APPENDICES

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

GIROUARD/GIROIR

[jih-RAH, jih-RARD]

ACADIA

Francois Girouard dit La Varanne of La Chaussée, near Blois, in the Orleanais region of the Loire valley in France, born in c1621, was a young laborer and farmer when he came to Acadia in c1640 with his wife Jeanne Aucoin, who was from La Rochelle.  They had five children, including two sons, both born at Port-Royal, who created families of their own.  Their three daughters married into the Blou, Cormier, and Lord dit Lamontagne families.  (A personal note:  the Cormiers of North America are descended from Thomas Cormier, who married Marie-Madeleine, third child and second daughter of Francois Girouard dit La Varanne, at Port-Royal in c1668.  Genealogically, then, all Acadian Cormiers are Girouards, too.)  Francois dit La Varanne died at Port-Royal in the early 1690s, in his early 70s.  His wife never remarried and died at Port-Royal in April 1718, in her late 80s.  ...

Older son Jacques dit Jacob, born in c1648, married Marguerite, daughter of Francois Gautrot, at Port-Royal in c1670.  They had 14 children, including nine sons who married into the Le Borgne de Bélisle, Comeau, Doiron, Petitpas, Amireau dit Tourangeau, Bourgeois, Guilbeau, Blanchard, Bernard dit Renochet, Barrieau, Bastarache, Pitre, and Doucet families.  Three of their daughters married into the Granger, Doucet, and Richard dit Beaupré families.  Jacques dit Jacob and his family lived for a time at Cobeguit, but he returned to Port-Royal.  Jacques dit Jacob died at Port-Royal in October 1703, in his mid-50s.  Some of his descendants moved to Île St.-Jean, today's Prince Edward Island, probably to escape British authority in Nova Scotia.  

Younger son Germain, born in c1656, moved to Chignecto in the late 1670s to join the pioneers of that settlement, which included his older sister Marie-Madeleine, wife of Thomas Cormier.  Germain married Marie, daughter of Jacques Bourgeois and widow of Pierre Cyr, at Chignecto in June 1680; Jacques Bourgeois was founder of the Chignecto settlement.  Germain and Marie had three children, including a son, Germain, fils, who married into the Barrieau family.  One of their daughters married into the Gaudet family.  Germain, père died at Chignecto in the early 1690s, only in his 30s.  

In 1755, descendants of Francois Girouard dit La Varanne could be found at Port-Royal, Chignecto, Minas, including Grand-Pré and Pigiguit, and on Île St.-Jean.  

LE GRAND DÉRANGEMENT

Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this large family even farther.  ...

LOUISIANA:  WESTERN SETTLEMENTS

Girouards were among the first families of Acadia and some of the earliest Acadians to seek refuge in Louisiana.  The first of them--a middle-aged bachelor and a young wife--reached New Orleans in February 1765 with the party from Halifax via St.-Domingue led by Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil:

Joseph Girouard of Port-Royal came alone.  He married Ursule, daughter of fellow Acadian René Trahan and widow of Joseph-Grégoire Broussard, at New Orleans in early April 1765 soon after they reached the colony.  Theirs was one of the earliest Acadian marriages in Louisiana.  Joseph, his new wife, and two stepchildren followed the Broussards to the Bayou Teche valley, and then tragedy struck.  Joseph was a victim of the mysterious epidemic that killed dozens of Teche Acadians that summer and fall.  He died in late October 1765, only 35 years old, leaving Ursule a widow once again.  

Marie Girouard, age 27, came with husband Joseph Bourgeois, a 2-year-old daughter, and two Bourgeois in-laws, ages 24 and 19.  That autumn, they fled the epidemic that killed so many of their fellow Acadians and settled at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques on the river, where other Acadians from Halifax had settled that year.  Decades later, after her husband died in St. James Parish, Marie returned to the prairies and died at the home of Joseph Breaux at Carencro, then in St. Martin but now in Lafayette Parish, in August 1815; she was 78 years old.  

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A third Girouard from Halifax via St.-Domingue came to the colony in 1765 and went to the Opelousas District, north of Atakapas:

Marie-Madeleine Girouard, age 28, came with husband Michel Comeau, age 31, and two children, including a newborn who had been born aboard ship or in New Orleans soon after the family reached the colony.  By the late 1780s, they were living on upper Bayou Plaquemine Brulée out on the Opelousas prairie.  Marie died at Opelousas in January 1802; the priest who recorded her burial said that she was 56 years old when she died, but she may have been in her 60s.

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Not until nearly two decades later did a branch of the family appear on the western prairies:  

Descendants of Firmin dit La Prade GIROUARD (c1749-1820)

Firmin dit La Prade, son of Louis-Paul Girouard and Marie Thibodeau, born probably at Pigiguit in c1749, followed his family into exile on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore and then into a prison camp in Nova Scotia in the early 1760s.  He came to Louisiana as a teenager in 1765 and settled at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques on the river, where he married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean-Baptiste Cormier, père of Chignecto, in January 1771.  Marguerite had come to the colony with her family in February 1764--among the first Acadians to settle there.  In the early 1780s, Firmin took his family to the Atakapas District and settled at Côte Gelée near the Vermilion River.  Their daughters married into the Bernard, Breaux, Granger, Landry, and Thibodeaux families.  Firmin died "at his home at La Côte Gelée," then in St. Martin but now in Lafayette Parish, in July 1820; he was 72 years old; his first succession record was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse the following September, and his second succession record at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in March 1827.  All five of his sons married, and most of them settled at Côte Gelée, but two of their lines did not survive.  His third's son line was especially vigorous.  

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Oldest son Simon Joseph, also called Simon dit La Prade and Simonet, baptized at St.-Jacques, age unrecorded, in December 1771, married Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadian Sylvain Broussard, at Atakapas in February 1796.  Their son Simon-Onesime, called Onesime, was born at Côte Gelée in May 1799, Sylvestre-Valmond in March 1803, Zenon in January 1808 but died "at his mother's home," age 17, in November 1825, and Sylvain was born in June 1810 but died at age 2 1/2 in February 1813.  Their daughters married into the Bernard, Broussard, La Fosse de St. Julien, Landry, and Thibodeaux families.  Simon died "at his home" at Côte Gelée in February 1819; the priest who recorded his burial said that Simon was "about 45 yrs." when he died, but he was closer to 47; his succession record was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in October 1820.  

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Onesime married Adeline, daughter of French Creole Joseph Derouen, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in March 1826; Adeline's mother was a Prejean.  They may have had no children.  In November 1850, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted 7 slaves--5 males and 2 females, all black, ranging in age from 33 to 1--on Onezime Giroire's farm next to Aurelien Derouen.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted 10 slaves--6 males and 4 females, 7 blacks and 3 mulattoes, ages 49 to 2--on I. O. Girroir's farm; this was probably Onesime.  

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Sylvestre Valmond married Josephine, daughter of fellow Acadian Fabien Landry, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in December 1828.  Their son Sylvestre Théodule was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 4 months, in October 1831.  Their daughters married into the Boulet, Teller, and Vasseur families.  In October 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted 5 slaves--2 males and 3 females, all black, ranging in age from 30 to 7--on Sylvestre Girouard's farm in the parish's western district.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted 11 slaves--5 males and 6 females, all black, ages 65 years to 2 months, living in 3 houses--on Lilvestre Giroid's farm; this was probably Sylvestre.

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Jacques, baptized at St.-Jacques, age unrecorded, in October 1773, married Angélique Julie, daughter of fellow Acadian Simon Broussard, at Atakapas in January 1798.  Their daughters married Broussard cousins.  Jacques died probably at Côte Gelée in September 1801; he was only 28 years old.  He and his wife probably had no sons, so, except for its blood, this line of the family would have died with him.  

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Pierre dit Peleau, baptized at St.-Jacques, age unrecorded, in July 1776, married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadian Olivier Thibodeaux and widow of Simon Broussard, fils, at Atakapas in August 1803.  Their son Simon le jeune was born at Côte Gelée in August 1804, Jean Valmont, called Valmont, in April 1806, Pierre, fils in April 1808, Joseph le jeune in 1809 or 1810, Maximilien in November 1811, and Hilaire in September 1813 but died at age 16 in July 1830.  Their daughters married into the Broussard and Mire families.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted 21 slaves--11 males and 10 females, all black except for 1 mulatto, ranging in age from 40 years to 3 months--on Pierre Girouard Sr.'s plantation in the parish's western district, next to J. D. Girouard, who held a single slave--a 20-year-old black male--and near Maxn Girouard and Pierre Girouard Jr.

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Simon le jeune died "at his father's home at La Côte Gelée" in March 1824, only 20 years old.  He did not marry.  

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Pierre, fils married Marie Adeline, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Melançon, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in April 1830.  Their son Dupré was born in Lafayette Parish in August 1834, Joseph was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in March 1839, Adolphe was born in January 1841, Norbert in August 1843, Léonce in March 1850, and Léonard in July 1852.  Their daughters married into the Boulet, Leger, and Meaux families.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted 4 slaves--2 males and 2 females, all black, ranging in age from 40 to 4--on Pierre Girouard Jr.'s farm in the parish's western district between Maxn Girouard and Jean Melançon and near Pierre Girouard Sr. and J. D. Girouard.  

Dupré married Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadian Émilien Prejean, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in October 1859.  

Joseph married first cousin Anaïs, daughter of his uncle Jean Valmont Girouard, at the Youngsville church, Lafayette Parish, in January 1861.  Their son Napoléon le jeune was born near Youngsville in February 1865.  

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Maximilien married Carmezille, Carmegille, Carmesile, Carmelite, or Melite, daughter of fellow Acadian Nicolas Amand Broussard, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in February 1833.  Their son Jean le jeune was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 3 months, in September 1835, Joseph Martial, called Martial, was born in July 1844, Jules in July 1846, Louis in July 1851, Martin in November 1854, Nicolas in April 1857, and Théodore in November 1859.  They also had a son named Terence, unless he was Jean le jeune.  Their daughters married into the Broussard, Fercy, and Landry families.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted 4 slaves--2 males and 2 females, all black, ranging in age from 30 to 4--on Maxn Girouard's farm in the parish's western district next to Pierre Girouard Jr. and near Pierre Girouard Sr. and J. D. Girouard.  

Terence married Adonatille, daughter of fellow Acadian Clet Landry, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in December 1854.  Their son Joseph was born in Lafayette Parish in July 1856, Ambroise in December 1858, Hilaire near Youngsville, Lafayette Parish, in January 1861, and Jean in January 1863. 

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Jean Valmont married Caroline, daughter of German Creole Jean Taylor or Teller, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in May 1833; Caroline's mother was a Broussard.  Their son Paul Napoléon, called Napoléon, was born in Lafayette Parish in September 1840.  Their daughters married into the Broussard, Clément (not Acadian but Foreign French), and Girouard families.  Jean's succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in October 1846; he would have been 40 years old that year.  

Napoléon married Susanne, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Osémé Melançon, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in September 1859.  Their son Jean Villemont, called Villemont, was born near Youngsville, Lafayette Parish, in July 1860 but died at age 5 in October 1865.  

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Joseph le jeune may have married French Creole Lize Begnaud, widow of Henry Landry, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in January 1837.  Joseph le jeune's succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in December 1865; he would have been 55 years old that year.  

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Joseph, baptized at St.-Jacques, age unrecorded, in December 1778, married Marie-Anne, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean-Baptiste Landry, at Atakapas in May 1801.  Marie-Anne had come to Louisiana from France in 1785.  They may have been that rare Acadian couple who had no children.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted 11 slaves--on Joseph Girouard's farm in the parish's western district.  Joseph died in Lafayette Parish in September 1863; he was 84 years old.  

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Youngest son Jean-Baptiste, called Baptiste, born at Côte Gelée in August 1792, married Josephine, daughter of French Creole Joseph Derouen of La Petit Anse, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in October 1817; Josephine's mother was a Prejean.  They settled near her family at La Petite Anse, near today's Avery Island, south of Côte Gelée.  Their son Jean Baptiste Treville was born at La Petite Anse in July 1818 but died in Lafayette Parish at age 4 1/2 in October 1822.  Jean Baptiste remarried to Julie, daughter of French Creole Étienne Valot, in the early 1820s.  Their son Joseph Amédée, called Amédée, was born in St. Martin Parish in December 1827, a child, perhaps a son, name unrecorded, died in Lafayette Parish 9 days after its birth in June 1830, Dominique was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 8 months, in August 1835, and Paul Numa was born in October 1840.  Their daughter married into the Hust family.   Jean Baptiste died in Lafayette Parish in January 1855; he priest who recorded his burial said that Jean Baptiste was 60 years old when he died, but he was 62; his succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following April.  

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Amédée, by his second wife, married Elodie, daughter of fellow Acadian Alexandre Isidore Broussard, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in October 1849.  Their son Étienne was born in Lafayette Parish in August 1850, Jean Baptiste Alexandre in August 1852, and Joseph Amédée, fils posthumously in February 1854.  Amédée died in Lafayette Parish in September 1853; the priest who recorded his burial said that Amédée was 28 years old when he died, but he was only 25; his succession record was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in March 1854.

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Dominique, by his second wife, married cousin Eusèide, daughter of French Creole Nicolas Valot, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in November 1851.  Dominique died in Lafayette Parish in July 1854, still in his late teens; his succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in May 1856.  

Other GIROUARDs on the Western Prairies

Area church and civil records make it difficult to link at least one Girouard on the western prairies with known lines of the family there:

Jean Baptiste Girouard died in St. Martin Parish in October 1864, age 48.  The priest who recorded Jean Baptiste's burial did not give his parents' names or mention a wife.  

LOUISIANA:  RIVER SETTLEMENTS

In 1765, two more Girouards--another wife and a teenage orphan--came to Louisiana from Halifax via St.-Domingue, but they did not go to the western settlements.  They settled, instead, at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques on the river above New Orleans where 20 Acadians had settled the year before:

Anastasie, or Anatalia, Girouard, age 20, came with husband Amable Blanchard, age 23, and an infant son.  They remained on the river and had more children.  

Firmin Girouard dit La Prade of Pigiguit, age 16, came to the colony alone.  Spanish authorities counted him on the left, or east, bank of the river at Cabanocé in 1766 and 1769.  He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian and original settler Jean-Baptiste Cormier, père at St.-Jacques in January 1771, but a decade later they joined his brother-in-law, Jean-Baptiste Cormier, fils, in the Atakapas District, creating a western branch of the Girouard family.

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Most of the Acadian Girouards who settled in Louisiana--three families, one of them led by a widow, a wife, and a teenage orphan, a dozen members of the family in all--came aboard three of the Seven Ships from France in 1785.  Perhaps because of their time in France, they preferred to spell their family name Giroir or Giroire:

Prosper-Honoré Giroir, age 41, son of Marie-Josèphe Thériot, crossed on La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in August.  With him was wife Marie Dugas, age 39, and six children--Marie-Paule, age 20, Anne-Josèphe, age 18, Jean-Baptiste, age 15, Jeanne-Eléonore, age 13, Francois, age 11, and Pierre, age 7.  They followed the majority of the passengers from their ship to Ascension.  Prosper and Marie had no more children in Louisiana.  Their daughters married into the Blanchard, Guillot, and Landry families and settled on Bayou Lafourche  All of the Giroir family lines east of the Atchafalaya Basin spring from Prosper's two sons, Jean-Baptiste and Francois, who settled on Bayou Lafourche and raised large families.  

Marie-Josèphe Thériot, age 65, widow of Honoré Giroir, crossed on L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in November.  With her were daughters Eudoxile, age 38, and Marie-Rose, age 23.  They followed the majority of the passengers from their ship to Ascension, where Eudoxile married into the Hébert family in 1787, and Marie-Rose into the Landry family in 1793.  Eudoxile and her family remained on the river, but Marie-Rose and her family moved to upper Bayou Lafourche by the mid-1790s

Charles Giroir, age 56, also crossed on L'Amitié, with wife Michelle Patru, age 58, a Frenchwoman from St.-Servan.   They went not to the river above the city but to Nueva Gálvez, an Isleno settlement below the city along Bayou Terre-aux-Boeufs in present-day St. Bernard Parish.  

Hélène-Judith Giroir of Pigiguit, age 43, Prosper-Honoré's sister, crossed on L'Amitié with husband Francois Blanchard, age 54, and four children, ages 20 to 5.  They went to Ascension and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  

Geneviève-Charlotte-Marguerite Giroir, age 16, crossed on La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships, that reached New Orleans in December.  She came with her stepfather Louis Clossinet of Île St.-Jean and her mother, Marie-Marguerite Daigle, whose first husband was Geneviève's father, Amand Giroir.  They followed  the majority of the passengers from their ship to the new Acadian community of Bayou des Écores, north of Baton Rouge.  When a series of devastating hurricanes in the early 1790s compelled the Acadians to abandon the settlement en masse, Geneviève followed her family to upper Bayou Lafourche, where she married into the Gautreaux family.  

With the exception of Charles and his wife Michelle, no Giroir family line remained on the river.

LOUISIANA:  LAFOURCHE VALLEY SETTLEMENTS

By the mid-1790s, Spanish officials were counting Acadian Giroirs, all of them from France, in the upper Bayou Lafourche valley, which became the largest center of family settlement by the early 1800s.  Most of them remained in Assumption Parish, but some moved down into Terrebonne Parish and others to the Brashear City, now Morgan City, area of St. Mary Parish on the lower Teche:

Jeanne-Eléonore Giroir, wife of Charles-Pierre-Marc Blanchard, died at Assumption in June 1800.  She was only 28 years old.  

Marie Paule Giroir, wife of Joseph Landry, died in Assumption Parish in August 1810.  She was 45 years old.  

Anne Josèphe Giroir, wife of Fabien Amateur Guillot, died in Assumption Parish in March 1831.  The priest who recorded her burial said that she was 60 years old when she died, but she was 64.

Geneviève Charlotte Marguerite Giroir, widow of Pierre Joseph Gautreaux, died in Assumption Parish in June 1833.  She was 65 years old.  

Hélène Judith Giroir, widow of Francois Blanchard, died in Assumption Parish in February 1834, in her early 90s.  

Marie Rose Giroir, widow of Francois Sébastien Landry, died in Assumption Parish in September 1835, in her mid-70s.

Descendants of Jean-Baptiste GIROIR (1769-1818)

Jean-Baptiste, eldest son of Prosper-Honoré Giroir and Marie Dugas, born at St.-Coulomb, France, near St.-Malo, in December 1769, followed his family to Louisiana aboard La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, in 1785.  They settled at Ascension, where he married Isabelle, or Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadian Francois-Sébastien Landry of nearby St.-Gabriel, in February 1790.  Isabelle was born in either Maryland or St.-Gabriel; she did not come to Louisiana from France.  They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche near the boundary between Ascension and Assumption.  Their daughters married into the Daigle, Dupuis, Landry, Montet, and Simoneaux families.  Jean Baptiste died in Assumption Parish in September 1818; he was 49 years old.  Four of his six sons created families of their own and settled in Assumption Parish.  Two of his grandsons moved to the Brashear City, later the Morgan City, area of St. Mary Parish in the 1860s.  

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Their oldest son, name unrecorded, died an infant at Assumption in June 1793.

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Jean-Baptiste, fils, born at Assumption in March 1799, married Rosalie Victoire, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Olivier Bourg, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1821.  Their daughter married into the Boudreaux family.  Jean Baptiste, fils remarried to Azélie Eulalie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Joseph Boudreaux, at the Plattenville church in June 1836.  Their son Joseph Alexandre was born in Assumption Parish in March 1841, Joseph Eugène in December 1842, and Eulice Edmond in November 1843.  Jean Baptiste, fils died in Assumption Parish in December 1865; he was 66 years old.  

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Francois-Apollinaire, called Apollinaire, born at Assumption in November 1800, married Marie Théotiste, called Théotiste, daughter of fellow Acadian Fabien Aucoin, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in September 1820.  Their son Apollinaire Zephirin, called Zephirin, was born in Assumption Parish in June 1825, Joseph Jean Baptiste in March 1832, and Julien in June 1842.  Their daughters married into the Comeaux, Giroir, and Joret families.  In September 1850, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted 10 slaves--6 males and 6 females, all black, ranging in age from 40 years to 2 months--on Appolinaire Giroir;s farm in the parish's Second Congressional District.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted 29 slaves--20 males and 9 females, all black except for 3 mulattoes, ages 60 years to 6 months, living in 4 houses--on Appolinaire Giroir's plantation in the parish's 14th Ward, along Bayou Boeuf, next to Zephirin Giroir.  

Zephirin married Armelise, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Landry, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in April 1850.  Their son Justinien Elphége was born in Assumption Parish in January 1851, and Étienne was born near Brashear City, later Morgan City, St. Mary Parish, in August 1864.  Their daughter married a Landry cousin.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted 1 slave--a 30-year-old black female--on Zephirin Giroir's farm in the parish's 14th Ward, along Bayou Boeuf, next to Appolinaire Giroir.  

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Fabien-Lucas, called Lucas, born at Assumption in February 1802, died at age 3 in October 1805.

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Joseph Damas or Damas Joseph, called Damas, born at Assumption in December 1804, married Carmelite, daughter of fellow Acadian Jacques Barrilleaux, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1834.  Their son Apollinaire Xavier, called Xavier, was born in Assumption Parish in March 1836, Alcibiades Leufroi, called Alcide, in September 1838, and Antoine Achille in June 1842.  Their daughters married into the Dupuis, Guillot, and Leze families.  Damas died in Assumption Parish in July 1845; he was only 40 years old.  

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Alcide married Camilla, daughter of fellow Acadian Narcisse Templet, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in May 1861.  Their son Camille was born in Assumption Parish in June 1862 but died at age 5 1/2 in November 1867.  

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Xavier married first cousin Marie Aurelie, called Aurelie, daughter of his uncle Francois Apollinaire Giroir, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in December 1863.  Their son Joseph Henri Ernest was born near Brashear City, now Morgan City, St. Mary Parish, in March 1865. 

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Youngest son Étienne, born in Assumption Parish in August 1807, married Adele or Adeline, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Hébert, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1830.  Their son Apollinaire Séraphin was born in Assumption Parish in April 1832 but died at age 1 1/2 in September 1834, Adolphe Lazare was born in January 1841, Émile Justin in August 1846, and Étienne Adélard, called Adélard, in December 1851 but died at age 11 months in November 1852.  Their daughters married into the Blanchard and Daigle families.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted 5 slaves--2 males and 3 females, all black, ranging in age from 60 to 1--on Étienne Giroir's farm in the parish's Second Congressional District.  In August 1860, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted 8 slaves--3 males and 5 females, all black, ages 20 to 2, living in 1 house--on Étienne Giroir's farm in the parish's 9th Ward, along Bayou Lafourche.  

Descendants of Francois GIROIR (c1774-1836)

Francois, second son of Prosper-Honoré Giroir and Marie Dugas, born probably in the Poitou region of France in c1774, followed his family to Louisiana aboard La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, in 1785.  He settled with them on upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Madeleine-Francoise, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean-Baptiste LeBlanc, at Assumption in January 1794.  Madeleine also had come to Louisiana aboard La Bergère.  They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche near the boundary between Ascension and Assumption.  Their daughters married into the Guillot and Hébert families.  Francois died in Assumption Parish in February 1836; the priest who recorded his burial said that Francois was 64 years old when he died.  Six of his seven sons created families of their own.  Most of them remained in Assumption Parish, but one of them moved down to the Bayou Black area of Terrebonne Parish, and a grandson seems to have settled near present-day Morgan City, St. Mary Parish, in the 1860s.  

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Oldest son Jean-Laurent, called Laurent, baptized at Assumption, age unrecorded,  in September 1796, married Anne dite Annette, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Hébert and widow of Joseph Landry, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in May 1818.  Their son Jean Adolphe, called Adolphe, was born in Assumption Parish in December 1818, Trasimond Alexandre in September 1828, Ursin Eusèbe in August 1836, and Amédée Léon in April 1839.  Their daughters married into the Aucoin, Campo, and Giroir families.  Laurent died in Assumption Parish in August 1854; he was 58 years old.  

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Adolphe married cousin Angeline, daughter of fellow Acadian Alexandre Hébert, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1842; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their son Olesiphore Octave, called Octave, was born in Assumption Parish in October 1842, Ignace in October 1847, and Joseph in June 1856. 

Octave married Virginie, daughter of fellow Acadian Henri Breaux, at the Pierre Part church, Assumption Parish, in September 1862. 

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Trasimond married Célestine, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Godefroi Templet, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1852.  Their son Aloysius Evello was born in Assumption Parish in January 1856, and Alcée Edmée in May 1860.  

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Ursin married double cousin Aimée, daughter of fellow Acadian Édouard Hébert, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in September 1857; Aimée's mother was Eléonore Giroir; they had to secure a dispensation for second and third degrees of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their son Sabin René was born in Assumption Parish in December 1858, Evariste Ludger in October 1860, Edgar Robert in April 1862, and Laurent Édouard in April 1866.  

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Amédée Léon married cousin Émelie, daughter of fellow Acadian Isidore Guillot, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1859; Émelie's mother was Eulalie Giroir; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their son Joseph died in Assumption Parish a few hours after his birth in August 1859, a son, name unrecorded, died at birth in November 1860, Ernest Avi was born in November 1861, and Jean Baptiste Franklin in June 1866.  

2

Pierre-Alexandre-Maximilien, called Alexandre, baptized at Assumption, age unrecorded, in September 1802, married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Pierre Moïse, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in May 1825.  Their son Honoré Alexandre was born in Assumption Parish in May 1826, Théodule Marcel in January 1830, Alexandre Désiré, called Désiré, in February 1833, Martin Louis in March 1837, and Jean Baptiste Jules in July 1839.  Their daughter married into the Arceneaux family.  Alexandre died in Assumption Parish in September 1851; he was 51 years old.  

Désiré married Florestine, daughter of Edoire Tonnellier, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1858; Florestine's mother was a Savoie.  Désiré remarried to first cousin Marie, daughter of his uncle Jean Laurent Giroir, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1860; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their son Ernest was born in Assumption Parish in c1864 but died at age 2 in May 1866, and Arthur Alexandre was baptized at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, age unrecorded, in August 1867.  

3

Jean Baptiste Terence, called Baptiste, born at Assumption in June 1804, married Doralise, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Comeaux, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1825.  Their son Terence Hubert was born in Assumption Parish in November 1828, Telesphore in September 1830, and Aristide Hilaire in September 1846.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted 9 slaves--4 males and 5 females, all black except for 1 mulatto, ranging in age from 40 years to 6 months, living in 1 house--on Jn Bte T. Giroir's farm in the parish's 14th Ward, along Bayou Louis.  

3a

Terence married Arthémise, daughter of French Creole Joseph Rousseau, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1852; Arthémise's mother was a LeBlanc.  Their son Alcibiades Lusignan was born in Assumption Parish in June 1852, and Joseph Alcide in May 1854.  Terence may have remarried to cousin Severine Giroir.  Their son Joseph Arthur was born near Brashear City, now Morgan City, St. Mary Parish, in August 1864. 

3b

Telesphore married Clarisse, daughter of French Creole Hermogène Friou, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in September 1867. 

4

Auguste or Augustin Joseph, born at Ascension in January 1806, married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Comeaux, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in March 1832.  Their son Auguste or Augustin Lucien, also called Justin, was born in Assumption Parish in February 1834, Rosémond in August 1835, and Jean Baptiste in December 1837.  They also had a son named Firmin, unless he was Rosémond.  Auguste moved his family down bayou to Lafourche Interior and then to Bayou Black, Terrebonne Parish.  Their daughters married into the Arceneaux, Doiron, Forestier, Pitre, and Trahan families. 

4a

Augustin Lucien married Clémence Hasson or Hatton.  Their son Firmin le jeune was born near Theriot, Terrebonne Parish, far down in the marshes, in June 1858. 

4b

Firmin married Uralise, daughter of fellow Acadian Alexandre Hébert, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in June 1858.  Their son Louis Banon was born in Terrebonne Parish in August 1860, and Théodore Edgard in December 1864.  

4c

Jean Baptiste married Adele, another daughter of Alexandre Hébert, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in February 1859.  Their son Maxile Cyprien was born in Terrebonne Parish in November 1859, and Firmin Arthur in October 1864.  Jean Baptiste remarried to Uranie, daughter of French Creole Marcellin Bonvillain, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in February 1870; Uranie's mother was a Thibodeaux.  

5

Hermogène, born in Assumption Parish in April 1813, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Étienne Dupuis, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in August 1838.  Their son Joseph Alexandre was born in Assumption Parish in December 1842, Joseph Lusignan, called Lusignan, in October 1844, Foride Telesphore in April 1849, William Cleopha, called Cleopha, in October 1851 but died "at Bruslé," age 9 1/2, in April 1862, and Hippolyte Octave Joseph was born in March 1854.  Their daughters married into the Dugas and LeBlanc families.  

5a

Joseph Alexandre married Hélène, daughter of fellow Acadian Aventin Dugas, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1864; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  

5b

Lusignan married Adea, daughter of fellow Acadian Désiré A. LeBlanc, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1867; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry. 

6

Leufroi, born in Assumption Parish in October 1816, died 3 days after his birth.  

7

Youngest son Florentin Martin, born in Assumption Parish in November 1817, married Marie Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Dupuis, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in August 1837.  Their son Florentin Désiré was born in Assumption Parish in June 1838.  Florentin Martin died in Assumption Parish in November 1867; he was 50 years old.  

Pierre GIROIR (1778-?)

Pierre, third and youngest son of Prosper-Honoré Giroir and Marie Dugas, born at Nantes, France, in October 1778, followed his family to Louisiana aboard La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, in 1785.  He settled with them on upper Bayou Lafourche, where Spanish officials counted him with his family, still a bachelor, in 1798.  He may not have married.  

Other GIROIRs in the Lafourche Valley

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

Pierre Giroir died in Assumption Parish in July 1844.  He was only 16 years old.  The priest who recorded the boy's burial did not bother to give his parents' names.  

Joseph Pierre, son of Jean Giroir and Jeanne Scotland, died in Lafourche Interior Parish in August 1851, age 27.  The priest who recorded his burial said nothing about a wife for Joseph Pierre.  

Thelesia Giroir married Hilaire Savoie at the Raceland church, Lafourche Parish, in February 1861.  The priest who recorded the marriage did not bother to list the parents's names.  

Jean Baptiste Giroir, fils married Amelia Molaison in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in May 1865.  The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not bother to give the parents' names.

Joseph Giroir married Ulisse Bergeron in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in March 1867.  The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not bother to give the parents' names.

NON-ACADIAN FAMILIES in LOUISIANA

At least one non-Acadian Giroir lived in South Louisiana.  Claude Francois, son of Francois-Sylvestre Giroir and Francoise Duboir, died in Assumption Parish in November 1813.  He was 59 years old.  The priest who recorded his burial did not mention a wife.  

According to the succession record of Louis Thieri, filed at the St. Landry Parish courthouse in May 1839, his wife was Julie Giroir, a free person of color.  

CONCLUSION

Girouards were among the earliest settlers of Acadia, and several of them were among the earliest Acadians to find refuge in Louisiana.  Two of them came to the colony in February 1765 with the party from Halifax via St.-Domingue led by Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil.  Joseph Girouard married in New Orleans before following the Broussards to the Bayou Teche valley that spring, but he fell victim to an epidemic that killed dozens of his fellow Acadians that summer and fall.  His cousin Marie Girouard, wife of Joseph Bourgeois, survived the epidemic and fled to the river.  The only member of the family who remained on the western prairies was Marie-Madeleine, wife of Michel Comeau, who had come to Louisiana also in 1765 and had gone to the Opelousas District.  Meanwhile, two more Girouards came to the colony from Halifax via St.-Domingue in 1765 and settled at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques on the river.  Firmin Girouard, who came as a teenaged orphan, married at St.-Jacques but did not remain there.  In the early 1780s, he took his wife and children to the Atakapas District and started a western branch of the family.  

If the Spanish government had not coaxed 1,500 Acadians in France to emigrate to Louisiana, the Girouard family would have remained a fairly small one in the Bayou State.  In 1785, three families came to the colony, but only one of them had sons.  Prosper-Honoré, who spelled his surname Giroir, took his six children to Assumption on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Two of his three sons, Jean-Baptiste and Francois, created vigorous lines there.  In the early 1800s, the Bayou Lafourche valley, including the Terrebonne country, became the largest center of family settlement.  Some of the Lafourche valley Giroirs settled near present-day Morgan City, St. Mary Parish, in the 1860s, but most of them remained in Assumption Parish.  No Girouard/Giroir lines arose on the river before the War Between the States.  

Judging by the number of slaves they owned, some of the Girouard/Giroirs lived comfortably on their farms and plantations on the prairies and along Bayou Lafourche.  In 1850, Apollinaire Giroir of Assumption Parish owned 10 slaves; a decade later, he held 29 slaves on his plantation along Bayou Boeuf.  His youngest brother Étienne owned five slaves in 1850 and eight in 1860.  Their cousins on the western prairies fared just as well.  In 1850, Pierre Girouard held 21 slaves on his plantation in the parish's western district.  His son Pierre, fils held four more slaves, as did son Maximilien.  In the same year, Pierre, père's younger brother Joseph held 11 slaves and his nephew Sylvestre five slaves in the western district, and nephew Onesime held seven slaves in St. Martin Parish.  A decade later, federal census takers counted 10 slaves on Onesime's farm.  The number of bondsmen held by cousin Sylvestre over in Lafayette Parish had increased to 11 by then.  

Dozens of Girouard/Giroirs served Louisiana in uniform during the War Between the States, and at least three of them died in Confederate service. ...

In Louisiana, east of the Atchafalaya Basin, the surname is usually spelled Giroir; west of the Basin, the family tends to use the original spelling, Girouard.  The family's name also is spelled Geruar, Giroird, Giroiard, Girouar, Girouerd, Girroir.  This family should not be confused with the Gerard, Geraud, Geron, Girard, Girau, Giraud, Girault, Giraut, Gireau, Giro, Girod, Giron, Girot, Giroud, Girout, and Giroux families, French Creoles and Foreign French who settled at New Orleans, Pointe Coupée, Avoyelles, and in predominantly Acadian communities, including Atakapas and Assumption.  There was a Girard family who lived on Île St.-Jean before Le Grand Dérangement and ended up in France like the Girouard/Giroirs, but none of the Île St.-Jean Girards made it to Louisiana.  

Sources:  1850 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Assumption, Lafayette, & St. Martin parishes; 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Assumption, Lafayette, & St. Martin parishes; Arsenault, Généalogie, 567-79, 976-82, 1389-92, 1659, 2236, 2492-94; BRDR, vols. 1a(rev.), 2, 3, 4, 5(rev.), 6, 7, 8, 9, 10; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 156-57; 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; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Duc_Guillaume.htm>, Family Nos. 8, 15, 32, 37; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Supply.htm>, Family No. 5; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 96; Robichaux, Acadians in Chatellerault, 44-45; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 70-71; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 356-57, 359-62; White, DGFA-1, 718-39; White, DGFA-1 English, 150-53.  

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, 11, calls her Anatalia GIROUARD; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2424, calls her Nathalie GIROUARD, gives her parents' names, & says that she & Amable BLANCHARD were married c1762 but gives no location.

02.  Wall of Names, 31 (pl. 7R), calls her Anne [GIROIR], & lists her with her parents & 5 siblings; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 26-27, calls her Anne, sa [Prosper GIROIR's] fille, age 18, on the embarkation list, does not include her on the debarkation list, calls her Anne GIROIRE, his [Prosper GIROIRE's] daughter, age 18, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 64th Family aboard La Bergère with her parents & 5 siblings; BRDR, 2:323, 348 (ASM-2, 27), her marriage record, calls her Ana GIROIR, does not include her or her husband's parents' names, gives the date 3 Sep 1797, says that she & her husband shared a 3rd degree of consanguinity, & that the witnesses to her marriage were Ambroise HÉBERT & Joseph HÉBERT, & that the marriage record is "a re-validation"; BRDR, 5(rev.):263 (ASM-3, 217), her death/burial record, calls her Anne GIROIR, age 60 yrs., wife of Fabien GUILLOT, & gives her parents' names.    

The Ascension census of 1788, taken in Jan, shows that this couple was married long before 1797, the year given in their marriage record.  See Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 41; & her husband's profile.  

03.  Wall of Names, 40, calls him Charles GIROIR, & calls his wife Michele PETRY; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 980, his marriage record, calls him Charle GIROUAR, calls her Michelle PATRU, gives the name of her first husband as well as Charles' parents' names, & says the witnesses to their marriage were Alexandre DOUERON (first cousin of the groom), Germain VINCENT (second cousin of the groom), Jacque JOURDAN (uncle of the bride), Jan FORTIN, & Jean TOTIN & Guillaume DREOUAUX, who signed; <acadian-cajun.com>, calls him Charles GIROIR, calker, & calls her Michele PETRY, wife.  See also <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Duc_Guillaume.htm>, Family No. 15; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 503.

04.  Wall of Names, 41, calls her Eudore GIROIR; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 96, shows the fate of her family in the crossing to St.-Malo in 1758-59, detailed in the footnote for her brother Prosper's profile, below; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 360-61, Family No. 440; BRDR, 2:324, 362 (ASC-2, 10), her marriage record, calls her Eudoxie GIROIR, does not give her or her husband's parents' names but says they were Acadians, & that the witnesses to her marriage were Isaac HÉBERT & Prosper GIRROIR [her brother].

Why did she wait so long to marry?  She & her husband had no children. 

05.  Wall of Names, 17, calls him Firmin GIROUARD; BRDR, 2:204, 324 (SJA-1, 12a), his marriage record, calls him Firmain GIROIRE, says he & his wife were "both Acadians by nationality," gives his & her parents' names, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Michel POIRIÉ & Pierre BLANCHARD; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-B:419 (SM Ch.: v.4, #1367), his death/burial record, calls him Firmin GIROUARD, native of Acadia, says he died "at age about 72 years at his home at La Côte Gelée," 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:419 (SM Ct.Hse.: Succ.#373), his succession record, calls him Firmin GIROUARD m. Marguerite CORMIER.

His dit can be found in his son Simon's marriage record in Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vol. 1-A.  Where does the dit come from?

His & his family moved to the Atakapas District between the baptism of daughter Madeleine at St.-Jacques in Apr 1781 & the baptism of daughter Scholastique at Atakapas in Jul 1783.  See BRDR, 2:325 (SJA-1, 66a), & Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:351 (SM Ch.: v.2, #120).

06.  Wall of Names, 31 (pl. 7R), calls him Francois [GIROIR], & lists him with his parents & 5 siblings; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 26-27, calls him Francois, son [Prosper GIROIR's] fils, age 11, on the embarkation list, does not include him on the debarkation list, calls him Francois GIRIOIRE, son [of Prosper GIRORE], age 11, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 64th Family aboard La Bergère with his parents & 5 siblings; BRDR, 2:324, 472 (ASM-2, 6), his marriage record, calls him Francisco GIROUERD, gives his & his wife's parents' names, that his parents were "of Acadia" & hers were "of St. Servan, Diocese of St. Malo in Britany, France," that his & her father were deceased at the time of the wedding, & that the witnesses to his marriage were Pedro DASPIT & Ambrosio HÉBERT [frequent witness]; BRDR, 5(rev.):264 (ASM-7, 285), his death/burial record, calls him Francois GIROIR, age 64 yrs., husband of Madeleine LEBLANC, but does not give his parents' names.

07.  Not in Wall of Names.  Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 359-60, Family No. 438, her birth/baptismal record, calls her Geneviève-Charlotte-Marguerite GIROIRE, gives her parents' names, & says her godparents were Charles GIROIRE & Geneviève AUCOIN; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 88-89, calls her Geneviève GIROUERE, du 1er mariage de Marie D'AIGLE, age 16, on the embarkation list, does not include her on the debarkation list, calls her Geneviève GIROIR, from the first marriage of Marie DAIGLE, age 16, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 9th Family aboard La Ville d'Archangel with her mother & her stepfather Louis CLAUSINET/CLOSSINET; BRDR, 2:320, 324 (ASM-2, 18), her marriage record, calls her Genoveva GIROIR, gives her & her husband's parents' names, says her parents were " of Parish of Pleslien, Diocese of St.-Malo, Britany, France," "same as groom's parents," & that the witnesses to her marriage were Pedro BOURG & Marino GAUTREAU; BRDR, 5(rev.):264 (ASM-3, 234), her death/burial record, calls her Geneviève GIROIR, age 65 yrs., widow of Pierre GAUTRAU, but does not give her parents' names.  See also Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 87, 139.

Why is this thoroughly documented Acadian immigrant not on the Acadian Memorial's Wall of Names?

08.  Wall of Names, 41, calls her Elenne GIROIR; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 96, shows the fate of her family in the crossing to St.-Malo in 1758-59, detailed in the footnote for her brother Prosper's profile, below; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 360-61, Family No. 440; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 827, her marriage record, calls her Hélène-Judith GIROUARD; Robichaux, Acadians in Chatellerault, 12, calls her Helen-Judith GIROIRE & Helen GIROIRE; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 15, calls her Hélène-Judith GIROIRE & Hélène GIROIRE; BRDR, 5(rev.):264 (ASM-3, 244), her death/burial record, calls her Helaine GIROIR, age ca. 94 yrs., widow of Francois BLANCHARD, but does not give her parents' names. 

09.  Wall of Names, 31 (pl. 7R), calls him Jean-Baptiste [GIROIR], & lists him with his parents & 5 siblings; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 26-27, calls him Jean-Baptiste, son [Prosper GIROIR's] fils, journalier, age 15, on the embarkation list, does not include him on the debarkation list, calls him Jean-Baptiste GIRIOIRE, son [of Prosper GIRORE], day laborer, age 15, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 64th Family aboard La Bergère with his parents & 5 siblings; BRDR, 2:324, 428 (ASC-2, 30), his marriage record, calls him Juan Baptiste GIROIARD, gives his & his wife's parents' names, says his parents were "of St. Coulon of Dola, France," & that the witnesses to his marriage were Prosper GIRROIS [his father] & Luc LANDRY; BRDR, 3:365 (ASM-3, 132), his death/burial record, calls him Jean Baptiste GIROIR, age 48 yrs., gives his father's name but not his mother's name, says his father was deceased, & does not mention a wife.

10.  Wall of Names, 31 (pl. 7R), calls her Jeanne [GIROIR], & lists her with her parents & 5 siblings; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 26-27, calls her Jeanne, sa [Prosper GIROIR's] fille, age 13, on the embarkation list, does not include her on the debarkation list, calls her Jeanne GIROIRE, his [Prosper GIROIRE's] daughter, age 13, on the complete listing, says she was in the 64th Family aboard La Bergère with her parents & 5 siblings, & that she was born in 1771 but gives no birthplace; BRDR, 2:92, 324 (ASC-2, 44), her marriage record, calls her Juana GIROIRD, gives her & her husband's parents' names, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Joachin BLANCHARD Fabian GUILLOT; BRDR, 325 (ASM-3, 25), her death/burial record, calls her Juana GIROIR, age 28 years & Wife of Carlos BLANCHARD, & gives her parents' names.

11.  Wall of Names, 17, calls him Joseph GIROUARD; White, DGFA-1, 730; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:351 (SM Ch.: v.1, p.15; SM Ch.: Slave Funeral Register v.1, #33), his death/burial record, calls him Joseph GIROUARD, says he was buried 22 Oct 1765 but his death was recorded 3 Nov 1765, & does not give his age at the time of his death, his parents' names, or mention a wife.

He died during the Bayou Teche epidemic of 1765.  Why were his & other Acadian deaths during the epidemic recorded in a slave funeral register?  

12.  Wall of Names, 12, calls her Marie GIROUARD; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-A:429 (SM Ch.: v.4, #973), her death/burial register, calls her Marie GIROUARD, widow of Joseph BOURGEOIS, died "at age 78 years at Joseph BRAUD at Carencros, does not give her parents' names, & says that Charle MELANÇON signed the burial record.

Her husband had died in St. James Parish in Dec 1812.  How was she related to Joseph BREAUX of Carencro?  One of her granddaughters, Schoastique-Marie PICOU, married Agricole BREAUX of Grand Pointe on upper Bayou Teche.  

13.  Wall of Names, 15, calls her Marie GIROUARD; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2460-61, calls her Marie-Madeleine; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-B:321 (Opel. Ch.: v.1, p.54), her death/burial record, calls her Marie GIROUARD, native of Acadia, spouse of Michel COMAUX, & says she was 56 years old when she died, but does not give her parents' names.  

14.  Wall of Names, 31 (pl. 7R), calls her Marie-Paul [GIROIR], & lists her with her parents & 5 siblings; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 26-27, calls her Marie-Paul, sa [Prosper GIROIR's] fille, age 20, on the embarkation list, does not include her on the debarkation list, calls her Marie-Paul GIROIRE, his [Prosper GIROIRE's] daughter, age 20, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 64th Family aboard La Bergère with her parents & 5 siblings; BRDR, 2:325, 430 (ASC-2, 15), her marriage record, calls her Maria GIROIR, says the marriage date was listed incorrectly as 1789, gives her & her husband's parents' names, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Pedro LANDRI [probably his father] & Prosper GIRROIR [her father]; BRDR, 3:365 (ASM-3, 61), her death/burial record, calls her Mariana GIROIR, age 46 yrs. of Parish of St. Coulon, San Malo, France, married to Josef LANDRY, & gives her parents' names..

15.  Wall of Names, 41, calls her Marie-Rose GIROIR; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 360-61, Family No. 440; BRDR, 2:325, 425 (ASC-2, 56), her marriage record, calls her Maria Rosa GIROIRD, gives her parents' names & the name of her husband's first wife but not his parents' names, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Pierre LANDRY & Juan Pedro HEVER; BRDR, 5(rev.):264 (ASM-3, 253), her death/burial record, calls her Marie Rose GIROIR, age 76 yrs., widow of Francois LANDRY, but does not give her parents' names.

16.  Wall of Names, 31 (pl. 7R), calls him Pierre [GIROIR]; & lists him with his parents & 5 siblings; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 26-27, calls him Pierre, son [Prosper GIROIR's] fils, age 7, on the embarkation list, does not include him on the debarkation list, calls him Pierre GIRIOIRE, son [of Prosper GIRORE], age 7, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 64th Family aboard La Bergère with his parents & 5 siblings.  See also Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 71, Family No. 133.

What happened to him in LA?

17.  Wall of Names, 31 (pl. 7R), calls him Prosper GIROIR, & lists him with his wife & 6 children; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 96, shows that in the crossing to St.-Malo in 1758-59, his father, called Honoré GIROIRE, age 45, his mother, called Marie-Josèphe TERRIOT, age 39, & sisters Hélène-Judith, age 17, & Eudoxile, age 12, also survived the crossing, but that 3 of his siblings--brothers David, age 5, & Joseph, age 2 mos., & sister Marie, age 7--died at sea; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 360-61, Family No. 440; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 70-71, Family No. 133; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 26-27, calls him Prosper GIROIR, journalier, age 41, on the embarkation list, Prosper CHERVER, on the debarkation list, & Prosper GIROIRE, day laborer, age 41, on the complete listing, says he was in the 64th Family aboard La Bergère with his wife & 6 children, details his marriage, including his & his wife's parents'  names but gives no place of marriage, says that daughter Jeanne was born in 1771 but gives on birthplace, lists the implements the Spanish gave to him & his family after they reached LA, & says he owned 6 arpents of land but doesn't say where or when.

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