Louis Hébert came to Acadia with Jean
de Biencourt, sieur de Poutrincourt et de Saint-Just, one of the
founders of the colony, in the summer of 1606, soon after the French
established Port-Royal. Louis was an apothecary and horticulturist
from Paris and a relative of Poutrincourt by marriage. When the
Port-Royal venture failed in 1607, Louis returned to France with most of the
other men, but he returned to Port-Royal a
few years later when Poutrincourt revived French presence in Acadia.
Unfortunately, Louis was at Port-Royal when Virginia Admiral Samuel Argall
burned the settlement in November 1613. Three years later, back in
France, Samuel
de Champlain coaxed Louis into moving to Québec with his wife Marie Rollet and
their three
children--Anne, Marie-Guillemette, and Guillaume. Champlain granted Louis a three-year contract as resident
physician and surgeon at 200 crowns per year with four hectares (approximately
10 acres) for a homestead at Québec. The Héberts sailed to the
nine-year-old settlement in March 1617. Before departing Honfleur, however, Louis
had learned that the fat salary Champlain's investors had promised him had
been cut in half and that after his three-year contract expired he would be
expected to work for the company that owned Québec without any compensation.
Despite this setback, Louis and his family went on to Québec; they were, in
fact, the first permanent settlers in what was then only a fur trading post
but which would become the most important French settlement in North
America. Louis's skills as an apothecary and a horticulturalist helped
make life bearable at the frontier post. Louis, in fact, was the first
Canadian settler to support himself from the soil. In 1621, Champlain
appointed him King's attorney at Québec. Louis was especially noted
for his relations with the local Indians, who returned his respect and
kindnesses. In 1623 and 1626, the viceroys of New France granted Louis two land concessions:
Sault-au-Matelot on Cap-Diamant, overlooking Québec; and St.-Joseph along Rivière St.-Charles, below
the settlement. Louis also received the title of Sieur d'Epinay.
As a result of his appointment and his land grants, Louis and his family became fairly prosperous, but their good fortune was
short-lived. In January 1627, Louis fell through the ice and never
recovered. He died at Québec later in the month and was buried in the
Récollet chapel. His descendants remained at Québec, even under
English occupation from 1629-32, so Louis the
apothecary was not the progenitor of the Héberts
of Acadia.
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The Acadian branch of the Hébert family did not appear
until a generation after the death of Louis of Québec.
Two brothers, Antoine and
Étienne
Hébert, probably not
kin to Louis of Paris, perhaps from La-Haye-Descartes, Touraine, a village
on the Creuse, a tributary of the Vienne, east of the Loudunais villages, arrived at Port-Royal in c1640. Some authorities claim that
Antoine and
Étienne were brothers of Jacques,
fils, son of
Jacques Hébert and Marie Juneau of La-Haye-Descartes,
Touraine, France. Jacques, fils's name appears in a notarized marriage contract in
Québec in 1688, witnessed by Marie-Guillemette Hébert, a daughter
of Québec pioneer Louis Hébert. Acadian genealogist Stephen A. White has demonstrated, however, that Jacques Hébert,
fils of Québec was actually Jacques Habert, which was a different family
from the Héberts of Québec and Acadia, so the parentage and
birthplace of the Hébert brothers are still
unknown.
.
What is known is that
Antoine,
born in c1621, was a young farmer turned cooper when he came to Port-Royal.
He married
Geneviève
Lefranc
at Port-Royal in c1648. They had three children, two sons--Jean, born
in c1649, and another Jean, born in c1653--and a daughter,
Catherine,
born in c1656, who married into the
LeBlanc family.
Both of Antoine's sons survived childhood, but
only the second one married. Jean le jeune married
Marie-Anne, daughter of Pierre Doucet and Henriette Pelletret, at Port-Royal in c1676.
Between 1677 and the
early 1700s, Marie-Anne gave Jean le jeune
14 children, eight sons and six daughters. Members of the family were
counted at Minas in the early 1690s and at Chignecto in 1713. Jean
le jeune died probably at Minas in c1707, in his 50s. Marie-Anne
died at Grand-Pré in November 1710. Four of her and Jean le jeune's daughters married into the LeBlanc, Boudrot,
and Saulnier families. Seven of Jean le jeune's sons also created
their own families, and three of them married sisters:
Oldest son Jacques, born at Port-Royal in c1677, married
Jeanne, daughter of Claude Gautrot and Marie Thériot, at Port-Royal in c1703.
They settled at Chignecto. Between 1704 and 1735, Jeanne gave Jacques 10 children,
five sons and five daughters. Their daughters married into the Arseneau, Bergeron dit de
Nantes, Bernard, Bourg, Doucet, and Ricard
families. Jacques's sons married into the Arseneau,
Bernard, Cyr, and Chiasson families. Jacques died
in Canada early in the Grand Dérangement.
Pierre dit Laprade or La Pradelle, born
at Port-Royal in c1679, married Isabelle, daughter of
Antoine
Landry and
Marie
Thibodeau, at Port-Royal in c1702. They also settled
at Chignecto. Isabelle gave him four children, two sons and two
daughers. Their daughters married into the Gaudet, Cyr, and Boudrot
families, their sons into the Bourg and Gaudet families. Isabelle died in c1709, and Pierre dit Laprade remarried to Marie-Josèphe,
daughter of Jacques Blou and Marie Girouard, at Chignecto in c1710.
Between 1713 and the early 1720s, Marie-Josèphe gave Pierre dit
Laprade six more children, four sons and two daughters. Their
daughters married into the Thériot and Cormier families, and
their sons into the Poirier and Bourg families, three of them
to Poirier sisters. Pierre died
probably at Chignecto after 1754-55.
Jean, fils, born at Port-Royal in c1681,
married Marie-Marguerite, another daughter of
Antoine
Landry and Marie Thibodeau, at
Port-Royal in c1701. They settled at Cobeguit. Between
1702 and 1725, Marie-Marguerite gave Jean, fils 12 children, five
daughters and seven sons. Their daughters married into the Dugas,
Bourg, and Hébert families, and their sons married into the Dugas, Bourg, Benoit, Melanson,
and Aucoin families. Marie-Marguerite died before April 1734,
when Jean, fils remarried to cousin Marguerite, daughter of Jacques
Leprince and Marguerite Hébert, at Grand-Pré, but this second marriage produced no children. Jean, fils died at Cobeguit, date unrecorded. In the late 1740s or early 1750s,
his family left Cobeguit
for Île St.-Jean, today's Prince Edward Island, to escape British
authority in Nova Scotia.
Joseph, born at Port-Royal in November 1685,
married Anne-Marie or Marie-Anne, daughter of Claude
Boudrot and
Anne-Marie
Thibodeau, at
Port-Royal in c1707. They settled at Chignecto. They had 12 children,
five sons and seven daughters. Their daughters married into the Pothier, Levron, Arseneau, Melanson, Poirier,
Babin, Forest, and Daigre families, and four of their sons married into the Poirier, Cormier, Arseneau,
and Bertrand families.
René dit Groc, born in c1689 either at
Port-Royal or Minas, married Marie, another daughter of Claude Boudrot
and Anne-Marie Thibodeau, at Port-Royal in c1707.
They settled at Minas. Between 1708 and 1731, Marie gave René 12
children, nine sons and three daughters. Their daughters married into the Bourg, LeBlanc,
and Dupuis families, and their eight of their sons
into the Doiron, Cyr, Dupuis, Bourg,
LeBlanc, Forest, Landry, and Gautrot
families. René dit Groc died in Canada in August 1768, age 79.
Augustin, born probably at Minas in the early
1690s, married Anne, yet another daughter of Claude Boudrot and
Anne-Marie Thibodeau, at
Grand-Pré in September 1712. They remained at Minas. Between
1713 and 1737, Anne gave Augustin 10 children, seven sons and three
daughters. One of their daughters married into the Landry
family. Six of their sons married, five of them into the Landry, Clouâtre,
Poirier, and Dugas families.
Youngest son François, born probably at Minas
in the late 1690s or early in the 1700s, married Anne, daughter of Michel Bourg
and Élisabeth Melanson, probably at Chignecto in c1726.
François died in the late 1750s or early 1760s during exile.
[For more of this family in
pre- and post-disperal Acadia and Canada, see
Book
Three]
.
Antoine's brother
Étienne, whose
birth year is unknown, married
Marie,
daughter of
Jean Gaudet
and his first wife _____, at Port-Royal in c1650.
Étienne
was
not listed in the first Acadian census of 1671 because he had died a year or two before it
was taken. Before he died, between 1651 and 1670, he fathered 10
children, five daughter and five sons, all born at Port-Royal. His five daughters married into the Forest, LePrince,
Comeau, Pinet, and Barrieau families. All of
his sons created their own families:
Oldest
son Emmanuel,
born in c1653, married Andrée, daughter of Vincent
Brun and
Renée
Breau and widow of Germain
Thériot,
at Port-Royal in c1680. They settled at Port-Royal and then
moved to Minas. Between 1681 and 1687, Andrée gave Emmanuel six
children, five sons and a daughter. Emmanuel
died at Grand-Pré in late 1744, in his 90s. His daughter
married into the Thibodeau
family, and four of his sons married into the Dupuis,
Dugas,
and Landry families.
Some of his descendants used the
dit
Emmanuel or
Manuel
to distinguish themselves from their many cousins.
Étienne, fils, born in c1654, married Jeanne,
daughter of Pierre
Comeau and
Rose
Bayon, at Port-Royal in c1679. They
moved to Minas, where, between 1680 and the early 1700s, Jeanne gave
Étienne, fils 11 children, four sons and seven daughters.
Étienne, fils
died at Grand-Pré in November 1713, age 57. Six of his daughters
married into the Henry dit Robert, Caissie, Benoit,
Boucher dit Des Roches, Villedieu, and Trahan
families, and two of his sons married
into the Dugas and Granger families.
Jean le jeune, born in c1659, married
Jeanne,
daughter of Jean
Doiron
and Marie-Anne Canol, in c1692 at either Port-Royal or Minas.
They settled at L'Assomption, Pigiguit. Between 1693 and 1717, Jeanne
gave Jean le jeune 12 children, six sons and six daughters.
Four of their daughters married into the Henry dit Le Vieux,
Guédry,
Lacroix, and Vincent dit Clément
families, and their sons who married into the Saulnier, Mius d'Azy, Trahan,
Mares dit Courtenay,
Boudrot, Lejeune, and Michel families.
Michel, born in c1666,
married Isabelle, daughter of François Pellerin and Andrée
Martin, at either
Port-Royal or Minas in c1691. They settled at Minas, where, between
1692 and 1717, Isabelle gave Michel 16 children, seven sons and nine
daughters. Michel died at Grand-Pré in January 1736, age 69.
Eight of his daughters married into the Le Mordant dit
Lanoy, Bourg, Coupiau dit Desaleur, Apart, Gautrot,
Richard, Boudrot, Thériot, and Monmellian dit
Saint-Germain families, and six of his sons married, five of them into the Caissie, Gautrot,
Boisseau, Levron, Thibodeau, and Boudrot
families.
Youngest son
Antoine,
le jeune,
born in c1670, married
Jeanne, daughter of
Jean
Corporon
and Françoise
Savoie, probably at
Port-Royal in c1691. They settled at Port-Royal, where, between
1692 and 1719, Jeanne gave Antoine le jeune 15 children,
seven sons and eight daughters. Seven of their daughters married
into the Breau,
Duon
dit Lyonnais,
Maillet,
Aubois,
Mius d'Azy,
Gautrot,
and Saulnier
families, and their sons who married into the Labauve, Bastarache,
Mius d'Azy, Saulnier, Mouton, Hébert, and Comeau
families. Antoine
le jeune remarried to Anne, daughter of
Charles Orillon
and Marie-Anne Bastarache, at Annapolis Royal in February
1737. Between 1738 and the 1740s, Anne gave Antoine le jeune three
more children, two daughters and a son. One of their daughters married into the
Deveau family, and their son married into the
Thibodeau and
Hébert
families. Antoine
le
jeune's
oldest son, Louis dit Baguette, participated in the Acadian
resistance against British rule during King George's War. Antoine
le jeune died probably at Annapolis Royal in July 1753, in his early
80s. His youngest son emigrated to Louisiana in 1755.
[For more of this family in
pre- and post-disperal Acadia and Canada, see
Book Three]
By 1755, due to the
size of the family, descendants of the Hébert
brothers could be found in most of the major Acadian communities, including Annapolis Royal; Grand-Pré, Pigiguit,
and Cobeguit in the Minas
Basin; Chignecto; Chepoudy in the trois-rivières area; and on Île
Royale and Île St.-Jean in the French Maritimes.
LE GRAND DÉRANGEMENT
[For the family's travails
during the Great Upheaval, see
Book Six]
LOUISIANA: WESTERN
SETTLEMENTS
Héberts were among the earliest Acadians
to find refuge in Louisiana. The first of them to reach the colony--an
orphan, and a brother and sister--came with the Broussard dit Beausoleil party from
Halifax via Cap-Français, French St. Dominique, in February 1765. After a
short respite in New Orleans, they followed the Broussards to the
Attakapas District, where they helped create La
Nouvelle-Acadie on the banks of Bayou Teche:
Pierre Hébert,
described by the priest who recorded his burial as an orphan "of both father and
mother," died at Attakapas in July 1765, probably an early
victim of the epidemic that struck the Teche Acadians that summer and
fall. The priest did not record Pierre's age, but he probably was
young.
Joseph-Pepin Hébert, age 17, and sister
Louise,
age 11, both orphans, survived the epidemic of 1765 and remained on the Teche, where
Louise
married
Claude,
son of
Joseph Broussard
dit Beausoleil, in c1772
and died at Attakapas in March 1788, age 35.
Joseph-Pepin settled at the northern edge of the Attakapas District and
created a large family line there:
Descendants of Joseph-Pepin
HÉBERT (c1748-?;
Étienne, Emmanuel, Jean-Emmanuel)
Joseph-Pepin, son of
Bénoni
Hébert
dit
Manuel and
Jeanne Savoie, born probably at Chignecto in c1748, came to Louisiana from
Halifax in February 1765 with the Broussard dit Beausoleil party. Spanish officials
counted him in the "District of the Pointe" in April 1766. He married Madeleine, daughter
of fellow Acadians Jean
Trahan and Marguerite
Broussard, at Attakapas in April 1771. They
settled on the upper Vermilion. Their daughters married into the Broussard
and Duhon families. Joseph-Pepin and Madeleine had at
least five sons, all of whom married. Three of the lines became
substantial ones. The other two lines, except for their blood, probably did
not survive.
1
Oldest son Joseph, fils,
born at Attakapas in March 1772, married cousin Catherine-Marguerite, called Marguerite, daughter of
fellow Acadians Pierre Trahan and Marguerite Duhon, at Attakapas in
October 1790. Marguerite had come to Louisiana in 1785 aboard Le
St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships from France. Their son Frédéric,
also called Séverin, was born at Attakapas in
July 1792, a son, name unrecorded, born in September
1796, was buried 7 days after his birth, a victim of yellow
jaundice, Éloi was born in November 1799, another son, name unrecorded,
died 8 days after his birth in November 1801, and François le jeune, baptized
at Attakapas, age 15 months, in February 1804, died at the home
of Lucien Bourg on the Vermilion, age 2 1/2, in April 1805. Their daughters married
into the Boudreaux and Meaux families. Joseph, fils
remarried to Élisabeth or Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadians François Duhon
and Élisabeth Landry
of Ascension and
widow of Jean-Marie Trahan, at Attakapas in July 1806. Their
son, name unrecorded, was buried five days after his birth in May 1807,
and Joseph III was born in February 1820 but died at age 6 weeks the
following April. Their daughters married into the Broussard, Cormier,
and Guidry
families. Joseph, fils died in Lafayette Parish "at age
56 years" in September 1827 and was buried "in the church cemetery"; his
succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following
month.
1a
Frédéric, by his father's first wife, married Marie, daughter
of Frenchman Jean
Baptiste Simon and his Acadian wife Marie Aucoin of
Vermilion, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in November 1813. They settled on the upper Vermilion. Their son Eusèbe
Lessin, called Lessin, was born in August 1814, and Joseph le jeune was baptized at the
Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 2 months, 2 days, in August
1828. Their daughters married into the Duhon and Trahan
families.
Eusèbe Lessin married cousin Marie Carmélite, called Carmélite, daughter of
fellow Acadians Charles Hébert and Geneviève Granger, at the
Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in October 1832. Their
son Édouard was born in Lafayette Parish in August 1834,
Cyrille was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in
November 1835, Eugène was born in March 1837 but died at age
2 1/2 in January 1840, Ursin in July 1841, Théodule in
February 1843, and Isidore in April 1844 but may have died at age
7 in March 1851. They also had a son named André L. Their daughters
married into the Boudreaux, Mouton, Simon, and Vincent
families.
Édouard married cousin
Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Arvillien Mouton and
Sydalise Boudreaux, at
the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in October 1860.
Their son Jean was born near Youngsville in December 1861, François
in April 1866, Julien in February 1868, and Étienne in
December 1869.
Théodule married Eugénie,
daughter of French Creole Joseph Simon and his Acadian wife
Marie Mire, at the Youngsville
church, Lafayette Parish, in October 1865; Eugénie's mother was a
Mire. Their son Klebert was born near Youngsville
in February 1867.
André L. married Céleste,
daughter of fellow Acadians Édouard Vincent and Julienne
Boudreaux, at the
Youngsville church, Lafayette Parish, in October 1866. Their
son André Euphémon was born near Youngsville in October 1867.
Joseph le jeune married
Aspasie, 16-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Rosémond Broussard
and Joséphine Broussard, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in December 1846.
Their son Frédéric le jeune was born in Lafayette Parish in October 1849,
and Joseph, fils in September 1857. They were living near
New Iberia in 1861 and near Youngsville later in the decade.
Frédéric le jeune married Zelmire,
daughter of Foreign Frenchman Louis Delcambre and his Acadian
wife Adélaïde Landry, at the New
Iberia church, Iberia Parish, in September 1869.
1b
Éloi, by his father's first wife, married Célestine, daughter of
fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Breaux and Marie-Madeleine
Girouard of Vermilion, at the St. Martinville church,
St. Martin Parish, in February 1819.
They settled on the upper Vermilion. Their son Sosthène
was born "perhaps" in February 1822, Jean Baptiste in March 1824, Alexandre was baptized at the
Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 6 months, in January 1829,
Lessin le jeune at age 3 months in August 1830, Césaire at age 7 weeks in July 1834,
and Bélisaire at age 6 months in June 1837.
Sosthène married Marie,
daughter of Anglo American James Whittington and his Anglo-Creole
wife Elizabeth Sellers, in a civil ceremony
in Lafayette Parish in January 1843. They settled probably near
Carencro. Their son Adolphe was born in December 1844, Onésime in February 1853,
and Homere in January 1863. They were living near
Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in 1866.
Jean Baptiste married
Carmelite, 16-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Onésime Charlitte Duhon
and Marguerite Duhon, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in July 1843.
They settled in Calcasieu Parish. Their son Jean Baptiste, fils was born in
March 1847, Zéphirin in April 1852, Joseph Dupré in
October 1855, and Honoré in September 1859.
Zéphirin married cousin
Julie, daughter of fellow Acadian Clairville Duhon his
Anglo-Creole wife Marguerite Ellender of
Calcasieu Parish, at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in June
1869.
Alexandre married Euphémie,
daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Zéphirin Mire and his
Spanish-Creole wife Marguerite Plaisance, at the Grand
Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, August 1857. Their son
Napoléon was born near Church Point, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish,
in August 1870.
2
Agricole, born at Attakapas in October
1776, married Hélène, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand Prejean and
Marie Theriot, at
Attakapas in July 1795. They also settled on the Vermilion. Their son Nemesie-Olivier,
called Olivier, was born in July
1798, Onésime, also called Lésime, in December 1802, Zenon in November 1803, Louis
le jeune, called Du Croix, in July 1806, Thomas in December 1808, Joseph Gédéon,
called Gédéon, in December 1811 but died at age 2 in September
1814, Lazare was born in October 1814, and Agricole,
fils in January 1817 but died at age 5 in September 1822. Their
daughter married into the Vincent family. Agricole died in
Lafayette Parish in February 1833, age 56; his successions were filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in March 1831 and April
1833.
2a
Nemesie Olivier died at his parents' home on the
Vermilion River in March 1817, age 18. He probably did not
marry.
2b
Onésime married fellow Acadian
Élisabeth, called Lise or Lisa, Landry probably in Lafayette Parish in the early
1820s. Their son Bénoni
was born in Lafayette Parish in February 1825, Sylvanie was baptized
at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 6 weeks, in April 1826,
Don Martin was born in August 1827 but died at age 2 in August
1829, a child, name unrecorded, perhaps a son, died at age 1 in April 1837,
Désiré was baptized at age 8 months in October 1837, Émile at
age 11 months in April 1839, a child, name unrecorded, perhaps a son, died 8
days after its birth in September 1839, Joseph was born in April
1841, Léon Neri in May 1843, and Thomas in December 1845.
They were living near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in the early 1850s.
Their daughters married into the Breaux and Montant or
Montault families.
Thomas married Clarisse,
daughter of French Creole Pierre Dubois, fils and his
Acadian wife Adélaïde Trahan, at the
Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in June 1867.
2c
Zénon married Célesie, daughter
of fellow Acadian Hippolyte Trahan and his Creole wife Marguerite
Montet, at the Vermilionville church,
Lafayette Parish, in February 1831. Their son Césaire was
baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in October 1835.
Their daughter may have married into the Landreneau family. Zenon died in Lafayette Parish in September 1840; the priest who recorded
his burial said that Zénon was age 34 when he died, but he was 36. His wife gave birth to a daughter four months after his death.
His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in August
1842.
2d
Lazare may have married Joséphine
Roussel and settled near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, by the
mid-1850s.
3
Célestin, baptized at Attakapas,
age 6 weeks, in May 1779, married Marguerite, another
daughter of François Duhon and Isabelle Landry, at Attakapas in January 1801. Their daughter married into the Baudoin
family. Célestin
died at Attakapas in October 1804; the priest who recorded his burial said
that Célestin was age 22 when he died, but he was 25. He
fathered no sons, at least none who appear in local church records. Except for its blood, then, this
family line probably did not survive.
4
François dit Pepin, born at Attakapas in April
1784, married Marie-Anne, called Pétit Anne, also called Lise, daughter of
fellow Acadian Marin Mouton and his first wife Marie-Josèphe
Lambert, a Creole, probably at Attakapas in the early 1800s. They
settled at first on the lower Vermilion near her family and then moved to the
upper Vermilion, at the northern edge of the old Attakapas District. Their son Joseph
Jean, also called Joseph François, was born at Attakapas in October 1803, François Arvillien or Aurelien,
called Aurelien, in February 1806,
a son, name unrecorded, died 3 days after
his birth in October 1808, Sosthène was born in October 1812, Césaire
in July 1814, Onésime, called Lésime, in December 1815, Olivier,
also called Valéry, in January
1820, and Jean Baptiste Lessin, called Baptiste and perhaps
also Lessaint,
near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in August 1821. All seven of
their sons created families of their own and settled in Lafayette and
Vermilion parishes.
4a
Aurelien married Pélagie, daughter of
French Creole Jean Pierre Dartes and his Acadian wife Victoire
Guidry, at
the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in January 1825. Their son Aurelien, fils was
baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 10 1/2 months, in September 1829,
Levy Aurelien at age 10 months in December 1839, Alfred in
January 1844, François in February 1846, and Salvator near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in
July 1853. Their
daughters married into the Broussard, Castreau, Guidry, Lemaire,
Meaux, and Prejean families.
Aurelien, fils may have
married French Creole Adeluska, Deuska, Delusca, Deluska, Delushka, or Ladoiska Meaux in the late 1840s. They settled
probably on
the lower Vermilion. Their son
Jean Baptiste Alcée was born in August 1851, Alcide
in October 1853, Eraste in October 1865, and Guillaume
in January 1868.
Alfred may have married cousin
Carmelite Hébert at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in
May 1866. Their son Ferjus was baptized at the Abbeville
church, age 2 1/2 months, two days after his parents' wedding.
François married Annonciäde,
daughter of fellow Acadians Edmond Broussard and Marguerite
Zéolide Prejean, at the Abbeville
church, Vermilion Parish, in October 1866.
4b
Joseph Jean/François married Marie Denise,
called Denise, daughter of
fellow Acadians Jean Bourg and Marguerite Duhon, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette
Parish, in November
1825. Their son Joseph, fils was born in Lafayette Parish in
October 1826, Aurelien le jeune was baptized at the
Vermilionville church, age 1, in September 1829, twins Émile and
Euclide were born in February 1830, François was baptized at age 5
months in August 1832, Clémile at age 5 months in November 1834, and
Étienne at age 3 months in March 1839. They also had a younger
son named Élisée. Joseph Jean died in Lafayette Parish in April
1859; the Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not
give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Joseph
François, as he called him, died "at age 55 yrs.," so this was him; his
succession, which also calls him Joseph François but identifies his
wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse later that month.
Eight of his sons
married, most of them to Boudreauxs, four of them sisters.
Joseph, fils married
cousin Éloise, daughter of French Creole Jean Montet and his
Acadian wife Marie Élisabeth Bourg, at the
Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in February 1847. They settled near Youngsville. Their son Jean Baptiste
was born in November 1850, and Placide in February 1858.
Their daughters married into the Breaux and Claveri families.
Jean Baptiste married
Félicie, daughter of fellow Acadian Dominique Honoré Breaux
and his second wife Julie Elmire Boudeloche of
Terrebonne Parish, at the Youngsville church, Lafayette Parish, in
January 1870.
Aurelien le jeune
married Azéma, daughter of fellow Acadian François Boudreaux and
his Creole wife Marguerite Simon, at
the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in May 1849. They
settled near Youngsville. Their
son Eugène was born in June 1850, Eraste in March 1860, Omer in January 1865,
and Clémile in February 1870. Their daughter married into the
David family.
Eugène married Ozea,
daughter of fellow Acadian Gerasin Vincent and his Creole
wife Delphine Faulk, at the
Youngsville church, Lafayette Parish, in October 1869. They
settled probably on the lower Vermilion.
Émile married Élisabeth,
daughter of fellow Acadian Edmond Boudreaux and his Creole wife
Élisabeth Simon, at the Vermilionville
church, Lafayette Parish, in October 1852. They settled near
Youngsville. Their son Edmond
was born in September 1857. Émile died in
Lafayette Parish in April 1862; the Vermilionville priest who recorded
the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Émile died "at age 30 yrs.," but he was 32;
his succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in
June. One wonders if his death was war-related.
Euclide married Armeline, Armelina, or Emeline,
daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Clerville Boudreaux and
Adeline Mouton, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette
Parish, in April 1853. Their daughter married a Mouton
cousin. Euclide remarried to
Sidalise, also called Zélie, another daughter of Edmond Boudreaux and
Élisabeth Simon and widow of
Euclide Michel Bourg, at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish,
in February 1856. They settled near Youngsville.
François married Celima or
Celina, yet another daughter of Edmond Boudreaux and Élisabeth
Simon, at the Vermilionville
church, Lafayette Parish, in December 1855. Their son Ernest
was born near Youngsville in February 1865, and Ulysse in
January 1867.
Clémile married cousin
Octavine, daughter of fellow Acadians Moïse Guidry and Mélanie
Hébert, at the
Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in October 1860. Their son Olivier was born in
Lafayette Parish in August 1861. Clémile died in Lafayette Parish in
October 1861; the Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who
did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said
that Clémille died "at age 26 yrs."; he was 27; his succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in December. One
wonders if his death was war-related.
Étienne married cousin Marie,
daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Bourg and Marie Sidonie
Landry, at the Youngsville
church, Lafayette Parish, in November 1860. Étienne died in
Lafayette Parish in June 1865; he was only 26 years old; his succession
was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in April 1867. One
wonders if his death was war-related and if his family line died with
him.
Élisée probably was the
Elise Hébert who served as a private in Company E
of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafayette Parish,
that fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi. Élisée enlisted in March
1862 at Vermilionville, age unrecorded, was captured with his regiment
at Vicksburg in July 1863, paroled, and allowed to return home, but
there is no evidence that he rejoined his company after the regiment was
exchanged later that year. Élisée, called Elizé by the
recording clerk and priest, married Natalia, Natilia, Nathilia, or Mathilde, yet another
daughter of Edmond Boudreaux and Élisabeth Simon, at the Youngsville church,
Lafayette Parish, in April 1866. Their son Camille was born
near Youngsville in March 1867.
4c
Sosthène married Ludivine or
Eulalie,
called Divine, another daughter of Jean Pierre Dartes and Victoire
Guidry, at the
Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in August 1832. Their son
Sevenne was born in Lafayette Parish in June 1833, Demosthène was baptized at the
Vermilionville church, age 18 months, in May 1838,
Sosthène, fils, age unrecorded, in September 1839, Jules was
born in July 1843, and Octave in June 1846. They also have a
son named Gustave. Their daughters
married into the Thibeaux and Trahan families. Sosthène died perhaps near
Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in 1853; he would have been age 41 that year; his succession was filed at the Abbeville courthouse in
1854.
Sevènne married cousin Marie
Joséphine, called Joséphine, daughter of Michel Castreau or
Castro and Marie Élise Dartes, at the Abbeville church,
Vermilion Parish, in April 1854.
Their son Numa was born near Abbeville in February 1866, Dulva Joseph
in December 1868, and Sevenne, fils in December 1870.
Sosthène, fils married
Elizabeth, daughter of Anglo American August Jackson Porter and
his Acadian wife Célestine LeBlanc, at
the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in July 1856. Their son Mauléon was born near
Abbeville in July 1864, Eleard in May 1866, and Arthur in
April 1869.
Demosthène married Azélie,
daughter of Creoles Cyprien Montet and Julianne Meaux, at the Youngsville
church, Lafayette Parish, in January 1861. Their son Sosthène
was born near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in January 1863, and
Guillaume in July 1869.
Jules may have married fellow
Acadian Anastasie Trahan at the Abbeville church, Vermilion
Parish, in March 1862. Their son Euphémon was born near
Abbeville in August 1867, and Joseph Delma, called Delma, in July 1869.
Gustave married Latilia,
daughter of Creoles Benjamin Faulk and Émilianne Meaux, at the Abbeville church, Vermilion
Parish, in December 1868. Their son Oscar was born near
Abbeville in October 1870.
4d
Césaire married Marie Aspasie,
called Aspasie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Trahan and his Creole
wife Césaire Boudouin, at the Vermilionville church,
Lafayette Parish, in December 1833. Their son Théosime was
baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 13 months, in March 1836, Césaire, fils
at age 6 months in July 1837,
Sarasin at age 7 months in August 1839, and Jean Napoléon was
born in March 1841. They were living near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish,
by the early 1850s. Césaire remarried to French Creole Marie or
Marguerite Sidalise, called Sidalise, Baudoin, widow of Jean Baptiste Treville
Bourg, at the Abbeville church in November 1855;
Césaire was age 41 at the time of the wedding. Their son
Fernez was born near Abbeville in November 1861.
Théosime, by his father's first wife, married cousin Marie Lezima, called Lezima, Trahan
at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in April 1857.
Sarasin, by his father's first wife, may have married
fellow Acadian Victoire Broussard at the Abbeville church,
Vermilion Parish, in November 1859. Their son Arthur was
born near Abbeville in February 1861.
Jean Napoléon, by his father's first
wife, married Clara Arthémise Hardisse, perhaps Hardy, at
the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in February 1862.
Césaire, fils, by his
father's first wife, may have
married Zelmire Benoit. Their son Jean Gesner was
born near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in February 1869.
4e
Onésime married Victorine
Lucquet,
Luguel,
Luguette,
Luquet, or
Luquette at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in October 1836.
Their son Jean Baptiste was born in Lafayette Parish in February
1840, Joseph in March 1845, Simon near Abbeville, Vermilion
Parish, in March 1850, and Florestan in November 1852. They
were living near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, a few years later.
Jean Baptiste may have married
fellow Acadian Belzire Mouton at the Abbeville church, Vermilion
Parish, in December 1861. They settled probably on the lower
Vermilion. Their son Onésime was born in August 1866, and
Joseph Mea in December 1870.
Joseph married cousin Odilia,
daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Jacques Hébert and his Creole
wife Marie Fremin of Lafourche Parish, at the
Youngsville church, Lafayette Parish, in October 1870.
4f
Olivier/Valéry, called Vallière by the
recording priest, married Marie Adeline, Adveline, or Areline, daughter of
Creoles Joseph Faulk and Marie Rose Lapointe, at the
Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in April 1840. Their son
Olivier, fils was born probably in Lafayette Parish in October 1841,
another Olivier, fils in October 1842,
Joseph in August 1846, Félix near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in March 1850, and Jean Baptiste le jeune
in April 1852. Their daughter married into the Bourque family.
Joseph married Amanda, daughter of John
Stephens or Stevens, at the Abbeville church, Vermilion
Parish, in May 1867.
Félix married Amelie, daughter of Anglo
American Charles Harrington and his Creole wife Émilienne
Lapointe, at the Abbeville church, Vermilion
Parish, in November 1870.
4g
Jean Baptiste Lessin married
Marie, another daughter of Joseph Faulk and Marie Rose
Lapointe, at the Vermilionville church,
Lafayette Parish, in June 1840. Their son Théogène was born in
Lafayette Parish in May 1841. They also had a younger son named
Aristide. Jean Baptiste Lessin may have remarried
to fellow Acadian Tarsile Mouton. Their son Aurelien
was born near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in November 1854[sic],
Lessin, fils in March 1855[sic],
Édouard in March 1860, and Alcibiade in August 1868.
Aristide, by his father's first wife,
married Joséphine, daughter of Creoles Onésime Gaspard and
Marcelite Derouen, at
the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in February 1868. Their
son Lessin Jean was born near Abbeville in October 1868, and
Sarasin le jeune in April 1870.
5
Youngest son Louis, born at Attakapas in May 1789,
married cousin Félicité, also called Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Landry
and Marguerite Hébert
of Côte Gelée, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in February 1808. They settled on the upper Vermilion. Their son
Louis Treville was born in December 1814, and
Sylvère
in August 1821. Their daughters married into the Broussard, Primeaux, and Trahan
families. Except for its blood, did this family line survive?
Louis Treville died in
Lafayette Parish in January 1838, age 23. His succession was filed at
the Vermilionville courthouse in February. He probably did not
marry.
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A young Hébert who,
amazingly, was a grandson of one of the family's Acadian progenitors, came to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765
perhaps with the Broussards
or perhaps on a later ship that reached New Orleans a
few weeks after the Broussards landed. He went at first to the Opelousas District, where Spanish officials counted him in April
1766. In the late 1760s, he moved south to the Attakapas District, where he
remarried:
Descendants of Jean-Baptiste
dit Cobit HÉBERT (c1736-1783;
Étienne)
Jean-Baptiste dit Cobit, son of
Antoine
Hébert
le jeune and his second wife Anne Orillon, born
probably at Chignecto in c1736, married Marie-Rose, daughter of
Pierre Thibodeau and Élisabeth Trahan, in September 1760
while in exile
and came to Louisiana as a widower. He remarried to cousin Théotiste-Marie, daughter of
fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Hébert dit
Manuel and Jeanne Savoie, at Attakapas in c1770. They settled on the upper Vermilion. Their daughters married into the Duhon, LeBlanc, Meaux,
and Mercier families. Jean-Baptiste died at Attakapas in August 1783,
age 48. Both of his sons settled in the old Attakapas District. One of his grandsons settled on the Mermentau River.
1
Older son Athanase dit Cobit,
by his father's second wife, born probably at Attakapas in c1770, married Félicité, daughter of fellow Acadians Firmin Breaux
and Marguerite Breaux, at Attakapas in January 1793. They settled at Fausse Point on Bayou Teche. Their son
Charles was born in c1793, Édouard in October 1799, Placide in April 1804, Athanase, fils in May
1806, Pierre in January 1812, and Rosémond in February 1814
but died at age 2 in April 1816.
Their daughters married into the Broussard, Hébert,
Labauve, Mallet, and Mouton families. Athanase
dit Cobit remarried to
double cousin Constance, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph
dit Pepin Hébert and Françoise Hébert, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin
Parish, in March 1817. She evidently gave him no more children.
Her succession was filed at the
Opelousas courthouse, St. Landry Parish, in September 1831.
1a
Charles, by his father's first wife, married
Mélanie, Émeline, or Meline Félicité, daughter of
Nicolas Picou and his Acadian wife Scholastique Bourgeois of New Orleans and St. James Parish, at the St. Martinville
church, St. Martin Parish, in December 1817;
Émeline's
sister, Scholastique Mélanie Picou Breaux, was the founder of Breaux
Bridge. Charles and Émeline settled at La Pointe on upper Bayou Teche near present-day Breaux Bridge. Their son Charles, fils died at home
at birth in April 1819, Charles Nicolas, called Nicolas, was born in May 1820, Étienne
Camille or Clément, also called Pierre Camille, in August 1823, Pierre Ferjus, called
Ferjus, in February 1822, Adrien Valsin
in October 1824, Alfred Onésime or Onésime Alfred, in September 1828, and
Lucien Thomas or Thomas
Lucien in February 1830. Charles died near New Iberia, then in St.
Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in 1838, age 45; his
succession, appointing tutors for his six surviving sons, was filed
at the St. Martinville courthouse in October of that year. His oldest
surviving son married four times.
Charles Nicolas married first cousin Arthémise,
daughter of fellow Acadian Agricole Breaux and his Creole wife
Scholastique Mélanie Picou, at the St.
Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in November 1841, and remarried
to first cousin Marie Aminthe, Arinintte, Armante, or Hermente, daughter
of Jean Caillier and Marie Picou, at the St. Martinville church in June
1847; Marie's mother also was Nicolas's maternal aunt. Their daughters married into the Barros and
Boresse families.
Nicolas remarried again--his third marriage--to Oliva, daughter of
Pierre Gutriche and Josette Gauthier, at the St. Martinville church in May 1853.
They settled near Breaux Bridge. Their son Joseph was born
in November 1857. Nicolas, at age 39, remarried yet again--his fourth
marriage!--to Anathalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Guidry
and Joséphine Thibodeau, at the Breaux Bridge church, St. Martin Parish, in February 1863. His
succession, which identifies only his second and third wives, so
it probably was not post-mortem, was filed at the St. Martinville
courthouse in March 1863, less than a month after his fourth marriage.
His son did not marry by 1870.
Camille married Émelie or
Amelie Zéolide
or Léolide, also called Julie, daughter of fellow Acadians Aurelien Dugas
and Anne Eurasie Broussard, at the St.
Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in April 1847. They settled
near New Iberia. Their son Firmin Olidon was born in
September 1852, Antoine in September 1854, Charles in July 1856,
Joseph Aurelien in March 1861, and André Octave in
December 1865. At age 45, Camille remarried to cousin Ophelia or Ophilia, daughter of
fellow Acadians Pierre dit Pierrot Hébert and Élise
Crochet of Assumption Parish, at the New
Iberia church, Iberia Parish, in April 1869. Their son Victor Vincent was born
new New Iberia in January 1870.
Alfred married Élise or Elisa, daughter
of Joseph Patin and his Acadian wife Joséphine Landry, at the Breaux Bridge church, St.
Martin Parish, in February 1850.
They settled between Breaux Bridge and Arnaudville. Their son Hilarion Alphonse was born in August 1855. Alfred's succession record was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse,
St. Martin Parish, in May 1860; he would have been age 32 that
year.
Lucien Thomas's succession
record was filed at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in
May 1850. He was age 20 that year. Did he marry?
Pierre Ferjus married Marie
Aurelie, Aurelia, or Olivia, daughter of Joseph Angèlle and
Adélaïde Quebedeaux, at the St.
Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in May 1852. They settled
near Breaux Bridge. Their son
Pierre Ferjus, fils
was born in May 1853, Eusèbe in January 1858, Donat
in April 1860, Alfred in July 1862, Mazard in
December 1864, and Désiré in May 1870. Pierre Ferjus,
père died
near Breaux Bridge in July 1870, age 48.
1b
Placide, by his father's first wife, married
Adeline Carmelite, daughter of fellow Acadians François Xavier Theriot
and Anne Mouton
of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin
Parish, in May 1825, and remarried to Adeline or Eveline Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph
Victor
Richard and Marie Louise Richard, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in June 1834.
They settled on the Mermentau River. Their son Alexandre was
born in April 1838.
1c
Athanase, fils, by his
father's first wife, married
cousin Clémence, daughter of fellow Acadian Alexandre Hébert and his
Creole wife Clémence Faustin, at the St.
Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in August 1828. Their son
Alexis or
Alexandre Athanase was born in St. Martin Parish in April 1830, and
Joseph Ovile in August 1835. Athanase, fils may have died
near New Iberia in January 1865; the priest who recorded the burial, and who
did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that
Athanas, as he called him, died "at age 55 yrs."; Athanase, fils
would have been age 58.
Alexis Athanase married Marie
Alphonsine, called Alphonsine, 20-year-old daughter of Frédéric Henri Duperier
of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and New Iberia and Marie Hortense
Berard, at
the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in
June 1850. Their son Henry was born near New Iberia in June
1855, John in August 1857, Joseph Alfred in October
1859, and Alexis, fils in December 1864.
1d
Édouard, by his father's first wife, married Madeleine Eurasie
or Erasie,
also called Marcelline, daughter of fellow Acadians Julien Babin and
Séraphine Guilbeau, at the St. Martinville
church, St. Martin Parish, in January 1831. They settled near New
Iberia, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish. Their son Édouard
Bélisaire or Bélisaire Édouard was born in February 1831, Lucien
in December 1837,
and Armand Marcellus in February 1841. Their daughters married
into the Breaux, Broussard, Crochet, and Muller families.
Édouard's succession record, which called his wife Erazie Babin, was
filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in January 1866; he would have been
age 67 that year.
Édouard Bélisaire married
Euphrosine, called Froisine, daughter of Jean Baptiste Bonin and
Marie Hayes, at the
New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in
February 1852. Their son Jean Baptiste Alcée was born near
New Iberia in December 1854.
Lucien married first cousin
Emma, daughter of Julien Nelson Babin and his Creole wife
Marcellite Arthémise Comme, his maternal uncle and
aunt, in a
civil ceremony in St. Martin Parish in February 1860, and sanctified the
marriage at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia
Parish, in February 1861. Their son Charles was born near
New Iberia in March 1862, Lucien, fils in August 1863, and
Jules in April 1866.
Armand Marcellus died near New
Iberia, Iberia Parish, in January 1868. The priest who recorded
the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Amand Marcellus died "at age 24 yrs.," but he
was a month shy of 27. Did he marry?
2
Younger son Nicolas dit
Colas, by his father's second wife, baptized at Attakapas, age 14 months, in April 1780, married
Louise, daughter of Jean-Louis Bonin of Mobile and his Acadian wife
Marguerite Prince of l'Assomption, Pigiguit, and Maryland, at
Attakapas in September 1798. Their
daughter married into the Louviere family. Nicolas remarried to Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Trahan
and Marie Hugon, at Attakapas in June 1801. Their son Onésime was born at
Attakapas in January 1804. Their daughter married into the Breaux
family. Nicolas died at his home on the upper
Vermilion in March 1806, age 26. His succession was
filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in July 1819, 13 years after his
passing.
Onésime, by his father's second wife, married Anglo American Christine Ryan
in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in June 1825. Did the family
line survive? Did they remain in Louisiana?
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Some of the Héberts who
came to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765 and settled on the river did not
remain there. During the late colonial period, they or their
descendants, including two brothers, moved to the western
prairies and joined their cousins and, in one case, a brother and sister,
already there:
Claire Robichaux, widow of Jean-Baptiste
Hébert
dit Manuel,
came to the colony with four children and a grandson. Claire did
not remarry. She
moved to the Attakapas District in the 1770s. Her children and grandson
followed her there. Her daughters married into the Hébert, Martin, Milhomme, Oubre,
and Verret families.
Descendants of Joseph dit
Pepin HÉBERT (c1739-1790;
Étienne, Emmanuel, Jean-Emmanuel)
Joseph dit Pepin, elder son of
Jean-Baptiste Hébert
dit Manuel and Claire Robichaux, born probably at Cobeguit in c1739, came to
Louisiana from Halifax via St.-Domingue in 1765 with his wife and cousin
Françoise Hébert, their infant son Louis, and 14-year-old orphan and
kinsman, Jean-Charles Hébert. They settled first on the river above New Orleans, where Spanish officials counted them
at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques in 1766 and 1769. In the 1770s, Joseph dit
Pepin followed his widowed mother and his siblings to the Attakapas
District, where he and
Françoise had more children. They settled at Fausse Pointe on Bayou
Teche, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish. Their
daughters married into the Guilbeau, Hébert, Labauve, Landry,
and LeBlanc families. Joseph dit Pepin died of a stroke
probably at Fausse Pointe in October 1790; the Attakapas priest who recorded his burial
said that Joseph dit Pepin was age 57 when he died, but he was
closer to 51. Françoise died at her home at Fausse Pointe in July 1810,
age 66. Four of their five sons created families of their own and
remained in the old Attakapas District, but only two of their family lines
seem to have survived.
1
Oldest son Louis, born at Halifax in
c1764, married Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Augustin Broussard
and Anne Landry, at Attakapas in October 1789. They settled on the Vermilion
River. Their son Nicolas was born in March 1798 but died at age 5 months the following August, Alexandre
le jeune was born in February 1800, Louis, fils, also called Jean
Louis, in June 1802, Placide
le jeune in December 1804 but died at age 5 in October 1810, and Marcellin
was born in May 1807 but died at age 9 months in February 1808. Their
daughters married into the Beraud and Blanchet families. Louis,
père remarried to Marie Victoire, called Victoire, daughter of fellow Acadian
François Guilbeau and Madeleine Broussard of La Pointe on the upper Teche and widow of
Hippolyte Savoie, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish,
in August 1817. Their son Joseph was born in St. Martin Parish
in March 1818, and François Philibert in February 1824 but died at
age 2 1/2 in October 1826. Their daughter married into the Mills
family. Louis, père's succession was
filed at the Opelousas courthouse, St. Landry Parish, in July 1828; he would have been in his
mid-60s that year.
1a
Alexandre le jeune, by his
father's first wife, married cousin
Clarisse, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Broussard and Marie
Thibodeau of Vermilion, at the St. Martinville church,
St. Martin Parish, in April 1820. They settled in Lafayette Parish. Their son Aladin was born in
August 1825, and Désiré was baptized at the Vermilionville church,
Lafayette Parish, age 15 months, in February 1838. Their daughters
married Broussard cousins and perhaps into the Lanclos family
as well.
Aladin, called Halladin by the
recording priest, may have married cousin Euphémie Hébert and
settled in St. Landry Parish by the early 1850s.
Désiré married cousin
Euphémie, daughter of another Alexandre Hébert le jeune
and his Creole Marie Celanie Barras, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia
Parish, in November 1862.
1b
Louis, fils, by his
father's first
wife, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Thibodeaux,
fils and Marguerite Richard, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in April 1830. Louis,
fils may have died "at Plaquemine," perhaps Bayou Plaquemine Brûlé, in
January 1867; the Opelousas priest who recorded the burial, and who did not
give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Louis
died "at age 64 yrs."; Louis, fils would have been that age; his
succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in February.
Did his family line survive?
2
Nicolas dit Colas,
born at St.-Jacques in c1769, married Julie, daughter of Creoles François Prevost dit
Collet and Geneviève Bonin, at Attakapas in January
1795. The settled at La Côte-aux-Puces, or the Flea Coast, near
present-day New Iberia, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, and in St. Mary Parish. Their son Alexandre le jeune was
born in October 1800. Their daughters married into the DeBlanc,
Decuir,
and Moore families. Nicolas dit Colas's succession
record was filed at the Franklin courthouse, St. Mary Parish, in June 1822; he would have been
in his early 50s that year. His one son created a family of his
own in St. Mary Parish.
Alexandre
le jeune married Marie Céline, called Céline, daughter of Creoles François Barras and
Geneviève Porche and widow of Paulin Decuir, at the
Pointe Coupee church, Pointe Coupee Parish, in August 1824. They
settled in St. Mary Parish. Their son Nicolas Léon or Léo
Nicolas was born
in September 1827, François Jules in
January 1830, Camille Guy in June 1832 but died at age 3 1/2 in April
1836, and Alexandre Ossa or Oscar, called Oscar, was born in November 1838. Their
daughters married into the Derouen and Hébert families. One wonders if
Alexandre le jeune was the Alexis Hébert who was a partner of
James Hight in a business venture in St. Mary Parish during the early
1840s.
Nicolas Léo married cousin
Jeanne Idea, daughter of Zenon Decuir and his Acadian wife
Élisabeth Hébert, at the New
Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in January
1845. Their son Evariste
was born near New Iberia in December 1845 but died in January.
Nicolas Léo died probably in St. Mary Parish in January 1860; the
Abbeville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give
any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Léo Nicolas F., as
he called him, died "at age 42 yrs.," but Nicolas Léo would have been
age 32;
his succession, which calls him N. Léo, was filed at the Franklin
courthouse, St. Mary Parish, in March.
Did his family line die with him?
Oscar married Nathalie,
daughter of Creoles Joseph Gonsoulin and Marcelline
Ransonnet, at the New Iberia
church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in December 1859.
3
André, baptized at
St.-Jacques in February 1772, was 5 years old in May 1777 when he was
counted at Attakapas with the rest of his family. He died at New
Orleans in November 1820. The St. Louis Cathedral priest who recorded
the burial called André a native of Attakapas, said he was working in the
city as a garçon, or servant/waiter, and that he died at age about
46. This André would have been age 48. The priest mentioned no
wife for the aging waiter, so one wonders if André died a bachelor.
4
Alexandre, baptized at St.-Jacques in February 1774, married Françoise-Clémence, called
Clémence, daughter of French Canadian Jacques Fostin
of Illinois and his Acadian wife Françoise Trahan, at Attakapas in December 1798.
They settled at Fausse Pointe on the lower Teche. Their son Maximilien was born in October 1799. Their daughters married into the Hébert
and Leleux
families. Alexandre died at the home of French Creole Joseph Derouen
at La Petite Anse, now Avery Island, in November 1812; the St. Martinville priest who recorded
the burial said that Alexandre died at age 40, but he was 38. His widow Clémence, interestingly enough, remarried to Joseph Derouen.
One wonders if, except for its blood, Alexandre's family line survived.
5
Youngest son Placide, born at Attakapas
in April 1788, married cousin Louise, called Lise, daughter of
fellow Acadians Athanase Hébert dit Cobit and his first wife
Félicité Breaux of Fausse Pointe, at the St. Martinville church, St.
Martin Parish, in
April 1811. They settled on the upper Vermilion. Their son Louis le
jeune was born in May 1815 but died at age 9 in
October 1824. Their daughters married into the Gonsoulin and
Kerry families. Placide died by February 1820, when wife Lise
remarried at St. Martinville. Except for its blood, his family line
probably did not survive.
Descendants of Mathurin
HÉBERT (c1754-;
Étienne, Emmanuel, Jean-Emmanuel)
Mathurin, younger son of Jean-Baptiste
Hébert
dit Manuel
and Claire Robichaux and brother of Joseph dit
Pepin, was born probably at Cobeguit in c1754. Mathurin came to Louisiana from
Halifax via St.-Domingue in 1765 with his widowed mother, three sisters, and a nephew.
Mathurin lived with his mother and sisters
on the river, where Spanish officials counted him at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques in 1766 and 1769.
He followed
his mother to the Attakapas District,
where he married Catherine, daughter of Creoles Gaspard Doré
and Marguerite Crebe of St.-Charles des Allemands, in January 1787. They settled at La
Côte-aux-Puces, or the Flea Coast, near present-day New Iberia, then in St.
Martin Parish but now in Iberia Parish. Their daughter married into
the Paynne family. Two of their sons married Spanish Creoles whose
families had pioneered the settlement at New Iberia in 1779.
1
Oldest son Édouard-Mathurin,
also called Nicolas-Mathurin, born at
Attakapas in May 1799,
married cousin Marie Rose, daughter of Creoles Jean Romero and
Charlotte Doré of Spanish Lake, at the
St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in April 1818. They settled in St. Mary Parish. Their son Maximilien
was born in November 1821, and Jean François Mathurin
in October 1823. Their daughter married into the Menard family. Édouard
Mathurin remarried to Euphrosine Pélagie, daughter of
Creoles Joseph Gary and Euphrosine Picard, at the
St. Martinville church in September 1829. Their son Édouard Césaire
Mathurin was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish,
age 3 months, in July 1838, Jean Derosin, perhaps also called Jean
Drosin and Drosin, was born near New
Iberia, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in June 1842, and
Mathurin was born in January 1846. Their daughter married into the
Romero family.
1a
Jean François Mathurin, by his
father's first wife, married Sylvanie, daughter of Creoles Gaspard Ménard
and Catherine Hulin, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in March
1848; Jean François's sister Marie Marcelline married Sylvanie's brother
Terence. Jean François and Sylvanie's son Jean Amédée Mathurin
was born near New Iberia in June 1849 but died at age 3 in August
1852.
1b
Jean Derosin, by his father's second
wife, may have married Philomène Mayard. Their son
Benoît was born near New Iberia, then in St. Martin but now in
Iberia Parish, in June 1864.
2
A son, name unrecorded, was buried
at Attakapas, age 5 months, in April 1802.
3
Youngest son Nicolas, born
at Attakapas in May 1803,
married Marie, daughter of Creoles Jean Gary and Marguerite
Ravalette, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in July 1825. Their
son Nicolas Mathurin was born in St. Martin Parish in June 1826.
Nicolas Mathurin, called
"Nicolas of St. Landry Parish," married Suzanne Apolline or
Pauline, daughter of
Creoles Benjamin Borel and Amelia C. Andrus, at the Charenton church, St. Mary
Parish, in January 1851. They settled on the lower Teche between Charenton and New
Iberia. Their son Nicolas, fils was born in August 1852, Henry Gabriel in May 1854,
and Benjamin in December 1865.
Descendants of Jean-Charles
HÉBERT (c1751-1830;
Étienne, Emmanuel, Jean-Emmanuel)
Jean-Charles, called Charles, son
of Bénoni
Hébert
dit
Manuel and
Jeanne Savoie
of Chignecto and younger brother of Joseph-Pepin, was born probably at
Chignecto in c1751. Charles came to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765 as
a 14-year-old orphan with first cousin Joseph
dit Pepin Hébert
and his family. Charles was counted with that family at
Cabanocé/St.-Jacques in April 1766 and September 1769. During the early
1770s, Charles followed them to the Attakapas District, where his older brother
Joseph-Pepin and sister
Louise had settled in 1765. Charles married Madeleine, daughter of fellow
Acadians René
Robichaux and
Marguerite
Martin
dit
Barnabé of Île St.-Jean, at Attakapas in April 1773. They settled on the upper Vermilion
at the northern edge of the district.
Their daughters married into the Boudreaux, Breaux, Fostin, Guidry, and Lambert
(French Creole, not Acadian) families. Jean Charles died in
Lafayette Parish in October 1830; the Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said
that Jean Charles died "at age 93 years," but he was closer to 80;
he was buried "in the church cemetery"; his succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in August
1831.
1
Oldest son Moïse, baptized at
Attakapas, age 3 months, in May 1784, married Marie Louise, called
Louise and also Lisette, daughter
of fellow Acadians Pierre Richard and Marie Dugas of Anse La Butte, at the St.
Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in February 1809. They settled on the upper Vermilion,
perhaps at Anse La Butte. Their son Moïse,
fils, was born in January 1810, a son, name unrecorded, died 5 days after his birth in July 1811,
Lasty, also called Sosti and Joseph, was born in August 1815, Théogène in June 1823,
and Colombe died at age 2 1/2 in July 1831.
Their daughters married into the Broussard, Dugas, and
Neveu (Foreign French, not Acadian) families. Moïse died in
Lafayette Parish in January 1859; the Vermilionville priest who recorded the
burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a
wife, said that Moyse, as he called him, died "at age 72 yrs.," but Moïse
would have been age 74; his succession, which called him Moïse, Sr., was
filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following March.
1a
Moïse, fils married
Marguerite, daughter of Anglo Americans William Hathorn or
Hothorn and Margaret Sloane, at the
Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in August 1832. Their son
Guillaume was born in Lafayette Parish in March 1841, and Alphonse
in December 1844. Moïse, fils's succession record was
filed at the Opelousas courthouse, St. Landry Parish, in November 1849;
he would have been age 39 that year.
1b
Lasty married Marie Adeline,
called Adeline, daughter of Jean Begnaud and his Acadian wife
Marie Guilbeau, at the St. Martinville
church, St. Martin Parish, in October 1835. They settled near Breaux Bridge. Their son
Valsin was born in c1838 or 1839 but died at age 3 in May 1842, Edmond
was born in
February 1840, Sosthène in December 1842 but died at age 10
months in October 1843, and Hermogène was born in November 1845.
Their daughters married into the Dugas, Guidry, Patin, and Pourieau
families.
Hermogène married Uraniei, daughter of fellow Acadian Sosthène Guidry
and his Creole wife Uranie Pelletier, at the Breaux
Bridge church, St. Martin Parish, in October 1865.
1c
Théogène married double cousin
Victorine Julie or Julie Victorine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Victor Richard
and Marie Louise Richard, at the
Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in December 1844. They settled probably near Grand
Coteau. Their child, name unrecorded, perhaps
a son, died at age 5 weeks in October 1849, son
Victor was born in January 1853 but died at age 5 1/2 in October 1858, and Félix was born in January 1855.
Their daughters married Richard cousins. Théogène died
probably at Grand Coteau in August 1866; the priest who recorded the
burial did not give any parents' names. mention a wife, or
give Théogène's age at the time of his death; he would have been
age 43; his succession, naming his wife, was filed at
the Opelousas courthouse in October.
2
Ursin, born at Attakapas in February
1792, married Marie Marguerite, called Marguerite, another daughter of Pierre Richard
and Marie Dugas of La Butte, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in June 1810. They settled on the
upper Vermilion. Their son Ursin, fils was born in April 1811, Joseph
Ursin in September 1812, Gédéon
in August 1815, and Jacques was baptized at the Vermilionville
church, Lafayette Parish, age 1, in January 1823. Their daughters
married into the Broussard and Sonnier families. Ursin, père
remarried to Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph François Achée
and Geneviève LeBlanc, at the Vermilionville church in July 1826. Their child,
name unrecorded, perhaps a son, died 2 hours after its birth in August 1827. Ursin, père
died in Lafayette Parish in December 1835; the priest who recorded the burial said that Ursin was
age 45 when he died, but he
was 42; his succession was filed at the Vermilionville
courthouse the following January.
2a
Joseph Ursin, by his father's
first wife, married Anne
or Marie Tarsile,
daughter of fellow Acadians Olidon Broussard and Anne
Bernard, at the
Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in April 1832. They
settled probably near Carencro. Their son
Honoré was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 3 months,
in June 1834, Antoine Émile, called Émile, was born in March 1847, Joseph,
fils in January 1852, a child, name unrecorded, perhaps a son, may
have died at age 3 days in January 1860, and Aimé, perhaps their
son, died at age 1 in December 1865.
They also had an older son named Élisée. Joseph Ursin died
by August 1866, when he was listed as deceased in a son's marriage
record.
Élisée married Émelie,
daughter of fellow Acadians Gérard Thibodeaux and Cécile
Broussard, at the
Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in June 1856.
Antoine Émile married Arminie
or Émilie,
daughter of fellow Acadians Bélonie Boudreaux and Eugènie
Trahan, at the
Youngsville church, Lafayette Parish, in August 1866. They
settled probably on the lower Vermilion. Their
son Jean Léodice was born in December 1868.
2b
Ursin, fils, by his
father's first wife, married
Marie Domicile, called Domicile and Missile, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Thibodeaux
and Marie Louise Broussard, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in May 1834, on the same
day and at the same place his younger brother Gédéon married.
Ursin, fils and Missile's
son Jean was born in Lafayette Parish in December 1838.
Their daughter married into the Duhon family. Ursin, fils remarried to
Anathalie or Nathalie, daughter of Antoine
Ragazzony or Ragozoni and his Acadian wife Françoise
Trahan, at the Vermilionville church in June 1845. They settled probably near Carencro.
Their son Antoine Ursin, called Ursin III, was born in April 1849. Their
daughter married into the Billaud family. Ursin,
fils's succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse,
Lafayette Parish, in November 1853; he would have been age 42 that
year.
Ursin III, by his father's second
wife, married Azéma, daughter of Jean Billaud and Virginie
Favre, at the
Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in June 1869; Ursin III's
sister Angeline married Azéma's brother Alexandre.
2c
Gédéon, by his father's first
wife, married Azélie,
also called Scholastique, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph dit
Mines Guidry and Marie Scholastique Hébert, at the Vermilionville
church, Lafayette Parish, in May 1834, on the same day and at the same
place his older brother Ursin, fils married. Gédéon and
Azélie's son
Gédéon, fils was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2
months, in January 1836, Joseph Laurensky was born in January
1841, Ignace in November 1841[sic], and Eusèbe in
December 1848.
Eusèbe married Belzire,
daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Duhon and Carmelite
Broussard, at the Abbeville
church, Vermilion Parish, in June 1866. They settled near
Youngsville. Their twin sons
Onile and Rémi were born in June 1867.
3
Youngest son Jean-Baptiste-Valmont,
called Valmont, born at Attakapas in
October 1796, married Marie Carmelite, called Carmelite, daughter of Swedish
Immigrant Charles Frederick and his Acadian wife Angélique Marguerite
Gravois of
New Orleans, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in April 1817. They settled on the upper Vermilion. Their son Jean
Sarasin, called Sarasin, was born in October 1818, Théodule in February 1821, Moïse
le jeune in August 1822, Ovide, Théovide, or
Théoville in August 1824, Eusèbe
was baptized, age 2 months, in July 1826, and Joseph at age 3
months in April 1828. Jean Valmont died in Lafayette Parish in
December 1847; the Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said that
Jean Baptiste, as he called him, died "at age 49 yrs.," but Jean Valmont
would have been 51; his succession was filed at the Vermilionville
courthouse a couple of weeks after his death.
3a
Jean Sarasin married
Anne Véronique, called Véronique, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Guidry
and Marie Solange Hébert, at
the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in June 1839. They
settled near Carencro. Their
son Dorcili Michel or Michel Dorcili was born in September 1841, Lucien
in January 1847 but may have died at age 4 1/2 in September 1851, and a
child, name and age unrecorded, perhaps a son, died in September 1849. They
also had a son named Joseph. Their daughters married into the Breaux
family and perhaps into the LeBlanc family as well. Jean Sarasin remarried to Octavie, daughter of
French Immigrant Benoît Laurent and Sophie Dufort, at the Vermilionville church in April
1852. Jean Sarasin's succession, listing his wife and minor
children, including sons Michel and Joseph, was filed at the
Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in November 1853; Jean
Sarasin would have been age 34
that year. He may, at age 41, have remarried again--perhaps his third
marriage--to fellow Acadian Victoire Broussard at the Abbeville
church, Vermilion Parish, in November 1859. Their son Arthur
was born near Abbeville in February 1861.
Michel Dorcili, by his
father's first wife, married
Uranie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Trahan and
his Creole wife Marie Aspasie Manceau, at
the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in September 1866.
Joseph, by his father's first wife, married Rosalie,
daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Louvière and Delphine
Broussard, at the
Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in September 1867.
3b
Théodule married cousin Elisa, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Guidry and
Scholastique Hébert and widow
of Charles Bergeron, at the
Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in July 1840. Their son Théodule, fils was born in
Lafayette Parish in May 1841, and Jean Edgard in September 1847.
Théodule remarried to French Creole Eveline or Evelina Laurent, perhaps a
sister of his older brother Sarasin's second wife. Théodule and
Evelina's son Sidné was born in Lafayette Parish in December
1852, Alfred in December 1855, Henry in March 1858,
Félix Joseph in July 1863, and Arthur in January 1866.
Théodule, fils, by
his father's first wife, married cousin Élodie, daughter of Foreign Frenchman
Christophe Neveu and his Acadian wife Azélima Hébert, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette
Parish, in July 1868.
3c
Théovide married Marie Josèphe
or Joséphine, daughter of Creoles Dorsin Delhomme and Marie
Joséphine Bertrand, at the
St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in November 1842. Their
son Ovide was born in Lafayette Parish in October 1843.
Théovide remarried to Scholastique, called Colastie, daughter of fellow Acadians Placide Duhon
and Arcène Guidry, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in August 1845.
Their son Siméon Louis was born in Lafayette Parish in January 1847
but died at age 10 in April 1857,
Antoine was born in April 1848, a child, name unrecorded,
perhaps a son, died "at age a few days" in May 1852, another child, name
and age unrecorded, perhaps a son, died in October 1855, Arsène was born in November 1857,
Tobie in September 1861 but died at age 8 1/2 in April 1870, Théophile
was born in May 1864, and
Jean in August 1866. Théovide died in Lafayette Parish in
September 1869; the Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and
who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife,
said that Théoville, as he called him, died "at age 44 yrs."; Théovide
would have been age 45.
3d
Moïse le jeune died in Lafayette Parish
in September 1843, age 21, and probably did not
marry.
3e
Eusèbe married Eléonore,
16-year-old daughter of Creoles Jean Baptiste, also called Jean
Louis, Robin and Félicité Delhomme, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in
July 1844. Their son Alexandre was born in Lafayette Parish
in November 1846, Eusèbe, fils died at age 10 days in
February 1854, Jean Valmont was born in December 1855, Amédée
in December 1858, and Eusèbe Israël in February 1868. Their daughter married into the Louvière
family.
Alexandre married Elvina,
daughter of fellow Acadians Simonette Breaux and Carmelite
Granger, at the
Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in January 1868.
3f
Joseph married Uranie,
also called Marie, another daughter of Placide Duhon and Arcène
Guidry, at the Vermilionville
church, Lafayette Parish, in September 1848. Their son Placide
was born in Lafayette Parish in August 1852, Alcide in
August 1856, and Joseph, fils in January 1859.
Descendants of Jean-Louis
HÉBERT (c1763-1810s?;
Étienne, Emmanuel, Jean-Emmanuel,
Jean-Baptiste dit Manuel)
Jean-Louis, son of Jean Hébert
and Madeleine Gaudet and nephew of Joseph dit Pepin and Mathurin Hébert,
was born probably at Halifax in c1763. Jean-Louis came to Louisiana in 1765 under the care of his paternal
grandmother and settled with her
at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques on the river. In the early 1770s, when he was still a child, his grandmother
took him to the Attakapas District, where he married first cousin Marie-Rose, called
Rose or Rosalie and also Nora, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Richard
and Agnés Hébert of St.-Jacques, in
April 1790; Rose's mother was Jean-Louis's paternal
aunt. Jean-Louis and Rose settled at La Côte-aux-Puces, or the Flea Coast, near present-day New
Iberia, and then farther down the Teche in what became St. Mary Parish.
Their
daughters married into the Labauve and LeBlanc families.
Jean Louis
died probably in St. Mary Parish by February 1818, when he was listed as
deceased in his oldest son's marriage
record.
1
Oldest son Jean-Lacroix or
-de
la Croix, baptized at Attakapas, age 4, in June
1795, married Geneviève, daughter of Creoles Pierre Bonvillain
and Thérèse Carlin
of St. Mary Parish, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in
February 1818. They settled in St. Mary Parish near the boundary with
St. Martin Parish. Their son
Jean Lacroix,
fils, called LaCroix, was born in January 1819, Émile de la Croix in September 1827, and Leufroi La
Claire,
called La Claire, a twin, was born in January 1830.
Their daughters married into the Landry and Louvière families.
One of their sons settled in Terrebonne Parish, but the others remained near
New Iberia. A succession for Jean Lacroix Hébert was filed at the Franklin
courthouse, St. Mary Parish, in December 1867; Jean Lacroix, père
would have been age 76 that year.
1a
Jean Lacroix, fils
married Marguerite Ignace, also called Mary, daughter of Spanish Creoles Ignace Viator
and Julie Romero, at
the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in
October 1840. Their son Ovid or Ovide was born near New Iberia in
January 1845, André Adoiska in May 1851, Octave Hermogène
in February 1853, Joseph Odilon in January 1857, and
Onésiphore in March 1860. Their daughters married into the Miguez, Ransonnet,
and Romero
families. A succession for Jean Lacroix Hébert was filed at the
Franklin courthouse, St. Mary Parish, in December 1867; Jean Lacroix,
fils would have been age 48 that year.
Ovide married Marie
Octavie, called Octavie, daughter of Dasincourt Borel and his
Acadian wife Hermantine Vincent, at the
New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in
December 1865; the marriage was recorded also in St. Mary Parish. Their son
Palycorpe, probably Polycarp, was born near New Iberia in
September 1866.
1b
Émile de la Croix married cousin Marie Oline
or Olive, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexis LeBlanc and Marie
Landry, at the
New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in May
1850. Their son Jean Deluc
de la Croix, called Deluc, was born near New Iberia in January 1852, Joseph
Motimor in December 1856, and Émile
Ulinor in January 1859.
Deluc married Elina,
daughter of Théodule Delcambre and his Acadian wife Orezile
Landry and widow of Isaac Landry,
at the New Iberia church, Iberia Parish, in October 1870.
1c
La Claire married cousin Odile, Odilia,
or Olivia, daughter of fellow Acadians Martin Hébert and Mathilde
Dubois of Terrebonne Parish, at the Houma
church, Terrebonne Parish, in December 1860. Their son Valière
La Claire was born near New Iberia, then in St. Martin but now in
Iberia Parish, in August 1861, and Adrien Honoré near Lydia,
Iberia Parish, in
December 1869.
2
Exupere, Exhubert,
Exuber, Exubert, or Exibert, also called Jubert, born
at Attakapas in September
1799, married cousin Constance, also called Hortense and Octavie, daughter of
fellow Acadians Athanase Hébert and Félicité Breaux
of Fausse Pointe, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in February 1820.
They settled in St. Mary Parish. Their son Désiré was born in December 1829, and
Placide in March 1832. Their daughters married into the
Broussard,
Derouen,
LeBlanc, and Lions
or Lyon
families. Exhubert, called Eugène by the recording priest, died probably
in St. Mary Parish in January 1840, age 40; his succession was filed at the Franklin
courthouse the following November.
2a
Placide may have married
French Creole Marie St. Elia Prevost or Provost at the
New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in
November 1852. They settled in St. Mary Parish. Placide may
have remarried to Amelie, daughter of fellow Acadians Benjamin
Bourgeois and Nathalie Fécile Bourg, at the Charenton church, St. Mary Parish, in April 1857.
Their son Alcide was born near Charenton in February 1858,
Henry in April 1859, Gabriel in January 1862, Arthur
near New Iberia in January 1865, and Jean Théodore near Lydia
in August 1869.
2b
Désiré married cousin Domitille,
daughter of fellow Acadians François Xavier Louvière and
Arthémise Hébert, at the New Iberia
church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in March 1854.
Their son Désiré, fils was born near New Iberia in April 1857.
3
Youngest son Philibert, born
at Attakapas in March
1802, married Marie Carmesile or Carmelite, daughter of Creoles Jean Baptiste Bourgeois
and Marie Borel, in a civil ceremony
in St. Mary Parish in April 1827. Their son Philibert Dorneville
or Derneville, called Derneville,
was born probably in St. Mary Parish in July 1830, and Jean Darmas,
also called Jean Louis, was baptized at the Charenton church, St. Mary Parish, age 9, in
1849. Philibert remarried to Joséphine, daughter of French Canadian
Joseph Legnon, Leignon, Loignon, Loignion, or
Lognon and his Creole wife Eugénie Dartes, at the Charenton church in September 1848; Philibert was 46
years old at the time of the wedding. Their son Philibert, fils
was born near Charenton in December 1849,
Aristide in August 1851, Paul in July 1856, and St. Cyr in
April 1860.
3a
Dernevlle, by his father's first wife,
married Marie Eudolie, Idalie, Idolie, Udalie, Udelie, or Udoline, daughter of Creoles Clairville Bonin
and Madeleine Sidalise Borel, at the Charenton church, St. Mary Parish, in November 1855. They
settled near Lydia in what became Iberia Parish. Their son Valérie
Albert was born in February 1860, St. Cyr in July 1864, Justin in September 1866
but died at age 2 1/2 in January 1869,
and Joseph Damas was born in December 1870.
3b
Jean Louis le jeune, by
his father's first wife, married Alphonsine, another daughter of Joseph Loignon
and Eugénie Dartes, at
the Charenton church, St. Mary Parish, in June 1860; Alphonsine was a
sister of Jean Louis's stepmother, Joséphine, so he married his
step-aunt, if there's such a thing. Jean Louis and Alphonsine's
son Jean Oscar was born near Charenton in October 1862.
3c
Aristide, by his father's second wife,
married Victoire, daughter of Jean Louis Laine and his Acadian
wife Victoire Savoie, at the Lydia
church, Iberia Parish, in May 1870.
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Most of the many Héberts
who came to Louisiana from France in 1785 settled on the Acadian Coast or on
upper Bayou Lafourche, but some went directly to the western prairies and join their
cousins there:
Anne-Osite Dugas, age 30, widow of
Charles Hébert, crossed on La
Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in
mid-August. With her were three children--Charles dit Charlot, age 5, Anne-Victoire,
age 4, and Marguerite-Sophie, age 2. Anne-Osite remarried to Joseph, son of fellow Acadian
Pierre Granger and widower of Anne-Geneviève Babin, at
Attakapas in January 1791. Joseph had come to Louisiana from Maryland
in 1766. They settled at Attakapas, where Joseph died in December 1798,
age 53. Anne Victoire married into the Broussard family and
died in Lafayette Parish in September 1850, age 70. Meanwhile, Marguerite Sophie died in Lafayette Parish in November
1833, age 51, and may not have married. Charles
dit Charlot married and settled in the Attakapas District.
.
Pierre Hébert of
Tintamarre, Chignecto, age 45, came to Louisiana aboard Le Beaumont,
the third of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans later in August.
With him were wife Charlotte Potier, age 44, their infant son
Pierre-Joseph, Pierre's 40-year-old unmarried brother Jean-Baptiste, and
Pierre's 11-year-old stepdaughter, Anne-Perrine Patry, whose father,
Paul Patry of Île St.-Jean, had died in France. From New Orleans, Pierre and Charlotte crossed the Atchafalaya Basin
and settled at the northern edge of the Attakapas District near
Carencro. They had no
more children in Louisiana. Pierre died at
his home at Carencro in February 1818, age 79. Younger brother
Jean-Baptiste never married and died at Attakapas in October 1801, age 56. Son
Pierre-Joseph married and settled at Carencro, but, except for its blood,
his family line did not survive. Stepdaughter Anne
Patry, the only member of her father's family to come to Louisiana,
married into the Richard family and remained in the Carencro area,
where she died in December 1817, in her early 40s.
.
Madeleine-Modeste Hébert of
Pigiguit, age 44, crossed on Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven
Ships, which reached New Orleans in September. With her were husband
Jean-Baptiste Trahan of Rivière-aux-Canards, age 50, and five
children, ages 21 to 15.
.
The Héberts from France
who went directly to the western prairies created only one lasting family line
there:
Descendants of Charles dit
Charlot
HÉBERT (1779-1860;
Antoine, Jean, Jean, fils, Charles)
Charles, fils, called
Charles dit Charlot, son of
Charles Hébert and Anne-Osite Dugas, born at
St.-Similien, Nantes, France, in August 1779, came to
Louisiana with his widowed mother and two younger sisters aboard La Bergère,
the second of the Seven Ships from France, in 1785. They went to the
Attakapas District, where his mother remarried to a Granger. Charlot
married stepsister Anne-Geneviève, called Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Granger
and his first wife Anne-Geneviève Babin of Opelousas, in May 1802. They settled at Prairie Sorrel and on the lower
Vermilion, then a part of St. Martin
but now in Lafayette Parish, where their children, including many sons, were born.
Their daughters married into the Hébert, LeBlanc (French
Creole, not Acadian), Leger, and Trahan
families. Charles dit Charlot likely died in Lafayette Parish
in November 1860; the Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who
did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that
Charles, died "at age 79 yrs.," but he would have been 81; his succession, which called him Charles but which misidentified his wife (it gave
his son Joseph's wife's name, not Geneviève's), was filed at the
Vermilionville courthouse in early December. Was Charlot a widower at
the time of his death?
1
Oldest son Charles III, baptized at
Attakapas, age 1 1/2 months, in October 1803, died at age 2 in
October 1805, unless he was the Charles Hébert who married
Anglo-Creole Émilie Hayes, place and date unrecorded, but
it probably was near Grand Coteau, in the 1820s. Their children, born
near Grand Coteau, included Jean Louis in March 1827 but died at
age 1 in February 1828; Émilie born in January 1829; ...
2
Joseph Charles, born at Attakapas in November
1806, married Marguerite Carmélite, called Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Basile
Landry and Marie Anne Mire, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in January
1828. Their son Charles le jeune was baptized at the
Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in November 1835 but died at age 7 1/2
in July 1843, Eugène was baptized at age 1 1/2 months in September
1837, Joseph Alcide, called Alcide, was born in
November 1840, Claude in October 1844, and Hilaire in November
1848. They also had a son named Placide, unless he was Claude. Their daughters
married into the Abshire, Hébert, and Simon families,
one of them to a first cousin. Joseph Charles's succession was
filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in April 1868; he would have been
age 62 that year.
2a
Alcide married cousin Marie,
daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Arvillien Trahan and Marie
Denise Hébert, at the
Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in October 1861. Their son Alcide, fils was born in
Lafayette Parish in February 1865. Alcide, père's
succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in March
1867; he would have been age 27 that year.
2b
Eugène married Azélie,
daughter of fellow Acadians François Cormier, fils and
Émilie Broussard, at the
Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in December 1861. Their
son Martial was born in Lafayette Parish in August 1866, and
Jean Bénoni in August 1870.
2c
Placide married cousin Marcellite,
another daughter of Louis Arvillien Trahan and Marie Denise
Hébert, at the Vermilionville
church, Lafayette Parish, in January 1867. Their son Donatien
was born in Lafayette Parish in March 1868, and Donat in
April 1870.
2d
Hilaire married Aurelia,
daughter of Stival Simon and his Acadian wife Marie Aureline
Broussard, at the Vermilionville
church, Lafayette Parish, in August 1868.
3
Joachim, born in St. Martin
Parish in September 1808, may have died young.
4
Jean Baptiste, called
Jean and also Jean Charles, born in St.
Martin Parish in May
1810, married cousin Marie Carmegille or Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadians
Célestin Landry and Marguerite Granger, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in
December 1833. Their son,
name unrecorded, may have died in Lafayette Parish 2 days after his birth in
February 1835, Jean, fils was baptized at the Vermilionville church,
age 3 days, in October 1839 but died the same day, Sylvestre was born
in December 1842, Émile in April 1845, Désiré in February
1847, Onésime in November 1849, and Théodule in October 1851. Their daughter married
into the Cormier family. Jean, père died in Lafayette
Parish in February 1852, age 41; his succession,
which called him Jean Charles, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in
June 1856.
4a
Émile married first cousin
Marie Célise, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Charles Hébert
and Marguerite Carmélite Landry, his uncle and aunt, at the
Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in November 1866. Their son Arthur
was born near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in November 1867, and
Eraste in Lafayette Parish in March 1869.
4b
Désiré married Élisabeth,
daughter of fellow Acadians Maximilien Vincent, fils and
Virginie Duhon, at the Youngsville
church, Lafayette Parish, in October 1867, three months before he was
granted his emancipation in Lafayette Parish on the eve of his
twenty-first birthday. Their son Jean Dolze was born in
Lafayette Parish in September 1868.
4c
Onésime was granted his
emancipation in Lafayette Parish in January 1868, not long after he
turned 18. He married Marie Anathilia or Matilia, daughter of fellow Acadians Treville
Duhon and Eulalie Trahan, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in January
1869.
5
Dosité, born in St. Martin
Parish in April 1812, married Marie Émilite, Émelie, Amelie, or Mélite, daughter of fellow Acadians
Antoine Joseph Trahan and Marie Élisabeth Mire, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette
Parish, in December 1831. Their son Charles Dosité was
baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 1 1/2, in December 1833,
Joseph Zéphirin was born in August 1835, Julien was baptized at
age 2 months in March 1837,
Jean at age 2 months in May 1839, and Édouard was born in April
1841. Their daughters married into the Duhon and Vincent families.
5a
Charles Dosité married Mare
Célanie, called Célanie, daughter of John Danight, Denight, or Denaisse
and Marie Montet, at the Vermilionville church,
Lafayette Parish, in October 1854. Charles Dosité may have died in
Lafayette Parish in August 1859; the Vermilionville priest who recorded
the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Charles died "at age 23 yrs."; Charles Dosité
would have been age 25.
5b
Joseph Zéphirin married cousin
Zéline, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Vincent and
Marie Zéline Hébert, at the
Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in February 1855. They settled probably on the lower
Vermilion. Their son Sosthène was born in August
1857.
5c
Jean married Marie Azéma,
daughter of fellow Acadian Onésime Cormier and his Creole wife
Eugénie Simon, at the Vermilionville
church, Lafayette Parish, in December 1859.
5d
Julien likely married cousin
Marie Eugénie, called Eugénie, daughter of perhaps Joseph Hébert,
at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in April 1860.
Their son Rémy was born in Lafayette Parish in April 1868.
5e
Édouard married Marie Elmazie,
Elmagee,
or Edneaset,
daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Broussard and Pélagie
Duhon, at the
Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in April 1866. Their son
Joseph Fernes was born in Lafayette Parish in October 1868, and
Jean near Youngsville in June 1870.
6
Édouard,
born in St. Martin Parish in October 1816, died in Lafayette Parish, age 7
1/2, in February
1824.
7
Youngest son Pierre, born
in St. Martin Parish in February 1823, may have died young.
Descendants of Pierre-Joseph
HÉBERT (1785-1851?;
Antoine, Jean, Jacques, Pierre dit le Jeune)
Pierre-Joseph, called Joseph, son
of Pierre Hébert, fils and Charlotte Potier,
born at St.-Martin-de-Chantenay, France, in March 1785,
came to Louisiana aboard Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships
from France, in 1785 while still an infant.
His parents took him to Attakapas, and he grew up at
Carencro, where he married Augustine, called Justine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Guilbeau
and Marie Arceneaux of Carencro, at
the bride's home in April 1812. They settled at Carencro. Their
daughters married into the Clavel and Hébert families. A Pierre
Hébert died near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in February 1851; the
priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents'
names or mention a wife, said that Pierre died "at age 72 yrs.," but
Pierre Joseph would have been "only" 66. The family line,
except for its blood, probably did not survive.
A child, name
unrecorded, perhaps a son, died at birth in August 1820 and was buried at nearby Grand
Coteau, St. Landry Parish.
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Beginning in the late colonial and
continuing well into the antebellum period, other Acadian Héberts who had
immigrated from France, or their descendants, moved from the river or from
Bayou Lafourche to the western prairies and added many new lines to that center of family
settlement:
Marie, perhaps Marie Rose,
Hébert, widow of Pierre Jean Joseph Joachim Lebert of Beaubassin
on upper Bayou Vermilion, died perhaps at Beaubassin in September 1844.
The Grand Coteau priest who recorded her burial, and who did not bother to
give any parents' names or even mention a husband, said that Marie died "at
age 67 yrs." This would have been Marie Rose's age exactly.
Descendants of Pierre-Joseph HÉBERT
(1769-early 1800s;
Antoine, Jean, René dit Groc, Jean)
Pierre-Joseph, oldest son of Joseph-Ignace Hébert
and his first wife Anne Dugas, born at St.-Suliac, France, near St.-Malo,
in March 1769, came to Louisiana with his parents and siblings aboard Le
St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships from France, in 1785. He followed them
and the majority of their fellow passengers
to upper Bayou Lafourche.
Pierre-Joseph married Anne-Eléonore, called Eléonore and Nanette, daughter of fellow Acadian
Benoît Comeaux, at St.-Jacques on the river in July
1788. Anne-Eléonore
had come to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships. They lived in
New Orleans in the early 1790s. Later in the decade, they moved to the Opelousas District, where
more of their children were born. Their daughters married into the
Bourque, Dantin,
Labbé,
Lacombe, and Richard families. Pierre died by October
1808, when he was listed in a daughter's marriage record as
deceased; he would have been in his 30s then. One of his sons and a
daughter "returned" to Bayou Lafourche. His oldest son
remained in St. Landry Parish.
1
Oldest son Antoine-Raymond,
born at New Orleans in
October 1791, married
Marie Céleste or Célestine, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Trahan
and Célestine Lejeune, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in May 1815. Their son Antoine,
fils
was born in St. Landry Parish in October 1816, and Charles in April
1837. Their daughters married
into the Chiasson, Means, Simar (French Canadian, not Acadian), and Sonnier
families.
1a
Antoine, fils married
Marie Louise, called Louise, 17-year-old daughter of Joseph Bergeot, Bergeau,
Bergeaut, or Berjeau and Marie Miller, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in July 1836.
They settled near Grand Coteau. Their
son Antoine III was born in June 1842, Théodule in December 1844,
Théogène in April 1848, and Théophile in July 1852. Their daughter
married into the Vigé family. Antoine, fils's
succession record may have been filed at the Opelousas courthouse in
1862, when he would have been age 46, and "transferred to Acadia
Parish" after that parish was created from St. Landry in 1887.
Antoine III married Marie
Suzanne, called Suzanne, daughter of Edward Courtele,
Courtille, Courtin, Courtine, or Corty and
Suzanne Istre, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry
Parish in September 1863, and sanctified the marriage at the Grand
Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in July 1865. Their son
Antoine IV was born near Church Point, then in St. Landry but
now in Acadia Parish, in February 1867.
1b
Charles married Louise or
Éloise,
daughter of Jean Baptiste Taylor and Celestine Moore, in a civil ceremony in St.
Landry Parish in September 1858. They settled near Grand Coteau.
2
Jean-Charles, born at
Opelousas in February 1801, married Clarisse Melvina, called Clavie, daughter of
Vincent
Comardelle and Marie Catherine Caholi of New Orleans, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in
October 1825. They remained on Bayou Lafourche.
3
Their youngest son, name and age
unrecorded, died at Opelousas in April 1803.
Louis-Ambroise HÉBERT
(1783-1824; Antoine,
Jean, René dit Groc, Jean)
Louis-Ambroise, third son of
Joseph-Ignace Hébert and his first wife Anne Dugas, and
brother of Pierre-Joseph, was born at Nantes,
France, in November 1783. Louis came to Louisiana aboard Le St.-Rémi, the
fourth of the Seven Ships from France, in 1785 with his parents and
siblings. He followed his family and the majority of their fellow
passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche. When he came of age,
Louis-Ambroise crossed the Atchafalaya Basin and settled at the northern
edge of the Attakapas District. He died near Grand Coteau,
St. Landry Parish, in August 1824; the priest who recorded his burial, and
who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Louis was
"native of the city of Nantes in France," died "at age 42 years," and was
"buried ... in the parish cemetery dans mon absence (during my
absence).". He was age 40 and evidently he did not marry.
Descendants of Joseph-Marie
HÉBERT (1773-?;
Étienne, Emmanuel, Jacques, Charles)
Joseph-Marie, elder son of
Joseph
Hébert
and
Jeanne De La Forestrie of Île St.-Jean, born at Plouër, France,
near St.-Malo, in July 1773, came to Louisiana with
his parents and siblings aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven
Ships from France, in 1785. The family went to upper Bayou Lafourche. Joseph-Marie's father died soon after the family
came to the colony, and his mother remarried to a fellow Acadian
exile from France, Sébastien Benoit. In the late 1790s, after
he came of age, Joseph followed his stepfather to the western prairies and married
cousin Marie-Barbe,
daughter of French Canadian Jean-Baptiste Jeannot of Québec and
St.-Jacquesm and his Acadian wife Marguerite Hébert, at Opelousas in May 1799; Marie's mother was an Hébert.
They remained in the Opelousas District, now St. Landry Parish. Their daughter married into the Frugé
family. Two of their sons settled in Lafayette Parish. Did the
family line, except for its blood, survive?
1
Oldest son Auguste or Augustin, baptized at
Opelousas, age 1, in November 1804, may have married fellow Acadian Pétit Anne Trahan
in Lafayette Parish in the early 1820s. Their son Edmond was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette
Parish, age 9 months, in August 1826. They may have had a younger son
named Paul. Their daughter married into the
Lejeune family.
Paul married Marie Eugénie, called Eugénie,
daughter of Antoine Labbé and his Acadian wife Madeleine
Comeaux, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish
in November 1861, and sanctified the marriage at the Church Point church,
then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in May 1867.
2
Joseph, baptized at Opelousas,
age 11 months, in December 1806, married Marie Boullé, widow of
Marcel Essin, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in April 1826.
Their daughter may have married into the Abshire family. Joseph
remarried to Aclament, daughter of Joseph Javille and Caroline
Frugé, at the Church
Point church, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in January 1867;
Joseph was 61 years old at the time of the wedding. Did he father any sons
by either of his wives?
3
Maximilien, born in St.
Landry Parish in February 1810, may have died young.
4
Alexandre, born in St.
Landry Parish in January 1814, also may have died young.
5
Youngest son Charles le
jeune, born in St. Landry
Parish in December
1817, died at age 1 1/2 in October 1819.
Descendants of Charles
HÉBERT (1775-1857;
Étienne, Emmanuel, Jacques, Charles)
Charles, second son of
Joseph
Hébert
and Jeanne De La Forestrie of Île St.-Jean, born at Châtellerault,
Poitou, France, in May 1775, came to Louisiana with
his parents and siblings aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven
Ships from France, in 1785. The family followed the majority of their
fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche. Joseph-Marie's father died soon after the family settled
at Lafourche, and his mother remarried to a fellow Acadian exile from
France, Sébastien Benoit. During the late 1790s, after he came of
age, Charles followed his stepfather to the Attakapas District, where he married Pélagie, daughter
of Vincent Dumesnil and his Acadian wife Rose Trahan of St.
James on the river, in April 1804. They settled at Carencro, on the northern
edge of the Attakapas District. Their daughter
married into the Caruthers family. Charles died probably at
Carencro in March 1857, age 81.
1
Oldest son Simon Séverin,
called Séverin and also Désiré, born at Carencro in February 1805, married Marcellite
or Marcelline, daughter of fellow Acadians
Joseph Babineaux and Céleste Comeaux, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in
July 1826. They settled at Carencro. Their son Alexandre
died at age 1 month in April 1829, Joseph le jeune died the day of his birth
in February 1830, Désiré was born in January 1833, another Joseph le
jeune in November 1834, Jean in October 1838, Charles in August 1845,
and Hippolyte in June 1848. Séverin
died probably at Carencro in December 1868; the Grand Coteau priest who
recorded the burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names or
even mention a wife, said that Séverin died "at age 65 yrs."; Simon Séverin
would have been age 63; his succession, naming his wife and calling her
Marcelite, had been filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the previous
August, so he may have died of a lengthy illness. His daughters
married into the Kilchrist and Prejean families.
1a
Désiré married Marie Elmire,
called Elmire,
daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Treville Breaux and Marie
Richard, at the Grand
Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in January 1854. They settled
probably at Carencro. Their son
Alcée was born in July 1856 but died at age 1 in
October 1857, Onésime Claircee was born in July 1860, and Jean
Clairfe in November 1862.
1b
Joseph le jeune, the
second with the name, married
cousin Marie Théotiste, Helvetie, or Helvetre, perhaps also called Mélasie, daughter of
fellow Acadians Pierre Hébert and Justine Guilbeau, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in May 1854. They
settled probably at Carencro. Their son Pierre was born
in June 1855 but died a month shy of age 13 in May 1868. Marie died probably at Carencro 9 days after son
Pierre was born; she was only 25 years old; her
succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette
Parish, a few days after her death. Joseph le jeune remarried to Marie
Azélie, daughter of French Canadian Louis Roger le jeune
and his Acadian wife Marie Azéline Prejean, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in April 1857. Joseph le jeune and
Marie Azélie also settled near Carencro. Their son Martial
was born in July 1858,
Jérôme in December 1859, and Joseph, fils in July 1861.
Joseph le jeune died in Lafayette Parish in September 1861; the
Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not bother to
give any parents' names or even mention a wife, said that Joseph died
"at age 25 yrs."; Joseph le jeune would have been age 26; his
succession, indentifying both of his wives, was filed at the
Vermilionville courthouse in January 1863.
1c
Jean married Coralie, daughter
of fellow Acadian Julien Comeaux and his Anglo-Creole wife
Arthémise Caruthers, at the Vermilionville church,
Lafayette Parish, in June 1861. Jean remarried to first cousin Athanaise,
daughter of fellow Acadians Sosthène Hébert and Rosalie
Benoit, his uncle and aunt, in a civil ceremony in
Lafayette Parish in January 1866, and sanctified the marriage at the
Church Point church, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in
January 1867. Their son Joseph Marcial was born near Church
Point in November 1866, and Jean Charles, perhaps their son, in
Lafayette Parish in November 1869.
1d
Hippolyte married Marie
Emerida, called Merida, daughter of fellow Acadians Hippolyte Breaux
and Sidalise Benoit, at the
Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in July 1867. They
settled probably at Carencro.
2
Sosthène, born at Carencro in January 1809, married
Marguerite Rosalie or Rosella, called Rosella, daughter of fellow Acadians
François Xavier Benoit and Marguerite Trahan, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette
Parish, in February 1833. They may have settled in what became
Calcasieu Parish. Their son François Ducroiselle,
called Ducroiselle, was baptized at the Vermilionville church,
age 6 months, in August 1834 but died at age 3 in September 1837, François Israël was born in December 1837, twins Jean Jules and Joseph
Gilles in March 1845, Charles Honoré, called Honoré, in February 1848,
Étienne in April 1852, and Ernest in June 1855. Their
daughters married into Hébert and Missonnier families, one of
them to a first cousin. Sosthène died in Lafayette Parish in January
1870; the Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not
give any parents' names or even mention a wife, said that Sosthène
died "at age 62 yrs.," but he was 61.
Honoré married Azéna, daughter
of fellow Acadians Pierre LeBlanc and Adeline Broussard, at the Vermilionville church,
Lafayette Parish, in May 1870.
3
Joseph, born at Carencro in
May 1811, may have died young.
4
Youngest son Ursin, born at
Carencro in July 1813,
married Marie Aimée or Emma, daughter of Hubert Janise and his
Acadian wife Lise Thibodeaux, at the
Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in July 1834. They settled near Carencro and then on upper Bayou
Teche between Arnaudville and Breaux Bridge. Their son Darmas
was born in June 1835, Joseph le jeune in December 1838, Ursin,
fils in December 1841, Louis
Homere or Omer in May 1847, Jacques Barthélémy in March 1851, a
child, name unrecorded, perhaps a son, may have died at age 3 days in
January 1860, and Hippolyte Mehu, perhaps Aimé, was
born near Arnaudville in December 1864 but may have died at age 1 in
December 1865. Their daughter married into the Dohmann family.
4a
Ursin, fils "of Pont
Breaux" married Marie Mathilde, called Mathilde, daughter of Ulger Lanclos and
his Acadian wife Eulalie Landry and widow of Alexandre Philias Hébert,
at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in June 1867; Mathilde's
first husband had died in the War Between the States. Ursin,
fils and Mathilde's son Joseph Léophas was born near
Arnaudville in March 1870.
4b
Darmas married Célestine,
daughter of fellow Acadian Alexandre Guidry and his Creole wife
Marie Céleste Calais, at the Arnaudville
church, St. Landry Parish, in August 1867. Their son Hippolyte
Mehu was born near Arnaudville in June 1868.
4c
Louis Omer married Marie
Louise, another daughter of Ulger Lanclos, and Eulalie
Landry, at the
Arnaudville church, St. Landry Parish, in August 1867. Their son Louis Lucius was born
near Arnaudville in December 1869.
Descendants of Jean-Baptiste
HÉBERT (1786-c1820s;
Antoine, Jean, René dit Groc, Jean, Pierre)
Jean-Baptiste, eldest son of
Jean-Pierre Hébert and his second wife Anne-Dorothée Doiron,
born near St.-Gabriel in
December 1786, married cousin Anne Mélanie, called
Mélanie, daughter of fellow
Acadians Alexandre Landry and Modeste Hébert, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville
Parish, in September 1808.
Their daughters married into the Hébert
and Rivet families and settled on the river. Jean-Baptiste
moved his family from St. Gabriel to St. Landry Parish in the
1820s. An estate record for Jean Baptiste Hébert, husband of
Mélanie Landry, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse, St. Landry
Parish, in January
1820; it listed his heirs as Joseph Valsin, age 4, and Marie Mélanie, age 2.
One wonders if this was simply a filing of a will with the wrong date on it;
Joseph Valsin was born in March 1821, so he would not have turned 4 until
1825. Jean Baptiste, père's successions (there were two
of them) were filed at the Opelousas courthouse in May 1839; one succession states that Jean Baptiste's widow, Mélanie Landry, remarried
to Alexandre Lanclos, père in 1831; the other succession states that
Jean Baptiste's heirs were sons Valcin[sic] and Jean Baptiste, fils and
daughter Mélanie.
1
Oldest son Eugène, born
near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in January 1814, may have died young.
2
Jean
Baptiste, fils, born near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in December 1816, married
stepsister Céleste
or Célestine,
daughter of French Creole Alexandre Lanclos, his first wife Marie
Louise Hargroder, at the Grand Coteau
church, St. Landry Parish, in March 1835. Their son Jean Baptiste III was born in St. Landry
Parish in November 1836, and Alexandre
Filias, Philias, or Phileas in October 1839.
2a
Jean Baptiste III married
Elisa, called Lisa, daughter of French Canadian George Lalonde
and his Acadian wife Ursule Boutin, at the Grand
Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in November 1858. They settled between Grand Coteau and Arnaudville. Their son
Eugène was born in August 1859 but died at age 7 1/2 in January 1867,
and Joseph Alice[sic] was born in November 1868.
2b
Alexandre Philias married
cousin Marie Mathilde, called Mathilde, daughter of Ulger
Lanclos and his Acadian wife Marie Eulalie Landry, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in May
1861. Their son
Alexandre Philias, fils was born posthumously near Arnaudville in
December 1862. During the War of 1861-65,
Alexandre Philias, called
Alexandre P. in the Confederate records, served in Company K of the
29th (Thomas's) Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Landry
Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi. Alexandre Philias
enlisted in Company K in St. Landry Parish in April 1862, age 22, but he
did not live long enough to serve with his regiment in action. He
died the following July. His service
record says nothing of where he died or what caused his death, but it
probably was at Vicksburg of disease. His succession was
filed at the Opelousas courthouse, St. Landry Parish, in January 1863.
Mathilde remarried to Ursin Hébert, fils of Breaux Bridge
at Grand Coteau in May
1867.
3
Valéry, perhaps also called
Valière and Pierre, born near St.
Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in December 1818, may have married fellow Acadian
Azéma Guidry at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in
October 1846. Did the family line survive?
4
Youngest son Valsin Joseph
or Joseph Valsin, born near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in March 1821,
married Marie Céline or Celima, another daughter Ulger Lanclos and
Marie Eulalie Landry, at the Opelousas church, St.
Landry Parish, in May 1843. Their son Joseph Valmont was
baptized at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, age unrecorded, in
November 1845 but died at age 4 months in December. Their daughter
married into the Fontenot family. Valsin Joseph may
have died near Grand Coteau in January 1848; the priest who recorded the
burial said that Valcin[sic] died "at age 28 yrs."; Valsin Joseph
would have been age 26. Evidently only the blood of this
family line survived.
Descendants of Élie-Joseph
HÉBERT (1802-1844;
Antoine, Jean, Jean, fils, Jean III, Pierre)
Élie-Joseph or Joseph-Élie, fourth
son of Joseph-Yves Hébert and Marie-Victoire Thibodeaux of the
St.-Malo area of France, born at Assumption in February 1802, married
Azélie, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Olivier Pitre
and Angélique Bourgeois, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in July 1828.
They moved to St. Martin Parish by the early 1830s. Their daughter
married into the Desmaret family. Élie died near New
Iberia, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in August 1844; the
priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents'
names or mention a wife, said that Élie died "at age 40 yrs." ; he
was 42; his succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in
November 1851.
1
Oldest son Pierre Adrien,
born in Lafourche Interior Parish in June 1829, married Madeleine Amelina,
daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Robichaux and Domitille
Louvière, at the Charenton church,
St. Mary Parish, in February 1854. They settled on the lower Teche between Charenton and
New Iberia.
2
Émile Euclien was
born in Lafourche Interior Parish in April 1831.
3
Youngest son Joseph, born
near New Iberia in December 1843, died at age 1 1/2 in September 1845.
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Most of the Héberts who
came to Louisiana from Maryland in the late 1760s remained on the river, but
a few of their descendants moved to the western prairies during the antebellum period:
Madeleine Hébert, widow of
Olivier Landry, died at Côte Gelée, Lafayette Parish, in May 1830.
The priest who recorded her burial "in the Landry Cemetery at Côte
Gelée" said that she was 75 years old when she died. Her succession record
was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following month.
Marguerite Hébert, widow of
Étienne-Gilles Foret, died in Lafayette Parish in July 1832, age 70.
Descendants of Henri HÉBERT
(1771-1831; Étienne,
Emmanuel, Jacques, François)
Henri, eldest son of Pierre-Caieton Hébert
and Marguerite Babin, born near St.-Gabriel on the river in
c1771, moved to
St. Landry Parish, where he married
Victoire, daughter of Anglo American William Gilchrist of North
Carolina and his French-Canadian wife Susanne Roy, in a civil ceremony in September 1808. They settled at La
Pointe on upper
Bayou Teche near present-day Breaux Bridge, St. Martin Parish. Their
daughters married into the Hoste and Imbau families.
Henri died probably at La Pointe in May 1831, age 60; his succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse, St. Martin
Parish, in December 1853.
1
Oldest son Alexandre, born
probably at La Pointe in December 1811, married Marie Céleste or Calice,
also called Euchariste, daughter of fellow Acadian
Agricole Breaux and his Creole wife Scholastique Mélanie
Picou, at the Breaux Bridge chapel, St. Martin Parish, on
Easter Tuesday in April 1841; Calice's mother was founder of the town of Breaux Bridge. Alexandre and Calice's son Alexandre,
fils was born in St. Martin Parish in May 1842. Alexandre died in St.
Martin Parish in May 1848; the St. Martinville priest who recorded the
burial said that Alexandre died "at age 33 yrs."; he was 36; his succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in June.
A daughter was born posthumously in June.
2
Henri, fils, born
probably at La Pointe in December 1813, married Phelonise, Philomise, or
Philomène, daughter of
fellow Acadians Élisée Thibodeaux and Marie Thibodeaux, in a civil ceremony in St. Martin
Parish in January 1845, and sanctified the marriage at the St. Martinville
church, St. Martin Parish, late the following month. Their son Adéo
was born in St. Martin Parish in October 1845. Their daughter
married into the Green family. Henri, fils
remarried to Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Julien Guilbeau
and Azélie LeBlanc, at the St. Martinville church in August 1854. They settled near Breaux
Bridge. Their son Henri III was born in September 1855,
Julien in January 1857,
Joseph Alexandre in March 1859, David
in December 1860, and Jules in October 1862.
Adéo, by his father's first wife,
married cousin Ada, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Babin
and Tersille Thibodeaux, at the Breaux Bridge church, St. Martin Parish, in January 1869. Their son Adrien was
born near Breaux Bridge in November 1869.
3
Césaire, born probably at
La Pointe in January 1816, may have died young.
4
Youngest son Zéphirin, born
probably at La Pointe in January 1826, also may have died young.
Descendants of François
HÉBERT le jeune (c1795-1825;
Étienne, Emmanuel, Jacques, François)
François le jeune, son of Jean-Baptiste
dit Petit Jean Hébert and Marie-Madeleine Dupuis, born near
St.-Gabriel in c1795, moved
to the Teche valley, where he married Anne Domicile or Domitille, daughter of fellow
Acadians Simon Granger and Françoise Landry of Côte Gelée, at the St. Martinville church,
St. Martin Parish, in May 1815. They settled near her family at Côte
Gelée in what became Lafayette Parish. Their daughters married into the Fabre
and Louvière
families, and perhaps into the Racca family as well. François committed suicide at
Côte Gelée in May 1825, age 30; his succession was filed
at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in June 1828.
1
Oldest son François, fils, born in St.
Martin Parish in January 1820, married cousin Amelia or Aurelia, daughter of fellow
Acadians Joseph Granger and Julienne Louvière, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette
Parish, in July 1841. Their child, name and age unrecorded,
perhaps a son, died in Lafayette Parish in September 1847. François,
fils died in Lafayette Parish in December 1847; the Vermilionville
priest who recorded his burial said that François died "at age 25 yrs."; he 27; his succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in
February 1848. Did his line of the family die with him?
2
Siméon, born in St. Martin
Parish in March 1822, may have died young.
3
Youngest son Norbert, born
posthumously and baptized at the
Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 2 1/2 months, in January
1826, married Advelia, Adnelia, Avelina, daughter of fellow Acadian Gédéon Landry
and Anne Georgette Lormand, at the Vermilionville church in January 1847. Their son François
Euphémon was born in Lafayette Parish in August 1849. Norbert
remarried to Marie Arsènne,
called Arsènne, Regina, and Marguerite, another daughter of Gédéon Landry
and Anne Georgette Lormand, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in
February 1854, and sanctified the marriage at the Youngsville church, Lafayette
Parish, in January 1861. Their son Albert was born in Lafayette
Parish in January 1863, and Jean near Youngsville in May 1870.
Descendants of Gilbert
HÉBERT (1804-;
Étienne, Emmanuel, Guillaume,
Paul, Jean-Baptiste)
Gilbert, second son of Alexis Hébert
and Marguerite Chiasson, was born near St. Gabriel in August
1804. When he came of age, he left the Baton Rouge area, where his
parents had moved, crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to the Teche valley, and married Céleste Henriette or Henriette Céleste,
also called Célise, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Labauve and
Henriette Renée Benoit of Baton
Rouge, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in April 1821. They settled near New Iberia,
then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish. Their
daughters married into the Comeaux, Hébert, LeBlanc,
and Vuillemat families, one of
them twice in West Baton Rouge Parish. Their oldest sons married sisters in
West Baton Rouge Parish but settled on the Teche.
1
Oldest son Treville Cerboney,
also called Joseph Treville, born in
St. Martin Parish in October 1822, married cousin Marguerite Pauline, called
Pauline, daughter of
fellow Acadians Joseph Alexandre Landry and Emérante Hébert, at the Brusly church, West
Baton Rouge Parish, in March 1848.
They settled near New Iberia, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish. Their son Alexandre Enaud
was born in December 1852, Félix Numa, perhaps called Numa, in February 1857
but may have died at age 4 1/2 in January 1862, and Paul Octave was
born in December 1862.
2
Émile Gilbert, born in St. Martin
Parish in December
1824, married cousin Marie Octavie or Octavine, called Tavie, another daughter of Joseph Alexandre
Landry and Emérante Hébert of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the St. Martinville church, St.
Martin Parish, in December 1850. They settled at St. Martinville.
Their son Alexandre Bélisaire
was born in June 1864, Delma in 1865, and Louis Damus in
February 1870. Their daughter
married into the Broussard family. The family was
musically inclined. According to a family historian: "They lived in a
typical Acadian house, except that there was a ballroom built in front and
attached to it. Every Saturday night, in the ballroom, a festive ball
was held for the Acadian lads and lasses in the surrounding area. It
was the highlight of the week in the countryside and an event to which
everyone looked forward."
3
Joseph Lovinci, born in
St. Martin Parish in March 1826, died near New Iberia in June 1845, age 19, and probably did not marry.
4
Ernest Duprélon was born in
St. Martin Parish in July 1834.
5
Gilbert, fils died in St.
Martin Parish, age 18 months, in November 1837.
6
Siméon was born in St.
Martin Parish in September 1838.
7
Youngest son Félix Foinville
was born near New Iberia, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in
December 1844.
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Other HÉBERTs on the Western
Prairies
Area church and civil records make
it difficult to link many Héberts in the western parishes with known
Acadian lines of the family there. The priests at Grand Coteau and
Abbeville were
especially negligent in their recordkeeping. One suspects that some of
the Héberts listed below, especially those who lived in St. Landry
Parish, were French Creoles belonging to the Hébert dit Milan
family of Burgundy, not Acadian Héberts. One also suspects that
some of the Héberts who lived on the western prairies during the
post-war period were Afro Creoles once owned by members of the family
but not recorded as such:
Céleste Hébert married Jean
Baptiste dit Petit, son of Jean Broussard, at Attakapas in
October 1793. The priest who recorded the marriage did not give the
couple's parents' names. Céleste Hébert, wife or widow of Jean
Baptiste Broussard, died in Lafayette Parish in June 1847; the
Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any
parents' names, said that Céleste died "at age 60 yrs.," but, judging by her
marriage date, if this was her, she probably was in her 70s when she died.
Who was her father? If she was an Acadian immigrant, when did she come
to the colony?
Rosalie Hébert married
Anglo American Robert C. Trimble in a civil ceremony in St. Mary
Parish in January 1831. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did
not give the couple's parents' names. Two of their sons served in
Company I of the 3rd (Harrison's) Regiment Louisiana Cavalry during the War
of 1861-65.
Louis Hébert married fellow
Acadian Marie
Eurasie
Mire, place and date unrecorded, and settled in Lafayette Parish by the early 1830s. Their
daughter Marcelite was baptized at Vermilionville, age 4 months, in July
1834 and married into the Boudreaux family. Louis's succession
was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in
January 1851.
Mercilite Hébert
married Ursin Manuel in a civil ceremony in St. Landry
Parish in November 1832. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage
did not give the couple's parents' names.
Madeleine, daughter of Joseph
Hébert, married Joseph Nunez of Galicia, Spain, widower of Marie
Rose Richard, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in
January 1834. The priest who recorded the marriage did not give
Madeleine's mother's name, so one wonders which Joseph Hébert was her father.
Adélaïde Hébert, widow of
Jean Boullé, remarried to fellow Acadian Pierre Trahan in a civil
ceremony in Lafayette Parish in December 1834. The parish clerk who
recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.
Adélaïde remarried again--evidently her third marriage--to Simonet, son of
fellow Acadian Raphaël Granger, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette
Parish in June 1838. Again, the parish clerk did not give
her parents' names.
Angéline, daughter of ____
Hébert and Phelonise Hébert, married François Rosémond, son of
Acadian Joseph Boudreaux, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette
Parish, in March 1837. The priest who recorded her
marriage did not give Angeline's father's first name. Angéline died
the following December, age 18. The
Vermilionville priest who recorded her burial did not give any of
her parents' names.
Joseph, fils, son of Joseph
Hébert, married Céleste Félice Peloquin, perhaps a
widow and a French Canadian, in a
civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in October 1838. The parish clerk
who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.
There were several families of French-Creole Héberts living
in St. Landry Parish at the time, so one wonders if Joseph, fils
and Joseph, père were Acadian.
Valcin, also called Valsein, probably Valsin, Hébert married
Acadian Azéma Guidry
in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in September 1839. The parish
clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.
Their son Zéphirin was born near Grand Coteau in January 1846. Was Valcin/Valsein Acadian?
Joseph Hébert's succession
was filed at the Opelousas courthouse, St. Landry Parish, in March 1840. The parish
clerk who recorded the succession did not give Joseph's parents' names, mention a wife,
or give his age at the time of the filing.
Joseph Hébert married Marie
Victoire Miller in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in June
1840. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the
couple's parents' names. Was Joseph Acadian? Daughter Marie
Victoire was born in St. Landry Parish in April 1841.
Placide Hébert married
Marie Doralise Duhon, place and date unrecorded. Their son Jean Alcide was born in
Lafayette Parish in August 1840.
Placide Hébert married
Ameline Richard, place and date unrecorded, and settled in St. Landry Parish by the early 1840s.
Fleurnoy, also called P. Flernau, Hébert married
French Creole Émilie or Amelie Augustin Charles Fontenot in a civil ceremony in
St. Landry Parish in January 1841. The parish clerk who recorded the
marriage did not give the couple's parents' names. Their son Joseph
Flernau, perhaps Fleurnoy, was born near Grand Coteau, St. Landry
Parish, in November 1842. Fleurnoy, called Flamoy by the recording
clerk, remarried to Azélie Jeansonne, probably an Acadian, in a
civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in January 1846. Again, the parish
clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.
Their son François was born in St. Landry Parish in May 1852,
Joseph in March 1860, and Georges Marcel near Ville Platte, then
in St. Landry but now in Evangeline Parish, in April 1863.
Was Fleuneau/Fleurnoy/Fleurnau/Fleurnon/Flamoy/Floumont Acadian?
Louis Hébert married Delise
Hébert, place and date unrecorded. Their son Philemon was born in Lafayette Parish
in October 1841.
Jean Baptiste Hébert
married German Creole Marie Madeleine Zeringue in a civil ceremony in
St. Landry Parish in December 1842, and sanctified the marriage at the Grand
Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in January 1843. Neither the parish clerk
nor the priest who recorded the marriage gave the couple's parents' names.
Daughter Marie Olimpe was born near Opelousas in May 1845 and, called Marie
Olympe, died near Grand Coteau, age 14 1/2, in November 1859.
Clémence Hébert married
Spanish Creole Louis Miguez, place and date unrecorded. Her succession was filed at
the St. Martinville courthouse, St. Martin Parish, in April 1845. Who
was her father?
Joséphine A. Hébert married
Anglo Creole Zénon Reed in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in
July 1847. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the
couple's parents' names. Was Joséphine Acadian?
Joseph Hébert married
Acadian Célesie LeBlanc, place and date unrecorded. Their son François Alidan,
perhaps Aladin,
was born near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in May 1848.
Charles Hébert married Acadian Marie Anne, called Anne, Thibodeaux,
place and date unrecorded. They settled near Breaux Bridge, St.
Martin Parish. Arsène, probably a son, was born in April 1849, Edgar
in August 1850, Albert
in August 1854, daughter Olivia in September 1855, son Édouard in February 1859, Paul in July
1862, daughter Laure in October 1864, and son Arthur in January 1868. One wonders who Charles's
parents may have been.
Magdelaine Hébert's
succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in February 1850.
It mentioned no husband? Was Magdelaine an Acadian?
Marguerite Hébert married
Joel Vannay in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in October 1850.
The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's
parents' names. Was Marguerite Acadian?
Nanette Hébert's
succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish,
in October 1850. It did not name her parents or mention a husband.
Marie Zéphinne Hébert's
daughter Marie Célina was born in St. Martin Parish in December 1850.
The St. Martinville priest who recorded the baptism did not give the
mother's parents' names or the name of the girl's father. Was this
the Marie Zépheline, daughter of François Hébert and
Éloise Granger, who married fellow Acadian Julien
Louivière, fils at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette
Parish, in September 1839? If so, why didn't the priest note this?
Louis
Hébert married fellow Acadian Marie Arthémise Mire, place and
date unrecorded, and settled in
Lafayette Parish. Their daughter married into the Boudreaux
family. A succession for Louis Hébert, married to Marie
Urazie Mire, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette
Parish, in January 1851.
Joseph Hébert married
Clémence David, place and date unrecorded. Daughter Marie
Mélanie was born near Grand Coteau in January 1851.
Joseph Hébert, husband of
____ Boudreaux, died in Lafayette Parish in April 1852. The
Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial did not give any parents'
names or Joseph's age at the time of his death.
Henry, perhaps also called
Floumont, Hébert married Azélie
Johnson, perhaps an Acadian Jeansonne, place and date
unrecorded. Son François was born in St. Landry Parish in May 1852,
daughter Hélène near Ville Platte, then in St. Landry but now in
Evangeline Parish, in December 1855, and Marie in July 1857. Was Henry/Floumont Acadian?
Prasie Hébert married Anglo
American Salomon Reed in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in May
1852. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the
couple's parents' names. Was Prasie Acadian?
Joseph Hébert's
daughter, name unrecorded, died in Lafayette Parish at age 12 in August
1852. The Vermilionville priest who recorded the girl's burial did
not give her mother's name, so one wonders which Joseph Hébert
her father may have been.
Azélia Hébert
died in Lafayette Parish, age 10, in February 1853. The
Vermilionville priest who recorded the girl's burial did not give any
parents' names.
Lisa Hébert's
succession, perhaps post-mortem, was filed at the St. Martinville
courthouse in March 1854. One wonders who were her parents and if
she married. Was she Élise dite Lise, daughter of Athanase
Hébert and Félicité Breaux, born in 1794
in St. Martin Parish, who married fellow Acadian Pierre Labauve,
fils in February 1820? If so, her husband died in St.
Martin Parish in April 1848, age 51, and she evidently did not remarry.
Béloni Hébert married
cousin Clarisse Hébert, place and date unrecorded. Their son Louis was born near
Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in October 1854, and daughter Eulalie in May
1856.
François Hébert married
Octavine Toupes, probably Toups, place and date unrecorded. Their son Joseph
was born near New Iberia, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in
November 1854.
Joséphine Hébert
died near New Iberia at age 3 in November 1854. The New Iberia
priest who recorded the burial did not give any parents' names.
James, called Jim, Hébert
married Oline O'Connor, place and date unrecorded, and settled in St. Landry Parish by the mid-1850s. Their
daughter Ophilia was born in c1856 and was baptized at the Washington
church, St. Landry Parish, age 14, in April 1870, Mary Odilia was born in c1858 and baptized at the Washington
church, age 12, in April 1870, son Jim,
Jr. was born near Ville Platte in April 1860, and daughter Clarisse
born in c1863 and baptized at the Washington church, age 7 in April 1870. Was Jim/James Acadian?
Jacques Lovinsky Hébert
died in Lafayette Parish in February 1855. The Vermilionville priest
who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names
or mention a wife, said that Jacques died "at age 26 yrs." Did
Jacques ever marry?
Joseph Hébert married
Acadian Marie Caroline Dugas in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish
in December 1855. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not
give the couple's parents' names. Their son Joseph Neuville was
born near Grand Coteau in December 1856 but died at age 10 1/2 in April 1867.
Marguerite Hébert,
widow of Joson Prince, died in St. Martin Parish in
February 1856. The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial,
and who did not any parents' names, said that Marguerite died "at age 83
yrs.," which would have given her a birth year of c1773. So who were
her parents? And who was her husband?
Lastie Hébert
married Lucie Paul Augustin, place and date unrecorded.
Daughter Lucia was born "in Calcasieu" in August 1856.
Pierre Dezincourt, daughter of
Marie Hébert, was born in St. Landry Parish in August 1856. The
Opelousas priest who recorded the boy's baptism did not give the father's
name nor the mother's parents' names.
Cora Hébert married Thomas
M. McCrory in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in September
1856. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the
couple's parents' names. Was Cora Acadian?
Joseph Hébert married
Rosalie Letaug, place and date unrecorded. Their son Hippolyte, born "in
Calcasieu," was baptized at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, age
unrecorded, in January 1857. Was Joseph Acadian?
Irma Hébert married Jules Lésime
or Lezin, son of Acadian Onésime LeBlanc of Lafayette
Parish, in a civil ceremony in St. Martin Parish in April 1857. The
parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents'
names.
Alzire Hébert married
Joseph Olidon, son of Acadian Antoine Drosin LeBlanc at the
New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in May 1857.
Charles Hébert
married Marie Anne, called Anne, Thibodeaux, place and date unrecorded.
Daughter Marie Lodoiska was born near Breaux Bridge in June 1857, son Édouard in February 1859, daughter Félicianne in November 1860,
and son Paul in July 1862.
Jean Drosin, also called Drosin,
Frosin, Froisin,
and Frozin,
Hébert married French Creole Elmire, Euphrasie, or Euphrosie Guillory,
also called Guilbeau, place and date unrecorded,
and settled near her family in St. Landry Parish. Daughter Irène
was born near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in July 1857, son Joseph Olin in December 1859,
daughter Domitille in January 1862, and twins Androsina and François Drosin in December
1864. Was Jean Drosin/Frozin Acadian?
Portalis, also called Portolis and Postules, Hébert married
Céleste Euphémie Meaux at the Abbeville church,
Vermilion Parish, in September 1857. The priest who recorded the
marriage did not give the couple's parents' names. Their daughter
Élodie was born near Abbeville in March 1859, son
Joseph Dermas in February 1860,
Valérie in May 1864, and François in August 1867. Was
Portalis Acadian?
Jules Hébert died in St.
Martin Parish in April 1858. The St. Martinville priest who recorded
the burial, and who did not give any parents' names, said that
Jules died "at age 18 mths."
Désiré Hébert married
Céleste Broussard at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish,
in November 1858. The priest who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names. Their son O'Neil was born
near Abbeville in February 1870.
Pierre Hébert
married Azéma Reed in a civil ceremony in St. Landry
Parish in April 1859. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did
not give any parents' names. Their son Pierre, fils was
born near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in February 1860, and
Joacine in December 1861.
Alcide Hébert married Euphémie Broussard at the Abbeville church in July 1859. The priest who recorded the marriage did not
give the couple's parents' names. Their son Guillaume
was born near Abbeville in June 1860, Cléophas in March 1864, and
Rémi in December 1866.
Nicolas Hébert
married Oliva Gutriche, place and date unrecorded.
Daughter Azélina was born near Breaux Bridge, St. Martin Parish, in July
1859.
Alice J. Hébert married
Joseph P. Davis in a civil ceremony in St. Landry
Parish in August 1859. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did
not give the couple's parents' names. Was Alice J. Acadian or even an
Hébert?
Joseph Hébert's
daughter Marie died in Lafayette Parish at age 16 in November 1859. The Vermilionville priest who recorded the girl's burial did
not give her mother's name, so one wonders which Joseph Hébert
her father may have been.
Marie Pamela Hébert married
Acadian Joseph M. LeBlanc at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish,
in January 1860. The priest who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names. Was she the same Marie Pamela,
daughter of Sarasin Hébert, who married Acadian Norbert Breaux at
Vermilionville the following July?
Fleurnon Hébert
married Aselie Jeansone, place and date unrecorded.
Son Joseph was born near Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, in March
1860, and Georges Marcel near Vill Platte in April 1863.
Zéolide Hébert
died in St. Martin Parish, age 28, in July 1860. The St. Martinville
priest who recorded the burial did give any parents' names or mention a
husband.
Théogène Hébert married
Marie Irène, Eraine, or Uraine Lapointe at the Abbeville
church in July 1860. The priest who recorded
the marriage, true to form, did not give the couple's parents' names.
Daughter
Anaïs was born near Abbeville in February 1862, Marie Odile in June 1864, and son Jean Delma in November 1868.
Achille Hébert married
Marie Ismène or Eulismanne Boudreaux in a civil ceremony in Lafayette
Parish in September 1860. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage
did not give the couple's parents' names. Daughter Marie Odile was
born near Abbeville in June 1861.
An unnamed son of Joseph
Hébert died at age 2 months in Lafayette Parish in December 1860.
The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial did not give the
infant's mother's name. One wonders which Joseph Hébert
was the father.
Eulalie Hébert
died near Abbeville, age 6, in July 1861. The priest who recorded
the burial did not give the girl's parents' names.
Félicia Hébert
died near Abbeville, age 15, in July 1861. The priest who recorded
the burial, true to form, did not give the girl's parents' names.
Joseph Hébert
died in Lafayette Parish in September 1861, age 25. The
Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial did not give any parents'
names or mention a wife.
Olivier Hébert married
Anastasie Mouton at the Abbeville church in September 1861. The priest who recorded the marriage did not
give the couple's parents' names. Their daughter Odile was born near
Abbeville in July 1862, and son François
Delmat was born in September 1866. Was Olivier
Acadian?
Marie Anne Hébert
died in St. Landry Parish in January 1862, age unrecorded. The
Opelousas priest who recorded the burial also did not give any parents'
names or mention a husband.
Althée Hébert
died in St. Martin Parish, age 8, in January 1862. The St.
Martinville priest who recorded the burial did not give the girl's
parents' names.
Moïse or Moyse Hébert married
Aurelia Lapointe, place and date unrecorded. Daughter Octavie
was born near Abbeville in February 1862.
Anastasie Hébert married
French Creole Alexandre Dartes at the Abbeville church in April 1862. The priest who recorded the marriage did not
give the couple's parents' names.
Marie Azéma Hébert
died near Abbeville, age 62, in September 1862. The priest who
recorded the burial did not give any parents' names or mention a husband.
Zéphir or Zéphirin Hébert married Marie
Legrou or Gros, place and date unrecorded. Their son Charles Oscar was born
in St. Landry Parish in October 1862 but died in November, and George Alina
was born in December 1863. Was Zéphir/Zéphirin Acadian?
Joseph Hébert died in St.
Martin Parish in March 1863. The St. Martinville priest who recorded
the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a
wife, said that Joseph died "at age 27 yrs." One wonders if his death
was war-related.
Élisa Hébert,
wife or widow of ____ Cary, died in St. Martin Parish,
age 50, in April 1863. The St. Martinville priest who recorded the
burial did not give her parents' names.
Anaïsse Hébert gave birth
to son Abraham in Lafayette Parish in October 1863. The
Vermilionville priest who recorded the boy's baptism did not give the
father's name or the mother's parents' names.
Jean Baptiste Hébert
married Acadian Marie Pitre, place and date unrecorded. Their son Joseph
Aurelien Cléophas was born near Brashear, now Morgan, City, St. Mary Parish, on
the lower Atchafalaya River, in February 1864.
Irma Hébert married William
Reed in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in March 1864.
The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's
parents' names. Was Irma Acadian?
Émile Hébert married Anglo
American Nancy Foreman, place and date unrecorded. Their son Thomas was born near
Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in May 1864. Was Émile Acadian?
Marcellite Hébert married
French Creole Césaire Frugé in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish
in May 1864. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give
the couple's parents' names. Was Marcellite Acadian?
Erasie Hébert
died in St. Martin Parish, age "1 yr. 2 mths.," in June 1864. The
St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial, true to form, did not give
the girl's parents' names.
Jean Arvenne, called Arvenne, Hébert married
French Creole Belzire Dartes at the St. Martinville church, St.
Martin Parish, in October 1864. The priest who recorded the marriage
did not give the couple's parents' names. Their son
Cléopha was born near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in February 1867, and
Joseph died, age unrecorded, in February 1870.
Eugène Hébert married
Armantine Adolphe, place and date unrecorded, and settled in St. Martin Parish by the mid-1860s.
Alexis Hébert married
Ophelia Berry, place and date unrecorded, and settled in St. Mary Parish by the mid-1860s.
Étienne Hébert married
French Creole Zelia DeVille in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish
in January 1865. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not
give the couple's parents' names. They settled near Ville Platte, then
in St. Landry Parish but now in Evangeline Parish. Daughter Émelie was
born there in October 1865. Étienne's
succession, naming his wife, was filed at the St. Landry Parish in
June 1869. Was Étienne Acadian?
Léon C. Hébert married
Éloise or Héloise Garyo, Gario, or Garillo in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in April 1865.
The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's
parents' names. Their son Léonce was born near Church Point,
then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in November 1870. Was Léon C. an Acadian?
Felonise or Félicia Hébert,
wife of French Creole Arcade Patin, died near Breaux Bridge, St.
Martin Parish, in May 1865. The priest who recorded the burial, and
who did not give any parents' names, said that Felonise died "at age 23
yrs." One wonders if she was a victim of the rigors of childbirth.
Thérèsa Hébert married Jean
Baptiste Chapman in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in
September 1865. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not
give the couple's parents' names. Was Thérèsa Acadian?
Octave Hébert married
Adélaïde Broussard at the Abbeville church, Vermilion
Parish, in November 1865. The priest who recorded the marriage, true
to form, did not
give the couple's parents' names. Their son Onile was
born near Abbeville in July 1867, and Joseph Dupré in December 1868.
Oreide Hébert married
Octavie Borel in a civil ceremony in St. Mary Parish in November
1865. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the
couple's parents' names.
Amelia or Amilia, daughter of T.
L. Hébert, married Camos or Camas, son of Henry Ransonnet, in
a civil ceremony in St. Mary Parish in December 1865. Was T. L. an
Acadian?
Belzire Hébert married
Axele Trahan at the Abbeville church, Vermilion
Parish, in December 1865. The priest who recorded the marriage did not
give the couple's parents' names.
Albert or Alfred Hébert married
Joséphine Stevens, place and date unrecorded, and settled near Abbeville by
the late 1860s.
Jean Baptiste Hébert
married Estelle Soileau, place and date unrecorded, and settled near Ville Platte, then in St.
Landry but now in Evangeline Parish, by the late 1860s. Was Jean
Baptiste Acadian?
François Hébert married
Azéma Trahan, place and date unrecorded, and settled near Lydia, Iberia Parish, by the late
1860s.
Jean Baptiste Hébert
married Marie Eulalie Villot, place and date unrecorded, and settled near Lydia by the late
1860s.
Arnable Hébert married
Estelle Rees, place and date unrecorded, and settled near Breaux Bridge, St. Martin Parish, by
the late 1860s.
Louis Hébert married Denise
Durio, place and date unrecorded, and settled near Arnaudville, St. Landry Parish, by the late
1860s. Was Louis Acadian?
Célestin Hébert married
Pauline Teall, perhaps Theall, place and date unrecorded, and settled near Youngsville,
Lafayette Parish, by the late 1860s.
Ferdinand Hébert married
Héline, perhaps Hélène, Budd, place and date unrecorded, and settled in St. Landry Parish by the
late 1860s. Was Ferdinand Acadian?
Camille Hébert married
Elizabeth Meaux, place and date unrecorded, and settled near Youngsville, Lafayette Parish, by
the late 1860s.
Loise Hébert married
Arvillien Catalon at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in April
1866. The priest who recorded the marriage did not give the
couple's parents' names.
Thomas, son of Ferdinand Hébert,
died in St. Landry Parish "at age 2 yrs." in September 1866. The
Opelousas priest who recorded the boy's burial did not give the mother's
name. Was Ferdinand Acadian?
William Hébert, son of
Frank Darby and Charlotte Hébert, married Emma, daughter of
Célestin François and Elizabeth Daigle, at the New Iberia
church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in February 1867.
Why did William use his mother's surname? Were they Acadian?
Orelia Hébert married
Dorsily Romero in a civil ceremony in St. Mary Parish in May 1867.
The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's
parents' names.
Jean Hébert's succession
was filed at the Opelousas courthouse, St. Landry Parish, in June
1867. Father Hébert, who listed the record in his Southwest
Louisiana Records, noted that the succession contained "no information."
Which of the Jean Héberts in the area was this?
Narcisse Hébert married
Sylvia Mouton, place and date unrecorded. Their son Narcisse, fils was born near
Youngsville, Lafayette Parish, in July 1867.
Joseph, fils, son of Joseph
Hébert, deceased, died near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, "at age
8 yrs." in October 1867. Which of the many Joseph Héberts was this?
Dosilia, Dorcilia, Docilin, or Doulin Hébert
married Julie or Julia Hébert in a civil ceremony in St. Martin Parish in December
1867, and sanctified the marriage at the St. Martinville church, St.
Martin Parish, in December 1869. Neither the parish clerk nor the
priest who recorded the marriage gave
the couple's parents' names.
Alexandre Hébert married
Charlotte Lacour, place and date unrecorded. Their son Ambroise was born near
Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in December 1867.
Marie Louise, daughter of Sera
Hébert, married Alexandre, son of Reily Reilly and Louison
____, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in February 1868.
Were Sera and Marie Louise Acadians?
Alcée A. Hébert married
Mary N. Butler in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in March
1868. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the
couple's parents' names. Was Alcée A. an Acadian?
Evariste, fils, son of Evariste
Hébert and Marie Albert, married Célestine, daughter of French
Creole Émile Latiolais and widow of Desincourt Babineaux, at
the Breaux Bridge church, St. Martin Parish, in September 1868; Marie's
mother was a Doucet.
Pélagie Hébert gave birth
to son Joseph Despanet near Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish,
in September 1868. The priest who recorded the boy's baptism did not
give the father's name nor the mother's parents' names. Was Pélagie
Acadian?
Clémentine Hébert married
François Mayard in a civil ceremony in St. Martin Parish in March
1869. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the
couple's parents' names.
Philomène Hébert married
Aristide LeBlanc at the Breaux Bridge church, St. Martin Parish, in
November 1869. The priest who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.
Cléonise Jeanne Hébert
married Francis Béloni at the New Iberia church, Iberia Parish, in
December 1869. The priest who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names. Was Cléonise Jeanne Acadian?
Marie Clelie Hébert married
Dorce, son of fellow Acadian Bruno Broussard, at the New Iberia
church, Iberia Parish, in February 1870. The priest who recorded the
marriage did not give the bride's parents' names.
Gédéon Hébert married
Élodie Polaski, place and date unrecorded. Their son John Clifton was born near
Brashear, now Morgan, City, St. Mary Parish, in August 1870.
Marie Célestine Hébert gave
birth to son Éloi near Rayne, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia
Parish, in October 1870. The priest who recorded the boy's baptism did
not give the father's name or the mother's parents' names. Was Marie
Célestine Acadian?
F. Hébert married Céleste
De Ville, widow of David Clark, in a civil ceremony in St.
Landry Parish in December 1870. The parish clerk who recorded the
marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.
.
Hébert families living on the
western prairies during the antebellum period cannot be linked by local church and civil records to other
Héberts in the area. One wonders if some of them were even Acadian:
Descendants of Charles HÉBERT
(c1797?-; ?)
Charles Hébert married
Anglo Creole Émilie Hayes probably in Lafayette Parish in the late
1820s.
1
Older son Jean Louis was
born in Lafayette Parish in March 1827 but died at age 11 months in February
1828.
2
Younger son Pierre,
born in St. Landry Parish in March 1836, may have married Anglo Creole Azéma
Reed at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in April 1859.
Their son Pierre, fils was born near Grand Coteau in February 1860,
Joacine, perhaps a son, in December 1861, and Alfred was born
in February 1867.
Descendants of Joseph/Lasty
HÉBERT, fils (?-; ?)
Joseph or Lasty Hébert,
fils married Lucy, Lucie Luce, or Lucille Paula Augustine or
Augustin in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in November 1838.
They were living in Calcasieu Parish by the mid-1850s. Daughter Emiley
was born near Grand Coteau in April 1840, Léonise near Opelousas in April
1842, and Doreselie or Dorcili, a son, in June 1844. Daughter
Léonise married into the Daigle (German Canadian, not Acadian) family.
Their son also married by 1870.
Dorcili was a resident of Calcasieu Parish when he married
Mary, daughter of Anglo Creole James Hayes and widow of Zéphirin
Lebleu, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in August 1865; Mary's
mother was an Acadian Young (formerly Lejeune).
Descendants of Joseph HÉBERT
(c1818-1865; ?)
Joseph Hébert, born in
Lafayette Parish in c1818, went to Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas in
c1842 when he was age 24, remained there a few years, and then returned to
the southwestern prairies. He married Anglo
Creole Mélanie Andrus in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in
January 1845 and took her back to Beaumont. She gave him nine
children, eight of whom survived childhood. According to family
records, Joseph became a successful cattleman and land speculator in East
Texas. At the beginning of the War of 1861-65, he raised the first
company of volunteers from the Beaumont area, and, after the unit was
disbanded, served as a captain in the local Texas militia. He died at
his home at Beaumont in February 1865, in his late 40s. Wife Mélanie
died in January 1869 and was buried beside him. Their daughters married into the Broussard,
Hampshire, Arceneaux, Richard,
families. At least one of Joseph's son married in southwest Louisiana,
but he, too, settled at Beaumont.
Joseph Martin, called
J. M., born probably in Jefferson County, Texas, in the late 1840s,
became a cattleman like his father. He married Émilie,
daughter of fellow Acadian Édouard Théophile Broussard, at the Abbeville
church, Vermilion Parish, in December 1867; Joseph Martin's sister Azéma
married Émilie's brother Éloi J.
LOUISIANA: RIVER
SETTLEMENTS
Most of the Héberts who came to
Louisiana from Halifax in 1765 did not go to the western
prairies, at least not at first. They
reached the colony later in the year and went, instead, to
Cabanocé/St.-Jacques on the
river above New Orleans where 20 Acadians from Georgia had settled the
year before. So many Acadian exiles settled there, in fact, that the area soon became known as the Acadian Coast:
Claire Robichaud, age 52, widow of Jean-Baptiste
Hébert
dit Manuel,
came to the colony with four children--Marie-Théotiste, age 15,
Théotiste-Marie, age 12, Mathurin, age 11, and Marie-Blanche, age 10--and 2-year-old grandson
Jean-Louis Hébert. Claire did not remarry. She
moved to the Attakapas District in the 1770s. Her children and grandson
followed her there. One of her daughters married an Hébert
cousin there.
Joseph dit Pepin Hébert,
age 26, Claire Robichaud's older son, and his wife and cousin Françoise Hébert, age 20, came
with son Louis, age 1, and 14-year-old orphan Jean-Charles Hébert. In
the early 1770s, they followed Joseph dit Pepin's mother and siblings
to the Attakapas District.
Agnès Hébert dit Manuel, age
23, another daughter of Claire Robichaud and widow of ____ Bourgeois, may have come to the colony with her mother and unmarried siblings
or with second husband Joseph Richard and two children. They
remained on the river, where Agnès may have died in the early 1770s, before
her family moved on to the Attakapas District.
François Hébert, age 30, still a
bachelor, came with brothers Joseph, age 29 and probably a widower, and
Pierre, age 28, also still a bachelor. They remained on the river and
created a new center of family settlement on what was being called the
Acadian Coast.
Descendants of François
HÉBERT (c1735-1798;
Antoine, Jean le jeune, Joseph)
François, eldest son of Joseph Hébert,
fils and Anne Poirier, born probably at Chignecto in c1735, escaped
the roundup at Chignecto in 1755 and found refuge on the Gulf
of St. Lawrence shore. During the early 1760s, he probably spent time
as a prisoner of war in one of the Nova Scotia compounds. Still a
bachelor, he came to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765 with
his younger brothers and settled
at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques, where, in the late 1760s, he married a woman whose
name has been lost to history. François remarried to
Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Claude Trahan and Marie-Louise Tillard, at St.-Jacques in January
1771. François remarried again--his third marriage--to cousin Osite, daughter of fellow
Acadians Paul Landry
and Marie Hébert and widow of Pierre Chiasson, at
St.-Jacques in November 1794. All of his children were from his second
wife. François died at St.-Jacques in November 1798; the priest who
recorded the burial said that
François was age 70 when he died, but he was closer to 63. His
older son and his only grandson who married settled in what became St. James
Parish, but two of his great grandsons moved upriver to Iberville Parish.
1
Older son Charles, by his
father's second wife, baptized at
St.-Jacques in February 1772, married cousin Marguerite,
daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Poirier and Marie Cormier, at St.-Jacques in May 1792. Their
son Charles-Joseph, called Joseph le jeune was born at St.-Jacques in March 1794, Jean-Baptiste
in March 1796 but died at age 1 1/2 in August 1797, and Étienne
was born in December 1801. Their daughters married into the Gaudin
family. Charles died at St.-Jacques in May 1803; the priest who
recorded the burial said that Charles was age 45 when he died, but he
was 31. His wife remarried a Dugas.
1a
Joseph le jeune married Arthémise,
daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Gaudet and Victoire
Bergeron, at the St. James
church, St. James Parish, in June 1821. Their son Joseph Alphée
or Elphége, called Elphége,
was born in St. James Parish in April 1822, Michel Théophile,
called Théophile,
near Convent in September 1827, Charles
Euphémon, called Euphémon and perhaps Femo, in November 1832, Paulin Oscar in October 1837 but
died at age 4 in October 1841, and
a son, name unrecorded, died at age 11 months in June 1840. Their
daughter married into the Reine family. Joseph may have
died near Convent in October 1842; the priest who recorded the burial,
and who did not give any parents' names or mention a
wife, said that Joseph died at "age 45 yrs.," but this Joseph would have
been age 48.
Elphége married Aglaé,
daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Mire and Clarisse
Arceneaux, at the Convent
church, St. James Parish, in July 1843. They lived in
Iberville Parish before returning to the Convent area. Their son Michel Gustave was born in
Iberville Parish in September 1848, and Charles Marius near
Convent in September 1858. Elphége may have died in December
1862; the Convent priest who recorded the burial, and who did not
give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that
Elphége died at "age 35 years"; Joseph Elphége would have been 40.
One wonders if his death was war-related.
Théophile married Emma,
daughter of Evariste Blouin and his Acadian wife Félicité
Arceneaux, at the St. James
church, St. James Parish, in June 1847. They settled near the boundary between
Iberville and Ascension parishes. Their son Michel Clément
was born in January 1849. Strangely, a church record
insists that Théophile Hébert died in Ascension
Parish in October 1851 at "age 24 years"; the Donaldsonville priest
who recorded the burial did not give any parents' names or
mention a wife, but Michel Théophile would have been age 24 at
the time of the burial. However, another church record,
which includes the parents' names,
shows that this Théophile remarried to Élisabeth, also called Eliza, daughter
of Edmond
Blouin and his Acadian wife Joséphine Richard, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in January
1858; one wonders how Théophile's
second wife was kin to his first wife. Théophile and Élisabeth's son Jean
Florian was born near Convent in August 1859, Louis Dreux
in July 1861, and Joseph Alfred in September 1864 but
died the following February.
Femo, perhaps Euphémon,
may have married cousin Delphine Hébert. Their son
Jean Baptiste Alfred was born near Convent, St. James Parish, in
October 1866.
1b
Étienne died near Convent, St.
James Parish, in December 1823, and 22, and probably did
not marry.
2
Younger son Joseph, by his
father's second wife, baptized at
St.-Jacques in March 1776, may have died young.
Descendants of Joseph HÉBERT
III (c1736-?; Antoine,
Jean le jeune, Joseph)
Joseph III, second son of Joseph Hébert,
fils
and Anne-Marie Poirier, born probably at Chignecto in c1736, came to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765
with his brothers and settled
at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques, probably as a widower. His first wife's name
has been lost to history. He remarried
to fellow Acadian Anne Préjean, widow of Joseph Savoie, at
Cabanocé, in December 1767. All of his children were from his second
wife. One of his two sons settled in what became St.
James Parish.
1
Older son Paul, by his
father's second wife, born at
St.-Jacques in c1769, married Anastasie,
also called Théotiste, daughter of fellow Acadians Marin Landry and
Pélagie Landry of Lafourche, at
St.-Jacques in June 1790. Their son Paul, fils was born at
St.-Jacques in May 1800, Éloi in August 1803, a son, name and age unrecorded,
died at St.-Jacques
in September 1805, Adolphe was born in November
1806, and Evariste in January 1809 but died at age 6 in December
1815. Their daughters married into the Gaudin and Lalande
families. Paul, père remarried to German Creole Charlotte Trosclair
probably in St. James Parish in
c1810. Their son Paul le jeune was born in St. James
Parish in August 1811. Paul, père may have died in St. James Parish
in October 1814, in his late 40s, or he may have been the Paul Hébert
who died in St. James Parish in May 1825, age 55.
1a
Paul, fils died in
St. James Parish in July 1819, age 19, and probably did not
marry.
1b
Éloi married Marie Doralise,
called Doralise, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Mire
and Esther Arceneaux of St. James Parish, at the
Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in February 1827. Their
son Éloi, fils was born in St. James Parish in February 1829,
Paul Orestile in August 1831, Jean Baptiste Camille, called
Camille, near Convent, St. James Parish, in
September 1834, and Joseph Édouard Clément in December 1840. Their daughter married a Mire cousin.
Éloi, père died "at his home" in St. James Parish in September
1846; the St. James priest who recorded his burial, and who did not
give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Éloy died at "age 40 yrs."; he was 43.
One of his sons died "at his mother's, widow Éloy Eber," in July
1848; the St. James priest who recorded the burial did not give the
son's name or age.
Éloi, fils married
Célesie Aurelia, called Aurelia, daughter of Ursin LeBoeuf
and his Acadian wife Doralise Babin of
Ascension Parish, at the St. James church, St. James Parish, in
February 1857. Their son
Paul Éloi was born in St. James Parish in February 1859.
Camille married Cécile,
daughter of Lucien Roussel and his Acadian wife Anastasie
Theriot, at the Convent
church, St. James Parish, in February 1858. Their son Lucien Camille was born in St.
James Parish in January 1860, and Joseph Émile near Convent
in March 1863.
2
Younger son Jean-Baptiste,
by his father's second wife, baptized at
St.-Jacques, age unrecorded, in October 1770, may have died young.
Descendants of Pierre HÉBERT
(c1738-?; Antoine,
Jean le jeune, Joseph)
Pierre, youngest son of Joseph Hébert,
fils and Anne-Marie Poirier, born probably at Chignecto in c1738, came to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765
with his brothers and settled
at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques, where he married
Anne-Marie, called Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Bergeron
and his second wife Marie
Dugas of Rivière St.-Jean, in July
1767. In September 1769, they lived on the left, or east, bank of the
river at Cabanocé. By March 1777, they
had moved upriver to St.-Gabriel. Their daughter married into the Migott
family. None of Pierre's sons created families of their own, so, except
for its blood, this line of the family probably did not endure.
1
Oldest son François le
jeune, born
probably at Cabanocé in c1768, probably died young.
2
A son, name unrecorded, born at
either St.-Jacques or St.-Gabriel in c1773, probably died young.
3
Another son, name unrecorded, born
probably at St.-Gabriel in 1776, probably died young.
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More Acadians--the first
contingent of exiles from Maryland to reach Louisiana--settled at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques
in 1766. Two Héberts, a widow and a wife, were among them:
Osite Hébert, age 35,
second wife and widow of Alexandre Melanson, came to the colony in
September 1766 with six children, ages 17 to infant. Osite remarried to Augustin,
son of fellow Acadian Pierre Boudreaux, at St.-Jacques in January
1771. She died in St. James Parish in September 1805, age 75, a
widow again.
Geneviève Hébert, age 40,
came to New Orleans in October 1766 with husband, Étienne-Michel David
of Louisbourg, Île Royale, age 42, and eight children, ages 22 to 1. They,
too, had suffered exile in Maryland, but they did not come to Louisiana with the other Acadians who
sailed to the colony that year; this family, in fact, had the wherewithal to
take a separate vessel and pay their own passage. They settled at first in New Orleans, where
Étienne plied his trade as a skilled blacksmith, but by the late 1770s they
had moved to St.-Jacques, where most of their children remained.
~
Nine Hébert families--one headed by a
widow and two by widowers, and two Hébert wives, 35 members of the family in all--came to Louisiana from Maryland
in July 1767, one of the largest single
Acadian family groups to reach the colony. These were Héberts from the Minas Basin whom the British had
deported to that British colony in the fall of 1755. They had endured
life in Maryland for a dozen
years before boarding a ship at Baltimore in April 1767; they reached New
Orleans via Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, three months later. Like other 1767 arrivals, they would have
preferred to join their fellow Acadians at Cabanocé, where a
contingent of Maryland Acadians had gone in late 1766, but
Spanish governor Ulloa insisted that they settle in a new Acadian community,
St.-Gabriel d'Iberville, on the river above Cabanocé. Communication
between St.-Gabriel and Cabanocé was easy via the river, so these latest Maryland arrivals acquiesced into going to the new settlement.
François Hébert, père, age 57, a
widower, brought with him six unmarried children--Jean-Baptiste dit
Petit-Jean, age 25, Étienne, age 23, Pierre-Caieton, age 20, Joseph, age 18,
Charles, age 16, and Madeleine, age 14. Daughter Madeleine married
into the Landry family at nearby Ascension.
Alexandre Hébert, age 31, François's
second son, came with wife Anne Landry,
age 27. They brought no children with them and had none in Louisiana. Alexandre
remarried to Marie-Jeanne, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Thibodeaux,
at St.-Gabriel in January 1789. They did not remain on the river.
François Hébert,
fils, age 29, François's third son, came with wife Marie-Josèphe LeBlanc, age
25, and two sons--Charles, age 4, and Jean-Baptiste, age 3. They
had more children, including sons, in Louisiana and remained on the river.
Amand Hébert, age 27, François's fourth
son, came with wife Marie-Claire Landry,
age 22. They brought no children with them but had many in Louisiana. They
also remained on the river.
Paul Hébert, age 55, came with wife Marguerite-Josèphe Melanson, age 49, seven children--Anne-Marie, age 22, Ignace le jeune, age 20, Marie, age 18,
Jean-Baptiste, age 17, Amand, age 13, Marguerite, age 7, Paul, fils,
age 3--and orphan Marie Blanchard, age 13. Their daughters
married into the Bruneteau, Dupuis, Guidry, and Moreno
families; one of them, Marie, married a young Spanish officer,
Agústín Moreno, only two months after reaching the
colony. Paul died at St.-Gabriel in July 1805, age 93. Daughter Marguerite may not have married and may have died in
Assumption Parish, on upper Bayou Lafourche, in December 1846, age 86.
Paul's sons remained on the river, and two of his great-grandsons became
important men: Paul
Octave Hébert of Iberville Parish served as governor of Louisiana during the early 1850s,
and, along with first cousin Louis Hébert, also of Iberville
Parish, rose to the rank of brigadier general during the War of 1861-65.
Pierre-Paul Hébert, age 29, Paul's
oldest son, came with
wife Marguerite LeBlanc, age 23, and three children--Charles, age 5,
Marianne, age 3, and infant Marguerite. They remained on the
river.
Joseph Hébert, age 27, Paul's third
son, came with wife Anne Landry, age 27, and their infant daughter Anne. They
remained on the river.
Ignace Hébert, age 43, Paul's younger
brother and a widower, came with two children--Jean-Baptiste, age 14, and
Marie, age 5. Ignace remarried to Rosalie, daughter of fellow
Acadian Paul Babin and
widow of Joseph Babin, at St.-Gabriel in January 1773, but had no
more children by her. Ignace died at St.-Gabriel
in November 1783, a few days short of his 59th birthday.
Geneviève Babin, age 43, widow of Amand Hébert,
who died on the voyage from Baltimore to New Orleans, brought four children with her--Geneviève, age 22, Marie-Josèphe, age 18,
Charles, age 15, and Marguerite, age 6. Her daughters married into
the André or Andro, Derouen, Foret, Jeannot,
and Landry families, and two of them settled on the western prairies.
Her son may not have married.
Catherine Hébert, age 39, came with
husband Pierre Allain, age 44, and five children, ages 16 to infancy.
Pierre may have been the Acadian from Grand-Pré who secreted some of the
registers of St.-Charles-des-Mines Parish to Maryland and St. Gabriel.
Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, Hébert,
age 24, came with husband Athanase Landry, age 25. Their
children were born in Louisiana. Marie-Madeleine died near St.
Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in October 1815, in her early 70s.
The 1767 arrivals from Maryland created many new family lines
along the expanding Acadian Coast:
Descendants of Alexandre HÉBERT
(1735-1810s?;
Étienne, Emmanuel, Jacques)
Alexandre, second son of François Hébert,
père and Marie-Josèphe Melanson, born at Grand-Pré
in December 1735, was exiled to Maryland in 1755. Colonial officials
counted him with his family at Georgetown or Frederick, on Maryland's upper
Eastern Shore, in July 1763. Alexandre married fellow Acadian Anne Landry in Maryland, came to Louisiana
in 1767, and settled at St.-Gabriel. Anne seems to have given him no children. In January
1789, Alexandre, at age 53,
remarried to Marie-Jeanne, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Thibodeaux,
at St.-Gabriel and moved to the Attakapas District, where his
children were born. Alexandre then moved to Assumption on upper Bayou
Lafourche probably in the late 1790s, where he died by
1814. One of his daughters remained in the Attakapas District and
married into the Pomier family. His line of the family,
except for its blood, probably died with him.
Jean-Baptiste,
by his father's second wife, born at Attakapas in October 1789, died at Assumption in June 1801,
age 11.
Descendants of François
HÉBERT, fils (c1738-?;
Étienne, Emmanuel, Jacques)
François, fils, third son of
François Hébert, père and Marie-Josèphe Melanson, born
at Grand-Pré in June 1738, followed his family to Maryland and married
fellow Acadian Marie-Josèphe LeBlanc there in c1762. Colonial
officials counted them at Baltimore in July 1763. With two sons, Charles
and Jean-Baptiste, they followed his family to Louisiana in 1767. They had more children at St.-Gabriel. Their daughter married
into the Landry and Simoneaux families. François,
fils's sons settled in the
Manchac/Baton Rouge area north of St.-Gabriel, and in West Baton Rouge
Parish, and a grandson was among the few Acadians who settled in Pointe
Coupee Parish.
1
Oldest son Charles, born in
Maryland in c1763, evidently moved to the Attakapas District when he came of
age and married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand-Paul
Gautreaux and Marie Landry, at Attakapas in December 1787.
The couple returned to the river and settled in the St.-Gabriel/Baton Rouge
area. Their son Jérôme
was born in October 1790, Élias or Élie
in May 1794, Hippolyte in March 1796, Victor le jeune, a twin, in April 1805, and Charles, fils in April 1807.
Their daughters married into the Bedate, Dupuy, Landry,
LeBlanc, and Templet
families. One of his younger sons settled in Pointe Coupee Parish.
1a
Jérôme married Marie, daughter of Anglo Americans William Gibson
and Marie MacKenna of Kentucky, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in May 1815. Their son Herman
was born near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in October 1816, Maximilien in
November 1817, Valentin Trasimond, called Trasimond, near Baton Rouge in November 1820, Jean
near St. Gabriel in January 1822, Fergus near Baton Rouge in May
1824, Jean Baptiste Valcourt in January 1829, and Jérôme, fils
was baptized at the Baton Rouge church, age 10
months, in March 1832. They also had a son named Joseph Camille,
called Camille. Jérôme, père died near Baton Rouge in
June 1831; the priest who recorded the burial said that Jérôme was "ca.
38 yrs." when he died; he was 40.
Camille married Amelise, Analise,
Analize, or Ananise,
daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Labauve and Virginie
Dupuis, at the Brusly
church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in August 1842. They remained in
West Baton Rouge Parish. Their son
Joseph Sosthène was born in September 1845, and Jean Baptiste
Maximilien in May 1861.
Trasimond married first cousin
Amelia or Emelia, daughter of fellow Acadians Magloire Dupuy and
Eugènie Hébert, at the Baton
Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in May 1843; Amelia's mother was
Trasimond's paternal aunt. Trasimond
remarried to Nathalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Élien Babin
and Amelie Daigre, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in April 1852, and
remarried again--his third marriage, to Domitille, another daughter of
Joseph Élien Babin and Amelie Daigre and widow of William Allain, at the
Brusly church in July 1856; they had to secure a dispensation for first
degree of affinity in order to marry.
1b
Élie married Gertrude, daughter
of fellow Acadian Joseph Babin, by the early
1820s and settled in West Baton Rouge Parish. Their son Joseph
was born in March 1824, Félix in June 1825, Rosémond Ulysses
in December 1830, Siméon in June 1833, Jules Élie
in December 1838 but died at age 13 in June 1852, and Camille Valaise
was born near Brusly in December 1841. They also had sons named
Apollinaire, Théodore, and Théodule. Their daughters married into the Bourg and
Hébert families. Élie died in West Baton Rouge Parish in June
1855; the Brusly priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any
parents' names or mention a wife, said that Élie died at "age
61 years," so this probably was him.
Félix married Marie Virginie
or Virginia,
daughter of fellow Acadian Vital Comeaux and his Creole wife
Céleste Prosper, at the Brusly church,
West Baton Rouge Parish, in June 1848. Their son Joseph Amédée
was born near Brusly in December 1849, and Pierre Élie in
April 1850[sic].
Joseph married cousin
Victorine, another daughter of Magloire Dupuy and Eugènie
Hébert, at the
Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in May 1850. Joseph died near Brusly in December 1852,
age 28.
Apollinaire married Stephanie,
daughter of Auguste D. Collier and his Acadian wife Françoise
Mélanie Arbour, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge
Parish, in May 1854. Apollinaire may have died in February 1864;
the Brusly priest who recorded the burial did not give any parents'
names, mention a wife, or give the age of the deceased. One
wonders if Apollinaire's death was war-related. Did he father any
sons?
Siméon died near Brusly, West
Baton Rouge Parish, in January 1857. The priest who recorded the
burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a
wife, said that Siméon died at "age 24 years." Did he marry?
Théodore married Odile,
daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Lejeune and Rosaline
Allain and widow of
Édouard Bourg, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in
November 1866.
Théodule married first cousin
Adolphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Adolphe Dupuy and Eléonore
Babin and widow of
Prudent Crochet, at the Brusly church in October 1867; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of
consanguinity in order to marry.
1c
Hippolyte married Henriette,
daughter of Creoles Paul Serrette and Anne Sigur and widow of Magloire Dupuis,
at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in June 1822. They
settled in West Baton Rouge Parish. Their son
Victorin Hippolyte, called Hippolyte, was born in December 1825.
Hippolyte, père remarried to Célestine or Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph
Doiron and Modeste Labauve, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in September
1835. They remained in West Baton Rouge Parish. Their son
Thomas Célestin was born in May 1841, Alcide Edmond in September 1845,
Joseph Marcelle in March 1848, Armand Ovide in August 1849,
and Martial Aristide in July 1853.
They also had a son named Numa. Their daughters married into the Derichebourg, Dupuis,
Frechou, Labat, Ledieu, Petitjean, and Tuillier families.
Victorin Hippolyte, by his
father's first wife, married Apolline Trasille, Trosile, or Trosine, daughter of fellow Acadians Placide Babin
and Arthémise Templet, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in February 1847.
Their son Louis Gilbert was born near Brusly in December 1847,
Victorin Arnaud in September 1855, Placide Adrien in June 1857 but died the following August,
and Samuel Guénard was born in October 1858.
Numa, by his father's second wife,
married Marie Léontine, daughter of fellow Acadian Élie Hyacinthe
Lejeune and his Creole wife Eléonore Aillet, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in March
1867. Their son Joseph Henry was born near Brusly in
February 1868.
1d
Victor le jeune married cousin Marie
Odile, called Odile, daughter of Nicolas Chapoton and his Acadian
wife Marie Léocadie Hébert of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the Baton
Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in September 1831; they had to secure a dispensation for fourth degree of
relationship in order to marry. They lived in St. James Parish
before moving upriver to Pointe Coupee Parish, where few other Acadians
settled. Their son Charles le jeune
was born near Convent in November 1837. Their daughters married into
the Boudreaux, Champagne, and Vignes families, and
perhaps into the Balsly family as well, one in St. James and three in
Pointe Coupee. Victor le jeune
died in Pointe Coupee Parish in February 1868; the Pointe Coupee priest
who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parent's names
or mention a wife, said that Victor died at "age 63 years, 10 months";
Victor le jeune would have been age 62 years, 10 months.
Charles le jeune,
called
Charles D. in Confederate records, likely served as a sergeant in
Company A of the Pointe Coupee Battalion Louisiana Artillery during the
War of 1861-65. If
this was him, he enlisted at Baton Rouge in May 1861 and followed the
battery to Columbus, Kentucky. After fighting in the Battle of
Belmont, Missouri, in November, the battery served as heavy artillery at
Island No. 10, where it repulsed a Federal attack in early March 1862.
After service at Fort Pillow, Tennessee, the battery retreated with rest
of the army to northwestern Mississippi, where it saw more action at
Coffeeville and Fort Pemberton in late 1862 and early 1863. Next,
the battery fought at Port Hudson, Louisiana, where Charles was captured
in late March. He was soon paroled, exchanged, and returned to his
unit. He remained with the battalion for the rest of the war,
serving with it in Mississippi and north Georgia, where it was part of
the Atlanta Campaign. Most of the men in the battalion were
captured at Nashville, Tennessee, in December 1864, but sergeant
Hébert was not one of them. He eluded the Federals and
surrendered with General Taylor's army at Meridian Mississippi, in May
1865. He
married Virginie Eva, called Eva, daughter of J. B. Alcide Bondy
and Eveline Vignes, at the
Pointe Coupee church, Pointe Coupee Parish, in October 1866.
Daughter Marie Zulma,
called Zulma, who had married Adolphe Vignes in February
1854 and with whom she had at least four children, the last one born in
October 1861, gave birth to son Joseph Moran Édouard in October
1866. The Pointe Coupee priest who baptized the boy the following
February called Zulma "widow of Adolphe Vignes" but
called her son an Hébert. One wonders when Adolphe Vignes
died, and who was Joseph's biological father.
2
Jean-Baptiste, born in
Maryland in c1764, married double cousin Marie Anne, called Anne, daughter of
fellow Acadians Pierre-Paul Hébert and Marguerite LeBlanc, at St.-Gabriel in May 1785. Their
children, born at St.-Gabriel and Baton Rouge, included: Victor near
St.-Gabriel in February 1788; Jean-Baptiste, fils in May 1790; Julien
in c1794 but died at age 11 near Baton Rouge in August 1805; Simon near St.-Gabriel in February 1796; Paul near Baton Rouge in January 1800;
and Mari-Irenée in May 1803.
Their daughters married into the Bernard du Montier (French Creole,
not Acadian), Hébert,
Kirkland, Landry, and Williams families.
Jean Baptiste, père, at age 51, remarried to Marie Louise
Eméranthe, called Méranthe, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Landry
and Anne-Marthe Blanchard, at the Baton Rouge
church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in August 1815.
They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish. Their son Jean Baptiste
Adolphe, called Jean Adolphe and Adolphe, was born in January 1819, François Enault,
perhaps Enos,
in January 1821, Joseph Achille
in Ascension Parish in March 1823, Henri Ernest, called Ernest,
in West Baton Rouge Parish in June 1825, and Louis Pierre Alfred,
called Louis Alfred and Alfred, in May 1829.
Their daughters married into the Courtade and Landry families.
Jean Baptiste's oldest son served in the Louisiana State Senate. A
grandson served as sheriff of West Baton Rouge Parish.
2a
Victor, by his father's first wife, married Marie Rose daughter of fellow Acadians Louis
François Daigre and Marie Rose Molaison, at the
Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in May 1808. They settled
in what became West Baton Rouge Parish. Their son Joseph Valmont,
called Valmont, was
born in February 1809, Marcellin Alexandre in April
1811, Adonis, Dionis, or Denis in March 1814, Victor, fils
in February 1822, and Jules in July
1824. Their daughters
married into the Lecoq and Woods families. Victor
served in the Louisiana State Senate. His oldest son served as sheriff of West Baton Rouge Parish.
Joseph Valmont, while serving as
sheriff of West Baton Rouge Parish, married Marguerite Adélaïde,
called Adélaïde, daughter of
François Ferbose and his Acadian wife Reine Trahan, at the Baton Rouge church,
East Baton Rouge Parish, in April 1832. Their son Joseph Alcide was born in West
Baton Rouge Parish in March 1833, and François Édouard,
perhaps called Édouard, in October 1834.
Valmont remarried to Geneviève Collin and remained in West
Baton Rouge Parish.
François Édouard, by
his father's first wife, died near Brusly, West Baton Rouge Parish, in November
1850. The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names, said that Édouard died at "age 16 yrs."
Adonis married Marie
Constance, called Constance, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Braud
and his Creole wife Véronique LeTullier of West
Baton Rouge Parish and widow of Célestin Allain, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge
Parish, in January 1839. They settled in West Baton Rouge
Parish. Their son Jules Adonis was born in August 1839, Joseph Victor near Brusly in
April 1843, and Anatole in January 1846.
Jules Adonis, called
Jules A. by the recording priest, married Émilie Kesia, called
Kesia, daughter of
Anglo American James Barker and his Creole wife Delphine
Marrionneaux, at the Plaquemine church,
Iberville Parish, in February 1860. Their son Edwin
Adonis was born near Plaquemine in May 1861, and Joseph
Auguste in February 1866.
Anatole married Marie
Aloysia, called Aloysia, daughter of fellow Acadians Sylvère LeBlanc
and Joséphine Broussard, at
the Plaquemine church, Iberville Parish, in May 1869.
Their son George Edgar was born near Plaquemine in
February 1870.
Jules may have married
Anglo American Mary Eliza Elliot during the early 1850s and
settled near Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, on the west side of the
river. Mary Eliza must have been a Protestant when they
married; in February 1854, at age 22, she was baptized a
Roman Catholic at the Plaquemine church.
2b
Jean Baptiste, fils, by
his father's first wife, died probably in West Baton Rouge Parish in July 1819,
age 29, and probably did not marry.
2c
Adolphe, by his father's second wife,
living in West Baton Rouge Parish, married Rosalie, daughter of Nicolas
Traca, Tracas, or Tracos and Rosalie Bourra
or Burat, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in
October 1837. They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish. Their
son Jean Baptiste le jeune was born in October 1839, Christophe near Brusly in October 1843,
and Jean Léon, called Léon, in Ascension Parish in December 1845
but died at age 11 1/2 in May 1857. Their
daughter married into the Arbuckle and Tuillier families. Adolphe
died near Brusly in September 1849; the priest who recorded the burial,
and who did not give any parents' names or mention a
wife, said that Adolphe died at "age 31 yrs."; he was 30.
His daughter Marie Rosalie was born near Brusly the following February
but died at age 2 1/2 in August 1852.
Christophe married cousin
Henriette Odalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Gilbert Hébert and
Céleste Labauve of St. Martin Parish and widow of
his uncle Ernest
Hébert, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in
December 1864.
Jean Baptiste le jeune
married
cousin Célestine, daughter of fellow Acadians Raphaël Hébert
and Odile Landry, at the Brusly
church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in February 1866.
2d
Ernest, by his father's second
wife, married cousin Marie Dartille, called Dartille, daughter of fellow
Acadians Hilaire Hébert and Clarisse Templet, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in November 1845 or
1846. They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish. Dartille died
in March 1853; she was only 24 years old. Ernest remarried to cousin Henriette Ordalie, daughter of
Gilbert Hébert and Céleste Labauve of St. Martin
Parish, at the Brusly church, West
Baton Rouge Parish, in November 1853. Ernest died by December
1864, when Henriette Ovide remarried to his nephew Chrisotophe
Hébert. One wonders if his death was war-related.
2e
Louis Alfred, by his father's second wife,
married double cousin Marie Elvina, called Elvina, daughter of fellow Acadians Hildebert
Landry and Marie Euphémie Landry, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in February
1851. They settled in
West Baton Rouge Parish. Their son
Louis Alfred, fils
was born in June 1852, and Joseph Walker died at age 4 1/2 in
August 1858.
2f
François Enault, by his
father's second wife, may have died
near Brusly, West Baton Rouge Parish, in July 1854. The priest who
recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names
or mention a wife, said that Enos died at "age 34 yrs." François
Enault would have been age 33.
3
Bénoni or Béloni
Melon,
born probably near St.-Gabriel in c1771, married cousin Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians
Pierre Allain, père and Catherine Hébert, at St.-Gabriel in December 1793; they had to secure a "dispensation ... for kinship" in order to marry. Their son Bénoni,
fils was born near St.-Gabriel
in August 1797 but died near Baton Rouge at age 16 in July 1814, and Louis-Joseph
was born near Baton Rouge in November 1800 but
died at age 8 months in July 1801. Their daughters married into the Comeaux,
Horsler,
and LeBlanc
families. Bénoni, père remarried to Adélaïde,
daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Dupuis and Élisabeth
Benoit and widow of Pierre Henry,
at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in May 1807. They settled
in what became West Baton Rouge Parish. Their son Drosin
was born in February 1808, and Jean Baptiste in July
1813. Their daughters married into the Babin and Marson
families. Bénoni, père died in West Baton Rouge Parish in
February 1825, age 54. Did either of his younger sons created families
of their own?
4
Youngest son Jacques, also
called Joseph, born near St.-Gabriel in June 1782, married cousin Marie Madeleine, called
Madeleine, daughter of
fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Hébert and Marguerite Richard, at Baton Rouge in May 1804. Their son
Jean Valsin was baptized at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish,
age 6 months, in June 1822, and Eugène was born probably in West Baton Rouge Parish in November 1827. Their daughters married into
the Gibson, LeTullier, and Tibivilier families.
Madeleine died near Brusly in October 1854, age 67.
Eugène may have died near
Brusly, West Baton Rouge Parish, in March 1850. The priest who
recorded the burial, and who did not bother to give any parents' names,
said that Eugène died at "age 22 yrs.," so this probably was him.
One wonders if he married.
Descendants of Amand HÉBERT
(1740-1784; Étienne,
Emmanuel, Jacques)
Amand, also called Thomas,
fourth son of François Hébert,
père and Marie-Josèphe Melanson, born at Grand-Pré
in April 1740, came to Louisiana in 1767 with his wife Marie-Claire Landry, whom he had married in
Maryland, and settled at St.-Gabriel. Their daughters married into the Hernandez, Landry,
Langlois, and Valentinie families. Amand
remarried to Anne-Élisabeth or Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Babin
and Anne Landry, at St.-Jacques, downriver from St.-Gabriel, in June 1777. Their daughters
married into the Chapelon, Foret, Hébert, and Janeau families. Amand died at
St.-Gabriel in December 1784, age 44.
1
Oldest son Thomas, by his
father's first wife, born near St.-Gabriel in January 1771, married Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph LeBlanc
and Marguerite Landry, at St.-Gabriel in July 1795. Their son Thomas, fils was born
near
St.-Gabriel in October 1796, Dreville, perhaps Treville, was baptized at St.-Gabriel, age 6 months, in June 1801, Surville was
born in June 1803, and Joseph Julerie in January 1814. Thomas,
père died near St. Gabriel in November 1847; the priest who recorded
the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Thomas died at "age 76 yrs.," so this was him.
He was buried "in Plaquemine cemetary[sic]," across
the river from St. Gabriel.
1a
Thomas, fils married
Marguerite Iréné, called Iréné, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Brasset
and Marine Landry, at the St.
Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in January 1820. Their son
Jean Anadon was born near St. Gabriel in February 1823. They
also had a son named Thomas Anatole, called Anatole, born probably in the
mid-1820s. Their
daughter married into the Bujole family. Thomas, fils
died near St. Gabriel in January 1827; the priest who recorded the
burial did not give any parents' names, mention a wife, or
give his age at the time of his death, but this was him; he was
age 30.
Thomas Anatole married
Marie Aurelia, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Richard and
his Creole wife Marie Suarez, at
the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in June 1846. Their
son Oscar Roman was born in Iberville Parish in November
1846, and Jean Émile in July 1848.
1b
Dreville may have been the
Treville Hébert who died "at Plaquemine," Iberville Parish, in
January 1859. The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not
give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Treville
died at "age 68 years"; Dreville would have been 58. Did
he marry?
2
A son by his father's second
wife, name and age unrecorded, drowned probably in the Mississippi
River in April 1780.
3
Joseph, by his father's second wife,
baptized at St.-Gabriel, age unrecorded, in 1780, married Marie-Madeleine, called
Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Landry and Scholastique
Braud, at St.-Gabriel in May 1802.
Their son Iribert or Ribert was born at St. Gabriel in August 1804.
Joseph, père may have died at Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, in March
1806; if so, he was age 28.
Ribert, called Joseph Ribert
by the recording priest, married cousin
Marie Adveline, daughter of Jean Baptiste Hébert, at the St.
Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in September 1827. Marie
Advenline died near St. Gabriel in March 1828; she was only 18 years
old. Ribert remarried to Clarisse Accobelle, daughter of Creoles Louis Alexandre
Reboul and Marie Catherine Schlatre, at the St. Gabriel church in February 1830.
Their son Jean Baptiste P. was born near St. Gabriel in November
1832 but died at age 9 1/2 in August 1842, and Alexandre was born
in January 1840. Their daughters married into the Noël
(probably Foreign French, not Acadian) and Toffier
families. Ribert died near St. Gabriel in March 1841, age 36.
Alexandre, by his father's second
wife, married Clarisse
or Clarissa
Laura, daughter of Creoles Valéry Roth and Elizabeth
Garlick, at the St. Gabriel church,
Iberville Parish, in January 1860. They settled near
Plaquemine, on the west side of the river. Their son Alexandre Paul
Humphrey was born in April 1861,
Sidney Albert in July 1862, Michel Valéry in June 1864, and Laurence,
perhaps a son, in March 1866.
4
Youngest son Louis, by his
father's second wife, born probably at
St.-Gabriel in c1783, died at age 6 in November 1789.
Descendants of Jean-Baptiste
dit Petit Jean HÉBERT (1742-1797;
Étienne, Emmanuel, Jacques)
Jean-Baptiste dit
Petit Jean, also called Baptiste, fifth son of François Hébert, père and Marie-Josèphe Melanson,
born at Grand-Pré in June 1742, came to Louisiana from Maryland in 1767 with his
widowed father and siblings. He married Marie-Madeleine,
called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Antoine
Dupuis and Marguerite Boudrot of
Rivière-aux-Canards, probably at St.-Gabriel in March 1769. Madeleine
also had come to Louisiana from Maryland in 1767, with an uncle and three
brothers. She and Petit Jean lived for a time at St.-Jacques,
downriver from St.-Gabriel. In September 1779, Petit Jean, a private in the Second
Company, St.-Gabriel militia, fought under Spanish Governor Gálvez at
Manchac and Baton Rouge; he and fellow Acadian Mathurin Landry of
nearby Ascension were the only men wounded in Gálvez's Mississippi River campaign; both
survived their wounds.
Petit Jean died at Ascension in April 1797, age 55. His daughters married into the Bourg, Comeaux, Dupuis, Landry,
Lavergne, Melançon, and Templet families, and some of
them settled on Bayou Lafourche. Three of his four sons married. One of them settled on Bayou Lafourche
and another on the western prairies (where, tragically, he committed
suicide at age 30). The older married son remained in Iberville Parish.
1
Oldest son Dominique, born at
St.-Jacques in August 1776, died at St. Gabriel in September 1815. The
priest who recorded his burial said that Dominique was age 35 when he
died, but he was 39. He probably did not marry.
2
Jean-Paul, called Paul
or Paulite, baptized at St.-Jacques, age unrecorded, in February 1780, married Marine, daughter of fellow
Acadian Paul Babin, at St. Gabriel in April 1806.
Their son Orasine died at age 2 in August 1815, Louis Norbert,
called Norbert, was born
near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in
September 1817, Paul, fils in January 1821, and another Paul,
fils was baptized at the St. Gabriel church, perhaps age 1 1/2, in April
1827. Their daughter married into the Dominique
family. Paulite died near St. Gabriel in May 1827, in his late 40s.
2a
Louis Norbert married
Arthémide or Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadians Benjamin Mire
and Célestine Arceneaux, at the St.
Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in February 1846. Norbert served
as "manager of the widow, Mrs. Garlick's plantation" in Iberville
Parish. Their son
Joseph Norbert was born perhaps on the plantation in September 1848 but died
at age 5 in October 1853, and
Amédée was born in June 1850. Norbert, still manager of the
widow's plantation, died in Iberia Parish in October 1853, age 36. One wonders if he and his older son Joseph Norbert,
who died eight days earlier, were victims of a yellow fever epidemic
that struck South Louisiana in the autumn of 1853; their burial records
do not say.
2b
Paul, fils married
Clara, daughter of fellow Acadians Neuville Melançon and Marie
Constance Orillion, at the
Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in January 1847. They
lived near the boundary between Ascension and Iberville parishes.
Their son Joseph Paul, called Paul III, was born in December 1847.
Their daughter married into the Rodrigue family. Paul,
fils remarried to Hélène, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles
Dupuis and Marcellite Blanchard and widow of Damas Braud, at the Donaldsonville church
in February 1855. Their child, name unrecorded, perhaps a son,
died in Ascension Parish a day after its birth in August 1857.
Paul III, by his
father's first wife, married cousin Evellina, daughter of
fellow Acadians Jean Arsène
Hébert and his second wife Rosalie Euphrosie Gaudin, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in
February 1869. Their son Joseph Paul was born in
Ascension Parish in May 1869.
3
Jean-Baptiste, fils, born
near St.-Gabriel in November 1787, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians
Joseph Comeaux and Anne Landry, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in October 1810.
They remained on upper Bayou Lafourche.
4
Youngest son François le
jeune, born
on the Acadian Coast in c1795, moved to Attakapas on the prairie when he came of age and married Anne Domitille, called
Domitille, daughter of
fellow Acadian Simon Granger of Côte Gelée, at the St. Martinville
church, St. Martin Parish, in May 1815. They settled at Côte Gelée
in present-day Lafayette Parish, where François committed suicide in May
1825, age 30.
Descendants of Étienne
HÉBERT (1744-1821;
Étienne, Emmanuel, Jacques)
Étienne, sixth son of François Hébert,
père and Marie-Josèphe Melanson, born at Grand-Pré
in October 1744, came to Louisiana
from Maryland
in 1767 with his widowed father and siblings.
He married Madeleine, also called Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Landry
and Marie-Josèphe Richard of Grand-Pré, at St.-Jacques,
on the river below St.-Gabriel, in
June 1771. Madeleine had come to Louisiana from Maryland in 1768 with
six of her siblings. Their daughters married into the Babin, Gale,
and Rivet families. Étienne died near St. Gabriel, Iberville
Parish, in December 1821; the priest who recorded his burial said that
Étienne was age 83 when he died; he was 77.
One of his daughters, Marie, perhaps Marie Lucie, was an Acadian Helen
Keller; she died near St. Gabriel in September 1853; the priest who recorded
her burial said that Marie died at "age 60 years" (Marie Lucie would have
been age 65); the priest also noted that Marie was "a deaf mute since birth, and
later blinded in an accident"; she died at the home of her nephew Volière,
son of her oldest brother Donat.
1
Oldest son Joseph-Donat,
called Donat,
born on the Acadian Coast in c1772, married cousin Marie-Henriette, called Henriette, daughter of
fellow Acadians Prosper-Sébastien Hébert and Marie Dupuis, at
Ascension in January 1799. Their son Abraham le jeune was born at
St.-Gabriel in August 1802, Eugène in c1807 but died at age
5 in Ascension Parish in April 1812, Jean Divolière was born near St. Gabriel,
Iberville Parish, in May 1808, Ursin, also called Urbin, in Ascension Parish in March
1812, Jean or John Vives, called Vives, near St. Gabriel in May
1813, Julien Rosémond, called Rosémond, in January 1816 but
died in Ascension Parish at age 3 in October 1819, and Joseph Thibolier,
also called Volier and Olier, was born near St. Gabriel in December 1817. They also had an older son named
Joseph. Their daughters married into
the Braud and Dupuy families. Donat died in Ascension
Parish in June 1827, age 55.
1a
Joseph married Marie Louise,
daughter of fellow Acadians Raphaël Gautreaux and Constance
Braud, at the St. Gabriel
church, Iberville Parish, in June 1822. Their son Joseph Nemese
or Numese was born near St. Gabriel in March 1823 but died at age
18 months in October 1824, and Simon was born in February 1836.
Their daughter married into the Braud family.
1b
Ursin married Anne Marie,
called Marie and Maria, daughter
of Anglo Americans William R. Boote and Sara Russell, at the Donaldsonville church,
Ascension Parish, in July 1832. Their son, name unrecorded, died
in Ascension Parish, "age several days," in March 1833.
Their daughter married into the Scratchley family. Ursin remarried to cousin Eugènie,
daughter of fellow Acadian Louis Part and his Creole wife
Constance Henderson, at the St. Gabriel church,
Iberville Parish, in January 1836; they had to secure a dispensation for
second degree of consanguinity in order to marry. Their daughter
married into the LeBlanc family. Ursin remarried
again--his third marriage--to Adélaïde, Adeline, or Adelitte, called Delitte, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon
Raphaël Babin and Pauline Marguerite Landry and widow of Auguste Raphaël Landry, at the
St. Gabriel church in July 1839. They settled near the boundary
between St. Gabriel and Ascension parishes. Their child, name unrecorded,
perhaps a son, died at age 3 months in August 1840, and
Théodule Lucien was born in January 1843. Their daughters
married into the Babin and Gautreaux families.
1c
Vives married Marie Domitille,
called Domitille, daughter of fellow Acadians Simonet Richard and
Marguerite Braud, at
the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in April 1834. They
settled near the boundary between Iberville and Ascension parishes. Their son Vives
Léonard was born in November 1842, Treville Odon in November
1844, Jean Victor, called Victor, in December 1848
but died at age 2 1/2 in September 1851, Philippe Émile was
born in May 1851, and Charles Théodore in January 1856. Their daughters married into the
Braud,
Guitteau, and Landry
families.
1d
Joseph Thibolier, called
Voliar by the recording priest, married Marie Olivia or Olivia, daughter of
Creoles Isidore Bonicard and Ursule Tregre, at the Donaldsonville
church, Ascension Parish, in July 1841. They settled near the
boundary between Ascension and Iberville parishes. Their son
Isidore Prieur was born in July 1842, Joseph Thibolier, fils
in February 1845, a son, name
unrecorded, died 4 days after his
birth in September 1846, Louis Tiston was born in December 1847, and Alexandre Melony
in April 1850. Joseph Thibolier died in Ascension Parish in
December 1855; the Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial, and
who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife,
said that Volier, as he called him, died at "age 38 years."
Joseph Thibolier, fils married
Aurelia, daughter of Creoles François Duplessis and Marie
Louise Duplessis, at the St. Gabriel
church, Iberville Parish, in January 1870.
2
Narcisse, born at Ascension
in 1777, married Marine, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Rivet and
Marie-Josèphe Braud, at St.-Gabriel
in June 1800. Their son Hippolyte was born at St. Gabriel in
July 1804, Surville in May 1807, and Paulin in c1814.
They also had a son named Narcisse. Their daughter married into the Blount family. Narcisse,
père may
have remarried to Charity Hood or Wood in the late 1810s or
early 1820s. If so, their son Guillaume was born near St.
Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in November 1824.
2a
Narcisse, fils, by his
father's first wife, married cousin Marie Virginie, called Virginie, daughter of Antoine Langlois
and his Acadian wife Marine Hébert, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in
February 1836. They
settled near Plaquemine on the west bank of the river. Their
infant son, name unrecorded, died in July 1837, and Adonis Pierre
was born in August 1844. Their daughter married into the Achée
family.
2b
Paulin, by his father's first wife,
married Adeline, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Guidry and
Anne Marie Landry, at the
Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in February 1844.
Paulin may have died near Baton Rouge in March 1861; the priest who
recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names
or mention a wife, said that Paulin died at "age ca. 47 years."
Did he father any sons?
3
Étienne, fils, born at
Ascension in December 1777, married Adélaïde Émilie, called Émilie, daughter of fellow
Acadians Alexandre Daigre and Rose Adélaïde Bourg, at Baton Rouge in June 1805.
They settled in what became West Baton Rouge Parish. Their twin sons François and Louis
were born in October 1810, Joseph
in May 1807, Bénoni died
at age 3 months in August 1812, and Polino was born in October 1813.
They also had a son named Janvier le jeune who also was called
Jean Louis, so this may have been twin son Louis. Their daughters married
into the Daigre and Doiron families.
Janvier le jeune/Jean
Louis
married Marie Ameline or Armeline, daughter of fellow Acadians Henri Comeaux
and Marguerite Hébert, at
the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in August 1838. They
settled in West Baton Rouge Parish. Their
son Hubert was born in June
1839, Eluc Albert, called Albert, in October 1840, Valière Monléon or
Moléon in
February 1845,
Louis near Brusly in June 1847, and Homere in October 1849.
Valière Moléon married
Marie Evella or Evelia, daughter of Jean Gaffeney and
Marcelline Propere, at the Brusly
church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in January 1864.
Albert married Elvina,
daughter of Adolphe Tuillier and his Acadian wife Euphémie
Melançon, at the Brusly
church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in December 1869.
4
Abraham, called Abram, born probably at
Ascension in the early 1780s, married Louise
Ludivine, called Ludivine or Divine,
daughter of fellow Acadians Firmin Landry and Ludivine dit
Divine Babin, at St. Gabriel in April
1806. Their son François Marcellin, called Marcellin, was born
near St. Gabriel in May 1815, and François Esnard or Enos, called François
E., Francis Enos, Francis E., and E., in September
1829.
They also had a son named Omer. Their daughters married into the Allain, Blount,
Dupuy, Landry, LeBlanc,
and Vives families.
4a
François Marcellin married cousin Marie Sylvine,
Sylvina, Sulma, Savina, or Survina, and perhaps also Duloine, daughter of
Martin Blount and his Acadian wife Angèle Hébert, at the St. Gabriel church,
Iberville Parish, in August 1838; Marie's mother was an Hébert;
they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in
order to marry. Their newborn son, name unrecorded, died in
Iberville Parish in September 1839, Amédée was born in March 1842, Abraham in August 1843,
Marcellin, fils in February 1849, Lucien in October 1850,
Privat in August 1852, Joseph Prosper in June 1854,
Samuel Rodolphe in September 1857, and François Omer in
September 1863. Their daughter may have
married into the King family. Marcellin, père died
in Iberville Parish in June 1868; the St. Gabriel priest who recorded
the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Marcellin died at "age 58 years." François
Marcellin would have been age 53.
Marcellin, fils
married cousin Marie Sydonia, daughter of fellow Acadians Adolphe Hébert
and Eugènie LeBlanc, at
the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in January 1869.
4b
Omer married cousin Marie
Coralie, daughter of Acadian Joseph Achille Hébert and his Creole
wife Marcellite Lambremont, at the St. Gabriel
church, Iberville Parish, in January 1846. Their son Achille
Emer was born near St. Gabriel in October 1846. Omer remarried
to Marie Jeanette, called Jeanette, daughter of fellow Acadians Jérôme Melançon and
Madeleine LeBlanc and widow of Sifrin Babin, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension
Parish, in October 1848. Their son Joseph Sylvère, called
Sylvère, was born
in Ascension Parish in June 1852 but died at age 1 in September 1853.
Their daughter married a Dugas cousin.
4c
François Enos married cousin Odile, daughter of
fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Babin and his French-Canadian wife
Judith Provenché, at the Baton Rouge church,
East Baton Rouge Parish, in July 1855; they had to secure a dispensation
for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry. François Enos remarried to Emily
or Émilie Marie, daughter
of Thomas Kelly and Adélaïde Gallaugher, at the Baton Rouge church in October
1863. Their son Joseph Alvin was born near Baton Rouge in
April [1869].
5
Janvier, born near
St.-Gabriel in November 1785, married cousin Marie Phelonise, called
Phelonise, daughter of
fellow Acadians Michel Hébert and Anastasie Babin, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in
December 1827. Their daughters married into the Bonicard, Imbaud,
and Lapeyrolery families.
Did Janvier father any sons?
6
Youngest son Joseph died at
Ascension a week after his birth in January 1800.
Descendants of Pierre-Caieton
HÉBERT (1747-?;
Étienne, Emmanuel, Jacques)
Pierre-Caieton, seventh son of François Hébert,
père and Marie-Josèphe Melanson, born at Grand-Pré
in August 1747, came to Louisiana
from Maryland
in 1767 with his widowed father and siblings.
He married fellow Acadian Marguerite Babin at
St.-Gabriel in the late 1760s. Their daughter married into the Roth family.
His oldest son settled on the western prairies and may have been the only
one to perpetuate the family line.
1
Oldest son Henri, born
probably near St.-Gabriel in c1771, crossed the Atchafalaya Basin
when he came of age and settled in the old Attakapas District. He married Victoire, daughter of Anglo American William Gilchrist
of North Carolina and his French-Canadian wife Susanne Roy, at the Opelousas
church, St. Landry Parish, in September 1808. They settled at La
Pointe on upper Bayou Teche.
2
Paul, born at
Ascension, downriver from St.-Gabriel, in August 1772, may have died young,
unless he was the Paul Hébert who died in St. James Parish in May
1825; if so, he would have died in his early 50s.
3
Joseph, born near St.-Gabriel
in December 1774, may have died young.
4
Youngest son Pierre, born probably near
St.-Gabriel in c1775, died at age 9 in July 1784.
Descendants of Joseph HÉBERT
(c1749-1819?;
Étienne, Emmanuel, Jacques)
Joseph, eighth son of François Hébert,
père and Marie-Josèphe Melanson, born at Grand-Pré in c1749,
came to Louisiana from Maryland in 1767 with his widowed father and siblings.
While living at St.-Gabriel, Joseph married Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Landry
and his first wife Dorothée Babin, at Ascension in May
1779. Anastasie had come to Louisiana from Maryland in 1766 with her
father and stepmother and settled with them at Cabahannocer. Joseph may have died
in Iberville Parish in March 1819; the St. Gabriel priest who recorded the
burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a
wife, said that Joseph died at "age 68"; this Joseph would have been close
to age 70. His daughter married into the Comeaux and Housiaux
families.
1
Oldest son Louis, born at Ascension in
August 1780, may have died young.
2
Alexandre, born near
St.-Gabriel in November
1783, married Marie-Émilie, called Émilie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean-Charles Comeaux
and his Anglo wife Anne Catherine Bush
of St.-Gabriel, at Assumption on upper Bayou Lafourche in February
1803, but they settled at St.-Gabriel; one of Émilie's brothers married one
of Alexandre's sisters. Alexandre and Émilie's son Joseph Achille, called
Achille,
was born at St. Gabriel in November 1805. Their daughter married into
the Breaux family.
Joseph Achille married
Marie Marcellite, called Marcellite, daughter of Creole Jean Baptiste Lambremont
and Creole Jean Baptiste Lambremont and his Anglo wife Anne
Margaret Hamiliton, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in January 1826.
Their son Léon Achille was born near St. Gabriel in April 1831
but died at age 5 in September 1836, Léon Théodore, called
Théodore, was born in
November 1833, Rigobert Alexandre in January 1836, and Guy Joseph
or Joseph Guy in June 1839. Joseph Achille
died "during the hurricane in late August [1856] and [his] body was
found" in September; the St. Gabriel priest who recorded the burial also
noted that Joseph Achille died at "age 50 years, 9 months."
His wife Marcellite also died "during the hurricane," but her
"body was never found." Their daughter married an Hébert
cousin.
Léon Théodore married
cousin Marie Ophelia, called Ophelia, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Arvillien
Braud and Anne Celina Hébert, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in January
1855. Their son
Théodore Ellis was born near St. Gabriel in February 1856, Achille Elbert in July 1857,
Samuel Stephen in August 1858, and John Arie in August
1859.
Rigobert Alexandre married
Virginie Mille, daughter of Anglo Americans John Navy and
Nancy C. Brown at the
St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in January 1857. Their
son Jean Eugène Achille was born in Iberville Parish in March
1863.
Guy Joseph married cousin
Marie Odilia, daughter of P. M. Lambremont and his Acadian
wife , at
the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in September 1860; Marie's
mother was a Braud. Their son Lawrence Guy Lee
was born in Iberville Parish in November 1862, and Théodore Émile
in July 1867.
3
Jean-Baptiste, born near
St.-Gabriel in
January 1784, married Eugènie Catherine, daughter of François Labadie
and Catherine Parr, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in July 1818. Their son Jean Baptiste, fils was born near
St. Gabriel in February 1820.
4
Joseph, fils, born near
St.-Gabriel in November 1786, may have died near St. Gabriel, Iberville
Parish, in December 1824, age 38. The priest who recorded Joseph's
burial, and who did not give his parents' names, did not mention a wife,
so one wonders if he married.
5
Michel, born near St.-Gabriel
in September 1789, married Victoire, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean
Baptiste LeBlanc and Madeleine Marthe Foret, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in January 1817.
Their son Pierre was born near St. Gabriel in September 1818, and a
child, name unrecorded, perhaps a son, died at birth in November 1821.
Their daughter married a LeBlanc cousin. Michel remarried to Marie Denise,
called Denise, daughter of Michel
Lambremont and his Acadian wife Marguerite Braud, at the St. Gabriel church in February 1825, on the same day
and at the same place his younger brother Auguste married Marie Denise's sister.
Michel and Denise's son Joseph Michel, called Michel, was born near
St. Gabriel in September 1827 but died at age 1 in October 1828. Their
daughters married into the Billings and Ellis families.
Michel, père died near St. Gabriel in January 1833; the priest who
recorded the burial said that Michel was age 40 when he died; he
was 42. Did only the blood of this family line survive?
6
Youngest son Auguste or
Augustin, born near
St.-Gabriel in December
1792, married Marie Delphine, another daughter of Jean Charles Comeaux
and Anne Catherine Bush, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in February 1820;
one of Auguste's sisters and his oldest brother also married into this
family. Auguste remarried
to Marie Mathilde, called Mathilde, another daughter of Michel Lambremont
and his Acadian wife Marguerite Braud, at
the St. Gabriel church in February 1825, on the same day and at the same
place his older brother Michel married Mathilde's sister. Auguste and
Mathilde's
son Athanase died near St. Gabriel, age 2 1/2, in October
1836, and Joseph Gustave, called Gustave, was born in March 1838. Their daughters
married into the Aillet, Braud, Schmitt, and Trosclair
families.
Gustave, by his father's second wife, married Aloysia,
daughter of fellow Acadians Édouard Daigre and Finette
LeBlanc, at the St. Gabriel
church, Iberville Parish, in June 1856, and remarried to
cousin Victorine, daughter of fellow Acadian Narcisse Landry and
Carmelite Hébert and widow of Théodule Molaison,
at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in February 1859.
Charles
HÉBERT (c1751-?;
Étienne, Emmanuel, Jacques)
Charles, ninth and youngest son of François Hébert,
père and Marie-Josèphe Melanson, born at Grand-Pré in c1751,
came to Louisiana from Maryland in 1767 with his widowed father and
siblings. In March 1777, when he was 26 years old, Spanish officials
noted in the St.-Gabriel census that Charles was still a
bachelor. With him was his 67-year-old father and a female
slave. His father died at age 79 in May 1789, when Charles was
38. Charles may have devoted his life to taking care of his elderly
parent and may not have married.
Descendants of Pierre-Paul
HÉBERT (1737-1806;
Étienne, Emmanuel, Guillaume)
Pierre-Paul, eldest son of Paul Hébert,
père and Marguerite-Josèphe Melanson, born at Grand-Pré in
November 1737, came
to Louisiana in 1767 with his wife Marguerite LeBlanc, whom he had married in
Maryland, and a son and two daughters. They had more
children at St.-Gabriel, including four more sons. Their daughters
married into the Hébert, Landry, and LeBlanc families.
Pierre Paul died near St. Gabriel in March 1806; the priest who recorded the
burial said that Pierre was age 64 when he died, but he was closer to
68.
1
Oldest son Charles le jeune, born in
Maryland in c1762, married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Janvier Braud
and Osite Landry, at
St.-Gabriel in May 1785. Their daughter married into the Hernandez
family. Charles le jeune remarried to Anne, daughter of
fellow Acadians Amand-Paul Gautreaux and Marie Landry, at St.-Gabriel in July 1792. They settled in what became West Baton
Rouge Parish. Their son Auguste or Augustin was born
near St.-Gabriel in May
1794, Hippolyte in November 1800, Jérôme in September
1802, and Paul in c1803. They also had a son named Eugène. Their daughters married into the Landry family. Charles
le jeune died probably in West Baton Rouge Parish in October 1829,
age 67.
1a
Augustin, by his father's second wife, married Rosalie,
daughter of Pierre Battiau, Pailliou, Paillot, Paleo, Paliau,
Pallia,
Pallion, Payou, or
Poliot and Rose Tullier of Baton Rouge, at the St. Gabriel Church, Iberville
Parish, in October 1817. Their son Augustin, fils was born near
St. Gabriel in April 1820, Bélisaire near Baton Rouge in August 1824,
and Jean Numa in May 1827. Their daughter married into the
Thompson family. Augustin, père may have died at Bayou
Goula, on the west bank of the river, in September 1847; the St. Gabriel
priest who recorded his burial, and who did not give any parents'
names or mention a wife, said that Auguste, as he called him, died at
"age 52 yrs."; this Augustin would have been age 53.
Augustin, fils married
Marie Doralise, Carolise, or Caroline, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Béloni Daigre
and Marianne Trahan, at the
Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in March 1842. They
settled in West Baton Rouge Parish. Their son Magloire Adélard,
called Adélard,
was born in October 1845 but died at age 9 1/2 in June 1855, Ervile
was born in January 1848,
Gustave in March 1850, and Jean Demosthène in December 1852. Augustin, fils likely died near
Brusly in September 1855; the priest who recorded the burial, and who
did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said
that Auguste, fils, as he called him, died at "age 32 years," but
Augustin, fils would have been age 35. Their daughter married
into the Altazin family.
Gustave may have died near
Convent, St. James Parish, in November 1867. The priest who
recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents'
names, said that Gustave died at "age 18 years"; this Gustave would
have been 17 1/2. He probably did not marry.
Bélisaire married Azélie,
daughter of fellow Acadians Firmin Guidry and Azélie
LeBlanc of West Baton Rouge
Parish, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, September
1846. They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish. Their son Pimplire or Simplire Numa
was born in March 1849 but died the following July, Philippe ___ was born in January 1852,
and Bienvenu Firmin in March 1857. Bélisaire remarried to
Mary, daughter of Anglo Americans Samuel Bates and Martha
Cage and widow of ____
McHatten, at the Baton Rouge church in June 1863.
1b
Paul, by his father's second wife, married Iréné, daughter of
fellow Acadians Daniel Benoit and Madeleine Doiron, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton
Rouge Parish, in October 1822. They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.
Their daughter married into the
LeBlanc family. Paul may have died in West Baton Rouge Parish in January 1831;
the Baton Rouge priest who recorded the burial, and who did not bother to
give any parents' names or even mention a wife, said Paul, "res. of West
Baton Rouge parish," died at "age 28 yrs." Did he
father any sons?
1c
Jérôme, by his father's second wife,
married Rosalie, daughter of Jean Charles LeTullier and his Acadian
wife Flore Adélaïde Daigre, at
the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in September 1824. Their son Trasimond was
born near Baton Rouge in February 1827.
1d
Eugène, by his father's second wife, married
Marguerite Séraphine,
called Séraphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Xavier Landry and
Madeleine Foret, at the Baton Rouge church,
East Baton Rouge Parish, in January 1827. They settled in West Baton
Rouge Parish. Their son Eugène,
fils was born in February 1828 but died at age 8 1/2 in
December 1837, Pierre Ildebert was born in October 1829, Charles
Édouard, called Édouard, was baptized at the Baton Rouge church,
age 1 1/2 months, in March 1832, and François Louis was born in June
1839. Their daughters
married into the Ferbos and Mouk or Monk families.
Charles Édouard married Marie Irma,
called Irma, daughter
of Manuel Lopez and his Acadian wife Clémence Babin, at the Baton Rouge church, East
Baton Rouge Parish, in July 1851.
They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish. Their son Charles
Helebert, probably Ildebert, was born in May 1854,
Wilfried in July 1859, and
Lee Ide in September 1860.
François Louis married cousin
Celina Aline, called Aline, daughter of Creole Hilaire Bergeron
and his Acadian wife Amelina Landry, at the
Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in June 1865; they had to secure a
dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.
2
Jean-Élie, called Élie,
born near St.-Gabriel in August 1773, married cousin Geneviève, daughter of
fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste LeBlanc and Marguerite Comeaux, at St.-Gabriel in February 1802. Their
son Jean Élie, fils was born near St. Gabriel in June 1806, Pierre
Valmont, called Valmont, in August 1812, and Joseph
Herman in January 1815 but died at age 10 months the following October. Their
daughter married into the Ramouin family. Élie,
père remarried to another cousin, Marguerite, daughter of
fellow Acadians Joseph LeBlanc
and Marguerite Landry and widow of another Joseph LeBlanc, at the St. Gabriel church,
Iberville Parish, in
November 1817. Their daughter married into the Landry family.
2a
Jean Élie, fils, by his
father's first wife, married cousin Marguerite Eugènie, called Eugènie, daughter of fellows Acadian
Paul LeBlanc and Marguerite Landry, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in
June 1832. Their daughter married a LeBlanc cousin. Jean Élie, fils died near St. Gabriel in
November 1837, age 31. Did his line of the
family, except for its blood, die with him?
2b
Valmont, by his father's first
wife, married Marie Élise, Éloise,
or Héloise, daughter of Joseph Berret, perhaps Verret,
and Marie Angélique Arnandez, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville
Parish, in December 1834. Their son Eugène was born near
St. Gabriel in November 1835, Joseph Léon, called Léon, in April 1839, and
Thomas in December 1843. Valmont remarried to Ernestine,
daughter of Louis Édouard Guitteau and Joséphine Pignoux, at the St. Gabriel church in
September 1851. They settled near Plaquemine on the west side of
the river. Their son Peter Louis was born in February 1853,
Charles Ernest in January 1862, and V. died in October
1867, age unrecorded, and was buried in St. Raphaël Cemetery.
Léon, by his father's first wife,
married Zulma, daughter of fellow Acadians Victor Allain and
Marie Aimée Breaux, at
the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in January 1868.
3
Pierre, born probably near
St.-Gabriel in c1775, died at age 9 in July 1784.
4
Simon, born near St.-Gabriel
in October 1777, married Marie-Marthe,
daughter of Diego Hernandez and his Acadian wife Théotiste
Babin, at St.-Gabriel in May 1800. Their daughter married into the Landry
family. Simon died at nearby Ascension in April 1802; he was only 24 years
old. Simon probably fathered no sons, so this line of the family, except
for its blood, may have died with him.
5
Youngest son Jacques, born
near St.-Gabriel in January 1785, may have died young.
Descendants of Joseph HÉBERT
(c1740-1799; Étienne,
Emmanuel, Guillaume)
Joseph, third son of Paul Hébert,
père and Marguerite-Josèphe Melanson, born at
Grand-Pré in c1740, came to
Louisiana in 1767 with his wife Anne Landry, whom he had married
probably in Maryland. Joseph died at St.-Gabriel in April 1799; the
St.-Gabriel priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph was age 50 when he died; he was closer to 59. He and his wife had daughters but no
sons. Their daughters married into the Babin, Blanchard,
and LeBlanc families, so the blood of this line endured.
Descendants of Ignace HÉBERT
le jeune
(1747-1790; Étienne,
Emmanuel, Guillaume)
Ignace le jeune, fourth son of Paul Hébert,
père and Marguerite-Josèphe Melanson, born at
Grand-Pré in September 1747, came to
Louisiana from Maryland in 1767 with his parents and siblings. He married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine,
daughter of fellow Acadians Bonaventure Foret and Claire
Rivet, at St.-Gabriel in November 1781.
Ignace died at St.-Gabriel in December 1790, age 43.
His three sons do not seem to have created families of their
own, so this line of the family may not have survived in the Bayou State.
1
Oldest son Jean-Louis, born
near St.-Gabriel in October 1782, may have died young.
2
Antoine le jeune, born near
St.-Gabriel in October 1784, also may have died young.
3
Youngest son Joseph-Raphaël,
born near St.-Gabriel in January 1788, may have died young.
Descendants of Jean-Baptiste
HÉBERT (c1750-1824;
Étienne, Emmanuel, Guillaume)
Jean-Baptiste, fifth son of Paul Hébert,
père and Marguerite-Josèphe Melanson, born at
Grand-Pré in c1750, came to
Louisiana from Maryland in 1767 with his parents and siblings. He married Marie-Marguerite,
called Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Claude Richard and
Cécile Melançon, at Ascension just below St.-Gabriel in June 1774. They settled
upriver in the St.-Gabriel/Baton Rouge
area. Their daughters married into the Doiron,
Granger, and Hébert families. Jean Baptiste died probably
in West Baton
Rouge Parish in September 1824; the St. Gabriel priest who recorded the burial,
and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Jean
Baptiste "of Baton Rouge" died at "age 73," so this was him.
1
Oldest son Alexis, or Alexandre,
born probably near St.-Gabriel in c1776, married Marguerite,
daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Chiasson and Marguerite
Blanchard, at St.-Gabriel in May 1799.
They settled in what became West Baton Rouge Parish. Their son
Rosémond was born in June 1800, Gilbert
in August 1804, and Raphaël in September 1809.
Their daughters married into the Labauve and Landry families.
One of Alexis's sons settled on the western prairies.
1a
Gilbert married Henriette Céleste or Céleste Henriette, also called Célise, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Labauve
and Henriette Renée Benoit
of Baton Rouge, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in April
1821 and remained on lower Bayou Teche.
1b
Rosémond married cousin Marie Joséphine, called Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean
Baptiste LeBlanc and Rosalie Hébert, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in
January 1822. Their son
Edmond was born near St. Gabriel in January 1823, Rosémond, fils
in November 1824, and Joseph Adrien
in August 1826. Rosémond remarried to Marguerite Apolline or Pauline,
called Pauline, daughter
of Anglo American William Marson, Morson, or Morisson
and his Creole wife Julie Bruneteau of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the
Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in August 1832. They
settled in West Baton Rouge Parish. Their son
François Édouard, called F. Edward, was born in
August 1836, and Joseph Hamlin, perhaps also called J. Omer
and Joseph Omer, in July 1839.
Their daughter married a Gassie first cousin. Rosémond, père
died near Brusly, West Baton Rouge Parish, in January 1849, age 48.
The priest who recorded the burial called him
"representative of this parish," so he evidently served in the state
legislature.
J. Omer, by his father's second
wife, married M. Amanda, called Amanda, daughter of fellow Acadians Hermogène
Babin and Célestine Landry, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in
November 1864.
F. Edward, by his father's second
wife, married Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Marie
Labauve and Henriette Coralie Dupuis, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in
November 1865. Their son François Édouard was born near
Brusly in July 1869.
1c
Raphaël married cousin Marie Odile, called Odile, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon
Landry and Manon Hébert, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in April 1834. They settled in West Baton Rouge
Parish. Their son Urbain Aristide, called Aristide,
was born in May 1835, Raphaël, fils in July 1836, Alexis in
January 1839, Armant in c1841 but died at age 14 years in October
1855, Ignace was born in April 1849 but died at age 14 months in June
1850, Octave was born in September 1850 but died at age 15 1/2 in May
1866, and Benjamin was born in
October 1856. Their daughters married into the Bird and Hébert
families.
Urbain Aristide married
double cousin Anne Amelie, daughter of fellow Acadians Élie Landry
and Henriette Hébert, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in August 1854. Urbain Aristide died near
Brusly in November 1855; the priest who recorded the burial, and who
did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said
that Aristide died at "age 21 years"; he was 20. His
daughter was born a month before he died. Did he have
time to father a son?
2
Jean-Baptiste, fils,
also called Pierre-Jean-Baptiste, born near St.-Gabriel in October 1778, married cousin Marie
Léocade, called Léocade, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand Hébert and
Élisabeth Babin, at St.-Gabriel in July 1801. Jean Baptiste, fils
died near Baton Rouge in December 1805, age 27. His daughters married into the Geoffrey, Heith, and
Laferry families. He and his wife seem to have had no sons, so this line of the
family, except for its blood, probably died with him.
3
Youngest son Valentin, born
near St.-Gabriel in September 1787, married double cousin Marie Élisabeth, Élise, or Héloise, daughter of
fellow Acadians Jean
Baptiste Hébert and Marine Hébert, at Baton Rouge in April 1810.
They settled in what became West Baton Rouge Parish. Their son Jean Dorgeville was born in February
1813, Élias in
November 1815, Valentin, fils in October 1821, Lovinski in November 1822,
Adonis, also called Adamis and Damis in December 1825,
and Oscar William in January 1828. Their daughter married into
the Foret family. At age 43, Valentin remarried to Marie Euphrosine,
daughter of
fellow Acadians Isidore Labauve and Jeanne Granger of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the
Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in April 1831. Their son Léonidas was born
probably in West Baton Rouge Parish in February 1832, Antoine Numa,
called Numa, in January 1834,
and Ulysse near Brusly in July 1839. Their daughters married
into the Aillet and Aucoin families. Valentin died near Brusly in
February 1850, age 62. The priest who recorded the burial
said that Valentin was "President of the Church wardens of St. John the
Baptist Church of West Baton Rouge," which was the church at Brusly.
3a
Lovinski, by his father's first wife,
married Marie Aureline or Adeline, daughter of fellow Acadians Joachim Daigre
and Dartille Dupuy, at
the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in August 1842. Their
son Joseph Albert was born near Brusly in April 1846, and Jean
Baptiste Lovinski in January 1849. Their daughter married a
Kirkland cousin.
3b
Adonis, by his father's first wife,
married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Zéphirin Blanchard
and Élise Lebert, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in March 1851.
3c
Antoine Numa "of West Baton Rouge
Parish," from his father's second wife, married Marie Zéolide, called
Zéolide, daughter of François Gomez and his Acadian wife Adélaïde
Babin, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville
Parish, in February 1854.
They settled near Plaquemine on the west side of the river. Their
son Wallis Hamilton was born in August 1856.
Descendants of Amand HÉBERT
(c1754-1810s; Étienne,
Emmanuel, Guillaume)
Amand, sixth son of Paul Hébert,
père and Marguerite-Josèphe Melanson, born at Grand-Pré in
c1754, was exiled to Maryland as an infant in 1755. He came to
Louisiana from Maryland in 1767 with his parents and siblings and married Marie, daughter of
fellow Acadian Benjamin Boudreaux and Cécile Melanson,
in September 1776; their marriage was recorded at Pointe Coupée. Their daughters married into the Boissac, Landry,
and LeBlanc families. According to one of his descendants,
Amand "was a man of education and seems to have been looked up to by the
inhabitants about him as a sort of Chief and leader. When Louisiana
had been sold by France to the United States (1803) and had applied for
Statehood, Amant Hébert was one of the Members of the Convention
called to frame a Constitution for the new State (1811)." Two of his grandsons
followed in his footsteps and became prominent
men in Louisiana affairs, one of them a governor.
1
Oldest son Thomas-Auguste,
baptized at St.-Gabriel, age unrecorded, in July 1778, may have died young.
2
Joseph-Zacharie, called Zacharie,
baptized at St.-Gabriel, age unrecorded, in January 1780, married first cousin Hélène, daughter of
fellow Acadians Joseph Dupuis, and Anne Hébert, Zacharie's paternal aunt,
at St.-Gabriel in June 1801; Zacharie and Hélène had to secure
a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.
Their son Joseph Eugène was born at St. Gabriel in February 1805, a son, name unrecorded,
died at age 6 months in October
1807, Jérôme died at age 5 weeks in November 1808, Paul Furias
or Turiaf, called Turiaf,
was born in May 1810, François
Forestin or Florestin in January 1816, and Pierre Dorsine in June 1818 but
died at age 3 in September 1821.
Their daughter married into the Boush family. Zacharie may have
died near St. Gabriel in January 1822; if so, he would have been in his
early 40s, not "age 20 or 30 yrs.," as the recording priest insisted.
His one son who created a family of his own settled in Pointe Coupee Parish.
2a
François Forestin married Adeline or Odelice,
daughter of fellow Acadian Zéphirin Daigre and his Creole wife
Marguerite Betancourt, at the St. Gabriel
church, Iberville Parish, in December 1838. They settled near
Plaquemine on the
west bank of the river before moving up to Pointe Coupée Parish, where
few other Acadians settled. Their son Gustave
was born in July 1843, Zacharie Octave in October 1848, Joseph Amilcar
in August 1855, Louis Alfred in December 1857, and Joseph Edgard in February 1862.
Their daughter married into the Bouanchaud family in Pointe
Coupee Parish.
2b
Turiaf died near St. Gabriel,
Iberville Parish, in July 1846, age 36. One wonders if he married.
3
Michel, born near
St.-Gabriel in February 1782, married cousin Marie Élisabeth or Héloise, daughter of
fellow Acadians Amand
Hébert and Anne Élisabeth Babin, at St. Gabriel in April 1806. Their son Michel,
fils was born near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in August 1817, and
Joseph Walsit,
Walsey,
or
Volsy, also called J. Wolsy, J. Volsy, and J. V., in January 1822. Their
daughter married into the Miller family. Michel, père
died near St. Gabriel in April 1823; the priest who recorded the burial said
that Michel was age 48 when he died, but he was 41.
3a
Michel, fils married
Marie Clarisse, called Clarisse, daughter of fellow Acadian Paul Dupuy
and his Creole wife Madeleine Schlatre, at the St.
Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in April 1841. They settled near
Plaquemine on the west side of the river. Their son
Michel Ellet in November 1849, Thomas in April 1853,
Paul Adhemar in May 1856, and Pierre Valière in April 1859
but died at age 1 1/2 in August 1860. Their daughter married into the
Mestayer family.
3b
Joseph Volsy married
Marguerite Nathalie, called Nathalie, daughter of Jean Baptiste Lessard
and his Acadian wife Marie Joséphine LeBlanc, at the St.
Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in June 1846. They settled near Plaquemine on the west bank of the river. Their son Joseph Edwin
was born in August 1851, John David in February 1853,
Michel Volsy in February 1857, Émile Robert in April 1859,
and Félix Lee in May 1864. Their daughter married into the
Schlatre family.
4
Valéry, born near
St.-Gabriel in October 1793, married Marie Clarisse, called Clarisse,
daughter of Irishman Louis Bush and his Anglo wife Hélène
Hamilton, at
the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in May 1815. Their plantation was on the west bank of
the river, five miles below Plaquemine. Their twin sons Jean Louis,
called Louis, and Michel
Amand, called Amand, were born near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in July 1818
but Louis died a few days after his birth, a second Louis
was born in March 1820, Denis Valéry in February 1828 but died at age 11
months in January 1829, Gustave Sébastien was born in April 1835, Charles Oscar,
called Oscar, in October 1836, and
Christophe Valéry in August 1838. According to son Louis, Valéry, a Jacksonian Democrat, "was
a man of some note in the country[,] having occupied positions of trust in
his life such as Parish Treasurer, Member of the Police Jury, Representative
and Senator in the State Senate. He seemed to stand high in the
respect and esteem of his fellow citizens. He was First Lieutenant in
the State Militia at the time of the invasion of Louisiana by the British in
1814, and on account of the absence of the Captain of his Company was in
command of the same [at] the attack on New Orleans. Being posted on
the right bank of the Mississippi River, opposite to the city, he did not
participate in the main battle of the early morning of January 8th [1815].
It was after the war was over that he married." Valéry died in
Iberville Parish in December 1847, age 54; he was buried
in St. Raphaël's Cemetery on the west side of the river. His daughters
married into the
Austin,
Boatner, Haile,
Hébert,
Isbell,
Lauve,
Smith, and Stevens families. His son Louis and one of his sons-in-law, Walter Husted
Stevens of New York, served as brigadier generals in the Confederate
army during the War of 1861-65.
4a
Amand married Doralise,
daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Comeaux and Céleste
Breaux, at the St. Gabriel
church, Iberville Parish, in January 1840. Their son Valéry
Amand was born near St. Gabriel in October 1840, a child, name
unrecorded, perhaps a son, died at age 1 week in October 1843, Ernest was born in September 1845,
and Denis Alfred in June 1848. Amand
died in Iberville Parish in June 1852, age 33.
4b
Louis, the second of the name,
was tutored by live-in teachers on his father's plantation before attending Jefferson College
at Convent,
St. James Parish, with his older double first cousin, Paul Octave.
Louis attended Jefferson College from 1836 to 1840 and was among the first
five graduates. In June 1841, he arrived at the United States Military Academy at West
Point, New York, graduated in June 1845, third in his class, and was
commissioned brevet second lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers. He
reported for duty at New Orleans in the fall of 1845 and served at Fort
Livingston, Barataria Bay, until, compelled by his father's poor health, he
resigned his commission in February 1846 to attend to his family's business.
He married Malvina, daughter of Pierre Mizaël Lambremont and his
Acadian wife Marie Louise Breaux, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in March 1848;
Malvina's father, who died before the wedding, had, like Louis's father, served in
the state legislature. Louis and Malvina's son Ignace Louis was born in Iberville Parish in March 1849, Burton Lambremont in September
1850, and Ellis L., probably Lambremont, in December
1857. Louis fathered no daughters. He was elected to the Louisiana state
Senate in November 1853 and represented the parishes of Iberville and West
Baton Rouge; like his father, Louis was a Democrat. In 1855, Louis's
first cousin, Governor Paul Octave Hébert, appointed him as chief engineer
of Louisiana; reappointed by his cousin's successors, Louis was compelled to
move his family to Baton Rouge. In 1859, he was elected to the new
state Board of Public Works, but the position was abolished by the state
legislature soon after it was created. After a lengthy illness,
Malvina died at the family plantation in August 1860 and was buried at
nearby St. Raphaël Cemetery in Iberville Parish. Louis never
remarried. After his wife's death, he returned to Baton Rouge and was still living
there in 1861. Though opposed to
secession (he had voted for Stephen A. Douglas in November 1860), Louis,
still a colonel of state militia for East Baton Rouge Parish, offered his
services to his native state. Governor Thomas Overton Moore placed him
in command of the Louisiana troops who bloodlessly seized the Baton Rouge
arsenal from Federal forces in early January 1861. In May, Louis
was elected colonel of the 3rd Regiment Louisiana Infantry, which he helped
to raise. He was captured at Pea Ridge, Arkansas, in March 1862.
Exchanged two months later, he was promoted to brigadier general and
commanded a brigade in Price's army in the western theatre of operations.
(Louis's brother-in-law, Walter H. Stevens of New York, West Point
Class of 1848 and husband of his sister Ernestine, also served as a
brigadier general in the Confederate army.) Later in the war, Louis
commanded the heavy artillery at Fort Fisher, near Wilmington, North
Carolina. After the war, he
lived with his sons at Plaisance plantation in Iberville Parish until a New
Orleans bank foreclosed on the property. Now homeless, he moved his
small family to
nearby Plaquemine, where he worked as sub-editor of the Iberville South
newspaper, until it was sold, and then worked as a private teacher on plantations near Bayou Goula and Bayou Jacobs. His son Burton
Lambremont having married in St. Martin Parish in 1870, Louis joined him on
the upper Teche in 1876. Louis again worked as a private teacher, this
time on the plantations of the Widow Valéry Huval and of François
LeBlanc, and at the private schools of former state lieutenant governor
Charles Homère Mouton and of Vincent Barras in St.
Martinville. Louis taught at a new public school in Iberville Parish but
returned to St. Martinville after the school closed. In subsequent
years, he taught also at Plaquemine, Bayou Goula, and New Orleans, but again
returned to St. Martinville, where he continued teaching into his 70s.
Louis died in St. Martin Parish in January 1901, age 80.
He
was buried along the bayou near Breaux Bridge. His
remains, or what were believed to be his remains, were reburied by the local
Sons of Confederate Veterans in St.
Joseph Catholic Cemetery at nearby Cecilia in October 2002.
Burton Lambremont, called
Bruton Louis by the recording priest, married Laure, daughter of fellow
Acadians Louis Balthazar Martin and Julie LeBlanc, at the Breaux Bridge church, St.
Martin Parish, in June 1870.
Ignace Louis, following a long illness and,
according to his father, "when he had acquired an honorable position," died
at New Orleans in April 1873.
Ignace L., as he was called, was age 24 when he passed. He evidently did not marry.
4c
During the War of 1861-65,
Gustave Sébastien served as surgeon in three Louisiana
units that fought in the western theatre of operations--the 3rd Regiment Louisiana Infantry, which older brother Louis
commanded; the 8th Battalion Heavy Artillery; and the 1st Regiment Heavy
Artillery, which his first cousin Paul Octave Hébert commanded.
5
Youngest son Paul le jeune,
born near St.-Gabriel in February 1796, married Marie Eugénie, called
Eugénie, daughter of Scots American Ignace Hamilton and Nancy
Boush, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in November 1817; Eugenie's mother was a Bush.
They settled near Bayou Goula, Iberville Parish, on the west bank of the
river. Their son Paul Octave was born
in December 1818, Ignace in June 1821, Zéphirin in December
1826, Adrien dit Amand in March 1835, and Gustave Adolphe in June
1837 but died at age 1 1/2 in September 1838. Their daughters married
into the Boissac, Hall, Kirk, LeBlanc, Moore, and Sewall or
Sewell families. Paul le jeune, just shy of age 49,
remarried to Lavinia Jane, daughter of Joseph Devince Hamilton and
Margaret Webb, at
the St. Gabriel church in January 1845; Lavinia Jane was a cousin of Paul's
first wife, so they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of affinity
in order to marry. Their son Joseph Amand was born probably
near Bayou Goula in August 1846, and Charles Anay Auguste in July
1850 but died at age 2 in August 1852. Paul le jeune died in
Iberville Parish in May 1852, age 56.
5a
Paul Octave, by his father's first wife, graduated first in his class at
Jefferson College at Convent, St. James Parish, in 1836 at age 18. He also was first in his class at the United
States Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 1840; he was 22 years
old when he graduated. He married Cora Laetitia Wills, daughter of Anglo Americans Thomas C. Vaughn
and Harriet L. Winn, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in August 1842 while on active
duty with the United States Army Corps of Engineers. Their son
Thomas Paul was born in July 1844 and Robert Octave
in October 1846. Paul Octave fought in the Mexican War in 1846-47
and was brevetted colonel for gallantry at Molino del Rey in the campaign
against Mexico City. After he resigned his commission, Paul Octave was
elected governor of Louisiana in 1851, the youngest ever elected to that
office up to that time (he was age 33), and served from January 1852 until
January 1856. From January to March 1861, he was a member of
Louisiana Governor Thomas O. Moore's five-man state Military Board.
During the War of 1861-65, Paul
Octave served as colonel of the 1st Regiment Louisiana Heavy Artillery
and, like his double first cousin Louis, rose to the rank of brigadier general.
Later in the war, Paul
Octave commanded the Department of
Texas, with headquarters at Galveston, and the Subdistrict of North
Louisiana. After the war, he was active in Democratic Party politics.
He died of cancer in New Orleans in August 1880, age 61, and was buried at St. Raphaël Cemetery, near Bayou Goula,
close to his birthplace.
5b
Ignace, by his father's first wife,
married first cousin Marie Malvina, daughter of fellow Acadians Valéry Hébert
and Clarisse Boush, his paternal uncle and aunt, at the St. Gabriel church in March 1845;
one suspects they would have had to secure a dispensation for second degree
of consanguinity in order to marry. Ignace
died in Iberville Parish in April 1849, age 28. Did
he father any sons?
5c
Adrien dit Amand, by his
father's first wife, married Marie Lodoiska, called Lodoiska, daughter of René
Bougère and Joséphine Baugnon of New Orleans, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in
November 1853.
Descendants of Paul HÉBERT, fils
(c1763-1790s;
Étienne, Emmanuel, Guillaume)
Paul, fils, eighth and
youngest son of Paul Hébert,
père and Marguerite-Josèphe Melanson of Minas, born in
Maryland in c1763, came to Louisiana in 1767 with his parents and siblings. He married Marguerite, daughter of
fellow Acadians Joseph Breau and Marie-Josèphe Landry, at Ascension, on the river below St.-Gabriel, in December 1782 and settled at
St.-Gabriel. Their daughters married into the Daigre
and Landry families. Paul died by January 1802, when he was
recorded as deceased in a daughter's marriage record; he would have been in
his late 30s that year.
1
Oldest son Éloi or Élie
died near St.-Gabriel, age 8 months, in June 1787.
2
Joseph-Éloi or -Élie,
called Éloi, born near St.-Gabriel in
November 1790, married cousin Angélique or Angèle, daughter of fellow
Acadians Joseph Hébert and Anne Marie Babin, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in January 1814. Their
son Valentin was born near St. Gabriel in December 1817, Éloi,
fils in January 1821, and a child, name unrecorded, perhaps a son, died at age 18 months in
November 1824. Their daughters married into the Blanchard, Gallaugher and Melançon families.
Éloi, père died near St. Gabriel in April 1838, age 47.
2a
Valentin married Madeleine
Adeline, daughter of fellow Acadians Désiré LeBlanc and Phelonise
Dugas, at the
bride's home in Ascension Parish in February 1840; the marriage was
recorded by the Donaldsonville priest. Their son Faustin
was born in Ascension Parish in February 1841 but died the following
June, Valentin, fils was born in May 1842, Théodore
in January 1845, Joseph Octave in July 1848, and Hubert
Gustave, called Gustave, in May 1855 but died at age 11
months in April 1856. Valentin, père may have died in Ascension Parish
in October 1855; the Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial, and
who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife,
said that Valentin died at "age 30 years"; this Valentin would have been
age 37.
During the War of 1861-65,
Valentin, fils may have served in the famous Donaldsonville
Artillery. If this was him, he enlisted at Donaldsonville in
September 1861, age 19. He followed his unit to Virginia and was
reported present through the early summer of 1862 and would have seen
action on the Virginia Peninsula at Yorktown and Williamsburg, in the
Battle of Seven Pines, and during General R. E. Lee's Seven Days'
campaign. Later that summer, however, while his unit was
maneuvering in central Virginia during the Second Manassas Campaign,
Valentin was reported sick at one of the hospitals in Richmond, where he
died in mid-August, age 20.
2b
Éloi, fils married
Marie Coralie, called Coralie, daughter of fellow Acadians Laurent Daigre
and Céleste Trahan, at the
St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in January 1849. Their son
Octave was born in Iberville Parish in October 1849, and
Gustave in April 1853.
3
Joseph Julien, called
Julien, born near St.-Gabriel in October 1792, died near St. Gabriel,
Iberville Parish, in January 1831. The priest who recorded the burial,
and who did not mention a wife,
said that Joseph Julian died at "age 34 yrs."; he was 38.
He probably did not marry.
4
Youngest son Joseph, born
near St.-Gabriel in January
1794, married Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Allain and
Marguerite Babin, at
the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in February 1816. Did they
have any children?
Charles
HÉBERT (c1752-?;
Étienne, Emmanuel, Jacques)
Charles, sole surviving son of Amand Hébert
and Geneviève Babin, born at Grand-Pré in c1752, came to Louisiana from Maryland
in 1767 with his widowed
mother and sisters. His father died on the voyage from Baltimore to
New Orleans. Charles may not have married. If so, except
for its blood, his family line died with him.
Jean-Baptiste
HÉBERT (c1753-?;
Étienne, Emmanuel, Guillaume)
Jean-Baptiste, only surviving
son of Ignace Hébert and his first wife Marie LeBlanc, born
probably at Grand-Pré in c1753, came to Louisiana from Maryland in 1767 with
his widowed father and a sister. His father remarried in Louisiana but
had no more children, so Jean-Baptiste was his only male heir. When
Spanish officials counted Jean-Baptiste at St.-Gabriel in March 1777 with
his father and stepmother, the census taker noted that Jean-Baptiste was age 18, but he probably was 23. Jean-Baptiste may have devoted his
life to taking care of his elderly father and stepmother and may not have
married, ending this line of the family.
~
The arrival date of an Acadian Hébert
who settled on the river during the 1770s is difficult to determine:
Descendants of Prosper-Sébastien
HÉBERT (c1748-1780s;
Antoine, Jean, Joseph)
Prosper-Sébastien, called
Sébastien and Jacques-Prosper, son of Pierre Hébert
and his first wife Isabelle Cormier, born probably at Chignecto
in c1748,
followed his family into exile and into a prison compound in Nova
Scotia. Still in his teens, he may have followed other exiles from
Halifax to Louisiana via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue in 1765. If
so, he likely would have settled in the established Acadian community of
Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans, but Louisiana records do not
reveal his presence in the Spanish colony until April 1773,
when he married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Dupuis
and Anne Richard, at St.-Jacques; their marriage also was
recorded at nearby Ascension in May 1773. In April 1777, Prosper and
Marie held seven arpents on the left, or east, bank of the river at
Ascension and owned a single slave, but they had no children, so their
oldest son must have died in childhood. They had more sons in the
decades that followed, most of whom created families of their own.
Their daughter married an Hébert
cousin. Prosper-Sébastien died by January 1787, when his wife
remarried at St.-Gabriel, just upriver from Ascension. Three of his five sons married, but, except for the blood, all
of their lines seem to have died out.
1
Oldest son Joseph, born at Ascension
in April 1774, probably died young.
2
Pierre-Paul, also called
Pierre-Prosper, baptized at St.-Jacques,
age unrecorded,
in July 1777, married Constance, daughter of French Creole Charles Robeau
and Catherine Novack and widow of Pierre Duplessis, at Ascension in November 1806.
Their daughter married into the Cambre and Fitzgerald families. Pierre died in
Ascension Parish in March 1830, age 53. Evidently he and
his wife had no sons, at least none who appear in local church records, so
this line of the family, except for its blood, may have died with him.
3
Michel-Cyprien, baptized,
age unrecorded, at
St.-Jacques in September 1779, married Madeleine-Anastasie,
called Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Firmin Babin and
Bibianne Breaux, at
Ascension in February 1799. They settled in the "Island
District." Their son Hippolyte Prosper was born near St.
Gabriel in January 1807 but died at age 6 in February 1813. Their
daughters married into the Hébert and Henderson families.
If he and his wife had only the one son, this line of the family, except for its
blood, did not survive.
4
Jacques-Prosper, also
called Michel, born probably at Ascension in the early 1780s, married Marie-Victoire,
called Victoire, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Breaux and
Marie-Perpétué Landry, at St.-Gabriel in February
1802. Their son Joseph-Michel was born at Ascension in
March 1803, and Jacques Marcellin in October 1807 but died at age 4
in October 1811.
Joseph Michel married
Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Landry and Renée
Godin, at the St.
Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in August 1831. Joseph died near
St. Gabriel in July 1833, age 30. His line of
the family probably died with him.
5
Youngest son Jacques-Firmin, born at
Ascension in March 1783, died at Ascension in January 1813, age 29, and probably did not marry.
~
More Héberts came to Louisiana on every one of the Seven Ships from France in the summer and
fall of 1785. There were more Héberts on the rolls of
that expedition, in fact, than any other family
These were Héberts from Minas whom the British had exiled to
Virginia in the fall of 1755, had deported to England the following year,
and repatriated to France in 1763; and also Héberts from Pigiguit,
Cobeguit, and Île St.-Jean whom the British had deported from the Maritime
islands directly to France in 1758. After enduring the indignities
of life in the mother country for a quarter of a century, they took up the
Spanish government's offer to start a new life in Louisiana. Some of
them chose to settle on the river, but not all of them remained there:
François Hébert of Cobeguit, age 72, a
widower, crossed on Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships, which
reached New Orleans in July. He followed the majority of the
passengers from his ship to Manchac, south of Baton Rouge. François died
there in May 1787, less than two years after he reached the
colony.
Ursule Hébert, age 43, François's
daughter, crossed on Le Bon Papa with husband Alexandre Doiron
and six children, ages 21 to 2. They also settled at Manchac.
Tarsille or Thérèse Hébert,
age 38, another of François's daughters, crossed on Le Bon Papa with
husband Jean LeBlanc and a daughter, age 1 1/2. They also went
to Manchac.
Anne Hébert, age 49, crossed
on Le Bon Papa with husband Joseph dit Jambo
LeBlanc and four children, ages 19 to 14. They went to
Manchac.
Amable Hébert, age 43, a widower,
crossed on Le Bon Papa with four children--Marie-Modeste, age 22,
Marie-Geneviève, age 17, Élisabeth or Isabelle, age 14, and André, age 9--and
his stepmother, Englishwoman Esther Courtney, age 60. They,
too, went to Manchac. Two of his
daughters married into the Duplantre and Landry
families and remained on the river. In the late 1780s or early 1790s,
Amable, his son, and his middle daughter moved from Manchac to upper Bayou
Lafourche. Amable did not remarry. He died at St. Gabriel on the
river in January 1816; the priest who recorded the burial said that Amable was age 80
when he died, but he probably was closer to 74.
Brigitte-Josèphe Hébert, age 19,
Amable's married daughter, crossed on Le Bon Papa with husband
Charles-Jean LeBlanc, age 23, and no children. They followed
her father to upper Bayou Lafourche by the early 1790s. She and her
family were living in New Orleans later in the decade, but they, or at least
she, must have moved downriver during the antebellum period. Brigitte
died in Iberville Parish in October 1844; the St. Gabriel priest who
recorded her burial, and who called her Bergique Joséphine, said that she
died at "age 86 yrs." and was buried in St. Raphaël cemetery on
the west bank of the river; she was 79.
.
Anne Benoit, age 48, widow of Pierre and Jean-Baptiste
Hébert, crossed on Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships,
which reached New Orleans in August. With her was her 13-year-old son
Jean-Charles by her second Hébert husband. They remained at Manchac.
Jean-Pierre Hébert, age 32, Anne
Benoit's son by her first husband, Jean-Pierre's second
wife Anne-Dorothée Doiron, age 24, and their infant daughter
Anne-Marguerite, crossed on Le Beaumont with his mother and
half-brother and also settled at Manchac, where
more children were born to them.
.
Ursule Hébert, age 69, crossed
on La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships, which reached
New Orleans in December. With her was husband Joseph Melanson,
age 64.
Joseph Hébert, age 50, crossed on La Ville d'Archangel
with second wife
Marguerite Daigre, age 45, and five children--Marie-Josèphe, age 18,
Pierre-Jean, age 17, Thérèse-Anne, age 12, infant son Jean-Pierre, and
Joseph's stepdaughter Marguerite-Marie Richard, age 16. After a
brief respite in the city, they followed the majority of the passengers from
their ship to the new Acadian community of Bayou des Écores, in the New
Feliciana District north of Baton
Rouge. Most, if not all, of them abandoned the
community by the 1790s and moved on to other river
settlements or to upper Bayou Lafourche. Joseph and Marguerite remained on the
river.
Pierre Hébert, age 49, crossed on La Ville d'Archangel with second wife
Susanne Pitre, age 55, and seven children--Pierre's unmarried
stepdaughter Marguerite-Josèphe Henry, age 35, Marie-Josèphe, age 24,
Pierre-Jean, age 22, François-Étienne, age 18, Joseph-Yves, age 15,
Mathurin-Pierre-François, age 13, and
Jean-Baptiste-Olivier, age 11. Son François-Étienne married a fellow
passenger at New Orleans soon after they reached the colony and followed the
family to Bayou des Écores. Daughter Marie-Josèphe married into the Aucoin
family. Pierre, Susanne, and their daughter may have remained on the
river, but Pierre's sons settled on the upper Lafourche.
Anne Hébert, age 48, crossed
on La Ville d'Archangel with her second husband Joseph Aucoin,
age 64, and six children, ages 21 to infant. They, too, went to
Bayou des Écores.
Françoise Hébert, age 47,
crossed on La Ville d'Archangel with husband Charles Henry,
age 49, and three chldren, ages 15 to 9. They went to Bayou des
Écores.
Élisabeth or Isabelle Hébert,
age 45, crossed on La Ville d'Archangel with husband Michel
Aucoin, age 53, and 10 children, ages 23 to 4. They went to
Bayou des Écores.
Joseph Hébert, age 41, crossed on La Ville d'Archangel with wife Marie-Madeleine Aucoin, age 44, and two daughters--Marie-Madeleine, age
17, and Victoire-Geneviève, age 14. They probably remained on the river.
François Hébert, age unrecorded (he may
have been age 40), evidently crossed on La Ville d'Archangel alone. He died at Baton Rouge in June 1801, age 56. The priest who recorded
his burial did not give his parents' names nor mention a
wife.
.
Ambroise Hébert, age 54, wife
Félicité Lejeune, age 42, their daughter Gertrude-Anne, age 16, and
niece Anne-Angélique Gautrot, age 21, crossed on La Caroline,
the last of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in December.
They went to the Isleño settlement of
Nueva Gálvez, also called San Bernardo, in present-day St. Bernard
Parish, on the river below New Orleans. Gertrude-Anne married
into the Tardit family.
Marie Hébert,
age 36, crossed on La Caroline with husband Louis
Lamoureux dit Rochefort, age 44, and two children, ages
20 and 10. They were among the few Acadians from France who chose to
settle at St.-Jacques. Marie remarried twice in the colony, at
St.-Jacques and New Orleans, into the Bruno and
Guilbert families.
.
By the mid-1790s, many of the Héberts
from France who had gone to river communities had moved on to upper Bayou Lafourche,
but some remained on the river and settled among their
many cousins already there:
Descendants of Ambroise
HÉBERT (c1730-1780s; Antoine,
Jean, Jean, fils)
Ambroise le jeune, second son of
Charles Hébert l'aîné and his first wife Marie-Marguerite Landry, born probably at Cobeguit in c1730, followed his
family to Pointe-à-la-Jeunesse, Île Royale. He married Félicité, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean
Lejeune and Françoise Guédry of Minas, probably on the
island in c1755. Félicité gave Ambroise le jeune two daughters in
1755 and 1757. The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in late
1758; happily, they, too, did not cross on the second Duke William
with his parents and
unmarried siblings. Unhappily, although Ambroise le jeune and Félicité survived the
crossing, their daughters did not. The now-childless couple settled at Ploubalay
southwest of St.-Malo and moved to nearby Pleslin soon afterwards. Between 1760 and 1774, Félicité gave Ambroise 10 more
children at Ploubalay and Pleslin, six sons and four daughters. Five of the children,
three sons and two daughters, died young. Ambroise le jeune took his family to
Poitou in 1773. Félicité gave him another daughter--their thirteenth
child--at Châtellerault in 1775. In March 1776, the family retreated with
other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes. One of their sons died
there. Between 1777 and 1781, Félicité gave Ambroise le jeune three more children,
the last one their sixteenth, at nearby
Chantenay, but these children also died young. Ambroise
le jeune and his family emigrated to Louisiana in 1785. They were supposed to have taken
the fifth ship, L'Amitié,
but crossed instead on the last of the Seven
Ships. Astonishly, Ambroise le jeune and Félicité took
with them only one of their children, 16-year-old daughter Gertrude-Anne, to the
Spanish colony. They
had lost two children on the crossing from the Maritimes to France, buried four children at
St.-Malo and four more at Nantes--10 in all. Five of their other children,
if they were still alive, would have been ages 25, 24, 22, 11, and 10 in 1785.
Perhaps the three older children chose to remain in France. One suspects the
two younger children, like so many of the others, had not survived childhood. When Ambroise
le jeune,
Félciité, and Gertrude, accompanied by a 20-year-old Gautrot
niece, reached New Orleans, they chose to settle in the Isleño community
of San Bernardo on the river below the city, where few of their fellow
Acadians had gone. Ambroise le jeune died there in the late 1780s, in his late 50s.
His long-suffering widow Félicité remarried to a Salier
probably at New Orleans, where she died in September 1792, in her early 50s.
Daughter Gertrude married into the Tardit
family, so the blood of this remarkable family endured.
Descendants of Joseph HÉBERT
(c1744-?; Antoine,
Jean, Jean, fils)
Joseph, son of François Hébert
and Élisabeth or Isabelle Bourg of Cobeguit, born probably at Cobeguit in c1744,
came to Louisiana aboard La
Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships, in 1785
with wife Marie-Madeleine Aucoin
and two teenaged daughters; Marie-Madeleine's mother was an Hébert,
so she and Joseph were cousins. They followed most of their
fellow passengers to Bayou des Écores, north of Baton Rouge. Joseph does not
seem to have fathered any sons, so this line of the family, except perhaps
for its blood, died with him.
François
HÉBERT (1745?-1801?; ?)
François Hébert, born in
Acadia perhaps in 1745, came to Louisiana alone aboard La Ville d'Archangel,
the sixth of the Seven Ships, in 1785 perhaps as a stowaway. He
followed most of his fellow passengers to Bayou des Écores, north of
Baton Rouge, and may have been the François Hébert who died near
Baton Rouge in June 1801, age 56. The priest who recorded the burial did not
give Francois's parents' names or mention a wife.
Descendants of Jean-Pierre
HÉBERT (c1754-?;
Antoine, Jean, René dit Groc, Jean)
Jean-Pierre, only son of Pierre Hébert
and Anne Benoit, born probably at
Grande-Anse, Île St.-Jean, in c1754, followed his parents to St.-Malo,
France. After his father's death at nearby Châteauneuf, he followed
his mother to the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer and was age 16 when his mother remarried there
to another Hébert. Jean-Pierre likely
followed them to La Rochelle, Belle-Île-en-Mer, Rochefort,
and Poitou. When most of the Poitou Acadians retreated
to the port city of Nantes in late 1775 and early 1776,
Jean-Pierre remained in Poitou with his mother, stepfather, and
their family. His stepfather died at Cenan, Poitou, in June 1778, and his
twice-widowed mother evidently remained in the province. At age 25,
Jean-Pierre married Marguerite, daughter fellow Acadians Pierre
Moulaison and Marie-Josèphe Doucet, in January 1779 at
Cenan. Marguerite died the following October, age 30, perhaps from the
rigors of childbirth. Jean-Pierre, his mother, and his
Hébert half-brother did not remain in Poitou. By 1784, they had joined
other Acadian exiles at Paimboeuf, the lower port of Nantes, where, at age 30,
Jean-Pierre remarried to Anne-Dorothée, 22-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians
Jean Doiron and Anne Thibodeau, in May 1784; Anne-Dorothée was
a native of St.-Énogat near St.-Malo. She gave Jean-Pierre a daughter at Paimboeuf
in January 1785. Later that year, Jean-Pierre, Anne-Dorothée, and their
infant daughter, along with his mother and her other Hébert
son, emigrated to Louisiana
aboard aboard Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships, in 1785. They
followed most of their fellow passengers to Manchac on the river south of Baton
Rouge, where Anne-Dorothée gave Jean-Pierre more children.
Their daughters married into the Breaux, Dupuis,
and Lopez families on the river. Three of Jean-Pierre's
seven sons married and settled in what became Iberville
Parish.
1
Oldest son Jean-Baptiste,
by his father's second wife, born at Manchac in December 1786, married cousin Anne Mélanie, called
Mélanie, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Landry and Modeste
Hébert, at the St.
Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in September 1808. Their son Eugène was born near St. Gabriel in
January 1814, Jean Baptiste, fils in December 1816, Valéry
in December 1818, and Wassain Joseph in March 1821. Their
daughters married into the Hébert
and Rivet families. Jean-Baptiste moved his family from
Iberville to St. Landry Parish in the 1820s.
2
Antoine-Anne, by his
father's second wife, born at
Manchac in January 1789, may have died young.
3
Isaac, by his father's
second wife, born at Manchac in
June 1792, died at age 13 in November 1805.
4
Paul-Auguste or -Augustin,
also called
Jean-Paul, from his father's second wife, born probably at Manchac in the late 1790s, married Marie
Carmelite Telcide, called Carmelite, daughter of Michel Gareuil and
Helen Lopez, at the St.
Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in February 1820. Their son Jean
Timoléon was born near St. Gabriel in November 1820, a child, perhaps a
son, name unrecorded, died at birth in October 1823, Magloire was
born in October 1824, Louis Adolphe, called Adolphe, in January 1827, Joseph in
August 1829, Justin Philios in February 1832, and Alexandre Oduill
in February 1834. Their daughter married into the Babin
family.
4a
Adolphe married Marie Eugénie,
called Eugénie, daughter of fellow Acadians Maximilien LeBlanc
and Marie Hélène Allain, at the St. Gabriel
church, Iberville Parish, in April 1849. Their son Paul
Demosthènes was born in Iberville Parish in October 1851,
Ignace in July 1853, Marc Adolphe in May 1858, Georges
Maximilien in October 1862, and son A.,
age unrecorded, perhaps Marc Adolphe, died in September 1866.
Their daughter married an Hébert cousin. Adolphe remarried to
Marie Amanda, called Amanda, daughter of Auguste Christin or
Christen and his Acadian wife Séraphine Babin, at
the St. Gabriel church in January 1867.
4b
Joseph married Marie Adélaïde
or Adèle,
daughter of fellow Acadians Amable LeBlanc and Adélaïde
LeBlanc, at the Plaquemine
church, Iberville Parish, in July 1855. Their son Joseph Calvin
was born in Iberville Parish in August 1856 but died the following
January, Joseph Paul was born in April 1858, Gabriel
Charles in October 1863, and André Louis in May 1869.
4c
Alexandre Oduill married
Apolline, called Pauline, daughter of Francis Gomez and his
Acadiaan wife Pauline Comeaux, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in December 1864.
5
Joseph-Raphaël, by his
father's second wife, born at
Manchac in November 1800, may have died young.
6
Pierre, by his father's
second wife, born at Manchac in
November 1803, died at age 2 in August 1805.
7
Youngest son Hilaire, by
his father's second wife, born
at Manchac in April 1805, married cousin Marie Clarisse, daughter of fellow
Acadians Jean Marie Templet and Marie Hébert of West
Baton Rouge Parish, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton
Rouge Parish, in May 1826. Their
son Jean Baptiste Amédée, called Amédée, was born near Baton Rouge in December 1832,
and
Sosthène in October 1835. Their daughters married into the Hébert
and Penn families.
7a
Sosthène married cousin Julida
or Julie,
daughter of fellow Acadians Célestin Templet and Hortense
Babin, at the Brusly
church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in August 1855; they had to secure a
dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.
Their son Anatole Edgard was born near Brusly in August 1856, George Arnaud in April 1858,
and Joseph Alphonse in April 1860.
7b
Amédée married cousin
Marguerite Zulma,
called Zulma and also Jeanne, daughter of fellow Acadians Élie Hébert
and Gertrude Babin, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge
Parish, in June 1857; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree
of consanguinity in order to marry. Their son Joseph Ozémé
was born near Brusly in May 1858, Alexis in October 1861,
Armand Élie in December 1867, and Vincent Raymond in January
1870.
Descendants of Jean-Charles
HÉBERT (1772-1812; Étienne, Jean, Jean,
fils)
Jean-Charles, second son of Jean-Baptiste Hébert
and his second wife Anne Benoit and half-brother of
Pierre-Pierre, was born at Locmaria, Belle-Île-en-Mer, France, in January 1772.
Jean-Charles followed his parents to Rochefort and Paimboeuf and his widowed mother to
Louisiana aboard Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships, in 1785. They followed the majority of their fellow passengers to
Manchac below Baton Rouge, where, at age 31, Jean-Charles married Marie-Françoise, daughter of fellow
Acadians Augustin Landry and Anne-Marie Forest,
in May 1803. She gave him a son. At age 37, Jean-Charles remarried to Martine,
24-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians
Honoré Braud and Élisabeth LeBlanc, at Manchac
in May 1809; Martine, named for her godfather, Spanish intendente
Martin Navarro, had been born aboard one of the Seven Ships
when her family crossed from France. She gave Jean-Charles a daughter.
He died at St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in October 1812, age 40. Martine
remarried to an Aucoin. Jean-Charles's daughter married
into the Melançon family, so the blood of his line survived
in the Bayou State.
Joseph Joachim, by his
father's first wife, born at Manchac in March 1804, died at age 7 months the
following December.
Descendants of Pierre-Jean
HÉBERT (1768-1807;
Antoine, Jean, Jean, fils, Joseph)
Pierre-Jean, son of Joseph Hébert,
fils and
his first wife Françoise Comeau, born at St.-Servan, France, near St.-Malo, in June
1768, came to Louisiana with his
father, stepmother, and siblings aboard La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven
Ships, in 1785 and followed them to Bayou des Écores, north of Baton Rouge, where
Pierre-Jean married Marguerite-Olive, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Longuépée
and Marie-Françoise Bourg,
in November 1791. Marguerite also had come to Louisiana aboard La Ville
d'Archangel. After the Acadians abandoned Bayou des Écores in the
late 1780s and early 1790s, Pierre-Jean and Marguerite settled near
St.-Gabriel on the river below Baton Rouge. Pierre-Jean, called
Jean-Pierre by the priest who recorded his burial, died near St. Gabriel in
May 1807, age 39.
1
Oldest son Pierre-Cyrille, called
Cyrille, baptized at Baton
Rouge, age unrecorded, in April 1794, married Marie Constance, called
Constance, daughter of fellow Acadian
Jean Athanase Landry and his Creole wife Marie-Anne-Barbe
Moreau, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in
April or August 1816. Their son Cyrille, fils died in Ascension Parish, age 2 months, in
February or March 1818, Pierre Timoléon, called Timoléon, was born near St. Gabriel,
Iberville Parish, in October 1821, and Pierre Valéry, a twin, in
December 1825 but died at age 6 months in June 1826. Pierre Cyrille
remarried to Marie Hélène, called Hélène, daughter of fellow Acadian Jacques
Servais Guidry
and Élisabeth/Isabelle Babin
and widow of Sébastien Frederick and his youngest brother Urbin, at
the St. Gabriel church in November 1838; they had to secure a dispensation
for first degree of affinity in order to marry. Their daughter married
into the Chebert family. Pierre Cyrille died
near St. Gabriel in December 1840; the priest who recorded the burial, and
who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said
that Pierre Cyrille died at "age 40 yrs.," but he may have been a few
years older than that.
Pierre Timoléon, by his father's first wife, married
cousin Marie Gertrude, called Gertrude, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Raphaël Landry
and his Creole wife Joséphine Couillard, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in June 1842. Their
son Pierre Hermogène, called Hermogène, was born near St. Gabriel in January 1846.
Hermogène married Dilia, daughter of
fellow Acadians Valentin Babin and Sérazine Breaux, at the Gonzales church,
Ascension Parish, in January 1870.
2
Édouard, born near St.-Gabriel in January 1795, died at
Ascension in June 1806, age 11.
3
Zénon, born near St.-Gabriel in June 1800,
married Marie Louise, called Louise, daughter of French Creole Guillaume Germain
Dubeau, Dubois, or Dubourg
and his Acadian wife Esther LeBlanc and widow of Célestin Morales, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville
Parish, in August 1824; Marie Louise's mother was a LeBlanc.
Their son Louis Zénon was born near St. Gabriel in May 1831, Guillaume
in October 1834, and a newborn infant, name unrecorded, perhaps a son,
died in August 1839. Zénon died near St. Gabriel in May 1841; the
priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents'
names or mention a wife, said that Zénon died at "age 37-40 yrs."; he
was a month shy of 41.
4
Youngest son Landry-Urbin, called
Urbin, born near St.-Gabriel in May 1802, married Marie Hélène, called
Hélène, daughter of
fellow Acadians Jacques Servais Guidry and Élisabeth/Isabelle Babin
and widow of Sébastien Frederick,
at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in February 1834. Urbin
died by November 1838, when his widow remarried to his oldest brother
Cyrille. Did Urbin father any children?
Jean-Pierre
HÉBERT (1785-?;
Antoine, Jean, Jean, fils, Joseph)
Jean-Pierre, son of Joseph Hébert,
fils
and his second wife Marguerite Daigle, and younger half-brother of
Pierre-Jean, was born probably at St.-Malo, France, in February 1785.
He came to Louisiana with his parents and siblings aboard La
Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships, in
1785 and followed them to
Bayou des Écores, north of Baton Rouge. Jean-Pierre may have died
young.
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The arrival date of an Hébert
who settled on the river during the late 1780s is difficult to determine:
Descendants of Paul-Hippolyte HÉBERT
(c1761-?; Antoine,
Jean, René dit Groc)
Paul-Hippolyte, called
Hippolyte, son of Amand Hébert and
Françoise Gautrot of Grand-Pré, was born probably in Connecticut in
c1761. After the war with Britain finally ended, his parents settled at La-Prairie-de-la-Magdeleine,
on the St. Lawrence River above Québec, where Hippolyte was baptized in September
1768, but he did not remain there. He came to Louisiana via St.-Louis, Missouri, by
February 1790, when he married Anne-Marie, called Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Michel
and his second wife Marie Léger of St.-Jacques, at St.-Jacques. He was one of the few Acadians who came to Louisiana
via the upper Mississippi. Their daughters married into the Desormeaux
and Pertuit families. Neither of his sons seems to have
married, so this line of the family, except for its blood, did not survive
in the Bayou State.
1
Older son Paul-Eugène, born
at St.-Jacques in December 1799, died near Convent, St. James Parish, in
February 1828. The priest who recorded his burial said that Paul was
"about 26 yrs." old when he died, but he was 28. He probably did not
marry.
2
A younger son, name unrecorded,
"recently born," was buried at St-Jacques in September 1802.
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In a
reversal of the usual Acadian settlement pattern, Héberts
from upper Bayou Lafourche settled on the river, in West Baton Rouge and
Ascension parishes, during the antebellum period:
Descendants of Cromace HÉBERT
(1797-1858; Antoine,
Jean, Jean, fils, Ambroise)
Cromace, Crama, Cramas, or Cronias, third son of
Isaac Hébert and Marie-Marguerite Daigle, baptized at Assumption,
age unrecorded,
in August 1797, married cousin Marguerite Uranie, called Uranie, daughter of fellow
Acadian Jean Baptiste Doiron and Angèle Hébert, of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the Baton
Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in February 1831. They settled in West Baton Rouge
Parish. Their daughter married into the Lopez family.
Cromace remarried to cousin Hortense, daughter of fellow Acadians
Joseph Babin and Marie Hébert, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in
August 1842. Their
daughters married into the Buquoi and Templet families. Cromace died near
Brusly in October 1858; the priest who recorded the burial, and who did not
give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Cromas,
as he called him, died at "age 62 years"; Cromace was 61.
1
Oldest son Jean Baptiste Oscar,
by his father's first wife, born probably in West Baton Rouge Parish in
January 1835, if he survived childhood did not marry by 1870.
2
Joseph Prudent, by his
father's first wife, born probably in West Baton Rouge Parish in March 1836,
if he survived childhood, did not marry by 1870.
3
Youngest son Charles Cromace, by his
father's first wife, born near Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, in October 1839, married
Olesida, daughter of fellow Acadians Marcellin Templet and Clementine
Guidry, at the Brusly
church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in September 1866.
Descendants of Jean-Arsène
HÉBERT (1798-1859?;
Antoine, Jean, Jean, fils, Pierre, Jean-Baptiste)
Jean-Arsène, called
Arsène, elder son of Jean-Olivier-Marie Hébert and Nathalie-Marie Aucoin, born at
Assumption in July 1798, married Marguerite Cécile, daughter of Louis
Judice and his Acadian wife Marie Henriette Rassicot,
at the Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, in January 1820; Marguerite's father had been the
commandant of the Ascension District during the late colonial period.
Arsène and Marguerite's daughter married into
the Boudreaux family. Arsène remarried to Rosalie Euphrosine or
Euphrasie,
perhaps also called Émelie R., daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Gaudin and
Rosalie Dugas and widow of Pierre
Duval Babin, at the
Donaldsonville church in October 1837. Their daughters married into the
Babin, Hébert, LeBlanc, and Melançon
families. Arsène may have died in Ascension Parish in September 1859;
the Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Arsènes, as he
called him, died at "age 64 years"; Jean Arsène would have been
age 61.
1
Oldest son Pierre Arsène,
by his father's first wife, born in Ascension Parish in October 1820, died at age 4
in October 1824.
2
Jean Baptiste, by his
father's first wife, born in Ascension Parish in March 1822, married Marie Albina, Alsina, Alzina,
or Arcina, daughter of fellow
Acadians Alexandre Landry and Juliette Melançon, at the Donalsonville church, Ascension
Parish, in May 1843. They settled near Gonzales. Their son Gérard was born in October 1849, Joseph Second in November 1853, François Ercide
in October 1855, Clément Arsène in February 1860, and Séverin
in November 1864. Their daughter married into the Babin
family.
3
Jean, by his
father's first wife, baptized at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension
Parish, age 1 1/2 months, in January 1826, if he survived childhood, did not
marry by 1870.
4
Louis
Arsène, called Arsène, from his father's first wife, born in Ascension
Parish in May 1829, likely married fellow Acadian Marie Mathilde, called
Mathilde, Gaudin in Ascension
Parish by the early 1850s. They settled near Gonzales. Their son Valaintine
was born in February 1853, Vincent Adam in January 1859, and
François Arsène in September 1864. Arsène remarried to Marie Aimée, called Aimée, daughter of fellow Acadian Hippolyte
Breaux, at the Gonzales church, Ascension Parish, in June 1866.
5
Joseph Olivier, by his
father's first wife, born in Ascension Parish in February 1831, married Marie Claire,
daughter of fellow Acadians Olésime Landry and Madeleine
Babin, at the Donaldsonville
church, Ascension Parish, in August 1852.
6
Pierre Sosthène, called Sosthène,
from his father's first wife, born in Ascension Parish in October 1832, died at age
14 months in December 1833.
7
Léonard Bienvenu, called
Bienvenu, from his
father's second wife, born in Ascension Parish in November 1840, married cousin
and fellow Acadian Marie Angelina Dugas at the Donaldsonville church,
Ascension Parish, in April 1861; they had to secure a dispensation for
fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry.
Their son Joseph Oscar, called Oscar, was born in
Ascension Parish in February 1866 but died the following September.
8
Félicien C., by his
father's second wife, perhaps Jean Arsène's youngest son, may have served in the Donaldsonville
Artillery during the War of 1861-65.
Felician, as the Confederate records call him, while a resident of
Donaldsonville, enlisted in the battery there in September 1861. He
followed his unit to Virginia and was reported present on company rolls
until the late summer and early fall of 1863, when he was reported absent on
wounded furlough in Louisiana. He likely had been wounded at
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in July 1863 but not severely enough to have been
left on the battlefield. He remained in Louisiana for the rest of the
war, becoming absent without leave in November 1863. He signed an
end-of-war parole at Natchitoches in June 1865, two months after his unit
surrendered with Lee's army at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia.
Félicien C. married first cousin Emma M., daughter of
fellow Acadians Jérôme Sylvanie Gaudin and Lise Dugas,
his maternal uncle and aunt, at the Donaldsonville
church, Ascension Parish, in November 1867; they had to secure a
dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.
Their son Sulpice Félicien was born in Ascension Parish in January
1870.
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Other HÉBERTs on the River
Area church and civil records make
it difficult to link many Héberts on the river with known Acadian
lines of the family there. The priests at St. Gabriel, Baton Rouge,
Brusly, and Donaldsonville were especially negligent in their recordkeeping.
One suspects that some of the Héberts who lived on the river during
the post-war period were Afro Creoles once owned by Acadian
Héberts:
Gabriel Hébert, born near
Baton Rouge in c1785, married French Creole Clara
Massé
probably at Baton Rouge in the 1810s. Their son Jean Baptiste
was born at Baton Rouge in April 1819. Gabriel, "a native of West
Baton Rouge Parish," died there "In the last days of Sept." 1855; the Baton
Rouge priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any
parents' names or mention a wife, said that Gabriel died "at age 70
years." One wonders who was Gabriel's father and if he was Acadian.
Jean Baptiste, fils, son of
Jean Baptiste Hébert, died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, age 7
months, in September 1820. The priest who recorded the boy's baptism
did not give the mother's name.
Joséphine Hébert married
French Creole Jean Baptiste Caillouet at the Convent church, St.
James Parish, in May 1821. The priest who recorded the marriage did
not list the couple's parents' names. Joséphine died near
Convent in July 1833, age 40.
Joseph Hébert married
Lajuste Verdoux, place and date unrecorded, probably in
the 1820s. Their son Leufroy married Mathilde, daughter of
Acadian Pierre Aucoin and his Creole wife Élisabeth
Gareuil, at St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in January
1846. Their twin daughters Célestine and Ernesine were born near St.
Gabriel in January 1847. One wonders who were Joseph Hébert's
parents.
Céleste Hébert gave birth
to son Bélisaire near Baton Rouge in December 1822. The priest
who recorded the boy's baptism in February 1825 did not give the
father's name or Céleste's parents' names. A Bélisaire Hébert died near Brusly, West
Baton Rouge Parish, in January 1848. The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a
wife, said that Bélizaire, as he called him, died at "age 25 yrs.," so this
likely was Céleste's son. One wonders if he married.
Élie Hébert, "res.
St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish," died "at the home of Abraham Arseneaux"
near Convent, St. James Parish, in January 1823. The priest who
recorded his burial, but who did not give any parents' names or
mention a wife, said that Élie was age 40 when he died.
Jean Baptiste Hébert died
near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in September 1823. The priest who
recorded the burial, but who did not give any parents' names or
mention a wife, said that Jean Baptiste was age 33 when he died.
Pierre Hébert died near St.
Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in May 1824. The priest who recorded the
burial, but who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Pierre was
age 58 when he died.
Phelonise, daughter of Abraham
Hébert, gave birth to daughter Marie Victorine probably near St.
Gabriel in c1824. Marie Victorine died near St. Gabriel, age 9, in
September 1833. The priest who recorded the girl's burial did not give
the father's name, but he did note that the mother was "now wife of Janvier
Allain."
Zacharie Hébert died near
St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in March 1826. The priest who recorded
the burial, but who did not give any parents' names, said that Zacharie was
age 22 when he died.
Michel Hébert died near St.
Gabriel in August 1828. The priest who recorded Michel's
burial did not give his age, record his parents' names, or mention
a wife.
Jean Baptiste Hébert died
near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in April 1829. The priest who
recorded the burial said that Jean Baptiste was age 22 when he died
but did not record any parents' names or
mention a wife.
Marie Arvelline Hébert married French
Creole Jean Baptiste LeTullier at the home of Isidore François LeTullier
near Baton Rouge in June 1829. The priest who recorded the marriage
did not give the parents' names.
Hélène Hébert gave birth to son
Sosthène near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in August 1829. The
priest who recorded the boy's baptism in May 1830 did not give
the father's name or the mother's parents' names.
Gabriel Hébert died near Baton Rouge in
February 1831, age 17. The priest who recorded
his burial did not give the young man's parents' names.
Hélène Hébert's infant son, name
and age unrecorded, died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in October
1834. The priest who recorded the boy's burial did not give the
father's name or Hélène's parents' names.
Joseph Hébert married German Creole
Marie Oubre probably in St. James Parish in the 1830s. Their
daughter Henriette Célestine was born near Convent in January 1838.
John Béloni Hébert died near Baton Rouge
in June 1831. The priest who recorded his burial said that John was
age 22 when he died but did not give his parents' names or
mention a wife.
James Hébert died near St. Gabriel,
Iberville Parish, in August 1835. The priest who recorded the burial
said that James was age 32 when he died but did not give his parents' names
or mention a wife. Was James an Acadian Hébert?
Joseph Hébert died in Ascension Parish
in October 1836. The priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph
was "age ca. 37 yrs." when he died but did not give his parents'
names or mention a wife.
Éloi Hébert died near St. Gabriel,
Iberville Parish, in February 1838. The priest who recorded the burial,
and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said
that Éloi died at age 40.
Marguerite Habert, perhaps
Hébert, "widow Bourdier," died in
Ascension Parish in February 1840, "age 71 yrs." The Donaldsonville
priest who recorded her burial did not give her parents' names.
Auguste Hébert married French Creole
Marie Zéolide Tuillier, place and date unrecorded. Daughter
Joséphine Adoliscar was born near Brusly, West Baton Rouge
Parish, in November 1841.
Louis Amazone Hébert married Émelie
Labry, place and date unrecorded. Twins Auguste and Sophie
Coralie were born in Pointe Coupee
Parish in January 1842.
Cadet or Caded Hébert married Augustine
Duburalaux or Dubardaux, place and date unrecorded. They
settled in West Baton Rouge Parish. Their son Numa Augustin was
born there in August 1842, and Joseph Alberie near Brusly in July 1847.
One wonders if the Arville Hébert who died near Brusly in July 1849,
age 2, was the same as Joseph Alberie; the priest who recorded the boys'
burial did not give any parents' names.
Domitille, daughter of Joseph Hébert and
Marie Louise Aucoin, married Troy, son of Anglo American Andry
Brackin, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in January
1844. Who were Domitille's paternal grandparents?
Justin Philiosse Hébert died near St.
Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in July 1846. The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife,
said that Justin died at "age 40 yrs." So who were his parents, and
did he marry?
Trasimond Hébert died near Brusly, West
Baton Rouge Parish, in November 1846. The priest who recorded the
burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife,
said that Trasimon, as he called him,
died at "age 21 yrs."
Leufroy Hébert married
Acadian Mathilde Aucoin, place and date unrecorded.
Their twin daughters Célestine and Ernestine were born in Iberville Parish
in January 1847.
Arville Hébert died near
Brusly, West Baton Rouge Parish, age 2 in July 1849. The priest who
recorded the burial did not give the boy's parents' names.
William Hébert married Antoinette
Hébert, place and date unrecorded. Their son Gene Allen was born near Brusly in September 1850.
Dorville Hébert married Elisa Hébert,
place and date unrecorded. Daughter Elisa Jones was born near Brusly in
March 1851.
Sosthène Hébert died in Ascension Parish
in May 1854. The Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial, and
who did not give any parents' names, said that Sostin, as he
called him, died at "age 15 years."
Élise Hébert, "widow of
Michel Hébert," died near St. Gabriel, age 30, in July
1854. Which Michel Hébert was her husband, and who
were her parents?
Charles Hébert married Spanish Creole
Polonie Placentia, place and date unrecorded. Daughter Cécilia
was born in Ascension Parish in May 1855.
Victorine Hébert, or so she signed
herself, daughter of Euphémie Hébert, wife of Magloire
Dupuy, fils, married Achille, son of Maximilien Bolsineur,
at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in May 1855. So
who was Victorine's actual father? Was she born to her mother before
Euphémie married Magloire Dupuy, fils in January 1827?
Gabriel Hébert, "a native of
West Baton Rouge Parish," died there "in the last days of Sept." 1855, age
70. The Baton Rouge priest who recorded the burial did not give any
parents' names or mention a wife.
Adrien Hébert died near Brusly, West
Baton Rouge Parish, in October 1855. The priest who recorded the
burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife,
said that Adrien died at "age 27 years."
François Hébert died in Ascension Parish
in November 1855. The Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial,
and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife,
said that François died at "age ca. 70 years."
"Mrs. Valentin Hébert" died
in Ascension Parish, age 35, in August 1856. The The Donaldsonville
priest who recorded the burial did not give any parents' names or specify
which Valentin Hébert the husband may have been.
Joseph Siméon, called Siméon, Hébert married Marie Mélanie,
called Mélanie,
Parent at the Donaldsonville church in September
1856. The priest who recorded the marriage did not give the
couple's parents' names. They settled near Gonzales. Their son Victorin A.
was born in December 1858, daughter Marie Eve in April 1861, Maria Victorina
in January 1864, son Joseph Bernard in August 1866, and daughter
Virginie Célestine in March 1869.
Odile Hébert died near Baton
Rouge, age 22, in December 1856. The priest who recorded the burial
did not give any parents' names or mention a husband.
Another Siméon Hébert died near Brusly,
West Baton Rouge Parish, in January 1857, age 24. The priest who
recorded the burial did not give any parents' names or mention a
wife.
August Hébert died near Brusly, West
Baton Rouge Parish, in October 1857. The priest who recorded the
burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife,
said that August died at "age 54 years." Which Auguste Hébert
was this?
Pierre Henry Hébert "of West Baton Rouge
Parish" died in June 1858. The Baton Rouge priest who recorded the
burial, and who did not give any parents' names, said that Pierre
Henry died at "age 4 years."
Treville Hébert died near
Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, age 68, in January 1859. The priest
who recorded the burial did not give any parents' names or mentioned a
wife.
Camille Hébert married
Analize Labauve, place and date unrecorded.
Daughter Marie Anne was born near Brusly in March 1859.
Meade K. Hébert died near Plaquemine in January 1863. The priest who recorded the burial,
and who did not give any parents' names, said that Meade K. died
at "age 2 months, 2 days."
Joseph Élien Hébert died near Brusly,
West Baton Rouge Parish, in June 1864. The priest who recorded the
burial, and who did not give any parents' names, said that Joseph
Élien died at "age 14 months." One wonders if the boy's death was
war-related.
Fidelis Hébert died near
Brusly, age 18, in July 1864. The priest who recorded the burial did
not give the young woman's parents' names or mention a husband. Was
her early death war-related?
Irène Hébert gave birth to son Joseph
Paul in July 1864. The Baton Rouge priest who recorded the boy's
baptism did not give the father's name or the mother's parents' names.
Pamela Hébert married George
S. Balsly at the Lakeland church, Pointe Coupee Parish,
in July 1864. The priest who recorded the marriage gave no parents'
names.
Marie Altée Hébert died near
Brusly, age 8 months, in August 1864. The priest who recorded the
burial did not give the parents' names.
The unnamed spouse of A. Hébert
died near St. Gabriel, age unrecorded, in January 1866. The
priest who recorded the burial did not give her parents' names, nor did he
specify which of the many "A. Héberts" was her husband.
Joséphine Hébert gave birth to son
Théodore near Baton Rouge in June 1866. The priest who recorded
the boy's baptism did not give the father's name or the mother's parents'
names.
Paul Hébert married Acadian
Adélaïde LeBlanc, place and date unrecorded. Their son Paul, fils was born in
Iberville Parish in June 1866.
Paul Hébert married _____
Andrews, place and date unrecorded. Their child,
name and birth date unrecorded, was baptized at the St. Gabriel church,
Iberville Parish, in August 1866.
M., son of Marcellin Hébert, died in
Iberville Parish in September 1866. The St. Gabriel priest who
recorded the burial gave only the father's name and did not give
the age of the deceased, whom he called simply "M."
An unnamed Hébert, "spouse
of Joseph Hébert," died near Convent, St. James Parish,
age 70, in October 1866. The priest who recorded the burial did not
give any parents' names, and one must wonder which of the many Joseph
Héberts in the area was her husband.
Pamilia Hébert died near
Baton Rouge, "age omitted," in November 1866. The priest who
recorded the burial gave no parents' names or mentioned a husband.
Celia, daughter of Adeline Hébert,
died near Gonzales, Ascension Parish, age 12, in February 1869. The
priest who recorded the girl's burial did not give her father's name nor
the name of the mother's parents.
Sylvain or Sylvanie Hébert married Lorenza Guizot
or Guyot
civilly, place unrecorded, and sanctified the marriage at the Plaquemine church, Iberville
Parish, in April 1869. The priest who recorded the marriage did not
give the couple's parents' names nor the date of their civil marriage.
Daughter Marie Matilda was born near Plaquemine in June 1867, nearly two
years before her parents' church wedding, and Ophelia in February 1869,
two months before the church wedding.
Marie Léontine, daughter of Victorine
Hébert, was born in Pointe Coupee Parish in October 1869.
The priest who recorded the girl's baptism the following February died not
give the father's name or the mother's parents' names.
Rose Hébert married Valérien Richard,
perhaps a fellow Acadian, at the Pointe Coupee church, Pointe Coupee Parish,
in February 1870. The priest who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names, but he did note that the marriage
legitimized eight of the couple's children, ages 22 years to 1 month.
Amelia, daughter of Lasty Hébert and
Marie Jean Pierre, married Jean Baptiste, fils, son of Jean
Baptiste Jasmin and Juliènne Lassdore, at the Pointe Coupee
church, Pointe Coupee Parish, in December 1870. Was Lasty Acadian?
.
Hébert families living at Baton Rouge
and Pointe Coupee during the antebellum period cannot be linked by local church records to
any of the other Héberts in the area:
Descendants of Joseph HÉBERT
(?-; ?)
Joseph Hébert married Marie
Lejuiti, Labutte, or Lajuste Verdeau, Verdouse, Verdot,
Verdoux, and
Verdu and settled near Baton Rouge by the early 1820s.
1
Older son Joseph Leufroi,
called Leufroi, born near Baton Rouge in June 1822, married
Mathilde, daughter of Acadian Pierre Aucoin, at the St. Gabriel
church, Iberville Parish, in January 1846.
2
Younger son Nicolas was born
near Baton Rouge, in June 1831.
Descendants of Zénon Lasty
HÉBERT (?-; ?)
Zénon Lasty, called Lasty, Hébert married Clara
or Claire
Gremillion at the Pointe Coupee church, Pointe Coupee Parish, in
September 1866, but they evidently had been married civilly for many years.
(One wonders if Zénon, fils, son of Zénon
Hébert and Marguerite ____, born in October 1864 and baptized at
the Pointe Coupee church in April 1865, was a son of Zénon Lasty by a
previous marriage, or if Claire's name was Marguerite Claire.) Was
Zénon Lasty Acadian?
Victorin married Delphine,
daughter Marie Alcé Verneuil, at the Pointe Coupee church, Pointe
Coupee Parish, in May 1870.
LOUISIANA: LAFOURCHE
VALLEY SETTLEMENTS
Most of the many Héberts who came to
Louisiana from France in 1785 chose to go to upper Bayou Lafourche:
Charles Hébert, age 62, a widower, daughter Marie-Yvette, age 33, a widow, and her son Pierre Henry, age
14, crossed on La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, which
reached New Orleans in August. Charles
probably died at Lafourche. Marie-Yvette probably did not
remarry.
Marguerite-Josèphe Hébert,
age 55, widow of Alexandre Bourg, crossed on La
Bergère with a widowed daughter and a grandson and settled at
Lafourche. She did not remarry.
Anne-Symphorose Hébert of
Cobeguit, age 47, widow of Joseph Blanchard, crossed on
La Bergère with six children, ages 19 to 7, and settled at
Lafourche.
Marie-Madeleine Dugas, age 43, widow of
Jean-Baptiste Hébert, crossed on La Bergère with seven children--Anne-Simone, age 20,
Pierre-Michel, age 18, Anne-Marie, called Marie, age 17, Joseph-Servan dit Joson,
age 15, Isabelle-Jeanne, age 13, Prosper-François, age 5, and infant Étienne.
Marie-Madeleine did not remarry; she died at Lafourche in October 1793; she
was only 51. Her daughters married into
the Blanchard, Bourg, and Dugas families. Her
sons settled on the upper bayou. Daughter Anne Simone died a widow in Assumption Parish in June 1833;
the Plattenville priest who recorded her burial said that she was age 63 when she died, but she
was 69. Daughter Marie died a widow in Assumption Parish in August
1843, age 75.
Luce-Perpétué Bourg, age 40, widow of
another Jean-Baptiste
Hébert, crossed on La Bergère with four
children--Marie-Gertrude-Josèphe, age 17, Jean-Olivier-Marie, age 15,
Félicité-Jeanne, age 13, and Françoise-Luce, age 11. Luce's daughters married into the Blanchard,
Gautreaux, and Landry families. Her son also settled on the upper Lafourche. Luce
remarried to Simon, son of Joseph Mazerolle and widower of Marguerite Trahan,
at Lafourche in January 1788.
Simon also had come to Louisiana aboard La Bergère. They had
no more children. Daughter Françoise Luce, wife of Grégoire Landry,
died in Assumption Parish in December 1856, in her early 80s--one of the
last of the Acadian immigrants in Louisiana to join our ancestors.
Isaac Hébert, age 32, crossed on La Bergère
with wife
Marie-Marguerite Daigre, age 23, and two children--Rémi, age 3, and
infant Renée-Eulalie. Isaac and
Marie-Marguerite had more children on the upper
bayou.
.
Marguerite Hébert, age 59,
widow of Alexandre Gautrot, crossed on Le
St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in
September. With her were a son, daughter, and grandson, ages 21 to 16.
Madeleine Hébert, age 56,
crossed on Le
St.-Rémi with second husband Félix Boudrot, age 56.
She died at Lafourche in October 1786, age 57, soon after reaching the
colony.
Joseph-Marie Hébert, age 50, crossed on Le
St.-Rémi with second wife
Marie Benoit, age 48, three children--Joseph, fils,
age 24, Geneviève-Marie, age 22, and Sophie-Marie, age 15--and niece Sophie Benoit,
age 8. Joseph, père and Marie had no more children in Louisiana. Their daughters married into the Comeaux, Culaire,
and Gautreaux families. Joseph, fils settled on the
upper bayou, as did his cousin, Sophie Benoit.
Marie Hébert, age 45, widow
of Joseph Moyse, crossed on Le St.-Rémi with a son
and a daughter, ages 12 and 6. Marie died in Assumption Parish in
October 1807, age 66.
Anne Hébert, age 42, widow of Pierre
Robichaud, crossed on Le St.-Rémi with four children, ages 17 to
2. Anne remarried to widower and fellow Acadian Pierre LeBlanc
at Lafourche in August 1790 and remained with him on the upper bayou.
Rose or Rosalie Hébert, age
40, crossed on Le St.-Rémi with husband Pierre-Olivier
Pitre, age 48, and four children, ages 18 to 1.
Joseph-Ignace Hébert, age 37, crossed on Le
St.-Rémi with wife
Anne Dugas, age 36, and four children--Pierre-Joseph, age 15, Olivier-Constant-Mathias, age
11, Élisabeth-Jeanne, age 9, and Louis-Ambroise, age 2. They had more children on the upper bayou, where Joseph-Ignace remarried in 1805 in his late 50s.
Jean-Baptiste Hébert, age 35,
Joseph-Ignace's brother, crossed on Le St.-Rémi
with wife
Anne-Josèphe Dugas, age 36, and five sons--Jean-Joseph, age 14,
Ambroise-Mathurin, age 12, Simon, age 7, Alexis-Thomas, age 2, and Martin, a
newborn. They had no more children in
Louisiana. Their sons settled on
the upper bayou. Jean-Baptiste died in
Ascension Parish in March 1819, age 70. Two of his
successions, including an inventory, were filed at the Thibodauxville
courthouse, Lafourche Interior Parish, the following May; future governor Henry Schuyler Thibodaux
was named as curator of his estate. A third succession was
filed in April 1820 at what became the Houma courthouse, so Jean Baptiste
must have owned property in what became Terrebonne Parish.
Joseph
Hébert, age 36, crossed on
Le St.-Rémi
with wife
Jeanne
De
la Forestrie of Île St.-Jean, age 32, and five children--Joseph-Marie, age 11, Charles,
age 10, Marie-Rose, age 8, Louis-Jean, age 5, and infant
Anne-Marguerite.
Joseph died at
Lafourche not long after the family reached the
colony. Jeanne remarried to Sébastien, son of fellow Acadian Augustin
Benoit,
at Lafourche in August 1789. Jeanne died on the upper bayou in the early 1790s, in her early 40s.
After her death, Sébastien moved to the western prairies and
remarried. Jeanne's youngest Hébert
son remained on the upper Lafourche, but her older sons and her daughters followed their stepfather to
the western prairies, where the daughters married into the Bodin,
Bouillon, Lebert, and Olivier (French Creole, not Acadian)
families.
Joseph-Nicolas Hébert, age
31, crossed on Le St.-Rémi with the family of his uncle Blaise
Thibodeau. He followed them to upper Bayou
Lafourche and created his own family.
.
Ursule Hébert, age 45, widow
of Jean Vincent, crossed on L'Amitié, the fifth of
the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in November. With her were four
daughters, age 23 to 11.
Ambroise, fils, age 39, and Jean-Pierre Hébert,
age 38, unmarried older brothers of Isaac of La Bergère, crossed on L'Amitié. They remained on
the upper bayou, where Jean-Pierre married.
Étienne Hébert, age 38, crossed on
L'Amitié with third wife
Anne-Madeleine Breau, age 36, and five children from two of his wives--Marie-Cécile-Rose, age 18,
Jean-Louis-Étienne, age 16, Guillaume-Bénoni, age 12, Louis-Gabriel, age 10, and
infant Marie-Madeleine. They had another daughter but no more sons in
Louisiana. Their daughters married into the Boutary and Neveu
families. Their sons also settled on the bayou. What likely was Étienne's succession record was filed at what became the
Thibodauxville courthouse, Interior Parish, in August 1805. One wonders if he had died
by then. Daughter Marie-Madeleine, widow of Antoine Boutary,
fils, died in Lafourche Parish in July 1854; the Thibodaux priest who
recorded the burial said that Marie died "at age 76 yrs.," but she was
69; she also was one of the last Acadian immigrants in Louisiana to
join our ancestors.
Marie Hébert, age 12, an orphan,
crossed on L'Amitié with the family of Joseph Boudrot.
She remained with that family on upper Bayou Lafourche as a "minor premise,"
whatever that might be. One wonders what happened to her in the
Spanish colony.
.
Marie Hébert, age 50, crossed
on La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships, which reached
New Orleans in December. With her were husband Pierre Arcement,
age 52, and seven children, ages 22 to 9. Evidently they did not
follow the great majority of their fellow passengers to Bayou des Écores
north of Baton Rouge but went directly to upper Bayou Lafourche instead.
Luce-Perpétué Bourg, age 43, widow of
Pierre Hébert, and three daughters--Victoire-Luce, age 17, Anne-Marie-Julienne, age 11,
and Julienne-Perrine, age 5--crossed on La Ville d'Archangel and also
chose to go to upper Bayou Lafourche. Luce-Perpétué remarried twice, first to
fellow Acadian Félix Boudreaux,
widower of Madeleine Hébert, at Lafourche in August 1787, and then to
Charles, son of fellow Acadian Pierre Gautreaux and widower of Marie-Madeleine Melançon,
at Lafourche in November 1789. Her Hébert daughters settled on
the upper bayou and married into the Cedotal, Dominguez, LeBlanc,
and Thériot families. Daughter Victoire died a widow in Assumption Parish in November 1824, in
her late 50s. Daughter Anne died in Assumption Parish in June 1833,
age 60. Daughter Julienne-Perrine may have died in Assumption Parish
in March 1859, age 79, which would have made her one of the last of the
Acadian immigrants in Louisiana to join our ancestors.
.
Marie Hébert, age 54, crossed
on La
Caroline, the last of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in
December. With her were husband Louis Gaudet, age 57,
and three children, ages 28 to 10. They chose to go to upper Bayou
Lafourche.
Félicité Hébert, age 28,
crossed on La Caroline with husband Étienne-François
Angelbert, age 32, probably a Frenchman, and an infant daughter.
They also went to the upper Lafourche.
Joseph Hébert, age 12, his 10-year-old
sister Marie-Louise, and their half-brother, Martin-Bénoni Pitre,
age 18, crossed on La
Caroline. Joseph may not have
married. Marie-Louise married André-Marie, son of fellow Acadians Charles LeBlanc
and his second wife Rosalie Trahan, at Assumption in October 1793.
André and his family had come to the colony on Le St.-Rémi.
Marie-Louise died a widow in Lafourche Interior Parish
in January 1851, age 75--one of the last of the Acadian immigrants in
Louisiana to join our ancestors. Her half-brother Martin-Bénoni also settled on the
Lafourche.
.
The Héberts from France
created a third center of family settlement on Bayou Lafourche:
Ambroise, fils (c1746-1813) and
Jean-Pierre (c1747-1824) HÉBERT (Antoine,
Jean, Jean, fils)
Brothers Ambroise, fils and Jean-Pierre,
first and second sons of Ambroise Hébert and his first wife Marie-Madeleine Bourg,
born probably at Cobeguit in c1746 and c1747, followed their family to Île
St.-Jean probably in 1755 and were deported with them to France in 1758. They came to
Louisiana aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships from France,
in 1785, and followed most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou
Lafourche. Ambroise, fils never married. (As church records
reveal, he witnessed many marriages at the Plattenville church in Assumption
Parish, so he may have been a lay official of the parish. One wonders if
Ambroise,
fils, like younger brother Isaac, also studied for the priesthood in
France under Abbé Jean-Louis Le Loutre.) Jean-Pierre, at age 40, married Eudoxile, 40-year-old
daughter of fellow Acadians Honoré Girouard and Marie-Josèphe
Thériot, at Lafourche in October
1787; amazingly, this was a first
marriage for both of them. Eudoxile also had come to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié,
so they had known one another for years.
Jean-Pierre and Eudoxile had no children. By 1791, Jean-Pierre was a widower
and living with his older brother at Assumption. Ambroise,
fils died in Assumption Parish in May 1813; the priest who recorded the burial said that
Ambroise, fils was age 71 when he died, but he was 67. Jean
Pierre died in Assumption Parish in November 1824; the priest who recorded
the
burial said that Jean Pierre was age 70 when he died, but he was
closer to 77. Younger brother Isaac perpetuated
the family line in Louisiana.
Descendants of Isaac HÉBERT
(c1753-1822; Antoine,
Jean, Jean, fils)
Isaac, third son of Ambroise Hébert and
his first wife Marie-Madeleine Bourg and younger brother of Ambroise,
fils and Jean-Pierre, was born at Cobeguit in c1753, on the eve of Le Grand Dérangement. Isaac
followed his family to Île St.-Jean in 1755 and was deported with them to France
in 1758. In the mother country, he studied for the priesthood under
the notorious Abbé Jean-Louis Le Loutre from 1768 until the abbé's death in
September 1772. After his mentor died, Isaac quit his studies and
worked as a printer. He came to Louisiana aboard La Bergère,
the second of the Seven Ships from France, in 1785 with his
23-year-old wife Marie-Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Eustache Daigre
and Madeleine Dupuis
of Minas, whom
he had married at Nantes in July 1780, and a son and an infant daughter, both
born at Nantes. They followed his older brothers and most of their
fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where Isaac and Marie-Marguerite
had more children, including four more sons. Isaac's daughters married into the Aucoin, Barrilleaux, Cedotal,
Doiron, Landry, and Potier
families. Isaac died in Assumption Parish in April 1822; the
priest who recorded the burial said that Isaac was age 74 when he
died, but he was closer to 69. One of his younger sons moved to the river, but the others remained on the Lafourche.
1
Oldest son Rémi, also
called Henry and René, baptized
at St.-Nicolas, Nantes, France, age unrecorded, in January 1782, married Renée- or Iréné-Élisabeth, called
Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadian
Joseph Guidry, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in April 1808.
Renée, a native of Paimboeuf, France, near Nantes, came to Louisiana in 1785
as an infant aboard Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships.
Their son Jean Baptiste Zenon was born in Assumption Parish in March
1810, Valéry Leufroi or Leufroi Valéry in February 1817, François Arsène in
February 1820, Lezin Auguste or Augustin in February
1823 but died at age
6 months the following September, and Charles Théodore, called
Théodore, was born in November
1824. Their daughters
married into the Berthelot, Mazerolle, Simoneaux, and Theriot
families. Rémi evidently died near Brusly, West Baton Rouge
Parish, in January 1852; the priest who recorded the burial, and who did not
give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Rémi
died at "age 66 yrs.," but this Rémi would have been age 70. If this was
him, one wonders what he was doing in West Baton Rouge Parish at the time of
his death.
1a
Leufroi Valéry died in
Assumption Parish in November 1833. The priest who recorded his
burial said that Leufroi Valéry was age 18 when he died, but he
was 16.
1b
Arsène married cousin
Henriette or Henrietta, daughter of Romain Friou and his Acadian
wife Pélagie Dugas, at the
Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1842; they had to secure a dispensation for fourth
degree of consanguinity in order to marry. Their son Henry
Séverin was born near Plattenville in December 1842, Joseph
Bienvenu near Paincourtville in March 1849, Joseph Narcisse
in January 1852, Aimé, perhaps their son, in c1855 but died
at age 10 in June 1865, Joseph Lazare was born in July 1857, and Cyprien
Jean Baptiste near Pierre Part, north of Lake Verret, in January
1862. Their daughter married into the Grandin family.
1c
Théodore married Joséphine,
daughter of Joseph Grandin or Grandet and Françoise
Leonard, at the Paincourtville
church, Assumption Parish, in May 1856. They settled near Pierre
Part, north of Lake Verret. Their son Joseph
Léonard was born in July 1857.
2
Timothée, also called Mathéo,
baptized at Lafourche, age unrecorded, in March 1788, married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians
Joseph Comeaux and Anne Landry and widow of Jean Malbrough, at the Donaldson church,
Ascension Parish, in January 1809. Their son Joseph Léon was born in
Assumption Parish in June 1810, Venance or Venant Lubin in October 1812, and Maurice Gédéon,
called Gédéon, in January 1817.
Their daughters married into the Aucoin, Dugas, and Guillot
families. Timothée died in Assumption Parish in October 1843; the
Plattenville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give
any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Timothée died at "age 57
yrs."
2a
Venant married Harriet Honorine,
called Honorine, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Dugas
and his Creole wife Constance Simoneaux, at the
Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1839. Their
son Timothée was born near Plattenville in April 1841, and Alexandre Ailesse
or Elesse Didier, called Elesse,
near Paincourtville
in December 1847. They also had a son named Jean Baptiste.
Their daughters married into the Chadeffaud and Hébert families. Venant,
at age 45,
remarried
to Eglantine, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Landry and
Carmelite Aucoin, at the Paincourtville church,
Assumption Parish, in July 1857.
Jean Baptiste, by his
father's
first wife, married
cousin Élodie, daughter of Emérant Simoneaux and his Acadian
wife Élisabeth Landry, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1860;
they had to
secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to
marry. Their son Henri was born near Paincourtville in
November 1862, and Thomas Green in October 1866.
Elesse, by his father's first wife,
married Rosalie, daughter of Francis Alleman and H. E.
Rivera, at the Pierre
Part church, Assumption Parish, in October 1870.
2b
Gédéon married Céleste,
also called Aglae, daughter of fellow Acadians Maxille Landry and
Eugènie Landry, at
the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in May 1844. Their son
Timothée Gervais, called Gervais, was born near Plattenville in July 1849, Léon Monléon in December 1851,
and Maurice Edgard near Paincourtville in December 1860.
Their daughters married into the Joly and Landry families.
Gervais married cousin
Ociana, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Landry and Marie
Delphine Gravois, at the
Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in September 1870.
3
Cromace, Crama,
Cramas, or Cronias, baptized
at Assumption, age unrecorded,
in August 1797, married cousin Marguerite Uranie, daughter of fellow
Acadians Jean Baptiste Doiron and Angèle Hébert of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the Baton
Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in February 1831. They moved to West Baton Rouge
Parish on the river, where Cromace remarried.
4
Youngest son Isaac-Joseph,
also called Jacques, a twin, born
at Assumption in November 1800, married Henriette, daughter of Jean Malbrough
and his Acadian wife Rosalie Comeaux, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in
February 1829. Their son Louis Valéry was baptized at the
Plattenville church, age 10 days, on Christmas Day 1829 but died the
following January. At age 56, Isaac remarried to Marie Eléonore, daughter of
Pierre Escureix and his Acadian wife Marie Fideline Blanchard,
at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in May 1857.
Descendants of Joseph-Ignace
HÉBERT (c1747-1821;
Antoine, Jean, René dit Groc)
Joseph-Ignace, third and youngest son of Jean Hébert
and his first wife Marie-Madeleine Doiron, born in Acadia in c1747,
was taken to Grand-Anse, Île St.-Jean, now Prince Edward Island, as a child
and was deported with his father, stepmother, and many siblings to France in
1758 aboard the British transport Supply. His family settled at
St.-Suliac, near St.-Malo, where he married cousin Anne, daughter of fellow
Acadian Joseph Dugas, in February 1768; Anne's mother was an Hébert.
Two of their children, a daughter and a son, died at St.-Suliac as infants.
Joseph-Ignace took his family to Louisiana aboard Le
St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, in 1785 and followed the
majority of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where he and
Anne had more
children, including another son. Their daughters married into the Boudreaux
and Roger families. Joseph Ignace remarried to
Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Amand Pitre and widow of Jean
Nicolas Bertrand, at Assumption in May 1805; he was 58 years
old at the time of the wedding. Marguerite had come to Louisiana aboard La Bergère, the
second of the Seven Ships. Joseph Ignace filed an estate inventory
record at what became the Interior Parish courthouse in August 1806 probably
as a result of his remarriage. He died in Lafourche Interior Parish in
September 1821, age 74; his post-mortem successions were filed at
the Thibodauxville courthouse in September 1821 and June 1822. Two of
his sons moved to the western prairies, but the others remained on the
bayou.
1
Oldest son Pierre-Joseph,
by his father's first wife, born
at St.-Suliac, France, in March 1769, married Anne-Eléonore, called Nanette, daughter of fellow Acadians
Benoît Comeaux and Anne Blanchard, at St.-Jacques on the river in July 1788. Anne-Eléonore
had come to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships.
In the 1790s, Pierre and Anne moved to the western prairies and settled in
the Opelousas District. One of their sons and a daughter "returned" to
upper Bayou Lafourche.
2
Olivier-Constant-Mathias,
by his father's first wife, born
at St.-Suliac, France, in February 1774, married Barbe-Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles LeBlanc
and Rosalie Trahan, at Assumption in November 1795; Barbe-Anne also had come to Louisiana aboard
Le St.-Rémi. Their son Joseph-Olivier, called Olivier, was born at
Assumption in October 1796, Célestin Valentin in November 1797, and Martin
in November 1799. Olivier's succession inventory was filed at what
became the Interior Parish courthouse in September 1798.
2a
Joseph Olivier married
Félicité, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Honoré Breaux and
Marie Félicité Trahan, at the
Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in April 1820.
Their son Joseph Célestin was born in Lafourche Interior Parish
in February 1823, Onésime in February 1829, Joseph Oville in February 1831, and François Trasimond in October 1839.
Their daughters married into the Babin, Guidry,
Guillot,
LeBoeuf, and
Trahan families. Their oldest son moved to lower Bayou Teche
after the War of 1861-65.
Joseph Célestin, also called W.
Joseph, married Mathilde, daughter of fellow Acadians
Joseph Marcellin Landry and Rosalie Savoie of Terrebonne Parish, at the
Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in January 1846; the
marriage was recorded also in Terrebonne Parish. Their son
Joseph Octave was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in October
1848, Augustave Ozémé in June
1850, Joseph Roselius in February 1856, Joseph Alfred in March 1858,
and Joseph Théophile in January 1864. Their daughter
married a Landry cousin on lower Bayou Teche, where Joseph
and Mathilde were living in 1866.
Onésime married Rosa,
Rosalie, or Roselia Eve, daughter of fellow Acadian Marin Trahan
and his Creole wife Odile Waguespack, in a civil
ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in March 1861, and sanctified the
marriage at the Montegut church, Terrebonne Parish, in November
1868. Their son Lezin was born near Montegut in
February 1863, and Jean Baptiste Lovency in January 1868.
2b
Célestin Valentin married
Marcelline, also called Célesie, 20-year-old daughter of Louis Baudoin
and Geneviève Himel, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in February
1822. Their son Louis Célestin was born in Lafourche
Interior Parish in November 1822 but died age 2 in November 1824, and Alexis Cyprien
or Cyprien Alexis was
born in September 1824. Their daughters married into the
Boudreaux and Bourg families. Célestin,
père died in Lafourche Interior Parish in September 1833, age 35; his succession inventory was filed at the Thibodaux
courthouse in November 1838; a petition for family meeting in his name
was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in October 1846.
Cyprien Alexis married
Marie Pauline, called Pauline, daughter of fellow Acadians Théodore Boudreaux
and Marie Blanche LeBlanc, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in April 1845;
Cyprien Alexis's sister Pauline married his wife Marie Pauline's brother
Eugène. Alexis and Pauline's son Alexis, fils died in
Lafourche Interior Parish 6 days after his birth in February 1849.
Their daughters married Boudreaux cousins. Alexis, père died by May 1850, when his wife remarried
to a Mire in Lafourche
Interior Parish. Did his family line, except for its blood,
survive?
2c
Martin married Marie Josèphe,
24-year-old daughter of Nicolas Gabriel Albert,
fils and his Acadian wife Madeleine Bourg, at the
Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in July 1829. Their son Valéry Olivier was
born in Lafourche Interior Parish in April 1830, Joseph Onésime
in February 1835, Evariste in March 1840, and Cleopha Léon
in November 1842. Their daughters married into the Adam,
Hotard, and Thibodeaux
families. Martin died in "1860 or 1861," in his early 60s;
an "application for administration," listing his children, was filed at
the Houma courthouse, Terrebonne Parish, in December 1865. His
older son moved to the Bayou Teche valley after the War of 1861-65.
Valéry married Eveline or Evelina,
daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Noël Boudreaux and his
second wife Aimée Caroline Olivier, a Creole, at the Thibodaux
church, Lafourche Parish, in June 1857; the marriage was recorded
also in Terrebonne Parish, but they lived near the boundary between
Lafourche and Assumption parishes. Their son André Treville was
born in November 1859, Louis Henri in April 1862, and Jean Elphége
in March 1864. They were living near Breaux Bridge, St. Martin
Parish, in 1866. Valéry's succession was filed at the
St. Martinville courthouse, St. Martin Parish, in April 1868; he
would have been age 38 that year.
Joseph Onésime married
Euphrosine, daughter of Thomas Calegan and his Acadian wife
Pauline Boudreaux, at the
Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in March 1867; the marriage was recorded also in
Lafourche Parish.
3
Louis-Ambroise, by his
father's first wife, born at
Nantes, France, in
November 1783, moved to the northern edge of the Attakapas District perhaps
with older brother Pierre. He does not seem to have married.
4
Youngest son Jean-Baptiste,
by his father's first wife, born at Lafourche in June 1790, may have died young, or
he may have married Céleste Azélie or Azélie Céleste, daughter of perhaps
fellow Acadian Basile Prejean, in Lafourche Interior Parish in the
late 1810s; church records are unclear. If it was this Jean-Baptiste
who married Céleste Azélie, did he
father any children?
Joseph-Nicolas
HÉBERT (c1754-1818; ?)
Joseph-Nicolas, called Nicolas,
son of Pierre Hébert and Marie-Madeleine Daigre, born
probably at Grand-Prè in c1754, ended up in France. He came to Louisiana with the family of his uncle Blaise Thibodeau
aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, in 1785 and followed
them to upper Bayou Lafourche. At age 32, Joseph-Nicolas married Agnès,
30-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Honoré Gautreaux
and Jeanne Lebert, in May 1786. They were that rare
Acadian couple who had no children. Nicolas died in Assumption Parish
in August 1818; the Plattenville church priest who recorded the burial said that Nicolas was age 72 when died, but he was
closer to 64.
Descendants of Joseph HÉBERT,
fils (1760-?;
Étienne, Emmanuel, Jacques)
Joseph, fils, only
son of Joseph-Marie Hébert and his first wife
Marguerite Richard, born in England in September 1760, was
repatriated to
France with his family in May 1763. They lived at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, near
St.-Malo. Joseph, fils became a tanner in France. Still a
bachelor, he came to Louisiana with his father, stepmother,
two sisters, and a cousin aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the
Seven Ships, in 1785. They followed most of
their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where Joseph, fils married Marie-Jeanne,
called Jeanne, daughter of fellow
Acadians Jean-Baptiste Darembourg and Madeleine Henry, in April 1786. Marie-Jeanne also had come to Louisiana aboard Le St.-Rémi.
Their daughter married into the Corey
and Priou
families. Both of their sons married. Their older son's line was
especially vigorous.
1
Older son Jean-Louis,
called Louis and Louis-Jean-Baptiste, baptized at Lafourche,
age unrecorded, in December 1787, married Susanne, daughter of Creoles Jean LeBoeuf
and Marie Renée Matherne, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in April 1808. Their
son Augustin, called Justin, was born in Assumption Parish in
April 1819, Antoine Joseph in Lafourche Interior Parish in February
1822, Martial in July 1823, Jean Baptiste in June 1825,
Jean Louis, fils in December 1827, and Joseph in November 1832. Their daughter married into the
Rhodes family. Jean Louis, père, at age 46,
remarried to Irène or Renée,
also called Fleurine, daughter of fellow Acadians
Joseph Babin and Marguerite Gaudin of Terrebonne Parish, at the Thibodauxville church,
Lafourche Interior Parish, in July 1833; the marriage was recorded also in
Terrebonne Parish in June 1833 and perhaps again in April 1850. Their son Léon Aurelien was born in Lafourche
Interior Parish in December 1837, Michel in November 1840, and
Aubert Alfred in January 1842. They also had a son named
Neuville. Their daughter married into the Robichaux family. Jean Louis's
succession inventory was filed at the Houma courthouse, Terrebonne Parish, in May 1843; he would
have been age 56 that year. Another daughter was born to him in June 1845, so
the succession was not post-mortem.
1a
Justin, by his father's first wife,
married Marie Azélie, called Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadian Guillaume Bergeron
and his French-Canadian wife Marie Arceneaux of
Terrebonne Parish, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish,
in July 1839. Their son Auguste le jeune was born in
Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1840, Jean Léon in
Terrebonne Parish in February 1851, Adam Octave, a
twin, in
June 1854 but died at age 1 in July 1855, Octave Schuyler Justin
was born in October 1857, and
Guillaume Harisse in February 1860. They also had an older son
named Aubert, also called Hubert. Their daughters
married into the Babin, Bélanger, and Pitre
families.
Aubert "from Terrebonne
Parish" married Eugénie Céline, daughter of fellow Acadian Alexandre
Guidry and his Creole wife Félicité Marcel of Terrebonne Parish, at the Houma church, Terrebonne
Parish, in January 1864, and remarried to Marie Matores, Hélène,
or Helena, daughter of Don Manuel De La Torre, also called
Delatorroisse,
De La Loire, and Delatonis and his Acadian wife Eléonore
Martin, at the Houma church in
May 1866. Their
son Théodore Wiley was born in Terrebonne Parish in March
1868, and André Crescent in June 1870.
1b
Martial, by his father's first wife,
married Margaret, 16-year-old daughter of John Clark or Clack
and Mary M. Roddy, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in
January 1845, and sanctified the marriage at the Houma church,
Terrebonne Parish, in June 1849. They settled on Bayou Petit
Caillou and near Montegut in Terrebonne Parish. Their son Evariste John was born in September
1851, twins James and Joseph in 1856, Auguste in February 1859,
Robert Douglas in April 1861, Thomas Davis near Montegut
in September 1865, and Martial Georges in July 1868.
Their daughter married into the Stringer family.
1c
Antoine Joseph, by his
father's first
wife, may have married
French Creole Véronique or Veronica LeBoeuf in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne
Parish in January 1848, and sanctified the marriage at the Houma church,
Terrebonne Parish, in February 1851. Their son Uverjule
Hilaire was born on Bayou Black, Terrebonne Parish, in November 1849,
François Orestile in October 1852, Hilaire Xavier near
Chacahoula, Terrebonne Parish, in December 1854, Louis Drasa or
Drosa in December 1858, and Armogène Ermillien in February 1861. Their daughter married into the
Boudreaux family.
Uverjule Hilaire married
cousin Louisiane, daughter of probably Mathurin Hébert, in a
civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in January 1869. Their son
Myrtille was born near Chacahoula in December 1869.
1d
Jean Baptiste, by his father's first
wife, married Palmyra, 22-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Célestin
Bergeron and Phelonise Babin, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in July 1850.
Jean Baptiste remarried to Victorine Modeste, daughter of Urbin Picou
and his Acadian wife Marguerite Babin, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in October
1853, and sanctified the marriage at the Houma church, Terrebonne
Parish, in May 1855. Their
son Jean Volsey was born in Terrebonne Parish in December 1855,
Jean Baptiste Amédée in March 1859, Émile Dolferes in
November 1861, Alfred Ellis in August
1863, and Alexis Philemon near Montegut in August 1867. Their daughter
married into the Redman family.
1e
Jean Louis, fils, by
his father's first wife, married fellow Acadian Marie Babin of
Terrebonne Parish at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in December
1851. They lived near the boundary between Terrebonne and
Lafourche Interior parishes. Their son Turnin Albert was
born in February 1853, Paulinaire Clebert in February 1855,
Augustin Alfred in May 1861, Rochelle Octave in September
1863, John Herodesney near
Montegut in September 1865, and Wallace Joachim in April 1870.
Their daughter married into the Hutchinson family.
1f
Léon Aurelien, by his father's second
wife, married Adilia, Odilia, or Onelia, daughter of fellow Acadian Edmond
Guidry and his Creole wife Elmire Irma Azel Belanger of Terrebonne Parish, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish
in June 1857, and sanctified the marriage at the Houma church,
Terrebonne Parish, in July 1858. Their son Léo Jean Baptiste
was born in Terrebonne Parish in April 1858. They were living
near Montegut by the mid-1860s.
1g
Michel, by his father's second wife,
married Lucette or Lucite, daughter of Creoles Valentin Sevin
and Modeste Charpentier
of Terrebonne Parish, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in June
1860. Their son Ernest Loiseau had been born in Terrebonne
Parish in March 1860[sic]. They were living near Montegut
late in the decades.
2
Younger son Joseph-Auguste,
called Auguste, born at Assumption in October 1799, married Rosalie
or Rose, daughter of fellow
Acadians Alexis Lejeune and Barbe Trahan, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche
Interior Parish, in June 1820. Their son Alexis Georges, called
Georges, was born
in Lafourche Interior Parish in April 1826, Joseph in March 1830, Élie Washington,
called Washington, in
November 1833, Octave in March 1836, Henri Shalière or Schuyler in November 1838,
and Augustin Charles in May 1844.
Their daughters married into the Bergeron, Elfert, and Toups families.
Joseph Auguste served as tutor for Jean Baptiste Sylvain, minor son of Jean
Baptiste Lejeune, his brother-in-law, after the boy's father died in November 1827; the
quittance ending the tutorship was filed at the Houma courthouse in July
1836, when the boy was age 10, and described Jean Auguste as a resident of
Lafourche Interior Parish. Joseph Auguste, at age 58, remarried to "Mrs. Alix,"
Alice, or Aline, daughter of fellow Acadians Fabien Sébastien Dantin and
Marie Eugénie Part and widow of Célestin
Lirette, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in June
1858 [the record says, erroneously, 1838], and sanctified the marriage at
the Thibodaux church a few days later. Their son Augusta Armini was born in Lafourche
Parish in November 1859, Tailer Lucas in May 1861, Tennessee
died at age 11 months in July 1863, and Étienne Adam was born in
April 1865, when his father was age 65.
2a
Georges, by his father's first wife,
married Arcelite, daughter of Urbain Poché and his Acadian wife
Célasie LeBlanc, at the
Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in May 1852. Their son Félix was born in
Lafourche Parish in March 1853 but may have died "during[sic]
yellow fever epidemic" in January 1854. Georges died in Lafourche
Parish "during [the] yellow fever epidemic" in September 1853; the
Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial did not give any
parents' names or mention a wife, nor did he give George's age at
the time of his death; Georges would have been age 27; a petition for
tutorship for son Nelson was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse the
following January; one wonders if Nelson and Félix were the same child
and if this family line survived.
2b
Washington, by his father's first wife,
died in Lafourche Parish in September 1853. The Thibodaux priest
who recorded the burial said that Washington died "at age 21 yrs.," but
he was 19. He probably did not marry.
2c
Henri Schuyler, by his
father's first
wife, married Marie Eugénie, daughter of French Creole Pierre Minou
or Minoux and Rosalie Bark, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Parish, in June 1861. Their son
Joseph died in Lafourche Parish, age 3, in April 1863, and
Joseph Washington was born in March 1862, unless he was the first
Joseph.
Henry Schuyler remarried
to Clara, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Rosémond LeBlanc and
Carmélite Bergeron and widow of Valsin Boudreaux, at the Thibodaux church in February
1867. Their son Henri Lavaille was born in Lafourche Parish
in February 1869.
Descendants of Pierre-Michel HÉBERT
(1766-1845?; ?)
Pierre-Michel, eldest son of Jean-Baptiste Hébert
and Marie-Madeleine Dugas, born at St.-Coulomb, near St.-Malo,
France, in April 1766, came to Louisiana with his widowed mother
and siblings aboard La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, in 1785. They followed
most of their
fellow passengers
to upper Bayou Lafourche, where Pierre
married Élisabeth- or Isabelle-Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Mazerolle
and his first wife Marguerite Trahan, in September 1791. Élisabeth-Marie also had come to Louisiana
aboard La Bergère. Their
daughters married into the Campo, Comeaux, Daigle, Giroir, Guillot,
and Landry families. Pierre Michel may have died in Assumption
Parish in May 1845; the Plattenville priest who recorded the burial, and who
did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, says that
Pierre died at "age 80 yrs."; this Pierre would have been age 79, so this likely
was him. Two of his sons married sisters.
1
Oldest son Alexandre, born
at Lafourche in June 1792, married Marie Scholastique, called Scholastique
and Colastie, daughter of fellow Acadians
François Giroir and Madeleine Françoise LeBlanc, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in
February 1816. Their twin sons Auguste Alexandre and
Florentin
were born in Assumption Parish in December 1816 but Auguste Alexandre died 5
days after his birth, Jean Baptiste Alexandre was born in October 1820,
Joseph Théodule in March 1823, Léon Gédéon in February
1827, and Octave Ursin in November 1833. Their daughters married into the
Dupuis,
Giroir, Landry, and Simoneaux families. Alexandre
may have died in Assumption Parish in October 1867; the Plattenville priest
who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Alexandre died at "age 'Septantecing
yrs.," which, the printed record of the burial notes, "probably means 70
years"; this Alexandre would have been age 75, so perhaps the priest meant to
say that Alexandre was in his 70s when he died.
1a
Florentin married cousin
Joséphine Célestine, daughter of Auguste Campo and his Acadian
wife Émilie Hébert, at the
Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in December 1842. Their son Pierre Gustave or
Augustave, called Augustave, was
born near Plattenville in November 1844, Joseph Evariste in
November 1846, Ulger Aimar in March 1856, and Joseph Séverin
in October 1862.
Augustave married cousin
Clementine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Hébert
and Françoise Landry, at the
Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1868. They
were living near Pierre Part, north of Lake Verret, in 1870.
1b
Jean Baptiste Alexandre married
Alexandrine, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Arceneaux and
Marie Aimée Blanchard, at
the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1845.
Their daughters married into the Aucoin, Blanchard, and
Hébert families, one of them to a first cousin. Jean
Baptiste remarried to cousin Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians
Grégoire Aucoin and Clarisse Hébert, at the Plattenville church in September 1852;
they had to secure a
dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.
Their son Léonidas Villier Pierre was born near Labadieville in
April 1858, Bernard Alexandre in July 1860, Gédéon in
November 1862, and Christophe Arseman[sic] in July
1870.
1c
Joseph Théodule married
Marie, Marine, or Marina, another daughter of Alexandre Arceneaux, at the
Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in May 1848. Their son
Célestin Théophile was born near Plattenville in April 1849, Alcide
in April 1851, Pierre Léonidas in January 1853,
Séverin Aubin, called Séverin, in March 1857 but died the
following August, Elphége Anatole was born near Paincourtville in
November 1860, Ignace Joseph in February 1868, and Théophile Jean Edmond in
March 1870.
1d
Léon Gédéon married Armalise,
Armelise,
or Armelize,
daughter of French Creole Arieux, also called Hippolyte, Simoneaux
and his Acadian wife Célesie Robichaux, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in July 1850. Their son Joseph
Cleopha was born near Plattenville in September 1851, Quintin
near Paincourtville in October 1853, Zelume Colle in March
1858, Camille Auguste in June 1862, Jean Baptiste Édouard
in November 1865, and Éloi Alexandre in December 1867.
1e
Octave Ursin married first
cousin Elisa Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Isaac Hébert
and Marine Landry, his uncle and aunt, at
the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1857; they had to
secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to
marry. Their son Xavier Aubert was born near Plattenville
in November 1857, Léonard Achille in November 1859, Ignace
J., probably Jean, Baptiste in February 1867, and
Jules Joseph in June 1869.
2
Isaac, born at Assumption
in December 1800, married cousin Marie, Marine, or Marian, daughter of fellow Acadians
Grégoire Landry and Françoise Hébert, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in
April 1822. Their son
Alexandre Fostin was born in Assumption Parish in February 1823,
Honoré in November 1825, and Arsène Lazare was born in January
1832. Their daughters married into the Aucoin, Duco,
Gagnoux, Hébert, and Theriot families.
2a
Alexandre Fostin married
cousin Marie Elisa, Eliza, Louise, or Louisa, daughter of Foreign
Frenchman Julien Hunot or Unot of Paramé, France, near St.-Malo,
and his Acadian wife Modeste Landry, at the
Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in December 1846. Their twin sons Damase Bessond
and Thomas Désiré were born in Assumption Parish in May 1854, and
Jean Jacques Honete was born near Labadieville in May 1859.
Their daughters married into the Locker and Marque families.
At age 40, Alexandre
Fostin remarried to Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Comeaux
and Eulalie Gaudet, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in December 1863. Alexandre
Fostin may have died in Assumption Parish in November 1867; the
Plattenville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Alexandre died
at "age 48 years"; Alexandre Fostin would have been age 44.
A daughter was born posthumously in January 1868.
2b
Honoré married cousin
Élizabeth, daughter of Auguste Campo and Émilie Hébert, at the Plattenville church,
Assumption Parish, in April 1852.
Their son Isaac Oscar was born in Assumption Parish in July 1853,
Pierre Maurice in January 1855, Edgard Augustin in
October 1857, and Ernest Prosper in November 1859.
2c
Arsène married Adolphine,
daughter of Firmin Labiche and his Acadian wife Delphine
Louvière, at the Labadieville
church, Assumption Parish, in April 1856. Their son Myrtil was born near Labadieville
in May 1862.
3
Youngest son Claude Élie,
called Élie, born in
Assumption Parish in February 1808, married cousin Léocade, another daughter of
Grégoire Landry and Françoise Hébert, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in
June 1830. Their son Simon Octave was born in Assumption Parish
in March 1831, Baptiste in June 1833, Damase Auguste or
Augustin Damas was baptized at the Plattenville
church, age unrecorded, in October 1836, and Evariste was born in
August 1843. They also had an older son named Hubert. Their
daughters married into the Bourg, Hébert, and Melini or Meligni
families (one of them, the wife of Jean Baptiste Melini, was the
paternal great-great-grandmother of alligator hunter Troy Landry of Pierre
Part and "Swamp People" fame).
3a
Hubert married cousin Marie,
daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Hébert and Françoise
Landry, at the Paincourtville church,
Assumption Parish, in January 1856; they had to secure a dispensation
for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry. They settled
near Pierre Part, north of Lake Verret. Their son
Joseph Édouard was born in October 1856, and
Joseph Oscar in July 1858.
3b
Augustin Damas married Helena,
daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Theriot and his French-Canadian
wife Marie Sérafine Caillouet and widow of Félix
Dugas, at the Pierre Part church, Assumption Parish, in April 1866.
3c
Evariste married cousin
Gracieuse, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptist Alexandre Hébert,
his first cousin, and Alexandrine Arceneaux, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in May 1868; they had to
secure a dispensation for [third] degree of consanguinity in order to
marry. Their son Omer Alexandre was born near Plattenville
in September 1870.
Descendants of Joseph-Servan dit
Joson HÉBERT
(1770-1843; ?)
Joseph-Servan, dit Joson, second son of Jean-Baptiste Hébert
and Marie-Madeleine Dugas, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, near St.-Malo,
France, in May 1770, came to Louisiana with his widowed mother
and siblings aboard La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, in
1785. They followed the majority of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where Joson married Marie-Madeleine-Adélaïde, daughter of fellow
Acadians Pierre Landry and Marthe LeBlanc, at Assumption in September 1793. Marie also had come to Louisiana aboard La Bergère.
Their daughters married into the Beauvais, Blanchard, and Comeaux
families. Joson died in Assumption Parish in December 1843; the
Plattenville priest who recorded his burial, and who did not give
any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Joson died at "age ca. 63
yrs."; he was 73.
1
Oldest son Joseph-Édouard,
called Édouard, born
at Assumption in June 1794, married Eléonore, called Léonore, daughter of fellow Acadians
François Girouard and Madeleine LeBlanc, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in
February 1819. Their son Joseph André, called André,
was born in Assumption Parish in November 1822, and Augustin
or Auguste in March 1828.
Their daughters married into the Babin, Blanchard, Breaux, Comeaux, Giroir, and
Rodriguez families. Édouard Hébert "of Pierre Part" died in
Assumption Parish in February 1864; the Plattenville priest who recorded the
burial did not give any parents' names, mention a wife, or give the age of the deceased; this Édouard would have been age 69.
1a
Joseph André likely married
fellow Acadian Célestine Landry. Their son
Marcellin Augustin Oscar, called Oscar, was born near Paincourtville, Assumption
Parish, in November 1844, Léon in November 1846, Séverin
Eugène in November 1851, Nicolas Amédée in November 1853, Joseph Désiré,
perhaps called Désiré, in May 1856 but died at age 5 in
September 1861, and Joseph Ernest was born near Pierre Part,
north of Lake Verret, in January 1859. Their daughter married into
the Vegas family.
Oscar married Julie,
daughter of fellow Acadians Drosin Dugas and Clarisse
LeBlanc, at the
Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1868.
1b
Auguste married Marcellite or
Marcelline,
daughter of fellow Acadians Édouard Babin and Mathilde
Dugas, at the Paincourtville
church, Assumption Parish, in January 1849. They settled near
Pierre Part. Their son Joseph
Édouard, called Édouard, was born in November 1855, and
Cléopha, perhaps their son, died at age 14 months in January 1861.
2
Lazare, born at Assumption
in February 1800, married cousin Céleste, also called Thérèse, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Landry
and Marguerite Landry, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1820. Their
daughters married into the Blanchard, Guidry, Landry, and Savoy families.
Lazare, at age 56, may have remarried to cousin Pamela, born Nicolas, daughter
of fellow Acadians André LeBlanc and Marguerite Landry, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in
July 1856. Did Lazare father any sons?
3
Octave, born at Assumption
in February 1803, died in Assumption Parish in May 1826, age 23. He probably did not marry.
4
Félix, born at Assumption in January
1806, married cousin Élise Domitille, another daughter of Jean Landry
and Marguerite Landry, at
the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1837, and remarried
to Laure, daughter of Auguste Chaboiseau and Lucie Toffier, at the
Plattenville church in April 1839. Félix remarried again--his third
marriage--to cousin Zephire, daughter of Pierre Charlet and his
Acadian wife Estelle Landry, at the
Plattenville church in October 1846.
Their son Félix Joseph had been born in May 1846 and was baptized the
day of his parents' wedding, and Arthure was born in February 1849.
Félix Joseph, by his father's third
wife, married cousin Joséphine, daughter of Jacques Barthe and
his Acadian wife Adélaïde Landry, at
the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in March 1868. Maximin, perhaps their son,
died near Plattenville at "age a few months" in October 1869.
5
Youngest son Evariste, born in
Assumption Parish in October
1811, may have married French Creole Eulalie Augustine, called Augustine, Labadie
and settled near the boundary between Assumption and Lafourche Interior
parishes. Their son Louis Émile or Émile Louis was born in November 1841, Félix Oscar
or Oscar Félix in January 1843, Pierre Aubert,
called Aubert,
in April 1844, Théodule Arthur, called Arthur, in September 1845, Numa Marie
in March 1847, Rodolphe Evariste in February 1849, and Lucien
Casimir Jean Baptiste in June 1855. Their daughter married into
the McNeil family. Evariste may have remarried to
Rosa Badoin, perhaps Baudoin, by the early 1860s and settled
near Paincourtville.
5a
Émile Louis, by his father's first
wife, married Claire
Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Désiré LeBlanc and
Egladie Comeaux, at the
Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in November 1865.
5b
Aubert "of Assumption Parish,"
by his father's first wife, married Léontine, daughter of Jean Webre
and Doralise Deslattes, at
the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Parish, in February 1866. They
lived near the boundary between Lafourche and Assumption parishes. Their
son Pierre Aubert, fils was born in January
1867, and Jules Evariste in January 1870.
5c
Oscar Félix, by his father's first
wife, married Isabelle Jeanne, daughter of William Dyer and
Elizabeth Kelly, at the
Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in March 1870.
Descendants of
Prosper-François HÉBERT (1779-1813; ?)
Prosper-François, called François,
third son of Jean-Baptiste Hébert and Marie-Madeleine Dugas,
born at St.-Similien, Nantes, France, in December 1779, came
to Louisiana with his widowed mother and siblings aboard La Bergère,
the second of the Seven Ships, in 1785. They
followed the majority of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where François married
Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadians Mathurin LeBlanc and Rosalie
Thériot, at Assumption in July
1801. Céleste was a native of Louisiana. Their daughters married
into the Falgout and Guidry family. François died in Assumption Parish in
May 1813, age 33; his succession inventory was filed at
the Thibodauxville courthouse the following August.
1
Older son François Duval,
called Duval, born
at Ascension in January 1805, married Marie Louise, 19-year-old daughter of
Louis Chauvin and his Acadian wife Marie Louise Robichaux, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche
Interior Parish, in May 1831.
Their son François, fils was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in
August 1834, Félix in November 1836, Louis in November
1840, and Cleopha at Bayou Petit Caillou, Terrebonne Parish, in
September 1849. Their daughters married into the Chauvin, Naquin, and Sevin
families. Duval died in Terrebonne Parish in October 1858, age 53; his succession inventory was filed at the
Houma courthouse in November.
1a
François, fils married
cousin Hennely or Ameley, daughter of Adolphe Chauvin and Eugènie
Montet, in a civil
ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in December 1854, and sanctified the
marriage at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in January. Their
son Albert was born in Terrebonne Parish in August 1856,
Adam Oliva in May 1861, and François Aldon near Montegut in
September 1868.
1b
Félix died probably in
Terrebonne Parish by November 1858, when he was not listed as a
surviving child in his father's succession inventory.
1c
Louis "from Lafourche Parish"
married Marie Octavie or Octavie Marie, daughter of Pierre Joseph Toups
and Mélasie Duplantis of
Terrebonne Parish, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in January
1862. Their son Joseph Myrtille was born in Terrebonne
Parish in January 1863, Louis Lovenci near Montegut in February
1865, George Evins in October 1866, Jean Aurelien in November 1868,
and William Ludovic in November 1870.
2
Younger son François Hubert,
born in Ascension Parish in February 1808, married Estelle or Esther, 14-year-old
daughter of Léon Falgout and Mélanie Champagne, at the Thibodauxville church,
Lafourche Interior Parish, in April 1837. They lived near the boundary
between Lafourche Interior and Terrebonne parishes. Their son François,
fils was born in August 1838, and Jules
Alphonse, called Alphonse, in October 1842, and Ernest
Albert in June 1858. They also had an older son named Jean
Baptiste. Their daughters married into the Bourgeois
(French Creole, not Acadian), McDonald, Scott, and Sevin
families. François Hubert died in Terrebonne Parish in May 1869; the
Houma priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any
parents' names or mention a wife, said that François died "at age 60
yrs."; he was 61.
2a
Jean Baptiste married Zulema
or Zulma
Mélasie, daughter of Marcellin Sevin and his Acadian wife
Carmélite LeBlanc, at the
Thibodaux church, Lafourche Parish, in February 1862; Jean Baptiste's sister Laura married Zulema's
brother Onésippe. Jean Baptiste and Zulema lived near the boundary
between Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes. Their son Félix
Émile was born in February 1863 but died at age 1 1/2 in June 1864,
Henri William, called William, was born in February
1865 but died at age 2 1/2 in November 1867, Alexandre
Pelham was baptized at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, age
unrecorded, in June 1868, and Thomas Gibson was born in March
1869.
2b
Alphonse married Louise,
daughter of fellow Acadian Simon Pierre LeBlanc and his Creole
wife Julie Lause, at the Montegut
church, Terrebonne Parish, in January 1866.
Descendants of Étienne
HÉBERT (1784-1863; ?)
Étienne, fourth and youngest son of Jean-Baptiste Hébert
and Marie-Madeleine Dugas, was born posthumously at St.-Similien, Nantes,
France, and baptized there in December 1784, five months after his father's
death. Étienne came to Louisiana with his widowed mother
and siblings aboard La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, in
1785, still an infant. They followed most of their
fellow passengers
to upper Bayou Lafourche, where Étienne married Clémence, daughter of fellow Acadians
Jean-Baptiste Robichaux and Marie Marthe LeBlanc, in a civil ceremony in Interior Parish in
September 1809, and sanctified the marriage at the Plattenville church, Assumption
Parish, in April 1811. Clémence was a native of Louisiana whose
parents had come to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765 as infants. Étienne
and Clémence's daughters married into the Autin, Breaux, Terrebonne,
and Theriot families. Étienne died near Raceland, Lafourche
Parish, in September 1863; the priest who recorded the burial, and who did
not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Étienne
died "at age 83 yrs.," but he was 79; he was one of the last of the
Acadian immigrants in Louisiana to join our ancestors.
1
Oldest son Onésime or Olésime, born in
Assumption Parish in April 1811, may have married cousin Marie Elisa Dugas
in Lafourche Interior Parish in the 1830s. Marie Elisa was listed as
deceased in a daughter's baptismal record dated 24 January 1839, so she may
have died giving birth. Onésime may have remarried
to Adolphine Leroux, also called Tailier, Toilier,
Derouge, and Dereson, in
the early 1840s. They settled near Raceland, Lafourche Parish. Their son Jean Baptiste was
born in January 1850. Their daughter married into the Calais
family.
2
Evariste, born in
Assumption Parish in May 1818,
married Estelle Rosalie, called Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis
Gaudin and Anne Louvière of St. James Parish, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior
Parish, in May 1838, and remarried to Marie, daughter of Frice or Fine Martin,
perhaps a fellow Acadian, at the Thibodaux church in May 1843. Their son Evariste Ozémé, called Ozémé, was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in December
1847, and Jules in February 1849.
2a
Ozémé, by his father's second wife,
married Marie Odile, daughter of Auguste Sanchez and his Acadian
wife Marie Adèle or Adeline Guillot, at the Raceland church, Lafourche Parish, in December 1869. Their son Joseph Augustin was
born in November or December 1870.
2b
Jules, by his father's second wife,
married Émelie, daughter of François Gervais and Aline
Deterval, in a civil ceremony
in Lafourche Parish in February 1870.
3
Narcisse, born in Lafourche
Interior Parish in August 1824, may have died young.
4
Eugène, born
in Lafourche Interior Parish in September 1829, married Émelie, called Melia, daughter of
Louis Duet or D'huet and Carmelite Folse, in a civil ceremony
probably in Lafourche Interior Parish in May 1850, and sanctified the
marriage at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Parish, in January 1853.
Their son Enoc Loving was born near Raceland in October 1857,
Pierre Eugène in June 1859,
George Clément in June 1860, Étienne Polite near Lockport in
August 1862, and Damien Nicolas in December 1870. Their daughter married into the
Orgeron family.
5
Youngest son Hippolyte was
born in Lafourche Interior Parish in June 1832. One wonders if he
survived childhood and married.
Descendants of Jean-Olivier-Marie
HÉBERT (1769-1810s;
Antoine, Jean, Jean, fils, Pierre)
Jean-Olivier-Marie, only surviving son
of Jean-Baptiste Hébert and Luce-Perpétué Bourg, born at St.-Suliac,
near St.-Malo, France, in March 1769, came to Louisiana
with his widowed mother and three sisters aboard La Bergère, the
second of the Seven Ships, in 1785. They followed
the majority of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where Jean-Olivier married Nathalie-Marie, daughter of fellow
Acadians Olivier Aucoin and his second wife Cécile Richard, in October 1787. Nathalie also
had come to Louisiana aboard La Bergère. Their daughters married into the Aucoin,
Breaux, and Delaune
families. Jean-Olivier died by April 1816, when he was recorded as
deceased in a daughter's marriage record; he would have been in his late 40s
that year. His older son settled in Ascension Parish, his younger son in
Assumption.
1
Older son Jean-Arsène, called
Arsène, born at
Assumption in July 1798, married Marguerite Cécile, daughter of Louis
Judice and his Acadian wife Henriette Rassicot, at the Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, in January 1820. They remained in Ascension
Parish, where Arsène remarried.
2
Younger son Jean-Baptiste,
called Baptiste, born probably at Assumption in c1800, married cousin Faralie,
daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Aucoin, fils and Marie
Marguerite Noël, at the Plattenville
church, Assumption Parish, in May 1821. Their son Jules, also
called Second, was
born in Assumption Parish in August 1825 but died at age 5 in September 1830.
Their daughter married into the LeBlanc family. Jean Baptiste remarried to
Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Luc Landry and
Françoise-Hélène Le Borgne de Bélisle, at the Plattenville
church in January 1834. Their son Joseph Alcide was born in
Assumption Parish in May 1836, and Joseph Jean Baptiste near
Paincourtville in August 1845. Their daughters married into the
Daigle, Hébert, Simoneaux, and Theriot families.
Joseph Alcide, by his father's second
wife, married cousin Marie, daughter of Firmin Friou and his
Acadian wife Marie Landry, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in August 1859. They settled near Pierre Part,
north of Lake Verret. Their son Jean Baptiste
Mesmain was born in December 1861.
Descendants of Jean-Louis-Étienne
HÉBERT (c1769-1825;
Étienne, Antoine, Jean)
Jean-Louis-Étienne, eldest son of Étienne Hébert
and his first wife Marie Lavergne, baptized at Le Havre, France, age
unrecorded, in May 1769, came to Louisiana with his father, stepmother,
and siblings aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, in 1785. They followed
most of their
fellow passengers
to upper Bayou Lafourche, where Jean-Louis married Marie-Victoire, daughter of fellow Acadians Grégoire Doiron
and Hélène Aucoin, in June 1791. Marie-Victoire also had come to Louisiana aboard
L'Amitié.
They lived at New Orleans and St.-Jacques but settled on Bayou
Lafourche. Their daughters married into the Doucet,
Lanconi or Lanzon, and Martin families. Jean
Louis died in Lafourche Interior Parish in May 1825; the priest who recorded
the burial said that Jean Louis was age 60 when he died, but he was 55.
1
Oldest son Louis-Étienne, called Étienne,
born at St.-Jacques on the river below Ascension in August 1792, married Rose,
also called Fleurance, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean-Baptiste Doucet
and his Creole wife Barbara Daublin, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in May 1811. Did
they have any children who survived childhood?
2
Cyrille, baptized at
Assumption in December 1796, may have died young.
3
Hippolyte, born at
Assumption in December 1804, was still a minor when a succession appointed Louis Hébert, probably his elder brother, as his tutor in
July 1818. Hippolyte married Marie Faralie or Fanalie Rose, 18-year-old daughter of
Joseph Forgeron, also called Ford and Forge,
and his Acadian wife Rosalie Roger, at the Thibodauxville church,
Lafourche Interior Parish, in July 1826.
Their son Marcellin was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in August
1827, Hippolyte, fils in
March 1829, and Jules Pierre or Pierre Jules in December 1835. Their daughters
married into the Andra, Boudreaux, Hans or House, Martin,
Molaison, St.
Charles, and Thibodeaux families.
3a
Hippolyte, fils married
Victoire Angélique or Angélique Victoire, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Boudreaux
and his Creole wife Angélique Toups, at the
Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in October 1848; Hippolyte,
fils's sister Aglae Sévinne married Victoire's brother Étienne.
Hippolyte, fils and Angélique's son Joachim Hippolyte
was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in November 1849, Drausin in June 1858,
and Joseph Adam in October 1861. Their daughter
married into the Chiasson family.
3b
Pierre Jules married Marie
Clementine, called Clementine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Boudreaux
and Modeste Clémence Thibodeaux, at the
Thibodaux church, Lafourche Parish, in May 1860. Their son Paul
Lovinsci was born in Lafourche Parish in February 1862, and Marcellin
in June 1869.
4
Jean Baptiste, born in
Assumption Parish in June 1807, may have died young.
5
Youngest son Auguste Florentin
died in Terrebonne Parish, "a minor," in 1829. His succession
inventory, listing his sisters as heirs, was filed at the Houma courthouse
in September 1833. One wonders who he married. He seems to have
had a son named Cyrille le jeune.
Descendants of Guillaume-Bénoni
HÉBERT (c1772-1810s;
Étienne, Antoine, Jean)
Guillaume-Bénoni, called Bénoni,
second son of Étienne
Hébert and his first wife Marie Lavergne, born at Le Havre,
France, in c1772, came to Louisiana with his father, stepmother, and siblings aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the
Seven Ships, in 1785. They followed the majority of
their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche,
where Bénoni married Marie-Anne, daughter of fellow
Acadian Louis Dantin and his first wife Jeanne Gesmier,
a Frenchwoman, in January 1793. Marie-Anne also
had come to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié, so they may have known one
another in France. Their daughters married
into the Adam, Lirette, Molaison, and Thibodaux
(French Canadian, not Acadian) families. Guillaume Bénoni
died by June 1816, in his late 30s or early 40s, when he was recorded in daughter Eugénie's marriage record as
deceased (Eugénie married a
son of future Louisiana Governor Henry Schuyler Thibodaux). Some of
Bénoni's slaves were sold perhaps by his widow in Lafourche Interior Parish in
April 1821. A public auction of his estate property was held in
Lafourche Interior Parish in April 1833. All three of his sons
married, but one of them seems to have had no children. The other two
sons created substantial lines in the Bayou Lafourche valley.
1
Oldest son François-Louis, born at Assumption in
October 1795, likely married Lucie Adélaïde, called Adélaïde, daughter of Jean
Pierre Lirette of Nantes and his Acadian wife Marie Madeleine
Darembourg, probably in Assumption Parish in the mid or late
1810s; one of François's sisters married one of Adélaïde's brothers, and
François's youngest brother married one of Adélaïde's sisters.
François and Adélaïde settled near the boundary between Assumption and
Lafourche Interior parishes. Their son François Sylvain, called
François, fils, was born in March 1817 but died at age 11 in
September 1828, Louis Marcillien, Marcelière, or Maxillière was born in 1818, Auguste Voltaire
in December 1825, Pierre Cyrus, called Cyrus, in December
1827, François Dural, called Dural, in February 1830, Jean
Mathère, called Mathère, Mather, and Walter, in January 1831, and another
François, fils in August 1836. They also had a son named Aubert. Their daughters married into the
Bergeron and Estivenne families. François, père died in
Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1850, age 54.
1a
Louis Maxillière married Lise, 17-year-old daughter of Pierre Pontiff
and Mérente Elmer, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior
Parish in January 1837, and remarried to Louise Adèle or Odile,
daughter of fellow Acadians Auguste Babin and Marianne
Bergeron, at the Thibodaux church,
Lafourche Interior Parish, in July 1840, five months after a daughter was
born. Their son François Vital was born in Lafourche Interior
Parish in September 1844, Hippolyte Volcar in January 1853, Bertram
in Terrebonne Parish in April 1854, François Amédéo in January 1856,
and Jean Madéo in July 1859. Their daughters married
into the LeBoeuf, Martin (French Canadian, not Acadian), and Naquin
families.
François Vital, by his
father's second wife, married Uranie, daughter of André Borne
and Élodie Haydel, at the
Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in April 1868. They settled
near Chacahoula. Their son
Cléo Paul was born in January 1869.
1b
Auguste Voltaire married Marie
Anne, another daughter of Auguste Babin and Marianne
Bergeron, in a civil
ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in December 1842. Auguste died in
Lafourche Interior Parish in August 1847, age 21.
Did his family line die with him?
1c
Cyrus married Meranthe, daughter of Guillaume
Malbrough and his Acadian wife Scholastique Daigle, at
the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in September 1846. Their son Pierre Clebert
or Cleber, called Cleber,
was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in April 1848. Their
daughter married into the Crochet family. Cyrus
remarried to Odilia, daughter of fellow Acadian Evariste Babin
and his Creole wife Marie Rosalie LeBoeuf, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in March 1859.
Cleber, by his father's first wife,
married Émilie, another daughter of Evariste Babin and Marie
Rosalie LeBoeuf, at
the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in August 1865; Émilie's sister
Odillia was Cleber's stepmother, so Émilie was Cleber's aunt by
marriage!
1d
Mathère married Marie Esther, called Esther, daughter of fellow Acadian
François Pitre and his Creole wife Scholastique Boutary, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish,
in October 1849. Their son Émile Onestile was born in Lafourche
Parish in November 1851, a child, name and age unrecorded, perhaps a son,
died "during [the] yellow fever epidemic" in September 1853,
Joseph Désiré was born in January 1858, Augustin in June 1860,
and Joseph Désiré in November 1870 (4 days before his mother
died, in her early 40s).
1e
Dural married Martha,
also called Mace, daughter of Isaac Cobet, Cobbett, Coubet,
or Colet and Azélie Fabre, at the Thibodaux church,
Lafourche Interior Parish, in April 1850. Their son Philocles
was born in Lafourche Parish in February 1854, Thomas Ubel in
January 1856, Henry Arthur
in May 1860, Isaac in October 1862, and François Philippe
in August 1865.
1f
Aubert married Marcellite,
daughter of fellow Acadians Marcellin Robichaux and Tarzile
Bertrand, at the Thibodaux
church, Lafourche Parish, in August 1854. Their son Anatole
was born in Lafourche Parish in January 1861, Joseph Adolphe
in May 1865, and Louis Alphonse in May 1870.
2
Jean-Louis, called Louis, born at
Assumption in August 1797, married Marie Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians
François Gaudet and Marie Roger, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in October 1816. They
lived near the boundary between Assumption and Lafourche Interior parishes. Their
son François was born in October 1817,
Noël Louis, called Louis, fils,
in March 1819, Guillaume le jeune in
November 1821, Auguste or Augustin le jeune in June 1832, Hippolyte
in December 1834, twins Jules and Ozémé in July 1845 but Jules died 8 days
after his birth, and Joseph in c1846 but died at age 10
in August 1856. Their daughters married into the
Breaux, D'Huet, Levron, Molaison, and Richard
families. Jean Louis died in May 1850; the Thibodaux priest who
recorded the burial said that Jean Louis died "at
age 54 yrs."; he was 52; a petition for family meeting in his name
was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse the following September.
2a
Louis, fils married Eulalie,
20-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Grégoire Ignace Usé and
Marie Boudreaux, at the
Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in February 1839.
Their son Louis Oleus was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in
July 1840, Émile in December 1846, Joseph Arthur in April
1848 but died at age 7 1/2 in October 1855, and Henri was born in May 1850.
Their daughters married into the Andra or Andras,
Boudreaux, D'Huet, and
Toups families.
2b
François married Marie Victorine,
called Victorine, 18-year-old daughter of Étienne Toups and his
Acadian wife Carmélite Part, at the
Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in April 1839. Their son François Hamilton was
born in Lafourche Interior Parish in January 1840, Augustin Charles,
called Charles,
in December 1844, George in December 1846 but died at age 8
1/2 in June 1855, Amédée Vasseur
was born in January 1849, Étienne in October 1850 but died at age 6 in
December 1856, Joseph, a twin, was born in December 1852, and a child, name
unrecorded, perhaps a son, died at age 3 months in July 1855. They
also had an older son named Wellington, unless he was François
Hamilton. Their
daughters married into the Bergeron and Knobloch families.
During the War of 1861-65,
Wellington F., as Confederate records called him, served
as a fourth corporal in Company D of the 26th Regiment Louisiana
Infantry, raised in Lafourche Parish, which fought at Vicksburg,
Mississippi. Wellington married Eglantine, daughter of fellow
Acadians Paul Sylvain Thibodeaux and Marie Séraphine
Thibodeaux, at the Raceland church, Lafourche
Parish, in January 1869.
Charles died in Lafourche
Parish in February 1870. The Thibodaux priest who recorded the
burial said that Charles died "at age 23 yrs."; he was 25.
He probably did not marry.
2c
Guillaume le jeune
married Marie Rosalie, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste
Guillot and Pélagie Richard, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in
February 1841. Their son Jules was born in Lafourche
Interior Parish in April 1847, Arthur in November 1848,
Joseph Ernest in March 1855, and Joseph Félicien in March
1861. Their daughters married into the
Boudreaux and Richard families.
Jules married Lea,
daughter of fellow Acadian Léon Boudreaux and his Creole wife
Roseline Pontiff, at the Thibodaux
church, Lafourche Parish, in August 1868.
2d
Augustin married Marcellite
Émée, called Émée, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Benoît Richard
and Céleste Breaux, at the
Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in July 1850. Their
son Joseph Augustin was born in Lafourche Parish in January 1856,
Pierre Théogène in June 1858, Joseph Adam in November
1863, Adam in September 1865, and Jean Baptiste in
November 1867. Their daughter married
into the Lirette family.
2e
Ozémé married Marie Adeline or Adelina, daughter of
Creoles Arsène Ledet and Adèle Legendre, at the Thibodaux
church, Lafourche Parish, in April 1864. Their son Joseph
Amadéo was born in Lafourche Parish in February 1865, and Louis
Émile in December 1870.
3
Youngest son Louis Auguste or Augustin,
born at Assumption in August 1803, married Marie Anne
Clémence, daughter of French Creole Jean Pierre Lirette, at the
Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in June 1819; Marie Anne's mother
was an Acadian Darembourg; one of Marie Anne's brothers married one of
Auguste's sisters, and Auguste's oldest brother married one of Marie Anne's
sisters. Auguste died in Lafourche Interior Parish in
October 1840, age 37; his succession sale occurred in
Lafourche Interior Parish in November. He and his wife may have been
that rare Acadian couple who had no children.
Louis-Gabriel
HÉBERT (1775-?;
Étienne, Antoine le jeune, Jean)
Louis-Gabriel, called Gabriel,
third son
of Étienne Hébert and his first wife Marie Lavergne, born at
Cenan, Poitou, France, in February 1775, came to Louisiana with his father,
stepmother, and siblings aboard L'Amitié, the fifth
of the Seven Ships, in 1785. They followed most of their fellow passengers to upper
Bayou Lafourche. One wonders if Louis-Gabriel ever married.
Descendants of Jean-Joseph
HÉBERT (1771-;
Antoine, Jean, René dit Groc, Jean)
Jean-Joseph, also called
Jean-Baptiste, second son of Jean-Baptist Hébert
and Anne-Josèphe Dugas, born at St.-Suliac near St.-Malo,
France, in April 1771, came to Louisiana with his parents
and siblings aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, in 1785. They followed
most of their
fellow passengers
to upper Bayou Lafourche, where Jean-Joseph married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians
Jean-Baptiste LeBlanc and his second wife Marguerite Célestin
dit Bellemère, at Assumption in April 1793. Madeleine had
come to Louisiana with four siblings aboard Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships
from France. Their daughters married into the Guillot,
Mussau or
Musseau, and Thibodeaux
families. Jean Joseph's succession record may have been filed at what
became the Interior Parish courthouse at Thibodauxville in December 1806.
His only son settled down bayou in Terrebonne Parish.
Jean-Baptiste, born in what
became Lafourche Interior Parish in c1803, married cousin Marie
Angélique, called Angélique, 23-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean
Martin LeBlanc and Céleste Pitre, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior
Parish, in August 1828. Their son Jean Jacques was born in
Lafourche Interior Parish in May 1829. Their daughter married into the
Breaux family. Jean
Baptiste, living in Terrebonne Parish, remarried to Marie Élise, called
Élise, Hélise, Louise, and Augustine, daughter of Jean Baptiste Fremin
and his Acadian wife Marie Françoise Aucoin, at the Thibodaux
church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in November 1839. Their son Robert Ernest was born in
Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1844, Joseph Lhomere at
Bayou Black, Terrebonne Parish, in January 1850, Pierre in November
1851, Jean Marie in
November 1853, and Adam Armogène in December 1861. Their daughters
married into the Breaux and LeBoeuf families. His oldest
son moved to the western prairies after the War of 1861-65.
Jean Jacques, by his father's first
wife, married cousin Marie Azélie, daughter of Augustin
Fremin and his Acadian wife Fannie Hébert, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in
August 1852. Their son
Jean Baptiste le jeune was born in Terrebonne Parish in December
1853, and Aurelien near Youngsville, Lafayette Parish, in October
1866. Their daughter married an Hébert cousin in Lafayette
Parish.
Descendants of
Ambroise-Mathurin HÉBERT (1772-1820s?;
Antoine, Jean, René dit
Groc, Jean)
Ambroise-Mathurin, third son of
Jean-Baptiste Hébert and Anne-Josèphe Dugas, born at
St.-Suliac near St.-Malo, France, in November 1772, came to
Louisiana with his parents and siblings aboard Le St.-Rémi, the
fourth of the Seven Ships, in 1785. They followed
the majority of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where Ambroise-Mathurin may have fathered a "natural
child" by fellow Acadian Marie-Marguerite, called Marguerite, Lejeune,
in late 1794. Marguerite had come to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié, the
fifth of the Seven Ships. There is no record of a marriage for him and
Marguerite, but Ambroise-Mathurin did marry Isabelle-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles-Olivier Guillot
and Madeleine Boudreaux, at Assumption in November 1797. Isabelle-Madeleine also had come to
Louisiana aboard Le St.-Rémi. Their daughters married into the
Babin, Lejeune, McLahlan, Pichot or Pichotte, and Sevin
families. A succession providing for the tutelage of Ambroise
Mathurin's minor children was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse,
Lafourche Interior Parish, in
February 1822; he would have been age 50 that year.
1
Oldest son Pierre-Félix-Ambroise,
perhaps a "natural" child, born
at Assumption in October 1794, may have died young.
2
Alexis-Ambroise, born at
Assumption in April 1801, may have died young.
3
Jean Vincent, called
Vincent, born at
Assumption in April
1805, married Tarsile Geneviève, 19-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Hilaire
Clément and Geneviève Sophie Boudreaux, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in
June 1828. Their son Jean Ursin, called Ursin, was born in Lafourche Interior
Parish in November 1829, and Sylvain Cyprien in October 1833.
Their daughters married into the Benoit, Boudreaux, Breaux, and Morvant
families. Vincent died in Lafourche Parish in October 1861; the
Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial said that Vincent died "at age 58
yrs."; he was 56.
3a
Ursin married Marie, daughter
of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Benoit and his Creole wife
Rosalie Navarre, at the Thibodaux church,
Lafourche Parish, in February 1854. Their son Joseph Émile,
called Émile, was born in Lafourche Parish in June 1856 but died
in July, another Émile, a twin, died a day after his birth in
June 1858, Neuville Adam was
born in September 1860, Joseph Ozéma in January 1863, Martial
in March 1865, and
Joseph in February 1870.
3b
Sylvain married Apauline or
Pauline,
daughter of fellow Acadian Valéry Guillot and his Creole wife
Arthémise Morvant, at the Thibodaux
church, Lafourche Parish, in April 1854. Their son Joseph
Sylvère was born in Lafourche Parish in January 1858, Joseph
Olivain in April 1860, Jean Émile in May 1862, and Joseph
Adrici in June 1864.
4
Olivier Marcellin, also
called Olivier B., born in
Assumption Parish in March 1807, married Tarsile Marie or Marie Tarsile, 22-year-old daughter
of fellow Acadians Noël Victor Boudreaux and Rosalie LeBlanc, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche
Interior Parish, in October 1834. Their son Joseph Rémon or
Trémond was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in March 1836 but died at
age 5 months, 4 days, the following September, Ulgère Marcellin Adam,
called Marcellin,
was born in June 1837, Charles Jean Baptiste in November 1838 but
died at age 4 1/2 in May 1843, and Auguste Félix
was born in November 1840. Their daughters married into the
Clement,
Rabat,
Rabatte,
or
Rabbas, and Tauzin families. Letters of tutorship for two of Oliver's daughters
were filed at the Thibodaux courthouse, Lafourche Parish, in July 1859; he
would have been age 52 that year.
4a
Marcellin married Adèle,
daughter of fellow Acadian Eugène Part and his Creole wife Adèle
Estivennes, at the Thibodaux church,
Lafourche Parish, in September 1856. Their son Eugène Marcellin
was born in Lafourche Parish in July 1857, and Aurestile
Marcellin Adam posthumously in March 1859. Marcellin died in
Lafourche Parish in January 1859, age 21.
4b
Auguste Félix died in
Lafourche Parish in December 1858, age 18, and
probably did not marry.
5
Youngest son Ambroise Mathurin,
fils, born in Assumption Parish in May 1811, may have died young.
Simon HÉBERT
(1778-; Antoine,
Jean, René dit Groc, Jean)
Simon, fifth son of Jean-Baptiste Hébert
and Anne-Josèphe Dugas, born in St.-Similien Parish, Nantes, France, in
April 1778, came to Louisiana with his parents
and siblings aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, in 1785. They followed
most of their
fellow passengers
to upper Bayou Lafourche. Simon was still living with his parents at Assumption in
January 1798, when he was age 20, and may not have
married.
Descendants of Alexis-Thomas
HÉBERT (1782-1820;
Antoine, Jean, René dit Groc, Jean)
Alexis-Thomas, sixth son of Jean-Baptiste
Hébert and Anne-Josèphe Dugas, born in St.-Similien Parish, Nantes,
France, in December 1782, came to Louisiana with
his parents and siblings aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven
Ships, in 1785. They followed most of their fellow
passengers to upper Bayou
Lafourche, where Alexis Thomas married Marie Pélagie, daughter
of fellow Acadians Firmin Charles Thibodeaux and Marie
Thériot of St. James, at Assumption in
February 1804. Marie Pélagie had been born in Louisiana soon after her
family came to the colony aboard Le St.-Rémi. Their daughters
married into the Aucoin and Barbier families. Alexis Thomas died in Ascension
Parish in May 1820, age 38.
1
Oldest son Jean Joseph,
born in Assumption Parish in May 1807, may have died young.
2
Alexis Séraphin, born in
Assumption Parish in November 1809, married Anne Arsène Jeanne, called
Arsène, daughter of Jean Langlinais and his Acadian wife Céleste
LeBlanc, at the Plattenville church, Assumption
Parish, in May 1832. Their son
Alexis Zéphirin was born in Assumption Parish in February 1836, Jean Séverin in January 1838,
and Anselme Jule in April 1840. They were living near
Charenton, St. Mary Parish, on lower Bayou Teche, by the early 1840s.
3
Léandre, also called
Léon, born in Assumption
Parish in October
1811, married cousin Amelina, Emelina, Carmelina, Eveline, or Melina, daughter of Auguste Campo
and his Acadian wife Mélite Hébert, at
the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in November 1836. Their son Augustin Alexis was born
near Plattenville in August 1839, Pierre Désiré in April 1849, and Joseph Alexi near
Paincourtville in October 1852. Their daughters married into the
Landry and Rodrigue families.
4
Youngest son Pierre dit Pierrot,
born probably in Assumption Parish during the 1810s, married
Élise or Elisa, daughter of fellow Acadians François Crochet and
Eulalie Landry, at the
Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in May 1838. Their son
Adolphe Joseph was born near Plattenville in December 1840,
Joseph Eusilien near Paincourtville in August 1844 but died the
following October, Pierre Joseph was born in April 1846,
Justilien Sainville in April 1849, and Sylvain François in
September 1853. Their daughters married into the Hébert and
Trahan families, one of them to a cousin on lower Bayou Teche.
Martin HÉBERT (1785-?;
Antoine, Jean,
René dit Groc, Jean)
Martin, seventh and youngest son of
Jean-Baptiste Hébert and Anne-Josèphe Dugas, was born aboard Le
St. Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships from France, in 1785.
After his baptism at New Orleans, he followed his family to upper Bayou
Lafourche, where
he died either in the late 1780s or the 1790s, still a child.
Joseph HÉBERT (1772-?;
Étienne, Emmanuel,
Jacques, Charles)
Joseph, son of Charles Hébert,
fils and
Marguerite-Louise Valet, born at St.-Suliac near St.-Malo,
France, in December 1772, came to Louisiana with a sister and a
half-brother aboard La Caroline, the last of the Seven Ships from
France, in 1785. They followed most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche. In January 1788, Spanish officials counted
Joseph with his half-brother Martin-Bénoni Pitre and Martin's wife on
the upper bayou. Joseph then disappears from Louisiana records.
He may not have
married.
Descendants of Louis-Jean
HÉBERT (1779-;
Étienne, Emmanuel, Jacques, Charles)
Louis-Jean, third and youngest son of
Joseph
Hébert
and Jeanne
De La Forestrie of Île St.-Jean, born
in St.-Similien Parish, Nantes, France, in June 1779, came to
Louisiana with his parents and siblings aboard Le St.-Rémi, the
fourth of the Seven Ships, in 1785. They followed
most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche. Louis-Jean's father died soon
after the family settled at Lafourche, and his mother remarried to Sébastien Benoit,
a fellow Acadian exile from France.
Louis-Jean's mother died at Lafourche in the early 1790s, when he was still
a boy. His stepfather left the bayou and moved to the Calcasieu River
area at the far western edge of the Opelousas District, near present-day
Lake Charles, but Louis-Jean did not follow him or his siblings there. Louis-Jean probably grew up with relatives on upper
Bayou Lafourche, where he married Félicité Julie,
daughter of fellow Acadians Martin Bénoni Pitre and Jeanne
Dantin, at the Plattenville
church, Assumption Parish, in November
1812. Félicité had been born in Louisiana a few years after her family had come to
the colony aboard La Caroline, the last of the Seven Ships from
France. Their daughter married into the Guin family. Did
Louis Jean father any sons?
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During the late colonial period,
Héberts from France who had gone to river communities moved on to upper Bayou
Lafourche and resettled near their many cousins already there:
Amable Hébert followed his children
from Baton Rouge to the upper Lafourche,
where he died in January 1816, in his 70s.
Descendants of Pierre-Jean
HÉBERT (1763-1827;
Antoine, Jean, Jean, fils, Jean III)
Pierre-Jean, eldest son of Pierre Hébert
and his second wife Susanne Pitre, born at Ploubalay near St.-Malo,
France, in February 1763, came to Louisiana with his
parents and siblings aboard La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the
Seven Ships from France, in 1785. They followed most of their
fellow
passengers to Bayou des Écores, north of Baton Rouge, where
Pierre-Jean married cousin Anne-Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Aucoin
and Anne Hébert, in May 1788. Anne-Marie also had come to
Louisiana aboard La Ville d'Archangel. After the Acadians
abandoned Bayou des Écores in the early 1790s, Pierre-Jean and Anne-Marie moved to upper
Bayou Lafourche. Their daughter married into the Maillet
family. Pierre Jean died in Lafourche Interior Parish in December
1827; the Thibodauxville priest who recorded the burial said that Pierre was
age 66 when he died; he was 64.
1
Older son Pierre-Jean, fils,
born probably at Bayou des Écores in May 1788, married Marie Madeleine,
daughter of Jean Maillet, Mallet, Mars, Mayere,
Mayet, or Mayot and Osite Perpétué Theriot, at the Plattenville church,
Assumption Parish, in July 1808; Marie Madeleine's mother was a Thériot.
Their son Jean Pierre was born in Assumption Parish in April 1809,
Joseph Rosémond, called Rosémond, in June
1813, Augustin or Marcellin in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1822
but died at age 2 in April 1824, and Pierre Siméon, called Siméon, was born in
Assumption Parish in February 1832. Their daughter married into the Juneau
family. Pierre Jean, fils died in Assumption Parish in November
1832, age 44.
1a
Rosémond married
cousin Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Noël André Templet
and his first wife Mélanie Hébert, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in May 1832; Marie's
mother was a half-sister of brother Jean-Pierre's
second wife. Their son Théophile Adam was born in Lafourche
Interior Parish in May 1839 but died at age 7 months the following
December, and Théodule Eugène in February 1844. Their
daughters married into the Delaune and LeBlanc families. Rosémond
died in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1846, age 32. His youngest son moved to the western prairies
after the War of 1861-65.
Théodule Eugène married
Euphémie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Comeaux and
Pélagie LeBlanc,, at the
Youngsville church, Lafayette Parish, in January 1870.
1b
Jean Pierre married cousin
Azélie, daughter of Pierre Cedotal and his Acadian wife Marie
Hébert, at the
Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1833. Their son Marcellin Pierre was
born probably in Assumption Parish in 1833 but died at age 3 1/2 in July
1837. Jean Pierre remarried to Eulalie
Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Noël André Templet and
his second wife Marie Crochet, at the Plattenville church in January
1836; Eulalie Marie was a half-sister of Jean Pierre's brother
Rosémond's wife. Their son Valéry Augustin, called Augustin, was born in Assumption
Parish in December 1838, Sylvanie Adolphe in September 1841, and Joseph Octave
near Paincourtville in May 1844.
Augustin, by his father's second
wife, married cousin
Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Élie Hébert and
Léocade Landry, at the Pierre Part
church, Assumption Parish, in January 1860. Their son
Joseph Léo was born near Pierre Part in December 1860.
Joseph Octave, by his
father's second wife, married Elea, daughter of fellow Acadians Rosémond
Dupuis and Odalie Richard, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in
August 1870.
1c
Siméon married Pauline,
daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Boudreaux and Marie
Gautreaux of Assumption Parish,
at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Parish, in May 1855. They
settled near the boundary between Lafourche and Assumption parishes.
Their son Numa Léo was born in August 1857, and Théodule
Gustave in March 1861.
2
Younger son Jean-Baptiste,
born at Assumption in June 1794, may have married Céleste
Azélie or Azélie Céleste, daughter of, perhaps, fellow Acadians Basile Prejean
le jeune and Rosalie Lachaussée, in Lafourche Interior Parish in the late 1810s; church records make it
difficult to determine which Jean Baptiste Hébert this may have been.
If this was them, did they have any children?
François-Étienne
HÉBERT (1767-1844;
Antoine, Jean, Jean, fils, Jean III)
François-Étienne, second son of Pierre Hébert
and his second wife Susanne Pitre, born at Ploubalay near St.-Malo,
France, in February 1767, came to Louisiana with his
parents and siblings aboard La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the
Seven Ships, in 1785. François married Angélique,
daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Henry of Cobeguit and his second
wife Anne Thibodeau, at New Orleans in January 1786, soon
after they reached the colony on the same ship. They followed most of their fellow passengers to Bayou des Écores north
of Baton Rouge before moving to upper Bayou Lafourche, where they were
counted at Valenzuela in the mid- and late 1790s without children.
François Étienne died in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1844; the
Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial said that François died "at age 83
yrs."; he was 77. One wonders if he was a widower when he
died, and if he and his wife were that rare Acadian couple who had no
children.
Descendants of Joseph-Yves HÉBERT
(1769-1843; Antoine,
Jean, Jean, fils, Jean III)
Joseph-Yves, third son of Pierre Hébert and
his second wife Susanne Pitre, born at Ploubalay near
St.-Malo, France, in May 1769, came to Louisiana with his parents and
siblings aboard La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships, in 1785. They followed
most of their
fellow passengers
to Bayou des Écores north of Baton Rouge, where Joseph
married Marie-Victoire, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Thibodeaux
and Madeleine Henry, in August 1788. Marie-Victoire also had come to Louisiana aboard La Ville
d'Archangel. After the Acadians abandoned Bayou des Écores in the
early 1790s, Joseph and Marie-Victoire
moved to upper Bayou Lafourche, where most of their children,
including many sons, were born. Their daughters married into the
Delaune, Fremin, Gros, Juneau, and Lagrange
families. Joseph Yves died in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1843;
the Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph died "at age
77 yrs."; he was 74. Only half of his eight sons married
and created families of their own. One of them settled on Bayou Teche,
but the others remained in the Bayou Lafourche valley.
1
Oldest son Cyrille-Lacroix, born at Bayou des
Écores in March 1790, married Rosalie, daughter of Grégoire
Chico and his Acadian wife Marguerite Guidry, at the Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, in May 1809. Their son Marcel Eugène
was born in Assumption Parish in January 1811, Séverin Octave in
November 1817, Félix Charles Marie in September 1820, and Pierre
Zéphirin, perhaps also called Zéphirin, in December 1822. Their daughters married into the Boudreaux and Thibodeaux
families. Cyrille Lacroix died in Lafourche Interior Parish in January
1824; the Thibodauxville priest who recorded the burial said that Cyrille was
age 30 when he died, but he was 33.
1a
Marcel married Marie Céleste, daughter
of Laurent Élie Fremin and his Acadian wife Marguerite
Bourg, at the Thibodauxville
church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in June 1837. They lived near the boundary between Lafourche Interior
and Assumption parishes. Their son Léodomi Joseph was born in March 1838, Félix François
in September 1840 but may have died at age 12 in September 1852,
Pierre Narcisse was born in November 1842, Arman Lovinci in April
1845, and Émile Ulger in March 1848. Marcel died in
February 1850; the Thibodaux priest who recorded the
burial said that Marcel died "at age 41 yrs.," but he was 39.
1b
Félix married Marie, daughter
of Florentin Friou and Céleste Montet, at the Plattenville church,
Assumption Parish, in March 1845. Their son Paul or
Paulens Lovincy was born in Assumption Parish in May 1847 but died
the following February, Justinien Adam was born in June 1851, and
Placide Nelson in October 1854.
1c
Pierre Zéphirin married
Ursuline, daughter of fellow Acadians Antoine Boudreaux and Marie
Josèphe Michel, at the
Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in May 1847. A daughter,
born the previous February, was baptized the day after their wedding.
Their son Joseph Émile was born near Labadieville in June 1856,
Pierre Numa in October 1858, and Joseph Lestan in May 1861.
Their daughter married into the Larose family.
2
Joseph-Mathurin, born at
Lafourche in January 1793, may have died young.
3
Sylvain Hilaire married
Marie Madeleine, daughter of Jean Baptiste Juneau and Marie Madeleine
Lagrange of
St. John the Baptist Parish, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche
Interior Parish, in July 1825. They lived near the boundary between
Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes. Their son Sylvain Hilaire, fils,
called Hilaire,
was born in April 1828, Joachim Adrien
in March 1830, Alexandre Eugène in June 1832, Michel Adélard
in September 1836 but died at age 2 in October 1838, Lovinci Oscar
in May 1843, and Clairville
Ozémé was born in March 1847. They also had a son named Auguste.
Their daughter married into the Daigle family. Sylvain Hilaire's oldest son moved to the western prairies after the War
of 1861-65. His younger sons remained on the upper Lafourche.
3a
Hilaire married Joséphine,
daughter of Foreign Frenchman Georges Adolphe and his Acadian
wife Victoire Boudreaux, at the Thibodaux
church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in November 1847. They settled near the boundary between
Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes. Their son Adrien Claudomire
was born in March 1849, Trasimond in February 1851, Jean
Pierre Auguste in May 1855, Louis Adolphe Alexandry in April
1857, Joseph Adelain in April 1861, and Théodule Cleopha
in May 1865. Hilaire, at age 41, remarried to cousin Pauline, daughter of
fellow Acadians Paul Boudreaux and Marie Anne Gautreaux of Lafourche Parish and widow of
Siméon Hébert, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in
March 1869.
3b
Joachim Adrien married Louise,
daughter of Augustin Lagrange and Rosalie Mayet, at the Thibodaux
church, Lafourche Parish, in April 1854. They settled near the
boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes. Their
son Jean Baptiste was born in January 1855. Joachim
remarried to Émelie, daughter of fellow Acadians Valéry Foret and
Céleste Daigle, at
the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in March 1868.
3c
Alexandre Eugène married Marie,
also called Azéma,
daughter of fellow Acadians Grégoire Aucoin and Clarisse
Hébert, at the Labadieville
church, Assumption Parish, in September 1857. Their son Villier
Ernest was born near Labadieville in November 1865.
3d
Auguste married Elmire,
daughter of Homogène, probably Hermogène, Clause or Cloze
and Marie Rodry, at the
Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1859.
Their son Joseph Albert was born near Labadieville in October
1868.
3e
Lovinci Oscar may have married
fellow Acadian Amelisa Foret and settled near Labadieville,
Assumption Parish, by the late 1860s.
4
Joseph-Élie or
Élie-Joseph, born at
Assumption in February 1802, married Azélie, 18-year-old daughter of fellow
Acadians Pierre André Pitre and Angélique Bourgeois, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche
Interior Parish, in July 1828. Their son Pierre Adrien was born
in Lafourche Interior Parish in June 1829, and Émile Euclien in April
1831. They moved to the New Iberia area along Bayou Teche later in the
decade.
5
Amand, born at Assumption
in August 1805, may have died young.
6
Louis Laborias, born at
Assumption in August 1806, also may have died young.
7
Jean Pierre, born in
Assumption Parish in December 1808, may have died young.
8
Youngest son Zéphirin Jean, born in
Assumption Parish in February 1811, may have married French Creole Basilise
Gros in Lafourche Interior Parish in the early 1830s. They lived near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption
parishes. Their son
Joseph Zéphirin, called Zéphir, was born in December 1833,
Augustave Claireville
or Gustave Claire in February 1836 but died at age 1 1/2 in October
1837, Augustin Clairville was born in October 1842, Théolin
Thomée in April 1851, Joseph in June 1853, Jean Baptiste Similien in May 1856,
and Joseph Estivin in December 1858. They also had a son named
Villier. Their daughters married into the
Boudreaux, Chouabe, Dubois, and Usé
families. One of his sons moved to lower Bayou Teche after the War
of 1861-65.
8a
Zéphir married double cousin
Marie, daughter of Arsène Gros and his Acadian wife Adeline
Hébert, at the Thibodaux
church, Lafourche Parish, in May 1854.
Their son Arsène was born near Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, in
January 1860, so they may have moved from the upper bayou to the river.
8b
Villier married Marie,
daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Arcement and his Creole wife
Césaire Lagrange, at the Paincourtville
church, Assumption Parish, in May 1864. They were living near New
Iberia, on lower Bayou Teche, later in the decade. Their son
Pierre Dupré was born in Lafayette Parish in March 1869.
Descendants of Mathurin-Pierre-François
HÉBERT (1771-1846;
Antoine, Jean, Jean, fils, Jean III)
Mathurin-Pierre-François, fourth son of Pierre Hébert
and his second wife Susanne Pitre, born at Ploubalay near St.-Malo,
France, in October 1771, came to Louisiana with his
parents and siblings aboard La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the
Seven Ships, in 1785. They followed most of their fellow
passengers to Bayou des Écores, north of Baton Rouge.
Mathurin followed his older brothers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married
Marie-Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians François-Xavier Bourg
and Isabelle LeBlanc, at
Assumption in
September 1797. Marie-Élisabeth also had come to Louisiana aboard La Ville
d'Archangel and was a sister of Mathurin's brother
Jean-Baptiste-Olivier's wife. Mathurin and Marie-Élisabeth's daughters married into the Boudreaux,
Fremin, and Gros
families. Mathurin likely died in Lafourche Interior Parish in
February 1846; the Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial said that
Mathurin died "at age 17 yrs."; he probably meant 77;
Mathurin-Pierre-François would have been age 75 then.
1
Oldest son Pierre-Mathurin,
born at Assumption in September 1799, died in Lafourche Interior Parish in
June 1820, age 20, and probably did not marry.
2
Joseph, born at Assumption in December 1801,
married Azélie, Zélie, or Marie Clémence, called Clémence, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste
Boudreaux and Marie Françoise LeBlanc, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in
February 1821. Their son Jean Mathurin, called Mathurin, was born in Lafourche
Interior Parish in December 1821, and Jean Baptiste Joseph, called
Baptiste, in January
1825. Their daughter married into the Gros family. Joseph remarried to Victoire
Catherine, daughter of fellow Acadian ____
Boudreaux and his Creole wife Marie Julienne Brossier, at the Thibodaux church in June
1840. Their son Lucien was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in
May 1844. Their daughter married into the Theriot family.
2a
Mathurin, by his father's first
wife, married cousin
Adèle Marie or Marie Adèle, daughter of Georges Adolphe and his
Acadian wife Victoire Boudreaux, at
the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in January 1842. Their son Adolphe
Eugène was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in June 1847.
Their daughter likely married an Hébert cousin. Mathurin died in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1847,
age 26.
Adolphe Eugène married
Léocade, daughter of Clairville Octave Peltier and his
Acadian wife Séraphine Eve Delaune, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1869.
2b
Baptiste, by his father's first
wife, married Marguerite Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians Valéry
Pitre and Marcellite Bourg, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in
February 1848. Their son Adam Oneville was born near
Plattenville in April 1851, and Joseph Treville in October 1853.
3
Ursin, born at Ascension in
March 1807, married Marie Constance, daughter of fellow Acadians François
Boudreaux and Marie Thibodeaux, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in
November 1828. Their son Eugène Joachim or Tomassin was born in Lafourche
Interior Parish in November 1829, Victor in August 1833, Ferdinand Fresimond
in January 1835, Orville in August 1837, Zéphirin Alexandre in
December 1842, Jean Vilcor in
April 1846, and Vinotte André in February 1852. They also had a
son named Adonis. Their daughters
married into the Boudreaux, Bourg, and Gros families.
3a
Eugène Joachim married Armantine, Armentine,
Augustine, or Hermantine Victoire, another daughter of Georges Adolphe
and Victoire Boudreaux, at the Thibodaux
church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in December 1848. They settled near the boundary between
Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes. Their son Adolphe
Léon was born in September 1853, and François Joachim in
January 1863.
3b
Ferdinand married first cousin
Méothilde, daughter of Alexandre Lacroix Hébert and his Creole
wife Arthémise Exnicios, his uncle and aunt, at the
Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in June 1860; they had to secure
a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.
3c
Adonis married cousin Onesile,
daughter of fellow Acadians François Joseph Boudreaux and Marie
Phelonise Thibodeaux, at the
Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in July 1869.
4
Alexandre Lacroix, born in
Assumption Parish in September 1809, married Arthémise, daughter of Louis Exnicios
and Marie Louise Pontiff, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche
Interior Parish, in July 1834. They settled near the boundary between
Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes. Their son Joseph Isidore was
born in February 1839, Émile Claiborne
in December 1840, Clairville Laziman in September 1842,
Clodomir Aurelien in January 1845, Oscar in May 1849, and
Alexandre, fils in December 1852.
Their daughters married into the Boudreaux, Gautreaux, Hébert, and
Romagos
families, one of them to a first cousin.
4a
Clairville married Joséphine,
daughter of Thomas Calegan and his Acadian wife Pauline
Boudreaux, at the Labadieville
church, Assumption Parish, in June 1866. Their son Onésiphore Arthur was born near
Labadieville in October 1870.
4b
Émile married Mathilde,
daughter of fellow Acadians Lubin Aucoin and Anne Doiron, at the Labadieville
church, Assumption Parish, in February 1867, and remarried to Odilia,
daughter of fellow Acadian Louis Bourg and his Creole wife
Geneviève Gaspard, at the Labadieville
church in December 1870.
4c
Clodomir married Aimée,
daughter of fellow Acadians Leufroi Boudreaux and Adèle
Thibodeaux, at the Plattenville
church, Assumption Parish, in May 1867. Their son Pierre
Clodomir was born near Labadieville in June 1869.
5
Valéry Mathurin or
Mathurin Valéry, a twin,
born in Assumption Parish in March 1812, married Azélie, daughter of fellow
Acadian Eugène Prejean and his Creole wife Melite Exnicios, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior
Parish, in September 1838. They lived near the boundary between Lafourche
Interior and Assumption parishes. Their son Théophile Émile,
called Émile, was born
in December 1841, Joseph Mirthile in
July 1844, Savinien or Similien Villot in January 1847 but
died at age 10 1/2 in October 1857, Eugène was born in
February 1849, Théodore Trasimond in February 1854 but died at age 4
1/2 in August 1858, and Jean Augustin Eusèbe was born in November 1856. Their daughter married into the Chouabe
family.
Émile married Rosalie,
daughter of fellow Acadian Magloire Barrilleaux and his Creole
wife Clotilde Lagrange, at the
Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1861. Their son
Joseph François was born near Labadieville in November 1861, and
Émile Adrien in December 1862.
6
Youngest son Édouard or
Edmond Adrien,
born in Lafourche Interior Parish in May 1822, married Marie Carmelite,
daughter of Foreign Frenchman Pierre Lie, Lis, or Lys
and his Acadian wife Marguerite Boudreaux, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in July 1845. They settled near the boundary between
Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes. Their son Jean Baptiste
Armant was born in March 1848, Jean Baptiste Oscar in May 1852,
Léo in March 1854, André Pierre in June 1862, Auguste
in August 1864, and Mirtil Arthur in February 1867.
Descendants of Jean-Baptiste-Olivier
HÉBERT (c1774-;
Antoine, Jean, Jean, fils, Jean III)
Jean-Baptiste-Olivier, called
Baptiste-Olivier or Baptiste, fifth and youngest son of
Pierre Hébert and his second wife Susanne Pitre, born in
France in c1774, came to
Louisiana with his parents and siblings aboard La Ville d'Archangel,
the sixth of the Seven Ships, in 1785. They followed the majority of
their fellow passengers to Bayou des Écores, north of Baton Rouge.
Jean-Baptiste-Olivier followed his older brothers to upper Bayou Lafourche,
where he married Élisabeth- or Isabelle-Félicité, another daughter of François-Xavier Bourg
and Isabelle LeBlanc, at Assumption in August 1795. Élisabeth also had come to
Louisiana aboard La Ville d'Archangel and was a sister of
Jean-Baptiste-Olivier's brother Mathurin's wife. Jean-Baptiste-Olivier
and Élisabeth's daughters married
into the Barrilleaux, Granger, and LeBoeuf families.
1
Oldest son Louis-Jean-Baptiste, born
at Assumption in August 1797, married Cécile Émilie or Émilie Cécile, daughter of fellow
Acadians Blaise Julien Boudreaux and Perrine Barilleaux, at the Plattenville church,
Assumption Parish, in June 1817. Their son Neuville was born in
Lafourche Interior Parish in January 1827. Their daughters married into the Boudreaux,
LeBlanc,
and Trahan families. Louis Jean Baptiste remarried to
cousin Anne Mélanie, called Mélanie, 28-year-old daughter of Nicolas Albert
and his Acadian wife Madeleine Bourg, at the
Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in October 1832. Their son Joseph Vincent was born in
Lafourche Interior Parish in July 1837, and Jean Baptiste in February
1838.
1a
The succession for Neuville,
by his father's first wife, may have been filed at the Houma courthouse, Terrebonne Parish, in June
1847. He would have been age 20 that year. Did he marry?
1b
Jean Baptiste, fils, by his father's second
wife, married Eveline, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexis Blanchard
and Anne Marguerite Trahan
of Terrebonne Parish, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in
February 1864. Jean Baptiste died in Terrebonne Parish in December
1864, age 26; a petition for inventory and tutorship
for his daughter Evelina Mélanie, two weeks after her father's death,
was filed at the Houma courthouse in January 1866. One wonders if
Jean Baptiste's death was war-related. He fathered no sons.
2
Joseph-Marie, born at
Assumption in December 1800, may have died young.
3
Hubert François, born at
Assumption in
February 1805, married Marie Pauline or Pauline Marie, daughter of Jean
Baptiste Juneau and Marie Madeleine Lagrange, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior
Parish, in November 1827. They lived near the boundary between
Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes. Their son Jean Baptiste le jeune was
born in March 1835, Pierre Dosilia, called Dosilia and
Dosilien,
in September 1838, and Lovenci Ovile in January 1843. Their
daughters married into the Pontiff and Tardif families.
After his Confederate service, Hubert's youngest son moved to the western prairies and married a first cousin
there after the War of 1861-65.
Dosilien married Mathilde,
daughter of fellow Acadian Barthélemy Thibodeaux and his Creole
wife Clémence Durocher of Lafourche
Parish, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in April 1861.
Their son Joseph Dosilien Olymphe was born near Chacahoula in
June 1864.
During the War of 1861-65,
Lovenci Ovile
enlisted in Company C of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in
Assumption Parish. He joined the company in March 1862 at age 19,
followed it to Vicksburg, Mississippi, survived the siege there in the
spring and summer of 1863, was captured with his unit, paroled, and
probably went home. His Confederate record does not say if he
returned to his unit in the summer of 1864 after it was exchanged.
During or after the war, he resettled on the western prairies, where he married first
cousin Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadian Cyrille Hébert and his
Creole wife Céleste Percle of Lafourche Parish, his
uncle and aunt, at the
Vermilion church, Lafayette Parish, in December 1868.
4
Étienne Valéry, born in
Assumption Parish in September 1808, married Louise Aimée, called Aimée, daughter of
fellow Acadians Louis Dubois and Ursule Henry, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche
Interior Parish, in July 1830. Their son Aurelien Sylvère,
called Sylvère and Sylvain, was
born in Lafourche Interior Parish in November 1831, Jean Baptiste Henry
in November 1832 but died at age 10 months in October 1833, Louis Victor
was born in February 1834, Evariste Adrien
in May 1836, Telesphore Aimable, called Tellio, in July 1837, and Amédée
Aladin in November 1854. Their
daughters married into the Bourgeois, Brunet, and Gauthier
families.
4a
Sylvère/Sylvain married cousin
Mathilde, daughter of Romain LeBoeuf and his Acadian wife
Felonise Hébert, in a civil
ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in February 1854, and sanctified the
marriage at the Chacahoula church, Terrebonne Parish, in April 1859. They lived near the
boundary between Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes. Their son
Sylvère Arvillien was born in August 1855, and Ernest Telesphore
in November 1857. Sylvère died near Chacahoula in
March 1860; the priest who recorded the burial, and who called the
deceased Sylvain, did not give any parents' names, mention a
wife, or give Sylvain's age at the time of his death; he was 28; a "petition for family meeting" in his name, listing his children and
giving his widow's second husband's name, was filed at the Houma
courthouse in March 1867.
4b
Evariste Adrien married
Azélie, also called Adolise and Adelise, daughter of Jean Gagnoux
and his Acadian wife Léocade Boudreaux, at the
Chacahoula church, Terrebonne Parish, in April 1859, two months after a
daughter was born. Evariste remarried to Justilia, daughter of
fellow Acadian Jean Martial Usé and his Creole wife Marie Adèle
Sanchez, at the Chacahoula church in November
1864. Their son Joseph was born near Chacahoula in
September 1865.
4c
Telesphore married Octavie,
daughter of fellow Acadians Séverin Guillot and Pauline
Guillot, at the Thibodaux
church, Lafourche Parish, in March 1862; the marriage was recorded also
in Terrebonne Parish.
5
Cyrille Mathurin, also
called Cyrille Valéry, born in
Assumption Parish in
February 1811, married Célesie or Céleste, daughter of Pierre Percle
and Geneviève Dufour, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in August 1830.
They settled near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption
parishes. Their son Adrien Benjamin was born in
May 1833, Félix died at age 1 month in July 1844,
Jean Baptiste Olésiphore was born in January 1845, Neuville in
October 1846, and Ferdinand Sylvère in October 1848. Their
daughters married into the Boudreaux, Hébert, Olivier (French or
German Creole, not Acadian), and Thibodeaux families, one of them to a
first cousin in Lafayette Parish. Cyrille's younger sons and at least
one of his daughters moved to the
western prairies after the War of 1861-65. His oldest son
remained on the upper bayou.
5a
Adrien Benjamin married
Ophilia, also called Elia, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Boudreaux
and Marie Gautreaux, at the
Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in May 1856. Their son
Théo Adrien was born near Labadieville in May 1857, Léonard
Gervais in January 1859, Adrien Cletus in April 1862, and
Ernest Neuville in February 1867.
5b
Jean Baptiste Olésiphore
married Azélie, another daughter of Paul Boudreaux and Marie
Gautreaux, at the
Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in August 1867. They were
living near Lydia, Iberia Parish, on lower Bayou Teche, in 1870.
5c
Neuville married Lorenza,
daughter of Zéphirin Olivier, fils and Séraphine
Lagrange of Lafourche Parish, at
the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in February 1869.
5d
Ferdinand Sylvère married
Zulma, another daughter of Zéphirin Olivier, fils, and
Séraphine Lagrange, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in
February 1870.
6
Amable Rosémond, a twin,
born in Assumption Parish in January 1817, died in Lafourche Interior Parish
at age 12 1/2 in December 1829.
7
Martin Achille, Amable
Rosémond's twin, married Mathilde, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier
Dubois and Rosalie Thibodeaux, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in
May 1835. They lived near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and
Terrebonne parishes. Their son Achille Olivier was born in
March 1836, Edmond Clodomir in August 1839, and Trasimond Arthur
in October 1853.
Their daughters married into the Bergeron, Boudreaux,
Hébert, and Sanders families. One of his sons moved to
lower Bayou Teche after the War of 1861-65 but returned to
Terrebonne Parish.
7a
Achille Olivier married
Marie Joséphine, called Joséphine, daughter of Ferdinand Aguillard
and Cécile Salem or Saleme, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in November 1856.
7b
Edmond Clodomir "from
Terrebonne Parish" married cousin Dalila, daughter of Maltese Creole Philippe Lancon
and his Acadian wife Marianne Hébert of Terrebonne
Parish, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in July 1859. Their son Abanne Martin was
born in Terrebonne Parish in January 1862, and Placide near New
Iberia on lower Bayou Teche in April 1867. Edmond remarried to Hélène or Helena,
daughter of Jules Boudeloche and Delphine Lancon, at the Houma church
in September 1870.
8
Alexandre Maxille, born in
Assumption Parish in
October 1819, while a resident of Terrebonne Parish, married cousin Ursuline,
another daughter of Philippe Lancon and Marianne Hébert of Terrebonne Parish, at the Thibodaux church,
Lafourche Interior Parish, in September 1839. Their daughters married into the Giroir family. Alexandre M., as the record called him, died in September 1845,
age 25. His
succession inventory was filed at the Houma courthouse, Terrebonne
Parish, in October. A daughter was born posthumously in January 1846. Did Alexandre father any sons?
9
Youngest son Edmond, born
in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1823, married Clémentine, another
daughter of Olivier Dubois and Rosalie Thibodeaux, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche
Interior Parish, in May 1841. They settled on Bayou Black, Terrebonne
Parish. Their son Joseph Adam was born near Chacahoula,
Terrebonne Parish, in April 1859. Their daughters married into the Boudreaux
and Olivier (French or German Creole, not Acadian)
families, and perhaps into the Cloutier family as well.
André HÉBERT
(c1776-?;
Étienne, Jean, Jean,
fils)
André, only surviving son of Amable Hébert
and Marie-Anne Richard, born probably at Nantes, France, in c1776, came to Louisiana with his widowed father,
step-grandmother, and three sisters aboard Le Bon Papa, the first of
the Seven Ships, in 1785. The family followed most of their
fellow passengers to Manchac, south of Baton Rouge, and then moved on to
upper Bayou Lafourche during the late 1780s or early 1790s. His father
never remarried, so André remained the
only male heir. André was still living with his widowed father and an
older, unmarried sister on the upper bayou in April 1797, when he was age 20.
He may not have married, so this line
of the family, except for its blood, would have died with him.
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During the early antebellum
period, an Hébert from the river whose father had come to the colony
from Maryland settled on upper Bayou Lafourche:
Descendants of Jean Baptiste
HÉBERT (1787-?;
Étienne, Emmanuel, Jacques, François, père)
Jean
Baptiste, third son of Jean-Baptiste dit Petit Jean Hébert and
Marie-Madeleine Dupuis, born near St.-Gabriel in November 1787,
married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Comeaux and Anne
Landry, at the
Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in October 1810. Although
their children were baptized at St. Gabriel in Iberville Parish, they
remained on the upper bayou. One wonders if he was the Jean Baptiste
Hébert who, in 1816, donated land near Thibodauxville on Bayou
Lafourche for a new church. His daughter married into the
Simoneaux family.
1
Drosin Joseph, a twin, born
probably on the upper Lafourche in June 1811, married cousin Élisabeth,
called Élise, daughter of Louis Mollère and his Acadian wife
Carmélite Landry, at the Donaldsonville
church, Ascension Parish, in April 1837. They settled on the upper bayou near the
boundary between Ascension and Assumption parishes. Their son Louis Sosthène,
called Sosthène,
was born in January 1838, Gervais Félix in June 1839, Joseph Jule Bienvenu
in November 1840, Germain Théophile in July 1842, Joseph Victorin,
called Victorin,
in September 1844, and Joseph Eugène, a twin, in December 1846.
Their daughters married into the Jardel and Landry families.
At age 48, Drosin remarried to Azéma, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Marie
Barrilleaux and Madeleine Landry, at the Pierre Part church, Assumption Parish, in April
1860. Drosin, at age 58,
remarried again--his third marriage--to Elisa, daughter of fellow Acadian
Jean Marie Richard and Elisa Breaux and widow of Rosémond LeBlanc, at the
Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in October 1869. Their son Louis Joseph
was born near Convent, St. James Parish, in September [1870].
1a
Victorin, by his father's first wife,
married Elmire, daughter of fellow Acadians Eugène Comeaux and
Aureline LeBlanc, at the
Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1867. Their
son Joseph Kleber was born near Paincourtville in October 1869.
1b
Sosthène, by his father's first wife,
married cousin Alice, daughter of fellow Acadians Venant Hébert
and Honorine Dugas, at the
Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in October 1869.
2
Jean Baptiste III, Drosin's
Joseph's twin, married, at age 38, cousin Doralise, daughter of fellow Acadians François Marie
Gautreaux and Félicité Hébert, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in April
1849.
Did they have any children?
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In a reversal of the usual Acadian
settlement pattern, an Hébert from the western prairies moved to Bayou
Lafourche during the early antebellum period, but the line may not have
survived:
Descendants of Jean Charles
HÉBERT (1801-?;
Antoine, Jean, René dit Groc, Jean, Joseph-Ignace)
Jean-Charles, second son of Pierre-Joseph Hébert and Anne-Eléonore Comeaux of Ascension and
Opelousas, born at
Opelousas in February 1801, married Clarisse Melvina, called Clance or Clavie, daughter of
Vincent
Comardelle and Marie Catherine Caholi of New Orleans, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche
Interior Parish, in October 1825. They remained on Bayou Lafourche.
Did this line survive?
Ange or Lange Jean Charles,
born in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1828, died at age 2 1/2 in
July 1830.
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Other HÉBERTs in the
Lafourche/Terrebonne Valley
Area church and civil records make
it difficult to link many Héberts in the Bayou Lafourche/Bayou
Terrebonne valley with
known Acadian lines of the family there:
Victor Hébert married
Acadian Jeanette Daigle, place and date unrecorded. Their son Jean Baptiste
was born in Assumption Parish in September 1822.
Joséphine Hébert
gave birth to daughter Marie Élisabeth in Lafourche Interior Parish in
November 1823 and buried her 18 days later. The Thibodauxville
priest who recorded the girl's birth and burial did not give the father's
name or the names of Joséphine's parents.
Mathias, son of Joseph Hébert,
died in Lafourche Interior Parish a day after his birth in February 1824.
The priest who recorded the boy's funeral did not give the mother's name.
Marie Cécile Hébert married
François Nicolas Davie, place and date unrecorded. She died in Lafourche Interior Parish,
age 30, in July 1824. The priest who recorded her burial did not give
her parents' names.
Bertrand Hébert, also
called Haubert, married
Spanish Creole Célesie Navarre, place and date unrecorded. Their son Jean Théophile
was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in July 1828. Their daughter
married into the Dugas family. Was Bertrand an Acadian Hébert
or a Creole Haubert?
Rosalie Hébert, age 24, married 26-year-old Julien Benjamin Martin of
Montréal in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in April 1830.
The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.
François Aubin Hébert married
French Creole Marie Rose Ayaux, place and date unrecorded. Daughter Azélie Areline was
born in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1832.
Élise Hébert married
Anglo American Henry
Roddy in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in July 1833.
The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.
Joseph Hébert married
Acadian Rosalie Thibodeaux, place and date unrecorded. Daughter Louise Adeline was born in
Lafourche Interior Parish in July 1835.
Joseph Hébert died in
Lafourche Interior Parish in August 1836. The Thibodaux priest who
recorded the burial did not give any parents' names, mention a wife,
or give Joseph's age at the time of his death.
Onésime Hébert
married Adolphine Leroux, also called Tailier
and Toilier, place and date unrecorded, but it
probably was in the early 1840s.
Their daughters Clémence Adolphine was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in
April 1844, Léocade Olymphe in June 1845, and Malvina Zélide in February
1848, and son Jean Baptiste in January 1850.
Marie Ébert
died in Assumption Parish in March 1848, age 2 months. The
Plattenville priest who recorded the burial did not give any parents'
names.
Uranie Hébert
died eight days after her birth in Assumption Parish in June 1850.
The Plattenville priest who recorded the burial did not give the parents'
names.
Euzalie, 16-year-old daughter of
Louis Hébert and Mélise or Melina Hébert, married Raymon or
Reman, 21-year-old son of Anglo American Antoine Luke, at the Houma
church, Terrebonne Parish, in February 1851.
Baptiste Hébert married
Joséphine Courteaux, place and date unrecorded. Daughter
Rosalie Céleste was born in Terrebonne Parish in May 1852.
Clotaire Hébert married
Marie Morvant, place and date unrecorded.
Son Valcour died in Lafourche Parish, age 16 months, in
September 1855.
"Mrs. Hébert" died in
Lafourche Parish in January 1853. The Thibodaux priest who recorded
the burial, and who did not give the good woman's actual name, the names of
her parents', or the name of her husband, said that she died "at age 90
yrs." Was she an Acadian immigrant? If so, she would have been
among the last of them to join her ancestors.
An Hébert child, name and
age unrecorded, died "during [a] yellow fever epidemic" in October 1853.
The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial did not give the
child's parents' names.
Joseph Hébert died in
Lafourche Parish "during [the] yellow fever epidemic" in November 1853.
The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial did not give any
parents' names, mention a wife, or give Joseph's age at the time of his
death.
Doralize Hébert,
wife of Jean Bourg, died in Assumption Parish, age 41, in
February 1854. One wonders who her parents may have been.
Charles, son of François Hébert,
was born in May 1854 but died in Lafourche Parish, age 1, in July 1855.
The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial did not give the boy's mother's
name, so one wonders which François Hébert was Charles's father.
Benjamin T. Hébert married
Joséphine Celelie Borne, place and date unrecorded. Daughter
Malvina Hortense was born in Lafourche Parish in December 1856.
Narville Hébert married
Marie R. LeBoeuf, place and date unrecorded. His succession inventory,
naming his wife and listing his children--Azélie and Lodie--was filed at
the Houma courthouse, Terrebonne Parish, in May 1857. Who was he?
Ozémé, son of Zéphirin Hébert,
died near Labadieville, Assumption Parish, in May 1858. The priest who
recorded the burial, and who did not give the boy's mother's name, said that
Ozémé died at "age 2 years." One wonders which of the Zéphirin
Héberts in the area was Ozémé's father.
Julie Hébert
died in Assumption Parish, age 78, in March 1859. The Plattenville
priest who recorded the burial did not give any parents' names or mention
a husband. Was she the Julienne-Perrine, daughter of Pierre
Hébert and his second wife Luce-Perpétué Bourg,
born in Tréméreuc, near St.-Malo, France, in January 1780 who came to
Louisiana from France in 1785 and married fellow Acadian Simon
LeBlanc of Nantes, France, at Assumption in February 1802?
If so, she was one of the last of the Acadian immigrants Louisiana who
joined her ancestors.
Pauline Hébert married
Mercle Gros in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in May 1859.
The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's
parents' names.
Susanne Hébert married
William Stewart in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in August
1860. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the
couple's parents' names.
François Hébert married
fellow Acadian Azéma Trahan, place and date unrecorded, and settled in Terrebonne Parish by the
early 1860s.
Aimé Anna, daughter of Victorine
Hébert, was born in Terrebonne Parish in December 1861.
The Houma priest who recorded the girl's baptism did not give the father's
name or the mother's parents' names.
Adèla Marie Hébert married
Louis Gros in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in February 1862.
The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's
parents' names.
Clémence Hébert married
Louis, son of perhaps fellow Acadian Janvier Guidry, in a civil
ceremony in Lafourche Parish in March 1862. The parish clerk who
recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names. Was
she the Clémence, daughter of Esie Melet, who married Louis, son of
Janvier Guidry, at the Lockport church, Lafourche Parish, in October
1863? If so, this would have been a sanctification of their civil
marriage. And if so, where did the surname Melet come from?
Helena Hébert gave birth to
daughter Mathilde Laura in Terrebonne Parish in March 1862, and son Albert
in February 1864. The Houma priest or priests who baptized the
children did not give the father's name nor the mother's
parents' names.
Louise Hébert gave birth to
son Jean Orestille in Terrebonne Parish in September 1862. The
Houma priest who baptized the boy did not give the father's name nor the
mother's parents' names.
Pulvina Hébert
died in Assumption Parish, age 36, in October 1862. The
Paincourtville priest who recorded the burial gave no parents' names nor
mentioned a husband.
Laclere Hébert
married Odillia Hébert, place and date unrecorded.
Daughter Alzire Mathurin was born in Terrebonne Parish in November 1862.
Aubert Hébert married
fellow Acadian Rosa Pitre, place and date unrecorded. Their son Robert Willey was
born in Terrebonne Parish in February 1863, and daughter Joséphine
Aglaé near Lockport, Lafourche Parish, in January 1869.
Polite, also called Thomas and
Charles,
Hébert married Rosalie Terrebonne, place and date unrecorded. Their son Joseph
Arramis was born near Lockport, Lafourche Parish, in March 1863.
Octave Hébert died near
Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in March 1863. The priest who
recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or
mention a wife, said that Octave died at "age 38 years." Was his
death war-related?
Rosa Hébert
gave birth to daughter Angela Judith near Labadieville, Assumption Parish,
in April 1863. The priest who recorded the girl's baptism did not
give the father's name or the mother's parents' names.
François, fils "from
Terrebonne Parish," son of François Hébert and Constance Breaux,
married Azéma, daughter of fellow Acadian Augustin Trahan of
Terrebonne Parish, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in May 1863.
Daughter Félicité was born in Terrebonne Parish in July 1864. How was this François Hébert, père connected to
the other Acadian Héberts in Lafourche/Terrebonne valley?
Achille Hébert married
Marie Ismaine Boudreaux, place and date unrecorded. Their son Joseph Martin was
born in Terrebonne Parish in December 1863.
Olesi or Olymphe, daughter of
Olésime, also called Lezin, Hébert and Delphine Derousse or
Rose, married Joseph Aureline, son of fellow Acadian Charles Bourg,
in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in March 1864, and sanctified the
marriage at the Lockport church, Lafourche Parish, the following month.
Octavie Hébert married
Achilles Thibodaux, probably Thibodeaux, a fellow Acadian, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish
in May 1864. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give
the couple's parents' names.
Joachim Hébert married
French Creole Azélie Calegan, place and date unrecorded. Their son Auguste Clodimir
was born near Labadieville, Assumption Parish, in October 1864, and daughter
Julia Marie Valérie in September 1868.
Félicie Hébert
gave birth to daughter Octavie Estele near Montegut, Terrebonne Parish, in
March 1865. The priest who recorded the girl's baptism did not give
the father's name or the mother's parents' names.
Joachin, probably Joachim,
Hébert married Marie Mélanie Mars, place and date unrecorded. Their son Albert
Outreille was born near Labadieville, Assumption Parish, in July 1865. One would hope that he was not the same Joachim Hébert who married
Azélie Calegan.
Evariste Hébert
married Rose Badoin, place and date unrecorded.
Daughter Laura Aselia was born near Labadieville in October 1865.
Charles Hébert
married Rosalie Terrebonne, place and date unrecorded.
Daughter Marie Alida was born near Lockport in November 1865.
Émelia Hébert gave birth to
son Telesphore Victorin in Terrebonne Parish in March 1866. The Houma priest who baptized the boy did not give the father's name
or the mother's parents' names.
Adèle Hébert,
wife of Jean Baptiste Girvis, perhaps Gervais,
died in Terrebonne Parish, age 25, in August 1866. The Houma priest
who recorded the burial did not give her parents' names.
Louise Hébert married
German Creole Pierre Toups in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish
in June 1867. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give
the couple's parents' names.
Albert Hébert married
fellow Acadian Mary Babin, place and date unrecorded. Their son Marcel Evariste was
born in Terrebonne Parish in November 1867.
Joseph Hébert married
Eulalie Hébert, place and date unrecorded. Daughter Malvina
Eugénie was born near Chacahoula, Terrebonne Parish, in November 1868.
Aglaé Hébert married
French Creole Olucien Cheramie in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in May 1869.
The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's
parents' names.
Onésime Hébert married
French Creole Delphine Cheramie in a civil ceremony in Lafourche
Parish in May 1869. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not
give the couple's parents' names. How were Onésime and Delphine kin to
Aglaé Hébert
and Olucien Cheramie, who married at the same place on the same day?
Mariani Hébert married
Séverin Graps at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in May
1869. The priest who recorded the marriage did not give the
couple's parents' names.
Casimer, probably Casimir,
Hébert married Élodie Daigle, place and date unrecorded.
Daughter Marie Céleste was born near Paincourtville,
Assumption Parish, in July 1869.
Denis Hébert married Leslie
Boudreaux, place and date unrecorded. Their son Orville Jean was born near
Labadieville, Assumption Parish, in May 1870.
Rosalie Hébert married
Antoine Telesphore at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in
June 1870. The priest who recorded the marriage did not give
the couple's parents' names.
Cléophas Hébert married
Pauline Bergeron, perhaps a fellow Acadian, place and date
unrecorded. Daughter Marie Juliette was born in Lafourche
Parish in August 1870.
Rosalie Hébert married
Singleton Thibodeaux in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in
August 1870, several months after a son was born to them. The parish
clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.
Azélie Hébert gave birth to
son Joseph Nicols near Plattenville in October
1870. The priest who recorded the boy's baptism did not give the
father's name nor the mother's parents' names.
Dillia, daughter of Silvain
Hébert, died in Lafourche Parish, age 4, in December
1870. The Thibodaux priest who recorded the baptism did not give the
girl's mother's name, so one wonders which Sylvain Hébert the father may
have been.
.
Héberts
who lived in the Bayou Lafourche/Bayou Terrebonne valley during the early antebellum period
also cannot
be linked by local church records to
any of the other Héberts in the area:
Descendants of G. Maximin
HÉBERT (?-: ?)
G. Maximin, called Maximin, Hébert married Mare
Aimée, Émée, or Émilie Vicknair probably in Lafourche Interior Parish
by the 1840s. They settled in Lafourche Parish but were living in Terrebonne Parish
by the early 1860s. Their daughter married into the Thibodaux (French Canadian, not Acadian) family.
1
Oldest son Maximin, fils
was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1846. Did he die
young?
2
Maximin René, called
René, born in Lafourche Interior Parish in
January 1847, married Joséphine, daughter of French Creole Marcellin
Bonvillain, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in April 1870;
Joséphine's mother was a Thibodaux and kin to René's
sister Félicie's husband, Edmond or Admar Thibodaux, a
grandson of former Governor Henry Schuyler Thibodaux.
3
Paul Rémi, called Rémi,
born in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1849, died at age 2 1/2 in
August 1851.
4
Félicien was born in
Lafourche Parish in July 1853.
5
Jean Hilaire was born in
Lafourche Parish in January 1856.
6
Arthur Adam, born in Lafourche Parish in April 1858,
died at age 4 1/2 (the recording priest said 5) in February 1863.
7
Joseph Webster was born in
Lafourche Parish in November 1861.
~
NON-ACADIAN FAMILIES in
LOUISIANA
Non-Acadian Héberts lived in colonial
Louisiana decades before their Acadian namesakes appeared:
Louis Hébert, sergeant from
Rouen, age 48, appears on a list of soldiers bound for the Law concession
in Arkansas, dated 15 July 1720.
Sister Charlotte Ursule de St.-Xavier Hébert,
an Ursuline nun, took charge of the convent's sick house at New Orleans in
September 1734, seven years after the Ursulines came to the colony.
"It was not long before the [Ursuline] hospital was transformed and
the Nuns elicited the highest praise from officials for their faithfulness
and efficiency."
In 1741, the King's attorney in Louisiana
"recommended that one Hébert pay a fine of 100 livres in favor of
Sieur Feugere whom he had assaulted and insulted, and also 100 livres for
repairs to the church at Pointe Coupée."
In November 1774, Adrien Hébert
dit Delaurier, 68-year-old native of Picardy, France, died at Charity
Hospital in New Orleans. He was a former gardener and soldier.
.
During the late colonial period, two Hébert brothers
from Burgundy and a kinsman,
perhaps a nephew, settled near their Acadian namesakes in the Opelousas
District. One of the brothers married a fellow Creole, the other a
French Canadian. Typical of French Creoles in the Opelousas area, few of the brothers' descendants married Acadians. One
brother's line became a fairly substantial one:
Descendants of François
HÉBERT dit Milan (?-?)
François dit Milan, sometimes called
François Milani, son of Philippe Hébert, père
and Marguerite Lambert of Martigny le Comte, Burgundy, France, married Marie-Anne, daughter of
French Creole François Marcantel
of Pointe Coupée, at Pointe Coupée in April 1771. François and
Marie-Anne lived for a time at Ouachita before moving to the Opelousas
District, where they settled on Prairie Mamou, between bayous Nezpique and
des Cannes, west of Opelousas. They had at least four sons, three of
whom created families of their own in St. Landry Parish.
1
François, fils, born in
March 1773 and baptized by a Pointe Coupée priest a few weeks later, married Marie, also
called Polly, Morel or Morella probably at Opelousas early in the 1800s. They lived for a time at Rapides,
north of Opelousas. Their son Hippolyte
le jeune was born in St. Landry Parish in June 1807. They also had sons named François
III and Joseph. Their daughters married into the Carpenter, Fontenot,
Perrodin, and Voorhies
families.
1a
François III settled in Rapides Parish and married Anglo American Sarah
Essex
in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in April 1824.
1b
Hippolyte le jeune
married Marie, daughter of Anglo American James Clark, probably
at Opelousas in the late 1820s; Marie's mother was a Jeansonne.
1c
Joseph married Anglo American
Minerva Humphrey of Mississippi in a civil ceremony in St. Landry
Parish in April 1830.
2
Hippolyte, baptized by a Pointe Coupée
priest,
age unrecorded, in November 1775, may have died young.
3
Joachim, born at Ouachita and baptized
by a Pointe Coupée priest, age 3 months, in May
1781, married Émelie,
also called Thérèse, Gagnard
at Opelousas probably early in the 1800s.
Their son Joachim, fils was baptized at Opelousas, age
18 months, in October 1803. Their daughter married into the Fontenot
family. Joachim, père
remarried to Marie, daughter of French Creole François Fontenot
of Mobile and Prairie Mamou, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in January
1811. They settled on Prairie Mamou. Their son Leufroi or
Siffroi was born in St. Landry Parish in May
1812, and Cyprien in September 1820. Their daughters married
into the Humphreys, Manuel, Reed, and Rozat families. Joachim, père's succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse
in July 1823; he would have been
age 42 that year.
3a
Joachim, fils, by his father's first wife, married Divine,
another daughter
of François Fontenot and his stepmother's sister, at the Opelousas church in May 1821. Their son Denys or
Denis was born
in Lafayette Parish in June 1827. They also had a son named
Hippolyte. Their daughters married into the
Ashford and Vidrine families.
Hippolyte married cousin Céleste
Philippe, daughter of French Creole Philippe Fontenot, in a
civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in August 1849.
Denis married cousin Caroline, daughter
of Acadian David Young (originally Lejeune), at the
Opelousas church in July 1850; Caroline's
mother, also, was a Fontenot. Denis and Caroline settled near Ville
Platte, then in St. Landry but now in Evangeline Parish. Their son Denis,
fils was born in June 1851, Émile in August 1854, Aimé
in July 1858, Ovide in August 1861, and Denis Armand
in June 1866.
3b
Cyprien, by his father's second wife,
married French Creole Eugénie Bordelon in a civil ceremony in St.
Landry Parish in December 1840, and sanctified the marriage at the
Opelousas church in May 1842. Their son
Armand was born in St. Landry Parish in June 1846. Their
daughter married into the Landreneau family.
3c
Leufroi/Siffroi, by his
father's second wife,
married Marie Élise dite Lise, 17-year-old daughter of German Creole Frédéric Miller,
at the Opelousas church in July 1832. Their
son Léon was born in St. Landry Parish in November 1835, Alphonse in December 1837, and
Adolphe was baptized at the Opelousas church, age 2 1/2, in March
1843.
Léon married Marie Cécile,
daughter of Leufroi Miller, perhaps a cousin, in a civil
ceremony in St. Landry Parish in November 1855, and sanctified the
marriage at the Opelousas church in August 1860.
They settled near Grand Coteau. Their son Joachim was
born in December 1856. Léon may have remarried to Louise
Garrigues, place and date unrecorded. Their son Léon, fils was born in St.
Landry Parish in October 1866.
Alphonse married
Célestine or Céleste, perhaps also called Lissie, another daughter of Leufroi Miller, in
a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in May 1858.
Telesphore, perhaps their son, was baptized at the Ville Platte
church, then in St. Landry but now in Evangeline Parish, "at age 2
mths.," in December 1869.
Adolphe married Clémence,
daughter of Anglo Creole Jesse Reed, in a civil ceremony in
St. Landry Parish in July 1861, and sanctified the marriage at the
Church Point church, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in
February 1868 (the Church Point priest called the bride Clémence
Roy, not Reed).
4
Joseph le jeune, born probably at
Opelousas in the late 1780s, married Élisabeth
or Isabelle,
yet another daughter of François Fontenot,
at the Opelousas church in September 1816. Their son
Joseph Milan
was born in St. Landry Parish in July 1817, François le jeune in
April 1823, Léon in January 1828, Hilaire in January 1830, and
Adolphe in July 1836.
4a
François le jeune may have married
Denise Miller, place and date unrecorded. Their son Achille was born in
St. Landry Parish in May 1844, Alfred Darbonne in May 1855, Amédé in February 1857,
and Ernest in July 1858.
4b
Hilaire married Melise
Miller, perhaps a kinswoman of his older brother François's wife,
place and date unrecorded.
Hilaire and Melise settled in St. Landry Parish by the mid-1850s.
4c
Léon may have married Louise
Garrigues, place and date unrecorded. Their son Léon, fils was born in St.
Landry Parish in October 1866.
Descendants of Philippe
HÉBERT dit Milan (?-1792)
Philippe Hébert, fils,
also called Philippe dit Milan, son of Philippe Hébert, père
and Marguerite Lambert of Martigny le Comte, Burgundy, France, Francois's brother, married
Eléonore, daughter of
French Canadian Joseph Roy, at
Ascension on the Acadian Coast in July
1775. Like his brother François dit Milan, Philippe dit Milan and Marguerite also settled in the Opelousas District.
Their daughters married into the Beaulieu (Bertrand) (French
Canadian, not Acadian), Frugé,
Guillory,
and Mayeux
families. Philippe dit Milan's daughter Françoise,
before she married Jacob Beaulieu in June 1803, bore a "natural
child," daughter Louise or Arthémise, in September 1801. Arthémise
married into the Lahaye family. Philippe dit Milan
died at Opelousas in October 1792; the priest who recorded the burial did
not give Philippe's age at the time of his death. His only son may have
perpetuated the line.
Auguste, baptized at Opelousas in September 1789, may
have died young, unless he was the Auguste Hébert who married
Marcellite or Marcelline, daughter of Acadian Baptiste Lejeune, place
and date unrecorded, and settled in St.
Landry Parish. Their son Augustin, fils was born in
January 1836, when Auguste would have been in his late 40s. They also
had a son named Paul, perhaps also called Paulite. Their
daughter married into the LeBoeuf family.
Paul dit Paulite, may have married
Marie Helen O'Connor, place and date unrecorded. Their son George Huston
was born probably in St. Landry Parish in August 1853 and baptized at
the Ville Platte church, then in St. Landry but now in Evangeline
Parish, in April 1865, and William was born near Ville Platte in
October 1855. Paul married, or remarried to, Elina, daughter of Anglo
American Thomas Cummings, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry
Parish, in October 1859.
Joseph HÉBERT (c1769-1819)
Joseph Hébert, born in c1769, perhaps a
nephew of François and Philippe Hébert dit Milan, died at the home of kinsman Joachim
Hébert,
père, François's son who lived on Prairie Mamou, in May 1819.
The Opelousas priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph was age 50 when he
died. He may not have married.
.
Nancy Milan, probably a daughter of one
of the Hébert dit Milans, married Anglo American Eli Clark
in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in July 1832.
~
An Hébert, perhaps Foreign French,
settled on the river during the early antebellum period:
Pierre, son of Rémi Hébert and Julie Martin
of Nantes, France, married Dorothée, daughter of French Creole Jean Legros,
at the Pointe Coupee church, Pointe Coupee Parish, in July 1810, 22 months after their daughter
Yvanisse was born probably in Pointe Coupee Parish. Pierre became a steamboat
engineer on the Mississippi in the infant days of that form of travel (the first Mississippi River steamboat, Nicholas
Roosevelt's New
Orleans, made its historic voyage from Pittsburgh to New Orleans in
1811-12). The job cost Pierre his life. On 4 May 1817, he was
killed in a boiler explosion aboard the steamboat Constitution at
Pointe Coupee and was buried there the following day, age 27.
.
Several Foreign-French Héberts,
including a small family, came to Louisiana during the late antebellum
period:
Louis Hébert, a 30-year-old
farmer from France, reached New Orleans aboard the ship Magnolia out
of Le Havre, France, in November 1845. He was heading to Missouri.
Philippe Hébert, a
23-year-old farmer from France, reached New Orleans aboard the ship
Octavius out of Le Havre in April 1846. With him was wife
Élisabeth, age 22, and their 11-month-old daughter Maria.
Jean Hébert, a 28-year-old
clerk from France, reached New Orleans aboard the ship Caroline & Mary
Clark out of Liverpool, England, in November 1850.
Auguste Hébert, a
36-year-old farmer from France, reached New Orleans aboard the ship
Devonshire out of Le Havre in February 1851.
~
Héberts who lived on the
western prairies during the post-war period came from the family's
participation in the South's peculiar institution:
Mary Anne Hébert,
freedwoman, married Edmond Gholson, a freedman, in a civil ceremony in
Lafayette Parish in August 1866. The parish clerk who recorded the
marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.
CONCLUSION
Héberts were among the first families of
Acadia and some of the earliest Acadians to find refuge in Louisiana.
The first of them reached the colony from Halifax via Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, in February 1765 with the Broussard
dit Beausoleil party and followed the Broussards to
the Attakapas District. Later in the year, still more Héberts came from Halifax
and settled at Opelousas, north of Attakapas, and at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques on the river above New Orleans. The following
year, in 1766, two Hébert wives were the first of the family to reach the colony from Maryland;
they went to Cabanocé. In 1767, nine Hébert families arrived
from Maryland and went to St.-Gabriel d'Iberville on the river above
Cabanocé, settling on what became known as the Upper Acadian Coast. One of these St.-Gabriel families produced a future
governor and two future Confederate generals, another a state senator and a parish
sheriff. By the 1780s, substantial centers of
family settlement had developed on the western prairies and along the
Acadian Coast.
Even if the Spanish government had
not coaxed over 1,500 Acadians in France to come to Louisiana in the 1780s,
the Hébert family would have been a large one in Louisiana, but the
latter-day arrivals added substantially to the family's numbers.
The 1785 flood of immigrants from France included over 100 Héberts.
There were, in fact, more Héberts on the rolls of the Seven Ships
expeditions than any other family. Some of them settled on the Acadian
Coast among their cousins from Halifax and Maryland, but most of them chose
to go to upper Bayou Lafourche, creating a third center of family settlement. During the late colonial and early antebellum
periods, Héberts from
the river joined their cousins in the Lafourche
and Terrebonne valleys, and some of the Héberts from the river and
Bayou Lafourche moved on to the western prairies. During the early
antebellum period, in a reversal of the usual Acadian settlement pattern,
Héberts from Bayou Lafourche resettled on the river, but one of their
cousins followed the usual pattern by moving from the river to Bayou
Lafourche.
By the
eve of the War of 1861-65, then, Héberts
could be found in nearly every corner of today's Acadiana. On the
prairies, they lived along Bayou Teche from Arnaudville all the way down into St. Mary Parish, and on the
southwestern prairies in Lafayette, St. Landry, Avoyelles, Vermilion, and Calcasieu parishes,
including the Mermentau River valley; they were especially numerous in Lafayette
Parish.
On the river, they could be found on both sides of the Mississippi in St. James,
Ascension, and Iberville parishes, farther up
in East and West Baton Rouge parishes, especially on the west bank of the
river, and even in Pointe Coupee Parish, where few Acadians settled.
In the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley, they settled from the
Ascension/Assumption parish line all the way down into Lafourche and
Terrebonne parishes, some as far south as the coastal marshes
bordering the Gulf of Mexico. They also settled in the Pierre Part
area of Assumption Parish on the shores of Lake Verret. After the war,
more Héberts from Bayou Lafourche and the river moved to the western prairies,
including Louis Hébert of Iberville, who had served as a Confederate
general during the war.
At least one Hébert family from the Louisiana prairies was living in Jefferson County,
Texas, during the late 1860s.
Not all of the Héberts of South
Louisiana were Acadians. A French-Creole Hébert died at
Charity Hospital, New Orleans, in 1774. During the 1770s, two Hébert
brothers from Burgundy lived at Pointe Coupée and Ascension before leaving
the river. One
of them settled for a time at Ouachita in what is now northeastern Louisiana before joining
his brother in the Opelousas District. Some of them settled far out on
the prairie near
Ville Platte in present-day Evangeline Parish, others near Opelousas and
Grand Coteau. Few of their descendants married Acadians.
One of the brothers, François dit Milan, had three sons who created
families of their own, but, despite their vigorous family lines, the numbers of these French-Creole Héberts
remained small compared to their Acadian
namesakes.
...
According to a recent study of
Louisiana families with French and Spanish surnames, Hébert "is the most
frequent surname of French origin, barely outnumbering Landry."
The study, published in 1986, counted over 6,000 households in the state bearing the surname Hébert.
Members of the family can be found in all parts of Louisiana, the study concluded, but they "have remained
largely in the southern part of the state near areas first settled by their
forebears." This is especially interesting in light of the fact
that more Acadian Landrys and LeBlancs than
Héberts emigrated to Louisiana during the colonial period. One
wonders if the
results of the 1986 study attest to a vigorous Y-chromosome in the Hébert
family as well as to the number of freed slaves and their
Afro-Creole descendants who kept the name Hébert after the War
of 1861-65.
The family's name also is spelled Eber, Eberd, Etbert,
Heber, Heberd, Hever, Heverre, Hevert, Hiber, Hiver, Iber. [For the
Acadian family's Louisiana "begats," see
Book
Ten]
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2279-80, 2352-53, 2507-17; Baudier, The Catholic Church in LA, 133,
137; Ethel M. G. Bennet, "HÉBERT, Louis," in
DCB, 1:367-68; Brasseaux, ed.,
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