APPENDICES

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

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ACADIA

Jeanne Chaillou, born in c1733, married Jean-Baptiste Bourg probably on Île Miquelon, a French-controlled island off the southern coast of Newfoundland, in c1762. Their daughter Marie-Geneviève was born there in c1767.

LE GRAND DÉRANGEMENT

Soon after Marie-Geneviève's birth, the British deported the family to France. Three more children, all sons, were born to Jean-Baptiste Bourg and Jeanne Chaillou at Monthoiron, France, in the Poitou region--Jean-Baptiste, fils in c1769, André in c1771, and Charles in January 1775. The family's presence in Poitou in the early 1770s reveals that it was part of what the Acadians called the Leigne-les-bois settlement near Châtellerault. After the venture failed, Jean-Baptiste and Jeanne retreated with other Acadians families to the port city of Nantes, where they subsisted as best they could. When Jeanne and her four children were counted at Nantes in September 1784, Jean-Baptiste, père, was dead.

In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France a chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana. Jeanne Chaillou and her children agreed to take it.

LOUISIANA: LAFOURCHE VALLEY SETTLEMENTS

Jeanne Chaillou sailed to Louisiana aboard La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in August 1785. With her were her four Bourg children: Marie-Geneviève, age 18, and Jean-Baptiste, age 16, André, age 14, and Charles, age 10. They followed the majority of the passengers from their ship to upper Bayou Lafourche. Jeanne probably died in the early 1790s, in her late 50s or early 60s.

CONCLUSION

Jeanne, widow of Jean-Baptiste Bourg, was the only Acadian Chaillou to go to Louisiana. The Acadian branch of this family, then, except for its blood, did not survive in the Bayou State.

The family's name also is spelled Chaillon, Chaillot, Chaillou, Chaillout, Chalou, Challu, Chellon.

Sources: [see below]

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):

Asc	Ascension	Lf	Lafourche (Lafourche, Terrebonne)	PCP	Pointe Coupée
Asp	Assumption	Natc	Natchitoches (Natchitoches)	SB	San Bernardo (St. Bernard)
Atk	Attakapas (St. Martin, St. Mary, Lafayette, Vermilion)	Natz	San Luìs de Natchez (Concordia)	StG	St.-Gabriel d'Iberville (Iberville)
BdE	Bayou des Écores (East Baton Rouge, West Feliciana)	NO	New Orleans (Orleans)	StJ	St.-Jacques de Cabanocé (St. James)
BR	Baton Rouge (East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge)	Op	Opelousas (St. Landry, Calcasieu)

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

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

Name	Arrived	Settled	Profile
Jeanne CHAILLOU 01	Aug 1785	Asp	born c1733, perhaps Île Miquelon; married, age 29, Jean-Baptiste BOURG, c1762, perhaps Île Miquelon; at Châtellerault, France, 1773-76; in Fourth Convoy from Châtellerault to Nantes, France, Mar 1776; on list of Acadians at Nantes, Sep 1784, called Jeanne CHAILLOT, widow of Jean BOURG, with 3 sons, & 1 daughter; sailed to LA on La Bergère, age 56[sic], widow, head of family; received from Spanish on arrival 1 each of axe, shovel, & meat cleaver, 2 each of hatchet & hoe; in Valenzuéla census, 1788, left bank, called Jeanne CHAILLON Widow BOURG, age 50[sic], with sons Jean-Baptiste [BOURG] age 18, André [BOURG ] age 15, & Charles [BOURG] age 12, 6 arpents, 10 qts. corn, 3 cattle, 2 horses, 4 swine, next to son-in-law Antoine MOLLARD; in Valenzuéla census, 1791, left bank, called Jeanne CHAILLON, Widow BOURG, age 60[sic], with sons Jean-Baptiste [BOURG] age 21, André [BOURG] age 19, & Charles [BOURG] age 16, 6 arpents, 200 qts. corn, 6 horned cattle, 1 horse, 28 swine, next to son-in-law Antoine MOLLARD; died probably before Dec 1795, when she did not appear in the Valenzuéla census with her children; depicted in Dafford Mural, Acadian Memorial, St. Martinville

NOTES

01. Wall of Names, 29 (pl. 7L), calls her CHELLON veuve BOURG, & lists her with 4 children; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 21-22, Family No. 44, calls her Jeanne CHAILLOU, says she was born c1733 but gives no place of birth, does not give her parents' names, & says that she married Jean BOURG in c1762 but gives no place of marriage; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 16-17, calls her CHELLON, veuve BOURG, age 56, on the embarkation list, Jeanne CHELLON, on the debarkation list, & Jeanne CHELLON, widow BOURG, age 56, on the complete listing, says she was in the 24th Family aboard La Bergère with 3 children, details her marriage, calls her husband Jean BOURG, gives her & her husband's parents' names but not the location of their marriage, says son Charles was born in 1775 but gives no birthplace, lists the implements the Spanish gave to her & her family after they reached LA, & details her son Charles's marriage in LA. See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 489; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 40, 172.

Her & her husband's full names also can be found in son Charles's marriage record in BRDR, 2:120 (ASM-2, 24), which spells her family name CHAILLOU. The marriage record of their son Jean-Baptiste in BRDR, 2:123 (ASC-2, 54), spells her family name CHALOU. The marriage record of their daughter Marie in NOAR, 4:38 (SLC, M5, 41), spells her family name CHALLU. The birth/baptismal record of one of their granddaughters, Juana [Jeanne] MOULARD, in BRDR, 2:559-60 (ASM-1, 88), spells her family name CHAILLOUT.

According to the marriage record in NOAR, cited above, Jeanne's daughter Marie-Geneviève BOURG was born on Miquelon (c1767, according to other sources). Although none of the spellings of Jeanne's surname are in either Arsenault, Généalogie, or White, DGFA-1, the fact that her daughter Marie was born on Île Miquelon, which was part of greater Acadia, makes Jeanne an Acadian. Unfortunately, Marie's marriage record & all of the other church records cited above do not give the names of Jeanne CHAILLOU's parents.

Note that Jean-Pierre LIRETTE, husband of Acadian Marie-Madeleine DAREMBOURG, who also came to LA in 1785 aboard one of the Seven Ships, was the son of Francois LIRETTE & Michaela CHAILLOU of Nantes, France. See BRDR, 2:504. Was Michaela kin to Jeanne?

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