APPENDICES

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

BARRILLEAUX

[BAH-ree-yoh]

ACADIA

Nicolas Barrieau, born in France in c1648, came to Acadia aboard L'Oranger in 1671.  He married Martine, daughter of Étienne Hébert, at Port-Royal in c1682.  They moved to the Minas Basin, where they settled first at Grand-Pré then at L'Assomption, Pigiguit, in the early 1700s.  Nicolas and Martine had nine children, including four sons who married and created families of their own.  Nicolas's daughters married into the Bourg, Doiron, Girouard, and Lord dit Lamontagne families.  By the early 1750s, Nicolas's sons and their families had left Pigiguit and moved to French Acadia to escape the hated British.  

Oldest son Antoine, born probably at Minas in c1697, married Angélique, daughter of Pierre Thibodeau l'aîné, probably at Pigiguit in c1722.  By the early 1750s, Antoine had moved his family to Port-Lajoie on Île St.-Jean, today's Prince Edward Island.  

Nicolas, fils, born at Minas in c1703, married Ursule, daughter of François Gautrot, probably at Pigiguit in c1735.  He engaged in the coasting trade and settled at Port-Toulouse on Île Royale, today's Cape Breton Island, in the early 1750s, and there he died in c1755, on the eve of Le Grand Dérangement.  

Jacques, born probably at Pigiguit in c1705, married Anne-Marie, daughter of Jean Turpin, at Grand-Pré in c1726.  He, too, moved his family to Port-Lajoie in the early 1750s, then on to Île Madame, south of Île Royale, in c1752.  

Youngest son Pierre, born probably at Pigiguit in c1707, married Véronique, daughter of Pierre Girouard, in c1730.  He also moved his family to Port-Lajoie by the early 1750s and died there in c1758 during Le Grand Dérangement.  

In 1755, the descendants of Nicolas Barrieau could be found on the Maritime islands of Île St.-Jean and Île Royale, including Île Madame. 

LE GRAND DÉRANGEMENT

Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this family to the winds.  But not at first. 

The British roundup in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755 touched none of the Maritime Acadians.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived, however.  After the British captured the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, they swooped down on the Maritime islands and rounded up most of the Acadians there.  Most of the Barrieaus, children of Antoine, Nicolas, and Jacques, escaped to the St. Lawrence valley, where they settled in present-day Québec Province at La Prairie south of Montréal, at Champlain above Trois-Rivières, at St.-Francois- and St.-Joseph-de-Beauce on Rivière Chaudière, at St.-Charles-de-Bellechasse, Château-Richer, and St.-Thomas-de-Montmagny below Québec City, at 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 mid-twentieth century, they may even have forgotten the others existed. 

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Other Barrieaus living on the Maritime islands, mostly the children of Pierre, fell into the hands of the British, who deported them to France in late 1758.  Pierre's daughter Marie-Blanche, age 23, wife of Charles Daigre, age 25, lost her husband and both of her children--a son, age 3, and a daughter, age 15 months--aboard one of the five English transports that left the Gut of Canso in late November 1758 and reached St.-Malo in late January 1759.  Marie-Blanche's 13-year-old sister Pélagie, who sailed with them, survived the voyage.  Pierre's other children--son Jean-Baptiste, who was 26 in 1759, and daughters Agathe, age 24, Anne or Anastasie, age 17, Euphrosine, age 12, and Thérèse, age unrecorded--survived deportation to Cherbourg, France, in late 1758.  In July 1759, they reached St.-Malo from Cherbourg and settled at nearby Pleudihen.  

Jean-Baptiste Barrieau married Marie, daughter of Jean Daigre, at Pleudihen, near St.-Malo, in June 1764, and started a large family; seven of their children were born at Mordreaux, near Pleudihen:  Jacques-Alain in October 1765, Jean-Pierre in June 1767 but died at age 3 1/2 months the following October, Jean-Marie was born in May 1769, Marie-Rose in September 1770 but died three months later in January 1771, Périnne was born in January 1772, and twins Charles-Pierre and Anne-Jeanne in November 1773, but Charles-Pierre died the day after his birth and Anne-Jeanne 10 days later.   

Jean-Baptiste Barrieau's sister Agathe had married Isidore Daigre either at Pigiguit or on Île St.-Jean in c1750, but evidently he died before the British round up of 1758.  At Pleudihen, she remarried to Anselme, son of Jean Landry, in February 1765.  Sister Pélagie married Marin, son of Étienne Boudrot, at Pleudihen in May 1765.  Euphrosine married François, fils, son of François Boudrot père and widower of Marguerite Landry, at Pleudihen in April 1768.  Anastasie married Joseph, fils, son of Joseph Dugas, père, at Pleudihen in May 1770.  The fate of sister Thérèse is unrecorded.

In the early 1770s, Jean-Baptiste and at least three of his sisters and their families signed on to a new settlement in the Poitou region.  French authorities were tired of providing for the Acadians languishing in the port cities.  A French nobleman offered to settle them on some marginal land he owned near the city of Châtellerault.  The Acadians tried mightily to bring life to the rocky soil around the long line of houses in the woods of Poitou.  Jean-Baptiste and Marie had a son, their eighth child, François, baptized at the church in Châtellerault in January 1775.  When the Poitou venture failed miserably in 1775, Jean-Baptiste, his sisters, and their families retreated with their fellow Acadians to the port city of Nantes, where they subsisted on government handouts and lived as best they could.  Jean-Baptiste and Marie had two more sons, children nine and ten, during their stay in St.-Jacques parish, Nantes--Joseph-Marie, baptized at St.-Jacques in July 1778, died at age 11 days and was buried at St.-Jacques, and Louis-Constant, baptized in the same church in July 1779, died at age 3 1/2 years in July 1783 and also was buried at St.-Jacques.  Sister Euphrosine's husband François Boudrot died probably at Nantes by June 1784, when she remarried to Charles, son of Joseph Broussard and widower of Bonne-Jacqueline-Françoise Castel, at St.-Martin-de-Chantenay, near Nantes.  

Meanwhile, their younger brother, Olivier Barrieau, who turned 21 in 1758, also ended up in France, but only after he had been held as a prisoner of war in England until the end of the war with Britain.  In 1763, he was repatriated to St.-Malo with other Acadians who had been exiled to Virginia in 1755 then sent on to England, where they were treated like common criminals for the rest of the war.  Olivier settled near his older brother and sisters at Pleudihen, where he married Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Boudrot, in February 1764.  Their daughter Anne-Marie-Josèphe was born at Mordreaux, near Pleudihen, in April 1765.  Anastasie died at Hotel-Dieu, St.-Malo, in February 1766; she was only 20 years old.  Olivier remarried to Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Landry, at St.-Servan, near St.-Malo, in May 1768.  She gave him three more children in France, all of them born at St.-Servan:  Charles-Olivier, born in March 1769, Jean-Baptiste in March 1771, and Joseph-Marie in September 1773 but died 10 days after his birth.  When Olivier's older brother and sisters headed to the Poitou region in the early 1770s, Olivier took his family, instead, to the Isle of Jersey, a British possession in the English Channel.  Somehow he returned to North America by 1774, when he settled at Bonaventure and Carleton on the Baie des Chaleurs in present-day Québec Province.  But his siblings remained in France, enduring along with hundreds of other Acadians the indignities of life in the mother country.  

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 agreed to take it.  

LOUISIANA:  RIVER SETTLEMENTS

Barrieaus, compared to other Acadians, came relatively late to Louisiana.  Two Barrieau sisters emigrated to Louisiana from France aboard Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships of 1785, which reached the colony in July.  They and their families followed their fellow passengers to Manchac, south of Baton Rouge.  They did not remain there long, however.  By the mid-1790s they had joined their kinsmen on upper Bayou Lafourche:

Agathe Barrieau, age 50, crossed with second husband Anselme Landry, age 42.  They brought no children to the colony and had no more children there.  They were counted on upper Bayou Lafourche in December 1795. 

Euphrosine Barrieau, age 37, Agathe's sister, crossed with second husband Charles Broussard, age 44, and five sons or stepsons, ages 20 to 12.  They also were counted on upper Bayou Lafourche in December 1795. 

LOUISIANA:  LAFOURCHE VALLEY SETTLEMENTS

A Barrieau brother and two more sisters came to Louisiana from France on three more of the Seven Ships in 1785.  They chose to go to upper Bayou Lafourche:

Jean-Baptiste Barrieau, age 52, wife Marie Daigle, age 45, and four of  their children--Jacques-Alain, age 19, Jean-Marie, age 15, Pérrine, age 13, and François, age 10--crossed on La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in August.  They followed the majority of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Jean-Baptiste died by January 1788, when his wife Marie was counted in the Valenzuéla census without a husband; he would have been 55 years old that year.  Marie never remarried.  Her daughter married into the Boudreaux family.  The Acadian Barrilleauxs of South Louisiana are descended from Jean-Baptiste and two of his sons.  

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Anastasie Barrieau, age 43, Jean-Baptiste's sister, crossed on Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in September.  With her were husband Joseph Dugas, père, age 43, and nine children, ages 23 to 2. 

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Pélagie Barrieau, age 39, another of Jean Baptiste's sisters, crossed on L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in November.  With her were husband Marin Boudrot, age 53, and two children, ages 13 and 1.  Pélagie died probably at Lafourche in the late 1780s, in her early 40s. 

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The Barrieaus who came to Louisiana from France in 1785 created a vigorous center of family settlement on Bayou Lafourche.  By the mid-1790s, in fact, it had become the only center of family settlement in the colony:

After moving to upper Bayou Lafourche, Jean-Baptiste's sister Euphrosine Barrieau buried her second husband, Charles Broussard, at Assumption and remarried again--her third marriage--to Joseph, son of fellow Acadian Paul Aucoin and widower of Isabelle Henry, in October 1797.  Euphrosine died at Assumption in January 1803, age 55. 

Descendants of Jacques-Alain BARRILLEAUX (1765-1819; Nicolas, Pierre)

Jacques-Alain, eldest son of Jean-Baptiste Barrieau and Marie Daigle, born at Pleudihen, near St.-Malo, France, in October 1765, came to Louisiana with his parents and siblings aboard La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships from France, in 1785.  He followed them to upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marie-Perpétué, daughter of fellow Acadian Simon Mazerolle, in the late 1780s.  Marie also had crossed from France aboard La Bergère.  They built their habitant next to his widowed mother and younger brother François.  Jacques-Alain died in Assumption Parish in June 1819; he was 54 years old.   He and Marie had at least eight sons, most of whom married fellow Acadians and created families of their own.  Most of their sons and grandsons remained in Assumption Parish, but one line drifted down bayou and settled near Raceland and Lockport in Lafourche Interior Parish.  

1

Oldest son Jacques, fils, baptized at Ascension in June 1789, married Élisabeth Rosalie, sometimes called Rosalie and Babette, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean-Pierre Landry, at Ascension in April 1806.  Their son Jacques Zenon was born in Assumption Parish in November 1814 but died at 4 months old in March 1815, and Désiré Marcellin, called Marcellin, was born in Assumption Parish in May 1821 but died at 18 months old in October 1822.  Their daughters married into the Giroir and Landry families.  Jacques, fils died in Assumption Parish in July 1822; the priest who recorded his burial noted that Jacques, fils was 28 years old when he died, but he was probably in his early 30s.  This line of the family, except for its blood, died with him and his second son, Marcellin.  

2

François, born at Ascension in July 1790, married Florence, daughter of fellow Acadian Michel Aucoin and widow of Michel Pedeau, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in November 1814.  Their son Salvador Maurice, called Maurice, was born in Assumption Parish in September 1823, and Cyprien Auguste, called C. A., in September 1825.  Their daughters married into the Colbut and Foret families.  Francois died in Assumption Parish in September 1841; he was only 51 years old.  His younger son was a victim of the Last Island hurricane of August 1856, which killed 200 people at the popular resort south of the Terrebonne marshes. 

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Maurice died in Assumption Parish in October 1847.  He was only 24 years old and probably did not marry.  

2b

Cyprien Auguste married Stephanie Manette, daughter of fellow Acadian Marcellin Bourg, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in December 1855.  Cyprien died "about 14 August at Last Island," Terrebonne Parish, a victim of the hurricane that destroyed the island on 10 August 1856, and was buried in Assumption Parish the following October; the Plattenville priest who recorded his burial said that Cyprien A. died at "age 29 years," but he was 30.  His son Cyprien Auguste, fils was born posthumously in Assumption Parish in February 1857. Stephanie died near Plattenville in November 1858; she was only 23 years old.  One wonders who raised little Cyprien, fils. 

3

Jean-Marie, born probably at Assumption in August 1792, married Marie Madeleine, called Madeleine, another daughter of Jean-Pierre Landry, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in August 1815.  Their son Heremberg Valentin, called Valentin, was born in Assumption Parish in May 1816, Jean Baptiste in September 1820, Joseph in November 1824, and Drosin in February 1829.  Their daughters married into the Boudreaux, Dupuis, Hébert, and Martin families.  Jean Marie died in Assumption Parish in August 1843; he was 51 years old.  

3a

Valentin married fellow Acadian Marcellite Thibodeaux probably in Assumption Parish in the 1840s.  Their son Osémé Martin was born near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in November 1850, and Joseph Gervey in October 1855.  Their daughter married into the Richard family. 

3b

Jean Baptiste married fellow Acadian Pamela Bourg probably in Assumption Parish in the 1840s.  Their son Hilaire Eusilien was born near Paincourtville in December 1847, an unnamed son died in November 1863, and Pierre Cyprien was born near Pierre Part, Assumption Parish, in April 1864.  

Hilaire Eusilien married Athanaise, daughter of French Creole Dorsin Simoneaux, at the Pierre Part church, Assumption Parish, in April 1869. 

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Étienne- or Jean-Baptiste, called Baptiste, born at Assumption in September 1795, married Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadian Amable Landry, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in July 1816; his marriage record called him Jean-Baptiste.  Their son Étienne Paulin, called Paulin, was born in Assumption Parish in June 1818, Jean Zenon, called Zenon, in August 1820, Pierre Adolphe, called Adolphe, in March 1822, and Alexandre Simon in March 1824.  Their daughters married into the Bergeron, Chevrier, and Vigreaux families.  Baptiste died in Assumption Parish in October 1840; he was only 46 years old. 

4a

Paulin married French Creole Pauline Frioux probably in Assumption Parish in the 1840s.  Their son Lovinci was born near Labadieville, Assumption Parish, in July 1851, Charles Uma in November 1854, Cyprien Arthur in December 1856, Hippolyte in April 1862, and Glova Paulin in October 1863.  Their daughters married into the Aysenne, Prejean, and Vigreux families.  

4b

Alexandre married Domitille, daughter of Bernard Mars, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in July 1851.  Their son Jean Baptiste Auguste was born in Assumption Parish in October 1854, and Joseph Lee in Lafourche Parish in March 1865.  

4c

Pierre Adolphe died in Assumption Parish in November 1852.  He was only 30 years old and probably did not marry.  

4d

Jean Zenon died in Assumption Parish in October 1853.  He was 33 years old and probably did not marry.  

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Pierre, baptized at Assumption in August 1797, married Marie, also called Marcelite, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Louis Foret, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in November 1817.  Their son Jean Jérôme was born in Assumption Parish in September 1818 but died 9 days after his birth, Adrien was born in February 1830, and Eugène Carville in November 1835.  Their daughters married into the Aucoin, Blanchard, Boudreaux, and Doiron families.  Pierre died in Assumption Parish in November 1848, in his early 50s.  

Eugène Carville married Augustine, daughter of fellow Acadian Valerie Arceneaux, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in August 1859.  Eugène may have remarried to fellow Acadian Victorine Aucoin in the 1860s. 

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Isaac, born at Assumption in June 1800, may have died young. 

7

Simon, born at Assumption in January 1803, also seems to have died young.  

8

Youngest son Joseph, born at Assumption in May 1805, married Phelonise Adèle, called Adèle, daughter of fellow Acadian Jacques Theriot, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in December 1825.  Their son Ferdinand was born in Assumption Parish in September 1827, Furcy in 1831 but died at age 2 in October 1833, and François Léonard was born in March 1845.  Their daughters married into the Foret and LeBlanc families.  

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Ferdinand married Justine, daughter of Evariste Lepine, at the Raceland church, Lafourche Parish, in February 1856.  Their son Joseph Thompson was born in Assumption Parish in June 1857, Camille Evariste in August 1858, and Rémi Samuel near Raceland in October 1861 but died at age 20 months in June 1863. 

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 François married Alice, daughter of fellow Acadian Marcellin Daigle, at the Lockport church, Lafourche Parish, in August 1867.  Their son Joseph Arthur was born near Lockport in November 1870. 

Jean-Marie BARRILLEAUX (1769-?; Nicolas, Pierre)

Jean-Marie, second son of Jean-Baptiste Barrieau and Marie Daigle, born at Pleudihen, near St.-Malo, France, in May 1769, came to Louisiana with his parents and siblings aboard La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships from France, in 1785.  He followed them to upper Bayou Lafourche, where he probably died young and unmarried. 

Descendants of François BARRILLEAUX (1775-1832; Nicolas, Pierre)

François, third and youngest son of Jean-Baptiste Barrieau and Marie Daigle, born at Châtellerault, Poitou, France, in January 1775, came to Louisiana with his parents and siblings aboard La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships from France, in 1785.  He followed them to upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian exile in France Marin Gautreaux, at Assumption in May 1797; Marie also had crossed from France aboard La Bergère.  They settled next door to his widowed mother and brother Jacques.  Francois died in Assumption Parish in February 1832; the priest noted in his burial record that he was 60 years old, but he was 57.  His daughters married into the Blanchard, Bourque, Calhoun, Guillot, and Thériot families.  He and Marie had at least four sons, all born at Assumption, three of whom married fellow Acadians and created families of their own, but only two of the lines survived.  One line, the larger one, drifted down into Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes, while the other, smaller, line remained in Assumption Parish.  

1

Oldest son Euchariste- or Evariste-Noël, born in December 1800, married Marguerite Melanie Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean-Baptiste Hébert, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in July 1820.  Their son Magloire was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in July 1821, Louis Arsène, called Arsène, in July 1824 but died at age 5 1/2 in December 1829, Neuville was born in February 1826, Jean Baptiste in October 1831, and Adrien Théophile in February 1833.  Their daughters married into the Boudreaux, Gautreaux, and Gros families.  

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Neuville married Marie Melanie, sometimes called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Olivier Gautreaux, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in October 1847; his wife's brother Élie was his sister Virginie's husband.  Their son Pierre Clovis was born near Labadieville, Assumption Parish, in September 1849, Théodule in March 1851, and Numa Marcellus in October 1858.  Neuville remarried to Marie Séverine, called Séverine, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Robichaux, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in February 1862.  Their son Marcillien Ovide was born near Labadieville in November 1863, Joseph Anatole in Lafourche Parish in September 1866, Alphonse Ernest near Lockport in April 1868, and Joseph William in November 1869.  

Pierre, by his first wife, married Philomène, daughter of fellow Acadian Alexis Bergeron, at the Chacahoula church, Terrebonne Parish, in July 1870. 

1b

Magloire married Clothilde Armelise, daughter of French Creole Augustin Lagrange, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in May 1848.  Their son Auguste Rosémond was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1842, Gerasime Laurence in October 1844, Eugène Davis in December 1846, Neuville Adrien near Labadieville in September 1849, Théophile Isidore in May 1854, Villier Henri in October 1856, Joseph Sogeus in January 1859, and Clairville Thelesmar in February 1864.  Their daughters married into the Hébert and LeBlanc families.  

Gerasime married Moetille or Mirtil, daughter of fellow Acadian Marcellus Gautreaux, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1864.  

Eugène married Joséphine, daughter of French Creole Maximin Ayo, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in December 1866.  Their son Ernest Myrtile was born near Montegut, Terrebonne Parish, in November 1867.  

Auguste married Elidorise or Elidoris, daughter of fellow Acadian Élie Gautreaux, 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 son Joseph Justile was born near Chacahoula, Terrebonne Parish, in November 1870.  

1c

Jean Baptiste married Delphine, another daughter of Pierre Olivier Gautreaux, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in April 1853.  Their son Augustave Joseph was born near Labadieville, Assumption Parish, in February 1854, and Ernest Symphorien in August 1861.  Jean Baptiste remarried to Azelia, daughter of fellow Acadian Hubert Usé, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1870. 

1d

Adrien married Élodie, daughter of dwllow Acadian Pierre Boudreaux, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in April 1856.  Their son Désiré Aubert was born near Labadieville in August 1862, Henri Hippolyte in November 1867, and Émile in August 1869.  

2

François, fils, twin of sister Françoise, born in October 1805, married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadian Isaac Hébert, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1828.  Their son Drosin Jules was born in Assumption Parish in October 1828.  Their daughter married into the Truxillo family.  François, fils died in Assumption Parish in September 1841; he was only 36 years old.  His son may not have married.  

3

Ange, born in June 1808, died three days after his birth. 

4

Youngest son Ursin married Cléonise, daughter of fellow Acadian Olivier Potier, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1826.  Their son Ferdinand Ambroise was born in Assumption Parish in April 1827, Isidore in May 1829, and Ursin, fils in April 1831.  Their daughters married into the Aucoin, Lajaunie or Lajaunis, LeBlanc, and Martin families.  

4a

Isidore married Marie Armelise, called Armelise, another daughter of Jean Baptiste Robichaux, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in January 1857.  Their son Edmond Taylor was born in Lafourche Parish in November 1857, Arthur Édouard in March 1859, Henri Philippe in October 1860, Charles Alcide in May 1863, and Isidore Elphége in November 1865.  

4b

Ursin, fils married Marcellite, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Olivier Gautreaux, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1857.  Their son Eugène Mendorf was born near Labadieville in November 1864. 

CONCLUSION

Barrieaus 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 Barrilleauxs in the Bayou State today, at least none descended from Acadians. 

Jean-Baptiste Barrieau and his wife Marie Daigle brought three sons and a daughter to the colony on the second of the Seven Ships from France in 1785.  Three of Jean-Baptiste's sisters came to Louisiana the same year with their families on the first, fourth, and fifth of the Seven Ships.  Jean-Baptiste's family settled on upper Bayou Lafourche, where they set down deep roots.  During the early and middle 1800s, descendants of brothers Jacques-Alain and François Barrilleaux, sons of Jean-Baptiste, moved from their base in Assumption Parish deep into the marsh country surrounding the lower stretches of Bayou Lafourche and into the Terrebonne country, while others remained in Assumption Parish. 

When federal census takers visited Assumption, Lafourche, and Terrebonne parishes in 1850 and again in 1860, they found no slaves on Barrilleaux farms, or at least none who appeared on the federal slave schedules for those years.  

Only three Acadian Barrilleauxs appear on the rolls of Louisiana units during the war, each of them probably conscripts who had been compelled into Confederate service by the Conscript Act of 1862.  Droson (probably Drosin) Bariot, son of either Jean-Marie or Francois, fils, enlisted in Company D of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Mary Parish, in September 1862, probably as a conscript.  If he was a son of Jean-Marie Barrilleaux, he would have been 33 at the time; if he was the only son of Francois Barrilleaux, fils, he would have been 33 also, almost 34.  Droson joined the 18th Louisiana Infantry at Camp Pratt, outside of New Iberia, which is where area conscripts were gathered to fill the ranks of existing 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.  Two of his cousins, Auguste and Apollinaire Barrilleaux, joined the 1st Regiment Louisiana Heavy Artillery (Regulars) as conscripts in the fall of 1862.  The 1st Louisiana Heavy Artillery had been in service since the beginning of the War, most of its men coming from the New Orleans area.  The regiment's original commander was West Point graduate and former Louisiana governor Paul Octave Hébert, one of the most accomplished Louisiana Acadians of his day, who was promoted to brigadier general in August 1861.  The 1st Louisiana Heavy Artillery helped defend New Orleans in the spring of 1862, and many of its officers and men were captured in the forts below New Orleans. The remnants of the regiment retreated to Camp Moore in Tangipahoa Parish before moving up to the fortifications around Vicksburg, Mississippi, in May 1862.  At Vicksburg, hundreds of conscripts, many from the Lafourche valley parishes, resurrected the veteran unit.  Auguste Rosemond, the 19-year-old son of  Magloire Barrilleaux of Assumption Parish, joined Company C of the 1st Louisiana Heavy Artillery in late October 1862.  Apollinaire Barrilleaux, probably a cousin, also joined the company then.  The experience proved fatal for Apollinaire.  He died in a hospital at Vicksburg in late November 1862, less than a month after he joined the regiment; he probably died of disease, which ravaged the 1st Louisiana Heavy Artillery that autumn and winter.  Auguste survived the onslaught of disease and fought in the Siege of Vicksburg the following spring and summer.  The 1st Louisiana Heavy Artillery fought gallantly in its fortifications below the city, but it was not enough to defeat General Ulysses S. Grant and his tenacious Union army, who captured the city in early July 1863.  Amazingly, Auguste and many members of his regiment refused to accept the parole that Grant offered to the 29,000 Confederates he captured at Vicksburg.  Later in July, Auguste and other Confederates who had refused parole were sent to Memphis, Tennessee, then to the Gratiot Street Military Prison in St. Louis, Missouri, before taking a train to Camp Morton, Indiana, where they would be held as prisoners of war.  The authorities at Camp Morton recorded Auguste Barrilleaux's physical features in case he tried to escape:  he had a dark complexion, black hair, and stood exactly 5-foot-6 3/4-inches tall.  He languished at Camp Morton for nearly two years.  His military service record says that he was released from the prisoner of war camp the first of June 1865 after he took the oath of allegiance to the United States government.  But his marriage record at the church in Labadieville, Assumption Parish, says he was married there in late April 1865, so he must have taken the oath of allegiance earlier that year and made his way home as best he could as the War slowly drew to a close.  He is buried in St. Peter Catholic Cemetery, New Iberia, beneath a Confederate veteran's marker.  

During the war, successive Federal incursions devastated the Lafourche and Terrebonne valley where members of this family had set down roots.  Confederate foragers also plagued the area when the Federals were not around.  

Like Auguste from Assumption Parish, Barrilleauxs migrated westward from the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley after the war, and their descendants can be found today in Lafayette, Lake Charles, and other communities west of the Atchafalaya Basin.  But the great majority of them remained in southeast Louisiana, where their Acadian ancestors settled two centuries ago.  

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.  The Acadian Barrieaus should not be confused with the family of Manuel Barrios, who came to Louisiana from Spain and married a fellow Spaniard at Ascension in 1786.  This family also settled in Ascension, Assumption, and Lafourche parishes, and married into Acadian families there.  

Sources:  Arsenault, Généalogie, 1322-29, 2415; BRDR, vols. 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, vol. 1-A; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 64; White, DGFA-1, 76-77; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 38-40; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 5; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 9.  

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, 28 (pl. 6R), calls her Agathe BARIAU, & lists her with her husband & no children; Arsenault, Généalogie, 1325, provides the approximate year of her first marriage; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 38-39, Family No. 47, calls her Agathe [BARRILOT], & says she, brother Jean-Baptiste, & sisters Anne [Anastasie?], Thérèse, & Euphrosine arrived at St.-Malo from Cherbourg, France, on 10 Jul 1759; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 6-7, calls her Agatte BARIAU, sa [Anselme LANDRY's] femme, age 50, on the embarkation list, Agata VACIOU, su [Anselmo LANDRY's] muger, on the debarkation list, & Agathe BARRILLOT, his [Anselme LANDRY's] wife, age 50, on the complete listing, says she was in the 21st Family aboard Le Bon Papa with her husband & no children, & details her second marriage but gives no names of his or her parents.  

02.  Wall of Names, 35 (pl. 8R), calls her Anastasie BARILLOT, & lists her with her husband & 9 children/step-children; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 38-39, Family No. 47, calls her Anne [BARRILOT], & says she, brother Jean-Baptiste, & sisters Agathe, Thérèse, & Euphrosine arrived at St.-Malo from Cherbourg, France, on 10 Jul 1759; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 852, the record of her marriage, calls her Anastasie BARIAU, gives her & her husband's parents' names, does not give her husband's first wife's name, says both were major children & that all of their parents were deceased at the time of the marriage, says both were natives of Acadia & residents of "Saint Sulia," that they were relatives "of the third to fourth degree of affinity," that they were granted dispensations for their degrees of affinity, & that the witnesses to his marriage were Joseph LEGANGNOUX, Jean HINEL, François Ed. BOUREE, & Marain BAUDROT, all of whom signed; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 38-39, Family No. 77, calls her Anastasie BARRILLOT, says she was born c1741 but gives no birthplace, gives her & her husband's parents' names, gives her husband's first wife's name, includes the birth/baptismal record of son Jean-Pierre DUGAST, baptized 31 Jan 1775, Leigne-les-bois, Vienne, godson of Ambroise DUGAST & Marie DUGAST, & details the family's participation in the Poitou settlement of the early 1770s; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 61-61, Family No. 114, calls her Anastasie BARRILLOT, says she was born c1741, does not gives her or her husband's parents' names, nor his first wife's name, includes the birth/baptismal & death/burial records of daughter Anne-Marguerite DUGAST, baptized 11 Jan 1778, St.-Similien, Nantes, son Olivier-Marie DUGAST, baptized 10 Feb 1781, St.-Similien, Nantes, died 15 Nov 1782, probably St.-Similien, Nantes, & daughter Marguerite-Euphrosine DUGAST, baptized 26 Aug 1783, St.-Similien, Nantes, & details the family's participation in the Poitou settlement of the early 1770s as well as it voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 42-43, calls her Anastasie BARILLOT, sa [Joseph DUGAT's] femme, 43, on the embarkation list, & Anastasie BARRILLOT, his [Joseph DUGAT's] wife, age 43, on the complete listing, says she was in the 6th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with her husband & 9 children/step-children, details her marriage, including her & her husband's parents' names & her husband's first wife's name, says son Jean-Pierre [DUGAST] was born in 1775, step-daughter Cécille [DUGAST] in 1765, & daughter Anastasie in 1773 but gives no birthplaces.  

03.  Wall of Names, 28 (pl. 6R), calls her Eufroisine MARIOT, & lists her with her second husband, 4 stepsons, & son Paul BOUDROT; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 38-39, Family No. 47, calls her Euphrosine [BARRILOT], & says she, brother Jean-Baptiste, & sisters Agathe, Anne [Anastasie?] & Thérèse arrived at St.-Malo from Cherbourg, France, on 10 Jul 1759; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 14-15, Family No. 28, calls her Euphrosine BARRILLOT, says she was born c1747 but gives no place of birth, gives her parents' names, spells her mother's surname GIROIRE, details her first marriage, says her first husband was born c1741, gives his parents' & his first wife's names, says she (Marguerite LANDRY) was born c1741, married Francois BOUDROT at St.-Servan, France, in 1765, died 11 Jan 1767, age 26, & was buried next day at St.-Servan, details the family's participation in the Poitou settlement of the early 1770s, including the names of 4 BOUDROT sons, Pierre, Paul, Jean-Louis, & François-Xavier, & provides the baptismal record for son François-Xavier BOUDROT, baptized at St.-Jean L'Evangeliste, Châtellerault, 6 Nov 1775, godson of Marin BOUDROT & Marie BELLEMÈRE; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 19, Family No. 35, calls her Euphrosine BARRILLOT, says she was born c1747, does not give her parents' names, says her first husband was born c1741 & was a seaman, says they were married c1768 but gives no place of marriage, details her second marriage, calls her second husband's first wife Bonne-Jacqueline-Francoise CASTEL, details her first family's participation in the Poitou settlement of the early 1770s, gives the death/burial records of 2 of her BOUDROT sons, François, died age 18 months, buried 13 May 1777, St.-Similien, Nantes, & Pierre, died age10 1/2 years, buried 9 Oct 1780, Ste.-Croix, Nantes, & details her emigration to LA in 1785 with her second husband;  Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 8-9, calls her Eufroisine MARIOT, sa [Charles BROUSARD's] femme, age 37, on the embarkation list, Eufrasia MARIOT, su [Carlos BROUSARD's] muger, on the debarkation list, & Euphroisine BARRILLOT, his [Charles BROUSSARD's] wife, age 37, on the complete listing, details her second marriage, including hers & her husband's parents, & says she was in the 24th Family aboard Le Bon Papa with her second husband, 4 stepsons, & son Paul BOUDROT; BRDR, 2:35-36, 60 (ASM-2, 28), the record of her third marriage, calls her Eufrosina BARIOT, widow of Carlos BROUSSARD, gives her parents' names, her third husband's parents' names, his first wife's name, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Josef DUPUIS, Fabian AUCOIN, & Jean DAIGLE; BRDR, 2:60 (ASM-3, 35), her death/burial record, calls her Eufrosina BARIOT, age 55 years & wife of Josef AUCION, but does not give her parents' or earlier husbands' names.

04.  Wall of Names, 30 (pl. 7R), calls him Francois [BARILLAUD], & lists him with his parents & 3 siblings; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 5, Family No. 9, his birth/baptismal record, calls him François BARRILLOT, gives his parents' names, says his godparents were François BOUDROT & Catherine DAIGLE, wife of Blaise THIBODAUX, & details his family's participation in the Poitoui settlement of the early 1770s; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 9, Family No. 16, calls him Francois [BARRILOT], & details his family's participation in the Poitou settlement of the early 1770s as well as its voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 18-19, calls him Françoise [sic], son [Jean-Baptiste BARILLAUD's] fils, age 8, on the embarkation list, does not include him on the debarkation list, calls him François BARRILLOT, his [Jean-Baptiste BARRILLOT's] son, age 8, on the complete listing, says he was in the 34th Family aboard La Bergère with his parents & 3 siblings, & that he was born in 1775 but gives no birth place; BRDR, 2:60, 319 (ASM-2, 26), his marriage record, calls him Francisco BARIOT, gives his & his wife's parents' names, says his wife's mother was deceased at the time of the marriage, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Juan Luis DAIGLE, Marin GAUTRAUX, & Ambrosio HÉBER; BRDR, 5(rev.):52 (ASM-3, 224), his death/burial record, calls him François BARRILLEAU, age ca. 60 yrs., but does not give his parents' names or mention his wife.  

05.  Wall of Names, 30 (pl. 7R), calls him Jacques [BARILLAUD], & lists him with his parents & 3 siblings; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 38-39, Family No. 47, his birth/baptismal record, calls him Jacques-Alain BARILLOT, gives his parents' names, says his godparents were Mr. Jacques-Jean-Michel DE LA MORVONNAIS & Hélène POIREE, & that his family resided at Pleudihen from 1759-72; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 5, Family No. 9, calls him Jacques [BARILLOT], & details his family's participation in the Poitou settlement of the early 1770s; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 9, Family No. 16, calls him Jacques [BARRILOT], & details his family's participation in Poitou settlement of the early 1770s as well as its voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 18-19, calls him Jacques, son [Jean-Baptiste BARILLAUD's] fils, journalier, age 19, on the embarkation list, does not include him on the debarkation list, calls him Jacques BARRILLOT, son [of Jean-Baptiste BARRILLOT], day laborer, age 19, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 34th Family aboard La Bergère with his parents & 3 siblings; BRDR, 3:69 (ASM-3, 136), his death/burial record, calls him Jacque BARIOT, age 54 yrs., gives his parents' names but does not name his wife.  

Where is his marriage record?  He & his wife had 8 sons, most of whom married & created families of their own!

06.  Wall of Names, 30 (pl. 7R), calls him Jean [BARILLAUD], & lists him with his parents & 3 siblings; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 38-39, Family No. 47, his birth/baptismal record, calls him Jean-Marie BARILLOT, gives his parents' names, says his godparents were Jean DAIGLE & Marie BARILLOT, & that his family resided at Pleudihen from 1759-72; ; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 5, Family No. 9, calls him Jean [BARILLOT], & details his family's participation in the Poitou settlement of the early 1770s; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 9, Family No. 16, calls him Jean [BARRILOT], & details his family's participation in the Poitou settlement of the early 1770s as well as its voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 18-19, calls him Jean, son [Jean-Baptiste BARILLAUD's] fils, journalier, age 15, on the embarkation list, does not include him on the debarkation list, calls him Jean BARRILLOT, his [Jean-Baptiste BARRILLOT's] son, day laborer, age 15, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 34th Family aboard La Bergère with his parents & 3 siblings.  

Is he the Juan BARRIOS who died at St.-Gabriel in summer 1789?  See BRDR, 2:65 (SGA-6, 155A), which unfortunately does not provide the age of the deceased or his parents' names.

07.  Wall of Names, 30 (pl. 7R), calls him Jean-Baptiste BARILLAUD, & lists him with his wife & 4 children; Arsenault, Généalogie, 1325, calls him Jean-Baptiste BARRIAULT, says he was born in 1733, gives his parents's names, says he married Marie-Josèphe TÉRRIOT c1759 but gives no place of marriage nor her parents' names, & says he was at Pleudihan[sic], France, in 1762; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 38-39, Family No. 47, calls him Jean-Baptiste BARILLOT, says he was born c1733 but gives no birthplace, gives his parents' names, details his marriage to Marie DAIGLE but says nothing of an earlier marriage, gives her parents' names, includes the birth/baptismal & death/burial records of son Jacques-Alain, born 22 Oct 1765, Mordreaux, baptized 23 Oct 1765, Pleudihen, godson of Mr. Jacques-Jean-Michel DE LA MORVONNAIS & Hélène POIREE, son Jean-Pierre, born & baptized 16 Jun 1767, Pleudihen, godson of Blaise THIBODAUX & Marie TÉRRIOT, died age 3 1/2 mos., 2 Oct 1767, Mordreaux, buried 3 Oct 1767, Pleudihen, son Jean-Marie, born 14 May 1769, Mordeaux, baptized 14 May 1769, Pleudihen, godson of Jean DAIGLE & Marie BARILLOT, daughter Marie-Rose, born 21 Sep 1770, Mordreaux, baptized 22 Sep 1770, Pleudihen, goddaughter of Marin BOUDROT & Marie-Blanche AUCOIN, died age 3 mos., 12 Jan 1771, Mordreaux, buried 13 Jan 1771, Pleudihen, daughter Périnne, born 3 Jan 1772, Mordreaux, baptized 3 Jan 1772, Pleudihen, goddaughter of Anselme LANDRY & Périnne NOURE, son Charles-Pierre, a twin, born 25 Nov 1773, Mordreaux, baptized 25 Nov 1773, Pleudihen, godson of Firmin THIBODAUX & Rose BOURG, died 26 Nov 1773, Mordreaux, buried 27 Nov 1773, Pleudihen, & daughter Anne-Jeanne, a twin, born 25 Nov 1773, Mordreaux, baptized 25 Nov 1773, Pleudihen, goddaughter of Jean DAIGLE & Anne DAIGLE, died age 11 days, 4 Dec 1773, Mordreaux, buried 5 Dec 1773, Pleudihen, says he, sisters Agathe, Anne [Anastasie?], Thérèse, & Euphrosine arrived at St.-Malo from Cherbourg on 10 Jul 1759, & that he established his family in the parish of Pleudihen between 1759-72; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 5, Family No. 9, calls him Jean-Baptiste BARRILLOT, says he was born c1733 but gives no birth place, gives his parents' names, details his marriage to Marie DAIGLE but says nothing of an earlier marriage, gives her parents' names, provides the birth/baptismal record of son Francois, baptized 5 Jan 1775 at St.-Jean L'Evangeliste, Châtellerault, godson of Francois BOUDROT & Catherine DAIGLE, wife of Blaise THIBODAUX, & details his family's participation in the Poitou settlement of the early 1770s; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 9, Family No. 16, calls him Jean-Baptiste BARRILOT, says he was born c1733 but gives no birth place, says he was a seaman, details his marriage to Marie DAIGLE but says nothing of a previous marriage, does not give her parents' names, provides the birth/baptismal & death/burial records of son Joseph-Marie, baptized 27 Jul 1778 at St.-Jacques, Nantes buried 6 Aug 1778, St.-Jacques, Nantes, & son Louis-Constant, baptized 9 Jul 1779, St.-Jacques, Nantes, died age 3 1/2 & buried 2 Jul 1783, St.-Jacques, Nantes, & details the family's participation in the Poitou settlement of the early 1770s as well as its voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 18-19, calls him Jean-Baptiste BARILLAUD, journalier, age 50, on the embarkation list, Jean-Baptiste BARRILLOU, on the debarkation list, & Jean-Baptiste BARRILLOT, day laborer, age 50, on the complete listing, says he was in the 34th Family aboard La Bergère with his wife & 4 children, details his second marriage, including his & his wife's parents' names, but does not give the place of marriage, says that son Francois was born in 1775, & lists the implements the Spanish gave to him & his family after they reached LA.

Robichaux's study of the Acadians in France is clear--Jean-Baptiste BARRILLEAUX had only one wife, Marie DAIGLE.  Only Arsenault links him to an earlier wife, Marie-Josèphe THÉRIOT, ignored here.    

08.  Wall of Names, 41, calls her Pélagie BARIAU; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 64, shows that in the crossing to St.-Malo in 1758-59 with the family of her sister Marie-Blanche, age 23, & brother-in-law Charles DAIGUE [DAIGLE], age 25, only Pélagie & her sister survived the crossing, that her brother-in-law died 19 Mar 1759 2 months after they reached France, & nephew Jean-Baptiste DAIGUE, age 3, & newborn niece Gertrude DAIGUE, age 15 days, died at sea.   

09.  Wall of Names, 30 (pl. 7R), calls her Pérrine [BARILLAUD], & lists her with her parents & 3 brothers; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 38-39, her birth/baptismal record, calls her Périnne BARILLOT, gives her parents' names, & says her godparents were Anselme LANDRY & Périnne NOURE; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 5, Family No. 9, calls her Pérrinne [BARRILLOT], & details her family's participation in the Poitou settlement of the early 1770s; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 9, Family No. 16, calls her Pérrine [BARRILOT], & details her family's participation in the Poitou settlement of the early 1770s as well as its voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 18-19, calls her Pérrine, sa [Jean-Baptiste BARILLAUD's] fille, age 10, on the embarkation list, does not include her on the debarkation list, calls her Pérrine BARRILLOT, his [Jean-Baptiste BARRILLOT's] daughter, age 10, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 34th Family aboard La Bergère with her parents & 3 brothers; BRDR, 2:65, 109-10 (ASC-2, 44), her marriage record, calls her Pérrina BARRILO, calls her husband Blas BOUDRO, does not give her or her husband's parents'  names, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Étienne BOUDRAUX & Louis DESHORMAUX; Hébert, D., South LA Records, 1:35 (Thib.Ch.: v. 1, p.23), her death/burial record, calls her Pérrine BARILLAUX, says she died at age 53 years, but does not give her parents' names or the name of her husband; Hébert, D., South LA Records, 1:35 (Thib.Ct.Hse.: Succ. 1825), her succession record, calls her Périne BARILLAUX, calls her husband Julien Blaise BOUDRAUX, & lists her children as Théotiste [BOUDRAUX], 16 yrs., Marie Louise [BOUDRAUX], 12 yrs., Marie-Josèphe [BOUDRAUX] m. Giles BOUVET, Francois Marie [BOUDRAUX], Basile Mathurin [BOUDRAUX], Émilie Marie [BOUDRAUX] m. Louis Jean Baptiste HÉBERT, Jean Baptiste [BOUDRAUX], Anne Rosalie [BOUDRAUX], 20 yrs., & Euphrosine [BOUDRAUX], 18 yrs., inventory dated 29 Aug 1825.

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