Soon after Acadian exiles reached Louisiana they wasted little time taking wives and husbands from among the non-Acadian families living in the colony.  The earliest recorded marriage in Louisiana between an Acadian and a non-Acadian--what sociologists call exogamy--occurred on 17 January 1766, only two years after the first Acadian exiles reached the colony.  At New Orleans, Rosalie dite Rose, daughter of Charles Thibodeau and Brigitte Breau and widow of Claude Richard, married Jacques LaChaussée, fils from Côte-de-Beaupré just below Québec City.  A native of Pointe-à-Beauséjour, Chignecto, Rose had come to the colony from Halifax via French St.-Domingue a few months earlier.  The couple settled in the Acadian community at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  Rose died soon after the marriage, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth, and Jacques remarried to Acadian Marie-Marthe LeBlanc at Cabahannocer in early February 1768.01 

In the decades that followed, non-Acadians who married Louisiana Acadians included not only French Canadians, but also French, Italian, Swiss, German, Spanish, and Anglo-American immigrants, as well as créoles of those nationalities.  A few of the progenitors of these non-Acadian families had come to Louisiana with Acadian spouses from Maryland in the late 1760s and from France in 1785.  Some had come to the colony before the Acadians arrived, while others came after and chose to live in Acadian-majority communities.  Members of many of these polyglot families eagerly married their Acadian neighbors, contributing to the creation of an exotic new culture--the "Cajuns" of South Louisiana: 

Adam

Aillet

Albert

Alexandre/Alexandrie

Allemand

Andrus

Angelle

Arnaud

Aubert

Augeron/Ogeron

Authement

Autin

Ayo

Badeaux

Barbier

Barras

Barrios

Manuel Miguel, son of José Barrios and Ana Cabrera, was born at Teguise on the island of Lanzerote, at the eastern end of the Canary Islands chain, in April 1753 and baptized five days after his birth at Our Lady of Guadalupe of the Royal Villa of Teguise.  In 1775, still unmarried, Manuel Miguel enlisted in the Spanish army on Lanzerote.  He was, according to two of his descendants, "unlettered" but nonetheless "scion of the noble and ancient family of the Cabreras of Spain, of the Portuguese Barrios who ancestral castle was on the boundary of Portugal and Galicia, and of Maciot de Berthancourt, second King of the Canary Islands."  Manuel evidently spent the first years of his service in the Third Company of the Third Battalion, Infantry Regiment of Spain, in the Canaries.  He was not part of the emigration of his fellow Isleños to Spanish Louisiana in 1778-79.  A filiacion, or certificate of legitimacy, filed in the islands in c1778, described him as age 25, standing five feet, one inch tall, with "black hair, grey, brown, cloudy or hazel or dark eyes," and "brunet or olive complexioned."  The filiation also noted that he had joined the Spanish army as a substitute in late April 1775, which evidently got him in hot water with the local authorities.  Nevertheless, by June 1783, when he received orders to report to Governor-General Bernardo de Gálvez at New Orleans, Manuel had risen to the rank of corporal.  He evidently reported to his new unit--the Second Company of the First Battalion of the Fixed Regiment of Louisiana--by October 1783, two years after Gálvez's successful Gulf Coast Campaign against the British.  Now age 30, secure in his profession, and enjoying the life of a soldier in peacetime, Corporal Barrios, with permission from his superiors, was ready to establish a family of his own in the Mississippi valley colony.

On 25 September 1786, at Ascension, today's Donaldsonville, on the river above New Orleans, 33-year-old Manuel Barrios "of Spain," married Antonia, called Antoinette, 16-year-old of Tomas Antonio Rodriguez Mora and Petrona Pabla Chavez "of Spain,"  Antonio actually was a fellow Isleño who came to Louisiana with her family in 1779.  José Sanches, perhaps a fellow soldier, perhaps a kinsman of the bride, witnessed the wedding, performed by Father Pedro de Zamora, who had come to La Parroquia de la Ascension de Nuestro Senor Jesu Christo de La Fourche de Los Tchitimacha only the year before.  The couple settled at nearby Valenzuela, an Isleño settlement on upper Bayou Lafourche that Gálvez had founded seven years earlier.  In January 1788, the commandant at Valenzuela, Nicolas Verret, fils, counted Manuelle Barilos, "corporal," age 39, and his 18-year-old wife Antoinette, no surname given, on the left, or east, bank of Bayou Lafourche.  The couple owned a horse and five pigs.  The census said nothing of the size of their holdings fronting the Lafourche.  A month or so later, Antonia gave the corporal a son, Manuel Antonio, baptized at Ascension by Father de Zamora, no age given, in late March 1788.  In January 1789, Commandant Verret found the couple still on the left bank of the Lafourche.  Manuel Barrios, his surname spelled correctly this time, was, according to the commandant, age 40 (he was actually 35) and still a corporal.  Antoinette, as the Frenchman called her again, was age 19.  Oddly, Verret said nothing about their son Manuel, who would have been nearly a year old, nor did he detail the size of the family's bayou-side holding or the number of animals they owned.  Manuel was promoted to second corporal of his company in April 1789.  A daughter, Petra Sebastiana, was born in October 1790 and baptized at Ascension by Father José de Arazena the first of November.  In January 1791, Commandant Verret again found the couple on the left bank of the Lafourche.  The commandant listed Manuel as age 36 (he was 37) and Antonia, as he now called her, age 24 (she was 21), and said nothing about Manuel's rank, so one wonders if the little corporal had retired by then.  This time, the commandant counted the couple's children:  Manuel, age 2, and Petra, age 1.  Again, Verret did not give the size of the couple's bayou-side holding, but he did note that they owned three head of cattle, a horse, and, amazinlgy, four slaves.  Son José Antonio Rogerio was born in late March 1793 and baptized by Father de Arazena at Ascension in early April.  Another son, Bartolome Julian, also called Valtolome or Baltolome, was born in February 1796 and baptized at Ascension four days after his birth.  The family again appears in a Valenzuela District census in April 1797.  This rather cursory count, again made by Commandant Nicolas Verret, fils, did not specify on which side of the Lafourche any of the families lived nor the size of their holdings or the animals they owned, only the names of the family members and how many slaves they may have held.  Manuel, still no longer called a corporal, was listed as age 38 (he was 44), wife Josepha, obviously a misidentification, age 30 (Antonia was 27), son Manuelle, as he was called, age 9, Joseph, age 3, Bartolome, age 2 (actually 1), and daughter Petronilda, as the commandant called her, age 1 (she was 7!).  The commandant counted no slaves with the couple.  The family continued to grow.  Daughter Maria Manuela, perhaps also called Marguerite, was born in December 1798 and baptized at Ascension in January.  Another daughter, Anna Maria, the couple's final child, was born in March 1807 and baptized soon after at La Parroquia de la Assumption de Nuestra Senora de La Fourche de los Chetimachas de Valenzuela, the Church of the Assumption, at present-day Plattenville, Assumption Parish.  The family now consisted of six children, three sons and three daughters, born on upper Bayou Lafourche between 1788 and 1807.  Two of the daughters and all three of the sons created families of their own in Bayou Lafourche valley.  A daughter and two sons married Acadians.

Meanwhile, in December 1801, Manuel purchased from neighbor Jean Dugas, an Acadian, a farm of six arpents, 25 toises frontage and "one hundred and twenty five superficial arpents" deep "about 4 leagues from the Mississippi River on the left bank toward Bayou Lafourche," above present-day Plattenville, down bayou from the old Valenzuela village at present-day Belle Rose. The house on Manuel's six-arpent farm was "20 feet long by 14 feet wide," and the property contained "a storehouse of 20 feet by 12 feet, and about one thousand two hundred to one thousand five hundred posts used for fences," all for "one thousand pesos in Mexican silver money, that is, two hundred pesos down, 400 with interest at 10%" due the following January, "and the remaining 400 in January 1803 with interest also at 10%."  One of Manuel's neighbors was Pierre Gautreaux, another Acadian.  In December 1801, only a week after he purchased the six-arpent farm from Jean Dugas, Manuel sold to Antonio Pereira for 500 pesos "a place on the left bank of Bayou Lafourche," perhaps his original homestead, of three-arpents frontage, which he purchased from Antonio Dias in 1796.  On this lot was "a house 25 feet in length by 11 feet in width, with two galleries, made of posts in the ground, one old storehouse with two galleries 20 feet in length by 11 in width, one old cabin 10 feet wide, and about one thousand two hundred feet of fences and barricades."  In May 1804, Manuel sold to Claudio Francisco Girod part of the land he had purchased from Jean Dugas less than three years earlier. 

The little corporal died at Assumption in early December 1807.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Manuel died at age 50.  He was 54.  Widow Antonia wasted no time remarrying.  Her second husband was Jean Pierre Avilles of Asturias on the northern coast of Spain, who she married in October 1808, in her late 30s.  A witness to the remarriage was Vicente Rodriguez Mora, her uncle, who also had come to Louisiana in 1779.  Antonia gave her new husband at least one son, Gabriel de Jesus, at Assumption in December 1809.   

The first hint of the Barrios family lines's endurance came in August 1807, when Manuel and Antonia's oldest son Manuel Antonio, called Antoine by the presiding priest, probably Father Francisco Notario, married, at age 29, Maria Dolores, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Isleños Juan Placentia, later Plaisance, and Maria Francesca Borges, at Assumption in August 1807, four months before his father died.  Maria Dolores was a native of Valenzuela whose parents, like his mother, had come to the colony from the Canary Islands in 1779.  Interestingly, the three witnesses to his marriage were all Acadian:  neighbors Jean-Baptiste Foret, Jean-Charles Theriot, and Paul Aucoin.  Their children, born on the upper bayou, included Angela Maria, called Angélique, in February 1809 and baptized in October 1810; Manuel Ramone in March 1810 and baptized in October on the same day as his sister; José Guillermo in January 1812 and baptized in April; and Margarita Carmen, called Marguerite Carmelite, in March 1815 and baptized in May--four children, two daughters and two sons, between 1809 and 1815.  Daughters Angélique and Marguerite Carmelite married into the Bourgeois, Durand, Cantrelle, and Richau, Richaux or Richou families.  Both of Manuel Antonio's sons married, one of them twice, and one to an Acadian.  Older son Manuel Rosémond, as he was called, married, at age 24, married first cousin Rosalie Marcelline, 17-year-old daughter of Joseph Barrios and Rosalie Foret, his uncle and aunt, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1834.  She evidently gave him no children.  Manuel, called Emanuel Parralias by the recording priest, at age 36, remarried to Pamela, daughter of Jacques Matherne and Marie Remelie Sevin, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1846, and sanctified the marriage at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in October 1848.  Their children, born on the lower bayou, included Adam in September 1848; Marcelline Prosperine near Longueville, today's Lockport, in June 1850; Jérôme Cléophas in September 1851; Marie perhaps in the early 1850s; Floro Evelina in November 1857; Marie Angela near Raceland in January 1861; Joséphine Adela in December 1862; Aglae Cléophine near Lockport in June 1865; Augustine Uzeline in August 1868.  Daughter Marie married into the Vinet family by 1870.  Manuel Antonio's younger son Joseph Guillaume, as he was called, married, at age 26, Geneviève Olymphe, 15 (the recording priest said 18)-year-old daughter of Acadians Olivier Guidry and Henriette Bergeron, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in August 1838, and sanctified the marriage at the Thibodaux church in March 1841--a continuation of the family's "Cajunization."  Their children, born on the lower bayou, included Joseph Octave, called Octave, in April 1840; Gustave perhaps in the early 1840s; Joséphine perhaps in the early 1840s; Louisiane Mirthée, called Mirthée, in November 1845; Henriette Geneviève in May 1848; Clémence Cécile near Raceland in November 1851; Françoise Argentine in March 1855; Manuel Olivier in August 1857; Pierre Alphonse in July 1861; Augustin Edgard in September 1864.  Daughters Mirthée, Joséphine, and Henriette married into the Dugas, Allemand, and Wilton families by 1870.  Two of Joseph Guillaume's sons married by 1870.  Oldest son Octave, at age 26, married Louise Marguerite Renaud in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in July 1866.  Joseph Guillaume's second son Gustave married, at age 25, Marie Amélie, 22-year-old daughter of Acadian François Régis Bergeron and his Creole wife Elisa Grabert, at the Thibodaux Church in November 1865.  Their children, born near Lockport, included Marie Emétantia in December 1866; Joséphine Valérie in October 1868 but died at age 1 1/2 in May 1870; Cécilia Elvinia born in June 1870.

Meanwhile, Manuel and Antonia's oldest daughter Petra, at age 17, married Francisco, son of Paulo Navarre or Navarro of the La Mancha region of Spain, and Maria Acosta of Aguimes, Grand Canaria Island, at Assumption in January 1808.  Petra gave Francisco at least six children, three daughters and three sons, half of whom died young, in the first decade of their marriage. 

Manuel and Antonia's second son José, at age 22, married Rosalie, 13-year-old daughter of Acadians Jean Baptiste Foret and Sophie Bourgeois, at Assumption in February 1816.  Rosalie, a native of Ascension, would turn 14 in late April.  Her parents also were natives of Louisiana.  Her paternal grandfather Joseph Forest, a native of Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, had come to the colony with his first wife, Isabelle Leger, from Halifax in 1765 and settled at Cabahannocer on the river, where Rosalie's father Jean Baptiste was born.  Rosalie's maternal grandfather, Michel Bourgeois, a native of Chignecto, came to Louisiana as a young bachelor with the Broussards from Halifax in February 1765, followed them to Bayou Teche, retreated to Cabahannocer that fall to escape the Teche valley epidemic, which began that summer, and married a Landry at Cabahannocer, where her mother Sophie was born.  They, too, moved on to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Here was the beginning of the Barrios family's intimate acquaintance with the emerging "Cajun" culture.  José and Rosalie's many children, born on the upper bayou, included Rosalie Marcelline in December 1816; Marie Clarisse in August 1818; Joseph Barthalemi, also called Joseph Bertholde, in December 1819; Remond or Raymond in December 1821; Paul in March 1825; Marguerite Zeline or Zelide in January 1826; Antoinette Melicer in January 1828; Marie Louise, called Louise and Laure, in August 1830; Evelina or Eveline Lefonsine in November 1832; Firmin in March 1835; Valmond Ulisse in August 1837; Alphonse Guillaume in January 1840; Antenor or Athenor Théophile in July 1845--13 children, six daughters and seven sons, between 1816 and 1845.  Daughters Rosalie Marcelline, Marie Clarisse, Marguerite Zelide, Eveline, and Louise married a Barrios first cousin and into the Lie, Richau or Richaux, Charpentier, and Bourgeois families.  Six of Joseph's sons married by 1870, most to Acadians, three of them to Arceneaux sisters.  Oldest son Joseph Bertholde, at age 30, married Marie Urceline, called Urseline, 18-year-old daughter of Acadian Constant Boudreaux and his Creole wife Hélène Picou, at the Thibodaux church in August 1850.  Did they have any children?  Joseph's second son Raymond, at age 24, married Séraphine, 22-year-old daughter of Acadians Nicolas Arceneaux and Carmelite Breaux, at the Thibodaux church in March 1846.  Their children, born on the bayou, included Marie Zelina or Celina in July 1848; Victor Alidor in March 1850; Joachim near Lockport in October 1857; Alphonse near Raceland in October 1859; Marie in February 1861; Marguerite in January 1863.  Daughter Celina married into the LeBlanc family by 1870.  Joseph's third son Paul, at age 22, married Melisaire, another daughter of Nicolas Arceneaux and Carmelite Breaux, at the Thibodaux church in November 1847.  Their children, born on the lower bayou, included Marcelline in the late 1840s or early 1850s; Paul Arsène near Raceland in December 1853 but died at age 6 months the following June; Louis Abdon born near Lockport in July 1855; Carmelite Sesaye in February 1858; Joseph Onésippe in November 1859; Michel near Raceland in September 1861; Adam Gallien near Lockport in December 1863; Joseph Wilton in August 1865; Rosalie Felisia in September 1867.  Daughter Marcelline married into the Loupes or Loups family by 1870.  Joseph's fourth son Firmin, at age 21, married 22-year-old Émilie Hortense, yet another daughter of Nicolas Arseneaux and Carmelite Breaux, at the Raceland church, Lafourche Parish, in April 1856.  Their children, born on the lower bayou, included Marie Joséphine near Lockport in March 1857; and Marie Stephanie near Raceland in August 1858.  Firmin remarried to Adophine Lerille, probably a sister of his younger brother Alphonse's wife, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in 1863.  Their children, born near Lockport, included Palmore Octave in July 1864; Marie Agnès in November 1865; Louis Ernest in May 1869; Pierre Octave in October 1867; Camille died, age unrecorded, in December 1870.  Joseph's sixth son Alphonse married Louise, daughter of Jean Lerille and his Acadian wife Marguerite Célestine Poirier and widow of Acadian Alexis Delaune, at the Lockport church, Lafourche Parish, in September 1863.  Their children, born near Lockport, included Casimir Clebert in March 1865; Marie Lucie in December 1866.  Joseph's seventh and youngest son Anthenor, at age 19, married Lorenza, daughter of Léonce Price and his Acadian wife Marie Doralise Martin, at the Lockport church in February 1865.  Their son Felicien Adam was born near Lockport in September 1866.  Anthenor died near Lockport in September 1867, age 22.

Manuel and Antonia's second daughter Maria Manuela, called Marguerite by the recording priest, married, at age 22, Jean Baptiste, fils, called Jean, 22-year-old son of Acadians Jean Baptiste Foret and Sophie Bourgeois and older brother of her older brother Joseph's wife Rosalie, at the Thibodauxville church in July 1820.  ...  

Manuel and Antonia's third and youngest son Bartholome, at age 39, married Marie Rose, 28-year-old daughter of Acadian François Doucet and his Creole wife Marie Angelbert and widow of Acadian Jean Baptiste Lejeune, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in March 1835.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marguerite Antoinette, called Antoinette, in January 1836; Jean Baptiste Prospere in June 1837; Charles François in January 1839; and Barthélemy, fils probably in the early 1840s--four children, a daughter and three sons, between 1836 and the early 1840s.  Bartholome, called Bertholde by the recording priest, died near Lockport in October 1870, age 74.  Daughter Antoinette married into the Theriot family.  Two of his sons also married by 1870.  Second son Charles, at age 24, married Marie Odilia, called Odilia, 15-year-old daughter of Acadian Joseph Babin and his Creole wife Félonise Céleste Leboeuf of Terrebonne Parish, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in May 1863.  Their daughter Joséphine Céleste Odilia was born near Lockport in July 1866.  Bartholome's third son Barthélemy, fils married Carmelite, daughter of Gabriel Ubaldo Rodrigue or Rodriguez and Françoise Martinez, at the Lockport church in December 1866.  Their son Prospere Thomas was born near Lockport in November 1867.05

Baudoin

Baye

Beard

Begnaud

Belanger

Belaire

Bellard

Berard

Berthelot

Bienvenu

Blanchet

Blanco

Blouin

Bodin

Bonin

Bonvillain

Borel

Borne

Boudeloche

Boudery/Boutary

Boulee/Boulet

Boyer

Brown

Bruce/Bruze

Bulliard

Caillouet

Campos

Cancienne

Pietro, son of Giorgio Cancieni and Margherita Catharina Yearne of Venice, Italy, married, in his early 30s, Jean-Marguerite, called Marguerite, 21-year-old daughter Acadian Joseph Landry and his second wife Jeanne-Madeleine-Marie Varangue, a Frenchwoman from Cherbourg, at Ascension in February 1786.  One wonders if this was Pietro's first marriage.  Marguerite, a native of Cherbourg, had come to Louisiana from France in September 1785 aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, with three younger siblings; they were orphans.  Pietro and Marguerite settled on upper Bayou Lafourche in what became Assumption and Lafourche parishes.  Pietro's name evolved into Pierre Cancienne in francophone Louisiana.  ...06

Cantrelle

Capdeville

Carmouche

Carrière

Caruthers/Credeur

William Caruthers of Carolina, born in c1740, moved to New Jersey while still a young man and married Elizabeth, daughter of ____ Bickham and Elizabeth Hamton, at Deptford Township, Gloucester County, in June 1761.  Elizabeth was a native of New Jersey, and her mother evidently was a widow at the time of Elizabeth's marriage to William.  The couple's oldest son James married Elizabeth Saunders at Deptford in May 1785.  William and Elizabeth also had sons named Thomas, born probably at Deptford in c1764; and David in c1766.  They also had three daughters:  Sarah born in c1773 probably at Deptford; Mary; and Marguerite.  Sometime in the early 1790s, William, Elizabeth, their younger sons Thomas and David and youngest daughter Marguerite emigrated to Spanish Louisiana.  One suspects they were among the two dozen or so Anglo Americans lured to the Spanish province by Henri-Marie Peyroux de la Coudronière, who was at Philadelphia in 1792 recruiting settlers for Louisiana's Governor Francisco Luis Hector, Baron de Carondelet.  Despite their Protestant religion, William and his family ventured to the Spanish colony and settled at Carencro in the Attakapas District, surrounded by Acadian and Creole Catholics.  When William took his family to Louisiana, older daughters Sarah and Mary remained in New Jersey, where they married Richard Apes and Peter Sutter, respectively.  William's oldest son James and his wife Elizabeth, meanwhile, resettled in New York state, where their son James Samuel, called Samuel, was born in c1792; and James, Jr., in October 1796.  They also had a daughter named Sally or Sarah, born in New Jersey; and another son, William. 

William, the family's progenitor, died at his home at Carencro in April 1808, age 68.  By then, his sons Thomas and David and daughter Marguerite had established their own families in the Carencro area. 

Third and youngest son David, age about 27, was the first to marry, to Élisabeth- or Isabelle-Eulalie, 25-year-old daughter of Acadians Joseph Dugas and his first wife Anastasie Henry and widow of Joseph Prejean, probably at Carencro in October 1793.  Isabelle, a native of St.-Suliac, near St.-Malo, France, came to Louisiana with her father, stepmother, and eight siblings aboard La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, in August 1785.  She was among the hand full of passengers from her ship to move from upper Bayou Lafourche to the western prairies, where she married her first husband at Attakapas in June 1786, when she was age 20.  She gave him at least one son and a daughter before his death.  David would have had to convert to Catholicism to marry the young widow.  Their children, born near Carencro, included Louise in the early 1790s; Julien in December 1796; David Onésime, called Onésime, in June 1799; Marie Arthémise in November 1801; John Marcellin, called Marcellin, in March 1804 but died at age 2 in March 1806; Jean Arvillien, called Arvillien, born in October 1806; and Louis in January 1809.  Wife Isabelle Dugas died at Carencro in September 1810, age 42.  David, now in his late 40s, remarried to Marguerite Lise, daughter of Acadians Jean Savoie and Marguerite Boutin and widow of Charles Peck, probably at Carencro in November 1813.  Their children, born there, included Marie Silvanie in October 1814; Marguerite Louisa in May 1818; an unnamed son died at birth in March 1821; Amelanie born in February 1824; and Marie Mélaïde, called Mélaïde, posthumously in July 1826, nine months after her father's death--a dozen children, six daughters and six sons, by two wives, between the early 1790s and 1826.  David died at two o'clock in the morning on 31 October 1825 probably at Carencro, age 59 or 60.  His successions were filed at the Opelousas courthouse in January 1826 and August 1827.  Three of his daughters, by both wives, and four of his sons, all by his first wife, created their own families in the Carencro area, which included the southeast corner of St. Landry Parish around Grand Coteau.  Most of them married Acadians. 

Daughters Louise, Marie Arthémise, and Mélaïde, by both wives, married into the Bernard, Neurat, and Caruthers families.  Oldest son Julien, by first wife Isabelle Dugas, married, at age 22, Céleste, daughter of Acadians Sylvestre Mouton and Susanne Comeaux, probably at Carencro in October 1818.  Their children, born near Carencro, included Marguerite Arthémise in c1817; Marie Arthémise in September 1819; and Julien, fils in December 1820--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1817 and 1820.  Julien remarried to Marguerite Azélie, called Azélie, daughter of Acadians Jean Bernard and Marguerite Broussard and widow of Alexandre Guilbeau, at Grand Coteau in March 1845.  She evidently gave him no more children.  Julien died near Grand Coteau in December 1853, age 57.  Daughters Marguerite Arthémise and Marie Arthémise, by first wife Céleste Mouton, married into the Richard and Neurat families.  Only son Julien, Jr., by first wife Céleste Mouton, married cousin Eliza or Elisa, daughter of Acadians Alexandre Babineaux and Marie Cléonise Dugas, at Grand Coteau in July 1843.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Marie Émelie in the early 1840s; Aurelien in December 1845; Emelina in January 1849 but died at age 1 in September 1850; and Thelesmar in August 1851.  Julien, Jr. remarried to Adélaïde, daughter of Anglo American James Bruce or Brousse and his Acadian wife Marie Richard, at Grand Coteau in June 1854.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Julien III in February 1856; Louis in October 1857 but died at age 1 in November 1858; and Marie Josette born in December 1858 but died at age 1 in December 1859--seven children, four sons and three daughters, by two wives, between 1845 and 1858.  Julien, Jr. died near Grand Coteau in November 1859, age 38.  His succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse within a week of his burial.  Daughter Marie Émelie, by first wife Elisa Babineaux, married a Dugas cousin.  None of Julien, Jr.'s sons married by 1870.  On the same day in October 1818 and probably at the same place as son Julien, David's second son Onésime, by first wife Isabelle Dugas, married, at age 19, Marguerite Emérente, daughter of Acadians Frédéric Mouton and Anastasie Cormier.  Brother Julien's wife Céleste and Onésime's wife Marguerite Emérente were first cousins.  Marguerite Emérente evidently gave Onésime no children, at least none who made it into local church records.  Onésime remarried to Marie Sidalise, daughter of Acadians Dominique Prejean and Marie Savoie, at Grand Coteau in January 1827.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Louis Damonville in October 1827 but died at age 6 in August 1834; Marie born in April 1829 but died at age 1 in April 1830; Pierre Neuville born in May 1831; Onésime Dupréville in February 1833 but may have died at age 7 in September 1840; Charles Wilson born in September 1835; Marie Lezime or Lezima in October 1836 but died at age 6 in August 1843; Marie Célestine or Céleste born in March 1841 but may have died at age 3 in August 1844; and Marie Coralie born in July 1843--eight children, four sons and four daughters, all by his second wife, between 1827 and 1843.  Daughter Marie Coralie, by second wife Marie Sidalise Prejean, married into the Broussard family.  None of Onesime's sons married by 1870.  David's fourth son Jean Arvillien, by first wife Isabelle Dugas, married, at age 21, Marie Louise, daughter of Acadians Jean Thibodeaux and Marie Louise Broussard, at Grand Coteau in October 1827.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Aurelia in November 1828; Jean Aurelien in November 1830; Euclide in January 1833; David le jeune in April 1835; and Onésime le jeune in c1837 and baptized at age 2 in September 1839--five children, a daughter and four sons, between 1828 and 1837.  None of Jean Arvillien's children married by 1870.  David's fifth son Louis, by first wife Isabelle Dugas, married, at age 40, Elisa, daughter of Acadian Augustin Boudreaux and his German-Creole wife Françoise Ritter and widow of Jean Achille Prejean, at Grand Coteau in December 1849.  Considering his age at the time of the wedding, one wonders if this was a remarriage for Louis as well.  His and Elisa's children, born near Grand Coteau, included Louis D. in c1852 but died at age 6 in January 1858; and Aselie born in June 1855.  Louis died near Grand Coteau in May 1856, age 47.  His remaining daughter did not marry by 1870. 

By the late antebellum period, David Caruthers's sons were doing well on their farms, vacharies, and plantations in Lafayette and St. Landry parishes.  In September 1850, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted seven slaves--five males and two females, all black, ranging in age from 10 to 1--on Julien, Jr.'s farm in the parish's Western District.  In October 1850, the federal census taker in St. Landry Parish counted four slaves--two males and two females, all black, ranging in age from 40 to 25--on Onésime's farm in the parish.  The same census taker counted 10 slaves--five males and five females, all of them black, ranging in age from 35 to 2--on Louis's farm next to older brother Onésime.  The same census taker counted 20 slaves--10 males and 10 females, 13 blacks and seven mulattoes, ranging in age from 70 to 2--on Julien, Sr.'s plantation next to younger brother Louis's farm.  Sometime in 1860, the federal census taker in St. Landry Parish counted seven slaves--two males and five females, all black, ranging in age from 44 to 3--on Onésime's farm in the parish.  The same federal census taker counted 15 slaves--11 males and four females, six blacks and nine mulattoes, ranging in age from 50 to 2--on Margaret A Caruthers's farm in the parish.  This likely was Julien, Sr.'s second wife and widow, Marguerite Azélie Bernard.  The same federal census taker counted two slaves--a 16-year-old black males and an 11-year-old black female--in Mélaïde Caruthers's household next to Margaret A.  This could have been Julien, Sr.'s youngest half-sister, who likely was a widow as well. 

William and Elizabeth's second son Thomas, at age 40, was baptized into the Roman Catholic faith in June 1804 on the eve of his marriage to Rosalie Clara, daughter of French Canadian Jean-Baptiste Jeannot and his Acadian wife Marguerite Hébert, probably at Carencro.  Their children, born probably near Carencro, included Joseph in November 1805; Marie Clémence, called Clémence, in September 1807; and Hypolite in February 1822--three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1805 and 1822.  Thomas, a widower, died in Lafayette Parish in November 1822.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said that Thomas was age 50 when he died.  He likely was closer to 58.  Daughter Clémence married into the Gilchrist family.   Thomas's older son Joseph died in Lafayette Parish in November 1827, age 22, probably still a bachelor.   If his younger son Hypolite married, he did not do so by 1870. 

William and Elizabeth's youngest daughter Marguerite married Jean, son of Acadians Augustin Boudreaux and Judith Martin of Opelousas, probably at Carencro in September 1806. 

During the 1810s and early 1820s, William and Elizabeth's oldest son James and oldest daughter Sarah joined their siblings on the prairies of South Louisiana, adding substantially to the number of Carutherss on the prairies. 

James's line was as prolific as his brother David's.  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in October 1830; one wonders if it was post-mortem.  Daughter Sally married into the Jenkins family.  James, Sr.'s son Samuel married Victoire, daughter of French Canadian Augustin Royer and his Acadian wife Victoire Cormier of nearby La Prairie Basse, at Carencro in February 1816, the first indication that this line of the family had moved from the northeastern United States to South Louisiana.  Samuel and Victoire's children, born probably near Carencro, included Samuel, Jr. in March 1817; Victorin in July 1818; Guillaume dit William in March 1820; Onésime in January 1823; an unnamed child died 13 days after his or her birth in December 1824; Marie Caroline, called Caroline, baptized at age 2 months in July 1826; Sosthène born in June 1828; Uranie in 1830 and baptized at age 12 months in July 1831 on the eve of her death; Edmond born in August 1832; Césaire in 1835 and baptized at Vermilionville at age 1 in April 1836; and another unnamed child died 2 days after his or her birth in January 1837--11 children, at least seven sons and two daughters, between 1817 and 1837.  Samuel, Sr. died in Lafayette Parish in June 1855.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Samuel died "at age over 60 yrs."  He probably was closer to 63.  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in July.  Daughter Caroline married into the Halloway and Trahan families.  One wonders if her first husband was a brother of her brother Victorin's wife.  Caroline's son Cyprien was born near Grand Coteau in February 1853; the priest who recorded the boy's baptism did not record the father's name.  Evidently Samuel's oldest son Samuel, Jr., called Samuel John by the recording priest, married Julienne Clément, probably a French Creole, in St. Landry Parish, date unrecorded.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Samuel Césaire near Mermentau in December 1837; Marie Zelienne in January 1845; Marguerite Euremie in March 1847; Jean Neuville in January 1849; Elodie in July 1851; and Anatalie near Church Point in February 1853--six children, two sons and four daughters, between 1837 and 1853.  Oldest son Samuel Césaire evidently married Acadian Marie Julie, called Julie, Comeaux in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in January 1856.  The parish clerk who recorded the marriage called the groom simply Samuel but did not give the bride's or the groom's parents' names.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Joseph Olivier near Grand Coteau in November 1856; and Marie Odelia near Church Point in January 1858.  Samuel, Sr.'s second son Victorin married Elizabeth, daughter of Anglo Americans Isaac Halloway and Adelaide Baird, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in July 1837.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Eliza baptized at Vermilionville at age 2 months in February 1840; Marie Azélie, called Azélie, born in December 1841; Joseph Haynes in January 1845; Marie Victoria in July 1847; and Elvina in February 1850--five children, four daughters and a son, between 1840 and 1850.  Victorin died near Grand Coteau in September 1850, age 32.  A succession for Samuel Caruthers, husband of Isabelle Alloway, which would have been Victorin, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in June 1855.  Daughters Marie Azélie and Eliza married into the Breaux family.   Victorin's only son did not marry by 1870.  Samuel, Sr.'s third son William married Marie Irénée, daughter of  French Creole Louis Clément and his German-Creole wife Marianne Stelly, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in July 1841.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Lucien in May 1842; Marie Marianne in March 1844; Ursin in June 1846; Israel in February 1849; William, Jr. in January 1851; Athanase near Church Point in March 1853; and Joseph Lessin in February 1855.  William remarried to Célima, daughter of Acadian Hippolyte Thibodeaux and his German-Creole wife Arsène Brandt, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in December 1856.  Their son Joseph was born near Grand Coteau in April 1858--eight children, six sons and a daughter, by two wives, between 1842 and 1858.  None of William's children married by 1870.  Samuel, Sr.'s fourth son Onésime married Oliva, daughter of Isleño Creole Balthazar Placentia or Plaisance and his Acadian wife Henriette Breaux, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in January 1845, and sanctified the marriage at the Grand Coteau church in February 1851.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Ignace in December 1845; Horace in September 1847; Azelina in February 1850; Aurelien in January 1852; Joseph Arvilien in November 1854; Marie Anaïs in September 1857; and Henriette Adelaïde in January 1860--seven children, four sons and three daughters, between 1845 and 1860.  None of their children married by 1870.  Samuel, Sr.'s fifth son Sosthène married Marie Azélie, called Azélie, daughter of Acadians Gerard Babineaux and Eugénie Bourque, at Grand Coteau in February 1851.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Marie Amelida in June 1855, Marie Eugénie in September 1856, Marie Victoire in May 1858, and Célestine in May 1860--four children, all daughters, between 1855 and 1860.  None of his daughters married by 1870.  Samuel, Sr.'s seventh son Césaire married Célestine, daughter, perhaps, of Acadian Anselme Doucet and his second wife Adélaïde Venable, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in June 1859.  Their son Césaire, Jr. was born near Church Point in November 1860.  James, Jr. was baptized a Roman Catholic in November 1816 at age 22.  He married Marcelline, also called Carmelite and Émilie, daughter of French Creole Charles LeBlanc of New Orleans and Attakapas and his Spanish-Creole wife Marie Quintero, at Grand Coteau in July 1819.  Their daughter Céleste was born near Grand Coteau in August 1820.  James, Jr. remarried to German Creole Émilie Hoffpauir a few years later.  Their daughter Arvenie was baptized at Vermilionville, age unrecorded, in April 1826.  Daughter Céleste, by first wife Marcelline LeBlanc, married into the Melançon and Trahan families.  James, Jr. had no sons, so only the blood of his family line endured.  James, Sr.'s son William evidently married French Creole Marie Jeanne Carrière in the 1810s and fathered a son named Célestin William.  William remarried to fellow Anglo American Margaret Rosana Hamilton, widow of ____ Carpenter of Vincennes County, Indiana, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in March 1824.  She evidently gave him no more children.  A succession for William Caruthers was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in September 1833; one wonders if this was James, Sr.'s son William and if it was a post-mortem document.  Only son Celestin William, by first wife Marie Jeanne Carrière, married Léocadie, daughter of French Creoles François Ozenne and Chalinette DeBlanc, at St. Martinville in December 1839.  One wonders if they had any children. 

William and Elizabeth's oldest daughter Sarah's "natural son" John was baptized at Grand Coteau in February 1827 at age 9, so she, too, had joined the family on the western prairies.  John, called Jean by the recording priest, married Céleste, daughter of Acadians Jean Bourg and Marguerite Richard, at Vermilionville in May 1836.  Céleste died probably at Carencro in April 1839, age 31.  They evidently had no children.  John, again called Jean by the recording priest, remarried to Adélaïde, daughter of Acadian Charles Hébert and his French-Creole wife Pélagie Dumesnil, at Vermilionville in February 1840.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Élisabeth in February 1841; Céleste in July 1843 but died at age 4 in August 1847; Louis born in May 1842; and Jean Joseph in April 1849.  John seems to have remarried again--this would have been his third marriage--to Acadian Euphémie Chiasson in c1855 or 1856, his second wife having died in January 1854 at age 47.  John and Euphémie's children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Ignace in January 1857; Edgar in February 1858; Eucharis in May 1859 but died at age 1 in June 1860; and an unnamed son died at birth in December 1860--eight children, two daughters and six sons, by two wives, between 1841 and 1860.  Daughter Élisabeth, by second wife Adélaïde Hébert, married into the Chiasson family.  None of John's remaining sons married by 1870.  In late June 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette Parish counted four slaves--one male and three females, two blacks & two mulattoes, ranging in age from 21 years to 11 months--on John's farm in the parish. 

Not everyone who carried the name Caruthers during the antebellum period were descendants of William and Elizabeth of New Jersey.  Margaret L. Caruthers, parents' names unrecorded, married fellow Anglo American Alexander Nelson, whose parents' names also were unrecorded, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in August 1835.  On the same day in August 1835, Mary M. Caruthers, parents unrecorded, married Lewis Cyphers in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish.  One suspects that Margaret L. and Mary M. were sisters  Were they descendants of William of Carolina, or did they spring from a different line of the family?  Charles William Caruthers,  described by the recording priest as a couleur libre, or free black, died near St. Martinville in October 1855, age 56. 

During the antebellum period, members of the family began calling themselves Credeur, a gallicizied version of Caruthers.  Southwest Louisiana phone books reveal that the gallized version of the family's name is more common today than the Anglo version.04

Cedotal

Champagne

Charpentier

Chatagnier

Chauvin

Cheramie

Darce

Darden

Dartes/Dartez

Daunis/Danos

Dejean

Delatte

Delhomme

Derouen

Desmaret/Demarest

Desormeaux

Dias/Dies

Doré

Ducharme

Duet/Duhé

Dufrene

Duplantis

Dupré

Durio

Exnicios

Fabre/Favre

Frugé

Gary

Gatt

Gaubert

Gautier/Gauthier

Gisclard

Gomez

Gonsoulin

Grabert

Green

Grégoire

Gros

Guilbert

Guillory

Hamilton

Haydel

Hayes

Henderson

Istre

Janise

Johnson

Joly

Joubert

Judice

Juneau/Junot

Kern

Labie/Labit

Lacase

Lacombe

Lagarde

Lagrange

Laine

Lambremont

Lanclos

Lançon

Langlinais

Langlois

Lapointe

Lasseigne

Latiolais

Lecompte

Leleux

Lemaire

Leonard

Lessard

Levert

Lopez

Lyons

Maillard

Malbrough

Mallet

Manuel

Marcantel

Marcel

Marchand

Marks

Maronge

Marrionneaux

Mars

Martinez

Matherne

Matte

Maurin/Morin

Mayer

Moore

Moreau

Morvant

Navarre

Nezat

Nunez

Parent

Patin

Pelletier/Peltier

Penisson

Percle

Picard

Pichoff

Picou

Placentia/Plaisance

Poché/Porche

Pontiff

Prevost/Prevot/Provost

Members of this family can be found in Louisiana from its earliest days.  Éstienne Prevot or Prevost of Dumarien, Diocese of Langres, France, died in Louisiana, probably at New Orleans, in September 1724, during what historians call the Company Period.  His burial record does not mention his age, occupation, or give his parents' names.  In June 1726, Marianne Prevost, widow of Phillibert Frogis, married Claude Gonet at the St.-Louis church in New Orleans. 

Earlier that year, in January 1726, the Company conducted a census of the colony, which included the entire Mississippi River valley from its mouth to the Illinois country, Red River, and the eastern part of the colony in today's coastal Mississippi and coastal and interior Alabama.  Two bearers of the name appear in the census.  Nicolas Prevost, his unnamed wife, probably Ives Dubeau, and an unnamed child, perhaps son Joseph or daughter Nicole, were counted at Natchitoches on the Red River.  A M. Prevost, a bookkeeper with two white servants, was counted on Rue de Chartres in New Orleans in 1726 and, called M. Prevost, "le sieur," "first bookeeper," was still living in New Orleans in July 1727 with his two servants.  He was still at New Orleans, this time with six black slaves and two "negro children," in January 1732.  Meanwhile, a M. Jacques Prevost, "commander," with one white servant and 20 black slaves, was counted "in the environs of New Orleans" in July 1727. 

In June 1732, Nicolas, son of Claude Prevost and Marie Rernie, native of Longvilliers, diocese of Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, married Marie-Thérèse Bertrand, widow of Francois Henaut or Heino, at the St.-Louis church in New Orleans.  The priest who recorded the marriage did not say that the groom Nicolas was a widower, so he likely was not the same Nicolas Prevost who had been counted at Natchitoches six years earlier. 

The Nicolas Prevost at Natchitouches, also called Prevot and Provost, native of La Rochelle, France, and his wife Ives Dubeau, perhaps were still at Natchitoches when daughter Anne was born there in c1734.  The girl died at Pointe Coupée on the Mississippi, "age abt. 8 yrs.," in June 1742.  Son Nicolas, fils was born at Pointe Coupée in October 1740 and died there, age 1, in December 1741.  In November 1742, son Antoine was born at Pointe Coupée.  Daughter Marie-Françoise was baptized there, age not given, in March 1745 and married Bernard, "employee of the naval bureau," son of "burgher" Pierre Auricoste or Aricoste and Marie Disdete of Lalandusse, French Guiane, at New Orleans in January 1762; her father Nicolas, père was called "deceased" in the marriage record.  Meanwhile, Nicolas, père's son Paul was born at Pointe Coupée in May 1748.  Nicolas, père's oldest daughter Nicole, born at Natchitoches, married François, son of fellow Creoles Pierre Mayeux and Marie Cellier or Sellier, at Pointe Coupée in February 1745 but died there in September 1765.  Nicolas, père's oldest son Joseph dit Collette, also born at Natchitoches, married Madeleine, daughter of Pierre Mayeux and Marie Sellier, now deceased, at Pointe Coupée in April 1749; Madeleine was a sister of Joseph dit Collette's brother-in-law François Mayeux.  Joseph dit Collette and Madeleine's son Nicolas Caspar was born there in February 1751 but died at age 1 1/2 in October 1752, son François was born at Pointe Coupée in May 1752, Jean-Baptiste at New Orleans in March 1754, Joseph, fils at Pointe Coupée in March 1756, and daughter Madeleine there in March 1758, who may have been the Madeleine Prevost of Pointe Coupée who married Antoine, fils, son of Antoine Bonin and Marie Tellier of Mobile, at Attakapas in January 1779 (the priest from Ascension on the river who recorded the marriage did not give the bride's parents' names), and also the daughter of Joe Prevost and Magelaine Mary of Pointe Coupée who married, or remarried to, Antonio, son of Josef and Marie Martinez of Caruna, Galicia, Spain, at Attakapas in April 1793.  Joseph, père dit Collette remarried to Marie-Jeanne, called Jeanne, daughter of fellow Creoles Valentin Daublin and Marguerite Decuir, both deceased, at Pointe Coupée in July 1759.  Son Pierre was born at Pointe Coupée in March 1762, Bernard in March 1766, and daughter Marie in January 1768.  Meanwhile, Nicolas, père's third son Antoine, called a Prevot, married, at age 23, Marie, daughter of fellow French Creoles Louis-Emmanuel Marioneau and Marie Lage, at Pointe Coupée in November 1766.  Nicolas père's fourth son Paul married Félicité-Perpétué, called Perpétué, daughter of Acadian immigrants Joseph Bujole and Anne LeBlanc, at Ascension on the river above New Orleans February 1773--the first recorded marriage of a Louisiana Prevost to an Acadian; the bride was born either at Pigiguit, Nova Scotia, or in Maryland in c1755, the year the British forcibly removed the Acadians from their homes.  Paul and Perpétué's daughter Marguerite-Justine, native of New Orleans, married Augustin, son of Maurice Leveque and Marie-Julie Bertaud, in the city in April 1790; the groom also was a native of New Orleans.  Paul and Perpétué's daughter Marie-Françoise, called Françoise,"native of this city," married Joseph, son of Louis Duverne and Rose Girardy of New Orleans, there August 1796.  ...

Another Prevost family lived at Pointe Coupée in the 1760s and 1770s.  Nicolas Prevot dit Blondin of Fort St. Philippe, Illinois, born there in c1749, married, probably in Illinois, Marie-Françoise, called Françoise, daughter of Joseph Quebedeau dit l'Espagnol and Marie-Anne-Antoine Beau of Paris, France, probably in the 1760s.  Marie-Françoise's father, as his nickname hints, was a Spaniard whose original name was Quevodo.  Daughter Marie-Thérèse was born at Pointe Coupée in January 1766, son Henri in November 1768 but died at Attakapas, age 38, in August 1806; the St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial said that Henry, as he called him, died "at Joseph Provost, his brother of la grand pointe" on the upper Teche.  Was this Joseph Provost dit Collette, fils, a distant cousin and not a brother?  Blondin's daughter Félicité was born in Attakapas in February 1772.  He and Marie-Thérèse also had sons named Louis dit Blondin and Nicolas, fils, born at Pointe Coupée or in Attakapas.  Louis lived a long life but evidently did not marry, and Nicolas, fils married and produced a vigorous line in the prairie district.  Blondin's daughter Marie-Françoise, born probably in Illinois, married André, son of fellow Creoles Pierre Olivo, deceased, and Marie-Madeleine Cable of Des Allemands, at Pointe Coupée in September 1764.  Blondin's daughter Marie-Madeleine, also probably born in Illinois, married Pierre Nezac or Nezat of Seizac, Diocese of Condom in the Archdiocese of Bordeaux, France, widower of Catherine Bourri, at Pointe Coupée in August 1765.  Blondin's daughter Félicité, "of Atacapas," born at Pointe Coupée, married Pierre, fils of Illinois, son of Pierre Perau and Marie-Françoise Lejeune, at Pointe Coupée in May 1790.  Daughter Jeanne, "native of Illinois," called a Provo, married Fernando, son of François Pradie or Pradier and Julie Piti of Mobile, "in [the] groom's home" in New Orleans in November 1800.  ...

Yet another Prevost family lived at New Orleans in the 1770s, '80s, and '90s.  Salomon, son of François Prevot or Prevost and Marie Rosignol of Grand Tramble, Parish of St.-Medard, Archdiocese of Paris, married Marie-Rose Duverge, in either France or New Orleans by c1778.  In November 1784, their son François-Salomon, age 6, was buried at New Orleans.  Salomon remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Nicolas Verret and Marie-Marguerite Cantrelle of Cabahannocer, at New Orleans in April 1789.  The bride's father, in fact, was a longtime commandant of the Cabahannocer District on the river above the city.  Salomon and Marguerite's son Édouard was born at New Orleans in July 1791, and Théophile-Andrés in January 1793. ...

Two, perhaps three, Prevot families, evidently free persons of color, lived in the city in 1780s and '90s.  Luis Celestino, son of Juan Pedro Prevot-Voisin and Catalina Descoudreaux, was born probably in New Orleans in May 1787, and his brother Honorato Adelar there in May 1789.  The brothers, one age 9, the other age 7, were baptized at the St.-Louis Cathedral on the same day in August 1796.  Maria Prevot, daughter of Luis Cupidon or Cupido "of Guinea" and Maria Prevot of New Orleans, married Joseph, son of Francisco, "Creole of Garico," another name for Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, later Haiti, and Francisca Margarita, "Creole of this province," at New Orleans in September 1792.  The St.-Louis Parish priest who recorded the marriage noted that the bride was "gravely ill."  Maria's sister Eulalie married Juan Pedro Luis, son of Luis Galvez and Marie-Marianne Destrahan, "Creoles of this city," at New Orleans in January 1794.  Genoveva, daughter of Maria Prevot, was born in the city in July 1799.  The girl's godparents were Honorato Pevot and Genoveva Prevot. 

 Prevos and Prevots, at least one of them a free man of color, also lived in the city in the 1790s and the first decade of the 1800s.  Juliana Prevo, age 76, widow Moro, died at New Orleans in July 1794.  Jean-Batiste, son of Rosalie Maturin Prevaux, was baptized at New Orleans, age unrecorded, in August 1801.  Honoroto, son of Maria Prevo, was baptized in the city, age unrecorded, in October 1801.  He was named after his godfather, Honorato Prevo, perhaphs son of Luis Celstino.  Elina, daughter of Marion Prevo, born in the city, died there, age 36, October 1802.  Nicolas, son of Louis Prevot and Januet ____, "native of this parish," probably a free man of color, married Marie-Françoise, daughter of Jean-Baptiste ____ and Maria ____, also a "native of this parish," in November 1802.  Two of the couple's marriage witnesses were Noël Carrière, "commanding captain of the Negro militia of this city, and Pierre Claver, "sergeant in the same militia." ...

Perhaps the largest concentration of Prevost/Provosts in Louisiana was in the Attakapas District, later St. Martin, St. Mary, Lafayette, and Vermilion parishes, west of the Atchafalaya Basin, where Acadians first settled in substantial numbers along Bayou Teche in the late 1760s and where Prevosts from Pointe Coupée resettled in the 1770s.  A prolific Prevost/Provost family in Attakapas was that of Joseph dit Collette, oldest son of Nicolas Prevost and Ives Dubeau of Natchitoches and Pointe Coupée.  Collette's oldest son François, by first wife Madeleine Mayeux, married Geneviève, daughter of Antoine Bonin of Grenoble in Dauphine, France, and Marie-Marguerite Tellier of Mobile, at Attakapas in December 1774; François was a native of Pointe Coupée and Geneviève of Attakapas.  Daughter Julie, born in Attakapas in March 1775, married Nicolas, son of Acadians Joseph Hébert, deceased, and Françoise Hébert of Cabahannocer on the river, at the Opelousas church in January 1795; the marriage, only the second of a member of the Prevost family to an Acadian and the first in two decades, also was recorded at Attakapas.  She died "at her home in St. Mary Parish" in 1828, age 58, and was buried in the parish cemetery.  François and Geneviève's daughter Marie was born at Attakapas in May  1777.  Daughter Anne dite Manet born at Attakapas probably in the late 1770s or early 1780s, married Eugène Borel at Attakapas in November 1798; Eugène was the brother of her father's second wife, so Anne dite Manet married her stepbrother.  François remarried to Madeleine, daughter of Pierre Borel of Dinan, Brittany, and St. Charles on the river, and Catherine Stoupart or Toupard of Fort de Chartres, Illinois, and New Orleans, at Attakapas in May 1784; wife Madeleine was a native of New Orleans, and her father was deceased at the time of the wedding.  Daughter Madeleine was born in Attakapas in c1790, son François, fils in June 1795, Ursin in December 1798, Jean-Baptiste le jeune in April 1801, Hyacinthe, a daughter, in November 1802, an unnamed daughter died at Attakapas, age 3 months, in July 1806, Célestine was born in April 1808 but, called Céleste, died "at her parents'" on Bayou Teche, age 30 months, in September 1810.  Oldest daughter Madeleine married first cousin Joseph, son of Jean Baptiste Prevost and his second wife Augustine Ducrest, her uncle and aunt, at the St. Martinville church in October 1812 but died at age 24 "at her parents' home" in August 1814.  François, père's second daughter Hyacinthe married Ursin St. Marc, son of Jean St. Marc Darby, deceased, former "Commandant of the Post of New Iberia," and Françoise Pellerin of New Orleans and widower of Eurasie Fusilier de la Claire, at the St. Martinville church in November 1817; the marriage also was recorded at the New Iberia church; Hyacinthe's husband's parents and former wife were members of the Attakapas District's Creole elite.  François's oldest son François, fils, by his father's second wife Madeleine Borel, married Poupone Bastion in a civil ceremony in St. Mary Parish in December 1817; the parish clerk in the Franklin courthouse who recorded the marriage did not give the bride's parents' names and said the groom's parents were François Prevost, père and Madeleine Prevost, which makes no sense; François, fils's mother was Madeleine Borel, not Madeleine Prevost.  Son François III was born in St. Mary Parish on the lower Teche in September 1818 and baptized by the St. Martinville priest the following February; the priest recorded the boy's parents as François Prevost, "inhabitant of St. Mary Parish, and Madeleine Prevost, the father's parents as François Prevost and Madeleine Borel, and the mother's parents as Jean Baptiste Prevost and Augustine Ducres, so François, fils either remarried to a cousin named Madeleine Prevost, place and date who knows, or François III's mother was the mysterious Poupone Bastion who, according to the courthouse at Franklin, his father married in 1817.  François, fils's son Émile, whose mother also was listed as Madeleine Prevost by the St. Martinville priest who baptized the boy in May 1832, age 8, was born probably in St. Mary Parish in September 1823, Alexandre, also attributed to wife Madeleine Prevost, in December 1831, and daughter Philomène, attributed to wife Madeleine Prevost, in May 1834.  François, fils's second son Émile, by his second wife, evidently married Acadian Alice Hébert probably in the late 1840s.  Their son Alphonse was born near Charenton, St. Mary Parish, in January 1848, Phillip in January 1852 but died at age 3 days, Joseph born in January 1853 but died at age 9 1/2 in July 1862, daughter Amelie born in October 1855, son Ernest in January 1858, Arthur in January 1860, daughter Marie Ernestin in September 1862, Élodie in September 1865, and Ulysse in December 1867.  Meanwhile, François, père's succession was filed at the Franklin courthouse in February 1818.  He would have been age 66 at the time of the filing, so it likely was post-mortem.  François, fils died near Charenton in May 1860; the priest who recorded the burial said he died at age 70, but he was 65. ...  Joseph dit Collette's second son Jean-Baptiste, also by first wife Madeleine Mayeux, married Marguerite, another daughter of Antoine Bonin, probably at Attakapas by October 1781, when son Jean-Baptiste, fils was born there; wife Marguerite's sister Geneviève was the first wife of Jean-Baptiste's older brother François.  Jean-Baptiste also remarried, to Augustine, daughter of Louis-Armand Ducrest of Delfinado, France, and Catherine Wisse of Pointe Coupée, at Attakapas in June 1789.  Son Joseph le jeune was born there in February 1791, Augustin in January 1793, daughter Julie in October 1794, Louise in March 1796, Madeleine in March 1798, son François le jeune in April 1800 but died in Attakapas, age 3 1/2, in January 1804, daughter Céleste was born there in July 1804, twins Adélaïe and Adélard in June 1806, and Léon in July 1808 "at the residence of aux Negres Libres [Prairie des Negres Libres--the Prairie of the Free Negroes]."  One wonders if oldest daughter Julie was the Julie Prevost who married John Ditch in a civil ceremony in St. Mary Parish in February 1820; the parish clerk who recorded the marriage gave no parents' names for the bride or the groom.  Jean Baptiste's oldest son Joseph le jeune married first cousin Madeleine, daughter of François Prevost and his second wife Madeleine Borel, his uncle and aunt, at the St. Martinville church in October 1812.  Joseph le jeune's daughter Madeleine Élisa was born in St. Martin parish in November 1813.  Joseph le jeune remarried to Louise or Éloyse, daughter of Louis Verret and Marie Patin of Lafourche Interior Parish, at the St. Martinville church in November 1817; this second marriage also was recorded in the St. Mary Parish courthouse.  Their son Joseph, fils was born in August 1818, daughter Éloyse in October 1819, son Théodore in December 1821, daughter Rose in November 1823, son Jules in November 1825, Marie Aglae, also called Aglace, in September 1829 (the St. Martinville priest who recorded her baptism in April 1836 listed her mother as Augustine Ducre, who actually was her paternal grandmother; both of her godparents were Verrets), and Seline in c1832 but died at age 15 near Charenton, St. Mary Parish, in June 1847.  Daughter Marie Aglae married Aurelien, son of Louis Chapentier and his Acadian wife Céleste Gaudet, at the Charenton church in July 1852.  Joseph le jeune and Louise also had a younger son named Adolphe, also called Despanet, who married Acadian Marie Thériot in 1857.  They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche, where they had three daughters, but evidently returned to the lower Teche.  Their daughter Marie Florisca was born near New Iberia in March 1867, and son Joseph there in May 1869.  Meanwhile, Joseph le jeune died in St. Mary Parish in December 1840, age 49, two days before his second wife Louise died.  Jean Baptiste's third daughter Madeleine, by second wife Augustine, married cousin Francois, fils, son of François Prevost and his second wife Madeleine Borel, perhaps in a civil ceremony in St. Mary Parish in December 1817, when she would have been age 19; the parish clerk evidently called her Poupone Bastion, perhaps relating to her father's dit.   Evidently a succession for Jean Baptiste's youngest son Léon was filed at the St. Mary Parish courthouse in July 1836; the parish clerk did not give Léon's parents' names or mention a wife.   Jean Baptiste, called Jean Baptiste dit Bation (Bastion?), "inhabitant of the County, native of Pointe Coupee County," died at brother François Prevost's home on Bayou Teche, age 60, in August 1812; he was buried in the parish cemetery. ...  Joseph dit Collette's third son Joseph dit Collette, fils, also by first wife Madeleine Mayeux, married Henriette, another daughter of Pierre Borel and Catherine Toupard, at Attakapas in November 1789; wife Henriette was a sister of Joseph dit Collette, fils's brother François's second wife.  Joseph dit Collette, fils may have been the Joseph Provost who settled at La Grand Pointe on the upper Teche.  His and Henriette's daughter Euphrasie, also Euphrosine, was born at Attakapas in February 1790, Joséphine in c1793 and baptized at Attakapas, age 4, in June 1797, son Joseph dit Collette III baptized at age 3 in June 1797, and son Ursin-Joseph in June 1797 at age 14 months.  Son Cyrille, perhaps a twin, born at sea in January 1800, was baptized at Attakapas in July 1803.  Daughter Céleste, perhaps brother Cyrille's twin, also"born at sea"; was baptized at Attakapas "at age about 8 years old" in February 1807 and married Ursin, son of Denis Carlin and Susanne Labatri of St. Mary Parish, at the St. Martinville church in June 1817.  Joseph dit Collette, fils's oldest daughter Euphrosine, at age 21, gave birth to "natural" son Joachim in St. Martin Parish in June 1811; the St. Martinville priest who baptized the boy in March 1812, did not give the father's name.  Euphrosine died in Lafayette Parish in August 1822, age 35, and was buried "in the Caruthers family cemetery."  Was Euphrosine's son the Joachim Prevost (the parish clerk called him Joasin Prevaux) who married Zulma, also called Laurement and Julienne, 15-year-old daughter of Acadian Julien Brasseur and Julie Porché of Pointe Coupée, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in April 1835?  Their daughter Julienne was born in St. Landry Parish in February 1837, and Julie in January 1839.  Joachim's older daughter Julienne married Léandre Charles, son of Acadians Charles Bourque and Céleste Hébert of St. Landry Parish, at the Opelousas church in December 1853.  Joachim's younger daughter Julie married John, son of Joseph Grandberry and Julie Anne Meche, at the Grand Coteau church December 1859.  Evidently Joachim and Zulma had no sons, so the line did not endure.  Joseph dit Collette, fils's second daughter Joséphine married Louis Philippe of St. Mary Parish, son of Louis Théodore Lange and Marcellite De La Haye of Paris, at the St. Martinville church in June 1815.  Joseph dit Collette, fils's sons Joseph III and Ursin did not remain at Attakapas, like their siblings, but resettled in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley during the early antebellum period.  Since they were the only of his sons to marry, Joseph dit Collette, fils's line disappeared from the prairie district. ...  Joseph dit Collette, père's son Pierre, by second wife Marie-Jeanne Daublin, married Marie-Thérèse, called Thérèse, daughter Nicolas Prevost dit Blondin and Marie-Françoise Quebedeau of Illinois and Pointe Coupée, at Attakapas in February 1786, further uniting the two Prevost families in the district.  Oldest daughter Julienne, also called Julie and Julia, was baptized at Attakapas, age 9 months, in November 1787, married Antoine Étier at the St. Martinville church in April 1805, and remarried to Ursin Prevost in St. Mary Parish in November 1813.  One wonders if she was the Julie Prevost who married, in this case remarried to, John Ditch in a civil ceremony in St. Mary Parish in February 1820; the clerk at the Franklin courthouse gave no parents' names for either the bride or the groom.  Pierre and Thérèse's daughter Eugénie was born at Attakapas in August 1789.  Daughter Lucie, also called Lucille, born in September 1790, married Leufroy, son of Nicolas Prevost, fils and Marie-Jeanne Prevost, in a civil ceremony in St. Mary Parish in October 1812 and died "at her home" in St. Martin Parish in April 1821; the St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial "in the cemetery of St. Mary Parish in the town of Franklin" said she died at age 28; she was 31.  Lucille's succession was filed at the Franklin courthouse in June 1822.  Pierre and Thérèse's older daughter Eugénie married Honoré, son of Jean Louis Bouquoi and his Acadian wife Félicité-Perpétué Bijot or Bujole of New Orleans, at the St. Martinville church in October 1819.  Pierre "of Pointe Coupee" died at Attakapas in January 1791, age 31 (actually 28).  He evidently fathered no sons.  His widow Thérèse remarried to Célestin, son of Joseph Carlin and Françoise Lange, at Attakapas in February 1794.  Thérèse' died in October 1806 and was buried "on land of Honnoré Carlin, her brother-in-law, because of the distance from the Church" at St. Martinville.  She and her daughters Julie, Eugénie, and Lucie by first husband Pierre appear in Célestin Carlin's succession, dated 10 September 1807 and filed at the St. Martin Parish courthouse; one wonders if the sucession was a post-mortem.  Meanwhile, Pierre's father, Joseph dit Collette, père, called Joseph of Illinois by the recording priest, died at the home of Pierre Nezat "of La Pointe sur le Bayou Teych" in November 1806, age 80; Pierre Nezat was the husband of Joseph dit Collette's cousin Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Nicolas dit Blondin Prevost of Paris, Illinois, and Pointe Coupée. 

Another Prevost/Provost family, this one from Illinois that moved to Pointe Coupée and then to Attakapas, was perhaps even more prolific than the other Prevost/Provost family in the Teche valley and prairie districts.  Nicolas dit Blondin Prevost and Marie-Françoise Quebedeau moved from Pointe Coupée to Attakapas by February 1772, when a younger daughter, Félicité, was baptized there by a Pointe Coupée priest.  They settled on Bayou Teche.  At least two of Blondin's children married into the Prevost family from Natchitoches and Pointe Coupée that also moved to Attakapas during the late colonial period.  During the early antebellum period, in fact, the marriage record of one of Blondin's grandsons, Leufroy, son of Nicolas, fils, revealed that all four of the marred couples' parents were Prevosts!  Blondin's son Nicolas, fils married Marie-Jeanne, daughter of Joseph Prevost dit Collette, fils and his second wife Marie-Jeanne Daublin of Pointe Coupée, at Attakapas in April 1785, uniting the two Prevost families in the prairie district.  They settled at Chicot Noir near Côte aux Puces, or the Flea Coast, on the lower Teche below New Iberia near present-day Jeanerette.  Nicolas, fils's sister Thérèse would soon marry Pierre, son of Joseph Prevost dit Collette and his second wife, further uniting the two families.  Perhaps Nicolas, fils and Thérèse also had a sister named Jeanne, who gave birth to a "natural" daughter in the late 1770s.  They did have a sister named Marie-Madeleine, born probably in Pointe Coupée in c1747, who married Pierre Nezat dit Charpentier of Layrac, France, at Pointe Coupée in August 1765 and died "at home on Bayou Teych" in St. Martin Parish, age 60, in March 1807.  Nicolas, fils and Marie-Jeanne's oldest child, daughter Marie-Julienne, called Julie, born at Attakapas in July 1786, married Nicolas Pellerin of New Orleans at the St. Martinville church in June 1806.  One wonders if she was the Julie Prevost who married, in this case remarried to, John Ditch in a civil ceremony in St. Mary Parish in February 1820.  Nicolas, fils and Marie-Jeanne's oldest son Godefroy was born at Attakapas in the late 1780s and baptized there, age 7, in July 1795.  Daughter Céleste-Eléonore, called Elénore, was born at Attakapas in January 1789, married Jacques Monnier of Nantes, France, at St. Martinville in November 1804, and remarried to Nicolas Loissel in a civil ceremony in St. Mary Parish in June 1816.  Meanwhile, Nicolas, fils's son Leufroy was born at Attakapas in March 1792 and baptized there in July 1798, son Ursin was baptized there, age 15 months, in April 1795, daughter Lucie or Lucille was born there in June 1795, daughter Hortense in May 1798, son Nicolas Philemon in August 1802, daughter Philippine in November 1805 but died "at Mr. Nionnier [Jacques Monnier, husband of sister Eléonore], merchant near the Church" at St. Martinville, age 8 months, in July 1806, and son Maximilien was born in St. Martin Parish in August 1807 but died there in December 1811, age 4 12.  Nicolas, fils's daughter Lucille married André, son of François Gauffreau and Marie Doré, at the St. Martinville church in December 1813; André was a native of Cap Française, now Cap Haitien, Haiti, formerly French St.-Domingue.  Nicolas, fils's youngest daughter Hortense married Hilaire, son of Joseph Borel and Elizabeth Andrews of Bayou Teche, at the St. Martinville church in April 1814, and remarried to Phillip Vigneau in a civil ceremony in St. Mary Parish in July 1826.  Hortense's succession, naming her second husband, was filed at the Franklin courthouse September 1836. ...  Nicolas, fils's oldest son Godefroy married Anne, daughter of Acadian Antoine Alexandre LeBlanc of St. Charles and St. James parishes on the river but living "sur le Lac [today's Lake Peigneur, St. Martin Parish]," and his Creole wife Marie Dupré, at the St. Martinville church in July 1809.  They evidently also moved to St. Mary Parish on the lower Teche soon after their marriage.  Daughter Selima died "at her parent's," age 6 months, in August 1811, Marie Helina was born in August 1812, son Godefroy, fils in January 1815, Norbert in May 1817, daughter Irma in August 1819, son Clet in April 1821, daughter Marie Lisima in August 1823, son Édouard in September 1828, and daughter Cécilia in July 1835.  Godefroy's second daughter Marie Helina married Nicolas, fils, son of Acadians Nicolas dit Colin LeBlanc and Marie Constance Breaux, of St. James Parish at the St. Martinville church, in January 1833.  Godefroy's sixth and youngest daughter Cécilia married cousin Numa, son of Louise Phillipe Lange and Joséphine Provost, at the Charenton church , St. Mary Parish, in January 1853.  Godefroy, père's oldest son Godefroy, fils married cousin Charlotte Élina, daughter of Acadians Norbert Dupré LeBlanc and his first wife Joséphine dite Josette Broussard, at the St. Martinville church in May 1837; Charlotte Élina's father was a brother of Godefroy, fils's mother, so the bride and groom were first cousins.  Godefroy, fils and Charlotte Élina's daughter Joséphine Odile was born in St. Martin Parish in January 1837, son Félix in September 1843, and daughter Charlotte near New Iberia in August 1844 but died there at age 1 in August 1845.  They also had a daughter named Marie Clara, who married Louis Gustave, son of Louis Drosin Judice and Elmina Delahoussaye, at the New Iberia church in June 1855.  Godefroy, fils's oldest daughter Joséphine Odile married Louis Ozémé, son of Eugène Borel and Céleste Bonin, at the Charenton church in January 1854.  Godefroy, fils died near New Iberia, age 29, in September 1844.  His first sucession, naming his wife, was filed at the St. Mary Parish courthouse in January 1845, and his second succession, again naming his wife and also his paternal grandmother, was filed at the St. Mary Parish courthouse in March 1849.  Godefroy, père's second son Norbert married Coralie Lange in a civil ceremony in St. Mary Parish in June 1838.  Their son Célestin was born in c1841 but died near Charenton, age 26, in October 1867, and daughter Élisabeth was born near Charenton in July 1850.  Norbert and Coralie also had a son named Stanislas, who married cousn Thérèse Laure, called Laure, daughter of Ursin Provost, fils and his first wife Célestine Penn, at the Charenton church in July 1860.  Their son Pierre Filius was baptized at the New Iberia church, age not given, in June 1863, Stanislas, fils was born near Charenton in July 1865, and Norbert le jeune in July 1867.  Stanilas's wife Laure Provost, called "Mrs. Stanislas" Provost, died "of yellow fever" near Charenton, age 25, in October 1867, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth.  Her succession, calling her Thérèze Laure Provost, was filed at the St. Mary Parish courthouse in April 1868.  Stanislas remarried to Mathilde, daughter of Acadians Pierre Trasimond Babin and Estelle Hébert of Lafourche Parish, at the Lydia church, Iberia Parish, in May 1870.  Another of Norbert and Coralie's sons, Godefroy le jeune, married Françoise Mathilda, daughter of Azincourt Lange and his Acadian wife Marie Estelle Bernard, at the Charenton church in May 1865.  Their son Joseph Mortimer was born near Charenton in October 1866.  Norbert and Coralie's daughter Célestine Gratieuse was born near Charenton in July 1861.  Norbert and Coralie also had a daughter named Félicie Joséphine, who married Félix Gustave, son of Robert Tremble and his Acadian wife Rosalie Hébert, at the Charenton church in April 1861.  Norbert and Coralie's daughter Coralie married cousin Célestin, son of Ursin Provost, fils and his first wife Célestine Penn, at the Charenton church in September 1862; Célestin's sister Laure married Coralie's brother Stanislas.  Norbert and Coralie's daughter Seline or Silenie married Samuel, son of James Walker and Elizabeth Colins, at the Charenton church in July 1867.  Norbert, père died near Charenton, age 60 (the priest who recorded the burial said 55), in October 1867.  His succession, naming his wife, was filed at the St. Mary Parish courthouse in January 1868.  Godefroy, père's third son Clet married Marie Aurelle or Aurelia, called Aurelia, daughter of Jean Berard and his Acadian wife Constance Breaux, at the St. Martinville church in August 1842.  Their daughter Marie Élodie was born in St. Martin Parish in December 1844, son Jean Jacques in September 1848, Antoine Odillon near New Iberia in March 1851, daughter Anne Aurelia there in April 1853, son Alexandre Adolphe, called Adolphe, in February 1855 but died at age 13 in August 1867, twins Charles Moris and Marguerite Emerit born in January 1857, daughter Christine in September 1861, Julie in April 1866, and son Jean Edmond in November 1868.  Clet and Aurelia also had an older daughter named Edmonia, who married Charles, son of Acadians Louis Éloi Dugas and Adeline LeBlanc, at the St. Martinville church in January 1866.  Godefroy, père's fourth and youngest son Édouard married cousin Andrea, daughter of André Goffreault and Lucille Provost, at the Charenton church in October 1847.  Their daughter Bathilde was born near Charenton in August 1848, Lucille near New Iberia in June 1850, son Édouard, fils there in May 1852, and Godefroy le jeune in February 1854.  Édouard, fils, called Edward, may have married Louisa Parker in a civil ceremony in St. Martin Parish in June 1867.  Meanwhile, Godefroy, père died near New Iberia in June 1846; the priest who recorded the burial did not give his parents' names, name his wife, or give his age at the time of his passing; père would have been in his late 50s. ...  Nicolas, fils's second son Leufroy married Lucy or Lucille, daughter of Pierre Prevost and Thérèse Prevost, in a civil ceremony in St. Mary Parish in October 1812; wife Lucy's older sister Julie would soon marry Leufroy's brother Ursin's wife.  Daughter Emma, called Emma Leufroy, died near New Iberia, age 60, in December 1869, son Leufroy, fils was born on the Teche in August 1813, and Edmond in November 1815.  Wife Lucille died in St. Mary Parish in April 1821.  Leufroy, père remarried to Marie Doralise, called Doralise, daughter of Jacques Judice and Marie Louise Hyacinthe Boutté of Le Grand Bois, and widow of Gustave Pelletier, at the St. Martinville church in January 1823; Marie Doralise was a sister of Leufroy's younger brother Nicolas Philemon's wife Marie Amelia and Leufroy's son Leufroy, fils's wife Célestine Ema.  Leufroy and Doralise's daughter Marie Célestine, called Célestine, was born in St. Martin Parish in December 1823, son Nicolas Théodule in September 1825, daughter Louisa in April[sic] 1829, son Luc Alexandre in September[sic] 1829, and daughter Claire Ema in September 1831.  Leufroy, père's daughter Louisa, by second wife Doralise, married Alfred, son of Jean Baptiste Bonin and Marcelite Judice, at the New Iberia church in March 1842.  Leufroy, père's daughter Marie Célestine, by second wife Doralise, married John G., son of Jacob Harry and Emerite Charlotte Delahoussaye, at the New Iberia church in July 1842.  Meanwhile, Leufroy's older son Leufroy, fils, by first wife Lucille, married Célestine Ema, daughter of Jacques Judice and Marie Louise Hyacinthe Boutté, at the St. Martinville church in February 1832; Célestine Ema was a sister of Leufroy, fils's father's second wife, so Leufroy, fils married his step-aunt.  Leufroy, père's second son Edmond, also by first wife Lucille, married Marie Claire Cecilia or Zelia Judice in September 1834; Marie Claire Zelia likely was kin to Edmond's stepmother and the wife of brother Leufroy, fils.  Edmond and Zelia's son Edmond, fils was born in St. Martin Parish in February 1836, daughter Lucie or Lucille in May 1838, Marie in December 1840, son Leufroy le jeune in April 1843, Toussaint in February 1847, daughter Claire Medina in October 1848, another Claire in December 1852, and son Antoine Luc in December 1857.  Oldest daughter Lucille married Joseph O., son of Adelard Carlin and Marie Carmélite Carlin, at the Charenton church in October 1858.  Oldest son Edmond, fils married cousin Marie Harsile, Ersilie, or Azélie, also called Julie Ozere or Arsille, daughter of Caliste Pellerin and Virginie Provost, at the Charenton church in January 1860.  Their son Henry Charles was born near Charenton in August 1861, daughter Marie Emelie, Emelie, near New Iberia in March 1863 but died there age 4 (the recording priest said 15!) in August 1867, son Joseph Amédé born in January 1865, twins Antoine Charles and Louis Edmond in February 1867 but Louis Edmond died the following June, daughter Philomène Edmée was born near New Iberia in March 1869 but died there 5 months later, and Marie was born near Lydia in October 1870.   Edmond and Claire's second son Leufroy le jeune married Malvina Lucie, daughter of Gustave Harry and Marguerite Malvina Petit, deceased, at the New Iberia church in March 1866.  Their child, name and gender unrecorded, died "at birth" near New Iberia in July 1870.  Meanwhile, an emancipation decree for Leufroy, père's fourth and youngest son Luc Alexandre, also called Alexandre Luc, by second wife Doralise, was filed at the St. Martin Parish courthouse in October 1849, when he was age 20.  Alexandre Luc married Charlotte Eulalie, called Eulalie, daughter of Théogène Delahoussaye and Estelle Delahoussaye, at the St. Martinville church August 1851.  Their daughter Marie Louise was born in St. Martin Parish in April 1854 but, called Louise, died near New Iberia, age 13 (the recording priest said 16), in September 1867.  Luc Alexandre died near New Iberia, in his late 30s, in August 1867.  His succession, naming his wife, was filed at the St. Martin Parish courthouse in March 1868.  Meanwhile, Leufroy, père died in St. Martin Parish, age 40, in February 1832.  His successions were filed at the St. Mary Parish courthouse in May 1832 and in the St. Martin Parish courthouse in February 1834.  A succession probably for Leufroy, fils was filed at the St. Mary Parish courthouse in May 1849.  Was it post-mortem? ...  Nicolas, fils's third son Ursin married Julie or Julia, another daughter of Pierre Prevost and Marie Thérèse Prevost and widow of Antoine Étier, in a civil ceremony in St. Mary Parish in November 1813; Julie was the sister of Ursin's older brother Leufroy's wife Lucy.  Ursin and Julie's daughter Marie was born probably in St. Mary Parish in 1814, Antoinette in July 1818, son Ursin, fils in November 1819, daughter Laure in January 1822, and Julie in November 1824 (a New Iberia church record says a Julie Provost died there in April 1839, age 18, but other records disagree that this was her).  They also had a son named Nicolas Leclaire, born perhaps in the early 1820s.  Ursin and Julie's second daughter Antoinette, age 40, married Jean Baptiste Guilberteau at the New Iberia church in August 1858.  Ursin and Julie's fourth and youngest daughter Julie, age 21, married Félix Guilbertau at the Charenton church, St. Mary Parish, in June 1845.  Were the daughters' husbands brothers?  Older son Ursin, fils married Célestine, daughter of Henri Penn and his Acadian wife Céleste Anne Hébert of St. Mary Parish, at the New Iberia church in May 1841.  Son Pierre Tullius was born near New Iberia in February 1842, daughter Thérèse in May 1843, and son Pierre Célestin, called Célestin, near Charenton in March 1845.  Ursin, fils and Célestine also had a daughter named Laure, who married cousin Stanislas, son of Norbert Provost and Coralie Lange, at the Charenton church in July 1860.  Ursin, fils and Célestine's son Célestin married cousin Eugénie Coralie, called Coralie, daughter of Norbert Provost and Coralie Lange, at the Charenton church in September 1862; wife Coralie was Célestin's sister Laure's husband's sister.  Célestin and Coralie's daughter Catherine Antoinette was born near Charenton in September 1866 but, age and gender not given, may have died there in October 1867.  Meanwhile, Ursin, fils's wife Célestine died in April 1845, age 22, evidently from the rigors of childbirth.  He remarried to Joséphine, daughter of Grégoire Bodin and his Acadian wife Pélagie LeBlanc, at the New Iberia church in September 1846.  Their son Joseph Alcide was born near Charenton in June 1846, three months before his parents' marriage, Antoine Ursin near New Iberia in December 1848 but died there either in September 1851 or December 1867, and daughter Marie Azena born near New Iberia in January 1850.  Marie Azena married Émile, son of Alfred Druilhet and Céleste Pouchet, probably Poché, at the Lydia church, Iberia Parish, in January 1869; Marie's older brother Joseph Alcide married husband Émile's sister.  Ursin, fils's son Joseph Alcide, by second wife Joséphine, married Émilia, daughter of Alfred Druilhet and Céleste Paucher, probably Poché, of St. James Parish, at the Lydia church in November 1868.  Meanwhile, Ursin, fils's succession was filed at the St. Mary Parish courthouse in June 1851.  Was it post-mortem?  Ursin, père's younger son Nicolas Leclaire married cousin Ophelia Thérèse or Thérèse Ophelia, daughter of Honoré Buquoi and Eugénie Prevost, at the New Iberia church in September 1842.  Their daughter Marie Eugénie Victoire or Victoria, called Victoria, was baptized at the Charenton church in March 1845, son Henry born there in July 1846, Paul Nicolas Arthur LeClerc in August 1848, Honoré Pasquien near New Iberia in January 1850, Jacques B. there in August 1853, and daughter Marie Jeanne Jacques in May 1855.  Older daughter Victoria married cousin Louis Philemon, son of Philemon Provost and Amelia Judice, at the Charenton church in August 1860.  A succession for Nicholas Leclerc was filed at the St. Mary Parish courthouse in March 1857.  Was it post-mortem?  ...  Nicolas, fils's fourth son Nicolas Philemon, called Philemon, married Marie Amelia, called Amelia, daughter of Jacques Trois Iles Judice and Marie Louise Hyacinthe Boutté, of Le Grand Bois and St. Martinville, at the St. Martinville church in July 1821; Marie Amelia was a sister of Philemon's older brother Leufroy's second wife Marie Doralise and of nephew Leufroy, fils's wife Célestine Ema.  Philemon and Marie Amelia's daughter Marie Virginie was born in St. Martin Parish in July 1822, son Alexandre in February 1824, daughter Marie Amelina, called Amelina, in July 1827, Julie Evelina in May 1829 but died in St. Martin Parish, age 12 or 13, in September 1842, son Nicolas le jeune was born in July 1831, daughter Angelina in October 1833, son Louis Philemon near New Iberia in February 1839, daughter Marie Louise Ophelia, called Ophelia, in August 1841, son Lucien in December 1844, Maximilien baptized at the Charenton church in 1847, age not given, daughter Suzanne Aurelia born near New Iberia in December 1848, and another son Maximilien in April 1849.  Philemon's oldest daughter Marie Virginie married cousin Caliste, son of Ebert Pellerin and Julie Provost, in a civil ceremony in St. Mary Parish in December 1837, and sanctified the marriage at the St. Martinville church in January 1838, when Marie Virginie was still 15.  Philemon's second daughter Marie Amelina married William L., also called W. Louis, son of Lewis Moore, at the New Iberia church in July 1842, registered the marriage at the St. Mary Parish courthouse in August 1844, and remarried to François, son of Abraham White and Martha Massa, at the New Iberia church in February 1860.  Philemon's fifth daughter Ophelia married Alcibiade, son of François Dolze Judice and Eléonide Pellerin, at the St. Martinville church in February 1861.  Philemon's second son Nicolas le jeune married cousin Mathilde, daughter of François Judice and Marie Eléonide Pellerin, at the St. Martinville church in September 1850.  Their son Godefroy Nicolas was born near New Iberia in June 1851, Charles Aristide in December 1852, Alexandre Gaston in St. Martin Parish in March 1854 but died at age 20 days, and daughter Marie Mathilde born there in March 1856.  Wife Mathilde's succession was filed at the St. Mary Parish courthouse in April 1857.  Nicolas le jeune remarried to cousin Émilie Armide, also called Marie Armide, daughter of Théodule Judice and Melia Labarthe, at the St. Martinville church in October 1858.  Son Joseph Luc was born in St. Martin Parish in July 1860, daughter Marie Angelina in April 1861 but, called Anne, died near New Iberia at age 6 in October 1867, son Jean Jacques was born there in Decmeber 1864, daughter Gabriele Amelie in September 1866, and son Emmanuel Octave in December 1870.  Philemon's third son Louis Philemon married cousin Victoria, daughter of Nicolas Provost and Ophelia Buquoi, at the Charenton church in August 1860.  Philemon's fourth son Lucien married cousin Thérésa Aima, daughter of Théodule Judice and Amelia L. Abbat, at the New Iberia church in October 1866.  Nicolas Philemon's succession, naming his wife, was filed at the St. Mary Parish courthouse in September 1850.  Was the succession post-mortem? ...   Jeanne Prevot, Prevout, or Provot, perhaps Nicolas, fils's sister, gave birth to daughter Marie-Louise probably at Attakapas in c1778.  The girl was baptized at Attakapas by the "Cure of Opelousas" in July of that year, no age given.  The priest listed no father for the child.  Marie-Louise married François, son of Antoine Gautier and Marguerite Simien of Monauban, Province of Languedoc, France, at Attakapas in January 1799.  A witness to the wedding was Nicolas Prevot, "tio de la desposada (bride's uncle)."  Was this Nicolas, fils of Chicot Noir?  Nicolas Prevost, probably dit Blondin, père, "inhabitant of Bayou Teych, native of Illinois," died at his home on the lower Teche in September 1816.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded his burial said that Nicolas died at age 67; he probably was older.  He was buried "at his home, since it was impossible to bring the body to church," the priest noted.  Blondin, père's son Louis dit Blondin died in October 1818 "at the residence of Hubert Pellerin [husband of a niece] following a long illness."  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial in the parish cemetery said that Louis dit Blondin died at age 62; he was probably younger.  The priest said nothing about a wife or children for Louis, so he probably did not marry.  Marie Prevost, widow of Nicolas Prevost, was mentioned in his succession, filed at the St. Mary Parish courthouse in October 1822.  Which Nicolas Prevost was this, and, if he was Nicolas, fils and this was his wife Marie-Jeanne, was the succession post-mortem? 

Other Prevosts/Provosts, origins or identity undetermined, many of them free persons of color, lived in the Attakapas and Opelousas districts during the late colonial, antebellum, and war-time periods.  François Prevost "of New Iberia," parents and birthplace undetermined, married Angélique Prevost, perhaps a cousin, whose parents and birthplace also are undetermined.  She died perhaps at New Iberia in c1781, not long after the founding of the Malagueños settlement on lower Bayou Teche, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth.  Daughter Joséphine was baptized at Attakapas "at age 3 yrs." in March 1784.  The priest who recorded the baptism duly noted the death of the girl's mother "3 years ago."  Joséphine's father married her off young, to Gillebert, son of Jean-Paul Amy and Élisabeth Gaillardet of Nasiguy, France, at Attakapas in May 1798, when she was 17.  She gave birth to five children before Gilbert passed and, at age 43, remarried to Valentin, son of Acadians Firmin Landry and his second wife Sally Thibodeaux of Fausse Pointe on the lower Teche and widower of Marie Françoise Hébert, at the St. Martinville church in June 1824.  She gave Valentin no more children.  Members of the family who were free persons of color became especially numerous in St. Landry Parish during the antebellum and war-time periods.  Jean Baptiste Provost, mulatre libre of Grande Pointe on the upper Teche, son of Joseph Provost of Illinois and Grande Pointe and Marie Josèphe dite Josette, mulatresse libre of Opelousas, married Judith Lamirande, or Deshotel, mulatresse libre of Opelousas, daughter of Marie, negresse libre, place and date unrecorded, but it probably was in the first decade of the 1800s.  The couple created a substantial family line.  Son Joseph le jeune was born probably in St. Martin Parish in January 1808 and baptized at the St. Martinville church the following November; the boy's godparents were Henry and Émilie, mulatre libres "all of this parish."  Son Célestin was baptized at the St. Martinville church, age 18 months, in May 1811; the boy's paternal grandparents were listed as Joseph Provost of Illinois and Marie Josèphe, a negresse libre.  Daughter Marie Carmélite was born in St. Martin parish in June 1812; the recording priest listed her parents as Jean Baptiste Prevost, mulatre libre "of this parish" and Judith, mulatresse libre of Opelousas; the girl's paternal grandmother was listed as Josette, negresse libre, but the recording priest gave no paternal grandparent; he listed only the maternal grandmother, Marie, negresse libre and gave no maternal grandfather's name, which may have been Lamirande or Deshotel.  Jean Baptiste and Judith also had daughters named Eugènie and Julie, also called Julie B.  Joseph, a free man of color, son of Baptiste Provost and Judique Nichols, probably Jean Baptiste and Judith Lamirande's son Joseph le jeune, married Adèlle, probably a free woman of color, daughter of Mary Simien, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in May 1829.  Their daughter Marie, probably Marie Josèphe, was born in St. Landry Parish in August 1841 and married double cousin Louis, fils, son of Louis Simien and Émilie Provost, at the Opelousas church in December 1863.  They also had an older daughter named Adèle, who married double cousin François, fils, son of François Simien and Adèle Provost, at the Opelousas church in May 1854.  Joseph le jeune's son Joseph, fils, a free man of color, married cousin Marie Josette Simeon, free woman of color, at the Opelousas church in March 1857.  Joseph le jeune's son Antoine, free man of color, married cousin Adèle Simien, a free woman of color, at the Opelousas church in January 1859.  Antoine Provost died in St. Landry Parish in May 1864, age 27; the Opelousas priest who recorded the burial did not give Antoine's parents' names nor mention a wife.  Was he the son of Joseph le leune and Adèle?  And was he the Antoine Provost, free man of color, whose succession was filed at the St. Landry Parish courthouse in January 1868.  Baptiste, son of Joseph Provost, perhaps Joseph le jeune and Adèle Simien, married, f he was their son, cousin Marie Adèle Simien, a free woman of color, at the Opelousas church in October 1862.  Joseph le jeune and Adèle's son Claiborne married cousin Emma, daughter of George Simien and Aimée Rene, at the Opelousas church in January 1867 and died in St. Landry Parish, age 23, in December 1869.  Jean Baptiste and Judith's son Célestin, called a free person of color, married Louise or Louisa, a free person of color, daughter of François Kenes or Rene and Françoise Guiamme, at the Lafayette church in February 1835.  Their daughter Louise was born near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in February 1839.  They also had a daughter named Marie, who married Sosthène Sylvain, son of Sosthène Simien and Euphrosie Guillory, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in May 1867.  Jean Baptiste and Judith's daughter Eugénie, called a gen de couleur, married Pierre, gen de couleur, native of Môle St.-Nicolas, Haiti, son of Nicolas Journe or Journey and Isabelle Bodin, at the Opelousas church in May 1824; two of the witnesses were George Simien and Henri Prevost.  Jean Baptiste, called Baptiste, and Julie's (Judith's?) daughter Julie, also called Julie B., married Simien Pierre, called Pierre, son of Pierre Declouet and Marguerite Erne or Rene, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in January 1845.  Neither the parish clerk or the Opelousas priest who recorded the marriage mentioned the couple's ethnicity. ...  Meanwhile, Marie Josèphe, daughter of Joseph Provost of Illinois and Grande Pointe and Marie Josèphe, negress libre, Jean-Baptiste's sister, married George, "mulatre libre of Opelousas County," son of Antoine Simien of Opelousas and Marie, a negresse libre, at the St. Martinville church in November 1810; brother Jean Baptiste Provost of Grande Pointe was a witness to the marriage.  A succession, filed at the St. Martin Parish courthouse in August 1811 for Joseph Prevost, listed his successors as Marcelin, Joséphine, and Marie Jose Prevost, and noted that his will was dated 3 November 1803.  "Mr. ___," that is, George Simien, widower of Marie Josèphe Prevost, "people of color," appeared in George's succession, dated February 1818 and filed at the Opelouas Parish courthouse.  Marguerite Prevost, daughter of _____ and Marie Josèphe Provot, married François Simien in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in May 1821; the parish clerk in the Opelousas courthouse did not give the bride's father's name nor the names of the groom's parents.  Were the couple free persons of color?  Pélagie Prevost, wife of Jean Dartes, appeared in his succession, dated 20 July 1810 and filed at the St. Martin Parish courthouse.  Who were Pélagie's parents?  Dominique, born in c1750, son of George Prevost and Marguerite Frotin of Rennes, Brittany, France, married Guilhemette Daugee, also of Rennes, perhaps in France before emigrating to Louisiana.  Their daughter Sophie married Delisle LeBoucher.  Dominique died in St. Martin Parish in October 1814, age 64.  Was he kin to any of the other Prevost's in Louisiana?  José Prevost and wife ____ were "people of color" who were included in a succession filed at the St. Landry Parish courthouse in February 1818.  Henri Prevost married Marcellite Gros, place and date undetermined.  Was he the Henri Prevost who witnessed the marriage of a daughter of Jean Baptiste Prevost and Judith, mulatresse libre of Opelousas, in May 1824?  Henri and Marcellite's son Zephiren was born in St. Landry Parish in January 1820.  Who were the boy's grandparents?  The minor children of Hubert Provost and Julie Provost appeared in a succession dated August 1821 and filed at the St. Mary Parish courthouse.  Who were the couple's parents?  What were the names of their children?  Lise Prevost married Pierre Joulivette in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in November 1825; the clerk in the Opelousas courthouse did not give parents' names for either the bride of the groom.   A succession record for Eliza, minor daughter of ____ Prevost and Madeleine Prevost, was filed at the St. Mary Parish courthouse in May 1832.  Who was the young woman's father, and why was a succession needed for a "minor"?  Ysent or Hyacinthe, daughter of François Prevost, married Zénon, son of fellow French Creoles Jean Baptiste Bourgeois and Marie Borel, in a civil ceremony in St. Mary Parish in February 1833; the parish clerk in the Franklin courthouse did not give the couples' parents' names.  Eliza Prevost married Andrew W. Desmulke in a civil ceremony in St. Mary Parish in June 1833; the parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give any parents' names, so one wonders which François Prevost was Hyacinthe's father.  Adolphe Joseph, son of Joseph Prevost and Augustine Duiré, was born in St. Martin Parish in August 1834.  Which of the many Joseph Prevosts was this, and when did this Joseph and his wife marry?  Felonise Prevost died in St. Landry Parish, age 7 months, in June 1840; the Opelouas priest who recorded the burial did not give the girl's parents' names.  Were they free persons of color?  Anne Provost died near New Iberia in August 1842, age not given.  The New Iberia priest who recorded the funeral did not give her parents' names or mention a husband.  Jacob Provost married Roselina Aman, also called Catherine Anhim.  Who were Jacob's parents?  Daughter Caroline was born near Charenton, St. Mary Parish, in February 1843, and Salomé baptized at age 5 weeks at the Charenton church in May 1847.  Joachim Provost married Acadian Eugénie Breaux in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in March 1845.  Who were Joachim's parents?  His son Joachim, fils was born in St. Landry Parish in January 1846, Drosin near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in December 1848, and twins Amelia and Aurelia in January 1851.  Joachim's succession was filed at the St. Landry Parish courthouse (later "transferred to Acadia Parish") in March 1857.  Was the succession post-mortem?  Iphygénie Provost married Félix Guilberteau in a civil ceremony in St. Mary Parish in May 1845.  Who were Iphygénie's parents?  Adèle Provost, "f.g.c.," probably "free colored girl," married Baptiste François Simon in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in April 1854.  Who were her parents?  Jean Provost married Victorine Tessin probably in St. Landry Parish.  Who were Jean's parents?  Daughter Antoinette Virginie was born in St. Landry Parish in January 1852, and Marie Octavie in January 1854.  Elia, also called Marie St. Elia, Provost married Placide, son of Acadians Exhubert Hébert and Constance Hébert of St. Mary Parish, at the New Iberia church in November 1852.  Who were Elia's parents?  Elia died near New Iberia, age 23, in January 1857.  Her succession, calling her Marie St. Elia, was filed at the St. Mary Parish courthouse that month.  Aristide Provost died in St. Martin Parish, age 6 months, in May 1853.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial did not give the infant's parents' names.  Corine Provost died in St. Martin Parish, age 18 months, in October 1853.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial did not give the girl's parents' names.  Alcée, son of François Prevost and Madeleine Baban, perhaps Acadian Babin, married Marie, daughter of Ignace Rodriguez and Marie Mendoza, at the Charenton church in October 1855.  Which François Prevost was Alcée's father?  Was his mother actually Madeleine Prevost?  Alcée and Madeleine's daughter Marie Clara was born near Charenton in June 1857, son Anatole there in September 1859, daughter Joséphine in December 1860, a daughter, name not given, died at age 10 in April 1864, son Alexis was born May 1865[sic], Ignance in July 1865[sic], and Édouard Adonice near Lydia, Iberia Parish, in October 1869.  A succession for Marie Elena Provost, wife of Aaron H. Brown, was filed at the St. Mary Parish courthouse in April 1857.  Henri or Henry, free man of color, son of Jeannette Provost, married Elizabeth dite Lise, free woman of color, daughter of Ursul and Céleste Olivier, at the Opelousas church in May 1859.  A succession for Paul Provost was filed at the St. Mary Parish courthouse in September 1861.  Who were Paul's parents?  Did he marry?  Marie Josèphe Prevost married Alfred Simien at the Opelousas church in January 1864.  Who were the bride's parents?  Melanie Provost, a free woman of color, married Joseph, son of Joseph Simien and Coralie Rene, a free man of color, at the Opelousas church in January 1864.  Who were the bride's parents?  Aurore Provost died in St. Landry Parish, age 58, in November 1864.  The Opelousas priest who recorded the burial did not give her parents' names or mention a husband.  An unnamed daughter of Joseph Provost died "at Bois Mallett," St. Landry Parish, age 1 month, in December 1864.  Which Joseph Provost was this?  Henry Provost died in St. Landry Parish, age 84, in May 1865.  Who were Henry's parents?  Did he marry?  What was his ethnicity?  Drauzin Provost married Emely McClain in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in September 1865.  Who were Drazin's parents?  Alfred Provost died in St. Landry Parish, age 27, in January 1866.  Who were his parents?  What was his ethnicity?  Did he die of wounds suffered in the recent war?  Amelie, daughter of Bélonie Provost and Eléonor Fuselier, married Julien, son of Alfred Scott and Fannie ____, at the Charenton church in August 1866.  Mary Adeline married Frank or Franst Silverburg in a civil ceremony in St. Mary Parish in December 1866.  Who were her parents?  Who were Bélonie's parents?  Jefferson Provost married Janette Valla in a civil ceremony in St. Martin Parish in June 1867.  Who were Jefferson's parents?  Telesphore Provost, "Assassined[sic] in route to Alexandrie[sic]," died at age 20 in September 1867.  The Opelousas priest who recorded the young man's burial did not give his parents' names.  Norbert Provost married Roselia Duroche.  Daughter Odilia was born near Charenton in February 1868.  Who were Norbert's parents?  Louis Ursin Provost married Victorine Jolivette.  Son Thomas was born near Charenton in May 1868.  Who were Louis Ursin's parents?  Marguerite Provost died in St. Landry Parish, age 63, in September 1868.  Who were her parents?  Did she marry?  Joachim Provost married Acadian Lucia Guidry probably in St. Landry Parish.  Their daughter Marie Joséphine was born at "Pte. E. Mouton," near Church Point, present-day Acadia Parish, in Febrary 1868, and son Moise in October 1869.  Who were this Joachim's parents?  Louise Provost died "at Mallet," St. Landry Parish, age 65, in January 1869.  Who were her parents?  Campbell Provost married Eva ____.  Their daughter Émilie was born near Youngsville, Lafayette Parish, in March 1869.  Who were Campbell's parents?  Were they people of color?  Orelia Provost married Pierre Fontenot in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in August 1869.  Who were Orelia's parents?  Asendor, or Alexandre, son of _____ Provost and Julie ____, deceased, married Marie, daughter of J. B., probably Jean Baptiste and Mélisaire ____, at the St. Martinville church in April 1870.  Who was Asendor/Alexandre's father?  Were the couple persons of color?  Daughter Marie was baptized at the St. Martinville church, age 9 months, in March 1870, nearly a year before her parents' church marriage.  Robert Prevost married Elizabeth Langes.  Their daughter Coralie married Hypolite, son of Bertrand Larendie and Marguerite Porges, at the Lydia church, Iberia Parish, on lower Bayou Teche, in April 1870.  Who were Robert's parents?  Alcindor, son of Rose Provost, married Zaire, daughter of Noël Noel and Thérèse ____, at the St. Martinville church in May 1870.  Who was Alcindor's father?  Were the couple persons of color?Henritha Provost married Pierre Leman, fils in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in May 1869.  Who were Henritha's parents?  Hebrard Louis Provost died in St. Landry Parish, age 25, in December 1870.  Who were his parents' names?  ... 

Prevosts/Provosts, in smaller numbers, also could be found in river settlements above New Orleans during the late colonial, antebellum, and post-war periods.  Jean, son of Pierre Prevost and Françoise Goutier, perhaps Gauthier, married Marie Anne, 35-year-old daughter of Acadians Joseph Trahan and Anne Granger, at Baton Rouge in May 1804.  Marie-Françoise, daughter of Paul Prevost and Perpétué Bujole and widow of Joseph Duverne, died in Ascension Parish, age 62, in July 1835.  François Marie Prevost died in Ascension Parish, age 77, in March 1848.  The priest who recorded the burial did not give François's parents' names nor mention a wife.  Was François Marie a son of Paul Prevost of Ascension, born there soon after Paul's marriage to Acadian Perpétué Bujole in the early 1770s?  A "Mrs. Prevost," a widow, died in Ascension Parish, age 60, in March 1853.  Who was she?  Marie Louise, daughter of Maitre Prevot and Célestine ____, was born near Brusly, West Baton Rouge Parish, in March 1870.  They likely were freed persons. 

Prevosts/Provosts from the old Attakapas District, in fairly large numbers, settled along Bayou Lafourche and in coastal Terrebonne Parish during the antebellum, war, and post-war periods.  Two of them were brothers, but only one of the lines endured, and the one that did survive was a small one.  Pélagie Prevost, age 40, wife of Juan de Altese, died at Assumption on upper Bayou Lafourche in July 1804.  The priest who recorded the burial did not give Pélagie's parents' names.  Lease Prevost married Norbert Bonvillain in a civil ceremony in St. Mary Parish on lower Bayou Teche in July 1819 and, called Élise, died in Terrebonne Parish in April 1850.  The parish clerk who recorded her death did not give her parents' names.  Ursin Joseph dit Collette, son of Joseph dit Collette Prevost, fils and Henriette Borel of St. Martin Parish, married Françoise Éliza, daughter of George Toups and Louise Toups, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in August 1822.  Daughter Eve was born in nearby Lafourche Interior Parish in August 1834, Héloise, perhaps also called Louisa, in c1836, and Aspasie in Lafourche Interior Parish in November 1839.   Daughter Héloise married Edwin R. Field in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in January 1852 and, called Louisa, remarried to E. O. Gogne "of West Canada, now living in Terrebonne Parish," at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in December 1862.  Daughter Aspasie married Acadian Paul Elfége Michel of Ascension Parish in Terrebonne Parish in April 1859.  Ursin Joseph died in Terrebonne Parish in September 1862.  The Houma priest who recorded the burial said Ursin died at age 62, but he was closer to 66.  Did he and his wife have any sons?  Joseph III "of Franklin," St. Mary Parish on the lower Teche, son of Joseph dit Collette Prevost, fils and Henriette Borel of St. Martin Parish, older brother of Ursin dit Collette, married Modeste Bellhomme or Belham, perhaps also called a Billiot, daughter of Jeanette Courteand, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in April 1857; six days later, the marriage was sanctified at the Houma church; they evidently had lived together for years, as early as the mid- or late 1830s.  If this was Joseph Prevost III, son of Joseph, fils and Henriette Borel of old Attakapas, he would have been age about 60 at the time of his wedding!  One wonders why they waited so long to santify their marriage.  Joseph III and Modeste's daughter Olézime Nomme, the recording priest calling her mother a Billiot, was baptized at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, "age about 6 yrs." in May 1842, son Joseph Bernard, the recording priest also calling his mother a Billiot, was baptized there, "age about 4 yrs." in May 1842, Pierre Leufroy, called Leufroy, the recording priest also calling his mother a Billiot, was baptized at the Thibodaux church in May 1842, "at age 2 yrs," and daughter Marie Lisa, the recording priest calling her mother a Billiot, was baptized at the Houma church in September 1855, no age given.   Joseph III and Modeste also had an older daughter named Harriet, who, at age 17, married a Bruce from Massachusetts in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in January 1852; the parish clerk called Harriet's mother a Billiot.  Joseph III's daughter Henriette married a Brouce or Bone from Kentucky in civil ceremonies in Terrebonne Parish in June 1857 and November 1858; the parish clerks called Henriette's mother a Belhomme and a Belham.  Joseph III's son Pierre Leufroy, called Leufroy, the recording priest calling his mother a Belhomme, married Sarah Hart of Lafourche Parish at the Houma church in September 1860.  Son Thomas Albert, the recording priest calling his mother a Dehoe, was born in Terrebonne Parish in July 1861.  ... Adolphe, also called Despanet, son of Joseph Prevost le jeune and his second wife Louise Verret of St. Martin Parish, married Marie, daughter of Acadians Célestin Theriot and Élisa Hébert, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in October 1857.  Daughter Cécilia Joséphine was born near Paincourtville in September 1858, Alesir Félicie near Pierre Part in May 1861, and Louise Ofelia there in February 1864 but, called Louisa, died near Pierre Part, age 8 months, in October 1864.  Despanet and Marie evidently returned to the lower Teche after the war.  Their daughter Marie Florisca was born near New Iberia in March 1867, and son Joseph there in May 1869.  Adam Théophile, son of Evariste Prevost and Eulalie Mayet, was born near Raceland, Lafourche Parish, in March 1859.  Who were Evariste's parents?  Joséphine Prevost, parents' names unrecorded, married James, son of perhaps David Hellier and Mary Anderson and widower, perhaps of Evelina Lhabit, in a civil ceremony at the Houma church in March 1863; if this was the same James Hellier who married Evelina Lhabit, that marriage had occurred the year before.  A series of baptisms of Prevot children were conducted at the Houma church on 27 October 1863.  The priest who conducted the baptisms recorded neither the mothers' parents' nor the children's fathers' names.  One wonders if the mothers were former slaves:  Lisa and Henri, children of Justine Prevost, were baptized at ages 4 and 2.  Céleste and Odillia, daughters of Françoise Prevost, were baptized at ages 4 years and 5 months.  Delphine, daughter of Besie Prevost, was baptized at age 1.  Marie, daughter of Tersile Prevost, was baptized at age 1.  Aimé Prevost, parents' names unrecorded, married Edward Moore in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in April 1870.07

Primeaux

Reaux

Rils

Ritter

Rodrigue

Rodrigues/Rodriguez

Rome

Romero

Royer

Sanchez

Schexnayder

Seguin

Segura

Sellers

Smith

St. Cyr/Cire

St. Pierre

Stelly

Stephen

Stutes

Suarez

Teller/Taylor

Terrebonne

Thomas

Tircuit

Touchet

Toups

Triche

Trosclair

Truxillo

Tuillier/Tullier

Vaughan

Vallot

Vasseur

Verret

Viator

Vigé

Villaneuva/Villeneuve

Waguespack

Watkins

Webre

Williams

Wiltz

Wood/Woods

.

Among the families of South Louisiana who intermarried with the Acadians were those who bore "Acadian" surnames but whose progenitors were not Acadian.  It was, in fact, the rare Acadian family in South Louisiana who could not acknowledge a Canadian, Creole, or Anglo-American namesake living in the region.  The exceptions were the Arcement, Aucoin, Brasseaux/Brasset, Chiasson, Clouâtre, Doiron, Guidry, Longuépée, Mazerolle, Robichaux, Theriot, Usé, and Villejoin families, for whom this researcher has found no non-Acadian namesakes, other than Afro Creoles, in South Louisiana before 1870.  In some instances, the non-Acadian branch of the family was more prolific than the Acadian one.  Many of the non-Acadians spelled their surnames differently, and some were not even French: 

Acher/Achet/Haché

Allain

Ancelet

Arcenot

Babin

Babino

Barrios

Benoit/Benoist

Bergeron

An especially prolific French family settled at Pointe Coupée two decades before the Acadian Bergerons reached Louisiana.  During the late colonial and early antebellum periods, some of these French-Creole Bergerons left the river and moved to the old Attakapas and Opelousas districts.  Few, if any, Acadian Bergerons settled west of the Atchafalaya Basin during the antebellum period, so most of the Bergerons on the southwest prairies sprang from this large Creole family.  They settled mostly in St. Landry Parish, a predominantly-Creole area.  Typically, only a hand full of them married Acadians. ...02

Bernard

Bertaud/Berteau

Bigeau/Bigeot/Bijeon/Pujo

Blanchard

Boudreau

Bourg

Bourgeois/LeBourgeois

Boutin/Bouton

Braud/Brou

Brossard/Broussard

Clément

Comeaux

Cormier

Crouchette/Crouchet/Crochet

D'Aigle/Daigle

Dantin/Danton

David

DeLaunay/DeLonay/Delonne

DeRoche/Deroche/Derochet/Durocher

Doucet

Dubois

Dugas

Duhon/Dehon

Dupuis/Dupuy

Foré/Forée/Forêt/LaForet/LaForest

Gaudet/Godet

Gaudin/Godin

Gautrand/Gautraud/Gautreau/Gautherot

Giroir

Gusman/Guzman

Granger

Gravois

Guilbau/Guilbeau/Guillebot

Guillot/Guio/Guiot/Guého/Guyot

Harbour

Hébert dit Milan

Henry/Henri/Henrique

Jeanseaume/Johnson

Labauve

Lachaussée

Lalande/Lalondel/Laland/Lauland

Lambert/Lamberti

Landry

Laneau/Lanoue

Leber/Lebert

LeBlanc de Villeneuve

Lebron

Legendre

Leger/Legere

Lejeune

Loubière/Louvière/d'Amour

Martin/Martín

Melançon

Michel

Mire/Lemirre

Moïse

Monlezun

Mouton

Naquin

Orillon

Parr

Pinet

Pitre

Poiré/Poirier/Porée

Poitier/Portier/Pothier/Potier

Préjean

Prince/Leprince

Richard

Rivet

Roger

Roy

Saunié/Saunier

Savoy

Semere

Talbot

Temple/Templé

Tibodo

Trahan/Trahon

Vincent

INTRODUCTION

BOOK ONE:        French Acadia

BOOK TWO:        British Nova Scotia

BOOK THREE:     Families, Migration, and the Acadian "Begats"

BOOK FOUR:      The French Maritimes

BOOK FIVE:         The Great Upheaval

BOOK SIX:          The Acadian Immigrants of Louisiana

BOOK SEVEN:     French Louisiana

BOOK EIGHT:      A New Acadia

BOOK NINE:        The Bayou State

BOOK TEN:          The Louisiana Acadian "Begats"

BOOK TWELVE:   Acadians in Gray

SOURCE NOTES - BOOK ELEVEN

01.  See NOAR, 2:159, 261 (SLC, M2, 21); Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 425; Books Three, Eight, & Ten; Thibodeaux family page; Appendix. 

For details on the créoles of South LA, see Istre, Creoles of South LA; Book Seven. 

02.  See BRDR, 2:2a; Bergeron family page. 

04.  See 1850 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Lafayette & St. Landry parishes; 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Lafayette & St. Landry parishes; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 1-A, 1-B, 2-A, 2-B, 2-C, 3, 4, 5, 6; Book Eight; Caruthers family sketch. 

William is described as "of North Carolina" in son Thomas's baptismal record, dated 17 Jun 1804, in D. Hébert, 1A:170 (SM Ch.: v.6, #111).  Daughter Sara's baptismal record, dated 24 Apr 1811, in D. Hébert, 1A:169-70 (SM Ch.: v.6, #1169), says William is "from South Carolina," hence the generic description of his native province.  A transcript of William & Elizabeth's marriage contract, dated 22 Jun 1761, at Deptford, NJ, is in D. Hébert, 1A:64, 170. 

05.  Quotations from Barrios & Barrios, From One Little Soldier, unpaginated.  See also BRDR, vols. 2, 3; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vols. 1, 2, 3, 4; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 38, 69, 168; Robichaux, LA Census & Militia Lists, 1770-89, 135; Villère, Canary Island Migration; Book Ten; Cathy Barrios Cornibe, descendant. 

Although Barrioss were part of the 1778-79 emigration from the Canaries to LA via Cuba, Manuel the corporal was not among them.  He came to LA several years later & evidently was the only Barrios to create a lasting family line in the colony.  See Barrios & Barrios; Villère, 17, 19, 23. 

06.  See BRDR, 2:172 (ASC-1, 165; ASC-4, 9; ASC-5, 11, 48, 65; ASM-1, 17, 46, 136, 199; ASM-3, 40); Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 60-61.

07.  See BRDR, 1b: 149-52, 2:610, 3:715, 5(rev.):499; 7:422, 8:484, 9:445, 10:473, 11:436; Bernard, Teche, 171; Hébert, D., South LA Records, 1:442-43, 2:308, 3:422, 4:330, 514; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A: 640-48, 1-B: 590-96, 2-A: 770-76, 2-B: 765-70, 2-C: 627-29, 3:530-31, 4:403-05, 5:459-61, 6:492-94, 7:377-78, 8:412-14, 9:330; Maduel, La Census Tables, 1699-1732, 50, 61, 68, 79, 80, 83; 97, 125, 145; NOAR, 1:214, 2:7, 232, 3:248, 4:192, 254-46, 308, 5:177, 317, 6:110-11, 227, 7:263-64; West, Atlas of LA Surnames, 123, 186; Books Seven, Eight, & Ten; Bijeaux/Bujole family page.   

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