Pronunciation: MAH-bee-lay?
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Pronunciation: MAH-hee-aye
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Pronunciation: MAY-truh
Origin: Swiss Immigrant
Arrived in Louisiana: 1840s, early 1850s
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Joseph MATIRE
Settled: Lafayette Parish
Acadian connection: none found ... "cultural Cajun"
Comments: Joseph MAITRE of Berne, Switzerland, married Marie Carmelite DOMINGUE, daughter of Pierre DOMINGUE and Marie Josephine HERNANDEZ, 16 Aug 1851, in Vermilionville, now Lafayette. Joseph served in Company K, 2nd Regiment Reserves during the War Between the States.
Sources: Hebert, D., Southwest LA Records, 5:170, 376.
Pronunciation: MAL-broh
Origin: German Creole
Arrived in Louisiana: October 1769
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Nicolas MARCOFF
Settled: St. James & Assumption parishes
Acadian connection: ARCENEAUX, BABIN, BOUDREAUX, COMEAUX, DAIGLE, DUHON, HÉBERT, LANDRY, LEBLANC, MARTIN, ROBICHAUX, THIBODEAUX
Comments: Nicolas MARCOFF, born in c1707, his wife Christine-Marie ORY, born in c1724, both Germans, their sons Jean-George, born in c1750, Joseph in c1759, Francois in c1761, and Jean-Augustin in 1768, and their two daughters, were living in Maryland when they decided to migrate to Louisiana with seven other German families and seven Acadian families. On 5 January 1769, they left Port Tobacco, Maryland, aboard the English schooner Britannia, heading for New Orleans. Unfortunately, their ship missed the entrance to the Mississippi River, got lost in the Gulf of Mexico, landed on the Texas coast, and the passengers and crew were held by the Spanish at Goliad, Texas, for several months, suspected of being spies or smugglers. After they were released by the Spanish, they traveled overland to Natchitoches Post, Louisiana, arriving there 24 October 1769. Refusing to settle at Natchitoches, they reached New Orleans via river transportation on 9 November 1769. They settled in present-day St. James and Assumption parishes, where the family name evolved into MALBROUGH.
The family's name also is spelled Malbraux, Malbro, Malbrou, Malbru, Marhober.
Sources: BRDR, 2:512-13; <thecajuns.com>, "Passengers on the Ship 'Britania," Glenn R. Conrad, "German Settlers in Louisiana."
Pronunciation: mah-LET
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Comments: This family's name sometimes is spelled MAILLET, MAYE, MAYER, & MAYET.
Pronunciation: monh-JHAY, MAIN-jer
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Pronunciation: MAN-yuhl, MAN-you-ell
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Pronunciation: MAR-can-tell
Origin: Italian
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Pronunciation: mar-SOH
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Acadian connection: TRAHAN
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Pronunciation: mar-SELL
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Acadian connection: BABIN, GUIDRY
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Pronunciation: MAR-shand
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Pronunciation: mah-REEN, mah-RANH, mah-RIN
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Acadian connection: AUCOIN, BABIN, PITRE, ROY
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Pronunciation: MARKS
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Pronunciation: mar-KEY
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Acadian connection: COMEAUX
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Pronunciation: MARE-ee-oh-no
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Pronunciation: MARS
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Pronunciation: MAR-sun, mar-SONH
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Pronunciation: mar-TANH, MART-in
Origin: Acadian [see Family History]
Pronunciation: mar-TEE-nez, MART-in-ez
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Acadian connection: LANDRY
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Pronunciation: mah-THERN
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Pronunciation: muh-THY-us
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Pronunciation: MOTT
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Pronunciation: maw-REES
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Pronunciation: maw-RANH, moh-RANH
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Pronunciation: MAX-onh
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Pronunciation: MAH-yard
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Pronunciation: mah-YARE, MAY-yer
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Pronunciation: MAH-you
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Pronunciation: MAZ-uh-roll
Origin: Acadian [see Family History]
Pronunciation: mack-BRIDE
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Acadian connection: MOUTON
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Pronunciation: muh-CAW-lay
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Acadian connection: AUCOIN
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Pronunciation: muh-CROO-ree
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Pronunciation: muh-GEE
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Pronunciation: MOH
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Acadian connection: BROUSSARD, CORMIER, HÉBERT, LANDRY
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Pronunciation: MESH
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Pronunciation: muh-LONH-sonh
Origin: Acadian [see Family History]
Pronunciation: meh-NARD
Origin: French Creole
Arrived in Louisiana: November 1785
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Louis MENARD
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Acadian connection: HÉBERT, MELANCON, RICHARD
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Pronunciation: men-DOE-zuh
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Pronunciation: mee-SHELL
Origin: Acadian [see Family History]
Pronunciation: MIH-gut
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Pronunciation: MEE-gez
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Pronunciation: MILL-er, mee-LUH
Origin: Alsacian/German Creole
Arrived in Louisiana: October 1769
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Jacob MILLER
Settled: Second German Coast, now St. John the Baptist Parish; Opelousas District, now St. Landry & Evangeline parishes
Acadian connection: BROUSSARD, CORMIER, GUIDRY, HEBERT, ROBICHAUX
Comments: Jacob MILLER, born c1739 probably in Alsace (one of the author's maternal ancestors), husband of Anne-Marie THEGEIN, born c1739 also in Alsace, was living in Maryland with his wife, four daughters, and son Jacob, fils, born c1767, when they decided to migrate to Louisana with seven other German families and seven Acadian families from Maryland. On 5 January 1769, they left Port Tobacco, Maryland, aboard the English schooner Britannia, heading for New Orleans. Unfortunately, their ship missed the entrance to the Mississippi River, got lost in the Gulf of Mexico, landed on the Texas coast, and the passengers and crew were held by the Spanish at Goliad, Texas, for several months, suspected of being spies or smugglers. After they were released by the Spanish, they traveled overland to Natchitoches Post, Louisiana, arriving there 24 October 1769. Refusing to settle there, they reached New Orleans via river transportation, 9 November 1769. They settled first in present-day St. John the Baptist Parish (known as the Second or Upper German Coast) then moved to the Opelousas District, where Jacob, fils, married Ignès MAYER, daughter of André MAYER & Marie-Anne STELLY of the Upper German Coast, 31 May 1791, at Opelousas. Jacob, père's son Jean-Frederick, born in Louisiana, had married Victoire MAYER, Ignès's sister, 11 April 1790, in Opelousas. Brother Jean, called John, married another MAYER sister, Marie-Francoise, 19 Jan 1796, at Opelousas. One of Jacob MILLER, père's daughters, Marie-Anne, baptized at Opelousas 25 November 1777, married Pierre CORMIER, père, son of Michel CORMIER & Catherine STELLY of the Opelousas area, 18 August 1795, at Opelousas, but Marie-Anne died a year later at age 19 before she bore him any children. (Michel and Pierre CORMIER, père are paternal ancestors of the author.)
Sources: Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:571-74; <thecajuns.com>, "Passengers on the Ship 'Britania," Glenn R. Conrad, "German Settlers in Louisiana."
Pronunciation: min-VAY ... I reckon
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Pronunciation: MEER
Origin: Acadian [see Family History]
Pronunciation: moh-EEZ
Origin: Acadian [see Family History]
Pronunciation: MOH-lay-zonh
Origin: Acadian [see Family History]
Pronunciation: moh-LAIR
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Pronunciation: mahn-TAY, mon-TET
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Pronunciation: mawn-TEAR-oh
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Pronunciation: MAW-roh, muh-ROH
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Origin: French Creole?
Arrived in Louisiana: by 1777
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Francois Morreaux
Settled: St.-Jacques de Cabanocé, present-day St. James Parish; Atakapas District, now St. Martin & Lafayette parishes
Acadian connection: MELANCON
Comments: Francois MORREAUX, age 32, and his wife Marie MELANÇON, age 40, were counted in the St.-Jacques census, right [west] bank of the Mississippi, in 1777. Their son Louis was age 2. With them also were Francois's stepsons Jean-Baptiste, age 20, and Dominique, age 17, and his stepdaughter Ozitte, age 19. Marie was buried 3 December 1787, at Atakapas, now St. Martinville.
Sources: De Ville, St. James Census, 1777, 8; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:582.
Second Family:
Origin: French Creole
Arrived in Louisiana: August 1785
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Gabriel MOREAU
Settled: Ascension
Acadian connection: LANDRY, TRAHAN
Comments: Gabriel MOREAU, a 61-year-old day laborer, his wife Marie TRAHAN, age 54, their 24-year-old son Maximin, a printer, and 18-year-old daughter Anne, arrived in New Orleans aboard La Bergère, one of the Seven Ships from France, on 15 August 1785. Anne married Jean-Athanase LANDRY, 22 January 1787, in Ascension.
Sources: BRDR, 2:556; Wall of Names, 30.
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Origin: French Creole ... Mobile, Alabama
Arrived in Louisiana: before 1792
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Joseph-Valentin MOREAU
Settled: Opelousas District, present-day St. Landry & Evangeline parishes
Acadian connection: none found
Comments: Joseph-Valentin MOREAU, called Valentin, of Mobile, Alabama, and his wife Marie-Jeanne LAFLEUR, settled in the Opelousas area in the late 1700s. Their son Celestin married Adelaide GODEAUX of Pointe Coupée, 23 January 1792, in Opelousas. Their daughter Louise married Simon FONTENOT, 31 January 1792, in Opelousas.
Source: Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:581-83.
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Origin: French Creole
Arrived in Louisiana: by 1799
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Pierre MOREAU
Settled: Atakapas District, now St. Martin & Lafayette parishes
Acadian connection: BABIN, BERGERON, BREAUX, CHIASSON, MARTIN, ROY
Comments: Pierre MOREAU, son of Francois MOREAU and Francoise LACOSTE of Bordeaux, France, married at Atakapas Post, now St. Martinville, 22 October 1799, Anne BABIN, daughter of Ignace BABIN and Marguerite BREAUX, natives of Acadia who settled at Manchac on the Mississippi.
Sources: Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:26.
Pronunciation: moh-REE-noh
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Pronunciation: MOR-nin-veg
Origin: German Immigrant
Arrived in Louisiana: by 1842
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Christian "Chretien" Mornhinweg
Settled: St. Landry Parish
Acadian connection: none found ... cultural Cajuns
Comments: Christian MORNHINWEG, born c1812 in Wuerttemburg, Germany, son of Joseph MORNHINWEG and Dorothée ZINSER, came to Louisiana by 1842, settling in St. Landry Parish. Christian was a tailor by trade. On 7 February 1842, in Opelousas, he married Julie BENARD, a native of France, daughter of Michel BENARD and Marie-Anne DEUTOUR. They had six children, four sons and two daughters. Their second son, Christian Francois, Jr., born at Opelousas in March 1845, served in Company K, 29th (Thomas's) Louisiana Infantry, during the War Between the States. The family's name evolved from MORNHINWEG to MORNHINVEG over the decades.
Sources: Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 4:364; Francine Ross, family genealogist
Pronunciation: MORE-vonh
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Settled: Lafourche Parish; Côte Gelée, Lafayette Parish
Acadian connection: BABIN, BENOIT, BERNARD, BOUDREAUX, BREAUX, DAIGLE, GRANGER, GUIDRY, GUILLOT, HÉBERT, LANDRY, MIRE, ROBICHAUX, ROGER, TRAHAN
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Pronunciation: MOO-yay
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Pronunciation: moo-YARD
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Pronunciation: MOO-tonh
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Origin: French Creole
Arrived in Louisiana: 1740s?
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Settled: German Coast, Mississippi River above New Orleans, present-day St. John the Baptist Parish
Source: BRDR, 1b:53
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Origin: Acadian [see Family History]
Comments: Although not all of the MOUTONs of South Louisiana were Acadians, they are listed here as Acadian.
Pronunciation: MUN-sun
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Pronunciation: NAH-kanh
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Pronunication: nah-VAR
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Pronunication: NAY
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Pronunication: neh-RAWT
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Pronunciation: neh-ZOT, neh-ZAT
Origin: French Creole
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Source: Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-B:12, .
Pronunciation: NO-ul, no-EL
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Pronunciation: NAHR-mund
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NOTT -- see KNOTT
Pronunciation: NOO-nyez, NOO-nez
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Pronunciation: OLD-um
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Pronunciation: oh-LIND
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Pronunciation: oh-LIV-ee-ay
Origin: Acadian [see Family History]
Comments: Although OLIVIER is an Acadian name, most of the OLIVIERs in Louisiana are French Creoles.
Pronunciation: on-CAH-lee ... I guess
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Pronunciation: AR-cut, OAR-cut
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Pronunciation: ARD-eh-noh
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Pronunciation: ar-DOAN
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Pronunciation: oh-RILL-ee-onh
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Pronunciation: AR-teh-goh
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Pronunciation: OAR-ee
Origin: German Creole
Arrived in Louisiana: October 1769
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Nicolas ORY
Settled: Opelousas district, now St. Landry & Evangeline parishes; St.-Gabriel d'Iberville, now Iberville Parish
Acadian connection: RICHARD, TRAHAN
Comments: Nicolas ORY, a German, born in c1703, his wife Anna Christine STRASBERG, called Christine, also a German, born in c1729, five daughters, and two sons, Mathieu, born c1749, and Jean Baptiste in c1757, were living in Maryland in the late 1760s. On 5 January 1769, they left Port Tobacco, Maryland, aboard the English schooner Britannia with seven other German Catholic families and seven Acadian families, heading for New Orleans. Unfortunately, their ship missed the entrance to the Mississippi, got lost in the Gulf of Mexico, landed on the Texas coast, and the passengers and crew were held by the Spanish at Goliad, Texas, for several months, suspected of being spies or smugglers. After the Spanish released the Britannia passengers, the ORYs traveled with their compatriots overland to Natchitoches Post, Louisiana, arriving there on 24 October 1769. They refused to settle at Natchitoches and reached New Orleans via river transportation on 9 November 1769. They settled at first in the Opelousas District before moving to the Mississippi River settlement of St.-Gabriel d'Iberville. Jean-Baptiste married a fellow German immigrant, Marie-Eve OFFMAN, who died by October 1797, when he remarried to Barbara, daughter of Francois TIRCUIT and Barbara BOURGEOIS, French Creoles, on 24 October 1797 in Ascension.
Sources: BRDR, 2:572; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:605-06; <www.thecajuns.com>, "Passengers on the Ship 'Britania," Glenn R. Conrad, "German Settlers in Louisiana."
Pronunciation: OOB
Origin: Belgian-German Creole
Arrived in Louisiana: before 1732
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Jacob & Christofe HUBER
Settled: St.-Charles des Allemands, present-day St. Charles Parish; St.-Jacques de Cabanocé, present-day St. James Parish; Atakapas District, present-day St. Martin Parish
Acadian connection: BERNARD, BOURQUE, DAVID, GAUDIN, GUIDRY, HÉBERT, LANDRY, MARTIN, MICHEL, MOUTON, VINCENT
Comments: Christofe HUBER, son of Jacob HUBER and Anne-Barbe SCHAUFFINE of Louvain, Belgium, married Anne-Barbe RAUCHEN or RAUSCHE before April 1732, when their daughter Marie was born at St.-Charles des Allemands on the Lower German Coast; their son André was born not long afterwards. Anne-Barbe died in November 1746 at St.-Charles. On 31 Jan 1747, Christofe remarried to Catherine, daughter of Joseph BENISH and Madeleine SEILER of Burken, probably in Germany, and widow of Jacob FOLTZ, at St.-Charles; Christofe's father Jacob was a witness to this marriage. Jean-Christofe, probably one of Christofe's sons, married Marie-Josephe ST. YVE at St.-Charles; they had at least one son, Pierre-Antoine, born on 31 July 1754 at St.-Charles. Christofe, père's son André married, around age 22, Marie-Élisabeth, daughter of Jacques BONVILLAIN and Catherine SCHOFF of New Orleans, on 23 April 1754 at St.-Charles. By the early 1770s, André had moved his family upriver to St.-Jean-Baptiste des Allemands, present-day Edgard, St. John the Baptist Parish, the Upper German Coast, where his son Pierre was born on on 5 September 1772; the family name in Pierre's baptismal record is OUVRE. By 1774, André had moved his family even farther upriver, to St.-Jacques de Cabanocé, present-day St. James Parish, the Lower Acadian Coast. André's son André-Joseph, called Joseph, married Marie-Blanche, daughter of Acadians Jean-Baptiste HÉBERT and Claire ROBICHAUX, on 15 September 1774 at St.-Jacques and eventually moved to the Atakapas District, now St. Martin Parish. André's daughter Marie-Pélagie married Paul, son of Acadians Étienne-Michel DAVID and Geneviève HÉBERT, on 21 February 1775 at St.-Jacques. André is listed in the census of 1777 at St.-Jacques as living on the east side of the Mississippi and is called Andrée OUVRE. Living with his family was a 20-year-old Acadian engagé, Basil DEROCHE. Another of André's daughters, Francoise, born in c1762, married Paul, son of Acadians Ambroise MARTIN dit Barnabé and his second wife Madeleine dite Émilienne COMEAUX, on 12 Jan 1779 at St.-Jacques. One of the witnesses to this marriage was Henrie or Henrique HOUWER, another of André's son, who married Angélique, sister of his brother-in-law Paul DAVID, on 25 September 1787 at St.-Jacques. André's son Pierre married Félicité, daughter of Francois PERTUIS and Angela LEPIN of "Osalcanza," on 7 January 1792 at St.-Jacques. Their son André, born at St.-Jacques in March 1794, married Rosalie, daughter of Acadians Charles VINCENT and Céleste LABAUVE, on 12 February 1816 at St.-Jacques. By the late 1820s, the couple had moved to St. Martin Parish to add to the line of OUBREs already there. Meanwhile, a Christophe OUBRE was buried at the Post des Atakapas, now St. Martinville, on 24 Apr 1794, at age 50. He probably was a brother of André OUBRE, père of St.-Jacques, perhaps Jean-Christofe.
Before it evolved into OUBRE, this family's name sometimes appeared as Houbert, Houver, Hubert, Hufer, and Huwer. It also is spelled Roub, Uber, Ubre. This family is one of the oldest in Louisiana with a continuous line of descent.
Sources: BRDR, 2:573-75, 3:672; De Ville, St. James Census, 1777, 14; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:606, 2-C:598; NOAR, 1:17, 130-31, 218, 2:32, 151-52, 3:229.
Pronunciation: onz-eh-LAY
Origin: Acadian [see Family History]
Pronunciation: PAN-vill
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Pronunciation: paw-KET
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Acadian connection: LEBLANC
Comments:
Pronunciation: PEAR-ent, pah-RONT?
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Acadian connection: HEBERT, LANDRY
Comments:
Pronunciation: PART
Origin: Acadian [see Family History]
Pronunciation: PAH-tanh
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Acadian connection: ALLAIN, ARCENAUX, BERNARD, BERGERON, BROUSSARD, CORMIER, POTIER, RICHARD, SIMONEAUX
Comments:
Pronunciation: PECK
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Acadian connection: SAVOIE
Comments:
Pronunciation: PEE-koh
Origin: Foreign French
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Arrived in Louisiana: by 1805
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Francois, Jacques, Charles PECOT
Settled: ?
Comments: Francois PECOT, husband of Rosalie PRÉJEAN, came to Louisiana with his four children, sons Jacques and Charles, and daughters Louise and Marie Anne, from Mirebalais, St.-Domingue, now Haiti, by 1805. They settled in the Atakapas District, now St. Martin Parish, and eventually moved down the Teche valley to St. Mary Parish.
Sources: Wall of Names, 23.
Pronunciation: PELL-eh-granh
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Acadian connection: BLANCHARD
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Pronunciation: PELL-eh-ranh
First Family:
Origin: French Creole
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Origin: Acadian [see Family History]
Comments: Although not all of the PELLERINs of South Louisiana were Acadian, this family is listed as Acadian in this study.
Pronunciation: pell-eh-TEER, PELL-uh-tee-ay, PELL-tee-ay
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Pronunciation: pell-eh-CANH, PELL-eh-kin
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Pronunciation: pen-eh-SONH, PIN-eh-son
Origin: French Creole or French Immigrant
Arrived in Louisiana: by 1806
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Etienne Benjamin PENISSON
Settled: Bayou Boeuf area, Lafourche Parish; St. Mary Parish
Acadian connection: BOUDREAUX, BOURG, GAUTREAUX, HENRY, LANDRY, TRAHAN
Comments: Étienne-Benjamin PENISSON, born 7 June 1777, in La Plaine, France, son of Étienne PENISSON and Anne PAYOTE of Nantes, married, age 29, Rosalie Marie TRAHAN, daughter of Maturin TRAHAN and Marie BLANCHARD, 6 October 1806, in Assumption Catholic Church, Plattenville. They settled in the Bayou Boeuf area and had at least 10 children, including two sons who served in Company B, 26th Louisiana Infantry, during the War Between the States. Étienne-Benjamin died 24 May 1856, at Bayou Boeuf, age 78.
In the 1870s, the spelling of the family named changed to Pennison.
Sources: BRDR, 3:684, 4:445, 5(rev.):481, 6:513, 7:403, 8:463-64. Gilbert S. Pennison, Jr., descendant.
Pronunciation: PIN
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Pronunciation: PEAR-ee-oh
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Acadian connection: CORMIER
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Pronunciation: peh-ROW, per-RAWLT
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Pronunciation: peh-RET
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Pronunciation: PEAR-in, peh-RANH
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Pronunciation: peh-roh-DANH
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Pronunciation: PEAR-ee
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Comments:
Pronunciation: per-TOO-ee
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Acadian connection: MICHEL
Comments:
Pronunciation: peh-TEE, peh-TEET
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Acadian connection: BROUSSARD, LAMBERT
Comments:
Pronunciation: pee-KARD
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Comments:
Pronunciation: pih-SHOFF
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Comments:
Pronunciation: PEE-koo
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Comments:
Pronunciation: pih-NELL, pih-NET
Origin: Acadian [see Family History]
Pronunciation: PEET
Origin: Acadian [see Family History]
Pronunciation: PLAY-zonce
First Family:
Origin: Isleno--Canary Islander
Arrived in Louisiana: 1779
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Juan, Gaspar, Pedro Francisco Manuel, and Juan Manuel PLACENCIA
Settled: Valenzuéla, present-day Assumption Parish; St. Martin Parish
Acadian connection: BREAUX, CORMIER, DUGAS, GUIDRY, LEBLANC, MIRE, PRIMEAUX, SIMONEAUX
Comments: Juan and Gaspar de PLACENCIA, probably brothers, and their families left Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canary Islands aboard the packet boat Juan Nepomuceno 9 December 1778, and reached New Orleans probably in late spring 1779. Pedro Francisco Manuel and Juan Manuel PLACENCIA, probably brothers and kinsmen perhaps of Juan and Gaspar, left the same port with their families aboard the frigate La Santa Faz on 17 February 1779. They reached New Orleans by summer. After a brief stay in the city to recover from the long voyage, the Islenos from these ships and three others that arrived in 1778-1779 were sent to one of four new settlements in South Louisiana: Galveztown on the Amite River in present-day Ascension Parish, Barataria in present-day Jefferson Parish, San Bernardo below New Orleans in present-day St. Bernard Parish, and Valenzuéla along the upper Bayou Lafourche in what is now Assumption Parish.
Francisco, son of Gaspar PLACENCIA and Melchora BARROSO, was 13 when he left the Canary Islands for Louisiana. He married Francoise-Apollonie, daughter of Acadians Francois SIMONEAUX and Marie-Osite-Anne CORPORON, at Assumption in October 1793. Francisco's brother Baltasar, who was only 2 when he left the Canary Islands, also married an Acadian girl, Henriette, daughter of Joseph BREAUX and Marie-Madeleine MELANÇON, in present-day St. James Parish on the Mississippi in January 1806, but they settled at Assumption. Meanwhile, father Gaspar died at Assumption in August 1813; he was 80. Francisco's son Antoine married a fellow Islenos, Maria Antonia ALBARADO, at Assumption in February 1821. Francisco's son Alexis married an Acadian, Josephine GUIDRY, at Ascension in March 1837. Francisco, called Francois now, died at Assumption in June 1842 in his 70s. His son Gabriel married another Acadian girl, Leonelle LEBLANC, at Assumption in April 1846.
By 1817, Baltasar and Henriette had moved from the crowded Lafourche valley to St. Martin Parish, west of the Atchafalaya Basin. One of their sons, Antoine, married Elise PRIMEAUX at Vermilionville, now Lafayette, in June 1830. Another son, Jean, married Marie Carmegille, daughter of Joseph MIRE and Emilie GUILBEAU, at Vermilionville in August 1830, so a western branch of the family set down roots.
Eventually, the family's surname evolved into the more French-sounding PLAISANCE, members of which can be found in large numbers in South Louisiana today. The family is especially numerous in the Lafourche valley, where their ancestors first settled.
Second Family:
Origin: probably Spanish Creole
Arrived in Louisiana: before 1784
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Juan Bautista PLASENCIA
Settled: Natchitoches Post and St.-Gabriel, present-day Iberville Parish
Acadian connection: none found
Comments: A Jean-Baptiste PLASENCIA "of Natchitoches" died in the Mississippi River community of St.-Gabriel, above New Orleans, in April 1784. His burial record does not reveal his parents' names. None of the Islenos PLACENCIAs had a son named Juan Bautista, so he may have been a Spaniard.
Third Family:
Origin: Foreign French
Arrived in Louisiana: by 1847
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Prosper PLAISANCE
Settled: St. James Parish
Acadian connection: GUIDRY
Comments: Prosper PLAISANCE, son of Joseph PLAISANCE and Jeanne MISTEYREAU of LaGironde, Bordeaux, France, married Adele GUIDRY, daughter of Donat GUIDRY, at Convent in St. James Parish in January 1845.
Sources: BRDR, vols. 2, 3, 4, 5(rev.), 6; Din, Canary Islanders of LA, 225, 229, & passim; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 1-A, 2-A, 2-B, 2-C.
Pronunciation: PO-shay, po-SHAY, poor-SHAY, POOR-shay
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Acadian connection: AUCOIN, BABIN, BERGERON, BOURGEOIS, HÉBERT, HENRY, LANDRY, LEBLANC, THIBODEAUX
Comments:
Pronunciation: PWAH-ree-ay
Origin: Acadian [see Family History]
Pronunciation: POH-mee-ay
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Acadian connection: HÉBERT, MARTIN
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Pronunciation: pon-TEEF, PON-tiff
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Acadian connection: BOUDREAUX, HÉBERT, LEBLANC, LEJEUNE, RICHARD
Comments:
PORCHE -- see POCHE
Pronunciation: POH-tee-ay
Origin: Acadian [see Family History]
Pronunciation: POOR-see-oh
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Acadian connection: DAVID
Comments:
Pronunciation: POOR-seen
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Acadian connection: LANDRY
Comments:
Pronunciation: PRAY-ther
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Acadian connection: BRASSEAUX
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Pronunciation: PRAY-jzhon
Origin: Acadian [see Family History]
Pronunciation: PREE-voh, PREE-vost, PRO-voh, PRO-vost
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Acadian connection: BUJOLE, DUBOIS, HÉBERT, LANDRY, LEBLANC, PELLERIN
Comments:
Pronunciation: PROO-it
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Acadian connection: BRASSEAUX, LANDRY
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Pronunciation: PREE-moh
Origin: Acadian [see Family History]
Pronunciation: PRONZ, PRINZ
Origin: Acadian [see Family History]
Pronunciation: PREEN-gull
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Pronunciation: PROS-pur
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PROVOST -- see PREVOST
Pronunciation: proo-DOHM, prood-OHM
First Family:
Origin: French Creole
Arrived in Louisiana: 1726
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Jean-Philippe-Pierre PRUDHOMME
Settled: Natchitoches Post; Cane River area along Red River; Bayou Pierre area in "Neutral Ground" northwest of Natchitoches
Comments: Jean-Philippe-Pierre PRUDHOMME was a native of St. Romans, Dauphine, southeastern France. His wife was Marie-Catherine MEILLIER of Paris. Their descendants became some of the richest planters in the antebellum Red River valley. A grandson of Jean-Philippe-Pierre, Jean-Pierre-Emmanuel PRUDHOMME (1762-1845), pioneered the raising of cotton on a large scale in Louisiana.
Second Family:
Origin: French Creole
Arrived in Louisiana: by 1766
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Pierre-Michel PRUDHOMME
Settled: German Coast, now St. John the Baptist Parish; Opelousas Post area, now St. Landry Parish; Bayous Plaquemine Brulé & Mallet, now Acadia Parish
Comments: Pierre-Michel PRUDHOMME, called Michel, a native of Strasbourg, Alsace, northeastern France, settled in the Opelousas District in the mid-1770s. He had previously lived on the German Coast in present-day St. John the Baptist Parish. He was not related to the PRUDHOMMEs of the Natchitoches area. After his first wife, Catherine ANDEYMISTRE, died, he married Marie SNAIDER. In 1796, about the time that the Opelousas Post was moved from present-day Washington on Bayou Courtableu to present-day Opelousas, originally called La Pointe à Mr. TESSON, Michel donated nearly 100 acres of land and the cypress lumber on it for the new St. Landry Catholic Church, which today calls itself "the second largest Catholic Church in the South."
Acadian connection: LEJEUNE, SONNIER
Sources: Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:38, 653. West, Atlas of LA Surnames, 121-22.
Pronunciation: POO-jhole, PYOO-jhole
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Pronunciation: pyoo-LAH-skee, pyoo-LASS-kee
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Pronunciation: KWIH-beh-doh, KIH-beh-doh
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Comments:
Pronunciation: kin-TEH-ro
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Pronunciation: RAH-kah
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Acadian connection: TRAHAN
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Pronunciation: rah-SHAHL, ray-SHELL
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Pronunciation: RAFF-ray
Origin: French Creole ... St.-Malo, Brittany
Arrived in Louisiana: December 1785
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Jean RAFFRAY
Settled: Bayou des Écores, now West Feliciana Parish; West Baton Rouge Parish
Acadian connection: LANDRY, LAVERGNE
Comments: Jean RAFFRAY, son of Étienne RAFFRAY and Francoise-Louise SAUNEUF of St.-Malo, France, was was born in c1764 in St.-Malo. In 1785, he was a master cooper on the ship La Ville d'Archangel when the vessel took a load of Acadians from France to New Orleans in 1785. The ship left St.-Malo on August 12 and reached New Orleans on December 3. Three weeks later, on December 22, Jean married a passenger on La Ville d'Archangel, Marie-Madeleine, daughter of René LANDRY, at New Orleans. He and his bride and her family settled in the new Acadian community of Bayou des Écores, now Thompson Creek, present-day West Feliciana Parish, on the river north of Baton Rouge. By the late 1790s, Marie-Madeleine had died, and Jean had moved downriver to the Baton Rouge area and remarried to another Acadian, Marguerite, daughter of Pierre LAVERGNE and widow of Joseph TRAHAN, as revealed in the baptismal record of son Jean, fils, also called Jean-Rosalie, baptized at Baton Rouge at age 4 in July 1801. The RAFFRAYs remained in the Baton Rouge area, settling in present-day West Baton Rouge Parish. Jean Rosalie married Marguerite Emerite, called Emerite, daughter of Canary Islander André MARTIN or MARTINEZ, at Baton Rouge in February 1819. Two of their sons, twins Francis and Xavier RAFFRAY, born in September 1833 probably in West Baton Rouge Parish, served in Company A of the Miles's Legion Louisiana Regiment Infantry during the War Between the States.
The family's name also is spelled Biafre, Rafferay, Raffery, Raffrey, Rafre, Raphrey.
Sources: Booth, LA Confed. Soldiers, 3(2):235; BRDR, 2:613, 3:717, 5(rev.):501; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 104 (which calls him Juan BIAFRE??[sic]; NOAR, 4:258; Lonnie Raffray, descendant.
Pronunciation: RAM-oo-anh
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Pronunciation: RAW-lin
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Acadian connection: BLANCHARD, DUHON
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Pronunciation: RAY-yonh
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Pronunciation: ROW
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Acadian connection: BRASSEAUX
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Pronunciation: REED
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Pronunciation: RAIN
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Pronunciation: reh-NOH, ray-NOH
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Acadian connection: PITRE
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Pronunciation: REN-trop
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Pronunciation: REE-shard
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Origin: French Creole
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Settled: Pointe Coupée
Source: BRDR, 1b:157ff.
Second Family:
Origin: Acadian [see Family History]
Pronunciation: REESH, ree-SHAY
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Pronunciation: RYE-der
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Comments:
Pronunciation: ring-GET
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Pronunciation: RHEE-vahs
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Pronunciation: rih-VET
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Origin: Acadian [see Family History]
Second Family:
Origin: Foreign French
Arrived in Louisiana: by 1826
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Jacques Cesar RIVET
Settled: Assumption Parish
Acadian connection: PITRE
Comments: Jacques Cesar RIVET, Caboteur en Pirogue, son of Guillaume RIVET and Marie-Anne ORENT of Toulon, France, married Melanie PITRE, daughter of Jean Baptiste PITRE & Marie Anne BOUDREAUX, 3 Apr 1826, in Assumption Catholic Church, Plattenville.
Source: BRDR, 4:479.
Third Family:
Origin: Foreign French
Arrived in Louisiana: by 1832
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Pierre RIVETTE
Settled: Lafourche Parish
Acadian connection: ROBICHAUX
Comments: Pierre RIVETTE, son of Michel RIVETTE and Jeanne LEBEAUPAIN of St. Nicolas Parish, Nantes, France, married Marie Scholastique MAILLET (born 17 December 1803), daughter of Joseph MAILLET and Marie HÉBERT of Lafourche Parish, 1 December 1832, St. Joseph Catholic Church, Thibodaux.
Source: Hébert, D., South LA Records, 1:376-77, 451, 2:316, 3:433.
Pronunciation: rih-VER-oh
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Pronunciation: rih-VEAR
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Pronunciation: RO-bo
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Pronunciation: Ro-BEAR, ROB-urt
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Pronunication: ROH-bih-sho
Origin: Acadian [see Family History]
Pronunciation: row-BANH
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Comments:
Pronunciation: row-SHAY
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Pronunciation: ROD-ee
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Pronunciation: rod-REEGK
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Comments:
Pronunciation: rod-REE-gez
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Comments:
Pronunication: row-JHAY
Origin: Acadian [see Family History]
Pronunciation: row-muh-GO-suh, rom-uh-GO-suh
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Comments:
Pronunciation: row-MANE
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Pronunciation: ROW-mun
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Pronunciation: ROAM
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Pronunciation: row-MARE-oh
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Pronunciation: RAW-see
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Comments:
ronunciation: RAWTH
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Pronunication: ROO-zhoh
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Pronunication: roo-eh-LAY
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Pronunciation: roo-SO, ROO-so
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Comments:
Pronunciation: roo-SELL
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Pronunciation: roo-STAN
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Pronunciation: ROY
First Family:
Origin: French Canadian
Arrived in Louisiana: c1743
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Joseph ROY dit Châtellerault
Settled: Pointe Coupée; Opelousas Post area, present-day St. Landry & Evangeline parishes
Comments: Joseph ROY dit Châttelrault, son of Emond ROY and Marie-Anne JANVIER, a native of St. Anne Parish, Québec, Canada, married Madeleine PERTHUIS, probably in Québec, then Pérrine LACOUR at Pointe Coupée, 30 January 1744. A voyageur, he worked in Détroit then in Kaskaskia, Illinois, before moving to Louisiana, where he remarried. He died by 1762. Joseph dit Châttelrault and Pérrine's son, Joseph-Noel, who married Anne BORDELON in Pointe Coupée, 14 May 1770, moved from Pointe Coupée to the Grand Prairie area of Opelousas Post in the late 1700s, where their six sons began a large line of the ROYs in the St. Landry area.
Sources: BRDR, 1b:97, 166-67, 2:655; West, Altas of LA Surnames, 132.
Second Family:
Origin: Acadian [see Family History]
Third Family:
Origin: French Canadian
Arrived in Louisiana: by 1771
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Joseph-Marie ROY
Settled: Pointe Coupée; Avoyelles
Comments: Joseph-Marie ROY, son of Jean ROY and Angelique LACASSE of St. Villier, Canada, married first to Catherine GUEHO of Pointe Coupée, 29 January 1771, and second to Julie BIZETTE of Pointe Coupée, 22 June 1776. In the 1790s, he and his family, including four sons, moved from Pointe Coupée northwest into the Avoyelles prairies. Son Joseph, fils, born 18 July 1781 in Pointe Coupée, who married Marie BORDELON of Avoyelles c1800, produced a large line of ROYs in the Avoyelles area.
Sources: BRDR, 2:655; West, Atlas of LA Surnames, 132-33.
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Origin: ?
Arrived in Louisiana: 1780s, 1790s
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Augustin ROY, Étienne ROY
Settled: Ouachita River Valley, northeastern Louisiana
Source: West, Atlas of LA Surnames, 189n.
Additional comments: Although many of the Louisiana ROYs were French Canadians, the family is listed here as Acadian.
Pronuncation: ROY-yay, roy-YAY
Origin: French Canadian via Kaskaskia, Illinois
Arrived in Louisiana: by 1777 & by 1794
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Louis ROYER?, Augustin ROYER
Settled: La Prairie Basse, near Carencro, present-day Lafayette Parish
Acadian connection: CORMIER, LANDRY
Comments: Augustin ROYER, son of Augustin ROYER and Angélique Pepin-Lachance of St. Jean, Île d'Orleans, Québec, married Dorothée, daughter of Jean-Baptiste DESGAGNIERE and Marie-Louise HULLIN of Kaskaskia, Illinois, 25 November 1765 in Kaskaskia (they are also listed in church records as from Détroit). Their son, also named Augustin (and often called Auguste in church records), was born at Kaskaskia in February 1771. On 7 October 1794, at age 23, the younger Augustin married Marie-Victoire CORMIER, daughter of Michel CORMIER, père and Catherine STELLY of the Opelousas area. Augustin and Victoire, as she was called, moved to the Carencro area of the Atakapas District, where they raised a large family--daughters Victorie (born 1795; married Samuel CARUTHERS, 20 February 1816), Angelle (born 1797), Marie Felonise (born 1799; married Louis Valiere LE BLANC, 28 October 1818), Emilie (born 1806), Marguerite (born 1803; married Celestin CORMIER, 14 May 1822), Marcellite (born 1809; married Joseph TRAHAN, 30 July 1826), and sons Augustin (born 1811; married Caroline BOURG, 12 September 1831), Victorin (born 1813; married Marcelite BENOIT, February 1835), Samuel, sometimes called James (born 1815; married Clemence or Clementine BENOIT, 30 April 1836), and Onesime (born 1817; married Christeen RYAN, 21 January 1837). Augustin the father died 31 January 1818, age 48, "at his home at La Prairie Basse," near Carencro, and was buried in the parish cemetery the next day.
Another ROYER, Louis, married Madeleine LANDRY, date unknown, and fathered two daughters, twins Marguerite and Marie, who were baptized in the Opelousas church in May 1777, but the author has found no son from this union in the church records of the Opelousas area, so the ROYERs of Louisiana are likely descended from Augustin of Illinois.
Sources: Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:211, 692-94, 1-B:638-39, 2-A:830-33, 2-B:823, 2-C:676, 3:572-73; Jerry Royer, descendant.
Pronuncation: ruh-BIZ-kee
Origin: Polish Immigrant
Arrived in Louisiana: 1837
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Antoine Thomas RYBISKI
Settled: New Orleans; Donaldsonville/White Castle area, Ascension Parish; St. James Parish
Acadian connection: none yet found ... "cultural Cajuns"
Comments: Antoine Thomas RYBISKI arrived in New Orleans from his native Poland in 1837. He later settled in the Donaldsonville/White Castle area and "established a large sugar cane and pirique tobacco plantation.... His establishment was called 'Pape Vert.' He also had a boat refurbishing business and was the largest slave owner in St. James Parish prior to the War Between the States." His son, Pierre Caesar, called Caesar, fought throughout the War the Between the States in the Donaldsonville Artillery and surrendered with Lee's army at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia. After the War, many of A. T. RYBISKI's former slaves settled in the Hahnville area of St. Charles Parish and retained the name "Robiski." No record has been found of the RYBISKI family intermarrying with their Acadian neighbors before the War, so they are considered here to be "cultural Cajuns."
Source: John Rybisky, descendant.
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Pronuncation: SAW-see-ay
Origin: French Canadian
Arrived in Louisiana: 1699
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Jean-Baptiste SAUCIER
Settled: Fort Maurepas, near present-day Biloxi, MS; Old Mobile, AL; New Orleans; Fort de Chartres, IL
Acadian connection: AUCOIN
Comments: Jean-Baptiste SAUCIER, son of Louis SAUCIER and Marguerite GAILLARD of St.-Eustache, Paris, France, was born at Sillery, Québec, in December 1674. He served with Iberville in the Hudson Bay during King William's War in the 1690s and was one of Iberville's original Canadian recruits for the Gulf Coast expedition of 1699, which established the Louisiana colony. Jean-Baptiste married Marie-Gabrielle SAVARIT or SAVARY, called Gabrielle, daughter of Pierre SAVARY and Jeanne FAUTISSE of St.-Denis Parish, Paris, France, at Old Mobile in 1704. She was 20 years old when she came to Louisiana aboard the Pelican as one of the marriageable maidens of 1704. Jean-Baptiste was awarded one of the largest plots of land at Old Mobile. He and Gabrielle had five children, including four sons, all born at Mobile: Henri, born c1706, Jean-Baptiste, fils, born November 1707, Jacques, born April 1710, and Francois, born c1712. Jean-Baptiste, père, died c1715 at Mobile. His widow remarried twice. She was in New Orleans in 1726, where she was known as Madame SAVARY. In 1731, SAUCIERs were granted land in New Orleans. Gabrielle died at New Orleans in 1735. Son Henri married Barbe LACROIX at Fort de Chartres, in the Illinois country, in November 1732, and died c1761. Jean-Baptiste, fils, married Marie-Rose GIRARDY at New Orleans in April 1740; he died in June 1746 in Illinois. Jacques died c1735. Francois married Jeanne FONTAILLE at Mobile in November 1743, and died in February 1757 at Fort de Chartres, Illinois.
Source: <geocities.com/BourbonStreet/9630/saucier.html>.
Pronunciation: sah-VWAH, sah-VOY
Origin: Acadian [see Family History]
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Pronunciation: sih-MARE
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Pronunciation: SEE-mar
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Origin: French Creole
Arrived in Louisiana: by 1725
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Mathurin SIMARD
Settled: New Orleans
Comments: Mathurin SIMARD, son of Vincent SIMARD and Anne BRICOU of La Tremblade, Saintogne, France, was a sailor in the Company of the Indies when he married Anne VIGNODE (also listed as BRIGNATTE) on 24 July 1725 in New Orleans. Their son Pierre was baptized at New Orleans in September 1731. This family disappears from the church records after 1746, the year that Mathurin and Anne's daughter Marie-Thérèse was baptized at New Orleans.
Sources: NOAR, 1:240.
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Origin: French Canadian
Arrived in Louisiana: by 1788
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Louis SIMAR
Settled: La Pointe Noire area, Opelousas District, present-day St. Landry Parish
Acadian connection: HÉBERT, TRAHAN
Comments: Louis SIMAR, son of Louis SIMAR and Madeleine TREMBLE of Bay St. Paul, Canada, married Marie-Rose TRAHAN, daughter of Pierre TRAHAN and Marie-Rose BRASSEAUX, widow of Jean-Baptiste DUPLECHAIN, 18 November 1788 in Opelousas. They settled in the La Pointe Noire area of St. Landry.
This family should not be confused with the SEMEREs of the Grande Pointe area of the Atakapas District, now St. Martin Parish, who were Acadians from Grand-Pré.
Sources: Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:710, 2-A, 856.
Pronunciation: SEE-monh, SIGH-mun
Origin: French Creole
Arrived in Louisiana: November 1785
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Jean-Baptiste SIMON
Settled: Pointe Coupée; Atakapas District, now St. Martin Parish
Acadian connection: AUCOIN, BROUSSARD, CORMIER, HÉBERT, LANDRY
Sources: BRDR, 1b:170; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:711-12.
Pronuncation: SIM-uh-noh
Origin: French Creole ... Lorraine
Arrived in Louisiana: September 1766
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Francois, Joseph, René dit Simon, and Alexis SIMONEAU
Settled: St. James Parish; Assumption Parish; St. Martin Parish; St. Landry Parish
Acadian connection: BOURG, BREAUX, CORMIER, CORPORON, DAIGLE, HÉBERT, LANDRY, LEBLANC
Comments: Acadian genealogist Bona Arsenault claims that the Francois SIMONEAU who emigrated to Louisiana was a SIMON from Acadia. According to pre-eminent Acadian genealogist Stephen A. White, however, Francois was not an Acadian SIMON, and there is no evidence that Francois SIMONEAU ever lived in greater Acadia. He was born in the Lorraine region of France in c1728 and married Marie-Osite-Anne, daughter of Martin CORPORON of Port-Royal, probably in Maryland in c1759. When he got to Maryland is anyone's guess. In July 1763, British authorities counted Francois and his family at Oxford, Maryland; the British recorder called his wife Anne and listed three sons for the couple: Joseph, who had been born probably in Maryland in c1760, Jacques, birth date unknown, and René dit Simon, born in Maryland in c1762. In c1765 the couple, still in Maryland, had a daughter, Marguerite.
Francois, Marie-Osite-Anne, and their children were among the first families in Maryland to seek refuge in Louisiana. They left the British colony in late June 1766 and reached New Orleans in October. Son Jacques did not go to Louisiana with them, so he probably had died before they departed, or he may have died aboard ship on the way to Louisiana. Another son, Alexis, was born to them on the voyage over, in August 1766.
The family settled first in the Acadian community of Cabanocé/St.-Jacques, now St. James Parish, on the river above New Orleans, where they were counted in the 1769 census. Francois and his family occupied lot number 129 in the settlement, held six arpents of frontage on the Mississippi River, had no slaves and no horses, which was typical of Acadians on the river at that time, but they did have 7 cattle, 18 pigs, and a musket. At Cabanocé, Marie gave Francois another son, Maurice, born in early 1769. In the 1770s, the family drifted upriver to the Acadian community of Ascension, where Marie gave Francois two more daughters--Marie, born in c1774, and Francoise-Apolline in c1776. Francois also acquired a slave at Ascension, who was first counted with the family in 1777. Francois died at Ascension in July 1791; he was 63 years old.
Meanwhile, Francois's second son René, often called by his dit, Simon, married Isabelle-Luce, daughter of Acadian Alexandre DAIGLE, at Ascension in April 1786. On the same day, René dit Simon's sister Marguerite married Isabelle-Luce's brother Jean-Baptiste at Ascension. René dit Simon married twice more, to Élisbath/Isabelle, daughter of Acadian Honoré BREAUX, at Assumption in February 1793, and to widow Rosalie HÉBERT at Assumption in December 1802. Five days after his younger brother René dit Simon married for the first time, Joseph married Acadian Madeleine BOURG at Ascension in April 1786. Their younger sister Marie married Acadian Joseph-Francois CHIASSON at Ascension in July 1789. Marie died by January 1797, when her husband remarried.
In the early 1790s, Joseph, René dit Simon, Marguerite, Marie, and their families left Ascension and moved down the valley of Bayou Lafourche into what is now Assumption Parish, where they set down deep roots. By the early 1800s, a few of their children and grandchildren moved farther down the valley into present-day Lafourche Parish and into the Terrebonne country as well. In April 1857, Joseph Martin SIMONEAUX, grandson of René dit Simon, married Acadian Seraline DAIGLE at Brashear City, now Morgan City, on the lower Atchafalaya River.
Francois's son Alexis married a French Creole, Josete, daughter of French Creole Antoine PATIN of Pointe Coupée, in January 1792. Alexis and Josete probably remained in Pointe Coupée, a French Creole community upriver from Ascension.
Francois's youngest daughter Francoise-Apolline, called Apolline, born at Ascension, also married a non-Acadian. In October 1793, at Assumption, she married Francisco PLACENCIA, a native of La Gomera in the Canary Islands. In subsequent decades, Francisco's Islenos surname was gallicized to PLAISANCE. This family, too, remained at Assumption.
Francois's youngest son, Maurice, born at St.-Jacques, married Hélène-Geneviève, daughter of Acadian Francois LANDRY, at Ascension in February 1800. He remained at Ascension for a time then followed his siblings to Assumption.
Maurice's son Simon, called Simonet to distinguish him from uncle René dit Simon and a cousin also named Simon, was born at Ascension in early 1809. He was the first SIMONEAUX to leave the Lafourche valley and move west of the Atchafalaya Basin. In April 1844, he married Acadian Azelie LEBLANC at Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish. Seven years later, he remarried to Melanie, daughter of Pierre CORMIER of Carencro in Lafayette Parish (the author's paternal great-great grandfather; Marie Euphemie, Simonet SIMONEAUXs daughter by his first wife, was my great-grandfather Joachim CORMIER's first wife, which means Joachim married his step-niece, who was 16 at the time of their marriage in August 1865; he was 33). But most of the descendants of Francois SIMONEAUX remained in the Lafourche Valley, where they can be found in abundance today.
The family's name also is spelled Simonaux, Simoneau, Simoneaud, Simonet, Simonneau, Simonos.
Sources: Arsenault, Généalogie, 800-02, 2592-93; BRDR, vols. 2, 3, 4; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vol. 1; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 1-A, 4, 5, 6, 7; White, DGFA-1, 1469-72; White, DGFA-1 English, 309; Lonnie Raffray, descendant.
Pronunciation: SMITH
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Pronunciation: SAHN-yay
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Pronunciation: SAIN-uh-monh
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Pronunciation: STANS-berry, STANS-bury
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Pronunciation: STELL-ee
Origin: German Creole ... Albershausen, Wurtemberg, Germany
Arrived in Louisiana: 1730s
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Johann/Jean Georges STAYLI
Settled: German Coast
Acadian connection: CORMIER
Sources: NOAR, vol. 1; Robichaux, German Coast Families, 329-32; Ethel "Jean" Granger Stelly.
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Comments: The name also is spelled Estevan, Esteve, Estivan, Estiven, Estivene, Estivenere, Estivenne, Steven, Stievan, Stieven, Stievin, Stiphen, Stivene, Stivenne, Stivine, but the church records tend to favor Stiven
Source: Hébert, D., South LA Records.
Pronunciation: STILL
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Pronunciation: TIB-uh-doh
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Sources: Pam Toffier Skinner, descendant
Pronunciation: TOO-shet
Origin: Bohemian Creole
Arrived in Louisiana: by 1742
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Hans Jacob TUTZEK
Settled: First German Coast, present-day St. Charles Parish; L'Île des Cypres, or Cypress Island, Atakapas District, present-day St. Martin Parish; Vermilion River valley, present-day Vermilion Parish
Acadian connection: COMEAUX, GUIDRY, THIBODEAUX
Comments: Hans Jacob, also called Jean-Jacob or Jacques, son of Wenseslaus TUTZEK & Dorothea ______ of Prague, Bohemia, present-day Czech Republic, married Barbe ACKERMAN or VAGENSPACHE, at St.-Charles des Allemands, on the First German Coast, in January 1742. Six years later, his wife having died, Jean-Jacob remarried to Anne-Barbe FOLTZ, 2 July 1748, in the same parish. Jean-Jacob & Anne-Barbe had two sons, Jean-Jacques, called Jacques, born probably in New Orleans in February 1752, and Georges at St.-Charles des Allemands in April 1754. Jacques married Marie, daughter of Simon GASPARD of St.-Charles des Allemands and Marie LUQUE of Alabama. They moved to the Atakapas District probably in the 1780s, where their four sons were born: Jacob in September 1792, Michel in February 1795, Frédéric in July 1799, and Joseph in December 1801. Jacques died at Atakapas in August 1802, age 50. Georges married Marie-Madeleine, called Lise or Lisette, daughter of Jacques FAUSTIN and Francois VIEN of Illinois, at Atakapas in January 1785. Georges and Marie-Madeleine had three sons, all born at Atakapas: Georges, fils in April 1786, Francois in October 1789, and Ursin in c1793. Both brothers and their families settled at L'Île des Cypres, south of present-day Breaux Bridge, St. Martin Parish.
The family's name eventually was gallicized to TOUCHET.
Sources: Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:760-61, 1-B:705-06, 2-A:921-24; NOAR, 1:252, 2:270-71; Russell J. Touchet, descendant & life-long friend.
Pronunciation: TOOPS
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Pronunication: TRAH-honh in Louisiana, TRAY-han in Texas
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Pronunciation: TRIM-bull
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Arrived in Louisiana: by 1831
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Robert C. TRIMBLE
Settled: St. Mary Parish
Acadian connection: HÉBERT
Comments: Robert C. TRIMBLE married Rosalie HEBERT 1 January 1831 in St. Mary Parish. Two of their sons, Robert, born at Charenton in September 1831, and Felix Houston, born at New Iberia in November 1838, served in the War Between the States as part of the Lovell Scouts Company Cavalry, later Company I, 3rd (Harrison's) Regiment Cavalry. Felix H. took the oath of allegiance to the U.S. government in May 1862 after being captured in St. Mary Parish by Federal forces, but his older brother Robert, captured by the Yankees in the battle along Bayou Teche the month before, did not take the oath and served honorably. Recently (November 2007), Robert TRIMBLE's UCV marker was "found on a roadside among a pile of rubble near an abandoned house" near Jeanerette. Attempts are being made to find the cemetery where he rests so that his marker can be returned to its proper place.
The family's name sometimes is spelled Tremble.
Sources: Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 3:330, 640.
Pronunciation: throw-CLAIR
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Acadian connection: AUCOIN, BOUDREAUX, DOIRON, HÉBERT, LANDRY, NAQUIN
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Pronunciation: troo-HE-oh
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Acadian connection: AUCOIN, BARRILLEAUX, LANDRY
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Pronunciation: too-ILL-ee-ay, TOO-lee-aye
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Acadian connection: ALLAIN, DAIGLE, TRAHAN
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Pronunciation: yoo-SAY
Origin: Acadian [see Family History]
Pronunciation: VAL-ot, val-OH
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Acadian connection: GUILBEAU
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Pronunciation: val-WAH
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Acadian connection: DUBOIS
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Pronunciation: va-NOY
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Acadian connection: HÉBERT
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Pronunciation: vah-SORE
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Acadian connection: CORMIER, DUHON, RICHARD
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Pronunciation: vah-vah-SORE
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Acadian connection: ARCENEAUX, MOUTON
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Pronunciation: VEN-uh-bull
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Acadian connection: SAVOIE
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Pronunication: veh-RET
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Acadian connection: AUCOIN, BABIN,
BOURG, BRASSEAUX, BUJOLE, HÉBERT, LANDRY
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Pronunciation: VEE-uh-tar, VEYE-uh-tar
Origin: Spanish Creole
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Acadian connection: BOURQUE, HÉBERT, LANDRY
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Pronunciation: vick-NAIR
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Acadian connection: LAMBERT
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Pronunciation: vih-DREEN
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Acadian connection: HÉBERT, PITRE
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Pronunciation: vee-ZHAY
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Acadian connection: AUCOIN, BERTRAND, BREAUX, DOUCET, FORET, PITRE
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Sources: Paula Thornton for proper pronunciation
Pronunciation: VEEN
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Acadian connection: HÉBERT
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Sources: Jean Vignes
Pronunciation: vill-ah-NOO-vah, vill-ah-NOOVE
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Acadian connection: BABIN, GAUDIN, LANDRY
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Pronunication: VANH-sonh, VIN-cent
Origin: Acadian [see Family History]
Pronunciation: VEEVES, vee-VESS
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Acadian connection: BUJOLE, LANDRY
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Pronunciation: vwah-SANH
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Acadian connection: BABIN
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Pronunciation: Vore-EES
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Acadian connection: DOUCET, HÉBERT, MOUTON
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Pronunciation: WAHG-spahk
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Acadian connection: GAUDET, GAUTREAUX, THIBODEAUX
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Pronunciation: WEB
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Acadian connection: BERNARD, CORMIER, DAIGLE, HÉBERT, ROGER
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Pronunciation: WILTZ
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Acadian connection: BERGERON, BROUSSARD, LEBLANC, MELANÇON, THERIOT
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Pronunciation: WIB-uhl
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Acadian connection: LEGER, ROY
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Pronunciation: YUNG
Origin: Acadian (LEJEUNE)
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Acadian connection: HÉBERT
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Pronunciation: zeh-RANG
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Acadian connection: HÉBERT, LANDRY
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Pronunciation: ZIM-er-mun
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Acadian connection: BLANCHARD
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