Acadians Who Found Refuge in Louisiana, February 1764-early 1800s
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ACADIA
Pierre Lanoue, 19 years old, "young scion of a noble Huguenot family in France," came to Acadia in c1667 as a cooper after converting to Catholicism. When he was 34 years old, he married Jeanne, 17-year-old daughter of Francois Gautreaux, at Port-Royal in c1682. They had only one child, son Pierre, fils, born at Port-Royal in c1683. Pierre, fils married Marie, daughter of Laurent Granger, at Port-Royal in November 1702. Pierre, fils and Marie had nine children, including six sons who grew up and created families of their own:
Oldest son Joseph, born at Port-Royal in October 1703, married Marguerite, daughter of Charles Belliveau, at Port-Royal in October 1725. ...
Pierre, born at Port-Royal in January 1706, married first to Francoise, daughter of Pierre Thibodeaux l'aîné, probably at Port-Royal in c1727, then to Anne, another daughter of Charles Belliveau, at Port-Royal in November 1737. ...
Charles, born at Port-Royal in February 1709, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Charles Landry, at Grand-Pré in June 1729. ...
René, born at Port-Royal in December 1710, married Marguerite, daughter of Michel Richard, at Port-Royal in January 1732. ...
Honoré, born at Port-Royal in December 1713, married Agnès, yet another daughter of Charles Belliveau, at Port-Royal February 1745. ...
Youngest son Michel, born at Port-Royal in February 1717, married Marie-Judith, another daughter of Charles Belliveau, at Port-Royal in January 1742. ...
Pierre, père died at Port-Royal in his late 50s or early 60s sometime between 1707-14. The death date for Pierre, fils is unrecorded. His mother, Jeanne Gautreaux, died at Port-Royal in October 1749 in her mid-80s. ...
LE GRAND DÉRANGEMENT
Like most old Acadian families, Le Grand Dérangement of 1755 scattered this large family to the winds. ...
LOUISIANA: RIVER SETTLEMENTS
Despite the large size of the family in Acadia, only two Lanoues made it to Louisiana, brothers Joseph and Pierre, sons of Michel Lanoue and Marie-Judith Belliveau, born in c1746 and c1747, respectively, probably at Port-Royal. The brothers arrived in 1765 with a contingent of Acadians from Halifax who got to the Mississippi Valley colony via St.-Domingue, today's Haiti. They settled in the Acadian community of Cabanocé/St.-Jacques, now St. James Parish, on the river above New Orleans. Older brother Joseph disappears from the records, so it was younger brother Pierre who established the Acadian branch of this family in the Bayou State.
Descendants of Pierre LANOUX (1747-1817)
In the early 1770s, probably at St.-Jacques, Pierre Lanoue married Catherine LeBlanc, a fellow Acadian. They had two sons, both born at St.-Jacques. Pierre remained in St. James Parish, where he died in July 1817, age 70.
Simon, born in c1771, married Félicité, daughter of fellow Acadian Joachim dit Benoni Mire, at Ascension, now Donaldsonville, in January 1789. ...
Michel, born in c1773, married Marie-Céleste, called Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Sonnier, at St.-Jacques in February 1795. ...
CONCLUSION
In Louisiana, the family's name evolved from Lanoue to Lanoux. The family's name also is spelled D'Anous, Lanneau, Lannoux, Lanoir, Lanoire, Lanore, Lanou, Lanue.
Sources: Arsenault, Généalogie, 628-34, 2535; BRDR, vol. 2; Milling, Exile Without End, 30, source of quote; White, DGFA-1, 958-60; White, DGFA-1 English, 204.
Settlement Abbreviations
(present-day parishes that existed
during the War Between the States in parenthesis; hyperlinks on the
abbreviations take you to brief histories of each settlement):
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Ascension |
Lafourche (Lafourche, Terrebonne) |
Pointe Coupée |
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Assumption |
Natchitoches (Natchitoches) |
SB | San Bernardo (St. Bernard) | ||
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Atakapas (St. Martin, St. Mary, Lafayette, Vermilion) |
San Luìs de Natchez (Concordia) |
St.-Gabriel d'Iberville (Iberville) |
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Bayou des Écores (East Baton Rouge, West Feliciana) |
New Orleans (Orleans) |
St.-Jacques de Cabanocé (St. James) |
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Baton Rouge (East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge) |
Opelousas (St. Landry, Calcasieu) |
For a chronology of Acadian Arrivals in Louisiana, 1764-early 1800s, see Appendix.
The hyperlink attached to an individual's name is connected to a list of Acadian immigrants for a particular settlement and provides a different perspective on the refugee's place in family and community.
| Name | Arrived | Settled | Profile |
| Joseph LANOUX 01 | 1765 | StJ | born c1746, probably Port-Royal; son of probably Michel LANOUX & Marie-Judith BELLIVEAU; brother of Pierre; arrived LA 1765, age 19, with his brother; in Cabanocé census, 1769, occupying lot number 133, left [east] bank, called Joseph LANOUE, age 23, listed singly so still a bachelor; never married? |
| Pierre LANOUX 02 | 1765 | StJ, Asc | born c1747, probably Port-Royal; son of probably Michel LANOUX & Marie-Judith BELLIVEAU; brother of Joseph; arrived LA 1765, age 18, with his brother; in Cabanocé census, 1766, VERRET's Company, Cabanocé Militia, called Pedro, with no one else in his household; in Cabanocé census, 1769, occupying lot number 130, left [east] bank, called Pierre LANOUE, age 22, listed singly so still a bachelor; married Catherine LEBLANC, probably early 1770s, probably St.-Jacques; in St.-Jacques census, 1777, left [east] bank, age 30, with wife Catherine age 25, sons Simon age 6, Michel age 4, & daughter Marianne age 18 mos.; in St.-Jacques census, 1779, called Pierre LANOUE, with 6 whites, 1 slave, 4 qts. rice, 40 qts. corn; in JUDICE's Company, Acadian Coast Militia, Aug 1779, called Pierre LANOUE, fusileer; died [buried] St. James Parish 19 Jul 1817, age 72[sic] |
NOTES
01. Wall of Names, 21, calls him Joseph LANOUE; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2535, says he was born in 1743. See also Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 178.
He seems to have disappeared from the records after being counted at Cabanocé in 1769. Did he die young? There is no evidence in the church records of St. James & Ascension parishes that he ever married & fathered children.
02. Wall of Names, 21, calls him Pierre LANOUE; BRDR, 3:519 (SMI-8, 30), his death/burial record, calls him Pierre LANOUE, "nat. Acadia," does not give his parents' names, & says he was 72 at the time of his death.
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