APPENDICES

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

DUHON

[DOO-yonh, DOO-honh]

ACADIA

Mathieu Duon, a merchant in Lyon, France, married Catherine Peyrieu at Lyon in c1650.  They had six children, including four sons who married and created families of their own.  Their fourth child and third son, Jean-Louis, married Jeanne Clémenson at St.-Nizier de Lyon in June 1683.  Their son Jean-Baptiste Duon dit Lyonnais, born at St.-Nizier de Lyon in c1684, became a notary and migrated to Acadia, where he married Agnès, 17-year-old daughter of Antoine Hébert, at Port-Royal in c1713.  Jean-Baptiste dit Lyonnais and Agnès had 13 children, including 10 sons, eight of whom married and created families of their own:  

Oldest Jean-Baptiste, fils, born at Port-Royal in June 1714, married Madeleine, daughter of Michel Vincent, at St.-Joseph de Rivière-aux-Canards, Minas, in January 1736.  They settled at Minas. ...

Honoré, born at Port-Royal in July 1716, married Anne-Marie, another daughter of Michel Vincent, c1742, probably at Minas. ...

Pierre, born at Port-Royal in March 1720, married first to Angélique, daughter of Martin Aucoin, at Grand-Pré, Minas, in November 1745.  He remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Joseph Aucoin, in c1757 at Bristol, England, during Le Grand Dérangement.  ...

Abel dit Tibel, born at Port-Royal in May 1722, married Anne, daughter of Jacques Mius D'Entremont, at Boston, Massachusetts, in c1756 during Le Grand Dérangement. ...

Jean-Jacques, born at Port-Royal in April 1724, never married.  

Louis-Basile, born at Port-Royal in April 1727, married first to Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Augustin Comeau, in the summer of 1754 at Port-Royal.  He remarried to Anne, daughter of Charles Savoie, in c1766 during Le Grand Dérangement.  ...

Francois, born at Port-Royal in February 1729, never married.  

Cyprien, born at Port-Royal in April 1730, married Marguerite, daughter of René Landry, at Liverpool, England, in January 1758 during Le Grand Dérangement.  ...

Charles, born at Port-Royal in May 1734, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Charles Préjean, at Halifax in c1759 during Le Grand Dérangement. ...

Youngest son Claude-Amable, born at Port-Royal in February 1736, married Marie-Josèphe dite Josette, another daughter of Michel Vincent, at Miramichi in c1757 during Le Grand Dérangement.  ...

Meanwhile, Jean-Baptiste dit Lyonnais died at Port-Royal in May 1746, age 65.  

LE GRAND DÉRANGEMENT

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

LOUISIANA:  RIVER SETTLEMENTS

Duhons were among the earliest Acadians to immigrate to Louisiana.  Three families of Duhons reached New Orleans in 1765 from Halifax via St.-Domingue.  They settled in the Acadian community of Cabanocé/St.-Jacques, now St. James Parish, on the river above New Orleans. ...

The next contingent of Acadian Duhons reached Louisiana 20 years after the first ones arrived.  They came aboard four of the Seven Ships from France that reached New Orleans in 1785.  ...

One family, that of Honoré Duhon, did not choose to settle on the river above New Orleans, in the upper Lafourche valley, or on the prairies west of the Atchafalaya Basin, where most of their fellow Acadians lived, but went to the Islenos community of San Bernado, now St. Bernard Parish, on the river below the city. ...

LOUISIANA:  WESTERN SETTLEMENTS

By the mid-1770s, some of the Duhons from St.-Jacques crossed the Atchafalaya Basin and settled in the Atakapas District, creating a western branch of the family. ...

CONCLUSION

In Louisiana, the family's named evolved from Duon to Duhon.  The family's name also is spelled D'Eon, D'Huan, Douhone, Duan, Duhans, Dujon, Duons, Duyon.

Sources:  Arsenault, Généalogie, 535-37, 1158-59, 2335, 2481-86; White, DGFA-1, 581-84; White, DGFA-1 English, 125.  

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, 16, calls her Perpetué DUON.  The 1775 marriage date is from Arsenault, Généalogie, 2425, which also provides the bride's first name & the groom's parents' names.  Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:67, 284, a primary source, says they were married 22 Sep 1786, in Atakapas, but the Atakapas census of 1777 disagrees.  See De Ville, Southwest LA Families, 1777, 15.

02.  Wall of Names, 41, calls him Augustin DUHON; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 62-63, under Lista parcial de vientitres casamientos acadianos arregalados par Navarro, 20 novembre 1785 [Partial List of 23 marriages Navarro arranged on 20 November 1785], A. Marriages celebrated on 20 November 1785, calls him Agustin DOUAN (son of Honorato DOUAN & Ana TRAHAM)/Augustin DUHON (son of Honoré DUHON & Anne TRAHAN, says he was in the 62nd Family aboard Le St.-Rémi, &, calling him Agustin DUN [DUHON] of Berilamer [Belle-Île-en-Mer], details his marriage, calls his wife Margarita LEBLANC of St.-Malo, & gives his & her parents' names.

His wife crossed from France on Le St.-Rémi, the ship just before his.  They probably knew one another in Nantes.  According to a notation in Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 62-63, she died in a hospital in New Orleans soon after their marriage, but this is not so.  For details, see the footnote for her profile.  

03.  Wall of Names, 16, calls him Charles DUON.  A middle name, Claude, is found only in the Cabanocé census of 1766.  Arsenault, Généalogie, 2481, says he was born in 1734, but the Cabanocé census of 1766 & the Atakapas census of 1777 say otherwise.  See Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 164; De Ville, Southwest LA. Families, 1777, 15.

04.  Wall of Names, 16, calls him Claude DUON.  His dit is from Arsenault, Généalogie, 2482.  Wall of Names says that he came to LA with his wife & his niece Francoise PITRE.  Arsenault says he was born in 1736, but the Cabanoce census of 1766 & the Atakapas census of 1777 say otherwise.  See Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 165; De Ville, Southwest LA Families, 1777, 15.  The earlier census is followed here.  Arsenault is the source for his sojourn in Martinique & says that he reached LA in 1766.  Consider the source.  His appearance in the Cabanoce census of Apr 1766 means he probably reached LA in 1765.

05.  Wall of Names, 42, calls her Élisabeth DUHON veuve AU COIN.  See also Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 554; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 2.

06.  Wall of Names, 16, calls him Francois DUON; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2483, says he & his first wife were married c1770; BRDR, 2:263, 422 (ASC-1, 121), record of his first marriage, calls him Francois DUHAM (DUHON), gives his & his wife's parents' names, says both sets of parents were Acadians, & that the witnesses to his marriage were Mathieu LANDRY & Joseph LANDRY; BRDR, 2:223, 263 (ASC-2, 1), the record of his second marriage, calls him Francois DUHON, does not give his or his wife's parents' names, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Esteban DAROIS (the bride's father) & Abraham SANCHES; BRDR, 2:262 (ASC-4, 5, #10), his death/burial record, calls him Francisco DUHON, age 40 years, & does not give his parents' or wives' names.  ; he was off by only 2 years.

07.  Wall of Names, 16, calls him Honoré DUON.

08.  Wall of Names, 41, calls him Honnoré DUHON; NOAR, 6:104 (SLC, F4, 37), his death/burial record, calls him Honorato DUHON, native of Acadia, resident of St. Bernard Parish of the Turn, 67 yr., sp. Ana TRAHAN, but does not give his parents' names.  See also Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 560.

09.  Wall of Names, 41, calls him Jacques DUHON.

10.  Wall of Names, 16, calls him Jean DUON.  Arsenault, Généalogie, 2481, 2482, calls him Jean-Baptiste.  Wall of Names & the censuses in which he is found call him simply Jean, so his middle name may not exist.  See Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 165, 174; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 1, 10.

11.  Wall of Names, 16, calls him Jean-Baptiste DUON; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2483, calls his wife Marie-Josephine, & says that she was the daughter of Charles GAUTREAUX & Louise THIBODEAUX.  

Wall of Names does not list a Marie-Josephine GAUTREAUX.  The only Charles GAUTREAUXs who came to LA arrived in 1785.  None of them was married to Louise THIBODEAUX.  He probably meant Marie-Josèphe GAUTREAUX, who, according to Wall of Names, 17, was daughter of Pierre GAUTREAUX & Louise THIBODEAUX.  

12.  Wall of Names, 34 (pl. 8R), calls him Jean-Baptiste DUHON, & lists him singly; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 40-41, calls him Jean-Baptiste DUHON, garçon, laboureur, age 25, on the embarkation list, Juan Bautista DOUHONE, on the debarkation list, & Jean-Baptiste DUHON, young man, plowman, age 25, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 42nd "Family" aboard Le Beaumont with no one else.  

How was he kin to the other DUHONs who came to LA?

13.  Wall of Names, 41, calls him Jean-Charles DUHON; NOAR, 6:104 (SLC, F4, 79), his death/burial record, calls him Carlos DUHON, native of France, 22 yr., bachelor, & calls his parents Honorato [DUHON] & Ana OTRAND.

His estimated birth year is based not on his death/burial record but on the passenger list of L'Amitié.

14.  Wall of Names, 47, calls him Joseph DUHON, & lists him singly.  His parents' names are from his childrens' birth/baptismal records in Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vol. 1-B (SM Ch.: v.6, #156; SM Ch.: v.6, #303).

15.  Wall of Names, 16, calls her Marguerite DUON.

16.  Wall of Names, 36 (pl. 9L), calls her Marguerite DUHON, & lists her with her husband & 6 children; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2603, her husband's profile in the LA section, calls her Marguerite DUON, gives her parents' names, details her marriage, including place & date, says her family was at Morlaix in 1764 & at Belle-Île-en-Mer from 1767-77, & lists her children as Marie-Élizabeth [TRAHAN], born in 1759 but gives no birthplace, Geneviève [TRAHAN], born in 1762 but gives no birthplace, Jean-Baptiste [TRAHAN], born in 1764 but gives no birthplace, Élizabeth-Appoline [TRAHAN], born in 1767 but gives no birthplace, Marie-Marguerite [TRAHAN], born in 1768 but gives no birthplace, Marie-Jeanne [TRAHAN], born in 1770 but gives no birthplace, Marie-Anne [TRAHAN], born in 1772 but gives no birthplace, Marie-Francoise [TRAHAN], born in 1774 but gives no birthplace, Marie-Madeleine [TRAHAN], born in 1775 but gives no birthplace, & Joseph-Marie [TRAHAN], born in 1777 but gives no birthplace; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 169-70, Family No. 306, calls her Marguerite DUON, gives her birthplace & death but not her parents' names, details her marriage, says she was married in c1762 but gives no place of marriage, does not give her or her husband's parents' names, includes the death/burial records of daughter Marie-Madeleine TRAHAN, died age 4 & buried 2 May 1779 at St.-Similien, Nantes, & son Jean-Baptiste TRAHAN, buried 22 Mar 1785, St.-Martin-de-Chantenay, & details the family's voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 50-51, calls her Marguerite DUHON, sa [Pierre TRAHAN's] feme, age 44, on the embarkation list, & Marguerite DUHON, his [Pierre TRAHAN's] wife, age 44, on the complete listing, says she was in the 35th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with her husband & 6 children, & that she married in c1762 but gives no place of marriage.  

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