APPENDICES

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

BROUSSARD

[BREW-sard, brew-SAR]

ACADIA

François Brossard, progenitor of one of the most notable Acadian families, was born in c1653 perhaps in Anjou, France, to parents still unknown.  He married Catherine, daughter of Michel Richard dit Sansoucy, at Port-Royal in c1678.  They settled on haute rivière, now the upper Annapolis River, at a place called Beausoleil.  Not long after his marriage, François "collaborated with Pierre Thibodeau in the colonization of Chepoudy, but he did not go to settle there himself."  François and Catherine had 11 children, including six sons, all born at Beausoleil, five of whom created families of their own.  Four of their daughters married into the Landry, Doucet, Préjean, and Bourg families.  François died suddenly at his farm on haute rivière in December 1716, in his early 60s. 

Oldest son Pierre, born in c1683, married Marguerite, daughter of Abraham Bourg, at Port-Royal in January 1709.  They had nine children, including two sons who married into the LeBlanc family and settled at Minas.  Two of their daughters married into the Boudrot and Préjean families and settled at Port Toulouse, Île Royale, today's Cape Breton Island, where their father Pierre moved by 1722.  Pierre worked as a navigateur at Port-Toulouse. 

François, fils, born in c1695, died at Port-Royal in November 1717, age of 22.  He did not marry.  

Claude, born in c1697, married first to Anne, daughter of Vincent Babin, fils of Pigiguit and widow of Abraham Bourg le jeune, at Grand-Pré in October 1718.  Their sons married into the Landry and Aucoin families and settled at Pigiguit, Rivière-du-Nord-Est on Île St.-Jean, today's Prince Edward Island, and on Île Royale.  Claude remarried to Marie, daughter of Claude Dugas and widow of Abraham Bourg, at Port-Royal in November 1754.  Claude died in Maryland during Le Grand Dérangement.  

Alexandre dit Beausoleil, whose nickname came from the haute rivière village where the Broussards lived, born in c1699, married Marguerite, daughter of Michel Thibodeau, at Port-Royal in February 1724.  In c1730, they moved to Chepoudy, where her kinsmen lived, and then to LeCran, today's Stoney Creek, on Rivière Petitcoudiac, probably to put more distance between themselves and British authorities in Nova Scotia.  In c1740, they moved farther upriver to Village-des-Beausoleils, present-day Boundary Creek, New Brunswick.  

Joseph dit Beausoleil, born in c1702, married Agnès Thibodeau, younger sister of brother Alexandre's wife, at Port-Royal in September 1725.  They followed Alexandre and Marguerite to Chepoudy and Petitcoudiac, preferring to settle in territory controlled by France.  Along with older brother Alexandre, Joseph was a leader in the Acadian resistance against British rule in Nova Scotia during and after King George's War. 

Youngest son Jean-Baptiste, born in March 1704, married Cécile Babin, younger sister of brother Claude's first wife, probably at Port-Royal in c1728.  They remained at Port-Royal.  Jean-Baptiste remarried to Anne, daughter of Louis Thebeau, probably at Port-Royal in c1748.  Jean-Baptiste died at Mascouche, near Montréal, in July 1770, age 66, after Le Grand Dérangement.  

The family's name evolved from Brossard to Broussard in Acadia.  By 1755, François Brossard's descendants could be found at Port-Royal, which the British called Annapolis Royal; at Grand-Pré and La Famille, Pigiguit, in the Minas Basin; at Village-des-Beausoleils on the upper Petitcoudiac; at Port-Toulouse on Île Royale; and at Rivière-du-Nord-Est on Île St.-Jean.  

LE GRAND DÉRANGEMENT

Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this large family even farther.  Descendants of François Brossard ended up in the British Atlantic colony of South Carolina but did not remain there, in France, in the St. Lawrence River valley, and in South Louisiana:  

After yet another war erupted between Britain and France in 1754, the Acadians were again caught in the middle of it.  When British and New England forces attacked Fort Beauséjour at Chignecto in June 1755, Broussards were among the area Acadians who were serving in the fort as militia.  They, too, along with the French regulars, became prisoners of war when the fort surrendered on June 16.  Governor Lawrence was so incensed to find so-called French Neutrals fighting with French regulars at Beauséjour that he ordered his officers to deport the Chignecto Acadians to the southernmost British colonies on the Atlantic seaboard.  In mid-October 1755, the British transported Alexandre Broussard dit Beausoleil and his nephew Victor, Joseph dit Beausoleil's eldest son, to South Carolina aboard the British warship HMS Syren.  They were transported in chains, under heavy guard, along with other Acadian "troublemakers."  They reached Charleston in late November and were held in close confinement on Sullivan's Island outside of the city.  

Before the deportation ships arrived at Chignecto, some of the Acadians being held at forts Cumberland (formerly Beauséjour) and Lawrence managed to escape, Joseph dit Beausoleil among them.  He rejoined his wife and younger children at Petitcoudiac, and they headed into the wilderness north of their home, not only hiding from the British patrols sent out to capture them but also engaging in what today is called guerrilla warfare, including privateering in the Bay of Fundy to harass British shipping.  For a time, Beausoleil's "headquarters" was at Shediac on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, where he coordinated his resistance activities with Canadian Lieutenant Charles Deschamps de Boishébert. 

Sometime probably in the summer of 1756, Joseph dit Beausoleil's brother Alexandre and Joseph's son Victor joined the resistance movement.  Although at first held in close confinement in South Carolina, Alexandre and Victor had been allowed to go to the workhouse in Charleston, from which they escaped.  They made their way through the coastal swamps and marshes into the Carolina backcountry, and, after a long, perilous journey along the face of the Appalachian Mountains, assisted no doubt by Indians friendly to the French, they returned to Acadia to fight again.  Amazingly, Alexandre was in his late 50s at the time, but the rigors of advancing old age could not stop him from rejoining his family.  He and nephew Victor, along with seven other Acadians who had fled from Carolina, appeared at the Acadian settlement on upper Rivière St.-Jean in June 1756, about the time that other Chignecto exiles who had been deported to South Carolina returned to Acadia by boat.  Alexandre and Victor did not remain on the St.-Jean but moved on to Shediac, where they reunited with their family. 

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British forces deported the Acadians at Minas in late October 1755, sending them to Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and New England.  The Broussards at Minas went to Maryland.  Claude Broussard of Grand-Pré, who had remarried at Port-Royal in November 1754 in his late 50s, died in Maryland.  Claude's son Jean and his wife Anne Landry were deported to Maryland with son Firmin, age 3.  Jean and Anne had at least one more son in Maryland--Jean, fils, born in c1760.  Jean, père died in Maryland in the mid-1760s.  Augustin, son of perhaps Charles Broussard of Grand-Pré, was only 7 years old when he landed in Maryland in 1755.  He soon became an orphan.  

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The Broussards at Port-Royal escaped the British round up there in the fall of 1755, spent a terrible winter in the woods and along the Fundy shore, crossed the bay to the French-controlled side in March 1856, and made their way north to the upper Rivière St.-Jean settlements before joining their kinsmen on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Jean-Baptiste fought with older brothers Alexandre and Joseph dit Beausoleil in the Acadian resistance against the British in present-day southeastern New Brunswick.  When his brothers "surrendered" to British forces at Fort Cumberland, formerly French Fort Beauséjour, in late 1759, Jean-Baptiste refused to join them and took his family to Québec.  One account says that his wife, two children, and his mother-in-law died on the way to Canada.  One of his daughters by his first wife remarried at Île Jesus, near Montréal, in June 1761.  Jean-Baptiste died at Mascouche, near Montréal, in July 1770, in his late 60s--five years after his older brothers had died in faraway Louisiana.  

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The Broussards on Île Royale and Île St.-Jean, living in territory controlled by France, escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia during the fall of 1755.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived, however.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the victorious British swooped down on the islands and deported most of the Acadians there to France:

Marie Broussard, wife of Honoré Préjean, crossed on the British transport Queen of Spain with her husband and nine children.  Every one of them died at sea.  Jean-Baptiste, age 37, son of Claude Broussard of Grand-Pré, wife Osite Landry, age 28, sons Joseph, age 7, Grégoire, age 2, and daughters Madeleine, age 9, Marguerite, age 5, and Rosalie, age 3, crossed on one of the five British transports that left the Gut of Canso in late November and reached St.-Malo in late January 1759.  Son Jean-Baptiste-Paul was born aboard ship in December.  Only Osite and two of her children--Madeleine and newborn Jean-Baptiste-Paul--survived the terrible crossing.  Marguerite, Rosalie, and Grégoire died at sea.  Jean-Baptiste, père died in a St.-Malo hospital a month after they reached the city, and son Joseph died a month after that.  Osite remarried to fellow Acadian Augustin Boudrot at Pleudihen, near St.-Malo, in August 1760 and gave him at least nine children.  Jean-Baptiste Broussard's unmarried younger brothers Charles, age 26, and Firmin, age 21, also crossed to St.-Malo on one of the five ships.  Firmin and Charles survived the crossing, but the ordeal proved to be too much for Firmin, who died at Buet, near St.-Malo, in late April 1759 and was buried at nearby Pleudihen.  Cousin Pierre-Paul Broussard, age 32, crossed on one of the five ships with wife Madeleine Landry, age 31, sons Jean-Baptiste, age 8, and Pierre, age 1, and daughters Isabelle, age 6, and Marie-Marguerite, age 4.  Pierre-Paul, Madeleine, and two of their children survived the crossing, but two of the children--Jean-Baptiste and Marie-Marguerite--died at Pleudihen in April 1759 no doubt from the rigors of the crossing.  Pierre-Paul's younger unmarried brother François, age 22, also crossed with them and died at the hospital in St.-Malo in February 1759.  

Pierre-Paul and Marguerite settled at Pleudihen and had more children in the area--Joseph-Osithe was born at Buet in March 1760 but died at Pleudihen in August 1761, Charles-Jean was born at Bas Champs in June 1763, Jean-Joseph at La Coquenais in March 1766, and Marie-Josèphe at Bas Champs in August 1768.

Charles settled at Pleudihen and married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Aucoin, at nearby Plouër in October 1764.  They settled at La Coquenais near Pleudihen, where at least three children were born to them--Marie-Isabelle in March 1766, Joseph-Charles in November 1767, and Madeleine-Josèphe in December 1769.  

Some of the Broussards who were deported to France from Île St.-Jean in 1758-59 ended up in ports other than St.-Malo.  Joseph Broussard of Grand-Pré and Île St.-Jean and his sons Charles, age 15, and Jean, age 13, ended up at Cherbourg, where Joseph died in January 1759, age 50, probably from the rigors of the crossing.  Charles married Frenchwoman Bonne-Jacqueline-Françoise Castel probably at Cherbourg in c1764.  They had at least five sons, all born probably at Cherbourg--Jean-Charles-Joseph; François; Jacques; Pierre in March 1771; and Joseph-Dominique, called Dominique, in May 1772.  Daughter Bonne-Marguerite was born at Cherbourg in September 1773.  Younger brother Jean married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Honoré Comeau, at Cherbourg in July 1773.  In the early 1770s, Charles, Jean, and their families participated in a venture in the Poitou region that attempted to settle Acadians from the port cities on a nobleman's land near the city of Châtellerault.  Charles's son Louis was born near Vienne, Poitou, in February 1774.  Jean's sons Jean-Baptiste and Joseph were born near Vienne in May 1774 and November 1775.  After two years of effort, the venture failed, and Charles, Jean, and dozens of other frustrated Acadians retreated with their families to the port city of Nantes in December 1775.  Two years later, the Broussards were residing at Chantenay near Nantes, where Charles and Bonne-Jacqueline had two more sons--Guillaume-Médard, born in June 1776 but died two months later; and Jean le jeune, born in February 1778 but died at age 3 in September 1780.  Jean and Marguerite also had at least two more children at Chantenay--twins Florence-Adélaïde and Pierre, born in October 1777, but Pierre died at age 10 months in July 1778.  Charles remarried to Euphrosine, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Barrieau, at St.-Martin-de-Chantenay in June 1784.  

Jean-Baptiste-Paul Broussard, the newborn who had survived the crossing from Louisbourg to St.-Malo in 1758-59, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Étienne Melanson, at Pleudihen in June 1784.  Their son Jean-Pierre was born at La Coquenais, near Pleudihen, in March 1785.  

In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France a chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, where many of their kinsmen had settled decades before.  Charles and Jean Broussard of Chantenay took up the offer, but cousins Pierre-Paul, Charles, and Jean-Baptiste-Paul of Pleudihen chose to remain in France.  

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Meanwhile, in the wilderness of what is now southeastern New Brunswick, north of their home on the upper Petitcoudiac, Joseph dit Beausoleil Broussard and his fellow Acadians harassed the British as best they could.  In late 1756, they abandoned their "headquarters" at Shediac and moved north to a new camp at Miramichi, also on the Gulf of St. Lawrence, to put more distance between themselves and the British forces at Fort Cumberland.  Their resistance exacted a terrible price.  Obtaining food, clothing, and shelter for their families, especially in the winter, continually burdened the resistance fighters and limited their effectiveness against a well-fed, well-supplied, and comfortably-sheltered foe.  (Joseph's wife Agnès was among the many Acadians, including most of the children, who died of sickness or starvation at Miramichi during the terrible winter of 1756-57.)  By the autumn of 1759, after four years of unimaginable hardship and the recent fall of Louisbourg and Québec, Broussard and his compatriots responded to a British offer of amnesty.   They agreed to surrender to Colonel Joseph Frye, the commander at Fort Cumberland, to spare their families the horror of another Maritimes winter.  Joseph dit Beausoleil's older brother Alexandre was held as hostage at Fort Cumberland until Joseph and other resistance leaders surrendered the following spring.  However, the British reneged on their amnesty offer, and Joseph and his fellow Acadians continued their struggle from Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  Beausoleil, along with hundreds of other Acadians, was captured at Restigouche in 1760.  The British held him at Georges Island, Halifax, for a time, and then transferred him to Fort Edward at Windsor, formerly Pigiguit, as a prisoner of war.  There, he managed to communicate with Acadian partisans still on the loose in the area, so the British returned him to Georges Island, where he and his extended family spent the next few years in close confinement.  In the prison camps of Nova Scotia--at Fort Cumberland, Fort Edward, and Halifax--the Broussards were joined by hundreds of other Acadians whom the British had rounded up at Restigouche, Miramichi, Île St.-Pierre, Île Miquelon, and other places of refuge in the Maritimes region. 

Ironically, many of young Acadians being held at Fort Cumberland and Fort Edward were enticed to return to their former lands and rebuild and maintain the dykes that had transformed their Acadia into an agricultural paradise.  The New England "planters" who began to occupy the Acadian lands in the Annapolis Basin in 1760 had no idea how to maintain the dykes and aboiteaux that kept the farm land from becoming tidal marsh again.  The Acadians worked diligently for their New England "masters" and were paid in Canadian card money.  Despite their plunge from proud landowners to mere laborers on their former lands, many young Acadian prisoners harbored the forlorn hope of living on their fathers' farms again. 

This was not to be.  The French and Indian War finally ended with the Treaty of Paris of February 1763.  Article 14 of the treaty gave all persons dispersed by the war 18 months to return to their respective territories.  In the case of the Acadians, however, this meant that they could return only to French soil.  The Acadian settlements in Nova Scotia had not been part of French territory for half a century, and the settlements at Chignecto, Chepoudy, Petitcoudiac, and Memramcook now were part of Nova Scotia as well, so British authorities refused to allow any of the Acadian prisoners in the region to return to their farmsteads as proprietors.  If Acadians chose to remain in Nova Scotia, they could live only in the interior of the peninsula in small family groups, away from their lands along the Bay of Fundy, or they could continue to work for low wages as laborers on their former lands.  If they stayed, they must also take the hated oath of allegiance to the new British king, George III, without reservation.  

Most of the Acadians held in Nova Scotia in the last years of the war were still there in the autumn of 1764.  Nova Scotia's new governor, Montague Wilmot, "tender'd to them" the oath of allegiance as well as "offers of a settlement in this Country."  Most of the Acadians rebuffed the oath as well as the offer.  British leaders in Halifax, led by former lieutenant governor and current colonial chief justice Jonathan Belcher, Jr., a protégé of the now deceased Charles Lawrence, still felt threatened by the Acadian presence in Nova Scotia.  They were especially fearful of Beausoleil Broussard and other resistance leaders.  Belcher encouraged Governor Wilmot to remove the Acadians from the province despite orders from London to keep them in Nova Scotia and entreaties from the New England "planters" in the Annapolis valley to keep them as cheap but highly skilled labor.  When Wilmot demurred, Belcher and others hatched a scheme to send the Acadians from Halifax to Baskenridge, New Jersey, to work as indentured servants on an English nobleman's land; Belcher's father just happened to be the governor of New Jersey at the time, and the nobleman was one of his father's political allies.  Governor Wilmot also received a proposal to send 30 Acadian families to New York colony to work as indentured servants.  Neither scheme came to fruition.

Infected, finally, by Belcher's fear of Acadian treachery, Wilmot proposed to his uncle, the powerful Earl of Halifax, the deportation of the Acadian "prisoners" in Nova Scotia to the British West Indies, but the earl ignored his nephew's scheme.  Determined to be rid of the Acadians, Wilmot conceived a plan that he was certain would discourage them from remaining in Nova Scotia.  First, he crafted a new ironclad oath for them that insulted their Roman Catholic faith.  Most compellingly, and against every directive from his superiors in London, he gave the resistance leaders and their families a very hard choice:  either submit to deportation to the British West Indies or remain imprisoned at Georges Island. 

Too proud to work for wages, unwilling to work as indentured servants in colonies where they could lose their religion and their culture, unable to return to their precious farms in the upper Fundy basin, and unwilling to take the hated oath, the Broussard party had to find a suitable place to put down new roots.  The St. Lawrence valley was out of the question.  They were hearing stories of how the French Canadians treated with contempt Acadian refugees who had settled among them.  Besides, Canada was as much a British possession now as Nova Scotia, and settling there would require them to take the oath.  Nor was it likely that Wilmot would allow the troublesome Broussards and their partisan compatriots to settle as close as Québec to their former lands along the Fundy shore.  The Illinois country was a viable option, but the British would not let them take the shortest route there via Canada, and France had just ceded the eastern part of Illinois to Britain.  However, France still controlled the western bank of the upper Mississippi, across from their old settlements of Cahokia and Kaskaskia.  The French, or so most of the world believed, also retained control of the Isle of Orleans and the western bank of the lower Mississippi in what was left of French Louisiana.  France also controlled St.-Domingue, today's Haiti, where hundreds of Acadian exiles from the British colonies had gone recently to start a new life in the French West Indies.  However, letters from Acadians in St.-Domingue detailed the horrors of the climate and maltreatment there at the hands of French officials.  There was always the mother country itself, where the British had deported hundreds of Acadians during the war and where the Acadians held in England had been recently repatriated.  Even with permission from the French crown to go there, however, a cross-Atlantic voyage would be difficult and expensive, but so would a voyage to the French West Indies.  There was much for the Broussards and their relatives to consider, and time was running out.  

After much deliberation, the old resistance fighters and their compatriots chose to go to St.-Domingue.  No higher authority planned their move from Halifax to Haiti, though Wilmot was happy to provide them with rations for the voyage.  Pooling the money their sons had saved from their months of labor on land their fathers once had owned, the Broussard party left Halifax in late November 1764 aboard a chartered English schooner.  They numbered over 200 men, women, and children.  They reached Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, in January and could see even in that winter month that the island's climate was unsuitable for them.  They had hoped to reunite with relatives there, but many of the St.-Domingue Acadians were either dead or dying from tropical diseases, starvation, and overwork.  Just as disturbing, there was little chance of acquiring productive farm land for themselves in the island's plantation-slave economy.  They could see no future for their children in St.-Domingue, despite its being a French colony.  

So the Broussard party changed ships at Cap-Français, welcoming aboard a hand full of St.-Domingue Acadians related to members of the party.  They sailed west through the Florida Strait into the Gulf of Mexico and then on to the lower Mississippi.  Their arrival at Belize, at the mouth of the river, was a complete surprise to the French authorities still in control of the colony.  As official French correspondence as well as baptismal and marriage records at St.-Louis church attest, the Broussard party reached New Orleans in late February 1765.  They were not the first Acadian refugees to come to Louisiana--20 individuals from four related families had reached the colony from Georgia via Mobile exactly a year before the Broussards arrived.  However, the old resistance fighters and their 200 kin were the first large group of Acadian refugees to reach the lower Mississippi valley. 

LOUISIANA:  WESTERN SETTLEMENTS

While recuperating at New Orleans from their long voyage, the Broussards evidently changed their minds about continuing on to the Illinois country.  In April, members of the party exchanged their Canadian card money for Louisiana funds and made a deal with Attakapas District cattleman Jean-Antoine-Bernard Dauterive to settle his land grant on upper Bayou Teche and to tend to his livestock there for a part of the profit.  The French authorities agreed to the arrangement.  Interim governor Charles-Philippe Aubry sent the Broussards from New Orleans to Bayou Teche with retired French army engineer Louis-Antoine Andry, who led them across the treacherous Atchafalaya Basin.  Also with the Broussards was Father Jean-François de Civray, a Capuchin priest whom church officials in New Orleans sent to minister to the Teche Acadians.  The Broussards, more than any other family, helped create La Nouvelle-Acadie on the banks of Bayou Teche:  

Alexandre Broussard dit Beausoleil, age 66, came with wife Marguerite Thibodeau, age 60, and four unmarried children--Sylvain, age 24, Simon, age 21, Anne-Henriette, age 18, and Pierre, age 14.  The tough old resistance fighter and his wife Marguerite perished in the epidemic that killed dozens of their fellow Teche valley Acadians that summer and fall.  Four of their sons and  two grandsons settled at Attakapas.  Daughter Anne married into the Berard family and died in St. Martin Parish in November 1820, in her early 70s.  

Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil, age 63, a widower, whom French authorities in New Orleans named capitaine commandant des Acadiens aux Attakapas, or commander of the Acadians at Attakapas, came with four unmarried children--twins François and Françoise, age 19, Claude, age 17, and Amand, age 15.  Joseph did not remarry and also died in the epidemic of 1765.  Six of his sons settled at Attakapas, but only four of their lines survived.  Daughter Françoise married into the Labauve family and died at Attakapas in October 1801, in her mid-50s.  

Ursule Trahan, age unrecorded, widow of Alexandre's oldest son Joseph-Grégoire Broussard of Pigiguit, came with two children--Élisabeth, or Isabelle, age 12, and Joseph le jeune, age 11.  Ursule did not remarry.  Élisabeth married into the Lapointe, Meaux, and Nickelson families and died in Lafayette Parish in March 1833; the priest who recorded her burial said that she was 98 years old when she died, but she was closer to 80.  Joseph married and settled at Fausse Pointe on Bayou Teche.  

Madeleine Broussard, age unrecorded, Alexandre's older daughter, came with second husband Olivier Thibodeau, age 32, two Landry daughters, ages 11 and unknown, and two Thibodeau children, ages 2 and 1.  Madeleine was pregnant when she reached the colony and died from complications of childbirth soon after the family reached the Teche.  Her newborn daughter also died.  They were the first Acadians to be buried west of the Atchafalaya Basin.  

Jean-Baptiste Broussard, age 34, Alexandre's oldest surviving son, came with wife Anne Brun, age 27, and two sons--Mathurin, age 15, and Jean, age 1.  Jean-Baptiste and Anne had more children in Louisiana.  

Anselme Broussard, age 31, another of Alexandre's sons, came with wife Marie-Marguerite, called Marguerite, Dugas and son Joseph-Théodore, called Théodore, age 1.  Anselme and Marguerite had no more children in Louisiana and may also have died in the epidemic of 1765.  

Joseph-Grégoire dit Petit Jo Broussard dit Beausoleil, age 40, Joseph's oldest surviving son, came with second wife Marguerite Savoie, age 29, and son René, age 12, from his first wife.  Daughter Marguerite was born in April 1765, soon after the family reached Bayou Teche--probably the first Acadian born west of the Atchafalaya Basin.  Petit Jo and Marguerite had more children in Louisiana.  

Victor-Grégoire Broussard, age 37, Joseph's son, came with wife Isabelle LeBlanc.  They had no children, having lost three of them during Le Grand Dérangement.  Isabelle died in the 1765 epidemic before she could have more children.  Victor did not remarry. 

Isabelle Broussard, age 32, Joseph's oldest daughter, came with husband René Trahan, age 36, and a 10-year-old son.  She died at Attakapas by May 1777, when her husband was listed in a census as a widower. 

Timothée-Athanase, called Athanase, Broussard, age unrecorded, another of Joseph's sons, came with wife Anne Bourgeois, age unrecorded, and infant daughter Isabelle.  Daughter Marie may have been born at New Orleans soon after the family reached the colony.

Marguerite Broussard, age 26, another of Joseph's daughters, came with husband Charles Dugas dit Charlitte, age 28.  Their children were born in Louisiana.  Marguerite died a widow at Fausse Pointe, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in April 1821, in her late 70s.  

Théotiste Broussard came with husband Augustin Guidry.  She died in the epidemic of 1765.  

Another Théotiste Broussard, widow of Joseph Hugon, came with a Hugon brother-in-law, who died in the epidemic of 1765, and a 14-year-old daughter, who married a Trahan.  

François Broussard came alone and soon disappeared from history.  

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Although the Broussards lost loved ones, including their two leaders, in the epidemic of 1765, they did not retreat to the river that fall with dozens of their fellow Teche Acadians.  Instead, they remained on Dauterive's concession along Bayou Teche, fulfilling the dream of the old resistance fighters who had brought them there.  By the time Louisiana became a part of the United States in late 1803, Broussards could be found in nearly every part of the Attakapas District and in the Opelousas District as well.  No other family contributed as much to the settlement of southwestern Louisiana:

Descendants of Jean-Baptiste BROUSSARD (c1731-1825; François)

Jean-Baptiste le jeune, eldest surviving son of Alexandre Broussard dit Beausoleil and Marguerite Thibodeau, born at Chepoudy or Petitcoudiac in c1731, married Anne Brun probably at Petitcoudiac in c1750.  After his father was deported to South Carolina, Jean-Baptiste and his family followed his mother into exile in present-day southeastern New Brunswick, where he served in the Acadian resistance with his father and uncle.  Jean-Baptiste, Anne, and their children followed his parents into imprisonment in Nova Scotia in 1760 and to Louisiana in 1764-65.  Jean-Baptiste was one of the eight signers of the Dauterive agreement in April 1765.  He and Anne followed his kinsmen to Bayou Teche, where they had more children, and where, in his later years, Jean-Baptiste served as church warden.  Their daughter married into the Comeaux family.  Jean-Baptiste remarried to Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean-Baptiste Landry and widow of Joseph Dugas and Amand Landry, at Attakapas in September 1799; he was in his late 60s at the time of the wedding.  Élisabeth was a native of Plouër, France, near St.-Malo, had come to Louisiana in 1785, and was in her late 30s at the time of the wedding.  Jean Baptiste died at the home of son Jean in Lafayette Parish in October 1825; the priest who recorded his burial said that Jean Baptiste died "at 7:00 p.m. at age 98 years," but he was closer to 94; his succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in August 1834.  Two of three sons married, but this line of the family was perpetuated only by his middle son, Jean.  

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Oldest son Mathurin, by his first wife, born probably at Petitcoudiac in c1750, was still a bachelor in 1777 when he was counted at Attakapas, age 26, with several adult "orphans."  He does not seem to have married.  

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Jean, called Petit Jean, from his first wife, born at Halifax in c1764, followed his parents to Louisiana and married first cousin Louise-Ludivine or Ludivine-Louise, also called Divine or Denise, daughter of Joseph dit Petit Jo Broussard, at Attakapas in July 1784.  They settled at Côte Gelée near present-day Broussard.  Their son Jean, fils was born at Attakapas in December 1791, Joseph le jeune in October 1798 but died at a cousin's house at Petite Anse, age 11, in April 1810, Don or Jean Louis was born in August 1802, Pierre Arvillien, called Arvillien, in March 1804, Aurelien in July 1806, Camille in February 1808, Clément in October 1809, and a son, name unrecorded, died a month after his birth in November 1811.  Their daughters married into the Broussard, Reeves, St. Julien (French Creole, not Acadian), and Thibodeaux families.  The birth of her eighth son killed Louise, who died in November 1811, in her early 40s.  A succession record in her name was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in April 1844.  Jean remarried to cousin Séraphine, daughter of fellow Acadian Paul Thibodeaux and widow of Louis Trahan, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in August 1814; Jean was 50 years old at the time of the wedding.  Jean's first succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in October 1831.  Jean died in Lafayette Parish in February 1834; the Vermilionville priest who recorded his burial said that Jean died "at age 73 yrs.," but he was "only" 70; his postmortem succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following month.    

2a

Jean, fils, by his first wife, married cousin Anne, daughter of fellow Acadian Jacques Girouard of Côte Gelée, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in March 1815; Anne's mother was a Broussard.  They settled at Côte Gelée.  Their son Jean III was born in Lafayette Parish in November 1823, and Bélisaire in August 1829.  Their daughters married into the Broussard, Fabre, and Montet families.  ...

Jean III, called Dejean by the recording clerk, may have married Augustine, daughter of Adélaïde Jannot, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in August 1842.  Their son Joseph was born in St. Martin Parish in May 1845, and Alexandre in Lafayette Parish in December 1851 but may have died in St. Martin Parish the following July.  ...

Bélisaire married cousin Joséphine, daughter of Don Louis Broussard, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in February 1854. ...

2b

Pierre Arvillien, by his first wife, married cousin Scholastique, daughter of fellow Acadian Anselme Thibodeaux, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in November 1824.  Their son Léo was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 1 month and 12 days, in June 1827, Napoléon at age 1 1/2 months in June 1835, a child, name unrecorded, perhaps a son, died 9 days after his birth in December 1837, and son Charles Ernest was baptized at age 3 months in May 1839 but died at age 8 in December 1847.  They also had a son named Paul.  Their daughter married into the Melançon family.  ...

Paul married cousin Marie Célestine, called Célestine, daughter of French Creole Éloi Aurelien St. Julien, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in June 1856; Célestine's mother was a Broussard. ...

2c

Don Louis, by his first wife, married Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadian Basile Landry, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in February 1825.  Their son Valsin was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in December 1825, Bélisaire at age 7 months in January 1830 but died in April, Lessin was born in January 1833, and a child, name unrecorded, perhaps a son, died a day after its birth in May 1837.  Their daughters married into the Broussard, Dubois, Fabre, Faure, and Melançon families.  Don Louis died in Lafayette Parish in October 1847; the Vermilionville priest who recorded his burial said that Jean Louis, as he called him, died "at age 48 yrs.," but he was only 45. 

Lessin married Azélie, daughter of French Creole Édouard Fabre, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in May 1856. ...

Valsin married cousin Emma, daughter of French Creole Léon Montet, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in May 1858; Emma's mother was a Broussard. ...

2d

Aurelien, by his first wife, married cousin Marie, daughter of Anglo-American Robert Bell, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in September 1828; Marie's mother was a Broussard.  Their son Méance was born in Lafayette Parish in February 1833.  Aurelien died in Lafayette Parish in May 1833; he was only 26 years old; his succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in May 1835.  

2e

Camille, by his first wife, married Adélaïde Aglae, Aglae, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Girouard, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in January 1832.  Their son Léonard was born in Lafayette Parish in October 1832, and Sosthène was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 4 months, in June 1834.  Camille's succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in March 1846; he would have been 38 years old that year. 

Sosthène married cousin Amelie, daughter of fellow Acadian Maximilien Girouard, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in July 1860, and sanctified the marriage at the Youngsville church, Lafayette Parish, in May 1861; Amelie's mother was a Broussard. ...

2d

Clément, by his first wife, likely married Elizabeth, daughter of Anglo American William Rowan, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in October 1844.  Their son Joseph was born in St. Martin Parish in July 1845.  ...

3

Youngest son Michel, by his first wife, baptized at Attakapas by a Pointe Coupée priest, age unrecorded, in 1768, married first cousin Anastasie, another daughter of Joseph dit Petit Jo Broussard, at Attakapas in July 1789.  They settled at Côte Gelée.  Anastasie died at their home at Côte Gelée in January 1816, age 40.  Michel remarried to Marie Euphémie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Boudreaux of Vermilion, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in February 1817.  Michel's succession record was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in September 1820; he would have been in his early 50s.  Michel seems to have fathered no children by either of his wives, so his line of the family may have died with him.  

Descendants of Anselme BROUSSARD (1734-1765?; François)

Anselme, second son of Alexandre Broussard dit Beausoleil and Marguerite Thibodeau, born probably at Petitcoudiac in May 1734, followed his mother into exile in present-day southeastern New Brunswick, where he served with his father and uncle in the Acadian resistance, and followed his parents into imprisonment in Nova Scotia in 1760.  Anselme married Madeleine-Marguerite, called Marguerite, Dugas at Georges Island, Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1760.  They followed his parents to Louisiana in 1764-65.  Marguerite was pregnant when they left Halifax, and a son was born to them on the long voyage to New Orleans.  They followed Anselme's family to Bayou Teche but had no more children.  Anselme and Marguerite, in fact, may have been undocumented victims of the epidemic that killed dozens of their fellow Teche valley Acadians during the summer and fall of 1765, leaving their infant son Joseph-Théodore to be raised by relatives. 

Joseph-Théodore, called Théodore, born "at sea" in late 1764 or early 1765 on the voyage from Halifax to New Orleans via Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, married cousin Henriette, also called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadian René Trahan of Fausse Pointe, at Attakapas in May 1784; Henriette's mother was a Broussard.  They settled on the Vermilion.  Their son Joseph-Théodore or Théodore-Joseph was born in March 1790, and Louis-Joseph was baptized at Attakapas, age 7 months, in April 1795.  Their daughters married into the Berthelot, Bonin, Gaspard, Lalande, and Mouton families.  Théodore remarried to Céleste or Sélesie, also called Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Théodore Olivier Thibodeaux, at Attakapas in May 1807.  Their son Alexandre le jeune was baptized at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, age 5 months, in October 1811, and a son, name unrecorded, born probably in St. Martin Parish in c1816 or 1817, died at age 6 or 7 in Lafayette Parish in August 1823.  Their daughters married into the Durocher and Schexnayder families.  Théodore died at his home on the Vermilion in November 1819; he was 55 years old.  His two older sons created families of their own in what became Lafayette Parish. 

Joseph-Théodore, fils, by his first wife, married cousin Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Comeaux of Vermilion, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in September 1811; Céleste's mother was a Broussard.  They settled on the Vermilion.  Their son Joseph Théodore, fils was born in St. Martin Parish in June 1812, Louis Théodore le jeune in October 1813, a son, name unrecorded, died at his parents' home on the Vermilion, age 2 months, in March 1816, Charles Valière was born in February 1818, Camille in June 1822, Norbert Théodore in January 1825, a child, perhaps a son, name unrecorded, born in c1829, died at age 8 in June 1837, and Aurelien was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 2 1/2, in November 1834.  Their daughters married into the Baudoin, Meaux, and Thibodeaux families.  Joseph Théodore died in Lafayette Parish in September 1834; he was only 44 years old.  

Joseph Théodore, fils married Clémence, daughter of French Creole Pierre Paul Montet, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in June 1834; Clémence's mother was a Duhon.  Joseph Théodore, fils died in Lafayette Parish in March 1843; he was only 30 years old.  Did he father any sons? 

Louis Théodore le jeune married Clarisse, daughter of fellow Acadian Louis Hébert, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in February 1837.  Their twin sons Émile and Émilien were born in Lafayette Parish in January 1841 but Émilien died at Côte Gelée, age 1 1/2, in June 1842.  Louis Théodore le jeune's succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in April 1845; he would have been 32 years old that year. 

Charles Valière died in Lafayette Parish in September 1838.  He was only 20 years old.  Did he marry? 

Camille married Marie Fanelie, 22-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Landry, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in November 1844.  Their daughter married a Landry cousin.  Camille may have remarried to fellow Acadian Celima LeBlanc.  If so, they were living near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, by 1850.  ...

Norbert Théodore married cousin Éloise, daughter of Jean François Broussard, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in December 1845, and remarried to cousin Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Lalande, at the Vermilionville church in May 1851; Madeleine's mother was a Broussard.  Norbert remarried again--his third marriage--to Erminie, daughter of French Creole Elyse Missonnier, at the Vermilionville church in July 1854; Erminie's mother was a Landry. ...

Aurelien married cousin Amelie, daughter of Sarasin Broussard, at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in February 1856. ...

Louis-Théodore, by his first wife, married Apollonie, called Pauline, Paulone, or Pollone, daughter of fellow Acadian François Louviere of Fausse Pointe and widow of Pierre Bonin, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in October 1816.  They settled on the Vermilion and at Fausse Pointe.  Their son Louis, fils, also called Don Louis Théodore, was born in St. Martin Parish in February 1821, Joseph Théodule in February 1826, Moïse in December 1827, Marcel in November 1829, and Lambert Hernesse was baptized at age 2 in August 1836.  Their daughters married into the Dugas, Granger, and Veazey families.  ...

Don Louis Théodore married cousin Arsène, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Comeaux, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in June 1843; Arsène's mother was a Broussard.  Their son Adolphe was born in Lafayette Parish in August 1853.  ...

Joseph Théodule married Marcellite, daughter of fellow Acadian Hippolyte Thibodeaux, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in August 1850. ...

Lambert Hernesse may have married French Canadian Sylvanie Istre at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in January 1861. ...

Alexandre le jeune, by his second wife, may have died young. 

Descendants of Sylvain BROUSSARD (1741-1804; François)

Sylvain, third son of Alexandre Broussard dit Beausoleil and Marguerite Thibodeau, born probably at Petitcoudiac in  October 1741, followed his mother into exile in present-day southeastern New Brunswick, his parents into imprisonment in Nova Scotia, and to Louisiana in 1764-65.  Sylvain married Félicité, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Guilbeau dit L'Officier, at Attakapas in c1765.  They settled at La Pointe on upper Bayou Teche.  Their daughters married into the Boudreaux, Breaux, Girouard, Melançon, and Theriot families.  Sylvain died at Attakapas in March 1804, in his early 60s; his succession record was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in August 1808.  Only two of his five sons created families of their own and also settled at La Pointe.  

1

Oldest son Anaclet, born at Attakapas in October 1770 and baptized by a Pointe Coupée priest the following April, married Madeleine, daughter of German Creole Philippe Wiltz, at Attakapas in February 1807.  They settled at La Pointe.  Their son Anaclet Sylvain, called Sylvain, was born in St. Martin Parish in September 1814, and Jacques or Jacob Sosthène, called Sosthène, in November 1816.  Their daughters married into the Babineaux and Potier families.  Anaclet, père died at his home at La Pointe in August 1819; he was 48 years old; his succession record was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in April 1820.  

1a

Anaclet Sylvain married cousin Elisa or Elise, daughter of German Creole Alexandre Wiltz, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in July 1834; Elisa's mother was a LeBlanc.  Their son Timothée was born in St. Martin Parish in February 1837, Eusèbe in August 1842, Joseph Sylvain in May 1845, Anaclet, fils in August 1848 but died "at age 10 or 11 yrs.[sic, perhaps months] in July 1849, and Albert was born in December 1853.  Their daughter married a Potier cousin.  ...

1b

Sosthène married cousin Marie Marcellite or Marcelline, daughter of French Creole Jean Begnaud, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in March 1835; Marie's mother was a Guilbeau.  Their son Jules was born in St. Martin Parish in September 1839.  Their daughters married into the Gonsoulin and Melançon families.  ...

Jules married Émilie, daughter of fellow Acadian Hervillien Amand Cormier, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in November 1859. ...

2

Hubert, born at Attakapas in August 1772 and baptized by a Pointe Coupée priest the following April, probably died young.  

3

Sylvestre, born at Attakapas in March 1783, died a week after his birth.  

4

Another Sylvestre, born at Attakapas in May 1784, married Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadian Firmin Breaux of La Pointe, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in April 1812.  They settled at La Pointe.  Their son Achilles was born in St. Martin Parish in February 1813 but died at age 6 1/2 in December 1819, Sylvestre, fils was born in December 1816, and a son, name unrecorded, died at birth in October 1819.  They also had a son named Hermogène.  Their daughters married Broussard cousins.  Sylvestre, père remarried to Marie Aspasie, called Aspasie, daughter of fellow Acadian Théodore Babineaux of La Pointe, at the St. Martinville church in October 1822.  They settled at La Pointe.  Their son, name unrecorded, died at birth at his parents' home at La Pointe in May 1826.  Their daughters married into the Cormier and Guilbeau families and perhaps into the LeBlanc family as well.  Sylvestre, père's succession record and final will were filed at the St. Martinville courthouse, St. Martin Parish, in December 1840; he would have been 56 years old that year.  

Hermogène, by his first wife, married cousin Marie Euphémie, called Euphémie, daughter of fellow Acadian Julien Breaux, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in November 1838.  Their son Numa died in St. Martin Parish, age 5, in October 1843,  Joseph Sylvain was born in October 1839 but may have died at age 4 in October 1843, Jules, also called Hippolyte, was born in April 1841 but, according to a church record, died at age 2 1/2 in October 1843, Sylvestre le jeune was born in October 1843, Auguste in January 1845, and Adam Albert in November 1851.  They also had a son named Jules Hermogène.  ...

Jules Hermogène married Anaïs, daughter of fellow Acadian Alex Babin, at the Breaux Bridge church, St. Martin Parish, in January 1861. ...

5

Youngest son François, born at Attakapas in May 1786, died at his parents' home at La Pointe in February 1816.  The priest who recorded his burial said that François was 25 years old when he died, but he was 29.  He probably did not marry.   

Descendants of Simon BROUSSARD (c1744-?; François)

Simon, fourth son of Alexandre Broussard dit Beausoleil and Marguerite Thibodeau, born probably at Petitcoudiac in c1744, followed his mother into exile in present-day southeastern New Brunswick, his parents into imprisonment in Nova Scotia, and to Louisiana in 1764-65.  Simon married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian René Blanchard, at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques on the river in April 1768.  They settled at Côte Gelée near present-day Broussard in the Attakapas District, but they may have lived at Ascension for a short time in the late 1770s.  Their daughters married into the Bell, Bernard, Girouard, and Taylor families.  ...

1

Oldest son Simon, fils, born at Attakapas in March 1771 and baptized by a Pointe Coupée priest in April, probably died young.  

2

Alexandre Simon, born at Attakapas in December 1776, married cousin Anne dite Manon or Nanon, daughter of Amand Broussard of Fausse Pointe, at Attakapas in May 1800; they had to secure "a dispensation from the impediment of relationship" in order to marry.  They settled at Fausse Pointe on the Teche, near her family.  Their son Alexandre Isidore Rosiclair, also called Alexandre E., was born at Attakapas in November 1802, Nicolas Colin in August 1806, Simon or Siméon Méance, also called Simon Amand, in February 1812, and Terence in June 1814 but died at age 4 in October 1818.  Their daughters married into the Dugas and Vincent families.  Anne dite Manon died at their home at Fausse Pointe in September 1814, age 30.  Alexandre Simon died at his father-in-law's home at Fausse Pointe in October 1816; he was 40 years old; his succession record was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse the following month.  

2a

Alexandre Isidore married cousin Marcellite dite Manette or Manon, daughter of Nicolas Broussard, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in April 1826; Manette's mother also was a Broussard, which means that all four parents were Broussards; the marriage was recorded also at the Franklin courthouse, St. Mary Parish.  They settled at Île aux Cannes near New Iberia and in Lafayette Parish.  Their son Simon Méance le jeune was born in St. Martin Parish in June 1835, Nicolas Octave in June 1837, Marcel Jules near New Iberia in April 1844, and Joseph Norbert in June 1845.  Their daughters married into the Broussard, Chargois, Chataigné, Gath, and Girouard families.  ...

2b

Nicolas Colin married Marie Cidalise, also called Mélanie, daughter of French Creole Martin Sudrique, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in November 1827; Marie's mother was a Robichaux.  Their son Nicolas Bruno was born in St. Martin Parish in October 1833 but died at age 15 1/2 in January 1846.  Their daughters married into the Bernard and Huval families.  Nicolas Colin's succession record was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in May 1836; he would have been 30 years old that year.  Except for its blood, this line of the family probably did not survive. 

2c

Simon Méance married Apollone or Pollone Octavie or Octavine, daughter of French Creole Pierre Bonin of Lafayette Parish, in a civil ceremony in St. Martin Parish in February 1832, and sanctified the marriage at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in September 1834; Pollone's mother was a Louviere.  Their son Marcel Galbert was born in St. Martin Parish in 1833, Alexandre in February 1837, Aurelien in May 1853, and a child, name unrecorded, perhaps a son, died near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, age 10 weeks, in September 1854.  Their daughters married into the Duhon and Stutes families.  ...

Alexandre married Marie Betrise or Belzire, daughter of Spanish Creole Manuel Domingue, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in January 1859. ...

Marcel Galbert married Marie Coralie, daughter of Anglo Creole Onésime Caruthers, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in October 1859; Marie's mother was a Prejean. ...

3

Another Simon, fils, born at Attakapas and baptized by an Opelousas priest at age 6 months in April 1780, married cousin Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadian Olivier Thibodeaux, at Attakapas in February 1800.  They settled on the Vermilion.  Their son Rosémond was born posthumously in January 1802 but died at age 11 in November 1813.  Their daughter married into the LeBlanc family.  Simon, fils died at Attakapas in October 1801; he was only 22 years old.  His line of the family, except for its blood, probably died with son Rosémond.  

4

Joseph, born at Attakapas in March 1782, died in October 1801.  He was only 19 years old and did not marry.  

5

Youngest son Isidore Simon, also called "Grand Isidore," born at Attakapas in October 1783, married cousin Marie, daughter of René Broussard, at Attakapas in February 1804.  They settled at Côte Gelée.  Their son Simon le jeune was born at Attakapas in December 1804, Joseph Drosin in March 1809, and Léon in April 1822.  Their daughters married into the Broussard, Dominguez, and Primeaux families.  Marie died in Lafayette Parish in November 1826, in her late 30s; her succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following April.  Isidore's succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in February 1829; he would have been 46 years old that year.  

5a

Simon le jeune married Marie Zéolide, daughter of fellow Acadian François Prince, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in January 1829.  Their son Simon Demas, called Demas and Damas, was born in St. Martin Parish in November 1830.  Their daughters married into the Broussard and Verret families.  ...

Demas married cousin Alzire, daughter of Alexandre Isidore Broussard, in a civil ceremony in St. Martin Parish in May 1861, and sanctified the marriage at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in July 1863. ...

5b

Joseph Drosin married Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadian Benjamin Mire, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in January 1832.  Joseph Drosin's succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in February 1846; he would have been 37 years old that year.  Did he father any sons? 

Descendants of Pierre BROUSSARD (c1750-1828; François)

Pierre le jeune, fifth and youngest son of Alexandre Broussard dit Beausoleil and Marguerite Thibodeau, born probably at Petitcoudiac in c1750, followed his mother into exile in present-day southeastern New Brunswick, his parents into imprisonment in Nova Scotia, and to Louisiana in 1764-65.  Pierre married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Honoré Melançon, at St.-Jacques on the river in July 1776, but they settled at Fausse Pointe on the Teche near New Iberia and at La Grand Pointe on the upper Teche near present-day Breaux Bridge.  Their daughter married into the Patin family.  Pierre remarried to Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Guidry of Grand Pointe, at Attakapas in April 1798.  Their daughters married into the Green, Hamilton, Robichaux, and Rousseau families.  Pierre died at his home at Grand Pointe in December 1828, "at age about 75 years"; his succession record was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse that same month.  Six of his eight sons created families of their own and settled in St. Martinville. 

1

Oldest son Pierre, fils, also called Joseph Pierre, from his first wife, born at Attakapas in June 1777, married cousin Scholastique, daughter of Amand Broussard, at Attakapas in May 1800; they had to secure "a dispensation from the impediment of relationship" in order to marry.  They settled at Grand Prairie, today's downtown Lafayette, and at Fausse Pointe on upper Bayou Teche.  Their son Pierre III was born at Attakapas in April 1804 but died the following January, a son, name unrecorded, died at his parents' home on Grand Prairie 8 days after his birth in August 1806, Joseph Drosin, called Drosin, was born in November 1807, Bruno or Primo in August 1813, a son, name unrecorded, died at his parents' home at Fausse Pointe, age 6 weeks, in March 1816, François Despalière was born in November 1817, and a son, name unrecorded, died shortly after his birth in April 1827.  They also had a son named Clairville or Clerville, also called St. Claire.  Their daughters married into the Bernard, Broussard, Dupoy, and Dugas families.  Scholastique died at their home at Fausse Pointe in May 1827, in her mid-40s; her succession record was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse, St. Martin Parish, in July.  ...

1a

Joseph Drosin married cousin Julie, daughter of Édouard Broussard of Fausse Pointe, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in February 1829.  They settled at Fausse Pointe.  Their son Joseph Masena was born in St. Martin Parish in March 1835, Aurelien near New Iberia in May 1838, and Désiré Soligny in May 1840.  Their daughter married into the Gonsoulin family.  Julie's succession record was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in August 1845; she would have been 35 years old that year.  Joseph Drosin, called François Drausin by the recording priest, remarried to Carmelite Émelia, called Émelia, daughter of fellow Acadian Zenon Castille, at the St. Martinville church in February 1847.  Joseph Drosin, called Drauzin by the St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial and who did not bother to mention a wife, may have died near St. Martinville in March 1858; if so, he would have been only 51 years old and a widower; if this was him, his succession record was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse two days after his death. 

1b

Clairville married Alexandrine Alice, daughter of French Creole Terence Bienvenu, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in July 1833; Alexandrine's mother was a Guilbeau.  Their son Aristides died in St. Martin Parish at age 8 months in April 1835, Théodore was born near New Iberia in October 1841, and Charles in July 1846.  Their daughters married into the Beslin, Bienvenu, and Ratier families.  ...

1c

François Despalière married Susanne Amelia, daughter of fellow Acadian Antoine Prince, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in September 1836.  Their son Henry Despanay was born in St. Martin Parish in May 1840, and François Despalière, fils posthumously near New Iberia in November 1844.  François Despalière, père died in St. Martin Parish in August 1844; he was only 26 years old; his succession record was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in September. 

1d

Bruno married cousin Julie Hermina, called Ermina, daughter of fellow Acadian Éloi Dugas, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in June 1839; Julie's mother was a Broussard.  Their son Bruno Flavien was born in St. Martin Parish in July 1840, a son, name and age unrecorded, died in April 1842, and son Ovide was baptized at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, age unrecorded, in April 1846.  Bruno died in St. Martin Parish in October 1853; the St. Martinville priest who recorded his burial said that Bruno died "at age 34 yrs.," but he was 40. 

2

Julien, by his first wife, baptized at Attakapas, age unrecorded, in July 1779, probably died young.  

3

Don or Jean Louis, by his first wife, born at Attakapas in January 1782, married cousin Marie Louise Felonie or Phelonise, another daughter of Amand Broussard, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in August 1810.  They settled at Fausse Pointe.  Their son Don Louis, fils was born in St. Martin Parish in May 1810, Pierre Timoléon, called Timoléon, in March 1813 but died at age 2 in September 1815, Grégoire Telesphore, called Telesphore, was born in April 1815, a child, name unrecorded, perhaps a son, died at birth in September 1819, son Tertulle was born in October 1820, Jean Clebert in December 1822, Louis Rosémond, called Rosémond, in August 1829 but died at age 4 in October 1833, Paul Ernest was born in June 1834, and Dominique Ulger, called Ulger, near New Iberia in August 1838.  Their daughters married Broussard and Decuir cousins.  Don Louis, père died in St. Martin Parish in October 1843; the St. Martinville priest who recorded his burial said that Don Louis died "at age 55 yrs.," but he was 61; his succession record was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in December.  

3a

Don Louis, fils married cousin Adélaïde, daughter of Sylvestre Broussard, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in January 1832.  Their son Jean Dorville was born in St. Martin Parish in December 1832, Césaire le jeune in January 1834, François Adolphe in December 1835, and Paul near New Iberia in January 1842.  Adélaïde's succession record was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in March 1846; she would have been 32 years old that year.  Don Louis, fils remarried to Célanie, daughter of fellow Acadian Hippolyte Cormier, at the St. Martinville church in October 1846.  ...

Jean Dorville, by his first wife, married Anastasie, daughter of French Creole Lasincour Gonsoulin, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in January 1852.  Their son Charles Ernoton was born in St. Martin Parish in January 1854.  ...

François Adolphe, by his first wife, married Marie Edmonia, daughter of fellow Acadian Placide Guilbeau, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in February 1860. ...

3b

Tertulle married Aimée, daughter of Spanish Creole Raphaël Segura, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in November 1845.  Their son Adolphe Elmor was born in St. Martin Parish in March 1848.  ...

3c

Grégoire Telesphore married Mathilde, daughter of French Creole Timoléon Bienvenu, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in January 1846.  Their son Joseph Arthur was born in St. Martin Parish in October 1846, Antoine in June 1850, and Alcide in February 1854.  ...

3d

Jean Clebert married Modeste Émelie, daughter of French Creole Zenon Decuir, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in June 1848; Modeste's mother was an Hébert. ...

3e

Ulger married Constance, daughter of fellow Acadian Gilles Edmond LeBlanc, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in October 1860. ...

4

Ursin, by his first wife, baptized at Attakapas, age 11 months, in May 1795, married Julie, daughter of fellow Acadian Firmin dit Ephrem Robichaux of Grand Pointe, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in May 1816.  They settled at La Grand Pointe.  Their son Ursin, fils was born in St. Martin Parish in February 1817 but died at age 9 1/2 in September 1826, Antoine was born in March 1819, Léon Treville in April 1821 but died at age 3 in May 1824, Pierre le jeune was born in June 1829, and a son, name unrecorded, died at birth in August 1831.  Their daughters married into the Broussard, Miguez, Vasseur, and Webre families.  ...

4a

Antoine married Élodie, daughter of fellow Acadian Hervillien Bernard, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in October 1844.  Their son François was born in St. Martin Parish in October 1846, and a son, name and age unrecorded, died near Breaux Bridge in July 1850.  ...

4b

Pierre le jeune married Célestine, daughter of fellow Acadian Alexandre Babin, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in February 1854. ...

5

Alexandre-Pierre, by his first wife, born at Attakapas in the 1790s, married Marie Azélie, called Azélie, daughter of French Creole François Begnaud, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in October 1817; Marie's mother was a Doiron.  They settled at La Grand Pointe.  Their son Alphonse Alexandre was born in St. Martin Parish in December 1825.  Their daughters married into the Calais, Harry, and Robichaux families.  ...

Alphonse Alexandre married Constance, daughter of fellow Acadian Hervillien Bernard, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in February 1851.  Their son Alexandre was born in St. Martin Parish in November 1854.  ...

6

Pierre-Zéphirin, called Zéphirin, from his second wife, born at Attakapas in October 1799, married Carmelite, daughter of fellow Acadian Michel Martin of La Pointe, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in December 1820.  Their son, name unrecorded, died at birth at his maternal grandfather's home at La Pointe in January 1825, Pierre Sevigne, called Sevigne, was born in St. Martin Parish in January 1830, a son, name unrecorded, died at birth in November 1831, and Guillaume Adelma was born in January 1833.  Their daughter married into the Tertron family.  ...

6a

Sevigne married Alice, daughter of fellow Acadian Edmond Mouton, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in October 1850. ...

6b

Guillaume Adelma married Cécilia, another daughter of Edmond Mouton, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in December 1858. ...

7

Césaire, by his second wife, born at Attakapas in October 1805, died in St. Martin Parish in April 1833.  He was only 27 years old and evidently did not marry.  His succession record was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in in January 1834.  

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Youngest son Olivier, by his second wife, born in St. Martin Parish in October 1812, married Marie Elmire, called Elmire, daughter of fellow Acadian François Bernard, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in May 1834.  Their son Sylvestre Olivier was born in St. Martin Parish in December 1838, Césaire le jeune in May 1840, Pierre Félix in September 1843, and François in November 1847.  Their daughter married into the Bayard family.  ...

Descendants of Joseph BROUSSARD le jeune (c1754-1823; François, Alexandre)

Joseph le jeune, son of Joseph-Grégoire Broussard and Ursule Trahan and grandson of Alexandre dit Beausoleil, born probably at Pigiguit in c1754, followed his parents into exile in present-day southeastern New Brunswick, where his father served in the Acadian resistance, and to a prisoner-of-war camp in Nova Scotia in 1760.  His father died in the prison compound on Georges Island, Halifax, in the early 1760s.  Joseph le jeune followed his widowed mother and a sister to Louisiana in 1764-65 with the Broussard dit Beausoleil party.  They settled at Fausse Pointe on Bayou Teche near present-day New Iberia.  Joseph le jeune married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean-Baptiste Breaux, at Ascension on the river in June 1776, but they settled at Fausse Pointe.  Their daughters married Broussard cousins.  Joseph may have filed his last will at the St. Martinville courthouse, St. Martin Parish, in September 1821.  He died "at the house of Philippe, homme de couleur [man of color]," probably at Fausse Pointe, in February 1823; the priest who recorded Joseph's burial said that he "died suddenly during the evening ... at age about 72 years"; his succession record was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in March.  All but one of his eight sons created families of their own.  One of them settled on the lower Teche before moving to upper Bayou Lafourche, but the others remained in the old Attakapas District, especially at Fausse Point, now in Iberia Parish.  

1

Oldest son Raphaël, born at Attakapas in c1776, married cousin Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Cosme LeBlanc, at Attakapas in February 1801; Marguerite's mother was a Broussard.  They settled at Fausse Pointe.  Their daughter married into the Ardoin and Broussard families.  Raphaël remarried to Modeste, daughter of French Canadian Pierre LeBlanc of Fausse Pointe, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in October 1808; Modeste's mother was a Louviere.  They settled at Île aux Cannes near New Iberia and at Fausse Pointe.  Their son Raphaël, fils was born in St. Martin Parish in March 1810, Philemon le jeune in December 1818, Rosémond in September 1821, Gérard in September 1824, Paulin in November 1826, and Louis Bélisaire in January 1829.  Their daughters married into the Prince and Sonnier families.  Raphaël, père died near New Iberia in April 1843; the priest who recorded his burial said that Raphaël died "at age 67 yrs."; his succession record was filed at the Franklin courthouse, St. Mary Parish, the following June. 

1a

Raphaël, fils, by his second wife, married Susanne, daughter of fellow Acadian François Prince, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in October 1832; the marriage was recorded also in St. Mary Parish in late September.  Their son Désiré was born in St. Martin Parish in November 1834, Camille near New Iberia, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in August 1838, and Joseph in September 1841.  ...

1b

Philemon le jeune, by his second wife, married Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Pierre Landry, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in October 1842.  Their son Joseph Philosie was born near New Iberia in July 1845, and Pierre Venance in March 1847.  ...

1c

Rosémond, by his second wife, married Marie Aurelia, called Aurelia, daughter of fellow Acadian Sylvain Dubois, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in September 1843.  Their son Placide Aurelien was born near New Iberia in October 1844, and Alexandre in January 1852 but may have died the following July.  ...

1d

Gérard, by his second wife, married cousin Marie, daughter of Simon Broussard le jeune, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in February 1848. ...

2

Joseph, fils, born at Attakapas in March 1777, probably died young.  

3

Nicolas-Joseph or Joseph-Nicolas, born at Attakapas in May 1782, married Marie Élisabeth, called Élisabeth, daughter of French Creole Jean Baptiste Bertrand of St. Charles and St. Mary parishes, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in January 1811.  They settled on the lower Atchafalaya and in St. Mary Parish.  Their son Jean Baptiste Nicolas, called Nicolas, was born in St. Martin Parish in February 1814, Philemon le jeune in July 1818, Achille in September 1823, and Nicolas Dalzino or Datrino in December 1833.  Their daughters married into the Broussard, Daigle, Fitzpatrick, Fraytel or Fraytet, and Thomas families.  In the early 1830s, Nicolas Joseph and Marie Élisabeth were living in Assumption Parish on upper Bayou Lafourche, but his succession record was filed at the Franklin courthouse, St. Mary Parish, in July 1834; he would have been 52 years old that year.  

Jean Baptiste Nicolas married Carmelite Amelina or Amelvina, daughter of fellow Acadian Louis Maurice Daigle of St. Mary Parish, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in June 1836; the following month, the marriage was recorded at the Franklin courthouse, so they probably settled in St. Mary Parish.  They were living near Plattenville, Assumption Parish, upper Bayou Lafourche, in 1840.  ...

4

Alexandre, born at Attakapas in December 1784, married Louise, also called Julie, daughter of French Creole Joseph Bonin of Fausse Pointe, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in February 1812.  The settled at Fausse Pointe.  Their son Joseph le jeune was born in St. Martin Parish in January 1813 but died at his maternal grandfather's house at Fausse Pointe at age 16 1/2  in September 1829, Édouard Alexandre was born in June 1815, and Alexandre, fils in August 1819.  Their daughter married into the Prince family.  Alexandre remarried to cousin Séraphie or Séraphine, daughter of fellow Acadian François Guilbeau of La Pointe and widow of Julien Babin, at the St. Martinville church in September 1821; Séraphie's mother was a Broussard.  They settled at Fausse Pointe.  Their son Charles Duclise, called Duclise, was born in St. Martin Parish in October 1822, and François in October 1824.  Their daughter married into the LeBlanc family.  Alexandre, père died at the home of Michel Martin at La Pointe on the Teche in October 1829; the priest who recorded his burial said that Alexandre died "at age about 46 years," but he was only 44; his succession record was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse, St. Martin Parish, the following January.  

4a

Charles Duclise, by his second wife, married cousin Célestine, daughter of Ursin Broussard, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in October 1844.  Their son Charles was born near Breaux Bridge in December 1850.  ...

4b

Alexandre, fils, by his first wife, married first cousin Marie Elmazie, daughter of his uncle Philemon Broussard l'aîné, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in January 1847.  Their son Alexandre III was born near New Iberia in October 1847.  ...

4c

Édouard Alexandre, by his first wife, married first cousin Suzanne Emma, called Emma, another daughter of his uncle Philemon Broussard l'aîné, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in May 1848.  Their son Amédée was born in St. Martin Parish in March 1849.  Édouard Alexandre remarried to cousin Elmasie or Elmasee, daughter of fellow Acadian Éloi Comeaux, in a civil ceremony in St. Martin Parish in January 1860, and sanctified the marriage at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in January 1861; Elmasie's mother, also, was a Bonin.  ...

5

Dosité, born at Attakapas in December 1786, married cousin Marie, also called Anne, Perpétué, and Poponne, daughter of fellow Acadian Donat Breaux of Fausse Pointe, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in June 1812.  They settled at Fausse Pointe.  Their son, name unrecorded, died in St. Martin Parish 15 days after his birth in April 1813, Balthazar was born in February 1815, Napoléon in December 1817, Gérard or Bérard in March 1820 but died at age 9 in August 1829, Bernard was born in October 1823, Joseph Dolze, called Dolze, in July 1825, and a son, name unrecorded, died at day after his birth in February 1828.  Dosité died at his home at Fausse Pointe in March 1829; the priest who recorded his burial said that Dosité was 45 years when he died, but he was only 42; his succession record was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in April.  

5a

Balthazar died in St. Martin Parish in September 1835.  He was only 20 years old and probably did not marry.  

5b

Napoléon married cousin Elina Broussard probably at New Iberia in the late 1830s, and may have remarried to fellow Acadian Aspasie Hébert at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in June 1845, seven months after a daughter was born near Grand Coteau. ...

5c

Dolze married cousin Suzanne Aimée, daughter of Édouard Broussard, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in June 1849.  Their son Edgard was born near New Iberia in August 1852.  ...

6

Amand-Joseph, also called Armand, Valmond, and Joseph, born at Attakapas in March 1791, married cousin Susanne dite Susette, another daughter of Donat Breaux, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in February 1811.  They settled at Fausse Pointe.  Their son Amand, fils was born in St. Martin Parish in November 1812 but died at age 11 in December 1823, Zéphirin was born in August 1813, Alexandre Timoléon, called Timoléon, in March 1817, twins Donat and Joseph Drosin, called Drosin, in December 1817 but Drosin died at age 14 in June 1832, Joseph le jeune was born in March 1823 but died at age 1 in August 1824, Émile was born in May 1824 but died at age 4 in September 1828, Camille was born in October 1828, Valcour died at age "about 10 mths." in December 1830, and Joseph Villeneuve was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 2 1/2 months, in September 1838.  Their daughters married into the Broussard, Derouen, and Miguez families.  ...

6a

Zéphirin married cousin Eugènie, daughter of fellow Acadian Olivier Boudreaux, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in September 1838; Eugènie's mother, also, was a Breaux.  Their son Martial was born in Lafayette Parish in October 1841, and Camille le jeune in January 1846.  Their daughter married into the Bergeron (French Creole, not Acadian) family.  ...

6b

Timoléon married cousin Marie Louise Zelima or Zelina, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Dugas, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in March 1839; Marie's mother was a Broussard.  Their son Joseph Derosin was born near New Iberia, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in February 1842, and Louis Dalcourt or Valcourt was baptized at the New Iberia church, age 2 months, in October 1846 but died at age 5 months the following December.  ...

6c

Camille married cousin Lisemène, also called Élisabeth, daughter of Éloi Broussard, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in June 1852.  Their son Joseph Amilcar, called Amilcar, was born near New Iberia in August 1852 but died at age 7 months the following March.  ...

6d

Donat married Clémence, daughter of French Creole François Émile Decuir, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in February 1859; Clémence's mother was a Babin. ...

7

Édouard-Joseph, baptized at Attakapas, age unrecorded, in March 1793, married Marguerite, also called Caroline, another daughter of Joseph Bonin, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in December 1816.  They settled at Île aux Cannes near New Iberia and at Fausse Pointe.  Their son, name unrecorded, died at his parents' home at Fausse Pointe 3 days after his birth in November 1817, Édouard, fils was born in January 1819, and a son, name unrecorded, died at birth in January 1821.  The birth of their third son in January 1821 also killed Marguerite.  Édouard remarried to Marie Doralise, called Doralise, daughter of French Creole Étienne Ardoin of Fausse River, Pointe Coupee Parish, and Fausse Pointe, at the St. Martinville church in March 1822.  Their son Paul was born in St. Martin Parish in December 1822, Joseph le jeune in January 1824, and Félix Arthur near New Iberia, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in October 1839.  Their daughters married into the Broussard, Champeaux, and LeBlanc families.  Édouard Joseph died near New Iberia in March 1846; the priest who recorded his burial said that Edward, as he called him, died "at age 55 yrs.," but he was only 53; his succession record was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in October 1850. 

Édouard, fils, by his first wife, married cousin Susanne Éloise, daughter of fellow Acadian Baron Louviere, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in February 1840; Susanne's mother, also, was a Bonin.  Their son Bernard Oirgnac was born near New Iberia in August 1844.  Their daughter married into the Derouen family.  Édouard, fils remarried to first cousin Suzanne Cléorine, daughter of his uncle Amand Joseph Broussard, at the New Iberia church in June 1850.  ...

8

Youngest son Philemon, born at Attakapas in November 1796, married Élise or Lise, another daughter of Étienne Ardoin, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in February 1819.  They settled at Fausse Pointe.  Their son Louis Bélisaire was born in December 1825.  Their daughters married into the Broussard, Dugas, and Lamparez or Lamperez families.  ...

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Descendants of Joseph-Grégoire dit Petit Jo BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil (c1726-1788; François)

Joseph-Grégoire dit Petit Jo, eldest surviving son of Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil and Agnès Thibodeau, born at Port-Royal in c1726, married Anastasie LeBlanc probably at Petitcoudiac in c1750.  They followed his father into exile in present-day southeastern New Brunswick, where Petit Jo served in the Acadian resistance, and to imprisonment in Nova Scotia in 1760.  Joseph remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Charles Savoie, probably at Halifax in c1763.  They followed his parents to Louisiana in 1764-65 and settled on Bayou Teche, where they had more children.  Their daughters married into the Bernard and Broussard families.  Joseph dit Petit Jo died at Attakapas in December 1788; the priest who recorded his burial said that Joseph died "at age 62 yrs." of a chest cold or pneumonia; his succession record was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse, St. Martin Parish, in November 1800.  Only half of his four sons married and continued this line of the family.  

1

Oldest son René, by his first wife, born probably at Petitcoudiac in c1753, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadian Firmin Landry, at Attakapas in June 1775, and remarried to Marie-Anne-Barbe, called Anne, daughter of fellow Acadian Bonaventure Godin, at Attakapas in January 1779.  Their son Joseph dit Petit René was baptized at Attakapas, age 6 months, in May 1779, François was born in September 1781, Éloi-René in January 1794, and Édouard dit Petit René in August 1798.  Their daughter married a Broussard cousin.  René died at New Orleans in February 1799; the priest who recorded his burial said that René was 40 years old when he died, but he probably was closer to 46.  One wonders what he was doing in the city at the time of his death. 

1a

François, by his second wife, died at Ascension on the river in August 1799 while returning home from New Orleans.  He was not quite 18 years old and did not marry.  

1b

Joseph dit Petit René, by his second wife, married Constance, daughter of French Canadian Pierre LeBlanc of Fausse Pointe, at Attakapas in January 1800; Constance's mother was a Louviere.  They settled at Le Grand Bois at Fausse Pointe on the Teche and on the Vermilion.  Their son Hippolyte Valmont was born at Attakapas in April 1803 but died at age 12 in September 1815, Alexandre Petit René was born in November 1807, and Marcellin Petit René in March 1814.  Their daughters married into the Broussard, Derouen, Louviere, and Stiven families.  Joseph dit Petit René died at Le Grand Bois in October 1815; he was only 37 years old.  

Alexandre Petit René married Clarisse Émelite or Melite Clarisse, daughter of fellow Acadian Théophile LeBlanc, in a civil ceremony in St. Mary Parish in August 1827, and sanctified the marriage at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in May 1837.  Their son Joseph Léon, called Léon, was born in St. Martin Parish in April 1833, Alexandre, fils in February 1837, Clément near New Iberia in September 1841, Philip in October 1843, and Louis Félix in August 1846.  They also had a son named Dupré.  Their daughters married into the Savoy family.  ...

Dupré married cousin Olympe, daughter of fellow Acadian Onésime LeBlanc, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in January 1858. ...

Marcellin Petit René married Euphrosine, daughter of fellow Acadian Agricole LeBlanc, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in November 1832.  Their son Léon le jeune was born in St. Martin Parish in November 1836.  Their daughters married into the Etier and Viator families.  Marcellin remarried to Ste. Claire, called Claire, daughter of fellow Acadian Frédéric dit Onésime LeBlanc, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in November 1841.  Their son Marcellin Ovide was born near New Iberia in January 1844.  ...

1c

Éloi dit Petit René, by his second wife, married Angélique Julie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jacques Girouard of Côte Gelée, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in May 1814.  They settled at Côte Gelée near present-day Broussard.  Their son Éloi dit Petit René, fils was born in St. Martin Parish in July 1815, Jean Euclide in May 1819, Alexandre Esner or René in Lafayette Parish in April 1823, Émile in July 1828, Sosthène was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 2 months, in October 1830, Treville was born in March 1835 but died at age 2 1/2 (the priest said 7) in October 1837, Jules was baptized at age 2 months in July 1837, and Robert was born in April 1840.  Their daughters married into the Mire, O'Connor, and Simon families.  ...

Éloi dit Petit René, fils died in Lafayette Parish in July 1833.  He was only 18 years old and did not marry.  

Alexandre Esner married Marie Louise Guchet in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in March 1842.  Their son Donat was born near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in May 1850. ...

1d

Édouard dit Petit René, by his second wife, married cousin Delphine, Séraphie, or Séraphine, daughter of Raphaël Broussard of Fausse Pointe and widow of Paulin Ardoin, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in February 1820.  The settled at Côte Gelée and at Île aux Cannes near New Iberia.  Their son, name unrecorded, died at his paternal grandfather's home at Fausse Pointe 9 days after his birth in January 1823, René le jeune was born in St. Martin Parish in April 1826, Raphaël in March 1828, Léo in April 1832, Frédéric in February 1835, Aurelien near New Iberia in October 1838, Drosin in December 1840, and Dennis in December 1845.  Their daughters married into the Dooly, LeBlanc (French Canadian, not Acadian), and Waggoner families.  ...

René le jeune married Élisabeth or Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Sonnier, in a civil ceremony in St. Mary Parish in December 1844, and sanctified the marriage at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in April 1847. ...

2

Joseph, fils, by his first wife, born at Attakapas in March 1774, died at New Orleans in September 1796.  He was only 23 years old and did not marry.  One wonders what he was doing in the city at the time of his death. 

3

François Alexandre, by his first wife, born at Atakapas in March 1777, probably died young.  

4

Youngest son Éloi dit Petit Jo, by his second wife, baptized at Attakapas, age 7 weeks, in April 1780, married cousin Marguerite, daughter of Anselme Thibodeaux, at Attakapas in July 1800; they had to secure "a dispensation from the impediment of relationship" in order to marry.  They settled on the lower Vermilion.  Their son Dosité, also called François, was born at Attakapas in March 1802, Hilaire in September 1803, Désiré in October 1809, and Lazare or Laizan in December 1813.  Their daughters married into the Boudreaux and Broussard families.  Éloi died in Lafayette Parish in September 1823; he was only 43 years old; his succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following January.  

4a

Dosité married cousin Claire or Clarisse, daughter of Joseph Thibodeaux of Vermilion, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in May 1822.  Their son Hilaire le jeune was born in Lafayette Parish in March 1823, a son, name unrecorded, died at age 7 months in October 1827, Auriss was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 4 months, in November 1828 but died at age 4 in August 1832, a child, perhaps a son, name unrecorded, died 11 days after his birth in September 1830, Désiré le jeune was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in June 1835, and Joseph at age 3 months in February 1840.  Their daughter married a Broussard cousin.  ...

Hilaire le jeune married Céleste, 16-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Trahan, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in October 1842.  Their daughter married into the Langlinais family.  Did Hilaire le jeune father any sons? 

Désiré le jeune married double cousin Emelia V., daughter of Onésime Valery Broussard, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in October1857; Emelia's mother, also, was a Thibodeaux. ...

Joseph married cousin Marie Laurenza, daughter of Don Louis Broussard, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in May 1860. ...

4b

Hilaire married cousin Anne Azélie, called Azélie, daughter of Isidore Broussard, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in September 1825.  Azélie died in Lafayette Parish in September 1827, age 18.  Hilaire remarried to cousin Anastasie or Aspasie, daughter of another Isidore Broussard, at the Vermilionville church in July 1829.  Their son Éloi le jeune was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 7 months, in May 1831, Simon at age 34 days in October 1838, Désiré was born in February 1841, Dermas in December 1848, and Alexandre in August 1851.  They also had a son named Prosper.  Their daughter married into the Bonnemaison family.  ...

Prosper, by his second wife, married Marie Delasca, daughter of fellow Acadian Ferdinand Trahan, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in January 1859. ...

4c

Désiré married Marie Azélie, Amelie, Arelie, or Orelie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Boudreaux, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in February 1834.  Their son Florestan was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 4 months, in April 1835 but died at age 2 1/2 in March 1837, and Jean Dergus was born in March 1841.  They were living near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, by the mid-1850s.  Their daughters married into the Duhon, Langlinais, and Nunez families.  ...

4d

Lazare married Uranie, daughter of fellow Acadian Ursin Hébert, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in February 1835.  Their son Lazare Levasquey was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in April 1836, and Rémi was born in October 1839.  Their daughter married into the Dartes family.  ...

Lazare, fils married Marie Élizabeth, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Boudreaux, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in July 1859. ...

Victor-Grégoire BROUSSARD (c1728-?; François)

Victor-Grégoire, second son of Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil and Agnès Thibodeau, born probably at Port-Royal in c1728, married Isabelle, daughter of René LeBlanc of Grand-Pré, in the late 1740s or early 1750s.  In the fall of 1755, the British deported him and his uncle Alexandre dit Beausoleil to South Carolina aboard the HMS Syren and kept them in close confinement on Sullivan's Island near Charleston.  A few months later, in early 1756, they escaped from South Carolina and made their way north across country to upper Rivière St.-Jean and then to Shediac on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, where they joined Victor's father in the Acadian resistance.  Victor and Isabelle lived for a time in the refugee camp at Miramichi, farther up the North Shore, where their young children may have died during the terrible winter of 1756-57 (some accounts claim that all of the Acadian children at Miramichi that winter perished from illness or starvation).  Victor and Isabelle, now childless, followed his widowed father into imprisonment in Nova Scotia and to Louisiana in 1764-65.  Victor was one of the eight signers of the Dauterive agreement at New Orleans in April 1765.  His wife died in the epidemic of 1765, before she could give him anymore children.  The following spring, Spanish officials counted him on Bayou de Tortue near present-day St. Martinville with no one else in his household.  Victor did not remarry, so his line of the family died with him.  

1

Jean, born probably at Petitcoudiac in September 1753, died during Le Grand Dérangement, perhaps one of the many children who perished in the refugee camp at Miramichi on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore during the terrible winter of 1756-57.   

2

Joseph, Jean's twin, also died during Le Grand Dérangement, perhaps also at Miramichi. 

Descendants of Timothée-Athanase BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil (1741-1760s; François)

Timothée-Athanase, called Athanase, third son of Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil and Agnès Thibodeau, born probably at Petitcoudiac in February 1741, followed his parents into exile in present-day southeastern New Brunswick in 1755.  Athanase married Anne, daughter of Paul Bourgeois, probably in the late 1750s and followed his widowed father into imprisonment in Nova Scotia in 1760.  Athanase's older daughter Élisabeth, or Isabelle, was born in the prisoner of war compound on Georges Island, Halifax, in the early 1760s.  Athanase and his family followed his kinsmen to Louisiana in 1764-65.  Younger daughter Marie was born either aboard ship or at New Orleans soon after they reached the colony in early 1765.  They followed his father to Bayou Teche that spring.  Athanase and Anne settled on Bayou de Tortue, near present-day St. Martinville, but had no more children.  Athanase, and perhaps Anne also, died at Attakapas by September 1769, when a daughter was listed in a Louisiana census as an orphan.  Their daughters married into the Gaudin, LeBlanc, and Melançon families.  Daughter Isabelle remained on the prairies, but Marie grew up with relatives at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques on the river and settled there.  Except for its blood, then, this line of the family did not survive in the Bayou State. 

Descendants of François BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil (c1746-1819; François)

François le jeune, fourth son of Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil and Agnès Thibodeau, born probably at Petitcoudiac in c1746, followed his parents into exile in present-day southeastern New Brunswick, and followed his widowed father into imprisonment in Nova Scotia and to Louisiana in 1764-65.  François married Pélagie, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Landry, at Attakapas in c1770.  They settled on the lower Vermilion near present-day Abbeville, where François served as a syndic.  Their daughters married into the Duhon, Landry, Meaux, and Thibodeaux families.  François died at his home on the Vermilion in May 1819; the priest who recorded his burial said that François died "at age about 78 years," but he was closer to 73.  Five of his six sons created families of their own in what became Lafayette Parish. 

1

Oldest son Olidon dit Beausoleil, born at Attakapas in January 1771 and baptized by a Pointe Coupée priest the following April, married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadian Michel Bernard, at Attakapas in February 1790.  They settled on the Vermilion.  Their son François le jeune was baptized at Attakapas, age 1, in April 1795 but died at age 3 1/2 in November 1797, Joseph Ursin Olidon, called Ursin, a twin, was born in February 1800, Onésime Olidon in March 1804, Don or Jean Louis Olidon in July 1811, and Alfred in March 1813.  They also had a son named Jean Olidon.  Their daughters married into the Duhon, Hébert, Mire, Prejean, and Thibodeaux families.  In September 1824, Olidon purchased from Jean Mouton dit Chapeau lot number 140 at Vermilionville, now the city of Lafayette; a lot in the new village cost $150.00 at the time.  Olidon died in Lafayette Parish in October 1827; the priest who recorded his burial said that Olidon was 58 years old when he died, but he was 56; his succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following January.  

1a

Jean Olidon married Marie Victoire or Victorine, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles-Dominique Babineaux, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in August 1809.  They settled on the Vermilion.  Their son Ursin Lessin, also called Ursin Jean Olidon, a twin, was born in St. Martin Parish in February 1814, a son, name unrecorded, died at his parents' home on the Vermilion 2 days after his birth in February 1816, Don Louis, also called M. Don Louis and Don Louis O., was born in January 1818, Jean Olidon, fils near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in September 1821, Lessin in c1823, Aurelien in Lafayette Parish in April 1828, Neuville in March 1830[sic], and Dupréville in August 1830[sic].  Their daughters married into the Broussard, Dugas, Landry, and LeBlanc families.  Jean Olidon, père died in Lafayette Parish in November 1840; the priest who recorded his burial said that Jean died "at age 53 years," but he probably was closer to 50; his succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in November 1844.  

Ursin Jean Olidon married cousin Marie Eurasie, daughter of Isidore Broussard, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in June 1833.  Their son Duplessin was born in Lafayette Parish in July 1834, and Jules in October 1840.  Their daughters married into the Comeaux family.  ...

Duplessin married Clémence, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Chevalier Thibodeaux and widow of Placide Broussard, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in January 1860. ...

Jules married Marie Elisadie or Elizalde, daughter of French Creole Duc Bonin, a the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in January 1861; Marie's mother was a Comeaux. ...

Don Louis married cousin Emeranthe or Meranthe Virginie, called Virginie, daughter of Joseph Broussard, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in March 1837.  They settled at Carencro.  Their son Alexandre was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 1/2 months, in April 1840, Joseph was born in September 1843, and Basile in January 1844.  ...

Jean Olidon, fils married Marie Joséphine, called Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadian André Prejean, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in May 1840.  They settled at Carencro.  Their son Joseph St. Maurice was born in December 1842, and André Olidon in March 1850.  ...

Lessin married cousin Mélasie, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Louis Richard, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in September 1842; Mélasie's mother, also, was a Babineaux.  They settled at Carencro.  Their daughter married into the Benoit family.  Lessin remarried to Uranie, daughter of fellow Acadian Alexandre Guilbeau and widow of Edmond Babineaux, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in November 1855.  They probably remained at Carencro.  ...

Aurelien married Marie Eumea, called Eumea, daughter of fellow Acadian Portalis Castille, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in December 1852.  ...

Neuville married cousin Émelie, another daughter of Louis Richard, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in June 1858. ...

Dupréville married Marcellite Hélène, daughter of fellow Acadian Lazare Bercy Arceneaux, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in January 1860. ...

1b

Onésime Olidon married Marie Uranie, also called Susanne M., daughter of fellow Acadian Agricole Landry, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in April 1820.  They settled on the Vermilion.  Their son Désiré was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 2 months, in December 1828, Olidon le jeune at age 1 month, 12 days, in October 1830, Jules was born in March 1832 but died at age 13 months in May 1833, and Valérien Olidon was born in October 1833.  Their daughters married into the Dartes, Duhon, and Stutes families.  ...

Valérien married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Placide Duhon, at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in February 1854. ...

1c

Joseph Ursin married cousin Émetille, Amelie, or Melite, also called Anastasie, daughter of Éloi Broussard of Vermilion, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in June 1821.  Their son Joseph Ursin, fils was born in Lafayette Parish in January 1823, and Désiré was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 3 months, 6 days, in May 1831.  Their daughter married into the Forman family.  Amelie died in Lafayette Parish in September 1843; she was only 40 years old.  ...

Joseph Ursin, fils married Aspasie, 21-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Onésime Trahan, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in December 1844.  They settled near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish.  Their daughter married a Broussard cousin.  ...

1d

Don Louis Olidon married Claire or Laclaire, daughter of fellow Acadian Delphin Duhon, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in April 1831.  Their son Eugène was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 7 days, in September 1832 but died the following December, Théodule was baptized at age 3 months in January 1834, Louis, fils at age 5 months in May 1840, and Onésime was born in September 1846.  Their daughters married into the Herpin and Sellers families.  Don Louis Olidon died in Lafayette Parish in September 1853; the recording priest, who did not bother to give any parents' names or even mention a wife, said that Don Louis Alidore, as he called him, died "at age 66 yrs.," but this Don Louis would have been only 42; his succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in February 1854. 

Théodule married Azéma, daughter of fellow Acadian Alexis Vincent, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in September 1852. ...

1e

Alfred married Anglo American Myra Eastin in Lafayette Parish in the early 1830s. ...

2

Théophile, born at Attakapas in March 1773 and baptized by a Pointe Coupée priest in April, married cousin Victoire, daughter of fellow Acadian Amand Landry, at Attakapas in January 1796.  They settled at Côte Gelée near present-day Broussard.  Their son Pierre-Onésime, called Onésime, was born in June 1800, Édouard Théophile in February 1802, and Arvillien in December 1807 but died at age 3 in September 1810.  Théophile remarried to Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadian René LeBlanc of Vermilion and widow of Charles Melançon, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in July 1812.  They settled on the Vermilion.  Their son Théogène was born in St. Martin Parish in June 1813, François le jeune in August 1814 but died at age 15 in October 1829, Edmond was born in September 1818, and Eugène in November 1820 but died at age 11 in October 1831.  Their daughters married into the Bouquet and Mollere families.  ...

2a

Pierre Onésime, by his first wife, married Scholastique, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Duhon, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in May 1821.  Their son Émile was born in Lafayette Parish in February 1825, Théophile le jeune was baptized at age 4 months in June 1836, and Dorneville at age 8 months in May 1838.  Their daughters married Broussard and LeBlanc cousins.  ...

Théophile le jeune may have married fellow Acadian Marguerite LeBlanc at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in September 1859. ...

2b

Édouard Théophile, by his first wife, married cousin Euphémie Broussard probably in Lafayette Parish in the early 1820s.  Their son Sevenne was born in Lafayette Parish in August 1825, a child, name unrecorded, perhaps a son, died at age 15 days in December 1826, Moïse was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 3 months, in May 1831, a son, name unrecorded, died 8 days after his birth in October 1832, Clely was baptized at age 1 month in June 1834 but died at age 13 months in July 1835, Éloi was baptized at age 4 months in July 1838, Jules was born in March 1840, Alcide in December 1841, Cleopha Antoine in September 1846, and a son, name unrecorded, died at age 40[sic, probably 4] in March 1848.  Their daughter married a Broussard first cousin.  Euphémie's succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in August 1849. ...

Sevenne married cousin Belzire, daughter of fellow Acadian Alexandre Hébert, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in December 1845; Belzire's mother was a Broussard.  Their son Siméon was born in Lafayette Parish in October 1846.  ...

Moïse married Marie Godric, daughter of fellow Acadian Aurelien Arceneaux, at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in February 1856. ...

2c

Théogène, by his second wife, married cousin Madeleine Uranie or Uranie Madeleine, daughter of Isidore Broussard, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in June 1832.  Their son Eugène was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 3 months, in May 1839, René was born in Lafayette Parish in April 1844, Drosin near New Iberia, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in June 1848, and a child, name unrecorded, perhaps a son, died near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, age 9 days, in September 1854.  ...

2d

Edmond, by his second wife, married cousin Marguerite Zéolide, 19-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Édouard Prejean, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in January 1843; Marguerite's mother was a Broussard.  They were living near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in the mid-1850s.  ...

3

Jean-François, baptized at Attakapas, age unrecorded, in May 1776, married cousin Gertrude, daughter of fellow Acadian Amand Thibodeaux, at Attakapas in September 1798.  They settled at Pont du Vermilion or Pin Hook Bridge south of present-day Lafayette.  Their son Jean Treville, called Treville, was born in November 1806, and Éloi Jean in November 1808.  They also had a son named Don Louis, also called Don Louis Jean Baptiste.  Their daughters married into the Comeaux and Guidry families.  Jean François remarried to cousin Hortense, daughter of Augustin Broussard of Vermilion and widow of Pierre Simon LeBlanc, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in June 1813.  They remained on the Vermilion.  Their son François le jeune was born in March 1814, Édouard Gilles, also called Édouard Jean François, in February 1817, Camille, also called Conicle, in May 1818, and Hippolyte in January 1820.  Their daughter married into the Guidry family.  Hortense died at their home on the Vermilion in January 1820, in her late 30s.  Jean François's succession record was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in May 1820 soon after Hortense's death.  He remarried again--his third marriage--to Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Lucien Bourg and widow of Firmin Duhon, at the St. Martinville church in May 1821.  Their son Onésime dit Cadet was born in September 1822, and Placide in June 1825.  Their daughter married a Broussard cousin.  Jean François died in Lafayette Parish in February 1832; the priest who recorded his burial said that Jean died "at age 58 yrs."; his postmortem succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following month.  

3a

Jean Treville, by his first wife, married cousin Anne or Marie Cidalise, called Cidalise, daughter of Jean Olidon Broussard, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in May 1827.  Their son Éloi le jeune was born in Lafayette Parish in January 1831, Alexandre in November 1833, Treville, fils was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 3 months, in March 1838, Jean Eraste was born in December 1846 but may have died at age 1 1/2 in October 1848.  Their daughters married into the Broussard and Doucet families.  ...

Alexandre married cousin Carmelite, daughter of Joachim Broussard, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in July 1852. ...

Treville, fils married Adalie or Idalie, daughter of fellow Acadian Onésime Guilbeau, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in December 1858. ...

3b

Éloi Jean, by his first wife, married cousin Aspasie, another daughter of Jean Olidon Broussard, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in August 1833.  Their son Éloi, fils was born posthumously in September 1834.  Éloi Jean died "near his house" in Lafayette Parish in April 1834; he was only 25 years old; his succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in January 1837.  Aspasie remarried to another Broussard cousin.  

Éloi, fils married cousin Eulalie, daughter of Joachim Isidore Broussard, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in May 1855. ...

3c

Don Louis, by his first wife, married Marie Duvissa or Deusca, also called Clarisse, Adorisca, and Lodoiska, daughter of fellow Acadian Moïse Hébert, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in April 1834.  Their son Sevenne was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 1 1/2 months, in April 1837, Alexandre was born in April 1839, Amédée in June 1841, Désiré in May 1843, Nery in St. Martin Parish in May 1845, and Jean in Lafayette Parish in May 1847.  Their daughters married into the Duhon and Guidry families.  Don Louis remarried to cousin Azélia, daughter of fellow Acadian Zenon Castille and widow of Onésime Guilbeau, at the Breaux Bridge church, St. Martin Parish, in December 1848; Azélia's mother, also, was a Thibodeaux.  Their son Albert was born in Lafayette Parish in June 1854.  ...

Alexandre, by his first wife, married first cousin Melasie, daughter of his uncle Jean Treville Broussard, at the Vermilionville Church, Lafayette Parish, in January 1860; Melasie's mother, also, was a Broussard.  ...

3d

Édouard Gilles, by his second wife, married Marie Éloise, Louise, or Léonie, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Zéphirin Doucet, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in January 1839.  They evidently settled near Carencro.  Their son Pierre was born in June 1840, Joseph Numa in March 1845, and Arthur in January 1854.  Their daughter married into the Duhon family.  ...

3e

François le jeune, by his second wife, married cousin Joséphine, also called Émilite, daughter of Joseph Broussard, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in January 1839.  Their son Jules was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in February 1840, and Martin was born in November 1843.  François le jeune remarried to Eugènie, daughter of French Creole Charles Simon, at the Vermilionville church in February 1850; Eugènie's mother was a Leger.  ...

Jules, by his first wife, married Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadian Onésime Duhon, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in November 1860. ...

3f

Camille, by his second wife, married first cousin Amelia or Aurelia, daughter of his uncle Jean François Broussard, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in October 1841; Amelia's mother, also, was a Broussard, so all four parents were Broussards.  Their son Jean Treville was born in Lafayette Parish in December 1842, and Desma in October 1851 ...

3g

Onésime dit Cadet, by his third wife, married Marguerite Sidalise, called Sidalise, 17-year-old daughter of French Creole Charles Baudoin, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in December 1842; Sidalise's mother was a Mouton.  Their son Cyprien was born in Lafayette Parish in September 1844, and a son, name unrecorded, died in Lafayette Parish, age 4, in September 1847.  Onésime's succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in October 1846; he would have been 24 years old that year. 

3h

Placide, by his third wife, married cousin Aurelia, 15-year-old daughter of his first cousin Jean Olidon Broussard, père, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in May 1843.  Aurelia died in Lafayette Parish in September 1849, "at age over 20 yrs."  Placide remarried to cousin ____, daughter of fellow Acadian Zenon Castille, at the Vermilionville church in April 1851; _____'s mother was a Thibodeaux.  Placide remarried again--his third marriage--to cousin Clémence, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Chevalier Thibodeaux, at the Vermilionville church in April 1853. ...

4

Joseph le jeune, born at Attakapas in May 1777, married cousin Marie-Rose, daughter of fellow Acadian Paul Thibodeaux, at Attakapas in January 1799.  They settled on the Vermilion.  Their son Zenon was born in July 1802, Léon in July 1804, and Joseph or Gédéon Théon, called Théon and also Drosin, in April 1809.  Their daughter married into the Hébert family.  Joseph le jeune remarried to Susanne dite Susette, daughter of fellow Acadian Donat Boudreaux and widow of Salvator Mouton le jeune, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in November 1812.  They settled on the Vermilion.  Their son Joseph Sarasin, called Sarasin, was born in August 1817, Eugène, a twin, probably in March 1823, François was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 2 months, in April 1826 but died at age 1 1/2 in October 1827, and Jean Baptiste was baptized at age 7 months in February 1834.  Their daughters married into the Broussard and Guidry families.  ...

4a

Léon, by his first wife, married Anastasie, daughter of French Creole Olivier Blanchet, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in June 1827.  Their son Léon, fils was born in Lafayette Parish in September 1830.  Léon died in Lafayette Parish in September 1833; the priest who recorded his burial said that Léon died "at age 27 yrs.," but he was 29; his succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following February.  ...

4b

Théon, by his first wife, married Marie Denise, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Firmin Duhon, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in June 1828.  Their son Jean Sosthène, called Sosthène, was born in Lafayette Parish in December 1829, and Eugène in September 1831.  Their daughter married a Broussard cousin.  Théon remarried to Marie Carmelite Elisa, Elina, or Lina, also called Scholastique, daughter of fellow Acadian Éloi Benoit and widow of Arvillien Broussard, at the Vermilionville church in June 1836.  Their son Raulin was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 6 months, in July 1839.  Their daughter married into the Abadie family.  Théon died in Lafayette Parish in February 1849; he was only 39 years old; his succession record may have been filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in June 1850. 

Sosthène, by his first wife, married Eulalie, daughter of fellow Acadian Émilien Vincent, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in February 1849.  Their son Alexandre was born in Lafayette Parish in December 1849 but may have died in St. Martin Parish the following September.  ...

4c

Sarasin, by his second wife, married Véronique or Veronie, daughter of fellow Acadian Louis Hébert, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in February 1837.  Their son Lucien was born in Lafayette Parish in October 1843, and Olivier in July 1847.  Their daughters married into the Broussard and Montet families.  ...

4d

Zenon, by his first wife, married Marie Cléonide or Cléonise, daughter of fellow Acadian Hippolyte Savoie, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in February 1838; Zenon was 36 years old at the time of the wedding.  Their son Onésiphore was born in Lafayette Parish in September 1840, and Joseph Hippolyte near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in May 1846.  ...

4e

Eugène, by his second wife, married cousin Oliva, daughter of François Broussard, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in April 1845.  Eugène remarried to cousin Eugènie, daughter of Don Louis Broussard, at the Vermilionville church in January 1850.  Their son Jean le jeune was born in Lafayette Parish in October 1841.   ...

4f

Jean Baptiste, by his second wife, married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Rosémond Breaux, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in January 1856. ...

5

Isidore, born at Attakapas in c1778, married cousin Isabelle, another daughter of Amand Thibodeaux, at Attakapas in February 1804.  They settled on the Vermilion.  Their son Arvillien, also called Théon, was born in November 1806, Émilien in May 1811, Joachim Isidore in April 1813, and Ursin Isidore in July 1814.  Their daughter married a Broussard cousin.  Isidore remarried to Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Prejean of Vermilion, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in June 1815.  Their son Jean Treville, called Treville, was born in St. Martin Parish in December 1817 but died at age 5 in June 1823, Édouard Isidore was born in December 1819, Julien in June 1825, Lessin in April 1828, and Louis Dupréville in March 1831 but died at age 12 1/2 months in April 1832.  Their daughter married a Broussard cousin.  Isidore's succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in March 1843; he would have been in his mid-60s that year; the succession was not postmortem, so it may have followed the death of wife Adélaïde.  His house "stood at the top of the hill" on the left, or east, bank of the Vermilion just south of Pin Hook Bridge near present-day Lafayette, along the road to New Iberia, directly across the river from the Jean Sosthène Mouton plantation, Walnut Grove.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted 34 slaves--15 males and 19 females, 24 blacks and 10 mulattoes, ranging in age from 60 to 1--on Isidore Broussard's plantation in the parish's Western District next to son Lessin J. Broussard.  A Mouton neighbor who was a boy in the 1850s wrote in his memoirs many years later:  "On his plantation, Mr. [Isidore] Broussard, with his slaves, cultivated cotton and raised cattle, horses, and sheep."  The young neighbor described Isidore, who would have been in his 80s at the time, as "a man with a loud voice which could be heard morning and night calling his mules and giving orders to his slaves."  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted 34 slaves--11 males and 23 females, 14 black and 20 mulattoes, ages 61 to 2, living in 6 houses--on Isdore Broussard's plantation next to son Julien Broussard.  Isidore died probably at his home on the Vermilion in April 1862; he was 85 years old; his succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following month.  Exactly a year after his death, a battle was fought at the Vermilion River bridge not far from Isidore's plantation.  One wonders what the grandson of the great Acadian resistance fighter would have done when the Yankees came to steal his livestock and free his "people."  

5a

Arvillien, by his first wife, married cousin Marguerite, daughter of German Creole George Taylor, formerly Teller, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in February 1828; Marguerite's mother was a Broussard.  Arvillien remarried to Carmelite Elina, daughter of fellow Acadian Éloi Benoit, at the Vermilionville church in February 1832.  Their son Éloi was born in Lafayette Parish in December 1832 but died at age 22 months in October 1834, and Amet died at age 2 in March 1843.  Arvillien died in Lafayette Parish in December 1833; he was only 27 years old; his succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following February.  Did this line survive? 

5b

Ursin Isidore, by his first wife, married Euphémie or Célanie, daughter of fellow Acadian Éloi Comeaux, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in April 1834.  Their son Alexandre was born in Lafayette Parish in February 1835, Éloi in November 1838 but died at age 10 months in September 1839, Édouard Derbes was born in February 1840 but died at age 3 in September 1843, and Ernest was born in April 1844.  Their daughter married a Comeaux cousin.  ...

5c

Joachim Isidore, by his first wife, married Marie Carmelite, called Carmelite, another daughter of Éloi Comeaux, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in May 1835.  Their child, name unrecorded, perhaps a son, died in Lafayette Parish 2 hours after its birth in June 1837, a son, name unrecorded, died at age 10 in July 1847, Lessin le jeune, also called Ducrest, was born in August 1840 but died at age 2 in August 1842, and Taise was born in July 1844.  Their daughters married into the Broussard and Langlinais families.  ...

5d

Édouard Isidore, by his second wife, married cousin Aspasie, daughter of Jean Olidon Broussard and widow of Éloi Jean Broussard, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in January 1837.  Their son Jean Drosin, called Drosin, was born in Lafayette Parish in April 1840, Élisée in March 1843, and Alexandre near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in February 1850 but died at age 2 1/2 in September 1852.  Their daughter married into the Benoit family.  ...

Drosin married cousin Euphémie, daughter of Joseph Evariste Broussard, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in July 1860. ...

5e

Julien, by his second wife, married cousin Azéma, 18-year-old daughter of Pierre Onésime Broussard, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in September 1842.  Their daughter married into the Thibodeaux family.  ...

5f

Lessin, by his second wife, married cousin Carmelite, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Comeaux, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in November 1848; Carmelite's mother was a Broussard.  Their son Charles Ducret was born in Lafayette Parish in November 1849, and a son, name unrecorded, died at age 2 in January 1854.  ...

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Youngest son François, fils, born at Attakapas in January 1779, probably died young.  

Descendants of Claude BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil (c1748-1819; François)

Claude le jeune, fifth son of Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil and Agnès Thibodeau, born probably at Petitcoudiac in c1748, followed his parents into exile in present-day southeastern New Brunswick and followed his widowed father into imprisonment in Nova Scotia and to Louisiana in 1764-65.  Claude married Louise, called Lise and Lisette, daughter of probably Bénoni Hébert dit Manuel of Chignecto, at Attakapas in c1772.  Their daughters married into the Broussard, Doiron, Duhon, Faulk, Granger, and Pivauteau families.  Louise died at Attakapas in March 1788; she was only 35 years old.  Claude remarried to Catherine, daughter of fellow Acadian Joachim-Hyacinthe Trahan, at Attakapas in April 1793.  Catherine was a native of Belle-Île-en-Mer, France, and had come to Louisiana aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, in 1785.  They settled on the lower Vermilion near present-day Abbeville.  Their daughters married into the Faulk and Guidry families.  Claude died at his home on the lower Vermilion in November 1819; the St. Martinville priest who recorded his burial said that Claude died at "age about 75 yrs.," but he was closer to 71; his succession record was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in December.  Only four of his 10 sons created families of their own.  One of his younger sons settled in St. Landry Parish, but the others remained in the old Attakapas District in what became Lafayette Parish.  

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Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, called Baptiste, from his first wife, born at Attakapas in October 1774, married Julienne, daughter of fellow Acadian Paul Trahan, at Attakapas in September 1794.  They settled on the Vermilion.  Their son Jean-Baptiste dit Bénoni was baptized at Attakapas, age 3 months, in December 1795 but died at age 5 in October 1800, and Édouard was baptized at age 9 months in November 1797.  Jean-Baptiste, père died at Attakapas in February 1798; he was only 23 years old.  

Édouard married Pélagie, daughter of French Creole Pierre Dubois, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in September 1817.  Their son Édouard Béloni was born in St. Martin Parish in July 1818, Onésime in September 1820, Louis Hubert in October 1822, Olivier was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 9 months, in January 1826 but died at age 7 in September 1832, Eugène was baptized at age 3 and Jean Baptiste at age 2 in June 1830, and Euclide at age 2 1/2 in August 1834, and Camille at age 1 in September 1835.  ...

Édouard Bénoni married Marie Mélanie, 20-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Paul Thibodeaux, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in May 1842. ...

Louis Hubert married Nizida, 17-year-old daughter of French Canadian François Primeaux, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in February 1843. ...

Camille married Ozémie, daughter of French Creole Philemon Dubois, at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in July 1856; Ozémie's mother was a Thibodeaux. ...

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Valéry, by his first wife, born at Attakapas in May 1776, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Amand Landry.  They settled on the Vermilion.  Their son Édouard was born in August 1804 but died at age 7 in September 1811, Valéry Achille, called Achille and also Raphaël, was born in August 1806, Pierre Onésime, called Onésime, in May 1809, Paulin in June 1815, Barthélémy in August 1820, and Lambert in September 1822.  Their daughters married into the Bonin, Boudreaux, and Thibodeaux families.  Valéry remarried to cousin Marie Louise, called Louise, daughter of Jean Broussard and widow of Jean Anselme Thibodeaux, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in September 1829. ...

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Onésime, by first wife, married cousin Marie Carmelite, called Carmelite, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Anselme Thibodeaux, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in October 1827; Marie's mother was Marie Louise Broussard, who became Onésime's stepmother two years later.  Their son Lucien was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in May 1830, Méance at age 4 months in May 1832 but died at age 5 in September 1837, Emilton was born in January 1834, and Jean Honoré in October 1847.  Their daughter married into the Baudoin family.  ...

2b

Achille, by his first wife, married Aspasie, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Hébert, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in October 1832.  Their son Bruno was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in December 1833, Pierre at age 2 1/2 months in March 1837, and Grégoire was born in January 1845.  ...

Bruno married cousin Marie Aureline, daughter of fellow Acadian François Cormier, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in April 1852; Marie's mother was a Broussard. ...

Pierre married Belzire, daughter of French Creole François Meaux, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in May 1860; Belzire's mother was a Landry. ...

2c

Paulin, by his first wife, married cousin Célestine, daughter of Jean Broussard, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in February 1836.  Their son Napoléon was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 2 months, in March 1838 but died at age 2 1/2 in October 1840, Servet was born in May 1840, Valéry in January 1843 but died the following October, a child, name unrecorded, perhaps a son, died at age 4 in October 1851, and son Albert was born in August 1854.  ...

2d

Barthélémy, by his first wife, married Marcellienne, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Vincent, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in August 1841.  Their daughter married into the Baudoin family.  ...

2e

Lambert, by his first wife, married Amelie, daughter of French Creole Béloni Baudoin, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in May 1844; Amelie's mother was a Landry.  Lambert may have remarried to French Canadian Sylvanie Istre at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in January 1861.  ...

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Louis, by his first wife, born at Attakapas in August 1777, probably died young.  

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Alexandre le jeune, by his first wife, baptized at Attakapas, age 8 months, in May 1779, probably died young.

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Béloni, by his first wife, baptized at Attakapas, age 5 months, in March 1785, died at his father's home on the lower Vermilion in October 1806.  Béloni was only 21 years old when he died and probably did not marry.  

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Louis-Claude, by his second wife, born at Attakapas in the late 1780s or early 1790s, married Marie Eurasie, Ulasie, or Eumea, daughter of French Creole Jean Baptiste Simon, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in April 1816; Marie's mother was an Aucoin.  They settled on the lower Vermilion.  Their son Edmond le jeune was born in St. Martin Parish in December 1818, Émile in Lafayette Parish in January 1826, Clémile in September 1829, Joseph Louis, called Louis, in March 1835, Onésime was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 2 months, in April 1837, and Louis, fils at age 1 1/2 months in May 1839 but died at age 5 months the following September.  Their daughters married into the Dronet, Simon, and Trahan families.  Louis Claude died probably in Lafayette Parish in August 1846, exactly two weeks after his wife died; he died probably in his late 50s; his succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse later that month. 

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Edmond le jeune married Marie Euphrosine, daughter of Catherine Lacour, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in October 1849; judging by a baptismal record of one of their daughters, Marie Euphrosine's father may have been a Savoie. ...

6b

Joseph Louis married fellow Acadian Ameline Vincent at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in May 1854; the marriage was recorded also in Lafayette Parish. ...

6c

Clémile married Marie, daughter of French Creole David Meaux, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in December 1854. ...

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Claude, fils, by his second wife, born at Attakapas in May 1794, probably died young.  

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Jean-Joseph dit Beausoleil, by his second wife, born at Attakapas in March 1796, died at age 6 in July 1802.  

9

Jean Murphy, called Murphy, from his second wife, born at Attakapas in August 1805, married Marie Adélaïde, called Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadian Dominique Prejean, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in November 1827.  Their daughters married into the Carriere, Castille, Cormier, Richard, and Rider families.  Jean Murphy remarried to Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadian François Pitre and widow of Anthony McDaniel, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in April 1838, and sanctified the marriage at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in April 1839.  Their son Jean Murphy, fils was born in St. Landry Parish in January 1840.  Jean Murphy remarried again--his third marriage--to Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Foret and widow of François Vigé, at the Opelousas church in June 1851; Jean Murphy was 45 years old at the time of the wedding.  Did this line, except for its blood, survive? 

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Youngest son Edmond, by his second wife, born in St. Martin Parish in September 1807, died at his parents' home on the lower Vermilion, age 1, in October 1808.

Descendants of Amand BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil (c1750-1818; François)

Amand, sixth and youngest son of Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil and Agnès Thibodeau, born probably at Petitcoudiac in c1750, followed his parents into exile in present-day southeastern New Brunswick.  He was only a child of 6 or 7 when his mother died at the refugee camp at Miramichi during the terrible winter of 1756-57.  Amand followed his widowed father and siblings into imprisonment in Nova Scotia during the early 1760s and to Louisiana in 1764-65.  Amand married Hélène, daughter of fellow Acadian Firmin Landry, at Attakapas in July 1771, and remarried to Anne, daughter of fellow Acadian Alexis Benoit, at Attakapas in May 1775.  They settled at Fausse Pointe on the Teche near what became New Iberia.  Their daughters married into the Broussard, Decuir, and Dugas families.  Amand was a leader in his community.  In the late 1780s, he and five others from his Attakapas congregation went to "Plaquemine at Pointe Coupée" to retrieve the Reverend Father Hilaire, a Capuchin priest, as pastor for the Attakapas church.  The church trustees had promised them 15 piastres for their trouble but "continually evaded paying them."  In May 1790, Amand filed suit against the trustees.  According to family legend, Amand fought in the Battle of New Orleans in January 1815; he would have been in his mid-60s at the time!  He died at his home at Fausse Pointe, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in January 1818, in his late 60s; his succession record was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in March.  His home, called Maison Amand Broussard, was moved from Fausse Pointe to New Iberia before being moved again to the Vermilionville historical park near Lafayette. 

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Oldest son Joseph dit Josaphat, by his first wife, born at Attakapas in November 1771 and baptized by a Pointe Coupée priest the following July, married Marie-Françoise, called Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Trahan, at Attakapas in October 1793.  Françoise was a native of Belle-Île-en-Mer, France, and had come to Louisiana in 1785 aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships.  They settled at Fausse Pointe.  Their son Éloi Josaphat was baptized at Attakapas, age 4 months, in April 1795, Rosémond le jeune was born in February 1800, Josaphat, fils in January 1806, and Achilles in September 1809 but died at his parents' home at Fausse Pointe, age 5 months, the following February.  Their daughters married into the Arceneaux, Blanchard, and Bonin families.  Josaphat, père died in St. Martin Parish in April 1836; he was 64 years old; his succession record was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in January 1838.  

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Éloi Josaphat married cousin Susanne dite Susette, daughter of Joseph Broussard of Fausse Pointe, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in March 1813.  They settled at Fausse Pointe.  Their son Éloi Josaphat, fils was born in St. Martin Parish in October 1816, Joseph Lessin in April 1825, Jules in April 1828, and a son, name unrecorded, died at age 8 months in March 1834.  Their daughters married into the Berard, Breaux, Gros or Legros, Oubre, and Trahan families.  ...

Éloi Josaphat, fils married Elisa Breaux probably in St. Martin Parish in the late 1830s.  Their son Joseph was born near New Iberia, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in November 1843.  ...

Joseph Lessin married Émilie, daughter of fellow Acadian Victor Labauve, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in October 1849. ...

Jules married Félicie, daughter of fellow Acadian Édouard Hébert, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in January 1851. ...

1b

Rosémond le jeune married cousin Adeline Joséphine, called Joséphine, daughter of another Joseph Broussard of Fausse Pointe, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in September 1818.  They settled at Fausse Pointe.  Their son Éloi le jeune was born in St. Martin Parish in February 1824, and Félix in January 1826.  Their daughters married into the Delcambre and Hébert families.  Rosémond le jeune remarried to Hortense, daughter of fellow Acadian Athanase Hébert, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in April 1848; Rosémond was 48 years old at the time of the wedding.  ...

Éloi le jeune married Rose, daughter of fellow Acadian Exhubert Hébert, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in January 1845. ...

Félix married Marcellite, daughter of fellow Acadian François Boudreaux, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in June 1845. ...

1c

Josaphat, fils married Arthémise, daughter of French Creole Henry Ransoné or Ransonnet, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in October 1826; Arthémise's mother was a Landry.  Their son Léo was born in St. Martin Parish in August 1829 but died at age 2 1/2 in July 1832, and Josaphat III was born in March 1833.  Their daughters married into the Bienvenu and Etier families.  ...

Josaphat III married Hélène, daughter of Onésime Leleux, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Landry but now in Iberia Parish, in June 1853; Hélène's mother was a Landry. ...

2

Édouard-Amand, called Édouard A. or Edward A., from his second wife, a twin, born at Attakapas in October 1777, married cousin Anne, Annette, or Nanette, daughter of fellow Acadian Amand Thibodeaux, at Attakapas in June 1801.  They settled at Fausse Pointe.  Their son Léon was born in August 1802, Édouard Bélisaire or Bélisaire Édouard in April 1804, Ursin in March 1808, Jean Baptiste Désiré, called Désiré, in August 1814, and Aurien in March 1817 but died at age 2 in November 1819.  Their daughters married into the Broussard and Dugas families.  Édouard died at his home at Fausse Pointe in August 1830; he was only 52 years old; his succession records were filed at the St. Martinville and Franklin courthouses the following January.  

2a

Léon married cousin Claire, called Clara, daughter of Pierre Broussard, fils of Fausse Pointe, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in April 1823.  Their son Léon Massena, called Massena, was born in St. Martin Parish in September 1824 but died at age 6 in June 1831, Édouard le jeune was born in July 1830 but died at age 10 months in June 1831, and Lucien Alcée, called Alcée, was born in October 1834.  One can only imagine what this family endured in that terrible June of 1831.  Their daughters married into the Boutte and Broussard families.  Clara's succession record was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in October 1849; she would have been only in her mid- or late 40s that year.  Léon remarried to Caroline Virginie, daughter of French Creole François Césaire Boutte, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in December 1849.  ...

Alcée, by his first wife, married cousin Virginie, daughter of fellow Acadian Louis Dugas, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in October 1856; Virginie's mother was a Broussard. ...

2b

Édouard Bélisaire married cousin Marie Émilie, Émilite, Melite, or Émerite, another daughter of Pierre Broussard, fils, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in February 1832.  Their son Gustave Phileas was born in St. Martin Parish in February 1833, Édouard Aristide, perhaps called Aristide, in April 1835, and Joseph Adrien in February 1837.  They were living near New Iberia in the early 1840s.  ...

Aristide Broussard died in St. Martin Parish in October 1853.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names, said that Aristide died "at age 18 yrs.," so this could have been Édouard Aristide. 

Gustave Phileas married Henriette Marcellite, daughter of fellow Acadian Edmond LeBlanc, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in February 1855. ...

2c

Désiré married cousin Marie Evelina or Eveline, daughter of Louis Broussard, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in October 1835.  Their son Jean Baptiste, fils was born in St. Martin Parish in June 1837, and Édouard le jeune near New Iberia in February 1844.  They also had a son named Jean Léo.  ...

Jean Léo married Eusèide, daughter of fellow Acadian Dorestan Prince, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in April 1860. ...

3

Hebrard, by his second wife, a twin, born at Attakapas in October 1777, probably died young.  

4

Nicolas-Amand, by his second wife, born at Attakapas in March 1786, married cousin Adélaïde, daughter of Joseph Broussard of Fausse Pointe, at Attakapas in February 1806.  They settled at Fausse Pointe and on Bayou Petite Anse near present-day Avery Island.  Their son Balthazar was born at Fausse Pointe in September 1806 but died at Petite Anse, age 2, in August 1808, Nicolas, fils was born in September 1809, a son, name and age unrecorded, died at this parents' home at Petite Anse in February 1811, Joseph Neuville or Neville was born in February 1813 but died at his parents' home at Fausse Pointe, age 5, in June 1818, and Camille was born in c1815 but died at age 9 at the home of Béloni Simon on the Vermilion in September 1824.  They also had sons named Joseph Evariste, called Evariste, and Rosémond le jeune.  Their daughters married into the Bell, Broussard, Giroir, and Melançon families.  Adélaïde died at their home at Fausse Pointe in July 1820, age 30.  Nicolas Amand remarried to Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Comeaux, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in June 1821.  Their son Aurelien Seville, called Seville, was born in St. Martin Parish in December 1825 but died in Lafayette Parish at age 4 1/2 in August 1830, Onésime was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 2 1/2 years, in July 1830, a child, name unrecorded, perhaps a son, died 8 days after its birth in May 1829, and son Nicolas Sosthène was born in March 1837.  Their daughters married into the David, Dugas, Quiff, and Verret families, and one of them settled on Bayou Lafourche.  ...

4a

Evariste, by his first wife, married cousin Scholastique, daughter of fellow Acadian Simon Girouard, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in February 1829; Scholastique's mother, also, was a Broussard.  Their son Valérien was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 9 months, in February 1832, Désiré was born in March 1834 but died at age 6 months the following October, Seville le jeune was born in October 1837, and Joseph Deshussard in St. Martin Parish in August 1846.  They were living near New Iberia, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, by the early 1840s.  Their daughter married into the Benoit family.  ...

Valérien married Louise Pamela, daughter of Hilaire Borel, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in June 1858. ...

Seville le jeune married cousin Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Valmond Girouard, at the Youngsville church, Lafayette Parish, in January 1861. ...

4b

Rosémond le jeune, by his first wife, married cousin Marguerite Elesima, called Elesima, daughter of Édouard Broussard, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in May 1839, and remarried to cousin Marie Elina or Elisa, daughter of Philemon Broussard, at the New Iberia church in June 1844.  Their son Vincent David was born near New Iberia in July 1844.  ...

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Éloi-Amand, by his second wife, born at Attakapas in April 1788, married cousin Marie, daughter of Jean Broussard of Côte Gelée, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in June 1809.  They settled at Fausse Pointe.  Their son, name unrecorded, died at his parents' home at Fausse Pointe 12 days after his birth in June 1810, twin sons, names unrecorded, died at age 1 month in May 1814, another son, name unrecorded, died 3 days after his birth in September 1815, Camille le jeune was born in February 1816, and a son, named unrecorded, died at birth in July 1818.  They also had a son named Éloi Lucien, called Lucien.  Their daughter married into the St. Julien (French Creole, not Acadian) family.  Marie died at their home at Fausse Pointe in March 1821, in her late 20s.  Éloi remarried to Marie Irma, called Irma, daughter of French Creole Louis Hilaire Boutte of Opelousas, in a civil ceremony in St. Martin Parish in July 1822.  Their son Eugène Numa, called Numa, was born in St. Martin Parish in April 1825 but died at age 11 1/2 in October 1836, and Gustave was born in December 1831.  Their daughter married a Dugas cousin.  Éloi A., as he was called, died in St. Martin Parish in September 1832; he was only 44 years old; his succession records were filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in December 1832 and at the Franklin courthouse, St. Mary Parish, in August 1835, so he must have owned property in both parishes.  

5a

Lucien, by his first wife, married Élisabeth, also called Elisa, daughter of fellow Acadian Désiré LeBlanc, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in June 1835.  Their son Alcibiades Lucien was born in St. Martin Parish in May 1838 but died at age 6 in August 1844, Eugène Numa le jeune was born near New Iberia in June 1839, Jean Stanislas in January 1842, Martin in November 1843, Désiré in October 1846, and Balthazar Doria in April 1847[sic].  Their daughter married into the St. Julien (French Creole, not Acadian) family.  ...

5b

Gustave, by his second wife, married cousin Élisabeth Alphonsine, daughter of fellow Acadian Louis Dugas, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in December 1851; Élisabeth's mother was a Broussard. ...

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Rosémond, by his second wife, baptized at Attakapas, age "about 4 1/2 months," in November 1799, died at his parents' home at Fausse Point in January 1820.  He was only 20 years old and did not marry.  

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Camille-Amand, by his second wife, born at Attakapas in October 1801, married Marie Élisabeth, also called Elisa Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Louis Dugas, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in July 1821.  They settled at Fausse Pointe.  Their son Camille Euphémon was born in St. Martin Parish in May 1824, and Antoine Preval, called Preval, in April 1831.  Their daughters married into the Durand, Gondron, and LeBlanc families.  Camille Amand died in St. Martin Parish in March 1846; the St. Martinville priest who recorded his burial said that Camille died "at age 46 yrs.," but he was only 44; his succession record was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse the following August. 

7a

Camille Euphémon married Marie Louise, daughter of Foreign Frenchman Laurent Tertron of Nantes, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in December 1847. ...

7b

Preval married cousin Félicia, daughter of his first cousin Léon Broussard, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in May 1851; Félicia's mother was a Broussard. ...

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Youngest son Pierre, by his second wife, died probably at Fausse Pointe, age 5 months, in January 1805.  

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More Broussards appeared on the western prairies by the 1770s.  Three Broussard females, two of them sisters, settled in the Attakapas District.  A young Broussard orphan, probably an exile from Maryland, left the river and moved his family to the Vermilion valley, where he settled among his cousins and created a vigorous line of the family.  Another young Broussard, probably from Pigiguit, settled in the Opelousas District in the early 1770s before moving north to the Avoyelles prairie in the 1790s:

Élisabeth and Madeleine, daughters of Jean Broussard, came to Louisiana together.  Madeleine married François, son of fellow Acadian Joseph Guilbeau dit L'Officer, at Attakapas in July 1772 and died at her home at La Pointe on the upper Teche in April 1822, in her late 60s.  

Catherine, daughter of Joseph Broussard, married Andrés Lopes de Acuna, son of Pierre Lopes of Galicia, Spain, at Attakapas in June 1778.  

Descendants of Auguste or Augustin BROUSSARD (c1748-1810; François, Pierre)

Auguste or Augustin, son of Charles Broussard and Madeleine LeBlanc, born probably at Grand-Pré in c1748, likely was deported with his family to Maryland in 1755.  He seems to have come to Louisiana as a teenaged orphan in 1766 with the first contingent of exiles from Maryland and followed them to Cabanocé/St.-Jacques on the river, where he married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Landry, in 1769 or 1770.  Spanish officials counted them on the left, or east, bank of the river at Ascension, just above St.-Jacques, in August 1770.  They moved to the Attakapas District in the late 1770s and settled near his cousins on the Vermilion.  Their daughters married into the Dugas, Duhon, Hébert, Meaux, Mire, and Montet families.  Augustin, called by the recording priest an "inhabitant of Attakapas," died in St. Landry Parish in September 1810; he was 63 years old; his succession record was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in July 1811

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Oldest son Martin Louis, called Louis, born at Ascension on the river in November 1772, married Élisabeth or Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Savoie of St.-Jacques on the river, at Attakapas in May 1800.  They settled on the Vermilion.  Their son Louis, fils, also called Martin Don Louis, was born in August 1804, Joseph le jeune in May 1809 but died at age 4 in September 1813, and twins Cyprien and Rosémond were born in March 1811 but Rosémond died at age 3 months the following August.  Their daughter married into the LeBlanc family.  Martin Louis remarried to Marie Emeranthe or Merante, daughter of fellow Acadian Simon dit Agros LeBlanc, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in June 1815.  Their son Édouard Marie was born in St. Martin Parish in February 1821, and Martin in May 1826 but died at age 18 months in October 1827.  Martin Louis died in Lafayette Parish in February 1839; the priest who recorded his burial said that Louis was 65 years old when he died; his succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse that month.  

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Martin Don Louis, by his first wife, married fellow Acadian Madeleine, also called Doralise and Marguerite, Benoit probably in Lafayette Parish in the early 1820s.  Their son Joseph Théodule was born in Lafayette Parish in March 1825, Théogène was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 2 months, 27 days, in October 1827, Désiré at age 3 months in February 1830, Edgard at age 2 months in May 1837, and Martin, fils was born in December 1844.  Their daughters married into the Brasseaux and Broussard families.  ...  

Joseph Théodule married Pélagie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Duhon, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in February 1846. ...

Désiré married cousin Marguerite, daughter of Théon Broussard, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in August 1848. ...

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Cyprien, by his first wife, married cousin Pélagie, daughter of French Creole Pierre Meaux, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in May 1831; Pélagie's mother was a Broussard.  Their son Martin Sylvanie was born in Lafayette Parish in January 1841, Olivier in December 1842, Abraham in November 1843, Gabriel in October 1846, Antoine Arthur in May 1850, Amédée in March 1852, and Alcide near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in January 1854.  ...

Martin Sylvanie married fellow Acadian Anaïs Guidry at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in July 1860. ...

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Édouard Marie, by his second wife, married Célanie, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Paul Thibodeaux, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in January 1850. ...

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Joseph dit Augustin, born at Ascension on the river in November 1774, married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Hébert, at Attakapas in January 1804.  They settled at Grand Prairie, today's downtown Lafayette, and at Prairie Sorel.  Their son Joseph dit Augustin, fils was born in November 1804, and Dosité in February 1817.  Their daughters married into the Cormier and Dugas families.  Joseph dit Augustin died in Lafayette Parish in April 1828; he was only 53 years old.  

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Joseph dit Augustin, fils married cousin Doralise or Oralise, also called Eloyse, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Hébert, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in November 1831.  Their son Joseph III was born in Lafayette Parish in March 1833, Victor Cadet was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 1 month, in April 1835, Bélisaire was born September 1836, and Jules in September 1844. ...

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Dosité may have married Elvira, daughter of Anglo American William Lyons, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in January 1840. ...

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Benjamin, born at Attakapas in c1777, married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Hébert, at Attakapas in January 1801.  They settled on Lake Peigneur, called Le Lac, at the border of present-day Iberia and Vermilion parishes, and on the Vermilion.  Their twin sons Benjamin Augustin and Joseph Onésime were born in April 1802 but Joseph Onésime died at age 14 in February 1816, Louis, called Don Louis, was born in October 1806, François Xavier Drosin, called Drosin, in October 1808, Jean in November 1813, Augustin le jeune, also called Lessin, in October 1816, and Béloni in September 1818.  Their daughters married into the Cormier, LeBlanc, and Thibodeaux families.  Benjamin, père died in Iberville Parish in September 1822; he was only 45 years old.  

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Benjamin Augustin married Séraphie or Séraphine Dubois probably in Lafayette Parish in the early 1820s.  Their son Benjamin III was born in Lafayette Parish in October 1825.  Benjamin died by May 1832, when his succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse; he would have been only 30 years old that year. 

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Don Louis married fellow Acadian Marie Vincent in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in July 1826.  Their son Symphorien was born in Lafayette Parish in February 1830, Louis Duplessis was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 8 months, in October 1833, a child, name unrecorded, perhaps a son, died at age 1 month in May 1838, Dupréville was born in May 1839, Joseph in February 1843, and Joseph Ajarra near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in October 1845.  Their daughters married into the LeBlanc family and perhaps into the Laviolette family as well.  ...

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Jean died in Lafayette Parish in July 1834.  He was only 20 years old and probably did not marry.  

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Drosin married Marie Denise, called Denise, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph dit Petit Duhon, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in June 1835, but they had been "married" for years.  Their son Drosin, fils had been born in Lafayette Parish in April 1826 but died at age 3 1/2 in October 1829, Euclide was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 7 months, in June 1833 but died the following September, Lasty was baptized at age 2 months in May 1834, Estival was born in April 1835, Joseph in October 1839, Édouard near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in September 1842, Émile in March 1843[sic], and Georges in March 1845.  Their daughters married into the Harrington, Labauve, and Laviolette families.  ...

Estival, called Astival by the recording priest, likely married French Canadian Donatile Istre in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in September 1856. ...

Lasty may have married Perpétué Maillard at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in June 1861. ...

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Béloni married Marie Josèphe or Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadian Agricole Landry, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in April 1836.  Their son Joachim was born in Lafayette Parish in September 1841, and Martial in June 1847.  Their daughter married into the Charpentier family.  ...

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Augustin le jeune married Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadian Éloi Comeaux, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in June 1836.  Their son Filosy or Philosie was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 5 months, in November 1837, Charles was born in March 1840, Benjamin near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in January 1842, and Donat in June 1846.  They also had a son named Gerasin.  ...

Gerasin married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Michel Leger, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in August 1857, and sanctified the marriage at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in May 1860. ...

Philosie married Émelia, daughter of fellow Acadian Béloni Thibodeaux of La Pointe Lyons, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in May 1860. ...

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Auguste or Augustin, fils, born at Attakapas in July 1785, married cousin Anastasie, daughter of Claude Broussard dit Beausoleil, at Attakapas in May 1806.  They settled on the Vermilion.  Their son Aurelien Augustin, also called Augustin, fils (actually Augustin III), was born in August 1807, Jean Achilles in January 1809 but died at age 6 in August 1815, Benjamin le jeune was born in September 1810, Arvillien in August 1811, Édouard in December 1817, Don Louis in August 1819, and Camille in May 1824.  Their daughter married into the LeBlanc family.  ...

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Aurelien Augustin married cousin Marie Coralie, called Coralie, daughter of Éloi Broussard, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in April 1829.  Their son Augustin Colom was born in St. Martin Parish in December 1832, Lasty in Lafayette Parish in December 1838, Joseph in March 1843, Olidor in September 1843[sic], and Simon in October 1846.  They were living near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in the early 1850s.  Their daughter married into the Derouen family.  ...

4b

Édouard married cousin Clémence, also called Cléonise, daughter of fellow Acadian Alexandre Hébert, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in February 1838; Clémence's mother was a Broussard.  Their son Joseph Napoléon was born in Lafayette Parish in October 1841.  ...

4c

Don Louis married Marie Virginie, daughter of fellow Acadian Louis Boudreaux, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in June 1839.  Their son Étienne was born in Lafayette Parish in 1844, and Augustin near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in March 1848.  Their daughter married a Broussard cousin.  ...

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Arvillien married Marie Émilie, Amelia, or Ervilia, another daughter Louis Boudreaux, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in April 1840.  Their son Maxence was born in Lafayette Parish in February 1841, and Ozémé in January 1843.  ...

Descendants of Louis BROUSSARD (c1750-; François, ?)

Louis, son of Urbain Broussard and Catherine ______, born probably at Pigiguit in c1750, first appears in Louisiana records in the Opelousas census of 1774 as a 24-year-old bachelor.  He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean-Baptiste Benoit, probably at Opelousas in c1775; she also was called Marguerite Ledé (actually Latier), her stepfather's surname.  They settled in the Grande Prairie area of the Opelousas District north of present-day Washington before moving up to the Avoyelles prairie by the mid-1790s.  Their daughter married into the Labaterie family.  Some of Louis's sons moved back into St. Landry Parish during the early antebellum period.  

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Oldest son François was baptized at Opelousas, age unrecorded, in March 1777.

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Maximilien, born at Opelousas in January 1786, married Joséphine, daughter of French Creole Jean-Baptiste Guillory of Avoyelles, at Opelousas in January 1806.  They settled at Avoyelles.  They may have had a son named Maximilien, fils, also called Similien.  

Maximilien, fils married French Creole Hélène Landreneau, also called Pauline Choffroin, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in 1832.  Their son Félicien was born in St. Landry Parish in September 1835.  Their daughter married a Guillory cousin.  ...

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Jean-Baptiste, baptized at Opelousas, age unrecorded, in September 1789, married Anne dite Manette, daughter of French Creole Joseph Landreneau of Pointe Coupee Parish by 1814.  Their son Jean Baptiste, fils was born in Avoyelles Parish in c1817, Valéry in St. Landry Parish in August 1822, Lasty in September 1826, and Olivier in July 1829.  Their daughter married into the Ardoin family.  A succession record for Jean Baptiste Broussard was filed at the Opelousas courthouse, St. Landry Parish, in August 1847; this Jean Baptiste would have been in his late 50s that year. 

Jean Baptiste, fils married Sylvanie, 17-year-old daughter of Spanish Creole Joseph Marcellin Ortego, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in August 1838; Sylvanie's mother was an Acadian Lejeune. ...

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Youngest son Joseph, born at Opelousas in January 1793, married Marie or Marguerite, daughter of French Creole Bare; Marie's mother was an Achée.  Their son Joseph, fils was born in St. Landry Parish in September 1828.  ...

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Some of the Broussards who came to Louisiana from France in 1785 chose to settle near their cousins on the western prairies:

Agnès Broussard, age 31, crossed aboard Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in August.  With her were husband Pierre Potier, age 45, and five children, ages 16 to infancy.  The majority of the passengers from their ship went to Baton Rouge on the river, but they chose to go to the Attakapas District.  Agnès remarried to Pierre, son of fellow Acadian Joseph Vincent of Rivière-aux-Canards, at Attakapas in January 1788.  She died "suddenly of an accident of 'apoplexy' (crippled by a stroke)" at Attakapas in September 1788; she was only 34 years old.  

Jean Broussard, age 40, crossed aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in November.  With him was wife Marguerite Comeau, age 32, and son Jean-Baptiste dit Petit, age 11.  Most of their fellow passengers went to upper Bayou Lafourche, but, like the typical Broussard, they chose to go to Attakapas instead.  Jean and Marguerite had no more children in Louisiana.  

Descendants of Jean-Baptiste dit Petit BROUSSARD (1774-1823; François, Pierre, Joseph)

Jean-Baptiste dit Petit, son of Jean Broussard and Marguerite Comeau, baptized at Monthoiron, Poitou, France, in May 1774, came to Louisiana with his parents aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships from France, in 1785.  He followed his family to the Attakapas District, where he likely married fellow Acadian Céleste Hébert in October 1793.  They settled on the Vermilion.  Their daughters married into the Dugas, Duhon, and Lapointe families.  Jean Baptiste died in Lafayette Parish in August 1823; he was only 49 years old.  His youngest son settled on upper Bayou Lafourche, but his other married sons remained in Lafayette Parish. 

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Oldest son Jean Joachim, called Joachim and also Hippolyte, born at Attakapas in March 1806, married French Creole Adélaïde Meaux probably in Lafayette Parish in the 1820s.  Their son Jean was born in Lafayette Parish in May 1826, Hippolyte in October 1828, and Chevalier in April 1840.  Their daughter married into the Trahan family.  ...

Jean married Zulma, daughter of French Creole Béloni Simon, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in September 1851; Zulma's mother was a Boudreaux.  Their son Donat was born near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in October 1854.  ...

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Nicolas, born at Attakapas in October 1807, married Marie Cléonise or Phelonise, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Hébert, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in December 1830.  Their son Nicolas, fils was born in Lafayette Parish in October 1831, and Antoine died a day after his birth in January 1833.  ...

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Théovide, called Ovide, born in St. Martin Parish in August 1809, married Marie Arthémise, called Arthémise, another daughter of Joseph Hébert, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in January 1830.  Their son Sosthène was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in April 1836 but died at age 16 months in July 1837, and Éloi was born in September 1838 but died at age 2 in October 1840.  Their daughter married into the Sonnier family.  ...

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Jean Marcel, born in St. Martin Parish in December 1813, died in Lafayette Parish at age 13 1/2 in June 1827.  

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Youngest son Athanase, born in St. Martin Parish in December 1815, married Célestine, daughter of Anglo American William Vaughn, in a civil ceremony probably in Assumption Parish in August 1848, settled on upper Bayou Lafourche, and sanctified the marriage at the Pierre Part church, Assumption Parish, north of Lake Verret, in October 1858; Célestine's mother was a Templet.   

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During the late colonial period, at least one other Broussard with mysterious antecedents left the river and settled on the western prairies:

Jacques BROUSSARD (?-?; François, Pierre?, Joseph?)

Jacques, son of perhaps Charles Broussard and his first wife Bonne-Jacqueline-Françoise Castel, born at Cherbourg, France, in the late 1760s, may have come to Louisiana with his family aboard Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships from France, in 1785.  He does not appear on either the ship's embarkation or debarkation lists, so he may have come to the colony on a later vessel.  He either followed his family to or found them at the Manchac, below Baton Rouge.  After he came of age, and while his brothers remained at Baton Rouge or moved to upper Bayou Lafourche, Jacques crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to the Opelousas District, where he married Isabelle, daughter of German Creole Jacob Miller, in July 1791.  They seem to have been that rare Cajun couple who had no children.  

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Other BROUSSARDs on the Western Prairies

Local church and civil records make it difficult to link many Broussards in the western parishes with known lines of the family there.  The priests at St. Martinville in the 1850s and at Abbeville during the early 1860s were especially negligent in their recordkeeping:

Pierre Broussard died at the home of Jean Melançon at La Pointe in May 1816.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded his burial described Pierre as a "Creole from Baton Rouge," said he was 23 years old when he died, but did not give any parents' names.  Pierre's succession record was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse, St. Martin Parish, the following September.  

Dominique Broussard married Divine Valleaux probably in Lafayette Parish by the mid-1820s.  

Céleste Broussard married Désiré Dubois in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in November 1825.  The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.  

Judique Broussard, widow of William Frutel, married French Creole Jean Baptiste La Caze in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in March 1826.  The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.  

Pierre Broussard married Marie Gravelle and settled in St. Landry Parish.  

An unnamed son of Onésime Broussard died in Lafayette Parish at age 2 in February 1835.  The priest who recorded the boy's burial did not give the mother's name.  

Joseph Broussard married cousin Anne Tarsile Broussard.  Their son Portalice was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 4 months, in August 1839.  

Jean, son of Louis Jean Broussard, was born in Lafayette Parish in October 1841 but died the following January.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the boy's burial did not give the mother's name. 

A succession record for Zulma Broussard, wife of Joachim Prevot, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse, St. Landry Parish, in November 1841. 

Jules Broussard died in St. Martin Parish in March 1842.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names, said that Jules died "at age 17 yrs." 

Octave, son of Meandre Broussard, died in St. Martin Parish in October 1852.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not bother to give the mother's name and probably misspelled the name of the boy's father, said that Octave died "at age 15 mths." 

Éloi Broussard married cousin Séraphine Broussard.  Their son Joseph was born near New Iberia, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in February 1843. 

Théotiste or Théolise Broussard, a fella, married fellow Acadian Célestine LeBlanc.  Their son Onésime was born in Lafayette Parish in May 1843.  They were living near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in the mid-1840s.

Onésime Broussard married fellow Acadian Clarisse Trahan.  Their son Jean Adolphe was born near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in August 1844. 

Marie S. Broussard married Joseph Landreneau, fils in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in June 1845, and sanctified the marriage at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in October 1846.  Neither the parish clerk nor the priest who recorded the marriage gave the couple's parents' names.  

Alphonsine Broussard married Fergus Decuir in a civil ceremony in St. Martin Parish in July 1846.  The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.  

Vital Broussard married Françoise Hernandez.  Their son Alcide was born near Charenton, St. Mary Parish, in January 1847. 

Adélaïde Broussard of Lafayette Parish married fellow Acadian Moïse Guidry of Vermilion Parish in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in August 1847.  The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.  

Léo, son of Arvillien Broussard, died in Lafayette Parish in November 1847.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Léo died "at age 56 yrs." 

Eléonore Broussard married fellow Acadian Pierre LeBlanc in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in June 1849.  The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.  

Siphorin, probably Syphorien, Broussard married Célestine Laviolette in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in May 1850.  The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.  

Odile, also called Odite, Broussard married cousin André Valérien, son of fellow Acadian Édouard Prejean, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in October 1851; André's mother was a Broussard.  The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.  

Bélisaire Broussard died in St. Martin Parish in March 1852.  He was only 15 days old.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the boy's burial did not bother to give any parents' names. 

Albert Broussard died in St. Martin Parish in September 1852.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names, said that Albert died "at age 10 mths."

Dumas Broussard died in St. Martin Parish in April 1853.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the boy's burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names, says that Dumas died "at age 4 yrs."

Amelie Broussard married French Creole Francis Verret in a civil ceremony in St. Martin Parish in June 1853.  The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.  

Édouard Broussard died in St. Martin Parish in October 1853.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the boy's burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names, says that Dumas died "at age 9 yrs."

A succession record for Édouard Broussard was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse, St. Martin Parish, in April 1854.  The parish clerk who filed the record did not give a wife's name or any other information, so one wonders which of the many Édouard Broussards this may have been. 

Fredrick, probably Frédéric, Broussard married fellow Acadian Lisemène LeBlanc in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in January 1856.  The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.  

Oliva Broussard married Thomas Stouts in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in March 1856.  The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.  

Zéphirin, son of Pierre Broussard and Marguerite Vidrine, married Elisa, daughter of fellow Acadian Louis Dugas, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in April 1856. 

Élise Broussard, called Leczman by the recording clerk, married fellow Acadian Janville Theriot in a civil ceremony in St. Martin Parish in May 1856.  The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.  They were living near Pierre Part, Assumption Parish, north of Lake Verret, by the late 1860s. 

Olezima Broussard married Jean Pierre Moreau at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in January 1857.  The priest who recorded the marriage did not bother to give any parents' names. 

Oliva Broussard married Klebert, son of probably fellow Acadian Don Louis Thibodeaux, at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in June 1857.  The priest who recorded the marriage did not bother to give any parents' names. 

Emelisa Broussard married Dupré Biabe in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in May 1858.  The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.  

Céleste Broussard married fellow Acadian Désiré Hébert at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in November 1858.  The priest who recorded the marriage did not bother to give any parents' names. 

Euphémie Broussard married fellow Acadian Alcide Hébert at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in July 1859.  The priest who recorded the marriage did not bother to give any parents' names. 

Azina Broussard married Foreign Frenchman Jean Baptiste Constant, son of Jean Baptiste Clément of France and widower of Eve Théodora Girouard, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in October 1859.  The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.  

Victoire Broussard married Sarrazin Hébert at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in November 1859.  The priest who recorded the marriage did not bother to give any parents' names. 

Émile Broussard married Ursule Dronet at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in January 1860.  The priest who recorded the marriage did not bother to give any parents' names. 

Louis Sarazin Broussard married fellow Acadian Marie Mathilde Bourg at the Pattersonville church, St. Mary Parish, in April 1860.  The priest who recorded the marriage did not bother to give any parents' names. 

Marie Philomène Broussard married fellow Acadian Jean Euclide, son of Charles Dominique Babineaux, fils, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in May 1860.  The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.  

Drauzin Broussard married French Creole Melina Legros, perhaps the widow of Arvillien Biabe, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in June 1860.  The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.  

Hilaire Broussard married Joséphine Reaux at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in November 1860.  The priest who recorded the marriage did not bother to give any parents' names. 

Hortense Broussard married fellow Acadian Dolze LeBlanc at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in November 1860.  The priest who recorded the marriage did not bother to give any parents' names. 

Adrien Broussard married Marie Célestine Lafontaine in a civil ceremony in St. Martin Parish in December 1860.  The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.  

Emadis Broussard married Marie Adeline Vincent at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in December 1860.  The priest who recorded the marriage did not bother to give any parents' names. 

Alexandre Broussard married cousin Angélique Émelia, daughter of Joseph Ursin Broussard, fils, at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in December 1860.  True to form, and sad to say, the priest who recorded the marriage did not bother to give any parents' names. 

Marie Belzire Broussard married Simonet, daughter of fellow Acadian Philippe de Saint-Julien Lachaussée III, at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in January 1861.  The priest who recorded the marriage did not bother to give any parents' names. 

Eugènie, daughter of Onésime Broussard and Célestine LeBlanc, married Clémile, son of fellow Acadian Alexandre Duhon, at the Youngsville church, Lafayette Parish, in January 1861. 

Odile Broussard married François C. Molbert in a civil ceremony in St. Martin Parish in April 1861.  The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.  

Pélagie Broussard married Louis Mozart, called Mozart, son of fellow Acadian Ursin Joseph Bernard, at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in July 1861.  The priest who recorded the marriage did not bother to give any parents' names. 

Paulin Broussard married Marie Laviolette in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in August 1861, and sanctified the marriage at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in February 1863.  Neither the parish clerk nor the priest who recorded the marriage recorded the couple's parents' names. 

Ezilda Broussard married fellow Acadian Césaire LeBlanc at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in October 1861.  The priest who recorded the marriage did not bother to give any parents' names. 

Joseph, son of "Gessry" Broussard, born in c1824, was baptized at the Breaux Bridge church, St. Martin Parish, age 45, in July 1869.  

LOUISIANA:  RIVER SETTLEMENTS

Broussards came early to the river settlements, but in much smaller numbers.  A Broussard wife came to the colony from Halifax via Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, in 1765, but not with the Broussard dit Beausoleil party.  She and her family settled at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques on the river above New Orleans where 20 Acadians from Georgia had settled the year before:

Anne-Félicité Broussard, age 33, came with husband Bruno Robichaux, age 40, and two sons, ages 14 and 1.  

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A Broussard family led by a widow, a Broussard wife who also was a widow, and a Broussard orphan came to Louisiana from Maryland in 1766 with the first continent of exiles from that colony.  They settled at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques with their fellow Maryland exiles.  One of the orphans moved to the Attakapas District a decade after he reached Louisiana, but the other Broussards from Maryland remained on the river:

Anne Landry, age 34, widow of Jean Broussard, came with two sons--Firmin, age 14, and Jean, fils, age 6.  Anne was pregnant when she reached the colony and gave birth to son Paul at New Orleans in late November.  

Marguerite Broussard, age 46, widow of Jacques Melanson, came with three unmarried daughters, ages 22, 20, and 19.  

Augustin Broussard, age 7, came perhaps with the family of uncle Désiré LeBlanc.  He married on the river but moved to the Attakapas District in the 1770s.  

Descendants of Firmin dit Simon BROUSSARD (c1752-1785; François, Claude)

Firmin, also called Simon, eldest son of Jean Broussard and Anne Landry, born probably at Minas in c1752, was deported to Maryland with his family in 1755 and followed his widowed mother and brothers to Louisiana in 1766.  In 1769, Spanish officials counted him and younger brother Jean on the left, or east, bank of the river at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques.  He followed his mother to Ascension, just upriver from St.-Jacques, where he married cousin Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadian Abraham Landry, in May 1775.  Their daughters married into the Babin and Dugas families.  Firmin, père died at New Orleans in April 1785; he was only 34 years old.  Three of his four sons married and settled in Iberville and Ascension parishes, but only two of their lines survived.  A grandson settled near his cousins in West Baton Rouge Parish. 

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Oldest son Simon, born at Ascension in January 1779, married fellow Acadian Marie-Madeleine Richard at St.-Gabriel, just above Ascension, in February 1801.  Their son Simon Henri or Henri Simone, also called H. Simon, was born near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in November 1809, Joseph Aubin in March 1812, and Louis Robert, called Robert, in April 1817.  Their daughter married into the Duplessis family.  Simon died near St. Gabriel in October 1824; the priest who recorded his burial said that Simon was 50 years old when he died, but he was only 45.  

1a

Simon Henri married Anne Joséphine, called Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadian Raphaël Landry, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in April 1831.  Their son André Diogène was born near St. Gabriel in February 1832.  They also had a son named Joseph who died near St. Gabriel, age unrecorded, in September 1833.  Simon remarried to Marie Joséphine or Séraphine, daughter of fellow Acadian Sébastien Guidry, at the St. Gabriel church in April 1836.  Their son Louis Gustave was born near St. Gabriel in December 1839, Jean Octave in April 1840, Simon Floriant in January 1844 but died the following September, Simon, fils was born in September 1846, Olivier in c1848 but died at age 1 1/2 in September 1850, and Eugène Washington was born in November 1850.  They were living near Brusly, West Baton Rouge Parish, by the early 1850s and near Donaldsonville, Ascension Parish, a few years later.

Louis Gustave, by his second wife, married Marie Ermine, daughter of Louis Tibivilier, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in June 1858; Marie's mother was an Hébert.

Jean Octave married fellow Acadian Aoit Nathalie, called Nathalie, Landry.  Their son Simon Octave was born near Gonzales, Ascension Parish, in May 1867. 

1b

Robert married Euphrosine, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Dupuy, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in January 1839.  Their son Robert Maurice was born near St. Gabriel in October 1840, and  Joseph Robertson in July 1842 but died at age 5 months in January 1843.  Robert remarried to Marie Evelina, called Evelina, daughter of Célestin Frederick, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in February 1844.  Louis Robert died near St. Gabriel in October 1847; he was only 31 years old. 

2

François Thomas, born at Ascension in December 1782, died 15 days after his birth in January 1783.

3

Auguste or Augustin, born at Ascension in December 1783, married cousin Marie Émelie, Émelite, or Émerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Firmin Landry, at Ascension in June 1806; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their son Auguste Marcel, called Marcel, was born near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in September 1812 but died at age 7 in October 1819.  Their daughters married into the Dugas family.  Augustin remarried to cousin Marguerite Adélaïde, called Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadian Hyacinthe Landry and widow of Charles LeBlanc, at the Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, in October 1819.  Their son Firmin le jeune was born in Ascension Parish in September 1822 but died at age 3 1/2 in January 1826.  Augustin died in Ascension Parish in June 1843; the Donaldsonville priest who recorded his burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names or even mention a wife, said that Auguste, as he called him, died at "age ca. 63 yrs.," but he was "only" 59.  His line of the family, except for its blood, may not have survived. 

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Youngest son Firmin, fils, born posthumously at Ascension in July 1785, married Anne Marine, called Marine, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Breaux, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in February 1810.  Their son Henri was born near St. Gabriel in March 1814 but died at age 3 in March 1817, Charles Magloire, called Magloire, was born in November 1816, and Simon Oreilly in January 1819.  Their daughters married into the Breaux and Kling  families.  Firmin, fils died near St. Gabriel in January 1821; the priest who recorded his burial said that Firmin was 30 years old when he died, but he was 35.  

Magloire married Marie Marianne, called Marianne, daughter of Anglo-American John Sides and widow of Valentin Henderson, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in October 1838.  Their son Simon Aurely le jeune was born near St. Gabriel in February 1842, Zenon Labauve in August 1844, and Jérôme in November 1846.

Jean BROUSSARD, fils (c1760-; François, Claude)

Jean, fils, second son of Jean Broussard and Anne Landry, born in Maryland in c1760, followed his widowed mother and brothers to Louisiana in 1766.  In 1769, Spanish officials counted him and older brother Firmin on the left, or east, bank of the river at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques.  He followed his mother and older brother to Ascension, just upriver from St.-Jacques, and married fellow Acadian Marguerite Cormier.  They may have had no children, so his line of the family did not survive in the Bayou State.  

Paul BROUSSARD (1766-; François, Claude)

Paul, youngest son of Jean Broussard and Anne Landry, was born at New Orleans in November 1766, two months after his widowed mother reached the colony from Maryland.  He appears in none of the censuses at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques with the rest of his family, so he probably died young.  

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Most of the Broussards who came to Louisiana from France in 1785 chose to settle not among their cousins on the western prairies but at Manchac, south of Baton Rouge, where they created substantial family lines in what became West Baton Rouge and Iberville parishes:

Charles Broussard, age 44, crossed aboard Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in July.  With him was second wife Euphrosine Barrieau, age 37, four sons and a stepson--Jean-Charles-Joseph, age 20, François, age 18, Pierre, age 14, Joseph-Dominique, called Dominique, age 12, and Paul-Marie Boudrot, age 13.  (Another son, Jacques, who would have been in his late teens but is not on the ship's passenger lists, also may have crossed with the family, or he may have come to the colony later.)  They followed the majority of the passengers from their ship to Manchac, south of Baton Rouge.  Charles and Euphrosine had no more children in Louisiana.  They may have moved to upper Bayou Lafourche by the mid-1790s.  Two of Charles's sons settled in what became West Baton Rouge Parish, two of his other sons settled on upper Bayou Lafourche, and son Jacques moved out to the Opelousas prairies.  

Descendants of François BROUSSARD (c1767-?; François, Pierre, Joseph)

François, second son of Charles Broussard and his first wife Bonne-Jacqueline-Françoise Castel, born in Normandy, France, in c1767, came to Louisiana with his father, stepmother, and brothers aboard Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships from France, in 1785.  He followed them to Manchac, south of Baton Rouge, where he married Marguerite-Toussainte, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Henry, in February 1791.  They settled in what became West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their daughter married into the Lavigne family.  One of his sons lived for a time in Lafourche Interior Parish but returned to West Baton Rouge Parish.  His other sons remained in West Baton Rouge and Iberville parishes.  

1

Oldest son Dominique le jeune, a twin, baptized at Baton Rouge, age 4 months, in September 1800, married Eléonore or Léonore, daughter of Frenchman Jean Charles LeTullier of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in January 1828; Léonore's mother was a Daigle.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their son Joseph Ulysse, called Ulysse, was born in November 1828, Louis in April 1830, François Eusilien, called Eusilien, in January 1834, Théodule in February 1836, Auguste Adonis in May 1838, and Zéolide Adolphe was baptized at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, age unrecorded, in May 1842.  Their daughter married into the Guidry family.  Dominique le jeune died near Brusly in February 1854; he was only 54 years old. 

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Ulysse married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadian Ambroise Bourg, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in July 1850.

1b

Louis married Marie Pillaine, daughter of Emeneserie Greffin or Griffin, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in April 1854; Marie's mother was a Daigre.  Their twin sons Camille Louis and Lillis Gervais were born near Brusly in July 1855 but Lillis, called Louis by the recording priest, may have died near Baton Rouge, "age ca. 3 years," in December 1858, and François Guy was born near Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, in March 1861. 

1c

François Eusilien married Élisabeth, daughter of Anglo American William Gipson, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in April 1857; Élisabeth's mother was an Hébert.  Their son François Eusilien, fils was born near Brusly in January 1859. 

2

Louis-François, a twin, baptized at Baton Rouge, age 4 months, in September 1800, married Delphine, 29-year-old daughter of French Creole Jean Baudoin of New Orleans and widow of Sylvain Trager, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1825, and sanctified the marriage at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in June 1829.  Their son Louis, fils was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1826.  Their daughters married into the Ousset and Tullier families.  After his wife died in July 1831, Louis returned to the river and remarried to Rose or Rosalie, another daughter of Jean Charles Tullier and widow of Jérôme Hébert, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in October 1832.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their son Victorin was born in August 1833, and Forestin, also called Forester, in October 1835.  Louis died probably in West Baton Rouge Parish in March 1837; he was only 36 years old.  

2a

Louis, fils, by his first wife, married first cousin Marie Élodie, called Élodie, daughter of his uncle Joseph Broussard, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in December 1849; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their son Louis Evelius was born near Brusly in September 1853, and François Joseph in November 1855. 

2b

Forester, by his second wife, married cousin Hermine Eliska, daughter of Octave Altazin, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish,  in May 1861; Hermine's mother was a Broussard; they had to secure a dispensation for fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry.

2c

Victorin, by his second wife, married Marie Euphrosine, daughter of fellow Acadian Firmin Comeaux, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in November 1863.

3

Hyacinthe, born at Baton Rouge in July 1802, may have died young.

4

Youngest son Joseph Onésime, born probably near Baton Rouge in c1813, married Modeste, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Thibodeaux, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in December 1832.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their son Joseph Onésime, fils was born in February 1838, Paulin Damon in June 1840, and Adolphe in August 1843.  Their daughters married into the Broussard and Tuillier families.  Joseph died probably in West Baton Rouge Parish in September 1853; the Baton Rouge priest who recorded his burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Joseph died at "age ca. 40 years." 

4a

Joseph Onésime, fils married Zoe Séverine, daughter of French Creole Joseph Tuillier, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish,  in February 1860; Zoe's mother was an Aucoin.

4b

Adolphe married Coralie, daughter of fellow Acadian Eugène Daigre, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in June 1864.  Their son Adolphe, fils was born near Brusly in October 1869. 

Descendants of Pierre BROUSSARD (c1771-?; François, Pierre, Joseph)

Pierre, fourth son of Charles Broussard and his first wife Bonne-Jacqueline-Françoise Castel, born in France in c1771, came to Louisiana with his father, stepmother, and brothers aboard Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships from France, in 1785.  He followed them to Manchac, south of Baton Rouge, where he married Marie-Sophie, called Sophie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jacques Molaison, in March 1794.  They settled in what became West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their daughters married into the Esnard, Grass, and Petit families.  Two of his four sons created families of their own and settled in West Baton Rouge, western Iberville, and Pointe Coupee parishes. 

1

Oldest son Charles-Louis, born at Baton Rouge in December 1794, may have died young. 

2

Eusilien, also called Lucien and Roselien, born probably near Baton Rouge in c1796, married cousin Marie Émerite, called Émerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Charles Thibodeaux, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in February 1827; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their son Émile Eusilien was born in January 1828, Charles Amédée, called Amédée, in May 1835, and Jules was baptized at the Baton Rouge church, age 1 month, in January 1840.  Their daughters married into the Blanchard and Landry families.  Eusilien remarried to Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadian François Theriot and widow of Joachim Chevalier, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in February 1851.  Their son François Eusilien Lucien was born near Brusly in December 1852.  Eusilien, "res. of Bayou Cirier," died near Lakeland, Pointe Coupee Parish, in August 1866; the priest who recorded his burial said that Uzelien, as he called him, died at "age 70 years." 

2a

Émile Eusilien married cousin Céleste Delphine, called Delphine, daughter of fellow Acadian Prudent Molaison, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in February 1854; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their son Pierre Émile was born near Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, in February 1861, and Louis Alfred near Baton Rouge in September 1869. 

2b

Jules married Louise Célestine or Céleste, daughter of fellow Magloire Charles LeBlanc, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in February 1862.  Their son Joseph Henry Avit was born near Baton Rouge in June 1870. 

2c

Amédée married Élisabeth, called Élize, another daughter of Magloire Charles LeBlanc, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in May 1862.  Their son Charles Amédée was born near Baton Rouge in January 1868, and Alcée Édouard in Pointe Coupee Parish in February 1870. 

3

Pierre, fils, born at Baton Rouge in February 1802, also may have died young. 

4

Youngest son Louis Hippolyte, called Hippolyte, born near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in January 1810, married cousin Émelie Rosalie, also called Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jacques Blanchard, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in July 1832; they had to a dispensation for third degree of relationship in order to marry.  Their daughter married into the Estevan family.  Hippolyte remarried to Azéma or Emma Dodd, daughter of John Baptiste Rils, at the Plaquemine church, Iberville Parish, October 1853; Azéma's mother was a Dupuy.  Their son Louis Hippolyte was born near Plaquemine in July 1857 but may have died at age 5 in August 1862, Louis Gustave was born in August 1859, Joseph James in December 1862, and Jean Baptiste in April 1866. 

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In a reversal of the usual Acadian settlement pattern, a Broussard from Bayou Lafourche moved back to the river during the early antebellum period and settled near his cousins in West Baton Rouge Parish: 

Descendants of Jean Laurent BROUSSARD (1798-1857; François, Pierre, Joseph, Charles)

Jean Laurent, called Laurent, second son of Joseph Dominique Broussard and Pélagie Martin dit Barnabé, born at St.-Jacques in September 1798, followed his parents to upper Bayou Lafourche, and married Marie Marcelline, called Marcelline, daughter of fellow Acadian Hippolyte LeBlanc, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in May 1820.  They lived in Lafourche Interior Parish before returning to the river.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish during the late 1830s.  Their daughters married into the Altazin, Pousalvez, and Trahan families.  Laurent died in West Baton Rouge Parish in October 1857; the Brusly priest who recorded his burial said that Laurent died at "age 56 years," but he was 59.  One of his sons settled near Plaquemine, Iberville Parish. 

1

Oldest son Joseph died in Lafourche Interior Parish, age 9 days, in May 1830.

2

Laurent, fils, born in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1835, married Euphémie, daughter of French Creole Charles Tuillier, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in May 1856; Euphémie's mother was an Aucoin.  Their son Charles Philippe probably in West Baton Rouge Parish in August 1857, Joseph George in January 1859, Alfred Martin near Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, in November 1861, and Augustin Alfred near Baton Rouge in March 1866. 

3

Youngest son Prudent was born near Baton Rouge in April 1839.    

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Other BROUSSARDs on the River

Local church and civil records make it difficult to link some Broussards on the river with known lines of the family there:

Jean Broussard, a weaver, died at Pointe Coupée in June 1797.  The priest who recorded his burial did not give Jean's parents' names, his age, or mention a wife.  He may have been a French Creole Broyard from New Orleans, not an Acadian Broussard.  

Joseph Broussard married cousin Clémence Broussard.  Their son Adolphe was born near Baton Rouge in February 1823.  

Paulin Broussard married Euphrosine Guérin and settled in Pointe Coupee Parish, where few Acadians settled, by the mid-1840s. 

Albert Bruser, called a Broussard, died near Donaldsonville, Ascension Parish, in September 1866.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Albert died at "age 28 years."  Was he a Broussard, or a Bruser? 

LOUISIANA:  LAFOURCHE VALLEY SETTLEMENTS

By the mid-1790s, Spanish officials were counting two Broussard brothers and their families on upper Bayou Lafourche.  They had come to Louisiana from France in 1785 and settled in the Baton Rouge area but, like many other river-community Acadians, moved on to the upper Lafourche.  The older brother's line, except for its blood, did not survive, but the younger brother created a small center of family settlement in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley:  

Descendants of Jean-Charles-Joseph BROUSSARD (c1765-c1827; François, Pierre, Joseph)

Jean-Charles-Joseph, called Jean-Charles and Charles, eldest son of Charles Broussard and his first wife Bonne-Jacqueline-Françoise Castel, born in France in c1765, came to Louisiana with his father, stepmother, and brothers aboard Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships from France, in 1785.  He followed them to Manchac, south of Baton Rouge, where he married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian André Templet, in November 1788.  They moved to upper Bayou Lafourche in the early 1790s.  Charles remarried to Anne dite Nanette, daughter of French Creole Louis Guillaume Estevan, Stebens, Steven, Stieven, or Stiven, at Ascension in February 1807; Nanette's mother was a Babin; Charles was 42 years old at the time of the marriage.  They settled at Assumption and in Lafourche Interior Parish.  Their daughters married into the Babin, Bavaret, Benoit (Foreign French, not Acadian), and Breaux families.  Jean Charles died by August 1827, when a public sale of his estate was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse; he would have been 62 years old that year.  He fathered no sons by either of his wives, so this line of the family, except for its blood, did not survive in the Bayou State.  

Descendants of Joseph-Dominique BROUSSARD (1772-?; François, Pierre, Joseph)

Joseph-Dominique, called Dominique, fifth and youngest son of Charles Broussard and his first wife Bonne-Jacqueline-Françoise Castel, born at Cherbourg, France, in May 1772, came to Louisiana with his father, stepmother, and brothers aboard Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships from France, in 1785.  He followed them to Manchac, south of Baton Rouge, but did not remain there.  He married Pélagie, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Martin dit Barnabé, at St.-Jacques on the river in November 1795 and followed his oldest brother to upper Bayou Lafourche in the late 1790s.  Their daughters married into the Ainsworth, Boudreaux, Dias, Soublincon, and Thomson families.  Only two of his six sons married.  One of them returned to the river and settled in West Baton Rouge Parish by the late 1830s, but the other one remained in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley. 

1

Oldest son Joseph-Dominque, fils, born at St.-Jacques on the river in February 1797, died at age 7 months the following September.

2

Jean Laurent, called Laurent and also Louis Laurent, born at St.-Jacques in September 1798, married Marie Marcelline, called Marcelline, daughter of fellow Acadian Hippolyte LeBlanc, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in May 1820.  They lived in Lafourche Interior Parish before returning to the river and settling in West Baton Rouge Parish. 

3

Jean-Baptiste, born at Assumption in August 1801, may have died young. 

4

Jean Antoine, born at Ascension in September 1805, also may have died young. 

5

Joseph Charles, born in Ascension Parish in December 1807, married Marie Louise, daughter of French Creole François Michel Jacques Bouquet, Buquet, Buguet, Biquet, or Bake, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in April 1837; Marie Louise's mother was an Henry.  Their son Augustin was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in July 1840.  They moved down into Terrebonne Parish.  Their daughters married into the Babin and Pitre families. 

6

Youngest son Eugène, born in Assumption Parish in November 1815, died in November 1832.  He was only 17 years old and did not marry.  

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In a reversal of the usual Acadian settlement pattern, a Broussard from the Bayou Teche valley settled on upper Bayou Lafourche during the late antebellum period:

Descendants of Athanase BROUSSARD (1815-?; François, Pierre, Joseph, Jean)

Athanase, fifth son of Jean Baptiste dit Petit Broussard and Céleste Hébert, born in St. Martin Parish in November 1815, married Célestine, daughter of Anglo American William K. Vaughn, also called Van, Vane, Vanne, in a civil ceremony probably in Assumption Parish in August 1848, and sanctified the marriage at the Pierre Part church, Assumption Parish, in October 1858; Célestine's mother was a Templet.  They settled near Paincourtville on upper Bayou Lafourche before moving to Pierre Part, north of Lake Verret. 

1

Older son Jean Baptiste Olivier was born in Assumption Parish in December 1848. 

2

Younger son Julien Tiburce was born near Pierre Part, Assumption Parish, in July 1858.

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Other BROUSSARDs in the Lafourche/Terrebonne Valley

Area church and civil records make it difficult to link some Broussards in the Bayou Lafourche/Bayou Terrebonne valley with known Acadian lines of the family there:

François Julien, son of Julien Broussard and Julie _____ and widower of Terzille Gautreaux, died in Assumption Parish in December 1825.  The priest who recorded his burial said that François Julien was 66 years old when he died.  This would give François an estimated birth year of c1759, so he may not have been Acadian.  

Simon Broussard married Marie Broussard.  Their son Edmond was born near Labadieville, Assumption Parish, in July 1864. 

Désiré J. Broussard married either Martha Haines or Mathey Lagrange in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in either March or April 1865.  The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names. 

Marie Natalia, daughter of Baptiste Broussard and Marie Milere, married Louis, son of Jean Pierre Hu, at the Pierre Part church, Assumption Parish, in April 1865. 

NON-ACADIAN FAMILIES in LOUISIANA

The great majority of Broussards in South Louisiana are descendants of François Brossard of haute-rivière, Port-Royal, but non-Acadian members of the family lived in South Louisiana.  Beginning in the late 1820s, Foreign-French Broussards began arriving from France.  Most of them settled at New Orleans, but one of them settled on Bayou Lafourche.  One wonders if they were descended from Acadian Broussards who chose to remain in France in 1785, or if they were from entirely different families.  A Broussard from Switzerland settled on the river during the antebellum period.  And at least one Broussard who lived on the western prairies was a product of the family's participation in the South's peculiar institution:    

Louis Broussard, a 42-year-old cooper from France, reached New Orleans aboard the ship Eclipse out of Tampico, Mexico, in April 1829.  

Mr. Broussard, no given name listed, a 38-year-old merchant from France, reached New Orleans aboard the ship Emperor out of Tampico in February 1831.  

A succession record Marie Broussard, free woman of color, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse, St. Martin Parish, in August 1845. 

Pierre Brossard, a 40-year-old farmer from France, reached New Orleans aboard the ship Brunswick out of Le Havre, France, in December 1848.  With him was wife Marie-Anne, no surname given, age 34, and sons Pierre, fils, age 8, and Julien, age 4.  

André Broussard, a 26-year-old clerk from France, reached New Orleans aboard the ship Oscar out of Bordeaux, France, June 1850.

François Broussard, "native [of] Parrentry, Canton of Berne, Switzerland," died in St. James Parish in November 1853.  The St. James priest who recorded his burial, and who did not bother to give any parent's names or mention a wife, said that François died "at the home of Benjamin Webre," "age 56 yrs."  One wonders if the Swiss native was a victim of the yellow fever epidemic that struck South Louisiana that fall. 

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A Foreign-French Broussard, whose surname was sometimes spelled Brosseart, created a family line in the Bayou Lafourche valley during the early antebellum period: 

Descendants of Robert Mathieu BROUSSARD (?-)

Robert Mathieu, son of Robert Broussard and Élisabeth Plateau of Reims, Department of the Marne, France, married Judith Pélagie, daughter of Acadian François Jean Benoit, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in July 1820.  Their daughter married into the Gros family.  Was Robert of Reims a descendant of an Acadian Broussard who remained in France in 1785?

1

Oldest son Jean Valentin was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in November 1822. 

2

André Jean or Joseph, born in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1830 supposedly died at age 7 months in July 1831, but he may have been the André Broussard who married Anglo American Catherine Sidney Lee Ringgold.  If so, their son André Ringgold was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in January 1851.

3

Youngest son Adam was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1832.    

CONCLUSION

The Brossards, as the family name was spelled originally, compared to other families, settled fairly late in Acadia, but they were among the earliest Acadians to find refuge in Louisiana.  The history of the Attakapas region west of the Atchafalaya Basin, in fact, place the Broussards at center stage. 

Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil and his older brother Alexandre brought the first large contingent of Acadians to Louisiana in February 1765.  In the decades that followed, the old freedom fighters' sons, grandsons, nephews, and grand nephews settled in many communities on the southwestern prairies--at La Grand Pointe on upper Bayou Teche near present-day Breaux Bridge; at Fausse Pointe, New Iberia, Île aux Cannes, and in St. Mary Parish on the lower Teche; on the upper Vermilion at Grand Prairie, now downtown Lafayette; on the lower Vermilion from Lafayette down to Abbeville; along Lake Peigneur, called Le Lac, near Jefferson Island; on Bayou Petite Anse near Avery Island; at Côte Gelée near the town of Broussard; and near Grand Coteau in the old Opelousas District.  Members of one Broussard family who settled north of Opelousas during the 1770s drifted even farther north to the Avoyelles Prairie a couple of decades later, but the great majority of their kinsmen settled in the Attakapas parishes of St. Martin, St. Mary, Lafayette, Vermilion, Iberia, and Acadia.  Attesting to the closeness, as well as the size, of the family, an amazing number of Broussards married other Broussards, many of them first cousins. 

Meanwhile, a Broussard family from Maryland reached the colony in 1766 and settled at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques on what became known as the Lower Acadian Coast.  Their descendants spread out along the river, settling upstream at Ascension and St.-Gabriel d'Iberville on the Upper Acadian Coast.  A Broussard family that arrived on the first of the Seven Ships from France in 1785 settled in what became West Baton Rouge, western Iberville, and Pointe Coupee parishes.  During the 1790s, two of the Baton Rouge families moved to upper Bayou Lafourche, creating a small third center of Broussard family settlement.  However, the eastern branch of the family never came close to matching in numbers their cousins on the prairies.  Beginning in the 1770s, in fact, Broussards from the Acadian Coast left the river and joined their kinsmen west of the Atchafalaya Basin, and a Broussard family from France chose to settle not along the river or on upper Bayou Lafourche but near their cousins on Bayou Vermilion. 

Church records reveal no non-Acadian Brossards or Broussards living in Louisiana during the colonial period.  However, a hand full of them emigrated to Louisiana from France, Switzerland, and Mexico during the antebellum period; native Louisianians would have called them Foreign French.  One of them settled on upper Bayou Lafourche by 1820, and the one from Switzerland lived in St. James Parish on the river.  The others likely remained at New Orleans.  One wonders if any of them were descendants of Acadian Broussards who had chosen to remain in France. ...

Judging by the number of slaves they owned during the late antebellum period, many Broussards lived well on their vacharies, farms, and plantations, especially on the prairies. ...

Dozens of Broussards served Louisiana in uniform during the War Between the States. ...

The family name also is spelled Brancan, Brancard, Branchard, Brankard, Brauzard, Brosscord, Broucard, Brouchar, Brouchard, Brouguard, Brousard, Brusar, Brusard, Bruzal.  

Sources:  Arsenault, Généalogie, 471-74, 1349-50, 1545-46, 2444-56; Brasseaux, Foreign French, 1:82, 2:50, 3:43; BRDR, vols. 1a(rev.), 1b, 2, 3, 4, 5(rev.), 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; Clément Cormier, "BROSSARD, Jean-François," DCB, 2:105; C. J. d'Entremont, "BROSSARD (Broussard), dit Beausoleil, Joseph," DCB, 3:87-88; Griffin, Attakapas Country, 34, 39, 41; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 60; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vols. 1, 2, 3, 4; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 1-A, 1-B, 2-A, 2-B, 2-C, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; Marshall, Acadian Resistance; Milling, Exile Without End, 12, 46; NOAR, vols. 2, 4, 5, 6; Perrin, W. A., Acadian Redemption, 143, note 3; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Reine_d_Espagne.htm>, Family No. 5; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family Nos. 51, 52; Robichaux, Acadians in Chatellerault, 25; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 38-39; Robichaux, Acadians in St. Malo, 173-78; West, Atlas of LA Surnames, 41-43, 156-57; White, DGFA-1, 284-88; White, DGFA-1 English, 63-64. 

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, 33 (pl. 8L), calls her Agnès BROUSSARD, & lists her with her husband, a son, & 4 stepchildren; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 146, Family No. 263, calls her Agnès BROUSSARD, says she was born in c1753 but gives no birthplace, calls her parents Joseph BROUSSARD & Ursule LEBLANC, details her first marriage, & provides the birth/baptismal record of son François-Constant POITIER, baptized 9 Aug 1784, St.-Martin, Chantenay, France, & details the family's voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 32-33, calls her Agnès BROUSSARD, sa [Pierre POTIER's] femme, age 31, on the embarkation list, Ynes BRAUZARD, su [Pedro POTIEU's] muger, on the debarkation list, & Agnès BROUSSARD, his [Pierre POITIER's] wife, age 31, on the complete listing, says she was in the 14th Family on the embarkation list & the 13th Family on the debarkation list of Le Beaumont with her first husband, a son, & 4 stepchildren, details her first marriage, including her & her husband's parents' names, & says son François-Constant POITIER was baptized in 1784 but gives no place of baptism; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:119,  (SM Ct.Hse.: OA-v.6, #84), a record of her second marriage, dated 2 Jan 1788, calls her Agnès BROUSSARD, "wid. of dec. POTIER," calls her husband Pierre VINCENT, "from Rivière-aux-Canards en Acadie, paroisse St.-J____" gives no parents' names, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Jean & Pierre BROUSSARD, & Paul TRAHAN; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:119 (SM Ch.: v.4, #11), another record of her second marriage, dated 3 Jan 1788, calls her Agnès BROUSSARD "of Canada," calls her husband Pierre VINCENT "of Canada," gives her & his parents' names, says her parents were Pierre [BROUSSARD] & Marie DE DUR, that both of his parents were deceased at the time of the wedding, & that the witnesses to her marriage were Antoine TROUSAN & Joseph DUON; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:119 (SM Ch.: v.4, #31), her death/burial record, calls her Agnès BROUSSARD, "(record has Ignès), ... wife of Pierre VINCENT," calls her parents Joseph [BROUSSARD] & Ursule LEBLANC, & details the circumstances of her death. 

Why does one of the records of her second marriage, cited above, say that her parents were Pierre BROUSSARD & Marie DE DUR?  I'm following Robichaux & her burial record here. 

02.  Wall of Names, 13 (pl. 2L), calls him Alexandre BROUSSARD, & lists him with his wife & 4 children; Arsenault, Généalogie, 1545, 2444-45, says he was born in 1703; White, DGFA-1, 285, says he was born in c1699; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:119 (SM Ch.: v.1, p.12; SM Ch.: Slave Funeral Register, v.1, #21), his death/burial record, calls him Alexandre BROUSSARD, says he was buried 18 Sep 1765 "au camp d'enbas (at the lower burial location)," & that his burial was recorded on 22 Sep 1765. See also <thecajuns.com/cardmoney.htm>.

Arsenault, cited above, says that brother Joseph was born in 1702, which is true enough, but implies that Alexandre was the younger brother.   White, cited above, disagrees; his birth years for the BROUSSARD brothers are followed here.  For the Acadian censuses of 1700, 1701, & 1703, which contradict Arsenault & support White, see <acadian-cajun.com/acadia4.htm>.  

The English must have considered Alexandre & his nephew Victor dangerous fellows because the HMS Syren was a warship reserved for Acadian leaders.  For his adventures in SC & his trek across country to escape the British, see Faragher, Great & Noble Scheme, 383-88; Milling, Exile Without End, 12, 46.  For his surrender & detainment at Fort Cumberland, see Faragher, pp. 412-15.  

A letter from LA Gov. AUBRY to his superior, the duc de Choiseul-Stainville, dated 30 Sep 1765, describing the progress of the Acadian communities recently established on the Teche & written only a week & a half after Alexandre dit Beausoleil's death, says:  "We have every hope that in a very short time these [Acadian] settlements will become quite large, even though several Acadian leaders have died of extreme fatigue and heat."  No doubt Alexandre was one of them.  See Brasseaux, ed., Quest for the Promised Land, 52, source of second quote; Winzerling, Acadian Odyssey, 169, note 104, source of first quote.  See also Appendix.  

Arsenault, p. 2614, says that Alexandre died on 22 Sep 1765, but, as his burial record shows, that was the day his burial was recorded.  

03.  Wall of Names, 14, calls him Amand BROUSSARD; BRDR, 2:160, 427 (PCP-2, pt. 2, 116; PCP-4[2?], 76), the record of his first marriage, calls him Amant BROUSSARD "of Acadia," calls his wife Hélène LANDRY "of Acadia," says "all parties living at Attakapas," gives his & her parents' names, says all parents were deceased at the time of the wedding, & that the witnesses to his marriage were Firmin LANDRY & Baptiste LABOVE; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:46, 120 (SM Ct.Hse.: OA-vol.1, #25), the record of his second marriage, calls him Amand BROUSSARD, "of the parish of St.-Jean in Acadie and widr. of Hélène LANDRY," calls his wife Anne BENOIT, "native of Acadia, parish of St.-Jean," gives his & her parents' names, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Michel MAU, Jacques FOSTAIN, Jean-Baptiste LABAUVE, Olivier TRAHAN, Pierre BROUSSARD, & Joseph LANDRY; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-A:150, his death/burial record, says he died at age 64.  See also De Ville, Attakapas Post Census, 1771, 11; De Ville, Southwest LA Families, 1777, 12; <vermilionville.org/virtualtour.html>.  

His first marriage was recorded at Pointe Coupée because, although the St. Martinville church claims to have been founded in 1765, the Atakapas area had no priest during the late 1760s & early 1770s.  The nearest church at the time was St.-François at Pointe Coupée, so priests from there, & also from Ascension on the river, would administer the sacraments to the prairie settlements until Atakapas got its own priest again (the Opelousas church was not founded until 1776). 

His burial record, cited above, gives an estimated birth year of c1754.  The ages given in the Attakapas censuses are followed here.  The website for Vermilionville uses a birth year based on his burial record & includes a photo of his house preserved at the historical park.  

His cattle herding activities can be found in Dr. Carl A. Brasseaux's essay at <www.acadianmemorial.org/english/ensembleencoreset.html>.  

The website for Vermilionville is the source for his military service in the American Revolution & the War of 1812.  One doubts if he would have been allowed to march to New Orleans with the Attakapas militia in late 1814 & fight in the battle at Chalmette at such an advanced age; no offense, but this sounds like the stuff of family legend.

04.  Wall of Names, 13, calls her Anne BROUSSARD; Hebert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-B:147 (SM Ch.: v.4, #1421), her death/burial record, calls her Anne BROUSSARD, native of Acadie, spouse of Jean BERARD, says she died "at age about 77 yrs. at her home near the Church," says she was buried "in the parish cemetery," but does not give her parents' names; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-B:147 (SM Ct.Hse.: Succ.#404), her succession record, calls her Anne BROUSSARD m. Jean BERARD, but does not give her parents' names.  

I have not found her marriage record.  Their oldest child on record was born in Dec 1770.  Jean must have been a prominent resident of the Atakapas; look how many slaves he owned in 1777.  His son Jean-Baptiste became a military officer, & his daughter Christine married into the FUSILIER family, one of the most prominent in the area.  None of their children seem to have married Acadians, though one of their grandsons, another Jean-Baptiste, married a BREAUX in 1817.  Jean's succession & will are dated 11 Jul 1817.  See Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:50-52, 1-B:44-45, 2-A:58-60.  She must have been a grand old lady, descendant of an Acadian hero.

05.  Wall of Names, 24, calls her Anne-Félicité BROUSSARD.

06.  Wall of Names, 13, calls him Anselme BROUSSARD; Arsenault, Généalogie, 1545-46, the Chipoudy/Petitcoudiac section, calls him Anselme [BROSSARD dit Beausoleil], gives his parents' names, & says he was born in 1734.  See also <thecajuns.com/cardmoney.htm>.

His son Théodore had been born "at sea."  Where is Anselme in the Attakapas census of Apr 1766?  Does he & his wife's not appearing in that census mean that they had died by then, perhaps undocumented victims of the Teche epidemic of 1765?  Their son Théodore is in the census, listed singly, although he was still an infant!  Very strange.  See Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 124-25.

07.  Wall of Names, 14, Athanase BROUSSARD.  See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 124.

For his first name & relationship to Joseph dit Beausoleil, see Marshall, Acadian Resistance, 186, who mentions the birth of Timothée-Athanase's daughter Élisabeth/Isabelle at the prisoner of war camp on Georges Island, Halifax. 

Who was the unnamed boy in his household at Attakapas in Apr 1766?  Was it first cousin Anselme BROUSSARD's infant son Théodore, whose parents may have died in the epidemic of 1765, or did Athanase & Anne have a son of their own? 

08.  Wall of Names, 14, calls him Augustin BROUSSARD, & lists him singly; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2447, the LA section, calls him Augustin BROUSSARD, says he was born in 1747 but gives no birthplace, says he was probablement son of Alexandre [BROUSSARD] & Marguerite THIBODEAUX, that he married Anne LANDRY in c1760 but gives no place of marriage nor his wife's parents' names & mentions a previous husband, says he died on 3 Sep 1810 at Donaldsonville, a 63 ans, & says his children were Françoise, born in 1770, Martin-Louis in 1772, Joseph in 1774, Appoline in 1775, Benjamin in c1776, Contance in 1778, Louis in c1779, Joseph in c1782, Hortense in c1784, & Augustin in 1785, but gives no birthplaces; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-B:118 (Opel. Ch.: v.1, p.112), his death/burial record, calls him Augustin BROUSSARD, inhabitant of Attakapas, does not give his parents' names nor mention a wife, & says he was age 63 when he was buried; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-A:154 (SM Ct.Hse.: Succ.#94), his succession record, calls him Augustin BROUSSARD, widr. of Ann LANDRY, & lists 8 children--Louis, Joseph, Auguste, Benjamin, Francoise, Pollone, Constance, & Hortense.  See also Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 175; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 459; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 5; De Ville, Southwest LA Families, 1777, 14.  

There is some mystery surrounding this fellow.  If he was a son of Alexandre dit Beausoleil, as Arsenault hints, surely he would have accompanied his father, mother, & siblings on the long voyage from Halifax via St.-Domingue to New Orleans in late 1764-65, even if he was in his late teens at the time.  So why does Wall of Names list him singly?  Why is he not listed in Wall of Names with Alexandre dit Beausoleil, his wife, & his other children?  If Augustin did come to LA in Feb 1765 with the BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil party, was he one of the Attakapas Acadians who fled the Teche valley in the late summer & early fall of 1765 to escape an epidemic?  Why else would he have ended up at Cabanocé living with his uncle in Sep 1769?  If he did flee to Cabanocé in 1765, he would have been the only member of his immediate family & probably the only BROUSSARD to have done so.  Furthermore, note that he is not in the Attakapas census of Apr 1766, nor in the Cabanocé census of Apr 1766 for that matter.  His not appearing in a LA census until Sep 1769, & at Cabanocé, gives one the impression that he came to the colony not from Halifax via St.-Domingue with the BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil party but from MD in Sep 1766, from whence his future wife had come.  Other than Arsenault's probablement, what evidence is there that he was a son of Alexandre dit Beausoleil?  Sad to say, not a single priest at Ascension or Attakapas who recorded the baptisms of Augustin's many children bothered to give the children's grandparents' names.  See BRDR, vol. 2; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vol. 1-A. 

Here is an interesting twist on the question of Augustin's parentage.  Augustin's youngest son, Augustin, fils, married Anastasie, daughter of Claude BROUSSARD & his first wife Louise HÉBERT, at St. Martinville in May 1806.  Claude was a son of the long-departed Joseph dit Beausoleil, which would have made him Augustin's first cousin if Augustin was a son of Alexandre dit Beausoleil.  This would have made the newlyweds fairly close cousins--but their marriage record in Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-B:118 (SM Ch.: v.5, #57), says nothing of a dispensation for degree of consanguinity.  Is this a clue that Augustin was not the son of Alexandre dit Beausoleil, that he was, in fact, a distant cousin of the Beausoleil BROUSSARDs & had not come to LA with them in 1765?  

Here's another clue.  In Sep 1769, Augustin was counted at Cabanocé in the household of his uncle, Désiré LEBLANC, whose parents were René LEBLANC & his first wife Élisabeth MELANÇON of Minas.  White, DGFA-1, 1010, shows that one of Désiré's younger half-sisters, Madeleine, married Charles, son of Pierre BROUSSARD (older brother of Alexandre dit Beausoleil & Joseph dit Beausoleil) & Marguerite BOURG, at Grand-Pré in Jun 1746, 2 years before Augustin's birth.  So were Augustin's parents actually Charles BROUSSARD & Madeleine LEBLANC of Grand-Pré, & Augustin was a grand-nephew of Alexandre dit Beausoleil, not his son?  Was Augustin exiled with his parents to MD at age 7 in 1755, lost his parents there, & came to LA in Sep 1766 as a teenaged orphan traveling alone?  This seems more plausible than Arsenault's tenuous link to Alexandre dit Beausoleil & trying to include Augustin with the 1765 arrivals.  The LA census records scream out that this fellow did not reach the colony until after the censuses of Apr 1766.  Since his name does not appear with the arrivals from MD in 1767 or 1768, who went to St.-Gabriel & Natchez, not to Cabanocé, it is likely that he came with the first wave of Acadians from MD in Sep 1766 & went with them to Cabanocé/St.-Jacques.  He may very well have come in with his uncle, Désiré LEBLANC.  (But why didn't the British authorities count him in MD in 1763, when he would have been 15?  See Jehn, Acadians Exiles in the Colonies, 150-58, index.)

Arsenault's marriage year for him & Anne LANDRY--c1760--cannot be correct.  The ages given in the Cabanocé census of 1769, Ascension census of 1770,  & Attakapas census of 1777, verify Augustin's estimated birth year of c1748, so Arsenault's marriage date of c1760 would have made him only 12 at the time of their marriage; Arsenault's birth year for him, in fact--1747--makes him 13 at the time of his marriage!  So c1760 is probably a typo, or it could be the marriage date for Anne LANDRY & her first husband, Joseph MELANÇON.  Note that the estimated birth year for Anne's older child by Joseph, son Olivier MELANÇON, is c1760.  The marriage date of c1769 or c1770 for Augustin & Anne, used here, is derived from the fact that Anne was listed without a husband in the Cabanocé census of Sep 1769, & that the birth year of her first child by Augustin, daughter Francoise, was 1770, since she was baptized at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques 25 Dec 1770.  See BRDR, 2:162 (SJA-1, 5a).    

Son Martin-Louis's baptismal record, dated 22 Nov 1772, in BRDR, 2:163 (ASC-1, 5), says his parents were "of Parish of the Assumption church," which, interestingly, was not created until Apr 1793.  The Isleño, or Canary Island, community of Valenzuéla, in present-day Assumption Parish, did not exist until 1779.  Or perhaps the Ascension priest is saying that Anne was from Assumption Parish.  But which one?  Was there such a parish in MD?  One of the marriage records of daughter Francoise, dated 3 Oct 1789, in Hébert, D., 1-A:130 (SM Ct.Hse.: OA-vol.7, #86), says her parents were "natives of La Fourche of Assumption Parish," which may mean that when they lived at Ascension, their home may have been on upper Bayou Lafourche in an area that at the time was considered part of the Acadian community of Assumption, where, as has been noted, a church did not exist until 1793.  Or the notation could be an error on the part of the clerk; the only church parish that existed on the upper Lafourche in Oct 1789 was Ascension, not Assumption.  Son Louis's marriage record, dated 2 May 1800, in Hébert, 1-A:139 (SM Ch.: v.4, #196), says his parents were "of Acadia," & that he was "of Lafourche Parish on Mississippi," which was Ascension, also known as Lafourche des Chitimachas.  

Why does Arsenault say he died at Donaldsonville, which was Ascension, when the death/burial record is clear that he was buried at Opelousas?  And why did he died in St. Landry Parish when he was a long-time resident of St. Martin Parish?

A BROUSSARD family website at <http://kandrtell.tripod.com/gen/broussard.html> gives the parents' names used here & adds, per Stephen A. White, that Augustin's parents were third cousins. 

09.  Wall of Names, 28 (pl. 6R), calls him Charles BROUSSARD, & lists him with his second wife, 4 sons, & a stepson; BRDR, 1a(rev.):43, his birth/baptismal record, calls him Charles BROUSSARD, gives his parents 'names, says his godparents were Abraham DUGAST & Anne BLANCHARD, & that his father signed the baptismal register; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 25, Family No. 52, calls him Charles BROUSSARD, says he was born in c1741 but gives no birthplace, does not give his parents' names, details his first marriage, calls his first wife Bonne-Jacqueline-Francoise CATEL, says they were married in c1764 but gives no place of marriage, includes the birth/baptismal record of son Louis, baptized 14 Feb 1774, La Chapelle-Roux, godson of Pierre AMIRAULT & Anne HÉBERT, &, calls his wife Bonne CATEL, details the family's participation in the Poitou settlement of the early 1770s; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 8-9, calls him Charles BROUSSARD, charpentier, age 42, on the embarkation list, Carlos BROUSARD on the debarkation list, & Charles BROUSSARD, carpenter, age 42, on the complete listing, says he was in the 24th Family aboard Le Bon Papa with his second wife, 4 sons, & a stepson, & details his second marriage, including the names of his & her parents.  See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 489, 527. 

His first wife's family name is variously spelled CASTEL, CASTELLE, CATEL, CATELLE, CHALET, CHALETTE, DUATELE.  See Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 25, Family No. 52; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 38, Family No. 73; BRDR, 2:161-63, the marriage records of her 4 sons who came to LA with their father, which calls her Bonnot DUATELE (SJA-2, 27), Bonne-Jacqueline-Francoise CATELLE (PCP-19, 35), Bonne-Jacqueline-Francoise-Catherine CATEL (PCP-19, 20), & Bonne CHALETTE (SJO-3, 5).  In both of his works cited above, Robichaux calls her Bonne-Jacqueline-Françoise CASTEL, says she was born c1745 but does not give her birthplace, her parents'  names, or the date or place of her death.  According to both Robichaux volumes, she was still alive in Dec 1775 when she accompanied her husband & their 6 sons in the convoy from Poitou to Nantes.  According to Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, son Guillaume-Médard was baptized at Ste.-Croix, Nantes, in June 1776, &  another son, Jean, was baptized at St.-Martin, Chantenay, in Feb 1778.  So she probably died at Nantes or Chantenay in the late 1770s or early 1780s.  Her family was not Acadian, so she probably was a native of France.  She gave Charles 8 sons, but only 5 of them survived childhood & made it to LA.  The sons who died were Louis, baptized 14 Feb 1774 at La Chapelle-Roux, Vienne, while they were part of the Poitou settlement, but whose death date & burial place is not given; Guillaume-Médard, who died at age 2 mos. & was buried at St.-Jacques, Nantes, 28 Jul 1776; & Jean, who died at age 3 & was buried at St.-Martin, Chantenay, 16 Sep 1780.  See Robichaux's studies of the Acadians in France, cited above.  

His exile to VA & England & repatriation to France are pure guess work based on his birthplace.  Most of the Minas Acadians who ended up in France were the ones whom the British sent to VA in 1755. 

The marriage record of son Joseph-Dominique, dated 4 Nov 1795, in BRDR, 2:524 (SJA-2, 27), calls his parents Carlos BROUSSARD & Bonnot DUATELE "of Cherbourg, Normandy," so that is a clue as to where Charles married his first wife.  He & his family were deported from Île St.-Jean to Cherbourg in 1758-59.  Was she a native of that city? 

Who was the daughter with him & his second wife at Nantes in Sep 1784?  Was she a BOUDREAUX stepdaughter who, for some reason, did not accompany her mother & stepfather to LA?  See Voorhies, J., p. 489.  The 2 Robichaux vols. cited above mention no daughter of his from his first wife, & in Sep 1784 he & his second wife had not been married long enough (3 months) to have had a daughter of their own.  Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 19, Family No. 35, mentions no daughters, only 4 sons (Pierre, Paul, Jean-Louis, & François-Xavier) for François BOUDROT & Euphrosine BARRILLOT.  So what happened to the girl in the Sep 1784 report?  Was she a female orphan who went to LA with another family?  The Sep 1784 report lists orphans separately.  See Voorhies, J., p. 488.  

10.  Wall of Names, 14, calls him Claude BROUSSARD; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:125, 763 (SM Ch.: v.4, #79), the record of his second marriage, calls him Claude BROUSSARD, calls his wife Catherine TRAHAN "de la Cadie," gives his & her parents' names but not her mother's surname, does not mention his first wife, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Louis DESHORMAUX, Pierre HÉBERT, & ____ LABOVE; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-B:153 (SM Ch.: v.4, #1306), his death/burial record, calls him Claude BROUSSARD, "native of Acadie," says he died "at age about 75 yrs. at his home at Vermillion[sic]," that he was buried next day "in the parish cemetery," but does not give his parents' names or mention a wife; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-B:153 (SM Ct.Hse.: Succ.#346), his succession record, calls him Claude BROUSSARD m. Catherine TRAHAN. 

His estimated birth year is based not on his burial record but on the Attakapas censuses in which he is found. 

Where is the record of his first marriage? 

11.  Wall of Names, 28 (pl. 6R), calls him Dominique [BROUSSARD], & lists him with his father, stepmother, 3 brothers, & a stepbrother; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 60, his birth/baptismal record, calls him Joseph-Dominique BROUSSARD, gives his parents' names, calls his mother Bonne CASTEL, says his parents were tous Accadiens, & that his godparents were Dominique GIROIR & Monique BROUSSAR; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 25, Family No. 52, calls him Dominique [BROUSSARD], gives his parents' names, & details the family's participation in the Poitou settlement of the early 1770s; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 8-9, calls him Dominique, son [Charles BROUSSARD's] fils, age 12, on the embarkation list, Domingo, su [Carlos BROUSARD's] hijo, on the debarkation list, & Dominique BROUSSARD, his [Charles BROUSSARD's] son, age 12, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 24th Family aboard Le Bon Papa with his father, stepmother, 3 brothers, & a stepbrother; BRDR, 2:161, 524 (SJA-2, 27), his marriage record, calls him Domingo BROUSARD (BROUSSARD), calls his wife Pélagia MARTIN, gives his & her parents' names, says his parents were "of Cherbourg, Normandy," that her father was deceased at the time of the wedding, & that the witnesses to his marriage were Pablo MARTIN & Adam MATERNE. 

According to his baptismal record, his mother also was Acadian, but she was not.  She probably was a native of Cherbourg. 

12.  Wall of Names, 14, calls her Isabelle BROUSSARD; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:131, 559-60 (SM Ch.: Folio F), a record of her first marriage, calls her Isabelle BROUSSARD, "born in Acadia," calls her husband Michel MAU, "born in parish of Chaillevette in Saintonge," gives her & his parents' names, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Simon BROUSSARD, François GREVEMBERG, Jean-Baptiste GREVEMBERG, & Jean TRAHANT, with the notation that the priest who recorded the marriage wrote on the record "je pretre Capucin, cure de la paroisse de St.-Jacque de la nouvelle acadie (I, a Capuchin priest, pastor of the parish of St. James in New Acadia)"; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:131, 560 (NI Ch.: OA Folio, #1), another record of her first marriage, calls her Isabelle BROUSSARD, "born in Acadia," calls her husband Michel MAUX, "born in Chailleveette, Saintonge, France," but gives no parents' names or witnesses to her marriage; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:132 (NI Ch.: OA-#1), yet another record of her first marriage, calls her Isabelle BROUSSARD, "born in Acadie," calls her husband Michel MAUX, "born at Chailleville, Saintonge, France," gives her & his parents' names, says his parents were "of l'Acadie" (seemingly in error)," but gives no witnesses to her marriage; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:131, 486 (SM Ct.Hse.: OA-vol.4, #95), the record of her second marriage, calls her Isabelle BROUSSARD, "native of Acadia, widow of Michel MAUX," calls her husband Pierre LAPOINTE, "native of Montréal in Canada, widower of Josèphe FOVEN, gives her & his parents' names, says his father was deceased at the time of the wedding, & that the witnesses to her marriage were ____ BROGNIER, Jacque JEUNE, René TRAHAN, Jean-Baptiste BROUSSARD, & Alexandre Chevalier DECLOUET; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:131-32, 586 (SM Ct.Hse.: OA-vol.16, #96), a record of her third marriage, calls him Isabelle BROUSSARD, "of Acadie, wid. of Pierre LAPOINTE," calls her husband Thomas NIKELSON "from Boston," gives her & his parents' names, calls him a major son, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Olion BROUSSARD, François GONSSOULIN, D. BROUSSARD, & Francisco CASO Y LEUNGO; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:150, 596 (SM Ch.: v.4, #119), another record of her third marriage, calls her Zabelle BROUSSARD, "veuve de (widow of) Pierre LAPOINTE," calls her husband Thomas NICKELSON "of Boston, here for 3 yrs., veuf de (widower of) Rebecca CROSBY," gives no parents' names, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Jean-Baptiste BROUSSARD, Théodore BROUSSARD, Antoine MAU, Achille BERARD, & Francisco CUJO (CASO) y LUENGO; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 3:107 (Laf.Ch.: v.[?], p. 30), her death/burial record, calls her Isabelle BROUSSARD m. (3) Thomas NIKELSON, says she was 98 years old when she died, but does not give her parents' names.

13.  Wall of Names, 14 (pl. 2R), calls her Élisabeth BROUSSARD, & lists her with sister Madeleine.  

I have found her in no other source.  See Madeleine's marriage record, dated 18 Jul 1772, in Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 140, 141 (SM Ch.: v.1, -. 27; SM Ch.: Folio A-1, p.19), for their parents' names.  

14.  Wall of Names, 14, calls him Firmin BROUSSARD; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2448, calls him Firmin BROUSSARD, says he was born in 1749 but gives no birthplace, calls his parents Jean [BROUSSARD] & Osite LANDRY of Pigiguit, details his marriage, including his wife's parents' names, & says his children were Simon, born in 1770, Henriette in 1780, Marie-Madeleine in 1781, François-Thomas in 1782, & Firmin in 1785 but gives no birthplaces; BRDR, 2:161, 443 (ASC-1, 130), his marriage record, calls him Firmin BRUSARD, calls his wife Marie-Magdelaine LANDRY, gives his & her parents' names, says his parents were Acadians, & that the witnesses to his marriage were Jean-Baptiste-Olivier LANDY & Jean-Baptiste GRANGÉ; NOAR, 4:42 (SLC, F2, 3), his death/burial record, calls him Firmino BRUSARD, "resident of La Fourche," does not give his parents' names or mention a wife, & says he was age 34 when he died.  See also Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 178; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 5, 16.  

"La Fourche" in 1785 was Ascension.  What was he doing in New Orleans at the time of his death?  Visiting?  On business?

15.  Wall of Names, 14, calls him François BROUSSARD.

16.  Wall of Names, 14, calls him François BROUSSARD, & lists him singly.  

What happened to him in LA?

17.  Wall of Names, 28 (pl. 6R), calls him François [BROUSSARD], & lists him with his father, stepmother, 3 brothers, & a stepbrother; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 25, Family No. 52, calls him Francois [BROUSSARD], gives his parents' names, & details the family's participation in the Poitou settlement of the early 1770s; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 8-9, calls him Francois, son [Charles BROUSSARD's] fils, marin, age 18, on the embarkation list, Francisco, su [Carlos BROUSARD's] hijo, on the debarkation list, & Francois BROUSSARD, his [Charles BROUSSARD's] son, sailor, age 18, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 24th Family aboard Le Bon Papa with his father, stepmother, 3 brothers, & a stepbrother; BRDR, 2:161, 377 (PCP-19, 35), his marriage record, calls him François BROUSSARD "of Normandy, France," calls his wife Marguerite HENRY "of St.-Malo in Bretagne," gives his & her parents' names, says her father was deceased at the time of the wedding, & that the witnesses to his marriage were Charles BROUSSARD [his father] & Maximilien HENRY. 

His marriage was recorded at Pointe Coupée because Baton Rouge, where he settled did not have a church of its own until 1793.  Before then, priests from Pointe Coupée across the river or from St.-Gabriel downriver would administer the sacraments to the residents in the Baton Rouge area. 

18.  Wall of Names, 14, calls her Françoise BROUSSARD.

19.  Wall of Names, 26, calls her Isabelle BROUSSARD.

20.  Wall of Names, 14, calls her Isabelle BROUSSARD; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:131, 498 (SM Ct.Hse.: OA-vol.2, #21), her marriage record, calls her Isabelle BROUSSARD, "of Acadie," calls her husband Comme LEBLANC, "of Acadie," gives her & his parents' names, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Olivier THIBAUDOT, Claude MARTIN, Joseph BROUSSARD, & Jean-Baptiste HÉBERT.

21.  Wall of Names, 14, calls him Jean BROUSSARD; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:132-33, 139 (SM Ct.Hse.: OA-vol.4, #378), a record of his first marriage, calls him Jean BROUSSARD "from Halifax in the Province of Acadie," calls his wife Louise-Devine BROUSSARD "from Attakapas Post," gives his & her parents' names, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Simon BROUSSARD, Silvain BROUSSARD, ____ DELAHOUSSAYE, _____ BERARD, Pierre BROUSSARD, & Alexandre Chevalier DECLOUET; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:132, 139 (SM Ch.: v.3, #8), another record of his first marriage, calls him Jean BROUSSARD, calls his wife Louise BROUSSARD, says he was a minor son & she a minor daughter, gives his & her parents' names, says his parents were "d'Acadie" & hers were "d'Atakapa," but gives no witnesses to his marriage; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-A:166, 918 (SM Ch.: v.5, #346), the record of his second marriage, calls him Jean BROUSSARD, "inhabitant of la côte gelée, native of Acadie, widower in a first marriage to dec. Ludivine Louise BROUSSARD," calls his wife Séraphie THIBAUDEAU, "native of this parish, widow in a first marriage to dec. Louis TRAHAN," calls him a major son & her a major daughter, gives his & her parents' names, says her father was "inhabitant at la pointe, their parents were deceased at the time of the wedding, & that the witnesses to his marriage were Jean BROUSSARD, fils [his son], Pierre BROUSSARD, Louis ST. JULIEN, Patrick COLWELL, & Louis CHEMIN; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 3:107 (Laf.Ct.Hse.: Succ. #213), his first succession record, calls him Jean BROUSSARD m. Seraphine THIBODEAUX, but does not give his parents' names or the name of his first wife; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 3:107 (Laf.Ch.: v.3, p.49), his death/burial record, calls him Jean BROUSSARD père m. Seraphine THIBODEAUX, says he was 73 years old when he died, but does not give his parents' names; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 3:107 (Laf.Ct.Hse.: Succ. #268, #269), his postmortem succession record, calls him Jean BROUSSARD, but does not give his parents' names or mention a wife & children.  

22.  Wall of Names, 14, calls him Jean BROUSSARD.

23.  Wall of Names, 39 (pl. 10L), calls him Jean BROUSSARD, & lists him with a wife & son; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 60, 83, his marriage record, calls him Jean BROUSSARD, Acadien, calls his wife Marguerite COUMEAU, Acadienne, gives his & her parents' names, says both of his parents & his wife's mother were deceased at the time of the marriage, but gives no witnesses to his marriage; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 25, Family No. 53, calls him Jean BROUSSARD, says he was born in c1745 but gives no birthplace, gives his parents' names, details his marriage, says both of his parents were deceased at the time of the marriage, gives his wife's parents' names, says her mother was deceased at the time of the marriage, includes the birth/baptismal records of son Jean-Baptiste, baptized 11 May 1774, Monthoiron, godson of Honoré COMMAUX & Bonne-Jacquette-Francois CATEL, & son Joseph, baptized 21 Nov 1775, Monthoiron, godson of Charles BROUSSARD & Agnés BROUSSARD, & says his family resided in the parish of St.-Martin-de-Chantenay, near Nantes, on 2 Oct 1777; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 38-39, Family No. 74, calls him Jean-Baptiste BROUSSARD, says he was born in c1743 but gives no birthplace, gives his parents' names, calls his wife Marguerite COMMAUX, says she was born in c1753 but gives no birthplace, says they married in c1773 but gives no place of marriage, includes the birth/baptismal & death/burial record of daughter Florence-Adélaïde, baptized 2 Oct 1777, St.-Martin-de-Chantenay, & son Pierre, baptized 2 Oct 1777 [twin of Florence-Adélaïde], St.-Martin-de-Chantenay, died age 10 mos. 30 Jul 1778, buried same day, St.-Martin-de-Chantenay, & details the family's voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 66-67, calls him Jean BROUSSARD, charpentier, age 40, on the embarkation list, Juan BAUSARD, on the debarkation list, & Jean BROUSSARD, carpenter, age 40, on the complete listing, says he was in the 2nd Family aboard L'Amitié with his wife & a son, lists the implements the Spanish gave him after he reached LA, details his marriage, including his but not his wife's parents' names, says they were married in 1773 but gives no place of marriage, & says son Jean-Baptiste was born in 1774 but gives no birthplace.  See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 495.

Monthoiron is in the Poitou region of France, near Châtellerault, so he & his family evidently were part of the Acadian settlement in that region in the early 1770s.  

What happened to son Joseph & daughter Florence-Adélaïde, who would have been 10 & 8, respectively, in 1785?  They did not go to LA with the rest of the family, so they must have died in France.  Note that neither of them was in the Spanish census of Acadians in France, taken in Sep 1784, so they must have died before then.  

It would have been unusual for a BROUSSARD to go anywhere else but the Attakapas District.  

24.  Wall of Names, 39 (pl. 10L), calls him Jean BROUSSARD, & lists him with his parents & no siblings; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 25, Family No. 53, his birth/baptismal record, calls him Jean-Baptiste BROUSSARD, gives his parents' names, & says his godparents were Honoré COMMAUX [probably his maternal grandfather] & Jacquette-François- CATEL [a maternal aunt], & that his family resided at St.-Martin-de-Chantenay, near Nantes, in Oct 1777; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 38-39, Family No. 74, calls him Jean [BROUSSARD], gives his parents' names, & details his family's voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 66-67, calls him Jean, son [Jean BROUSSARD's] fils, age 11, on the embarkation list, does not include him on the debarkation list, calls him Jean BROUSSARD, his [Jean BROUSSARD's] son, age 11, on the complete listing, says he was in the 2nd Family aboard L'Amitié with his parents & no siblings, &, calling him Jean-Baptiste [BROUSSARD], says he was born in 1774 but gives no birthplace; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:133, 405 (SM Ch.: v.4, #89), his marriage record, calls him Jean-Baptiste BROUSSARD, calls his wife Céleste HÉBERT, does not give any parents' names, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Joseph DUON, ____ BENOIT De St. Clair, ____ PEYTAVIN Du Bousquet, Firmon DUON, & Nicolas HÉBERT; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-B:162 (Laf. Ch.: v.1, p.10), his death/burial record, calls him Jean Baptiste dit Petit BROUSSARD, a native of Nantes, gives his father's but not his mother's name, mentions no wife, & says he was buried "in the parish cemetery."  See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 495.  

His place of baptism, Monthoiron, is in the Poitou region of France near Châtellerault, so he & his family evidently were part of the settlement scheme in that region during the early 1770s. 

Who were his wife's parents?  Can we assume they were Acadian HÉBERTs? 

25.  Wall of Names, 14, calls him Jean-Baptiste BROUSSARD; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2447, says he was born in 1740; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:133, 474 (SM Ct.Hse.: OA-19-90), a record of his second marriage, calls him Jean-Baptiste BROUSSARD "of Acadie," calls his wife Élizabeth LANDRY, "wid. of Joseph DUGAS," gives his but not her parents' names, & gives no witnesses to his marriage; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:133, 473-74 (SM Ch.: v.4, #178), another record of his second marriage, calls him Jean-Baptiste BROUSSARD, "widr. of Anna BRUN," calls his wife Élizabeth LANDRY "of St.-Malo, France, wid. of Amand LANDRY," gives his & her parents' names, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Jean BROUSSARD, son, Donat LEBLANC, Simon GRANGER, Charles DUGA, & Simon BROUSSARD; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-B:162 (Laf. Ch.: v.2, p.13, #35), his death/burial record, calls him Jean Baptiste BROUSSARD, native of Acadie, spouse of dec. Élisabeth DUGAT in a second marriage, that he "died at the home of his eldest son, Jean BROUSSARD at 7:00 p.m. at age 98 years," that he was "buried ... in the parish church cemetery," but does not give his parents' names; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 3:107 (Laf.Ct.Hse.: Succ. #279), his succession record, calls him Jean Baptiste BROUSSARD d. 1820's, does not give his parents' names or mention a wife but says he had 10 children.  See also See also <thecajuns.com/cardmoney.htm>; De Ville, Attakapas Post Census, 1771, 14.

26.  Wall of Names, 28 (pl. 6R), calls him Jean-Charles [BROUSSARD], & lists him with his father, stepmother, 3 brothers, & a stepbrother; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 25, Family No. 52, calls him Jean-Charles-Joseph [BROUSSARD], gives his parents' names, & details the family's participation in the Poitou settlement of the early 1770s; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 8-9, calls him Jean-Charles, son [Charles BROUSSARD's] fils, marin, age 20, on the embarkation list, Juan Carlos, su [Carlos BROUSARD's] hijo, on the debarkation list, & Jean-Charles BROUSSARD, his [Charles BROUSSARD's] son, sailor, age 20, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 24th Family aboard Le Bon Papa with his father, stepmother, 3 brothers, & a stepbrother; BRDR, 2:162, 685 (PCP-19, 20), the record of his first marriage, calls him Jean-Charles BROUSART, calls his wife Élisabeth TEMPLÉ, gives his & her parents' names, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Jean TEMPLÉ & Jacque TEMPLÉ; BRDR, 3:174, 802 (ASC-2, 151), the record of his second marriage, calls him Carolos BROUSSARD, "widower Élizabeth TEMPLAIS," calls his wife Nanette STEVEN, gives his & her parents' names, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Servant TEMPLAI, Michel PEDERY, & Pierre FRESSINE. 

 His first marriage was recorded at Pointe Coupée because Baton Rouge, where he lived at the time, did not have a church of its own until 1793.  Before then, priests from Pointe Coupée across the river or from St.-Gabriel downriver would administer the sacraments to the folks at Baton Rouge. 

His second wife's father was Louis-Williams STEBENS of Nantes, France, via Boston, MA.  He was twice a widower when he married Nanette's Acadian mother at St.-Martin-de-Chantenay, near Nantes, in Jan 1783.  He may have been German or Polish or Dutch.  Her mother was a Minas BABIN born at Southampton, England, in Sep 1760. 

27.  Wall of Names, 14 (pl. 2R), calls him Joseph BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil, & list him with no wife, 3 sons, & a daughter; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2444-45, calls him Joseph BROSSARD dit Beausoleil, says he was born in 1702 but gives no birthplace, that he was de Chipoudy, Acadie, gives his parents' names, calls his father Jean-François, details his marriage, including his wife's parents' names, says he was commandant des Acadiens aux Attakapas, that he died at St.-Martinville on 5 Sep 1785, & says his children were Jean-Grégoire, born in 1726, Victor in c1728, Raphaël in 1733, Timothée in 1741, & Amand in c1745, but gives no birthplaces; White DGFA-1, 285, calls him Joseph BROUSSARD/BROSSARD dit Beausoleil, says he was born in c1702 but gives no birthplace, gives his parents' names, calls his father François, details his marriage, including his wife's parents' names, & says he was buried on 20 Oct 1765, no age given, "inh camp Beausoleil (acte inscrit 25 Nov 1765)."  

Quotes from Brasseaux, ed., Quest for the Promised Land, 34, 52.  See also Rev. C. J. d'Entremont, "BROSSARD (Broussard), dit Beausoleil, Joseph," DCB online; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:137.  Perrin, W. A., Acadian Redemption, chap. 3, details Beausoleil's disputes with his fellow Acadians & questions the move to Chepoudy.  Father d'Entremont says that the BROUSSARDs settled at "Le Cran (Stoney Creek, south of Moncton, NB)," on the Petitcoudiac; Perrin, W. A., p. 19, locates the BROUSSARD settlement on the upper Petitcoudiac "near Boundary Creek (now the Village of Salisburg) on the north bank of the Petitcoudiac River ten miles from present-day Moncton, New Brunswick."  Beausoleil's  participation in the Acadian resistance to British rule during King George's War, in which he earned a 50-pound-sterling price on his head, can be found in Faragher, A Great & Noble Scheme, chap. 8; Jobb, The Cajuns, 78; & Marshall, Acadian Resistance.  See also Faragher, p. 356.  Faragher, chap. 14, details Beausoleil's adventures in the 1760s as a leader of the Acadian resistance in present-day southeastern NB.  For details of Beausoleil's adventures in Acadia & LA during & after Le Grand Dérangement, see Appendix.  Rev. C. J. d'Entremont, "BROSSARD (Broussard), dit Beausoleil, Joseph," says nothing of BROUSSARD's capture at Restigouche & claims that Joseph dit Beausoleil was still resisting the British in 1761 & did not surrender to COL Joseph Frye, commander at Fort Cumberland, until Nov 1761.  Father d'Entremont also says that Joseph dit Beausoleil "was buried on 20 October at Beausoleil, near the site of the present-day town of BROUSSARD, a few miles south of Lafayette," but the Attakapas Acadians did not settle the Côte Gelée area, where the town of BROUSSARD is located, until after Beausoleil's death.  

I read somewhere that a group of scholars & archaeologists, including descendants of Joseph dit Beausoliel, are searching for the Acadian hero's burial place along the Teche.  When they find him, they also will likely find the resting place of dozens of other members of his party.  See Appendix.

A short on-line history of Beausoleil BROUSSARD at <wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Broussard> claims that Joseph's middle name was Gaurhept, & that he & his wife had 11 children.  The article, citing C.A. Pincombe & E.W. Larracy, Resurgo: The History of Moncton, 1:30, published at Moncton in 1990, also asserts that in 1764 the British at Halifax permitted Beausoleil "to travel with several other Acadians to Dominica.  Unable to adapt to the climate, he led the group to settle in Louisiana."  Perhaps the author & his source are confusing Dominica, or Dominique, a French-controlled island ceded to Britain in 1763, with St.-Domingue, or Haiti, which the French kept in 1763 & to where the BROUSSARDs did go.  Anyone familiar with Beausoleil BROUSSARD's attitude toward the British would know that he would not have chosen a British island on which to settle his people.  The author also claims that BROUSSARD "was among the first 200 Acadians to arrive in Louisiana on February 27, 1765 aboard the Santo Domingo," & cites the on-line source <carencrohighschool.org/LA_Studies/ParishSeries/LafayetteParish/Broussard.htm>.  Not even Professor Carl A. Brasseaux, the best informed scholar on the Acadians in LA, has identified the ship, or ships, on which the BROUSSARD party sailed.  Perhaps the author of the Wikipedia article confused the ship with the island of Santo Domingo, or St.-Domingue.  Close students of Acadian history know, of course, that the first Acadians to come to LA arrived from GA in Feb 1764, exactly a year before the BROUSSARD party reached New Orleans.  Is this article a case of "factoid drift?"

A recent & detailed treatment of Beausoleil's life is Marshall, Acadian Resistance.  It is especially thorough on Beausoleil's activities during & after King George's War.  Unfortunately, the only documentation in the book is a bibliography; there are no footnotes or endnotes.  One would have appreciated specific documentation on Beausoleil's involvement in the massacre at Dartmouth, near Halifax, NS, in May 1751, in which English women & children perished at the hands of Acadian resistance fighters & their Mi'kmaq allies.  Marshall's description of the incident paints my paternal ancestor as more of a terrorist than a freedom fighter! 

28.  Wall of Names, 14, calls him Joseph BROUSSARD; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:134 (SM Ch.: v.4, #37), his death/burial record, calls him Joseph BROUSSARD m. Marguerite SAVOIE, says he died "at age 62 yrs. "'de fluxion de Peche' (chest flu [cold] or pneumonia)," but does not give his parents' names; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:134 (SM Ct.Hse.: OA-19-157), his succession record, calls him Joseph BROUSSARD m. Marguerite SAVOY, says he was buried in Dec 1788, & lists his children as "Enfant du premier lit (child from the first marriage [literally the first bed])" René, "Enfants du second lit (children of the second marriage [literally the second bed])" Marguerite m. Jean BERNARD, Louise m. Jean BROUSSARD, Astazie m. Michel BROUSSARD, Magdelaine m. François BERNARD, & Elfroy BROUSSARD.  See also De Ville, Attakapas Post Census, 1771, 11; De Ville, Southwest LA Families, 1777, 13.

His ages in the Attakapas censuses of 1771 & 1777 make no sense; they are the same age recorded 6 years apart!  His parents were still living on the river above Port-Royal in c1726, so he likely was born there, at the village of Beausoleil in the parish of St.-Laurent, not at Chepoudy or Petitcoudiac, where his parents lived from the 1730s. 

There is some confusion about which Joseph-Grégoire BROUSSARD this may have been.  Arsenault, Généalogie, 1545-56, the Chepoudy/Petitcoudiac section, says that Joseph-Grégoire [BROUSSARD], born in 1725, was son of Alexandre BROSSARD dit Beausoleil & Marguerite THIBODEAU.  Additionally, Arsenault, Généalogie, 2446, the LA section, says the Joseph BROUSSARD in LA was born in 1725, son of Alexandre [BROUSSARD] & Marguerite THIBODEAUX, that he married Anastasie LEBLANC in c1750 but gives no place of marriage nor her parents' names, that he remarried to Marguerite SAVOIE in c1763 but gives no place of marriage nor her parents' names, lists his children as, from his first marriage, René, born in c1752, from his second marriage, Louise-Ludivine, born in 1764, Marguerite in 1765, with the note that she was born on 3 Apr & baptized on 24 Apr "lors du passage de cette famille à Pointe-Coupée en route pour se fonder un nouveau foyer aux Attakapas," Édouard in c1768, Anastasie in c1770, Madeleine in 1772, Éloi in c1773, Joseph in 1774, François-Alexandre in 1777, & Elroy in c1780 but give no birthplaces, & says he was buried at St. Martinville on 20 Dec 1788.  <www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/acadian>, a baptismal record for Joseph-Grégoire BROSSARD, dated 3 Apr 1725, says he was baptized "at the house by Guillaume BLANCHARD," that he was son of Alexandre BROSSARD & Marguerite TIBAUDEAU, & that his godparents were Joseph BROSSARD, son of the late François BROSSARD, & Agnès THIBAUDEAU, daughter of Michel TIBAUDEAU.  However, Marshall, Acadian Resistance, 24, insists that Joseph-Grégoire dit Petit Jo was an older son of Joseph, not Alexandre BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil, & says, on p. 186, that Joseph-Grégoire, son of Alexandre, died at Georges Island, Halifax, in 1763.  A BROUSSARD family genealogy website at <http://kandrtell.tripod.com/gen/broussard.html> agrees:  Joseph-Grégoire, "b 1 Jan[sic] 1725 in Acadia," son of Alexandre & husband of Ursule TRAHAN, died at Halifax before Aug 1763, which means that the Joseph-Grégoire who came to LA had to be a son of Joseph, not Alexandre.  The family genealogy website also says that Joseph dit Beausoleil's son Joseph-Grégoire "was born in 1726," probably taken from Petit Jo's age in his burial record, cited above.  However, the family genealogist gives a precise birth date of 25 Jun 1726 for Joseph dit Beausoleil's oldest son Jean-Grégoire, who died during Le Grand Dérangement.  Were Joseph dit Beausoleil's sons Jean-Grégoire & Joseph-Grégoire twins?  How else could Joseph-Grégoire have been born in 1726, unless he was very premature. 

I will follow the family genealogist here, but I will also await Stephen A. White's imprimatur in the matter.  Too bad the priest at St. Martinville who recorded Petit Jo's burial was not more diligent in his recordkeeping.  All he had to do was give the deceased's parents' names, & there would be no confusion in the matter. 

29.  Wall of Names, 14(pl. 2R), calls him Joseph BROUSSARD, & lists him with his widowed mother & a sister; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2445, 2447, calls his parents Joseph BROUSSARD & Ursule LEBLANC; BRDR, 2:142, 162 (ASC-1, 133 & 134), his marriage record, calls him Joseph BROUSSARD, calls his wife Anna BRAUD, gives his & her parents' names, says his parents were "Acadians, res. at Attakapas," that her parents were Acadians, & that the witnesses to his marriage were François BROUSARD & Simon BROUSARD; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-B:164 (SM Ch.: v.4, #1554), his death/burial record, calls him Joseph BROUSSARD, "native of Acadie, inhabitant of La fausse pointe, died suddenly during the evening of either the 14 or 15 Feb. 1823 at age about 72 years at the house of Philippe, homme de couleur," & that he was buried "in the parish cemetery," but does not give his parents' names or mention a wife; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-B:163 (SM Ct.Hse.: Succ.#474), his succession record, calls him Joseph BROUSSARD, says he died on 15 Feb 1823, but does not give his parents' names, mention a wife, or list any heirs.  See also De Ville, Southwest LA Families, 1777, 13.

Wall of Names calls his parents Joseph-Grégoire BROUSSARD & Ursule TRAHAN.  Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:131-32 (SM Ch.: Folio F; NI Ch.: OA Folio, #1; SM Ct.Hse.: OA-vol.4, #95; SM Ct.Hse.: OA-vol.16, #96)), the marriage records of his sister Isabelle, dated 14 Feb 1770, 29 Nov 1785, & 7 Aug 1795, as well as his own marriage record, cited above, call their parents Joseph BROUSSARD & Ursule TRAHAN/TRAHANT, so Arsenault got their mother's surname wrong.  Wall of Names says that Ursule was a widow when she reached LA. 

His marriage was recorded at Ascension, now Donaldsonville, because that's where his wife was from.  So how did a boy from the prairies hook up with a girl from the east bank of the river?  Her parents had come to LA from MD in 1766.  Anne was 12 then & had been born probably at Minas, so she & Joseph would not have known one another during Le Grand Dérangement.  Perhaps their families, both from the Minas Basin, knew one another in the old country.  

Arsenault, following Joseph's burial record, says that he was born in 1741, but the Atakapas census of 1777, followed here, says otherwise.  

30.  Not in Wall of Names.  Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:132, 571 (Opel.Ch.: v.1-A, p.35), his marriage record, calls him Jacques BROUSSARD "of Manchak," calls his wife Isabelle MILLER, gives his & her parents' names, calls his parents Paul [BROUSSARD] & Isabelle CHALET, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Jacob MILLER [either her father or brother], Benjamin SMITH, John TYSON, & Joseph CHARP. 

Who knows why he is not on either of the passenger lists of Le Bon Papa with the rest of his family.  See Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 8-9, for his family's inclusion on the ship's embarkation & debarkation lists.  It is for this reason that he does not appear on the Acadian Memorial's Wall of Names.  However, there are compelling clues that place him in Charles BROUSSARD's family:

First, Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 25, Family No. 52, says "Charles BROUSSARD and Bonne CATEL, his wife and six children:  Jean-Charles-Joseph, François, Jacques, Pierre, Dominique and Louis were in the Third Convoy leaving Châtellerault for Nantes on December 7, 1775."  This same notation can be found in Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 38, Family No. 73.  The Nantes study also shows that Charles and Bonne had 2 more sons at St.-Martin-de-Chantenay, near Nantes--Guillaume-Médard, baptized in Jun 1776, & Jean, baptized in Feb 1778, but both of them died young, in Jul 1776 & Sep 1780, respectively.  Bonne does not appear on the passenger list of Le Bon Papa either because she died at Nantes in the late 1770s or early 1780s, & Charles remarried to Euphrosine BARRILLOT at St.-Martin-de-Chantenay in Jun 1784.  Louis, by Charles's first wife, also does not appear on the passenger list of Le Bon Papa; he likely died at Nantes after the family got there; there is no evidence that he, too, went to LA.  But back to Jacques.  If he was born at Cherbourg in the late 1760s, he would have been in his late teens in 1785, when his family set sail from Paimboeuf in May 1785.  Note how many sons the Spanish counted with Charles BROUSSARD & his second wife at Nantes in Sep 1784--6 of them.  Jacques could have been the sixth son with the family at Nantes in Sep 1784.  See Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 489.  How Jacques was overlooked when the passenger lists of Le Bon Papa were compiled is anyone's guess.  Note that his marriage record says he was "of Manchak," which is where Charles et al. settled after they reached LA.  The Opelousas priest called Jacques's father Paul, which, when pronounced in the French, sounds a lot like Charles.  Jacques's mother's name, Isabelle, is probably a redundancy of his wife's name.  One of the most compelling clues is the surname the Opelousas priest gave his mother--CHALET.  This is one of the many forms of his mother's actual surname, CASTEL, found in LA records.  The biggest clue, however, is that Jacques exists, that he is a BROUSSARD in LA who cannot be accounted for in any other BROUSSARD family line there.  I will add him to this list, as part of Charles BROUSSARD's family, until more compelling evidence forces me to remove him. 

I am convinced that Jacques was a son of Charles BROUSSARD.  I must concede, however, that he may not have crossed with Charles et. al aboard Le Bon Papa.  Like his older brothers Jean-Charles-Joseph and François, Jacques could have been a sailor, but, unlike them, he may not have been in France in May 1785 when the family left Paimboeuf on Le Bon Papa.  Wishing to be with them in LA, he could have taken one of the 6 other ships that sailed from France to New Orleans thru the third week of Oct that year, perhaps as a stowaway or as a crew member, hence his not appearing on a passenger list of any of the Seven Ships.  Or, as a sailor, he could have reached LA on his own hook in the late 1780s.  That he got to LA & found his family at Manchac is clear from the notation in his marriage record.  Why he left Manchac & moved to the Opelousas District is anyone's guess.  His father Charles died by Dec 1795, when his second wife was listed in the Assumption census on upper Bayou Lafourche without a husband.  Two of Jacques's brothers, François & Pierre, remained at Manchac/Baton Rouge, but the other two, Jean-Charles-Joseph & Joseph-Dominique, moved to upper Bayou Lafourche in the 1790s, perhaps following their father & stepmother.  Jacques, on the other hand, simply did his own thing & headed west across the Basin to the Opelousas prairies, where he married a daughter of the author's maternal ancestor, Jacob MILLER of Alsace & MD. 

31.  Wall of Names, 14, calls him Louis BROUSSARD, & lists him singly.

When did he reach the colony?  Why did he move north to the Avoyelles prairie in the mid-1790s?  Very few Acadians went there. 

32.  Wall of Names, 14 (pl. 2R), calls her Madeleine BROUSSARD, & lists her with sister Élisabeth; BRDR, 2:163 (PCP-2, pt. 2, 140), one of her marriage records, calls her Magdelene BROUSSARD, calls her husband François GUILBAU, gives her & his parents' names, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Augustin GREVEMBERG & Gerlad de VERBOIS; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:140, 379 (SM Ch.: v.1, p.27), another of her marriage records, calls her Magdeleine BROUSSARD, calls her husband François GUILLEBAUT, gives her & his parents' names, & says the witnesses to her marriage were ____ BORDA, ____ de VERBOIS, _____ BERARD, Augustin GREVEMBER, François GREVEMBER, ____ DURIEN, & Joseph LANDRY; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:141, 379 (SM Ch.: Folio A-1, p.19), yet another of her marriage records, calls her Magdelene BROUSSARD "of Attakapas," calls her husband François GUILBAU "of Attakapas," gives her & his parents' names, & says the witnesses to her marriage were _____ BERARD, Augustin GREVEMBER, Françoise[sic] GREVEMBER, _____ DURIEU, & Joseph LANDRY; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-B:167 (SM Ch.: v.4, #1503), her death/burial record, calls her Magdeleine BROUSSARD, "native of Acadie, spouse of Francois GUILBAUD, inhabitant of la pointe," says she died "at age 70 years at her home," & that she was buried "in the parish cemetery," but does not give her parents' names.  

When did she & her sister reach LA? 

Her marriage was recorded at Pointe Coupée because, although the church in St. Martinville claims to have existed since 1765, during the late 1760s & early 1770s, there often was no priest at Attakapas, so priests from the nearest parish, which was Pointe Coupée at the time, would cross the Atchafalaya Basin &, as missionaries, administer the sacraments to the settlers in the Attakapas & Opelousas districts (Opelousas had no church of its own until 1776). 

33.  Wall of Names, 25, calls her Madeleine BROUSSARD; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:140 (SM Ch.: Slave Funeral Register, v.1, #2), one of her death/burial records, calls her Magdeleine BROUSSARD, "wife of Olivier THIBAUDAUT," but does not give her parents' names; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:140 (SM Ch.: v.1, p.6), another of her death/burial records, calls her Magdalene BROUSSARD, "wife of Olivier THIBAUDEAU," but does not give her parents' names. 

See AGE, May 2006, p. 13, in which genealogist Stephen A. White speculates that the most likely parents of Madeleine were Alexandre dit Beausoleil & Marguerite THOBIDEAUX.  Madeleine has the dubious distinction of being the first of the BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil party in the Atakapas to die there, or at least the first recorded as having died there.  So why is she #2 in the St. Martinville church Slave Funeral Register, vol. 1?  Her infant daughter Marguerite-Anne THIBODEAUX, who died on 16 May, was #1. 

34.  Wall of Names, 15, calls her Marguerite BROUSSARD; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-B:169 (SM Ch.: v.4, #1446), her death/burial record, calls her Marguerite BROUSSARD, "wid. of Charlitte DUGAST, native of Acadie," says she died "... at the home of the widow Francois BERNARD at la fausse pointe," & was buried "in the parish cemetery," but does not give her parents' names  See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 280; De Ville, Attakapas Census, 1771, 13; De Ville, Southwest LA Families, 1777, 13.  

Her estimated birth year is from the Atakapas census of 1777.  

35.  Wall of Names, 14, calls her Marguerite BROUSSARD; BRDR, 1b:29 (PCP-1, 279; PCP-3, 189), her birth/baptismal record, calls her Marguerite BROUSSARD, gives her parents' names, describes them as "both Acadians going to establish a new settlement at Attakapas," & says her godparents were René TRAHAN, proxy for André MASSE, & Isabelle LEBLANC; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:56, 141 (SM Ct.Hse.: OA-vol.3, #177), one of her marriage records, calls her Marguerite BROUSSARD, "native of Atacapas," calls her husband Jean-Baptiste BERNARD "from the parish of Acadie," gives her & his parents' names, & says the witnesses to her marriage were François BROUSSARD, Claude BROUSSARD, Silvain BROUSSARD, Simon LEBLANC, & Alexandre Chevalier DECLOUET; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:56, 141 (SM Ch.: v.2, #76), another of her marriage records, calls her Marguerite BROUSSARD, calls her husband Jean-Baptiste BERNARD, does not give any parents' names, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Jean-Baptiste BERNARD [the groom], Marguerite BROUSSARD [the bride], Jean Gilhorpe MERTERTIGO, Baptiste LAVOR, & Pierre BERNARD. 

It is significant to the history of the Attakapas region that Marguerite's birth & baptism were recorded not at New Orleans but at Pointe Coupée.  The notation in her baptismal record that her parents were "both Acadians going to establish a new settlement at Attakapas" hints that Marguerite was born either on the movement of the BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil party from New Orleans to Bayou Teche via the bayous & rivers of the central Atchafalaya Basin, or on the Teche soon after they got there.  After leaving New Orleans, the BROUSSARD party would have cleared the settlements of the two German Coasts & the small enclave of fellow Acadians at Cabanocé before reaching the confluence with Bayou Plaquemine, gateway to the Attakapas region.  There they would have turned westward into the Basin & made their way via Bayou Plaquemine, Grand River, & the Atchafalaya River to Bayou Courtableau, which would have taken them to the head of Bayou Teche.  See map,  If Marguerite's baptism had been recorded at New Orleans, the BROUSSARD party likely would have still been in the city on the day of her birth, Apr 23, weeks after the party's leaders had signed the DAUTERIVE agreement on Apr 4.  That her baptism was recorded at Pointe Coupée hints that the party was on their way to the Teche or had already gotten there by the third week of Apr.  One can safely say, then, that Joseph BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil took his party of 200 Acadians to the Teche in Apr, soon after they made the deal with Jean-Antoine-Bernard DAUTERIVE & 2 months after they reached the colony. 

Wherever she was born, Marguerite would have been baptized by the BROUSSARD party's priest, Capuchin Father Jean-François de CIVRAY, whom the church authorities in New Orleans attached to the party.  In their movement thru the Basin & on the Teche, the nearest parish would have been St.-François of Pointe Coupée, upriver from the confluence of the Mississippi with Bayou Plaquemine, hence the recording of the baptism there.  Marguerite likely was the first child born in La Nouvelle-Acadie, as Fr. Jean-François called the new Acadian settlement on the Teche, or at least the first child there whose birth was recorded.  (For early use of the term La Nouvelle-Acadie, see the burial record of Alexandre BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil, little Marguerite's grandfather, in which Fr. Jean-François describes himself as curé de la nouvelle Acadie; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:119 [SM Ch.: Slave Funeral Register, v.1, #21].)  Little Marguerite's baptismal sponsors were Isabelle LEBLANC, wife of the baby's first cousin Victor BROUSSARD, & René TRAHAN, husband of Isabelle BROUSSARD, who was another of the baby's first cousins.  René stood proxy for André MASSE, a major cattle rancher of the Attakapas District & partner of Jean-Antoine-Bernard DAUTERIVE.  Marguerite's grandfather, Alexandre dit Beausoleil, Joseph dit Beausoleil's older brother & fellow Acadian resistance leader back in the old country, & Alexandre's wife, Marguerite THIBODEAUX, for whom the baby was probably named, died at Attakapas 5 months after their granddaughter was born.  (See Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:752-53 (SM Ch.: v.1, p.12), for grandmother Marguerite's burial record.)  Happily, the baby survived the rigors of childhood to become a young bride, a mother, & a grandmother. 

36.  Wall of Names, 23, calls her Marguerite BROUSSARD veuve Jacques MELANSON.  See also Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 151.

37.  Wall of Names, 14 (pl. 2R), calls her Marie BROUSSARD, & lists her singly; BRDR, 4:106, 405 (SMI-2, 87), the record of her second marriage, calls her Marie BROUSSARD, "wid. Bonaventure GAUDIN," calls her husband Paul Olivier MELANSON, does not give her or his parents' names but gives her husband's first wife's name, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Cenac LANDRI, Étienne DUGAS, & Medard DELATTRE; BRDR, 4:106 (SMI-4, 74), her death/burial record, calls her Marie BROUSSARD, age 65 yrs., wife of Paul MELANÇON, but does not give her parents' names.  See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 124; Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 176; De Ville, St. James Census, 1777, 13.  

Wall of Names lists her singly & not with her parents & older sister perhaps because the Attakapas census of 1766 included the names of only the heads of households, so she cannot be definitively linked to Athanase BROUSSARD via that source.  But if that is the case, why did they link sister Isabelle with Athanase BROUSSARD & Anne BOURGEOIS and not Marie?

Marie BROUSSARD is first named in LA records at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques in 1769 with the family of Joseph BOURGEOIS at age 2 & again in 1777 at age 10, so her mother probably was a BOURGEOIS, or kin to the BOURGEOISs.  A Marie BROUSSARD, daughter of Athanase BROUSSARD & Anne BOURGEOIS, married Bonaventure GAUDIN dit Bellefontaine by 1802.  The baptismal record of Hortense GAUDIN, dated 9 Feb 1802, in NOAR, 7:147 (SLC, B14, 181), says Marie BROUSSARD, the girl's mother, was "native of this city" & daughter of Atanasio BROUSSARD & Ana BOURGEOIS.  If this Marie BROUSSARD was the daughter of Athanase BROUSSARD & Anne BOURGEOIS who came to LA with the party from Halifax via St.-Domingue led by Athanase's father, Joseph BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil, in Feb 1765, she must have been born in New Orleans soon after they reached the city.  The age given in Marie's burial record--65--gives her an estimated birth year of c1762 & only complicates the story.  

The most likely story goes like this:  Athanase BROUSSARD & Anne BOURGEOIS were living at Attakapas in the spring of 1766 with a son & 2 daughters, but they may have died soon afterwards.  Marie, still very young, was parceled out to maternal relatives at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques.  Joseph BOURGEOIS & his wife Marie-Madeleine GIROUARD had come to LA in Feb 1765 with the BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil party but retreated to Cabanocé in the fall of 1765 to escape the Teche epidemic.  They did not return to the western prairies but remained on the river, as did Marie, who married twice there & lived for a time in New Orleans.  

38.  Wall of Names, 14, calls him Mathurin BROUSSARD.  

The orphan listed in the Atakapas census of 1777 was Canadian, not Acadian, son of Louis LALONDE & Louise PECARD "of La paroisse aux Cedres en Canada."  See Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:466-67.  The LALONDE's of the Opelousas District also were Canadians from Québec; their progenitor, Guillaume, was in fact Jean-Baptiste's brother.  See Hébert, D., 1-A:466-67.

Did Mathurin ever marry?

39.  Wall of Names, 14 (pl. 2R), calls him Paul BROUSSARD, & lists him with his widowed mother & 2 brothers; NOAR, 2:35 (SLC, B5, 149), his birth/baptismal record, calls him Paul BROUSSARD, gives his parents' names, says his father was deceased at the time of his birth, & says his godparents were Ephrem BA(L/B)AGNE & Anne BIGEOT.  

His widowed mother obviously was pregnant when she reached New Orleans in Sep 1766.  Her husband probably died in MD on the eve of their departure from that colony.  

Who was the Paul BROUSSARD, orphan, with the Joseph CASTILLE family in MD in Jul 1763?  See Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 155.  The CASTILLEs came to LA in 1767, not 1766, & went to St.-Gabriel, not Cabanocé.  In a marriage record dated 7 Jul 1791 in Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:132 (Opel. Ch.: v.1-A, p.35), the groom, son of Paul BROUSSARD & Isabelle CHALET, is called "Jacques of Manchak."   "Manchak" was St.-Gabriel.  The Paul born at New Orleans in Nov 1766 would have much too young to be Jacques's father.  So who was Paul of Manchak?  

40.  Wall of Names, 13, calls him Pierre BROUSSARD; BRDR, 2:163, 538 (SJA-1, 38), the record of his first marriage, calls him Pierre BRUSARD, calls his wife Marie MELANZON, gives his & her parents' names, says his parents were "of Acadia," that her parents were Acadians, & that the witnesses to his marriage were Jean-Baptiste BRUSARD [probably his brother] & Euphreme ROBISCHO ; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:146, 372-73 (SM Cte.Hse.: OA-18-149), a record of his second marriage, dated 11 Apr 1798, calls him Pierre BROUSSARD "of Acadie," calls his wife Marguerite GUÉDRY "of Opel.," gives his & her parents' names, but give no witnesses to his marriage; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:146, 373 (SM Ch.: v.4, #150), another record of his second marriage, dated 16 Apr 1798, calls him BROUSSARD "of Acadia, widr. of Marie MELANÇON," calls his wife Marguerite GUIDRY "of Atakapas," gives his & her parents' names, says his father was deceased at the time of the wedding, that her father was "of Acadia" & her mother "of Virginia in U.S.A.," & that the witnesses to his marriage were Thomas CONARD, sacristan, Augustin GUIDRY, & Achille BERARD; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-C:138 (SM Ch.: v.4, #1945), his death/burial record, calls him Pierre BROUSSARD, "native of Acadie," says he died "at age about 75 years at his home at la grand pointe," & that he was buried next day "in the parish cemetery," but does not give his parents' names or mention a wife.

Why did he marry his first wife at St.-Jacques?  Did he get around that much?  How did they meet?  She, too, came to LA from Halifax via St.-Domingue in 1765, but in a later party; she was only 12 years old then, but he was just 14.  Had they known one another in Nova Scotia?  

41.  Wall of Names, 28 (pl. 6R), calls him Pierre [BROUSSARD, & lists him with his father, stepmother, 3 brothers, & a stepbrother; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 60, his birth/baptismal record, calls him Pierre BROUSSARD, gives his parents' names, calls his mother Bonne COLETTE, says his parents were tous Acadiens, & that his godparents were Pierre MOULAISON & Agnès BROUSSARD; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 25, Family No. 52, calls him Pierre [BROUSSARD], gives his parents' names, & details the family's participation in the Poitou settlement of the early 1770s; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 8-9, calls him Pierre, son [Charles BROUSSARD's] fils, age 14, on the embarkation list, Pedro, Su [Carlos BROUSARD's] hijo, on the debarkation list, & Pierre BROUSSARD, his [Charles BROUSSARD's] son, age 14, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 24th Family aboard Le Bon Papa with his father, stepmother, 3 brothers, & a stepbrother; BRDR, 2:164, 550 (SJO-3, 5), his marriage record, calls him Pedro BROUSARD, calls his wife Maria Sophia MOULAISON, gives his & her parents' names, says his parents were "of Charbour, France," that her parents were "of Nantes, France," & that the witnesses to his marriage were Baptiste BOUSELL, Pedro BLANCO, & Domingo BROUSARD [his brother]. 

42.  Wall of Names, 14, calls him René BROUSSARD; Hébert, Southwest LA Records, 1-A:147, 480 (SM Ct.Hse.: OA-vol.1, #24 & #53), the record of his first marriage, calls him René BROUSSARD, "inhabitant of Atakapas," calls his wife Marie-Magdeleine LANDRY, "native of Atakapas," gives his & her parents' names, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Joseph BROUSSARD, Amand BROUSSARD, Firmin LANDRY, & Joseph LANDRY; Hébert, Southwest LA Records, 1-A:147, 345 (SM Ch.: v.1, p.65), a record of his second marriage, calls him René BROUSSARD, "de l'Acadie, veuf (from Acadia, a widower) of Magdeleine LANDRY, calls his wife Anne GAUDIN, "d'Acadie," gives his & her parents' names, calls his parents Firmin LANDRY/BROUSSARD & Françoise THIBAUDEAU, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Aman PREJEAN, Jacques FOSTIN, & Jean GUILLEBAUT; Hébert, Southwest LA Records, 1-A:147, 345-46 (SM Ch.: Folio B-1), another record of his second marriage, calls him René BROUSSARD, "of Acadia, widower of Magdeleine LANDRY, calls his wife Anne GEAUDIN "of Acadia," gives his & her parents' names, calls his parents Firmin LANDRY/BROUSSARD & Françoise THIBODO, & says  the witnesses to his marriage were Aman PREJEAN, Jacques FOSTAIN, & Jean GUILBO; NOAR, 6:36 (SLC, F4, 63), his death/burial record, calls him Renato BROUSSARD, "native of Acadia in the country of Canada, 40 yr., sp. Anna GAUDET[sic], but does not give his parents' names.

The Attakapas priest who recorded his second marriage in 1779 must have hit the wine a little hard during the wedding ceremony; he gave René his dead wife, Madeleine LANDRY's, parents.  Why was René in New Orleans in 1799?  Had he moved there, or was he only visiting or on business there at the time of his death?

43.  Wall of Names, 13 (pl. 2L), calls him Simon BROUSSARD, & lists him with the family of Alexandre BROUSSARD; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2446, says he was probablement son of Joseph BROUSSARD & Agnès THIBODEAUX; Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 171, & Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 425, his marriage record, calls him Simon BROUSSARD, calls his wife Marguerite/Margueritte BLANCHARD, & gives no witnesses to his marriage. 

Wall of Names, not Arsenault, is followed here for the identity of his parents.

He & his wife were married at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques probably because that is where she & her younger brother Victor, who were orphans, settled after they reached LA, probably from Halifax via St.-Domingue in 1765 (but in a later party, not the one led by Simon's father & uncle).  Did Simon & Marguerite know one other from the prison compound at Halifax?  If she came to LA in 1765, she was only 14 years old then; he was 20 in 1765.  Something compelled him to re-cross the Atchafalaya Basin & travel downriver to Cabanocé to marry this teenaged girl.  There is also the possibility that he left the Teche valley in late 1765 with dozens of other Acadians who escaped the epidemic that killed his father, uncle, & dozens of other Teche Acadians, followed them to Cabanocé/St.-Jacques, met the recently-arrived Marguerite, & waited until she was few years older to marry her.  The only problem with this scenario is the Attakapas census of Apr 1766, which shows him at La Pointe on upper Bayou Teche with no one else in his household.  If he retreated to Cabanocé in late 1765, he obviously returned to the Teche by Apr 1766.  My guess is that he remained on the Teche with the other BROUSSARDs despite the epidemic of 1765 & went to Cabanocé in 1768 simply to marry the girl he loved. 

44.  Wall of Names, 13, calls him Sylvain BROUSSARD.

45.  Wall of Names, 13, calls him Théodore BROUSSARD; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:149, 767 (SM Ch.: v.2, #162), the record of his first marriage, calls him Théodore BROUSSARD, calls his wife Henriette TRAHAN, says she was a minor daughter, gives his & her parent's names, says his parents were "of Halifax" & hers of Fausse Pointe," & that the witness to his marriage was Jean-Marie LE MERCIER; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-B:139, 702 (SM Ch.: v.5, #86), the record of his second marriage, calls him Théodore BROUSSARD, "of Vermillion, of Acadia," calls his wife Silesie THIBAUDEAU, gives his & her parents' names, says he was a major son & she a minor daughter, says nothing of his first wife, & that the witnesses to his marriage were Frédéric MOUTON & Célestine PREJEAN; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-B:176-77 (SM Ch.: v.4, #1309), his death/burial record, calls him Théodore  BROUSSARD, inhabitant at Vermillion, says he died "at age 55 yrs. at his home," & that he was buried "in the parish cemetery," but does not give his parents' names or mention a wife. 

The marriage record of daughter Clotilde, dated 2 Aug 1813, in Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-A:157 (SM Ch.: v.5, #312), says that Théodore was "born at sea."  That means he was born either on the first leg of the long voyage of the BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil party from Halifax to Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, in Nov-Dec 1764 or Jan 1765, or on the much shorter leg from Cap-Français to New Orleans in Jan-Feb 1765.  Probably on the first leg. 

Was he the Théodoro BROUSSARD listed singly in "District of the Pointe," Attakapas, in Apr 1766?  Does the census taker imply that Théodoro was an adult?   This Théodore would have still been an infant!  Very strange.  Note that Théodore's parents are not in the census.  See Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 124ff.  At age 15 months or so, Théodore certainly would have been living with another family, probably relatives, in Apr 1766, so perhaps the census taker, by listing him separately, was saying that the boy survived whatever had killed his parents.  Were they undocumented victims of the Teche valley epidemic that had killed dozens of their fellow Acadians in the summer & fall of 1765?  Perhaps they had survived the epidemic but died that winter or in the spring, leaving Théodore an orphan.  Wall of Names & this researcher have found no other Théodore BROUSSARD at Atakapas in 1765-66. 

46.  Not in Wall of Names.  Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:149-50 (SM Ch.: v.1, p.8; SM Ch.: Slave Funeral Register v.1, #8-A), her death/burial record, calls her Théotiste BROUSSARD, spouse of Augustin GUÉDRY, & says that she was buried on 26 Jul "au dernier camp d'enbas."  

How was she kin to Joseph dit Beausoleil?  Her husband, called Augustin GUÉDRY, is listed singly on Wall of Names,18.  Why?  

47.  Wall of Names, 19, calls her Théotiste BROUSSARD veuve Joseph HUGON.

She does not appear in an Attakapas census until 1785, but her daughter Marie HUGON, called Marie DUGON by the Attakapas priests, was married at Attakapas in Jul 1772, so Théotiste probably came to LA years before 1785.  A likely scenario is that she and her daughter came to the colony directly from Haiti, where she & her family had gone from SC in 1763-64 & where her husband died.  Being a BROUSSARD, when the party from Halifax led by kinsman Joseph BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil came through Cap-Français, Haiti, in late 1764 on their way to New Orleans, she, now a widow, her teenage daughter, & brother-in-law Jacques HUGON, a widower, probably hooked up with her relatives and moved on to LA ... in Feb 1765.  

How was she kin to Alexandre & Joseph BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil?

48.  Wall of Names, 14 (pl. 2R), calls him Victor BROUSSARD, & lists him with a wife & no children; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2444-45, calls him Victor BROUSSARD, says he was born in c1728, & that his father was Joseph dit Beausoleil.  See also Milling, Exile Without End, 46; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 251; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 124.

He is a somewhat mysterious fellow.  Arsenault & at least 2 other secondary sources, without citing a primary source, insist that Victor was the son of Joseph dit Beausoleil.  See Perrin, W. A., Acadian Redemption, 24, citing Faragher, A Great & Noble Scheme, 356.  Faragher, p. 384, & also Perrin, W. A., p. 25, repeat the assertion that Victor was Joseph's son & call him Victor-Grégoire besides.  Where did they find this middle name?  Arsenault, p. 2444, says that Victor had an older brother named Jean-Grégoire, so perhaps they transposed the middle name to Victor.  Note that in 1 of the 2 burial records of Victor BROUSSARD's wife Isabelle LEBLANC in Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:499-500 (SM Ch.: v.1, p. 14; SM Ch.: Slave Funeral Register v.1, #29), she is described as "m. [married] to Victor BROUSSARD," but in the other record Father Jean-François calls her "wid. [widow] of Victor BROUSSARD."  She was buried on 29 Oct 1765.  If she was his widow, had he died before then?  If so, how could he have appeared in the Atakapas census of Apr 1766?  Or is this another Victor BROUSSARD?  What happened to the 2 children of Victor BROUSSARD at Halifax in Aug 1763?  No baptismal or marriage record in Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, lists Victor BROUSSARD as the father.  

A BROUSSARD family website at <http://kandrtell.tripod.com/gen/broussard.html> calls him Victor-Grégoire, gives his wife's parents' names, says that Isabelle was "born in 1732 in Grand-Pré, Acadia," & that their children, none of whom evidently made it to LA, were:  twins Jean & Joseph, born 15 Sep 1753, probably Village-des-Beausoleil, Petitcoudiac, & Agnès, born 15 Mar 1757, probably Miramichi.  One would guess that all 3 children were among the many Acadians who died at Miramichi during the terrible winter of 1756-57.  In fact, some accounts insist that all of the Acadian children at Miramichi died that winter. 

49.  Not in Wall of Names.  Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:124-25 (SM Ct.Hse.: OA-Vol.1, #79), her marriage record, calls her Catherine BROUSSARD, "native of Acadia," calls her husband Andres Lopes DE ACUNA, "native of Pont Verre in Gallice," gives her & his parents' names, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Joseph CASTILLE, Rose LANDRY, Antoine RODRIGUE, Joseph ZONARES, Jean-Baptiste BROUSSARD, & Olivier THIBAUDAU; BRDR, 3:175 (SJO-4, 79), perhaps her death/burial record, calls her Margarita BROUSSARD, age 45 yrs., wid. Andres LOPEZ, but does not gives her parents' names.

The age in her burial record gives her an estimated birth year of c1769, which means she was only 9 years old when she married André Lopes DE ACUNA at Atakapas?  And why does the burial record call her Marguerite & not Catherine?

Why is she not on the Acadian Memorial's Wall of Names?  Was her surname something other than BROUSSARD?  

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