APPENDICES

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

BOUTIN

[boo-TANH]

ACADIA

Jean-Joseph, called Joseph, son of perhaps Jean Boutin and Susanne Rocheteau of Québec, born in c1676 perhaps at Québec, was a 25-year-old fisherman at Port-Royal in 1701.  He married Marie-Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Lejeune dit Briard, at Port-Royal in c1708.  They moved to La Hève on the Atlantic side of the peninsula and then to the Minas Basin, but they did not remain there either.  Joseph was 76 years old when he was counted at Baie-des-Espagnols, Île Royale, today's Cape Breton Island, with his youngest son Paul in 1752.  Île Royale was part of greater Acadia and was controlled by the French at the time, so Joseph took his family there perhaps to escape British authority in Nova Scotia.  He and Marie-Marguerite had eight children, including six sons.  He died at Baie-des-Espagnols either just before or at the beginning of Le Grand Dérangement.  His two daughters may not have married.  Five of his sons created families of their own:

Oldest son Joseph, born at Grand-Pré in April 1710, married Françoise, daughter of Jean Pitre, in c1731.  They lived at Minas and then followed his father and brothers to Baie-des-Espagnols probably during the 1740s.  Joseph died on Île Royale in June 1755 of an abcès qui a crévez dans le corps (an abscess that burst in his body).  

Eustache, also called Antoine, born at Grand-Pré in January 1712, married Agathe, daughter of François Viger, in c1734 and also moved to Île Royale in the late 1740s.  

Pierre, born probably at Minas, married Marie-Marcelle, daughter of Claude Trahan, in c1745 and also moved to Île Royale, where he died in 1751 or 1752 on the eve of Le Grand Dérangement.  His widow remarried to Jean Pineau.  

Charles, born probably at Minas in c1723, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Paul dit Gravois Guédry of Mirliguèche, in c1746 and moved to Île Royale.  He died in the late 1760s during Le Grand Dérangement.  

Youngest son Pierre-Paul, called Paul, born probably at Minas in c1727, married Ursule, daughter of Augustin Guédry of l'Assomption, Pigiguit, at Louisbourg on Île Royale in November 1750.  They probably returned to Minas in the early 1750s.  

By 1755, descendants of Jean-Joseph Boutin could be found mostly on Île Royale, but a few of them were also at Minas.  

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Other Boutins lived in greater Acadia before Le Grand Dérangement, but only descendants of Jean-Joseph the fisherman emigrated to Louisiana:

Jean-Francois, son of Sieur Joseph Boutin and Jeanne Leroy, probably no kin to Joseph the fisherman, became a merchant like his father.  Jean-Francois lived for a time at St.-Pierre-de-la-Martinque in the Caribbean, but he also took up residence at Louisbourg on Île Royale.  He married Marguerite-Catherine, daughter of Sieur Jean Milly-Lacroix, at Louisbourg in October 1751.  Their son Francois was born at Louisbourg probably in the early 1750s.  

Jean-Baptiste Boutin, probably no kin to Joseph and Jean-Francois, was born at Louisbourg in c1736.  

LE GRAND DÉRANGEMENT

Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered these families to the winds:  

Joseph Boutin's youngest son Paul, his wife Ursule Guédry, and their children must have left Île Royale and returned to the Minas Basin before 1755.  In the fall of that year, British forces rounded them up with hundreds of other Minas Acadians and transported them to Pennsylvania.  There were still there in June 1763 after the French and Indian War had ended.  

Paul's Boutin kin who remained on Île Royale, living in territory controlled by France, escaped the British roundup in Nova Scotia in 1755.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived, however.  After the fall of the French fortress of Louisbourg in July 1758, the victorious British swooped down on the rest of the island, rounded up most of the Acadians still there, and deported them to France.  Three Boutin sisters, Josèphe, Anne, and Gillette-Théotiste, daughters of Pierre, were transported to St.-Malo, France, aboard the English transport Duke William with their mother and stepfather Jean Pineau.  Josèphe died at sea.  Anne survived the terrible crossing.  Gillette-Théotiste also survived the crossing but died at the hospital in St.-Malo 10 days after the ship arrived in November 1758; she was only 12 years old.   Jean-Baptiste Boutin and Francois Boutin, no kin to the Boutin sisters, also were transported from Île Royale to France.  Jean-Baptiste ended up at Rochefort, where he died in November 1759; he was only 23 years old.  No Boutin joined the Seven Ships expedition to Louisiana in 1785.  François, who became a merchant like his father and grandfather, married Rose-Eugènie-Claude-Victoire, daughter of Étienne-Valentin Borde, at St.-Pierre-de-la-Martinique in February 1789.  

Meanwhile, back in North America, Paul Boutin and his family moved from Pennsylvania to Maryland sometime after June 1763 probably to join their Guédry kin who had been exiled to Maryland eight years before.  They found themselves living among English colonists who, despite their Catholic roots, did not care much for the French "papists" who had been thrust upon them.  When word reached the Acadians in Maryland that they would be welcome in Louisiana, where many of their relatives had gone, they pooled their meager resources to charter ships that would take them to New Orleans.  Paul Boutin had no close relatives in Louisiana, but his wife did.  Her young brother Joseph Guédry had gone there from Halifax in early 1765 with the Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil party.  He had followed the Broussards to the Bayou Teche valley and had survived the epidemic that had killed dozens of his fellow Acadians that year. Certainly life had to be better in faraway Louisiana, even with its epidemics, than in a British colony where Acadians were treated like pariahs.

LOUISIANA:  RIVER SETTLEMENTS

Only one family of Acadian Boutins emigrated to Louisiana.  Pierre-Paul, called Paul, Boutin, age 50, wife Ursule Guédry, age 37, four children--Marguerite, age 15, Joseph, age 14, Susanne, age 6, and Paul, fils, age 3--and Pierre-Paul's older brother Charles's daughter Marie-Francoise, age 16, came to Louisiana in July 1767 with the second contingent of Acadians from Maryland.  Spanish authorities sent them a new community, St.-Gabriel d'Iberville, also called St.-Gabriel de Manchac, on the river above New Orleans.  Ursule was pregnant when they reached New Orleans; soon after they reached the colony, she gave birth to another daughter--Marie-Julienne, born in February 1768 probably at St.-Gabriel and baptized at New Orleans the following April.  The Boutins did not remain at St.-Gabriel, however; in the late 1760s or early 1770s, Paul took his family to the Opelousas District perhaps to be near Ursule's kinsmen there.  

Paul's niece Marie-Francoise Boutin married Alonso, son of Juan Antonio Segobia or Segovia of Haenne, Spain, at St.-Gabriel in April 1768.  Alonso was a corporal in the Seventh Company of the Louisiana Battalion serving at nearby Fort St.-Gabriel.  Marie-Francoise died in New Orleans in February 1773; she was only 22 year old and may have died from the rigors of childbirth.   

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Olivier Boutin, born in c1749, reached Louisiana by August 1770, when Spanish officials counted him at Ascension on the river; he was still a bachelor.  The Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville has placed him on their Wall of Names, so he must have been an Acadian, not a French Creole, and kin somehow to the Boutins of St. Landry Parish.  He may have died at New Orleans in February 1773.  

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After the early 1770s, Acadian Boutins disappear from the river settlements.  

LOUISIANA:  WESTERN SETTLEMENTS

Pierre-Paul, called Paul, Boutin, left St.-Gabriel on the river in the late 1760s or early 1770s and took his family to the Grand Coteau area of the Opelousas District, where some of their Guidry kin, also living on the river, soon joined them.  Paul's daughter Marguerite, recently married to a Savoie at St.-Gabriel, followed her family.  Paul and Ursule had another daughter in Louisiana--Marguerite-Louise, born near Grand Coteau in c1771, but no more sons.  Marguerite-Louise married into the Leger family.  The Opelousas census of 1777 hints that Paul had recently remarried to Madeleine Digrist, probably Ducrest; she was 42 years old that year, and he was 50; she gave him no more children.  Paul, père died near Grand Coteau in February 1801; he was 74 years old.  Both of his sons by Ursule Guidry married, but only his younger son, Paul, fils, had sons of his own.  Oldest daughter Marguerite died a widow near Grand Coteau in October 1828, in her late 70s.  Daughters Susanne and Marie-Julienne probably died young.  Youngest daughter Marguerite-Louise died in Lafayette Parish in March 1834, in her early 60s.  

Joseph BOUTIN (c1753-1796)

Joseph, older son of Pierre-Paul Boutin and Ursule Guédry, born on either Île Royale or at Minas in c1753, was exiled to Pennsylvania with his family in 1755.  In the early 1760s, he followed them to Maryland and then on to Louisiana in 1767.  In the late 1760s or early 1770s, he followed his parents from St.-Gabriel on the river to the Opelousas District, where he married Marie-Jeanne, daughter of fellow Acadian Isidore Trahan, in July 1790; he was 37 years old.  Joseph died near Grand Coteau in November 1796; he was only 46 years old.  He and his wife had no children, so this line of the family died with him.  

Descendants of Paul BOUTIN, fils (c1764-1832)

Paul, fils, younger son of Pierre-Paul Boutin and Ursule Guédry, born at Baltimore, Maryland, in c1764, followed his family to Louisiana in 1767.  In the late 1760s or early 1770s, he followed his parents from St.-Gabriel on the river to the Opelousas District, where he married Anne-Spesse, daughter of German Creole Jean Teller, also called Taylor, of Pennsylvania and Maryland, in July 1790, the same day his older brother Joseph was married.  Paul, fils and Anne also settled near Grand Coteau in what became St. Landry Parish.  Their daughters married into the Barbe, Commins, Hirzel or Hurtzel, Lalonde (French Canadian, not Acadian), Mayer, Miller, Olivier (French Creole, not Acadian), and Stelly families.  Paul died at his home on Prairie des Femmes, near Grand Coteau, in February 1832; he was 67 years old.  All of the Acadian Boutins of South Louisiana descend from Paul, fils and two of his sons, who also married German Creoles.  During the antebellum period, in fact, none of Paul's descendants married fellow Acadians, which was not unusual for small Acadian families in the old Opelousas District. 

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Oldest son Paul III died probably at his father's home near Grand Coteau, age unrecorded, in September 1794.  

2

Jean-Baptiste, called Baptiste, born near Grand Coteau in September 1795, married Élisabeth, called Lise, daughter of German Creole Christophe Gatt of Pont de la Butte, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in September 1819.  Their son Jean Baptiste, fils was born near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in October 1820, Dupréville in May 1826, Pierre in June 1830, Théophile in January 1840, and Duclosel in November 1844.  Their daughter may have married into the Nelson family.  Jean Baptiste, père died near Grand Coteau in February 1852; the priest who recorded his burial said that Jean Baptiste was 66 years old when he died, but he was "only" 56.  In 1860, the federal census taker in St. Landry Parish counted 4 slaves--2 males and 2 females, all black, ranging in age from 25 to 1--on Elizabeth Boutin's farm; this may have been Jean Baptiste's widow Élisabeth Gatt's slaves  

Jean Baptiste, fils married Aimée, Amelia, or Emelia, called Melia, Brousse or Bruce at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in November 1848. Their son Jean Joseph was born near Grand Coteau in March 1850, Pierre le jeune in December 1851, and Paul le jeune in December 1853. 

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Joseph le jeune, born near Grand Coteau in September 1796, married Iréné or Uranie, daughter of German Creole Frédéric Miller, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in December 1819.  Their son Joseph, fils was born near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in September 1820, Joachim in January 1825, and Paul le jeune in October 1829.  Their daughters married into the Avil, Bergeron (French Creole, not Acadian), Duplechin, and Mathieu families.  Joseph le jeune died near Grand Coteau in July 1857; the priest who recorded his burial said that Joseph was 54 years old when he died, but he was 60. 

Paul le jeune married Marguerite Azolide, Chrysolide, or Isolite, daughter of Francois Mathieu, at the Breaux Bridge church, St. Martin Parish, in February 1850; Marguerite's mother was a Trahan.  Their son Louis Despaliere, called Despaliere, was born near Breaux Bridge in February 1851, Paul Despanet near St. Martinville in May 1855, Joseph Thelesmar in February 1857, and Aristide near Breaux Bridge in September 1860. 

During the War Between the States, Despaliere, despite his tender age, was listed as a conscript from St. Martin Parish.  

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Francois-Hippolyte, baptized at Opelousas, age 8 months, in October 1802, died probably near Grand Coteau in October 1803.  He was only a year old.  

5

Francois-Alexis, called Alexis, born near Grand Coteau in August 1803, died near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in July 1819.  He was a month shy of 16 years old.  

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Youngest son Raphael Vital, born in St. Landry Parish in December 1810, died near Grand Coteau in April 1820.  He was only 9 years old.  

Other BOUTINs on the Western Prairies

Area church and civil records make it difficult to link some Boutins on the western prairies with known Acadian and French Creole lines of the family there:

Simon Boutin married Pélagie Landry.  Their son Adrien was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 10 months, in July 1831.  

René Boutin's son Ambroise Robert died near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, age 7 or 8 months, in April 1860.  The priest who recorded the boy's burial did not give the mother's name.  

Terville Boutin's son Jean Baptiste died near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, age 3, in August 1863.  The priest who recorded the boy's burial did not give the mother's name.  

NON-ACADIAN FAMILIES in LOUISIANA

Decades before their Acadian namesakes arrived in the late 1760s, Boutons and Boutins came from France to Louisiana, where they became known as French Creoles, and settled at New Orleans or on the German Coast above the city:  

Mathurin, fils, son of Jean-Mathurin Bouton and Francoise Portier of La Valle, Angers, France, married Marianne, daughter of Evra De Roche of Strasbourg, France, and widow of Jean Louis of Natchez, at St.-Charles des Allemands on the Lower German Coast in April 1747.   

Jean-Baptiste, Mathurin's brother, married Marie-Anne, called Anne, daughter of Francois Saucie or Arkansas, at St.-Charles des Allemands on the Lower German Coast in August 1745.  Jean-Baptiste and Anne moved upriver to Pointe Coupée by the late 1760s.  Their son Charles-Hyacinthe was born at St.-Charles in September 1748, and Nicolas at Pointe Coupée in November 1769.  Their daughters married into the De Sage, Dufaux, Gallien, and LeTournau families. 

Thomas Boutin, a carpenter, married Marie-Louise Onesse.  Their daughter Rosalie was born at New Orleans in December 1755.  

Nicolas, fils, son of Nicolas Bouton, père and Marie-Anne Roche, married Marie-Agnès, daughter of Celin Gaspard, at New Orleans in January 1779.  

Another Thomas, this one son of Pierre Boutin and Cadec Bienvenu of Duras, near Bordeaux, France, died at New Orleans in July 1794; he was only 35 years old.  The priest who recorded Thomas's burial said nothing of a wife.  

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During the antebellum period, Boutins and Boutons, either French Creoles or Foreign French, were living in South Louisiana communities or came to New Orleans from France:  

Henry Boutin was the curé, or pastor, of Ascension church, present-day Donaldsonville, in March 1808 when he drowned in Bayou Lafourche while delivering the last sacrament to an ill parishioner.  He of course left no wife and children.  He was only 40 years old when he died.  

Pierre Boutin of Paimboeuf, the port for Nantes, France, died in Assumption Parish in June 1838; he was 46 years old.  The priest who recorded Pierre's burial did not give his parents' names or mention a wife.  

Nathan Boutin, also called Bouton, perhaps one of the Boutons of St. Charles and Pointe Coupée, married Elizabeth S., called Betsey, daughter of Anglo-American John Kershaw, in a civil ceremony in St. Mary Parish in August 1828. 

F. Bouton, a 24-year-old female native of France, occupation recorded, reached New Orleans aboard the ship Medemseh out of Bordeaux, France, in December 1851.  

In June 1860, the federal census taker in Orleans Parish counted 4 slaves--2 males and 2 females, 3 blacks and 1 mulatto, ranging in age from 25 years to 6 months--in Dr. D. F. Boutin's household in the Fourth Ward of the city of New Orleans.  

CONCLUSION

The Boutins were a small family in Acadia, and they remained so in Louisiana.  Only a single family of Acadian Boutins--that of Pierre-Paul, called Paul, from Minas and Louisbourg--came to the colony, from Maryland in 1767.  They settled at St.-Gabriel on the river above New Orleans with the other 1767 arrivals, but they soon crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to the Opelousas District, where they remained.  Paul Boutin had two sons, but only one of them had sons of his own.  This son, Paul, fils, married a German Creole, who gave him six sons, but only two of them created families of their own, and they, too, married German girls.  One of Paul, fils's sons settled near his father's homestead on Prairie des Femmes near Grand Coteau.  The other son moved east to upper Bayou Teche and settled near Breaux Bridge. 

Boutins and Boutons came to the colony decades before their Acadian namesakes arrived.  Most of them settled on the German Coast above New Orleans.  A few settled in the city.  One family moved upriver to Pointe Coupée and flourished for a time, but the number of French Creole Boutin/Boutons never came close to the number of Boutins who lived on the western prairies. 

Judging by the number of slaves they owned on the eve of the War Between the States, the Boutins of St. Landry and St. Martin parishes participated only peripherally in the South's antebellum plantation economy.  Only one Acadian Boutin, Élisabeth of St. Landry Parish, perhaps the widow of Jean Baptiste Boutin, père, appeared on a federal slave schedule, in 1860; she held four slaves.

Only one member of the Acadian branch of the family might have served Louisiana in uniform during the War Between the States.  The name of Despaliere, teenage son of Paul Boutin le jeune, appears on an undated list of St. Martin Parish conscripts, but no unit is associated with the boy's name; he may never have put on a gray uniform and taken up arms for the Confederacy.  Two French Creole or Foreign French Boutons appear in the records of actual Confederate units:  I. W. Bouton served as a private in the 2nd Company of the 8th Battalion Louisiana Heavy Artillery; he was captured and paroled at Vicksburg, Mississippi, in July 1863.  Jules or Jacob W. Bouton served as a sergeant in Company C of the 14th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, a front-line unit raised in Orleans Parish that fought gallantly in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania in General R. E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.  J. W. was a native of Mississippi and was a 25-year-old clerk residing in New Orleans when he enlisted in June 1861.  Other than a 7-month-long detail in the ordnance department in 1864, Sergeant Bouton was present with his company during its entire time of service and surrendered with Lee's army at Appomattox Courthouse in April 1865.  ...

The family's name also is spelled Bota, Botan, Boten, Boutain, Bouttain, Butten.

Sources:  1860 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Orleans & St. Landry parishes; Arsenault, Généalogie, 1346-47, 2437; Brasseaux, Foreign French, 3:39; BRDR, vols. 1a(rev.), 1b, 2, 3, 5(rev.); Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 51-52; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 1-A, 1-B, 2-A, 2-B, 2-C, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 218; <landrystuff.com/ExpulsionShips.html>; NOAR, vols. 1, 2, 3, 5;  <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Duc_Guillaume.htm>, Family No. 35; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 161; White, DGFA-1, 264-65; White, DGFA-1 English, 58.

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, 12, calls him Joseph BOUTIN; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2437, calls him Joseph RICHARD dit BOUTIN, says he was born in 1727 but gives no birthplace, & that he was son of Alexandre RICHARD & Marie LEVRON of Port-Royal; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-1: 103-04, 772 (Opel. Ch.: v.1-A: p.30), his marriage record, calls him Joseph BOUTIN, calls his wife Marie-Jeane/Jeanne TRAHAN, gives his & her parents' names, says his parents were Paul [BOUTIN] & Ursule GUIDRY, provides the day of the week as well as the day of the marriage, & says the witnesses to his marriage were ___ DEBORDE, Jean TRAHAN, J. GUIDRY, & Rensuval MIRS(?)[sic]; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:104 (Opel. Ch.: v.1, p.31), his death/burial record, calls him Joseph BOUTIN, but does not give his parents' names or mention a wife.  See also Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 218; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 433; De Ville, Southwest LA Families, 1777, 24.   

His birth year is based on the age in the Spanish report of 1767, not the Opelousas census of 1777.  

Arsenault, cited above, is confusing Joseph RICHARD dit BOUTIN & Joseph, older son of Pierre-Paul BOUTIN.  This is revealed by his claiming that Joseph RICHARD dit BOUTIN married Jeanne TRAHAN in c1750.  Note that Joseph, son of Pierre-Paul, married Marie-Jeanne TRAHAN at Opelousas in 1790.  Where did Arsenault get his information?  I follow the primary sources here.

02.  Wall of Names, 12, calls her Marguerite BOUTIN; BRDR, 2:170, 666 (ASC-1, 125), her marriage record, calls her Marguerite BUTEN, calls her husband Jean SAVOY, gives her & his parents' names, says her parents were "of St. Gabriel at Manchac," his parents were "of Acadia," & that witnesses to her marriage were Joseph BUTEN [her brother] & Jean-Charles COMO; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-C:96 (GC Ch.: v.1, p.20, #139), her death/burial record, calls her Marguerite BOUTIN, widow of dec. Jean SAVOY, says she died "age about 78 years," that she was "buried ... in the parish cemetery," but does not give her parents' names; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-C:96 (Opel.Ct.Hse.: Succ.#477), her succession record, calls her Marguerite BOUTIN m. Jean SAVOY, but does not give her parents' names or list any children.  See also Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 218; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 433.   

She must not be confused with her younger sister Marguerite-Louise, who was born in LA & is therefore not on this list.  That they were different people can be seen in their respective marriage records & in the birth/baptismal records of their children.  For example, on 19 Oct 1788, Salome SAVOIE, daughter of Jean SAVOIE & Marguerite BOUTIN, was baptized at Opelousas.  A few months later, on 12 Jul 1789, Michel LEGER, son of Michel LEGER & Marguerite-Louise BOUTIN, was baptized at Opelousas.  See Hebért, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:514, 702.  

03.  Wall of Names, 12, calls her Marie-Francoise BOUTIN, & lists her separately; BRDR, 1b:28, 170 (PCP-3, 249; PCP-4, 25), her marriage record, calls her Marie-Francoise BOUTIN, "native of Acadia," calls her husband Alphonse SEGOBIA, "native of Haenne, Spain, Corporal of the Spanish troops of the St.-Gabriel Post of Manchac," gives her & his parents' names, says both her parents were deceased at the time of the marriage, & that the witnesses to her marriage were Joseph GIMENEZ, Marie MORIN, & Anne BERGERON.  See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 433.  

Her marriage was recorded in Point Coupée because there was no church at St.-Gabriel until the early 1770s.  Judging by her age, she probably died in childbirth.  Her husband Alonso's second marriage record in NOAR, 3:177, 276 (SLC, M4, 2), calls him widower of Maria (BOTEN?), & says he was corporal of the Seventh Company of the Louisiana Battalion.  The Catalina LAMBERT he married in New Orleans on 6 Feb 1777 probably was not Acadian.  

04.  Wall of Names, 12, calls him Olivier BOUTIN; NOAR, 3:35 (SLC, F1, 19), perhaps his death/burial record, gives no first name, only a last name, BOUTIN, & says that he was "native of Acadia."   See also Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 7.  

None of the other Acadian BOUTIN fit the date of the burial record cited above.

05.  Wall of Names, 12, calls him Paul BOUTIN; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:104, 737-38 (Opel. Ch.: v.1-A: p.31), his marriage record, calls him Paul BOUTIN, calls his wife Anne-Spesse TELLERE, gives his & her parents' names, & says the witnesses to his marriage were J. DESBORDES & Fercole MILLER; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 3:82 (GC Ch.: v.1, p.30), his death/burial record, calls him Paul BOUTIN, says he was 67 years old when he died, but does not give his parents' names or mention a wife; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 3:82 (Opel.Ct.Hse.: Succ.#583), his succession record, calls him Paul BOUTIN from Prairie des femmes, but does not give his parents' names, mention a wife, or list any children.  See also De Ville, Southwest LA Families, 1777, 24; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 433.  

His birth year is based on a compromise of the ages given in the Spanish report of 1767 & the Opelousas census of 1777.  The age given in his burial record nails it. 

His wife's information is from her family's records in Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:737-39.  Her family was German & anglicized their name perhaps in PA or MD before coming to LA.  See also Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 218.   

06.  Wall of Names, 12, calls him Pierre-Paul BOUTIN; White, DGFA-1, 265, calls him Paul & gives his birth year.  See also Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 218; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 433; De Ville, Southwest LA Families, 1777, 24. 

Was the Magdelon DIGRIST found with him in the 1777 Opelousas census a new wife?  Most likely, but where is their marriage record?  Taking the age given for her in the 1777 census--42--one gets an estimated birth year of c1735.  A burial record for "Mrs. Paul BOUTIN, "inhabitants[sic] of this Post [Opelousas]," dated 20 Aug 1788, in Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:104 (Opel. Ch.: v.1, p.8), says BOUTIN's wife was 57 years old when she died, giving an estimated birth year of c1737 (compared to Ursule GUIDRY's estimated birth year of c1730).  So who was Madeleine DIGREST, born in c1736?  Was her actual name Madeleine DUCREST?  

07.  Wall of Names, 12, calls her Susanne BOUTIN.  See also Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 218; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 433.   

What happened to her in LA?  Did she live long enough to accompany her family to the Opelousas District?

08.  Not in Wall of Names because of the circumstance of her birth.  NOAR, 2:31 (SLC, B6, 21), her birth/baptismal record, calls her Marie Juliens BOUTEINS, gives her parents' names, says her godparents were Juliens ANTOINE "(same as Julian DUENAS [?], who signs)" & Mary LENDRY, & that she was born in "cir. Feb. 1768." 

If she was born in Feb 1768, she would have been conceived the previous May, which means her mother was a couple of months pregnant with her when the family reached LA in Jul 1767, hence her inclusion on this list. 

What happened to her in LA?  Did she live long enough to accompany her family to the Opelousas District?

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