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ABADIE
Pronunciation: AB-uh-dee
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BOUDREAUX, HÉBERT, RIVET
Comments:
ABRIBAT
Pronunciation: AB-ruh-bot
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: GAUDET
Comments:
ABSHIRE
Pronunciation: AB-share, AB-shire
Origin: German Creole
Arrived in Louisiana: by the 1780s
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: John
ABCHER
Settled: Atakapas District, now St. Martin,
Lafayette, Iberia, & Vermilion parishes
Acadian connection: COMEAUX
Comments: John ABCHER, whose name evolved
into ABSHIRE, was a blacksmith from Germany who settled "at Vermillon"
by the 1780s. He married Francoise HARGRAVE, daughter of Benjamin
HARGRAVE & Rebecca GOLTNE [probably GWALTNEY] from Virginia. John
and Francoise had at least 10 children, 6 boys and 4 girls, the oldest of
whom, daughter Louise, was born in August 1781. ...
Sources: Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records,
1-A:1-3, which does not list John ABCHER's parents in any of the birth records
of his children.
ACHÉE
Pronunciation: AH-shay, ah-SHAY
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
ACKESON
Pronunciation: ACK-eh-son
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: LEGER
Comments:
ACOSTA
Pronunciation: uh-KOSS-tuh
Origin: French Creole
Arrived in Louisiana: August 1785
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Joseph ACOSTA
Settled:
Acadian connection: TRAHAN, BOUDREAUX
Comments:
ADAM/ADAMS
Pronunciation: ah-DONH, AD-um, AD-ums
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: AUCOIN, BENOIT, BERNARD,
BLANCHARD, BOUDREAUX, BOURG, GRANGER, GUILLOT, HÉBERT, LEVRON, ROGER
Comments:
ADDISON
Pronunciation: ADD-ih-son
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: RICHARD
Comments:
AGUILLARD
Pronunciation: AG-ih-lard, AG-wih-lard
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: SAVOIE
Comments:
AILLET
Pronunciation: Ah-YAY
Origin: French Creole
Arrived in Louisiana: December 1785
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Thomas &
Louis AILLET
Settled: probably Bayou des Écores, now Thompson
Creek, present-day East Baton Rouge Parish; West Baton Rouge Parish
Acadian connection: DOIRON, DUGAS, LANDRY, LEJEUNE
Comments: Thomas, fils, age 10, & Louis, age 6, sons of
Thomas AILLET, père and his widow, Acadian Victoire DUGAS,
arrived at New Orleans with their mother aboard La Ville d'Archangel
from St.-Malo, the sixth of the Seven Ships, in December 1785. They probably followed other Acadian
families from the La Ville d'Archangel to the new Acadian community Bayou des Écores, north of
present-day Baton Rouge. After a series of devastating hurricanes, they
abandoned that settlement in the early 1790s with the majority of their fellow
Acadians and moved across the Mississippi
to West Baton Rouge Parish. Thomas married Marie-Julienne,
daughter of French Creoles Louis MARRIAUX and Juliana GAUTIER, at Baton Rouge
in July
1800. Louis married Marie-Victoire,
daughter of Acadians Jean-Baptiste LEJEUNE
and Marie DOIRON, at Baton
Rouge in December 1805. Thomas, fils died in West Baton Rouge
Parish in July 1839, age 64. Louis died by 1848, when he was listed as deceased in the
marriage record of his son Louis, fils (born in 1824). Louis, père's son Sosthène,
born in 1822, who married Zulma,
daughter of Acadians Élie Onesime LANDRY
and Jeanne Zerbine DUPUY, at Brusly Landing,
West Baton Parish, in February 1853, was a veteran of the Mexican War and served
as 1Sgt, Jr2LT, & CPT of Company H, 4th Regiment Louisiana Infantry (the West Baton
Rouge Tirailleurs) in the War Between the States. Another descendant of
the AILLET brothers, Louis
Alphonse, called Alphonse, son of Augustin AILLET and Appoline AILLET and first cousin of
Sosthène, born in September 1842, was killed in action at the
Battle of Jonesboro, Georgia, in August 1864, while serving as 2Cpl with the West
Baton Rouge Tirailleurs.
Sources: BRDR, 2:7, 3:6-7, 4:4; 5(rev.):7, 7:5, 8:5-6;
Richey, Tirailleurs, 167, 214.
ALBARADO
Pronunciation: Al-buh-RAH-do
Origin: Hispanic Texan
Arrived in Louisiana: by 1804
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Joseph Antoine
ALBARADO
Settled: Attakapas Post area, present-day St.
Martin & Lafayette parishes
Acadian connection: MELANCON
Comments: Joseph Antoine ALBARADO, son of
Jose ALBARADO & Rosalie Flores of Meluejor, province of Texas, settled in
the Attakapas area by the early 1800s. Joseph Antoine married Madeleine Francoise
Avila, daughter of Jose Joachin De Avila & Marie ISTRE of Opelousas, 30
Jul 1804, in the St. Landry Catholic Church, Opelousas.
Source: Hebert, D., Southwest LA Records,
1-B:20.
ALBERT
Pronunciation: al-BEAR; AL-bert
First Family:
Origin: French Creole
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Second Family:
Origin: French Creole
Arrived in Louisiana: December 1785
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Nicolas-Gabriel
ALBERT, père, & Nicolas-Gabriel ALBERT, fils
Settled: St. James Parish; Assumption Parish
Acadian connection: ARCENEAUX, BOUDREAUX,
BOURG, BREAUX, HÉBERT, RICHARD, THIBODEAUX
Comments:
ALEXANDRE/ALEXANDRIE
Pronunciation: al-ex-AN-dur, al-ex-AN-dree
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: LANDRY
Comments:
ALLAIN
Pronunciation: ah-LANH
Origin: French Creole, Acadian [see Family
History]
ALLEMAND
Pronunciation: AH-lay-mon, AL-eh-mon, al-eh-MON
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: TRAHAN
Comments:
ALMINDINGER
Pronunciation: ALL-min-ding-ur
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: AUCOIN
Comments:
ALONZO
Pronunciation: uh-LON-zo
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: LANDRY
Comments:
ALTAZIN
Pronunciation: ALL-tuh-zanh
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: ARBOUR
Comments:
ALVAREZ
Pronunciation: AL-vuh-rez
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: LEBLANC
Comments:
AMMAN
Pronunciation: AM-un
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: THIBODEAUX
Comments:
AMY
Pronunciation: ah-MEE
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: LANDRY, RICHARD
Comments:
ANDRÉ
Pronunciation: OHN-dray, AHN-dray
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BABIN, POTIER
Comments:
ANDREPONT
Pronunciation: onh-dray-PONT
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: JEANSONNE, LEJEUNE,
PITRE
Comments:
ANDRUS
Pronunciation: AN-drus
Origin: Scots; Anglo-American ... South Carolina
Arrived in Louisiana: c.1780 from Carolina
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Benjamin
ANDREWS
Settled: Bayou Plaquemine Brulée, southwest of
Opelousas, near present-day Church Point, Acadia Parish; Grand Côte,
between present-day St. Martinville & Lafayette; Calcasieu River, north of
present-day Lake Charles, Calcasieu Parish; Bayou Cannes, near present-day
Evangeline, Acadia Parish; Bayou Nezpique, north of present-day Jennings,
Jefferson Davis Parish; west bank of Mermentau River, between present-day
Jennings & Lake Arthur, Jefferson Davis Parish
Acadian connection: ARCENEAUX, GUIDRY,
HÉBERT, JEANSONNE, LEGER, MOUTON, PREJEAN, RICHARD, ROGER, SAVOIE
Comments: The name evolved in Louisiana from
Andrews to ANDRUS, evidence of the gallicization of the family's name. The
ANDRUSs remain a prominent family in Jefferson Davis Parish.
Sources: Hébert,
D., Southwest LA Records, CD; West, Atlas of LA Surnames, 145-46.
ANGELLE
Pronunciation: Ohn-JHELL
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BLANCHARD, DUPUIS,
GUIDRY, HEBERT
Comments:
ANSELM
Pronunciation: Ohn-SELM
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: LAVERGNE
Comments:
ARABIE
Pronunciation: ah-ray-BEE
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: GUIDRY, MARTIN
Comments:
ARBOUR
Pronunciation: ar-BORE
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
ARCEMENT
Pronunciation: AR-seh-monh
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
ARCENEAUX
Pronunciation: AR-seh-no
Origin: French Canadian, Acadian [see Family
History]
ARDOIN
Pronunciation: ARD-wanh
Origin: French Canadian
Arrived in Louisiana: late 1770s or early 1780s,
from Kaskaskia, Illinois, via Detroit
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Etienne, Sr.,
Etienne, Jr., Joseph, Francois ARDOUIN
Settled: False River, Pointe Coupée; Grande
Prairie, Opelousas District, now St. Landry Parish; Atakapas District, now
St. Martin, Lafayette, & Vermilion parishes
Acadian connection: BROUSSARD, FORET, TRAHAN
Comments:
Sources: Hébert,
D., Southwest LA Records, CD; West, Atlas of LA Surnames, 18-19.
ARMAND/ARMANT
Pronunciation: ar-MON, AR-mont, ar-MONT
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: POTIER, RICHARD
Comments:
ARNAUD
Pronunciation: AR-no, ar-NODE
First Family:
Origin: French Creole
Arrivied in Louisiana: December 1785
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Rene ARNAUD
Settled: Ascension Parish
Acadian connection: DOUCET
Comments: Rene ARNAUD, son of Pierre
ARNAUD and Marie RAIMON of Vouneil, France, married Anne-Perrine ALBERT,
daughter of Nicolas-Gabriel ALBERT and Marie-Marthe BENOIT, an Acadian, at
Cenan, France, in November 1780. Rene and Anne-Perrine had at least one
son, Pierre, who died at age 17 days. Anne-Perrine may have died as a
result of childbirth. Now a widower, Rene sailed to Louisiana aboard La
Caroline, the last of the Seven Ships of 1785, as an immigré.
Soon after reaching New Orleans, he married a fellow passenger on La
Caroline, Marie-Marguerite DOUCET,
daughter of Joseph DOUCET and Marguerite MOLAISON, 1 January 1786, in
St. Louis Catholic Church. They probably settled at Ascension, where
Marie-Marguerite's widowed father settled.
Sources: Robichaux, Acadians in Chatellerault,
3; Wall of Names, 47.
Second Family:
Origin: Foreign French
Arrived in Louisiana: by 1808
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Jacques
ARNAUD
Settled: Opelousas area
Acadian connection: BLANCHARD, BROUSSARD, DUGAS,
FORET
Comments: Joseph Vincent ARNAUD of Josiers,
diocese of Embrun, France, near Turin, married Elisabeth OLIVIER in
France. Their son, Jacques, fathered a son (Pierre Rosemond)
in 1808 with Anne DUGAS,
daughter of Pierre DUGAS and Anne THIBODEAUX
of Acadia. Jacques settled in the Grande
Prairie area of the Opelousas District and married Marie LALONDE,
daughter of Baptiste LALONDE and Marie DUCRE, 16 January 1810, in St. Landry
Catholic Church, Opelousas.
Source: Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records,
1-B:17-18.
ARRIEUX
Pronunciation: AH-ree-oh
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: DUGAS
Comments:
ASHFORD
Pronunciation: ASH-ferd
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HEBERT
Comments:
AUBERT
Pronunciation: OH-bear
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BERGERON, LEVRON, THIBODEAUX
Comments:
AUBIN
Pronunciation: aw-BANH
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: DOIRON
Comments:
AUCOIN
Pronunciation: OH-kwanh
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
AUGÉ
Pronunciation: Aw-JAY
First Family:
Origin: French Canadian via Illinois
Arrived in Louisiana: by 1803
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Joseph AUGER
Settled: Opelousas area, present-day St. Landry
Parish
Comments: Joseph AUGER, son of Joseph
AUGER & Madeleine TURPIN of islas negras, now Illinois, married
Célestine DELAFOSSE, daugher of Romain DELAFOSSE and Rosalie BENOIT
of the Opelousas area, 8 February 1803, in St. Landry Catholic Church,
Opelousas. The Joseph AUGÉ of Company K, 10th Louisiana Infantry
probably was a descendant of this couple.
Second Family:
Origin: French Creole or Immigrant
Arrived in Louisiana: by 1806
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Charles
Rene Gatien AUGER
Settled: Attakapas region, now St. Martin, Lafayette
& Vermilion parishes
Acadian connection: PELLERIN
Comments: Charles René Gatien AUGER, son
of Jacques OGER and Marie-Anne MIVAULT of Ponce, in Vendomoin, France,
married Eugenie PELLERIN,
daughter of Gregoire PELLERIN and Cecile PREJEAN,
28 July 1806, in St. Martin Catholic Church, St. Martinville, then called
Atakapas Post.
Source: Hébert, D., Southwest La. Records,
1-B:20.
Comment: Despite two separate families, the name
may have disappeared from South Louisiana.
AUGERON
Pronunciation: AW-juh-ronh, Aw-juh-RONH
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BENOIT, BERNARD, BOUDREAUX,
GUIDRY, LANDRY, MIRE
Comments:
AUTIN
Pronunciation: aw-TAN
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BERGERON,
FORET, GUIDRY, THERIOT
Comments:
AVERY
Pronunciation: AVE-ree
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: SIMON
Comments:
AYCOCK
Pronunciation: AY-cock
Origin: Anglo-American ... North Carolina
Arrived in Louisiana: by 1808
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Burrell
AYCOCK
Settled: Assumption Parish
Acadian connection: GAUTREAUX
Comments: Burrell, also called Borel,
AYCOCK, son of Simon AYCOCK and Elizabeth BENETTE, married Anne Apolline
GAUTREAUX, daughter of Acadians
Joseph GAUTREAUX
and Marie Madeleine
THERIOT, in June 1808 in the Assumption Church at Plattenville. The
church record lists him as a blacksmith from North Carolina. ...
Sources: BRDR, 3:44-45.
AYMOND
Pronunciation: AY-mon
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: ACHEE, BERGERON, DUPUIS, GRANGER,
LEJEUNE
Comments:
AYO
Pronunciation: EYE-oh
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BERGERON,
BOUDREAUX, BOURG, NAQUIN
Comments:
AYRAUD
Pronunciation: AY-rode
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: ACHEE, LE BLANC
Comments:
BABIN
Pronunciation: Bah-BANH
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
BABINEAUX
Pronunciation: BAH-beh-noh, BAB-eh-noh
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
BADEAUX
Pronunciation: BAH-doh, BA-doh
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BREAUX, GUIDRY
Comments:
BAILLE
Pronunciation: BAY-lee
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: VINCENT
Comments:
BARBAY
Pronunciation: bar-BAY
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: GAUDET
Comments:
BARBIER
Pronunciation: bar-bee-AY
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BOUDREAUX
Comments:
BARKER
Pronunciation: BAR-kur
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HEBERT
Comments:
BARRAS
Pronunciation: BAH-rah, bah-RAH
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: AUCOIN,
BOUDREAUX,
BOURG, CORMIER, DOUCET, GUILBEAU, HÉBERT, LEBLANC, LEJEUNE, THIBODEAUX
Comments:
BARRE
Pronunciation: Bah-RAY, BAR
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: ACHEE, FORET, GUIDRY
Comments:
BARRILLEAUX/BARRIOT
Pronunciation: BAH-reh-yoh, BEAR-ee-yoh
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
BARRIOS
Pronunciation: BEAR-ee-oh, BEAR-ee-os
Origin: Spanish Creole
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled: Ascension Parish
Acadian connection: ARCENEAUX
Comments:
BARTHELEMY
Pronunciation: bar-THAY-luh-mee
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: ARCENEAUX, LANDRY
Comments:
BAUDOIN
Pronunciation: BODE-wanh
Origin: Flemish-Belgian Creole
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Nicolas
Baudouin
Settled: St. James Parish
Acadian connection: BOUDREAUX, BOURG, BOURGEOIS, BREAUX,
BROUSSARD, GAUDET, HEBERT, LEJEUNE, MOUTON, TRAHAN
Comments: Nicolas BAUDOUIN of Flanders,
part of present-day Belgium, married Marguerite BREAUX
probably in St. James Parish.
Source: Hébert, D., Southwest La. Records,
1-B:33.
BAYARD
Pronunciation: bah-YARD
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BABINEAUX
Comments:
BAYE/BAYHI
Pronunciation: bah-YAY, BAY
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BERNARD, VINCENT
Comments:
BEAMAN
Pronunciation: BEE-mun
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: LANDRY
Comments:
BEAUREGARD
Pronunciation: BO-rih-gard
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: GUIDRY, MARTIN
Comments:
BEAUVAIS
Pronunciation: BO-vay
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BOUDREAUX, RICHARD
Comments:
BEGNAUD
Pronunciation: BEG-noh
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: DOIRON
Comments:
BELANGER
Pronunciation: Beh-LAWN-jay, BELL-in-jer
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: COMEAUX, GUIDRY, LAMBERT, THIBODEAUX
Comments:
BELLARD
Pronunciation: BELL-ard
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
BELLO
Pronunciation: BELL-oh
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: ROY, SONNIER
Comments:
BELLON
Pronunciation: BELL-awn
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: MARTIN
Comments:
BELSON
Pronunciation: BELL-sonh, BELL-sun
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BREAUX
Comments:
BENOIT
Pronunciation: BEN-wah
First Family:
Origin: French Creole
Arrived in Louisiana: by 1751
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled: Pointe Coupée
Source: BRDR, 1b:45.
Second Family:
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
Comments: Although not all of the BENOITs of
South Louisiana were Acadians, they will be listed here as Acadian.
BENZ
Pronunciation: Binz
Origin: German Immigrant
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: GUIDRY
Comments:
BERARD
Pronunciation: Buh-RARD
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BREAUX, BROUSSARD
Comments:
BERAUD
Pronunciation: Buh-RODE
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HEBERT
Comments:
BERGERON
Pronunciation: BA-jeh-ronh, BER-jeh-ronh
First Family:
Origin: French Creole
Arrived in Louisiana: by 1744
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Guillaume
BERGERON dit St. Onge, native of St. Sulpice Parish, Diocese of Xaintes,
France
Settled: Natchitoches, Pointe Coupée
Comments:
Source: BRDR, 1b:18-19, 103.
Second Family:
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
Comments: Although not all of the BERGERONs of
South Louisiana were Acadian, this family is listed with the Acadians.
BERCEGEAY
Pronunciation: bur-seh-GAY ... I think
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: LANDRY
Comments:
BERLUCHAU
Pronunciation: bur-leh-SHO
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: GUILLOT
Comments:
BERNARD
Pronunciation: ber-NARD, bear-NARD, bear-NAH
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
BERTEAU
Pronunciation: BUR-toe
Origin: Acadian [ see Family
History]
BERTHELOT
Pronunciation: BER-theh-lo
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BOUDREAUX, BOURG, DUGAS, GAUTREAUX,
HÉBERT, LEBLANC
Comments:
BERTRAND
Origin: French Creole, French Canadian, Acadian [see Family
History]
BERWICK
Pronunciation: BUR-wick
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: LEJEUNE
Comments:
BERZAS
Pronunciation: BUR-za
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BERTRAND
Comments:
BESLIN
Pronunciation: bez-LANH
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: CORMIER
Comments:
BESSE
Pronunciation: BESS ... I guess
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: LANDRY
Comments:
BESSON
Pronunciation: BESS-onh
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BOURG
Comments:
BETANCOURT
Pronunciation: BET-in-core
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: AUCOIN, DAIGLE
Comments:
BIENVENU
Pronunciation: bee-AN-veh-noo
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BOURG, BROUSSARD, GUILBEAU,
MARTIN, MOUTON, POTIER, THERIOT
Comments:
BIGOT
Pronunciation: BIH-go
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BOURG, LANDRY
Comments:
BIHM
Pronunciation: BIM
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: LEJEUNE
Comments:
BIJEAU/BUJOLE
Pronunciation: BEE-jo, BOO-zho, BOO-zhole
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
BILES
Pronunciation: BYLES
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: THIBODEAUX
Comments:
BILLAUD/BILLEAUD
Pronunciation: bih-LODE
Origin: Foreign French
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: LANDRY
Comments:
BILLEAUDEAU
Pronunciation: BILL-uh-doh
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: OZELET
Comments:
BILLINGS
Pronunciation: BIH-lings, BILL-ings
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HEBERT
Comments:
BINGAY
Pronunciation: bin-GAY?
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: LANDRY
Comments:
BISSETT/BIZETTE
Pronunciation: bih-SET, bih-ZET
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BERGERON, BREAUX, LAVERGNE, ROY
Comments:
BLANC
Pronunciation: BLON, BLONC
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BABIN, BOURG, BOURGEOIS
Comments:
BLANCHARD
Pronunication: blonh-SHARD, BLAN-cherd
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
BLANCHET
Pronunciation: Blonh-SHET, Blan-CHET
First Family:
Origin: French Canadian
Arrived in Louisiana: by 1787
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Michel BLANCHET
Settled: Opelousas District, present-day St.
Landry Parish
Acadian Connection: PINET
Comments: Michel BLANCHET of Québec, son
of Simon BLANCHET and Marie-Francoise BOUCHART, married an Acadian,
Angélique, daughter of Charles PINET
and Marie MARCHAND of Île Royale, today's Cape Breton Island, and widow of
Michel LÉGER, at Opelousas 30
April 1787; he was 44, she was 46. They remained in the Opelousas
area. Michel died in November 1818, age 75, at his home on the Prairie
des Femmes. He and Angélique had no children, so this line of the
BLANCHET family did not take root in the Bayou State.
Sources: Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records,
1-A:67, 2-A:89-90.
Second Family:
Origin: French Creole
Arrived in Louisiana: by 1800
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Olivier
BLANCHET
Settled: Atakapas District, present-day St.
Martin, Lafayette, & Vermilion parishes
Acadian connection: BOUDREAUX, HÉBERT
Comments: Olivier BLANCHET of Malignan,
St.-Germain Parish, Diocese of Brieux or St. Brieuc, France, son of Francois BLANCHET
and Francoise LES PINAUD or DESPINAU, married Marie-Ursule, called Ursule,
daughter of Jacques FAUSTIN or FOSTIN, at Atakapas,
present-day St. Martinville, in June 1800; Marie-Ursule's mother was Francoise TRAHAN,
an Acadian. Olivier settled on Bayou Vermilion in
present-day Lafayette Parish. Son Olivier-
Firmin, born in March 1801, married Carmelite, daughter of Jean
Charles BOUDREAUX and Dorothée COMEAUX, at Vermilionville,
now Lafayette, in May 1825. Another son, never named, was two days old
when he died in January 1808. Son Alexis, born in March 1809, married
Anastasie, daughter of Louis HÉBERT
and Francoise BROUSSARD, at
Vermilionville in January 1827. Son Cyril was born in March 1814 but
died in October 1829, age 15, before he could marry. Son Edouard died in
November 1817; he was only 10 months old. Son Alexis Clairville, called
Clairville, born in January 1821, married Caroline, daughter of Jean BOUDREAUX
and Marguerite MOUTON, at
Vermilionville in June 1837 Olivier died soon after son Alexis
Clairville was born; he was listed as deceased in the marriage record of his
daughter Urasie, dated 18 June 1821; his succession record at the Lafayette
Parish Courthouse is dated 2 October 1823. Wife Ursule died a few year
later. Daughter Urasie married a Dane from Copenhagen, Crisitan
HILLEBRAND, who had also settled on the lower Vermilion River. Olivier's
other daughters, Anastasie and Carmelite, married into the BROUSSARD,
MOUTON, and VEAZEY
families.
Sources: Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records,
1-A:68, 1-B:63-64, 2-A: 89, 2-B:86-87, 2-C:68-70, 3:60, 71, 5:51.
Third Family:
Origin: French Creole or Foreign French
Arrived in Louisiana: ?
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: René BLANCHET?
Settled: St. Martin Parish; Iberia Parish
Acadian Connection: none found
Comments: Julien Michel BLANCHET, son of
René BLANCHET and Francoise CRUSON of New Orleans, married Louise Caroline
RATIER of New Orleans at St. Martinville in February 1835. Julien Marie
and his family probably were not kin to the other BLANCHETs of South
Louisiana. Their daughter Marie Louise Octavie was born in February 1840
and baptized in the church at New Iberia. Son Francois Aurelia was born
in April 1845 and also baptized at New Iberia.
Sources: Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records,
3:60, 4:42.
Further Comments: Francois BLANCHET of Vitre,
St.-Martin Parish, diocese of Rennes, Brittany, France, son of Jean BLANCHET
and Marguerite GILLES, married Marguerite, daughter of Nicolas PUGNANT and
Marie BRUNET of Louisbourg, Île Royale, now Cape Breton Island, at Louisbourg
in September 1739. Île Royale was part of greater Acadia, so Francois
was "Acadian." However, he did not immigrate to
Louisiana.
Sources: Hébert, Acadians in Exile,
33.
BLOUIN
Pronunciation: BLOO-an
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: ARCENEAUX, BABIN, BLANCHARD,
GAUDET, GAUDIN, HÉBERT, LAMBERT, PART
Comments:
BODIN
Pronunciation: BO-dan
First Family:
Origin: French Canadian
Arrived in Louisiana: by 1775
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Jean-Laurens
BAUDIN
Settled: Atakapas District, present-day
Lafayette Parish
Comments: Jean Laurens BAUDIN of Canada
married Marie Michel ST. CROIX from the Spanish Poste Los Adaes, near
Natchitoches, probably there. His son Jean-Pierre, born c1775,
married Anne-Marguerite, called Manon, HÉBERT,
daughter of Joseph HÉBERT and Jeanne DE LA FORESTRIE of Nantes, France, and they settled
near her family at Carencro in present-day Lafayette Parish. Jean-Pierre
died 18 Dec 1805, age 30, at the home of Pierre HÉBERT of Carencro and was buried the next day. His son Joseph, born
24 Aug 1805, only 3 1/2 months old when his father died, married Emilie FRUGE,
daughter of Jean FRUGE and Eleonore MOREAU of St. Landry Parish, 1 October 1822,
in Opelousas. Jean-Pierre's daughter Geneviève married Joseph LANDRY,
son of Basile LANDRY & Marie Anne MIRE
of Côte Gelée, near present-day Broussard, 24 October 1814, at St. Martinville.
Source: Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-B:65-66,
2-A:91, 2-B:89.
Second Family:
Origin: French Creole
Arrived in Louisiana: 1700s?
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Jean-Louis
BODIN
Settled: St.-Gabriel, present-day Iberville
Parish; Atakapas Post, present-day St. Martin
& Lafayette parishes
Comments: Jean-Louis BODIN, son of Pierre
BAUDIN and Jeanne MASSONET of Noirmoutier, France, married Francoise
DOIRON of St. Malo, France, daughter of Grégoire DOIRON and Hélène AUCOIN,
natives of Acadia exiled in France, at St.-Gabriel on the Mississippi in 1787.
(Grégoire had died in France; Hélène remarried to Louis DANTIN in France
and sailed with him and daughter
Francoise on L'Amitié, which reached New Orleans in November
1785.) Jean-Louis and Francoise settled in the Atakapas Post area by 1797. Their
son Grégoire married Pelagie LE BLANC,
daughter of René LE BLANC and Marguerite TRAHAN,
11 November 1816, at St. Martinville.
Source: Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:68-69,
2-A:91.
Acadian connection: DOIRON, HEBERT, LE BLANC,
LANDRY
BOGARD
Pronunciation: BO-gard
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: ROY
Comments:
BOISSAC
Pronunciation: BOY-sock
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HEBERT
Comments:
BOLOT
Pronunciation: BO-lot
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: LANDRY
Comments:
BONAVENTURE
Pronunciation: bo-na-VEN-chur
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: DAVID
Comments:
BONHAM
Pronunciation: BON-um
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BREAUX
Comments:
BONIN
Pronunciation: bo-NAY, BO-nan
Origin: French Creole via Alabama--Alibamons
Arrived in Louisiana: c1764
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Antoine, père, Antoine,
fils, Jean-Louis, Joseph, Paul BONIN
Settled: Fausse Pointe, Atakapas
District, present-day St. Martin & Iberia parishes
Acadian connection: BREAUX, BROUSSARD, COMEAUX,
DUGAS, HÉBERT, PRINCE,
THIBODEAUX
Comments: Antoine BONIN dit Delphinodo of
Grenoble, France, and Marie TELLIER of Mobile, left eastern Louisiana,
present-day Alabama and Mississippi, when it became British territory after the
Treaty of Paris of February 1763 ended the French and Indian War. These
French Creoles from Alabama were known as Alibamons in Louisiana, and
they were the first permanent settlers of the prairie region west of the
Atchafalaya Basin. At least four
of Antoine BONIN dit Dephinodo's sons started families of their own in
Louisiana's Atakapas District, now St. Martin, St. Mary, Lafayette, Vermilion,
and Iberia parishes: Jean-Louis
BONIN married an Acadian girl born in exile in Maryland, Marguerite, daughter of Olivier
PRINCE and Marguerite BOUDREAUX,
in April 1771; Jean-Louis died suddenly at his
home at Fausse Pointe on Bayou Teche in December 1795. Antoine BONIN, fils, married
French Creole Madeleine PREVOST of Pointe Coupée in January 1779. Joseph
BONIN married Euphrosine, daughter of French Creole Pierre BOREL of Dinan, France,
and Catherine TOUPARD of Illinois. Paul dit Dauphine BONIN,
born in c1758, married Marie-Louise, daughter of French Creole Jacques FOSTIN and Francoise VIEN of Illinois; Paul died
in December 1803,
age 45; his
succession record is dated 12 May 1808. Their sister Geneviève married Francois, son of Joseph PREVOST and
Madeleine MAYEUX of Pointe Coupée;
Francois probably was the brother of Geneviève's brother Antoine's wife
Madeleine. The BONIN brothers settled in the Fausse Pointe area of the
Atakapas District, near present-day Loreauville [map].
Their descendants married a number of Acadians and created a prominent Cajun
family of South Louisiana.
Source: Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records,
1-A:72-77, 1-B:67-72
BONVILLAIN
Pronunciation: bonh-veh-LAIN
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: GUIDRY, HEBERT, LAMBERT,
MOUTON, THIBODEAUX
Comments:
BOONE
Pronunciation: BOON
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BENOIT, BOUDREAUX
Comments:
BOOTE
Pronunciation: BOOT, boo-TAY
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HEBERT
Comments: Is this a variation of the French
Creole name BOUTTE?
BORDELON
Pronunciation: BORD-eh-lon
Origin: French Creole
Arrived in Louisiana: c.1728
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Laurent
(Nicolas), Antoine, Nicolas BORDELON
Settled: New Orleans; Pointe Coupee; La Prairie
Basse, Grand Louis, Bayou Chicot, Opelousas District; Natchitoches Post;
Avoyelles prairies
Acadian connection: ROY
Comments:
Sources: West, Atlas of La. Surnames,
33-34.
BOREL
Pronunciation: bo-REL
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: PREJEAN
Comments:
BORNE
Pronunciation: BORN
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BOUDREAUX, HENRY
Comments:
BOSSIER
Pronunciation: BO-zhur
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: DOUCET,
GUIDRY, PELLERIN
Comments:
BOUANCHAUD
Pronunciation: boo-an-SHODE ... I presume
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HEBERT
Comments:
BOUDELOCHE
Pronunciation: BOO-duh-loash
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection:
BERGERON, HENRY, ROBICHAUX,
THIBODEAUX, TRAHAN
Comments:
BOUDREAUX
Pronunciation: BOO-drow, boo-DROW
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
BOUGERE
Pronunciation: boo-GARE
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HEBERT
Comments:
BOUILLON/BOULLION
Pronunciation: BOO-yon
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HEBERT
Comments:
BOULEE
Pronunciation: boo-LAY
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: SAVOIE
Comments:
BOULET
Pronunciation: boo-LAY, boo-LET
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BERNARD,
HEBERT, LANDRY, MIRE, TRAHAN
Comments:
BOURDIER
Pronunciation: BORE-dee-ay
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: LANDRY, TRAHAN
Comments:
BOURET
Pronunciation: BOO-ray
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BREAUX
Comments:
BOURG/BOURQUE
Pronunciation: BORK, BORGH
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
BOURGEOIS
Pronunciation: boosh-WAH
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
BOUTIN
Pronunciation: boo-TANH
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
BOUTTE
Pronunciation: BOOT, boo-TAY
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BROUSSARD, HÉBERT?
Comments:
BOUVIER
Pronunciation: BOO-vee-ay
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: THERIOT
Comments:
BOYER
Pronunciation: boy-YAY, BOY-ur
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection:
AUCOIN, BABIN, BERNARD, GAUTREAUX, PREJEAN, VINCENT
Comments:
BRACKEN/BRACKIN
Pronunciation: BRAK-in
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HÉBERT
Comments:
BRASSEAUX
Pronunciation: BRAH-soh, BRASS-oh
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
BREAUX
Pronunciation: BROH
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
BRIGNAC
Pronunciation: BRIG-noh
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: DOUCET
Comments:
BROSIER
Pronunciation: BRO-see-aye
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BOUDREAUX
Comments:
BROUSSARD
Pronunciation: BREW-sard
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
BRUN/LEBRUN
Pronunciation: BROON, luh-BROON
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection:
Comments:
BRUNET
Pronunciation: broo-NET
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: ARCEMENT, BOUDREAUX, HENRY
Comments:
BRUNO
Pronunciation: BROO-no
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HEBERT, HENRY, LEGER
Comments:
BUJOLE -- see BIJEAU/BUJOLE
BUDD
Pronunciation: BUD
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HEBERT
Comments:
BUNDICK
Pronunciation: BUN-dick
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HEBERT
Comments:
BURLEIGH
Pronunciation: BUR-lee
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BOUDREAUX, CORMIER
Comments:
BUQUOI
Pronunciation: boo-KWOY
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HEBERT
Comments:
BUSHNELL
Pronunciation: bush-NELL
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: AUCOIN
Comments:
BUTAUD
Pronunciation: boo-TOAD
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BERNARD
Comments:
CADIERE
Pronunciation: cah-DEAR
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: ROGER
Comments:
CAILLIER
Pronunciation: KAY-lee-ay, kay-LEAR
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HEBERT
Comments:
CAILLOUET
Pronunciation: kay-loo-ET, kay-loo-AY
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: LEBLANC, MICHEL
Comments:
CALAIS
Pronunciation: kah-LAY, KAL-ay
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: GUIDRY
Comments:
CALLIGAN/COLLIGAN
Pronunciation: CAL-eh-gun, CALL-eh-gun, KOL-eh-gun
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BOUDREAUX, CHIASSON, LANDRY,
PRINCE
Comments:
CAMBRE
Pronunciation: kam-BRAY
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HEBERT
Comments:
CAMPOS
Pronunciation: KAM-pos
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BENOIT, COMEAUX, DUGAS,
HÉBERT, TRAHAN
Comments:
CANCIENNE
Pronunciation: CAN-see-ann ... I presume
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: LANDRY
Comments:
CANTRELLE
Pronunciation: kan-TRELL
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: ARCENEAUX, GAUDET, LANDRY
Comments:
CAPDEVILLE
Pronunciation: KAP-de-vill
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: AROSTEGUY, BOUDREAUX,
BRASSEAUX, CLOUATRE, MELANÇON
Comments:
CARLIN
Pronunciation: KAR-lin, kar-LANH
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BOURGEOIS
Comments:
CARMOUCHE
Pronunciation: kar-MOOSH
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Pierre
CARMOUCHE of Pensacola
Settled: Pointe Coupée Parish
Acadian connection: ARCENEAUX
Comments: Pierre CARMOUCHE married
Genevieve ROUSSEAU of Pointe Coupée.
Source: Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records,
1-B:13.
CARRIERE
Pronunciation: KARE-ee-ay
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: LEBLANC
Comments:
CART
Pronunciation: KART
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: CHIASSON
Comments:
CARUTHERS/CREDEUR
Pronunciation: kuh-RUH-thers/CRAY-dur,
cray-DURE
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BERNARD,
BOUDREAUX, DUGAS, LEBLANC, MOUTON, SAVOIE
Comments: CARUTHERS evolved into CREDEUR in South
Louisiana
CASTILLE
Pronunciation: kass-TEEL
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
CASTRO
Pronunciation: KASS-trow
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HEBERT
Comments:
CEDOTAL
Pronunciation: SED-oh-tall ... I guess
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HEBERT
Comments:
CHACHERE
Pronunciation: SASH-uh-ree
Origin: French Creole
Arrived in Louisiana: by late 1780s
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Louis-Dominique
CHACHERE
Settled: Pointe Coupee; Atakapas District; Opelousas District, now
St. Landry Parish
Acadian connection: BERNARD, DAVID, PITRE
Comments: Family legend says that Louis-Dominique CHACHERE,
son
of Louis CHACHERE and Marie DUMOND of Paris, "was a French
immigrant, arriving [in Louisiana] in the late 1700s," that "there
is also some question as to whether his original ... name was CHACHERE or some
combination of his original name and his wife's name, to avoid detection by
French authorities who may have been hunting him." Louis-Dominique married Catherine, daughter of Jean-Baptiste VAUCHERE, probably in the middle
or late
1780s. Their son Louis III was born in January 1788 and baptized at Pointe Coupée the following June.
The Pointe Coupée priest who recorded the boy's baptism noted that his
parents were "of Post at Natchez," which was upriver from Pointe
Coupée near the present-day city bearing the name. The couple soon
moved across the Atchafalaya Basin to the Atakapas District, where daughters
Louise-Émilie, born in February 1790, Louise or Lise, sometimes called
Pouponne, in January 1792, and
Marie-Mathilde, called Mathilde, in May 1792[sic], were baptized in July and August 1794
at the church in present-day St. Martinville.
In May 1796, a Spanish census taker counted Louis-Dominique and his family not in the Atakapas District but in the Church sub-district of
the Opelousas District, north of Atakapas. According to the census
report, Louis-Dominique and Catherine had one son, three daughters, and a
female slave. That November, second son
Julien-Lile, called Lile, was baptized at the Opelousas church.
Louis-Dominique and Catherine had more children in
the early 1800s, all born in the Opelousas District, now St. Landry Parish:
Félix-Veillon or Veillon-Félix, in 1801, Beaurepaire-Prosper, called
Prosper, in 1803, Laure in March 1808, and Marguerite Hermance, called
Hermance, in April 1811. They also had a son named Constant and
daughters Hyacinthe and Irma, birth dates and baptisms unrecorded, though Irma
could have been Laure.
Most of Louis-Dominique CHACHERE many children survived
childhood, married, and created families of their own. Daughter Lise married fellow French Creole Jean
Louis or Leon, called Leon, son of Antoine BOUTTE of
Atakapas, at the Opelousas church in June 1809. Marie-Louise[sic,
probably Louise-Émilie] married
Barthélemy, son of Baltazar MARTEL of St.-Domingue, today's Haiti, at the
Opelousas church in September 1809. Louis-Dominique's daughter Irma, age unrecorded,
died at Opelousas in March 1810. Mathilde married Antoine, fils, another
son of Antoine BOUTTE, at the Opelousas church in February 1818. Hyacinthe
married cousin Jacques BACON, fils of Natchez at the Opelousas church
in January 1821; Jacques, fils's mother was Marguerite VAUCHERE.
In December 1822, Louis Dominique's third son Veillon
married Marie Eloise, sometimes called Eloise, daughter of French Creole
Célestin LAVERGNE, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish.
Veillon's son Louis Félix Veillon was born near Grand Coteau in March 1824,
Félix near Opelousas in February 1832, Théogene in December 1835,
Octave in
February 1845, Henri in August 1847, and Joseph in April 1855. They also
had another son named Joseph, born probably in January 1834.
Louis Dominique's second son Lile married Emerante, daughter of Acadians Jean-Baptiste DAVID
and Scholastique SAVOIE, at the
Opelousas church in January 1825; the priest who recorded the marriage noted
that Lile's mother, Chaterine WOCHERES[sic], was deceased at the time
of the wedding. Lile's son Julien had been born in St. Landry
Parish in December 1824, twins Adolphe and Rodolphe were born in November
1825, Prosper le jeune in January 1836, and another son named Julien in
January 1844. Louis Dominique's daughter Hermance married Dominique
Contini SITTIG, fils from the Hague, Netherlands, at the Opelousas
church in November 1827. Louis Dominique's third son, Prosper, who
had settled at Prairie Bellevue, married Eugenie, sometimes called
Alexandrine, another daughter of Célestin LAVERGNE, at the Grand Coteau
church in December 1827. Their son Théodore was born in St. Landry
Parish in July 1830, Prosper, fils in April 1835, Homer in July 1837,
Alexandre in March 1842, Louis Amédée in September 1844, and Félix
le
jeune in May 1850. Louis Dominique's son Constant married
Célestine, yet another daughter of Célestin LAVERGNE, at the Grand Coteau
church in September 1831. Their son Théodose was born near Grand Coteau
in September 1832, Valery near Opelousas in July 1834, Anatole in August 1846,
and Louis was baptized at the Grand Coteau church in July 1856.
Veillon's son Louis Veillon married Emma, daughter of Adelard BOUTTE, at the
Opelousas church in April 1845; Emma's mother was a RICHARD.
Prosper's son Théodore married Clementine or Ernestine, daughter of George
BENGUEREL, at the Opelousas church in January 1855. Their son Robert was
baptized at the Opelousas church at age 5 months in May 1856, Homer was
born near Opelousas in May 1859, Gustave in October 1861, and Eugene in June
1864. Veillon's son Félix married Amelie,
daughter of Pierre PITRE, at
the Opelousas church in June 1855. Their son Pierre Numa was born near
Opelousas in December 1855, and Félix Welly in June 1860. Constant's
son Théodose married Pérrinse or Petrina, daughter of Jean Baptiste YOUNG,
at the Opelousas church in August 1856. Their son Raymond was born near
Opelousas in July 1857, Jackson Théodose in June 1859, and Théodore
le
jeune in July 1861. Lile's son
Rodolphe married 20-year-old first cousin Louise Josephine Baptiste, daughter
of his uncle Prosper CHACHERE, at the Opelousas church in May 1859.
Their son Albert Lile was born near New Iberia, then part of St. Martin
Parish, in May 1860, Adolphe Bennett near Opelousas in March 1862, and
Théodore Mozart in September 1865.
Lile died near New Iberia in February 1860; the New Iberia priest who recorded
his burial said he was 70 years old, but he was in 60s. When the federal
census taker in St. Landry Parish counted chattel property in the summer of
1860, Prosper's widow Eugenie and his son Théodore were holding slaves, so
Prosper must have died by then. Veillon's son Joseph married Elodie,
another daughter of Pierre PITRE,
at the Opelousas church in September 1861. Veillon's son Félix died in
St. Landry Parish in August 1862; he was only 30 years old. Prosper's son Anatole
died at his home on Prairie Bellevue, St. Landry Parish, in January 1865; he
was only 18 years old and never married. Joseph Chenier, son of
Louis CHACHERE, a free man of color, died at age 5 months in December
1864. Prosper's son Ernest by Céleste CHENIER married Marie, daughter
of Hippolyte CHENIER, at the Opelousas church in October 1865; the parish
clerk who recorded the union in the civil record the day before the church
wedding described both Ernest and Marie as free persons of color.
Meanwhile, the priest who recorded Hermance CHACHERE's
marriage in November 1827 noted that not only the bride's mother but also her
father, whom he called Louis Dominique, was deceased at the time of the marriage. So
Louis Dominique, the progenitor of the CHACHERE's in Louisiana, died probably in 1827, age
unrecorded. His succession record was filed in the courthouse at
Opelousas in November 1827. Another succession record for Louis CHACHERE
was filed at the Franklin courthouse, St. Mary Parish, in April 1830, so
Louis-Dominique owned property in that parish as well. (It could not
have been the succession record of Louis III, because he was recorded by the
Opelousas priest in July 1831 as standing as godfather to brother Julien's
daughter, Scholastique. Louis III probably never married.) Yet
another estate record for Louis CHACHERE was filed at the Opelousas courthouse
in December 1836.
Some of Louis Dominique CHACHERE's descendants were part of
the "peculiar institution" of the antebellum South. In
September 1850, the federal census taker in the Western District of Lafayette
Parish counted a single slave--a 35-year-old black male--on Rodolphe
CHACHERE's farm in that parish. In October 1850, the federal census
taker in St. Landry Parish counted 13 slaves--6 males, 7 females, 11 blacks, 2
mulattoes, ranging in age from 65 to 1--on Lile CHACHERE's farm in the
parish. That November, the same census taker counted 12 slaves--5 males,
7 females, all blacks, ages 70 to 1--on Veillon CHACHERE's farm, and 2
slaves--a 45-year-old black female, & a 20-year-old black female--on
Constant CHACHERE's farm. A decade later, in 1860, CHACHEREs still held
slaves. The federal census taker counted 13 slaves--8 males, 5 females,
9 blacks, 4 mulattoes, ages 50 to 2--on Veillon CHACHERE's farm. Next
door, Celina CHACHERE held 2 slaves--a 40-year-old black male, and a
30-year-old black female. Constant CHACHERE held 3 slaves--2 54-year-old
black males, and a 30-year-old black female--on his farm. Prosper
CHACHERE's widow Eugenie held 4 slaves--a male and 3 females, all black, ages
50 to 8--on her farm. Next door, Prosper's son Théodore held 3
more slaves--a 50-year-old black female, and 2 black males, ages 9 and 4--on
his farm. Telia CHACHERE owned a single slave--a 14-year-old black
male.
A number of Louis Dominique CHACHERE's grandsons served
Louisiana and the Southern Confederacy during the War Between the States.
Veillon's sons Joseph
and Théogene,
and Prosper's son Alexandre
served in Company F of the 8th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, a front-line unit
raised in St. Landry Parish that fought with General Robert E. Lee's Army of
Northern Virginia. Alexandre, only 19 years old and single, enlisted in
the company as a private when it was formed in June 1861 and was elected
ordnance sergeant in April 1862. He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg,
Maryland, on 17 September 1862 and fell into the hands of the enemy,
recuperated from his wounds at federal hospitals in Maryland, stayed for a
short time in the federal prisoner-of-war camps at Fort McHenry, Maryland, and
Fort Monroe, Virginia, was exchanged at Aiken's Landing, Virginia, in November
1862, and went home on a 30-day sick furlough, and did not return to his
unit. Cousin Théogene, age 26 and single, also enlisted in the company
as a private in June 1861. Later that month, he was assigned as a
hospital steward. The following October, the Confederate Secretary of
War assigned him to the medical corps as an assistant surgeon, so he must have
had medical training. Brother Joseph enlisted in the company as a
private in March 1862; he was 28 years old and still single. His time in
the company was cut short when he was accidentally run over by an ambulance at
Malvern Hill, Virginia, on 1 July 1862, the day of the great battle
there. After he recuperated from his injuries, he returned to Louisiana
on a 30-day sick furlough and also remained at home. Their wounds and
injuries did not end the military service of Alexandre and Joseph,
however. They both enlisted in Company I of the 3rd (Harrison's)
Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, a front-line unit from St. Mary Parish that saw
service in Louisiana and Mississippi and in which cousins Rodolphe,
son of Lile, and Théodose,
son of Contant, also served. J.
L. CHACHERE, whose relationship to the other members of the family cannot
be determined by the area's church records, also served in Company I, 3rd
(Harrison's) Regiment Cavalry. Prosper's son Théodore,
Alexandre's older brother, served in Company I of the 26th Louisiana Regiment
Infantry, a front-line unit raised in Lafourche Parish that fought gallantly
at Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1862-63. Another unit that held a number
of CHACHEREs was the 7th Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, created late in the War,
in March 1864, not only to increase the number of cavalry units serving in
Louisiana but also to roundup deserters and suppress Jayhawker bands on the
South Louisiana prairies. Three CHACHEREs served in this regiment, all
sons of Veillon: Louis
Veillon as a sergeant in Company H, and Octave
and Henri
as privates in Company D. Although CHACHEREs were wounded in Confederate
service, no descendant of Louis CHACHERE, fils died in the
War.
Tony CHACHERE, a pharmaceutical salesman-turned insurance
agent and direct descendant of Louis Dominique CHACHERE, published Cajun
Country Cookbook in 1972. His company, Tony CHACHERE's Creole
Foods, started that year in Opelousas to produce and distribute food products
based on his style of cooking. The company is now run by CHACHERE's descendants, and its success has made this Cajun family a household name
The family's name also is spelled Chache, Chacherez, Chassere,
and Schasseret.
Sources: 1850 U.S. Federal Census, Slave
Schedules, Lafayette & St. Landry parishes; 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules,
St. Landry Parish; BRDR, 2:181; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Chachere's;
Hébert, D., Southwest
LA Records, 1-A:174, 1-B:168-69, 2-A:213; 2-B:206-07, 2-C:168-70, 831,
3:137-38, 4:95, 5:114, 6:114-16, 7:86-87; Voorhies, J., Some Late
Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 361; Hank Smith, descendant, source
of family legend.
CHAIX
Pronunciation: CHAZE
Origin: Foreign French
Arrived in Louisiana: before 1832
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Barthelemy
Emile CHAIX
Settled: Lafayette Parish
Acadian connection: MOUTON
Comments: Barthélemy-Émile CHAIX, called
Émile, son of Francois-Marie-Barthélemy CHAIX & Henriette-Leonore COLOMB
of Hautes-Alpes, France, married Marie Arsene MOUTON, daughter
of Don Louis MOUTON and Marie CORMIER of Lafayette Parish, 9 August 1832, in St.
John Catholic Church, Vermilionville, now the city of Lafayette. The Edmond CHAIX who served in
Company G, 30th Regiment/Battalion Infantry may have been a relative of Émile.
Source: Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records,
3:138, 483.
CHAMPAGNE
Pronunciation: sham-PAIN
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BERGERON, BOURGEOIS,
HEBERT, MELANCON
Comments:
CHAPOTON
Pronunciation: SHA-po-tonh
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: RIVET
Comments:
CHARLET
Pronunciation: shar-LAY, shar-LET
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BROUSSARD, HEBERT, LANDRY
Comments:
CHARPENTIER
Pronunciation: SHAR-pin-teer
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: GAUDET, GUIDRY, LAMBERT,
MARTIN
Comments:
CHARPIOT
Pronunciation: SHAR-pee-oh
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: GAUDIN
Comments:
CHARRIER
Pronunciation: SHARE-ee-ay, SHAR-ee-ay
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: ACHEE
Comments:
CHAUFFE
Pronunciation: SHOFF
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: DAVID
Comments:
CHAUVIN
Pronunciation: SHO-van, sho-VAN
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BERGERON, BREAUX,
GRANGER, LANDRY
Comments:
CHEMIN
Pronunciation: sheh-MANH
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BOURG
Comments:
CHENET
Pronunciation: sheh-NET
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BUJOLE, PELLERIN
Comments:
CHENEVERT
Pronunciation: SHIN-eh-vair
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: POTIER
Comments:
CHERAMIE
Pronunciation: SHARE-uh-mee
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: AUCOIN, MICHEL, PITRE,
THERIOT
Comments:
CHEVET
Pronunciation: shuh-VET
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: ARCENEAUX
Comments:
CHIASSON
Pronunciation: CHA-sohn, SHA-sohn, SASH-onh
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
CHIQUET
Pronunciation: shih-KET
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HÉBERT
Comments:
CHOATE
Pronunciation: SHOAT
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: FORET
Comments:
CHRETIEN
Pronunciation: KREE-shan
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: SONNIER
Comments:
CHUTZ
Pronunciation: SHUTS ... I guess
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BERGERON, LEJEUNE
Comments:
CIRE -- see ST. CYR
CLAUSE
Pronunciation: klaw-ZAY, KLAWS
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HÉBERT
Comments:
CLAVEL
Pronunciation: kluh-VEL
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HÉBERT
Comments:
CLEMENT
Pronunciation: KLAY-monh
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
Comments: In Acadia, the family was called
VINCENT dit CLEMENT. For some reason, a branch of the VINCENT
family began to call itself CLEMENT instead.
CLOUATRE
Pronunciation: Cloh-AT-ruh
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
COINTMENT
Pronunciation: COIN-monh
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BERNARD
Comments:
COLLIGAN -- see CALLIGAN/COLLIGAN
COMARDELLE
Pronunciation: KOHM-ar-del
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled: Lafourche Parish
Acadian connection: HÉBERT, MARTIN
Comments: The family's name also is spelled
Camardel, Camardelle, Camardet, Carmadelle, Comordon.
COMEAUX
Pronunciation: KOH-mo
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
COMES
Pronunciation: KOMBS
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: LANDRY
Comments:
COMSTOCK
Pronunciation: KOM-stock
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: AUCOIN
Comments:
CONSTANT
Pronunciation: KON-stonh
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BUJOLE, LANDRY
Comments:
CONSTANTIN
Pronunciation: KON-stan-tan, KON-stan-tin
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BOURGEOIS, LEBLANC,
SONNIER, THIBODEAUX
Comments:
CONSTANTINO
Pronunciation: kon-stan-TEE-no
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: GAUTREAUX
Comments:
COREY
Pronunciation: KOH-ree
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HÉBERT
Comments:
CORKRAN
Pronunciation: KORK-run
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: MARTIN
Comments:
CORMIER
Pronunciation: KARM-yay, korm-YAY, KAR-mee-ay
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
COULON
Pronunciation: koo-LON
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: none yet found
Comments:
COURCIER
Pronunciation: KOOR-see-ay
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: THIBODEAUX
Comments:
COURET
Pronunciation: koo-RET
First Family:
Origin: Foreign French
Arrived in Louisiana: before 1847
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Jean Louis
COURET
Settled: St. Landry Parish
Acadian connection: none yet found
Comments: Jean Louis COURET of Auzas, Haute
Garonne, France, son of Bernard COURET and Marie
FARGE, and probably no kin to Louis below, married Cidalise NORMAND,
daughter of Charles NORMAND and Sylesie FONTENOT of St. Landry Parish, 29
June 1847, in St. Landry Catholic Church, Opelousas. Is he the same
person as CPT Y. L. COURET of Company A, 2nd Regiment Reserve Corps, a St.
Landry outfit?
Source: Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records,
4:113, 377.
Second Family:
Origin: Foreign French
Arrived in Louisiana: before 1857
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Louis COURET
Settled: Lafayette Parish
Acadian connection: BERNARD
Comments: Louis COURET, a native of
France, son of Austique COURET and Marie TERDEUIL, probably no kin to Jean-Louis above, married Clemence BERNARD, daughter of Gerasin BERNARD
and Eugenie MOUTON of Lafayette Parish, 26 May 1857, in St. John Catholic Church,
Vermilionville, now the city of Lafayette. He served in Company A, 26th Regiment Infantry as
Sgt.Maj., or so says the CSRC & Booth.
Source: Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 6:40,
139.
COURTADE
Pronunciation: koor-TOD
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HÉBERT
Comments:
COURTIN
Pronunciation: KOOR-tanh
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BLANCHARD, MARTIN
Comments:
COURVILLE
Pronunciation: KOOR-vill
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BENOIT, LEBERT
Comments:
COUSIN
Pronunciation: KOO-zan
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: RIVET
Comments:
COUTÉE
Pronunciation: koo-TAY
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: LONGUÉPÉE
Comments:
COUVILLION
Pronunciation: KOO-vee-yonh
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: none found ...
"cultural Cajuns"
CREDEUR -- see CARUTHERS/CREDEUR
CREIGHTON
Pronunciation: KRAY-ton
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: MOUTON
Comments:
CROCHET
Pronunciation: KROW-shay
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
CUVELLIER
Pronunciation: koo-VELL-ee-ay
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: ROBICHAUX, SONNIER
Comments:
DAIGLE
Pronunciation: DAY-gull
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
DAMON
Pronunciation: dah-MON
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: FORET
Comments:
DANOS
Pronunciation: DAN-ohs
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BOURG, GUIDRY, MIRE
Comments:
DANTIN
Pronunciation: donh-TANH
Origin: Acadian [see
Family History]
DARBONNE
Pronunciation: DAR-bone
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BUJOLE, DOUCET
Comments:
DARBY
Pronunciation: DAR-bee
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: PELLERIN
Comments:
DARCE
Pronunciation: DORSE, dar-SAY
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BOUDREAUX, BOURG
Comments:
DARDEAU
Pronunciation: DAR-doh
First Family:
Origin: Foreign French
Arrived in Louisiana: by 1830s
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Edouard
Alphonse Ferdinand DARDEAU
Settled: Ville Platte, St. Landry Parish
Acadian connection: NAQUIN
Comments: Edouard Alphonse Ferdinand, son
of André DARDEAU and Rosalie BORDIRIEAU of Department of Cher-et-Loire,
France, born in c1806, married Marie, 21-year-old daughter of Pierre VIDRINE,
at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in April 1835. Their son
André was born in St. Landry Parish in August 1837. Their daughters
married into the SENSAT and TATE families. Marie died in 1842, and
Edouard remarried to Louise Ladoiska, called Ladoiska, daughter of Louis
Nicolas RAWLIN or ROLLIN, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in February
1843, and sanctified the marriage at the Opelousas church in February
1845. Their son Louis Edouard, called Edouard, was born in St. Landry
Parish in December 1844, Jacques Oscar, called Oscar, in March 1846, Stanislas
Yorick, called Yorick, near Ville Platte, present-day Evangeline Parish, in
May 1854, and André le jeune in August 1859 but died 2 days after his
birth. Their daughter married into the REED, STAGG, and TATE
families. André l'aîné married Elise, daughter of Acadian
Francois NAQUIN of Terrebonne
Parish, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in July 1856. Their son
André Onesime was born near Ville Platte in July 1860. Their daughter
married into the DOSSMAN family. Edouard Alphonse Ferdinand died at his
home in Ville Platte in August 1860; he was 54 years old. His widow,
Louise Ladoiska, remarried to Frédéric Aimé Charles Marie DE COURSON in
August 1862 but died soon after her second marriage, in March 1863; she was
only 40 years old.
During the War Between the States, Louis
Edouard, by Edouard Alphonse Ferdinand's second wife, was a clerk residing
at Ville Platte when he enlisted in Company F of the 8th Regiment Louisiana
Infantry in March 1862; Edouard told the Confederate officer who signed him to
the rolls that he was 20 years old, but he was only 17. Edouard joined
his regiment in Virginia and was captured at Woodstock during General
Stonewall JACKSON's Shenandoah Valley Campaign in early June 1862.
Edouard was held as a prisoner of war at Fort Delaware, Delaware, for two
months before he was exchanged and released in early August. He returned
to his regiment and fought at Sharpsburg, Maryland, in September 1862 and
Fredericksburg, Virginia, in December 1862. On 4 May 1863, in the Battle
of Marye's Heights, Fredericksburg, during the Chancellorsville Campaign,
Edouard fell seriously wounded. After months of suffering in a
Confederate army hospital, he was sent home on a medical discharge the
following October. He did not return to duty. His wound must not
have been life threatening; he married Sidonie GUILLORY, place and date
unrecorded, but it probably was at Ville Platte in the late 1860s. Their
son René Edouard was born near Ville Platte in October 1870. Their
daughter married into the MANUEL family. Edouard remarried to Clara,
daughter of William REED, at the Ville Platte church in January 1876.
Their son Louis Sylla, Ceilard, or Silas, called Silas, was born near Ville
Platte in November 1876 and married Onesia, daughter of Louis YOUNG, at the
Eunice church, St. Landry Parish, in December 1898.
Oscar, Edouard's younger brother, married Marie Coralie,
daughter of Hilaire TATE, at the Ville Platte church in June 1870. Their
son Louis Arthur, called Arthur, was born near Ville Platte in January 1874,
and Joseph Regile in April 1876. Their daughters married into the
MOUILLAND and REED families. Edouard's older half-brother André died by
April 1878, when his wife remarried at Ville Platte; he would have been 50
years old that year. Edouard's younger brother Yorick married Marie or
Mary, daughter of Joseph STEVENS, at the Ville Platte church in January
1887. Their son Joseph René was born near Ville Platte in March 1891,
Ulrick in November 1894, and Clovis in March 1897. Oscar remarried to
Marie Louise, daughter of Barthelemy Marius COREIL and widow of Joseph P. ROY,
at the Ville Platte church in July 1888. Oscar's son Arthur by his first
wife married Rita, daughter of Jules COREIL, at the Ville Platte church in
February 1895. Edouard's son René Edouard by his first wife married
Louisa, daughter of Octave ARDOIN, at the Ville Platte church in February
1895.
Jule DARDEAU married Celina HAYES in December
1883. Their son Wilson was born near Church Point, present-day
Acadia Parish, in April 1886. Jules probably was a kinsman of Edouard,
Oscar, and Yorick.
Source: Booth, LA Confed. Soldiers, 2:535;
Hébert, D., South LA Records, 3:164, 4:207; Hébert, D., Southwest
LA Records, 3:170, 4:120-21, 5:143; 6:146-67, 7:112, CD.
Second Family:
Origin: Foreign French
Arrived in Louisiana: by 1850s
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Alexandre
DARDEAU
Settled: Terrebonne, St. Mary, & St. Landry
parishes
Acadian connection: none found
Comments: Alexandre, son of Jacques
DARDEAU and Catherine CHANONIER of France, perhaps a kinsman of Edouard
Alphonse Ferdinand DARDEAU of St. Landrdy Parish, married Marie Augustine,
daughter of Francois CASSET or TASSET, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish,
in September 1855. Their son Clovis Alexandre or Francois was born in
Terrebonne Parish in August 1857, Arthur Pierre Joseph in February 1859 but
died at age 8 in January 1865, and Michel Raoul, called Raoul, in December
1861 but died at age 15 months in May 1863. Meanwhile, Alexandre died in
Terrebonne Parish in April 1862. Clovis married Antoinette Cora, called
Cora, daughter of Alexandre CASTILLE, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry
Parish, in December 1888. Their son Joseph Hippomene was born near Grand
Coteau in June 1895.
Lucien DARDEAU, born in c1854, died near Charenton, St. Mary
Parish, in January 1873; he was only 19 years old. He may have been
Alexandre's kinsman.
Omer DARDEAU married Eliza LEE, place and date unrecorded, but
it probably was at New Iberia in the late 1880s or early 1890s. He, too,
may have been Alexandre's kinsman.
Sources: Hébert, D., South LA Records,
3:164, 4:207; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, CD.
DARDEN
Pronunciation: DARD-en, dar-DAN
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BREAUX, GUILLOT, LEGER,
RICHARD, ROGER
Comments:
DARTEZ
Pronunciation: DAR-tez
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: DUBOIS, GUIDRY, HÉBERT
Comments: The earlier spelling was DARTES.
DASPIT
Pronunciation: DAHS-pit ... I hope
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BOUDREAUX, GUIDRY
Comments:
DAUNIS
Pronunciation: daw-KNEE?
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BOURG, GAUTREAUX, GUIDRY
Comments:
DAUTERIVE
Pronunciation: DOH-treeve
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: SAVOIE
Comments:
DAUTREUIL
Pronunciation: doh-TRILL, doh-TROOL
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BERTRAND, LEBLANC
Comments:
DAVID
Pronunciation: dah-VEED
First Family:
Origin: French Creole
Arrived in Louisiana: by 1745
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Étienne
DAVID
Settled: Pointe Coupée & St. Martin parishes
Source: BRDR, 1b:43.
Comments:
Second Family:
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
Comments: Although some of the DAVIDs of South
Louisiana were not Acadian, they are listed here as Acadian.
DEBERGE
Pronunciation: deh-BURZHE
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: AUCOIN
Comments:
DE
BLANC
Pronunciation: duh-BLONH
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HÉBERT, LANDRY, MARTIN
Comments:
DE
CLOUET
Pronunciation: duh-kloo-AYE
Origin: French Creole
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: none found ... "cultural
Cajuns"
DECOTTEAU
Pronunciation: day-KOH-toh
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BENOIT
Comments:
DECOUX
Pronunciation: deh-KOH, deh-KOO
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BERNARD, PELLERIN
Comments:
DECUIR
Pronunciation: deh-KWEER
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BABIN, BROUSSARD,
HÉBERT, PELLERIN
Comments:
DEGEYTER
Pronunciation: DAY-geh-tear
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: LANDRY
Comments:
DEJEAN
Pronunciation: DAY-zhon
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BERNARD, GAUTREAUX,
LANDRY, MOUTON
Comments:
DELACROIX
Pronunciation: dell-uh-KWAH, DELL-uh-kwah
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: PELLERIN, THERIOT
Comments:
DELAFOSSE
Pronunciation: dell-uh-FOSS
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BENOIT, LEBLANC
Comments:
DELAHAYE
Pronunciation: dee-lah-HAY
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: ARBOUR
Comments:
DELAHOUSSAYE
Pronunciation: dell-uh-HOO-see, dell-uh-HOO-say
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: RICHARD
Comments:
DELATTE
Pronunciation: day-LOT, deh-LOT
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: GAUDET
Comments: The name also is spelled Deslatte and
Deslattes. West of the Atchafalaya Basin, members of this family prefer
Deslatte. East of the Atchafalaya Basin, where they are much more
numerous, they favor Delatte, the standard spelling used here.
DELAUNE
Pronunciation: duh-LOH-nee
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
DELCAMBRE
Pronunciation: DELL-cum
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: LANDRY
Comments:
DELHOMME
Pronunication: duh-LOME
First Family:
Origin: French/Flemish Creole
Arrived in Louisiana: by 1757
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Edme Charles, Alexandre, &
Pierre-Antoine dit Billon DELHOMME
Settled: New Orleans or along the Mississippi
River, probably above New Orleans; Atakapas Post area, present-day St.
Martin & Lafayette parishes
Comments: Alexandre DELHOMME, also spelled
De L'Homme, born c1757, son of Edmé-Charles DELHOMME, called Charles, a
captain in the
French army and native of French Flanders, and Honorine or Lorine CHAUVIN
de Lery of France, married Félicité PRADIE or PRADIER at Atakapas Post, now St. Martinville, 8 December 1782. The church
records note that Alexandre's father Charles was a Chevalier
de l'Ordre Royal et Militaire de St. Louis, one of the highest orders in
the French army. Charles settled in New Orleans and perhaps in St. Charles
Parish. Félicité's parents were from France and settled in New Orleans
and St. Charles
Parish. Alexandre, born in New Orleans, followed in his father's
footsteps and became an officer of the Atakapas militia. He settled at L'ance des Charpentiers on Bayou
Fuselier and produced a large family, including five sons who created families
of their own. His younger brother, Pierre-Antoine dit Billon,
born c1789, married Julie NEZAT, widow of Nicolas GUÉNARD, at St. Martinville, 30
May 1809. Pierre-Antoine also settled at L'ance des Charpentiers; he and
Julie produced a smaller family than Alexandre and Félicité.
Alexandre's son Charles-Alexandre, born in 1787, married Eulalie BERGERON
at St. Martinville, 18 April 1818. Her family were Creole BERGERONs of
False River, Pointe Coupée Parish, who were living on Bayou Fuselier at the
time of the marriage. Alexandre's son Martin dit Valcour,
born in 1802, married into an Acadian family when he wed Sydalise Francoise RICHARD, daughter of Francois RICHARD &
Hélène BRASSEAUX, at Grand Coteau,
15 May 1821. Another of Alexandre's sons, Alexandre, fils,
born in 1798,
married Adeline or Adelphine BERGERON, a sister of his brother Charles's wife,
at St. Martinville, 10 February 1823. Another son, Antoine dit Billon
dit
Dorsin, born in 1804, married Marie Josephine or Jeanne BERTRAND,
daughter of Vincent BERTRAND, a Canadian, & Marie Victoire GRAVOIS, an
Acadian, at Grand Coueau, 17 May 1824. Still another son, Edouard
dit Edmond, born in 1806 or 1809, married Amelie or Emilite GAUTHIER,
daughter of Francois GAUTHIER and Elise GREVEMBERG, at St. Martinville, 25
September 1827. Alexandre, père's son Louis, born in
1789, seems not
to have created a family of his own. One of Alexandre père's
daughters, Honorine, married Pierre BERGERON, brother of Eulalie &
Adelphine, at St. Martinville, 5 January 1819. Alexandre, père died at
his home at L'ance des Charpentiers on 15 April 1820, age about 63.
Brother Pierre-Antoine was buried at Grand Coteau (the church record also says "at Bayou
Carencro"), 31 October 1829, age 40. Pierre-Antoine's son, Alexandre Antoine
dit Chevalier Billon, born in 1812, married Marie Clemelina or Fanalie ARCENEAUX at Vermilionville,
now the city of Lafayette, 18 April 1836.
Sources: Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records,
1-A:236-37, 1-B:222-24, 2A:287-88; 2-B:278-80, 2-C:224-26, 847-48, 3:187-88, 4:135-36,
5:157-58, 6:161-62.
Second Family:
Origin: probably French Creole
Arrived in Louisiana: by 1780
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Edmé-Joseph-Octave,
père, Francois-Christophe-Chevalier, & Edmé-Joseph-Octave, fils
DELHOMME
Settled: present-day St. Charles Parish; Atakapas Post area, present-day St. Martin & Lafayette parishes
Comments: Francois-Christophe-Chevalier DELHOMME,
born c1780, usually called Chevalier, son of Edmé-Joseph
DELHOMME, père & Marie-Jeanne-Antoinette DE GLAPION of St. Charles Parish, married Marie-Charlotte DE CLOUET, daughter of Alexandre DE CLOUET of Bayou Vermilion
and Charlotte DE LESSARD, at St. Martinville, 7
August 1809. Edmé-Joseph-Octave DELHOMME, fils, birth
year unknown, called Octave, brother of Chevalier, married Charlotte Eucharis
HARDY at St. Martinville in the early 1800s. Octave died at St.
Martinville 1 May 1854, his age not recorded. Nothing in the church records indicates that
these DELHOMMEs were kin to Alexandre and Pierre-Antoine DELHOMME, who also settled in
the Atakapas region. However, a Chevalier DELHOMME did sign as witness to
Alexandre's son Charles's marriage at St. Martinville in 1818. Was this
the service of a relative or of a neighbor? Chevalier died at St.
Martinville 22 Feb 1856, age 76. The church records do not clearly mark
a line of male descendants from this DELHOMME or his brother.
Sources: Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-B:224,
2-A:287, 2-C:225, 847-48, 3:188, 4:136, 5:158, 6:161.
Acadian connection: ARCENEAUX, BERGERON,
BERNARD, BERTRAND, BOUDREAUX, BREAUX, HÉBERT, LEBERT, RICHARD, RIVET
DEMAREST/DEMARY
Pronunication: duh-MARE-ist, DEM-uh-rist,
duh-MARE-ee
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: FORET, JEANSONNE
Comments:
DEMOND
Pronunication: deh-MOND
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: LEJEUNE
Comments:
DERICHEBOURG
Pronunication: DARE-ish-borg ... I guess
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BABIN, HEBERT
Comments:
DERISE
Pronunication: deh-REESE
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: SAVOIE
Comments:
DEROUEN
Pronunciation: deh-roo-ANH, DER-oh-in
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BERNARD, HÉBERT, LANDRY,
PREJEAN, RICHARD
Comments:
DEROUSELLE
Pronunciation: deh-roo-SELL
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: GRAVOIS
Comments:
DESHOTELS
Pronunciation: DES-uh-tells, DES-uh-tell
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: AUCOIN, GRANGER
Comments: The name also is spelled Deshotel.
DESNOYER
Pronunciation: deh-NOY-yay
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: GAUDIN
Comments:
DESORMEAUX
Pronunciation: des-AR-mo
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BOURG, HEBERT, PITRE,
TRAHAN
Comments:
DEROCHE
Pronunication: day-roh-SHAY, day-ROHSH
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
DE
VALCOURT
Pronunciation: deh-VAL-core
Origin: French-American
Arrived in Louisiana: by 1827
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Théodore-Jean
DE VALCOURT
Settled: St. Charles Parish; St. Martin Parish
Acadian connection: GUIDRY,
THIBODEAUX
Comments: Théodore-Jean DE VALCOURT of
Baltimore, Maryland, son of Alexandre DE VALCOURT & Marguerite GOULD or
GOLD, lived in St. Charles
Parish before moving to St. Martin Parish. He married Marie Catherine Phelonise GUIDRY,
daughter of Pierre GUIDRY and Marguerite MILLER of St. Martin Parish, at the
St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in March 1827; he was 30 years old. He died
in St. Martin Parish in September 1847, age 50.
Sources: Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records,
2-C:236, CD.
DEVENPORT
Pronunciation: DEV-in-port
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BERNARD
Comments:
DEVILLE
Pronunciation: duh-VILL
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: JEANSONNE
Comments:
DEVILLIER
Pronunciation: duh-VILL-ee-ay, duh-vill-ee-AY
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: DUPUIS
Comments:
DICHARRY
Pronunciation: dih-CHERRY?
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: ARCENEAUX
Comments:
DODD
Pronunciation: DOD
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: ORILLION
Comments:
DOIRON
Pronunciation: DWAH-ronh
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
DOMENGEAUX
Pronunciation: doh-manh-ZHO
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: ROY, VINCENT
Comments:
DOMINGUE/DOMINGUES
Pronunciation: DOH-mang
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: VINCENT
Comments: East of the Atchafalaya, the family
name is also spelled Domangue.
DORÉ
Pronunciation: doh-RAY
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HÉBERT, LANDRY
Comments:
DOUCET
Pronunciation: DOO-set, doo-SET, doo-SAY
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
DRONET
Pronunciation: draw-NET
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BOURGEOIS
Comments:
DUBOIS
Pronunciation: doo-BWAH, DOO-bwah
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
Comments: Although some of the DUBOISs in
Louisiana were Creole, the family will be listed here as Acadian.
DUBUISSON
Pronunciation: DOO-bwee-sonh
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HÉBERT
Comments:
DUCHAMP
Pronunciation: doo-SHANH, DOO-shanh
Origin: Foreign French
Arrived in Louisiana: 1850
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Jean-Baptiste-Eugene DUCHAMP de Chastaigne
Settled: New Orleans; St. Martin Parish
Acadian connection: none found ...
"cultural Cajuns"
Comments: Jean-Baptiste-Eugene DUCHAMP de
Chastaigne and his wife, Marie-Louise-Josephine-Sophie-Mercepe MARTIN de
Lamartiniere, natives of Martinique, moved to Morris County, New Jersey, in
1830. Their four sons, Charles Louis, born c1836, Eugene Auguste, born
1837,
Arthur E., born c1841, and Louis C., born 2 February 1842, all were born there. In 1845 the
family left New Jersey for Martinique then moved from the island to New
Orleans in 1850 before moving on to St. Martinville in 1853. Three
sons of Jean-Baptiste-Eugene served in Company C, 8th Louisiana
Infantry. Charles eventually commanded the company and was seriously
wounded at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on 2 July 1863. Arthur E. was
killed in action at Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia, 11 May 1864, and was
described as "a brave and gallant young man." Louis C. served
not only in Virginia with the 8th Infantry but also in Louisiana with Company
C, Consolidated 18th Regiment and Yellow Jackets Battalion Infantry.
Eugene Auguste did not serve in the War.
Sources: Booth, LA Confed. Soldiers, 2:691-92;
Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 6:184; Perrin, W.H., SW LA, 320,
323-24.
DUCHARME
Pronunciation: DOO-sharm
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BLANCHARD,
RICHARD, RIVET, THIBODEAUX, TRAHAN
Comments:
DUCO
Pronunciation: DOO-ko, doo-KO
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HÉBERT
Comments:
DUET
Pronunciation: doo-ET
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BERGERON,
GUIDRY, MARTIN, THIBODEAUX
Comments:
DUFFEL
Pronunciation: doo-FELL
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: LANDRY
Comments:
DUFOUR
Pronunciation: doo-FOUR
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: PITRE
Comments:
DUFRENE
Pronunciation: doo-FREN
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: ARCENEAUX, BOURGEOIS,
LANDRY, ROBICHAUX, SAVOIE, THIBODEAUX
Comments:
DUGAN
Pronunciation: DOO-gun
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BROUSSARD, TRAHAN
Comments:
DUGAS
Pronunciation: DOO-gah
Origin: Acadian [See Family
History]
DUGON
Pronunciation: DOO-gonh
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: TRAHAN
Comments:
DUGUE
Pronunciation: doo-GWAY
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BROUSSARD, DAIGLE, LAVERGNE
Comments:
DUHON
Pronunciation: DOO-yonh, doo-YONH, DOO-honh
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
DUMESNIL
Pronunciation: no clue...
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HEBERT, TRAHAN
Comments:
DUPLANTIS
Pronunciation: doo-PLAN-tis
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: MARTIN
Comments:
DUPLECHIN
Pronunciation: DOO-pleh-shan
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: TRAHAN
Comments:
DUPLESSIS
Pronunciation: doo-PLEH-sis
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: ALLAIN, GAUTREAUX
Comments:
DUPONT
Pronunciation: DOO-ponh, doo-PONT
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BLANCHARD
Comments:
DUPRÉ
Pronunciation: doo-PRAY, doo-PREE
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: AUCOIN, GAUDIN, LANDRY,
LEBLANC
Comments:
DUPUIS/DUPUY
Pronunciation: doo-PWEE
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
DURALDE
Pronunciation: doo-RALD
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: ALLAIN
Comments:
DURAND/DURANT
Pronunciation: doo-RAND, doo-RANT
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: DUGAS
Comments:
DUREL
Pronunciation: doo-REL
Origin: French Creole or Foreign French
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BOURG, DAIGLE, DUBOIS,
LANDRY, PREJEAN
Comments: Although two Acadian DURELs came to
Louisiana in 1765 and 1785, both were females, so the DURELs of Louisiana are
French Creoles and/or Foreign French, not Acadians.
DURIO
Pronunciation: DUR-ee-oh
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: COMEAUX, LANDRY,
MELANCON
Comments:
DUVAL
Pronunciation: doo-VAL, doo-VALL
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: ALLAIN, BOURGEOIS, HÉBERT, MARTIN, SONNIER
Comments:
