Acadians Who Found Refuge in Louisiana, February 1764-early 1800s
[bar-THAY-luh-mee]
LOUISIANA: RIVER SETTLEMENTS
According to the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana, Joseph Barthélemy, who came to Louisiana in 1765 and settled at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques, now St. James Parish, was Acadian. Joseph was 33 years old when he was counted in the Cabanocé militia census of 1766. After that, he disappears from the records, so the Acadian branch of this family did not establish roots in the Bayou State. The Barthélemys who did proliferate in Louisiana are probably French Creoles.
Source: Wall of Names, 10.
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):
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Ascension |
Lafourche (Lafourche, Terrebonne) |
Pointe Coupée |
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Assumption |
Natchitoches (Natchitoches) |
SB | San Bernardo (St. Bernard) | ||
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Atakapas (St. Martin, St. Mary, Lafayette, Vermilion) |
San Luìs de Natchez (Concordia) |
St.-Gabriel d'Iberville (Iberville) |
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Bayou des Écores (East Baton Rouge, West Feliciana) |
New Orleans (Orleans) |
St.-Jacques de Cabanocé (St. James) |
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Baton Rouge (East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge) |
Opelousas (St. Landry, Calcasieu) |
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.
| Name | Arrived | Settled | Profile |
| Joseph BARTHÉLEMY 01 | 1765 | StJ | born c1733; in Cabanocé census, 1766, right [west] bank, JUDICE's Company, Cabanoce Militia, age 33, listed singly, with 0 slaves, 8 arpents, & 1 arm |
NOTES
01. Wall of Names, 10, calls him Joseph BARTHELEMY. I have not found this family in either Arsenault, Genealogie, or White, Dictionnaire Acadiennes, only in Wall of Names, so I must assume that the researchers at the Acadian Memorial have found an Acadian origin for this fellow which has eluded me. For his inclusion in the Cabanoce census of 1766, see Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 165; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 117.
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