APPENDICES

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

LOUVIERE/DAMOUR

[LOO-vee-air, dah-MORE]

ACADIA

Mathieu, son of Louis D'Amours, a conseiller du Roy, and Élisabeth Tessier of St.-Paul de Paris, was born in the French capital in c1618.  His family must have been well connected.  In October 1651, at age 33, Mathieu, still single, arrived at Québec with the new Canadian governor, Lauzon.  Less than a year later, in April 1752 at Québec, Mathieu married Marie, daughter of Nicolas Marsolet de Saint-Aignan, a prominent Canadian.  In September 1663, at age 45, Mathieu became one of the seven founding members of the Conseil sourverain de Québec.  In November 1672, he obtained the seigneury of Matane.  He lived to a ripe old age, dying at Québec in October 1695, age 77.  

Mathieu and Marie had 15 children, including nine sons, all born at Québec, seven of whom created families of their own.  At least five of Mathieu's sons also married into prominent Canadian families and received seigneuries like their father:

Oldest son Nicolas, born in April 1653, lived for only 10 days.

Louis, born in May 1655, received the seigneury of Jemseg on Rivière St.-Jean, present-day New Brunswick, in 1683.  In September 1684, he received another grant of land from two prominent Canadians, this time on the Rivière Richibouctou in what is now eastern New Brunswick.  His name and titles were now Louis D'Amours, sieur de Chaffours et de Jemseg.  In October 1686, he married Marguerite, daughter of Simon Guyon, at Québec.  She bore him three children, including a son, Louis, fils, born probably on Rivière St.-Jean in c1698.  Meanwhile, in the winter of 1696-97, during the final months of King William's War, Louis and his younger brother, Bernard, served as officers in Pierre Lemoyne, sieur d'Iberville's successful expedition against English settlements in Newfoundland.  Louis and Marguerite's second daughter, Charlotte, married Bernard-Anselme d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin, the half-breed son of Jean-Vincent d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin, the seigneur of Pentagouët, in October 1707.  Louis, père remarried to Anne, daughter of Acadian Jean Comeau l'ainé, at Port-Royal in January 1708, but she gave him no more children.  Louis D'Amours de Chaffours et de Jemseg died at Port-Royal in May 1708, in his early 50s, only a few months into his second marriage.

Mathieu, fils, born in March 1657, received a grant of land on Rivière St.-Jean between Jemseg and Nashwaak in September 1784.  He thus became Mathieu D'Amours, sieur de Freneuse.  In October 1786 at Québec he married Louise Guyon, sister of brother Louis's wife Marguerite and widow of Charles Thibault.  Mathieu, fils and Louise had five children, all of them sons, three of whom married into the Léger de La Grange, d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin, and Coutard families.  Mathieu, fils died in October 1696 probably at Québec; he was only 39 years old.

René, born in August 1660, received a grant on Rivière St.-Jean on the same day his older brother Mathieu received a similar concession.  The younger brother then became René D'Amours, sieur de Clignancour.  In October 1689, at Québec, he married Charlotte-Françoise, daughter of Charles Le Gardeur.  René and Charlotte-Françoise had seven children, including three sons, one of whom married into the Guyon dit Despres family.  The date of René D'Amours de Chignancour's death is unknown.

Charles, born in March 1662, married Marie-Anne, daughter of François Genaple, at Québec in January 1688.  By the late 1690s he was living on a seigneury on Rivière St.-Jean, where his three older brothers had concessions.  This gave him the title of sieur de Louvieres.  Marie-Anne gave him four children, including two sons who married into the Rouer de Villeray, Morel de La Durantaye, and Renoyer families, all prominent in Canada.  His two sons also called themselves de Louvieres.  In 1697, Charles remarried to Anne-Marie, daughter of Acadian Pierre Thibodeau, pioneer of the settlement at Chepoudy.  Anne-Marie gave him 10 more children, including four sons who married into the Catalogne, Tonty, Couillard dit Despres, Pelletier, Boulogne, and Richaume families; two of Charles's sons by this second marriage also called themselves de Louvieres.  Charles drowned in 1716 at age 54, probably at Québec.  Most of Charles's children from both marriages were born in Québec, so he probably did not reside for very long on his seigneury at Rivière St.-Jean.  

Joseph-Nicolas, born in May 1664, never married and died at Quebec in November 1690, only 27 years old. 

Claude-Louis, born in January 1666, died at three months old. 

Bernard, born in December 1667, also received a seigneury and became Bernard D'Amours, sieur de Plaine or Des Plaines.  He married first to Jeanne, daughter of former Acadian governor Alexandre Le Borgne de Belisle, at Port-Royal in September 1697, after he had served as an officer with his older brother, Louis, in Iberville's successful expedition against English settlements in Newfoundland.  Jeanne gave Bernard five children, including four sons, but only one of them married, twice, into the Boucher de Montbrun and Coulon de Villiers families.  In November 1716 at St.-Thomas de Montmagny, Bernard remarried to Élisabeth, daughter of Jacques Couillard dit Despres.  She gave Bernard 10 more children, including two sons who married into the Vallerand, Joncas, and Belanger families.

Youngest son Philippe, born in February 1680, married first to Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Pierre Mesnage, at Québec in February 1722.  In March 1728, at Beauport, he remarried to Marie-Anne-Louise, daughter of Ignace Juchereau.  He died in February 1747, age 67.

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According to Acadian genealogist Bona Arsenault, the Louvieres of Louisiana are descended from Mathieu D'Amours, sieur de Matane's third son, Mathieu, fils, sieur de Freneuse, whose second son, Louis de Chauffours, born either in Québec or on Rivière St.-Jean in c1689, married Ursuline, daughter of Jean-Vincent d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin, in c1715, probably at Port-Royal.  Ursuline's father was the famous capitaine de sauvages and Abenaki chief who terrorized New England during the late 1600s.  Ursuline's mother was Mathilde, daughter of an Abenaki chief, so Ursuline was what the French called a métis.  Ursuline's brother, Bernard-Anselme, also was a hero of the struggle against the English, leading Abenaki warriors against the hated enemy in two colonial wars.  One of Louis and Ursuline's sons, Jean-Baptiste, evidently used the honorific de Louviere like his cousins.  Jean-Baptiste D'Amours dit de Louviere married Geneviève, daughter of Acadian Michel Bergeron dit de Nantes of Port-Royal and his second wife Marie Dugas, sometime in the late 1740s.  Jean-Baptiste and Geneviève settled on Rivière St.-Jean near present-day Fredericton, New Brunswick.  All of the Acadian Louvieres of Louisiana descend from three of their sons.  

LE GRAND DÉRANGEMENT

When British forces deported the Acadians of Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755, Jean-Baptiste D'Amours dit de Louviere and his family remained unmolested.  Rivière St.-Jean was clearly in French territory, and for now this fact protected them.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived, however.  In late1758 and early 1759, after the fall of the French stronghold at Louisbourg the previous July, British forces raided the Acadian settlements on Rivière St.-Jean, burned the villages along a 35-mile stretch of the river, and deported the Acadians they managed to capture.  Michel Bergeron dit Nantes, Jean-Baptiste's father-in-law, had escaped from Port-Royal three years before with some of his family and had taken refuge with his daughter and son-in-law on Rivière St.-Jean.  Michel Bergeron eluded the British again and led a group of Acadian exiles all the way to Canada, where they settled at St.-Grégoire and Becancour on the St. Lawrence River across from Trois-Rivière.  Jean-Baptiste dit de Louviere, wife Geneviève, and their children were not so lucky; they evidently were among the Acadians on Rivière St.-Jean whom the British captured and transported to Boston, Massachusetts.  

Life in Massachusetts for the exiled Acadians was filled with pain and sorrow.  The Puritans treated the Catholic francophones with unalloyed contempt.  But life was not all bad for this family of Acadian exiles.  At least two of their sons, François and Isidore, were born to them at Boston.

After the French and Indian War ended in 1763, Jean-Baptiste and Geneviève chose not to remain in an English colony where they had been treated like common criminals.  They returned to Acadia, where their family had lived as colonial nobility.  British authorities, intolerant of Acadians remaining in or returning to their former homeland, rounded up the Louvieres and other returning exiles and sent them to the prison compound at Halifax. 

The postwar situation in Nova Scotia presented these wayward Acadians with a fresh set of dilemmas.  The Treaty of Paris of February 1763 stipulated in its Article 14 that persons dispersed by the war had 18 months to return to their respective territories.  In the case of the Acadians, however, this meant that they could return only to French soil.  Rivière St.-Jean was no longer French territory.  British authorities refused to allow any of the Acadian prisoners in the region to return to their former lands as proprietors.  If Acadians chose to remain in Nova Scotia, they could live only in the interior of the peninsula in small family groups and work for low wages on former Acadian lands now owned by New England "planters."  If they stayed, they must also take the hated oath of allegiance to the new British king, George III, without reservation.  They would also have to take the hated oath if they joined their cousins in Canada.  After all that they had suffered on the question of the oath, no self-respecting Acadian would consent to take it if it could be avoided.  Some Halifax exiles chose to relocate to Miquelon, a French-controlled island off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  Others considered going to French St.-Domingue, today's Haiti, where Acadian exiles in the British colonies already had gone, or to the Illinois country, the west bank of which still belonged to France, or to French Louisiana, which, thanks to British control of Canada, was the only route possible to the Illinois country for Acadian exiles.  Whatever their choice, they would not remain in old Acadia.  So the D'Amours dit de Louvieres gathered up what money they could and prepared to leave their homeland.  

LOUISIANA:  RIVER SETTLEMENTS

In late 1764 and early 1765, dozens of Acadians from Halifax migrated to Louisiana via Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, arriving in several expeditions in 1765.  Jean-Baptiste D'Amour dit de Louviere of Rivière St.-Jean was not among them.  He died either before his family could get away from Halifax or on the long voyage through St.-Domingue to the lower Mississippi Valley.  His widow, Geneviève Bergeron, age 35, continued on to Louisiana with six of their children--Charles, age 15, Jean-Baptiste, age 10, Anastasie, age 8, François, age 6, Isidore, age 2, and infant Susanne.  Geneviève took her children to Cabanocé/St.-Jacques on the river above New Orleans where 20 Acadians from Georgia had settled the year before.  Charles and Jean-Baptiste remained on the river, but François, Isidore, and Anastasie moved elsewhere. 

Descendants of Charles LOUVIERE (c1750-; Mathieu, père, Mathieu, fils, Louis)

Charles, oldest son of Jean-Baptiste D'Amour dit de Louviere and Geneviève Bergeron, born probably on Rivière St.-Jean in c1750, followed his family into exile in Massachusetts in the late 1750s and on to the prison camp at Halifax in the early 1760s.  He came to Louisiana via St.-Domingue in 1765 with his widowed mother and siblings and followed them to Cabanocé/St.-Jacques, where he married Anne-Élisabeth or Anne-Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadian Jacques Melançon of Port-Royal, in the early 1770s.  Their daughters married into the Clouâtre, Godin, and Rouillier families.  One of his sons settled on upper Bayou Lafourche, but his other married son remained in what became St. James Parish. 

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Oldest son Jean Louis, called Louis, baptized at St.-Jacques, age unrecorded, in July 1776, married cousin Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Melançon of Lafourche, at St. Jacques in September 1804.  They moved to upper Bayou Lafourche by the early 1810s and created another center of family settlement. 

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David, baptized at St.-Jacques, age unrecorded, in November 1781, probably died young. 

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Jean-Baptiste le jeune, called Baptiste, born probably at St.-Jacques in c1782, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Marcel LeBlanc, at St. Jacques in June 1804.  Their son Désiré was born in Ascension Parish in January 1809 but died near Convent, St. James Parish, at age 3 1/2 in September 1811, Jean Baptiste Vasseur, called Vasseur, was born in St. James Parish in September 1814, Evariste near Convent in August 1816, Jean Marcellin, called Marcellin or Marcellus in August 1820 but died at age 11 in August 1831, and Louis Victorin was born in July 1824.  Their daughters married into the Bourgeois, Champic, Dugas, Melançon, and Ramirez families.  Jean Baptiste died near Convent, St. James Parish, in October 1824; he was only 42 years old.  In September 1850, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted 3 slaves--a male and 2 females, all black, ranging in age from 20 to 14--on Widow J. Bte Louvieres's farm next to Vasseur Louvieres in the parish's Eastern District; these probably were the slaves of Baptiste's widow, Marguerite LeBlanc.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted 3 slaves--all females, all black, ages 30, 4 and 2--on Widow J. B. Louviere's farm next to Vavasseur Louviere in the parish's East Bank 4th District.   

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Evariste married cousin Mathilde, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste LeBlanc, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in October 1837.  Their son Jean Baptiste Aristide, called Aristide, was born near Convent in November 1839, Evariste, fils in Ascension Parish in January 1845, Joseph Ernest, called Ernest, in January 1846 but died near Convent at age 9 in September 1855, Laurent died in Ascension Parish at age 18 months in April 1852, and François Thibeaux was born in May 1855.  Their daughters married into the Brooks and Guidry families.  Evariste remarried to cousin Carmelite, daughter of fellow Acadian Marcellin LeBlanc, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in October 1856, and remarried again--his third marriage--to Amelie, daughter of fellow Acadian Séverin Duhon and widow of Bertrand Lanigrasses, at the Convent church in October 1865; Evariste was 49 years old at the time of the wedding.  Their son Joseph Villère was born near Convent in July 1866.

Aristide, by his first wife, married cousin Olive, daughter of fellow Acadian Michel Gaudin, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in February 1860; they had to secure a dispensation for second and third degrees of consanguinity in order to marry.  During the War Between the States, Aristide served in Company E of the St. James Regiment Militia and may have served in the Pelican Artillery, also called the 5th Battery Louisiana Light Artillery, a front-line unit raised in St. James Parish that fought in Louisiana.  If he was the A. Louviers who served in the battery, he was captured during operations along lower Bayou Teche in April 1863.  Soon after his capture, the Federals sent him to New Orleans to be exchanged, and there his Confederate service record ends. 

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Jean Baptiste Vasseur married Emeranthe, called Mirande, daughter of German Creole George Laudenbach, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in December 1838; Emeranthe's mother was a Lanoux.  Their son Victor was born near Convent in October 1839, Donat Marcellus, called Marcellus, in July 1841, Joseph Amédée in July 1843, Désiré Joseph or Joseph Désiré in January 1846 but died at age 18 months in October 1847, and Auguste was born in November 1852.  They also had a son named Douradon or Douradou.  In September 1850, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted 3 slaves--2 males and a female, all black, ranging in age from 22 to 4--on Vasseur Louvieres's farm next to Widow J. Bte. Louvieres in the parish's Eastern District.  In June 1860, the federal census taker counted 8 slaves--1 males and 7 females, all black, ages 31 to 2, living in 4 houses--on Vavasseur Louviere's farm next to Widow J. B. Louviere in the parish's East Bank Fourth District. 

Joseph Amédée married Adélaïde Olivia, called Olivia, daughter of fellow Acadian Adolphe Poirier, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in January 1862.  Their son Joseph Justilien had been born in Ascension Parish in December 1861, Amédée Joseph was born in March 1863 but died at age 2 in August 1865, and Joseph Thuriaf was born in January 1867.  During the War Between the States, beginning in the summer of 1863, Amédée served in Company D of the 14th Regiment Confederate States Cavalry and in Company A of Ogden's Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, front-line units raised in Ascension Parish that fought in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. 

Victor married Oliva, daughter of fellow Acadian Michel Gaudin, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in June 1862.  Their son Joseph Victorin was born near Convent in September 1866. 

During the War Between the States, Douradon served in the Pelican Artillery, also called the 5th Battery Louisiana Light Artillery, a front-line unit raised in St. James Parish that fought in Louisiana.  Douradon married cousin Claire, daughter of fellow Acadian Édouard Gravois, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in January 1867; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their son Joseph Arthur was born near Convent in October 1867. 

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Youngest son Daniel died at St.-Jacques, age unrecorded, in June 1795. 

Jean-Baptiste LOUVIERE, fils (c1754-?; Mathieu, père, Mathieu, fils, Louis)

Jean-Baptiste, fils, second son of Jean-Baptiste D'Amour dit de Louviere and Geneviève Bergeron, born probably on Rivière St.-Jean in c1754, followed his family into exile in Massachusetts in the late 1750s and on to the prison camp at Halifax in the early 1760s.  He came to Louisiana via St.-Domingue in 1765 with his widowed mother and siblings and followed them to Cabanocé/St.-Jacques.  In August 1777, Spanish officials counted him at nearby Ascension, where he was working as an engagé, or hired hand, in a French surgeon's household on the right, or west, bank of the river.  Jean-Baptiste, fils may not have married. 

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Other LOUVIEREs on the River

Area church and civil records make it difficult to link at least one Louviere on the river with known Acadian lines of the family there:

Pierre Louviere married Thérèse Grégoire.  Their son Horter or Orthaire was born at St.-Jacques in February 1807.  Orthaire married Delphine Theriot.  Their son Jean Altenor Alcide was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in September 1835.  One wonders if Pierre was Acadian.

LOUISIANA:  WESTERN SETTLEMENTS

In the late 1770s, the two younger sons and the older daughter of Geneviève Bergeron, widow of Jean-Baptiste D'Amour dit de Louviere, crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to the Attakapas District and established a western branch of the family: 

Anastasie Louviere, wife of French Canadian Pierre LeBlanc, died at her home at Fausse Pointe, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in October 1815.  The priest who recorded her burial said that Anastasie was 68 years old when she died, but she was closer to 58. 

Descendants of François LOUVIERE (c1759-1808; Mathieu, père, Mathieu, fils, Louis)

François, third son of Jean-Baptiste D'Amour dit de Louviere and Geneviève Bergeron, born at Boston, Massachusetts, in c1759 during Le Grand Dérangement, followed his family to the prison camp at Halifax in the early 1760s.  He came to Louisiana via St.-Domingue in 1765 with his widowed mother and siblings and followed them to Cabanocé/St.-Jacques on the river.  In the late 1770s, he and younger brother Isidore moved to the Attakapas District, where François married Marie-Louise, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Thibodeaux, in c1780.  They settled at Fausse Pointe on Bayou Teche.  Their daughters married into the Benoit, Bonin, Broussard, Comeaux, and Prince families.  François remarried to Angélique, daughter of fellow Acadian Michel Bourgeois and widow of Pierre Arceneaux, at Attakapas in November 1799.  She, too, had been born in Boston during Le Grand Dérangement.  Their daughter married into the Robichaux family and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  François died suddenly at his home at Fausse Pointe, St. Martin Parish, in August 1808; he was only 48 years old; his succession record was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse the following month.  His sons and grandsons settled in St. Martin, St. Mary, and Iberia parishes. 

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Oldest son Jean-Baptiste le jeune, by his first wife, born probably at Attakapas in c1777 and baptized there, age unrecorded, in June 1784, died at age 7 in December 1784. 

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Benjamin, by his first wife, born at Attakapas in June 1781, married Louise, called Lise, daughter of French Creole Paul Bonin of Mobile, at Attakapas in July 1804.  They settled at Fausse Pointe.  Their son Benjamin, fils was born probably at Fausse Pointe in September 1806 but died at age 9 in July 1815, a son, name unrecorded, died 7 days after his birth in September 1808, François le jeune was born in February 1810, Joseph, also called Théogène, Louis, and Joseph Benjamin, in February 1812, Louis Béloni in May 1816 but died "at his father's house" at age 5 in June 1821, Paulin was born in September 1818, another son, name unrecorded, died at age 6 months in June 1821, another son, name unrecorded, died at birth in March 1822, Jean-Baptiste le jeune, also called Vileor, was baptized at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, age unrecorded, in September 1823, Germain, also called Delaunay, was born in September 1824, and yet another son, name unrecorded, died "at his parents' home" shortly after his birth in December 1826.  Their daughter married into the Dugas family.  In October 1850, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted a single slave--a 40-year-old black female--on Benjamin Louviere's farm at Fausse Pointe.  Benjamin died in St. Martin Parish in October 1859; the priest who recorded his burial said that Benjamin died "at age 84 yrs.," but he was "only" 78; his succession record was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in November.  Despite the untimely death of six of his sons, five of Benjamin's sons created families of their own and settled in St. Martin Parish. 

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Joseph married first cousin Louise Emitilia, also called Marguerite and Ladoiska, daughter of his uncle François Xavier Louviere, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in August 1845.  Their son Hippolyte was born in August 1851, François le jeune in November 1853, and Édouard in March 1862.  Their daughters married into the LeBlanc family.  Marguerite died near New Iberia in July 1865; she was only 40 years old. 

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François le jeune died in St. Martin Parish in January 1846.  He was only 35 years old and does not seem to have married.  His succession record was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse, St. Martin Parish, in April 1847. 

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Jean Baptiste le jeune married Marie Carmelite, called Carmelite, daughter of fellow Acadian Paul David, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in December 1846.  Their son Jean Baptiste, fils was born in July 1847, St. Cyr in November 1850, Ulgère in November 1853, Anatole in February 1859, and Charles Aubeal in December 1864.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted a single slave--a 16-year-old black male--on J. B. Louvier's farm; one wonders if this was him or a cousin. 

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Germain married Marie Laure or Louise, daughter of fellow Acadian François Trahan, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in July 1847.  Did they have any sons? 

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Paulin married Marie Aurelia, daughter of Pierre Auguste Molbert, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in May 1860; Paulin was 42 years old at the time of the wedding.

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Frédéric, by his first wife, baptized at Attakapas, age 7 months, in May 1783, married Pélagie, daughter of French Creole Jean-Louis Bonin of Mobile, at Attakapas in April 1802.  They settled at Fausse Pointe.  Their son Frédéric, fils was born probably at Fausse Pointe in January 1806, Sylvère in June 1807, Donat Evan, called Evan, in March 1812 but died at age 4 1/2 in October 1816, Moïse was born in April 1815, a son, name and age unrecorded, died in August 1817, and Dolze, born in c1817, died at age 3 in December 1820.  Their daughters married into the Bonin, Broussard, Derouen, Larrive, and Louviere families.  Frédéric, père died in St. Martin Parish in January 1831; he was only 48 years old. 

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Frédéric, fils married Doralise Marie or Marie Doralise, daughter of Eugène Borel of St. Mary Parish, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in July 1826.  Their son Frédéric III was born in St. Martin Parish in August 1829, Séverin in February 1834, Adrien in March 1837, and Jean Melicourt in June 1840.  Their daughters married into the Doty and Moore families.  In December 1850, the federal census taker in St. Mary Parish counted 6 slaves--4 males and 2 females, 3 blacks & 3 mulattoes, ranging in age from 50 to 6--on Frédérick Louvier's farm. 

Adrien married cousin Caroline or Coralie, daughter of French Creole Norbert Bonin, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in May 1854.  Their son Joseph Celicourt was born in July 1856, and Adam Félix in December 1857. 

Jean Melicourt married Marie Alice, daughter of fellow Acadian Onésime LeBlanc, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in January 1861.

Frédéric III died near New Iberia in June 1861.  He was only 31 years old and does not seem to have married. 

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Sylvère married Marcellienne or Marcellite, daughter of French Creole Joseph Derouen, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in January 1828; Marcellienne's mother was a Prejean.  They settled near New Iberia.  Their son Joseph Alcide, called Alcide, was born in November 1838, Jean Baptiste Ferjus, called Ferjus, in February 1843 but died at age 2 1/2 in October 1845, Arsène was born in December 1844, Joseph died 15 days after his birth in June 1849, and Sylvestre was born in July 1850.  Their daughters married Bonin cousins.  In October 1850, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted 7 slaves--2 males and 5 females, all black, ranging in age from 25 years to 4 months--on Silvere Louviere's farm next to Xavier Louviere at Fausse Pointe.  Sylvère remarried to cousin Marie Virginie, called Virginie, daughter of French Creole Bélisaire Bonin, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in December 1852; Marie's mother was a Bourgeois.  Their son Bélisaire was born in December 1853, Sylvestre Dupré in February 1855, Homere in August 1858, Filias Léonce in January 1860, Moïse le jeune in June 1863, and Alexandre Brunair in September 1865.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in St. Mary Parish counted 6 slaves--2 males and 4 females, perhaps all black, ages 38 to 5--on Sylvestre Louviere's farm in the parish's Western District; this probably was Sylvère. 

Alcide, by his first wife, married Julie, daughter of fellow Acadian Alexis LeBlanc, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in February 1860.  Their son Despon Beauregard was born in January 1862, Philemon in May 1863, and Anatole in July 1864.  During the War Between the States, Alcide, a resident of St. Mary Parish, served in Company C of the 2nd Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, a front-line unit raised in Natchitoches Parish that fought in Louisiana.  Alcide died near New Iberia in December 1865; the priest who recorded his burial said that Alcide died "at age 25 yrs.," but he was 27.  One wonders if his death was war-related. 

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Moïse married Gertrude Adeline, called Adeline, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Leclair Hébert, in a civil ceremony in St. Mary Parish in August 1839.  They settled near New Iberia.  Their son Stanislas was born in August 1840 but died at age 3 in September 1843, Moïse, fils was born in February 1845, twins Frédéric le jeune and Jean in January 1851, and Denis in October 1857.  They also had a son named Ducléon.  Their daughter married a Bonin cousin.  In December 1850, the federal census taker in St. Mary Parish counted a single slave--a 17-year-old black female--on Moïse Louvier's farm. 

During the War Between the States, Moïse, fils, a resident of St. Mary Parish, served in Company C of the 2nd Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, a front-line unit raised in Natchitoches Parish that fought in Louisiana. 

Ducléon married Philomène, daughter of fellow Acadian Onésime LeBlanc, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in September 1865.

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François-Xavier, called Xavier, from his first wife, born at Attakapas in February 1788, married Arthémise, also called Susanne, daughter of fellow Acadian Nicolas Hébert of Fausse Pointe, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in April 1814.  They settled at Fausse Pointe.  Their son François Hermogène was born in February 1817, Jean Baptiste le jeune in December 1820, Louis Tertule in June 1825, Pierre Galispi or Olypsi in October 1833, and Joseph Aladin in February 1838.  Their daughters married into the Bonin, Hébert, Louviere, Mallet, and Oubre families.  In October 1850, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted 6 slaves--4 males and 2 females, all black, ranging in age from 25 to 1--on Xavier Louviere's farm next to Silvere Louviere at Fausse Point.  François Xavier died in St. Martin Parish in February 1863; the St. Martinville priest who recorded his burial said that François Xavier died "at age 82 yrs.," but he was "only" 75; his succession record was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in October 1865. 

4a

François Hermogène married Marie Célestine, daughter of French Creole Come DeBlanc, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in July 1844; Marie's mother was a Landry.  Their son Joseph des Paliere died in St. Martin Parish, age unrecorded, in February 1847.

4b

Jean Baptiste le jeune married first cousin Marguerite Anise, daughter of his uncle Benjamin Louviere, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in March 1845.  They settled near New Iberia.  Their son Joseph was born in June 1851, and Alexandre Adam in May 1864.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted a single slave--a 16-year-old black male--on J. B. Louvier's farm; one wonders if this was him or a cousin. 

4c

Louis Tertule died in St. Martin Parish in March 1848.  He was only 22 years old and did not marry.  His succession record was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse the following November. 

4d

Pierre Olypsi married Carmelite, daughter of fellow Acadian Frédéric LeBlanc, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in April 1854.  Their son Alex was born in April 1855, and Louis Zerthur in January 1859.  During the War Between the States, Olypsi, as he was called in Confederate records, served in Company E of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, a front-line unit raised in Lafayette Parish that fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi. 

4e

Joseph Aladin married Henriette Eléonore, daughter of Henry Ransonnet, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in July 1865.

5

A son, by his first wife, name and age unrecorded, died at Attakapas in November 1796. 

6

Youngest son Émilien, by his second wife, born at Attakapas on Good Friday, 1801, died young. 

Descendants of Isidore LOUVIERE (c1763-?; Mathieu, père, Mathieu, fils, Louis)

Isidore, fourth and youngest son of Jean-Baptiste D'Amour dit de Louviere and Geneviève Bergeron, born at Boston in c1763 during Le Grand Dérangement, was taken to the prison camp at Halifax soon after his birth.  He came to Louisiana via St.-Domingue in 1765 with his widowed mother and siblings and followed them to Cabanocé/St.-Jacques on the river above New Orleans.  In the late 1770s, he and older brother François moved to the Attakapas District, where Isidore married Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadian Firmin Landry, in November 1787.  They also settled at Fausse Pointe on Bayou Teche.  Their daughters married into the Granger and Steven families.  Isidore remarried to Marie, daughter of French Creole Simon Picard of St.-Charles des Allemands and widow of Jacques Touchet, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in August 1812; Isidore was 49 years old at the time of the wedding.  They settled on the lower Vermilion River.  Their daughter married into the Abshire family.  Isidore's sons and grandsons settled in St. Martin, St. Mary, St. Landry, Lafayette, and Iberia parishes. 

1

Oldest son Julien, by his first wife, born at Attakapas in c1788, married Éloise or Héloise, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Granger of Prairie Sorel, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in October 1816.  They settled at Côte Gelée.  Their son Julien, fils was born in March 1820, Joseph le jeune in July 1821 but died "at this father's house" at age 4 in July 1825, and David Clairville, called Clairville, was born in August 1829.  Their daughters married into the Lalande, Leger, Lormand, Mire, and Trahan families.  Julien, père died probably at his home at Côte Gelée in January 1848; he was 60 years old. 

1a

Julien, fils married cousin Marie Zépheline or Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadian François Hébert, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in September 1839; Marie's mother, also, was a Granger.  Their son Joseph le jeune was born near New Iberia, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in October 1841. 

1b

Clairville, age 19, was given "a tutor," as per his father's post-mortem succession record, in May 1848.  He married fellow Acadian Marguerite Zoë Mire in c1849 and settled near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish.  Their son Damase was born in St. Landry Parish in December 1855, Jules near Youngsville, Lafayette Parish, in November 1858, and Placide in July 1861. 

2

Louis, by his first wife, baptized at Attakapas, age 2, in April 1795, married Marie Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadian Vital Landry of Côte Gelée, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in October 1818.  Did they have any children?  In December 1850, the federal census taker in St. Mary Parish counted 5 slaves--all females, all black, ranging in age from 30 to 6--on Louis Louviere's farm.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted 7 slaves--1 males and 6 females, all mulattoes except for 1 black, ages 22 years to 6 months--on Louis Louvier's farm. 

3

Joseph, by his first wife, born at Attakapas in August 1798, married Delphine Séraphine, also called Adèle, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Broussard of Fausse Pointe, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in April 1821.  They settled at Côte Gelée and at Île aux Cannes.  Their son Joseph, fils was born probably at Côte Gelée in April 1822, Édouard in November 1824, a son, name unrecorded, died "at his parents' home" at La Petite Ance, age 2 months, in November 1829, Théodule was born in November 1832, Paulin in June 1835 but died at age 10 months in April 1836, Jean Osémé, called Osémé, was born near New Iberia in May 1839, and Clet or Clayton in September 1843.  Their daughters married into the Borel, Delhomme, Landry, Maillard or Mayer, and Savoie families.  Joseph's succession record was filed at the Franklin courthouse, St. Mary Parish, in August 1852; he would have been 54 years old that year. 

3a

Édouard married cousin Marie Elina, Helena, or Héloise, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Granger, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in May 1844; Marie's mother was a Louviere.  Their son Joseph le jeune was born in Lafayette Parish in April 1845, Éloi in August 1851, and Félix in August 1858. 

3b

Joseph, fils married Victoire Sidalise, daughter of fellow Acadian François Prince, in a civil ceremony in St. Mary Parish in July 1847 or 1848.

3c

Jean Osémé married French Canadian Marie Zelie or Azelina Lantier probably in Lafayette Parish in the late 1850s.  During the War Between the States, Osémé served in Company E of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, a front-line unit raised in Lafayette Parish that fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi. 

3d

During the War Between the States, Clayton served with older brother Osémé in Company E of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry.  After the war, Clayton settled at Rayne in present-day Acadia Parish. 

4

Rosémond, by his first wife, born at St.-Jacques on the river in December 1801, married Marie Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Breaux and widow of Joseph Lalande, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in May 1825.  Their son Osémé was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 5 months, in August 1826 but died a few weeks later, and Théodule was born in St. Martin Parish in July 1827.  Rosémond remarried to Charlotte Lormand or Normand and settled in Lafayette Parish.  Their daughter married into the Leleux family. 

Théodule married fellow Acadian Julie Landry probably in St. Martin Parish in the early 1850s.  Their son Édouard Zartur was born near New Iberia in May 1855, Joseph le jeune in Lafayette Parish in February 1857, and Paulin in May 1864.  Théodule, called Joseph Théodule by the recording priest, remarried to Célestine, daughter of French Creole Gilbert Amy, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in October 1864; Célestine's mother was a Landry.

5

Youngest son Joachim, by his second wife, born in St. Martin Parish in October 1815, may have died young. 

Other LOUVIEREs on the Western Prairies

Area church and civil records make it difficult to link some Louvieres in the western parishes with known Acadian lines of the family there:

Octave Joseph Louviere died near New Iberia, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, five days after his birth in August 1841.  The priest who recorded the boy's burial did not bother to give the parents' names. 

Joseph Louviere died near New Iberia, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in October 1844.  He was only 12 years old.  The priest who recorded the boy's burial did not give the parents' names. 

Arthémise Damoine Louviere married Henri Hargroder at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in July 1847.  The priest as well as the parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.  In 1860, the federal census taker in St. Landry Parish counted 4 slaves--2 males and 2 females, all black, ranging in age from 35 to 6--on Arthémise Louviere's farm; she probably was a widow by then.  Arthémise, called Phémise, remarried to Aurere Badeau in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in August 1862.  Again, the parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names. 

Vileor Louviere married Vores Cory in a civil ceremony in St. Martin Parish in January 1860.  The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names. 

In June 1860, the federal census taker in St. Martin Parish counted a single slave--a year-old black female--on Dumastrait Louvier's farm. 

Gustave Louviere died near New Iberia in March or April 1861.  He was only 8 months old.  The priest who recorded the burial did not give the boy's parents' names. 

Ellen Louviere married Anglo American William F. Leming in a civil ceremony in St. Martin Parish in October 1861.  The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names. 

LOUISIANA:  LAFOURCHE VALLEY SETTLEMENTS

Twenty years after the first of the family came to Louisiana, a cousin of the D'Amour dit de Louvieres came to the colony from France in 1785:

Marie-Rose D'Amour, age 24, crossed aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships from France, which reached New Orleans in November.  With her were second husband Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Thibodeau, age 20, and their infant son.  They followed the majority of the passengers from their ship to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Marie Rose died by November 1804, when her husband remarried at Assumption. 

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A Louviere from St. James Parish moved to upper Bayou Lafourche during the early antebellum period and created a third center of family settlement there.  His descendants settled as far down the valley as the coastal marshes of Terrebonne Parish: 

Descendants of Jean-Louis LOUVIERE (c1776-1847; Mathieu, père, Mathieu, fils, Louis, Jean-Baptiste)

Jean-Louis, called Louis, eldest son of Charles Louviere and Anne-Isabelle Melançon, baptized at St.-Jacques, age unrecorded, in July 1776, married cousin Marie Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Melançon of Lafourche, at St. Jacques in September 1804.  They moved to upper Bayou Lafourche in the late 1800s or early 1810s.  Their daughters married into the Auger, Gautreaux, Labiche, and Pontiff families.  Jean Louis died in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1847; the priest who recorded his burial said that Jean Louis was 66 years old when he died, but he was closer to 70.   His sons and grandsons settled in Lafourche Interior and Terrebonne parishes. 

1

Oldest son Onésime, born at St. James in June 1805, married ____ Allain.  Onésime died in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1849; he was only 45 years old.  He and his wife may have been that rare Acadian couple who had no children. 

2

Pierre Evariste, called Evariste and Varice, born in Assumption Parish in December 1811, married Collete or Nicolette, daughter of fellow Acadian Simon LeBlanc, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in February 1837.  Their son Pierre, fils died in Lafourche Interior Parish at age 1 month in January 1838, Henri Valéry was born in January 1846, Evariste Léon in March 1848, and Ludger Armogène in January 1852.  Their daughters married into the Benoit, Domingue, and LeBlanc families. 

Henri married America, daughter of Anglo American William Whitney, at the Montegut church, Terrebonne Parish, in February 1870; America's mother was a Gautreaux.  Their son James Frederick was born in Terrebonne Parish in September 1870. 

3

Benjamin, born in Assumption Parish in May 1817, may have died young. 

4

Jean Baptiste Désiré, also called Pierre Hermogène and Aimé Hermogène, born in Lafourche Interior Parish in August 1822, married Emeranthe, called Meranthe, daughter of fellow Acadian Mathurin Daigle of Terrebonne Parish, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in February 1846; the marriage also was recorded in Terrebonne Parish.  Their son Henry Dubrick was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in November 1846, and Osémé Alphonse in January 1851.  Their daughters married into the Bergeron and Lirette families.  Hermogène died in February or March 1853; he was only 30 years old; a petition for his succession inventory was filed at the Houma courthouse, Terrebonne Parish, in April. 

Henry married Euphrasie, daughter of Émile Fanguy, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in October 1869. 

5

Jean Louis, fils died in Lafourche Interior Parish 10 days after his birth in September 1824. 

6

Achille, perhaps his youngest son, born probably in Lafourche Interior Parish in c1828, married fellow Acadian Aurelienne Richard at the Chacahoula church, Terrebonne Parish, in February 1859.  Their son Jean Baptiste Félicien was born in Lafourche Parish in February 1860.  During the War Between the States, Achille served in the Lafourche Parish Regiment Militia.  He was captured at the Battle of Labadieville in October 1862 and paroled at Thibodaux soon afterwards.  Achille died in Lafourche Parish in August 1865; he was only 37 years old. 

Other LOUVIEREs in the Lafourche/Terrebonne Valley

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

Norbert Louviere married Uranie Barrios.  Their son Alphonse was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1842. 

Marie Louviere's son Joseph Théophile died in Lafourche Interior Parish at age 9 months in February 1850.  The priest who recorded the boy's burial did not give the father's name or the mother's parents' names. 

Madeleine Louviere, wife of Paul Galabert, died in Lafourche Interior Parish in June 1850.  She was only 48 years old. 

NON-ACADIAN FAMILIES in LOUISIANA

Non-Acadians with a similar-sounding surname lived in colonial Louisiana as early as the 1740s:

Pierre Loubiere of St.-Germain-en-Laye, France, was serving as a soldier at Natchez Post when he died in September 1749.  He probably had no family. 

Thérèse Loubiere of Fort Chartres, Illinois, was the widow of Louis-Joseph-Auguste Deverger when she died at New Orleans, age 38, in February 1792. 

Charles Louvier, husband of Jeanne Bosonier, died at St.-Jean-Baptiste des Allemands on the Upper German Coast in February 1800.  He was only 45 years old.  The priest who recorded Charles's burial did not give his parents' names or mention where he came from. 

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Louvieres who cannot be linked to Jean-Baptiste D'Amours dit de Louviere and his sons, and an Italian who used the dit d'Amour, settled in South Louisiana during the antebellum period:

Denis, son of Michel Louviere and Marie Joséphine Louviere, born in c1776, married Marie Anne, daughter of German Creole Paul Toups and widow of Antoine Frederick, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in May 1817, and remarried to Acadian Marie Henriette Landry.  Denis moved to the western prairies and died near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in December 1846; the priest who recorded his burial said that Denis died "at age 70 yrs.."  His wife, called Mme. Denyse Louviere, died "at Gros Chevreuil," perhaps Prairie Grand Chevrueil, east of present-day Breaux Bridge, St. Martin Parish, "at age 74 yrs." in November 1860.  Was Denis a French Canadian who was a cousin of the Louisiana Louvieres? 

Laurent Noveri dit Charles d'Amour married Anne Nicolas Longrin.  Their son Laurent was born in Assumption Parish in May 1819. 

François Louviere "of Montreal, Canada," married Julie Ellender in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in February 1824.  Was François a kinsman of Denis? 

CONCLUSION

The D'Amours, a family of French nobles from Canada, settled early in Acadia, but not in any of the Acadian communities along the Bay of Fundy.  They settled, instead, on seigneuries granted to them during the late 1600s along Rivière St.-Jean in present-day New Brunswick.  In the 1740s, Jean-Baptiste D'Amour dit de Louviere married into the Bergeron dit Nantes family at Rivière St.-Jean.  During Le Grand Dérangement, Jean-Baptiste and his growing family spent time at Boston and Halifax, and they were among the earliest Acadians to seek refuge in Louisiana.  Sadly, Jean-Baptiste D'Amour dit de Louviere did not accompany his family to Louisiana; he died either in Nova Scotia or on the long voyage to New Orleans via Ca-Français, St.-Domingue, in 1764 or 1765.  His widow took their children to Cabanocé/St.-Jacques on the river.  Her two older sons remained there, but in the late 1770s her two younger sons and a daughter settled on the western prairies, creating a second center of family settlement.  Meanwhile, a female cousin who called herself Damour came to Louisiana from France in 1785 and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  A Louviere from St. James Parish created a third center of family settlement on upper Bayou Lafourche during the early antebellum period.  By the end of the period, his descendants had settled as far down the valley as Terrebonne Parish.  Throughout the antebellum period, however, the western branch of the family, concentrated in St. Martin, Lafayette, and St. Mary parishes, equaled in numbers the two eastern branches combined. 

A few non-Acadian Louvieres settled in South Louisiana during the late colonial and early antebellum periods, but none of them created large families.

Judging by the number of slaves they owned during the late antebellum period, members of the family in all three centers of settlement participated only peripherally in the South's plantation economy.  Vasseur Louviere held eight slaves on his east bank St. James Parish farm in 1860.  A hand full of his cousins in St. Martin and St. Mary parishes owned no more than seven slaves in 1850 and 1860.  Most, including all of the Louvieres in Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes, owned no slaves at all, at least none who appear on the federal slaves schedules of 1850 and 1860.   

Nearly two dozen Louvieres served Louisiana in uniform during the War Between the States.  Confederate records reveal no deaths in service among them, though one of them--Alcide Louviere of St. Mary Parish, a young husband and father who served in Company C of the 2nd Regiment Louisiana Cavalry--died in December 1865, age 27.  One wonders if his death was war-related. ...

Interestingly, when Louisiana priests recorded their baptisms, marriages, and burials, the descendants of Jean-Baptiste D'Amours dit de Louviere used the surname Louviere and sometimes De Louviere but not D'Amours.  The family's name in Louisiana also is spelled Loievier, Loubiere, Louvier, Louvieres, Louvierre, Lubiere, Luvier, Luviere.  The members of the family who did use the original surname preferred the spelling Damour, not D'Amours. 

Sources:  1850 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, St. James, St. Mary, & St. Martin parishes; 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, St. James, St. Landry, St. Mary, & St. Martin parishes; Arsenault, Généalogie, 1626-32, 2469-70; Arsenault, History, 152-53, 163-64; BRDR, vols. 1b, 2, 3, 4, 5(rev.), 6, 7, 8, 9, 10; Crouse, Lemoyne d'Iberville, chap. 6; Dartez, Genealogy, <wdartez.com>; Griffiths, From Migrant to Acadian, 220; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vols. 1, 2, 3, 4; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 1-A, 1-B, 2-A, 2-B, 2-C, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; NOAR, vols. 5, 7; White, DFGA-1, 453-66 (D'Amours de Chaufours); White, DGFA-1 English, 100-01 (D'Amours de Chaufours). 

Settlement Abbreviations 
(present-day parishes that existed during the War Between the States in parenthesis; hyperlinks on the abbreviations take you to brief histories of each settlement):

For a chronology of Acadian Arrivals in Louisiana, 1764-early 1800s, see Appendix.

The hyperlink attached to an individual's name is connected to a list of Acadian immigrants for a particular settlement and provides a different perspective on the refugee's place in family and community. 

NOTES

01.  Wall of Names, 22, calls her Anastasie [D'AMOURS dit de LOUVIERE]; BRDR, 2:481, 508 (SJA-1, 54), her marriage record, calls her Anastasie LOUVIER "of Acadia," calls her husband Pierre LE BLANC "of Montreale in Canada," gives her & his parents' names, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Joseph DUGAS & Étienne LANZON; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-A:636 (SM Ch.: v.4, #995), her death/burial record, calls her Anastasie LOUVIERE, "native of Acadie, wife of René (probably Pierre, marginal change has Pierre) LEBLANC, inhabitant at la fausse pointe," says she died at home & was buried "in the parish cemetery," but does not give her parents' names. 

02.  Wall of Names, 22, calls him Charles [D'AMOURS dit de LOUVIERE].

03.  Wall of Names, 22, calls him François [D'AMOURS dit de LOUVIERE]; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:101, 530 (SM Ct.Hse.: OA-vol.19, #96), record of contract for his second marriage, dated 7 Nov 1799, calls him François LOUVIERE, "native of Bosthon in N. America," calls his wife Angélique BOURGEOIS, "wid. of Pierre ARCENEAUX, native of Cabahanoce," gives his & her parents' names, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Vidor [Isidore] LOUVIERE, "a brother," Louis PELLERIN, Firmain LANDRY, Amédé SAVOYE, & Louis-Charles DEBLANC; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:101, 530 (SM Ch.: v.4, #186), the record of his second marriage, dated 26 Nov 1799, calls him François LOUVIERE "of Boston, widr. of Marie Louise THIBAUDAU," calls his wife Angélique BOURGEOIS "of St. James Parish on the Mississippi, wid. of Pierre ARSONNAU," gives his & her parents' names, says his parents were "of Isle[sic] St. Jean, Canada" & hers "of LaFourche," & that the witnesses to his marriage were Marin LENORMAND, Amand BROUSSARD, Colas HÉBERT, Hubert LANDRY, André HÉBERT, & Louis CHEMIN; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-B:478 (SM Ch.: v.4, #523), his death/burial record, calls him François LOUVIERE "of La fausse pointe," says he died "suddenly at his residence," that he was buried the next day, but does not give his parents' names or mention a wife; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-B:478 (SM Ct.Hse.: Succ.#13) his succession record, calls him François LOUVIERE, "wid. is Marie Louise THIBODEAUX," & lists his heirs as Eugènie m. Éloi BENOIT, Susette m. Antoine PRINCE, Benjamin, Frédérique, Xavier, "minors are" Polone & Félonice.

The priest who recorded his second marriage, Fr. Michel-Bernard BARRIERE, usually a careful record keeper, confused Rivière St.-Jean, where the LOUVIEREs lived, with Île St.-Jean, where they did not. 

04.  Wall of Names, 22, calls him Isidore [D'AMOURS dit de LOUVIERE]; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:474, 531 (SM Ch.: v.4, #8), the record of his first marriage, calls him Isidore LOUVIERE, calls his wife Françoise LANDRY, gives his & her parents' names, calls his mother Marie DUGAL, says all parents were "of Canada," & that the witnesses to his marriage were Jean-Marie ____, Augustin DUGA, & Pierre COMO; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 255, 748-49 (SM Ch.: v.5, #269), the record of his second marriage, calls him Isidore DAMOURS dit LOUVIERES, "widower of dec. Françoise LANDRY, inhabitant 'au large de (in the surrounding countryside of) New Iberia, native of Boston in Massachusetts," calls his wife Marie PICARD "of this parish, native of St. Charles Parish on the river, widow of dec. Jacques TOUTCHEQUE (TOUCHET)," gives his & her parents' names, says he was a major son & she a major daughter, that his both fathers were deceased at the time of the wedding, & that the witnesses to his marriage were Jean THOMASSON, Pierre CUVELIER, & Louis CHEMIN. 

His birthplace also can be found in the baptismal record of son Joseph, dated 21 Oct 1798, in Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:531 (SM Ch.: v.4, #98).

05.  Wall of Names, 22, calls him Baptiste [D'AMOURS dit de LOUVIERE]; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2469.  See also Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 161, 168. 

Why was he in VERRET's Company, Cabanocé Militia in Apr 1766 if he was only 12 years old?  See Bourgeois, pp. 161, 168.  

06.  Wall of Names, 40, calls her Marie-Rose DAMOUR; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 49, 147; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 74-75.  See also Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 52, 78, 161.

Her birth year, birthplace (assumed to be the Ste.-Anne on Rivière St.-Jean because she was a DAMOUR), parents' names, & first marriage are from Robichaux, cited above.  Her first husband must have died soon after their marriage. 

Note how grossly inaccurate were the Spanish census takers in recording her age at Valenzuéla in the 1790s. 

07.  Wall of Names, 22, calls her Susanne [D'AMOURS dit de LOUVIERE].

What happened to her in LA?

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