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 in Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 128. Brasseaux, Founding of New Acadia, 94, hints that this party went first to Attakapas, either with or behind the BROUSSARD party, before retreating to Opelousas to escape an epidemic during the summer or fall of 1765.
| Name | Age | Birthplace | Relationships & Comments |
| Charles COMEAUX | 23 | Chepoudy | |
| Anastasie SAVOIE | 21 | Chignecto | Wife; sister of Pierre & Marie-Josèphe dite Modeste |
| Michel COMEAUX | 31 | Chepoudy | |
| Marie-Madeleine GIROUARD | 28 | ? | Wife |
| Jean COMEAUX | 5 | Halifax | Son |
| Louis COMEAUX | newborn | aboard ship or New Orleans | Son; baptized New Orleans, 16 May 65 |
| Joseph CORMIER | 25 | Ouescoque, Chignecto | |
| Marguerite SONNIER | ? | Petitcoudiac | Wife |
| Félicité CORMIER | in utero | probably Opelousas | Daughter; twin of Marie-Louise |
| Marie-Louise CORMIER | in utero | probably Opelousas | Daughter; twin of Félicité |
| Susanne CORMIER | 1 | Halifax | Daughter |
| Michel CORMIER | 24 | Ouescoque, Chignecto | Brother |
| Timothée dit Mothé GUÉNARD | 49 | Maryland | Died before reaching LA, at New Orleans, or at Opelousas before Apr 1766 |
| Anne-Marie THIBODEAUX | 42 | Annapolis Royal | Wife |
| Anastasie GUÉNARD | 14 | Annapolis Royal | Daughter |
| Joseph GUÉNARD | 19 | Annapolis Royal | Son |
| Jean-Baptiste dit Cobit HÉBERT | 29 | Chignecto | Widower of Marie-Rose THIBODEAUX |
| Marie-Josèphe dite Modeste SAVOIE | 39 | Annapolis Royal | Sister of Anastasie & Pierre; widow of Paul LÉGER |
| Joseph LÉGER | ? | ? | Son |
| Scholastique LÉGER | 19 | probably Annapolis Royal | Daughter |
| Pierre PITRE | 66 | Port-Royal | Widower |
| Catherine-Françoise PITRE | 22 | Chepoudy | Daughter |
| François PITRE | 17 | Chepoudy | Son |
| Pierre RICHARD, père | 35 | Chignecto | |
| Marguerite DUGAS | 30 | Annapolis Royal | Wife |
| Fabien RICHARD | 13 | Malpèque, Île St.-Jean | Son |
| Louis RICHARD | 5 | Halifax? | Son |
| Pierre RICHARD, fils | 2 | Halifax | Son |
| Victor RICHARD | 18 | Malpèque, Île St.-Jean | Brother |
| Pierre SAVOIE | 24 | Chignecto | Brother of Anastasie & Marie-Josèphe dite Modeste |
| Charles-Jean SONNIER | ? | probably Petitcoudiac | |
| Joseph SONNIER | 9 | Petitcoudiac | Brother of Françoise & Olivier, half-brother of Sylvain |
| Madeleine SONNIER | 18 | Petitcoudiac | Sister of Olivier et al. |
| Olivier SONNIER | 13 | Petitcoudiac | Brother of Françoise, Joseph, & Madeleine |
| Sylvain SONNIER | 29 | Petitcoudiac | Half-brother of Olivier et al. |
| Pierre THIBODEAUX | 41 | Annapolis 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/9 families | |||
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