APPENDICES

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

COMEAUX

[kuh-MOH, KOH-mo]

ACADIA

Pierre Comeau, born in France in c1598, a cooper whose parents and birthplace are unknown, came to Acadia with Isaac Razilly and the sieur d'Aulnay in 1632.  He was therefore, along with Germain Doucet, one of the first permanent settlers in the colony.  He worked his trade at La Hève, Razilly's headquarters, and eventually moved to Port-Royal, where he married Rose Bayol in c1649 when he was 51 years old.  Rose, who was 18 at the time of their marriage, had come to Acadia aboard the St.-Jehan with her father in 1636.  She and Pierre had nine children, including five sons who married and created families of their own:  

Oldest son Étienne, born at Port-Royal in c1650, married first to Marie-Anne, daughter of Martin Lefebvre of La Rochelle, at Port-Royal in c1670.  They had three children, including a son, Alexandre, who married a Doucet.  Étienne remarried to Marie, daughter of René Landry and widow of Germain Doucet, at Port-Royal in c1698, but they had no children.  Étienne died at Port-Royal in January 1723, age 73.  

Pierre l'aîné dit L'Esturgeon, born at Port-Royal in c1652, married Jeanne, daughter of Antoine Bourg, at Port-Royal in c1677.  They had 18 children, including six sons who married into the Pitre, Roy dit LaLiberté, Amireau, Lord, Thibodeaux, and Cormier families.  Pierre l'aîné dit L'Esturgeon died at Port-Royal in April 1730, age 80.   

Jean l'âiné, born at Port-Royal in c1656, married first to Francoise, daughter of Etienne Hébert, who gave him 19 children, including seven sons who married into the Bézier dit Joan dit Larivière, Foret, Levron dit Nantois, Thibodeaux, Soulard, Bertrand, and Girouard families.  In 1717, after Francoise died, Jean l'âiné was recorded Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, now Cape Breton Island, having gone there probably to escape British authority in Nova Scotia, but he returned soon afterwards to Port-Royal, where he remarried to Catherine-Josèphe, daughter of Francois Lejeune, at Port-Royal in January 1720 and fathered a twentieth child, a daughter who was born in November 1720, a week after Jean l'âiné was buried at Port-Royal.  

Pierre le jeune dit Des Loups-Marins, born at Port-Royal in c1658, married Jeanne, daughter of Jacques Bourgeois, at Port-Royal in c1689.  They had 10 children, including a son, Francois, who married into the Lord and Pitre dit Marc families.  

Youngest son Jean le jeune dit Jean-Augustin, born at Port-Royal in c1665, married Catherine, daughter of Antoine Babin, at Port-Royal in c1686.  They moved to the Minas Basin and had 15 children, including five sons who married into the Landry and Aucoin families. ...

LE GRAND DÉRANGEMENT

Like so many old Acadian families, Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this large family to the winds. ...

LOUISIANA:  WESTERN SETTLEMENTS

The first Comeau to reach Louisiana arrived in February 1765 with the party from Halifax via St.-Domingue, today's Haiti, led by Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil.  Victor, son of Jean Comeau of Chepoudy, wife Anne Michel, once married to Michel Brun, and their two young sons, followed the Broussard party to the Atakapas District, west of the Atchafalaya Basin, and settled on the banks of Bayou Teche.  There Victor died in the late 1760s, leaving Anne a widow again.  ...

Also reaching Louisiana in 1765 were Victor Comeau's younger brother Charles and their older cousin, Michel, also from Chepoudy, who settled not along the Teche but in the Opelousas District north of Atakapas.  By the 1770s, these Chepoudy natives had become prominent cattlemen on the Opelousas prairies. ...

LOUISIANA:  RIVER SETTLEMENTS

Two Comean families came to Louisiana from Maryland in 1767 and 1768 and settled in new Acadian communities on the river above New Orleans, St.-Gabriel d'Iberville and San Luis de Natchez. ...

The largest contingent of Comeaus to settle on the Mississippi River did not arrive until 20 years after the first Acadian Comeau came to Louisiana.  Half a dozen Comeau families who had endured a quarter of a century of neglect in the mother country arrived on six of the Seven Ships from France in 1785. ...

LOUISIANA:  LAFOURCHE VALLEY SETTLEMENTS

By the mid-1790s, Spanish officials were counting Comeaus in the upper valley of Bayou Lafourche. ...

CONCLUSION

In Louisiana, the family's name picked up an "x" and became Comeaux.  Up in Canada, however, it is still spelled Comeau.  The family's name also is spelled Caumon, Comaut, Commaux, Commeau, Commeaux, Como, Comon, Comont, Coumeau, Coummeau.  

Sources:  Arsenault, Généalogie, 484-93, 1137-38, 1365-66, 1546-57, 1657, 2220-21, 2296-97, 2460-63; <porttoulouse.com/html/1717a.html>;  <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Duc_Guillaume.htm>, Family No. 48; White, DGFA-1, 369-93; White, DGFA-1 English, 83-88; Dave Comeau, descendant; Chapter One. 

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, 45, calls him Alexandre COMO.  For his possible middle name, see his marriage record in BRDR, 2:97, 196.  See also Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 57, 87, 139.

His birth year is an average of the ages given in the passenger list of La Ville d'Archangel & the LA censuses in which he is found.

02.  Wall of Names, 23, calls her Anne COMEAU.

03.  Not in Wall of Names.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 2460; De Ville, St. James Census, 1777, 15. 

04.  Wall of Names, 40, calls her Anne-Eleonnor COMMEAU.

In the succession record of her maternal aunt, Madeleine BLANCHARD, in Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-B:86 (Opel. Ct.Hse.: Succ. #134), dated Aug 1819, she is called Anne Eleanore COMEAU wid. of Pierre HÉBERT, & is named as her aunt's sole heir.  

05.  Wall of Names, 34 (pl. 8R), calls her Marie COMMEAU, & lists her with her husband & 3 children; Robichaux, Acadians in Chatellerault, 19-20, Family No. 39, calls her Anne-Marie COMMAUX, says she was born c1743 but gives no birthplace, gives her parents' names, details her marriage, including her husband's parents' names, includes the birth/baptismal record of son Jean-Pierre BOURG, baptized 19 Oct 1774, Archigny, Vienne, godson of Jean-Pierre GUÉRIN & Isabelle COMMAUX, & says the family was residing in the parish of St.-Similien, Nantes, by 18 Jul 1776; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 28-29, Family No. 51, calls her Anne-Marie COMMAUX, says she was born c1745 but gives no birthplace, gives her parents' names, details her marriage, including her husband's parents' names, includes the birth/baptismal & death/burial records of son Ambroise BOURG, baptized 18 Jul 1776, St.-Similen, Nantes, son Jacques-Alain BOURG, baptized 27 Jun 1778, St.-Similien, Nantes, died age 7 mos. & buried 30 Jan 1779, St.-Similien, Nantes, son Joseph-André BOURG, baptized 30 Nov 1779, St.-Nicolas, Nantes, son Jean-Marie BOURG, baptized 9 Sep 1781, St.-Nicolas, Nantes, died age 16 mos. & buried 25 Jan 1783, St.-Nicolas, Nantes, daughter Marguerite BOURG, died age 12 & buried 25 Aug 1782, St.-Nicolas, Nantes, & son Louis-Alexis BOURG, baptized 5 Sep 1783, St.-Nicolas, Nantes, & details the family's voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 38-39, calls her Marie COMMEAU, sa [Allain BOURG's] femme, age 40, on the embarkation list, Maria COUMMEAU, su [Alein BOURG's] muger, on the debarkation list, & Marie COMEAUX, his [Allain BOURG's] wife, age 40, on the complete listing, says she was in the 35th Family on the embarkation list &  the 38th Family on the debarkation list of Le Beaumont with her husband & 3 children, & details her marriage, including her & her husband's parents' names but gives no place of marriage.

06.  Wall of Names, 40, calls him Benoît COMMEAU; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2220, calls him Benoît COMEAU, gives his birth year, his parents' names, the place & date of his marriage, his stay on Île Miquelon, & says his children were Pierre, born 1763, & Jean, born 1765.  

Why did he leave Île Miquelon to go to France?

07.  Wall of Names, 19, calls her Catherine COMEAU veuve LAFAYE.

08.  Wall of Names, 14, calls him Charles COMEAU.  Arsenault, Généalogie, 2461, says that his mother was Madeleine AMIRAULT, but some family historians speculate that she may have been Brigitte SAVOIE.  Ken Breau of the University of Moncton writes via email to Ester Comeaux Howard:  "According to Stephen White's research pertaining to the family of Jean COMEAU and Brigitte SAVOIE, there is a note on Charles COMEAU married to Anastasie SAVOIE.  The key to identifying Charles as being the son of Jean COMEAN/Brigitte SAVOIE lies with Anne MICHEL.  She was the wife of Victor COMEAU, who we know as a son of Jean COMEAN/Brigitte SAVOIE.  This Anne MICHEL was godmother for at least one of the children of Charles. This close tie between Anne MICHEL and Charles COMEAU (who would have been her brother-in-law) is what Stephen White uses as evidence that Charles had to be son of Jean COMEAU."  Email courtesy of Lee Crockett, family historian.  See Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:199 (Opel. Ch.: v.1-A, p. 28), the 14 Oct 1781 birth/baptismal record of Charles's son Jean-Baptiste COMEAUX, for Anne MICHEL CORMIER's baptismal sponsorship.  Quote about his ranch is from the brochure that accompanies the Robert Dafford Mural, Acadian Memorial, St. Martinville, which says that he arrived in LA in 1766, but his presence in the Opelousas militia census of 1766, taken in Apr, shows that he arrived in 1765; the shipload of Acadians that reached the colony in 1766 did not arrive in New Orleans until late Sep.  For the Mar 1768 petition, see Brasseaux, ed., Quest for the Promised Land, 114-15.

09.  Wall of Names, 15, calls him Charles COMEAU 2.  His birth year is from the age provided in the Spanish report of 1767, not the St.-Gabriel census of 1777.  See De Ville, St. Gabriel Census, 1777, 5; Voorhies., J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 433.  His wife's name is from son Jean-Charles's marriage record & son Firmin's burial record in BRDR, 2:198.

10.  Wall of Names, 15, calls him Charles COMEAU.  I have found him in no other source.

11.  Wall of Names, 33 (pl. 8L), calls him Charles COMMEAU, & lists him with his wife & no children; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 32-33, calls him Charles COMMEAU, charpentier, age 37, on the embarkation list, Carlos COUMMEAU, on the debarkation list, & Charles COMEAUX, carpenter, age 37, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 9th Family aboard Le Beaumont with his wife & no children.

12.  Wall of Names, 15, calls him Charles COMEAU 3, & lists him singly.  Why?   Arsenault, Genealogie, 2460, says he was born in 1725, but the St.-Jacques census of 1777 says otherwise.  See De Ville, St. James Census, 1777, 15.  Also, Wall of Names, 10, 15, lists Charles & Marguerite but fails to link them as man & wife.  Their marriage date is from Arsenault.  Consider the source.

13.  Wall of Names, 43, calls him Elie COMO.

14.  Wall of Names, 15, calls her Elisabeth COMEAU; BRDR, 4:133 (SMI-8, 43, calls her Isabelle COMMEAUX, wid. Joseph GUIDRY.

15.  Wall of Names, 15, calls her Elisabeth no surname given orpheline.  The Spanish report of 1767 in Voorhies., J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 433, does not include her surname, but it probably was COMEAUX.

16.  Wall of Names, 14, calls him Etienne COMEAU.  His birth year is from the age given in the Spanish report of Feb 1768, which does not agree with the St.-Gabriel census of 1777.  See De Ville, St. Gabriel Census, 1777, 5; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 435.

17.  Wall of Names, 45, calls her Félicité COMO.  Her middle name is from her marriage record in BRDR, 2:197, 605.  A note in the marriage record, p. 605, says:  "Their little girl named Agustina was born 2 Nov. 1802." 

18.  Wall of Names, 15, calls him Firmin COMEAU.  His birth year is taken from the age given in the Spanish report of 1767, not the St.-Gabriel census of 1777.  See De Ville, St. Gabriel Census, 1777, 5; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 433.

19.  Wall of Names, 37 (pl. 9R), calls him Honnoré COMMAU, & lists him with his second wife & 2 stepsons; Arsenault, Généalogie, 1365, the Pigiguit section, calls him Honoré COMEAU, says he was born in 1715, gives his parents' names, details his first marriage, including his wife's parents' names, but does not mention his second marriage, says he was at Malpèque, Île St.-Jean, in 1741, & at Miquelon in 1767, & that his children by his first wife were Marie, born in 1737 but gives no birthplace, Rose in 1739 but gives no birthplace, Anne in 1741 but gives no birthplace, Pierre in 1744 but gives no birthplace, Monique in 1746 but gives no birthplace, Joseph in 1749 but gives no birthplace, & Margueritein 1751 but gives no birthplace; White, DGFA-1, 391, calls him Honoré [COMEAU], says he was born c1714 at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, details his first & second marriages, including his wives' parents' names, says he & his second wife were granted "disp 3-3 cons, 3-3 aff," that he was on Île St.-Jean in 1752, age 37, at Miquelon in 1767, age 55, & at Cherbourg in 1772, age 60; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 42, Family No. 81, calls him Honoré COMMAUX, says he was born in 1715 "in the Parish of Sainte-Famille of Pisiguit in Acadie," gives his parents' names, says he was a carpenter, details his first marriage, says he & his first wife were married at "Sainte-Anne of Beaubassin," which actually was nearby Tintamarre, gives his first wife's parents' names, does not say when or where his first wife died, details his second marriage, calls his second wife Anastasie BELLEMER, says she was born in 1738 but gives no birthplace, gives her parents' names & her first husband's name, details his first family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s, says that only he & his son Joseph were in the convoy to Nantes [so his first wife must have died before Dec 1775], & details his second family's voyage to LA in 1785; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 205, the record of his second marriage, calls him Honoré COUMEAU, calls his wife Anastasie BELLE MER, gives his & her parents' names, says that all of their parents were deceased at the time of the marriage, gives his & his second wife's first spouses' names, says he & his second wife were granted "dispensation ... of a double impediment of consanguinity and of affinity of third to third," & that the witnesses to his marriage were Joseph SEMER, Acadian, Jean BROUSSARD, Acadian, Francois HÉBERT, Acadian, Blaise TIBODEAU, Acadian, Jean-Baptiste LEGENDRE, Acadian, Jean LEJEUNE (who signed), & Jan-Baptiste DE LA HAYE (who signed); Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 52-53, calls him Honnoré COMMAU, charpentier, age 67, on the embarkation list, & Honoré COMEAUX, carpenter, age 67, on the complete listing, says he was in the 45th Family with his second wife & 2 stepsons, &, calling him Honoré COMMAUX, details his second marriage, including his & his wife's parents' names, says they were married in 1784 but gives no place of marriage.  See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 495; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 29.

Does his presence on Île Miquelon in 1767 indicate that he escaped the deportation of the Acadians from Île St.-Jean in 1758?  When was he deported to France?  

He was the only one of his 4 siblings to immigrate to LA.  See White, DGFA-1, 391.  None of his children by his first marriage made it to LA either.  At 71, he also was one of the oldest Acadians to go to LA.  

20.  Wall of Names, 9, calls her Isabelle COMEAU.

21.  Wall of Names, 45, calls her Isabelle COMO.

22.  Wall of Names, 15, calls him Jean COMEAU.

23.  Wall of Names, 15, calls him Jean COMEAU.

24.  Wall of Names, 40, calls him Jean COMMEAU.

25.  Wall of Names, 29 (pl. 7L), calls him Jean-Baptiste [COMMEAU], & lists him with his mother; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 14-15, calls him Jean-Baptiste COMMEAU, son [Marie-Magdelaine LANDRY, femme de Jean-Baptiste COMMEAU's] fils, age 2, on the embarkation list, does not include him on the debarkation list, calls him Jean-Baptiste COMEAUX, her [Marie-Magdelaine LANDRY, wife of Jean-Baptiste COMEAUX's] son, age 2, says he was in the 16th Family aboard La Bergère with his mother, & says he was baptized in 1783 but gives no place of baptism.  

What happened to him?

26.  Wall of Names, 45, calls him Jean-Baptiste COMO.

27.  Wall of Names, 15, calls him Charles COMEAU.  His first name is from De Ville, St. Gabriel Census, 1777, 5.  Wall of Names, 15, calls him simply Charles.  The birth year used here is from the age given in the Spanish report of 1767, not the St.-Gabriel census of 1777.  See De Ville, St. Gabriel Census, 1777, 5; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 433.

28.  Wall of Names, 43, calls her Jeanne COMO.

29.  Wall of Names, 14, calls him Joseph COMEAU.  His birth year is from the age given in the Spanish report of Feb 1768, which agrees with the Ascension census of 1788 but not the St.-Gabriel census of 1777.  See De Ville, St. Gabriel Census, 1777, 5; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 24; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 435.

30.  Wall of Names, 15, calls him Joseph COMEAU.

31.  Wall of Names, 43, calls him Joseph COMO.

32.  Wall of Names, 45, calls him Joseph-Marie COMO.

33.  Wall of Names, 33 (pl. 8L), calls her Magdelaine COMMEAU, & lists her with her husband & 4 children; Robichaux, Acadians in Chatellerault, 46-47, Family No. 91, calls her Magdelaine COMMAUX, says she was born c1751 "in the parish of St. Charles-des-Mines in Acadie," which was Grand-Pré, gives her parents' names, details her marriage, including her husband's parents' names, provides the birth/baptismal record of daughter Anne-Rosalie-Marguerite GUÉDRY, baptized 20 Dec 1774, Monthoiron, Vienne, France, goddaughter of Vincent AMIRAULT & Marie LEBLANC, & details the family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 32-33, calls her Magdelaine COMMEAU, sa [Joseph GUÉDRY's] femme, age 34, on the embarkation list, Magdalena CAUMMEAU, su [Josef GUÉDRY's] muger, on the debarkation list, & Magdelaine COMEAUX, his [Joseph GUÉDRY's] wife, age 34, on the complete listing, says she was in the 8th Family aboard Le Beaumont with her husband & 4 children, & details her marriage, including her & her husband's parents' names, but does not give a place of marriage.  See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 497; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1779-98, 25, 57, 156.

34.  Wall of Names, 45, calls her Magdelaine COMO.

35.  Wall of Names, 14, calls her Marguerite COMEAU.  Her birth year is from the age given in the Spanish report of Feb 1768, which does not agree with the St.-Gabriel census of 1777.  See De Ville, St. Gabriel Census, 1777, 5; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 435.

36.  Wall of Names, 39 (pl. 10L), calls her Margueritte COMMEAU, & lists him with her husband & a son; Robichaux, Acadians in Chatellerault, 25, Family No. 53, calls her Marguerite COMMAUX, says she was born in c1753 but gives no birthplace, gives her parents' names, details her marriage, says her mother was deceased at the time of the marriage, give her husband's parents' names & says both were deceased at the time of the marriage, includes the birth/baptismal records of son Jean-Baptiste BROUSSARD, baptized 11 May 1774, Monthoiron, godson of Honoré COMMAUX & Bonne-Jacquette-Francois CATEL, & son Joseph BROUSSARD, 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; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 66-67, calls her Margueritte COMMEAU, sa [Jean BROUSSARD's] femme, age 32, on the embarkation list, does not include her on the debarkation list, & calls her Marguerite COMEAUX, his [Jean BROUSSARD's] wife, age 32, on the complete listing, says she was in the 2nd Family aboard L'Amitié with her husband & a son, details her marriage, calling her Marguerite COMMAUX, gives her husband's but not her parents' names, & says son Jean-Baptiste [BROUSSARD] 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 she & her family evidently were part of the Leigne-les-bois settlement in that  region in the early 1770s.  

What happened to son Joseph & daughter Florence-Adélaïde BROUSSARD, 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.  

She & her husband going to San Bernardo is only a guess based on the fact that they are not in the census records at Ascension & the Lafourche valley in the 1780s & 1790s with other passengers from their ship & that some passengers from their ship went to "Nueva Galvez."  See <thecajuns.com/1785acad.pdf>.  

37.  Wall of Names, 40, calls her Margueritte COMMEAU. .Her middle name is from her marriage record in BRDR, 2:199, 466.  See also the Ascension censuses of 1788 & 1791 in Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 33, 165.

38.  Wall of Names, 15, calls her Marianne COMEAU; BRDR, 2:196, 247, her marriage record, calls her Anne COMO, gives her parents' names, the names' of her husband's parents', & says the witnesses to her marriage were Francois HEBERT & Jean-Charles COMO (her brother); BRDR, 2:196, her death/burial record, calls her Anna ... of Canada, spouse of Juan Baraiza DUCET, & gives her age at the time of her death.

39.  Not in Wall of Names.  Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 325-26, Family No. 395, calls her Marguerite COMMAUX, does not give her parents' names, says she was born in c1735 but gives no birthplace, says she married Jacques FOREST in c1759 but gives no place of marriage ... , that she, her husband, & son Benjamin FOREST "disembarked at St.-Malo from England on May 23, 1763 from the ship, La Dorothée, & that they resided at St.-Servan from 17672; ; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 90-91, calls her Marie COMO, sa [Jacques FORET's] femme, age 50, on the embarkation list, does not include her on the debarkation, calls her Marie COMEAUX, his [Jacques FOREST's] wife, age 50, on the complete listing, says, calling her Marguerite COMMAUX, that they married in c1760 but gives no place of marriage, & that son Pierre [FOREST] was born in 1769 but gives no birthplace.  

Despite the confusion in given names, why is this thoroughly documented Acadian immigrant not listed with her family in Wall of Names, 43?  

40.  Wall of Names, 45, calls her Marie COMO.  Her death/burial record in BRDR, 3:221, says nothing about her being anyone's wife or a widow.

41.  Wall of Names, 43, calls her Marie COMO.

42.  Wall of Names, 40, calls her Marie-Anne-Victoire COMMEAU.

43.   Wall of Names, 37 (pl. 9R), calls him Mathurin COMMAU, & lists him singly; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 212-13, his birth/baptismal record, calls him calls him Mathurin COMMAUX, does not give the specific birthplace in England, gives his parents' names, says his mother remarried to Olivier TÉRRIOT, does not give his godparents' names, says he & his widowed mother "disembarked at St. Malo from England on May 23, 1763 from the ship, La Dorothee, & that, until his mother remarried, he & she resided at Plouër in 1763 & at St.-Servan from 1764-65; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 54-55, calls him Mathurin COMMAU, marin, age 25, on the embarkation list, & Mathurin COMEAUX, sailor, age 25, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 51st "Family" aboard Le St.-Rémi with no one else; NOAR, 4:63, 113 (SLC, M5, 41), his marriage record, calls him Maturino COMO, native of Bristol in England, says his wife was native of St.-Malo, gives his & his wife's parents' names, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Josef MARTINEZ & Vicente LLORCA.  See also Robicahux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 79.

Where were his children in 1795? 

44.  Wall of Names, 15, calls him Michel COMEAU.  Quote is from his burial record in Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-B:189.  See also Brasseaux, ed., Quest for the Promised Land, 114-15.

45.  Wall of Names, 47, calls her Monique COMMEAU.

46.  Wall of Names, 14, calls him Pierre COMEAU.  

His birth year is from the age given in the Spanish report of Feb 1768, which does not agree with the St.-Gabriel census of 1777.  See De Ville, St. Gabriel Census, 1777, 5; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 435.  

Did he move to the Opelousas District & appear in the Jul 1789 militia count there?  See Voorhies, J., p. 414?  Or was this Pierre, son of Charles COMEAUX, who would have been 20 in 1789?  Probably the latter.

47.  Wall of Names, 45, calls him Pierre COMO.

48.  Wall of Names, 40, calls her Rose COMMEAU.

49.  Wall of Names, 45, calls him Simon COMO.

50.  Wall of Names, 43, calls him Simon COMO.

51.  Wall of Names, 15, calls him Thomas COMEAU.

52.  Wall of Names, 15, calls him Victor COMEAU.  

Why did his brothers Charles & Michel go to the Opelousas District & not follow Victor to the Atakapas region?

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