BOOK TEN-4:  The Louisiana Acadian "Begats" - concluded

The Foundational Acadian Families of South Louisiana - continued

Richard

Richard is a common surname in France, so it is not surprising that there were several Richards who came to Acadia.  First came Michel Richard dit Sansoucy, "without worry," a young soldier born in the Saintonge region of southwestern France in c1630.  He appeared at Port-Royal in the early 1650s in the entourage of Emmanuel LeBorgne.  According to one source, Michel's dit was a regimental nickname.  When his term of service ended, he remained in the colony, took up farming, obtained two grants of land from LeBorgne "at some ten to fifteen miles from the fort" on upper Rivière-au-Dauphin, now the Annapolis River, and married Madeleine, daughter of Jean Blanchard and Radegone Lambert, at Port-Royal in c1656.  Between 1657 and 1677, at Port-Royal, Madeleine gave Sansoucy 10 children, six daughters and four sons.  Their daughters married into the Broussard, Thériot, Babin, Vincent, Forest, and LeBlanc families.  Their sons married into the Landry, Bourg, and Petitpas families.  Madeleine died by c1683, when Michel remarried to Jeanne, daughter of Antoine Babin and Marie Mercier, at Port-Royal.  In 1684 and 1686 at Port-Royal, Jeanne gave the old soldier two more sons--a dozen children, six daughters and six sons, by two wives, between 1657 and 1686.  His sons by his second wife married into the Bourgeois and Levron families. 

In the early 1700s, another Richard family appeared in French Acadia and created at least two male lines there.  François, son of merchant Jean Richard and Anne Christin d'Auray of Vannes in southern Brittany, married Anne, daughter of Jean Comeau l'aîné and Françoise Hébert, at Annapolis Royal in October 1710, soon after it fell to the British.  Between 1712 and 1720, at Annapolis Royal, Anne gave François five children, three sons and two daughters.  Anne died there in April 1722.  Her and François's daughters married into the Orillon dit Champagne and Richard families.  Two of her and François's sons married into the Bastarache dit Basque and David families.  Six months after Anne died, François remarried to Marie, daughter of René Martin dit Barnabé and Marie Mignier, at Annapolis Royal in October 1722.  Between 1723 and 1728, at Annapolis Royal, Marie gave François three more children, two daughters and a son--eight children, four sons and four daughters, by two wives, between 1712 and 1728.  François and Marie's two daughters married into the Comeau and LeBlanc families.  Their son's wife's name has been lost to history.  Marie remarried at Annapolis Royal in January 1735, so François had died by then.   

In 1755, descendants of both Michel Richard dit Sansoucy and François Richard of Vannes could be found at Chignecto and Minas, including Pigiguit, and on Île St.-Jean, but most of them remained in the Annapolis Royal area, where their family progenitors had settled.   Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered these families even farther. 

The Acadians at Chignecto were the first to endure a disruption of their lives.  In the spring and summer of 1750, in response to the British building a fort at Beaubassin village, Canadian militia, along with Mi'kmaq warriors led by the Abbé Jean-Louis Le Loutre, burned Acadian homesteads in the British-controlled area east of Rivière Missaguash, forcing the habitants there to move to the French-controlled area west of the river.  Richards may have been among the refugees in the petit dérangement.  After yet another war erupted between Britain and France in 1754, the Chignecto Acadians were caught in the middle of it.  When British and New-English forces attacked Fort Beauséjour in June 1755, Chignecto Acadians, pressured by the French, served in the fort as militia.  They, too, along with the French troupes de la marine, became prisoners of war when the fort surrendered on June 16.  Lieutenant-Governor Charles Lawrence was so incensed to find so-called French Neutrals fighting with the French at Beauséjour he ordered his officers to deport the Chignecto Acadians to the southernmost seaboard colonies.  A Richard family was deported to Georgia, perhaps the only one to be sent so far south.  The rest of the Chignecto Richards eluded the British and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore or moved on to Canada. 

One Richard's escape from the British at Chignecto became the stuff of family legend.  René, son of René dit Beaupré, fils, married a Bourgeois at his native Annapolis Royal but settled at Chignecto, where his family and friends gave him the ironic dit, Petit René.  Evidently Petit René was among the dozens of local Acadians gathered up by the British that summer and fall and held under guard at Fort Lawrence on the Missaguash to await deportation to one of the southern seaboard colonies.  On 1 October 1755, during a driving rainstorm, Petit René, because of his size, was the last man allowed to escape from a tunnel the prisoners had dug beneath Fort Lawrence.  Petit René escaped with 85 other Acadians, including his cousin Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil, and likely became part of the Broussard-led resistance that plagued the British for the next several years. 

Most of the Richards in the Minas settlements were not as lucky as their kinsmen at Chignecto.  That fall, New-English forces at Grand-Pré and Pigiguit rounded up many Richard families in the area and shipped them off to Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia.  The many Richards packed off to the Old Dominion endured a fate worse than most of the other refugees deported from Minas.  Virginia's governor, Robert Dinwiddie, refused to allow the hundreds of Acadians sent to him to remain in the colony.  Exiles died on the filthy, crowded ships anchored in Hampton Roads while Virginia authorities pondered their fate.  As winter approached, Dinwiddied ordered Acadians from one vessel moved up to Richmond, two of the vessels were unloaded at Hampton, and two more at Norfolk.  Finally, in the spring of 1756, the governor, his council, and the colony's Burgesses made their decision ... the "papists" must go!  In May, the first shipment of Acadians left for England, and in two weeks all of them had gone--299 to Bristol, 250 to Falmouth, 340 to Southampton, and 336 to Liverpool--1,225 exiles in all by one count.   Their ordeal only worsened in the English ports, where they were packed into warehouses and where many died of smallpox.  Richards were held at Falmouth, Liverpool, and Southampton. 

Most of the many Richards at Annapolis Royal escaped the British roundup there in the fall of 1755, endured a hard winter on the Fundy shore, crossed the bay to Chepoudy the following spring, and took refuge on the upper Petitcoudiac or lower Rivière St.-Jean.  From there, they joined their cousins on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore or moved on to Canada.  Some Richards, including two sons of François of Vannes and their families, ended up on transports bound for Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York.  In May 1756, colonial authorities in New York counted two Richard families on Long Island.  That August, New York officials counted a Richard among the Chignecto Acadians sent to Georgia who, with permission of that colony's governor, had tried to return to greater Acadia by boat that spring but got no farther than Long Island.  New York authorities held them at Courtland Manor in Westchester County.  Colonial authorities in Massachusetts counted Richards at Bradford in 1761.  The following year, Massachusetts authorities counted a Richard widow and her family at Charlestown.  That same year, Massachusetts authorities counted another widow and her Richard children at Westford and one of her Richard sons at Littleton. 

Some of the Richards who eluded the British in Nova Scotia and sought refuge in Canada in 1756 failed to escape an even greater menace that killed hundreds of their fellow exiles in and around the Canadian capital from the summer of 1757 to the spring of 1758.  At least nine Richards died of smallpox at Québec--among the 300 or so refugees who perished from the dread disease during the year-long epidemic.

Living in territory controlled by France, the Richards on Île St.-Jean in 1755 escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia, but their respite from British oppression was short-lived.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats descended on the islands and rounded up most of the habitants there.  Most of the Richards at Malpèque on the island's remote northwest shore escaped the British, crossed Mer Rouge, and sought refuge on the mainland, but their cousins in the interior and on the eastern shores were herded onto transports, sent through the Strait of Canso to Chédabouctou Bay, and then deported to France.  The crossing proved fatal for many of them.  A family of seven--father, mother, and five children--crossed on Le Duc Guillaume, which left the Maritimes in September 1758.  After a mid-ocean incident, the transport limped into St.-Malo harbor on the first of November.  No member of the family survived the ordeal.  A widow and three of her Richard children also crossed on Duc Guillaume, with tragic result.  Only two of the children survived the crossing or its rigors.  Other island Richards landed at Cherbourg in Normandy and at the northern fishing center of Boulogne-sur-Mer in Picardie. 

Island Richards sent to Brittany did their best to make a life for themselves in the St.-Malo area, including the suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer, and in villages on both sides of the river south of the Breton port, especially St.-Suliac, Pleudihen-sur-Rance, and Plouër-sur-Rance.  Richards who landed at Cherbourg and Boulogne-sur-Mer moved on to St.-Malo.  The Richard from Boulogne-sur-Mer settled near his kinsmen at St.-Servan, but the Richard from Cherbourg moved on to Brest in western Brittany, where he worked as a sailor.  In the spring of 1763, after prolonged negotiations between the French and British governments, the Acadians in England who had gone there from Virginia were repatriated to France, many Richards among them.  Most of them landed at St.-Malo aboard the transport Ambition, adding substantially to the number of Richards exiled to the mother country.  Most joined their cousins at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, but one family settled at St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, across the harbor from St.-Malo, and another moved on to Morlaix in northwest Brittany, where other Richards from England had landed in the spring of 1763.  In November1765, Acadians repatriated from England and a few of their island cousins agreed to become part of an agricultural venture on recently-liberated Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany.  None of the Richards from England living at St.-Servan took up the offier, but three Richard families from Morlaix agreed to go.  They settled at Kerbellec near Le Palais on the east coast of the island, at Keroude near Bangor in the island's southern interior, at Bedex near Bangor, and near Sauzon on the island's north shore.  In 1773, two Richard families from St.-Malo, one of them headed by a widow, chose to take part in an even grander settlement venture, this one on an influential nobleman's estate near the city of Châtellerault in the interior of Poitou.  In March 1776, after two years of effort, one of the families retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the lower Loire port of Nantes and settled across the river at Rezé.  Members of the other family who had gone to Poitou joined their cousins at Nantes in the early 1780s and settled at nearby Chantenay.  By the summer of 1784, some of their kinsmen from Belle-Île-en-Mer and St.-Servan had joined them at Nantes.  In the early 1780s, when the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France a chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, at least 31 Richards agreed to take it--by far the largest contingent of the family to go to Louisiana.  (One of them, a middle-aged wife married to her second husband, a LeBlanc, was the only descendant of François Richard of Vannes to go to the Spanish colony; all the others were descendants of Michel dit Sansoucy.)  Other Richards chose to remain in the mother country, including two famiies on Belle-Île-en-Mer.  French officials were still counting Acadian Richards on Belle-Île-en-Mer and at Vannes in southern Brittany during the early years of the French Revolution, and two of the families' progenitors died on the island in the mid- and late 1810s. 

In the early 1770s, a Richard family in one of the St.-Malo suburbs had gone not to Poitou but back to greater Acadia, to fish, not to farm, probably via the Channel island of Jersey.  They settled at Carleton in the British-controlled fishery at Gaspésie along the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs.  A son crossed to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore and settled in what became northeastern New Brunswick. 

Elsewhere in North America, the Acadians who had escaped the British in the late 1750s and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore were inevitably caught up in the lingering war between the imperial rivals.  After the fall of Québec in September 1759, the British gathered their forces to attack the remaining French strongholds in New France.  In late June 1760, a British naval force from Louisbourg attacked Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, now a major Acadian refuge.  After a spirited fight in which Acadian militia and Mi'kmaq warriors played an important role, the French commander blew up his larger vessels and retreated up Rivière Restigouche, leaving the militia and the Indians to resist a British landing.  Unable to capture the garrison or lay waste to the area, the British commander ordered his ships to return to their base at Louisbourg.  In October, after the fall of Montréal, another British naval force, this one from Québec, returned to accept the French garrison's, and the Acadians', surrender.  On 24 October 1760, on the eve of formal surrender, French officers counted 1,003 Acadians still at Restigouche, many Richards among them.  The British held these exiles and others who surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the region in prison compounds in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  In 1761 and 1762, Richards could be found at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, near the family's old homesteads there.  Members of at least one family, that of Pierre dit Pitre Richard, may have been held in the fishing center at Chédabouctou on the Atlantic coast.  In August 1763, Richards appeared on repatriation lists at Fort Cumberland, formerly French Beauséjour, near the family's old homesteads at Chignecto, and in the prison barracks at Halifax.  At least one Richard family was held near their former home at Annapolis Royal. 

The war over, Richards still living in the British seaboard colonies, like their cousins in Nova Scotia, theoretically, were free to go, but not until the British discerned their intentions.  Even then, colonial authorities discouraged repatriation.  Members of the family nevertheless appeared on French repatriation lists and censuses compiled in several of the Atlantic colonies in the summer of 1763.  In August, Richards were still living in Massachusetts.  Three years later, in July 1766, one Richard family appeared on a list of the "French Who Wish to Go to Canada."  In 1763 in Connecticut, Richards were still there.  That same year in New York two Richard families were still in the colony.  In August 1763, Richards appeared on repatriation lists at Newtown on the colony's Eastern shore, at Port Tobacco on the lower Potomac, at Upper Marlborough in the colony's interior, and at Baltimore.  That same month, two Richard families appeared on a repatriation list in that colony, one of them recently arrived from New York. 

At war's end, many of the Richards still in North America were living not in Nova Scotia or in the British seaboard colonies but in Canada, where Richards from Chignecto and Annapolis Royal had gone as early as 1756.  Though now also a British possession, the far-northern province was populated largely by fellow French Catholics, many of them Acadian exiles such as themselves.  So, in a colony nearly as old as Acadia, Richards from both branches of the Acadian family began the slow, inexorable process of becoming Canadiennes.  By the late 1760s, when kinsmen from the seaboard colonies joined them, Richards could be found on the upper St. Lawrence and lower Richelieu at Batiscan, Bécancour, Champlain, L'Assomption, Lotbinière, Nicolet, Repentigny, Ruisseau Vacheur, St.-Antoine-de-Chambly, St.-Antoine-sur-Richelieu, St.-Charles-sur-Richelieu, St.-Grégoire-de-Nicolet, St.-Jacques de l'Achigan, St.-Ours, St.-Philippe-de-la-Prairie, St.-Pierre-les-Becquets, Ste.-Angèle-de-Laval, Ste.-Anne-de-la-Pérade, Trois-Rivières, and Verchères; on the lower St. Lawrence at Matane, Rimouski, and Ste.-Anne-de-Pocatière; in Gaspésie at Bonaventure and Carleton; at Aboujagane, Cap-Pelé, Memramcook, Petitcoudiac, Richibouctou, Shédiac, Shippagan, and Tracadie in present-day eastern New Brunwick; on Rivière St.-Jean along the western edge of the province; and on the îles-de-la-Madeleine in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.  They were especially numerous on the upper St. Lawrence across from Trois-Rivières.  Typical of most, if not all, Acadian families, these Acadiennes of Canada lost touch with their Cadien cousins hundreds of miles away, and, until the Acadian reunions of the twentieth century, may even have forgotten the others existed. 

A Richard family being held in Nova Scotia chose to remain in greater Acadia, in the only place in the region that allowed them to escape British rule.  By 1767, they had re-settled on Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  To relieve overcrowding on the island, French officials, obeying a royal decree, likely compelled them and other islanders to move on to France later that year, but they returned to Miquelon in 1768.  In 1778, during the American Revolution, after the France became an ally of the United States, the British captured Miquelon and nearby Île St.-Pierre and deported the fisher/habitants to France.  The crossing to La Rochelle took a terrible toll on the extended family.  A number of them died in St.-Jean Parish, La Rochelle, in late 1778 and 1779.  Members of the family returned to Miquelon in 1784 after the British returned the Newfoundland islands to France.  Two of the families remained there, but most of their loved ones did not.  One family led by a widow moved on to Canada, and others resettled on the îles-de-la-Madeleine in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. 

Several Richard families in the seaboard colonies emigrated not to Canada, where the British ruled, but to the French Antilles, where they did not.  While the end-of-war treaty was being negotiated, French officials encouraged exiles in the British colonies to resettle in St.-Dominique.  Although driven from North America by the Seven Years' War, the French were determined to hang on to what was left of their shrinking colonial empire.  A new naval base at Môle St.-Nicolas on the northwest end of the big island would protect the approaches to their remaining possessions in the Caribbean basin and assist in the "war of revenge" to come.  Exiles who could be lured to St.-Domingue would prove a ready source of labor not only for the naval contractors, but also for the island's wealthy planters, who hoped to supplement the work of their slaves.  To sweeten the deal, the French promised the Acadians land of their own in the sugar colony.  French officials sent the wayward Acadians not only to Môle St.-Nicolas to work on the naval base, but also to the interior community of Mirebalais near Port-au-Prince to work on coffee and indigo plantations.  Most, if not all, of the Richards who ventured to St.-Domingue went to Mirebalais, where their life events soon became part of local church records.  The experience proved fatal for most of them.  Yet, in spite of the number of deaths the family suffered in their first year in the colony, when fellow exiles from Halifax and Maryland, including Richards, came through Cap-Français on their way to New Orleans from late 1764 through 1768, no Richard who had gone to St.-Domingue chose to join them.  They either had found a place for themselves in the sugar colony's slave-based plantation economy, or none were left to go there--with at least one exception, thrice-married Rosalie Richard, who was still on the big island in 1779.  After the war, members of the family went to another island in the French Antilles.  Two Richard brothers from Annapolis Royal took their families from New York to Martinique, where they settled at Le Mouillage and St.-Pierre.  As at St.-Domingue, many of them perished during their first year on the island, though four of their daughters married there, mostly to Frenchmen, as late as 1782. 

Meanwhile, a Richard still living in one of the seaboard colonies consulted with three other related families on where they should resettle.  The four family heads and their wives all were closely kin to one another:  Olivier Landry's wife was Cécile Poirier, sister of Jean-Baptiste Poirier, whose wife, Marie-Madeleine Richard, through her Cormier mother, was a first cousin of Jean-Baptiste Cormier, whose wife Madeleine Richard was a sister of Jean-Baptiste Richard, married to Marie-Catherine Cormier.  Moreover, Olivier Landry was a kinsman on his mother's side to Joseph De Goutin de Ville, native of Port-Royal, now a retired army officer and merchant living in New Orleans.  Sometime in early 1763, Olivier Landry, Jean-Baptiste Cormier, Jean-Baptiste Poirier, Jean-Baptiste Richard, their wives, and children--21 exiles in all--left New York, where they likely had been held since the spring of 1756, and headed back to the southern seaboard colonies, to which they had been deported from Chignecto in the fall of 1755.  They may have moved south instead of north to British Canada with the intention of moving on to the French Antilles and escaping British rule there.  In South Carolina late that August, three of the families--the Cormiers, Poiriers, and Richards--appeared on a repatriation list at Charles Town, while the Landrys appeared on another list at Port Royal down the coast, closer to Savannah, Georgia, than to Charles Town, South Carolina.  Perhaps while at Port Royal Olivier may have learned from cousin Joseph de Ville about the qualities of the Gulf Coast region still under French control.  Later that year, perhaps after securing more funds, the families moved on to Savannah, from where, in late December 1763, they took the Savannah Packet to Mobile in eastern Lousiaina, which they probably assumed was still a French possession.  It was not.  They arrived in the Gulf Coast citadel just as the caretaker governor of French Louisiana, Jean-Jacques-Blaise d'Abbadie, was transferring jurisdiction of eastern Louisiana to a British force from Cuba.  Lingering at Mobile in late January, the exiles "rehabilitated" one of their marriages there, that of Jean-Baptiste Poirier to Madeleine Richard, before moving on to New Orleans, which they reached in February 1764--the first documented Acadian exiles to settle in Louisiana. 

Richards being held in Nova Scotia at war's end faced a hard dilemma.  The Treaty of Paris of February 1763 stipulated in its Article IV that persons dispersed by the war had 18 months to return to their respective territories.  However, British authorities refused to allow any of the Acadian prisoners in the region to return to their former lands as proprietors.  If Acadians chose to remain in, or return to, Nova Scotia, they could live only in small family groups in previously unsettled areas or work for low wages on former Acadian lands now owned by New-English "planters."  If they stayed, they must also take the hated oath of allegiance to the new British king, George III, without reservation.  They would also have to take the oath if they joined their cousins in Canada.  After all they had suffered on the question of the oath, few self-respecting Acadians would consent to take it if it could be avoided.  Some Nova Scotia exiles, including Richards, chose to relocate to Île Miquelon.  Others considered going to French St.-Domingue, where Acadian exiles in the British colonies, including Richards, were going, or to the Illinois country, the west bank of which still belonged to France, or to French Louisiana, which, thanks to British control of Canada, was the only route possible to the Illinois country for Acadian exiles.  Whatever their choice, many refused to remain under British rule.  So they gathered up their money and their few possessions and prepared to leave their homeland.  Of the 600 exiles who left Halifax in late 1764 and early 1765 bound for Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, at least 16 were Richards. 

Richards still in Maryland endured life among Englishmen who, despite their colony's Catholic roots, did not care much for the French "papists" thrust upon them.  When word reached the Acadians in the Chesapeake colony that the Spanish would welcome them in Louisiana, most of them pooled their meager resources to charter ships that would take them to New Orleans.  From June 1766 to January 1769, in four expeditions, nearly 600 exiles left Baltimore and Port Tobacco for the Spanish colony, 14 Richards among them in three of the expeditions. 

Richards settled early in Acadia, and they were among the very first Acadian exiles to find refuge in Louisiana.  During the 1760s, they came to Louisiana in four waves.  The first of them, Jean-Baptiste Richard of Chignecto and his family, arrived from Georgia via Mobile with three related families in February 1764.  The French caretaker government sent them to Côte de Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans, where they settled in April, creating the first Acadian community in Louisiana and an eastern branch of the family.  The next contingent of Richards, from Halifax via Cap-Français--including two nephews of Jean-Baptiste of Chignecto--came a year later and settled on Prairie Bellevue in the Opelousas District, south of the present city, creating a western branch of the family.  More Richards came from Halifax in 1765 and settled at Cabahannocer near their cousins already there.  The Richards who came from Maryland in 1766 and 1767 went to Cabahannocer and San Gabriel on the river above Cabahannocer, which soon became known as the Acadian Coast.  Their descendants settled in the Acadian Coast parishes of St. James, Ascension, Iberville, and West Baton Rouge, and one even settled in Pointe Coupee Parish, where few Acadians lived.  A generation after the first of the family reached the colony, over 30 of their cousins arrived aboard six of the Seven Ships from France in 1785.  A few of these latecomers went upriver to the Baton Rouge area, their descendants settling in West Baton Rouge Parish, but most of them followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, creating a third center of Richard family settlement.  Meanwhile, during the late colonial and early antebellum periods, Richards from the Acadian Coast joined the Acadian exodus from the river to the western prairies and to Bayou Lafourche during the 1820s.  More Richards left the river and the upper bayou and settled west of the Atchafalaya Basin during the late antebellum and immediate post-war periods.  By the eve of the War of 1861-65, the largest "center" of Richard family settlement ran from the Opelousas prairies down to the coastal marshes in present-day St. Landry, Lafayette, Acadia, St. Martin, St. Mary, Vermilion, Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis, and Cameron parishes.  However, significant numbers of Richards still remained on the river and in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley. 

Richard is a common surname in France (one study says it is "among the ten most frequent patronyms" there) and is found in other European countries as well, so it is no wonder that members of the family came to Louisiana decades before their Acadian namesakes appeared.  J. Richard, a missionary from the Anjou region of France, came to Louisiana in 1717 as a concession priest and returned to Anjou in 1723.  Richards from France and Germany lived at New Orleans as early as the 1720s and at Pointe Coupée from the 1740s.  Louis-Gabriel Richard of Toulon in the south of France married an Acadian widow and settled on Bayou Lafourche near his Acadian namesakes during the early antebellum period.  More Richards, called Foreign French by native Louisianans, came to New Orleans from France, Mexico, and the Caribbean Basin throughout the antebellum period.  Two brothers from Bordeaux also settled on Bayou Lafourche.  The numbers of non-Acadian Richards, however, except in New Orleans, were dwarfed by the numbers of their Acadian namesakes, who settled in nearly every corner of today's Acadiana. ...

The family's name in Louisiana also is spelled Ribard, Richar, and Richart.  The many Richards should not be confused with the less numerous Ricards, French Creoles who settled at Pointe Coupee and on the Acadian Coast.34 

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The first of the family to come to the colony--a middle-aged father, his three children, and two married female cousins, six Richards in all--reached New Orleans in February 1764--among the first Acadian exiles to settle in Louisiana.  A robust family line came of it on the river and a much smaller one on the prairies: 

Jean-Baptiste (1719-1786) à Michel dit Sansoucy Richard

Jean-Baptiste, called Jean, seventh and youngest son of Martin Richard and Marguerite Bourg and grandson of the family's Acadian progenitor, born at Chignecto in February 1719, married Marie-Catherine, called Catherine, daughter of Alexis Cormier and Marie LeBlanc of Chignecto, in c1740 probably at Chignecto.  She gave him at least two chidren there:  Marie-Madeleine born in c1745; and Jean-Marie in c1746.  The British deported the family to Georgia in the fall of 1755.  They evidently were among the exiles allowed by the colony's governor to return to greater Acadia by boat the following spring.  By late August, they had gotten no farther than Long Island, New York, where colonial officials held them at Courtland Manor in Westchester County, and perhaps other places, for the rest of the war.  Catherine gave Jean at least two more children in exile:  Rosalie born in c1756; and Joseph in March 1758.  After the war, they returned with three related families to the southern colonies, perhaps on their way to the French Antilles.  Jean Richard, his unnamed wife, and four unnamed children appeared on a repatriation list at Charles Town, South Carolina, in August 1763.  They returned to Georgia later that year.  With the three other related families--the Cormiers, Landrys, and Poiriers--they were among the first Acadian exiles to emigrate to Louisiana.  With four children--two unmarried sons and an unmarried daughter, and their older daughter and her husband--they reached New Orleans from Savannah via Mobile in February 1764.  Son Joseph was baptized at the St.-Louis church on February 26, age 5 1/2, soon after they reached the city.  By April, they were settled upriver at Côte de Cabahannocer above the Germans.  They had no more children in the colony.  In his late 50s, Jean remarried to Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Martin and Marie-Jeanne Comeau and widow of Pierre Blanchard and Joseph Forest, at the St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer church in July 1778.  She gave him no more children.  Jean owned three slaves at Cabahannocer in 1779, an impressive number among Acadians for that place and time.  He died probably at Cabahannocer after July 1786, in his late 60s.  Daughters Marie-Madeleine and Rosalie married into the Poirier and Caissie dit Roger families in exile and at Cabahannocer.  Jean's older son also married on the river and created a vigorous line there. 

Older son Jean-Marie, called Jean, from first wife Catherine Cormier, followed his family to Georgia, New York, South Carolina, back to Georgia, Mobile, New Orleans, and Cabahannocer, where he married fellow Acadian Rosalie Bourgeois in November 1767.  Spanish officials counted them on the left, or east, bank of the river at Cabahannocer, later St. James Parish, in January 1777.  Their children, born there, included Pierre in c1769; Paul baptized at the Cabahannocer church, age unrecorded, in October 1770; Pélagie baptized, age unrecorded, in August 1773; Michel baptized, age unrecorded, in December 1775; Rosalie baptized, age unrecorded, in December 1777; Marguerite-Dely baptized, age unrecorded, in August 1779; Rosalie-Justine, called Justine, baptized, age unrecorded, in June 1781; Marie-Félicité, called Félicité, born in December 1782; Jean-Pierre in c1784; and Marie-Constance in November 1786--10 children, four sons and six daughters, between 1769 and 1786.  Daughters Pélagie, Marguerite, Marguerite-Constance, Félicité, and Justine married into the Lachaussée, Breaux, Babin, and Landry families, one of them twice.  Three of Jean Marie's sons also married and settled in the Acadian Coast parishes of St. James, Ascension, and West Baton Rouge parishes, but at least one grandson settled on the western prairies. 

Oldest son Pierre married Constance, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon LeBlanc and Anne Arceneaux, at the San Gabriel church, upriver from Cabahannocer, in May 1790.  They settled on the river near the boundary between the Cabahannocer and Ascension districts.  Their children, born there, included Pierre, fils in February 1791; Alexandre in October 1792; Michel le jeune in September 1794 but died at age 36 (the recording priest said 34) in April 1831; Étienne born in the mid-1790s; Anne-Bélisaire in September 1796; Constance-Mélisaire in October 1798; Azélie in April 1801; Marie-Constance, called Constance, in April 1803; Désiré in August 1805 but died at age 23 in January 1829; Benjamin, called Benjamine, a son, born in July 1807; Simon Edmond in May 1810; and Edward in July 1812 but died at age 2 in September 1814--a dozen children, eight sons and four daughters, between 1791 and 1812.  Pierre died in St. James Parish in September 1849.  The St. James priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Pierre died at "age 83 yrs."  This Pierre was closer to 80.  Daughters Anne Bélisaire, Constance Mélisaire, and Marie Constance married into the Gaudet and Poché families, two of them to Gaudet cousins on the same day in June 1814 at St. James church.  Only two of Pierre's many sons married, one of them four times.  One remained in St. James Parish, and the other resettled upriver in West Baton Rouge Parish. 

Fourth son Étienne married Susanne dite Suzette, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Melançon and Marguerite Bergeron of Attakapas, at the St. James church, St. James Parish, in July 1811.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included Étienne, fils in October 1813 but died at age 4 1/2 in March 1818; and Pierre Eugène, called Eugène, born in July 1818.  Étienne remarried to fellow Acadian Marie Céleste or Célestine Landry, widow of Étienne Theriot of West Baton Rouge Parish, probably in West Baton Rouge Parish in May 1822.  Their daughter Célestine Euphémie was born near Baton Rouge in February 1823 but died there at age 1 1/2 in September 1824.  Étienne remarried again--his third marriage--to Élise or Élisabeth Azélie, called Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Blanchard and Élisabeth Mouton, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in January 1825.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included Mélon Louis Désiré or Louis Léon Désiré, called Désiré, in October 1825; and Marie Éliza or Élisa in May 1827.  Wife Azélie, called Mrs. Étienne Richard by the recording priest, died near Baton Rouge in November 1828, age unrecorded.  Étienne remarried yet again--his fourth marriage!--to Julie or Juliènne Amélie, daughter of fellow Acadians François Lejeune and Marguerite Hébert, at the Baton Rouge church in September 1832.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included François Villeneuve, called Villeneuve, in September 1834; and Marguerite Arthémise in February 1836--seven children, four sons and three daughters, by four wives, between 1813 and 1836.  Étienne died near Baton Rouge in April 1836.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Étienne died at "age ca. 40 yrs."  He probably was a few years older.  Daughters Marie Éliza and Marguerite Arthémise, by his third and fourth wives, married into the Richard and Bauer families.  Étienne's remaining sons also married, but not all of the lines endured. 

Second son Pierre Eugène, called Eugène, from first wife Suzette Melançon, likely married Joséphine Jofferion or Jefferson, place and date unrecorded.  Their children, born on the river, included Étienne Isidore in St. James Parish in January 1842; and Mary Victoria Nolan in West Baton Rouge Parish in July 1844.  Eugène died in St. James Parish in June 1846.  The St. James priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Eugène died at "age 26 yrs."  Pierre Eugène would have been age 27, so this probably was him.  Neither of his children married by 1870. 

Étienne's third son Désiré, by third wife Azélie Blanchard, married cousin Marie Nathalie or Mathilde, daughter of fellow Acadian Prosper Pierre Blanchard and his Creole wife Arsène Chustz, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in February 1849.  Their children, born near Brusly, included Marie Azélie in September 1850; and Marie Élisabeth in June 1853.  Louis Léon Désiré "of West Baton Rouge Parish" died there in November 1853, age 28.  Neither of his daughters married by 1870. 

Étienne's fourth and youngest son Villeneuve, by fourth wife Julie Lejeune, married Marie Irma, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Labauve and Carolie Dupuy, at the Brusly church in February 1855.  Daughter Marie Amélie Élisa was born near Brusly in January 1856 and did not marry by 1870.  Villeneuve died near Brusly in August 1856, a month shy of age 22. 

Pierre's sixth son Benjamin married first cousin Marie Elmina, Elvina, or Elmire, daughter of his fellow Acadians Jean Pierre Richard and Marie Melançon, his uncle and aunt, at the St. James church in September 1842; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included Marguerite Constance in August 1844; Marie Félicie in April 1846; Joseph Benjamin in April 1848 but, called Benjamin, died "at his mother['s], widow Benjamin Richard," at age 5 1/2 in September 1853; and Jean Émile born in February 1850--four children, two daughters and two sons, between 1844 and 1850.  Benjamin, père died in St. James Parish in November 1850.  The St. James priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or the name of a wife, said that Benjamin died at "age 45 years" (he was 43) and "left [a] wife and four children."  Daughter Marguerite Constance married into the Guidry family by 1870.  Benjamin's remaining son did not marry by then.

Jean-Marie's third son Michel married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Michel and Marie Léger, at the St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer church in February 1795.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer/St. James, included Rosalie in December 1795 but died the following September; Marie- or Anne-Rosalie born in August 1797; Justine-Adèle in November 1799; Azélie in August 1801 but died the following March; twins Éloi and Michel, fils born in August 1804, but Éloi died at age 4 1/2 in January 1809; Marie Mélanie born in September 1806; a second Éloi in January 1810; Jean Marie le jeune, also called Henry, in March 1812; twins Marie Joséphine, called Joséphine, and Rosalie Delphine in April 1814; and Pierre Théogène in February 1818 but died at age 7 in February 1825--a dozen children, seven daughters and five sons, including two sets of twins, between 1795 and 1818.  Michel, père died in St. James Parish in February 1821, age 45.  Daughters Anne Rosalie, Marie Mélanie, Joséphine, and Rosalie Delphine married into the Richard, LeBlanc, Blouin, and Gaudin families.  Michel's remaining sons also married.  One of them settled on lower Bayou Teche but evidently returned to the river.  The others remained on the Acadian Coast.  Not all of the lines endured.

Second son Michel, fils married Cléonise, also called Eléonise, Elponise, Econile, Léonise, Louise, and Phelonise, daughter of fellow Acadians Sylvain LeBlanc and Marguerite Gaudin, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in June 1821.  They settled on the river near the boundary between St. James and Ascension parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie Célestine in June 1822; Michel III in July 1824; Rosalie Delphine, called Delphine, in August 1826; Théosin in c1827 but died at age 6 in April 1833; Théogène born in October 1828 but, called Théodore Honoré by the recording priest, may have died at age 17 (the recording priest said 15) in November 1845; Honora or Honorat Théodule or Théodule Honoré born in December 1830; Marie or Marie Caletheria or Eleuthère in February 1834; Victor in November 1836; Marguerite Esilda or Ezilda, called Ezilda, in December 1838; Joseph in July 1842; and Marie Amanda in January 1845 but, called Amada, died at age 9 1/2 (the recording priest said 10) in June 1854--11 children, five daughters and six sons, between 1822 and 1845.  Daughters Marie Célestine, Rosalie Delphine, Marie Eleuthère, and Ezilda married into the Besson, Guilfou or Guilfout, Dugas, Gilbert, and Rousseau families, one of them, Rosalie Delphine, twice, by 1870.  Three of Michel, fils's sons also married by then, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Michel III married Laura, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Onésime Landry and Madeleine Babin, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in December 1847.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Michel Olézime in August 1848 but, called Michel Olésime, died eight days after his birth; Marie Lise born in April 1850; Constant Gustave in December 1851 but died at age 2 1/2 in June 1854; and John Michel born in September 1853 but, called Jean Michel, died the following February--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1848 and 1853.  Michel III died in Ascension Parish in August 1858, age 34.  His daughter did not marry by 1870, and none of his sons survived childhood, so, except perhaps for its blood, the family line may not have endured. 

Michel, fils's fourth son Honorat Théodule, as the recording priest called him, married cousin Marie Elvania, called Elvania, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Duval Babin and Euphrosie Gaudin, at the Donaldsonville church in September 1850; they had to secure a dispensation for fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Rosalie Louise in October 1851; Ignace in February 1853; Eléonise Elisca in November 1854; Honorat Théodule, fils in December 1857 but died at age 8 1/2 (the recording priest said 9) in August 1866; Marie Elvania born in October 1859; Marie Virginie in November 1861; Michel N. in April 1864; ...  None of Honorat's children married by 1870. 

Michel, fils's sixth and youngest son Joseph married Joséphine, daughter of Pierre Rougeau and Joséphine Balderas, at the Donaldsonville church in April 1868.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Léonise Joséphine in February 1869; Pierre Joseph in May 1870; ...

Michel, père's third son Éloi married Marie Amélie, daughter of fellow Acadians Augustin Méderique Templet and Rose Daigle, at the Donaldsonville church in January 1831.  They settled on the river near the boundary between Ascension and St. James parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie Amélie, called Amélie, in December 1831 but died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 10 months), in July 1833; and Éloy Dava born in January 1834 but, called Dava Éloi, died at age 9 in March 1843.  Did they have anymore children?  Did the family line endure? 

Michel, père's fourth son Jean Marie le jeune married Marie Élise, called Élise and Éliza, daughter of fellow Acadians Manuel Breaux and Marie Anastasie Gautreaux, at the St. James church in September 1831.  They lived on the river near the boundary between St. James and Ascension parishes before moving to the western prairies later in the decade.  They evidently returned to the river by the late 1840s.  Their children, born on the river and the prairies, included Rosalie Éliza or Élisa, called Élisa, in June 1833; Anne Anastasie, called Anastasie, in May 1835; Marie Augustine in February 1837; Jean Marie Mathieula or Mathieu in November 1838; Euphémie Euphlavie near New Iberia, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in August 1839; Célima in Lafayette Parish in July 1840; Armand in January 1842; Lazard Augustin near New Iberia, then in St. Martin but not in Iberia Parish, in September 1845; and Marie Octavie in Ascension Parish in August 1849 but died there, age 2, in October 1851--nine children, six daughters and three sons, between 1833 and 1849.  Jean Marie le jeune died by April 1864, when he was listed as deceased in a daughter's marriage record.  Was his death war-related?  Daughters Anastasie, Rosalie Élisa, and Célima married into the Baille, Baye, or Boyer, Lirette, LeBlanc, Hébert, and Rivet families, two of them, Anastasie and Rosalie Élisa, twice, and two of them to LeBlancs, by 1870.  At least one of Jean Marie le jeune's sons married, after 1870.

During the War of 1861-65, oldest son Jean Marie Matheiula or Mathieu, called John in Confederate records, served in the Donaldsonville Artillery, which fought in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania--one of General R. E. Lee's Louisiana Tigers.  He enlisted in the famous battery as a private in September 1861, age 22.  At the time of his enlistment he was single, working as a cooper in Donaldsonville, had blue eyes, dark hair, fair complexion, and stood five feet ten inches tall.  He served not only as a gunner, but also as a wagoner with the battery.  He survived the war, surrendered with his unit at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, in April 1865, and returned to his home.  He married fellow Acadian Virginie Landry at Donaldsonville in January 1872, age 33.  She gave him no children.  He remarried to fellow Acadian Élisabeth Landry at his home in Donaldsonville in January 1883, age 44.  She gave him four daughters and two sons.  He retired as a farm manager in 1911 and received a Confederate pension through the state of Louisiana.  He died of heart failure in Ascension Parish in June 1922, age 83, and was buried in the Major Victor Maurin UCV Camp tomb at Ascension Catholic Cemetery, Donaldsonville. 

Jean Marie's fourth and youngest son Jean Pierre married Anne Marie, called Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Melançon and Marguerite Bergeron, at the St. James church in February 1804.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included Jean Marie le jeune in April 1805 but died at age 4 in March 1809; Napoléon born in June 1807; Marie Azélie in June 1811 but died at age 3 in July 1814; Pierre Césaire, called Césaire, born in April 1814; Honorine, perhaps also called Victorine, in February 1817; and Marie Angelina, called Angelina, in September 1820 but died at age 6 1/2 in February 1827.  Jean Pierre, at age 40, remarried to Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Gabriel Breaux and Marguerite Templet of Assumption Parish, at the St. James church in June 1824.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included Marie Hermine or Elmina in June 1825; Marguerite Arsenette, also called Marie Arcelite, in October 1827; Jean Émile in March 1829; and Joseph Émile in c1837 but died at "his sister's, Mrs. Benjamin Richard," age 10, in October 1847--10 children, five sons and five daughters, by two wives, between 1805 and 1837.  Jean Pierre died in St. James Parish in August 1839, age 55.  Daughters Victorine, Marie Elmina, and Marie Arcelite, by both wives, married into the Bourgeois, Richard, and Gaudet families by 1870.  Only one of Jean Pierre's three remaining sons married by then and re-settled on the western prairies.

Third son Pierre Césaire, called Césaire, from first wife Anne Marie Melançon, married cousin Marie Élise or Élisa, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Richard, his first cousin, and his third wife Azélie Blanchard of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the Baton Rouge church in August 1843.  They settled on the river near the boundary between St. James and Iberville parishes before moving to St. Landry Parish in the early 1850s.  Their children, born on the river and the prairies, included Siméon Clément in St. James Parish in September 1844; Constant in July 1846 but died the following December; Camille born in November 1847; Joseph Cephas in late November 1849 but, name unrecorded, died a week or so after his birth (the recording priest said 24 days) in early December; Amédée Camille born in October 1850; Philippe Cléonard in St. Landry Parish in August 1853; Anne Louise in May 1858; and Albert in September 1861--eight children, seven sons and a daughter, between 1844 and 1861.  None of Césaire's children married by 1870.     

Jean-Baptiste's younger son Joseph, by first wife Catherine Cormier, followed his family to South Carolina, Georgia, Mobile, and New Orleans, where, at age 5 1/2, he was baptized in the St.-Louis church in late February of 1764, soon after the family's arrival.  He followed his family to Cabahannocer.  One wonders if he survived childhood. 

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In 1765, 16 more members of the family came to Louisiana, this time from Halifax via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue.  The first of them--two brothers, one of them married with children, five Richards in all--followed their Broussard kin to lower Bayou Teche, but they did not remain.  By the following spring, they were among the first Acadians to settle near the upper Teche in the Opelousas District.  Two new vigorous family lines came of it there: 

Pierre (c1729-1806) à Martin à Michel dit Sansoucy Richard

Pierre, second son of Alexandre Richard and Marie-Madeleine Thibodeau and nephew of Jean-Baptiste of Cabahanncoer, born probably at Chignecto in c1729, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in the early 1740s.  He married Marguerite, daughter of Louis Dugas and Marie-Josèphe Girouard, probably at Malpèque on the northwest shore of the island in c1752.  That August, a French official counted Pierre and Marguerite, still childless, at Malpèque near their families.  Marguerite gave him a son, Fabien, born at Malpèque soon after the counting.  Along with most of the fisher/habitants at Malpèque, Pierre and his family escaped the British roundup on the island in 1758, crossed Mer Rouge, and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, where Pierre evidently participated in the Acadian resistance with his cousins, the Beausoleil Broussard brothers of Petitcoudiac.  Marguerite gave Pierre another son, Louis, born in c1760.  Sometime in the early 1760s, Pierre and his family either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Another son, Pierre, fils, also called Pierre dit Tinan, was born in imprisonment in c1763.  Pierre, his unnamed wife, and four unnamed children appeared on a repatriation list at Halifax in August 1763; the fourth "child" likely was his younger brother Victor, age 16 in 1763.  The family reached New Orleans in early 1765 either with, or soon after, the Broussards, who arrived in late February.  They evidently followed the Broussards to Bayou Teche in April 1765, but by the following April, Pierre and his family, including brother Victor, had left the lower Teche and settled on Bellevue prairie south of present-day Opelousas.  Marguerite gave Pierre more children at Bellevue, including Marguerite born in April 1770; Philippe in c1771; Olivier in c1775; and François in late 1777 or early 1778 and baptized at the Opelousas church, age 17 months, in May 1779--seven children, six sons and a daughter, between 1752 and 1778, in greater Acadia and Louisiana.  Pierre, in his late 60s, remarried to Élisabeth, or Isabelle, 63-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Aucoin and Anne Trahan and widow of Jean-Baptiste LeBlanc, at the Opelousas church in August 1797.  Élisabeth, a native of Minas, had come to Louisiana from France via Virginia and England in 1785.  She gave Pierre no more children.  Meanwhile, Pierre, along with other Acadians on the Opelousas prairies, tried to grow wheat in the late 1760s, but Spanish Governor Ulloa refused to help them with implements and oxen, and the experiment failed.  With the others, Pierre turned to cattle production for the New Orleans market.  In 1771, he was running up to 23 head of cattle and three horses on his six-arpent vacherie on Prairie Bellevue.  Three years later, his herd had increased to 50 head of cattle and nine horses and mules.  He also raised 20 pigs.  By 1777, his herd had doubled in size to 100 head of cattle, with 12 horses, and 20 hogs.  Unlike other prairie cattlemen, he held no slaves, his older sons perhaps being numerous enough to help him with the herd.  By 1788, his herd had increased to 140 head of cattle, with 10 horses, on a 36-arpent spread next to his son-in-law, Jean Bourg.  Pierre now owned three slaves.  In 1796, he held six slaves, three males and three females, on his vacherie next to two of his sons and his son-in-law.  Pierre died probably on Prairie Bellevue in May 1806, in his late 70s.  Daughter Marguerite married a Bourg cousin.  Pierre's six sons also married.  Most of the Richards of southwest Louisiana, including singer/songwriter/poet/musician/historian/novelist/environmentalist/Cajun activist Zachary Richard, descend from Pierre and his first wife Marguerite. 

Oldest son Fabien, by first wife Marguerite Dugas, followed his family into exile and imprisonment and to New Orleans and Opelousas.  He married Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Thibodeaux and Françoise Sonnier, at the Attakapas church in January 1779.  They settled in the Opelousas District, on Prairie Bellevue near his family.  Their children, born there, included Françoise baptized at the Opelousas church, age 2 months, in April 1780; twins Jean-Fabien and Pierre-Placide, called Placide, born in May 1782; Marie-Angélique, called Angélique, in April 1786; Pierre-Cyrille, called Cyrille and Cyrille dit Cadet Fabien in February 1788; Joseph-Fabien baptized at the Opelousas church, age unrecorded, in April 1792; François le jeune baptized, age unrecorded, in October 1796; Justine, also called Augustine dite Gustine, baptized, age unrecorded, in June 1798; a son, name unrecorded, died "as a child" in April 1799; a son, name unrecorded, died at age 6 months between May and July 1802; and Euphémie born in September 1803--11 children, four daughters and seven sons, including a set of twins, between 1780 and 1803.  Fabien died in St. Landry Parish in April 1812, "at age about 60 yrs."  His estate record had been filed at the Opelousas courthouse in May 1811.  His succession was filed there the month of his death.  Daughters Françoise, Angélique, Augustine dite Gustine, and Euphémie married into the Brandt, Vasseur, Lavergne, and Stelly families.  Four of Fabien's remaining sons also married. 

Oldest son Jean Fabien, a twin, married, at age 34, Eugénie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Savoie and Louise Bourg and widow of Antoine Dupré, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in October 1816.  They settled at Prairie Bellevue.  Their children, born there, included Jean, also called Jean Duclise, in July 1817; Louise in October 1819; Eugénie in March 1822; Célestine in c1825; Evariste in March 1828; and Marie Alzina or Azéline in July 1831--six children, two sons and four daughters, between 1817 and 1831.  Jean Fabien died "at Belle-vue" in December 1859.  The Opelousas priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Jean Fabien died "at age 65 yrs."  He was 77.  His succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse the following January.  Daughters Célestine and Marie Alzina married into the Richard and Arceneaux families.  One of Jean Fabien's sons also married, but the line may not have endured. 

Older son Jean Duclise married double cousin Azélie or Azéline, 20-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Victor Richard and Marie Louise Richard, at the Opelousas church in May 1837.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Eugénie Sélima or Célima, called Célima, in December 1838; and Joseph in May 1849.  A succession for Jean Duclise, called Duclize F. by the parish clerk, calling his wife Azéline V., was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in October 1851.  Jean Duclise would have been age 34 that year.  His widow Azélie may have died "at Belle-vue," as the record states, in December 1864.  The Opelousas priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or name her husband, said that Azéline, as he called her, died "a widow ... at age 44 yrs."  Daughter Célima married into the Bernard family by 1870.  Jean Duclise's son did not marry by then. 

Fabien's second son Pierre Placide, called Placide, Jean Fabien's twin, at age 29, evidently fathered a "natural daughter," Marie Carmélite, called Carmélite, by Clothilde Quintero in September 1811 (the recording priest, Father Barrière, did not name the father, but when Carmélite married 17 years later, the recording priest, Father Rossi, called the bride's father Pierre Richard and her mother Clotilde Quinter).  At age 33, Pierre Placide married Anastasie, also called Clarissa, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Hébert and Anne Eléonore Comeaux, at the Opelousas church in May 1815; the couple had married civilly in April 1813.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Apollonie or Apolline baptized at the Opelousas church, age unrecorded, in April 1814 (her parents' church marriage in May 1815 "legitimized" her birth in the eyes of the Church, though Father Barrière, the recording priest, noted that she had been born "legitimate according to the laws of America"); Pierre Placide, fils born in March 1816 but died "at the home of [his uncle] Joseph Lavergne" at Bellevue, age 3 1/2, in September 1819; Louis le jeune born in early 1817 but died at his uncle Joseph Lavergne's home, age 1 1/2, the day after his older brother Pierre died, perhaps of yellow fever; Joseph born in February 1818; Anne Euphrasie in December 1819; Anastasie in June 1824; Paulin Placide in January 1827; Eugène in June 1829; Adélaïde in January 1832; and Placide Fabien in August 1834--11 children, five daughters and six sons, by two "wives," between 1811 and 1834.  Pierre Placide died near Church Point on upper Bayou Plaquemine Brûlée, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in November 1861.  The priest who recorded the burial (and who called his wife Azolin Richard) said that Placide, as he called him, died "at age 80 yrs."  He was 79.  Daughters Carmélite (the "natural" one), Apolline, and Anastasie married into the Doucet, Lavergne, and Gautreaux families.  Two of Pierre Placide's sons also married, but not all of the lines endured. 

Fourth son Paulin Placide married Marie Eloisine, Elosine, or Loisine, daughter perhaps of fellow Acadian Éloi Doucet and his Creole wife Modeste Divine Carrière and widow of Norbert Bellard, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in January 1856.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Marie Coralie near Church Point in September 1856; and Julie near Opelousas in February 1859.  Paulin Placide's succession, which called him Paulin P., was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in May 1861.  He would have been age 34 that year.  Was this a post-mortem succession?  Neither of his daughters married by 1870. 

Pierre Placide's sixth and youngest son Placide Fabien married Scholastine, also called Zapoline and Élisa Pauline, daughter of Joseph Marcantel and Euphrosine Frugé, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in August 1859, and sanctified the marriage at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in February 1864.  They settled near Eunice.  Their children, born there, included Marie Alzina in December 1860; Élina in September 1862; Anastasie in October 1869; ...

Fabien's third son Pierre Cyrille, called Cyrille and Cyrille dit Cadet Fabien, married Marie Marguerite, also called Azélie, Azéline, or Zéline, 21-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians André Prejean and Marie Bernard, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in January 1820.  They settled near Carencro.  Their chlidren, born there, included a child, name and age unrecorded, died in November 1820; Marie Zéolide born in March 1822 but died at age 4 (the recording priest said 5) in March 1826; Cyril or Cyrille, also called Pierre Cyrille, fils, born in July 1824; Octave, also called Alexandre Octave, in September 1826; Clémentine, perhaps Marie Clémentine, in 1829 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 8 months, in April 1830; Aurelien baptized at age 8 months in August 1832 but may have died in Lafayette Parish, age 30 (the recording priest said 34), in October 1862 (if so, was his death war-related?); Émile born in October 1834; Gustave in December 1837 but died at age 21 in February 1859; and Marie Aurelia, called Aurelia, born posthumously in September 1839 and baptized in June 1841--nine children, at least four daughters and four sons, between 1820 and 1839.  Pierre Cyrille, père died in St. Landry Parish in September 1839.  The Opelousas priest who recorded the burial said that Cyrille Fabien, as he called him, died "at age 53 yrs."  He was 51.  His succession, naming his wife and minor children--Cyrille, Octave, Marie Clémentine, Orilien, Clémence, Gustave, and Aurelia--was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in July 1841.  Daughter Marie, probably Marie Clémentine, married into the Domingue family by 1870.  Two of Cyrille's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Cyrille, fils likely married Azélie Martin, probably a fellow Acadian, at the Grand Coteau church in June 1847.  They settled on the prairie between Grand Coteau and Church Point.  Their children, born there, included Cyrille III in May 1848; Bonaventure Philogène in August 1851; Théophile in July 1854; Camille in November 1856; Hélène in January 1861; Martin in October 1863; Azélie in June 1868; ...  None of Cyrille, fils's children married by 1870. 

Cyrille, père's second son Alexandre Octave, called Octave, married Eugénie, also called Virginie, 19-year-old daughter of François Lefort, Lafare, Lefont, or Faure and his Acadian wife Julie Landry, at the Vermilionville church in November 1846.  They settled on the prairie between Carencro and Church Point.  Their children, born there, included Alexandre in August 1847; Joseph in January 1850; Marie Octavie, called Octavie, in March 1852; François in August 1855; Marie Ovina in July 1859; Marie Uméa in March 1862; Marie in January 1865; Marie Lucia in December 1868; ...  Daughter Marie Octavie married into the Devillier family by 1870.  One of Octave's sons also married by then. 

Second son Joseph married Marie Felonise, called Felonise, daughter of fellow Acadians Achille Savoie and Lisa Prejean, at the Grand Coteau church in February 1868.  Daughter Marie Léonie was born near Grand Coteau in November 1869; ...

Fabien's fourth son Joseph Fabien married Eugénie, daughter of Jean Louis Gaspard and his Acadian wife Scholastie dite Colastie Comeaux of St. Martin Parish, at the Opelousas church in February 1828.  They settled at Bellevue.  Their children, born there, included Joseph, fils in April 1834; Edmond in May 1840; and Georges in October 1842--three children, all sons, between 1834 and 1842.  Joseph Fabien's succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in January 1855.  He would have been in his early 60s that year.  None of his sons married by 1870. 

Pierre's second son Louis, by first wife Marguerite Dugas, followed his family into imprisonment and to New Orleans and Opelousas, where he married cousin Marie-Victoire, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Dugas and Marguerite Daigre, in c1786.  Marie-Victoire, a native of Plouër-sur-Rance near St.-Malo, had come to Louisiana from France in 1785.  Their children, born at Opelousas, included Louis-André in November 1787; a daughter, name unrecorded, died eight days after her birth in February 1789; Marie-Dositée born in July 1791; Pierre-Séverin, also called Cadet, in February 1792[sic]; Céleste, baptized at the Opelousas church, age unrecorded, in November 1795; Joseph-Louis born in April 1797; Jean-Louis, also called Jean Baptiste and John, baptized, age unrecorded, in August 1799; Anastasie born in March 1802; a daughter, name unrecorded, in c1803 but died at age 2 in July 1805; Denis born in January 1804 but may have died by June 1838, in his early 40s, when a succession was filed in his name at the Opelousas courthouse; Paul born in May 1806; and Cléonise baptized, age unrecorded, in April 1812--a dozen children, six sons and six daughters, between 1787 and 1812.  Successions for wife Marie Victoire, the second certainly post-mortem, were filed at the Opelousas courthouse in February 1825 and June 1829.  Louis, in his mid-60s, remarried to cousin Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Dugas and his second wife Marguerite Daigre, at the Vermilionville church in July 1826.  Marguerite, in her mid-40s, was a native of Nantes, France, who also had come to Louisiana in 1785.  This was her only marriage.  She gave Louis no more children and died a few months before he did.  Her succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in February 1829.  Louis died in St. Landry Parish the following August.  The Opelousas priest who recorded the burial said that Louis, père, as he called him, died "at age 66 years."  He probably was a few years older.  The priest, Fr. Henry Flavius Rossi, added, strangely, "I was called to administer to her[sic] but I found her[sic] dead."  Louis's estate record was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in 1829, perhaps before his death.  His succession, naming his first and second wives and his children by his first wife--Louis, Marie and her husband, Pierre Severin, Céleste and her husband, Joseph, Jean, Anastasie and her husband, Denis, Paul, and Cléonise--was filed at the Opelousas courthouse soon after his death.  Daughters Marie, Céleste, Anastasie, and Cléonise married into the Richard, Landry, Dupré, and Vasseur families.  Four of Louis's sons also married. 

Oldest son Louis André, by first wife Marie Victoire Dugas, married Julie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Babineaux and Félice Cormier of Carencro, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in July 1814.  Their children, born probably near Carencro in what became Lafayette Parish, included Julie in May 1814; Célestine, also called Céleste, in September 1817; Louis III, also called Don Louis, in February 1819; Marguerite in January 1821; Aspasie in 1823; and Jean in September 1825.  Wife Julie's succession, likely post-mortem, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in April 1829.  Louis André, at age 41, remarried to Marie Émiliènne, called Melinda, daughter of Charles Peck and his Acadian wife Marguerite Savoie, at the Vermilionville church in June 1829.  Their children, born probably at Carencro, included Charles Octave, called Charley, in 1830 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 11 months, in July 1831; André Edgard, called A. Edgard, Edgard, and Edgar, born in June 1832; and Forestier or Forestien baptized at age 3 months in November 1834--nine children, four daughters and five sons, by two wives, between 1814 and 1834.  Louis André's succession, naming his second wife, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in February 1845.  He would have been age 57 that year.  One wonders if he was the Louis Richard who died in Lafayette Parish in October 1860.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Louis died "at age 68 yrs."  Louis André would have been a month shy of 74.  Another succession for him, calling him Louis, may have been filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in April 1861.  Daughters Julie, Céleste, and Aspasie, all from his first wife, married into the Bourque, Mayer, Babineaux, and Landry families by 1870.  Louis André's five sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Don Louis, by first wife Julie Babineaux, married cousin Célestine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Fabien Richard, his first cousin, and Eugénie Savoie of Prairie Bellevue, at the Opelousas church in December 1841.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Eugénie Carolie, called Carolie, near Grand Coteau in December 1842; Julie or Julia Etensia near Opelousas in November 1844; Louis Théogène, called Théogène, in August 1847; Marie Emérite, called Emérite, in August 1849; and Philogène in January 1851--five children, three daughters and two sons, between 1842 and 1851.  Daughters Coralie, Julia, and Emérite married into the Anselm, Prejean, and Bihm families by 1870.  One of Don Louis's sons also married by then. 

Older son Louis Théogène married Cora, daughter of Jacob Anselm and his Acadian wife Azélie Comeaux, at the Opelousas church in April 1869.  Their son Louis, fils was born in St. Landry Parish in March 1870; ...

Louis André's second son Jean, by first wife Julie Babineaux, married Zélonie, Zélonise, or Célonise, daughter of Isleño Creole Balthazar Plaisance and his Acadian wife Marie Henriette Breaux, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in July 1845, and sanctified the marriage at the Church Point church, St. Landry Parish, in June 1867.  They settled on the prairie between Church Point and Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Louis Théogène in May 1853; Hippolyte in November 1855; Jean Eugèna in November 1858; François Philosee in January 1861; Marie Philomèle in July 1863; Philogène in July 1866; Marie Azélie in November 1868; ...  None of Jean's children married by 1870. 

Louis André's third son Charles Octave, by second wife Marie Émiliènne Peck, married Martha, daughter of Benjamin Jones and Mary Higginbotham, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in June 1851.  They moved to St. Mary Parish on lower Bayou Teche.  Their children, born there, included Mary near Franklin in March 1854; and Octavia Eleanora in July 1855.  Charles O.'s succession, not post-mortem, was filed at the Franklin courthouse, St. Mary Parish, in April 1855.  He would have been age 25 that year.  Charles Octave, called Charles O. by the recording parish clerk, at age 38, evidently remarried to Ellen or Helen Dara or Dora Neyland, also called Newton, at the Opelousas church in May 1868.  They settled at Washington north of Opelousas.  Their son Arthur Anthony was born in April 1869; ...  Neither of Charles Octave's daughters married by 1870. 

Louis André's fourth son André Edgard, called Edgard, from second wife Marie Émiliènne Peck, married Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Eugène Mouton and Eugénie Savoie, at the Grand Coteau church in December 1855.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Juste in November 1856 but died at age 2 1/2 (the recording priest said 3) in September 1859; Ambroise born in July 1858 but died at age 4 in October 1862; Charles Octave born in May 1860; Marie Octavie in September 1866; Armand in November 1869; ... 

Louis André's fifth and youngest son Forestier, by second wife Marie Émiliènne Peck, married Céleste Anaïse Teller or Taylor at the Grand Coteau church in November 1855.  Their son Joseph Thelismar was born near Grand Coteau in November 1856.  Forestier remarried to Oliva Olivier, a Creole, not a fellow Acadian, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in May 1861, and sanctified the marriage at the Grand Coteau church in May 1862. ...

Louis's second son Pierre Séverin, also called Cadet, from first wife Marie Victoire Dugas, married Anne Célise or Sélesie, called Sélesie, daughter of fellow Acadians Cyrille Thibodeaux and Adélaïde Chiasson, at the Opelousas church in April 1812.  They settled on the Mermentau River.  Their children, born there, included Marie, perhaps also called Felonise, in February 1813; Pierre dit Panc in November 1814; Émelie, also called Améline, in October 1816; Louis Vileor in December 1818; Léandre in June 1822; Terville in c1823 but died at age 10 in July 1833; Zélima in June 1827; Sostène or Sosthène born in May 1829; Alphred or Alfred in January 1831; and Hyacinthe dite Jacente, a daughter, in September 1834--10 children, four daughters and six sons, between 1813 and 1834.  The Opelousas priest who baptized daughter Jacente in May 1835 noted that Pierre Séverin was deceased.  He would have been in his early 40s.   A succession for Pierre S. Richard, perhaps Pierre Séverin, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in October 1865, long after his death.  Daughters Felonise, Améline, Zélima, and Hyacinthe married into the Janise, Teal, Lacombe, Thibodeaux, and Leger families.  Four of Pierre Séverin's sons also married, but one of the lines may not have endured. 

Oldest son Pierre dit Panc married Eméranthe, called Méranthe, daughter of fellow Acadian Michel Leger le jeune and his Creole wife Céleste dite Pouponne Matte, at the Grand Coteau church in December 1839.  They settled near Church Point.  Their children, born there, included Julia in November 1840; Pierre, fils in August 1843; Émilia in December 1845; Hippolyte in October 1847 but died a few months shy of age 17 (the recording priest said 15) in July 1864 (was his death war-related?); Théogène born in November 1849; Eugénie in August 1852; Jule in April 1856; and Célestin in February 1858--eight children, three daughters and five sons, between 1840 and 1858.  Daughter Julia married into the Vigier family in Iberville Parish on the river by 1870.  One of Panc's sons also married by then and remained on the St. Landry prairies.

Oldest son Pierre, fils married cousin Pauline, daughter of fellow Acadian Louis Leger and his Canadian German Creole wife Azéma Daigle, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in February 1867, and sanctified the marriage at the Church Point church in June 1868.  Daughter Julia was born near Church Point in December 1868; ...

Pierre Séverin's second son Louis Vileor married Madeleine, daughter of Don Louis Carrière and his Acadian wife Céleste Doucet, at the Opelousas church in December 1845.  Daughter Ovina was born near Church Point in October 1859.  Did they have anymore children? 

Pierre Severin's third son Léandre likely married Céleste, probably another daughter of Michel Leger le jeune and Pouponne Matte, at the Grand Coteau church in February 1843.  She evidently gave him no children.  Léandre married, or remarried to, Marie Léonide, called Léonide or Léonie, daughter of Lasty Bergeron and Marie Aurore Roy, Creoles not fellow Acadians, at the Breaux Bridge church, St. Martin Parish, in January 1849.  Their children, born on the upper Teche, the western prairies, and on the river, included Léandre, fils near Breaux Bridge in January 1850; Lasty near Church Point in September 1852; Azélie baptized at age 4 months at the Church Point church in April 1855; Léontine born in March 1857; Clarissa near Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, on the west bank of the Mississippi, in January 1860; Doruska, perhaps theirs and perhaps a daughter, near Grand Coteau in December 1864; ...  One wonders why the family moved so often.  None of Léandre's children married by 1870. 

Pierre Severin's sixth and youngest son Alfred married Azéma, daughter of fellow Acadian Placide Leger and his Creole wife Azélie Matte, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in April 1853, and sanctified the marriage at the Grand Coteau church in August 1854.  Their children, born near Church Point, included Marie Célesie in December 1854; Eusèbe in December 1856; and Marie Azélia in February 1858--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1854 and 1858.  None of Alfred's children married by 1870. 

Louis's third son Joseph Louis, by first wife Marie Victoire Dugas, married first cousin Eugénie, daughter of fellow Acadians François Richard and Hélène Brasseaux, his uncle and aunt, at the Opelousas church in July 1819.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Asélie or Azélie in July 1823; Marie Vergina in May 1824; Alexandre in May 1827; Téodore or Théodore in September 1828; Joseph, fils in September 1831; Adolphe in March 1834; Lastie or Lasty in May 1835; Élisabeth in May 1837; and Louis le jeune in July 1844--nine children, three daughters and six sons, between 1823 and 1844.  An estate record in Joseph Louis's name, not post-mortem, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in July 1824.  Joseph Louis died in St. Landry Parish in November 1851.  The Opelousas priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Joseph died "at age 56 yrs."  He was 54.  His succession, calling him Joseph L., was filed at the Opelousas courthouse the following July.  Daughters Azélie and Élizabeth married into the Baugh, Cormier, and Bourque families by 1870, one of them, Azélie, twice.  Four of Joseph Louis's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Alexandre married cousin Hélène, daughter of fellow Acadians Mélon Doucet and Hélène Richard, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in December 1857, and sanctified the marriage at the Opelousas church in January.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Omer in December 1858 but, called Joseph Omer, died near Church Point, age 10 months, in November 1859; Alexandre, fils born in March 1862; Alcée in April 1864 but died the following December; ... 

Joseph Louis's second son Théodore married Louisa, also called Élisa, daughter perhaps of fellow Acadian Pierre Comeaux, fils and his Creole wife Louise Durio, at the Grand Coteau church in October 1846.  They settled on the prairie between Grand Coteau and Arnaudville, where Théodore worked as a merchant.  Their children, born there, included Homer Félicien in September 1848; Emma in c1850; Théodore, fils, perhaps also called Eugène, in July 1853; Estelle in c1854; Marie D. in c1856; Joseph Théodore, called Théodore, in May 1859; Marie Laperle in May 1862; and Albert in August 1864--eight children, four sons and four daughters, between 1848 and 1864.  Théodore's succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in October 1864.  He would have been age 36 that year.  If this was a post-mortem succession, was Théodore's death war-related?  Daughter Emma married into the Bernard and McDonald families by 1870.  None of Théodore's sons married by then. 

Joseph Louis's fourth son Adolphe married cousin Sarah Ann, also called Caroline and Ceriènne, daughter of Israël Barton, Barten, or Burden and his Acadian wife Marie Estelle Richard, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in June 1859.  They settled near Church Point.  Their children, born there, included Marie Estelle in April 1862; Joseph in June 1866; Élodie in November 1869; ... 

Joseph Louis's fifth and youngest son Louis le jeune married Joséphine, daughter of Antoine Fontenot and Madeleine Stouts, at the Grand Coteau church in June 1867; the marriage was recorded also at the Church Point church.  They settled near Church Point.  Their children, born there, included Arnest in April 1868; Marie Aristine in July 1870; ... 

Louis's fourth son Jean Louis, also called Jean Baptiste and John, from first wife Marie Victoire Dugas, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Baptiste Guidry and Solange Hébert, at the Vermilionville church in June 1825.  They settled probably on the prairie between Carencro and Grand Coteau.  Their children, born there, included Azélie in October 1826; Laurent in the late 1820s; Jean Duclise, called Duclise, Duclide, Euclide, and Uclide, in February 1828; Moïse baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 7 days, in December 1830 but died in St. Landry Parish, age 21 (the recording priest said 20), in February 1852 (his succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse the following August); Paul Felin or Félix born in Lafayette Parish in May 1834; Joachim baptized at age 3 months in June 1836; and Victorien or Victorin born in March 1839--seven children, a daughter and six sons, between 1826 and 1839.  Jean died probably at Carencro in December 1852, age 53 (the recording priest said 52).  His succession, calling him Jean and naming his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following May.  Daughter Azélie married into the Fenetre family.  Five of Jean's sons also married, and one of them may have been executed by Confederate cavalry during the War of 1861-65.

Oldest son Laurent married Eulalie, daughter of fellow Acadian Onésime LeBlanc and his Creole wife Eulalie Pavie, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in April 1850, and sanctified the marriage at the Grand Coteau church in July.  They settled probably near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Victor Henri in February 1853; and Joseph Aladin in March 1855.  Neither of Laurent's sons married by 1870. 

Jean Louis's second son Jean Duclise, also called Euclide, called Duclide by the recording priest, married Carmésine, Carmésile, or Carmélite Abélard, perhaps Abshire, daughter of Jacob Beard and Marie Adam, at the Grand Coteau church in September 1851.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Jean Venance, called Venance, near Grand Coteau, in August 1849; Désiré in c1851; Joseph Alcide, called Alcide, in Lafayette Parish in October 1854; Alexis near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in September 1856; and Marie, also called Amelina and perhaps also Ophelia, in December 1858--five children, four sons and a daughter, between 1849 and 1858.  Duclise, called Euclide Richard, evidently appears on the Civil War victims memorial in Abshire Cemetery, Vermilion Parish, near Bayou Queue de Tortue, as one of the area "jayhawkers" executed by Confederate cavalry in March 1864 (the memorial erroneously says April 1863).  Duclise/Euclide would have been age 56 at the time of his death, so he was not a Confederate deserter.  None of his children married by 1870.  In June 1870, wife Carmélite, age 55, "keeping house"; son Alexis, age 17, a field hand; and daughter Ophelia, age 13, appear without him in the federal census in Lafayette Parish that year, which lends credence to his having died during or after the War of 1861-65. 

Jean Louis's fourth son Paul Félix married Madeleine, daughter of Thomas Stouts and his Acadian wife Marie Carmélite Benoit, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in September 1853.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Marie Edwina in Lafayette Parish in July 1854; and Marie Amephine Sevina, perhaps theirs, baptized, age unrecorded, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in August 1856.  Did they have anymore children?  Neither of Paul Félix's daughters married by 1870. 

Jean Louis's fifth son Joachim, called Joacin by the recording clerk, likely married fellow Acadian Élodie Thibodeaux in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in January 1856.  Their son Jean Duplessis was born near Grand Coteau in December 1856.  Did they have anymore children?   

Jean's Louis's sixth and youngest son Victorin, called Victorin G. and Victorin J. by the recording priest and the recording clerk, married Marie Anastasie, called Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadian Éloi Mouton and his Creole wife Marie Gisclard, at the Vermilionville church in January 1869.  Their son Jean was born in Lafayette Parish in November 1869; ... 

Pierre's third son Pierre, fils, also called Pierre dit Tinan or Tino, from first wife Marguerite Dugas, followed his family to New Orleans and Opelousas, where he married cousin Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Dugas and his first wife Marguerite Granger of Cobeguit, Boulogne-sur-Mer, and Attakapas, in May 1787.  Marie-Josèphe, a native of Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, had come to Louisiana in 1785 and followed her family to the prairies.  She and Pierre, fils settled at Bellevue in the Opelousas District before moving to Anse La Butte on upper Bayou Vermilion at the northern end of the Attakapas District.  Their children, born at Bellevue, included Pierre-Anaclet, called Anaclet, in April 1788; Marie- or Mary-Marguerite, called Marguerite, baptized at the Opelousas church, age unrecorded, in August 1789; Louise, also called Marie Louise, born in September 1790; Angèlle in January 1792 but died at age 25 in January 1817; Louis le jeune born in September 1794; a son, name unrecorded, died at age 7 days in March 1797; and Philippe le jeune born in January 1799--seven children, four sons and three daughters, between 1788 and 1799.  Pierre, fils died "at his home" at La Butte in July 1811, age 48.  His succession, listing his widow, brothers Louis and Fabien Ruban, brother-in-law Jean Charles Dugas, and five children--Anaclet, Mary, Louis, and Angèlle--was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse, St. Martin Parish, the following August, and at the Vermilionville and Opelousas courthouses in Lafayette and St. Landry parishes in July 1835, so he may have owned property in all three civil parishes.  Daughters Marie Louise and Marie Marguerite married to Hébert brothers.  Three of Pierre, fils's sons also married and settled at La Butte and Carencro, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Pierre Anaclet, called Anaclet, married Marie Eugénie, daughter of fellow Acadians Basile Chiasson and Marie Thibodeau, at the Opelousas church in May 1816.  They settled at La Butte.  Their children, born there, included a son, name unrecorded, died at age 5 months in November 1816; Marie, also called Marie Hermoine, born in October 1819; and Pierre Fergus, called Fergus, in June 1818.  A succession, probably post-mortem, for wife Marie Eugénie was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in March 1822 and at the Vermilionville courthouse in January 1830, so they must have owned property in both civil parishes.  Anaclet remarried to Marie Carmélite Sidalise, daughter of fellow Acadians Leufroi Sonnier and Carmélite Comeaux, at the Vermilionville church in January 1827.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Zoé in late 1827 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 5 months, in April 1828; Leufroi born in c1830; Celasty dit Lasty in September 1834; Marie Laure, called Laure, in late 1836 and baptized at age 7 months in May 1837 but died at age 2 in September 1838; Félix born in 1839 and baptized at age 14 months in March 1840; Charles born in October 1840; Jean Sosthène in January 1844; Carmélite in January 1846 but, called Carmélite Anaclet, died in Lafayette Parish, age 8 1/2 (the recording priest said 9), in August 1854; Féliciana born in June 1848; Villière or Vilcor in March 1850; and Silvain or Sylvain in June 1852--14 children, nine sons and five daughters, by two wives, between 1816 and 1852.  Anaclet died in Lafayette Parish in January 1859.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who gave no parents' names nor mention a wife, said that Anaclet died "at age 66 yrs."  He was 70.  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in March.  Daughters Marie Hermoine and .Zoé, by both wives, married into the Constantin and Sonnier families by 1870.  Six of Anaclet's sons also married by then, but not all of the lines endured. 

Second son Pierre Fergus, called Fergus, from first wife Marie Eugénie Chiasson, married cousin Céleste Laure, called Laure, daughter of fellow Acadians Narcisse Cormier and Célestine Chiasson, at the Vermilionville church in January 1837.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included a child, name unrecorded, died at age 8 days in October 1837; Ermosa born in August 1838 but died at age 3 1/2 in March 1842; Eugénie Alice born in September 1840--three children, including two daughters, between 1837 and 1840.  Pierre Fergus died by November 1843, when he was listed as deceased in a daughter's baptismal record.  His succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in March 1845.  He would have been age 27 that year.  His daughters did not marry by 1870.  His line of the family, except perhaps for its blood, died with him. 

Anaclet's third son Leufroi, by second wife Marie Carmélite Sonnier, married Editha, daughter of fellow Acadian Napoléon Paul Lalande and his Creole wife Susanne Fabre, at the Vermilionville church in September 1853.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Marie Mathilde in August 1854; and Cléophas in October 1855.  Leufroi was "Killed during an argument" probably in Lafayette Parish in November 1860.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Lufroy, as he called him, died "at age 30 yrs."  One wonders who killed him, and what the argument was about.  Leufroi's succession, calling him Leufroy and naming his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse less than a week after his untimely death.  None of Leufroi's children married by 1870. 

Anaclet's fourth son Lasty, by second wife Marie Carmélite Sonnier, married Émelie, daughter of Étienne Doguet or Douger and Émelie Clauteau, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in September 1866.  Daughter Olide was born in Lafayette Parish in April 1870; ...

Anaclet's fifth son Félix, by second wife Marie Carmélite Sonnier, married Adèle, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Melançon and his Creole wife Clémence Ringuet, at the Breaux Bridge church, St. Martin Parish, in October 1860.  They settled near Breaux Bridge.  Their children, born there, included Luffroie, probably Leufroi, le jeune in July 1861; Alcée in July 1864; Désiré in February 1867; Eva in June 1869; ... 

Anaclet's sixth son Charles, by second wife Marie Carmélite Sonnier, married cousin Carmélite Émelie Sonnier at the Vermilionville church in November 1860. ...

Anaclet's eighth son Villière or Vilcor, by second wife Marie Carmélite Sonnier, married Mathilde or Mathilda, daughter of Antoine Mendoza and Sylvanie Senitiere, at the Breaux Bridge church in November 1870. ... 

Pierre, fils's second son Louis le jeune married Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Dominique Babineaux and Marguerite Blandine Thibodeaux, at the Grand Coteau church in February 1822.  They settled probably near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Louis Gédéon, called Gédéon, in November 1822; Mélasie in March 1825; Marie Adeline baptized at the Vermilionville church, "at age 4 mths. less 6 days," in July 1827; Marguerite Olizia in late 1829 and baptized, age 1 1/2 months, in January 1830; triplets Célanie, Mélanie, and Uranie in late February 1832, but Mélanie died at age 17 days in March, and Uranie died at age 23 years (the recording priest said 22) in October 1855; and Amélie baptized, age 2 1/2 months, in June 1835--eight children, a son and seven daughters, including a set of triplets, between 1822 and 1835.  Louis le jeune died "at the home of P[ierre]. Cormier]," his brother-in-law (husband of Adélaïde's sister Céleste), at Carencro in April 1857.  The Grand Coteau priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Louis died "at age 62 yrs."  Daughters Mélasie, Marie Adeline, Marguerite Olizia, and Célanie married Broussard, LeBlanc, and Dugas cousins, including two Dugas brothers, by 1870.  Louis le jeune's son also married, but the family line, except perhaps for its blood, does not seem to have endured.

Only son Gédéon married cousin Adélaïde Babine Élisa, called Élisa, daughter of fellow Acadians Arvillien LeBlanc and Juliènne Babineaux, at the Grand Coteau church in January 1849; the marriage was registered also in Lafayette Parish.  They settled probably near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Marie Coralie, called Coralie, in August 1850; Thelismar in c1852; a child, name unrecorded, died at age 8 days in December 1854; Marie Ophelia born in March 1856 but, called Ophelia, died the following June; Eulalie born in February 1859 but died at "age 10 to 11 yrs." in November 1869; a child, name and age unrecorded, died in November 1860; Euphémie born in March 1864; ...  Gédéon died probably at Carencro in April 1869.  The Grand Coteau priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Gédéon died "at age 46 yrs."  His succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in May.  Daughter Coralie married a Babineaux cousin by 1870.  Did Gédéon's son Thelismar marry? 

Pierre, fils's fourth and youngest son Philippe le jeune married double cousin Célestine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Dugas and Céleste Dugas of Lafayette Parish, at the Grand Coteau church in October 1824.  They settled probably near Carencro.  Philippe le jeune died in Lafayette Parish in March 1870.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Philippe died "at age 70 to 75 yrs."  Philippe le jeune would have been age 71.  Were he and his wife that rare Acadian couple who had no children? 

Pierre, père's fourth son Philippe, by first wife Marguerite Dugas, married Marie-Eugénie, called Eugénie, daughter of Louis Lavergne and Marianne Lacasse, at the Opelousas church in May 1796.  They settled at Bellevue.  Their children, born there, included Philippe, fils, also called Joseph, baptized, age unrecorded, in April 1797; Marie-Louise, also called Emélite, baptized, age unrecorded, May 1799; Marie, also called Marie-Zélie, baptized, age unrecorded, in March 1801; Joseph, called Joseph-Gerasime or Gerasime-Joseph, born in April 1803; Eugène in November 1805; Alexandrine baptized, age 2 months, in July 1808; Éloise baptized, age 3 months, in September 1810; Eugénie born in September 1812 but died at age 3 years (the recording priest said 3 months) in October 1815; Marie Aureliène, called Aureline, born in September 1815; and Adolphe in November 1818--10 children, four sons and six daughters, between 1797 and 1818.  Philippe died in St. Landry Parish in November 1829, age 58.  His successions, the first one naming his wife and sons--Adolphe, Gerasime, Eugène, and Philippe--were filed at the Opelousas courthouse in January and July 1830.  Daughters Emélite, Marie Zélie, Alexandrine, Éloise, and Aureline married into the Miller, Thibodeaux, Boutté, Andrus, and Lavergne families.  Philippe's sons also married, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Philippe, fils, also called Joseph, married Marcellite, daughter of Jean Baptiste Stelly and Cécilia Burleigh, at the Grand Coteau church in September 1823.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Théodule, perhaps also called Joseph dit Théodule Sauveur, in August 1824; Eugène Téogène or Théogène, called Théogène, in December 1825; Théodore in April 1827; Théophile in November 1828; Eugénie in October 1830; Avina, Evina, or Azéna in October 1834; and Marie Alexandrine, called Alexandrine, in September 1837--seven children, four sons and three daughters, between 1824 and 1837.  Philippe, fils died near Grand Coteau in December 1837, age 40.  His succession, naming his wife and listing his children--Théodule, Théogène, Théodore, Théophile, Eugénie, Evina, and Alexandrine--was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in August 1840.  Daughters Eugénie, Azéna, and Alexandrine married into the Bergeron, Delhomme, and Fisette families, and perhaps into the Delahoussaye family as well, one of them, Alexandrine, twice, by 1870.  Three of Philippe, fils's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Théodule married Marie Hélène, called Hélène, daughter of Abraham Harman and Martha Hayes, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in February 1847.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Gustave near Grand Coteau in December 1848; Victor Raimond near Church Point in February 1851; Théodule, fils in May 1853; Abraham near Arnaudville, St. Landry Parish, in January 1858; Alice in Lafayette Parish in March 1860; Elis in February 1862 but, called Lise, died near Grand Coteau at age 2 in August 1864; William born near Arnaudville in February 1864; ...  Théodule, at age 43, remarried to Félicia, daughter of fellow Acadians Eugène Mouton and Eugénie Savoie, at the Breaux Bridge church in January 1868.  None of Théodule's sons married by 1870. 

Philippe, fils's second son Théogène likely married Estelle Delhomme at the Grand Coteau church in February 1845.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Joseph Philippe, called Philippe le jeune, in January 1845, a week before his parents' marriage; Marie Hélène, called Hélène, in August 1847; Edgard in February 1850; Alfred in July 1851 but died at age 1 in July 1852; Sélima born in September 1852; and Alice in July 1854.  Théogène remarried to cousin Joséphine, daughter of Alexandre Castille and Josette Stelly, at the Grand Coteau church in April 1864.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included a "child," name and age unrecorded, died near Grand Coteau at age 2 months in June 1865; Joseph died "at age 11 1/2 mths.[sic]" in September 1867; ...  Daughter Hélène, by his first wife, married into the Bergeron family by 1870.  Two of Théogène's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Philippe le jeune, by first wife Estelle Delhomme, married Anna, daughter of Halaene[sic] Moore and Marguerite Moore, at the Breaux Bridge church in November 1869. ... 

Philippe, fils's second son Edgard, by first wife Estelle Delhomme, married Célimène, daughter of Selride Domengeaux and Idalie Caillet, at the Breaux Bridge church in August 1870. ...

Philippe, fils's fourth and youngest son Théophile married Marguerite Amélina, Émeline, or Émelina, daughter of Creoles Jean Baptiste Bergeron and Adelphine Guidroz, at the St. Martinville church in November 1853.  They settled near Arnaudville.  Their children, born there, included Delphine Améa in November 1854 but, called Delphine Uméa, died at age 2 1/2 (the recording priest said 3) in July 1857; Marie Ulalie born in March 1856; Marie Eucharis in September 1857; Gerasime le jeune in June 1859; Udalie in November 1860; Albert in April 1862; and Marie Blanche in October 1864--seven children, five daughters and two sons, between 1854 and 1864.  Théophile's succession, naming his wife and saying she remarried to William Hargroder, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in July 1865, after his wife had remarried.  Was his death war-related?  None of his children married by 1870. 

Philippe, père's second son Joseph Gerasime or Gerasime Joseph, at age 29, married Mary Anne, daughter of Malachi Stanton, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in September 1832.  Daughter Émilie or Émilia was born in St. Landry Parish in July 1834.  A succession for wife Mary Anne, probably post-mortem, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in December 1837.  Joseph Gerasime, at age 34, remarried to Marie Justine Cora, called Cora, daughter of Terence Delahoussaye and Marie Françoise Edelzine DeBlanc, in a civil ceremony in St. Mary Parish in December 1837, and sanctified the marriage at the St. Martinville church later in the month.  They settled near Grand Coteau.  Their children, born there, included Charles in June 1839; Louis Armand, called Armand, in September 1841; Marie Françoise Edelzino, also called Marie Adelzènne, in September 1842; Marie Françoise Eugénie, called Eugénie, in August 1844; Marie Corine in March 1846 but, called Corinne, died at age 6 1/2 in September 1852; François Authur, probably Arthur, called Arthur, born in 1848; Marie Françoise Coralie in December 1849; and Marie Pamela in September 1852--nine children, six daughters and three sons, by two wives, between 1834 and 1852.  Gerasime died near Grand Coteau in March 1855, age 51 (the recording priest said 52).  Daughters Émelie, Marie Adelzènne, and Eugénie, by both wives, married into the Richard, Bassett, and Pellerin families by 1870.  Gerasime's sons also married by then, and the lower Teche and the western prairies. 

Oldest son Charles, by second wife Cora Delahoussaye, married Marie Erma or Irma, daughter of François Optat D'Arby and Azema Deaubais, at the Charenton church, St. Mary Parish, in August 1860.  Their children, born on the lower Teche and St. Landry prairies, included Marie Corine near Charenton in May 1861; Joseph Charles there in January 1863; Marie Irma near Grand Coteau in November 1865; Marie Madeleine Louise Sophie Barrat in September 1868; ... 

Gerasime's second son Armand, by second wife Cora Delahoussaye, married cousin Louisa Élodie, called Élodie, daughter of fellow Acadians Théogène Hébert and Julie Richard, at the Vermilionville church in September 1863.  They settled probably near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Marie Elmina in September 1865 but, called Elmina, died at age 1 in August 1866; Julie Cora born in May 1867; James Goutrant in April 1869; ... 

Gerasime's third and youngest son François Arthur, called Arthur, from second wife Cora Delahoussaye, married Élodie, daughter of Napoléon Robin and his Acadian wife Marie Boudreaux, at the Grand Coteau church in October 1870. ...

Philippe, père's third son Eugène married Catherine, daughter of Abraham Harman and Martha Hayes, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in March 1830.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Eugène, fils in October 1831; Eugénie in January 1833; Jefferson in September 1834; Menxil Joseph Wils, perhaps also called Willey E., in May 1836; Aureliènne in October 1837; Eugénie Françoise in February 1841; Cordillia in November 1842; and Lidie Marie in October 1843--eight children, three sons and five daughters, between 1831 and 1843.  Eugène died near Grand Coteau in February 1846, age 40 (the recording priest said 39).  His succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse the following July.  Daughter Eugénie François married a Hayes cousin by 1870.  One of Eugène's sons also seems to have married by then. 

Willey E., as the recording clerk called him, perhaps third and youngest son Menxil Joseph Wils, married cousin Éliza, daughter of Isaac Hayes and ____, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in March 1852.  Menxil Joseph Wils would have been two months shy of his 16th birthday at the time, which, if this was him, may explain why it was a civil and not a church wedding.  Did they have any children?

Philippe, père's fourth and youngest son Adolphe married, at age 18, cousin Azéma, 14-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Julien Landry and Céleste Richard, at the Opelousas church in April 1837.  A succession, probably post-mortem, for wife Azéma was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in March 1839.  One wonders if she died in childbirth.  Adolphe remarried to cousin Marie Eugénie or Virginie, daughter of François Dupré and his Acadian wife Anastasie Richard, at the Opelousas church in April 1841.  Adolphe's will, naming his second wife, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in April 1842.  Daughter Marie Léocade, called Léocade, was born near Grand Coteau in January 1848.  A succession, probably post-mortem, for second wife Marie Eugénie, naming her husband, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in February 1850.  At age 44, Adolphe remarried again--his third marriage--to Marie or Marguerite Eléonore C., daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Bourque and Céleste Hébert, at the Grand Coteau church in October 1863.  Adolphe may have died "at Bellevue," St. Landry Parish, in December 1870.  The Opelousas priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Adolphe died "at age 45 yrs."  This Adolphe would have been age 52.  His succession, giving his death date but naming no wife, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse a few days after his passing.  Daughter Léocade, by his second wife, married into the Savoie family.  Did he father any sons by any of his three wives? 

Pierre, père's fifth son Olivier, by first wife Marguerite Dugas, married Théotiste, daughter of Hubert Jany or Janise and his Acadian wife Marie Brasseaux, at Opelousas in February 1802, but they had lived together before that date.  Their children, born in what became St. Landry Parish, included Olive in May 1798, years before her parents married and baptized two days after their wedding; Clémentine, also called Clémence, born in March 1799; Olivier, fils in the early 1800s; another Clémentine in c1802 and baptized at the Opelousas church, age 1, in March 1803; Marie born in c1806 and baptized, age 16, in March 1822 with her younger brothers; Artéon born in c1807 or 1808 and baptized, age 15, in March 1822 with his older sister and younger brother, but "drowned by accident," age 21, in May 1829; Edmon or Edmond born in c1811 and baptized at age 11 with his older siblings in March 1822; and Pélagie born in June 1813--eight children, five daughters and three sons, between 1798 and 1813.  Olivier, père's succession, calling his wife Théotiste Jany and listing his children--Clémence and her husband; Olivier, fils; Olive and her husband; Marie; Pélagie and her husband; and Edmond--was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in April 1838.  He probably was in his early 60s that year.  Daughters Clémentine/Clémence, Olive, Marie, and Pélagie married into the Fontenot, Shearman, Carrière, Doucet, and Bordelon families, two of them to Fontenot cousins, one of them twice.  Two of Olivier's sons also married. 

Oldest son Olivier, fils married Louise dite Lise, daughter of Pierre Joubert and Catherine Chartier, at the Opelousas church in April 1825.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Edmon or Edmond le jeune, also called Edmond Olivier, in February 1826; Louise in the late 1820s; Valmon, Valmond, or Valmont in March 1830; Euphrosine in April 1832; Amélie or Amelia in January 1835; and Célestine or Céleste in February 1837--six children, two sons and four daughters, between 1826 and 1837.  Olivier, fils's succession, naming his wife and his minor heirs--Edmond, Louise, Valmont, Euphroisine, Amelia, and Céleste--was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in March 1838.  One wonders how old he was at the time.  Daughters Louise, Amelia, Célestine, and Euphrosine married into the Strider, Prather, Lejeune, and Richard families.  Both of Olivier, fils's sons also married.

Older son Edmond Olivier, according to the 1860 federal census, worked as a carpenter and remained illiterate.  He married Célestine Françoise, daughter of François Vigé and his Acadian wife Azélie Foret, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in August 1845.  Their son Théodot was born in St. Landry Parish in August 1846 but, called "boy," died "at quartier Plaisance," age 13 1/2 (the recording priest said 14), in June 1860.  Edmond Olivier remarried to Célanie, daughter of Laurent Dupré and his Acadian wife Caroline David and widow of Sébastien Perrodin, at the Opelousas church in October 1849.  Their children, born near Church Point, included Octavie in October 1850 but died by August 1860, when she does not appear in the federal census with her family; Omer O. born in October 1852, who was attending school in 1860; Marie Hermina in c1853 but died at age 2 in April 1855; Marie E. born in c1855; Alexis Ernest in July 1857; Eve died at age 8 days in July 1860; ...  None of Edmond Olivier's children married by 1870. 

Olivier, fils's younger son Valmont married cousin Lisa, daughter of Israël Barton and his Acadian wife Marie Estelle Richard, at the Opelousas church in April 1856.  Daughter Marie Eulasie was born in St. Landry Parish in March 1857 but died the following September.  Did they have anymore children? 

Olivier, père's third and youngest son Edmond married Judith or Julie, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Sonnier and his Creole "wife" Sophie Bello, at the Opelousas church in August 1840.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Marie Ulasie in July 1842; twins Charles Olivier, called Olivier, and Élisabeth in March 1845; Théoliste in January 1848; Ernest, perhaps their son, in c1857 but died at age 2 in August 1859; and Eve, perhaps their daughter, died at age 17 days in July 1860.  Mme. Edmond Richard, probably wife Judith, died at Washington north of Opelousas in October 1860, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth.  Edmond, at age 51, remarried to Azélie, daughter of Joseph H. McGee and his Acadian wife Perrine dite Patsy Young, at the Opelousas church in July 1862.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Joseph in July 1863; Marie in December 1864; ...  None of Edmond's children seems to have married by 1870. 

Pierre, père's sixth and youngest son François, by first wife Marguerite Dugas, married Hélène, also called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Blaise Brasseaux and Anne Prejean, at the Opelousas church in January 1798.  Their children, born in what became St. Landry Parish, included François, fils baptized, age unrecorded, on Christmas Day 1798 but supposedly died "as a child" in February 1800; Céleste, perhaps also called Sydalise Françoise, baptized at the Opelousas church age unrecorded, in April 1800; Alexandre le jeune born in c1801 and baptized, age 1, in August 1802; Eugénie born in c1803 and baptized, age 10 months, in May 1804; Jean Baptiste baptized, age 2 months, in May 1804; Marie Emérante baptized, age 2 months, in November 1805 but died at age 2 1/2 in October 1808; Julie baptized, age 5 months, in June 1808; a second Marie Emérante, called Emérante, born in March 1810; Aurelie or Aureline baptized, age 2 months, in July 1812; Marie Asélie or Azélie, called Azélie, in c1813; Hélène born in March 1814; Pierre Cyrille le jeune, perhaps also called Pierre Zelien, in February 1816; Delphine in January 1818; Melinda probably in the late 1810s; and Adélaïde in c1820 and baptized, age 3, in July 1823.  Successions for wife Ellen, as she was called, most likely post-mortem, were filed at the Opelousas courthouse in May 1823, April 1828, and July 1832.  François, père, in his early 40s, remarried to Marguerite, also called Marie, another daughter of Blaise Brasseaux and Anne Prejean and widow of William Woods, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in June 1823.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Adeline in January 1824; Azolin, also called Counal Azolin, in July 1826; and Caroline in March 1828--18 children, five sons and 13 daughters, by two wives, between 1798 and 1828.  François, père's first succession, not post-mortem, naming his second wife, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in March 1847.  He died in St. Landry Parish in July 1848, age 71.  His post-mortem succession, calling him François Sr., was filed at the Opelousas courthouse the day of his death.  Daughters Eugénie, Sydalise Françoise, Emérante, Azélie, Aureline, Hélène, Melinda, and Adeline, by both wives, married into the Richard, Delhomme, Bertrand, Martin, Lavergne, Leger, Doucet, Berchum, and Thibodeaux families.  Four of François's sons also married and settled on the Opelousas prairies. 

Oldest son François, fils, by first wife Hélène Brasseaux, supposedly died "as a child" in February 1800, but, at age 26, married Anne dite Manette, daughter of fellow Acadians Bonaventure Martin and Anne Eléonore Comeaux, at the Opelousas church in February 1825.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included François III in December 1826; Eugénie in April 1829; Eugène in August 1831; Martin in October 1834; Anaclet in March 1836; Anne Louise in August 1838; Théodule, also called Théodule François and Théodule F., in June 1841; and Théogène in May 1843--eight children, six sons and two daughters, between 1826 and 1843.  François, fils's succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in July 1846.  He would have been in his late 40s or early 50s that year.  Daughters Eugénie and Anne Louise married into the Bertrand and Woods families by 1870.  Three of François, fils's sons also married by then. 

Second son Eugène married Marguerite Doralice, Doralis, Doralise, Dorothy, or Doranie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste David V and Marguerite Elmire Breaux, at the Opelousas church in January 1854.  They settled near Church Point.  Their children, born there, included Jean Baptiste Gustave in January 1855; Eugène, fils in September 1856; Marguerite Elmire in May 1858; Théogènes in September 1860; Lucius in April 1862; Marie Alice in July 1865; François in March 1867; Ernest in November 1868; Arvil in August 1870; ...  None of Eugène's children married by 1870. 

François, fils's third son Martin married Clare or Clara, daughter of Benjamin Carantin or Carentin and Cécile Coralin, at the Opelousas church in May 1860.  They settled at Washington north of Opelousas and then near Church Point.  Their children, born there, included Benjamin in August 1861; Joseph Ernest in December 1866; Martin Henry in August 1868; Philippe Amus in April 1870; ...

François, fils's fourth son may have been the Anaclet Richard who married, in his early 30s, Emélina dite Mélina Bordelon, widow of John Huggins, at the Church Point church in February 1867.  Their children, born near Church Point, include Marie in December 1867; Anna Ofelia in March 1869; Marie Avia in August 1870; ...

François, fils's fifth son Théodule, called Théodule F. by the recording clerk and the recording priest, married Evélina, another daughter of Jean Baptiste David V and Marguerite Elmire Breaux, at the Church Point church in December 1869. ...

François, père's second son Alexandre le jeune, by first wife Hélène Brasseaux, married Éloise, also called Sologne, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Leger and Anne Doucet, at the Opelousas church in January 1826.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Joséphine in October 1826; Hélène in February 1830; Silvanie or Sylvanie in February 1832; Olive or Oliva in December 1834; Julie in May 1838; and Alexandre, fils in June 1840--six children, five daughters and a son, between 1826 and 1840.  Alexandre, père's first succession, naming his wife and listing his children--Joséphine, Élein [Hélène], Sylvanie, Olive, Julia, and Alexandre--was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in May 1841, when he would have been age 40.  One wonders if it was post-mortem.  A second succession for him, naming his wife, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in November 1846.  Daughters Joséphine, Hélène, Julie, and Olive married into the Carrière, Bellard, Lagrange, and Leger families.  Alexandre le jeune's son also married. 

Only son Alexandre, fils married Émelie or Amélie, daughter of Arthur Thomas and Emelia Brown, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in July 1858, and sanctified the marriage at the Grand Coteau church in August.  They settled near Arnaudville.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Arthur in August 1859 but, called Arthur, died at age 8 1/2 (the recording priest said 10) in December 1868; Marie Alexandrine born in October 1861; Louis Armand in January 1864; Alida Marie in November 1866; Jean Berchmann in March 1869; ... 

François, père's fourth Pierre Cyrille le jeune, perhaps also called Pierre Zelien, from first wife Hélène Brasseaux, married, at age 41, cousin Euphrasie or Euphrosine, daughter of fellow Acadian Olivier Richard, fils and his Creole wife Louise Joubert, at the Opelousas church in December 1857.  Did they have any children? 

François, père's fifth and youngest son Counal Azolin, called Azolin, from second wife Marguerite Brasseaux, married Marie Azéline or Zéoline Ducharme at the Grand Coteau church in February 1848.  They settled near Church Point.  Their children, born there, included François in June 1849; Pierre in October 1851; Eugène in November 1853; Alexandre le jeune in December 1855; and Margarett in January 1858.  Azolin remarried to Marie Anne, Annette, or Nanette, daughter of fellow Acadians Maximilien Cormier and Marie Mélanie Broussard, at the Grand Coteau church in April 1862.  They settled probably on the prairie east of Church Point.  Their children, born there, included Marie Azoline in May 1864; Désiré in September 1867; twins Gustave and Octave in December 1869; ...  One of Azolin's sons married by 1870. 

Second son Pierre, by first wife Marie Azéline Ducharme, married Elvina, daughter of fellow Acadian Aurelien Cormier and his Creole wife Marianne Frugé, at the Vermilionville church in July 1870. ...

Victor (c1747-1808) à Martin à Michel dit Sansoucy Richard

Victor, sixth and youngest son of Alexandre Richard and Marie-Madeleine Thibodeau, younger brother of Pierre, born probably at Malpèque, Île St.-Jean, in c1747, was counted with his parents there in August 1752, followed them into exile and his older brother into imprisonment and likely was one of the four "children" on a repatriation list with brother Pierre and his wife in the prison compound at Halifax in August 1763.  Victor followed Pierre and their Broussard kin to Louisiana in 1764-65 and settled with his brother on Belleveu Prairie by the spring of 1766.  He married cousin Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Cosme Brasseur dit Brasseaux and Élisabeth Thibodeau, probably at Belleveu in the early or mid-1770s.  Their children, born there, included Jean-Baptiste-Victor, called Baptiste-Victor and Baptiste, in November 1775; Madeleine in May 1778; Marguerite baptized at the Opelousas church, age 5 weeks, in May 1780; Julie born in November 1783; Joseph-Victor in January 1785; Alexandre le jeune in January 1787 but died at age 20 in June 1807; and Louis le jeune baptized, age unrecorded, in August 1789 but died in August 1794, age unrecorded--seven children, four sons and three daughters, between 1775 and 1789.  Like his brother, Victor became a successful cattleman.  By May 1777, Victor's herd had increased to 70 head of cattle and nine horses, and in 1788 he owned 150 head of cattle and 29 horses, as well as three slaves.  He died probably on Bellevue Prairie in September 1808, in his early 60s.  His successions were filed at the Opelousas courthouse in March 1809 and March 1810.  Daughters Madeleine, Marguerite, and Julie married into the Cormier, Bijeaux, Thibodeaux, and Estilette families.  Victor's remaining sons also married.  Some of his grandsons settled in Lafayette Parish. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste-Victor, called Baptiste-Victor and Baptiste, married Marie-Anne, called Anne and also Marguerite, daughter of Noël Vasseur and Agathe Duplechin, at the Opelousas church in February 1803.  Their children, born in what became St. Landry Parish, included Jean Baptiste Victor, fils in c1804; a child, name unrecorded, in c1805 but "drowned in a well" at age 5 in July 1810; Zephir or Zephyr baptized, age 2 months, in July 1806; Eugénie born in August 1808; Victorin in February 1811 but died at age 1 in February 1812; Sidonie or Sidonise born in February 1813; Olive in December 1815 but died at age 2 1/2 in March 1818; and Marie Anne Hortense in c1818--eight children, at least three sons and four daughters, between 1804 and 1818.  Jean Baptiste Victor died in St. Landry Parish in July 1849.  The Opelousas priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Jean Baptiste Victor died "at age 76 yrs."  He was 73.  His succession, calling him Jean Baptiste and his wife Marianne, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse two days before his death.  Daughters Eugénie, Sidonise, and Marie Anne Hortense married into the Amy, Desessart or Desenarts, and Young families.  One of Jean Baptiste Victor's remaining sons also married. 

Oldest son Jean Baptiste Victor, fils married Geneviève, also called Céleste, daughter of Daniel or Denis Zeringue and Geneviève Barre, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in November 1831.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Jean Baptiste III in August 1832; twins Eugène and Eugénie in July 1834; Marie Sydonia in September 1837; Camille, also called Camille Victor, in September 1839; Joseph, also called Joseph Victor le jeune, in March 1844; and Irma Victor in August 1847--seven children, four sons and three daughters, including a set of twins, between 1832 and 1847.  Daughters Marie Sydonia and Irma Victor married into the Bernarconi or Bornasconi, Peters, and Chachere families, one of them, Marie Sydonia, twice, by 1870.  Three of Jean Baptiste Victor, fils's sons married by then. 

Second son Eugène married, at age 34, Julie or Julia, daughter of Charles Devillier and Julie Hollier, at the Opelousas church in October 1867.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Joseph Moril in September 1868; Marie Doralise in February 1870; ... 

Jean Baptiste Victor, fils's third son Camille Victor married Lucia Contini, daughter of Dominique Contini Sittig and Hermance Chachere, at the Opelousas church in February 1867.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Marie Stela in December 1867; Édouard Contine, probably Contini in November 1870; ...

Jean Baptiste Victor, fils's fourth and youngest son Joseph Victor le jeune married Marie Louise Clémentine Alicia or Alice, daughter of Clément Hollier, fils and Clara Doucet, at the Opelousas church in February 1866.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Joseph Nagnus in November 1866; Clément Édouard in October 1868; Marie Clara in October 1870; ... 

Victor's second son Joseph Victor married cousin Marie, also called Marie Dositée or Louise, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Richard and Marie Dugas, at the Opelousas church in April 1812.   They settled at Bellevue.  Their children, born there, included Aveline in July 1813; Célestine in July 1814; Joseph, fils in March 1816; Azélie Victor in c1817; Adeline in January 1818; Amélie in August 1819; twins Irma, also called Irma Victor, and Louis, also called Louis Victor, in July 1822; Alexandre le jeune, also called Alexadre Victor, in September 1824; Julie in August 1826; Sostène or Sosthène, also called Sosthène Victor, in September 1828; Marie Zélima in January 1831; Victor le jeune in December 1832; and Théodule, also called Théodore Victor, in November 1835--14 children, eight daughters and six sons, including a set of twins, between 1813 and 1835.  Was he the Joseph Victor Richard who died in St. Landry Parish in July 1847?  The Opelousas priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Joseph Victor died "at age 50 yrs."  This Joseph Victor would have been age 62.  His succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse two days after his death, and another succession in his name was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in November 1859.  Widow Marie Louise, called Marie J. by the recording priest, died "at Belle-vue" in October 1859, age 68.  Daughters Célestine, Aveline or Adeline, Azélie, Amélie, Irma Victor, and Julie married into the David, Hébert, Richard, Akeson or Arkeson, and Andrus families by 1870.  Four of Joseph Victor's sons also married by then. 

Second son Louis Victor, a twin, married Zéoline, Azorine, Azéline, Izaline, Ysoline, Esoline, Isoline, Isolene, Léoline, Marcelline, Poline, or Polma, 16-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Dugas, fils and Marguerite Arminionne Hébert, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in April 1845.  They settled probably near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Evariste in March 1846; Alix, Alisse, or Alice in July 1848; Noémie in April 1851 but died at age 3 1/2 (the recording priest said 4) in February 1855; Maurice born in September 1855 but died at age 2 (the recording priest said 3) in November 1857; a child, name and age unrecorded, also died in November 1857, at age 3 weeks, within a week of his brother; Joseph Télésmar born in March 1859 but, called Joseph Télésmard, died at age 7 (the recording priest said 6) in April 1866; Amédée born in July 1863; Ignace in November 1865; Ebrard in December 1869; ...  Daughter Alice married into the Domingue family by 1870.  None of Louis Victor's sons married by then. 

Joseph Victor's third son Alexandre Victor married cousin Célina, Célima, Sélima, Zélima, or Telima, daughter of Adélard Boutté and his Acadian wife Alexandrine Richard, at the Opelousas church in August 1844.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Victor le jeune in October 1846; Homer or Homère in c1849; Marie Célimène, called Célimène, in February 1851; Louis Ference, probably Terence, in February 1853 but, called Terence, died at age 7 1/2 in September 1860; Gerasime born in March 1855; Marie Aminthe, called Aminthe, baptized at the Opelousas church, age 3 months, in May 1857; Marie Corine born in December 1858 but, called Corine, died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 2) in October 1860; Alexandrine Emma born in December 1860; Philomène in April 1863 but, called Marie Philomène, died at age 3 1/2 (the recording priest said 4) in December 1866; Ignace born in November 1864 but died at age 2 in November 1866; Marie Ida born in November 1865 but died the following June; Numa Alexandre born in July 1867; Marie Célima in January 1870; ...  Daughter Célimène married into the Peck family by 1870.  Two of Alexandre Victor's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Victor le jeune married cousin Eugénie, daughter of Urbain Lavergne and his Acadian wife Aureline Richard, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in May 1866.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Ida in November 1867; Corine in September 1869; ...

Alexandre Victor's second son Homère married cousin Cécilia, another daughter of Urbain Lavergne and Aureline Richard, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in October 1870, and sanctified the marriage at the Grand Coteau church in November. ...

Joseph Victor's fourth son Sosthène Victor married cousin Marie Émelie, called Émelie and perhaps also Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Gerasime Richard and his first wife Anglo Creole Marie Anne Stanton, at the Grand Coteau church in April 1852; they registered the marriage in St. Landry Parish in April 1859.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Joseph Rodolphe in October 1853; Marie Amanda in 1855 and baptized at age 1 1/2 or 2 in May 1857; Marie Célima born in April 1857 but, called Célima, died the following October; Marie Isaure born in August 1858; Jean Raoul in January 1862; Sosthènes Sidney in February 1864; Marie Reine, perhaps theirs, in December 1865; Antoine Adolphe Eugène in February 1867; Jean in August 1869; ....  None of Sosthène's children married by 1870. 

Joseph Victor's sixth and youngest son Théodule Victor married Amélie, daughter of Charles Peck and his Acadian wife Clémence Prejean, at the Vermilionville church in June 1859.  They settled probably near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Mentor in July 1860; Marie Lelia in October 1862; Charles Aide in November 1864; Jean Cossuth in August 1866; Flavie Ida in February 1868; ... 

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Later in 1765, three more families, one led by a widow; a bachelor; and a young wife--11 Richards in all--reached New Orleans from Halifax via Cap-Français and settled in the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer, where a Richard kinsman and three other Acadian families had settled the year before.  Another robust family line came of it on the river, as well as a smaller one out on the western prairies: 

Joseph dit Vieux (1717-1777) à René dit Beaupré à Michel dit Sansoucy Richard

Joseph dit Vieux, third son of Pierre dit Beaupré Richard and Marie-Madeleine Girouard, born at Annapolis Royal in April 1717, married Anne, daughter of Antoine Blanchard and Élisabeth Thériot, at Annapolis Royal in January 1744.  Anne gave Joseph three daughters there:  Marguerite born in c1744; Madeleine in c1748; and Anastasie in c1759.  They escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Sometime in the late 1750s or early 1760s, they were either captured by, or surrendered to, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Anne gave Joseph two more daughters in exile and imprisonment:  Marie-Anastasie born in c1760; and Rosalie in January 1763.  After considering a move to British-controlled Canada when the war finally ended, Joseph and his family--including wife Anne, two younger daughters, Marie-Anastasie and Rosalie, and a Richard nephew--emigrated, instead, to Louisiana in 1765.  One wonders what happened to older daughters Marguerite, Madeleine, and Anastasie, who would have been ages 19, 15, and 4 in 1763.  Had they died in exile and captivity?  Did oldest daugher Marguerite marry and choose to remain in greater Acadia or move on to British Canada?  Wife Anne was pregnant on the voyage from Halifax.  Another daughter, Anne-Marie, was born in early August 1765, perhaps aboard ship.  The newborn and older sister Rosalie were baptized at the St.-Louis church in mid-December, soon after the family's arrival.  They settled at Cabahannocer, where Spanish officials counted the family in April 1766 and September 1769.  Another daughter, Pélagie, was born there in May 1769--seven children, all  daughters, between 1744 and 1769, in greater Acadia and Louisiana.  Joseph dit Vieux died at his son-in-law Basile Landry's home at Ascension, on the river above Cabahannocer, in February 1777, age 59.  Daughters Marie-Anastasie and Pélagie married into the Landry and Guilbeau families on the river and the prairies.  Joseph dit Vieux fathered no sons, so only the blood of his family line may have endured in the Bayou State. 

Joseph le jeune (c1762-1827?) à ? à René dit Beaupré à Michel dit Sansoucy Richard

Joseph Richard le jeune, born probably in a Nova Scotia prison compound in c1762, a nephew of Joseph dit Vieux Richard, followed his uncle to Louisiana in 1765, but, strangely, the younger Joseph does not appear in the Cabahannocer census of April 1766 with his uncle's family.  However, he does appear with them in the September 1769 census at Cabahannocer, age 7.  The following year, he was counted again with his uncle's family, this time at nearby Ascension.  He then disappears from Louisiana records until possibly April 1827, when a Joseph Richard, age about 65, died at Baton Rouge.  The priest who recorded the burial did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, but, for what it's worth, the decedent's estimated birth year--c1762--matches that of Joseph, nephew of Joseph dit Vieux and no other Joseph Richard on the river.  If this was him, he evidently did not marry. 

Joseph (c1765-1805) à Pierre dit Beaupré à Rene dit Beaupré à Michel dit Sansoucy Richard

Joseph, son of Claude Richard and Rosalie Thibodeau, born in c1765 in the prison compound at Halifax, aboard ship, or at Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, on the voyage to New Orleans, was another nephew of Joseph dit Vieux.  Joseph's father had died either at Halifax or on the voyage to Louisiana, so Joseph may have been born posthumously.  His widowed mother remarried to a Canadian Lachaussée at New Orleans in late January 1766, soon after they reached the colony--the first recorded marriage in Louisiana between an Acadian exile and a non-Acadian.  They settled at Cabahannocer, where Joseph's mother died by February 1768.  He likely was raised briefly by his stepfather, who died in 1769.  Joseph then would have been raised by other kinsmen.  In the late 1780s or early 1790s, probably after he came of age, Joseph moved to the Attakapas District, where, in his late 20s, he married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of Spaniard Joseph Castille and his Acadian wife Rose-Osite Landry, in February 1794.  Madeleine's father was from the Mediterranean island of Menorca near Spain, married her mother in Maryland, and her family had come to Louisiana from the Chesapeake colony in 1767.  Joseph and Madeleine settled at L'Anse on upper Bayou Teche.  Their children, born there, included Joseph, fils in 1794 and baptized at the Attakapas church,, age 5 months, in March 1795 but died at age 9 in February 1804; Marie-Delphine born in February 1800; Louis-Valmont, called Joseph-Jean-Baptiste-Louis-Valmont and Valmont, in July 1802; and Marie Joséphine, called Joséphine, posthumously in October 1805--four children, two sons and two daughters, between 1794 and 1805.  Joseph died "at his home" at L'Anse in May 1805, age 40.  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse, St. Martin Parish, in June 1807.  Daughters Marie Delphine and Joséphine married into the Webre, Beauvais or Beauvois, and Simon families.  His remaining son also married, but the line may not have endured.

Younger son Valmont married Madeleine or Marguerite Marcellite, daughter of Jean Baptiste Bonin and Marguerite Marcelitte Judice, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in August 1835.  Their son Louis Robert was born in St. Martin Parish in August 1836 and may have been the Robert Richard, age unrecorded, who died in St. Martin Parish in February 1856, when he would have been age 19.  A succession for Valmot's wife, probably post-mortem, calling her Marcellite and naming her husband, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in November 1849.  Valmont, at age 54, remarried to Marguerite Athenaise, daughter of Alexandre Beslin and Delphine Leleux, at the St. Martinville church in December 1856.  Did they have any children?  

Joseph, fils (c1736-?) à Martin à Michel dit Sansoucy Richard

Joseph, fils, oldest son of Joseph Richard and his first wife Marie-Josèphe Comeau and nephew of Jean-Baptiste Richard of Cabahanncoer, born probably at Chignecto in c1736, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and either left the island before 1758 or escaped the roundup there that year, crossed Mer Rouge, and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  He married Agnès, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Hébert dit Manuel and Claire Robichaud of Cobeguit and widow of ____ Bourgeois, during exile, date unrecorded, but it may have been on the Gulf shore soon after he went there.  Sometime in the late 1750s or early 1760s, they either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Agnès gave Joseph two children, Louis and Marie, during exile, their birth dates lost to history.  In 1765, with their two children, they emigrated to New Orleans from Halifax and settled at Cabahannocer, where their marriage was validated in November 1766.  Joseph's paternal uncle Jean-Baptiste Richard, among the first Acadian exiles to come to Louisiana, had settled at Cabahannocer the year before, which may have prompted Joseph and Agnès to settle there, too.  Agnès gave Joseph, fils more children at Cabahannocer, including twins Rose or Rosalie and Françoise born in c1770; Angélique in c1771; and Joseph III, baptized at the St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer church, age unrecorded, in January 1772.  At age 36, Joseph, fils remarried to Marie-Claire, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Martin dit Barnabé and Marie Brun of Annapolis Royal and widow of Barthélémy Godin dit Bellefontaine, at nearby Ascension in August 1772.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer, included Pierre baptized at the Cabahannocer church, age unrecorded, in September 1773; Simon baptized, age unrecorded, in February 1775 but died at Cabahannocer, age 21, in October 1796 (the priest who recorded his burial called him "an orphan & single"); and Marguerite baptized, age unrecorded, in March 1777--nine children, four sons and five daughters, by two wives, between the early 1760s and 1777, in greater Acadia and Louisiana.  Daughters Françoise, Rose/Rosalie, Marie, Angélique, and Marguerite, by both wives, married into the Labauve, Hébert, Martin, DeRohan, Theriot, and Bernard families, one of them on the western prairies.  Only one of Joseph, fils's sons married, on the river, but the line was robust. 

Third son Pierre, by second wife Marie-Claire Martin, married Marie-Héloise, -Louise, or -Élise, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Melançon and Félicité Landry of Ascension, at the St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer church in February 1801.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer, included Simon le jeune in March 1802 but died seven weeks later; Eugène-Placide, called Placide, born in July 1803; Marie Beezi or Élisabeth in September 1806; twins Jacques and Joseph in February 1809, but Jacques died at age 1 1/2 in October 1810; and Jean Baptiste born in c1811.  Pierre remarried to Marie, daughter of Jean Baptiste Ory and Eve Ofman and widow of Antoine Bachelier, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in September 1814.  Their children, born near Convent, included Marie Arthémise, called Arthémise, in August 1815; Eugène in November 1817 but died at age 15 in July 1833; Pierre, fils born in November 1820; and Marguerite Delphine or Joséphine in March 1823--10 children, seven sons and three daughters, including a set of twins, by two wives, between 1802 and 1823.  Pierre, père died near Convent in October 1823.  The priest who recorded the burial noted that Pierre left a "wife and seven children."  The priest also noted that Pierre died at "age 44."  He was closer to 50.  Daughters Marie Élisabeth, Arthémise, and Marguerite Joséphine, by both wives, married into the Prejean, Tircuit, and Laiche families.  Four of Pierre's remaining sons also married, two of them to sisters.  Three of his sons and at least two of his daughters settled on Bayou Lafourche and in Terrebonne Parish.  His youngest son remained on the river and settled for a time in Pointe Coupee Parish, where few other Acadians lived. 

Second son Eugène Placide, called Placide, from first wife Marie Héloise Melançon, married Marie Adèle, called Adèle, 19-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Marin Dugas and Françoise Arcement of St. James Parish, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in November 1825.  They remained on Bayou Lafourche.  She evidently gave him no children.  Placide remarried to Marie, 25-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Barthélémy Henry and Jeanne Bourg, at the Thibodauxville church in February 1829.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Louis Basile in November 1831 but died at age 1 1/2 in May 1833; Jean Baptiste Lauvensy born in October 1832 but, called Loventie, died at age 20 in October 1852; Marcellus B. born in October 1834; Marie Élise or Élisabeth in August 1837; and Télésphore in January 1841--five children, four sons and a daughter, by one of his wives, between 1831 and 1841.  Placide died in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1844.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Placide died "at age 45 yrs."  He was 41.  Daughter Marie Élisabeth dite Élise, by his second wife, married into the Delatte and Bernard families by 1870.  One of Placide's sons also married by then and settled in Terrebonne Parish. 

Fourth and youngest son Télesphore, by second wife Marie Henry, married Amélie or Émelia, daughter of Henri Lirette and Marie Domingue of Terrebonne Parish, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in February 1864.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Arthur Irénée in December 1866; Marie Élize in February 1869; ... 

Pierre's fourth son Joseph, a twin, by first wife Marie Héloise Melançon, married Rose or Rosalie, 20-year-old daughter of Nicolas Albert and his Acadian wife Madeleine Bourg, at the Thibodauxville church in July 1833.  They, too, remained on Bayou Lafourche, settling near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Pierre Joseph or Joseph Pierre in October 1834; Marie Madeleine in October 1836; and Marie Virginie in June 1838.  Joseph, at age 40, remarried to Adèle Caroline, also called Adeliese Milie, 26-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Guidry and Marie Marcelline Thibodeaux, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in December 1849.  Their daughter Victorina Aurelia was born in Terrebonne Parish in August 1850--four children, a son and three daughters, by two wives, between 1834 and 1850.  Daughter Marie, by Joseph's first wife, married into the Lapeyrouse family in Terrebonne Parish by 1870.  Joseph's son also married by then and settled in Terrebonne.

Only son Joseph Pierre or Pierre Joseph, by first wife Rose Albert, married Roselia Léotilde or Théotille Rosalia, daughter of fellow Acadians Hippolyte Blanchard and Célestine Boudreaux, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in June 1854, and sanctified the marriage at the Houma church the following August.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Pierre Joseph Théophile in January 1855; Hippolyte Aurestille in August 1857; and Louis Augustin in April 1859--three children, all sons, between 1855 and 1859.  None of Joseph Pierre's sons married by 1870. 

Pierre's fifth son Jean Baptiste, by first wife Marie Héloise Melançon, married 18-year-old Azélie, another daughter of Nicolas Albert and Madeleine Bourg, at the Thibodauxville church in October 1833.  They lived on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Jean Marie Louis in August 1834; Jean Baptiste Skede in October 1836 but, called Jean Baptiste, died at age 17 in October 1853, perhaps a victim of yellow fever; Joseph Octave born in November 1839; and Louis in the 1840s--four children, all sons, between 1834 and the 1840s.  Two of Jean Baptiste's sons married by 1870. 

Third son Joseph Octave married Azéma, daughter of Oville Pontiff and Marie Berthelot of Terrebonne Parish, at the Houma church in June 1860.  They settled near Chacahoula at the northeast edge of Terrebonne Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie Louisa in June 1862; Augustina Ovilia in January 1865; Joséphine Elena in June 1867; Albert Félicien in November 1869; ... 

Jean Baptiste's fourth and youngest son Louis married Pamela, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Basile Naquin and his Creole wife Théotiste Adèle Ayo, at the Thibodaux church in September 1861; the marriage was recorded also in Terrebonne Parish.  They also settled near Chacahoula.  Their children, born there, included Marie Louisa in January 1863; Marie Éliza in September 1864; Marie Palmyre in November 1866; Philomène Priscilla in April 1869; ...

Pierre's seventh and youngest son Pierre, fils, by second wife Marie Ory, married Marie Doralise, called Doralise, daughter of François Oubre and Marie Tircuit, at the Convent church in August 1853.  Their children, born on the river, included Joseph Louis in St. James Parish in February 1856; Marie Letitia in Pointe Coupee Parish in August 1859; Pierre Émile in March 1862; Camille near Convent in March 1864 but died at age 1 1/2 in August 1865; ... 

Joseph, fils (c1736-?) à Michel dit Lafond à Michel dit Sansoucy Richard

Joseph, fils, son of Joseph Richard and Marie-Josèphe LeBlanc, born probably at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in c1736, did not follow his family to Maryland in the fall of 1755 but evidently escaped the British roundup at Pigiguit and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Sometime in the late 1750s or early 1760s, Joseph, fils either surrendered to, or was captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  In late 1764 or early 1765, in his late 20s, he followed other Acadian exiles from Halifax to New Orleans via Cap-Français and settled at Cabahannocer.  He then disappears from Louisiana records, so he likely did not marry.  His widowed mother and two younger brothers came to the colony from Maryland in 1767. 

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From 1766 to 1768, 14 more Richards emigrated to Louisiana, this time from Maryland, in three separate expeditions.  The first to reach New Orleans--a widow with her Richard daughter--arrived in September 1766 from Baltimore and joined the Georgia and Halifax Acadians at Cabahannocer.  No new family line came of it. 

In July 1767, four more families--one led by a widow, and several wives, a dozen Richards in all--reached New Orleans from Baltimore and were forced by Spanish authorities to settle in the new community of San Gabriel on the east side of the river below Bayou Manchac.  Five vigorous family lines came of it on the river, the western prairies, and on Bayou Lafourche, substantially increasing the number of Richards in the Spanish colony: 

Pierre (1712-?) à Pierre à Michel dit Sansoucy Richard

Pierre, oldest son of René Richard le jeune and Marie-Josèphe Babin, born at Minas in September 1712, married Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Granger and Isabelle Guilbeau, at Grand-Pré in November of 1735 and settled there.  Marguerite gave Pierre at least one son, Amand, born in March 1744, and perhaps a daughter.  The British deported the family to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  Pierre's son married in the Chesapeake colony.  In July 1763, Pierre, now a widower, and Anne-Marie Richard, perhaps a daughter, appeared on a repatriation list near his son and his family at Port Tobacco on the lower Potomac.  Pierre, now in his mid-50s, followed his son and his family from Maryland to Louisiana in 1767.  One wonders what happened to putative daughter Anne-Marie.  A decade after his arrival, in March 1777, Pierre was still living on the east side of the river at San Gabriel, where he held six slaves, four males and two females, on his farm with six-arpents frontage on the river.  He did not remarry.  His son perpetuated the family line in the Bayou State.  One of Pierre's grandsons settled among his many cousins on the western prairies. 

Only son Amand followed his family to Maryland and married Marie, daughter perhaps of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Breau and Élisabeth Henry, in the Chesapeake colony in c1763.  The still childless couple appeared on a repatriation list at Port Tobacco in July of that year next to his widowered father.  After the counting, Marie gave Amand two sons in Maryland:  Simon born in c1764; and Joseph in March 1767, on the eve of his family's voyage to Louisiana.  Along with his father and a Boudrot orphan, Amand and his family emigrated to Louisiana in 1767 and settled at San Gabriel.  Marie gave Amand more children on the river, including Louis born in the late 1760s or early 1770s; Marie-Marthe probably in the early 1770s; and Désiré-Valentin or Valentin-Désiré, also called Dositée and Valéry, in August 1775--five children, four sons and a daughter, between 1764 and 1775, in Maryland and Louisiana.  Amand died by March 1777, perhaps in his early 30s, when his wife was counted in a San Gabriel census as a widow.  Daughter Marie Marthe married into the Gautreaux family.  Amand's four sons also married on the river, and one of them resettled on Bayou Teche.  Not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Simon followed his family to New Orleans and San Gabriel.  He married Scholastique, daughter of fellow Acadians Joachim dit Bénoni Mire and his second wife Madeleine Melançon, at the St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer church on the river below San Gabriel in January 1786.  Scholastique was a native of Louisiana whose parents had come to the colony from Halifax in 1765 and Maryland in 1766.  Simon and Scholastique's children, born at Cabahannocer, included Simon, fils in January 1787; Rosalie in October 1788; Joseph le jeune in March 1790; Louis le jeune in March 1792; Valentin-Augustin, called Augustin, in March 1794; Marie in December 1796; Jean-Baptiste in March 1799; Paul in March 1801; and Lorenzo or Laurent-Noël, also called Noël-Laurent, in December 1802--nine children, seven sons and two daughters, between 1787 and 1802.  Simon, at age 40, remarried to Françoise, daughter of Jean Lemaire and Nanette Clairu of St.-Jean-Baptiste des Allemands on the upper German Coast and widow of Louis Rome, at Cabahannocer/St. James in October 1804.  Daughter Marie, by his first wife, married into the Gravois family.  Simon's seven sons also married.  One of them and several of his grandsons settled on the western prairies, and another son joined the Acadian exodus from the river to Bayou Lafourche.  The others remained on the river.  Not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Simon, fils, by first wife Scholastique Mire, married Marguerite, daughter of Hubert Janny or Janise and his Acadian wife Marie Brasseaux, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in November 1808.  They lived on the river before returning to St. Landry Parish, where Simon, fils's uncle Joseph had settled.  Their children, born on the river and the prairies, included Arthémise Marie in c1810 but died near St. Gabriel at age 1 in November 1811; Marie Mélasie, called Mélasie, born near Opelousas in April 1813; and Simon III near Convent, St. James Parish, in October 1816--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1810 and 1816.  Simon, fils died perhaps in St. Landry Parish in 1845.  The Opelousas priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Simon "of Corpus Christi" died "at age 58 yrs.," so this was him.  One wonders what the priest meant by "Corpus Christi."  Was Simon, fils a resident of Corpus Christi, Texas, at the time of his death?  Was he associated with the occupying army of American General Zachary Taylor, who, on orders from U.S. President James K. Polk, moved his force from Fort Jessup in northwestern Louisiana to the Texas coastal town in the summer of 1845?  (The town of Corpus Christi, founded by an American entrepreneur on Corpus Christi Bay in 1839, was originally called Kinney's Trading Post or Kinney's Ranch, and was not renamed Corpus Christi until c1847.)  Daughter Mélasie married into the Soileau family.  Simon, fils's son also married on the prairies.

Only son Simon III married cousin Clémentine Marie Petronille, 19-year-old daughter of Vital Estilette and his Acadian wife Julie Victor Richard, at the Opelousas church in February 1837.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Philemon in January 1838 but, called a "child," may have died at age 7 1/2 in June 1845; Philomène born in April 1840 but died in September; Émilie or Émelie Jm. born in October 1846; Théodore Simon in April 1848; Edmond Fridolin in April 1850 but, called Edmond, died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 9 months) in January 1852; Simon IV born in June 1854 but died at age 4 in August 1858; and Charles Maurice born in December 1858--seven children, five sons and two daughters, between 1838 and 1858.  Daughter Émelie married into the Cochran family by 1870.  One of Simon III's sons also married by then. 

Second son Théodore married Olivia, daughter of John Wyble and Madeleine Coulon Devillier, at the Opelousas church in December 1870. ...

Simon, père's second son Joseph le jeune, by first wife Scholastique Mire, married Marie Clothilde, called Clothilde, daughter of Pierre Grenier and Anne Regnie, perhaps Zeringue, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in January 1817.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Joseph, fils in October 1817; and Marie Sylvanie in January 1821.  Joseph le jeune's daughter evidently did not marry.  If his son married, he did not do so by 1870, so the family line may not have endured. 

Simon, père's third son Louis le jeune, by first wife Scholastique Mire, married Marie Madeleine, called Madeleine and perhaps Denise, daughter of fellow Acadians Laurent Arceneaux and Félicité Bourgeois, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in April 1815.  Their children, born near Convent, included Michel in September 1816 but died at age 23 in May 1840; Marie Éliza born in May 1818; Marie Euphrosine or Euphrasie, called Euphrasie, in August 1820; Marcelline in November 1822; Marie Victorine, called Victorine, in June 1825; Félicie or Félicité in May 1827; Marie Domitille, called Domitille, in October 1828; Célestine in c1830; Marie Madeleine in February 1831; Louis, fils in February 1833; Marie Octavie baptized, age 3 months, in May 1835; Aurelia, perhaps also called Amélie, born in January 1837; Germain in May 1839; Epiphore Donat, perhaps also called Optime, in January 1842; and Marie Adeline in February 1844 but, called Adeline, died at age 19 in July 1863--15 children, four sons and 11 daughters, between 1816 and 1844.  Louis le jeune died near Convent in October 1848, age 56.  Daughters Marie Éliza, Marcelline, Euphrasie, Victorine, Célestine, Félicité, Domitille, Marie Octavie, and Amélie married into the Jacob, Malarcher, Duhon, Landry, Grégoire, Chauvin, Dupupet, Perrin, and Laurent families by 1870.  One of Louis le jeune's sons also married by then. 

Optime, perhaps the fourth and youngest son, married Laurentia, daughter of fellow Acadians François Dugas and Mélite Louvière, at the Convent church in April 1861.  Did they have any children? 

Simon, père's fourth son Valentin Augustin, called Augustin, from first wife Scholastique Mire, married cousin Anne Rosalie or Roseline, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Richard and Rosalie Michel, at the St. James church, St. James Parish, in January 1816.  They settled on the river near the boundary between St. James and Ascension parishes.  Their children, born there, included a son, name unrecorded, died at age 6 days in November 1816; Marine Aurelin born in June 1818 but, called Marie Anne Orelia, died at age 4 1/2 (the recording priest said 5) in January 1823; Augustin, fils born in April 1820; Simon le jeune in March 1822; Rosalie Augustine in September 1823; Privat Euphémon, called Euphémon, in August 1825; and Colombe Regina or Rosina in January 1828--seven children, four sons and three daughters, between 1816 and 1828.  Valentin Augustin died in Ascension Parish in December 1866.  The Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Augustin died at "age 73 years."  He was 72.  Daughters Rosalie Augustine and Colombe Rosina married into the LeBlanc and Copponex families.  Augustin's remaining sons also married.  Two of them moved to lower Bayou Teche during the late antebellum period, and the third son moved to St. Landry Parish after the War of 1861-65. 

Second son Augustin fils married Mélanie, daughter of Grégoire Bodin and his Acadian wife Pélagie LeBlanc, at the Charenton church, St. Mary Parish, in August 1853.  They remained on the lower Teche.  Their children, born there, included Eugénie in c1853; Augustine in July 1855[sic]; Florentine dite Philippa in November 1855[sic, probably 1856]; Laurenza in January 1857; Désiré Augustin in February 1858; Erasme Grégoire in November 1859; Arthur in March 1861; Gabriel in May 1864; Zulmatte in June 1866; ... 

Valentin Augustin's third son Simon le jeune married Célestine, daughter of Evariste Blouin and his Acadian wife Félicité dite Denise Arceneaux, at the St. James church in May 1848.  They lived on the river near the boundary between St. James and Ascension parishes before the family moved to St. Landry Parish.  Their children, born on the river, included Simon Télésmar or Thélésmar Simon in March 1849; twins Louisa and Marie Louise Lucilla, called Louise, in September 1850; Joseph Augustin in August 1852; Josephe[sic] Evariste in July 1854; Joseph Oscard in April 1856 but, called Oscar, died at age 1 1/2 in October 1857; Marie Céleste born in October 1858; Paul in January 1861; Joseph Lee in February 1863; Louis in St. James Parish in March 1865; ...  Simon le jeune died in St. Landry Parish in September 1866, age 44.  His succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in February 1867.  Daughter Louise married into the Guidry family in St. Landry Parish by 1870.  One of Simon le jeune's sons also married by then and settled in St. Landry.

Oldest son Thélésmar Simon, as the recording priest called him, married Madeleine Alida or Olida, called Alida or Olida, daughter of Joseph Carrière and Fanellie Coulon Devillier, at the Opelousas church in February 1867.  Daughter Marie Aspasie was born in St. Landry Parish in November 1867; Marie Alphida in February 1870; ... 

Valentin Augustin's fourth and youngest son Euphémon married Eléonore, daughter of fellow Acadian Nicolas LeBlanc, fils and his Creole wife Marie Helina Provost, at the Charenton church in June 1852.  Did they have any children? 

Simon, père's fifth son Jean Baptiste, by first wife Scholastique Mire, married Hortense, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier LeBlanc and Émilie Lalande, at the St. James church in January 1818.  They lived in St. James Parish before joining the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche in the mid-1820s.  Their children, born on the river and the bayou, included Simon le jeune in St. James Parish in April 1819; Marie Émilie in December 1820; Marie Doralize or Doralise, called Doralise, in August 1822; Marie Odalie or Eulalie, called Eulalie, in 1824 and baptized at the St. James Parish, age 14 months, in May 1825; Jean Baptiste Désiré, called Désiré, born in Lafourche Interior Parish in March 1826; Marie Hortance or Hortense, also called Constance, in March 1828; Jean Baptiste Bienvenu, called Jean Bienvenu and Bienvenu, in Ascension Parish in March 1831; Marie in December 1835; and Emelius, Emelus, or Melus in the 1830s--nine children, four sons and five daughters, between 1819 and the 1830s.  Daughters Doralise, Eulalie, and Hortense/Constance married into the LeBlanc, Dupuis, and Landry families.  Three of Jean Baptiste's sons also married.  One of them, probably after he came of age, moved on to lower Bayou Teche, where he married, but the others remained on the upper Lafourche. 

Second son Désiré married Marie Concepcion, called Concepcion and Constance, daughter of Manuel Suarez and Marie Acosta, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in March 1848.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Joseph Augustin in December 1848; Joseph Aristide in May 1849[sic, perhaps 1850]; Joseph Neuville in May 1852; Joseph Ulisse in May 1854; Marie Eugénie in February 1857; and Marie Félicité in April 1859--six children, four sons and two daughters, between 1848 and 1859.  None of Désiré's children married by 1870. 

Jean Baptiste's third son Jean Bienvenu, called Bienvenu, likely married Aurelia, called Zela, Falteman, Felteman, or Fetteman at the Pattersonville church, St. Mary Parish, in August 1853.  They moved down bayou to the Brashear, now Morgan, City, area, on the lower Atchafalaya River, by the mid-1860s.  Their children, born on the lower Teche, included Magloire Philomène near Pattersonville in January 1852; Marie in November 1854; Alexandre Jean Baptiste in November 1856; and Céleste Hortense near Brashear City in January 1866--four children, two sons and two daughters, between 1852 and 1866.  None of Bienvenu's children married by 1870. 

Jean Baptiste's fourth and youngest son Emelius married Zulmée or Ulmée, daughter of fellow Acadians Alcide Bourg and Arthémise Dugas, at the Paincourtville church in June 1859.  Their children, born near Paincourtville, included Marie Zulmée in April 1860; Marie Alise in December 1861; Joseph Olézime in February 1864; Marguerite Élisabeth in December 1865; Marie Virginie in July 1868; ... 

Simon, père's sixth son Paul, by first wife Scholastique Mire, married Marie or Marine, 17-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Donat Landry and Marthe Lanoux, at the Convent church in February 1820.  Their children, born near Convent, included Louis le jeune in September 1821; and Éloi in November 1824.  Paul died near Convent in October 1826, age 25.  Both of his sons married, but not all of the lines endured. 

Older son Louis le jeune married cousin Adèle, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Mire and Clarisse Arceneaux, at the Convent church in February 1843; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born near Convent, included twins Louis, fils and Louise in June 1846; Joseph Denys in April 1848; Paul Césaire in August 1850; Marie Appoline in September 1854; Marguerite Claire in March 1857; and Louise or Louisa in August 1859--seven children, three sons and four daughters, including a set of twins, between 1846 and 1859.  Louis le jeune died by February 1867, when he was listed as deceased in a daughter's marriage record.  Daughter Louisa married a Lanoux cousin by 1870.  One of Louis le jeune's sons also married by then.

Older son Louis, fils married first cousin Emma, daughter of fellow Acadians Théodule Mire and Célestine Bourgeois, at the Convent church in February 1869; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their son François Louis was born near Convent in April 1870; ...

Paul's younger son Éloi married cousin Marie Osile or Odile, daughter of fellow Acadians Drosin Mire and Eulalie Boudreaux, at the Convent church in February 1846.  They may have been that rare Acadian couple who had no children.  Éloi died near Convent in April 1859.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Éloi died at "age 45 years."  He was 34.  His family line evidently died with him.   

Simon, père's seventh and youngest son Noël Laurent, by first wife Scholatique Mire, married cousin Marie Joséphine, called Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Benjamin Babin and Félicité Richard, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in January 1825.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Félicité in November 1825; Marie Mathilde in June 1829; Laurent Télésphore, called Télésphore, in August 1831; and Martine Scholastique, called Scholastique, in March 1834--four children, three daughters and a son, between 1825 and 1834.  Noël died in Ascension Parish in March 1849, age 46.  Daughters Félicité and Scholastique married into the LeBlanc, Mire, and Melançon families.  Noël's son also married. 

Only son Laurent Télesphore, called Télesphore, married cousin Silvanie, daughter of fellow Acadians Drosin Mire and Eulalie Boudreaux, at the Convent church in December 1856; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry; Télésphore's sister Scholastique married Silvanie's brother Dumesnil.  Télésphore and Silvanie's children, born near Convent, included a child, name and age unrecorded, died near Convent in October 1857; and Laurent Télésphore, fils born in April 1860.  Did they have anymore children? 

Amand's second son Joseph followed his family to New Orleans and San Gabriel.  He married Pélagie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Jacques Babin and Marguerite Landry, at the St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer church in June 1787.  Joseph took his family to the Attakapas District in the 1800s and settled at L'Anse à Michaud on upper Bayou Teche.  Their children, born on the river and the upper Teche, included Marguerite-Clémence in March 1788; Scholastique in October 1790 but died at age 1 1/2 in August 1792; Joseph-Cyprien, called Cyprien, born in October 1792 but died at L'Anse, age 17, in September 1809; Rosémond dit Saunier born in April 1795; Françoise-Séraphine in August 1797; Marguerite in January 1800; Urbain, also called Ursin, in March 1802; Marie Eurasie, called Eurasie, at Ascension in March 1805; Michel Adrien or Adrien Michel at L'Anse in June 1808; and Amand le jeune in July 1812--10 children, five daughters and five sons, between 1788 and 1812.  Joseph died "at his home at L'ance à Michaud" in October 1820.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph died "at age 55 years."  He was 53.  His succession, naming his wife, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse, St. Martin Parish, the following December.  Daughters Marguerite Clémence, Françoise, Marguerite, and Eurasie married into the Bertrand, Roy, Benoit, and Halloway families on the river and the prairies, one of them twice.  Daughter Eurasie, who married Pierre Zéphirin Roy probably in the late 1820s, bore a "natural" son named Joseph Théodule in September 1824; he was called a Richard by the St. Martinville priest who recorded the boy's baptism in April 1826, but the priest did not name the father.  Four of Joseph's sons also married.  One of his grandsons was an early settler in the coastal marshes of today's Cameron Parish. 

Second son Rosémond dit Saunier married Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Poirier and Scholastique Babineaux of L'Anse du Bon Repos and widow of Jean Dugas, at the St. Martinville church in September 1817.  They settled near the bridge at Anse La Butte.  Their children, born there, included Pierre in September 1818; Valérien in September 1820; Marie Carmélite, called Carmélite, in March 1823; Émilien in c1825 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 1, in September 1826; Marie Cléoraine, Cléorine, or Cléorence born in January 1828; Cléonise in c1831 and baptized at age 17 months in November 1832; Azélie baptized at age 2 1/2 months in May 1833; and Sosthènes or Sosthène born in July 1835--eight children, four sons and four daughters, between 1818 and 1835.  Daughters Marie Cléorine, Carmélite, and Cléonise married into the Breaux, Benoit, Blanchard, and Theriot families, one of them, Marie Cléorine, twice, by 1870.  Two of Rosémond's sons also married by then, and one of them settled in the coastal marshes of Calcasieu Parish. 

Second son Valérien likely married fellow Acadian Aspasie Breaux in a civil ceremony probably in St. Landry Parish in 1842, and sanctified the marriage at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in October 1846.  They settled near Church Point on upper Bayou Plaquemine Brûlée, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish.  Their children, born there, included Pierre in November 1843; Simon in December 1844; Marie Célima Valerien in March 1847; Valentine in February 1849; Azélie or Azèle in June 1851; Raymond in September 1854; Louis Juste in November 1856; and Jean Baptiste in April 1859--eight children, five sons and three daughters, between 1843 and 1859.  Daughter Azèle/Azélie married into the Duhon family by 1870.  None of Valérien's sons married by then. 

Rosémond's fourth and youngest son Sosthène, called Sosthène "of Calcasieu," married Oliva, daughter of  Ursin Primeaux and his Acadian wife Marie Azéma Broussard of Calcasieu, at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in October 1855; they were married civilly, or living together, before their church wedding.  They settled near Creole, in the coastal marshes of what was then Calcasieu but now Cameron Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie Azéma in January 1854; Pierre Adelma in August 1855; Armelin in April 1859; Catherine in January 1861; Sosthène, fils in September 1862; Donatille in March 1866; Augustin in August 1867; Auresile, perhaps Aurestile, in August 1869; ...  None of Sosthène's children married by 1870. 

Joseph's third son Urbain or Ursin married Marie, daughter of Simon Gaspard and Marie Kenny, at the St. Martinville church in June 1825.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Joseph Clairville in November 1827; Marie Marcellite in March 1829; and Marguerite Odile in August 1831 but, called Odile, died in St. Martin Parish, age 17 (the recording priest said 14 or 15), in October 1848.  Urbain remarried to Céleste or Célestine, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Granger and Irène Gautreaux, at the Vermilionville church in September 1836.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Célestine baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 3 months, in December 1837; Augustine born in c1838 but died at age 7 in September 1845; Elezima baptized at age 2 1/2 months in August 1839; Émelie Oserice born in St. Martin Parish in October 1840; another Augustine in November 1842; Martin in November 1844; Richard, fils[sic] died at age 8 days in August 1849; and Augustin born near Abbeville in December 1855--11 children, four sons and seven daughters, by two wives, between 1827 and 1855.  Daughter Marie Marcellite, by his first wife, married into the Picard family by 1870.  One of Urbain's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Joseph Clairville, by first wife Marie Gaspard, married Suzette, daughter of Hippolyte Picard and Suzette Doré, in a civil ceremony in St. Martin Parish in June 1850; Joseph Clairville's sister Marie Marcellite married Suzette's brother Don Louis.  Joseph's and Suzette's children, born on the prairies, included Adoiska near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in March 1852; Uranie in February 1855; and Hippolyte in St. Martin Parish in October 1857 but may have died at age 4 1/2 (the recording priest said 3) in April 1862--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1852 and 1857.  None of Joseph Clairville's children married by 1870.  

Joseph's fourth son Michel Adrien or Adrien Michel married Anastasie, also called Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Granger and Constance Mire of St. Martin Parish, at the Vermilionville church in January 1829.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Anastasie Arthémise, called Arthémise, in December 1829; Télésphore in late 1830 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 1/2 months, in February 1831 but died in March; Michel, fils born in August 1832 but died at age 1 in August 1833; Silvanie born in December 1833 but died at age 2 1/2 (the recording priest, who called him Sylvanie, said 3 months) in April 1836; Uranie born in September 1835; Constance born in December 1837; Anastasie Azélie baptized at age 7 weeks in September 1839; Cléonise, called Célanie, born in December 1840; and Joseph Lasty born in December 1846.  A succession for wife Anastasie, calling her Anasthasie Grange & her husband Michel Adrien, saying she died in July 1848, and listing her heirs--Arthémise, Uranie, Constance, and Célanie--was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in May 1851.  Michel Adrien, at age 43, remarried to Marie Carmélite, called Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Landry and Françoise Landry and widow of Charles Granger, fils and Édouard Comeaux, at the Vermilionville church in June 1851.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Alexandre in Lafayette Parish in April 1852; Armand near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in January 1855; and Marie Ophelia in Lafayette Parish in December 1856--a dozen children, six daughters and six sons, by two wives, between 1829 and 1856.   Michel Adrien's succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in December 1868.  He would have been age 60 that year.  Another succession, also identifying his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following January.  Daughters Arthémise, Constance, Uranie, and Célanie, by his first wife, married into the Roy, Mire, Magnard, Lacouture, and Comeaux  families, one of them, Arthémise, twice by 1870.  None of his sons married by then. 

Joseph's fifth and youngest son Amand le jeune married Scholastique dite Colastie, another daughter of Pierre Poirier and Scholastique Babineaux and widow of Charles Theriot, at the St. Martinville church in June 1838.  Their children, born on the Teche and the prairies, included Marie Azéna, called Azéna, in c1840; Scholastique near St. Martinville in June 1841; Pélagie Eléonore in October 1843; and Amand, fils near Grand Coteau in October 1850--four children, three daughters and a son, between 1840 and 1850.  Daughter Marie Azéna married into the Landry and Sellers families by 1870.  Amand's son did not marry by then. 

Amand's third son Louis married Marie-Anastasie, called Anastasie, 17-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Blanchard and Marie Dupuis, at the St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer church in October 1793.  Their daughter Marie-Modeste was born in November 1794 but died five weeks after her birth.  Wife Anastasie, still in her late teens, died in December 1794, probably from complications of childbirth.  Louis remarried to Félicité, another daughter of Joachim dit Bénoni Mire and Madeleine Melançon and a widow, at the Cabahannocer church in April 1795.  Their daughter Henriette was born there in February 1796.  If she survived childhood, she evidently did not marry.  Louis seems to have fathered no sons by either of his wives, so his family line did not endure.   

Amand's fourth and youngest son Désiré-Valentin or Valentin-Désiré, also called Dositée and Valéry, married Susanne, daughter of David Marks and Isabelle Fontenot of St.-Charles des Allemands on the lower German Coast, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in June 1797.  Their son Valentin, fils was born at Cabahannocer in April 1798.  Valentin-Désiré remarried to Anne-Marguerite, called Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Babin and Marine Landry, at Cabahannocer in July 1800.  Marguerite had come to Louisiana in December 1788 with the Joseph Gravois party aboard La Brigite from Île St.-Pierre.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer/St. James, included Narcisse in April 1800; Delphine in October 1802; and Moïse in March 1805--four sons, by two wives, between 1798 and 1805.  One wonders if any of Valentin, père's sons married in the Bayou State and if this family line endured. 

Joseph (c1744-1793?) à René le jeune à Pierre à Michel dit Sansoucy Richard

Joseph, younger son of Claude Richard and Cécile Melanson and Pierre's nephew, born at Minas in c1744, followed his family to Maryland, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1767 with a younger sister, and settled at San Gabriel.  He married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Landry and Anne Flan, at the nearby Ascension church in June 1774.  They settled at San Gabriel.  Their children, born there, included Marguerite-Constance, called Constance, in June 1775; Anne-Marguerite, called Marguerite, baptized at the nearby Cabahannocer church, age unrecorded, in March 1777; Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, born in November 1778; and Joseph, fils in c1779.  Joseph remarried to cousin Marie-Cécile, called Cécile, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Dupuis and Anne Richard and widow of Joseph Breaux, at the Ascension church in April 1784.  Their children, born at San Gabriel, included another Joseph, fils in February 1785 but died four days after his birth; Anne-Marine born in June 1786; Pierre-Paul in December 1787; Marie-Rose in November 1789; and Clémence-Cécile in September 1791--nine children, six daughters and three sons, by two wives, between 1775 and 1791.  This Joseph probably was the Joseph Richard who died at San Gabriel in November 1793.  The priest who recorded the burial did not give Joseph's parents' names, mention a wife, or give his age at the time of his death.  If this was him, he would have been in his late 40s.  Daughters Constance, Marguerite, Madeleine, Anne Marine, Clémence Cécile, and Marie Rose, by both wives, married into the LeBlanc, McDougal, Babin, Landry, Blanchard, Comeaux, and Aucoin families.  Two of Joseph's sons also married on the river. 

Oldest son Joseph, fils, by first wife Anne Landry, married cousin Henriette, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Landry and Marie Josèphe Blanchard, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in November 1812.  They settled in Ascension Parish.  Their children, born on the river, included Joseph III in December 1813; Éliza, also called Marie Lise, in January 1816; Théodule in June 1818; Pierre Adolphe, called Adolphe, in August 1820; Jean Achille, called Achille, in August 1822; Toussaint Hainault in October 1824 or 1825; and Vital Enon in April 1828--seven children, six sons and a daughter, between 1813 and 1828.  Was this the Joseph Richard who died in Ascension Parish in October 1829?  The Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial gave no parents' names or mentioned a wife, but he did say Joseph died at "age 50 yrs."  Daughter Marie Lise married into the Theriot family by 1870.  Four of Josesph, fils's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Joseph III married Marie Eugénie, called Eugénie, daughter of fellow Acadians Narcisse LeBlanc and Marie Anne Babin, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in February 1834.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included twins Joseph IV and Narcisse in April 1836, but Narcisse died at age 30 in August 1866; Pierre Adolphe, called P. Adolphe, born in June 1840; Jean Avery in March 1842 but, called Avery, died at age 16 1/2 (the recording priest said 15) in October 1858; Alfred died at "age 5-6 months" in September 1843; Paul Albert born in September 1844; Marie Henriette or Henrietta, called Henrietta, in January 1846; Alfred Vincent in August 1849 but died at age 1 1/2 in February 1851; and Marie Alizia born in February 1851--nine children, seven sons and two daughters, including a set of twins, between 1835 and 1851.  Daughter Henrietta married into the Landry family by 1870.  Three of Joseph III's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Joseph IV, a twin, married Flora Cécile, daughter of Pierre Misaël Lambremont and his Acadian wife Marie Louise Breaux, at the St. Gabriel church in December 1862.  Did they have any children? 

Joseph III's third son Pierre Adolphe married Kenelia, daughter of Eugène Francis Gaiennie and Marie Clairia Rils, at the Plaquemine church, Iberville Parish, in November 1866. ...

Joseph III's sixth son Paul Albert married Louise Elizabeth, called Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Whaley or Waley and Elizabeth Lenart, at the St. Gabriel church in February 1867.  Daughter Corine Euphrasie was born near St. Gabriel in February 1868; ...

Joseph, fils's second son Théodule married Marie Émelina or Mélina, daughter of Pierre Dufour and Marie Émelie Guilbaut, probably a Creole, not a fellow Acadian, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in May 1838.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Louis Aimé, called L. Aimé, in August 1839; Joseph Armand, called Armand, in November 1841; Marie Carmélite Lutetia, called Carmélite, in November 1843; Marie Isabelle Alice in April 1847; Jean Émile in November 1857 but died a few days after his birth; and Charles Rodolph Fernand born in December 1859--six children, four sons and two daughters, between 1839 and 1859.  Daughter Carmélite may have married into the Libano family by 1870.  Two of Théodule's sons also married by then. 

Oldest Louis Aimé married Clara, daughter of Pierre Cire and Zoraide Morouse, at the Donaldsonville church in April 1866.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Marie Lelia in April 1868; Marie Emma in June 1870; ...

Théodule's second son Joseph Armand, called Armand, married Manette, daughter of Philibert Dupuy or Dupuis, a Spanish immigrant, not a fellow Acadian, and Anaïse Ayraud, at the Donaldsonville church in May 1866.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Marie Laure in May 1867; George Hubert in November 1868; Anaïse Louise in June 1870; ... 

Joseph, fils's third son Pierre Adolphe, called Adolphe, married cousin Marie Laura or Laure, daughter of Cyprien Mollère and his Acadian wife Apolline Landry, at the Donaldsonville church in July 1843; they had to secure a dispensation for fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Euphrasie Adolphine in August 1844; Joseph Léonce in February 1847; Marie Henriette in February 1849 but died the following December; and another Marie Henriette born in December 1850 but, called Henrietta, died at age 1 1/2 in July 1852--four children, three daughters and a son, between 1844 and 1850.  Neither of Adolphe's remaining children married by 1870. 

Joseph, fils's fourth son Jean Achille, called Achille, married Marie Carmélite, called Carmélite, daughter of Augustin Guilfout and Constance Hernandez, at the Donaldsonville church in January 1842.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Marie Carmélite Elisca in March 1844; Marie Alisca in January 1846; Louise Ophelia in January 1848 but died the following July; and Jean Achille, fils born in June 1849--four children, three daughters and a son, between 1844 and 1849.  Jean Achille, père died "at New Orleans" in October 1867.  The Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Achille died at "age ca. 46 years."  Jean Achille would have been age 45, so this probably was him.  One wonders what he was doing in the city at the time of his death.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Joseph, père's third and youngest son Pierre-Paul, by second wife Cécile Dupuis, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Brasset and Théodose Gautreaux, at the St. Gabriel church in November 1812.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included an infant, name unrecorded, died at birth in February 1816; Marie Viriginie, called Virginie, born in July 1817 but died at age 4 (the recording priest said 5) in August 1821; Marine, perhaps also called Marie Oralie, born in March 1819 but died at age 4 1/2 in August 1823; Victorine, also called Marie Victorine, born in July 1821; and Pierre, fils in December 1823--five children, at least three daughters and a son, between 1816 and 1823.  Pierre died near St. Gabriel in January 1834.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Pierre died at "age 48 yrs."  Pierre Paul was 46, so this probably was him.  Remaining daughter Marie Victorine married into the Roth family.  Pierre Paul's son also married and settled on the river. 

Only son Pierre, fils married Marie Amelia, called Amelia, daughter of Joseph Barthélémy Ramouin, Ramoin, or Ramon and his Acadian wife Émelie Hébert, at the St. Gabriel church in April 1846.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Marie Émelia in April 1849; Pierre Émile in January 1851 but died at age 7 1/2 in October 1858; Marie Caecilia born in January 1855; Joseph Barthélémi in March 1857; Gabriel Oscar in November 1860; Alfred Antoine in June 1864; Marie Rose in January 1867; ...  None of Pierre, fils's children married by 1870. 

Simon-Henry (c1740-1812) à Michel dit Lafond à Michel dit Sansoucy Richard

Simon-Henry, second son of Joseph Richard and Marie-Josèphe LeBlanc and younger brother of one of the Joseph Richards who came to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765, was born probably at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in c1740.  Unlike his older brother, Simon-Henry was deported with his family to Maryland in 1755.  He followed his widowed mother and a younger brother to Louisiana in 1767 and settled with them at San Gabriel, where he married Marie-Rose, called Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Landry and Anne Babin, in May 1770.  Spanish officials counted them on the "right bank ascending," that is, the west bank of the river, across from San Gabriel in March 1777.  Their children, born on the river, included Simon, fils, called Simonet, in March 1773; Marie-Madeleine in April 1775; Joseph-Xavier baptized at the Ascension church, age unrecorded, in May 1777; Paul-Grégoire born in September 1779; Jacques-Auguste, called Auguste, in February 1782 but died near St. Gabriel, "age 58 [actually 59] years, a bachelor," in March 1841; and Marie-Céleste, called Céleste, born in April 1784--six children, four sons and two daughters, between 1773 and 1784.  Simon Henry died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in September 1812, age 72.  Daughters Marie Madeleine and Céleste married into the Broussard and Breaux families.  Three of Simon Henry's sons also married, two of them to sisters, in Iberville Parish. 

Oldest son Simon, fils, dit Simonet, married Marie Marguerite, called Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Breaux and Élisabeth Babin, at the Ascension church in January 1806.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Simon Marcellin, called Marcellin, in November 1807; Marie Arthémise, called Arthémise, in August 1808; Marie Adélaïde in August 1810; Jean Henry or Henri in February 1812; Marie Domitille in January 1815; Madeleine Uranie in July 1819; Pierre Rosémond, called Rosémond, in December 1822; and Marie Joséphine, called Joséphine, in November 1825--eight children, three sons and five daughters, between 1807 and 1825.  Simonet died near St. Gabriel in October 1835, age 62.  Daughters Marie Domitille, Arthémise, Madeleine Uranie, and Joséphine married into the Hébert, Roth, Breaux, Trabaud, and Billon Morin families.  Simonet's three sons also married, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Simon Marcellin, called Marcellin, married cousin Marie Laurenza, called Laurenza, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Léandre Breaux and Renée Rosalie Dupuis, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in January 1833.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Marie Eulalie in January 1834 but, called Eulalie, died at age 3 1/2 in June 1837; Madeleine Eugénie born in January 1836 but died at age 4 1/2 in August 1840; Marie Eluosia or Aloysia, called Aloysia, born in August 1839; Marie Adélaïde, called Adélaïde, in December 1840; and Charles Taylor in November 1848--five children, four daughters and a son, between 1834 and 1848.  Daughters Aloysia and Adélaïde married into the Landry and Bonicard families by 1870.  Marcellin's son also married by then. 

Only son Charles Taylor married Fidelise, daughter of Saintville Parent and his Acadian wife Sarrasine Landry, at the Gonzales church, Ascension Parish, in December 1869.  Their son Simon Evariste was born near Gonzales in October 1870; ...

Simonet's second son Jean Henri married Marie Adèle, called Adèle, daughter of Sébastien Frederic and his Acadian wife Hélène Guidry, at the St. Gabriel church in February 1844.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Azélie Adriènne in March 1846; and Jean Fillmore in November 1848.  Jean Henri died in Iberville Parish in July 1850, age 38.  Neither of his children married by 1870. 

Simonet's third and youngest son Pierre Rosémond, called Rosémond, married cousin Marguerite Ludivine, called Divine, another daughter of Charles Léandre Breaux and Renée Rosalie Dupuis, at the St. Gabriel church in January 1849.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Pierre Rosémond, fils in July 1850 but, called Rosémond, died at age 10 months in May 1851; Amadéo Savinean born in October 1852 but, called Amadéo Savinien, died at age 11 months in September 1853; Eve Euphrasie born in March 1856; Margaret Cécilia in November 1858; and Marie Élia in November 1860--five children, two sons and three daughters, between 1850 and 1960.  None of Rosémond's children married by 1870. 

Simon-Henry's second son Joseph-Xavier married cousin Anne-Marie or -Marine, called Marine, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon-Joseph Dupuis and Marie-Ludivine Landry, at the San Gabriel church in August 1801. Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Joseph-Magloire in July 1802; Auguste Lazare in February 1804; Louis Élie, called Élie, in August 1805; Duroille in March 1807 but died at age 4 1/2 in August 1811; and Gédéon Philemon born in August 1809 but died at age 4 in July 1813--five children, all sons, between 1802 and 1809.  Was Joseph Xavier the Joseph Richard who died near St. Gabriel at age 30 in 1810?  His three remaining sons married.

Oldest son Joseph Magloire may have married Marie or Mary Suarez in a civil ceremony probably in Iberville Parish during the 1820s.  They evidently settled on the west side of the river near Plaquemine.  Their children, born there, included Marie Aurelie or Aurelia in November 1828; Marie Rosina in October 1830; Marie Célina, called Célina, in July 1832[sic, perhaps 1831]; Marguerite Orely or Oretie in November 1832[sic]; Euphémon in August 1834; Marie Nalvina or Malvina, called Malvina, in October 1836; Marie Cécile or Célia, called Cécile, in December 1838; Edgard in October 1840; and Alcé, perhaps also called Alcide, in January 1843--nine children, six daughters and three sons, between 1828 and 1843.  Perhaps because of the nature of their marriage, Joseph and Marie's children were not baptized at the St. Gabriel church until March, April, and June 1846, about the time the couple's oldest daughter married there.  Daughters Marie Aurelia, Marie Rosina, Marie Célina, Marie Cécile/Célia, Marguerite Oretie, and Malvina married into the Hébert, Charre, Sellier, Emeau, Matherne, Nereau, Leonard, and Kenner families, two of them, Célina and Cécile, twice, and one of them, Célina, remarried on lower Bayou Teche, by 1870.  One of Joseph's sons also married by then and settled where few other Acadians lived.

Third and youngest son Alcé, called Alcide by a recording priest, may have married cousin Angelina Richard, place and date unrecorded.  Their son Alcide, fils was born in Pointe Coupee Parish in September 1866; ... 

Joseph Xavier's second son Auguste Lazare married fellow Acadian Hélène Hébert, place and date unrecorded, but it probably was in Iberville Parish in the late 1820s or early 1830.  Their son Théophile was born near St. Gabriel in September 1834.  Auguste Lazare died near St. Gabriel in July 1843, age 29.  His son did not marry by 1870. 

Joseph Xavier's third son Louis Élie, called Élie, married Maria Delia, called Delia, daughter of fellow Acadians Édouard Gaudin and Madeleine Landry, at the St. Gabriel church in July 1831.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Louis Jules in April 1832 but, called Jean, died at "age 3 or 4 years" in September 1835; Julienne Hermina born in February 1835 but, called Marie Hermine, died at age 11 1/2 (the recording priest said 12) in October 1846; and Louis born in April 1839.  Louis Élie remarried to Célanie or Celina, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Breaux and Élise Breaux and widow of Adélard Babin, at the St. Gabriel church in February 1843.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Marie Naltee in October 1844; and twins Marguerite Olive and Paul Olivier, called Olivier, in July 1846, but Marguerite Olive, called Olive, died at age 8 in August 1854--six children, three sons and three daughters, by two wives and including a set of twins, between 1832 and 1846.  Élie's remaining daughter did not marry by 1870, but one of his sons did. 

Third and youngest son Olivier, a twin, by second wife Célanie Breaux, married Octavine, daughter of Léon Duplessis and his Acadian wife Céleste Dupuy, at the Gonzales church, Ascension Parish, in March 1869. ...

Simon-Henry's third son Paul-Grégoire married Henriette, another daughter of Paul Breaux and Élisabeth Babin, at the Ascension church in April 1803.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Louis Benjamin, called Benjamin, in February 1804; Jérôme Trasimond, called Trasimond, in November 1805; Augustin Valère in December 1807; Marie Mélanie dite Marabelle in July 1810 but died at age 1 1/2 in November 1811; a son, name unrecorded, born in c1810 or 1811 but died at age 13 in November 1823; Pierre Mélon born in October 1813; Cherasime or Gerasime Leufroi or Leufroi Gerasime in July 1817; Joseph Misaël in March 1821 but, called F. Misaïl, died at age 26 in July 1847; and Joseph Michael in March 1823--nine children, eight sons and a daughter, between 1804 and 1823.  Paul died near St. Gabriel in August 1832, age 52 (the recording priest said 53).  His daughter did not survive childhood.  Three of his remaining sons married, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Louis Benjamin, called Benjamin, married cousin Marie Arthémise, called Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadians Sébastien Guidry and Eulalie Breaux, at the St. Gabriel church in March 1832.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Louis Émile in February 1832 but died "as a result of a fall down the hold of the Steamboat Belle Creole" in January 1848, age 16; Marie born in September 1834; another Marie in November 1836 but, called Marie Ethelvina, died at age 3 1/2 in August 1840; Jules born in April 1840; Eve or Eva Elvina in March 1843; Adonis in April 1846 but died at age 7 1/2 (the recording priest said 8) in September 1853; and Paul born in March 1852--seven children, four sons and three daughters, between 1832 and 1852.  Daughter Eva Elvina married into the Barbay family by 1870.  One of Benjamin's remaining son also married by then. 

Second son Jules married Marie Victoire or Victoria, called Victoria, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Hotaire Orillion and his Creole wife Marie P. Lacroix, at the St. Gabriel church in June 1865.  They settled on the river near the boundary between Iberville and Ascension parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie Apolline in January 1866; Joseph Kotman in September 1867; Paul Albert in August 1869; ... 

Paul Grégoire's second son Jérôme Trasimond, called Trasimond, married Marie Uranie, called Uranie, daughter of François Philogène Pujol and his Acadian wife Adélaïde Babin, at the St. Gabriel church in April 1833.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Jacques Édouard in June 1834 but died at age 4 1/2 in September 1838; Marie Divine or Ludivine, called Ludivine, born in November 1835; Marie Henriette, called Henriette or Henrietta, in August 1837; Trasimond Alexandre in October 1839 but died at age 11 months in October 1840; Alexandre Élie born in October 1841 but died at age 2 1/2 in June 1844; a newborn infant, name unrecorded, died in July 1843; Marie or Mélanie Athalie born in October 1844; and Marie Victoria in November 1847--eight children, at least three sons and four daughters, between 1834 and 1847.  Daughters Ludivine, Henrietta, and Mélanie Athalie married into the Gerber, Allain, and LeBlanc families by 1870.  None of Trasimond's sons survived childhood, but the blood of the family line may have endured. 

Paul Grégoire's sixth son Gerasime Leufroi or Leufroi Gerasime married cousin Marie Virginie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Breaux and Françoise Landry, at the St. Gabriel church in February 1840.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Joseph Albert in April 1841; Marine Nisida or Nezida, called Nezida, in June 1843; Avit Lufroy in June 1845; Marie Aglaé in November 1851; Anne Aurelia in May 1854; and Jean Baptiste in March 1857--six children, three sons and three daughters, between 1841 and 1857.  Daughter Nezida married into the Grabert family by 1870.  None of Gerasime Leufroi's sons married by then. 

Paul (c1747-1818) à Michel dit Lafond à Michel dit Sansoucy Richard

Paul, fourth and youngest son of Joseph Richard and Marie-Josèphe LeBlanc, and Simon-Henry's younger brother, born probably at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in c1747, followed his family to Maryland and his widowed mother and older brother to New Orleans and San Gabriel in 1767.  Paul, at age 30, married Madeleine-Marthe, called Marthe, 16-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Dominique Babin and Marguerite Boudreaux, at the St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer church, downriver from San Gabriel, in February 1777, but they did not settle there.  Marthe also had come to Louisiana from Maryland, probably with several of her siblings, in 1767.  Spanish officials counted them on the "right bank ascending," or west bank of the river, across from San Gabriel later that year.  Their children, born near San Gabriel, included Joseph-Xavier in January 1778; Marie-Françoise-Manuela dite Fani in September 1781; Dominique in December 1784; Marine in April 1787; Marie-Henriette in January 1791; and Marie in April 1798--six children, two sons and four daughters, between 1778 and 1798.  Wife Marthe died near San Gabriel in April 1798, in her late 30s, perhaps from the complications of childbirth.  Paul did not remarry.  After 1804, he crossed the Atchafalaya Basin and settled on the western prairies.  He died "suddenly ... at the home of Mr. Lefebvre at 'au large de (the surrounding countryside of) la Côte Gelée" in July 1818, "age about 72 years."  Daughter Marie Françoise married into the McGee family at St. Gabriel in January 1804 and followed her father to the prairies.  One of Paul's sons also married and settled in St. Landry Parish near his many kinsmen there. 

Younger son Dominique married Augustine dite Justine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Landry and Marie Louise Bourg, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in July 1812.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Marie Aselle or Estelle, called Estelle, in March 1814; Marie Arthémise, called Arthémise, in April 1816; Eugène in June 1819; Paul Ermogène or Hermogène, also called Archange, in January 1822; Joseph in June 1825; Léandre or Landry in July 1829; Louise in July 1832; and Azéma in January 1835--eight children, four daughters and four sons, between 1814 and 1835.  Daughters Estelle and Arthémise married into the Barton and Lacombe families by 1870.  Two of Dominique's sons also married by then. 

Second son Paul Hermogène, also called Ermogène and Archange, married Marie Edmire or Elmire Devillier in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in May 1845.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Augustine in c1849 but died at age 9 in July 1858; Léopold born in October 1853; Élizabeth in November 1855; Emmas, a son, in February 1858; Ophelia in July 1860; Virginie in February 1863; ...  None of Paul Hermogène's children married by 1870. 

Dominique's fourth and youngest son Léandre or Landry married Lucretia Susanne, daughter of Kaley Labarge and Louisa Susanna Rogers, at the Opelousas church in July 1856.  Daughter Mary Emma was born in Landry Parish in January 1861; ...

Mathurin (1741-1796) à Pierre à Michel dit Sansoucy Richard

Mathurin, oldest son of Paul Richard and Madeleine LeBlanc, born at Minas in June 1741, followed his family to Maryland in 1755 and appeared on a repatriation list with his widowed mother and three brothers--Amand, Pierre, and Jacques--at Newtown on the colony's Eastern Shore in July 1763.  Mathurin married fellow Acadian Élisabeth, or Isabelle, Landry in the Cheasapeake colony in c1765.  Still childless, they followed relatives (but not his three brothers) to Spanish Louisiana in 1767 and settled at San Gabriel before moving to the Opelousas District.  Their children, born at San Gabriel, included Jean-Baptiste, called Baptiste, in December 1768 and baptized by a Pointe Coupee priest the following March; and Pierre-Grégoire born in January 1774.  Mathurin died at Opelousas in December 1796, age 55.  His sons created vigorous lines on the prairies. 

Older son Jean-Baptiste, called Baptiste, married Élisabeth or Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Cormier, fils and his first wife Marguerite Bourg, at the Opelousas church in April 1794.  They settled near Grand Coteau.  Their children, born there, included Jean-Baptiste, fils in March 1794, weeks before his parents' marriage, but died at age 9 1/2 in February 1804; Onésime born in August 1799; Isabelle Adélaïde, called Adélaïde, in January 1801; Raphaël in August 1804; Marie in February 1807 and baptized at the Opelousas church, age 6, in June 1813 with her younger brother; Joseph born in May 1812; Juliènne in April 1813; and Élisabeth or Éliza in August 1816 but died at age 3 1/2 in July 1820--eight children, four sons and four daughters, between 1794 and 1816.  Jean Baptiste, père died near Grand Coteau in November 1834.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Jean Baptiste was age 70 when he died.  He was 66.  Daughters Adélaïde, Marie, and Juliènne married into the Cormier, Breaux, and Prejean families.  Baptiste's remaining sons also married, two of them to sisters. 

Second son Onésime married cousin Delphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Thibodeaux and Marie Louise Cormier, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in August 1829.  They settled probably near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Marcellite baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 9 months, in September 1831 but died at age 4 1/2 (the recording priest said 6) in August 1835; Onésime, fils baptized at age 2 months in July 1832 but died at age 3 (the recording priest said 4) in September 1835; Pierre, also called Pierre Onésime, born in January 1834; and Marie Louise in October 1835 but died in December.  A succession for wife Delphine, probably post-mortem, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in February 1836.  Onésime remarried to Marguerite Arthémise, called Arthémise, daughter of Anglo Creole Julien Caruthers or Credeur and his Acadian wife Céleste Mouton, at the Vermilionville church in May 1837.  They probably remained at Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Anastasie baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in April 1838; Anatalie born in June 1840; Joseph le jeune in May 1842; Marie Célestine, called Célestine, in November 1844; Ernestine in January 1847; and Marie Éliza, also called Onésima, in February 1849--10 children, seven daughters and three sons, by two wives, between 1831 and 1849.  Onésime "of Lafayette Parish" died probably at Carencro in July 1851, age 51.  His succession, calling him Onézime and naming his second wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse later that month.  Daughters Anastasie, Anatalie, Ernestine, Célestine, and Onésima, by his second wife, married into the Prejean, Comeaux, and Dugas families, two of them, Anatalie and Onésima, to Comeauxs, and two of them, Ernestine and Célestine, to Dugas brothers, by 1870.  Onésime's remaining sons also married by then. 

Second son Pierre Onésime, by first wife Delphine Thibodeaux, married Anaïse, also called Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Chiasson and Susanne Dugas, at the Vermilionville church in November 1858.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included twins Fedora and Honora in September 1859; Julie in May 1861; Pierre Lovinski in July 1862; Evangelle in January 1869; Louis Onésime in March 1870; ...

Onésime's third and youngest son Joseph le jeune, by second wife Marguerite Arthémise Caruthers, married Onésima, daughter of fellow Acadians Onésime Babineaux and Émilie Landry, at the Vermilionville church in January 1868. ...

Baptiste's third son Raphaël married Marie Adélaïde, called Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean dit Rémi Boudreaux and his Creole wife Marguerite Caruthers, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in April 1827.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Raphaël, fils in April 1828; Marie Onesia in February 1830; Joseph Dorestan, called Dorestan, in March 1832; Aurelia in October 1834; Aurelien in August 1837; Jean Onésime, also called John O., in September 1839; Julien in May 1842; Émilia or Amelia in August 1844; Jules in December 1846; and Honoré in November 1848--10 children, seven sons and three daughters, between 1828 and 1848.  Daughters Marie Onesia, Aurelia, and Amelia married into the Prejean, Lavergne, Miller, and Andrus families by 1870.  Four of Raphaël's son also married by then.  One of them settled on Bayou Lafourche before returning to St. Landry Parish.  The others remained in St. Landry. 

Oldest son Raphaël, fils married Palmire, daughter of Antoine Ritter and his Acadian wife Terzile Savoie, at the Grand Coteau church in October 1850.  Their son Joseph Dornaville or Derneville was born near Grand Coteau in September 1851 and married by 1870.  They evidently had no other children. 

Joseph Derneville, perhaps an only son, called Joseph D. by the recording priest, married Alexina, daughter of fellow Acadian Théodule Benoit and his Creole wife Emma Forestier, at the Arnaudville church, St. Landry Parish, in September 1870; the marriage was recorded also at Grand Coteau. ...

Raphaël, père's second son Joseph Dorestan, called Dorestan, married Constance Anselme at the Grand Coteau church in April 1854.  Their son Ferdinand was born near Grand Coteau in October 1854.  She gave him no children.  Joseph Dorestan, called Joseph D. by the recording clerk, remarried to Mary Nathalie, called Nathalie and also Clémentine, Benguerel, Bengrel, or Beugeurel, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in August 1859.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Marie Rosina in May 1860; Georges in January 1862; Louise Corinne in November 1864; Malvina Philomène in October 1866; Nathalie Joséphine in August 1868; ... 

Raphaël, père's third son Aurelien married Odile or Odilia, daughter of fellow Acadians Guillaume Hébert and Marie Guillot, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Parish, in May 1864, but they returned to the prairies.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche and the prairies, included Joseph Aurelien in Lafourche Parish in January 1865; Marie Joséphine in October 1866; Julia near Grand Coteau in April 1868; Frank Willy in September 1869; ... 

Raphaël, père's fourth son Jean Onésime married Emma L., daughter of John William Hardy and his Acadian wife Modeste Guidry, at the Grand Coteau church in September 1865.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included William Milton in January 1867; Marie in July 1868; Marie Ella in January 1870; ... 

Baptiste's fourth and youngest son Joseph married Marguerite, another daughter of Jean dit Rémi Boudreaux and Marguerite Caruthers, at the Grand Coteau church in December 1833.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Joseph, fils in July 1835 but died at age 2 1/2 in September 1837; François Lucien, called Lucien, baptized at the Grand Coteau church, age unrecorded, in April 1838; Joseph Miller born in May 1839; and Joseph Valsin in December 1840--four children, all sons, between 1835 and 1840.  A post-mortem succession for wife Marguerite, naming her husband, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in October 1844.  Joseph remarried to cousin Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Savoie and Marie Cormier, at the Grand Coteau church in October 1844.  She evidently gave him no more children.  One of Joseph's remaining sons married by 1870, but the line did not endure. 

Second son François Lucien, called Lucien, from first wife Marguerite Boudreaux, married Marie Mélanie or Mélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Murphy Broussard and Adélaïde Prejean and widow of Portalis Castille, at the Grand Coteau church in October 1859.  A succession for François Lucien, which calls him Lucien and his wife Mélaïde Broussard, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in September 1862.  He died near Grand Coteau in November 1862.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Lucien died "at age 25 yrs."  He was 24.  One wonders if his death was war-related and if his family line died with him. 

Mathurin's younger son Pierre-Grégoire married Anne-Perrine, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Patry and Charlotte Potier of Île St.-Jean, at the Opelousas church in October 1794.  Anne, a native of St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo, had come to Louisiana from France in 1785 with her mother and her stepfather, Pierre Hébert.  She and Pierre-Grégoire settled at Beaubassin on upper Bayou Vermilion near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Pierre-Sylvère or -Sylvestre in August 1795; Marie-Josèphe in December 1796; Euphrosine, also called Euphrasie, in April 1799; Pierre, fils in c1800 but died at age 1 in July 1801; Marie-Adélaïde, called Adélaïde, baptized at the Opelousas church, age 6 months, in September 1803; Mélanie born in September 1805; twins Marcelle or Marcelite and Marcellin, called Marcel, in April 1808; Arthémise in October 1811; and Joachim in March 1814--10 children, four sons and six daughters, between 1795 and 1814.  Pierre Grégoire's succession, naming his minor heirs--Arthémise; Joachim, age 15; and Marcelite, age 19--but not his wife, probably post-mortem, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in October 1830.  He would have been age 56 that year.  He died a widower, Anne having died in December 1817, in her early 40s.  Daughters Marie Josèphe, Euphrosine, Mélanie, and Adélaïde married into the Roger, Bruce, Hutchens, Carmouche, and Gray families.  Pierre Grégoire's three remaining sons also married and settled in the Carencro/Grand Coteau area. 

Oldest son Pierre Sylvère or Sylvestre married Marie or Mary, daughter of Jean Andrus and his Acadian wife Anastasie Savoie, at the Grand Coteau church in October 1824.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Pierre Ducre or Ducret in July 1825; Déogène, also called Joseph Déogène and Desgènes, in August 1826; Onésime le jeune in August 1828; Emélie or Amelia in September 1830; twins Valsain or Valsin and an unnamed son in October 1832, but the unnamed son died eight days after his birth; Jerasin or Gerasin born in January 1835; Félicité or Félicia Oliva in November 1837; Joachim le jeune in February 1840 but died at age 3 1/2 in September 1843; Joseph Alladin born in June 1842 but, called Aladin, died at age 17 in July 1859 (his succession may have been filed at the Opelousas courthouse in March 1861); and Jean Dorestan born in January 1846--11 children, nine sons and two daughters, including a set of twins, between 1825 and 1846.  A succession for Pierre S. Richard, perhaps Pierre Sylvère, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in October 1866.  If this was him, he would have been age 70 that year.  Daughters Amelia and Félicia married into the Jagneau and Leger families by 1870.  Pierre Sylvère's remaining sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Pierre Ducret married Firmosia or Formosia Meche at the Grand Coteau church in August 1847.  Their son Joseph Ducret was born near Grand Coteau in February 1868 but died in April; ... 

Pierre Sylvère's second son Déogène married Joséphine, daughter of Bernie Callegan and Marie Clarisse Fall, at the Grand Coteau church in September 1854.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Joseph in June 1856; Joseph Adolphe in November 1858 but died the following January; John Thomas died at age 4 weeks in May 1860; Adams born in May 1861; Joseph Desgènes, perhaps Déogène, in September 1864; and Philogène Bernard in July 1867--six children, all sons, between 1856 and 1867.  Déogène died near Grand Coteau in November 1868.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Déogène died "at age 40 yrs."  He was 42.  His succession, calling him Joseph Déogène and his wife Joséphine Colligan, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in December.  None of their sons married by 1870. 

Pierre Sylvère's third son Onésime le jeune may have married fellow Acadian Lucie Boudreaux in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in December 1847, and sanctified the marriage at the Grand Coteau church in January 1848.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Jules in November 1848; Natalie in March 1850; Lucien in February 1852 but died the following August; Joseph born in November 1854; Isidore in March 1857; Marie Irma in January 1859; Joseph Numa in April 1861; ...  Onésime le jeune's succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in August 1869.  He would have been age 41 that year.  Daughter Natalie married into the Savoie family by 1870.  One of Onésime le jeune's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Jules married Azélie, daughter of Robert H. Smith and his Acadian wife Pauline Thibodeaux, at the Grand Coteau church in May 1867.  Their daughter Marie Azélie was born near Grand Coteau in July 1868.  Wife Azélie, only age 16, died a week after her daughter's birth.  Jules remarried to Catherine Julia, called Julia, daughter of William Wallis and Nancy Smith, at the Grand Coteau church in November 1869.  Daughter Julie was born near Grand Coteau in November 1870; ...

Pierre Sylvère's fourth son Valsin, a twin, married Marie Azélie Eugénie, called Eugénie and perhaps also Georgina, daughter of James Collegan and Émelia Robin, at the Grand Coteau church in May 1860.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included François in April 1861; Pierre in March 1866; James Valsin in March 1868 but died 6 weeks later; John Percival born in August 1869; Marie in March 1870 but died in April; ... 

Pierre Sylvère's fifth son Gerasin married Azéliènne, daughter of Jean Proud, Proude, or Prude and his Acadian wife Apolline Leger, at the Grand Coteau church in February 1866.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Pierre Ferreol in November 1866; Marie Sevilia in June 1869; ... 

Pierre Sylvère's eighth and youngest son Jean Dorestan married Marie Onesia, called Onesia, daughter of fellow Acadians Théodule Sonnier and Valsène Leger, at the Grand Coteau church in November 1866.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Marie Amanda in August 1867; Joseph Ernest in November 1869; ... 

Pierre Grégoire's third son Marcellin, called Marcel, a twin, married Juliènne or Julia Ann, daughter of John Meche and his Acadian wife Rosalie Savoie and former wife of Joseph Granbury, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in July 1848; Marcel and Juliènne evidently had been living together years before they married.  The parish clerk who recorded the marriage noted that Juliènne's first husband "was absent from [the] parish for more than 10 yrs," so Juliènne was now able to remarry.  Her and Marcel's children, born near Grand Coteau, included Victor in March 1843; Siméon, also called Simon, in March 1845; Julie Rebecca in May 1847 but may have died at age 2 1/2 (the recording priest, who did not provide a name for the dead child, said 2) in August 1849; Mélanie born in late October 1849 but died at age 9 months in August 1850; Basile born in June 1851 but died at age 1 1/2 in January 1853; and Evre Coraïde born in July 1853--six children, three sons and three daughters, between 1843 and 1853.  Marcel's daughter did not marry by 1870, but one of his sons did.

Second son Siméon married cousin Coralie Marie, daughter of Gustave Delahoussaye and his Acadian wife Eugénie Richard, at the Grand Coteau church in January 1868.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Marie Alida in November 1868; a child, name unrecorded, died at age 3 weeks in May 1870; ...

Pierre Grégoire's fourth and youngest son Joachim married Euphémie Azélie, called Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Melançon and Susanne Landry, at the Vermilionville church in October 1839.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Élisabeth in March 1841; Marius, also called Maurice and Marice, in January 1843; Félicia or Félicita in c1844; Mélanie in September 1847; Eulalie in March 1850; and Agnesia in April 1853--six children, five daughters and a son, between 1841 and 1853.  Joachim, at age 48, remarried to Marguerite Valière or Valérie, daughter of fellow Acadians André Prejean and Joséphine Breaux, at the Vermilionville church in April 1862.  She gave him no more children.  Joachim died in Lafayette Parish in February 1863.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Joachim died "at age 52 yrs.."  He was 48.  One wonders if his death was war-related.  Daughters Élisabeth, Félicia, Mélanie, and Eulalie by his first wife, married into the Dartes, Bell, Aube, and Faulk families, one of them, Félicia, twice, and two of them, Mélanie and Eulalie, to Faulk brothers, by 1870.  Joachim's son also married by then. 

Only son Marius or Maurice, by first wife Azélie Melançon, married Marie Belzire, called Belzire, daughter of fellow Acadians Zénon Bourque and Belzire Poirier, at the St. Martinville church in July 1866.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Edmond near Youngsville, Lafayette Parish, in November 1867; Marie Azélie in St. Martin Parish in March 1870; ... 

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In February 1768, another Richard wife and her family reached New Orleans from Maryland, this time from Port Tobacco on the lower Potomac  At the insistence of Spanish Governor Antonio de Ulloa they followed their fellow passengers to the remote new settlement of San Luìs de Natchez far above Baton Rouge and across the river from British Natchez.  They were not allowed to settle where they wanted until 1769, after Ulloa's ouster.  No new Richard family line came of it. 

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The largest group of Richards to go to Louisiana, 31 of them, reached New Orleans aboard six of the Seven Ships from France 21 years after the first Acadan Richards came to the colony.  More new family lines came of it, but not all of them endured. 

The first to arrive from France--three small families, one led by a widow, two by brothers; two wives; and another widow, 11 Richards in all--arrived aboard La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in mid-August 1785.  They followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, but neither of the lines established there endured: 

Jean (1731-1790s) à Pierre à Michel dit Sansoucy Richard

Jean, older son of Pierre Richard, fils and Cécile Granger, born at Minas in February 1731, followed his family to Virginia and England and married fellow Acadian Marguerite Landry of Minas there in c1758.  Marguerite gave Jean two children in England:  Marie born in c1759; and Joseph in c1762.  They were repatriated to St.-Malo, France, in May 1763 and settled in the suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  Both of their children died there soon after the family's arrival, Joseph in July, age 15 months, and Marie in September, age 4.  One wonders what caused their deaths.  Marguerite gave Jean three more children at St.-Servan:  Joseph-Marie born in February 1765 but died at age 1 in October 1766; Marguerite born in May 1767 but died the day after her birth; and Jean-Pierre born in July 1770--five children, two daughters and three sons, between 1759 and 1770, in England and France.  The family was counted at St.-Servan in 1772, so they did not follow other exiles from England to Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany in late 1765.  Nor did Jean take his family to the interior of Poitou in 1773.  By September 1784, however, he, Marguerite, and their remaining son had joined other Acadian exiles in the lower Loire port of Nantes.  The family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 and followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  The couple had no more children in the colony.  Jean died by December 1795, when wife Marguerite was listed in a Valenzuela District census without a husband.  Their surviving son married on the upper Lafourche, but the line did not endure. 

Third and youngest son Jean-Pierre followed his family to Nantes, New Orleans, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Élisabeth-Jeanne, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Aucoin and his first wife Élisabeth Henry, at the Assumption church in September 1798.  Élisabeth-Jeanne, a native St.-Suliac near St.-Servan-sur-Mer, had come to Louisiana from France in 1785 on the first of the Seven Ships.  They evidently were that rare Acadian couple who had no children.  Jean-Pierre died in Assumption Parish in December 1847.  The Plattenville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Jean, as he called him, died at "age 79 years."  Jean Pierre was 77.  His family line evidently died with him.  Élisabeth-Jeanne did not remarry and died in Assumption Parish in September 1867, age 94--perhaps the last Acadian immigrant in Louisiana to join her ancestors. 

Pierre III (1736-1815) à Pierre à Michel dit Sansoucy Richard

Pierre III, younger son of Pierre Richard, fils and Cécile Granger, born at Minas in April 1736, followed his family to Virginia and England and married fellow Acadian Marie-Blanche, called Blanche, LeBlanc there in c1762.  Still childless, they were repatriated to St.-Malo, France, in May 1763 and settled near his family at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where Blanche gave Pierre III five children:  Marie-Esther born in December 1763 but died the following March; Marie-Marguerite born in September 1765; Pierre-Joseph in March 1768; Joseph in May 1770 but died at age 2 1/2 in October 1772; and Marguerite-Geneviève born in July 1773.  As the dates of their children's births reveal, Pierre III, like older brother Jean, did not follow other exiles from England to Belle-Île-en-Mer in 1765.  But, unlike brother Jean, Pierre III did take his family to the interior of Poitou in 1773.  In March 1776, after two years of effort, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes.  They settled in the suburb of Rezé across the Loire from Nantes, where, in St.-Pierre Parish, Blanche gave Pierre III three more children:  another Joseph, born in c1776 but died at age 3 in August 1779; another Marguerite-Geneviève born in June 1779 but died in July; and Jean-Baptiste born in October 1780 but died at age 2 1/2 in July 1783.  Their youngest child, son Charles-Pierre-Paul, was born aboard La Bergère "in the roadsted of the Port of Paimboeuf," the lower port of Nantes, on 13 May 1785 and was baptized by a local priest aboard ship, the day before the transport headed out to sea--nine children, four daughters and six sons, between 1763 and 1785, most of whom did not survive childhood.  From New Orleans, Pierre III, Blanche, their remaining two sons and a daughter, and a Richard cousin followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  The couple had no more children in the colony.  Pierre III died in Assumption Parish in November 1815, age 79.  Daughter Marie-Marguerite married into the Landry family.  None of Pierre III's sons married, so only the blood of the family line may have endured in the Bayou State. 

Oldest son Pierre-Joseph followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and upper Bayou Lafourche.  He was not counted in Valenzuela District censuses of January 1788 or January 1791, when he would have been ages 20 and 23, so one wonders if he survived the crossing from France or the first few years on the upper Lafourche. 

Pierre III's fifth and youngest son Charles-Pierre-Paul, though a newborn, survived the crossing from France and was taken by his parents to upper Bayou Lafourche, where he was counted with them in 1788, 1791, and 1795, so he survived early childhood.  He died in Assumption Parish in September 1814, age 29, and did not marry. 

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The next contingent of Richards from France--a large family, including a grandson, six Richards in all--crossed aboard Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans the third week of August 1785.  Most of the family followed their fellow passengers to Manchac below Baton Rouge, but the grandson chose to settle on the upper Lafourche.  During the third week of December 1785, another grandson reached New Orleans aboard La Caroline, the last of the Seven Ships, and joined his older brother on the upper bayou.  Another robust family line emerged on the river, and upper Bayou Lafourche became a new center of Richard family settlement: 

Pierre (1713-1794) à René dit Beaupré à Michel dit Sansoucy Richard

Pierre, fils, oldest son of Pierre dit Beaupré Richard and Marie-Madeleine Girouard and older brother of Joseph dit Vieux of Ascension, born at Annapolis Royal in October 1713, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Antoine LeBlanc and Anne Landry, at Grand-Pré in August 1740 and settled at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit.  Marie-Josèphe gave Pierre, fils six children there:  Marie born in c1741; Joseph-Ignace, called Ignace, in February 1743; Jean-Charles in c1745; Catherine in c1747; Brigitte in c1749; and Simon in c1752.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  They were held at Liverpool, where wife Marie-Josèphe died in April 1761.  Oldest daughter Marie married an Hébert there.  In the spring of 1763, Pierre, fils and five of his unmarried children, along with daughter Marie and her family, were repatriated from Liverpool to Morlaix in northwest Brittany.  Pierre, fils, at age 50, remarried to Françoise, 33-year-old daughter of Olivier Daigre and Françoise Granger of Rivière-aux-Canards and widow of Simon-Joseph Thériot, in St.-Mathieu Parish, Morlaix, in October 1763.  She gave Pierre, fils a son, Anselme, born in St.-Martin des Champs Parish there in February 1765.  Pierre, fils's second daughter Catherine married a Trahan from l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in the north Breton port in June 1765.  Pierre, fils's oldest son Pierre-Ignace also married there that year.  Later in 1765, the blended family followed other Acadian exiles from England to the newly-liberated Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany, where they settled at Kerbellec near Le Palais on the eastern end of the island.  Françoise gave Pierre, fils five more children near Le Palais:  Simon-Joseph-Louis, called Joseph, born in October 1766; Julien-Marie in November 1768; Gabriel-Pierre-Joseph in c1769 but died at age 5 in March 1774; Marie-Jeanne born in c1771; and Pierre-Auguste, called Auguste, in January 1774--a dozen children, four daughters and eight sons, by two wives, between 1741 and 1774, in greater Acadia and France.  Third daughter Brigitte, by Pierre, fils's first wife, married into the Guillemot and Richard families on the island in the 1770s.  Meanwhile, second son Jean-Charles, from his first wife, according to Bona Arsenault, "embarqué pour les Îles" in 1767, but Arsenault does not identify the islands--perhaps one of the French-controlled fishery islands, Miquelon or St.-Pierre, off the southern coast of Newfoundland, where exiles from France resettled in the late 1760s and early 1770s.  One wonders if Jean-Charles created a family wherever he may have gone.  By September 1784, Pierre, fils had taken his family from Belle-Île to Paimboeuf, the lower port of Nantes, in preparation for a crossing to Spanish Louisiana.  Pierre, fils, Françoise, and four of their unmarried children--Anselme, Joseph, Marie-Jeanne, and Auguste, ages 20 to 11--along with an 18-year-old grandson, emigrated to the Spanish colony in 1785.  Pierre, fils's married daughters Marie, Catherine, and Brigitte, by first wife Marie-Josèphe, if they were still living in 1785, remained in France although each of them had married a fellow Acadian.  Third son Simon, by his first wife, age 33 in 1785, and sixth son Julien-Marie, by his second wife, age 17, if they were still living, also remained.  Oldest son Joseph-Ignace, age 42 and still very much alive in 1785, also chose to remain in France, on Belle-Île-en-Mer.  However, two of Joseph-Ignace's sons followed their paternal grandfather to Louisiana, one of them on a separate vessel.  According to Father Hébert's study of the Acadians in France, members of Pierre, fils's family were counted at Vannes in southeast Brittany in 1792 during the French Revolution.  Meanwhile, from New Orleans, Pierre, fils, Françoise, and their four children followed their fellow passengers to Baton Rouge.  However, the grandson who crossed with them on Le Beaumont and the one who crossed later on La Caroline settled on upper Bayou Lafourche, the younger grandson creating a new center of Richard family settlement there.  Pierre, fils and Françoise, ages 72 and 55, when they came to Louisiana, had no more children in the colony.  Pierre, fils died at Baton Rouge in November 1794, age 81.  Daughter Marie-Jeanne, by second wife Françoise, married a Daigre cousin at Baton Rouge.  Two of Pierre, fils's younger sons also married in the Baton Rouge area, where one of them created a lasting line.  The other line on the river did not endure.  The most robust family line was that of Pierre, fils's younger grandson, who remained on Bayou Lafourche. 

Oldest son Joseph-Ignace, by first wife Marie-Josèphe LeBlanc, followed his family to Virginia, England, and Morlaix, where he married cousin Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles LeBlanc and Élisabeth Thériot of Rivière-aux-Canards, in St.-Martin des Champs Parish in February 1765.  They followed his father and stepmother to Belle-Île-en-Mer later in the year and settled at Kerourdé near Sauzon on the north shore of the island before moving to Bangor in the island's southern interior.  They also lived near his father at Le Palais.  Marguerite gave Joseph-Ignace at least 13 children on the island:  Jean-Charles le jeune born near Le Palais in January 1766; Basile-Marie near Bangor in April 1767; Marie-Anne-Marguerite-Olive in October1768; Pierre-Ange in May 1770; Jacques-Julien-Marie in August 1772; Perrine in November 1774; Marie-Josèphe in February 1777; Françoise-Émilie in June 1778; Marie-Marthe in June1780; Jacques-Anselme in September 1781; Marie-Reine in January 1784; Jean-Marie in c1787; and Élisabeth in c1788--six sons and seven daughters, between 1766 and 1788.  In 1785, his two older sons, ages 19 and 18 and still unmarried, followed their paternal grandfather to Spanish Louisiana aboard separate vessels and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  French officials counted Joseph-Ignace and 10 of his children still on Belle-Île-en-Mer in the early 1790s.  Joseph-Ignace died on the island in 1815, in his early 70s.  Oldest daughter Marie-Anne-Margeruite-Olive married into the LeMatelot family at Bangor.  One of his younger sons also married at Bangor and created a large family there.  However, son Basile-Marie's line was the largest of all--on Bayou Lafourche in Spanish Louisiana. 

Oldest son Jean-Charles le jeune followed his paternal grandfather to Paimbeouf by 1784 and to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 on the same ship and may have followed his grandfather from New Orleans to Baton Rouge.  If so, he did not remain there.  He married Perrine-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Arcement and Marie Hébert, at the Ascension church, also called Lafourche, in September 1789.  Perrine-Madeleine, a native of St.-Suliac near St.-Malo, had come to Louisiana from France in 1785 on a later ship, followed her family to the New Felicicana District above Baton Rouge, where she may have met Jean-Charles le jeune, and then followed her family to upper Bayou Lafourche, where they married.  Her and Jean-Charles le jeune's daughter Pélagie-Rose was born there in September 1790.  Jean-Charles died at Assumption on the upper Lafourche by January 1794, in his 20s, when his wife remarried to a Thibodeaux there.  Jean-Charles le jeune evidently fathered no sons, and his daughter does not seem to have married, so his line of the family likely died with him. 

Joseph-Ignace's second son Basile-Marie followed his paternal grandfather and his older brother to Paimboeuf, but for some reason he crossed to Louisiana from Nantes not on Le Beaumont but on the last of the Seven Ships, La Caroline.  From New Orleans, he went not to Baton Rouge, where his grandfather had gone, but to upper Bayou Lafourche, perhaps following his older brother Jean-Charles there.  As a result, Basile-Marie created a new center of Richard family settlement on the Lafourche.  He married Marie-Anne-Victoire, daughter of fellow Acadians Benoît Comeaux and Anne Blanchard, at the Ascension church in May 1788 and settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between what became Ascension and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie-Rosalie in March 1789; twins Henriette-Adélaïde and Joseph-Benoît, called Benoît, in December 1790; Victor in October 1792; Alexandre-Marcellin, called Marcellin, in October 1794; Rosalie-Marguerite in December 1796; Eléonore-Clémence in July 1799; Basile-Hyacinthe in September 1801; Pélagie-Hortense or Hortense-Pélagie in November 1803; Jean-Charles le jeune in October 1805; and Hippolyte in July 1808.  Basile Marie, at age 61, remarried to Henriette, also called Anne, 33-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Paul Bourgeois and Marguerite Babin and widow of Mathurin Boudreaux and Pierre Aysenne, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in April 1828; one of Basile's sons married one of Henriette's younger sisters.  Basile and Henriette's children, born on the Lafourche, included Tresimond or Trasimond Marie Valentin or Onésippe in February 1830; and Marie Nesille or Ennesile, called Ennesille, in September 1832--13 children, six daughters and seven sons, including a set of twins, by two of his wives, between 1789 and 1832.  Basile Marie, at age 72, remarried again--his third marriage--to Marie-Olive, daughter of Charles Pontiff and Catherine Hoffman of St. John the Baptiste Parish and widow of Dominique Badeaux, at the Thibodaux church in April 1839.  She gave him no more children.  Basile Marie died in Lafourche Interior Parish in August 1845, age 78.  His succession inventory, calling him Bazile, naming his three wives, and listing his children--Henriette Adélaïde and her husband, Joseph Benoît, Victor, Marcelin, Rosalie and her husband, Hortense Pélagie and her husband, Eléonore and her husband, Bazile Hyacinthe, Hyppolyte, Jean Charles (deceased) and his wife--by his first wife and one of his children by his second wife--Trasimond Marie Onézipe--had been filed at the Thibodaux courthouse five days before his death.  Daughters Henriette Adélaïde, Rosalie, Eléonore Clémence, Pélagie Hortense, and Ennesile, by his first and second wives, married into the Legendre, Bourgeois, Boudreaux, Guillot, and LeBlanc families.  All seven of Basile Marie's sons married and settled on the Lafourche, but not all of the lines endured.

Oldest son Joseph Benoît, called Benoît, from first wife Marie Anne Comeaux, married Isabelle Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean François Rassicot and his second wife Marie Josèphe Robichaux, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in May 1810.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Assumption and Lafourche Interior parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie Clémence, called Clémence, in September 1812; Élisabeth Azélie in March 1816; and Joseph Léon, called Léon, in January 1818.  Joseph remarried to Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Breaux and Marie Bourgeois, at the Plattenville church in July 1819.  They settled in Lafourche Interior Parish.  Their children, born there, included Leufroi in June 1820 but, called Louis Leufroy, died at age 25 in December 1845; Valérie or Valéry Basile born in October 1821; Mélite Adelvina dite Telvina in February 1823; Evariste Joseph in June 1824; Célestine Zélina in June 1826; Louis Marcelin or Marcellin, called Marcellin, in October 1829; Aimée Marcelite in May 1832; and Élodie Rosalie in June 1834--11 children, six daughters and five sons, by two wives, between 1812 and 1834.  Joseph Benoît died in Lafourche Parish in November 1863, age 73.  A "Petition for inventory," naming his second wife, and listing his children by both wives and some of their spouses--Marcellin, Marie and her husband, Clémence and her husband, Isabelle and her husband, Léon, Valérie, Telvina and her husband, Evariste, Célestine, Aimée and her husband, and Élodie and her husband--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in December 1865.  Daughters Marie, Clémence, Isabelle, Telvina, and Aimée, by both wives, married into the Foret, Savoie, Dantin, Gaubert, and Hébert families, including two Gaubert brothers, by 1870.  Three of Benoît's sons also married by then, two of them to sisters. 

Oldest son Joseph Léon, called Léon, from first wife Isabelle Rassicot, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne LeBlanc and Marguerite Melançon, at the Thibodaux church in September 1842.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Washington, also called Paul, in the early 1840s; Marguerite Euphrosine, called Euphrosine and Euphrasie, in August 1843; Léon, fils in October 1846; and Joseph, fils in November 1848--four children, three sons and a daughter, between the early 1840s and 1848.  Léon remarried to Julia, daughter of fellow Acadian Louis Gaudet and his Creole wife Clémence Falgout and widow of Marcellin Bourgeois, at the Thibodaux church in March 1851.  A "Petition for succession inventory" in Joseph Léon's name, giving his father's name, his wives' names, and listing his remaining children--Euphrasie, Léon, and Washington--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in July 1856.  He would have been age 38 that year.  Daughter Euphrasie, by his first wife, married into the Breaux family by 1870.  Two of Léon's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Washington, also called Paul, from first wife Marguerite LeBlanc, married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadian François Bergeron and his Creole wife Élise Grabert, at the Thibodaux church in April 1869.  Daughter Euphrasie was born in Lafourche Parish in March 1870; ...

Léon's second son Léon, fils, by first wife Marguerite LeBlanc, married Angelina, daughter of Théodule Morillon and his Acadian wife Amelia Bourg, at the Thibodaux church in April 1870. ...

Benoît's fourth son Evariste Joseph, by second wife Céleste Breaux, married Marie Delphine, called Delphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Louis Hébert and Marie Rose Gaudet, at the Thibodaux church in June 1849; Evariste's sister Aimée married Delphine's brother Augustin.  Evariste and Delphine's children, born on the Lafourche, included Jules Octave in January 1850; Marie Julia in May 1852; and Evariste, fils in March 1854.  Evariste, père remarried to Pauline, daughter of Antoine Ledet and his Acadian wife Rose Mazière, at the Thibodaux church in October 1858.  She evidently gave him no more children.  Evariste, père remarried again--his third marriage--to Mélina LeBlanc, probably a fellow Acadian and widow of François Breen, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in May 1863.  Their children, born near Lockport on the lower Lafourche, included Emma in c1865 but died at age 5 in March 1870; Joseph Camille born in March 1867; and Hélène in c1869 but died at age 13 months (the recording priest said "13 Yrs.") in January 1870--six children, three sons and three daughters, by two of his wives, between 1850 and 1869.  Evariste died near Lockport in February 1870, age 45.  His remaining daughter did not marry by 1870, but one of his sons did.

Oldest son Jules Octave, by first wife Delphine Hébert, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Léon Arceneaux and Azélie Dubois, at the Lockport church, Lafourche Parish, in January 1869.  Daughter Marie Octavie was born near Lockport in November 1869; ...

Benoît's fifth and youngest son Marcellin, by second wife Céleste Breaux, married Émilie, called Émilia, Emélite and Mélite, another daughter of Jean Louis Hébert and Marie Rose Gaudet, at the Thibodaux church in October 1850.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Léo in October 1851; Julia in January 1853 but died at age 2 1/2 (the recording priest said 2) in July 1855; Marie Estelina born in January 1855; Marie Léontine in December 1856 but died at age 8 1/2 (the recording priest said 9) in Pointe Coupee Parish [sic!] in August 1866; Joséphine Palmira born in Lafourche Parish in July 1858 but, called Palmira, died at age 4 in July 1862; Edmire born in January 1860 but died at age 13 months in February 1861; Marie Eve born in January 1862; Louis Oscar in January 1864; Émée Mélina in September 1866; Joseph Arthur in November 1868; ...  None of Marcellin's children married by 1870. 

Basile Marie's second son Victor, by first wife Marie Anne Comeaux, married Clémence, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Bergeron and Marie Babin, at the Plattenville church in April 1815.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Azélie Baptisse in April 1818; Adam Victor, called Victor, fils, in November 1826; and Marie Annaïse in June 1829--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1818 and 1829.  Victor, père died in Lafourche Parish "during [a] yellow fever epidemic" in September 1853.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial did not give any parents' names, mention a wife, or give Victor's age at the time of his death.  Victor, père would have been a month shy of age 61.  His widow did not remarry and died in Lafourche Parish, age 56, in February 1859.  Daughters Azélie and Marie married into the Naquin and Pontiff families.  Victor's son also married and carried on the line. 

Only son Victor, fils married Julie Palmyre, called Palmyre, daughter of Valéry St. Martin and Julie Riche, at the Thibodaux church in April 1847.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Victor Arthur in January 1848; Julie Azémire in April 1849 but, called Julia Azémia, died the following July; Joseph Edgard, called Edgar, born in October 1851; Marie or Mary Clémence in February 1853; Louis Clay, called Clay, in September 1854; Valéry Oscar, called Oscar, in March 1856; Louise Edmire in October 1857 but, name unrecorded, died at age 4 1/2 (the recording priest said 4) in February 1862; Lucile or Lucy Malvina born in December 1859; and Charlotte Lydia, called Lydia, in September 1861--nine children, four sons and five daughters, between 1848 and 1861.  Victor, fils died in Lafourche Parish in April 1862, age 35.  A "Petition for approval of tableau," calling his wife Palmire, and listing his surviving children--Edgar, Mary, Clay, Oscar, Lucy, and Lydia--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in October 1865.  One wonders if Victor, fils's death was war-related.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Basile Marie's third son Alexandre Marcellin, by first wife Marie Anne Comeaux, married cousin Théotiste Clarisse, daughter of fellow Acadians Raphaël Landry and Marie Richard, at the Plattenville church in June 1816.  Their son Théodule was born in Assumption Parish in September 1817.  Marcellin, called Marceline in the church record, died in Lafourche Interior Parish in November 1849, age 55.  His son married and carried on the line.

Only son Théodule married Marcelline or Marcellite, daughter of Antoine Cuvillier and Marie Josette Gaspard, at the Plattenville church in May 1839.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Marcelite, perhaps also called Adolphine, in March 1840; Alexandre Théodule in October 1842; Eugénie Augustine in November 1843; Auguste or Augustin in February 1845 but, according to a church record calling him Augustin, died at age 12 1/2 (the priest said 11) in September 1857; and twins Marcellin le jeune and Marie Angelina in November 1847--six children, three daughters and three sons, including a set of twins, between 1840 and 1847.  Daughter Adolphine married a Gaspard cousin by 1870.  One of Théodule's sons moved to lower Bayou Teche after the War of 1861-65 and married there. 

Second son Augustin, despite a priest's insistence that he had died in childhood, married Adeline, daughter of Valéry Charpentier and Marie Stout, at the New Iberia church, Iberia Parish, in May 1868.  Their son Augustin, fils was born near New Iberia in October 1868; ... 

Basile Marie's fourth son Basile Hyacinthe, by first wife Marie Anne Comeaux, married Marguerite Éloise or Éloise Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Michel Guillot and Marie Rose Pitre, at the Thibodauxville church in October 1821.  They lived on the upper bayou near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Joseph L. in November 1822; Marie Pauline in August 1824; Florine Marguerite or Marguerite Florine in August 1826; a daughter, name unrecorded, died 5 days after her birth in October 1828; Lorenza, also called Eulalie Laurenza, born in April 1830; Jean Charles le jeune in August 1832 but died at age 1 1/2 in April 1834; Émilie Amelia born June 1834; Marie Angelina in October 1837; and Aristide Hippolyte in May 1843--nine children, four sons and five daughters, between 1822 and 1843.  Daughters Marie Pauline and Marguerite Florine married into the Juneau and Seraud families by 1870.  Another daughter gave birth to a "natural" son but did not marry the father.  Two of Basile Hyacinthe's sons also married by 1870.  One of them moved to lower Bayou Teche during the late 1840s or early 1850s.  The other remained in the Lafourche valley and settled near Pierre Part north of Lake Verret. 

Oldest son Joseph L. married Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Daigle and Anastasie Breaux, at the Charenton Church, St. Mary Parish, in September 1851.  They remained on the lower Teche.  Their son Thesimond, perhaps Trasimond, was born near Pattersonville, St. Mary Parish, in April 1856.  Wife Carmélite's succession, naming her husband, was filed at the Franklin courthouse, St. Mary Parish, in March 1857, and Joseph's succession may have been filed at the Franklin courthouse in December 1860.  Their son did not marry by 1870. 

Basile Hyacinthe's third and youngest son Aristide Hippolyte married Mélasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Valentin Barrilleaux and Marcellite Thibodeaux, at the Pierre Part church, Assumption Parish, in May 1869.  Their son Camille Oleus was born near Pierre Part in July 1870; ...

Basile Hyacinthe's fourth daughter Lorenza, at age 19, gave birth to "natural" son Basile in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1850, but the boy died the following December.  The priest who recorded the boy's baptism and burial did not give the father's name.  Whoever he was, Lorenza did not marry him.  Called Eulalie Lorenza, she died at age 25 in September 1855.  A "Petition for inventory," calling her Eulalie Laurenza and saying nothing of a husband or her son, was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in February 1857. 

Basile Marie's fifth son Jean Charles le jeune, by first wife Marie Anne Comeaux, married Marie Scholastique, called Scholastique, 21-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Paul Bourgeois and Marguerite Babin, at the Thibodauxville church in June 1826; Scholastique's older sister Henriette became Jean Charles le jeune's father's third wife.  Jean Charles le jeune and Scholastique's children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Horanie or Aureline in February 1826 or 1827; Jean Tresiman or Trasimond, called Trasimond le jeune, in September 1828; Marie Scolastique or Scholastique in December 1830; Onésime or Olésime Valère or Valéry in September 1832; and Marie Paulinne or Pauline, called Pauline, in June 1834--five children, three daughters and two sons, between 1827 and 1834.  Jean Charles le jeune died in Lafourche Interior Parish in March 1836, age 30.  His succession inventory, naming his wife and listing his children and most of their birth dates--Aureline, Jean Trasimon, Marie Scholastique, Onésime, and Marie Pauline--was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse later that month.  Daughters Marie Scholastique and Marie Pauline married into the  Estiven or Estivennes, Luzignan or Luzignau, and Chiasson families by 1870.  Jean Charles le jeune's sons also married by then. 

Older son Jean Trasimond, called Trasimond le jeune, married Estelle, daughter of fellow Acadians J. Edmond Thibodeaux and Élisabeth Robichaux, at the Thibodaux church in March 1850.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joseph, called Thibodaux, in June 1851; Jean Prospère, called Prosper, in February 1853; Pierre Émille, called Émile, in October 1854; and Marie Estelina, called Estellina, in August 1856--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1851 and 1856.  Trasimond le jeune died in Lafourche Parish in January 1857, age 28.  "Letters of tutorship," naming his wife and her second husband and listing Jean Trasimond's children--Thibodaux, Prosper, Émile, and Estellina--were filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in March 1869.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Jean-Charles le jeune's younger son Onésime Valéry married Célima, daughter of Jean Laine, Laind, or Laisne and his Acadian wife Adèle Bourgeois, at the Thibodaux church in October 1856.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Jean Aurestile in June 1857; Marie Emma in January 1859; Joseph in March 1861; Marie Pamela in June 1863; Marie Octavie in December 1865; Ignace in May 1869; ... 

Basile Marie's sixth son Hippolyte, by first wife Marie Anne Comeaux, married Marie Pélagie, 20-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Thibodeaux and Martine Haché, at the Thibodauxville church in April 1830.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included a child, name unrecorded, in c1844 but, its name still unrecorded, died in Lafourche Parish, age 9, "during [a] yellow fever epidemic" in September 1853; and Eulalie Lucie born in June or July 1847.  Daughter Eulalie married into the Boudreaux family by 1870.  Hippolyte evidently fathered no sons, at least none who survived childhood, but the blood of the family line may have endured. 

Basile Marie's seventh and youngest son Trasimond Marie Valentin or Onésippe, by second wife Henriette Bourgeois, married Élisa or Éliza, daughter of Urbain Poché and his Acadian wife Célesie LeBlanc, at the Thibodaux church in May 1852.  Their son Alcide was born in Lafourche Parish in March 1853 but died the following September, probably a victim of the yellow fever epidemic that struck South Louisiana that summer and fall.  Trasimond died in Lafourche Parish "during [a] yellow fever epidemic" in September 1853.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial did not give any parents' names, mention a wife, or give Trasimond's age at the time of his death.  Trasimond Marie would have been age 23.  Since his only son also died in the epidemic, the family line did not endure. 

Joseph-Ignace's third son Pierre-Ange remained with his family on Belle-Île-en-Mer in the early 1780s and, at age 24, married Marie-Perrine, daughter of locals Jean-Pierre Causic and Marie-Agathe Thomas, at Bangor in 1794.  Marie-Perrine gave Pierre-Ange at least eight children, six daughters and two sons on the island.  Two of the daughters died young. 

Pierre, fils's fourth son Anselme, by second wife Françoise Daigre, followed his parents and siblings to Le Palais, Paimboeuf, New Orleans, and Baton Rouge.  He died there in January 1786, age 21, soon after their arrival.  He did not marry. 

Pierre, fils's fifth son Simon-Joseph-Louis, called Joseph, from second wife Françoise Daigre, followed his family to Paimboeuf, New Orleans, and Baton Rouge, where he married Perpétué, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Aucoin and Marie-Geneviève Theriot, in January 1788; the marriage was recorded by a Pointe Coupée priest.  Perpétué, a native of Bristol, England, had come to Louisiana from France in 1785 aboard a later vessel.  They settled near Fort Bute, Manchac, on the east bank of the river below Baton Rouge.  Their children, born there, included Joseph, fils in November 1788; Juliènne in April 1790; François-Alonso in November 1791; Paul-Simon in May 1793 but died at age 39 (the recording priest said "age ca. 40 yrs.") in November 1832; Pierre-Augustin le jeune, called Augustin, born in March 1795; Raphaël-Benjamin in February 1799 but died near Baton Rouge, age 52 (the recording priest said 50) in January 1851; Pierre-Jean-Baptiste born in July 1802; Euphrasine in June 1804 but died at age 8 in August 1812; and Mélissaire Lucie born in September 1805 but died at age 2 in August 1807--nine children, six sons and three daughters, between 1788 and 1805.   Daughter Juliènne married into the Doiron family.  Only two of Simon Joseph's sons married, on the river, but only one of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Joseph, fils married Marie, also called Emérite, Mérite, and Myrtie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Blanchard and Aimée Modeste Bourg, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in January 1813.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Augustine Félicité in September 1814; Euphémie Irma in December 1819; Pauline in January 1823; Jean Baptiste in November 1825; Joachim Augustin in September 1827; and Fergus in December 1830--six children, three daughters and three sons, between 1814 and 1830.  Joseph, fils may have been the Joseph Richard who died in March 1836.  The Baton Rouge priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Joseph died at age 40.  This Joseph would have been age 47.  Daughters Augustine and Euphémie married into the Foret and Parent families by 1870.  Joseph, fils's sons also married by then and settled in West Baton Rouge.

Oldest son Jean Baptiste married cousin Marie Célima or Célina, daughter of fellow Acadians Bouvier Daigre and Marie Marthe Landry, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in September 1850; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born near Brusly, included Talbert Philippe in August 1851; and Marie Julia in April 1858.  Jean Baptiste may have died in West Baton Rouge Parish in July 1859.  The Baton Rouge priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Jean Baptiste "of West Baton Rouge Parish" died at "age ca. 26 years."  This Jean Baptiste would have been age 33.  Neither of his children married by 1870. 

Joseph, fils's second son Joachim Augustin married cousin Aimée or Émée, daughter of fellow Acadians Armand Blanchard and Céleste Landry, at the Brusly church in March 1850; they had to secure a dispensation for ___ degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Augustin Rodolphe in February 1851; Célestine Aline in October 1852; Célestine Marie in July 1854; James William in April 1857 but, called William, died at age 2 in June 1859; and Joseph born in September 1860--five children, three sons and two daughters, between 1851 and 1860.  None of Joachim's children married by 1870. 

Joseph, fils's third and youngest son Fergus married cousin Émelie, another daughter of Armand Blanchard and Céleste Landry, at the Brusly church in January 1855.  Their children, born near Brusly, included James William in July 1857 but, called James, died at age 2 in June 1859; Marie Pauline born in March 1858; and Louisa Valeriènne in December 1859--three children, a son and two daughters, between 1857 and 1859. ...

Simon Joseph's fourth son Pierre Augustin, called Augustin, married Félicité Eléonore, called Léonore, daughter of Bernard Dauterive and Pauline Latille, at the Baton Rouge church in January 1828.  Augustin died near New Iberia, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, on lower Bayou Teche, in February 1865.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Augustin died "at age 75 yrs."  He was a month shy of 70.  His succession, calling his wife Félicité Eléonore Dauterive, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse, St. Martin Parish, less than two weeks after his death.  When did he move from the river to Bayou Teche?  Did he father any children? 

Pierre, fils's eighth and youngest son Pierre-Auguste, called Auguste, from second wife Françoise Daigre, followed his family to Paimboeuf, New Orleans, and Baton Rouge, where he married Marie-Jeanne, daughter of Charles Dardenne and Louise Laget of Natchitoches, in December 1796.  Auguste died at Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, across from Baton Rouge, in March 1809, age 35.  His line of the family evidently died with him. 

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The third contingent of Richards from France--three unmarried sisters, their younger brother and his wife, and a widower with his daughter, six Richards in all--arrived aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans during the second week of September 1785.  They followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Only one new family line came of it: 

Joseph (c1748-?) à René le jeune? à Pierre? à Michel dit Sansoucy Richard

A Joseph Richard, perhaps Joseph-Amant, son of Joseph Richard and Marie-Blanche LeBlanc, born probably at Minas in c1746 or 1748, evidently was exiled to Virginia in the fall of 1755, sent on to England the following spring, and repatriated to St.-Malo, France, in the spring of 1763.  He may have moved on to Morlaix up the Breton coast, where he worked as a cooper and married Marie-Jeanne Daniel, a Frenchwoman, probably in the 1770s.  She gave him a daughter, Marie-Élisabeth or -Isabelle, at Roscoff near Morlaix in c1775.  A Spanish official counted Joseph with his daughter but no wife at Morlaix in September 1784.  They then moved on to Paimboeuf, the lower port of Nantes, on the other side of Brittany so that Joseph could take his daughter to Spanish Louisiana on one of the Seven Ships.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Joseph did not remarry.  He last appears in Louisiana records in January 1791, age 42, at Valenzuela on the upper Lafourche with his daughter Marie-Isabelle, now age 16, on six arpents of frontage.  Daughter Marie-Élisabeth married into the Daigre family on the upper bayou, so the blood of the family line may have endured.

Charles (c1754-1825) à Michel dit Beaupré à René dit Beaupré à Michel dit Sansoucy Richard

Charles, younger son of Michel Richard, fils and Françoise Thériot, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1754, followed his family to Virginia and England and his twice widowed mother to Morlaix, France, where he became a tailor.  At age 31, Charles married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Honoré-Joseph Trahan and Marguerite Trahan, in St.-Martin des Champs Parish, Morlaix, in February 1785.  Marie-Josèphe, whose parents also were from Minas, was a native of St.-Martin des Champs Parish.  They followed his older sisters to Spanish Louisiana later in the year and settled with them on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Their children, born on the bayou, included Marie-Josèphe baptized at the Ascension church, age urecorded, in November 1788; Marie-Félicité born in November 1789; Marie-Ludivine in November 1791; Jean-Charles in January 1794 but died in Lafourche Parish, age 59 (the recording priest said 61) "during [a] yellow fever epidemic" in September 1853; Marie-Augustine or -Justine born in August 1796; Marie-Marguerite in January 1799; Anastasie-Marguerite in March 1801; and Joseph Firmin in August 1806--eight children, six daughters and two sons, between 1788 and 1806.  Charles died in Lafourche Interior Parish in March 1825, age 71.  A petition for inventory of his earthly possessions, giving his death date, naming his wife, and listing his children--Marie Félicité and her husband; Marie Ludvine and her husband; Jean Charles; Marie Augustine and her husband; Marie Marguerite and her husband; and Joseph Firmin, age 19 1/2--was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse the day after his death.  Daughters Marie Félicité, Marie Ludivine, Marie Justine, and Marie Marguerite married into the Breaux, Aucoin, Lelorec, and Daigle families on the bayou, two of them on the same day in the church at Assumption.  Charles's younger son also married and settled on the Lafourche. 

Younger son Joseph Firmin married, at age 23, Marie Élisa, called Élisa, 20-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Bastien Landry and Marie Constance Landry of Assumption Parish, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in February 1830.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Adeline in November 1830; Joseph Leufrois or Leufroi, called Leufroi, in February 1833; Marie Victorine, called Victorine, in March 1836; Hébert or Hubert in November 1838; Élisabeth Pamela, called Pamela, in July 1842; Étienne Émile in December 1844 but, called Émile Étienne, died at age 2 1/2 in August 1847; Amédée, called Amédé Taylor and perhaps also Allain, born in May 1847; Aglaé in the late 1840s or early 1850s; Victoria Geneviève in January 1850; and Eustache, perhaps also called Taylor, in March 1853--10 children, five daughters and five sons, between 1830 and 1853.  Joseph Firmin died in Lafourche Parish in October 1853 "during [a] yellow fever epidemic."  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Joseph died "at age 50 yrs."  Joseph Firmin would have been 47.  Wife Élisa died during the same epidemic, in September 1853, age 45.  If so, their younger children would have been raised by older siblings or by relatives.  A "Petition for family meeting" in Joseph Firmin's name, naming his widow and listing his children, evidently only the unmarried ones--Hubert, Agalaé, Pamela, Taylor, and Allain--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in August 1859.  Daughters Marie, Victorine, Pamela, and Aglaé, married into the Dugas, Bergeron, Celestin, and Conlon or Coulon families by 1870.  Three of Joseph Firmin's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Joseph Leufroi, called Leufroi, married Helen, also called Ellen, daughter of John Doyle or Dall and Hellen Languez, at the Thibodaux church in November 1853, not long after his parents died.  Leufroi and Helen's children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie in August 1854, Eve Olivia in August 1856; Adam died in Lafourche Parish 15 days after his birth in April 1858; Adam Collin born in November 1859; Louise Telosia in October 1862; Marie Joséphine in August 1865; ...  None of Leufroi's children married by 1870. 

Joseph Firmin's second son Hébert or Hubert married Émelie or Amélie, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Bergeron and Madeleine LeBlanc, at the Thibodaux church in August 1861.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Lucia in August 1862; Joseph Henri Félix in November 1864; Madeleine Elda in March 1866; Simon Albert in January 1868; Paul Arthur in September 1869; ...  

Joseph Firmin's fourth son Amédée married Lodoiska, daughter of Zénon Bernard, not a fellow Acadian but a Creole, and his Acadian wife Azéline Roger, at the Thibodaux church in October 1870. ...

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Next came a widow and her umarried sister and two wives--four Richards in all--aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans during the first week of November 1785.  The sisters remained at New Orleans, one wife followed her Russian husband to San Bernardo below New Orleans, and the other wife settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  No new Richard family line came of it. 

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La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships, reached New Orleans from St.-Malo in early December 1785.  Aboard were three Richards--a wife, a widow, and a teenaged female orphan.  They followed their fellow passengers to the new Acadian community of Bayou des Écores in the New Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge but, like most Acadians who went there, did not remain.  No new Richard family lines came of it. 

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The last Richard to reach the Spanish colony was a young bachelor who arrived aboard La Caroline, the last of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans during the third week of December 1785.  His older brother had crossed from France with their paternal grandfather on Le Beaumont and followed his grandfather to Manchac on the river before moving on to upper Bayou Lafourche.  There, the late comer joined his brother, married, and created a vigorous family line in a new center of Richard family settlement in the Bayou State. 

Rivet

Étienne Rivet or Rivest, born in c1652 probably in France, came to Acadia by c1676, the year he married Marie-Jeanne, or Marie-Anne, daughter of Pierre Comeau and Rose Bayon, at Port-Royal.  Étienne and his wife were among the first settlers on the Ste.-Famille side of Rivière Pigiguit at the southeastern end of the Minas Basin, where, between 1677 and 1689, Marie gave Étienne five children, two daughters and three sons.  In c1691, at age 39, Étienne remarried to Catherine ____, widow of Jean Labarre.  She gave him no more children.  In c1694, Étienne married a third time, to Cécile, daughter of François Joseph dit Lejeune and Jeanne Lejeune, probably at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit.  Between the mid-1690s and 1704, Cécile gave him three more children, two daughters and a son--eight children, four daughters and four sons, by two of his three wives, between 1677 and 1704.  Étienne died at Ste.-Famillie, Pigiguit, before 1707, in his mid-50s.  One of his daughters by first wife Marie-Jeanne married into the Boudrot family.  One of his sons by first wife Marie-Jeanne married into the LePrince family.  They both remained in the Minas area.  Étienne's daughters by third wife Cécile married into the Toussaint dit Lajeunesse and Poupart families at Minas, and one of them resettled in Canada.  Étienne's son by third wife Cécile also resettled in Canada before Le Grand Dérangement, married into the Palin dit Dabonville family there, but evidently fathered no children.  In 1755, descendants of Étienne Rivet and his first wife Marie-Jeanne Comeau still living in greater Acadia could be found at Pigiguit and on Île St.-Jean.  Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered the family even farther. 

The first of the family to be deported from British Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755 were two brothers and their aunt and her Forest husband and children, all from Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit.  After being rounded up with hundreds of other Acadians from the area, the British placed them on one or both of the two transports bound from Pigiguit to Maryland, which reached Annapolis via Boston, Massachusetts, at the end of November.  After they were finally allowed to land, colonial officials sent both families to the interior settlement of Upper Marlborough southwest of Annapolis. 

Meanwhile, a widowed aunt of the two brothers and her Landry children from Rivière-aux-Canards ended up on a transport bound for Virginia, where they endured a fate worse than most of the other refugees deported from the Minas basin.  Virginia's governor, Robert Dinwiddie, refused to allow the hundreds of Acadians sent to him to remain in the colony.  Exiles died on the filthy, crowded ships anchored in Hampton Roads while Virginia authorities pondered their fate.  As winter approached, the governor ordered Acadians from one vessel to be moved up to Richmond, two of the vessels were unloaded at Hampton, and two more at Norfolk.  Finally, in the spring of 1756, the govneror, his council, and the colony's Burgesses made their decision ... the "papists" must go!  In May, the first shipment of exiles left for England, and in two weeks all of them had gone--299 to Bristol, 250 to Falmouth, 340 to Southampton, and 336 to Liverpool--1,225 exiles in all by one count.   Their ordeal only worsened in the English ports, where they were held in warehouses and where many died of smallpox.  The widow and her children were held at Liverpool. 

Living in territory controlled by France, the Rivet families on Île St.-Jean--that of two brothers recently arrived from Pigiguit--escaped the roundup of their kinsmen in Nova Scotia, but their respite from British oppression was short-lived.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the  redcoats rounded up most of the habitants on Île St.-Jean.  The British deported the older brother and his wife, if she was still living, to Cherbourg in Normandy.  The younger brother and his wife, recently married, crossed on one of the five deportation transports--the Yarmouth, Patience, Mathias, Restoration, or John Samuel--that left Chédabouctou Bay in a 12-ship convoy in late November with 1,033 Acadians aboard, bound for St.-Malo in Brittany, survived a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England that sank three other vessels, and reached St.-Malo together during the third week of January 1759.  The couple settled in the suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where their only child, a daughter, was born in May 1760.  The following September, the young father signed up for privateer service on the corsair Élisabeth and was promptly captured by the Royal Navy.  Only 10 days into his service, perhaps while in British hands, he drowned on 30 September 1760, age 33, place unrecorded.  His widow remarried to a Frenchman from Rouen at St.-Servan in January 1764.  In November 1765, along with dozens of Acadians recently repatriated from England, they chose to be part of a settlement venture on recently-liberated Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany, where they settled at Kervarigeon near Bangor in the island's southern interior.  Meanwhile, the older Rivet brother, if he was not a widower when he landed at Cherbourg, was definitely one when he moved on to St.-Malo in February 1759.  He died at St.-Suliac on the east side of the river south of the Breton port the following May, age 36.  He and his wife evidently had no children.  In the spring of 1763, after prolonged negotiations between the French and British governments, the Acadians in England were repatriated to France, a Rivet among them.  The widow and her four Landry children were repatriated from Liverpool to St.-Malo, but they did not remain there.  In November 1765, they, too, followed their fellow exiles from England to Belle-Île-en-Mer.  They settled at Bordrehouant near Bangor, near her brother's widow, and there they remained.  The widow Landry died near Bangor in December 1784, age 75.  When in the early 1780s the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France a chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, the only Rivet remaining in France--the daughter of the dead privateer--along with her Landry cousins on Belle-Île-en-Mer, chose to remain in the mother country. 

In North America, the Rivets in Maryland endured life among Englishmen who, despite their colony's Catholic roots, did not care much for the French "papists" thrust upon them.  In July 1763, five months after the war had ended, two Rivet families, one headed by a widower, the other orphan siblings, as well as a Rivet wife and her family, appeared on a repatriation list entitled "State of the Neutral Acadians Who Are in Upper Marlborough."  When word reached the exiles in the Chesapeake colony that the Spanish would welcome them in Louisiana, most of the Maryland Acadians pooled their meager resources to charter ships that would take them to New Orleans.  From June 1766 to January 1769, nearly 600 of them left Baltimore and Port Tobacco for Spanish Louisiana in four expeditions, 11 Rivets among them on three of the expeditions. 

No group of exiles from Maryland suffered as much as the fourth and last group who sailed from Port Tobacco to their Mississippi-valley promised land in 1769.  The Britannia (sometimes spelled Britania) left Port Tobacco for New Orleans on 5 January 1769 with seven Acadian families aboard, including widower Étienne Rivet III, age 52, and four of his sons, age 21 to 14.  Also on the ship were eight Catholic German families who, for reasons of their own, no longer wanted to live in a British colony.  The crew of the Britannia sighted the coast of Louisiana on February 21, but the ship's master, either through bad luck or incompetence, missed the mouth of the Mississippi because of heavy fog.  Strong winds drove the ship westward, and a few days later the Britannia ran onto the Texas coast at Espiritu Santo Bay.  The crew went ashore and located a Spanish officer, who suspected them of being spies or smugglers.  Instead of giving them food and fresh water, he arrested them and ordered his men to escort everyone on the ship to the nearby post of La Bahía.  The passengers and crew of the Britannia remained at La Bahía for six long months, waiting for the Spanish authorities to decide their fate.  While they waited, the Spanish commander forced them to work as semi-slaves around the presidio and on nearby ranches.  Finally, in early September, a Spanish officer arrived at the presidio with instructions for the commandant there to send the captives overland to Natchitoches in Louisiana. They could not return to the abandoned Britannia because the Spanish and the coastal Indians had stripped the beached vessel so thoroughly it was no longer seaworthy.  On September 11, the Rivets joined their fellow passengers and the English crew on the 420-mile trek via El Camino Real de los Tejas to Natchitoches on the Red River, which they did not reach until late October.  Governor-General Alexandro O'Reilly, meanwhile, had decided that the Acadian families in the group would settle at Natchitoches because of their familiarity with the growing of rye and wheat.  Natchitoches settlers welcomed the newcomers and supplied them with food, tools, and animals.  The Germans were ordered to continue to New Orleans via the Red and Mississippi rivers.  After they would pick up supplies in the city, they would settle at San Gabriel on the river south of Baton Rouge, where exiles from Maryland had settled two years earlier.  Most of the Acadians, meanwhile, including the Rivets, refused to remain at Natchitoches, which was too far away from their kinfolk to the south.  They, too, left the Red River valley and joined their relatives at San Gabriel.  The Rivets settled on the west bank of the river below its confluence with Bayou Plaquemine, while most of the other Britannia Acadians moved on to the Opelousas prairies.

Rivets settled early in Acadia, and they came fairly early to Louisiana.  All of them, natives of Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, came to Louisiana from Maryland in 1767, 1768, and 1769 and followed their fellow exiles, one way or another, to the Acadian Coast on the river above New Orleans.  During the antebellum and immediate post-war periods, some of their descendants moved to Bayou Lafourche and to the western prairies, creating smaller centers of family settlement there.  But the majority of Acadian Rivets remained on the Mississippi, especially in Iberville Parish, where their immigrant ancestors first settled in the 1760s. 

A few non-Acadian Rivets appeared in predominantly-Acadian communities during the late colonial and early antebellum periods.  Pierre Rivet of St.-Nicolas, Nantes, France, created a substantial family line on Bayou Lafourche in the 1830s.  ...

Nearly two dozen Rivets, most of them Acadians, served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65.  At least one was captured later in the war and held in two prison-of-war camps, but he returned to his home.  All of the other Rivets who served in the war evidently survived the ordeal and also returned to their families. ...

In Louisiana, the family's name also is spelled Ribet, Rivais, Rivert, Rivete, Rivette, Riviere.35

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The first of the family to come to Louisiana--a Rivet wife, her husband, and four of their daughters--reached New Orleans from Baltimore in July 1767 and followed their fellow exiles to San Gabriel south of Bayou Manchac on the river below Baton Rouge. 

Next came five Rivets--sibling orphans, three brothers and two sisters--who, along with 150 other exiles, left Port Tobacco on the lower Potomac during the third week of December 1767 and reached New Orleans in February 1768.  Spanish Governor Ulloa insisted that they settle at Fort San Luìs de Natchez far above Baton Rouge and across from the British outpost at Natchez.  After Ulloa was overthrown in a Creole-led rebellion in October 1768, his successor released the Rivets and other Acadians from their "exile" at Fort San Luìs.  Two lasting family line cames of it not only on the Acadian Coast, but also on the western prairies and on upper Bayou Lafourche: 

Michel-Maxime (c1740-?) à Étienne, fils à Étienne Rivet

Michel-Maxime, oldest son of Michel Rivet and his first wife Anne Landry, born at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit in c1740, followed his family to Maryland, lived with them at Upper Marlborough, and led four of his younger siblings, two brothers and two sisters, all of them now orphans, to Louisiana in 1768.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow exiles to Fort San Luìs de Natchez, where Michel-Maxime married cousin Cécile, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Landry and Marie Dugas, in January 1769.  After Spanish authorities released them from the distant settlement later that year, Michel-Maxime led his siblings downriver to San Gabriel, where one of their kin had settled in 1767.  Michel-Maxime and Cécile's children, born on the river, included Alexandre-Vital, called Vital and also Eustache, in August 1773; and Michel-Marcel, called Marcel and Martial, baptized, age unrecorded, in April 1778.  Both of Michel-Maxime's sons married, but one of the lines did not endure.  Two of his grandsons moved on to the western prairies and started a western branch of the family. 

Older son Alexandre-Vital, called Vital and also Eustache, married Marie-Euphrosine, called Euphrosine, daughter of Antoine Lanclos and Madeleine Molinot of Attakapas, at the San Gabriel church in October 1802.  Their children, born at St. Gabriel, included François in c1805; Alexandre Bule or Rule in March 1807; and Marie Caroline in October 1809--three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1805 and 1809.  Vital died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in September 1810.  The recording priest said Vital died at age 34.  He was 37.  His two sons married and moved to the western prairies, where they established a western branch of the family. 

Older son François married Marie Sidonise, called Sidonise, daughter of Jean Baptiste Guidroz and Sidonise Chautin, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in October 1823.  They remained in St. Landry Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie Sidonise in August 1824; and François, fils in August 1826.  François, père died near Grand Coteau in May 1827, age 22.  His estate records and a succession, one calling him a Rivette and naming his wife and chilidren, were filed at the Opelousas courthouse, St. Landry Parish, in January 1828, June 1828, and March 1845, the last one calling his wife Sidonise Guidreau "of Prairie Gros Chevreuil."  According to François's succession, his widow remarried to a Creole Bergeron.  Daughter Marie Sidonise married into the Roy family.  François's son also married. 

Only son François, fils married Marie Adeline or Adèle Alexandra, daughter of Creoles Alexandre Delhomme and Adèle Bergeron, at the Breaux Bridge church, St. Martin Parish, in March 1850.  Their children, born there, included François III in St. Martin Parish in September 1851; Marie Delphine in April 1854, Marie Odile near Arnaudville in January 1856 but, called Adèle, died near Grand Coteau at age 2 1/2 in July 1858; Alexandre born near Breaux Bridge in December 1859; Joseph Jean Baptiste in December 1863; ...  None of François, fils's children married by 1870. 

Vital's younger son Alexandre Bule or Rule married, at age 24, Aimée or Anne Aspasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Hébert and Mélanie Landry, at the St. Gabriel church in July 1831.  They followed his older brother to the western prairies.  Their children, born there, included Jean Baptiste in the early 1830s; and Alexandre, fils in May 1835.  Alexandre, at age 29, remarried to cousin Marie Eugénie, called Eugénie, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Rivet and Henriette Landry of St. Gabriel, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in May 1836.  Their daughter Marie Euphrosine was born in St. Landry Parish in December 1836--three children, two sons and a daughter, by two wives, between the early 1830s and 1836.  Alexandre's estate record, naming his widow Marie Eugénie, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in September 1837.  He would have been age 30 that year.  Widow Eugénie remarried to a Mallet.  Her and Alexandre's daughter did not marry by 1870.  One of Alexandre's sons did marry by then. 

Older son Jean Baptiste, by first wife Aimée Hébert, married Marie Sylvanie, called Sylvanie, daughter of Georges Lalonde, a Creole, not a fellow Acadian, and his Acadian wife Ursule Boutin, at the Grand Coteau church in January 1852.  They settled near Arnaudville at the southeastern edge of St. Landry Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie Odilia in September 1853; Joseph Alcée or Alexis in October 1854 but, called Alexis, died at age 7 1/2 in June 1862; Alexandre le jeune born in September 1856; Cécile in June 1859 but died at age 9 in June 1868; Marie Antilia born in March 1861 but, called Antilla, died at age 2 in March 1863; Jean Baptiste, fils born in August 1862; Joseph Arthur in April 1866 but died in May; a child, unnamed, died "at age 3 days" in July 1867; Marie Evia born in April 1869; ...  Daughter Marie Odilia married a Lanclos cousin by 1870.  None of Jean Baptiste's sons married by then. 

Michel-Maxime's younger son Michel-Marcel, called Marcel and Martial, married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians François Babin and Marguerite Breaux, at the San Gabriel church in January 1799.  They joined the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche by 1810.  Their children, born on the river and the upper Lafourche, included Marie-Clémence, called Clémence, in November 1799; Carmélite-Apolline in February 1802; Euphrosine Arthémise, perhaps also called Euphrosine Hortense, in August 1805; Adeline in February 1808; Joseph Michel in March 1810 but died near St. Gabriel, age 1 1/2, in October 1811; and Marcellin Alcide born in April 1819--six children, four daughters and two sons, between 1799 and 1819.  One wonders if he was the Marceille Rivet of "La Prairie Gros Chevreuil," which was west of the Atchafalaya Basin, not on the Lafourche, and whose succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse, St. Landry Parish, in April 1835.  Daughters Clémence, Adeline, and Euphrosine Hortense married into the Toups, Guillory, and Bourgeois families by 1870.  Marcel's remaining son did not marry by then, if he married at all, so only the blood of the family line seems to have endured. 

Cyrille (c1743-1792) à Étienne, fils à Étienne Rivet

Cyrille, second son of Michel Rivet and his first wife Anne Landry, born at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit in c1743, followed his family to Maryland, lived with them at Upper Marlborough, followed his siblings to New Orleans and Fort San Luìs de Natchez, and, after Spanish authorities released them from the distant settlement, followed his siblings to San Gabriel, where, at age 27, he married Marguerite-Bibianne, 27-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Richard and Marie LeBlanc of Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, and widow of Jean-Baptiste Forest, in May 1770.  Marguerite, also a native of Ste.-Famille, came to Maryland with her first husband in 1767.  Cyrille died at San Gabriel in October 1792, age 49.  He evidently fathered no children, so his line of the family died with him. 

Blaise (c1747-1797) à Étienne, fils à Étienne Rivet

Blaise, third and youngest son of Michel Rivet and his first wife Anne Landry, born at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit in c1747, followed his family to Maryland, lived with them at Upper Marlborough, followed his siblings to New Orleans and Fort San Luìs de Natchez, and, after Spanish authorities released them from the distant settlement, followed his siblings to San Gabriel, where he married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Noël and Marie-Madeleine Barbe of Minas and England, in April 1788.  Marie-Madeleine, a native of England, had come to Louisiana from France in 1785.  They lived on the river near the boundary between the San Gabriel and Ascension districts.  Their children, born there, included Marie-Carmélite in May 1789; Josèphe in February 1791; Vital-Marcellin, called Marcellin, in October 1792; Élie in c1793 (who may have been the Madeleine Élie Rivet who died in Ascension Parish, "age ca. 70,) in April 1868); and Célestine-Rosalie, called Rosalie, born in November 1794--five children, three daughters and two sons, between 1789 and 1794.  Blaise died at San Gabriel in September 1797.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Blaise was age 55 when he died.  He was 50.   Daughters Marie Carmélite and Rosalie married into the Charme and Badeaux families.  Both of Blaise's sons also married on the river.  One of them settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  The other line, except for its blood, may not have endured. 

Older son Vital Marcellin, called Marcellin, married Constance, daughter of Alexandre Dardenne and Marianne Kleinpeter, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in November 1823.  Their children, born there, included Jeanne Udea in August 1824; Marie Melissaire, called Melissaire, in January 1828; Marcellin, fils baptized, age 2 1/2 months, in September 1828[sic, perhaps 1829]; and Faustin born in November 1830--four children, two daughters and two sons, between 1824 and 1830.  Daughter Melissaire married into the Breaux family by 1870.  Neither of Marcellin's sons married by then, if at all. 

Blaise's younger son Élie married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Lambert, fils and Marie Josèphe Célestin dit Bellemère, at the Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, in January 1817.  They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Edmond Clément in November 1817; Marcelin Alside in April 1819; Isidore Élie in July 1821; a son, name unrecorded, died at age 5 months in September 1825; Marie Justine born in January 1825 but, called Justine, died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 2) in October 1826; twins Paul and Pauline born in June 1827; Martin in the 1830s; Marie Claire in August 1837 but, called Claire, died at age 14 1/2 (the recording priest said 16) in May 1852; and Joseph Arvillien born in July 1842--10 children, seven sons and three daughters, including a set of twins, between 1817 and 1842.  Élie died near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in October 1862.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Élie Rivette, as he called him, died at "age 70 years."  Remaining daughter Pauline married into the Jeantrid family.  Five of Élie's sons also married. 

Oldest son Edmond Clément married Eurasie, daughter of Noël Claude Causin and his Acadian wife Pélagie Bourg, at the Donaldsonville church in November 1839.  Their son Joseph Marcellus, called Marcellus, was born in Ascension Parish in January 1844 and married by 1870. 

Only son Marcellus married Rosalie, daughter of Francis Pastor and Rosalie Falcon, at the Donaldsonville church in January 1870. ...

Élie's second son Marcelin Alside married cousin Marie Dulcine, called Dulcine, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Aubin LeBlanc and Mélanie Aucoin, at the Paincourtville church in February 1840; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Ernestine in March 1841 but, called Arnestine, died at age 3 1/2 (the recording priest said 4) in September 1844; Joseph Valière, called Valière, born in August 1842; Marie Aureline Anaïse in June 1844; and Marie Sophronie in January 1846--four children, three daughters and a son, between 1841 and 1846.  Marcelin, called Marceline by the recording priest, died in Assumption Parish in September 1849, age 30.   Daughter Aureline married into the LeBlanc family by 1870.  Marceli's son also married by then. 

During the War of 1861-65, only son Valière served in Company H of the 29th (Thomas's) Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Assumption Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  Valière married Célima, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Marie Richard and Elisa Breaux, at the Paincourtville church in April 1864, while he was waiting for his regiment to be exchanged.  He survived the war and returned to his family.  His children, born near Paincourtville, included Marie Élodie in February 1866; Joseph Alcée in March 1868; ... 

Élie's third son Isidore Élie married Carmélite, daughter of Rémon Bermeyo and Marguerite Maroy, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1841.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Athalie or Anatalie, called Anatalie, in December 1831; Joseph Nichols in May 1844 but, called Nicaise, died near Patoutville, now Lydia, Iberia Parish, age 26, in August 1870; Marie Carmélite, called Carmélite, born in March 1846; Joseph Lovensky or Lovinsky, called Lovinsky, in August 1848; Marie Adea or Idea, called Idea, in April 1851; Joseph Wilfred in October 1853; Elphége in October 1858; Joseph Léo in September 1860; Joseph Felo in August 1864; ...  Daughters Anatalie, Carmélite, and Idea married into the Landry family, one of them, Anatalie, twice, and another, Idea, on lower Bayou Teche, by 1870.   One of Isidore Élie's sons also married by then and, with an older brother, who did not marry, settled on lower Bayou Teche after the war. 

Second son Lovinsky, called Lauvinsqui by the recording priest, married Emma, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Landry and Irma LeBlanc, at the Paincourtville church in February 1868 and settled near his brother at Patoutville on lower Bayou Teche.  Daughter Irma was born near Patoutville in July 1870; ...

Élie's fifth son Paul, a twin, married Velleda, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Pharon LeBlanc and Coralie Landry, at the Donaldsonville church in February 1854.  She evidently gave him no children.  Paul remarried to Marceline or Marcellite, daughter of André Morales and Jeanette Cavaliero, at the Paincourtville church in February 1857.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Adam Cenas in September 1858; Léocade Joachim in January 1860; Eugénie Zachar in March 1861 but, called "female," evidently died at age 3 in March 1864; a child, name and age unrecorded, perhaps theirs, died in Assumption Parish in March 1862; Marie Meliser born in January 1863; Marcellite Désirée in April 1865; Marie Eugénie in August 1867; Paul Prosper in July 1869; ... 

Élie's sixth son Martin married Jeanette, daughter of Laurence Montero and Constance Gomez, at the Donaldsonville church in July 1858.  They may have settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Ascension and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Jeanette Théodora in May 1859; Marie Constance in August 1861; another Marie died at age 11 days in June 1864; Armand Martin born in December 1866; Marie Joséphine Alexandrine in March 1869; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Martin served in Company E of the 29th (Thomas's) Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Ascension Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  As the birth dates of his son and youngest daughter attest, Martin survived the war and returned to his family. 

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Five more Rivets--a widowed father and his four sons--came to Louisiana from Maryland in 1769.  After their adventure in coastal Texas and their trek to Natchitoches, they settled on the west bank of the Mississippi below its confluence with Bayou Plaquemine, across from San Gabriel.  Two more robust family lines came of it there: 

Étienne III (c1717-1779) à Étienne Rivet

Étienne III, third son of Étienne Rivet, fils and Anne Leprince, born at Pigiguit in c1717, married Claire, daughter of Pierre Forest and Madeleine Babin, at Pigiguit in 1743.  Claire gave Étienne III five sons there:  Étienne IV born in c1748; Jean in c1750; François in c1751; Pierre in c1752; and Théodore in c1754.  The British deported the family to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  Étienne III, now a widower, and his five sons appeared on a repatriation list at Upper Marlborough in July 1763.  He took four of his sons to Louisiana in 1769 aboard the ill-starred British schooner Britannia.  After their adventure in coastal Texas and their trek to Natchitoches on the Red River, they settled across from San Gabriel by April 1770.  Between June and July 1774, at age 57, Étienne III remarried to Isabelle, or Élisabeth, 41-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Landry and Claire Babin, at the Ascension church on the river below San Gabriel.  Isabelle, also a native of Pigiguit, had come to Louisiana from Maryland in 1767.  This was her first marriage.  She gave Étienne III no more children.  Called Stephanus by Fr. Angelus de Revillagados, the recording priest, Étienne III died at Ascension in April 1779, age 62.  Widow Isabelle remarried to a Landry cousin.  Two of Étienne III's sons married on the river, and all but one of their descendants remained there. 

Oldest son Étienne IV, by first wife Claire Forest, followed his family to Maryland, Texas, and Louisiana.  After he reached Natchitoches in October 1769, at age 21, he disappears from Louisiana church records.  Did he remain on the Red River after his family's trek from Texas or did he die in the colony soon after he got there? 

Étienne III's second son Jean, by first wife Claire Forest, followed his family to Maryland but not to Texas and Spanish Louisiana in 1769, when he would have been in his late teens.  Did he die in Maryland, or did he choose to remain there? 

Étienne III's third son François, by first wife Claire Forest, followed his family to Maryland, Texas, and Louisiana and settled with them at San Gabriel.  Spanish officials counted him there, along the "left bank ascending," or west bank, in March 1777, age 18 and still a bachelor.  He may not have married. 

Étienne III's fourth son Pierre, by first wife Claire Forest, followed his family to Maryland, Texas, and Louisiana and settled with them at San Gabriel.  He married Marie-Anne, also called Marie-Josèphe, Anne-Josèphe, and Josette, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon-Pierre Breaux and Marguerite Landry, downriver at the St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer church in February 1777.  Marie-Anne, a native of Minas, had come to Louisiana from Maryland with her widowed mother and siblings in 1768.  She and Pierre settled at San Gabriel.  Their children, born there, included Anne-Marine dite Manon in February 1778; Marie- or Marine-Anne, called Marine, baptized at the San Gabriel church, age unrecorded, in November 1779; Pierre, fils, dit Pierrette, born in February 1783; Auguste in March 1784; François Xavier, called Xavier, in May 1787; Louis in September 1789; Jérôme in March 1792; and Marie, also called Marie-Cléonie, in April 1794--eight children, three daughters and five sons, between 1778 and 1794.  Daughters Anne, Marine, and Marie Cléonie married into the Hernandez and Hébert families, two of them to Hispanic brothers.  Four of Pierre's sons also married on the river, but not all of the lines endured.

Oldest son Pierre, fils, dit Pierrette, married fellow Acadian Constance Hébert probably at the San Gabriel church early in the 1800s.  She evidently gave him no children.  He remarried to Marie Marthe, daughter of Diego Hernandez and his Acadian wife Théotiste Babin and widow of Simon Hébert, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in April 1807; two of Pierre, fils's sisters married two of Marie Marthe's brothers.  Pierre, fils and Marie Marthe's children, born near St. Gabriel, included Pierre III in March 1808 but died at age 18 months in August 1809; Louis born in May 1810 but died at age 7 1/2 in October 1817; and Auguste Wallmond or Valmont, called Valmont, born in August 1812.  Pierre, fils remarried again--his third marriage--to Héloise, also called Élisabeth, Élise, and Marie Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph LeBlanc and Marguerite LeBlanc, at the St. Gabriel church in July 1815.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Napoléon in March 1818; Jean Arvillien, called Arvillien, in January 1819; Marie Élisabeth, called Élisabeth, in June 1822 but died in September, unless she was the Marie Élisabeth Rivet who died at age 12 1/2 (the recording priest at Ascension said 9) in November 1834; and Pierre Renard dit Enos born in October 1824--seven children, six sons and a daughter, by two of his three wives, between 1808 and 1824.  Pierre, fils died near St. Gabriel in September 1824, age 41.  His daughter died young.  Three of his remaining sons married and settled on the river.

Third son August Valmont, by second wife Marie Marthe Hernandez, married Marie Virginie, called Virginie, daughter of Jean Danos and his Acadian wife Marie Rose LeBlanc, at the St. Gabriel church in October 1833.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Pierre Valmont in August 1834; Joseph Premila in November 1836; Janvier died a newborn in January 1842; and Marie Amanda in August 1843--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1834 and 1843.  Auguste Valmont died near St. Gabriel in September 1845, age 33.  Daughter Marie Amanda married into the Whaley family by 1870.  One of August Valmont's sons also married by then.  One wonders if the line endured. 

Oldest son Pierre Valmont married Ophelia, daughter of fellow Acadians Narcisse Bujole and Adeline Orillion, at the St. Gabriel church in July 1860.  During the War of 1861-65, Pierre Valmont served probably as a conscript in Company I of the 2nd Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, raised in Iberville Parish, which fought in Louisiana.  He enlisted at Camp Thompson, False River, in September 1862 and spent much time on the sick roll over the next several months.  One wonders if he returned to his family or fathered any children. 

Pierre, fils's fifth son Jean Arvillien, called Arvillien, from third wife Héloise LeBlanc, married Marie Roseline, called Roseline and Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians David Landry and Cléonise Breaux, at the St. Gabriel church in June 1839.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Élise Athanaise in March 1840 but, called Marie Élise Athanaise, died at age 5 1/2 (the recording priest said 4) in September 1845; Marie Élisabeth, perhaps called Éliza, born in November 1841; Marie Élina, called Élina, in September 1844; Marie Célina in September 1846; Marie Joséphine Isidorie in May 1848; Marie Angelina in March 1850; Marie Cléonise in May 1852; Mary Tiréepée in March 1856; Cécilia in April 1858; Auguste Ervilien in October 1859; Thérèsa in October 1861; ...  Daughters Éliza, Élina, and Marie Célina married into the Comeaux and Roth families, and perhaps into the Landry famliy as well, by 1870.  Jean Arvillien's son did not marry by then. 

Pierre, fils's sixth and youngest son Pierre Renard dit Enos, by third wife Héloise LeBlanc, married Marie Lidori, called Lidori, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Comeaux and Marie Céleste Breaux, at the St. Gabriel church in November 1846.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Céleste Lidoria, called Lidoria, in December 1847; Pierre Barnabé in June 1849; Marie Clara in December 1850; and Joseph near Plaquemine on the west side of the river in August 1852--four children, two daughters and two sons, between 1847 and 1852.  Pierre Renard dit Enos died near St. Gabriel in August 1853, age 28.  Daughter Lidoria married into the Daigre family by 1870.  Neither of Enos's sons married by then. 

Pierre, père's third son François Xavier, called Xavier, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Xavier Robichaux and Marguerite Landry and widow of Magloire Duplessis, at the St. Gabriel church in September 1832.  Their children, born there, included Marie Aureline or Aurelia in August 1833 but died at age 1 1/2 in December 1834; Marie Odile born in February 1834; and Marguerite Élisabeth in August 1839--three children, all daughters, between 1833 and 1839.  Xavier died near St. Gabriel in January 1859.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Xavier died at "age 67 years."  He was 71.  Daughter Marguerite Élisabeth married into the Landry family, so the blood of the family line may have endured. 

Pierre, père's fourth son Louis married Marie Françoise or Marie Henriette, called Henriette and Henrietta, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph LeBlanc and Corantine Longuépée, at the St. Gabriel church in October 1821.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Marie Pauline, called Pauline, in November 1822; Henriette Solidaine in February 1825 but, called Marie Solidaine by the recording priest, died at age 3 1/2 in August 1828; Louis, fils born in October 1826; a son, name unrecorded, died an infant in September 1828; Joseph Trasimond, called Trasimond, born in July 1831; Gustave in August 1833 but died at age 6 (the recording place said 6 or 7) in July 1840; Pierre Ernest, called Ernest, born in July 1835; Marie Pamelia in January 1838; Pierre Cléophas, called Cléophas, in September 1841; and Omer in July 1844--10 children, three daughters and seven sons, between 1822 and 1844.  Louis died near St. Gabriel in February 1848.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Louis died at "age 61 years."  He was 58.  Daughter Pauline married into the Chapoton family by 1870.  Two of Louis's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Louis, fils married Augustine, daughter of Ulysse Chaboisseau and Francess Apolline Berret, at the Plaquemine church, Iberville Parish, in September 1855.  They remained near Plaquemine.  Their children, born there, included Louis Ulysses in September 1857 but, called Louis, died at age 4 1/2 (the recording priest said 5) in June 1862; Engelbert born in November 1859; Marie Ulyssia in May 1862; Joseph Auguste in March 1864; Amilcar in December 1867; Jean Ives in June 1870; ...

Louis, père's fifth son Ernest married Marie Melinda, called Melinda, daughter of John Ross and Mary Ann Holmes, at the Plaquemine church in September 1859.  Their children, born near Plaquemine, included Joseph Ernest in June 1861; Albert in October 1867; Roger in March 1870; ...   During the war, Ernest served probably as a conscript in Companies D and I of the 30th Regiment/Battalion Louisiana Infantry, which fought in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee.  Ernest was captured at Nashville, Tennessee, in December 1864, was sent to the military prison at Louisville, Kentucky, and then to the prisoner-of-war compound at Camp Douglas, Illinois.  The Federals did not release him until June 1865, after which he returned to his family at Plaquemine. 

Pierre, père's fifth and youngest son Jérôme married Marie Héloise, called Héloise, Marie Élisabeth and Félicité, daughter of fellow Acadians Grégoire Melançon and Christine Landry, at the St. Gabriel church in January 1817.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Jérôme Rosémond in December 1817; Marie Arthémise in June 1820; Marguerite Zélina or Célina in October 1822; and François[e] Élisabeth in September 1825--three children, a son and two daughters, between 1817 and 1825.  Jérôme died near St. Gabriel in April 1826.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Jérôme was age 30 when he died.  He was 34.  Daughters Marie Arthémise and Marguerite Célina married into the Babin and Melançon families, one of them, Marie Arthémise, twice.  Jérôme's son also married. 

Only son Jérôme Rosémond married Marie Émilie, daughter of fellow Acadian Valéry Anselme LeBlanc and his Creole wife Euphrosine Gaillard, also called Denoux, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in February 1839.  Their son Jérôme Théodose Rosémond was born posthumously in Ascension Parish in January 1840.  Jérôme Rosémond died in Ascension Parish in September 1839, age 21.  His son did not marry by 1870. 

Étienne III's fifth and youngest son Théodore, by first wife Claire Forest, followed his family to Maryland, Texas, and Louisiana and settled with them at San Gabriel, where, at age 25, he married Esther, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Bonaventure LeBlanc and Marie Theriot, in December 1779.  Esther, a native of Baltimore, came to Louisiana with her family from Maryland in 1767.  Her and Théodore's children, born at San Gabriel, included Joseph-Théodore in February 1782; Marguerite in the early 1780s; Marie-Louise or -Élisabeth, called Élisabeth, in December 1785; Théodore, fils in October 1787 but died at age 30 in September 1817; Marie-Modeste born in May 1790 but died at age 29 in April 1819; and Isidore born in March 1792--six children, three sons and three daughters, between 1782 and 1792.  Théodore died at San Gabriel in August 1792, age 37.  Widow Esther married three more times, to two Creoles and a fellow Acadian.   Daughters Marguerite and Élisabeth married into the Hatch, Pringle, and Forbes families.  Two of Théodore's sons also married.  One of this grandsons moved on to the western prairies. 

Oldest son Joseph Théodore married Marie Henriette, called Henriette, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Landry and Modeste Hébert, at the St. Gabriel church in February 1813.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Maxille in 1813 and baptized at the St. Gabriel church, age 7 months, in May 1814; Augustine dite Justine born in August 1815; Marie Eugénie, called Eugénie, in September 1817; and Joseph, fils in February 1821--four children, two sons and two daughters, between 1813 and 1821.  Joseph died near St. Gabriel in January 1825.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph was age 40 when he died.  He was 43.  Daughters Augustine dite Justine and Marie Eugénie married into the Lanclos, Dupré, Rivet, and Mallet, and Dupré families, two of them twice, on the western prairies.  One of Joseph Théodore's sons also married and settled on the prairies. 

Younger son Joseph, fils married Émilie, daughter of fellow Acadians Élisée Cormier and his Creole wife Christine Johnson, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in May 1843.  They settled near Arnaudville at the southeast edge of St. Landry Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie Célestine in September 1844 but died at age 5 1/2 in February 1850; Marie Doralise born in November 1846; Joseph III, also called Joseph Numa, in September 1848; Marie Émilia or Émelia in March 1851; Louis Félix in March 1853; a child, name unrecorded, died at birth in January 1855; Marie Homère born in June 1857; Marie Émelia in March 1859; Adam in August 1862; and Marie Eugénie in December 1864.  Joseph, fils, at age 49, remarried to Anaïs, another daughter of Élisée Cormier and Christine Johnson, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in July 1870. ...  Daughter Marie Émelia, by his first wife, married into the Hargroder family by 1870.  One of Joseph, fils's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Joseph Numa, by first wife Émilie Cormier, married Marie Françoise Lanclos in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in December 1870. ...

Théodore, père's third and youngest son Isidore married Clothilde, daughter of Jean Morales and his Acadian wife Marie Anne Clouâtre of Baton Rouge and widow of Pierre Cole, at the St. Gabriel church in September 1820.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Antoine in c1824; Gertrude in the 1820s; André in April 1827; and Simon Octave in August 1829--four children, three sons and a daughter, between the early 1820s and 1829.  Isidore died near St. Gabriel in November 1835.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Isidore was age 49 when he died.  He was 43.  Daughter Gertrude married into the Breaux and Esclapon families by 1870.  Two of his sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Antoine married Gertrude, daughter of Paul Rivier, Rivière, or Rivers and his Acadian wife Marie Anne dite Nanette Landry, at the St. Gabriel church in February 1846.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Pamela Constance in December 1846; Octavine in February 1849; Juste Amant in August 1851; and Anna Antonia posthumously in February 1854--four children, three daughters and a son, between 1846 and 1854.  Antoine died near St. Gabriel in October 1853, age 29.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Isidore's third and youngest son Simon Octave, called a resident of New Orleans by the recording priest, married Marguerite Joséphine, called Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Narcisse Landry and Carmélite Hébert, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in July 1860.  Their children, born near Brusly, included Marie Joséphine in July 1861 but, called Joséphine, died near Brusly, age 2 1/2 (the recording priest said 3), in February 1864; Georges Samuel Henri born in March 1870; ...  During the war, Simon Octave served probably as a conscript in Company H of the 4th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in West Baton Rouge Parish, which fought in Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee.  Simon's service, however, was marred by illness.  He enlisted in the company in September 1862, when he was age 33, and remained with his unit until he fell sick in camp at Dalton, Georgia, in late 1863.  According to his Confederate service record, he "Deserted at Dalton ..." in December 1863, but other entries in his file indicate that he probably went home on extended sick leave and did not return to the regiment.  Simon's war service did not wreck his health.  He worked in the Baton Rouge clerk of court's office after the war and died in West Baton Rouge Parish in January 1903, age 73.  He was buried in the church cemetery at Brusly. 

Robichaux

According to Acadian genealogist Placide Gaudet, Louis Robichaud of La Chaussée south of Loudun and the Loire valley in central France, came to Acadia in 1642 when he was age 33.  He died at Québec in 1649 when his son Étienne, who had been born in France, was only age 10.  Étienne remained in Acadia and became a farmer.  The problem with this story, according to Acadian genealogist Stephen A. White, is that the man who died at Québec in 1649 was not a Robichaud; he was Louis Rebicher, who could not have been the father of Étienne Robichaud.  It was Étienne, not his putative father Louis, who was the patriarch of the Robichauds in Acadia.  Étienne was born in France, perhaps at La Chaussée, in c1640 and came to Acadia as a farmer by c1663, when he married Françoise, daughter of Michel Boudrot and Michelle Aucoin, at Port-Royal.  Between 1664 and 1677, at Port-Royal, Françoise gave Étienne six children, two daughters and four sons, all of whom created families of their own.  Their daughters married into the Landry and Petitpas families.  Étienne and Françoise's sons married into the Thibodeau, Bourg, Petitpas, Melanson, and Thériot families.  Étienne died at Port-Royal in the late 1680s, in his late 40s.  In 1755, descendants of Étienne Robichaud could be found not only at Annapolis Royal, formerly Port-Royal, where their family progenitor settled, but also at Minas Proper and Cobeguit in the Minas Basin, and on Île St.-Jean.  Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this large family even farther. 

When the British struck in Nova Scotia in the summer and fall of 1755, the few Robichauds still at Minas, with one exception, evidently escaped the roundup there and sought refuge in Canada.  A Robichaud wife, her second husband, and their family were packed off to Virginia, where they endured a fate worse than most of the other refugees deported from the Minas settlements.  Virginia's governor, Robert Dinwiddie, refused to allow the hundreds of Acadians sent to him to remain in the colony.  Exiles died on the filthy, crowded ships anchored in Hampton Roads while Virginia authorities pondered their fate.  As winter approached, the governor ordered Acadians from one vessel moved up to Richmond, while two of the vessels were unloaded at Hampton, and two more at Norfolk.  Finally, in the spring, the governor, his council, and the colony's Burgesses made their decision ... the "papists" must go!  In May, the first shipment of exiles left for England, and in two weeks all of them had gone--299 to Bristol, 250 to Falmouth, 340 to Southampton, and 336 to Liverpool--1,225 exiles in all by one count.   Their ordeal only worsened in the English ports, where they were kept in warehouses and where many died of smallpox.  The Robichaud wife and her family were held at Southampton, where, in her 60s, she likely died. 

The Robichauds still at Cobeguit 1755 escaped deportation that terrible autumn.  When they learned of the roundups at Chignecto and then at Grand-Pré and Pigiguit on the other side of the Minas Basin, every family in the remote settlement packed up their children and what belongings they could carry and hid in the woods or followed the cattle trail to Tatamagouche and other villages on the peninsula's North Shore.  From there, during the fall, winter, and spring, they escaped across Mer Rouge to the south shore of Île St.-Jean, where some of their kinsmen had gone in the early 1750s. 

Their cousins at Annapolis Royal were not so lucky.  Although many of the Acadians there escaped the British, spent a hard winter on the Fundy shore, and crossed the bay to Chepoudy the following spring, most of the many Robichauds at Annapolis fell into British hands and were shunted aboard transports bound for Massachusetts, Connecticut, and North and South Carolina.  Most of them landed in Massachusetts, where colonial officials held them at Cambridge, Wrentham, Haverhill, Westford, Littleton, and in faraway Hampshire County.  At least two of the deportation vessels sailing from Annapolis Royal did not reach their destinations.  The snow Two Sisters, bound for Connecticut with 250 exiles aboard, never reached that colony, having been lost at sea.  The snow Pembroke, carrying 232 Annapolis Acadians destined for North Carolina, suffered a different fate.  Soon after the Pembroke left the Bay of Fundy, a heavy wind separated the vessel from the other south-bound transports.  Taking advantage of the opportunity, the exiles, led by shipbuilder/navigator Charles Belliveau, overwhelmed the Pembroke's officers and crew and made their escape first to Baie Ste.-Marie and then to lower Rivière St.-Jean.  After eluding capture by British sailors at the mouth of the St.-Jean, the exiles spent the rest of a hard winter at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas farther upriver before joining the Acadian exodus up the St.-Jean portage to Canada.  Meanwhile, Annapolis Robichauds who escaped the roundup sought refuge not in Canada but on the upper Petitcoudiac or the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, where some of them may have joined the Acadian resistance. 

Living in territory controlled by France, the Robichauds on Île St.-Jean escaped the fate of their kinsmen in Nova Scotia and then welcomed their kin from Cobeguit who also had eluded the redcoats.  The family's respite from British oppression was short-lived, however.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats rounded up most of the habitants on the Maritime islands.  Others, especially those living in communities on the western shores of Île St.-Jean, including René Robichaud and his family at Bédec on the southwest shore, crossed Mer Rouge and sought refuge with their kinsmen on the mainland.  The Robichauds who fell into British hands were herded aboard hired transports and shipped off to France.  Most were deported aboard one or more of the five deportation transports--the Yarmouth, Patience, Mathias, Restoration, or John Samuel--that left Chédabouctou Bay in a 12-ship convoy in late November, survived a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England that sank three other transports, and reached St.-Malo together in late January 1759.  Many of them, especially the children, died in the crossing.  A Robichaud and his second wife landed not at St.-Malo but at Cherbourg in late 1758.  He died soon after they reached the Norman port.  Island Robichauds did their best to make a life for themselves in the villages and suburbs of the St.-Malo area, including St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, across the harbor from St.-Malo; Ploubalay on the west side of the river south of St.-Énogat; Plouër-sur-Rance south of Ploubalay; St.-Suliac on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo; and especially in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer across from St.-Énogat.  In the spring of 1763, after prolonged negotiations between the French and British governments, the Acadians in England were repatriated to France.  Only one Robichaud, an elderly wife, had ended up in England, and she likely died there.  In November 1765, Acadians repatriated from England and a few who had been deported from the French Maritimes agreed to become part of an agricultural venture on recently-liberated Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany.  A Robichaud wife from St.-Servan-sur-Mer chose to follow her French-born husband to the island, but she did not remain.  After he died there, she returned with their young daughter to St.-Servan to live with her widowed mother and her Robichaud siblings. 

In 1774, in a movement that took away at least half the Robichauds still in France, the widowed mother and her large family at St.-Servan followed other exiles, probably via the Channel island of Jersey, to the British-controlled fishery at Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs.  British officials counted the Robichauds in the Gaspésie community of Bonaventure later in the year.  Beginning in the early 1790s, some of them crossed the bay to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore in what had become the province of New Brunswick. 

Back in France, in 1773, Robichauds still living in the St.-Malo area chose to take part in an even larger agricultural venture, this one on an influential nobleman's estate near Châtellerault in the interior of Poitou.  After two years of effort, the Robichauds retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes, where they lived as best they could, again, on the government subsidy and what work they could find.  In the early 1780s, when the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France a chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, at least 11 Robichauds agreed to take it, but nearly as many remained. 

In North America, the Acadians who had escaped the British in the late 1750s and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore were inevitably caught up in the lingering war between the imperial rivals.  After the fall of Québec in September 1759, the British gathered their forces to attack the remaining French strongholds in New France, including Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, now a major Acadian refuge.  In late June 1760, a British naval force from Louisbourg attacked Restigouche.  After a spirited fight in which Acadian militia and Mi'kmaq warriors played an important role, the French commander blew up his larger vessels and retreated up Rivière Restigouche, leaving the militia and the Indians to resist a British landing.  Unable to capture the garrison or lay waste to the area, the British commander ordered his ships to return to their base at Louisbourg.  The following October, after the fall of Montréal, another British naval force, this one from Québec, returned to Restigouche to accept the garrison's, and the Acadans', surrender.  On 24 October 1760, on the eve of formal surrender, French officers counted 1,003 Acadians still at Restigouche, Robichauds among them.  After the counting, the British held these exiles, and other Robichauds who either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area, in prison compounds in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Robichauds were held at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, and at Halifax. 

The war over, Robichauds still in the British seaboard colonies, like their cousins being held in Nova Scotia, also, theoretically, were free to go, but not until the British discerned their intentions.  Even then, colonials authorities discouraged repatriation.  Members of the family nevertheless appeared on French repatriation lists and censuses compiled in several of the Atlantic colonies in the summer of 1763, including Massachusetts, Connecticut, and South Carolina.  In June 1766, in Massachusetts, members of the family appeared on a list entitled "Names of the French Who Wish to Go to Canada." 

At war's end, many of the Robichauds still in North America were living not in Nova Scotia or the British seaboard colonies but in Canada, where many of them had gone as early as 1756.  Though now also a British possession, the far-northern province was populated largely by fellow French Catholics, many of them Acadian exiles.  So, in a colony nearly as old as Acadia, descendants of Étienne Robichaud began the slow, inexorable process of becoming Canadiennes.  Especially after the late 1760s, when kinsmen from the seaboard colonies joined their cousins in Canada, Robichauds could be found on the upper St. Lawrence and the lower Richelieu at Bécancour, Boucherville, Deschambault, Nicolet, Pointe-aux-Trembles, Repentigny, St.-Denis-sur-Richelieu, St.-Hyacinthe, Varanne, and Yamachiche; on the lower St. Lawrence at Cap-St.-Ignace, Kamouraska, L'Islet, L'Isle-Vert, Rivières des Capes, and St.-Jean-Port-Joli; in Gaspésie at Bonaventure; on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore in eastern New Brunwick at Aldouane, Bay du Vin, Bouctouche, Caraquet, French Village, Inkerman, Kouchibouigouac, Memramcook, Pointe-Sapin, Pokemouche, Richibucto, Shippagan, Ste.-Anne-de Burnt Church, St.-Charles-de-Kent, St.-Louis-de-Kent, and Tracadie; in the interior of New Brunswick at Petitcoudiac, Kennebecasis, and Rivière St.-Jean; and in Nova Scotia on Baie Ste.-Marie, now St. Mary Bay, and at Bas-de-Tousket, Bear River, Dartmouth, Halifax, and Tusket Wedge.  They were especially numerous on the eastern New Brunswick shore.  Typical of most, if not all, Acadian families, these Acadiennes of Canada lost touch with their Cadien cousins hundreds of miles away, and, until the Acadian reunions of the twentieth century may even have forgotten the others existed.

Robichauds being held in Nova Scotia at war's end faced a hard dilemma.  The Treaty of Paris of February 1763 stipulated in its Article IV that persons dispersed by the war had 18 months to return to their respective territories.  However, British authorities refused to allow any of the Acadian prisoners in the region to return to their former lands as proprietors.  If Acadians chose to remain in, or return to, Nova Scotia, they could live only in small family groups in previously unsettled areas or work for low wages on former Acadian lands now owned by New-English "planters."  If they stayed, they must also take the hated oath of allegiance to the new British king, George III, without reservation.  They would also have to take the oath if they joined their many cousins in Canada and other parts of greater Acadia.  After all they had suffered on the question of the oath, few self-respecting Acadians would consent to take it if it could be avoided.  Some Nova Scotia exiles chose to relocate to Île Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  Others considered going to French St.-Domingue, where Acadian exiles in the British colonies were going, or to the Illinois country, the west bank of which still belonged to France, or to French Louisiana, which, thanks to British control of Canada, was the only route possible to the Illinois country for Acadian exiles.  Whatever their choice, many refused to remain under British rule.  So they gathered up their money and their few possessions and prepared to leave their homeland.  Of the 600 exiles who left Halifax in late 1764 and early 1765 bound for Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, at least 13 were Robichauds.

Robichauds settled early in Acadia and were among the earliest Acadians to find refuge in Louisiana.  They came in two waves, 20 years apart.  The first of them came to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français in 1765.  Four of them, including a family head and a younger male cousin, followed the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche in April, but an epidemic that killed dozens of Teche valley Acadians that summer and fall took the lives of both Robichaud males.  Other Robichauds who came from Halifax that year settled in the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans, but none of them remained.  One of them "returned" to Attakapas by the early 1770s and established a small western branch of the family.  By the mid-1790s, three of his cousins were among the Robichauxs who joined the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche and settled near their cousins there.  Meanwhile, more Robichauds came to the colony aboard three of the Seven Ships from France in 1785.  A young bachelor followed his mother and stepfather to Baton Rouge, but no lasting family line came of it.  His cousins, meanwhile, chose to go to upper Bayou Lafourche, creating a third center of family settlement there.  During the antebellum period, Robichauxs on the Lafourche drifted down bayou as far as the Terrebonne country, while other Robichauxs from the Lafourche valley, including one from France, crossed the Atchafalaya Basin and joined their cousins on the western prairies, adding substantially to the family's presence there, especially on lower Bayou Teche.  In a reversal of the usual Acadian settlement pattern, two Robichaux brothers from the prairies returned to the river and settled in Iberville Parish, but, again, no significant family line developed there.  During or soon after the War of 1861-65, more Robichauxs from Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes moved to the lower Atchafalaya and to lower Bayou Teche.  Despite all the moving here and there, however, the largest center of family settlement remained on the southeastern bayous.  No family line re-emerged on the river until after the war. 

Over 20 Robichauxs served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65, and at least one of them died in Confederate service.  ...

No non-Acadian Robichauds came to Louisiana during the colonial period, at least none who appear in area church records, and no Foreign Frenchmen with the name came to the Pelican State during the antebellum period.  The family's name was spelled Robichaud in France and Acadia, but in Louisiana it evolved into Robichaux.  In Louisiana, it is also spelled Rabosseaux, Rauvichau, Robechaux, Robecheaux, Robichauck, Robichaud, Robichaut, Robichaux, Robicheau, Robicheaux (à la Dave of New Iberia), Robicheux, Robicho, Robichon, Robichos, Robichot, Robijean, Robishau, Robishaux, Robisheau, Robischeau, Robischeaut, Robiso, Roubisceau, Rovechaut, Rovichau, Rovicho.  This large Acadian family should not be confused with the Robeaus, French Creoles who settled on the Acadian Coast, where few of the Acadian Robichauxs remained.36

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The first Robichauds to reach Louisiana--a small family and a young orphan, four Robichauds in all--reached New Orleans from Halifax via Cap-Français with the Broussards in February 1765.  That spring, they followed the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche, with tragic result.  No new family line came of it: 

René (c1726-1765) à Charles dit Cadet à Étienne Robichaux

René, third son of Jean dit Cadet Robichaud and Marie Léger, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1726, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and was counted with them at Bédec on the island's southwest shore in August 1752.  He married Marguerite, daughter of Ambroise Martin dit Barnabé and his first wife Anne Cyr of Chignecto, probably on the island in c1755.  She had been counted with her family at Malpèque on the island's northwest shore in August 1752.  Marguerite gave René two daughters soon after their marriage:  Madeleine born in c1756; and Geneviève in c1758.  The family either left the island before 1758 or, more likely, escaped the British roundup there later that year, crossed Mer Rouge, and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  By 1760, they had made their way up to Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs and joined hundreds of other Acadian refugees there.  A British naval force from Louisbourg attacked the French stronghold in the summer of 1760, and the French surrendered Restigouche to another naval force, this one from Québec, the following October, a month after the surrender of Montréal.  René and his family were among the 1,003 Acadian refugees French officers counted at Restigouche on October 24.  The British held René, his family, and hundreds of other exiles in prison compounds in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  They were held for a time at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, before the British moved them to Halifax by August 1763, when they appeared on a French repatriation list.  In 1764-65, René, Marguerite, and their two daughters, along with orphan Marin Robichaux, followed the Broussard party to New Orleans via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, and then to lower Bayou Teche that April.  On the first of August, René, in his late 30s, died in the epidemic that struck the Teche valley Acadians that summer and fall.  Young Marin also died later that month.  Marguerite and their daughters survived the epidemic and remained on the Teche.  Marguerite remarried to Antoine Borda, a French-born surgeon, at Attakapas in October 1767, and became the grandmother of a future governor.  Her Robichaux daughters Madeleine and Geneviève married into the Hébert and Dugas families at Attakapas, so the blood of the family line endured in the Bayou State. 

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Later in 1765, two brothers, grandsons of Acadian leader Prudent Robichaud of Annapolis Royal, and their families, along with a wife and a widow, nine Robichauds in all, reached New Orleans from Halifax via Cap-Français, but they did not follow the Broussards and their cousins to Bayou Teche.  They settled, instead, at Cabahannocer on the river.  Two Robichaud family lines came of it, on the prairies and on upper Bayou Lafourche, but one of the lines may not have endured: 

Bruno (c1724-1760s) à Prudent à Étienne Robichaux

Bruno, third son of Joseph Robichaud and Marie Forest, born at Annapolis Royal in c1724, married Anne-Félicité Broussard in c1745 probably at Annapolis Royal.  She gave Bruno a son there, Firmin dit Ephrem dit Freme, born in c1751.  They escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Sometime during the late 1750s or early 1760s, they either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  British officials counted them at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, in 1761 and 1762.  Anne-Félicité gave Bruno another son, Bruno, fils, born in July 1764 perhaps at Fort Edward.  The following year, Bruno took his wife and two sons to Louisiana via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue.  Son Bruno, fils was baptized at the St.-Louis church, New Orleans, in December 1765, soon after their arrival.  They settled at Cabahannocer.  The couple had no more children in the colony.  Spanish officials counted them on the right, or west, bank of the river at Cabahannocer in April 1766.  Bruno, père died there in the late 1760s, in his 40s.  His younger son died young, but his older son, after leaving the river, established a western branch of the family on the southwest prairies. 

Older son Firmin dit Ephrem dit Frème followed his family into exile, imprisonment, and to New Orleans and Cabahannocer.  In April 1766, still in his teens, Frème was counted in Judice's Company of the Cabahannocer militia.  He did not remain on the river.  In the late 1760s, he crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to the Attakapas District, where Spanish officials counted him with relative Simon Broussard in December 1769 and in 1771.  Frème was still a bachelor in June 1774 when he was counted in his own household.  He held no slaves then, but he owned 15 head of cattle and four horses and mules.  Three years later, in May 1777, he was still a bachelor (and an "orphan"), living with kinsman Mathurin Broussard.  Frème, in his late 20s, married Marie-Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Surette and Marie Thibodeaux, at Attakapas in April 1778.  Marie-Anne, a native of the prison compound at Halifax, had come to Attakapas with the Broussards in 1765, so they may have known one another since childhood.  They settled on Prairie Grand Chevreuil at the northeast edge of the Attakapas District, and at nearby Grande Pointe on upper Bayou Teche.  By 1781, Frème owned 120 "animals" on 13 arpents of frontage on the upper Teche.  His and Marie-Anne's children, born on the prairies, included Eulalie baptized at the Attakapas church, age 3 months, in May 1779; Marie-Rose, called Rose, born January 1781; Juliènne in December 1782; Adélaïde in December 1784; Scholastique in May 1787; Victoire in October 1789; Julien baptized, age 4 months, in May 1795; Mélanie born in September 1797; Julie in March 1800; and Alexandre posthumously in February 1804--10 children, eight daughters and two sons, between 1779 and 1804.  Frème died at Attakapas in January 1804, age 53.  His successions were filed at the St. Martinville courthouse, St. Martin Parish, in November 1809 and September 1811.  Daughters Marie Rose, Juliènne, Adélaïde, Scholastique, Victoire, Mélanie, and Julie married into the Sudrique, Patin, Guidry, Latiolais, Begnaud, Landry, and Broussard families, two of them, Adélaïde and Scholastique, to the same man, Augustin Guidry.  Both of Frème's sons also married, but only one of lines may have endured. 

Older son Julien married cousin Élisabeth Belzire, called Belzire, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Broussard and Marguerite Guidry of Grande Pointe, at the St. Martinville church in February 1820.  They remained at Grande Pointe.  Their children, born there, included Charles Jules in August 1821; Alexandre le jeune in July 1823; Émile Matol or Anatole in May 1825 but died at age 1 (the recording priest said 3) in July 1826; Marie Ophelia born in August 1827 but died "at her grandmother's home a la grande pointe" at age 2 (the recording priest said 3) in October 1829; Marguerite Cora born in May 1830; Jacques Sidney, called James, in February 1832; Pierre Clebert in 1834 but died at age 9 months in May 1835; Élisabeth baptized at the St. Martinville church, age 9 months, in December 1836; and Marie Corine born in March 1838--nine children, five sons and four daughters, between 1821 and 1838.  Julien's succession, naming his wife, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in August 1845.  He would have been age 50 that year.  None of his daughters married by 1870, but two of his sons did.  One wonders if the lines endured. 

Oldest son Charles Jules married cousin Marie Adèle Broussard, widow of Onésime Calais, at the St. Martinville church in March 1848.  Did they have any children? 

Julien's fourth son James married Elen or Élise, daughter of Antoine Deroussel and Célanie Calais, at the St. Martinville church in May 1855.  Did they have any children? 

Frème's younger son Alexandre married Marguerite Carmélite, called Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Cormier, fils and his second wife Marguerite Guilbeau, at the St. Martinville church in May 1827.  A succession for wife Carmélite, calling her Camélise and naming her husband, probably post-mortem, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in May 1849.  Alexandre may have remarried to Azélie Begnaud, place and date unrecorded.  If so, their daughter, whom the Church Point priest recording her marriage said was "born a Broussard," married into the Landry family.  Alexandre died near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in September 1860, age 56 (the recording priest said 55).  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse later that month.  He evidently fathered no sons, but the blood of the family line may have endured. 

Bruno's younger son Bruno, fils followed his family to New Orleans as an infant and was counted with them at Cabahannocer in April 1766, when he would have been age 2.  He then disappears from Louisiana records, so he probably died young. 

Amable (c1732-c1766) à Prudent à Étienne Robichaux

Amable, fifth son of Joseph Robichaud and Marie Forest, born at Annapolis Royal in c1732, escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and joined his older brother Bruno on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Amable married cousin Anastasie Dugas in c1759, place unrecorded, but it may have been in the Acadian refuge at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  Anastasie gave Amable a son, Henri, born in c1760, perhaps at Restigouche.  In the early 1760s, the couple either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Anastasie gave Amable at least two more children during imprisonment:  Jean-Baptiste born in c1763; and Marie in c1764.  Amable, his wife, and three children appeared on a repatriation list at Halifax in August 1763.  In 1764-65, they followed his brother Bruno to Cap-Français, where they baptized a son, and to New Orleans and Cabahannocer.  Anastasie gave Amable another son there, Louis-Eusèbe, born posthumously at either Cabahannocer or Ascension in c1767--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1760 and 1767, in greater Acadia and Louisiana.  Amable died at Cabahannocer in c1766, in his early 30s.  Anastasie remarried to fellow Acadian Joseph Caissie dit Roger at nearby Ascension in c1770.  Her and Amable's daughter Marie probably died young.  All three of Anastasie's Robichaux sons married on the river, but they did not remain there.  By the mid-1790s, they had joined the Acadian exodus from the river to Bayou Lafourche, where they created robust family lines.  Most of the Robichauxs of southeastern Louisiana, and many of the Robichauxs of southwest Louisiana, are descended from Amable and Anastasie's three sons. 

Oldest son Henri followed his family into imprisonment and to New Orleans and Cabahannocer.  He married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne LeBlanc and Isabelle Boudreaux and widow of Joseph dit Le Cadet Landry and a sister of his younger brother Jean-Baptiste's wife, at the Ascension church, on the river above Cabahannocer, in September 1787.  Marie-Madeleine also had come to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765.  She and Henri settled on upper Bayou Lafourche by the mid-1790s.  Their children, born there, included Étienne, baptized at the Ascension church, age unrecorded, in October 1788; Simon dit Simonet born in August 1792; Louis le jeune in April 1797; and Valentin born in February 1798--four children, all sons, between 1788 and 1798.  Henri died at Assumption on the upper Lafourche in April 1799, age 40.  His widow remarried--her third marriage--to a Lamothe from France in 1803.  All four of her and Henri's sons married. 

Oldest son Étienne married Henriette, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Arceneaux and Angélique Bourgeois, at the Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, in August 1808.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Clémentine in July 1809; Victor Leufroi, called Leufroi, in June 1811; Lucien in May 1813; Marcelline in c1814; Célanie in December 1816; Marie Silvanie, called Sylvanie, in October 1818; Ermogène or Hermogène in November 1820; Ursule in October 1822; and Jean Léon, called Léon, in September 1825--nine children, five daughters and four sons, between 1809 and 1825.  Étienne's succession inventory, naming his wife and listing his children and their ages--Clémentine, age 18; Leufroy, age 16; Lucien, age 14; Marcelline, age 13; Célanie, age 11; Sylvanie, age 9; Hermogène, age 7; Ursule, age 5; and Léon, age 2--was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse, Lafourche Interior Parish, in July 1827.  He would have been in his late 30s that year.  Daughters Marcelline, Clémentine, Sylvanie, Célanie, and Ursule married into the Fournier, Blanchard, Verret, Destrival, Robichaux, and Cuvillier families, the two oldest twice, and two of the younger ones to Robichaux cousins; one of them followed her husband to lower Bayou Teche.  Étienne's four sons also married.  Most of them remained on the Lafourche, but the youngest one moved on to the lower Teche. 

Oldest son Leufroi married Césaire, also called Madeleine Constance, 17-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Maurice Blanchard and his Creole wife Marie Madeleine Fontenot, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in April 1834.  Their children, born on the bayou, included Pierre Leufroy or Leufroi in April 1836; Valfroi in the 1830s; and Joseph in May 1839--three children, all sons, between 1836 and 1839.  Two of Leufroi's sons married by 1870. 

Oldest son Pierre Leufroi married Justine, daughter of fellow Acadian Chrejustin Martin and his Creole wife Marie Modeste Lecompte, at the Raceland church, Lafourche Parish, in May 1856.  Their children, born near Raceland on the lower Lafourche, included Marie Albina in October 1858 but, called Helvina, may have died near Raceland, age 4 1/2 (the recording priest said 4), in May 1863 (was her death war-related?); Joséphine Victoria born in November 1860; Joseph James, called James, in January 1863; Julie in July 1865; Justine Elegina in October 1867; ...  Pierre Leufroi died near Raceland in December 1867.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Pierre died "at age 32 yr. 6 mths."  He was 31 1/2.  An application for succession inventory in his name, calling his wife Justine Martine, and listing his children and their ages--Justine, age 7; James, age 5; unnamed, age 3 years; and unnamed, age 3 months--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse a few days after his death. 

Leufroi's second son Valfroi married Émilie, daughter of fellow Acadian Auguste Babin and his Creole wife Justine Toups, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in August 1858.  Their children, born on the lower Lafourche, included Malvina near Raceland in July 1859; Joseph Guillaume in October 1860; Albert in September 1862 but died at age 6 1/2 in May 1869; Marie Hélène born in February 1865; Justine Hermine in March 1867; and Édouard in June 1869--six children, three daughters and three sons, between 1859 and 1869.  Wife Émilie, called "Mrs. Valfroyd Robichaux" by the recording priest, died near Raceland, age 32, in June 1870.  Did Valfroi remarry? 

Étienne's second son Lucien married cousin Sylvanie, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians François Robichaux and Émilie Babin, at the Thibodaux church in September 1838.  Their children, born on the lower Lafourche, included Joseph Lucien in September 1839; and Jean Louis Neree baptized at Raceland, age unrecorded, in February 1854.  Neither of Lucien's sons married by 1870. 

Étienne's third son Hermogène married, at age 20, Madeleine Irma, called Irma, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Bergeron and Madeleine LeBlanc, at the Thibodaux church in September 1841.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Pierre Désiré in July 1842; Paul Théophile, called Théophile, in January 1844; Elmire Euphrosine in March 1846; Evariste in February 1848; Victorine in February 1850; Joseph in February 1852; twins Henriette Élodie and Madeleine Uranie in May 1853, but Madeleine Uranie, called Uranie, died at age 4 1/2 in September 1857; and Simon Ulysse born in October 1855.  Hermogène, at age 40, remarried to Marie, daughter of Bernard Romagosa and Azéma Richet, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in September 1860.  They were living in Lafourche Parish in early 1864 and in Terrebonne Parish a few years later.  Their children, born in Lafourche Parish, included Marie Félicia in October 1862; Louise Gertrude in April 1864; and Marie Louise in April 1867.  Hermogène evidently remarried, his third marriage, to Anna Gauss in Lafourche Parish in the late 1860s.  Daughter Lucie Zenobie was born in Lafourche Parish in February 1869; ...  Daughter Elmire, by his first wife, married into the Bertrand family by 1870.  One of Hermogène's sons also married by then.

Second son Théophile, by first wife Irma Bergeron, married Marie J., daughter of fellow Acadian Onésime Babin and his German Creole wife Pauline Malbrough, at the Chacahoula church, Terrebonne Parish, in February 1870. ...

Étienne's fourth and youngest son Jean Léon, called Léon, married Anaïse, daughter of Alexis Autin, fils and his Acadian wife Célanie Bergeron, at the Thibodaux church in February 1848.  They moved from the lower Lafourche to St. Mary Parish on lower Bayou Teche in the early 1850s.  Their children, born there, included Elezeda near Raceland in September 1850; Hermogène le jeune in November 1851; Clair near Charenton, St. Mary Parish, in July 1853; Marie Célina Jeanne in November 1855; Marie Alexima in August 1858; Télésphore in January 1860; Marie Uranie in November 1861; Marie Aline in June 1864; Albin Justinien in December 1868; ...  None of Jean Léon's children married by 1870. 

Henri's second son Simon dit Simonet married Domitille, daughter of fellow Acadians François Louvière and his second wife Angélique Bourgeois "of St. Joseph," an old name for St. Martinville, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in December 1819.  They lived on Bayou Lafourche before moving to lower Bayou Teche in the late 1830s to settle near her family.  Their children, born there, included Simon Valiére, called Valière, in Lafourche Interior Parish in January 1822; Valéry in January 1824; Angélique Léonise, called Léonise and Léonie, in June 1826; Madeleine Emilina or Amelina in August 1829; Leufroi in the late 1820s or 1830s; Domithilde Justine in August 1832; and Thimon Euphroisie near New Iberia, then in St. Martin but not in Iberia Parish, in May 1840--seven children, four sons and three daughters, between 1822 and 1840.  A succession for Simonet Broussard, married to Domitille Louvière, was filed at the Franklin courthouse, St. Mary Parish, in February 1854.  This probably was Simonet Robichaux, who would have been age 62 that year.  One wonders if this was a post-mortem succession.  The priest at the Charenton church, St. Mary Parish, recorded the burial of "Mr. Robichaud, a butcher," who died "at age 68 yrs." in September 1867.  Simonet would have been age 75.  Who else would it have been?  Daughters Domitille Justine, Madeleine Amelina, and Léonie, married into the Arceneaux, Hébert, and Coursier families.  Simonet's sons also married. 

Oldest son Simon Valière, called Valière, married Joséphine, daughter of Delphin Leleux and his Acadian wife Anastasie Landry, at the New Iberia church in July 1845.  Their children, born near New Iberia, included Jean Alcibiade, called Alcibiade, in May 1846; and Joseph in December 1848.  A succession for wife Joséphine, naming her husband, probably post-mortem, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in January 1850.  Simon Valière remarried to Marie Doralise, called Doralise, daughter of Simon Bodin and his Acadian wife Pélagie Landry, at the Charenton church in January 1850, two weeks after the filing of his first wife's succession.  Valière and Doralise's children, born near Charenton, included Marie Rosa in August 1850; Marie Delphine, called Delphine, in December 1851; Marie Elvina or Telvina, called Telvina, in late 1853 and baptized at the Charenton church, age 7 months, in April 1854; Césaire born in May 1856; Marie Alida in August 1858; Ovide in September 1860; François Oscar in January 1864; Marie Odile in June 1866; ...  Valière's succession, naming his second wife, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse, St. Martin Parish, in December 1867.  Was it post-mortem?  He would have been age 45 that year.  Daughters Telvina and Delphine, by his second wife, married into the Comeaux family by 1870.  Two of Valière's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Alcibiade, by first wife Joséphine Leleux, married Aspasie, daughter of Charles Delcambre and his Acadian wife Arthémise Broussard, at the New Iberia church in May 1867.  Their children, born near New Iberia, include Marie Léa in March 1868; Jeanne Humer in January 1870; ...

Valière's second son Joseph, by first wife Joséphine Leleux, married Marie, daughter of Joseph Humelle or Humel and Mérante Bourck, perhaps an Acadian Bourg, at the New Iberia church in May 1870. ...

Simonet's second son Valèry married Marguerite Zéolide, called Zéolide and Zéonide, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Arceneaux and Aspasie Broussard, at the New Iberia church in June 1854.  Their children, born near New Iberia, included Jean Onizifort in May 1855; Joseph Hedelbert in November 1856; Thélésphore in January 1858; Joseph Rosémond in October 1859; Marie Mathilde in July 1860; Marie Zoé in July 1864; Marie Cécile in June 1866; ...  None of Valéry's children married by 1870. 

Simonet's third son Leufroi married Clémence, daughter of Delphin Leleux and his Acadian wife Zulma Arceneaux, at the New Iberia church in June 1859.  Their children, born near New Iberia, included Corine in March 1860; Poline in October 1861; ...

Simonet's fourth and youngest son Thimon Euphroisie married Marie Marcelline, called Marcelline, daughter of Marius Amy and his Acadian wife Marcellite Arceneaux, at the St. Martinville church in April 1867.  Daughter Louise was born in St. Martin Parish in January 1868; ...

Henri's third son Louis le jeune may have married Marie Louise Meyon, place and date unrecorded.  Their son Théodore was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in April 1842 and did not marry by 1870. 

Henri's fourth and youngest son Valentin married Marie Aspasie, daughter of Jean Miller and Marie Remelie Sevin, at the Thibodauxville church in June 1833.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Justin Valentin in June 1834; Alidor or Alidore in May 1836; Omer Justilien in September 1839; Amédée Anteneaux in September 1840; Henry Théophile in December 1842; Edgard Didier in May 1845; Madeline Désirée in April 1848; and Marie in October 1850--eight children, six sons and two daughters, between 1834 and 1850.  Neither of Valentin's daughters married by 1870, but three of his sons did. 

Oldest son Justin married Marguerite, also called Élisa and Laisa, daughter of James Price and his Acadian wife Marie Célanie Martin, at the Raceland church in April 1855.  Their children, born near Raceland, included Domitille in April 1856; Flora Geronise in September 1858; Joseph in September 1861; Philomène Léa in July 1864; Marguerite Ledea in March 1866; Justine Hélène in August 1868; ... 

Valentin's second son Alidor married Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Félicien Thibodeaux and his Creole wife Céleste Courcier, at the Raceland church in June 1860.  Their children, born near Raceland, included Louise Anasthasie in April 1861; Joseph Mélanie in September 1863; Pascal Alestli in May 1866; Élie Thibodaux in March 1868; ... 

Valentin's third son Omer married Pamela, daughter of Auguste Sevin and his Acadian wife Evéline Naquin, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in February 1867.  Their children, born near Raceland, included Marie Adolphine in October 1868; Armantine in February 1870; ...

Amable's second son Jean-Baptiste followed his family to Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, where he evidently was baptized, and to New Orleans and Cabahannocer.  He married Marie-Marthe-Élisabeth, called Marthe, another daughter of  Étienne LeBlanc and Élisabeth Boudreaux and widow of Jacques Lecompte, at the Ascension church in August 1787.  Marthe, also a native of the prison compound at Halifax, like her husband had come to Louisiana as an infant in 1765.  By the mid-1790s, they had joined the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche and settled near the boundary of what became Ascension and Assumption parishes before moving farther down bayou.  Their children, born there, included Jean-Baptiste, fils baptized at the Ascension church, age unrecorded, in October 1788; Marie-Céleste, called Céleste, born in September 1789; François-Jérôme in September 1790; Marie-Clémence, called Clémence, in September 1791; another Jean-Baptiste, fils in August 1794; Clarisse, also called Claire, in March 1798; Marie de Carmen, perhaps also called Carmélite Marcellite, in March 1799; Joseph-Anaclet, also called Joseph-Marin, in June 1803; Pierre Charles in April 1804; Hippolyte in October 1805; Eugène in December 1807; and Narcisse in March 1809--a dozen children, eight sons and four daughters, between 1788 and 1809.  Jean Baptiste's succession inventory, naming his wife and her first husband and listing his and Marthe's children and their daughters' spouses--François; Jean Baptiste, Jr.; Joseph Anaclete; Eugène; Narcisse; Céleste and her husband; Clémence and her husband; Clarisse and her husband; and Carmélite and her husband--was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse, Lafourche Interior Parish, in November 1829.  He would have been in his late 60s that year.  Daughters Céleste, Clémence, Clarisse, and Carmélite Marcellite married into the Boudreaux, Hébert, Dugas, and Thibodeaux families.  Six of Jean Baptiste's sons also married, but not all of the lines endured. 

Second son François Jérôme married Émilie dite Milita, daughter of fellow Acadians François Babin and Marie Usé, at the Plattenville church in September 1810.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Jean Baptiste le jeune in June 1811; Émilie in July 1813; Auguste Dionys in September 1815; Adrien in December 1817; Sylvanie or Silvanie in April 1820; François Silvère or Sylvère in April 1824; and Émilien in September 1826.  Wife Émilie's succession, listing her Robichaux children--Adrien, Auguste, Émilie, Émilien, François, Jean Baptiste, and Sylvanie--and their birth dates, was filed at the Lafourche Interior Parish courthouse in August 1832, so she probably died by then.  François Jérôme remarried to Marie, daughter of Joseph Dufrene and Marie Rome, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in March 1839.  Their daughter Philomène was born there in January 1839, two months before their marriage--eight children, five sons and three daughters, by two wives, between 1811 and 1839.  François Jérôme died in Lafourche Parish, in March 1853, age 62.  A petition for his succession inventory, naming his second wife, and listing his children and some of their spouses--Émelie and her husband, Auguste, François, Sylvanie and her husband, Adrien, and Jean Baptiste--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse three days after his death.  Daughters Émelie and Silvanie, by his first wife, married into the Gisclard and Robichaux families by 1870.  Four of François's sons also married by then.  One of his grandsons moved to lower Bayou Teche after the War of 1861-65, but most of his descendants remained on the Lafourche. 

Oldest son Jean Baptiste le jeune, by first wife Émilie Babin, married Marguerite Eugénie or Virginie, also called Julie, 21-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Maurice Blanchard and his Creole wife Marie Madeleine Fontenot, at the Thibodauxville church in June 1833.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marguerite Eugénie in April 1834; Jean Leufroy or Leufroi in November 1835; Justin in January 1838; Pierre in December 1840; Marie Uranie in January 1842; Marie Émelie, called Émelie, in September 1843; Émilien Séverin in January 1846; Louis Ozémé in May 1848; Marie Clairville near Raceland in October 1850; and Marie Félicie baptized at the Raceland church, age unrecorded, in October 1853--10 children, five daughters and five sons, between 1834 and 1853.  Daughters Marguerite Eugénie and Émelie married into the Autin and Dias families by 1870.  Three of Jean Baptiste le jeune's sons also married by then.

Third son Pierre J., given that name by the recording priest, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Eugène Bourgeois and his Creole wife Angélique Barrios, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in July 1861.  Their children, born on the lower Lafourche, included Joseph Bernardin near Raceland in May 1862; Joseph Célina in January 1864; Victoria Marcella in November 1865; and Pierre Flavien in February 1868--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1862 and 1868.  Pierre died near Raceland in October 1869.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Pierre died "at age 30 yrs."  He was 28. 

Jean Baptiste le jeune's fourth son Émilien married Vigilia, daughter of fellow Acadian Manuel Landry and his wife Marie Estelle, perhaps Estellet, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in June 1869.  Their son Joseph was born near Raceland in March 1870; ...

Jean Baptiste le jeune's fifth and youngest son Louis Ozémé married Justine, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Molaison and Carmélite Pitre, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in May 1867.  Their son Joseph Clotaire was born near Raceland in March 1868; ...

François Jérôme's second son Auguste, by first wife Émilie Babin, married Céleste or Célestine, 18-year-old daughter of Jean Pierre Gisclard and Françoise Aimé Mayer, at the Thibodauxville church in July 1834; Auguste's sister Émelie married Célestine's brother Valsin on the same day, at the same place.  Auguste and Céleste's children, born on the Lafourche and in Terrebonne Parish, included François Émile, called Émile, in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1835; Aimée Justine, called Justine and perhaps Augustine, in April 1840[sic]; Édouard, or Éloi, in December 1840[sic]; Émilien in February 1843; Joseph Augustin in September 1844; Marie in c1846; Pierre Justinien, called Justinien, in Terrebonne Parish in December 1849; Félicien Lhotaire, called Lhotaire, in March 1852; Onésile Helena in September 1854; and Henri Félicien, called Félicien, in March 1857--10 children, seven sons and three daughters, between 1835 and 1857.  Daughters Augustine and Marie married Crochet brothers by 1870.  One of Auguste's sons also married by then. 

Second son Éloi married Julie, daughter of fellow Acadians Nicolas Léandre Crochet and Madeleine Bergeron of Terrebonne Parish, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in January 1859, and sanctified the marriage at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in April 1864; Julie's brothers Alfred and Henri married two of Éloi's sisters.  Éloi and Julie's son Jean Baptiste Augustin was born in Terrebonne Parish in June 1863; ... 

François Jérôme's third son Adrien, by first wife Émilie Babin, married cousin Marie Sylvanie, called Sylvanie, 16-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Robichaux and Henriette Arceneaux, at the Thibodauxville courthouse in January 1835.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Céleste Justine, called Justine, in March 1837; François Étienne, perhaps also called Félix, in December 1841; Marie Émelie, called Émilie, in February 1842; Adrien Théophile, called Théophile, in September 1845; Étienne Alidor, called Alidor, in March 1848; and Pierre Octave, called Octave, near Raceland in November 1849.  Wife Sylvanie died near Raceland in July 1853, "at age 30 yrs.," but she probably was a few years older.  An "Account of Administration of tutor" in her name, listing their children--Félix, Émilie, Théophile, Alidor, and Octave--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in May 1860.  Adrien remarried to Marie Louise Gisclard in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in August 1865.  Daughter Marie Éloise was born near Lockport in August 1866 but, called Marie Louise, died at age 1 (the recording priest said 6 months) in July 1867--seven children, three daughters and four sons, by two wives, between 1837 and 1866.  Adrien died near Raceland in December 1869, age 52 (the recording priest said 53).  Daughters Justine and Émilie, by his first wife, married into the Falgout and Bellanger families by 1870.  Adrien's sons also married by then.  One of them moved to lower Bayou Teche after the War of 1861-65.  The others remained on Bayou Lafourche. 

Oldest son Félix, perhaps also called François Étienne, from first wife Sylvanie Robichaux, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Edmond Foret and Estelle Vina Martin, at the Raceland church in November 1859.  Their children, born near Raceland, included Félix Jean Baptiste in January 1864; Marie Félicia in May 1867; Félicia in May 1869; ... 

Adrien's second son Adrien Théophile, called Théophile, from first wife Sylvanie Robichaux, married Léontine, daughter of Timothée Delcambre and his French-Canadian wife Arthémise LeBlanc, at the New Iberia church, Iberia Parish, in January 1869.  Their son Félix le jeune was born near New Iberia in October 1869; ... 

Adrien's third son Étienne Alidor, called Alidor, from first wife Sylvanie Robichaux, married Marie Justine, daughter of fellow Acadians Nicolas Arcement and Rosalie Pitre, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in January 1868. ...

Adrien's fourth and youngest son Pierre Octave, called Octave, from first wife Sylvanie Robichaux, married Palmire, daughter of Théodule Dias and Eugénie Roux, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in February 1869. ...

François Jérôme's fourth son François Sylvère, by first wife Émilie Babin, married cousin Marie Justine, called Justine, daughter of fellow Acadian Auguste Babin and his Creole wife Justine Toups, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in September 1845.  Their children, born on the lower Lafourche, included Mathilde in September 1846; Amédée in February 1849; Justine near Raceland in February 1851; Justilien in May 1853 but died at age 2 (the recording priest said 3) in July 1855; and François, fils born in March 1855--five children, two daughters and three sons, between 1846 and 1855.  François Sylvère died near Raceland at the end of July 1855, age 31, four months after the birth of his youngest child and two days after the death of his second son Justilien.  A petition for succession inventory, calling him François, Jr., naming his wife, and listing his children--Mathilde, Amédé, Justine, and François--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in March 1856.  Daughter Mathilde married into the Dias family by 1870.  One of François Sylvère's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Amédée married Marie Orabit in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in June 1870. ... 

Jean-Baptiste's third son Jean-Baptiste, fils, probably the second with the name, married, if he was the second, at age 24, Marie Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Honoré Breaux and Marie Félicité Trahan of Lafourche, "at [the] home of Charles Bolot" in Assumption Parish, in November 1818.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Honoré, also called Jean Baptiste Honoré, in September 1819; Joseph Narcisse, called Narcisse, in December 1820; Marie Céleste in February 1822; Adoard or Édouard in October 1823; Evariste Onésime in April 1825; Marie Adélaïde, perhaps also called Modeste Adèle, in September 1826; Apollinaire in July 1828; Pierre in July 1831; Delphine in March 1833; Élie Élisaire in February 1835; and Marie Froisine or Euphrosine, called Euphrosine, in July 1837--11 children, six sons and five daughters, between 1819 and 1837.  According to one historian, "Jean Baptiste, Jr. ... was one of the pioneer planters along Bayou Terrebonne, where he settled near Montegut," at the northern edge of the coastal marshes, "with his large family in 1841."  Jean Baptiste, fils died probably near Montegut in 1848, in his mid-50s.  A petition for his succession inventory, naming his wife and listing his children and one of their spouses--Honoré, Narcisse, Édouard, Modiste Adèle and her husband, Appollinaire, Pierre, and Euphrosine--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in February 1853.  Daughters Modeste and Marie Euphrosine married into the Arcement and Haines families by 1870.  Five of Jean Baptiste, fils's sons also married by then.  One of them settled on the lower Atchafalaya River after the War of 1861-65. 

Oldest son Jean Baptiste Honoré, called Honoré, living in Terrebonne Parish, married cousin Marie Eudalise or Eulalie, daughter of Antoine Badeaux and his Acadian wife Rosalie Breaux, at the Thibodaux church in June 1842.  Their children,  born on the Lafourche and in Terrebonne Parish, included Marie Honorine, called Honorine, in Lafourche Interior Parish in March 1842, two and a half months before her parents' church wedding; Antoine Aurestile in January 1844; Marie Angelina in January 1846; Marie Zulnée, probably Zulmée, in January 1848; Léonie in Terrebonne Parish in January 1850; Marie Louise or Louisa, called Louisa, in December 1851; Élise Odille in July 1854; Eveline Rosalie in July 1859; Marie Eve in October 1862; ...  Daughters Honorine, Marie (one wonders which), Zulmée, and Louisa married into the Price, Robichaux, Rhodes, and Lapeyrouse families by 1870.  Honoré's son did not marry by then. 

Jean Baptiste, fils's second son Joseph Narcisse, called Narcisse, living in Terrebonne Parish, married cousin Ursule, 17-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Robichaux and Henriette Arceneaux, at the Thibodaux church in January 1840.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Étienne Paul or Paul Étienne in September 1840 or 1841; Michel Onésime or Onésippe, called Onésippe, in September 1843; William Téophile or Théophile, called Théophile, in February 1846; Marie Clémence in August 1849; and Marguerite Célestine in May 1859--five children, three sons and two daughters, between 1840 and 1859.  Daughter Marie Clémence married a Breaux cousin by 1870.  Joseph Narcisse's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Étienne Paul married Marguerite Camilla, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Louis Hébert and Irène Babin, at the Montegut church, Terrebonne Parish, in May 1866.  Their children, born near Montegut, included Joseph Alfred in July 1867; Louis Alfred in February 1869; Léo Narcissi in October 1870; ...

Narcisse's second son Michel Onésime or Onésippe, called Onésippe, married Florentine, daughter of Agapie Hotard and Marie Megres, at the Montegut church in June 1865.  Their children, born near Montegut, included Marie Eve in August 1866; Joseph Adam in June 1868; ... 

Narcisse's third and youngest son William Théophile married first cousin Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Honoré Robichaux and his Creole wife Marie Eudalise Badeaux, his uncle and aunt, at the Montegut church in May 1867.  Their son Joseph Désiré Willey was born near Montegut in February 1868; ... 

Jean Baptiste, fils's third son Édouard married, at age 21, Marie Bazelise, called Bazelise, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Bourg and his Creole wife Isabelle Eléonore dite Rosalie Lirette of Terrebonne Parish, at the Thibodaux church in November 1844.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included André Théogène in November 1845; and Amédée in March 1847 but died at age 8 1/2 (the recording priest said 9) in October 1855.  Édouard, at age 29, remarried to Marie Myrthille, called Myrthille, daughter of William C Watkins and Marie Bonvillain and widow of Henry Crochet, at the Houma church in July 1852.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, Lafourche Parish, and on the lower Atchafalaya, included Marie Séverine in Lafourche Parish in April 1853 but, name unrecorded, died in Terrebonne Parish at age 13 months (the recording priest said 11 months) in June 1854; Marie Cideloi born in July 1854; Joseph Marie in January 1855; Joséphine[sic] Onésime in March 1857; Édouard, fils in March 1859; Marie Amelia near Chacahoula, Terrebonne Parish, in August 1861; Aurelie Gloria in Lafourche Parish in February 1863; Arthur Solomon near Brashear, now Morgan, City, St. Mary Parish, in February 1865; Joseph Robert in September 1867; ...  None of Édouard's children married by 1870. 

Jean Baptiste, fils's fifth son Apollinaire married Marie, 18-year-old daughter of François Lecompte and Adèle Gisclard, at the Houma church in August 1849.  They settled near the boundary between Terrebonne and Lafourche Interior parishes.  Their children, born there, included Baptiste Alfred in August 1850 but, called Raphaël, died the following January; Pauline Aglaé, called Aglaé, born in July 1853; and Faustin in February 1855--three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1850 and 1855.  Apollinaire died in Terrebonne Parish in June 1855, age 27.  A "Petition for Tutorship" of his children, calling him Apolinaire, naming his wife, and listing his children--Agalaée and Faustin--was filed in his name at the Houma courthouse in April 1856.  Daughter Aglaé married into the Campbell family by 1870.  Apollinaire's remaining son did not marry by then. 

Jean Baptiste, fils's sixth son Pierre married Mathilde Mélanie, called Mélanie, daughter of fellow Acadians Dorville Babin and Angelina Pitre, at the Houma church in July 1856.  Daughter Justine Rosalie was born in Terrebonne Parish in October 1862; ...

Jean-Baptiste, père's fourth son Joseph Anaclet, also called Joseph Marin or Morin, married Delphine, also called Joséphine, daughter of Joseph Dufrene and Marie Raume, at the Thibodauxville church in February 1835.  Their children, born on the lower Lafourche, included Arthémise in June 1836; Joseph, fils in September 1837; Pierre in September 1839; Onésiphore in January 1841; Mathilde, also called Emily, in July 1842; Élise in December 1843; Adorestine or Dorestile in May 1846; and Osémé in April 1849 but, called Osémée, died near Raceland at age 13 in August 1862--eight children, four daughters and four sons, between 1836 and 1849.  Joseph Anaclet, called Joseph by the recording priest, evidently died in Assumption Parish in July 1859, age 56.  The Paincourtville priest who recorded the burial gave no parents' names or mentioned a wife.  Daughters Arthémise, Mathilde/Emily, Dorestile, and Élise married into the Fournier, Webre, Bourgeois, and Baudoin families by 1870.  None of Joseph's sons married by then. 

Jean Baptiste, père's fifth son Pierre Charles may have married fellow Acadian ____ Babin in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in June 1836.  Did they have any children? 

Jean Baptiste, père's seventh son Eugène married Césaire, daughter of Michel Morvant and Catherine Rowe, at the Thibodauxville church in February 1832.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joseph le jeune in April 1833; Charlotte in May 1834; Marie in August 1835; Narcisse le jeune in February 1837; Silvane or Sylvain in April 1838; Rosela or Rosélie in April 1840; Michel in October 1841; and Florian in March 1843--eight children, five sons and three daughters, between 1833 and 1843.  Eugène died in Lafourche Interior Parish in April 1849, age 41.  A petition for a family meeting, naming his wife and listing their children--Joseph, Charlotte, Marie, Narcisse, Sylvain, Rosela, Michel, and Florian--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse the following September.  Daughters Marie and Rosela/Rosélie married into the Rivette and Duplantis families by 1870.  Four of Eugène's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Joseph le jeune married Célima or Célina, daughter of Joseph Dufrene and Marie Arceneaux, perhaps a fellow Acadian, at the Raceland church in January 1860.  Their children, born near Raceland, included Marie Victoria in October 1860 but died at age 7 1/2 in July 1868; Marguerite Rosella born in March 1863; Joseph Symphorien in August 1865; Eugène Wales in September 1868; ... 

Eugène's second son Narcisse le jeune married Émilie dite Mely, daughter of Michel Bélanger and Virginia Lecompte of Terrebonne Parish, at the Houma church in June 1859.  They lived near the boundary between Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie in April 1860; Joseph in March 1862; Édouard near Raceland in October 1864; Clémence Célestine near Montegut in January 1867; Alida in February 1869; ... 

Eugène's third son Michel married Marie Mesilda, called Mesilda, daughter of fellow Acadian Michel Archange Blanchard and his Creole wife Justine Rodrigue, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in March 1864.  Their children, born near Raceland, included Marie Letitia in January 1866; Marie Evelleda in October 1867; Joseph Albert August 1869; ... 

Eugène's fourth son Florian married Marcelline, daughter of Joseph Walker and D. Georgina Brous and widow of Ernest Landry, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in December 1867. ...

Jean Baptiste, père's eighth and youngest son Narcisse married Marcelline, daughter of fellow Acadians François Achille Foret and Geneviève Bergeron, at the Thibodauxville church in February 1836.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Ovil or Ovile in December 1836; Marie Amélie or Émelie, called Émilie, in January 1841; and Mathilde Irma in March 1844--three children, a son and two daughters, between 1836 and 1844.  Narcisse's succession inventory, naming his wife and listing his children--Ovide, Marie Émelie, and Mathilde Irma--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in January 1847.  He would have been age 38 that year.  Daughters Émelie and Mathilde married into the Martin and Part families.  Narcisse's son also married and settled on the lower Lafourche. 

Only son Ovile married Euphrasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Onésime Babin and Mélasie Landry, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in April 1858.  Daughter Mathilde Aspasie was born near Raceland in February 1859.  Did they have anymore children?

Amable's third and youngest son Louis-Eusèbe married Élisabeth or Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Babin and Marie Landry, at the St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer church in April 1792.  They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche near the boundary of what became Ascension and Assumption parishes before moving down bayou.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie-Louise in October 1793; Joseph in July 1795; François-Valéry in February 1797; Madeleine del Carmen or Carmélite, called Carmélite, in August 1799; Jean-Baptiste le jeune in October 1802; Marie-Marguerite, called Marguerite, in September 1803; Marcellin in October 1805; Clémentine in May 1808; Marcellite in April 1810; Mélasie in c1812; Henriette Azéline in November 1816; and Humilite, a daughter, in August 1818--a dozen children, eight daughters and four sons, between 1793 and 1818.  Louis died in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1825.  The Thibodaxuville priest who recorded the burial called him Louis Eugène and said he was age 60 when he died.  Louis was closer to 58.  His succession was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse later in December, and a public sale of his possessions, the notice for which named his wife and listed some of his children and his married daughter's husbands--Marie Louise, deceased, and her husband; Joseph; Carmélite and her husband; Marguerite and her husband; Clémentine and her husband; and Jean Baptiste--was held at the Thibodauxville courthouse in January 1826.  Daughters Marie Louise, Madeleine Carmélite, Marguerite, Clémentine, Marcelite, and Mélasie married into the Chauvin, Part, Breaux, Thibodeaux, and Bourgeois families, the two oldest to Chauvin brothers.  Three of Louis's sons also married. 

Oldest son Joseph married cousin Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean François Rassicot and his second wife Marie Josèphe Robichaux, at the Plattenville church in January 1816.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Élina in the late 1810s; Mélite in the late 1810s; Léonise in February 1820; twins Marguerite and Mélanie or Mélasie in April 1822, but Marguerite died at age 2 in March 1824; Joseph Valière, called Valière and also T. Valière and F. Valière, born in March 1824; Paul Leufroi, called Leufroi, in February 1826; Susanne died in December 1827 four days after her birth; Eugène Godfrois or Godefroi born in April 1829; Joseph Auguste, called Auguste, in January 1831; and a son, name unrecorded, died a day after his birth in November 1832--11 children, six daughters and five sons, between the late 1810s and 1832.  Joseph died in Lafourche Interior Parish in January 1844, a widower.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial said Joseph died "at age 52 yrs."  He was 48.  A petition for a family meeting in his name, calling his widow Rosalie Rasicot and listing their children and some of their ages--Elina and her husband; Mélite and her husband; Louise and her husband; Melasie; Valtice, "about 20 yrs."; Leufroy, "about 17 yrs."; Eugène, "about 15 yrs."; and Auguste, "about 13 yrs."--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse a week after his death.  Daughters Élina, Léonise, Mélite, and Mélasie married into the LeBlanc, Breaux, and Gueno families, including two LeBlanc brothers, by 1870.  Joseph's four remaining sons also married by then.

Oldest son Joseph Valière, called Valière, at age 19, married Emérante, 15-year-old daughter of Hubert Waguespack and Emérante Huchet, at the Thibodaux church in January 1844.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joseph Hubert or Hébert in February 1845; Jean Baptiste le jeune in September 1847; Marie Joséphine in January 1850; Mathilde Anastasie in November 1852; Eugène Désiré in July 1855; Marianne Alida near Raceland in September 1857; Albert in August 1860 but died at age 2 in September 1862; Léo born in January 1863; Élie Lovinci in February 1867; ...  Valière's daughters did not marry by 1870, but one of his sons did. 

Oldest son Joseph Hubert or Hébert married Louise, daughter of Joseph Gustave Abribat and Charlotte Emelina Falgout, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in February 1870. ...

Joseph's second son Paul Leufroi, called Leufroi, married Marie Modeste, called Modeste, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Bernard, fils and Marie Ester Bernard, and widow of Charles Henry Williams of Baltimore, at the Thibodaux church in October 1844.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Rosela or Rosella, called Rosella, in December 1848; Joseph Aladin, called Aladin, in January 1852; and Paul Leufroi, fils in September 1853--three children, a daughter and two sons, between 1848 and 1853.  Was he the Leuffroy Robichaux who died "during [a] yellow fever epidemic" in Lafourche Parish in September 1853?  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Leuffroy died "at age 32 yrs."  Paul Leufroi would have been age 27.  A "Final account of tableau" for Paul Leufroi, naming his wife and her second (actually her third) husband, Ferdinand Charles Aubert, who she had married in late September 1857, and her and Paul Leufroi's children--Rosella, Aladin, and Paul Leufroy--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in December 1857.  Paul Leufroi, père's succession, naming his widow, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse, St. Martin Parish, in March 1859, evidently years after his passing.  One wonders why his succession was filed in a Bayou Teche community.  Had his widow and her third husband moved there by then?  None of his children married by 1870. 

Joseph's third son Eugène Godefroi married Marie Aspasie, daughter of Drausin Triche and Marie Joséphine Trosclair, at the Thibodaux church in July 1854.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Octavie in December 1855; Eugène Godefroi, fils in November 1856; Joseph Ozémé in September 1858; Marie Sidonia in November 1861; Joseph Alfred in May 1864; Louise Joséphine in June 1866; Louis Octave in November 1868 but died at age 5 months in April 1869; and Juliènne Henriette posthumously in February 1870--eight children, four daughters and four sons, between 1855 and 1870.  An historian notes:  "Eugène-Godefroy ... married into the wealthy Triche family of Bayou Lafourche and eventually acquired several sugar plantations in the vicinity of Thibodaux and Lockport."  Eugène Godefroi died in Lafourche Parish in December 1869, age 40.  A "Petition for administrator" for his children, calling him Eugène Godfrey, naming his wife, and listing his children--Eugène, Joseph Ozémé, Marie Cidonia, Joseph Alfred, and Louise Joséphine--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in February 1870.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Joseph's fourth son Joseph Auguste, called Auguste, married Delphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Théodore Bourg and Marie Mélite Bernard, at the Thibodaux church in February 1851.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Rosalie Augustanee in December 1854; Marie Louisiane in October 1856; Louis Provosti in October 1858; and Auguste Joseph Philippe in August 1860--four children, two daughters and two sons, between 1854 and 1860.  None of Auguste's children married by 1870. 

Louis Eusèbe's third son Jean Baptiste le jeune married Marie Eugénie or Virginie, 20-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Bourgeois and Anastasie Part, at the Thibodauxville church in October 1828.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Eugénie in July 1829; Marie Hisida, Lezida, or Elezida in December 1831; Marguerite Edmire in October 1835 but, called Elmire, died at age 2 1/2 (the recording priest said 4) in August 1838; Juliènne Mathilde, called Mathilde, born in July 1837; Louis le jeune in February 1840; Célina, also called Élisabeth Célima, in March 1843; Jean Baptiste Adlard or Adélard in April 1845; Adélard Augustin in c1846 but died at age 6 in June 1852; Jean Baptiste, fils born in November 1848; and Mélina Marguerite in c1852--10 children, six daughters and four sons, between 1829 and 1852.  Jean Baptiste le jeune died in Lafourche Parish in June 1860, age 57 (the recording priest, who called him Baptiste and his wife Eugénie, said 58).  A "Petition for tutrix" for his children, calling his wife Eugénie and listing his children and some of their spouses--Eugénie (deceased) and her husband, Marie Elezida and her husband, Juliènne Mathilde and her husband, Louis, Élisabeth Célima, and Mélina Marguerite--was filed in his name at the Thibodaux courthouse in July 1860.  Daughters Eugénie, Marie Lezida, Mathilde, and Célina married into the Chauvin, Breaux, Maronge, and Pontiff families by 1870.  None of Jean Baptiste le jeune's sons married by then. 

Louis Eusèbe's fourth and youngest son Marcellin married Fergile, Horesile, Targille, Tharzile, Thauzile, Thergile, Thersilde, or Thersile, 17-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Bertrand and Henriette Rassicot, at the Thibodauxville church in May 1830.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Louis Marcelin in October 1831 but died at age 2 1/2 in July 1834; Marie Marceline or Marcelite, called Marcelite, born in April 1833; Émelia in March 1836; Cécilia in January 1838; Théodule Maralin in September 1840; Théophile Eugène in June 1842; Gustave in February 1844 but died in April; Marie Louisiane born in August 1845 but, called Marie Louisa Ami, died at age 1 1/2 in June 1847; Jules Marcelin born in August 1847; Ovide Augustin in August 1849; Marie Célestine in June 1852; and Julia Amanda in February 1855--11 children, five sons and six daughters, between 1831 and 1855.  Marcellin died in Lafourche Parish in September 1870, age 65.  A "Petition for family meeting," calling him Marcelus, calling his wife Terzille, and naming his children and some of their spouses--Théodule, Théophile, Jules, Émilia and her husband, Cécilia and her husband (a "Dr."), and Marcelite and her husband--was filed in his name at the Thibodaux courthouse later in September.  Daughters Émilia, Cécilia, and Marcelite married into the LeBlanc, Caillouet, and Hébert families by 1870.  Three of Marcellin's sons also married by then.

Second son Théodule married Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Naquin and Marie Boudreaux, at the Thibodaux church in January 1866.  Their children, born in Lafourche Parish, included Joseph Auguste in November 1866; Marie Mirthée in October 1869; ... 

Marcellin's third son Théophile married Mathilde, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Arsène Prejean and Marie Carmélite Carret, at the Thibodaux church in August 1866. ...

Marcellin's fifth son Jules married Eugénie, daughter of André Maronge and Marie Anne Thibodaux, a granddaughter of former Governor Henry Schuyler Thibodaux, at the Thibodaux church in February 1868.  Daughter Julia Georgina was born in Lafourche Parish in June 1868; ...

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Not until 20 years after the first of them arrived did more Acadian Robichauds reach Spanish Louisina.  In 1785, 11 members of the family crossed on three of the Seven Ships from France.  The first of them, a widow, crossed on La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in mid-August.  She and her Lebert son chose to settle at Baton Rouge on the river, where she died a year after her arrival. 

A teenaged Robichaud, with his mother, stepfather, three stepsisters, and a newborn half-brother, crossed on Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans during the third week of August 1785.  He followed them and their fellow passengers to Baton Rouge.  Another Robichaud family line came of it, but it did not endure: 

Charles (1768-?) à Joseph dit Cadet à Charles dit Cadet à Étienne Robichaux

Charles, fils, only son of Charles Robichaud and Marie LeBlanc, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo, France, in October 1768, followed his family to Poitou and Chantenay and his mother and stepfather to New Orleans and Baton Rouge, where he married Jeanne-Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Henry and Marguerite-Josèphe Thériot, in February 1792.  Jeanne-Françoise, also a native of St.-Servan, had come to Louisiana from France in 1875 aboard a later vessel.  She gave Charles a son, Isidore, born at Baton Rouge in March 1797.  Charles, fils remarried to Marie-Cécile, daughter of fellow Acadians Claude Guidry and his second wife Anne Moïse and widow of Pierre Aucoin, at the Baton Rouge church in May 1801.  Marie, a native of St.-Suliac near St.-Malo, had come to Louisiana aboard the same vessel Charles, fils's first wife had taken.  Charles, fils and his second wife  may have had a daughter named Emérante, born in c1804, who died near St. Gabriel, probably Manchac, at age 14 in March 1819.  Charles, fils died by August 1806, in his late 30s, when his wife remarried at Baton Rouge.  His only son evidently died young, so, despite two marriages, Charles, fils's line of the family probably died with him. 

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Nine more Robichauds--two families, one of them led by a widow--reached New Orleans aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, during the second week of September 1785.  They followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche and created a new center of family settlement there.  Three more family lines came of it, on the bayou and out on the western prairies, but not all of the lines endured: 

Joseph (c1730-1780s) à ? à Étienne Robichaux

Joseph, parentage undetermined, born at either Annapolis Royal or Cobeguit in c1730, married Anne-Osite Hébert in c1754 perhaps on Île St.-Jean.  Anne-Osite gave Joseph two sons on the island:  Bénoni born in c1755; and Joseph-Landry in c1757.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Both of their sons died at sea.  The childless couple settled at St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, across the harbor from St.-Malo, where Anne-Osite gave Joseph four more children:  another Joseph-Landry born in July 1760; Jean-Baptiste in November 1763; François-Xavier in July 1768; and Anne-Marie in September 1770.  Joseph took his family to Poitou in 1773.  Anne-Osite gave him another daughter, Reine, in St.-Jean-Baptiste Parish, Châtellerault, in August 1775--seven children, five sons and two daughters, between 1755 and 1775, in greater Acadia and France.  After two and half years of effort, Joseph and his family retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes.  Wife Marie-Osite died in St.-Similien Parish, Nantes, in December 1782, age 50.  Joseph did not remarry.  He took four of his children, two sons and two daughters, to Louisiana in 1785.  Third son Joseph-Landry, the second with the name, who would have been age 25 in 1785, if he was still living, did not accompany his family to the Spanish colony.  From New Orleans, Joseph and his family followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Neither of his daughters married, nor did his older remaining son, but his younger son did. 

Fourth son Jean-Baptiste followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he was counted in a Valenzuela District census in January 1788, age 23, with younger brother François-Xavier.  Jean-Baptiste probably did not marry. 

Joseph's fifth and youngest son François-Xavier, called Xavier, followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and upper Bayou Lafourche, but he did not remain there.  He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Athanase Landry and his first wife Marie-Madeleine Hébert, at the San Gabriel church on the river in July 1790.  Marguerite was a native of San Gabriel whose parents had come to Louisiana from Maryland in 1767.  They lived at Manchac south of Baton Rouge before crossing the Atchafalaya Basin to the Attakapas District in the early 1800s.  Xavier served as a teacher at Attakapas, so he and his family probably lived in various locations in the area.  Their children, born at Manchac and Attakapas, included Bouvière at Manchac in September 1792; Joseph-St.-Cyr in January 1794; Louis in December 1795; Placide in May 1798; Marie-Carmélite, called Carmélite, in July 1800; Marie in November 1801; Balthazar at Attakapas in July 1805; and Françoise,  perhaps born posthumously, baptized probably at the Attakapas church, age unrecorded, in November 1807--eight children, five sons and three daughters, between 1792 and 1806 or 1807.  Xavier died at the home of "Guyan Landry of La Côte Gelée where he was a teacher" in August 1806.  The Attakapas priest who recorded the burial said that Xavier was age 45 when he died.  He was 38.  Daughter Marie Carmélite married into the Duplessis and Rivet families at Manchac and remained on the river.  Two of Xavier's older sons also returned to Manchac and married there, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Bouvière followed his family to the prairies, returned to the river, and married Cléonise or Clarisse, also Léonisse, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Melançon and Madeleine Landry, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in May 1820.  They remained on the river.  Their children, born there, included Jean Sibelieu in April 1821 but died the following September; Virginie Lille born in March 1823; Honorine or Onerine in December 1824; Marguerite died at age 2 months in August 1826; Émelie or Émilie born in June 1827; Madeleine in December 1828; Marie Victorine, called Victorine, in June 1830; and twins Caroline and Euphrosine in February 1832, but Euphrosine died in May and Caroline in June.  Bouvière may have remarried to Mary _____, place and date unrecorded.   They had a son named Thomas, born in a place unrecorded in the 1830s or 1840s--10 children, three sons and seven daughters, including a set of twins, by two wives, between 1821 and the 1830s and 1840s.  Bouvière died near Plaquemine, on the west bank of the river in Iberville Parish, in July 1862.  The priest who recorded the burial said that "Bovielle," as he called him, died at "age 70 years."   He was 68.  Daughters Virginie, Victorine, Émilie, and Honorine/Onerine married into the Dardenne, Turner, Caillouet, Loup, and Tuillier families, one of them, Honorine/Onerine, twice.  Only one of Bouvière's sons married. 

Third and youngest son Thomas, by second wife Mary ____, married Marie Philomène Tranquiline, called Tranquiline and Tranquilla, daughter of Philogène Dubroca and Célestine Bouler, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in February 1867.  Daughter Marie Louise was born near Baton Rouge in November 1867; ...

François-Xavier's third son Louis, also called Nicolas and C.,  followed his family to the prairies, his older brother Bouvière back to the river, and married Modeste Prosper probably at St. Gabriel in the 1820s.  Daughter Ernestine was born at nearby Manchac in November 1827.  Louis remarried to Marie Denise, daughter of Michel Lambremont and his Acadian wife Marguerite Pélagie Breaux, at the St. Gabriel church in September 1835.  He may have been the Louis dit Collins Robichaud who died near St. Gabriel in February 1850.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who gave no parents' names or mentioned a wife, said that Louis died at "age 46 years."  This Louis would have been closer to 55.  Daughter Ernestine, by his first wife, married into the Aucoin and Henry families in West Baton Rouge Parish.  One wonders if either of his wives gave him sons. 

Joseph-Gervais (1772-?) à Jean dit Cadet à Charles dit Cadet à Étienne Robichaux

Joseph-Gervais, fourth son of Pierre Robichaud by his second wife Anne Hébert, born at St.-Suliac near St.-Malo, France, in June 1772, followed his family to Poitou and Nantes and his widowed mother and siblings to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marie-Anne, called Anne, Jeanne, and Nanette, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Prejean and Marguerite Lacroix dit Durel of Ascension, at the Assumption church in January 1797.  Anne was a native of Louisiana whose parents had come to the colony from Halifax in 1765.  She and Joseph-Gervais settled on the upper Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Silésie or Selesia in September 1797; Anne-Rosalie or -Roseline in November 1798; Rose-Carmélite in January 1802; Jean-Valière or Valière-Jean in June 1803; Anne Scholastique, called Scholastique, in February 1805; Joseph Valéry in August 1807; Eugène in April 1810; François Eugène in November 1812; and Jean-Baptiste in c1814--nine children, four daughters and five sons, between 1797 and 1814.  Joseph Gervais died near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in July 1858.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph died at "age 90 years."  He was 86.  Daughters Selesia, Anne Rosaline, and Scholastique married into the Simoneaux, Arcement, and Levert families.  Four of Joseph Gervais's sons also married, but not all of the lines endured.  One of his grandsons moved to Iberville Parish in the early 1860s, and two grandsons moved to lower Bayou Teche after the War of 1861-65, but most of his descendants remained in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley. 

Oldest son Jean Valière or Valière Jean married Marie Cléonise, called Cléonise, 17-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Mire and Henriette Bernard of St. James Parish, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in July 1826.  Their children, born on the bayou, included Marie Élisa or Éliza in March 1826, several months before her parents' wedding; Zéphirin[e] Célisie in July 1828; Marie Élodie in March 1831 but died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 2 1/2) in September 1832; Marie Florestine born in January 1832; and Magloire Oskar or Oscar, called Oscar, in October 1836--five children, four daughters and a son, between 1826 and 1836.  Valière Jean died in Lafourche Interior Parish in May 1851.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial and gave no parents' names or mentioned a wife, said that Valère, as he called him, died "at age 52 yrs."  Valière was 48.  A "Petition for tutor" for younger son Oscar was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in October 1852.  Daughters Marie Élisa/Éliza, Zépherine, and Marie Florestine married into the Marie, Bernard, and Delatte families.  Valière's son also married. 

Only son Magloire Oscar, called Oscar, married Adèle, daughter of Marcellien Martinez and his Acadian wife Théotiste Adélaïde Daigre, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in November 1865.  They remained on the river.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Taddeus in September 1866; Marie Laura Nelly near Plaquemine in December 1867; Paul André in April 1869; ...  

Joseph Gervais's second son Joseph Valéry married Marguerite Céleste, called Céleste, 19-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Landry Babin and Marie Louise Landry of Assumption Parish, at the Thibodauxville church in May 1827.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary of Assumption and Lafourche Interior parishes.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Cléopha, called Cléopha, in March 1828; Dorville Théodule in October 1829; Marie Zéolide, called Zéolide, in November 1831; Léon Fresimond in February 1834; and Joseph Cyrus, called Cyrus, in May 1836--five children, four sons and a daughter, between 1828 and 1836.  Joseph Valéry may have died near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in July 1859.  The priest who recorded the burial said Joseph died at "age 56 years."  He was 52.  Daughter Zéolide married into the Fournier family.  Joseph Valéry's four sons also married, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Joseph Cléopha, called Cléopha, married Euphémie Zéolie, daughter of fellow Acadians Hippolyte Landry and Françoise Giroir, at the Paincourtville church in June 1851.  Their children, born near Paincourtville, included Marie Lodoisca in July 1852; Léonelle Livinia in September 1854; Joseph Désiré in July 1856 but, called Désiré, died at age 8 months in March 1857; and Amaline Séverine born in October 1857--four children, three daughters and a son, between 1852 and 1857.  Cléopha, called Joseph Cléophas by the recording priest, died near Paincourtville in November 1858, age 30.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Joseph Valéry's second son Dorville Théodule married Honorine, daughter of Constant Simoneaux and his Acadian wife Ovide Giroir, at the Paincourtville church in September 1851.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Agathe, called Agathe, in February 1853; Séverin Dorvillia in October 1854; Théophile Alire in June 1856; Soustane Denis in November 1857; Robert Aurelin in December 1859; Édouard Elphége in October 1861; Cordilia Eulalie Victoria in February 1864; Jean Baptiste Honoré in December 1865; Calixte Ulysse in October 1867; Léonard Albert, called Albert, in November 1869 but died the following March; ...  Daughter Agathe married into the Aucoin family by 1870.  None of Dorville's sons married by then. 

Joseph Valéry's third son Léon Fresimond married Armélise Odilia, Vilia, Willia, or Evelia, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Aucoin and Julie Levron, at the Chacahoula church, Terrebonne Parish, in May 1860.  They settled near the boundary of Terrebonne and Lafourche Interior parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie Joséphine in August 1861; Aurestile Joseph in February 1863; Elizabeth Laura in November 1864; Marie Jeanne in May 1866; Pierre Henri in November 1868; Félix Joseph in September 1870; ...

Joseph Valéry's fourth and youngest son Joseph Cyrus, called Cyrus, married Marie, another daughter of Constant Simoneaux and Ovide Giroir, at the Paincourtville church in October 1857.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Joseph Désiré in July 1856 but, called Désiré, died at age 8 months in March 1857; Alesile Arabella born in July 1858 but died in August; Evalture Scaileur, probably Schuyler, born in February 1860 but, called Evature, died at age 1 1/2 in August 1861; Marie Onoida born in March 1862; Julie Léoncia in May 1863; Léonard Jean Baptiste in October 1865; Clémence Ofelia in April 1867 but, called Ophelia, died age 2 1/2 (the recording priest said "ca. 4 years") in November 1869; Bernard Olivis born in August 1868; Cyrus Jean in November 1870; ...

Joseph Gervais's fourth son François Eugène married Marie Adeline, called Adeline, daughter of fellow Acadians Henry Landry and Marie Scholastique Bergeron, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in August 1833.  Daughter Marie Scholastique, called Scholastique, was born in Assumption Parish in October 1833 and married into the Webre family.  Did François Eugène father any sons? 

Joseph Gervais's fifth and youngest son Jean-Baptiste married Marie Marcellite, 18-year-old daughter of François Jean Bernard, a German Creole, not a fellow Acadian, and his Acadian wife Marie Clémence Roger, at the Thibodauxville church in January 1835.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Olésifor or Olésiphore Delphy, also called Onésime and Onésie, in May 1835; Marie Émilia or Émelia, also called Émée, in April 1837; Aurel, Aurele, Aurelien or Arvilien Amédéo or Amédée in February 1839; Armogène Pamela, called Pamela, in April 1841; Aurelie Marcelite in February 1843 but died at age 3 1/2 in June 1846; Léon or Léo Lubin born in January 1845; Azemire or Ozémé Adrien in March 1847; Ernest Jean Baptiste in March 1849; Émelie Céleste in April 1852 and, called "a minor," applied for "Emancipation" at the Thibodaux courthouse in October 1870, age 18; and Joseph Oleus born in May 1853 but, called Oleus, died at age 6 1/2 (the recording priest said 9) in December 1859--10 children, seven sons and three daughters, between 1835 and 1853.  Daughters Émelia and Pamela married into the Courcier and Hains families by 1870.  Four of Jean Baptiste's sons also married by then.  Two of them moved to lower Bayou Teche after the War of 1861-65, but the others remained on the Lafourche.  Not all of the lines endured.

Oldest son Olésiphore Delphy, also called Olési, Onésime, and Onésie, married Mary Élisa, called Lisa, daughter of Jackson Clory, Cory, or Glory and Élisa Cossy, at the Thibodaux church in December 1855.  Their children, born on the Lafourche and the river, included Marie Olésia in Lafourche Parish in November 1856; Marie Victoria in October 1858; Julie near Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, on the west side of the Mississippi, in September 1861; Thomas Robert near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in December 1864 but, called Thomas, died at age 5 in November 1869; Marie Élizabeth born in March 1868; ...

Jean Baptiste's second son Aurel, Aurele, Aurelien or Arvilien Amédée married Aglaé, daughter of Urbain Adam and Joséphine Juneau, at the Thibodaux church in February 1861.  Daughter Marie Aureliènne, called Aureliènne, was born probably in Lafourche Parish, posthumously, in January 1862.  Aurelien died in Lafourche Parish in November 1861, age 22.  His succession inventory, calling him Aurele, naming his wife, and listing their only child, daughter Aureliènne, was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in April 1862. 

Jean Baptiste's fourth son Léon or Léo Lubin married Léontine, daughter of Noël Delatte and his Acadian wife Clémentine Eulalie Roger, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in November 1867.  Their children, born on the lower Teche, included Joseph Adrien near New Iberia in October 1868; Nicolas Alidor near Patoutville, now Lydia, Iberia Parish, in June 1870; ...

Jean Baptiste's fifth son Azémire or Ozémé Adrien married Caroline, daughter of William Dooley and his Acadian wife Marcellite Broussard, at the Patoutville church in December 1869. ...

Jean-Pierre (c1783-1846) à Jean dit Cadet à Charles dit Cadet à Étienne Robichaux

Jean-Pierre, called Jean, sixth and youngest son of Pierre Robichaud by his second wife Anne Hébert of St.-Suliac and Poitou, was born perhaps posthumously at Nantes, France, in c1783.  In 1785, he followed his widowed mother and three older siblings, two sisters and a brother, to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche.  Jean, at age 24, married Marie Catherine, called Catherine, daughter of German Creole Joseph Malbrough and his Creole wife Angélique Courturier of St. James, at the Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, in May 1807.  They settled on the upper Lafourche before moving down bayou to Terrebonne Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie Adèle in September 1808; Carmélite in March 1810 but died at age 24 1/2 in September 1834; Jean Baptiste, called Baptiste, born in April 1812; Auguste in c1814 but died at age 21 in April 1835; Joseph Valéry born in April 1816 but died at age 18 in September 1834; Adeline born in April 1819 but, called Élisabeth, died at age 15 1/2 in September 1834; Émelisse Catharine born in October 1821 but, called Milicaire Catherine, died at age 12 1/2 in May 1834; and Estieve born in December 1826 but, called Étienne, died at age 7 1/2 in October 1834--eight children, four daughters and four sons, between 1808 and 1826.  Jean Pierre died in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1846.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial said that Jean Pierre died "at age 70 yrs."  He was 63.  Most of his children died young, some of them as teenagers.  Daughter Marie Adèle married into the Boudeloche family.  Only one of Jean's sons married, but his line was a vigorous one.  One of Jean's great-grandsons settled on the lower Teche. 

Oldest son Jean Baptiste, called Baptiste, married Marie Basilise or Adélise, daughter of Jean Charles Dupré and his Acadian wife Constance Rose Boudreaux of Terrebonne Parish, at the Thibodauxville church in August 1836.  Their children, born in Lafourche Interior and Terrebonne parishes, included Jean Louis, called Louis, in July 1837; Marie Armélise, called Armélise, in October 1838; Hylaire or Hilaire Émile in January 1840; Charles Théodule in December 1841; Amédée probably in the early 1840s; Marie Séverine in September 1843; Célina in July 1845; Joseph Anatole, called Anatole, in January 1847; Théophile in September 1848; Neuville Joseph in February 1850; Silvert Alfred Oscar in December 1851; Marie Aglaé in October 1854 but, name unrecorded, died at age 3 years, 1 month in November 1857; Maximin Aubonne born in December 1856; twins Joseph and Joséphine near Chacahoula, Terrebonne Parish, in January 1859; Constance Olivia in March 1861; ...  Daughters Marie S. and Armélise married into the Barrilleaux and Trahan families by 1870.  Three of Baptiste's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Jean Louis, called Louis, married Émelia dite Eve, daughter of fellow Acadians Florentin Bergeron and Marcelline Breaux, at the Thibodaux church in February 1866.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Charleston in January 1867; Orestile Nicles, called Wickless Auristile and Wickless T., in December 1869; ...

Second son Wickless T. married fellow Acadian Marie Bourg, a dozen years his junior, in the early 1900s.  They settled at Franklin, St. Mary Parish, on lower Bayou Teche.  Son Louis T. was born there in December 1920.  Wickless died at Franklin in November 1840, age 70, and is buried in the city cemetery there. 

In World War II, Louis T. served in the U. S. Coast Guard, stationed in the South Pacific aboard a naval suppy ship.  After his war service, he married fellow Acadian Gertrude "Gert" Trahan in c1946.  They had five children, four sons and a daughter.  Soon after his marriage, Louis attended photography school in Chattanooga, Tennessee, probably on the G.I. Bill, but he did not remain in that career.  Back in Louisiana, he attended Southwestern Louisiana Institute, later the University of Southwestern Louisiana, today's University of Louisiana at Lafayette, on the G.I. Bill in the late 1940s and earned a degree in education.  He became a middle school teacher in Jennings, Jefferson Davis Parish, in 1951.  (He taught the author in seventh grade in the early 1960s.)  Louis went on to earn a masters degree in education from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, and pursued post-graduate certification at McNeese State University in Lake Charles (the author's alma mater) in the early 1970s, while his only daughter Karin, a high school classmate of the author, matriculated there.  After teaching in the Jennings schools, mainly at Northside Elementary and Middle School, for 33 years, Louis retired in the mid-1980s.  In retirement, he pursued his interests in history and genealogy, attending several Congrés Mondial Acadien in Louisiana and Canada during the 1990s and 2000s.  He died at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Lafayette, in October 2008, age 87, and is buried in Calvary Cemetery on the northeast side of Jennings under a headstone detailing his war service.  No finer teacher has graced a classroom as our beloved "Prof" Robichaux. 

Baptiste's fourth son Amédée married Emma, daughter of François Maurice LeBoeuf and his Acadian wife Olymphe Blanchard, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in May 1870. ...

Baptiste's fifth son Joseph Anatole, called Anatole, married Mathilde, daughter of Creoles Siméon Clément and Marie Pauline Olivier, at the Houma church in April 1870. ...

Roger

Roger dit Jean Caissie, also called Caissy, Kuessy, Quessi, or Quessy, born in Ireland in c1648, came to French Acadia during the English occupation of 1654-70 probably as a soldier.  After his term of service ended, he married Marie-Françoise, daughter of Jean Poirier and Jeanne Chebrat, at Port-Royal in c1668 and took up farming.  In the late 1670s or early 1680s, Roger dit Jean and Marie-Françoise were among the early settlers at Chignecto.  They followed Marie-Françoise's brother Michel there and settled near Pointe-à-Beauséjour at Butte-à-Roger.  According to one historian of the Acadian experience, Roger may have introduced fruit trees to the Chignecto settlement.  Between 1669 and 1697, Marie-Françoise gave Roger seven children, three daughters and four sons.  Two of their daughters married into the Doucet and Deveau families.  Their sons married into the Bourgeois, Hébert, Mirande, Pellerin, and Gaudet families.  In 1755, descendants of Roger dit Jean Caissie and Marie-Françoise Poirier could be found at the family's base at Chignecto, at Minas, and on Île St.-Jean.  Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this family to the winds. 

The Acadians at Chignecto were the first to endure a disruption of their lives.  In the spring and summer of 1750, in response to the British building a fort at Beaubassin village, Canadian militia, assisted by Mi'kmaq warriors led by Abbé Jean-Louis Le Loutre, burned Acadian homesteads in the British-controlled area east of Rivière Missaguash, forcing the habitants there to move to the French-controlled area west of the river.  Caissies may have been among the refugees in the petit dérangement.  After yet another war erupted between Britain and France in 1754, Chignecto Acadians were caught in the middle of it.  When British and New-English forces attacked Fort Beauséjour in June 1755, Chignecto Acadians, perhaps including Caissies from nearby Pointe-à-Beauséjour, served in the fort as militia.  They, too, along with the French troupes de la marine, became prisoners of war when the fort surrendered on June 16.  Lieutanant-Governor Charles Lawrence was so incensed to find so-called French Neutrals fighting with French regulars at Beauséjour he ordered his officers to deport the Chignecto Acadians to the southernmost seaboard colonies.  Caissies were among the Acadians the British shipped to South Carolina aboard the transport Edward Cornwallis, which reached Charles Town in mid-November.  A Cassie wife and her family sailed aboard the transport Endeavor, which arrived in Charles Town harbor at the same time.  In August 1756, colonial officials dispatched 30 Acadians from Charles Town to Prince Frederick Winyaw, a rural Anglican parish farther up the coast at present-day Plantersville, South Carolina.  Among the party was at least one Caissie.  Meanwhile, a Chignecto Caissie and his family ended up in Pennsylvania.  Not all of the Caissies sent to the southern colonies remained there until the end of the war.  In the spring of 1756, the governors of Georgia and South Carolina allowed the Acadians in their colonies who were not under arrest to return to their homeland as best they could.  Following the example of merchant Jacques Vigneau dit Maurice of Baie-Verte, 200 of the exiles purchased or built small vessels and headed up the coast.  In late August, after weeks of effort, 78 exiles from South Carolina, led by Michel Bourgeois, came ashore on Long Island, New York, and were detained by colonial officials.  On a list of "names of the heads of the French Neutral families, number of their Children returned from Georgia and distributed through the counties of Westchester and Orange," dated 26 August 1756, can be found two Caissie families who colonial officials had sent to those counties.  Most of the Caissies at Chignecto, however, escaped the British roundup there that summer and fall and found refuge at Shediac and Miramichi on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore and later at the French stronghold of Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  Others moved on to Canada.  Madeleine Gaudet, widow of a Chignecto Caissie, died at Québec in November 1757, victim, perhaps, of the smallpox epidemic that killed hundreds of Acadian exiles in the area from the summer of 1757 to the spring of 1758. 

From Minas, the British sent a Cassie wife and her Mangeant family to Maryland.  In the late 1750s, they were among the "French Neutrals' assisted by the influential Carroll family, including a future signer of the Declaration of Independence. 

The Caissies on Île-St. Jean, living in territory controlled by France, escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia during the fall of 1755.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived.  After the fall of the French fortress of Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats swooped down on Île St.-Jean, rounded up most of the habitants there, and deported them to France.  Some members of the family crossed Mer Rouge and escaped to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, but others fell into British hands.  The crossing to St.-Malo destroyed entire families, including Cassies, but many of them made it to the Breton port.  A younger Caissie widower and his 2-year-old son, along with an older, widowed sister, landed at Cherbourg in Normandy.  The widower and his son soon joined their kinsmen at St.-Malo.  His widowed sister remained at Cherbourg and remarried there.  Meanwhile, island Caissies did their best to make a life for themselves in the suburbs and villages of the St.-Malo area, including the suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer; nearby Paramé; and St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, across the harbor from St.-Servan. 

In April 1764, a Caissie and her family, along with a sister and her husband, left France aboard Le Fort for the new French colony of Guiane on the northeast coast of South America, with tragic result.  One of the sisters was pregnant when the family left France.  A daughter was baptized at age 6 weeks "by a midwife ... because of necessity" aboard Le Fort in September 1764.  One of the sister's husbands was an early casualty of the venture; he died at Sinnamary in the Cayenne district in February 1765, in his early 40s.  His widow remarried again--her third marriage--at St.-Sauveur, Cayenne, in July 1765.  She died there in August 1768, in her early 50s.  Meanwhile, her younger sister also died in the colony, at St.-Joseph, Sinnamary, in August 1765, age 45. 

No Caissie family still in France went to Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany in November 1765, nor to the interior of Poitou in 1773.  Nearly all of them remained in the St.-Malo suburbs.  When in the early 1780s the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, none of the Caissies still in the mother country agreed to take it.  A Caissie wife, perhaps now a widow, from Cherbourg died at Chantenay near Nantes on the lower Loire in January 1787, age 71, a year and a half after the Seven Ships left France for Spanish Louisiana.  In c1790, a young Caissie and his family left France for the British-controlled fishery at Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs.  In 1793, French Revolutionary officials counted a number of Caissies, called Quessy, "in the area around St.-Malo," most of them siblings of the Caissie who had gone to Gaspésie.  One, a first cousin, was the middle-aged son of the young Caissie widower who had landed at Cherbourg 35 years earlier. 

In North America, conditions got only worse for the Acadians who had escaped the British in the late 1750s and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  After the fall of Québec in September 1759, the British prepared to attack the remaining French strongholds in New France, one of which was Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, now a major Acadian refuge.  In late June 1760, a British naval force from Louisbourg attacked Restigouche, destroyed the French flotilla there, but failed to subdue the French garrison.  The following October, after the fall of Montréal, another British naval force, this one from Québec, returned to Restigouche to accept the garrison's, and the Acadians', surrender.  On 24 October 1760, on the eve of formal surrender, French officers counted 1,003 Acadians still at Restigouche, but no Caissies appeared on the list.  However, Jean-Baptiste Perial and his family of seven do appear on it.  Perial's wife, Rosalie Comeau, was the second wife and widow of Michel Caissie dit Roger le jeune, a grandson of Roger; her son Joseph Caissie, who would have been age 15, probably was included in the family.  Sometime in the early 1760s, these and other members of the family still in the area either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces and held in prison compounds in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  In August 1763, nine members of the family appeared on a repatriation list at Fort Cumberland, formerly French Fort Beauséjour, a stone's throw from their old homesteads at Chignecto.  The compiler of the list called the family Quessy. 

At war's end, Acadians being held in the seaboard colonies, like their kinsmen in Nova Scotia, theoretically, were free to go, but not until British officials discerned their intentions.  Even then, colonial authorities discouraged repatriation.  In June 1763 in Pennsylvania a Caissie family, called Quisse, appeared on a French repatriation list there.  In July 1763, in Maryland, an elderly Caissie widow and her family appeared on a repatriation list at Annapolis.  In South Carolina that August, a Caissie wife, called a Quessy, and her family appeared on a repatriation list there.  In the early 1760s, at least one Caissie from a seaboard colony chose to follow dozens of her fellow Acadians to French St.-Domingue.  She died at Port-au-Prince in May 1764, age 40.  Most of the Caissies in the seaboard colonies, however, chose to resettle in Canada, where some of their kinsmen had gone as early as 1756.  Though now also a British possession, the far-northern province was populated largely by fellow French Catholics, many of them Acadian exiles.  So, in a colony nearly as old as Acadia, descendants of Roger Caissie began the slow, inexorable process of becoming Canadiennes.  Especially after 1766, Caissies could be found at Québec City and at Batiscan and Champlain on the upper St. Lawrence.  They were especially numerous at Bastiscan.  They also could be found at Bonaventure, Carleton, Miguasha, Newport, and Paspébiac in Gaspésie; and at Baie-de-Vins, Cocagne, Grande-Digue, and Richibouctou in present-day southeastern New Brunswick.  Typical of most, if not all, Acadian families, these Acadiennes of Canada, who called themselves Caissie, lost touch with their Cadien cousins hundreds of miles away, who called themselves Roger, and, until the Acadian reunions of the twentieth century, may even have forgotten the others existed.

Acadians being held in Nova Scotia a war's end faced a hard dilemma.  The Treaty of Paris of the February 1763 stipulated in its Article IV that persons dispersed by the war had 18 months to return to their respective territories.  However, British authorities refused to allow any of the Acadian prisoners in the region to return to their former lands as proprietors.  If Acadians chose to remain in, or return to, Nova Scotia, they could live only in small family groups in previously unsettled areas or work for low wages on former Acadian lands now owned by New-English "planters."  If they stayed, they must also take the hated oath of allegiance to the new British king, George III, without reservation.  They would also have to take the oath if they joined their cousins in Canada.  After all they had suffered on the question of the oath, few self-respecting Acadians would consent to take it if it could be avoided.  Some Nova Scotia exiles chose to go to Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  Others considered going to French St.-Domingue, where Acadian exiles in the British colonies, including a Caissie, were going, or to the Illinois country, the west bank of which still belonged to France, or to French Louisiana, which, thanks to British control of Canada, was the only route possible to the Illinois country for Acadian exiles.  Whatever their choice, many refused to remain under British rule.  So they gathered up their money and their few possessions and prepared to leave their homeland.  Of the 600 exiles who left Halifax in late 1764 bound for Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, at least four of them were Cassie dit Rogers.

The Acadians in Maryland endured life among Englishmen who, despite their colony's Catholic roots, did not care much for the French "papists" thrust upon them.  When word reached the Acadians there that the Spanish would welcome them to Louisiana, most of the exiles prepared to charter ships that would take them to New Orleans.  The Caissie widow and her children were not among them.  They chose, instead, to remain in the Chesapeake colony, where, in the late 1750s, when husband François Mangeant was still alive, they had been assisted by the influential Carroll family.  The widow's Mangeant son was counted by federal census takers at Baltimore in 1790 and 1800--one of the remarkable number of Acadians still residing in the state of Maryland.

Roger dit Jean Caissie of Ireland settled early in French Acadia, and some of his descendants were among the earliest Acadians to find refuge in Louisiana.  Calling themselves Caissie dit Roger, three, perhaps four, of the Irishman's descendants came to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, in 1765.  In the spring of that year, a Caissie dit Roger wife and her Bergeron family followed the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche, but the death of her husband and two of her children in a mysterious epidemic that autumn sent her fleeing with other Teche valley Acadians back to Cabahannocer on the river.  This ended the family's presence on the western prairies, at least during the colonial period.  Meanwhile, two of the Irishman's great-grandsons settled at Cabahannocer, but none of their descendants remained on the river.  During the late colonial period, two Caissies joined the Acadian exodus from the river to Bayou Lafourche, where they used their ancestor's dit, Roger, not Caissie or its many iterations, as their surname.  Here, along the bayou, they created a center of family settlement that stretched all the way down to the Terrebonne country.  Some of them settled near Pierre Part north of Lake Verret and at Canal, now Napoleonville, in Assumption Parish.  Meanwhile, by 1850, a Roger from Bayou Lafourche moved to the Breaux Bridge area of upper Bayou Teche, re-establishing the families presence west of the Atchafalaya Basin.  After the War of 1861-65, several of his cousins settled down bayou near New Iberia. 

Church records reveal that non-Acadian Rogers lived in colonial Louisiana as early as the 1720s, decades before their Acadian namesakes arrived.  Most of them lived at New Orleans, and one of them, a native of Paris, was the colony's "magazine-intendant."  During the late colonial period, Louis Roger dit Brisbois of Canada lived at Manchac on the river below Baton Rouge, remarried to an Acadian, and then moved to the western prairies, which the Acadian Rogers had abandoned in the 1760s.  One of Louis's sons also married an Acadian and created a small family line at Carencro at the northern edge of the Attakapas District.  Meanwhile, Anglo-American Rogerss, sometimes called Roger in church and civil records, settled along the river and on the western prairies, but few married Acadians. ...

A dozen or so Rogers, most of them Acadians, served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65.  Several of them, including an Acadian, served as officers. ...

In French Acadia, British Nova Scotia, and during and after exile, the family's name also was spelled Caisse, Caissey, Caissy, Casey, Kessy, Kuessy, Kuessey, Quaisy, Quaissy, Quiaiscy.  The few family members who came to Louisiana preferred as their surname the family's dit, and the name Caissie and its variants disappeared from Louisiana records by the 1770s.  In Louisiana, the Acadian family's name also is spelled Rocher, Rogée, Rogere, Rogeres, Rogerre, Rogers, Rogert, Roget, Rogues, Rojer.  In Canada, the many descendants of Roger the Irishman favor the surname Caissie or Caissy.  In France, they favor Quessy.37

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All of the Caissie dit Rogers who came to Louisiana--three, perhaps four, of them, including a wife, her unmarried half-brother, and their bachelor first cousin--arrived from Halifax via Cap-Français in 1765.  Catherine Caissie dit Roger, her Bergeron husband, and their six children arrived in February with the Broussards and followed them to lower Bayou Teche that spring, with tragic result.  After losing her husband and two of her children, including a newborn, to an epidemic, she retreated with her remaining children to Cabahannocer, where her brother and cousin had settled after reaching New Orleans later in the year.  All of the Acadian Rogers of South Louisiana are descended from the two cousins: 

Joseph (c1745-1818) à Pierre à Roger Caissie dit Roger

Joseph, only son of Michel dit Roger le jeune and his second wife Rosalie Comeau, born at Chignecto in c1745, followed his widowed mother to Île St.-Jean, where she remarried to a French corporal.  In August 1752, a French official counted the corporal, Jean-Baptiste Perial, who had been stationed on the island for three years, Rosalie, Joseph, and a 15-year-old Caissie orphan at Port-La-Joye, the island's headquarters near the south shore.  The family either left the island soon after the counting or escaped the British roundup there in late 1758, crossed Mer Rouge, and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  By 1760, they had made their way to the French stronghold at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  A British naval force from Louisbourg attacked Restigouche in the summer of 1760, and another British naval force, this one from Québec, returned to accept the post's surrender in October.  Jean-Baptiste Perial and his family of seven, Joseph Caissie, now age 15, probably among them, were included in the count of the 1,003 Acadians still at Restigouche in late October.  The British sent them and hundreds of other exiles to a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  In 1764-65, still a bachelor and now age 20, Joseph followed other Nova Scotia exiles from Halifax via Cap-Français to New Orleans and settled with them at Cabahannocer.  His mother, stepfather, and most of the rest of the family evidently remained in greater Acadia.  In April 1766, a Spanish official counted Joseph with his widowed half-sister Catherine, who had come to the colony with the Broussards the year before, along with Catherine's four Bergeron children and a Landry, on the right, or west, bank of the river at Cabahannocer.  Joseph was still a bachelor in September 1769, when the Spanish counted him still on the west bank there.  In c1770, his early or mid-20s, he married fellow Acadian Anastasie Dugas, widow of Amable Robichaux, at the St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer or nearby Ascension church.  Their children, born on the river, included Marie-Anastasie baptized at the Cabahannocer church, age unrecorded, in January 1771; Joseph, fils born in the early 1770s; Georges or Grégoire in May 1774 but died at age 18 months in July 1775; François born in February 1776; and Rosalie in September or November 1777--five children, two daughters and three sons, between 1771 and 1777.   In 1779, during the American Revolution, Joseph, now in his early 30s and calling himself a Roger, served as a fusileer in Verret's Company of the Acadian Coast militia, which fought against the British at Fort Bute and Baton Rouge in the late summer and fall of that year--perhaps his second go at the redcoats in 19 years.  In the late 1780s or early 1790s, he and his family joined the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche.  A succession inventory for Joseph Roger was filed at the Interior Parish courthouse in August 1811.  Joseph's successions were filed at the Lafourche Interior courthouse at Thibodauxville in June and July 1818.  The June 1818 succession said Joseph was "about 80 yrs.old."  He would have been in his early 70s that year.  He freed a slave named Pierre, age 70, in one of his successions.  Daughters Marie and Rosalie married into the Gaudet and Forgeron families.  Two of Joseph's sons also married on the Lafourche.  A grandson re-established the Acadian Rogers' presence on the western prairies.  None of Joseph's descendants called themselves Caissie, their family's original surname.  

Oldest son Joseph, fils married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Babin and Marie Landry, at the St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer church in October 1796.  They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Marie-Josèphe in June 1798; Joseph III in December 1799; Louis in October 1801; Henriette in September 1803; François le jeune in c1804; Augustin or Auguste in October 1805; Jean Baptiste in September 1807; and Euphrosine dite Froisine in September 1809--eight children, three daughters and five sons, between 1798 and 1809.  Joseph, fils's succession inventory, naming his wife, was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse, Lafourche Interior Parish, in May 1820.  He would have been in his late 40s that year.  Daughters Marie Josèphe, Henriette, and Euphrosine dite Froisine married into the Ledet, Labie, and Bourg families.  Three of Joseph, fils's sons also married.  A younger one settled in Assumption Parish.  The others remained in Lafourche Interior.  Not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Joseph III, in April 1821, at age 21, was named by officials in Lafourche Interior Parish as "curator" for his 18-year-old younger brother François.  Joseph III, at age 19, married Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Alexis Haché and Anne Dantin, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in May 1819.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Mélanie Mélasie, called Mélasie, in April 1820; Esther Euphrosine in April 1822; and Joseph Clairville in August 1824 but, called Joseph Clergy, died at age 1 1/2 in April 1826--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1820 and 1824.  Daughter Mélasie married into Bourgeois and Crawford families.  Except perhaps for its blood, this line of the family did not endure. 

Joseph, fils's third son François le jeune, in April 1821, when he was at age 17 or 18, was granted a "curator," his older brother Joseph III, by officials in Lafourche Interior Parish.  François, at age 18, married Marie Claire, called Claire, daughter of Pierre Menou and his Acadian wife Marie Rose Lejeune, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in April 1822.  They lived near the boundary between Terrebonne and Lafourche Interior parishes.  Their children, born there, included François Bertrand in November 1823; and Onésime Alein or Alain in November 1825.  François died in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1827.  The Thibodauxville priest who recorded the burial said that François was age 21 when he died.  He was closer to 24.  Neither of his sons married by 1870, if they married at all.

Joseph, fils's fourth Augustin or Auguste, when he was age 14, may have been the Auguste Roger who authorities in Lafourche Interior Parish assigned a "tutor," Simon LeBlanc, in March 1820.  Auguste, at age 18, married Modeste, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Gautreaux and Madeleine Gautreaux, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in May 1824.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Ascension and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Charles Victor, called Victor, in April 1825; Marie Victorine in 1827 and baptized at the Donaldsonville church, age 6 months, in January 1828; Joseph le jeune born in July 1830 but died at age 6 1/2 (the recording priest said 8) in May 1837; and Marie Irma, called Irma, born in January 1833.  Auguste, at age 30, remarried to Marie Eméranthe, called Eméranthe and Caroline, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Bourg and Clarisse Daigle, at the Plattenville church in March 1836.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Zulmé, called Zulmé, perhaps also called Marie Zélina/Zélima, in July 1837; and Joseph Augustin, called Augustin, in March 1839--six children, three sons and three daughters, by two wives, between 1825 and 1839.  Auguste died in Assumption Parish in September 1839, a month shy of age 34.  Daughters Irma and Marie Zélina, by both wives, married into the Thiac, Blanchard, and Trahan families by 1870.  Auguste's remaining sons also married by then.

Oldest son Victor, by first wife Modeste Gautreaux, married fellow Acadian Judith Bourg, place and date unrecorded.  They settled near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, by the mid-1840s and then near Pierre Part north of Lake Verret.  Their children, born in Assumption Parish, included Marie Rosina, called Rosina, in January 1845; Marie Velita or Valeda, called Valeda, in November 1847; Marie Célestine in June 1849; Hélène Cristine Glorvina in August 1852; Marie Ema in July 1858; Joseph Alcé near Pierre Part in July 1862; ...  Daughters Rosina and Valeda married into the Vanne and Gautreaux families by 1870.  Victor's son did not marry by then. 

Auguste's third and youngest son Augustin, by second wife Caroline Bourg, married Joséphine, daughter of Auguste Maitrejean and Celina Leonard, at the Pierre Part church, Assumption Parish, in January 1861.  Their children, born near Pierre Part and on the lower Teche, included Auguste Dosilva in November 1861; Marie Hélène in December 1863; Marie Célicia near New Iberia in February 1868; Marie Olivia near Pierre Part in September 1870; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Augustin served in Company D of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafourche Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  Augustin survived the war, returned to his family, and moved his family to the New Iberia area on lower Bayou Teche.  He was buried in St. John's Catholic Cemetery, Jeanerette, on the Teche below New Iberia. 

Joseph, père's third and youngest son François married Adélaïde-Marguerite, called Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul LeBlanc and Anne Boudreaux, at the Assumption church in January 1802.  Marguerite, a native of Chantenay near Nantes, France, had come to Louisiana from France in 1785 with her family.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included François, fils in June 1804; Hippolyte in c1805; Louis Leseine, Olésime, or Onésime, called Onésime, in June 1806; Marguerite in April 1808; another François, fils in March 1810; Joseph Zénon, called Zénon, in the 1810s; Séraphine in c1815; Benjamin Séraphin, called Séraphin, in April 1817; Céleste in May 1819; and Élisabeth in February 1824--10 children, six sons and four daughters, between 1804 and 1824.  François died in Lafourche Interior Parish in September 1829.  The Thibodauxville priest who recorded the burial said that François was age 50 when he died.  He was 53.  Daughters Marguerite, Séraphine, and Céleste married into the Breaux, Larose, and Falgout families by 1870.  Five of François's sons also married by then.  One of them moved to upper Bayou Teche in the late 1840s, but the others remained on Bayou Lafourche. 

Second son Hippolyte married Marie Geneviève, called Geneviève, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Forest and his second wife Marie Madeleine Breaux, at the Thibodauxville church in September 1827.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Pierre Valet in August 1828; Marie Adeline, called Adeline, in September 1830; twins Marie Pauline and Paul in May 1831, but Paul died a month later; Juliènne born in February 1833; Joseph Hippolyte in August 1835; Pierre Joseph, perhaps called Joseph, in March 1836; Augustin in August 1838; François Adélard in June 1840; Adèlle in January 1842; and Amédée David in March 1844--11 children, seven sons and four daughters, between 1828 and 1844.  Daughters Marie Pauline and Adeline married into the Weber and Part families by 1870.  Only one of Hippolyte's many sons married by then, after his war service. 

During the war, third son Joseph may have served in Company D of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafourche Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  Joseph, at age 34, married Alice, daughter of fellow Acadians Léon Arceneaux and Azélie Dubois, at the Lockport church, Lafourche Parish, in April 1870. ...

François, père's third son Louis Leseine, Olésime, or Onésime, called Onésime, married Marie Phelonise, Catherine, or Josèphe, 22-year-old daughter of Joseph Larose and Marie Louise Denys of St. James Parish, at the Thibodauxville church in April 1834.  Their children, born on the lower Lafourche, included Louis Olésime or Onésime, fils in April 1835; Joseph Amédé or Amédée in November 1836; Marie Mathilde in c1837 but died at age 4 in July 1841; Charles born in October 1842; Pierre in June 1845; and François Olézime in October 1846--six children, five sons and a daughter, between 1835 and 1846.  Four of Onésime's sons married by 1870. 

Oldest son Louis Onésime, fils married Félicité, daughter of Jean Baptiste Jeandron and Hélène Picou, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in March 1858.  Their son Louis, fils was born near Lockport in December 1861; ...  

Louis Onésime, père's third son Charles married Theresa, daughter of fellow Acadians Léon Arceneaux and Azélie Dubois, at the Lockport church in April 1866.  Their son Charles Joseph was born near Lockport in October 1866; ...

Louis Onésime, père's fourth son Pierre married Virginie, daughter of Étienne Bossuet and his Acadian wife Adèle Doucet, at the Lockport church in October 1869. ...

Louis Onésime, père's fifth and youngest son François Olézime married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Eugène Bourgeois and his Creole wife Angélique Barrios, at the Lockport church in June 1865.  Their children, born on the lower Lafourche, included Louis Albert near Lockport in April 1866; Philomène Clotilde in April 1868; Romain Clebert in April 1870; ...

François, père's fourth son François, fils, the second with the name, married Mélanie, daughter of perhaps fellow Acadian Anselme Thibodeaux, probably in Lafourche Interior Parish in the early 1840s.  They moved to Breaux Bridge on upper Bayou Teche by 1850, re-establishing the Acadian Roger presence west of the Atchafalaya Basin.  Their children, born on the Lafourche and the Teche, included Louis Marcellus in Lafourche Interior Parish in May 1843; Émile in November 1845; Marie Edmonis or Edmonia, called Edmonia, near Breaux Bridge in November 1850; and Georges in St. Martin Parish in May 1856--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1843 and 1856.  François died by October 1867, when he was listed as deceased in his daughter's marriage record at Abbeville, Vermilion Parish.  He would have been in his 50s.  Daughter Edmonia married a Thibodeaux cousin at Abbeville.  Only one of François, fils's sons seems to have married. 

During the war, oldest son Louis Marcellus served in Company D of the Orleans Guard Battalion Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Martin Parish, which fought at Shiloh, Tennessee in April 1862.  In May, after the Orleans Guard Battalion was disbanded, he transferred to Company A of the 30th Regiment/Battalion Louisiana Infantry, which fought in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee for the rest of the war.  He was promoted to corporal, was captured with his unit at Port Hudson, Louisiana, in July 1863, paroled, and rejoined his company.  He fought in its many battles and campaigns until he was wounded at Spanish Fort, Alabama, in early April 1865.  When the war ended, he was recuperating from his wound in the Confederate hospital at Lauderdale, Mississippi.  After the Federals paroled him at Meridian, Mississippi, in May 1865, he returned home and worked in the mercantile trade at Arnaudville, Breaux Bridge, and Abbeville.  He moved to St. Landry Parish in 1875 and engaged in the mercantile business with younger brother Émile.  Louis, at age 42, married Miss D. S. Hinckley in St. Landry Parish in July 1885.  He died in 1903, age 60, and was buried at St. Peter Catholic Cemetery, Carencro, in Lafayette Parish.  Did he father any children? 

François, fils's second son Émile engaged in the mercantile business with older brother Louis Marcellus after the War of 1861-65.  Did he marry and have children? 

François, père's fifth son Joseph Zénon, called Zénon, married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Nicolas Arceneaux and Carmélite Breaux of St. James Parish, at the Thibodauxville church in June 1835.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joseph Léon, called Léon, in April 1836; Joachim probably in the late 1830s; Richard died five days after his birth in April 1850; Louis Félix born near Lockport in May 1856; Silvestre near Labadieville, Assumption Parish, in January 1868; ...  Two of Zénon's sons married by 1870. 

Oldest son Léon married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Bourgeois and Marie Osite Babin, at the Raceland church, Lafourche Parish, in February 1855.  They settled on the lower Lafourche near the boundary between Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Damas near Lockport in December 1855; Césaire in August 1857; Marie Thérèse in March 1860; Joseph Adam in Terrebonne Parish in October 1861; Étienne Magloire in October 1864; Marie Rosalie died at age 7 weeks in September 1867; ...  None of Léon's children married by 1870. 

Zénon's second son Joachim married Eulalie Rosalie, called Rosalie, daughter of Pierre Elie, Helie, or Lee and Rosalie Albarado, at the Raceland church in May 1857.  They also settled near the boundary between Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marcel Désiré in Terrebonne Parish in November 1859; Marie Augustine in April 1862; Louis Vileor in May 1864; Rosalie Catherine near Lockport in November 1866; Eve Julia in Terrebonne Parish in January 1870; ...  They were living near Lockport a few years later. 

François, père's sixth and youngest son Benjamin Séraphin, called Séraphin, married Elvine, 15-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Guidry and Marguerite Comeaux of St. James Parish, at the Thibodauxville church in August 1837.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Benjamin Élix or Félix in July 1838; and François le jeune in April 1840.  One of Séraphin's sons married by 1870.

Second son François le jeune married Aglonie or Aglaé, daughter of Florentin Moutardier and Florence Dupré of Terrebonne Parish, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in April 1864.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Marie Agléa in December 1865; Marguerite Éliza in December 1867; ...

Jean (c1755-c1807) à Pierre à Roger Caissie dit Roger

Jean, younger son of Alexis Caissie dit Roger and his second wife Marie-Josèphe LeBlanc, born probably at Chignecto in c1755, was taken by his family into exile on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Sometime in the late 1750s or early 1760s, they either surrrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Still a child and likely an orphan, Jean followed other Nova Scotia exiles from Halifax to New Orleans via Cap-Français and settled with them at Cabahannocer.  One wonders if he accompanied his older first cousin, Joseph Caissie dit Roger, who was still a bachelor, to Louisiana.  In January 1777, a Spanish official counted Jean, age 22, on the left, or east, bank of the river at Cabahannocer with the family of Pierre Breaux.  Jean, at age 25, married Rosalie, 24-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Richard and Marie-Anne Cormier, at the St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer church in November 1780.  Rosalie had come to the colony in February 1764 with her family--among the first of the Acadian exiles to settle in Louisiana.  Their daughter Rosalie was born soon after her parent's marriage, but her mother may have died from the rigors of childbirth.  Jean evidently was the Jean Roger who married--in this case, remarried to--Victoire, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Préjean and Marguerite Durel, at the Cabahannocer church in the early 1780s.  By the mid- or late 1790s, they had joined the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche.  By the early antebellum period, they had moved farther down bayou into what became Lafourche Interior Parish.  Their children, born on the river and the bayou, included Marie-Céleste, baptized at the Cabahannocer church, age unrecorded, in December 1782; Jean-Baptiste born in c1786; Augustin or Auguste in January 1789; Céleste in March 1791; Marie-Clémence, called Clémence, in May 1795; and Maximilien, also called Alexis, at Assumption on the upper Lafourche in October 1797--seven children, four daughters and three sons, by two wives, between 1780 and 1797.  A succession for Jean Baptiste Roger, married to Victoire Prejean, was filed at what would become the Houma courthouse, Terrebonne Parish, in September 1807, and a succession inventory for Jean Roger, married to Victoire Prejean, was filed at what would become the Thibodauxville courthouse, Lafourche Interior Parish, in November, when this Jean would have been in his early 50s.  Widow Victoire did not remarry and died in Lafourche Interior Parish in June 1847, in her late 80s (the family told the recording priest that she was 101!).  A petition for succession inventory in her name, listing her husband and her children and a grandchild--Céleste and her husband; Clémence and her husband; Alexis; Hermogène (grandson); Jean Baptiste (deceased); and Auguste, Sr.--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse four days after her death.  Jean's daughters Rosalie, Céleste, and Clémence, by both wives, married into the Boudreaux, Adam, and Bernard families.  His three sons also married on the upper Lafourche, but not all of the lines endured.  Like those of his first cousin Joseph, Jean's descendants called themselves Roger, not Caissie. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, by second wife Victoire Préjean, married Marie Émilie, called Émilie, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Boudreaux and Marguerite Thibodeaux, at the Assumption church in May 1805.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Jean Célestin in October 1806; Marie Victoire in July 1808; Marie Ulise in February 1811; Hermogène in August 1818; Marie Marcellite in March 1820 but died at age 4 1/2 in December 1824; Jean Baptiste, fils born in January 1822; Pauline Clémentine Mélanie in December 1823; Armantine Eulalie in the 1820s; and Azéline in October 1826--nine children, three sons and six daughters, between 1806 and 1826.  Jean Baptiste, père died in Lafourche Interior Parish in June 1833, age 47.  Daughters Armantine Eulalie and Azéline married into the Delatte and Bernard families.  Two of Jean Baptiste's sons also married, but not all of the lines endured.  Both of them moved from the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley to lower Bayou Teche after the War of 1861-65. 

Second son Hermogène, at age 22, married Pauline Adèle, 13-year-old daughter of Maximilien Adam and his Acadian wife Marguerite Madeleine Constance Bourg, at the Thibodaux church in February 1841.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Émelie Léontine in March 1843 but, called Émée Léontine, died at age 5 1/2 in July 1849; Olympe Letitia or Lutetia, called Lutetia, born in September 1845; and Marie Emea, called Émée, in January 1848.  Hermogène remarried to Marie Élisa or Lisa Martin, perhaps a fellow Acadian, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in July 1856.  Their children, born in Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes and on the lower Teche, included Joséphine in Lafourche Parish in June 1857; Marie Elda in April 1860; Georgina in November 1862; Ulysse Auguste in Terrebonne Parish in January 1865 but died five months later; Eve Philomène born in November 1866; Ophelia Félicia near Lydia, Iberia Parish, in October 1869; ...  Daughters Lutetia and Émée, by his first wife, married into the Hank or Hawk and Boudreaux families, so the blood of the family line may have endured. 

Jean-Baptiste's third and youngest son Jean Baptiste, fils married cousin Marie Eulalie, called Eulalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Bourg and Rosalie Adélaïde Boudreaux, at the Thibodaux church in February 1846.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Cletus Jean Baptiste in December 1846; and Joseph Xavier in 1849 but died at age 9 months in February 1850.  Less than nine months after wife Eulalie's death, Jean Baptiste, fils remarried to cousin Azéma dite Zéma, Bourg, Eulalie's younger sister, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1851, and sanctified the marriage at the Thibodaux church in May 1853.  They also moved to lower Bayou Teche after the War of 1861-65.  Their children, born on the Lafourche and the lower Teche, included a child, name unrecorded, died in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1851, age 2 months; Théophile Adam born in February 1853; Sostane, probably Sosthène, Alfred in November 1854; Xavier Joseph in December 1856; Félicien Adrien in December 1858; Émile in September 1860; Joseph Venton in September 1862; Eveline in April 1864; Olivia Léontia in Lafourche Parish in October 1866 but, called Laurentia, died near New Iberia, age 1, in August 1867; Norbert born near Lydia, Iberia Parish, in January 1869; ...  One of Jean Baptiste, fils's sons married by 1870 and remained on the Lafourche.

Oldest son Cletus, by first wife Eulalie Bourg, married cousin Floriska, daughter of Célestin Adam and Adèle Delatte, at the Thibodaux church in January 1867.  Their children, born in Lafourche Parish, included Robert Hector in February 1869; Marie Eulalie in January 1870; ... 

Jean's second son Augustin or Auguste, by second wife Victoire Préjean, married Marie Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Ignace Hébert and Anne Dugas, at Marie's home in Ascension Parish in October 1808; the marriage also was recorded in Interior, later Lafourche Interior, Parish.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Jean Valéry, also called Auguste Valéry and Valéry, in September 1809; Marie Marcelle or Marcellite in February 1812; Adeline in c1813; and Auguste Evariste in May 1815.  Wife Marie's succession, probably post-mortem, naming her husband and listing her children and their ages--Adeline, age 2; Auguste Valéry, age 6; Auguste Varice, age 2 months; and Marcellite, age 4--was filed at the Lafourche Interior Parish courthouse in June 1815.  Auguste remarried to Théotiste, daughter of Mathurin Daunis and his Acadian wife Anne Bourg of Lafourche, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in August 1817.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Éloi Victor in June 1817, two months before his parents' church wedding, but died at age 11 in December 1828; and Fulgence Trasimond, called Trasimond, born in December 1819--six children, four sons and two daughters, by two wives, between 1809 and 1819.  Auguste died in Lafourche Interior Parish in April 1835.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial said that Auguste was age 48 when he died.  He was 46.  Daughter Marie Marcellite, from his first wife, married into the Exnicios and Portier families.  Auguste's remaining sons also married. 

Oldest son Jean or Auguste Valéry, called Valéry, from first wife Marie Françoise Bourg, married Marie Celamire or Célanie, 18-year-old daughter of Jean Webre and Dorothée Delatte of St. John the Baptist Parish, at the Thibodauxville church in January 1837.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Jean Hernes or Ernest, called Ernest, in November 1837; Ernestine in the late 1830s or early 1840s; Adrien in the late 1830s or early 1840s; and Jean Baptiste in February 1842--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1837 and 1842.  Valéry died in Lafourche Interior Parish in May or June 1842, age 32.  His succession inventory, naming his wife and listing some of their children--John Ernest, Ernestine, and "1 infant not named" [perhaps Jean Baptiste]--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in June 1842.  His probate sale was held in Terrebonne Parish in October 1845.  Daughter Ernestine married into the Breaux family by 1870.  Two of Valéry's sons also married by then, one before his war service, the other after.

Oldest son Ernest married Ezilda Marie, daughter of Leufroy Trosclair and Euphrosine Haydel, at the Thibodaux church in January 1859.  They settled on the upper bayou near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Ernest, fils in October 1860; Marie Célanise in September 1862; Thomas Henri in September 1864; Léopold Édouard Caliste in October 1867; Louise in December 1870; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Ernest served as an officer in Company H of the 30th Regiment/Battalion Louisiana Infantry, called the Richard Musketeers, raised in Lafourche Parish.  The company fought in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee.  Ernest enlisted in March 1862 and was elected first lieutenant the following month, but his service with the unit was short-lived.  He resigned his commission in August and went home sick.  He did not return to his company.  As the birth dates of his younger children reveal, Ernest survived his illness as well as the war and returned to his family. 

During the war, Valéry's second Adrien served in Company E of the 4th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafourche Parish, which fought in Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Georgia.  Adrien enlisted in May 1861 and remained with his unit until he was sent on detached service to Port Hudson, Louisiana, from late 1862 to the fall of 1863.  He was captured with his unit at Port Hudson in July 1863, paroled, and exchanged, but he did not return to his regiment.  Confederate authorities reported him absent without leave from May 1864 to early 1865 and declared him a deserter in April 1865.  The Federals paroled him at New Iberia in June 1865.  He married Octavie, daughter of fellow Acadians Marcellin Breaux and Azélie Dugas, at the Thibodaux church in May 1869.  Their son Ernest Colden was born in Lafourche Parish in February 1870; ...

Auguste's second son Auguste Evariste, by first wife Marie Françoise Bourg, married, at age 23, Marie Doralise, called Doralise, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Hébert and Azélie Prejean, at the Thibodaux church in July 1838.  Their son Augustave, called Gustave, was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in November 1838 and married by 1870 after his war service. 

During the war, only son Augustave dit Gustave, called G. A. in Confederate records, served in Company I of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafourche Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  After the fall of the Mississippi citadel in July 1863 and while waiting for his regiment to be exchanged, Gustave married cousin Justilia, daughter of Octave Elfert and his Acadian wife Marie Céline Hébert, at the Thibodaux church in September 1864.  They moved on to lower Bayou Teche after the war.  Their children, born on the Lafourche and the lower Teche, included Auguste Joseph on the Lafourche in October 1865; Jean Arthur in February 1867; Henry George near Lydia, Iberia Parish, in April 1869; ...  Gustave died in Iberia Parish in April 1902, age 63, and was buried in St. John's Catholic Cemetery, Jeanerette, in Iberia Parish. 

Auguste's fourth and youngest son Fulgence Trasimond, called Trasimond, from second wife Théotiste Daunis, married fellow Acadian Antoinette dite Manette Comeaux in the early 1840s.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Candide Oliana or Oceana, called Oceana, in March 1844; and Sthefin or Stephen Elfége in May 1846.  Daughter Oceana married into the Bergeron family by 1870.  Trasimond's son also married by then. 

Only son Stephen married Félicie, daughter of fellow Acadians Zephir Boudreaux and Azélie Dugas, at the Canal church, Assumption Parish, in January 1868.  Their children, born near Canal, now Napoleonville, included Elphége Mederique in July 1869; Marie Lelia in September 1870; ... 

Jean's third and youngest son Maximilien, also called Alexis, from second wife Victoire Préjean, married, at age 25, Marie Mélite, daughter of Joseph Michel Morvant and his Acadian wife Marie Éloise Bernard, at the Thibodauxville church in February 1823.  Daughter Marie Fedeline or Fideline was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in July 1824.  Alexis died in Lafourche Parish in April 1864.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial said that Alexis died "at age 70 yrs."  He was 66.  Daughter Marie Fideline married into the Webre family.  Alexis evidently fathered no sons, so his line of the family, except perhaps for its blood, probably died with him. 

Roy

The progenitor of the Acadian Roys who ended up in Louisiana was Jean LeRoy or Roy dit La Liberté, born at St.-Malo, France, in c1651, probably no kin to the other Roys and LeRoys of Acadia.  Jean dit La Liberté married Marie-Christine, called Christine, Aubois, also called Hautbois and Dubois, a 21-year-old mixed-blood Mi'kmaq, or Métis, in c1686, likely at Cap-Sable.  Between 1686 and 1708, Christine gave Jean nine children, four daughters and five sons.  Their daughters married into the Clémenceau, Comeau dit Grandjean, Girouard, Fontaine dit Beaulieu, and Trahan families.  Four of their sons married into the Lejeune, Corporon, Bergeron, Mazerolle, and Daigre families.  In 1755, descendants of Jean Roy dit La Liberté and Marie-Christine Aubois could be found at Annapolis Royal, formerly Port-Royal; Grand-Pré and Pigiguit in the Minas Basin; and in the French Maritimes.  Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this family even farther. 

In the fall of 1755, the British deported a Roy family to Maryland, perhaps the only Roys at Minas who had not moved on to the French Maritimes.  Colonial officials sent them to the interior community of Lower Marlborough on the upper Patuxent River, where the family head died in the late 1750s or early 1760s, in his 60s.  Their many cousins at Annapolis Royal were luckier.  Most, if not all, of the Roys there escaped the British, spent a hard winter on the Fundy shore, crossed to Chepoudy the following spring, and sought refuge on the upper Petitcoudiac or lower Rivière St.-Jean before moving on to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore or to Canada via the St.-Jean portage. 

Living in territory controlled by France, the handful of Roys in the French Maritimes escaped the roundup of their kinsmen in Nova Scotia, but their respite from British oppression was short-lived.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats rounded up most of the habitants on the islands.  Again, members of the family eluded capture either by leaving the islands before the fall of Louisbourg by crossing Mer Rouge to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore or escaping the patrols sent out to capture them. 

Annapolis Royal and island Roys who had escaped to Canada were the first of the family to suffer the fatal effects of exile.  After slipping away from Île St.-Jean in the months before the island's dérangement, a Roy, his wife, their children, and members of his and her family, made their way to Québec, where they were counted in 1757.  French authorities placed them at St.-François-du-Sud below the city, with tragic result.  The family head died there in January 1758, victim, most likely, of the smallpox epidemic that was raging among the refugees in the area.  His wife's parents, as well as his older sister and her husband, also died in the epidemic that struck the Acadians in and around the Canadian capital from the summer of 1757 to the spring of 1758.  Despite the tragedy, the widow and her children remained in Canada. 

One of the strangest stories of the Acadian expulsion was that of Jean dit La Liberté's oldest son Jean, fils and his family.  They were among the many Roys who escaped the roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  Sometime in the late 1750s, perhaps after the fall of Québec in September 1759, the British deported them to faraway Massachusetts.  On wonders why.  In 1760, colonial officials counted eight of their children, ages 13 to 6 months, at Dunstable in the northeastern part of the colony just below the boundary with New Hampshire.  One wonders where the other members of the family were being held.  In August 1763, Jean, fils, his wife, and nine of their children, five sons and four daughters, appeared on a repatriation list in the Bay Colony.  They were still there in June 1766, when colonial officials noted that the family numbered an astonishing 17, liking an extended family by now.  Along with dozens of other exiles sent to New England, they returned to Canada that year.  Jean, fils died at Champlain on the upper St. Lawrence between Québec City and Trois-Rivières in April 1770, in his late 70s.

Though now also a British possession, the far-northern province was populated largely by fellow French Catholics, many of them Acadian exiles.  So, in a colony nearly as old as Acadia, descendants of Jean Roy dit La Liberté began the slow, inexorable process of becoming Canadiennes.  By the late 1760s, when Jean, fils and his large family joined their many cousins still there, Acadian Roys could be found in several regions of what, a century later, became the Dominion of Canada:  on the upper St. Lawrence and the lower Richelieu at Bécancour, Champlain, Repentigny, Rivière-du-Loup now Louiseville, St.-Ours, St.-Pierre-les-Becquets, Trois-Rivières, and Yamachiche; on the lower St. Lawrence at L'Islet; on the southeastern shore of what became the province of New Brunwick at Baie-des-Ouines now Bay du Vin, Bouctouche, Cormierville, Memramcook, and Petit-Rocher; and on upper Rivière St.-Jean along the northwestern edge of New Brunswick .  Typical of most, if not all, Acadian families, these Acadiennes of Canada lost touch with their Cadien cousins hundreds of miles away, and, until the Acadian reunions of the twentieth century may even have forgotten the others existed.

Other Acadians who had escaped the British in the late 1750s and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore were inevitably caught up in the lingering war between the imperial rivals.  After the fall of Québec in September 1759, the British gathered their forces to attack the remaining French strongholds in New France, including Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, now a major Acadian refuge.  In late June 1760, a British naval force from Louisbourg attacked Restigouche.  After a spirited fight in which Acadian militia and Mi'kmaq warriors played an important role, the French commander blew up his larger vessels and retreated up Rivière Restigouche, leaving the militia and the Indians to resist a British landing.  Unable to capture the garrison or lay waste to the area, the British commander ordered his ships to return to their base at Louisbourg.  In October, after the fall of Montréal, another British naval force, this one from Québec, returned to accept the garrison's, and the Acadians', surrender.  On 24 October 1760, on the eve of formal surrender, French officers counted 1,003 Acadians still at Restigouche, but no Roys appeared on the list.  After the counting, the British held these exiles, and other Acadians who either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area, in prison compounds in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  In August 1763, three Roy brothers and their families appeared on a repatriation list at Halifax.  The older brothers chose to remain in greater Acadia, taking their families to upper Rivière St.-Jean before crossing the new province of New Brunswick to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  The youngest brother and two of his children chose a very different path. 

Roys being held at Halifax at war's end faced a hard dilemma.  The Treaty of Paris of February 1763 stipulated in its Article IV that persons dispersed by the war had 18 months to return to their respective territories.  However, British authorities refused to allow any of the Acadian prisoners in the region to return to their former lands as proprietors.  If Acadians chose to remain in, or return to, Nova Scotia, they could live only in small family groups in previously unsettled areas or work for low wages on former Acadian lands now owned by New-English "planters."  If they stayed, they must also take the hated oath of allegiance to the new British king, George III, without reservation.  They would also have to take the oath if they joined their many cousins in Canada and other parts of greater Acadia.  After all they had suffered on the question of the oath, few self-respecting Acadians would consent to take it if it could be avoided.  Some Halifax exiles chose to relocate to Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  Others considered going to French St.-Domingue, where Acadian exiles in the British colonies were going, or to the Illinois country, the west bank of which still belonged to France, or to French Louisiana, which, thanks to British control of Canada, was the only route possible to the Illinois country for Acadian exiles.  Whatever their choice, many refused to remain under British rule.  So they gathered up their money and their few possessions and prepared to leave their homeland.  Of the 600 exiles who left Halifax in late 1764 and early 1765 bound for Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, three of them were descendants of Jean Roy dit La Liberté.

The few Roys still in Maryland endured life among Englishmen who, despite their colony's Catholic roots, did not care much for the French "papists" thrust upon them.  When word reached the Acadians in the Chesapeake colony that the Spanish would welcome them in Louisiana, most of the Maryland Acadians pooled their meager resources to charter ships that would take them to New Orleans.  From June 1766 to January 1769, nearly 600 of them left Baltimore and Port Tobacco for Spanish Louisiana in four expeditions.  None of the Roys still in Maryland were among them. 

Roys settled early in French Acadia, and a descendant of Jean Roy dit La Liberté of St.-Malo was among the earliest Acadians to find refuge in Louisiana.  Widower Abraham Roy and two of his children, a son and a daughter, came to Louisiana in February 1765 with the Broussard party from Halifax via Cap-Français, St.-Domingue.  That April, they followed the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche, but they did not remain.  By early 1766, they had moved to Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans probably to escape an epidemic that killed dozens of their fellow Teche valley Acadians the previous summer and fall.  Abraham remarried to a fellow Acadian, a widow, at Cabahannocer soon after he got there, and his new wife gave him another son.  His two sons settled on the river and had sons of their own.  Beginning in the 1810s, Abraham's three grandsons and two of his great-grandsons abandoned the river and "returned" to the western prairies, where they settled in St. Martin and Lafayette parishes.  By the 1840s, no Acadian Roys remained on the river.

Roys from France and Canada, where the name is widespread, lived in French Louisiana from its earliest days.  A French-Canadian widower who had lived at Detroit and Kaskaskia, Illinois, settled at Pointe Coupée in the 1740s, but his sons by his second wife did not remain there.  In the 1780s, they crossed the upper Atchafalaya Basin to the Opelousas prairies, where their lines proliferated.  Most of them remained in what became St. Landry Parish, but some of them moved down into the old Attakapas District, complicating the Roy family's genealogical picture there.  By the late antebellum period, these French-Canadian Roys greatly outnumbered their Acadian namesakes on the western prairies.  Other, smaller Roy families settled on the parishes.  Meanwhile, another French-Canadian family, no relation to the Roys of St. Landry and St. Martin, moved from Pointe Coupée to the Avoyelles prairie in the 1790s and created a new center of family settlement there.  During the antebellum period, dozens of Roys, called Foreign French by Louisiana natives, came to New Orleans from France and the Caribbean Basin.  Most of them probably remained in the city.  No Roy family appeared in the Bayou Lafourche valley until late in the antebellum period.  They probably were not Acadian.

Judging by the number of slaves they owned during the late antebellum period, some Roys, both Acadians and non-Acadians, lived well on their plantations, farms, and vacharies on the southwest prairies.  By the time of his death in late 1847, Acadian Charles Roy amassed a holding of two dozen slaves on his Lafayette Parish plantation.  His eldest son Désiré must have inherited most of his people; Désiré held only three slaves on his Lafayette Parish farm in 1850, but a decade later he owned 36.  Some of their French-Canadian namesakes in nearby St. Landry and St. Martin parishes did almost as well.  Noël Roy's widow held 30 slaves on her plantation in St. Landry Parish in 1860.  Her husband's cousin and her neighbor, Pierre Ulgère Roy, owned 14 slaves.  Cousin Alexandre Roy held 13 slaves on his farm in St. Martin Parish.  In Avoyelles Parish, French Canadian François Roy owned 14 slaves in 1850 and 19 a decade later.  His cousin Villeneuve Roy, also of Avoyelles, held 15 slaves in 1860.  The largest slaveholder with the name, however, lived nowhere near his prairie namesakes.  Frédéric Roy, a native of France, held 44 slaves on his St. Bernard Parish plantation, on the river below New Orleans, in 1850.  A decade later, he owned 50 slaves--enough to qualify him as a "large planter."  But most Roys, like most Southerners, did not own slaves, at least none who appeared on the federal slaves schedules of 1850 and 1860.  They thus participated only peripherally in the South's antebellum plantation-based economy. 

Dozens of Roys, both Acadian and non-Acadian, served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65.  At least one of them, a non-Acadian from New Orleans, died in Virginia in Confederate service.  ...

In Louisiana, the family's name also is spelled Leroy, Le Roy, Roi, Roye.38

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All the Acadian Roys of South Louisiana are descended from a widower who came to the colony from British Nova Scotia in 1765:

Abraham (1731-?) à Jean dit La Liberté Roy

Abraham, fourth son of François Roy and his first, perhaps only, wife Marie Bergeron, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1731, married cousin Anne Aubois in the early 1750s probably at Annapolis Royal.  Anne gave Abraham at least two children there:  Pierre born in c1752; and Marie in c1755.  The family evidently escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and, after a hard winter on the Fundy shore, crossed the bay and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Marie gave Abraham more children in exile:  Charles born in c1756; Marguerite in c1757; Sauveur in c1759; and Joseph in c1760.  Sometime in the late 1750s or early 1760s, Abraham and his family either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Abraham, "widow," and seven children appeared on a French repatriation list at Halifax in August 1763, next to his brothers Benoît and Joseph.  One suspects that not all of Abraham's children were his.  Unlike his older brothers, Abraham did not remain in greater Acadia.  He and two of his children, a daughter and a son (one wonders what happened to the other five), emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français in 1764-65--the only Acadian Roys to go the Mississippi valley colony.  They evidently followed the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche in the spring of 1765, but, after a mysterious epidemic struck the Teche valley Acadians that summer and fall, they retreated with dozens of other Acadians to Cabahannocer on the river.  Abraham, in his late 30s, remarried to Marie-Madeleine-called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Germain Doucet and his first wife Françoise Comeau and widow of Pierre Gaudet, at Cabahannocer in June 1768.  Their son Joseph was baptized at the Cabahannocer church, age unrecorded, in April 1771--seven children, five sons and two daughters, between 1752 and 1770, by two wives, in greater Acadia and Louisiana.  Daughter Marie, by his first wife, married into the Saulnier family on the river.  Abraham's remaining sons also married on the river, but their descendants did not remain.  Three of Abraham's grandsons and two of his great-grandsons left the river during the early antebellum period and settled in the old Attakapas district west of the Atchafalaya Basin, where their Louisiana progenitor had gone decades earlier.  By the 1830s, no Acadian Roys remained on the river. 

Third son Sauveur, also called Salvador, from first wife Anne Aubois, followed his family into imprionment and his widowed father to New Orleans, Bayou Teche, and Cabahannocer, where Sauveur married Marie, daughter of André Bourgeois, a Creole, not a fellow Acadian, and Marie Jacobine of St.-Charles des Allemands, in May 1780.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer, included Marie-Marguerite baptized at the Cabahannocer church, age unrecorded, in June 1781; Joseph le jeune born in September 1786; Charles in March 1788; François in February 1792; Jean-Abraham in October 1796; Marguerite-Félicité, called Félicité, in February 1799; and Pierre-Zéphirin in February 1803--seven children, two daughters and five sons, between 1781 and 1803.  Sauveur died at Cabahannocer in November 1803, age 45.  Daughters Marie and Félicité married into the Lavigne and Rousseau families.  Three of Sauveur's sons married.  Two of them and two of his grandsons "returned" to Bayou Teche. 

Oldest son Joseph le jeune married Marie Ursule, also called Françoise Ursule and Ursule Paula, daughter of fellow Acadian Paul David and his first wife German Creole Marie Pélagie Oubre, at St. James in June 1806.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included Joseph Sylvère in January 1815; Marie Séraphine in March 1816; twins Marie Eurasie and Marie Uranie in December 1817; and Pierre Valéry, called Valéry, in June 1820--five children, two sons and three daughters, including a set of twins, between 1815 and 1820.  None of Joseph le jeune's daughters seem to have married.  Both of his sons married, but one of the lines may not have endured. 

Older son Joseph Sylvère, called Sylvère, when he came of age, followed his kinsmen to the western prairies, where he married Marie Rose, 20-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Trahan and Rosalie Vincent, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in September 1843.  They settled in Lafayette Parish and then in St. Landry Parish, where he worked as a laborer.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Joseph, fils in April 1842; Sevènne in July 1843; Marie Cléorene in July 1845; Olivier in October 1847; Émelina dite Melia in c1849; Lasty Treville in August 1851; and Marie Avelia in January 1854--six children, four sons and two daughters, between 1842 and 1854.  Daughter Émelina married into the Lormand family by 1870.  One of Joseph's sons also married by then. 

During the War of 1861-65, second son Sevènne served in Company E of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafayette Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  Called Sevene, he married Oliva Lormand in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in May 1864 while he was waiting for his regiment to be exchanged.  They sanctified the marriage at the Youngsville church, Lafayette Parish, in August 1865, soon after he signed his end-of-war-prisoner parole papers at New Iberia and returned to his family.  The recording priest noted that the couple were "validating" one child, "Severines" by their marriage.  They settled probably near Youngsville.  Their son Sevènne, fils was born in January 1865.  Sevènne, called Cevènne by the recording priest, remarried to fellow Acadian Donatille Trahan in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in December 1868.  They remained near Youngsville.  Their son Séverin was born there in January 1870; ...

Joseph le jeune's younger son Pierre Valéry, called Valéry, followed his older brother to the western prairies, where he married Clémentine, daughter of Isleño Creole Balthazar Plaisance and his Acadian wife Henriette Breaux, at the Vermilionville church in July 1841.  Did they have any children? 

Sauveur's third son François married Françoise dite Séraphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Richard and Pélagie Babin of L'Anse, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in May 1813.  They settled at La Pointe on the upper Bayou Teche, creating a western branch of the family.  Their children, born there, included Françoise Célestine in April 1814; François Achilles, called Achille, in January 1817; Antoine Zéphirin in March 1819; Marie Josèphe or Joséphine in June 1823; and Pierre Zéphirin le jeune, also called Pierre William, Pierre Aurelien, Arvillien, and Charles, in June 1825--five children, two daughters and three sons, between 1814 and 1825.  Daughters Françoise and Marie Joséphine married into the Menard and Pavie families.  François's three sons also married.  Some of their descendants drifted west into Lafayette Parish by the 1830s. 

Oldest son François Achille, called Achille, married Marie Marcellite, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Trahan and his Creole wife Ursule Boulet, at the Vermilionville church in July 1838.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Amélie baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 4 months, in May 1840; and François, fils, perhaps also called Lasty, born in June 1843.  François Achilles's succession, naming his wife, was filed in the Vermilionville courthouse in August 1846.  He would have been age 29 that year.  Daughter Amélie married a Trahan cousin by 1870.  Achille's son also married by then.

Only son François, fils or Lasty married Elmire or Elmira, daughter of fellow Acadians Ursin J. Broussard and Euphémie Comeaux, at the Youngsville church in October 1865.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Léon in October 1867; Dema, perhaps a son, in April 1870; ...

François's second son Antoine Zéphirin married Marie Delphine, daughter of Éloi Picard and Céleste Doré, at the St. Martinville church in April 1839.  Their son Antoine Jules was born in St. Martin Parish in September 1842 and did not marry by 1870. 

François's third and youngest son Pierre Aurelien, also called Pierre William, married Arthémise Michelle, 17-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Richard and Arthémise Granger, at the Vermilionville church in January 1846.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Élisa in September 1846; Charles in January 1849; and Anathalie in February 1851--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1846 and 1851.  Pierre Aurelien's succession, with "very little information," was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in March 1856.  He would have been age 31 that year.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Sauveur's fifth and youngest son Pierre Zéphirin followed his older brother François to St. Martin Parish, where Pierre married Marie Eurasie, called Eurasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Richard and Pélagie Babin of Ascension and Attakapas, probably in St. Martin Parish in the late 1820s. (Wife Eurasie gave birth to a "natural son, Joseph dit Théodule," in St. Martin Parish in September 1824, probably before their marriage; the St. Martinville priest who recorded the boy's baptism the following April called him a Richard, a "natural son," named the mother, but gave no father's name.)  Pierre Zéphirin, Eurasie, and her son settled at Île-aux-Cypres, now Lake Martin, St. Martin Parish, near present-day Breaux Bridge.  Her children by Pierre Zéphirin, born at the lake, included Orelien in March 1829 but died at his parents' home "at île des Cypres" at age 17 months in August 1830; Amand Lastie or Lasty born in January 1833; and Pierre, fils in the mid-1830s--three children, all sons, between 1829 and the mid-1830s.  Pierre, père died in St. Martin Parish in September 1853, age 50.  His succession, naming his wife, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in March 1855.  Two of his sons married and settled on the Teche.  His stepson survived childhood but may not have married. 

Second son Amand Lasty may have been the Lastie Roy who married Marie Aspasie, called Aspasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Marin Blanchard and his second wife Annette dite Nanon Broussard and widow of Jean Baptiste LeGrand, in St. Martin Parish in c1870.  If so, he died by 1880.  Did he father any children? 

Pierre Zéphirin's third and youngest son Pierre, fils married Uranie, daughter of Joseph Hanes and Carmézile Bertrand, a Creole, not a fellow Acadian, at the St. Martinville church in January 1855.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Angèle in March 1856; and Louis Charles in January 1859.  None of Pierre, fils's children married by 1870. 

Stepson Joseph Théodule, called Joseph dit Théodule Sauveur Richard by the St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial, died in St. Martin Parish in December 1854, age 30.  The priest did not give Joseph dit Théodule's parents' names nor mention a wife or children. 

Abraham's fifth and youngest son Joseph, by second wife Madeleine Doucet, married Marguerite, daughter of André-Antoine Bernard of Nantes, a French immigrant, not a fellow Acadian, and Anne-Françoise Sigur of France, at the St.-Jean-Baptiste church on the upper German Coast in January 1794.  Their children, born upriver at Cabahannocer, included Charles-Abraham in April 1795; and Charles-Alexandre, called Alexandre, in January 1797 but died the following December.  Joseph died at Cabahannocer in May 1799, age 30.  He and his wife evidently had no daughters.  His remaining son married and joined his kinsmen on the western prairies. 

Older son Charles Abraham married Marie, 16-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Theriot and Anastasie Michel, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in January 1820.  They, too, crossed the Atchafalaya Basin and settled in present-day Lafayette Parish.  Their children, born there, included Séraphine in September 1821; Anastasie in the 1820s; Désiré in c1826; Joseph in September 1836; Pierre Bienvenu, called Bienvenu, P. Bienvenu, and P. B., in the late 1830s; and Clémentine in 1838 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 9 months, in June 1839--six children, three daughters and three sons, between 1821 and 1838.  Charles's succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in November 1847.  He would have been age 52 that year.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted 24 slaves--13 males and nine females, all black, ranging in age from 40 years to 6 months--on Widow Charles Roy's plantation next to Olivier Blanchet in the parish's western district.  These were Marie Theriot's slaves, and Olivier was her oldest son's father-in-law.  Daughters Anastasie and Clémentine married into the Langlinais and Lasalle families by 1870.  Two of Charles's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Désiré married Ursule, 18-year-old daughter of Olivier Firmin Blanchet and his Acadian wife Carmélite Boudreaux, at the Vermilionville church in April 1846.  Their children, born in lower Lafayette Parish and on the lower Teche, included Editha in c1850; Carmélite Idea, called Idea C., in August 1851; Gérard in October 1853 but died at age 7 months in July 1854; Désiré Honoré born in May 1856 but died by July 1860; Rosa born in March 1858; Charles Kossuth, called Kossuth, in November 1859; Anastasie Élia in August 1861; Élodie in August 1864; Marie near New Iberia in January 1867; ...  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted three slaves--a 20-year-old female, a 15-year-old male, and a 5-year-old male, all black--on Désiré Roy's farm next to Olivier Blanchet, fils, near Olivier Blanchet, père, and near his widowed mother in the parish's western district.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted 36 slaves--20 males and 16 females, all black except for two mulattoes, ages 50 years to 7 months, living in three houses--on Désiré Roy's plantation.  During the War of 1861-65, Désiré, with his younger brother Pierre Bienvenu, served as a sergeant in Company A of the 8th Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, raised in Rapides Parish, which fought in Louisiana.  He survived the war and returned to his family.  Désiré's succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in December 1869.  He would have been in his early 40s that year.  Was the succession post-mortem?  Daughters Editha and Idea married into the Theriot and Young families by 1870.  Neither of Désiré's remaining sons married by then. 

Charles Abraham's third and youngest son Pierre Bienvenu, called Bienvenu, married Louise, daughter of Aurelien St. Julien and his Acadian wife Marie Joséphine Broussard, at the Youngsville church, Lafayette Parish, in November 1860.  They settled near Youngsville.  Their children, born there, included Arthur in October 1862; Marie Clémentine Bienvenu in August 1864; Marie Altea in December 1866; Sophie Marie in May 1869; ...  During the war, Pierre Bienvenu, with his older brother Désiré, served as a sergeant in Company A of the 8th Regiment Louisiana Cavalry.  He also survived the war and returned to this family.  After the war, Pierre Bienvenu "became one of the richest and most prominent planters and merchants of the area, with a total land holding of 3,825 acres in Lafayette, St. Martin, and Vermilion parishes." 

Savoie/Savoy

François Savoie, a farmer perhaps from Martaizé south of Loudun, in the middle Loire valley of central France, born in c1621, came to Acadia probably in the 1640s.  In c1651, he married Catherine Lejeune, sister of Edmée, wife of early Acadian settler François Gautrot, who also was from Martaizé.  Between 1652 and 1670, at Port-Royal, Catherine gave François Savoie nine children, six daughters and three sons.  Their daughters married into the Corporon, Triel dit Laperrière, Pellerin, Levron dit Nantois, Préjean dit Le Breton, and Chiasson families.  Only one of François Savoie's sons, Germain, married, into the Breau dit Vincelotte family.  Wife Marie Breau gave Germain a dozen children at Port-Royal, including five sons who married into the Babineau, Richard, Dupuis, Michel, and Martin families.  In 1755, descendants of François Savoie and Catherine Lejeune and their married son Germain could be found at Annapolis Royal, formerly Port-Royal; Chepoudy in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto; and at Malpèque on Île St.-Jean.  Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this family even farther. 

The Acadians at Chignecto and in the trois-rivières were the first to endure a disruption of their lives.  When British and New-English forces attacked Fort Beauséjour at Chignecto in June 1755, Savoies from the area may have been among the local Acadians who were serving in the fort as militia.  If so, they, too, along with Canadian militia and French troupes de la marine, became prisoners of war when the fort surrendered on June 16.  Lieutenant-Governor Charles Lawrence was so incensed to find so-called French Neutrals fighting with French regulars at Beauséjour he ordered his officers to deport these Acadians to the southernmost seaboard colonies.  A young Savoie from Chepoudy may have ended up in Georgia, but he did not remain.  In the spring of 1756, the governors of South Carolina and Georgia encouraged the exiles in their colonies who were not under arrest to return to greater Acadia on their own hook.  Several expeditions left South Carolina and Georgia on boats they built or purchased, and one actually made it to the mouth of Rivière St.-Jean.  Most did not.  One expedition landed on Long Island, New York, during the third week of August.  Colonial authorities in that colony refused to allow the exiles to continue their voyage and promptly deposited them in Westchester County, north of Manhattan.  The young Savoie, listed with no wife or children, was sent to the town of Eastchester.  

Most of the Savoies at Chepoudy escaped the British roundup in the Chignecto area that summer and fall.  Some of them sought refuge in Canada, where French officials counted them as early as 1756.  Others went to the upper Petitcoudiac or continued on to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, where they joined their fellow exiles at Shediac and Miramichi.  By the late 1750s, at least one Savoie family made its way up the shore to the French stronghold at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, where they may have joined the Acadian resistance if they weren't part of it already. 

Most of the many Savoies still at Annapolis Royal escaped the British roundup that terrible autumn.  After a hard winter on the Fundy shore, they crossed to Chepoudy the following spring and took refuge on the upper Petitcoudiac or lower Rivière St.-Jean before following their cousins up to Canada or to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  At least three of the families at Annapolis Royal were not so lucky.  One family ended up on a deportation transport bound for Connecticut but evidently moved on to Pennsylvania later in the decade.  Another family endured an even more harrowing experience.  A Savoie, his wife, and most of their children ended up on the transport Experiment bound for New York.  A North Atlantic storm drove the ship to Antigua in the British Antilles, where the exiles spent the winter.  The Experiment finally reached Manhattan in early May 1756.  Colonial officials promptly sent the family of 10 to New Rochelle, Westchester County, where local authorities watched them closely.  A Savoie, his wife, and four young sons were deported from Annapolis Royal to South Carolina probably aboard the transport Hobson. 

Living in territory controlled by France, two Savoie wives living in the French Maritimes escaped the roundup of their kinsmen in Nova Scotia in 1755-56, but their respite from British oppression was short-lived.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats rounded up most of the habitants on the Maritime islands and deported them to France.  One Savoie was lucky, the other was not.  One wife, her Arceneau husband, and their many children, living at Malpèque on the remote northwest shore of Île St.-Jean, escaped perhaps in their own fishing boat across Mer Rouge to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Another, younger wife, recently married to a Boutin from Baie-des-Espagnols at Louisbourg, was deported with him to Rochefort, France, in late 1758.  He died there in November 1759, and she remarried to a Frenchman in January 1761.  If she was still living in 1785, she did not follow other Acadian exiles in France to Spanish Louisiana. 

Another young Savoie wife ended up in France by a different route.  She married an Hébert in the mid- or late 1750s probably at Pobomcoup near Cap-Sable, where his family lived.  In the spring of 1759, after the fall of Louisbourg the previous summer, British forces rounded up the couple with other Cap-Sable families and held them on Georges Island in Halifax harbor, where their son was born in October.  The following month, the British deported the Cap-Sable families to England, and English authorities promptly sent them on to Cherbourg in Normandy, which they reached in mid-January 1760.  The couple baptized their son at Très-Ste.-Trinité Parish church, Cherbourg, soon after their arrival.  The mother died there in March 1760, age 25.  The father died there the following August, age 28.  If their son was still alive and living in France in 1785--he would have been in his mid-20s--he did not follow other Acadians to Spanish Louisiana. 

In North America, the Acadians who had escaped the British in the late 1750s and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore were inevitably caught up in the lingering war between the imperial rivals.  After the fall of Québec in September 1759, the British gathered their forces to attack the remaining French strongholds in New France.  In late June 1760, a British naval force from Louisbourg attacked Restigouche, now a major Acadian refuge.  After a spirited fight in which Acadian militia and Mi'kmaq warriors played an important role, the French commander blew up his larger vessels and retreated up Rivière Restigouche, leaving the militia and the Indians to resist a British landing.  Unable to capture the garrison and lay waste to the area, the British commander ordered his ships to return to their base at Louisbourg.  In October, after the fall of Montréal, another British naval force, this one from Québec, returned to Restigouche to accept the French garrison's, and the Acadians', surrender.  On 24 October 1760, French officers counted 1,003 Acadians still at Restigouche, including a Savoie family.  A few months later, in January 1761, the family head's older brother, twice-widowed, remarried to an Arseneau from Malpèque, Île St.-Jean, at Restigouche.  By 1762, the British had sent the brothers and hundreds of their fellow exiles to prison compounds in Nova Scotia, where they held them for the rest of the war.  Two Savoies, one of them counted alone, another with a family of six, appear on a list of exiles at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, in 1762.  The brothers from Restigouche and other Savoies with their families appeared on a repatriation list at Halifax in August 1763. 

The war over, the hand full of Savoies still living in the British seaboard colonies, like their cousins being held in Nova Scotia, theoretically were free to go, but not until the British discerned their intenstion.  Even then, colonial authorities discouraged repatriation.  In 1763 in New York, a widow and eight of her Savoie children appeared on a French repatriation list in that colony.  In June of that year, two Savoie families were likewise listed in Pennsylvania.  In August, in South Carolina, a Savoie family appeared on a repatriation list there as well. 

At war's end, most of the Savoies still in North America were living not in Nova Scotia or the seaboard colonies but in Canada, where some of them had gone as early as 1756.  Though now also a British possession, the far-northern province was populated largely by fellow French Catholics, many of them Acadian exiles.  So, in a colony nearly as old as Acadia, descendants of François Savoie began the slow, inexorable process of becoming Canadiennes.  By the late 1760s, after members of the family moved on to Canada from some of the seaboard colonies, Savoies could be found on the upper St. Lawrence at Berthier-en-Haute, Deschambault, Île Dupas, Rivière-du-Loup now Louiseville, and St.-Cuthbert; also at Bouctouche, Miramichi, Néguac, and Pointe-du-Chêne on the Gulf shore of what became eastern New Brunswick; and on the northwestern side of New Brunswick on Rivière St.-Jean.  They were especially numerous on the upper St. Lawrence between Trois-Rivières and Montréal.  Typical of most, if not all, Acadian families, these Acadiennes of Canada lost touch with their Cadien cousins hundreds of miles away, and, until the Acadian reunions of the twentieth century, may even have forgotten the others existed.

Members of at least one Savoie family in the seaboard colonies went not to Canada, where the British ruled, but to the French Antilles, where they did not.  At least two of the Savoies who had been held in New York chose to resettle on French Martinique  A young Savoie "of Acadie" died at St.-Pierre on the island in November 1764, age 20.  His youngest sister married a 28-year-old English tailleur d'habits at St.-Pierre in November 1770.  One wonders what happened to their widowed mother and other siblings. 

Savoies being held in Nova Scotia at war's end faced a hard dilemma.  The Treaty of Paris of February 1763 stipulated in its Article IV that persons dispersed by the war had 18 months to return to their respective territories.  However, British authorities refused to allow any of the Acadian prisoners in the region to return to their former lands as proprietors.  If Acadians chose to remain in, or return to, Nova Scotia, they could live only in small family groups in previously unsettled areas or work for low wages on former Acadian lands now owned by New-English "planters."  If they stayed, they must also take the hated oath of allegiance to the new British king, George III, without reservation.  They would also have to take the oath if they joined their many cousins in Canada or other parts of greater Acadia.  After all that they had suffered on the question of the oath, few self-respecting Acadians would consent to take it if it could be avoided.  Some Nova Scotia exiles chose to relocate to Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  Others considered going to the French Antilles, where Acadian exiles in the British colonies, including Savoies, were going, or to the Illinois country, the west bank of which still belonged to France, or to French Louisiana, which, thanks to British control of Canada, was the only route possible to the Illinois country for Acadian exiles.  Whatever their choice, many refused to remain under British rule.  So they gathered up their money and their few possessions and prepared to leave their homeland.  Of the 600 exiles who left Halifax in late 1764 and early 1765 bound for Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, 14 were Savoies. 

Savoies settled early in Acadia, and they were among the earliest Acadians to seek refuge in Louisiana.  All of them arrived in 1765 on at least three expeditions from Halifax via Cap-Français.  A Savoie wife, who arrived in February 1765, followed her Broussard husband to lower Bayou Teche.  A young bachelor and two wives, one of them his sister, went perhaps with the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche before moving up to the Opelousas prairies south of the present city.  Most of the Savoies who came to the colony that year settled not on the western prairies but in the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  During the late 1760s and early 1770s, two Savoie cousins moved from the river to the Opelousas District and joined their kinsman already there.  By the early 1790s, the Savoies still on the river joined the Acadian exodus from there to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Two Savoie brothers from the upper Lafourche, in a reversal of the usual Acadian settlement pattern, returned to the river at the end of the colonial period, and one of them created a family line on the lower Acadian Coast in what became St. James and Ascension parishes.  That center of family settlement, however, remained a small one compared to the others.  During the antebellum period, Savoies in the western parishes resided in a number of communities from Prairie Faquetaique near present-day Ville Platte, then in St. Landry but now in Evangeline Parish; down to Charenton in St. Mary Parish on lower Bayou Teche; and as far west as Creole in the coastal marshes of what was then Calcasieu, now Cameron, Parish.  They were especially numerous around Grand Coteau on the prairie south of Opelousas.  On the southeastern bayous, Savoies settled along the Lafourche from Ascension and Assumption down to Lockport, and also on Bayou Terrebonne.  They were especially numerous at Paincourtville in Assumption Parish, and at Raceland and Lockport in Lafourche Interior Parish. 

Church records show no non-Acadian Savoie/Savoys living in Louisiana during the colonial period.  A Joseph Savot married an Acadian Semere at Opelousas in December 1798, but he was a Frenchman, not an Acadian Savoy.  A few Savoie/Savoys, called Foreign French by Louisiana natives, came to Louisiana after Jefferson's Purchase.  After the War of 1861-65, freed persons named Savoie, probably the former slaves of Acadian members of the family, could be found in St. Landry Parish.  ...

The family's name in Louisiana also is spelled Lavoit, Saboa, Savai, Savoi, Savoies, Savois, Savoit, Savoix, Savoye, Scavois, Scavoit.39

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Most, if not all, of the Acadian Savoies came to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Française, French St.-Domingue, in 1765.  The first to arrive--a wife, her husband, and their son--reached New Orleans in February with the Broussard party.  Marguerite Savoie's husband, in fact, was Joseph-Grégoire dit Petit Jo Broussard, second son of partisan leader Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil, leader of the party.  Marguerite was pregnant on the voyage, and she gave Petit Jos a daughter on the way to Bayou Teche that spring.  Next came three more Savoies--a young bachelor, his married sister and her Comeau husband, and a widow and her Léger children.  They reached New Orleans that spring and likely followed the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche, but they did not remain.  By the following spring, they had settled farther up the Teche in the Opelousas District, where the bachelor created a western branch of the family:  

Pierre (1741-1788) à Germain à François Savoie

Pierre, younger son of Paul Savoie and Judith Michel, born at Chignecto in February 1741, followed his family into exile, imprisonment, and to Louisiana in 1765, but he did not settle near his older brother at Cabahannocer on the river.  He followed two married sisters to Opelousas instead.  In April 1766, a Spanish official noted that Pierre, still a bachelor, was in Courtableau's Company of Opelousas milita.  He was still at Opelousas in 1771, still unmarried, living with brother-in-law Charles Comeaux of Chepoudy, and his younger sister Anastasie.  In his early 30s, Pierre married Louise dite Lise, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Bourg and Anne Boudreaux, probably at Opelousas in July 1772 (Opelousas would not get its own church until 1776, so the marriage was recorded by the priest from Pointe Coupée, who acted as a missonary to the district).  Louise, a native of Île St.-Jean, had come to Louisiana with her family and the Broussards in February 1765.  Her and Pierre's children, born at Opelousas, included Scholastique dite Colastie in c1775; Louise baptized at the Opelousas church, age unrecorded, in May 1779 but died at age 1 1/2 in October 178; Pierre dit Placide baptized, age 5 months, in August 1781; Silésie baptized, age 6 months, in June 1783; Hippolyte born in c1784; and Eugénie in December 1786--six children, four daughters and two sons, between 1775 and 1786.  In 1785, Pierre owned four slaves, ran 60 head of cattle, and owned a dozen horses and 20 hogs.  Though still a resident of Opelousas, he died on the river, near San Gabriel, in March 1788, age 47.  His death was certified by the Opelousas priest later in the month, and his succession was recorded at Opelousas in May.  One wonders what he was doing at San Gabriel when he died.  Daughters Scholastique, Silésie, and Eugénie married into the David, Guidry, Dupré, and Richard families.  Both of Pierre's sons also married, but only one of the lines endured. 

Older son Pierre dit Placide married Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Babin and Anastasie Melançon, at the Attakapas church in October 1801.  They settled on Prairie Faquetaique near present-day Ville Platte, Evangeline Parish, far out on the Opelousas prairies.  Their children, born there, included Silesie or Céleste baptized at the Opelousas church, age 2 months, in November 1802; Marie Louise baptized, age 3 weeks, in November 1804; Émilie born in April 1806; Pierre, called Pierre Valcourt and Valcourt, baptized, age 3 months, in December 1808; a son, name unrecorded, died in November 1813 10 days after his birth; Adélaïde born in May 1811; Anasthasie in November 1814; and Joseph, also called Joseph Devalcourt, in January 1817 but died at age 13 in December 1829--eight children, five daughters and three sons, between 1802 and 1817.  Pierre dit Placide's succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse, St. Landry Parish, in December 1833.  He would have been age 52 that year.  Daughters Céleste, Émilie, Marie Louise, and Adélaïde married into the Aguillard, Teller or Taylor, McGee, and Young (originally Lejeune) families.  Pierre dit Placide's remaining son also married. 

Oldest son Pierre Valcourt married Eugénie dite Jane, daughter of Jean Ritter and Catherine Bogua, at the Opelousas church in 1828.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Eugénie in September 1829; Pierre, fils in January 1832; Éloy or Éloi, also called Éloi Pierre Valcourt, in February 1834; Valentin in May 1836; François in the late 1830s or early 1840s; and Arthémise in August 1842--six children, two daughters and four sons, between 1829 and 1842.  Pierre Valcourt's estate record and succession, naming his wife and heirs--Eugénie, Pierre, Éloy, Valentin, François, and Artémise--was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in March 1844.  He would have been age 36 that year.  Daughters Eugénie and Arthémise married into the Leger and Young families by 1870.  Pierre Valcourt's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Pierre, fils married Eugénie, daughter of German Creoles André Miller and Irène Teller, at the Opelousas church in April 1853.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Pierre III near Grand Coteau in February 1854; Lastanie on Faquetaique Prairie in April 1861; Louis in May 1863; Valcourt le jeune in October 1865; Placide near Church Point, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in October 1867; Perina near Eunice in January 1870; ...  They were living near Eunice, St. Landry Parish, in 1870. 

Pierre Valcourt's second son Éloi married Aspasie Françoise Ursine, daughter of François Ursin Manuel and Laizey Reed, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in December 1853.  Daughter Laura was born in St. Landry Parish in November 1862; ...

Pierre Valcourt's third son Valentin married Denise Frugé, place and date unrecorded.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Cléopha on the Faquetaique Prairie in October 1861; Catherine in March 1864; Valentine near Church Point in May 1867; Clara near Eunice in October 1869; ... 

Pierre Valcourt's fourth and youngest son François may have married Eugénie David, also called a Savoie, perhaps a fellow Acadian, place and date unrecorded.  Their children, born near Church Point, included Félix in October 1862; Alicia in October 1865; Marie Coralie in July 1867; François, fils in June 1870; ...

Pierre, père's younger son Hippolyte married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Comeaux and Esther LeBlanc of Attakapas, at the Opelousas church in July 1807.  Their daughter Marie Cléonise was born in St. Landry Parish in May 1808.  Hippolyte died in Lafayette Parish in November 1827, age 43.  His succession, which mentioned his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following January.  Daughter Marie Cléonise married into the Thibodeaux and Broussard families.  Hipplolyte evidently fathered no sons, but the blood of the family line may have endured. 

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The largest contingent of the family to reach New Orleans from Halifax via Cap-Française in 1765--three small families, two led by brothers, and a young orphan, nine Savoies in all--chose to go not to the prairie districts but to Cabahannocer on the river above the city.  Several new family lines came of it, on the river, on upper Bayou Lafourche, and out on the western prairies:  

Charles dit Jean-Charles (1721-1790s) à Germain à François Savoie

Charles dit Jean-Charles, fourth son of François Savoie le jeune and Marie-Josèphe Richard, born at Annapolis Royal in May 1721, married in c1746 a woman whose name has been lost to history.  She evidently gave him no children.  Charles remarried to cousin Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Pierre Richard and Marie-Madeleine Girouard and widow of Pierre Forest, probaby at Annapolis Royal in c1752.  They escaped the British roundup there in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, where Charles again became a widower.  At age 39, he remarried again--his third marriage--to cousin Judith, 24-year-old daughter of Claude Arseneau and Marguerite Richard of Malpèque, Île St.-Jean, at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs in January 1761.  This was after the French garrison there, and a thousand Acadians, had surrendered to a British force from Québec the previous October.  Soon after their marriage, the British held Charles and Judith in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Judith evidently gave Jean-Charles two children in exile whose names and birth dates have been lost.  In August 1763, Cherl Savois, wife Judith, and three children, one of them Basile Desroches, nephew of Judith who she had raised from infancy, appeared on a repatriation list at Halifax, near Charles's younger brother Joseph.  Judith gave Charles a son, Jean-Baptiste, born at Halifax probably just before they appeared on the list.  In 1764-65, Charles, Judith, their son, and their nephew emigrated to Louisiana and settled at Cabahannocer.  Their children, born there, included twins Jean and Pierre in c1769; twins Amédée and Joseph in c1770; Geneviève baptized at the St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer church, age unrecorded, in March 1772; François-Paul, called Paul, baptized, age unrecorded, in February 1774; twins Marie-Modeste and Simon-Pierre dit Simonet baptized, age unrecorded, in October 1777; and Isabelle, or Élisabeth, baptized, age unrecorded, in May 1780--at least 10 children, seven sons and three daughters, including three sets of twins, perhaps all of them by his third wife, between the early 1760s and 1780, in greater Acadia and Louisiana.  Spanish authorities counted the family on the left, or east, bank of the river at Cabahannocer in April 1766, September 1769, and January 1777.  In the late 1780s or early 1790s, the family joined the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche, establishing a new center of Savoie family settlement there.  Charles died on the Lafourche by December 1795, in his early 70s, when his wife was listed in a Valenzuela District census without a husband.  She did not remarry.  Daughters Marie and Élisabeth married into the Bourgeois and Broussard families on the Lafourche and the prairies.  Five of Charles's sons also married, but not all of the lines endured.  One son settled on lower Bayou Teche, two returned to the river, and the other two remained in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, called Baptiste, from third wife Judith Arceneaux, followed his family to New Orleans and Cabahannocer.  At age 33, he married cousin Marie-Rose, called Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians Hilaire Landry and Marie-Josèphe Richard, at the Assumption church on the upper Lafourche in April 1796.  Their children, born on the upper bayou, included Charles-Hilaire in January 1797; Cyprien in August 1799; François-Valéry in April 1801; Eugénie in January 1804; and Édouard Nicolas in November 1807--five children, four sons and a daughter, between 1797 and 1807.  Daughter Eugénie evidently did not marry.  Only one of Baptiste's sons did.  

Fourth and youngest son Édouard Nicolas, called Edward, "a minor," age 17, petitioned Lafourche Interior Parish authorities "for a curator," "his uncle" Jean Charles Theriot, in July 1825.  Édouard, at age 18, married Marie Delphine, called Delphine and also Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Bergeron and his Maltese-Creole wife Anne Rosalie Lancon or Lanzon, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in August 1836.  They settled near the boundary between Terrebonne and Lafourche Interior parishes.  Their children, born there, included Théodose D., also called Théodore, in January 1838; Joséphine Uralise in March 1839; Marcellin Tiburse in April 1840; Guillaume Alfred in January 1843; William Alcet in March 1846; Joseph Belona in December 1848; Aurelia Sindonia at Bayou Cannes in March 1851; Rosalie Elexina in June 1856; and Elmina Rosa in December 1858--nine children, five sons and four daughters, between 1838 and 1858.  None of Édouard's daughters married by 1870, but two of his sons did.  They settled in Terrebonne Parish. 

Oldest son Théodose or Théodore married Azéline, called Zélina, Célina, and Ezélina, daughter of Célestin Adam and Adeline Delatte of Lafourche Parish, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in December 1860.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Marie Joséphine in February 1862; Zoé Olivia in July 1863; William François in February 1865 but, called William, died at age 2 1/2 in May 1867; Eléonore Adeline born in December 1866; Delphine Sydonia in March 1869; ... 

Édouard Nicolas's second son Marcellin, during the War of 1861-65, served in Company H of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, organized in Terrebonne Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  He survived the war, returned to his family, and married cousin Malvina, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Isidore Bergeron and his Creole wife Telside Lirette, at the Houma church in January 1866.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included William Barbe in December 1866; Jeanne Octavie in August 1868; Marie Augusta in August 1870; ... 

Charles's fourth son Amédée, a twin, by third wife Judith Arceneaux, married Victoire, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Bourgeois and Anne Landry, at the St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer church in May 1790.  They lived on upper Bayou Lafourche, moved to the Attakapas District in the late 1790s, and settled at Fausse Pointe on lower Bayou Teche.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche and the prairies, included Rosalie at "LaFourche parish," probably Assumption, in c1790; Pierre-Cyprien, called Cyprien, at Ascension in September 1792; and Élisabeth-Azélie at Attakapas in December 1799--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1790 and 1799.  Amédée died at Fausse Pointe in January 1830 "at age about 60 years."  Daughter Rosalie married into the Prince family in St. Martin Parish.  Daughter Élisabeth Azélie may have been the Azélie Savoie whose unnamed "natural" daughter died at age 3 weeks "at her parent's home" in St. Martin Parish in August 1819, when this Azélie would have been age 19.  The priest who recorded the baby's burial did not name the father.  Amédée's son married twice and fathered many sons of his own. 

Only son Pierre Cyprien, called Cyprien, married Marie Césariènne, daughter of Paul Bonin of Mobile and Marie Fostin of Illinois, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in July 1811.  They settled at Fausse Pointe.  Their children, born there, included Marie Célanie in May 1812; Pierre Dervigny in April 1814; Marie Louise in January 1816; a son, name unrecorded, died at age 5 weeks in September 1817; twins Émile and Pierre born in November 1818, but Pierre may have died by September 1849, in his late 20s or early 30s, when his succession, likely post-mortem, was filed at the Franklin courthouse, St. Mary Parish; Émilien born in December 1820; Adèle in December 1822; Joseph in July 1824; Amédée Victoire in April 1826; Marguerite Baseline in December 1829; Hippolyte Octave, called Octave, in October 1831; Gertrude in September 1833; and Jean Baptiste in February 1835 but died near New Iberia, age 33 1/2, in August 1868.  Cyprien, in his early 50s, remarried to French Creole Marie Aspasie Borel in a civil ceremony in St. Mary Parish in January 1845.  Their son Adrien was born near Charenton, St. Mary Parish, in March 1846--15 children, five daughters and 10 sons, including a set of twins, by two wives, between 1812 and 1846.  Cyprien's succession, naming his second wife, was filed at the Franklin courthouse in July 1846.  He would have been age 54 that year.  Daughters Marie Célanie, Marie Louise, and Adèle, by his first wife, married into the Dugas, Deyris, and LeBlanc families by 1870.  Four of Cyprien's sons also married by then.  One of them moved to Lafayette Parish during the late 1850s, but the others remained on lower Bayou Teche. 

Third son Émile, a twin, by first wife Marie Bonin, married Marie Pamela, called Pamela, Borel civilly in St. Martin or St. Mary Parish in the late 1840s, and sanctified the marriage at the Charenton church, St. Mary Parish, in June 1862; one wonders how she was kin to Émile's father's second wife and why the couple waited so long to revalidate the marriage.  Émile worked as an overseer and a farmer.  His and Pamela's children, born on the lower Teche, included Marie Ophelia, called Ophelia, in c1846; Onésime dit Lezimaux near Charenton in September 1849; Desima or Lesima in c1850; Onésiphore dit Lezifois baptized at the New Iberia church, age 8 months, in May 1852; Pierre le jeune born in November 1853; Marie Emérite in December 1855; Mathilde in June 1858; Eugénie in March 1863; ...  Daughters Desima/Lesima and Marie Ophelia married into the Broussard and Edgerly families by 1870.  None of Émile's sons married by then. 

Cyprien's fifth son Émilien, by first wife Marie Bonin, married Carmélite Renée, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Broussard and Clarisse LeBlanc, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in February 1853.  Their children, born near New Iberia, included Hippolyte in November 1856; Gabriele in September 1859; Policarpe in August 1861; Caliste in April 1863; Marie near Patoutville, now Lydia, in April 1870; ...  None of Émilien's children married by 1870. 

Cyprien's sixth son Joseph, by first wife Marie Bonin, married Marie Oliva, called Oliva, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Louvière and Delphine Séraphine Broussard, at the Charenton church in July 1847.  Their children, born on the lower Teche and the prairies, included Joseph Dupléon near New Iberia in December 1849; Jean Darwin near Charenton in September 1852; Antonia near New Iberia in January 1855; Amédée in Lafayette Parish in October 1858; Marie Oliva in July 1862; ...  None of Joseph's children married by 1870. 

Cyprien's seventh son Hippolyte Octave, called Octave, from first wife Marie Bonin, married Clarisse Renée, another daughter of Alexandre Broussard and Clarisse LeBlanc, at the New Iberia church in May 1860.  They also settled near Patoutville, now Lydia.  Their children, born there, included Marcelin in April 1861; Octavie in August 1864; Amédée in March 1867; Marie in August 1869; ... 

Charles's fifth son Joseph, Amédée's twin, by third wife Judith Arceneaux, married Marie-Françoise, called Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Bergeron and Lise-Marie Babin, at the Assumption church in July 1794.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary of what became Ascension and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Ursin in May 1799; Rosalie-Carmélite in December 1800; Joseph, fils in March 1802; Jourdain in c1804; Léonise in February 1806; Césaire, a son, in January 1807; Pierre Lucien, called Lucien, in June 1809; Edmond in December 1811; another Césaire, this one a daughter, in April 1814; Narcisse in October 1817; Milisère or Mélicère in December 1820; and Marguerite Pharelie or Farelie, called Farelie, in April 1823--a dozen children, seven sons and five daughters, between 1799 and 1823.  Daughters Léonise, Césaire, Mélicère, and Farelie married into the Dales, Guidry, Landry, and Melançon families.  Five of Joseph's sons also married, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Ursin married Marie Élise, called Élise and Lise, daughter of Pierre Dufrene and Marie Pichot, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in October 1819.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Assumption and Lafourche Interior parishes.  Their children, born there, included Ursin, fils in the early 1820s; Célese in April 1822; Pierre Norbal or Norval, called Norva and Norbert, in June 1824; Marguerite Léonise or Éléonise, called Éléonise, in October 1828; Joseph Léon Paul in January 1829; Télésfor or Télésphore, also called Theleste, in December 1833; Christophe Omère or Homère, called Homère, in September 1834; Eugénie Élina in February 1838[sic]; Marie Mélicaire, called Mélicaire, in March 1838[sic]; Louis Félix in May 1840; Félicie in November 1843; and Trasimond Gustave or Augustave, also called Justave, in May 1845--a dozen children, seven sons and five daughters, between the early 1820s and 1845.  Daughters Céleste, Éléonise, Mélicaire, and Félicie married into the Matherne, Choistre or Choueste, and Elliott families, two of them, Éléonise and Mélicaire, to Choueste cousin, by 1870.  Six of Ursin's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Ursin, fils married Azélie, daughter of Augustin Matherne and Marie dite Manette Sevin, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in March 1843, and sanctified the marriage at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in September 1847.  Their children, born near Lockport on the lower Lafourche, included Élise dite Lise, also called Élisabeth, in June 1845; Mélasie in c1844; Eliska in April 1847; Marceline in June 1849; Théophile in April 1851; Olimpe Azélina in November 1853; Félicia Célemee in May 1860; George Alexis in April 1865; Cyprien died, age unrecorded, in September 1865; ...  Daughters Lise, Mélasie, and Eliska married into the Babin, Knight, and Allemand families by 1870, one of them twice, two of them to Knights.  None of Ursin, fils's sons married by then. 

Ursin, père's second son Norval married Séverine, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Pierre Guidry and his Creole wife Marie Théotiste Richon or Richoux, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in September 1857.  Their children, born near Lockport, included Amédée in January 1859; Émilie Vilia in December 1861 but, called Émelie, died at age 5 1/2 (the recording priest said 6) in September 1867; Octavie died at age 5 months in November 1868; ... 

Ursin, père's fourth son Télesphore married Adèle or Adèla, daughter of Pierre Augeron and Doralise Loupes, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in June 1855.  Their children, born on the lower Lafourche, included Joseph Trasimond near Lockport in March 1859; Marguerite Joséphine near Raceland in January 1861; Aspasie in Auguste 1864 but, called Félicie, evidently died at age 3 in August 1867; Louis born in February 1867; ... 

Ursin, père's fifth son Homère married Honorine, another daughter of Jean Pierre Guidry and Marie Théotiste Richoux, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in May 1853, and sanctified the marriage at the Lockport church, Lafourche Parish, in 1854.  Their children, born on the lower Lafourche between Raceland and Lockport, included Amanda in March 1854; Constance Clara in December 1855; Aubin in February 1858; Guillaume Kleber in January 1860; Louis Cléophas in December 1861; Paul Albert in January 1864; Omer, probably Homère, fils, September 1865; Eulalie Philonise in February 1868; ...  Daughter Amanda married into the Delaune family by 1870.  None of Homère's sons married by then. 

Ursin, père's sixth son Louis Félix married Euphrosine Choueste in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in August 1861.  Did they have any children? 

Ursin, père's seventh and youngest son Augustave married Léontine, daughter of Antoine Camardelle and Louisa Rodrigues, at the Lockport church in April 1866.  Their children, born near Lockport, included Augustine Louise in August 1867; Angélique Adélaïde in December 1869; ...

Joseph, père's third son Jourdain married Clémence, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Benoît Richard and Anne Élisabeth Rassicot, at the Thibodauxville church in July 1831.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Édouard Jourdain, called Jourdain, fils, in December 1832; Marie Émilie in July 1834; Théodule in the 1830s; Jules Homère in January 1840; Joseph Boneral in March 1842; Edmond Aristhilde, Aristide, or Aurestile, called Aurestile, in January 1844; Jean Osémé, also called Ozémé Joseph, in May 1845; Joseph Laverne in September 1847; Clémentine Eve in November 1849; and Marie Rebecca in February 1853.  Jourdain remarried to Edesie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Michel Daigle and Madeleine LeBlanc and widow of Jean Allemand, at the Raceland church, Lafourche Parish, in December 1856.  Their son Edesie Frank was born near Lockport in December 1857--11 children, eight sons and three daughters, by two wives, between 1832 and 1857.  Jourdain, père died near Lockport in December 1867 "at age 63 yrs."  Daughter Clémentine, by his first wife, married into the Cheramie family by 1870.  Five of Jourdain's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Jourdain, fils, by first wife Clémence Richard, married Marie, daughter of Louis Dhuet and his Acadian wife Marie Anaïse Pitre, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in August 1861, and sanctified the marriage at the Lockport church in September 1864.  Their children, born on the lower Lafourche, included Justilien in October 1863; Joseph Concuhot in June 1864; Eugène Jourdain, perhaps theirs, in June 1868; ...

Jourdain, père's second son Théodule, by first wife Clémence Richard, married Clémentine or Clémence, daughter of Jean Allemand and his Acadian wife Edesie Daigle, at the Thibodaux church in September 1860.  Their children, born near Lockport, included Madeleine Alida in July 1864; Philomène Orphida in July 1866; Emma in March 1870; ...

Jourdain, père's third son Jules, by first wife Clémence Richard, married Élisabeth, daughter of Thomas Ellender and Catherine Rhodes of Terrebonne Parish, at the Houma church in August 1859.  Did they have any children? 

Jourdain, père's fourth son Edmond Aristhilde, Aristide, or Aurestile, called Aurestile, from first wife Clémence Richard, married Zoé, daughter of Valsin Lasseigne and Madeleine Danos, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in June 1866, and sanctified that marriage at the Lockport church in December 1867.  Their son Arsène was born near Lockport in December 1867; ... 

Jourdain, père's fifth son Jean Osémé, called Osémé or Ozémé, from first wife Clémence Richard, married Lucie, also called Louise, daughter of Jean Walgour, Larjon, Galjour, or Garjon and Elmore Ledet, at the Lockport church in December 1864.  Their children, born near Lockport, included Félix Osémé in April 1866; Félicia in September 1868; Marie Louise in September 1870; ... 

Joseph, père's fifth son Pierre Lucien, called Lucien, married Marcelline, 18-year-old daughter of Louis Chauvin and his Acadian wife Marie Louise Robichaux, at the Thibodauxville church in February 1829.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marcelite in December 1829; Émiline or Émelie in December 1831; Pierre Lucien, fils, called Lucien, fils, in October 1833; Bathilde or Mathilde, also called Marie Mathilde, in November 1835; Louis Félicien, called Félicien, in November 1837; Joseph Donatien, called Donatien, in April 1840; Aurestile in the 1830s or 1840s; Marie Malvina, called Malvina, in May 1842; Félicie or Félicite in the early 1840s; and Marie Lucie in May 1844.  Lucien remarried to Rosie Aglaé dite Rositte, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Damien Martin and his German Creole wife Marie Théotiste Malbrough of Terrebonne Parish, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in February 1852, and sanctified the marriage at the Houma church in May 1855.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Marie Victoria in December 1853; Joseph Oscar in January 1855; Odillia in March 1857; Marie Célimo, probably Célima, in June 1859; Louis Beauregard in July 1861; Joachim near Montegut in January 1865; Marie Similia in February 1868; Marie Julia in August 1870; ...  Daughters Émelie, Marcelite, Mathilde, Malvina, and Félicie, by his first wife, married into the Dronet, Guidry, Breaux, Arcement, Stoufflet, and Toups families by 1870.  Three of Lucien's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Lucien, fils, by first wife Marcelline Chauvin, married Élise, daughter of Joseph Duplantis and Françoise Charpentier, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in March 1857.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Marguerite Clara in May 1858; Pierre Hillia in December 1859; Lucien Edween, probably Edwin, in October 1861; Marie Sera in May 1865; ... 

Lucien, père's second son Félicien, by first wife Marcelline Chauvin, married Marie Pamela, called Pamela, daughter of  Adolphe Pelegrin or Peregrin and Susanne Lassaigne, at the Houma church in November 1860.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Numa Lovency in October 1863; Marie Aleiva near Montegut in November 1865; Adolphe Audrissy in December 1866; ...

Lucien, père's third son Donatien, by first wife Marcelline Chauvin, married cousin Marie Angélique or Angelina, daughter of Anatole Matherne and his Acadian wife Céleste Savoie of Lafourche Parish, at the Houma church in July 1864.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Susanne Justillia in September 1861; Marie Emanée in July 1865; Joseph Clesima near Montegut in August 1868; ... 

Joseph, père's sixth son Edmond married cousin L'Adverine, Adeline, or Evéline, 16-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Éloi Melançon and Constance Bergeron, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in August 1838, and sanctified the marriage at the Thibodaux church in April 1841.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Raphaël in November 1839; Robert Justinin in July 1841; Estival in July 1843; Auguste Arthur in July 1845; Adeline Lisa in September 1847; Mélasie Antoinette in October 1849; and Alphonse near Lockport in December 1851--seven children, five sons and two daughters, between 1839 to 1851.  Daughters Mélasie and Adeline married into the Plaisance and Danos families by 1870.  Three of Edmond's sons also married by then.

Second son Robert married Carmélite, daughter of Jean Louis Richoux or Richaux and Marguerite Barrios, at the Lockport church in 1866.  Their son Arsène Wales was born near Lockport in October 1866.  Robert remarried to Mathilde Richoux in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in November 1869. ...

Edmond's third son Estival married Marguerite, daughter of Guillaume Danos and his Acadian wife Azélie Guidry, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in January 1866.  Their son Eugène was born near Lockport in March 1870; ...

Edmond's fourth son Auguste married Evéline, daughter of Jean Plaisance and his Acadian wife Mélina Guidry, at the Lockport church in December 1864.  Their children, born near Lockport, included Clémentine in September 1865; Clémence Émelia in February 1867; ...

Joseph, père's seventh and youngest son Narcisse married Ordalie, 17-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph LeBlanc and Célanie Breaux, at the Thibodauxville church in October 1837.  Their children, born in Lafourche Interior Parish, included Joséphine in January 1839; and Edmire Marguerite in October 1844.  Neither of Narcisse's daughters married by 1870. 

Charles's sixth son François-Paul, called Paul, from third wife Judith Arceneaux, may have married Marie Rome at Cabahannocer in the late 1790s and settled in what became St. James Parish.  Their son Benjamin was born at Cabahannocer in July 1803.  The line may not have endured.

Charles's seventh and youngest son Simon-Pierre dit Simonet, a twin, by third wife Judith Arceneaux, married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Duhon and Anne LeBlanc, at the St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer church in January 1802.  They settled on the river near the boundary of what became Ascension and St. James parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie-Emalise or -Émelise in 1802 and baptized, age 8 months, in July 1803; Joseph le jeune born in September 1804; Marguerite Delphine in April 1806; Marie Madeleine, called Madeleine, in February 1808; Simon, called Simon Neuville and Neuville, in October 1809; Marie in July 1811; Rosalie Modeste, called Modeste, in August 1813; Marie Séraphine in December 1815; Jean François in December 1818; Pierre in c1820; and Julius in November 1825--11 children, six daughters and five sons, between 1802 and 1825.  Simon Pierre died near Convent, St. James Parish, in September 1830.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Simon was age 50 when he died.  He was closer to 53.  Daughters Marie Émelise, Marguerite, Madeleine, Modeste, and Marie married into the Lanoux, Huguet, Thomelette, and Marchand families.  Three of Simonet's sons also married.  His was the only line of the family to remain on the old Acadian Coast, in St. James and Ascension parishes.

Oldest son Joseph le jeune married cousin Marie Doralise, called Doralise, daughter of fellow Acadians Laurent Arceneaux and Félicité Bourgeois, at the Convent church in February 1828.  They settled on the east side of the river near the boundary between St. James and Ascension parishes.  Their children, born there, included Joseph, fils died seven days after his birth in April 1829; Rosalie Malvina born in May 1830; Élisabeth in November 1837; and Simon Pierre in October 1841 but died "age 50 days old" in late November--four children, two sons and two daughters, between 1829 and 1841.  Neither of Joseph le jeune's daughters married by 1870, and neither of his sons survived infancy.  One wonders if at least the blood of the line endured. 

Simon Pierre's second son Simon Neuville, called Neuville, married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Lanoux and Félicité Mire, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in January 1836.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Antoine in October 1836; a son, name unrecorded, died at age 20 days in February 1838; twins Rosalie and Félcité born in August 1839, but Félicité died at age 3 weeks in September; another Félicité was born in May 1842 but, called Élisa, died at age 10 months in March 1843; Simonet le jeune born in June 1843; and Simon Neuville, fils in June 1847--seven children, four sons and three daughters, including a set of twins, between 1836 and 1847.  Neuville died in Ascension Parish in October 1848.  The Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial said that Neuville died at "age 35 years."  He was 39.  So who was the Neuville Savoy, "widower," who died in Ascension Parish in May 1850?  Daughter Rosalie married a Mire cousin by 1870.  None of Neuville's sons married by then. 

Simon Pierre's fourth son Pierre married Marie Adèle, daughter of Nicolas Ory and his Acadian wife Adeline Bourg of St. Helena and Iberville parishes, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in February 1844.  Their children, born on the river, included Pierre Alces, also called Paul Alceste, in November 1844; Marie Lidoris in November 1845 but, called Maria Lidoricia, died at age 19 (the recording priest said 18) in March 1865; Simonet Cléophas born in February 1850; Théophile Prospère in November 1852; Charles Clément in October 1856; Louis Antoine Jule in September 1861; and Adèle Alice in April 1865--seven children, five sons and two daughters, between 1844 and 1865.  Pierre died near Gonzales, Ascension Parish, in May 1865, age 45.  One wonders if his death was war-related.  His older daughter did not marry by 1870, but one of his sons did.

Oldest son Pierre Alceste married Evélina, daughter of Michel Morin or Maurin and Antoinette Duvernay, at the Gonzales church in January 1867.  Their children, born near Gonzales, included Marie Félicia in April 1868; Louise Malvina in October 1870; ... 

Joseph (1727-c1767) à Germain à François Savoie

Joseph, sixth son of François Savoie le jeune and Marie-Josèphe Richard, born at Minas in June 1727, married, according to Stephen A. White, Anne, daughter of Joseph Préjean and Marie-Louise Comeau, in c1758, place unrecorded, but it probably was during exile on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Anne gave Joseph a daughter, Marguerite, born in c1760.  By then, they may have taken refuge in the French stronghold at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  The British attacked Restigouche in late June 1760, and another British force accepted the post's surrender the following October.  A Joseph Savoye with a family of four appears on a 24 October 1760 list of 1,003 Acadians surrendered with the garrison; this may have been Joseph à François.  The British held them in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  In August 1763, Joseph, Anne, and two children appeared on a repatriation list at Halifax, near his older brother Charles and his family.  Joseph, Anne, and daughter Marguerite, now age 5, followed Charles and his family from Halifax to Louisiana in 1764-65.  One wonders what happened to their other child and if it was a son or a daughter.  Anne was pregnant on the voyage and gave birth to a son, Joseph-André, called André, either aboard ship or at New Orleans soon after their arrival.  After baptizing their son at the New Orleans church in September, they followed brother Charles and his family to Cabahanncoer, where Anne gave Joseph another daughter, Josèphe-Barbe, in November 1766; they baptized her at the New Orleans church the following March--four children, at least two daughters and a son, between 1760 and 1766, in greater Acadia and Louisiana.  Joseph died by December 1767, in his late 30s, when Anne remarried to an Hébert at Cabahannocer.  Only her and Joseph's son married.  He settled on upper Bayou Lafourche, where he created a vigorous line. 

Only son Joseph-André, called André, married Marguerite, daughter perhaps of fellow Acadians Abraham dit Petit Abrahm Landry and his second wife Marguerite Flan, at the St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer church in May 1787.  They followed his uncle Charles Savoie to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Their children, born on the river and the bayou, included Joseph le jeune at Cabahannocer in May 1788; and Paul-François at Ascension in February 1790.  Both of André's sons married and settled on the upper Lafourche.

Older son Joseph le jeune married Marcellite, daughter of Jacques Rousseau and Charlotte Oubre of Ascension Parish, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in July 1808.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Joseph Jacques in Assumption Parish in July 1809; Paul Victorin, called Victor, in July 1811; Dionise Arthémise, called Arthémise, in October 1813; Anne Clémentine, called Clémentine, in January 1816; Gertrude Azélie, called Azélie, in May 1818; Pierre Théodule, called Théodule, in the 1810s; and Aloisa, called Loise, posthumously in December 1821--seven children, three sons and four daughters, between 1809 and 1821.  Joseph le jeune died in Assumption Parish in July 1821, age 33.  Daughters Arthémise, Azélie, and Clémentine married into the Tonnellier, Cordonnier, St. Germain, and Trahan families, one of them, Arthémise, twice, by 1870.  Two of Joseph le jeune's sons also married by then. 

Second son Victor married Victoire Célestine, called Célestine, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Aucoin and Marie Trahan, at the Plattenville church in January 1839.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Joseph Victor Simon in October 1839 but, called Simon Joseph, died at age 1 in November 1840; Joseph Achille, called Achille, born in May 1841; Clairville Adrien in February 1843; Marie Amélie or Émelie in September 1845; Pauline Éleside or Élezile in June 1847; Laurent Marcellus near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in August 1849; a son, name and age unrecorded, died in 1850; François Homère born in June 1853; and Zoémie Euphrasie in March 1856--nine children, six sons and three daughters, between 1839 and 1856.  Victor died near Paincourtville in January 1860.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Victor died at "age 46 years."  He was 48.  Daughters Élezile and Émelie married into the Simoneaux and Newchurch families by 1870.  One of Victor's sons also married by then.  Another may have died in Confederate service. 

During the War of 1861-65, second son Achille enlisted in Company H of the 2nd Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, raised in Assumption Parish, which fought in Louisiana.  He enlisted at Napoleonville, formerly Canal, Assumption Parish, in September 1862, age 21, and was buried at Paincourtville in July 1863.  Although Confederate records are silent on the matter, his death likely was war-related. 

Victor's third son Clairville married first cousin Félide, daughter of Édouard Tonnellier and his Acadian wife Dionese Arthémise Savoie, his uncle and aunt, at the Plattenville church in October 1868; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Daughter Marie Julie was born near Paincourtville in July 1869; ...

Joseph le jeune's third and youngest son Pierre Téodule or Théodule, called Théodule, married Émilie or Amélie, called Émilite, daughter of fellow Acadians Benjamin Landry and Denise Duhon, at the Plattenville church in August 1831.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included a child, name unrecorded, died at age 10 hours in July 1832; Joseph le jeune died at birth in May 1833; another Joseph le jeune died at age 3 months in September 1834; Joseph Victor born in May 1837; Viléon Hippolyte or Hippolyte Viléon in October 1839; Raymond Dufroy or Leufroi le jeune in March 1842 but, called Leufroi, died at age 4 1/2 in September 1846; Ive Édouard, called Édouard, born near Paincourtville in May 1844; Marie Égladie in September 1845; Joseph Téophile or Théophile in August 1850; Joseph Gérard in October 1853; and Edmé Numa in January 1856 but, called Edmé, died at age 6 1/2 in October 1862.  Théodule remarried to cousin Félicie, daughter of fellow Acadians Auguste Landry and Delphine Landry, at the Paincourtville church in July 1864; one of Théodule's sons by his first wife married one of Félicie's sisters. ...  Théodule's daughter did not marry by 1870, but three of his remaining sons did, all to Landry cousins.

Third son Joseph Victor, by first wife Émilie Landry, married cousin Scholastique, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Landry and Mélanie Landry, at the Paincourtville church in April 1858; they had to secure a dispensation for third to fourth degrees of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born near Paincourtville, included Marie Amélie in January 1860; Joseph Ulysse in March 1862; Mélanie Luthetia in December 1865; Marie Léonie in October 1868; ... 

Théodule's fourth son Viléon Hippolyte or Hippolyte Viléon, by first wife Émilie Landry, married cousin Hélène, daughter of fellow Acadians Auguste Landry and Delphine Landry, at the Paincourtville church in January 1861; Hippolyte's father remarried to one of Hélène's sisters.  Hippolyte and Hélène's son Joseph Augustin was born near Paincourtville in November 1861 but, called Joseph, died at age 1 1/2 in April 1863; ... 

Théodule's sixth son Édouard, by first wife Émilie Landry, married cousin Egladie, daughter of fellow Acadians Firmin Landry and Telvina Hébert, at the Paincourtville church in January 1867.  Their children, born near Paincourtville, included Joseph Edmée in July 1869; Joseph Meridie in September 1870; ...

André's younger son Paul François married Félicité or Félicie, daughter of Joachim Marois and his Acadian wife Rosalie Foret of Ascension Parish and widow of Benjamin LeBlanc, at the Plattenville church in April 1819.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Raymond Leufroi, called Leufroi, in February 1820; Céleste Virginie, called Virginie, in March 1822; Hélène, called Élena and Helena, in August 1822[sic, probably 1823]; Joseph in the early 1820s; Noël Bernard in August 1826; Marie Cesere Tolvina or Etelvina, called Etelvina, in August 1827; and Marie Louise Félicité, called Félicie, in August 1830--seven children, three sons and four daughters, between 1820 and 1830.  Paul died in Assumption Parish in June 1855, age 65 (the recording priest said 64).  Daughters Virginie, Hélène/Élena, Félicie, and Etelvina married into Guidry, LeBlanc, Rodrigue, Blanchard, and Triche families by 1870, one of them, Hélène/Élena, twice.  Two Paul's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Leufroi married Adeline, daughter of Guillaume Mollère and his Acadian wife Constance Breaux, at the Paincourtville church in March 1848.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Sabin in February 1851 but, called Sabim Donatien, died the following April; and Joseph Sabin born in March 1853.  Leufroi's remaining son did not marry by 1870. 

Paul François's second son Joseph married first cousin Célestine, daughter of fellow Acadians Lazare Hébert and Céleste Landry, at the Paincourtville church in February 1850; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Céleste Olphida in September 1852; Joseph Luc Ellis in October 1855; Joseph Léon in November 1857; Paul Maturin in November 1862; Marie Céleste in February 1865; Henry in September 1870; ...  None of Joseph's children married by 1870. 

François-Joseph (c1730-1780) à Germain à François Savoie

François-Joseph, oldest son of Paul Savoie and Judith Michel and older brother of Pierre of Opelousas, born probably at Chepoudy in c1730, married Anne Aucoin, place and date unrecorded.  They evidently followed his family into exile on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Sometime in the late 1750s or early 1760s, they either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  In 1765, now a childless, middle-aged widower, François followed two of his sisters and other exiles from Halfiax to New Orleans via Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, and settled at Cabahannocer.  In one of the earliest Acadian marriages in colonial Louisiana, François, at age 35, remarried to fellow Acadian Marie Landry of Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, widow of Joseph Bourque, at the New Orleans church in July 1765.  She evidently died soon after the marriage, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth, and François remarried again--his third marriage--to Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Thibodeau and Marguerite Trahan of Petitcoudiac, at Cabahannocer in October 1766.  Anne, a native of Petitcoudiac, had come to Louisiana the year before with the Broussards, followed them to Bayou Teche, and retreated to Cabahannocer probably to escape an epidemic.  Her and François-Joseph's children, born on the river and perhaps on the prairies, included Anne dite Nanette in c1767; and François, fils in c1768.  Anne died either on the river or in Attakapas in August 1769.  In his late 30s, François remarried yet again--his fourth marriage--to Marie-Jeanne, daughter of fellow Acadians Ambroise Martin dit Barnabé and his second wife Madeleine dite Émiliènne Comeaux of Chignecto, at the Attakapas church in August 1769, soon after his third wife's passing.  Marie-Jeanne, a native of Malpèque on Île St.-Jean, came to Louisiana probably in 1765 from Halifax.  François-Joseph took her and his children back to the river but soon returned to the prairies, where they remained.  His and Marie-Jeanne's children, born on the river and the prairies, included Marianne in c1769 but died at New Orleans, age 16, in April 1785; Jean born in c1770; Pierre-Joseph, called Joseph, baptized at the the St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer church, age unrecorded, in February 1771; Marie-Madeleine, called Marie, baptized, age unrecorded, in March 1772; Marguerite-Lavanant born in December 1773; Marie-Céleste, called Céleste, at Attakapas in August 1777; Hippolyte in c1778; and Marguerite in c1780--10 children, six daughters and four sons, by two of his four wives, between 1767 and 1780.  François- Joseph died at Attakapas in December 1780, age 50.  Daughters Anne dite Nanette, Céleste, Marie, and Marguerite, by his third and fourth wives, married into the Benoit, Guidry, LeBlanc, Prejean, and Gilchrist families.  Three of François-Joseph's sons also married, one of them, like his father, multiple times.  They all remained on the prairies. 

Oldest son François, fils, by third wife Anne Thibodeau, followed his family to the prairies and married Apolline-Lucie or Lucie-Apolline, also called Anne-Apolline, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Potier and Marie-Anne Bernard, at the Opelousas church in September 1792.  Apolline, a native of Le Havre, had come to Louisiana from France in 1785.  They settled near Grand Coteau.  Their children, born there, included Marie-Éloise, called Éloise, in November 1794; François III in March 1797; Marguerite in March 1799; Paul dit Hippolyte baptized at the Opelousas church, age unrecorded, in April 1801; Marie-Céleste, called Céleste, born in January 1803; Louis in September 1804; Apolline Aloyse or Loise in March 1807; Alexandre in April 1810; and Madeleine in July 1811--nine children, five daughters and four sons, between 1794 and 1811.  François, fils died "at prairie du Grand Coteau" in February 1822.  The priest who recorded the burial said that François, fils was age 57 when he died.  He probably was a bit younger.  Daughters Marie Éloise, Céleste, Apolline Loise, Marguerite, and Madeleine married into the Boudreaux, Andrus, Meche, Kennison, and Marks families.  François, fils's four sons also married in St. Landry Parish, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son François III married Élise or Louise Eméranthe, called Méranthe, daughter of Canadian Jean Baptiste Morin and Marie Madeleine Marks of Prairie Basse du Grand Coteau, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in October 1816.  They settled at Grand Coteau.  Their children, born there, included Louis in July 1817; François IV in c1820; Joseph Diogène in February 1822 but died at age 2 1/2 in September 1824; Éloise born in November 1824 but died at age 6 1/2 in August 1831; Aremise, also called Anastasie Eremise, born in January 1828; and Jean Baptiste in August 1830--six children, four sons and two daughters, between 1817 and 1830.  François III died near Grand Coteau in October 1854, age 57 (the recording priest said 56).  Daughter Aremise married into the Benoit family by 1870.  Two of François III's sons also married by then.

Second son François IV married Marie Élodie Valentin, called Élodie, daughter of fellow Acadians Léon Valentin Landry and Mélanie Robichaux, at the Breaux Bridge church, St. Martin Parish, in July 1848.  They settled on the prairie between Grand Coteau and Arnaudville.  Their children, born there, included Methode or Mentor in September 1849; Alfred in January 1851; Eremise in April 1853; a child, name and age unrecorded, died near Grand Coteau in October 1854; Victor born in February 1862; ...  François IV died near Grand Coteau in February 1863, age 43.  One wonders if his death was war-related.  His daughter did not marry by 1870, but one of his sons did.

Oldest son Methose or Mentor married Emma, daughter of Louis Taylor and Célestine Quebedeaux, at the Arnaudville church, St. Landry Parish, in January 1868; they registered their marriage in Lafayette Parish in January 1870.  Daughter Philemène was born near Arnaudville in November 1868; ...

François III's fourth and youngest son Jean Baptiste married Françoise Amélina, called Amélina, daughter of German Creole Andéol Stelly and his Acadian wife Françoise Boudreaux, at the Grand Coteau church in January 1852.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Andéol in January 1853; and François le jeune in December 1854.  A Jean Baptiste Savoie died near Grand Coteau in February 1861, age 26.  The priest who recorded the burial did not give Jean Baptiste's parents' names or mention a wife, so one wonders if this was him.  He would have been age 30 at the time.  The deceased Jean Baptiste's succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse, St. Landry Parish, in February 1862.  Again, the document gives no hint of Jean Baptiste's identity.  Neither of his sons married by 1870. 

François, fils's second son Paul dit Hippolyte, while living at Opelousas, married Eugénie, 16-year-old daughter of Édouard Rose and Isabelle Ritter, at the Grand Coteau church in May 1821.  They settled near Grand Coteau.  Their children, born there, included Hippolyte Azolin or Azolin Hippolyte in February 1822; François le jeune in July 1824; Élisabeth in January 1827 but died at age 1 1/2 in (the recording priest said 2) in October 1828; Françoise born in January 1829; Silvain or Sylvain died a day after his birth in September 1831; and Marie Constance, called Constance, born in January 1834 but died at age 2 1/2 in July 1836--six children, three sons and three daughters, between 1822 and 1834.  A succession for wife Eugénie, probably post-mortem, naming her husband, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in January 1848.  Paul evidently did not remarry.  His remaining daughter did not marry by 1870, but two of his sons did.   

Oldest son Hippolyte Azolin or Azolin Hippolyte married Marie Castille at the Grand Coteau church in February 1848.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included a child, name and age unrecorded, died in September 1848; Jean Lessin born in December 1850 but, called Lucuis, died at age 5 years, 9 months, and 7 days in August 1856; Norbert born in June 1854 but died at age 6 1/2 in March 1861; and Eugénie born in c1857 but died at age 5 in October 1862--four children, at least two sons and a daughter, between 1848 and 1857.  None of the couple's children seem to have survived childhood, so the family line evidently did not endure. 

Paul's second son François le jeune married Marie Philomène, daughter of Michel Forêt, a Foreign Frenchman, not a fellow Acadian, and Julie Ritter, at the Grand Coteau church in December 1850.  Their son Michel was born near Grand Coteau in June 1852 but died at age 4 (the recording priest said 3) in October 1856.  Did this line endure? 

François, fils's third Louis married Marie Céleste or Célesie, called Célesie, daughter of fellow Acadian Augustin Boudreaux and his Creole wife Françoise Ritter, at the Grand Coteau church in January 1827.  Their son Don or Jean Louis had been born near Grand Coteau in December 1821.  Louis remarried to Clémentine, daughter of Hippolyte Barras and Manon Wiltz, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in April 1832.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Julien in June 1833; Hippolyte le jeune in September 1835 but died at age 4 in September 1839; Charles born in February 1837; Julie in May 1839; Silvain, Sylvin, or Sylvain in June 1841 but died at age 3 in August 1844; Léonard born in January 1845; and twins Émile and Émilie in June 1847, but Émile died at age 18 in August 1865 (was his death war-related?)--nine children, seven sons and two daughters, by two wives, including a set of twins, between 1821 and 1847.  Louis, père died in St. Martin Parish in July 1869.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial said that Louis died "at age 70 yrs."  He was 64.  His succession, calling him Louis Sr. and naming his wife, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse the following September.  Daughters Émilie and Julie, by his second wife, married into the Barras, Melançon, and Frederick families, one of them, Émilie, twice, by 1870.  Four of Louis's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Don Louis, by first wife Célesie Boudreaux, married Marie Aglaé, called Aglaé, daughter of Jean Baptiste Castille and Azélie Stelly, at the Grand Coteau church in July 1847.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Jean Baptiste Aimar or Aymar in December 1848; Françoise Alissa, Alicia, or Elisia, in May 1850; Louis Oscar in February 1853; Marie Edmonia in November 1857; Marcellus in November 1859; François Evariste in November 1862; Marie Adèle in January 1867; Adolphe in June 1869; ...  Daughter Alicia/Elisia married into the Guidry family by 1870.  One of Don Louis's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Jean Baptiste Aymar married Léocade, daughter of fellow Acadian Adolphe Richard and his Creole wife Marie Virginie Dupré, at the Grand Coteau church in September 1870. ...

Louis's second son Julien, by second wife Clémentine Barras, married cousin Élisa, daughter of Alexandre Barras and Clémence Wiltz, at the St. Martinville church in September 1854.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Marcellus in June 1862; Aurelien in June 1864; Charles le jeune in February 1866 but died the following August; Vincent born in September 1868; Élisabeth in December 1870; ... 

Louis's fourth son Charles, by second wife Clémentine Barras, married fellow Acadian Félicia Dugas, place and date unrecorded.  Their children, born near Breaux Bridge, included Valérien in February 1868; Aloiza in June 1869; ...

Louis's sixth son Léonard, by second wife Clémentine Barras, married cousin Clémentine, another daughter of Alexandre Barras and Clementine Wiltz, at the St. Martinville church in June 1867. ...

François, fils's fourth and youngest son Alexandre married Arthémise Neraut at the Grand Coteau church in August 1843.  A succession for Alexandre Savoie was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in December 1867.  If this was him, he would have been age 57 that year.  Did he and his wife have any children?

François-Joseph's third son Pierre-Joseph, called Joseph, from fourth wife Marie-Jeanne Martin, married Marie-Anne dite Manon, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Cormier, fils and his first wife Marguerite Bourg, at the Attakapas church in October 1796.  They settled at Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Marie in August 1797; Marguerite in January 1799; Marie-Thérèse or -Tarsile in October 1800; Éloise or Louise in the 1800s; and Cyprien in the 1800s.  Joseph remarried to Marie Henriette, called Henriette, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Blanchard and Marie Dupuis and widow of Jean Baptiste Breaux, at the St. Martinville church in May 1810.  They settled at La Pointe on upper Bayou Teche.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Éloi in December 1811 but died at age 1 in December 1812; and François Cyprien born in March 1814--seven children, four daughters and three sons, by two wives, between 1797 and 1814.  Wife Henriette's succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in December 1815, so she had died by then, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth.  Joseph remarried again--his third marriage--to cousin Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Martin and Isabelle Thibodeaux of La Pointe and widow of Pierre Doucet, at the St. Martinville church in June 1824.  Joseph died at La Pointe in November 1826.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph was age 48 when he died.  He was closer to 55.  His successions, the first of which identified his wife and heir, son Cyprien, were filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in February and August 1828.  Daughters Tarsile, Éloise/Louise, and Marguerite, by his first wife, married into the Ritter, Stelly, Frozard, Teal or Tear, and Richard families.  Only one of Joseph's sons married. 

Oldest son Cyprien, called "Cyprien of Laf." by the recording priest, who called his mother Marie Anne Arceneaux, not Cormier, married Madeleine, daughter of Auguste Nezat and Anne Carmélite Pradier, perhaps Credeur or Prather, at the St. Martinville church in April 1839.  Did they have any children?

François-Joseph's fourth and youngest son Hippolyte, by fourth wife Marie-Jeanne Martin, married Marie-Victoire, daughter of fellow Acadians François Guilbeau and Madeleine Broussard, at Attakapas in January 1800.  They settled at Grande Pointe and Grand Bois on upper Bayou Teche.  Their children, born there, included Marie-Zéline in 1800 and baptized at the Attakapas church, age 6 months, in April 1801; Hippolyte, fils born in May 1802; Marcelle, also called Marcellite, in December 1803; François, also called François Valcourt and Valcourt, in February 1806; Alexandre in November 1807 but died at age 10 in November 1817; Éloi born in May 1809 but died at age 5 1/2 in January 1815; Carmélite born in c1810 but died at age 5 (perhaps 4 1/2) in October 1814; a son, name unrecorded, died in September 1811 four days after his birth; and Achilles or Achille born in June 1813--nine children, three daughters and six sons, between 1800 and 1813.  Hippolyte, père died "at his home 'au large du' (around the countryside of) Grand Bois" in February 1814, age 36.  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse the following August.  Daughters Marie Zéline and Marcellite married into the Melançon and Duhon families.  Hippolyte's remaining sons also married and settled in what became Lafayette Parish. 

Oldest son Hippolyte, fils married fellow Acadian Adélaïde Hébert probably in Lafayette Parish in the mid-1820s.  Their children, born there, included Adélaide baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 6 days, in March 1825; Hippolyte III baptizedage 3 months, in October 1826; Hillaire or Hilaire born in December 1827; Désiré in 1829 and baptized, age 6 months, in January 1830; Octave born in July 1831; and Gustave in January 1833--six children, a daughter and five sons, between 1825 and 1833.  Daughter Adélaïde married into the Trahan family by 1870.  Two of Hippolyte, fils's sons also married by then. 

Second son Hilaire may have married fellow Acadian Marie Thelesia, called Thelesia and Thérèsia, Girouard at the Raceland church, Lafourche Parish, in February 1861.  They did not remain on the Lafourche.  Their children, born on the prairies and the lower Atchafalaya, included Hippolyte le jeune near Youngsville, Lafayette Parish, in February 1862; Jean Baptiste Prosper near Brashear, later Morgan, City, St. Mary Parish, on the lower Atchafalaya in August 1864; Numa near Youngsville in February 1867; Joseph Ozée in July 1869; ... 

Hippolyte, fils's third son Désiré married Aspasie, daughter of Louis Sellers and his Acadian wife Aspasie Boudreaux, at the Vermilionville church in December 1849.  Did they have any children? 

Hippolyte, père's second François Valcourt married Marie Aspasie, called Aspasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Dugas and Marie Anastasie Poirier of St. Landry Parish, at the Vermilionville church in November 1828.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Marie Cléorène baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 1 month, in March 1831; Ozémé or Osémé born in March 1833; Cléonise baptized, age 2 months, in February 1836; Natalie born in 1838 and baptized, age 6 months, in April 1839; Mélanie born in May 1841 or 1842; Sylvanie in October 1843; Joseph in March 1846; and Jean Narcisse in September 1848--eight children, five daughters and three sons, between 1831 and 1848.  None of François Valcourt's daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did and settled in the coastal marshes. 

Oldest son Osémé married Méranthe Labove, probably Labauve, a fellow Acadian, place and date unrecorded.  They settled near Creole, then in Calcasieu but now in Cameron Parish, in the southwest coastal marshes.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Osémé in October 1857; and Demosthène in December 1859.  Did they have anymore children? 

Hippolyte, père's sixth and youngest son Achille married Marie Phelonie, Phelonise, or Philomène, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Bourg and Marguerite Duhon, at the Vermilionville church in April 1833.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Arminie in c1834 but died in Lafayette Parish, age 8, in September 1842; Émile baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 3 months, in July 1836 but died at age 2 1/2 in September 1838; Marie Armélise born in January 1838; Jean in February 1840; Marguerite in January 1842; Marie Azéna, called Azéna, in February 1844; Hippolyte in c1846; Alcide in December 1847; Antoine, also called Emeran, in January 1850; Clebert in April 1853; and Adélaïde near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in October 1854--10 children, five daughters and five sons, between 1834 and 1854.  Daughters Marguerite, Marie Azéna, and Marie Armélise married into the Bourg, Baudoin, Broussard, and Simon families, one of them, Marguerite, twice, by 1870.  None of Achille's sons married by then. 

Jean dit Valois (c1751-1803) à Germain à François Savoie

Jean dit Valois, third and youngest son of Charles Savoie and Françoise Martin, born at Annapolis Royal in c1749 or 1750, escaped, despite his tender age, the roundup there in the fall of 1755 and found refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Sometime in the late 1750s or early 1760s, he and whoever was watching over him--likely older sister Marguerite, who also escaped the British at Annapolis Royal and later married a Beausoleil Broussard--either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  He may have been the Jean Savoie counted at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, in August 1762 with no one else in his household, though he likely was too young at the time to be left alone.  In 1764-65, now in his early teens, he followed other Acadian exiles, including his older sister and a dozen other Savoies, from Halifax to New Orleans via Cap-Français and settled with Savoie cousins from Annapolis Royal at Cabahannocer, while his sister followed her husband and her Broussard in-laws to Bayou Teche.  Jean married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre-Paul Boutin and his first wife Ursule Guidry, at the Ascension church on the river above Cabahannocer in November 1773.  Marguerite, a native of Baie-des-Espagnols, Île Royale, came to the colony with her family from Maryland in 1767.  She and Jean followed her family to Opelousas, where they settled near his Savoie cousins from Chepoudy.  Their children, born on the river and the prairies, included Anastasie in c1774; Marie at Opelousas in March 1777; Marie-Rose dite Rosalie baptized at the Opelousas church, age unrecorded, in November 1779; Joseph baptized, age 8 months, in September 1782; Émiliènne born in November 1784; Jean-Baptiste, called Jean, in August 1786; Salomée in August 1788; Lise-Marguerite baptized, age unrecorded, in November 1790; and Céleste born in December 1792--nine children, seven daughters and two sons, between 1774 and 1792.  In 1796, in the Grand Coteau area at the southern edge of the Opelousas District, Jean owned six slaves.  He died in the district in October 1803, in his early 50s.  His succession was recorded at Opelousas the following March.  Daughters Anastasie, Marie, Rosalie, Lise Marguerite, and Céleste married into the Andrus, Venable, Leger, Meche, Inogoso, Peck, Caruthers, and Smith families, two of them, Anastasie and Lise Marguerite, twice.  Jean's sons also married in what became St. Landry Parish. 

Older son Joseph married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of German Creoles Jean Baptiste Stelly and Madeleine Ritter, at the Opelousas church in February 1802.  They settled near Grand Coteau.  Their children, born there, included Pierre in February 1803; Eugénie Sidalise baptized at the Opelousas church, age 2 months, in November 1805; Joseph, fils baptized, age 3 months, in December 1807; Adeline born in November 1809; Silesie or Célesie in January 1812; Ursin in February 1814; Pauline in August 1816; Euphrosine in July 1818; and Delphine in March 1821--nine children, three sons and six daughters, between 1803 and 1821.  Joseph died near Grand Coteau in March 1830.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph was age 45 when he died.  He was 48.  His succession, naming his widow and minor children--Ursin, Pauline, Euphrosyne, Delphine--along with his major children--Pierre, Joseph, Adeline and her husband, Sidalise Eugénie and her husband, and Célesie and her husband--was filed at the Opelousas courthouse the following May.  Daughters Eugénie Sidalise, Silesie (who the recording priest called Prospère), Adeline, Euphrosine, Pauline, and Delphine married into the Mouton, Dantin, Mayer, Higginbotham, Miller, Woods, and Gay families, one of them, Delphine, after divorcing her first husband.  Joseph's three sons also married, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Pierre married Marie Angélique, called Angélique, daughter of German Creoles Jean Miller and Marie Françoise Mayer, at the Grand Coteau church in January 1824.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Éliza in November 1824; and Lise baptized at age 7 months in October 1828.  Pierre, called Peter by the recording priest, died near Grand Coteau in June 1841, age 38.  His daughters did not marry by 1870, if they married at all, so this family line may have died with Peter.   

Joseph's second son Joseph, fils married fellow Acadian Louise, also called Éloise, Loise, Louise, and Lise, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Boudreaux and his Creole wife Madeleine Stelly, at the Grand Coteau church in January 1834.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Idelphonse in January 1835 but died at age 1 in February 1836; Terrence or Terence born in February 1837; Émile in February 1839; Marie Irma in January 1841; Onézime or Onésime in February 1843 but died 18 days after his birth; Aurelien born in March 1844 but died at age 2 1/2 in October 1846; Émilia or Amelia dite Melia born in May 1846; Joseph Napoléon in December 1849; twins Félicia and Félicien in September 1851, but Félicien died at age 13 months in October 1852; and Louisa born in October 1853--11 children, seven sons and four daughters, including a set of twins, between 1835 and 1853.  Joseph, fils remarried to cousin Lucille dite Lucie, daughter of fellow Acadians Antoine Boudreaux and Marie Émelie Savoie and widow of Onésime Richard, at the Grand Coteau church in October 1869. ...  Daughters Marie Irma and Amelia, by his first wife, married into the Meche and Campbell families by 1870.  One of Joseph, fils's sons also married by then. 

Third son Émile, by first wife Louise Boudreaux, married stepsister and cousin Anatalie dite Natalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Onésime Richard and Lucille dite Lucie Boudreaux, at the Grand Coteau church in September 1866.  They settled on the prairie near Church Point, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish.  Their children, born there, included Émilie in December 1867; Lucia in June 1870; ...

Joseph, père's third and youngest son Ursin married Pauline, daughter of François Quebedeaux and Célestine LaGrange, at the Grand Coteau church in April 1833.  They settled on the prairie between Grand Coteau and Arnaudville.  Their children, born there, included Adeline in March 1834 but died at age 14 months in May 1835; François le jeune born in June 1836; Joseph in August 1838; and Jean Baptiste le jeune in March 1841--four children, a daughter and three sons, between 1834 and 1841.  Ursin died near Arnaudville in December 1866, age 52 (the recording priest said 58).  None of his sons married by 1870. 

Jean's younger son Jean-Baptiste, called Jean, married Marie Modeste, called Modeste and also Marie Élisa, daughter of fellow Acadians Marin Prejean and Marie Rose Benoit, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in January 1808.  They settled near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Marie Adélaïde, called Adélaïde, in November 1808 but died at age 1 1/2 in March 1810; Marie Adèle or Adeline born in April 1810; Joséphine in c1811 and baptized at the Opelousas church, age 15 months, in February 1813; Marie Azélie, called Azélie, in c1812; Jean Achilles or Achille Jean born in September 1813; a child, name unrecorded, died eight days after his/her birth in December 1814; Marie Melissaire born in November 1815; Marie in October 1817; Déogène or Théogène Jean in the 1810s; Joseph le jeune, also called Joseph Jean, in July 1819; Marie Élise in June 1824; and Marie Émilia in August 1829--a dozen children, at least eight daughters and three sons, between 1808 and 1829.  Jean died near Grand Coteau in December 1852.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Jean died "at age 72 yrs."  He was 66.  His succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in May 1853.  Daughters Marie Adeline, Joséphine, Marie Melissaire, and Azélie married into the Bourque, Jagneau, Boudreaux, and Miller families.  Jean's sons also married. 

Oldest son Jean Achille or Achille Jean married cousin Marie Élise, called Élise, Élisa, or Lisa, 17-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Maximilien Prejean and Tarsile Breaux, at the Grand Coteau church in September 1834.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Marie Élisa, also called Marie Tarsile, in December 1836; Joseph Maxille in October 1838 but died the following January; Marie Modeste, called Modeste, born in January 1840; Marie Aloise or Louise, called Louise, in July 1841; Marie Ophilia, called Ophilia, in May 1844; Jean le jeune in December 1845 but died at age 10 months in September 1846; Cyprien born in September 1848; Marie Felonise, called Felonise, in February 1851; and Julien in May 1853--nine children, five daughters and four sons, between 1836 and 1853.  Daughters Marie Tarsile, Felonise, and Modeste married into the Comeaux, Richard, Matte families by 1870.  Neither of Jean Achille's remaining sons married by then. 

Jean's second son Déogène or Théogène Jean married fellow Acadian and cousin Amélie or Émelia, called Melia, Prejean at the Grand Coteau church in December 1845.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Jean Téogène or Théogène in September 1846; Joseph Philogène in August 1850; Onésime in September 1861 but, called Onésine, died at age 1 1/2 in May 1863; and Adam born in March 1864 but died at age 5 in July 1869--four children, all sons, between 1846 and 1864.  Théogène died near Franklin, St. Mary Parish, in c1864, age 45.  He was reinterred at Grand Coteau in September 1866.  Was his death war-related?  His succession, calling him Théogène Jean and naming his wife, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in November 1869.  One of his remaining sons married by 1870. 

Second son Joseph Philogène married Cephalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Placide Boudreaux and Marie Rose Babineaux, at the Grand Coteau church in August 1867.  Daughter Marie Ernestine was born near Grand Coteau in March 1869; ...

Jean's third and youngest son Joseph le jeune, also called Joseph Jean and Jean Joseph, married Marie Adelia, Edillia, or Odilia Stout or Stutes at the Grand Coteau church in December 1846.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Edgar in April 1848; Azéma in March 1850; François in February 1852; Marie Azéma in January 1854; Césaire in March 1862 but died the following November; Eve born in February 1866; a daughter, name and age unrecorded, died in November 1867; a child, perhaps theirs, died "at birth" in March 1869; ...  Daughter Azéma, the first with the name, married into the Breaux family by 1870.  One of Joseph le jeune's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Edgar married Marie Louise, called Louise or Louisa, daughter of George Fall and Marie Thérèse Noël, at the Grand Coteau church in September 1867.  Daughter Maria Onilia in July 1868; ...

Semere

Jean, fils, son of Jean Semer and Marguerite Héron, born in c1695 in "Quernesit," or Guernsey, one of the British-controlled Channel islands off the northwest coast of Normandy, married Marguerite, daughter of Michel Vincent and Marie-Josèphe Richard, at Grand-Pré in November 1717.  The priest who recorded the marriage called Jean a Lemer.  Another source calls him a Lemaire from Ireland.  Marguerite gave Jean at least five children, four sons and a daughter, at Minas between 1720 and 1740.  All of the sons married, three of them into the Trahan, Saulnier, and Landry families.  The name of the youngest son's wife has been lost to history.  In 1755, Jean Semer of Guernsey, wife Marguerite Vincent, and their sons and grandchildren were still at Minas.  Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this small family to the winds. 

On 5 September 1755, the commander of New-English troops at Minas, Lieutenant-Colonel John Winslow, ordered the local men and older boys to gather at the Grand-Pré church, where his soldiers held them under armed guard until enough deportation transports could be gathered to take them and their families into exile.  According to a list compiled for Winslow, Jean Semer's third son Joseph was one of the local habitants held in the church.  Neither his father nor any of his brothers appeared on the list.  

Joseph, wife Anne Landry, son Michel, and oldest brother Germain and his wife Marie Trahan--but not Germain and Marie's 11-year-old son Jean-Baptiste le jeune--were exiled to Virginia in late October, arriving there a month later, where they endured a fate worse than most of the other refugees deported from Minas.  Virginia's governor Robert Dinwiddie refused to allow the hundreds of Acadians sent to him to remain in the colony.  Exiles died on the five filthy, crowded ships anchored in Hampton Roads while Virginia authorities pondered their fate.  As winter approached, the governor ordered exiles from one vessel moved up to Richmond, two of the vessels unloaded at Hampton, and two more at Norfolk.  Finally, in the spring of 1756, the governor, his council, and the colony's Burgesses made their decision ... the "papists" must go!  In May, the first shipment of exiles left for England, and in two weeks all of them had gone--299 to Bristol, 250 to Falmouth, 340 to Southampton, and 336 to Liverpool--1,225 Acadians in all by one count.   Their ordeal only worsened in the English ports, where many died of smallpox.  Joseph and Anne's daughter Marine was born in England in c1758.

Evidently Jean Semer and Marguerite Vincent, along with youngest son Amand and his wife Anne ____, and perhaps second son Jean-Baptiste l'aîné and his family, were deported from Minas to Massachusetts in December 1755.  Called Lemaires, they appeared on a French repatriation list at Boston in August 1763, soon after the war with Britain ended.  By 1766, most of the Acadians in New England resettled in British Canada.  Some returned to greater Acadia, also now controlled by the British, to join relatives being held there.  Others, escaping British rule, chose to go to French St.-Domingue to work on a new naval base on the island's northwest coast.  Basile-Romaine Semeure "of Saint-Charles in Acadie," no parents or spouse given, died at Môle St.-Nicolas, site of the French naval base, in July 1778, age 25.  An unnamed girl, no age given, daughter of ____ Semeure and Geneviève Renoche, died at Môle the following September.  Judging by Basile-Romaine's place of origin, the Semeures in the sugar colony likely were descendants of Jean Semer. 

In the spring of 1763, after prolonged negotiations between the French and British governments, the Acadians in England were repatriated to France, the Semers among them.  Joseph and his family crossed on the transport Ambition to St.-Malo in late May 1763 and settled in the suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where, in 1763 and 1766, Anne gave Joseph two more daughters.  Wife Anne Landry died at St.-Servan in June 1766, age 38.  Meanwhile, brother Germain and wife Marie Trahan either landed at, or moved on to Le Havre in Normandy, where, in 1763 and 1768, Marie gave Germain a daughter and another son.  In 1766, Germain received a letter from his older son Jean-Baptiste le jeune, who had sent it from New Orleans that April.  Jean-Baptiste urged them to join him in Louisiana, where he had gone with the Beausoleil Broussards the year before, but French authorities refused to let Germain and his family go.  In 1773, six years after their son had married in Louisiana, Germain, Marie, and their younger children, but not brother Joseph and his family, chose to follow other Acadians in the French coastal cities to the interior of Poitou as part of a major settlement venture near the city of Châtellerault.  After two years of effort, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes, where they subsisted on government handouts, again, and what work they could find.  Germain worked as a carpenter at the Hôpital du Sanitat in Nantes, where his wife Marie Trahan died in October 1776, age 56.  Germain died at Nantes in December 1782, in his early 60s, three months after witnessing the marriage of a cousin at St.-Nicolas Parish church there. 

When in the early 1780s the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France a chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, Joseph Semer, now a widower in his late 50s, agreed to take it.  With him would go three of his daughters, grown but still unmarried, and his brother Germain's children:  Marie-Françoise, age 24, who had recently married fellow Acadian Joseph Boudrot at Nantes; and Grégoire-Dominique, age 16.  Because of the letter sent to his brother back in 1766, Joseph had known for nearly 20 years that his nephew Jean-Baptiste Semer le jeune had been living in Louisiana at a place called Attakapas.  Also with Jean-Baptiste le jeune in Louisiana were two of his Trahan uncles, Jean and Michel, one of them married to a Beausoleil Broussard.  The Semers were determined to reunite with their kinsmen along the banks of Bayou Teche. 

One of the many mysteries of the Acadians' Greast Upheaval is how Germain Semer's son Jean-Baptiste le jeune, only age 11 in 1755, became separated from his parents and remained in greater Acadia.  Two possible scenarios present themselves:  After escaping the chaos at Minas, perhaps with his Trahan relatives, Jean-Baptiste le jeune may have followed them to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore and on to Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  By the early 1760s, now in his mid-teens, he may have been captured by, or surrendered to, British forces in the area, who held him with his Trahan relatives in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  There is also the possibility that he did not escape the British at Minas in 1755 but became separated from his parents during the chaos of deportation and ended up in Massachusetts with his Semer grandfather and his Semer uncles Jean-Baptiste l'aîné and Amand.  In 1763, at war's end, unable to reunite with his parents in France, he may have chosen to return to greater Acadia to join his relatives there.  Or, from Massachusetts, he may have followed Semer kinsmen to French St.-Domingue with hopes of escaping British rule and making a new life in the sugar colony.  He may have found conditions there so unbearable he looked for an opportunity to escape.  When the Broussards, with three of his Trahan uncles, came through Cap-Français from Halifax in December 1764, Jean-Baptiste le jeune, now 21, may have joined them on their way to New Orleans. 

The Semers were a small family in Acadia, and they remained a small family in Louisiana.  However, a simple act of love by a member of this family has given us a priceless glimpse into the lives of our Acadian ancestors during exile.  Jean-Baptiste Semer le jeune's April 1766 letter from New Orleans to his father at Le Havre, France, opens a window on the Acadian experience like few other documents that have come to light.  Jean-Baptiste le jeune wrote the letter 14 months after he reached New Orleans with the Beausoleil Broussards in February 1765.  He followed the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche, and, though he dictated his letter to a nun in New Orleans exactly a year after he settled on the distant bayou, he returned to the Teche, married a fellow Acadian there two years later, and created a family of his own.  He never saw his parents again--they died at Nantes, France, before they had a chance to reunite with their son--but 20 years after he came to Louisiana, Jean-Baptiste did reunite with his uncle Joseph, whom he had not seen in 30 years, and with a brother, a sister, and two female cousins he had never met.  After arriving on L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships from France, Joseph, a widower, led his daughters, his niece, and younger nephew from New Orleans to Bayou Teche to live near his long-lost nephew.  Joseph never remarried and had no sons of his own.  Jean-Baptiste le jeune's younger brother Grégoire, who lived till age 70, never married, so our letter writer was the sole progenitor of this South Louisiana family, which remained on the Teche.

The  family may have owned a few slaves during the late antebellum period, but none of them appear on the federal slave schedules of 1850 and 1860.  The Semeres were thus petit habitants, or small farmers, who participated only peripherally in the South's antebellum plantation-based economy.  However, as early as the 1780s, non-Acadians with similar-sounding surnames also lived on Bayou Teche and on the nearby prairies near their Acadian namesakes.  Most, if not all, of them--Semes, Semers, and Semeres--were free persons of color.  Two Semés, a father and his young son, arrived at New Orleans from Le Havre, France, in April 1848.  Their stated destination was Mississippi, so they probably did not remain in South Louisiana. 

Only two Acadian Semeres served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65.  Onésime and Joachim were grandsons of Jean Baptiste the letter writer.  Onésime was about to turn 40 when, in January 1863, he enlisted in the Yellow Jackets Battalion Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Martin Parish, which fought in South Louisiana.  In November of that year, the Yellow Jackets became a part of the Consolidated 18th Regiment and Yellow Jackets Battalion Infantry, which also fought in Louisiana.  Onésime was assigned to Company G of that unit.  Meanwhile, younger brother Joachim, in his late 30s, enlisted in the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, another unit with a large concentration of Acadians, which fought in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana.  The identity of his company in the 18th Regiment has been lost.  The Federals captured Joachim at Fausse Pointe near New Iberia in late November 1863, when Federal forces invaded the Teche-Vermilion region for the second time that year, sent him as a prisoner of war to New Orleans, and exchanged him at Red River Landing on the river above Baton Rouge the following July.  Both brothers survived the war and returned to their families at Grande Pointe on upper Bayou Teche.  

After the war, most of the descendants of Jean Baptiste Semer le jeune did not move very far from the family's home base.  They can be found today in northern St. Martin Parish, especially at Breaux Bridge, Cecilia, and Henderson, near where their Acadian ancestor settled.  

By the early 1800s, the family's name had evolved from Semer to Semere, which is how it is usually spelled today.  The family's name in Louisiana also is spelled Cemair, Cemaire, Cemar, Chemer, Lemere, Seimair, Seimaire, Seimer, Seimere, Seinere, Semair, Semaire, Semar, Semé, Semeur, Seymaire, Seymer, Sumaire.  This family should not be confused with that of Louis Simar of La Pointe Noire in the Opelousas District, who were French Canadians, not Acadians.40

Jean-Baptiste (c1744-1799) à Jean Semere

Jean-Baptiste le jeune, older son of Germain Semer and Marie Trahan, born probably at Minas in c1744, became separated from his parents in the fall of 1755 and did not follow them to Virginia, England, or France.  He remained in greater Acadia, made his way to Louisiana with the Broussards in 1764-65, and followed them to lower Bayou Teche.  He married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Thibodeau and Brigitte Breau and widow of Pierre Surette, at Attakapas in the late 1760s.  Marie and her first husband also had come to Louisiana with the Broussards, so she and Jean-Baptiste le jeune probably had known one another at least since their arrival.  She became a widow by the spring of 1766--her first husband may have died in the Teche valley epidemic of 1765--and evidently remarried to Jean-Baptiste le jeune a year or so later.  Jean-Baptiste and Marie settled at Grande Pointe on upper Bayou Teche.  Their children, born there, included Louis in c1769; Urbain in July 1771; Victoire in April 1774; Jean-Baptiste, fils, called Baptiste, in September 1776; Marguerite in 1778 and baptized at the Attakapas church, age 9 months, in May 1779; Marie-Marthe, called Marthe or Martha, baptized, age unrecorded, in June 1780 but died in St. Martin Parish, age 74 (the recording priest said 70), in August 1854, her succession, not naming a husband, filed at the St. Martinville courthouse the following day; and Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, born in February 1781--seven children, three sons and four daughters, between 1769 and 1781.  Jean-Baptiste died probably at Grande Pointe by January 1799, when the Attakapas priest who recorded a daughter's marriage listed Jean-Baptiste as deceased.  He would have been age 55 if he had lived to see his daughter married.  His succession, naming his "legitimate" children, his daughters' spouses, and one of his wife's Surrette daughters, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in November 1809.  Widow Marie died at Grande Pointe in July 1810, age 70.  A succession, naming Jean Baptiste and his wife and concerning "Sale of land," was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in May 1840, long after their passing.  Daughters Victoire, Marie Madeleine, and Marguerite married into the Guidry and Calais families and settled at Grande Pointe.  Jean Baptiste's three sons also settled there.  Two of them married, but only one of the lines endured.  All of the Acadian Semeres of South Louisiana come from Jean-Baptiste the letter writer's second son. 

Oldest son Louis died at Grande Pointe in November 1837.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Louis was age 75 when he died.  He was in his late 60s.  His sister Martha's last will, dated 3 September 1836 and filed at the St. Martinville courthouse, mentioned only Louis as her heir.  She, too, never married.  Louis succession, mentioning no wife or children, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in January 1838.  He outlived his younger married brothers by a decade.  

Jean-Baptiste's second son Urbain married Éloise, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Guidry, fils and Marie Madeleine Breaux of Grande Pointe, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in May 1813; Éloise's brother Jean Baptiste III had married Urbain's sister Marguerite back in June 1806.  Urbain and Éloise's children, born at Grande Pointe, included Marie in March 1814; Jean Baptiste le jeune in January 1816; Placide in June 1818; Marie Azélie in the late 1810s or early 1820s; Julien in November 1820; Onésime in June 1823; and Joachim posthumously in March 1826--seven children, two daughters and five sons, between 1814 and 1826.  Urbain died at his home at Grande Pointe in February 1826.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Urbain died at "age about 50 years."  He was 54.  His succession, calling his wife Héloise, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in July 1836.  Daughters Marie and Marie Azélie married into the Dupuis and Carlin families.  The Acadian Semeres of South Louisiana are descended from Urbain and at least one of his five sons. 

Oldest son Jean Baptiste le jeune married Eremise, also called Louisa, daughter of Henri Lagrange and Arthémise Olivier, a Creole, not a fellow Acadian, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in February 1849.  Their children, born probably at Grande Pointe, included Alexandre in July 1851 but died at age 11 months in August 1852; Marie Eve born in October 1853 but died at age 8 (the recording priest said 10) in September 1861; and Marie Arthémise born in c1858 but died at age 14 months in October 1859--three children, a son and two daughters, between 1851 and 1858.  None of Jean Baptiste's children survived childhood, so the family line did not endure. 

Urbain's second son Placide married cousin Marie Zéolide, called Zéolide, daughter of fellow Acadians Marcellin Melançon and Scholastique Guidry, at the St. Martinville church in December 1839.  Their children, born at Grande Pointe, included Sostène or Sosthène in October 1840; Scholastique dite Colastie in February 1842; Euphémie in September 1843; Marie Cléonise in September 1844; Urbain le jeune, also called Urbain Adelina or Valérien, in December 1846; Euphémon in September 1849; Marie Erasie in October 1851; Treville in January 1858; Jean Baptiste le jeune in late 1858 but died at age 2 in September 1860; Ferjus born in July 1860; and Eve in June 1864.  Placide may have remarried in the 1860s to a much younger woman.  His new wife, described only as "Mrs. Placide Semere," died at Grande Pointe in October 1867.  The Breaux Bridge priest who recorded her burial noted that she died "at age 16 yrs."  This would have made her younger than some of Placide's children.  Daughter Scholastique, by his first wife, married into the Melançon family by 1870.  At least two of Placide's sons married by the early 1870s. 

Second son Valérien, by first wife Zéolide Melançon, married Catherine Delhomme, also called Alexander, probably at Breaux Bridge, St. Martin Parish, in the late 1860s.  Their children, born there, included Stanislas in March 1871; Victor baptized at Breaux Bridge at age 6 weeks in March 1879; ...  

Placide's third son Euphémon, by first wife Zéolide Melançon, married cousin Marie Ophelia Melançon probably at Breaux Bridge in the early 1870s. ... 

Urbain's third son Julien, at age 28, was an overseer on his paternal aunt Marthe's farm at Grande Pointe in early November 1850.  Living with him and Marthe were Rose Semere, a 60-year-old black woman, and Louis Semere, a 10-year-old mulatto boy, who may have been free persons of color.  Julien's succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in December 1855.  He would have been age 35 that year.  He does not seem to have married.  

Urbain's fourth son Onésime, after serving in the War of 1861-65 while in his late 30s and or early 40s, married, in his 50s, Susanne Claude probably at Carencro, Lafayette Parish, in the 1870s.

Urbain's fifth and youngest son Joachim married Hyacinthe Wiltz in a civil ceremony in St. Martin Parish in April 1879.  If he was the Joachim, son of Urbain, who had fought in the war, he would have been age 53 at the time of his marriage. 

Jean-Baptiste's third and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, fils, called Baptiste, married cousin Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Melançon and Claire Breaux of Grande Pointe, at the St. Martinville church in November 1817.  Marie was a native of St. James Parish on the river.  She and Jean-Baptiste, fils settled at Grande Pointe.  Their children, born there, included Claire in September 1818; Eugène in January 1820 but died at age 8 1/2 (the recording priest said "at age about 10 years") in October 1828; and Marcellite, also called Marie Marcellite, born in April 1822--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1818 and 1822.  Jean-Baptiste, fils died at his home at Grande Pointe in April 1823, age 46.  His succession, naming his widow, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in June.  Daughters Claire and Marcellite married into the Durio and Leger families, so the blood of the family line may have endured. 

Sonnier

Louis Saulnier, a sailor born in France in c1663, came to Acadia by c1684, the year he married Louise Bastineau dit Peltier at Grand Pré.  Louis died in c1730, in his late 60s, probably at Minas.  Louise gave the sailor 14 children there, six sons and eight daughters.  Five of their daughters married into the Boudrot, Boisseau dit Blondin, Lapierre, Oudy, and Hébert families.  Five of Louis and Louise's sons married into the Hébert, Breau, Trahan, Comeau, and Darois families.  In 1755, the sailor's descendants could be found not only at Minas, but also at Petitcoudiac in the trois-rivières region west of Chignecto; at Annapolis Royal, formerly Port-Royal; and on Île St.-Jean.   Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this large family even farther. 

The Acadians at Chignecto and in the trois rivières were the first to endure a disruption of their lives.  British and New-English forces attacked Fort Beauséjour at Chignecto in June 1755, and Saulniers from Petitcoudiac may have been among the local Acadians who were serving in the fort as militia.  If so, they, too, along with Canadian militia and French troupes de la marine, became prisoners of war when the fort surrendered on June 16.  Lieutenant-Governor Charles Lawrence was so incensed to find so-called French Neutrals fighting with French regulars at Beauséjour he ordered his officers to deport the Chignecto-area Acadians to the southernmost seaboard colonies.  Residents of the trois-rivières ended up in South Carolina and Georgia, Saulniers from Petitcoudiac among them.  Others, after escaping the British, sought refuge in Canada.  A Saulnier died at Québec in December 1757, victim, perhaps, of the smallpox epidemic that struck Acadian refugees in and around the Canadian capital between the summer of 1757 and the spring of 1758.  His first cousin from Annapolis Royal and members of the cousin's family also escaped to Canada.  Three of the cousin's teenage daughters died at Québec in 1757, victims, perhaps, of the pox.  Evidently most of the trois-rivières Saulniers who escaped the British at Chignecto ended up on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, where they likely joined their fellow exiles at Shediac and Miramichi.  Later, some of them also may have made their way up to Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  One suspects that some of these Saulniers may have joined the Acadian resistance. 

Not all of the Saulniers who escaped the British were from the trois-rivières and Annapolis Royal.  In 1755, most members of the family still lived at Minas, where the family's progenitor had settled in the 1680s.  One Saulnier and his family escaped the British at Minas and also fled to Canada, where he remarried at St.-Joachim on the lower St. Lawrence below Québec.  His younger brother and his family also escaped but likely sought refuge with their cousins on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore. 

Some of the Saulniers at Minas were not so lucky.  Several families were deported to Virginia, where they endured a fate worse than most of the other refugees deported from Minas.  Virginia's governor, Robert Dinwiddie, refused to allow the hundreds of Acadians sent to him to remain in the colony.  Exiles died on the five filthy, crowded transports anchored in Hampton Roads while Virginia authorities pondered their fate.  As winter approached, the governor ordered exiles from one vessel moved up to Richmond, two of the vessels unloaded at Hampton, and two more at Norfolk.  Finally, in the spring of 1756, the governor, his council, and the colony's Burgesses made their decision ... the "papists" must go!  In May, the first shipment of exiles left for England, and in two weeks all of them had gone--299 to Bristol, 250 to Falmouth, 340 to Southampton, and 336 to Liverpool--1,225 exiles in all by one count.   Their ordeal only worsened in the English ports, where they were held in warehouses, and where many died of smallpox.  Saulniers were held at Liverpool.  In May 1763, after prolonged negotiations between the French and British governments, the Saulniers in England were repatriated to France with hundreds of other exiles who had endured the ordeal there. 

Already in France in 1763 were hundreds of Acadians, including a few Saulnier women, who, after the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the British had deported from Île St.-Jean to St.-Malo and other French ports.  At least one of their Saulnier kin had not survived the crossing.  One of the surviviors married a Frenchman from the Bordeaux area in c1768, place unrecorded.  She followed him to the interior of Poitou in the early 1770s and to the lower Loire port of Nantes in December 1775.  Between 1776 and 1785, she gave him three sons at Nantes.  Another Saulnier and her Aucoin husband settled at Plouër-sur-Rance on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo, where, between 1763 and 1779, she gave him more children. 

A Saulnier repatriated from England and his extended family chose to leave the mother country soon after they got there.  In 1764 or 1765, he and his family followed other exiles in France to a new French colony in Guiane on the northeast coast of South America.  French officials counted them at Sinnamary in the Cayenne district on 1 March 1765.  The tropical climate and its fevers took its toll on them during their first months in Guiane.  The family head, perhaps a widower again, returned to France later in the decade, remarried--again--to a Canadian widow at Rochefort in August 1769, and died there a few years later.  One of his sons may have accompanied him back to France, but his three other sons remained in Guiane.  Each of them married and died in the colony, and their children remained. 

In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  Three of the Saulniers still in the mother country agreed to take it.  One Saulnier newlywed did not go to the Spanish colony.  Her parents, if they were still living, also may have chosen to remain in the mother country.

In North America, Saulniers who had escaped the British in the late 1750s and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore were inevitably caught up in the lingering war between the imperial rivals.  After the fall of Québec in September 1759, the British gathered their forces to attack the remaining French strongholds in New France.  In late June 1760, a British naval force from Louisbourg attacked Restigouche, now a major Acadian refuge.  After a spirited fight in which Acadian militia and Mi'kmaq warriors played an important role, the French commander blew up his larger vessels and retreated up Rivière Restigouche, leaving the militia and the Indians to resist a British landing.  Unable to capture the garrison or lay waste to the area, the British commander ordered his ships to return to their base at Louisbourg.  The following October, after the fall of Montréal, another British naval force, this one from Québec, returned to Restigouche to accept the garrison's, and the Acadians', surrender.  On 24 October 1760, on the eve of formal surrender, French officers counted 1,003 Acadians still at Restigouche.  None were Saulniers.  During the following months, other refugees, like the Saulniers, either were captured by, or surrendered to, British forces in the region and were held in prison compounds in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  In 1761-62, British officials counted Saulniers at Fort Edward, Pigiguit.  Saulniers also appeared on a repatriation list at Halifax in August 1763. 

At war's end, Saulniers still in North America were living not only in Nova Scotia, but also in Canada, where some of them had gone as early as 1756.  Though now also a British possession, the far-northern province was populated largely by fellow French Catholics, many of them Acadian exiles.  So, in a colony nearly as old as Acadia, descendants of Louis Saulnier began the slow, inexorable process of becoming Canadiennes.  By the late 1760s, they could be found on the St. Lawrence below Québec at St.-Joachim and Baie St.-Paul.  In Nova Scotia, later a part of Canada, they settled on the Baie Ste.-Marie, today's St. Mary's Bay, along the peninsula's southwest coast.  Saulniers were especially plentiful at Pointe-de-l'Église, today's Church Point, and, one suspects, at nearby Saulnierville on the bay.  Typical of most, if not all, Acadian families, these Acadiennes lost touch with their Cadien cousins hundreds of miles away, and, until the Acadian reunions of the twentieth century, may even have forgotten the others existed. 

Acadians being held in Nova Scotia at war's end faced a hard dilemma.  The Treaty of Paris of February 1763 stipulated in its Article IV that persons dispersed by the war had 18 months to return to their respective territories.  However, British authorities refused to allow any of the Acadian prisoners in the region to return to their former lands as proprietors.  If Acadians chose to remain in, or return to, Nova Scotia or other parts of greater Acadia, as some of the Saulniers were about to do, they could live only in small family groups in previously unsettled areas or work for low wages on former Acadian lands now owned by New-English "planters."  If they stayed, they must also take the hated oath of allegiance to the new British king, George III, without reservation.  They would also have to take the oath if they joined their cousins in Canada.  After all that they had suffered on the question of the oath, few self-respecting Acadians would consent to take it if it could be avoided.  Some Nova Scotia exiles chose to relocate to Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  Others considered going to French St.-Domingue, where Acadian exiles in the British colonies were going, or to the Illinois country, the west bank of which still belonged to France, or to French Louisiana, which, thanks to British control of Canada, was the only route possible to the Illinois country for Acadian exiles.  Whatever their choice, many refused to remain under British rule.  So they gathered up their money and their few possessions and prepared to leave their homeland.  Of the 600 exiles who left Halifax in late 1764 and early 1765 bound for Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, 13 were Saulniers. 

Saulniers settled early in Acadia and were among the earliest Acadians to find refuge in Louisiana.  Most of them--and all of the males who created family lines--came to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français in 1765 on at least two expeditions.  The first came with, or just behind, the Broussards, followed them to the lower Bayou Teche, and, perhaps to escape the Teche-valley epidemic that summer and fall, moved back up bayou to the Opelousas prairies, where two vigorous lines of the family emerged.  Others who came later that year settled at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans, where two more family lines began on what soon became known as the Acadian Coast.  Among the 1765 arrivals were seven Saulnier females who were already a part of, or soon married into, the Babin, Cormier, Thibodeau, Chrétien, Forest, Lescossier, Layur, and Léger families.  Three Saulnier wives and their Hamon, Aucoin, and Boutary husbands came to the colony on two of the Seven Ships from France in 1785 and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche or joined their cousins on the western prairies.  By the early antebellum period, Sonniers on the river had moved either to lower Bayou Teche or joined the Acadian exodus to Bayou Lafourche, where a small center of family settlement emerged.  Throughout the late colonial and antebellum periods, however, the great majority of Sonniers, most of them descended from two of the brothers from Petitcoudiac who had settled at Opelousas, lived in prairie communities from the Opelousas area down to lower Bayou Teche.  They were especially numerous at Bellevue and Grand Coteau in St. Landry Parish; Carencro, La Butte, and Grand Prairie in Lafayette Parish; and Fausse Pointe on lower Bayou Teche in St. Martin and Iberia parishes. 

French Sauniers, two of them from Paris, settled in Louisiana as early as the 1730s, and settlers with similar-sounding surnames lived on the river and on upper Bayou Lafourche during the late antebellum period.  Nevertheless, the great majority of the Sonniers of South Louisiana are descendants of Louis Saulnier and his sons from Minas and Petitcoudiac. ...

In Louisiana, the family's name evolved from Saulnier to Saunier and then to Sonnier, perhaps because of Spanish influence.  The family's name in Louisiana also is spelled Saugnier, Saulnié, Saulny, Sauniae, Saunié, Saunnier, Sogné, Sognet, Sognier, Sogny, Sognyer, Soigné, Soignée, Soignet, Soignez, Soignié, Soignier, Soinier, Solnier, Sommé, Somnier, Soné, Sonia, Sonié, Sonier, Sonné, Sonner, Sonnié, Sounier, Suanier.  These humble Acadians should not be confused with a French-Creole family named Songé, also spelled Sogny, Songi, Songy, Sonsi, and Sonsy; and the aristocratic French Creoles named Soniat Duffosat, also spelled Sognac, Sonac, and Soniac.41

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The Acadian Sonniers of Louisiana descend from two sets of brothers who came to the colony in 1765.  The first set, actually half-brothers, arrived at New Orleans from Halifax either with the Broussards in February or soon afterwards and followed them to the Attakapas District: 

Sylvain (c1736-1801) à Louis Sonnier

Sylvain, oldest son of Étienne Saulnier by his first wife Jeanne Comeau, born probably at Petitcoudiac in c1736, escaped the British roundup there in 1755 and found refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  He and his family ended up as prisoners of war in Nova Scotia in the early 1760s and appeared on a repatriation list at Halifax in August 1763.  Sylvain came to Louisiana from Halifax via St.-Domingue in 1765, a bachelor in his late 20s, with a younger half-brother, and followed his kinsmen to the Opelousas District, where, in his early 30s, he married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Bourg and Anne dit Titan Boudrot of Île St.-Jean, in the late 1760s.  Madeleine, a native of Tracadie, Île St.-Jean, in her early 20s at the time of the wedding, had come to Louisiana with her widowed mother and siblings with the Broussards in February 1765, followed them to Bayou Teche, and remained on the prairies.  She and Sylvain settled on Prairie Bellevue south of the present city of Opelousas.  Their children, born there, included Marie-Louise, called Louise, in the late 1760s; Catherine, also called Gertrude, in c1770; Sylvain, fils in February 1771; Céleste in February 1772; Joseph in April 1776; Étienne le jeune baptized at the Opelousas church, age unrecorded, in August 1779 but died at age 1 in August 1780; Charles baptized, age 4 1/2 months, in August 1781; Leufroi, also called Godefroi, born in May 1788; and Éloi in c1791 but died in Lafayette Parish, age 45, in July 1836--nine children, three daughters and six sons, between the late 1760s and 1791.  Sylvain was one of the 11 Opelousas settlers who petitioned Spanish Governor Ulloa in March 1768 for assistance with oxen and plows to grow wheat in the district.  The experiment failed, and he and other prairie Acadians turned to cattle production for the New Orleans market.  In 1771, Sylvain owned 43 head of cattle and 15 horses on 6 arpents of land without title.  In 1774, he was running 120 head of cattle with eight horses and mules and owned 30 swine.  In 1777, his herd had increased to 150 head, and he owned two slaves, 11 horses, and 45 hogs.  By 1788, he owned eight slaves, 300 head of cattle, and 34 horses on 32 arpents of land.  The number of his slaves had increased to 11 by 1796.  Sylvain, père died at Opelousas in January 1801, in his mid-60s.  Daughters Marie-Louise, Céleste, and Catherine/Gertrude married into the Thibodeaux, Dugas, Missonier, Comeaux, and Martin families.  Three of Sylvain's sons also married and settled in St. Landry and Lafayette parishes, but not all of the lines endured.  His oldest son's line was especially prolific.  

Oldest son Sylvain, fils married Émilie, called Humile, Humilde, and Mélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Comeaux and Anastasie Savoie, at the Opelousas church in May 1789.  Their children, born there, included Sylvain III in April 1789 but died at age 5 in January 1796; Joseph dit Cadz born in August 1792; Louis dit Valière in August 1797; Gilbert baptized at the Opelousas church, age unrecorded, in October 1800; and another Sylvain III born in c1801.  Sylvain, fils remarried to Judith, daughter of Italian Donato Bello and his Creole wife Susanne Moreau, at the Opelousas church in December 1802.  Their children, born there, included Donat or Donato in c1803 and baptized at the Opelousas church, age 5, in February 1808; Valéry born in c1804 and baptized, age 4, in February 1808; a child, name unrecorded, died at age 10 days in March 1806; Élise born in c1807 and baptized, age 1, in February 1808; Louis, also called Don or Jean Louis, born in March 1808; Benigne or Bélisle, also called William B., baptized, age 9 months, in September 1812; Florian or Floriant born in April 1814; Léander or Léandre in February 1837[sic, perhaps 1817 or 1827]; Judith in c1818; and Azélie posthumously in May 1830--15 children, at least 11 sons and two daughters, by two wives, between 1789 and 1830.  Sylvain, fils's succession, naming his wives and some of their sons--Sylvain, fils; Joseph; Louis; and Gilbert--was filed at the Opelousas courthouse, St. Landry Parish, in October 1821.  He died "at the home of Charles Saunier," probably his younger brother, in Lafayette Parish in September 1829.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said that Sylvain was age 63 when he died.  He was 58.  Daughter Judith, by his second wife, married into the Derbonne family.  Nine of Sylvain, fils's sons also married. 

Second son Joseph dit Cadz, by first wife Émilie Comeaux, married Marie Adeline, also called Juliènne, Juliette, and Zéline, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph dit Mines Guidry and Scholastique Hébert of Bayou Vermilion, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in February 1811.  They settled on the Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included Juliènne in January 1812; a daughter, name unrecorded, died at age 8 months in September 1813; Charles, also called Charles Émile, born in February 1815; a daughter, name unrecorded, died eight days after her birth in April 1817; Joseph, fils born in June 1818; Éliza or Élisa in November 1820; Eusèbe dit Cadet "before term" in November 1822 but died at age 3 1/2 in June 1826; Émilie dite Émilite born in January 1825; Jean, also called John, in December 1826; Sosthène in October 1830; Félicia baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 5 1/2 months, in August 1833 but died the following June; and Edward, Eduard, or Edval born in May 1836--a dozen children, six daughters and six sons, between 1812 and 1836.  Daughters Juliènne, Émilie, and Élisa married Guidry cousins, including two brothers, by 1870.  Five of Cadz's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Charles Émile married Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Ursin Hébert and Marguerite Richard, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in August 1838.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Ursain or Ursin Théodule, called Théodule, in February 1840; Aurelien in February 1841; Marguerite in September 1843; Marie Lisida in February 1848; Irma in May 1850; Adrien in March 1852; and Joseph in February 1854--seven children, four sons and three daughters, between 1840 and 1854.  None of Charles Émile's daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did. 

Oldest son Théodule married Marie Coralie, called Coralie, daughter of fellow Acadians Firmin Breaux and Cléorine Richard and widow of Valérien Breause, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in January 1866, and sanctified the marriage at the Church Point church, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in July 1869.  Their children, born near Church Point, included  Marie Miliène in January 1867; Mariei Louisa in February 1869; ...

Cadz's second son Joseph, fils married Carmélite or Camille, daughter of fellow Acadians Leufroi Boudreaux and Marie Hébert, at the Vermilionville church in February 1837.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Joseph III baptized at age 10 days in early June 1838 but died a few days later; Sevigny baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 1 1/2 months, in June 1839; Sevènne born in December 1842; Marie in January 1847; Philomène in December 1849; and Marie Azéma in April 1854--six children, three sons and three daughters, between 1838 and 1854.  None of their children married by 1870. 

Cadz's fourth son Jean, also called John, may have married Émelie Fontenot at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in January 1849.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Marie Alsina in Lafayette Parish in December 1849; Ignace in August 1856; Joséphine Gadracque in July 1858; Marie Ezema near Church Point, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in May 1862; ...  None of Jean's children married by 1870. 

Cadz's fifth son Sosthène may have married fellow Acadian Célestine Natalie, called Natalie, Broussard, in the late 1840s and lived near Grand Coteau before moving to Bayou Queue de Tortue on the prairie west of Vermilionville by the early 1850s.  Their children, born there, included Aminte in June 1851; a daughter, name and age unrecorded, died in July 1852; Joseph Adras born in July 1852 but, unnamed, died at age 2 1/2 in December 1855; and a child, name and age unrecorded, died in July 1858--four children, at least two daughters and a son, between 1851 and 1858.  None of Sosthène's children married by 1870. 

Cadz's sixth and youngest son Edward, Eduard, or Edval married Marie Célestine, called Célestine, daughter of fellow Acadian Alexandre Cormier and his Creole wife Susanne Ledoux, at the Church Point church in July 1869.  They evidently had lived together before their church wedding.  They settled on the prairie between Church Point and Vermilionville.  Their children, born there, included Émilie in February 1867; Antoine in December 1868; Odelia in November 1870; ... 

Sylvain, fils's third son Louis dit Valière, by first wife Émilie Comeaux, married Denise, daughter of Pierre Carrière of St. John the Baptist Parish and Marie Louise Vivarene of Illinois, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in February 1816.  They settled at Bois de Mallet near present-day Eunice.  Their children, born there, included Louis, fils in November 1816 but died the following March; Marie Louise born in November 1819; Aurelien in the late 1810s or early 1820s; Sylvain le jeune in February 1822; Denise in October 1823; Adrien in the 1820s or early 1830s; Aureline in June 1832; and Valérien in April 1834--eight children, five sons and three daughters, between 1816 and 1834.  Louis's succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in March 1862.  He would have been age 65 that year.  One wonders if it was post-mortem.  His wife, called "Madame Louis Sonnier" by the recording priest at the Opelousas church, died "at Bois Malette," age 62, the following December.  One wonders if her death was war-related.  Daughters Marie Louise and Denise married the Sonnier, Derbonne, and Miller families by 1870.  Two of Louis's sons also married by then, but not all of the lines endured. 

Second son Aurelien married first cousin Émeline dite Méline, daughter of Michel Derbonne and his Acadian wife Mélite Sonnier, at the Opelousas church in January 1848.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Angelas in June 1850 but, called Angelus, died at age 15 1/2 (the recording priest said 16) in January 1867 (oddly, despite his age, a succession calling him Agelus, "a minor," was filed at the Opelousas courthouse the following April); Dutil born in October 1851; Marie Camelia in June 1854; and Elma in December 1861--four children, two sons and two daughters, between 1850 and 1861.  Aurelien's succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in October 1865.  If this was a post-mortem succession, one wonders if his death was war-related.  None of his children married by 1870.  

Louis dit Valière's fourth son Adrien married Unibonne, also called Oniléone, daughter of Jean Baptiste Lebleu and his Acadian wife Marguerite Lejeune and widow of Martin Daigle, at the Grand Coteau church in August 1862.  They settled near Church Point.  Their son Colombe was born there in January 1866; ... 

Sylvain, fils's fourth son Gilbert, by first wife Émilie Comeaux, married Louise Céleste, called Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Babin and Anastasie Melançon, at the St. Martinville church in February 1826.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Joseph Vileor baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 5 months, less 8 days, in October 1829; Amélie born in September 1831; and Anastasie born in February 1835 but died the following November (the recording priest said at age 2 1/2 years, but it was only 9 months).  A succession for wife Céleste, probably post-mortem, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in late July 1838, soon after his remarriage to Madeleine Élise, called Élise and Élisa, daughter of fellow Acadians Valentin Landry and Céleste Bourgeois and widow of Alexandre Breaux, at the St. Martinville church in mid-July 1838.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included François Alcide, called Alcide, in April 1839 but died at age 1 1/2 in August 1840; Gustave born in December 1840 but, called Augustave, died at age 4 1/2 in September 1845; Charles Numa born in September 1843 but, called Numa, died at age 2 in October 1847; and Marie Fanilie or Fanelie born in February 1847 but died in June--seven children, four sons and three daughters, by two wives, between 1829 and 1847.  Gilberts's remaining daughter did not marry by 1870, if she married at all, but his remaining son did. 

Oldest Joseph Vileor, by first wife Louise Céleste Babin, married Mathilde, daughter of Joseph Castille and his Acadian wife Céleste LeBlanc, at the Breaux Bridge church, St. Martin Parish, in July 1849.  Their children, born near Breaux Bridge, included Joseph Hertel in June 1850; and Jean Derneville in March 1852.  Joseph Vileor remarried to Emérante McBride, place unrecorded, in the 1850s.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Joseph W. in January 1859; and Gustave in February 1860--four children, all sons, by two wives, between 1850 and 1860.  None of Joseph Vileor's sons married by 1870. 

Sylvain, fils's fifth son Sylvain III, the second with the name, by first wife Émilie Comeaux, took up in his late teens with Joséphine dite Josette, daughter of Joseph Bello, also called Chevalier, Poiret, and Manac, in the late 1810s, and, while in his late 30s, sanctified the union at the Opelousas church in June 1839.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Sylvain IV in February 1818; Carlos in August 1821; Sophie in October 1823; Joséphine in January 1827; Félicité in the late 1820s or the early 1830s; and Sylvanie in February 1832--five children, two sons and three daughters, between 1818 and 1832.  Sylvain III's succession, calling him Sylvain Sr. and naming his wife, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in October 1851.  He would have been in his early 50s.  Daughters Sophie, Joséphine, Félicité, and Sylvanie married into the Sabadie or Savadie, Carrière, Miller, and Rivière families by 1870.   One of Sylvain III's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Sylvain IV married, at age 18, first cousin Marie Louise, called Louise, 17-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Louis dit Valière Sonnier and his Creole wife Denise Carrière, his uncle and aunt, at the Opelousas church in January 1837.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Silvain or Sylvain V in March 1838; Valérien Silvain or Sylvain, also called Sylvain Valérien, in January 1840; Sidonie in 1842 but died at age 10 months in June 1843; Lorenza born in January 1845; Carlos le jeune in August 1847; Joséphine in April 1852; and Joseph Unique in August 1862.  Wife Marie Louise's succession, naming Sylvain, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in December 1866.  She would have been age 46 that year.  Sylvain IV likely remarried to Marie Ozea, daughter of Sylvain Benoit and Joséphine Belles, at the Eunice church, St. Landry Parish, in September 1869. ...  Daughter Lorenza married into the Derosier family by 1870.  One of Sylvain IV's sons also married by then. 

Second son Sylvain Valérien, called Sylvain V by the recording clerk, from first wife Marie Louise Sonnier, married Valentine Ygnace Fontenot in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in May 1863.  Their son Arthur Erange was born in St. Landry Parish in December 1865.  Sylvain Valérien, called Valérien by the recording clerk and the recording priest, remarried to Joséphine, daughter of Joel Kinny and Clémentine LeBoeuf, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in March 1866, and sanctified the marriage at the Church Point church in April. ...

Sylvain, fils's sixth son Donat or Donato, by second wife Judith Bello, married cousin Émilie, Émilite, Carmélite or Mélite Françoise, daughter of François Casanueva and Brigitte Bello, at the Opelousas church in August 1824.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Asélie in May 1825; Aséline in May 1827; Judith in March 1832; Célanie in August 1835; Donat, fils in January 1837; Émilie Donat near Grand Coteau in May 1840; Jean in July 1842; and Éloise in December 1845--eight children, six daughters and two sons, between 1825 and 1845.  Daughter Éloise married into the Miller family by 1870.  One of Donat's sons also married by then. 

Older son Donat, fils married Flavie Lacase probably in St. Landry Parish in the late 1850s or early 1860s.  They settled on the prairies between Ville Platte and Eunice. Their children, born there, included Valérien in November 1861; Donat III in August 1864; Aziline in July 1867; Donatien in January 1870; ...

Sylvain, fils's seventh son Valéry, by second wife Judith Bello, married Arthémise, "natural" daughter of Pierre Carrière and Jacente Carrière, at the Opelousas church in October 1824.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Zélima Valéry probably in the late 1820s; Arthémise in November 1828; Valéry, fils in October 1829; Pauline in June 1831; Constant in June 1833; Don or Jean Louis Valéry near Grand Coteau in January 1838, Silvain or Sylvain le jeune in April 1841; and Mélina in September 1847--eight children, four daughters and four sons, between the late 1820s and 1847.  Daughters Zélima Valéry and Arthémise married into the Lacase and Moreau families by 1870.  Three of Valéry's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Valéry, fils may have married cousin Zélima Sonnier in the late 1840s, place unrecorded.  Their daughter Azélima was born in St. Landry Parish in January 1850 and did not marry by 1870.  Did they have anymore children? 

Valéry, père's second son Paulin married Marie Gimber, place and date unrecorded.  Their son Olivier Jemes was born in St. Landry Parish in March 1862; ... 

Valèry, père's third son Don Louis Valéry married Zéolide, daughter of François Ignace Fontenot and Lucie Derouen, at the Opelousas church in February 1861. ...

Sylvain, fils's eighth son Don or Jean Louis, by second wife Judith Bello, married, at age 19, Carmélite, called Émilite and Mélite, 15- or 16-year-old daughter of Urbin Carrière and Émilite Lacase, at the Opelousas church in November 1827.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Éliza in November 1828; a child, name unrecorded, died "as a newborn" in April 1831; Azélia born in March 1832; Célimène in late 1834 and baptized at 7 months in May 1835; Don or Jean Louis, fils born in October 1837 but, called Louis, may have died in St. Martin Parish at age 12 in October 1849; Eurasie born in February 1843; and Rosaline or Rosalie in December 1845--seven children, at least five daughters and a son, between 1828 and 1845.  Don Louis, père's succession, calling his wife Carmélite, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in December 1854.  He would have been age 46 that year.  Daughters Eurasie and Rosalie married into the Charlot, Doguet, and McDaniel families, one of them, Eurasie, twice, so the blood of the family line may have endured. 

Sylvain, fils's ninth Benigne or Bélisle, also called William B., from second wife Judith Bello, married Rosaline, 18-year-old daughter of William McKay and Françoise Carrière, at the Opelousas church in July 1834.  She evidently gave him no children.  Bélisle remarried to Éloise or Louise, 19-year-old daughter of Michel Lacase and Éloise Carrière, at the Opelousas church in April 1839.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Marie Helaize in September 1841; Charles Bellisle or Bélisle, called Bélisle, fils, in January 1846; Béllisaire in May 1862; ...  Bélisle's daughter did not marry by 1870, but one of his sons did. 

Older son Bélisle, fils, by second wife Éloise Carrière, married Clémentine, daughter of Pierre Mouille and Félicité Durio, at the Eunice church, St. Landry Parish, in September 1870.  Daughter Lucille was born near Eunice in July 1870;  ...

Sylvain, fils's tenth son Florian or Floriant, by second wife Judith Bello, married 17-year-old Cephalide, Sephalie, or Sephalide, another daughter of Ursin Carrière and Émilite Lacase, at the Opelousas church in July 1834.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Octavie in the mid or late 1830s; Octave in October 1837; Florian, fils in c1842; Joachine, a son, in November 1843; Melida in January 1847; Azilda in May 1852; Gerand in August 1854; Carmélite in c1857; and Étienne in March 1861--nine children, five sons and four daughters, between 1837 and 1861.  Daughter Octavie married into the François family by 1870.  One of Florian's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Octave married Juliènne, Juliana, Julima, or Julie, daughter of Jean Louis Miller and Zuline Bello, at the Opelousas church in April 1861.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Octavie in June 1862; Octave, fils in January 1865; Marie Julie in March 1867; Louisiana in August 1869; ...  

Sylvain, père's fourth son Charles took up with Sophie, daughter perhaps of Donatto Bello and Susanne Moreau and a sister of his older brother Sylvain, fils's second wife, at Opelousas in the early 1800s.  Charles and Sophie's children, born in what became St. Landry Parish, included "natural son" Charles, fils in April 1805 but died at age 14 in July 1819, an hour after his baptism; Sylvain le jeune born in December 1807; Sophie in September 1811; and Juditte or Judith in May 1818--four children, two sons and two daughters, between 1805 and 1818.  Charles died in Lafayette Parish in September 1843.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said that Charles died "at age 65 yrs."  He was closer to 62.  Daughters Sophie and Judith married into the Winkler and Richard families.  One wonders if, except perhaps for its blood, this family line endured. 

Sylvain, père's fifth son Leufroi, also called Godefroi, married Marie Céleste Carmélite, called Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Comeaux, fils and Perpétué Broussard of Côte Gelée, at the St. Martinville church in January 1809.  They settled at Côte Gelée and at Grand Prairie on the upper Vermilion in what became Lafayette Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie Carmélite Cidalise in November 1809; Leufroi, fils in October 1811; Éloi le jeune in August 1813; Charles in August 1815; Azélie in May 1818 but died at age 4 1/2 (the recording priest said 18 months) in December 1822; Félix born in January 1821; Valérie or Valéry in January 1824; Sosthène in late 1826 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 1/2 months, in February 1827 but died at age 16 (the recording priest said 14) in October 1842; Jacques, also called Jacques Euclide and Euclide, born in August 1829; Sevigné in c1833 and baptized, age 1, in July 1834 but died at age 1 1/2 in March 1835; and Alphred or Alfred baptized at age 3 months in July 1837--11 children, two daughters and nine sons, between 1809 and 1837.  A succession for wife Marie Carmélite, probably post-mortem, naming her husband, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in August 1847.  Leufroi, père died in Lafayette Parish in December 1848.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said that Leufroi died "at age 65 yrs."  He was 60.  Daughter Marie Carmélite Cidalise married into the Richard and Chiasson families by 1870.  Four of Leufroi's sons also married by then, three of them to Landrys. 

Oldest son Leufroi, fils married Françoise Aureline, called Aureline, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Landry and Marie Brasseaux, at the Vermilionville church in October 1834.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Clara, also called Maria Clara, baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in September 1835; Émilie born in late 1836 and baptized at age 3 months in January 1837; Siphorien or Symphorien born in late 1838 and baptized, age 18 months, in May 1840; Eugénie born in July 1843; and Guillaume in December 1848--five children, three daughters and two sons, between 1835 and 1848.  Daughter Maria Clara married into the Comeaux family by 1870.  Neither of Leufroi, fils's sons married by then. 

Leufroi, père's second son Éloi le jeune married Marie Basilise, called Basilise, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Landry and Françoise Landry, at the Vermilionville church in April 1834.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Pierre Edgar, called Edgar, baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in April 1835; Jean Hopar born in 1836 and baptized, age 6 months, in February 1837; Charles le jeune born in January 1839; Ursule in May 1841; Olivier in July 1846; Euclides in May 1849; Carmélite in October 1851; and Émilie in August 1854--eight children, five sons and three daughters, between 1835 and 1854.  Daughter Carmélite married into the Bellaire family by 1870.  Three of Éloi le jeune's sons also married by then and settled on the prairies. 

Oldest son Edgar married Amelia, Émelia, or Émilia Fabre probably in Lafayette Parish in the late 1850s.  They settled near Youngsville, Lafayette Parish.  Their children, born there, included Françoise in July 1857; Leufroi le jeune in May 1859; Edwina in March 1863; Alice in January 1867; ...  Edgar's succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in February 1870.  He would have been age 35 that year. 

Éloi le jeune's third son Charles le jeune may have married Elizabeth Bellaire at the Abbeville church, Vermilion Parish, in January 1861.  They settled on the lower Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included Marie Natilia in September 1862; Albert in April 1867; Odelaïde in December 1868; Émelie in late 1870 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 10 months, in August 1871; ... 

Éloi le jeune's fourth son Olivier married Léontine, also called Cléontine, daughter of Treville Fabre and his Acadian wife Clémentine Broussard, at the Youngsville church, Lafayette Parish, in April 1868.  They also settled on the lower Vermilion.  Their children, born there, included Cléobule in January 1869, Edgar le jeune in November 1870; ...

Leufroi, père's seventh son Jacques Euclide, called Euclide, married Eugénie Besida, Lesida, or Resida, daughter of fellows Acadian Éloi Landry and Marie Berthilde Landry, at the Vermilionville church in May 1853.  They settled on the prairies and middle Bayou Teche.  Their children, born there, included a child, name unrecorded, died "shortly after birth" in Lafayette Parish in June 1856; Marie Carmélite born in September 1857; Leufroy le jeune near Grand Coteau in November 1861; Léontia near Breaux Bridge in December 1864; Éloi le jeune in December 1866; Berthile in October 1870; ... 

Leufroi, père's ninth and youngest son Alfred married Marie, Marine, or Maxine Frederick, place and date unrecorded.  They settled on the prairie between Vermilionville and Church Point, then in St. Landry but not in Acadia Parish.  Their children, born there, included a child, name unrecorded, died "at age a few days" in February 1858; Leufroi le jeune born in November 1858; Augustave in August 1863; Valérie in September 1864; Jacque le jeune in February 1867; Albert in July 1869; ... 

Olivier (c1752-?) à Louis Sonnier

Olivier, second son of Étienne Saulnier by his second wife Anne Darois, born probably at Petitcoudiac in c1752, escaped the British roundup there and was taken to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  He and his family ended up as prisoners of war in Nova Scotia and appeared on a repatriation list at Halifax in August 1763.  Olivier, in his early teens, came to Louisiana in 1765 with older half-brother Sylvain and followed him to the Opelousas District.  Olivier's succession was filed at what became the Opelousas courthouse in August 1775, though a census at Opelousas in May 1777 counted him as a bachelor who owned no slaves, 15 head of cattle, and four horses.  He does not seem to have married. 

Joseph (c1756-1820) à Louis Sonnier

Joseph, third and youngest son of Étienne Saulnier by his second wife Anne Darois, born in exile in greater Acadia in c1756, followed his family into imprisonment in Nova Scotia.  Joseph came to Louisiana in 1765 with an older sister and followed her and his older brothers to the Opelousas prairies.  Spanish officials counted him at Opelousas in 1771 with the family of sister Françoise, wife of Pierre Thibodeaux.  By 1774, while still a young bachelor living alone, he owned five head of cattle and three horses and mules.  At age 22, he married Marie, 16-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Thibodeaux and Madeleine Broussard, at the Attakapas church in January 1779.  Marie also had come to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765.  She and Joseph settled on Prairie Bellevue near his older half-brother Sylvain.  Joeph and Marie's children, born on the prairies, included Marie baptized at the Opelousas church, age unrecorded, in March 1780; Joseph dit Padillau baptized, age 6 months, in August 1781; Marie-Madeleine, Madeleine, baptized, age 4 months, in July 1782; Pierre born in the early 1780s; Jean-Baptiste, called Baptiste, in March 1785; Céleste in January 1788; Placide in c1789; Alexandre baptized, age unrecorded, in July 1790 but died at age 18 "at his parents' home" at La Butte in January 1809; Cyrille born in 1794 and baptized, age 8 months, in May 1795; Félonise born in c1796 but died at age 2 in March 1799; another Marie, probably Marie Doralie, called Doralie, born in February 1797; yet another Marie in January 1799; and a child, name and age unrecorded, died in February 1801--13 children, at least six daughters and six sons, between 1780 and 1801.  In 1788, Joseph owned 10 head of cattle and 30 horses on 13 arpents of land at Bellevue.  In the early 1800s, he and Marie moved south to Grand Prairie on upper Bayou Vermilion then farther up to La Butte between present-day Lafayette and Breaux Bridge, and finally to Carencro at the northern edge of the old Attakapas District.  Wife Marie's succession, perhaps post-mortem, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in January 1816.  Joseph died at Carencro in October 1820, perhaps a widower.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph was age 60 when he died.  He was closer to 64.  Daughters Marie (the older one), Céleste, Madeleine, and Marie Doralie married into the Constantin, Guilbert, Dugas, and Chiasson families.  Joseph's five remaining sons also married and settled in St. Martin and Lafayette parishes. 

Oldest son Joseph dit Padillau married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Arceneaux and Anne Breaux of St. James Parish, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in November 1818.  They settled at Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Rosémond, called Rosémond, in August 1819 but died at age 11 months in July 1820; Olive born in c1820 but died at age 4 in February 1824; a child, name and age unrecorded, died in August 1823; and Achille or Alcide, baptized at the Vermilionville church, age unrecorded, in August 1825--four children, at least two sons and a daughter, between 1819 and 1825.  Joseph dit Padillau died probably at Carencro in September 1829, age 49, a widower.  His successions, naming his widow, were filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the previous July (the parish clerk called him John) and later in September.  His remaining son married. 

Younger son Achille or Alcide married Marguerite Cléonide or Cléonise, daughter of Joseph Allegre or Alegre and his Acadian wife Marie Denise Cormier, at the St. Martinville church in May 1842.  Their children, born in St. Martin parish, included Joseph le jeune in October 1845; Marguerite Corine in May 1847; and Omar or Aymar, also called Ernest, near Breaux Bridge in February 1849--three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1845 and 1849.  Alcide's succession, naming his wife, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in April 1849.  He would have been in his mid-20s that year.  His daughter did not marry by 1870, but his sons did. 

Older son Joseph le jeune married Julie, daughter of fellow Acadians Duclise Broussard and Célestine Broussard, at the Breaux Bridge church, St. Martin Parish, in February 1868.  Their son Alcide was born near Breaux Bridge in January 1869; ... 

Achille's younger son Aymar, called Eymar by the recording priest, married cousin Aline, daughter of fellow Acadian Théogène Melançon and his Creole wife Cléophine Allegre, at the St. Martinville church in December 1869.  Daughter Alice, perhaps theirs, was born near Breaux Bridge in December 1870; ...

Joseph, père's second son Pierre married Marie Adélaïde, called Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand Dugas and Geneviève Robichaux of La Butte, at the St. Martinville church in October 1813.  They settled at La Butte and then at nearby Grand Prairie.  Their children, born there, included a daughter, name unrecorded, died at birth in May 1814; a son, name unrecorded, died at age 1 month in November 1816; Pierre Hermas or Darmas, called Darmas, born in May 1822; Jean, also called Jean Moléon, in May 1824 but died at age 4 1/2 in March 1829; Narcisse baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in May 1827 but died at age 2 years in March 1829; Joseph le jeune born in June 1829 but died at age 1 1/2 in September 1830; Norbert born in late 1830 and baptized, age 4 months, in March 1831; Maximilien born in February 1833; Troisville or Treville baptized, age 2 months, in August 1834 but died later that month; Mayhil born in c1836; and a child, name and age unrecorded, probably theirs, died "at La Grande Prairie" in May 1842--11 children, at least one daughter and nine sons, between 1814 and 1842.  Pierre died in Lafayette Parish in November 1850.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said that Pierre died "at age 70 yrs."  Only two of his many sons married by 1870.

Second son Pierre Hermas or Darmas, called Darmas, married cousin Julie or Juliènne, daughter of fellow Acadians Célestin Dugas and Julie Chiasson, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in April 1840.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Marie Orphelia in July 1843; Placide le jeune in c1847 but died at age 16 in November 1863; Amélie born in September 1847; Eve in December 1849 but, name unrecorded, may have died at age 1 in December 1850; a child, name and age unrecorded, died in April 1852; Alfred born in June 1853; Alsina died at age 8 months in September 1859; Pierre, fils born in November 1860; Célestine in April 1863; ...  None of Pierre Darmas's children married by 1870. 

Piere's sixth son Norbert married cousin Zoé, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Anaclet Richard and and his second wife Carmélite Sonnier, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in September 1859. ...

Joseph, père's third son Jean Baptiste, called Baptiste, married Marie Clémence, called Clémence, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Athanase Breaux and Marie Catherine Arseneaux of Carencro, at the St. Martinville church in February 1810.  They settled at Prairie Basse near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Marie Marguerite Euphémie, called Euphémie, in February 1811; Hippolyte Bienvenu or Bienvenu Hippolyte in March 1813; Marie Josette in June 1815; Joseph Théodule, called Théodule, in April 1817; Jean dit Duclive or Euclide, called Euclide, in June 1819 but died at age 18 in May 1838; Pierre Mortemar or Mortimer born in May 1822 but a succession for Pierre Martimer was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in December 1865, when he was age 43; Cyprien born in August 1824; Silvestre, also called Silvestre Lucain, born in November 1826 but died seven days after his birth; and Simon Eugène, called Eugène, born posthumously in January 1828--nine children, two daughters and seven sons, between 1811 and 1828.  Jean Baptiste died probably at Carencro in November 1827, age 42.  Daughters Euphémie and Marie Josette married into the Breaux and Guidry families.  Four of Baptiste's sons also married. 

Oldest son Hippolyte Bienvenu or Bienvenu Hippolyte married Angélique, daughter of Joseph Primeaux and widow of ____ Newman, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in July 1847.  The priest noted in the marriage record that Angélique's first husband was "an unbaptized American," and that "She was in danger of death and was living with this man [Hippolyte] for 5 years."  Hippolyte and Angélique's children, born near Grand Coteau, included Nathalie in February 1843 but died at age 6 1/2 (the recording priest said 7) in August 1849; Théodule le jeune born in February 1845 but died at age 7 1/2 (the recording priest said 8) in November 1852; Hippolyte, fils born in February 1847; Clémence in February 1849; and Joseph Alexandre in April 1851--five children, two daughters and three sons, between 1843 and 1851.  Hippolyte remarried to Carmélite, daughter of Jean Domingue and Bastina Enand and widow of Éloi Mouton, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in November 1854.  She evidently gave him no more children.  Daughter Clémence, by his first wife, may have married into the Domingue family by 1870.  One of Hippolyte's sons also seems to have married by then. 

Second son Hippolyte, fils may have married Louisa Brisco, Briscoe, or Briscau, place and date unrecorded.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Hippolyte Bienvenu le jeune in November 1866; Onésime in February 1868 but died "at age 7 days"; Mary Julia born in September 1869; ... 

Baptiste's second son Joseph Théodule, called Théodule, married Marie Valsaine or Valsène, daughter of fellow Acadian Augustin Leger and his Creole wife Mérante Meche, at the Vermilionville church in April 1842.  They settled near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Augustin Ernest in September 1844; Marie Octavie in March 1846; Marie Onezia or Onesia, called Onesia, in March 1848; Joseph Honoré in September 1849; Clémence in September 1851; Jules in June 1853 but died at age 9 in November 1862; ...  Daughters Marie Octavie, Onesia, and Clémence married into the Colligan or Collogan, Richard, and Fale or Fall families by 1870.  None of Théodule's sons married by then. 

Baptiste's fifth son Cyprien married cousin Céleste Anathalie or Nathalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Julien Comeaux and Céleste Breaux, at the Vermilionville church in November 1849.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included a child, name unrecorded, died in Lafayette Parish, age 3 days, in October 1850; Joseph Clairfait born in January 1852; a child, name and age unrecorded, died in May 1853; Marie Elizida born in May 1854; and Mathilde in December 1858 but died at age 1 in October 1859.  Wife Céleste, called Mrs. Cyprien Sonnier by the recording priest, died in Lafayette Parish, age 28, in August 1860.  Cyprien remarried to Élisabeth, daughter of John Caruthers or Credeur and his Acadian wife Adélaïde Hébert and widow of Oscar Chiasson, in a civil ceremony conducted by "Judge Pierre Arcenaux" and, on the same day, at the Vermilionville church in March 1864.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Marc in October 1865; Euchariste in March 1867; ...  Cyprien died in Lafayette Parish in September 1870.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said that Cyprien died "at age 45 yrs."  He was 46.  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in October.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Baptiste's seventh and youngest son Simon Eugène, called Eugène, married Marie Euzèïde or Merida, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Rosémond Breaux and Calixte Arceneaux, at the Vermilionville church in October 1855.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included a son, name unrecorded, died in Lafayette Parish "shortly after birth" in September 1856; a child, name unrecorded, died at age 7 months in June 1858; and Alexandre Adam born in July 1859--three children, at least two sons, between 1856 and 1859.  Wife Marie Euzèïde, called "Mrs. Eugène Sonnier" by the recording priest, died in Lafayette Parish, age 22, in January 1861.  Eugène remarried to Euphrosine, daughter of fellow Acadians Rosémond Mouton and Estelle Comeaux, and widow of Charles Despanet Prejean, at the Vermilionville church in February 1868. ...

Joseph, père's fourth son Placide married Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Augustin Dugas and Marie Duhon of La Butte, at the St. Martinville church in February 1813.  They settled at La Butte and Grand Prairie.  Their children, born there, included Marie Urasie or Eurasie in February 1814; Anastasie in February 1816; Joseph Léonard in June 1818; Gédéon in August 1820; Euphrosine in January 1823; Jean died a day after his birth in June 1825; François, "baptized privately only," died at age 3 weeks in August 1826; and a child, name unrecorded, died 2 hours after his/her birth in August 1827--eight children, at least three daughters and fours sons, between 1814 and 1827.  Placide died in Lafayette Parish in April 1835, age 46.  Daughters Anastasie, Marie Eurasie, and Euphrosine married into the Cart, Trahan, and Hernandez families.  Placide's remaining sons also married. 

Oldest son Joseph Léonard married, at age 19, Céleste or Célestine, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Antoine Hébert and Céleste Trahan, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in June 1837.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Célestine in January 1839; Anastasie in the 1840s; Placide le jeune in March 1845; Marie Eugénie in July 1847; Eléonore in April 1850; and Pierre near Grand Coteau in December 1859--five children, three daughters and two sons, between 1839 and 1859.  Daughters Anastasie and Marie married into the Breaux and Trahan families by 1870.  One of Joseph's sons also married by then. 

Older son Placide le jeune married Odalie, daughter of Firmar, perhaps Firmin, Fuselier, at the Church Point church, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in February 1868.  They settled on the prairie between Church Point and Eunice.  Daughter Ellen or Hélène was born there in April 1870; ...

Placide's second son Gédéon married Célestine, 15-year-old daughter of William Berwick and his Acadian wife Céleste Lejeune, at the Opelousas church in June 1839.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Célestine in February 1839; Gédéon, fils in April 1843; Zelphia Marie, also called Marie Delphy and Zelphie, in February 1844; Valentine in January 1846; Valentin in November 1848; and Célanie in February 1851--six children, four daughters and two sons, between 1839 and 1851.  Gédéon remarried to Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Doucet and Carmélite Richard, at the Grand Coteau church in June 1856.  She evidently gave him no more children.  Daughter Marie Delphy, by his first wife, married into the Breaux family by 1870.  One of Gédéon's sons also married by then. 

Older son Gédéon, fils, by first wife Célestine Berwick, married Adélaïde dite Délaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Onésime LeBlanc and Adélaïde Landry, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in November 1867, and sanctified the marriage at the Church Point church in April 1869.  They settled on the prairie between Church Point and Grand Coteau.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Alceus in February 1869; Adam Jean in November 1870; ...

Joseph, père's sixth and youngest son Cyrille married, at age 27, Susanne dite Susette, 16-year-old daughter of Thomas Parr and his Acadian wife Marie Melançon, at the Grand Coteau church in May 1822.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Cyrille, fils in July 1823 but, called Surville, died at age 2 in September 1825; Pierre le jeune born in March 1825; Antoine, also called Éloi, in October 1826; Louis in April 1828; Siméon or Simon in February 1830; Basile in October 1831; Joseph in June 1833 but died at age 1 in June 1834; Olivier born in March 1835 but died at age 1 1/2 in September 1836; Émile died, age unrecorded, in December 1835; Thomas Estel born in late 1836 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 3 months, in January 1837; Odéïde born in October 1838; Paulin in August 1840; Alexandre in August 1841; and Marcel in January 1844--14 children, 13 sons and a daughter, between 1823 and 1844.  Cyrille died in Lafayette Parish in April 1859.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said that Cyrille died "at age 63 yrs."  He was 64.  His succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in August.  Daughter Odèïde evidently married into the Gilbert family by 1870.  Seven of Cyrille's remaining sons also married by then. 

Third son Antoine, also called Éloi, married Sylvanie, also called Eléonie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joachim Dugas and Marguerite Broussard, at the Vermilionville church in June 1848.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included a child, name and age unrecorded, died in Lafayette Parish in August 1849; Erneste, perhaps a daughter, born in September 1850; Antoine Numa in November 1854; Coralie in March 1857; a child, name unrecorded, died at age 15 days in April 1860; Joachin born in April 1862; Marie Emetile in November 1865; Marie Adeïde in September 1868; a child, unnamed, perhaps theirs, died at birth in December 1869; ... None of Antoine/Éloi's children married by 1870.  

Cyrille, père's fourth son Louis married Émelia dite Melia, daughter of fellow Acadians Théovide Broussard and Marie Arthémise Hébert, at the Vermilionville church in August 1849.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Alcides in August 1850; Odille in December 1851; Paul Arther, probably Arthur, in June 1854; Mathilde in November 1858; Louisianaise in April 1867; a child, perhaps theirs, named unrecorded, died "at age 14 days," died in December 1868; Élois, perhaps a son, born in November 1870; ...   None of Louis's children married by 1870. 

Cyrille, père's fifth son Siméon or Simon married Marie Rosalie, called Rosalie, daughter of Pierre Domingue and Marie Josèphine Hernandez and widow of Pierre A. Domingue, at the Vermilionville church in August 1861.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Joseph Numa in June 1862; Edgar in October 1865 but, unnamed, died at age 2 in November 1867; Marie Aurelie born in October 1867; Amédé in March 1870; ...

Cyrille, père's sixth son Basile married, at age 22, Philomène, 14-year-old daughter of François Guilbert and Émilie Begnaud, at the Vermilionville church in August 1854.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Honoré in December 1855; Cécilia in May 1858; Marie Alsina in December 1859; Célima in April 1861; Mathilde in April 1863; Odeïde in May 1866; Théophile in February 1868; Marie Léa in September 1870; ...  Basile died in Lafayette Parish in July 1895, age 63.  He is buried in St. Peter Catholic Cemetery, Carencro, beside his wife Philomène, who died in November 1904, age 64.  None of their children married by 1870. 

Cyrille, père's tenth son Thomas Estel may have married Marcellite Riggs in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in December 1870.  ...

Cyrille, père's twelfth son Alexandre married Marie Émelise, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Chiasson and Julie Dugas, at the Vermilionville church in January 1861.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Cyrille Esseus in April 1866; Julien Eucharis in October 1868; ...   

Cyrille, père's thirteenth and youngest son Marcel married Marie Constance, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Louvière and Séraphine Delphine Broussard, at the Vermilionville church in May 1866. ...

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A second set of Saulnier brothers reached New Orleans from Halifax via Cap-Français later in 1765.  They went not to the western prairies but to an established Acadian settlement on the river above New Orleans: 

Joseph (c1739-1812) à Pierre à Louis Sonnier

Joseph, oldest son of Pierre Saulnier, fils and his first wife Madeleine Haché dit Gallant, born probably at Petitcoudiac in c1739, followed his family into exile on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore and into imprisonment in Nova Scotia in the early 1760s.  He may have married a fellow Acadian by then.  He and two of his siblings came to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français in 1765 and settled at Cabahannocer on the river.  Spanish officials counted him with widowed sister Anne and two nieces on the left, or east, bank of the river at Cabahannocer in April 1766.  He married, or remarried to, Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Landry and Claire Babin and widow of Alexis Granger, at the St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer church in November 1767.  Marie had come to the colony from Maryland as a widow the previous July.  She and Joseph were living on the east bank of the river at Cabahannocer in September 1769.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer, included Ludivine baptized at the Cabahananocer church, age unrecorded, in February 1771 but, called Louisse, died at age 5 (the recording priest said 6) in August 1776; Marguerite born in c1772; and Donat, perhaps also called Simon, baptized, age unrecorded, in July 1773.  In January 1777, Joseph and his family were still living on the east bank of the river at Cabahannocer, but by then he was a widower.  Joseph remarried again--perhaps his third marriage--to Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Breaux and his first wife Élisabeth Henry and widow of Amand Richard, at the St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer church in August 1777.  Marie, like Joseph's first wife, had come to Louisiana from Maryland in 1767.  Her and Joseph's children, born at Cabahannocer, included Marie-Céleste or Célestine baptized at the Cabahannocer church, age unrecorded, in July 1778; and Joseph-Édouard, called Édouard, baptized, age unrecorded, in May 1780--five children, three daughters and two sons, by two wives, between 1771 and 1780.  In 1779, Joseph held three slaves on his holding along the river.  He died in St. James Parish in December 1812.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph was age 82 when he died.  He was closer to 72.  Daughters Marguerite and Célestine, by his second and third wives, married into the Bourgeois and Lanoux families.  Both of his sons also married, but the older son's line did not endure.  His younger son settled on Bayou Lafourche and, along with an uncle and his cousins, helped create a third center of family settlement there. 

Older son Donat, perhaps also called Simon, from second wife Marie Landry, may have married Françoise, a woman whose surname has been lost to history, probably at the the St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer church in the late 1790s or early 1800s.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer, may have included a daughter, name and age unrecorded, died in July 1805; and a son, name and age unrecorded, died in October 1806.  Simon's wife, called "Dame Françoise" by the recording priest, died at age 35 the day after her son's death, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth.  Simon himself died at St. James in April 1807, when he would have been in his early 30s.  The priest who recorded the burial did not give Simon's parents' names, mention his wife, or give his age at the time of his death, so one wonders if this was him.  If it was, his family line died with him. 

Joseph's younger son Joseph-Édouard, called Édouard, from third wife Marie Breaux, married Dionise or Denise dite Lise, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Charles Arceneaux and Marie-Josèphe Babin, at the St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer church in February 1799.  Their children, born on the river, included Marie-Adèle, called Adèle, in December 1800; Joseph le jeune in December 1802; Jean Baptiste le jeune in October 1804 but died at age 1 1/2 in January 1806; Marguerite born in August 1806; Marthe Mathilde in September 1809; Simon le jeune in c1812 but died near Convent, St. James Parish, age 3, in July 1815; Marcellin, also called Onésime and Olézime, born in September 1814; Marie Rosalie, called Rosalie, in August 1817 but died at age 15 (the recording priest said 14) in September 1832; Julien or Jules born in May 1819; Jean Charles, called Charles, in November 1821; and Marie Aureline in November 1824 but, called Marie Oreline, died at age 4 (the recording priest said 5) in November 1828--10 children, five daughters and five sons, between 1800 and 1824.  They joined the Acadian exodus from the river to Bayou Lafourche in the early 1820s, the last of the Acadian Sonniers to abandon the river settlements.  Édouard died in Lafourche Interior Parish in May 1842.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial said that Édouard died "at age 64 to 65 yrs."  He was closer to 62.  Daughters Marie Adèle and Marthe married into the Authement and Bourg families.  Daughter Adèle may have given birth to "natural" daughter Marcelline near Convent in c1817, a year before she married Jérôme Authement there.  Marcelline died near Convent at age 3 in June 1820, two years before her mother died.  The priest who recorded the girl's burial did not name the father.  Four of Édouard's sons also married, but not all of the lines endured.  By the antebellum period, they were the only Acadian Sonniers left on Bayou Lafourche. 

Oldest son Joseph le jeune married Marie Josette or Rosette, daughter of François Percle and Marie Triche, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1827.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Assumption and Ascension parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie Aurelia or Orellia, called Orellia, in February 1827; Hélènne Victorine, called Victorine, in October 1833; Joseph Omère in August 1830 but, called Joseph Omaire, died at age 3 in October 1833; Édouard Amédée born in December 1832 but, called Jean Amédée, died at age 1 in October 1833; Zéphirin Aristide, called Aristide, born in August 1834; and Joseph Eléonidas or Léonidas in October 1836 but died at age 1 in December 1837--six children, two daughtes and four sons, between 1827 and 1836.  Daughters Marie Orellia and Victorine married into the LeBlanc and Lasseigne families by 1870.  One of Joseph le jeune's sons also married by then. 

Third son Aristide married Honorine, daughter of Henri Lirette and his Acadian wife Marie Breaux, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in December 1851.  Their children, born on the bayou, included Joseph Alcide, called Alcide, in September 1852; and Victorine Ernestine posthumously in March 1854.  Aristide, père died in Lafourche Parish in September 1853 "during [a] yellow fever epidemic,"age 19.  A "Petition for tutorship" for his son Alcide was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in July 1855, and a "Family meeting," the petition for which named his son but not his daughter, was held at the Houma courthouse, Terrebonne Parish, in March 1856.  Neither his daughter nor his son married by 1870. 

Édouard's fourth son Marcellin, also called Onésime and Oldézime, married Anne Marie, daughter of Antoine Vicknair and Dolothe Cuvillier and widow of Pierre Lasseigne, at the Thibodaux church in December 1846.  Onésime died in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1847, age 33 (the recording priest said 34).  A "petition for administrator" in his name, naming his wife and her first husband, was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in May 1848.  He and his wife had no children, or least none who appear in local church records, so his line of the family probably died with him. 

Édouard's fifth son Julien or Jules married Euphrosine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Breaux and Marie Félicité Richard, at the Thibodaux church in June 1855.  Did they have any children? 

Édouard's sixth and youngest son Jean Charles, called Charles, married Marie Rosalie, called Rosalie, another daughter of Joseph Breaux and Marie Félicité Richard, at the Thibodaux church in September 1846.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Félicité Léontine, called Léontine, in August 1847; Joseph Édouard Octave, called Octave, in November 1849; Édouard Timothée in October 1851 but, called Thimothé Édouard, died at age 1 in December 1852; Adam Arthur born in November 1853; and Édouard Clinton in February 1861--five children, a daughter and four sons, between 1847 and 1861.  Daughter Léontine married into the Bergeron family by 1870.  One of Charles's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Octave married Marie Célestine, called Célestine, daughter of Zénon Roussel and Carmélite Grégoire, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in April 1869; the marriage also was registered in Terrebonne Parish.  Their son Joseph was born in Lafourche Parish in February 1870; ... 

Jean-Baptiste (c1746-?) à Pierre à Louis Sonnier