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, Lafourche, Terrebonne parishes
Acadian connection: ARCENEAUX, BABIN, BERGERON, BOUDREAUX, COMEAUX, DAIGLE, DUHON, HÉBERT, LANDRY, LEBLANC, MARTIN, ROBICHAUX, THIBODEAUX
Comments: Nicolas MARCOFF, born in Germany in c1707, married Christine-Marie ORY in Berks County, Pennsylvania, in August 1753. Christine-Marie had been born in Germany in the early 1720s. They and their sons Jean-George, born in the early 1750s, Joseph in c1759, François 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 La Bahìa, Texas, for several months, suspected of being spies or smugglers. After the Spanish released them, they traveled overland to Natchitoches Post, Louisiana, arriving there on 24 October 1769. Moving on, they reached New Orleans via river transportation on 9 November 1769. They settled in present-day St. James Parish on what was called the Acadian Coast and in Assumption, Lafourche, and Terrebonne parishes in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley. During the late colonial period, the family's name evolved into the French-sounding MALBROUGH.
The family's name also is spelled Malbraux, Malbro, Malbrou, Malbroux, Malbru, Marhober.
Sources: BRDR, 2:512-13; <thecajuns.com>, "Passengers on the Ship 'Britania," Glenn R. Conrad, "German Settlers in Louisiana"; <canaryislanders.org/chad/gen/chadgenealogy/index3.htm>.
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: French Creole from Pistoia, Tuscany, via Duchy of Savoy
Arrived in Louisiana: 1752
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: François MARCANTEL
Settled: Pointe Coupée; Opelousas District
Acadian connection: DOUCET, ROY, TRAHAN
Comments: According to a descendant of François MARCANTEL, contrary to what early records might imply, MARCANTEL is not Italian but French. François, "Sergeant in Mr. François ARTAUD's Company," married Anne, daughter of Jean RONDOT, deceased, and Marie COLON, on 7 May 1754 at Pointe Coupée. The marriage record calls François's parents Mathieu MARQUANTEL and Marie FRANÇOIS of St.-Pierre Parish, Pistoia, Tuscany. Although Tuscany today is in Italy, the surnames MARQUANTEL, also rendered MARQUENTELLE and MARCANTEL, and FRANÇOIS, are certainly French. (The descendant adds that his ancestor came to Louisiana from the Duchy of Savoy, which today lies mostly in France.) François's son François-Nicolas was born at Pointe Coupée in January 1758. François, père remarried to Marie-Josèphe RICHAUME of Natchez, widow of Noël SOILEAU, at Pointe Coupée in August 1765, and remarried again--his third marriage--to Pérrine LACOUR, widow of French Creole Joseph ROY dit Châtellerault, at Opelousas in June 1779. In January 1774, François was one of seven residents who testified before Opelousas District commandant Gabriel FUSELIER de la Claire, urging construction of a church for the district, which was accomplished in 1776. François, père's first succession record, which called him a widower, was filed at what became the Opelousas courthouse, St. Landry Parish, in October 1780, and another succession record was filed in 1792.
Sources: Baudier, The Catholic Church in LA, 189; BRDR, 1b:117 (PCP-1, 140; PCP-2, 101); Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vol. 1-A; David Marcantel of Jennings, LA, descendant.
Pronunciation: mar-SOH
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Pronunciation: mar-SELL
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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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Pronunciation: mah-THERN
Origin: Alsatian/German Creole
Arrived in Louisiana: probably 1721
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Johann Adam Materne
Settled: Lower German Coast, St. Charles Parish; St. James Parish; St. Martin & Lafayette parishes; Assumption & Lafourche parishes
Acadian connection: ARCENEAUX, BOURGEOIS, MARTIN
Comments: Johann Adam MATERNE of Rosenheim, Upper Alsace, and wife Regina KOENIG came to Louisiana probably in 1721 with other German families recruited for the John Law concession on the Arkansas River, then part of French Louisiana. When that venture failed, the MATERNEs and other German families resettled at St.-Charles des Allemands, the Lower German Coast, on the river above New Orleans. ...
Sources: West, Atlas of LA Surnames, 146-47, 194.
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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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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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: Alsatian/German Creole
Arrived in Louisiana: October 1769
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Jacob MILLER
Settled: Upper German Coast, now St. John the Baptist Parish; Opelousas District, now St. Landry & Evangeline parishes
Acadian connection: BROUSSARD, CORMIER, GUIDRY, HÉBERT, ROBICHAUX
Comments: Jacob MILLER, born probably in Alsace in c1739 (one of the author's maternal ancestors), married Anne-Marie THEGEIN, born also in Alsace in c1739. They were living in Maryland with four daughters and son Jacob, fils, born in c1767, when they decided to migrate to Louisiana with seven other German Catholic 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 La Bahía, 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 on 24 October 1769. Refusing to settle there, they reached New Orleans via river transportation on 9 November 1769. They settled first in present-day St. John the Baptist Parish (known as the Second or Upper German Coast) before moving to the Opelousas District, where Jacob, fils, married Ignès, daughter of German Creoles André MAYER & Marie-Anne STELLY of the Upper German Coast, on 31 May 1791 at Opelousas. Jacob, père's son Jean-Frederick, born in Louisiana, had married Victoire, Ignès's sister, on 11 April 1790 in Opelousas. Jacob, père's son Jean, called John, also born in Louisiana, married another MAYER sister, Marie-Francoise, on 19 Jan 1796 at Opelousas. One of Jacob, père's daughters, Marie-Anne, baptized at Opelousas on 25 November 1777, married Pierre CORMIER, son of Michel CORMIER and his second wife Catherine STELLY of Prairie des Femmes, near Opelousas, on 18 August 1795 at Opelousas, but Marie-Anne died a year later at age 19 before she bore Pierre any children. (Michel and Pierre CORMIER 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
Origin: French Creole
Arrived in Louisiana: December 1785
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Pierre-Vincent, Jean-Baptiste-Guillaume, and Pierre-Paul MONTET
Settled: Assumption Parish; Attakapas District, now St. Martin & Lafayette parishes; St. James Parish
Acadian connection: AUCOIN, BOUDREAUX, BOURG, BOURGEOIS, BROUSSARD, DUHON, GAUTREAUX, MICHEL, PITRE, TRAHAN, VINCENT
Comments: Guillaume MONTET, also called MONTÉ, born in Périgord, France, in January 1737, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Joseph VINCENT & Marguerite BAUDART of Minas, at Liverpool, England, in c1763. Marie had been born at Rivière-aux-Canards in April 1746 and had followed her family to Virginia in 1755 and to England in 1756. Guillaume was not an Acadian but a Frenchman. What he was doing in England in 1763 is anyone's guess. He followed Marie-Josèphe and other Acadian exiles in England to France in the spring of 1763 and landed at Morlaix. In 1765, they settled on Belle-Île-en-Mer, off the southern coast of Brittany, with other exiles from England. Oldest son Pierre-Vincent had been born in St.-Martin Parish, Morlaix, in January 1764, but their other children were born on the island: Marie-Françoise, called Françoise, near Le Palais in November 1765, Joseph-Adam near Bangor in July 1767, Marie-Élisabeth in September 1769 but died in August 1771, Jean-Baptiste-Guillaume was born in November 1771, Marguerite in January 1774, Pierre-Paul in June 1776, and Jeanne-Marie in April 1779 but died in April 1780. Marie-Josèphe died near Bangor in June 1779, perhaps from complications of childbirth, and Guillaume died there in November 1781.
When the Spanish government offered the Acadians in the France a chance for a new life in their Louisiana colony, the MONTET orphans agreed to go there. They crossed on La Caroline, the last of the Seven Ships, which left Nantes in October 1785 and reached New Orleans in December. They followed the majority of the passengers from their ship to upper Bayou Lafourche. Joseph Adam died at Lafourche in September 1786; he was only 19 years old and did not marry. Pierre-Vincent married Anne-Félicité, called Félicité, daughter of Jean-Baptiste AUCOIN & Jeanne-Anne THERIOT, at Lafourche in March 1788; Félicité also was a native of France; Pierre died in Assumption Parish in December 1810, age 46. Françoise married Joseph-Benoît, son of Charles GAUTREAUX & his second wife Marie-Madeleine MELANÇON, at New Orleans in May 1789 and settled with him on upper Bayou Lafourche; Joseph-Benoît also was a native of Belle-Île-en-Mer; Françoise died probably from complications of childbirth by November 1790, when Joseph-Benoît remarried at Lafourche.
The other MONTET siblings settled on the western prairies, and they, too, like Pierre and Françoise, took Acadian spouses: Jean-Baptiste-Guillaume married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Charles DUHON and Marie-Josèphe PREJEAN, at Attakapas in January 1796, and remarried to Marie, daughter of Lucien BOURG and Marie-Élisabeth TRAHAN, at Attakapas in August 1803. Marguerite married Paul, fils, son of Paul TRAHAN and Marie HUGON, at Attakapas in November 1796. And Pierre-Paul married Adélaïde, daughter of François DUHON and his first wife Élisabeth LANDRY, at Attakapas in September 1801, and remarried to Polone, daughter of Augustin BROUSSARD and Anne LANDRY and a widow, in Lafayette Parish in May 1825; Pierre Paul was 45 years old at the time of the wedding.
During the antebellum period, Pierre's children and grandchildren settled in Assumption and St. James parishes. Jean-Baptiste-Guillaume's and Pierre-Paul's descendants settled in what became St. Martin and Lafayette parishes.
Sources: BRDR, vols. 2, 3; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 330-31, 571; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 1-A, 1-B, 2-A, 2-B; NOAR, vol. 4.
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: François MOREAU, fils
Settled: Cabanocé/St.-Jacques, present-day St. James Parish; Attakapas District, now St. Martin & Lafayette parishes; Opelousas District, now St. Landry Parish
Acadian connection: BREAUX, MARTIN
Comments: François, fils, son of François MOREAU and Marie-Jeanne LAPOINTE, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Acadian Ambroise BREAUX and widow of Honoré MELANÇON, at St.-Jacques on the river in June 1770. Spanish officials counted them on the right, or west, bank of the river at St.-Jacques in January 1777. They moved to the Atakapas District, now St. Martin Parish, and were counted there in May 1777. Marie-Josèphe died at Atakapas in December 1787, age 55. Their son François MOREAU, fils married Pélagie, daughter of Acadian Joseph MARTIN, at Opelousas in May 1792.
Sources: BRDR, 2:556; De Ville, St. James Census, 1777, 8; De Ville, Southwest LA Families, 1777, 11; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:582.
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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, in August 1785. Anne married Jean-Athanase LANDRY on 22 January 1787 at 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 Célestin married Adelaide GODEAUX of Pointe Coupée, on 23 January 1792 at Opelousas. Their daughter Louise married Simon FONTENOT on 31 January 1792 at 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, 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. In February 1842, in Opelousas, he married Julie, a native of France, daughter of Michel BENARD and Marie-Anne DEUTOUR. Christian and Julie had six children, four sons and two daughters. Their second son, Christian François, 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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Comments: What up, Moose?
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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Pronunciation: neh-ZOT, neh-ZAH
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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]
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Pronunciation: OWN-cal
Origin: Galician/Spanish
Arrived in Louisiana: c1778
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Luis JUNCAL
Settled: Bayou Lafourche valley (Ascension, Assumption, Lafourche parishes)
Acadian connection: CLEMENT, DUGAS, GUILLOT, NAQUIN
Comments: "The Louisiana progenitor was Luis JUNCAL, b. 1754 Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain, d. 1799 Louisiana. He came to LA with Galvez and the Isleños, though not an Isleño nor a Malagueno. He was likely a soldier. ... His sons were born to his Acadian DUGAS wife [Marie-Rose, daughter of Alexis DUGAS & his second wife Marguerite MOÏSE, who he married at Ascension, now Donaldsonville, in September 1786 and who died at Assumption in April 1795]. His Isleño wife [Ysabel SANCHEZ, to whom he remarried in Jan 1796 at Ascension] only had daughters. Hence, his modern surnamed descendants (either spelling) are all of Acadian descent. The original Spanish surname was JUNCAL, pronounced Hun-cal with a soft “h” and rhymes with uncle (Galicia was an ethnically Celtic province of Spain). Modern Cajuns usually pronounce this as Zhun-cal, also rhymes with uncle. Some of his descendants changed (or had changed) the surname spelling to ONCALE, often pronounced Own-cal, also rhymes with uncle." The surname also is spelled Ancale, Ocale, Orcale.
Source: Mike Talbot, descendant (quote)
Pronunciation: AR-cut, OAR-cut
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Pronunciation: ARD-eh-noh
Origin: Foreign French
Arrived in Louisiana: by December 1825
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Étienne ORDRONEAU
Settled: Assumption Parish
Acadian connection: BLANCHARD
Comments: Étienne, fils, son of Étienne ORDRONEAU and Françoise OLIVE of Jersey, Department of Loire Inferieure, France, married Marie Aimée, also called Anne, daughter of Acadian Joachim BLANCHARD, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in December 1825. Their son Jean Guillaume was born in Assumption Parish in January 1828. ...
Sources: BRDR, 2:431
Pronunciation: ar-DOAN
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Pronunciation: oh-RILL-ee-onh
Origin: Acadian [see Family History]
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; Ascension Parish
Acadian connection: RICHARD, TRAHAN
Comments: Nicolas ORY, a German, born in c1703, his wife Anna Christine, called Christine, STRASBERG, also a German, born in c1729, five daughters, and two sons, Mathieu, born in c1749, and Jean Baptiste in c1757, left Port Tobacco, Maryland, aboard the English schooner Britannia in early January 1769 with seven other German Catholic families and seven Acadian families, heading for New Orleans. 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 fellow passengers 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, called 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 at Ascension. Jean-Baptiste's daughter Marie, by his first wife, remarried to a RICHARD at Convent, St. James Parish, in September 1814.
Sources: BRDR, 2:572, 3:735; 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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Pronunciation: PEAR-ent, pah-RONT?
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Pronunciation: PAR
Origin: Acadian [see Family History]
Pronunciation: PAH-tanh
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Pronunciation: PECK
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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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Pronunciation: PELL-eh-ranh
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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, son of Étienne PENISSON and Anne PAYOTE of Nantes, France, born on 7 June 1777 at La Plaine, France, married, age 29, Rosalie Marie, daughter of Maturin TRAHAN and Marie BLANCHARD, on 6 October 1806, at Assumption, now Plattenville, Assumption Parish. 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 on 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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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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Pronunciation: per-TOO-ee
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Pronunciation: peh-TEE, peh-TEET
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Pronunciation: pee-KARD
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Pronunciation: pih-SHOFF
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Pronunciation: PEE-koo
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Pronunciation: pih-NELL, pih-NET
Origin: Acadian [see Family History]
Pronunciation: PEET
Origin: Acadian [see Family History]
Pronunciation: PLAY-zonce
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Origin: Isleño--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 on 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 Isleños 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 Françoise-Apollonie, daughter of French Creole François SIMONEAUX and Acadian 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 years old. Francisco's son Antoine married a fellow Isleño, Maria Antonia ALBARADO, at Assumption in February 1821. Francisco's son Alexis married an Acadian, Joséphine 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, Léonelle 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 Élise PRIMEAUX at Vermilionville, now Lafayette, in June 1830. Another son, Jean, married Marie Carmegille, daughter of Joseph MIRE and Émilie 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 Bayou 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.
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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 Adèle GUIDRY, daughter of Donat GUIDRY, at Convent in St. James Parish in January 1845. Prosper's sister Ida married Auguste GUIDRY, Adele's cousin, at Convent in May 1846.
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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Pronunciation: PWAH-ree-ay
Origin: Acadian [see Family History]
Pronunciation: POH-mee-ay
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Pronunciation: pon-TEEF, PON-tiff
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PORCHE -- see POCHE
Pronunciation: POH-tee-ay
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Pronunciation: POOR-see-oh
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Pronunciation: PRAY-ther
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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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Pronunciation: PROO-it
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Pronunciation: PREE-moh
Origin: French Canadian
Arrived in Louisiana: Oct 1769
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Pierre PRIMEAUX
Settled: Opelousas & Atakapas districts, present-day St. Landry & Lafayette parishes
Acadian connection: BRASSEAUX, BROUSSARD, DUGAS, HÉBERT, MIRE, TRAHAN, VINCENT
Comments: Pierre, son of Claude PRIMEAUX and Angélique BAVIN or BABEU, born in Canada in c1739, ended up in Maryland probably during the Acadian Grand Dérangement and married Susanne, daughter of Anglo-Protestants James PLANTE and Anne SPENCER, probably at Baltimore during the 1760s. They left Port Tobacco, Maryland, aboard the English schooner Britannia in early January 1769 with eight German Catholic families and six Acadian families, heading for New Orleans. Their ship missed the entrance to the Mississippi, got lost in the Gulf of Mexico, landed on the Texas coast, and the Spanish held the passengers and crew at La Bahia, Texas, for several months, suspecting them of being spies or smugglers. After the Spanish released the Britannia passengers, Pierre and Susanne traveled with their fellow passengers overland to Natchitoches Post, Louisiana, arriving there on in late October 1769. They refused to settle at Natchitoches and chose to go to the Opelousas District instead, where their children were born. Pierre died at Opelousas in August 1790, age 51. Susanne took their children to the lower Vermilion River in the Atakapas District and remarried.
Although they appear on the Acadian Memorial's Wall of Names in St. Martinville, Louisiana, Pierre and Susanne were not Acadians; they only came to Louisiana with Acadian families aboard the ill-fated ship Britannia.
Sources: <thecajuns.com>, "Passengers on the Ship 'Britania',". De Ville, Southwest LA Families, 1777, 27. Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 1-A, 1-B, 2-A, 2-B, 2-C, 3. Pam Lynn, descendant.
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
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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.
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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
Origin: French Canadian
Arrived in Louisiana: from Illinois by 1776
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Charles QUEBEDEAU
Settled: Pointe-Coupée; Opelousas District, present-day St. Landry and Evangeline parishes; St. Martin Parish
Acadian connection: LANDRY, SAVOIE, TRAHAN
Comments: Charles, son of Joseph QUEBEDEAU and Marie LEST of Illinois, married Marie-Catherine, called Catherine, daughter of Guillaume RECURON of Albin, Diocese of Belley, Dauphiné, France, and Marie-Anne DERUIS, at Pointe-Coupée in October 1776; Marie-Catherine had been born at Pointe-Coupée in January 1762, so she was only 14 years old at the time of her marriage. They settled at Fausse Rivière. Son Toussaint was baptized at Pointe-Coupée, age 4 months, in March 1783, and François was born in September 1784. They also had sons named Nicolas and Zenon. Their daughters married into the ANGELO, ARDOIN, HERNANDEZ, PROVOST, and STELLY families. Charles moved his family to the Opelousas District by the early 1790s and settled on Prairie des Femmes, south of present-day Opelousas. Nicolas married Marguerite, daughter of Acadian Firmin LANDRY of Fausse Pointe in the Atakapas District, and settled at Île-aux-Cannes and on the lower Vermilion River. Their son François le jeune was born in July 1804, Joachim in June 1806, and Denis in October 1808. François l'aîné married Céleste or Célestine, daughter of French Creole Henri LAGRANGE, probably in St. Landry Parish in the early 1810s. Their son Francois, fils was born in St. Landry Parish in September 1818. A daughter married into the SAVOIE family. Toussaint married Marie Barbe, daughter of French Creole Joseph FROZARD, in St. Landry Parish in May 1813. Zenon married Emeranthe, daughter of German Creole André MARKS, in St. Landry Parish in June 1817.
Members of the family were living at Anse QUEBEDEAUX, near Church Point, present-day Acadia Parish, in the 1860s.
Sources: BRDR, 1b:154-55, 2:610-11, 617; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 1-A, 1-B, 2-A, 8.
Pronunciation: kin-TEH-ro
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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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Pronunciation: RAY-yonh
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Pronunciation: ROW
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Pronunciation: RAIN
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Pronunciation: reh-NOH, ray-NOH
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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.
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Origin: Acadian [see Family History]
Pronunciation: REESH, ree-SHAY
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Pronunciation: RYE-der
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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]
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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.
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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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Pronunciation: row-SHAY
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Pronunciation: ROD-ee
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Pronunciation: rod-REEGK
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Pronunication: row-JHAY
Origin: Acadian [see Family History]
Pronunciation: row-muh-GO-suh, rom-uh-GO-suh
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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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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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Pronunciation: roo-SELL
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Pronunciation: roo-STAN
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Pronunciation: ROY
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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.
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Origin: Acadian [see Family History]
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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 Détroit & 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, LEGER
Comments: Augustin, fils, 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 HULIN of Kaskaskia, Illinois, 25 November 1765 in Kaskaskia (they are also listed in church records as from Détroit). Their son, Augustin III (often called Auguste in church records), was born at Kaskaskia in February 1771. On 7 October 1794, at age 23, Augustin III married Marie-Victoire, called Victoire, daughter of Michel CORMIER, père and his second wife Catherine STELLY of Prairie des Femmes. Augustin and Victoire settled near Carencro at the northern edge of the Atakapas District, where they raised a large family--daughters Victorie (born in 1795; married Samuel CARUTHERS, 20 February 1816), Angèle (born i 1797), Marie Felonise (born in 1799; married Louis Valière LE BLANC, 28 October 1818), Émilie (born in 1806), Marguerite (born in 1803; married Célestin CORMIER, 14 May 1822), Marcellite (born in 1809; married Joseph TRAHAN, 30 July 1826), and sons Augustin IV (born in 1811; married Caroline BOURG, 12 September 1831), Victorin (born in 1813; married Marcellite BENOIT, February 1835), Samuel, sometimes called James (born in 1815; married Clémence or Clementine BENOIT, 30 April 1836), and Onésime (born in 1817; married Christine RYAN, 21 January 1837). Augustin III 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 and fathered two daughters, twins Marguerite and Marie, who were baptized at Opelousas in May 1777; however, the author has found no son from this union in the church records of the Opelousas area. The ROYERs of South Louisiana, then, 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," claims a descendant, erroneously, "was the largest slave owner in St. James Parish prior to the War Between the States." A. T.'s 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 a RYBISKI intermarrying with an Acadian neighbor before the war. In October 1866, however, A. T.'s son Bélisaire H. married Marie Cécile Lise, daughter of Acadian Ursin GAUDET, at the church in Donaldsonville.
Source: BRDR, 10:227, 511; Menn, Large Slaveholders of LA, 1860, 120-24, 351-58, which does not list A. T. RYBISKI in either St. James or Ascension Parish; John Rybisky, descendant.
Pronuncation: SAY-zan
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Pronuncation: SAN-chez
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Pronuncation: SAN-doze
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Pronuncation: SAR-vanh
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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]
Pronunciation: SHEX-ny-der
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Pronunciation: SLAT-ur
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Pronunciation: SEE-lee
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Pronunciation: say-GWANH, say-GEEN
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Pronunciation: sih-MARE
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Pronunciation: SIN-et
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Pronunciation: seh-RAY
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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 François 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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Acadian connection: BOURQUE, BRASSEAUX, LEJEUNE, ROBICHAUX, SAVOIE
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Pronunciation: SWAH-loh
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Pronunciation: SAHN-yay
Origin: Acadian [see Family History]
Pronunciation: SAIN-uh-monh
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Pronunciation: sain-SEAR, SEAR
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Pronunciation: SAIN-jher-MANH
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Pronunciation: SAIN-joo-lee-ANH
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Pronunciation: SAIN-mar-TANH
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Pronunciation: SAIN-pee-YAIR
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Acadian connection: COMEAUX, DOIRON, MARTIN
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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.
Pronunciation: STEEV-un
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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: STOO-ful
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Pronunciation: SWAW-rez
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Pronunciation: SWEER
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Acadian connection: CLOUATRE, DUBOIS
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Pronunciation: SUT-ur
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Pronunciation: sill-VEST-ter
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Acadian connection: AUCOIN
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Pronunciation: TAY-bur
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Acadian connection: BENOIT, GAUDIN
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Pronunciation: TAL-but
Origin: Acadian [see Family History]
Pronunciation: TAH-sanh
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Pronunciation: TATE
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Acadian connection: PITRE
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Pronunciation: TOE-zanh
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Pronunciation: TAY-ler
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Pronunciation: TEM-play, tem-PLET
Origin: Acadian [see Family History]
Pronunciation: TAIR-eh-bone
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Pronunciation: TUR-tronh
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Pronunciation: TAY-ree-oh, TAIR-ee-oh
Origin: Acadian [see Family History]
Pronunciation: TIH-bow
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Pronunciation: TIB-uh-doh
Origin: Acadian [see Family History]
Pronunciation: TER-kit
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Pronunciation: TOE-fee-ay
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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 Lower 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, François 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, near what is now called Lake Martin.
The family's name eventually was gallicized into 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
Origin: Acadian [see Family History]
Pronunciation: TREG-uhl
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Pronunciation: tree-SHAY? TREESH?
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Pronunciation: TRIM-bull
Origin: ?
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 on 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 and Trim.
Sources: Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 3:330, 640; Jacob Belmer, descendant.
Pronunciation: throw-CLAIR
Origin: German Creole
Arrived in Louisiana: early 1720s
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Johann Georg TROXLER
Settled: Lower German Coast, present-day St. Charles Parish; St. James Parish; Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes
Acadian connection: AUCOIN, BOUDREAUX, DOIRON, DOUCET, HÉBERT, LANDRY, NAQUIN
Comments: Johann Georg, called Georg, son of Joannis, called Jost, TROXLER and Barbe FALLERIN of Lichtenberg, Alsace, born in c1698, married Marie Madeleine, daughter of Jean HAUSER of Lautenbourg, at Phalsbourg, Alsace, in August 1720. They came to Louisiana before 1724 and settled on the German Coast. Georg was a mason and a farmer and held two slaves by 1727. He remarried to Marie-Agnès, called Agnès, LAY in the 1730s and died on the German Coast in either October or November 1759, in his early 60s. His descendants moved upriver to the Acadian Coast and down into the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley, where they married Acadians. ...
The family's name also is spelled Stroscler, Strosker, Trocher, Troscler, Trostler, Troucheler, Trousler, and eventually was gallicized into TROSCLAIR.
Sources: NOAR, 1:259; Robichaux, German Coast Families, 345-48.
Pronunciation: troo-HE-oh
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Pronunciation: too-ILL-ee-ay, TOO-lee-aye
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Pronunciation: yoo-SAY
Origin: Acadian [see Family History]
Pronunciation: VAL-ot, val-OH
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Pronunciation: val-WAH
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Pronunciation: vah-SORE
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Pronunciation: VEN-uh-bull
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Pronunication: veh-RET
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Pronunciation: VEE-uh-tar, VEYE-uh-tar
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Sources: Paula Thornton for proper pronunciation
Pronunciation: VEEN
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Sources: Jean Vignes
Pronunciation: vill-ah-NOO-vah, vill-ah-NOOVE
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Pronunication: VANH-sonh, VIN-cent
Origin: Acadian [see Family History]
Pronunciation: VEEVES, vee-VESS
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Pronunciation: Vore-EES
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Pronunciation: WAHG-spahk
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Pronunciation: WEB
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Pronunciation: WILTZ
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Pronunciation: YUNG
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