APPENDICES

Acadian Immigrants to the Opelousas District, 1765 

Ages are as of 1765.  Individuals with surnames in bold are male family heads or the eldest sons of widows.  Hyperlinks take you to individual histories in the Acadian family pages, which contain many more details of each person's life.

NOTE:  Many of these individuals can be found in the Apr 1766 Opelousas militia list/census found in Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 128.

Name Age Birthplace Relationships & Comments
Charles COMEAUX 23 Chepoudy
Anastasie SAVOIE 21 Chepoudy Wife; sister of Pierre
Michel COMEAUX 31 Chepoudy
Marie-Madeleine GIROUARD 28 ? Wife
Jean COMEAUX 5 Halifax Son
Louis COMEAUX newborn aboard ship or New Orleans Son
Joseph CORMIER 25 Rivière-des-Hébert
Marguerite SONNIER ? Petitcoudiac Wife
Félicité CORMIER in utero aboard ship or Opelousas Daughter; twin of Marie-Louise
Marie-Louise CORMIER in utero aboard ship or Opelousas Daughter; twin of Félicité
Susanne CORMIER 1 Halifax Daughter
Michel CORMIER 24 Rivière-des-Hébert Brother
Timothée GUÉNARD 49 Maryland May have died before reaching LA
Anne-Marie THIBODEAUX 42 Port-Royal Wife
Anastasie GUÉNARD 14 Chignecto Daughter
Joseph GUÉNARD 19 Chignecto Son
Jean-Baptiste HÉBERT dit Cobit 29 Chignecto
Marie SAVOIE ? ? Widow of Paul LÉGER
Joseph LÉGER ? ? Son
Scholastique LÉGER ? ? Daughter
Pierre PITRE ? ?
Catherine-Françoise PITRE 22 ? Daughter
François PITRE 17 ? Son
Pierre RICHARD, père 35 Chignecto
Marguerite DUGAS 30 Cobeguit Wife
Fabien RICHARD 13 Chignecto Son
Louis RICHARD 5 Halifax? Son
Pierre RICHARD, fils 2 Halifax Son
Victor RICHARD 18 Chignecto Brother
Pierre SAVOIE 24 Chepoudy Brother of Anastasie
Charles-Jean SONNIER ? ?
Joseph SONNIER 9 Petitcoudiac Brother of Françoise & Olivier, half-brother of Sylvain
Madeleine SONNIER 18 Petitcoudiac Sister
Olivier SONNIER 13 Petitcoudiac Brother of Françoise, Joseph, & Madeleine
Sylvain SONNIER 29 Petitcoudiac Half-brother
Pierre THIBODEAUX 41 Port-Royal
Françoise SONNIER 34 Petitcoudiac Wife, sister of Joseph, Madeleine, & Olivier, half-sister of Sylvain
Adélaïde THIBODEAUX 3 Halifax Daughter
Anne-Marie THIBODEAUX 5 Halifax Daughter
Françoise THIBODEAUX 4 Halifax Daughter
Marie-Josèphe THIBODEAUX 13 probably Chepoudy Daughter
41 individuals, all Acadians/10 families

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