseline in June 1869; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Marcellin may have served in the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in South Louisiana, which fought in Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana.  Marcellin was captured at Labadieville, Assumption Parish, in October 1862, and the Federals released him a few weeks later.  As the birth of his younger children reveal, Marcellin survived the war and returned to his family. 

Tumi's third son François, by first wife Rose Lefer, married Cléonise, also called Eléonise and Léonise, daughter of François Dubois, a Creole, not a fellow Acadian, and Geneviève Durocher, at the Houma church in September 1848.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included François Surial on Bayou Petit Caillou in July 1849; François Alfrede Aurelien in December 1851; Marie Roséma in December 1853; Pierre Maximin in March 1855; Jean Gustave in January 1857; Geneviève Rosalie in March 1859; Joseph Étienne in June 1862; Justillia Célestine in November 1863; Marie Angelina in April 1864; Stanislas Justilien near Montegut in July 1868; ...  None of François's children married by 1870. 

Tumi's sixth son Pierre Paul Florestal, called Florestal, a twin, by second wife Mélanie Dupré, married Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Bourg and his Creole wife Marie LeBoeuf, at the Montegut church, Terrebonne Parish, in April 1866.  Their son Joseph Étienne le jeune was born near Montegut in January 1870; ...

Tumi's eighth and youngest son Désiré, by second wife Mélanie Dupré, married Malvina, another daughter of Joseph Bourg and Marie LeBoeuf, at the Montegut church in May 1867.  Their children, born near Monteut, included Faustin Forstal in April 1868; Marie Doliska in July 1870; ... 

Étienne's fifth son Jean, also called Léon, when he was age 19 in March 1819, filed a petition at the Lafourche Interior Parish courthouse in Thibodauxville asking for his oldest brother Charles to become his curator; their father had just died.  At age 32, Jean married Clémence Modeste or Modeste Clémence, also called Clémentine, 17-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Thibodeaux and Martine Haché, at the Thibodauxville church in October 1831.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Clémence in February 1834; Jean Marcellin in April 1835; Azélie Séraphine in August 1837 but, called Séraphine Azélie, died in Lafourche Interior Parish at age 3 1/2 in May 1841; Louis Séverin born in April 1840; Jean Gaspard, called Gaspard, baptized, age 4 months, in November 1842; Roséma Léontine born in February 1844; Clairville Oscar in December 1844; Marie Mathilde in September 1845 but died in November; Marie Lea born in December 1846; Alfred in March 1847; Elisa Eugénie in April 1849 but, called Elisa, died at age 2 1/2 (the recording priest said 3) in September 1851; Marie Philomène born in July 1853 but, called Marie, may have died at age 5 1/2 (the recording priest said 6) in November 1858; William Alexandre in November 1857 but, called William, died at age 1 (the recording priest said 2) in November 1858; Philippe Albert born in October 1861; ...  Daughter Marie Clémence married into the Hébert family by 1870.  One of Jean/Léon's sons also married by then, after his military service. 

During the War of 1861-65, third son Gaspard, who, according to wartime records, had a dark complexion, dark hair, dark eyes, and stood five feet, nine and a half inches tall, served in Company B of the 30th Regiment/Battalion Louisiana Infantry, raised in Orleans and St. James parishes, which fought in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee.  Gaspard enlisted in March 1862 and, except for a stay in a Louisiana hospital later that year, remained with his company until early August 1864, when he was captured near Atlanta, Georgia.  The Federals sent him to the military prison at Louisville, Kentucky, and then on to the prisoner-of-war compound at Camp Chase, Ohio, where he remained for the rest of the war.  He returned to his family and married Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadian Hippolyte Hébert and his Creole wife Eulalie Forgeron, at the Thibodaux church in December 1866.  Their children, born in Lafourche Parish, included Augustin Olivin in November 1867; Roselina in March 1869; ... 

Étienne's sixth son Étienne Simon or Simon Étienne, in March 1819, using the latter name, filed a petition at the Lafourche Interior Parish courthouse in Thibodauxville when he was 17 years old, asking for his oldest brother Charles to become his curator after their father died.  He may have been the Étienne Boudreaux who married Angélique, daughter of Drosin Toups and Judith Mayer and brother Charles's widow, no place or date given.  Their son Alfred was born on the Lafourche in July 1848.  If Étienne Simon/Simon Étienne was the Simon Boudreaux who died in Lafourche Parish "at age 50 yrs." in November 1858, the Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial underestimated his age by years.  Éteinne Simon would have been age 57.  The priest did not record Simon's parents' names or mention a wife.  Étienne Simon's son married by 1870 and settled on the western prairies.

Only son Alfred married cousin Colastie or Scolastie, daughter of Charles Lessin Baudoin and his Acadian wife Marie Sylvanie Boudreaux, at the Youngsville church, Lafayette Parish, in September 1869. 

Étienne's seventh son François Michel, in March 1819, when he was age 15 1/2 (the recording clerky said 14), filed a petition at the Lafourche Interior Parish courthouse asking for his oldest brother Charles to become his curator soon after their father died.  François Michel married Adeline dite Deline, daughter of Jacques Barbier and his Acadian wife Marie Deroche of St. Charles Parish, at the Thibodauxville church in June 1828.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Victorine in September 1829; and Louis François in August 1835.  François Michel died in Lafourche Interior Parish in November 1837.  The priest who recorded the burial said that François was age 31 when he died.  He was 34.  Daughter Victorine married into the Killingsworth and Cantrelle families.  François Michel's son also married, after his war service, and settled on the Lafourche.

During the War of 1861-65, François Michel's only son may have been the Louis F. Boudreaux who served in Company G of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafourche Parish, which fought in Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, and Louisiana, and Company F of the Consolidated 18th Regiment and Yellow Jacket Battalion Infantry, which fought in Louisiana.  For much of his time with these units, Louis F. served as a driver with the regiment's quartermaster.  This Louis F. married Mathilde, daughter of Augustin Sanchez and his Acadian wife Marie Adèle Guillot, at the Thibodaux church in April 1870. ...

Étienne's eighth son Fabien Magloire married Marie Fleurantine or Florentine, 18-year-old daughter of Marie Félicité Brunet, at the Thibodauxville church in March 1832; one wonders who Marie Florentine's father may have been.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Alfonsa in July 1831, nearly a year before her parents' church wedding, but died at age 2 in August 1833; Marguerite Eulalie born in December 1832; Étienne Fabien Mathurin, called Étienne F., in January 1835; Bertrand Magloire in May 1836 but, called Magloire, died at age 18 in August 1854; Charles Florien born in April 1838; Angélique Geneviève in July 1843 but may have been the Angélique Boudreaux who died in Lafourche Parish, age 26 (the recording priest said 25), in April 1870; Ambroise Adrien born in March 1844; Joseph Adam, perhaps theirs, in January 1846; and Florentin Aurelien in November 1848 but, called Florentia Aurelien, died at age 1 in December 1849.  At age 55, Fabien remarried to cousin Pauline Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Martin Thibodeaux and Constance Hébert, at the Thibodaux church in October 1863.  Their son Fabien Paulinaire Magloire was born in Lafourche Parish in July 1864--10 children, three daughters and seven sons, by two wives, between 1831 and 1864.  Wife Pauline Marie died the day after their son was born, probably from the rigors of childbirth.  Daughter ..., by his first wife, married into the Toups family by 1870.  One of Fabien's sons also married by then.  

Oldest son Étienne Fabien Mathurin, called Étienne F., from first wife Marie Félicité Brunet, married first cousin Odilia, daughter of Mathurin Boudreaux and Doralise Broussard, his uncle and aunt, at the Thibodaux church in April 1863.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joseph Ernest, called Ernest, in December 1863; Marie Ernestine, called Ernestine, in January 1865; Joséphine Angelina, called Angelina, in February 1866; and Marguerite Angela, called Angela, in October 1867--four children, a son and three daughters, between 1863 and 1867.  An "Oath of tutors" in his wife's name for his children, naming him and listing their children--Ernest, Ernestine, Angelina, and Angela--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in March 1870. 

Étienne's ninth son Mathurin married Doralise, 20-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Dominique Broussard and Pélagie Martin, at the Thibodauxville church in August 1834.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Dominique Étienne Octave, called Étienne Octave or just Octave, in August 1835; Auzémé or Osémé Delphi in July 1837; Doralise Odilia or Audilia in January 1839; Justinien or Justilien in March 1841; Marie Justilia in November 1842 but, called Justilia, died at age 25 (the recording priest said 27) in December 1867; Erneste born in October 1844 but, called Ernest, died at age 14 in October 1858; Oleus François born in December 1846 but, called François Alexis, died at age 9 months in September 1847; Émelia or Amélie born in August 1848; Louis Emelius, called Emelius, in August 1850; and Eusèbe Olivia in August 1852 but, called Olivain, died at age 15 1/2 (the recording priest said 14) in December 1867--10 children, seven sons and three daughters, between 1835 and 1852.  Mathurin died in Lafourche Parish in August 1854, age 44 (the recording priest said 43).  A document to provide tutorship for his children, calling him Maturin and naming his wife and children--Octave, Ozémé, Audillia, Justillien, Justilla, Ernest, Émelia, Emelins, and Olivia--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in November.  Daughters Odilia and Amélie married into the Boudreaux and Ford families by 1870, one of them to a first cousin.  Three of Mathurin's sons also married by then, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Dominique Étienne Octave, called Étienne Octave or Octave, married Marie Louise, called Louise and Louisa, daughter of fellow Acadian Archange Blanchard and his Creole wife Justine Rodrigue, at the Thibodaux church in September 1860.  Their children, born in Lafourche Parish, included Joseph Mathurin in January 1862; and Marie Joséphine in June 1864.  Octave died in Lafourche Parish in January 1867, age 31 (the recording priest said 32).  A "Petition for tutorship" for his son Joseph, naming his wife, was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in February.  What about his daughter?

Mathurin's second son Osémé Delphi married Nancy, daughter of Zénon Beadle, perhaps Bedel, and his Acadian wife Marie Aucoin, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in March 1864.  Wife Nancy, called "Mrs. Osémé Boudreaux," died in Lafourche Parish at age 20 in March 1865, before she could give him any children.  Osémé remarried to Mary Pamela, called Pamela, daughter of fellow Acadian Louis Gaudet and his Creole wife Hortense Falgout, at the Thibodaux church in April 1869.  Their son Félix Joseph was born in Lafourche Parish in January 1870; ...

Mathurin's third son Justinien or Justilien married Marie Letitia, called Letitia, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Hébert and Eulalie Usé, at the Thibodaux church in May 1866.  Daughter Marie Ulalie was born in Lafourche Parish in August 1867.  Justilien died in Lafourche Parish in November 1867, age 26.  Tutorship for his daughter was granted the following March.  He and his wife had no sons, so this line of the family, except perhaps for its blood, died with him.

Étienne's tenth and youngest son Auguste Léon or Léon Auguste married Rosaline, 18-year-old daughter of Pierre Pontiff and Mérente Elmer, at the Thibodauxville church in September 1834.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Ofilia or OpheliaVictoire Emérante in April 1836; Léon Zéphirin in March 1838; Victorin Thomasin, called Thomas, in August 1839; Pierre Mathurin in December 1840; Étienne Prosper, called Prosper, in June 1842; Léa perhaps in the 1840s; Léontine in c1845 but died at age 22 in November 1867; Toussaint Lovinsky born in November 1848 but died at age 6 1/2 (the recording priest said 4) in September 1855; Édouard born in November 1850 but died at age 1 1/2 in January 1852; Roseline Léonie born in January 1853; Zora Eulalie in July 1855; Marie Thérèse or Theresa in October 1857; and Joseph Léo in October 1861--13 children, six daughters and seven sons, between 1836 and 1861.  Daughters Ophelia and Léa married into the Devillard and Hébert families by 1870.  Three of Léon's sons also married by then, one of them after his military service.  Another son also served Louisiana in uniform but did not marry by 1870. 

Oldest son Léon Zéphirin married Philomène, daughter of Alfred Trosclair and Joséphine Rome, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in November 1864.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Léon Zéphirin, fils in November 1865; Léon Olivier in May 1869; ...

Auguste Léon's second Victorin Thomasin, called Thomas, married Anaïse, daughter of Urbain Poché or Porché and his Acadian wife Célesie LeBlanc, at the Thibodaux church in June 1864.  Daughter Marie Eustochie was born in Lafourche Parish in December 1865; ...

During the War of 1861-65, Auguste Léon's third son Pierre Mathurin 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 this family, and married Marie Émilie, called Amelia, daughter of fellow Acadians Guillaume Hébert and Marie Guillot, at the Thibodaux church in July 1865.  Their children, born in Lafourche Parish, included Marie Louisa in August 1866 but, called Louisa, died at age 14 months in November 1867; Marie Melina born in June 1868; Marie Mathilde in March 1870; ...

During the war, Auguste Léon's fourth Étienne Prosper, called Prosper, served with brother Pierre in Company I of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry.  He survived the war and returned to his family but did not marry by 1870. 

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Thirteen more Boudrots 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.  Some of them followed their fellow passengers to the new Acadian community of Bayou des Écores in the New Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge.  Others chose to join their kinsmen on upper Bayou Lafourche, where they created more vigorous family lines:

Amand (1730-?) à Charles à Michel Boudreaux

Amand, fourth son of François Boudrot and Angélique Doiron, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1730, became blind at the age of 12.  The British deported him to Virginia in the fall of 1755, Virginia authorities sent him on to England the following spring, and he was repatriated to St.-Malo, France, aboard the ship Dorothée with younger brother Jean-Charles and his family in May 1763.  Amand lived with them at Plouër-sur-Rance on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo.  In spite of his infirmity, at age 39 he married Marie, daughter of locals Guillaume Couillard and Marie Hesry of Plouër, in April 1769.  Marie gave Amand four sons in the area:  Jean-Baptiste born at Port St.-Hubert in February 1770; François-Joseph at La Pomerais in August 1771; Joseph-Jacques in December 1773 but died at age 3 in January 1777; and Pierre-Mathurin born in July 1776 but died at age 1 1/2 in May 1778.  One wonders how he supported his family beyond the supplement the French government was giving him and all other Acadians in the kingdom.  As the birth dates of their youngest children suggest, Amand did not take his family to Poitou in 1773, nor did they join other Acadians in the lower Loire port of Nantes later in the decade.  Amand remarried to Marie-Perrine, daughter of locals Charles Nogues and François Raimond of La Fresnais southeast of St.-Malo, at Plouër in February 1777.  They remained at Plouër.  Marie-Perrine gave Amand four more children in the area:  Jacques-Joseph born at La Pommerais in September 1777 but died nine days after his birth; Marie in c1780; Joseph-Alain born in c1781; and Hélène in April 1785--eight children, six sons and two daughters, by two wives, between 1770 and 1785.  Amand, wife Marie-Perrine, and five children, three sons and two daughters, sailed to Louisiana from St.-Malo soon after their daughter's birth.  From New Orleans, they went directly to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Daughter Marie, from his second wife, married into the Aucoin family on the Lafourche.  Amand's younger daughter Hélène may not have survived the crossing from France.  Three of his sons married in the Spanish colony, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, by first wife Marie Couillard, followed his family to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche.  In late 1795, he was living with his younger brother Francois's family at Assumption on the upper bayou, where, at age 28, he married cousin Anne-Henriette, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Boudreaux and Marguerite Thibodeaux and widow of Pierre-Honoré LeBlanc, in February 1798.  Anne-Henriette, a native of Pleudihen-sur-Rance across the river from Plouër-sur-Rance, had come to Louisiana from France in 1785 aboard an earlier ship.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Émilie-Constance in October 1798; and Jean Baptiste Rosémond, perhaps posthumously, in December 1818.  A succession inventory for him, calling him Jean and his wife Anne, may have been filed at the Lafourche Interior Parish courthouse in June 1817.  If this was him, he would have been age 47 at the time.  Daughter Émilie Constance married into the Bernard family.  Jean Baptiste's only son probably did not marry, so this line of the family, except for its blood, may not have endured. 

Amand's second son François-Joseph, by first wife Marie Couillard, followed his family to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marie-Jacquemine dite Nanette, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Thibodeaux and Françoise Hébert, in September 1793.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Anne-Marie or Marie-Anne in September 1797; Joseph-Dominique, called Dominique, in c1799; Marie Constance in September 1807; Marguerite Pauline January 1810; and Amand le jeune in July 1812--five children, three daughters and two sons, between 1797 and 1812.  François died in Lafourche Interior Parish in March 1825, age 55.  Daughters Marie Anne and Marguerite Pauline married into the Boudreaux and Usé families.  One of François Joseph's sons also married and settled in Lafourche Interior Parish. 

Older son Joseph Dominique, called Dominique, married Rosalie, daughter of Creoles Jean Olivier and Dorothée Lagrange of St. John the Baptist Parish, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in April 1826.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Pauline Élodie in February 1827; François Dominique in June 1828; Elisa Donathilde in April 1830; Eugène in the early 1830s; and Césaire Eulalie in October 1834 but died at age 6 in October 1840--five children, two sons and three daughters, between 1827 and 1834.  Joseph Dominique died in Lafourche Interior Parish in May 1835, age 36.  Daughter Pauline married into the Guidry family by 1870.  Joseph Dominique's sons also married and settled in Assumption and Terrebonne parishes. 

Older son François Dominique married Eulalie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Henry and his Creole wife Julienne Percle, at the Thibodaux church in April 1850.  They lived on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes.  Their son Jean Baptiste Joseph was born there in March 1851.  At age 34, François D., as he was called, remarried to Julie Émelie or Émilia, daughter of Moïse Haydel and Émelie Hymel and widow of ____ Haydel, at the Thibodaux church in January 1863.  They, too, lived near the boundary between Lafourche and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Amélie in October 1863; Marie Louisiane in February 1868; Catherine in November 1869; ...  François Dominique's son married and settled on the upper Lafourche.

Only son Jean Baptiste Joseph, by first wife Eulalie Henry, married Stephanie, daughter of Joseph Lassaigne and Adela Fremin, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in September 1870. ...

Dominique's younger son Eugène married Marie, daughter of Pierre Gerbeau and his Acadian wife Églantine Trahan of Terrebonne Parish, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in May 1855.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Eugénie Élodie in April 1856; Roséma Pauline in November 1858; Alexandre Pierre in February 1861; Siméon Folts in January 1864; Édouard Maximilien in June 1869; ... 

Amand's sixth and youngest son Joseph-Alain, by second wife Marie-Perrine Nogues, was still a child when he followed his family to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche.  In 1795 and 1797, he was listed in the Valenzuela District censuses on the upper Lafourche as ages 14 and 15 and living with his older half-brothers François-Joseph and Jean-Baptiste.  In his early 20s, Joseph-Alain married Marie-Jeanne, daughter of Lambert Billardin or Villardin of Morlaix, France, and his Acadian wife Marguerite Daigre, at Assumption in October 1803.  Marie-Jeanne, a native of Morlaix, had come to Louisiana from France in 1785 aboard an earlier vessel.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Phelonie Marguerite in November 1804; Adélaïde in September 1806; Adèle in May 1808; Clément Henrique in December 1810; Léon Eustache in November 1815 but died at age 2 in May 1817; and a daughter, name unrecorded, died in Assumption Parish four days after her birth in July 1819--six children, four daughters and two sons, between 1804 and 1819.  During the early 1820s, in his early 40s, Joseph Alain and Marie Jeanne crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to the old Attakapas District, where, in his late 40s, he remarried to Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Firmin Landry and Scholastique Thibodeaux and widow of Henry Leonard Ransonet, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in October 1827.  Was he the Joseph Boudreaux, age 69, in the U.S. Federal census of 1850 living in Ascension Parish that August, no vocation listed, with Clément Boudreaux, a 39-year-old merchant, and a 20-year-old clerk from Germany?  Joseph Alain may also have been the Joseph Boudreaux who died in Ascension Parish, "age 66 years," in December 1852.  The Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial did not give any parents' names or mention a wife or wives.  Joseph Alain would have been in his late 60s or early 70s that year.  None of his remaining daughters seems to have married, but his remaining son did, perhaps several times, and continued the family line at least for another generation. 

Older son Clément, while still a child, likely followed his family to the western prairies in the early 1820s.  Perhaps after he came of age, he returned to the river, where he became a merchant at Donaldsonville, Ascension Parish.  In his early 40s, he married Elizabeth Alleman, widow of Antoine Vega, probably at Donaldsonville in February 1855, but they may have been living together before their church wedding; the priest who recorded the marriage did not give any parents' names or mention a civil ceremony.  Son Albert had been born probably in Ascension Parish in c1851 but died at age 2 in September 1853, perhaps the child of a previous marriage for Clément.  He seems to have remarried to Aglaé Sans or Schanz probably in Ascension Parish in the late 1850s.  Their son Rodolfo Englebert was born in Ascension Parish in November 1858 but, called Joseph, died the following March.  In the U.S. census of 1860, Clément, listed as C. Boudrau, was residing at Donaldsonville, a 49-year-old clerk, with no wife in his household but with 7-year-old Clebire, perhaps Clebert, a son; 5-year-old Clemure, perhaps another son or a daughter; and 20-year-old J. R. Newell, described as "Df & Dumb."  Clément may have remarried again--perhaps his third marriage--to fellow Acadian Julien Melançon, place and date unrecorded.  Their son Joseph Clément was born in Ascension Parish in July 1869.  In the U.S. census of 1870, Clément was listed as a 58-year-old "Grocer Merchant" at Donaldsonville with 13-year-old Clemie, a mulatto servant in his household, but no wife and other children.  By June 1880, Clément had moved to New Orleans, where he was listed in the U.S. census there as a 68-year-old widowed grocer with no children, only a 23-year-old clerk in his household at 12 Franklin Street in the city's Third Ward.  He does not appear in the 1900 U.S. census, so he likely had died by then.

Victor (c1728-1780s) à Charles à Michel Boudreaux

Victor, fourth son of Antoine Boudrot and Cécile Brassaud, born probably at Pigiguit in c1728, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and married Catherine-Josèphe, daughter of Jean Hébert and Marie-Madeleine Doiron, at Port-La-Joye on the island in January 1752.  A French official counted them with a 17-year-old Boudrot orphan in Victor's father's homestead at Grande-Anse on the south shore of the island the August after their wedding.  Catherine gave Victor three children on the island:  Hélène-Marie-Rose born in c1753; Madeleine in c1755; and Joseph in c1758.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Daughter Madeleine died at sea.  They settled at St.-Suliac on the east side of the Rance south of St.-Malo and in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where Victor worked as a carpenter.  Catherine gave Victor six more children in the area:  Anne born at St.-Suliac in April 1760 but died at age 1 1/2 in December 1761; Marguerite-Jeanne, called Jeanne, born in March 1762; Pierre in August 1764; Prudent-Olivier in February 1766 but died at St.-Servan the following October; Jean-Baptiste born at St.-Servan in December 1767; and Cécile in July 1770.  Catherine died at Hôtel-Dieu, St.-Malo, in April 1772, age 40.  Victor, in his mid-40s, remarried to Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Richard and Catherine Gautrot of Grand-Pré and widow of Simon dit Pierre Pitre, at St.-Servan in August 1773.  Perhaps because he was a carpenter and not a farmer, Victor did not follow his fellow Acadians to the interior of Poitou that year but remained at St.-Servan.  Geneviève gave him five more children there:  Geneviève-Sophie born in August 1774; Noël-Victor in December 1776; Antoine-Charles in February 1780 but died the following September; René-Antoine born in September 1781 but died the following February; and Anne-Jeanne born in January 1785--14 children, seven daughters and seven sons, by two wives, between 1753 and 1785, in greater Acadia and France.  Victor's oldest daughter Hélène-Marie-Rose, by his first wife, married into the LeLorre family in France.  In 1785, Victor, wife Geneviève, six of his unmarried children by both wives, two sons and four daughters, his married daughter and her husband, and a Pitre stepdaughter, crossed from St.-Malo to New Orleans.  Second son Pierre, by his first wife, if he was still living, would have been age 21 that year; he did not accompany his family to Spanish Louisiana.  Victor's fourth son Jean Baptiste, by his first wife, was still very much alive and age 17 when his family left for Louisiana.  He, too, chose to remain in France, unless, perhaps as a sailor or fisherman, he had already gone on to greater Acadia, from which he would rejoin his family in Louisiana.  From New Orleans, Victor and his extended family followed most of their fellow passengers to Bayou des Écores north of Baton Rouge.  Victor died there by September 1787, in his late 50s, when his wife remarried.  Daughters Marguerite-Jeanne, Cécile, Geneviève-Sophie, and Anne-Jeanne, by both wives, married into the Blair, Calegan, Silvi or Silvy, Clément, and Navarre families at Baton Rouge and on Bayou Lafourche.  Victor's youngest remaining son, by his second wife, also married in the colony.  His oldest son, by his first wife, did not marry.  Three years after Victor took his family to Louisiana and a year or so after his death, his fourth son, by his first wife, appeared in the colony, one of the few to go there directly from greater Acadia.  This son also married in the colony and created his own family there--the most robust of his father's line, in fact. 

Oldest son Joseph, by first wife Catherine-Josèphe Hébert, followed his family to St.-Malo, St.-Suliac, St.-Servan, New Orleans, and Bayou des Écores.  Perhaps in the early 1790s or soon after his father's death, Joseph joined the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche, where he was counted in the Valenzuela District census with an older sister and a brother-in-law in December 1795 and April 1797.  The census taker in 1797 noted that Joseph was age 32, but he was closer to 39.  There is no evidence that he married.   

Victor's fourth son Jean-Baptiste, by first wife Catherine-Josèphe Hébert, was age 17 when his father, stepmother, and family sailed to Louisiana without him in 1785.  Jean-Baptitste perhaps was a sailor by then and may have been serving aboard a ship half way round the world.  In 1788, three years after his family had emigrated to Louisiana, Jean-Baptiste was on Île St.-Pierre, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  Also there was a relative of his, Marie-Madeleine Bourg of Minas, whose mother was an Hébert.  Marie-Madeleine was the wife of Joseph Gravois III of Chignecto, now living on Île St.-Pierre with his large family.  Perhaps a fisherman or engaged in the coastal trade, Joseph was owner of a schooner, La Brigite.  Jean-Baptiste, now age 21, along with skipper Joseph Gravois, his wife Marie-Madeleine, their eight children; Marine LeBlanc, widow of Joseph Babin, her five children; and another Babin--18 Acadians in all--sailed aboard La Brigite from Île St.-Pierre to New Orleans, which they reached in December 1788--among the last Acadian immigrants to reach Louisiana and probably the only ones who went there directly from greater Acadia.  The Gravoiss and Babins settled at Ascension on the river above the city along what was being called the Acadian Coast.  Perhaps Jean-Baptiste went there with them before moving on to upper Bayou Lafourche, where some of his siblings from France had settled soon after their father's death at distant Bayou des Écores in September 1787.  Jean-Baptiste, at age 25, married Marie-Françoise, called Françoise, 24-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Charles LeBlanc and Rosalie Trahan, at Assumption on the upper Lafourche in November 1793.  Françoise, also a native of St.-Servan-sur-Mer, had come to Louisiana from France in 1785.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Basil-Victor in September 1794; Jean-Baptiste, fils, called Baptiste, in June 1796; Théodore in June 1798; and Marie-Cécile- or Zélie-Clémence in July 1800.  At age 35, Jean-Baptiste remarried to Marie-Rose, 27-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Grégoire Benoit and Marie-Rose Carret, at Assumption in April 1803.  Marie-Rose, a native of Châtellerault, Poitou, also, like Jean-Baptiste's first wife and his family, had come to Louisiana from France in 1785.  Jean Baptiste and Marie Rose's children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Mélanie in July 1804 but died at age 30 in September 1834; Marie Carmélite born in August 1805; Marie Élisabeth in December 1806; Sébastien Célestin dit Bastien, in December 1807; Rosalie Théotiste in March 1809; Élise, called also Émilie or Émelia Lise, in November 1810; and Firmin in March 1814--11 children, five sons and six daughters, by two wives, between 1794 and 1814.  Jean Baptiste died in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1848.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Jean Baptiste died "at age 88."  He was 80.  His succession inventory, listing all of his surviving children--Jean Baptiste, Jr.; Théodore; Rosalie Théotiste; Bastien; Émilie Élise; and Firmin--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse two weeks after his death.  Daughters Zélie Clémence, Marie Élisabeth, Émelia Lise, and Rosalie Théotiste, by both wives, married into the Hébert and LeBlanc families, three of them to LeBlancs, two of them brothers.  Three of Jean Baptiste's sons also married and settled in Lafourche Interior and Terrebonne parishes.  Some of his grandsons and great-grandsons settled in Assumption and Terrebonne parishes, but most of them remained on the middle Lafourche.  One grandson lived near Brashear, now Morgan, City, on the lower Atchafalaya, during the War of 1861-65, and another settled near Lydia, Iberville Parish, on lower Bayou Teche, after the war. 

Second son Jean-Baptiste, fils, by first wife Marie Françoise LeBlanc, married cousin Marie Anne Eulalie, called Eulalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph LeBlanc and Marie Gautreaux, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in July 1815.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Assumption and Lafourche Interior Parish before moving down to Terrebonne Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie Françoise in April 1816 but died at age 13 1/2 (the recording priest said 14) in November 1829; Hortense Eulalie, also called Marie Hortense, born in April 1818; Jean Baptiste III, called Baptiste, in July 1822; Julienne, also called Céleste, in January 1824; Charles Neuville, called Neuville, in July 1826; Rosete or Rositte Admir in December 1828; and Joseph Auguste, called Auguste, in April 1831--seven children, four daughters and three sons, between 1816 and 1831.  In November 1850, the federal census taker in Terrebonne Parish counted four slaves--all males, all mulattoes except one black, ages 24 years to 6 months--on Jean Bt. Boudreau's farm.  This may have been Jean Baptiste, fils.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Terrebonne Parish counted seven slaves--three males and four females, all mulattoes except for one black, ranging in age from 50 to 4, living in a single house--on J. B. Boudreau's farm in the parish's 11th Ward.  One wonders if this was Jean Baptiste, fils, or if it was his son Jean Baptiste III.  At age 69, Jean Baptiste, fils remarried to Hélène, daughter of François Domingue and Anne Paneke and widow of Victor Silvy, at the Montegut church, Terrebonne Parish, in September 1865.  She gave him no more children.  Daughters Hortense, Rositte, and Céleste/Julienne, by his first wife, married into the Gardner, Ordeneaux or Ordonneau, and Pontiff families, two of them, Rositte and Céleste, to Pontiff brothers.  Jean Baptiste, fils's three sons also married.

Oldest son Jean Baptiste III, called Baptiste, from first wife Eulalie LeBlanc, while living in Terrebonne Parish, married cousin Azéma Hirènne, probably Irène, daughter of Georges Adolphe and his Acadian wife Victoire Catherine Boudreaux, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in October 1844.  Their children, born on the Lafourche and in Terrebonne Parish, included Amédée Alfred Menard, called Alfred, in August 1845; Azélima Adeline in March 1847; Joseph Sturgis in February 1853; Oscar Frédéric near Chacahoula, Terrebonne Parish, in April or May 1859; Marie near Brashear, now Morgan, City, on the lower Atchafalaya, in March 1861; and Marie B. in January 1865--six children, three sons and three daughters, between 1845 and 1865.  Jean Baptiste III died in Terrebonne Parish in September 1866, age 44 (the recording priest said 45).  A "Petition for administration" of his estate was filed at the Houma courthouse the day after he died.  Neither of his daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did. 

During the War of 1861-65, oldest son Alfred, who, according to wartime records, had a dark complexion, black hair, black eyes, and stood five feet, five and a half inches tall, may have been conscripted into Company C of the 1st Regiment Louisiana Heavy Artillery, which included many conscripts from the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley who fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  When Union General U. S. Grant's army captured the regiment at Vicksburg in July 1863, most of its conscripts, including Alfred, refused to accept parole.  The Federals sent him and his fellow gunners to Gratiot Street Prison in St. Louis, Missouri, before transferring them to the prisoner-of-war compound at Camp Morton, Indiana.  Perhaps to shorten his stay in the dreadful place, Alfred, with other survivors from his unit, took the oath of allegiance to the United States government in early January 1865--months before the war ended.  The Federals released them after they took the oath, and they made their way home as best they could.  Alfred married cousin Julie, daughter of fellow Acadians Hermogène LeBlanc and Angela Landry, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in October 1866, and sanctified the marriage at the Chacahoula church in March 1867.  Their children, born near Chacahoula, included Augustin in October 1867; Edward Augustin in November 1869; ...

Jean-Baptiste, fils's second son Charles Neuville, called Neuville, from first wife Eulalie LeBlanc, married Marcellite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Ozelet and Élise Thériot, at the Thibodaux church in January 1851.  Their children, born on the Lafourche and in Terrebonne Parish, included Marie Eugénie in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1851; Anatole Jules died in Assumption Parish, age 3 months, in August 1856; Justilien Oneville born near Chacahoula in February 1862; Marie Alfrida in October 1864; Jules Andressi in May 1868; ...  In August 1860, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted a single slave--a 40-year-old mulatto male--on Neuville Boudreaux's farm in the parish's Sixth Ward on Bayou Lafourche; one wonders if this was Charles Neuville.  None of Neuville's children married by 1870. 

Jean-Baptiste, fils's third and youngest son Joseph Auguste, called Auguste, from first wife Eulalie LeBlanc, married cousin Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Cyprien Hébert and Pauline Boudreaux, at the Thibodaux church in January 1861.  Their children, born on the southeastern bayous, included Marie Augustilia in Lafourche Parish in November 1862; Antoine Edgard in January 1864; Eulalie in October 1867; Marie Ulalia in Terrebonne Parish in November 1869; ...

Jean-Baptiste, père's third son Théodore, by first wife Marie Françoise LeBlanc, married cousin Marie Blanche, daughter of fellow Acadians Hippolyte LeBlanc and Marguerite Gaudet, at the Thibodauxville church in May 1820, and, for some reason, recorded the marriage at the Lafourche Interior Parish courthouse in July 1838.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Pélagie in November 1820; Joseph Hippolyte in February 1823 but died at age 6 months the following December; Eugène Evariste born in January 1825; Marie Pauline in September 1827; Léandre in October 1829; Daniel in June 1831; Joseph Rosémond, perhaps theirs, in August 1832; Jean Baptiste le jeune in May 1836; Cléopha Émil or Émile, also called J. Émile and Émile, in September 1838; Aimée, probably a daughter, in c1840 but died at age 9 in November 1849; and Azélie Estelle born in February 1842--11 children, four daughters and seven sons, from 1820 to 1842.  Daughters ... married into the Hébert, Landry, and Mire families by 1870.  Four of Théodore's sons also married by then.  One of them moved to lower Bayou Teche after the War of 1861-65, but the others remained in Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes. 

Second son Eugène Evariste, at age 22, married Pauline, daughter of fellow Acadian Célestin Hébert and his Creole wife Marcelline Baudoin, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in January 1847, and sanctified the marriage at the Thibodaux church the following September.  Daughter Marie Josèphe Célina, called Célina, was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in March 1849.  Letters of tutorship for daughter Célina, "apparently still alive at this date," was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in April 1854.  One suspects that her mother, Pauline Hébert, had died by then.  Eugène Evariste, at age 30, remarried to Céleste, another daughter of Célestin Hébert and Marcelline Baudoin, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in March 1855.  Their children, born on the southeastern bayous, included Joseph Léandre in Lafourche Parish in November 1856; Silvain Daniel in November 1858; Jean Arvilien in October 1860; Eugène Justilien in October 1862; Marie Philomène near Chacahoula, Terrebonne Parish, in September 1864; ...  None of Eugène's children married by 1870. 

Théodore's third son Léandre married cousin Julie, daughter of Louis A. Lamoureux, a French Creole, not a fellow Acadian, and his Acadian wife Julie Boudreaux of Lafourche Parish, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in August 1857; the marriage was recorded also in Lafourche Parish.  Their children, born on the Lafourche and in Terrebonne Parish, included Théodule Léoni Jules in Lafourche Parish in July 1858; Marie Théodilia in August 1859; Eugénie Clodilla in September 1860; twins Joseph Cléophile and Joseph Théophile near Chacahoula in January 1862; Julie Alexina in Lafourche Parish in July 1863; Louise Cécile in February 1866; Ernest Théodore in August 1869; ... 

Théodore's fourth son Daniel married Marie Marcellite, yet another daughter of Célestin Hébert and Marcelline Baudoin, at the Thibodaux church in September 1855.  Their children, born in Lafourche Parish, included Marie Victoria in February 1857; Joseph Melchior in December 1859; and Émée Sullia in July 1861.  Daniel remarried to Adolphine dite Dolphine, daughter of fellow Acadian Zéphirin Hébert and his Creole wife Baselise Gros, at the Labadieville church in May 1865; the marriage was recorded also in Terrebonne Parish, where they settled before moving to lower Bayou Teche.  Their children, born there, included Joseph near Chacahoula in February 1866; Daniel Théodore near New Iberia on the lower Teche in February 1870; ... They lived on the prairie probably between New Iberia and Lydia, perhaps at present-day Boudreaux. 

Théodore's seventh and youngest son Cléopha Émile, also called J. Émile and Émile, married Nathalie, daughter of Foreign Frenchman Louis Jean Richard and his Acadian wife Théodora Dugas, at the Thibodaux church in November 1864.  Their children, born in Lafourche Parish, included Marie Émelie in May 1865; Émile Théodore in January 1869; ... 

Jean-Baptiste, père's fourth son Sébastien Célestin dit Bastien, called Bastien, by second wife Marie Rose Benoit, died in Lafourche Parish in June or July 1856.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Sébastien died "at age 50 yrs."  He was 48.  His succession inventory, mentioning no wife, was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in July.  He probably never married. 

Jean-Baptiste, père's fifth and youngest son Firmin, by second wife Marie Rose Benoit, married cousin Marie Edmire or Elmire, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Marie Benoit and Marie Élisabeth Darois, at the Thibodauxville church in February 1835.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie died at age 2 days in January 1836; Joseph died at age 48 hours in January 1837; Marie Armelise born in September 1839; Séverin Olesius dit Olezie, in October 1841; Marie Azéma in October 1844; Joseph Augustin in November 1846; Amédée Léonard in October 1849; Joseph Azée in September 1851; and Émile Théodule in January 1855--nine children, three daughters and six sons, between 1836 and 1855.  Neither of Firmin's remaining daughters seems to have married by 1870, but one of his sons did. 

Second son Séverin Olesius dit Olezie, married Adèle, daughter of David Rodrique and his Acadian wife Élisabeth Thibodeaux, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in March 1860.  Did they have any children? 

Victor's fifth son Noël-Victor, by second wife Geneviève Richard, followed his family to New Orleans and Bayou de Écores.  Perhaps after his father died, or maybe after most the Acadians abandoned the settlement in the early 1790s, Noël-Victor, still in his teens, followed members of his family to upper Bayou Lafourche, where Spanish officials counted him with his sister Marie-Rose, her family, and his older half-brother Jean-Baptiste in December 1795.  He was still living with them in April 1797, when he was age 21.  Noël-Victor, at age 26, married cousin Rose or Rosalie, called Rosie, 17-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Paul LeBlanc and Anne Boudreaux, at Assumption on the upper Lafourche in February 1803.  Rosie, a native of Chantenay near Nantes, had come to Louisiana from France in 1785 aboard an earlier ship not long after her birth.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Rosalie Adélaïde in December 1804; Marie Pélagie in August 1806; Tarsile Marie in August 1808; Marguerite Cécile in October 1810; Marguerite Azélie in the early 1810s; Joseph in March 1813; Jean Baptiste Théodule in May 1815; Marie Adèle, called Adèle, in November 1817; Marcellite Pauline, called Pauline, in March 1820; Mélite in June 1823 but, called Émilie, died at age 2 1/2 (the recording priest said 3) in January 1836; and Françoise Clémentine born in June 1827--11 children, nine daughters and two sons, between 1804 and 1827.  Rosie died in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1836, age 51.  Noël Victor, who did not remarry, died in Lafourche Interior Parish in March 1842, age 65 (the recording priest said 66).  Daughters Marie Pélagie, Rosalie, Marguerite Azélie, Tarsile Marie, Adèle, and Pauline married into the Morvant, Bourg, Guillot, Fite, Hébert, Rodrigue, Naquin, and Boudreaux families, two of them, Marguerite Azélie and Adèle, twice.  Both of Noël Victor's sons also married, to cousins whose mothers were Boudreauxs, and settled in Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes, but not all of the lines endured. 

Older son Joseph married cousin Marie Rosalie, 17-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Jean Baptiste Hébert and Émilie Cécile Boudreaux, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in February 1837.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Louis François in January 1838; Dorvile Joseph in September 1839 but, called Dorville Joseph, died at age 2 in August 1841; Marie Rose Émelie born in September 1841; Aglaé Lorenza in September 1843; Joséphine Colmad in October 1846; Emma Aimée in May 1848; Jules Avis in October 1850; Augustine Eulalie in August 1853; Félix Aristide in March 1856 but, called Aristide, died at age 2 1/2 in November 1858; twins Clet Ave and Octave born in January 1861; Antoine Edgard in January 1864; ...  Daughter Marie married into the Clément family by 1870.  Two of Joseph's sons also married by then. 

During the War of 1861-65, oldest son Louis François may have been the Louis F. Boudreaux who served in Company G of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafourche Parish, which fought in Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, and Louisiana, and Company F of the Consolidated 18th Regiment and Yellow Jacket Battalion Infantry, which fought in Louisiana.  For much of his time with these units, Louis François served as a driver with the regiment's quartermaster.  He survived the war, returned to his family, and married Adolphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Vincent Hébert and Tarzile Clément, at the Thibodaux church in November 1865.  Their children, born in Lafourche Parish, included Louise Joséphine in October 1866; Joseph Adolphe in August 1868 but, called Adolph, died at age 2 (the recording priest said 3) in October 1870; ...

Joseph's third son Jules Avis married Estelina, daughter of fellow Acadian Louis Dantin and his Creole wife Aurelia Newell, at the Thibodaux church in January 1870.  Daughter Marie Mélodie was born in Lafourche Parish in October 1870; ...

Noël Victor's younger son Jean Baptiste Théodule married cousin Pauline Émilie, daughter of Giles Bouvé or Bouvet and his Acadian wife Marie Josèphe Boudreaux, at the Thibodaux church in July 1838.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Adolphine, called Adolphine and Phelide, in November 1839; Joséphine Victorine, called Victorine, in the early 1840s; and Angélique in November 1843 but may have been the Angélique Boudreaux who died in Lafourche Parish, age 26 (the recording priest said 25), in April 1870--three children, all daughters, between 1839 and 1843.  Daughters Victorine and Phelide married into the Mire and Gros families by 1870, so the blood of the family line may have endured. 

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Nine more Boudrots came to Louisiana from France aboard La Caroline, the last of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in mid-December 1785.  Most of them joined their kinsmen on upper Bayou Lafourche, but one family chose to settle on the river above Baton Rouge:

Olivier (1712-1780s) à Charles à Michel Boudreaux

Olivier, second son of Denis Boudrot and Agnès Vincent, born probably at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in June 1712, married Henriette, daughter of Jérôme Guérin and Isabelle Aucoin, in c1740 or 1741, perhaps at Ste.-Famille.  Henriette gave Olivier five children there:  Marguerite-Josèphe born in c1742; Madeleine-Josèphe in c1744; Anne-Marie in c1745; Bazile in c1746; and Marthurin in c1749.  They moved on to Île St.-Jean in 1750.  A French official counted Olivier, Henriette, and their five children at Anse-à-Pinnet on the island's south shore in August 1752.  Henriette gave Olivier two more children on the island:  Charles born in c1753; and Jean-Baptiste in c1756.  The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  All but one of their seven children died at sea or from the rigors of the crossing.  Only second daughter Madeleine-Josèphe survived.  Wife Henriette died at St.-Malo in March 1759, age 45, two months after reaching the port.  Olivier remarried to Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Dugas and Anne-Marie Benoit, at St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, across the harbor from St.-Malo in May 1762.  They settled at Trigavou on the west side of the Rance southe of St.-Énogat.  Anne gave Olivier three more children there:  Charles-Olivier born in November 1763; Marie in June 1766; and Jean-Baptiste in October 1767, the second with the name--10 children, four daughters and six sons, by two wives, between 1742 and 1767, in greater Acadia and France.  They also lived at nearby Ploubalay and Langrolay-sur-Rance, also on the west side of the river south of the Breton port.  Olivier's daughter Madeleine-Josèphe, by his first wife, married into the Guillot family at Trigavou in November 1766.  No member of the family seems to have gone to Poitou in 1773, but they did move on to the lower Loire port of Nantes, on the other side of Brittany, by September 1784.  Olivier, Anne, and their two youngest children, a son and a daughter, crossed to Louisiana on La Caroline and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Fifth son Charles-Olivier, who, if still living, would have been age 22 in 1785, did not accompany his family to the Spanish colony.  Older daughter Madeleine-Josèphe and her family crossed to Louisiana on an earlier ship.  Olivier died by January 1788, in his early or mid-70s, when his wife was listed in a Bayou Lafourche census as a widow.  Younger daughter Marie, by his second wife, married into the Brunet family on Bayou Lafourche.  His remaining son also married and settled there.

Sixth and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, the second with the name, called Jean, from second wife Anne Dugas, followed his father, mother, and a sister to Nantes, New Orleans, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where, at age 35, he married Françoise-Olive, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Pitre and Marie Moyse and widow of Mathurin-Chevalier Frilot, in December 1802.  Françoise-Olive also was a native of Trigavou and had come to Louisiana from France in 1785 aboard an earlier ship.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Jean-Alexis, also called Alexis, in November 1803; and Joseph Lazare, called Lazare, in May 1807.  Jean, père "accidentally drowned" in Interior Parish in August 1807, age 39.  His succession inventory, naming his wife, was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse in September.  His two sons married and settled on the Lafourche. 

Older son Jean Alexis, called Alexis, "petitioned for curator" at the Thibodauxville courthouse, Lafourche Interior Parish, in January 1823, when he was age 19, so his mother may have died by then.  At age 26, he married Cléonise, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians François Regis Part and Constance Bourgeois of St. James Parish, at the Thibodauxville church in November 1829.  Their children, born in Lafourche Interior Parish, included Louise in July 1831; and Joséphine in January 1833.  Jean Alexis remarried to Mary Brown, also called Mary Mathilde Colter or Cotter, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1841.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joseph William in August 1843; and Marie Séraphine, perhaps also called Sylvina, in October 1844--four children, three daughters and a son, by two wives, between 1831 and 1844.  Jean Alexis's succession was recorded at the Thibodaux courthouse in May 1866, after his wife had remarried.  Daughter Sylvina married into the Collins family by 1870.  Jean Alexis's son did not marry by then. 

Jean's younger son Joseph Lazare, called Lazare, at age 15 1/2 (the recording clerk said 16), "petitioned for curator" at the Thibodauxville courthouse in January 1823.  At age 22, Lazarre married Tarsile, 22-year-old daughter of Étienne Terrebonne and Rosalie Dufrene, at the Thibodauxville church in June 1829.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Alexis le jeune in September 1830; Étienne Faustin in January 1831; Adéla in January 1835; Jean Baptiste in the 1830s or early 1840s; Klebert in August 1842[sic]; Alfred in October 1842[sic]; Adélaïde Rosalie in October 1844; and Mindelitta in the 1840s--eight children, five sons and three daughters, between 1830 and 1844.   Daughters Adéla and Mindelitta married into the Ribbault and Terrebonne families by 1870.  One of Lazare's sons also married by then. 

Third son Jean Baptiste married Séraphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Théodore Bergeron and his second wife Constance Bourgeois, at the Thibodaux church in January 1853.  Did they have any children? 

Ignace (c1748-?) ? à Charles à Michel Boudreaux

Ignace Boudrot, grandson of Charles Boudrot, who had a dozen sons, one of whom was Ignace's father, was born in c1748 at Minas or Pigiguit.  His parents, unidentified by the records, evidently died soon after his birth.  Family members took him to Île St.-Jean, where, in August 1752, a French official called him an "orphan without father or mother," age 4, "their nephew," living with his uncle (likely his great-uncle) Antoine Boudrot, tenth son of Charles, at Grande-Anse on the south shore of the island.  The British deported Ignace with his great-uncles's family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Ignace lived with relatives, likely great-uncle Antoine, in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  His great-uncle died at St.-Servan in March 1769, age 75.  In January 1772, Ignace, now in his early 20s and a carpenter by trade, secured permission from French authorities to work at Morlaix in northwestern Brittany, where he joined the Royal Artillery Corps.  In c1780, in his early 30s, he married Frenchwoman Anne Pierson, place unrecorded, perhaps at Morlaix.  If so, they moved on to the lower Loire port of Nantes, where Anne gave him two sons in St.-Nicolas Parish:  Jean-Baptiste born in c1781 but died at age 2 in October 1783; and Charles born in September 1783.  They moved on to Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany, where dozens of fellow Acadians, most of them exiles from England, had gone nearly two decades earlier.  In September 1784, Spanish officials placed Ignace, Anne, and their remaining son Charles on a list of Acadians living on the island who were willing to emigrate to Spain's Louisiana colony.  Ignace and his family returned to Nantes.  He, wife Anne, and son Charles, age 2, crossed to Louisiana from Nantes in 1785 aboard the last of the Seven Ships.  Anne was pregnant on the crossing.  A son, name and age unrecorded, was baptized at the New Orleans church during the first week of January 1786, soon after they reached the colony.  From New Orleans, they chose to settle at Bayou des Écores in the New Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge, where Ignace's first cousin Victor, who had crossed on an earlier vessel, had gone.  Anne gave Ignace another son, Louis, born probably at Bayou des Écores in September 1789--four children, all sons, between 1781 and 1789, in France and Louisiana.  Son Louis was baptized by a Pointe Coupée priest in May 1790, so the family was still at Bayou des Écores then.  They do not appear in the New Feliciana District census of 1793, so they likely had moved elsewhere.  One of Ignace's sons may have married.  If so, the family line endured in the Bayou State. 

Second son Charles followed his family to Belle-Île-en-Mer, Nantes, New Orleans, and Bayou des Écores and was baptized by a Pointe Coupée priest who served the Bayou des Écores community in June 1792, when he was age 9.  He may have been the Charles Boudreaux who died in Ascension Parish in September 1830.  The Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Charles was age 50 when he died.  Charles, son of Ignace, would have been age 47.  Or he may have been the Charles Boudreaux who died near Labadieville, Assumption Parish, in June 1857.  The priest who recorded this burial, and who also did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Charles died at "age 75 years."  Charles, son of Ignace, would have been age 73.  One wonders if this Charles ever married. 

Ignace's fourth and youngest son Louis may have died young, unless he was the father of a Boudreaux born in Pointe Coupee Parish in the early 1800s.  If so, one wonders who his wife may have been. 

Evariste Boudreaux, perhaps a grandson of Ignace of Bayou des Écores, perhaps not even an Acadian Boudreaux, was born probably in Pointe Coupee Parish in c1812.  He married Julie Major in a civil ceremony probably in Pointe Coupee Parish by the mid-1830s.  Their children, born in Pointe Coupee, included Aimée in c1835 but, called Ayma/Aimée, died at age 16 months in October 1836; Jean Joseph, called John, born in September 1840; Pierre Guillaume in September 1842 but, called Pierre, died at age 19 in October 1861 (one wonders if his death was war-related); Evariste, fils born in January 1847 but died at age 11 1/2 (the recording priest said 11) in September 1858; Rachel born probably in the 1840s; Marie Blanche in November 1851; Eléonore in October 1856; and Isotel Evariste in August 1858--eight children, four daughters and four sons, between 1835 and 1858.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Pointe Coupee Parish counted 37 slaves--18 males and 19 females, all black, ranging in age from 50 to 2--on Evariste Boudreau's plantation.  Evariste died in Pointe Coupee Parish in May 1860, age 48.  Daughters Rachel, ... married into the Cornu, Chase, and St. Germain families by 1870.  One of Evariste's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Jean or John Joseph married Augustine Anaïs, called Anaïs, daughter of Acadian Victor Hébert and his Creole wife Marie Odile Chapoton, at the Pointe Coupee church in November 1860.  Daughter Marie Jeanne Mathilde was born in Pointe Coupee Parish in January 1862 but, called Marie Jeanne, died in Pointe Coupee Parish, age 5 1/2 (the recording priest said 8), in November 1867; ...

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Two Boudrots came to Louisiana probably from France in the mid- or late 1780s but appear on none of the passenger rolls of the Seven Ships of 1785.  One joined his wife and infant son in the Attakapas District, and the other settled on upper Bayou Lafourche:

Joseph (c1755?-1790s) à François? à Claude? à Michel Boudreaux

Joseph, only son, perhaps, of Jean-Zacharie Boudrot and Marguerite Hébert, born either at Minas or aboard ship in c1755, followed his family to Virginia that year, to England in the spring of 1756, and to St.-Malo, France, aboard L'Ambition in May 1763.  After the death of his father in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer in April 1765, Joseph, now age 10, went to live with Joseph Célestin dit Bellemère, husband of Marguerite Boudrot.  Joseph's stay with the family was brief.  Joseph Bellemère died at St.-Servan in August 1767, age 39, and Marguerite Boudrot followed her husband to the grave the following month, at age 30, leaving behind three young children.  Joseph was only 12.  He evidently was the Joseph Boudrot who married Marie-Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Germain Semer and Marie Trahan of Grand-Pré and Le Havre, at St.-Martin de Chantenay near Nantes on the lower Loire in May 1785.  Later that year, Marie-Françoise, sans Joseph, crossed from France aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, and led her 16-year-old brother Grégoire-Dominique to the Attakapas District, where they settled near their older brother, Jean-Baptiste Semer, who had come to Louisiana with the Broussards in 1765 and who they had never met.  When Marie-Françoise sailed to Louisiana, she was pregnant with her first child, Antoine, born at Attakapas in February 1786.  Though husband Joseph did not accompany her to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié, he was there by the summer of 1788, when a second son, Louis, was conceived.  Louis was born at Attakapas in May 1789.  Son Joseph, fils was born there in c1790--three children, all sons, between 1786 and 1790.  Joseph died by August 1796, probably in his late 30s or early 40s, when his wife remarried at Attakapas to a Norris from Pennsylvania.  Two of Joseph's sons married and created vigorous lines in St. Landry and St. Martin parishes.  In the 1850s, a grandson moved farther out on the prairies and settled along Bayou Plaquemine Brûlé.  Another grandson became a planter on the upper Teche. 

Oldest son Antoine married Marie Émelie, daughter of fellow Acadians François Savoie and Apolline Luce Potier, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in August 1812.  They settled on the upper Vermilion at the northern edge of the old Attakapas District.  Their children, born there, included Marie, perhaps also called Adèlle, in late 1813 and baptized at the Opelousas church, age 5 months, in February 1814; Anne Urasie, called Urasie and Erasie, born in February 1816; Antoine, fils died eight days after his birth in August 1817; Joseph Arvillien, called Arvillien, born in September 1818; Louis Deterville in August 1820; Placide baptized at the Grand Coteau church, age 3 months, in January 1823; Alexandre Aladin, called Aladin, born in February 1825; François Gerasin, called Gerasin, in March 1827; Lucie Aurore, also called Lucille dit Lucie, in May 1829; Éloise in February 1832; Adélaïde in April 1834; and Amélie posthumously in August 1836--a dozen children, six daughters and six sons, between 1813 and 1836.  Antoine died probably on the upper Vermilion in February 1836, age 51.  His succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in September 1849.  Daughters Adèlle, Urasie/Erasie, Lucie, Éloise, Adélaïde, and Amélie married into the Meche, Boone, Prejean, Richard, Savoie, Benoit, Cormier, and Thibodeaux families.  Four of Antoine's sons also married, but one of the lines may not have endured. 

Second son Joseph Arvillien, called Arvillien, married Marie or Mary Mayer at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in November 1840.  Did they have any children? 

Antoine's fourth son Placide married Marie Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians David Babineaux le jeune and Marie Éloise Préjean, at the Grand Coteau church in April 1844.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Osimie in July 1847 but, called Osémé, died at age 1 1/2 in April 1849; Éloise born in March 1849; Marie Seralie in April 1851; Simon in January 1853; and Ursin in November 1855--five children, three sons and two daughters, between 1847 and 1855.  Placide died near Grand Coteau in January 1860, age 37.  His succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in September 1865.  Daughters Éloise, ... married into the Miller and Savoie families by 1870.  None of Placide's sons married by then. 

Antoine's fifth son Alexandre Aladin, called Aladin, married Mélanie Meche at the Grand Coteau church in May 1846.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Alexandre in January 1847; Gustave in August 1848; and Placide le jeune in August 1850.  Aladin remarried to Marie Oliva, daughter of Creoles Noël Olivier and Louise Daigle, at the Grand Coteau church in July 1853.  They settled on upper Bayou Plaquemine Brûlé near Church Point, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish.  Their children, born there, included Apollinaire in April 1855 but died at age 6 in October 1861; Napoléon born in August 1856; Firmin in January 1858; Marie Uméa in March 1860; Antoine Clément in January 1862; Marie Oliva in February 1864; ...  Neither of Aladin's daughters married by 1870, but two of his sons did.

Oldest son Alexandre, by first wife Mélanie Meche, married Marie Lastenie, called Lastenie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Thibodeaux and his Anglo wife Elizabeth Smith, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in May 1868, and sanctified the marriage at the Grand Coteau church in July.  Their son Alexandre Lasty was born near Grand Coteau in March 1869; ... 

Aladin's second son Gustave, by first wife Mélanie Meche, married Eugénie, another daughter of Jean Baptiste Thibodeaux and Elizabeth Smith, at the Grand Coteau church in November 1868.  Their son Lucien was born near Grand Coteau in May 1870; ...

Antoine's sixth and youngest son François Gerasin, called Gerasin, married Émelie Venable at the Grand Coteau church in February 1848.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included François in April 1849 but died the following June; Émilia born in October 1850 but, called Amélia, died at age 2 1/2 (the recording priest said 3) in August 1853; and Marie Emma born in October 1852.  Gerasin remarried to cousin Marie Émilie, called Émilie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Savoie and Modeste Préjean, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in April 1855.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Modeste in February 1856; Marie Ophelia in May 1860; and Gerasin, fils in December 1862--six children, two sons and four daughters, by two wives, between 1849 and 1862.  Gerasin, père died near Grand Coteau in December 1863, age 36 (the recording priest said 37).  His succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in December 1870.  One wonders if his death was war-related.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Joseph third and youngest son Joseph, fils married Félicité or Félice, daughter of fellow Acadians Sylvain Broussard and Félice Guilbeau of Grand Pointe on the upper Teche, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in October 1816.  They settled at La Pointe on upper Bayou Teche near present-day Breaux Bridge.  Their children, born there, included Joseph, also Joseph Osémé and Osémé, in September 1817; and Marie Ozea in March 1822.  Joseph, fils died at Grande Pointe in December 1837, age 48.  Daughter Marie Ozea married into the Cormier family.  Joseph, fils's son also married and remained in St. Martin Parish. 

Only son Joseph Osémé, called Osémé, married Céleste Émilie, Ameline, Amelina, Émilia, or Mélina, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Onésime Cormier and Céleste Dupuis, at the St. Martinville church in December 1838.  Their children, born on the upper Teche, included Céleste Ozea in September 1839; Olympe in December 1840; Justine Uscide in September 1842; Hélène in July 1844; Marie Aminthe in May 1846; Joseph le jeune in January 1848; Élodie in December 1849; Félicia in November 1851; Omer in June 1853; Martial in February 1855; Sylvain in December 1855[sic]; Ulysse in March 1859 but died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 3 1/2) in January 1861; Hippolyte born in October 1860; ...  In November 1850, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted 10 slaves--seven males and three females, all black, ages 50 to 1--on Ozémi Boudreau's farm.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted 29 slaves--20 males and nine females, all black except for four mulattoes, ages 36 to 1--on Ozémé Boudro's plantation not far from Nicholas Cormier.  In July 1860, Osémé also held two slaves--both males, both black, ages 30 and 22--on a farm in western Lafayette Parish.  Osémé, called Ozémé by the recording priest, died in St. Martin Parish in December 1861, age 44.  His succession, calling him Joseph Ozémée, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse later that month.  Daughters ... married into the Cabrol, Comeaux, Dubois, Duhon, and Wiltz families by 1870.  None of Osémé's sons married by then. 

Félix (?-?) à ? à Michel Boudreaux

Félix Boudrot, age and parentage unrecorded, may have come alone on one of the Seven Ships and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  He married Françoise-Gertrude, daughter of fellow Acadians René Guillot and his second wife Françoise Bourg, at Ascension in October 1786.  Françoise-Gertrude, at native of Trigavou near St.-Malo, came to Louisiana from France in 1785 aboard La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships.  Félix died by May 1787, when Françoise-Gertrude remarried to a Thériot at Ascension.  One suspects that Félix's line of the family died with him.

Bourg/Bourque

Antoine Bourg, born in c1609 at Martaizé near Loudun south of the middle Loire in central France, was a young farmer when he came to Acadia as a bachelor in c1636 Hired by either the sieur d'Aulnay or Isaac Razilly to clear land and perform other tasks for the colonial leadership, he was one of the colony's first settlers.  In c1642, when he was in his early 30s, he married Antoinette, sister of fellow colonist René Landry l'aîné, at Port-Royal.  Antoine and Antoinette created one of the largest and most influential families in the colony.  Between 1643 and 1667, she gave him 11 children, five sons and six daughters, all of whom created families of their own.  Antoine died at Port-Royal between October 1687 and 1693, in his late 70s or early 80s.  His daughters married into the Breau, Belliveau, Boudrot, Brun, Comeau dit L'Esturgeon, and Allain families.  His sons married into the Boudrot, Martin, Brun, and Potet families.  In 1755, his and Antoinette's descendants could be found at Annapolis Royal, formerly Port-Royal; Grand-Pré and Cobeguit in the Minas Basin; Chignecto and the trois-rivères area west of Chignecto; and on Île Royale and Île St.-Jean in the French Maritimes.  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 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.  Bourgs likely were among the refugees in the 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, Bourgs likely were among the 300 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 area Acadians to the southernmost seaboard colonies.  A Bourg wife and her family ended up in South Carolina.  In August 1756, they were sent with 30 other Acadians from Charles Town to Prince Frederick Winyaw, a rural Anglican parish farther up the coast at present-day Plantersville.  There, she and her husband died that summer or fall, probably of malaria, a disease unknown in their homeland.  A Bourg wife and her second husband, Jacques Vigneau dit Jacob Maurice, a Baie-Verte merchant, ended up in Georgia, but they did not remain.  In early 1756, 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.  By the first of March, dozens of them--perhaps as many as 200--had purchased or built small vessels and headed up the coast.  At least 50 of them made it all the way back to the Bay of Fundy and took refuge on lower Rivière St.-Jean.  Most did not complete the long voyage.  One of the largest contingents, led by Jacques dit Maurice, started off from Georgia with 80 exiles aboard barely-seaworthy open boats.  They arrived at Charles Town, South Carolina, by the end of March and pushed on in mid-April.  By the end of June, they had reached Shrewsbury, New Jersey.  After a short stop, they continued northward, avoiding Long Island, and made it as far as New England.  In late July, Massachusetts officials, heeding a warning from an irate Charles Lawrence, halted the Vigneau party at Sandwich on lower Cape Cod Bay and sent them to scattered communities in the province, where hundreds of exiles from Minas and Annapolis already were being held.  Jacques Vigneau dit Maurice, his Bourg wife, and their many children were sent to Leicester, Roxbury, and then to Boston, where they were counted in 1760 and 1761. 

Bourgs who could not escape the British in the Annapolis valley were deported to Connecticut and Massachusetts.  Bourgs from Minas ended up in Pennsylvania and Maryland.  At least one family from Minas was transported to Virginia, where, along with hundreds other "French Neutrals," they suffered the indignity of being refused by the colony's authorities.  The Acadians 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.  Bourgs were held at Southampton and Falmouth, and some of them died of smallpox at Falmouth soon after their arrival. 

Chignecto and Minas Bourgs who escaped the British roundups of 1755, evidently the majority of them, took refuge on Rivière St.-Jean, the upper Peticoudiac, or at Shediac, Richibouctou, and Miramichi on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, where they fought starvation, hard winters, and British raiding parties.  Some later moved on to Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  Others moved on to Canada via the lower St. Lawrence and the Rivière St.-Jean portage.  Beginning in the fall of 1758, members of the family who escaped the British roundup on Île St.-Jean joined their cousins on the Gulf shore and in Canada. 

Bourgs still at Cobeguit in September 1755, learning of the fate of their cousins in the other Fundy settlements, packed up their goods and their loved ones and either hid in the countryside out of British reach or headed cross country to Tatamagouche and other North Shore settlements.  From the fall to the following spring, in what boats they could find, they crossed Mer Rouge to French-held Île St.-Jean, where they joined their kinsmen already there.  Living in territory controlled by France, none of the established Bourgs on Île St.-Jean were touched by 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, Bourgs among them, and deported them to St.-Malo and other French ports.  More members of the family were deported to France, in fact, than to any other corner of the Acadian diaspora.  Many Bourgs did not survive the crossing, and entire families were lost.  Island Bourgs did their best to make a life for themselves in the suburbs and villages of the St.-Malo area, including the suburbs of St.-Servan-sur-Mer and St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, across the harbor from St.-Servan and St.-Malo; in the villages of St.-Créhen, Pleurtuit, Trigavou, Tréméreuc, Pleslin, Ploubalay, and Plouër-sur-Rance on the west side of the river south of St.-Énogat; at St.-Suliac and Pleudhihen-sur-Rance on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo; and at St.-Coulomb and St.-Méloir-des-Ondes in the countryside northeast and east of the Breton port.  They also landed in other French ports, including Cherbourg and Le Havre in Normandy, the northern fishing centier of Boulogne-sur-Mer in Picardie, and La Rochelle on the Bay of Biscay.  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, a Bourg among them.  In late 1765, many of the Acadians repatriated from England, and a few of their island cousins, moved on to Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany, but only a few of them were Bourgs.  Others preferred to remain near their many kinsmen in the St.-Malo area.  In the early 1770s, one Bourg followed her husband and children to the British-controlled Channel Island of Jersey and from there returned to greater Acadia to work in a British-owned fishery at Gaspésie on the northern shore of the Baie des Chaleurs, where many of her family joined them.

In the early 1770s, Bourgs at St.-Malo and other port cities chose to become part of a major settlement venture in the interior of Poitou.  French authorities were tired of providing for the Acadians 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, most of the Poitou Acadians chose to abandon the venture.  From October 1775 through March 1776, dozens of them, including the Bourgs, retreated in four convoys down the Vienne and the Loire to the port of Nantes, where they subsisted as best they could on government handouts and 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, dozens of Bourgs--at least 95 of them, probably the majority of them still in the mother country--agreed to go.  Other members of the family chose to remain. 

In North America, things only got worse for the Acadians who had escaped the British in the late 1750s.  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 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 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 October 24, on the eve of formal surrender, French officers counted 1,003 Acadians still at Restigouche, Bourgs among them.  The British held many of them, along other exiles who were captured or surrendered in the area, in prison compounds in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Bourgs were held at Fort Cumberland, formerly French Fort Beauséjour, near their old homes at at Chignecto; Fort Edward at Pigiguit; 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.  Most of the Acadians in New England, New York, and Pennsylvania, including Bourgs, chose to resettle in Canada, where Bourgs 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 Bourg began the slow, inexorable process of becoming Canadiennes.  Especially after 1766, Bourgs could be found on the upper St. Lawrence at Batiscan, Bécancour, L'Assomption, Lavaltrie, Nicolet, St.-Grégoire, St.-Jacques de l'Achigan, and Trois-Rivières; at Chambly, St.-Antoine, St.-Charles, St.-Denis, and St.-Ours on the lower Richelieu; at Montmagny, St.-François-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, St.-Joachim, and St.-Joseph-de-Beuce on the lower St. Lawrence below Québec City; at Carleton and Bonaventure in Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs (they were especially numerous at Carleton); and on the îles-de-la-Madeleine in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.  Bourgs settled at Fortune Bay in southern Newfoundland.  They also could be found on lower Rivière St.-Jean in the interior of New Brunswick; at Caraquet and Cocagne on the eastern New Brunswick shore; and in Cumberland County, 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.  Other Bourgs joined fellow Acadians on îles St.-Pierre and Miquelon, French-controlled fishery islands off the southern coast of Newfoundland, though not all of them were allowed to remain. 

Bourgs in the seaboard colonies also chose to emigrate to the French Antilles, where they could live not only among fellow Roman Catholics, but in territory controlled by France.  French officials were especially eager for the exiles to settle on 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 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 revenge" to come.  The exiles could provide a cheap 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 sugar colony.  Bourgs began arriving in the colony in 1763 and went not only to Môle St.-Nicolas, but also to the interior community of Mirebalais near Port-au-Prince to work on coffee and indigo plantations.  It must have worked out for them.  When fellow exiles from Nova Scotia and Maryland, including Bourgs, came through Cap-Français in the mid- and late 1760s on their way to New Orleans, none of the Bourgs in St.-Domingue chose to join them.  

Bourgs 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 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.  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 Bourgs, chose to relocate to Île Miquelon.  Others considered going to French St.-Domingue, where Acadian exiles in the British colonies, including Bourgs, 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 17 were Bourgs. 

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 fellow exiles had been welcomed in Louisiana, they pooled their meager resources to charter ships that would take them to New Orleans.  A Bourg and her four LeBlanc children were among the first contingent of exiles to leave Baltimore for Louisiana, in June 1766.  They arrived at New Orleans via Cap-Français late that September.

A Bourg wife was one of the last Acadians to emigrate to Louisiana.  In 1788, from the French-controlled fishery island of Île St.-Pierre off the southern coast of Newfoundland , she, her Gravois husband, their children, and a hand full of relatives sailed to New Orleans on her husband's own ship, the schooner Brigite--the only Acadians who emigrated to the Spanish colony directly from greater Acadia. 

Bourgs were among the first families of Acadia and some of the earliest Acadians to find refuge in Louisiana.  The first of them reached Louisiana in February 1765 from Halifax via St.-Domingue with the Broussards and settled with them on lower Bayou Teche that spring.  Others came from Halifax later that year and settled in the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  The two Bourg brothers who had gone to Bayou Teche with the Broussards retreated to the river that fall to escape an epidemic.  They returned to the prairies two decades later, but only one of their lines endured.  Meanwhile, a cousin from Cabahannocer moved on to the prairies and established a vigorous line there.  

If the Spanish government had not coaxed over 1,500 Acadians in France to emigrate to their Mississippi valley colony, the Bourg family in Louisiana would be much smaller than it is today.  The great majority of the Bourgs who came to Louisiana--over 90 individuals--did not reach the colony until 20 years after the first of their cousins got there.  They sailed on six of the Seven Ships from France in 1785.  Only two other families, in fact--the Héberts and the Trahans--outnumbered the Bourgs on the Seven Ships expedition.  Most of the new arrivals went to upper Bayou Lafourche, but many of them chose to settle at Bayou des Écores in the Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge, and three brothers from France went to the western prairies, where they added substantially to that center of family settlement.  By the end of the colonial period, three Bourg family centers had emerged in Louisiana:  on the river at Cabahannocer, Ascension, and Baton Rouge; west of the Atchafalaya on the Attakapas and Opelousas prairies; and on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Thanks to the large number of Bourgs from France who chose to go to the upper Lafourche, and to the migration of Bourgs from Bayou des Écores to the upper bayou in the early 1790s, the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley became the largest center of Bourg family settlement. 

During the antebellum period, Bourgs from the Lafourche valley drifted back up to the river and settled near their cousins in West Rouge and Ascension parishes, and a Bourg from St. James, formerly Cabahannocer, moved upriver to Iberville Parish.  Meanwhile, a Bourg from Ascension Parish joined his kinsmen on the western prairies, while some of his cousins on the upper Lafourche moved down to the northern edge of the coastal marshes of Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes (the town of Bourg in Terrebonne Parish attests to this migration).  At the end of the antebellum period, Bourgs in Assumption Parish left the upper bayou and drifted westward to Pierre Part and Attakapas Canal on the shores of Lake Verret.  During and soon after the War of 1861-65, Bourgs from the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley moved to Iberville Parish on the river.  They also crossed the Atchafalaya Basin and settled on the lower Atchafalaya River and on Bayou Teche near present-day Morgan City and Patterson in St. Mary Parish; New Iberia in Iberia Parish; St. Martinville in St. Martin Parish; out on the prairies near Abbeville in Vermilion Parish; and near Grand Coteau and Ville Platte in St. Landry and Evangeline parishes.  But despite all this coming and going, most members of the family remained in the communities where their immigrant ancestors had settled. 

As befitting the size of the family, dozens of Bourg/Bourques served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65.  Over a dozen of them died in Confederate service, one of them, a conscript, shot for desertion.  ...

In Louisiana, the family's name also is spelled Bourc, Bourgt, Bourgue, Bourke, Burk, Burke, Corerque.  Some members of the family, especially west of the Atchafalaya Basin, favor the spelling Bourque, others Bourg.  In the Terrebonne area, members of the family spell their surname Bourg but pronounce it BURG.  This Acadian family should not be confused with the non-Acadian Burkes who settled near them.09

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Six Bourgs--two brothers and four sisters with their widowed mother--reached Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français with the Broussards in February 1765.  One of the widow's daughters, Gertrude Bourg, married fellow passenger Amand Thibodeau at New Orleans on February 27--the first recorded marriage of Acadian exiles in Louisiana.  In April, the widow and her family followed the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche, but not all of them remained.  Her other Bourg daughters married into the Pitre, Guilbeau, Sonnier, Savoie, and Landry families on the prairies.  Her sons eventually settled in the Opelousas District, where one of them established a western center of Bourg family settlement: 

L'Ange (c1748-1788) à Abraham à Antoine Bourg

L'ange, called Ange, Lange, and Angèl, older son of Charles Bourg and Anne Boudrot, born probably at Tracadie on the north shore of Île St.-Jean in c1748, followed his family into exile on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore and into the prison compound at Halifax.  L'ange's father died soon after the family appeared on a French repatritation list at Halifax in August 1763.  After following the Broussards from New Orleans to lower Bayou Teche in the spring of 1765, L'Ange, his widowed mother, his brother, and youngest sister retreated to Cabahannocer on the river to escape a mysterious epidemic that struck the Teche valley community that summer and fall.  L'Ange did not remain.  In the late 1760s, he returned to the western prairies, where, at age 28, he married Anne-Marie, called Marie, 16-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Thibodeaux and Françoise Saulnier, probably at Opelousas in c1776.  Anne-Marie also had come to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765 but not with the Broussards.  Their children, born at Opelousas, included Marie-Louise baptized, age 6 months, in November 1782, five days before she died; and Angélique born in June 1787.  L'ange died at Opelousas in June 1788, age 40.  His succession was filed at what became the Opelousas courthouse, St. Landry Parish, two days after his death.  He and his wife had no sons, so his line of the family, except perhaps for its blood, died with him.  His wife remarried to an Acadian widower in July 1789 after her year of mourning. 

Joseph (c1750-1806) à Abraham à Antoine Bourg

Joseph, younger son of Charles Bourg and Anne Boudrot, born probably at Tracadie, Île St.-Jean, in c1751, followed his family into exile and into the prison compound at Halifax. With his widowed mother and five siblings, he reached New Orleans in February 1765 and followed the Broussards to Bayou Teche in Apirl.  That fall, after an epidemic devastated the Teche valley community, Joseph retreated with his mother and two siblings to Cabahannocer on the river, but he did not remain.  In the late 1760s, he followed his older brother L'Ange back to the prairies, where he married Susanne, another daughter of Pierre Thibodeaux and Françoise Saulnier, probably at Opelousas in the early 1780s.  Susanne was a native of Opelousas.  Their children, born there, included Susanne dite Suzette in c1783; Joseph-Valéry, called Valéry, in July 1785; Perosine in January 1788; Ursin or Furcy baptized, age unrecorded, in June 1790, previously baptized at home; Marie-Denise or -Dyonisia born in April 1792; Charles baptized, age unrecorded, in October 1796; Léandre, also called Joseph, fils, baptized, age unrecorded, in November 1797; Pierre baptized, age unrecorded, in March 1800; Louis baptized, age 1 month, in November 1801; and Marie Adélaïde, called Adélaïde, in April 1804--10 children, four daughters and six sons, between the early 1780s and 1804.  Joseph died at Opelousas in January 1806, age 55.  Daughters Susanne, Perosine, and Adélaïde married into the Lavergne and Figurant families and perhaps into the Rous family as well.  Four of Joseph's sons married, and five of them created their own families, but only two of the lines seems to have endured. 

Oldest son Joseph-Valéry married _____, place and date unrecorded.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Louis le jeune, and Adélaide, places and dates of birth unrecorded.  Valéry died "at his home in the Belvue [Bellevue] area," St. Landry Parish, in September 1819.  The priest who recorded the burial, Father Flavius Henry Rossi, noted that Vallery, as he called him, "did not receive the sacraments since I was not notified," and said that Valéry was age 32 when he died.  He was 34.  His succession, which included the names of a minor daughter, a minor son, and three "brothers to minors"--Charles, Leandre, and Furcy--but not a wife, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse the month after he died.  His children do not seem to have married. 

Joseph's second son Ursin or Furcy took up with Éloise, a mulatresse libre, or free woman of color.  Their "natural" son, Pierre dit Piercide, was baptized at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in February 1822, age unrecorded.  The boy's godparents were listed as "Pierre & Françoise."  Furcy died in St. Landry Parish in September 1840, age 50.  One wonders if his "natural son" survived childhood and married. 

Joseph's third son Charles le jeune married Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Hébert and Anne Eléonore Comeaux, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in December 1828; judging by their older children's birthdate, Charles and Céleste evidently were married civilly before that date, or perhaps not married at all until then.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Eugénie in February 1824; Charles, fils in May 1825 but may have died in St. Landry Parish, age 32 (the recording priest said 33), in June 1857; Pierre born in September 1826; Léondre or Léandre, also called Léandre Charles and Léandre le jeune, in February 1828; Joseph, perhaps Joseph Charles, in July 1829; Célestine in July 1831; a son, name unrecorded, in c1833 but died at age 2 in June 1835; another Charles, fils born in May 1835 but died at age 5 1/2 (the recording priest said 3) in April 1841; Valéry le jeune born in February 1836; and Marguerite Eléanore in July 1838.  Charles's succession, not post-mortem, naming his first wife and listing their children--Eugénie; Charles, fils; Pierre; Léandre; Joseph; Célestine; Valéry; and Marguerite Eléonore--was filed at the Opelousas courthouse, St. Landry Parish, in April 1841.  Wife Céleste, called "Mrs. Charles Bourg" by the recording priest, died "at Bellevue," St. Landry Parish, in June 1843, age 42.  Her succession, naming her husband, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in July.  Charles, at age 51, evidently remarried to Marie Anne, Aure, Laure, Aurore, Mareror, or O., Lavergne, probably French Canadian, not a fellow Acadian, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in February 1848.  The Grand Coteau priest and two St. Landry parish clerks who recorded the marriage did not give either Charles's or Marie Laure's parents' names.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Marie Aure, probably Laure, near Grand Coteau in April 1849; Suzanne Philomène in April 1851; Charles Jefferson in January 1854; Louis Omer in September 1855; and Célestine Virginie in May 1857--15 children, six daughters and nine sons, by two wives, between 1824 and 1857.  A second succession for Charles, père, this one probably post-mortem, calling his wife Mareor Lavergne, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in September 1857.  He would have been age 61 that year.  Daughters ..., by both wives, married into the Boutté, Lavergne, and Richard families by 1870.  Two of Charles's sons also married by then and settled near Church Point on upper Bayou Plaquemine Brûlé in what later became Acadia Parish. 

Third son Léandre Charles, also called Léandre le jeune, from first wife Céleste Hébert, married Julienne, daughter of Joachim Provost or Prevot and his Acadian wife Zulima Brasseaux, at the Opelousas church in December 1853.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Céleste Léontine in October 1856; Eleanie in September 1858; Adam Léonard in May 1868; Louis le jeune near Church Point, then in St. Landry but not in Acadia Parish, in November 1870; ...  None of Léandre's children married by 1870. 

Charles's fourth son Joseph C., perhaps Joseph Charles, by first wife Céleste Hébert, married Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Richard and Eugènie Richard, at the Grand Coteau church in February 1859.  Their children, born near Church Point, included Joséphine in October 1861; Valéry le jeune in August 1866; Charles le jeune in March 1870; ...

A succession for Valéry C. Bourg was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in January 1859.  If this was Valéry, seventh son of Charles by first wife Céleste Hébert, he would have been age 23 that year.  Did he marry? 

Joseph's fourth son Léandre, also called Joseph, fils, married fellow Acadian Marguerite Guidry probably in St. Landry Parish in the late 1820s.  They evidently settled at the southern end of the parish.  Their children, born there, included Louise Aimée baptized at the Opelousas church, age unrecorded, in December 1824 (the original baptismal record was damaged); Joseph, also called Joseph Léandre and Joseph L., baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 8 months, in December 1830; and Valléry or Valéry Léandre born in St. Landry Parish in March 1833--three children, a daughter and two sons, between 1824 and 1833.  Léandre's succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in June 1853.  He would have been age 56 that year.  Daughter Louise Aimée married into the Labbé family by 1870.  Only one of Léandre's sons married by then. 

Older son Joseph Léandre, called Joseph L., married, at 39, Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadians Léandre Landry and Louise dite Lise Brasseaux, at the Church Point church in November 1869. ...

Joseph's fifth son Pierre may have died young, unless he was the Pierre Bourg who died in St. Landry Parish in June 1846 and whose succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse the following November.  If this was him, he died at age 46 and probably did not marry. 

Joseph's sixth and youngest son Louis may have been the Louis Bourg who married French Canadian Louise Lavergne at the Grand Coteau church in April 1842.  Daughter Louise was born near Grand Coteau in September 1846.  Louis died near Grand Coteau in September 1848, age 46.  His succession, which mentions no wife or children, was recorded at the Opelousas courthouse the following November.  His daughter married into the McMillan family.  Did he father any sons? 

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Later in 1765, 11 more Bourgs--six in one family, three in another, plus a bachelor, and a wife--came to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français, but they did not follow the Broussards to Bayou Teche.  They settled, instead, at the established Acadian community of Cabahanncer on the river above New Orleans and created a new center of family settlement there.  Several lines also added substantially to the western branch of the family:

Joseph (1722-1765) à François à Antoine Bourg

Joseph, seventh and youngest son of Alexandre dit Bellehumeur Bourg, the Minas notary, judge, and delegate to the Nova Scotia colonial council, and Marguerite Melanson, born at Minas in May 1722, married Marie Landry probably at Minas in c1744 and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie gave Joseph three children at Minas:  Joseph, fils born in December 1745; Marie-Josèphe in c1747; and Pierre in c1748.  Other records give them another daughter, Marguerite, born at Minas in c1749.  The British deported the family to Pennsylvania in the fall of 1755.  They were still there in June 1763, when Joseph, wife Marie, and six unnamed children appeared on a list of Acadians hoping to resettle in French territory, so they likely had more children in the Quaker colony:  Jean born in c1759; and Charles in c1762--six children, four sons and two daughters, between 1745 and 1762, at Minas and in Pennsylvania.  Soon after the counting, Joseph evidently took his family back to Nova Scotia, where they would have been held in a prison compound until the British chose to release them.  In 1764-65, Joseph, Marie, and five of their children, four sons and a daughter, emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français.  Older daughter Marie-Josèphe, who would have been age 17 in 1764, did not accompany her family to Louisiana, so she either had died during exile or chose to remain in greater Acadia.  Joseph died before 22 July 1765, when wife Marie remarried to Acadian widower François-Joseph Savoie at New Orleans (one of the earliest Acadian marriages in the colony).  One wonders, then, if Joseph died on the sea voyage from Halifax to New Orleans, at Cap-Français when they transshipped there, at La Balize at the mouth of the Mississippi, or at New Orleans soon after they reached the city.  Marie and her children followed her new husband to Cabahannocer.  She died there by October 1766, when François Savoie remarried there or at New Orleans.  Her and Joseph's daughter Marguerite married into the Cormier family at Cabahannocer and followed her husband to the Attakapas District.  Two, perhaps three, of Joseph's sons married and settled on the river and the prairies, but only the line on the prairie seems to have endured. 

Oldest son Joseph, fils followed his family to Pennsylvania, Nova Scotia, and New Orleans.  He settled with them at Cabahannocer and may have married fellow Acadian Marie Dugas at New Orleans in c1768.  One wonders if they settled at Cabahannocer and if they had any children. 

Joseph's second son Pierre followed his family to Pennsylvania, Nova Scotia, and Louisiana.  He settled with them at Cabahannocer, where he married Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Cormier, père and Madeleine Richard of Chignecto and sister of his sister Marguerite's husband, in January 1772.  Anastasie, a native of Chignecto, had come to Louisiana with her parents in February 1764, among the first Acadians to settle in the colony.  She and Pierre remained at Cabahannocer.  Their children, born and baptized there, included Marguerite baptized, age unrecorded, in April 1773; Rosalie baptized, age unrecorded, in August 1774; Félicité baptized, age unrecorded, in July 1776; Joseph le jeune baptized, age unrecorded, in April 1778; Pélagie baptized, age unrecorded, in June 1780; Anastasie born in c1781 but died at age 17 in November 1798; Jean-Pierre, called Pierre, fils, baptized, age unrecorded, in October 1781; Madeleine born in c1784 but died at age 18 in September 1802; Alexis born in January 1788; and Marie-Appoline in April 1791--10 children, seven daughters and three sons, between 1773 and 1791.  Daughters Rosalie and Marie married into the Guidry and LeBoeuf families.  Two of Pierre's sons also married on the river, but none of the lines, except for the blood, seems to have endured.

Second son Jean Pierre, called Pierre, fils, married Marie, daughter of François Oubre and Céleste Rome, at the St. James church, St. James Parish, in October 1804.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included Pierre Placide in January 1809; and Marie in February 1811 but died at age 8 1/2 in October 1819.  Jean Pierre died in St. James Parish in April 1813.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Pierre was age 30 when he died.  He probably was in his early 30s.  His family line may have died with him. 

Pierre's third and youngest son Alexis married Françoise Marie, daughter of Henri Edelmere and Françoise Pertuit of St. Charles Parish, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in May 1817.  Their children, born near Convent, included Marie, perhaps also called Anastasie or Anastasia, in 1818; Euphémie in April 1819; Éliza in March 1821; and Clémentine in August 1823--four children, all daughters, between 1818 and 1823.  Daughters Anastasie, Éliza, and Clémentine married into the Gonzales, Gomez, Navarre or Navarro, and Moreau families, one of them, Anastasie, twice, and two of them settled on Bayou Lafourche.  Alexis fathered no sons, at least none who appear in local church records, so this line of the family, except for its blood, did not endure. 

Joseph's third son Jean followed his famliy to Nova Scotia and Louisiana and settled with them at Cabahannocer, but he did not remain.  His mother died at Cabahanncoer by October 1766, when his stepfather, François-Joseph Savoie, remarried.  Jean was age 6 or 7 when his mother died, so he probably remained with his stepfather.  After his remarriage, François-Joseph remained for a time at Cabahannocer before crossing the Atchafalaya Basin to the Attakapas District and remarrying again--his fourth marriage--in April 1769.  Jean, age 10, either stayed with older brother Pierre at Cabahannocer or, more likely, followed his stepfather to the prairies and either lived with him and his new stepmother or perhaps with his older sister Marguerite, who had married at Cabahannocer in c1768 and followed her Cormier husband to Attakapas.  Jean remained on the western prairies, but not at Attakapas.  At age 25, he married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Richard and Marguerite Dugas, at Opelousas in March 1784.  They settled on Prairie Basse near Grand Coteau at the southern edge of the Opelousas District.  Their children, born there, included Jean-Baptiste in June 1786; Augustin in August 1787; Édouard in c1788 but "died suddenly ... 'from the fall or collapse of a cart,'" age 19, in April 1806; Césaire baptized at Opelousas, no age given, in November 1789, previously baptized at home; Bruno Olivier born in c1790 but died in St. Landry Parish in June 1817 "following an illness and," noted the priest, "could not receive the sacraments which he had requested--not having enough time to arrive near him"; Éloi, also called Clay, born in February 1791; Marie baptized, age unrecorded, in September 1793, previously baptized at home, but "died suddenly at age about 13 yrs." in August 1804; Lucie died in December 1795, age unrecorded; Pierre le jeune baptized, age unrecorded, in May 1795, previously baptized at home; Marcelline born in December 1796; Marie-Silesie or -Célise in c1798 and baptized at age 3 in November 1801; Célestine, also called Céleste, born in c1800 and baptized at age 16 months in November 1801; Joseph Dorsile baptized at age 1 month in April 1803; Eugènie baptized at age 6 weeks in May 1804; Irène baptized at age 7 weeks in April 1806; Charlotte born in November 1810; and Caroline in the early 1810s--17 children, eight sons and nine daughters, between 1786 and the early 1810s.  Jean died "at his home at La prairie Basse du Grand Coteau in this parish [Opelousas]" in January 1814, "following a long illness," age "about 55 years."  The priest who recorded the burial also noted that Jean had "lived in this parish from his youth...."  Jean's succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse, St. Landry Parish, in September 1817, and his estate record was filed there in December 1821.  Daughters Marcelline, Marie Silesie, Irène, Eugénie, Caroline, and Céleste married into the Benoit, Beard, Breaux, Babineaux, Royer, and Caruthers families on the prairies.  Five of Jean's sons also married, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Jean Baptiste may have married Susanne, daughter of Pierre Mayhe and Anne Henry, place and date unrecorded.  If so, their son Jean Baptiste, fils was born in St. Martin Parish in October 1830.  Jean Baptiste, père died near Grand Coteau in June 1834, age 48.  His succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in February 1835 and at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in April 1838, so he must have owned land in both parishes.  One wonders if his son married by 1870. 

Jean's second son Augustin, at age 38, married Susanne, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Leger and Marguerite Savoie of Opelousas, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in June 1826.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Célestine born in May 1827; Uranie in November 1829; Mélanise in July 1832; Désiré in December 1834 but died at age 16 1/2 in April 1851; Augustin Joseph, called Joseph, born in October 1837; Marie Azélie in October 1840; Adolphe in June 1843--seven children, four daughters and three sons, between 1827 and 1843.  Augustin died near Grand Coteau in June 1844.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Augustin died "at age 55 yrs."  He was 56.  His succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in January 1848.  Daughters ... married into Stelly, and perhaps into the Miller family as well, by 1870.  Two of Augustin's sons also married by then.

Second son Joseph married Françoise Aurelina or Amelina, daughter of Andéole Stelly and his Acadian wife Françoise Boudreaux, at the Grand Coteau church in November 1863.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Marie François in December 1864; Jean Baptiste in September 1869; ... 

Augustin's third and youngest son Adolphe married Olymphe, daughter of fellow Acadian Théodule Benoit and his Creole wife Emma Forestier, at the Grand Coteau church in January 1870. ...

Jean's fourth son Césaire may have died young, unless he was the Césaire Bourque who married French Creole Marie Desormeaux and settled near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, by the early 1850s, though his advanced age makes it unlikely. 

Jean's sixth son Éloi, called Clay by the parish clerk, married Marie Adeline, called Adeline, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Savoie and Modeste Prejean, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in April 1833.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Éloi, fils in August 1835 but died at age 1 (the recording priest said 2) in October 1836; Valérie or Valéry born in September 1837; Jean Uval or Huval baptized at age 2 months in September 1841; and Adélisa or Adélise born in December 1844--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1835 and 1844.  Éloi, père died near Grand Coteau in March 1853, age 62.  His succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in May.  Daughter Adélisa married into the Jacqueneau family.  Éloi's two remaining sons also married and settled on the prairies. 

Second son Valéry married Marie Amelia or Émelia, called Melia, daughter of fellow Acadians Édouard Ursin Prejean and Marie Sidalise Prejean, at the Grand Coteau church in June 1857.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Marie Cidelise in May 1858 but, called Cidalyse, died at age 6 in July 1864; Marie Adeline born in December 1859; Valéry, fils in January 1862; Marie Alice in January 1865; Joseph Seven in January 1870; ...

Éloi's third and youngest son Jean Huval married cousin Marie Madeleine, daughter of Gilles Higginbotham and his Acadian wife Euphrosin Savoie, at the Grand Coteau church in February 1860.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Florent near Grand Coteau in October 1861 but died the following December; Marie baptized at the Church Point church, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, age unrecorded, in February 1863; Oliva born in February 1865; ... 

Jean's seventh son Pierre le jeune may have died young, unless he was the Pierre Bourg who died in St. Landry Parish in June 1846 and whose succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse the following November.  If this was him, he died in his early 50s and probably did not marry. 

Jean's eighth and youngest son Joseph Dorsile married Julie or Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis André Richard and Julie Babineaux, at the Grand Coteau church in September 1833.  Did Joseph Dorsile father any children?  Was he the Joseph Bourg who died near Grand Coteau in September 1856 "at age 50 yrs."  The priest who recorded the burial did not give any parents' names or mention a wife.  Joseph Dorsile would have been age 53.  If this was him, his line of the family likely died with him. 

Joseph's fourth and youngest son Charles followed his family to Nova Scotia and Louisiana and settled with them at Cabahannocer, where, at age 15, he was counted with brother Pierre in January 1777.  He then disappears from the historical record.  He probably did not marry. 

Joseph, fils (c1735-1812) à Jean-Baptiste dit Jean, fils à Jean à Antoine Bourg

Joseph, fils, son of Joseph Bourg and his first wife Françoise Dugas, born at Cobeguit in c1735, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in c1751.  A French official counted him with his family at Rivière-du-Nord-Est in the island's interior in August 1752.  Still in his late teens, he may have returned to British Nova Scotia soon after the counting, escaped the British roundups there in the fall of 1755, and followed other exiles to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore; or, more likely, he may have remained on the island, escaped the British roundup there in 1758, re-crossed Mer Rouge, and sought refuge on the Gulf shore.  It is also possible that he was deported with his family from Île Royale to Cherbourg, France, in late 1758 but managed to return to North America soon after he reached the Norman port.  In his mid-20s, he married fellow Acadian Anne-Marguerite or Marguerite-Anne Léger in the late 1750s or early 1760s, place unrecorded.  However way he may have gotten to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, sometime in the late 1750s or early 1760s he and his wife 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 1762 and 1763, probably in a prison compound, perhaps at Halifax, Anne-Marguerite gave Joseph, fils three children:  twin daughters ____ and Marie-Rose, called Rose, born in c1762; and Joseph III in c1763.  When Joseph, fils came to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765, he was a widower with two young children, a daughter and a son (one of his twin daughters having died by then, her name lost to history).  They settled at Cabahannocer on the river, where, in his early 30s, Joseph, fils remarried to fellow Acadian Marie LeBlanc, widow of Joseph Richard, in March 1767.   She gave him another set of twins there:  Amédée dit Madé and Bibianne baptized, age unrecorded, in May 1771.  At age 37, Joseph remarried again--his third marriage--to Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles LaCroix dit Durel and Judith Chiasson of Île St.-Jean and widow of Joseph Prejean, at nearby Ascension in June 1772.  Spanish officials counted them on the left, or east, bank of the river at Cabahannocer in January 1777.  Marguerite gave Joseph two more daughters at Cabahannocer:  Marie Pélagie, called Pélagie, born in November 1773; and Céleste in October 1782--seven children, five daughters and two sons, by three wives, between 1762 and 1782, in greater Acadia and Louisiana.  Joseph died in St. James Parish in January 1812.  The priest who recorded the burial said Joseph was age 85 when he died.  He was in his late 70s.  Daughters Marie Rose, Bibianne, Pélagie, and Céleste, by his three wives, married into the Torbert, Vesiers, Gravois, Causin, and Verret families, only one of them a fellow Acadian.  Both of Joseph's sons also married.  His younger son's line was especially robust.  Joseph, fils's sons remained on the river and settled in St. James, Iberville, and Ascension parishes.  One grandson, however, moved to the western prairies during the early antebellum period. 

Older son Joseph III, by first wife Anne-Marguerite Léger, followed his widowed father and sister from Halifax to New Orleans and Cabahannocer, where he married Félicité, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Blanchard and Esther Bourgeois, in November 1791.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer/St. James, included Maurice, also called Casimir, in August 1792; Joseph-Sylvestre, called Sylvestre, in February 1795; Félicité-Carmélite or Carmélite-Félicité, called Félicité, in January 1797; Jean-Drosin in January 1802; and Florentine Adeline in January 1805--five children, three sons and two daughters, between 1792 and 1805.  Joseph III died in St. James Parish in October 1815.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph was age 55 when he died.  He was closer to 52.  Daughters Carmélite Félicité and ... married into the Oubre, LeBlanc, and Ory families.   Two of Joseph III's sons also married, in St. James Parish, but not all of the lines endured.

Oldest son Maurice, also called Casimir, married Rosalie, daughter of Alexis Borne or Rome and Charlotte Frederic, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in November 1815.  She evidently gave him no children, at least none who appear in local church records.  Maurice remarried to Geneviève, daughter of Henri Oubre and his Acadian wife Angélique David, at the Convent church in December 1818.  Their children, born near Convent, included Virginie in May 1820; and Maurice, fils posthumously in April 1821.  Maurice, père died near Convent in October 1820.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Maurice was age 30 when he died.  He was 28.  Neither of his children married by 1870, if they married at all, so the line may not have endured. 

Joseph's III's second son Joseph Sylvestre, called Sylvestre, married Henriette, daughter of Antoine Claireaux and Henriette Lavigne of St. John the Baptist Parish, at the Convent church in November 1816.  Their children, born near Convent, included Sylvestre, fils in April 1818; Mélasie in October 1820; Marie Émilie baptized at the Convent church, age 20 days, in November 1822; Eliza born in August 1824; Théodule in February 1827; Thélésphore or Télésphore baptized, age indecipherable, in October 1830; Arthémise Aséma, called Aséma, in August 1832 but died the following January; and Prudent born in 1834 and baptized at the Convent church, age 7 months, in February 1835--eight children, four sons and four daughters, between 1818 and 1834.  None of Joseph Sylvestre's children married by 1870. 

Joseph, père's younger son Amédée dit Madé, a twin, by second wife Marie LeBlanc, married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joachim dit Bénoni Mire and his second wife Madeleine Melançon, probably at Cabahannocer in the 1790s.  They settled near the boundary of what became St. James and Ascension parishes.  Their children, born there, included Rosalie baptized, age unrecorded, in March 1794; Benjamin born in September 1795; Jean-Baptiste in January 1798 but died near Convent, St. James Parish, age 41 (the recording priest said 43), in December 1839; Zénon born in October 1800; Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, in October 1802; Joseph le jeune in January 1806; and Marie Marthe in July 1809--seven children, three daughters and four sons, between 1794 and 1809.  Daughters Madeleine and Marie Marthe married into the Lessard, LeBlanc, and Gautreaux families.  Three of Madé's sons also married, two of them to sisters.  One settled on lower Bayou Teche, but the others remained on the river in St. James and Ascension parishes.  His oldest son's line was especially vigorous. 

Oldest son Benjamin married Élisabeth, called Betsy and Betty, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Bourgeois and Marguerite Sonnier of Ascension Parish, at the St. James church, St. James Parish, in June 1815.  Their children, born near Convent, included Evariste in October 1816; Léon Amédée, called Amédée le jeune, in December 1818; Jean Baptiste Adélard, called Adélard, in January 1821; Sylvanie, a son, in February 1823; Marie Bélasire, called Bélasire, in May 1825; Victor in October 1827 but died near Convent, age 25, in September 1853, a victim, perhaps, of the yellow fever epidemic that struck South Louisiana that summer and fall; and a son, name unrecorded, died eight days after his birth in September 1830--seven children, six sons and a daughter, between 1816 and 1830.  Benjamin died near Convent in August 1846, age 50 (the recording priest said 51).  Daughter Bélasire married into the Breaux family by 1870.  Four of Benjamin's sons also married by then.  Two of them settled in St. James Parish and two in Ascension Parish.  One of his sons and a grandson died of yellow fever. 

Oldest son Evariste married Adeline or Avelina, daughter of fellow Acadians Raphaël Gautreaux and Constance Breaux, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in May 1836.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Paulin Edmond Osémé, called Osémé, in October 1837; Marie Osea, called Osea, in April 1840; Jérôme Vileor, called Vileor, in September 1842; Augère or Ulgère Jean in December 1844[sic]; Marie Nisida in March 1845[sic]; Joseph Prudent in September 1850; Victor in November 1853; Elizabeth near Gonzales in August 1864; ...  Daughters Osea, ... married into the LeBlanc family, and perhaps into the Mire family as well, by 1870.  Three of Evariste's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Osémé married Marie Emma, daughter of Thomas Corvet and Delphine Dubois, probably not an Acadian, at the Donaldsonville church in February 1860.  She evidently gave him no children.  Osémé, called Ozémé by the recording priest, remarried to Odile, daughter of David Bergeron, perhaps an Acadian, and his Creole wife Élisa Desctoeaux, at the Gonzales church, Ascension Parish, in October 1870. ...

Evariste's second son Vileor married first cousin Mélanie, daughter of fellow Acadians Siméon Joseph Gautreaux and Marie Bourg, his uncle and aunt, at the Gonzales church in December 1866; they likely had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born near Gonzales, included Cécilia Clémence in November 1867; Adam Victor in March 1870; ...

Evariste's third son Ulgère married first cousin Augustine, another daughter of Siméon Joseph Gautreaux and Marie Bourg, at the Gonzales church in January 1869; they, too, had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry. ...

Benjamin's second son Léon Amédée, called Amédée le jeune, married Célestine, daughter of fellow Acadians Donat Landry and Marthe Lanoux and widow of Jean Baptiste Peytavin, at the Convent church in February 1843.  Their children, born near Convent, included Marie or Marine Célestine in November 1843; Élisabeth in March 1846; Amédée, fils in December 1847 but, called Aneïde, died at age 5 1/2 (the recording priest said 6) in September 1853; Joseph Benjamin born in August 1850 but, called Benjamin, died at age 1 in August 1851; and Estelle Phonie born in August 1852--five children, three daughters and two sons, between 1843 and 1852.  Amédée le jeune died near Convent in September 1853.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who gave no parents' names but did mention his wife, said that Amédée died at "age 36 yrs."  He was 34.  Daughters Marine and Estelle married into the Chauvin and Landry families by 1870, one of them, Estelle, to a first cousin.  Amédée le jeune and his older son died on the same day, probably victims of the yellow fever that ravaged South Louisiana during the late summer and fall of 1853.  His other son also did not survive childhood, so this line of the family, except perhaps for its blood, did not endure. 

Benjamin's third son Adélard married Marie Eléonore, called Eléonore, Léona, and Léonaide, daughter of fellow Acadians Édouard Gravois and Eurasie Landry, at the Convent church in February 1846.  Their children, born near Convent, included Augustine in November 1846 but may have died near Convent at age 5 1/2 (the recording priest said 6, called her father Augustin, and gave no mother's name) in August 1852; Antoine Benjamin, called Ben, born in January 1849; Joseph Adélard in December 1850; Marie Élisabeth in September 1853; Arture Elphége in January 1856 but, called Elphége, died at age 8 (the recording priest said 7) in January 1864; Marie Helena born in November 1858; Charles Alfred in June 1861; Joseph Amédée in October 1863; Joseph Wallis in October 1866; Édouard Stanislas in July 1868; ...  Neither of Adélard's remaining daughters married by 1870, but two of his sons did. 

Oldest son Ben married Marcelline, daughter of fellows Acadian Donat Landry and Victorine Richard, at the Convent church in April 1869. ...

Adélard's second son Joseph Adélard married Ida, daughter of Victor Perrin and his Acadian wife Octave Richard, at the Convent church in October 1870. ...

Benjamin's fourth son Sylvanie married Doralise, also called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Auguste Landry and Adeline Babin, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in July 1843.  They settled downriver in Ascension Parish.  Their children, born there, included Benjamin Justilien in September 1845; Joseph Numa in August 1847 but, called Numa, died near Gonzales, age 18, in February 1866; Élisabeth Amanda, called Amanda, born in August 1849; Marie Amelia in June 1851; Marie Victorine, called Victorine, in October 1853; and Silvany Cléophas in March 1856.  Sylvanie remarried to Émelie, daughter of fellow Acadians Narcisse Gautreaux and Bathilde LeBlanc, at the Donaldsonville church in July 1858.  Their son Clément Alphonse was born near St. Gabriel in September 1859--seven children, four sons and three daughters, by two wives, between 1845 and 1859.  Daughters Amanda and Victorine, by his first wife, married into the Eliser and Roth families by 1870.  None of Sylvanie's sons married by then. 

Madé's third son Zénon married Scholastique, another daughter Jean Baptiste Bourgeois and Marguerite Sonnier, at the Donaldsonville church in January 1822.  A decade later, they crossed the Atchafalaya Basin and settled on lower Bayou Teche.  Their children, born on the river and the lower Teche, included Georgine or Georgina near Convent in March 1823; Marie Lisida in April 1825 but, called Lesida, died in St. Martin Parish at age 8 (the recording priest said 9) in May 1833; Jean Baptiste Eugène or Ulger born near Convent in February 1827; Rosela Euphémie in Ascension Parish in March 1829; Aglaé Delphine in St. Martin Parish in October 1831; Drozin Augustin in c1832 but died near New Iberia on the lower Teche, age 14, in August 1846; Marie Augustine born in September 1833; Odile in May 1836; and Marie Lodowiska in April 1839.  Wife Scholastique's succession, probably post-mortem, naming her husband, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in April 1842.  Zénon remarried to Marie Belzire, called Belzire, daughter of fellow Acadians Julien Poirier and Céleste Theriot, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in January 1844.  Their children, born on the lower Teche, included son Zénon, fils in August 1845; Julien or Jules in January 1847; Marie Bellasie in March 1849; and Joseph le jeune in July 1851--13 children, eight daughters and five sons, by two wives, between 1823 and 1851.  Daughters ..., by both wives, married into the Gario or Gary, Hulin, Huval, Romero, Stout, Viator, and Richard families, only one of them a fellow Acadian, by 1870.  Three of Zénon's sons also married by then.  His oldest son, whose line was a vigorous one, lived briefly in St. James Parish before returning to Bayou Teche.  Zénon's younger married sons settled near Youngsville in Lafayette Parish. 

Oldest son Jean Baptiste Eugène or Ulger, by first wife Scholastique Bourgeois, married Marie Aglaé, called Aglaé, daughter of Jean Baptiste Peytavin and his Acadian wife Célestine Landry, at the Convent church in July 1848.  They lived on the river briefly before returning to Bayou Teche in the early 1850s.  Their children, born on the river and the Teche, included Jean Baptiste, fils near Convent in June 1849; Scolastique in St. Martin Parish in January 1852; Célestine in January 1854; Cécilia in July 1855; Emma in April 1858; Louise in April 1860; Élisabeth in June 1862 but died at age 9 months in March 1863; Ludger born in November 1864; Eugène in March 1870; ...  None of Jean Baptiste's children married by 1870. 

Zénon's third son Zénon, fils, by second wife Belzire Poirier, married Marie Esmarelda, called Esmarelda, daughter of Nicolas Vallot and Celima Domingue, at the Youngsville church in June 1866.  Their son Jean Evalture was born near Youngsville in January 1869; ... 

Zénon's fourth son Julien or Jules, by second wife Belzire Poirer, married Elina, daughter of fellow Acadian Dominique Girouard and his Creole wife Euseide Vallot, at the Youngsville church in May 1867.  Their son Amédée was born near Youngsville in February 1868; ...

Madé's fourth and youngest son Joseph le jeune married Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand Gautreaux and Françoise Landry and widow of ____, at the Donaldsonville church in March 1841.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Faustin Amadéo in March 1842 but, called Amédéo, died at age 13 in June 1855; and Jean Dosilia born in January 1857.  Joseph may have 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 died at "age 65 years."  This Joseph would have been age 58.  Neither of Joseph le jeune's sons married by 1870. 

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Acadian exiles from Oxford, Maryland, reached New Orleans via Baltimore and Cap-Français in September 1766.  One of the Landry families in that expedition was headed by an elderly Bourg widow.

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The great majority of Bourgs who emigrated to Louisiana--at least 96 of them in 17 families--did not arrive until 20 years after the first of their cousins came to the colony.  These later arrivals were Bourgs from Minas, Cobeguit, and Île St.-Jean who had spent decades in France.  After crossing to Spanish Louisiana from the mother country aboard six of the Seven Ships of 1785, some chose to settle near their cousins on the river, and a few chose to settle on the western prairies.  Most of them, however, went to upper Bayou Lafourche, where they created a third center of family settlement.  By the end of the colonial period, the southeast bayous held the largest concentration of Bourgs in South Louisiana.  By the early antebellum period, Acadian Bourgs from France and their descendants could be found not only along the upper and middle Lafourche and on the shores of Lake Verret, but also along the bayous and at the edge of the coastal marshes of Terrebonne Parish, where, after several generations, they pronounced their family name BURG instead of BOURK. 

The first of the Bourgs from France--two of them, a wife and a widow and their families--crossed on Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ship, which reached New Orleans in July 1785.  They followed their fellow passengers to Manchac below Baton Rouge.  No new family line came of it. 

Next came 18 Bourgs--five families, two led by widows, three unmarried siblings, two wives, and a widow--on La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in mid-August 1785.  They were the first members of the family to go to Bayou Lafourche, where several new family lines emerged:

Joseph (c1733-?) à Martin à Antoine Bourg

Joseph, fifth and youngest son of Abraham Bourg le jeune and his second wife Marie Thériot, born at Cobeguit in c1733, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in late 1755 or early 1756, after the entire population of the Cobeguit settlements eluded the British roundup in the Minas basin.  Joseph married Marguerite-Josèphe, daughter of Paul Dugas and Anne-Marie Boudrot, probably on Île St.-Jean in c1758 on the eve of the island's dérangement.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, soon after their marriage.  Marguerite died at sea, before she could give Joseph any children.  He settled at Plouër-sur-Rance on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo and remarried to Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Granger and Anne Richard and widow of Alain Bugeaud of Grand-Pré, at Pleurtuit, north of Plouër, in June 1760.  They crossed the river and settled at St.-Coulomb northeast of St.-Malo before moving to the nearby St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  Marie-Madeleine gave Joseph six children, including a set of twins, there:  Joseph and Pierre born at St.-Coulomb in April 1761, but Joseph died there at age 1 1/2 in September 1762; Marie-Josèphe born in November 1762; Fabien-Joseph in April 1765; Jean-Baptiste at St.-Servan in December 1767; and Élisabeth-Blanche in November 1770--four sons and two daughters, by his second wife, between 1761 and 1770.  Joseph took his family to Poitou in 1773.  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 their oldest son Pierre married at nearby Chantenay.  In 1785, Joseph, Marie-Madeleine, and four of their unmarried children, two sons and two daughters, plus two Daigle nieces, along with their married son and his wife, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana on the same vessel.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Marie-Madeleine, age 54 when they reached New Orleans, gave Joseph no more children in the Spanish colony.  She died by January 1791, in her late 50s, when Joseph appeared in a Valenzuela District census without a wife.  He was still being counted there in April 1797, in his early or mid-60s, holding a single slave on his bayou-side habitant of six-arpents frontage between sons Pierre and Jean-Baptiste.  Older daughter Marie-Josèphe married into the Bujole family on the river.  Younger daughter Élisabeth-Blanche lived to a ripe old age--75--but never married.  Joseph's younger sons also married and settled on Bayou Lafourche, but one of the lines did not endure.

Second son Pierre, a twin, by second wife Marie-Madeleine Granger, followed his family to Poitou and Nantes, where he worked as an "assistant wood-merchant."  At age 23, he married Marguerite-Blanche, 30-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Dugas and Marguerite Daigre, in St.-Martin de Chantenay Parish in November 1784.  Marguerite-Blanche, a native of Cobeguit, had come to France from one of the Maritime islands in 1759.  They crossed to Louisiana with their extended families in 1785.  Marguerite-Blanche was pregnant on the voyage and gave Pierre a son, Martin, born at New Orleans the day after they reached the city, but the boy, named in honor of his godfather, Spanish intendente Martin Navarro, died the following March, age 7 months.  The rigors of the son's birth evidently killed the mother.  Pierre, at age 24, remarried to Marie, 25-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Bujole and his first wife Brigitte Chênet, at Lafourche in February 1786.  Marie, a native of Oxford, Maryland, had come to Louisiana with her family 20 years earlier.  She gave Pierre a daughter, Marie-Madeleine, baptized at Ascension, age unrecorded, in March 1787.  Pierre remarried--his third marriage--to Marie-Félicité, called Félicité, daughter of fellow Acadians Vincent Landry and Susanne Godin, at Lafourche in October 1789.  Félicité was a native of Louisiana whose parents also had come to the colony from Maryland in 1766.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included a son, name unrecorded, died at age 1 month in November 1790; Marguerite born in November 1791; Fabien-Hippolyte, called Hippolyte, in August 1793; Charles-Auguste, called Auguste, baptized, age unrecorded, in December 1795; Marie-Cléonise, called Cléonise, born in April in 1798; Anne-Mélanie in August 1800; Pierre, fils in June 1802; Rose-Félicité in December 1803; Marie Mélanie in January 1805; Félicité Apolline or Apolline Félicité in February 1808 but died in June; and Marie Marcellite, called Marcellite, born in May 1809--13 children, five sons and eight daughters, by three wives, between 1785 and 1809.  Pierre died in Assumption Parish in December 1811, age 50.  Daughters Marie Madeleine, Marguerite, Cléonise, and Marcellite, by his second and third wives, married into the Landry, Friou, Foret, and Pitre families.  One wonders if daughter Cléonise, at age 31, gave birth to an unnamed daughter in March 1829, nearly six years after she became a widow.  Three of Pierre's sons also married and settled on the upper Lafourche. 

Third son Fabien Hippolyte, called Hippolyte, from third wife Félicité Landry, married Marie Anne, also called Thadie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Theriot and Françoise Guérin, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in November 1816.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Carmélite Anne in July 1817; Apollinaire in March 1819; Ciline, Célenie, or Célonie Basilisse in February 1820; Marine Rosalie in May 1823 but died the following April; and Augustine born in c1833--five children, four daughters and a son, between 1817 and 1833.  Hippolyte may have remarried to fellow Acadian Amélite Barrilleaux, place and date unrecorded.  He died in Assumption Parish in December 1837, age 44.  Daughters Carmélite, Célenie, and Augustine, by his first wife, married into the Louis, Gilbert, Boudreaux, and Coussat or Caussat families.  Hippolyte's son also married and settled on the upper Lafourche.

Only son Apollinaire, by first wife Marie Anne Theriot, married Apolline dite Pauline, daughter of Corsican Jean Baptiste Colonna or Colonne and his Acadian wife Marie Blanchard, at the Plattenville church in June 1846.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Azéma Zulmée in March 1847 but, called Azéma Ozémie, died the following August; Apollinaire Ulysse born in January 1849; Numa Aurelien in May 1851; François Lessin in November 1852; Alice Helena in August 1854; François Xavier in March 1857; Berthe Gratieuse in October 1858; Odilia Myrtilla in December 1860; Louise Léonelle in January 1863; a child, name unrecorded, died in Assumption Parish at age 1 day in October 1867; ...  None of Apollinaire's children married by 1870. 

Pierre's fourth son Charles Auguste, called Auguste and also Baptiste, from third wife Félicité Landry, married cousin Julie, daughter of fellow Acadians François George Bourg and Adélaïde Bertrand, at the Plattenville church in January 1820.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Justine in November 1820 but may have died at age 14 1/2 (the recording priest, who called the deceased Augustin, perhaps meaning Augustine, said age 15) in March 1835; Caville, Carville, or Clairville François born in March 1822; Adélaïde in the late 1820s or early 1830s; Armand Drosin in July 1828 but, called Armant, died at age 24 (the recording priest said "age ca. 23 years") in February 1853; Zéphirin Auguste born in August 1830; Auguste Urbin in March 1836; and Félicité in February 1841 but died at age 11 months in January 1842--seven children, three daughters and four sons, between 1820 and 1841.  Daughter Adélaïde married into the Henry family by 1870.  One of Auguste's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Clairville married Marie Aimée, daughter of Nicolas Metra and his Acadian wife Suzanne Bergeron, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1848.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Joseph Alfred in December 1848 but, called Alfred, died near Plattenville, age 3 1/2 (the recording preist said 4), in August 1852; Augustin Octave born in January 1851 but, called Gustave, died the following August; twins Joseph Adam and Marie Eve born in February 1853; and Eugénie Adèlle in January 1855--five children, three sons and two daughters, including a set of twins, between 1848 and 1855.  None of Clairville's children married by 1870. 

Pierre's fifth and youngest son Pierre, fils, by third wife Félicité Landry, married Marie Rose, daughter of Étienne Benjamin Penisson and his Acadian wife Rose Trahan of Bayou Boeuf, Lafourche Interior Parish, at the Plattenville church in January 1826.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Aimée Marie in September 1829; Pauline in June 1833; Sédalie Arsolite in January 1836; and Étienne Lucien in January 1842--four children, three daughters and a son, between 1829 and 1842.  Marie Rose's succession, calling her Marie and naming her husband, was filed in St. Mary Parish, on lower Bayou Teche, in February 1854, so they may have moved there in the 1840s or early 1850s.  Daughter Pauline married into the Dellucky or Dellucci family by 1870.  Pierre, fils's son also married and settled in northwestern Terrebonne Parish, not far from the lower Atchafalaya/lower Bayou Teche. 

Only son Étienne married Hordalie, Ordalie, or Octavie, daughter of fellow Acadians Baptiste Aucoin and Julie Levron, at the Chacahoula church, Terrebonne Parish, in May 1866.  Their children, born on the southeastern bayous, included Louise Eugénie in Lafourche Parish in June 1868; Marie Agathe near Chacahoula, Terrebonne Parish, in February 1870; ...

Joseph père's third son Fabien-Joseph, also called Sébastien-Joseph and Joseph, from second wife Marie-Madeleine Granger, followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and the upper Lafourche, where he married Marie-Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Boudreaux and Marie Daigre, in April 1786.  Marie-Rose, a native of Plouër-sur-Rance near St.-Malo, also had come to Louisiana aboard La Bergère.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Jean-Baptiste-Fabien, called Baptiste, Fabien, and Baptiste Fabien, baptized, age unrecorded, in December 1787; Marie born in February 1789; Isabelle in May 1791 but died at age 2 1/2 in August 1793; Joseph-Donat born in June 1795 but may have been the Joseph Bourg who died in Assumption Parish, age 60 (this Joseph would have been age 58), in July 1853, victim, perhaps, of the yellow fever epidemic that struck South Louisiana that summer and fall; Magloire baptized, age unrecorded, in August 1796 but died at age 7 in September 1803; Isabelle-Léocade born in May 1798 but died at age 1 1/2 in September 1799; Narcisse-Fabien born in January 1800; Marie-Carmélite in October 1801; and Marie-Claire or -Clarisse in April 1803 but died at age 19 (the recording priest, calling her Marie Clarisse, said age 21) in December 1822--nine children, four sons and five daughters, between 1787 and 1803.  Fabien died at Assumption in February 1804, age 39.  Daughters Marie and Marie Carmélite married into the Theriot and Pirault dit Michel families.  Two of Fabien's sons also married and settled on the Lafourche.

Oldest son Jean Baptiste Fabien, called Fabien, married Marie Clarisse, called Clarisse, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Daigle and his Creole wife Marguerite Simoneaux, at the Plattenville church in October 1810.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Jean-Baptiste-Achille or -Alcide, called Alcide, in November 1811; Joseph in August 1813; Émerante Marie or Marie Eméranthe in August 1815; Dorsineau in c1816; Henry in January 1818 but died at age 18 in February 1836; Hippolyte Simon, perhaps also called Paulitte, born in November 1819; Narcisse Euxilien in September 1822; Judith Clarisse in July 1823; Mathilde Rosalie in May 1825; Marguerite Asélie, called Asélie, in March 1827 but died at age 6 1/2 (the recording priest said 7) in August 1833; and Onésime born in the 1820s or early 30s--11 children, seven sons and four daughters, between 1811 and the 1820s or early 1830s.  Jean Baptiste Fabien, called Joseph Fabien by the recording priest, remarried, at age 48, to Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Theriot and François Guérin and widow of Augustin Bénoni Bergeron, at the Plattenville church in July 1836.  She evidently gave him no more children.  Jean Baptiste Fabien died near Plattenville in October 1853.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Jean Baptiste Fabien died at "age 68 years."  He probably was closer to age 65.  Was he a victim of yellow fever which ravaged South Louisiana in the late summer and fall of 1853?  Daughters Marie Eméranthe, Mathilde, ..., by his first wife, married into the Roger, Bourgeois, and Landry families.  Five of Jean Baptiste Fabien's sons also married and settled on the upper Lafourche and along the shores of nearby Lake Verret.

Oldest son Jean Baptiste Achille or Alcide, called Alcide, from first wife Clarisse Daigle, married Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Dugas and Marie Landry of Assumption, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in January 1831.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Joseph Aimée or Ozémé, called Ozémé, in September 1832; Maria Azuma in March 1835 but, called Asémas, died near Paincourtville at age 16 in June 1851; Marie Zulmé or Zulmée, called Zulmée, born in January 1837; Joseph Prudent, called Prudent, in April 1839; Marie Philomène Adveline, called Adveline, in May 1840; Joseph Pierre near Paincourtville in June 1843 but died at age 1 in November 1844; Joseph Théophile born in January 1846; Joseph Siméon in May 1848 but, called Siméon, died at age 1 1/2 in September 1849; Marie Adorestine born in Febraury 1850; and Marie Hélène in August 1852--10 children, five sons and five daughters, between 1832 and 1852.  Alcide died near Paincourtville in December 1865.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Alcide died at "age 56 years."  He was 54.  Daughters Zulmée and Adveline married into the Richard and Maitrejean families by 1870.  Two of his sons also married by then.

Oldest son Ozémé married Élodie, daughter of fellow Acadian Placide Gautreaux and his Creole wife Eugénie Kerne, at the Paincourtville church in July 1854.  Their children, born in Assumption Parish, included Marie Élisabeth in February 1857; Marie Aséma or Oséma in December 1858; Joseph Placide near Pierre Part north of Lake Verret in January 1861; Marie Aimée in March 1863 but, called Aimée, died near Paincourtville, age unrecorded, in July 1867; Joseph Alcide born near Paincourtville in July 1866 but, called Alcide, died the following November; and Marie Survilia born in December 1867--six children, four daughters and two sons, between 1857 and 1867.  Ozémé died near Paincourtville in March 1868, age 35. 

Alcide's second son Prudent married Elina, daughter of Bertrand Sausse and Elissa Arabie, at the Paincourtville church in April 1861.  Their son Marcelien Prudent was born near Paincourtville in April 1862.  Prudent remarried to Émelia or Amelia, daughter of André Kerne and Marie Madeleine Borne and widow of Antoine Allemand, at the Pierre Part church, Assumption Parish, in April 1864.  Their children, born near Pierre Part, included Marie Artémise in December 1864; Joseph Émile in September 1866; ... 

Jean Baptiste Fabien's third son Dorsineau, by first wife Clarisse Daigle, married Marie Lucie or Lucie Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Henri Landry and Adélaïde Boudreaux, at the Plattenville church in January 1837.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Eugénie or Eufémise in November 1837; Marie Ermire in July 1839; Marie Virginie, called Virginie, in August 1841; Joseph Aulina in May 1844; Marie Nathalie in October 1846; Jean Baptiste in June 1850; and Joseph Augustin in August 1854--seven children, four daughters and three sons, between 1837 and 1854.  Daughter Virginie married into the Medal family by 1870.  None of his sons married by then. 

Jean Baptiste Fabien's fifth son Hippolyte dite Paulitte Simon, by first wife Clarisse Daigle, may have married French Creole Olesida, also called Oliside, Élise, and Élisa, Perque or Percle, place and date unrecorded.  If so, their children, born in Assumption Parish, included Joseph Elphége Anatole in October 1845; Joseph Armas in February 1847; Joseph Amilcar near Paincourtville in March 1849; Joseph in March 1851; Eve Augustine in November 1852; Marie Aimée in January 1855; Adam Émile in April 1857; Marie Clarice near Pierre Part in April 1859; Joseph Baltazar in February 1861 but, called Balthazar, died near Paincourtville, age 6, in September 1866; Joseph Camille born in October 1863; Marie Camilla in January 1865; ...  None of Hippolyte's children married by 1870. 

Jean Baptiste Fabien's sixth son Narcisse Euxilien, by first wife Clarisse Daigle, may have married fellow Acadian Mélanie or Mélina Landry, place and date unrecorded.  If so, their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Anastase Joseph, a son, in April 1844; Joseph Nichols in March 1846; Marie Zilma in March 1850; and Marie Adorestine in May 1853--four children, two sons and two daughters, between 1844 and 1853.  Daughter ... married into the Bertrand family by 1870 and settled on lower Bayou Teche.  Neither of Narcisse Eusilien's sons married by then. 

Jean Baptiste Fabien's seventh and youngest son Onésime, by first wife Clarisse Daigle, married Élise dite Lise, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Dugas and Adélaïde Babin, at the Paincourtville church in July 1853.  Their children, born in Assumption Parish, included Marie Rosalie Adeline in October 1854; Joseph Uselia in April 1856; Jean Baptiste Joseph Alexandre in March 1858; Joseph Alexandre near Pierre Part north of Lake Verret in February 1859; Joseph Clovis in January 1862; Marie, probably theirs, died near Pierre Part,"age of several hours," in February 1865; ...  None of Onésime's children married by 1870. 

Fabien Joseph's fourth and youngest son Narcisse Fabien married Louise, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Aucoin and Victorine Arcement, at the Plattenville church in June 1822.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundry between Assumption and Lafourche Interior parishes.  Their children, born there, included Carville died four days after his birth in August 1823; Amédée born in November 1825; and Louise in June 1829--three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1823 and 1829.  Narcisse died in Assumption Parish in September 1831.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Narcisse was age 26 when he died.  He was 31.  His daughter evidently did not marry, at least not by 1870, but his remaining sons did and settled on the upper Lafourche.

Younger son Amédée married Henriette, daughter of Ursin Falteman and Céleste Bergeron, a Creole, not a fellow Acadian, at the Paincourtville church in January 1848.  Their children, born in Assumption Parish, included Julia in c1850 but died at age 4 in February 1854; Marguerite born in November 1850; Jules Melchior in July 1852; Marie Julie in August 1854; Manette Céleste in July 1856; Desy Victoria near Attakapas Canal east of Lake Verret in April 1858; Marcelite Odilia in October 1860; François Avi in December 1862; Devis Alexis in March 1865; Alcée Ambroise near Plattenville in May 1868; Philomène Albertine in February 1870; ...  None of Amédée's children married by 1870. 

Joseph père's fourth and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, by second wife Marie-Madeleine Granger, followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Anne-Marie, called Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Hébert and Marie-Madeleine Dugas, in June 1789.  Marie, like Jean-Baptiste a native of St.-Servan-sur-Mer, also had come to Louisiana in 1785 aboard La Bergère.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Jean-Baptiste, fils in April 1790; Rosalie in April 1792; Eugène in February 1795 but died at age 7 in March 1802; Joseph-Alexandre baptized, age unrecorded, in September 1796 but died at age 24 in March 1821; Alexis born in April 1798 but died at age 22 in August 1820; and Marie-Basilisse, called Basilisse, born in May 1800--six children, four sons and two daughters, between 1790 and 1800.  Jean Baptiste died in Assumption Parish in August 1813, age 46.  Daughters Rosalie and Basilisse married into the Barras and Felteman families.  Only one of Jean Baptiste's sons married but had no sons of his own, at least none who appear in local church records, so this line of the family, except for its blood, did not endure. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, fils married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Fabien Amateur Guillot and Anne Giroir, at the Plattenville church in August 1815.  Jean Baptiste, fils died in Assumption Parish in February 1824, age 33.  Did he father any children? 

Jean-Pierre (c1743-?) à Abraham le jeune à Martin à Antoine Bourg

Jean-Pierre, called Pierre, son of Pierre Bourg and Marie-Josèphe Gautrot and Joseph's nephew, born probably at Cobeguit in c1743, followed his family to Île St.-Jean probably in 1755 or 1756 and to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  His father and two of his siblings died on the crossing.  He followed his widowed mother to Pleslin on the west side of the Rance southwest of St.-Malo and lived there until 1768, when he began studying for the priesthood under Abbé Jean-Louis La Loutre at Nantes.  After the abbé died there in 1772, Pierre abandoned his priestly studies, evidently remained in the lower Loire port, and became a foreman.  He emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785, a bachelor in his early 40s, with an unmarried older sister and a spinster cousin.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  At age 46, Jean-Pierre married Marguerite, 46-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Richard and Françoise Theriot, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer on the river in June 1789.  This was the first marriage for both of them.  They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Their only child, Jean-Pierre, fils, died at Ascension on the upper bayou in May 1806, age unrecorded.  His line of the family died with him.  Marguerite died at Thibodaux, Lafourche Interior Parish, in January 1831, age 87.  

Jean-Baptiste, fils (c1769-1831) à Abraham le jeune à Bernard à Antoine Bourg

Jean-Baptiste, fils, oldest son of Jean-Baptiste Bourg and Jeanne Chaillou, born at La Rochelle, France, in c1769, followed his family to Poitou and Nantes and his widowed mother and siblings to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Françoise-Hélène, called Hélène, daughter of fellow Acadians François Blanchard and Hélène-Judith Giroir and widow of Jean-Charles Gautrot, in February 1793.  Françoise-Hélène, a native of St.-Suliac near St.-Malo, had come to Louisiana from France in 1785 aboard a later vessel.  Judging from the baptismal records of two of their children, Jean-Baptiste, fils and Hélène lived at New Orleans in the late 1790s and early 1800s before returning to the Lafourche.  Their children, born on the upper bayou, included Charles-André born in December 1793 but died at age 4 1/2 in July 1798; Louis-Ambroise born in March 1796; Joseph in January 1798 and baptized at the New Orleans church the following April; twins Jean-Baptiste III and Marie-Françoise born at Assumption in September 1800, but Marie-Françoise died at Assumption, age 10 months, in July, and Jean-Baptiste III died in Assumption Parish, age 33, in October 1833; Laurent-David born in August 1802 but died near Plattenville, Assumption Parish, age 31 (the recording priest, who called him Laurens, said 34), in June 1833; Firmin Toussaint born in September 1804 but, called Firmin, died in Ascension Parish, age 50 (the recording priest said 52), in November 1854; Auguste Marcellin, called Marcellin, born in October 1806; and Pierre in January 1810--nine children, eight sons and a daughter, including a set of twins, between 1793 and 1810.  Jean-Baptiste, fils died in Assumption Parish in April 1831, age 62.  His daughter did not survive childhood, and only two of his many sons married, but only one of the lines seems to have endured.  One of them settled in Ascension Parish, but the other remained on the upper Lafourche. 

Jean-Baptiste, fils's second son Louis Ambroise married first cousin Mélanie, daughter of Antoine Moulard and his Acadian wife Marie-Geneviève Bourg, his uncle and aunt, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in February 1829; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  They remained in Ascension Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie Angelina in April 1832 but, called Angelina, died at age 4 1/2 (the recording priest said 5) in November 1836; Alfred Jean Baptiste born in November 1834; Louis Isidore in April 1837 but died at age 1 1/2 in September 1838; Marie Aimée Philosène or Philomène, called Philomène, born in May 1839; Marie Angeline in September 1841 but, called Marie Angelina, died at age 1 1/2 in January 1843; Marie Cécilia born in December 1843; and Jean Baptiste III in September 1847--seven children, four daughters and three sons, between 1832 and 1847.  Wife Mélanie, called a Bourg, evidently died in Ascension Parish in August 1851, age not given.  Daughter Philomène married into the Caillier family by 1870.  One of Louis's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Alfred Jean Baptiste married Joséphine, daughter of José Hidalgo and Bernarda Gonzales, at the Donaldsonville church in November 1853.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Joséphine Mélanie in November 1854; Mélina Françoise Geneviève in January 1856; Alfred, fils died at birth in June 1857; Joseph Camille born in May 1858; Constance in December 1859; Eugénia in April 1862; Michel Marie Eva, a daughter, in September 1864 but, called Michel Marie E., died at age 2 days; ...  None of Alfred's children married by 1870. 

Jean-Baptiste, fils's seventh son Auguste Marcellin, called Marcellin, married cousin Marcelline or Marcellite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Marin Bourg and Geneviève Melançon, at the Plattenville church in November 1833.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Célestin Jean Baptiste in November 1834; Marcellin, fils perhaps in the mid-1830s; Joséphine in March 1836; and Auguste Sosthène, baptized at the Plattenville church, age unrecorded, in April 1838--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1834 and 1838.  Marcellin may have died near Plattenville in March 1850.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that "Marcelin Bourgt" died at "age 44 years," so this probably was Auguste Marcellin, who would have been about that age.  Daughter Joséphine married into the Gaudin family by 1870.  One of Auguste Marcellin's sons also married by then. 

Second son Marcellin, fils married cousin Clémentine, daughter of fellow Acadians Fabien Barthélémy Bourg and Théotiste Theriot, at the Plattenville church in June 1863.  Their children, born near Plattenville, included Joseph Auguste in December 1866; Hélène Victorine in December 1869; ... 

André (c1771-?) à Abraham le jeune à Bernard à Antoine Bourg

André, second son of Jean-Baptiste Bourg and Jeanne Chaillou, born probably at La Rochelle, France, in c1771, followed his family to Poitou and Nantes and his widowed mother and siblings to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he was counted with them in January 1791.  The census taker noted that André was age 19 and still single.  There is no evidence that he married. 

Charles (1775-1828) à Abraham le jeune à Bernard à Antoine Bourg

Charles, third and youngest son of Jean-Baptiste Bourg and Jeanne Chaillou, born at Monthoiron, Poitou, France, in June 1775, followed his family to Nantes and his widowed mother and siblings to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Élisabeth or Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Dupuis of Minas and his second wife Marie Landry, in February 1797.  Élisabeth, like Charles a native of Poitou, also had crossed from France in 1785 on La Bergère, so they probably had known one another since childhood.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie-Geneviève in May 1799; Jean-Apollinaire in July 1801 but died at age 4 in September 1805; Barthélémy Fabien or Fabien Barthélémy born in August 1804; Élisabeth Modeste in January 1807 but may have been the Modeste Bourg who died in Assumption Parish, age 59 (the recording priest said 58), in April 1866; Jean Baptiste, called Baptiste, born in June 1809; Louis in October 1812 but, called Louis Charles, died in Assumption Parish, age 36 (the recording priest said 38), in October 1848; and Firmin Pierre or Pierre Firmin born in June 1814 but died 10 days after his birth--seven children, two daughters and five sons, between 1799 and 1814.  Charles died in Assumption Parish in November 1828, age 53.  Neither of his daughters seems to have married, but two of his remaining sons did and settled on the Lafourche. 

Second son Barthélémy Fabien or Fabien Barthélémy, called Fabien, married Théotiste, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Marie Theriot and Anne Hébert, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in June 1830.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Théodule Rosémond in March 1831 but died at age 16 in April 1847; Marie Liliose baptized at the Plattenville church, age unrecorded, in August 1832; Élise born on Palm Sunday eve in 1835; Florence Alexandrine in June 1836 but, called, Geneviève Alexandrine, died at age 5 (the recording priest said 6) in June 1841; Clémentine Adeline born in May 1838; Amédé or Amédée Barthélémy in March 1840; Joseph Drausin in February 1843; Marie died in April 1845, age undetermined (the priest at Plattenville who recorded the burial said she died at "age ca. 40 yrs.," but that is impossible); twins Joseph Maximin and Marie Mélesie born near Paincourtville in February 1849; and Joseph in September 1850--11 children, five sons and six daughters, including a set of twins, between 1831 and 1850.  Daughters Élise and Clémentine married into the Pifferi and Bourg families by 1870.  None of Barthélémy Fabien's sons married by then.

Charles's third son Jean Baptiste, called Baptiste, married double cousin Hélène Élise or Élise Hélène, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Dupuis and Rosalie Landry, at the Plattenville church in July 1839; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, included Théodule Édouard in June 1841; Marcellus Séverin in July 1847; Anatole in February 1850; and Léodiska in March 1853--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1841 and 1853.  Baptiste's daughter did not marry by 1870, but one of his sons did. 

Second son Marcellus Séverin may have married cousin and fellow Acadian Marguerite Landry, place and date unrecorded.  Their children, born near Paincourtville, included Cyprien Similien in May 1869; Mortimer Émile in September 1870; ...

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A young wife and the remnants of a once-numerous family, five Bourgs in all, crossed on Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in late August 1785.  The wife followed her husband and most of their fellow passengers to Baton Rouge.  The remnants of the once-numerous family joined their cousins on the upper Lafourche, but no new family line came of it: 

Alain (c1742-1827) à Martin à Antoine Bourg

Alain, fourth and youngest son of François Bourg and Madeleine Hébert, born probably at Minas in c1741, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and to St.-Malo, France, in 1758-59.  He settled with them at St.-Suliac on the east side of Rivière Rance south of the Breton port and worked there as a day laborer.  In 1761, at age 20, he signed up for corsair service aboard the ship Tigre, was promptly captured by the Royal Navy, and remained in an English prison from March of that year until the end of the war two years later.  After his return to St.-Malo in June 1763, he lived with younger sister Luce-Perpétué at St.-Sulaic, where he married cousin Anne-Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Comeau and Marguerite Hébert, in January 1764.  Anne-Marie gave Alain seven children at St.-Suliac, most of whom died young and three of whom died in a smallpox epidemic within days of one another:  Marie-Geneviève born in December 1764; Joseph-Alain in February 1766 but died nine days after his birth; Marie-Madeleine born in April 1767 but died of smallpox at age 5 1/2 in February 1773; Pierre-Alain born in August 1768 but also died of smallpox in February 1773, age 4 1/2; Marguerite-Tarsile born in April 1770; Rosalie-Josèphe in September 1771 but died of smallpox in February 1773, age 1 1/2; and François born in c1773.  Alain took his family to Poitou in 1773, and Anne-Marie gave him another son, Jean-Pierre, born at Archigny south of Châtellerault in October 1774.  In late 1775 or early 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 they appear on a church record in July 1776.  Anne-Marie gave Alain five more children at Nantes, none of whom survived childhood:  Ambroise born in St.-Similien Parish in July 1776 but died before 1785; Jacques-Alain born in June 1778 but died the following January; Joseph-André born in St.-Nicolas Parish in November 1779 but died before 1785; Jean-Marie born in September 1781 but died at age 1 1/2 in January 1783; and Louis-Alexis born in September 1783--13 children, four daughters and nine sons, between 1764 and 1783.  They also buried 12-year-old daughter Marguerite-Tarsile in St. Nicolas Parish in August 1782, as well as their son Jean-Pierre, born in Poitou, who died before 1785.  When Alain and Anne-Marie emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785, only three of their 13 children, a daughter and two sons, followed them there.  All of the others had died in France.  Youngest son Louis-Alexis, called Alexis, age 2 in 1785, appears on the embarkation but not the debarkation record of Le Beaumont, so the boy evidently died at sea.  From New Orleans, Alain, Anne-Marie, and their two remaining children followed their fellow passengers to Baton Rouge but did not remain there.  Alain died in Assumption Parish on upper Bayou Lafourche in October 1827, age 86.  Daughter Marie-Geneviève married into the Dugas family and settled on the upper bayou.  She died there, a widow, age 68, in August 1833, the first and last of her parents' many children.  Alain's remaining son François, age 12 when he came to Louisiana, died before he could marry, so this line of the family, except for its blood, did not endure in the Bayou State.  One wonders if the exile of the Acadian people produced a more tragic story than that of Alain Bourg of Minas and his family. 

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Ten more Bourgs--two wives and two families--crossed on Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in September 1785.  They followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Two more family lines came of it:

Pierre (c1730-1780s) à Martin à Antoine Bourg

Pierre, second son of François Bourg and Madeleine Hébert and older brother of Alain of Le Beaumont, born probably at Minas in c1730, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and St.-Malo, France, in 1758-59.  He traveled on a different ship from most of the rest of the family--they on one of the so-called Five Ships, which reached St.-Malo in late January 1759; he with younger sister Françoise and her family on the transport Supply, which did not reach the Breton port until MarchHe reunited with his family at St.-Suliac on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo, where he married Anne-Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Naquin and Jeanne Melanson, sister of his sister Françoise's first husband Joseph, in January 1761.  Anne-Marie gave Pierre six children at St.-Suliac:  Marie-Suline born in September 1763 but died of smallpox at age 10 in May 1773; Jeanne-Madeleine-Françoise born in June 1765; Pierre-Olivier in April 1767; Marguerite-Victoire in December 1768; Anne-Perrine in January 1771 but died 10 days after her birth; and Ambroise-David born in February 1772.  They lived for a time in La Rochelle, where Anne-Marie gave him another daughter, Georgine-Victoire, born in c1774.  Pierre took his family to Poitou after his daughter's birth, but, like most of the Acadians who had gone there, they did not remain.  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 they buried their 4-year-old son Ambroise-David in St.-Nicolas Parish in May 1776.  Anne-Marie gave Pierre two more children at Nantes:  Marie-Madeleine born in St.-Similien Parish in April 1779 but died in St.-Nicolas Parish at age 3 in June 1782; and Jean-Marie born in September 1781 but died at age 2 1/2 in January 1784.  They buried their 16-year-old daughter Marguerite-Victoire in St.-Nicolas Parish in October 1784.  Pierre, Anne-Marie, and their remaining children, a son and two daughters, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Anne-Marie may have been pregnant on the voyage.  An unnamed male child, son of "Pedro Bourque," was buried at New Orleans on 8 October 1785.  Oddly, the burial record did not give the boy's mother's name.  Note that the child was buried only three weeks after Pierre and his family reached the city, so he and Anne-Marie possibly had 10 children, four sons and six daughters, between 1763 and 1785, in France and Louisiana, most of whom died young.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where Pierre died by January 1788, in his mid- or late 50s, when his wife was listed in a Valenzuela District census as a widow.  One wonders if he even survived the crossing to Louisiana.  Wife Anne-Marie did not remarry and died in her mid-80s on the upper Lafourche in September 1822.  Older daughter Jeanne Madeleine Françoise remained a spinster and died in Assumption Parish in February 1839, age 73.  Younger daughter Georgine Victoire married into the Daigle family on Bayou Lafourche.  Pierre's remaining son also created a family of his own in the Spanish colony, so the line endured there. 

Oldest son Pierre-Olivier followed his family to La Rochelle, Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marie-Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Livois and Marie-Madeleine Poirier of Chignecto and widow of Charles-Casimir Templet, in October 1794.  Marie-Rose, a native of Paramé on the coast northeast of St.-Malo and not far from St.-Suliac, also had come to Louisiana in 1785 aboard Le St.-Rémi.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Pierre le jeune in September 1795; Marie-Modeste, called Modeste, in June 1797 but died at age 24 in July 1821; Clémentine-Marguerite baptized, age unrecorded, in November 1799; Rosalie-Victoire born in December 1801; Constance Carmélite in May 1804; Hilaire Timothée in January 1806; and Mélanie Clémence in April 1808 but died at age 2 1/2 in October 1810--seven children, two sons and five daughters, between 1795 and 1808.  Daughters Clémentine Marguerite, Rosalie Victoire, and Constance Carmélite married into the Simoneaux, Giroir, and Blanchard families.  Both of Pierre Olivier's sons also married.  His older son "returned" to the river and created a vigorous family line there, but his younger son remained on the upper Lafourche. 

Older son Pierre le jeune married Théotiste, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean André Grégoire Marie Templet and Marie Rose Doiron of Baton Rouge and widow of Auguste Babin, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in May 1820.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Tresimond or Trasimond in June 1821; Marie Rosalie, called Rosalie, in September 1823; Silvanie or Sylvanie, a son, in June 1826; Henry or Henri in January 1829; Marie Élodie in May 1831; and Édouard in the 1830s--six children, four sons and two daughters, between 1821 and the 1830s.  Pierre died near Brusly, West Baton Rouge Parish, in August 1855, age 59 (the recording priest said 60).  Daughters Rosalie and Marie Élodie married into the Doiron and Caire families.  All of Pierre le jeune's sons also married and settled in West Baton Rouge, but not all of the lines endured.

Oldest son Trasimond married Marie Irma, called Irma, daughter of fellow Acadians Élie Hébert and Gertrude Babin 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 there, included Victor Trasimond in April 1846; Émile Jean Baptiste near Brusly in June 1848; Marie Victorine in August 1850; and Adèle Amélie in December 1852 but died at age 8 months in August 1853.  Trasimond remarried to Clémentine, daughter of Manuel Lopes or Lopez and his Acadian wife Clémence Babin, at the Baton Rouge church in April 1855.  Their children, born on the river, included Marie Amilda in February 1856; Martial Adrien near Brusly in July 1857; Marie Lorel in August 1868; Eulalie in February 1860 but, called Ulalie, may have died at age 4 near Brusly in April 1864; Arneaud Robert born in July 1868; ...  None of Trasimond's children married by 1870. 

Pierre le jeune's second son Sylvanie married Élisabeth Adèle, daughter of fellow Acadians Narcisse Landry and Marie Carmélite Hernandez Hébert of Iberville Parish, at the Brusly church in May 1851.  Their children, born in West Baton Rouge Parish, included Sylvanie, fils died near Brusly two days after his birth in January 1853; Joseph Edgard born in March 1854; Pierre Alcée in January 1856; Joséphine Delia in January 1858 but, called Léolia, died near Brusly, age 6, in February 1864 and buried "in same tomb with [brother] Edmond and same day"; and Edmond born in May 1860 but died at age 3 1/2 (the recording priest said 4) in February 1864 and buried "in same tomb with [sister] Loelia[?] and same day" (one wonders what killed the young sister and brother)--five children, four sons and a daughter, between 1853 and 1860.  None of Sylvanie's remaining children married by 1870. 

Pierre le jeune's third son Henri married cousin Constance, daughter of Hubert Simoneaux and his Acadian wife Clémentine Bourg, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in August 1853, but they settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Daughter Aline Clémentine was born near Brusly in July 1854 but, called Aline, died at age 7 1/2 (the reporting priest said 7) in June 1862.  Henri died near Brusly in December 1857, age 28 (the recording priest said 29).  His line did not endure. 

Pierre le jeune's fourth and youngest son Édouard married Odile, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Lejeune and Roseline Allain, at the Brusly church in May 1859.  Their children, born near Brusly, included Louise in November 1859; Pierre Albert in July 1861; ... 

Pierre Olivier's younger son Hilaire Timothée married Zéphirine Christine, daughter of Simon Simoneaux and his Acadian wife Renée Landry, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in June 1830.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Pamela in May 1831; Constance Cristine or Christine, called Christine, in December 1832; Marie Emérente in July 1835 but died at age 2 in September 1837; and Hilaire Étienne born in August 1837--four children, three daughters and a son, between 1831 and 1837.  Hilaire Timothée died in Assumption Parish in December 1837.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Hilaire was age 29 when he died.  He was 31.  Daughter Christine married into the Daigle family by 1870.  Hilaire's son did not marry by then. 

Théodore (c1746-?) à Abraham le jeune à Martin à Antoine Bourg

Théodore, son of Jean-Pierre Bourg and Élisabeth Hébert, born probably at Cobeguit in c1746, accompanied his family to Île St.-Jean probably in 1755 or 1756 and his younger sister to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  They settled at Pleslin on the west side of the river southwest of the Breton port, but Théodore did not remain.  He married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Granger and Marguerite Gautrot and widow of Pierre Bonnière, at St.-Coulomb northeast of St.-Malo in June 1764.  Anne gave Théodore four children there:  Anne-Théodose born in April 1765; Madeleine-Julienne in March 1767; Élisabeth-Hélène in April 1769 but died at age 2 in May 1771; and Théodore-Prosper-Étienne in December 1770--three daughters and a son, between 1765 and 1770.  Théodore may not have taken his family to Poitou in 1773 or joined hundreds of Poitou Acadians in the lower Loire port of Nantes later in the decade.  However, he and his family were at Chantenay near Nantes in September 1780, when Théodore witnessed a marriage there.  They were still there in September 1784, when Théodore witnessed another marriage at Chantenay.  He, Anne, and their three remaining children, two daughters and a son, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 on a dangerously crowded ship out of St.-Malo that sailed around to Paimboeuf, the lower port of Nantes, where it picked up more passengers before heading to New Orleans, this family included.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Anne gave Théodore no more children in the colony.  Théodore, Sr.'s succession, as he was called, listing his remaining children--Anne, Madeleine, and Théodore--was filed at the Interior Parish courthouse in April 1810.  He would have been age 64 that year.  Daughters Anne and Madeleine married into the Simoneaux and Daunis families on the Lafourche.  Théodore's son also married and created a vigorous line there. 

Only son Théodore-Prosper-Étienne followed his family to Chantenay, New Orleans, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marie-Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles LeBlanc and Rosalie Trahan, in March 1794.  Marie-Rose, a native of St.-Servan-sur-Mer not far from St.-Coulomb, also had come to Louisiana in 1785 aboard Le St.-Rémi.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Rosalie-Anne, called Anne, in September 1795; Marguerite-Madeleine-Constance, called Madeleine, in November 1796; Joseph-Paul baptized, age unrecorded, in December 1798; Mathurin-Bénoni born in March 1799; Marcellin-Grégoire in May 1801; Joseph in April 1804; and twins Marie Rose Arthémise, called Marie, and Théodore Pierre or Pierre Théodore, also called Théodore, fils, in January 1807--eight children, three daughters and five sons, including a set of twins, between 1795 and 1807.  Théodore Prosper Étienne, called Théodore, père, died in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1838, age 68.  Daughters Rosalie Anne, Madeleine, and Marie married into the Ayo, LeBlanc, Adam, and Bousson families.  All five of Théodore Prosper Étienne's sons married on Bayou Lafourche, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Joseph Paul married Marie Adeline, called Adeline, 24-year-old daughter of Creoles David Himel and Marie Agnès Bourgeois, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in February 1822.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Adeline in September 1823; Joseph Paul, fils in February 1825 but died in Lafourche Parish, age 28, in August 1853 (perhaps an early victim of the yellow fever epidemic that struck the Lafourche valley that fall); Marie Adèle, perhaps also called Marie Bonne, born in March 1827; Marie Zéolide in May 1829 but died at age 2 1/2 in February 1832; Élisa or Élise Émilie or Amelia, called Émelia, born in April 1831; and twins Arthémise Artridge or Arthredge, called Arthredge, and Marguerite Adeline in December 1833, but Marguerite Adeline died the following August--seven children, six daughters and a son, including a set of twins, between 1823 and 1833.  Joseph Paul died in Lafourche Parish in December 1861, in his early 60s.  A "Petition for administration," naming his wife and listing two of his children--Arthémise Ertheredge and Marie Adèlle and her husband--was filed in his name at the Thibodaux courthouse the day after his death.  Daughters Marie Bonne, Élise Amelia, and Arthredge married into the Naquin, Morillon, and Tetreau families.  Joseph Paul's son reached adulthood but did not marry; nevertheless, the blood of the family line endured. 

Théodore Prosper Étienne's second son Mathurin Bénoni married cousin Arthémise, daughter of Joseph Simoneaux and his Acadian wife Madeleine Bourg, at the Thibodauxville church in November 1822.  Did they have any children?

Théodore Prosper Étienne's third son Marcellin Grégoire married Mathilde, daughter of Louis Baudoin and Geneviève Himel of St. John the Baptiste Parish, at the Thibodauxville church in November 1827.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Arthémise Marie in September 1828; Théodore Urbin in March 1830; and Marcellin, fils in February 1834.  Marcellin, père remarried to Françoise Adèle, called Adèle, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Archange Bernard and Justine Arceneaux, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1840.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joseph William in February 1842, Joseph Alfred in July 1843; and Marie Angelina in October 1845 but died at age 10 months in August 1846--six children, two daughters and four sons, by two wives, between 1828 and 1845.  A "Bond of tutor" in Marcellin's name for son "Théodore A." was filed at the Lafourche Interior Parish courthouse in February 1850.  Marcellin would have been age 49 at the time.  Oldest son Théodore Ursin, probably "Théodore A.," would have been age 20.  Daughter Arthémise, by Marcellin's first wife, married into the Rossignol family by 1870.  None of Marcellin's sons seem to have married by then, at least not in South Louisiana. 

Théodore Prosper Étienne's fourth son Joseph married Rosalie Adélaïde, called Adélaïde, 20-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Noël Victor Boudreaux and Rosalie LeBlanc, at the Thibodauxville church in February 1825.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Noël Joseph in March 1826 but, called Joseph Noël, died at age 16 (the recording priest said 17) in September 1844; Marie Eulalie, called Eulalie, born in October 1827; Valère or Valéry Similien in February 1829; Sylvère Symphorien in March 1831; Azéma in the 1830s; Rosalie Azélie in July 1836 but, called Azélie, may have died "during [a] yellow fever epidemic" in Lafourche Parish, age 17 (the recording priest said 15), in October 1853; Joséphine and Séraphine Mélina, perhaps twins, born in March 1839, but Joséphine died at age 3 months in May; and Joséphine Eveline born in March 1842--nine children, three sons and six daughters, including a set of twins, between 1826 and 1842.  Joseph died in Lafourche Parish in November 1867, age 63.  Daughters Eulalie, Azéma, and Joséphine married into the Roger and Mire families by 1870, two of them, Eulalie and Azéma, to the same fellow.  Two of Joseph's sons also married by then. 

Second son Valéry married Séraphine, daughter of fellow Acadian Célestin Hébert and his Creole wife Marcelline Baudoin, at the Thibodaux church in June 1851.  Their son Théophile Joseph was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1852.  Wife Séraphine died of yellow fever in September 1853, age 25.  An "Account of Tutorship" for son Théophile was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in May 1856, and another "petition for tutorship" for his son was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in December 1867.  Valéry would have been age 38 that year, and Théophile age 14.  The son did not marry by 1870. 

Joseph's third and youngest son Sylvère Symphorien married Émilie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joachim Mire and Celesie Gautreaux, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in July 1863, and sanctified the marriage at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in August.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Assumption and Lafourche parishes before moving down bayou.  Their children, born there, included Anatole Oscar near Labadieville in August 1864; Alice in January 1867; Joseph Joachim near Lockport, Lafourche Parish, in February 1869; ... 

Théodore Prosper Étienne's fifth and youngest son Théodore Pierre or Pierre Théodore, also called Théodore, fils, a twin, born at Assumption in January 1807, married Marie Émélie or Émélite, called Mélite, another daughter of Michel Archange Bernard and Justine Arceneaux, at the Thibodauxville church in February 1831.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Thérèse Azélie or Zélenie in October 1832 but died the following February; Delphine born in February 1834; Jacques M., called James McAllister or James M., in March 1836; Jean Arnesse or Ernest in April 1838; a son, name and age unrecorded, died in May 1839; Marie Victoria born in May 1840; another son, perhaps theirs, name and age unrecorded, died in December 1840; and Joseph Théodora[sic] born in January 1842--eight children, three daughters and five sons, between 1832 and 1842.  Daughter Delphine married into the Robichaux family by 1870.  One of Théodore Pierre's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son James McAllister married Marie Aurela or Aurelie, daughter of Alexandre Sigur and Marie Avelina Lambremont, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in December 1859.  Their children, born on the Lafourche and the river, included Théodore Nemour near Plattenville in November 1860; Marie Adeline in Lafourche Parish in October 1862; Marie Cécilia near St. Gabriel on the river in November 1864; Marie Anne Ovelia on the Lafourche in October 1866; ... 

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Eleven more Bourgs--two wives, a widow with two young sons, and three families, including the widow's oldest son--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, but the widow's oldest son followed his in-laws to the Attakapas District, where she and her younger sons joined him in the late 1790s.  Many new family lines came of it on the bayou and the western prairies:

Athanase (c1741-1780s) à Pierre à Martin à Antoine Bourg

Athanase, older son of François Bourg and his first wife Marguerite Hébert, born probably at Cobeguit in c1741, followed his father and stepmother to Île St.-Jean probably in 1755 or 1756 and to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Most of his family died in the crossing.  He settled at St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, across the harbor from St.-Malo, where he worked as a sailor and navigator.  He married cousin Luce or Louise, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Breau and Ursule Bourg, at St.-Suliac on the east side of Rivière Rance south of St.-Malo in February 1768.  Luce gave Athanase three sons there:  Thomas-François born in December 1769 but died at age 1 1/2 in March 1771; Joseph-Marin born in February 1772; and François-Simon in c1773.  Athanase took his family to Poitou in 1773, and Luce gave him another son, Charles, born at Archigny southeast of Châtellerault in May 1775.  In December of that year, Luce and her two sons followed dozens of other Poitou Acadians to the lower Loire port of Nantes.  Athanase was not with them.  He likely had become so frustrated with the venture in Poitou that he returned to sea.  When his son François-Simon died in St.-Jacques Parish, Nantes, in June 1776, age 3, one wonders if Athanase was back with his family to mourn the loss of another child.  Luce gave him two more children at Nantes:  Mathieu-Athanase born in St.-Jacques Parish in March 1779 but died before 1785; and Marie-Rose born at nearby Chantenay in the spring of 1785 but died there the following June--six children, five sons and a daughter, from 1769 to 1785, most of whom died young.  Athanase, Luce, and their remaining two sons emigrated to Louisiana in 1785.  They had been designated to cross on an earlier vessel, but the death of their daughter Marie-Rose in late June 1785 forced the family to take a later ship to the Spanish colony.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Luce gave him no more children there.  Athanase died by January 1788, when Luce was listed in a Lafourche valley census as a widow.  One of their sons married and settled on the upper Lafourche. 

Second son Joseph-Marin followed his family to Poitou, his mother and brothers to Nantes, and his parents and a brother to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche.  He married Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Melançon and Osite Dupuy, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer on the river in June 1793.  Geneviève was a native of Cabahannocer, where her parents had settled in 1766 after arriving from Maryland.  She and Joseph settled on upper Bayou Lafourche near the boundary of what became Ascension and Assumption parishes. Their children, born on the river and the upper bayou, included Paul-Joseph at Cabahannocer in February 1796 but died in Assumption Parish at age 20 in May 1816; Jean-Baptiste born at Assumption in November 1797; Étienne-Léonard, called Léonard, in October 1799 but died at age 16 in August 1815; Clémence-Geneviève born  in October 1801 but died the following January; Gilbert born in September 1808; Rosémond in February 1811; Euphrasie died 17 days after her birth in March 1813; and Marie Marcelline or Marcellite, called Marcellite, born posthumously in January 1814, 10 days after her father was buried--eight children, five sons and three daughters, between 1796 and 1814.  Joseph died in Assumption Parish in January 1814, age 42.  Daughter Marcellite married into the Bourg and Feuchere families.  Three of Joseph's sons also married and settled on the bayou and the river. 

Second son Jean Baptiste married cousin Angélique, Angeline, or Angelite, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Dupuis and Osite Dugas, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1819.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Léonard Cyprien in August 1820 but, called Cyprien, died in Terrebonne Parish, age 27, in March 1848; Zéphirin Jean Baptiste or Jean Baptiste Zéphirin born in December 1822; Symphorien in c1823 but died at age 14 in April 1837; Marie Joséphine, called Joséphine, born in November 1825; Numa Marcellite, called Marcellite, in April 1828; Rosalie Élisabeth, called Élisabeth, in September 1831; and Siméon in c1833.  Jean Baptiste remarried to Helena, another daughter of Étienne Dupuis and Osite Dugas, at the Plattenville church in January 1840.  Son Théodule Édouard was born on the upper Lafourche in June 1841 but died before August 1850, when he was not listed with his parents and older half-siblings in the federal census for Assumption Parish--eight children, five sons and three daughters, by two wives, between 1820 and 1841.  Daughters Joséphine, Marcellite, and Élisabeth, by his first wife, married into the Dupuis, Aucoin, and Lebrun families by 1870.  Two of Jean Baptiste's sons also married by then. 

Second son Zéphirin Jean Baptiste, by first wife Angélique Dupuis, married cousin Gérarde, Géralde, or Gérade, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Dupuis and Rose Hébert, at the Plattenville church in April 1844.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marcellin Jean Baptiste in November 1844; Onésiphore in August 1846; Selima Angèle in February 1848; Joseph Cyprien in April 1849; Anathalise Félicia in May 1851 but, called Anastasie Félécie, died the following September; Elphége Adrien born in December 1852; Gustave Édouard in April 1854; Malvina Octavie in August 1855; Léon Marcellin in January 1858; and Oscar Arsile near Labadieville in March 1860--10 children, seven sons and three daughters, between 1844 and 1860.  None of Zéphirin's children married by 1870. 

Jean Baptiste's third son Siméon, by first wife Angélique Dupuis, married Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Charles Foret and his Creole wife Marcellite Rousseau, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1859.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Désiré Jean Baptiste in October 1859; Joseph Livodé Arthur in March 1861; Louise Zéphire in August 1862 but, called Louise, died at age 3 in July 1865; Alex born in January 1865; and Ernestine Elea in February 1867.  Siméon remarried to cousin Evelline, daughter of fellow Acadians Élie Hébert and Léocade Landry, at the Plattenville church in January 1869; they had to secure a dispensation for third and fourth degrees of consanguinity in order to marry. ...

Joseph Marin's fourth son Gilbert married Rosalie or Rose Euphrosine, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Paul Aucoin and Rosalie Gautreaux, at the Plattenville church in March 1832.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marcellin Gilbert in June 1833; Marcelline Rosalie in September 1834; a child, name unrecorded, died at birth in March 1836; Marie Amelina born in August 1837; Marcelin Louis in August 1839; a child, name unrecorded, died a day after its birth in January 1841; Prudent born in February 1842; and Victorine Philomène in March 1844--eight children, at least three sons and three daughters, between 1833 and 1844.  None of Gilbert's daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did. 

Oldest son Marcellin Gilbert, or second son Marcellin Louis, called Marcilien by the recording priest, married Marcelline Hélène, daughter of Hubert Barbier and his Acadian wife Rosalie Melançon, at the Attakapas Canal church, Assumption Parish, in August 1866.  Their children, born in Assumption Parish, included Louis Elphége near Attakapas Canal in July 1867; Jules Alexis near Plattenville in September 1868; Émelie Ernestine in October 1870; ... 

Joseph Marin's fifth and youngest son Rosémond married Marie Ursule, called Ursule, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Trahan and Geneviève Daigle and widow of François Theriot of Iberville and Charles Breaux of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in February 1834.  She evidently gave him no children.  Rosémond remarried to Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadian Étienne Dupuis and Constance Landry, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in May 1841.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Élisabeth in June 1842 but, called Élisabeth, died at age 1 1/2 in October 1843; Joseph Benedict born near Paincourtville in January 1844; and Marie Eliza in October 1848--three children, two daughters and a son, by his second wife, between 1842 and 1848.  None of his children married by 1870, at least not in South Louisiana. 

Athanase's fourth son Charles followed his mother to Nantes and his parents and older brother to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche.  He was last counted there in January 1781, age 15, before he disappears from the historical record.  He evidently did not marry. 

Jean (c1757-1830) à ? à Antoine Bourg

Jean Bourg, parentage unknown, born perhaps on Île St.-Jean in c1757, may have been deported to France in late 1758, still an infant.  He married Frenchwoman Catherine Viaud in France, place and date unrecorded, and worked as a rope maker there.  Catherine gave him a daughter, Catherine, born in c1785, no place given.  Noting that, in the same year, their ship sailed for New Orleans from Paimboeuf, the lower port of Nantes, their daughter likely was born in either of those lower Loire communities.  One wonders if she survived the crossing.  From New Orleans, Jean and wife Catherine followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche and had more children there, including Jean, fils born in c1787; Marie Reine baptized, age unrecorded, in May 1788; Louis-Elias born in January 1790; Joseph-André in February 1792 but died in Lafourche Interior Parish, age 40, in April 1832; Pierre born in c1794; and Charles-Olivier in October 1795--seven children, two daughters and five sons, between 1785 and 1795, in France and Louisiana.  Jean died in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1830.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give his parents' or a wife's name, said Jean was age 74 when he died.  Daughter Marie Reine married into the Pitre family.  Two of Jean's sons also married and established successful lines in Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes.

Oldest son Jean, fils married Rosalie Eléonore, called Léonore, daughter of Jean Lirette and Madeleine Durembourg, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in October 1809.  They moved from the upper Lafourche down to Terrebonne Parish by the early 1820s.  Their children, born there, included Adèle Ursule in June 1810; Symphorien Jean or Jean Similien, called Similien and also Cyprien, in October 1812; Marie Basilisse, called Basilisse, in January 1817; Eulalie Clémentine in May 1819; Joseph Séverin, perhaps also called Joseph Léon, in August 1821; Joséphine Louise in March 1824; Céleste Phelonise, called Phelonise, in January 1826; Jean Pierre in June 1829; and Gervin in September 1831--nine children, five daughters and four sons, between 1810 and 1831.  Daughters Eulalie, Basillise, Adèle Ursule, and Phelonise married into the Naquin, Robichaux, and Filse or Filze families by 1870, two of them, Eulalie and Adèle, to Naquin brothers.  Two of Jean, fils's sons also married by 1870, one of them to a sister of his sisters' Naquin husbands. 

Oldest son Symphorien Jean or Jean Similien, called Similien and also Cyprien, married Marie Céleste, called Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Naquin and his Creole wife Marie Madeleine LeBoeuf, probably in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in the early 1830s, and sanctified the marriage at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in August 1843.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Gilbert in August 1833; Édouard Marcel in January 1839; Amelina dite Mélina in May 1840; Rosalie or Roselia Félicité in July 1843; and Paulin probably in the 1840s--five children, three sons and two daughters, between 1833 and the 1840s.  Similien died in Terrebonne Parish in March 1847, age 35.  An application for succession inventory, calling him Similien, naming his wife, and listing his children--Gilbert, Édouard, Mélina, Roselion, and Paulin--was filed in his name at the Houma courthouse in October 1850.  Daughter Mélina married into the Dupré family by 1870.  Three of Similien's sons also married by then.  One of them moved to the western prairies after the War of 1861-65, but the others remained in Terrebonne Parish. 

Oldest son Gilbert married cousin Eulalie, daughter of Gabriel LeBoeuf and his Acadian wife Rosalie Aucoin, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in October 1854.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included André Gilbert in July 1855; François Augustave in October 1857; Émeline Élicia in January 1860; Marie Eliska in September 1862; ...  None of Gilbert's children married by 1870. 

Similien's second son Édouard Marcel married Mary, daughter of Michael Butler and Elizabeth Cunningham of Terrebonne Parish, at the Houma church in August 1864, perhaps while he was waiting for his Confederate unit to be exchanged.  Their children, born near Montegut, Terrebonne Parish, included Martial Lulgère in April 1865; Armantine Survillia in December 1866; ...  They were living far out on the western prairies near Ville Platte, then in St. Landry but now in Evangeline Parish, by 1870.

Similien's third son Paulin married Eveline, daughter of fellow Acadian Antoine Deroche and his Creole wife Marie Trosclair, at the Montegut church in August 1866.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Marguerite Celezida near Montegut in March 1867; Eve Flora near Chacahoula in December 1869; ...

Jean, fils's second son Joseph Séverin, perhaps also called Joseph Léon, married Marie Adeline, Rosalie, or Roseline, daughter of Gabriel LeBoeuf and Rosalie Aucoin, at the Thibodaux church in July 1841.  Their children, born on the Lafourche and in Terrebonne Parish, included Marie Susannne in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1842; Joseph Faustin, called Faustin, in December 1843; Armogène in March 1845; Marceline probably in the 1840s; Artémise Alexina in Terrebonne Parish in November 1848; Joséphine Malvina, called Malvina, in November 1850; twins Eliska Evelina and Lodoiska Adéla in September 1853; Marcellin Christophe in November 1855; Jean Augustin in May 1857; Séverin Madéo in February 1859; Louisa Elisa in November 1860; Onésime Marcel in January 1863; Paul Gabriel near Montegut in March 1866; ...  Daughters Marceline, Artémise, and Malvina married into the Dupré and Boudreaux families by 1870.  One of Joseph's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Faustin married Joséphine, daughter of Mathurin Dupré and his Acadian wife Azélie Pitre, at the Montegut church in April 1865.  Their children, born near Montegut, included Marceline Unesile in March 1866; Joseph Onésippe in November 1867; Louis Frédéric in February 1869; ...

Jean, père's fifth and youngest son Charles Olivier married Rosalie Eléonore or Léonore, daughter of fellow Acadians François Jean Baptiste Benoit and Marie Modeste Pinet dit Pinel, at the Plattenville church in October 1816.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Rosalie Catherine in July 1817; Marie Modeste in October 1818; Clémence Elmire in October 1820; Marie Silvie in July 1822; Marie Carmélite in 1824 and baptized, age 10 months, in March 1825; Pierre Lessin born in June 1826; Joseph Charles or Charles Joseph in July 1829; Guillaume Cleborne or Claiborne in March 1830; Drosin Augustin in May 1833; Louise in August 1834; Célestine Aurelia in January 1839; and Aurelien in March 1841--a dozen children, seven daughters and five sons, between 1817 and 1841.  Daughter Rosalie Catherine married into the Gaspard and Doucet families by 1870.  Three of Charles Olivier's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Pierre Lessin married cousin Marceline or Marcellite Séverine, daughter of Charles Victor Augeron and his Acadian wife Renée Eugénie Benoit, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in April 1849, and sanctified the marriage at the Thibodaux church in August 1850.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Louis Ozémé in January 1850; and Myrtille in the early 1850s.  Daughter Myrtille married into the Guidry family by 1870.  Pierre Lessin's son did not marry by then. 

Charles Olivier's second son Joseph Charles or Charles Joseph married Élodie, daughter of Dalmas Urbin Chete, Echet, Eshte, Mete, or Shete and his Acadian wife Marie Louise Dantin, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in June 1849, and sanctified the marriage at the Thibodaux church in April 1851.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Louis Olivier in January 1851; Méonce Oleus near Lockport in September 1857; Marguerite Olympe in December 1858; Louise Camilla in March 1867; ...   None of Joseph Charles's children married by 1870. 

Charles Olivier's fifth and youngest son Aurelien, called Joseph Aurelien, married Olymphe or Olessi, daughter of fellow Acadian Olésime Hébert and his Creole Delphine Derousse, at the Lockport church, Lafourche Parish, in April 1864.  Their children, born near Lockport, included Joseph, fils in March 1866; Cécilia in September 1867; Rosa in c1869; Marie Adolphine dite Delphine in June 1870; ... 

Lucien (1763-1841) à Louis à Jean à Antoine Bourg

Lucien, oldest son of Charles Bourg and Madeleine Blanchard, born at Pleudihen-sur-Rance on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo, France, in October 1763, was still there in 1772.  The following year, he followed his family to Poitou and then to the lower Loire port of Nantes in March 1776.  He married Marie-Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Trahan and Marguerite Duon of Rivière-aux-Canards, in the early 1780s probably at Nantes.  Marie-Isabelle, born at Liverpool while her family was being held in England, had followed them to Morlaix in northwest Brittany in May 1763 and to Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany, where she was counted with them in November 1765.  She followed her family to Nantes in the late 1770s.  The young couple emigrated to Louisiana in 1785 but did not follow their fellow passengers, or his family, to upper Bayou Lafourche.  They went, instead, to the Attakapas District, where her family had gone after crossing from France in 1785 on an earlier ship.  They settled on the upper Vermilion.  Marie-Isabelle had been pregnant on the voyage over.  Their first child, Jean-Firmin, called Jean, was born probably on the upper Vermilion in April 1786 and baptized at Attakapas in June.  Their other children, born at Attakapas, included Isabelle-Marie, called Marie, in November 1787; Marguerite in December 1789; François in April 1792; and Placide in January 1797--five children, three sons and two daughters, between 1786 and 1797.  Lucien's father had died at Nantes before 1785, and Lucien's mother, who never remarried, and his younger brothers Jean-Charles and Joseph-Florent, also had crossed from France on L'Amitié but had followed their fellow passengers to the upper Lafourche.  They joined Lucien at Attakapas in the late 1790s.  His mother died at Lucien's home on the upper Vermilion in December 1814.  Lucien died in Lafayette Parish in September 1841.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said that Lucien died "at age 80 yrs."  He was 77.  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the day of his death.  Daughters Marie and Marguerite married into the Montet, Duhon, and Broussard families.  Lucien's three sons also married and settled on the prairies.

Oldest son Jean Firmin, called Jean, married cousin Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians François Duhon and Élisabeth Landry and widow of Célestin Hébert, at Attakapas in May 1806.  They settled on the upper Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included Marie Denise in June 1807; Marie Tarsile or Terzile in May 1809; Geneviève, also called Geneviève Azéma, in December 1810; Jean Baptiste in September 1812 but died at age 22 in September 1834; Marie Felonise or Phelonise born in February 1814; Clémence in January 1816; and Vital in April 1823--seven children, five daughters and two sons, between 1807 and 1823.  Wife Marguerite's succession, probably post-mortem, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in November 1839.  Jean Firmin's succession (the recording clerk called him Vital, the name of one of his sons) was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in February 1844.  Jean Firmin would have been age 58 that year.  Daughters Marie Denise, Marie Terzile, Marie Phelonise, Geneviève Azéma, and Clémence married into the Hébert, Montet, Savoie, Guidry, and Thibodeaux families.  One of Jean's sons also married, but the line did not endure. 

Younger son Vital, at age 19, married Azéma, 16-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Édouard Mire and Aspasie Thibodeaux, at the Vermilionville church in September 1842.  Their son, name and age unrecorded, died in Lafayette Parish in January 1843.  A succession in Vital Bourg's name and seeming to confuse his mother and his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in February 1844.  If the succession was post-mortem, Vital would have been a few months shy of age 21. 

Lucien's second son François married Séraphie or Séraphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Landry and Marie Melançon of Vermilion, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in April 1812.  They settled on the Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included Marie Célasie in August 1813; Jean Baptiste Treville, called Treville, in August 1815; Marie Silvanie in September 1817; Marie Olive in September 1819; Oranie Olide, probably a daughter, in April [1823]; Marie Zéolide died at age 4 months in October 1824; François Hucline or Euclide baptized, age 40 days, in November 1825; Joseph, also called Joseph Sosthène, born in July 1828 but died at age 7 in October 1835; and Marie Emilia born in March 1831--nine children, six daughters and three sons, between 1813 and 1831.  François died in Lafayette Parish in November 1835.  The priest who recorded the burial said that François was age 45 when he died.  He was 43.  His succession, naming his widow, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in July 1836.  Daughters Marie Silvanie and Marie Olive married into the Boudreaux and Duhon families by 1870.  Two of François's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Jean Baptiste Treville, called Treville, married Perpétué Azélie, called Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadians Éloi Comeaux and Marie Louvière, at the Vermilionville church in September 1838.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Éloi, also called Édouard, in November 1839; and François in March 1842.  Wife Perpétué Azélie's succession, naming her husband, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in February 1844.  Jean Baptiste Treville remarried to Marie or Marguerite Cidalise Baudoin, place unrecorded, in the late 1840s or early 1850s.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Julie in May 1851; Treville, fils probably in the early 1850s; and Jean Baptiste, fils posthumously near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in April 1854--five children, four sons and a daughter, by two wives, between 1839 and 1854.  Jean Baptiste Treville died in Lafayette Parish in September 1853, age 38.  His succession, naming his second wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following November.  His daughter did not marry by 1870, but three of his sons did and settled in Lafayette and Vermilion parishes. 

Oldest son Éloi, by first wife Azélie Comeaux, married cousin Azélima dite Zélima, daughter of fellow Acadians Valmont Guidry and Geneviève Bourg, at the Vermilionville church in August 1859.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Azélina in June 1860; Geneviève Azéma in December 1861; Odile in December 1864; ...

Treville's second son François, by first wife Azélie Comeaux, may have married fellow Acadian Marie Émelia Trahan at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in October 1863.  Their son François, fils was born near Abbeville in August 1864; ... 

Treville's third son Treville, fils, by second wife Marie/Marguerite Baudoin, married Celiva, daughter of fellow Acadian Valéry Hébert and his Creole wife Adeleine Faulk, at the Abbeville church in December 1870. ...

François's second son François Euclide married Zelmire or Elmire, daughter of Pierre Baudoin and his Acadian wife Marguerite Hébert, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in November 1843, and sanctified the marriage at the Vermilionville church in January 1851.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included François Emilda in April 1845; Pierre in September 1846 but died at age 1 1/2 in January 1848; twins Ursule and Vital born in December 1829[sic, probably 1849] and baptized at the Vermilion church in February 1851; Marie born in October 1851; Isaïe in January 1852; Célestin Damaire in August 1854; and Hippolyte Joseph, called Hippolyte J., in August 1856--eight children, six sons and two daughters, between 1845 and 1856.  None of François Euclide's children married by 1870, at least not in South Louisiana. 

Lucien's third and youngest son Placide married Marguerite, daughter of Anglo American Thomas Parr and his Acadian wife Marie Anne Melançon of Vermilion, at the St. Martinville church in April 1818.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Placide, fils in May 1819; Claire in July 1821; Lucien le jeune in June 1824; Anastasie in May 1826; Eugène in March 1828; Alexandre Sevigné, called Sevigné, also called Alexandre Sevène, in June 1830; Marie Basiline in July 1832; Maximilien in April 1834; Gertrude Azélia in July 1836; Édouard in October 1838 but died at age 2 in October 1840; Placide, fils, the second with the name, born in August 1841; and Adveline in May 1842--a dozen children, seven sons and five daughters, between 1819 and 1841.  Daughters ... married into the Simon and Trahan families.  Four of Placide's sons also married and settled on the prairies. 

Oldest son Placide, fils married Aspasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Delphin Duhon and Vitalise Trahan, at the Vermilionville church in July 1838.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Théodule baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 1 1/2 months, in June 1839; Amelina born in October 1840; Thomas near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in June 1848; Thanase in January 1850; Alcide Julien, perhaps called Julien, in August 1851; Hubertie or Uberti in January 1853; and Hortense in April 1856--seven children, five sons and two daughters, between 1839 and 1856.  Wife Aspasie--the recording clerk called her "Mrs. Placide Bourg," so this may have been her and not her mother-in-law--died in Lafayette Parish, age 50, in November 1857, victim, perhaps, of the yellow fever epidemic that struck South Louisiana that summer and fall.  Placide, fils's succession, naming his wife, perhaps not post-mortem, was filed at the Abbeville courthouse in 1857.  He would have been age 38 that year.  Neither of his daughters married by 1870, but four of his sons did. 

Oldest son Théodule married Theresia, Thelisia, or Cheresia Bertrand, probably French Canadian, at the Abbeville church in July 1859.  Their children, born near Abbeville, included Delphy in November 1861; Joseph Duplessi baptized at Abbeville, age 1 1/2 months, in May 1866; Apollinaire born in December 1870; ...

Placide, fils's second son Thomas married cousin Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Maximilien Trahan and Anastasie Bourque, at the Abbeville church in June 1869.  Their son Orémée, perhaps Osémée, was born near Abbeville in September 1839 and did not marry by 1870. 

Placide, fils's fourth son Alcide Julien, called Julien by the recording clerk, may have married Anglo American Amanda Jackson in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in October 1870. ...

Placide, fils's fifth and youngest son Uberti married Marie Zéolide, daughter of Alexandre Complais and Marguerite Ducharme of Lafayette Parish, at the Abbeville church in October 1869. ...

Placide, père's second son Lucien le jeune married Marie Martine, called Martine, 22-year-old daughter of French Creole Pierre Dubois and his Acadian wife Adélaïde Trahan, at the Vermilionville church in April 1846.  Their daughter Marie was born near Abbeville in June 1849.  Lucien le jeune remarried to Azéma Toups, place and date unrecorded.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Lucien, fils near Abbeville in August 1854; twins Euphémie and Marguerite in July 1856; Marie Azéma near Youngsville, Lafayette Parish, in March 1860; ...  Lucien's succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in September 1866.  He would have been age 42 that year.  Daughter ..., by his first wife, married into the Faulk family by 1870.  Lucien le jeune's son did not marry by then. 

Placide, père's fourth son Alexandre Sevigné, called Sevigné, married fellow Acadian Célestine Dupuy, date and place unrecorded, but it probably was in Vermilion Parish in the early 1850s.  Their children, born near Abbeville, included Alexandre, fils in April 1853; Marie Célestine in May [?] and baptized at Abbeville "prior to 1854"; and Sevène Alexis born in October 1855--three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1853 and 1855.  Alexandre Sevigné's succession was filed at the Abbeville courthouse in 1857.  He would have been age 27 that year.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Placide, père's fifth son Maximilien married Marie Domitille, daughter of fellow Acadians Maximilien Trahan and Marie Zéolide Landry, at the Vermilionville church in June 1855.  They settled near Youngsville, Lafayette Parish.  Their son Maximilien, fils was born there in September 1857; Marie Domitille in September 1861; Marguerite in January 1864; ...  Maximilien, père's succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in February 1866.  He would have been age 32 that year. 

Jean-Charles (1773-1824) à Louis à Jean à Antoine Bourg

Jean-Charles, called Charles, third son of Charles Bourg and Madeleine Blanchard, born at Pleudihen-sur-Mer, near St.-Malo, France, in July 1773, followed his family to Poitou soon after his birth and then to the lower Loire port of Nantes in March 1776.  In 1785, not yet in his teens, he followed his widowed mother and a younger brother to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche.  In the late 1790s, he followed her and his younger brother Jean-Florent to the Attakapas District, where his older brother Lucien had settled a decade earlier.  Jean-Charles married Marie-Louise, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Trahan and Madeleine Hébert, at Attakapas in October 1798 at the same place and on the same day his younger brother Joseph-Florent married Marie-Louise's sister Félicité.  Marie-Louise, a native of Belle-Île-en-Mer, had come to Louisiana from France in 1785 aboard an earlier ship and had followed her family to Attakapas soon after they reached the colony.  She and Jean-Charles settled on the lower Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included Marie-Modeste in September 1799 but died at age 5 in September 1804; Marguerite born in February 1802; and Marie-Isabelle in February 1803 but died at age 7 1/2 in July 1810--three children, all daughters, between 1799 and 1803, only one of whom survived childhood.  Jean-Charles died in Lafayette Parish in January 1824.  According to his burial record, he "died at age 50 of dropsy and was unable to receive the sacraments due to the circumstances of the illness."  Daughter Marguerite married into the Frederick family.  Jean Charles and Marie Louise had no sons, so this line of the family, except for its blood, died with him. 

Joseph-Florent (1777-1840) à Louis à Jean à Antoine Bourg

Joseph-Florent, the second with the name, also called Joseph-Florentin and Joseph-Laurent, fifth and youngest son of Charles Bourg and Madeleine Blanchard, born at Chantenay near Nantes, France, in October 1777, crossed to New Orleans with his widowed mother and older brothers in 1785 and followed her and older brother Jean-Charles to upper Bayou Lafourche.  In the late 1790s, he followed his mother and brother Jean-Charles to the Attakapas District, where his oldest brother Lucien had settled a decade earlier.  Joseph-Florent married Jeanne-Félicité, called Félicité, daughter of Jean Trahan and Madeleine Hébert, in October 1798 at Attakapas, at the same place and on the same day brother Jean-Charles married Félicité's sister Marie-Louise.  Félicité, like her sister, was a native of Belle-Île-en-Mer and had come to Louisiana in 1785 on an earlier ship.  She and Joseph-Florent settled on the lower Vermilion in what became Lafayette Parish.  Their children, born there, included Jean-Florentin in July 1799; Marguerite in November 1800; Lucille or Lucie Félicité in September 1802; a son, name unrecorded, died at home at age 22 days in May 1806; and Michel born in September 1810--five children, three sons and two daughters, between 1799 and 1810.  Joseph Florent died in Lafayette Parish in March 1840.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph was age 72 when he died.  He was 62.  His succession, calling him Joseph Florentin and naming his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following month.  Daughters Marguerite and Lucie Félicité married into the Desormeaux and Mire families.  Two of Joseph Florent's sons also married and created vigorous lines on the prairies.

Oldest son Jean Florentin married Joséphine or Josèphe dite Josette, daughter of Louis Thibeau, Thibeaux, Thibaut, or Thibault and Céleste Dartes of lower Bayou Teche, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in November 1818.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Félicité Natalie, Nathalie, or Anatalie in November 1819; Jean Florentin, fils, called Florentin, in January 1822; Céleste in October 1824; Norbert in 1827 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 11 months, in September 1828; Aladin born in early 1831 and baptized at age 14 months in April 1832; a child, name unrecorded, died at age 6 days in November 1833; Octave born in 1835 and baptized at age 14 months in May 1836; Marie Zeire baptized at 2 months in September 1838; and Désiré born in January 1842--nine children, at least three daughters and five sons, between 1819 and 1842.  Daughters ... married into the Bourgeois, Bodin, Landry, and Louis families.  Jean Florentin's five sons also married, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Jean Florentin, fils, called Florentin, married Delphine, 17-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Landry and his Creole wife Geneviève Baudoin, at the Vermilionville church in June 1843.  Daughter Ursule was born probably in Lafayette Parish in the 1840s and married a Landry cousin there in 1865.  Did Florentin father any sons? 

Jean Florentin's second son Norbert married fellow Acadian Céleste LeBlanc, place and date recorded, but it probably was in Vermilion Parish in the early 1850s.  Their children, born near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, included Jean Ophelias, called Ophelias, in January 1854; Oucemar in October 1855; Norbert, fils in August 1857; Euelia in January 1860; Azéma in October 1862; ...  Neither of Norbert's daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did. 

Oldest son Ophelias married Eugénie, daughter of Evariste Dartes and Carmélite Faulk, at the Abbeville church in December 1870. ...

Jean Florentin's third son Aladin married fellow Acadian Marie Zéolide, called Zélie, Guidry, place and date unrecorded.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Alexandre Delineau near Breaux Bridge, St. Martin Parish, in January 1857; Domatille near Abbeville in October 1861; Pierre Théogène in December 1866; ...

Jean Florentin's fourth son Octave married Marcellite Desormeaux at the Abbeville church in April 1857.  Their children, born near Abbeville, included Marie Nathalie in July 1858; Marie Eulalie in June 1860; ...

Jean Florentin's fifth and youngest son Désiré married Carmélite Desormeaux, place and date unrecorded.  Their children, born near Abbeville, included Désiré, fils in November 1861; Carmélite in March 1864; ...  Désiré Bourque's succession was filed at the Abbeville courthouse in 1866.  This Désiré would have been age 24 that year.

Joseph Florent's third and youngest son Michel married Marie Phelonise, Philogène, Philomène, or Sidonie, daughter of fellow Acadians Cyril Landry and Scholastique Boudreaux, at the Vermilionville church in December 1830.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Euclide in October 1831; Césaire in August 1833; Joseph Florentin le jeune baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 3 months, in August 1835; Jean born in November 1836; Lasty in late 1838 and baptized at age 3 months in February 1839; Émile born in September 1840; Camille in September 1842; twins Eugénie and Marie in January 1845; Scholatique in December 1846; Théodul or Théodule in October 1849; Théoville in February 1853; and Amélie near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in August 1855--13 children, nine sons and four daughters, including a set of twins, between 1831 and 1855.  Michel, at age 56, remarried to Arsène, daughter of Michel Corner and his Acadian wife Julie Broussard, at the Youngsville church, Lafayette Parish, in July 1866.  She evidently gave him no more children.  Michel's succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in October 1869.  He would have been age 59 that year.  Daughter  ..., by his first wife, married into the Baudoin and Hébert families by 1870.  Eight of Michel's sons married also by then, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Euclide, by first wife Marie Phelonise Landry, married Sidalise, daughter of fellow Acadian Emond Boudreaux and his Creole wife Isabelle Simon, at the Vermilionville church in September 1850.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Auriska probably in Lafayette Parish in the early 1850s; and Félicia posthumously near Abbeville in November 1853.  Euclide died in Lafayette Parish in August 1853.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said that Euclide died "at age 23 yrs."  He was 22.  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse not until January 1857.  Daughters Auriska and Félicia married into the Broussard and Mouton families by 1870.  Evidently Euclide fathered no sons, but the blood of his line likely endured.   

Michel's second son Césaire, by first wife Marie Phelonise Landry, may have married Marie Desormeaux, place and date unrecorded.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Delzane near Abbeville in August 1854; Pierre Ulysse in Lafayette Parish in January 1857; Émile near Abbeville in July 1860; Lucas in December 1870; ...

Michel's third son Joseph Florentin le jeune, by first wife Marie Phelonise Landry, married Marie Simon, widow of Bélisaire Mire, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in February 1860.  Daughter Hélène was born in Lafayette Parish in August 1861; ... 

Michel's fourth son Jean, by first wife Marie Phelonise Landry, married Élise or Alise, daughter of Cyprien Montet and Julienne Meaux, at the Abbeville church in November 1855.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Julienne near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in August 1856; Jean, fils near Youngsville, Lafayette Parish, in September 1860; Olivier in March 1868; ...  A succession for Jean Bourque was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in April 1865.  If this was his succession, the birth of son Olivier shows that it could not have been post-mortem. 

Michel's fifth son Lasty, by first wife Marie Phelonise Landry, married Mélasie Simon at the Vermilionville church in April 1857.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Jean Dorneville in February 1858; Joseph Dupréville near Youngsville in December 1859; Hermogène in December 1861; Théogène in May 1864; Aristide in October 1869; ... 

Michel's sixth son Émile, by first wife Marie Phelonise Landry, may have married Marcellite Doré at the Abbeville church in August 1860.  Their children, born near Abbeville, included Marie Émilie in June 1861; and Émile, fils in March 1863.  Émile, père's succession was filed at the Abbeville courthouse in 1865.  He would have been age 25 that year. 

Michel's seventh son Camille, by first wife Marie Phelonise Landry, married cousin Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Achille Savoie and Marie Phelonise Bourg, at the Vermilionville church in February 1862. ...

Michel's eighth son Théodule, by first wife Marie Phelonise Landry, married Clémentine, daughter of fellow Acadians Émilien Vincent and Virginie Duhon, at the Youngsville church in April 1868.  Their children, born near Youngsville, included Joseph in February 1869; Benjamin in October 1870; ...

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Five large families, including two sets of brothers, and several wives--at least 49 Bourgs, one of the largest single Acadian family groups to reach the colony, and the second largest family group to sail on one of the Seven Ships--crossed on La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in early December 1785.  Only the Aucoins outnumbered the Bourgs on this large vessel, one of only two of the Seven Ships to sail to New Orleans from St.-Malo; the others sailed out of Nantes and its lower port, Paimboeuf.  From New Orleans, all but one of the Bourgs followed their fellow passengers to the new Acadian community of Bayou des Écores in the New Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge.  None of them stayed.  After a series of hurricanes devastated the community in the early 1790s, most of the Feliciana Bourgs joined their cousins on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Many new family lines came of it on the southeastern bayous:

Ambroise (c1732-1780s) à Martin à Antoine Bourg

Ambroise, older son of Charles Bourg and Cécile Melanson, born perhaps at Cobeguit in c1732 (Bona Arsenault says c1736), followed his family to Île St.-Jean probably in 1755 or 1756 and married Anne-Josèphe, daughter of Claude Pitre and Isabelle Guérin at Port-La-Joye on the island in June 1757.  The British deported them to Cherbourg, Normandy, France, in late 1758.  Anne-Josèphe gave Ambroise a daughter, Louise, born in Très-Ste.-Trinité Parish, Cherbourg, in December 1759.  Five days after their daughter was born, Anne-Josèphe died, evidently from complications of childbirth.  Ambroise remarried to cousin Marie-Modeste, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Moulaison and Cécile Melanson of Pobomcoup, in Très-Ste.-Trinité Parish in July 1763.  Marie-Modeste, a native of the Cap-Sable area, had come to Cherbourg via Halifax in 1760.  They lived for a time at Le Havre across the Baie de Seine before moving back to Cherbourg.  Marie-Modeste gave Ambroise more children in the Norman ports:  Marie-Victoire born in Notre-Dame Parish, Le Havre, in May 1764; Amy-Modeste in April 1766; Marie-Marguerite-Constance in December 1767; Madeleine-Adélaïde in Très-Ste.-Trinité Parish, Cherbourg, in February 1770; and Thérèse-Julie in November 1771.  In 1773, they moved on to St.-Malo and settled near his younger brother François-Xavier at Pleurtuit on the west side of Rivière Rance southwest of the Breton port, where Marie-Modeste gave Ambroise more children:  Élisabeth-Céleste born in March 1774; Maximilien-Ambroise in January 1776 but died at nearby Créhen in February; Joseph-Faustin born in March 1777; Pélagie in June 1779; Modeste in August 1781; and Ambroise, fils in July 1783.  Meanwhile, daughter Marie-Marguerite-Constance, who had been born at Le Havre, died at Pleurtuit, age 5 1/2, in March 1773.  When hundreds of other Acadians in the St.-Malo area went to the interior of Poitou in 1773, Ambroise and Marie-Modeste remained at Pleurtuit.  When most of the Poitou Acadians retreated to Nantes in late 1775 and early 1776, Ambroise and his family did not join them there.  Ambroise and Marie-Modeste did, however, emigrate to Spanish Louisiana in 1785, taking nine of their children, seven daughters and two sons, with them directly from St.-Malo.  Oldest daughter Louise, by Ambroise's first wife, who would have been age 25 in 1785, if she was still living, did not follow her father, stepmother, and half-siblings to the Spanish colony.  From New Orleans, Ambroise, Marie-Modeste, and their large family followed their fellow passengers to Bayou des Écores, where Marie-Modeste gave Ambroise another daughter, Félicité, born in March 1786, so she must have been pregnant on the voyage from St.-Malo--13 children, 10 daughters and three sons, by two wives, from 1759 to 1786, in France and Louisiana.  Sadly, the couple also buried their daughter Modeste, age 5, and youngest son Ambroise, fils, age 3, on the same day in May 1786, so the children may have died from a communicable disease that struck the New Feliciana settlement.  Ambroise, père died at Bayou des Écores by July 1790, in his mid-or late 50s, when Marie-Modeste, at age 40, remarried to 24-year-old Joseph-Constans Granger, a fellow Acadian.  Her Bourg daughters Aimée-Modeste, Marie-Victoire, Madeleine-Adélaïde, Thérèse-Julie, and Pélagie married into the Blanchard, Bernard du Montier, Thibodeaux, Comeaux, and Seguin families at Bayou des Écores and Baton Rouge, one of them to a French nobleman.  Ambroise's remaining son also married and, like his sisters, was among the Acadians at Bayou des Écores who settled just downriver in what became West Baton Rouge Parish. 

Second son Joseph-Faustin, by second wife Marie-Modeste Moulaison, followed his family to New Orleans and Bayou des Écores.  During the early 1790s, he joined the exodus of Acadians from the Feliciana settlement to nearby Baton Rouge, where he married Marie-Anne, daughter of fellow fellow Acadians Olivier LeBlanc and his first wife Marie-Madeleine Lebert, in April 1801.  Marie-Anne, a native of Chantenay near Nantes, had come to Louisiana from France in 1785 aboard an earlier vessel.  They settled across the river in what became West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Joseph, fils in March 1803; Marie or Mary Rose in January 1805; Charles Joseph, also called Joseph Charles and W. Joseph, in January 1807; Apolline or Hypoline Séraphine in December 1809 but died the following June; Joséphine in August 1811; Pierre Ambroise, called Ambroise, born in April 1814; and Magloire in October 1816--seven children, four sons and three daughters, between 1803 and 1816.  Daughters Joséphine and Mary married into the Thibodeaux and Shanks families.  Three of Joseph Faustin's sons also married and settled in the Baton Rouge area. 

Second son Charles Joseph or Joseph Charles, also called W. Joseph, married first cousin Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Thibodeaux and Adélaïde Bourg, his uncle and aunt, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in January 1827; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Charles Joseph, fils in January 1828; Coralie in September 1830; Mélina Adélaïde baptized at age 2 months in June 1839; Zéfalide or Zéphalie baptized at the Brusly church, no age given, in May 1842; Marie Olimpe or Olympe born in December 1845; and Adolfe in April 1849--six children, two sons and four daughters, between 1827 and 1849.  Daughters Coralie, Marie Olympe, and Zéphalie married into the Lavigne, Thibodeaux, and Bourque families by 1870.  None of Charles Joseph's sons married by then, at least not in South Louisiana. 

Joseph Faustin's third son Pierre Ambroise, called Ambroise le jeune, married Adelvina, Delvina, or Elvina, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Landry Allain and Rosalie Templet, at the Baton Rouge church in February 1835.  They also settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Rosalie Damasiènne in October 1835; Marie Caroline in April 1838; Ambroise, fils in February 1840; Adèlle in September 1842; Marie Louise in July 1844; Amenvide, a son, baptized at the Brusly church, age unrecorded, in February 1847; Célestine Amelia, called Amelia, born in October 1849; Marie Emma in August 1852; and Lucien Paul in May 1856--nine children, six daughters and three sons, between 1835 and 1856.  Wife Elvina died near Baton Rouge in December 1856, age 46.  Daughters Rosalie, Marie Caroline, and Amelia married into the Broussard and Thibodeaux families, two of them, Marie Caroline and Amelia, to Thibodeauxs, by 1870.  None of Ambroise's sons married by then. 

Joseph Faustin's fourth and youngest son Magloire married Apolline, called Poline and Pauline, daughter of fellow Acadians Valentin Trahan and Émilie Thibodeaux of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the Baton Rouge church in January 1840.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie Sidonie in April 1841; Marcel in January 1843; Estelle in September 1846; Magloire, fils in November 1847; Valentin Amédée baptized at the Brusly church, age undetermined but probably 2 1/2 months, in August 1849; Théophile Alphonse born in February 1852; Célestine in December 1854; Édouard in June 1857; Élizabeth in December 1859; Joseph Willie in April 1863; ...  Magloire's daughters did not marry by 1870, but one of his sons did. 

Oldest son Marcel married first cousin Zéphalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Joseph Bourque and Adélaïde Thibodeaux, his uncle and aunt, at the Baton Rouge church in July 1869.  They may have married civilly years earlier.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included twins Amélie Forestine and Jane Olivia in February 1866, 3 1/2 years before their parents' church marriage, and baptized at the Baton Rouge church in July 1868; Joseph Marcel born in December 1868; ... 

François-Xavier (1738-1780s or 1790s) à Martin à Antoine Bourg

François-Xavier, younger son of Charles Bourg and Cécile Melanson, born at Cobeguit in c1738, followed his family to Île St.-Jean probably in 1755 or 1756.  When he was age 20 and still unmarried, the British deported him to St.-Malo, France, aboard the transport Supply, which left Chédabouctou Bay in late November 1758, survived a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England that sank three other transports in the 12-ship convoy, put in at Bideford, England, for repairs, and finally reached the Breton port in March 1759.  François-Xavier settled at Pleurtuit on the west side of the river southwest of St.-Malo.  In May 1760, he signed up for corsair duty aboard Le Jason, was captured by the Royal Navy, and held in an English prison for the rest of the war.  In May 1763, he was repatriated to France with other Acadians held in England and returned to Pleurtuit, where he married Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre LeBlanc and Anne Thériot, in September 1763.  Élisabeth gave François-Xavier at least nine children at Pleurtuit and nearby Créhen:  Marie-Élisabeth born at Créhen in November 1764 but died there at age 2 1/2 in May 1767; Pierre-Marguerite born at Pleurtuit in July 1766 but died at Créhen the following January; François- or Augustin-Xavier born at Créhen in January 1768; François- or Félix-Xavier in February 1770; Jean-Joseph-Marie in January 1772 but died at age 1 in April 1773; Joseph-Faustin born in c1774; Marie-Élisabeth at Créhen in October 1775; Maximilien, called Maxile, in c1779; and Élisabeth-Félicité at Pleurtuit in July 1780.  Like older brother Ambroise, François-Xavier also did not take his family to the interior of Poitou in 1773, nor did he and Élisabeth join other Acadians in Nantes when the Poitou venture failed a few years later.  They remained in the Pleurtuit area, where wife Élisabeth died in c1780, in her late 30s.  In his early 40s, François-Xavier remarried to Marguerite-Pélagie, 31-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Henry and Marie-Madeleine Pitre, at Pleurtuit in July 1781.  Marguerite gave François-Xavier two more children there:  Pierre-Jean-François, called François and Jean-Pierre-François, born in November 1783; and Anne-Victoire in May 1785.  François-Xavier, Marguerite, and seven of their children, four sons and three daughters, along with older brother Ambroise and his large family and cousin Charles Bourg and Charles's wife Marguerite LeBlanc, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 directly from St.-Malo.  François-Xavier's oldest surviving son, Augustin-Xavier, who would have been age 17 in 1785, either had died by then or chose to remain in the mother country.  From New Orleans, François-Xavier and his family followed his older brother to Bayou des Écores, where Marguerite gave François-Xavier two more children:  Anselme born in June 1787; and Marguerite-Céleste in December 1788--13 children, five daughters and eight sons, by two wives, in France and Louisiana, from 1764 to 1788.  François-Xavier and Marguerite buried their year-old daughter, Anne-Victoire, at Bayou des Écores in May 1786, soon after their arrival.  François-Xavier may have died there about the same time or, in the late 1780s or early 1790s, he may have led his family to upper Bayou Lafourche when most of the Acadians abandoned the New Feliciana settlement.  Daughters Marie-Élisabeth, Élisabeth-Félicité, and Marguerite-Céleste, by both wives, married into the Hébert, Fremin, and Colonne families on the upper Lafourche.  Four of François-Xavier's sons, all born in France, also married and settled on the upper Lafourche.  These sons preferred non-Acadian spouses, but many of their children and grandchildren did marry fellow Acadians.  One of François-Xavier's grandsons moved to lower Bayou Teche during or soon after the War of 1861-65, but François-Xavier's other descendants remained in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley. 

Third son Félix-Xavier, by first wife Élisabeth LeBlanc, followed his family to New Orleans, Bayou des Écores, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where, at age 31, he married Marie Marianne, daughter of Christopher Charles Schmitt, Smite, or Smith and Marie Louise DuDrap of St.-Charles des Allemands on the lower German Coast, in April 1801.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Mathurin-François or François-Mathurin in February 1803; Jean in May 1806; Marie Marianne in October 1808; Jean Louis, called Louis, in September 1811; and Basilisse Élisabeth dite Élise in November 1815--five children, three sons and two daughters, between 1803 and 1815.  Félix Xavier died in Lafourche or Assumption Parish in November 1854.  The Thibodaux and Labadieville priests who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that "Philomène Félix," as the Thibodaux priest called him (the Labadieville priest called him Félix Xavier), died "at age 84 yrs."--one of the last of the Acadian immigrants in Louisiana to join his ancestors.  Daughters Marie and Basilisse Élise married into the Bourg and Authement families.  Félix Xavier's three sons also married and settled on Bayou Lafourche. 

Oldest son Mathurin François or François Mathurin married Léocade, also called Eléonore and Émilie, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon LeBlanc and Julie Hébert, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in February 1825.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Simon Bertin in September 1826; Neuville Martin in November 1828; Jean Joachim, called Joachim, in August 1830; Eugénie Émelie in May 1834[sic, probably meant 1833]; Trasimond Théodule, called Théodule, in May 1834; Zéolide A. in January 1839; and Maxillien or Maximilien in December 1843--seven children, five sons and two daughters, between 1826 and 1843.  Mathurin François died in Lafourche Interior Parish in June 1846.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that François Mathurin, as he called him, died "at age 45 yrs."  He would have been age 43.  Daughters ... married into the Boudreaux family by 1870.  Four of Mathurin François's sons also married by then.  One settled in Terrebonne Parish, but the others remained on the upper Lafourche. 

Second son Neuville Martin married Delphine, daughter of fellow Acadian Zacharie Boudreaux and his Creole wife Angélique Berthelot, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in June 1856.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche and in Terrebonne, included Ulalie Léocade near Labadieville in February 1858; Richard Arcema in February 1860; Théodule Adelma in September 1861; Arthur Meunier in November 1863; Marie Zulma in Terrebonne Parish in September 1867; Joseph Edgard in November 1869; ...

Mathurin François's third son Joachim married Élise, daughter of fellow Acadians Hubert Aucoin and Élise Daigle, at the Labadieville church in March 1859.  Daughter Éliza Alabama Appolouise was born near Labadieville in July 1860 but, called Élise Alabama Appolouise, died six days after her birth; ...

Mathurin François's fourth son Théodule married Uranie, another daughter of Hubert Aucoin and Élise Daigle, at the Labadieville church in March 1867. ...

Mathurin François's fifth and youngest son Maximilien married Augustine, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Pitre and his Creole wife Mathilde Mars, at the Labadieville church in July 1867.  Their son Nilfore Alcée Eugène was born near Labadieville in November 1869; ... 

Félix Xavier's second son Jean married Marthe, also called Cléophine, daughter of fellow Acadians Édouard Sonnier and Denise Arceneaux, at the Thibodauxville church in October 1827.  They lived on the upper bayou near the boundary of Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Joseph in January 1831 but, called Jean, died at age 23 in May 1854; Marie Célestine born in August 1832 but died at age 23 (the recording priest said 22) in September 1855; Léocadie born in October 1834 but, called Locadie, died at age 14 1/2 (the recording priest said 16) in July 1849; Théotiste Algina born in October 1836; Jean, fils in February 1839; Philomène Azélie in June 1841; a child, name unrecorded, died "at age 15 days" in August 1843; Marie Victorine born in September 1846; Adam Ernest in July 1847; and Louis le jeune in late 1849 but died at age 7 months in March 1850--10 children, at least four sons and five daughters, between 1831 and 1849.  None of Jean's remaining children married by 1870. 

Félix Xavier's third and youngest son Jean Louis, called Louis, married Geneviève, daughter of Joseph Gaspard and Marie Choffe, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in July 1835.  Their were living down bayou near Labadieville by the late 1840s.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Félix Xavier le jeune in June 1836; Marie Geneviève in November 1837; Joséphine Célina in October 1840; Marie Pauline, called Pauline, in January 1842; Jeanne Odilia, called Odilia, in August 1844; Pierre Louis in June 1846; Louise Honorine or Honorine Louisa near Labadieville in March 1849; and Marie Ophelia in 1851 but died at age 6 months in January 1852--eight children, two sons and six daughters, between 1836 and 1851.  Louis may have died near Labadieville in March 1865.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Louis died at "age 51 years."  This Louis would have been age 53.  One wonders if his death was war-related.  Daughters Pauline, Honorine Louisa, and Odilia married into the Badeaux, Vicknair, and Hébert families by 1870.  One of Louis's sons also married by then. 

Older son Félix Xavier le jeune married Hélène, daughter of Joseph Walsh or Welsh and Marguerite Galway, at the Labadieville church in July 1867.  Their son Louis Arthur Amelton was born near Labadieville in August 1869.  Félix Xavier le jeune died near Labadieville in November 1870.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Félix died at "age 38 years."  He was 34. 

François-Xavier's fifth son Joseph-Faustin, by first wife Élisabeth LeBlanc, followed his family to New Orleans, Bayou des Écores, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Félicité, daughter of David Canade or Kennedy and Marguerite Farguerson of New Orleans, in November 1800.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary of what became Ascension and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Maximilien-, Maximien-, or Maxille-Joseph in August 1801; Hilaire in November 1805; Élie Rosémond in February 1808; and Séraphine Émilie in August 1810--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1801 and 1810.  Joseph Faustin's succession inventory was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse in November 1816.  He would have been in his early 40s that year.  His daughter did not marry by 1870, if she married at all, but two of his sons did.  Not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Maximilien le jeune, called Maxille, married Eugénie Scholastique, called Scholastique and Colastie, daughter of François Aysenne and Marie Thérese Chemit, at the Thibodauxville church in January 1825.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Charles Marie Joseph, called Joseph, in January 1826; Donatilde Élisabeth in November 1829; Azéoline or Zéolide Mathilde in January 1830; and Aubin in March 1833--four children, two sons and two daughters, between 1826 and 1833.  Maxille le jeune remarried to Octavie, daughter of Maximin Trosclair and Alise Perret and widow of Lezin Himel, at the Thibodaux church in January 1855.  She evidently gave him no more children.  Maxille le jeune died in Lafourche Parish in June 1869.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Maxile died "at 60 yrs."  He was 68.  Daughters Donatilde and Zéolide Mathilde, by his first wife, married into the Hicks and Leonard families by 1870.  Two of his sons also married by then. 

Older son Charles Marie Joseph, called Joseph, from first wife Colastie Aysenne, married Euphrosine dite Froisine, 16-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Noël Victor Boudreaux and Rose LeBlanc, at the Thibodaux church in May 1844.  They settled on the upper bayou near the boundary of Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Léontine Victoria in June 1847; Odile Ernestine in January 1849; Ulalie Ophelia in July 1851; Baptiste de la Toussaint in November 1853; Joseph Eveque Dorestil in January 1856; Cletus Léopold in May 1858; Alice Aurelie in September 1859 but, called Alice, died at age 2 1/2 in June 1862; Joseph Marius Oleus born in December 1864; ...  Daughter Léontine married into the Aucoin family by 1870.  None of Joseph's sons married by then. 

Maxile's younger son Aubin, by first wife Colastie Aysenne, called Aubin Young by the recording clerk at the Houma courthouse, married Élisabeth Félicité Elmire, daughter of Foreign Frenchman Charles LeMichel Duroy and his German Creole wife Marie Louise Malbrough, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in September 1854.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Marie Laura Eugénie in June 1855; Marie Ina Louise in November 1856; Marie Aimée Joséphine in May 1859; Joseph Charles in October 1861; Marie Henriette in September 1863; Joseph François Xavier in September 1865; Joseph Alfred Aubin in January 1868; Joseph William Maximilien in October 1869; ...  None of Aubin's children married by 1870. 

Joseph Faustin's third and youngest son Élie Rosémond, at age 31, married Adèle, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Dantin and Marie Clotilde Guidry, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in July 1839.  Did they have any children? 

François-Xavier's sixth son Maximilien, by first wife Élisabeth LeBlanc, followed his family to New Orleans, Bayou des Écores, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Sara Charlotte Jiancta Caroline, called Caroline, daughter of Henry Rentrop and Anne Catherine Élisabeth Trappe of Westphalia, Prussia, in August 1803.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Rose or Rosalie, called Rosalie, in May 1804; Céleste Honorine in October 1808; Edmond in February 1811; and Henri in Assumption Parish in 1813 but died at age 13 months in October 1814--four children, two daughters and two sons, between 1804 and 1813.  Daughter Rosalie married into the Verret family.  Maximilien's remaining son also married and moved to lower Bayou Teche probably in the 1860s. 

Older son Edmond married Marie Amélise, Armélise, Armélline, Ermalise, or Émilia, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Pierre Daigle and Marie Modeste Arceneaux, at the Plattenville church in December 1835; their marriage had been recorded at the Franklin courthouse, St. Mary Parish, the previous month, so they probably resided briefly in that parish.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Edmond Henri in March 1837; Alcée in the late 1830s or early 1840s; Marie Honorine in September 1841; Marie Rosa in April 1843; Louis Hélise in April 1845; Joseph Addon or Adon Désiré in October 1846; Joseph Maxil in April 1850; Marie Virginie in June 1851; Marie Céleste in November 1853; and Édouard Edmond in July 1855--10 children, six sons and four daughters, between 1837 and 1855.  During or soon after the War of 1861-65, Edmond took his family back to lower Bayou Teche.  His succession was filed at the Franklin courthouse in February 1870.  He would have been age 59 that year.  Daughters ... married into the Aucoin and Theriot families by 1870.  Two of Edmond's sons also married by then. 

Second son Alcée married Berthe or Bertha, daughter of fellow Acadians Lucien Broussard and Élisa LeBlanc, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in December 1868.  Their son Arthur Louis was born in St. Martin Parish in October 1869; ...

Edmond's fourth son Joseph Adon married Louise, daughter of French Creole Hubert Bertrand and his Acadian wife Azélie Comeaux, at the Pattersonville church, St. Mary Parish, in January 1870.  Their son Joseph Edgard was born near Pattersonville in October 1870; ...

François Xavier's seventh son Pierre-Jean-François, called Jean-Pierre in Louisiana, from second wife Marguerite Pélagie Henry, followed his family to New Orleans, Bayou des Écores, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Eméranthe dite Mérante, daughter of Pierre Berthelot and Barbe Kerne of St. John the Baptist Parish, at the Plattenville church in August 1807.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Adèle Élise in January 1810; Jean Pierre Célestin, called Célestin, in December 1811; Auguste or Augustin Maximien, in June 1824 but died at age 9 1/2 in September 1833; Rosaline Clotine born in November 1825; Eulalie in July 1827; Basilice Carmélite died at age 6 months in November 1829; Valéry Jean Pierre born in January 1831; and Marcelline Augustine in December 1835 but, called Marceline Augustine, died at age 24 in December 1859--eight children, five daughters and three sons, between 1810 and 1835.  Jean Pierre, père died near Labadieville in May 1864.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Jean Pierre François, as he called him, died at "age 84 years.  He was 81.  The burial record did not say if he was a widower at the time of his death.  One wonders if his death was war-related.  Daughters Roseline, ... married into the Albares, Fremin, and LeBlanc families.  Jean Pierre's remaining sons also married and settled on Bayou Lafourche. 

Oldest son Jean Pierre Célestin, called Célestin, married Hélène, also called Ellen and Elaine, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Romain Boudreaux and Céleste Robichaux, at the Thibodauxville church in April 1834.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marguerite Pélagie Céleste in June 1835; Jean Pierre in August 1836; Clovis Marcellus in March 1840; Charles Ozémé in March 1842 but, called Charles, died at age 13 in May 1855; Lovincy Esteville, also called Stephen Lovinci, born in January 1847; Lisa or Élisa in May 1848; Romain Elione in August 1849 but, called Léonie, died near Thibodaux at age 1 1/2 in April 1851; and Omer Valentin born near Labadieville in February 1851--eight children, two daughters and six sons, between 1835 and 1851.  Daughters Élisa, ... married into the Gautreaux and Usé families by 1870.   One of Célestin's sons also married by then. 

Fourth son Lovincy married Marie Rosiana, called Rosiana, daughter of Michel Hoble or Huble and his Acadian wife Azéline Bernard, at the Labadieville church in January 1867.  Daughter Marie Cécilia was born near Labadieville in November 1868; ...

Pierre Jean François's third and youngest son Valéry Jean Pierre married Joséphine, daughter of Michel Leche and Adèle Madere, at the Labadieville church in April 1858.  Their son Théodule Joseph was born near Labadieville in March 1859; ...

Jean IV (1735-?) à Jean-Baptiste dit Jean, fils à Jean à Antoine Bourg

Jean IV, oldest son of Jean Bourg III and Marie Pitre, born probably at Minas in c1735, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and married Marie Aucoin in c1758 on the eve of the island's dérangement.  They survived the deportation to St.-Malo later that year and settled at Pleudihen-sur-Rance on the east side of the river south of the Breton port.  Marie gave Jean IV three children in and around Pleuidhen:  Joseph-Firmin born in April 1760; Rose-Perrine at Ville aux Genilles in July 1761; and Anne-Charlotte at Le Coquenais in January 1764 but died there at age 1 1/2 in October 1766.  Wife Marie died at Le Coquenais in January 1764, age 35, probably from complications of childbirth.  Jean IV remarried to Anne-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Daigre and Marie Breau, at Pleudihen in May 1767.  Anne-Josèphe gave Jean IV 13 more children at Le Coquenais and La Gravelle near Pleudihen:  Marie-Josèphe born at Le Coquenais in March 1768; François-Marie in June 1769; Marguerite-Perrine at La Gravelle in September 1770; Madeleine-Jeanne in April 1772 but died six days after her birth; Madeleine-Perrine born in June 1773; Hélène in c1774 but died at age 3 in October 1777; Anne-Jeanne born in February 1775; Charles-Alain in July 1776 but died at age 1 1/2 in October 1777; Jeanne-Anne born in January 1778; Jean-Marie in May 1779; Anne-Josèphe in February 1781 but died the following November; Joseph-Marie born in September 1782; and Charlotte-Françoise in May 1785--16 children, five sons and 11 daughters, by two wives, between 1760 and 1785 in France.  As the birth dates of his children reveal, Jean IV did not take his family to Poitou in 1773, nor did they join hundreds of other Acadians at Nantes later in the decade or in the early 1780s.  In 1785, only a few weeks after their youngest daughter was born, Jean IV, Anne-Josèphe, and eight of their children, three sons and five daughters, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana directly from St.-Malo.  His oldest children from first wife Marie--Joseph-Firmin and Rose-Perrine, who would have been ages 25 and 24 in 1785--and a daughter from his second wife--Anne-Jeanne, age 10 in 1785--either died in France (most likely the case with Anne-Jeanne) or chose to remain in the mother country.  From New Orleans, Jean IV and his family followed their fellow passengers to Bayou des Écores.  Anne-Josèphe gave him no more children there.  Their three youngest children--Jean-Marie and Joseph-Marie, ages 6 and 3 in 1785, and Charlotte-Françoise, an infant when they departed St.-Malo--evidently died on the crossing from France, at New Orleans, or at Bayou des Écores.  Acadians abandoned the settlement in the late 1780s and early 1790s, but Jean IV, his wife, and daughters were among the few of their fellow countrymen still there in 1793.  Soon after the census of that year, Jean IV took his family to upper Bayou Lafourche, where they were counted in 1795.  Daughters Marie-Josèphe, Jeanne-Anne, Madeleine-Perrine, and Marguerite-Perrine, from his second wife, married into the Comeaux, Henry, Albert, and Aucoin families at Bayou des Écores or on the upper Lafourche.  One of Jean IV's sons also married, but his line evidently did not endure. 

Second son François-Marie, by second wife Anne-Josèphe Daigre, followed his family to New Orleans and Bayou des Écores, where, at age 22, he married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, 24-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Comeaux and Marguerite Aucoin, in February 1792, the same day his older sister Marie-Josèphe married Madeleine's brother Jean-Baptiste.  Madeleine, a native of St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo, also had come to Louisiana in 1785 aboard La Ville d'Archangel.  François-Marie died before December 1795, still in his 20s, either at Bayou des Écores or on the upper Lafourche, where Madeleine was listed in the December 1795 Valenzuela District census there without a husband.  François-Marie's father's line of the family, except for its blood, evidently died with him, unless older half-brother Joseph-Firmin married in France and produced an enduring line there. 

Charles (1740-?) à Jean-Baptiste dit Jean, fils à Jean à Antoine Bourg

Charles, older son of François Bourg and Marie-Josèphe Hébert and Jean IV of Minas's first cousin, born at Cobeguit in c1740, followed his family to Île St-Jean in c1751 and was counted with them at Rivière-des-Blonds on the southwest shore of the island in August 1752.  In late 1758, he followed his widowed father to St.-Malo, France, and settled across the harbor at St.-Énogat, today's Dinard.  Charles married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre LeBlanc and Françoise Thériot, at nearby Pleurtuit in February 1767 but settled at St.-Énogat.  In 1773, they did not go to Poitou with most of the other Acadians in the St.-Malo area, nor did they move on to the lower Loire port of Nantes when most of the Poitou Acadians resettled there later in the decade.  They did emigrate to Spanish Louisiana in 1785, aboard La Ville d'Archangel with cousins Jean IV and François-Xavier Bourg and their families and followed them from New Orleans to Bayou des Écores.  In 1793, after most of the Acadians at Bayou des Écores had abandoned the settlement, Charles and his wife were among the few Acadians still there, but they did not remain.  They resettled on upper Bayou Lafourche, where they likely spent their final days.  They evidently were that rare Acadian couple who had no children. 

Jean (1743-?) à Jean-Baptiste dit Jean, fils à Jean à Antoine Bourg

Jean, younger son of François Bourg and Marie-Josèphe Hébert, born probably at Cobeguit in c1743, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in c1751 and was counted with them at Rivière-des-Blonds in August 1752.  In late 1758, Jean followed his widowed father and older brother Charles to St.-Malo, France, and settled in the suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer, across from St.-Énogat, where his father and older brother had gone.  In March 1760, Jean signed on for corsair duty aboard La Biche, was captured by the Royal Navy, and held in an English prison until the end of the war.  In May 1763, he was repatriated to France with the hundreds of Acadians in England and returned to St.-Malo.  He joined his older brother at St.-Énogat and married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Ambroise Dupuis and Anne Aucoin of Minas, at Plouër-sur-Rance, on the river south of St.-Énogat, in February 1768, but returned to St.-Énogat.  Marie gave Jean four children there and at nearby Langrolay-sur-Rance:  Marguerite-Marie born at St.-Énogat in January 1769; Jean-Mathurin at Langrolay in February 1770 but died two days later; Françoise-Geneviève born at St.-Énogat in March 1771 but died at age 1 in May 1772; and Isabelle-Germaine born in October 1772.  Jean took Marie and their two daughters to the interior of Poitou in 1773.  In 1774, Marie gave him another daughter, Anne-Madeleine, born in St.-Jean l'Evangeliste Parish, Châtellerault, in c1774, but she died at age 1 1/2 in September 1775.  Three months later, Jean, Marie, and their two remaining daughters retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes, where Marie gave Jean another daughter, Marie, born in St.-Similien Parish in October 1776.  A year or so later, they were among the few Acadians at Nantes who returned to the St.-Malo area.  Marie gave Jean four more children at St.-Énogat:  twins Françoise-Marie and Yves-Jean born in August 1778, but they died before 1785; Antoine-Yves born in April 1780; and Jean-Baptiste-Simon-Louis in c1785--10 children, six daughters and two sons, including a set of twins, between 1769 and 1785.  Jean, Marie, and their five remaining children, two sons and three daughters, crossed to Spanish Louisiana directly from St.-Malo soon after the birth of their youngest child.  From New Orleans, they followed his kinsmen and their fellow passengers to Bayou des Écores.  When the Acadians abandoned the settlement in the early 1790s, Jean and his family were among the minority of them who remained.  None of Jean's three remaining daughters--Marguerite-Marie, age 16; Isabelle-Germaine, age 12; and Marie, age 8, in 1785--appear in Baton Rouge-area marriage records.  However, a New Orleans church record reveals that Marguerite-Marie evidently married into the Doitte family perhaps in the city during the late 1780s or early 1790s, and daughter Marie may have married into the Aucoin family.  A church record hints that Isabelle-Germaine may have resettled on upper Bayou Lafourche and lived to a ripe old age.  Louisiana records reveal no marriages for either of Jean's surviving sons.  This line of the family, then, except for its blood, may not have endured in the Bayou State. 

Marin (1741-1780s or 1790s) à Pierre à Martin à Antoine Bourg

Marin, also called Martin, oldest son of Jean Bourg and Françoise Benoit, born at Cobeguit in c1741, followed his family to Île St.-Jean probably in 1755 or 1756 and to St.-Malo aboard the British deportation transport Supply in late 1758.  He lived with his parents and younger siblings at St.-Suliac on the east side of Rivière Rance south of St.-Malo, remained there after his parents died, and married Marie-Osite, called Osite, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Daigre and Angélique Doiron of l'Assomption, Pigiguit, at Plouër-sur-Rance across the river from St.-Suliac in January 1763.  Marie-Osite gave Marin nine children at Plouër:  Marie-Luce born in January 1764; Joseph-Pierre in June 1765; Marguerite-Josèphe in June 1767; Marin-Joseph in July 1769; Rose-Madeleine in March 1771; Pierre-Jean-Baptiste in February 1773; Marie-Françoise-Madeleine-Josèphe in c1775; François-Georges in c1778; and Guillaume-Jean in c1781--four daughters and five sons, between 1764 and 1781.  As the dates of his childrens' births reveal, Marin did not take his family to Poitou in 1773 or join other Acadian exiles at Nantes in the late 1770s or early 1780s, but he did take them to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 directly from St.-Malo.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to Bayou des Écores.  Marie-Osite gave him had no more children in the colony.  Like most of their fellow Acadians at Bayou des Écores, they did not remain.  In the early 1790s, most of Marin's family followed other Feliciana Acadians to upper Bayou Lafourche, but one of the daughters and her husband, as well as a son and his wife, remained at nearby Baton Rouge.  Marin died at Bayou des Écores before 1793, when wife Osite, called "Widow Bourq," was counted there with "two young male children, two middle male children," and "three young female children," but without a husband.  Soon after, she took most of her family to upper Bayou Lafourche, where they were counted in 1795.  Daughters Marguerite-Josèphe, Marie-Luce, Rose-Madeleine, and Marie-Françoise-Madeleine-Josèphe married in the Dupuis, Landry, Aucoin, and Felteman families at Bayou des Écores, Baton Rouge, and on Bayou Lafourche.  All of Marin's sons married and settled on the river and Bayou Lafourche.

Oldest son Joseph-Pierre followed his parents and siblings to New Orleans and Bayou des Écores, where he married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Aucoin and his second wife Anne Hébert, in May 1790.  Marie-Madeleine, a native of Tréméreuc near Plouër-sur-Rance, also had come to Louisiana in 1785 aboard La Ville d'Archangel.  They followed his family to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Their children, born at Bayou des Écores and on the upper Lafourche, included Marin-François, called François, Marin-Joseph le jeune, and Joseph, baptized by a Pointe Coupée priest, age unrecorded, in May 1792; Amand-Louis born at Assumption on the upper Lafourche in May 1794; Rose- or Rosalie-Anastasie baptized there, age unrecorded, in April 1797; Marie-Anne born in September 1798; Mathilde in the late 1790s or early 1800s; Joseph perhaps in the early 1800s but died at age 35 in the 1830s; Scholastique-Julienne born in January 1802; Henriette perhaps in the early 1800s; Urbin Ursin in July 1805; Pauline in March 1807; and Rosaline in February 1811--11 children, four sons and seven daughters, between 1791 and 1811.  Daughters Rosalie Anastasie, Scholastique, Pauline, Mathilde, and Henriette married into the Luce, Skinner, Wakings, Olivier, Jolibois, and De Bordes families.  Only one of Joseph Pierre's sons married, but the line was a vigorous one. 

Oldest son Marin François, also called Marin Joseph le jeune, followed his family to upper Bayou Lafourche and married Élisabeth Marcelline or Marcellite, daughter of Philippe Jolibois and Louise Charpentier, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in June or July 1819.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included a child, name and age unrecorded, died in June 1820; François Marcellus born in August 1821; Urbin Ursin le jeune, called Ursin, in August 1824; Augustine, a daughter, in October 1827 but died at age 6 1/2 in February 1834; Didier born in May 1830; and Joseph Silver or Sylvestre in June 1833--six children, at least four sons and a daughter, between 1820 and 1833.  Marin, called Marin Joseph by the Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial, died in Lafourche Interior Parish in April 1835.  The priest, who gave Marin Joseph's parents' names but mentioned no wife, said that Marin died at age 47.  He was 43.  Two of Marin's sons married by 1870 and settled on Bayou Lafourche.

Oldest son François Marcellus married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Anselme Boudreaux and Marie Gautreaux, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in June 1846.  They settled on the upper bayou near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Wilfred François in June 1847; Thomasile Alfred in January 1849; Oscar in April 1850; Marie Philomène in April 1852; and twins Azéma Philomène and Marie Pamela posthumously in February 1854, but Azéma Philomène, called Azéma, died at age 4 1/2 (the recording priest said 8!) in August 1858, and Marie Pamela, called Pamela, died at age 8 1/2 in August 1862--six children, three sons and three daughters, including a set of twins, between 1847 and 1854.  François likely died "during [a] yellow fever epidemic" in October 1853.  The Thibodaux and Labadieville priests who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that François died "at age ca. 33 yrs."  This François would have been age 32 that year, so it probably was him.  None of his remaining children married by 1870. 

Marin François's second son Ursin married Eulalie, daughter of Pierre Gros and his Acadian wife Ordalise Daigle, at the Plattenville church in February 1846.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marcilien in November 1846 but, called Maxilien, died at age 2 1/2 in July 1849; Léon Lovinci born in November 1847; Florentine Eurenie in October 1849; Émilie Gracieuuse in March 1851; Joseph Hickman Oleus in October 1852; Marie Alzina in March 1854; René Joseph in June 1855; Marie Joséphine in August 1857; St. Clair Joseph in January 1859 but, called Joseph Saint Clair, died the following December; Emma Augustine born in January 1861 but died the following July; Mathilde Alice born in June 1862; Aubert Augustin in February 1864; Félicia Victoria in September 1865; Noémi Léonide in October 1867; ...  Daughter Émilie married into the Fremin family by 1870.  None of Ursin's sons married by then. 

Marin's second son Marin-Joseph followed his family to New Orleans and Bayou des Écores.  When the rest of his family moved on to upper Bayou Lafourche, Marin-Joseph remained in the area and married Marie-Jeanne, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Aucoin and Rosalie Thériot, at Baton Rouge in May 1795.  Marie-Jeanne, a native of St.-Servan-sur-Mer across the river from Plouër-sur-Rance, also had crossed on Le Ville d'Archangel.  Their children, born at Baton Rouge, included Marie-Carmélite born in c1800 and baptized by a Pointe Coupee priest, age 16 months, in May 1801; Amand-Marin born in March 1802; Édouard in August 1805; Azélie Rosalie in December 1807; Henriette in c1817 and baptized at the Baton Rouge church, age 4, in 1821 or 1822; and Rosalie born in c1820 and baptized at the Baton Rouge church, age 1, in 1821 or 1822--six children, four daughters and two sons, between 1800 and 1820.  None of Marin Joseph's daughters seems to have married.  His sons married first cousins on the upper Lafourche, but neither of their family lines seems to have endured. 

Older son Amand Marin followed some of his cousins to upper Bayou Lafourche and married first cousin Aline, Alina, or Pauline, daughter of fellow Acadians Guillaume Jean Bourg and Clarisse Marguerite Breaux, his uncle and aunt, at the Plattenville church in September 1832; they probably had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  They evidently were together before their church wedding, perhaps having been married civilly.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Claire Henriette in October 1831; Marie Émilie died at age 2 months in September 1836; Mathilde Joséphine born in September 1837 but, called Matilde, died at age 17 in October 1854; and Azélie Armentine born in October 1841 but died at age 2 1/2 in April 1844--four children, all daughters, between 1831 and 1841.  Amand may have died near Plattenville in March 1842.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Amand died at "age 36 yrs."  Amand Martin would have been age 40.  He evidently fathered no sons.  His remaining daughter did not marry by 1870. 

Marin Joseph's younger son Édouard followed his older brother to upper Bayou Lafourche and married first cousin Julie, daughter of fellow Acadians Baptiste Aucoin and Rose Bourg, his uncle and aunt, at the Plattenville church in December 1832; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Daughter Julie Azélie was born in Assumption Parish in October 1833.  Édouard died near Plattenville in February 1847.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Édouard died at "age 38 yrs."  He was 41.  His daughter did not marry by 1870.  He and his wife evidently had no sons, so only the blood of the family line may have endured.

Marin's third son Pierre-Jean-Baptiste followed his family to New Orleans and Bayou des Écores and joined them in their exodus to upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Blanchard and Anne Hébert, in April 1798.  Anne, a native of Nantes, had come to Louisiana from France in 1785 aboard an earlier ship.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche included Pierre-Laurent in January 1799; Rosalie-Anne in October 1800 but died at age 14 1/2 in May 1815; Louis born in November 1802; twins Hubert Adrien, called Adrien, and Marcelline Marie or Marie Marcelline, also called Marcellite, in February 1805, but Adrien died at age 30 in March 1835; Joseph Marcellin, called Marcellin, born in November 1807; Adeline Henriette in December 1809; and Marie Clémence, called Clémence, in November 1817--eight children, four sons and four daughters, between 1799 and 1817.  Pierre Jean Baptiste died in Assumption Parish in June 1826, age 53.  Daughters Marie Marcelline/Marcellite, Adeline, and Clémence, married into the Loret, Caillier, Carmouche, and Lalande families, the oldest one twice.  Two of Pierre Jean Baptiste's sons also married and settled on the upper Lafourche.

Oldest son Pierre Laurent married Clémence or Clémentine, also called Élementine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Paul Bourgeois and Rose Henry of St. James Parish, at the Plattenville church in November 1818.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Rose Azéline in October 1819; Claude Charles, called Charles, in May 1821; Marie Céline or Célina in March 1823; Joséphine Adeline in December 1824; Anne Joséphine, called Joséphine, in November 1826; and Clémentine died 15 days after her birth in May 1828--six children, five daughters and a son, between 1819 and 1828.  Pierre Laurent died near Plattenville in October 1853, age 54.  Was he a victim of the yellow fever epidemic that ravaged South Louisiana during the late summer and fall of 1853?  Daughters Marie Célina and Joséphine (probably Anne Joséphine) married into the Folse and Elfert families.  Pierre Laurent's son also married and settled on the upper Lafourche.

Only son Charles married Justine, daughter of Jean Charles Maurin or Morin and Céleste Verret, at the Plattenville church in July 1840.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Justine Céleste in July 1841 but died in November; Anne Amélie born in July 1842; Joseph Jules in June 1843 but died at age 11 months in May 1844; Charles Demetrius born in August 1844; Joseph Émile in March 1846; and Eugénie Corinne in October 1847--six children, three daughters and three sons, between 1841 and 1847.  None of Charles's children married by 1870. 

Pierre Jean Baptiste's fourth and youngest son Joseph Marcellin, called Marcellin, married, at age 34, Héloise or Éloise, daughter of Louis Folse and Judith Alexandre, at the Plattenville church in May 1841, but they evidently had married civilly years earlier.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Louis Arthur in c1834 but died at age 19 in July 1853, a victim, perhaps, of the yellow fever epidemic which struck South Louisiana that summer and fall; Marie Amazélie born in January 1835 but, called Amaselie, died at age 18 1/2 in July 1853; Marie Stefanie, also called Stephanie Manette, born in November 1836; Louise Elina in November 1838; Aimat in February 1840; Joséphine Eudosia in July 1843; Édouard Franklin in July 1845; and twins Cléborne and Edmond Ulisse in January 1849--nine children, five sons and four daughters, including a set of twins, between 1834 and 1849.  Daughters Stephanie, Joséphine, ... married into the Barrilleaux, Whitaker, Carver, and Moseman families by 1870.  None of Marcellin's sons married by then.  Daughter Stephanie's husband, Cyprien A. Barrilleaux, who she married in December 1855, was a victim of the Last Island hurricane of August 1856. 

Marin's fourth son François-Georges followed his family to New Orleans, Bayou des Écores, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married cousin Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Bertrand and Catherine Bourg, in March 1797.  Adélaïde, a native of Nantes, had come to Louisiana from France in 1785 aboard an earlier ship.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Julie-Scholastique in July 1797; Rose-Adélaïde baptized, age unrecorded, in January 1799; Ursin-Narcisse, called Narcisse, born in October 1800; Valéry in August 1802; Léocadie Carmélite, called Carmélite, in March 1805; Louis in July 1807 but died at age 8 in September 1815; Dosile Euphémie, perhaps called Euphémie, born in November 1809; Pierre Marcel in September 1811 but, called Marcellus, may have died in Assumption Parish, age 30 (28 according to the recording priest at Plattenville, who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife), in February 1842; François, fils died three days after his birth in October 1813; François Hermogène born in August 1815; and Augustine Emérande in September 1817--11 children, five daughters and six sons, between 1797 and 1817.  François Georges may have died in Assumption Parish in February 1842.  The Plattenville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that François died at "age 62 yrs."  He may have been a few years older.  Daughters Julie, Rose, Carmélite, and Augustine married into the Bourg, Comeaux, Templet, Condrac or Condran, Vicknair, and Blanchard families, one of them, Augustine, three times.  Daughter Dosile Euphémie, who did not marry, may have been the Euphémie Bourg who gave birth to son Alfred Gustave in Assumption Parish in September 1829; if this was her, she would have been age 19, almost 20.  The Plattenville priest who recorded the boy's baptism in November 1830 did not give the father's name.  Only one of François Georges's remaining sons married.  He also settled in Assumption Parish. 

Second son Valéry married Élise Mélanie, daughter of Frédéric Rentrop and Marguerite Licaire or Liqueur, at the Plattenville church in September 1824.  They moved to lower Bayou Teche by the early 1830s but evidently did not remain.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche and the lower Teche, included Julie Euphémie in August 1825; François Tersile in January 1828; Clarise in Assumption Parish in February 1830; and Orien Valéry in St. Mary Parish in July 1832--four children, two daughters and two sons, between 1825 and 1832.  Valéry died in Assumption Parish in June 1833, age 30 (the recording priest said 31).  None of his children married, at least not in South Louisiana, by 1870. 

Marin's fifth and youngest son Guillaume-Jean followed his family to New Orleans, Bayou des Écores, and upper Bayou Lafourche.  He married Clarisse-Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Breaux and his first wife Esther Breaux, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer on the river in July 1803.  Clarisse was a native of Cabahannocer, where her parents, who had come to the colony from Maryland in 1768, had settled in 1769.  She and Guillaume joined his kinsmen on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between what soon became Ascension and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Charles Urbain, called Urbain and also Ursin, baptized at Assumption, age unrecorded, in July 1804; Joachim Hubert born in December 1805 but died at age 47 (the recording priest said 46) in October 1853, victim, perhaps, of the yellow fever epidemic that struck South Louisiana that summer and fall; Pauline, perhaps also called Aline and Alina, born in February 1808; Guillaume Joseph, called Joseph, in February 1810; Marie Edesie, called Edesie, in May 1816; and Mathilde Azélie posthumously in July 1819--six children, three sons and three daughters, between 1804 and 1819.  Guillaume died in Assumption Parish in March 1819.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Guillaume was age 30 when he died.  He was 38.  Daughters Alina and Edesie married into the Bourg and LeBlanc families, one of them to a first cousin, and another daughter may have married into the Aucoin family.  Guillaume's remaining sons also married and settled on Bayou Lafourche.

Oldest son Charles Urbain, called Urbain, Urbin, and Ursin, married cousin Marie Anne, daughter of fellow Aadian Félix Xavier Bourg and his Creole wife Marie Marianne Schmitt, at the Thibodauxville church in May 1834.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Joseph Urbin or Aubin Joseph in October 1832; Marie Victorine, called Victorine, in November 1835; Edese or Edesie in September 1837; Charles Xavier in December 1839 but died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 2) in October 1841; twins Céleste Matilde and Célestine Claris born in February 1842; Marguerite Octavie in July 1845; Pierre Léonais in October 1847; and Paul Neuville in August 1850--nine children, four sons and five daughters, including a set of twins, between 1832 and 1850.  Daughters Victorine, Céleste, ... married into the Foret, Martin, and Talbot families by 1870.  One of Urbain's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Joseph Urbin or Aubin Joseph married Louise, daughter of Siméon Fremin and Émelite Mars, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in August 1856.  Their children, born in Assumption Parish, included Siméon Joseph Vileor near Labadieville in September 1857; Urbin Trasimond Movile near Attakapas Canal east of Lake Verret in October 1859; Louise Amélie in December 1861; Célestine Estelle near Plattenville in April 1864; Louise Louisiane in October 1868; Marie Louise Elizabeth in November 1870; ... 

Guillaume Jean's third and youngest son Guillaume Joseph, called Joseph, married Marguerite, daughter of Charles Triche and Marguerite Alexandre, at the Plattenville church in October 1841.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marguerite Elisia in July 1842; Félix Merove in March 1845; Mesobe, perhaps a son, died at age 6 months in October 1847; Marie Eva born in April 1848; and Thomas Charles in December 1851.  Joseph, at age 46, remarried to Joséphine, daughter of Joseph Clark Raison and his Acadian wife Clémence Hébert, at the Labadieville church in September 1856.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marcellitte Olivia in August 1857; Edgar Erasma in May 1862; ...  None of Joseph's daughters married by 1870, but one of his son may have.

Oldest son Félix Merove, by first wife Margeuerite Triche, may have been the Félix Bourg who married "Mrs. Françoise Dubois" in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in May 1870. ...

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A young Bourg born in France came to Louisiana probaby in 1785 aboard one of the Seven Ships, but he appears on none of the ships' passenger rolls.  Like the majority of the 1785 arrivals, he chose to go to upper Bayou Lafourche, where he worked as an engagé, or hired hand, before creating a vigorous family line of his own: 

Pierre-Jean (1770-?) à Jean III à Jean-Baptiste dit Jean, fils à Jean à Antoine Bourg

Pierre-Jean, oldest son of Charles Bourg and Anne Thibodeau and nephew of Jean Bourg IV of La Ville d'Archangel, was born at La Villeger near Pleudihen-sur-Rance, on the river south of St.-Malo, France, in August 1770.  His parents had two other children born at Pleudihen, both daughters, one older and one younger than Pierre-Jean.  In 1773, soon after the death of his older sister, Pierre-Jean followed his family to the interior of Poitou, where his younger sister died and a brother was born.  In November 1775, the family retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes.  His parents gave him two more brothers there, but both of them died young.  His father died by December 1781, when his mother remarried to a Frenchman in Ste.-Croix Parish, Nantes.  Pierre-Jean came to Louisiana perhaps on one of the Seven Ships in 1785 as a teenage orphan, but his name appears on none of the expedition's passenger rolls.  Perhaps he had become a sailor at Nantes and ventured to the Spanish colony after 1785.  His uncle Jean IV and other relatives went there on the Seven Ships, but Pierre-Jean was the only member of his immediate family to settle in the colony.  He first appears in Louisiana records in January 1791 on the right, or west, bank of the river at "Lafourche," later Ascension, probably on or near the upper Lafourche, where he was living with an unrelated Acadian family, that of Joseph-Honoré Breaux, and working for them as an engagé or hired hand.  In December 1795 and January 1798, Spanish officials counted Pierre-Jean in Valenzuela District censuses living with two different families, one Acadian, the other not, and he likely was still working as an engagé.  His uncle Jean IV, who had taken his large family to the New Feliciana District above Baton Rouge in 1785 and had moved on to the upper Lafourche by 1795, was not one of Pierre-Jean's employers.  In January 1798, the Lafourche census taker noted that Pierre-Jean owned a 3x35-arpent plot of land on the bayou, so if he was still an engagé, he was one with means.  At age 28, he married Madeleine-Rose, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre-Olivier Pitre and Rosalie Hébert, on the upper Lafourche in June 1798.  Madeleine, a native of Chantenay near Nantes, had come to Louisiana from France aboard the fourth of the Seven Ships in 1785.  They settled on Bayou D'Arbonne.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Charles-Olivier-Valentin, also called Rousseau, in February 1799; Anne-Rosalie, called Rosalie, in May 1800; Jean-Baptiste-Marie, called Baptiste, in October 1801; David Hyacinthe, called Hyacinthe, in May 1804; Pierre, fils in November 1805; Joseph in April 1807; Marie Madeleine in April 1809; Louis in August 1810; Auguste in September 1812; Marie Adeline in March 1815; Séverin Noël in December 1818; and Marie Clémence in January 1822--a dozen children, eight sons and four daughters, between 1799 and 1822.  Daughter Rosalie married into the Guillot family.  Seven of Pierre Jean's sons also married.  One of the younger ones, with his large family, moved to lower Bayou Teche either during or soon after the War of 1861-65, but Pierre Jean's other sons remained in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley.  Not all of the family lines endured. 

Oldest son Charles Olivier Valentin dit Rousseau married Euphrosine dite Froisine, 15-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Roger and Marie Madeleine Babin, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in May 1824.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included François T., perhaps also called François Sosthène and Sosthène, in Lafourche Interior Parish in April 1825; Charles Michel, called Michel, in July 1827; Marie Madeleine in c1829 and baptized at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, "age ca. 7 yrs." in June 1836; Pauline Henriette born in c1829 or 30 and baptized at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, age 9, in October 1838; and Adeline Octavie born in March 1833--five children, two sons and three daughters, between 1825 and 1833.  Daughters ... married into the Dubois, Hatch, and Neel families by 1870.  Charles Olivier Valentin's two sons also married by then. 

Older son François T., perhaps also called François Sosthène and Sosthène, married cousin Joséphine Bourg in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in December 1845.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Charles Demosthène in September 1846; Camila in October 1848; Clémence Survilia in December 1851; and Aubert Sylvère in January 1857--four children, two sons and two daughters, between 1846 and 1857.  François T.'s daughters did not marry by 1870, but one of his sons did. 

Oldest son Charles Demosthène married Pauline, daughter of fellow Acadian François Chiasson and his Creole wife Marie Geneviève Dubois of Terrebonne Parish, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in May 1864.  Daughter Marceline Eugénie was born near Montegut in July 1866.  Charles may have died near Montegut, Terrebonne Parish, in September 1867.  If so, he would have been age 21 when he died.  His family line, perhaps except for its blood, died with him. 

Charles Olivier Valentin's younger son Charles Michel, called Michel, married Mélina, daughter of fellow Acadians Henri Dugas and Marie Marcellite Chiasson, at the Houma church in September 1854.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Henry Telesphore in June 1855; Ernest Adam in October 1859; Marie Olema in February 1864; ...  None of Charles Michel's children married by 1870.

Pierre Jean's second son Jean Baptiste Marie, called Baptiste, married Carmélite, 24-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Thibodeaux and Perrine Arcement, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in April 1825.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Jean Baptiste Ursin, called Ursin, in February 1826; Marie Élodie in April 1827; Azélie Adèle in October 1828; Marcelite Séraphine in March 1830; Marie Eulalie in January 1832; Joseph Sylvanie or Sylvain in September 1834; Louis in November 1836; Rosémond probably in the late 1830s or early 1840s; and Amédée Théophile in April 1842 but, called Théophile Amédée, died the following December--nine children, five sons and four daughters, between 1826 and 1842.  Baptiste, at age 61, remarried to Élise, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Tertullien Boudreaux and Marie Émelie Boudreaux and widow of Eugène Guillot, at the Thibodaux church in February 1863.  She gave him no more children.  Daughters Marie Élodie, ..., by his first wife, married into the Boudreaux and Guillot families by 1870.  Baptiste's four remaining sons also married by then and settled in Terrebonne and on the upper Lafourche.  One of them later resettled on the western prairies.

Oldest son Jean Baptiste Ursin, called Ursin, by first wife Carmélite Thibodeaux, married Delphine Manette or Monette, also called Joséphine, 17-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Alexis Blanchard and Marguerite Trahan, at the Houma church in April 1850.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Marguerite Émelie in February 1853; Olympiade Rosilia in January 1856; Alexis Joseph in May 1858; Trasimond Jean Baptiste in February 1861; ...  They were living near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, later in the decade.  None of Ursin's children married by 1870. 

Baptiste's second Joseph Sylvain, by first wife Carmélite Thibodeaux, married cousin Émilie, also called Bulia, daughter of Jean Boudeloche and his Acadian wife Constance Thibodeaux of Terrebonne Parish, at the Houma church in June 1862.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Jean Baptiste Edgard in January 1863; Matilde Onesippe in July 1865; Victoria Rosala in February 1869; ... 

Baptiste's third son Louis, by first wife Carmélite Thibodeaux, may have married Virginia Félicité Dardar (a common Houma Indian surname) and settled near Montegut by the late 1860s.  Daughter Delphine was born near Montegut in December 1869; ...

Baptiste's fourth son Rosémond, by first wife Carmélite Thibodeaux, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Auguste Delaune and Carmelite Theriot, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in June 1866. ...

Pierre Jean's third son David Hyacinthe, called Hyacinthe, married Louise Thérèse, called Thérèse, 21-year-old daughter of Lazare Hernandez and Marie Lopez Machado, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1827; the marriage also was recorded in Lafourche Interior Parish.  They settled on the upper Lafourche before moving down bayou into Terrebonne Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie de las Dolores in Ascension Parish in April 1828 but died at age 4 in June 1832; Jacinte or Hyacinthe Amédée born in Lafourche Interior Parish in April 1830 but died at age 22 months in February 1832; François Xavier born in Ascension Parish in December 1832 but died at age 10 months in October 1833; Marguerite Victorine born in March 1835; Césaire Azéma, called Azéma, in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1837; Delphine Susanne in December 1839; Jean Hernest or Ernest in June 1842; Madeleine Élise in July 1844; and Nosga George on Bayou Petit Caillou, Terrebonne Parish, and baptized at the Houma church, age unrecorded, in November 1850--nine children, four daughters and five sons, between 1828 and 1850.  Hyacinthe may have died in Terrebonne Parish in July 1869.  The Montegut priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, did not give an age at the time of death, but this Hyacinthe would have been age 65.  Daughters Marguerite and Azéma married into Ozio, Matill, and Dulan families by 1870.  None of Hyacinthe's remaining sons married by then. 

Pierre Jean's fourth son Pierre, fils, at age 24, married cousin Rosalie, 21-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Hippolyte LeBlanc and Marguerite Gaudet, at the Thibodauxville church in November 1829.  Pierre, fils died near Plattenville in September 1870.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Pierre died at age 62.  He was 59.  Did they have any children? 

Pierre Jean's fifth son Joseph married Hortense Rosalie, 16-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Guillot and his Creole wife Théodose Daunis, at the Thibodauxville church in December 1828.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Azélie Clémentine, also called Azélie Rosalie, in December 1828; and Jean Auguste in June 1831.  Daughter Azélie Rosalie married into the Springer family.  Joseph's son also married. 

Only son Jean Auguste married cousin Marie, daughter of Syphrien Adam and his Acadian wife Madeleine Bourg, at the Thibodaux church in July 1853.  Their son Octave was born in Lafourche Parish in September 1854 and did not marry by 1870. 

Pierre Jean's sixth son Louis married, at age 31, Carmélite, 14-year-old daughter of Joseph Lopes or Lopez and Maria Dias of Assumption Parish, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1841.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Félix Joseph in March 1841, seven months before his parents' marriage; François Linozier, called François L., in April 1842; Louis, fils in August 1843; Pantaléon in July 1845; Arthur Joseph in August 1847; and Marcilien Mariguy in January 1850--six children, all sons, between 1841 and 1850.  One, perhaps two, of Louis's sons married by 1870. 

Oldest son Félix Joseph may have been the Félix Bourg who married "Mrs. Françoise Dubois" in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in May 1870. ...

Louis's second son François Linozier, called François L., married Pauline, daughter of fellow Acadians Ursin Hébert and Marie Boudreaux, at the Labadieville church in March 1866.  Their son Louis Arthur was born near Labadieville in January 1869; ...

Pierre Jean's seventh son Auguste married 17-year-old Augustine, also called Justine, Gustine, and Gustavie, another daughter of Joseph Lopez and Maria Dias, at the Thibodauxville church in October 1832.  During or soon after the War of 1861-65, Auguste took his family to New Iberia on lower Bayou Teche.  Their children, born in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley, included Pierre Joseph Auguste in Lafourche Interior Parish in August 1834; Aspasie or Nastasie Mélasie in March 1837; Marie Roséma in January 1838; François Victorin in July 1840; Auguste, fils, also called Augustin Oleus and Oleus Augustin, in November 1843; Perisse, a son, perhaps in the early 1840s; Augustin Toussaint Louis in November 1846; Martial Alfred in November 1848; Joseph in November 1851; Evariste Lorency in Terrebonne Parish in May 1854; Faustin Cletus in November 1856; Abdan William in July 1862; ...  Daughter Nastasie Mélasie married into the Waguespack family by 1870.  Four, perhaps five, of Auguste's sons also married by then.  His oldest son followed Auguste to the lower Teche.  His younger sons moved westward to the Abbeville area on the southwestern prairies, so none of the lines remained in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley. 

Oldest son Pierre Joseph Auguste married Héloise or Éloise, daughter of Vincent Fanguy and Louisianne Watking or Watkins of Terrebonne Parish, at the Houma church in February 1864.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish and on the lower Teche, included Joseph Rustique in November 1864; Alexandre near New Iberia, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in March 1867; ...

Auguste's third son Auguste, fils, also called Augustin Oleus and Oleus Augustin, married Marie Elidorine, daughter of Jean Colomb and Marie Elidore Schexnayder, at the Abbeville church in December 1869.  Their son Sosthène was born near Abbeville in December 1870;  ...

Auguste's fourth son Perisse married Josèphe or Joséphine, daughter of Christophe Colomb and Charlotte Frederick, at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in August 1867. ...

Auguste, père's sixth son Martial Alfred married Delphine, daughter of Charles Schexnayder and Delphine Frederick, at the Abbeville church in April 1869.  Their son Joseph Adonis was born near Abbeville in December 1870; ...

Auguste, père's seventh son Joseph may have married Louise Sylvester at the Abbeville church in August 1870. ...

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A Bourg was one of the last Acadians to emigrate to Louisiana.  Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Michel Bourg and his first wife Jeanne Hébert of Minas, was age 42 when she and her family--husband Joseph Gravois III, age 49, and eight of their children, the oldest age 24--along with a family of relatives, reached the Spanish colony in 1788.  They had sailed there from Île St.-Pierre, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland, on La Brigite, Joseph III's schooner--the only documented family to come to Louisiana directly from greater Acadia.  They settled at Ascension on the Acadian Coast.   

Bourgeois

Jacques dit Jacob or Jacobus Bourgeois, born in c1619 perhaps at La Ferté-Gaucher on Rivière Grand-Morin in Champagne east of Paris, was a young surgeon trained perhaps by members of l'Ordre de Malte.  After the French re-established control of Acadia in the 1630s, Claude Launay-Rasilly, brother of Isaac de Razilly, the new proprietor of the French colony, recruited the young surgeon to work there.  Jacques reached Acadia in 1641 aboard the St.-François and established one of the first families in the colony.  He married Jeanne, daughter of prominent settler Guillaume Trahan and his first wife Françoise Corbineau, at Port-Royal in c1643.  Jeanne had come to Acadia even earlier than Jacques--in 1636 aboard the St.-Jehan, with her father, mother, and a sister.  In February 1653, Jacques stood as a witness to the marriage of Governor Charles La Tour and Jeanne Motin de Reux, the widow of former Governor Charles d'Aulnay.  Jacques was part of the resistance against the English assault on Port-Royal in 1654, chose to remain there after Port-Royal was captured, and became a farmer and a shipbuilder.  He also worked as a merchant, trading regularly with the New Englanders of Boston.  Having learned to speak English fluently, he served as the King's interpreter in dealings with the anglophones.  Jacques also became a successful fur trader among the region's Natives and ventured to every corner of the colony.  In 1672, he sold a part of his holdings at Port-Royal and, with his two older sons and two of his sons-in-law, pioneered the major Acadian settlement on the isthmus of Chignecto, "the first swarming of the Acadians to establish their hive," as one historian describes it.  He built a flour mill and a saw mill at Chignecto to encourage settlement beside the wide salt marshes that were perfect for hay farming and cattle raising.  In 1676, part of Chignecto became the seigneurie of Canadian-born French nobleman Michel Le Neuf de La Vallière, père, who named his 100-league holding Beaubassin.  La Vallière brought in settlers and indentured employees from Canada, in direct competition with the earlier, adjacent Bourgeois settlement.  According to Acadian tradition, a clause in La Vallière's land grant title "protected the interests of Jacques Bourgeois and the other Acadian settlers established on the domain," and "it was not long before the two elements of the population merged into one."  

Between 1644 and 1667, at Port-Royal, Jeanne gave Jacques 10 children, seven daughters and three sons.  A French census taker found Jacques living with one of his sons at Chignecto in 1698, but otherwise he spent his final days at Port-Royal.  He died at Port-Royal in c1701, in his early 80s.  Six of his daughters married into the Cyr, Girouard, Boudrot, Mirande dit Tavare, Maisonnat dit Baptiste, Dugas, LeBlanc, and Comeau le jeune dit Des Loups-Marins families.  All three of his sons married, into the Dugas, Belliveau, and d'Aprendestiguy families, but only two of them had sons of their own.  By 1755, Jacques dit Jacobs's descendants could be found not only at Chignecto, but also at Petitcoudiac in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto; at Annapolis Royal, formerly Port-Royal; 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 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.  Bourgeoiss likely were among the refugees in the 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, Bourgeoiss likely were among the 300 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 area Acadians to the southernmost seaboard colonies.  Several Bourgeois families ended up in South Carolina, and another in Georgia. 

Not all of the Bourgeoiss sent to the southern colonies remained there until the end of the war.  In the spring of 1756, 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.  Following the example of merchant Jacques Vigneau dit Maurice of Baie-Verte, 200 of the exiles purchased or built small vessels and headed up the coast.  In July, members of Vigneau's party were detained at Sandwich, Massachusettes, near Boston, and dispersed with other Acadian refugees to various communities in that colony.  A Bourgeois family may have been among them.  In late August, after weeks of effort, 78 more refugees from South Carolina, led by Michel Bourgeois, came ashore on Long Island, New York, and, at the urging of Charles Lawrence, 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 Bourgeoiss, called Basua and Bishaur, at Eastchester and North Castle in Westchester County. 

Bourgeoiss from Annapolis Royal ended up on deportation transports headed to Massachusetts and New York.  Chignecto Bourgeoiss who escaped the British took refuge at Malpèque on Île St.-Jean, on the upper Petitcoudiac, on lower Rivière St.-Jean, at Cocagne and Miramichi on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, and later at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  Bourgeoiss from Annapolis and Chignecto who escaped the British also moved on to Canada via the Rivière St.-Jean portage or the lower St. Lawrence. 

Living in territory controlled by France, none of the Bourgeoiss on Île St.-Jean were touched by the British roundups in Nova Scotia during the summer and fall of 1755.  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 the habitants on the island, Bourgeoiss among them, and deported them to France.  Most, if not all, of the Bourgeoiss deported to St.-Malo did not survive the crossing.  Island Bourgeoiss who landed at Cherbourg moved on to St.-Malo in the 1760s and settled in the suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer and at Pleudihen-sur-Rance on the east side of the river south of the Breton port.  Island Bourgeoiss went to the interior of Poitou in 1773 and to Nantes in early 1776, but no member of the family in France emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

In North America, members of the family who had escaped the British in the late 1750s and sought refuge on the Gulf shore and at Restigouche did what they could to make a life for themselves in the most trying of conditions.  After the fall of Québec in September 1759,  the British struck again.  In late June 1760, a British naval force from Louisbourg attacked the French stronghold at Restigouche, now a major Acadian refuge.  Though the British could not capture the place, they nevertheless cut it off from what was left of French America.  In October, after the fall of Montréal, a second British naval force, this one from Québec, arrived at Restigouche to accept the surrender of the garrison and the Acadians.  On the eve of formal surrender, French officcers compiled a list, dated 24 October 1760, of 1,003 Acadians still at Restigouche, Bourgeoiss among them.  The British held them, along with hundreds of other exiles surrendered or captured in the region, in prison compounds in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Bourgeoiss were held at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, and at Halifax. 

At war's end, Acadians being held in the seaboard colonies, theoretically, were free to go, but not before the British discerned their intentions.  Even then, colonial officials discouraged repatriation.  Most of the Bourgeoiss in the northern colonies 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 Jacques dit Jacob Bourgeois--the majority of the family's survivors--began the slow, inexorable process of becoming Canadiennes.   Especially after 1766, Acadian Bourgeoiss could be found in the upper St. Lawrence valley at Montréal; Pointe-aux-Trembles just below Montréal; Laval northwest of Montréal; St.-Jacques de l'Achigan and L'Assomption farther down from Montréal; La-Prairie-de-la-Magdeleine and St.-Philippe-de-Laprairie across from Montréal; St.-Ours, St.-Antoine, St.-Denis, Chambly, and L'Acadie on the lower Richelieu; Trois-Rivières; Bécancour, St.-Grégoire, and Nicolet across from Trois-Rivières; Ste.-Anne-de-la-Pérade between Trois-Rivières and Québec; Québec City; on the lower St. Lawrence at Kamouraska; and on the îles-de-la-Madeleine in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.  Bourgeoiss settled in present-day New Brunswick on lower Rivière St.-Jean, and at Memramcook and Grand-Dingue on New Brunswick's Gulf shore.  In Nova Scotia, they settled at Chédabouctou near Canso; at Windsor, formerly Pigiguit; and at Grand-Étang near Chéticamp on the northwest shore of Cape Breton Island.  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. 

Bourgeoiss held in Nova Scotia and the seaboard colonies at war's end chose to go to the French-controlled fishery islands of St.-Pierre and Miquelon off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  Here they could live among fellow Roman Catholics without fear of religious repression and, just as importantly, reside in territory controlled by France.  Their living there came at a price, however.  In 1767, French officials, obeying a royal decree, sent the island Acadians, including the Bourgeoiss, to France to relief overcrowding in the Newfoundland fishery.  Most of the island Acadians, including Bourgeoiss, returned to the fishery the following year.  The islanders, including Bourgeoiss, were deported again, in 1778, when the British, reacting to the French alliance with the Americans during their war for independence, seized the Newfoundland islands and deported the fisher/habitants there to La Rochelle and other French ports.  Many of the islanders, including Bourgeoiss, returned in 1784, following the retrocession of the islands to France.  Some of the Bourgeoiss moved on to British Canada or settled on the British-controlled îles-de-la-Madeleine, while others remained on Île Miquelon, where they could live as Frenchmen. 

Bourgeoiss held in the British seaboard colonies also chose to emigrate to the French Antilles, where, like their cousins on the Newfoundland islands, they could escape British rule.  French officials were especially eager for 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 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 revenge" to come.  The exiles could provide 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 entice them there, the French promised the Acadians land of their own in the sugar colony.  Several Bourgeois families from Chignecto were among the Acadians in the southern British colonies who took up the offer.  Despite the vicissitudes of living in the tropics, it must have worked out for them.  When fellow Acadians, including Bourgeoiss, from Halifax came through Cap-Français in 1764 and 1765 on their way to New Orleans, none of the Bourgeoiss in St.-Domingue chose to join them. 

Bourgeoiss 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, including Bourgeoiss, chose to relocate to Île Miquelon.  Others considered going to French St.-Domingue, where Acadian exiles in the British colonies, including Bourgeoiss, 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 18 were Bourgeoiss. 

Bourgeoiss settled early in Acadia, and they were among the earliest Acadians to find refuge in Louisiana.  The first of them reached Louisiana in February 1765 with the Broussards from Halifax via Cap-Français.  In April, they followed the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche, but an epidemic struck the Teche valley settlements that summer and compelled the Bourgeoiss to retreat to the river that autumn.  They resettled at the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer, where their older brother and other Bourgeois kin from Halifax had chosen to settle earlier in the year.  Later called St.-Jacques and St. James after its church, Cabahannocer thus became the first center of Bourgeois family settlement in the Spanish colony.  In the 1790s, a Bourgeois from Cabahannocer began a family exodus to upper Bayou Lafourche, where, during the antebellum period, a significant new center of family settlement emerged up and down the bayou.  Meanwhile, in the early antebellum period, a Bourgeois from the river "returned" to the prairies and started a western branch of the family.  He was joined by several cousins in subsequent decades, but, despite their impressive fecundity, the Bourgeoiss west of the Atchafalaya Basin never came close to the numbers of their kinsmen on the river or along the southeastern bayous.  By the late antebellum period, Acadian Bourgeoiss could be found in three distinct centers of family settlement across South Louisiana.  The oldest, and largest, center was the original one along the old Acadian Coast, on both sides of the river in St. James, Ascension, and Iberville parishes (two even settled upriver in Pointe Coupee Parish, where few Acadians lived).  These river Bourgeoiss were especially numerous around Convent on the east bank of St. James Parish, where they were exceedingly fond of marrying their cousins.  Some of the Ascension Parish Bourgeoiss left the east bank of the river and settled inland at Gonzales and even at French Settlement north of the Amite River in Livingston Parish, another place few Acadians chose to go.  Many Bourgeoiss also could be found in the Bayou Lafourche valley from the Ascension/Assumption parish line down into the Terrebonne marshes, and farther west near Brashear, now Morgan, City on the lower Atchafalaya.  Most of the Lafourche Bourgeoiss, however, settled along the middle bayou in today's Lafourche Parish.  The smallest center of family settlement lay west of the Atchafalaya Basin, where Bourgeoiss lived on Bayou Teche from Grande Pointe near present-day Breaux Bridge in St. Martin Parish, all the way down into St. Mary Parish, and also out on the prairies in Lafayette, St. Landry, and Acadia parishes. 

Not all of the Acadian Bourgeoiss came to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue.  A Bourgeois orphan, in her late teens, reached New Orleans from the French island of Martinique with her mother and stepfather Charles Mouton by 1768.  She also settled at Cabahannocer, where she married an Acadian Blanchard in c1769. 

Bourgeois and LeBourgeois are common surnames in France, so it should be no surprise that non-Acadian members of those families came to the colony during the French and Spanish periods.  The first of them arrived in the 1710s, and Foreign-French Bourgeoiss and LeBourgeoiss were still coming to Louisiana in the early 1850s.  By the late colonial period, three Bourgeois brothers from the German Coast had settled among their Acadian namesakes in Iberville Parish, on Bayou Lafourche, and along lower Bayou Teche, complicating the family's genealogical picture in those areas.  Their numbers, however, never came close to those of their Acadian namesakes.  A few of their descendants chose Acadian spouses, but, like most French Creoles of South Louisiana, even in districts where Acadians were numerous, they tended to marry their own kind.  The same held true for a large LeBourgeois family from New Orleans who settled on the Acadian Coast during the late colonial period but married mostly fellow Creoles.  One branch of this family settled near French Settlement, Livingston Parish, north of the Amite River, where an Acadian Bourgeois also settled.  The town of Coteau Bourgeois in Livingston Parish a few miles southeast of French Settlement attests to the commonality of the name there.  ...

Dozens of Bourgeoiss, both Acadian and Creole, served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65.  At least three of them lost their lives in Confederate service.  ...

In Louisiana, the Acadian and Creole families' name also is spelled Bourgois, Bourjois, Burgeois, Bursua.61  

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Six Acadian Bourgeoiss--three brothers, one of them with a wife and infant daughter, the others still bachelors, and two of their married sisters--reached New Orleans from Halifax via Cap-Français with the Broussards in February 1765 and followed them in April to Bayou Teche, but not all of them remained.  Each of the brothers created robust family lines on the prairies, the river, and upper Bayou Lafourche:

Joseph (c1736-1812) à Claude à Charles à Jacques dit Jacob Bourgeois

Joseph, second son of Paul Bourgeois and his first wife Marie-Josèphe Brun, born probably at Chignecto in c1736, escaped the British roundup there in the fall of 1755 and followed his family into exile on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  In November 1759, he married Marie Girouard of Chignecto at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  After the French garrison at Restigouche surrendered in October 1760, the British sent hundreds of the Acadians captured there and in other places in the region to prison compounds in Nova Scotia, where they held them for the rest of the war.  Marie gave Joseph a daughter, Marie, born in one of those compounds in c1763.  In 1764-65, Joseph, his family, two of his younger brothers, and a married sister followed the Broussards from Halifax to New Orleans.  After a brief respite in the city, they followed them to lower Bayou Teche that spring.  Though no member of his family perished from the sickness that summer and fall, Joseph, his brothers, and a sister retreated with dozens of other Teche-valley Acadians to Cabahannocer on the river, where their older brother Paul, fils had recently settled.  Joseph and Marie remained at Cabahannocer, where more children were born to them, including Scholastique in c1771; Céleste or Célestine baptized, age unrecorded, in October 1774; Pierre-Paul baptized, age unrecorded, in May 1780; and Joseph-Simon, called Simon, baptized, age unrecorded, in February 1781--five children, three daughters and two sons, between 1763 and 1781, in greater Acadia and Louisiana.  In 1779, Joseph held four slaves on his farm at Cabahannocer, an impressive number for an Acadian living on the river at that time.  He died in St. James Parish in December 1812.  The priest who recorded the burial said Joseph died "age about 80 yrs."  He was in his late 70s.  Daughters Scholastique and Céleste married into the Picou, Melançon, and Landry families and settled on the western prairies.  Joseph's granddaughter Scholastique Marie Picou, widow of Agricole Breaux, founded the village of Breaux Bridge, St. Martin Parish, on the middle Teche in the early 1830s--apropos for a descendant of Jacques dit Jacob Bourgeois.  Both of Joseph's sons married, but only one of the lines endured. 

Older son Pierre-Paul may have married fellow Acadian Madeleine Pitre and settled on Bayou Darbonne, place and date unrecorded.  Their son Pierre, fils was born on the river at Ascension above Cabahannocer in November 1805.   One wonders if the family line endured. 

Joseph's younger son Joseph-Simon, called Simon, married Marcellite, daughter of Michel Judice and Jeanne Croiset, at Ascension in October 1803.  Marcellite's paternal grandfather, Louis Judice, had once been commandant of the Cabahannocer and Ascension districts under both the French and the Spanish.  Her and Simon's children, born in what became St. James Parish, included Ovide in August 1804; Caroline baptized at the St. James church, age 6 months, in March 1807; Aurore born in May 1809; Hortense in March 1811; Séraphin Valcour, called Valcour, in March 1813; Euphémie in July 1815; Simon, fils in October 1817; and Lucien Horter or Arthur, also called Arthur and Arthur Lucien, baptized at the St. James church, age unrecorded, in May 1820--eight children, four sons and four daughters, between 1804 and 1820.  Simon, père died in St. James Parish in January 1821.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Simon died at "age 44 yrs."  He probably was closer to age 40.  Daughters Caroline, Hortense, Euphémie, and Aurore married into the Dongieux, Arceneaux, Webre, and Coquille families.  Two of Simon's sons also married.  One moved to Bayou Lafourche but produced no new family line there.  The younger son and a daughter settled on the western prairies.  His other two sons remained on the river, though none seems to have created a family of his own.

Second son Séraphin Valcour, called Valcour, perhaps after he came of age, moved to upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Clémentine, daughter of Joseph Simoneaux and Clémence Bergeron, a Creole, not a fellowAcadian, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in September 1835.  Valcour may have died near Plattenville in September 1846.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Valcour died at age "23 yrs."  Séraphin Valcour would have been 33.  One wonders if he and his wife had any children.   

Simon's fourth and youngest son Lucien Arthur, called Arthur, followed his older sister Hortense to the western prairies, where she married into the Arceneaux family.  Arthur, called Oster Lucien by the recording priest, married Azélie Marie, called Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Maximilien Prejean and Phelonie Thibodeau, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in April 1842.  They settled probably near Carencro, at the northern edge of Lafayette Parish, before moving to Bois Mallet, farther out on the St. Landry prairies.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Marie Aurore in January 1843; Simon le jeune in December 1844; Marie Armine or Hermine, called Hermine, in December 1846; Joseph Homer, called Homer or Omère, in November 1848; Marie Ermisa in February 1851; Marie Felonise in January 1853 but, called Felonise, died at age 2 1/2 in October 1855; Lucien Orter or Arthur, fils born in August 1854; Hortense in 1856 but died at age 8 months in March 1857; Marie Victorine born in February 1857; Joseph Séraphin in January 1858 but, called Séraphin, died at Bois Mallet, age 4, in April 1862; Clémentine born in June 1860; Paul Desthe probably at Bois Mallet in July 1862; and Clarvi posthumously in February 1864--13 children, seven daughters and six sons, between 1843 and 1864.  Arthur, called Orter by the Opelousas priest who recorded the burial, died probably at Bois Mallet in July 1863, age 43.  Bois Mallet was the hangout of the notorious band of Jayhawkers led by Ozémé Carrière, so one wonders if Arthur's death was war-related.  His youngest son was born seven months after his death.  Arthur's succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in August 1866.  Daughters Hermine, ... married into the Lavergne, Cary, and Leger families by 1870.  Two of Lucien Arthur's sons also married by then, one of them after his war service.  They and their descendants settled in St. Landry and Acadia parishes. 

During the war, oldest son Simon le jeune served in Company K of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Landry Parish, which fought in Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana, and in Company C of  the Consolidated 18th Regiment and Yellow Jackets Battalion Louisiana Infantry, which fought in Louisiana.  He was captured at the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana, in April 1864 but was exchanged a few days later and rejoined his unit.  He survived the war, returned to his family, and married Onesia, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Benoit, fils and Marcellite Lebert, at the Church Point church, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in April 1866.  Their children, born near Church Point, included Joseph Armand in January 1867; Joseph in January 1868; ...  Simon died in St. Landry Parish in December 1873, age 29. 

Arthur Lucien's second son Joseph Homer married cousin Constance, daughter of fellow Acadians Gérard Prejean and Scholastique Leger, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in July 1868.  Their son Arthur le jeune was born in St. Landry Parish in September 1869; ... 

Michel (c1741-c1811) à Claude à Charles à Jacques dit Jacob Bourgeois

Michel, third son of Paul Bourgeois and his first wife Marie-Josèphe Brun, born probably at Chignecto in c1741, escaped the British roundup there in the fall of 1755 and followed his family into exile on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Like his older married brothers, Michel ended up a prisoner in Nova Scotia in the early 1760s.  He, his older brother, his younger brother, and two of their married sisters followed the Broussards to New Orleans in 1764-65 and to lower Bayou Teche in April.  That autumn, after a mysterious epidemic struck the Teche valley settlements, Michel joined his brothers and dozens of other Acadians in a retreat to Cabahannocer on the river.  He married Anne-Osite, daughter of fellow Acadians Abraham dit Petit Abram Landry and his first wife Élisabeth LeBlanc, at Cabahannocer in May 1768.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer, included Sophie in c1769; Angélique baptized, age unrecorded, in June 1771; Victoire baptized, age unrecorded, in January 1773; Jean-Baptiste baptized, age unrecorded, in July 1774; Marie-Anne baptized, age unrecorded, in April 1776; Jacques born in August 1778; Marie-Mélanie baptized, age unrecorded, in April 1780; Michel, fils born in c1781; and Louis in c1784--nine children, five daughters and four sons, between 1771 and 1784.  In 1779, Michel owned a single slave on his farm at Cabahannocer.  By the early 1790s, he and Anne had joined the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Michel's succession inventory was filed at what became the Thibodauxville courthouse, Lafourche Interior Parish, in June 1811.  He would have been about age 70 that year.  Daughters Angélique, Sophie, Victoire, and Marie-Mélanie married into the Arceneaux, Louvière, Pitre, Foret, Savoie, and Haché families. Three of Michel's sons also married, and each of them created vigorous lines.  Two remained on Bayou Lafourche.  His youngest son and a daughter "returned" to the western prairies.  

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste married cousin Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, Anne, and Nanon, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Theriot and Marie-Madeleine Bourgeois, at Cabahannocer in April 1795.  They followed his parents to upper Bayou Lafourche and lived near the boundary of what became Ascension and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born on the river and the upper bayou, included Pierre-Cyprien, called Cyprien, at Cabahannocer in February 1796; Valéry in February 1798; Jean-Baptiste-Ursin, in c1800; Hilaire either at Cabahanncoer or on the upper Lafourche in c1806; Eugène Joseph in May 1807; Mélisaire in February 1810; and Paul Sosthène, called Sosthène, in c1813--seven children, six sons and a daughter, between 1796 and 1813.  Jean Baptiste's succession inventory, naming his wife, was filed at the Interior Parish courthouse in March 1818.  He would have been his early or mid-40s then.  Another succession inventory in his name, listing his wife and children and one of their ages--Paul Sosthène, age 20; Pierre Cyprien; Valéry; Jean Baptiste Ursin; Hilaire; Eugène; and Mélicère and her husband--was filed at the Lafourche Interior Parish courthouse in November 1832.  If he was still living, Jean Baptiste would have been in his late 50s then.  Daughter Mélisaire married a Landry cousin.  Jean Baptiste's six sons also married, settled in Assumption and Lafourche Interior parishes, and created vigorous lines there. 

Oldest son Pierre Cyprien, called Cyprien, married cousin Marie Céleste or Célesie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Landry and Anastasie LeBlanc of Lafourche, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in July 1819.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Lessein or Lessin in February 1822; Marie Adèle in March 1828; Pierre Evelin or Evelien in September 1830; Céleste Justine, called Justine, in December 1832; Cyprien Théophil or Théophile, called Théophile, in February 1835; Maximilien, Marcillien, or Marcellin Semigène in February 1837; and Félix Théodore in October 1839--seven children, five sons and two daughters, between 1822 and 1839.  Paul Cyprien died probably in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1851, age 55.  A petition for succession inventory in his name, listing his wife, children, one of their spouses, and some of their ages--Marie Adèle and her husband; Pierre Evilien; Justine, age "about 17 yrs."; Théophile, age "about 16 yrs.,"; Marcellin, age "about 14 yrs."; and Félix, age "about 12 yrs."--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in February 1852.  Daughters Marie Adèle and Céleste Justine married into the Waguespack and Foret families by 1870.  Three of Pierre Cyprien's sons also married by then and settled down bayou.

Second son Pierre Evelien married Froselie, Frozelie, Phroisilie, or Roselie Mélanie, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Deterville Foret and his Creole wife Mélanie Autin, at the Raceland church, Lafourche Parish, in August 1853.  Their children, born near Raceland, included Pierre Joseph in December 1856; Paul Ernest in December 1859; Arthur Adam in July 1865; Marie Evellia in April 1868; Léo Cyprien in December 1870; ...

Cyprien's third son Théophile married Eléonore or Léonore, daughter of Fergus Bourgeois, a Creole, not a fellow Acadian, and Eugénie Baudoin, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in April 1867.  Their children, born near Raceland, included February 1868; Joseph Walene in December 1869; ... 

Cyprien's fourth son Marcillien married Emma, daughter of John Brom or Bronn and Justine Pontiff, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in October 1865.  Their children, born near Raceland, included Marie Olinda in October 1866; Marie Augusta in April 1868; Marguerite Velleda in December 1869; ...  Marcillien died near Raceland in April 1913, age 76.

Jean Baptiste's second son Valéry, at age 31 (the recording priest said 27), married Théotiste, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Blaise Julien Boudreaux and Perrine Barrilleaux, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in June 1829.  They settled on the upper bayou near the boundary of Assumption and Lafourche Interior parishes.  Their children, born there, included Armogène or Hermogène Valéry in September 1830 but died at age 22 (the recording priest said 21) in November 1852; Onésippe born in c1833 but, called Philomène Onésie, died at age 20 in September 1853; Eulalie Uranie, called Uranie, born in October 1834; Marie Mathilde, called Mathilde, in the 1830s; Marie Eulalie in April 1837; Arsène Marcillien, called Marcillien, born in November 1839; François Blaise or Blaise François in February 1842; Marie Madeleine in November 1844 but, called simply "girl," may have died near Raceland, Lafourche Parish, age 10, in July 1854; André Désiré, called Désiré, born near Labadieville, Assumption Parish, in November 1847; and Pauline Théophanie, called Théophanie, in January 1850--10 children, five sons and five daughters, between 1830 and 1850.  Valéry died in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1851.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial said that Valéry died "at age 55 yrs."  He was 53.  A petition for succession inventory in his name, calling him Valérie, his wife Théotiste Bourgeois, and listing his children, dead or alive, including one of their spouses--Uranie and her husband, Marcillien, Blaise, Marie, Désiré, Théophalie, Mathilde and her husband, Hermogène (deceased), and Onésyppe (deceased)--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in September 1856.  Daughters Uranie, Marie Mathilde, Marie, and Théophanie married into the Lejeune, Stempel, Tailleux, Coursier, and Berthelot famillies, one of them, Marie Mathilde, twice, by 1870.  Two of Valéry's sons also married by then. 

Third son Arsène Marcillien, called Marcillien, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Adrien Thibodeaux and Marcellite Robichaux, at the Thibodaux church in July 1859.  They settled on the upper bayou near the boundary of Lafourche and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie Émelia in September 1860; Étienna Victoria in December 1861; Joseph Émile in July 1863; Alfred Jean in April 1866; Louis Ferry Clay in June 1867; Ida Cécilia in November 1868; Philippe Étienne in August 1870; ...

Valéry's fourth son Blaise François married Marie Valentine, daughter of Drosin Triche and Joséphine Trosclair, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in December 1866.  Their children, born near Labadieville, included Joseph Edgard Aristide in August 1867; Berthe Marie Corine in December 1868; ... 

Jean Baptiste's third son Jean Baptiste Ursin married Julienne Marie, Marcelline, or Marcellite, daughter of fellow Acadians Donat Landry and Geneviève Stiven, at the Thibodauxville church in July 1824.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Justilien in October 1825; Marie Mélasie, perhaps also called Ordalie, in August 1827; Ursin Eulice or Ulysse, called Ulysse, in December 1829; Paul Théogène in July 1832; Adolphe Edmond, called Edmond, in May 1836; Jean Pierre Alidore in March 1840; Pierre Édouard in June 1842; and Marie Estelle near Raceland in October 1852--eight children, six sons and two daughters, between 1825 and 1852.  Jean Baptiste Ursin died near Raceland in June 1870, age 70.  A petition for succession administration in his name, naming his wife and listing some his children--Justilien (deceased) and his wife, Ulysse, Adolphe (deceased) and his wife, and Pierre--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse two days after his death.  Daughter Ordalie married into the Baudoin family by 1870.  Four of Jean Baptiste Ursin's sons also married by then, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Justilien married cousin Mélissaire, daughter of fellow Acadians Benjamin Landry and Delphine Breaux, at the Thibodaux church in May 1849.  Their children, born near Raceland, included Pierre Ernest in February 1856 but died in March; and Marie Félicia born in August 1857.  During the War of 1861-65, Justilien, called Justilene in Confederate records, may have served in the Lafourche Parish Regiment Militia.  In October 1862, he was captured along with most of his regiment at the Battle of Labadieville in nearby Assumption Parish and paroled by the Federals in early November.  He died near Raceland in March 1863.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Justilien died "at age 36 yrs."  He was 37.  A petition for a family meeting in his name, calling his wife Mélicère Landry, identifying her new husband, and listing two children--Célina and Ophillia--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in December 1870.  Was Justilien's death war-related?  His only son died an infant, and his daughter did not marry by 1870. 

Jean Baptiste Ursin's second son Ulysse married Charlotte, daughter of Jean Valéry Barras and his Acadian wife Léonise Pitre, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in June 1865.  Their children, born in Lafourche Parish, included Marie Alice in November 1867; Marie Léonise in April 1870; ...

Jean Baptiste Ursin's fourth son Adolphe Edmond married cousin Adilia or Adelia Bourgeois in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in March 1863.  Their children, born near Raceland, included Marie Victoria in December 1863 but died the following April; Adolphe, fils born in December 1864; Alphonse in July 1866; Joseph Arthur, called Arthur, in February 1868; and Odilia or Adilia posthumously in June 1869--five children, three sons and two daughters, between 1863 and 1869.  Adolphe Edmond died near Raceland in November 1868.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Adolphe died "at age 28 yrs."  He was 32.  A petition in his name for tutorship of his children, naming his wife and listing his remaining children--Adolphe, Alphonse, Arthur, and Adilia--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in December 1870.  

Jean Baptiste Ursin's sixth and youngest son Pierre Édouard married Marie Eugénie, daughter of Eugène Richoux and his Acadian wife Rosalie Melançon, at the Thibodaux church in January 1866. ...

Jean Baptiste's fourth son Hilaire married Marie Sylvanie Dupré, called Sylvanie, 15-year-old daughter of Paul Dupré Terrebonne and his Acadian wife Constance LeBlanc, at the Thibodauxville church in March 1832.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Élodie in January 1833; Zélide Azéma in October 1835; Élisabeth Huranie or Uranie, called Uranie, in February 1837; and Hippolyte dit Paul in August 1842.  Hilaire remarried to Eméranthe Anaïs, daughter of fellow Acadian Gilbert Melançon and his Creole wife Céleste Eméranthe Champagne, at the Thibodaux church in February 1844.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Hilaire Appolinaire dit Pollinaire, in December 1844; and Pierre Hypolite, called Hypolite, in January 1855--six children, three daughters and three sons, by two wives, between 1833 and 1855.  Hilaire died in Lafourche Parish in February 1864.  The Raceland priest who recorded the burial said that Hilaire died "at age 64 yrs."  He probably was in his late 50s.  (He likely was the Helaire Bourgeois who was recorded as died at Raceland in February 1865, no age given.)  Was his death war-related?  An "Oath of tutrix" for his two younger sons, Polinaire and Hypolite, was filed in his name at the Thibodeaux courthouse in February 1865.  Daughter Uranie, by his first wife, married into the Champagne and Breaux families by 1870.  One of Hilaire's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Hippolyte dit Paul, by first wife Sylvanie Terrebonne, married Marguerite, daughter of French Creoles Fergus Bourgeois and Eugénie Boudoin, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in June 1870. ...

Jean Baptiste's fifth son Eugène Joseph married Mélasie, 19-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Robichaux and Isabelle Babin, at the Thibodauxville church in February 1831.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Eugène Honésime or Onésime, called Onésime, in June 1832 but, called Onézite, died at age 4 (the recording priest said 5) in September 1836; Louis le jeune born in August 1834; Joseph Adam, called J. Adam and Adam, in January 1840; Marie Eve in July 1844; and Pierre Cyprien, called Cyprien, le jeune in January 1851 and, designated "a minor," received his legal emancipation in Lafourche Parish at age 19 in January 1870--five children, four sons and a daughter, between 1832 and 1851.  Eugène died "during [a] yellow fever epidemic" in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1853.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said Eugène died "at age 45 yrs."  He was 46.  Daughter Marie Eve married into the Lejeune family by 1870.  Two of Eugène Joseph's sons also married by then. 

Second son Louis le jeune married Célestine, daughter of fellow Acadians Victorin Breaux and Delvina Hébert, at the Raceland church in April 1856.  Their children, born near Raceland, included Marie Louisa in December 1858; Marie Mathilde in October 1860; Louis Ernest in April 1862; Julia Ernestine in July 1863; Marie Zulema in January 1865; Joseph Argus in September 1866; Eugène Armand in December 1867; Eugénie Armantine in June 1869; ... 

Eugène Joseph's third son Joseph Adam, calld J. Adam and Adam, married, at age 19, Marguerite, daughter of Jean Valéry Barras and his Acadian wife Léonise Pitre, at the Thibodaux church in July 1859.  They evidently settled near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Terrebonne parishes.  Their children, born there, included Laura Léonise in February 1860; Marie Sarah in July 1864; and Joseph Franklin in October 1865--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1860 and 1865.  During the War of 1861-65, Joseph Adam may have been the Adam Bourgeois who enlisted in Company H of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Terrebonne Parish, which fought at Vicksburg.  Adam enlisted in the company in Terrebonne Parish in March 1862, age 22.  He followed his regiment to Vicksburg and was present on company rolls through October of that year.  During the siege of May-July 1863, Adam was "severely wounded" on June 10.  He was still with his regiment when it surrendered with other Confederate forces at Vicksburg on July 4.  Adam evidently was allowed to return home to await exchange, but he did not report to the exchange camp at Alexandria, Virginia, in the summer of 1864.  He was captured by the Federals probably at his home in early October 1864 and sent to New Orleans as a prisoner of war.  While his regimental mates, now exchanged, were serving in central Louisiana, the Federals transferred Adam in late October from New Orleans to Ship Island, Mississippi, and then forwarded him to Fort Columbus, New York harbor, where he arrived in early November.  Held there for a time, he was sent on to the prisoner-of-war camp at Elmira, New York, which he reached in late November.  He languished there until the Federals paroled him in late February 1865.  They then shipped him to the James River, Virginia, where he was finally exchanged, probably in March, on the eve of Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia.  As the birth of his younger son reveals, Adam survived his ordeal as a wayward POW and returned to his family.  At age 30, he remarried to Elmire, daughter of Joseph Adrien LeBlanc and Elzenita Porche, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in January 1870. ...

Jean Baptiste's sixth and youngest son Paul Sosthène, called Sosthène, married Marie Adèle, daughter of Jacques Grabert and his Acadian wife Madeleine Gaudin of St. James Parish, at the Thibodauxville church in March 1837.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Paul Eluis or Oleus, called Oleus, in November 1837; Jean Baptiste le jeune in October 1839; Mathilde Euranie in December 1841; Pierre Théogène in June 1845; and Marie Mathilde in February 1847--five children, three sons and two daughters, between 1837 and 1847.  Daughter Mathilde married into the Theriot family by 1870.  One of Sosthène's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Paul Oleus, called Oleus, married Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadian François Célestin, called Célestin, Guidry and his Creole wife Marie Dufrene, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in September 1863.  Their children, born near Raceland, included Marguerite in March 1865; Pierre Clovis in July 1866; Joseph in November 1867; Hélène in May 1869; ... 

Michel's third son Michel, fils followed his parents to upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marie, daughter of Louis Stiven and his Acadian wife Marie Babin of Nantes, France, in July 1800.  They remained on the Lafourche, living near the boundary between what became Ascension and Assumption parishes before moving down bayou to the Raceland area of Lafourche Interior Parish.  Their children, born on the bayou, included Michel III in July 1801; Anastasie in August 1804; Maximilien in September 1805; Émilie, perhaps also called Mélite, in March 1807; Joséphine in May 1808; Mélasie in the 1810s; Lucien in c1814; Leufroi in c1815; Eugène in September 1816; Valéry Rosémond in July 1819; and Joseph Appoléon or Napoléon, called Napoléon, in August 1821--11 children, seven sons and four daughters, between 1801 and 1821.  Wife Marie, called "Mrs. Michel Bourgeois" by the recording priest, died near Raceland, age 80, in October 1863.  Michel, fils died in Lafourche Parish in February 1865.  The Raceland priest who recorded the burial said that Michel died "at age 85 yrs."  "Letters and bonds of administration" were filed in his name at the Thibodeaux courthouse in March 1866.  Daughters Anastasie, Mélite, Joséphine, and Mélasie married into the Cross, Shaffer, Norris, and Sevin families.  Six of Michel, fils's sons also married and settled in Lafourche Interior Parish, but not all of the lines endured.

Second son Maximilien married Mathilde, daughter of fellow Acadians Aubin Bénoni Thibodaux, second son of the former governor, and Eugénie Hébert, at the Thibodauxville church in October 1835.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Aubin Onisipe or Onésippe in June 1839 but, called Onésippe, died at age 10 in May 1849; and twins Henry Alfred, called Alfred, and Michel Alceste or Alceste Michel born in June 1841--three children, all sons, between 1839 and 1841.  Both of Maximilien's twin sons married and settled on the Lafourche. 

Michel Alceste, a twin, married Henriette Noble, daughter of Joseph William Tucker and his Acadian wife Marceline Emeline Gaudet, at the Thibodaux church in August 1867. ...

Henry Alfred, Michel Alceste's twin, married Sarah Louisa, daughter of Willington Evans and his Acadian wife Clémentine Élisabeth Gaudet, at the Thibodaux church in August 1868.  Their children, born in Lafourche Parish, included twins Louis and Louise in October 1869; ... 

Michel, fils's third son Lucien married Élizabeth, 18-year-old daughter of Joseph Stoufflet and Rosalie Schwester, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in September 1836.  One wonders if they had any children. 

Michel, fils's fourth son Leufroi married Marie Virginie, called Virginie, daughter of Jean Baptiste Montet and his Acadian wife Marie Michel, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in June 1836.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Leufroi, fils in April 1837; Michel Valfroy or Valfroi, called Valfroi, in June 1838; Marie Mélasie in February 1841; Victoria Euphrosine in September 1842; Marie Théodarina or Théodora, called Théodora, in February 1846; Émelie, Henley, or Annely in the late 1840s; and Virginie in March 1851--seven children, two sons and five daughters, between 1837 and 1851.  Leufroi died in Lafourche Parish in October 1854.  The Raceland priest who recorded the burial, and who gave no parents' names or mentioned a wife, said that Leufroy, as he called him, died "at age 40 yrs."  A petition for tutorship for two of his daughters, Théodora and Annely, was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in April 1866.  Daughters Marie Mélasie and Émelie/Henley married into the Folse and Rossy families, and Victoria perhaps into the Toups family, by 1870.  Leufroi's two sons also married by then.

Older son Leufroi, fils may have married fellow Acadian Désirée, also called Madeleine, Robichaux, place and date unrecorded.  Their children, born on the lower Lafourche, included Leufroi Albert near Raceland in January 1866; Aymée Odelia near Lockport in November 1869; ... 

Leufroi's younger son Valfroi married Joséphine, daughter of Jean McClellan McKnight and Anne E. Jarvis, at the Thibodaux church in June 1867.  The marriage also was registered in Terrebonne Parish. ...

Michel, fils's fifth son Eugène married Céleste or Célestine, 20-year-old daughter of Simon Hotard and ____ Bossier, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in April 1836, and sanctified the marriage at the Thibodaux church in January 1851.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Eléonore Élisa in January 1837 but, called Marie Élisa, died at age 3 1/2 in June 1840; Marguerite Émilie, perhaps also called Élisa or Éliza, born in January 1838; Eugène Prospère or Prosper in March 1839; Pierre Thimoléon or Timoléon in May 1840; Adam Cornelius in late 1841 but died at age 4 months in February 1842; Clairice or Clonise born probably in the early 1840s; Adam Eugène Maximilien, called Maximilien and Mack, in February 1846; Joseph Lucien in October 1847; Joséphine in June 1849; and Marie Eugénie in November 1850 but, called Eugénie, died the following January--10 children, five daughters and five sons, between 1837 and 1850.  A petition for tutelage for two of his children--Éliza, listed with her husband; and Maximilien--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in Eugène's name in April 1859.  He would have been age 48 that year.  Daughters Élisa/Éliza, Clairice/Clonise, and Joséphine married into the Price, Folse, and Fauche or Touche families by 1870.  Two of Eugène's sons also married by then.

Fourth son Maximilien married Mathilde, daughter of fellow Acadian Chrejustin Martin and his Creole wife Marie Modeste Lecompte, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in June 1865.  Their children, born in Lafourche Parish, included Édouard Joseph, called Eddie, in September 1867; Adam near Raceland in March 1869; Pierre Albert in November 1870; Eugène Marcellin in January 1872; Pierre Allain in December 1873; ...

Eugène's fifth and youngest son Joseph Lucien married Julie, daughter of Alexis Folse and Manette Miller, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in March 1869. ...

Michel, fils's sixth son Valéry Rosémond married Céleste, daughter of Joseph Dufrene and his Acadian wife Marie Arceneaux, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in July 1845.  Their son Joseph Lucien le jeune was born near Lockport in January 1850.  Valéry Rosémond died Lafourche Parish in July 1854.  The Raceland priest who recorded the burial said that Valéry Rosémond died "at age 30 yrs."  He was 35.  A petition for tutorship for his five[sic]-year-old son Joseph, who was 4 1/2, was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in September 1854.  His son did not marry by 1870. 

Michel, fils's seventh and youngest son Joseph Napoléon, called Napoléon, married Clémentine Matherne in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in January 1843, and sanctified the marriage at the Thibodaux church in March 1844.  Their son Joseph was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in the early 1840s.  Joseph Napoléon remarried to Honorine Angélique Rossi at Lockport in September 1876.  She had given him a daughter named Eve in c1868; ...  His son married by 1870. 

Only son Joseph, by first wife Clémentine Matherne, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles LeBlanc and Elida Breaux, at the Lockport church in April 1864.  Their son Joseph Napoléon le jeune was born near Raceland in March 1865; ... 

Michel, père's fourth and youngest son Louis followed his parents to upper Bayou Lafourche.  When he came of age, he crossed the Atchafalaya Basin, married, and settled on upper Bayou Vermilion near his in-laws--the first Acadian Bourgeois male to "return" to the western prairies.  He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians René LeBlanc and Marguerite Trahan, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in February 1806.  His children, born on the upper Vermilion, included Adélard in November 1806; Urbain in April 1809; Maximilien in August 1811 but died at age 23 (the recording priest said 22) in September 1834; Benjamin Carmilien born in February 1814; Édouard in March 1817; Anathalie or Anatalie in May 1819; Sosthènes in September 1821 but died at age 12 in August 1834; Ulalie or Eulalie born in 1824 and baptized, age 14 months, in May 1826; and Léonard born in July 1827--nine children, seven sons and two daughters, between 1806 and 1827.  Louis died probably in Terrebonne Parish in March 1856, in his early 70s, so he evidently had followed some of his sons to the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley.  A succession inventory evidently had been conducted in Lafourche Interior Parish in May 1846.  Another petition for succession inventory, giving his date of death and listing most of his children and some of their spouses--Urbain; Adélard; Éduard[sic]; Léonard; Anathalie and her husband; Eulalie and her husband and noting she was dead; and Benjamin, noting he was dead as well--was filed in his name at the Houma courthouse the month of his death.  A "Petition & Final Account" in his name and identifying his son Urbain "of Assumption" was filed at the Houma courthouse in December 1866, a decade after his passing.  Daughters Anatalie and Eulalie married into the Frederick and Baudoin families.  Five of Louis's sons also married, but not all of the lines endured.  Most of them and a daughter left the prairies and settled near their cousins on Bayou Lafourche. 

Oldest son Adélard married Adeline dite Divine, daughter of Alphonse Baudoin and Geneviève Toups, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in March 1834; Adélard's sister Eulalie married Divine's brother Pierre Benini.  Adélard and Divine moved to upper Bayou Lafourche by the early 1840s.  Their children, born on the prairies and the upper Lafourche, included Marguerite in Lafayette Parish in February 1835; Marie Zeire or Zélie baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in July 1837; Natalie Céleste born in Assumption Parish in January 1842; twins Eugène and Camille Adrien in April 1846; Eulalie Rosine in April 1848; Pélagie in July 1850; and Marie Euranie in December 1854--eight children, six daughters and two sons, including a set of twins, between 1835 and 1854.  Daughter Marie Zélie married into the Boudreaux family by 1870.  Neither of Adélard's sons married by then. 

Louis's second son Urbain married Olive, daughter of fellow Acadians Éloi Landry and Julienne Trahan, at the Vermilionville church in April 1833.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Calide, a daughter, baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in March 1834; Justilien born in September 1835 but died at age 2 in September 1837; Urbain Marcillien, called Marcillien, born in late 1837 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 40 days, in January 1838; Alphonsine born in January 1839; Onésime in March 1842; and Marie, perhaps also called Anonciade, in c1846--six children, three daughters and three sons, between 1834 and 1846.  Urbain followed his brothers to Bayou Lafourche and died in Lafourche Parish in October 1867, age 58, though a "Petition & Final Account" in his father's name, dated 24 Dec 1866, called him Urbain "of Assumption," where he was counted in the federal census in 1860.  Daughters Calide and Marie married into the Joret and Bellocq families in Assumption and Terrebonne parishes by 1870.  None of Urbain's sons married by then. 

Louis's fourth son Benjamin Carmilien married Anatalie or Nathalie Fécile, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Florentin Bourque and Josèphe Thibodeau, at the Vermilionville church in April 1837.  Daughter Amélie was born in Lafayette Parish in May 1838.  Benjamin's succession, likely post-mortem, naming his wife and his only child, Amélie,was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in February 1842.  He would have been age 28 that year.  Another succession for Benjamin Bourgeois was filed at the Franklin courthouse, St. Mary Parish, in October 1850.  Was this him, too?  In March 1856, he was listed as deceased in his father's succession.  Daughter Amélie, called Amilie in her nuptial record, married into the Hébert family.  Benjamin fathered no sons, or at least none who appear in local church records, so his line of the family, except for its blood, likely died with him. 

Louis's fifth son Édouard married Julienne Adeline, called Adeline, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Boudreaux and Marie Mélanie Gautreaux, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1841; the recording priest noted that Édouard was "of St. James parish," but he had been born in St. Martin Parish.  He and Julienne remained in Assumption Parish until the late 1850s, by which time they had moved down bayou into Lafourche Parish.  They were living in Terrebonne Parish in the early 1860s.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Julienne Eulalie in May 1842; Domitille in September 1843; Alcide Adam, called Adam, in May 1845; Léa Eveline in March 1847; Marie Aloisca in May 1849; Étienne Joseph in March 1854; Marie Zoé Stephanie in August 1859; and Marie Élisabeth in Terrebonne Parish in February 1863--eight children, six daughters and two sons, between 1842 and 1863.  None of Édouard's daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did. 

Older son Alcide Adam, called Adam, married cousin Alvina or Elvina, daughter of fellow Acadians Zénon Bourgeois and Elina Gaudet, at the Thibodaux church in June 1869. ...

Louis's seventh and youngest son Léonard married Mathilde, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste F. Bourg and Clarisse Daigle, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in July 1848.  They remained on the upper Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Emilcar in August 1849; Émilina in January 1851; Augustin in September 1852; and Marie Alida in July 1854--four children, two sons and two daughters, between 1849 and 1854.  Léonard died probably on upper Bayou Lafourche between 1866 and 1872, in his late 30s or early 40s.  Daughter ... married into the Gallet family at Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, on the southwest prairies.  Neither of Léonard's sons married by 1870.

Pierre (1745-1815) à Claude à Charles à Jacques dit Jacob Bourgeois

Pierre, fourth son of Paul Bourgeois and his first wife Marie-Josèphe Brun, born at Chignecto in January 1745, escaped the British roundup there in the fall of 1755 and followed his family into exile on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Like his older brothers, he ended up in a prison compound in Nova Scotia in the early 1760s.  He and his older brothers and two of their married sisters followed the Broussards to New Orleans in 1764-65.  After a brief respite in the city, they followed the Broussards to Bayou Teche in the spring.  That autumn, after a mysterious epidemic devastated the Teche valley settlements, Pierre joined his brothers, a sister, and dozens of other Acadians in a retreat to Cabahannocer on the river, where at age 22, Pierre married Marie, 17-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Bergeron dit de Nantes and his fourth wife Marie-Jeanne Hébert of Annapolis Royal and Rivière St.-Jean, in November 1767.  Marie also had come to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765, with an older sister, but not with the Broussards.  Her and Pierre's children, born on the river, included Pierre, fils at Cabahannocer in August 1769; Joseph baptized at the New Orleans church, age unrecorded, in November 1771; Anne-Marie baptized at Cabahannocer, age unrecorded, in June 1773; Marie-Louise baptized, age unrecorded, in August 1775; Olivier baptized, age unrecorded, in November 1777; François-Xavier baptized, age unrecorded, in November 1779; Marie-Madeleine born in September 1782; Étienne in c1784 or 1785; Rosalie in January 1787; Françoise in January 1789; Françoise-Marcelline or -Marcellite, also called Mélite and Marcelline, in March 1791; Alexandre-Urbin, called Urbin, in February 1794 but died in St. James Parish, age 28, in October 1822; and Marie-Azélie, called Azélie, born in January 1800 but died at age 20 in April 1820--13 children, six sons and seven daughters, between 1769 and 1800.  In 1779, Pierre owned a single slave on his farm at Cabahannocer.  He died in St. James Parish in January 1815, age 69.  Daughters Marie, Marie-Louise, Marie-Madeleine, Rosalie, and Françoise Mélite married into the Chole or Jolie, Gaudet, Gravois, Mollard or Moulard, and LeBlanc families.  Four of Pierre's sons also married.  One remained on the river, another moved to upper Bayou Lafourche in the 1810s, and two of Pierre's sons and a daughter moved to the western prairies, establishing lasting lines in the three major areas of Acadian settlement.  

Oldest son Pierre, fils married Marie-Modeste, called Modeste, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Savoie and Judith Arceneaux, at Cabahannocer in April 1795.  Their children, born on the river and on the upper Lafourche, included Alexandre in April 1799; Simon in c1800; Adeline, also called Adèle, baptized at Cabahannocer, age 18 months, in July 1803; Eugène born in April 1804; Joseph Hermogène in December 1806; Marie Edene or Edesie, perhaps also called Marie Eurasie, in January 1809; Marie, perhaps also called Marie Eurasie, baptized at the St. James church, age 3 months, in October 1811; Désiré born in October 1815[sic] and baptized at the St. James church, age 1 1/2, in January 1817; Élise born in December 1815[sic] and baptized at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, age 4 1/2, in May 1820; and Eugène Émile born in Assumption Parish in June 1820--10 children, six sons and four daughters, between 1799 and 1820.  Pierre died near Convent, St. James Parish, in June 1825, age 56.  Daughters Adeline, Marie Eurasie, and Élise married into the Rossi, Matherne, and Dufrene families.  Four of Pierre, fils's sons also married. 

Oldest son Alexandre, at age 37, married Marie Clémence, called Clémence, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Bertrand and Henriette Rassicot, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in August 1836.  Their daughter Clémence Roséma was born on the Lafourche in May 1837.  Alexandre, at age 47, remarried to Marie Armélise, called Armélise, daughter of Narcisse Fremin and his Acadian wife Feralie Gautreaux, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in May 1846.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Alexandrine in July 1846; and Azémilia dite Tremie in c1848--three children, perhaps all daughters, by two wives, between 1837 and the late 1840s.  Alexandre's succession inventory, naming his wives, calling his second wife Marie Valandris, and listing his children--Clémence from his first marriage; and Marie and Tremie from his second marriage--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in September 1851.  Alexandre would have been age 52 that year.  His widow evidently remarried to a Perez.  Alexandre's daughters Clémence and Azémilia, by both wives, married into the Vognet and Landry families by 1870.

Pierre, fils's second son Simon married Marie Louise or Léonise, also called Cléonise, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand Breaux and Céleste Landry, at the St. James church, St. James Parish, in August 1818 and followed his parents to upper Bayou Lafourche.  They settled on the upper bayou near the boundary between Ascension and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Simon Massère in April 1819; Madeleine Léonise in November 1820 but, called Léonise, died at age 1 1/2 in August 1822; Auguste Valcour born in June 1822 but, called Valcour, died at age 24 (the recording priest said 23) in September 1846; Marie Félicie Antoinette born in December 1824 but, called Marie Antoinette Félicie, died at age 22 (the recording priest said 20) in July 1847; Justus born in November 1826 but, called Juste, died at age 21 (the recording priest said 20) in January 1848; and Marie Adorestine, called Adorestine, born in September 1830--six children, three sons and three daughters, between 1819 and 1830.  This Simon may have been the Simon Bourgeois who died on the river in August 1834.  The St. Gabriel priest who recorded the burial, and who called the deceased "nat. of St. James Parish" but did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Simon died at age 44.  This Simon would have been in his early or mid-30s.  Daughter Adorestine married into the Daigle family by 1870.  One of Simon's remaining sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Simon Massère married Adeline, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Daigle and Marie Boudreaux, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1855.  Their son Polycarpe Maier was born near Plattenville in January 1856; ... 

Pierre, fils's third son Eugène, at age 19, married Angélique, daughter of Manuel Barrios, also called Bara and Barre, and Marie Delore Placencia, later Plaisance, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1823, and sanctified the marriage at the Thibodauxville church in April 1829.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Eugénie in April 1825; Angèle Modeste in January 1827; Michel Eugène, called Eugène, in September 1831; Julien Evélina or Evéline, called Evéline, in October 1835; Marcelline or Marcelite Hurasie in March 1836; Oculi Désiré in February 1837; Joseph Valemond or Valmond, called Valmond, in August 1839; Marguerite Geneviève in March 1841; Carmélite Philomène in April 1843; Marie Eve Augusta in May 1845; Victor Adam in March 1848; Marie Victoria, called Victoria, in January 1850; and Jules Pierre near Lockport in May 1852--13 children, seven daughters and six sons, between 1825 and 1852.  Daughters Marie Eugénie, Angèle Modeste, Marcelite, Evéline, Marguerite, Marie Eve Augusta, and Victoria married into the Levron, Daigle, Dufrene, Bourgeois, Robichaux, Roger, and Thibodeaux families by 1870.  Three of Eugène's sons also married by then, but not all of the lines endured.

Oldest son Michel Eugène married Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Ledet and his Acadian wife Marie Céleste Molaison, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1852.  Michel Eugène died in Lafourche Parish in May 1854.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial said that Michel died "at age 24 yrs."  He was 22.  His line of the family probably died with  him. 

Eugène's third son Oculi Désiré, called Désiré by the recording clerk, may have married Céline, also called Lela, daughter of Hermogène Cantrelle and his Acadian wife Marguerire Landry, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in January 1863.  Their children, born near Lockport, Lafourche Parish, included Joseph in August 1866; Paul Constant in October 1867; Séraphin Dominique in March 1869; ... 

Eugène's fourth son Valmond married Thérèse, daughter of Jean Maxie Fonseca and Elaine Dufrene, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in October 1861.  They settled down bayou near Lockport.  Their children, born there, included Veline Emma in November 1862; and Victor or Viléor probably in the early 1860s. Valmond remarried to fellow Acadian Louise Trahan, place and date unrecorded, but it probably was at Lockport.  Their son Victor Jérôme was born near Lockport in September 1865; ... 

Pierre, fils's fifth son Désiré married Anastasie Marie, 18-year-old daughter of Augustin Matherne and Marie Nanette Sevin, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in March 1836.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Ildefond in January 1840; Octave in December 1840; Désiré Benjamin in December 1841; and Pierre Ulisse or Ulysse, called Ulysse, in December 1843--four children, all sons, between 1840 and 1843.  Three of Désiré's sons married by 1870, one of them after his war service. 

During the War of 1861-65, oldest son Ildefond served in Company E of the 4th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafourche Parish, which fought in Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, and Alabama.  For most of the war, his service record was a good one.  He enlisted in Company E at the beginning of the war, was reported present with his unit for the next three years except for a month of detached duty at Port Hudson, Louisiana, in the spring of 1863, and was captured at Nashville, Tennessee, in December 1864 with other members of his regiment.  From Nashville, the Federals sent him to Louisville, Kentucky, and then to the prisoner-of-war compound at Camp Chase, Ohio.  The prisoner-of-war experience evidently was too much for him.  Two and half months after he arrived at Camp Chase, he took the oath of allegiance to the United States government, enlisted in Federal service, and reported for duty at Chicago; he was now a "galvanized Yankee"  One wonders if he returned to Lafourche Parish after the war.  He did not marry in the area by 1870. 

During the war, Désiré's second son Octave served in Company B of the 30th Battalion/Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Orleans and St. James parishes, which contained recruits from a number of other parishes.  The 30th Infantry, known originally as the Sumter Regiment, fought in Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee.  Octave enlisted in March 1862, was reported present for the next two years, and, like his older brother Ildefond, was captured in the Confederate debacle at Nashville in December 1864.  Like his brother, he was sent to Louisville, Kentucky, and then on to Camp Chase, Ohio.  And, like his brother, he took the oath of allegiance to the United States government months before the war ended, enlisted in Federal service in March 1865, and became a "galvanized Yankee."  He returned to Lafourche Parish after the war and married Laurentia or Lovincia, daughter of Jean Maxie Fonseca and Elaine Dufrene, in a civil ceremony in April 1867, and sanctified the marriage at the Lockport church, Lafourche Parish, in May 1870.  Their children, born near Lockport, included a daughter, name unrecorded, died at age 7 days in July 1868; Charles Octave in January 1870; ...  Considering Octave's war record, one doubts that he and his older brother were welcome at any of the local functions of the United Confederate Veterans. 

Désiré's third son Désiré Benjamin may have married Céline, also called Lela, daughter of Hermogène Cantrelle and his Acadian wife Marguerire Landry, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in January 1863.  Their children, born near Lockport, included Joseph in August 1866; Paul Constant in October 1867; Séraphin Dominique in March 1869; ... 

One wonders if Désiré's fourth and youngest son Ulysse evidently also served Louisiana in uniform during the war.  He married Leóntine or Clémentine Angélique, daughter of fellow Acadian François Gaudet and his Creole wife Hortense Falgout, at the Thibodaux church in October 1866.  Their children, born in Lafourche Parish, included Marie Élisabeth in August 1867; Joseph Thomas in October 1870; François Ulysse in April 1873; ... 

Pierre, père's second son Joseph le jeune married Marie-Jeanne, daughter of Louis Langlinais and Marie Hervé of St.-Malo, France, and widow of Joseph Boudreaux, at Cabahannocer in May 1796.  Marie-Jeanne, a native of St.-Malo, came to Louisiana from France with her French mother and stepfather, Acadian nobleman Jacques Mius d'Entrement IV, in 1785 and married her first husband, also a native of the St.-Malo area, at Ascension upriver from Cabahannocer.  In the 1810s, Joseph le jeune and Marie-Jeanne crossed the Atchafalaya Basin and settled at Grande Pointe on upper Bayou Teche before moving down bayou to Fausse Pointe near New Iberia.  According to a daughter's marriage record, in 1820 they were living near L'Ance du Petit Pont.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer/St. James and on the Teche, included, Joseph, fils at Cabahannocer in December 1796; Madeleine-Adélaïde or -Adeline, called Adeline, in March 1798; Jérôme-Zénon, called Jérôme, in October 1799; a son, "recently born," buried in June 1801; Françoise-Céleste, called Céleste, born in October 1803 but died at age 13 "at the home of dec. Colonel Declouet" in St. Martin Parish in October 1816; Valéry born in October 1805; Rosémond, also called Joseph, in December 1807; Eugène Silvère or Sylvère, called Sylvère, in January 1810 but died at Fausse Pointe, age 16, in October 1826; Clémence Eugénie, called Eugénie, born in St. James Parish (though her marriage record says native of St. Mary Parish) in January 1812; Marie Marcellite, called Marcellite, in December 1814 in Lafourche Interior Parish (or so says her marriage record) and baptized at St. Martinville, age 1 1/2, in May 1816; and a daughter, name unrecorded, died at Grande Pointe, age 2 months, in March 1818--11 children, six sons and five daughters, between 1796 and 1818.  Joseph le jeune died in St. Martin Parish in July 1836.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial noted that Joseph was age 62 when he died.  He was 64.  Daughters Adeline, Eugénie, and Marcellite married into the Gatt, Bonin, and Gonsoulin families.  One wonders if daughter Eugénie, who married Barthélémy Bélisaire, called Bélisaire, Bonin in 1827, was the mother of Alfred Bourgeois, born probably on the lower Teche in September 1844 and baptized at Charenton, St. Mary Parish, age 13 1/2, in July 1858; the priest who recorded the boy's baptism did not give the father's name nor identify the mother's parents; Bélisaire Bonin's succession, probably post-mortem, naming Eugénie but none of their children, had been filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in December 1846.  Three of Joseph le jeune's sons also married and settled in Lafayette, St. Mary, and St. Landry parishes.  One of them committed suicide in his middle age. 

Second son Jérôme Zénon married Marcellite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Breaux and Madeleine Girouard, in the early 1820s probably in Lafayette Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie in December 1823; and Zénon, fils posthumously in September 1825.  Jérôme died in Lafayette Parish in April 1825.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said that Jérôme was age 30 when he died.  He was 25.  Neither of his children married by 1870, if they married at all, so his family line may have died with him. 

Joseph's fourth son Valéry married fellow Acadian Marie Marguerite Arceneaux in a civil ceremony in St. Mary Parish in April 1840.  Their children, born on the lower Teche, included Alexandre near New Iberia in March 1841 but died at age 17 near Charenton, St. Mary Parish, in January 1859; Alcide born in August 1843; Joseph near Charenton in March 1844; Ernest in February 1848; Alfred in June 1850; Rosina near New Iberia in April 1855; and Rosémond in April 1856--seven children, six children and a daughter, between 1841 and 1856.  None of Valéry's children married, at least not in South Louisiana, by 1870. 

Joseph's fifth son Rosémond, also called Joseph, at age 37, married Céleste, daughter of Jacques Guilbert and his Acadian wife Céleste Sonnier, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in May 1844.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Pierre near Grand Coteau in April 1846; Marie Céleste in January 1848; Alcide in October 1849; a child, name and age unrecorded, died in Lafayette Parish in August 1850; Mathilde born in June 1851; twins Paul and Virginie near Church Point on upper Bayou Plaquemine Brûlé in September 1854, but Virginie, called Virgenie, died in Lafayette Parish, age 2 1/2, in December 1856; and Marcelitte born posthumously in January 1856--eight children, at least three sons and four daughters, including a set of twins, between 1846 and 1856.  Rosémond, called "a suicide" by the recording priest, died in Lafayette Parish in October 1855, age 47.  His youngest child was born two and a half months later.  His succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse, St. Landry Parish, in April 1856.  None of his remaining children married by 1870.  One can only imagine the suffering his widow Céleste endured during that terrible year between October 1855 and December 1856. 

Pierre, père's third son Olivier married cousin Marie Justine, called Justine, daughter of fellow Acadians Mathurin Bergeron and Marie Godin, at Ascension in May 1807.  They lived on the river near the boundary of St. James and Ascension parishes.  Their children, born there, included François Marcellin in April 1808 but, called Marcelin, died at age 12 in February 1820; Joseph born in December 1809; Urbin Lessin, called Lessin, in February 1813; Michel Vital in October 1815; Modeste Marie in the 1810s; Marie Justine in March 1818; and Marie Adèle in April 1820--seven children, four sons and three daughters, between 1808 and 1820.  Olivier remarried to Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joachim dit Bénoni Mire and Madeleine Melançon and widow of Henri Melançon, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in February 1825.  She evidently gave him no more children.  Daughter Modeste Marie, by his first wife, married into the Bryant family.  Only one of Olivier's sons married and settled on the river. 

Third son Urbin Lessin, called Lessin, from first wife Justine Bergeron, married Marie Victorine, called Victorine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Pierre Richard and Marie Melançon, at the Convent church in February 1838.  They settled on the west bank of the river near St. James.  Their children, born there, included Marie Anne Estelle in May 1840; Jean in February 1842; Marie in October 1843; Marie Aima in June 1849; Joseph Ernes, probably Ernest, in March 1851; Marie Émilia in December 1852; Marie Anatolia in January 1855; Sylvestre Michel in July 1856 but, called Michel, died at age 1 in July 1857; Marie Victorine born in January 1860; ...  Daughter Marie Anne Estelle  married into the Scionnaux family by 1870.  None of Lessin's sons married by then. 

Pierre, père's fifth son Étienne married cousin Céleste, called Célesie, Célina, or Silesie, daughter of fellow Acadians Valentin Landry and Céleste Bourgeois, at the St. James church, St. James Parish, in April 1812.  Soon after their marriage, they crossed the Atchafalaya Basin and settled at La Pointe on upper Bayou Teche near present-day Breaux Bridge.  Their children, born there, included Marie Céleste, called Céleste, in March 1813; a son, name unrecorded, died three weeks after his birth in October 1814; Pierre le jeune born in February 1816 but may have died in Lafayette Parish, age 51 (the recording priest said 40), in March 1867; Adélard born in January 1818; a daughter, name unrecorded, in c1819 but died "at age about 1 years" in October 1820; Arthémise born in May 1821; Hippolyte in May 1823; Amélie or Amelia in June 1825; Euphrasie, also called Euphémie, in c1827 and baptized at age 1 in March 1828; Eugénie born in March 1829; and Erasie in March 1831--11 children, seven daughters and four sons, between 1813 and 1831.  Étienne died probably at La Pointe in July 1833, age 49, a widower.  His succession, noting that his wife also was deceased, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse the following month.  Daughters Céleste, Eugénie, Amélie, Erasie, and Euphémie married into the Constantin, LeBlanc, Patin, Dauphinois, Melançon, and Bonin families.  One of Étienne's sons married and settled near Breaux Bridge. 

Fourth and youngest son Hippolyte married Marie Fanelie, called Fanelie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Guidry and Joséphine Thibodeaux, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in February 1856.  Their children, born near Breaux Bridge, included Marie Victorine in February 1857; Étienne in October 1858; Célestine in March 1860 but died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 2) in August 1861; and Adam born in November 1862--four children, two sons and two daughters, between 1857 and 1862.  During the War of 1861-65, Hippolyte was a conscript from St. Martin Parish, but Confederate records place him in no unit, probably due to his age--he was 39 in 1862--and state of health.  He died near Breaux Bridge in June 1863.  The Breaux Bridge priest who recorded the burial said that "Hypolite" died "at age 42 yrs."  He was 40.  One wonders if his death was war-related.  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in March 1864.

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A dozen more Acadian Bourgeoiss--the oldest brother of five earlier arrivals; a pair of brothers, one of them with a family; a married cousin; and a number of wives and their families--also came to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français in 1765, but they did not follow their kinsmen and the Broussards to Bayou Teche.  They settled, instead, in the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  More robust family lines came of it on the river and the southeastern bayous:

Paul, fils (c1732-1797) à Claude à Charles à Jacques dit Jacob Bourgeois

Paul, fils, oldest son of Paul Bourgeois and his first wife Marie-Josèphe Brun, born probably at Chignecto in c1732, escaped the British roundup there in the fall of 1755 and followed his family into exile on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  He married Rosalie LeBlanc in c1760 perhaps at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  Soon after their marriage, they, along with their relatives and other Acadians in the region, 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.  In late 1764 or early 1765, with hundreds of other Acadians from the Nova Scotia compounds, they sailed via Cap-Français to New Orleans, which they reached sometime in 1765.  Paul's younger brothers Joseph, Michel, and Pierre and his sisters Marie and Anne-Marie had reached New Orleans with the Broussards in February 1765 and followed them to lower Bayou Teche that April, but Paul and Rosalie, who evidently came on a later expedition, remained at Cabahannocer.  Paul and Rosalie were childless when they reached the colony, so all of their children were born at Cabahannocer, including Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, in c1767; Marie-Anne baptized, age unrecorded, in June 1770; Jean-Baptiste-Paul, called Baptiste, and Joseph-Paul, perhaps twins, in c1772; Pierre-Paul, also called Paul, fils, baptized, age unrecorded, in April 1774; Rosalie baptized, age unrecorded, in November 1775; Constance baptized, age unrecorded, in April 1778; and Simon-Paul born in August 1782--eight children, four sons and four daughters, including perhaps a set of twins, between the late 1760s and 1782.  Spanish officials counted the family at Cabahannocer on the left, or east, bank of the river in September 1769 and January 1777.  In March 1779, Paul owned a single slave on his farm at Cabahannocer.  He died there in March 1797, age 66.  Daughters Marie, Rosalie, and Constance married into the Breaux, LeBlanc, Part, and Bergeron families.  Paul, fils's four sons also married.  In the early 1800s, three of them became part of the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche.  The other son remained in what became St. James Parish.  One of Paul's great-grandsons settled in Livingston Parish, where few other Acadians lived. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste-Paul, called Baptiste, perhaps a twin, married, at age about 20, Marie-Marguerite, called Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Babin and Marie Landry, at Cabahannocer in April 1792.  They lived on the river near the boundary of what became St. James and St. John the Baptist parishes before joining the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche in the early 1800s.  Their children, born on the river and the upper Lafourche, included Paul le jeune at Cabahannocer in April 1793; Henriette in February 1795; Valéry in December 1796; Narcisse in February 1800; Rémi in January 1802; Scholastique, also called Marie Scholastique and Scholastsie, at Assumption in May 1804; Jean Destivalle or Estival baptized at Ascension, age unrecorded, in August 1806 but died in Lafourche Interior Parish, age 35 (the recording priest said 32), in March 1841; Martial born in July 1808; Marcelline in July 1810; Paul Urbain or Urbin, called Urbain, in c1813; Trasimond Norbert or Norbert Trasimond in July 1815; and Marie Caroline in May 1818--a dozen children, eight sons and four daughters, between 1793 and 1818.  Baptiste died in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1847, age 75.  Daughters Henriette, Marcelline, Scholastique, and Marie Caroline married into the Boudreaux, Aysene, Richard, Babin, Laine or Laisne, and Lopez families, one of them, Henriette, three times, and another, Marie Caroline, twice.  Also, two of the daughters, Henriette and Scholastique, married Richards who were father and son.  Five of Baptiste's sons also married and settled in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley. 

Second son Valéry married Rosalie Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Basile Richard and Marie Comeaux, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in May 1816.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Azéline in February 1817; Zénon le jeune, also called Zéno, in May 1818; Marie Adèle, called Adèle, in November 1819; Carmélite in March 1822; Magloire Léon in September 1823; Marcellin Valéry in March 1825; Julienne Avelina in July 1826; François in October 1827; Loveza Eulalie, called Eulalie, in September 1829; Jean Baptiste in June 1831; Marie Rosina or Roséma, called Roséma, in April 1833; Émelie Adelina or Adeline in December 1834; Justine Marcelline, called Marcelline, in November 1836; and Olésime or Onésime in February 1839--14 children, eight daughters and six sons, between 1817 and 1839.  Valéry died "during [a] yellow fever epidemic" in Lafourche Parish in October 1853.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial said that Valéry died "at age 50 yrs."  He was 56.  Daughters Marie Azéline, Adèle, Carmélite, Julienne, Roséma, Eulalie, Adeline, and Marcelline married into the Molaison, Dantin, Laine, Toups, Chiasson, and Cardaillac families, three of them to Toups, two of them brothers, by 1870.  Valéry's sons also married by then and settled in Lafourche Parish.  Five of them married sisters, including first cousins.  One of Valéry's grandsons moved to Brashear, today's Morgan, City, on the lower Atchafalaya after the War of 1861-65. 

Oldest son Zénon le jeune married Louise Elina or Helena, also called Elisca, 17-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Louis Gaudet and his Creole wife Clémence Falgout, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in June 1840.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Émelie in May 1841; Pamela or Pamelise Aglaé in February 1843; Marcelin Justilien, called Justilien, in November 1844; Julia in October 1846; Clément Sylvain, called Sylvain, in November 1848; Oscar in December 1850; Élina, also called Elvina and Alvina, in February 1853; Louisa in January 1855; Alexandre in March 1857 but died at age 7 1/2 in June 1864; Cécilia born in February 1860; Marie Laura in May 1862; ...   Daughters Julia and Alvina married into the Boudreaux and Bourgeois families by 1870.  One of Zénon le jeune's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Marcillen Justilien, called Justilien, married Adeline or Adelina Euphrosine, also called Mirtilia, daughter of fellow Acadians Basile T. Boudreaux and Adeline Giroir and widow of Eugène Peltier, at the Thibodaux church in June 1865.  Their children, born on the Lafourche and the lower Atchafalaya, included Joseph, perhaps also called Jules, in September 1865; Marie Louise near Lockport in July 1867; Justilien Aurelien near Brashear, today's Morgan, City, St. Mary Parish, in June 1869; Albert Alcide in March 1871; Louis Paul in July 1873; Charles Félix in November 1875; ...  Justilien remarried to fellow Acadian Marcelline Julienne Breaux at Thibodaux in February 1880.  She also gave him children.  Justilien remarried again--his third marriage--to Sarah Louise, daughter of Willington Evans and his Acadian wife Clémentine Élisabeth Gaudet, at Thibodaux in August 1886.  Daughters .., by his first two wives, married into the Gautreaux and Kerne families after 1870. 

Valéry's second son Magloire married Azélie, daughter of François Hymel and Françoise Badeaux, at the Thibodaux church in January 1844.  They lived on the Lafourche near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie Olympe in April 1845; Léon Servian in March 1847; Léonie in May 1849; Léontine in September 1851; Anathole in September 1852; Émile Arthur in November 1855 but, called Arthur, died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said "age 10 1/2 months") in June 1857; Marie Mélasie born in December 1857; Marie Amélie Alice in March 1862; ...  Daughters Marie Olympe and Léontine married into the Carmouche and Delaune families by 1870.  Neither of Magloire's remaining sons married by then. 

Valéry's third son Marcellin married Julia, another daughter of Louis Gaudet and Clémence Falgout, at the Thibodaux church in January 1847.  Their son Edmond was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1847.  Marcellin died in Lafourche Interior Parish in August 1848, age 23.  A petition for tutorship for his son Edmond was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse a week later.  Widow Julia remarried to Marcellin's uncle, Urbain Bourgeois.  Her and Marcellin's son did not marry by 1870.  

Valéry's fourth François married Clémence Élodie, called Élodie, yet another daughter of Louis Gaudet and Clémence Falgout, at the Thibodaux church in August 1855.  Their children, born in Lafourche Parish, included twins Arthur Clément and Clément Arthur in September 1856; Charles Clebert in February 1858; and Louis in February 1860 but died 20 days after his birth--four children, all sons, between 1856 and 1860. 

Valéry's fifth son Jean Baptiste married first cousin Odile, daughter of fellow Acadian Urbain Bourgeois and his Creole wife Mathilde Chauvin, his uncle and aunt, at the Thibodaux church in June 1855.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Mathilde in December 1858; Jean Félix in October 1860; Marie Cécile in October 1863; Marie Hélène in October 1865; Marie Joséphine in March 1868; Thérèse Angèle in April 1870; Louis Augustin in September 1874; Cyprien Valéry in May 1877; ...  Daughters ... married into the Breaux, Cangelosi, Richard, and Waguespack families after 1870.  At least one of Jean Baptists's sons also married after that date.

Oldest son Jean Félix married cousin Euphrosine Chauvin at Thibodaux in May 1883. ...

Valéry's sixth and youngest son Onésime married first cousin Adèle, another daughter of Urbin Bourgeois and Mathilde Chauvin, his uncle and aunt, at the Thibodaux church in June 1859.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joseph Paul in March 1860; Jean Albert in August 1864; Louis in April 1867; Pierre Alexis in March 1868; Mathilde in July 1870; ... 

Baptiste's third son Narcisse married Marie Caroline, called Caroline, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Louvière and Marguerite LeBlanc, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in July 1824.  They settled in Lafourche Interior Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie Méline in c1825 but died at age 4 in August 1829; Amélie born in September 1825; Marie Mélanie, Mélasie, or Mélazie in September 1828; Marie died at age 9 hours in September 1830; Jean Baptiste Narcisse born in March 1832; Hysidor or Isidore Norbert, called Norbert, in May 1834; Joseph Amédé or Amédée in April 1837 but died at age 11 1/2 in December 1848; Marguerite Victorine born in January 1839; Vasseur in September 1840; Demetrice Euphémie in November 1843 but died at age 8 1/2 months in August 1844; Élisabeth Madeleine born in October 1845 but, called Urseline, died at age 4 1/2 (the recording priest said 5) in April 1850; and Joseph died a day after his birth in August 1847--a dozen children, seven daughters and five sons, between 1825 and 1847.  Narcisse died at Thibodaux in March 1854, age 54.  An "Oath of tutrix" in his name, naming his wife and listing their remaining children--Norbert, Marguerite, Vasseur, Mélazie, and Jean Baptiste--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in Narcisse's name soon after his death.  Daughters Marie Mélasie and Marguerite married into the Guillot, Morvant, and Toups families, one of them, Marie Mélasie, three times, by 1870.  Two of Narcisse's sons also married by then and settled on Bayou Lafourche.

Second son Isidore Norbert, called Norbert, married Marie Odile, called Odile, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Guillot and Hortence Pélagie Richard, at the Thibodaux church in June 1854; Norbert's sister Marie Mélasie married Odile's brother Théophile.  Norbert and Odile's children, born on the Lafourche, included Joseph Augustin in October 1855; Marie Eléotilia in January 1858; Marie Cécilia in February 1860; Marie Odilia in January 1862; Joseph Alphonse in April 1866; Joseph Oscar in February 1868; Marie Octavie in March 1860; Joseph Philippe in September 1873; ...  Isidore Norbert died at Thibodaux in May 1887, age 53.  Daughters ... married into the Aupied, Aysen, Richard, and Thibodaux families after 1870.  None of Norbert's sons married by 1870. 

Narcisse's fourth son Vasseur married Marie Laurenza or Lorenza, also called Odilia, daughter of fellow Acadians Lange Guillot and Célesie Mire, at the Thibodaux church in April 1864.  Their children, born in Lafourche Parish, included Marie Lydia in March 1865; Lange Louilfrid, probably Leufroi, in August 1867; Madeleine Caroline in July 1869; ... 

Baptiste's fourth son Rémi married Marie Delphine, called Delphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Foret and Anne Dugas, at the Thibodauxville church in September 1821.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joseph Rémi in June 1822; Séverin Godefroi in January 1825; Estival or Esteval Louis in October 1826; Apollinaire in February 1829; Marie Delphine born in November 1831 but died at age 5 1/2 in March 1837; Marie Adeline born in January 1834 but, called Adeline, died at age 3 in April 1837; Narcisse Amédée born in May 1836 but died at age 11 months in April 1837; Émilie Eve born in February 1839; and Adam Pomephile in May 1843--nine children, six sons and three daughters, between 1822 and 1843.  Daughter ... married into the LeBoeuf family by 1870.  Three of his sons also married by then. 

Third son Esteval "of Terrebonne Parish" married cousin Marie Laure or Louise, daughter of Joseph Barrios and his Acadian wife Rosalie Foret, at the Thibodaux church  in September 1850.  Their son Louis Félisien was born near Lockport in July 1851.  Esteval died probably in Lafourche Interior Parish in November 1852, age 26.  A petition for a succession inventory in his name, calling his wife Marie Louise, daughter of Joseph, and listing son Louis, was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse the following April.   Son Louis did not marry by 1870. 

Rémi's fourth son Apollinaire married Marguerite Asilda, Alesida, Alexilda, or Alezilda, 17-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Thomas Babin and his Creole wife Céleste Felonise LeBoeuf, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in October 1848.  They lived near the boundary between Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marcelline Marguerite at Bayou Cannes in November 1849; Catherine Avelina, perhaps also called Célina, in November 1850; Siméon Aurelien in January 1852; Marcel Justinien in November 1853; Louis Émilien in October 1855 but, called Evelien, died at age 2 1/2 (the recording priest said 3) in July 1858; Cigus Alcide born in Terrebonne Parish in November 1859; Malvina Phelonie near Raceland in August 1861; Thérèse Clémentine near Lockport in August 1863; Augustine in September 1866; ...  Daughter Célina married into the Petros family by 1870.  None of Apollinaire's sons married by then. 

Rémi's sixth and youngest son Adam married Rosella, daughter of Furcy Porché and his Acadian wife Augustin Aucoin, at the Houma church in January 1867.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Eugénie Julia in July 1867; André Alfred in November 1869; ... 

Baptiste's seventh son Paul Urbain, called Urbain, at age 19, married Mathilde, 16-year-old daughter of Louis Chauvin and his Acadian wife Marie Louise Robichaux, at the Thibodauxville church in February 1832.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Louis Urbin or Urbain in February 1833; Luma or Numa in November 1835; Marie Odile, called Odile, in September 1837; Marie Ermance or Armance, called Armance, in April 1839; Marie Adèle, called Adèle, in March 1841; Marie Eugénie, called Eugénie, in November 1843; Félix Camire in May 1846; Louise in December 1848; and Marie Charlotte, called Charlotte, in March 1851.  In his late 40s, Paul Urbain remarried to Julia, daughter of fellow Acadian Louis Gaudet and his Creole wife Clémence Falgout and widow of Marcellin Bourgeois and Joseph Léon Richard, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in March 1860; Julia's first husband was one of Urbain's nephews.  Their children, born in Lafourche Parish, included Marie Thérèse in October 1861 but, called Thérèse, died at age 6 in November 1867; and Marie Euphrasie, called Mary, born in March 1866--11 children, three sons and eight daughters, by two wives, between 1833 and 1866.  Paul Urbain died in Lafourche Parish in October 1867.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial said that Urbain died "at age 58 yrs."  He probably was in his mid-50s.  A "petition for his succession inventory, naming both wives and listing his children and some of their spouses--Odille and her husband, Numa, Amance and her husband, Adèlle and her husband, Eugénie and her husband, Felix Camere, Louise and her husband, and Charlotte ("about 19 yrs.") from his first wife; and Mary ("about 2 yrs.") and Thérèse (deceased) from his second wife--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in November 1867.  Daughters Odile, Adèle, Armance, Eugénie, Louise, and Mary, by both wives, married into the Bourgeois, Toups, Poché, Laine, and Lapeyrouse families before and after 1870, two of them to Bourgeois brothers who were their first cousins.  One of Urbain's sons also married by 1870. 

Second son Numa, by first wife Mathilde Chauvin, married cousin Émelie, daughter of his first cousin Zénon Bourgeois and Elina Gaudet, at the Thibodaux church in January 1859.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Élina, called Élina, in October 1859; Marie Octave in September 1862 but, called Octavie, died at age 5 in December 1867; Joseph Désiré born in September 1866; Paul Urbain le jeune in January 1869; Pierre Clément; Joseph Ambroise; ...  Daughter Élina married into the Aupied family by 1870.  None of Numa's sons married by then. 

Baptiste's eighth and youngest son Trasimond Norbert or Norbert Trasimond married Eulalie Élisabeth, daughter of Alexandre Stiven or Estivenne and Hortense Élisabeth Ledet, at the Thibodaux church in February 1840.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Louis Norbert in April 1842; Paul Joseph in January 1849; and Charles Joseph in February 1856--three children, all sons, between 1842 and 1856.  One of Trasimond Norbert's sons married by 1870. 

Oldest Louis Norbert married Marie Joséphine, daughter of Pierre Napoléon Lefort and his Acadian wife Marie Melasie Pitre, at the Thibodaux church in June 1868. ...

Paul, fils's second son Joseph-Paul, called J. Paul, perhaps Baptiste's twin, married, in his early 20s, Rose-Anastasie, 23-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Henry and his second wife Marie-Madeleine Bernard, at Cabahannocer in February 1794.  Rose, a native of Le Havre, France, had come to Louisiana in 1785 aboard the third of the Seven Ships.  They settled on the river until the 1810s, when they joined the Acadian exodus to the upper Lafourche and settled near the boundary between Ascension and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Théotiste at Cabahannocer in April 1796; Marcelline, also called Marie Marcellite and Marcelita, in June 1798; Evariste in November 1799 but died at age 6 in September 1805; Clémentine in the early 1800s; Marie Carmélite born in April 1804; Marie Joséphine in December 1806; Dominique in St. James Parish in January 1809; and Rosalie in Assumption Parish in April 1816.  Rosalie's birth may have killed her mother.  Joseph Paul, in his mid-40s, remarried to Eugénie, 19-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Henry Schuyler Thibodaux, future governor of Louisiana, and his first wife Félicité Bonvillain, a French Creole, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in November 1816, and sanctified the marriage at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in July 1817.  Eugénie gave Joseph Paul more children on the Lafourche, including Henri Scaitai or Henry Schuyler in September 1817; Félicité in July 1819 but died at age 14 (the recording priest said 15) in August 1833; Léandre, also called Léandre Douradou and Douradou, born in August 1821; Marie Eugénie in December 1825; Jacques Cleborn in January 1828 but, called Claiborne, died at age 17 1/2 in September 1845; Camilia Clara born in April 1830; and Aubin Sinsar posthumously in October 1831--15 children, nine daughters and six sons, by two wives, between 1796 and 1831.  Joseph Paul died in Assumption Parish in September 1831, age 60.  Daughters Théotiste, Marcelita, Clémentine, Marie Joséphine, Marie Carmélite, Marie Eugénie, and Camilia Clara, by both wives, married into the Porché, Dugas, Bourg, Mannot, Darbois, Matte, and Davis families.  Four of Joseph Paul's sons also married and settled on the Lafourche and in Terrebonne Parish. 

Second son Dominique, by first wife Rose Henry, married fellow Acadian Clarisse Aucoin, place and date unrecorded.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Charles in July 1831; Félicité Louise in August 1833; Armantine in October 1835; and Joseph Cléophat or Cléopha in September 1840--four children, two sons and two daughters, between 1831 and 1840.  Dominique died near Plattenville in December 1865, age 56.  Daughter Félicité married into the Terrebonne family by 1870.  Neither of Dominique's sons married by then. 

Joseph-Paul's third son Henry Schuyler, by second wife Eugénie Thibodaux, while a resident of Terrebonne Parish, married Manon Louisiane, called Louisiane, daughter of Louis Riche and Julie Charlotte Barras of Assumption and Terrebonne parishes, at the Thibodaux church in July 1841.  Their son Henry Schuyler, fils was born in August 1842 and baptized at the Plattenville church, age 1 1/2, in December 1843.  Henry Schuyler, père died probably in Terrebonne Parish by October 1844, in his 20s, when his wife remarried there.  A probate sale in Henry Schuyler, père's name was filed at the Houma courthouse in March 1845.  His son did not marry by 1870. 

Joseph-Paul's fourth son Léandre Douradou, by second wife Eugénie Thibodaux, married Marie Mélasie, called Mélasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Roger III and Carmélite Achée, probably in Lafourche Interior Parish in the early 1840s.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Estelina, called Estelina and Stella Marie, in May 1842; Eugène in the early 1840s; Henry Honoré in June 1845; and Joseph in December 1846--four children, a daughter and three sons, between 1842 and 1846.  A "petition for property Sale" in Léandre D.'s name, naming his wife, and listing his children--Estelina, Eugène, Henry, and Joseph Dorado--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in August 1849.  Léandre D. would have been age 28 that year.  His wife remarried to an Anglo American in Lafourche Interior Parish the following February, so the 1849 property sale evidently was post-mortem.  Daughter Stella Marie married into the Hardy family by 1870.  None of Léandre's sons married by then. 

Joseph-Paul's sixth and youngest son Aubin Sinsar, by second wife Eugénie Thibodaux, may have married Émelia Duplantis in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in November 1867. ...

Paul, fils's third son Pierre-Paul, in his late 20s, married Scholastique, another daughter of Joseph Babin and Marie Landry, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in February 1803.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer, included Paul III, also called Pierre or Peter Paul, fils, in December 1803; Céleste Sidalie, also called Marie Cidalie or Cidalise, in January 1806; Émilie or Amélie Virginie, called Virginie and Mélite Virginie, in May 1808; a son, name and age unrecorded, died in May 1809; Marie Théodice, also called Marie Farelitte, born in May 1810; and Zénon in the early or mid-1810s.  Pierre Paul remarried to Marie-Esther, called Esther, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Gautreaux and Marie LeBlanc, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in September 1816.  Their children, born on the river and the upper Lafourche, included Paul Victorin near Convent in December 1816; Marie Rosalie, called Rosalie, baptized at the Convent church, age unrecorded, in November 1817; Jean Simon born in Assumption Parish in November 1819; Marie Célestine, called Célestine, near Convent in December 1821; Isidore, also called Louis Isidore, in February 1826; and Antoine Private or Privat, called Privat, in January 1829--a dozen children, seven sons and five daughters, by two wives, between 1803 and 1829.  In July 1820, a succession, not post-mortem, filed at the Lafourche Interior Parish courthouse named Pierre Paul as curator of son Peter Paul, age 16 1/2; and daughter Mélita Virginia, age 12.  Daughters Marie Cidalie, Amelie Virginie, Marie Farelitte, Rosalie, and Célestine, by both wives, married into the Rouillier, Guidry, Melançon, Poirier, and Templet families.  Four of Pierre Paul's sons also married.  One of them settled on upper Bayou Lafourche, but the others remained on or near the river in Ascension Parish.  A grandson settled near French Settlement, Livingston Parish, north of the Amite River, where few Acadians settled. 

Oldest son Paul III, by first wife Scholastique Babin, married Marie Delphine, called Delphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Melançon and Marie Louise Lanoux, at the Convent church in June 1823.  They lived on the river near the boundary between St. James and Ascension parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie Scholastique in September 1824; Carmélite Aglaé in January 1827; Marie Rosela or Rosella in April 1829, but, called Rosella by the recording priest, died at age 6 1/2 (the recording priest said 7) in October 1835; Marie Louisa, called Louisa born in November1831 but died the following September; Élisabeth Rosalie born in July 1833; Pierre Vileor, called Vileor, in June 1836; Marie Gérarde in October 1838; Paul Désiré Camille, called Camille, in December 1840; Joseph, also called Joseph Florian and Florian, in March 1843; and Étienne Bélisaire, called Bélisaire, in July 1845--10 children, six daughters and four sons, between 1824 and 1845.  Pierre Paul, fils died in Ascension Parish in July 1862.  The priest who recorded the burial said Paul, as he called him, died at "age 48 or 58 years."  He was 59.  Was his death war-related?   Daughter Élisabeth married into the Villard family by 1870.  Paul III's four sons also married by then and settled in Ascension Parish. 

Oldest son Pierre Vileor married Mary Olivia, daughter of fellow Acadians Raphaël Jacques Babin and Euphémie Landry, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in August 1858.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Jean Mervillain in March 1860; Virginie near Gonzales in February 1868; ... 

Pierre Paul, fils's second son Paul Désiré Camille, called Camille, married Félicité, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Guidry and Marie Joséphine Gaudin, at the Donaldsonville church in July 1860.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Marie Félicité in June 1861; Étienne in February 1863; Louise Estelle in March 1865; Pierre Edmond near Gonzales in March 1867; Paul Désiré in August 1869; ... 

Pierre Paul, fils's third son Joseph Florian married Mathilde, another daughter of Jean Baptiste Guidry and Marie Joséphine Gaudin, place unrecorded, in the early 1860s and settled in Ascension Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie Matilde in February 1863; Joseph in October 1865; Joseph Paul near Gonzales in December 1867; ...

Pierre Paul, fils's fourth and youngest son Bélisaire married Zéolide, daughter of fellow Acadians Gabriel Guidry and Julie Melançon, at the Donaldsonville church in December 1865.  Their children, born near Gonzales, included Étienne Ulger in January 1867; Joseph Adam in February 1870; ...

Pierre Paul, père's third son Zénon, by first wife Scholastique Babin, married Eurasie or Erasie, also called Marie Rose, daughter of Damaze Lessard or Lessart and his Acadian wife Marie Madeleine Bourque, at the Donaldsonville church in November 1835.  They, too, lived on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Ascension and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included an infant, unnamed, died at age 5 weeks in early October 1836; Paul Thélésphore or Télésphore, called Télésphore, born in August 1838; Hélène or Helena in August 1842; Marie Virginie in April 1845; Joseph Justilien, called Justilien, in November 1847; Madelaine Rosella in March 1850; Pierre Césaire in August 1853; Zénon, fils in April 1859; Marie Eve in January 1861; ...  Daughter Helena married into the Arceneaux family by 1870.  Two of Zénon's sons also married by then and settled in Ascension, Livingston, and perhaps St. James parishes. 

Oldest son Télésphore married Élizabeth, daughter of Francis Sanchez and Joséphine Sovaine, at the Gonzales church in January 1870. ...

Zénon's second son Justilien married Élisabeth, daughter of François Lobdell and Marguerite Gregoire, at the French Settlement church, Livingston Parish, in September 1867.  Daughter Marie Joséphine was born perhaps in French Settlement in late 1867 but died near Convent, St. James Parish, age 7 months, in June 1868; ...

Pierre Paul, père's sixth son Louis Isidore, by second wife Esther Gautreaux, married Zéolide, daughter of Joseph Friou and his Acadian wife Azélie Trahan, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1849.  They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche near the boundary between Assumption and Ascension parishes before moving to Gonzales on the river in the early 1860s.  Their children, born there, included Marie Oreline near Paincourtville in January 1850; Marie Aiméein September 1852; Marie Honora in March 1856; Josèphe, probably a daughter, in January 1859; Angèle Natalie near Gonzales in October 1864; ...  None of Louis Isidore's daughters married by 1870. 

Pierre Paul, père's seventh and youngest son Antoine Privat, called Privat, by second wife Esther Gautreaux, married Joséphine Sanchez, place and date unrecorded.  Their son Pierre Léonard was born in Ascension Parish in October 1860; ...

Paul, fils's fourth and youngest son Simon-Paul married Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Part III and Marguerite Melançon, at Cabahannocer in June 1802.  By the 1810s, Simon and Anastasie had followed his older brothers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Their children, born on the river and the upper bayou, included Caroline in c1803; Étienne at Cabahanocer in December 1805; Marie Virginie in December 1808; Simon Félicien in December 1809 but died in Lafourche Interior Parish, age 23, in May 1833; Marie Marcilienne or Mélicère in c1812; Théophile Pierre Valéry, called Pierre Valéry and Valéry, born in Assumption Parish in c1813; and Pierre Joseph perhaps posthumously in October 1816--seven children, three daughters and four sons, between 1803 and 1816.  Pierre Paul's succession inventory, probably post-mortem, listing his children--Caroline, age 13; Étienne, age 10; Marie Virginie age 8; Simon, age 6; Marie Milicienne, age 4; Valéry, age 3; and Pierre, age 1 1/2 months--was filed at the Lafourche Interior Parish courthouse in December 1816.  He would have been age 34 that year.  A second succession inventory, also naming his wife and listing his children, their ages, and some of their spouses--Valéry, age "about 19 yrs."; Pierre, "about 16 yrs."; Simon, age 15; Caroline, age 29, and her usband; Étienne, age 26; Marie Virginie, age 24, and her husband; and Marie Mélicère, age 20, and her husband--was filed at the Lafourche Interior Parish courthouse in October 1832.  Daughters Caroline, Marie Mélicère, and Marie Virginie married into the Toups and Robichaux families, including Toups brothers, by 1870.  Three of Simon Paul's sons also married by then and settled in Lafourche Interior.  A grandson moved to Terrebonne Parish.

Oldest son Étienne married Marie Osite or Osite Marie, 15-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Babin and Julienne Melançon, at the Thibodauxville church in August 1828.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Étienne Valfroid or Valfroi, also Valfroi Étienne, in November 1829; Simon Ursin in November 1831; Pierre Oleus, called Oleus and Onésime, in May 1833; Marguerite Séraphine in January 1836; Émelie Ofilia in February 1838 but, called Odilia, died at age 12 1/2 (the recording priest said 13) in May 1850; Julien Sassin born in February 1840; Pierre Aubert in April 1842; Marie Julienne in March 1844; Auguste Valéry in April 1848[sic]; Marie Anastasie, called Anastasie, in July 1848[sic]; and Marie Augusta, called Augusta, in November 1851--11 children, six sons and five daughters, between 1829 and 1851.  Daughters Anastasie, Augusta, ... married into the Plaisance, Guidroz, Bouvier, and Roger families by 1870.  Six of Étienne's sons also married by then, but not all of the lines endured.

Oldest son Étienne Valfroi or Valfroi Étienne married Marie Émelie, called Émelie, daughter of Valéry Badeaux and Élisa Barnes, at the Thibodaux church in July 1850.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Étienne, fils in September 1851; Marie Madeleine near Lockport in January 1854; Augustave in July 1856, Marceline in March 1860; Marcellin Pierre near Raceland in August 1862, Marie Élisabeth near Lockport in November 1865; Eugène Félicien in February 1868; Marie Ozite in March 1870; ...  None of Étienne Valfroi's children married by 1870. 

Étienne's second son Simon Ursin married cousin Evéline or Evélina, daughter of Eugène Bourgeois and Angélique Barrios, at the Raceland church, Lafourche Parish, in March 1856.  Their children, born on the lower Lafourche, included Geneviève Urasie near Lockport in January 1857; Eugène Sabas near Raceland in December 1858; Ursin Edmond in December 1861; Euphroisie in March 1863; Narcisse Oleus near Lockport in January 1865; Louise Laura in May 1868; ... 

Étienne's fourth son Paul Oleus or Onésime married Estelle, daughter of Séverin François Lapeyrouse and his Acadian wife Melasie Henry, at the Raceland church in May 1857.  Daughter Marie Estela, called called Célina, was born near Lockport in February 1859.  An "Oath of under tutor," calling him Oleus, naming his wife, and listing daughter Célina, age "about 14 mths."--was filed in Oleus's name at the Thibodaux courthouse, Lafourche Parish, in January 1860.  Oleus would have been age 27 that year.  Did he father any sons? 

Étienne's fifth son Julien Sassin married Marcellite or Marcelline, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Dugas and his Creole wife Eugénie Plaisance, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in November 1860.  Their children, born on the lower Lafourche, included Pierre Augustin near Raceland in February 1863; François Adam near Lockport in October 1865; Joséphine in February 1868; ... 

Étienne's sixth son Pierre Aubert married Marie, daughter of Evariste Badeaux and Cléophine Malbrough, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in May 1863. ...

Étienne's seventh and youngest son Auguste married Azélie, daughter of Thimothé Ashley and Séraphine Badeaux, at the Lockport church, Lafourche Parish, in December 1865.  Their children, born near Lockport, included Marie Augustine in June 1867; a child, name and age unrecorded, died in August 1869; ... 

Simon Paul's third son Théophile Pierre Valéry, called Pierre Valéry and Valéry, married cousin Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadian François Luc Part and his Creole wife Adèle Falgout, at the Thibodaux church in July 1850.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joseph Valéry in December 1851; François Léon in April 1854; Marie Léontine near Lockport in September 1856; and Louis Ernest in November 1858--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1851 and 1858.  Pierre Valéry's succession inventory, calling him Valéry and naming his wife, was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in March 1861.  He would have been in his mid- or late 40s that year.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Simon Paul's fourth and youngest son Pierre Joseph married Marie Joséphine, called Joséphine, 17-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Gaudet and his Creole wife Céleste Falgout, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in September 1836, and sanctified the marriage at the Thibodauxville church in June 1838.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joséphine Useve in November 1837; Joseph in the late 1830s or early 1840s; Marie Elvina in October 1841; Émile Eucher in March 1844; Héloise Émilie in June 1846; Léon Théophile, called Théophile, in October 1848; Charles Ernest in October 1851; and Marie Ernestine in December 1855--eight children, four daughters and four sons, between 1837 and 1855.  Daughters Joséphine Useve and Héloise Émilie married into the Earnest or Ernest and White families by 1870.  Two of Pierre Joseph's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Joseph married Eulalie Agladie, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Hébert and Louise Aimée Dubois, at the Chacahoula church, Terrebonne Parish, in September 1859.  They settled in the marshes between Chacahoula and Brashear, now Morgan, City, on the lower Atchafalaya.  Their children, born there, included Joséphine Aggladie in August 1861; Céleste Anastasie in July 1864; Marie Emma in January 1866; ... 

Pierre Joseph's third son Théophile married Euphrosine, another daughter of Étienne Hébert and Louise Aimée Dubois, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in March 1870. ...

Jean-Baptiste (c1733-1816) à Charles, fils à Charles à Jacques dit Jacob Bourgeois

Jean-Baptiste, oldest son of Pierre Bourgeois and Marie-Françoise Cormier, born probably at Chignecto in c1733, moved to Île St.-Jean after the counting there in August 1752, perhaps in the fall of 1755 after he escaped the British roundup at Chignecto.  Still in his early 20s, he married cousin Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of Joseph Bourg and Anne Cormier, at Port-La-Joye on the island in February 1757.  Madeleine's family also may have come to the island under similar circumstances.  The British captured the French fortress of Louisbourg in July 1758 and rounded up most of the habitants on Île St.-Jean later in the year, but Jean-Baptiste and Madeleine were not among them.  They, along with other islanders, eluded the British, crossed Mer Rouge, and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  During the late 1750s or early 1760s, they 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.  The British sent them to Fort Edward, Pigiguit, where two sons were born to them:  Jean-Baptiste, fils in c1761; and Joseph-Marie in March 1763.  In late 1764 or early 1765, with hundreds of other Acadians from the Nova Scotia compounds, they sailed via Cap-Français to New Orleans, which they reached sometime in 1765.  They settled at Cabahannocer, but not before they baptized their younger son Joseph-Marie at St.-Louis church the first week of December, a hint that they were among the later arrivals from Halifax that year.  Madeleine had been pregnant on the voyage.  She gave birth to another son, Claude, at New Orleans during the third week of December.  They promptly baptized this son, too, but, unlike his older brothers, he did not surivive childhood; he died at Cabahannocer in February 1773, age 7.  Madeleine gave Jean-Baptiste more children at Cabahannocer, including Pierre-Victorin in c1769; Marie in c1771; Amand-Alcide baptized, age unrecorded, in March 1772; Marguerite in c1773; and Paul-Benjamin baptized, age unrecorded, in May 1775--eight children, six sons and two daughters, between 1761 and 1775, in greater Acadia and Louisiana.  The birth of their youngest child may have killed wife Madeleine.  Jean-Baptiste remarried to Osite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Melançon and Madeleine LeBlanc of Grand-Pré and widow of Jean-Pierre LeBlanc, at Cabahannocer in February 1776.  She evidently gave Jean-Baptiste no more children.  In 1779, he held six slaves on his farm at Cabahannocer, an impressive number for an Acadian living on the river at that time.  Jean Baptiste, in his early 70s, remarried again--his third marriage--to fellow Acadian Rosalie LeBlanc, widow of Paul Bourgeois, at Cabahannocer in January 1804.  She was in her late 50s at the time of the wedding, so she gave him no more children.  Jean Baptiste died near Convent, St. James Parish, in March 1816.  The priest who recorded the burial said Jean-Baptiste died at "age 89."  He was in his early 80s.  No branch of the Bourgeois family in South Louisiana, Acadian or Creole, was larger than his.  Neither of his daughters seems to have married, but five of his sons married and created vigorous lines.  Some of his grandsons remained on the old Acadian Coast, most on the left, or east, bank of the river near Convent, and others settled on the west bank in St. James Parish and on both sides of the river in nearby Ascension and Iberville parishes.  At least two of his great-grandsons left the river and settled at the edge of the coastal marshes in Terrebonne Parish.  An amazing number of Jean-Baptiste's descendants, especially those around Convent, married cousins. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, fils, by first wife Madeleine Bourg, followed his family to New Orleans and Cabahannocer, where he married Marie-Marguerite, called Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Sonnier and Marie Landry, in September 1792.  They lived on the river near the boundary of what became St. James and Ascension parishes.  Their children, born there, included Jean-Baptiste III at Cabahannocer in July 1793; Anne-Isabelle or -Élisabeth, called Élisabeth, in December 1794; Benjamin in October 1796 but died near Convent, St. James Parish, age 29, in April 1826; Éloise, also called Marie Louise, born in December 1798; Marie-Scholastique, called Scholastique, in December 1800; Marie-Mélanie, called Mélanie, in June 1803; Pierre Ursin, called Ursin, at Ascension in September 1805; and Pierre Drosin in August 1808 but died at age 4 in May 1812--eight children, four sons and four daughters, between 1793 and 1808.  Jean Baptiste, fils died in St. James Parish in April 1824.  The Convent priest who recorded the burial said that Jean Baptiste was age 70 when he died.  He was in his early 60s.  Daughters Élisabeth, Marie Louise, and Scholastique married into the Bourg, LeBlanc, and Mire families, two of them to Bourg brothers.  Jean-Baptiste, fils's two remaining sons also married, but not all of the lines endured.

Oldest son Jean Baptiste III married Marie Angèle, called Angèle, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Gautreaux and Marie LeBlanc, at the Convent church in October 1815.  They lived on the river near the boundary between St. James and Ascension parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie Mélise, perhaps also called Mélisaire, in August 1816; Marie Mélasie baptized at the Donaldson church, age 2 months, in May 1818 but died at age 1 in March 1819; Azsère or Arsène born in October 1819; Marie Justine or Justine Marie in December 1821; triplets Jean Baptiste IV, Louis Ervan or Ervin, and Victorine in July 1825, but Victorine died at age 11 months in July 1826, and Jean Baptiste IV died at age 1 in September 1826; Joseph Lucien, called Lucien, born in September 1827; Drauzin, Drosin, or Derosin in March 1830; Pierre Dauffel in June 1832; Étienne Timothée in August 1834 but, called Étienne, died at age 21 in November 1855; Delphin, called Dauphin, born in May 1837; and Jean Valsin, called Valsin, in October 1839--13 children, four daughters and nine sons, including a set of triplets, between 1816 and 1839.  Jean Baptiste III died in Ascension Parish in June 1864.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Jean Baptiste died at "age 73 years."  He was 70.  Was his death war-related?  Daughters Mélisaire and Justine married into the Dugas and Duhon families by 1870.  Five of Jean Baptiste III's sons also married by then, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Arsène married Augustine, daughter of fellow Acadians Augustin Arceneaux and Marcelline Gaudin, at the Convent church in July 1839.  They lived on the river near the boundary of St. James and Ascension parishes.  Their children, born there, included Ur[s]ule in December 1839; Eugénie in February 1841 but died at age 3 1/2 in October 1844; Ema born in late 1841 or early1842 but died at age 3 1/2 in June 1845; Aimable born in September 1842; Marie Ermina in January 1844 but, called Elvina, died the following November; Élisabeth dite Éliza born in May 1846; Bruno in January 1849 but died at age 3 1/2 in August 1852; Angèle born in November 1851 but died at age 18 in June 1870; Augustin born in July 1854; Joseph Armand in January 1860 but, called Armond, died at age 3 1/2 (the recording priest said "4 years, 7 months") in August 1863; Étienne born August 1863 but died at age 5 in October 1868; Marie Roselia born in September 1866; ...   Daughters Ursule and Éliza married into the Lanoux and Boudreaux families by 1870.  Neither of Arsène's remaining sons married by then. 

Jean-Baptiste III's fourth son Joseph Lucien, called Lucien, married Émilie, daughter of John Terrell and Eugénie Lambremont, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in June 1851.  Their children, born near Plaquemine on the west bank of the river, included Helena Udora in March 1851; Joseph Edwin in September 1856; and Jean Baptiste in September 1858--three children, a daughter and two sons, between 1851 and 1858.  None of Lucien's children married by 1870. 

Jean-Baptiste III's fifth son Derosin married cousin Marie Odalie, called Odalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Casimir Gaudin and Azélie Gautreaux, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in September 1848.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Marie Malvina, called Malvina, in March 1850; and Marie Aséline in September 1852 but, called Marie Azélia, died at age 8 in August 1860.  Derosin died in Ascension Parish in December 1869.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Drosin, as he called him, died at "age 38 years."  He was 39.  Daughter Malvina married into the Landry family by 1870.  Did Derosin father any sons? 

Jean-Baptiste III's eighth son Delphin, called Dauphin by the recording priest, married Éliza, daughter of Thomas Wall and Élène Miller, at the Donaldsonville church in December 1863.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Cora Marie in February 1865; and Cécilia Azélia in July 1866.  Dauphin died in Ascension Parish in January 1869.  The Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial said that Dauphin died at "age 34 years."  He was 31.  His line of the family, except perhaps for its blood, died with him. 

Jean-Baptiste III's ninth and youngest son Valsin married cousin Marie Ethelvine or Ethelvina dite Telvina, daughter of Valmont Villeneuve and his Acadian wife Mélanie Gautreaux, at the Donaldsonville church in April 1863.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Joseph Morel in June 1864 but, called Maurile, died at age 5 in August 1869; Jean Morin born in February 1866; Arthur Vincent in May 1869; ... 

Jean Baptiste, fils's third son Pierre Ursin, called Ursin, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Lanoux and Félicité Mire, at the Donaldsonville church in April 1828.  They settled on the river near the boundary between Ascension and St. James Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie Estelle, called Estelle, in November 1828; and Adèle in February 1831.  Pierre Ursin died in Ascension Parish in November 1831, age 26 (the recording priest said 25).  Daughter Estelle married into the Gassen family.  Ursin evidently fathered no sons, so his line of the family, except for its blood, died with him.

Jean-Baptiste, père's second son Joseph-Marie, by first wife Madeleine Bourg, followed his family to New Orleans and Cabahannocer, where he married stepsister Hélène, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Pierre LeBlanc and Osite Melançon, in March 1786; Hélène's mother was Joseph-Marie's father's second wife.  Her and Joseph Marie's children, born at Cabahannocer, included Jean-Baptiste le jeune in August 1787; Joseph-Michel in February 1789; Jean-Pierre in c1789 or c1790; Jean-Sylvestre, called Sylvester, born in December 1790 but died near Convent, age 20, in August 1811; Marie-Clémence born in September 1793; Amand-Thadée in August 1795 but died near Convent, age 20, in March 1816; Marie-Euphrosine born in March 1799; Auguste or Augustin-Marcellin or -Marcillien, in July 1800; and Fabien in March 1802--nine children, seven sons and two daughters, between 1787 and 1802.  Joseph Marie died at St. James in June 1806.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph died at "age 45 yrs."  He was 43.  Daughters ... married into the Comeaux, Grégoire, and LeBlanc families.  Five of Joseph Marie's sons also married, but not all of the lines endured.

Oldest son Jean Baptiste le jeune may have married Élisabeth Blouin in St. James Parish by c1810.  Their daughter Adélaïde died near Convent, age 7, in June 1817.  Did he father any sons?

Joseph Marie's second son Joseph Michel married cousin Marie Clémence Eulalie, daughter of Paul Bourgeois and Marie Thibodeaux, at the Convent church in February 1812.  Joseph Michel and his family joined the Acadian exodus to Bayou Lafourche in the late 1810s.  Their children, born on the river and the bayou, included Adeline near Convent in December 1813; Marcellien or Arvillien in March 1816; Augustin Hervillien or Arvillien, called Hervillien, in October 1818; Joseph Florentin in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1820; and Marie Claire dite Calice or Calliste in October 1823--five children, two daughters and three sons, between 1813 and 1823.  Joseph Michel died in Lafourche Interior Parish in May 1824.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph died at age 32.  He was 35.  A petition for inventory of his estate, naming his wife and remaining children and their ages--Marcelinne (actually Marcellien), age 8; Arvillien, age 6 1/2; Joseph, age 3 1/2; and Calice, age 7 months--was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse a few days after his death.  His children did not remain on Bayou Lafourche but returned to St. James Parish, evidently with their mother.  Widow Marie Clémence Eulalie died near Convent in December 1843, age 48.  Daughter Marie Calliste married into the Laiche family.  Joseph Michel's three sons also married and settled on the river.

Oldest son Marcellin married Pélagie Mélissaire, daughter of Adam Schexnayder and Adélaïde Chenet, at the Convent church in February 1838.  Their son Louis Marcillien was born near Convent in October 1839.  Marcellin died near Convent in June 1864, age 48.  Was his death war-related?  His son married and remained on the river.

Only son Louis Marcillien married Marie Mirza, called Mirza, daughter of Ludger Rome and Carmélite Louke, at the Vacherie church, St. James Parish, in January 1861.  Their children, born near Vacharie, included Louisa Mélisaire in August 1861; Élique Elphége in April 1866; Jean Lorent Amilka in January 1868; ... 

Joseph Michel's second son Augustin Hervillien, called Hervillien, married cousin Marie Adorestine or Adolestine, daughter of Amand Bourgeois and Hortense Gaudin, at the Convent church in January 1843; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born near Convent, included Marie Constantine Eulalie in February 1844; Marie Neila Berthilde in November 1845; and Marie Augustine in October 1847.  Wife Marie Adolestine died near Convent in July 1850, age 24.  Augustin Hervillien remarried to Marie Clothilde Eve, daughter of Antoine Reine and Azélie Poche and widow of Hervillien's cousin Joseph Théovide Bourgeois, at the Convent church in March 1859; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of affinity in order to marry.  Their children, born near Convent, included Marie Azélie Eulalie in November 1859; Joseph Augustin in August 1861; Marie Élodie in November 1863; Marie Regina in July 1866; Marie Cécile in November 1867; ...  Augustin Hervillien died probably in St. James Parish in April 1889, age 70.  Daughters Marie Constantine Ulalie, Marie Neila Berthilde, and Marie Augustine, by his first wife, married into the Melançon, Schexnayder, and Gaudet families by 1870.  Augustin Hervillien's son did not marry by then. 

Joseph Michel's third and youngest son Joseph Florentin married Rosine, also called Marie Rosella, daughter of Joseph Laiche or Leche and Céleste Keller, at the Convent church in April 1841; Joseph Florentin's sister Marie Calliste married Rosine's brother Eugène.  Joseph Florestin and Rosine's children, born near Convent, included Joseph Gustave, called Gustave, in February 1842; and Michel Octave in September 1843.  Joseph Florentin remarried to Adèle Marie, daughter of Jean Charles Vaudry or Vaudrily and Eméranthe Lavigne, at the Convent church in August 1847.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included Marie Clémence, called Clémence, in August 1848; Marie Joséphine, called Joséphine, in October 1849; Joseph Florentin, fils in December 1852 but died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 2) in October 1854; Marie Noémie born in May 1855; and Marie Merentia near Vacharie on the west bank of the river in January 1867--seven children, three sons and four daughters, by two wives, between 1842 to 1867.  Daughters Clémence and Joséphine, by his second wife, married Bourgeois cousins by 1870.  One of Joseph Florentin's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Gustave, by first wife Rosine Laiche, married Cécilia, adopted daughter of Augustin Olive and his Acadian wife Clerosine Comeaux, at the Vacherie church in March 1868. ...

Joseph Marie's third son Jean Pierre married cousin Marie Madeleine, another daughter of Paul Bourgeois and Marie Thibodeaux, at the St. James church, St. James Parish, in February 1808.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included Élie Bain or Livain, called Livain, in November 1808; and Marie Seraphine in March 1810.  Jean Pierre remarried to Marie Charlotte, daughter of Noël Matherne and Charlotte Henry Andrelemere, at the St. James church in February 1813.  Their son Joseph was born near Convent, St. James Parish, in February 1814--three children, two sons and a daughter, by two wives, between 1808 and 1814.  Jean Pierre died near Convent in November 1815, age 25.  His daughter married into the Migaud family.  One of his sons also married.

Older son Livain, by first wife Marie Madeleine Bourgeois, married Agnès or Anne, daughter of Adam Schexnayder and Pélagie Rome, at the Convent church in October 1828.  Their children, born near Convent, included Adam Livin or Livain in March 1831; Étienne in December 1832; Edmond baptized at the Convent church, age 5 months, in May 1835; Jean born in late 1836 and baptized at the Convent church, age 7 months, in June 1837 but may have died at age 16 in October 1852; Jacob born in November 1838 but died at age 15 1/2 in May 1854; Pierre Lovency born in October 1840 but, called Lovinski, died at age 19 in April 1860; Paul baptized at the Convent church, age 2 1/2 months, in October 1842 but died at age 16 (the recording priest said 17) in May 1859; Marie Olive, called Olive, born in December 1844; Joseph in January 1848 but died the following October; and Marie Estelle, called Estelle, born in October 1849--10 children, eight sons and two daughters, between 1831 and 1849.  Livain died near Convent in October 1854, age 45 (the recording priest said 46).  Daughters Olive and Estelle married Bourgeois and Laiche cousins.  Three of Livain's sons also married.  One of them lived for a time in New Orleans. 

Oldest son Adam Livain married cousin Suzanne Azéma, called Azéma, daughter of Pierre Célestin Chenet and his Acadian wife Mélanie Bourgeois, at the Convent church in February 1853; they likely had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born near Convent, included Joseph Livain Louis in November 1853; Paul Célestin in April 1855; Marie Agnès Mélanie in October 1856; Pierre Florestan Neubourg in May 1858; Amélia Effie in January 1860; François Beauregard in May 1862; Marie Heln in September 1863; Adam Amilcar in January 1866; Alice Livinia in November 1868; Marie Aline in July 1870; Joseph James H. in March 1872; ...  Adam Livain died in August 1902, age 71.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Livain's second son Étienne married cousin Marie Caliste or Calixte, another daughter of Pierre Célestin Chenet and Mélanie Bourgeois, at the Convent church in February 1858; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born near Convent, included Marie Eugénie in November 1859; St. Paul Beauregard in August 1861 but died at age 2 in July 1863; Marie Anastasie born in February 1863; Joseph Émile in September 1864; Émile in May 1866[sic]; Marie Émile [Émilie?] in August 1866[sic]; Marie Eulolie in October 1867; Joseph Edmond near Paulina in November 1869; Georges Joseph near Convent in July 1871; Jean Richard in April 1873; ...  Étienne died at Convent in April 1898, age 65. 

Livain's third son Edmond married Henriette Laudun or Laudeur of New Orleans at St. Theresa of Avila Parish, New Orleans, in February 1857.  Their children, born on the river, included Edmond, fils probably in New Orleans in November 1857; John Élie Lovinski, called "Da-Da," in March 1861; Joseph Frédéric Henri in February 1863; Joseph Edgar baptized at the Convent church, age unrecorded, in April 1865; Émile born in New Orleans in June 1867; Frédéric Joseph, called Fred or Freddie, in June 1875; Septime in March 1873; Joseph Gabriel Jean Maric at the Convent church in March 1882; ...  Edmond, père died at Convent in November 1912, age 77. 

Joseph Marie's sixth son Auguste or Augustin Marcellin or Marcillien married cousin Marie Scholastique, called Scholastique and Colastie, daughter of fellow Acadians François Duhon and Marie Madeleine Bourgeios, at the Convent church in December 1826; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  They moved to near Vacherie, on the west bank of the river in St. James Parish, by the late 1840s.  Their children, born there, included Jean Augustin near Convent in March 1827 but, called Justin by the recording priest, died at age 7 1/2 in October 1834; Joseph Cyprien, called Cyprien, born in October 1828; François Théosin in April 1830; Pierre Jules in August 1831 but, called Jules, died at age 22 (the recording priest said 20) in September 1853; Gervais born in May 1833 but died at age 16 months in August 1834; Marie Hélène born in January 1835; Adélaïde in January 1837; Marie Calixte or Caliste in May 1838; Louis Marcilien in October 1839; Marie Madeleine, called Madeleine, in January 1840; Marie Augustine in March 1842 but, called Augustine, died at age 2 1/2 (the recording priest said 3 1/2) in September 1844; Victor Marcellin born near Convent in June 1844; Marie Scolastic Louisa, called Louisa, at Vacherie in August 1847; and Paul Philippe perhaps posthumously in c1851--14 children, eight sons and six daughters, between 1827 and 1851.  Augustin-Marcellin died before January 1851, in his 40s.  Daughters Marie Hélène, Adélaïde, Marie Caliste, Madeleine, and Louisa married into the Rome, LeBlanc, Scionneaux, Oubre, and Tores families by 1870.  Two of Auguste's sons also married by then. 

Second son Joseph Cyprien, called Cyprien, married Amélie, daughter of fellow Acadians Douradou Landry and Phelonise Dugas, at the Convent church in June 1848.  Their children, born near Convent, included Marie Augustine in October 1849 but, called Marie Augustina, died at age 1 in August 1850; Marie Felonise, called Felonise, born in April 1851; and Joseph Augustin in February 1853--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1849 and 1853.  Daughter Felonise married a Boudreaux cousin by 1870.  Cyprien's son did not marry by then. 

Auguste's seventh son Victor Marcellin married cousin Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Florentin Bourgeois and his second wife Creole Marie Adèle Vaudry, at the Convent church in October 1869; they had to secure a dispensation for second[sic] degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Twin daughters Marie Francina and Marie Francis were born near Vacherie in August  1870, but Marie Francina died in September; ... 

Joseph Marie's seventh and youngest son Fabien married Adèle Marguerite or Marguerite Adèle, daughter of André Bernard III, a German Creole, not a fellow Acadian, and his Acadian wife Marguerite Richard, at the Convent church in June 1829.  Their children, born near Convent, included Marguerite Elvina, called Elvina, baptized at the Convent church, age undecipherable, in September 1830; Marie Aglaé born in December 1832 but, called Aglaé, died at age 17 1/2 in March 1850; Bernard baptized the Convent church at age 3 months, 12 days in November 1835 but died at age 8 in December 1843; Jules Adrien baptized at the Convent church at age 9 months in December 1838; and Cécile born in January 1850--five children, three daughters and two sons, between 1830 and 1850.  Evidently none of Fabien's children married by 1870, but one of his daughters bore a "natural" son by then. 

Daughter Elvina's son Auguste le jeune was baptized at the Convent church, age unrecorded, in December 1847, when she was age 17.  The priest who recorded the boy's baptism did not give the father's name.  There is no record that Elvina married the father.

Jean-Baptiste, père's fourth son Pierre-Victorin, by first wife Madeleine Bourg, married Marie-Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Jacques LeBlanc and Nathalie Pitre of St.-Malo, France, at Cabahannocer in April 1795.  Geneviève, a native of St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo, had come to Louisiana from France aboard the second of the Seven Ships in 1785.  She and Pierre were counted in the Valenzuela District on upper Bayou Lafourche in January 1798 with their oldest son, but they returned to Cabahannocer.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer/St. James, included Pierre-Marie-Simon, called Simon, Simon-Pierre-Marie, and Simon dit Timon, in April 1796; Marie-Aloyse, perhaps also called Marie-Nathalie, in August 1798[sic]; Marie Drausin, called Drausin or Drosin, a son, in January 1799[sic]; Marie-Adélaïde or Adeline in October 1801 but died at age 5 1/2 in August 1807; Marie-Célestine-Léonise baptized, age 6 months, in December 1803; Marie Élisabeth born in September 1805; Marie Claire in August 1807 but, called Clair, may have died near Convent, age 57, in August 1864; and Marie Lucien, called Lucien, a son, born in May 1809--eight children, three sons and five daughters, between 1796 and 1809.  Daughters Marie Nathalie and Marie Élisabeth married into the Poché and Schexnayder families.  Pierre Victorin's three sons also married and settled on the river.

Oldest son Simon dit Timon married Augustine dite Justine, daughter of Adam Schexnayder and Pélagie Rome, at the Convent church in May 1817; Simon's sister Marie Élisabeth married Justine's brother Jean.  Justine and Simon's children, born near Convent, included Justine in April 1818 but died at age 2 1/2 in August 1820; Marie Elisida dite Nesida or Nisida born in August 1820; and Simon dit Timon, fils, posthumously in April 1823--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1818 and 1823.  Simon dit Timon, père died in St. James Parish in August 1822.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Simon Pierre Marie, as he called him, was age 28 when he died.  He was 26.  Daughter Nisida married into the Cambre family.  Simon's son also married.

Only son Simon dit Timon, fils married first cousin Marie Alphrosine, called Alphronsine, daughter of Alphonse Schexnayder and his Acadian wife Marie Delphine Bourgeois, his uncle and aunt, at the Convent church in August 1844; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born near Convent, included Alphonse Théodore, called Théodore, in May 1845; Marie Odile in December 1846 but died at age 1 in December 1847; Timon III born in September 1848; Marie Justine in June 1850; Honoror in August 1853; Alphonse in February 1855; Marie Delphine in February 1857; Jacob Augustin in August 1858; Marie Caroline in April 1860; Théodule Michel in July 1862 but, called Michel, died at age 2 in August 1864; Marie Reginia Aurore born in August 1866; Louis Joseph in July 1868; Jean Baptiste Édouard in June 1873; ...  None of Timon's daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did. 

Oldest son Alphonse Théodore, called Théodore, married cousin Marie Eugénie, called Eugénie, daughter of Eugène Laiche and his Acadian wife Calice Bourgeois, at the Convent church in August 1866; they had to secure double dispensations for fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born near Convent, included Marie Aurore in August 1867; Michel Théodore in December 1868; a son, name unrecorded, died a day after his birth in May 1870; ...

Pierre Victorin's second son Marie Drausin, called Drausin or Drosin, married Marie, daughter of Louis Cureaux and Marie Vickner, at the Convent church in February 1836.  Their children, born near Convent, included a son, name unrecorded, died eight days after his birth in September 1833; Jus, also called Yves or Ives, born in December 1834; Victorin in c1836 but died at age 23 in September 1859; and Drausin or Drosin Théophile, called Théophile, born in March 1839--four children, all sons, between 1833 and 1839.  Drausin died near Convent in October 1853.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Drosin, as he called him, died at "age 50 yrs."  He was 54.  Was he a victim of the yellow fever epidemic that struck South Louisiana that summer and fall?  Two of his sons married by 1870. 

Second son Ives or Yves married Julie or Julia, daughter of Valéry Roussel and his Acadian wife Louise Michel, at the Convent church in February 1866.  Their children, born near Convent, included Joseph Drosin Ives in February 1867; and Marie Dora in August 1868.  Ives died near Convent in November 1869, age 34. 

Drausin's fourth and youngest son Théophile married cousin Marie Eulalie Clémence, called Clémence, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Florestin Bourgeois and his second wife Creole Marie Adèle Vaudry, at the Convent church in September 1865.  Their children, born near Convent, included Marie Eulalie in May 1866; Joseph Théophile in June 1867; Henri Oscar in March 1869; ... 

Pierre Victorin's third and youngest son Marie Lucien, called Lucien, married Marie Célestine, called Célestine, daughter of Joseph Laiche and Céleste Keller, at the Convent church in January 1836.  Their children, born near Convent, included Lucien Jules, called Jules, baptized at the Convent church, age 3 months, in October 1836; Marie Clothilde born in June 1838; Louis Bernard in August 1839; Marie Joséphine, called Joséphine, in March 1841; Marie Philomène in December 1842 but died at age 1 in February 1844; Marie Eugénie born in November 1844; Marie Louise, called Louise, in August 1846; André in February 1849 but died at age 20 in December 1869; Pierre born in May 1851; and twins Joseph and Marie Geneviève in October 1853--11 children, five sons and six daughters, including a set of twins, between 1836 and 1853.  Lucien died near Convent in December 1856.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Lucien died at "age 47 yrs."  Daughters Marie Clothilde, Joséphine, and Louise married into the Ory, Cambre, and Roussel families by 1870.  One of Lucien's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Lucien Jules, called Jules, married cousin Marie Louise, called Niza, daughter of Joseph Cambre and his Acadian wife Justine dite Nesida Bourgeois, at the Convent church in October 1866; they had to secure a dispensation for second[sic] degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born near Convent, included Joseph Jules in November 1867; Marie Julie, perhaps theirs, in February 1870; ... 

Jean-Baptiste, père's fifth son Amand-Alcide, by first wife Madeleine Bourg, married Scholastique, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Arceneaux and Marie Bergeron, at Cabahannocer in November 1792.  Their children, born there, included Amand, fils in July 1794; Marie-Marcellite, called Marcellite, in March 1796; Jean-Estival, called Estival, in December 1797; Marie-Émilie, called Émilie or Émilite, in February 1801; and François Neville or Neuville, called Neuville, baptized, age 6 months, in December 1803--five children, three sons and two daughters, between 1794 and 1803.  Amand, père died at Cabahannocer in November 1805.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Amand was age 30 when he died.  He was 33.  Daughters Marcellite and Émilite married Clouâtre brothers in St. James Parish.  Amand Alcide's three sons also married there. 

Oldest son Amand, fils married Hortense, also called Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Bonaventure Gaudin dit Bellefontaine, fils and Marie Broussard, at the Convent church in April 1817.  Their children, born near Convent, included Jean Baptiste in August 1818 but, called Jean Baptiste Edmond, died at age 19 in November 1837; Amand III born in February 1820; Célestine in the late 1810s or 1820s; Scholastique in June 1821; Lucien in December 1822 but died near Convent, age 33 (the recording priest said 35), in April 1856; Jean Baptiste or Raphaël born in the early or mid-1820s; Marie Adolestine or Adorestine in April 1826; Augustine, also called Elmire Augustine, in August 1828; Pierre in July 1832; Marguerite Amélie in September 1833; Lezidore or Lesida in June 1835; Émile in the 1830s; Marguerite Justiana or Justine, called Justine, in July 1837; Louis in August 1839; a newborn, name unrecorded, died near Convent in June 1841; Helena born in October 1842; Ovide in the early 1840s; and an infant daughter, name and age unrecorded, died near Convent in July 1844--18 children, at least eight sons and nine daughters, between 1818 and 1844.  Amand, fils died near Convent in November 1853, age 59 (the recording priest said 60).  Daughters Célestine, Marie Adolestine/Adorestine, Lesida, Aureline, Elmire Augustine, and Justine married into the Mire, Bourgeois, Webre, Melançon, Guidry, and Boucry families.  Four of Amand, fils's sons also married. 

Second son Amand III married Juliette, daughter of Joseph Huguet and Eugénie Barbay, at the Convent church in January 1845.  Their children, born near Convent, included Mire or Marie Amanda in April 1846; Marguerite Élina in June 1849; and Michel Louis Stanislas in January 1861--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1846 and 1861.  Daughter Marie Amanda married into the Jourdan family by 1870.

Amand, fils's fourth son Jean Baptiste or Raphaël married cousin Pauline or Apolline, daughter of Andrés LeBlanc, fils, a French Canadian, not a fellow Acadian, and Éloise Bourgeois, perhaps a fellow Acadian, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in May 1840.  Their children, born on the river, included Élisa or Éliza near St. Gabriel in September 1841; Jean Baptiste Alcé or Alcée, called Alcée, in September 1843; André in Ascension Parish in July 1845 but, evidently called Bélisaire, died near Convent at age 2 1/2 in January 1848; Amand Carville born near Convent in February 1848; Marie Dilia in May 1851; Mary Aurelia in July 1853; Augustin Ludger in November 1855; and Marie Adine in April 1858 but died near Convent at age 1 1/2 in July 1859--eight children, four daughters and four sons, between 1841 and 1858.  Daughter Éliza married into the Rome family by 1870.  One of Jean Baptistse's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Alcée married first cousin Eliska, daughter of fellow Acadians Théodule Mire and Célestine Bourgeois, his uncle and aunt, at the Convent church in January 1870; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry. ...

Amand, fils's sixth son Émile married Lesida, daughter of Eugène Bertaud and his Acadian wife Florine Melançon, at the St. James church, St. James Parish, in January 1854.  Their children, born near Convent, included Émilie in June 1856; Marie Louisa in October 1859; Clara in June 1861; Paul Émile in January 1863; Mirthee Clotilde in December 1864; François Eugène in September 1866; Louis Camille in August 1868; ...  None of Émile's children married by 1870. 

Amand, fils's eighth and youngest son Ovide married Marie Émelie, called Émelie, daughter of Mathurin Boucry and Euphrasie Nicole, at the Convent church in February 1862.  Their children, born near Convent, included Joseph Ovide in March 1863; Armand Adolphe in May 1864; Stanislus Edwin in January 1866; Joseph Fernand in September 1867; Marie Euphrasie in January 1870; ... 

Amand Alcide's second son Jean Estival, called Estival, married Véronique, daughter of Nicolas Keller and Agnès Schexnayder, at the Convent church in February 1817.  Their children, born near Convent, included Jean Pierre le jeune in January 1818; Marie Scholastique in October 1819; Agnès Adélaïde in June 1821 but died at age 9 1/2 (the recording priest said 8) in January 1831; Saint Claire, called Claire, born in July 1824; Marie Adeline in June 1827; Adèle Estival in the 1820s; Louise in August 1831; Marie or Louise Corinne in c1834; Joseph Théodule in August 1833 but died at age 18 months in February 1835; and Fulgence born in June 1837--nine children, three sons and six daughters, between 1818 and 1837.  Jean Estival died near Convent in April 1838, age 40.  Daughters Claire, Adèle Estival, Louise Corinne, and Marie Scholastique married into the Dicharry, Gaudin, Guidry, and Clouâtre families by 1870.  Two of Estival's sons also married by then, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Jean Pierre le jeune married Hortense, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste LeBlanc and Cléonise Gaudin, at the Convent church in January 1839.  Daughter Marie Laetitia was born in St. James Parish in July 1845 but, called Letitia, died near Convent, age 2 in September 1847.  One wonders if Jean Pierre le jeune fathered any sons.

Estival's fourth and youngest son Fulgence married first cousin Rosalie Myrza or Myrza Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jérôme Clouâtre and Émelite dite Mélite Bourgeois, his great-uncle and great-aunt, at the Convent church in January 1858; they had to secure a dispensation for second[sic] degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Marie Evela in March 1859 but died at age 1 1/2 in June 1860; Claire Amélie born in June 1861 but, called Claire, died at age 1 in August 1862; Marie Philomène born in July 1863; Marie Alice in August 1865; Septime Alphonse in August 1868 but, called Septime, died near Convent in November; Marie Adine born in October 1869; ... 

Amand Alcide's third and youngest son François Neville or Neuville, called Neuville, at age 24, married Marie Rose Antoinette or Marie Antoinette Rose, called Rose and Rosa, 18-year-old daughter of François Huguet and Marie Carmélite Connille of New Orleans and Ascension Parish, at the Convent church in February 1828.  Their children, born near Convent, included Denis died three days after his birth in October 1828; a son, name unrecorded, died the day of his birth in November 1829; François Agenon born in August 1830 but died at age 8 1/2 in February 1839; Carmélite Mirthe born in November 1831; François Amiliar in February 1833 but died at age 11 months in January 1834; Étienne Esteve baptized at the Convent church,at age 4 months in September 1834 but died at age 10 in October 1844; Carmélite Émilie, called Émilie, born in August 1836; twins Anne Hermina, called Hermina, and Hélène Justina in February 1838, but Hermina died at age 1 1/2 in June 1839; François, fils born in September 1841 but died at age 5 in December 1846; Angela Ernestine born in April 1843; Joseph Théogène, called Théogène, in February 1845 but died at age 22 in November 1867; Julienne born in June 1846 but died in July; Marie Rose or Rosa born in February 1848; Antoinette Virginie in September 1849 but, called Virginie, died at age 1 1/2 in April 1851; and François Ernest born in February 1853.  Wife Rose died the following April, age 43, probably from the rigors of childbirth.  At age 54, François Neuville remarried to Marie Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadian Abraham Arceneaux and his Creole wife Marie Carmélite Connille and widow of Ulger Duhon, at the Convent church in May 1857.  Marie Carmélite Arceneaux's mother was François Neuville's first wife Rose Huguet's mother, so Marie Carmélite was François Neuville's stepsister-in-law; they had to secure a dispensation for first degree of affinity in order to marry.  Their children, born near Convent, included Amant or Amand Neuville in September 1856 but died at age 11 (the recording priest said 12) in October 1867; Scholastique born in January 1858 but died at age 10 in February 1868; Marie Carmélitte born in July1860 but, called Carmélite, died at age 1 in July 1861; Jean Beauregard born in December 1861; Marie Juliette, perhaps theirs, in July 1863; Ambroise Renaud in December 1864; ...   François Neuville, called François, died near Convent in September 1866, age 63.  Daughters Angela Ernestine, Marie Rosa, ..., by both wives, married into the Huguet, LeBlanc, Gaudin, Letulle, and Mainvielle or Minvielle families by 1870.  None of François Neuville's remaining sons married by then.

Jean-Baptiste, père's sixth and youngest son Paul-Benjamin, by first wife Madeleine Bourg, married, at age 19, Anne, daughter of Michel Godin, a French Canadian, not a fellow Acadian, and Madeleine Delorier, at Cabahannocer in October 1794.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer, included Marie-Madeleine in August 1795 but died at age 2 in July 1797; Paul-Amand or Amand-Paul born in November 1796; Pierre-Marie-Valéry, called Valéry, in February 1799; Thomas-Aquinas or 'd'Aquin, in March 1802; Jean Justinien or Justilien, in September 1804; Henri Hilaire, called Hilaire, in January 1807; Marie Séraphine in April 1808; a son, name and age unrecorded, died in May 1809; and Jacques Sylvère or Sylvère Jacques born in c1810--nine children, two daughters and seven sons, between 1795 and 1810.  Paul Benjamin died near Convent in July 1811, age 35.  Daughter Marie Séraphine married Bourgeois cousins.  Six of Paul Benjamin's sons also married and settled on the river. 

Oldest son Paul Amand or Amand Paul married cousin Marie Marguerite, called Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Bourgeois and Marie Madeleine Thibodeaux, at the Convent church in November 1816; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of relationship in order to marry.  Their chldren, born in St. James Parish, included Marie Euphrasie or Euphrosie, called Euphrosie, in September 1817; Marie Oreline in May 1820; Marguerite in September 1822; Séraphine in the 1820s; Marie Arthémise in the late 1820s or early 1830s; and Jean Baptiste in January 1832--six children, five daughters and a son, between 1817 and 1832.  Amand Paul, called Paul Amand by the recording priest, died near Convent in June 1833, age 36 (the recording priest said 35).  Daughters Euphrosie, Séraphine, and Marie Arthémise married into the Schexnayder, Gaudet, and Claudet families.  Paul Amand's son also married and settled on the river. 

Only son Jean Baptiste married Marie Jumelia or Jumilia, daughter of Pierre Brignac and Marie Emelite Laiche, at the Convent church in April 1856.  Daughter Marie Henriette was born near Convent in December 1856 and did not marry by 1870.  The couple evidently had no sons. 

Paul Benjamin's second son Pierre Marie Valéry, called Valéry, married cousin Marie Anastasie, called Anastasie, another daughter of Paul Bourgeois and Marie Madeleine Thibodeaux, at the Convent church in January 1824; they, too, had to secure a dispensation for third degree of relationship in order to marry.  Their son Joseph Valéry Théoville or Théovide, also called Théovide Bernard, was born near Convent in November 1824.  Valéry died near Convent in October 1854.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Valère, as he called him, died at "age 65 yrs."  He would have been age 55.  Valéry's only son had died three days earlier, so one wonders if father and son perished in an epidemic or were involved in a tragic accident.  Anastasie, only recently a widow, died near Convent the following November, age 58.  Their son married and fathered children before his untimely death. 

Only son Joseph Théovide married Marie Clothilde Eve, daughter of Antoine Reine and Azélie Poche, at the Convent church in October 1850.  Their children, born near Convent, included Jean Baptiste Théodide in June 1851 but, called Jean Bpt. Théovide, died at age 4 1/2 in December 1855; Louis Joseph born in March 1853; and Marie Helena Louise in August 1854 but, called Marie Louisa, died in June 1855--three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1851 and 1854.  Théovide, père died near Convent in October 1854, age 30, only three days before his father died.  Théovide's remaining son did not marry by 1870. 

Paul Benjamin's third son Thomas Aquinas or d'Aquin married Marie Céleste or Célestine, called Céleste, daughter of Noël Matherne and Charlotte Delmer, at the Convent church in February 1831.  They lived in St. James Parish and then farther down river near the boundary between St. James and St. John the Baptist parishes.  Their children, born there, included Thomas d'Aquin, fils in December 1831; Marie Noémie in September 1833; Marie Lody in December 1835; Paul Jules or Jules Paul, in March 1838; Marie Adèle in March 1832 but, called Adèle, died at age 12 1/2 (the recording priest said 13) in November 1854; Marie Odile born in March 1840; Marie Léonice between 1841 and 1843 but died at "age between 7 and 9" in January 1840; Joseph born in February 1844 but died at age 10 1/2 in November 1854; Augustave born in January 1846; Marie Aurelia in January 1848 but, called Aurelia, died at age 7 in August 1856; Annette Honorine born in July 1850; Aloysia in August 1852; and James in April 1855--13 children, five sons and eight daughters, between 1831 and 1855.  In 1850, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted 14 slaves on Thomas's farm.  The following year, he purchased land in St. John the Baptist Parish on the left, or east, bank of the river, relocated his family there, and became a planter.  Thomas died near Mount Airy, St. John the Baptist Parish, in August 1868, age 66, and was buried in St. Michael's cemetery at Convent.  Daughters ... married into the Baudry, Bourgeois, and Poché families by 1870.  Two of Thomas d'Aquin's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Thomas d'Aquin, fils married Marie Mélasie Picou in a civil ceremony in St. James Parish in c1852.  Their children, born near Convent, included Marie Joséphine in October 1852; George in March 1855; Marie Julia in March 1857; Joseph Thomas in October 1859; Stanislas Sydney in October 1864 but, called Sydney, died at age 15 months in January 1866; Louis Pierre in c1870; ... In 1860, the family was living on Thomas, fils's father's plantation in St. John the Baptist Parish, where Thomas, fils worked as the overseer.  None of Thomas, fils's children married by 1870. 

Thomas, père's second son Jules Paul married Eva ____ before 1860, when they were living on his father's plantation in St. John the Baptist Parish. ...

Paul Benjamin's fourth son Jean Justinien or Justilien married Joséphine Lauentiaux, daughter of Casimir Cantrelle and Séraphine Roussel, at the Convent church in August 1832.  Their children, born near Convent, included Marie Lisida in September 1833; Jean Justinien, fils, called Justinien and also Hermogène, in December 1834; Amélie Aurelia in October 1836 but died at age 1 in October 1837; Marie Céleste baptized at the Convent church at age 3 months in November 1838; Florisca or Floriska born in October 1840; Prudent in April 1842; Victor in October 1843; Théodore in June 1845; Marie, perhaps also called Marie Eliska, in February 1848; and Laura in October 1851--10 children, six daughters and four sons, between 1833 and 1851.  Jean Justinien, père died near Convent in August 1855, age 51.  Daughters Marie Eliska, Floriska, ... married into the Deslattes, Poché, and Schexnayder families by 1870.   Jean Justinien's sons also married by then, two of them to sisters.  

Oldest son Jean Justinien, fils, also called Hermogène, married Marie Euphémie, called Euphémie, daughter of Charles Zéphirin Ledoux and Marguerite Chenette, at the Convent church in March 1856.  Their children, born near Convent, included Lodoiska in March 1857; Marie Justine in October 1858; Marie Odile in December 1859 but, called Odile, died at age 11 months in November 1860; Charles born in May 1864; Fortunat Hermogène in May 1866; Marie Joséphine in December 1867; Joseph Argus baptized at the Convent church, age indecipherable, in February 1869; Marie Neila born in November 1870; ... 

Jean Justien, père's second son Prudent married Marie Emma, daughter of Télésphore Poché and Félicité Laiche, at the Convent church in February 1862.  She evidently gave him no children.  Prudent remarried to Odile, another daughter of Télésphore Poché and Félicité Laiche, at the Convent church in June 1869; they had to secure a dispensation for first degree of affinity in order to marry.  Daughter Marie Emma was born near Convent in May 1870; ...

Jean Justien, père's third son Théodore married Anaïs, yet another daughter of Telesphore Poché and Félicité Laiche, at the Convent church in November 1866.  Their children, born near Convent, included Marie Félicité in September 1867; Marie Elesca in July 1869; ...

Jean Justien, père's fourth and youngest son Victor married Marie Marcelline, called Marcelline, daughter of Marcellin Oubre and his Acadian wife Florestin Gaudin, at the Convent church in January 1867.  Their children, born near Convent, included Marie Félicie in November 1867; Carmélite Léa in March 1870; ...

Paul Benjamin's fifth son Henri Hilaire, called Hilaire, married Catherine Éloise, Héloise, or Louise, daughter of Adam Schexnayder and Adélaïde Chenet, at the Convent church in February 1835.  Their children, born near Convent, included Marie Phelonise or Felonise, called Felonise, in August 1837; Aristide, also called Aristide Henri, in March 1839; and Philogène perhaps posthumously in December 1840--three children, a daughter and two sons, between 1837 and 1840.  Hilaire may have died near Convent in August 1840.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Hilaire died at "age 27 yrs."  This Hilaire would have been age 33.  Daughter Felonise married into the Poché family by 1870.  One of Henri Hilaire's sons also married by then. 

Older son Aristide Henri married double cousin Marie Olive, called Olive, daughter of fellow Acadian Livain Bourgeois and his Creole wife Agnès Schexnayder, at the Convent church in February 1866; they had to secure a dispensation for second and third degrees of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born near Convent, included Joseph Henri in February 1868 but died in March; Joseph Aristide born in January 1869; Marie Eve in May 1870; ... 

Paul Benjamin's seventh and youngest son Jacques Sylvère or Sylvère Jacques married Eveline, daughter of Zénon Roussel and Marie Loques, at the Convent church in May 1835.  Their children, born near Convent, included Florian in February 1836; Jacques, fils in May 1838; and Florent in January 1842--three children, all sons, between 1836 and 1842.  Sylvère Jacques died near Convent in June 1843, age 33.  All of his sons married, two of them to sisters, all of them to cousins.  Two of them moved to Terrebonne Parish, and one remained on the river. 

Oldest son Florian married first cousin Adorestine or Adolestine, daughter of Zénon Roussel and Carmélite Grégoire, at the Convent church in November 1857; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  They settled near Chacahoula in Terrebonne Parish, though one of their daughters was baptized in Lafourche Parish in the early 1860s.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Marie Nehila in April 1859; Georges Florien in March 1861; Marie Eveline in November 1862; Joseph in August 1864; Hilaire Alcide in December 1865; Henri Clet in May 1868; Noë Anatole in July 1870; ...

Jacques Sylvère's second son Jacques married cousin Victorine, daughter of Rosémond St. Pierre and his Acadian wife Joséphine Michel, at the Covent church in April 1864; they had to secure a dispensation for second and third degrees of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born near Convent, included Paul in August 1864 but died at age 1 in October 1865; Marie Augustine born in August 1866; Marie Adorelline in January 1868; ... 

Jacques Sylvère's third and youngest son Florent married first cousin Florestine or Florestide, another daughter of Zénon Roussel and Carmélite Grégoire, at the Chacahoula church, Terrebonne Parish, in November 1863; they, too, had to secure a second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  They remained near the boundary between Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes.  Their children, born there, included Charles Florence baptized at Chacahoula, age unrecorded, in September 1864; Joseph Odressi born in December 1865 but, called Odrey, died at age 1 1/2 in October 1867; Adam Luc born in February 1868; Pierre Stelly in November 1869; ...

Michel (c1734-?) à Charles, fils à Charles à Jacques dit Jacob Bourgeois

Michel, second son of Pierre Bourgeois and Marie-Françoise Cormier, born probably at Chignecto in c1734, escaped the British roundup there in 1755 and either followed his older brother Jean-Baptiste and his wife to Île St.-Jean and then to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, or moved directly to the Gulf shore after escaping the British.  On 24 October 1760, a Michel Bourgeois appeared on a list of 1,003 exiles at the Acadian refuge of Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs; he was counted alone.  Michel married Marie Le____, date and place unrecorded, perhaps in a prison compound in Nova Scotia, where the British held them for the rest of the war.  A Michel Bourgeois, his unnamed wife, and an unnamed child appeared on a French repatriation list at Halifax in August 1763.  In late 1764 or early 1765, perhaps after losing his wife and child, Michel followed older brother Jean-Baptiste and his family to New Orleans and Cabahannocer.  Michel, at age 33, remarried to 32-year-old Rose-Osite, called Osite, Gautreaux of Grand-Pré, widow of Olivier Foret, at New Orleans in May 1767.  The year before, as a young widow, Osite and her 11-year-old daughter had come to Louisiana from Maryland.  Unusual for an Acadian couple, Michel and Osite may have remained in New Orleans until 1771, when one of their children was baptized at Cabahannocer.  Their children, born on the river, included Paul in c1768; Josèphe, perhaps Joseph, baptized at Cabahannocer, age unrecorded, in December 1771; and twins Marie-Madeleine and Marie-Marguerite baptized, age unrecorded, in June 1774--perhaps five children, one, perhaps two or three, sons and two, perhaps three, daughters, between the early 1760s and 1774, in greater Acadia and Louisiana.  In 1779, Michel owned three slaves on his farm at Cabahannocer.  Twin daughters Marie-Margueirte and Marie-Madeleine married into the Michel and Duhon families at Cabahannocer five months apart.  Michel's remaining son also married and, like his sisters, settled in what became St. James Parish. 

Son Paul, by second wife Osite Gautreaux, married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Thibodeaux and Marie Landry, at Cabahannocer in February 1790.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer, included Madeleine in November 1790; Eugène-Paul-Marin in November 1792; Marie-Clémence, also called Marie-Clémence-Eulalie, in December 1794; Marie-Marguerite-Lucrece in October 1796; Marie-Anastasie-Eléonore in November 1798; Marie-Justine in September 1800; Marie-Céleste in April 1803 but died at age 2 1/2 in February 1806; Délise born in c1804; Pierre Marie Marcellin in April 1805; Michel Germain Maximilien in May 1807; Joseph Marie Philippe in March 1809 but died near Convent, St. James Parish, age 21, in November 1830; Mélanie born in the early 1810s; Jean Baptiste Edmond born near Convent in January 1813; and François Simon in  August 1815 but died at age 4 in September 1819--14 children, eight daughters and six sons, between 1790 and 1815.  Paul died near Convent in July 1849, at "age 82 yrs."  Daughters Marie Clémence Eulalie, Delise, and Mélanie married into the Bourgeois, Martin, and Chenet families.  Two of Paul's sons also married, but not all of the lines endured. 

Second son Pierre Marie Marcellin married cousin Marie Séraphine, called Séraphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Benjamin Bourgeois and his French-Canadian wife Anne Godin, at the Convent church in November 1824; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of relationship in order to marry.  Their children, born near Convent, included Adolphe Florian, called Florian, in December 1827; Thomas St. Pierre, called Thomassin, in February 1829; Marie Florestine in November 1830; and Marie Madeleine, called Madeleine, posthumously in October 1833--four children, two sons and two daughters, between 1827 and 1833.  Pierre Marcellin died near Convent in July 1833.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Pierre Marcellin was age 30 when he died.  He was 28.  His widow remarried to a Bourgeois cousin.  Daughters Marie Florestine and Madeleine married into the Poché family by 1870.  Both of Pierre Marcellin's sons also married by then, but not all of the lines endured. 

Older son Adolphe Florian married M. L. Sephalie or Stephanie, daughter of Alfred Narcisse Druilhet and Félicité Poché, at the Convent church in June 1848.  Their children, born near Convent, included Paul Florian in August 1849 but, called Florent, died at age 18 in September 1867; and Marie Stephanie born in May 1851 but, called Stephanie, died at age 2 1/2 in November 1853.  Adolphe Florian died near Convent in August 1863, age 35 (the recording priest said 36).  His line of the family may have died with him. 

Pierre Marie Marcellin's younger son Thomassin married Marie Armantine or Armentine, daughter of Ludgère Matherne and Rosalie Coussot, at the Convent church in December 1852.  Their children, born near Convent, included Joseph Wuilles or Willis, called Willis and Willie, in November 1853; Joseph in March 1855 but, called Wilson, died at age 11 (the recording priest said 12) in September 1866; Pierre Wilkins born in March 1857 but, called Wilkin, died at age 9 1/2 in September 1866; Anne Ela born in December 1862; and Marie Aline in July 1865--five children, three sons and two daughters, between 1853 and 1865.  Thomassin died near Convent in September 1866.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Thomassin died at "age 39 years."  He was 37.  Although the priest at St. Michael church in Convent did not make note of it, one suspects that the father and two sons, who died within two days of one another, perished in the yellow fever epidemic that struck South Louisiana late that summer.  Daughter ... married into the Deslattes family.  Only one of Thomassin's sons lived long enough to create a family of his own.

Oldest son Willis married cousin Marie Emilina, daughter of Armand Matherne and Ernestine Callouiet, at the St. James church in April 1879. ...

Paul's fifth son Jean Baptiste Edmond married Marie Félicie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Louis Part and Anastasie Poirier, at the Convent church in August 1837.  Did they have any children?

Jean (c1739-?) Charles, fils à Charles à Jacques dit Jacob Bourgeois

Jean, putative fourth son of Pierre Bourgeois and Marie-Françoise Cormier, born probably at Chignecto in c1739, escaped the British roundup there in the fall of 1755 and either followed his older brother Jean-Baptiste and his wife to Île St.-Jean and then to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, or moved directly to the Gulf shore after escaping the British.  Sometime in the late 1750s or early 1760s, he either was captured by, or surrendered to, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  He married his first wife, whose name has been lost to history, probably during exile.  In late 1764 or early 1765, they followed three of his siblings and other exiles from Halifax to Louisiana via Cap-Français and settled at Cabahannocer, where the Spanish counted them in April 1766.  Evidently Jean and his first wife had no children.  At age 29, he remarried to 18-year-old Louise-Ludivine, called Ludivine, Granger, a fellow Acadian, at Cabahannocer in January 1768.  She gave him all of his children there, including Dominique, also called Jean, fils, in c1770; Félicité baptized, age unrecorded, in 1773; Jean-Louis baptized, age unrecorded, in May 1775; Jean-Baptiste born in c1783; and Édouard in November 1787--five children, four sons and a daughter, between 1770 and 1787.  In March 1779, Jean held two slaves on his farm at Cabahannocer.  Daughter Félicité married into the Arceneaux family.  All of Jean's sons married, but not all of the lines endured.  They remained on the left, or east, bank of the river in St. James Parish.  However, two of his great-grandsons settled in Pointe Coupee Parish, where few of their fellow Acadians settled. 

Oldest son Dominique, by second wife Ludivine Granger, called Jean by the recording priest, married Félicité, daughter of fellow Acadians Joachim dit Bénoni Mire and Madeleine Melançon, at Cabahannocer in July 1790.  One wonders if they had any children.  Was he the Dominique Bourgeois who died in Ascension Parish in January 1828?  The Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial did not give any parents' names or mention a wife.  This Dominique would have been in his late 50s that year.  Did his line of the family die with him? 

Jean, père's second son Jean-Louis, by second wife Ludivine Granger, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Thibodeaux and Marie Landry, at Cabahannocer in August 1795.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer, included Louis-Dominique in June 1796 but died at age 3 1/2 in September 1799; a daughter, no name given, died seven days after her birth in June 1797; Paul-Édouard born in August 1798 but died at age 16 months in October 1799; Marie-Madeleine-Eulalie born in November 1799 but died at age 16 1/2 in June 1817; Marie-Anastasie-Rosalie, called Rosalie, born in December 1801; Louis-Pierre-Célestin, called Pierre-Célestin and Célestin, in May 1803; Eugène in May 1805; Damien in December 1806 but died near Convent in April 1893, age 86; and Marie Delphine born in c1810--nine children, five sons and four daughters, between 1796 and 1810.  Jean Louis, at age 48, remarried to Marie, 45-year-old daughter of Jean Baptiste Cambre and Marie Pichoff of St. John the Baptist Parish and widow of Jean Luquet, at the St. James church, St. James Parish, in August 1822.  She evidently gave him no more children.  Jean Louis died near Convent, St. James Parish, in April 1845.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Jean Louis died at "age 73."  He may have been a few years younger.  Daughters Rosalie and Marie Delphine, by his first wife, married into the Trudeau and Schexnayder families.  Two of Jean Louis's sons also married. 

Third son Louis Pierre Célestin, called Pierre Célestin and Célestin, from first wife Marie Thibodeaux, married Gertrude, daughter of Raymond Causeans, Coussalt, Coussat, Cousseau, Cruse, Cruso, Felips, Philippe, Philippes, Philips, or Phillips and his French-Canadian wife Rosalie Gaudin, at the Convent church in January 1827.  Their children, born near Convent, included Marie Joséphine, called Joséphine, in February 1829; Félicien, also called Pierre Félicien, in January 1831; Marie Armantine in September 1832; Louis Clidaman, also called Louis Cledaman, Cledemand, Cledomont, Clidamant, or Clidamont, in May 1834; Jean Aristile or Aristide, called Aristide, in January 1836; Jean Baptiste Edmond in November 1837 but died at age 3 in November 1840; Honorine Philomène born in January 1840; Félicie in March 1841; Joseph in November 1842; Paul Camille, called Camille, in September 1844; Michel Albert, called Albert, baptized at the Convent church at age 8 months in April 1847; Émilien, also called Émile, born in June 1848; and Joseph Édouard, called Édouard, in April 1852--13 children, four daughters and nine sons, between 1829 and 1852.  Célestin died near Convent in September 1870.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Célestin died at "age 65 years."  He was 67.  Daughters ... married into the Gaudin, Lambert, and Vicknair families by 1870.  Six of his sons also married by then.  Two of them settled upriver in Pointe Coupee Parish, where few other Acadians settled, but most of them remained near Convent. 

Oldest son Pierre Félicien married Antoinette Victoria, daughter of François Bouis or Bouix and Hélène Croisset, at the Pointe Coupee church, Pointe Coupee Parish, in October 1853.  They lived near Convent before settling in Pointe Coupee.  Their children, born there, included Marie Helena, called Helena, near Convent in August 1854; Marie Gertrude, called Gertrude, in January 1856; Marie Joséphine, called Joséphine, in April 1857; François Vincent Félicien, called Vincent, in Pointe Coupee Parish in November 1858; Regina Antoinette in March 1860; Pierre Amédée in April 1862; Marie Laure Anaïs in July 1864; Marie Agnès in April 1866; Clovis Hildebert in November 18[6]8 but, called Clovis Hidelbert, died at age 9 months in August 1869; ...  None of Pierre Félicien's children married by 1870. 

Célestin's second son Louis Cledaman married Martha Lavinia, called Lavinia, daughter of Joseph Mathieu Vavasseur and Martha Sneid, at the Convent church in April 1856.  Their children, born near Convent, included Henry Clément in April 1857 but, called Henry, may have died at age 8 1/2 (the recording priest said 9) in December 1865; Anne Cécile born in January 1859; Marie Sarah in May 1863 but, called Marie Sara, died the following November; Matilde Berthe baptized at the Convent church, age unrecorded, in January 1865; Martha born in January 1867; Joseph le jeune baptized at the Convent church, age indecipherable, in January 1870 but died at Franklin, St. Mary Parish, on lower Bayou Teche, age 35, in May 1905. ...  Other than perhaps its blood, did Louis Cledaman's line endure? 

Célestin's third son Jean Aristide married Marie Pamela, called Pamela and Pamilia, another daughter of Joseph Mathieu Vavasseur and Martha Sneid, at the Convent church in February 1861.  Their children, born near Convent, included Joseph Aristide in May 1862 but died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 2 1/2) in November 1863; Marie Alice born in June 1864; Jean Septime in February 1866; Marie Olympia in November 1867; Silvère in June 1869; ... 

Célestin's fifth son Joseph l'aîné married Eugénia, daughter of Gustave Smith and Félesie Aymé, at the Convent church in November 1866. ...

Célestin's sixth son Paul Camille, called Camille, married Marie Léonie, called Léonie, daughter of Jules F. Porché and Eugénie Beauvais of Fort d'Mache, probably Manchac, at the Pointe Coupee church in January 1866.  Their children, born on the river, included Marie Noélie in St. James Parish in October 1866; Jules Léo in December 1867 and baptized at the Pointe Coupee church in April 1869; Paul Eraste born near Convent in May 1869 but, called Erarte, died near Convent at age 14 months (the recording priest said 18 months) in July 1870; ... 

Célestin's seventh son Michel Albert married Philomène Eveline, called Eveline, daughter of Jean Baptiste Caillouet and Emelia Aymé, at the Convent church in October 1866.  Their children, born near Convent, included Marie Émilie in August 1867; Reine Gertrude Philomène in November 1868; ...

Jean Louis's fourth son Eugène, by first wife Marie Thibodeaux, married cousin Marie Séraphine, called Séraphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Benjamin Bourgeois and his French-Canadian wife Anne Godin and widow of cousin Pierre Marcellin Bourgeois, at the Convent church in August 1836.  Their son Eugène Vinzule, called Vinzule, was born near Convent in October 1837.  Eugène died near Convent in September 1854, age 49.  His son married. 

Only son Eugène Vinzule, called Vinzule, married cousin Marie Adèle or Odile, daughter of fellow Acadian Thomas d'Aquin Bourgeois and his Creole wife Céleste Matherne, at the Convent church in January 1856.  Their children, born near Convent, included Vinzule René in March 1857; Victor Ernest in April 1859; Joseph in 1862 but died at age 20 months in November 1863; Marie Elcide born in July 1864; Marie Anaïs in May 1866; Cyrille Vinzule in December 1868; ...

Jean, père's third son Jean-Baptiste, by second wife Ludivine Granger, married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph dit Josime LeBlanc and Marguerite Duhon of Attakapas, at Cabahannocer in November 1802.  Jean-Baptiste died at Cabahannocer the following April, age 20.  His line of the family died with him. 

Jean, père's fourth and youngest son Édouard, by second wife Ludivine Granger, married Madeleine, another daughter of Joachim dit Bénoni Mire and Madeleine Melançon, at Cabahannocer in January 1805.  Their children, born near what became Convent, St. James Parish, included Eulalie Arthémise, called Arthémise, in October 1805; Marie Doralise in October 1807; Marie Mélanie, called Mélanie, in January 1810 but died at age 13 in January 1823; twins Édouard, fils and Marie-Euphémie born in January 1812; Jean Marcellin in April 1815; Marie Euphrasie, called Euphrasie, in September 1817 but died at age 26 (the recording priest said 23) in October 1843; Jean Baptiste Théodule, called Théodule, born probably in September 1819; Madeleine Azéma, called Azéma, in August 1822; Marguerite Élisabeth in June 1825; twins Émilie and an unnamed son in May 1827, but the son died in June, and Émilie died in July; and Joseph Florian born in c1828 but died near Convent, age 26, in November 1854--13 children, eight daughters and five sons, including two sets of twins, between 1805 and 1828.  Édouard, père died near Convent in October 1854, age 66.  Daughters Eulalie Arthémise, Marie Doralise, and Azéma married into the Haydel, Tassin, and Jolly families.  Three of Édouard's sons also married and settled in St. James Parish.  Two of them married sisters. 

Oldest son Édouard, fils married Marie Gertrude Lodoiska, daughter of Henri Baudet and Céleste Lemaire, at the Convent church in January 1848.  Their children, born near Convent, included Marie Louisa or Louise Ophelia in January 1850; Athanase Édouard in May 1852; Louis Arthur in January 1854; Marie Ludivine in May 1855; and Marie Euphémie in February 1858--five children, three daughters and two sons, between 1850 and 1858.  Édouard, fils died near Convent in September 1859, age 47.  Daughter Marie Louise Ophilia married a Bourgeois double cousin by 1870.  Neither of Édouard, fils's sons married by then. 

Édouard, père's second son Jean Marcellin, called Marcellin, married Marie Marcellite, called Marcellite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Louis Part and Anastasie Poirier, at the Convent church in February 1841; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of affinity in order to marry.  Their children, born near Convent, included Marcellite in November 1841 but, called Marcelline, died at age 12 1/2 in October 1854; and Charles Adolphe born in November 1844.  Marcellin's son married, perhaps after his war service. 

Only son Charles Adolphe married double cousin Marie Louise Ophelia, daughter of Édouard Bourgeois, fils and Marie Gertrude Lodoiska Baudet, his uncle and aunt, at the Convent church in December 1867; they had to secure a dispensation for second and third degrees of consanguinity in order to marry. ...

Édouard, père's third son Jean Baptiste Théodule, called Théodule, married Honorine, also called Aurelie, another daughter of Jean Louis Part and Anastasie Poirier, at the Convent church in June 1845.  Their children, born near Convent, included Marie Aurelie in April 1846 but, called Aurelia, died at age 5 1/2 in September 1851; Marie Edwige born in April 1848 but, called Edwige, died at age 11 1/2 (the recording priest said 12) in December 1859; and Joseph Félix born in April 1850 but, called Félix, died at age 2 1/2 in July 1852.  Théodule remarried to cousin Marie Émilie, called Émilie, daughter of Alphonse Schexnayder and his Acadian wife Delphine Bourgeois, at the Convent church in May 1852.  Their children, born near Convent, included Joseph Alphonse Théodule in December 1853; Joseph Eugène in August 1855; Marie Émilia in August 1857; Jean Baptiste Florian baptized at the Convent church, age unrecorded, in June 1864; ...  None of Théodule's children married by 1870. 

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Between 1766 and 1768, Anne-Esther Bourgeois, a teenaged orphan from Annapolis Royal who had been counted with her widowed mother Anne Comeau, a brother, her stepfather Charles Mouton, and two half-brothers at Champflores, Martinique, in January 1766, reached New Orleans by 1768 and settled with them at Cabahannocer.  She married into the Blanchard family there in c1769 and remained on the river, evidently the last Acadian Bourgeois to go to Louisiana. 

Boutin

Joseph, also called Jean, son of perhaps Jean Boutin and Susanne Rocheteau of Québec, born in c1676 perhaps at Québec, was a 25-year-old fisherman at Port-Royal in 1701He married Marie-Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Lejeune dit Briard and Marie Thibodeau, there in c1708.  Between 1710 and 1732, Marie-Marguerite gave Joseph eight children, six sons and two daughters.  They left Port-Royal, renamed Annapolis Royal, for La Hève on the Atlantic side of the peninsula perhaps after the Acadian capital fell to the British soon after their marriage and moved on to Pigiguit in the Minas Basin, but they did not remain there either.  Joseph was age 76 when he was counted at Baie-des-Espagnols, Île Royale, with his youngest son Paul in April 1752.  Île Royale was part of greater Acadia and was controlled by the French at the time, so Joseph evidently had taken his family there from Pigiguit in 1749-50 probably to escape turmoil in British Nova Scotia.  The census taker at Baie-des-Espagnols said that Joseph lived "Alone in a small house his children built for him," and that "He makes hand barrows and other small things for his own amusement."  Joseph died there probably soon after the counting.  His two daughters may not have married, but five of his sons created families of their own by marrying into the Pitre, Viger, Trahan, and Guédry families at Pigiguit and Baie-des-Espagnols.  Four of Joseph's married sons and one of their widows were counted at Baie-des-Espagnols with the old fisherman in April 1752. 

In the summer of 1754, under threat of starvation, Joseph's youngest son Paul, his wife Ursule Guédry, Paul's older brother Charles and his family, and other Pigiguit kin, left Baie-des-Espagnols and sailed from Louisbourg to Halifax, the capital of British Nova Scotia.  The refugees beseeched Lieutenant-Governor Charles Lawrence and his colonial 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, the Council minutes noted, "it appearing that they were in very great distress being intirely destitute of all necessitous," they "very cheerfully" took the oath and were issued rations to get them through the winter.  Lawrence evidently changed his mind about allowing them to return to Pigiguit.  He sent them, instead, to Mirliguèche on the Atlantic coast west of Halifax with their Guédry kin and other Acadians from Baie-des-Espagnols.  At Lunenburg, just up the coast from La Hève, where the Boutins had once lived, Paul, Charles, and their families were "victualled" by the British until September 1755, when, despite their having taken the unqualified oath, the British imprisoned them on Georges Island, Halifax, with other Acadians from Lunenburg.  In late December, they were among the 50 Acadians on Georges Island herded aboard the British transport Providence and sent to North Carolina, where, in January 1756, they landed probably at Edenton in Chowan County on the northwest shore of Albemarle Sound.  They remained in the Chowan County area until c1760, when colonial officials allowed them to resettle in Pennsylvania.  Brother Charles and his wife may have died by then.  Paul's daughter Susanne-Catherine, born probably at Philadelphia in December 1761, was baptized at St. Joseph Catholic Church there in June 1762.  The family was still in Pennsylvania in June 1763 after the war with Britain had ended, but they did not remain in the Quaker colony much longer.  By 1764, they had moved to Baltimore to join relatives who had settled in Maryland after leaving North Carolina. 

Paul and Charles's Boutin kin who remained on Île Royale, living in territory controlled by France, escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755, but, like their kinsmen who had gone to Halifax, their respite from British oppression was short-lived.  After the fall of the French fortress of Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats rounded up most of the habitants still on the Maritime islands and deported them to France.  Two sisters--Marie-Josèphe, called Josèphe, and Anne, also called Gillette-Théotiste, daughters of Pierre Boutin and Marie-Marcelle Trahan--were deported to St.-Malo aboard the transport Duc Guillaume, which left Île Royale in early September, suffered a mid-ocean mishap, and limped into the Breton port the first of November.  With them on the crossing were their mother and stepfather, Jean Pineau, and two Trahan uncles, Claude and Fiacre.  Josèphe, her mother, and one of her Trahan uncles died at sea.  Anne and her uncle Fiacre Trahan survived the crossing but died at the hospital in St.-Malo soon after the ship reached port.  Fiacre was age 18 at the time of his death; Anne was 12.  

Meanwhile, in Maryland, Paul Boutin and his family found themselves living 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 fellow exiles had been welcomed in Louisiana, they pooled their meager resources to charter ships that would take them to New Orleans.  Paul Boutin had no close relatives in Louisiana, but his wife Ursule Guédry had cousins there.

The Boutins, who reached Louisiana from Maryland in 1767, were one of the smaller Acadian families in Louisiana.  Paul, his four children, a nephew and a niece were the only Acadian members of the family who ventured to the Spanish colony.  They settled in the new Acadian community of San Gabriel on the river above New Orleans with the other 1767 arrivals.  The Boutin nephew settled at nearby Ascension but did not create a family of his own.  In the late 1760s or early 1770s, Paul took his family to the Opelousas District, where they remained.  Paul had two sons, but only one of them had sons of his own.  His younger son married a German Creole, who gave him six sons, but only two of his sons created their own families.  They, too, married German girls.  One of the sons settled near his father's homestead on Prairie des Femmes near Grand Coteau at the southeastern edge of the Opelousas District.  The other moved east to upper Bayou Teche and settled at La Pointe near present-day Breaux Bridge. 

Judging by the number of slaves they owned during the late antebellum period, the Boutins of St. Landry and St. Martin parishes participated only peripherally in the South's plantation-based economy.  Only one Acadian Boutin, Élisabeth of St. Landry, perhaps Élisabeth Gatt, widow of Jean Baptiste Boutin, père, appeared on a federal slave schedule, in 1860.  She held four slaves. 

Only one member of the Acadian branch of the family seems to have served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65.  The name of Despalière, teenage son of Paul Boutin le jeune, appears on an undated list of St. Martin Parish conscripts, but no unit is associated with the boy's name, so he may not have put on a butternut uniform and taken up arms for the Southern Confederacy.

In Louisiana, the family's name also is spelled Bota, Botan, Boten, Boutain, Bouttain, Butten.62 

Pierre-Paul (c1727-1801) Boutin

Pierre-Paul, called Paul, sixth and youngest son of Joseph Boutin and Marie-Marguerite Lejeune dit Briard, born probably at Pigiguit in c1727, followed his family to Île Royale in c1749.  He married Ursule, daughter of Augustin Guédry and Jeanne Hébert of l'Assomption, Pigiguit, probably at Baie-des-Espagnols on the Atlantic coast of the island in November 1750.  They settled there near his older brother Charles.  In April 1752, a French official counted Paul, described as a ploughman, Ursule, and his family, including his aging father and four brothers, at Baie-des-Espagnols.  The couple still had no children at the time, but that soon changed.  That year and the next, Ursule gave Paul two children at the island settlement:  Marguerite born in c1752; and Joseph in c1753.  Soon after their son's birth, they followed brother Charles to Halifax, Nova Scotia, and then to Mirliguèche down the coast.  From there, they endured exile on Georges Island, in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Maryland, where, at Baltimore, Ursule gave Paul more children:  Susanne-Catherine born in December 1761; and Pierre-Paul, called Paul, fils, in c1764.  Paul, Ursule, their four children, along with a nephew and niece, children of older brother Charles, emigrated to Louisiana from Maryland in 1767 and followed their fellow passengers to San Gabriel, where the Spanish forced them to settle.  Ursule was pregnant on the voyage from Maryland, which lasted from April to mid-July.  Two more daughters were born in the colony:  Marie-Julienne at San Gabriel in February 1768, seven months after the family reached the colony; and Marguerite-Louise in the late 1760s--six children, four daughters and two sons, between 1752 and the late 1760s, in greater Acadia, Maryland, and Louisiana.  In the late 1760s or early 1770s, probably with Spanish permission, Paul took his family across the Atchafalaya Basin to the Opelousas District, where, in his late 40s, he remarried to Madeleine Ducrest before May 1777, when he appeared in an Opelousas District census with a new wife.  Madeleine gave him no more children.  She died at Opelousas in August 1788, age 57.  Paul died at Opelousas in February 1801, age 74.  Oldest and youngest daughters Marguerite and Marguerite-Louise, from his first wife, married into the Savoie and Léger families at Ascension on the river below San Garbriel and at Opelousas.  Both of Paul's sons married and settled on the prairies, but only one of the lines endured.  All of the Acadian Boutins of South Louisiana, in fact, are descendants of Paul's second son Paul, fils and his German Creole wife. 

Older son Joseph, by first wife Ursule Guédry, followed his family to Halifax, Mirliguèche, Georges Island, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Orleans, San Gabriel, and Opelousas, where, at age 37, he married Marie-Jeanne, daughter of fellow Acadians Isidore Trahan and Madeleine LeBlanc, in July 1790.  Joseph died near Grand Coteau in November 1796, age 46.  He and his wife had no children, at least none who appear in local church records, so his family line probably died with him.   

Paul's younger son Pierre-Paul, called Paul, fils, from first wife Ursule Guédry, followed his family to New Orleans, San Gabriel, and Opelousas, where, at age 26, he married Anne-Spesse, daughter of Germans Jean Teller, also called Taylor, and Marie-Madeleine Heindsman of Pennsylvania and Maryland, in July 1790, the same day his older brother Joseph married a fellow Acadian there.  Paul, fils and Anne also settled on Prairie des Femmes near Grand Coteau in what became St. Landry Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie-Madeleine in October 1791; Élisabeth in January 1792; Paul III died probably at his father's home near Grand Coteau, age unrecorded, in September 1794; Jean-Baptiste, called Baptiste, born in September 1795; Joseph le jeune in September 1796; Théotiste in January 1799; Émilie dite Mélite baptized at Opelousas, age unrecorded, in July 1800; François-Hippolyte baptized, age 8 months, in October 1802 but died at age 1 in October 1803; François-Alexis, called Alexis, in August 1803 but died in July 1819 a month shy of age 16; Ursule baptized, age 4 months, in May 1805; Adélaïde baptized, age 4 months, in February 1807; Anastasie born in August 1808; and Raphaël Vital in December 1810 but died at age 9 1/2 in April 1820--13 children, seven daughters and six sons, between 1791 and 1810.  Wife Anne Spesse's succession, probably post-mortem, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in June 1824.  Paul, fils's succession, not post-mortem, also was filed at the Opelousas courthouse that year.  Paul, fils died at his home on Prairie des Femmes in February 1832, age 67, a widower, having never remarried.  Daughters Élisabeth, Marie Madeleine, Ursule, Émilie dite Mélite, Théotiste, Anastasie, and Adélaïde married into the Mayer, Miller, Lalonde, OlivierHirzel or Hurtzel, Barbe, Commins, and Stelly families--none of them to fellow Acadians.  All of the Acadian Boutins of South Louisiana descend from two of Paul, fils's sons, who, like their father, married Germans.  During the antebellum period, in fact, none of Paul, fils's descendants married fellow Acadians, not unusual for small Acadian families in the old Opelousas District. 

Second son Jean-Baptiste, called Baptiste, married first cousin Élisabeth dite Lise, daughter of Christophe Gatt and Marie Madeleine Teller/Taylor of Pont de la Butte, his uncle and aunt, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in September 1819.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Jean Baptiste, fils, called Baptiste, in October 1820; Célestine in September 1822 but died at age 7 1/2 (the recording priest said 10) in February 1830; Dupréville born in May 1826; Pierre in June 1830; Marie Madeleine, called Madeleine, in April 1835 but, called Magdelyn, died at age 6 (the Grand Coteau priest who recorded the burial said 4) in May 1841; Ophilie, perhaps also called Zelia, born in January 1837; Théophile in January 1840; and Duclosel in November 1844--eight children, five sons and three daughters, between 1820 and 1844.  Jean Baptiste, père died near Grand Coteau in February 1852.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Jean Baptiste was age 66 when he died.  He was 56.  In 1860, the federal census taker in St. Landry Parish counted four slaves--two males and two females, all black, ranging in age from 25 to 1--on Elizabeth Boutin's farm; these likely were Jean Baptiste's widow Élisabeth Gatt's slaves.  Daughter Zelia married into the Nelson family by 1870.  One of Baptiste's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Jean Baptiste, fils married Aimée, Amelia, Émelia, Melia or Media Brousse or Bruce, at the Grand Coteau church in November 1848.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Jean Joseph in March 1850; Pierre le jeune in December 1851; Paul le jeune in December 1853; Marie Élizabeth in July 1856; ...  Baptiste died by March 1867, when Émelia remarried at Abbeville, Vermilion Parish; the recording priest erroneously called her a Broussard.  None of her and Jean Baptiste, fils's children married by 1870. 

Paul, fils's third son Joseph le jeune married Irène or Uranie, daughter of German Creoles Frédéric Miller and Marie Victoire Mayer, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in November or December 1819.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Joseph, fils in September 1820; Célize in September 1823; twins Felonise and Joachim in January 1825; Paul le jeune in October 1829; Adélaïde in c1834 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 3, in December 1837; Pauline in January 1839; Françoise Isaïe in October 1844; and Madeleine Uranie in March 1848 but, called Madeleine, died at age 8 1/2 (the recording priest said 11) in August 1856--nine children, three sons and six daughters, including a set of twins, between 1820 and 1848.  Joseph le jeune died near Grand Coteau in July 1857.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph was age 54 when he died.  He was 60.  Daughters Adélaïde and Pauline married into the Avil, Mathieu, Duplechin, and Bergeron families, both of them twice.  Only one of Joseph le jeune's sons married. 

Third son Paul le jeune married Marguerite Azolide, Chrysolide, Isolide, or Isolite, daughter of François Mathieu and his Acadian wife Marie Clotilde Trahan, at the Breaux Bridge church, St. Martin Parish, in February 1850.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Louis Despallière, called Despalière, near Breaux Bridge in February 1851; Aspasie in October 1852; Marie in January 1854; Paul Despanet near St. Martinville in May 1855; Joseph Thelismar in February 1857; Palmyre in April 1859; Aristide in September 1860 but died at age 7 in August 1867; Pauline born in January 1863; ...  None of Paul le jeune's daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did, perhaps after completing his war service. 

During the War of 1861-65, Despalière, despite being in his early teens, was listed as a conscript from St. Martin Parish.  Nevertheless, he appears on none of the enlistment rolls of organized Louisiana or Confederate units.  Despalière married cousin Eugénie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Trahan and his Creole wife Aspasie Manceau, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in April 1870. ...

Pierre-Olivier (c1749-1773) à Joseph Boutin

Pierre-Olivier, called Olivier, only son of Charles Boutin and Marie-Josèphe Guidry and nephew of Pierre-Paul, born at Pigiguit or Baie-des-Espagnols, Île Royale, in c1749, followed his family to Halifax, Mirliguèche, Georges Island, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Maryland, and his sister and uncle to Louisiana in 1767.  He settled at Ascension on the Mississippi above New Orleans, where he was counted on the left, or east, bank of the river in August 1770, still single.  He evidently was the Boutin who died at New Orleans in February 1773, in his early 20s.  His father's line of the family died with him. 

Brasseaux

Mathieu dit La Citardy, born in c1650, spelled his surname Brasseur and sometimes Brasseux and Le Brasseur.  He married Jeanne, daughter of André Célestin dit Bellemère and Perrine Basile, at Port-Royal in c1702.  Mathieu was 39 years older than his wife, who was only 13 years old at the time of their wedding.  They settled at Grand-Pré.  Mathieu dit La Citardy died at Minas in May 1733, in his early 80s, but not before he had fathered 11 children, six daughters and five sons.  His daughters married into the Doucet, Bernard, Henry dit Robert, Poyer dit Lapintade, Doiron, Benoit, Aucoin, and Poirier families.  All five of his sons married, into the Pitre, Thibodeau, Roy, Bertrand, and Daigre families, but only two of them, the older ones, seem to have created lasting lines.  By 1755, descendants of Mathieu Brasseur dit La Citardy and Jeanne Célestin dit Bellemère could be found at Chignecto, Chepoudy in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto, and on Île St.-Jean, but they were especially numerous in the Minas Basin, where Mathieu dit La Citardy had spent much of his life.  Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this family even farther. 

The Acadians of Chignecto and the trois-rivières were the first to be rounded up by the British.  Unlike many of their neighbors who found themselves on ships destined for Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Georgia, the Brasseurs at Chignecto and Chepoudy eluded the British in the fall of 1755 and fled north to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Some of them, including Mathieu's son Claude and his family, continued on to the St. Lawrence valley, where the Canadiens treated them with little respect. 

Their Brasseur siblings and cousins in the Minas Basin did not escape the roundups there.  British forces transported Cosme dit Brasseux, his wife Élisabeth Thibodeau, Cosme's younger brother Jean, his wife Madeleine Roy, and their children to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  Sister Marie-Geneviève, a middle-aged spinster, also ended up in Maryland.  

Brother Joseph Brasseur and his family, also rounded up at Minas, suffered an even worse fate than their kinsmen deported to Maryland.  Joseph, his wife Marie-Rose Daigle, and their 5-year-old daughter Marie were among the Minas Acadians deported to Virginia.  In mid-November, when five transports carrying hundreds of exiles 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 Virginia's authorities pondered their fate.  With winter approaching, Dinwiddie ordered them dispersed to Hampton, Norfolk, and Richmond.  The following spring, the Virginians sent them on to England, where they were packed into warehouses in several English ports.  Hundreds died of smallpox.  By 1763, nearly half of them were dead.  Joseph and his family were among the lucky survivors.  In fact, two more daughters were added to the family during their ordeal at Southampton--Osite born in October 1759; and Rosalie in January 1763.  In May 1763, after prolonged negotiations between the French and British governments, the Acadians in England were repatriated to France.  Joseph and his family sailed from England aboard the transport Ambition and settled in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  In 1773, Joseph, Marie-Rose, and their daughters were part of the major settlement venture in the interior of Poitou.  After two years of  effort, in March 1776, the Brasseurs 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 and what work they could find.  Daughter Rosalie did not go with them to Nantes; she had either died at St.-Servan or in Poitou.  Wife Marie-Rose died at Nantes in June 1781, in her early 50s.  Joseph may have died about that time, too.  In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  Sister Marie and Osite Brasseur, the first in her late 30s, the second in her early 20s, both still unmarried, agreed to take it.  

Meanwhile, in North America, the Brasseurs who had moved to Île St.-Jean in the early 1750s, living in territory controlled by France, escaped the roundups of their kinsmen 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 Île St.-Jean and deported them to France.  Mathieu dit La Brasseur and his family, probably still living at Anse-du-Nord-Ouest on the south side of the island, were among the lucky few who got away.  They crossed Mer Rouge to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore and eventually made their way to Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  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.  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, a second British naval force, this one from Québec, arrived at Restigouche to accept the the garrison's, and the Acdians', surrender.  On 24 October 1860, French officers, on the eve of formal surrender, compiled a list of 1,003 Acadians still at Restigouche, including Mathieu Brasseux and his family of nine; and Pierre Brassus and his family of four.  During the following months, the British sent them and hundreds of other exiles who surrendered or were captured in the region to prison compounds in Nova Scotia, where they held them for the rest of the war.  At war's end, members of the family in Nova Scotia chose to remain in greater Acadia.  They settled in Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs, where the British operated a fishery. 

Perhaps one of Mathieu dit La Citardy's descendants ended up in the French Antilles.  Brigitte Brasseur, widow of Martial Tessier, went to the island of Martinique, where she remarried to François, fils, son of François Rousseau, ciselur en argent, and Catherine Paillet of Rouen, at Fort-Royal in September 1769.  Brigitte died on the island two years later, age 40.  

Brasseurs who had sought refuge in Canada, despite the fall of Québec and Montréal, nevertheless chose to remain.  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 Mathieu Brasseur dit La Citardy began the slow, inexorable process of becoming Canadiennes.  From the late 1750s, they could be found on the upper St. Lawrence at Montréal and Ste.-Thérèse de Blainville and at Chambly on the lower Richelieu east of Montréal.  Their cousins who had elected to remain in greater Acadia could be found at Carleton, Bonaventure, and Paspébiac in Gaspésie.  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.  

Meanwhile, the Brasseurs in Maryland endured life among Englishmen who, despite their colony's Catholic roots, did not care much for the French "papists" thrust upon them.  By war's end, Cosme had died, leaving Élisabeth Thibodeau a widow.  She did what she could to keep her family together.  A French repatriation list, compiled in the Chesapeake colony n July 1763, shows her and six of her Brasseur children at Georgetown on Mayland's Eastern Shore.  Two Brasseur orphans--Paul and Marguerite--were listed with the Joseph Castille family at Upper Marlborough in the colony's interior, where Cosme's sister Marie-Geneviève, still unmarried, also lived, alone.  When word reached the Acadians in Maryland that fellow exiles had been welcomed in Louisiana, they pooled their meager resources to charter ships that would take them to New Orleans.  No Brasseurs had gone to Louisiana from Halifax, but Élisabeth Thibodeau had a younger brother and sister, as well as many cousins, there, refugees from the prison compound at Halifax. 

Élisabeth Thibodeau, six of her unmarried Brasseur children, five daughters and a son, along with older son Pierre, his wife, who he had recently married, and their infant daughter, were part of the second contingent of Louisiana-bound exiles that departed Baltimore in April 1767.  They reached New Orleans in July via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, and settled in the new Acadian community of San Gabriel on the river just below Bayou Manchac.  From the early 1770s to the early 1780s, four of Cosme's and Élisabeth's daughters married into the Janis, Trahan, Richard, and Jeanson families on the river and the prairies.  Meanwhile, Cosme's sister Marie-Geneviève, now married to Pierre-Olivier Benoit, a widower five years her junior, was part of the fourth and final contingent of Louisiana-bound refugees from Maryland.  She, her husband, and three of her stepchildren boarded the English schooner Britannia at Port Tobacco on the lower Potomac the first week of January 1769.  After a months-long misadventure in the Gulf of Mexico and on the remote Texas coast, they finally reached Natchitoches on the Red River in October 1769.  After living for a time on the river at San Gabriel near their relatives, they crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to the Opelousas District, where Marie-Geneviève remarried to an Aucoin.

Mathieu Brasseur dit La Citardy had created a large family in Acadia, but only a few of his descendants emigrated to Louisiana.  Most came from Maryland in 1767 and 1769, and a few from France in 1785.  The Acadian Brasset/Brasseauxs of South Louisiana are descended from the two sons of Cosme Brasseur dit Brasseux and Éisabeth Thibodeau who came with their widowed mother from Maryland in 1767.  The older brother, Pierre, remained at San Gabriel, where his descendants used the name Brasset, but the younger brother, Blaise, moved on to the Opelousas prairies and started a western branch of the family.  Two of Blaise's sons, who called themselves Brasseauxs, lived on the upper Atchafalaya River near the boundary between St. Landry and Pointe Coupee parishes, and some of his grandsons settled near Church Point in present-day Acadia Parish.  During the early antebellum period, the western branch was supplemented by three Brasset brothers, grandsons of Pierre, who left the river and settled in Lafayette Parish, especially near Carencro.  Others joined their cousins in the Church Point area, or moved south to the prairies around Abbeville.  While their western cousins spread out on the prairies, members of the eastern branch of the family moved down the Acadian Coast from St. Gabriel into Ascension and St. James parishes, and one of them may have moved upriver to West Feliciana Parish.  In 1785, two Brasseur sisters came to Louisiana from France and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  One married, the other did not.  By the end of the antebellum period, members of the western branch of the family significantly outnumbered their cousins on the river.  

In the 1830s and 1840s, a few Brasseaux families appeared on Bayou Lafourche, but they did not remain there.  Area church and civil records do not reveal their relationship with known Acadian lines of the family in other parts of South Louisiana.  These same records reveal no Brasseurs in colonial Louisiana other than Acadian immigrants.  The Brassets and Brasseauxs of South Louisiana, then, are descendants of Mathieu Brasseur dit La Citardy of Minas. 

Judging by the number of slaves they owned during the late antebellum period, the Brasset/Brasseauxs on the river and the western prairies participated only peripherally in the South's plantation-based economy.  Auguste Brasseaux of Vermilion Parish held half a dozen slaves in 1850.  A decade later, no one in the family, either on the prairies or along the river, appeared on the 1860 federal slave schedules.  

Over a dozen Brasset/Brasseauxs served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65, and at least one of them died in Confederate service.  Octave, son of Joseph Brasseaux of Lafayette Parish, enlisted in Company F of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry in October 1861.  He was severely wounded in the Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee, in April 1862, fell into enemy hands, and died in a Federal general hospital at Louisville, Kentucky, the following June, age 23.  Although Confederate service records cannot confirm it, the deaths of Octave's older brothers Aurelien and Alcide in January 1863 and January 1864 makes one wonder if they, too, were not fatalities of the conflict. ...

Today, the western members of the family spell their surname Brasseux and, especially, Brasseaux, while their relatives on the river still favor Brasset.  The family's name in Louisiana also is spelled Baceaux, Bracet, Barfeux, Brakens, Braseau, Brasein, Braser, Braseau, Braseuse, Braseux, Brasoeur, Brasin, Brasio, Brasse, Brasseau, Brasseu, Brasseus, Brassieus, Brinsech, Bruset.67 

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Eight members of the family--a widow with an unmarried son and five daughters, and her oldest son with his wife and infant daughter--reached New Orleans from Baltimore in July 1767 and followed their fellow passengers to San Gabriel on the river south of Baton Rouge.  All of the Brasseauxs/Brassets of South Louisiana descend from the widow's two sons, who settled on the river and the western prairies: 

Pierre (c1742-1794) à Mathieu dit La Citardy Brasseaux

Pierre, older son of Cosme Brasseur dit Brasseux and Élisabeth Thibodeau, born probably at Grand-Pré in c1742, followed his family to Maryland in 1755.  He married fellow Acadian Élisabeth, or Isabelle, Richard there in c1765.  Along with his widowed mother and six siblings, he took his family, which now included infant daughter Marguerite, to Spanish Louisiana.  They settled with other 1767 arrivals at San Gabriel, where more children were born to them, including Joseph in c1771; Olivier in c1773; Marie-Rose in January 1774; Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, in October 1777; and Jean-Baptiste baptized, age unrecorded, in September 1779 but died at age 6 in October 1785--six children, three daughters and three sons, between 1766 and 1779, in Maryland and Louisiana.  Pierre died at Ascension downriver from San Gabriel in September 1794, age 52.  Daughters Marguerite, Marie-Rose, and Madeleine married into the Babin, LeBlanc, and Capdeville families.  Two of Pierre's sons also married.  During the early antebellum period, three of his grandsons by his first son joined their cousins on the western prairies, but his grandsons by his second son remained on the river, where they tended to spell their name Brasset

Oldest son Joseph married Théodose, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand-Paul Gautreaux and Marie Landry of San Gabriel, at Ascension just below San Gabriel in July 1794.  They settled at San Gabriel.  Their children, born there, included Marie in May 1795; Lucie in December 1796; Joseph, fils in September 1798; Augustin or Auguste in August 1800; and Édouard in March 1803--five children, two daughters and three sons, between 1795 and 1803.  Joseph, père, called a Brasset by the recording priest, died at San Gabriel in January 1803, age 32.  Daughter Marie married into the Richard and Dugas families.  All three of Joseph's sons married.  They and his younger daughter moved to the western prairies not long after his death.  His older daughter remained at St. Gabriel in what became Iberville Parish.  

Oldest son Joseph, fils crossed the Atchafalaya Basin after he came of age and, at age 24, married Marie dite Valiène, 15-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Amand Dugas and Marie Madeleine Sonnier, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in January 1822.  They settled probably near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Marie Angèle in October 1822 but died at age 13 days; Arthémise born in October 1823; Arthémise dite Remise in April 1825 but died at age 4 1/2 in October 1829; Joseph III baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 4 months, in June 1827 but died at age 15 in August 1842; Aurelien baptized at age 7 months in December 1829; Azéoline born in July 1831; Alcide in April 1833; Euclide baptized at age 5 months in July 1835 but died at age 8 in September 1843; Azélia born in April 1837; Octave baptized at age 2 months in July 1839; Olivier born in November 1841 but died the following January; and Emélina born perhaps posthumously in May 1843--a dozen children, six daughters and six sons, between 1822 and 1843.  Joseph, fils may have died in Lafayette Parish in August 1842.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial did not give any parents' names, mention a wife, or give the age of the Joseph he buried.  This Joseph would have been age 41.  His succession was not filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, until December 1849.  Daughters ... married into the Arceneaux family.  Two of his sons also married.

Second son Aurelien married Aurelia, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Cormier, fils and Céleste Babineaux of Carencro, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in August 1848.  They settled probably at Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Joseph le jeune in June 1849; Marie in December 1850; Moïse in February 1853; Pierre Neuville in January 1855; Marie Coralie in April 1857 but died at age 4 1/2 in October 1861; Marie Emma born in October 1859; Eve in December 1862 but died at age 3 (the reporting priest said 4) in December 1865; ...  Aurelien died probably at Carencro in January 1863.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said that Aurelien was age 23 when he died.  He was 34.  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following March.  One wonders if, like his younger brother Octave, Aurelien died in Confederate service.  Daughters ... married Babineaux and Cormier cousins by 1870.  One of Aurelien's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Joseph le jeune married cousin Émilia, daughter of fellow Acadians Onésime Babineaux and Julienne Benoit, at the Vermilionville church in October 1866.  They settled probably at Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Aurelien le jeune in August 1867; Adam in March 1869; Julien in November 1870; ...

Joseph, fils's third son Alcide married Marie Félicie, called Félicie, 16-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Leufroi Boudreaux and Marie Hébert, at the Vermilionville church in September 1850.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Maria in October 1851; Mathilde in September 1855; Ismène in February 1857; Léontine in August 1859; Justinien in October 1861; and Jean Euclide posthumously in February 1864--six children, four daughters and two sons, between 1851 and 1864.  Alcide died in Lafayette Parish in January 1864.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said that Alcide was age 26 years when he died.  He was 30.  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in March 1868.  One wonders if, like his younger brother Octave, Alcide's death was war-related.  None of his children married by 1870. 

During the war, Joseph, fils's fifth son Octave served in Company F of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafayette Parish, which fought in Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana.  Octave enlisted in October 1861, age 22, still single.  He did not survive the war.  He was severely wounded in the Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee, in April 1862, fell into Federal hands, and died in U.S. General Hospital Number 4 at Louisville, Kentucky, the following June, age 23.  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in September 1863.  

Joseph, père's second son Augustin or Auguste followed his older brother and a sister to the western prairies and married Susanne, daughter of François Primeaux and Justine Baudoin, at the Vermilionville church in October 1825.  Their children, born in Lafayette and Vermilion parishes, included Elmire in Lafayette Parish in April 1827; Aladin in May 1828; Joachim in 1829 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 8 months, in June 1830; Teleïde baptized at age 3 months in April 1832; Victorine born in February 1833; Aureline in March 1836; Adrien baptized at age 7 months in December 1839; Joseph le jeune born near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in September 1845 and baptized "prior to 1854"; and Gustave born in January 1851--nine children, four daughters and five sons, between 1827 and 1851.  In October 1850, the federal census taker in Vermilion Parish counted six slaves--two males and four females, all black, ranging in age from 30 to 5--on Auguste Brasseux's farm in Ward Two of the parish's western district.  Auguste died near Abbeville in November 1862, age 62.  One wonders if his death was war-related.  Daughter Aureline married into the Desormeaux family by 1870.  All five of Augustin's sons married by then. 

Oldest son Aladin married Belzire, daughter of fellow Acadians Don Louis Broussard and Madeleine Benoit, of Lafayette Parish, at the Abbeville church  in March 1856.  Their children, born near Abbeville, included Marie Uméa was born near Abbeville in January 1857; Ophée in September 1863; ...

Augustin's second son Joachim married fellow Acadian Aurelia Broussard, place and date unrecorded.  Their children, born near Abbeville, included Ursule probably in the 1840s; Benjamin; and Gustave le jeune in March 1856--three children, a daughter and two sons, between the 1840s and 1856.  Joachim died by July 1867, when he was listed as deceased in his daughter's marriage record.  Daughter Ursule married into the Nunez family by 1870.  One of Joachim's sons also married by then. 

Older son Benjamin married Azéma or Alzena, daughter of Philemon Dubois, not a fellow Acadian, and his Acadian wife Sylvanie Thibodeaux, at the Abbeville church in November 1867.  Their son Armance Joseph was born near Abbeville in January 1869; ... 

Augustin's third son Adrien married fellow Acadian Azéma Trahan at the Abbeville church in February 1858.  Their children, born near Abbeville, included Cléophas in February 1859; Osea in April 1861; Anastasie in June 1862; Auguste in May 1866; ...  Adrien may have remarried to Isabelle François and settled near New Iberia on lower Bayou Teche in the late 1860s. 

Augustin's fourth son Joseph le jeune married Marie Sylvanie, called Sylvanie, Langlinais at the Abbeville church between April and September 1864. ...

Augustin's fifth and youngest son Gustave married Émilie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Thibodeaux and Celanie Boudreaux, at the Abbeville church in April 1870. ...

Joseph, père's third and youngest son Édouard followed his older brothers and a sister to the western prairies and married Arsène, also called Jacinte, another daughter of Jean Dugas and Madeleine Sonnier, at the Vermilionville church in July 1826.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Marie in October 1826 but died at age 25 days; Joséphine born in December 1827 but died the following April; a child, name unrecorded, died at age 3 weeks in February 1829; Aurelia born in April 1831 but died in June; Marcelite born in March 1832 but, called Carmélite, died at age 3 1/2 in September 1835; Silvanie born in July 1834 but died at age nine months (the recording priest said 14 months) in April 1835; Adam baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 15 days, in February 1836; and Pierre baptized at age 2 months in May 1839--eight children, at least five daughters and two sons, between 1826 and 1839.  In November 1850, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted a single slave--a 30-year-old black male--on Édouard Brusseus's farm; this may have been Édouard Brasseaux.  He died in Lafayette Parish in April 1855.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said that Édouard was age 50 when he died.  He was 52.  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following June.  None of his daughters married by 1870, if they married at all.  One of his sons married by then, but the line did not endure.

Older son Adam married Alida, daughter of Narcisse Begnaud and Hortence Patin, at the Vermilionville church in June 1856.  Adam died by March 1863, when his succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse.  He would have been age 27 that year.  One wonders if his death was war-related.  

During the War of 1861-65, Édouard's younger son Pierre served as a sergeant, private, and corporal 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 Louisiana Infantry, which fought in Louisiana.  Pierre enlisted in October 1861 and was appointed fourth sergeant of his company.  After the Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee, in April 1862, he reported sick "to the interior" and served as a nurse at Jackson, Mississippi, for the next several months.  He was reduced to the ranks in August 1862 and captured at the Battle of Labadieville in Assumption Parish the following October.  He was back with his company in January 1863 but was absent sick again two months later, this time in a hospital at New Iberia.  He was promoted to second corporal in the summer of 1863 and to first corporal a few months later.  He was still with his unit in early 1864 and probably fought in the Red River Campaign in the spring of 1864.  One wonders if, unlike cousin Octave, Pierre survived the war.  If so, he did not marry by 1870. 

Pierre's second son Olivier married Anne-Marine, called Marine, daughter of fellow Acadians Firmin Landry and his second wife Ludivine Babin, at San Gabriel in May 1796.  Their children, born there, included Marie, perhaps also called Marcellite, in March 1797; Pierre, perhaps also called Leufroi, in October 1798; Irène baptized, age 2 months, in May 1801; Marie-Ludivine, called Ludivine, born in April 1803; twins Marie Felonie and Marie Zanelie in February 1805; Marie Josèphe in December 1806 but died at age 1 1/2 in July 1808; Alexis born in March 1809; Olivier Martin in August 1811 but died at age 1 in September 1812; and Louis Augustin died a day after his birth in September 1813--10 children, six daughters and four sons, between 1797 and 1813.  Daughters Marcellite, Ludivine, and Irène married into the LeBlanc, Marrionneaux, Boush, and Hébert families.  Two of Olivier's sons also married and settled on the river, but one of the lines may not have endured.  

Oldest son Pierre dit Leufroi married Marie Adveline, called Adveline, daughter of Bartholomew Hamilton and his Acadian wife Mélanie Dupuis of St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, at the Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, in March 1821.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included an infant, name unrecorded, died at age 1 month in June 1822; Leufroi, fils born in November 1823 but, called Émile, died at age 10 in April 1833; Octavius Constantin, called Octave, born in February 1826; Ferdinand Numa, called Numa, in January 1828; Joseph Edward, called J. Edward, in August 1830; and Marie Octavie in September 1832 but died at age 6 in August 1838.  Leufroi remarried to Marie Élisabeth, called Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Henry and Hermengilde Gaudin, at the Donaldsonville church in August 1836.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Marine Élise in July 1837 but, called Lise, died at age 3 1/2 (the recording priest said 4) in December 1840; Henri Cléopha born in September 1839; Julienne Élodie in December 1841 but, called Élodie, died at age 14 in November 1855; and Jean Olivier, called Olivier, born in April 1844--10 children, at least six sons and three daughters, by two wives, between 1822 and 1844.  None of Leufroi's daughters survived childhood, but at least four of his sons did and created families of their own. 

Second son Octave, by first wife Adveline Hamilton, married Calliste, also called Lisa, daughter of fellow Acadians Drosin Gravois and Pauline Landry, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in November 1848.  Their children, born on the river, included Gratien Constantin near Convent in December 1849; Jacques Drosin in Ascension Parish in April 1851 but, called Jacques Drauzin, died at age 15 months in September 1852; Leufroi Hygin born in January 1854; Marie Almena in July 1856; Octavie died age 3 weeks in February 1864; Joachim Armand born in March 1865; Joseph Comes or Cosme in September 1867; ...  None of Octave's children married by 1870. 

Leufroi's third son Numa, by first wife Adveline Hamilton, married Lutesia, daughter of fellow Acadians Destival LeBlanc and Sidalise Boudreaux, at the Donaldsonville church in November 1851.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Marguerite Julia in February 1854 but, called Julia, died in Ascension Parish, age 15 1/2 (the recording priest said 16), in September 1869; Elisa Basilia born in June 1856; Clair in c1862 but died at age 1 in October 1863; Fostain Scailer, probably Schuyler, born in February 1865; Elisca Lucie in February 1867; ...  None of Numa's children married by 1870. 

Leufroi's fourth son J. Edward, by first wife Adveline Hamilton, married Marie Emalise, daughter of fellow Acadian Tecomine Lanoux and his Creole wife Elizabeth Gisclard, at the Donaldsonville church in November 1853.  Daughter Philomène died at age 1 1/2 months in Ascension Parish in May 1866; ... 

Leufroi's sixth and youngest son Jean Olivier, called Olivier, from second wife Élisabeth Henry, married Estelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Lessin LeBlanc and Corrine Lanoux, at the Donaldsonville church in January 1866.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Jean Henry died 4 days after his birth in June 1867; Marie Sidonie born in December 1868; Mary Élodie in January 1870 but, called Marie Élodie, died at age 6 months in July 1870; another Marie died at "age several months" in July 1870[sic], unless she was Marie Élodie; ...   

Olivier's second son Alexis married Marie Azélie, called Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadian Paul Babin and his Creole wife Céleste Thulaire, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in November 1831.  Daughter Julia was born in Iberville Parish in October 1832 and did not marry by 1870.   

Blaise (c1752-1820s) à Mathieu dit La Citardy Brasseaux

Blaise, younger son of Cosme Brasseur dit Brasseux and Élisabeth Thibodeau, born probably at Grand-Pré in c1742, followed his family to Maryland and his widowed mother and siblings to New Orleans and San Gabriel.  Probably after his mother died, he and four of his sisters crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to the Opelousas District, where he married Marie-Anne, called Anne and Anne-Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand Préjean and his first wife Madeleine Martin, in the mid-1770s.  They settled in the Bellevue Prairie area south of Opelousas.  Their children, born on the Opelousas prairies, included Hélène dite Ellen, perhaps also called Madeleine, baptized at Opelousas, age unrecorded, in August 1780; Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, baptized, age 2 months 3 weeks, in September 1782; Marguerite born in May 1785; Alexandre Blaise born in February 1788; Angélique died in September 1789, age unrecorded; Élise dite Lise born in January 1792; Blaise, fils baptized, age unrecorded, in May 1793; Julien born in c1794; and twins Caliste and Céleste, baptized, age unrecorded, in July 1795, but Caliste, called Scholastie by the recording priest, died "at her father's home in the Belvue (Bellevue) area," age 24 (the recording priest said 23), in September 1819--10 children, seven daughters and three sons, between 1780 and 1795.  Blaise's succession, calling him Blaize, identifying his widow, and naming his heirs and some of their spouses--daughters Marguerite, widow Wood; daughter Céleste, wife of Aaron Prather; and son Alexandre--was filed at the Opelousas courthouse, St. Landry Parish, in January 1822.  Blaise would have been age 70 that year.  Daughters Hélène, Madeleine, Marguerite, Céleste, and Lise married into the Richard, Landry, Smith, Wood, and Prather families.  Two of Blaise's sons also married.  They settled on or near the upper Atchafalaya River close to the boundary between St. Landry and Pointe Coupee parishes.  Typical of Acadians who lived in that area, most of Blaise's descendants married non-Acadians. 

Oldest son Alexandre Blaise married Geneviève, daughter of Narcisse Carmouche and Françoise Bock, in a civil ceremony in Pointe Coupee Parish in March 1816, so they must have lived along the upper Atchafalaya.  Their children, born there, included Françoise in February 1817; Narcisse in April 1819; Delphine or Joséphine in c1820; Adeline in the 1820s; Julie in the 1820s; Martin in October 1827; Valmon or Valmont in August 1829 but died at age 9 months in June 1830; Alexandre, fils born in April 1831; and Alcé or Alcée in January 1836--nine children, four daughters and five sons, between 1817 and 1836.  Alexandre, père's succession, identifying his widow and listing four heirs--Narcisse, Adeline, Julie, and Alexandre--was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in July 1838.  He would have been age 50 that year.  Daughters Delphine or Joséphine, Adeline, and Julie married into the Prewett or Prowet, Carmouche, and Leonard families, the two younger ones on the same day in Pointe Coupee Parish.  Two of Alexandre's sons married also by 1870 and remained on the upper Atchafalaya in Pointe Coupee Parish. 

Oldest son Narcisse married Oside Zulma, called Zulma, daughter of Jean Baptiste Leonard and Charlotte Ortis, at the Pointe Coupee church in June 1844; Zulma was the sister of one of Narcisse's sister's husbands.  Narcisse and Zulma evidently had lived together years before their marriage.  Their children, born in Pointe Coupee Parish, included Narcisse, fils in January 1840; Estelle in April 1843; and Oside Delphine in September 1845--three children, a son and two daughters, between 1840 and 1845.  Narcisse, père died in Pointe Coupee Parish in June 1854, age 35.  None of his children seem to have married by 1870. 

Alexandre Blaise's fourth son Alexandre, fils married French Creole Augustine Lavergne, place and date unrecorded.  Their children, born in Pointe Coupee Parish, included Alexandre Lucien in January 1859 but died at age 1 1/2 in November 1860; Geneviève Eudolie born in January 1861; Marie Eliska in January 1868; ...  

Blaise's third son Julien married Julie, daughter of Baptiste Porché and his first wife Angelene Bois, in a civil ceremony in Pointe Coupee Parish in 1816.  They, too, must have lived near the boundary between St. Landry and Pointe Coupee parishes.  Their children, born there, included Julien, fils in December 1817; Zulma in March 1820; Irma or Azéma in July 1822; and Sosthène in July 1824--four children, two sons and two daughters, between 1817 and 1824.  Julien died in St. Landry Parish in May 1860, age 66.  His succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse later that month.  Daughter Azéma married into the Lavergne family.  Julien's sons also married and settled on the St. Landry prairies. 

Older son Julien, fils married cousin Louise dite Lise, daughter of fellow Acadians Léandre Landry and Louise Brasseaux, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in September 1841, and sanctified the marriage at the Opelousas church the following month.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Reus Landry in October 1843; Théoville in March 1845; Laurlise in September 1848; Joseph in March 1850; Philemon near Church Point, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in February 1852; Aristide in September 1853; Evariste Ducoudray near Opelousas in February 1856; Raymond in September 1857; Coralie Céleste near Church Point in July 1859; ...  None of Julien, fils's children married by 1870. 

During the War of 1861-65, oldest son Reus Landry, called Reul in 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 was captured and paroled at Vicksburg in July 1863.  Did he survive the war and return to his family? 

Julien's younger son Sosthène married Suzette, daughter of Joseph Reaux or Reo and his Acadian wife Suzette Thibodeaux, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in February 1850.  They settled on Bayou Plaquemine Brûlé out on the prairies.  Their children, born there, included Marie Julie in November 1850; Marie Joséphine in March 1852; Zulma in October 1853; Sosthènes, fils in August 1855; Marie Albany in June 1857; Onile in August 1859; Arnest, probably Ernest, in August 1861; Marie Natalie in November 1863; Joseph died "at age 1 mth." in May 1866; ...  Wife Suzette died "at Plaquemine," age 36, in April 1866, probably from giving birth to son Joseph.  Daughter ... married into the Smith family by 1870.  None of Sosthène's sons married by then. 

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In October 1769, Marie-Geneviève Brasseux, a middle-age wife, her Benoit husband, and his three children by a previous marriage, came to Louisiana from Maryland on the fourth and final expedition from that colony.  After a harrowing adventure in coastal Texas and a long overland trek to Natichitoches on Red River, they settled first near Bayou Plaquemine across from San Gabriel and then joined their kinfolk on the Opelousas prairies. 

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The last of the family to come to Spanish Louisiana--two unmarried Brasseux sisters from a Minas family who had spent most of their lives in France--crossed to the colony aboard La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans from Paimboeuf, the lower port of Nantes, in mid-August 1785.  They followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where the older sister, Marie, married a Trahan widower.  The younger sister, Osite, did not marry. 

Breaux

Vincent Breau dit Vincelotte, born in c1631 perhaps at La Chaussée near Loudun south of the middle Loire in central France, came to Acadia in c1652 as a plowman.  In c1661 he married Marie, daughter of Antoine Bourg and Antoinette  Landry, at Port-Royal.  Between 1662 and 1685, Marie gave Vincelotte a dozen children, six sons and six daughters, at Port-Royal.  Four of their daughters married into the Savoie, Gaudet, Lebert dit Jolycoeur, and Saulnier family.  Five of Vincelotte and Marie's sons married into the Babin, Bourgeois, LeBlanc, Comeau, Chiasson dit Lavallée, and Hébert families.   Vincent died at Port-Royal in c1685, in his mid-50s, probably around the time his twelfth child, a daughter, was born.  His widow Marie, who was 14 years younger than he, stayed on their homestead along haute rivière, now the upper Annapolis River, and did not remarry.  She died in September 1730, age 86.  By 1755, her and Vincent dit Vincelotte's descendants could be found in many of the major Acadian settlements--at Annapolis Royal; Grand-Pré, Pigiguit, and Cobeguit in the Minas Basin; at Chepoudy and Petitcoudiac in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto; and on Île St.-Jean and Île Royale.  Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this large family even farther. 

Breaus from the trois-rivières who escaped the British in 1755 took refuge on lower Rivière St.-Jean; the upper Petitcoudiac; at Shediac, Richibouctou, and Miramichi on the Gulf of St. Lawrence; and later at Restigouche at the head of the Baie de Chaleurs, where, for several years, they fought starvation, hard winters, and British raiding parties.  Others moved on to Québec, where members of the family died in a smallpox epidemic that killed dozens of refugees in and around the Canadian capital from the summer of 1757 to the spring of 1758.  But not all of them escaped the round ups of 1755.  Breaus from Minas and Annapolis Royal ended up in Massachusetts and Connecticut.  Breaus from Minas and Pigiguit were deported also to Maryland and Virginia.  In the spring of 1756, the ones sent to Virginia were then deported to England, where, for seven long years, they were warehoused in various ports.  The ones sent to Maryland remained in that colony for the rest of the war.  As in Massachusetts and other seaboard colonies, colonial officials in Maryland dispersed the "French Neutrals" to scattered communities, which, in the case of the Breaus, included Annapolis on the west side of Chesapeake Bay, Oxford on the Eastern Shore, and Port Tobacco on the lower Potomac, where most of them were held.  Breaus still at Cobeguit in September 1755, learning of the fate of their cousins in the other Fundy settlements, packed up their goods and their loved ones and hid in the woods before heading cross country to Tatamagouche and other North Shore settlements.  From there, in what boats they could find, they crossed Mer Rouge that fall, winter, and into the following spring to French-held Île St.-Jean, where they joined their kinsmen who had chosen to go there years, even decades, earlier. 

Living in territory controlled by France, none of the established Breaus on the Maritime islands, including the widow of Jean Breau of Minas and her six children at Port-Toulouse, 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, in which 32-year-old Pierre, son of Antoine Breau, was killed, the redcoats rounded up most of the habitants on Île Royale and Île St.-Jean, including the dead Pierre's siblings and cousins.  Some of the Acadians escaped the roundup, crossed, or re-crossed, Mer Rouge, and joined their kinsmen on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Most, however, including Breaus, were deported to France, especially to St.-Malo.  Many did not survive the crossing.  Island Breaus did their best to make a life for themselves in the suburbs and villages of the St.-Malo area.  Island Breaus also landed or moved on to other French ports, including Rochefort and Bordeaux on the Bay of Biscay, and Nantes in southwest Brittany.  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.  Among them were several Breaus from Minas. 

In the early 1770s, Breaus at St.-Malo and other port cities chose to become part of 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.  After two years of effort, most of the Acadians gave up on the venture.  From October 1775 through March 1776, dozens of Poitou Acadians, including two Breau families, retreated in four convoys down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes.  Other members of the family remained in Poitou, but one family who did moved on to Nantes by the early 1780s.  At Nantes, the Acadians subsisted as best they could on government handouts and what work they could find.  When the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, at least 21 Breaus agreed to take it.  Others 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.  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.  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 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.  Though the British failed to capture Restigouche, they nevertheless cut it off from what was left of French America.  In October, after the fall of Montréal, a second British naval force, this one from Québec, arrived at Restigouche to accept the 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, but none of the Breaus were on it.  The British held these Acadians and other exiles, including Breaus, who either surrrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area in prison compounds in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Breaus were held at Fort Edward, overlooking their old homesteads at Pigiguit; at Fort Cumberland, formerly Fort Beauséjour, at Chignecto; and at Halifax. 

At war's end, Acadians being held in Nova Scotia and the seaboard colonies, theoretically, were free to go, but not until the British discerned their intentions.  Even then, colonial officials discouraged repatriation.  In the summer of 1763, Breaus appeared on French repatriation lists not only in Nova Scotia, but also in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maryland, and South Carolina. 

Most of the Breaus in the northern seaboard colonies chose to go to Canada, where some of the 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 Vincelotte Breau began the slow, inexorable process of becoming Canadiennes.  Especially after 1766, Breaus could be found on the upper St. Lawrence at Québec City, L'Acadie, La-Prairie-de-la-Magdeleine, L'Assomption, St.-Grégoire-de-Nicolet, St.-Jacques de l'Achigan, St.-Philippe-de-la-Prairie, St.-Pierre-de-Sorel, and Trois-Rivières; at La Présentation, St.-Antoine-de-Chambly, St.-Denis, St.-Joseph-de-Chambly, and St.-Ours in the lower Richelieu valley; and at Charlesbourg, St.-Charles de Bellechase, and St.-Joachim on the lower St. Lawrence.  They settled 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.  Breaus also settled in present-day New Brunswick at Grande-Digue, Néguac, Richiboutou, and St.-Charles-de-Kent on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore; and at Memramcook near the family's old settlement at Chepoudy.  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. 

Other Breaus languishing in the seaboard colonies chose to go to the French Antilles, where they could live not only among fellow Roman Catholics, but also in territory controlled by France.  French officials were especially eager for 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 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 revenge" 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 sweeten the deal, the French promised the Acadians land of their own in the sugar colony.  Breaus were among the Acadians who went there and labored not only at Môle St.-Nicolas, but also in the interior community of Mirebalais near Port-au-Prince, where they worked on indigo and coffee plantations.  It must have worked out for most of them.  When fellow exiles from Nova Scotia and Maryland, including many Breaus, came through Cap-Français in the mid- and late 1760s on their way to New Orleans, the Breaus in St.-Domingue, perhaps with one exception, chose to remain. 

Breaus 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 family of Breaus, chose to resettle on Île 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 Breaus, 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 10 were Breaus.

Meanwhile, the many Breaus 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 fellow exiles had been welcomed in Louisiana, they pooled their meager resources to charter ships that would take them to New Orleans.  Breaus were part of the first and second continents from Maryland who reached Louisiana from Balitimre in September 1766 and July 1767, but the great majority of them were part of the third contingent, led by brothers from Pigiguit, which reached New Orleans from Port Tobacco in February 1768.

Breaus were among the first families of Acadia and some 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, French St.-Domingue.  That spring, they followed the Broussards to Bayou Teche, but an epidemic that summer and fall killed three of the Breaus; only Firmin, a young bachelor, survived the sickness.  He remained on the Teche for a time and then moved to the river during the late 1760s to be closer to his kinsmen there.  A decade later, he returned to the Teche with his wife and children and established a lasting western branch of the family.  Kinsmen followed him to the western prairies in the ensuing decades, but Firmin's line remained the largest one west of the Atchafalaya Basin.  By the late antebellum period, Breauxs could be found along Bayou Teche from Breaux Bridge in St. Martin Parish down to St. Mary Parish; up and down the Vermilion valley in Lafayette and Vermilion parishes; and farther out on the prairies in St. Landry and the future Acadia Parish.  A few Breauxs from Bayou Lafourche joined their cousins on the southwest prairies after the War of 1861-65. 

Meanwhile, waves of Breaus from Halifax and Maryland settled on the river above New Orleans along what became known as the Acadian Coast.  The largest contingent of Breaus came in early 1768 from Port Tobacco, Maryland, in an extended family of nearly 150 individuals, 51 of them Breaus, led by brothers Alexis and Honoré of Pigiguit.  The Breau brothers promptly ran afoul of Spanish Governor Antonio de Ulloa when they refused to to go where he wanted them to settle--far upriver at Fort San Luìs de Natchez, in present-day Concordia Parish, where Ulloa hoped the Acadians would help provide border protection against hostile Indians and the British at Natchez across the river.  The Breaus considered this arrangement entirely unacceptable.  Ulloa threatened to deport them and their families if they did not obey, so the Breau brothers and their immediate families went into hiding while Spanish soldiers escorted their kinsmen to Fort San Luìs.  After the governor's ouster later in the year and the smashing of the revolt that overthrew him, Ulloa's successor, Governor-General Alejandro O'Reilly, relented and allowed the Acadians at Fort San Luìs, and the Breaus in hiding, to settle where they wanted.  By the 1770s, the Acadian Coast communities of San Gabriel, Ascension, and Cabahannocer, as well as the Baton Rouge area farther upriver, were filled with Breaus from Halifax, Maryland, and Fort San Luìs. 

In 1785, more Breaus came to Louisiana from France on five of the Seven Ships.  Most of them settled among their kin on the Acadian Coast, but only one of their lines endured there.  One family from France chose to go to upper Bayou Lafourche, creating a third center of Breau family settlement.  However, not until later in the colonial period, when Breauxs from the river joined the Acadian exodus to upper Bayou Lafourche, did this center of family settlement thrive.  The migration of Breauxs from the river to the Lafourche valley continued well into the antebellum period.  Most of the new arrivals settled in what became Lafourche Interior Parish; some moved down into the Terrebonne country; and others settled along the shores of Lake Verret, near Pierre Part and Attakapas Canal, in Assumption Parish.  After the War of 1861-65, a few Lafourche/Terrebonne valley Breauxs moved on to the western prairies. 

Despite migration from the river to Bayou Lafourche and from the river and the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley to the southwest prairies, most of the Breauxs of South Louisiana remained on the river where their immigrant ancestors had settled in the 1760s.  They were especially numerous in Iberville and Ascension parishes, but significant numbers of them settled also in West Baton Rouge and St. James parishes above and below those communities.  At least one family settled near French Settlement in Livingston Parish, east of the Amite River. 

Non-Acadian Breaus or Brous came to Louisiana decades before their Acadian namesakes reached the colony.  Pierre-Antoine Brou married a German girl in the late 1740s.  Their children and grandchildren were still living on the German Coast at the end of the colonial period, though a few of them may have moved on to Bayou Lafourche during the antebellum period.  Denis Braud, a printer, book merchant, smuggler, and a King's inspector after the Spanish came to the colony, created a family at New Orleans during the 1750s that was still living in the city two decades later.  Braud, in fact, played an important role in the Creole-led revolt against Spanish Governor Ulloa in October 1768.  When Ulloa's successor, General Alejandro O'Reilly, executed some of the leaders of the revolt the following year, Braud was lucky to escape with his life.  Other Breaus, called Foreign French by native Louisianians, came to New Orleans during the antebellum period, but, like their French-Creole brethren, their numbers never came close to that of the Acadian Breauxs scattered across the region. 

As befitting a family of this size, dozens of Breauxs served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65--at least 135 of them, mostly Acadians.  One of them rose to the rank of colonel.  And at least half a dozen members of the family died in Confederate service.  ...

In Louisiana, the family's name, typically, picked up an "x" and became Breaux.  In Canada and France, the older spelling Brault and its variant Braud are preferred, and in some Louisiana communities, especially along the river, Braud is as common as Breaux.  In Louisiana, the family's name also is spelled Brau, Brauld, Braut, Braux, Breaud, Breault, Bro, Brod, Brot, Brou, Broux, Bru, Brud.  A Preaux family, probably Foreign French, who lived at Ascension and on upper Bayou Lafourche, and a Reaux family who lived on the western prairies, should not be confused with the Breauxs, who were much more numerous and lived just about everywhere in South Louisiana.68 

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Three Breaus--an elderly head of family, a wife, and a young bachelor--came to Louisiana with the Broussards in February 1765 and followed them to lower Bayou Teche that spring.  The family head and the wife died in an epidemic that struck the Teche valley Acadians that summer and fall.  The younger Breau lingered on the Teche, moved to the river, started a family there, and then returned to the Teche, where his descendants remained.  One of his descendants became a prominent lawyer, planter, and businessman in Lafayette Parish:

Sylvain (c1713-1765) à Vincent Breaux

Sylvain, fourth son of François Breau and Marie Comeau, born at Minas in c1713, married Élisabeth, or Isabelle, daughter of Jérôme Darois and Marie Garault or Jereau and widow of René Trahan, at Beaubassin in June 1734 and settled at Petitcoudiac in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto.  In the fall of 1755, they escaped the British roundup there and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  During the late 1750s or 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 for the rest of the war.   In 1764-65, Sylvain and Isabelle, along with nephew Firmin, son of brother Alexis, emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français (Firmin may have joined them on the way round at Cap-Français) and reached New Orleans in mid-February 1765.  That spring, they followed the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche, where, on the same day in October, Sylvain and Isabelle died in an epidemic that struck the Teche valley Acadians that summer and fall.  Sylvain was age 52 at the time of his death, Isabelle age 66.  They were buried together au dernier camp d'en bas, or the lower place, on Fausse Point near present-day Loreauville.  They evidently were that rare Acadian couple who had no children. 

Firmin (c1749-1808) à François à Vincent Breaux

Firmin, third son of Alexis Breau and Marguerite Barrieau, born probably at Rivière-aux-Canards in the Minas Basin in c1749, was deported with his family to Massachusettes in the fall of 1755.  He, along with his parents and siblings, appear on a list of Acadian exiles at Weymouth south of Boston in either 1760 or 1761.  After the war, in 1766, Firmin's family repatriated to Canada with hundreds of other Acadians in New England, but Firmin, still in his teens, did not go with them.  He may have returned to Nova Scotia at war's end and was held with hundreds of other Acadians who had been rounded up in the region, unless he was among the dozens of Acadian exiles in New England who migrated to French St.-Domingue in 1764.  If he did go to St.-Domingue, he did not remain there either.  Still in his teens, he came to Louisiana in February 1765 with his uncle Sylvain Breau and the Broussards, who had come from Halifax via Cap-Français, and they may have picked up the boy at Cap-Français on their way to New Orleans.  Firmin survived the Teche Valley epidemic of 1765 that killed his uncle and aunt and remained on the Teche for a year or so.  He appears alone in the Attakapas census of April 1766, which calls him Fermin Braud and places him at Bayou Tortue (not Queue de Tortue) near the original lower-Teche settlements.  By the late 1760s, he had moved to the river, where, in April 1769, at age about 20, he married cousin Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Breau and his first wife Élisabeth Henry of Pigiguit, at Ascension on the Acadian Coast.  Marguerite, in her late teens, had come to the colony from Maryland with her large family in 1766.  In September 1769, Spanish officials counted her and Firmin on the right, or west, bank of the river at Cabahannocer downriver from Ascension.  A year later, they were counted on the same side of the river but at Ascension, so they must have lived near the boundary between the Cabahannocer and Ascension districts.  In 1771, Firmin purchased from Jean-François Ledée, a New Orleans absentee land owner, a bayou-side parcel at La Pointe on upper Bayou Teche at present-day Breaux Bridge.   When he moved his family there later in the decade, he became the first male Breaux to return to the western prairies.  Their children, born on the river and the upper Teche, included Marie-Madeleine at Ascension in early 1770; Donat in c1771; François baptized at Ascension, age unrecorded, in November 1772; Pierre Castuel born at Ascension in March 1774; Félicité or Félice baptized at Attakapas, age unrecorded, in May 1776; Jean-Baptiste, called Baptiste, baptized at Opelousas, age 6 months, in July 1779; Isabelle born in c1781; Scholastique in August 1782; a son, name unrecorded, died at birth in May 1784; Modeste born in April 1785; twins Agricole and Joseph in February 1787; Marguerite in September 1789; and Adélaide in February 1791--14 children, seven sons and seven daughters, between 1770 and 1791.  Firmin died at La Pointe in October 1808, in his late 50s.  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse, St. Martin Parish, the following January and another one in May 1814 that called him a widower, which was odd since wife Marguerite did not die "at Cyrille Thibaudot," a son-in-law, "at la grand pointe" until September 1815, age 68, a year and a half after the May 1814 succession.  She was buried "in the parish cemetery."  Firmin's family line was not only the first, but also the largest of the Breaux lines established west of the Atchafalaya Basin.  Daughters Marie-Madeleine, Félicité, Isabelle, Scholastique, Modeste, and Adélaïde married into the Guidry, Hébert, Bonin, Thibodeaux, Arceneaux, and Broussard families.  Six of Firmin's sons also married and settled not only at La Pointe, but also farther down the Teche at Fausse Pointe, at Carencro out on the prairies, and on the upper Vermilion in what became Lafayette Parish.  A daughter-in-law is considered to be the founder of the town of Breaux Bridge in St. Martin Parish.  One of Firmin's great-grandsons, Colonel Gustave A. Breaux, became a leading man in Lafayette Parish during the late 1800s. 

Oldest son Donat followed his family to Attakapas, where he married Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadians François Guilbeau and Madeleine Broussard, in January 1793.  The settled down bayou at Fausse Pointe.  Their children, born there, included Marie dite Ponponne in October 1795; Marie Denise or Dionese in October 1797; Madeleine-Estelle, called Estelle, in July 1799; Angélique, perhaps also called Zéline, in August 1801 but died "at her father's home" at Fausse Pointe, age 10 (the recording priest said 8), in October 1811; a daughter, name unrecorded, died 17 days after her birth in September 1803; Donat, fils born in September 1804; Delphine in July 1806 but died at age 7 1/2 (the recording priest said 10) in February 1813; Amand, also called Arnaud, born in November 1808; Dosité, a son, in October 1810; a son, name unrecorded, died eight days after his birth in August 1812; and Cléonine born posthumously in December 1814--11 children, seven daughters and four sons, between 1795 and 1814.  Donat, père died at his home at Fausse Pointe in October 1814.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Donat was age 49 when he died.  He was 42.  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in May 1815.  Daughters Marie dite Ponponne, Marie Denise, and Madeleine Estelle married into the Broussard, Bonin, Legendre, and Prudhomme families.  Eight years after she remarried to Foreign-French doctor Michel Prudhomme, daughter Estelle, at age 31, gave birth to "natural" son Dosité le jeune.  The St. Martinville priest who baptized the boy in October 1833 did not name the father.  Three of Donat's sons also married.  One of them settled in Lafayette Parish; another, along with a grandson by one of his daughters, moved down bayou to the New Iberia area; and another son remained near St. Martinville. 

Oldest son Donat, fils married first cousin Marie Élisabeth, called Élisabeth and Élisa, daughter of fellow Acadians François Breaux and Céleste Dugas, his uncle and aunt, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in January 1836.  Their children, born on the prairies, included François le jeune baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 1 month, in December 1836 but died in late January; Numa born in January 1838 but died at age 18 in April 1856; Mozar baptized, age 6 months, in October 1839; a son, name unrecorded, born in c1840 but died at age 2 in July 1842; Donatilde in c1841; Alexandre born in c1844; Anastasie in c1846; Alfred in December 1848; Albert in October 1850; Charles Adrien in November 1852; Marie Alice in December 1854; and Eva Emma in May 1856--a dozen children, eight sons and four daughters, between 1836 and 1856.  Daughters Anastasie and ... married into the Baily or Bailey and Montgomery families by 1870.  Two of Donat, fils's sons also married by then. 

Fifth son Alexandre married Marie Adrienne, daughter of Césaire Labbé and Célimène Goudreau, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in November 1866.  Their son Donat Arthur was born in Lafayette Parish in August 1867; ... 

Donat, fils's sixth son Alfred married Mathilde, daughter of fellow Acadian Simon Méance Broussard and his Creole wife Octavie Bonnet, at the Vermilionville church in November 1869.  Their son Alcide died in Lafayette Parish, age 5 months, in March 1869[sic]; ... 

Donat, père's second son Amand, also called Arnaud, married first cousin Marie Caliste, Calixte, or Colinta, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Breaux and his Creole wife Marcellite Carmouche, his uncle and aunt, at the Vermilionville church in April 1830.  Their children, born on the Teche, included Marie in October 1834 but died a day after her birth; Joseph born in June 1836; Louise in December 1837 but died the following October; Louisa born in October 1838; Sevigné Sosthènes or Sosthène, called Sosthène, in October 1839; Euzèbe or Eusèbe Alphonse near New Iberia in May 1844; Armand Alexandre in August 1845; Prosper in June 1849; and Louis Donat in August 1852--nine children, three daughters and six sons, between 1834 and 1852.  Wife Calixte died in St. Martin Parish in October 1863, age 54, but her succession was not filed at the St. Martinville courthouse until September 1865.  None of her and Amand's daughters married by 1870.  Three of their sons did marry by then. 

Oldest son Joseph married Léontine, daughter of Alexandre Judice and Céleste Judice, at the St. Martinville church in April 1858.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Joseph Eraste in February 1860; Léonce in April 1862; Agricole in May 1864; ... 

Amand's second son Sosthène married Mathilde or Mathilda, daughter of Joseph Gonsoulin and Marcellite Ransonet, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in August 1865.  Their children, born near New Iberia, included Filiasse Joseph in July 1867; Clovis in August 1868; ... 

Amand's fourth son Armand Alexandre may have married fellow Acadian Oliva Guidry in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in March 1866.  Their son Donat was born "at Pte. Ém[ile]. Mouton," present-day Acadia Parish, in October 1868; ... 

Donat, père's third son Dosité married first cousin Sylvanie, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Catuel Breaux and Mathilde Broussard, his uncle and aunt, at the St. Martinville church in March 1829.  They settled at La Pointe.  Their son Donat le jeune was born there in June 1830.  Wife Sylvanie, at age 19, died from complications of childbirth.  Her succession, naming their son, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in May 1832, a week or so after Dosité remarried to cousin Adélaïde Arsène, called Arsène, daughter of fellow Acadians David Guilbeau and Adélaïde Duhon, at the St. Martinville church.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Anastasie in February 1833; Jean Baptiste David, called David, in June 1835; Adélaïde, also called Adèle, in January 1837; Aurelien in September 1838; Romain Hypolite or Hippolyte in August 1840 but, called "a child" by the recording priest, may have died at age 2 in October 1842; Léon dit Léo born in April 1842; Gustave Pierre near New Iberia in December 1843 but, called Gustave, died at age 5 1/2 in October 1849; Élisabeth Virginie, called Virginie, born in December 1846; and Marie Léocadie, called Léocadie and Eléonide, in September 1848.  At age 47, Dosité remarried again--his third marriage--to Coralie, daughter of fellow Acadians Éloi Dugas, fils and Julie Broussard and widow of Benjamin Télésphore Dugas, at the St. Martinville church in January 1858.  Their son Antoine Louis was born in St. Martin Parish in April 1866; ...  Daughters Anastasie and Adèle, by his second wife, married into the Dugas and Broussard families by 1870.  Three of Dosité's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Donat le jeune, by first wife Sylvanie Breaux, married Rosa Mary, daughter of Michel Hayes and his Acadian wife Louisa Dugas, at the St. Martinville church in November 1856.  Donat le jeune died in St. Martin Parish in November 1861, age 31.  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse three days after his death.  Did his family line die with him? 

Dositée's second son David, by second wife Arsène Guilbeau, married Constance, daughter of Adolphe Berard and his Acadian wife Elmire Dugas, at the St. Martinville church in January 1866. 

Dositée's third son Aurelien, by second wife Arsène Guilbeau, married Corinne, daughter of Moïse Duperon Bonin and Joséphine Sylvanie Bienvenu, at the New Iberia church, Iberia Parish, in October 1869.  Their son Luzin was born near New Iberia in August 1870. ...

Donat, père's grandson Dosité le jeune, son of daughter Estelle, was born in St. Martin Parish in April 1832, when Estelle would have been age 32 and six years after she remarried to Michel Prudhomme (the St. Martinville priest who recorded the boy's baptism did not give the father's, only the mother's, name).  Dosité le jeune, at age 24, may have married fellow Acadian Cidalise, Sidalise, or Sidalie Dugas at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in December 1856.  Their children, born near New Iberia, included Sylvestre Pavie in December 1857; Paul Méance, called Méance, in March 1861 but died at age 1 1/2 in December 1862; Marie Flavie born in December 1863; Joseph in October 1866; ... 

Firmin's second son François followed his family to Attakapas, where he married Céleste or Célesie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Dugas and Nanette Thibodeaux, in May 1793.  They settled on the upper Vermilion at Pont de la Butte, as well as at La Pointe on the upper Teche.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Orien or Aurelien in c1794 and baptized at Attakapas, age 1, in April 1795; Anne-Susanne dite Suzette baptized, age 1 1/2 months, in April 1795; Céleste born in May 1796; Valéry in December 1800; François, fils in February 1802; Charles in April 1806; Adeline in February 1808; Marie Aurore in February 1814 but died at age 5 1/2 in October 1819; and Élisabeth born in July 1818--nine children, four sons and five daughters, between 1794 and 1818.  Daughter Élisabeth's birth evidently killed her mother.  Wife Silesie Dugas, as she was called, was listed as deceased in her daughter's baptismal record at St. Martinville in November 1818, and Céleste's succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in June 1820.  François, at age 47, remarried to Esther, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Martin and Élisabeth Thibodeaux and widow of Jean Charles Dugas, at the St. Martinville church in June 1820.  She evidently gave him no more children.  François, père died in St. Martin Parish in December 1832, age 60.  His succession, listing only two of his heirs--François, fils; and Elizabeth--and noting that "Their mother died several years ago," was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse a week after his death.  Daughters Céleste, Susanne, and Adeline, by his first wife, married into the Breaux, Boudreaux, and Doucet families.  Three of François, père's sons also married. 

Oldest son Aurelien, by first wife Célesie Dugas, married Marie Modeste, called Modeste, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Bernard and Rosalie Blanchard of St. James Parish on the river, at the St. Martinville church in September 1811.  They settled on the upper Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included Marie Arthémise in January 1813; Aurelien Treville in March 1815 but died at age 5 in August 1820; Louis, also called Louis Aladin and Aladin, born in June 1821; Aggerin, Agerin, or Azerin in February 1823 but died at age 16 in July 1839; Marie Anastasie or Anathalie, called Anathalie, in July 1825; Gustave Arvilien in December 1828; Marguerite Oliva in March 1831; and Valéry le jeune in January 1834 but, called "Con" by the recording priest, may have died at age 7 1/2 in September 1841--eight children, three daughters and five sons, between 1813 and 1834.  Aurelien died in Lafayette Parish in February 1854.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Aurelien died "at age 62 yrs."  He was 60.  His succession, which listed his wife and said that he died in February 1853, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in June 1854.  Daughters Marie Arthémise, Anathalie, and Marguerite Olivia married into the Bernard, Scranton, and Delhomme families.  Two of Aurelien's remaining sons also married, and one of them became a regional shaker and mover.

Second son Louis Aladin married cousin Émilia Susanne, called Susanne, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Boudreaux and Suzette Breaux, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in December 1841.  Their son Louis Gustave or Gustave Louis was born in Lafayette Parish in June 1843.  Louis A.'s succession, naming his wife and calling his son Gustave Louis, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in June 1845.  He was a widower at the time and would have been age 24 that year.  One wonders if this was a post-mortem succession.  He and his wife evidently had no daughters. 

During the War of 1861-65, only son Louis Gustave served in Company I of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Orleans Parish, which fought in Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana.  Louis Gustave joined the company in June 1861, having just turned 18.  He was still single.  He was wounded in action at the Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee, in April 1862, went home on wounded furlough, and remained away from his unit for so long that he was reported absent without leave that summer.  He rejoined his regiment in time to fight at the Battle of Labadieville in Assumption Parish in October 1862, after which he was captured and paroled.  After his exchange, he rejoined his unit in late February 1863 probably at Camp Que Vive at Fausse Pointe on Bayou Teche.  He was captured again, this time in Lafayette Parish in May 1863, probably while his unit was retreating to Alexandria.  The Federals sent him to Mobile, Alabama, and he was paroled and released at Grant's Island near Mobile later in the month.  He again returned to his unit, which, in November 1863, became Company I of the Consolidated 18th Regiment and Yellow Jackets Battalion Louisiana Infantry.  He surrendered with the regiment in the spring of 1865 and was paroled as an end-of-war prisoner at Washington, Louisiana, in June 1865.  Louis Gustave married Marie Pouponne, daughter of fellow Acadian Simon Méance Broussard and his Creole wife Octavie Bonnet, at the Vermilionville church in June 1865, four days before he reported to Federal authorities at Washington to officially end his Confederate service.  Their son Louis Aladin was born in Lafayette Parish in September 1866; ...  After the war, Louis Gustave owned a plantation near his uncle, Colonel Gustave A. Breaux, on the prairie five miles west of Vermilionville, later the city of Lafayette, near what became Scott Station on the Southern Pacific Railroad.  In the early 1890s, Louis Gustave donated land on which to build a larger school for the Scott Station community.  During that time, he also was leader of the local chapter of the Farmers Alliance and Industrial Union, a Populist organization comprised of farmers and workers in the South and Midwest opposed to the national Republican Party.  In February 1897, he testified in the trial of the Blanc brothers of France, accused of murdering Scott Station merchant Martin Begnaud

Aurilien's fourth son Gustave Arvilien's early education was at St. Charles College, the Jesuit academy at Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, near his home in Lafayette Parish.  At age 16, "Gus," as he was called, enrolled in Norwich University, a military school at Northfield, Vermont.  He attended Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and, after graduation, returned to Louisiana in 1853 to practice law at New Orleans.  At age 28, he married Émilie, 20-year-old daughter of Samuel Locke and Emiliana Guesdon, at New Orleans in 1856.  Their children, born probably in the city, included Modeste Émilina in 1857 (died in 1933, age 76); Samuel Locke in February 1860 (died in June 1933, age 73); and Gustave Arvilien, Jr., born in 1869--three children, a daughter and two sons, between 1857 and 1869.  In the immediate pre-war years, Gustave A. served as clerk of the Louisiana state Senate.  During the war, Gustave A. served as captain of Company F, Confederate Guards Regiment Louisiana Volunteer State Troops Militia, a reserve unit raised in Orleans Parish.  He also served as captain in various companies of the Sumter Regiment Louisiana Militia, also raised in New Orleans, and as colonel of the regiment.  When the Sumter Regiment became the 30th Regiment Louisiana Infantry in May 1862, Gustave A. remained the unit's colonel.  However, desertions and combat casualties, especially in the Battle of Baton Rouge in August 1862, compelled the Confederate authorities to reduce the 30th Regiment to a battalion in March 1863.  Colonel Breaux, whose rank was too high to command a battalion, resigned from Confederate service in February.  He returned to his home at New Orleans, which was occupied by Federal forces.  In June 1863, he was compelled to take the oath of allegiance to the U.S. government.  Historan William Arceneaux, who misidentifies the colonel's regiment as the 13th, not the 30th, Louisiana, says he saw "combat at the battles of Vicksburg, Port Hudson, and Baton Rouge," but he likely had fought only at Baton Rouge, the other actions having taken place in the spring and summer of 1863, after his resignation.  If Colonel Breaux had returned to Confederate service after taking the oath of allegiance, he would have subjected himself to harsh penalties at the hands of the Federals.  Historian Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr. says Breaux served as an "enrolling officer at Lake Charles, 1864-1865," which at least would have placed him a good distance from Federal authorities.  Moreover, his Confederate service record does record him as an end-of-war prisoner paroled at Washington, Louisiana, in June 1865.  After the war, the Colonel's fellow Louisianians considered him a war hero.  Wife Émilie died probably at New Orleans in 1872.  At age 46, Gustave remarried to Joséphine Marr in December 1874 probably at New Orleans.  She evidently gave him no more children.  The Colonel, as he was addressed in public, became a prominent railroad attorney--senior partner of the law firm Breaux, Fenner, and Hall, with offices in New Orleans and Vermilionville, later Lafayette.  He also successfully engaged in politics.  In November 1878, he was elected to the state Senate from the First and Tenth Wards of New Orleans (present-day Central City and the Garden District).  He served in the state constitutional convention of 1879 and was re-elected to the state Senate.  Meanwhile, he built a large sugar plantation, Oakbourne, near Vermilionville, and constructed a local sugar refinery.  While in the state Senate, the Colonel was instrumental in re-routing the railroad that was to run from New Orleans to East Texas through Vermilionville, assuring the town's future as a transportation center.  William Arceneaux has quipped:  "... if Jean Mouton was the father of Vermilionville, Gus Breaux ... was its godfather."  In 1897, in his late 60s, despite his lack of experience as a criminal attorney, the Colonel, again a resident of Lafayette Parish, served as co-counsel in the defense of the Blanc brothers of France after they were charged with the murder of local storekeeper Martin Begnaud.  The brothers were found guilty of the murder and publicly hanged at the Lafayette Parish jail.  In 1898, suffering severe hearing loss, the Colonel retired from the law and devoted the rest of his days to his sugar interests.  He died at Oakbourne, Lafayette Parish, in February 1910, age 81. 

François's second son Valéry, by first wife Célesie Dugas, married Marcellite, daughter of Jacques Fostin and his Acadian wife Julie Hébert of Bayou Vermilion, at the St. Martinville church in April 1822.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Valéry, fils in September 1823; Marie Laure in 1826 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 16 months, 19 days, in August 1827 but died at age 6 in January 1832; and Louisianaise or Louisiana baptized at age 5 months in July 1837--three children, a son and two daughters, between 1823 and 1837.  Valéry, père died "from knife wounds" in Lafayette Parish in May 1840.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who called his wife Marsilienne Hébert, said that Valéry was age 33 when he died.  He was 39.  His succession, calling his wife Marcelite Eastin and naming his heirs--Valéry and Louisianaise--was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following July.  One wonders what was the circumstance of his violent death.  Daughter Louisiana married into the Guidry family.  His son also married and remained on the prairies. 

Only son Valéry, fils married cousin Marie Anaïse, called Anaïse, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Doucet and Adeline Breaux, at the Vermilionville church in May 1845.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Mathilde in June 1847; Théodule, also called Théophile, in August 1849; and Joseph Emma in December 1850 but, called an unnamed child, died at "age of a few mths." in June 1851.  Valéry, fils remarried to stepsister Azéma, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Lessin Guidry and Carmélite Broussard, at the Vermilionville church in December 1852; Azéma's father had married Valéry, fils's mother the previous January.  Valéry, fils and Azéma's children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Marie Aurore in September 1854; and Rosa in April 1856--five children, three daughters and two sons, by two wives, between 1847 and 1856.  Daughter ..., by his first wife, married into the Broussard family by 1870.  Valéry, fils's remaining son also married by then. 

Older son Théophile, by first wife Anaïse Doucet, married Coralie, daughter of fellow Acadian Simon Méance Broussard and his Creole wife Octavie Bonnet, at the Vermilionville church in February 1868.  Their son Valéry le jeune was born in Lafayette Parish in December 1870;  ...

François's third son François, fils, by first wife Célesie Dugas, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Cormier and Pauline Martin and widow of Don Louis Mouton, at the Vermilionville church in May 1825.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included François Vilmond or Valmond in November 1826; Edmond baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 7 1/2 months, in October 1830; and Élouise born in 1832 and baptized at age 6 months in February 1833--three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1826 and 1832.  Wife Marie's succession, evidently post-mortem, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in April 1833.  François, fils remarried to Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Comeaux and Rosalie Prejean, at the Vermilionville church in July 1834.  She evidently gave him no more children.  Daughter Élouise, by his first wife, married into the Guidry family.  One of François, fils's sons also married. 

Second son Edmond, by first wife Marie Cormier, may have married Émilia Rougette, place and date unrecorded.  Their son Edmond, fils was born in Lafayette Parish in November 1854; ...

Firmin's third son Pierre Castuel followed his family to Attakapas, where he married Bathilde or Mathilde, daughter of fellow Acadians Sylvestre Broussard and Félicité Guilbeau, in January 1793.  They settled at La Pointe on the upper Teche.  Their children, born there, included Julien Pierre in c1794; Adélaïde in December 1795; Alexandre in October 1797; Anastasie in December 1799; Marie Azélie in November 1801; triplets Céleste, Dosité, a son, and Julie in July 1804, but Céleste died the following November, and Dosité died "at his parent's home at la pointe," age 21 (the recording priest said 22), in April 1826; Mélanie born in August 1806; and Silvanie in December 1810--10 children, three sons and seven daughters, including a set of triplets, between the early 1790s and 1810.  Wife Mathilde's succession was filed at the St. Martinville courhouse in July 1826.  Pierre died probably at La Pointe in January 1850.  The Breaux Bridge priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Pierre died "at age 78 yrs."  Pierre Castuel would have been age 75, so this probably was him.  Daughters Adélaïde, Marie Azélie, Mélanie, and Silvanie married into the Carmouche, Arceneaux, Dupuis, and Breaux families, one of them to a first cousin.  Two of Pierre Castuel's sons also married, but their family lines, except for the blood, did not endure.

Oldest son Julien married Euphrasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Melançon and Lucie Rose Doiron of La Pointe, at the St. Martinville church in April 1813.  They settled at La Pointe and Grande Pointe on the upper Teche.  Their children, born there, included Marie Urasie, called Eurasie, in October 1814; Marie Uranie in January 1816; Marie Euphémie, called Euphémie, in October 1817; and a son, name unrecorded, died at birth at his parents' home in March 1819--four children, three daughters and a son, between 1814 and 1819.  Julien, called Julien Pierre by the recording priest, died "in the morning at age 32 years in January 1826.  His succession, naming his widow and listing his minor children--Earsie, Eugénie, and Euphémie--was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in April 1827.  Daughters Eurasie, Marie Uranie, and Marie Euphémie married into the Dugas, Chaigneau, Babineaux, and Broussard families.  Julien's only son died at birth, but the blood of his family line endured. 

Pierre Castuel's second son Alexandre married Madeleine Élise, called Lise, daughter of fellow Acadians Valentin Landry and Céleste Bourgeois, at the St. Martinville church in February 1827.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Pierre in February 1828 but may have died at age 15 in October 1843; Marie Mathilde, called Mathilde, born in August 1829; and Dosité le jeune in February 1832 but died at age 8 months the following October--three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1828 and 1832.  Alexandre died in St. Martin Parish in January 1834.  The priest who recorded the burial said Alexandre was age 40 when he died.  He was 36.  His succession, calling his wife Lise, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in July 1838.  Daughter Mathilde married into the Patin family.  Neither of Alexandre's sons seems to have lived long enough to marry, so his line of the family, except for its blood, died with him. 

Firmin's fourth son Jean-Baptiste, called Baptiste, married Anne-Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Firmin Girouard and Marguerite Cormier, at Attakapas in August 1800.  They settled at La Pointe and then at Grand Prairie on the upper Vermilion near present-day downtown Lafayette, not far from the Vermilionville church, now the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist.  Their children, born at La Pointe, included Scholastique Claire in September 1801; Céleste in February 1803; Marcelle or Marcellite in February 1805; Marie in April 1807 but died in June; Jean Baptiste, fils born in July 1808; Joséphine Céonine in November 1810 but died at age 11 1/2 in August 1822; Firmin le jeune, perhaps also called Aramis, born in January 1813; Louis, perhaps called Don Louis, in December 1814; Euphémie in May 1817; Carmélite in May 1819; Marie Eugénie, called Eugénie, in October 1821 but died at age 2 1/2 in August 1824; and Marie Aspazie born in 1825 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 5 months, in March 1826--a dozen children, nine daughters and three sons, between 1801 and 1825.  Baptiste died probably at Vermilionville in March 1837.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Baptiste was age 50 when he died.  He was 58.  His succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in April.  Daughter Marcelle may have been the Marcellite Breaux, widow of Jérôme Zénon Bourgeois, who gave birth to "natural" son Pierre in late 1827, when she would have been age 22, and had him baptized at the Vermilionville church when he was age 7 months in May 1828, the month before she remarried to Thomas Hanks; the boy's godparents were Olivier Guidry and Modeste Leger.  Baptiste's daughters Scholastique Claire, Céleste, Marcellite, and Carmélite married into the Guidry, Hébert, Bourgeois, Hanks, and Lebleu families.  Baptiste's three sons also married. 

Oldest son Jean Baptiste, fils married Marie Josèphe or Josette Camasak, daughter of Arsène Lebleu and Céleste Andrews, probably Andrus, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in November 1831.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Adolphe in late 1833 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 10 months, in July 1834; Ursin baptized at age 1 month or 6 months in August 1835; Valsin baptized at age 5 months in November 1836; Aurelien baptized at age 3 months in May 1838; and Joseph Arsène born in August 1848--five children, all sons, between 1833 and 1848.  One of Jean Baptiste, fils's sons married by 1870. 

Second son Ursin may have married Alexandrine Daigle, probably French Canadian, not Acadian.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Arsène in April 1857; Théodule in February 1859; ... 

Baptiste's second son Firmin le jeune, perhaps also called Aramis, evidently married Marie Cléoraine, Cléorene, Cléorine, Cléozine, Clorene, Clorinde, or Clorinda, daughter of fellow Acadians Rosémond Richard and Anastasie Poirier, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in September 1845.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Marie Coralie in March 1845, six months before her parents' marriage; Adélaïde Cléonise in August 1847; Adam Simon, called Simon, in January 1850; Amélisa in May 1852; Amédée in March 1855; and Marie Anastasie in September 1857--six children, four daughters and two sons, between 1845 and 1857.  Daughters ... married into the Guidry and Sonnier families by 1870.  One of Firmin le jeune's sons also married by then. 

Older son Simon married cousin Marie Sevina or Levina, daughter of fellow Acadians Aurelien Thibodeaux and Azélene Breaux, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in December 1866.  They settled near Church Point, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish. ...

Baptiste's third and youngest son Louis may have been the Don Louis Breaux who married fellow Acadian Mélanie Duhon, place and date unrecorded.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Gesnaire or Gesner baptized at the Vermilionmille church, age 10 months, in April 1840; Césaire born in October 1840; Amélie in May 1842; Bélisaire in October 1845; Joseph Clebert in October 1846; Jean Baptiste le jeune in July 1848; Zélima in April 1850; Azéma in February 1852; Joseph Valsin in December 1853; Hippolyte in September 1855; Anastasie in July 1857; Hermine in June 1861; Firmin le jeune in February 1865; ...  None of Louis's daughters married by 1870, but two of his sons did.  Three of his sons, including the married ones, served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65, and the unmarried one died in Confederate service. 

Oldest son Gesner, at age 19, married Émelie, daughter of fellow Acadian Zéphirin Mire and his Creole wife Marguerite Plaisance, at the Grand Coteau church in February 1858.  They settled near Church Point, then in St. Landry but not in Acadia Parish, on upper Bayou Plaquemine Brûlé.  Their children, born there, included Marie Euphémie in February 1859; Césaire le jeune in September 1860; Joseph Gesner in January 1863; Bélisaire le jeune in September 1864; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Gesner served with younger brother Bélisaire in Company A of the 29th (Thomas's) Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Landry Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  Gesner enlisted in the company in April 1862, age 23, and followed his unit to Mississippi (his second son was born exactly nine months after his enlistment).  Not long after he joined his unit, Gesner was confined to the general hospital at Mississippi Springs, Mississippi.  Unlike his younger brother, who died in a Vicksburg hospital during the fall of 1862, Gesner survived his illness as well as the Siege of Vicksburg and, after the surrender of his regiment at the Mississippi citadel in July 1863, returned to his family to await exchange.  His Confederate record then falls silent. ...

Don Louis's second son Césaire, at age 20, married Clairande or Clairence, daughter of Joachim Begnaud and Joséphine ____, at the Grand Coteau church in June 1861.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Osémé in May 1862; Louis near "Pte. Émile Mouton," then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in September 1868.  According to Confederate records, Césaire was a resident of Washington, north of Opelousas, when he enlisted in Confederate service at Camp Pratt near New Iberia in early October 1862, age 22.  He was assigned to Company B of the 1st Regiment Louisiana Heavy Artillery, raised at New Orleans early in the war.  The regiment was heavily reinforced with South Louisiana conscripts during the fall of 1862, so Césaire probably was a conscript.  He served with his regiment at Vicksburg, Mississippi, from October 1862 to July 1863.  After his unit surrendered at the Mississippi citadel on 4 July 1863, Césaire, unlike most of the other conscripts in his regiment, accepted parole, was exchanged, and served with the regiment in Alabama and Mississippi for the rest of the war.  He surrendered with his regiment at Meridian, Mississippi, in May 1865 and returned to his family.  He was buried at St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery, Rayne, Acadia Parish.

During the war, Don Louis's third son Bélisaire served with older brother Gesner in Company A of the 29th (Thomas's) Regiment Louisiana Infantry.  He, too, enlisted in April 1862, age 17.  He followed his regiment to Mississippi and was soon confined to the general hospital at Clinton, Mississippi.  Unlike his older brothers, Bélisaire did not survive the war.  The teenager died in the regimental hospital at Vicksburg, probably from disease, in late October, before his unit saw action. 

Firmin's sixth son Agricole, a twin, married Scholastique Mélanie, called Mélanie, daughter of Nicolas Picou and his Acadian wife Scholastique Bourgeois of New Orleans and St. James, at the St. Martinville church in June 1813.  They settled at La Pointe.  Their children, born on the Teche, included Jean Émile, called Émile, in April 1814; Marguerite Elmire in February 1816; Marie Calixte or Calise, called Calise, in June 1818; Arthémise in February 1820; Émelie or Amelie in May 1822 but died at age 7 1/2 in September 1829; Marie Asoline or Aseline born in December 1823 but died at age 10 months in February 1825; Marie Eurasie or Erasie, called Erasie, born in November 1825; and Scholastique Azélie, called Azélie, in August 1827--eight children, a son and seven daughters, between 1814 and 1827.  Agricole died at his home at La Pointe in May 1828, age 41.  His succession, identifying his widow, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in November 1833.  Daughters Marguerite Elmire, Calise, Arthémise, Erasie, and Azélie married into the David, Hébert, Rees, and Guidry families, including two Guidry brothers.  Agricole's son survived childhood but did not marry.  Agricole's widow, Scholastique Mélanie Picou, founded the town of Breaux Bridge in the 1830s, building atop what her father-in-law and husband had done there.  In the late 1790s, a local historian recounts, Agricole's father had built a small foot bridge across the Teche on his property at La Pointe "to help ease the passage for his family and neighbors. This first bridge was a suspension footbridge, likely made of rope and small planks.  It was stabilized by being tied to small pilings located at each end of the bridge, as well as to a pair of huge live oak tress on both sides of the bayou.  When traveling directions were given, folks would say 'go to Breaux's bridge.'"  In 1817, "Agricole built the first vehicular bridge" at his father's crossing, "allowing for the passage of wagons and increased commerce in the area."  In order to support her family, Agricole's young widow sold lots on property Agricole had inherited at the crossing.  A statue in her honor stands only a few hundred yards from the present steel bridge spanning Bayou Teche. 

Only son Jean Émile, called Émile, may have died near Grand Coteau in August 1854.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said Émile died "at age 40 yrs.," so this probably was him.  If it was him, his family line, except for its blood, may have died with him.  His succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse, St. Landry Parish, in October.

Firmin's seventh son Joseph, Agricole's twin, married Marcellite, daughter of François Carmouche and his Acadian wife Françoise Arceneaux of Carencro, at the St. Martinville church in December 1807.  They settled at Carencro at the northern edge of the old Attakapas District.  Their children, born there, included Joseph, fils in November 1808; Marie in December 1809; Calice or Calixte in c1810 or 1811; Marie Urasie, called Urasie, in January 1812; Bonne, also called Marie Bonne, in May 1813; Célestine Brigitte, also called Céleste, in December 1814; François Terence, called Terence, in April 1816; Pierre, also called Pierre Serci, Tercy, Tersy, Fercy or Furcy, and Thearice, in February 1818; a daughter, name unrecorded, died at age 8 days in January 1820; Adélaïde baptized, age 3 months, in May 1821; a son, name unrecorded, died shortly after birth in September 1823; Norbert Désiré born in July 1825; Valentin, also called Dosité Valentin and Valentin Dosité, in July 1827; and Célestin in 1829 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 17 months, in October 1830--14 children, seven sons and seven daughters, between 1808 and 1829.  Joseph may have died in Lafayette Parish in June 1870.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Joseph died "at age 88 yrs."  This Joseph would have been age 83.  His succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in July.  Daughters Marie Bonne, Calice, Céleste, and Urasie married into the Arceneaux, Breaux, and Latiolais families, including two Arceneaux cousins, by 1870.  Three of Joseph's son also married by then. 

Second son François Terence, called Terence, married Louise, also called Louisa, Lisa, and Élisa, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Dugas and Marie Marthe Mouton, at the Vermilionville church in April 1836.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Erminie in Alzina, called Alzina, baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in July 1839; Marie Joséphine, called Joséphine, born near Grand Coteau in April 1841; Marie Alzire near Vermilionville in April 1843; Pierre Gérard near Grand Coteau in October 1845; Joseph, called Joseph T., probably Joseph Terence, near Breaux Bridge in July 1848; Marie Marthe in Lafayette Parish in October 1849 but died at age 5 in October 1854; Cécilia born in c1850 but died at age 8 in December 1858; Laurent Vesparien or Despalière born in January 1852; Marie Marcelite in August 1854; Lucie in October 1856; Marie Cécile in April 1858; Étienne Henry in October 1859; and Simon in October 1862--13 children, eight daughter and five sons, between 1839 and 1862.  François Terence died in Lafayette Parish in September 1863.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Terence died "at age 40 yrs."  He was 47.  One wonders if his death was war-related.  His succession, under his full name, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in September 1864.  Daughters Alzina and Joséphine married into the Mouton and  Guidroy families by 1870.  Three of François Terence's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Pierre Gérard married Desilliènne, Desilliena, or Oesiliènne, daughter of Lessin Quebedeaux and Adoline Gary, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in May 1868.  Their son Terence le jeune was born in Lafayette Parish in December 1870; ...

Terence's second son Joseph T. married cousin Mathilde, daughter of fellow Acadians Rosémond Dugas and Amelie Martin, at the Vermilionville church in September 1869. ...

Terence's third son Laurent Despalière married Corinne, daughter of fellow Acadians Ursin Broussard and Euphémie Comeaux, at the Vermilionville church in May 1870. ...

Joseph's third son Pierre Serci, Tercy, Tersy, Fercy, or Furcy, also called Thearice, married Marie Louise, called Louise, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Guidry and Sélesie Savoie, at the Opelousas church in October 1840.  They settled near Grand Coteau.  Their children, born there, included Louisa Anna or Louisiana in November 1841; Marcellite in January 1843; Louis Adras in August 1844; and Élisabeth in June 1846--four children, three daughters and a son, between 1841 and 1846.  Pierre Furcy's successions were filed at the Opelousas courthouse in March 1849 and December 1850.  He would have been in his early 30s then.  Daughters Louisiana and Élizabeth married Higginbotham brothers by 1870.  Pierre Furcy's son did not marry by then. 

Joseph's sixth son Dosité Valentin or Valentin Dosité married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Antoine Guidry and Madeleine Potier, at the Grand Coteau church in January 1851.  They settled near Church Point, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Antoine died "at age a few days" in October 1851; Marie Laperle in November 1852; Marie Marcelite in May 1854; Marie Madeleine in June 1855; Valentin, fils born in November 1866; Pierre Albert in June 1870; ...  Daughter ... married into the David family by 1870.  None of Dosité Valentin's sons married by then. 

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Seven more Breaus--four wives, and a small family with two children--came to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français in 1765 but not with the Broussards.  From New Orleans, they went straight to the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above the city.  The young family head created a substantial family line there, but many of his descendants did not remain on what became known as the Acadian Coast: 

Athanase (c1735-?) à Jean à Vincent Breaux

Athanase, second son of Ambroise Breau and Marie-Anne Michel, born probably at Chepoudy in c1735, escaped the British roundup there in the fall of 1755 and followed his family into exile on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  By the late 1750s, he had taken refuge at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, where he married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Joseph LeBlanc and Isabelle Gaudet, in February 1760.  Soon after their marriage, they either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and sent to a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  British officials counted the couple at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, in August 1762.  Marie-Josèphe gave Athanase a son there, Joseph-Athanase, born in August 1762.  In 1764-65, they came to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français.  Their daughter Anastasie was born in July 1765 probably on the voyage to New Orleans.  They baptized her and son Joseph-Athanase, age 3, at St.-Louis church, New Orleans, on 2 December 1765, which gives an idea of when the family reached the colony.  They joined other exiles recently arrived from Nova Scotia at Cabahannocer.  In April 1766, Spanish officials counted the couple and their two children on the right, or west, bank of the river there.  In late July 1768, while attending church services, Athanase lost his home to fire.  The commandant at Cabahannocer, Louis Judice, implored Spanish Governor Ulloa to assist the family, but the governor refused.  The following October, the Acadians of Cabahannocer, perhaps with Athanase's approbation, helped ouster Ulloa in a Creole-led revolt.  In September 1769, Athanase and his family occupied lot number 22 on the west bank of the river at Cabahannocer next to his father-in-law.  They were still there eight years later.  Marie-Marguerite gave Athanase more children on the river, including Marie born at Cabahannocer in August 1769; Anne at nearby Ascension in May 1772; Hippolyte dit Paul baptized at Cabahannocer, age unrecorded, in January 1775; Jean-Baptiste baptized, age unrecorded, in June 1777; and Simon-Athanase, called Simonet, baptized, age unrecorded, in February 1780--seven children, four sons and three daughters, between 1762 and 1780, in greater Acadia and Louisiana.   Daughters Anastasie, Marie, and Anne married into the Bernard, Breaux, and Arceneaux families.  Athanase's sons also married, but not all of the lines endured.  His older sons joined their cousins on the western prairies, and his youngest son remained on the river.  Some of his grandsons helped create another center of Breaux family settlement in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley. 

Oldest son Joseph-Athanase followed his family to New Orleans and Cabahannocer, where he married Catherine dite Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Arceneaux and Anne Bergeron of Cabahannocer, in the early or mid-1780s.  Later in the decade, they joined his cousins in Attakapas and settled near Carencro at the northern edge of the district.  Their children, born on the river and the prairies, included Catherine-Julienne, called Julienne, at Cabahannocer in November 1786; Marie-Clémence at Attakapas in August 1789; Louis-Ursin, called Ursin, in c1791 but died at age 6 in September 1797; Marie-Euphrasie or -Euphrosine, baptized, age 2 months, in July 1795; Pierre-Rosémond, called Rosémond, born in November 1796; Marguerite-Josèphe, also called Marie Tarzile, in December 1798; Marie-Céleste or -Célestine, called Célestine, in November 1800; François-Hippolyte in January 1803; and a daughter, name unrecorded, died 26 days after her birth in July 1805--nine children, six daughters and three sons, between 1786 and 1805.  Joseph Athanase died in the recently-created Lafayette Parish in June 1823.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph was age 70 when he died.  He was closer to 60.  His succession, naming his widow, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in January 1824.  Her succession, acknowledging her widowhood, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in December 1825.  Daughters Julienne, Marie Clémence, Marie Euphrosine, Célestine, and Marguerite Joséphine/Marie Tarzile married into the Landry, Sonnier, Mouton, Comeaux, and Prejean families.  Only one of Joseph Athanase's sons married. 

Second son Pierre Rosémond, called Rosémond, married cousin Geneviève Caliste, Calixte, Céleste, or Eucarise, daughter of fellow Acadian Alexandre Arceneaux and his Creole wife Hélène Carmouche, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in February 1829.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included a child, name unrecorded, died a day after his/her birth in August 1830; Marie Élène born in 1831 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 8 1/2 months, in April 1832; Catherine Emérente born in January 1833; Rosalie in 1834 and baptized at age 6 months in February 1835; Calix Ofilia or Opelia baptized at age 8 months in November 1836 but died the following February; Pierre Numa, called Numa, born in February 1838; Rosémon or Rosémond Esdras, called Esdras, in February 1840; Marie Hélène, called Hélène, in September 1841; Marie Lodoisca in January 1844; Clémence Enesida in October 1845; and Maria Historia in October 1848--11 children, at least eight daughters and two sons, between 1830 and 1848.  Rosémond died in Lafayette Parish in May 1864.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Rosémond died "at age 68 yrs."  Pierre Rosémond would have been age 67, so this likely was him.  Was his death war-related?  His succession, calling his wife Catiste Arceneaux, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in September 1865.  According to a biographer of prominent southwest Louisianians, Pierre Rosémond "amassed a considerable fortune, and at the time of his death owned three thousand acres of land, a large amount of stock, and one hundred and twenty-five slaves," all of whom would soon be free.  Daughters Hélène, ...  married into the Bernard, Arceneaux, Broussard, Mouton, and Sonnier families.  Rosémond's younger son was killed during the War of 1861-65.  His older son, who also fought in the war, married before his Confederate service.  

Older son Numa attended school at Cape Girardeau, Missouri, for three years and, after returning home, served as a deputy clerk for four years.  At age 23, he married Marthe, also called Marthe C., daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Valsin Mouton and Carmélite Dugas, at the Vermilionville church in August 1861; Marthe's great-grandfather, Jean dit Chapeau Mouton, was the founder of Vermilionville; Numa's sister Clémence married Marthe's brother Alcide.  Numa and Marthe's son Jean Baptiste Esdras, called Esdras le jeune after his uncle who died in the war, was born in Lafayette Parish in March 1865; ...  During the war, Numa served in Company G and perhaps in Company A, of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  He may have served also in the 2nd Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, which fought in Louisiana.  After the war, Numa settled at Carencro, where he raised cattle.  By the early 1890s, he owned 350 acres of land three miles west of Carencro on which he grew cotton.  On his property were two mineral springs, "the only springs of the kind in the sector."  In the early 1890s, his home, "an old mansion of truly Southern architecture," was 150 years old.  He served as a police juror from his ward.  Son Esdras le jeune also became a planter in Lafayette Parish. 

According to the biographer who described Pierre Rosémond Breaux's post-war fortune, his "older" son William "was killed during war."  One wonders in which Louisiana unit William may have served.  The biographer may have been referring to Pierre Rosémond's younger son, who did die in the War of 1861-65.  Called Esdraze in Confederate service records, Rosémond Esdras, a resident of Lafayette Parish, still single, age 21, enlisted in Company C of the 8th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Martin Parish, in June 1861.  He was promoted to fifth sergeant and accompanied his unit to Virginia, where he served as one of General R. E. Lee's Louisiana Tigers.  In December 1862, for reasons the records do not state, Esdras was "reduced to the ranks."  He was killed in action on Marye's Heights, Fredericksburg, on 4 May 1863 during the Chancellorsville campaign, age 23, and buried in Virginia. 

A succession for Joseph Athanase's third and youngest son François-Hippolyte, giving no wife's name, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse, St. Landry Parish, in February 1845, and his estate record was filed the following month.  He would have been age 42 that year.  One wonders if he married. 

Athanase's second son Hippolyte dit Paul married Sophie-Adélaïde, called Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Dugas and Rose Babin, at Ascension upriver from Cabahannocer in June 1794.  Their children, born on the river, included Paul, also called William, Maximilien, and Émilien, at Cabahannocer in August 1795; Marie-Adélaïde-Célanie, called Célanie, in September 1797; an unnamed girl died at age 15 days in March 1799; Marie-Cedalise or -Cidalise or -Sidalise, called Cidalise, born in June 1800; Marie-Eugénie, called Eugénie, in May 1802; Joseph Treville, called Treville, at Ascension in June 1804; Marie Delphine in May 1806; Marie Aurore in June 1808; Charles Victorin, called Victorin, in January 1810; Marguerite Mélicère at St. James in April 1812 but died at age 13 (the recording priest, who called her Melicerte, said 16) in August 1825; Narcisse Hermogène, called Hermogène, born in March 1814; and Marie Mathilde, called Mathilde, in July 1816--a dozen children, four sons and eight daughters, between 1795 and 1816.  Hippolyte died a widower at his older brother Joseph Athanase's home in Lafayette Parish in June 1825.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said that Hippolyte was age 47 when he died.  He was closer to 50.  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following August.  Daughters Marie Adélaïde Célanie, Cidalise, Marie Delphine, Marie Eugénie, and Mathilde married into the LeBlanc, Landry, Prejean, and Chauvin families.  Hippolyte's sons also married.  His oldest son and some of his daughters remained on the river.  Two of his sons and a daughter settled on the western prairies, while a son and two daughters moved to Bayou Lafourche. 

Oldest son Paul, also called Maximilien, Émilien, and William, remained on the river and married Henriette, daughter of fellow Acadians Augustin LeBlanc and Marguerite Mire, at the St. James church, St. James Parish, in June 1815.  They settled near the boundary between St. James and Ascension parishes.  Their children, born there, included Paul Émile, called Émile, in May 1818; Paul Adolphe in September 1820; Pierre in May 1825; Pierre Azenore, called Azenore and perhaps Étienne in March 1828; Joseph Oscar, called Oscar, in April 1831; Marie Adolestine in April 1833; Ernest Augustin in May 1836; and Marguerite Arnistine in July 1839--eight children, six sons and two daughters, between 1818 and 1839.  Paul's daughters did not marry by 1870, but four of his sons did.  Two of them settled in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley, and two remained on the river. 

Oldest son Émile married Marie Virginie, called Virginie, also Eugénie, and perhaps Henriette, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Hébert and Marie Louise Gautreaux, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in May 1841.  They settled near Gonzales in Ascension Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie Armellia in March 1842 but, called Almeria, died the following July; Marie Elvonia or Elvenia, called Elvenia, born in May 1843; Marie Émilia or Émelia, called Émelia, in February 1845; Joseph Alcide in January 1848; Alceste Bernard in May 1850; Paul Alfred in June 1852; François Armand in July 1857; Louis Arthur in September 1860; Vincent Ernestus in August 1864; Marie Adine in January 1867; Jean Avit in June 1868; ...  Daughters Elvenia and Émelia married into the Eliser and Gautreaux families by 1870.  None of Émile's sons married by then. 

Paul's fourth son Pierre Azenore, who the recording clerk said was age 25, married Mathilde, 16-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Lucien Savoie and his Creole wife Marcelline Chauvin, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in January 1853, a few weeks after a daughter was born to them, and sanctified the marriage at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in January 1857.  They remained in Terrebonne Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie Louisa in January 1853; Marie Laura in September 1856; Joseph Erneste in June 1857; Désiré Albert in February 1860; Joseph Oscar in February 1862; Marie Ernestine near Montegut in January 1865; Joseph Ignès in March 1867; ...  None of Pierre Azenore's children married by 1870. 

Paul's fifth son Oscar married Mary, daughter of William Wilton and Marcelline Guidroz and widow of John Shaw, at the Lockport church, Lafourche Parish, in September 1867.  Daughter Marie was born near Lockport in October 1870; ...

Paul's sixth and youngest son Ernest Augustin married Clarice, daughter of fellow Acadians Trasimond Babin and Clarice Melançon, at the Gonzales church, Ascension Parish, in April 1870. ...

Hippolyte's second son Joseph Treville, called Treville, followed his parents to the western prairies and married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Baptiste Richard and Isabelle Cormier of St. Landry Parish, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in January 1830.  They remained on the prairies, settling probably near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Hyppolite or Hippolyte le jeune baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 7 1/2 months, in September 1831; Elmire, also called Marie Elmire, born in August 1833; and Onésime or Celisime Placide in December 1840--three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1831 and 1840.  Joseph Treville died probably at Carencro in May 1867.  The Grand Coteau priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Joseph Treville died "at age 69 yrs."  He was a month shy of 63.  Daughter Elmire married into the Hébert family.  Both of Treville's sons also married, to sisters, and settled on the prairies. 

Older son Hippolyte le jeune married Cidalise, also called Estalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Edmond Benoit and Marie Azenie Babineaux, at the Vermilionville church in July 1850.  Their children, born probably at Carencro, included Marie Emérida in July 1852; Joseph Hippolyte in December 1853 but died at age 2 1/2 in July 1856; Marie Eugénie born in May 1855; Marie Honora in September 1857; a child, name unrecorded, perhaps theirs, died "at age a few days" in November 1859; Onésime Hippolyte born in January 1861; Ferdinand in June 1864; ...  Daughter ... married into the Hébert family by 1870.  None of Hippolyte le jeune's sons married by then. 

Treville's younger son Onésime Placide married Marie Anastasie, called Anastasie, another daughter of Edmond Benoit and Marie Azénie Babineaux, at the Vermilionville church in August 1859.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included a daughter, name unrecorded, died at age 2 months in June 1861; Adam born in March 1863; twins Jules and Julien in March 1865, but Jules died the following October; Nasta born in December 1868; ... 

Hippolyte's third son Charles Victorin, called Victorin, evidently remained on the river, moved down to Lafourche, and married Marie Elvina, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Hébert and Clémence Robichaux, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in June 1833.  They remained on Bayou Lafourche.  Their children, born on the bayou, included Julie Célestine, called Célestine, in May 1837; Victor Alidor, called Alidor, in August 1844; Victoire probably in the 1840s; Onésime near Raceland, Lafourche Interior Parish, in February 1849; Marie Clémence in December 1853; and Hypolite in November 1855--six children, three daughters and three sons, between 1837 and 1855.  Daughters Célestine and Victoire married into the Bourgeois and Guidroz families by 1870.  One of Victorin's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Victor Alidor, called Alidor, married, at age 22, Zulema, daughter of Arsène Champagne and Léonise Falgout, at the Thibodaux church in August 1866.  Daughter Marie Ida was born near Raceland in August 1867; ...

Hippolyte's fourth and youngest son Narcisse Hermogène, called Hermogène, followed his parents to the western prairies and married Clémence, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Thibodeaux and Marie Louise Cormier, at Vermilionville church in October 1836.  They remained on the prairies and may have settled near his older brother at Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Narcisse Hyppolite or Hippolyte in August 1837 but died at age 3 in September 1840; Paul Auscar or Oscar, called Oscar, born in January 1841; Joachim in July 1842; Marie Louisa in February 1844; Charles in August 1845; Ignace in April 1847; Louis Edgard, called Edgard, in September 1849; and Lessin in February 1852--eight children, seven sons and a daughter, between 1837 and 1852.  Hermongène's daughter did not marry by 1870, but two of his sons did and remained on the prairies.

Second son Paul Oscar, called Oscar, married Émelie, daughter of fellow Acadians Onésime Babineaux and Julienne Benoit, at the Vermilionville church in April 1860.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included twins Julien and Juliènne in May 1861, but Juliènne died the following November.  Oscar's succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in December 1861.  He would have been age 20 that year.  One wonders if the succession was a post-mortem record and, if so, was his death war-related. 

Hermogène's fifth son Ignace married Alezina, daughter of Alexis Jagueneau or Jacquenot and his Acadian wife Joséphine Savoie, at the Vermilionville church in April 1866.  They settled probably near Carencro.  Their son Alexis Oscar was born in December 1868.  Wife Alezina died three days after their son's birth, age 21.  Ignace remarried to Azéma, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Savoie and his Creole wife Odilia Stout, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in August 1870, and sanctified the marriage at the Grand Coteau church in September. ...

Athanase's third son Jean-Baptiste married Marie-Henriette, called Henriette, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Blanchard and Marie Dupuis, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in August 1797.  In the early 1800s, they followed his older brother Joseph-Athanase to the Attakapas District and settled at Grande Pointe on upper Bayou Teche.  Jean-Baptitse and Henriette's children, born at Cabahannocer and on the prairies, included Marie-Tarsile in February 1798; Marie-Céleste November 1799; Marie-Constance in December 1801 but, called Constance, died at Attakapas, age 2 1/2, in February 1804; and Marie Anne born at Attakapas in March 1804 but died there the following September--four children, all daughters, between 1798 and 1804.  Jean-Baptiste died at Attakapas in December 1806, age 30.  Daughters Marie Tarsile and Marie Céleste married into the Prejean and Blaire families.  Jean-Baptiste evidently fathered no sons, so this line of the family, except for its blood, died with him.  

Athanase's fourth and youngest son Simon-Athanase dit Simonet married cousin Marie Constance, called Constance, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand Breaux and Madeleine Clouâtre, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in January 1799.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer/St. James, included Simon-Eugène, called Eugène, in August 1800; Joseph-Achille, called Achille, baptized, age 6 months, in November 1803; Marie Arthémise in June 1805 but, called Arthémise, died at age 2 in September 1807; and Simonet or Pierre Marcellin, called Marcellin, born posthumously in July 1807--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1800 and 1807.  Simon died in St. James Parish in April 1807, age 28.  Constance remarried to an Acadian Bernard at St. James in December 1809.  Her and Simonet's daughter did not survive childhood.  All of their sons married.  The oldest son moved to the western prairies, and the younger ones settled on Bayou Lafourche.  

Oldest son Simon Eugène, called Eugène, moved to the western prairies and married cousin Euphémie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Sonnier and Marie Clémence Breaux, at the Vermilionville church in May 1832.  They settled probably near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Pierre Ester, perhaps Esteve, in November 1833; Marie Clémence Estelle in late 1836 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in January 1837; Simonet Guardien baptized at age 3 months in August 1839 but, called Simonet, died at age 22 (the recording priest said 23) in September 1861 (one wonders if his death was war-related); Lucien Amédé born in March 1841; Joseph in the 1840s; Marcellin in March 1847; Cyprien Anteole, perhaps Anatole, also called Cyprien B., in September 1849; and Jean Eustache in March 1852--eight children, seven sons and a daughter, between 1833 and 1852.  Simon Eugène may have been the Eugène Breaux who died in Lafayette Parish in November 1859.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Eugène died "at age 50 yrs."  Simone Eugène would have been age age 59.  Daughters ... married into the Benoit and Crouchette families by 1870.  Three of Eugène's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Pierre Ester or Esteve may have married Oliva Begnaud, place and date unrecorded, and settled in Lafayette Parish by the late 1850s.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Marie Élodie in February 1858 but, called Ophelia, died at age 5 months in July; Marie Emethilde born in October 1859; Regina in August 1861; Joseph Simonet in February 1867; ... 

Eugène's fourth son Joseph married Élodie, daughter of fellow Acadians Placide Broussard and Aurelia Broussard, at the Vermilionville church in May 1866.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Placide in February 1867; Théophile in February 1870; ...

Eugène's sixth son Cyprien married Odèide or Odeile, daughter of fellow Acadians Ozémé Comeaux and Odoisea Prejean, at the Vermilionville church in November 1869. ...

Simonet's second son Joseph Achille, called Achille, married Marie Rosalie, called Rosalie, 17-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians François Dugas and Marie Clément, at the Thibodauxville church in January 1825.  They remained on Bayou Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Achille Neuville, called Neuville, in January 1826; Amédé or Amédéo Léo Simonatrelle in April 1828; Azéma Constance in c1829 or 1830 but died at age 18 in February 1848; Joseph Théophile, called Théophile, born in September 1833; Jean Baptiste Ailes or Ellis, called Ellis, Élie, and Heles in June 1836; Marie Victorine, called Victorine, in April 1839; Odile perhaps in the early 1840s; Joseph Augustin Molzi or Volzi, called Volzi and Volze, in March 1845; and Marie Zulima, called Zulima and Zulma, in October 1848--nine children, five sons and four daughters, between 1826 and 1848.  Achille died in Lafourche Parish in May 1867, age 64 (the recording priest said 65).  A "Petition for administration" in his name, listing his wife and surviving children--Neuville, Amadéo, Théophile, Ellis, Victorine and her husband, Odille and her husband, Volzie, and Zulema and her husband--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in August.  Daughters Victorine, Odile, and Zulima/Zulma married into the Newell, Thibodeaux, and Caillouet families by 1870.  His five sons also married by then and remained on Bayou Lafourche. 

Oldest son married Neuville married Eveline, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Pierre Guillot and Marie Irène Lejeune, at the Thibodaux church in August 1846.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Odilia, called Odilia, in December 1847; Marie Léontine Pauline in December 1849; Hélène Neuville in May 1852; Émile in July 1855; Marie Odik Eveline in May 1858; Marie Léa in November 1860 but, called Marie, died at age 4 months in March 1861; Luc Philippe Amadéo born in October 1862; Joseph Albert in February 1868 but died the following August; Joseph Adolphe born in July 1870; ...  Neuville was not listed as a surviving child in his father's "petition for administration" filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in August 1867, but, judging by the birthdates of his younger sons, he was still very much alive then.  Daughter Odilia married into the Engenaud family by 1870.  None of Neuville's sons married by then. 

Achille's second son Amédée married Marguerite, daughter of Michel Sevin and his Acadian wife Théotiste Hébert, at the Thibodaux church in July 1847.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Jean Baptiste le jeune in May 1848; Marie Lorenza or Laurenza Marguerite, called Laurenza, in July 1849; Félix Théodule in November 1850; Joseph Théophile Octave in April 1852; Marie Lidia in April 1856 but, called Lydia, died the following December; Marie born in December 1857 but, called Léocadie, died at age 3 in September 1860; Marie Émelina born in August 1859; Pierre Léopold in June 1861; and Léon Arthur in February 1866.  Amédée remarried to Desie, daughter of fellow Acadians Rosémond Boudreaux and Carmélite Landry and widow of Édouard Himel, at the Thibodaux church in October 1866.  They lived near the boundary between Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes.  Their children, born there, included Albert in September 1867; Martial Robert in June 1870; ...  Daughter Laurenza, by his first wife, married into the Himel family by 1870.  One of Amédée's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Jean Baptiste le jeune, by first wife Marguerite Sevin, married Adèle or Odile, another daughter of Rosémond Boudreaux and Carmélite Landry, at the Thibodaux church in February 1868; Adèle was Jean Baptiste's stepmother's sister, so she was his aunt by marriage.  Jean Baptiste and Adèle's son Dorville Gilbert was born in Lafourche Parish in January 1869; ... 

Achille's third son Théophile married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Trasimond Babin and Marie Estelle Hébert, at the Thibodaux church in October 1854.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joseph Alfred Denis in October 1855; Amanda Marie Evelina in Sepember 1857; Marie Alida in December 1859; Marie Stella Léocadie in February 1863; Félix in January 1866; Marie Rosalie in May 1868; ...  None of Théophile's children married by 1870. 

Achille's fourth son Jean Baptiste Éllis, called Ellis, married Eliska Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne LeBlanc and Azélie Bertrand, at the Lockport church, Lafourche Parish, in April 1863.  Their children, born on the lower bayou, included Joseph Anathole in January 1865; Marie Brigitte Alice in April 1866; Joseph Camille Hector in October 1867; Marie Louise in May 1869; Luc in August 1870; ...

Achille's fifth and youngest son Volzi married Louise, another daughter of Pierre Trasimond Babin and Marie Estelle Hébert, at the Thibodaux church in November 1866, but they may have been together for several years before they married.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Alphonse in c1863 but died age 1 in November 1864; Joseph Deny born in January 1868; Eve Émelie in June 1869; ... 

Simonet's third and youngest son Simonet or Pierre Marcellin, called Marcellin, married 18-year-old Azélie, another daughter of François Dugas and Marie Clément, at the Thibodauxville church in July 1830.  They lived on the river before returning to Bayou Lafourche.  Their children, born on the river and the Lafourche, included Jean Baptiste Arcène or Arsène in St. James Parish in June 1830, a month before his parents' wedding; Constance Emelina or Amelina, called Amelina, in Lafourche Interior Parish in April 1831; Octave Simonette,  also called Olivet Simonet, in April 1833; Aglaée Marie in August 1835; Joseph Hartur or Arthur Aurelien, called Aurelien, in December 1837; Annesse or Ernest Augustave in June 1840; Odille Anastasie in October 1843; Octavie Grassiela in November 1850; and Mary in the 1840s or 1850s--nine children, five daughters and four sons, between 1830 and the 1850s.  Marcellin died in Lafourche Parish in November 1870, age 63.  A petition for succession inventory in his name, naming his wife and listing his surviving children--Aurelien, Amelina and her husband, Octave, Aglaé and her husband, Ernest and his wife, Odile and her husband, Octavie and her husband, and Mary--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in December.  Daughters Amelina, Aglaé, Odile, and Octavie married into the Bernard, Clément, and Roger families, two of them to Clément brothers who also were their cousins, by 1870.  Three of Marcellin's sons also married by then and settled on Bayou Lafourche.

Oldest son Jean Baptiste Arsène does not appear as a surviving child in his father's succession, dated December 1870, when Jean Baptiste Arsène would have been age 40.  If he did not die young, did he marry? 

Marcellin's second son Octave or Olivet Simonet married Irma, daughter of Charles Portier and Adèle Berlin, at the Thibodaux church in October 1853.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Constance Melchiora in May 1856; Melchior Simonette in August 1858; Louis Clodin in August 1861; Oleus Hector in November 1865; ...  None of Octave/Olivet's children married by 1870. 

Marcellin's third son Aurelien married Ernestine, daughter of fellow Acadian Valéry Roger and his Creole wife Célanise Webre, at the Thibodaux church in May 1860.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Léontia Anastasie in March 1861; Charles Aurelien in November 1862; Jacques Henri in December 1865; twins Cora and Corine in April 1867; Adrianne in September 1868; Sidonie Célanie in August 1869; ... 

Marcellin's fourth and youngest son Ernest Augustave married Virginie, daughter of fellow Acadians Élie Landry and Rosalie Boudreaux, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1862; the marriage also was recorded in Lafourche Parish.  They lived on the upper bayou near the boundary between Assumption and Lafourche parishes.  Their children, born there, included Augustave in November 1862; and Marie Virginie in April 1864.  Ernest Augustave may have died in Lafourche Parish in January 1867.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife said that Ernest, as he called him, died "at age 30 yrs."  Ernest Augustave would have been 26. 

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In September 1766, eight more Breaus came to Louisiana, from Baltimore via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, as part of the first contingent of Acadian exiles from Maryland.  Three of them created families on the Acadian Coast, but one of the lines did not endure.  This first contingent of Maryland émigrés also helped create new Breaux family lines on the western prairies: 

Jean-Baptiste (c1725-?) à Antoine à Vincent Breaux

Jean-Baptiste, called Baptiste, second son of Alexandre Breau and Marie Dugas, born at Pigiguit in c1725, married Élisabeth Henry probably at Pigiguit in the late 1730s.  Élisabeth gave Baptiste at least two children there:  Félix born in c1739; and Marguerite in c1747.  Baptiste remarried to Marie-Rose, called Rose, Landry probably at Pigiguit in the late 1740s.  Rose gave Baptiste four more children there:  Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, born in c1749; Jean in c1751; Amand in c1753; and Anne in c1754.  Except for oldest son Félix, who evidently had moved on to the French Maritimes and was deported to France in late 1758, the British deported Jean-Baptiste and his family to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  Rose gave Baptiste two more daughters in the Chesapeake colony:  Esther born in c1759; and Marie, date unknown--eight children, three sons and five daughters, by two wives, between 1739 and the late 1750s or early 1760s, in greater Acadia and Maryland.  In July 1763, Baptiste, Rose, and seven of their children were living at Oxford on Maryland's Eastern Shore.  Baptiste, Rose, and six of their children, four daughters and two sons (not Félix or Marie), reached New Orleans from Maryland in September 1766.  They settled on the left, or east, bank of the river near the lower boundary of Cabahannocer.  Rose gave him no more children in the colony.  Daughters Marguerite, Madeleine, Anne, and Esther, from both wives, married into the Breaux and Broussard families, three of them to Breauxs, two of them to Breaux first cousins.  Only the younger of Jean-Baptiste's two sons in Louisiana married.  Jean-Baptiste, his two sons, and two of his daughters remained on the river, where the younger son created his own family, but two of his daughters moved to the western prairies in the 1770s.  The agnatic line of the family did not endure beyond the third generation, so only the blood of this family line remained in the Bayou State.  One wonders if Baptiste's family line endured in France through his oldest son. 

Oldest son Félix, by first wife Élisabeth Henry, evidently moved on to the French Maritimes before 1755, when he would have been age 16, and was deported to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  There, he became a sailor.  In December 1759, he shipped out on the privateer Duc de Choiseul and was back in port by late January 1760, when, at age 21, he married a local girl, 19-year-old Perrine, daughter of Joseph Thomas and Josseline Hyacinthe, in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  Félix was soon back at sea, was captured by the Royal Navy, and held as a prisoner of war in England until May 1763.  He returned to his wife at St.-Servan, and she gave him four children there:  Perrine-Julienne born in April 1764; Félix-Mathurin in November 1770; Mathurin-Marin in November 1772; and Joseph-Pierre in March 1774.  During that time, Félix was at sea aboard L'Aigle in 1765 and 1766, which took him with other Acadians from France to the îles Malouines, today's Falkland Islands, but he did not settle with them there.  In 1774, back at St.-Servan, he turned landward and took his family to the interior of Poitou with hundreds of other exiles languishing in the coastal cities.  Like most of his fellow Acadians, Félix and his  family did not remain.  In November 1775, with other Poitou Acadians, they retreated down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes, where Félix likely resumed the life of a sailor.  Perrine gave him three more daughters at nearby Chantenay:  Françoise-Perrine born in January 1776 but died at age 10 months the following November; Marie-Henriette born in October 1777 but died at age 1 1/2 in March 1779; and Marie-Thérèse in c1779 but died at St.-Servan-sur-Mer in September 1781--seven children, four daughters and three sons, between 1764 and 1779.  As the death of their youngest daughter reveals, the family returned to St.-Servan by September 1781, and Félix likely remained a sailor.  When most of the Acadians still living in France emigrated to Louisiana in 1785, Félix, despite having close family in the Spanish colony, chose to remain in the mother country.

Baptiste's second son Jean, by second wife Marie-Rose Landry, followed his family to Maryland, New Orleans, and Cabahannocer.  In March 1777, Spanish officials found him upriver at San Gabriel, still on the east bank, still a bachelor, living alone.  The census taker noted that Jean owned 12 head of cattle, eight hogs, and 18 fowl on six arpents of land, so he was doing well for himself.  He evidently did not marry. 

Baptiste's third and youngest son Amand, by second wife Marie-Rose Landry, followed his family to Maryland, New Orleans, and Cabahannocer, where he married cousin Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Georges Clouâtre and Blanche Breau, in July 1779.  Amand and Madeleine lived on the river near the boundary of the Cabahannocer and Ascension districts.  Their children, born there, included Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, in c1780; Marie-Anne at Ascension in January 1781; Constance in the early 1780s; Joseph in July 1788; Marie, perhaps Marie-Modeste, called Modeste, in November 1790; and Scholastique in the early 1790s.  Amand, at age 49, remarried to Céleste, also called Colastie, daughter of fellow Acadians Anselme Landry and Osite Landry and widow of Alain Babin, at Ascension in July 1802.  Their children, born on the river, included Marie Louise in c1802; and Jean Pierre Émile in September 1804--eight children, six daughters and two sons, by two wives, between 1781 and 1804.  Amand died in St. James Parish in August 1807.  The priest who recorded the burial said Amand was age 50 when he died.  He was closer to 53.  Daughters Marie Madeleine, Constance, Scholastique, Modeste, and Marie Louise, by both wives, married into the Landry, Mollère, Breaux, Bernard, LeBlanc, and Bourgeois families, one of them, Modeste, to two Landry brothers, and another one, Scholastique, settled on the western prairies.  One of Amand's sons also married, but the line did not endure.

Older son Joseph, by first wife Madeleine Clouâtre, married Clémence, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Bergeron dit d'Amboise, fils and Marie Foret, at the St. James church, St. James Parish, in May 1811.  Joseph died in St. James Parish in January 1812, age 24.  He evidently fathered no children, so his family line, including that of his father and paternal grandfather, at least in Louisiana, except for its blood, probably died with him.  

Pierre, fils (c1740-?) à Pierre à Vincent Breaux

Pierre, fils, son of Pierre Breau le jeune and Marie-Josèphe Dupuis, born probably at Minas in c1740, was deported to Maryland in the fall of 1755 when the rest of his family was sent to Massachusetts.  Pierre, fils married fellow Acadian Marie-Marguerite LeBlanc in Maryland in the early 1760s.  She gave him a daughter, Marie, born before July 1763, when they appeared on a repatriation list at Annapolis.  The following year, Marie-Marguerite gave Pierre, fils a son, Paul, born at Baltimore.  One wonders if the birth of their son contributed to Marie-Marguerite's early death.  Pierre, fils came to Louisiana as a widower with his 2-year-old son probably in September 1766.  His daughter Marie, who would have been age 5, likely had died by then.  Pierre remarried to Brigitte, also called Thérèse, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Forest and Marie Lejeune, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in January 1776.  The following January, Spanish officials counted them on the left, or east, bank of the river there.  Strangely, son Paul, who would have been age 13 that year and who lived to the age of 45, was not with them; he perhaps was serving as a young engagé, or hired hand, with another family in the area and was not counted with his family in the January 1777 census.  Brigitte gave Pierre, fils more children on the Acadian Coast, including Marie-Charlotte baptized at Cabahannocer, age unrecorded, in January 1777; Luce-Henriette baptized, age unrecorded, in 1779; Pierre III baptized, age unrecorded, in January 1781; Olivier born in c1783; Alexandre-Joseph or Joseph-Alexandre in December 1784; Jean baptized at Ascension, age unrecorded, in May 1788; Madeleine born in the early 1790s; Marcellite in the early 1790s; and Rosalie-Justine born in July 1794--11 children, six daughters and five sons, by two wives, between the early 1760s and 1794, in Maryland and Louisiana.  Daughters Luce Henriette, Madeleine, Marcellite, and Rosalie Justine, by his second wife, married into the Lavergne, Bertrand, Breaux, and Landry families.  Four of Pierre, fils's sons also married, but not all of the lines endured.  They, too, favored Acadian spouses.  Two of them married three times, and one married four times.  Two of Pierre, fils's grandsons resettled on the western prairies.  

Oldest son Paul, by first wife Marie-Marguerite LeBlanc, followed his widowed father to New Orleans and Cabahannocer.  Paul married Marguerite-Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Landry and Marguerite Boudreaux and widow of Firmin Guidry, at nearby Ascension in January 1801.  Twin sons Cornelius dit Landry and François-Magloire, called Magloire, were born at Ascension in August 1801.  Paul died in Ascension Parish in January 1809, age 45.  His twin sons married and settled in what became Lafayette Parish. 

Cornelius dit Landry, probably after he came of age, crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to the western prairies and married Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Leger and Marguerite Boutin of La Butte, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in February 1820.  They remained on the prairies, settling probably near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Éliza in November 1820; Célestine Olive in October 1822; and Drossain or Drosin in September 1824--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1820 and 1824.  A succession for Evariste Breaux married to Célestine Leger was filed at the Opelousas courthouse, St. Landry Parish, in February 1848.  Was this Cornelius dit Landry?  If so, he who would have been age 47 at the time.  Daughter Célestine Oliver married into the Navarre family.  Landry's son also married. 

Only son Drosin married Orephine or Alphina, 14-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre dit Canada Guidry and his second wife Juliènne Sonnier, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in April 1843.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included perhaps Julimond in the 1840s.  Drosin may have remarried to Marie Benoit, probably a fellow Acadian, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in May 1851.  Son Élisée was born near Grand Coteau in July 1854.  Daughter Julimond, by his first wife, married into the St. Julien family by 1870.  Drosin's son did not marry by then. 

François Magloire, called Magloire, followed his twin brother Landry to the western prairies and married fellow Louise, daughter perhaps of Nicolas dit Colas Hébert and his Creole wife Louise Bonin, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in October 1825.  They remained on the prairies, settling probably near his brother at Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Anatalie or Natalie baptized "about 2 mths." in October 1826 but died at age 1 in May 1827; and Paul le jeune born in 1827, "private baptized, but died at age 2 months in January 1828.  Wife Louise may have died in childbirth.  Magloire remarried to Irène, also called Erènne and Urène, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Bourque and Marguerite Richard, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in September 1828.  Their children, born probably at Carencro, included Marie Uranie in August 1829 but died the following January; Paul le jeune, the second with the name, born in December 1830; Azélia in February 1832; Jean Portalis, called Portalis, in August 1833; Sosthène in December 1834; Lucien in March 1840; and Marguerite Eugénie in July 1841.  Magloire remarried again--his third marriage--to Mélanie or Uranie Miller in the mid- or late 1840s.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included François, fils in September 1848; and Clima in February 1850--11 children, five daughters and six sons, by three wives, between 1826 and 1850.  Daughters ..., by his second and third wives, married into the Thibodeaux and Suire families by 1870.  Five of Magloire's sons also married by then. 

Second son Paul, by second wife Irène Bourque, married Alexandrine, daughter of Louis Clément, a French Creole, not a fellow Acadian, and his German-Creole wife Marie-Anne Stelly and widow of John Hanks, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in September 1860, and sanctified the marriage at the Church Point church, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in May 1866. ...

François Magloire's third son Jean Portalis, called Portalis, from second wife Irène Bourque, married Aurelia, daughter of Jean Baptiste Istre and his Acadian wife Marguerite Villejoin, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in August 1851, and sanctified the marriage at the Grand Coteau church in February 1859.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Marguerite in December 1852; Ivodée in Lafayette Parish in August 1855; Eugénie in October 1856; Marie Olina in May 1859; and Clémile near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in April 1863.  Portalis remarried to fellow Acadian Félica Thibodeaux in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in April 1867, and sanctified the marriage at the Church Point church in September 1869.  Their children, born near Church Point, included Théomile in April 1868; O'Neil in December 1869; ...  Daughter ..., by his first wife, married into the Mayers or Myers family by 1870.  None of Portalis's sons married by then. 

François Magloire's fourth son Sosthène, by second wife Irène Bourque, may have married Laure or Laura Blanchard, probably a fellow Acadian, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in June 1854, and sanctified the marriage at the Grand Coteau church in May 1857.  They evidently settled on the prairies west of the Mermentau River.  Their children, born there, included Eve Amélie in December 1856; Amédé "in Calcasieu" in June 1859; Marie Clevena in September 1861; ... 

François Magloire's fifth son Lucien, by second wife Irène Bourque, married fellow Acadian Joséphine Thibodeaux, widow of Joseph Lafosse, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in September 1867.  They settled near Church Point on upper Bayou Plaquemine Brûlé. ...

François Magloire's sixth and youngest son François, fils, by third wife Uranie Miller, married Eléonore, called Léonore, daughter of John Mayer and his Acadian wife Cécile Lejeune, at the Church Point church in October 1870. ...

Pierre, fils's second son Pierre III, by second wife Brigitte Forest, married Bathilde, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Landry and Marie Babin, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in April 1808.  They settled on the river near the boundary between Iberville and Ascension parishes.  Their children, born there, included Brigitte Bathilde, called Bathilde, baptized at the Donaldson church, age 3 months, in June 1809; and Pierre Adolphe, called Adolphe, born in January 1811.  Pierre III remarried to Héloise dite Lise, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Landry and Madeleine Babin, at the St. Gabriel church in July 1814.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Paul Olivier, called Olivier le jeune, in June 1815; and a son, name unrecorded, died at age 3 months in December 1816.  Pierre III remarried again--his third marriage--to Modeste, daughter of Martin Humbot and Geneviève Carrière, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in April 1824.  She evidently gave him no more children.  At age 49, Pierre III remarried yet again--his fourth marriage!--to Françoise Euphrasie, called Euphrasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Simon Landry and Marguerite Babin, at the Donaldsonville church in May 1830.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Marie, perhaps also called Élise, in October 1831; Marie Odalie in February 1834; and Abel in March 1836--seven children, three daughters and four sons, by three of his four wives, between 1809 and 1836.  Pierre III died in Ascension Parish in October 1839, age 58.  Daughters Bathilde and Élise, by his first and fourth wives, married into the Collet and Frederic families.  Three of Pierre III's sons also married and settled on the river. 

Oldest son Pierre Adolphe, called Adolphe, by first wife Bathilde Landry, married cousin Elvina, Elvanie, or Helvina, daughter of fellow Acadians Adélard Babin and Lise Melançon, at the Donaldsonville church in May 1841.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Pierre Seth in April 1842; Marie Lilia or Lylia, called Lylia, in November 1844; Pierre Ernest in August 1847; and Marie Louise in August 1849 but, called Élisa, died near Gonzales, age 14 1/2, in December 1863.  Adolphe remarried to Eugénie Carmélite, called Carmélite, daughter of Jean Henry Huguet and his Acadian wife Madeleine Savoie, at the Donaldsonville church in September 1853.  They settled near Gonzales in the interior of Ascension Parish.  Their children, born there, included Pierre in June 1854; Pierre Lucien in July 1856; Marie Rosella in August 1858 but died near Gonzales, age 5 1/2, in January 1864; Rosalie Darlite born in August 1861; Eve Aline in March 1865; ...  Daughter Lylia, by his first wife, married into the Gautreaux family by 1870.  None of Adolphe's sons married by then. 

Pierre III's second son Paul Olivier, called Olivier le jeune, from second wife Héloise Landry, married first cousin Madeleine Élisabeth, called Élisabeth and Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Joseph Breaux and his third wife Martine Thériot, his uncle and aunt, at the Donaldsonville church in March 1840; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Anne Sara in February 1841 but, called Sara, died at age 14 1/2 in October 1855; Marie Nisida born in May 1842 but, called Nizida, died at age 13 1/2 in September 1855; Martine Élise born in March 1844; Marguerite Natalie in January 1846 but, called Nathalie, died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 2) in December 1847; Pierre Alexandre born in April 1848 but, called Alexandre, may have died at age 7 1/2 (the recording priest said 8) in October 1855; Antoine Louis born in July 1850 but, called Louis Antoine, died at age 4 in July 1854; Jose Zacarias Emilio born in November 1852; Pierre in c1854 but died at age 18 months in February 1856; and Vincent Félix born in May 1855--nine children, four daughters and five sons, between 1841 and 1855.  Olivier le jeune died in Ascension Parish in September 1855, age 40.  None of his remaining children married by 1870. 

Pierre III's fourth and youngest son Abel, by fourth wife Françoise-Euphrasie Landry, married cousin Céleste Clothilde, daughter of François Denoux and his Acadian wife Clothilde Babin, at the Donaldsonville church in March 1856; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  They settled near Gonzales.  Their children, born there, included Pierre Rupert in March 1857; Joseph Olivier in February 1859; Zénon Alzide, perhaps their son, in January 1860; Céleste Eve in December 1862; Félicité Estelle in December 1864; Marie Lilia in July 1866; Clothilde Elonia in January 1868; ...  

Pierre, fils's third son Olivier, by second wife Brigitte Forest, married Célestine, daughter of fellow Acadian Anselme Landry, probably at Cabahannocer/St. James early in the 1800s.  Their daughter Marie-Cléonie was born at Cabahannocer in January 1803.  Olivier remarried to cousin Héloise, also called Éloise, Élise, and Lise, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Breaux and Anne Guidry, at St. Gabriel above St. James in January 1807.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Pierre Eugène, called Eugène, in December 1807; Brigitte Arthémise in November 1809; Marie Eléonore, called Eléonore, in November 1811; Rose Mélanie in December 1814; Marie Marthe in c1816 but died at age 7 in August 1823; and Marie Zélanie, called Célanie (who the recording priest called a son), born in September 1817.  Olivier remarried again--his third marriage--to Félicité, also called Phillis, daughter of Louis Parent and Monique Saint Eustache, at the St. Gabriel church in July 1820.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Pierre Paul in June 1821; and Marie Rosalie or Rosaline, called Rosaline, posthumously in September 1823--nine children, seven daughters and two sons, by three wives, between 1803 and 1823.  Olivier died near St. Gabriel in August 1823.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parent's names or mention a wife, said that Olivier died at "age 40."  Daughters Eléonore, Célanie, and Rosaline, by his second and third wives, married into the Lavergne, Babin, Richard, and Dupuy families.  Olivier's sons also married and settled on the river. 

Older son Pierre Eugène, called Eugène, by second wife Héloise Breaux, married Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Marcellin LeBlanc and Arthémise Landry, at the Donaldsonville church in April 1837.  They settled on the river near the boundary between Ascension and Iberville parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie Lisida or Nezida, called Nezida and Nizida, in February 1838; Marie Coline in January 1840 but, called Corine, died at age 15 1/2 (the recording priest said 17) in October 1855; Pierre born in February 1842 but died the following May; Pierre Eugène le jeune born in 1843 but died at age 8 months in January 1844; and Adam born in March 1845--five children, two daughters and three sons, between 1838 and 1845.  Eugène died in Iberville Parish in December 1845, age 38.  Daughters Nizida, ... married into the Babin, Dupuy, and Poché families by 1870.  Eugène's remaining son also married by then and settled on the river. 

Third and youngest son Adam married Euphrasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Siméon Gautreaux and Marie Bourg, at the Gonzales church, Ascension Parish, in January 1870. ...

Olivier's younger son Pierre Paul, by third wife Félicité Parent, married Victorine, daughter of Sylvain Drosin Lavergne and his Acadian wife Cléonise Landry, at the St. Gabriel church in May 1843.  She evidently gave him no children.  Pierre Paul remarried to Amelie or Émilie, also called Aurelie, daughter of Oliver Valsin Lavergne and his Acadian wife Carmélite Gaudin, at the St. Gabriel church in January 1845; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of affinity in order to marry.  They settled on the river near the boundary between Iberville and Ascension parishes.  Their children, born there, included Paul Elphége in December 1845; Marie Elvire in September 1848; Pierre Enos in February 1852; Ange in October 1854; Marguerite Élodie in August 1856; Madeleine in April 1858; and Olivier Edgar in February 1860.  At age 41, Pierre Paul remarried again--his third marriage--to Marie Telvina or Celvina, daughter of Célestin Kling and Justine Descoteaux, at the St. Gabriel church in August 1862.  They settled near Gonzales.  Their children, born there, included Marie Ema in November 1863; Marie Aimée in June 1865; Marie Estelle in April 1867; Pierre Edmond in September 1869; ...  None of Pierre Paul's daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did. 

Oldest son Paul Elphége, by second wife Amelie Lavergne, married cousin Élisabeth Pamela, called Pamela, daughter of fellow Acadians Valentin Babin and Serasine Breaux, at the Gonzales church in November 1866.  Their son Paul Elphége, fils was born near Gonzales in December 1867; ... 

Pierre, fils's fourth son Alexandre Joseph or Joseph Alexandre, by second wife Brigitte Forest, married, at age 22, Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Sylvain LeBlanc and Marie Josèphe Babin, at the Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, in May 1807.  She evidently gave Alexandre Joseph no children.  At age 27, Alexandre Joseph remarried to Marguerite Delise, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Marie Richard and Rose Bourgeois and widow of Simon Breaux, at the Donaldson church in November 1811.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Marie Antoinette in August 1812; a second Marie Antoinette in July 1815; and Alexandre Victorin, called Victorin, in January 1818.  Alexandre, at age 36, remarried again--his third marriage--to cousin Martine, 35-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Terriot and Marie Aucoin, at the Donaldson church in January 1821; they had to secure a dispensation for fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Despite her age, this was Martine's only marriage.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Marie Madeleine in December 1821; Élisabeth probably in the 1820s; Marie Adine in June 1824; and Marie Rosela in October 1827--seven children, six daughters and a son, by two of his wives, between 1812 and 1827.  Alexandre died in Ascension Parish in December 1850, age 66 (the recording priest said 65).  Martine did not remarry.  Daughters Marie Antoinette, Élisabeth, Marie Rosela, and Marie Adine, by his second and third wives, married into the Babin, Breaux, Landry, and Bouchereau families.  Alexandre's son also married and settled on the river, but his family line may not have endured. 

Only son Alexandre Victorin, called Victorin, from second wife Marguerite Delise Richard, married Sarah Anne, daughter of ___ Aldridge and Mary Norris of New Orleans, at the Donaldsonville church in September 1842.  Victorin died in Ascension Parish in July 1869, age 51 (the recording priest said 52).  One wonders if he fathered any children. 

Paul (c1745-1795) à ? à Vincent Breaux

Paul, son of ____ Breau and Élisabeth ____, born probably at Pigiguit in c1745, was deported with his family to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  He was living with a sister and his widowed mother, who was called Élizabeth Braux, at Port Tobacco on the lower Potomac in July 1763.  Paul seems to have come to Louisiana alone in September 1766.  Three years later, Spanish officials counted him on lot number 151 on the left, or east, bank of the river at Cabahannocer; he was still a bachelor.  He married fellow Acadian Marie-Marthe LeBlanc, widow of Canadian Jacques Lachaussé, at either Cabahannocer or nearby Ascension in c1770.  They settled at Ascension, where they were counted on the left bank of the river in January 1777.  Their children, born there, included Jérôme-Ramon or -Raymond, called Raymond, baptized, age unrecorded, in August 1771; Anselme-Simon, called Simon, born in April 1773; Marie-Madeleine in January 1775; Étienne in November 1776; Hippolyte-Amand in July 1778 but died at age 2 in September 1780; Pierre-Anselme born in April 1780 but died at age 5 months the following September; and Marie-Henriette baptized, age unrecorded, in September 1781 but died at age 1 in September 1782.  Paul, in his late 30s, remarried to Élisabeth, or Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Antoine Babin and Catherine Landry of Pigiguit, at Ascension in December 1782.  She gave him more children there, including Marie-Marguerite baptized, age unrecorded, in December 1783; another Henriette, also called Henriette-Anaclete, born in the early 1780s; Anaclet in July 1785; Charles baptized, age unrecorded, in March 1787 but died at age 22 in November 1809; Pierre-Valentine baptized, age unrecorded, in October 1788 but died at age 2 1/2 in August 1791; Victor born in July 1790 but died at age 1 in August 1791; Joseph-Grégoire born in February 1792; Laurent in August 1793; and Marie-Arthémise posthumously in April 1795 but died the following September--16 children, 11 sons and five daughters, by two wives, between 1771 and 1795.  Paul died at Ascension in January 1795, age 50.  Daughters Marie-Madeleine and Henriette, by both wives, married into the Landry and Richard families.  Less than half of Paul's many sons married, and not all of the lines endured.  His married sons and their sons who married remained on the river.

Oldest son Jérôme-Raymond, called Raymond and Rosemond, by first wife Marie-Marthe LeBlanc, married Anne-Rosalie-Anastasie or Anastasie-Rosalie, called Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Mathurin Landry and Anne Landry, at Ascension in August 1792.  Their children, born there, included Sabin-Rosémond, called Rosémond, in February 1793; Simon-Nabor or -Nabord, also called Nabor-Simon, in July 1796; Marthe, perhaps also called Arthémise, in October 1798; Étienne-Anaclet, called Anaclet, in July 1801; Constance in October 1803; Marie Apolline or Aspasie, called Aspasie, in January 1806; Euphémie Adèle or Delia in November 1808; and Adélard Joseph or Joseph Adélard, in January 1811--eight children, four sons and four daughters, between 1793 and 1811.  Raymond died in Ascension Parish in September 1829.  The Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial, and who gave no parents' names or mentioned a wife, said that Raymond died at "age 60 yrs.."  He was closer to age 58.  Daughters Arthémise, Marie Aspasie, and Euphémie Delia married into the Comes, Theriot, and LeBlanc families, two of them on the same day at the same place.  Three of Raymond's sons also married. 

Second son Simon Nabor or Nabord, also called Nabor Simon, married Marie Arthémise, called Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph LeBlanc and Anne Marthe Blanchard, at the Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, in February 1817.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Séverin Édouard in November 1817; a daughter in c1820 but, name unrecorded, died at age 3 in August 1823; Marie Virginie born in April 1821; Rosalie Irma in December 1822; Marthe Anaïs, called Anaïse, in August 1825; Joseph Adélard le jeune in September 1827; Marie Evelina in July 1830; Élisabeth Estelle, called Estelle, in August 1832; Simon Philippe in March 1835 but, called Philippe, died at age 27 (the recording priest said 26) in March 1862 (one wonders if his death was war-related); Marie Cécile Corine, called Marie Corine, born in November 1838; and Jean Gustave in January 1842 but, called Jean Baptiste Augustave, died at age 1 1/2 in July 1843--11 children, four sons and seven daughters, between 1817 and 1842.  Nabor died in Ascension Parish in October 1857, age 61 (the recording priest said 60).  Daughters Anaïse, Marie Evelina, Rosalie Irma, Estelle, and Marie Corine married into the St. Cyr, Bourdier, Fortier, and Comes families.  Nabor's remaining sons also married and settled on the river.

Oldest son Séverin Édouard married Ursule Élise or Elisca, daughter of Pierre St. Cyr and Zoraïde Maurousse, at the Donaldsonville church in February 1842; Séverin's sister Anaïs married Ursule's brother Joseph.  Séverin and Ursule's children, born in Ascension Parish, included Joseph Numa in April 1843; Ambroise Nestan in December 1845 but, called Lestang, died at age 18 months in June 1847; Simon Amédé born in February 1848; Marie Eliska in January 1850 but, called Eliska, died at age 15 months in May 1851; Séverin René born in July 1853; and Marie Euphémie in January 1857--six children, four sons and two daughters, between 1843 and 1857.  At age 52, Séverin Édouard remarried to Mary, daughter of Thomas Wall and Ellen Mellia, at the Donaldsonville church in April 1869.  None of his children married by 1870.  One of them served in the Donaldsonville Artillery during the War of 1861-65.

Oldest son Joseph Numa, with cousin Pierre Sabin Breaux, served in the Donaldsonville Artillery, raised in Ascension Parish, which fought in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania--one of General R. E. Lee's Louisiana Tigers.  He survived the war and returned to his family but did not marry by 1870. 

Nabor's second son Joseph Adélard le jeune, called Adélard, married Anne, daughter of John Fallon and Margaret Hewett, at the Donaldsonville church in June 1853.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Jean Vincent Nabor in May 1854 but died at age 8 months in February 1855; Marie Arthémise died, "age omitted," in December 1855; Joseph Arthur born in July 1857 but, called Joseph Artur, died 6 weeks later; Joseph Anathole died at age 5 days in November 1858; François Henri born in October 1859; Marie Luce in December 1861 but, called Luce, died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 8 months) in August 1863; Marie Marthe Lucille in February 1864; ...  None of Adélard le jeune's children married by 1870. 

Raymond's third son Étienne Anaclet, called Anaclet, married cousin Apolline dite Pauline, daughter of fellow Acadian Bénoni Landry and his Creole wife Marie Jeanne Chauvin, at the Donaldson church in March 1821.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included a daughter, name unrecorded, died at age seven days in November 1822; Joseph Marillo or Maurille born in September 1826; Marie in March 1828; Norbert Adolphe in December 1829 but died at age 1 month in January 1830; Jean René born in July 1831 but died at age 21 (the recording priest said 23) in March 1853; André Reymond or Raymond, called Raymond, born in November 1833 but died the day after his birth; Jules Joseph born in June 1837 but died at age 2 in June 1839; Virginie Anastasie born in June 1835; Pierre Étienne Félix, called Étienne Félix, in April 1839; Marie Joséphine Eugénie in August 1841 but, called Eugénie, may have died at age 29 in August 1870; an infant, name unrecorded, perhaps theirs, died the day of his/her birth in June 1843; Jérôme Arthur born in October 1844 but, called Gérôme Artur, died the following April; Marie Matilde, probably theirs, born in June 1846; and Julienne Antoinia in June 1850 but, called Antoinia, died at age 2 in May 1852--14 children, at least six daughters and seven sons, between 1822 and 1850.  Étienne Anaclet died in Ascension Parish in August 1864, age 63.  Was his death war-related?  Daughter Virginie Anastasie married into the Leroy family by 1870.  Two of Anaclet's sons also married by then and settled on the river.

Oldest son Joseph Maurille married Émelie, daughter of Zénon Blouin and his Acadian wife Émilie LeBlanc, at the Donaldsonville church in November 1853. ...

Anaclet's sixth son Étienne Félix, called Félix, married Glorvia or Glorvina, daughter of Foreign Frenchman Martial Capburn, Capber, or Cabern and his Acadian wife Célestine Gaudet, at the Donaldsonville church in November 1866.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Marie Ema in November 1867 but, called Emma, died at age 18 months in May 1869; Marie Angèle born in October 1869; ...

Raymond's fourth and youngest son Adélard Joseph or Joseph Adélard, became "a commission merchant of marble statuary for churches."  At age 27, he married cousin Marie Henriette, called Henriette, daughter of fellow Acadians Narcisse Landry and Henriette Blanchard, at the Donaldsonville church in May 1838.  Their children, born on the river, included Paul Adolphe in Ascension Parish in April 1839; Pierre Sabin at New Orleans in October 1840; and Marie Odile in Ascension Parish in October 1846--three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1839 and 1846.  Joseph Adélard died in Ascension Parish in November 1858.  The Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife said that Adélard, as he called him, died at "age 47 years," so this was him.   None of Joseph Adélard's children married by 1870.  One of them served with a cousin in the Donaldsonville Artillery during the war.

Second son Pierre Sabin, with cousin Joseph Numa Breaux, served in the Donaldsonville Artillery, raised in Ascension Parish, which fought in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania--one of General R. E. Lee's Louisiana Tigers.  Like his cousin, he also survived the war and returned to his family but did not marry by 1870. 

Paul's second son Anselme-Simon, called Simon, by first wife Marie-Marthe LeBlanc, married Marguerite-Elise or -Idalisia, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Marie Richard and Rose Bourgeois, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in May 1794.  Their children, born at nearby Ascension, included Jérôme-Leufroi, called Leufroi, in June 1796; Étienne-Séraphin in August 1798 but died at age 9 months in May 1799; Simon-Damasene died nine days after his birth in October 1800; Pierre- or Simon-Onésime, called Onésime and also Elezime, born in April 1802; Pierre Eugène, called Eugène, in June 1804 but, called Pierre Hugin by the recording priest, died at age 18 in August 1822; Victorin Étienne born in August 1806 but died at age 3 in November 1809; and Henry Simon born in March 1809 but died at age 18 in October 1827--seven children, all sons, between 1796 and 1809.  Simon died in Ascension Parish in November 1809, age 36.  Two of his sons married on the river. 

Oldest son Jérôme Leufroi, called Leufroi, married Marcelline Duplantier, widow of Bernard Raffray, at the Donaldson church in April 1815.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Simon Alexandre, also called Rodolphe Simon in March 1816; Rosémond Leufroi in May 1818; and Juliènne Virginie in c1819 but died at age 5 in August 1824--three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1816 and 1819.  Leufroi died in Ascension Parish in June 1820, age 24.  Both of his sons married, to sisters, and settled on the river, but not all of the lines endured.

Older son Simon Alexandre married Lise, daughter of Jacques Auguste Sompeyrac and Apolline Vessier, at the Donaldsonville church in September 1835.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Rosémond Rodolphe Simon, called Rodolphe, in July 1836; Joseph Cécilien in December 1838; Louise Nathalie in February 1842 but, called Nathalie Louise, died at age 1 1/2 in June 1843; and Marie Palymie Lise born in June 1853--four children, two sons and two daughters, between 1836 and 1853.  Simon's remaining daughter did not marry by 1870, but his sons did. 

Older son Rodolphe "of Ascension Parish" married Cécile, also called Marie Marguerite, daughter of John B. Ory and Marcelline Becnel, at the St. James church, St. James Parish, in October 1860.  They lived on the river near the boundary between St. James and Ascension parishes.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Fernand in August 1861; Marie Louise in August 1864; Simon Paul in September 1866; Joseph Albert Willy in March 1869; Marie Céline in May 1870; ... 

Simon's younger son Joseph Cécilien married Marie Theresia or Theresina, daughter of Martial Capbern and his Acadian wife Célestine Gaudet, at the Donaldsonville church in September 1870. ...

Leufroi's younger son Rosémond Leufroi married Marie Ursule, called Ursule, another daughter of Jacques Auguste Sompeyrac and Apolline Vessier, at the Donaldsonville church in April 1837.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Marie Pulchere or Pulcherie in February 1838; Rosalie Valeda in January 1840 but, called Marie Valeda, died the following July; and Félicité Velida or Veleda, called Veleda, born in July 1841--three children, all daughters, between 1838 and 1841.  Rosémond may have died in Ascension Parish in August 1846.  The Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Rosémond died at "age 26 yrs."  Rosémond Leufroi would have been 28.  Daughters Marie Pulcherie and Veleda married into the Billon and Guidry families.  Rosémond Leufroi evidently fathered no sons, but the blood of the family line may have endured. 

Simon's fourth son Pierre or Simon Onésime married Marie Eléonore, Éléonise, or Cléonise, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Hébert and Marie Nathalie Aucoin, at the Donaldsonville church in July 1823.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Simon Nemorin, called Nemorin, in September 1824; Bertin Florence or Laurent Bertin in September 1826; and Pierre Théodule, called Théodule, in December 1828 but died at age 30 in March 1859--three children, all sons, between 1824 and 1828.  Two of Onésime's sons married and settled on the river, but only one of the lines may have endured. 

Oldest son Nemorin married cousin Pamelia, also called Amelia and Camelia, daughter of fellow Acadian Auguste Hébert and his Creole wife Mathilde Lambremont, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in February 1847.  They lived on the river near the boundary between Iberville and Ascension parishes.  Their children, born there, included Neree, perhaps a son, in December 1847 but, called Nery, died at age 5 1/2 (the recording priest said 6) in September 1853; Austin died at age 6 days in February 1849; Naissy, perhaps a daughter, born in c1849 but died at age 3 in September 1852; Paul Augustin Ignace born in February 1850; Marie Léonise in December 1851; Mathilde in the early 1850s; Anna Pamelia in April 1853; Joseph in November 1854; and Marie Elvina in March 1856--eight children, four sons and four daughters, between 1847 and 1856.  Nemorin died in Ascension Parish in December 1856, age 32.  Daughters Mathilde, ... married into the Rodrigue and Landry families by 1870.  None of Nemorin's remaining sons married by then. 

Onésime's second son Laurent Bertin married Rose Julie, daughter of fellow Acadians Maximilien Babin and Rose Julie Dugas, at the Donaldsonville church in September 1848.  Did they have any children?

Paul's third son Étienne, by first wife Marie-Marthe LeBlanc, married Victoire, also called Antoinette, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Babin and Madeleine Babin, at Ascension in February 1797.  Their children, born there, included Pierre-Simon or -Edmond, also called Edmond-Pierre and Raymond, in November 1797; Laurent-Derosier, -Derozin, or -Drauzin, also called Rosier and L. Derosier, in August 1802; Richard Damas in December 1804; and Marie Victoire Adeline, called Victoire, in December 1806--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1797 and 1806.  Étienne died in Ascension Parish in September 1820, age 43.  Daughter Victoire married a Babin cousin.  Étienne's three sons also married and settled on the river, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Pierre Simon or Edmond, also called Edmond Pierre and Raymond, married cousin Adèle Marcelline, called Marcelline, daughter of fellow Acadians Jérôme Dugas and Élisabeth Babin, at the Donaldsonville church in February 1827.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included twins Edmond Jérôme and Marie Élisabeth, also called Élisabeth Raymonde, in November 1827, but Élisabeth died the following August, and Edmond, called Edmont, died at age 19 in April 1847; Marie Joséphine Eveline born in September 1829 but may have died in Ascension Parish at age 4 1/2 (the recording priest, who called her Adveline, said "age ca. 5 yrs."), in July 1834, or perhaps she died in Ascension Parish, age 5 (the recording priest, who called her Evelina, said 8), in October 1834; François Marin or Marius born in March 1831 but died at age 5 months the following August; Étienne Dava born in November 1832 but died at age 3 1/2 (the recording priest, who called him Dava Ozéme, said 4) in September 1836; and Joseph Osémé, called Osémé, born in July 1835 but died at age 1 (the recording priest said 2) in September 1836 on the same day his older brother Étienne Dava died--six children, four sons and two daughters, between 1827 and 1835.  Edmond Pierre may have died in Ascension Parish in February 1862.  The Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Raymond, as he called him, died at "age 66 years."  Edmond Pierre would have been age 64.  None of his children survived childhood, so his family line died with him. 

Étienne's second son Laurent Derosier, Derozin, or Drauzin, also called Rosier and L. Derosier, married Madeleine, daughter of Frenchman Pierre Denoux, also called Gaillard, and Marie Lagrange and widow of Charles Joseph Babin, at the Donaldsonville church in February 1827.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Étienne Ovide, called Ovide, in December 1827; Pierre Léon, called Léon, in November 1829; Madeleine Estelle, called Estelle, in December 1831; Laurent Télésphore in December 1833 but, called L. Télésphore, died at age 3 in 1836; twins Paul Olyme, called Olyme, and Vincent Osémé, called Osémé, born in July 1836, but Olyme, called Olime, died in Iberville Parish, age 22, in February 1859; Marie Atanaise, called Athenaise, born in January 1838; and Victoire or Victorine in July 1840--eight children, five sons and three daughters, including a set of twins, between 1827 and 1840.  Daughters Estelle, Athenaise, and Victorine married into the LeBlanc, Babin, and Saurage families, one of them on upper Bayou Lafourche, by 1870.  Laurent's surviving sons also married by then and settled in Iberville Parish. 

Oldest son Étienne Ovide, called Ovide, married Odile, also called Adèle, daughter of fellow Acadians Norbert Melançon and Marie Landry, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in June 1851.  They lived on the river near the boundary between Iberville and Ascension parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie Eugénia in November 1853; Margaret Adelina in September 1855; and Barbe Alicia in September 1858--three children, all daughters, between 1853 and 1858.  None of Ovide's daughters married by 1870. 

Laurent's second son Pierre Léon, called Léon, married Laurenza or Lorenza, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Dupuy and Sarazine Orillion, at the St. Gabriel church in February 1855.  They settled on the east side of the river near the boundary between Iberville and Ascension parishes and then across the river near Plaquemine in Iberville Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie Augusta in December 1855; Marie Léonia in September 1857; Joseph Fenimore in July 1859; Laurent Venu in May 1861; Laurent Léon in July 1863; Clothilda Aloysia in November 1868; ...  None of Léon's children married by 1870. 

Laurent's fifth or sixth son Vincent Osémé, called Osémé, a twin, married Azélie, daughter of Foreign Frenchman Joseph Emmanuel Billion, Bellion, or Billon Morin and his Acadian wife Joséphine Richard, at the St. Gabriel church  in November 1866.  Daughter Marie Joséphine was born in Iberville Parish in November 1867; ...

Étienne's third and youngest son Richard Damas married Marie Hélène, called Hélène, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Dupuy and Marcellite Blanchard, at the St. Gabriel church in July 1830.  They settled on the river near the boundary between Iberville and Ascension parishes.  Their children, born there, included Richard Eugène in November 1834 but, called Eugène, died in Ascension Parish, age 18, in July 1853; and Joseph Cornelius, perhaps called J. Cornelius, born in November 1846.  Richard Damas died in Ascension Parish in August 1853, age 48.  His remaining son married and settled on the river.   

Younger son Joseph Cornelius married fellow Acadian Marie Elina Gravois "on [the] plantation of Dr. E. Duffell" in Ascension Parish in June 1870; the marriage was recorded at the Donaldsonville church. ...

Paul's tenth son Joseph Grégoire, by second wife Élisabeth/Isabelle Babin, married Marine, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Joseph Dupuis and Ludivine Landry and widow of Joseph Xavier Richard, at the St. Gabriel church in June 1813.  Their children, born at St. Gabriel, included a son, name unrecorded, died a day after his birth in August 1814.  The boy's birth evidently killed his mother.  Joseph remarried to cousin Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Breaux and Perpetué Landry, at the St. Gabriel church in September 1818.  Their children, born at St. Gabriel, included Valmond in c1819 but died at age 3 in August 1822; Treville Séverin born in February 1825; and Marie Elmire in March 1828 but, called Elmire, died in Iberville Parish, age 12 1/2 (the recording priest said 13), in July 1840--four children, three sons and a daughter, by two wives, between 1814 and 1828.  Joseph may have died near St. Gabriel in July 1843.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, did say that Joseph was "nat. of Ascension parish" and died at "age 52 yrs.," so this probably was him.  His remaining son did not marry by 1870, if he married at all.  

Paul's eleventh and youngest son Laurent, by second wife Élisabeth/Isabelle Babin, married Céleste or Célestine, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Richard and Rose Landry, at the St. Gabriel church in November 1813.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included a daughter, name unrecorded, died at birth in August 1815; Laurent Joachim born in February 1816; Marie Arthémise in December 1818; Marie Euphémie, Euphrasine, or Euphrosine in October or December 1820; an infant, name unrecorded, in c1822 but died at age 1 in July 1823; and Marie Sophie born in August 1824--six children, at least four daughters and a son, between 1815 and 1824.  Laurent died in Iberville Parish in April 1851, age 57 (the recording priest said 59).  Daughter Marie Arthémise married into the Cole or Colle family.  Laurent's son also married. 

Only son Laurent Joachim married double cousin Madeleine Uranie, daughter of fellow Acadians Simonet Richard and Marguerite Breaux, at the St. Gabriel church in January 1838.  They evidently lived on the river near the boundary between Iberville and Ascension parishes.  Their children, born there, included Maurice Florian in September 1840 but died the following April; Madeleine Auphelia died at age 1 month in November 1842; Eva Pauline born in February 1846 but, called Eva Apolline, died at age 4 1/2 in September 1850; Marguerite Elmire born in January 1848 but died at age 4 1/2 June 1852; and Thomas Adam born in December 1849--five children, two sons and three daughters, between 1840 and 1849.  Laurent Joachim died near St. Gabriel in June 1853, age 37.  His remaining child did not marry by 1870. 

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Two Breau wives with their Babin and Richard husbands reached New Orleans from Maryland in July 1767 as part of the second Acadian expedition from Baltimore via Cap-Français.  Spanish Governor Ulloa insisted that they and their fellow passengers settle in the new Acadian community of San Gabriel d'Iberville south of Bayou Manchac on the boundary between British West Florida and Spanish Louisiana.  No new Breau family lines came of it. 

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In February 1768, the third contingent of Acadian exiles from Maryland reached New Orleans, this one from Port Tobacco on the lower Potomac, via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue.  The Breaus--at least 51 of them, including three brothers from Pigiguit and their families--were especially numerous in this expediton.  They were, in fact, one of the largest Acadian family groups to come to the Spanish colony on a single vessel.  After a confrontation with Governor Ulloa in February over being forced to settle at distant Fort San Luìs de Natchez and the governor's ouster in a Creole-led revolt the following October, nine more Breau family lines arose on the Acadian Coast, but not all of them endured.  This third contingent of Maryland émigrés also helped create more Breau family lines on the western prairies and along Bayou Lafourche.  Two sisters, Élisabeth and Anne-Gertrude, daughters of Charles Breau and Claire Trahan of l'Assomption, Pigiguit, came to the colony in February 1768 with their widowed mother, but they did not follow her and two of their siblings to Natchez.  They remained in New Orleans and were accepted into the Ursuline convent there, among the first Acadians in Louisiana to choose a religious vocation.  A descendant of one of the Breau brothers from Pigiguit became a prominent lawyer in South Louisiana, settled on the prairies, and served as chief justice of the Louisiana State Supreme Court during the early 1900s. 

Alexis (c1724-?) à Antoine à Vincent Breaux

Alexis, oldest son of Alexandre Breau and Marie Dugas and older brother of Jean-Baptiste of Cabahannocer, was born at Pigiguit in c1724.  Alexis married Madeleine, daughter of Pierre Trahan and Madeleine Comeau, probably at Pigiguit in c1745.  Madeleine gave Alexis three sons there:  Honoré le jeune born in c1747; Joseph in c1751; and Charles in c1753.  The British deported the family to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  Madeleine gave him more children in the Chesapeake colony, probably at Port Tobacco on the lower Potomac:  Marie born in c1757; and Anastasie in c1762.  Alexis, Madeleine, their five children, and a Breau orphan were still at Port Tobacco in July 1763, when they appeared on a French repatriation list circulating in the colony.  Madeleine gave Alexis another son there, Alexis, fils, born in c1765--six children, four sons and two daughters, in greater Acadia and Maryland.  Alexis, with younger brother Honoré, led the third contingent of Acadian exiles from Maryland to Louisiana in 1767-68.  Alexis, Madeleine, and their six children reached New Orleans in February 1768.  Spanish Governor Ulloa insisted that the party of 150 exiles settle at Fort San Luìs de Natchez on the river far above Baton Rouge, but Alexis and his brother refused to go there.  Forced into hiding, the brothers and their families could only "watch" as the Spanish escorted the rest of their brethren to the distant post.  After a Creole-led rebellion overthrew the unpopular governor later in the year, Ulloa's successor, Governor-General Alejandro O'Reilly, allowed the Breaus and their fellow exiles to settle where they wanted.  Alexis took his family to Cabahannocer, where younger brother Jean-Baptiste had settled two years earlier.  Alexis's older daughter Marie did not marry.  His younger daughter Anastasie married into the Melanson family on the river.  All four of Alexis's sons married there, three of them to Breau cousins.  His second son joined his cousins on the western prairies, but his other sons remained on the Acadian Coast. 

Oldest son Honoré le jeune followed his family to Maryland, New Orleans, into hiding, and to Cabahannocer.  He married first cousin Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Breau and his second wife Marie-Rose Landry of Pigiguit, his uncle and aunt, at either St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer or nearby Ascension in January 1773.  Madeleine was sister of Honoré le jeune's younger brother Charles's wife Esther.  Honoré le jeune and Madeleine's children, born at Cabahannocer, included Marie-Madeleine in November 1773; Henriette baptized, age unrecorded, in February 1775; Anastasie baptized, age unrecorded, in April 1776; Amand or Herman baptized, age unrecorded, in October 1777; Alexis le jeune baptized, age unrecorded, in April 1779 but died in St. James Parish, age 55, in April 1834; Charles le jeune baptized, age unrecorded, in February 1781; Jean-Baptiste born in November 1789 but died at age 13 in June 1802; Hippolyte born in the early 1790s; and Édouard in May 1793--nine children, three daughters and six sons, between 1773 and 1793.  Honoré le jeune died in St. James Parish in July 1810.  The priest who recorded the burial and who did give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Honoré, "nat. Acadia," died at "age about 58 yrs."  He was closer to 63.  Marie-Madeleine died in St. James Parish in May 1821, in her early 70s.  Daughter Marie-Madeleine married into the Dugas family.  Three of Honoré le jeune's sons also married.  One of them moved to the western prairies and another to upper Bayou Lafourche, but the youngest remained on the river in St. James Parish.    

Third son Charles le jeune married Céleste or Célestine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Arceneaux and Marie Dupuis, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in April 1800.  They joined the Acadian exodus from the river to Bayou Lafourche later in the decade but may not have remained.  Their children, born on the river and the upper bayou, included Alexandre at Cabahannocer in February 1801 but died at age 4 in September 1805; Godefroi born in February 1803; Michel Joachim baptized at the St. James church, age 1, in June 1806; Marie Arthémise, called Arthémise, born in August 1807; Marie Azélie at Assumption in August 1809 but died in October; Élisa or Éliza Marie born in January 1811; Eulalia Marie in February 1813; and Marie Clarisse, called Clarisse, in August 1819--eight children, three sons and five daughters, between 1801 and 1819.  Charles le jeune died in St. James Parish in October 1837.  The St. James priest who recorded the burial said that Charles was age 58 when he died.  He was closer to 56.  Daughters Arthémise, Élisa, and Clarisse married into the Mollère, Bloomfield, and Blanchard families.  Daughter Eulalia Marie may have been the Eulalie Breaux who gave birth to daughter Élisabeth Relique in November 1832.  The Plattenville priest who baptized the girl in October 1826 did not give the father's name.  Eulalia Marie, who did not marry, would have been age 19, almost 20, at the time of her daughter's birth.  Charles le jeune's daughter Élisa Marie, who married Irish immigrant Antoine Bloomfield in October 1830, may have been the Éliza Breaux who gave birth to daughter Marie Juliènne in July 1838.  The Plattenville priest who baptized the girl the following November did not give the father's name, but the priest did note that the girl's godmother was Eulalie Braud, probably Éliza's younger sister.  Élisa Marie would have been age 27 at the time of her daughter's birth.  One wonders what happened to her Irish husband, Antoine Bloomfield.  Only one of Charles le jeune's sons married and perpetuated the family line, in Assumption Parish.  Most of Charles le jeune's grandsons settled at Pierre Part north of Lake Verret. 

Second son Godefroi married Marie Rose or Rosalie, daughter of Antoine Coupel and Marie Desaire, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1822.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Nicolas Cherville or Gerville, called Gerville, in December 1822; Carville in c1823; Joachim Carville Azemond in December 1824; Marie Elisca in October 1827[sic]; Eulalie Laurence in January 1828[sic]; Camille in the late 1820s or 1830s; Marie Adorestine in June 1831; Louise Hélène in May 1836; Désiré Raphaël in September 1839 but, called Raphaël Désiré, died at age 3 in October 1842; twins Camille and Joseph born in October 1841; Joseph Clairville in February 1844; Julie Léocade Émilie, called Léocade, near Paincourtville in December 1846; and Marie Élisabeth in March 1850--14 children, eight sons and six daughters, including a set of twins, between 1822 and 1850.  Daughters Léocade, ... married into the Blanchard, Babin, Cedotal, and Guillot families by 1870.  Six of Godefroi's sons also married by then, and most of them settled near Pierre Part. 

Oldest son Gerville married Hélène, called Helena and Élina, daughter of fellow Acadians Apollinaire Landry and Élise Landry, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1846.  They settled on the upper Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Marie Anastasie in January 1848; Marie in August 1849; Marie Ophilde in February 1852 but, called Marie Ophelia, died at age 1 1/2 in September 1853; Marie Éloise born in January 1854; Marie Eulalie in June 1856; Rosalie Élizabeth in April 1858; Marie Adeline in June 1860; Joseph Dosilva in February 1865; a son, name and age unrecorded, died near Paincourtville in September 1865; ...  Daughters ... married into the Bonin and Breaux families by 1870, in St. Martin Parish, west of the Atchafalaya Basin.  

Godefroi's second son Carville married Celima, also called Zelma, daughter of fellow Acadians Marcellin Landry and Félide Landry, at the Paincourtville church in August 1851.  Their children, born near Paincourtville, included Félide Eustachie in September 1855; and Florian Guillaume in January 1858.  Carville died near Paincourtville in January 1861, age unrecorded, but it likely was in his late 30s.  Neither of his children married by 1870. 

Godefroi's third son Joachim married Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Édouard Hébert and Léonore Giroir, at the Paincourtville church in February 1857.  Son Joseph Ulisse was born near Pierre Part in July 1861; ... 

Godefroi's fourth son Camille married Amelia, daughter of Anaclet Simoneaux and his Acadian wife Constance Landry, at the Pierre Part church, Assumption Parish, in April 1861.  Their children, born in Assumption Parish, included Joseph Sostène near Pierre Part in August 1862 but, called Sosthène, died at age 4 in August 1866; Marie Théodora born near Paincourtville in October 1866; Antoinette Honora in June 1869; ...

Godefroi's sixth son Émile, a twin, married Célima, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Trahan and his Creole wife Éléonore Ouffende, at the Pierre Part church in May 1861.  Daughter Marie Élisabeth was born near Pierre Part in March 1862; ... 

 Godefroi's son Joseph, perhaps Émile's twin Joseph Clairville, married Zulma, daughter of Cléopha Simoneaux and his Acadian wife Élisa Landry, at the Plattenville church in February 1868.  Daughter Marie Clara was born near Pierre Part in February 1869; ... 

Honoré le jeune's fifth son Hippolyte married Françoise Émilie, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Boudreaux and Monique Dupuis, at the St. James church, St. James Parish, in January 1807.  They lived on the river before crossing the Atchafalaya Basin to the Teche valley.  Their son Hippolyte Eugène was born in St. James Parish in March 1808.  Wife Françoise's succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse, St. Martin Parish, in December 1822.  Hippolyte remarried to fellow Acadian Julie dite Pouponne Babineaux in a civil ceremony in St. Martin Parish in December 1822.  They settled at Anse La Butte, also called Anse du Day, in St. Martin Parish, before moving down the Teche to St. Mary Parish.  Their children, born there, included a son, name unrecorded, died at his parents' home at La Butte, age 5 months, in May 1824; Julie, also called Juliènne Aurelia, born in c1824 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 1 1/2, in December 1825; Aurelien born in March 1827; Jean Oscar in December 1829; Marie Elmire in March 1833; and Joseph or Jean Sosthène, called Sosthène, in February 1836--seven children, five sons and two daughters, by two wives, between 1808 and 1836.  Hippolyte's succession was filed at the Franklin courthouse, St. Mary Parish, in October 1839.  He would have been age 49 that year.  Daughter Juliènne Aurelia, by his second wife, married a Pelletier cousin.  Three of Hippolyte's sons also married and settled on the prairies.

Oldest son Hippolyte Eugène or Eugène Hippolyte, by first wife Françoise Émilie Boudreaux, married Marie Joséphine dite Josette, daughter of Jean Begnaud and his Acadian wife Marie Guilbeau, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in January 1828.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Eurasie in April 1829; Césaire in August 1831; Marie Elmire in March 1833 but, called Elmire, died at age 2 1/2 in September 1835; Sosthènes or Sosthène born in July 1835; Honorine in March 1837; Ulger in the late 1830s or early 1840s; Françoise in December 1840; Jean Honoré in February 1843 but, called Honoré, died at age 10 in March 1853; Hippolyte, fils born in February 1845; Michel near Breaux Bridge in October 1848; and Eugène, fils in July 1850.  Eugène remarried to cousin Uranie, daughter of Jean Peltier and his Acadian wife Henriette Breaux of Assumption Parish and widow of Sosthène Guidry, at the St. Martinville church in June 1854.  They settled near Breaux Bridge.  Their children, born there, included Émilie in November 1855; Élise in December 1857; Alexis in March 1860; Estelle in June 1863; ...  Daughters ..., by his first wife, married into the Bergeron and Martin families by 1870.  Four of Hippolyte Eugène's sons also married by then. 

Second son Sosthène, by first wife Josette Begnaud, married Léontine, daughter of Philosie Pourcieau and Phelonie Major, at the Breaux Bridge church, St. Martin Parish, in January 1861. ...

Hippolyte Eugène's third son Ulger, by first wife Josette Begnaud, married Cora, daughter of Jean Baptiste Dautreuil and Emérite Hollier, at the St. Martinville church in March 1869.  Their son Jean Baptiste was born near Breaux Bridge in August 1870; ...

Hippolyte Eugène's fifth son Hippolyte, fils, by first wife Josette Begnaud, married Elizabeth, daughter of Philippe McNeal or McNeil and his Acadian wife Joséphine Blanchard, at the Breaux Bridge church in May 1869. ...

Hippolyte Eugène's sixth son Michel, by first wife Josette Begnaud, married Marie, another daughter of Philosie Pourcieau and Phelonise Major, at the Breaux Bridge church in October 1869. ...

Hippolyte's third son Aurelien, by second wife Julie Babineaux, married Euphémie Finette dite Tennessee, daughter of John Hamilton and Euphémie Soudric, at the Breaux Bridge church in January 1849.  Their children, born near Breaux Bridge, included Marie Alice in February 1850; Marie Alzire in February 1852; and Euphémie Ophelia in November 1854.  Aurelien remarried to Joséphine Stelly at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in November 1858.  They settled along the upper Teche between Breaux Bridge and Arnaudville.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Nicols in September 1859; Aurelien, fils in c1860 but died at age 2 in August 1862; Euchariz, a daughter, born in January 1862; Aneas in July 1864; Noé in October 1866; Joseph Mathieu in November 1868; ...  None of Aurelien's children married by 1870. 

Hippolyte's fifth and youngest son Sosthène, by second wife Julie Babineaux, married cousin Élizabeth, daughter of Édouard Peltier and his Acadian wife Celizia Breaux, at the Breaux Bridge church in April 1858.  Their children, born on the prairies and the Teche valley, included Honoré in Lafayette Parish in August 1859; Honora in July 1862; Octavie near Breaux Bridge in September 1864; Joseph Ozer in July 1868; ... 

Honoré le jeune's sixth and youngest son Édouard married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Clouâtre and Marie Poirier, at the St. James church in January 1816.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included Marie Élise in December 1816; Émile in June 1819; Sylvani, a son, in March 1822; Martial, also called Édouard, fils, baptized at the St. James church, age 9 months, in April 1826; Marie, perhaps Marie Lorenza, born in April 1828; Joseph Bienvenu, also called Bienvenu Alexis and Alexis Bienvenu, in February 1831; and Marie Olfida in November 1835 but, called Marie Orfilia, died at age 16 in December 1851--seven children, three daughters and four sons, between 1816 and 1835.  Daughter Marie Lorernza married into the Bergeron family.  Édouard's sons also married and settled on the river. 

Oldest son Émile married Azéma, daughter of fellow Acadian Auguste Gaudet and his Creole wife Marguerite Lacroix, at the St. James church in August 1843.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included Vivien Emilka in December 1844 but, called Amilea, died at age 7 1/2 (the recording priest said 8) in July 1852; and Paul Camille born in March 1849.  Neither of Émile's children married by 1870. 

Édouard's second son Sylvanie married Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Privat Blanchard and his Creole wife Léocadie Barras, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in December 1848, but they settled in St. James Parish.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Félix in July 1851; and Jordan Albert baptized at St. James, age unrecorded, in August 1859. 

Édouard's third son Martial, also called Édouard, fils married Lise, daughter of Foreign Frenchman Laurent Dongieux and his Acadian wife Caroline Bourgeois, at the St. James church in January 1852.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included René Honoré in November 1852; Toussaint Édouare Florent in November 1854 but, called Toussaint, may have died at age 15 (the recording priest said 35) in September 1869; and Marie Flora born in November 1856.  Martial Édouard remarried to Célestine _____ at the St. James church in October 1865; the priest who recorded the marriage did not give the bride's surname nor her parents' names.  Their son Théophile, born in c1863, was legitimized at age 2 by the marriage; ...  None of Édouard, fils's children married by 1870. 

Édouard, père's fourth and youngest son Alexis Bienvenu or Bienvenu Alexis, at age 21, married Marie Émilie, called Émilie, 20-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Bergeron and his second wife Constance Bergeron, at the St. James church in June 1852.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included Marie Adelina in July 1853; and Jean Baptiste Michel Édouere in February 1855 but died at "age several days."  Wife Émilie died at age 22 in April 1855, "at her home following confinement, where she left her husband with a little child," hinting that she may have died from the rigors of childbirth.  Bienvenu Alexis remarried to cousin Marie Olphida, daughter of fellow Acadians Benjamin Poirier and Amélie Breaux, at the St. James church in October 1857.  Their son Joseph Bienvenu was born in St. James Parish in December 1864; ...  Neither of Alexis Bienvenu's remaining children married by 1870. 

Alexis's second son Joseph followed his family to Maryland, New Orleans, into hiding, and to Cabahannocer, where he married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Melançon and Marie Thériot, in February 1774.  In January 1777, Spanish officials counted them on the right, or west, bank of the river there.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer, included Hilaire baptized, age unrecorded, in January 1775; Marie-Angélique baptized, age unrecorded, in February 1778; Isabelle baptized, age unrecorded, in January 1779; Joseph-Édouard or -Éloi, called Éloi, baptized, age unrecorded, in May 1780 but died at age 15 in June 1795 (so why was a succession for a Joseph Éloi Breaux filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in April 1849, long after this Joseph Éloi's death?); Paul-Olivier born in c1785; Marie-Madeleine, also called Marie-Marguerite, in October 1786; and Marie-Ariet or -Henriette, called Henriette, in April 1788.  Joseph, at age 39, remarried to Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Bourg and Marguerite Landry, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in February 1790.  This Marie-Madeleine gave Joseph more children at Cabahannocer, including Anastasie in June 1793; and Célestine-Carmélite, called Carmélite, in December 1796 but died at age 22 in September 1819.  They also lived at New Orleans, where wife Marie-Madeleine died in October 1799.  In the early 1800s, Joseph crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to the Attakapas District and settled at Côte Gelée on the prairie west of St. Martinville, where, at age 56, he remarried again--his third marriage--to Eléonore, called Léonore, daughter of fellow Acadians Basile Landry and Marianne Mire of Côte Gelée, in April 1807.  They settled at Côte Gelée and Parc Perdue south of Côte Gelée.  Éleonore gave him more children there, including Joseph Achille, called Achille, at Côte Gelée in January 1808; Marie Célanie in August 1809; Charles Olivier in May 1811; Simon dit Simonet at Parc Perdue in August 1814; Hippolyte Joseph in December 1815; Céleste or Célestine in August 1818; and Élisa posthumously in July 1820 (a year and a half after her father's death, so one questions the birth/baptismal record)--16 children, seven sons and nine daughters, by three wives, between 1775 and 1820.  Joseph died at a nephew's home in St. Martin Parish in January 1819.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph, "born in Acadie," died "at age 70 years old at the home of his nephew, Hypolite Braud, at L'ance de Day" and was "buried ... in the parish cemetery."  Joseph was in his late 60s.  His succession, mentioning his third wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in January 1825.  Daughters Marie-Madeleine, Henriette, Anastasie, Marie Célanie, and Céleste, by all three wives, married into the Lalande, Louvière, Plaisance, Daigle, Matherne, Walker, and Bernard families.  Six of Joseph's sons also married.  His oldest son did not follow him to Attakapas but settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  His younger married sons settled on the western prairies, most of them in Lafayette Parish, but two of them moved on to the lower Teche and settled near New Iberia, then in St. Martin but later in Iberia Parish, and near Charenton, St. Mary Parish.  A daughter by his third wife also settled near Charenton.  One of his older sons died before he could marry, and the line of a middle son, except for its blood, probably did not endure. 

Oldest son Hilaire, by first wife Marie-Madeleine Melançon, though in his early 20s in the late 1790s, did not follow his family to the Attakapas District.  He went, instead, to upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Landry and Marie-Josèphe Landry, in January 1796.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Constance in November 1796; Valéry-Damien in September 1798; Jean-Baptiste, called Baptiste, in February 1801; Henri in March 1803; Hippolyte in August 1806; Aspasie Adeline in December 1807; and Maria Zéolida in April 1811 but, called Marie Zéolide, died at "age 43 years, 5 months" in September 1854.  Hilaire remarried to Renée Sophie, daughter of fellow Acadians Chrysostôme Trahan and Anne Françoise Granger, in Assumption Parish in the early or mid-1810s.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Hermogène in April 1816; Isidore Onésime, called Onésime and Olésime, in January 1818; a son, name and age unrecorded, died in Assumption Parish in July 1819; Ursin Firmin born in March 1822; and Hilaire, fils in the 1820s--a dozen children, three daughters and nine sons, by two wives, between 1796 and the 1820s.  Hilaire, père died in Assumption Parish in April 1846.  The Plattenville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Hilaire died at "age 75 yrs."  He would have been closer to 72.  Daughters Constance and Aspasie Adeline, by his first wife, married into the Mollère and Landry families.  Seven of Hilaire's sons also married and settled in Assumption Parish.  A younger son and at least one grandson moved to the shores of Lake Verret.  One wonders if their sister Marie Zéolide never married because, as the youngest daughter, she devoted her life to the care of her aging father.

Oldest son Valèry Damien, by first wife Rosalie Landry, married Marguerite, daughter of Antoine Coupel and Marie Desaire, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in April 1824.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marcel Amédée, called Amédée, in November 1825; and twin sons, names and ages unrecorded, died in April 1827.  Valéry remarried to Marie Arthémise, called Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Charles Blanchard and Julie Dupuy, at the Plattenville church in January 1829.  Their children, born on the upper bayou, included Joseph Pierre in April 1833 but, called Pierre Joseph, died at age 8 in June 1841; Julie Adeline born in February 1835 but died at age 7 1/2 in September 1842; Marie Scholastique, called Scholastique, born in December 1837; and Joseph Vileau or Vileor in February 1840 but, called Vileor Joseph, died at age 21 (the recording priest said 22) in December 1861 (one wonders if his death was war-related)--seven children, five sons and two daughters, by two wives, including a set of twins, between 1825 and 1840.  Valéry Damien may have died in Assumption Parish in July 1847.  The Plattenville priest who recorded the burial and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife said that Valéry Doncien, as he called him, died at "age 38 yrs."  Valéry Damien would have been age 48.  Daughter Scholastique, by his second wife, married a Landry cousin by 1870.  Only one of Valéry Damien's sons married.

Older son Amédée, by first wife Marguerite Coupel, married Marguerite Oville or Ovilde, daughter of fellow Acadians Eugène Daigle and Rose Templet, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in September 1846.  Their children, born in Assumption Parish, included Joseph Oscar near Paincourtville in June 1847 but died the following August; Benedict Gervais born in January 1852; Joseph Hilarian in October 1857; Joseph François near Pierre Part north of Lake Verret in October 1862; Marie Eugénie in November 1866; ...  None of Amédée's children married by 1870. 

Hilaire's second son Baptiste, by first wife Rosalie Landry, may have married Marie Jeanne George Henglot or L'Enclot in Assumption Parish in the late 1810s.  He married, or remarried to, Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Daigle and Marie Marthe Trahan, at the Plattenville church in September 1837.  One wonders if Baptiste fathered any children by either of his wives. 

Hilaire's third son Henri, by first wife Rosalie Landry, married Marie Joséphine, called Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Duhon and Adélaïde Landry, at the Plattenville church in February 1828.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Noémie dite Mimi, also called Noémi, in May 1829; Rosalie Adeline or Adeline Rosalie, called Adeline, in April 1832; Numa Henry or Henri in May 1836; Joseph Désiré, called Désiré, in January 1838; Joseph Séraphin, called Séraphin, in January 1840; Louise Joséphine, called Joséphine, in June 1842; and Virginie Cléophile in June 1845--seven children, four daughters and three sons, between 1829 and 1845.  Henri died near Paincourtville in November 1854.  The priest who recorded the burial did not give any parents' names, mention a wife, or give the age of the deceased, but this probably was him.  Henri was age 51 at the time of his death.  Daughters Adeline, Noémi, Joséphine, and Virginie married into the Landry, Moïse, Blanchard, Trahan, and Giroir families by 1870, one of them, Adeline, twice.  Two of Henri's sons also married by then. 

Second son Joseph Désiré, called Désiré, married Christine, daughter of Pierre Théodose Ayraud and Honorine Simoneaux, at the Donalsonville church, Ascension Parish, in September 1867.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Henri Buckner in December 1867; Joseph Désiré in August 1869; ...  Désiré may have died near Lydia, Iberia Parish, on lower Bayou Teche, in February 1870.  The priest who recorded the burial and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife said that Désiré "of Assumption Parish" died "at age 32 yrs," so this likely was him. 

Henri's third and youngest son Joseph Séraphin, called Séraphin, married Élodie, daughter of fellow Acadian Théodule Guillot and his Creole wife Zepheline Simoneaux, at the Pierre Part church, Assumption Parish, in January 1861.  Their children, born near Pierre Part, included Henri Jean Baptiste baptized at Pierre Part, age unrecorded, in  March 1863; Zepheline born in February 1866; Émile in March 1868; Désirée Osilia in May 1870; ... 

Hilaire's fourth son Hippolyte, by first wife Rosalie Landry, married Hélène, another daughter of Joseph Duhon and Adélaïde Landry, at the Plattenville church in January 1833.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Assumption and Ascension parishes.  Their children, born there, included Édouard in November 1833; Marie Helena in March 1835 but, called Marie Honora by the recording priest, died the following November; Marie Célestine born in March 1836; a child, name unrecorded, died at age 6 weeks in October 1837; Zéphirin Will born in August 1838 but died at age 15 months in December 1839; Marie Émilie born in May 1840; Marie Philomène in July 1841; Marie Odoisca in March 1843; Marie Aimée, called Aimée, in September 1844; Marie Gratieuse in June 1848; Joseph Désiré Cavagnac in January 1849; Ubert Oscar in March 1850; Joseph Wilfred Washington in February 1852; Joseph Hippolyte in September 1853; Paul Moïse in November 1855 but, called Moïze, died at age 4 1/2 (the recording priest said "age 4 months") in May 1860; and Apolline Virginie in June 1861--16 children, at least seven sons and eight daughters, between 1833 and 1861.  Daughters Aimée, ... married into the Hébert, Aucoin, and Comeaux families by 1870.  One of Hippolyte's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Édouard married Euphémie, daughter of fellow Acadians Eugène Landry and Françoise Landry, at the Paincourtville church in May 1857.  Daughter Marie Octavie was born near Paincourtville in September 1869; ...

Hilaire's fifth son Hermogène, by second wife Renée Trahan, may have married fellow Acadian Joséphine Boudreaux, place and date unrecorded.  Their son Oscar was born near Labadieville, Assumption Parish, in June 1852 and seems to have married on the lower Lafourche by 1870. 

Oscar, perhaps the only son, may have married Anglo American Mary Wilton, place and date unrecorded, and settled near Lockport, Lafourche Parish, in the late 1860s. ...

Hilaire's sixth son Isidore Onésime, called Onésime and Olésime, from second wife Renée Trahan, married Marie Arsenie, Ursenie, or Ursine, daughter of fellow Acadian Constant Boudreaux and his Creole wife Hélène Picou, perhaps civilly in the late 1840s, and sanctified the marriage at the Plattenville church in July 1849.  They settled on the upper Lafourche before moving to the Lake Verret area.  Their children, born there, included Jean Baptiste Henri Taylor in October 1848; Marie Louise in June 1850; Carville Édouard in March 1853; Marie Eugénie in January 1856; Marie Philomène in January 1857; Joseph Édouard near Attakapas Canal east of Lake Verret in January 1858; Marie Elmire in August 1860; Étienne Adrien in September 1862; Ernest Pierre in December 1863; Marie Virginie in August 1865; Joseph in January 1867; Paul Aristide in October 1870; ...  None of Onésime's children married by 1870. 

Hilaire's eighth son Hilaire, fils, by second wife Renée Trahan, married cousin Eméranthe or Venérante, daughter of Creoles François Martin and Adèle Bergeron, civilly before sanctifying the marriage at the Plattenville church in March 1842; Eméranthe's mother was a Breaux.  Hilaire, fils and Eméranthe's children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Petronille Angéline in June 1840; Joséphine in November 1841; Louis Émile, called Émile, near Plattenville in May 1844; Élodie Philomène in April 1846; twins Joseph Edgard and Pierre Désiré near Paincourtville in April 1849; Marie Eugénie near Plattenville in December 1852; and Mathilde Aurelia near Attakapas Canal in March 1861--eight children, five daughters and three sons, including a set of twins, between 1840 and 1861.  Daughters ... married into the Cancienne and Mire families by 1870.  One of Hilaire, fils's sons also married by then and settled on lower Bayou Teche in the late 1860s. 

Oldest son Louis Émile, called Émile, married Eulalie, daughter of Hubert Barbier and his Acadian wife Rosalie Melançon, at the Attakapas Canal church, Assumption Parish, in October 1866.  Their children, born in the upper Lafourche valley and on the lower Teche, included Étienne Homère near Attakapas Canal in July 1867; Camille near New Iberia, Iberia Parish, in December 1868; Rosalie Ophelia near Attakapas Canal in December 1870; ... 

Joseph's third son Paul Olivier, by first wife Marie-Madeleine Melançon, married Marie, daughter of Étienne Pelletier and Jeanne Croxinet, at Ascension on the river in February 1806.  Later in the decade or in the early 1810s, they followed his father to the Attakapas District and settled on the upper Vermilion.  Their children, born on the river and the prairies, included Marie Clémence in Ascension Parish in July 1808; Doralise or Doralie in St. James Parish in the late 1800s or early 1810s; and Cécile Azéma, also called Arthémise, on the upper Vermilion in March 1812--three children, all daughters, between 1808 and 1812.  Paul Olivier died on the upper Vermilion in December 1813, age 28.  His first succession, naming his wife, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse the following June.  A second succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in August 1828.  Daughters Marie Clémence, Doralise, and Cécile married into the Babineaux, Begnaud, and Granger families.  Paul Olivier had no sons, so his line of the family, except for its blood, died with him.  

Joseph's fourth son Joseph Achille, called Achille, from third wife Léonore Landry, married Marie Carmegille, Carmélite, or Carmélise, daughter of fellow Acadians Benjamin Mire and Marie Louise Bernard, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in May 1829.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Marie Octavine in 1830 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 4 months, in February 1831; Octave, also called Joseph or Octave Joseph, born in early 1832 and baptized at age 18 months in August 1833; Augustave, called Gustave, baptized at age 8 months in October 1834; Léonide born in 1836 and baptized at age 7 months in April 1837 but died the following August; Adeline born in February 1838; Onézima or Onésime in December 1839 but died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 1), in September 1841; Emma born in September 1841; Siméon or Simon in January 1843; Léonard in the early 1840s; twins Euranie and Eve Eveline (though the Vermilionville church records give two separate birthdays, the 19th for Euranie and the 28th for Eve) in February 1848; Élodie in May 1851[sic]; and Odille in September 1851[sic]--13 children, eight daughters and five sons, including a set of twins, between 1830 and 1851.  Daughters ... married into the Bertrand, Mathieu, and Morvant families by 1870.  Four of Achille's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Joseph Octave married Marie Advelia, daughter of Maxile Mathieu and Marguerite Lebon, at the Vermilionville church in January 1855; Joseph Octave's sister Adeline married Marie Advelia's brother Benoît. ...

Achille's second son Gustave likely married Marie Azélie Caruthers in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in December 1858, and sanctified the marriage at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, the following March.  She evidently gave him no children.  Gustave remarried to fellow Acadian Anastasie, daughter of perhaps fellow Acadian Joseph Sonnier, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in June 1865, and sanctified the marriage at the Church Point church, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in February 1868.  Their son Joseph was born near Church Point in December 1867; ... 

Achille's fourth son Siméon or Simon married Euranie, daughter of Alexis Bertrand, fils and his Acadian wife Carmélite Trahan, at the Youngsville church, Lafayette Parish, in September 1865.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Siméon, fils near Youngsville in September 1866; Alfred Nicolas near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in December 1870; ...

Achille's fifth and youngest son Léonard married Émelia, daughter of fellow Acadian Élisée Mire and his Creole wife Marie Reaux and widow of Darmas Boulay, at the Youngsville church in January 1866.  Their son Adam was born near Youngsville in November 1866.  Léonard may have remarried to Elvina Credeur.  Their son Joseph Victorin was born near Abbeville in December 1870; ...

Joseph's fifth son Charles Olivier, by third wife Léonore Landry, married Adélaïde dite Mélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Pierre Landry and Adélaïde Dugas, at the Vermilionville church in August 1835.  Their children, born on the prairies and the lower Teche, included Napoléon in Lafayette Parish in May 1837; Joseph, also called Joseph Drosin, near New Iberia, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in January 1841; Antoine in June 1843; Donat in July 1845; Adelaïde in November 1849; Lucien near Charenton, St. Mary Parish, in December 1851; Euphémie Eulalie in November 1853; and Anastasie near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in November 1855--eight children, five sons and three daughters, between 1837 and 1855.  Daughter ... married into the Miguez family by 1870.  Two of Charles Olivier's sons also married by then and settled near New Iberia and on the St. Landry prairies. 

Oldest son Napoléon married Aspasie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Babineaux and his Creole wife Hortense Peret, at the Vermilionville church in July 1857.  Their children, born on the prairies and the lower Teche, included Hippolyte in Lafayette Parish in September 1859; Ozea near Abbeville in February 1861; Elvina in February 1862; Ubalde near New Iberia in May 1870; ...

Charles Olivier's second son Joseph Drosin married Marie Delphy or Zelphie, daughter of fellow Acadian Gédéon Sonnier and his Anglo-American wife Célestine Berwick, at the Church Point church in August 1865.  Their children, born on the lower Teche and the prairies, included Joseph Drosin, fils near New Iberia in December 1868; Donat near Church Point on upper Bayou Plaquemine Brûlé in December 1870; ...

Joseph's sixth son Simon dit Simonet, by third wife Léonore Landry, married Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Granger and Juliènne Louvière, at the Vermilionville church in August 1834.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included a child, name unrecorded, died a day after his/her birth in October 1835; Carmélite born in January 1837; Norbert baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 40 days, in December 1839; Amélie born in January 1842; Simon, fils in April 1844 but died at age 3 1/2 (the recording priest said 4 1/2) in August 1847; Hilaire born in c1846 but died at age 4 in July 1850; Joseph Ulger or Ulgère, called Ulgère, born in April 1849; and Evelina in January 1852.  Wife Carmélite died in early February 1852, probably from the rigors of childbirth.  Simonet remarried to Zelima or Zulima, also called Juliana, daughter of fellow Acadians David Babineaux and Louise Prejean, at the Vermilionville church in January 1854; the marriage was recorded also at Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish.  They settled probably near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Marie Uranie in December 1854; and Marie Zélima in October 1856--10 children, at least five daughters and four sons, by two wives, between 1835 and 1856.  Simonet was "struck by lightning" and killed probably at Carencro in July 1857.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Simonet died "at age 45 yrs."  He was a month shy of 43.  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the day after his death.  Daughter ..., by his first wife, married into the Hébert family by 1870.  His remaining sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Norbert, by first wife Carmélite Granger, married Marie Pamela, called Pamela, daughter of fellow Acadians Sarasin Hébert and Véronique Guidry, at the Vermilionville church in July 1860.  They settled near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Simonette, a son, in April 1861 but, called Simonet, died the following July; Véronique born in February 1862; Adam in January 1867; Norbert, fils in March 1868; ...

Simonet's fourth and youngest son Joseph Ulgère, by first wife Carmélite Granger, married Alphonsine, daughter of fellow Acadians Adolphe Labauve and Irène David, at the Vermilionville church in December 1869. ...

Joseph's seventh and youngest son Hippolyte Joseph, by third wife Léonore Landry, married Irma Anne, also called Irma Josaphat, daughter of fellow Acadians Éloi Broussard and Suzanne Broussard, at the New Iberia church in October 1838.  Their children, born near New Iberia, included Joseph, also called Hippolyte Joseph, fils, in September 1839; Lesin or Lessin in June 1841; Julien Derosin in April 1843 but, called Derosin, died at age 6 (the recording priest said 7) in April 1849; Marie Clelie born in April 1845 but, called Clelie, died in St. Martin Parish, age 4 (the recording priest said 5), in April 1849; Eusèbe born in July 1847; and Adeline in March 1849 but died near New Iberia, age 6 (the recording priest said 8), in February 1855--six children, four sons and two daughters, between 1839 and 1849.  Hippolyte died in St. Martin Parish in March 1850, age 34 (the recording priest said 35).  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in April.  Neither of his daughter's married, but three of his sons did. 

Oldest son Hippolyte Joseph, fils married Émelie or Amelie, daughter of fellow Acadians Édouard Hébert and Madeleine Babin, at the New Iberia church in September 1860.  Their children, born near New Iberia, included Félicia in January 1865; Hirma in February 1862; ...

Hippolyte Joseph, père's second son Lessin married cousin Marie Cordelia, daughter of fellow Acadians Gerville Breaux and Hélène Landry of Assumption Parish, at the New Iberia church in December 1866.  Their daughter Marie Élina was born near New Iberia in October 1867.  Lessin's succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in March 1868.  He would have been age 27 that year.  Was this a post-mortem succession?  Did he father any sons? 

Hippolyte Joseph, père's fourth and youngest son Eusèbe married Élodie, daughter of Séverin Verret and Eugénie Étienne, at the New Iberia church in January 1868.  Their son Hippolyte Joseph le jeune was born near New Iberia in April 1870; ...

Alexis's third son Charles followed his family to Maryland, New Orleans, into hiding, and to Cabahannocer, where he married first cousin Esther or Estelle, daughter of his Jean-Baptiste Breaux and his second wife Marie-Rose Landry, his uncle and aunt, in April 1777.  Esther was a sister of his older brother Honoré le jeune's wife Madeleine.  Charles and Esther's hildren, born on the river, included Charles, fils baptized at Cabahannocer, age unrecorded, in July 1779; Constant l'aîné baptized, age unrecorded, in February 1781 but died at age 16 in August 1796; Marie-Henriette, called Henriette, born in March 1783; and Clarisse-Marguerite in the 1780s.  Charles remarried to Judith, daughter of fellow Acadians Antoine Leprince and Cécile Arcement, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in June 1789.  Their children, born on the river, included Bertrand, called Constant le jeune, baptized at the New Orleans church, age 6 months, in September 1790; and Désiderate-Marie or Marie-Désirée born at Cabahannocer in July 1794--six children, three sons and three daughters, by two wives, between 1779 and 1794.  Charles died at Cabahannocer in June 1802, age 49.  Daughters Henriette, Clarisse, and Marie Désirée, by both wives, married into the Bergeron, Pelletier, Bourg, and LeBlanc families.  One of them moved to the Attakapas District.  Two of Charles's sons also married and settled on the western prairies, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Charles, fils, by first wife Esther Breaux, married Marie-Tarsile, called Tarsile, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Gravois and Madeleine Bourg, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in January 1798.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer, included Marie-Céline in October 1798; and a son, name and age unrecorded, died in August 1800.  In the early 1800s, Charles, fils took his family to the western prairies and settled on upper Bayou Vermilion.  Marie Tarsile's succession was filed at the St. Martin Parish courthouse in May 1818.  Charles, fils remarried to Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Charles Hébert and Madeleine Robichaux of Bayou Vermilion, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in June 1819.  They remained on the upper Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included Charles III in March 1820 but may have died in Lafayette Parish by December 1845, in his early or mid-20s, when a succession was filed in his name at the Vermilionville courthouse; Marguerite born in July 1821; Ursin in October 1823; Joseph Charles or Charles Joseph in 1825 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 11 1/2 months, in May 1826; and Esther born in May 1827--seven children, three daughters and four sons, by two wives, between 1798 and 1827.  Charles, fils died at the home of James André in Lafayette Parish in July 1827.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said Charles died "at age 46 years."  He probably was closer to 48.  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in July 1829.  Daughters Marie Céline, Marguerite, and Estelle, by both wives, married into the Dugas, Peltier or Pelletier, and Raga, perhaps Racca, families.  Only one of Charles, fils's sons married. 

Fourth and youngest son Joseph Charles or Charles Joseph, by second wife Marguerite Hébert, married Marie Doralise, called Doralise, daughter of Vincent Bertrand and his Acadian wife Marie Emérante Richard, at the Vermilionville church in December 1848.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Charles le jeune in December 1849; Estelle in May 1851; Joseph in January 1853; Marie Élise in November 1854 but died in December; Luc born in December 1855 but died at age 5 1/2 (the recording priest said 6) in July 1861; Vincent Anicet, perhaps Anaclet, born in April 1857; a child, name unrecorded, died at age 3 months in June 1863; Marguerite born in May 1861; Numa in September 1864; Albert in August 1867; ...  According to a biographer of prominent southwest Louisianians, Joseph C., as he was called, became "a prosperous farmer and stock raiser of the eighth ward" of Lafayette Parish.  He also went into the mercantile business, in which he was still engaged in the early 1890s.   His remaining daughters did not marry by 1870, but one of his sons did.

Oldest son Charles le jeune married Lodoiska, daughter of fellow Acadians Sosthène Guidry and Anne Broussard, at the Vermilionville church in June 1870. ...

Charles, père's third and youngest son Bertrand/Constant le jeune, by second wife Judith Prince, followed his older half brother Charles to the Attakapas District and married cousin Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadians François Breaux and Silesie Dugas of Bayou Vermilion, at the St. Martinville church in July 1810.  They moved farther out onto the prairies.  Constant le jeune died in Lafayette Parish in June 1850.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said that Constant died "at age 60 yrs.," so this was him.  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in August.  Wife Céleste died in Lafayette Parish in June 1851, age 66.  A succession for both she and Constant was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in August 1851.  They may have been that rare Acadian couple who had no children.   

Alexis's fourth and youngest son Alexis, fils followed his family to New Orleans, into hiding, and to Cabahannocer, where he married cousin Marie, daughter of Athanase Breaux and Marie LeBlanc, in April 1786.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer, included Marie-Constance in August 1789; Donat in August 1792; and Rosémond in August 1795.  Wife Marie died at Cabahannocer in November 1800, in her early 30s.  Alexis, fils remarried to Pélagie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Marie Richard and Rosalie Bourgeois and widow of Valentin-Philippe de Saint-Julien de Lachaussée, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in June 1801.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer/St. James, included Michel-Anselme in April 1802 but died at age 18 months in October 1803; Marie Joséphine born in April 1804; and Marine Rose in July 1806--six children, three sons and three daughters, by two wives, between 1789 and 1806.  Alexis, fils died in St. James Parish in January 1810.  The priest who recorded the burial said Alexis was age 49 when he died.  He was closer to 44.  Daughters Marie Constance and Marine, by both wives, married into the LeBlanc, Berard, and Gaudet families and settled on the western prairies.  Two of Alexis, fils's sons also married and remained on the river, but only one of their lines endured.  

Oldest son Donat, by first wife Marie Breaux, married Marie Godelise, called Godelise and Lise, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Bergeron and Marie Landry, at the St. James church, St. James Parish, in February 1816.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included Marie Élisabeth in December 1816; Marie Marine in December 1818; Marie Aglayde or Aglaé in July 1820; and Marie Olive baptized at the St. James church, age 10 months, in September 1825--four children, all daughters, between 1816 and 1825.  Donat died in St. James Parish in March 1838, age 46.  Daughters ... married into the Bergeron, Lanoix, LeBlanc, and Poirier families.  He evidently fathered no sons, but the blood of his line endured.  

Alexis, fils's second son Rosémond, by first wife Marie Breau, married Marie Amelie, Émelie, or Émelite, another daughter of Michel Bergeron and Marie Landry, at the St. James church in April 1815.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included Marie Émilie, called Émilie, in August 1816; Michel Trasimond, called Trasimond, in November 1818; and Marie Elmire in April 1821 but died at age 1 1/2 in January 1823.  Rosémond remarried to Mélanie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph dit Cadet Dugas and Marie LeBlanc and widow of Simon Arceneaux, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in September 1825.  Their son Alexis Sosthène, called Sosthène, was born in St. James Parish in July 1827.  Rosémond remarried again--his third marriage--to Eméranthe, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Melançon and Osite Barbe LeBlanc and widow of Leufroi Daigre, at the Convent church in July 1839.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included Marie Hélène in June 1840 but, called Helena, died at age 8 months in February 1841; twins Marie Ophelia and Rose Eméranthe born in January 1842, but Marie Ophelia, called Marie Rosémond, died at age 2 1/2 in July 1844; and Pierre Alexis born in January 1844--eight children, five daughters and three sons, by three wives, including a set of twins, between 1816 and 1844.  Rosémond died in Ascension Parish in January 1868.  The Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife said that Rosémond died at "age 74 years."  He was 72.  Daughter Émilie, by his first wife, married into the Poirier family by 1870.  Rosémond's three sons also married by then and settled in St. James, Ascension, and Assumption parishes. 

Oldest son Michel Trasimond, called Trasimond, from first wife Amelie Bergeron, married Phelonise, daughter of fellow Acadians Raphaël Gaudin and Amelie Hébert, at the Convent church in May 1842.  Their children, born near Convent, included Alexis Camille in August 1843; Marie Elmire, called Elmire, in August 1846; Émilie in December 1848; Camelia in January 1855; Michel Trasimond, fils in June 1857 but, called Trasimond, fils, died at age 2 in October 1859; Jean Elphége born in January 1859 but, called Elphége, died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 2) in December 1860; and Marie Émelia born in May 1861 but, called Amélise, died near Convent, age 2 1/2, in July 1863--seven children, three sons and four daughters, between 1843 and 1861.  Trasimond died near Convent in March 1862.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Trasimond died at "age 47 years."  He would have been age 43.  One wonders if his death was war-related.  Daughter Elmire married a Gaudin cousin by 1870.  Trasimond's remainng son did not marry by then, if he married at all (one wonders if he perished during the War of 1861-65, when he would have been in his late teens or early 20s). 

Rosemond's second son Alexis Sosthène, called Sosthène, from second wife Mélanie Dugas, married Marie du Carmel dite Carmélite, perhaps also called Marie Noémi, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Guidry and Amélie Virginie Bourgeois, at the Convent church in April 1847.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Marie Virginie in November 1848; Joseph Antoine Rosémond in January 1852; Jean Joseph in February 1855; and Evelina in June 1858.  Wife Marie Noémie died in Ascension Parish in November 1858, age 30 (the recording priest said 33), perhaps from the rigors of childbirth.  Sosthène remarried to Ruphine, daughter of André Sanchez and Antoinette Albarez, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in December 1865.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Ursule near Gonzales in October 1866; Martin baptized at the Convent church, age unrecorded, in April 1870; ...  Daughter Marie, by his first wife, married into the Melançon family by 1870.  None of Sosthène's sons married then. 

Rosemond's third and youngest son Pierre Alexis, by third wife Eméranthe Melançon, married cousin Julia or Julie, daughter of Louis Lanoix and his Acadian wife Olive Breaux, at the Donaldsonville church in January 1869.  Daughter Alice Elizabeth was born near Labadieville, Assumption Parish, on upper Bayou Lafourche, in March 1870; ...

Honoré l'aîné (c1731-?) à Antoine à Vincent Breaux

Honoré, third son of Alexandre Breau and Marie Dugas, born at Pigiguit in c1731, married Anne-Madeleine Trahan probably at Pigiguit in the early 1750s.  Anne-Madeleine gave him a daughter, Madeleine, born there in c1754.  In the fall of 1755, The British deported them to Maryland.  They were living at Port Tobacco on the lower Potomac in July 1763, when they appeared on a French repatriation list circulating in the colony.  Anne-Madeleine gave Honoré two more children in the Chesapeake colony, probably at Port Tobacco:  Élisabeth or Isabelle born in c1765; and Joseph-Honoré in c1767.  Along with older brother Alexis, Honoré organized the resettling of 150 kinsmen in Spanish Louisiana in 1767-68.  He, Anne-Madeleine, and their three children, along with the other exiles from Port Tobacco, reached New Orleans via Cap-Français, in February 1768.  When Spanish Governor Ulloa insisted that the Breaus and their fellow exiles settle at Fort San Luìs de Natchez, far above the other Acadian communities on the lower Mississippi, Honoré and his brother refused to go there.  The governor threatened to deport them and their families, so the brothers went into hiding with their families.  Honoré and Alexis likely encouraged and may have participated in the Creole-led revolt against Ulloa the following October.  Ulloa's successor, Governor-General Alejandro O'Reilly, after crushing the revolt in August 1769, allowed the Breaus and the other Acadians to settle where they wanted.  Honoré and Alexis chose Cabahannocer on the Acadian Coast, where older brother Jean-Baptiste had settled in 1766.  Anne-Madeleine gave Honoré another son, Pierre, born in the colony in c1768--four children, two sons and two daughters, between 1754 and 1768, in greater Acadia, Maryland, and Louisiana.  Daughters Madeleine and Isabelle married into the Quintero, Ququerier, and Simoneaux families.  Only one of Honoré 's sons married.  One of Honoré's daughters and his married son settled on Bayou Lafourche, but at least one of Honoré's great-grandsons joined his cousins on the western prairies.   

Older son Joseph-Honoré followed his family to New Orleans, into hiding, and to Cabahannocer, where he married cousin Marie-Félicité, called Félicité, daughter of fellow Acadians Joachim-Hyacinthe Trahan and Marie Duhon, in April 1789.  Félicité, a native of Belle-Île-en-Mer, France, had come to Louisiana with her family on one of the Seven Ships in 1785.  In January 1791, Spanish officials counted the couple on the right, or west, bank of the river at nearby Ascension.  They lived briefly on the prairies later in the decade and then moved to upper Bayou Lafourche, where they remained.  Their children, born on the river, the prairies, and the Lafourche, included Joseph-Honoré, fils at Cabahannocer in August 1790; Eulalie-or Émelie-Rosalie, also Rosalie-Émelie, at Assumption on the upper Lafourche in August 1793; Marie-Madeleine at Attakapas in October 1795; Félicité baptized at Assumption, age unrecorded, in December 1797; Claire-Marguerite, called Marguerite, Marie-Claire-Marguerite, and Clarisse, born in September 1799; Joseph-Marie in November 1801; Édouard in May 1804; Dominique Honoré in August 1807; Marie Félicité in June 1809; Marie Josèphe in the late 1800s or early 1810s; Pauline Marie or Marie Pauline in June 1812; and Luce or Lucie Delphine or Delphine Lucie in December 1815--a dozen children, four sons and eight daughters, between 1790 and 1815.  Joseph Honoré died in Lafourche Interior Parish in June 1830.  The Thibodauxville priest who recorded the burial called him Honoré Joseph "of Poupmont, England," and did not give his parents' names or mention a wife.  He would have been in his early 60s, and he likely was born at Port Tobacco, Maryland.  His succession, naming is wife and listing his children and some of their spouses--Pauline Marie; Delphine Lucie; Joseph Honoré, fils, deceased, and his wife; Joseph Marie and his wife; Dominique Honoré; Marie Félicité and her husband; Marguerite and her husband; Marie Josèphe and her husband; and Émelie Rosalie and her husband--was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse in February 1831.  Widow Marie Félicité, who did not remarry, died in Lafourche Interior Parish in June 1842, age 77.  A succession inventory, naming her husband and listing their children and some of their spouses--Rosalie, Madeleine and her husband, Félicité and her husband, Clarisse Marguerite and her husband, Joseph, Edward, Dominique, Marie and her husband, Marie Pauline and her husband, and Lucy Delphine and her husband--was filed in her name at the Thibodaux courthouse in July 1842.  Daughters Émelie Rosalie, Marie Madeleine, Félicité, Marie Claire/Clarisse Marguerite, Marie Félicité, Marie Josèphe, Marie Pauline, and Lucie Delphine married into the Badeaux, Robichaux, Babin, Hébert, Thibodeaux, Maggiolo, Lirette, Martin, and Burnham families.  Joseph Honoré's four sons also married and settled in the Bayou Lafourche valley.  Some of his grandsons moved down into Terrebonne Parish. 

Oldest son Joseph Honoré, fils married cousin Marie Félicité, called Félicité, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Richard and Marie Josèphe Trahan, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1811.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Josèphe in December 1811; Marie Marguerite in May 1813; Marie Marcelline in November 1815; Céleste Adèle in June 1817 but died at age 7 in September 1824; Augustine Adeline, called Adeline, born in July 1819; Joseph Alexandre or Alexandre Joseph in March 1821; Marie Euphrosine in July 1823; and Marie Rose or Rosalie in May 1825--eight children, seven daughters and a son, between 1811 and 1825.  Joseph Honoré, fils died in Lafourche Interior Parish by September 1826, when his succession inventory, listing his wife and children and his children's ages--Marie Marceline, age 10; Augustine Adeline, age 7; Joseph Alexandre, age 5 1/2; Marie Euphrosyne, age 3; Marie Rosalie, age 1 1/2; Marie Joseph, age 15; and Marie Marguerite, age 13--was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse.  He would have been age 36 that year.  Daughters Marie Josèphe, Marie Marguerite, Marie Marcelline, Marie Rosalie, and Adeline married into the Lirette, Babin, Bergeron, Sonnier, and Tregle families.  Joseph Honoré, fils's son also married and settled in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley. 

Only son Joseph Alexandre, a resident of Terrebonne Parish, married Rosalie, also called Eulalie, daughter of Benjamin Malbrough and Émelize Boudeloche, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in January 1842, after Rosalie received permission to marry from her tutor, François Maronge; the marriage was recorded also in Terrebonne Parish.  They settled in Lafourche Interior Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie Rosalie in September 1842; Pierre Joseph Adam, called Joseph, fils, in September 1844; Émilie in March 1847; Euphrosine Félicia in March 1849; Marie Louisiane in October 1851; Victor Octave in December 1853; Augustine Eliska in September 1856; Benjamin Aurelien in June 1859; Jean Baptiste Ernest in February 1862; Ernest Franklin in October 1864 but, called Franklin, died at age 9 (the recording priest said 10) months in July 1865; ...  None of Joseph Alexandre's daughters seems to have married by 1870, at least not in South Louisiana, but one of his sons did marry by then and settled in Terrebonne Parish. 

Oldest son Joseph, fils married Luvinia or Livinia, daughter of fellow Acadians Mathurin Daigle and Lesida Dugas, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in May 1867.  Their son Joseph Félix was born in Terrebonne Parish in August 1868; ... 

Joseph Honoré, père's second son Joseph Marie married Marie Tarsille or Tarsille Marie, 19-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Aucoin and Hélène Thibodeaux, at the Thibodauxville church in November 1821.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joseph Honoré le jeune, called Honoré, in September 1824; Drauzin or Drosin, called Joseph Drosin or Rosin and also Pierre and Dauzin, in June 1827; and Marie Josèphe, also called Tarsille Marie Josèphe, in February 1829--three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1824 and 1828.  Joseph Marie died in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1828, age 27.  His succession inventory, listing his wife and children--Joseph Honoré, age 4 or 5; Drausin, age 2 or 3; and Therzile Marie Josèphe, no age given (she was still an infant)--was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse in April 1829.  His daughter did not marry by 1870.  Both of his sons did and settled in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley.

Older son Joseph Honoré le jeune married Marie Émelie, called Émelie and Mélissère, Boudeloche in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in July 1847.  They remained in Terrebonne Parish.  Their children, born there, included Léonide Désiré, called Désiré, in June 1848; Uma Joseph, perhaps a daughter named Uméa Josèphe, on Bayou Black in June 1850; Honoré Erneste in May 1855; Philomène Victorine in May 1857; and Basile in November 1859--five children, three sons and two daughters, between 1848 and 1859.  Neither of Joseph Honoré le jeune's daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did. 

Oldest son Désiré married Marie Clémence, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Narcisse Robichaux and Ursule Robichaux, at the Montegut church, Terrebonne Parish, in February 1869.  Their son Roger Honoré was born near Montegut in December 1870; ...

Joseph Marie's younger son Drosin married Marie Adèle, called Adèle, daughter of Valéry Boudeloche and his Acadian wife Marie Robichaux, at the Thibodaux church in January 1848.  They settled near Bayou Black, Terrebonne Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie Eve Lia or Evelia, called Evelia, in November 1848; Clodomir in October 1850; Marie Adolia in November 1852; Émile Oleus in November 1854; Marie Tersile in September 1856; Rosa Ophelia in July 1859; Charles Aubanne in January 1862; Clet Banon in May 1864; Marie Survilia Alice in March 1866; Marie Elvire in November 1868; Eve in December 1869; Evella in August 1870; ...  Daughter Evelia married into the Trahan family by 1870.  None of Drosin's sons married by then. 

Joseph Honoré, père's third son Édouard, at age 23, married Marie Arthémise, 21-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Hippolyte LeBlanc and Marie Marguerite Gaudet, at the Thibodauxville church in February 1828.  They may have had no children, at least none who appear in local church records.   At age 47, Édouard remarried to Marie Eveline, daughter of fellow Acadians Narcisse Guillot and Anne Rosalie Bourg and widow of Joseph Marengo, at the Thibodaux church in April 1852.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Evelina in April 1853; Marie Joséphine in September 1854 but, called Joséphine, died at age 2 in August 1856; Joseph Aurelien born in June 1860; Edgar Joseph in March 1862; ...  None of Édouard's children married by 1870. 

Joseph Honoré, père's fourth and youngest son Dominique Honoré married Élisabeth dite Élisa, 21-year-old daughter of Nicolas Albert and his Acadian wife Madeleine Bourg, at the Thibodauxville church in May 1828.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie died at age 7 days in June 1829; Pierre Honoré born in June 1830; another Marie died three hours after birth in January 1833; Adèle Honorine born in June 1834 but died the following November; and Armogène or Hermogène, also called Louis Hermogène, born in September 1836.  Dominique Honoré remarried to Julie Elmire or Edmire, daughter of Jean Boudeloche and his Acadian wife Constance Thibodeaux, at the Thibodaux church in April 1842.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Arsène in January 1844; Michel Trasimond in September 1845; Joseph Trasimond in September 1847; Ovile Édouard on Bayou Black in June 1849; Marie Félicité or Félicie, called Félicie, in July 1852; Lomère Evariste in January 1855; and Prospère Dominique in April 1858.  At age 56, Dominique Honoré "from Lafourche Parish and lives in Terrebonne Parish" remarried again--his third marriage--to Joséphine Louisiane, daughter of Eusilien Clément, a French Creole, not a fellow Acadian, and Scholastie Lavant of Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes and widow of Joseph Perrin of France, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in November 1863.  They moved on to the western prairies later in the decade.  Their children, born in Terrebonne and on the prairies, included Ulyssia Cécilia in Terrebonne Parish in May 1864; Ulissien Uselien in December 1865; Hyacinthe near Youngsville, Lafayette Parish, in September 1869; ...  Daughter Félicie, by his second wife, married into the Hébert family on the prairies by 1870.  Three of Dominique's sons also married by then.  One of them remained in Terrebonne, and the others settled on the western prairies. 

Oldest son Pierre Honoré, by first wife Élisa Albert, married Céleste Virginie, 20-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Hébert and Angélique LeBlanc of Terrebonne Parish, at the Houma church in September 1851.  They lived near the boundary between Terrebonne and Lafourche Interior parishes.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Delmas in February 1853; Jean Pierre in March 1854; Angélique Élise in February 1856; Erneste Taylor in February 1859; Robert Oleus in March 1861; Elesida Luvinia in January 1863; Means Oscar in December 1863[sic]; Jules in September 1867; ...  None of Pierre Honoré's children married by 1870. 

Dominique Honoré's second son Louis Hermogène, by first wife Élisa Albert, married Adela or Adèle, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Hébert and his Creole wife Marie Élise Fremin, at the Houma church in August 1858.  They were living near New Iberia on lower Bayou Teche in the mid-1860s. ...

Dominique Honoré's third son Michel Trasimond, by second wife Julie Boudeloche, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Hébert and his Creole wife Éloise Montet of Lafayette Parish, at the Youngsville church in December 1866.  Their son Joseph was born near Youngsville in January 1870; ...

Honoré l'aîné's younger son Pierre may have been the Pierre Breaux who died at Ascension, age 35, in November 1803.  The priest who recorded the burial did not give any parents' names or mention a wife or children. 

Joseph-Charles (c1734-?) à Antoine à Vincent Breaux

Joseph-Charles, fourth son of Alexandre Breau and Marie Dugas, born at Pigiguit in c1734, married Marie-Josèphe Landry probably at Pigiguit in c1755.  In the fall of that year, the British deported them to Maryland, where Marie-Josèphe gave Joseph-Charles at least three children, including Marguerite, born in c1760; Joseph-Marie in c1763; and Claire in c1765.  Joseph-Charles, Marie-Josèphe, and two of their children, Joseph-Marie and Marguerite, along with many of their kinsmen, were listed on a French repatriation list at Port Tobacco in July 1763.  With two daughters and a son--Marguerite, Claire, and Joseph-Marie--the family emigrated to Louisiana in 1767-68 with the expedition led by his older brothers Alexis and Honoré.  They reached New Orleans in February 1768.  Marie-Josèphe was pregnant on the voyage.  Son Charles was born either at New Orleans or, more likely, at Fort San Luìs de Natchez later in the year.  The Breaus defied Spanish Governor Ulloa when he insisted that they settle at the distant fort.  Ulloa threatened to deport the new arrivals for their defiance, against which Joseph-Charles and his older brothers loudly protested.  Perhaps because of his wife's condition, Joseph-Charles and his family did not join brothers Alexis and Honoré and their familes in hiding, but Joseph-Charles evidently was the Joseph Breau whom Lieutenant Pedro Piernas, the commandant at Fort San Luìs de Natchez, traduced to Governor Ulloa soon after the Acadians reached the post.  If Joseph-Charles did not participate in the revolt against Ulloa the followng October, he and his brothers certainly encouraged it.  When Ulloa's successor, Governor-General Alejandro O'Reilly, released the Acadians from Fort San Luìs in 1769, Joseph-Charles chose to resettle first at San Gabriel and then at nearby Ascension on the upper Acadian Coast, on the river above his brothers.  Joseph-Charles and Marie-Josèphe had more children on the river, including Arsène born at Ascension in the early 1770s; Scholastique in c1772; and twins Louis, also called François, and Urselle in June 1774--at least eight children, four daughters and four sons, between 1760 and 1774, in greater Acadia, Maryland, and Louisiana.  Daughters Marguerite, Claire, and Scholastique married into the Hébert, Comeaux, Melançon, and Landry families.  All four of Joseph Charles's sons married and settled on the Acadian Coast.  A great-grandson, who settled in the Bayou Teche valley, served as chief justice of the Louisiana State Supreme Court in the early 1900s. 

Oldest son Joseph-Marie followed his family to New Orleans, Natchez, and San Gabriel, where he married Marie-Hélène, called Hélène, daughter of Joseph Hamilton and Anastasie Comes of Maryland, in July 1786.  Their children, born near San Gabriel, included Marie-Eulalie-Adélaïde in April 1787 but died the following November; and Joseph-Allain, called Allain, born near Bayou Goula on the west side of the river in June 1788.  Joseph-Marie died by February 1792, when his wife remarried at San Gabriel.  Their son married and settled on the Acadian Coast, but the line may not have endured. 

Only son Joseph Allain, called Allain, married Marie Adélaïde, called Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Marie Landry and Brigitte Babin, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in January 1813.  They may have settled near Bayou Goula.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Joseph Dellfone in November 1813; Marie Adeline or Adveline in May 1815; Marie Amélie or Émilie in October 1816; Paul Ruben in May 1818 but died at age 10 in September 1828; Jean Baptiste born in 1819 and baptized at the St. Gabriel church, age 6 months, in April 1820; Marie born in c1821 but died at age 2 in November 1823; Marie Domitile born in April 1823; Florentin in October 1825 but died at age 11 in July 1837; Joseph Alphonse born in late 1833 but died at age 2 1/2 in April 1836; and Marie Adélaïde born in July 1837--10 children, five sons and five daughters, between 1813 and 1837.  Joseph Allain died perhaps near Bayou Goula in January 1848, age 59 (the recording priest at St. Gabriel said 61 and called him "native of Bayou Goula").  Daughters Marie Adveline and Marie Amélie married into the Godefroy and Menslage families by 1870.  Neither of Allain's remaining sons married by then, if at all, so one wonders if the line, except for its blood, endured. 

Joseph Charles's second son Charles followed his family to San Gabriel, where he married cousin Marie-Rosalie, called Rosalie, another daughter Paul-Marie Landry and Brigitte Babin, in February 1796; they had to secure a dispensation for fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born at San Gabriel, included Célestine in c1796 but died at age 7 in April 1803; Marie born in November 1796; another Marie in October 1798; Marie-Léonise or -Cléonise, called Cléonise, in May 1800; Marguerite-Josèphe or -Joséphine in August 1801; Charles-Grégoire, called Grégoire, in April 1803 but died at age 25 in November 1828; Joseph Valéry in October 1804 but died the following December; Ursin born in October 1805 but died at age 37 in April 1843; Leufroi born in July 1807 but died at age 24 (the recording priest, who called him Lefroy, said 23) in July 1831; and Julien Damase or Donat born in December 1809 but, called Julien Danate, died at age 21 in January 1830--10 children, five daughters and five sons, between 1796 and 1809.  Daughters Cléonise and Marguerite Joséphine married into the Landry, Melançon, and LeBlanc families.  Most of Charles's sons came of age but died before they could establish families of their own, so only the blood of this family line endured in the Bayou State. 

Joseph Charles's third son Arsène married Marie-Geneviève, called Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Daigre and Marie LeBlanc of Belle-Île-en-Mer, France, at San Gabriel in January 1798.  Geneviève was a native of Le Palais, Belle-Île, and had come to Louisiana with her family in 1785.  Their children, born at San Gabriel, included Marie, probably Marie Mélisaire, in June 1799; Marie-Céleste in January 1801; Marie-Azélie in December 1802; Jean Baptiste in October 1804; Marie Josèphe, perhaps also called Marie Séraphine, in May 1806; Joseph in the 1800s; Pierre Eugène, called Eugène, in March 1808; twins Arsène, fils and Marie Françoise Aimée, called Aimée, in August 1812; Joseph Arvillien or Orillien, in September 1815; and an infant, name unrecorded, died at birth in May 1819--11 children, at least five daughters and five sons, including a set of twins, between 1799 and 1819.  Arsène, père died near St. Gabriel in May 1830.  The priest who recorded the burial did not give Arsène's age at the time of his death, but he probably died in his late 50s.  The priest did note, however, that Arsène was "found dead in the woods after several weeks absence."  One wonders what was the circumstance of his death.  Wife Geneviève did not remarry.  Daughters Marie Mélisaire, Marie Céleste, Marie Azélie, Marie Séraphine, and Aimée married into the Comeaux, Landry, Henry, Allain, and Bourgeois families, two of them to Comeaux brothers.  Five of Arsène's sons also married and settled in Iberville Parish, but most of the lines did not endure.  A grandson served as chief justice of the Louisiana State Supreme Court in the early 1900s. 

Oldest son Jean Baptiste married Marie Uranie or Ursine, called Uranie, daughter of fellow Acadians Narcisse LeBlanc and Marie Anne Babin, at the St. Gabriel church in May 1827.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Jean Baptiste, fils in February 1829 but died the following September; Azéline born in April 1831 but, called Azélia, died at age 1 1/2 in September 1832; and Mariane born in June 1833.  Jean Baptiste remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Michael Walsh and Eugénie McGuinlly, at the St. Gabriel church in July 1836.  Their children, born near Bayou Goula, included Joseph Arsène in February 1838; Marie Pamelia in October 1844; Célestine Virginie in November 1847 but died at age 5 1/2 in September 1853; and Jean Baptiste Émile born in November 1849--seven children, three sons and four daughters, by two wives, between 1829 and 1849.  Daughter Mariane, by his first wife, married into the Haase family by 1870.  Only one of Jean Baptiste's remaining sons married by then.  He settled on the river, fought for the Southern Confederacy, spent much of the war in a prisoner-of-war camp, resettled on the western prairies and on lower Bayou Teche, and served as chief justice of the Louisiana State Supreme Court in the early 1900s but fathered no children.

Second son Joseph Arsène, by second wife Marguerite Walsh, was educated in local private schools before attending Georgetown College in Kentucky, where he earned his B.A. degree.  In 1859, he earned a law degree at the University of Louisiana, now Tulane University, was admitted to the bar, practiced law in Iberville Parish, and was publisher of the newspaper The Weekly Magnolia at Plaquemine in 1861.  In January 1861, at age 22, Joseph A. as he was called, ran for a seat in the state's secession convention as representative of the state senate district for Iberville Parish.  He ran as a Cooperationist--that is, an anti-secessionist--and garnered 329 votes to his secessionist opponent's 390 votes.  A few months later, Joseph Arsène married Eugénia M., daughter of Foreign Frenchman Thomas Mille and his Acadian wife Pauline Dupuy, at the Plaquemine church, Iberville Parish, in April 1861.  She gave him no children.  In September 1862 at Plaquemine, Joseph A., age 24, now reconciled to the war he did not welcome, enlisted in Company G of the 30th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. John the Baptist Parish, which fought in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee.  Joseph A. also served in Company B of that regiment.  (Interestingly, an older cousin of his from Lafayette Parish, Gustave A. Breaux, served briefly as captain of Company G and then as colonel of the 30th Regiment.)  Two biographers insists that Joseph A. was a captain in the 30th Regiment, that he served as "private and orderly sergeant" in the 2nd Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, and as "lieutenant and adjutant" in the 8th Louisiana Regiment Cavalry, but Confederate records do not support this.  A wartime record describes Joseph A. as having a dark complexion, dark hair, hazel eyes, and standing 5 feet 6 inches tall.  Joseph A. remained with the 30th, which became a battalion in March 1863, until June 1864, when he was captured at the Battle of Big Shanty, Georgia, during the Atlanta Campaign.  The Federals sent him to Nashville, Tennessee; then to the military prison at Louisville, Kentucky; and finally to the prisoner-of-war compound at Rock Island Barracks, Illinois, where he spent the rest of the war.  He took the oath of allegiance to the United States government at Rock Island in June 1865 and made his way home.  Reunited with his wife, he chose to settle not in his native Iberville Parish but in Lafayette Parish on the western prairies, where he resumed practicing law.  In 1867, he "superintended the distribution of food during [a] yellow fever epidemic."  He moved to Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in 1868 and then to New Iberia, the seat of the newly-created Iberia Parish, where he continued practicing law.  A local historian notes that he was "Probably the first lawyer to live in New Iberia."  He was "Associated with the P. L. Renoudet Lumber Company of New Iberia" in 1879 and was founder and first president of New Iberia National Bank.  From 1880 to 1888, he was a member of the Iberia Parish School Board and served as superintendant of parish schools.  In 1888, he was elected state superintendant of public education, during which he "compiled school laws of [the] state and court decisions relating to those laws."  In April 1890, he was appointed an associate justice of the Louisiana State Supreme Court and served as chief justice of that body from 1904 until his retirement in 1914.  He donated a large sum of money to the Charity Hospital in New Orleans, which named its administration building after him.  He served on the boards of Tulane University, his law school alma mater, and the Louisiana State Museum, and was active in Confederate veteran affairs as a member of the United Confederate Veterans Camp No. 9.  In September 1925, he pledged 50 acres of land on the west bank of Bayou Teche north of St. Martinville to serve as the site of a Longfellow-Evangeline memorial park; today it is the Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site.  Joseph A. died at New Orleans in July 1926, age 88, and was buried in Metairie Cemetery.  His line of the family died with him. 

Arsène's second son Joseph married Marie Cécile, daughter of Joseph Capdeville and his Acadian wife Marie Modeste Henry, at the St. Gabriel church in April 1829.  She evidently gave him no children.  Joseph died in Iberville Parish by July 1836, when wife Marie remarried there. 

Arsène's third son Pierre Eugène, called Eugène, married Uranie, daughter of fellow Acadians Hippolyte Landry and Marguerite Richard, at the St. Gabriel church in May 1834.  Eugène remarried to cousin Virginie, daughter of Pierre Michel Lambremont and his Acadian wife Marie Louise Breaux, at the St. Gabriel church in July 1838; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Eugène remarried again--his third marriage--to cousin Marie Odille, daughter of Rosémond Lambremont and his Acadian wife Clémentine Breaux, at the St. Gabriel church in October 1852.  Did Eugène father any children? 

Arsène's fourth son Arsène, fils, a twin, married Marie Rosalie, daughter of Jean Lambremont and Anne Marguerite Hamilton and widow of his first cousin Pierre Eribert Breaux, at the St. Gabriel church in May 1837.  Did Arsène, fils father any children by his long-suffering wife?

Arsène, père's fifth and youngest son Joseph Arvillien or Orillien, married Anne Célina, Célima, or Catalina, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Hébert and Émilie Comeaux, at the St. Gabriel church in February 1836.  They settled near Bayou Goula on the west side of the river in Iberville Parish.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Alexandre in November 1836; Marie Ophelia in June 1838; Arvillien Amour, Armour, or Armours, called Arvie, in July 1839; a newborn, name unrecorded, died in October 1840; Anne Amelia or Amélie born in June 1845; Marie Clara in July 1847 but died in October; another newborn, name unrecorded, died in January 1854; and Mary Alcea born in June 1855--eight children, at least two sons and four daughters, between 1836 and 1855.  Daughters Anne Amelie, ... married into the Allain and Hébert families by 1870.  Joseph Arvillien's sons also married by then.

Older son Joseph Alexandre married double cousin Odillia, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Comeaux and Céleste Breaux, at the St. Gabriel church in July 1860.  Did they have any children? 

Joseph Arvillien's younger son Armour married double cousin Lotitia, Lutitia, or Laetitia, daughter of his cousin Zéphirin Breaux and Euphémie Comeaux, at the St. Gabriel church in January 1861; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Louis Zéphirin in March 1862; Joseph Laurent in August 1866; Ansel in April 1868; ... 

Joseph Charles's fourth and youngest son Louis, also called François, married cousin Marie-Josèphe or Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Henry and Cécile Breau, at San Gabriel in July 1800.  Their children, born at San Gabriel, included Marie-Louise baptized at the St. Gabriel church, age 6 days, in October 1801; Louis-Dorville, called Dorville and Léandre, born in February 1803; a son, name unrecorded, perhaps Pierre Eribert or Enibert, also called Herbert, in November 1804; Arsène Marcellin or Firmin, in April 1807 but died at age 7 in July 1814; Mathurin Zéphirin, called Zéphirin, born in November 1809; Clémentine, also called Marie Clémentine, in July 1811; Joseph Nicaise in December 1813; Cécile Apolline or Pauline Cécile, also called Marie Apolline and Joséphine, in June 1818; and Marie Josèphe in November 1819--nine children, four daughters and five sons, between 1801 and 1819.  Louis died in Iberville Parish in November 1820.  The St. Gabriel priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Louis died at "age 40 yrs."  This Louis was closer to 46.  Daughters Marie Louise, Clémentine, and Pauline Cécile married into the Lambremont and Landry families.  Three of Louis's sons also married and settled on the Acadian Coast, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Louis Dorville, called Dorville and Léandre, married Marie Sophie, called Sophie, daughter of Louis Boush and Hélène Hamilton, at the St. Gabriel church in February 1825.  Their chilidren, born near St. Gabriel, included a son, name unrecorded, in c1825 but died at age 1 in August 1826; Marie Adeline born in December 1825; Louis Dorville, fils in July 1827; Adeline died, age unrecorded, in September 1829; Joseph Lazin born in June 1830 but died at age 1 (the recording priest, who called him Joseph Lezin, said he died at "age 15 or 16 yrs. old," obviously mistaken), in August 1831; Louis Arcade, called Arcade, in January 1833 but died at age 10 months the following November (the burial record, evidently wrong, says November 1835); Marie Élène or Elena born in October 1831; Dorville, fils in c1833 but died at age 1 in August 1834; Joseph Henri born in July 1836; and Adolphe in the late 1830s.  Dorville remarried to Marie Caroline, called Caroline, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Joseph Landry and his Creole wife Rosalie Marguerite Capdeville and widow of François Boush, at the St. Gabriel church in January 1839.  They settled near Bayou Goula on the west bank of the river.  Their children, born there, included Marie Estelle in February 1840 but died in August; and Calixte Aristide born in October 1842 but died the following February--a dozen children, eight sons and four daughters, by two wives, between 1825 and 1842.  Daughter Marie Elena, by his first wife, married into the Landry family by 1870.  Only one of Louis Dorville's sons married by then. 

Seventh son Adolphe, by first wife Sophie Boush, married first cousin Athanaise, daughter of Rosémond Lambremont and his Acadian wife Clémentine Breaux, his uncle and aunt, at the St. Gabriel church in January 1855; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their chiildren, born on the river, included Christine Herminie in Iberville Parish in January 1856 but died in July; Joseph Adolphe Waldo born in March 1857 but died at age 1 1/2 in September 1858 and was buried in St. Raphaël Cemetery on the west side of the Mississippi; Marie Philomine Ida born in August 1859; and Rosémond in February 1861--four children, two daughters and two sons, between 1856 and 1861. 

Louis's second son Pierre Eribert or Enibert, also called Herbert, married Marie Rosalie, daughter of Jean Lambremont and Anne Marguerite Hamilton, at the St. Gabriel church in July 1828.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Marie Ermina, called Ermina, in November 1829 but died at age 5 1/2 (the recording priest, who called her Herminie, said 5) in August 1835; Joseph Roger born in July 1831 but died at age 8 1/2 in December 1839; Demonville born in c1833 but died at age 2 in August 1835; and Paul died seven days after his birth in June 1835--four children, a daughter and three sons, between 1830 and 1835.  Eribert, called Hébert by the recording priest, died near St. Gabriel in August 1835, age 30.  One can only imagine what wife Marie Rosalie endured during that terrible summer when she lost two sons, a daughter, and a husband during a two-month period!  She remarried to Eribert's younger first cousin, Arsène Breaux, fils, in May 1837; they had no children.  Eribert's line of the family ended when oldest son Joseph Roger died only two years after his mother remarried. 

Louis's fourth son Mathurin Zéphirin, called Zéphirin, married Anne Euphémie, called Euphémie, daughter of fellow Acadian Julien Comeaux and his Creole wife Joséphine Lambremont, at the St. Gabriel church in November 1837.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Apolline Latitia or Lutitia, called Lutitia, in June 1839; Marie Auphelia in April 1841; Anne Victoria in October 1843; Marguerite Olivia in July 1845; and James Monroe, called Monroe, in November 1846--five children, four daughters and a son, between 1839 and 1846.  Daughter Lutitia married a Breaux cousin by 1870.  Zéphirin's son also may have married by then. 

Only son Monroe may have married Ada Waily, place and date unrecorded.  Their son James Award was born in Iberville Parish in June 1867; ...

Jean-Charles (c1733-?) à Antone à Vincent Breaux

Jean-Charles, oldest son of Pierre Breau and Marguerite Gautrot and first cousin of Alexis et al., born probably at Pigiguit in c1733, married Marie Benoit perhaps at Minas on the eve of exile.  Marie gave Jean-Charles a son, Michel, also called Charles, born probably at Pigiguit in c1754.  In the fall of 1755, the British deported them to Maryland.  Marie gave Jean-Charles more children in the Chesapeake colony:  Marguerite born in c1759; and Ludivine in c1763 or 1764.  In July 1763, when they appeared on a repatriation list, Jean-Charles, Marie, son Michel, daughter Marguerite, and a Boudrot orphan were living near his cousins at Port Tobacco on the lower Potomac.  Marie gave Jean-Charles another son, Simon, born probably at Port Tobacco in c1766.  In 1767-68, the couple, with their four children, emigrated to Louisiana from Port Tobacco via Cap-Français with Jean-Charles's cousins.  From New Orleans, despite their protests, they followed their fellow exiles to Fort San Luìs de Natchez.  They may have lost son Simon there, and daughter Madeleine and son Louis, also called Louis-Jean, may have been born there.  After Governor-General O'Reilly released the Acadians from Fort San Luìs in 1769, Jean-Charles took his family downriver to San Gabriel, where Maryland exiles from Baltimore had settled in 1767 and where one of his cousins from Port Tobacco also settled.  Marie gave Jean-Charles another son at San Gabriel, Jean-Emmanuel or -Manuel, born in May 1775--seven children, four sons and three daughters, between 1754 and 1775, in greater Acadia, Maryland, and Louisiana.  Jean-Charles died at San Gabriel in March 1784, "age about 50 yrs."  Daughters Marguerite, Ludivine, and Madeleine married into the Blanchard, Melançon, Arceneaux, Gautreaux, and Berteau families.  Three of Jean Charles's sons also married.  Most of them settled in nearby Ascension Parish, others farther downriver in St. James Parish.  One son moved on to Bayou Lafourche and created a substantial family line there.

Oldest son Michel followed his family to Maryland, New Orleans, Fort San Luìs de Natchez, and San Gabriel.  At age 23, he married Marie-Perpétué, called Perpétué, 23-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Landry and Anne Babin, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer, downriver from San Gabriel, in February 1777.  Perpétué, a native of Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, came to Louisiana with her family from Maryland in 1767.  Their children, born on the river, included Marie-Louise baptized at San Gabriel, age unrecorded, March 1778; Michel, fils born in May 1779; Marie-Victoire or -Victorine in September 1780; Marie-Angèle in April 1782; Étienne-Urbin, called Urbin, in July 1783; Constance in c1784 but died at age 17 in March 1801; Joseph-Manuel, called Manuel le jeune, born in December 1784 but died at age 28 in Ascension Parish in January 1813; Marie-Marguerite, called Marguerite, born in December 1786; another Marie-Angèle in August 1788; Marie in February 1790; Jean-Baptiste in February 1792; Joseph-Raphaël, called Raphaël, in November 1793 but died in Ascension Parish at age 19 in November 1812; Marie born in May 1795; and Casimir in March 1798--14 children, eight daughters and six sons, between 1778 and 1798.  Michel, père died in Ascension Parish in November 1812, age 59, a widower.  Daughters Victorine, Marie Rose, Marie Angèle, and Marguerite married into the Hébert, Durham, Part, Dupuy, Hatch, and Breaux families.  Four of Michel's sons also married on the Acadian Coast, but few, if any, of their lines endured. 

Oldest son Michel, fils married Henriette, daughter of Michel Judice and Marie-Jeanne Croisset, in Ascension Parish in May 1807.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Marie Angèle in November 1808; and a son, name and age unrecorded, died in July 1811.  Michel, fils died in Ascension Parish in July 1823, age 44.  Daughter Marie Angèle married into the Roth family of Bayou Goula.  Michel, fils's line of the family, except perhaps for its blood, probably died with him.  

Michel, père's second son Étienne Urbain, called Urbain, married Marie Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians Firmin Dupuis and Marie Rose Thériot, at the Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, in August 1810.  They settled on the river near the boundary between Ascension and Iberille parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie Arthémise in June 1811; Marie Delphine in October 1814; and Étienne Urbain, fils, called Urbain, posthumously in September 1817 but died at age 2 in November 1819--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1811 and 1817.  Urbain, père died in Ascension Parish in December 1816.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Urbain was age 29 when he died.  He was 33.  Daughter Marie Delphine married into the Gautreaux family.  Urbain's line of the family, except for its blood, probably died with him.  

Michel, père's fourth son Jean Baptiste married Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Anselme Landry and Françoise Blanchard and widow of Eusèbe Babin, at the Donaldson church in February 1820.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Marie Virginie in August 1820; Marie Gracieuse, called Gracieuse, in January 1822; Françoise Mélanie in March 1823; and Jean Baptiste Célestin in August 1825--four children, three daughters and a son, between 1820 and 1825.  Jean Baptiste, père likely died in Ascension Parish in March 1829.  The Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial and gave no parents' names or mentioned a wife said that "Jean Bte." Breaux died at age 35.  This Jean Baptiste would have been age 37, so it likely was him.  Daughters Gracieuse and Marie Virginie married into the LeBlanc and Richard families.  One wonders if Jean Baptiste's only son married by 1870, if at all. 

Michel, père's sixth and youngest son Casimir married Céleste _____ probably in Ascension Parish in the 1820s.  Their son Pierre was born in Ascension Parish in June 1826 but does not seem to have married by 1870, at least not in South Louisiana. 

Jean Charles's second son Simon followed his family to New Orleans, Fort San Luìs de Natchez, and perhaps to San Gabriel.  He did not appear with the family in the March 1777 census at San Gabriel, when he would have been age 11, so he probably died there or at Fort San Luìs de Natchez. 

Jean Charles's third son Louis, also called Louis-Jean, followed his family to San Gabriel and married Marie-Anne or Anne-Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Bourgeois and Rosalie LeBlanc, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in January 1788, on the same day and at the same place his sister Madeleine married.  Louis and Marie Anne joined the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche in the early 1810s.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer/St. James and on the Lafourche, included Scholastique in October 1790; Céleste in September 1792; Simon le jeune in December 1794; Pierre-Louis in May 1797; Marie-Carmélite, called Carmélite and Mélite, in January 1800; Valéry in July 1802; Paul Louis in March 1805; Louis Drosin in February 1808; twins Jean Marcellin and Madeleine in September 1810, but Madeleine died a day after her birth, and Jean Marcellin was baptized (the priest said buried), age 3 months, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in December; and Joseph Joachim, called Joachim, born in Assumption Parish in April 1815--11 children, four daughters and seven sons, between 1790 and 1815.  Louis died in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1845.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial said that Louis died "at age 77 yrs."  His probate sale record, naming his wife and listing some his children and their spouses--Scholastique and her husband, Céleste and her husband, Pierre, Mélite and her husband, Valéry, Paul, and Jean Marcelin--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in January 1846.  Daughters Scholastique, Carmélite dite Mélite, and Céleste married into the Part, Arceneaux, and Richard families.  Five of Louis's sons also married and settled on Bayou Lafourche. 

Second son Pierre Louis married Marie Euphrosine dite Phrosine or Froisine, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians François Roger and Marguerite LeBlanc, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in May 1823.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Euphrosine in March 1824; Pierre Étienne, called Pierre, fils, in October 1825; Marie Lisa, perhaps also called Élisa and Naisa, in January 1828; Pierre Augustin or Auguste in August 1829; Marie Reine Lisa in December 1831; Louis Joachim, called Joachim, in August 1833; Benjamin Adolestin in December 1835; Lorenza probably in the 1830s; Paul Marcel, called Marcel or Marcellin, in March 1838; Gratien in March 1843; Marie Gratieuse in November 1845; Félicien perhaps in the late 1840s; and Clémile, also called Émile, in December 1849--13 children, five daughters and eight sons, between 1824 and 1849.  Daughters Euphrosine, Élise, Marie Gratieuse, and Lorenza married into the Toups, Gaubert, Boutary, and Knight families, two of them, Euphrosine and Élise, to the same man, Arsène Gaubert, by 1870.  Pierre Louis's eight sons also married, his oldest son four times, two of the younger ones during or after their war service.  All of them remained on Bayou Lafourche. 

Oldest son Pierre, fils married Zéolide, daughter of Terence Toups and his Acadian wife Marie Caroline Bourgeois, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Parish, in February 1852.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Pierre Terance in December 1852; and Dominique Théogène in April 1854 but, called Théogène, died at age 1 1/2 in December 1855.  Pierre, fils remarried to Hortense, another daughter of Terence Toups and Marie Caroline Bourgeois, at the Thibodaux church in September 1857.  Daughter Marie Zéolide was born on the Lafourche in January 1858.  Pierre, fils remarried again--his third marriage--to Éloise, daughter of Léonce Falgout and Marie Mélanie Champagne and widow of William Lester, at the Thibodaux church in April 1861.  She evidently gave him no more children.  Pierre, fils remarried yet again--his fourth marriage!--to Uranie, daughter of fellow Acadian Hilaire Bourgeois and his Creole wife Silvanie Terrebonne and widow of Arsène Champagne, at the Thibodaux church in March 1864.  Their children, born in Lafourche Parish, included Marie Héloise in February 1865; Marie Élisabeth in December 1867; ...  None of Pierre, fils's children married by 1870. 

Pierre Louis's second son Pierre Augustin, at age 40, married Marie Rosémée, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Martin LeBlanc and Marie Lejeune, at the Thibodaux church in January 1869; one wonders if this was his first marriage.  Their son Félix Augustin was born in Lafourche Parish in December 1869; ... 

Pierre Louis's third son Joachim married Mathilde, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Louis Hébert and Marie Rose Gaudet, at the Thibodaux church in February 1858.  They settled near Raceland and then near Lockport on the lower Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Adam in October 1861; Joachim Osémée in July 1863; Marie Eve in December 1864; Marie Alvina in April 1866; Pierre Émile in February 1868; Léontine in December 1870; ... 

Pierre Louis's fourth son Benjamin Adolestin married Marie, daughter of Eugène Gaubert and his Acadian wife Melicère Pitre, at the Thibodaux church in February 1857.  Their children, born on the Lafourche and the river, included Eugène Dorestan in Lafourche Parish in March 1858; Ben Skiler, probably Schuyler, in March 1860; Joseph Gratien in July 1861 but died at age 3 in September 1864; Marie Mélissaire born on the Lafourche in September 1864; Joseph Oscar near Vacherie, St. James Parish, in March 1867; Joseph Félicien in Lafourche Parish in August 1868; Marie Ernestina in June 1870; ... 

Pierre Louis's fifth son Marcel married Marcellite Mathilde, called Mathilde, daughter of fellow Acadians Ursin Babin and Marceline Bourgeois, at the Thibodaux church in February 1861.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Pierre Marcel in December 1861; Ernest in March 1864; Marie Marceline in October 1866; Joseph Félicien in February 1870; ...

During the War of 1861-65, Pierre Louis's sixth son Gratien served in the Lafourche Regiment Mlitia.  In October 1862, he was captured along with most of his regiment at the Battle of Labadieville in nearby Assumption Parish and paroled by the Federals in early November.  He married Clara, daughter of fellow Acadians Vincent Hébert and Tarsile Clément, at the Thibodaux church in April 1864.  Their children, born in Lafourche Parish, included Marie Alice in June 1866; Marie Ofelia in November 1868; Joseph Gratien in December 1870; ...

During the war, Pierre Louis's seventh son Félicien served in Company D 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 cousin Loisa or Louisa, daughter of fellow Acadians Aurelien Babin and Anaïse Breaux, at the Thibodaux church in January 1866.  Their children, born in Lafourche Parish, included Félicien, fils in May 1867; Marie Félicia in April 1869; ...

 Pierre Louis's eighth and youngest son Émile, also called Clémile, married Euphémie, daughter of Jean Moreau and his Acadian wife Clémentine Bourg, at the Thibodaux church in July 1870.  Daughter Marie was born in August; ...

Louis's third son Valéry married 16-year-old Marguerite, another daughter of François Roger and Marguerite LeBlanc, at the Thibodauxville church in February 1825.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Scholastique, called Scholastique, in November 1825; Marie Élisa, called Élisa, in September 1827; Joseph Valéry, called Valéry, fils and perhaps also Félix, in February 1830; Louis Evariste in November 1831; François, also called François Maxi, in January 1834; Donat Théodule in February 1836; Marguerite Mathilde, called Mathilde, in July 1838; Amédée in November 1840; Marie Marceline, called Marceline, in May 1843; Marie Marguerite, called Marguerite, in January 1846; and Louis[e] Eliska, called Eliska, in April 1849--11 children, six daughters and five sons, between 1827 and 1849.  Daughters Élisa, Scholastique, Mathilde, Marceline, Marguerite, and Eliska married into the  LeBlanc, Babin, Foret, and Boudreaux families, including two LeBlanc cousins and two Foret brothers, by 1870.  Valéry's five sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Valéry, fils married Émelie, daughter of Auguste Ledet and his Acadian wife Modeste LeBlanc, at the Raceland church, Lafourche Parish, in April 1856.  Their children, born on the lower Lafourche, included Marie Ermina near Lockport in January 1857; Marie Azéma near Raceland in October 1858; Joseph Arthur near Lockport in July 1860; Joseph François in December 1861; and Joseph William, perhaps their son, in March 1864.  Valéry, fils likely remarried to Azéma, also called Antoinette, Cheramie, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in May 1866; Azéma was an orphan, and she was "signed for by [her] aunt and uncle Remon Plesance [probably Plaisance] and widow Étiene Guttro [probably Gautreaux]."  Valéry, fils and Azéma's children, born near Lockport, included Charles Denis in February 1867; Marie Adèle died at birth in November 1869; ... 

Valéry, père's second son Louis Evariste married Adèle, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Thibodeaux and his Creole wife Geneviève Émelie Waguespack, at the Thibodaux church in May 1853.  They settled near Raceland.  Their children, born there, included Marie Mélicère in March 1854; Marie Sarah in June 1856; Clovis was born in July 1858; Louis Pierre in September 1861; ... 

Valéry, père's third son François Maxi married cousin Émelina dit Mélina, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne LeBlanc and Azélie Bertrand, at the Thibodaux church in January 1858.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Azélie, called Azélie, in December 1858; and Joseph Philippe, called Philippe, in October 1860.  François died in Lafourche Parish in March 1861, age 27.  A petition for tutorship of his two children, calling him François Maxi, his wife Mélina LeBlanc, and listing their children--Azélie and Philip--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in May 1863. ...

Valéry, père's fourth son Donat married Carmelas, Camilia, or Camida, daughter of Marcellin Barbier and his Acadian wife Euphrosine Hébert, at the Lockport church, Lafourche Parish, in February 1866.  Their children, born near Lockport, included Adolphina in November 1866; Marie died at age 8 days in September 1870; ...

Valéry, père's fifth and youngest son Amédée married Marie, daughter of Jean Ramirez and Marie Cerpe, at the Lockport church in December 1865.  Their son Augustin Yves was born near Lockport in October 1868; ... 

Louis's fourth son Paul Louis married Clémentine, 16-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Robichaux and Isabelle Babin, at the Thibodauxville church in February 1824.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Paul Gédéon or Léon, called Léon, in August 1825; Marie Anaïse, called Anaïse, in October 1826; Louis Froisin, Euphrosin, or Leufroisin in July 1828; Joseph Justinien or Justilien, called Justinien, in October 1829; Marie Eveline, called Eveline, in December 1831; Clémentine Élisabeth in December 1834; Octavie Célima, called Célima, in October 1836; Marie Useline, Engeline, or Angelina, called Angelina, in November 1838; Pierre in the late 1830s or early 1840s; Marguerite Émelie, called Émelie, in May 1843; Marie Louise dite Loisa, in August 1846; Odilia in January 1849; and Adam Théophile posthumously in January 1856 when his mother was age 48!--13 children, five sons and eight daughters, between 1825 and 1856.  Paul died in Lafourche Parish in July 1855, age 50.  A petition for succession inventory, naming his wife and listing his children and some of their spouses--Léon and his wife, Anaïs and her husband, Euphrosyn, Justilien, Eveline and her husband, Clémentine and her husband, Célima, Engeline (Useline), Émilie, Loisa (Louise), Odilia, and Pierre--was filed in his name at the Thibodaux courthouse in December 1855.  Daughters Marie Anaïse, Odilia, Angelina, Marie Eveline, Clémentine, Célima, Loisa, and Émelie married into the Babin, Gaubert, Ledet, and Toups families by 1870, two of them to Babin brothers and three of them to Ledets, two of them brothers.  Four of Paul Louis's sons also married by then and remained on Bayou Lafourche, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Paul Gédéon or Léon, called Léon, married Marie Euphémie, called Euphémie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Pitre and Marie Ursule Molaison, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in Marcy 1850, and sanctified the marriage at the Thibodaux church a month later.  Daughter Marie Louisa, called Louisa, was born on the Lafourche in February 1854.  Léon died in Lafourche Parish in July 1855.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial said that Léon died "at age 35 yrs."  He was 29.  A decree for inventory, listing his wife and daughter, was filed in his name at the Thibodaux courthouse the following December.  He fathered no sons, so his family line, excepts perhaps for its blood, died with him. 

Paul Louis's second son Euphrosin married Nathalie, daughter of François Ledet and his Acadian wife Scholastie LeBlanc, at the Thibodaux church in May 1858; two of Euphrosin's sisters married two of Nathalie's brothers.  Euphrosin and Nathalie's children, born on the Lafourche, included Louis Oscar in February 1859; Marie Juliènne in December 1860; Margueritge Clémentine in March 1864 but, called Clémentine, died at age 3 1/2 (the recording priest said 4) in June 1867; Marie Helena born in December 1866; Joseph Enet in September 1869; ... 

Paul Louis's third son Joseph Justinien or Justilien, called Justinien, married cousin Marie Elesida, called Lesida or Lezida, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Robichaux and Marie Virginie Bourgeois, at the Thibodaux church in April 1852.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Eugénie Alvina in February 1853; Marie Célima in September 1854; Marie Melisa in October 1856 but, called Mélina, died at age 1 (the recording priest said 2 months) in December 1857; Marie Cécilia in January 1859; Eugénie Justilia in October 1861; Marie Joséphine in December 1864; Louis Joseph in January 1869; ... None of Justinien's chldren married by 1870. 

Paul Louis's fourth son Pierre married Azélie, Ozilia, or Amelia, daughter of fellow Acadians Ursin Babin and Marcelline Bourgeois, at the Thibodaux church in January 1861.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Pierre Wilfrid in October 1861; Marie Marceline in April 1864; Marie Matilde in April 1855; Marie Clémentine in February 1868; Joseph Félix in September 1869; ... 

Louis's sixth son Jean Marcellin, a twin, married Athanaïse, Adénaïse, and Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Charles Broussard and his Creole wife Anne Stebens, at the Thibodauxville church in August 1832.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Adèle Anaïse in May 1833; Marcellin Thomasin in March 1836; Marie in December 1838; Charles Théodule, called Théodule, in February 1841; Paul Théogène, called Théogène, in September 1844; Célina in c1846; Louis Joseph in October 1850; and Marceline Juliènne in December 1853--eight children, four daughters and four sons, between 1833 and 1853.  Marcellin died in Lafourche Parish in February 1856, age 45 (the recording priest said 44).  A petition for property sale in his name, calling him Jean Marcelin, his wife Athanaise, and listing his children--Marie, Théodule, Théogène, Célina, and Marceline (Marcellin?)--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in February 1858.  Daughters Marie and Célina married into the Doucet and Elliot families by 1870.  Three of Jean Marcellin's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Marcellin Thomasin may have married Marie Falgout in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in August 1861.  They settled near Raceland.  Their children, born there, included Marcellin, fils in October 1862; Élie Constantin in March 1864; Jean Oreli in May 1866; ... 

Marcellin's second son Théodule "of Lafourche Parish" married Élodie, daughter of Jean Moraux, Morau, or Moreau and his Acadian wife Clémentine Bourg of Lafourche Parish, at the Vacherie church, St. James Parish, in May 1866; the marriage was recorded also in Lafourche Parish. ...

Marcellin's third son Théogène married Marie, daughter of Balthazar Larose and his Acadian wife Séraphine Roger, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in June 1867, and sanctified the marriage at the Lockport church in October 1869.  Their children, born near Lockport, included Marie Séraphine in May 1868; Volzi Séraphin in December 1869; ... 

Louis's seventh and youngest son Joseph Joachim, called Joachim, married Cléonise or Léonise, 14-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Robichaux and Rosalie Rassicot, at the Thibodauxville church in February 1834.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joseph Joachim, fils, called Joachim, fils, in September 1835; Louis Paul, called Paul, in August 1837; Eugène Prospère or Prosper in October 1839 but, called Eugène, died at age 11 1/2 (the recording priest said 12) in September 1851; Leufroy or Leufroi Augustin born in December 1841; Joséphine in November 1846; and Joseph Adam in September 1848 but, called Joseph, died at age 4 in October 1852--six children, five sons and a daughter, between 1835 and 1848.  Daughter Joséphine married into the Price family by 1870.  Three of Joseph Joachim's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Joachim, fils married Marguerite Odilia, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Pitre and Marie Ursule Molaison, at the Thibodaux church in September 1859.  Did they have any children? 

Joachim, père's second son Paul married Euphrasie or Euphroisie, daughter of fellow Acadians Léon Richard and Marguerite LeBlanc, at the Thibodaux church in September 1859, a couple of weeks after his older brother Joachim, fils married there.  Paul and Euphrasie settled near Raceland and then near Lockport.  Their children, born there, included Marie Alise in May 1861; and Joseph Oscar in February 1864.  Paul remarried to Lucinde, daughter of Baptiste Monte and Léocadie Picou, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in September 1866.  They settled near Raceland.  Their children, born there, included Joseph, the second with the name, in March 1868; Marie Elvire in January 1870; ... 

Joachim, père's fourth son Leufroi Augustin may have married Mathilde LeBlanc, probably a fellow Acadian, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in March 1864.  They settled near Lockport and then near Raceland.  Their children, born on the lower Lafourche, included Marie Louisa in March 1865; Joseph Émile in August 1866; Marie Émilie in October 1867; Marie Léonise in March 1869; Joseph Henry in June 1870; ...

Jean Charles's fourth and youngest son Jean-Emmanuel or -Manuel married cousin Marie Anastasie, called Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Gautreaux and Marie-Madeleine Breau, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in February 1800.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer/St. James, included Jean-Narcisse in January 1801; an unnamed son, age unrecorded, died in April 1802; Raphaël Augustin, called Augustin, baptized, age 1 1/2 months, in January 1804; Marie Louise born in February 1804 [probably meant 1805]; twins Marguerite Anastasie and Marie Anastasie in June 1806, but Marguerite Anastasie died nine days after her birth; Joseph born in September 1808 but may have died the following January; Marie Séraphine born in November[sic] 1809; Marie Esther in February[sic] 1810; Simon Athanase, called Athanase, in May 1811; Jean Charles le jeune in July 1812; Marie Élisabeth or Éliza in November 1813; Marie Arthémise in January 1815 but died in July; Michel le jeune born in September 1816; Gervais Marcellin, called Marcellin, in November 1819; and Marie Belenisa or Berenice in January 1822 but died at age 3 in January 1825--16 children, eight sons and eight daughters, between 1801 and c1822.  Manuel died near Convent, St. James Parish, in February 1862.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Manuel died at "age 90 years."  He was 86.  Daughters Marie Louise, Marie Esther, and Marie Éliza married into the Guidry, Duplessis, LeBlanc, and Richard families.  Five of Manuel's sons also married on the river, and some of his grandsons moved on to Bayou Lafourche. 

Oldest son Jean Narcisse may have died in Iberville Parish in June 1858.  The St. Gabriel priest who recorded the burial and who did not give any parents' names said that Narcisse, "a bachelor," died at "age 62 years."  Jean Narcisse would have been age 57. 

Manuel's third son Raphaël Augustin, called Augustin, married Eglantine, daughter of Jacques Rousseau and his Acadian wife Renée Landry, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in April 1828.  They lived on the river near the boundary between Ascension and St. James parishes.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Christophe in July 1829; Jonie Anastasie, called Anastasie, in July 1831; Joseph Amédée, called Amédée, in March 1834; Marie Reine or Irène in September 1836 but, called Irène, died at age 3 in December 1839; Joseph Armand or Amand born in June 1839; and Joseph Justinien in April 1841--six children, four sons and two daughters, between 1829 and 1841.  Augustin died in St. James Parish in April 1845.  The St. James priest who recorded the burial said that Augustin died at "age 40 yrs."  He was 42.  The priest also noted that Augustin "left his wife and five children."  Daughter Anastasie married into the Guidry family by 1870 and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Two of Augustin's sons also married by then and settled on the Lafourche.  Two of Augustin's son, who did not marry, died in Confederate service in Virginia and Pennsylvania. 

Oldest son Joseph Christophe married Marie, daughter of Henri Ledet and his Acadian wife Delphine Levron and widow of C. Walton, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in February 1862. ...

Augustin's second son Joseph Amédée married Anaïse, daughter of Louis Joly and his Acadian wife Marguerite Part, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in October 1856.  Their son Louis Amédéo or Amédée was born near Paincourtville in September 1857.  Amédée remarried to Angéline, daughter of Carville Verret and his Acadian wife Azélie Landry, at the Paincourtville church in August 1861.  Their son Armant Laurent was born near Paincourtville in August 1862 but, called Armand, died at age 1 in August 1863.  Amédée remarried again--his third marriage--to Adèle, daughter of Marssilière Verret and his Acadian wife Rosalie Bourg, at the Paincourtville church in January 1864; Amédée and Adèle had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity [perhaps affinity] in order to marry.  Daughter Marie Louise was born near Convent, St. James Parish, in November 1870; ... 

Augustin's third son Joseph Amand likely was the Amand Breaux of Assumption Parish who, on 19 June 1861 at Camp Moore, Louisiana, age 21 (Confederate records says he was age 23), enlisted in Company K of the 8th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Ascension Parish.  Amand followed his unit to Virginia, where he served as one of General R. E. Lee's Louisiana Tigers.  On 1 July 1862, Amand was killed in action in the Battle of Malvern Hill, east of Richmond.  He was age 23 and died before he could create a family of his own. 

Augustin's fourth and youngest son Joseph Justinien likely was the Justinien Breaux who also enlisted on 19 June 1861 at Camp Moore, age 20 (Confederate records says he was age 24), in the same unit as older brother Amand.  On 1 April 1863, eight months after his brother's death, Justinien was promoted from private to sergeant.  On the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg, 2 July 1863, Justinien also was killed in action.  His comrades left him on the field of battle and reported him missing in action.  He was 22. 

Manuel's fifth son Simon Athanase, called Athanase, married cousin Marie Séraphine, called Séraphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Firmin Broussard, fils and Anne Marine Breaux and widow of Jean Baptiste Kling, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in September 1839.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Joseph Léonard in June 1840; Simon Oscar in February 1842 but, called Oscar, died at age 10 1/2 in August 1853; Manuel Ulger or Ulgère born in March 1844; and Joseph Lucas in July 1849--four children, all sons, between 1840 and 1849.  None of Athanase's remaining sons married by 1870. 

Manuel's sixth son Jean Charles le jeune married cousin Azélie, also called Azéma, daughter of fellow Acadians Urbain Gautreaux and Marcellite Gaudin, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in June 1843.  They settled on the river near the boundary between St. James and Ascension parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie Amanda in March 1844; Marie Ermina in March 1849; Marie Aglaé in February 1851; Joseph Augustin in August 1860; and Jean Léonard in July 1862--five children, three daughters and two sons, between 1844 and 1862.  Daughter Marie Amanda married into the Bercegeay family by 1870. 

Manuel's seventh son Michel le jeune married Marie Virginie, called Virginie, daughter of fellow Acadian Narcisse Guidry and his Creole wife Agnès Baudin, at the St. Gabriel church in January 1843.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Thérèse Amanda in November 1843; and Anastasie in October 1845.  Daughter Anastasie married into the Griffon family by 1870. 

Manuel's eighth and youngest son Gervais Marcellin, called Marcellin, married Belzire, daughter of fellow Acadians Benjamin Bourque and Élisabeth dite Betsy Bourgeois, at the Convent church in February 1843.  They settled on the river near the boundary between St. James and Ascension parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie Ermantine or Armentine, called Armentine, in September 1846; Marcellus in September 1848; Jean Douradou in December 1850; Vincent F. in August 1853; Marcellin, fils in December 1855; Pauline Anastasie in June 1858; Adam in January 1864; Elizabeth in June 1870 near Gonzales; ...  Daughter Armentine married into the Gautreaux family by 1870.  None of Marcellin's sons married by then. 

Antoine (c1736-?) à Antoine à Vincent Breaux

Antoine, older son of Charles Breau and Claire Trahan of l'Assomption, Pigiguit, and first cousin of Alexis et al., born probably at Pigiguit in c1736, married Marguerite Landry in the early 1750s, place unrecorded, but it may have been Minas.  She gave him two children wherever it may have been:  Scholastique born in c1751; and Joseph in c1754.  The British deported them to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  Marguerite gave Antoine more children in the Chesapeake colony:  Charles born in c1759; Perpétué in c1761; and Marie-Rose in c1764--five children, three daughters and two sons, between 1751 and 1764, in greater Acadia and Maryland.  In July 1763, Antoine, Marguerite, and four of their children appeared on a French repatriation list circulating at Port Tobacco on the lower Potomac near his parents and siblings.  Antoine and Marguerite, with five children, followed his widowed mother and four siblings to Louisiana in 1767-68.  After their release from Fort San Luìs de Natchez in 1769, they resettled at San Gabriel.  Marguerite gave him no more children in the colony.  Antoine died at San Gabriel by March 1777, in his late 30s or early 40s, when Marguerite was listed in a census there as a widow.  Daughters Scholastique and Perpétué married Landry cousins on the river.  Perpétué died at San Gabriel in her mid-30s.  Antoine's two sons also married on the Acadian Coast and created robust family lines there.

Older son Joseph followed his family to Maryland, New Orleans, Fort San Luìs de Natchez, and San Gabriel.  At age 23, he married Marie-Josèphe, 20-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Aucoin and Marie LeBlanc, at nearby St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in January 1777.  Their children, born on the river, included Marie-Constance baptized at Cabahannocer, age unrecorded, in April 1778 but died at age 3 1/2 in September 1781; Scholastique baptized at Ascension, age unrecorded, in October 1779; Marguerite-Adélaïde born in November 1780; another Marie-Constance, called Constance, in August 1784; Eulalie, also called Marie-Eulalie, in February 1787; Marie-Louise in December 1788; Joseph, fils in July 1792; and Jean-Valéry, called Valéry, in December 1794--eight children, six daughters and two sons, between 1778 and 1794.  Marie-Josèphe died in Iberville Parish in December 1812, age 55.  In his early 60s, Joseph remarried to Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Babin and Élisabeth LeBlanc and widow of Simon Allain, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in January 1818.  She gave him no more children.  Daughters Constance, Scholastique, and Eulalie, by his first wife, married into the Gautreaux, Nerault, and Guidry families.  Joseph's two sons also married on the river. 

Older son Joseph, fils, by first wife Marie Josèphe Aucoin, married Marie Henriette, called Henriette, daughter of fellow Acadians Firmin Dupuis and Marie Thériot, at the St. Gabriel church in February 1816.  They lived on the river near the boundary between Iberville and Ascension parishes.  Their children, born there, included an infant son, name unrecorded, died the day after his birth in August 1814; Marie Joséphine born in December 1816 but may have died at age 11 1/2 (the recording priest at Ascension, who called her Josèphine, daughter of Joseph, said 19) in February 1828; Jean Baptiste, called Jean, born in March 1821; Joseph Sylvanie in October 1823; Émile in July 1826; Joseph Duval, called J. Duval and Duval, in December 1828; Joseph Neuville, called Neuville, in July 1831 but died at age 3 in August 1834; Marie Thérèse baptized at the St. Gabriel church, age unrecorded, in March 1834; Marie Ernestine born in June 1836; and Henriette Serazine in October 1840--10 children, six sons and four daughters, between 1814 and 1840.  One wonders if he was the Joseph Cléandre Breaux who died in Iberville Parish, age 55, in October 1847.  (The St. Gabriel priest who recorded the burial did not give any parents' names or mention a wife.)  Joseph, fils would have been age 55 that year, so it may have been him.  Daughters ... married into the Delaune and Landry families by 1870.  Four of Joseph, fils's sons also married by then and settled on the river. 

Second son Jean Baptiste married Marie Ermina, Elmina, Hermina, or Edwina, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Melançon and Marie Renée LeBlanc, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in January 1853.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Étienne Yves in August 1856; Eugénie E. in September 1858; Agathe in February 1863; ...  None of Jean Baptiste's children married by 1870. 

Joseph, fils's third son Joseph Sylvanie may have married Marie C. Cambre, place and date unrecorded.  Their son Arcese Louis was born in Ascension Parish in January 1858; ...

Joseph, fils's fourth son Émile married Élise, also called Edile and Éliza, daughter of fellow Acadians Valentin Babin and Emérante Landry, at the Donaldsonville church in February 1851.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Ovile in June 1852; Marie Séverine in March 1854; Joseph Onésime in January 1856; Adam Arthur in September 1859; and Geneviève Idea in January 1862.  Émile remarried to Henriette, daughter of fellow Acadians Vives Hébert and Domitille Richard, at the Gonzales church, Ascension Parish, in March 1866.  Daughter Marie Elizabeth was born near Gonzales in March 1870 (the recording priest called her mother a Braud, not an Hébert); ... 

Joseph, fils's fifth son Joseph Duval, called J. Duval and Duval, married Marie Caroline, called Caroline, daughter of Manuel Cambre and his Acadian wife Marie Hébert, at the Donaldsonville church in February 1851.  They settled near Gonzales.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Duval, fils in November 1851; Emmanuel Albert in December 1853; Pierre Félicien in January 1856 but, called Félicien, died at age 9 1/2 in August 1865 and was buried "in [the] cemetery at the Prairie (sic)"; Antoine E. born in January 1860; Marie Althée in April 1862; Marguerite Aurela in December 1867; Françoise Emma in February 1870; ...  None of Duval's children married by 1870. 

Joseph, père's younger son Jean Valéry, called Valéry, from first wife Marie Josèphe Aucoin, married Marie Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians Donat Hébert and Henriette Hébert, at the St. Gabriel church in September 1816.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included an infant, name unrecorded, died at age 13 days in June 1817; Marie Uranie or Aramie born in October 1818; Joseph Séverin, called Séverin, in December 1820; Jean Trasimond, called Trasimond, in January 1823 but died at age 8 months the following September; Treville born in c1824 but died at age 4 in August 1828; Marie Sarasine or Serasine, called Serasine, born in February 1827; Doralise in June 1829 but, called Marie Doralise, died at age 11 in July 1840; Marie Élodie born in July 1831 but died at age 11 1/2 in October 1842; Marie Euphémie born in July 1833; Marie Doralise or Coralie died at age 9 days in November 1835; Joseph Osémé, called Osémé, born in October 1838; Marie Irma in December 1840 but died at age 3 1/2 in August 1844; Marie Auphelia born in January 1843 but died at age 5 1/2 (the recording priest said 4) in August 1848; and Marie Pamelia, called Pamelia, born in April 1845--14 children, at least nine daughters and four sons, between 1817 and 1845.  Daughters Pamelia, Serasine, ... married into the Argrave, Babin, Cambre, Duplessis, and Landry families.  Valéry's remaining sons also married and settled on the river.

Oldest son Joseph Séverin married Marie Sarazine or Serasine, daughter of fellow Acadians Auguste Raphaël Landry and Audelitte Babin, at the St. Gabriel church in May 1843.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Joseph Vintress in September 1845; and Marie Eliska or Elisca, called Elisca, posthumously in October 1847.  Joseph Séverin died near St. Gabriel in May 1847, age 26.  Daughter Elisca married a Landry cousin.  Joseph Séverin's son did not marry by 1870.  

Valéry's fourth and youngest son Joseph Osémé, called Oséme, married Elvenia, daughter of fellow Acadians Trasimond Babin and Clarisse Melançon, at the Donaldsonville church in June 1856.  Did they have any children? 

Antoine's younger son Charles le jeune followed his family to New Orleans, Fort San Luìs de Natchez, and San Gabriel.  He married Anne-Monique, called Monique, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Guidry and Anne-Madeleine Dupuis, at nearby Ascension in December 1782.  Their children, born at San Gabriel, included Marie-Perpétué in August 1785 but died at age 27 in July 1813; Élise or Alise born in February 1787; Anne-Marie or -Marine in September 1788; Joseph Urbin, called Urbin and Urbain, in c1790; François in February 1791; Michel-Henri in February 1793 but died near St. Gabriel, age 51, in December 1844; Charles-Alexandre, -Cléandre, Cléandris, or -Léandre, also called Jean-Cléandre, born in September 1795; Adélaïde in the 1790s; and Marie-Émilie in c1797 but died at age 7 near St. Gabriel in November 1804--nine children, five daughters and four sons, between 1785 and 1804.  Charles died near Donalsonville in June 1822, in his early 60s.  Daughters Alise, Anne Marine, and Adélaïde married into the Breaux, Broussard, and Babin families.  Two of Charles le jeune's sons also married and settled on the river. 

Second son Joseph Urbain, called Urbain, married cousin Anne Marcellite, called Marcellite, also called Marie Jeanne, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Breaux and Brigitte Foret, at the Donaldson church in June 1809.  Their children, born on the river, included Joseph Marcellin, called Marcellin, near St. Gabriel in August 1810; Françoise Marcellite or Marceline, called Marceline, in January 1812; Olivier in July 1814 but died the following January; Pierre Rosémond, called Rosémond and Peter R., baptized at the St. Gabriel church, age unrecorded, in March 1816; Marie Pelasire or Berazire born in May 1818; Charles in c1820; Marie Josèphe or Joséphine in March 1821 but, called Joséphine, died at age 18 in September 1839; Marguerite Émilie born in June 1823 but, called Marguerite Aima Lise, died in Ascension Parish at age 29 (the recording priest said 28) in August 1852; Valsin born in February 1826; and Hilaire in July 1828--10 children, six sons and four daughters, between 1810 and 1828.  Wife Anne, called Marie Jeanne "of Ascension Parish, wife of Urbain Breaux," by the recording priest, died near St. Gabriel at age 50 in September 1839.  Urbain died near Baton Rouge in October 1854, age 63.  Daughters Marceline and Marie Berazire married into the Landry and Arceneaux families by 1870.  Four of Urbain's sons also married by then and settled on the river, one of them above St. Gabriel in East Baton Rouge Parish.

Oldest son Joseph Marcellin, called Marcellin, married Marie Odile, called Odile, daughter of fellow Acadians D'Artoise Babin and François Landry, at the St. Gabriel church in March 1832.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Marie Élisabeth in November 1833; Joseph Théodule in January 1836; and Édouard in November 1837 but died at age 2 1/2 in October 1840--three children, a daughter and two sons, between 1833 and 1837.  Marcellin died near St. Gabriel in December 1846, age 36 (the recording priest said 35).  His daughter did not marry by 1870, if she married at all.  Nor did his remaining son. 

Urbain's second son Pierre Rosémond, called Rosémond and Peter R., married Rosalie or Rosalia, daughter of Manuel Araisa, Araiza, or Arrayza and Marie Sanchez, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in October 1844.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included Déonise, perhaps Dionys, Victor in March 1846; Théophile Marcellin in February 1847; Eugénie Pauline in June 1848; Charles Jérôme in July 1849; Marie Amalie in September 1850; Marie Carmélite in August 1852; Robert in June 1853; Mary Adèle in September 1854; and James Alexander in January 1857--nine children, five sons and four daughters, between 1846 and 1857.  In his early 40s, Pierre Rosémond remarried to Gertrude, 21-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Louis Longuépée and his Creole wife Brigitte Payaux, at the Baton Rouge church in January 1859.  She evidently gave him no more children.  None of Peter R.'s children married by 1870. 

Urbain's third son Valsin married Virginia or Virginie, daughter of Sylvain Drosin Lavergne and his Acadian wife Cléonise Landry, at the St. Gabriel church in May 1847.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Joséphine Palmyre in March 1849 but, called Palmire, died at age 10 1/2 (the recording priest said 12) in September 1859; François Henry Clay born in December 1851; Paul in June 1853; and Lise in December 1855--four chilren, two daughters and two sons, between 1849 and 1855.  Valsin died in Iberville Parish in June 1858.  The St. Gabriel priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Valsin died at "age 32 years" and "left a wife and four children."  None of his surviving children married by 1870. 

Urbain's fourth son Charles married Carmélite, daughter of Antoine Hernandez and Thérèse Guilfout, probably civilly in the late 1830s, and sanctified the marriage at the Baton Rouge church in September 1848.  Their son Charles Luc was born near Baton Rouge in December 1840 and did not marry by 1870.   

Charles le jeune's fourth and youngest son Charles Alexandre, Cléandre, Cléondre, Cléandris, or Léandre, also called Jean Cléandre, married Renée Rose or Rosalie, also called Marie Renée, Marie Clémence, Lareine, Irène Rosalie, Rosalie Irène, and Irènce, daughter of fellow Acadians Firmin Dupuis and Marie Josèphe Thériot, at the St. Gabriel church in February 1816.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Laurence, also called Marie Lorenza, in November 1817; Marie Giralte, Gérarde, or Géralde, called Géralde, in November 1819; Marie Gertrude, called Gertrude, in January 1822; Charles Neuville, also called Cléandre, in July 1825 but died at age 7 months in March 1826; Joseph Onésime, called Onésime, born in March 1827; Marie Zulmé or Zulma, called Zulma, in February 1829; Marguerite Divine or Ludovine in May 1831; and Charles Stanislas, called Stanislas, in October 1833--eight children, five daughters and three sons, between 1817 and 1833.  Cléandre may have died near St. Gabriel in October 1847.  The priest who recorded the burial and did not give any parents' names or mention a wife says Joseph Cléandre, as he called him, died at "age 55 yrs."  This Cléandre would have been age 52.  Daughters Marie Lorenza, Marie Gérarde, Gertrude, Zulma, and Marguerite Ludovine married into the Richard, Guidry, Seguinaud, Picou, and Trabaud families, including two Richard brothers; one of the daughters, Zulma, called "Dame" Zulma in her second marriage record, married twice.  Cléandre's remaining sons also married, one of them after his war service, and settled in Ascension Parish. 

Second son Pierre Onésime, called Onésime and simply O. by the recording priest, married, at age 37, Aglaé, daughter of fellow Acadians Evariste Babin and Marie Rosema Melançon, at the Gonzales church, Ascension Parish, in March 1864.  One wonders if this was his first marriage.  Daughter Eve Constance was born near Gonzales in October 1870; ...

During the War of 1861-65, Cléandre's third and youngest son Stanislas served in Company A of the 3rd Louisiana Regiment Infantry, raised in Iberville Parish, which fought in Arkansas, Missouri, and Mississippi.  Stanislas, age 28, enlisted in Company A at New Orleans in May 1861 and was present on unit rolls through October 1861 before disappearing from Confederate records.   At age 31, perhaps while still in Confederate service, Stanislas married Ophelia, daughter of fellow Acadians Raphaël Babin and Pauline LeBlanc, at the Gonzales church in October 1864.  Their children, born near Gonzales, included Marie Odalie in November 1865; Charles René in November 1869; Eve Pulcherie in September 1867; ... 

Pierre (c1741-?) à Antoine à Vincent Breaux

Pierre, third and youngest son of Charles Breau and Claire Trahan of l'Assomption, Pigiguit, younger brother of Antoine and first cousin of Alexis et al., born probably at Pigiguit in c1741, followed his family to Maryland in 1755.  He appeared with them on a French repatriation list at Port Tobacco on the lower Potomac in July 1763.  Nearby lived his older brother Antoine and his family.  In 1767-68, Pierre, now in his mid-20s, followed his widowed mother, brother Antoine, and three of their sisters to New Orleans and lived with them at Fort San Luìs de Natchez.  After the Spanish released the Acadians from the distant fort in 1769, Pierre moved to Ascension, where colonial officials counted him in the household of kinsman François Babin on the left, or east, bank of the river in August 1770.  In April 1777, now in his late 30s, Pierre was counted as a bachelor at San Gabriel on the east bank of river just above Ascension.  He may not have married.  

Jean (c1736-?) à ? à Vincent Breaux

Jean Breau, born probably at Minas in c1736, married Marie _____ probably in Maryland.  They had two children there--Marie born in c1765; and Jean-Baptiste in September 1767--before following the Breau clan from Port Tobacco, Maryland, to New Orleans in 1767-68.  They were counted among the settlers at Fort San Luìs de Natchez in 1768.  One wonders if Jean's children survived childhood and if he and Marie had anymore children in the colony. 

Joseph (c1753-1782) à ? à Vincent Breaux

Joseph, son of Amand Breau and Marie-Josèphe Landry, born probably at Minas in c1753, followed his family to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  He was with them at Port Tobacco on the lower Potomac in July 1763.  Evidently both of his parents died there after 1763.  Joseph and two of his older sisters, Bibianne and Marguerite, came to Louisiana with the Breau clan in 1767-68, lived at Fort San Luìs de Natchez, and then moved downriver to Ascension, where Joseph married Cécile, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Dupuis and Anne Richard, in February 1782.  Meanwhile, his three sisters married into the Babin and Chauvin families, one of them in Maryland, the others on the Acadian Coast.  Joseph died at Ascension the August after his marriage, age 30.  His father's line of the family, except for its blood, probably died with him.   

Jean-Baptiste-Pierre (c1755-1822) à Charles à Antoine à Vincent Breaux

Jean-Baptiste-Pierre, also called Jean-Pierre, Pierre-Jean-Baptiste, and Pierre, older son Simon-Pierre Breau and Marguerite Landry and Antoine and Pierre's nephew, born either at Minas or in Maryland in c1755, appeared on a French repatriation list with his mother and an older sister at Port Tobacco on the lower Potomac in July 1763 (one wonders where his father was at the time the list was compiled).  Pierre followed his widowed mother and four siblings to New Orleans, Fort San Luìs de Natchez, and San Gabriel.  His younger brother Augustin, born either in Maryland in late 1767 or on the ship to Louisiana in early 1768, died at New Orleans in August 1776, age 8 or 9.  This left Pierre the sole surviving son of his widowed mother, who did not remarry.  Pierre married Marguerite, daughter of Charles Dardenne and Marie-Louise Lagee of Natchitoches and New Orleans, at Ascension downriver from San Gabriel in July 1779.  They settled at San Gabriel.  Their children, born there, included Faustin- or Félix-Athanase baptized, age unrecorded, in May 1780; Marie-Anne-Louise, called Marie and Louise, born in May 1781; Pélagie in January 1783; Félicité died eight days after her birth in September 1784; Charles born in April 1787; Jean-Pierre, called Pierre, in December 1788; twins André-Treville, called Treville, and Marie-Françoise, called Françoise, in July 1790; Marie-Hortense in May 1793; Marie-Mélasie in December 1794; Marguerite in August 1796; Jean-Solomon, called Solomon, baptized, age 18 months, in August 1801; Joseph-Onésime born in October 1800; Félix in c1802 and baptized (though the published church record says buried), age 1, in March 1803; and Marie Félonie or Félonise, called Félonise, born in August 1803--15 children, seven sons and eight daughters, between 1780 and 1803.  Jean-Baptiste-Pierre probably was the Jean Pierre Braud who died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in October 1822.  The priest who recorded the burial and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife said that Jean Pierre died at "age 60."  Jean Baptiste Pierre would have been closer to 67.  Daughters Marie Anne Louise, Pélagie, Françoise, Marie Mélasie, Marguerite, Marie Hortense, and Félonise married into the Vigé, Suire, Catoire, Nerault, Lelusseau, Billings, and Lambremont families.  Two of them followed their Vigé and Nerault husbands to the Opelousas prairies.  Six of Jean Baptiste Pierre's sons married, three of them to sisters, and all of them settled near St. Gabriel, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Faustin or Félix Athanase married Marie Louise, called Louise, daughter of Jean-Philippe Staub and Catherine Kraus, at the St. Gabriel church in September 1809.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Jean Félix in February 1811; Marguerite Héloise Marie in August 1814; and Pierre Drosin, called Drosin, in November 1816--three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1811 and 1816.  Félix Athanase's daughter did not marry by 1870, if she married at all.  One of his sons did and settled on the river, but the line, except for its blood, may not have endured. 

Younger son Pierre Drosin, called Drosin, married cousin Marie Adeline or Azéline, daughter of Emérant Lanclos and Constance Dardenne, at the St. Gabriel church in January 1836.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Jean Félix le jeune in December 1835 but died near Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, on the west side of the river, at age 23 (the recording priest said 24) in October 1859; Marie Constance born in February 1838; and Marie Élize in February 1840--three children, a son and two daughters, between 1835 and 1840.  Daughter Marie Constance married into the Clément family, so the blood of the family line may have endured. 

Jean Baptiste Pierre's second son Charles married Adeline, daughter of Jean Louis Nerault and Marie Anne Kleinpeter, at the St. Gabriel church in January 1818.  They settled near Grosse Tete, Iberville Parish, on the west side of the Mississippi and at the eastern edge of the Atchafalaya Basin, where Charles died in October 1839.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Charles was age 55 when he died.  He was 52.  He and his wife may have been that rare Cajun couple who had no children.  

Jean Baptiste Pierre's third son Jean Pierre, called Pierre, married Marie Louise, daughter of Jacques Barque and Françoise Lamare, at the St. Gabriel church in April 1808.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Mélasie in the late 1800s; Marie Adélaïde in March 1809; Marie Aurore in October 1813; Marie Delphine in August 1817; Eugénie Prescide in the late 1810s; Marguerite Iseline or Isoline in July 1821; Pélagie in January 1824; and Pierre Aladin, called Peter A. and Aladin, in July 1826--eight children, seven daughters and a son, between 1809 and 1826.  Daughters Mélasie, Eugénie Prescide, and Marguerite Isoline married into the Meyre or Mayer family, including two brothers, by 1870.  Pierre's son also married by then. 

Only son Pierre or Peter Aladin, called Peter A. and Aladin, married Marie Séverine, daughter of Jean Pierre Mayer and Marie Séraphine Frederick of Bayou Grosse Tete, in a civil ceremony probably in Iberville Parish in November 1847, and sanctified the marriage at the St. Gabriel church across the river in June 1849.  They settled near Plaquemine on the west bank of the river.  Their children, born there, included Jean Aladin in February 1849; Charles Adrien in October 1851; Mary Adélaïde in October 1853; Séverina Elisma in October 1855; and Marguerite Estelle in December 1859--five children, two sons and three daughters, between 1849 and 1859.  None of Peter A.'s children married by 1870. 

Jean Baptiste Pierre's fourth son André Treville, called Treville, a twin, married Marguerite, also called Apollonie, another daughter of Jean Philippe Staub and Catherine Kraus, at the St. Gabriel church in September 1816.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included André Surville in October 1817; Jacques Pierre in July 1821; and Pierre Jean Baptiste, called John, in July 1822.  Treville remarried to Marie Adélaïde, called Adélaïde, Barque by the late 1820s.  Daughter Marie Adélaïde, called Adélaïde, was born near St. Gabriel in September 1829--four children, three sons and a daughter by two wives, between 1817 and 1829.  Daughter Adélaïde, by Treville's second wife, married into the Orillion family.  One of Treville's sons also married. 

Third and youngest son Pierre Jean Baptiste, called John, from first wife Marguerite Staub, married cousin Mélicère or Melisse, daughter of fellow Acadian Marcellin Rivet and his Creole wife Constance Dardenne, at the St. Gabriel church in September 1847.  They settled near Plaquemine on the west bank of the river.  Their children, born there, included André Treville in August 1848; John Pierre in July 1851; Charles Rodolph in June 1853; and Margueret Idea in October 1855--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1848 and 1855.  None of John's children married by 1870. 

Jean Baptiste Pierre's fifth son Jean Solomon, called Solomon, married Catherine, yet another daughter of Jean Philippe Staub and Catherine Kraus, at the St. Gabriel church in May 1821.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Pierre or Peter Adolph in February 1822; and Marie Cémentilde, perhaps called Mathilda, in July 1824[sic].  Solomon remarried to Marie Odile Rivas, place and date unrecorded.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Benjamin in December 1823[sic] and baptized [perhaps buried] at age 10 1/2 in August 1834; Solomon, fils born in November 1832; and Jean Faustin in March 1835.  Solomon, père may have remarried again--perhaps his third marriage--to Émelie Chenevert and settled in Pointe Coupee Parish by the early 1840s.  Daughter Marie Émelie was born in Pointe Coupee Parish in October 1843--six children, four sons and two daughters, by three wives, between 1822 and 1843.  Daughter Mathilda, by his first wife, married into the Chenevert family by 1870.  Three of Solomon's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Pierre Adolphe, called Peter Adolphe and Adolphe, by first wife Catherine Staub, may have married Marie Félicia, called Félicia, Neraux in a civil ceremony perhaps in Iberville Parish, date unrecorded.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Adolphe Théodore near St. Gabriel in May 1846; Marie Félicie in December 1848; and Charles Hippolyte near Plaquemine in August 1853.  Pierre Adolphe may have remarried to fellow Acadian Marie Doralise Melançon, place and date unrecorded.  Their children, born near Plaquemine, included Edward Adolph in November 1856; Pierre Salomon in January 1860; and Joseph Benjamin in November 1861.  Pierre Adolphe perhaps remarried--his third marriage?--to Marie Madeleine Badeau, place and date unrecorded.  Their son Louis Edgar was born near Plaquemine in January 1866; ...  

Solomon, père's third son Solomon, fils, by second wife Marie Odile Rivas, likely married Marguerite Alida, daughter of August C. Boone, place and date unrecorded.  Daughter Antoinette Alida ws born near Plaquemine in January 1861; ... 

Solomon, père's fourth and youngest son Jean Faustin, by second wife Marie Odile Rivas, married Marie Celina Bourgeois, probably a fellow Acadian, place and date unrecorded.  Their children, born on the river, included André Salomon near Plaquemine in May 1858; Pierre Forester in September 1860; Marie Pauline Benedict near Vacherie, St. James Parish, in March 1868; ...   

Jean Baptiste Pierre's seventh and youngest son Félix married Euphrosine, daughter of Charles Vigé and Catherine ____, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in December 1820.  She evidently gave him no children.  Félix remarried to Marie Théotiste, daughter of Philippe Badeaux and Catherine Legras, at the St. Gabriel church in May 1828.  Their daughter Marie Angélique was born in c1831 and baptized at St. Gabriel, age 5, in May 1836.  Félix may have remarried again--perhaps his third marriage--to Marie Félicie DeGruise, place and date unrecorded.  Their daughter Marie Félicie was born near St. Gabriel in August 1840.  Félix's daughters did not marry by 1870, and he evidently fathered no sons by any of his wives, so the family line may not have endured. 

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At least 21 more Breaus came to Louisiana on five of the Seven Ships from France in 1785.  Breaus from three of those ship established families on the river and Bayou Lafourche, but only two of the lines endured. 

The first Breau from France--a wife and her large family of Henrys--reached the colony aboard Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in late July 1785.  They followed their fellow passengers to Manchac south of Baton Rouge.  No new Breau family line came of it. 

More Breaus--10 of them, including a large family, a wife and a widow--arrived aboard La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in mid-August 1785.  The family head and his wife did not follow their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche but went to Manchac instead, where their line did not endure beyond the second generation.  The Breau wife and widow aboard La Bergère settled with their families on the upper Lafourche:

Honoré (c1735-?) à Antoine à Vincent Breaux

Honoré, second son of Pierre Breau and Marguerite Gautrot, born probably at Minas in c1735, was deported not to Maryland with the rest of his family but to Virginia in the fall of 1755.  Virginia authorities sent him and his fellow passengers on to England the following spring.  Along with dozens of his fellow exiles, Honoré was repatriated to St.-Malo, France, aboard the transport Dorothée in May 1763.  He settled at Plouër-sur-Rance on the west side of the river south of the Breton port, where he married Élisabeth dite Maillet, daughter of fellow Acadians Victor LeBlanc and Marie Aucoin of Tintamarre, Chignecto, in February 1766.  Honoré worked as a carpenter in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  There and at Plouër, Élisabeth gave Honoré four children:  Jean-Charles-Pierre born at St.-Servan in November 1766; Olive-Élisabeth in February 1765; Marie-Madeleine in February 1771; and Pierre-Paul at Plouër in November 1772 but died at nearby La Giolais, age 1, in October 1773.  Soon after their son's death, Honoré took his family to the interior of Poitou, where Élisabeth gave him another son, Élie, born at Archigny, south of Châtellerault, in August 1774.  In December 1775, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes.  Élisabeth gave him four more children there and at nearby Chantenay:  Jeanne born in Ste.-Croix Parish in May 1776; another Pierre-Paul in St.-Léonard Parish in June 1779; and twins Rose-Marie and Charles in St.-Martin de Chantenay Parish in October 1781.  Son Élie died at Chantenay, age 9, in August 1783.  Honoré, Élisabeth, and six of their children, four daughters and two sons, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Oldest son Jean-Charles-Pierre, who would have been age 19 that year if he was still living, remained in the mother country.  Élisabeth was pregnant when they left Paimboeuf, the lower port of Nantes, in mid-May 1785.  A daughter was born aboard La Bergère in mid-June.  They baptized her at the New Orleans church in late August, soon after their arrival, and named her Martine or Martina, after her godfather, Spanish intendente Martin Navarro, who stood as godfather to all the newborn Acadians--10 children, five sons and five daughters, between 1766 and 1785, in France and aboard ship.  Honoré and his family followed their fellow passengers to Manchac, where members of his family from Maryland, older brother Jean-Charles and two younger sisters, had been living since 1769.  Honoré and Élisabeth had no more children in Louisiana.  Daughter Rose-Marie died at Manchac in July 1787, age 6.  Daughter Jeanne died at Charity Hospital, New Orleans, in September 1799, age 22, still unmarried.  Wife Élisabeth died at Manchac in January 1808, age 64.  The St. Gabriel priest who recorded her burial called her the "spouse" of Honoré Breaux, not his widow.  Daughters Olive-Élisabeth, Marie-Madeleine, and Martine married into the Landry, Guidry, Forest, Hébert, and Aucoin families.  Two of Honoré sons also married and settled on the river, but neither of the lines endured. 

Fourth son Pierre-Paul, the second with the name, followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and Manchac, where, at age 31, he married Anne-Marguerite, called Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Pierre Hébert and Marie Dorothée Doiron, in January 1810 at the St. Gabriel church.  They remained in Iberville Parish.  Pierre Paul died near St. Gabriel in October 1823, age 44.  He and his wife seem to have been that rare Acadian couple who had no children.  

Honoré's fifth and youngest son Charles, a twin, followed his family to New Orleans and Manchac.  He married Marie-Renée, called Renée, another daughter of Jean Pierre Hébert and Marie Dorothée Doiron, in August 1810 at the St. Gabriel church.  They settled in Iberville Parish and then at Baton Rouge.  She evidently gave him no children.  At age 48, Charles remarried to Marie Ursule, called Ursule, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Trahan and Geneviève Daigre and widow of François Theriot, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in January 1830.  Their children, born in West Baton Rouge Parish, included Marie Élisabeth in October 1830; and Jules Charles in August 1832 but died at age 5 in August 1837.  Charles's daughter did not marry by 1870, if she married at all, so his line of the family may have died with him. 

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Another Breau--a young husband, his young wife, and no children--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, where their line endured: 

Joseph, fils (1761-1813) à François à Vincent Breaux

Joseph, fils, son of Joseph Breau and Marie-Madeleine Vincent of Minas, born at Bristol, England, in February 1761, followed his twice-widowed mother and a Boudrot half-brother to St.-Malo, France, aboard the transport Dorothée in May 1763.  He settled with them at St.-Suliac on the east side of the river south of the Breton port.  One wonders if they went to Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany with other exiles from England in late 1765, or to the interior of Poitou in 1773.  Later that decade or in the early 1780s, Joseph, fils, at least, did not remain at St.-Suliac but moved on to the lower Loire port of Nantes, where he married Marie-Blanche, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis-Athanase Trahan and Marguerite LeBlanc of l'Assomption, Pigiguit, at nearby Chantenay in May 1785.  Marie-Blanche was a native of Belle-Île-en-Mer.  Her family also had been exiled to Virginia in 1755, deported to England the following year, and repatriated to France in 1763.  The newlyweds crossed to Louisiana soon after their marriage and followed their fellow passengers to Baton Rouge.  Their children, born there, included Jean-Joseph, -Justin, or -Faustin, Jean-Joseph, -Justin, or -Faustin in March 1788; Joseph III in April 1790; Marie-Céleste, called Céleste, in February 1796; Modeste-Geneviève in January 1799; Rosalie in June 1802; Marcel in July 1804; and Marie François Arsène, called Arsène, a son, in February 1807--seven children, four sons and three daughters, between 1788 and 1807.  Joseph died near Baton Rouge in March 1813, age 52.  Daughter Céleste married into the Theriot family.  Three of Joseph, fils's sons also married, but not all of the lines endured.  His oldest son moved to upper Bayou Lafourche, but his younger sons remained at Baton Rouge.  

Oldest son Jean Joseph, Justin, or Faustin married Marie Constance, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Casimir Templet and Marie Rose Livois, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in May 1814.  They moved to upper Bayou Lafourche later in the decade.  Their children, born on the river and the upper Lafourche, included Emérante Eméline, called Eméline, in Assumption Parish in October 1816; Valmont near Baton Rouge in June 1819; Maximin Désiré in Assumption Parish in May 1823 but died five days after his birth; Hirène Clarisse born in July 1824 but, called Irène, died near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, age 28 (the recording priest said 29), in May 1853; Colette Armélise born in March 1827; Julvert Jean Baptiste in January 1829 but, called Jean Baptiste, died at age 2 1/2 in September 1831; and Marie Rose born in October 1831--seven children, four daughters and three sons, between 1816 and 1831.  Faustin died in Assumption Parish in July 1833.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Fostin, as he called him, was age 42 when he died.  He was 45.  Daughter Eméline married into the Anglade family.  Faustin's remaining son also married and settled on the upper Lafourche.  One wonders if the family line endured. 

Oldest son Valmont married Victorine, daughter of George Adolphe and his Acadian wife Victorine Boudreaux, civilly, and sanctified the marriage at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1850.  Did they have any children? 

Joseph, fils's second son Joseph III married Jeanne Louise Véronique, also called Jeanne Marie and Marie Véronique, daughter of François Isidore LeTullier and his Acadian wife Marie Louise Daigre, at the Baton Rouge church in April 1815; Jeanne probably was a cousin of Joseph's younger brother Arsène's wife Julie.  Joseph III and Jeanne settled probably in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie Constance in February 1818; Pierre Élie in September 1820; Joseph IV in the early 1820s; Jean Baptiste in July 1827; Irma Victorine, called Victorine, in September 1829; Laurent in October 1833 but died near Brusly, West Baton Rouge Parish, age 19 (the recording priest said 20), in August 1853; Seline Pauline born in February 1836; and Joseph Ulysse baptized at the Baton Rouge church, age 2 months, in February 1840--eight children, three daughters and five sons, between 1818 and 1840.  Daughters ... married into the Allain, Dupuy, Hébert, and Tullier families by 1870.  Two of Joseph III's sons also married by then. 

Second son Joseph IV married Marie Aureline, called Aureline or Aurelia, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Daigre and his Creole wife Marie Lopez of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the Baton Rouge church in January 1839.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Ulysse baptized at the Baton Rouge church, age 2 months, in February 1840; Marie Sidonie born in the early 1840s; and Marie Henrietta near Brusly in April 1847--three children, a son and two daughters, between 1840 and 1847.  Daughter Marie Sidonie married into the Sharon family by 1870.  Joseph IV's son did not marry by then. 

Joseph III's third son Jean Baptiste may have married Marie Emma, called Emma, Ferioux or Feriot, place and date unrecorded, and settled near Brusly by the late 1850s.   Their children, born there, included Marie Arthémise in September 1857; Joseph Luc in October 1860; Agathe Camilia near Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, downriver and on the same side of the river as Brusly, in February 1866; ... 

Joseph, fils's fourth and youngest son Marie François Arsène, called Arsène, married Julie, daughter of Jean Charles LeTullier and his Acadian wife Rose Adélaïde Daigre, at the Baton Rouge church in August 1824.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their childern, born there, included Marie Aurore in September 1824; Julie Désirée in June 1827; Derausin, Drausin, or Drosin in December 1829; Adolphe in October 1832; and Arsène, fils in October 1834 but, called Arcène, died at age 18 in October 1852--five children, two daughters and three sons, between 1824 and 1834.  Arsène, père's daughters did not marry by 1870, if they married at all, but one of his sons did.

Oldest son Drosin married Pauline, daughter of fellow Acadians Florentin Templet and Henriette Dupuy, at the Brusly church in May 1851.  Their children, born near Brusly, included Rose Henrietta in February 1854; Joseph Edgard in March 1857; and Julia Ernestine in April 1858--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1854 and 1858.  Drosin may have died near Plaquemine in July 1860.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Derosin Braux, as he called him, died at "age 32 years."  This Drosin would have been age 30.  None of his children married by 1870. 

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More Breaus--eight of them, including two families, two wives, and a widow--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 a vigorous family line emerged:

Alexis (c1722-?) à Antoine à Vincent Breaux

Alexis, third son of Antoine Breau, fils and Marguerite Dugas, born probably at Cobeguit in c1722, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of René Guillot and Marguerite Doiron of Cobeguit, probably there in c1745.  Marie-Josèphe gave Alexis five daughters at Cobeguit:  Madeleine born in c1746; Anne-Madeleine, called Madeleine, in c1747; Anne in c1748; Marie-Osite in c1749; and Marie-Victoire, called Victoire, in c1750.  They moved on to Île St.-Jean in 1751.  In August 1752, a French official counted Alexis and four of his daughters at Grande-Anse on the island's south shore.  Oddly, he called Alexis a widower.  After the counting, Marie-Josèphe, who was very much alive, gave Alexis three more children on the island:  Charles born in c1753; Élisabeth in the 1750s; and Fabien before 1758.  In late 1758, the British deported Alexis, Marie-Josèphe, and their eight children, along with his younger brother Joseph le jeune, to St.-Malo, France, aboard the 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, took refuge at Bideford, England, and did not reach St.-Malo until March 1759.  Alexis's youngest children, Élisabeth and Fabien, ages unrecorded, died at sea.  Marie-Josèphe must have been pregnant on the voyage.  Daughter Élisabeth-Renée, born at Trigavou on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo in May 1759, two months after their arrival, died 12 days after her birth.  Alexis and Marie-Josèphe remained at Trigavou, where she gave him two more children:  Pierre born in August 1762 but died at age 4 1/2 in May 1767; and Marguerite-Blanche born in May 1765--11 children, eight daughters and three sons, between 1746 and 1765, in greater Acadia and France.  Older daughter Marie-Osite died at Trigavou in November 1764, age 15.  The family may have gone to Poitou in 1773 and retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the lower Loire port of Nantes in late 1775 or early 1776.  In September 1784, Spanish officials counted the family with other exiles at Nantes who agreed to go to Louisiana.  Alexis's family, once a large one, consisted now of only Alexis, Marie-Josèphe, and their youngest daughter Marguerite-Blanche, who would have been age 19 in 1784, and oldest daughter Anne-Madeleine, who had married into the Hébert family at Chantenay near Nantes in August 1781.  One wonders what happened to daughters Madeleine and Victoire, who, if they were still living, would have been ages 39 and 34 in 1784, and son Charles, who would have been age 31 that year.  They did not follow their family to the Spanish colony.  Alexis, Marie-Josèphe, and daughter Marguerite-Blanche, along with Anne-Madeleine, her husband Étienne Hébert, and their family, emigrated to Louisiana in 1785 and followed their fellow passengers from New Orleans to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Alexis and Marie-Josè[je were still living on the upper bayou in January 1798, in their early 70s, as was their older daughter Anne-Madeleine and her family.  Alexis died in Interior Parish in October 1808, in his mid- or late 80s.  His succession, which called his wife Mary Guiot and did not say she was dead, was filed at the local courthouse the following November.  Younger daughter Marguerite-Blanche married into the Dantin family in the late 1780s and died in Lafourche Interior Parish in June 1852, age 87, one of the last of the Acadian immigrants in Louisiana to join her ancestors, so the blood of this family line endured in the Bayou State. 

Joseph-Gabriel (c1753-1822) à Antoine, fils à Antoine à Vincent Breaux

Joseph-Gabriel, son of Joseph Breau and Ursule Bourg, born probably at Rivière-de-l'Ouest, Île St.-Jean, in c1753, was deported with his family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  He settled with his widowed father and older siblings at Pleurtuit on the west side of the river southwest of St.-Malo and then followed them to St.-Suliac across the Rance from Pleurtuit in 1764.  In 1773, Joseph-Gabriel followed his family to Poitou, where he married Marie-Marguerite, called Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians André Templet and his first wife Marie Deveau, at Archigny, south of Châtellerault, in September 1777.  Marguerite gave Joseph-Gabriel three children at Archgny:  Joseph le jeune born in June 1778; Gabriel in September 1779; and Angélique in April 1781.  As their marriage date and the birth dates of their children reveal, Joseph-Gabriel and Marguerite did not retreat with most of their fellow Poitou Acadians to the lower Loire port of Nantes in late 1775 or early 1776.  However, they did move on to Nantes by May 1782, when their year-old daughter Angélique died in St.-Nicolas Parish there.  Joseph-Gabriel's father died in St.-Nicolas Parish later that month, age 70.  Marguerite gave Joseph-Gabriel two more daughters at Nantes:  Renée-Élisabeth born at nearby Chantenay in April 1783 but died there, age 1 1/2,  in December 1783; and Eulalie born in St.-Nicolas Parish in June 1785.  Second son Gabriel, who would have been age 6 in 1785, evidently had died by then.  Two months after their daughter's birth, Joseph-Gabriel, Marguerite, and their remaining children, older son Joseph le jeune and infant daughter Eulalie, crossed to Louisiana.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, but not before spending time on the Acadian Coast.  Daughter Eulalie may have died either on the crossing from France, at New Orleans, or on the upper Lafourche, still an infant.  Marguerite gave Joseph-Gabriel more children on the river and the upper Lafourche, including Marie-Josèphe born at Cabahannocer in August 1788; Pierre-Marcel, called Marcel, at Ascension in September 1789; Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, at Assumption on the upper Lafourche in March 1793; and Marguerite in July 1795--nine children, three sons and six daughters, between 1778 and 1795, in France and Louisiana.  Joseph Gabriel died in St. James Parish on the river in August 1822.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph Gabriel was age 71 when he died.  He was 69.  Daughters Marie Josèphe, Marie Madeleine, and Marguerite married into the Romagosa, LeBlanc, and Richard families.  Two of Joseph Gabriel's sons also married, but not all of the lines endured.  His older son, whose line died out, and one of Joseph Gabriel's daughters, remained on the upper Lafourche, but his younger son moved back up to the river and settled in St. James Parish.  Joseph Gabriel, in fact, may have died at his younger son's home there.  

Oldest son Joseph le jeune followed his family to Nantes, New Orleans, the Acadian Coast, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Daigle and Marie Dugas, in June 1805.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Victor in July 1810 but died in November; Marie Deseada born in October 1811; and Marcellite Marguerite in November 1814--three children, a son and two daughters, between 1810 and 1814.  Joseph le jeune died in Assumption Parish in June 1815, age 37.  Daughters Marcellite and Marie married into the Barbier and Thibodeaux families.  Joseph le jeune's line of the family, except for its blood, probably died with him.  

Joseph-Gabriel's third and youngest son Pierre Marcel, called Marcel, married Azélie, daughter of Joseph Berteau and Madeleine LeBoeuf, at the St. James church, St. James Parish, in May 1818.  They remained in St. James Parish.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Marcel, called Marcel, in November 1820; Raymond Eugène, called Eugène, in December 1821; Marie Matilde in February 1823; Madeleine Eugénie in September 1824; Silvestere or Sylvestre, also called Pierre Sylvestre, in December 1825; and Marguerite Émilie in July 1827--six children, three sons and three daughters, between 1820 and 1827.  Daughters Marie Matilde and Margerite Émilie married into the Gourdain and Fabre families.  Marcel's three sons also created their own families and, like their sisters, married non-Acadians. 

Oldest son Joseph Marcel, also called Marcel, married Marguerite Anaïs or Anaïs Marguerite, daughter of Jean Gourdain and his Acadian wife Émelie Bergeron, at the St. James church in May 1846; Joseph Marcel's sister Marie Mathilde married Marguerite Anaïs's brother Jean Arsène.  Joseph Marcel and Marguerite Anaïs's children, born in St. James Parish, included Joseph Marcel, fils in June 1848; John Robert in September 1849; Marie Philomène in September 1851; Marie Justine in September 1853; Marguerite Atanais in October 1855; Jeanne Cécile in June 1857; and Joseph Mathurin Kleber in January 1859--seven children, three sons and four daughters, between 1848 and 1859.  None of Marcel's children married by 1870. 

Marcel, père's second son Raymond Eugène, called Eugène, married, at age 37, Adèle, daughter of Jean Barthélémy Ferchaud and Justine Croizet, at the St. James church in August 1859.  One wonders if this was Eugène's first marriage.  His and Adèle's children, born in St. James Parish, included Marie Manette in May 1860; Jean Joseph Eugène in April 1865; ... 

Marcel, père's third and youngest son Sylvestre married Marie Evelina or Leda, daughter of Benjamin Loup or Loupe and Joséphine Frederick, at the St. James church in October 1849.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included  Benjamin Sylvester in July 1850; Marie Azélia in November 1851; Madeleine Joséphine in January 1854; Pierre Marcel in July 1856; Marie Mathilde in January 1864; John Serve in October 1866; Raymond Eugène baptized at the St. James church, age unrecorded, in April 1869; ...  None of Sylvestre's children married by 1870. 

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The last Breau to come to the colony--a middle-aged spinster--reached Spanish Louisiana aboard La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships from France, which reached New Orleans directly from St.-Malo in early December 1785.  She followed her fellow Acadians to the Acadian community of Bayou des Écores in the New Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge, but no new Breau family line came of it.

Broussard

François Brossard, progenitor of one of the most notable Acadian families, born in c1653 perhaps in Anjou, France, to parents still unknown, may have come to the French colony in 1671 aboard the ship L'Oranger.  He married Catherine, daughter of Michel Richard dit Sansoucy and Madeleine Blanchard, at Port-Royal in c1678 and settled on haute rivière, now the upper Annapolis River, at a place called Beausoleil.  Not long after his marriage, François "collaborated with Pierre Thibodeau in the colonization of Chipoudy" on the upper Bay of Fundy, "but he did not go to settle there himself."  Between 1681 and 1705, Catherine gave François 11 children, six sons and five daughters, all born at Beausoleil.  In early 1711, in the waning years of Queen Anne's War, François was one of several residents of the haute rivière jailed by British commander Samuel Vetch.  François died suddenly at his farm on haute rivière in December 1716, in his early 60s.  Four of his daughters married into the Landry, Doucet, Préjean, and Bourg families.  Five of his six sons married into the Bourg, Babin, Dugas, and Thibodeau families, four of them to two sets of sisters.  The family's name evolved from Brossard to Broussard in Acadia.  One of the sons, Joseph dit Beausoleil, was a resistance leader during King George's War of the 1740s, and his older brothers Claude and Alexandre represented Pigiguit and the trois-rivières area at the new Nova Scotia capital at Halifax during the early 1750s, while brother Joseph led Acadian partisans against the British in the petite guerre fomented by Abbé Le Loutre.  By 1755, François and Catherine's descendants could be found at Annapolis Royal; at Grand-Pré and Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in the Minas Basin; at Village-des-Beausoleil on the upper Petitcoudiac in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto; at Port-Toulouse on Île Royale; and at Rivière-du-Nord-Est in the interior of Île St.-Jean.  Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this large family even farther. 

After yet another war erupted between Britain and France in 1754, the Acadians were again caught in the middle of it.  When British and New-English forces attacked Fort Beauséjour at Chignecto in June 1755, Broussards from Petitcoudiac were among the area Acadians serving in the fort as militia, though they may have left the fort a few days before it surrendered on June 16.  Lieutenant-Governor Charles Lawrence was so incensed to find so-called French Neutrals fighting with French troupes de la marine at Beauséjour he ordered his officers to deport the area Acadians to the southernmost seaboard colonies.  In mid-October 1755, the British transported Alexandre dit Beausoleil Broussard and his son Victor to South Carolina aboard the British warship HMS Syren.  They were transported in chains, under heavy guard, along with other Acadian "troublemakers."  They reached Charles Town in late November and were held in close confinement on Sullivan's Island outside of the city.  

Before the deportation ships arrived at Chignecto, some of the Acadians being held at Fort Lawrence managed to escape, Joseph dit Beausoleil among them.  He rejoined his wife and younger children at Petitcoudiac, and they headed into the wilderness north of their home, not only hiding from the British patrols sent out to capture them, but also engaging in what today is called guerrilla warfare, including privateering in the Bay of Fundy and the Gulf of St. Lawrence to harass British shipping.  For a time, Beausoleil's "headquarters" was at Shediac on the Gulf shore, where he coordinated his resistance activities with Canadian Lieutenant Charles Deschamps de Boishébert, who had commanded French forces on lower Rivière St.-Jean. 

Although at first held in close confinement in South Carolina, Alexandre and Victor had been allowed to go to the workhouse in Charles Town, from which, in late January 1756, they escaped with several other Acadians.  They made their way through the coastal swamps and marshes of the Santee River valley, where they raided a plantation for food and supplies, including arms and ammunition, and headed for the Carolina backcountry.  After months of avoiding British settlers and colonial militia, assisted most likely by Indians friendly to the French, they reached French Fort Duquesne on the upper Ohio.  From there, they moved on to Canada and then down the Rivière St.-Jean portage back to greater Acadia.  According to Carl Brasseaux, "Only two Acadians are known to have completed the trek"--Alexandre and his son Victor.  Amazingly, Alexandre was in his late 50s at the time, but the rigors of advancing old age could not stop him from rejoining his family.  He and Victor appeared at an Acadian settlement on lower Rivière St.-Jean in June, about the time that 50 or so other Chignecto Acadians who had been deported to the southern colonies returned to the St.-Jean valley by open boat after a harrowing ordeal of their own.  Alexandre and Victor did not remain on Rivière St.-Jean but moved on to Shediac, where they reunited with their family and re-joined the Acadian resistance. 

Meanwhile, the British deported hundreds of Acadians from Minas in late October 1755, sending them to Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and New England.  The Minas Broussards, including brother Claude, went to Maryland. 

Broussards at Annapolis Royal escaped the British round up there in the fall of 1755, spent a hard winter along the Fundy shore, and crossed the bay to Chepoudy the following spring.  After making their way north to the Rivière St.-Jean settlements or the upper Petitcoudiac, they joined their kinsmen at Shediac and Miramichi on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, where they fought starvation, hard winters, and British raiding parties.  The youngest Broussard brother, Jean-Baptiste, participated with older brothers Alexandre and Joseph dit Beausoleil in the Acadian resistance.  When his brothers "surrendered" to British forces at Fort Cumberland, formerly French Fort Beauséjour, Chignecto, in late 1759, Jean-Baptiste refused to join them and took his family to Québec.  One account says his wife, two children, and his mother-in-law died on the way to Canada.  One of his daughters by his first wife remarried at Île Jesus near Montréal in June 1761.  Jean-Baptiste died at Mascouche near Montréal in July 1770, in his late 60s--five years after his older brothers had died in faraway Louisiana.  

The Broussards on Île Royale and Île St.-Jean, living in territory controlled by France, escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia during the fall of 1755.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats deported most of the island habitants to France.  The crossing devastated the family.  A Broussard wife crossed with her husband and nine children aboard the deporatation transport Queen of Spain, which left Île Royale in September and reached St.-Malo in mid-November.  Every member of the family died at sea.  Several Broussard families from Minas who had gone to Île St.-Jean crossed to France aboard one of the five deportation transports that left Chédabouctou Bay in a 12-ship convoy in late November, survived a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England that sank three other vessels, and reached St.-Malo together in late January 1759.  The death toll among the 1,033 passengers aboard those vessels reached nearly 50 percent, a number of them Broussards.  Beginning in early 1759, island Broussards settled at Pleudihen-sur-Rance on the east side of Rivière Rance south of St.-Malo.  Some of the island Broussards deported to France in 1758 ended up in other ports, including Cherbourg in Normandy.  In the early 1770s, Broussards from Cherbourg participated in a grand settlement venture in the interior of Poitou that attempted to settle exiles from the port cities on an influential nobleman's land near the city of Châtellerault.  In December 1775, after two years of effort, most of the Broussards retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes.  In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France a chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, where many of their kinsmen had settled decades earlier.  Two Broussard brothers in the Nantes area took up the offer, but three of their cousins still at Pleudihen-sur-Rance chose to remain in France.  

Meanwhile, in North America, Joseph dit Beausoleil Broussard and his fellow Acadians harassed the British as best they could.  In late 1756, they abandoned their "headquarters" at Shediac and moved north to a new camp at Miramichi to put more distance between themselves and the British forces at Fort Cumberland, formerly French Beauséjour.  Their resistance exacted a terrible price.  Obtaining food, clothing, and shelter for their families, especially during the winter, continually burdened the resistance fighters and limited their effectiveness against a well-fed, well-supplied, and comfortably-sheltered foe.  Joseph's wife Agnès Thibodeau was among the many Acadians who died of sickness or starvation at Miramichi during the terrible winter of 1756-57.  Some historians insist that all of the children at Miramichi died that winter.  Victor Broussard's twin sons may have been among the many who perished.  After the terrible ordeal at Miramichi, some of the resistance fighters retreated farther up the coast to the French stronghold at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  The Broussards moved south, instead, to the woods north of Rivière Petitcoudiac, an area they knew intimately, and continued their forays into British Nova Scotia, on sea as privateers as well as on land as hit-and-run partisans.  By the autumn of 1759, after four years of unimaginable hardship, made worse by the fall of Québec in September, the Broussards and their compatriots, now cut off from French assistance, responded to a British offer of amnesty.  They agreed to surrender to the commander at Fort Cumberland to spare their families the horror of another Acadian winter.  Older brother Alexandre volunteered to be held as a hostage at Fort Cumberland until Joseph and other resistance leaders surrendered the following spring.  However, the British reneged on their amnesty offer, and the Broussards and their fellow Acadians continued their struggle from Restigouche.  Joseph, in possession of a privateer's commission issued by Governor-General Vaudreuil, may have preyed on British shipping from Restigouche.  A British naval force from Louisbourg attacked the remnants of a French squadron there in late June 1760.  After a two-week struggle, the British, having neutralized the French naval force, returned to their base at Louisbourg.  Though the British failed to capture Restigouche, they nevertheless cut it off from what was left of French America.  In October, after the fall of Montréal and the surrender of Canada, a second 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, the French commander made a census of the 1,003 Acadians still at Restigouche.  The Broussard brothers and their families were not among them.  After the fight there, they either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and transported to prison compounds in Nova Scotia with Acadians captured at Restigouche and other places of refuge.  The Broussards were held at Halifax, perhaps on Georges Island in the middle of the harbor.  Joseph also spent time in confinement at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, near his cousins' old homestead.  There, he managed to communicate with Acadian partisans still on the loose, who imparted to him French offers of settling the Acadians in French territory after the war.  The British returned him to Halifax, where he could be more closely confined and where he and his extended family spent the next few years waiting for peace to come. 

In the prison compounds of Nova Scotia--at Fort Cumberland, formerly French Fort Beauséjour; Fort Edward; Halifax; Annapolis Royal; and Chédabouctou up the Atlantic coast---the Broussards were among the hundreds of Acadians whom the British had rounded up in greater Acadia both before and after the surrender of Restigouche.  Many of them were kin to the Broussards by blood or by marriage and thus were part of their extended family.  The Broussards, still led by Joseph dit Beausoleil, did what they could to keep communications open with these kinsmen.  Ironically, beginning in the summer of 1761, dozens of Acadians being held in the province--only men who had not been part of the partisan resistance, so none were likely Broussards--were enticed to return to their former lands on the Bay of Fundy to work on the earthen barriers that had transformed their corner of the world into an agricultural paradise before a huge storm in 1759 tore them down.  The New-English "planters," who in 1760 began to occupy Acadian farmland in the Annapolis and Minas basins, had little idea of how to rebuild and maintain the dykes and aboiteaux that kept the fertile fields from becoming tidal marsh again.  The Acadians worked diligently for their New-English "masters" and were paid in Canadian currency.  Despite their plunge from landowners to mere laborers on their former lands, many of them harbored the forlorn hope of living on their fathers' farms again.  But this was not to be.  Charles Lawrence, the great nemesis of all Acadians, died at Halifax in October 1760 not long after his promotion to governor, but he was succeeded by Jonathan Belcher, Jr., who hated and feared the Acadians as much as Lawrence ever did.  In July 1762, encouraged by Belcher, the Nova Scotia Council ordered the deportation of the Acadian prisoners from the colony--over 900 men, women, and children at Halifax; as well as 150 workers at Fort Edward and Annapolis Royal, without their families!  In late August, seven ships carried the Acadians to Boston, but Massachusetts authorities refused to take them.  In mid-October, the prisoners returned to Halifax, Broussards likely among them. 

The war with Britain finally ended with the Treaty of Paris of February 1763 and presented the exiles in Nova Scotia a hard dilemma.  Article IV of the treaty gave all persons dispersed by the war 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 continue to work for low wages as laborers on their former lands, now, or soon to be, controlled by New-English "planters."  If the Acadians stayed, they must also take the hated oath of allegiance, without reservation, to the new British king, George III.  They would also have to take the oath if they joined their kinsmen in Canada.  Most of the Acadians held in Nova Scotia at war's end were still there in the autumn of 1764.  Nova Scotia's new governor, Montague Wilmot, "tender'd to them" the oath of allegiance as well as "offers of a settlement in this Country."  Most of the Acadians rebuffed the oath as well as the offer.  British leaders in Halifax, led by Jonathan Belcher, Jr., still felt threatened by the Acadian presence in Nova Scotia.  They were especially fearful of Beausoleil Broussard and other resistance leaders.  Belcher encouraged Wilmot to remove the Acadians from the province despite orders from London to keep them in Nova Scotia, along with entreaties from the New-English "planters" to retain them as cheap but highly skilled labor.  Wilmot resisted Belcher at first, so the chief justice hatched a scheme to send the Acadians from Halifax to Baskenridge, New Jersey, to work as indentured servants on an English nobleman's land; Belcher's father just happened to be the governor of New Jersey, and the nobleman was one of his father's political allies.  Governor Wilmot also received a proposal to send 30 Acadian families to New York colony to work as indentured servants there.  Luckily for the Acadians, neither scheme came to fruition.  Infected, finally, by Belcher's fear of Acadian treachery, Wilmot proposed to his uncle, the powerful Earl of Halifax, the deportation of the Acadian "prisoners" in Nova Scotia to the British West Indies, but the earl ignored his nephew's scheme.  Determined to be rid of the Acadians, Wilmot conceived a plan that he was certain would discourage them from remaining in Nova Scotia.  First, he crafted a new ironclad oath for them that insulted their Roman Catholic faith.  Most compellingly, and against every directive from his superiors in London, he gave the resistance leaders and their families a hard choice:  either submit to deportation to the British West Indies or remain imprisoned at Halifax. 

Nova Scotia was no longer a welcome place for the descendants of its original European settlers.  Too proud to work for wages, unwilling to work as indentured servants in colonies where they could lose their religion as well as their culture, unable to return to their precious farms in the Fundy basins, and determined not to take the hated oath, the Broussards and their kinsmen had to find a suitable place to put down new roots.  The St. Lawrence valley seemed to be a poor choice; they were hearing stories of how the French Canadians treated with contempt Acadian refugees who had settled among them as early as 1756.  Besides, Canada was as much a British possession now as Nova Scotia, and settling on the St. Lawrence would require them to take the unqualified oath.  Nor was it likely that Wilmot would allow the Broussards and their partisan compatriots to settle as close as Québec to their former lands in greater Acadia.  The Illinois country on the upper Mississippi was a viable option, but the British would not let them take the shortest route there via Canada.  Besides, France had just ceded the eastern part of Illinois to Britain.  Moreover, Indian uprisings, including one led by the Ottawa chief Pontiac, were ravaging the western frontier.  The fighting there could last for years, so even if the west bank of the Illinois country, today's Missouri, was still controlled by France, the exiles would have to reach it via New Orleans.  In the fall of 1764, the French cession of western Louisiana to Spain, secured in a agreement between the allies at Fontainebleu, France, in November 1762, was no longer a well-kept secret, but the exiles in Nova Scotia may have assumed, correctly, that French authorities still controlled New Orleans and the west bank of the lower Mississippi.  France still controlled Martinique, Guadaloupe, and St.-Domingue in the French Antilles, where hundreds of Acadian exiles from the seaboard colonies were going to escape British rule and live among fellow Catholics.  However, letters from Acadians in St.-Domingue detailed the horrors of the climate and maltreatment there at the hands of French officials.  There was always the mother country itself, where the British had deported hundreds of Acadians from the French Maritime islands during the war and to where the Acadians held in England had been recently repatriated.  But even with permission from the French crown to go to the mother country, a cross-Atlantic voyage would be difficult and expensive, as would a voyage from Halifax to the French West Indies.  There was much for the Broussards and their kinsmen to consider, and time was running out.  

After much deliberation, the old resistance fighters and their kin chose to go to French St.-Domingue.  No higher authority planned their move from Halifax to the sugar colony, though Wilmot was happy to provide them with rations for the long voyage down the coast.  Pooling the money they and their sons had saved from months of labor on land their fathers once had owned, the Broussard party left Halifax in late November 1764 aboard a chartered English schooner--over 200 men, women, and children.  They reached Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, in January and could see even in that winter month that the island's climate was unsuitable for them.  They had hoped to reunite with relatives there, but many of the St.-Domingue Acadians were either dead or dying from tropical diseases, starvation, and overwork.  Others refused to endure another voyage, even a relatively short one.  Just as disturbing, there was little chance of acquiring productive farm land in the island's plantation-slave economy.  They could see no future for their children in St.-Domingue, despite its being a French colony.  So the Broussard party welcomed aboard the few St.-Domingue relatives willing to join them.  They then sailed west through the Florida Strait into the Gulf of Mexico and on to the lower Mississippi River, gateway to the Illinois country.  They reached Louisiana in early or mid-February 1765, their arrival at La Balize at the mouth of the great river a complete surprise to the French caretaker government still in control of the colony.  By the third week of February, they had completed the 100-mile voyage up to New Orleans, where they sanctified marriages and baptized children who had been born in the Nova Scotia prisons and on the months-long voyage from Halifax.  

Meanwhile, the hand full of Broussards 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 fellow exiles had been welcomed in Louisiana, where many of their relatives had gone, they pooled their meager resources to charter ships that would take them to New Orleans.  Seven Broussards were part of the first contingent of exiles from Maryland who reached Louisiana from Baltimore via Cap-Français in September 1766.

The history of European settlement on the South Louisiana prairies places this family at center stage.  In February 1765, the Broussards were not the first Acadians to reach Louisiana, but they were the first large group of exiles to go there.  In the decades that followed, the old freedom fighters' sons, grandsons, nephews, and grand nephews settled throughout the southwestern prairie region--on Bayou Teche in present-day St. Martin Parish from La Pointe/Breaux Bridge down to St. Martinville, Fausse Pointe, New Iberia, Île aux Cannes, Lydia, and upper St. Mary Parish; on the upper Vermilion at Beaubassin east of Carencro, and Grand Prairie, now downtown Lafayette; on the lower Vermilion from Lafayette through Maurice down to Abbeville and beyond; along Lake Peigneur, also called Le Lac and Lake Simonette, near Jefferson Island; on Bayou Petite Anse near Avery Island; at Broussard and Youngsville in the Côte Gelée area south of Lafayette; around Carencro, Grand Coteau, and Church Point north and west of Lafayette; along the Mermentau River at the edge of the Calcasieu country; in the coastal marshes near Creole in Cameron Parish; near Lake Charles in Calcasieu Parish; and in Jefferson County, Texas.  They were especially numerous in the lower Vermilion valley.  One Broussard family, distantly related to the Beausoliels, settled north of Opelousas during the 1770s, drifted even farther north to the Avoyelles Prairie, where few Acadians settled, and then drifted back down into St. Landry Parish during the antebellum period.  Attesting to the closeness, as well as the size, of the extended family, an amazing number of Broussards married other Broussards, many of them first cousins. 

A teenaged orphan from the Beausoleil brother Pierre's line of the family; and three sons and two daughters, led by their Landry mother, from Beausoleil brother Claude's line of the family, reached the colony from Maryland in September 1766 and settled at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  The Pierre descendant, Augustin, left the river for the prairies in the 1770s and created a robust line there.  The Claude descendants, only one of whom, Firmin dit Simon, created a family line, spread out along the river, settling upstream from Cabahannocer to Ascension and San Gabriel on what was called the upper Acadian Coast.  By the 1770s, a Broussard, Louis, born perhaps at Pigiguit and perhaps a descendant of Pierre or Claude, was the one who settled in Avoyelles and St. Landry.  Two Broussard families led by brothers, Charles and Jean, descended from Pierre, arrived on two of the Seven Ships from France in 1785.  Charles's family settled on the river in what became West Baton Rouge, western Iberville, and Pointe Coupee parishes.  During the 1790s, two of the Baton Rouge families moved to upper Bayou Lafourche, creating a third center of Broussard family settlement.  However, the eastern branch of the family never came close to matching in numbers their cousins on the southwest prairies.  Beginning in the 1770s, as mentioned, Broussards from the Acadian Coast left the river and joined their kinsmen west of the Atchafalaya Basin.  Moreover, one of the Broussard brothers, Jean, who came in from France, chose to settle not along the river near brother Charles but near his cousins on Bayou Vermilion, where most of his descendants remained. 

Church records reveal no non-Acadian Brossards or Broussards living in present-day Louisiana during the colonial period, though Pierre Brossard of Poitou was an early settler at Old Mobile, then a part of French Louisiana.  A hand full of Brossard/Broussards emigrated to Louisiana from France, Switzerland, and Mexico during the antebellum period; Louisianians would have called them Foreign French.  One of them settled on upper Bayou Lafourche by 1820, and the one from Switzerland lived in St. James Parish on the Acadian Coast.  The others likely remained at New Orleans.  One wonders if any of them were descendants of Acadian Broussards who had chosen to remain in France in 1785.  ...

Judging by the number of slaves they owned during the late antebellum period, many Broussards lived well on their vacheries, farms, and plantations, especially on the southwest prairies. ...

Dozens of Broussards served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65, and at least a half dozen of them died in Confederate service. ...

In Louisiana, the family's name also is spelled Brancan, Brancard, Branchard, Brankard, Brauzard, Brosscord, Broucard, Brouchar, Brouchard, Brouguard, Brousa, Brousard, Brusar, Brusard, Bruzal.66

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The Beausoleil brothers, their sons, daughters, and a grandson--30 Broussards in all--reached lower Bayou Teche in the spring of 1765 and created a number of robust family lines on the bayou and the surrounding prairies.  No other Acadian family, in fact, created so many lines in a single area of South Louisiana.  An astonishing number of the brothers' descendants married fellow Broussards: 

Alexandre dit Beausoleil (c1699-1765) Broussard

Alexandre, fourth son of François Brossard/Broussard and Catherine Richard, was born on the haute rivière above Port-Royal in c1699.  Bona Arsenault insists that Alexandre was born in c1703, making him younger than brother Joseph, but Stephen A. White says c1699, making Alexandre the older brother.  He married, at age 24, Marguerite, daughter of Michel Thibodeau and Agnès Dugas, at Annapolis Royal in February 1724.  Probably later in the decade they moved to Chepoudy and then to upper Rivière Petitcoudiac in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto.  Their settlement at Petitcoudiac, called Village-des-Beausoleils, was named after their father's habitation on the haute rivière and Alexandre and his brothers' dit.  According to Arsenault, between 1725 and 1748, Marguerite gave Alexandre six, perhaps seven, children, at Annapolis Royal and in the trois-rivières:  Joseph-Grégoire born in c1725; Marguerite in c1726; Marie-Théotiste, called Théotiste, in the late 1720s or 1730s; Victor-Grégoire in c1728 (some sources place him with Alexandre's younger brother Joseph, but Stephen A. White says he was Alexandre's son); Anselme in c1734; Jean-Baptiste in c1740 (other records say c1731); Sylvain in c1741; and Pierre in c1748 (other records say c1750).  Other sources give the couple another son, Simon, born in c1744, and another daughter, Anne-Henriette in c1747--nine or 10 children, seven sons and two or three daughters, between 1725 and 1747, on the haute rivière and in the trois-rivières.  Alexandre served in the Acadian resistance during King George's War, was a delegate from Chepoudy to the Nova Scotia Council at Halifax in July 1749, and, again with brother Joseph, was part of the resistance against the British in the French and Indian War.  In the fall of 1755, the British deported Alexandre and son Victor to South Carolina in chains and held him in close confinement on Sullivan's Island before allowing them to join other Acadians in the area.  With his son and other Acadians, the 56-year-old partisan escaped from the workhouse in nearby Charles Town in late January 1756.  They made their way overland to Canada perhaps via French Fort Duquesne on the upper Ohio.  According to one historian, only two members of the party survived the ordeal--Alexandre and his son Victor.  They pushed on to greater Acadia down the Rivière St.-Jean portage, arriving on the lower St.-Jean in June, then followed other exiles to Shediac on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, where they reunited with their families.  Alexandre joined his younger brother in the Acadian resistance in present-day eastern New Brunswick, which, for the Broussards, ended in the early 1760s when they either surrendered to, or were captured by British forces, in the area and held in the prison compound at Halifax for the rest of the war.  In 1764-65, Alexandre and Joseph led 200 other exiles from Halifax via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, to New Orleans--the first major group of Acadians to venture to Louisiana.  They settled on lower Bayou Teche in the spring of 1765.  The following September, at age 66, the old freedom fighter died in a mysterious epidemic two weeks after his wife had died.  They were buried at Fausse Pointe along the lower Teche at dernier camp d'en bas, or the settlement lower down, near present-day Loreauville.  Their older daughter Marguerite married into the Trahan family in greater Acadia but did not live long enough to follow her family to Louisiana.  However, her husband and three children did go there.  Alexandre's younger daughter Anne married into the Berard family in Louisiana.  According to some sources, Marie-Théotiste, called Théotiste, Broussard, widow of Joseph Hugon, perhaps the spouse of Augustin Guédry in 1765, also was a daughter of Alexandre dit Beausoleil; she, too, was a victim of the Teche valley epidemic and was buried "at the lower cemetery."  Six of Alexandre's sons and a grandson by his oldest son also settled on the western prairies, and most of them created vigorous lines there.

Oldest son Joseph-Grégoire followed his family to the trois-rivières but evidently did not remain.  He married Ursule, daughter of René Trahan and Élisabeth Darois of Minas, probably at Minas in the late 1740s or early 1750s.  Ursule gave Joseph-Grégoire at least two children at nearby Pigiguit:  Élisabeth, or Isabelle, born in c1752; and Joseph le jeune in c1754.  Joseph-Grégoire may have taken his family "back" to the trois-rivières soon after the birth of their son, or they may have escaped the British roundup in the Minas Basin in the fall of 1755, hooked up with his family on the Petitcoudiac, and followed them into exile on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Joseph-Grégoire joined his father and brothers in the Acadian resistance there.  After surrendering to British forces in the area in the late 1750s or the early 1760s, they followed their family and dozens of other Acadians into imprisonment in Nova Scotia.  Joseph-Grégoire, in his late 30s, died in the prison compound at Halifax in 1763.  Ursule and their two children accompanied her in-laws to Louisiana in 1764-65.  Soon after her arrival, Ursule remarried to Joseph, son of fellow Acadians Jacques Girouard and his second wife Jeanne Amireau dit Tourageau, at New Orleans in April 1765--one of the earliest Acadian marriages in the colony.  She and her Broussard children followed husband Joseph and her former in-laws to lower Bayou Teche, where she and Joseph, along with her former in-laws, died in the epidemic that struck the Teche valley Acadians that summer and fall.  Her Broussard children, who survived the epidemic, were raised by relatives; daughter Élisabeth by René Trahan, perhaps her maternal uncle, and son Joseph le jeune by his paternal uncle Sylvain Broussard.  Daughter Élisabeth married into the Meaux, Lapointe, and Nickelson families on the prairies and lived into her early 80s.  Ursule's Broussard son also married there and added substantially to the number of Broussards in the Bayou State.

Only son Joseph le jeune followed his family into exile and imprisonment and his widowed mother to New Orleans and Bayou Teche.  At age 22, he married Anne, 22-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Breau and Marie-Rose Landry of Minas and Ascension, at Ascension on the river in June 1776.  Anne, a native of Minas, had come to Louisiana from Maryland in 1766.  One wonders how they met.  They settled at Fausse Pointe on the lower Teche, where his mother and stepfather had died 11 years earlier.  Joseph and Anne's children, born on the Teche, included Joseph, fils in March 1777 and may have been the Joseph Beausoleil Broussard who died in Lafayette Parish "at age 77 years" (Joseph, fils would have been 71) in March 1835; Marguerite born in October 1778; Raphaël le jeune baptized, age 2 or 3 months, in c1779; Nicolas-Joseph or Joseph-Nicolas born in May 1782; a daughter, name unrecorded, died at age 3 weeks in January 1784; Alexandre born in December 1784; Dosité, a son, in December 1786; Adélaïde in February 1789; Amand-Joseph, also called Armand, Valmond, and Joseph, in March 1791; Édouard-Joseph baptized, age unrecorded, in March 1793; Susanne born in December 1795; Philemon in November 1796; and Delphine died at age 6 1/2 months in November 1799--13 children, eight sons and five daughters, between 1777 and 1799.  Joseph le jeune's "Last Will" was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in September 1821, when he would have been in his his late 60s.  He died "at the house of Philippe, homme de couleur [man of color]," probably at Fausse Pointe in February 1823.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph "died suddenly during the evening ... at age about 72 years."   He likely was a few years younger.  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in March.  Daughters Adélaïde and Susanne married Broussard cousins.  Seven of Joseph le jeune's sons also married and settled on the prairies.  Some married sisters.

Second son Raphaël le jeune married cousin Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Cosme LeBlanc and Isabelle Broussard, at Attakapas in February 1801.  They remained at Fausse Pointe.  Their children, born there, included Delphine in November 1801; and Joséphine in c1803 but died at age 18 months in January 1805.  Raphaël remarried to Modeste, daughter of French Canadian Pierre LeBlanc and his Acadian wife Anastasie d'Amour dit de Louvière of Fausse Pointe, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in October 1808.  They settled at Île aux Cannes south of New Iberia and at Fausse Pointe.  Their children, born there, included Raphaël, fils in March 1810; Marie Azélie, called Azélie, in June 1811; Carmélite, perhaps also called Marcellite, in April 1814; Philemon le jeune in December 1818; Rosémond in September 1821; Gérard in September 1824; Paulin in November 1826; Louis Bélisaire in January 1829; and Élise in April 1831--11 children, five daughters and six sons, by two wives, between 1801 and 1831.  Raphaël, père died near New Iberia in April 1843.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Raphaël died "at age 67 yrs."  He was 63.  His succession, naming his second wife, was filed at the Franklin courthouse, St. Mary Parish, the following June.  Widow Modeste's succession, naming her husband, was filed at the Franklin courthouse in September 1848.  Daughters Delphine, Marcellite, and Marie Azélie, by both wives, married into the Ardoin, Broussard, Prince, and Sonnier families by 1870.  Four of Raphaël's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Raphaël, fils, by second wife Modeste LeBlanc, married Susanne, daughter of fellow Acadians François Prince and Rosalie Savoie, at the St. Martinville church in October 1832; the marriage had been recorded also in St. Mary Parish in late September.  They settled near New Iberia.  Their children, born there, included Désiré in November 1834; Marie Ophelia in 1836 but died at age 15 months in November 1837; Camille born in August 1838; Joseph in September 1841; Rosalie in April 1842; Azélia in February 1848; Marie Ozea in January 1853; and François Duperon in January 1855--eight children, four sons and four daughters, between 1834 and 1855.  Daughter ... married into the Bonin family by 1870.  Three of Raphaël, fils's sons also married by then and settled on the lower Teche. 

Oldest son Désiré married Amanda, daughter of Neuville Dartes and his Acadian wife Célanie Landry, at the New Iberia church in April 1866.  Their son Erasme was born near New Iberia in May 1869; ... 

Raphaël, fils's second son Camille married Desima or Lesima, daughter of fellow Acadian Émile Savoie and his Creole wife Marie Borel, in a civil ceremony in St. Mary Parish in December 1866, and sanctified the marriage at the Charenton church, St. Mary Parish, in January.  They were living near Lydia, Iberia Parish, in 1870. ...

Raphaël, fils's third son Joseph married Ophelia, daughter of fellow Acadians Siméon Theriot and Olymphe Dupuy, at the New Iberia church in November 1870. ...

Raphaël, père's second son Philemon le jeune, by second wife Modeste LeBlanc, married Anastasie Sévaline or Cevanine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Pierre Landry and Rose Adélaïde Dugas, at the New Iberia church in October 1842.  They settled at New Iberia but were living near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, on the eve of the War of 1861-65.  Their children, born there, included Marie near New Iberia in August 1843; Joseph Phylosie or Philosi in July 1845; Pierre Venance in March 1847; Paul in February 1849; Cléonide in October 1851; Jean Philogène in October 1852; Martelle in July 1854; Gustave Despallier in May 1857; and Anne Philosia near Grand Coteau in March 1859--nine children, four daughters and five sons, between 1843 and 1859.  None of Philemon le jeune's daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did. 

Second son Pierre Venance married Marguerite, perhaps also called Clelie, daughter of Joseph Miguez and Euphémie Delcambre, at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in June 1868.  Their son Pierre, fils was born near New Iberia in March 1869; ... 

Raphaël, père's third son Rosémond, by second wife Modeste LeBlanc, married Marie Aurelia, called Aurelia, daughter of fellow Acadians Sylvain Dubois and Rose Adélaïde Dugas, at the New Iberia church in September 1843; Rosémond's mother-in-law also was the mother of his brother Philemon's wife but from a different father, so the brothers' wives were half-sisters.  Rosémond and Aurelia's children, born on the lower Teche and on the prairies, included Placide Aurelien near New Iberia in October 1844; Roselia in February 1846; Paulin in February 1848; Alexandre in January 1852 but may have died the following July; Euphémie born in June 1853; Amélie in July 1856; another Amélie near Grand Coteau in November 1858; Joseph Deluc in October 1860; Hippolyte in May 1864; ...  They were living near Church Point, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, at the end of the 1860s.  Daughter ... married into the Laviolette family by 1870.  One of Rosémond's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Placide Aurelien married Marie Corinne, daughter of Signé Sellers and his Acadian wife Marguerite Marcellite Trahan and widow of Joseph Courtil or Constene, at the Church Point church in December 1867.  They settled at Coulee Trief, present-day Estherwood, Acadia Parish.  Their son Cléoma was born there in May 1870; ...

Raphaël, père's fourth son Gérard, by second wife Modeste LeBlanc, married cousin Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Broussard le jeune and Marie Prince, at the New Iberia church in February 1848.  Their children, born near New Iberia and on the prairies, included Simon Vileor near New Iberia in March 1852; Marguerite near Abbeville in December 1854; Domitilde near Grand Coteau in February 1857; Eugénie in December 1861; ...  None of Gérard's children married by 1870.

Joseph le jeune's third son Nicolas Joseph or Joseph Nicolas married Marie Élisabeth, called Élisabeth, daughter of Jean Baptiste Bertrand, a Creole, not a fellow Acadian, and Marguerite Schexnayder of St. Charles and St. Mary parishes, at the St. Martinville church in January 1811.  They settled near her family on the lower Atchafalaya River in St. Mary Parish.  Their children, born there, included Jean Baptiste, also called Jean Baptiste Nicolas and Nicolas, in February 1814; Marie Adeline, called Adeline and perhaps Mary U., in March 1816; Philemon le jeune in July 1818 but, called Phamelon, died near New Iberia at age 38 (the recording priest said 40) in November 1856; Uranie born in April 1821; Achille in September 1823; Élisabeth Azélie, called Azélie, in February 1826; Marie Louise Élina or Hélène in January 1829; Marguerite Pamela, called Pamela, in March 1832 and baptized at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in 1833; and Nicolas Dalzino or Datrino born in St. Martin Parish in December 1833--nine children, four sons and five daughters, between 1814 and 1833.  In the early 1830s, Nicolas and Marie Élisabeth lived briefly in Assumption Parish on upper Bayou Lafourche.  His succession, calling him Nicolas and his wife Elizabeth, was filed at the Franklin courthouse, St. Mary Parish, in July 1834.  He would have been age 52 at the time.  A succession for wife Élisabeth, calling her Mary Elizabeth, was filed at the Franklin courthouse in November 1837.  One wonders if it was post-mortem.  Daughters Adeline, Élisabeth Azélie, Marie Hélène, and Pamela married into the Thomas, Fraytel or Fraytet, Fitzpatrick, and Daigle, families, and perhaps into the Broussard family as well.  Only one of Nicolas's sons married.  He settled on the lower Teche. 

Oldest son Jean Baptiste Nicolas married Carmélite Amelina or Amelvina, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Maurice Daigle and Madeleine Anastasie Breaux of St. Mary Parish, at the St. Martinville church in June 1836; the marriage was recorded also in St. Mary Parish; Jean Baptiste Nicolas's sister Pamela married Carmélite's brother Onésime.  Jean Baptiste Nicolas and Carmélite were living near Plattenville on upper Bayou Lafourche in 1840 but returned to lower St. Mary Parish by the end of the decade.  Their children, born on the lower Teche or the upper Lafourche, included Jean Baptiste Lessin in the late 1830s or the 1840s; Louise Tareza in Assumption Parish in July 1840; and Marie Anastasie, called Anastasie, near Pattersonville, St. Mary Parish, in August 1849--three children, a son and two daughters, between the late 1830s and 1849.  Daughter Marie Anastasie married into the Rentrapp or Rentrop family by 1870.  Jean Baptiste Nicolas's son also married by then, on the lower Teche. 

Only son Jean Baptiste Lessin married Marie Louise, daughter of Louis Maloz, Moloz, or Maloy and Eugénie O'Brian, at the Pattersonville church in December 1866. ...

Joseph le jeune's fourth son Alexandre le jeune married Louise dite Lise, also called Julie, daughter of Joseph Bonin and Louise Borel of Fausse Pointe, at the St. Martinville church in February 1812.  The settled at Fausse Pointe on lower Bayou Teche.  Their children, born there, included Joseph le jeune in January 1813 but died at his maternal grandfather's house at Fausse Pointe at age 16 1/2 in September 1829; Édouard, also called Édouard Alexandre, born in June 1815; Julie in July 1817; and Alexandre, fils in August 1819.  Alexandre le jeune remarried to cousin Séraphie or Séraphine, daughter of fellow Acadians François Guilbeau and Madeleine Broussard of La Pointe and widow of Julien Babin, at the St. Martinville church in September 1821.  They settled at Fausse Pointe.  Their children, born there, included Charles Duclis or Duclise, called Duclise, in October 1822; François in October 1824; and Amélie or Amelia in June 1827--seven children, five sons and two daughters, by two wives, between 1813 and 1827.  Alexandre, père died at the home of Michel Martin at La Pointe on upper Bayou Teche in October 1829.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial said that Alexandre died "at age about 46 years."  He was 44.  His succession, mentioning his second wife, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse the following January.  Daughters Julie and Amelia, by both wives, married into the Prince and LeBlanc families.  Three of Alexandre le jeune's sons also married. 

Second son Édouard Alexandre, by first wife Julie Bonin, married first cousin Suzanne Emma, called Emma, daughter of fellow Acadian Philemon Broussard l'aîné and his Creole wife Élise Ardoin, his uncle and aunt, at the New Iberia church in May 1848.  Their children, born near New Iberia, included Amédée in March 1849; Anne Euzèïde in April 1850 but, called Eusèïde, died the following June; Félix Mathieu born in September 1852; Léovelle in March 1853[sic]; Ludoire in December 1854 but, called Ludovic, may have died at age 1 1/2 in February 1856; and Joseph Mira born in November 1858.  Emma died in St. Martin Parish in November 1858, six days after the birth of son Joseph Mira; she was age 27.  Her succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in December 1860.  Édouard Alexandre remarried to cousin Marie Elmasie, Elmasee, Elmaze, or Irmaze, daughter of fellow Acadian Éloi Comeaux and his Creole wife Marie Mélanie Bonin, in a civil ceremony in St. Martin Parish in January 1860, and sanctified the marriage at the New Iberia church in January 1861.  Their children, born near New Iberia, included Erneste in November 1861; Édouard, fils in April 1866 but died the following December; Armand, perhaps a twin, died at age 2 months in August 1868; ...  None of Édouard Alexandre's children married by 1870. 

Alexandre's third son Alexandre, fils, by first wife Julie Bonin, married first cousin Marie Elmazie or Elmazed, another daughter of Philemon Broussard l'aîné and Élise Ardoin, at the New Iberia church in January 1847.  Their children, born near New Iberia, included Alexandre III in October 1847; Louise in June 1849; Louis in August 1852; Oscar in August 1853; Marie Ozéa in April 1858; Charles in April 1864; ...  None of Alexandre, fils's children married by 1870. 

Alexandre's fourth son Charles Duclise, called Duclise, from second wife Séraphie Guilbeau, married cousin Célestine, daughter of fellow Acadians Ursin Broussard and Julie Robichaux, at the St. Martinville church in October 1844.  They settled near Breaux Bridge before moving down to St. Mary Parish by the late 1850s.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Eusèïde in July 1845; Julie in late 1847 and baptized at age 5 months in April 1848; Charles, fils born in December 1850; Marie Eve in September 1854; and Louisa near Charenton, St. Mary Parish, in January 1858--five children, four daughters and a son, between 1845 and 1858.  Daughters ... married into the Sonnier and Webre families by 1870.  Charles Duclise's son did not marry by then. 

Joseph le jeune's fifth son Dosité married cousin Marie, also called Anne, Perpétué, and Poponne or Pouponne Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Donat Breaux and Anastasie Guilbeau of Fausse Pointe, at the St. Martinville church in June 1812.  They settled at Fausse Pointe.  Their children, born there, included a son, name unrecorded, died in St. Martin Parish 15 days after his birth in April 1813; Balthazar born in February 1815 but died at age 20 in September 1835; Napoléon born in December 1817; Gérard or Bérard in March 1820 but died at age 9 in August 1829; Bernard born in December 1822; Joseph Dolzé, called Dolzé and perhaps also Dorcey, in July 1825; and a son, name unrecorded, died a day after his birth in February 1828--seven children, all sons, between 1813 and 1828.  Dosité died at his home at Fausse Pointe in March 1829.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Dosité was age 45 when he died.  He was 42.  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in April.  Two of his remaining sons married by 1870. 

Third son Napoléon may have married cousin Élina Broussard at New Iberia in the late 1830s.  Their daughter Virginie was born near New Iberia in December 1840.  Napoléon married, or remarried to, fellow Acadian Aspasie Hébert at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in June 1845, seven months after a daughter was born to them.  By 1860, they had moved to near present-day Lake Arthur on the lower Mermentau in Calcasieu Parish.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Marie Camilla, called Camilla, in November 1844, seven months before her parents' marriage, but she was not baptized until January 1863, age 18, at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish; Jean Baptiste born in April 1850; Joseph Fenelon, called Fenelon, in November 1851; Marie Séraphie in January 1852; Élisabet Halladin or Isabelle Aladin, called Aladin, in May 1854; Sigismund in February 1855; Amélee in July 1856; Philomène Domatille in March 1860; Eucharis in January 1861; ...  None of Napoléon's children married by 1870.

Dosité's sixth son Dolzé married cousin Suzanne Aimée, called Aimée and Emma, daughter of fellow Acadian Édouard Broussard and his Creole wife Marie D. Ardoin, at the New Iberia church in June 1849.  Their children, born near New Iberia, included Marie, also called Corinne, in April 1851; Edgard or Edgar in August 1852; Olelie in March 1853 but, called Clelie, died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 5 months) in September 1854; Louis born in January 1857; Mathilde in November 1859; Charles in April 1862; Louise in November 1866; Frank in September 1869; ...  None of Dolzé's children married by 1870. 

Joseph le jeune's sixth son Amand Joseph, also called Armand, Valmond, and Joseph, married cousin Susanne dite Susette, another daughter of Donat Breaux and Anastasie Guilbeau, at the St. Martinville church in February 1811.  They settled at Fausse Pointe.  Their children, born there, included Amand, fils in November 1812 but died at age 11 in December 1823; Zéphirin born in August 1813; Marie Urasie in April 1815 but may have died at age 1 in April 1816; Alexandre Moléon or Timoléon, called Moléon and Timoléon, born in March 1817; twins Donat and Joseph Drosin in December 1817, but, called Drosin, Joseph Drosin died at age 14 1/2 in June 1832; Susanne, also called Suzanne Cléorine, born in October 1820; Émile in c1822 but died at age 6 in September 1828; Joseph le jeune born in March 1823 but died at age 1 1/2 in August 1824; Adeline Elmire, called Elmire, born in December 1825 but died at age 4 1/2 in July 1830; Hortense in June 1827 but died at age 1 1/2 in December 1828; Camille born in October 1828; Valcour died at age "about 10 mths. at his parent's home at la fausse pointe" in December 1830; Mary Alice born in the 1830s; Uranie in September 1831; Célanie Pouponne, also called Marie Ponponne, in October 1833; Élisa Evélina in May 1835; and Joseph Villeneuve baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 1/2 months, in September 1838--18 children, nine sons and nine daughters, between 1812 and 1838.  Daughters Suzanne Cléorine, Mary Alice, and Uranie married into the Broussard, Derouen, and Miguez families by 1870.  Four of his remaining sons also married by then. 

Second son Zéphirin married cousin Eugénie, also called Olivia, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Boudreaux and Susanne Breaux, at the Vermilionville church in September 1838.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Éloise, also called Louise, baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in October 1839; Martial born in October 1841; Suzanne in November 1843 but died at age 8 1/2 in March 1852; Camille le jeune born in January 1846; Céleste in October 1847; Marie Célima in July 1849; Philomène in May 1851; and Marie Elisca in June 1852 but died in August--eight children, six daughters and two sons, between 1839 and 1852.  Zéphirin died in Lafayette Parish in December 1852, age 39 (the Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial called Zéphirin's wife Olivia).  His succession, calling his wife Eugénie, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in January.  Daughter Louise married into the Bergeron family by 1870.  One of Zéphirin's sons also married by then. 

Older son Martial married Edmonia, daughter of fellow Acadians Edmond Guidry and Josette Sonnier, at the Vermilionville church in August 1870. ...

Amand Joseph's third son Timoléon dit Moléon married cousin Marie Louise Zélima or Zélina, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Dugas and Adélaïde Broussard, at the St. Martinville church in March 1839.  Their children, born on the lower Teche and the prairies, included Joseph Derosin or Drosin, called Drosin, near New Iberia in February 1842; Suzanne Eléonore dite Emire in March 1844; Louis Dalcourt baptized at the New Iberia church, age 2 months, in October 1846 but, called Valcour, died the following December; Adèle born in c1847; Marie in August 1848 but died by November 1850, when she was not listed with her family in the federal census for St. Martin Parish; Joseph born near Abbeville in July 1858; Pierre in Lafayette Parish in April 1860; ...  Daughter Adèle married into the Guidry family by 1870.  One of Timoléon's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Drosin married Adolphina, daughter of fellow Acadians Edmond Guidry and Josette Sonnier, at the Vermilionville church in October 1865; Drosin's sister Adèle had married Adolphina's brother Edmond, fils, at the same church five days earlier.  Drosin and Adolphina's children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Alexandre Moléon in November 1866; Pierre in July 1868; ... 

Amand Joseph's fourth son Donat, a twin, married Clémence, daughter of François Émile Decuir and his Acadian wife Uranie Babin, at the New Iberia church in February 1859.  Did they have any children? 

Amand Joseph's eighth son Camille married double cousin Lisemène or Isemène, also called Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Éloi Josaphat Broussard, père and Suzette Broussard, at the New Iberia church in June 1852.  Their children, born near New Iberia, included Joseph Amilcar in August 1852 but, called Amilcar, died at age 7 months the following March; Marcel born in July 1854; Donate le jeune in April 1856; Éloi in October 1857; Euphanie in November 1859; Marie Camelia in June 1864; ...  None of Camille's children married by 1870. 

Joseph le jeune's seventh son Édouard Joseph married Marguerite, also called Caroline, another daughter of Joseph Bonin and Louise Borel of Fausse Pointe, at the St. Martinville church in December 1816.  They settled at Île aux Cannes south of New Iberia and at Fausse Pointe north of New Iberia.  Their children, born there, included Modeste in January 1817; a son, name unrecorded, died at his parents' home at Fausse Pointe three days after his birth in November 1817; Édouard, fils born in January 1819; and a son, name unrecorded, died at birth in January 1821.  The birth of their third son in January 1821 evidently killed Marguerite.  Édouard remarried to Marie Doralise, called Doralise, daughter of Étienne Ardoin and Marie Anne Lecuron of Fausse River, Pointe Coupee Parish, and Fausse Pointe, St. Martin Parish, at the St. Martinville church in March 1822.  Their children, born probably on the lower Teche, included Paul in December 1822; Joseph le jeune in January 1824; Marie Elisima or Elmasie, called Elmasie, in 1825 or 1826; Julie in November 1827; Susanne, also called Suzanne Cléorine, in November 1830; Marie Isabelle in December 1832 but died the following February; Marie Virginie born near New Iberia in July 1835; and Félix Arthur, called Arthur, in October 1839--a dozen children, six daughters and six sons, by two wives, between 1817 and 1839.  Édouard Joseph died probably near New Iberia in March 1846.  The New Iberia priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Edward, as he called him, died "at age 55 yrs."  Édouard Joseph would have been age 53.  His succession, calling him Édouard, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in October 1850.  Daughters Susanne Cléorine, Elmasie, and Marie Virginie, by his second wife, married into the Broussard, LeBlanc, and Champeaux families by 1870.  Three of Édouard's remaining sons also married by then. 

Second son Édouard, fils, by first wife Marguerite/Caroline Bonin, married cousin Susanne Éloise, Clelie, Cléolie, or Cléorie, daughter of fellow Acadian Baron Louvière and his Creole wife Pélagie Bonin, at the New Iberia church in February 1840.  Their children, born near New Iberia, included Caroline in January 1841; Pélagie in November 1842; and Bernard Oirgnac or Ovignac, called Ovignac, in August 1844.  Wife Susanne's succession, probably post-mortem, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in March 1848.  Édouard, fils remarried to first cousin Suzanne Cléorine or Caroline, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand Joseph Broussard and Susanne dite Susette Breaux, his uncle and aunt, at the New Iberia church in June 1850.  Édouard, fils and this Suzanne's children, born near New Iberia and on the prairies, included Marie in November 1851; Ludoire in December 1854; and Joseph Drasin in Lafayette Parish in April 1858--six children, by two wives, between 1841 and 1858.  Daughters ..., by his first wife, married into the Babin and Derouen families by 1870.  One of Édouard, fils's sons also married by then. 

During the War of 1861-65, oldest son Ovignac, by first wife Susanne Louvière, served in Company E of the 7th Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, raised in Lafayette and St. Martin counties, which served in Louisiana, especially against local Jayhawlers, later in the war.  Ovignac married Zoé, daughter of Léo Decoux and Célimène Boutté, at the New Iberia church in May 1865, a month before he received his end-of-war parole at New Iberia.  Their children, born there, included Anatole in September 1866; Armand in May 1870; ... Ovignac was buried in St. Josepth Catholis Cemetery in Loreauville, just upbayou from New Iberia. 

Édouard Joseph's fifth son Joseph, by second wife Doralise Ardoin, married, at age 44, Célestine, daughter of Théophilus Elmer and Mary Boutté, at the Vermilionville church in March 1868.  Considering his age at the time of the wedding, one wonders if this was Joseph's first marriage. ...

Édouard Joseph's sixth son Arthur, by second wife Doralise Ardoin, married Lucite, daughter of Terence Boutté and Rosilia Judice, at the St. Martinville church in November 1867.  They settled near New Iberia.  Lucite died in December 1869, age 26. ...

Joseph le jeune's eighth and youngest son Philemon married Élise or Lise, also called Élisa, another daughter of Étienne Ardoin and  Marie Anne Lecuron, at the St. Martinville church in February 1819.  They settled at Fausse Pointe.  Their children, born there, included Lise,  perhaps also called Elismène, in December 1819; Marie Élina in August 1822; Louis Bélisaire, called Bélisaire, in December 1825 but died in Lafayette Parish, age 39 (the recording priest said 36), in February 1865 (one wonders if his death was war-related); Marie Elmase born in April 1827; Susanne Emma, called Emma, in June 1829; Marie Clélie in October 1831; Marie Eusayde or Euzèïde in June 1834; and Marguerite Eléonore in March 1836--eight children, seven daughters and a son, between 1819 and 1836.  Philemon died near New Iberia in November 1862.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said Philemon died "at age 70 yrs."  He was 66.  Daughters Elismène, Marie Élina, Susanne Emma, Marie Euzèïde, and Marie Clélie married into the Dugas, Broussard, Lamparez or Lamperez, and Landry families.  Philemon's only son, though he survived childhood, did not marry, but his daughters did, so the blood of this family line endured. 

Alexandre's second son Victor followed his family to the trois-rivières, where he married Isabelle, daughter of René LeBlanc and Anne Thériot, probably at Petitcoudiac in the early 1750s.  She gave him twin sons there, Jean and Joseph born in September 1753.  In the fall of 1755, the British deported Victor, along with his father, aboard HMS Syren to South Carolina and held them in close confinement on Sullivan's Island near Charles Town.  He, his father, and other Acadians escaped from the workhouse in Charles Town the following winter and made their way overland to Canada perhaps via French Fort Duquesne.  According to one historian, only two members of the party survived the ordeal--Victor and his father.  From Canada, they made their way back to greater Acadia via the Rivière St.-Jean portage, arriving on the lower St.-Jean in June 1756.  They then pushed on to Shediac on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, where they reunited with their families.  Victor participated in the Acadian resistance led by his uncle and father.  According to family historians, he and Isabelle lost their twin sons in the terrible winter of 1756-57 at the Acadian refuge near Miramichi.  In the early 1760s, he 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.  They appeared on a French repatriation list at Halifax in July 1763 with two children, so one wonders if the story about losing their sons at Miramichi is true.  Then again, the two unnamed children with the couple may have been orphans.  When Victor and Isabelle followed his family to Louisiana in 1764-65, they were a childless couple, so their children, no matter how many, did not survive the rigors of exile or imprisonment.  From New Orleans, Victor and Isabelle followed his family to lower Bayou Teche in the spring of 1765.  Isabelle died there in late October 1765, in her early 30s, victim of the same epidemic that killed Victor's mother, father, and uncle.  In April 1766, when he would have been in his late 30s, Victor appears in a Spanish census on Bayou Tortue east of Bayou Teche with no one in his household, after which he disappears from the historical record.  He did not remarry, so his line of the family died with him. 

Alexandre's third son Jean-Baptiste married Anne Brun in the early 1750s probably at Petitcoudiac.  She gave him a son, Mathurin, born there in c1752.  They followed his family into exile in 1755; Jean-Baptiste joined his uncle, father, and brothers in the Acadian resistance; and he and his family followed them into a prison compound in Nova Scotia in the early 1760s.  Anne gave Jean-Baptiste another son, Jean dit Petit Jean, born perhaps in the prison compound at Halifax in c1764.  They and their sons followed his family to Louisiana in 1764-65.  Anne gave Jean-Baptiste two more children in Attakapas:  Michel baptized, age unrecorded, in 1768; and Perpétué born in April 1771--four children, three sons and two daughters, between 1752 and 1771, in greater Acadia and Louisiana.  Jean-Baptiste was elected co-commandant of the Attakapas District in 1768 and served with René Trahan until 1770.  In his later years, Jean-Baptiste served as church warden.  Wife Anne died at Attakapas in November 1798, age 59.  At age 68, Jean-Baptiste remarried to Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Landry and Élisabeth Dugas and widow of Joseph Dugas and Amand Landry, at Attakapas in September 1799.  She gave him no more children, died in Lafayette Parish "at age about 60 yrs." in February 1823, and her succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in May.  Jean-Baptiste died at the home of his second son Petit Jean in Lafayette Parish in October 1825.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Jean Baptiste died "at 7:00 p.m. at age 98 years."  He was closer to 94.  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in August 1834.  Daughter Perpétué, by his first wife, married into the Comeaux family.  Two of Jean-Baptiste's sons also married, but only one of the lines endured.  

Oldest son Mathurin, by first wife Anne Brun, followed his parents into exile and imprisonment, to New Orleans, and lower Bayou Teche.  He was still a bachelor in May 1777 when he was counted at Attakapas, age 26, with several adult "orphans."  He does not seem to have married.  

Jean-Baptiste's second son Jean dit Petit Jean, by first wife Anne Brun, followed his family to New Orleans and lower Bayou Teche.  He married cousin Louise-Ludivine or Ludivine-Louise, also called Divine or Denise, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph dit Petit Jos Broussard and his second wife Marguerite Savoie, at Attakapas in July 1784.  They settled at Côte Gelée on the prairie west of Bayou Teche.  Their children, born there, included Lise or Louise in November 1785; Anastasie in August 1787; Marie in January 1789; Jean, fils in December 1791; Domitille baptized, age 5 months, in May 1795 but died at age 9 1/2 in September 1804; a daughter, name unrecorded, died at age 5 days in February 1797; Joseph le jeune born in October 1798 but died at a cousin's house at Petite Anse, age 11 1/2, in April 1810; Jean Louis born in c1799 but died in Lafayette Parish, age 48, in October 1847; Julie, also called Zélie, born in December 1800; Don Louis in August 1802; Pierre Arvillien, called Arvillien, in March 1804; Aurelien in July 1806; Camille in February 1808; Clément in October 1809; and a son, name unrecorded, died a month after his birth in November 1811--15 children, six daughters and nine sons, between 1785 and 1811.  The birth of her fifteenth child evidently killed Louise Ludivine, who died in early November 1811, in her early 40s.  A succession in her name was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in April 1844.  Meanwhile, Petit Jean, at age 50, remarried to cousin Séraphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Thibodeaux and Rosalie Guilbeau of La Pointe and widow of Louis Trahan, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in August 1814.  She evidently gave him no more children.  A succession, perhaps for his second wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in October 1831; if it was for his wife, it likely was post-mortem.  Petit Jean died in Lafayette Parish in February 1834.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded his burial said that Jean died "at age 73 yrs."  He was 70.  His postmortem succession, naming his second wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following month.  Daughters Louise, Anastasie, Marie, and Zélie, by his first wife, married into the Thibodeaux, St. Julien, Broussard, and Reeves families.  Six of Petit Jean's sons also married and settled on the prairies.

Oldest son Jean, fils, by first wife Louise Broussard, married cousin Anne dite Nanon, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Girouard and Angélique Broussard of Côte Gelée, at the St. Martinville church in March 1815.  They settled at Côte Gelée.  Their children, born there, included Louise Divine in September 1816; Marie Céleste or Célestine, called Célestine, in September 1819; Clémentine in May 1821; Jean III in November 1823; Uranie baptized at age 3 1/2 months in November 1826; Belizer or Bélisaire born in August 1829; Caroline in December 1832[sic]; and a daughter, name unrecorded, died at age 5 months in August 1833[sic]--eight children, six daughters and two sons, between 1816 and 1833.  Wife Anne died in Lafayette Parish, age 33, in May 1833, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth.  Her succession, naming her husband, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in October 1835.  Jean, fils did not remarry.  His succession, calling his widow Nanon Giroir, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in June 1848.  He would have age 57 that year.  Daughters Louise Divine, Clémentine, and Célestine married into the Montet, Fabre, and Broussard families.  Both of Jean, fils's sons also married. 

Older son Jean III, called Dejean by the recording clerk, may have married Augustine dite Justine, daughter of Adélaïde Jannot, Janeau, or Jeannet, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in August 1842; one wonders who Justine's father may have been.  She and Dejean settled probably on the prairie south of present-day Lafayette before moving out to the prairie west of the present city.  Their children, born there, included Joseph in May 1845; Joséphine in May 1846; Jean Baptiste in January 1849; Alexandre in December 1851; Amelia in February 1854; Sosthène in December 1856; Vincent in April 1859; Marie Onesia in December 1863; Pierre near Church Point, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in September 1866; ...  Neither of Dejean's daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did. 

Oldest son Joseph married Aimée, daughter of Onésime Allemand and Elmire Champagne, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in October 1868, and sanctified the marriage at the Church Point church in November. ...

Jean, fils's younger son Bélisaire married cousin Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Don Louis Broussard and Anastasie Landry, at the Vermilionville church in February 1854.  They settled near Youngsville.  Their children, born there, included Marie Zulma in February 1855; Emma in March 1857; Jean le jeune in December 1858; Jules in April 1861; Euclide in August 1868; ...  None of Bélisaire's children married by 1870. 

Petit Jean's fourth son Don Louis, by first wife Louise Broussard, married Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Basile Landry and Marianne Mire, at the Vermilionville church in February 1825.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Valsain or Valsin baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in December 1825; Marie Alzire born in December 1827; Belzire or Bélisaire in 1829, baptized at age 7 months in January 1830 but died in April; Uranie baptized at age 1 month in March 1831 but died at age 3 1/2 (the recording priest said 4) in September 1834; Laisin, Lessin, or Lessaint born in January 1833; Joséphine baptized at age 2 months in February 1835; a child, name unrecorded, died a day after his/her birth in May 1837; Cléony baptized at age 2 months in November 1838; Céleste born in June 1840; Euphémon in the 1830s or 1840s; Élina in April 1842; and a child, perhaps theirs, name unrecorded, died at age 3 months in August 1847--a dozen children, at least three sons and seven daughters, between 1825 and 1847.  Don Louis may have died in Lafayette Parish in October 1864.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Don Louis died "at age 64 yrs"  This Don Louis would have been age 62.  One wonders if his death was war-related.  His succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in October 1865.  Daughters ... married into the Broussard, Dubois, Fabre, Faure, Higginbotham, and Melançon families by 1870. Three of Don Louis's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Valsin married cousin Emma, daughter of Léon Montet and his Acadian wife Anne Divine Broussard, at the Vermilionville church in May 1858.  They settled near Youngsville.  Their children, born there, included Louis Alphonse in August 1860; Hélène in March 1863; Léonidas in August 1866; ... 

Don Louis's third son Lessin married Azélie or Azélia, daughter of Édouard Fabre and his Acadian wife Françoise Elidorice Hébert, at the Vermilionville church in May 1856.  They settled near Youngsville.  Their children, born there, included Jean Dorneville in June 1859; Donatien in November 1860; Féliciana in January 1863; Julie in January 1865; ... 

Don Louis's fourth and youngest son Euphémon married cousin Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Édouard dit Cadet Comeaux and Carmélite Landry, at the Youngsville church, Lafayette Parish, in December 1867. ...

Petit Jean's fifth son Pierre Arvillien, by first wife Louise Broussard, married cousin Scholastique, daughter of fellow Acadians Anselme Thibodeaux and Anne Trahan, at the St. Martinville church in November 1824.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Paul, also called Saul, in the mid-1820s; Léo baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 1 month and 12 days, in June 1827; Zulma born in March 1830 but died at age 5 1/2 (the recording priest said 6) in July 1835; Louisa born in December 1832; Napoléon baptized at age 1 1/2 months in June 1835; a child, name unrecorded, died at age 9 days in December 1837; Léotarde born in c1838 but died at age 12 in January 1850; and Charles Ernesse baptized at age 3 months in May 1839 but, called Charles Erneste, died at age 8 1/2 (the recording priest said 7) in December 1847--eight children, at least five sons and two daughters, between 1824 and 1839.  Daughter ... married into the Melançon family by 1870.  One of Pierre Arvillien's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Paul married cousin Marie Célestine, called Célestine and also Amélie, daughter of Éloi Aurelien St. Julien and his Acadian wife Joséphine Broussard, at the Vermilionville church in June 1856.  They settled near Youngsville.  Their children, born there, included Ambroise in February 1859; Hélène in October 1860; Marie Blanche in November 1862 but, called Blanche, died at age 1 in September 1863; Ernise born in December 1864 but, called Ernest, died at age 17 months in February 1866; Paul Arvillien born in November 1868 but died at age 6 months in May 1869; ... 

Petit Jean's sixth son Aurelien, by first wife Louise Broussard, married cousin Marie dite Mélite, daughter of Robert Bell and his Acadian wife Julie Broussard, at the Vermilionville church in September 1828.  Their son Méance was born in Lafayette Parish in February 1833.  Aurelien died in Lafayette Parish in May 1833, age 26.  His succession, calling his wife Mélite Bell, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in May 1835.  Their son may have married by 1870. 

Only son Méance may have married fellow Acadian Olivanie Thibodeaux in Lafayette Parish in the 1850s.  Their children, born near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, included a child, name unrecorded, died near Abbeville in September 1854, age 10 weeks; Pierre born in October 1856; Emma in February 1860; Uméa in October 1862; ...  None of Méance's children married by 1870. 

Petit Jean's seventh son Camille, by first wife Louise Broussard, married Adélaïde Aglaé, called Aglaé, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Girouard and Madeleine Thibodeaux, at the Vermilionville church in January 1832.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Léonard in October 1832; and Sosthène, also called Sosthène Camille, baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 4 months, in June 1834.  Camille's succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in March 1846.  He would have been age 38 that year.  One of his sons married by 1870. 

Second son Sosthène Camille married double cousin Amelie or Émelie, daughter of fellow Acadians Maximilien Girouard and Carmezile Broussard, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in July 1860, and sanctified the marriage at the Youngsville church in May 1861.  Their children, born near Youngsville, included Ophelia in December 1861; Joseph Camille in August 1866; ... 

Petit Jean's eighth son Clément, by first wife Louise Broussard, married, at age 35, Elizabeth, daughter of William Boone, Roane, Roanne, Rowan, or Rouane and Elizabeth A. Riman or Evreman, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in October 1844, and, "on [his] sick bed," sanctified the marriage at the Youngsville church in September 1866; the church marriage also "recognized" their surviving children, three sons and two daughters.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Joseph in July 1845; Élisabeth in February 1847; Émilie in April 1848; Clémantine in November 1849; Marie in August 1851; Jean in June 1855; William, perhaps also called Clément, fils, in July 1860; ...  Clément, père died in Lafayette Parish in September 1866, two days after his church wedding.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Clément died "at age 55 yrs."  He was a month shy of 57.  Daughter ... married into the Girouard family by 1870.  One of Clément's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Joseph married Marcellite, daughter of fellow Acadians Paulin Leger and Adélaïde Girouard, at the Youngsville church in September 1869. ...

Jean-Baptiste's third and youngest son Michel, by first wife Anne Brun, married first cousin Anastasie, another daughter of Joseph dit Petit Jos Broussard and his second wife Marguerite Savoie, at Attakapas in July 1789.  They also settled at Côte Gelée, but she may have given him no children.  Wife Anastasie died at their home at Côte Gelée in January 1816, age 40.  Michel remarried to Marie Euphémie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Boudreaux and Anne Dorothée Comeaux of Vermilion, at the St. Martinville church in February 1817.  They settled in what became Lafayette Parish.  Michel's succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in September 1820.  He would have been in his early 50s.  He seems to have fathered no children by either of his wives, so his line of the family would have died with him. 

Alexandre's fourth son Anselme followed his family into exile, joined his father and brothers in the Acadian resistance, and went with them to a prison compound in Nova Scotia.  Anselme married Madeleine-Marguerite, called Marguerite, dite Nanette Dugas in the early 1760s, perhaps in a prison compound.  They were held at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, in 1762-63, and, according to a French repatriation list, were at Halifax in August 1763.  They followed his family to Louisiana in 1764-65.  Their son Joseph-Théodore, called Théodore, was born during the long voyage from Halifax to New Orleans.  They reached New Orleans in late February 1765.  Anselme, with other heads of household in the party, attempted to exchange their Canadian currencry for French funds at New Orleans.  They followed Anselme's family to lower Bayou Teche in April.  Anselme and Marguerite appear on none of the Attakapas District censuses of the 1760s and 1770s, so they may have been undocumented victims of the epidemic that killed Anselme's parents and dozens of other Teche valley Acadians in the summer and fall of 1765.  There is evidence that their son was raised by his paternal uncle Jean-Baptiste, with whom he appears in the Attakapas census of December 1769.  The son married and settled on the prairies, so Anselme's line of the family endured. 

Only son Joseph-Théodore, called Théodore, born "at sea" in late 1764 or early 1765 on the voyage from Halifax to New Orleans via Cap-Français, was taken to lower Bayou Teche as an infant.  After his parents died, he may have been raised by his paternal uncle Jean-Baptiste Broussard.  Théodore married cousin Henriette, also called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians René Trahan and Isabelle Broussard of Fausse Pointe, at Attakapas in May 1784.  They settled on the Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included Isabelle in the mid 1800s; Anastasie in January 1788; Joseph-Théodore, fils or Théodore-Joseph in March 1790; Louis-Joseph baptized at Attakapas, age 7 months, in April 1795; Clothilde born in June 1797; Arthémise in December 1799; and Madeleine, also called Arsène, in October 1804.  Théodore, in his early 40s, remarried to cousin Céleste or Sélesie, also called Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Théodore Olivier Thibodeaux and Marie Sonnier, at Attakapas in May 1807.  Their children, born on the Vermilion, included Marie Silésie in August 1807; a daughter, name unrecorded, died 12 days after her birth in November 1809; Alexandre le jeune baptized at St. Martinville, age 5 months, in October 1811; Marie, also called Zélie, born in December 1813 but died at age 2 1/2 in August 1816; twins Carmélite and a son, name unrecorded, born in c1816 or 1817, but Carmélite died at age 6 1/2 in July 1823, and the son died the same age in August 1823; Marguerite born in May 1817; and Adélaïde born in c1819 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age unrecorded, in January 1824--15 children, 11 daughters and four sons, including a set of twins, by two wives, between 1788 and 1819.  Théodore died at his home on the Vermilion in November 1819, age 55.  Daughters Isabelle, Anastasie, Clotilde, Arthémise, Madeleine, Marie Silésie, and Adélaïde, by both wives, married into the Mouton, Bonin, Berthelot, Gaspard, Lalande, Durocher, and Schexnayder families, one of them twice.  Two of Théodore's sons also married and settled in what became Lafayette Parish. 

Oldest son Joseph Théodore, fils, by first wife Henriette Trahan, married cousin Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Comeaux and Perpétué Broussard of Vermilion, at the St. Martinville church in September 1811.  They settled on the Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included Joseph, also called Joseph Théodore III, in June 1812; Louis, also called Louis Théodore, in October 1813; twins Céleste and an unnamed son in January 1816, but the son died at his parents' home on the Vermilion, age 2 months, in March; Charles Valière born in February 1818 but died at age 20 (the recording priest said 18) in September 1838; Perpétué born in May 1820; Camille in June 1822; Norbert, also called Norbert Théodore, in January 1825; Anastasie in May 1827; twins Aima or Emma and Zulma in December 1829, but one of them, evidently Zulma, died at age 8 in June 1837; and Aurelien baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 1/2 months, in November 1834--a dozen children, seven sons and five daughters, between 1812 and 1834.  Joseph Théodore died in Lafayette Parish in September 1834, age 44.  Daughters Céleste, Perpétué, Anastasie, and Emma married into the Meaux, Thibodeaux, and Baudoin families.  Five of Joseph Théodore, fils's sons also married and settled on the prairies, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Joseph Théodore III married Clémence, daughter of Pierre Paul Montet and his Acadian wife Adélaïde Duhon, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in June 1834.  Joseph Théodore III died in Lafayette Parish in March 1843, age 30.  Did he father any children? 

Joseph Théodore, fils's second son Louis Théodore married Clarisse, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Hébert and Céleste Landry, at the Vermilionville church in February 1837.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included twins Émile and Émilien in January 1841, but Émilien died at Côte Gelée, age 1 1/2, in June 1842.  Louis Théodore's succession, probably post-mortem, naming his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in April 1845.  He would have been age 32 that year.  His remaining son did not marry by 1870. 

Joseph Théodore, fils's fifth son Camille married Marie Fanelie or Louise, 22-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Landry and Françoise Landry, at the Vermilionville church in November 1844.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Céleste in May 1844; Mélanie in December 1847; Joseph le jeune in June 1849; Françoise Eurasie in March 1852; Alfred in April 1857; and Pierre Ulysse near Youngsville in September 1860.  Camille remarried to Augustine, daughter Augustin Augustin and Euphémie ____, at the St. Martinville church in May 1870. ...  Daughters ..., by his first wife, married into the Landry and Morvant families by 1870.  None of Camille's sons married by then. 

Joseph Théodore, fils's sixth son Norbert Théodore married cousin Éloise, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean François Broussard and Marguerite Bourg, at the Vermilionville church in December 1845.  She evidently gave him no children.  Norbert Théodore remarried to cousin Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Maximilien Lalande and Madeleine Théodore Broussard, at the Vermilionville church in May 1851.  She also gave him no children.  Norbert remarried again--his third marriage--to Erminie or Herminie, also called Émelie, daughter of Elisée Missonnier and his Acadian wife Marie Landry, at the Vermilionville church in July 1854.  They settled near Youngsville.  Their children, born there, included Élizée in November 1856; Céleste in November 1859; Norbert, fils in May 1863; ...  None of Norbert's children married by 1870. 

Joseph Théodore, fils's seventh and youngest son Aurelien married cousin Marie Amélie or Émelie, daughter of fellow Acadians Sarasin Broussard and Véronique Hébert, at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in February 1856.  Their children, born near Abbeville, included Ignace in January 1857; Eugénie in September 1858; Albert in April 1859 but died at age 9 1/2 in October 1868; Thérèse born in October 1860; Aurelien, fils in January 1863; ... 

Théodore's second son Louis Joseph, by first wife Henriette Trahan, married cousin Apollonie dite Pauline, Paulone, or Pollone, daughter of fellow Acadians François Louvière and Marie Louise Thibodeaux of Fausse Pointe and widow of Pierre Bonin, at the St. Martinville church in October 1816.  They settled at Fausse Pointe and on the Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included Emérite or Émelite at Fausse Pointe August 1817; Pélagie, also called Pouponne Pélagie, in May 1819; Louis, fils, also called Don Louis Théodore and Louis Théodore, in February 1821; Marie, also called Marie Carmélite, in June 1823; Joseph, also called Joseph Théodule and Théodule, in February 1826; Moïse in December 1827; Marcel in November 1829; Célestine Natalia or Natilia in November 1831 but, called Célestine, may have died near Grand Coteau, age 12 1/2 (the recording priest said 11 1/2), in August 1844; Ozea, a daughter, baptized at age 5 months in September 1833 but died at age 1 1/2 in September 1834; Lambert Hernesse, perhaps Ernest, born in c1834 and baptized at the St. Martinville church, age 2, in August 1836; and Arnestine, perhaps Ernestine, born in late 1836 and baptized at age 4 1/2 months in February 1837--11 children, six daughters and five sons, between 1817 and 1836.  Daughters Émelite, Pouponne Pélagie, and Marie Carmélite married into the Dugas, Granger, and Veazey families by 1870.  Three of Louis Joseph's sons also married by then.  One of them settled on the Mermentau River after the War of 1861-65. 

Oldest son Don Louis Théodore married cousin Arsène, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Comeaux and Gertrude Broussard, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in June 1843.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Adolphe in Lafayette Parish in August 1853; and François Lanis Théodore in St. Landry Parish in October 1856.  Don Louis Théodore may have remarried to cousin Émelia Broussard, place and date unrecorded.  Their son Augustin was born near Abbeville in February 1868; ...   None of Don Louis Théodore's children married by 1870. 

Louis Joseph's second son Joseph Théodule married Marcellite, daughter of fellow Acadian Hippolyte Thibodeaux and his Anglo wife Arsan Brown, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in August 1850.  They settled perhaps near Carencro before moving to the Mermentau River by the late 1860s.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Marcel in August 1851; Joseph Demosthène in January 1861; ...  None of Joseph Théodule's children married by 1870. 

Louis Joseph's fifth and youngest son Lambert Hernesse, perhaps Ernest, may have married French Canadian Sylvanie Istre at the Abbeville church in January 1861. ...

Alexandre's fifth son Sylvain followed his family into exile, likely joined his father and brothers in the Acadian resistance, and went with them to a prison compound in Nova Scotia, where they remained for the rest of the war.  In 1764-65, he followed them to New Orleans and lower Bayou Teche, where, at age 24, he married Félicité, called Félice, 20-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph dit L'Officier Guilbeau and Madeleine Michel, in c1765.  They settled at La Pointe on the upper Teche.  Their children, born there, included twins Anaclet and Mathilde dite Bathilde in October 1770; Hubert in August 1772; Adélaide in June 1774; Apollonie, also called Pollonie, Paulone, Polonne, and Poupon, baptized, age unrecorded, in May 1776; Félicité or Félice born in October 1777; Marie-Victoire baptized, age 14 days, in May 1779 but died "at her parent's," age 33 (the recording priest said 28), in October 1812; Pélagie born in January 1781 but died "at her mother's," age 25 (the priest said 18), in October 1806; Sylvestre born in March 1783 but died a week after his birth; another Sylvestre born in May 1784; François le jeune in May 1786 but died at his parents' home at La Pointe, age 29 (the recording priest said 25), in February 1816; and Céleste born in the early 1790s--a dozen children, five sons and seven daughters, including a set of twins, between 1770 and the early 1790s.  Sylvain died at Attakapas in March 1804, in his early 60s.  Félice did not remarry.  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in August 1808.  Daughters Bathilde, Adélaïde, Apollonie, Céleste, and Félice married into the Breaux, Girouard, Theriot, Melançon, and Boudreaux families.  Two of Sylvain's sons also married and settled on the Teche.  

Oldest son Anaclet married Marie Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of Philippe Wiltz and Marie Rose Dozat, at Attakapas in February 1807.  They settled at Grande Pointe on the upper Teche.  Their children, born there, included Marie Madeleine Marcellite in March 1809; Marie Sylvanie, called Sylvanie, in May 1810; Anaclet, fils, also called Anaclet Sylvain and Sylvain le jeune, in September 1814; Jacques Sosthène, also called Jacob Sosthène and Sosthène, in November 1816; and Alexandre in February 1819 but died "at the home of his mother at La grand pointe" the following September--five children, two daughters and three sons, between 1809 and 1819.  Anaclet, père died at his home on the upper Teche in August 1819, age 48 (the recording priest said "age about 47 yrs.").  His succession, mentioning his wife, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in April 1820.  Daughters Marie Madeleine Marcellite and Marie Sylvanie married into the Potier and Babineaux families.  Two of Anaclet's sons also married and settled on the prairies. 

Oldest son Anaclet Sylvain, called Sylvain, married cousin Élisabeth dite Élisa or Élise, daughter of Alexandre Wiltz and his Acadian wife Susanne LeBlanc, at the St. Martinville church in July 1834.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Élise died at age 15 days in May 1835; Timothée born in February 1837; Émelie in November 1839; Eusèbe in August 1842; Joseph Silvain or Sylvain in May 1845; Anaclet, fils in August 1848 but died "at age 10 or 11 yrs.[sic, likely months]" in July 1849; Robert born in August 1850; and Albert in December 1853--eight children, two daughters and six sons, between 1835 and 1853.  Anaclet Sylvain died in St. Martin Parish in May 1860.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Sylvain died "at age 48 yrs."  He would have been age 45.  His succession, mentioning his wife, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse a week after his death.  Daughter Émelie married a Potier cousin by 1870.  One of Anaclet Sylvain's sons also married by then.

Second son Eusèbe, who gained his emancipation in St. Martin Parish at age 17 1/2 in May 1860 a week after his father died, married double cousin Philomène, daughter of Joseph Wiltz and his Acadian wife Marie LeBlanc, at the St. Martinville church in January 1864.  Their son Joseph Silvain was born in St. Martin Parish in June 1864 but died in September; ...  Eusèbe remarried to cousin Ernestine, daughter of fellow Acadians Théodule LeBlanc and Marcellite Guilbeau, at the Breaux Bridge church, St. Martin Parish, in August 1866. ...

Anaclet's second son Jacob Sosthène, called Sosthène, married Marie Marcellite or Marcelline, daughter of Jean Begnaud and his Acadian wife Marie Guilbeau, at the St. Martinville church in March 1835.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Félicité in August 1836; Marcelitte died at age 3 weeks in June 1838; Jules born in September 1839; Marie Uranie in February 1844; Marie Eléonore in April 1846; and Noémi near Breaux Bridge in June 1849 but, called Noémie, died at age 4 1/2 (the recording priest said 5) in March 1854--six children, five daughters and a son, between 1836 and 1849.  Sosthène died in St. Martin Parish in November 1852, age 36.  His succession, calling him Jacques Sosthène and his wife Marie Marcelite Beguenaud, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in March 1854.  Daughters ... married into the Gonsoulin, Melançon, and Zeringue families by 1870.  Sosthène's son also married by then and settled on the upper Teche.  

Only son Jules married Émilie, daughter of fellow Acadian Hervillien Amand Cormier and his Creole wife Marie Céphalie Hollier, at the St. Martinville church in November 1859.  They settled near Breaux Bridge.  Their children, born there, included Émelie in September 1860; Adalbert in September 1861; ... 

Sylvain's fourth son Sylvestre, the second with the name, married Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Firmin Breaux and Marguerite Breaux of La Pointe, at the St. Martinville church in April 1812.  They settled at La Pointe.  Their children, born there, included Achilles in February 1813 but died at age 6 1/2 in December 1819; Hermogène, also called Ermogène and Armogène, born in c1814; Adélaïde dite Mélaïde in November 1814; Sylvestre, fils in December 1816; and a son, name unrecorded, died at birth in October 1819.  Wife Adélaïde's succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in October 1822.  Sylvestre, père, at age 38, remarried to Marie Aspasie, called Aspasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Théodore Babineaux and Julie Dugas of La Pointe, at the St. Martinville church in October 1822.  They settled at La Pointe.  Their children, born there, included Julie in April 1824; a son, name unrecorded, died at birth at his parents' home at La Pointe in May 1826; Marie Anayse or Anaïs, called Anaïs, in May 1829; and Célestine in October 1834 but may have died near Grand Coteau, age 9 1/2 (the recording priest said 11 1/2), in August 1844--nine children, five sons and four daughters, by two wives, between 1813 and 1834.  Sylvestre, père's succession and final will, not post-mortem, naming his second wife and listing his surviving children by both wives--Hermongène, Amenaïde (actually Adélaïde dite Mélaïde), Julie, Anaïs, and Célestine--was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in December 1840.  He would have been age 56 that year.  Sylvestre died in St. Martin Parish in October 1852.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial said that Sylvestre died "at age 64 yrs."  He was 68.  His post-mortem succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in November and named son Hermogène probably as his executor.  Daughters Adélaïde, Julie, and Marie Anaïs, by both wives, married into the Broussard, Cormier, and Guilbeau families.  One of Sylvestre's sons also married and settled on Bayou Teche. 

Second son Hermogène, also called Ermogène and Armogène, from first wife Adélaïde Breaux, married cousin Marie Euphémie, called Euphémie, daughter of fellow Acadians Julien Breaux and Euphrasie Melançon, at the St. Martinville church in November 1838.  They settled near Breaux Bridge.  Their children, born there, included Numa in c1838 but died at age 5 on 15 October 1843; Joseph Sylvain born in October 1839 but, called an unnamed child, may have died at age 4 in October 1843; Julles or Jules born in April 1841 but, called Hypolitte, died at age 2 1/2 in October 1843; Jules Hermogène born in c1842; Sylvestre le jeune in October 1843; Auguste in January 1845; Marie Augustine in May 1850; and Adam Albert in November 1851 but, called Albert, died at age 10 months in September 1852--eight children, seven sons and a daughter, between 1838 and 1851.  Hermogène likely died in St. Martin Parish 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 Ermogène, as he called him, died "at age 39 yrs."  His succession, calling him Hermogène and naming his wife, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in February 1854.  One wonders what killed two, perhaps three, of his older sons within days of one another in October 1843.  Were they victims of an epidemic?  Was Hermogène himself a victim of the yellow fever epidemic of 1853, one of the worst in the state's history?  His daughter did not marry by 1870, but two of his remaining sons did. 

Fourth son Jules Hermogène received his emancipation in St. Martin Parish in November 1860 and married Anaïs, daughter of fellow Acadians Alex Babin and Thersile Thibodeaux, at the Breaux Bridge church in January 1861.  Their son Gabriel Sully was born in St. Martin Parish in July 1862.  Jules's succession, naming his wife, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in January 1863.  If this was a post-mortem succession, one wonders if his death was war-related. 

Hermogène's sixth son Auguste married cousin Eugénie, daughter of Caleb Green and his Acadian wife Émilie Broussard, at the Breaux Bridge church in December 1866.  Their son Joseph Numa had been born near Breaux Bridge in September 1866.  Auguste died near Breaux Bridge in September 1867, age 22.  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in November. 

Alexandre's sixth son Simon followed his family into exile, into a prison compound in Nova Scotia, to New Orleans, and lower Bayou Teche.  He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians René Blanchard and Isabelle Comeau, at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans in April 1768.  Marguerite and her family also had come to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765, but not with the Broussard party.  The couple settled at Côte Gelée in the Attakapas District, but they evidently lived for a time at Ascension, upriver from Cabahannocer, in the late 1770s (Simon and first cousin François Broussard were witnesses to the marriage of Simon's nephew Joseph Broussard le jeune at Ascension in June 1776).  Simon and Marguerite's children, born on the prairie and the river, included Simon, fils at Attakapas in March 1771; Marguerite in December 1772; Angélique-Julie or -Julianne at Ascension in December 1775; Alexandre Simon at Attakapas in December 1776; Simon, fils, the second with the name, baptized at Attakapas, age 6 months, in April 1780; Joseph le jeune born in March 1782 but died at age 19 in October 1801; and Isidore Simon, later called "Grand Isidore," born in October 1783--seven children, five sons and two daughters, between 1771 and 1783.  Daughters Marguerite and Angélique Julie married into the Bernard, Taylor, Girouard, and Bell families.  Three of Simon's sons also married on the prairies, but not all of the lines endured. 

Second son Alexandre Simon married cousin Anne dite Manon or Nanon, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand Broussard and his second wife Anne Benoit of Fausse Pointe, at Attakapas in May 1800; they had to secure "a dispensation from the impediment of relationship" in order to marry.  They settled at Fausse Pointe on the lower Teche near her family.  Their children, born there, included Marguerite in February 1801; Alexandre Isidore Rosiclair, also called Alexandre E. and Basilien, in November 1802; Adélaïde in February 1805; Nicolas Colin in August 1806; Anne in February 1808; Marie Louise dite Tonton in the 1800s; Marie, also called Madeleine, in May 1809 but, called Madeleine, died at age 10 1/2 in February 1820; Simon Méance, also called Simon Amand, Simon Marcel, Siméon Méance, and Méance, born in February 1812; and Terence in June 1814 but died at age 4 in October 1818--nine children, four sons and five daughters, between 1801 and 1814.  Anne dite Manon died at their home at Fausse Pointe in September 1814, age 30, perhaps from complications of childbirth.  Alexandre Simon died at his father-in-law's home at Fausse Pointe in October 1816, age 40.  One wonders who raised his children, who ranged in age from 13 to 2 at the time of his death.  Alexandre Simon's succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in November 1816.  Daughters Adélaïde and Marie Louise dit Tonton married into the Dugas and Vincent families, two of them to Dugas cousins; one of them, Adélaïde, married twice.  Alexandre Simon's three remaining sons also married and settled on the prairies.

Oldest son Alexandre Isidore Rosiclair married double cousin Marcellite dite Manette or Manon, daughter of fellow Acadians Nicolas Broussard and Adélaïde Broussard, at the St. Martinville church in April 1826; the marriage was recorded also in St. Mary Parish.  They settled at Île aux Cannes on the Teche south of New Iberia and in Lafayette Parish.  Their children, born there, included Adélaïde Ernestine in May 1827 but, called Arnestine, died at age 2 in June 1829; Élodie born in c1829 but died at age 15 months in May 1830; Odile born in January 1831; Aima or Emma in March 1833 but, called Emma, died at age 22 (the recording priest said 21) in July 1855; Simon Méance le jeune, called Méance le jeune, born in June 1835; Nicolas Octave, called Octave, in June 1837 but died at age 11 in September 1848; Alzire born in March 1841; Marcel Jules, called Jules, in April 1844; Joseph Norbert, called Norbert, in June 1845; Marcellite in July 1847; Clémence in November 1852 but died at age 1 (the recording priest said 10 months) in November 1853; and Marie Ode born in August 1855--a dozen children, eight daughters and four sons, between 1827 and 1855.  Daughters ... married into the Broussard, Chargois, Chataigné, Gath, and Girouard families by 1870.  Three of Alexandre Isidore Rosclair's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Méance le jeune married Adèle, daughter of fellow Acadians Dositée Breaux and Arsène Guilbeau, at the St. Martinville church in August 1865.  They settled near New Iberia.  Their children, born there, included Joseph in August 1867; Léo or Léon in August 1869; ... 

Alexandre Isidore Rosiclair's third son Jules married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Delauney Louvière and Laure Trahan, at the St. Martinville church in November 1866.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Joseph Dezier in October 1867; Paul Damonville in August 1869; ... 

Alexandre Isidore Rosiclair's fourth and youngest son Norbert married Emilda, daughter of fellow Acadians Émile Hébert and Octavine Landry, at the St. Martinville church in December 1870. ...

Alexandre Simon's second son Nicolas Colin married Marie Cidalise, also called Mélanie, daughter of Martin Sudrique and his Acadian wife Marie Rose Robichaux, at the St. Martinville church in November 1827.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Marie Mélanie, called Mélanie, in December 1828; Carmélite in October 1830; and Nicolas Bruno in October 1833 but died at age 15 1/2 in January 1846--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1828 and 1833.  Nicolas Colin's succession, calling his widow Ordalie Sudrique and naming their "3 minors"--Marie Mélanie, Carmélite, and Nicolas--was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in May 1836.  Nicolas Colin would have been age 30 that year.  Daughters Mélanie and Carmélite married into the Huval and Bernard families.  Nicolas Colin's only son died young, so, except for its blood, this family line did not endure. 

Alexandre Simon's third son Simon Méance married Apollone or Pollone Octavie or Octavine, daughter of Pierre Bonin and his Acadian wife Pollone Louvière of Lafayette Parish, in a civil ceremony in St. Martin Parish in February 1832, and sanctified the marriage at the St. Martinville church in September 1834.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Marcel Galbert or Albert in St. Martin Parish in September 1833; Marie Louise Odile, called Odile, in May 1835; Alexandre in February 1837; Célestine dite Palestine near New Iberia in April 1839; Horace in the late 1830s or 1840s; Octave in c1840 but died at age 15 months in October 1842; Marie dite Paupone born in October 1844; Carolie or Coralie in January 1846; Mamers, probably a son, in Lafayette Parish in May 1849 but died by September 1850, when he did not appear with his family in the federal census for Lafayette Parish; Mathilde born in February 1852; Aurelien near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in May 1853; and a child, perhaps theirs, name unrecorded, in late 1855 but died in Lafayette Parish, age 3 months, in February 1856--a dozen children, at least six sons and five daughters, between 1833 and 1855.  Simon Méance died in Lafayette Parish in February 1857.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, but he did say that Joseph Méyance, as he called the deceased, died "at age 45 yrs.," so this likely was Simon Méance.  His succession, which says that he died in February 1857, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in March.  Daughters Marie, ... married into the Breaux, Duhon, and Stuts or Stutes families by 1870.  Three of Simon Méance's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Marcel Galbert married Marie Coralie, called Coralie, daughter of Onésime Caruthers, also Credeur, and his Acadian wife Marie Cidalise Prejean, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in October 1859.  They settled probably near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Eraste in December 1862; Alcibiade in April 1865 but died at age 3 1/2 in October 1868; Benedict Albert born in March 1868; ...

Simon Méance's second son Alexandre married Marie Betrise or Belzire, daughter of Spanish Creoles Manuel Domingue and Carmélite Plaisance, at the Vermilionville church in January 1859. ...

Simon Méance's third son Horace married Alicia, daughter of fellow Acadians Narcisse Dugas and Carmélite Guidry, at the Vermilionville church in January 1869. ...

Simon's third son Simon, fils, the second with the name, married cousin Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Thibodeaux and his second wife Agnès Brun, at Attakapas in February 1800.  They settled on the Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included Joséphine in December 1800; and Rosémond posthumously in January 1802 but died at age 11 in November 1813.  Simon, fils died at Attakapas in October 1801, age 22.  Daughter Joséphine married into the LeBlanc family.  Simon, fils's only son died young, so this family line, except for its blood, did not endure.  

Simon, père's fifth and youngest son Isidore Simon, called "Grand Isidore," married cousin Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians René dit Petit René Broussard and Anne Gaudin, at Attakapas in February 1804.  They settled at Côte Gelée.  Their children, born there, included Simon le jeune in December 1804; Joseph Drosin in March 1809; Marie Azéma in May 1811; Silvanie, a daughter, in September 1813; Marie or Anne Uranie, also called Uranie Madeleine, in May 1816; Marguerite Tonton in June 1818; and Léon in April 1822--seven children, three sons and four daughters, between 1804 and 1822.  Wife Marie died in Lafayette Parish in November 1826, in her late 30s.  Her succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following April.  Isidore did not remarry.  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in February 1829.  He would have been age 46 that year.  Daughters Marie Azéma, Uranie Madeleine, and Marguerite married into the Primeaux, Broussard, and Dominguez families.  Two of Grand Isidore's sons also married and settled on the prairies. 

Oldest son Simon le jeune married Marie Zéolide, daughter of fellow Acadians François Prince and Rosalie Savoie, at the St. Martinville church in January 1829.  Their chlidren, born in St. Martin Parish, included Simon Demas or Damas, also called Damas Simon, in November 1830; Marie Zéolide or Zoolide in May 1832; Amélie in April 1834; and Victoire Pamelise in August 1837--four children, a son and three daughters, between 1830 and 1837.  Daughters ... married into the Broussard and Verret families.  Simon le jeune's son also married. 

Only son Simon Damas married double cousin Alzire, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Isidore Broussard and Marcellite Broussard, in a civil ceremony in St. Martin Parish in May 1861, and sanctified the marriage at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in July 1863.  They settled near Lydia.  Their children, born there, included Simon le jeune in January 1862; Jules in October 1868; ... 

Grand Isidore's second son Joseph Drosin married Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Benjamin Mire and Marie Louise Bernard, at the Vermilionville church in January 1832.  Their daughter Elmire was born in Lafayette Parish in April 1833.  Joseph Drosin's succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in February 1846.  He would have been age 37 that year.  His daughter did not marry by 1870.  Did he father any sons?

Alexandre's seventh and youngest son Pierre followed his family into exile, into a prison compound in Nova Scotia, to New Orleans, and lower Bayou Teche.  At age 27, he married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Honoré Melançon and Marie-Josèphe Breau, at Cabahannocer on the river in July 1776.  Like brother Simon's wife, Marie and her family also had come to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765 but not with the Broussard party.  Pierre and Marie settled at Fausse Pointe on the lower Teche near present-day Loreauville, where Pierre's plantation was called "Marie Louise," and at Grande Pointe on the upper Teche near present-day Cecilia.  Their children, born on the Teche, included Pierre, fils, also called Joseph-Pierre, in June 1777; Julien baptized, age unrecorded, in July 1779; Don or Jean Louis born in January 1782; Ludivine dite Divine in January 1786; Alexandre-Pierre in c1792; and Ursin baptized, age 11 months, in May 1795.  Pierre remarried to Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Guidry of Grande Pointe and his third wife Marguerite Miller of Pensacola, at Attakapas in April 1798.  Their children, born at Grande Pointe, included Pierre-Zéphirin, called Zéphirin, in October 1799; Isabelle or Élisabeth Belzire in May 1801; Marguerite, also called Elmire, in c1803 and baptized at the home of her paternal grandfather in August 1806; Césaire born in October 1805, also baptized at the home of Pierre Guidry in August 1806, but died at age 27 in April 1833 (his succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in February 1834); Constance born in December 1807 but died at age 2 1/2 in March 1810; Clémence born in February 1810; Olivier, also called Geron, in October 1812; Émilie in May 1815; and Eugénie in c1817 but died in August 1819--15 children, eight sons and seven daughters, by two wives, between 1777 and 1817.  Pierre died at his home at Grande Pointe in December 1828, "at age about 75 years."  His succession, naming his wives and some of his children--Pierre, fils, Louis, Divine (deceased), Ursin, and Alexandre by his first marriage; and Émilie and Olivier by his second marriage--was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse that same month.  Daughters Ludivine, Élisabeth Belzire, Marguerite Elmire, Clémence, and Émilie, by both wives, married into the Patin, Robichaux, Rousseau, Hamilton, and Green families.  Six of Pierre's sons also married and settled on the prairies. 

Oldest son Pierre, fils, also called Joseph-Pierre and Joseph, from first wife Marie Melançon, married cousin Scholastique, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand Broussard and his second wife Anne Benoit of Fausse Pointe, at Attakapas in May 1800; they had to secure "a dispensation from the impediment of relationship" in order to marry.  They settled at Grand Prairie, near today's downtown Lafayette, and at Fausse Pointe on the lower Teche.  Their children, born there, included Claire in February 1801; another Claire in October 1802; Pierre III in April 1804 but died the following January; yet another Claire, probably Clarisse, born in November 1805; a son, name unrecorded, died at his parents' home on Grand Prairie eight days after his birth in August 1806; Joseph Derosin or Drosin, called Drosin and Drauzin, born in November 1807; Clairville or Clerville, also called St. Claire, in c1808 or 1809; a son, name unrecorded, died at Fausse Pointe, age 2 months, in March 1810; Marie Émelite dite Mélite born in April 1811; Bruno, also called Primo, in August 1813; a son, name unrecorded, died at his parents' home at Fausse Pointe, age 6 weeks, in March 1816; François, also called François Despalière, born in November 1817; Marie Carmélite, called Carmélite, in November 1821 but died at age 11 1/2 (the recording priest said 10) in July 1833; Anne Héline or Élina born in September 1823; Anne Doralise in September 1825; and a son, name unrecorded, died shortly after his birth in April 1827--16 children, seven daughters and nine sons, between 1801 and 1827.  Wife Scholastique died at the family home at Fausse Pointe in May 1827 "at age about 45 years," perhaps from the rigors of childbirth.  Her succession, which identified her husband and seven of her children--Drozin, Mélite, Primo, François Dupalier, Carmélite, Élina, and Doralise--was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in July.  Pierre, fils did not remarry and may have died in St. Martin Parish in May 1862.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Ve. Pierre, as he called him, died "at age 85 yrs."  Pierre, fils would have been a month shy of that age.  One wonders what the "Ve." means; perhaps a French version of widower.  Daughters Clarisse, Émelite, Anne Élina, and Anne Doralise married into the Dugas, Broussard, Bernard, and Dupoy families.  Four of Pierre, fils's sons also married and settled on the prairies.

Third son Joseph Drosin, called Drosin and Drauzin, at age 21, married cousin Julie, 19-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Édouard Broussard and Nanette Thibodeaux of Fausse Pointe, at the St. Martinville church in February 1829.  They settled at Fausse Pointe.  Their children, born there, included Anna in November 1829 but may have died at age 6 in January 1835; Joseph Masena born in March 1835; Marie Zoé in September 1836; Aurelien in May 1838; Désiré Soligny, called Soligny, in May 1840 and gained his emancipation in St. Martin Parish in May 1858, five days after he turned 18, but died in March 1868, age 27; and Cécile born in May 1843.  A succession for wife Julie was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in August 1845, but, according to a St. Martinville church record, she did not die until July 1851, at age 34 (actually, she would have been age 41 then, and age 35 when her succession was filed).  Another St. Martinville church record insists that François Drausin Broussard (called Joseph Drausin Broussard in other records), widower of Julie Broussard, married Carmélite Émelia, called Émelia, daughter of Zénon Castille and his Acadian wife Carmélite Thibodeaux, at the St. Martinville church in February 1847.  Their children, born near New Iberia, included Célanie in December 1847 but, called Célinie, died at age 4 months the following March; Louise Martha born in July 1849; Célestine Scholastique in August 1851 but, called Scholastique, may have died in St. Martin Parish in August 1853, age 2 (the recording priest said 4); and Angèle born in July 1853--10 children, seven daughters and three sons, by two wives, between 1829 and 1853.  Wife Carmélite Émilia, called Émilia by the recording priest, who called her husband Drauzin, died in St. Martin Parish in March 1855, age 24.  Her succession, also calling her Émilia and her husband Drauzin, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in April.  Was Émilia's husband Drauzin Joseph Drosin, son of Pierre, fils?  Did he and first wife Julie Broussard divorce?  This would have been most unusual among Acadians or members of any predominantly Catholic community at the time.  Or was the July 1851 St. Martinville church burial record for Julie Broussard wrong?  Called Drauzin by the St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names, mention a wife, or his age, Joseph Drosin evidently died near St. Martinville in March 1858.  If so, he would have been age 51 at the time of his passing.  His succession, also calling him Drauzin, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse two days after his death.  Daughter Marie Zoé, by his first wife, married into the Gonsoulin family by 1870.  None of Joseph Drosin's sons married by then. 

Pierre, fils's fourth son Clairville married Alexandrine Alice or Aline, daughter of Terence Bienvenu and his Acadian wife Julie Guilbeau, at the St. Martinville church in July 1833.  Their children, born near New Iberia, included Aristides in 1834 but died at age 8 months in April 1835; Marie Félicie born in February 1836; Céleste Élodie in August 1838; Théodore, also called Théodore Laizer, in October 1841; Cécile Eusèïde in July 1844; Charles in July 1846; Marie Corine in February 1849 but, called Corine, may have died at age 6 1/2 (the recording priest said 7) in August 1855; Julie Alice in June 1851; Stephanie Louise in August 1853; and Berthe posthumously in November 1855--10 children, three sons and seven daughters, between 1834 and 1855.  Clairville died in St. Martin Parish in October 1855.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Clairville died "at age 45 yrs."  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse three weeks after his death.  Daughters ... married into the Beslin, Bienvenu, Fleming, and Ratier families by 1870.  One of Clairville's remaining sons also married by then, after his war service. 

Second son Théodore Laizer, called T. Laizer in Confederate service records, was working as a clerk in St. Martin Parish in the summer of 1861.  On June 19, he enlisted in Company C, 8th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, at Camp Moore, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana.  The enlistment officer said he was age 18.  He was 19.  Despite his youth, the following month he was appointed acting first sergeant of his company, likely because of his education.  He followed his unit to Virginia, where he served as one of General R. E. Lee's Louisiana Tigers.  He was wounded at Malvern Hill, Virginia, on 1 July1862 during Lee's Seven Days' Campaign, was furloughed to Louisiana, and returned to the unit the following September.  He was elected junior second lieutenant of his company upon his return.  He was wounded again at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on 2 July 1863, was able to retreat with Lee's army back to Virginia, spent time in a hospital for Louisiana soldiers, and was paroled home a second time.  He returned to his unit the following December, but his wounds prevented him from serving actively with the company.  He was transferred to the Invalid Corps in late 1864 and served for the rest of the war in that unit.  After he returned home to his family, he married cousin Marie Alice, also called Blanche, daughter of Charles Guerinière Bienvenu and Henriette Delahoussaye, at the St. Martinville church in August 1867.  Their son Joseph Guerinière was born in St. Martin Parish in June 1868; ...  T. Laizer was serving as president of his company's survivors' organization in August 1889 when he served on the honor guard for the belated funeral and burial of his company comrade, Lieutenant L. Edmond LeBlanc, who had fallen at Malvern Hill and whose body had lain on the battlefield for a quarter of a century.  T. Laizer died in St. Martin Parish in October 1905, age 64, and is buried in St. Michael Catholic Cemetery in St. Martinville near many of his comrades. 

Pierre, fils's sixth son Bruno married cousin Julie Hermina, Ermina, or Irmina daughter of fellow Acadians Éloi Dugas and Julie Broussard, at the St. Martinville church in June 1839.  Their children, born near New Iberia, included Bruno Flavien or Flavius in July 1840; a son, name and age unrecorded, died in April 1842; Marie born in May 1843; Dorce, also called Dorsey, in May 1845; Ovide baptized at the New Iberia church, age unrecorded, in April 1846 but died at age 18 (the recording priest said 19) in June 1864 (was his death war-related?); Marie Palestine, called Palestine, in July 1850; Julie Élodie in March 1852; and Jules Titus posthumously in October 1853 but, called Titus, died at age 14 in December 1867--eight children, five sons and three daughters, between 1840 and 1853.  Bruno, père died in St. Martin Parish in October 1853.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Bruno died "at age 34 yrs."  He was 40.  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in March 1866.  None of his daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did.

Third son Dorce or Dorsey, after his war service, married fellow Acadian Marie Clelie Hébert at the New Iberia church in February 1870. ...

Pierre, fils's eighth son François Despalière married Susanne Amelia, daughter of fellow Acadians Antoine Prince and Susanne Louvière, at the St. Martinville church in September 1836.  Their children, born near New Iberia, included Henry Despaney or Despanet, called Despanet or Despané, in May 1840; and François Despalière, fils posthumously in November 1844.  François Despalière, père died in St. Martin Parish in August 1844, age 26 (the recording priest said 27).  His succession, naming his wife, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in September.  One of his sons married by 1870. 

Older son Henry Despanet, after his war service, married cousin Clémence Idalie or Eudolie, daughter of probably fellow Acadian François Dorestan Prince and his Creole wife Eméranthe Zulma Bonin, at the New Iberia church in January 1866. ...

Pierre, père's third son Don or Jean Louis, by first wife Marie Melançon, married cousin Marie Louise Felonie or Phelonise, called Felonise, another daughter of Amand Broussard and his second wife Anne Benoit of Fausse Pointe, at the St. Martinville church in August 1810.  They settled at Fausse Pointe.  Their children, born there, included Don Louis, fils in May 1810; Pierre, also called Pierre Timoléon and Timoléon, in March 1813 but died at age 2 in September 1815; Grégoire Télésphore, called Télésphore, born in April 1815; Marie Louise in June 1817; a child, name unrecorded, died at birth in September 1819; Tertulle, also called Théodule and Tertullien, born in October 1820; Jean Cleber, Clebert, or Kleber in December 1822; Marie Alphonsine Mélagie, called Alphonsine, in December 1827; Louis Rosémond, called Rosémond, in August 1829 but died at age 4 (the recording priest said 5) in October 1833; Marguerite Félice or Félicie born in July 1832; Paul Ernest in June 1834 but, called Paul, may have died near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, at age 19 (the recording priest said 23) in April 1854 (his succession, calling him Paul Ernest, naming his parents and both sets of grandparents but mentioning no wife nor giving his age, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in December 1853); and Dominique Ulger, called Ulger and Gachon, born in August 1838--a dozen children, at least eight sons and three daughters, between 1810 and 1838.  Don Louis, père died in St. Martin Parish in October 1843.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial said that Don Louis died "at age 55 yrs."  He was 61.  His succession, naming his wife, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in December.  Daughters Alphonsine, ... married Decuir and Broussard cousins, one of them, Alphonsine, to two Decuirs.  Five of Don Louis's sons also married and settled on Bayou Teche.

Oldest son Don Louis, fils married cousin Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Sylvestre Broussard and Adélaïde Breaux, at the St. Martinville church in January 1832.  Their children, born near New Iberia, included Jean Dorvil or Dorville, called Dorville, in December 1832; Césaire le jeune in January 1834 but may have been the Césaire Broussard who died in St. Martin Parish in November 1855 (if so, he would have been age 21 at the time of his passing); François Adolphe, called Adolphe, born in December 1835; Eugénie Élonie n November 1837; Adélaïde in February 1840; Paul in January 1842; and Anne Eusèïde, called Eusèïde, in November 1843.  Wife Adélaïde's succession, probably post-mortem, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in March 1846.  She would have been age 32 that year.  Don Louis, fils remarried to Marie Célanie, called Célanie, daughter of fellow Acadians Hippolyte Cormier and Adélaïde Richard, at the St. Martinville church in October 1846.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Ydalie, perhaps Eudalie, in September 1847; Richard Dumas in April 1849 but, called Dumas, died at age 4 in April 1853; Marie born in August 1851; Joseph Hippolyte in December 1853; Gaston in November 1855; Mathilde in October 1857; Louis Aymard in August 1862; Louis Eugène in December 1864; Louis William in April 1867; ...  Don Louis, fils, at age 60, remarried again--his third marriage--to Arsène, daughter of Hippolyte Barras and his Acadian wife Carmélite Guilbeau, at the St. Martinville church in May 1870.  Daughters Eusèïde, ..., by his first and second wives, married into the Bonin and Allison families by 1870.  Two of Don Louis's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Jean Dorville, called Dorville, from first wife Adélaïde Broussard, married Anastasie, also called Arnestine, daughter of Lasincour Gonsoulin and Cidalise Bonin, at the New Iberia church in January 1852.  They settled near New Iberia.  Their children, born there, included Louis Dorville in September 1852; Charles Ernoton in January 1854 but, called Charles, died at age 7 1/2 in July 1861; Henri born in April 1855; Louise in February 1857; Césaire in December 1858; Joseph Tonton in September 1861; Amélie in January 1863; Hobert in August 1864; Thomas baptized at New Iberia, age 8 months, in September 1867; Jean Albert born in August 1868; ...  None of Jean Dorville's children married by 1870. 

Don Louis, fils's third son Adolphe, by first wife Adélaïde Broussard, married Marie Edmonia, called Edmonia, daughter of fellow Acadians Placide Guilbeau and Julie Cormier, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in February 1860.  They settled near Arnaudville.  Their children, born there, included Marie Fennely in November 1860; Fernand in September 1862; Adolphe Seymour in September 1870; ...

Don Louis, père's third son Grégoire Télésphore, called Télésphore, married Mathilde, daughter of Timoléon Bienvenu and Marie Joséphine or Désirée Gonsoulin, at the New Iberia church in January 1846.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Joseph Arthur in October 1846; Marie Félicie in June 1848; Antoine in June 1850; Coulia in August 1852; Alcide in February 1854; Hippolyte in September 1855 but died the following November; Corine born in February 1856 but may have died in St. Martin Parish, age 9 1/2 (the recording priest said 8), in October 1865; Cécile Alysia born in December 1858; and Cora posthumously in July 1866--nine children, four sons and five daughters, between 1846 and 1866.  Telesphore died in St. Martin Parish in March 1866.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Télésphore died "at age 51 yrs."  He was a month shy of that age.  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse less than two weeks after his death.  Daughter ... married into the Bonin family by 1870.  None of Télésphore's sons married by then. 

Don Louis, père's fourth son Tertulle married Aimée, Émée, or Emma, daughter Raphaël Segura and Marie Carmélite Romero, at the New Iberia church in November 1845.  They settled near New Iberia.  Their children, born there, included Marie Eléanor in September 1846; Adolphe Elmor in March 1848; Léon in December 1849 but, called Léonce, died at age 17 in September 1867; Cora born in August 1856; Hippolyte near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in March 1859; Joseph Erebe near New Iberia in January 1864; ...  Tertulle died near New Iberia in August 1867.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who called him Tertullien, did not give any parents' names, mention a wife, or give Tertullien's age at the time of his death.  He would have been age 56.  His succession was filed in October.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Don Louis, père's fifth son Jean Kleber married Modeste Émelie, called Émelie, daughter of Zénon Decuir and his Acadian wife Élisabeth Hébert, at the New Iberia church in June 1848.  Their children, born on the lower Teche and the prairies, included Joseph Félix near New Iberia in July 1849; Marie Eva in August 1851; Jean Adelbert near Abbeville in July 1854; Louis Ernest in February 1856; Marie Elleda in June 1857; Siméon in December 1858; Élisabeth in August 1860; Jean Kleber, fils in August 1862; Félicie Norma in April 1865; Olidon in February 1869; ...  None of Jean Kleber's children married by 1870. 

Don Louis, père's eighth and youngest son Dominique Ulger dit Gachon married Constance, daughter of fellow Acadians Edmond Gilles LeBlanc and Léocade LeBlanc, at the St. Martinville church in October 1860; he was a brother-in-law of the Lieutenant Louis Edmond LeBlanc of the 8th Louisiana Infantry--one of General R. E. Lee's Louisiana Tigers--who was killed in action at the Battle of Malvern Hill, Virginia, in July 1861 and whose remarkably preserved body was returned to his home at St. Martinville in the late 1880s.  Dominique Ulger and Constance's children, born near New Iberia, included Henry Paule in July 1861; Marie Noilea in July 1863; Louis Edmond in October 1865; Sylvia Zénon in January 1868; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Dominique Ulger, called D. U. in Confederate records, served as a private and then as a corporal in Company K of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Landry Parish, which fought in Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, and Louisiana.  He then served in the Consolidated 18th Regiment and Yellow Jacket Battalion Infantry, which fought in Louisiana.  After the war, during the turmoil of Reconstruction, Ulger was a leader of the Democrat Party in newly-created Iberia Parish, and he was president of the parish police jury during the early 1880s.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Pierre, père's fourth son Alexandre Pierre, by first wife Marie Melançon, married Marie Azélie, called Azélie, daughter of François Begnaud and his Acadian wife Marie Hippolythe Honorine Doiron, at the St. Martinville church in October 1817.  They settled at Grande Pointe on the upper Teche.  Their children, born there, included Marie Mélissaire in August 1818; Élisa in April 1821; Marie Adèle, called Adèle, in August 1823; and Alphonse Alexandre in December 1825--four children, three daughters and a son, between 1817 and 1825.  Alexandre Pierre may have died at Grande Pointe in February 1867.  The Breaux Bridge priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Alexandre died "at age 75 yrs."  Daughters Élisa and Adèle married into the Harry, Calais, and Robichaux families, one of them, Adèle, twice.  Alexandre Pierre's son also married. 

Only son Alphonse Alexandre married Constance, daughter of fellow Acadians Hervillien Bernard and Hortense Dugas, at the St. Martinville church in February 1851.  They settled near Breaux Bridge.  Their children, born there, included Alexandre le jeune in November 1854; Marie Aurore in November 1856 but, called Aurore, may have died at age 3 1/2 (the recording priest said 5) in October 1860; Euphémon Adam born in September 1859; Louise in December 1860; Constant in October 1867; Joseph Louis in January 1870; ...  None of Alphonse's children married by 1870. 

Pierre, père's fifth son Ursin, by first wife Marie Melançon, married Julie, daughter of fellow Acadians Firmin dit Ephrem Robichaux and Marie Anne Surette of Grande Pointe, at the St. Martinville church in May 1816.  They settled at Grande Pointe.  Their children, born there, included Ursin, fils in February 1817 but died at age 9 1/2 in September 1826; Antoine born in March 1819; Léon Treville in April 1821 but died at age 3 in May 1824; Marie Caroline, called Caroline, born in January 1824; Célestine in October 1826; Pierre le jeune in June 1829; a son, name unrecorded, died at birth in August 1831; Louise Ema in August 1833; Eletesia or Letitia in early 1836 and baptized at age 1 1/2 in August 1837; Julie Célimène born in March 1839; and Philomène in April 1842--11 children, five sons and six daughters, between 1817 and 1842.  Ursin died probably at Grande Pointe in January 1853.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Ursin died "at age 59 yrs," so this was him.  His succession, naming his wife, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse later that month.  Daughters Caroline, Célestine, Letitia, Julie Célimène, Louise, Philomène, and Louise married into the Vasseur, Broussard, Webre, Miguez, Bienvenu, and Pellerin families.  Ursin's remaining sons also married and settled in St. Martin Parish. 

Second son Antoine married Élodie, another daughter of Hervillien Bernard and Hortense Dugas, at the St. Martinville church in October 1844.  They settled near Breaux Bridge.  Their children, born there, included François Charles in October 1846; Ursin le jeune in the late 1840s; a son, name and age unrecorded, died in July 1850; Marie Elmire born in January 1849; Louisa in November 1850; Marie Corine in October 1852; Joseph Numa in March 1855; Philomène in April 1857; Cécile in March 1860; Paul in June 1862 but died at age 5 in October 1867; Marie Aurore born in August 1864; ...  Daughter ... married into the LeBlanc family by 1870.  One of Antoine's sons also married by then. 

Second son Ursin le jeune married Alzire, daughter of Adolphe Pellerin and Caroline Castille, at the Breaux Bridge church in August 1870. ...

Ursin's fourth son Pierre le jeune married Célestine, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Babin and Tarsile Thibodeaux, at the St. Martinville church in February 1854.  They settled near Breaux Bridge.  Their children, born there, included Marie Elmire in October 1854; Gabriel in June 1856; Éleanor in August 1859; Ovide in August 1861; Arthur in February 1869; ...  None of Pierre le jeune's children married by 1870. 

Pierre, père's sixth son Pierre Zéphirin, called Zéphirin, from second wife Marguerite Guidry, married Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadian Michel Martin and his Creole wife Marguerite Huval of La Pointe, at the St. Martinville church in December 1820.  They settled at Grande Pointe.  Their children, born there, included a son, name unrecorded, died at birth at his maternal grandfather's home at La Pointe in January 1825; Marguerite Anaïs born in January 1827; Pierre Sévigné, called Sévigné, in January 1830; a son, name unrecorded, died at birth in November 1831; and Guiaume, also called Guillaume Adelma and Adelma Guillaume, born in January 1833--five children, four sons and a daughter, between 1825 and 1833.  Zéphirin died in St. Martin Parish in June 1870.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Zéphirin died "at age 70 yrs."  Daughter Marguerite Anaïs married into the Tertron family.  Zéphirin's remaining sons also married and settled on the prairies.

Second son Pierre Sévigné married Marguerite Alice, called Alice, daughter of fellow Acadian Edmond Eugène Mouton and his Creole wife Eulalie Voorhies, at the St. Martinville church in October 1850.  They settled probably on the upper Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included Marie Louise in September 1851; Pierre Edmond in January 1854; Cécile in January 1857; Carmélite Alice in December 1857; Agnès Élise in December 1859; Édouard Albert in December 1861; Paul Émile in November 1863; ...  Daughter ... married into the Dubernard family by 1870.  None of Pierre Sévigne's sons married by then. 

Zéphirin's fourth and youngest son Adelma Guillaume married Angélique Cécile or Cécilia, another daughter of Edmond Eugène Mouton and Eulalie Voorhies, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in December 1858.  They settled probably on the upper Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included Auguste Édouard in August 1859; Victor André in November 1860; Joseph Edgard in July 1862 but, called Edgar, died the following March; Eulalie Iida born in March 1864; Guillaume Armand in March 1867; Charles in September 1868 but may have died at age 2 in August 1870; ... 

Pierre, père's eighth and youngest son Olivier, also called Geron, from second wife Marguerite Guidry, married Marie Elmire, called Elmire, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean François Bernard and his second wife Constance LeBlanc, at the St. Martinville church in May 1834.  They settled at Grande Pointe near present-day Breaux Bridge.  Their children, born there, included Juliènne Félicianne in February 1837; Sylvestre Olivier, called Olivier, in December 1838; Césaire le jeune in May 1840 but may have been the Césaire Broussard who died in St. Martin Parish in November 1855 (if so, he would have been age 15 1/2  at the time of his passing); Marie Sidonie born in January 1842 but, called Sidonie, may have died in St. Martin Parish in March or April 1853, age 11 1/2 (the recording priest, in two separate records, said 12 or 13); Pierre Félix, called Félix, born in September 1843; Élisabeth in March 1846; François in November 1847; Joseph Omar in November 1849; Jean Adrien in November 1851; Joseph in February 1854; Marie Ermance in March 1856; Louis in February 1858; Marie in February 1860; ...  Daughters ... married into the Bayard and Thomas families by 1870.  Two of Olivier's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Sylvestre Olivier married cousin Louison, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Potier and Marcellie Broussard, at the St. Martinville church in December 1868.  They settled near Breaux Bridge. ...

Olivier's third son Félix married Marie Ernestine, called Ernestine, daughter of Siméon Patout and Apolline Fournier, at the New Iberia church in December 1866; the marriage was recorded also in St. Mary Parish.  They were living near his family at Breaux Bridge at the end of the decade. ...

Joseph dit Beausoleil (c1702-1765) Broussard

Joseph, fifth son of François Brossard/Broussard and Catherine Richard, born on the haute rivière above Port-Royal in c1702, married, at age 23, Agnès, another daughter of Michel Thibodeau and Agnès Dugas, at Annapolis Royal in September 1725.  Probably later in the decade, after Joseph had gotten in trouble with colonial authorities and was determined to put as much distance as he could between himself and the British overlords at Annapolis Royal, he and Agnès followed his older brother Alexandre to the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto.  They settled at Chepoudy on the north shore of the Bay of Fundy and then moved on to the upper stretches of Rivière Petitcoudiac, where he and his brother established Village-des-Beausoleils above present-day Moncton, New Brunswick.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1726 and 1745, Agnès gave Joseph five children, all sons:  Jean-Grégoire born in c1726; Joseph dit Petit Jos in c1727; Raphaël in c1733; Timothée-Athanase, called Athanase, in February 1741 (White says they were separate sons); and Amand in c1745 (other sources, followed here, say c1750).  Arsenault insists that Victor was one of Joseph's sons, but Stephen White, followed here, gives him to older brother Alexandre.  Other sources, including White, also give Joseph and Agnès two more sons at Petitcoudiac--François born in c1746; and Claude in c1748--and three daughters--Isabelle born in c1733; Marguerite in c1739; and Françoise, twin of brother François, in c1746--10 children, seven sons and three daughters, between 1725 and 1750, on the haute rivière and in the trois-rivières.  From the early 1720s to the late 1750s, Joseph was a leader of the Acadian resistance during several colonial wars.  After escaping with dozens of other Acadians from Fort Lawrence, Chignecto, in October 1755, he rejoined his family on the upper Petitcoudiac.  For the next five years, he was, with older brother Alexandre, a leader in the resistance against British forces in Nova Scotia and greater Acadia and was wounded in the foot during a fight near Fort Cumberland, Chignecto.  He lost wife Agnès and some of their children at the refugee camp at Miramichi in the terrible winter of 1756-57.  He did not remarry.  Married son Raphaël also died during exile.  After failing to surrender with other Acadians at Fort Cumberland in the late fall of 1759 following the fall of Québec in September, Joseph, brother Alexandre, and their families made their way north to the French stronghold at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  There they joined the remaining French force in the region and hundreds of other Acadians not yet captured or surrendered and resumed their resistance against the British, on water as well as land.  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.  Joseph was held not only at Halifax, perhaps on Georges Island, but also at Fort Edward at Pigiguit.  In 1764-65, he and Alexandre led 200 of their fellow Acadians, most of them kinsmen, from Halifax to Louisiana via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue.  In early April 1765, at New Orleans, French officials appointed Joseph capitiane commandant of the Acadians who had chosen to settle in the Attakapas District.  Soon afterwards, he led his party across the Atchafalaya Basin to Bayou Teche.  In October 1765, at age 63, he, too, died in the Teche valley epidemic and was buried at his seat, "camp Beausoleil," at Fausse Pointe near present-day Loreauville.  Daughters Isabelle, Marguerite, and Françoise married into the Trahan, Dugas, and Labauve families in greater Acadia and Louisiana.  Joseph's five sons who had come with him to Louisiana remained on the western prairies, where the younger ones married, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Jean-Grégoire followed his family from the haute rivière to the trois-rivièves, where he married Anne LeBlanc probably at Petitcoudiac before 1755.  According to Stephen White, they had four daughters and possibly a fifth child, gender unknown, "who died very young."  Jean-Grégoire was part of the Acadian resistance under his father and uncle.  White, citing Acadian historian Placide Gaudet, says Jean-Grégoire "drowned in the Petitcodiac River, trying to save his servant.  This would have taken place during what is called the Battle of the Cran, on July 1, 1758," so Jean-Grégoire did not survive exile.  According to White, three of Jean-Grégoire's daughters "remained in Acadia, while a fourth went to Louisiana."  One wonders who this daughter may have been and if she married. 

Joseph's second son Joseph dit Petit Jos followed his family to the trois-rivières, where he married Anastasie, daughter of René LeBlanc and Anne Thériot, probably at Petitcoudiac in c1750.  Anastasie gave Petit Jos a son, René, born probably at Petitcoudiac in c1753.  They followed his family into exile in the fall of 1755.  According to Stephen White, their daughter Anastasie was born probably at Miramichi in c1757.  Petit Jos participated in the Acadian resistance led by his father and uncle.  With their son, their daughter having died by 1761, Petit Jos and Anastasie accompanied his extended family into a prison compound in Nova Scotia in the early 1760s.  Anastasie, counted at Fort Edward, formerly Pigiguit, with her husband and young son in October 1762, did not survive imprisonment.  Petit Jos, at age 38, remarried to Marguerite, 24-year-old daughter of probably Charles Savoie and Françoise Martin of Annapolis Royal, probably at Halifax in c1763.  They followed his family to Louisiana in 1764-65.  Marguerite was pregnant on the journey and gave birth to daughter Marguerite in April 1765 on their way to Bayou Teche via the Atchafalaya Basin.  Wife Marguerite gave Petit Jos more children at Attakapas, including Anastasie, the second with the name, baptized by a Pointe Coupée priest, age unrecorded, in 1769; Louise-Ludivine or -Divine born in c1770; Madeleine in March 1772; Joseph III in March 1774 but may have died at New Orleans, age 22, in September 1796; François-Alexandre born in March 1777; and Éloi dit Petit Jos baptized, age 7 weeks, in April 1780--nine children, four sons and five daughters, by both wives, between 1753 and 1780, in greater Acadia and Louisiana.  Petit Jos died at Attakapas in December 1788.  The priest who recorded the burial, but who did not give any parents' names, said that Joseph, married to Marguerite Savoie, died "at age 62 yrs." of a chest cold or pneumonia.  His succession, naming his wife Marguerite and listing his surviving children--René from his first marriage; Marguerite from his second marriage and her husband; Louise and her husband; Anastasie and her husband; Magdeleine and her husband; and Elfroy--was filed at what became the St. Martinville courthouse, St. Martin Parish, in November 1800.  Daughters Marguerite, Anastasie, Louise-Divine, and Madeleine, by his second wife, married into the Bernard and Broussard families.  Two of Petit Jos's sons also married and settled on the prairies.  Widow Marguerite lived until 1816 and did not remarry. 

Oldest son René, by first wife Anastasie LeBlanc, followed his family into exile, into a prison compound in Nova Scotia, to New Orleans, and lower Bayou Teche.  He married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Firmin Landry and Françoise Thibodeau, at Attakapas in June 1775.  Their daughter Marie-Madeleine was born there in February 1776.  René remarried to Marie-Anne-Barbe, called Anne and Barbe, daughter of fellow Acadians Bonaventure Godin and Théotiste Thibodeau, at Attakapas in January 1779.  Their children, born there, included Joseph dit Petit René baptized, age 6 months, in May 1779; François le jeune born in September 1781 but died at Ascension on the river, age 17 (the priest who recorded the burial said 19), in August 1799 on his way home from New Orleans, where his father had died six months earlier; Clothilde born in December 1782 but died at age 2 in December 1784; Julie baptized, age 4 months, in October 1786 but died at age 15 in September 1801; Marie born in May 1788; Éloi dit Petit René in January 1794; and Édouard dit Petit René in August 1798--eight children, four sons and four daughters, by both wives, between 1776 and 1798.  René died at New Orleans in February 1799.  The St.-Louis Cathedral priest who recorded the burial said that Renato, as he called him, was "native of Acadia in the country of Canada," called his wife Anne Gaudet, not Godin/Gaudin, and said he died at age 40.  He probably was in his mid-40s.  One wonders what René was doing in the city at the time of his death.  Daughter Marie, by his second wife, married a Broussard cousin.  Three of his sons also married and settled on the prairies. 

Oldest son Joseph dit Petit René, by second wife Anne Godin, married Constance, daughter of French Canadian Pierre LeBlanc and his Acadian wife Anastasie Louvière of Fausse Pointe, at Attakapas in January 1800.  They settled at Le Grand Bois and Fausse Pointe on the lower Teche and on the Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included Joséphine in April 1801; Hippolyte Valmont in April 1803 but died at age 12 1/2 in September 1815; Marie Delphine, called Delphine, born in August 1805; Alexandre Petit René in November 1807; Susanne Doralise in September 1809; Marcellite Urasie in October 1811; and Marsillien, also called Marcellin Petit René, in March 1814--seven children, four daughters and three sons, between 1801 and 1814.  Joseph dit Petit René died at Le Grand Bois in October 1815, age 37.  His succession, calling him Joseph René and naming his wife, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in August 1819.  Daughters Joséphine, Delphine, Susanne, and Marcellite married into the Broussard, Louvière, Derouen, and Stiven families.  Joseph dit Petit René's remaining sons also married and settled in the New Iberia area.

Second son Alexandre Petit René married Clarisse Émelite or Mélite Clarisse, daughter of fellow Acadians Théophile LeBlanc and probably Clarisse Hébert, in a civil ceremony in St. Mary Parish in August 1827, and sanctified the marriage at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in May 1837.  Their chldren, born near New Iberia, included Amelia in September 1828; Carmélite in October 1830; Joseph Léon, called Léon, in April 1833; Alexandre, also called Alexandre Dupré, in February 1837; Claris or Clarisse in December 1838; Clément in September 1841; Philip or Philippe in October 1843; Louis Félix in August 1846; Théodore Félicien, called Félicien, in March 1848; and Clémence in August 1852--10 children, four daughters and six sons, between 1828 and 1852.  Daughters ... married into the Savoy family by 1870.  Five of Alexandre Petit René's sons also married by then and settled in the New Iberia area. 

Second son Alexandre Dupré married cousin Olympe, daughter of fellow Acadians Frédéric le jeune dit Onésime LeBlanc and Cécile Landry, at the New Iberia church in January 1858.  Their son Eugène was born near New Iberia in December 1860.  A succession for Alexandre D. Broussard was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in January 1866.  Was this Alexandre Dupré?  He would have been age 29 that year.  Was his death war-related? 

Alexandre Petit René's third son Clément married cousin Eulalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Émilien Landry and Rosalie LeBlanc, at the New Iberia church in April 1862.  They settled near Lydia. ...

Alexandre Petit René's fourth son Philippe married cousin Olymphe, another daughter of Émilien Landry and Rosalie LeBlanc, at the New Iberia church in May 1866.  Their son Émile was born near New Iberia in March 1868; ... 

Alexandre Petit René's fifth son Louis Félix married Marie Delphine, daughter of André Mayard and his Acadian wife Carmélite Louvière and widow of Joseph Stevens, at the Lydia church, Iberia Parish, in July 1870. ...

Alexandre Petit René's sixth and youngest son Félicien married Aurelia, daughter of Pierre Borel and Georgine Loignon, at the Lydia church in January 1869. ...

Joseph dit Petit René's third and youngest son Marcellin Petit René, married Euphrosine, also called Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Agricole LeBlanc and Euphrosine Hébert, at the St. Martinville church in November 1832.  Their children, born on the lower Teche, included Constance in August 1833; twins Léon le jeune and Léontine in November 1836; and Marie Marcellite near New Iberia in September 1839.  Wife Joséphine's succession was filed at the Franklin courthouse, St. Mary Parish, in February 1853, years after her passing.  Marcellin remarried to Ste. Claire, called Claire and perhaps also Clavie, daughter of fellow Acadians Frédéric dit Onésime LeBlanc and Cécile Landry, at the New Iberia church in November 1841.  Their children, born probably in St. Mary Parish, included Cécile in October 1842; Marcellin Ovide, called Ovide and also Émile, in January 1844; Marie Alsire in January 1846; Modeste in January 1849 (another New Iberia church record says she was born in June 1840, before her parents were married); Godfroy or Godefroi in July 1851; Hippolyte in September 1854; Arestide in January 1857; and Marcellite in November 1859--a dozen children, seven daughters and five sons, by two wives, including a set of twins, between 1833 and 1859.  Wife Ste. Claire's succession, not post-mortem, was filed at the Franklin courthouse in April 1853.  Daughters Cécile, ..., by both wives, married into the Bonin, Étier, Viator, Butaud, and Louvière families by 1870.  One of Marcellin Petit René's sons also married by then.

Second son Ovide, by second wife Claire LeBlanc, married Arsène, daughter of fellow Acadians Sylvère Louvière and his Creole wife Marcellienne Derouen, at the New Iberia church in February 1866; the recording priest called the groom Émile; Ovide's sister Marie Alzire married Arsène's brother Octave.  Ovide and Arsène's children, born on the lower Teche, included Ovide Alphonse near New Iberia in May 1867; Eugène Offrande near Lydia in November 1868; ... 

René's third son Éloi dit Petit René, by second wife Anne Godin, married cousin Angélique Julie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Girouard and Angélique Broussard of Côte Gelée, at the St. Martinville church in May 1814.  They settled at Côte Gelée.  Their children, born there, included Éloy, fils in July 1815 but, called Éloy Petit Renés, died at age 18 in July 1833; Angélique born in March 1817; Jean Euclide in May 1819; Marie Urasie in September 1821 but, called Urasie, died at age 6 in August 1827; Alexandre, also called Alexandre Esner or René, born in April 1823; Joséphine in April 1825 but died at age 2 1/2 in August 1827; Caroline baptized, age 2 months, March 1827; Émile born in July 1828; Sosthène baptized, age 2 months, in October 1830; Cléonise baptized at age 4 months in May 1833; Treville born in March 1835 but died at age 2 1/2 (the priest said 7) in October 1837; Jule or Jules, perhaps also called Jules René, baptized at age 2 months in July 1837; and Robert, perhaps also called Robert René, born in April 1840--13 children, eight sons and five daughters, between 1815 and 1840.  Daughters ... married into the Mire, O'Connor, and Simon families by 1870.  Three of Éloi's sons also married by then.

Third son Alexandre Esner or René married Marie Louise Guchet, Guchette, or Huchet in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in March 1842.  Their children, born near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, included François in March 1848; Donat in May 1850; Pierre in October 1853; Julia in June 1855; Oliva in December 1857; Alexandre, fils baptized at age 5 months in July 1866; ...  None of Alexandre Esner's children married by 1870. 

Éloi dit Petit René, père's seventh son Jules, called Jules Bonnet and Jules René by area priests, may have married Mélasie Young, perhaps a fellow Acadian descended from a Lejeune, place and date unrecorded.  Their children, born near Creole, then in Calcasieu but now in Cameron Parish, included Joséphine in January 1858; Camillien in May 1860; ... 

Éloi dit Petit René, père's eighth and youngest son Robert, called Robert René by area priests, may have married Irène Young, perhaps a fellow Acadian descended from a Lejeune, place and date unrecorded.  Their son Joseph Numa was born near Abbeville in February 1868; ... 

René's fourth and youngest son Édouard dit Petit René, by second wife Anne Godin, married cousin Delphine, Séraphine, Séraphie, Zéraphine, or Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Raphaël Broussard and Marguerite LeBlanc of Fausse Pointe and widow of Paulin Ardoin, at the St. Martinville church in February 1820.  The settled at Côte Gelée on the prairies and at Île aux Cannes south of New Iberia.  Their children, born there, included Joséphine in January 1821; a son, name unrecorded, died at his paternal grandfather's home at Fausse Pointe nine days after his birth in January 1823; Carmélite born in March 1824; René le jeune in April 1826; a child, age unrecorded, died at age 15 days in December 1826; Aurelia born in October 1827; Raphaël in March 1828; Marcellite in August 1829; Amélie in June 1831; Léo in April 1833; Frédéric in February 1835; Orelien or Aurelien in October 1838; Derosin or Drosin in December 1840; and Dennis in December 1845--14 children, at least five daughters and eight sons, between 1821 and 1845.  Daughters ... married into the Dooly, LeBlanc, and Waggoner families by 1870.  Four of Édouard's sons also married by then. 

Second son René le jeune married Élisabeth or Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Sonnier and Adélaïde LeBlanc, in a civil ceremony in St. Mary Parish in December 1844, and sanctified the marriage at the New Iberia church in April 1847.  Their chlidren, born near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, included Marie Adélaïde in December 1846; Aspasie in August 1847; Alexis in April 1850; Hippolyte in January 1851[sic]; and Edvelie in May 1855--five children, three daughters and two sons, between 1846 and 1855.  None of René le jeune's children married by 1870. 

Édouard dit Petit René's fourth son Léo, at age 36, married Azélia dite Zélie, daughter of Jean Simon and his Acadian wife Célestin Granger and widow of Marie[sic] Miller, at the Church Point church, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in August 1868; they may have married civilly years before they sanctified the marriage.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Édouard in December 1864; Marie Belzire in January 1857; Joseph "at Rre. Mentau[sic]," that is, the Mermentau River, in September 1867; ... 

Édouard dit Petit René's fifth son Frédéric married Lisemène or Isemène, daughter of French Canadian Louis LeBlanc, also called Oblanc, and his Acadian wife Anastasie LeBlanc, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in January 1856, and sanctified the marriage at the Church Point church in August 1868.  They lived near New Iberia before moving back to the St. Landry prairies.  Their children, born there, included Clémence near New Iberia in November 1857; Angèle in September 1859; Célima in May 1861; Louis near Church Point in January 1867; ... 

Édouard dit Petit René's sixth son Aurelien married Lareine, daughter of fellow Acadians Godefroi Landry, fils and Virginie Landry, at the Church Point church in September 1869. ...

Petit Jos's fourth and youngest son Éloi dit Petit Jos, also called Édouard, from second wife Marguerite Savoie, married cousin Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Anselme Thibodeaux and his first wife Marguerite Melançon, at Attakapas in July 1800; they had to secure "a dispensation from the impediment of relationship" in order to marry.  They settled on the lower Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included Ozite, also called Dosité and François, in March 1802; Hilaire in September 1803; Émilie or Amélie dite Mélite in August 1805; Euphémie in October 1807; Désiré in October 1809; a son, name unrecorded, died 12 days after his birth in June 1810; Marie Coralie born in February 1812; Lazare or Laizan in December 1813; Anastasie in February 1816; Marguerite Laure in May 1818 but, called Marguerite, died at age 2 in July 1820; and Joséphine born in April 1820--11 children, five sons and six daughters, between 1802 and 1820.  Éloi dit Petit Jos died in Lafayette Parish in September 1823, age 43.  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following January.  Daughters Mélite, Marie Coralie, Anastasie, and Joséphine married into the Broussard and Boudreaux families, two of them, Mélite and Marie Coralie, to fellow Broussards, and two of them, Anastasie and Joséphine, to Boudreaux brothers.  Four of Éloi dit Petit Jos's sons also married and settled on the prairies. 

Oldest son Dosité married double cousin Claire or Clarisse, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Thibodeaux and Pélagie Broussard of Vermilion, at the St. Martinville church in May 1822.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Hilaire, also called Hilaire Dosité and perhaps Isidore, in March 1823; Marie Oliva, called Olivia, in 1824 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 11 months, in September 1825; a son, name unrecorded, died at age 7 months in October 1827; Auriss, a son, baptized at age 4 months in November 1828 but, called Orisse, died at age 4 in August 1832; a child, name unrecorded, died at age 11 days in September 1830; Élize baptized at 2 months in May 1832; Désiré, also called Désiré Dosité, baptized at age 2 months in June 1835; Marguerite Émilie Dosithée born in August 1837; and Joseph, also called Joseph Dosité, in 1839 and baptized at age 3 months in February 1840--nine children, at least five sons and three daughters, between 1823 and 1839.  Dosithée, as the Vermilionville priest called him, died in Lafayette Parish in January 1841, age 38 (the recording priest said 40).  His succession, calling him Dosité, his wife Laclaire Thibodeaux, and listing his six remaining children, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in March.  Daughters Oliva and Marguerite Émilie Dosithée married into the Broussard and De Perrodil families by 1870.  Dosité's three remaining sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Hilaire Dosité, at age 19, married Céleste, also called Thérèse, 16-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Trahan and Marie Louise LeBlanc, at the Vermilionville church in October 1842.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Ursule in October 1843; Carmélite in June 1846; Eraste, perhaps theirs, near Abbeville in February 1854; and Céleste in March 1855.  Wife Céleste died near Abbeville in June 1856.  The priest who recorded the burial said she died "at age 35 yrs.," but she probably was closer to 30.  Hilaire Dosité, at age 37, evidently remarried to Joséphine Reaux at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in November 1860; the priest who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names or mention Hilaire's first wife.  His and Joséphine's children, born near Abbeville, included Fraire in August 1861; Euphémie in November 1862; Emard in August 1864; Albert in May 1866; Joseph in January 1870 but died in February; ...   Daughters Ursule and Carmélite, by his first wife, married into the Langlinais and Broussard families by 1870.  None of Hilaire Dosité's sons married by then. 

Dosité's fourth son Désiré Dosité married double cousin Émelia V., daughter of fellow Acadians Onésime Valéry Broussard and Carmélite Thibodeaux, at the Vermilionville church in October 1857.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Désiré, fils in September 1858; Lucien in April 1869; ... 

Dosité's fifth and youngest son Joseph Dosité married cousin Marie Laurenza, daughter of fellow Acadians Don Louis Auguste Broussard and Marie Virginie Boudreaux, at the Vermilionville church in May 1860.  They settled near Abbeville.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Demas in February 1861; Ademar or Edmar in July 1866 but died at age 4 in August 1870; Marc born in March 1868; ... 

Éloi dit Petit Jos's second son Hilaire married double cousin Anne Azélie, called Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadians Isidore Broussard and Isabelle Thibodeau, at the Vermilionville church in September 1825.  Their daughter Laure was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 1/2 months, in September 1826 but died at age 1 in July 1827.  Wife Azélie died in Lafayette Parish in September 1827, age 18.  Hilaire remarried to double cousin Anastasie or Aspasie, daughter of "Grand Isidore" Broussard and Marie Broussard, at the Vermilionville church in July 1829.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Éloi le jeune in late 1830 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 7 months, in May 1831; Prospere or Prosper baptized at age 3 weeks in August 1833; Aurelia baptized at age 7 weeks in July 1836; Simon or Siméon baptized at age 34 days in October 1838; Désiré le jeune born in February 1841; Marie Azéna in the 1840s; Dermas in December 1848; Alexandre in August 1851; and Euphémie Belzire in July 1854--10 children, four daughters and six sons, by two wives, between 1826 and 1854.  Hilaire's succession, naming his second wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in December 1865.  He would have been age 62 that year.  Daughter Marie Azéna, by his second wife, married into the Bonnemaison family by 1870.  Three of Hilaire's sons also married by then.

Second son Prosper, by second wife Anastasie Broussard, married cousin Marie Delasca, Deliska, Eliska, or Adeline, daughter of fellow Acadians Ferdinand Trahan and Julie Broussard, at the Vermilionville church in January 1859.  They settled near Youngsville.  Their children, born there, included Anna in December 1859; Isidore in May 1862; twins Alcée and Alcide in March 1870;  ...

Hilaire's third son Simon or Siméon, by second wife Anastasie Broussard, married cousin Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Hilaire Dosité Broussard, his first cousin, and Céleste Trahan, "at l'Église St.-Étienne of Roy-Ville," that is, St. Étienne church at Royville, now St. Anne of Youngsville, Lafayette Parish, in September 1865.  Their son Siméon, fils was born near Youngsville in February 1868; ... 

Hilaire's fourth son Désiré le jeune, by second wife Anastasie Broussard, married Clarisse, daughter of Duc Bonin and his Acadian wife Marie Aurelie Comeaux, at the Vermilionville church in February 1862.  They settled near Youngsville.  Their children, born there, included Ulysse in December 1862; Aurelia in February 1864; Aristide in August 1866; Joseph Dué in November 1867; ... 

Éloi dit Petit Jos's third son Désiré married Marie Azélie, Amélie, Arelie, or Orelie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Boudreaux and Marguerite Mouton, at the Vermilionville church in February 1834.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Florestan baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 4 months, in April 1835 but died at age 2 1/2 in March 1837; Azelma baptized at age 2 months in May 1837; Margarite Odile born in March 1839; Jean Dergus in March 1841; Aséma in April 1843; Adélaïde in c1847 and baptized at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, age 8, in May 1855; Egnest, perhaps Ernest, born in 1851; Éloi le jeune in 1853; and Rosalie baptized at the Abbeville church, age unrecorded, "prior to 1854"--nine children, four sons and five daughters, between 1835 and 1853.  Désiré may have died near Abbeville in September 1869.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Désiré C., as he called him, died "at age 58 yrs."  This Désiré would have been a month shy of age 60.  Daughters ... married into the Duhon, Kibbe, Langlinais, and Nunez families by 1870.  None of Désiré's sons married by then. 

Éloi dit Petit Jos's fifth and youngest son Lazare married Uranie, also called Susanie, daughter of fellow Acadians Ursin Hébert and Marguerite Richard, at the Vermilionville church in February 1835.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Lazare Levasquey baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in April 1836; Marguerite baptized at age 5 months in August 1838; and Rémis or Rémi born in October 1839--three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1836 and 1839.  Daughter Marguerite married into the Dartes family by 1870.  One of Lazare's sons also married by then.

Older son Lazare Levasquey married Marie Élizabeth, called Élizabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Boudreaux and Marie Sylvanie Bourg, at the Vermilionville church in July 1859.  Their children, born near Abbeville, included Rémi le jeune in August 1862; Adam in October 1866; ... 

Joseph's third son Raphaël married Rose, daughter of René LeBlanc and Anne Thériot, either on the Petitcoudiac or in exile in c1755.  According to Stephen White, Raphaël and Rose had a son, Joseph le jeune, born in c1756, and a daughter, Françoise, in c1757, but they evidently died in exile, probably at Miramichi.  Raphaël probably participated in the Acadian resistance with his father and brothers and died either during the resistance or in a prison compound in Nova Scotia before the family left Halifax for Louisiana in late 1764.  Widow Rose did not remarry.  With a younger brother in tow, she followed her in-laws to Louisiana, but she did not go with them to lower Bayou Teche in the spring of 1765.  She remained, instead, at New Orleans, where she was admitted to the novitiate of the Ursuline Order in August 1765.  Known as "Louisiana's first Acadian religious," she took the name Sister Sainte-Monique and died of smallpox at New Orleans in February 1773, age 38.

Joseph's fourth son Timothée-Athanase, called Athanase, followed his family into exile, perhaps served with his father and brothers in the Acadian resistance, and followed them into a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Athanase married Anne-Marie, daughter of Paul Bourgeois and Marie-Josèphe Brun, probably at Halifax in the early 1760s.  Daughter Élisabeth or Isabelle was born in the prison compound at Halifax soon after their marriage.  Athanase, wife Anne-Marie, and daughter Élisabeth followed his family from Halifax to Louisiana via Cap-Français in 1764-65.  Wife Anne-Marie was pregnant on the long voyage.  Daughter Marie was born either aboard ship or at New Orleans soon after they reached the colony in late February 1765.  They followed his family to lower Bayou Teche that spring.  After his father died in the Tech valley epidemic, Athanase and Anne settled on Bayou Tortue on the prairie east of the Teche, where a Spanish official counted them in April 1766.  They had no more children in the colony.  Athanase, and perhaps Anne-Marie as well, died at Attakapas by September 1769, when a daughter was listed in an Attakapas census as an orphan.  Daughters Élisabeth/Isabelle and Marie married into the LeBlanc, Godin dit Bellefontaine, and Melançon families.  Isabelle remained on the prairies, but Marie grew up with relatives at Cabahannocer on the Acadian Coast and settled there.  Except for its blood, then, this line of the family did not endure in the Bayou State. 

Joseph's fifth son François, a twin of his sister Françoise, followed his family into exile but likely was too young to have joined his father, uncles, and older brothers in the Acadian resistance.  François followed his family into a prison compound in Nova Scotia, to New Orleans, and lower Bayou Teche.  At age 23, he married fellow Acadian Pélagie Landry at Attakapas in c1769.  Pélage was a native of Pigiguit and had come to Louisiana from Maryland in September 1766.  They settled on the lower Vermilion River, where François served as a syndic.  Their children, born there, included Odilon or Olidon dit Beausoleil, in January 1771; Théophile in March 1773; Jean-François baptized, age unrecorded, in May 1776; Joseph le jeune born in May 1777; Isidore in c1778; François, fils in January 1779; and Pélagie in April 1782--seven children, six sons and a daughter, between 1771 and 1782.  François died at his home on the Vermilion in May 1819.  The priest who recorded the burial said that François died "at age about 78 years."  He was closer to 73.  Daughter Pélagie married into the Thibodeaux, Meaux, and Duhon families.  Five of François's sons married and settled in what became Lafayette Parish. 

Oldest son Odilon or Olidon dit Beausoleil, at age 19, married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Bernard and Marie Guilbeau, at Attakapas in February 1790.  They settled on the Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included Jean-Olidon in c1790; Lydia or Elisa, also called Adélaïde, in January 1792; François le jeune in c1794 and baptized, age 1, in April 1795 but died at age 3 1/2 in November 1797; twins Domitille and Marie baptized, age 2 months, in September 1796, but Domitille died at age 3 in December 1799; Anastasie born in February 1798 but died at age 13 1/2 (the recording priest said 15) in August 1811; twins Anne and Joseph Ursin Olidon, called Joseph Ursin and Ursin, born in February 1800, but Anne died at age 3 1/2 in October 1803; Onésime Olidon born in March 1804; Carmélite, perhaps also called Scholastique, in May 1808; Louis, also called Don Louis Olidon, in July 1811; Alfred in March 1813; Anne Tarsille in April 1818; and a daughter, perhaps theirs, name unrecorded, in c1821 but died at age 2 in January 1823--13 or 14 children, six sons and seven or eight daughters, including two sets of twins, between 1790 and 1821.  In September 1824, Olidon purchased from Jean Mouton dit Chapeau lot number 140 at Vermilionville, now the city of Lafayette; a lot in the new village cost $150.00 at the time.  Olidon died in Lafayette Parish in October 1827.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Olidon was age 58 when he died.  He was 56.  His succession, naming his wife and heirs--Jean O., Ursin, Onésime, Adélaïde and her deceased husband, Marie and her husband, and Carmélite and her husband, that is, his married children--was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following January.  His widow's succession, calling her Ann Bernard, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in March 1832.  She did not remarry.  Daughters Adélaïde, Marie, Carmélite/Scholastique, and Anne Tarsille married into the Duhon, Mire, Prejean, Thibodeaux, and Hébert families, one of them twice.  Four of Olidon's sons also married and settled on the prairies.

Oldest son Jean Olidon married Marie Victoire or Victorine, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Dominique Babineaux and Marguerite Blandine Thibodeaux of Carencro, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in August 1809.  They settled on the upper Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included Marie Adeline in December 1809; Anne Cidalise in March 1812; twins Marguerite Azélie or Zélie and Ursin Lessin, also called Ursin Jean Olidon, in February 1814; a son, name unrecorded, died at his parents' home on the Vermilion two days after his birth in February 1816[sic]; Aspasie born in March 1816[sic; perhaps 1817]; Dom Louis, also called Don Louis, M. Don Louis, Don Louis O., and Don Louis Jean Olidon, in January 1818; Victoire in August 1819 but died at age 11 in October 1830; a daughter, perhaps theirs, name unrecorded, born in c1821 but died at age 2 in January 1823; Jean Lydon, probably Jean Olidon, fils, born in September 1821; Lessin Jean Olidon in c1823; Elisa in January 1824 but may have died in St. Martin Parish, at age 37 (the recording priest said 38), in January 1861; Mélanie baptized at age 2 1/2 months in April 1826; twins Aurelia, also called Marie Aurelia, and Aurelien born in April 1828; Neuville in March 1830[sic]; Dupréville in August 1830[sic]; and Carmélite in May 1832 but died at age 3 1/2 in October 1835--18 children, 10 daughters and eight sons, including two sets of twins, between 1809 and 1832.  Jean Olidon, père died probably on the upper Vermilion in November 1840.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said that Jean died "at age 53 years."  He probably was closer to 50.  His succession, naming his wife, who did not remarry, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in November 1844.  Daughters Marie Adeline, Anne Cidalise, Marguerite Azélie, Aspasie, Mélanie, and Aurelia married into the LeBlanc, Broussard, Dugas, and Landry families, three of them to Broussard cousins.  Seven of Jean Olidon's sons also married and settled on the prairies, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Ursin Jean Olidon, a twin, married cousin Marie Eurasie or Erasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Isidore Broussard and his second wife Adélaïde Prejean, at the Vermilionville church in June 1833.  They settled near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Duplaissin, Duplessin, or Duplessis in July 1834; Marie Urazi or Euranie baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 4 months, in July 1836; Marie Eugénie, called Eugénie, born in December 1837; Jules in October 1840; Pélagie in November 1842; Marie Elzina in January 1850; a child, name and age unrecorded, died in Lafayette Parish in February 1855; and another child, perhaps theirs, name and age unrecorded, died in Lafayette Parish in August 1856--eight children, at least two sons and four daughters, between 1834 and 1856.  Daughters Marie Euranie and Marie Eugénie married into the Comeaux family by 1870.  Jean Olidon's sons also married by then and settled on the prairie.

Older son Duplessin married Clémence, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Chevalier Thibodeaux and Clémence Bourg and widow of Placide Broussard, at the Vermilionville church in January 1860.  Their son Joseph Cemar was born in Lafayette Parish in April 1861.  Duplessin died in Lafayette Parish in July 1865, age 31 (the recording priest said 30).  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in March 1866.  One wonders if his death was war-related.

 Ursin Jean Olidon's younger son Jules married Marie Elisadie, Elizadie, Elizalde, Elizeldi, or Lysadie, daughter of Duc Bonin and his Acadian wife Marie Aurelia Comeaux, at the Vermilionville church in January 1861.  They settled near Youngsville.  Their children, born there, included Augustin in October 1861 but died at age 1 in December 1862; Léonard born in March 1866; François Derbes in December 1869; ... 

Jean Olidon's third son Don Louis Jean Olidon married cousin Eméranthe or Méranthe Virginie, also called Marie Virginie and Virginie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Broussard and Susanne Boudreaux, at the Vermilionville church in March 1837.  They settled near Carencro before moving to Vermilion Parish, farther out on the prairie.  Their children, born there, included Eugénie baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 1 month, in May 1838; Alexandre baptized at age 2 1/2 months in April 1840; Joseph born in September 1843; Basile in January 1844; Marie Sylvanie in January 1847 but, called a "child," name unrecorded, may have died in Lafayette Parish at age 3[sic] months in August 1847; Marie Zéna born in May 1849; Marie Louisa near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in January 1851; Odèïde in October 1852; Suzanne Isabella inn October 1854; Brigitte in October 1857; Irène in July 1862; ...  Daughter ... married a Broussard cousin by 1870.  None of Don Louis Jean Olidon's sons married by then, if they married at all.  

Jean Olidon's fourth son Jean Olidon, fils married Marie Joséphine, called Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadians André Prejean and Joséphine Breaux, at the Vermilionville church in May 1840.  They settled near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Marie Féliciana, likely theirs, baptized at age 6 weeks in April 1841; Joseph St. Maurice born in December 1842; Marguerite Fanelie in October 1845; another Joseph in February 1847; Marie Émilie, called Émilie, in October 1848 but, called Émilie, died at age 16 1/2 (the recording priest said 17) in April 1865; André Olidon born in March 1850; Marie Emetilde in June 1852; Jules le jeune in May 1854; Joseph Demas in October 1855; Pierre Ambroise in April 1857 but died at age 8 in March 1865; Marie Julia born in August 1860; ...  Jean Olidon, fils died in Lafayette Parish in March 1865.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names, said that Jean Lydon, as he called him (the same name used in his baptismal record), died "at age 43 yrs.," so this was him.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Jean Olidon's fifth son Lessin Jean Olidon married cousin Mélasie, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Richard and Adélaïde Babineaux, at the Vermilionville church in September 1842.  They settled near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included twins Marie Azéma and Marie Zélima in November 1845; and Marie Evellina in April 1849.  A succession for wife Mélasie, probably post-mortem, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in August 1850.  Lessin remarried to Uranie, also called Mélanie, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Guilbeau and Azélie Bernard and widow of Edmond Babineaux, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in November 1855.  They probably remained at Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Jean Edmond in August 1856; Joseph Adrien in January 1858; Jean Théophile in August 1861; ...  Daughters ..., by his first wife, married into the Benoit and Dugas families by 1870.  None of Lessin Jean Olidon's sons married by then. 

Jean Olidon's sixth son Aurelien evidently married cousin Euphémie Broussard, place and date unrecorded, but it likely was in the late 40s in Lafayette Parish.  Her succession, which called her husband Aurelien Jean Olidon and gave no hint of her parentage, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in August 1849.  She evidently gave him no children.  Aurelien, at age 24, married, or remarried to, Marie Euméa, called Euméa, daughter of Portalis Castille and Marie Carmélite Castille, at the Grand Coteau church in December 1852.  They settled probably near Carencro (the civil record of their marriage was recorded at Opelousas, not Vermilionville).  Their children, born on the prairies, included Marie Euphémie in December 1853; Marie Letitia in March 1856; Jean Alcide in May 1859; Joseph Esdros, perhaps Esdras, in August 1864; Pierre Saul in May 1867; Jules Philibert in November 1869; ... 

Jean Olidon's seventh son Neuville married cousin Émelie or Amélie, another daughter of Louis Richard and Adélaïde Babineaux, at the Vermilionville church in June 1858.  They settled probably near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Alcée in March 1859; Jean Aristide in November 1860 but, called Aristide Jean, died at age 3 (the recording priest said 5) in November 1863; Ernest born in September 1862; ... 

Jean Olidon's eighth and youngest son Dupréville married Marcellite Hélène, called Hélène, daughter of fellow Acadians Lazare Bercy Arceneaux and Hortense Bourgeois, at the Vermilionville church in January 1860.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Marie Philomène in November 1860 but, called Philomène, died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 2) in August 1862; Anne Idea born in October 1862; and Hortance Clara in July 1865--three children, all daughters, between 1860 and 1865.  Dupréville died in Lafayette Parish in March 1866.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Dupréville died "at age 29 yrs."  His succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following November.  Did he father any sons? 

Olidon's third son Joseph Ursin Olidon, called Joseph Ursin and Ursin, married cousin Émetille, Amélie, Mélite, or Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Éloi Broussard and Marguerite Thibodeaux of Vermilion, at the St. Martinville church in June 1821.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Joseph Ursin, fils, also called Ursin and Ursin O., in January 1823; Joséphine probably in the early 1820s; and Désiré baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 3 months, 6 days, in May 1831--three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1823 and 1831.  Wife Amélie died in Lafayette Parish in September 1843, age 40.  Daughter Joséphine married into the Forman family by 1870.  One of Joseph Urbin's sons also married by then and settled on the prairies.

Older son Joseph Ursin, fils married Aspasie, also called Anastasie, 21-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Onésime Trahan and his Creole wife Carmélite Angèle Blanchet, at the Vermilionville church in December 1844.  Their children, born near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, included Angélique Émelie in October 1845; Angèle Émelia in May 1847; Joseph Alcide in June 1849; Marcellin Cléophat in June 1851; Jean Cléomer in March 1853; Marie Ursule in May 1855; a child, perhaps theirs, name and age unrecorded, died in Lafayette Parish in August 1856; Pierre Numas born in February 1857; Perpétué J. in March 1859 but, called Perpétué Joséphine, died three days after her birth; Désiré Horace born in February 1861; Hidelbert Clairville in May 1862; Lucien Ursin in August 1864; ...  Daughter ... married a Broussard cousin by 1870.  One of Joseph Ursin, fils's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Joseph Alcide married Euphémie, daughter of fellow Acadian Benjamin LeBlanc and his Creole wife Célima Dupré, at the Abbeville church in June 1867. ...

Olidon's fourth son Onésime Olidon married Marie Uranie, called Uranie and also Susanne M., daughter of fellow Acadians Agricole Landry and Christine Labauve of Vermilion, at the St. Martinville church in April 1820.  They settled on the Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included Marie Zélie in May 1821; Carmélite in May 1823; Adeline, also called Marie Adeline, in January 1825; Zelmire in February 1827 but, called Marie Zelmire, with the note "She was found drowned", died at age 7 (the recording priest said 6) in April 1834; Désiré baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in December 1828; Olidon le jeune baptized at age 1 month, 12 days, in October 1830; Jule or Jules born in March 1832 but died at age 13 months in May 1833; Valérien, also called Valérien Olidon, born in October 1833; Christine in July 1836; and Euphémie in January 1839--10 children, six daughters and four sons, between 1821 and 1839.  Onésime Olidon died near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in September 1854.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Onézime Olidon died "at age 54 yrs."  He was 50.  Daughters Carmélite, Marie Adeline, and Christine married into the Duhon, Dartes, and Stutes families by 1870.  One of Onésime Olidon's remaining sons also married by then. 

Fourth and youngest son Valérien Olidon married Marie Orea, Osea, or Ozeah, daughter of fellow Acadians Placide Duhon and Marie Doralie Duhon, at the Abbeville church in February 1854.  Their children, born near Abbeville, included Valérien Luma in October 1854; Pierre Demas in May 1856; Azéma in February 1861; Idalie in May 1863; Placide in July 1867; ...  None of Valérien's children married by 1870. 

Olidon's fifth son Don Louis Olidon married Claire or Laclaire, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Firmin Duhon and Marguerite Bourg, at the Vermilionville church in April 1831.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Eugène baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 7 days, in September 1832 but died the following December; Théodule, also called Théodule Olidon and Théodore, born in late 1833 and baptized at age 3 months in January 1834; Azelica baptized at age 3 months in March 1837; Louis, fils baptized at age 5 months in May 1840; Philomène born in March 1844; Onésime le jeune in September 1846; a child, perhaps theirs, name unrecorded, died in Lafayette Parish at age 3 months in August 1847; Joseph Eraste born in January 1849; Victor in April 1851; and Clara posthumously in December 1853--10 children, at least six sons and three daughters, between 1832 and 1853.  Don Louis Olidon died in Lafayette Parish in September 1853.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Don Louis Alidore, as he called him, died "at age 66 yrs."  This Don Louis would have been only 42.  Hs succession, calling him Don Louis Olidon and his wife Laetani Duhon, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in February 1854.  Daughters ... married into the Herpin and Sellers families by 1870.  Three of Don Louis Olidon's sons also married by then.

Second son Théodule Olidon married Azéma, daughter of fellow Acadian Alexis Vincent and his Creole wife Marie Elgantine Monceaux, at the Vermilionville church in September 1852.  They settled near Youngsville, Lafayette Parish.  Their children, born there, included Numa in October 1855; Marie Ophelia in September 1857; Onesia in May 1861; Théodule, fils in September 1864; Théobod O., perhaps Olidon, in November 1866; ...  None of Théodule Olidon's children married by 1870. 

Don Louis Olidon's fourth son Onésime le jeune married Auriska, Orizea, or Orinea, daughter of fellow Acadians Euclide Bourg and Sidalise Boudreaux, at the Youngsville church in February 1868.  Their son Louis was born near Youngsville in December 1868; ... 

Don Louis Olidon's sixth and youngest son Victor married Azémie, daughter of fellow Acadians Bélonie Boudreaux and Eugénie Trahan, at the Youngsville church in December 1867.  Their son O'Neil was born near Youngsville in July 1870; ... 

Olidon's sixth and youngest son Alfred married Myra Eastin in Lafayette Parish in the early 1830s.  Their daughter, name unrecorded, died a day after her birth in July 1833.  Did Alfred father any sons? 

François's second son Théophile married cousin Victoire, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand Landry and Marguerite Melançon, at Attakapas in January 1796.  They settled at Côte Gelée.  Their children, born there, included Marie-Emérante in May 1798; Pierre-Onésime, called Onésime, in June 1800; Édouard in February 1802; Adélaïde in December 1805; and Arvillien in December 1807 but died at age 3 in September 1810.  A succession in Théophile's name was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in July 1812; it was not post-mortem.  Théophile remarried to Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians René LeBlanc and Marguerite Trahan of Vermilion and widow of Charles Melançon, at the St. Martinville church in July 1812, several weeks after his succession was filed.  He and Adélaïde settled on the Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included Théogène in June 1813; François Bélisaire in August 1814 but died at age 15 in October 1829; Rosalie Evelina or Élina born in September 1816; Edmond, also called Edmond Théophile, in September 1818; Eugène in November 1820 but died at age 11 in October 1831; and Arthémise, also called Marie Arthemise, born in September 1823--11 children, four daughters and seven sons, by two wives, between 1798 and 1823.  Théophile died in Lafayette Parish in August 1824.  The recording priest from Grand Coteau said he died "at age about 53 yrs."  He was 51.  His succession, mentioning his second wife and listing his children--Pierre, Onésime, Édouard, Mary Mérante, and Adélaïde from his first marriage; and Théogène, François Bélisaire, Rosalie, Edmond, Eugène, and Arthémise from his second marriage--was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in September 1824.  Daughters Adélaïde, Rosalie Élina, and Arthémise, by both wives, married into the Landry, Bouquet, and Mollère families.  Four of Théophile's sons also married and settled on the prairies. 

Oldest son Pierre Onésime, called Onésime, from first wife Victoire Landry, married, at age 21, Scholastique, 15-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph dit Gros Duhon and Scholastique Hébert, at the Grand Coteau church in May 1821.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Azéma in December 1822; Émile in February 1825; Zelmire baptized at the Vermilionville church, age perhaps 2 months, in December 1827; Célima baptized at age 3 1/2 months in April 1829 but died at age 1 1/2 in September 1830; Delzane or Delyside, a daughter, born in November 1830; a son, perhaps theirs, in c1832 or 1833 but died at age 2 in February 1835; Ezilda baptized at age 40 days in May 1834; twins Théophile le jeune and Victoire baptized at age 4 months in June 1836; Dorneville born in late 1837 and baptized at age 8 months in May 1838; and Emérante born in April 1840--11 children, seven daughters and four sons, including a set of twins, between 1822 and 1840.  Daughters ... married into the Broussard, Langlinais, and LeBlanc families by 1870.  One of Onésime's sons also married by then. 

Second son Théophile le jeune may have married fellow Acadian Marguerite LeBlanc at the Abbeville church in September 1859.  Daughter Clarisse was born near Abbeville in August 1860; ...

Théophile's second son Édouard Théophile, by first wife Victoire Landry, married double cousin Euphémie Belzire, daughter of perhaps fellow Acadians Éloi Broussard and Marguerite Thibodeaux of the lower Vermilion, probably in Lafayette Parish in the early 1820s.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Sevènne in August 1825; Émilia baptized at the Vermilionville church age 52 days, in August 1829 but died at age 3 1/2 in March 1833; Moïse baptized at age 3 months in May 1831; a son, name unrecorded, died eight days after his birth in October 1832; Clely baptized at age 1 month in June 1834 but died at age 13 months in July 1835; Euphémie baptized at age 2 months in June 1836; Éloy, also called Éloi J., baptized at age 4 months in July 1838; Jules, also called Jules Édouard, born in March 1840; Alcide in December 1841; Féix in the 1840s; Aspasie in January 1844; a son, name unrecorded, died at age 40[sic, probably 4] in March 1848; Cléophas Antoine born in September 1846; and Amelie in November 1848--14 children, 10 sons and four daughters, between 1825 and 1848.  Wife Euphémie's succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in August 1849.  Did she die from the rigors of childbirth?  Édouard Théophile died near Abbeville in October 1867.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Édouard Théophile died "at age 68 yrs."  He was 65.  Daughters ... married into the Broussard and Hébert families by 1870.  Five of Édouard Théophile's sons also married by then.  At least one of them settled in East Texas. 

Oldest son Sevènne married cousin Belzire, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Hébert and Clarise Broussard, at the Vermilionville church in December 1845.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Siméon in Lafayette Parish in October 1846; Albert near Abbeville in May 1865; ... 

Édouard Théophile's second son Moïse married Marie Godric or Godra, daughter of fellow Acadian F. Aurelien Arceneaux and his Anglo-Creole wife Marie Andrus, at the Abbeville church in February 1856.  Daughter Émelie was born near Abbeville in February 1859.  Did Moïse father any sons? 

Édouard Théophile's fifth son Éloi J. married Marie Azéma, called Azéma, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Hébert and his Anglo-Creole wife Mélanie Andrus "of Jefferson county, Texas," at the Abbeville church in April 1866; Éloi J.'s sister Émilie married Azéma's brother Joseph Martin.  Éloi J. and Azéma settled at Beaumont in Jefferson County, Texas.  Their son Joseph Éloi was born there in December 1866; ...  Éloi J. died young, and wife Azéma remarried to a Hamshire at Beaumont. 

Son Joseph Eloi grew up on his stepfather's ranch near Hamshire, Texas, and was educated in an academy at Galveston.  When he came of age, Joseph Eloi worked with cattle and became a postal rider in his native Jefferson County.  In 1885, at age 19, he was named postmaster of a new post office in what he called La Belle, Texas, named after his fiancée.  At age 23, he married Mary Belle, daughter of Philippe Bordages, a French-immigrant farmer and merchant, and Ellen Elliott, at Beaumont in 1889.  Mary Belle gave him nine children there.  In the early 1890s, Joseph Eloi became "a pioneer rice grower and miller in southeast Texas...."  He also established an irrigation company to expand the production of rice in the area.  By the early 1900s, in fact, his efforts, helped establish southeast Texas as a major rice producing region, second only to his father's native South Louisiana.  Joseph Eloi also raised cattle and engaged in the lumber business, other important economic pursuits in the Beaumont region.  Pope Pius XI knighted him as an "exemplary Catholic" in 1938.  In 1950, when Joseph Eloi was age 84, the International Rice Festival at Crowley, Acadia Parish, Louisiana, was dedicated to him.  He died at Beaumont in 1956, age 90.  His sons and grandsons continued the family's rice business in the area. 

Édouard Théophile's sixth son Jules Édouard married Élodie, daughter of Adrien Nunez and his Acadian wife Olive Guidry, at the Abbeville church in January 1867. ...

Édouard Théophile's eighth son Félix married Palmyre, another daughter of Adrien Nunez and Olive Guidry, at the Abbeville church in October 1870. ...

Théophile's fourth son Théogène, by second wife Adélaïde LeBlanc, married cousin Madeleine Uranie or Uranie Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Isidore Simon dit "Grand Isidore" Broussard and Marie Broussard, at the Vermilionville church in June 1832.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Élima in 1833 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 8 months, in April 1834; Émilia baptized at age 2 months in August 1835; Cléophae, probably a daughter, baptized at age 2 months in June 1837; Eugène baptized at age 3 months in May 1839; René in April 1844; Marie Aurelie in May 1846; and Drausin or Drosin near New Iberia in June 1848--seven children, four daughters and three sons, between 1833 and 1848.  Daughter ... married into the Miller family by 1870.  None of Théogene's sons married by then. 

Théophile's sixth son Edmond Théophile, by second wife Adélaïde LeBlanc, married cousin Marguerite Zéolide, 19-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Édouard Prejean and Marie Broussard, at the Vermilionville church in January 1843.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish and near Abbeville, included Euphémie in October 1843; Marie Pamela in November 1844; Annonciade in July 1848; Edmond Collins in November 1856; Armesille in May 1859; Édouard Bélisaire in September 1861; Théophile le jeune in October 1869; ...  Daughters ... married into the Abshire and Hébert families by 1870.  None of Edmond Théophile's sons married by then. 

François's third son Jean-François, called Jean, married cousin Gertrude, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand Thibodeaux and Gertrude Bourg, at Attakapas in September 1798.  They settled at Pont du Vermilion or Pin Hook Bridge south of present-day Lafayette.  Their children, born there, included Christine in August 1799 but died at age 2 in November 1802; Gertrude born in January 1802; Carmélite in January 1805; Jean Treville, called Treville, in November 1806; Éloi, also called Éloi Jean, in November 1808; and Don Louis, also called Don Louis Jean Baptiste and Don Louis Jean François in the early 1810s.  Jean François remarried to double cousin Hortense, daughter of fellow Acadians Augustin Broussard and Anne Landry of Vermilion and widow of Pierre Simon LeBlanc, at the St. Martinville church in June 1813.  They remained on the Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included François le jeune in March 1814; Hortense in July 1815; Édouard, also called Édouard Gilles, Édouard Jean François, and Édouard J. F., in February 1817; Camille, also called Camille Jean François, in May 1818; and Hippolyte in January 1820.  Wife Hortense died at their home on the Vermilion in January 1820, in her late 30s, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth.  Jean François's succession, naming his wife and listing five children, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in May 1820 soon after Hortense's death.  He remarried again--his third marriage--to Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Lucien Bourg and Marie Trahan and widow of Firmin Duhon, at the St. Martinville church in May 1821.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Onésime, also called Onésime dit Cadet, in September 1822; Placide in June 1825; and Louise, also called Éloise, in November 1828--14 children, five daughters and nine sons, by three wives, between 1799 and 1828.  Jean François died in Lafayette Parish in February 1832.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Jean, as he called him, died "at age 58 yrs."  He probably was a few years younger.  His post-mortem succession, which includes the names of his third wife and one of his stepdaughters by his second marriage and her husband, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following month.  Daughters Gertrude, Carmélite, Hortense, and Éloise, by all three wives, married into the Comeaux, Guidry, and Broussard families, including two Guidry brothers.  Eight of Jean François's sons also married, three of them to Broussard sisters, and settled on the prairies, but not all of the lines endured.

Oldest son Jean Treville, called Treville, from first wife Gertrude Thibodeaux, married cousin Anne or Marie Sidalise, called Sidalise, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Olidon Broussard and Marie Victoire Babineaux, at the Vermilionville church in May 1827.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Melia died at age 1 month in August 1829; Éloy or Éloi le jeune born in January 1831; Alexandre, also called Alexandre Treville, in November 1833; Carmélite in September 1835; Treville, fils baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 3 months, in March 1838; Mélasie born in January 1841; Aurelia in February 1843 but may have died "in VP," probably Ville Platte, on the St. Landry prairie, at age 8 1/2 (the Vermilionville priest who recorded the bural said 8) in March 1852; Jean Eraste born in December 1846 but, called an unnamed child, may have died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 2) in October 1848; and Marie Élodie born posthumously in March 1849--nine children, four daughters and five sons, between 1829 and 1849.  Treville, père died in Lafayette Parish in August 1848.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said that Troisville, as he called him, died "at age 29-30 yrs."  Jean Treville would have been age 41.  His succession, calling him Jean Treville, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in August.  Daughters ... married into the Broussard, Doucet, and Guidry families by 1870.  Two of his sons also married by then. 

Second son Alexandre Treville married cousin Marie Carmélite, called Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joachim Isidore Broussard and Carmélite Comeaux, at the Vermilionville church in July 1852.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Marie Umère in December 1853; Amelia in December 1855; Marie Idalie in October 1857; Marie Élodie in January 1859; Philippe in February 1860; Eraste in November 1862; Marie Esperie in December 1865; ...  Alexandre Treville's succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in November 1866.  He would have been age 33 that year.  Widow Marie Carmélite remarried to Joseph, son of fellow Acadians Joseph Chevalier Thibodeaux and Clémence Bourg and widower of Marie Céleste Broussard, at Vermilionville in October 1870.  None of her and Alexandre Treville's children married by 1870. 

Treville's third son Treville, fils married Adalie or Idalie, daughter of fellow Acadian Onésime Guilbeau and his Creole wife Azélie Castille, at the Vermilionville church in December 1858.  Their son Neville was born in Lafayette Parish in November 1859.  Wife Idalie, called by the recording priest "Mrs. Treville Broussard," died in Lafayette Parish, age 18, in January 1860.  During the War of 1861-65, Treville, fils served in Company A of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, the Lafayette Prairie Boys, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  He survived the war and returned to his family; one wonders if his young son Neville survived the war.  Treville, fils remarried to cousin Félicia or Félicianna, daughter of fellow Acadian Placide Broussard and his Creole wife Félicianne Castille, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in January 1868, and sanctified the marriage at the Vermilionville church the following July.  Their son Erasme, probably Eraste, named probably after Treville, fils's wartime company commander, Captain Eraste Mouton, was born in Lafayette Parish in October 1868; ...  Treville, fils died in 1923, in his late 80s, and is buried next to his second wife in St. John Catholic Cemetery, Lafayette. 

Jean-François's second son Éloi Jean, by first wife Gertrude Thibodeaux, married cousin Aspasie, another daughter of Jean Olidon Broussard and Marie Victoire Babineaux, at the Vermilionville church in August 1833.  Their son Éloi, fils was born posthumously in September 1834.  Éloi, père died "near his house" in Lafayette Parish in April 1834, age 25.  His succession, calling him Éloy Jean and mentioning his widow and her second husband as well as his son Éloy, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in January 1837, nearly three years after his death.  Aspasie, meanwhile, remarried to cousin Édouard Isidore Broussard.  Her and Éloi Jean's son married and settled on the prairies. 

Only son Éloi, fils married cousin Eulalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joachim Isidore Broussard and Carmélite Comeaux, at the Vermilionville church in May 1855.  Their son Éloi III had been born in Lafayette Parish in March 1855, two months before their church wedding.  Éloi, fils may have died in Lafayette Parish in November 1855.  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 20 yrs."  Éloi, fils would have been age 21.  His succession likely was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in July 1856.  His son did not marry before 1870. 

Jean-François's third son Don Louis Jean Baptiste, by first wife Gertrude Thibodeaux, married Marie Duvissa, Deusca, Clarisse, Adorisca, or Lodoiska, daughter of fellow Acadians Moïse Hébert and Marie Louise Richard, at the Vermilionville church in April 1834.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Marie, perhaps also called Marie Azéna, in April 1835; Seven baptized at Vermilionville, age 1 1/2 months, in April 1837 but, called Sèvene, died at age 12 1/2 (the recording priest said 14) in November 1849; Azéna, also called Azéma, baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in April 1839; Alexandre born in April 1839[sic]; Amédée in June 1841, Désiré in May 1843; Nery in St. Martin Parish in May 1845; and Jean le jeune in Lafayette Parish in May 1847 but, called an unnamed child, may have died the following August.  Don Louis Jean Baptiste remarried to cousin Azélia or Amelia, daughter of Zénon Castille and his Acadian wife Carmélite Thibodeaux and widow of Onésime Guilbeau, at the Breaux Bridge church, St. Martin Parish, in December 1848.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Albert in June 1854; Alcide in January 1857; Ida in May 1859; Irma in September 1863; ...  Don Louis Jean Baptiste 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 Don Louis died "at age 50 yrs."  He probably was closer to 55.  His succession, naming his second wife and calling him Don Louis Jean François, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in November.  Daughters Marie Azéna and Azéma, by his first wife, married into the Guidry and Duhon families by 1870.  One of Don Louis Jean Baptiste's sons also married by then.

Second son Alexandre, by first wife Duvissa Hébert, married first cousin Mélasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Treville Broussard and Sidalise Broussard, his uncle and aunt, at the Vermilionville church in January 1860. ...

Jean-François's fourth son François le jeune, by second wife Hortense Broussard, married cousin Joséphine, also called Émilite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Broussard and Susanne Boudreaux, at the Vermilionville church in January 1839.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Jule or Jules baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in February 1840; Marie Anaïse, called Anaïse, baptized, date unrecorded, in September 1841; Martin born in November 1843[sic]; and Azélie in December 1843[sic].  François le jeune remarried to Eugénie, daughter of Charles Simon and his Acadian wife Parosine Leger, at the Vermilionville church in February 1850.  They may have had a daughter named Émelie born soon after her parents' marriage--five children, two sons and three daughters, by two wives, between 1840 and 1850.  François le jeune died in Lafayette Parish in January 1851.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said that François died "at age 35 yrs."  He was 36.  Daughter Émelie, perhaps by his second wife, married into the Thibodeaux family by 1870.  François le jeune's two sons also married by then and settled on the prairies. 

Older son Jules, by first wife Joséphine Broussard, married Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Onésime Duhon and Marguerite Duhon, at the Vermilionville church in November 1860.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Joséphine in August 1861; Jules, fils in December 1862; Hélène in July 1865; François le jeune in June 1866; ... 

François le jeune's younger son Martin, by first wife Joséphine Broussard, married cousin Euphémie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Duhon and Carmélite Broussard, at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in June 1866.  They settled near Youngsville in Lafayette Parish. ...

Jean-François's fifth son Édouard Gilles, by second wife Hortense Broussard, married Marie Éloise, Élouisa, Louise, or Léonie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Zéphirin Doucet and Adeline Breaux, at the Vermilionville church in January 1839.  They settled near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Pierre in June 1840; Amélie in March 1842; Joseph Numa, called Numa, in March 1845; Jean Dupré in January 1848; Isidor or Isidore in August 1849; Félicia in August 1851; Arthur in January 1854 but died at age 11 1/2 (the recording priest said 12) in November 1865; Asélima born in June 1856; Valsaint in May 1858; Adeline in June 1860; Hebrard in January 1866; ...  Daughters ... married into the Duhon and Nunez families by 1870.  One of Édouard Gilles's sons also married by then. 

Second son Numa married Irène, also called Grenee and Frenee, daughter of fellow Acadian Rosémond Boudreaux and his Creole wife Élisabeth Lormand, at the Abbeville church in May 1866.  Their son Euphémon was born near Abbeville in February 1869; ... 

Jean-François's sixth son Camille Jean François, also called "Conicle," from second wife Hortense Broussard, married second cousin Aurelia Amelia, also called Marie Aurelia, daughter of fellow Acadians Édouard Théophile Broussard, his first cousin, and Euphémie Broussard, at the Vermilionville church in October 1841.  They settled on the lower Vermilion near present-day Maurice, Lafayette Parish.  Their children, born there, included Jean Treville le jeune, called Treville le jeune, in December 1842; Marie Clelie in May 1847; Étienne in February 1849 but died at age 1 (the recording priest said 23 years, perhaps meaning 23 months, which was still off) in February 1850; Desma born in October 1851; Philomène in February 1854; Maria in May 1856; Albert in August 1858; Anna in July 1863; ...  None of Camille's daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did.

Oldest son Jean Treville le jeune married Mathilde, daughter of fellow Acadians Valéry Breaux and Anaïs Doucet, at the Abbeville church in April 1866.  They settled probably near Maurice. ...

Jean-François's eighth son Onésime dit Cadet, by third wife Marguerite Bourg, married Marguerite Sidalise, called Sidalise, 17-year-old daughter of Charles Baudoin and his Acadian wife Julie Mouton, at the Vermilionville church in December 1842.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included a son, name unrecorded, in c1843 but died at age 4 in September 1847; and Cyprien born in September 1844.  Onésime's succession, calling him Onésime F. and naming his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in October 1846.  He would have been age 24 that year.  His remaining son did not marry by 1870. 

Jean-François's ninth and youngest son Placide, by third wife Marguerite Bourg, married 15-year-old cousin Marie Aurelia, called Aurelia, yet another daughter of Jean Olidon Broussard and Marie Victorine Babineaux, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in May 1843.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Élodie in June 1845; Amonciade in September 1847; and Philomène baptized at age 1 month in October 1849.  Her mother died in Lafayette Parish in September 1849, "at age over 20 yrs.," probably from the rigors of giving her birth.  Aurelia's succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in October.  Placide remarried to cousin Félicianne, another daughter of Zénon Castille and Carmélite Thibodeaux, at the Vermilionville church in April 1851.  Their daughter Félicianne was born in Lafayette Parish in March 1852.  Placide remarried again--his third marriage--to double cousin Clémence, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Chevalier Thibodeaux and Clémence Bourg, at the Vermilionville church in April 1853.  Their son Odilon, probably Olidon, was born in Lafayette Parish in February 1855--five children, four daughters and a son, by three wives, between 1845 and 1855.  Placide died in Lafayette Parish in January 1858.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Placide died "at age 46."  He was 32.  His succession, which lists all three of his wives, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse a few days after his death.  Daughters ..., by his first and second wives, married into the Breaux, Mouton, and Broussard families by 1870.  Placide's son did not marry by then. 

François's fourth son Joseph le jeune married cousin Marie-Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Thibodeaux and  Rosalie Guilbeau, at Attakapas in January 1799.  They settled on the Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included Marie in February 1800; Doralise in c1801 but died at age 11 in February 1812; Zénon born in July 1802; Léon in July 1804; Clarisse in May 1806; and twins Anne Joséphine and Gédéon Théon in April 1809, but Anne Joséphine died in October.  Joseph le jeune remarried to Susanne dite Susette, daughter of fellow Acadians Donat Boudreaux and Dorothée Comeaux and widow of Salvator Marin Mouton, at the St. Martinville church in November 1812.  They settled on the Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included Marie Uranie in November 1813; Silvanie, a daughter, in October 1815; Joseph Sarasin, called Sarasin, in August 1817; Emérante Virginie in December 1819; Joséphine in March 1822; twins Eugène and Eugénie probably in March 1823; twins François le jeune and Jean baptized at Vermilionville, age 2 months, in April 1826, but both of them died a week apart at age 1 1/2 in October 1827; twins Pélagie and Susanne born in November 1827, but Pélagie died the following January, and Susanne seems to have died at age 12 in February 1839; Euphémie born in December 1829; and Jean, also called Jean Baptiste, in 1833 and baptized, age 7 months, in February 1834--20 children, a dozen daughters and eight sons, including four sets of twins, by two wives, between 1800 and 1833.  A succession for Joseph Broussard married to Marie Thibodeaux was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in October 1820, when this Joseph was still very much alive and married to his second wife, so one wonders if this was Joseph le jeune.  Daughters ..., by both wives, married into the Hébert, Broussard, and Guidry families.  Six of Joseph le jeune's sons also married and settled on the prairies.  

Oldest son Zénon, by first wife Marie Rose Thibodeaux, married, at age 36, Marie Cléonide or Cléonise, daughter of fellow Acadians Hippolyte Savoie and Marie Comeaux, at the Vermilionville church in February 1838.  They settled probably near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Marie Ofilia or Ophelia, called Ophelia, in November 1838; Onésiphore or Onésiphore in September 1840; Marie Edmonia in January 1842; Joseph Hypolite in May 1846 but, called Hippolyte, died at age 6 (the recording priest said 5) in June 1852; and Joseph Edgar born in December 1848--five children, two daughters and three sons, between 1838 and 1848.  Daughter Marie Edmonia married into the Mestayer family by 1870.  None of Zénon's sons married by then. 

Joseph le jeune's second son Léon, by first wife Marie Rose Thibodeaux, married Anastasie, daughter of Olivier Blanchet and Ursule Fastin, at the Vermilionville church in June 1827.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Émilia baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 4 months, in November 1828 but died  at age 4 in September 1832; Léon, fils born in September 1830; Aspasie baptized at age 1 1/2 months in September 1832; and Orisa or Orissa born posthumously in late 1833 and baptized at age 5 months in April 1834--four children, three daughters and a son, between 1828 and 1833.  Léon, père died in Lafayette Parish in September 1833.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said that Léon died "at age 27 yrs."  He was 29.  His succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following February.  None of his children married by 1870, if they married at all. 

Joseph le jeune's third son Gédéon Théon, a twin, by first wife Marie Rose Thibodeaux, married Marie Denise, called Denise, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Firmin Duhon and Marguerite Bourg, at the Vermilionville church in June 1828.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Jean Sosthène, called Sosthène, in December 1829; Eugène le jeune in September 1831 but died at age 17 1/2 in February 1849; and Marguerite baptized at the Vermilionville church posthumously (her mother had died perhaps giving her birth) at age 15 days in August 1833.  A succession for wife Marie Denise was not filed at the Vermilionville courthouse until June 1836, on the eve of Gédéon Théon's remarriage to Marie Carmélite Élisa, Élina, Olina, or Lina, also called Scholastique, daughter of fellow Acadians Éloi Benoit and Eugénie Louvière and widow of Arvillien Broussard, at the Vermilionville church in June 1836.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Virginie in April 1837 but died at age 7 1/2 in July 1844; Eugénie in the late 1830s; Raulin baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 6 months, in July 1839; Marie Amente, called Amente, born in February 1841 but, called Amet, died at age 2 in March 1843; and Marie Monite or Monique, called Monique, born in May 1847--seven children, three sons and four daughters, by two wives, between 1829 and 1847.  Gédéon Théon died in Lafayette Parish in February 1849, age 39 (the recording priest said 40).  Daughters Marguerite, Eugénie, and Monique, by both wives, married into the Broussard, Abadie, and Guchereau families by 1870.  One of Géon Théon's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Sosthène, by first wife Marie Denise Duhon, married Eulalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Émilien Vincent and Marguerite Trahan, at the Vermilionville church in February 1849.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Alexandre in December 1849 but may have died in St. Martin Parish the following September; Félicia born in August 1853; Marie O. in September 1855; Célinie in October 1857; Jean Léon in November 1859; Arcade in June 1862; Marguerite in December 1864 but died in January; ...  None of Sosthène's children married by 1870. 

Joseph le jeune's fourth son Joseph Sarasin, called Sarasin, from second wife Susette Boudreaux, married Véronique, daughter of fellow Acadians Moïse Hébert and Marie Louise Richard, at the Vermilionville church in February 1837.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Joséphine baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 1 1/2 months, in May 1838; Amélie born in December 1839; Marie in October 1841; Lucien in October 1843; Olivier in July 1847; Joseph in February 1850; and Frédéric in April 1854--seven children, three daughters and four sons, between 1838 and 1854.  Daughters ... married into the Broussard, LeBlanc, and Montet families by 1870.  One of Sarasin's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Lucien married Marie Amanda, called Amanda, daughter of Charles Euclide Roy, perhaps a fellow Acadian, and his Acadian wife Belzire Boudreaux, at the Youngsville church, Lafayette Parish, in April 1868.  Their son Charles Euclide was born near Youngsville in January 1869; ... 

Joseph le jeune's fifth son Eugène, by second wife Susette Boudreaux, married double cousin Oliva, daughter of fellow Acadians Dosité Broussard and Claire Thibodeaux, at the Vermilionville church in April 1845.  She evidently gave him no children.  Eugène remarried to cousin Eugénie, daughter of fellow Acadians Martin Don Louis Broussard and Doralise Benoit, at the Vermilionville church in January 1850.  They settled on the lower Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included Emérida in c1850 but died at age 7 in October 1857; Jean le jeune born in October 1841[sic, probably 1851]; Joseph in May 1855; Éloi D. in November 1857; Oliva in April 1860; a daughter, name unrecorded, in late 1862 but died at age 5 months in March 1863; Jean Arthur in January 1868; ...  None of Eugène's children married by 1870. 

Joseph le jeune's seventh and youngest son Jean Baptiste, by second wife Susette Boudreaux, married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Rosémond Breaux and Calixte Arceneaux, at the Vermilionville church in January 1856.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Joseph in September 1856 but may have died at age 9 in December 1865; Rosémond born in November 1857; a child, name unrecorded, died at age 15 days in November 1858; Serge born in October 1859; Susanne Isabelle in February 1862; Joséphine Marian in August 1864; Pierre in January 1868; ...  None of Jean Baptiste's children married by 1870. 

François's fifth son Isidore married cousin Isabelle, another daughter of Amand Thibodeaux and Gertrude Bourg, at Attakapas in February 1804; Isabelle was sister of Isidore's older brother Jean François's wife.  Isidore and Isabelle settled on the Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included Aspasie in c1805 but died at age 5 "at her parents'" in April 1811; Arvillien, also called Théon, born in November 1806; Anne Zélie or Azélie, called Azélie, in November 1808; twins Émilie and Émilien in May 1811, but Émilie died "at her parent's," age 2 1/2, in October 1813; Joachim, also called Joachim Isidore, born in April 1813; and Ursin, also called Ursin Isidore, in July 1814.  Isidore remarried to Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Prejean and Élisabeth Dugas of Vermilion, at the St. Martinville church in June 1815.  Their children, born on the Vermilion, included Marie Urasie in March 1816; Jean Terville or Treville, called Treville, in December 1817 but died at age 5 in June 1823; Édouard, also called Édouard Isidore, born in December 1819; Marie Uranie in March 1822; Julien, also called Julien or Jules Isidore, in June 1825; Céleste in 1826 and baptized at the Vermilionville church,, age 5 months, in March 1827 but died in April; Laisin or Lessin, also called Lessin Isidore and Marcel, born in April 1828; Louis Dupréville in March 1831 but died at age 12 1/2 months in April 1832; and Silvanie baptized at age 6 months in June 1834 but, called "girl," may have died at age 7 in August 1841--16 children, seven daughters and nine sons, including a set of twins, by two wives, between 1805 and 1834.  Isidore's succession, not post-mortem, naming his second wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in March 1843, and a succession for wife Adélaïde, likely post-mortem, was filed there in April.  Isidore would have been in his mid-60s at the time.  He did not remarry.  His house "stood at the top of the hill" on the left, or east, bank of the Vermilion River just south of Pin Hook Bridge, present-day Lafayette, along the road to New Iberia, directly across the river from Walnut Grove, the Jean Sosthène Mouton plantation.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted 34 slaves--15 males and 19 females, 24 black and 10 mulatto, ranging in age from 60 to 1--on Isidore Broussard's plantation in the parish's western district next to son Lessin I. Broussard.  A Mouton neighbor who was a boy in the 1850s wrote in his memoirs many years later:  "On his plantation, Mr. [Isidore] Broussard, with his slaves, cultivated cotton and raised cattle, horses, and sheep."  The young neighbor described Isidore, who would have been in his 80s at the time, as "a man with a loud voice which could be heard morning and night calling his mules and giving orders to his slaves."  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted 34 slaves--11 males and 23 females, 14 black and 20 mulatto, ages 61 to 2, living in six houses--on Isdore Broussard's plantation next to son Julien Broussard.  Isidore died probably at his home on the Vermilion in April 1862, age 85.  His post-mortem succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following month.  Exactly a year after his death, a battle was fought at the bridge not far from Isidore's plantation.  One wonders what the grandson of the Acadian resistance fighter would have done the following spring when the Yankees came to steal his livestock and free his slaves.  Daughters Azélie and Marie Eurasie, by both wives, married Broussard cousins.  Six of Isidore's sons also married and settled on the prairies, but not all of the lines endured.

Oldest son Arvillien, by first wife Isabelle Thibodeaux, married cousin Marguerite, daughter of George Taylor, also Teller, and his Acadian wife Marguerite Broussard, at the Vermilionville church in February 1828.  Their daughter Marguerite was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 3 1/2 months, in December 1829 but died at age 4 1/2 in June 1834.  Arvillien remarried to Carmélite Élina, daughter of fellow Acadians Éloi Benoit and Eugénie Louvière, at the Vermilionville church in February 1832.  Their son Éloi was born in Lafayette Parish in December 1832 but died at age 22 months in October 1834.  Arvillien died in Lafayette Parish in December 1833, age 27 (the recording priest said 26).  His succession, naming his second wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following February.  His family line died with him.   

Isidore's third son Joachim Isidore, by first wife Isabelle Thibodeaux, married Marie Carmélite, called Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Éloi Comeaux and Marie Louise Louvière, at the Vermilionville church in May 1835.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Marie Carmélite, called Carmélite, baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 5 months, in December 1836; a son, name unrecorded, born in c1837 but, called "boy," died at age 10 in July 1837; Ulalie or Eulalie baptized at age 1 1/2 months in March 1839; Lessin le jeune born in August 1840 but, called Ducrest, died at age 2 in August 1842; Désirée, actually Désiré, a son, born in October 1841; Emmeliènna in c1842 but died at age 14 months in September 1843; Émelia born in March 1843; Taise, perhaps Elmaze or Anaïs, in July 1844; and Remisia in October 1848--nine children, six daughters and three sons, between 1836 and 1848.  Joachim Isidore died in Lafayette Parish in February 1849, four months after a daughter was born.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who must have been a bit confused, said that Joachim Isidore died "at age 19 yrs."  He was 35.  His succession, calling him Joachim and naming his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following December.  Daughters Carmélite, Ulalie, Elmaze/Anaïs, and Remisia married into the Broussard, Thibodeaux, Langlinais, Smith, and Mouton families by 1870.  Joachim's remaining son also married by then.

Third and youngest son Désiré married double cousin Élodie, daughter of fellow Acadians Treville Broussard and Sidalise Broussard, at the Vermilionville church in January 1867. ...

Isidore's fourth son Ursin Isidore, by first wife Isabelle Thibodeaux, married Euphémie, also called Célanie, another daughter of Éloi Comeaux and Marie Louise Louvière, at the Vermilionville church in April 1834.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Alexandre in February 1835 but died at age 21 in December 1856; Marie Phelonise baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 8 months, in October 1837 but, called Philonise, may have died at age 15 (the recording priest said 16) in February 1852; Éloi born in November 1838 but died at age 10 months in September 1839; Édouard Derbes born in February 1840 but died at age 3 in September 1843; Marie Aséma born in August 1841; Ernest in April 1844; Elmira, Elmia, or Elmire in September 1847; Honoré in July 1851; Corine in August 1852; Jean Baptiste Dolsée in July 1855; and a child, perhaps theirs, name and age unrecorded, died in Lafayette Parish in August 1856--11 children, at least six sons and four daughters, between 1835 and 1856.  Daughters ... married into the Breaux, Comeaux, and Roy families by 1870.  None of Ursin Isidore's remaining sons married by then. 

Isidore's sixth son Édouard Isidore, by second wife Adélaïde Prejean, married cousin Aspasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Olidon Broussard and Victoire Babineaux and widow of Éloi Jean Broussard, at the Vermilionville church in January 1837.  They settled probably near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Cidalise in December 1837; Jean Derosin or Drosin, called Drosin, in April 1840; Élisée in March 1843; Marie Amélie in March 1845; Émilie in December 1847; Alexandre in February 1850 but died at age 2 1/2 in September 1852; Hippolyte Telesphore born in May 1852; Dismas in December 1855; and Joséphine in December 1856--nine children, four daughters and five sons, between 1837 and 1856.  Daughters ... married into the Benoit and Meaux families by 1870.  Two of Édouard Isidore's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Drosin married cousin Euphémie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Evariste Broussard and Scholastique Giroir, at the Vermilionville church in July 1860.  They settled near Youngsville.  Their children, born there, included Maria in December 1862; Arthur in February 1870; ...

Édouard Isidore's second son Élisée married Eugénie, daughter of fellow Acadians Désiré Benoit and Célima Thibodeaux, at the Youngsville church in February 1867.  Their son Éloi was born near Youngsville in November 1869; ... 

Isidore's seventh son Julien Isidore, by second wife Adélaïde Prejean, married cousin Marie Azéma, called Azéma, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Onésime Broussard and Scholastique Duhon, at the Vermilionville church in September 1842.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Céleste in August 1843; and Jules J. in the 1840s.  Julien's succession, calling him Théon and his wife Azéma, may have been filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in June 1850.  He would have been age 25 that year.  If this was his succession, it was not post-mortem.  At age 40, he remarried to cousin Marie Estelle Broussard at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in May 1866.  A succession for first wife Marie Azéma had been filed at the Vermilionville courthouse 11 days before his remarriage.  Daughter Céleste, by his first wife, married into the Thibodeaux family.  Julien's son also married into that family. 

Only son Jules J., by first wife Azéma Broussard, married cousin Élodie, daughter of fellow Acadian Théogène Thibodeaux and Estelle Broussard, at the Abbeville church in May 1867. ...

Isidore's eighth son Lessin Isidore, by second wife Adélaïde Prejean, married cousin Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Valière dit Pillet Comeaux and Gertrude Broussard, at the Vermilionville church in November 1848.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Charles Ducret or Ducre in November 1849; Jean Lessin in March 1850; and a son, name unrecorded, perhaps posthumously in c1851 or 1852 but died at age 2 in January 1854--three children, all sons, between 1849 and 1852.  Lessin Isidore died in Lafayette Parish in March 1852, age 23.  His succession, calling him Lessin Isidore and naming his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse later that month.  His widow Carmélite may have remarried to another Broussard.  One of her and Lessin Isidore's sons married by 1870. 

Oldest son Charles Ducret married Spanish Creole Marie Victoria Romero, place and date unrecorded.  Their daughter Estelle married Adelus, son of Agricole LeBlanc, fils and Marguerite Mayer, at the Jennings church, then in Calcasieu but now in Jefferson Davis Parish, in December 1892. ...

Joseph's sixth son Claude dit Beausoleil followed his family into exile, into a prison compound in Nova Scotia, to New Orleans, and lower Bayou Teche.  He married Louise dite Lise or Lisette, daughter of fellow Acadians Bénoni Hébert dit Manuel and Jeanne Savoie of Chignecto, at Attakapas in c1772.  Lise also had come to Louisiana from Halifax with the Broussard party.  Their children, born on the Attakapas prairies, included Apollonie in February 1773; Jean-Baptiste, called Baptiste, in October 1774; Valéry in May 1776; Louis in August 1777; Alexandre le jeune in 1778 and baptized, age 8 months, in May 1779; Élisabeth or Isabelle born in c1780; Louise in September 1781; Pélagie in the early 1780s; Béloni in 1784 and baptized, age 5 months, in March 1785 but died at his father's home on the lower Vermilion, age 21, in October 1806; Anastasie born in January 1786; and Victoire in October 1787.  Wife Lise died at Attakapas in March 1788, age 35.  At age 46, Claude remarried to Catherine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joachim-Hyacinthe Trahan and his second wife Marie-Madeleine Duhon, at Attakapas in April 1793.  Catherine, a native of Belle-Île-en-Mer, had come to Louisiana from France aboard one of the Seven Ships in 1785.  She and Claude settled on the lower Vermilion near present-day Abbeville, where she gave him more children, including Claude, fils, also called Louis, born in May 1794; Jean-Joseph dit Beausoleil in March 1796 but died at age 6 in July 1802; Marie-Madeleine born in October 1797; Delphine in August 1799; Julie in August 1801 but died at age 2 in August 1803; Marie-Célestine, called Célestine, born in August 1803; Jean-Murphy, called Murphy, in August 1805; and Edmond in September 1807 but died at his parents' home on the lower Vermilion, age 1, in October 1808--19 children, 10 daughters and nine sons, by two wives, between 1773 and 1807.  Claude died at his home on the lower Vermilion in November 1819.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial said that Claude died at "age about 75 yrs."  He was closer to 71.  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in December.  Daughters Apollonie, Élisabeth, Pélagie, Anastasie, Louise, Victoire, and Marie, by both wives, married into the Pivauteau, Duhon, Granger, Broussard, Doiron, Faulk, and Guidry families.  Four of Claude's sons also married and settled on the prairies.  One of his younger sons settled in what became St. Landry Parish, but the others remained in the old Attakapas District in what became Lafayette and Vermilion parishes. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, called Baptiste, from first wife Lise Hébert, married Juliènne, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Trahan and Marie Hugon, at Attakapas in September 1794.  They settled on the Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included Jean-Baptiste dit Bénoni baptized, age 3 months, in December 1795 but died at age 5 in October 1800; and Édouard baptized, age 9 months, in November 1797.  Jean-Baptiste, père died at Attakapas in February 1798, age 23.  His remaining son created a vigorous line on the prairies.

Younger son Édouard married Pélagie, daughter of Pierre Dubois, a French Creole, not a fellow Acadian, and Julie Dartes of Vermilion, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in September 1817.  Their children, born on the upper Vermilion and in what became Lafayette Parish, included Édouard Béloni or Bénoni in July 1818; Onésime in September 1820; Louis Hubert, Hubertie, or Ubertie in October 1822; Olivier in 1825, baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 9 months, in January 1826, but died at age 7 in September 1832; Eugène born in c1827 and baptized at age 3 in June 1830; Jean Baptiste born in c1828 and baptized at age 2 in June 1830; Euclide born in c1832 and baptized at age 2 1/2 in August 1834; Camille, also called Camille Édouard, born in c1834 and baptized at age 1 in September 1835; Oliva baptized at age 8 months in November 1837; and Adélie born in February 1841--10 children, eight sons and two daughters, between 1818 and 1841.  Neither of Édouard's daughters married by 1870, but four of his sons did.  Not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Édouard Bénoni married Marie Mélanie, 20-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Paul Thibodeaux and Eulalie Landry, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in May 1842.  Did Édouard Bénoni father any children? 

Édouard's third son Louis Hubert married Nesida, Nizida, Lezida, or Louisa, 17-year-old daughter of François Primeaux and Justine Baudoin, at the Vermilionville church in February 1843.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish and near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, included Louis, fils in the 1840s; Oliva in March 1855; Cléophas perhaps in March 1856 and baptized at the Abbeville church in January 1857; Joseph born in March 1857; Alice in April 1859; Eugène in April 1862; Delma in June 1869; ...  Louis Hubert's succession, which calls him Louis Ubertie, was filed at the Abbeville courthouse in 1865.  As the birth of one of his children shows, the succession was not post-mortem.  Daughter ... married into the Guidry family by 1870.  One of Louis Hubert's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Louis, fils married Sylvanie, daughter of Philemon Dubois and his Acadian wife Sylvainie Thibodeaux, at the Abbeville church in January 1868.  Their son Olivier was born near Abbeville in March 1869; ... 

Édouard's seventh son Euclide married Louisa, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Thibodeaux and Célanie Boudreaux, at the Abbeville church in June 1863. ...

Édouard's eighth and youngest son Camille Édouard married Ozémie, Azémie, or Azémire, another daughter of Philemon Dubois and Sylvanie Thibodeaux, at the Abbeville church in July 1856, over a year after a daughter was born to them, so they may have married civilly.  Their children, born near Abbeville, included Alcide in August 1856; Philemon in February 1858; Israël Francis in January 1863; ... 

Claude's second son Valéry, by first wife Lise Hébert, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand Landry and Marguerite Melançon, in the late 1790s or early 1800s.  They settled on the Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included Édouard in August 1804 but died at age 7 in September 1811; Valéry Achilles, called Achille and also Raphaël, born in August 1806; Pierre Onésime, called Onésime and Onésime Valery, in May 1809; Marguerite Cécile, called Cécile, in February 1813; Paulin in June 1815; Marie Carmélite, called Carmélite, in March 1818; Barthélémy in August 1820; Lambert in September 1822; and Marie Lise, called Lise, baptized at the Vermilionville church at 2 months in November 1826. Valéry, at age 53, remarried to double cousin Marie Louise, called Louise and also Laiza, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Broussard and Louise Broussard and widow of Jean Thibodeaux, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in September 1829.  Their son Emilton, perhaps Hamiliton, was born in Lafayette Parish in January 1834--nine children, seven sons and two daughters, by two wives, between 1804 and 1834.  Wife Marie Louise's succession, naming her husband, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in July 1853.  Daughters Cécile, Carmélite, and Marie Lise, by Valéry's first wife, married into the Thibodeaux, Bonin, and Boudreaux families.  Five of Valéry's sons also married and settled on the prairies. 

Second son Achille, by first wife Marguerite Landry, married cousin Aspasie, also called Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Hébert and Isabelle Duhon, at the Vermilionville church in October 1832.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Bruno baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in December 1833; Marcelle, probably a daughter, born in January 1835; Pierre baptized at age 2 1/2 months in March 1837; Euphrasie baptized at age 1 1/2 months in March 1839; twins Euphrasie and Euphrosie born in November 1841; and Grégoire in January 1845--seven children, three sons and four daughters, including a set of twins, between 1833 and 1845.  Achille's daughters did not marry by 1870, if they married at all, but his sons did.

Oldest son Bruno married cousin Marie Aureline, daughter of fellow Acadians François Cormier and Mélite Broussard, at the Vermilionville church in April 1852.  They settled probably near Youngsville, Lafayette Parish.  Their children, born there, included François Sévigné in November 1853; Osèïde in July 1855; Odilia in October 1858; Ursin in October 1860; and Éloi in February 1863.  Bruno may have remarried to Elizabeth Smith at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in September 1868, though they may have been married civilly.  They settled probably near Youngsville.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Dema in December 1867; Jean Remitiere in February 1869; ...  None of Bruno's children married by 1870. 

Achille's second son Pierre married Belzire, daughter of François Meaux and his Acadian wife Marie Sidalise Landry, at the Vermilionville church in May 1860.  They settled near Abbeville.  Their children, born there, included Rémy in June 1861; Marcel Adam in April 1868; Eraste in April 1870; ...

Achille's third and youngest son Grégoire married Marie Azéna, daughter of fellow Acadians Achille Savoie and Marie Philonise Bourg, at the Youngsville church in September 1868. ...

Valéry's third son Pierre Valéry or Onésime Valéry, by first wife Marguerite Landry, married cousin Marie Carmélite, called Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Thibodeaux and Marie Louise Broussard, at the Vermilionville church in October 1827; Marie's mother became Onésime's stepmother two years later.  Onésime and Carmélite's children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Émilie in August 1828; Lucien baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in May 1830; Méance baptized at age 4 months in May 1832 but died at age 5 1/2 in September 1837; Emilton or Hamilton born in January 1834; Amelia or Émelia in March 1836; Emedise, a son, baptized, age unrecorded, in June 1838; Olézima baptized at age 2 months in February 1840; Valéry born in c1841; Simon in c1845; and Jean Honoré in October 1847--10 children, three daughters and seven sons, between 1828 and 1847.  Onésime Valéry's succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in February 1854.  He would have been age 45 that year.  Daughters ... married into the Baudoin and Broussard families by 1870.  One of Onésime Valéry's sons also married by then. 

Fourth son Emedise may have married fellow Acadian Marie Adeline, called Adeline, Vincent, place and date unrecorded.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Oliva near Abbeville in January 1862; Oleus near Youngsville in July 1864; ...

Valéry's fourth son Paulin, by first wife Marguerite Landry, married cousin Célestine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Broussard and Anne Giroir, at the Vermilionville church in February 1836.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Napoléon baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in March 1838 but died at age 2 1/2 in October 1840; Servet born in May 1840; Valéry in January 1843 but, called Vallerie, died the following October; Jean born in late 1847 and baptized at the St. Martinville church, age 10 months, in September 1848 but, called an unnamed child, died in Lafayette Parish at age 4 in October 1851; Onésime born in October 1851; Albert in August 1854; and Euclide perhaps in August 1857--seven children, six sons and a daughter, between 1838 and 1857.  Paulin died in Lafayette Parish in June 1860.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Paulin died "at age 46 yrs.," so this probably was him.  Daughter ... married into the Landry family by 1870.  None of Paulin's sons married by then. 

Valéry's fifth son Barthélémy, by first wife Marguerite Landry, married Marceliènne, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Vincent and Marie Zelie Hébert, at the Vermilionville church in August 1841.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Marguerite in Lafayette Parish February 1848; Théodul or Théodule in December 1849; twins Emélia and Emethilde near Abbeville in October 1853; Luc in October 1855; Vincent in May 1857; Simon in November 1859; Élise in January 1862; Élodie in February 1864; ...  Daughters ... married into the Baudoin family by 1870.  None of Barthélémy's sons married by then. 

Valéry's sixth son Lambert, by first wife Marguerite Landry, married Émelie, daughter of Béloni Baudoin and his Acadian wife Marie Aglaé Landry, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in May 1844.  Their children, born near Abbeville, included Valéry le jeune in July 1848; Lambert Béloni in May 1850; and Napoléon in October 1853.  Lambert may have remarried to French Canadian Sylvanie Istre at the Abbeville church in January 1861.  Their son Adam was born near Church Point, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in November 1867; ...  None of Lambert's children married by 1870.

Claude's sixth son Claude, fils, also called Louis and Louis Claude, from second wife Catherine Trahan, married Marie Eurasie, Urasie, Ulasie, Euméa, or Séraphine, daughter of Jean Baptiste Simon and his Acadian wife Madeleine Aucoin, at the St. Martinville church in April 1816.  They settled on the lower Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included Marie Célamie in January 1817; Edmond in December 1818; Marie Azélie dite Zélie in January 1821; Aspasie in November 1823; Émile in January 1826; Clémile in September 1829; Marie Aureline in October 1831; Joseph, also called Joseph Louis and Louis, in March 1835; Onésime baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in April 1837; Louis, fils baptized at age 1 1/2 months in May 1839 but died the following September; and Marie Urasie born in March 1841--11 children, five daughters and six sons, between 1817 and 1841.  Claude, fils died probably in Lafayette Parish in August 1846, in his late 50s, exactly two weeks after his wife died.  His succession, naming his wife and listing their death dates, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse later that month.  Daughters Marie Azélie, Aspasie, and Marie Aureline married into the Trahan, Dronet, and Simon families by 1870.  Three of Claude, fils's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Edmond married Marie Euphrosine, daughter of Catherine Lacour, at the Vermilionville church in October 1849.  Judging by a baptismal record of one of their daughters, Marie Euphrosine's father may have been a Savoie, though another record calls her Marie Laives.  Her and Edmond's children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Louis in July 1850; François in April 1852; Cécile or Cécilia in May 1854; Marcellin in c1857; Marie born in September 1858; Jean in February 1860 but died the following September; Gabriel born in September 1862 but died the following January; Angélique or Angèle born in December 1863; ...  None of Edmond's children married by 1870. 

Claude, fils's third son Clémile married Marie, daughter of David Meaux and Joséphine Faulk, at the Vermilionville church in December 1854.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Joséphine in January 1856 but died at age 1 in July 1857; Azéma born in November 1857 but, called Marie Azéma, died the following January; Eve born in December 1858; Marie Azéna in February 1860 but, called Azéna, may have died at age 2 1/2 in August 1862; Adam born in July 1861; Marie in December 1863; Aurelien in April 1866; ...  None of Clémile's children married by 1870.  

Claude, fils's fourth son Joseph Louis married fellow Acadian Ameline or Émeline Vincent at the Abbeville church in May 1854; the marriage was recorded also in Lafayette Parish.  Their children, born near Abbeville, included Antoine Duprey in April 1855; Félix in December 1856; Colombus in November 1858; Albert in March 1861; Cléobule in March 1863; Jules in November 1866; ...  None of Joseph Louis's sons married by 1870. 

Claude, père's ninth son Jean Murphy, called Murphy, from second wife Catherine Trahan, married Marie Adélaïde, called Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Dominique Prejean and Marie Savoie, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in November 1827.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Marie Alexandrine in March 1829; Marie Adélaïde, also called Mélaïde and Mélanie, in March 1831; Marie Célestine in September 1832; Marie in March 1834 but died at age 3 1/2 (the recording priest said 2) in September 1837; and Adélaïde born in April 1837.  Wife Adélaïde's succession, calling her husband John Murphy, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in April 1839, a year after his civil remarriage, so it was post-mortem.  Jean Murphy remarried to Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadian François Pitre and his Creole wife Eugénie Guillory and widow of Anthony McDaniel, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in April 1838, and sanctified the marriage at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in April 1839.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Jean Murphy, fils in January 1840; Adélida or Arelida in December 1842; and Anathalie in July 1844 but, called Natalie, died at age 14 (the recording priest said 15) in July 1858 (her succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse the following September)--eight children, seven daughters and a son,, by two wives, between 1829 and 1844.  At age 45, Jean Murphy, père remarried again--his third marriage--to Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Nicolas Foret and his Creole wife Marie Françoise Fontenot and widow of Jean Baptiste François Vigé, at the Opelousas church in June 1851.  She evidently gave him no more children.  Jean Murphy, père's succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in November 1858.  He would have been age 53 that year.  Daughters Mélaïde/Mélanie, ..., by his first wife, married into the Carrière, Castille, Cormier, Richard, and Rider families by 1870.  Murphy's son did not marry by then. 

Joseph's seventh and youngest son Amand dit Beausoleil followed his family into exile, into a prison compound in Nova Scotia, to New Orleans, and lower Bayou Teche.  He married cousin Hélène, daughter of fellow Acadians Firmin Landry and Françoise Thibodeaux, at Attakapas in July 1771.  Hélène gave Amand a son, Joseph dit Josephat, also spelled Josaphat, at Attakapas the following November.  Hélène died by October 1774, when Amand was listed in an Attakapas census as a widower.  He remarried to Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexis Benoit and Hélène Comeaux, at Attakapas in May 1775.  They settled at Fausse Pointe on the lower Teche near today's New Iberia.  Their children, born there, included twins Édouard-Amand, called Édouard A. or Edward A., and Hebrard in October 1777; Christine baptized, age 7 months, in April 1780; Scholastique born in September 1781; Anne baptized, age 15 days, in March 1784; Nicolas-Amand born in March 1786; Éloi-Amand in April 1788; Susanne in April 1790; Louise in October 1792; Julie in May 1795; Rosémond baptized, age "about 4 1/2 months," in November 1799 but died at his parents' home at Fausse Pointe, age 20, in January 1820; Camille-Amand born in October 1801; and Pierre in c1804 but died at age 5 months in January 1805--14 children, eight sons and four daughters, by two wives, between 1771 and 1805.  In August 1788, after his second wife had given him a number of children, Amand testified in court that his first marriage had produced a son, Josepha, who was "to have an equal share as any other children he now has or will have with his wife Anne Benoist."  Amand was a leader in his community.  In the 1780s, he and five others from his Attakapas congregation went to "Plaquemine at Pointe Coupée" to retrieve the Reverend Father Hilaire de Genevaux, a Capuchin priest, as pastor for the Attakapas church at present-day St. Martinville.  The church trustees had promised them 15 piastres for their trouble but "continually evaded paying them."  In May 1790, Amand filed suit against the trustees.  According to family legend, Amand fought in the Battle of New Orleans in January 1815.  If so, he would have been in his mid-60s at the time!  He died at his home at Fausse Pointe, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in January 1818, in his late 60s.  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in March.  Daughters Anne, Scholastique, Susanne, and Julie, by his second wife, married into the Broussard, Decuir, and Dugas families.  Five of Amand's sons also created their own families on the lower Teche.  His oldest son's line was especially robust. 

Oldest son Joseph dit Josephat, also spelled Josaphat, from first wife Hélène Landry, married Marie-Françoise, called Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Trahan and Marguerite Duhon, at Attakapas in October 1793.  Françoise a native of Belle-Île-en-Mer, had come to Louisiana from France in 1785.  They settled at Fausse Pointe.  Their children, born there, included Éloi Josephat baptized, age 4 months, in April 1795; Marie-Aspasie born in June 1796; Marie-Denise or -Dionisia, called Denise, in December 1797; Rosémond le jeune in February 1800; Anne, called Annette dite Nanon, in April 1802; Marguerite, also called Marie Marguerite, in March 1804; Josephat, fils in January 1806; and Achilles in September 1809 but died at his parents' home at Fausse Pointe, age 5 months, the following February--eight children, four sons and four daughters, between 1795 and 1809.  Josephat, père died in St. Martin Parish in April 1836, age 64.  His succession, naming his widow and listing his children and their spouses--Éloy Josaphat, Marie Aspasie and her husband, Marie Denise and her deceased husband, Rosemond, Annet and her husband, Marie Marguerite and her husband, and Josephe, fils--was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in January 1838.  Daughters Denise, Annette dite Nanon, Marie Aspasie, and Marie Marguerite, married into the Bonin, Arceneaux, and Blanchard families, three of them to Arseneauxs, two of them brothers.  Three of Josaphat's sons also married and settled on the lower Teche.

Oldest son Éloi Josephat married cousin Susanne dite Susette, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Broussard le jeune and Anne Breaux of Fausse Pointe, at the St. Martinville church in March 1813.  They settled at Fausse Pointe.  Their children, born there, included Marie Célima died at age 20 days in April 1813; Marcellite born in December 1813; Éloi, also called Éloi Josephat, fils, in October 1815; Marie Sylvanie in c1816 but died at age 17 in May 1833; Adeline born in July 1817; Caroline in November 1819; Célestine in March 1821 but died at age 3 in May 1824; Aima and Irma, perhaps twins, born in January 1822, but Aima, perhaps theirs, died near New Iberia, age 23 (the recording priest said 24), in January 1845; Azéma, also called Marie Aséma, born in April 1824; Joseph Lesaint or Lessin, called Lessin, in April 1825; Susanne in June 1826; Jules in April 1828; Marie Aspasie, called Aspasie, in April 1830; Marie Lismène, called Lismène, in June 1832; Jean in 1833 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 7 months, in February 1834, but died in March; Avelina, perhaps their daughter, died at age 4 1/2 months in September 1835; and Adélaïde born in March 1836 but died at age 1 1/2 in June 1837--17 children, 13 daughters and four sons, between 1813 and 1836.  Éloi Josephat, père evidently died in St. Martin Parish in April 1863.  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 48 yrs."  Éloi Josephat would have been 50.  One wonders if his death was war-related.  Widow Susanne's succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in November 1867.  Her and Éloi Josephat's daughters Marcellite, Irma, Caroline, Marie Azéma, Aspasie, and Lismène married into the Berard, Breaux, Trahan, Oubre, Cazieuse, Gros or Legros, and Broussard families by 1870, one of them, Marie Azéma, twice.  Éloi Josephat, père's remaining sons also married by then and settled near New Iberia, but not all of the lines endured.   

Oldest son Éloi Josephat, fils married cousin Élisa Breaux probably in St. Martin Parish in the late 1830s.  Their children, born near New Iberia, included Eléonor in December 1839; Joseph in November 1843; Éloi in November 1862; ...  Daughter ... may have married into the Teran family by 1870.  Neither of Éloi Josephat, fils's sons married by then. 

Éloi Josephat, père's second son Joseph Lessin, called Lessin, married Émelie, daughter of fellow Acadians Victor Labauve and Arthémise Dugas, at the New Iberia church in October 1849.  Their children, born near New Iberia, included Arthémise in July 1850; Suzanne Lessin in December 1851; Victor Joseph born in December 1854; Marie Alice in February 1857; Angèle in January 1859; Odile in January 1861; Gustave in May 1864; ...  Daughters Arthémise and Suzanne married into the Gaillet and Lecamue or Lecamus families by 1870.  Neither of Lessin's sons married by then. 

Éloi Josephat, père's third son Jules, at age 22, married Félicie, daughter of fellow Acadians Édouard Hébert and Madeleine Eurasie Babin, at the New Iberia church in January 1851.  Jules died the following April, the day after he turned 23.  His family line died with him.  Félicie remarried to a Muller.

Joseph dit Josephat's second son Rosémond le jeune married cousin Adeline Joséphine, called Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Broussard and Constance LeBlanc of Fausse Pointe, at the St. Martinville church in September 1818.  They settled at Fausse Pointe.  Their children, born there, included Constance Belzire, called Belzire, in September 1819 but died at age 14 months in November 1820; Arthémise born in December 1821; Éloi, also called Éloi Rosémond and Éloi René, in February 1824; Félix in January 1826; and Aspasie in March 1828--five children, three daughters and two sons, between 1819 and 1828.  Rosémond le jeune, at age 48, remarried to Hortense, also called Constance, 45-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Athanase Hébert and Félicité Breaux, at the New Iberia church in April 1848.  She evidently gave him no more children.  Rosémond le jeune died probably near New Iberia in August 1864.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Rosémond died "at age 60 yrs."  Rosémond le jeune would have been age 64.  His succession, which named his second wife, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse the following September.  One wonders if Rosémond le jeune's death was war-related.  Daughters Arthémise and Aspasie, by his first wife, married into the Delcambre and Hébert families.  Rosémond le jeune's two sons also married and settled at New Iberia.  The older son is the maternal great-great-grandfather of entertainer Beyoncé Knowles. 

Older son Éloi, also called Éloi René, from first wife Joséphine Broussard, married, at age 20, Rose or Rosa, 17-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Exhubert Hébert and Octavie Hébert, at the New Iberia church in January 1845.  Their children, born near New Iberia, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, included Amelia or Amélie in December 1847; Rose in August 1849; and Amelina in March 1851--three children, all daughters, between 1847 and 1851.  A succession for wife Rose, probably post-mortem, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in January 1866.  She would have been in her late 30s.  Daughters Amelia, Rose, and Amelina married into the Boudreaux, Landry, Delcambre, and Thibodeaux families, the oldest one twice, by 1870.  Evidently while still married to Rose, Éloi took up with Afro Creole Célestine Joséphine dite Tine, daughter of American merchant Joseph Lacey, also spelled Lesse and Lessey, and Rosalie Jean-Louis, his slave.  Tine, born probably in St. Martin Parish in c1827, was Éloi's mulatto housemaid and perhaps, like her mother, a slave.  The couple never formally married.  Nevertheless, Éloi and Tine had at least 13 children, all of whom Éloi acknowledged as his, including daughter Odelia or Odilia, born in December 1863 at Cypremort, Iberia Parish (two years before Éloi's wife Rose's succession).  Daughter Odelia married Afro-Creole farmer Eugène Derouen, born in c1861, son, perhaps, of planter Éloi Derouen.  Odelia and Eugène settled in Vermilion Parish and had 18 children, most of whom survived childhood.  Odelia died at Weeks, Iberia Parish, in March 1929, age 65.  In 1885, Éloi Broussard donated land for a family cemetery near his home on Bayou Petit Anse, Iberia Parish, near present-day Avery Island, and stipulated that both his white and non-white descendants would be buried there.  He died near New Iberia in c1904, in his late 70s.  Tine died in Iberia Parish in May 1922, age 95.  Odelia and Eugène's youngest child, Agnès Derouen, a successful seamstress, born at Delcambre, Iberia Parish, in July 1909, remarried to saltmine worker Albert Lumas or Lumis Albert Buyincé, also spelled Beyincé and Beyoncé, born in May 1910.  They had seven children and moved to Galveston, Texas, where Agnès's seamstress business thrived.  Their daughter Célestine Ann, called "Tina," born in Galveston in January 1954, became a fashion designer and business woman ("House of Deréon") and married record producer Mathew Knowles, born in January 1952 in Gadsden, Alabama.  Their daughter Beyoncé Giselle--the entertainer, actress, entrepreneur, and social activist--was born in Houston, Texas, in September 1981.  In 2008, in Scarsdale, New York, Béyonce married entertainer, record producer, and entrepreneur Shawn Corey "Jay-Z" Carter, born in December 1969 in Brooklyn, New York, son of Adnis Reese and Gloria Carter.  Beyoncé and Jay-Z's children include Blue Ivy, born in January 2012; and twins Rumi and Sir in June 2017.  Tina and Mathew's younger daughter Solange Piaget, born in Houston in June 1986, also is a noted entertainer.

Rosémond le jeune's younger son Félix, by first wife Joséphine Broussard, married Marcellite, daughter of fellow Acadian François Boudreaux and his Creole wife Marguerite Simon, at the New Iberia church in June 1845.  Their children, born near New Iberia, included Marcellite in August 1846; and Syhuste, probably Sylvester, in December 1848.  Félix's daughter did not marry by 1870, but his son did. 

Only son Sylvester married Auzilia, daughter of Joseph Humel and his Acadian wife Méranthe Bourg, at the New Iberia church in October 1870. ...

Joseph dit Josephat's third son Josephat, fils married Arthémise, daughter of Henry Ransoné or Ransonnet and his Acadian wife Rosalie Landry, at the St. Martinville church in October 1826.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Aglaé or Aglaée in July 1827; Léo in August 1829 but died at age 2 1/2 in July 1832; Rosalie Orelia or Amelia born in June 1831; and Josephat III, also called Joseph, in March 1833--four sons, two daughters and two sons, between 1827 and 1833.  Wife Arthémise's succession, perhaps post-mortem, naming her husband, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in July 1844.  Daughters Aglaée and Rosalie Amelia married into the Etier and Bienvenu families.  Josephat, fils's remaining son also married and settled near New Iberia. 

Younger son Josephat III or Joseph married Hélène, daughter of Onésime Leleux and his Acadian wife Carmélite Landry, at the New Iberia church in June 1853.  Their children, born near New Iberia, included Joseph Homer in September 1854; Émelie in July 1856; Ozea in February 1859; Pierre Dorneville in January 1861; Louis Oscar in August 1866; ...  None of Joseph's children married by 1870. 

Amand's second son Édouard-Amand, called Édouard A. or Edward A., a twin, from second wife Anne Benoit, married cousin Anne, Annette, or Nanette, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand Thibodeaux and Gertrude Bourg, at Attakapas in June 1801.  They settled at Fausse Pointe.  Their children, born there, included Léon in August 1802; Édouard Bélisaire or Bélisaire Édouard in April 1804; Anne Erasie, called Erasie, in March or May 1806; Ursin in March 1808 but died at age 14 1/2 in July 1822; Julie born in June 1810; Émilie or Amélie in July 1812; Jean Baptiste Désiré, called Jean Désiré and Désiré, in August 1814; and Aurien in March 1817 but died at age 2 in November 1819--seven children, five sons and two daughters, between 1802 and 1817.  Édouard A. died at his home at Fausse Pointe in August 1830, age 52.  His successions, calling him Édouard A. and Edward A. and naming his wife, were filed at the St. Martinville and Franklin courthouses the following January, so he must have owned property in St. Mary Parish as well as St. Martin.  Daughters Erasie, Amélie, and Julie married into the Dugas and Broussard families a month apart, two of them, Erasie and Amélie, to Dugas brothers.  Three of Édouard A.'s sons also married, two of them to Broussard sisters whose brother married one of Édouard A.'s daughters, and settled near New Iberia. 

Oldest son Léon married double cousin Claire, called Clara, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Broussard, fils and Scholastique Broussard of Fausse Pointe, at the St. Martinville church in April 1823; Léon's sister Julie married Clara's brother.  Her and Léon's children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Léon Massena in September 1824 but, called Massena, died at age 6 in June 1831; Hélina or Élina born in November 1826 but died at age 4 1/2 (the recording priest said 3) in June 1831; Clair or Claire born in September 1828 but died at age 1 in September 1829; Édouard le jeune born in July 1830 but died at age 10 months in June 1831; Félicia born in February 1833; Lucien Alcé or Alcée, called Alcée, in October 1834; Marie Amélie in January 1837; Élisabeth near New Iberia, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in December 1841; and Clara in January 1844.  One wonders what killed Léon and Clara's older sons so close in time.  Wife's Clara's succession, evidently post-mortem, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in October 1849.  She would have been in her mid- or late 40s that year.  In his late 40s, Léon remarried to Caroline Virginie, called Virginie, daughter of François Césaire Boutté and Marie Céleste Gonsoulin, at the New Iberia church in December 1849.  Their children, born near New Iberia, included Thomas Rodolph in December 1850; and Marie Amanda in January 1854--11 children, four sons and seven daughters, between 1824 and 1854.  They were living near Lydia in the late 1860s.  Léon died in July 1867.  The New Iberia priest who recorded the burial said that Léon died "at age 65 yrs."  He was a month shy of that age.  His succession was filed at the Franklin courthouse, St. Mary Parish, in August, so, like his father, he must have owned property in that parish as well.  Daughters ..., by both wives, married into the Bonin, Boutté, Broussard, and White families by 1870.  One of Léon's sons also married by then.

Third son Alcée, by first wife Claire Broussard, married cousin Virginie, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Dugas and Clarisse Broussard, at the New Iberia church in October 1856.  They settled near New Iberia.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Eymard in February 1858; Louis Alcide in August 1859; Alphe Antoine in August 1861; ...  Alcée's succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in December 1867.  He would have been age 33 that year. 

Édouard A.'s second son Édouard Bélisaire or Bélisaire Édouard married double cousin Marie Émilie, Émilite, Mélite, or Emérite, another daughter of Pierre Broussard, fils and Scholastique Broussard, at the St. Martinville church in February 1832.  They were living near New Iberia in the early 1840s.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Gustave Fileas or Phileas or Phileas Gustave in February 1833; Édouard Aristide in April 1835 but, called Aristide, evidently died at age 18 in October 1853; Joseph Adrien, called Adrien, born in February 1837; Marie Émelie in November 1842; Hélène died at age 20 days in January 1845; Louisa born in February 1847; and Caroline Léonie in August 1853--seven children, three sons and four daughters, between 1833 and 1853.  Wife Mélite died in St. Martin Parish in November 1853, age 42, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth.  Her succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in November 1866.  Daughters ... married into the Prince family by 1870.  Two of Édouard Bélisaire's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Gustave Phileas married Henriette Marcellite, called Marcellite, daughter of fellow Acadians Edmond LeBlanc and Marie Éléocade LeBlanc, at the St. Martinville church in February 1855.  Their children, born near New Iberia, included Jean Gustave in May 1855[sic]; Joseph Césaire in November 1855; Marie Sidonie in May 1858; Marie Gabrielle Antonia in March 1860 but, called Antonia, died at age 3 1/2 (the recording priest said 4) in September 1863; Clémence born in June 1862; Angile in June 1866; ...  None of Gustave's children married by 1870. 

Édouard Bélisaire's third and youngest son Joseph Adrien, called Adrien, evidently married Marie Célestine, called Célestine, De La Fontaine at the St. Martinville church in April 1862, a few months after a daughter was born.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Marie Adriènne in November 1861; Albert in c1864 and baptized at the St. Martinville church, age 7, in August 1871; ...

Édouard A.'s fourth son Jean Baptiste Désiré, called Jean Désiré and Désiré, married cousin Marie Evelina or Eveline, called Evelina, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Broussard and Marie Phelonise Broussard, at the St. Martinville church in October 1835.  Their children, born near New Iberia, included Jean Baptiste, fils, perhaps also called Jean Léo and Baptiste Léo, in June 1837; Édouard le jeune in February 1844; Hélène in September 1846; Emma in May 1851; Anne in August 1852; and Alice in May 1854--six daughters, two sons and four daughters, between 1837 and 1854.  Daughter ... married into the Gonsoulin family by 1870.  One of Jean Baptiste Désiré's sons also married by then. 

Older son Jean Baptiste Léo married Susanne Eusèïde, called Eusèïde, daughter of fellow Acadian Dorestan Prince and his Creole wife Zulma Bonin, at the New Iberia church in April 1860.  Their son Jean Baptiste Méance was born near New Iberia in May 1862; ... 

Amand's fourth son Nicolas Amand, by second wife Anne Benoit, married cousin Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Broussard le jeune and Anne Breaux of Fausse Pointe, at Attakapas in February 1806.  They settled at Fausse Pointe before moving on to Bayou Petite Anse near present-day Avery Island.  Their children, born there, included Balthazar at Fausse Pointe in September 1806 but died at Petite Anse, age 2, in August 1808; Joseph Evarice or Evariste, called Evariste, born in c1807; Nicolas, fils in September 1809; Marcellite at Petite Anse in November 1810; a son, name and age unrecorded, died at this parents' home at Petite Anse in February 1811; Adélaïde born at Fausse Pointe in January 1812 but died at age 10 1/2 (the recording priest said 15) in July 1822; Joseph Neville or Neuville born in February 1813 but died at his parents' home at Fausse Pointe, age 5 1/2, in June 1818; Émilite born at Petite Anse in September 1814; Camille at Fausse Pointe in February 1816 but died at age 8 1/2 at the home of Béloni Simon on the Vermilion in September 1824; Carmélite born in June 1817; and Rosémond le jeune in the late 1810s.  Wife Adélaïde died at their home at Fausse Pointe in July 1820, age 30.  Nicolas Amand, at age 35, remarried to Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Comeaux and Rosalie Prejean of Côte Gélée, at the St. Martinville church in June 1821.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Orelien or Aurelien Seville, called Seville, in St. Martin Parish in December 1825 but died in Lafayette Parish at age 4 1/2 in August 1830; Zulma born in c1826 and baptized at age 2 1/2 in March 1829; Zulmée born in c1827 and baptized at age 13 months in March 1829; Onésime born in c1828 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 1/2 years, in July 1830; a child, name unrecorded, died at age 8 days in May 1829; Marie Zulma born in St. Martin Parish in April 1832; Louise Alzire in October 1835; Joséphine Irma in June 1834; Nicolas Sostène or Sosthène in March 1837; and Phylomena in July 1839--21 children, at least 10 sons and 10 daughters, by two wives, between 1806 and 1839.  Daughters ..., by both wives, married into the Bell, Broussard, Giroir, Melançon, David, Dugas, Quiff, and Verret families.  One of them settled on Bayou Lafourche.  Two of Nicolas Amand's sons also married. 

Second son Joseph Evariste, called Evariste, from first wife Adélaïde Broussard, married cousin Scholastique, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Girouard and Adélaïde Broussard (Evariste's mother's name), at the Vermilionville church in February 1829.  They were living near New Iberia by the early 1840s.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish and on the lower Teche, included Adélaïde in December 1829; Valérien in 1831 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 9 months, in February 1832; Désiré born in March 1834 but died at age 6 months the following October; Seville born in October 1837; Adéole in Lafayette Parish in October 1839; Euphémie near New Iberia in April 1843; Joseph Deshussard in St. Martin Parish in August 1846; and Mathilda in late 1849 but died in St. Martin Parish at age 5 months in April 1850--eight children, four daughters and four sons, between 1829 and 1849.  Daughter ... married into the Benoit family by 1870.  Two of Evariste's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Valérien married Louise Pamela, called Pamela, daughter of Hilaire Borel and Louise Borel, at the New Iberia church in June 1858.  Their children, born near New Iberia, included Drozin in May 1859; Hilaire Joseph in August 1861; Alcée in February 1864; Eustache Villemot in August 1867; ... 

Evariste's third son Seville married cousin Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Valmond Girouard and his Creole wife Caroline Teller, at the Youngsville church, Lafayette Parish, in January 1861. ...

Nicolas Amand's seventh son Rosémond le jeune, by first wife Adélaïde Broussard, married cousin Marguerite Elesima, called Elesima, daughter of fellow Acadian Édouard Broussard and his Creole wife Doralie Ardoin, at the New Iberia church in May 1839.  Their daughter Marguerite Ernestine was born near New Iberia in January 1840.  Rosémond le jeune remarried to cousin Marie Élina or Élisa, daughter of fellow Acadian Philemon Broussard and his Creole wife Élise Ardoin, at the New Iberia church in June 1844.  Their children, also born near New Iberia, included Vincent David in July 1844; Marie in January 1846; Marie Ophilia in February 1848; and Jusèïde, perhaps a daughter, in March 1852--five children, four daughters and a son, by two wives, between 1840 and 1852.  None of Rosémond le jeune's children married by 1870.

Amand's fifth son Éloi Amand, by second wife Anne Benoit, married cousin Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Broussard and Louise Broussard of Côte Gelée, at the St. Martinville church in June 1809.  They settled at Fausse Pointe.  Their children, born there, included a son, name unrecorded, died at his parents' home at Fausse Pointe 12 days after his birth in June 1810; Joséphine, also called Marie Joséphine, born September 1811; twin sons, names unrecorded, died at age 1 month in May 1814; another son, name unrecorded, died three days after his birth in September 1815; Éloi, fils, also called Éloi Lucien and Lucien, born in October 1816; a son, named unrecorded, died at birth in July 1818; Marie born in December 1819; and a daughter, name unrecorded, died at age 15 days in January 1820.  Wife Marie died at their home at Fausse Pointe in March 1821, in her late 20s.  Her succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in October.  Éloi Amand, at age 34, remarried to Marie Irma, called Irma, daughter of Louis Hilaire Boutté and Marie Lucille Decuir of Opelousas, in a civil ceremony in St. Martin Parish in July 1822.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Eugène Numa in April 1825 but, called Numa, died at age 11 1/2 in October 1836; Marie Virginie, called Virginie, born in May 1827; Marie Lucille, called Lucille, in July 1829; and Gustave, also called Antoine Gustave, in December 1831--13 children, eight sons and five daughters, by two wives, including a set of twins, between 1810 and 1831.  Éloi A., as he was called, died in St. Martin Parish in September 1832, age 44.  His first succession, naming his second wife and listing his heirs--Numa, Virginie, Lucille, Gustave, Lucien, and Joséphine and her husband--was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in December 1832.  A second succession, naming his second wife, was filed at the Franklin courthouse, St. Mary Parish, in August 1835, so he must have owned property in both parishes.  Daughters Joséphine and Marie Lucille, by both wives, married into the St. Julien and Dugas families.  Two of Éloi Amand's remaining sons also married and settled on the Teche. 

Fifth son Éloi Lucien, called Lucien, from first wife Marie Broussard, married Élisabeth, also called Élise or Élisa, daughter of fellow Acadians Désiré LeBlanc and Marcellite LeBlanc, at the St. Martinville church in June 1835.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Marie Eléonore in February 1837; Alcipiade Lucien in May 1838 but, called Alcibiade, died at age 6 in August 1844; Eugène Numa le jeune born near New Iberia in June 1839; Henriette Célinie in November 1840; Jean Stanislas in January 1842; Martin, also called Martin Lusignan, in November 1843; Désiré in October 1846; Balthazar Doria, called Doria, in April[sic] 1847; Irma in c1848 but died at age 2 in January 1850; Emérance born in July 1851; and Louis in October 1853--11 children, four daughters and seven sons, between 1837 and 1853.  Lucien died in St. Martin Parish in September 1858.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial did not give any parents' names, mention a wife, or give Lucien's age at the time of his death.  He would have been a month shy of 42.  His succession, naming his wife, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in March 1859.  Daughters ... married into the Bourque, LeBlanc, and St. Julien families by 1870.  Two of Lucien's sons also married by then.

Fourth son Martin Lusignan married Élodie, daughter of William Parcell and Célestine Dutel, at the St. Martinville church in March 1869. ...

Lucien's sixth son Balthazar Doria married Mathilde, daughter of Norbert Bonin and Zulma Bonin, at the St. Martinville church in July 1865. ...

Éloi Amand's ninth and youngest son Antoine Gustave, called Gustave, from second wife Irma Boutté, married cousin Élisabeth Alphonsine, called Alphonsine, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Dugas, fils and Clarisse Broussard, at the New Iberia church in December 1851.  Their children, born near New Iberia, included Marie Octavie in October 1852 but, called Octavie, evidently died in St. Martin Parish, age 10 1/2, in September 1863; Odile Odèïde, called Odèïde, born in October 1854; Antoine Oscar, called Oscar, in May 1857; Élizabeth Alma, called Alma, in October 1859; Elida Mathilde in February 1861; Marie in November 1863; Amand in January 1866; Irma in c1867; ...  None of Gustave's children married by 1870. 

Amand's seventh son Camille Amand, by second wife Anne Benoit, married Marie Élisabeth, called Élisabeth and also Élisa Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Dugas and Constance LeBlanc of La Pointe, at the St. Martinville church in July 1821.  They settled at Fausse Pointe.  Their children, born there, included Élisa in June 1822 but may have died in St. Martin Parish, age 38, in September 1861; Camille Euphémon or Euphémon Camille born in May 1824; Constance, also called Suzanne Constance, in February 1826; Léontine, also called Marie Léontine, in December 1827; Euphémie in April 1829; and Antoine Preval or Preval Antoine, called Antoine, in April 1831--six children, four daughters and two sons, between 1822 and 1831.  Camille Amand died in St. Martin Parish in March 1846.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial said that Camille died "at age 46 yrs."  He was 44.  His succession, calling him Camille Armand, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse the following August.  Daughters Marie Léontine, Euphémie, and Suzanne Constance married into the Gondron, Durand, and LeBlanc families.  Camille Amand's sons also married and settled on Bayou Teche. 

Older son Camille Euphémon or Euphémon Camille married Marie Susanne Louise, called Louise, daughter of Laurent Tertron of Nantes, France, and Marie Louise Beauvais, at the St. Martinville church in December 1847.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Marie Louise in October 1848; Henri Laurent in November 1850 but died the following June; Jean Armand born in March 1852; Joseph René in June 1854; a daughter, name and age unrecorded, perhaps a twin, died in St. Martin Parish in June 1855; a son, name and age unrecorded, perhaps the unnamed daughter's twin, died in St. Martin Parish in September 1855; Marie Joséphine born in October 1857; Marie Camille in December 1860; Marie Élise in September 1863; ...  None of Camille Euphémon's children married by 1870. 

Camille Amand's younger son Preval Antoine, called Antoine, married double cousin Félicie or Félicia, daughter of fellow Acadians Léon Broussard, Preval's first cousin, and his first wife Clara Broussard, at the New Iberia church in May 1851.  Their children, born near New Iberia, included Numa in August 1853; Edmond in April 1855; Asval in January 1856; Charles Camille in November 1857; Léon in June 1859 but may have died at age 2 1/2 in October 1861; Marie Cécile born in November 1861; and Edmond born perhaps posthumously in February 1862 (the baptismal record says February 1864, which probably was wrong); ...  Preval died in St. Martin Parish in February 1862.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Preval died "at age 25 yrs."  Preval Antoine would have been 30.  His succession, calling him Preval Antoine and naming his wife, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in April 1862.  One wonders if his death was war-related.  Widow Félicia's succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in December 1867.  None of their children married by 1870. 

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In 1765, a Broussard wife and her Robichaud family came to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français, but she and her husband did not follow her Broussard cousins to lower Bayou Teche.  They settled, instead, at Cabahannocer, an established Acadian community on the river above New Orleans.  No new Broussard family line came of it. 

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Seven more Broussards--a wife and her Melanson family from Annapolis Royal; a young orphaned grandson of Alexandre and Joseph dit Beausoleil's oldest brother Pierre; and a widow and her five Broussard children from Minas, grandchildren of the Beausoleil brothers' older brother Claude--came to the colony from Maryland via Cap-Français in September 1766.  They, too, settled at Cabahannocer, and two of the Broussard nephews married there.  One joined his cousins at Attakapas in the 1770s and added substantially to the number of Broussards on the prairies.  The other remained on the river, where he created a new center of family settlement on what came to be called the upper Acadian Coast.  His sisters also moved on to Attakapas, where one of them married: 

Augustin (c1748-1810) à Pierre à Francois Broussard

Augustin, son of Charles Broussard and Madeleine LeBlanc, born probably at Minas in c1748, followed his family to Maryland in 1755 and came of age there.  An orphan in his late teens, he followed his kinsmen to Louisiana and settled with them at Cabahannocer.  Augustin married cousin Anne, daughter perhaps of fellow Acadians Pierre Landry and Marie-Josèphe LeBlanc and widow of Joseph Melanson, at either Cabahannocer or nearby Ascension in c1769 or 1770.  A Spanish official counted them on the left, or east, bank of the river at Ascension in August 1770.  Later in the decade, they crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to the Attakapas District and settled near his Broussard cousins on upper Bayou Vermilion.  Their children, born on the river and the upper Vermilion, included Françoise baptized at Ascension, age unrecorded, in December 1770; Martin-Louis, called Louis, born in November 1772; Joseph dit Augustin in November 1774; Apollonie dite Pollone or Paulone on the upper Vermilion in November 1775; Benjamin in c1777; Constance in December 1778; Hortense in August 1783; and Augustin, fils, also called Auguste, in July 1785--eight children, four daughters and four sons, between 1770 and 1785.  Augustin, called by the Opelousas priest who recorded his burial an "inhabitant at Attakapas," died probably on the upper Vermilion in September 1810, "at age about 63 yrs."  His succession, listing his widow and children--Louis, Joseph, Auguste, Benjamin, Françoise, Pollone, Constance, and Hortense--was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse, St. Martin Parish, the following July.  Daughters Françoise, Constance, Apollonie dite Pollone, and Hortense married into the Hébert, Mire, Meaux, Duhon, Montet, LeBlanc, and Broussard families.  Augustin's sons also married and settled on the prairies. 

Oldest son Martin-Louis, called Louis, followed his family to the prairies and married Élisabeth or Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Savoie and Judith Arceneaux of Cabahannocer, at Attakapas in May 1800.  They settled on the Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included Élisabeth in March 1801; Louis, fils, also called Martin Don Louis, in August 1804; Marie Carmélite in December 1806; Joseph le jeune in May 1809 but died at age 4 in September 1813; and twins Cyprien and Rosémond born in March 1811, but Rosémond died at age 3 months the following August.  Martin Louis remarried to Marie Eméranthe or Mérante, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon dit Agros LeBlanc and Anne Hébert of Vermilion, at the St. Martinville church in June 1815.  Their children, born in what became Lafayette Parish, included Eulalie in February 1819 but died at age 1 1/2 in October 1820; Édouard, also called Édouard Marie, in February 1821; and Martin in May 1826 but died at age 18 months in October 1827--nine children, three daughters and six sons, including a set of twins, by two wives, between 1801 and 1826.  Louis died in Lafayette Parish in February 1839.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Martin Lewis, as he called him, was age 65 when he died.  He was 66.  His succession, calling him Martin Louis and naming his two wives, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, that month.  Daughter Élisabeth, by his first wife, married into the LeBlanc family.  Three of Louis's sons also married and settled on the prairies. 

Oldest son Louis, fils, also called Martin Don Louis, from first wife Élisabeth Savoie, married fellow Acadian Madeleine, also called Doralise and Marguerite, Benoit probably in Lafayette Parish in the early 1820s.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Joseph, also called Joseph Théodule, in March 1825; Théogène baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, 27 days, in October 1827; Désiré born in late 1829 and baptized at age 3 months in February 1830; Eugénie baptized at age 3 months in July 1832; Belzire born in early 1835 and baptized at age 17 months in June 1836; Edgard baptized at age 2 months in May 1837; and Martin, fils, also called Martin D., born in December 1844--seven children, five sons and two daughters, between 1825 and 1844.  Daughters ... married into the Brasseaux and Broussard families by 1870.  Louis, fils's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Joseph Théodule married Pélagie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Duhon and Pélagie Trahan, at the Vermilionville church in February 1846.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Éloi in February 1852; Joseph Tertule in October 1854; Jean Fernese in October 1857; Emela in August 1859; Alcide in June 1862; ...  Daughter ... married into the Hébert family by 1870.  None of Joseph Théodule's sons married by then. 

Louis, fils's second son Théogène may have married cousin Victorine Broussard, place and date unrecorded, but it probably was in the late 1840s or early 1850s.  Their children, born near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, included a child, name unrecorded, died there at age 9 days in September 1854; Honora born in February 1857; Louisa, perhaps theirs, in February 1859; ...

Louis, fils's third son Désiré married cousin Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Gédéon Théon Broussard and his first wife Marie Denise Duhon, at the Vermilionville church in August 1848.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Megret in March 1853; and Clara in February 1855.  Neither of Désiré's children married by 1870. 

Louis, fils's fifth and youngest son Martin, fils married Marie, daughter of Sylvestre Manceaux and Marguerite Gobelet, at the Youngsville church, Lafayette Parish, in January 1867.  They settled near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish. ...

Louis, père's third son Cyprien, a twin, by first wife Élisabeth Savoie, married cousin Pélagie, daughter of Pierre Meaux and his Acadian wife Pélagie Broussard, at the Vermilionville church in May 1831.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Élisabeth in late 1832 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 7 weeks, in January 1833; Émilia baptized at age 2  months in November 1834; Azélie born in late 1835 and baptized at age 4 months in January 1837; Azélia born in November 1838; Martin Sylvanie in January 1841[sic], but the baptismal record says he was baptized by an Opelousas priest, so he may have been born earlier; Olivier born in December 1842; Abraham in November 1843 or 1844; Gabriel in October 1846; Amélie in July 1848; Antoine Arthur in May 1850; Amédée in March 1852; Alcide near Abbeville in January 1854; Pierre Mozart in March 1857; and Louis Félix in October 1858--14 children, five daughters and nine sons, between 1832 and 1858.  None of Cyprien's daughters married by 1870, if they married at all, but four of his sons did. 

Oldest son Martin Sylvanie married Marie Anaïs, called Anaïs, daughter of perhaps fellow Acadian Ursin Guidry and his Anglo-American wife Mathilda Forman, at the Abbeville church in July 1860, but they may have married civilly a few years earlier.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Colin M. in St. Landry Parish in April 1855[sic]; Mélanie in Lafayette Parish in May 1861; Félix near Abbeville in November 1862; ...  None of their children married by 1870. 

Cyprien's second son Olivier may have been the Olivier Despanet who married Alphonsine Boutté at the Abbeville church in November 1865.  They settled in Calcasieu Parish.  Their son Olivier Euphémon, called Euphémon, was born in November 1866; ...  In June 1870, Olivier D., as he was called, was living with his wife and son in Ward 2 of Calcasieu Parish, near Lake Charles.  The federal census taker said that Olivier D. was age 30 at the time of the counting; Olivier, son of Cyprien, would have been age 27. 

Cyprien's third son Abraham likely married cousin Julie Broussard, date and place unrecorded, but it probably was near Abbeville.  Their children, born there, included Louis Alcée in January 1868; Arsène in April 1869; ... 

Cyprien's fourth son Gabriel married cousin Marie Evélina, called Evélina, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Comeaux and his Creole wife Euphémie Meaux, at the Vermilionville church in April 1869. ...

Louis, père's fifth son Édouard Marie, by second wife Méranthe LeBlanc, married Célanie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Paul Thibodeaux and Doralise Landry, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in January 1850, 10 months after a daughter was born, so they may have married civilly in St. Landry Parish in the 1840s.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Marie Euzèïde near Grand Coteau in March 1849; Martin probably in the late 1840s; Pierre Paul in the late 1840s or early 1850s; Léonore near Abbeville in November 1853; Marie Lisidia near Grand Coteau in April 1855; Anselme in March 1857; Mélasie in August 1860; Artibus near Church Point, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in November 1863; ...  Daughters ... married into the Faulk and Herpin families by 1870.  Two of Édouard Marie's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Martin married cousin Céleste, daughter of Antoine Meaux and his Acadian wife Anastasie Broussard, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in April 1869, and sanctified the marriage at the Abbeville church the following October. ...

Édouard Marie's second son Pierre Paul married Élisabeth, daughter of Benjamin Faulk and Émilienne Meaux, at the Abbeville church in July 1869.  Their son Dulva Pierre was born near Abbeville in July 1870; ...

Augustin's second son Joseph dit Augustin followed his family to the prairies and, at age 29, married Anne Victoire, also called Anne dite Annette, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Hébert and Anne Dugas, at Attakapas in January 1804.  Anne, a native of St.-Similien Parish, Nantes, had come to Louisiana from France with her widowed mother and siblings in 1785, when she was age 4.  She followed her family to upper Bayou Lafourche and then to the Attakapas District.  She and Joseph dit Augustin settled at Grand Prairie, near today's downtown Lafayette, and at nearby Prairie Sorel.  Their children, born there, included Joseph dit Augustin, fils in November 1804; a son, name unrecorded, died eight days after his birth in August 1806; Anne Célanie or Sélanie born in November 1807; Marie Mélanie in April 1811; Marguerite Harmenie in May 1814; Dositée, a son, in February 1817; and Marie Cléonice in August 1820 but died at age 3 in October 1823--seven children, three sons and four daughters, between 1804 and 1820.  Joseph dit Augustin, père died in Lafayette Parish in April 1828, age 53.  Daughters Marie Mélanie and Anne Célanie married into the Cormier and Dugas families.  Joseph dit Augustin's remaining sons also married and settled on the prairies.

Older son Joseph dit Augustin, fils married cousin Marie Doralise, Doralie, Oralise, or Eloyse, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Hébert and Élisabeth Duhon, at the Vermilionville church in November 1831.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Joseph III in March 1833; Victor Cadet baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 1 month, in April 1835 but died in May; Belizer or Bélisaire born in September 1836; Adeline baptized at age 1 month in March 1839; Mathilda and Mathilde, perhaps twins, born in December 1841; Jules in September 1844; Élise in January 1848; Dosithée le jeune in December 1850; and Odile in June 1852--nine or 10 children, five sons and perhaps four daughters, including perhaps a set of twins, between 1833 and 1852.  None of Joseph dit Augustin, fils's children married by 1870, at least none in South Louisiana. 

Joseph dit Augustin's third and youngest son Dositée may have married Elvira, daughter of William Lyons and Tabitha Forman, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in January 1840.  Did he father any children? 

Augustin's third son Benjamin married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Hébert and Madeleine Trahan, at Attakapas in January 1801.  They settled on Lake Peigneur, also called Le Lac and Lake Simonette, at the border of present-day Iberia and Vermilion parishes, and on the Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included twins Benjamin Augustin and Joseph Onésime in April 1802, but Joseph Onésime died at age 14 in February 1816; Marie dite Cléonide born in January 1805; Louis le jeune, called Don Louis, in October 1806; François Xavier Drosin, called Drosin and Derosier, in October 1808; Émilie in October 1810; Éloise in February 1812; Jean in November 1813 but died at age 20 in July 1834; Augustin le jeune, also called Lessin, born in October 1816; Béloni in September 1818; and Adèlle in June 1822 but died at age 1 in June 1823--11 children, seven sons and four daughters, including a set of twins, between 1802 and 1822.  Benjamin, père died in Iberville Parish on the river in September 1822, age 45.  One wonders why he was there.  His succession, naming his widow, her second husband, and Benjamin, père's heirs--Don Louis, François, Mélite, Élouise and her husband, Jean, Lessin, Bélonie, Adèlle "who died recently," Benjamin, and Marie and her husband--was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in May 1823.  Daughters Marie dite Cléonide, Émilie, and Éloise married into the LeBlanc, Cormier, and Thibodeaux families.  Five of Benjamin's sons also married and settled on the prairies. 

Oldest son Benjamin Augustin, a twin, married Séraphine Dubois, probably not a fellow Acadian, date and place unrecorded, but it probably was in Lafayette Parish in the early 1820s.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Benjamin III in October 1825; Aurelia in 1828 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 10 months, in April 1829; and Émilia born in 1831 and baptized at age 13 months in June 1832--three children, a son and two daughters, between 1825 and 1831.  Benjamin Augustin's succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in May 1832.  He would have been age 30 that year.  None of his children married by 1870, if they married at all. 

Benjamin's third son Louis le jeune, also called Don Louis, married fellow Acadian Marie Vincent in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in July 1826.  They probably settled near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Marie Rémise in July 1827; Merciliènne or Marsilene in August 1828 but died the following January; Cyphorien or Symphorien born in February 1830; Uranie in c1831 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 1, in October 1832; Louis Duplessis baptized at age 8 months in October 1833; Marie Léonore baptized at 10 months in October 1835; Eméline born in c1836 and baptized at age 1 in November 1837; a child, name unrecorded, died at age 1 month in May 1838; Dupréville born in May 1839; Aimée Élisa in May 1841; Joseph in February 1843; Joseph Ajarra or Agerin in October 1845; and a child, perhaps theirs, name unrecorded, died in Lafayette Parish, age 3 months, in August 1847--13 children, at least six daughters and five sons, between 1827 and 1847.  Daughters ... married into the LeBlanc family, and perhaps into the Laviolette family as well.  One of Don Louis's sons married by 1870. 

Fifth and youngest son Joseph Agerin married Aspasie Palmyre, daughter of Silvestre Manson or Mancau and Marguerite Labbé, at the Church Point church, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in November 1868.  A daughter had been born the previous August, so they may have been married civilly before they sanctified the marriage. ... 

Benjamin's fourth son François Xavier Drosin, called Drosin and Derosier, married Marie Denise, called Denise, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph dit Petit Duhon and Marie Rose Landry, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in June 1835, but they had been "married" for years.  They settled probably near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Drausin or Drosin, fils in April 1826 but, called Drosain, died at age 3 1/2 in October 1829; Marie Natalie baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months and 28 days, in August 1827; Mélanie born in October 1828; Cidalise in April 1830; Euclide in late 1832 and baptized at age 7 months in June 1833 but died the following September; Lasty baptized at age 2 months in May 1834; Estival, called Stival, born in April 1835; Marie Odille in February 1837; Joseph in October 1839; Édouard in September 1842; Émile in March 1843[sic] but, called a "child" by the recording priest, may have died near St. Martinville, age 1, in March 1844; Georges born in March 1845; and twins Émilie and Émilien in April 1848--14 children, nine sons and five daughters, including a set of twins, between 1826 and 1848.  Daughters ... married into the Harrington, Labauve, Laviolette, and Marsan families by 1870.  Two of Drosin's sons also married by then.

Fourth son Estival, called Astival by the recording clerk, married Donatille, daughter of Alexis Istre and Sylvanie Miller, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in September 1856, and, called Stival by the recording priest, sanctified the marriage at the Grand Coteau church in March 1862.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Benjamin in January 1858; Denyse, perhaps a son, in July 1861; ... 

Drosin's sixth son Édouard married Marguerite, daughter of Joseph Laviolette and Anastasie Gonzales, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in June 1866, and sanctified the marriage at the Church Point church in March 1868.  Their son Édouard, fils was born near Church Point in October 1867; ... 

Benjamin's sixth son Augustin le jeune, also called Lessin, married Anastasie or Aspasie, also called Josie, daughter of fellow Acadians Éloi Comeaux and Marie Louvière, at the Vermilionville church in June 1836.  They settled probably near Carencro and were living in St. Landry Parish by the mid-1850s.  Their children, born there, included Filosy or Philosi, a son, baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 5 months, in November 1837; Gerasin born in the late 1830s; Charles in March 1840; Benjamin le jeune in January 1842; Donat in June 1846; Joseph Philoène in May 1849; Marie Azéma in June 1853 but, called Azéma, may have died at age 10 1/2 in January 1864; Espera born in September 1856; Azéma in March 1862; ...  Augustin le jeune's succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in February 1869.  He would have been age 53 that year.  Daughter ... married into the Guidry family by 1870.  Five of Augustin le jeune's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Philosi married Émelia, daughter of fellow Acadian Béloni Thibodeaux and his Creole wife Célestine Boulé of Pointe Lyons, at the Grand Coteau church in May 1860.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Marie Olympe near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in June 1861; Louis near Grand Coteau in December 1862; and Élisabeth in May 1865.  Philosi remarried to Marie Azéma, called Azéma, daughter of fellow Acadian Onésime Cormier and his Creole wife Eugénie Simon and widow of Jean Hébert, at the Church Point church in June 1867.  They settled near Point Lyons, now Lyons Point, Acadia Parish, south of present-day Crowley. ...

Augustin le jeune's second son Gerasin married Marguerite, also called Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Leger and Marguerite LeBlanc, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in August 1857, and sanctified the marriage at the Grand Coteau church in May 1860.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Marie Azémi in June 1858; Amédée in September 1860; Charles Gerasin in September 1863; ...  Gerasin's successions were filed at the Opelousas and Vermilionville courthouses in December 1866, so he must have owned property in Lafayette as well as St. Landry Parish. 

Augustin le jeune's fourth son Benjamin le jeune married Maria Anne or Anaïs, daughter of fellow Acadians Moïse Guidry and Mélanie Hébert, at the Church Point church in May 1866.  Their son Colombus was born near Church Point in December 1868; ... 

Augustin le jeune's fifth son Donat married Anathalie, daughter of Jacob Abshire and Deline Suire, at the Church Point church in April 1869, but they may have been married civilly.  Their son Donat, fils had been born near Church Point in December 1868; ... 

Augustin le jeune's sixth and youngest son Joseph Philoène married Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadian Aurelien Hébert and his Creole wife Pélagie Dartes, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in April 1868, and sanctified the marriage at the Church Point church in May. ... 

Benjamin's seventh and youngest son Béloni married Marie Josèphe or Joséphine, called Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Agricole Landry and Christine Labauve, at the Vermilionville church in April 1836.  They settled probably near Carencro but were living near Abbeville by the mid-1850s.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Zelmire baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in April 1837; Oliva baptized at age 2 months in December 1838; Joachim born in September 1841; Martial in June 1847; Omer in July 1849; Uranie in November 1851; and Mélanie in January 1855--seven children, four daughters and three sons, between 1837 and 1855.  Daughters ... married into the Benoit, Charpentier, Labauve, and Trahan families by 1870.  One of Béloni's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Joachim may have married Anglo American Eulalie Harrington, place and date unrecorded.  Their son Delano was born near Church Point in December 1869; ... 

Augustin's fourth and youngest son Auguste or Augustin, fils married cousin Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Claude Broussard dit Beausoleil and his first wife Louise dite Lise Hébert, at Attakapas in May 1806.  They settled on the Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included Aurelien Augustin or Augustin Aurelien, in August 1807; Jean Achilles in January 1809 but died at age 6 1/2 in August 1815; Benjamin le jeune born in September 1810; Arvillien in August 1811; Théotiste or Théolise in January 1814; Anastasie in November 1815; Édouard, also called Édouard Auguste, in December 1817; Louis, also called Don Louis Auguste, in August 1819; Célestine in December 1821; and Camille in May 1824--10 children, seven sons, and three daughters, between 1807 and 1824.  Daughter Théolise married into the LeBlanc family.  Four of Augustin, fils's sons also married and settled on the prairies. 

Oldest son Aurelien Augustin or Augustin Aurelien, married cousin Marie Coralie, called Coralie, daughter of fellow Acadians Éloi dit Petit Jos Broussard and Marguerite Thibodeaux, at the Vermilionville church in April 1829.  They settled near Lake Simonet in nearby Vermilion Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie in May 1830; Augustin Colom, also called Augustin IV, Auguste Colom, Colomb, or Colomb, in December 1832; Azélie in late 1834 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 5 months, in May 1837; Hortense baptized there at age 3 months in April 1837; Lastie born in December 1838; Ulalie in February 1841; Joseph in March 1843; Olidor, perhaps Olidon, in September 1843[sic] and baptized at the Abbeville church "prior to 1854"; Marie Estelle born probably in the 1840s; Emma in October 1846; Simon after October 1846; Alida in September 1849; and Numa in February 1851--13 children, seven daughters and six sons, between 1830 and 1851.  Augustin A., as he was called, worked as a farmer and stock raiser in Vermilion Parish and served for a number of years on the parish police jury.  He died on his farm in Vermilion Parish in 1885, in his late 70s.  Daughters Azélie, Hortense, and Marie Estelle married into the Derouen, LeBlanc, and Thibodeaux families by 1870.  Two of Augustin A.'s sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Auguste Colomb married Élodie LeBlanc, probably a fellow Acadian, place and date unrecorded.  Their children, born near Abbeville, included Gabriel Elias in April 1860; Emethylle, perhaps a son, in July 1862; Rosa in June 1864; ...  They were living near New Iberia in 1864. 

Second son Lastie was working as a clerk in an Abbeville drug store on the eve of the War of 1861-65, so he was well-schooled as a young man.  During the war, he served two years as a parish deputy sheriff and as parish assessor and treasurer for three years, which evidently exempted him from military service.  At age 22, he married Perpétué, daughter of Spanish immigrant Leufroid Maillard or Mayard and his Acadian wife Uranie Landry of Lafayette Parish, at the Abbeville church in June 1861.  Perpétué served as a town nurse.  Her and Lastie's children, born at Abbeville, included twins Marguerite Odile and Marie Odilia in April 1862; Odalie in October 1863; Olive in late 1865 and baptized at age 5 months in February 1866; Lastie Odilon born in February 1869; and, after 1870, twins Odile and Odelia; Ophelia, who died as an infant; Oliver or Olivier; Octavia; Ovide; Onesia; Olita, who became a nun; Otto; Otis; Oméa, who died young; and Opta, perhaps a son, who also died young--15 or 16 children, nine or 10 daughters and six sons, all with the letter "O" in their names.  After the war, Lastie served as a justice of the peace and, for 23 years, clerk of the parish court.  During the turmoil of Reconstruction, he was, according to family lore, threatened with violence by political opponents if he left his home.  Ignoring the threat, he was shot in the leg by an assaillant on his way to Sunday mass.  In 1879, at age 41, he was admitted to the bar in Vermilion Parish and, beginning in 1888, perhaps after stepping down as clerk of court, practied law in the parish, forming a law partnership with Walter A. White in 1889, which became the law firm Broussard, White, Kitchell, and Bailey, located on State Street in Abbeville opposite the parish courthouse.  In the early 1890s, Lastie owned 2,500 acres of land in the parish, 200 of those acres under cultivation in cane, corn, and rice.  He also owned substantial holdings in Abbeville.  In 1891 he was listed among Abbeville and Vermilion Parish notables in W. H. Perrin's Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical.  He served as mayor of Abbeville and, between 1900 and 1904, as state senator representing the 13th Senatorial District.  He died at Abbeville in March 1911, age 72, a widower, much mourned by his community. 

Augustin, fils's fourth son Arvillien married Marie Émilie, Amelia, Émelia, or Ervilia, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Boudreaux and Marie Madeleine Landry, at the Vermilionville church in April 1840.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Maxence in Lafayette Parish in February 1841; Ozémée or Ozémé, perhaps a son, in January 1843; Yrma or Irma in St. Martin Parish in March 1845; Jules near Abbeville in March 1847; Louisa in August 1856; Albert in April 1859; Alida in April 1861; ...  Daughter Irma married into the Comeaux family by 1870.  One of Arvillien's sons also married by then.

Third and youngest son Jules married double cousin Zelmire, daughter of fellow Acadians Onésime Boudreaux and Ezilda Broussard, at the Abbeville church in February 1868. ...

Augustin, fils's fifth son Édouard Auguste married cousin Clémence or Cléonise, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Hébert and Clarisse Broussard, at the Vermilionville church in February 1838.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Camille, also called Camillie Minos and Minos Camille, in December 1838; Joseph Napoléon in October 1841; Marie Belzière in August 1844; and Alexandre perhaps in c1847--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1838 and 1847.  Édouard Auguste, at age 48, remarried to Téolive, daughter of Leufroi Maillard and his Acadian wife Marguerite Landry, at the Abbeville church in August 1866. ... Édouard Auguste's daughter did not marry by 1870, but two of his sons did.  Not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Camille Minos, by first wife Clémence Hébert, married Eulalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Aurelien Duhon and Ceraline Trahan, at the Abbeville church in April 1867. ...

Édouard Auguste's second son Alexandre, by first wife Clémence Hébert, married double cousin Marie Sylvanie, daughter of fellow Acadians Don Louis Jean Olidon Broussard and Marie Virginie Broussard, at the Abbeville church in May 1868.  Alexandre may have died near Abbeville in May 1870.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Alexandre died "at age 23 yrs."  He evidently fathered no children. 

Augustin, fils's sixth son Don Louis Auguste married Marie Virginie, called Virginie, another daughter of Louis Boudreaux and Marie Madeleine Landry, at the Vermilionville church in June 1839.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Marie Dorenza in March 1840; Célina in September 1841; Bazile in January 1844; Étienne in December 1844; a child, perhaps theirs, name unrecorded, died in Lafayette Parish at age 3 months in August 1847; Augustin le jeune born near Abbeville in March 1848; Euphémie in June 1852; Alix Idea in March 1856; Angèlle Alzina in December 1864; ...   Daughters ... married into the Broussard and Primeaux families by 1870.  One of Don Louis Auguste's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Étienne married cousin Eméranthe, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Onésime Broussard and Scholastique Duhon, at the Abbeville church in July 1867.

Firmin dit Simon (c1752-1785) à Claude à Francois Broussard

Firmin dit Simon, oldest son of Jean Broussard and Anne Landry, born probably at Minas in c1752, followed his family to Maryland in 1755, his widowed mother and siblings to Louisiana in 1766, and settled with them at Cabahannocer on the river.  In September 1769, a Spanish official counted him and younger brother Jean, fils on the left, or east, bank of the river at Cabahannocer.  In the early 1770s, Firmin and brother Jean, fils followed their mother and stepfather René Landry to Ascension, just upriver from Cabahannocer, where Firmin married cousin Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Abraham dit Petit Abram Landry and his second wife Marguerite Flan, in May 1775.  Their children, born at Ascension, included Françoise baptized, age unrecorded, in May 1777; Simon born in January 1779; Henriette in April 1780; Marie-Madeleine in November 1781; François-Thomas in December 1782 but died 15 days after his birth in January 1783; Auguste or Augustin born in December 1783; and Firmin, fils posthumously in July 1785--seven children, three daughters and four sons, between 1777 and 1785.  Firmin, père died at New Orleans in April 1785, age 34.  Daughters Françoise and Henriette married into the Dugas and Babin families but died in their late 20s.  Three of Firmin dit Simon's sons also married and settled in Iberville and Ascension parishes, but not all of the lines endured.  A grandson settled near his cousins in West Baton Rouge Parish. 

Oldest son Simon married cousin Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon-Henry Richard and Marie-Rose Landry, at San Gabriel above Ascension in February 1801.  Their children, born at San Gabriel, included Marie-Céleste, called Céleste, in November 1801 but died the following April; Marie-Amélie born in May 1803; Marie Céline in July 1805; Marie Céleste in September 1807; Élisabeth in c1808 but died at age 2 in June 1810; Simon Henri or Henri Simone, also called H. Simon, born in November 1809; Joseph Aubin in March 1812; Marie Euphémie in August 1814 but died at age 1 in August 1815; and Louis Robert, called Robert, born in April 1817--nine children, six daughters and three sons, between 1801 and 1817.   Simon died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in October 1824.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Simon was age 50 when he died.  He was 45.  Daughter Marie Amélie married into the Duplessis family.  Two of Simon's sons also married and settled on the river. 

Oldest son Simon Henri or Henri Simone married Anne Joséphine, called Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Raphaël Landry and Marie Madeleine Breaux, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in April 1831.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included André Diogène in February 1832; and Joseph died near St. Gabriel, age unrecorded, in September 1833.  Simon remarried to Marie Joséphine or Séraphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Sébastien Guidry and Eulalie Breaux, at the St. Gabriel church in April 1836.  Their children, born on the river, included Marie Amélie in July 1837 but died at age 3 in September 1840; Louis Gustave born in December 1839; Jean or John Octave in April 1840; Madeleine Célina in July 1843; Simon Floriant in January 1844 but died the following September; Simon, fils born in September 1846; Olivier in c1848 but died at age 1 1/2 in September 1850; Anne Olivia born in January 1849; Eugène Washington in November 1850; Marie Julia in November 1852; Ursule Gracilia in Ascension Parish in November 1855; and Marie Joséphine in August 1857--13 children, seven sons and six daughters, by two wives, between 1832 and 1857.  None of Simon Henri's daughters married by 1870, but two of his sons did. 

Third son Louis Gustave, by second wife Marie Guidry, married Marie Ermine, daughter of Louis Tibivilier and his Acadian wife Telside Hébert, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in June 1858.  Did they have any children? 

Simon Henri's fourth son Jean Octave, by second wife Marie Guidry, married fellow Acadian Aoit Nathalie, called Nathalie, Landry, place and unrecorded.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Simon Octave near Gonzales, in the interior of Ascension Parish, in May 1867; Constance Félicie in December 1868; ... 

Simon's third and youngest son Louis Robert, called Robert, married Euphrosine, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Dupuy and Anne Marie Blanchard, at the St. Gabriel church in January 1839.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Robert Maurice in October 1840; and Joseph Robertson in July 1842 but died the following January.  Robert remarried to Marie Evélina, called Evélina, daughter of Célestin Frederick and Marie Louise Duvernais, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in February 1844.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Marie Asélie in March 1845; and Marie Egerie in August 1847--four children, two sons and two daughters, by two wives, between 1840 and 1847.  Robert died near St. Gabriel in October 1847, age 30 (the recording priest said 31).  None of his children married by 1870. 

Firmin's third son Auguste or Augustin married cousin Marie Émelie, Émelite, or Émerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Firmin Landry and Victoire Babin, at Ascension in June 1806; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born on the river, included Azélie in June 1807; Marie Émilie in August 1808 but died at age 2 in November 1810; Marie Mathilde born in September 1810; Auguste Marcel, called Marcel, in September 1812 but died at age 7 in October 1819; and Judith Célestine born in October 1816 but died at age 3 in October 1819.  Augustin remarried to cousin Marguerite Adélaïde, called Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Hyacinthe Landry and Marguerite Landry and widow of Charles LeBlanc, at the Donaldson church in October 1819.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Firmin le jeune in September 1822 but died at age 3 1/2 in January 1826; and Marguerite Eléonore Anne, called Eléonore, born in May 1826--seven children, five daughters and two sons, by two wives, between 1807 and 1826.  Augustin evidently died in Ascension Parish in June 1843.  The Donaldsonville 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 ca. 63 yrs."  He was 59.  Daughters Marie Mathilde and Eléonore, by both wives, married into the Dugas family.  Neither of Augustin's sons survived childhood, but the blood of the family line may have endured. 

Firmin's fourth and youngest son Firmin, fils married Anne Marine, called Marine, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Breaux and Anne Monique Guidry, at the St. Gabriel church in February 1810.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included a daughter, name unrecorded, died 17 days after her birth in May 1811; Marie Séraphine, called Séraphine, born in August 1812; Henri in March 1814 but died at age 3 in March 1817; Charles Magloire, called Magloire, born in November 1816; and Simon Oreilly in January 1819--five children, two daughters and three sons, between 1811 and 1819.  Firmin, fils died near St. Gabriel in January 1821.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Firmin was age 30 when he died.  He was 35.  Daughter Marie Séraphine married into the Kling and Breaux families.  Only one of Firmin, fils's sons married.

Second son Charles Magloire, called Magloire, married Marie Marianne, called Marianne, daughter of John Sides and Signy Lee and widow of Valentin Henderson, at the St. Gabriel church in October 1838.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Marie Marine Telcide in December 1839; Siméon Aurely le jeune in February 1842; Zénon Labauve in August 1844; and Jérôme in November 1846--four children, a daughter and three sons, between 1839 and 1846.  None of Magloire's children married by 1870. 

Jean, fils (c1760-?) à Claude à Francois Broussard

Jean, fils, second son of Jean Broussard and Anne Landry and Firmin dit Simon's brother, born in Maryland in c1760, followed his widowed mother and siblings to Louisiana in 1766 and settled with them at Cabahannocer.  In September1769, a Spanish official counted him and older brother Firmin on the left, or east, bank of the river at Cabahannocer.  Jean, fils followed his mother, stepfather, and older brother to Ascension, where he appeared in a Spanish census in April 1777, age 16.  One wonders if he married. 

Paul (1766-?) à Claude à Francois Broussard

Paul, third and youngest son of Jean Broussard and Anne Landry, born at New Orleans in November 1766, two months after his widowed mother and siblings reached the colony from Maryland, appears in none of the censuses at Cabahannocer or Ascension with the rest of his family, so he probably died young. 

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Two more Broussards--an unmarried woman and a bachelor--came to Louisiana in the late 1760s, but their arrival dates are anyone's guess.  Catherine Broussard settled in Attakapas, where she married a Spaniard, and died at Baton Rouge in the early 1800s.  The bachelor went to the Opelousas District and married a fellow Acadian there.  Two of his sons were among the few Acadians to settle in Avoyelles north of Opelousas.  One wonders how they were kin to the other Broussards on the prairies:

Louis (c1750-?) à ? à François? Broussard

Louis, son of Urbain Broussard and Catherine ____, born perhaps at Pigiguit in c1750, first appears in Louisiana records in the Opelousas census of October 1774 as a 24-year-old bachelor.  He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Benoit and Anne Trahan, probably at Opelousas in c1775.  Louis's wife also was called Marguerite Ledé (actually Latier, her stepfather's surname).  She and Louis settled in the Grand Prairie area of the Opelousas District north of present-day Washington.  By the mid-1790s, they had moved up to the Avoyelles prairie, among the few Acadians who settled there.  Their children, born on the upper prairies, included François baptized at the Opelousas church, age unrecorded, in March 1777; Rosalie born in 1779 and baptized, age 13 months, in February 1780; Modeste baptized, age 6 weeks, in December 1781; Maximilien born in January 1786; Jean-Baptiste baptized, age unrecorded, in September 1789; Céleste born in April 1791; Joseph in January 1793; and Louise, perhaps Marie-Louise, baptized, age unrecorded, in October 1796--eight children, four sons and four daughters, between 1777 and 1796.  Daughter Marie Louise married into the Labaterie family.  Three of Louis's sons also married.  Some of his descendants moved back into St. Landry Parish during the early antebellum period, while others remained in Avoyelles.  One wonders how Louis was kin to the other Broussards of South Louisiana. 

Second son Maximilien married Joséphine, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Guillory and Marguerite Ahieze of Avoyelles, at Opelousas in January 1806.  They settled in Avoyelles.  Their children, born there, included Maximilien, fils, also called Similien, in the late 1800s or early 1810s. 

Maximilien, fils, also called Similien, perhaps the only son, if not the only child, married Hélène Landreneau, also called Pauline Choffroin, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in 1832.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Félicien in September 1835.  Similien's daughter married a Guillory cousin.  His son did not marry by 1870, at least not in St. Landry Parish.

Louis's third son Jean Baptiste married Anne dite Manette, daughter of Joseph Landreneau and Hélène Juneau of Pointe Coupee and Avoyelles, by 1814.  Their children, born in Avoyelles and St. Landry, included Delphine, also called Adelphine, in Avoyelles Parish in January 1814; Jean Baptiste, fils in c1817; Valéry in St. Landry Parish in August 1822; Lastie or Lasty in September 1826; and Olivier in July 1829--five children, a daughter and four sons, between 1814 and 1829.  A succession for Jean Baptiste Broussard was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in August 1847.  This Jean Baptiste would have been in his late 50s that year.  Daughter Adelphine married into the Ardoin family by 1870.  One of Jean Baptiste's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Jean Baptiste, fils married Sylvanie, 17-year-old daughter of Joseph Marcellin Ortego and his Acadian wife Louise dite Lise Lejeune, at the Opelousas church in August 1838.  A succession for Jean Baptiste Broussard was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in January 1857.  Jean Baptiste, fils would have been about age 40 that year. 

Louis's fourth and youngest son Joseph married Marie or Marguerite, daughter of French Canadian Michel Barre and his Acadian wife Marie Achée, probably in St. Landry Parish in the 1820s.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Euphrosine in September 1824; and Joseph, fils in September 1828.  Joseph's children did not marry by 1870, at least not in South Louisiana. 

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If Acadian immigration to Louisiana had ended in 1770, the Broussard family would have still been a large one in the Spanish colony.  Two decades after the first of the family came to Louisiana, however, nine more members of the family, including three siblings from Minas, reached the colony aboard three of the Seven Ships from France in 1785.  Though they did not substantially increase the numbers of François Broussard's descendants in the colony, these newcomers did help to spread the family even farther across the width and breadth of today's South Louisiana. 

The first of them--a family of six Broussards, the family head a grand-nephew of the Beausoleil brothers--crossed aboard 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, where they created new centers of Broussard family settlement not only on the river, but also on upper Bayou Lafourche:

Charles (c1743-1790s) à Pierre à Francois Broussard

Charles, older son of Joseph Broussard le jeune and Ursule LeBlanc and first cousin of Augustin of Attakapas, born at Grand-Pré in April 1743, followed his family to Île St.-Jean after 1752 and his widowed father to Cherbourg, France, in late 1758.  Charles married Bonne-Jacqueline-Françoise Castel, probably a local girl, at Cherbourg in c1764.  Bonne gave Charles at least six children there:  Jean-Charles-Joseph born in c1765; François in c1767; Jacques in c1769 or 1770; Pierre in March 1771; Joseph-Dominique, called Dominique, in May 1772; and Bonne-Marguerite in September 1773.  Soon after their daughter's birth, they followed other Acadians in the port cities to the interior of Poitou, where Bonne gave Charles another son, Louis, born at La Chapelle-Roux in February 1774.  In December 1775, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes, where Bonne gave Charles two more sons:  Guillaume-Médard born in Ste.-Croix Parish in June 1776 but died in St.-Jacques Parish in July; and Jean born in St.-Martin de Chantenay Parish in February 1778 but died there at age 2 1/2 in September 1780--nine children, eight sons and a daughter, between 1765 and 1778.  At age 41, Charles remarried to Euphrosine, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Barrieau and Véronique Giroir and widow of François Boudrot, at St.-Martin de Chantenay in June 1784.  She gave him no more children.  The following year, Charles, Euphrosine, five of his sons, and one of Euphrosine's sons by her previous marriage, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana.  Daughter Bonne-Marguerite and son Louis, from Charles's first wife, ages 12 and 11 in 1785, did not accompany the family to Louisiana, so they likely had died by then.  From New Orleans, Charles and his blended family followed their fellow passengers to Manchac on the river south of Baton Rouge but did not remain.  In the late 1780s or early 1790s, they were part of the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Charles died by December 1795, when Euphrosine was counted in a Lafourche valley census without a husband.  Charles would have been in his late 40s or early 50s that year.  His five sons created their own families at Baton Rouge, on the upper Lafourche, and on the Opelousas prairies, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Jean-Charles-Joseph, by first wife Bonne-Jacqueline-Françoise Castel, followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, Chantenay, New Orleans, and Manchac, where he married Élisabeth- or Isabelle-Marguerite, called Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians André Templet and his second wife Marguerite LeBlanc, in November 1788.  Marguerite, a native of St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo, France, also had come to Louisiana from France aboard Le Bon Papa.  They moved to upper Bayou Lafourche in the early 1790s.  They evidently had no children.  Jean-Charles-Joseph, at age 42, remarried to Anne dite Nanette, 22-year-old daughter of Louis Guillaume Estevan, Stebens, Steven, Stieven, or Stiven and his Acadian wife Marie Babin, at Ascension in February 1807.  Nanette's parents and older siblings also had come to Louisiana aboard Le Bon Papa, but Nanette was a native of Manchac.  She and Jean-Charles-Joseph settled on the Lafourche in Assumption and Lafourche Interior parishes.  Their children, born on the upper bayou, included Césaire Abdeline or Julienne in May 1809; Adèle in June 1816; Athanasie or Adénaïse in December 1817; and Euphrosine in the late 1810s or 1820s--four children, all daughters, between 1809 and 1827.  Jean Charles Joseph died by August 1827, when a public sale of his estate, calling his wife Anne Stieven and listing his children--Césaire, Euphrosyne, Adèle, and Artenaïse--was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse, Lafourche Interior Parish.  He would have been age 62 that year.  Daughters Césaire Julienne, Adèle, Adénaïse, and Euphrosine, by his second wife, married into the Benoit, Babin, Breaux, and Bavaret families.  Jean Charles fathered no sons by either of his wives, so this line of the family, except for its blood, did not endure.  

Charles's second son Jacques, by first wife Bonne-Jacqueline-Françoise Castel, followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, Chantenay, and Louisiana, though he does not appear on either the embarkation or the debarkation list of Le Bon Papa.  He may have come to the Spanish colony on a later ship and joined his family at Manchac.  After he came of age, and while his brothers remained at Baton Rouge or moved to upper Bayou Lafourche, Jacques crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to the Opelousas District, where he married Isabelle, daughter Jacob Miller and Anne-Marie Theigen of Alsace and Maryland, in July 1791.  Jacques and Isabelle seem to have been that rare Cajun couple who had no children.  Isabelle, called Élisabeth, evidently died at Manchac in August 1795, age 22, so Jacques may have rejoined his family there.  Did he remarry? 

Charles's third son François, by first wife Bonne-Jacqueline-Françoise Castel, followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, Chantenay, New Orleans, and Manchac, where he married Marguerite-Toussainte, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Henry and Françoise Hébert, in February 1791.  Marguerite, a native of Pleurtuit near St.-Malo, had come to Louisiana from France in 1785 aboard a later ship.  She and François settled in what became West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Brigitte-Hélène in December 1795; twins Dominique le jeune and Louis-François baptized, age 4 months, in September 1800; Hyacinthe born in July 1802; Marie Marguerite in March 1804; and Joseph Onésime born in c1813--six children, two daughters and four sons, between 1795 and c1813.  Daughter Brigitte married into the Lavigne family.  Three of François's sons also married.  One lived for a time in Lafourche Interior Parish but returned to West Baton Rouge.  The other sons remained on the river in West Baton Rouge and Iberville parishes.  

Oldest son Dominique le jeune, a twin, married Eléonore or Léonore, daughter of Frenchman Jean Charles LeTullier and his Acadian wife Flore Adélaïde Daigre of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in January 1828.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Ulysse, called Ulysse, in November 1828; Louis in April 1830; Rose Dulcinée, called Dulcinée, in March 1832; François Uselien or Eusilien, called Eusilien, in January 1834; Théodule in February 1836; Auguste Adonis in May 1838; and Zéolide Adolphe baptized at Brusly, age unrecorded, in May 1842--seven children, six sons and a daughter, between 1828 and 1842.  Dominique le jeune died near Brusly in February 1854, age 53 (the recording priest said 54).  Daughter Dulcinée married into the Guidry family by 1870.  Three of Dominique le jeune's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Ulysse married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Ambroise Bourg and Delvina Allain, at the Brusly church, West  Baton Rouge Parish, in July 1850.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie Aline in October 1851; Joséphine Olivia in January 1854; and Louisa in December 1857--three children, all daughters, between 1851 and 1857.  None of Ulysse's daughters married by 1870. 

Dominique le jeune's second son Louis married Marie Pillaine, daughter of Emeneserie Greffin or Griffin and his Acadian wife Marie Pauline Daigre, at the Brusly church in April 1854.  Their children, born on the west bank of the river, included twins Camille Louis and Lillis Gervais, a son, near Brusly in July 1855, but Lillis, called Louis by the recording priest, may have died near Baton Rouge, "age ca. 3 years," in December 1858; and François Guy born near Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, in March 1861.  Louis's remaining sons did not marry by 1870. 

Dominique le jeune's third son François Eusilien married Élisabeth, daughter of William Gipson and his Acadian wife Zepheline Hébert, at the Brusly church in April 1857.  Their children, born near Brusly, included François Eusilien, fils in January 1859; and Marie in April 1861.

François's second son Louis-François, Dominique le jeune's twin, married Delphine, 29-year-old daughter of Jean Baudoin and Geneviève Andras of New Orleans and widow of Sylvain Tregre, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1825, and sanctified the marriage at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in June 1829.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Louis, fils in October 1826; Élise or Élisa in October 1828; and Adèle in December 1830.  After his wife died in July 1831, Louis returned to the river and remarried to Rose or Rosalie, another daughter of Jean Charles LeTullier and Flore Adélaïde Daigre of West Baton Rouge and widow of Jérôme Hébert, at the Baton Rouge church in October 1832.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Victorin in August 1833; and Forestin, also called Forester, in October 1835--five children, three sons and two daughters, by two wives, between 1826 and 1835.  Louis, père died probably in West Baton Rouge Parish in March 1837, age 36.  Daughters Adèle and Élisa, by his first wife, married into the Ousset and Tullier families.  Louis François's three sons also married and settled in West Baton Rouge. 

Oldest son Louis, fils, by first wife Delphine Baudoin, married, at age 23, first cousin Marie Élodie, called Élodie, 16-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Onésime Broussard and Modeste Thibodeaux, his uncle and aunt, at the Brusly church in December 1849; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born near Brusly, included Louis Evelius in September 1853; and François Joseph in November 1855.  None of Louis, fils's children married by 1870. 

Louis-François's second son Victorin, by second wife Rose Tullier, married Marie Euphrosine, daughter of fellow Acadian Firmin Comeaux and his Creole wife Marie Emma Frechaux, at the Brusly church in November 1863. ...

Louis-François's third and youngest son Forester, by second wife Rose Tullier, married cousin Hermine Eliska, daughter of Octave Altazin and his Acadian wife Séraphine Broussard, at the Brusly church in May 1861; they had to secure a dispensation for fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry. ...

François's fourth and youngest son Joseph Onésime married Modeste, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Thibodeaux and Madeleine Bourg, at the Baton Rouge church in December 1832.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie Élodie, called Élodie, in August 1833; Modeste Caroline in April 1835; Joseph Onésime, fils in February 1838; Paulin Damon in June 1840; and Adolphe in August 1843--five children, two daughters and three sons, between 1833 and 1843.  Joseph died probably in West Baton Rouge Parish in September 1853.  The Baton Rouge priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Joseph died at "age ca. 40 years."  Daughters ... married into the Broussard and Tuillier families by 1870.  Two of Joseph's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Joseph Onésime, fils married Zoé Séverine, daughter of Joseph Tullier and his Acadian wife Marguerite Aucoin, at the Brusly church in February 1860.  Daughter Antoinette Eulalie was born near Brusly in February 1861; ...

Joseph Onésime, père's third and youngest son Adolphe married Coralie, daughter of fellow Acadian Eugène Daigre and his Creole wife Zéolide Tullier, at the Brusly church in June 1864.  Their son Adolphe, fils was born near Brusly in October 1869; ... 

Charles's fourth son Pierre, by first wife Bonne-Jacqueline-Françoise Castel, followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, Chantenay, New Orleans, and Manchac, where he married Marie-Sophie, called Sophie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Molaison and Marie-Blanche Doiron, in March 1794.  Marie-Sophie, a native of Nantes, had come to Louisiana from France in 1785 on a later ship.  She and Pierre settled in what became West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Charles-Louis in December 1794; Eusilien, also called Lucien and Roselien, in c1796; Clémence-Matamisa in May 1798; Céleste-Sophie in November 1799; Pierre, fils in February 1802; Sophie-Marcelline in December 1803; Caroline in January 1808; Louis Hippolyte, called Hippolyte, in January 1810; and Joséphine in May 1811--nine children, four sons and five daughters, between 1794 and 1811.  Daughters Sophie Marcelline, Clémence, and Joséphine married into the Petit, Grass, and Esnard families.  Two of Pierre's sons also married and settled in West Baton Rouge, western Iberville, and Pointe Coupee parishes. 

Second son Eusilien, also called Lucien and Roselien, married cousin Marie Émerite, called Émerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Charles Thibodeaux and Madeleine Adélaïde Bourg, at the Baton Rouge church in February 1827; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Émile Eusilien in January 1828; Léocadie Sophie in October 1831; Charles Amédée, called Amédée, in May 1835; Jules baptized at the Baton Rouge church, age 1 month, in January 1840; and Emma Émelie in December 1844.  Eusilien, in his mid-50s, remarried to Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians François Theriot and Ursule Trahan and widow of Joachim Chevalier, at the Brusly church in February 1851.  Their son François Eusilien Lucien was born near Brusly in December 1852--six children, four sons and two daughters, by two wives, between 1828 and 1852.  Eusilien, "res. of Bayou Cirier," died near Lakeland, Pointe Coupee Parish, in August 1866.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Uzelien, as he called him, died at "age 70 years."  Daughters ..., by his first wife, married into the Blanchard and Landry families by 1870.  Three of Eusilien's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Émile Eusilien, by first wife Émerite Thibodeaux, married cousin Céleste Delphine, called Delphine, daughter of fellow Acadian Prudent Molaison and his Creole wife Marie Peyronnin, at the Brusly church in February 1854; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born on the river, included Marie Céleste in February 1855; Élise Émerite in March 1857; Pierre Émile near Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, in February 1861; Marcellin Clara near Lakeland, Pointe Couppe Parish, in March 1867; Louis Alfred near Baton Rouge in September 1869; ... 

Eusilien's second son Amédée, by first wife Émerite Thibodeaux, married Élisabeth dite Élize or Éliza, daughter of fellow Acadians Magloire Charles LeBlanc and Pauline Richard, at the Brusly church in May 1862.  Their children, born on the river, included Marie Pauline near Lakeland in March 1866; Charles Amédée near Baton Rouge in January 1868; Alcé Édouard in Pointe Coupee Parish in February 1870; ...

Eusilien's third son Jules, by first wife Émerite Thibodeaux, married Louise or Louisa Célestine or Céleste, another daughter of Magloire Charles LeBlanc and Pauline Richard, at the Brusly church in February 1862.  Their children, born on the river, included Marie Altée near Lakeland, Pointe Coupee Parish, in June 1866; Mathilde Élina near Baton Rouge in March 1868; Joseph Henry Avit in June 1870; ...

Pierre, père's fourth and youngest son Louis Hippolyte, called Hippolyte, married cousin Émelie Rosalie, also called Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Blanchard and Modeste Aimée Bourg, at the Baton Rouge church in July 1832; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of relationship in order to marry.  Daughter Émelia Adonia was born on the river in April 1833.  Hippolyte remarried to Azéma or Emma Dodd, daughter of John Baptiste Rils and his Acadian wife Émerite Dupuy, at the Plaquemine church, Iberville Parish, October 1853.  Their children, born near Plaquemine, on the west side of the river, included Sophia Ann in August 1854; Julia Emérite in August 1855; Louis Hippolyte in July 1857 but may have died at age 5 in August 1862; Louis Gustave born in August 1859; Marie Althée in February 1861; Joseph James in December 1862; Catherine Louise in September 1864 but died near Plaquemine, age 11 months, in August 1865; Jean Baptiste born in April 1866; Catherine Virginie in June 1869; ...  Daughter ..., by his first wife, married into the Estevan family by 1870.  None of Hippolyte's sons married by then.

Charles's fifth son Joseph-Dominique, called Dominique, from first wife Bonne-Jacqueline-Françoise Castel, followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, Chantenay, New Orleans, and Manchac, but he did not remain.  He married Pélagie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Martin dit Barnabé and Marguerite Pitre, at Cabahannocer on the lower Acadian Coast in November 1795 and followed his oldest brother Jean-Charles-Joseph to upper Bayou Lafourche in the late 1790s.  Dominique and Pélagies's children, born on the river and the upper bayou, included Isabelle at Cabahannocer in October 1795 but died there at age 10 months in August 1796; Joseph-Dominique, fils born in February 1797 but died at age 7 months the following September; Jean Laurent, called Laurent, born in September 1798; Jean-Baptiste at Assumption in August 1801; Rosalie in September 1803; Jean Antoine in September 1805; Joseph Charles in December 1807; Julie Adèle in February 1810; Émilie Constance in February 1812; Doralise in September 1813; and Eugène in November 1815 but died at age 17 (the recording priest said 18) in November 1832--11 children, five daughters and six sons, between 1795 and 1815.  Daughters ... married into the Ainsworth, Boudreaux, Dias, Soublincon, and Thomson families.  Two of Dominique's sons also married.  One of them returned to the river and settled in West Baton Rouge Parish by the late 1830s, but the other one remained in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley. 

Second son Jean Laurent, called Laurent, followed his parents to upper Bayou Lafourche and married Marie Marcelline, called Marcelline, daughter of fellow Acadians Hippolyte LeBlanc and Marguerite Gaudet, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in May 1820.  They lived in Lafourche Interior Parish before returning to the river and settling in West Baton Rouge Parish during the late 1830s.  Their children, born on the bayou and the river, included Adèle in Lafourche Interior Parish in March 1821 but, called Abdèlle, died there at age 2 1/2 in November 1823; Élise Mélite born in September 1822; Caroline Rosalie, called Rosalie, in May 1825 but died at age 5 1/2 in September 1830; Séraphine Pauline born in May 1828; Joseph died at age 9 days in May 1830; Rosalie Lorenza born in August 1831; Laurent, fils in December 1835; Marie V. in Lafourche Interior Parish in September 1836; Prudent near Baton Rouge in April 1839; and Lilia Victorine in April 1852 but died the following September--10 children, seven daughters and three sons, between 1821 and 1852.  Laurent, père died in West Baton Rouge Parish in October 1857.  The Brusly priest who recorded the burial, and did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Laurent died at "age 56 years."  He was 59.  Daughters ... married into the Altazin, Pousalvez, and Trahan families by 1870.  One of Laurent's sons also married by then and settled near Plaquemine on the west bank of Iberville Parish. 

Second son Laurent, fils married Euphémie, daughter of Charles Tullier and his Acadian wife Scholastique Aucoin, at the Brusly church in May 1856.  Their children, born on the river, included Charles Philips in August 1857; Joseph George in January 1859; Alfred Martin near Plaquemine in November 1861; Augustin Alfred near Baton Rouge in March 1866; ... 

Dominiques fifth son Joseph Charles married Marie Louise, daughter of François Michel Jacques Bouquet, Buquet, Buguet, Biquet, or Bake and his Acadian wife Marie Anne Henry, at the Thibodauxville church in April 1837.  They later moved down into Terrebonne Parish.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Doralise in April 1838 but, called Doralise, died at age 16 1/2 (the recording priest said 18) in July 1854; Augustin born in July 1840; Marie Odile or Odille, called Odille, in September 1842; Marguerite Joséphine in March 1845; and Marie Louise in February 1849 on Bayou Cannes--five children, four daughters and a son, between 1838 and 1849.  Daughters Odille and Marie Louise married into the Babin and Pitre families by 1870.  Jean Charles's son did not marry by then. 

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A Broussard wife reached the colony with her Potier family aboard Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans during the third week of August 1785.  They did not follow their fellow passengers to Baton Rouge but joined their cousins on the western prairies. 

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The last of the Acadian Broussards to come to the colony--a husband, his wife, and their surviving son, the husband a grand-nephew of the Beausoleil brothers--crossed aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in early November 1785.  They did not follow their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche but joined their cousins on the western prairies, where another robust family line came of it: 

Jean (c1745-1790s) à Pierre à Francois Broussard

Jean, also called Jean-Baptiste, younger son of Joseph Broussard le jeune and Ursule LeBlanc and Charles of Lafourche's brother, born probably at Minas in c1745, followed his family to Île St.-Jean after 1752 and his widowered father to Cherbourg, France, in late 1758.  Jean married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Honoré Comeau and Marguerite Poirier, in Très-Ste.-Trinité Parish, Cherbourg, in July 1773.  Soon after their marriage, they followed his older brother to the interior of Poitou, where Marguerite gave Jean two sons at Monthoiron southeast of Châtellerault:  Jean-Baptiste dit Petit born in May 1774; and Joseph in November 1775.  They lingered in Poitou after March 1776 but then followed their fellow Acadians to the lower Loire port of Nantes, where French officials counted them in October 1777.  Marguerite gave Jean two more children, perhaps twins, at nearby Chantenay:  Florence-Adélaïde and Pierre born in October 1777, but Pierre died at Chantenay, age 10 months, in July 1778--four children, three sons and a daughter, including perhaps a set of twins, between 1774 and 1777.  Son Joseph and daughter Florence-Adélaïde died before 20 August 1785, the day Jean, Marguerite, and their remaining son Jean-Baptiste dit Petit left Paimboeuf, the lower port of Nantes, for Louisiana.  From New Orleans, they went to the Attakapas District and settled near Jean's many kinsmen there.  Their remaining son married and settled in what became Lafayette Parish.

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste dit Petit followed his family to Nantes, Chantenay, New Orleans, and Attakapas, where he married Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptste dit Cobit Hébert and his second wife Théotiste-Marie Hébert, in October 1793.  They settled on the Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included Marie-Felonise in February 1796; Marie-Adélaïde in October 1797; Ursule in October 1799; a daughter, name unrecorded, died at age 4 months in March 1802; Thérèse or Thersille born in May 1803 but died at age 1 1/2 in June 1804; Jean Joachim, called Joachim and also Hippolyte, born in March 1806; Nicolas in October 1807; Théovide, called Ovide and Avide dit Vide, in August 1809; Marguerite in September 1811; Jean Marcel or Marcelle in December 1813 but died in Lafayette Parish at age 13 1/2 in June 1827; and Athanase born in December 1815--11 children, six daughters and five sons, between 1796 and 1815.  Jean Baptiste dit Petit died in Lafayette Parish in August 1823, age 49.  He may have been the Jean Baptiste Broussard who "d. 1820'" and whose succession, filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in Augusts 1834, said he fathered 10 children.  Daughters Marie Felonise, Ursule, and Marguerite married into the Lapointe, Duhon, and Dugas families.  Four of Petit's sons also married.  His youngest son settled on upper Bayou Lafourche, but his other sons remained in Lafayette Parish. 

Oldest son Jean Joachim, called Joachim and also Hippolyte, married Adélaïde Meaux probably in Lafayette Parish in the early 1820s.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Adélaïde in October 1824; Jean in May 1826; Hippolyte in October 1828; Mélanie baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in April 1831; Marsiliènne born in c1833, baptized at age 1 in May 1834, but died the following October; Ursule born in 1835 and baptized at age 11 months in June 1836; Émilie born in late 1837 and baptized at age 6 months in May 1838; and Chevalier born in April 1840--eight children, five daughter and three sons, between 1824 and 1840.  Daughter ... married into the Trahan family by 1870.  One of Jean Joachim's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Jean married Zulma, daughter of Béloni Simon and his Acadian wife Pélagie Boudreaux, at the Vermilionville church in September 1851.  They settled on the lower Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included Azéma in November 1852 but died at age 2 in November 1854; Donat born in October 1854; Eugénie in January 1858; Emma in February 1860; Eugènard in January 1862; Zulma near Youngsville in January 1864; Jean, fils baptized at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, "at age 6 mths.," in October 1866; Trasimond born in May 1869; ...  None of Jean's children married by 1870. 

Jean-Baptiste dit Petit's second son Nicolas married Marie Cléonise or Phelonise, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Hébert and Élisabeth Duhon, at the Vermilionville church in December 1830.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Nicolas, fils in October 1831; Marguerite Pamela, perhaps their daughter, in March 1832; Antoine died a day after his birth in January 1833; and Héloise born in December 1833--four children, two sons and two daughters, between 1831 and 1833.  A succession for wife Marie Phelonise, perhaps post-mortem, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in October 1835.  None of their children married by 1870. 

Jean-Baptiste dit Petit's third son Théovide, called Ovide and Avide dit Vide, married Marie Arthémise, called Arthémise, another daughter of Joseph Hébert and Élisabeth Duhon, at the Vermilionville church in January 1830.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Émilia in October 1830; Arminianne baptized at the Vermilionville church at age 9 days in June 1832 but died three days later; Odille baptized at age 4 months in November 1833; Sosthène baptized at age 2 months in April 1836 but died at age 16 months in July 1837; Éloi born in September 1838 but died at age 2 in October 1840; Antoine born in the 1840s; Paul Phire in January 1848; and Louisianaise in March 1851--eight children, four daughters and four sons, between 1830 and 1851.   Daughters ... married into the Sonnier and Thibodeaux families by 1870.  One of Ovide's surviving son also married by then. 

Third son Antoine married Azélima, daughter of fellow Acadians Aladin Vincent and Azéma Trahan, at the Abbeville church in January 1867.  They settled on the lower Vermilion above Abbeville.  Their son Numa was born there in November 1867; ... 

Jean-Baptiste dit Petit's fifth and youngest son Athanase married Célestine, daughter of William K. Vaughn, also Van, Vane, Vanne, and Wan, and his Acadian wife Eulalie Templet, in a civil ceremony probably in Assumption Parish in August 1848.  They settled near Paincourtville on upper Bayou Lafourche and sanctified the marriage at the Pierre Part church, Assumption Parish, in October 1858.  Their children, born near Pierre Part on the north shore of Lake Verret, included Jean Baptiste Olivier in December 1848; Marie Aselie in October 1851; Françoise Anastasie in March 1853; Joséphine in December [1855]; Julien Tiburce in July 1858; Marie in August 1861; ...  Daughter ... married into the Aucoin family on lower Bayou Teche by 1870.  Neither of Athanase'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 ELEVEN:  The Non-Acadian "Cajun" Families of South Louisiana

BOOK TWELVE:  Acadians in Gray

 

 SOURCE NOTES - BOOK TEN

01.  See Brasseaux, Acadian to Cajun; Appendix

Etymologies in both Random House and Webster's dictionaries give 1868 as the first appearance of the word "Cajun" in print, but one suspects anglophones were using the term, most likely as an epithet, years before that date.  It simply was a derivation of the Acadians' own Cadien, a shortened version of Acadien.  See Brasseaux; Book Eight. 

02.  Precision in the number of these "foundational families" comes from the sheer size of their membership.  Family size is determined by the number of recorded marriages in a family from 1765 thru 1861.  The larger families had 100 marriages or more during that period, the largest (Landry) recording slightly over 1,200 marriages.  See Appendix

For non-Acadian families with substantial connections to the Acadians of LA, see Appendix; Book Eleven (only just begun).

Narratives of an Acadian family's travails during exile can be found in more detail in Book Six. 

03.  See Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 161; BRDR, vol. 2; "Fort Cumberland, 24 Aug 1763"; NOAR, 2:6, 40 (SLC, B5, 190), 2:211, 245 (SLC, M2, 3 or 33); Voorhies, Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 114-15, 426; White, DGFA-1, 1405; Books Three, Five, Six, & Eight; Arosteguy family page. 

04.  See Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 165; Voorhies, Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 117, 210; Barthélémy family page. 

I have found this family in neither Arsenault, Généalogie, nor White, DGFA-1, only in Wall of Names, so I must assume the researchers at the Acadian Memorial have found an Acadian origin for this fellow which has eluded me.  Are they assuming his presence in the Apr 1766 census at Cabahannocer means he was an Acadian?  The great majority of them were, but not all of them.  Not the Cantrelles or the Verrets, who were the original settlers at Cabahannocer, or Marc Maulet, Saturnin Bruno, Félix Pax, François Andro, or Pierre Bidau, who is listed next to Joseph Barthélémy in the census.  See Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 162-70. 

05.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 401-05; Faragher, A Great & Noble Scheme, 388; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A; Historical Atlas of Canada, 1: plate 29; "The Origins of the Bastarache, Bastrash and Basque Families," AGE, May 2008, 45; White, DGFA-1, 80-82; White, DGFA-1 English, 17; Books One, Three, Five, Six, & Eight; Bastarche family page. 

06.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 405-08, 1100-01, 2415; BRDR, vols. 2, 6, 7; Clark, Acadia, 107, 119, 132-34; Clément Cormier, "Le Borgne de Belle-Isle, Alexandre," in DCB, 1:435-36, & online; Griffiths, From Migrant to Acadian, 77; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 154; NOAR, 2:247; Oubre, Vacherie, 29; Robichaux, German Coast Families, 34, 36, 118-22; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 65, 129, 134, 257, 264, 370, 404; Mason Wade, "Le Borgne, Emmanuel," in DCB, 1:433-35, & online; White, DGFA-1, 6, 136, 1024-31, 1100-01; White, DGFA-1 English, 218-19; Wood, Acadians in Maryland, 37, 83; Books One, Two, Three, Five Six, & Eight; Bélisle family page. 

07.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 469, 1133-34; Brasseaux, Scattered to the Wind, 8; BRDR, vols. 2, 3, 6; Faragher, A Great & Noble Scheme, 381-83; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 154; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 7, 15, 17; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 42, 115; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 45-46, 104-05, 341, 350, 565-66; White, DGFA-1, 325-26; Books One, Three, Five, Six, & Eight; Bellemère family page. 

08.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 408-27, 842-45, 2206-07; Brasseaux, "Scattered to the Wind", 55-61; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:148; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 24; Historical Atlas of Canada, 1: plate 29; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; <landrystuff.com/ExpulsionShips.html>; White, DGFA-1, 96-104, 792; White, DGFA-1 English, 19-20; Milling, Exile Without End, 41-42; Wall of Names, 11; Books One, Three, Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Belliveau family page. 

The author, a native of South LA, is a direct descendant of Antoine Belliveau & his wife Andrée. 

09.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 448-56, 863-75, 1116-21, 1474-80, 1656, 2004, 2078, 2212-14, 2269-70, 2431-34; Brasseaux, Foreign French, 2:45, 3:38; Brasseaux, "Scattered to the Wind," 11-12, 35-36; BRDR, vols. 1a(rev.), 2, 3, 4, 5(rev.), 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; Delaney, "Chronology of the Deportations"; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:38-39, 79, 85, 147, 163-64; "Fort Cumberland, 24 Aug 1763"; "Fort Edward, 1761-62"; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 38-39; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 30-32, 47-49, 114, 559, 616, 620, 622; 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; Hody, Maud, "BOURG, Abraham," in DCB, 2:93, & online, source of quotation;  <islandregister.com/1752.html.>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 55, 59, 65, 156, 175-76, 204-05, 217, 231, 234-35, 249, 252; Milling, Exile Without End, 21, 44; NOAR, vols. 2, 4, 5, 6, 7; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Duc_Guillaume.htm>, Family No. 21; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Supply.htm>, Family Nos. 6, 11, 17, 18, 19; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Tamerlan.htm>, Family No. 6; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family Nos. 9, 10, 20, 21, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 42, 43, 49, 50, 54, 55, 67, 68, 92, 94, 109, 114, 123, 133, 143, 161, 179, 180; "Ristigouche, 24 October 1760"; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 19-22, 157; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 4-5, 28-33, 87-88, 152; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 80-81, 123-59, 250, 266-68, 273, 291-93, 303, 347-51, 369, 390-93, 442, 461-62, 472-75, 481-82, 488-89, 498-99, 621, 628-31, 639, 699-700, 705-07; Tate & De Ville, Baton Rouge & New Feliciana; <unitedhoumanation.org>; White, DGFA-1, 221-51, 990, 998, 1133, 1569; White, DGFA-1 English, 48-56; Wood, Acadians in Maryland, 146-47; Books One, Three, Four; Five, Six, Eight; Bourg/Bourque family page. 

10.  See 1850 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Ascension, Iberville, & West Baton Rouge parishes; 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Ascension, Iberville, & Lafourche parishes; Arsenault, Généalogie, 1132-33, 1350-64, 1656-57, 2456-57; BRDR, vols. 1a(rev.), 1b, 2, 3, 4, 5(rev.), 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; "Fort Cumberland, 24 Aug 1763"; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vols. 1, 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, 156, 217; NOAR, vols. 1, 4, 5, 6, 7; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family Nos. 8, 25, 137; "Ristigouche, 24 October 1760"; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 146, 179-80, 515-16; White, DGFA-1, 301; White, DGFA-1 English, 67; Books One, Three, Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Bijeaux/Bujole family page. 

11.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 2320-21; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:109-10; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 554-55; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 18; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 58-59; White, DGFA-1, 633; Books Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Billeray family page.

12.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 437-41, 1654-55, 2209, 2271; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:89; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 37-38, 117; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 252; NOAR, vol. 5; White, DGFA-1, 178-79; White, DGFA-1 English, 37; Books One, Three, Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Bonnevie & Gousman family pages. 

13.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 441, 1107-08, 1806; BRDR, vol. 2; White, DGFA-1, 182-84, 1469-72; White, DGFA-1, English, 38, 309; Books One, Three, Five, Six, & Eight; Boucher family page. 

14.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 474-81, 884-85; BRDR, vols. 2, 3, 5(rev.), 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 61, 262, 293; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 1-A, 1-B, 2-B, 4; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 78, 204, 234, 267; NOAR, vols. 2, 3, 4, 6, 7; White, DGFA-1, 270, 289-98; White, DGFA-1 English, 64-66; Taylor, D. J., "Bruns-Lebruns," 33; Books One, Three, Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Brun family page. 

15.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 895-96, 1481-82; BRDR, vols. 2, 3, 4; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:38-39; 118-19; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 65, 66; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vols. 1, 2, 3; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vol. 8; Milling, Exile Without End, 41, 42, 43; NOAR, vols. 3, 4; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family Nos. 59, 60, 61, 105, 139; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 186-89; White, DGFA-1, 319-21; White, DGFA-1 English, 71-72; Books One, Three, Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Carret family page. 

16.  See Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 16-17; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 68-69; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 21-22; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 40, 172; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 489; Books Six & Eight; Chaillou family page. 

17.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 483, 908; BRDR, vols. 2, 4, 7; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2-A:112; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; NOAR, vol. 4; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Reine_d_Espagne.htm>, Family No. 8; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 108; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 188-89, 202, 428-29, 549, 696; White, DGFA-1, 362-64; White, DGFA-1 English, 82; Books One, Three, Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Clémençeau family page. 

18.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 1338, 1344, 2081-82; Vaughan B. Baker, "Cherchez les Femmes: Some Glimpses of Women in Early Eighteenth-century Louisiana," in Conrad, ed., The French Experience in Louisiana, 488; BRDR, vol. 2; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2-A:95-96; Fortier, Louisiana, 1:52; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, passim; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 81, 586, 593; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vol. 1-A; Higginbotham, Old Mobile, 138, 203, 251, 376; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Supply.htm>, Family Nos. 2,  9, 20, 21; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 39; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 62; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 202-03, 300, 356-57, 726-27, 761; White, DGFA-1, 1098; Books Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Clossinet family page. 

19.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 494-95, 1366-68; Brasseaux, Founding of New Acadia, 105; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2-A:49; Guidry, "Guédrys Exiled to North Carolina" in The Guédry-Labine Family website; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 86; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 135; White, DGFA-1, 363, 411-17, 620, 1033; White, DGFA-1 English, 92-93, 130, 220; Books One, Three, Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Corporon family page. 

20.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 1593, 2011; Brasseaux, Foreign French, 1:134; BRDR, vols. 1a(rev.), 5(rev.), 6, 7; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:45; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 90; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 5, 6, 7, 8; NOAR, vols. 1, 4, 7; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 36-37; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 58; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 219; Voorhies, J. Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 505; White, DGFA-1, 427-28; White, DGFA-1 English, 95; Books Three, Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Appendix; Cousin family page. 

21.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 2083; BRDR, vol. 2; Carl A. Brasseaux, "The Moral Climate of French Colonial Louisiana, 1699-1763," 529, in Conrad, ed., The French Experience in LA; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 98, 586, 593-95; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:89; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 67; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 684-87; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 107, 370; White, DGFA-1, 468, 954, 1144; Books Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Darembourg family page. 

22.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 1150-51, 1558-59; BRDR, vols. 1a(rev.), 2; "Fort Edward, 1761-62"; Hébert,  D., Acadians in Exile, 99, 571-72, 578-79; Hébert, South LA Records, vol. 1; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vol. 1-A; NOAR, vol. 2; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Duc_Guillaume.htm>, Family No. 41; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 30; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 50; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 125; White, DGFA-1, 469-71, 1558-59; Books One, Three, Five, Six, & Eight; Darois family page. 

23.  See Clark, A.H., Acadia, 116, 118, 147n72; Jane B. Chaillot, "Bellechasse, Joseph Deville De Goutin," in DLB, 60; Conrad, Attakapas Domesday Book, 1:35, 47-48; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:6; De Ville, LA Troops 1720-1770, 124; De Ville, Mississippi Valley Mélange, 2:14; Faragher, A Great & Noble Scheme, 430; Eric R. Krause, "Goutin, François-Marie," DCB, 3:264-65, & onlineMartin, F.-X., Louisiana, 1:316; McDermott, ed., The Spanish in the Mississippi Valley, 45n18; NOAR, vols. 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 16; Bernard Pothier, "Goutin, Mathieu de," in DCB, 2:257-58, & online; White, DGFA-1, 756-59, 1508-09; White, DGFA-1 English, 155-56; Stephen A. White, "The First Acadian in Louisiana: Joseph De Goutin de Ville," in <acadian-cajun.com/degoutin.htm>; Stephen A. White, "Joseph De Goutin de Ville: The Godfather of the New Acadia in Louisiana," at <acadianmemorial.org>; <usskidd.com/heritage-nationalguard.html>; Books One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, & Eight; De Goutin family page. 

24.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 2120-21; BRDR, vol. 2; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:143; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 102, 267; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vol. 1; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 86; Robichaux, Acadians in Chatellerault, 57-58; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 51-52; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 259-62, 899, 901; Books Four, Five, Six, & Eight; De La Forestrie family page. 

25.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 2091, 2130; BRDR, vols. 2, 3, 5(rev.); De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:93; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 322; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vols. 1, 4; NOAR, vol. 4; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Duc_Guillaume.htm>, Family No. 20; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 32-33; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 52-53; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 613; White, DGFA-1, 791-92; Books Four, Five, Six, & Eight; De La Mazière family page.

A François Maricre, no age given, called "neveu du Pierre Duval," on the passenger list of the Duke William that made it to St.-Malo in 1758 was part of "Family" No. 20 with Jacques Haché, no age given, "neveu de Marie Haché."  Both François and Jacques survived the voyage.  See <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Duc_Guillaume.htm>.  For François's presence with this family on Île St.-Jean in Aug 1752, see De La Roque.  Jean-François Mazière's maternal grandmother was Marie, daughter of Michel Haché dit Gallant and Anne Cormier, so he & Jacques lkely were cousins.  The Pierre Duval mentioned on the Duke William passenger role was the head of Family No. 18, which perished at sea.  With Pierre was his wife Marie Haché & 5 of their children--Anne, Jean-Pierre, Marguerite, Ositte, & Charles--no ages given, since they did not make it to St.-Malo.  Marie Haché, wife of Pierre Duval, was likely Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Michel Haché dit Gallant, fils and Anne Cormier, a younger sister of François Maricre/Mazière's maternal grandmother.  See Arsenault, 2091; White.  Arsenault lists the couple's children as Louise-Charlotte, born in 1733, Marie-Josèphe in 1735, Anne in 1737, Pierre, fils in 1739, Jean-Pierre in 1741, Marguerite in 1744, Osite in 1747, & Charles in 1752.  Pierre Duval, then, was François's great uncle on his momma's side.  Unless we find a church or civil record that gives Jean-François Mazière's parents' names, this is as close as we will get to linking him with Jean-Baptiste dit Ladoceur Massier/Mazière & Marie Poirier of Île St.-Jean. 

26.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 534-35, 2090; BRDR, vol. 3; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:137; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Duc_Guillaume.htm>, Family No. 81; Robichaux, Acadians in Chatellerault, 70; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 126-27; White, DGFA-1, 554-55; White, DGFA-1 English, 117; Books One, Three, Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Dumont family page. 

27.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 1159-60; Brasseaux, Foreign French, 1:182-83, 3:93; BRDR, vol. 1a(rev.), 2, 3, 4, 5(rev.), 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspecion," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:139; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 1-A, 3; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; NOAR, vols. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family Nos. 72, 97; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 44; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 69-70; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 310-11, 351-53; Books Three, Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Duplessis family page. 

28.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 2119-20; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:127; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 93-94, 131-32; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Robichaux, Acadians in Chatellerault, 82; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 78-79; White, DGFA-1, 351, 1075; Books Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Durel family page. 

29.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 542-43; BRDR, vol. 1a(rev.); NOAR, vol. 4; White, DGFA-1, 619-20; White, DGFA-1 English, 130; Books One, Three, Five, Six, & Eight; Flan family page. 

30.   See Arsenault, Généalogie, 2092; BRDR, vol. 2; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:140; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 141; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vol. 1; Hébert, D., Southwest LA  Records, vol. 1-A; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; NOAR, 6:128 (SLC, B14, 53); <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No.87; NOAR, vols. 4, 5; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 331-32, 737-39, 973; White, DGFA-1, 645; Books Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Fouquet family page. 

31.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 2011, 2096; BRDR, vol. 3; NOAR, vol. 1; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:49, 72, 144; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 169-70, 586, 592-94; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 6-7, 102-03; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vol. 7; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family Nos. 90, 95, 157, 182; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 37-38, 83-84, 370-76, 512, 1045; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 61; White, DGFA-1, 306-07; Books Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Grossin family page. 

32.  See BRDR, vols. 2, 7; De Ville, Southwest LA Families, 1777, 20; "Fort Edward, 1761-62"; Harper, Mississippi Valley Mélange, 9:52-54; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 1-A, 1-B, 2-A, 3, 4; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 96; NOAR, vols. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; "Ristigouche, 24 Oct 1760"; White, DGFA-1, 775; Books Three, Five, Six, & Eight; Guénard family page. 

33.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 594-95, 1492-93; Brasseaux, Foreign French, 1:256, 2:147-48, 3:136; 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:39-40, 56, 80-81, 118; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 172; NOAR, vols. 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vols. 3, 4; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 2-B, 4, 7, 8; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; NOAR, vols. 1, 3, 4, 5, 6; <perso.orange.fr./froux/St_malo_arrivees/Antelope.htm>, Family No. 10; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Duc_Guillaume.htm>, Family Nos. 1, 3, 4; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family Nos. 22, 94, 98, 104; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 47; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 77-78; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 326, 381-85; White, DGFA-1, 775-79; White, DGFA-1 English, 158-59; Books One, Three, Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Guérin family page. 

34.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 2191, 2351; BRDR, vols. 2, 3; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 179; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vol. 1; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family Nos. 44, 46; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 442-44; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 53; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 82-83; Books Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Hamon family page; Carole Blier, descendant

35.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 1006, 2614; Brasseaux, Foreign French, 1:278; BRDR, vol. 2; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 197; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 1-A, 1-B, 2-A; Hodson, Acadian Diaspora, 110-16, 233n126; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 235; Milling, Exile Without End, 42; NOAR, vols. 5, 6, 7; Wall of Names, 19; White, DGFA-1, 260; Books Three, Five, Six, & Eight; Hugon family page. 

36.  See Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:443; NOAR, vols. 1, 2, 4; Wall of Names, 19; Book Eight; Josset family page. 

I must assume that the researchers at the Acadian Memorial have found an Acadian origin for him.  I have not.  White, DGFA-1, 877, lists a female Josset married to a Santier in La Baleine & Lorembec, Île Royale, now Cape Breton Island, but no male line.  Arsenault, Généalogie, does not list a Josset anywhere.  So who was this "Acadian" who died soon after he reached La Nouvelle-Acadie?  Sad for us, Fr. Jean-François Civery, who ministered to the Attakapas Acadians in 1765, did not bother to include any parents names or mention a wife in Paul Josset's burial record.  See D. Hébert, cited above. 

37.  See Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 169; Wall of Names, 19 (pl. 4L); Book Eight; Lafaye family page. 

I have not found this family in either Arsenault, Généalogie, or White, DGFA-1, so I must assume that the researchers at the Acadian Memorial have found an Acadian origin for this family that has eluded me.

38.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 482-83; 2081; BRDR, vols. 2, 3; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:137, 145; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 2, 74-75, 268, 585; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; NOAR, vols. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Supply.htm>, Family No. 4; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 37; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 190-91; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 495; White, DGFA-1, 339-41, 1129; Books One, Three, Four, Five, Six, & Eight; La Garenne family page. 

39.  See BRDR, vols. 8, 9; <thecajuns.com/cardmoney.htm>; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vol. 1-A; Mouhot, ed., "Letter by Jean-Baptiste Semer," 223-24; "Ristigouche, 24 Oct 1760"; Book Five & Eight; Lagrèze "famliy" page. 

40.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 1896, 2122; Brasseaux, Foreign French, 1:315, 3:178; BRDR, vol. 8; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 31, 187, 270; NOAR, vol. 1; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vols. 1, 2, 3, 4; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 61-62; White, DGFA-1, 913-14, 1304-05; Books Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Lamoureaux family page. 

41.  See Brasseaux, Founding of New Acadia, 104; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 152; Kinnaird, "The Revolutionary Period, 1765-81," 141; Wall of Names, 21; Wood, Acadians in Maryland, 154; Books Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Latier family page. 

42.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 643-45, 2535-36; Brasseaux, Foreign French, 1:325-26, 3:183; BRDR, vols. 2, 3, 4, 5(rev.), 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; Davis, W. C., The Pirates Lafitte, 97, 225; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:18, 92; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 95, 280; 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. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 55; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 109-10; West, Atlas of LA Surnames, 95-96, 175-76; White, DGFA-1, 978-79; Books One, Three, Five, Six, & Eight; Lavergne family page. 

43.  See Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 437; Wall of Names, 21; Books Five & Eight; L'Enfant family page. 

I have found his family in neither Arsenault, Généalogie, nor White, DGFA-1, only in Wall of Names, so I must assume that the researchers at the Acadian Memorial have found an Acadian connection for Jean L'Enfant that has eluded me. 

44.  See Arceneaux, Généalogie, 2127; Braud, From Nantes to LA, 108, 114, 120; BRDR, vols. 2, 3, 4; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives, 2A:145; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 306-07, 365; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vol. 4; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 142; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 12; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 15-16, 161; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 597-99; White, DGFA-1, 209-11; Books Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Livois family page. 

45.   See Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 165, 175; Brasseaux, Scattered to the Wind, 15; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 233; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 2, 10; Books Five, Six, & Eight; Marant family page. 

I have not found a Marant family in either Arsenault, Généalogie, or White, DGFA-1, only in Wall of Names.  I can only assume that the researchers at the Acadian Memorial have found an Acadian origin for him that has eluded me.  Why was he called Joseph Moreau in SC?  Was he kin to François Moreau, the second husband of Marie-Josèphe Breaux of Attakapas? 

How did Joseph, his wife, & the Orillion orphans get from SC to LA?  Many of the SC Acadians moved to St.-Domingue in 1763-64, & this family may have joined the Acadian exiles from Halifax who stopped at Cap-Français to change ships on their way to LA in late 1764 & 1765.  See Brasseaux.  That they came to LA in 1765 is attested to by their appearance in the Spanish census of Apr 1766.  See Bourgeois. 

46.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 502, 1593-1605, 2471; Bunnell, French & Native North American Marriages, 83-84, 157; Clément Cormier, "Mius (Muis) D'Entremont, Philippe," DCB, 1:510, & online (source of quotation); Delaney, "Chronology of the Deportations"; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 41, 106-07, 162, 271, 329, 334; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vol. 1-B; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; NOAR, vol. 4; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 184; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 560-61, 625; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 43, 175; White, DGFA-1, 1201-11; White, DGFA-1 English, 190, 256-57; Books One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, & Eight; D'Entremont family page. 

47.  See De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 62-63, 84-85; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 2-A, 2-B, 2-C, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; NOAR, vols. 1, 4; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 33, 165; Wall of Names, 42; Books Four, Five, & Eight; Neveu family page. 

48.  See AGE, May 2004, 116, a printed copy of Colonel Winslow's Grand-Pré list; Brasseaux, Foreign French, 1:405, 2:256-57, 3:228; BRDR, vols. 2, 3, 4, 5(rev.), 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 12-13; NOAR, vol. 5; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vols. 1, 3; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 1-B, 2-C, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; Robichaux, Acadian in Châtellerault, 5, 163; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 8-9, 138, 151; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 640-1; Winslow's 1755 List; Books Five, Six, & Eight; Noël family page. 

49.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 703, 1029; Baudier, The Catholic Church in LA, 260-63, 266; Bergerie, They Tasted Bayou Water, 33; Brasseaux, ed., Quest for the Promised Land, 43; Brasseaux & Conrad, eds., The Road to LA, 139-40; BRDR, vols. 1b, 2, 3, 4, 5(rev.), 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; Brian E. Coutts, "Olivier de Vezin, Pierre François," in DLB, 618; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:95; 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, 232, 234; NOAR, vols. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11; Martin, F.-X., Louisiana, 1:317; <stateparks.com/longfellowevangeline.html>; Villiers du Terrage, Last Years of French LA, 368; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 426; Books Three, Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Olivier family page. 

50.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 2133-34; Brasseaux, Foreign French, 2:262; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives, 2A:134-35; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 346; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 1-A, 1-B, 2-A; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 152; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 27; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 139-40, 200; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 214-16, 644-46, 1054, 1057; Books Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Patry family page. 

51.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 710-17, 1662, 2565-66; Breaux, Teche, 65; BRDR, vols. 2, 3, 4, 8; De Ville, Opelousas History, 10, 20, 22-24, 37, 56n28; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 348; 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, 66, 176, 251; NOAR, vols. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; "Ristigouche, 24 Oct 1760"; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 646-47; White, DGFA-1, 1277-80; White, DGFA-1 English, 271-72; Books One, Three, Five, Six, & Eight; Pellerin family page. 

Louis-Gérard's father Gérard, was "magazine-intendant at the general control of the province of Louisiana," and "trustee of the Parish of New Orleans," when Louis-Gérard was born at the New Orleans church on 2 Jan 1730.  See NOAR, 1:202-03. 

52.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 1278-79; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives, 2A:90; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Tamerlan.htm>, Family Nos. 5, 8; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 58; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 35-36, 86, 121, 138; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 276-78, 942, 943, 1084; White, DGFA-1, 1353; Books One, Three, Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Précieux family page. 

53.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 1006-07, 2136, 2574; BRDR, vol. 2; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection, Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:139-40, 143; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 373-74; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vol. 1; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 311, 316-19; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Supply.htm>, Family No. 3; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family Nos. 7, 83, 156, 157; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 100; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 192-93, 282, 516-19, 580-81, 626-27; Books Three, Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Quimine family page. 

54.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 2136; BRDR, vols. 2, 3, 4; De La Roque "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:94; Hébert, Acadians in Exile, 326, 375; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vols. 1, 2, 3, 4; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Tamerlan.htm>, Family No. 2; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 463, 687-89; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 49, 187; Books Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Appendix; Rassicot family page. 

55.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 1279-80, 1663, 2137, 2252, 2284; Brasseaux, Foreign French, 1:451, 454, 456, 2:281-82, 3:247, 249; 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:136, 143, 162; Fortier, Louisiana, 1:53; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 26, 317, 364, 377-78; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vols. 1, 2, 4; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; Higginbotham, Old Mobile, 222, 271, 345, 443, 447; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; NOAR, vols. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7; <perso.orange.fr./froux/St_malo_arrivees/Antelope.htm>, Family No. 4;  <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Duc_Guillaume.htm>, "Family" No. 58; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Supply.htm>, Family No. 29; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 32-33, 73, 86-87; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 52-53, 129, 147; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 690-92; White, DGFA-1, 1370-71; White, DGFA-1 English, 290; Books Three, Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Renaud family page. 

56.  See Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vol. 1-A; Wall of Names, 11; Book Eight; Ritte family page.  

I have found her family in neither Arsenault, Généalogie, nor White, DGFA-1, only in Wall of Names, which calls her Catherine Ritte veuve Guillaume Blanchard, & lists her singly.  I must assume, then, that the researchers at the Acadian Memorial have found an Acadian origin for her that eludes me.  Her surname sounds German.  When did she reach LA?  Where did she settle?  A Catherine Ritter, recorded as Rieter, was buried at Opelousas 12 Apr 1790, but the priest gives no clue as to her parents, age, or spouse.  This is probably her.  See Hébert, D., 1-A:671 (Opel. Ch.: v.1, p.13).

57.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 793-94, 2139-40; BRDR, vol. 2; BRDR, vols. 3, 5(rev.), 6, 7, 9, 10; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:104-06; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 140-41, 404; Higginbotham, Old Mobile, 584; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; NOAR, vol. 1; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Supply.htm>, Family No. 21; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 167; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 152; Robichaux, Acadians in St. Malo, 725-27, 761, 855; White, DGFA-1, 1454-56; White, DGFA-1 English, 305-06; Books One, Three, Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Savary family page.  

58.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 2140, 2382-83; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:115; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 573-74; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 26-27, 29; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 187; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 727-28; Winzerling, Acadian Odyssey, 131, 133-37; Books Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Ségoillot family page.   

59.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 802-03, 1289-93, 2594; BRDR, vols. 1a(rev.), 2; "Fort Cumberland, 24 Aug 1763"; "Fort Edward, 1761-62"; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 1-A, 1-B, 2-A; Marshall, Acadian Resistance; <museeacadien.ca/english/archives/articles/72.htm>; NOAR, vol. 2; White, DGFA-1, 1476-78; White, DGFA-1 English, 309-10; Books One, Three, Five, Six, & Eight; Surette family page. 

60.  See 1850 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Assumption Parish; Arsenault, Généalogie, 983-88, 1659, 2097-2116, 2237, 2302, 2350-51, 2505-07; BRDR, vols. 2, 3, 4, 5(rev.), 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:91-92, 95, 146; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 78, 105, 112, 140, 150, 176-79, 295, 555; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vol. 1, 2, 3, 4; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 1-A, 1-B, 2-A, 2-B, 2-C, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jobb, The Cajuns, 162; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Duc_Guillaume.htm>, Family Nos. 18, 20; Milling, Exile Without End, 42; NOAR, vol. 11; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Supply.htm>, Family No. 7; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Tamerlan.htm>, Family No. 5; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family Nos. 62, 108, 116, 130; Robichaux, Acadians in Chatellerault, 50-53; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 78-82; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 54, 115, 187, 428-40; White, DGFA-1, 791-94; White, DGFA-1 English, 162-63; Books One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Achée family page. 

61.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 456-66, 875-84, 1655-56, 2214-16, 2270-71, 2434-37; BRDR, vols. 1a(rev.), 2, 3, 4, 5(rev.), 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; Clément Cormier, "Bourgeois, Jacques (Jacob)," in DCB, 2:94, & online; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:93; Erskine, Nova Scotia, 30; "Fort Edward, 1761-62"; 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; <histoire-de-bourgeois.ca>; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 15, 18, 26, 59, 77, 82-84, 93, 99, 175, 178, 180, 193, 203, 206, 231-37, 249, 251, 258, 267-78; NOAR, vols. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; Oubre, Vacharie, 29; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Duc_Guillaume.htm>, Family No. 13; "Ristigouche, 24 Oct 1760"; Robichaux, Acadians in Chatellerault, 22; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 156; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 95-96, 300, 734, 1064; West, Atlas of LA Surnames, 36-38, 155; Books One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Bourgeois family page; Marc Bourgeois, family historian; Alan Benoit, descendant. 

The fullness of some these family lines compared to other families in this study is due largely to family historian Marc Bourgeois's <www.histoire-de-Bourgeois.ca>, a model family genealogical/historical website, which offers both English & French versions.  The treatment of this family, in fact, like that of the Melançons especially, is intended to be the standard for all the other family "begats" in Book Ten.  Note that the current 1870 cut-off date is often ignored here, a hint that the author hopes to extend the lines of all Acadian/Cajun families in Book Ten to 1900 ... if time, & breath, permit.  See the Introduction to the "Synthesis." 

62.  See 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, St. Landry Parish; Arsenault, Généalogie, 1346-47, 2004, 2437; BRDR, vols. 1a(rev.), 1b, 2, 3, 5(rev.); De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:47; Guidry, "Guédrys Exiled to North Carolina" in The Guédry-Labine Family website; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 51-52; 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, 218, 238; NOAR, vols. 1, 2, 3, 5; White, DGFA-1, 264-65; White, DGFA-1 English, 58; Books One, Three, Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Boutin family page

63.  See 1850 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Iberville & West Baton Rouge parishes; 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, Lafourche, & West Baton Rouge parishes; Arsenault, Généalogie, 391, 1081-86, 1535-38, 2054, 2401; BRDR, 1a:I-1-I-2, 1b, 2, 3, 4, 5(rev.), 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:88; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 51; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 158; "Ristigouche, 24 Oct 1760"; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vols. 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; White, DGFA-1, 12-14; White, DGFA-1 English, 3-4; Books One, Two, Three, Four, Five Six, & Eight; Allain family page

For Pierre Allain's precious package, see BRDR; Books Five & Eight. 

64.  See 1850 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Ascension & East Baton Rouge parishes; 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Ascension & East Baton Rouge parishes; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2055, 2402; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 12; BRDR, vols. 2, 3, 4, 5 (rev.), 8, 9, 10, 11; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Duc_Guillaume.htm>, "Family No." 58 ; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 53-54; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vol. 4; Richter, W.L., "Slavery in Baton Rouge," 129; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 505; White, DGFA-1, 796-97; Books Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Arbour family page.

65.  See 1850 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Assumption & Terrebonne parishes; Arsenault, Généalogie, 1319; BRDR, vols. 2, 3, 4, 5(rev.), 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905; 2A:114, 122; Hébert, D., South LA Records, 1, 2, 3, 4; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vol. 7; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Supply.htm>, Family Nos. 10, 12; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 140; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 3-4, 655-56; Books Three, Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Arcement family page.

66.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 471-74, 1349-50, 1545-46, 2444-56; Bergerie, They Tasted Bayou Water, 53, 145; Brasseaux, Founding of New Acadia, 33; Brasseaux, Foreign French, 1:82, 2:50, 3:43; Brasseaux, "Scattered to the Wind," 12-14; BRDR, vols. 1a(rev.), 1b, 2, 3, 4, 5(rev.), 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; Clément Cormier, "Brossard, Jean-François," DCB, 2:105, & online; Debien, "The Acadians in Saint-Domingue"; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:88; C. J. d'Entremont, "Brossard (Broussard), dit Beausoleil, Joseph," DCB, 3:87-88, & online; Faragher, A Great & Noble Scheme, 133-34; "Fort Cumberland, 24 Aug 1763"; "Fort Edward, 1761-62"; Fortier, Louisiana, 1:53; Griffin, Attakapas Country, 34, 39, 41; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 60; 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, 152, 155, 249; Marshall, D., Acadian Resistance; Menn, Large Slaveholders of LA, 1860, 314n4, 316-17; Milling, Exile Without End, 12, 46; NOAR, vols. 2, 4, 5, 6; Perrin, W. A., Acadian Redemption, 143n3; Perrin, W. H., SW LA; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Reine_d_Espagne.htm>, Family No. 5; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family Nos. 51, 52; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 25; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 38-39; Robichaux, Acadians in St. Malo, 173-78; West, Atlas of LA Surnames, 41-43, 156-57; White, DGFA-1, 284-88; White, DGFA-1 English, 63-64 (quotation on p. 64); Wood, Acadians in Maryland, 103-04; online Wikipedia, "Joseph Eloi Broussard" (source of quotations); Books One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, & Eight; Appendix; Broussard family page. 

67.  See 1850 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, St. Martin & Vermilion parishes; Arsenault, Généalogie, 1121-25, 1656, 2437-38; BRDR, vols. 1a(rev.), 2, 3, 4, 5 (rev.), 8, 9, 10, 11; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:147; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 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, 155; "Ristigouche, 24 Oct 1760"; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 34; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 161; Wood, Acadians in Maryland, 92-93; White, DGFA-1, 268-70; White, DGFA-1 English, 59; Books One, Three, Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Brasseaux/Brasset family page. 

68.  See Arceneaux, W., No Spark of Malice, 136 (source of quotation), 137, 142-45, 151 (source of quotation), 152, 159, 163-64, 177, 182, 194, 199, 203-04, 207; Arsenault, Généalogie, 466-71, 1125-32, 1347-49, 1480-81, 1543-45, 1656; 2216-17, 2271, 2295, 2438-44; Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr., "Breaux, Gustavus A.," in DLB, 105 (source of quotations); <breauxbridgelive.com> (source of quotations) [no longer accessible]; BRDR, vols. 1a(rev.), 2, 3, 4, 5 (rev.), 8, 9, 10, 11; Jane B. Chaillot, "Breaux, Joseph Arsène," in DLB, 106 (source of quotations); "Delaney, "Chronology of the Deportations"; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:18, 39-40, 79, 115; Dew, "The Lost Returns," 362; "Fort Edward, 1761-62"; D., South LA Records, vols. 1, 2; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 1-A, 1-B, 2-A, 2-B, 2-C, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; Hodson, Acadian Diaspora, 141; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Marshall, M., Gallant Creoles, 386 (source of quotation); NOAR, vols. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; Perrin, W. H., SW LA, Biographical Sketches, 210-11 (source of quotations); Robichaux, Acadian in Châtellerault, 23-25, 59; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 34-37, 63-64, 167; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 129, 154-55, 161-71, 270-71, 295-96, 303, 487-89, 506-07, 376-78, 537-38, 664-65; West, Atlas of LA Surnames, 38-40, 155-56; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 125; White, DGFA-1, 270-82; White, DGFA-1 English, 59-63; Wood, Acadians in Maryland, 93-103; Books One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Breaux family page

69.  In the jargon of genealogy, agnatic means descent from the father's side.  This study emphasizes patrilinearity over matrilinearity for the simple reason that patrilinearity is the norm in western cultures, and, most importantly, Acadian families tend to be recognized by their surnames.  See Introduction.  The author is currently (2024) inserting cognatic elements into each Acadian family line, from arrival to 1870--that is, the daughters of each couple, along with the sons, and the families into which the daughters married, called allied families here.  Only then can a family line be more fully represented.  Keep in mind that these family lines are represented here not in any recognizable genealogical format, such as one would find in the works of Michael Melanson, Marc Bourgeois, and other outstanding family historians.  The lines presented here are closer to compact family histories, employing as much "narrative" as the case allows--more history, perhaps, than genealogy. 

Qualifying language is used here because of the nature of historical & genealogical research in primary sources, some of whose ages can be marked by centuries.  Much of the story of these families has been lost, & what is left is often only a shadow of fact. 

Narratives of a family's travails during exile can be found in more detail in Book Six, where families are listed in alphabetical order based on LA spelling. 

70.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 393, 827-41, 1653, 2055-63, 2203-06; 2263-64; 2314-15; 2402-05; BRDR, vols. 2, 3, 4, 5(rev.), 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:152-59; <genforum.genealogy.com/arsenault/messages/2418.html>; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 13-14; Hébert, D., South LA Records, 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, 6; "Ristigouche, 24 Oct 1760"; Robichaux, Acadians in St. Malo, 4, 297, 776-77; West, Atlas of LA Surnames, 17-18, 148; White, DGFA-1, 23-31; White, DGFA-1 English, 6-8; Books One, Three, Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Arceneaux family page; Gayle Campbell, descendant

71.  See 1850 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, & St. Mary parishes; 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, Iberville, Lafourche, & St. Mary parishes; Arsenault, Généalogie, 1086-92, 1465-70, 2264, 2315, 2405-08; 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:86, 101, 110, 125; Hébert, D., Acadian in Exile, 15-16, 113, 144, 271, 554; 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, 217-18, 232-33, 236; Jehn, Arsenault Corrections & Additions, 66; NOAR, vols. 4, 6, 7; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Tamerlan.htm>, Family Nos. 1, 3, 4; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 24, 32, 33, 34, 117, 174; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 3-4; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 2-8, 130, 157-58; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 5-30, 66-70, 250-52, 268-69, 301, 303, 309-10, 571-72, 605, 758-59; Tate & De Ville, Baton Rouge & New Feliciana; West, Atlas of LA Surnames, 19-20, 148; White, DGFA-1, 41-51; White, DGFA-1 English, 9-11; Wood, Acadians in Maryland, 38; Books One, Three, Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Aucoin family page. 

73.  See 1850 U.S. Federal Census, Ascension Parish; 1850 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Assumption, Lafayette, Lafourche Intieror, Pointe Coupee, St. James, St. Landry, St. Martin, Terrebonne, & Vermilion parishes; 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Ascension Parish; 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Ascension, Assumption, Lafayette, Lafourche, St. James, St. Landry, & Terrebonne parishes; 1870 U.S. Federal Census, Ascension Parish; 1880 U.S. Federal Census, New Orleans; Arceneaux, No Spark of Malice, 12, 15, 28-31, 71-75, 77-79, 81, 117, 119, 121-22, 125-26, 159, 202-03, 212-14, 244, 257-58, 274n, 280n; Arsenault, Généalogie, 441-48, 859-63, 1108-16, 1336-46, 1665, 2209-12, 2265-69, 2294, 2321-23, 2425-31; Baudier, The Catholic Church in LA, 387; BRDR, vols. 1a(rev.0, 2, 3, 4, 5(rev.), 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; Brasseaux, Founding of New Acadia, 105; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:17, 20, 22, 84-85, 102-03, 105, 115-16, 122, 136, 146-48, 157, 161-62; Faragher, A Great & Noble Scheme, 95-96; "Fort Cumberland, 24 Aug 1763"; "Fort Edward, 1761-62"; Hall, W., 26th LA Infantry, 192; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 41-44, 50, 106, 134, 165, 336, 380, 406, 413-14, 434, 555, 585; Hébert, 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, 26, 30, 150, 152, 155, 176-77, 193-94, 205, 233, 251-52, 267-68, 282, 315-16; Marshall, M., Gallant Creoles, 385; NOAR, vols. 4, 6,7; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Duc_Guillaume.htm>, Family Nos. 7, 8, 9, 10, 38; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Supply.htm>, Family Nos. 5, 7, 16, 20, 24, 26, 27;   <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family Nos. 16, 17, 19, 22, 23, 71, 79, 140, 141, 189; "Ristigouche, 24 Oct 1760"; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 14-19, 156; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 17-27, 83, 127; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 85-121, 167, 202-03, 235-36, 300-01, 303, 431-32, 525-26, 567-69, 617-18, 694, 734, 758-60; Tate & De Ville, Baton Rouge & New Feliciana; West, Atlas of LA Surnames, 34-36, 154-55; White, DGFA-1, 184-217, 701; White, DGFA-1 English, 38-47; Wood, Acadians in Maryland, 91, 100, 130, 139, 145-46; Books One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Boudreaux family page. 

74.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 394, 1092-1100, 1320-22, 1654, 2206, 2316-17, 2408-13; Baudier, The Catholic Church in LA, 143; Brasseaux, Foreign French, 1:19, 2:12; Brasseaux, Founding of New Acadia, 208; 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, 2-A, 2-B, 2-C, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; Higginbotham, Old Mobile, 566; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 56, 150-58, 217-18, 233-34; Menn, Large Slaveholders of LA, 1860, 145-46; NOAR, vols. 1, 2, 3; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Tamerlan.htm>, Family No. 9; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, "Family" No. 48;  Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 5; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 8-9; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 29-37; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 424; West, Atlas of LA Surnames, 23, 149-50; White, DGFA-1, 57-581; White, DGFA-1 English, 13-14; Wood, Acadians in Maryland, 73-82; Books One, Three, Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Babin family page.

75.  See 1850 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Lafayette & St. Martin parishes; 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Lafayette Parish; 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Lafayette, St. Landry, & St. Martin parishes; Arsenault, Généalogie, 395-401, 1654, 2413-14; Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr. to the author, February 1997; BRDR, vols. 2, 4; "Fort Cumberland, 24 Aug 1763"; "Fort Edward, 1761-62"; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 19; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 1-A, 1-B, 2-A, 2-B, 2-C, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; Historical Atlas of Canada, 1: plate 29; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 205, 232-34, 251; "Ristigouche, 24 Oct 1760"; West, Atlas of LA Surnames, 23-24, 150; White, DGFA-1, 65-69; White, DGFA-1 English, 14-15; Books One, Three, Five, Six, & Eight; Babineaux family page. 

76.  Arsenault, Généalogie, 1322-29, 2415; BRDR, vols. 2, 3, 4, 5(rev.), 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:102-04; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 20; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vols. 1, 2, 3, 4; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vol. 1-A; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 64; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 38-40, 98, 110, 298, 522; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 5; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 9, 38; White, DGFA-1, 76-77; Books One, Three, Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Barrilleaux family page. 

77.  See 1850 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Calcasieu, Lafayette, Lafourche Interior, St. Martin, & Vermilion parishes; 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Lafayette, Lafourche, & St. Martin parishes; Arsenault, Généalogie, 427, 1101-04, 1330-35, 1470, 2185, 2415-18; "Benoits of Bay St. George," AGE, May 2008, 42-44; Brasseaux, Founding of New Acadia, 105; Brasseaux, Foreign French, 1:42, 2:27, 3:23-24; BRDR, vols. 1a(rev.), 2, 3, 4, 5(rev.), 6, 8, 10, 11; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:35, 48-50, 56, 112-13, 118, 121; De Ville, Mississippi Valley Mélange, 2:14, source of quotation; Michel J. Foret, "War or Peace? Louisiana, the Choctaws, and the Chickasaws, 1733-1735," 299, 300, in Conrad, ed., The French Experience in LA; https://gw.geneanet.org/mugsydylan_w?lang=en&n=benoit&nz=benoit&oc=0&p=sebastien&pz=bryan+thomas&type=fiche; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 25-27, 153, 313, 378, 383, 436; 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; Hodson, Acadian Diaspora, 138-40; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 15-16, 57, 65, 67, 109, 119, 152, 175, 177-78, 217-18, 267-68, 274, 279-80, 289, 291; NOAR, vols. 3, 4, 5, 7; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Duc_Guillaume.htm>, Family Nos. 31, 32, 42; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Supply.htm>, Family Nos. 19, 22, 30; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Tamerlan.htm>, Family Nos. 2, 9, 10; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family Nos. 70, 120; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 7-9; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 10-11; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 47-55; Gregory A. Waselkov, Introduction to Thomas, D. H., Fort Toulouse, xxxii; White, DGFA-1, 105-19; White, DGFA-1 English, 20-26; West, Atlas of LA Surnames, 24-25, 150-51; Wood, Acadians in Maryland, 29, 36, 84-85; Books One, Three, Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Benoit family page; Bryan Thomas Benoit, descendant. 

78.  See 1850 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Assumption, Lafourche Interior, St. James, St. Landry, St. Martin, Terrebonne, & West Baton Rouge parishes; 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Lafourche Parish; 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Assumption, Lafourche, Pointe Coupee, St. James, St. Martin, St. Mary, Terrebonne, & West Baton Rouge parishes; Arsenault, Généalogie, 427-28, 1104, 1614-26, 2418-21; Brasseaux, Foreign French, 1:43, 2:28, 3:24; BRDR, vols. 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, 2-A, 2-B, 2-C, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; Historical Atlas of Canada, 1: plate 29; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 249, 251; NOAR, vols. 1, 2, 6; West, Atlas of LA Surnames, 26-27, 151; White, DGFA-1, 122-24; White, DGFA-1 English, 26-27; Book One, Three, Five, Six, & Eight; Bergeron family page. 

79.  See 1850 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Assumption, Lafayette, Lafourche Interior, St. Landry, St. Martin, St. Mary, & Vermilion parishes; 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Ascension, Assumption, Lafayette, Lafourche, St. Landry, St. Martin, & Vermilion parishes;  AGE, Oct 2005, 64 (source of quotation); Arsenault, Généalogie, 428-29, 846-58, 1654, 2011, 2066, 2421-23; BRDR, vols. 1a(rev.), 1b, 2, 3, 4, 5(rev.), 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; Bunnell, French & Native North American Marriages, 22; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:23-24, 42, 136; Griffin, Attakapas Country, 241; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 27-28, 406; 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, CD; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 58, 110, 232, 236, 251-52, 282, 285; Milling, Exile Without End, 40; NOAR, vols. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; Oubre, Vacherie, 44-46; Perrin, W. H., SW LA, pt.2:253-54; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 35, 58-59; Robichaux, German Coast Families, 110-15, 434, 436; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 57, 95; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 93, 175; West, Atlas of LA Surnames, 27-28, 151-52; White, DGFA-1, 124-30; White, DGFA-1 English, 28-29; Shane K. Bernard, Ph.D., descendant; Books One, Three, Five, Six, & Eight; Bernard family page. 

80.  See 1850 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Lafayette, Lafourche Interior, Natchitoches, Pointe Coupee, St. Landry, & St. Martin parishes; 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Calcasieu, Lafayette, Lafourche, & St. Martin parishes; <acadian-home.org>; Arsenault, Généalogie, 429-30, 1105, 1539-40, 1685, 2185, 2207; Brasseaux, Foreign French, 1:48-49, 2:31-32, 3:27; BRDR, vols. 1a(rev.), 1b, 2, 3, 4, 5(rev.), 6, 7, 8, 9, 10; De La Roque "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:59, source of quotation; Hébert, D., Acadian in Exile, 30-32, 47, 273; 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; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Supply.htm>, Family No. 25; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 10-11; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 11-13; West, Atlas of LA Surnames, 29-30, 152-53; White, DGFA-1, 134-39; White, DGFA-1 English, 30; Gerald Bertrand, descendant; Velia Bertrand, Jr., descendant (Bertrands in Louisiana); Books One, Three, Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Bertrand family page. 

81.  See 1850 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, Iberia, Lafourche Interior, Orleans, Pointe Coupee, Rapides, St. James, St. Martin, Terrebonne, & West Baton Rouge parishes; 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, Iberville, Jefferson, Lafourche, Orleans, Pointe Coupee, Rapides, St. James, St. Martin, Terrebonne, & West Baton Rouge parishes; Arsenault, Généalogie, 431-37, 1105-06, 1471-73, 1540-43, 1654, 2067-68, 2207-08, 2423-25; Baudier, The Catholic Church in LA, 387; Brasseaux, Foreign French, 1:55, 2:34-35; 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:11, 85, 161; "Fort Edward, 1761-62"; Griffiths, From Migrant to Acadian, 192; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 32-33, 165, 341, 567, 598-99; 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; <acadian-home.org>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 25, 56, 158, 193, 217, 235-36, 251, 308-09; NOAR, vols. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Tamerlan.htm>, "Family" No. 12; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family Nos. 4, 5, 10, 15, 27, 29, 38, 39, 40, 41, 44, 45, 46, 118, 147, 149, 185; Rea, "The Career of Lt. John Thomas," 23-24; "Ristigouche, 24 Oct 1760"; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 11-13; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 13-17; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 15, 62-75; Warner, Generals in Gray, 27; West, Atlas of LA Surnames, 31-32, 153-54; White, DGFA-1, 143-56; White, DGFA-1 English, 32-34; Books One, Three, Four, Five, Six, & Eight; Blanchard family page. 

82.  See De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A: passim; NOAR, 1:112, 2:132-14, 133, 4:20, 78; 6:16; White, DGFA-1, 83-88; Baucher family page; Mark Deutch, descendant. 

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