APPENDICES

Acadians Who Found Refuge in Louisiana, February 1764-early 1800s

ACHÉE

[ah-SHAY]

ACADIA

Michel Haché dit Gallant, son of probably Pierre Haché and an unidentified Indian woman, was born in Canada in c1653.  He came to Acadia as a young servant of Michel Le Neuf de La Valliere, the seigneur of Chignecto, in c1678.  Michel dit Gallant married Anne, daughter of Chignecto pioneer Thomas Cormier, 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, today's Prince Edward Island.  According to one historian, Michel Haché dit Gallant was "one of the island's first European settlers."  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-Lajoie, 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 on one of the island's rivers in the spring of 1737; he was 74 years old.  His daughters married into the Poirier, Rassicot, Prétieux, Jacqueline dit Lorraine, Duval, and Belliveau families.  His seven sons, all born at Chignecto, created families of their own.  Most of them settled with their father on Île St.-Jean:  

Oldest son Michel dit Gallant, fils, born in c1691, married Madeleine, daughter of Jacques LeBlanc, at Grand-Pré in October 1711.  They had 13 children, including four sons who married into the Gravois, Blanchard, Comeau, and Hébert families.  Their daughters married into the Savoie, Saulnier, Doucet dit Maillard, Girouard, Doucet, and Cormier families.  Michel dit Gallant, fils returned to Chignecto in c1734, while his brothers and their families remained on Île St.-Jean.  

Joseph dit Gallant, born in c1693, married Marie, daughter of Pierre Gaudet, at Beaubassin in July 1721.  He commanded at Port-Lajoie until his death in 1746 at age 53.

Jean-Baptiste dit Gallant, born in c1696, married Anne-Marie or Marie-Anne, daughter of Élie Gentil, at Beaubassin in February 1719.  They settled on Île St.-Jean, where a French official counted them at Rivière-du-Nord-est in 1752. 

Charles dit Gallant, born in c1698, married Geneviève, daughter of Pierre Lavergne, at Port-Royal in February 1727.  They settled on Île St.-Jean. 

Pierre dit Gallant, born in c1701, married Cécile, another daughter of Pierre Lavergne, in c1726.  They settled on Île St.-Jean. 

Francois dit Gallant, born in c1707, married Anne, daughter of Francois Boudreau, at Port-Lajoie in June 1735.  They remained on Île St.-Jean. 

Youngest son Jacques dit Gallant, born in c1712, married Marie-Josèphe, another daughter of Francois Boudreau, at Port-Lajoie on the same day his brother Francois dit Gallant married his wife's sister.  They remained on Île St.-Jean. 

In 1755, descendants of Michel Haché dit Gallant and his many sons could be found on Île St.-Jean at Port-Lajoie, Rivière-du-Nord-Est, St.-Pierre-du-Nord, and Rivière de Peugiut.  They also could be found at Chignecto. 

LE GRAND DÉRANGEMENT

Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this family to the winds: 

After the fall of Fort Beauséjour in June 1755, Nova Scotia's Governor Lawrence was so incensed to find so-called French Neutrals fighting with French regulars at the fort that he ordered his officers to deport the Chignecto Acadians to the southernmost British colonies on the Atlantic seaboard.  Two Hachés, brothers Michel III and Pierre, ended up on the sloop Endeavor, which left Chignecto on October 13 and reached Charleston, South Carolina, on November 19.  Evidently they were among the Acadians in South Carolina who returned to Acadia by boat in the spring of 1756.  They made their way to Restigouche, at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, in present-day northeastern New Brunswick.  Michel was captured there in late 1760 and held at Fort Cumberland, formerly French Fort Beauséjour, near where his family had lived at Chignecto.  Released after the war, he and his family settled at Grand-Digue on Shediac Bay, present-day New Brunswick, where he died in c1768.  Brother Pierre escaped to Pointe-du-Lac, near Trois-Rivières, Québec, during the war, where his widow remarried in c1768.  Two other Hachés, Jean and Louis, were at Restigouche in the early 1760s. 

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, they may even have forgotten the others existed. 

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The many Hachés living on French-controlled Île St.-Jean escaped the British roundup 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 victorious British swooped down on the island, rounded up most of its Acadian habitants, and deported them to France.  A few escaped and found refuge at Restigouche, where some of their relatives had gone.  Charles dit Gallant Haché was there in 1760-61 with younger brother Jacques dit Gallant.  After the war, Charles moved back to Île St.-Jean, but Jacques and two of his sons moved on to Île Miscou, at the entrance of the Baie des Chaleurs. 

But most of the island Acadians did not escape the British.  The crossing to France was a disaster for several Haché families:

Marguerite Haché, her second husband, Robert Hango dit Choisy, and their three children were lost at sea on the British transport Violet that sank in a mid-Atlantic storm in December.  Jacques Haché lost two of his seven children--Louise, no age given, and N., an infant born at sea--aboard the British transport Supply that left the Gut of Canso in late November 1758 and reached St.-Malo in early March 1759; Jacques and daughter Anne died at Châteauneuf, near St.-Malo, the following May, probably from the rigors of the crossing; he was only 33 years old; Anne was 6.  Pierre Haché and his wife Marie Doiron, age 28, lost all four of their children--sons Pierre, age 7, Ambroise, age 3, and Michel, age 6 months, and daughter Marguerite-Louise, age 5--aboard one of the five British transports that left Canso in late November 1758 and reached St.-Malo in late January 1759; Marie survived the crossing only to die in the hospital probably at St.-Malo at the end of January.  Marie-Anne Haché, age 26, wife of François Chiasson, lost her husband and all three of their children aboard one of the five ships. 

The Hachés who survived the terrible crossing endured life in a mother country that tended to neglect its Acadian children.  They lived in a number of coastal cities, including St.-Malo and its suburbs, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Cherbourg, La Rochelle, Bordeaux, Nantes, Le Havre, and Lorient, in Poitou, and on Belle-Île-en-Mer.  Two sets of brothers, grandsons of Acadian progenitor Michel dit Gallant, created especially large families at Boulogne-sur-Mer, St.-Malo, and Cherbourg:

Michel Haché dit Gallant, fils, husband of Madeleine LeBlanc and Acadian progenitor Michel dit Gallant's oldest son, entered L'Hoptial St.-André-Admissions at Bordeaux on 18 May 1764 and left four days later; he was 71 years old.  Michel died at Ste.-Croix, Bordeaux, in September 1765, age 73. 

Jean-Baptiste Haché dit Gallant, fils, Michel's nephew, Jean-Baptiste's wife Anne Olivier, and four of their children--Anne-Marie, Pierre-Paul, Héleine, and Isaac--ended up at Boulogne-sur-Mer, where Héleine died in St.-Nicolas Parish in January 1759; she was only 5 years old.  Four more children were born to them at St.-Nicolas:  Éloy-Paul in January 1761, François-Joseph in February 1763 but died 8 days after his birth, François-Basile in January 1764, and François-Joseph in March 1766.  They remained at Boulogne until May 1766, when they took the brigantine Le Hazard to St.-Malo.  They settled in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan near Jean-Baptiste's younger brothers; his widowed mother, Marie-Anne Gentil, also may have been alive then.  Two of Jean-Baptiste's children died at St.-Servan:  Isaac in May 1767, at age 9, and François-Basile in July 1768, at age 2.  Meanwhile, Jean-Baptiste died "at his house" in St.-Servan in February 1767; he only 39 years old.  His daughter Anne-Marie married Jean-Charles, son of fellow Acadian Charles Benoit, at St.-Servan in January 1770.  In the early 1770s, Anne Olivier and her Haché children were part of a government-sanctioned venture in the Poitou region that attempted to settle Acadians from the port cities on land owned by a French nobleman near the city of Châtellerault.  After two years of effort, the venture failed, and in late 1775 they retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes, where they subsisted as best they could on government handouts. 

Pierre, Jean-Baptiste's younger brother, who lost his entire family aboard one of the five ships, remarried to Anne, daughter of Acadian Joseph Dumont, at St.-Énogat, a suburb of St.-Malo, in July 1759.  She gave him a new family at St.-Malo:  Joseph-Hiacinthe was born at St.-Énogat in April 1760 but died at nearby St.-Servan, age 7, in June 1767, Guillaume-Servan was born at St.-Servan in February 1762, Louis le jeune in January 1764, and Marie-Anne in October 1765.  Pierre remarried again--his third marriage--to Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadian Jacques Dingle or Daigle, at St.-Servan in September 1766.  She gave him three more children at St.-Servan:  Pierre, fils, born in March 1768, Madeleine-Françoise in March 1770, and Joseph-François in June 1772.  Pierre took his family to Poitou in the early 1770s and then retreated to Nantes in late 1775.  Madeleine died at St.-Martin-de-Chantenay, near Nantes, in October 1784.  Pierre worked as a seaman and may not have remarried. 

Antoine, another brother, married Marie Clemenceau on Île St.-Jean in 1758, just before the deportation.  They also survived the crossing aboard one of the five ships and settled in the suburbs of St.-Malo.  They had at least six children there, only two of whom survived childhood:  Marguerite was at St.-Énogat in February 1760, Marie-Servanne at nearby St.-Servan in May 1861 but died a month after her birth, Antoine-François was born at St.-Servan in May 1762 but died at age 4 in September 1766, Charles-Julien was born at St.-Servan in January 1765 but died at age 1 1/2 in September 1766, Marie-Jeanne was born at St.-Servan in October 1766, and Marie-Rose in June 1769 but died at age 1 in May 1770.   Antoine and Marie also went to Poitou and ended up at Nantes.  Son Jean-Marie was born at St.-Martin-de-Chantenay, near Nantes, in July 1777 but died at age 1 1/2 in November 1778.  Antoine died probably at St.-Martin-de-Chantenay before 1785. 

Joseph, another brother, also ended up at Boulogne-sur-Mer, but, like brother Jean-Baptiste, he did not remain there.  He reached St.-Malo in November 1759 and settled near his other brothers.  Joseph married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Marie Dumont, at St.-Énogat in June 1760.  They moved to nearby St.-Servan in 1761, where at least seven children, including a set of twins, were born to them:  Jean-Baptiste in May 1761, Hélène in March 1764, Joseph-Hyacinthe in September 1765 but died the following December, François-Mathurin was born in October 1767, Marie-Josèphe in December 1769, and twins Madeleine-Apolline and Jean-Louis in November 1771.  Joseph and Marie went to Poitou, where Joseph-Marie was baptized at the Châtellerault church, age unrecorded, in November 1774, and Joseph, fils was born in c1775.  They also ended up at Nantes, where Joseph worked as a master ship's carpenter.  Daughter Élisabeth- or Isabelle-Marie was born at St.-Martin-de-Chantenay, near Nantes, in August 1776.  Joseph, fils died in July 1777, age 2.  Joseph, père drowned probably at Paimboeuf, the port of Nantes, in January 1778; he was only 35 years old.  Marie died at St.-Martin-de-Chantenay in July 1784; she was only 43 years old.  This left her children without any parents; Joseph's brothers, however, lived nearby and took them in. 

Louis, another brother, was deported to Cherbourg in Normandy, but he did not remain there.  He reached St.-Malo in April 1759 and lived at St.-Énogat near his brothers.  In November 1760, Louis joined the crew of the French corsair, Le Français.  The Royal Navy captured the vessel soon after it left harbor, and the British held Louis and his fellow crewmembers as prisoners of war until May 1763.  Louis married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadian Claude Benoit, at St.-Servan in February 1765.  They had two children at St.-Servan:  Louis, fils, born in March 1766, and Marguerite-Yvon at nearby Quesny in September 1767 but died at age 15 months in March 1769.  Louis remarried to Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadian François Doucet, at St.-Servan in February 1770.  She gave him two more children at St.-Servan:  Jean-François in January 1771, and Osithe-Françoise-Thomasee in April 1772.  Louis and Françoise also were part of the Poitou misadventure.  Son Pierre-Charles was baptized at the Châtellerault church, age unrecorded, in November 1774.  They, too, retreated to Nantes, where four more children were born to them at St.-Martin-de-Chantenay:  Joseph le jeune in May 1776 but died the following October, Ange-Frédéric was born in c1777 but died at age 2 1/2 in June 1780, Barbe-Michelle was born in November 1779, and Jean-François in June 1781 but died at age 2 1/2 in February 1784. 

Georges, the youngest brother, survived the crossing with their mother, Marie-Anne Gentil, aboard one of the five ships.  Georges settled at St.-Malo and St.-Servan and also ended up in England in 1763, probably with brother Louis.  Back in France, Georges married Pérrine, daughter of Pierre Basset, at St.-Servan in January 1768.  They had at least three children there, one of whom died young:  Pérrine-Françoise was born in November 1768, Marguerite-Guillemette in July 1770 but died two months later, and Georges, fils was born in December 1771.  Georges and Pérrine also went to Poitou in the early 1770s, where at least one child was born to them:  Marguerite-Henry was baptized at the Châtellerault church, age unrecorded, in May 1774.  A year and a half later, Georges and his family also retreated to Nantes, where two more children were born to them:  Marie-Renée at St.-Martin-de-Chantenay in July 1776, and Jean-Adrien in March 1781 but died at age 15 months in June 1782. 

Jean-Charles, called Charles, Haché, a first cousin of Jean-Baptiste and his brothers, ended up at Cherbourg like his cousin Louis.  Charles's wife Anne De Vaux died either during the crossing or soon after they reached France.  Charles remarried to Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Hébert, at Trés-St.-Trinité, Cherbourg, in January 1761.  She gave him at least nine children at Cherbourg:  Marie-Modeste was born in November 1761 but died at age 2 in February 1764, Jean-Charles was born in December 1762, Anastasie in March 1764, Bonne-Marie-Madeleine in March 1765, François-Isaac, called Isaac, in March 1768, Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, in February 1769, Frédéric in c1770, Joseph in June 1771, and Jean-Joseph in October 1772 but died 15 days after his birth.  Charles and Marie also went to Poitou, where daughter Marie-Henriette was baptized at the Châtellerault church, age unrecorded, in February 1774.  They and their seven children followed Charles's relatives to Nantes in late 1775.  Charles, like cousin Joseph, worked as a ship's carpenter.  Marie gave him another daughter at Nantes:  Floré-Adélaïde was born in St.-Jacques Parish in January 1776 but died the following April.  Marie-Henriette died at St.-Nicolas, Nantes, in April 1776; she was only 2 years old.  Marie-Rose died at nearby St.-Martin-de-Chantenay in October 1784; she was only 17.  Meanwhile, wife Marie died at St.-Nicolas, Nantes, in March 1780; she was only 42 years old. 

Jacques, Charles's younger brother, survived the crossing from Île St.-Jean aboard the transport Duke William, which, after an explosion at sea, limped into St.-Malo harbor in early November 1758.   Jacques settled near his cousins at St.-Énogat, where he married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadian Paul Boudrot, in November 1763.  They moved to nearby St.-Servan, where at least half a dozen children were born to them, most of whom died in childhood:  Marie-Modeste in August 1764 but died at age 8 in November 1772, Jacques-Augustin was born in May 1766 but died in June, Marin-Jean, also called Marin-Baptiste, was born in February 1768 but died at age 1 in February 1769, Marie-Jeanne was born in December 1769, Pierre-Jean in September 1771 but died at age 20 months in May 1773, and Marguerite-Marie was born in August 1773.  They, too, went to Poitou, where son Jean-Louis was baptized at the Châtellerault church, age unrecorded, in August 1775.  At Nantes, Jacques and Anne had three more children:  Jean-François was born at St.-Martin-de-Chantenay in December 1776 but died there at age 1 1/2 in March 1778, Jean-Marie was born in March 1781, and Pierre in May 1782.  Jean-Marie and Pierre also died young, but their burial dates have been lost to history. 

Marguerite-Louise Haché, widow of Pierre De Vaux, married 30-year-old Alexis Gautreau, called a "Canadian" by the recording priest but probably an Acadian, at St.-Nicolas, Boulogne-sur-Mer, in January 1761. 

Anne Boudrot, widow of the Jacques Haché who died at Châteauneuf in May 1759, another first cousin of Jean-Baptiste and his brothers, remarried to her cousin, Pierre, son of Joseph Boudrot, at St.-Énogat in November 1763.  Two years later, Anne and her Haché children, Pierre, Marie, Henriette, and Geneviève, followed Pierre to Belle-Île-en-Mer, off the southern coast of Brittany.  French officials counted them at Keruest, near Bangor, in February 1767.  Marie Haché, age 28, married 34-year-old Nicolas-Joseph, son of Frenchman Nicolas Bajolet, at Bangor in January 1780.  Anne and her children were still on the island in the early 1790s. 

Marie-Madeleine-Ester, daughter of Pierre Haché, recorded as deceased, and Marie-Madeleine Vacquerie, died at Notre-Dame, Le Havre, in April 1769 and was buried in the "Cemetery de la Croix."  She was only 15 years old.  The priest who recorded her funeral said that Marie was a "native of this parish," which means that she was born there in c1754, before Le Grand Dérangement, so she may not have been an Acadian Haché. 

Louise Haché of Île Miquelon, widow of Louis Belliveau, died at St.-Nicolas, La Rochelle, in October 1779.  She was 65 years old. 

In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France a chance for a better life in faraway Louisiana.  Over a dozen Hachés, including Louis, his youngest son, and some of his orphaned nieces and nephews, agreed to take it.  Others, including some of Louis's older children, brothers Pierre and Georges, and some of his first cousins, chose to remain in the mother country.  Records hint, in fact, that more Hachés remained in France than emigrated to Louisiana: 

Nicolas-Laurent, son of Jacques Haché and Marie-Jeanne Caty, "21 yrs. in the Artillery Corp of the Colonies, native of Eu en Seine Maritime," married Anne, daughter of Frenchman Julien Le Galle and widow of René Gillet, at Lorient in April 1793. 

Joseph Haché, like his cousins, worked as a ship's carpenter.  He and his wife Anne Comeau settled at Bordeaux by the late 1760s.  Daughter Marie-Angélique was baptized in Ste.-Croix Parish, age unrecorded, in August 1778, son Pierre died in St.-Michel Parish in June 1781, age 13, Jacques-Denis was born in Ste.-Croix Parish in October 1781 but died in St.-Michel Parish, age 4, in April 1785, and Antoine was born in St.-André Parish in May 1783.  Marie-Angélique, age 21 years, 8 months, married 22-year-old Jean-Baptiste, son of Frenchman Balthazar Demeurs of Montaigne, Department of Lot-et-Garonne, at Bordeaux in May 1800.  Another son named Pierre, "born at Bordeaux, celibate, a seaman on the English parlementary ship Le Marguerite," died "at the civil hospital of Morlaix, dept. of Finistere" in May 1811. 

LOUISIANA:  RIVER SETTLEMENTS

Several Haché families emigrated to Louisiana from France aboard two of the Seven Ships of 1785.  Some of them settled on the river, but they all were females, so no family lines were established there during the late colonial period:

Orphaned sisters Hélène, age 21, Marie-Josèphe, age 16, and Élisabeth-Marie, age 8, daughters of Joseph Haché and Marie Dumont of Île St.-Jean, sailed aboard Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in July 1785.  Hélène and Élisabeth followed the majority of the passengers from their ship to the Manchac/Baton Rouge area, on the river above New Orleans.  Marie-Josèphe may have remained at New Orleans.  She married Antonio Ramirez of San Bernardo, an Isleño community south of the city, and died there, age 20, probably as a result of childbirth, in August 1790.  Hélène married fellow Acadian Jean-Baptiste, son of Étienne-Michel David, at St.-Jacques, downriver from Manchac, in October 1788.  Élisabeth married French Creole Joseph, son of François-Claude Callandrot, at St.-Jacques in May 1794.

Marie-Jeanne, age 19, orphaned daughter of Antoine Haché of Île St.-Jean, sailed to Louisiana aboard Le Bon Papa with the family of Jean-Baptiste Dugas.  She followed them to the St.-Gabriel de Manchac/Baton Rouge area, where she married Charles-Mathurin, called Mathurin, son of fellow Acadian exile in France Ignace Usé, in November 1786.

Also aboard Le Bon Papa was Anne Boudreau, age 40, widow of Jacques Haché of Île St.-Jean, and her daughters Marie-Jeanne Haché, age 15, and Marguerite-Marie Haché, age 11, both born at St.-Servan, France.  They, too, settled at Manchac, where Marie-Jeanne married French Creole Francois, son of Charles Sevin of St.-Malo,  in June 1787.  Marie-Jeanne remarried to Simon, son of Simon Babin and widower of Marie-Madeleine Lejeune and Anne Quimine, at the Thibodeauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in April 1822.

Anne Olivier, age 64, widow of Jean-Baptiste Haché, and her niece, Madeleine-Apolline Haché, age 10, daughter of Jean-Baptiste's younger brother Joseph, came to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships.  They did not go to upper Bayou Lafourche with the majority of the passengers from their ship but settled, instead, at San Bernardo, on the river below New Orleans.  

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In a reversal of the usual Acadian settlement pattern, two of Pierre-Charles Achée's sons, Urbin and Rosémond, "returned" to the river during the early antebellum period and established lines on the old Acadian Coast:  

Descendants of Urbin ACHÉE (1798-1836)

Urbin, oldest son of Pierre-Charles Achée and Marie-Melanie Bourgeois, born at Assumption on upper Bayou Lafourche in September 1798, seems to have married three times, first to Azélie, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Benjamin Landry, at the St. James church, St. James Parish, in January 1820, to Carmelite Placencia or Plaisance, and finally to Marguerite Domitille, called Domitille, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Dupuy, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in March 1829.  He settled in Iberville Parish, where he died in December 1836; he was only 32 years old.  His daughters by his third wife married into the Geinglins, Housiaux, and LeBlanc families.  One of his sons, the only one who survived childhood, moved to St. Martin Parish in the late 1800s.  

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Oldest son Louis Urbin, by his first wife, was born in Assumption Parish in July 1821 but died at age 15 months in October 1822.  

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Narcisse, by his second wife, was baptized at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, age 4 months, in July 1829.  He also may have died young.

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Pierre, by his third wife, born in Iberville Parish in October 1831, married Marie or Marine, daughter of fellow Acadian Narcisse Hébert, at the Plaquemine church, Iberville Parish, in June 1854.  After the War Between the States, they crossed the Atchafalaya Basin and settled in St. Martin Parish.  

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Youngest son Joseph, born in Iberville Parish in March 1836, died a week after his birth.  

Descendants of Rosémond ACHÉE (?-?)

Rosémond, a younger son of Pierre-Charles Achée and Marie-Melanie Bourgeois, born probably in Assumption Parish in the early 1810s, married Marie Claire, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Doiron, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in November 1834 and settled on the river.  Their children, including a number of sons, were born in Iberville Parish. 

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Their oldest son, name not recorded, died an infant at St. Gabriel in August 1835. 

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Sébastien, born in September 1839, died at age 1 in October 1840. 

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Valsin was born in December 1840.  

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Rosémond, fils, was born in November 1842.  During the War Between the States, Rosémond served in Companies A and C of the 9th Battalion Louisiana Infantry, front-line units raised in East Baton Rouge Parish that served in Louisiana; he deserted his unit late in the war and fell into the hands of the Federals.  

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Théodule, or Jules, born in March 1845, married Evelina, daughter of Jérôme Toups, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in April 1864.  During the War Between the States, Jules also served in Companies A and C of the 9th Battalion Louisiana Infantry; he, too, deserted his unit in the last days of the war.  He remarried to Marie Uranie, daughter of Omer Antoine Langlois, at the St. Gabriel church in September 1867. 

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Youngest son Émile was born in December 1846.  

LOUISIANA:  LAFOURCHE VALLEY SETTLEMENTS

In November 1785, L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships from France, reached New Orleans.  Aboard were three Haché families, including the first males bearing the name to reach the colony.  One family settled on the river below New Orleans, but the other two families followed the majority of the passengers from their ship 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, son of Louis Charrié of Nior, Poitou, at New Orleans in December 1785; Louis-Antoine also had crossed aboard L'Amitié.  After a brief respite in New Orleans, Françoise and her charges, along with Marie-Anne and her husband, settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  In December 1790, Marie-Anne remarried to Canadian Pierre, son of Pierre de St. Angel of Québec, at Lafourche.  Nine years later, Marie-Anne remarried again--her third marriage--to another Canadian, Michel, son of Michel Barré of Montréal, in May 1799.  Louis Haché joined his wife Françoise Doucet at Lafourche and settled there.  They had no more children in Louisiana, so Louis's line was carried on by his only son, Pierre-Charles, who had been born in France.   Also with Louis and Françoise were two Haché nephews, orphans Pierre-Alexis and Joseph-François, the youngest sons of Louis's older brother Pierre.  Pierre-Alexis remained on the Lafourche, 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 upper Bayou Lafourche, in Assumption and Lafourche Interior parishes.  

The other 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 in Chantenay, a suburb of 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, the port of Nantes, 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, whom the Acadians adored).  This family also went to upper Bayou Lafourche, where Jean-Baptiste-Charles died in c1786; he was only 24 years old and fathered no sons.  Sister Marie-Bonne did not remain at Lafourche but crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to the Attakapas District, where she married Joseph dit Tito, son of Alexis St. Germain of Fort Chartres, Illinois, in August 1788.  Brother Frédéric never married.  Jean-Baptiste-Charles's widow, Marie-Modeste, remained on upper Bayou Lafourche, where she remarried to Jean-François, called François, son of fellow Acadian Augustin Benoit, in September 1789.  Jean-Baptiste-Charles's daughter Martine survived childhood and married Jean-Baptiste, son of fellow Acadian Olivier Thibodeaux and widower of Marie-Rose Damour, at Assumption on the upper bayou in November 1804; Jean-Baptiste and his family also had emigrated to Louisiana from France in 1785.  Martine died in Lafourche Parish in July 1861; she was 75 years old.  She was one of the last of the Acadian immigrants in Louisiana to join our ancestors. 

All of the Acadian Haché/Achées in Louisiana descend from two cousins who came to Louisiana in 1785:  Pierre-Alexis, who followed his uncle Louis to upper Bayou Lafourche, and Louis's only surviving son, Pierre-Charles, who also settled along the bayou.  But not all of their descendants remained on there:   

Descendants of Pierre-Alexis ACHÉE (1768-c1818)

Pierre-Alexis, sometimes called Alexis, older son of Pierre Haché and his third wife, Madeleine Daigle or Dingle, was born at St.-Servan, near St.-Malo, France, in March 1768.  He came to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships from France, in 1785, with his paternal aunt, Françoise Doucet, wife of uncle Louis Haché, and two siblings, younger brother Joseph-François and older half-sister Marie-Anne.  After his uncle Louis reached the colony, Pierre and his brother followed his uncle and aunt to upper Bayou Lafourche, where Pierre married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadian Louis Dantin, at Assumption in June 1795.  Anne, a native of France, also had come to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié.  Pierre-Alexis and Anne settled down bayou in what became Interior and then Lafourche Interior Parish.  Pierre Alexis's succession record was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse, Lafourche Interior Parish, in July 1818; he would have been 50 years old that year.  His daughters married into the Ledet, Malbrough, Pitre, Roger, and Usé families.  The majority of Acadian Achées in Louisiana are descended from Pierre Alexis and his oldest son.  

1

Oldest son Jean-Pierre, baptized at Assumption in December 1796, married Rosalie Ayraud or Aymond.  They settled on the upper Lafourche in Ascension Parish and then later moved down bayou to Lafourche Interior Parish.  Joseph Oscar, also called Oscar J., was born in Ascension Parish in November 1833, Pierre Théard in April 1835, Jean Marie Louis in St. James Parish in April 1837, Jean Léopold, called Léopold and Jean Marie Leon, in Ascension Parish in February 1839, Bélisaire Clément in St. James Parish in September 1840, Jérôme Kleber or Clebert, called Clebert, in June 1842, Benjamin Elphége, called Elphége, in Ascension Parish in November 1846, Pierre Ernest in July 1848 but died in Lafourche Interior Parish at age 2 1/2 in February 1851, François Silvestre was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1851, William Prosper in Ascension Parish in June 1852, Lucien Augustin in July 1853, and Antoine Anatole in November 1855.  Their daughter married into the Munch family.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish, counted six slaves--2 males and 4 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.  

1a

Joseph Oscar married Elina, daughter of Joseph Simoneaux and widow of Terence LeBlanc, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in May 1857; Elina's mother was a Bergeron.  Their son Joseph Samuel was born in Assumption Parish in October 1858.  During the War Between the States, Joseph Oscar served in Company H of the 2nd Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, a front-line unit raised in Assumption Parish that fought in Louisiana.  In March 1864, at the beginning of the Red River Campaign, he was captured along with his unit at Henderson Hill; he spent some time in a U.S. army hospital at New Orleans, so he may have been wounded in action, and 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.  Their daughters were born near Breaux Bridge in St. Martin Parish. 

1b

Pierre Théard may have married Natalie Quarantin.  Their son Osémé was born near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in February 1853.  Pierre remarried to Rosalie Amanda, daughter of fellow Acadian Amand Bernard, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Parish, in September 1855.  Their son Louis Philibert was born near Labadieville, Assumption Parish, in November 1858, and Joseph William Bélisaire in August 1866.  

1c

Jean Léopold married Marie Adolphine, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Pitre, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1859.  During the War Between the States, Jean Léopold served as a sergeant in Company K of the 8th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, a front-line unit raised in Ascension Parish that fought in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania--one of Robert 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, and discharged for disability.  He probably returned home. 

1d

During the War Between the States, Bélisaire Clément served in Company G of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, a front-line unit raised in Lafourche Parish that fought in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana.  His Confederate service record does not say if he survived the war. 

1e

Clebert married Aimée, daughter of John Burnes, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in June 1864. 

2

Jean-Baptiste, born probably at Assumption in c1798, married Marie Ursule, daughter of French Creole Antoine Boutary, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1820; Marie Ursule's mother was an Hébert.  In December 1850, the federal census taker in Lafourche Interior Parish counted 2 slaves--a 30-year-old black male, and a 27-year-old black female--on J. B. Achée's farm at Thibodaux.  Jean Baptiste died in Lafourche Parish in August 1855; the Thibodaux priest who recorded his burial said that Jean Baptiste was 62 years old when he died, but he probably was closer to 57.  He seems to have fathered no sons.  

3

Achille, born in January 1799, probably died young.  

4

Célestin, born in March 1805, may have died young.  

5

Youngest son Joseph François, called François, born in Assumption Parish in July 1818, married Marie Clarisse, daughter of French Creole Maurice Simoneaux, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in April 1833; Marie's mother was a Landry.  They moved to Lafayette Parish on the western prairies.  

Descendants of Pierre-Charles ACHÉE (1774-1831)

Pierre-Charles, only son of Louis Haché and his second wife, Francoise Doucet, was baptized at Châtellerault, Poitou, France, in November 1774.  He came to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships from France, in 1785, with his mother and three orphaned cousins.  When his father reached the colony, he followed his parents to upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marie-Melanie, daughter of fellow Acadian Michel Bourgeois of St.-Jacques, in c1797.  Marie was a native of Louisiana.  They settled at Assumption, where most of their children, including many sons, were born.  Pierre Charles died in Assumption Parish in July 1831; he was 58 years old.  

1

Oldest son Urbin, born at Assumption in September 1798, married Azélie, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Benjamin Landry, at the St. James church, St. James Parish, in January 1820, and settled in Iberville Parish, on the river.  

2

Louis le jeune, born at Assumption in November 1799, probably died young.  

3

François-Marie, born at Assumption in May 1801, may have died young.

4

Pierre Sylvain or Simon, called Simon, born at Ascension in December 1805, married Colette, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Landry, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in November 1834.  Their son Désiré Simon was born in Assumption Parish in May 1837, Aurestile Forestal in December 1838, Joseph Gervile in September 1842, Simon Pierson, called Pierson, in September 1846, Constant Camille in December 1854, and Ernest Adrien in March 1860.  Their daughter married into the Barbier family.  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.  

Pierson married Marguerite Bennett and moved to St. Mary Parish, on lower Bayou Teche, in the late 1800s.  

5

Onésime, born at Ascension in November 1806, married Marie Zéolide, called Zéolide, daughter of fellow Acadian Lubin LeBlanc, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in October 1828.  Their son Joseph Séverin, called Séverin, was born in Assumption Parish in February 1841 but died at age 8 in July 1849, and Paul Théolin or Théophile, called Théophile, was born in January 1848.  Their daughter married into the Dugas family.  

Théophile married Alida, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Blanchard, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in June 1867. 

6

Marcellin, born at St.-Jacques  in January 1811, may have died young.  

7

Rosémond, born probably was in Assumption Parish in the early 1810s, married Marie Claire, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Doiron, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in November 1834 and settled in Iberville Parish on the river.  

8

Youngest son Zéphirin, born in Assumption Parish in August 1815, may have died young.

LOUISIANA:  WESTERN SETTLEMENTS

One of the Haché brothers who came to Louisiana with his paternal aunt in 1785, Joseph-François, settled at first with his aunt and siblings on upper Bayou Lafourche, but he did not remain there.  In the early 1800s, he moved to the Attakapas District, where he established a western branch of the family that died out early.   Other Achées from the Lafourche valley and the river parishes, including Joseph-François's namesake nephew, also settled in the old Attakapas District in the early 1800s, but none of them established lines there until the late 1800s.  

Descendants of Joseph-François ACHÉE l'aîné (1772-1831)

Joseph-François, also called Joseph dit Canawche, younger son of Pierre Haché and his third wife, Madeleine Dingle or Daigle, was born at St.-Servan, near St.-Malo, France, in June 1772.  He came to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships from France, in 1785, with his paternal aunt, Francoise Doucet, wife of uncle Louis Haché, and two siblings, older brother Pierre and older half-sister, Anne-Marie.  After his uncle Louis reached the colony, Joseph-Francois and his brother followed his aunt and uncle to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Joseph-François married Anne-Geneviève, called Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean-Baptiste LeBlanc, at Ascension in January 1803.  Geneviève had been born on Belle-Île-en-Mer, France, and had come to Louisiana also as an orphan, with four of her siblings, aboard Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships.  Joseph-François and Geneviève did not remain at Ascension but crossed the Atchafalaya Basin and settled at Fausse Pointe, on Bayou Teche, in the early 1800s.  Geneviève died at Fausse Pointe in August 1812; she was only 30 years old.  Their daughters married into the Daigle, Hébert, and L'ascange or Lascoureiges families.  Joseph François remarried to Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadian François Guilbeau 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 his burial said that Joseph was 55 years old when he died, but he was 59.

Only son Jean-Pierre, by his first wife, born at Assumption in September 1804, accompanied his family to the Attakapas District, but he may not have married.  If so, this line of the family, except for its blood, would have died with him.   

Joseph François ACHÉE le jeune (1818-1859)

Joseph François le jeune, called François and Pierre, youngest son of Pierre Alexis Achée and Anne Dantin, and nephew of Joseph François Achée l'aîné of Lafayette Parish, was born in Assumption Parish in July 1818.  He married Marie Clarisse, called Clarisse, daughter of French Creole Maurice Simoneaux, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in April 1833; Marie's mother was a Landry.  In the 1840s, Joseph François settled in the old Attakapas District near his namesake uncle.  Joseph François le jeune died in St. Martin Parish in September 1859; he was only 41 years old.  He seems to have fathered no sons.  

Descendants of Pierre ACHÉE (1831-?)

Pierre, son of Urbin Achée and his third wife, Marguerite Domitile Dupuy, and grandson of Pierre Charles Achée, was born in Iberville Parish in October 1831.  He seems to have been the only one of his father's four sons to survive childhood.  He married Marie or Marine, daughter of fellow Acadian Narcisse Hébert, at the Plaquemine church, Iberville Parish, in June 1854.  After the War Between the States, Urbin and Marie settled in St. Martin Parish, where their daughter Marie Virginia or Virginie, called Virginie, born near Plaquemine in March 1864, married Joseph Ernest, son of Ernest Cormier, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in January 1881; the priest who recorded the marriage noted that Pierre and Marie were deceased at the time of the wedding.  

1

Oldest son Jean Silentiel or Silezian, born in Iberville Parish in May 1856, died "at the point across from Plaquemine" at age 6 months the following November.  

2

Pierre Rudolphe, born near Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, in February 1859, may have married Mathilde Lopez.  

3

Apollinaire was born near Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, in July 1861.  

Descendants of Simon Pierson ACHÉE (1846-?)

Simon Pierson, called  Pierson, son of Simon Achée and Colette Landry of Assumption Parish and grandson of Pierre Charles Achée, was born in Assumption Parish in September 1846.  He married Marguerite Bennett and settled in St. Mary Parish, on lower Bayou Teche, in the late 1800s.  

NON-ACADIAN FAMILIES in LOUISIANA

At least one Frenchman with a similar-sounding surname lived on the western prairies in the early 1800s.  Other Haché/Achées may have been descendants of the Haché's of Acadia, but church records are unclear about their connection to them:

Benjamin Désire Achet of Boullert, Department du Cher, France, died in St. Martin Parish in November 1828.  He was 40 years old.  The priest who recorded his burial said nothing about a wife and children, so he may have left no heirs. 

René Jean Baptiste, son of Pierre Hacker and Marie Louise Mahe-Desportas of New Orleans, married Émile Léocade, daughter of Samuel Charles Meyer and widow of Ursin Gonsoulin, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in December 1835.  They crossed the Atchafalaya Basin and moved to the New Iberia area, where they raised a large family.  The New Iberia priests tended to call René Jean Baptiste an Achée or Haché, but he was neither.  

Marie Dechamp married a Dr. Haché at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in August 1846. 

John Haché married Lena Chultz.  Their son James Barnet was born in Pointe Coupee Parish in December 1856.  

Hilaire Haché, born in c1844, married Thérèse Louis.  Their daughter Marie Philomène was born near Arnaudville, St. Landry Parish, in August 1879.  Hilaire died near Arnaudville in September 1889; he was 45 years old.  

CONCLUSION

Hachés were among the early settlers of Acadia, but they came "late" to Louisiana.  In fact, if the Spanish government had not coaxed over 1,500 Acadians in France to emigrate to the colony, there probably would be no Haché/Achées in the Bayou State today, at least none who were Acadian. 

Seventeen of them came to the colony on two of the Seven Ships from France in 1785, most of them females.  One wife followed her husband to San Bernardo below New Orleans in present-day St. Bernard Parish, but the rest of them settled at Manchac on the river or on upper Bayou Lafourche.  By the early 1790s, two Haché cousins--from whom all of the Acadian Acheés in Louisiana descend--were living on the upper bayou 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 family settlement.  Lafourche valley Achées also moved to the old Attakapas District during the early antebellum period, but not until after the War Between the States did a line of the family set down roots on the western prairies. 

Local church records reveal no members of the family, other than Acadians, living in Louisiana during the colonial period.  A few non-Acadian Hachés appear in South Louisiana records during the antebellum period, but their numbers never came close to matching their Acadian namesakes on the bayou and along the river.  

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 who appeared on the federal slave schedules of 1850 and 1860. 

At least half a dozen Achées served Louisiana in uniform during The War Between the States.  Two brothers from Iberville Parish deserted their unit, the 9th Battalion Louisiana Infantry, in the final days of the war, but their cousins served honorably; unlike their Iberville Parish cousins, however, none of the other Achées, though most of them were brothers, served in the same unit.  One 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 served as a sergeant in the 8th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, which was part of General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia; 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 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 Yankees at New Orleans until the following July.  Their youngest brother enlisted early in Company G of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, who styled themselves the Lafourche Creoles, and may have fought at Shiloh, Tennessee, in April 1862.  One wonders if he survived the war. 

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).  It evolved from Haché dit Gallant to Haché-Gallant to Haché and finally to Achée in Louisiana, where it is also spelled Achais, Acher, Ahhe, Hachet, Hachez, Hacker.  

Sources:  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; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 176-79, 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, CD; Jobb, The Cajuns, 162, source of quote; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Duc_Guillaume.htm>, Family Nos. 18, 20; Milling, Exile Without End, 42; <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, 428-40; White, DGFA-1, 791-94; White, DGFA-1 English, 162-63.  

Settlement Abbreviations 
(present-day parishes that existed during the War Between the States in parenthesis; hyperlinks on the abbreviations take you to brief histories of each settlement):

For a chronology of Acadian Arrivals in Louisiana, 1764-early 1800s, see Appendix.

The hyperlink attached to an individual's name is connected to a list of Acadian immigrants for a particular settlement and provides a different perspective on the refugee's place in family and community. 

NOTES

01.  Wall of Names, 40 (pl.10R), calls her Marie HACHÉ, & lists her with her husband & 4 children; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2100, 2108, calls her Anne-Marie HACHÉ-GALLANT, says she was born in 1750, gives her parents' names, & details her marriage; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 9, calls her Anne-Marie HACHÉ, says she was born c1749, gives her parents' names, & details her marriage; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 74-75, calls her Marie HACHÉ, sa [Jean-Charles BENOIT's] femme, age 34, on the embarkation list, does not include her on the debarkation list, calls her Marie HACHÉ, his [Jean-Charles BENOIT's] wife, age 34, on the complete listing, says she was in the 36th family aboard L'Amitié with her husband & 4 children, details her marriage, & says son Paul-Frédéric [BENOIT] was born in 1775 in but gives no birthplace.  See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 503; West, Atlas of LA Surnames, 151.  

English Turn was part of the Isleños San Bernardo settlement below New Orleans.

02.  Wall of Names, 28 (pl.6R), calls her Élisabeth [HACHÉ] soeur [of Élènne HACHÉ], & lists her with her 2 sisters (but indents her name as though she were the daughter of sister Marie-Josèphe, doubtlessly a typo); Arsenault, Généalogie, 2507, calls her Elizabeth HACHÉ, says that she was born in 1777, & that her parents were from Île St.-Jean; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 80-81, Family No. 152, her baptismal record, calls her Élisabeth-Marie HACHÉ, gives her parents' but not her godparents' names, & details the family's voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 8-9, calls her Élisabeth, sa [Élènne HACHÉ's] soeur, age 8, on the embarkation list, Isabel, su [Helena HACHÉ's] hermana, on the debarkation list, & Élisabeth HACHÉ, her [Hélène HACHÉ's] sister, age 8, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 30th Family aboard Le Bon Papa with her 2 sisters; BRDR, 2:1, 171 (SJA-2, 24), her marriage record, calls her Isabella ACHÉ, gives her parents' names, says they were from France, calls her husband's parents Claudio Francisco CALANDROT & Maria ROSSETALON, of France, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Joseph TÉRRIOT, Juan TÉRRIOT, & Pablo BOURGOIS.  The birth/baptismal record of son Jean-Baptiste, dated 7 Aug 1802, in BRDR, 2:171 (SJA-3, 244), calls Joseph's parents Francisco Claudio CALANDROT & Maria TALLONS, followed here.

03.  Wall of Names, 39 (pl. 10L), calls him Fréderick HACHÉ, frère [of Jean-Charles], & lists him with his brother, sister, & sister-in-law; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 50, Family No. 98, calls him Frédéric [HACHÉ], gives his parents' names, & details his father's family's participation in Poitou settlement of the early 1770s; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 78-79, Family No. 148, calls him Frédéric [HACHÉ], gives his parents' names, & details his family's participation in the Poitou settlement of the early 1770s; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 68-69, calls him Frederic HACHE, frère au dit [of Jean-Charles HACHÉ], journalier, age 15, on the embarkation list, does not include him on the debarkation list, calls him Frédéric HACHÉ, his [Jean-Charles HACHÉ's] brother, day laborer, age 15, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 17th Family aboard L'Amitié with his brother, sister, & sister-in-law; BRDR, 5(rev.):1 (SGA-8, 234), his death/burial record, calls him Frédéric ACHÉE, does not gives his parents' names or mention a wife, & says he was 80 years old when he died.  See also Robichuax, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 33, 52, 78.  

His parents being from Île St.-Jean is taken from his brother Jean-Baptiste-Charles's profile in Arsenault, Généalogie, 2506-07.

If he never married, why not?  

04.  Wall of Names, 28 (pl. 6R), calls her Élènne HACHÉ, & lists her with her 2 sisters; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2507, calls her Hélène HACHÉ, says that she was born in 1764, & that her parents were from Île St.-Jean; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 435-36, Family No. 487, her birth/baptismal record, calls her Hélène HACHÉ, gives her parents' names, says her godparents were Adrien BENATRE & Hélene DUMONT, & that her family resided at St.-Servan from 1761-72; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 8-9, calls her Élènne HACHÉ, fille, age 21, on the embarkation list, Helena HACHÉ, soltera, on the debarkation list, & Hélène HACHE, single woman, age 21, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 30th Family aboard Le Bon Papa with her 2 sisters; BRDR, 2:1, 226 (SJA-2, 5), her marriage record, calls her Elena ACHÉ, gives her parents' names, her husband's parents' names, says they were from Acadia, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Ambrosio MARTEN & Rosalia MARTEN; BRDR, 4:1 (SMI-8, 51), her death/burial record, calls her Heneine ACHÉ, age 60, does not give her parents' names or mention a husband, says she "d. on grounds of Mr. MATHER, a widow with three children."

She was the only one of her sisters who married a fellow Acadian.  One sister married a French Creole, the other a Spaniard, probably an Isleño from the Canary Islands.

05.  Wall of Names, 39 (pl. 10L), calls him Jean-Charles HACHÉ, & lists him with his wife, a brother, & a sister; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2506-07, calls him Jean-Charles HACHÉ, says he was born in 1762 at Chantenay, France, gives his parents' names, says his mother was his father's second wife, that they were from Ile St.-Jean, details his marriage, gives his wife's name but not her parents' names, says he was on LA in 1785 with brother Frédéric & sister Marie-Bonne, details his burial, says his widow remarried to Francois BENOIT, & says his only child was Martine, born in c1785 but gives no birthplace; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 177, his birth/baptismal record, recorded at Trés-Ste.-Trinité, Cherbourg, calls him Jean-Charles HACHÉ, gives his parents' names, calls his father a poissonier percheur, & says his godparents were Jean D'AIGLE & Marie HACHEZ; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 50, Family No. 98, calls him Jean-Baptiste-Charles [HACHÉ], gives his parents' names, & details his father's family's participation in the Poitou settlement of the early 1770s; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 78-79, Family No. 148, calls him Jean-Baptiste-Charles [HACHÉ], gives his parents' names, & details his father's family's participation in the Poitou settlement of the early 1770s; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 68-69, calls him Jean-Charles HACHÉ, marin, age 22, on the embarkation list, Juan Carlos HACHÉ, on the debarkation list, & Jean-Charles HACHÉ, sailor, age 22, on the complete listing, says he was in the 17th Family aboard L'Amitié with his wife, a brother, & a sister, & lists the implements the Spanish gave him after he reached LA.  See also Robichuax, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 31.  

How did he die at such a young age?  His daughter Martina/Martine, born at Nantes or Paimboeuf in Aug 1785, a week before the family sailed to LA, lived until Jul 1861 & was one of the last Acadian immigrants in LA to join our ancestors.  

06.  Wall of Names, 41, calls him Joseph HACHÉ, son [Francoise DOUCET's] mineur; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2506, calls him Joseph-Francois HACHÉ, says he was born in 1772 but gives no birthplace, son of Pierre HACHÉ & his second wife Anne DUMONT of Île St.-Jean, gives his wife's name, her birthplace, her parents' names, & says that Joseph-Francois married again at St. Martinville, gives his wife's name & birthplace, her parents' names, but gets the mother-in-law's name wrong, the date, & place of marriage, & says his children, all from his first marriage, were Jean-Pierre, born in 1804, Marie, born in c1806, & Rosalie, born in c1808, but gives no birthplaces; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 438-40, Family No. 489, his birth/baptismal record, calls him Joseph-Francois HACHÉ, gives his parents' names, calls his mother Madeleine DINGLE, his [father's] third wife, says he was godson of Joseph GRANGER & Marguerite BENOIST, & that his family resided at St.-Servan from 1760-72; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 82, Family No. 82, calls him Joseph [HACHÉ], gives his parents' names, calls his mother Madeleine DAIGLE, says his father was born in c1724 but gives no birthplace, that his father was a seaman, that his mother was born in c1734 but gives no birthplace, that she died age 50 & was buried 10 Oct 1784, St.-Martin-de-Chantenay, that his siblings were Guillaume, Louis, Pierre, Marie, & Francoise-Madeleine, & details the family's participation in the Poitou settlement of the early 1770s; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 78-79, calls him Jh HACHÉ, son [Francoise DOUCET's] mineur, Joseph HACHÉ, her [Francoise DOUCET's] minor; BRDR, 2:1, 465 (ASM-2, 76), the record of his first marriage, calls him Joseph HACHÉE of St. Malo, says his parents were Pedro HACHÉE, decd., & Magdalena DAIGLE, & the witnesses to his marriage were Ambroise HÉBERT & Joseph LE BLANC; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-B:449, 464, the record of his second marriage, calls him Joseph HACHE, widower from a first marriage to Genevieve LEBLANC, says he was native of Nantes, his parents were Pierre HACHÉ & Magdeleine DAIGLE, gives the correct name for his new mother-in-law, says both his wife's parents' were deceased at the time of the wedding, & that the witnesses to his marriage were Charles HÉBERT, Louis DUGAS, Joseph BABIN fils, & Pierre LABAUVE; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 3:2 (Laf. Ch.: v. 3, p. 7), his death/burial record, calls him Joseph ACHER m. (2)Anastasie BRAU, does not give his parents' names or his first wife's name, & says he was 55 years old when he died.  See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 497. 

Why does he not appear in any of the Lafourche valley censuses from 1788-98?  Where was he then, between the ages of 16 & 26?  With whom was he living?

His marriage record & Robichaux are followed here in the matter of who were his parents.  His mother, Madeleine DAIGLE or DINGLE, was born at Notre-Dame, Louisbourg, Île Royale, daughter of Jacques DAIGLE or DINGLE & Marguerite LANDRY.  

For a clue as to when he moved to the Atakapas, see the birth/baptismal record of daughter Celestine Adélaïde, born 9 Nov 1810, baptized 27 Feb 1811, Atakapas, now St. Martinville, in Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-B:353 (SM Ch: v.6, #1079).  This is clearly Joseph's daughter because he is called Joseph HACHÉ of St. Malo, son of Pierre HACHÉ & Magdeleine DAIGLE.  

07.  Not in Wall of Names.  Arsenault, Généalogie, 2098, his father's profile in the Île St.-Jean section, says his parents were married at Beaubassin 20 Feb 1719, moved to Port-Lajoie, Ile St.-Jean, in 1722, then to Louisbourg in 1727, where Louis was born in 1741, that his father, son of Michel HACHÉ-GALLANT & Anne CORMIER of Beaubassin, died in c1752, that his widowed mother, daughter of Elie GENTIL & Cecile MARTIN, was at St.-Servan, France, in 1765 & 1766, in Poitou in 1773, at Nantes in 1775, & died in c1784, probably Nantes; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2101, his profile in the Île St.-Jean section, again insists he was born in 1741, & details his 2 marriages; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2505, his profile in the LA section, calls his wife Francois DOUCET veuve Louis HACHÉ, implying that she was a widow when she came to LA, & says his children were, from his first marriage, Louis, born in 1766, & Marguerite-Yvonne in 1767, from his second marriage, Jean-Francois, born in 1771, Osite-Francoise-Thomase in 1772, Pierre-Charles in 1775, Joseph in 1776, Ange-Frédéric in 1777, Barbe-Michel in 1779, & Jean-Francoise in 1781, but gives no birthplaces; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 437-38, Family No. 488; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 81-82, Family No. 153, calls him Louis HACHÉ.  See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 503; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 51, 76, 125, 180.  

His wife & son came to LA on L'Amitié, but he is not listed on the passenger list of that ship or any of the other 7 ships; however, there is no question that he made it to LA.  So when exactly did he get there?  Arsenault, p. 2505, calls his wife a widow, but she just did not go to LA with him.  Judging from the amount of corn & cattle he had at Ascension in 1791, he could have settled in the colony before 1785.  However, his appearance on the Spanish list of Acadians at Nantes, France, in Sep 1784 with his wife & 2 sons reveals that he probably came to LA on one of the 7 ships but somehow his name was not recorded on any of the passenger rolls.  

 Of his 9 children, only 1, Pierre-Charles, made it to LA.  

08.  Wall of Names, 40, calls her Magdeleine-Apauline but gives no surname nor the relationship with Anne OLIVIER veuve HACHÉ, with whom she is listed; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2505, calls her Madeleine-Appoline, says she was born in 1775 & was the daughter of Anne OLIVIER's niece, hence her grand-niece; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 435-36, Family No. 487, her birth/baptismal record, calls her Madeleine-Apoline HACHÉ (twin [of Jean-Louis]), gives her parents' names, says her godparents were Pierre-Paul HACHÉ & Ursule BRAUD, & says her family resided at St.-Servan from 1761-72; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 80, calls her Madeleine-Appoline HACHE, niece of Anne OLIVIER, widow of Jean-Baptistie HACHE; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 74-75, calls her Magdeleine-Apauline, no surname given, sa fille jedis(sic) [Anne OLIVIER's] niece, Magdeleine-Apolline HACHÉ, daughter of her [Anne OLIVIER's] niece.  See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 505.

Anne OLIVIER was the widow of her father's oldest brother, so Anne was her aunt, not, as Arsenault claims, her great-aunt. 

What happened to Madeleine in LA?

09.  Wall of Names, 27 (pl. 6R), calls her Margueritte [HACHÉ], & lists her with her widowed mother & a sister; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2506, calls her Marguerite HACHÉ, & says she was born in 1774; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 51, Family No. 100, calls her Marguerite [HACHÉ], & details her family's participation in the Poitou settlement of the early 1770s; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 80, Family No. 150, calls her Marguerite [HACHÉ], & details her family's participation in the Poitou settled of the early 1770s as well as its voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 4-5, calls her Margueritte, sa [Anne BOUDREAU, veuve HACHÉ's] fille, age 11, on the embarkation list, Margarita, su [Anne BODREAU', viuda HACHÉs] hija, on the debarkation list, & Marguerite HACHÉ, her [Anne BOUDREAUX, widow HACHÉ's] daughter, age 11, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 11th Family aboard Le Bon Papa with her widowed mother & a sister; BRDR, 6:1 (SMI-4, 194), her death/burial record, calls her Marguerite HACHEE, age 76 yrs. born in France, but does not give her parents' names or mention a husband.  See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 497.  

Did she ever marry?

10.  Wall of Names, 27 (pl. 6R), calls her Marie HACHÉ, sa mineure, & lists her with the family of Jean-Baptiste DUGAST; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2507, calls her Marie HACHÉ, says she was born in 1766, & that her parents were Antoine HACHÉ & Marie CLÉMENCEAU of Île St.-Jean; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 78, Family No. 147, calls her Marie HACHÉ, says her father was born c1735, son of Jean-Baptiste HACHÉ & Marie GENTIL, married her mother c1759, her mother was born c1742, died at age 40, & was buried 21 Nov 1782, St.-Martin-de-Chantenay, but gives no death/burial date for her father, & details her family's participation in the Poitou settlement of the early 1770s; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 6-7, calls her Marie HACHÉ, sa mineur, age 18, on the embarkation list, Maria HACHÉ, huerfana, on the debarkation list, & Marie HACHÉ, a minor child, orphan, age 18, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 15th Family aboard Le Bon Papa with the family of Jean-Baptiste DUGAT; BRDR, 2:1, 385 (SGA-14, 5, #12), her marriage record, calls her Marie ACHE, calls her husband "(first name not given)" HEUSE, gives her & his parents' names, says both sets of parents were "of Parish of St. Serouado, France," but gives no witnesses to her marriage.  See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 497, 527; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 49, 73, 124.  

What was her relationship, if any, to Jean-Baptiste DUGAS & his wife Marie GROSSIN, with whom she traveled to LA?  She was the only member of her immediate family who emigrated to LA. 

Calling this Marie ACHÉE the wife of Charles-Mathurin USÉ is a process of elimination.  There were 5 Acadian immigrants named or called Marie ACHÉE, 2 of them, including this one, named Marie-Jeanne.  An important piece of the puzzle is that Charles-Mathurin & Marie were married at St.-Gabriel, where most of the Le Bon Papa passengers settled.  Also, the age for this Marie ACHÉE in the passenger list of Le Bon Papa matches the ages of the wife of Charles-Mathurin USÉ in the various censuses in which they are found. 

11.  Wall of Names, 27 (pl. 6R), calls her calls her Marie [HACHÉ], & lists her with her widowed mother & a sister; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2506, calls her Marie HACHÉ, & says she was born in 1770; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 51, calls her Anne HACHÉ?; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 80, calls her Anne HACHÉ? & Marie HACHÉ; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 4-5, calls her Marie, sa [Anne BOUDREAU, veuve HACHÉ's] fille, age 15, on the embarkation list, Maria HACHÉ, su [Ana BODREAU, viuda HACHÉ's] hija, on the debarkation list, & Marie HACHÉ, her [Anne BOUDREAUX, widow HACHÉ's] daughter, age 15, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 11th Family aboard Le Bon Papa with her widowed mother & a sister; BRDR, 2:1, 671 (PCP-19, 11), the record of her first marriage, calls her Jeanne ACHET of St.-Malo, calls her parents Charles ACHET & Anne BOUDROTE, gives her husband's parents' names, says they, too, were from St.-Malo, & that the witnesses to her marriage were Charles DAIGLE, Étienne PELLETIER, Pierre DUGAT, & Francois DUGUE; Hébert, D., South LA Records, 1:260 (Thib.Ct.Hse.: Succ.: Year 1812),  her first succession inventory, probably following the death of her first husband, calls her Marie HACHÉ, native of St.-Malo, France, 53 yrs. old, but does not give her parents' names or the name of her husband; Hébert, D., South LA Records, 1:31, 260 (Thib.Ch.: v. 1, p. 25), the record of her second marriage, calls her Marie HACHÉ of St.-Malo, France, wid. of Francois SEVIN, calls her parents Jacques [HACHÉ] & Anne BOUDREAUX, says that both of her parents were deceased at the time of the marriage, says her husband also was from St.-Malo, France, & was widower of Anne Louise GUIMIRE; Hébert, D., South LA Records, 1:260 (Thib.Ct.Hse.: Succ.: Year 1833), her final succession inventory, calls her Marie HACHÉ, m. (1) d.Francois SEVIN, m. (2)d.Simon BABIN, does not give her parents' names, lists her children by her first husband, & gives her death date.  See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 497; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 49, 72, 124.

Only her first marriage record calls her father Charles.  Other records call her father Jacques.  See, for example, Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 51, Family No. 100; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 79-80, Family No. 150; Hébert, D., p. 5; the birth/baptismal records of 4 of her children in BRDR, 2:671, which call her Marie BUCHE of Baton Rouge (PCP-7, 35), Maria ACHET (ASM-1, 84), Maria HACHÉ (ASC-5, 75), & Maria ACCHET (ASM-1, 84), the latter listing the maternal grandparents of the child as Santiago (that is, Jacques) ACCHET & Ana BOUDRAUX, Acadians.  Please remember that these are Spanish records, hence the odd spellings of French names.  Why did the priest at Pointe-Coupée in 1787 call her father Charles?  Is Charles an inadvertent repetition of the groom's father's first name, & thus a typo in the BRDR?  The Assumption birth/baptismal record for daughter Maria Remigia, dated 12 Apr 1797 in BRDR, 2:671 (ASM-1, 84), proves to my satisfaction that the wife of Francois SEVIN was Marie ACHÉE, daughter of Jacques.  

12.  Wall of Names, 41, calls her Marie HACHÉ, son [Francoise DOUCET's] mineur; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 438-40, Family No. 489, her birth/baptismal record, calls her Marie-Anne HACHÉ, gives her parents' names, says her mother was Anne DUMONT, his [her father's] second wife, that she was the goddaughter of Jacques HACHÉ & Anne JACQUEMIN, & that her family resided at St.-Servan from 1760-72; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 82, Family No. 154, calls her Marie [HACHÉ], gives her father & stepmother's names, says her siblings were Guillaume, Louis, Pierre, Joseph, & Francoise-Madeleine, & details her family's participation in the Poitou settlement of the early 1770s; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 78-79, calls her Marie HACHE, son [Francoise DOUCET's] mineur, Marie HACHE, her [Francoise DOUCET's] minor; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 62-63, under Lista parcial de vientitres casamientos acadianos arregalados par Navarro, 20 novembre 1785 [Partial List of 23 marriages Navarro arranged on 20 November 1785], A. Marriages celebrated on 20 November 1785, calls her Marie HACHÉ (daughter of Francisca DOUCET, widow of HACHÉ), says she was in the 54th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi[sic], calls her first husband Louis-Antoine CHARRIÉ, immigrant, &, calling her Mariana HACHÉ, details her marriage, calls her husband Luis Antonio CHARRIER of Poitou, & gives her & his parents' names; NOAR, 4:57, 159, the record of her first marriage, calls her Mariana HACHÉ, says her parents were Pedro HACHÉ & Ana DUMOND, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Josef MARTINEZ & Vicente LLORCA; BRDR, 2:1, 658, the record of her second marriage, calls her Maria HACHÉ, a widow, says her parents were Pedro HACHÉ & Ana DUMONT, & the witnesses to her marriage were Luis HACHE & Vincente NU...EN; BRDR, 2:1, 65, the record of her third marriage, calls her Maria HACHEE, widow of Pedro ST. ANGE, of Nantes, France, says her parents were Joseph HACHÉE & Ana DUMON DE DEL, & the witnesses to her marriage were Joseph HÉBERT & Simon GUILLOT.  See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 503; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 48, 50, 73, 127, 166.  

Because of their similar status as orphans & the closeness of their ages, note how easy it is to confuse this Marie HACHÉ with the other Marie HACHÉs who came to LA on Le Bon Papa.  However, this Marie HACHÉ is easy to distinguish because of her many marriages.  

13.  Wall of Names, 39 (pl. 10L), calls her Marie-Bonne HACHÉ soeur au dit [Jean-Charles], & lists her with 2 brothers & a sister-in-law; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 176, her birth/baptismal record, recorded at Trés-Ste.-Trinité, Cherbourg, calls her Bonne-Marie-Magdalen HACHÉ, gives her parents' but not her godparents' names, & says her father was a charpentier; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 50, Family No. 98, calls her Bonne [HACHÉ], gives her parents' names, & details her father's family's participation in Poitou settlement of the early 1770s; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 78-79, Family No. 148, calls her Bonne [HACHÉ], gives her parents' names, & details her father's family's participation in the Poitou settlement of the early 1770s; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 68-69, calls her Marie-Bonne HACHÉ, soeur au dit [Jean-Charles HACHÉ], age 18, on the embarkation list, does not include her on the debarkation list, calls her Marie-Bonne HACHÉ, his [Jean-Charles HACHÉ's] sister, age 18, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 17th Family aboard L'Amitié with 2 brothers & a sister-in-law; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:391, 724 (SM Ch.: v.4, #20), her marriage record, calls her Marie HACHÉ, calls her husband Joseph ST. GERMAIN, gives her & his parents' names, says her father was native of Cherbourg in Normadie, his father was "of Illinois," & that the witnesses to her marriage were Antoine NEZAT & Frédrique HACHÉ [her brother, who was only 18 at the time & lived a good distance away in Ascension].

The baptismal records of a number of her children in Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:723-24, call her father Jean-Charles HACHÉ.  Her husband's delightful dit can be found in the same records.  One wonders how he became "Tino."

14.  Wall of Names, 28 (pl. 6R), calls her Marie-Josephe [HACHÉ] soeur [of Élènne HACHÉ], & lists her with her 2 sisters; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2507, calls her Marie-Josèphe HACHÉ, says she was born in 1774, & that her parents were from Île St.-Jean; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 535-36, Family No. 487, her birth/baptismal record, calls her Marie-Joseph HACHÉ, gives her parents' names, says her godparents were Grégoire LEJEUNE & Perinne BASSET, & that her family resided at St.-Servan from 1761-72; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 8-9, calls her Marie-Josèphe, sa [Élènne HACHÉ's] soeur, age 16, on the embarkation list, Marie Josefa, su [Helena HACHÉ's] hermana, on the debarkation list, & Marie-Josèphe HACHÉ, her [Hélène HACHÉ's] sister, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 30th Family aboard Le Bon Papa with her 2 sisters; NOAR, 4:1 (SBSB, F1, 9), her death/burial record, calls her Maria Josepha ACHÉ, native of St. Malo in Brittany, says she was 20, & was the spouse of Antonio RAMIREZ.  

Was Antonio a San Bernardo Isleño, or Canary Islander?  Did she go to St.-Gabriel with her sisters?  Or did she meet Antonio in New Orleans before Le Bon Papa passengers left the city, marry him, & go with him to San Bernardo?  If so, where is their marriage record?  A daughter, Antonia Maria del Carmen, was born to them, died an infant, & was buried at San Bernardo 6 Sep 1789.  See NOAR, 4:258 (SBSB, F1, 7).  Perhaps Marie-Josèphe died from complications of childbirth the following Aug.  

15.  Not in Wall of Names because of the circumstance of her birth.  NOAR, 4:1 (SLC, B9, 394), her birth/baptismal record, calls her Martina ACHER, says her parents were Juan Carlos ACHER & Maria ____, & her godparents were Gilberto LEONARD & Maria Magdalena PI___ [PINET, probably her aunt]; BRDR, 3:1, 820 (ASM-2, 99), her marriage record, calls her Martina HACHÉE (ACHÉE), says her parents were Juan HACHÉE & Maria Modesta PENEL/PINEL, & the witnesses to her marriage were Pedro Santiago GAUBERT & Ambroise HÉBERT; Hébert, D., South LA Records, 4:311, her death/burial record, calls her Martine HACHÉ & notes her marriage to Jean-Baptiste.  See also Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 31, 52, 78, 129, 163. 

Martina was one of the Acadian children whose honorary godfather was LA Spanish intendant Martin NAVARRO.  In this case, Intendant NAVARRO was not present for the baptism but served as sponsor in absentia.  See notation in Appendix. 

She must have been a tough little girl to have survived the long sea voyage--80 days--at such a tender age & gone on to marry & have children; most of the Acadian babies of '85 did not survive childhood.  She was 19 years old & her husband 39 when they married.  For evidence that she bore many children, see BRDR, 3:820-21; & Hébert, D., 1:500-01, 505-06, 511, the baptimal records of sons Jean-Marie THIBODEAUX (born Nov 1806), Joseph Eutreville[Treville] THIBODEAUX (born Jan 1831), & daughters Maria Pélagie THIBODEAUX (born Sep 1809), Maria Abdela[Adèle] THIBODEAUX (born Jan 1812), Judith Clementine THIBODEAUX (born Dec 1816), Judith Pélagie THIBODEAUX (born Jan 1819), Élisabeth THIBODEAUX (born Aug 1821), Céleste Celema THIBODEAUX (born Jan 1824), & Pauline THIBODEAUX (born Jan 1828).  In most of these baptismal records she is called Martine.  As the succession record of her husband in Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1:505, reveals, she was the mother of 14 children in May 1836, age 51, when her husband's estate was inventoried.  In 2 of her daughters' marriage records she is called Marthe instead of Martine.  Sometimes she is called Marline.  See Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1:507, 508, 511.  In nearly all of these records, her surname is given as HACHÉ, so, in her case, the evolution to ACHÉE must have been a slow one.

She was one of the last Acadian immigrants in LA to join our ancestors. 

16.  Wall of Names, 41, calls him Pierre HACHÉ, son mineur; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2506, calls him Pierre HACHÉ, says he was born at St.-Servan, France, in 1768, son of Pierre HACHÉ & his second wife Anne DUMONT of Ile St.-Jean, was the brother of Joseph-Francois HACHÉ, gives his wife's name, her native city, & her parents' names, & says his children were Jean-Pierre, born in 1796, Jean-Baptiste, born in c1798, Argile, born in 1799, Rosalie, born in 1800, Carmelita, born in 1801, Francois, born in c1805, Adélaïde, born in c1808, Clémence, born in 1812, & Eugenie, born in 1815, but gives no birthplaces; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 438-40, Family No. 489, his birth/baptismal record, calls him Pierre HACHÉ, gives his parents' names, calls his mother Madeleine DINGLE, his [father's] third wife, says he was the godson of Alexis GAUTROT & Marie MELANSON, & that his family resided at St.-Servan from 1760-72; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 82, Family No. 154, calls him Pierre [HACHÉ], gives his parents' names, calls his mother Madeleine DAIGLE, says his father was born in c1724 but gives no birthplace, that his father was a seaman, that his mother was born in c1734 but gives no birthplace, that she died age 50 & was buried 10 Oct 1784, St.-Martin-de-Chantenay, that his siblings were Guillaume, Louis, Joseph, Marie, & Francoise-Madeleine, & details his family's participation in the Poitou settlement of the early 1770s; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 78-79, calls him Pre HACHÉ, son [Francoise DOUCET's] mineur, Pierre HACHÉ, her [Francoise DOUCET's] minor; BRDR, 2:2, 220 (ASM-2, 13), his marriage record, calls him Pedro ACHÉE, gives his & his wife's parents' names, calls his mother Magdalena DAIGLE of Nantes, France, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Louis DANTIN (kinsman of his wife), Juan Bautista CAZEBON, & Pierre ACHÉ (probably his cousin).  See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 497; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 65, 103, 121, 180.  

His marriage record & Robichaux's studies of the Acadians in France are followed here in the matter of who were his parents.  His mother, Madeleine DAIGLE or DINGLE, depending on the source, was born at Notre-Dame, Louisbourg, Îe Royale, daughter of Jacques DAIGLE or DINGLE & Marguerite LANDRY.  

He is called Pierre Alexis in the birth/baptismal records of 1 of his daughters, dated 22 Jul 1817, in BRDR, 3:1 (ASM-8, 93), in the marriage record of 2 more of his daughters, who married the same day, 4 May 1819, in BRDR, 3:2 (ASM-7, 53), in the marriage record of son Jean Baptiste, dated 10 Jan 1820, in BRDR, 4:1 (ASM-7, 71), as well as in his succession records, cited above.  The marriage record of daughter Eugenie, dated 26 Jun 1854, in Hébert, D., South LA Records, 3:257 (Thib.Ch.: v. 4, #553), calls him Alexis.  

17.   Wall of Names, 41, calls him Pierre HACHÉ; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2505, 2506, calls him Pierre & Pierre-(Charles) HACHÉ, says he was born in 1775, names his parents & their settlement in Acadia, names his wife & her parents' names & settlement in LA, speculates on his year of marriage, followed here, & lists his children as Louis, born in 1799, Urbain in 1800, Francois-Marie in 1801, Onésime in c1805, & Simon in c1810, but gives no birthplaces; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 53, & Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 82, call him Pierre HACHÉ.  However, Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 52, his birth/baptismal record, followed here, calls him Pierre-Charles HACHÉ; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 78-79, calls him Pre HACHÉ, son [Francoise DOUCET's] fils, Pierre HACHÉ, her [Francoise DOUCET's] son.  See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 503; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 51, 76, 125, 180. .

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