MABILE

Pronunciation:  MAH-bee-lay?

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  SIMONEAUX

Comments:

 

MAHIER

Pronunciation:  MAH-hee-aye

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  GUILLOT, HENRY

Comments:

 

MAITRE

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.

 

MALBROUGH

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."

 

MALLET

Pronunciation:  mah-LET

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  BLANCHARD, DUGAS, HEBERT, LEJEUNE, RIVET, THERIOT

Comments:  This family's name sometimes is spelled MAILLET, MAYE, MAYER, & MAYET.  

 

MANGER

Pronunciation:  monh-JHAY, MAIN-jer

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  GUIDRY

Comments:

 

MANUEL

Pronunciation:  MAN-yuhl, MAN-you-ell

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  HÉBERT, RICHARD, ROBICHAUX

Comments:

 

MARCANTEL

Pronunciation:  MAR-can-tell

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  HÉBERT

Comments:

 

MARCEAUX

Pronunciation:  mar-SOH

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  TRAHAN

Comments:

 

MARCEL

Pronunciation:  mar-SELL

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  BABIN, GUIDRY

Comments:

 

MARCHAND

Pronunciation:  MAR-shand

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  BERNARD

Comments:

 

MARIN

Pronunciation:  mah-REEN, mah-RANH, mah-RIN

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  AUCOIN, BABIN, PITRE, ROY

Comments:

 

MARKS

Pronunciation:  MARKS

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  RICHARD, TRAHAN

Comments:

 

MARQUIS

Pronunciation:  mar-KEY

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  COMEAUX

Comments:

 

MARRIONNEAUX

Pronunciation:  MARE-ee-oh-no

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  COMEAU, DAVID, GUILLOT, LEGER, ORILLION

Comments:

 

MARS

Pronunciation:  MARS

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  DOIRON, GAUTREAUX

Comments:

 

MARSON

Pronunciation:  MAR-sun, mar-SONH

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  HÉBERT

Comments:

 

MARTIN

Pronunciation:  mar-TANH, MART-in

Origin:  Acadian  [see Family History]

 

MARTINEZ

Pronunciation:  mar-TEE-nez, MART-in-ez

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  LANDRY

Comments:

 

MATHERNE

Pronunciation:  mah-THERN

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  ARCENEAUX, BOURGEOIS, MARTIN

Comments:

 

MATHIAS

Pronunciation:  muh-THY-us

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  BABINEAUX

Comments:

 

MATTE

Pronunciation:  MOTT

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  RICHARD

Comments:

 

MAURICE

Pronunciation:  maw-REES

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  TRAHAN

Comments:

 

MAURIN/MORIN

Pronunciation:  maw-RANH, moh-RANH

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  AROSTEGUY, DUGAS, GRANGER, HÉBERT, LEGER, SAVOIE, TRAHAN

Comments:

 

MAXENT

Pronunciation:  MAX-onh

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  ARCENEAUX

Comments:

 

MAYARD

Pronunciation:  MAH-yard

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  LANDRY, TRAHAN

Comments:

 

MAYER

Pronunciation:  mah-YARE, MAY-yer

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  BOURGEOIS 

Comments:

 

MAYEUX

Pronunciation:  MAH-you

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  HEBERT

Comments:

 

MAZEROLLE

Pronunciation:  MAZ-uh-roll

Origin:  Acadian  [see Family History]

 

MCBRIDE

Pronunciation:  mack-BRIDE

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  MOUTON

Comments:

 

MCCAULAY

Pronunciation:  muh-CAW-lay

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  AUCOIN

Comments:

 

MCCRORY

Pronunciation:  muh-CROO-ree

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  HÉBERT

Comments:

 

MCGEE

Pronunciation:  muh-GEE

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  RICHARD, SAVOIE

Comments:

 

MEAUX

Pronunciation:  MOH

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  BROUSSARD, CORMIER, HÉBERT, LANDRY

Comments:

 

MECHE

Pronunciation:  MESH

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  SAVOY

Comments:

 

MELANÇON

Pronunciation:  muh-LONH-sonh

Origin:  Acadian  [see Family History]

 

MENARD

Pronunciation:  meh-NARD

Origin:  French Creole

Arrived in Louisiana:  November 1785

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:  Louis MENARD

Settled:

Acadian connection:  HÉBERT, MELANCON, RICHARD

Comments:

 

MENDOZA

Pronunciation:  men-DOE-zuh

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  ALLAIN

Comments:

 

MICHEL

Pronunciation:  mee-SHELL

Origin:  Acadian  [see Family History]

 

MIGOTT

Pronunciation:  MIH-gut

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  HÉBERT

Comments:

 

MIGUEZ

Pronunciation:  MEE-gez

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  HÉBERT, LABAUVE, LANDRY, VINCENT

Comments:

 

MILLER

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."

 

MINVIELLE

Pronunciation:  min-VAY ... I reckon

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:  

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:  

Settled:

Acadian connection:  ARCENEAUX

Comments:

 

MIRE

Pronunciation:  MEER

Origin:  Acadian  [see Family History]

 

MOÏSE

Pronunciation:  moh-EEZ

Origin:  Acadian  [see Family History]

 

MOLAISON

Pronunciation:  MOH-lay-zonh

Origin:  Acadian  [see Family History]

 

MOLLERE

Pronunciation:  moh-LAIR

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  BLANCHARD, BOURGEOIS, BREAUX., LANDRY

Comments:

 

MONTE/MONTET

Pronunciation:  mahn-TAY, mon-TET

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  BOURG, BOURGEOIS, BROUSSARD, DUHON, MICHEL, PITRE, TRAHAN, VINCENT

Comments:

 

MONTERO

Pronunciation:  mawn-TEAR-oh

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  RIVET

Comments:

 

MOREAU

Pronunciation:  MAW-roh, muh-ROH

First Family:

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.

Third Family:

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.

Fourth Family:

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.

 

MORENO

Pronunciation:  moh-REE-noh

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  LANDRY

Comments:

 

MORNHINVEG

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 ... "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

 

MORVANT

Pronunciation:  MORE-vonh

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:  Lafourche Parish; Côte Gelée, Lafayette Parish

Acadian connection:  BABIN, BENOIT, BERNARD, BOUDREAUX, BREAUX, DAIGLE, GRANGER, GUIDRY, GUILLOT, HÉBERT, LANDRY, MIRE, ROBICHAUX, ROGER, TRAHAN

Comments:

 

MOUILLE

Pronunciation:  MOO-yay

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  CORMIER

Comments:

 

MOULARD

Pronunciation:  moo-YARD

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  BOURQUE

Comments:

 

MOUTON

Pronunciation:  MOO-tonh

First Family:

Origin:  French Creole

Arrived in Louisiana:  1740s?

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:  German Coast, Mississippi River above New Orleans, present-day St. John the Baptist Parish

Source:  BRDR, 1b:53

Second Family:

Origin:  Acadian  [see Family History]

Comments:  Although not all of the MOUTONs of South Louisiana were Acadians, they are listed here as Acadian.

 

MUNSON

Pronunciation:  MUN-sun

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  HÉBERT, LANDRY

Comments:

 

NAQUIN

Pronunciation:  NAH-kanh

Origin:  Acadian  [see Family History]

 

NAVARRE

Pronunication:  nah-VAR

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  BENOIT, BOUDREAUX, GAUTREAUX, GUILLOT, HÉBERT, NAQUIN

Comments:

 

NEE

Pronunication:  NAY

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  BENOIT

Comments:

 

NERAUT

Pronunication:  neh-RAWT

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  GUILBEAU, PREJEAN

Comments:

 

NEWCHURCH

Pronunication:  guess!

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  LANDRY

Comments:

 

NEZAT

Pronunciation:  neh-ZOT, neh-ZAT

Origin:  French Creole

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:  Pierre NEZAT of Lairac or Layrac, on the Garonne, France

Settled:

Acadian connection:  ARCENEAUX, CHIASSON

Comments:

Source:  Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-B:12, .

 

NOEL

Pronunciation:  NO-ul, no-EL

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  AUCOIN, DUGAS, RIVET

Comments:

 

NORMAND

Pronunciation:  NAHR-mund

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  AUCOIN, BLANCHARD

Comments:

 

NOTT -- see KNOTT

 

NUNEZ

Pronunciation:  NOO-nyez, NOO-nez

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  HÉBERT, LANDRY

Comments:

 

OLDHAM

Pronunciation:  OLD-um

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  BABIN

Comments:

 

OLINDE

Pronunciation: oh-LIND

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  BERGERON, DAVID, MARTIN

Comments:

 

OLIVIER

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.

 

ONCALE

Pronunciation: on-CAH-lee ... I guess

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  CLEMENT, DUGAS, GUILLOT, NAQUIN

Comments:

 

ORCUTT

Pronunciation: AR-cut, OAR-cut

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  

Comments:

 

ORDENEAUX

Pronunciation:  ARD-eh-noh

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  BLANCHARD

Comments:

 

ORDOGNE

Pronunciation:  ar-DOAN

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  BOUDREAUX

Comments:

 

ORILLION

Pronunciation:  oh-RILL-ee-onh

Origin:  Acadian  [see Family History]

 

ORTEGO

Pronunciation:  AR-teh-goh

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  GRANGER, PITRE

Comments:

 

ORY

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 c1703, his wife Anna Christine STRASBERG, called Christine, also a German, born c1729, five daughters, and two sons, Mathieu, born c1749, and Jean Baptiste, born 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 they were released by the Spanish, the ORYs traveled with the other passengers overland to Natchitoches Post, Louisiana, arriving there 24 October 1769.  They refused to settle there and reached New Orleans via river transportation 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 TIRCUIT, daughter of Francois TIRCUIT and Barbara BOURGEOIS, French Creoles, 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."

 

OUBRE

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; 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 BENICH, 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 31 July 1754 at St.-Charles.  Christofe, père's son André married, around age 22, Marie-Élisabeth BONVILLAIN, daughter of Jacques BONVILLAIN and Catherine SCHOFF of New Orleans, 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, where his son Pierre was born 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.  André's son André-Joseph, called Joseph, married Marie-Blanche HÉBERT, daughter of Jean-Baptiste HÉBERT and Claire ROBICHAUX, 15 September 1774 at St.-Jacques and eventually moved to the Atakapas District, now St. Martin Parish.  André's daughter Marie-Pélagie married Paul DAVID, son of Étienne-Michel DAVID and Geneviève HÉBERT of Acadia, 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 c1762, married Paul MARTIN dit Barnabé, son of Ambroise MARTIN dit Barnabé and his second wife Madeleine dite Émilienne COMEAUX of Acadia, 12 Jan 1779 at St.-Jacques.  One of the witnesses at this wedding was Henrie or Henrique HOUWER, another of André's son, who married Angélique DAVID, sister of his brother-in-law Paul DAVID, 25 September 1787 at St.-Jacques.  André's son Pierre married Félicité PERTUIS, daughter of Francois PERTUIS and Angela LEPIN of "Osalcanza," 7 January 1792 at St.-Jacques.  Their son André, born at St.-Jacques in March 1794, married Rosalie VINCENT, daughter of Charles VINCENT and Céleste LABAUVE, 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, no parents given, was buried at the Post des Atakapas, now St. Martinville, 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, & Huwer.  It also is spelled Roub, Uber, Ubre.

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.  

 

PANVIL

Pronunciation:  PAN-vill

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  BABIN

Comments:

 

PAQUETTE

Pronunciation:  paw-KET

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  LEBLANC

Comments:

 

PARENT

Pronunciation:  PEAR-ent, pah-RONT?

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  HEBERT, LANDRY

Comments:

 

PART

Pronunciation:  PART

Origin:  Acadian  [see Family History]

 

PATIN

Pronunciation:  PAH-tanh

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  ALLAIN, ARCENAUX, BERNARD, BERGERON, BROUSSARD, CORMIER, POTIER, RICHARD, SIMONEAUX

Comments:

 

PECK

Pronunciation:  PECK 

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  SAVOIE

Comments:

 

PECOT

Pronunciation:  PEE-koh

Origin:  Foreign French

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Acadia:

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.

SourcesWall of Names, 23.

 

PELEGRIN

Pronunciation:  PELL-eh-granh

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  BLANCHARD

Comments:

 

PELLERIN

Pronunciation:  PELL-eh-ranh

First Family:

Origin:  French Creole

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana

Settled:

Acadian connection:

Second Family:

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.

 

PELLETIER/PELTIER

Pronunciation:  pell-eh-TEER, PELL-uh-tee-ay, PELL-tee-ay

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  BREAUX, MELANCON

Comments:

 

PELOQUIN

Pronunciation:  pell-eh-CANH, PELL-eh-kin

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  HÉBERT

Comments:

 

PENISSON

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.

 

PENN

Pronunciation:  PIN

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  HEBERT

Comments:

 

PERIOU

Pronunciation:  PEAR-ee-oh

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  CORMIER

Comments:

 

PERRAULT

Pronunciation:  peh-ROW, per-RAWLT

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  DAVID, LANDRY, LEBLANC, LEJEUNE

Comments:

 

PERRET

Pronunciation:  peh-RET

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  BABINEAUX

Comments:

 

PERRIN

Pronunciation:  PEAR-in, peh-RANH

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  ALLAIN

Comments:

 

PERRODIN

Pronunciation:  peh-roh-DANH

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  BERNARD, HEBERT

Comments:

 

PERRY

Pronunciation:  PEAR-ee

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  BABINEAUX, LABAUVE, LANDRY, ROGER, SIMON

Comments:

 

PERTUIT

Pronunciation:  per-TOO-ee

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  MICHEL

Comments:

 

PETIT

Pronunciation:  peh-TEE, peh-TEET

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  BROUSSARD, LAMBERT

Comments:

 

PICARD

Pronunciation:  pee-KARD

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  BERGERON, DAVID, LEJEUNE, TRAHAN

Comments:

 

PICHOFF

Pronunciation:  pih-SHOFF

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  BABIN, CROCHET, HÉBERT, LEBLANC, NAQUIN, TRAHAN

Comments:

 

PICOU

Pronunciation:  PEE-koo

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  ARCENEAUX, BLANCHARD, BOURGEOIS, BUJOLE

Comments:

 

PINEL/PINET

Pronunciation:  pih-NELL, pih-NET

Origin:  Acadian  [see Family History]

 

PITRE

Pronunciation:  PEET

Origin:  Acadian  [see Family History]

 

PLAISANCE

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.

 

POCHE/PORCHE

Pronunciation:  PO-shay, po-SHAY

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  BRASSEAUX, DUBOIS

Comments:

 

POIRIER

Pronunciation:  PWAH-ree-ay

Origin:  Acadian  [see Family History]

 

POMIER

Pronunciation:  POH-mee-ay

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  HÉBERT, MARTIN

Comments:

 

PONTIFF

Pronunciation:  pon-TEEF, PON-tiff

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  BOUDREAUX, HÉBERT, LEBLANC, LEJEUNE, RICHARD

Comments:

 

PORCHE -- see POCHE

 

POTIER

Pronunciation:  POH-tee-ay

Origin:  Acadian  [see Family History]

 

POURCIAU

Pronunciation:  POOR-see-oh

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  DAVID

Comments:

 

POURSINE

Pronunciation:  POOR-seen

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  LANDRY

Comments:

 

PRATHER

Pronunciation:  PRAY-ther

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  BRASSEAUX

Comments:

 

PRÉJEAN

Pronunciation:  PRAY-jzhon

Origin:  Acadian  [see Family History]

 

PREVOST/PROVOST

Pronunciation:  PREE-voh, PREE-vost, PRO-voh, PRO-vost

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  BUJOLE, DUBOIS, HÉBERT, LANDRY, LEBLANC, PELLERIN

Comments:

 

PREWETT

Pronunciation:  PROO-it

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  BRASSEAUX, LANDRY

Comments:

 

PRIMEAUX

Pronunciation:  PREE-moh

Origin:  Acadian  [see Family History]

 

PRINCE

Pronunciation:  PRONZ, PRINZ

Origin:  Acadian  [see Family History]

 

PRINGLE

Pronunciation:  PREEN-gull

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  RIVET

Comments:

 

PROSPER

Pronunciation:  PROS-pur

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  LAVERGNE

Comments:

 

PROVOST --  see PREVOST

 

PRUDHOMME

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.

 

PUJOL

Pronunciation:  POO-jhole, PYOO-jhole

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  ROY

Comments:

 

PULASKI

Pronunciation:  pyoo-LAH-skee, pyoo-LASS-kee

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  COMEAUX

Comments:

 

QUEBEDEAUX

Pronunciation:  KWIH-beh-doh, KIH-beh-doh

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  BERTRAND, LANDRY, TRAHAN

Comments:

 

QUINTERO

Pronunciation:  kin-TEH-ro

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  BREAUX, GRANGER, LEBLANC, LEJEUNE

Comments:

 

RACCA

Pronunciation:  RAH-kah

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  TRAHAN

Comments:

 

RACHAL/RACHEL

Pronunciation:  rah-SHAHL, ray-SHELL

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  LANDRY

Comments:

 

RAFFRAY

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, MARTIN

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 district 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 22 July 1801, age 4.  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 Acadian André MARTIN, 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.

 

RAMOUIN

Pronunciation:  RAM-oo-anh

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  ALLAIN

Comments:

 

RAULIN

Pronunciation:  RAW-lin

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  BLANCHARD, DUHON

Comments:

 

RAYON

Pronunciation:  RAY-yonh

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  HÉBERT

Comments:

 

REAUX

Pronunciation:  ROW

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  BRASSEAUX

Comments:

 

REED

Pronunciation:  REED

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  HÉBERT, LEJEUNE

Comments:

 

REINE

Pronunciation:  RAIN

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  BOURGEOIS, COMEAUX

Comments:

 

RENAUD/REYNAUD

Pronunciation:  reh-NOH, ray-NOH

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  PITRE

Comments:

 

RENTROP

Pronunciation:  REN-trop

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  BERTRAND, BOURQUE

Comments:

 

RICHARD

Pronunciation:  REE-shard

First Family:

Origin:  French Creole

Arrived in Louisiana:  

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:  Pointe Coupée

Source:  BRDR, 1b:157ff.

Second Family:

Origin:  Acadian  [see Family History]

 

RICHE

Pronunciation:  REESH, ree-SHAY

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  BOUDREAUX

Comments:

 

RIDER

Pronunciation:  RYE-der

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  JEANSONNE

Comments:

 

RINGUET

Pronunciation:  ring-GET

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  BOURGEOIS, MELANCON, THERIOT

Comments:

 

RIVAS

Pronunciation:  RHEE-vahs

Origin:  

Arrived in Louisiana:

Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:

Settled:

Acadian connection:  ALLAIN

Comments:

 

RIVET

Pronunciation:  rih-VET

First Family:

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.

 

RIVERO

Pronunciation:  rih-VER-oh

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Acadian connection:  SIMONEAUX

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RIVIERE

Pronunciation:  rih-VEAR

Origin:  

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Acadian connection:  ALLAIN, GUILLOT, RIVET

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ROBEAU

Pronunciation:  RO-bo

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Acadian connection:  HÉBERT

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ROBERT

Pronunciation:  Ro-BEAR, ROB-urt

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Acadian connection:  LANDRY, ORILLION

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ROBICHAUX

Pronunication:  ROH-bih-sho

Origin:  Acadian  [see Family History]

 

ROBIN

Pronunciation:  row-BANH

Origin:  

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Acadian connection:  BERGERON, BOUDREAUX, GUILLOT, HÉBERT, MOUTON

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ROCHE

Pronunciation:  row-SHAY

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Acadian connection:  FORET

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RODDY

Pronunciation:  ROD-ee

Origin:  

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Acadian connection:  HÉBERT

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RODRIGUE

Pronunciation:  rod-REEGK

Origin:  

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Acadian connection:  ARCENEAUX, BERTRAND, BOUDREAUX, DAVID, GUIDRY, MARTIN, THIBODEAUX

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RODRIGUES/RODRIGUEZ

Pronunciation:  rod-REE-gez

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Acadian connection:  DOIRON

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ROGER

Pronunication:  row-JHAY

Origin:  Acadian  [see Family History]

 

ROMAGOSA

Pronunciation:  row-muh-GO-suh, rom-uh-GO-suh

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Acadian connection:  LANDRY

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ROMAIN

Pronunciation:  row-MANE

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Acadian connection:  AUCOIN

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ROMAN

Pronunciation:  ROW-mun

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Acadian connection:  DAIGLE

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ROME

Pronunciation:  ROAM

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Acadian connection:  ARCENEAUX, DAVID, MARTIN, SAVOIE

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ROMERO

Pronunciation:  row-MARE-oh

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Acadian connection:  HÉBERT, LEBLANC

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ROSSI

Pronunciation:  RAW-see

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Acadian connection:  BOURGEOIS, PITRE

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ROTH

ronunciation:  RAWTH

Origin:  

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Acadian connection:  HÉBERT, ORILLION

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ROUGEAU

Pronunication:  ROO-zhoh

Origin:  

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Acadian connection:  BERGERON, LEBLANC, PITRE

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ROUILLET

Pronunication:  roo-eh-LAY

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Acadian connection:  GAUDIN

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ROUSSEAU

Pronunciation:  roo-SO, ROO-so

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Acadian connection:   BOUDREAUX, BROUSSARD, FORET, GAUTREAUX, LANDRY, LEBLANC, MARTIN, MOUTON, THIBODEAUX

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ROUSSEL

Pronunciation:  roo-SELL

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Acadian connection:  BREAUX, GRAVOIS

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ROUSTAN

Pronunciation:  roo-STAN

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Acadian connection:  LEJEUNE

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ROY

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.

Fourth Family:

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.

 

ROYER

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.

 

RYBISKI

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.

 

SAIZAN

Pronuncation:  SAY-zan

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Acadian connection:  BERGERON, DAVID, LAVERGNE

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SANCHEZ

Pronuncation:  SAN-chez

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Acadian connection:  GUILLOT

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SANDOZ

Pronuncation:  SAN-doze

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Acadian connection:  LANDRY

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SARVANT

Pronuncation:  SAR-vanh

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Acadian connection:  HEBERT

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SAUCIER

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>.

 

SAVOIE/SAVOY

Pronunciation:  sah-VWAH, sah-VOY

Origin:  Acadian  [see Family History]

 

SCHEXNAYDER

Pronunciation:  SHEX-ny-der

Origin: